MISCELLANY PRINTED MATTER Programs, 1901-09 [119] Welcome ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIBERS Mrs. J. M. Ryan, Dr. Edmond A. Burrill, Mrs. John H. Brooks, Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce, Mr James B. Wright, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. Chas. I. West, Hon. Josia T. Settle, Mr. William Terrell, Jr., Rev. P. A. Wallace, Mrs. . Agnes Smallwood, Rev. W. H. Davenport, Mrs. J. F. Tompkins. Lieut Thos H. R Clarke, USHERS [Miss Annie E. Tyson,] [Miss Rosetta Orme,] [Miss Mattie Clark,] [Miss Nellie Merriwether.] [Miss Daisy Watson,] [Miss Nettie Murray.] [Miss Kitty Cromwell,] [Miss Julia Allen,] [Miss Ethel Storum,] [Miss Elizabeth Howard.] [Miss Maud McClellan,] WELCOME RECEPTION TO Mrs. Mary Church Terrell UPON HER RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF WOMEN AT BERLIN BY Citizens of Washington, D.C. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS METROPOLITAN A.M.E. CHURCH August 10, 1904 PROGRAM Master of Ceremonies DR. J.R. WILDER INVOCATION REV. STERLING N. BROWN Music INTRODUCTORY REMARKS DR. J.R. WILDER Music HON. JOHN C. DANCY ADDRESSES OF WELCOME MISS MARIA L. JORDAN Music RESPONSE MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL Music BENEDICTION REV. O. J. W. SCOTT MUSIC BY INVINCIBLE ORCHESTRA EDW. AMBLER, LEADER COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS MR, H. C. TYSON, Chairman MAJ. CHAS. R. DOUGLASS, Sec. REV M.W. CLAIR, Treas. Dr. A. M. Curtis, Judge E M. Hewlett, Mr. W. H. A. Wormley, Mr. Whitfield McKinlay, Mr. Geo. W. Jackson, Rev. Sterling N. Brown, Mr. Thos. H. Wright, Dr. John R. Francis Mr. Chas. E. Lane, Rev. W. J. Howard, Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, Rev. J A. Taylor SUBSCRIBERS Dr. J. R. Wilder, Mr. J. T. Gaskins, Mr. Chas. E. Lane, Dr. A. J. Gwathney, Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Mr. W. A. Joiner, Dr. F. J. Shadd, Mr. R. J. Harlan, Mr. L. M. King, Mr. Eugene Brooks, Dr. John P. Turner, Dr. W. H. Hughes, Mr. Thos. H. Wright, Mr. Wm. H. Harris, Dr. Geo. Cabaniss, Mr. Reuben S. Smith, Mr. Chas. H. Shorter, Dr. J. N. Johnson, Mr. L. O. Posey, Dr. W. E. Morgan, Rev. W. J. Howard, Rev. D. E. Wiseman,, Mr. H. C. Tyson, Mr. Henry L. Jones, Maj. Chas. R. Douglass, Mr. E. W. Henderson, Hon. Jno. C. Dancy, Mr. W. S. Duffield, Dr. Jno. R. Francis, Mr. W. L. Pollard, Rev. Walter H. Brooks, Rev. Wm. T. Harris, Dr. W. H. Conner, Prof. Louis B. Moore, Judge E. M. Hewlett, Prof. J. A. Lankford, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Col. P. H. Carson, Rev. Sterling N. Brown, Mr. Frank Langston, Hon. Geo. H. White, Mr. H. E. Baker, Mr. Wm. H. A. Wormley, Mr. H. C. T. Newsome, Mr. A. P. Albert, Mr. Robert Pelham, Mrs. C. A. Fleetwood, Dr. R. W. Brown, Miss E. F. G. Merritt, Dr. Jno. W. Mitchell, Mr. Lank Hughes, Mr. Geo. W. Wood, Mr. L. H. Neill, Mr. F. D. Lee, Mr. J. A. Cobb, Mr. R. L. Holland, Mr. Howard H. Williams, Mr. Edward Arnold, Mr. R. R. Horner, Mr. Geo. W. Jackson, Mr. W. A Stewart. Mr. Jno. F. Freeman, Dr. C. W. Childs, Mr. Jno. W. Ewing, Dr. W. K. Price, Mr. Thos. Walker, Dr. C. H. Marshall, Mr. Jos. H Stewart, Dr. M. O. Dumas, Mr. Whitfield McKinlay, Dr. R. W. Brown, Mr. Z. P. Moore, Mr. A. J Gaskins, Mr. L. G. Gregory, Prof. A. U. Craig, Mr. W. H. Davis, Dr. H. M. Hargrave, Rev. M. W. Clair, Dr. W. S. Montgomery, Rev. J. A. Taylor, Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, Dr. E. D. Williston, Mr. Jas. F. Bundy, Miss Lina E. Jean, Mr. L. M. Hershaw, Mrs. J. H. Meriwether, Hon. Cyrus Field Adams, Mr. Shelby J. Davidson, Miss Lula Chase, Mr. W. B. Dandridge, Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, Mr. Alfred H. T. Walker, Miss M. L. Jordan, Mr. Jerome A. Johnson, Dr. Geo. H. Cardozo, Mr. Wyatt Archer, Rev. F. L. Corrothers, Mr. W. L. Houston, Dr. H. W. Freeman, Rev. J. E. Mooreland, Mr. A. F. Hilyer, Mr. Geo. A. Robinson, Mr. Thos. J. Calloway, Mr. A. H. Cooper. WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID OF MRS. TERRELL The woman who made the best appearance on the platform of the convention according to M. Remy, (the correspondent of the Paris Temps) was Mrs. Terrell, of Washington, "a lady of An- dalusian complexion," who in ease of manner, gracefulness and force of gesture and naturalness of expression was ahead of all the other "oratrices," Mrs. Terrell spoke in German with the same fluency and ease as in her native tongue.--(From THE IN- DEPENDENT, July 14, 1904.) The hit of the congress on the part of the American dele- gates was made by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, who delivered one speech in German and another in equally good French. Mrs. Terrell is a colored woman and appears to have been beyond every other of our delegates prominent for her ability to make addresses in other than her own language.--(Editorial in WASHINGTON POST, July 19, 1904.) Mrs. Terrell was able to deliver one speech in excellent Ger- man, and one in equally goo French. This achievement on the part of a colored woman, added to the fine presence and the elo- quence of her words, carried the audience by storm and she had to respond three times to the encores before they were satisfied. It was more than a personal tribute, it was a triumph for her race.--(Syndicate letter of IDA HUSTED HARPER, in Boston Tran- script, Washington Post, New York Sun, and other papers.) Sunday evening, January 8 eight o'clock Mrs. LUCIA AMES MEAD, Boston. Subject: "In Time of Peace Prepare for -- What?" Wednesday evening, February 15 eight o'clock BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. With Rev. W. C. and Mrs. M. T. L. Gannett, 15 Sib-ley Place. Committee: Mr. and Mrs. Gannett, Mrs. S. C. Blackall, Mrs. W. A. Montgomery Thursday evening, March 16 eight o'clock With Mr. and Mrs. George D. Forsyth, 22 Atkinson Street. "The Race Question in Our Midst." Committee: Mrs. Georgia Rainsford, Mrs. Charles Mann Plymouth Avenue Car Thursday Afternoon, April 20 three o'clock BUSINESS MEETING. Reynolds Library Thursday afternoon, May 18 three o'clock ANNUAL MEETING. Election of Officers. At the home of the President, Miss Mabel A. Clark, Hollen-beck and Norton Streets Clinton Avenue car to end of route, then one block west and one block north ___ The place of holding the lectures will be announced later. The primary object of this course is to make converts to the cause of Political Equality, and it is hoped that sufficient money will be subscribed in advance so that no admission need be charged. How much will YOU give? Rochester Political Equality Club 1905 1905 Members and friends of Political Equality are cordially invited to all meetings [*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Officers Honorary Presidents Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf Mary S. Anthony President Miss Mabel A. Clark Hollenbeck and Norton Streets First Vice President Mrs. Georgia F. Rainsford 195 Saratoga Avenue Second Vice President Dr. Estella Gamble-Holdren 70 South Union Street Recording Secretary Dr. Lillian B. Daily 531 Monroe Avenue Corresponding Secretary Miss Emogene L. Dewey 54 Gibbs Street Financial Secretary Mrs. Emma B. Sweet 294 Alexander St., or Security Trust Co. Treasurer Mrs. Florence D. Alexander 25 Reynolds Street Auditors Mrs. Louise Brayer Miss Harriet L. Brewer Chairmen of Standing Committees Foreign Affairs-Home Affairs Dr. Estella Gamble-Holdren 70 South Union Street Program Mrs. Florence D. Alexander 25 Reynolds Street Lectures Mrs. Emma B. Sweet 294 Alexander St., or Security Trust Co. Program Thursday evening, October 20 eight o'clock ANNUAL RECEPTION. With Mr. and Mrs. James Sargent, 98 East Avenue. Report of State Convention, and reminiscences of visit to Berlin International Council of Women. Committee: Mrs. John Force, Mrs. Mary Thayer Sanford, Mrs. E. M. Perry Thursday evening, November 17 eight o'clock BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. With Mrs. Sarah L. Willis, 93 Plymouth Avenue. Paper written by Mrs. Stanton on her Seventieth birthday, "Pleasures of Old Age," read by Mrs. Mary Moore Hoyt. Committee: Mrs. Jessie Post Baulch, Mrs. Georgie Bemish, Mrs. Jeanette R. Leavitt Sunday evening, November 20 eight o'clock MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY, New York. Secretary of National Consumers' League. Subject: "The Children Whose Labor Clothes and Feeds Us" Sunday evening, December 18 eight o'clock [*Universalist Church*] MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Washington, D. C. Subject: "Uncle Sam and the Sons of Ham" (In regard to lectures see note on last page) 1906 See Pages 2-3-4 The Boston Baptist Social Union The Boston Baptist Social Union Ladies' Night Festival Forty-Second Annual Wednesday Evening November Seventh [1906] Ford Building, Boston, Mass. REV. JAMES J. DUNLOP, D. D. Menu OYSTERS ON SHELL BOILED PENOBSCOT SALMON POTATO CROQUETTES HOT ROAST TURKEY ROAST FILET OF BEEF PEAS RADISHES CRANBERRY SAUCE MUSHROOMS POTATOES A LA DELMONICO STRING BEANS CELERY RASPBERRY SHERBERT CHICKEN CROQUETTES PEAS LOBSTER SALAD CHICKEN SALAD ASSORTED FANCY CAKE FRUIT ICES STRAWBERRY MOUSSE CAFE PARFAIT FROZEN PUDDING COFFEE CHOCOLATE TEA BANANAS ORANGES Caterer—Carrol C. Whittemore REV. HUGH BLACK Guests of the Union REV HUGH BLACK Professor Practical Theology, Union Theological Seminary MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL Washington, D. C. MR. SAM WALTER FOSS "The Poet of the People" REV. J. L. CAMPBELL, D. D. Pastor First Baptist Church, Cambridge MR. SAMUEL USHER President Congregational Club GEORGE H. MAXWELL President Methodist Social Union MRS. GEORGE W. CLAPP President Woman's Baptist Social Union MR. JESSE E. PERRY President Young Men's Baptist Social Union MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL hymns --- Tune --- Autumn 1 Praise to Thee, thou great Creator ! Praise to Thee from every tongue. Join, my soul, with every creature, Join the universal song. Father, Source of all compassion, Pure, unbounded grace is Thine: Hail the God of our Salvation ! Praise Him for his love divine. 2 For ten thousand blessings given, For the hope of future joy, Sound His praise through earth and heaven Sound Jehovah's praise on high. Joyfully on earth adore Him, Till in heaven our song we raise ; There, enraptured, fall before Him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise. John Fawcett, 1782. Tune --- America 1 God bless our native land ! Firm may she ever stand, Through storm and night : When the wild tempests rave, Ruler of wind and wave, Do thou our country save By Thy great might! 2 For her our prayer shall rise To God, above the skies ; On him we wait : Thou who art ever nigh, Guarding with watchful eye, To Thee aloud we cry, God save the State ! John S. Dwight, 1844. 3 MR. SAM WALTER FOSS Program --- Invocation REV. JAMES J. DUNLOP, D.D. Banquet Hymn "Praise to Thee, Thou Great Creator" All are invited to join in the singing We Bid You Welcome PRESIDENT GEORGE W. COLEMAN Comrades in Arms Adam BOSTON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB Author's Reading Mr. Sam Walter Foss Address A People's Progress MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL The Longshoreman Chesham BOSTON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB Hymn "God Bless Our Native Land" Address "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation" REV. HUGH BLACK Benediction Rev. J. L. Campbell, D.D. 4 REV. J.L. CAMPBELL. DD. BOSTON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB First Tenor Leon E. Baldwin David B. Bartlett Russell T. Hatch Second Tenor Philip A. Goold Francis I. Bursley Maurice S. Tuttle Baritone Harold M. Mariett William C. Patterson Harlan H. Ballard Second Bass George N. Merritt Frederic C. Reynolds William H. Shattuck, Leader Marden Orchestra Mrs. Maude Clark Marden First Violin Miss Laura Kelsey Second Violin Miss Irene Childs Viola Mrs. Charlotte White Burt Violoncello Mrs. Dora Mitchell Nason Piano PRESENT OFFICERS 1906-1907 President George W. Coleman Clarendon Street Church Vice-Presidents: William E. Macurda Watertown Church Frederick M. Kilmer Winter Hill Church, Somerville Secretary Ray Greene Huling Old Cambridge Church Treasurer William G. Burbeck Newton Centre Church Directors Charles P. Bond First Church, Waltham George W. Creesey Central Church, Salem Walter F. Cushing First Church, Medford Lamont P. Hatch Perkins St. Church, Somerville Charlie A. Jones First Church, Woburn Frank C. Pope Newton Centre Church Horace M. Willard Wollaston Church Vernal S. Taylor First Church, Cambridge Auditors Warren L. Teele Trinity Church, Arlington Joseph Harris Winter Hill Church, Somerville Board of Trustees Term Expiring 1907 Henry W. Peabody William H. Breed Term Expiring 1908 Edward H. Haskell Charles C. Barry Term Expiring 1909 Samuel L. Brown John Carr Committee on Christian Work Chairman George W. Coleman Secretary Harry P. Bosson Treasurer George M. M'Coy Auditor William E. Macurda Committee for Ruggles Street Church Edward H. Haskell, Chairman Stephen Moore Edward R. Kimball James A. Floyd William N. Hartshorn William E. Macurda Committee for Harvard Street Church James A. Floyd, Chairman Charles H. Dempsey Conray P. Hall Dudley P. Bailey Leander K. Marston Benjamin N. Upham Committee for Mary Anna Home William E. Macurda, Chairman Fred S. Pevear Albert H. Curtis Charles H. Dempsey John G. Brown Committee for Evangelistic and Tent Work Leroy B. Philbrick, Chairman Conray P. Hall Leander K. Marston Unassigned William J. Hobbs Ray Greene Huling William A. Jepson The Chairman and Secretary are ex-officio members of Committees [*[ca 5-26-03?]*] THE EIGHTH ANNUAL ATLANTA CONFERENCE TO STUDY THE NEGRO PROBLEMS ASSEMBLES AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1903. GENERAL SUBJECT: THE NEGRO CHURCH THE NEGRO CHURCH IN ATLANTA ACTIVE DENOMINATION NO. CHURCHES MEMBERSHIP. PROPERTY INCOME, 1902. Baptist 29 5,274 $61, 273 $22,679.30 A.M.E. 13 1,391 88,200 17,005.10 M.E. 4 910 48,500 6,927.00 C.M.E. 3 200 10,535 2,343.65 A.M.E.Z. 1 70 2,000 585.00 Congregational 1 400 25,000 2,225.00 Presbyterian 1 80 10,000 1,494.00 Episcopal 1 68 4,000 1,296.79 Christian 1 30 3,000 436.00 ______________ _____________ ______________ ____________ TOTAL 54 8,423 $242.508 $54,991.84 EIGHTH ATLANTA CONFERENCE THE NEGRO CHURCH PROGRAMME FIRST SESSION 10:00 A.M. PRESIDENT HORACE BUMSTEAD. Presiding. SUBJECT: "Young People and the Church." Address—REV. W.H. HOLLOWAY, of Thomas Co., Ga. Address REV. DR. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, President of the American Missionary Association. PROGRAMME SECOND SESSION, 3:00 P.M. MRS. ANNA WADE RICHARDSON, of the Lamsom School, Marshallville, Ga., Presiding. Subject: "Women and the Church." Music—By the pupils of the Mitchell St. School. Address—MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, First President of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. "Children and the Church."—Report of the Secretary. — THIRD SESSION 8:00 P.M. PRESIDENT HORACE BUMSTEAD, Presiding. Remarks of PRESIDENT BUMSTEAD. "How the Religion of Negroes may become more Practical." REV. C.B. WILMER, Rector of St. Luke's P.E. Church, Atlanta, Ga. "Religion as a Solvent of the Race Problem."—PROFESSOR KELLY MILLER of Howard University, Washington, D.C. Symposium: "The Negro Church". Ten-minute speeches: REV. J.W.E. BOWEN, RT. REV. C.K. NELSON, RT. REV. ALEXANDER WALTERS, REV. G.W. MOORE, and others. Resolutions. THE ATLANTA CONFERENCES. 1896-Causes of Negro Mortality. 1897-Social and Physical Condition of Negroes in Cities. 1898-Efforts of Negroes for Social Betterment. 1899-The Negro in Business. 1900-The College-bred Negro. 1901-The Negro Common School. 1902-The Negro Artisan. 1903-The Negro Church. THE NEGRO CHURCH, 1890. Place Organizations Members Property United States............ 23,462 2,673,971 $26,626,448 Georgia...................... 2,878 341,433 2,171,267 Alabama..................... 2,395 297,161 1,880,656 South Carolina........... 1,731 317,020 1,770,504 Virginia........................ 1,360 238,617 1,735,873 Tennessee................... 1,328 131,015 1,690,946 Mississippi................... 2,309 224,404 1,434,102 Texas............................ 2,323 186,038 1,455,507 For Reports of Conferences and general information on the Negro Problems, address the Corresponding Secretary, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. True Reformers July 15th 1903 Christopher Eng Co. Richmond. Va REV., W. L. TAYLOR, D. D., G. W. M. and President. Dedicatory Banquet United Order TRUE REFORMERS IN HONOR OF REV. W. L. TAYLOR. D. D G. W. M. AND PRESIDENT, and other invited guests WASHINGTON, D. C. REFORMER BUILDING 12th and U Sts. N. W., JULY 15TH, 1903. Menu Soup TOMATO RADISHES OLIVES PICKLES Fish BOILED HALIBUT, HOLLANDAISE SAUCE CUCUMBERS BROILED CHICKEN GREEN PEAS Salad CHICKEN TOMATO ICE CREAM CAKES COFFEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. DR. D. A. LANE. C. P. GRIFFIN. J. W. ROBINSON. J. R. ROBINSON. PHILIP GAINES. F. W. DIXON, Sec. E. W. TURNER, Ch'm'n. W.A. BOWIE, Vice-Ch'm'n DR. A. J. GWATHNEY, Treas. Toasts Toast Master: HON. GEO. H. WHITE Progress of the Institution as Viewed from the Outside MARY CHURCH TERRELL The Grand Fountain--Its Benefits to the District DR. R. L. GAINES The Grand Fountain--Its National Effects W.P. BURRELL, G. W. Secretary Woman's Part in the Accomplishments of the Institution JULIA MASON LAYTON The Grand Fountain--Does it Deserve the Confidence and Support of the Race? R.T. HILL, Cashier The Negro Press of the Country Editor E.E. COOPER Higher Education Prof. JAMES STORUM BANQUET SERVED BY JESSE H. FOSTER Caterer, 1120 20th St., N.W. R. L. PENDLETON, PRINTER. 524 10TH ST. N.W. "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject" Discussed by Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, in the George R. Smith College Chapel Thursday, February, 21st, 7:30 p. m. , 1907 Under the auspices of the Students' Lecture Bureau [*Sedalia, Mo-*] Programme: Mixed Chorus, ................ "Morning Ramble," College Chorus Invocation, Quartette,...."Guide Me, Oh! Thou Great Jehovah," Misses Abbott, Layne and Martin Sisters. Lecture, ......"The Bright Side of a Dark Subject," Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. Vocal Solo, ........."Dashing on The Gale," College Chorus. Benediction. Refreshments. Our Object and Purpose. The Object and Purpose of the Students' Lecture Bureau is to bring before the students of George R, Smith College and the citizens of Sedalia, once or twice a year, some prominent and notable man or women of the race that, from personal contact with these eminent men, new inspiration may be gained, laudable ambition quickened, and that struggling ones may not loose heart or become discouraged. With that end in view, the Bureau secured for 190 Prof. W. H. Counsel, Ph. D.; for 1905, it was fortunate enough to listen to Rev. M. W. Dogan, A. M., Ph. D.; during 1906, Joseph Douglass, the violinist, and Enos L. Scruggs, D. D., this year the Bureau is delighted to present Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, easily recognized as the Most Noted Negro WOman in America. Committee: John X. Brown, A.M. Todd, J.H. Terrell A. J. Tompkins, R. Q. Wright Misses Maysam Marshall, Nora B. Davis Nora Cornelius, W. H. Burton and H. V. O. Ford, Officials: John X. Brown, President, A. M. Todd, Vice President, Miss Nora B. Davis, Secretary, W. H. Burton, Corresponding Secretary, R. Q. Wright, Treasurer, A. J. Tompkins, Business Manager Conservator Print, Sedalia, Mo. [*See Page 17*] Some People Available for the Chautauqua Season [*1901*] SEASON OF 1901 OUR POLICY In all our dealings with talent and committees we aim to be exact, candid, prompt; to give value received; to satisfy and to please OUR AIM To give more for the money than can be obtained elsewhere. To extend more favors to our patrons . . . . . . . CHAUTAUQUA This little Booklet contains the announcements of my Attractions, available for the Summer Season of 1901. The Chautauqua is the great summer school of the people. On its platform the greatest readers, orators, and thinkers are to be found. There Reform has her noblest advocates. Literature her finest expressions. Progress her bravest pleaders, Eloquence her most gifted representatives, Dramatic Art her greatest exponents, and Humor its happiest translations. In presenting our annual Souvenir of Talent available for summer work, we give you the greatest successes, the brightest stars of the regular Lyceum platform. Will be pleased to arrange with you early for your Chautauqua attractions. Address communications to . . . . . . . . . CHAS. L. WAGNER Western Manager Interstate Lecture Bureau, 609 Steinway Hall, Chicago Note: It is impossible to tell you all about these people in so small a space. I will gladly mail you circulars . . . . . . . . [*3*] MONTAVILLE FLOWERS AMERICA'S GREATEST MONOLOGUE ARTIST Interpreting the Masters in Original Monologues Repertoire "BEN HUR" * * * * Lew Wallace "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" * Dickens "LES MISERABLES" * * * Hugo "The Merchant of Venice" Shakespeare "THE LITTLEST MINISTER" F.M. Barrie In all the elements that distinguish a great interpreter of literature and character, in refined taste, good judgment, in native gifts of voice and presence, in the polish of culture, and in the intrinsic merit of what he presents Mr. Flowers is uniformly said to be unexcelled in America. He is unquestionably the greatest Chautauqua attraction we have ever placed. At Lithia Springs and Havana, Ill., at Winona Lake, Ind., at Mountain Lake Park, Md., he has been uniformly successful and recalled again and again. Not since the appearance of the noted actor, Edwin Booth, in this city, while he was in his palmy days, has there been any one who came as near being an ideal impersonator as Montaville Flowers. - The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. ISABEL GARGHILL Beecher INTERPRETIVE READER She gives a new direction and a new spirit to the platform interpretation of the world's great writers PROGRAMS "AN AFTERNOON WITH THE BEST WRITERS" "AS YOU LIKE IT" "THE LITTLE MINISTER" "THE KENTUCKY CARDINAL" "BROWNING RECITALS" "ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES" : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Mrs. Beecher has done more to give life and heart to the art of public reading than any of our present- day elocutionists. Her art has a charm and a fascination beyond the genius of either the platform or the stage of today. In her reading from "Quo Vadis" she gave that great assembly a new sensation--the sensation that makes one wandering among pictures fear to go on lest the lofty impression of the masterpiece be lost.--Hon. J. P. Dolliver. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I was more than pleased with Mrs. Beecher's readings; I was delighted and astonished. I have no motive to praise her work except a sense of justice to a very wonderful young artiste. I do not hesitate to say that I have not heard her equal since the time when Scott Siddons was at her best. Mrs. Beecher has more than talent; she has genius.-- George R. Wendling. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [*5*] ISABEL GARCHILL Beecher SPECIMEN RECITAL PROGRAM "Life is checkered shade and sunshine." 1 The Going of the White Swan A Story Out of Labrador Gilbert Parker 2 Buying Her Husband's Christmas Present Ruth McEnery Stuart 3 The Rhyme of the Duchess May Elizabeth Barrett Browniug 4 Two Character Sketches (a) A Type of "Ole Virginia" Thomas Nelson Page (b) An Old Maid of New England Mary E. Wilkins 5 Scene from "Quo Vadis" Henryk Sienkiewicz 6 Sally Ann's Experience Eliza Calvert Hall A postal card will bring circular with complete information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH AMERICA'S GREATEST WOMAN Subjects "LIGHTS and SHADOWS of PRESENT LIFE" "OUR PRISONERS" "THE CRIMINAL PROBLEM" "THE FUTURE of the DISCHARGED CONVICT" "PRISON REFORM" Major Pond, a great New York Manager, says: Mrs. Booth is the ablest woman orator in America. Her cause is the most worthy. She has something to say and knows how to say it. She is the most loved woman in the land, the most attractive of all public speakers. She has fire and magnetism, and gifts of oratory of the highest order. She has deep convictions, high purpose, burning earnestness; and these are the definitions of eloquence. MRS. BOOTH last season drew the largest gate receipts of any Chautauqua attraction. Note--Mrs. Booth will be available for only fifteen dates. Mr. Wagner has exclusive control of all of her public work, and is arranging and English tour for next season . . . . . . [*7*] GENERAL Ballington Booth Commander of the Volunteers of America SERMONS OR LECTURES Subjects "THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS" "THROUGH THE CITY SLUMS" "THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD" "OUR UNFORTUNATE BROTHERS" GENERAL BOOTH is earnest, powerful, eloquent. Last season the demands for his time were so great we could not fill all the dates. Available for Twenty Dates Only OPIE READ AUTHOR'S RECITALS Known and read in every corner of America and abroad, his wonderful pictures of Southern Life have no parallel in any language. "THE JUCKLIN'S" "MY YOUNG MASTER," "THE KENTUCKY COLONEL," "THE YANKEE FROM THE WEST," and others have been sold by the hundreds of thousands. No American author holds a warmer place in the hearts of the people. Upon the platform Mr. Read presents a striking appearance, and is interesting to the audience from the instant he appears. . . . . BISHOP C.C. MCCABE Needs no introduction to Chautaqua managers. He will be available for only a few dates. POLK MILLER Stories, Sketches, Songs. Absolutely unique. The only entertainment of its kind on the Lyceum platform. In no sense a lecture, but an evening of story and song, on . . . . "OLD TIMES DOWN SOUTH" [*9*] MCGEE WATERS AVAILABLE FOR SINGLE OR FOR A SERIES OF LECTURES. ONE OF THE BEST SUCCESSES OF THE PAST SEASON. Subjects "BAKED BEANS AND BROWN BREAD" "Henry Ward Beecher, The Shakespeare of the Bible" "Daniel Webster, A Nation's Master Builder" "ABRAHAM LINCOLN" "THE VIRGINIANS" "Thos Carlyle, the Prophet of Earnestness" "THE SCARLET LETTER" "A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY" I know of no young man in the country who has attracted more favorable attention than Dr. McGee Waters. He has great gifts, charming qualities, high ideals, and is a real orator, --Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. . . . . Evanston is the home of Dr. Hillis and Dr. Frank Bristol. It is a city of churches and pulpit orators. Emanuel Church has looked far and wide for a man who can fill a house alongside of these, and they have found that man in Dr. McGee Waters. --Chicago Times Herald, 1895. . . . . DR. WATERS IS THE PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BINGHAMTON N.Y. . . . . . . . . Dr. Robert Nourse GREAT DRAMATIC ORATOR One of the best known and best liked lecturers on the platform. His "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is perhaps the greatest lecture created within the last twenty years. List of Titles Dramatic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" "The Bells" Didactic "John and Johnathan" "The White Man's Burden" "The Belief of Disbelievers" "Foolish Virgins" Evangelistic "Why I am Not An Infidel" "God and Business" "Why I am a Christian" After much persuasion, Dr. Nourse has consented to fill a limited number of engagements. He is, without a doubt, the greatest dramatic orætor the word has ever produced. His circulars will give you further information. GEO. RALF KURTZ SOLO PIANIST AND ACCOMPANIST Mr. Kurtz is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, a master of the keys, and can be secured for assembly work. [*11*] MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD THE SOLDIER ORATOR Titles "GRANT AND HIS GENERALS" "THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER" "FATHER- LOVE, PATRIOTIC and CHRISTIAN" "THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND RESULTS" The surviving leaders of the great civil war have become few in number. Soon there will be none who can speak from personal experience of that great drama. Here is one who was a distinguished participant. Hear him while you may. General Howard is an eloquent speaker. . . . . Dr. E. Benj. Andrews Former Superintendent Public Schools, Chicago Subjects "GEN. ROBT. E. LEE" "MINISTERS AND PREACHING" "THE CRISIS OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM" . . . . . . United States delegate to the Brussels Monetary Conference, member of the Loyal Legion, ex- president of Brown University, Educator, Historian, Economist, Publicist. He is a forcible speaker, addressing his audience with the utmost directness and using a manuscript. . . . Miss Sibyl Sammis A Really Great American Soprano A Favorite Chautauqua Attraction Miss Sammis will be assisted by Mr. George Ralf Kurtz, giving a series of recitals. Program on opposite page. Two personal endorsements . . . Major J. B. Pond New York, March 19, 1900. MISS SAMMIS: It was refreshing to hear you at our concert the other evening. I did not believe there was so good a soprano singer in this country. You certainly are the best equipped all-around singer I know of at the present time. You certainly are bound to meet with great success, for you merit it . . . . Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, N. Y. March 19, 1900. MY DEAR MAJOR POND: It was a great joy, the other evening at your house, to hear Miss Sibyl Sammis sing. The amount of soul that she puts into her notes is most wonderful, and her performance is all done with such ease and grace that I feel very sure that this young woman will win a high place for herself in America. It is very rare indeed that one meets such talent, and as it is well backed up with physical health, I am sure that my prophesy will come to pass. So just keep your eye on Miss Sammis, and you and I will yet be boasting of the fact that we heard her sing before the world had really recognized her worth. . . . . . . . . [*13*] Miss Sibyl Sammis AND Mr. George Ralf Kurtz Giving Popular Recitals Soprano and Piano Specimen Program Goldbeck . . . . . . Toubrillion MR KURTZ Gilbert . . . . . . The Lark MISS SAMMIS MacDowell . . . The Witches Dance MR. KURTZ Allitsen . . . . . Love is a Bubble Pontius . . . . . The Parting Rose (Dedicated to Miss Sammis) Von Stutznean . . . Russian Love Song MISS SAMMIS Strauss . . . . . . Concert Waltz MR. KURTZ Meyerbeer . . Selection from Les Hugenots MISS SAMMIS Sousa . . . . . . . Popular MR. KURTZ Korthener . . . . . Love's Rapture MISS SAMMIS The repertoire of both Miss Sammis and Mr. Kurtz is very large and programs will be arranged to suit all occasions. . . . . . . . . . . . MENDELSSOHN MALE QUARTET Mr. Howard Stewart Barnett First Bass His rich, full barytone voice and artistic work have gained for him an enviable reputation wherever he has appeared. MR. URBAN LEO ALKIRE Second Bass His powerful voice combines great depth with a lyric quality which is seldom found in low voices. What one man says: Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 12, 1900 From Dr. T. W. McVety Supt. Galesburg Chautauqua. The Mendelssohn Male Quartet gave us four full concerts. They were the greatest attraction of the Whole Chautauqua. They are gentlemen of the highest musical culture and the rarest harmony and sang four days, without repetition, the finest music ever heard at our Chautauqua. [*15*] MENDELSSOHN MALE QUARTET Our list of talent, brilliant as it is, contains no attraction of more splendid merit or possessing more elements of genuine strength than the Mendelssohn Male Quartet. Each man is an artist capable of giving a series of interpretative song recitals, and there is a more perfect adaptation of each voice to the others than we have ever heard in any such company; musical intelligence, training, experience as individuals and as a quartet, place them far above many so-called quartets. MR. J. LINCOLN NEWHALL. First Tenor Has been endowed by nature with a voice of unusual dramatic power, and almost unlimited range-a tenor voice of the purest quality. MR. MALDWYN EVANS Second Tenor The Welsh tenor, has a reputation not confined to this country alone, being well known in England and his native land. He possesses a strong, robust voice, of rare pleasing quality and broad range. Colonel George W. BAIN Literary Subjects "Among the Masses, or Traits of Human Character" "BOYS AND GIRLS, NICE AND NAUGHTY, OR THE PENDULUM OF LIFE" "The Golden Gate, or the Age in Which We Live" "OUR COUNTRY'S BILL OF FARE" "THE NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD MAN" "UNCLE SAM AND THE QUEEN REGENT" He is called the silver-tongued orator of the south. He is all that implies. DR. W. F. GILMORE The Best Story Teller on the Lyceum Platform Lecture "WHAT'S ALL THIS THING ABOUT?" Dr. Gilmore is an orator, scholar, thinker and a humorist Will please any audience. Available for Sunday sermons. [*17*] Mary Church Terrell President National Association of Colored Women THE GREATEST ORATOR OF HER RACE Titles: "THE PROGRESS OF THE COLORED WOMAN," "HARRIET BEECHER STOWE," "THE BRIGHT SIDE." Mrs. Terrell has in preparation several new addresses for the season of 1901. Her first Chautauqua season, last year, was a series of personal triumphs. We give only a few notices, and ask you to send for her circular... "I have known Mary Church Terrell for a number of years: have heard her address large and cultured audiences of both Caucasian and Negro races. She is without a doubt the leading colored woman of the country-beautiful in person-scholarly in mind-of great dignity and grace. Her productions are singularly refined, and always delivered with modesty, great eloquence, and with a touch of pathos that makes them something of a painful enjoyment. One is pained that so noble a woman with such noble messages suffers social ostracism simply because she has a drop of negro blood in her veins." Robert Nourse. Clarinda Iowa, August 22, 1900. Mary Church Terrell: Dear Madam: I wish to congratulate you on your success at our Assembly. It is no easy matter for any one, and especially a woman, to appear for three consecutive days before a critical audience. Still you not only kept up the interest, but many declare that the last was your greatest lecture. Allow me to say that I was delighted with your insight into the subjects treated, your masterful and majestic treatment of them, cultured, womanly presence, both on and off the platform. William Orr, President Clarinda Iowa Assembly. Mrs. Terrell well deserves the title the female Booker T. Washington, though she needs not the title to aid her on her way in the intellectual and oratorical world. Her addresses are the pure gold, with less dross of nonsense than any lecturer that has come upon the stage at this Chautauqua. From the first word to the last she has something to say, and says it as a cultured lady in the best of English, which has no tinge of the hifalutin or sensational. Such speakers are rare. She should be paid to travel as a model of good English and good manners. Danville Illinois Daily News. Dr. P. S. Henson Pastor First Baptist Church, Chicago Subjects "FOOLS," "CUNNERY," "BACKBONE," "GRUMBLERS," "THE BETTER HALF," "OLD AND YOUNG AMERICA." S. M. Speden ARTISTIC ENTERTAINER Presenting "THINGS WE LAUGH AND WONDER AT." "FLASHES AND DASHES." "CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISTICS." Mr. Speden is a good platform edition of Puck, Judge. Harper's Weekly, and all the humorous and illustrated periodicals... Mr. and Mrs. Francis Labadie In Their Two Great Entertainments "An Original Idea" and "An Infinite Jest" "Success comes through a Reputation for Superiority in Some One Thing" West Side Branch, Y. M. C. A. 318 W. 57th. St. New York, Dec. 27, 1898 MR. AND MRS. FRANCIS LABADIE: It gives me much pleasure to state that the entertainment you gave in our Auditorium last evening was a great success. Our large audience was thoroughly pleased with your delightful new idea of presenting various interesting selections tactfully connected by your original and effective plan. We wish you continued success and shall hope to have the pleasure of hearing you again. Very truly yours, D. E. YARNELL, Sec'y. Bay View, Mich., August 20, 1898 TO MR. AND MRS. FRANCIS LABADIE: I heard you at the Bay View Auditorium last evening in your delightful "Original Idea," and desire to convey to you my warmest appreciation of the very superior quality of your work. Your versatility in the strong scenes from Shakespeare and in light and charming comedy gave me one of the pleasantest evenings I have enjoyed for a long time. Come again and bring your pathos and refined humor. Sincerely, JOHN M. HALL, President Assembly. Ritchie MAGICIAN In the twelve years that the inimitable RITCHIE has been before the public, he has certainly won a most enviable reputation, his dexterity and originality in sleight-of-hand having never been equaled. In fact all of his experiments, whether depending upon mechanical ingenuity or personal dexterity, are new and of his own invention, and in this respect RITCHIE differs from most of the performers of the present day, as they invariably depend upon imitating the Hermann or Kellar for their success. RITCHIE is possessed of a gentlemanly humor and personal magnetism that never fail to win the audience from the start. Money seems to grow at his finger tips; the surrounding atmosphere seems to be full of floral blossoms which materialize at his command; canaries fly through space, and come and go at his bidding; glass dishes brimming with water and filled with gold fish are produced from empty silk handkerchiefs; rabbits appear from nobody knows where and disappear as rapidly; an innocent borrowed hat is suddenly made to produce sufficient stuff to cover the whole platform-a number of bird cages, each containing a live canary, six lighted lanterns, various articles of wearing apparel, hundreds of yards of ribbon, etc.-in fact "an evening of magic" with RITCHIE is so delightfully crisp and sparkling that it must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated Mrs. Ritchie Mrs. Ritchie is the happy possessor of a rich and pleasing contralto voice, so well adapted to the rendition of the old-fashioned songs which she is so fond of singing and which never fail to bring the audience in touch with many nearest and dearest remembrances of by-gone days. In the present day of the concert singer, the selections from operas, etc., are so common that it becomes quite a novelty to hear a full, sweet voice sympathetically sing the old ballads we all love so well. MRS. RITCHIE is quite a talented pianist and performs the overtures and furnishes the music so necessary to enhance and perfect the various effects in magic, playing appropriate selections during the entire performance... LEVITATION The most delusive and daring diversion ever devised to delight and disturb the comprehension of man. This, the latest of RITCHIE's illusions, is pronounced by scientists and all who have witnessed it, to be the most incomprehensible, the most astounding and marvelous effect ever conceived in the wide scope of necromancy. The celebrated Hindoo fakirs outdone; all laws of nature set aside; gravitation defied; a human body suspended in mid-air with no visible or invisible means of support, which is proven by passing a solid hoop several times around the suspended body... Hon. Jerry Simpson OF KANSAS CAN BE SECURED FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF ADDRESSES ON LEADING QUESTIONS OF THE DAY... MRS. LEONORA M. LAKE OF ST. LOUS, MISSOURI, Vice-President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. One of the truly great orators among the many women of the platform. Prof. P. M. Pearson LECTURE RECITALS Longfellow, Riley, Tennyson, Kipling, A Study in Dialect, Common Reading, Humor, Pathos, Oratory, Bible and Hymn Reading... Miss Augusta Crim READER Three years with the Mendelssohn Male Quartet in their winter concert work. Is a first-honor graduate of the Boston College of Oratory. She afterward took courses with Professor S. H. Malcom Ticknor of Boston. Her remarkable talent, dramatic instinct, and versatility have attracted wide attention, and the public has accorded her unstinted praise. Possessed of a most pleasing voice and manner, her renditions are given with a natural taste and refinement which never fail to charm her auditors. MISS DELLA ELIZABETH PHILLIPS CONCERT VIOLINIST AND PIANIST Two years with the Chicago Grand Concert Company. A strong feature on any Chautauqua program... HON. CHAS. A. TOWNE Can be secured for his great lecture on SHAKESPEARE A Few Specials Miss Emily Chesny Kindergarten Employed in Kansas City Schools Mrs. M. J. Snyder Special work in Kindergarten and Nature Study Miss Anna Chesny Physical Culture Mrs. Lizzie McNair Soprano :: :: :: :: Charming personality, pleasing voice, large repertoire. A Chautauqua favorite Miss Anna Dixon Reader :: :: Available for a very few assemblies. Has large repertoire of serious and humorous selections . . . . . . EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE National Afro-American Council Bethel A. M. E. Church Cor. Napoleon and Hastings Streets DETROIT, MICHIGAN AUGUST 30-31--SEPTEMBER 1, 1905 Program Wednesday, August 30th 10 o'clock a. m. CHORUS - "America" ------Council INVOCATION - - - - - - Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., Boston, Mass. ROLL CALL - - - - - - Cyrus Field Adams, Secretary ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEES FRATERNAL GREETINGS BENEDICTION - - - - - - Rev. Charles E. Allen, Detroit, Mich. 2 o'clock p. m. HYMN - "Blest Be the Tie that Binds" PRAYER - - - - - - Rev. J. B. Massiah, Detroit, Mich. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS REPORTS OF OFFICE:- 1. Secretary. 2. Treasurer. 3. Financial Secretary. 4. National Organizer. REPORTS OF DIRECTORS OF BUREAUS ADDRESS - - - - - - Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D., Wilberforce, O. BENEDICTION - - - - - - Rev. Geo. C. Clement, D. D., Charlotte, N.C. 8 o'clock p. m. INVOCATION - - - - - - Rev. William A. Fitch, D. D., Tarrytown, N.Y. DUET (Piano) - - - - - - The Misses Hunton and Johnson ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. 1. Hon. Alfred J. Murphy, Judge Elect of Circuit Court 2. Hon. Geo. P. Codd, Mayor of Detroit. 3. Robert C. Barnes, Esq., Chairman Local Committee MUSIC (Vocal) - - - - - - Mr. John Evans RESPONSES 1. Hon. T. Thomas Fortune, Red Bank, N. J. 2. Mrs. R. Jerome Jeffrey, Rochester, N. Y. 3. Bishop A. Walters, A. M., D. D., Jersey City, N. J. Program - Continued MUSIC (Piano) - - - - - -Madame Gay Lewis Pelham PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS - - - - - -William H. Steward, Louisville, Ky. MUSIC (Vocal) - - - - - - Madame Marguerite Egbert ADDRESS - - - - - - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. "The Service Which Should Be Rendered the South" ADDRESS - - - - - - Hon. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn. "The Afro-American and the South" BENEDICTION - - - - - - Rev. E. W. Lampton, D. D., Washington, D. C. Thursday Morning, August 31st 9:30 o'clock a. m. INVOCATION - - - - - -Rev. Chas. E. Allen ADDRESS - "The New Issue" - John R. Clifford, Esq., Martinsburg, W. Va. ADDRESS - "How Shall We Reach and Improve the Criminal Classes." Prof W. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce, O. ADDRESS - "The Afro-American at the Bar of Justice." Walter M. Farmer, Esq., St. Louis, Mo. ADDRESS - "The Offering of the Afro-American Press." Rev. Geo. C. Clement, Editor Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C. ADDRESS - "Is the Presence of the Afro-American a Menace to our Civilization." Hon. W. D. Crum, Charleston, S. C. 2 o'clock p.m. INVOCATION - - - - - - Rev. Holland Powell GENERAL BUSINESS REPORT OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE ELECTION OF OFFICERS SYMPOSIUM - "Disfranchisement" Hon. H. S. Cummings, Baltimore, Md. Hon. J. Douglass Wetmore, Jacksonville, Fla. Hon. P.B.S. Pinchback, Washington, D. C. Hon J. C. Dancy, Washington, D. C. F. H. Warren, Esq., Detroit, Mich. Walter Stowers, Esq., Detroit, Mich. Hon. R. H. Terrell, Washington, D. C. Program - Continued 8 o'clock p. m. HYMN -- "Lead Kindly Light" - - - - - - - Council INVOCATION - - - Rev. W.H Brooks, D. D., New York City ADDRESS - - - - Hon. William H. Lewis, Boston, Mass. MUSIC (Vocal) - - - - - - Mr. H.M. Towns ADDRESS -- "The Crucial Crisis in the Solution of the Race Problem and How to Meet It." Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, A. M., D. D., Charlotte, N.C. MUSIC (Piano) - - - - - - - Miss Betha Hansbury ADDRESS - - - - - - Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, Chicago, Ill. MUSIC (Vocal) - - - - - - Mr. George Cole MUSIC (Piano) - - - - - - Miss Grace May ADDRESS -- "Fighting Prejudice with Economic Weapons" Prof. H. T. Kealing, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa. MUSIC (Vocal) - - - - - - Madame Maggie Porter Cole ADDRESS -- "How the Race May Take Advantage of Its Disadvantages" Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., Augusta Ga. BENEDICTION Friday, September 1st 9 o'clock a. m. HYMN -- "Nearer My God to Thee" - - - - - - Council INVOCATION - - - Rev. D.A. Graham, D. D., Detroit, Mich. ADDRESS - - - - - - Dr. M. C. B. Masson, Cincinnati, O. ADDRESS -- "The Expansion of the Afro-American Population and the Problems to which it Gives Rise" Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C. ADDRESS - - - - - Prof. R. R. Wright, Savannah, Ga. ADDRESS - - - - Mrs. R. Jerome Jeffery, Rochester, N.Y. ADDRESS - - - - Hon. J. Madison Vance, New Orleans, La. GENERAL BUSINESS REPORTS OF COMMITTEES Executive Committee, Auditing Committee, Committee on Address. HYMN -- "God be with us 'till we meet again" 3 o'clock p.m. The delegates will be escorted to Belle Isle, the most beautiful spot in America. 8 o'clock p.m. Reception to delegates and visitors at Strassburg's Academy. FOURTH ENTERTAINMENT Y.M.C.A. STAR COURSE MARTIN AUDITORIUM FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30TH, 1903. "RONEY'S BOYS" CONCERT COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, HENRY B. RONEY, Originator, Trainer and Director Master Robert Purvis Master charlie Lenzen, Master Harry Newell, Master Tony Linden, Master Tracy Holbrook. REMAINING NUMBERS OF THE COURSE: February 20 - The Redpath Grand Concert Company. Miss Anito Rio, Soprano. Miss Bessie Bonsall, contralto. Dr. Ion Jackson, Tenor. Dr. Carl Dufft, Bass. Miss Henrietta Weber, Pianist. March 13 - Mr. Montaville Flowers, In Dickens' "Christmas Carol." The Chart for Single Seats will open Monday Morning the week preceding the Concert. Prices for the Redpath Concert Company, 50c, 75c., and$1.00 [*York, Pa?*] Program. 1. Quartets.--"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth," Rhodes "Legends," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mohring "Roney's Boys"--Masters Robert Purvis, Charlie Lenzen, Harry Newell and Tony Linden. (In Military Uniforms.) 1. Violin.--"Zigeunerweisen," . . . . . . . .Sarasate Master Tracy Holbrook. (Pupil of Earl R. Drake, Chicago.) 3. Duet.--"Hark! Hark! my soul," . . . . . . . Shelley Masters Purvis and Lenzen. (In French Court Costume, Period of Louis XV.) 4. Flute.--National Fantasie, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hartmann Master Tony Linden. Master Tony plays the celebrated "True-Tone" Flute, made expressly for him by the Buescher Mfg. Co., Elkhart, Ind 5. Song.--"I Dreamt" (Sognai), . . . . . . . . . . . .Schira Master Robert Purvis. (Flute Obligato by Tony Linden.) 6. Quartets.--"My Old Kentucky Home." (In Court Costume.) Foster-Smith GLEE.--"Sleigh Bells." (Accompanied by piccolo, wrist bells and sleigh bells), . . . . . . . . . . . Distin "Roney's Boys." (In College Gowns,) Short Intermission. 7. Aria.--"Angels Ever Bright and Fair," "Theodora" . . . . .Handel Master Charlie Lenzen. (In Cotta and Cassock.) 8. Violin, Flute and Piano,--"Midsummer Night's Dream" Music. (Abbreviated.) Mendelsohn Masters Tony Linden, Tracy Holbrook and Mr. Roney. 9.{Quartet.--"Tenting To-night on the Old Camp Ground," Arr. by Henry B. Roney Trio, (with Flute Obligato)--"Brightly Beams the Star of Morn." "Il Giuramento,". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mercadante "Roney's Boys." (In Patriotic Costume.) 10. Violin.--"Am Meer," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schubert Caprice de Concert, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Musin Master Tracy Holbrook 11. Songs of Scotland.--"Annie Laurie," . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. by Dudley Buck Quartets, . . ."Comin' thro' the Rye," . . ." " F.W. Root "Roney's Boys." (In Highland Scottish Costume.) 12. Quartet.--"Estudiantins." (Spanish Student's Song), . . . . . .Lacome Accompanied with triangle, tambourine, castanets and violin. PROGRAMME SUBJECT TO CHANGE. COMING EVENTS. PEOPLE'S DIME ENTERTAINMENTS. Saturday Evening, January 31--Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. of Washington, D.C. Lecture--"HARRIET BEECHER STOWER." Specia music by Children's Mandolin Club. Saturday Evening Feb. 7.--The Almondbury Bell Ringers. Six in number. Champions of England. They ring 165 bells. Mr. Elbert Foland, Reader and Impersonator. Saturday Evening , Feb. 14.--Douglass, the Magician, In a Programme of Perplexing Mysteries. Saturday Evening, Feb. 21.--Fred. High, The Versatile Wit, Humorist, Ventriloquist and Impersonator. "The man with many voices, but with many faces." Saturday Evening, Feb. 28.--George Gibson Kerr, Lecture--"The heart of a boy, and how to get the worth out of him." Special Music. Saturday Evening, March 7.--Lieut. E. W. Hearne. "An evening 'round the camp fire and war stories." Saturday Evening, March 14.--Albert Armstrong. Illustrated Picture Play. "The Sky Pilot." Saturday Evening, March 21--S.M. Spedon. Chalk Talk. Rapid Sketching. Humorist. Saturday Evening, March 28.--Returns of American Vitagraph Co In a New Series of Moving Pictures. UNDER OTHER AUSPICES. Lecture Room, Thursday Evening, February 5th. Lecture by Rev. Charles L. Fry, D.D. Auspices of Sunday School Association. Auditorium, Friday Evening, February 6th. Illustrated Lecture, "Imperial India;" Frank R. Roberson; Auspices of Luther League of Trinity Church." Lecture Room, Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 10th and 11th. Supper; Auspices the Lutheran Church of the Advent. Lecture Room, Thursday Evening, February 12th. Valentine Social, Ladies Auxiliary Y.M.C.A Lecture Room, Friday Evening, February 13th. Supper, Auspices Canton Lancaster, No. 25, P.M., I.O.O.F. ...University Extension Lecture Course... By Earl Barnes, A. B., M., S. Staff lecturer of the American Society, formerly of Stanford University IN THE MARTIN AUDITORIUM ----------------------------------------- "The History of Civilization" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, --"Oriental Beginnings-- Judea and Egypt." THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, -- "Classical Antiquity-- Athens and Rome." THURSDAY, MARCH 5-- "The Middle Ages-- The Church and the Holy Roman Empire." THURSDAY, MARCH 12-- "Awakening of Europe-- Italy and Germany." THURSDAY, MARCH 19-- "Shaping of Modern Nations-- France and Prussia." THURSDAY, MARCH 26-- "The Last Century-- America and England." ----------------------------------------- COURSE TICKETS, $1.00. SINGLE ADMISSION, 25C. Tickets for sale at Y. M. C. A. Office. "Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for Men." IN MARTIN AUDITORIUM. ------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 1-- Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, Washington D.C., Subject, "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject." Music by "Roney's Boys." (By request, the balcony will be open for women). SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7-- W. C. Fenno, Army and Navy Department. Music by Almondbury Bell Ringers, of Boston. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15-- W. C. Buchhite. The Illustrated Life of Christ, and Gospel Songs. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22-- Fred. High of Pittsburgh. SUNDAY MARCH 1-- Rev. George Gibson Kerr. SUNDAY MARCH 8-- Lieutenant E. W. Hearne. SUNDAY, MARCH 15-- (Open). SUNDAY, MARCH 22-- S. M. Speden, of New York City. SUNDAY, MARCH 29-- Y. W. C. A. Anniversary. -------------------------------------------- Program,-- 3:00- 3:30, Special Music Numbers and Rousing Song Service. 3:30- 4:30, Address, 4:30- 5:30, Three Bible Study Groups. 5:30- 6:00, Lunch, 6:00- 7:00,Singing Around the Long Fire in the Reception Hall. ------------------------------------------ A cordial invitation extended to all men, especially strangers, to attend these services. [1902] WOMENS' DAY And Pew Rally Metropolitan A. M. E. Church 15th. and M. Sts. Northwest. Sunday, June, 12th. '21 at 8 p. m. At this service the women will have entire charge of the exer- cises. Leading women of the various churches and societies will take part on the program. PROGRAM Organ Prelude - - - Miss Florence Brooks Hymn - - - - Mrs. Maria Lucas Invocation - - - Mrs. Dewitte Wilson Selection by Choir - - Mrs. Marie Jumper, Dir. Scripture Reading - - Miss M. L. Mason Solo - - - - Miss Alberta Williams Notices - - - - Mrs. C. W. Brown Basket Collection - - - Lady Ushers Choir Selection Address - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Solo - - Miss Elsie Robinson, John Wesley Address - - Mrs. Catherine C. Cole of Plymouth Cong. Church Choir Selection Addresses will be made by the following Women Mrs. Mary Sewell, Vermont Ave. Bapt. Mrs. Madre- Marshall Mrs. Lockly, John Wesley Mrs. F. S. Tanner Choir Selection Addresses, Mrs. F. D. Harris, Army and Navy Union Mrs. Julia Layton, 19th St. Bapt. Mrs. K. West Waugh of Galbraith "The Duty of the Negro Woman to Her Race" Piano Solo - - - Mrs. Ceranta Anthony Berean Baptist. Duet - - - Williams & Smothers Public Collection and Report of Pew Captains "Mispal." Led by Mrs. Mary Sewell Services under auspices of the Minute Club. CAPTAINS AND PEWS CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Bernice Backner - - REPRESENTING- Bishop Sampson Brooks CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. M. B. Dunn- - REPRESENTING- J. S. Flipper CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Mary Bowman- - REPRESENTING- B. T. Tanner CAPTAIN OF PEW- Louise Johnson- - REPRESENTING- J. A. Johnson CAPTAIN OF PEW- Miss Alberta Williams- - REPRESENTING- John Hurst CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Adelaide Hutchinson- - REPRESENTING- I N. Ross CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. C. W. Brown- - REPRESENTING- W. T. Vernon CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Clora Shadd- - REPRESENTING- L. J. Coppin CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Marie Marshall- - REPRESENTING- D. A. Payne CAPTAIN OF PEW- Miss Ida Reed- - REPRESENTING- Joshua Jones CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Ellen J. Brown- - REPRESENTING- Dr. R. C. Ransome CAPTAIN OF PEW- Mrs. Florence Turner- - REPRESENTING- Bro. John Sims, 1st. Envelopes will be distributed for collection of contributions. Each Pew Captain or Leader will please write her name on all envelopes distributed by her. Mistress of Ceremonies - Miss C. E. Martine New England Associaiton of Oberlin Alumni welcomes Mary Church Terrell as guest at Hotel Bellvue Luncheon Dec. 9- 1905 THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF OBERLIN ALUMNI The members of the New England Association of Oberlin Alumni will lunch together at Hotel Bellevue on Saturday, December 9, 1905, at 12:30 p.m. The Association will be happy to welcome as their guest on that occasion Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, a member of the class of '84, and one of Oberlin's most honored graduates. Mrs. Terrell was chosen as one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women which was held in Berlin last year, and we are glad to quote from a report written by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. "Mrs. Terrell was able to deliver one speech in excellent German, and one equally good in French. This achievement on the part of a colored woman, added to a fine appearance and the eloquence of her words, carried the audience by storm, and she had to respond three times to the encores before they were satisfied. It was more than a personal triumph; it was a triumph for her race" To assure like appreciation we shall request Mrs. Terrell to speak to us in English. The object of these Oberlin gatherings is to bring together in an informal way all those who are interested in Oberlin and to afford them the opportunity for mutual acquaintance. If any know of recent comers who should be included in our list, or of some who may by error have been previously omitted, the Association will consider it a favor if such addresses are sent to the Secretary. Those who wish to be regular members of the Association are requested to send their annual dues of fifty cents to the Treasurer at their early convenience. Minnie May, Secretary, 201 Clarendon Street, Boston Ethelbert V. Grabill, Treasurer, 720 Tremont Building, Boston Board of Trustees, Dr. G, G, Turfley. Dr. G. M. Schillito. John D. Cherry. W. K. M'Guiness. Robert Jackson. B. Anderson. Samuel Rosemond. Jos. D. Mahoney. William Manley. Officers Dr. G. G. Turfley. - - - - President William Manley. - - - - Vice-President Jos. D. Mahoney. - - - - Secretary and Treasurer Abery College Trade Schools will re-open Monday, September 8th, 1902 Commencement Abery College Trade Schools Thursday evening May 29th, 1902 Carnegie Music Hall, Allegheny, Pa. Exhibition of the work done by the students at the College Buildings Wednesday Afternoon and Evening, May 28th, 1902, from 2 to 10 P.M. Class 1902: Elizabeth Thornton Gertie Carter Bessie Toliver Pearl Hopson Ella B. Woods Marion Johnson Blanche Lett Accompanist: Prof. G. S. Murray , Instructor of Music Avery College The Board of Trustees of the Abery College Trade Schools cordially invite you to the Commencement Exercises, Class 1902, Carnegie Music Hall, Allegheny, Pa. Thursday Evening, May 29th, 1902 Eight o'clock Programme: Prayer, - - - - - - - - - By Rev. Lee Chorus - - - "Creation" - - H. F. Hayden Avery School. Soprano Solo - - "Staccato Pola," - - - Mullen Miss Lena Shadney Eureka Quatrette - "Selection," - - - Messrs. Johnson, Howard, Gorden, Jenkins. Confering Diplomas - - - - - - By the President Address - - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington D.C. Chorus - "Honey that I love so well," - - Freeman Avery School. Soprano Solo, - - - "Calary," - - - Rodney Miss Clara Williams. Benediction, - - - - - - Rev. J. Gazaway Finale, - - - - - - - - Prof. G. S. Murray AN IMPORTANT EVENT AT THE Union Baptist Church, Wooster Street. The Union Baptist Church will prove her interest in the uplifting of Colored Citizens in having the most distinguished woman of the race to address the citizens of Hartford on the evening of Thursday, December 7th, 1905 We hope that every woman who has the least interest in the advancement of the race will avail themselves of the opportunity to encourage those who are working in the interest of our people. MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, OF WASHINGTON, D. C. The most entertaining speaker before the public to-day will deliver one of her famous lectures on the above date. She is the honorary president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. She was a delegate to the International Congress of Women which was held in Berlin, Germany, June1904. Mrs. John A. Logan, says: " that one of the ablest addresses of the sessions of the National Council of Women held last May in Washington, was that of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell." This woman of rare attainments and culture spoke at the Hartford Opera House in the Y. M. C. A. Course in 1903, and told some startling truths in such a dignified and intelligent way, that men said they were enchanted, and could have listened all night to the great woman orator. A Nice programme will be rendered. Refreshments will be served in the Vestry. Exercises will begin at 8 o'clock sharp. ADMISSION 25 CENTS Programme St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church New York City Monday Evening March 26, 1906 1 Invocation - - - Pastor 2 Chorus - - - Choir 3 Solo - - Madame Mary E. Terrel 4 Reading - Madame Fannie B. De Knight 5 Solo - - Madame Mary C. Copeland 6 Address - Madame Mary Church Terrell "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject." 7 Presentation - - - 8 Solo - Madame Marguiretta Randall 9 Offering for Southern Education and Missionary Work. 10 Closing Chorus - - - Choir Reception and Refreshments in Lecture Room. Dr. E. P. Roberts Master of Ceremonies. [*See Page 2*] BULLETIN of The Twentieth Century Club Vol. VI November, 1906 No. 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER CLUB LUNCHEONS Saturday, November 3, at 1 P.M. Professor George H. Blakeslee, of the Collegiate Department of Clark University, Worcester, will describe his personal experiences in Russia during the past summer. Professor Leo Wiener, of Harvard University, will discuss the situation in Russia. * *Members are limited to one guest at the first luncheon of the month. Tickets will be sold at the Club office at any time on Saturday morning, but seats at the tables cannot be held after one o'clock. Saturday, November 10, at 1 P.M. The general subject of "Civic Progress in Boston" will be discussed by Major Henry L. Higginson, Mr. Jerome Jones, vice-president of the Boston Merchants Association, Mr. George R. Nutter, of the Good Government Association, Mr. Joseph Lee, and Mr. David A. Ellis, of the School Committee. Saturday, November 17, at 1 P.M. Mr. John F. Moors will describe the relief work in San Francisco. Hon. James M. Head, formerly mayor of Nashville, Tenn., will speak of municipal administration. Saturday, November 24, at 1 P.M. Mr. W. W. Appleton, representing the organized labor of England, is expected. CLUB EVENING November 7 at 8 P.M. The Committee of International Relations has arranged a conference of "International Progress." Hon. LLoyd E. Chamberlain, of Brockton, and Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood [I] blood, who have recently attended the International Peace Congress at Milan and the meeting of the International Law Association at Berlin, will speak upon subjects considered at those meetings. Mr. Osborne Howes, who has just returned from Japan, will speak upon the new problems and duties of the United States in relation to the East. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell (colored), member of the Board of Education at the District of Columbia, is also expected, later in the evening, to speak briefly on "The Negro in Washington." ***Members of the Club are requested to distribute to distribute the invitation cards enclosed to those who may desire to attend the evening meetings. SPECIAL CONFERENCE Wednesday, November 21, at 8 P.M. A conference will be held in the Hall, on the subject of "Nurses in the Public Schools and their Relation to Adequate Medical Inspection," the program being under the direction of the Fathers and Mothers Club. The speakers will be Dr. Richard Cabot, Mr. Joseph Lee, Mr. G.H. Martin, and Miss Henrietta Willis, school nurse in the Wells School District. A conference will follow in which Dr. Durgin, Dr. Fitzgerald, Mr. O.W. Dimick, and others will take part. The Club members are invited to attend, and to extend the invitation to all who are interested in the subject. DRAMA COURSE The Drama Committee announces a more varied programme than in previous years. I. Lecture: "Comedy and Tragedy in France." By Professor F.C. de Sumichrast, of Harvard University. II. Dramatic Reading: Selections from Racine and Moliere. By Miss Katherine Jewell Everts. III. Lecture: "The Modern Drama." By Mr. Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly. [2] IV. Play: Hauptmann's "The Sunken Bell." A special performance by E.H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. V. Lecture: "Comedy and Tragedy in Athens." By Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford University. VI. Dramatic Reading: "Prometheus Bound" of Eschylus. By Mr. George Riddle The lectures and readings will be given in the Club Hall at eight o'clock in the evening, beginning Friday, December 14. The play will be given during the Sothern-Marlowe engagement at the Boston Theatre, in the week beginning December 31. Course tickets, including an orchestra seat for the play, are offered for $5. To insure the success of the programme, two hundred must be sold. Orders should be sent before November 10 to the Drama Committee. A subscription blank is enclosed. BIBLICAL LECTURES The courses of lectures announced by the Biblical Lectures Committee will be given in the Club Hall on Thursday afternoons at four o'clock, beginning December 6. They are as follows: - I. "Some Preachers of the Eighth Century," Four lectures by Rev. George Hodges, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge. December 6. Amos. December 20. Micah. December 13, Hosea. December 27. Isaiah. II. "Jewish Theology in New Testament Times." Four lectures by Professor George F. Moore, of the Harvard Divinity School. January 3. The Jewish Idea of God and his Relation to Men. January 10. Sin, Retribution, Expiation. January 17. Repentance and the Forgiveness of Sins. January 24. The Future of the Jewish People and the Hereafter of the Individual. III. "The Beginnings of the Christian Church," Four lectures by Professor John Winthrop Platner, of Andover Theological Seminary. [3] February 7. Jerusalem, the Mother Church of Christendom February 14. Early Gentile-Christian Centres: Antioch, Corinth, Alexandria. February 21. Rome, the Pivot of Western University. February 28. The Ancient Catholic Church. IV: "The Prophet Ezekiel." Four lectures by Rev. Frank K. Sanders, formerly dean of the Yale Divinity School. March 3. His Justification of God's Dealings with Israel (chaps. 1-24). March 10. His Uplifting Appeals to the Disheartened People (chaps. 33-39) March 17. His Constructive Scheme for the Israel-to-be (chaps. 33-39) March 24. His Place in the Religious History of Israel. Course tickets can be obtained at the Club-house on and after Monday, November 19, at the following rates:- Courses I., II., III., IV. each $1.00 All four courses (sixteen lectures) 3.00 Mail order for tickets should be accompanied by the amount due for the tickets ordered, and may be sent to Edward H. Chandler, 3 Joy Street, Boston, to whom checks should be made payable. UNIVERSITY LECTURES The Education Committee announces two courses of Saturday morning lectures, beginning on November 17, at eleven o'clock, in the Daniel S. Ford Hall, in the new Ford Memorial Building, corner of Ashburton Place and Bowdoin Street. I. "Our English Spelling." Four lectures by Mark Harvery Liddell, editor of the Elizabethan Shakspere, formerly professor of English in the University of Texas. November 17. General and Introductory. November 24. The Genesis of our Written English. December 8. The Classicization of Middle English Spelling and its Relation to Modern English. December 15. The Reform of our Spelling. [4] II. Illustrations of Ancient Classical Tragedy. A series of seven interpretative recitals by Professor Richard G. Moulton, of the University of Chicago, on January 5, 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9, 19. January 5. Introduction: Shakespeare's Macbeth Recast in the Form of an Ancient Classical Tragedy. January 12. Ancient Tragedy in its Simplest Form: The Alcestis of Euripides. January 19. Aeschylus's Trilogy: The Story of Orestes. On this Occasion, as three plays are to be given, the recital will begin at ten o'clock. January 26. The Electra of Sophocles. February 2. The Electra of Euripides. February 9. Ancient Tragedy in its Wildest Form: The Bacchanal Women of Euripides. February 16. Conclusion: Ancient Classical and Modern Romantic Drama. Course tickets, with reserved seat, $3; unreserved, $2; single admission, 50 cents. Seats on sale at the box office of Tremont Temple on and after November 3. NEW MEMBERS ELECTED IN OCTOBER Hanks, Mrs. Charles S. Chestnut Hill Hardy, John D. Wellesley Hills Lamprey, Charles M. 213 West Newton Street Sanders, Rev. Frank K. 14 Beacon Street Stone, Charles A. 84 State Street Woods, James Haughton 2 Chestnut Street CLUB NOTES Mr. James B Reynolds, sent by President Roosevelt to investigate conditions at the Chicago packing-houses, will speak to the Club concerning this investigation on Wednesday evening, December 5. It is expected that Mr. Winston Churchhill, of New Hampshire, will be the guest of the Club later in the winter. [5] NEW BOOKS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY Surveys, Historic and Economic ... W. J. Ashley City, the Hope of Democracy ... F. C. Howe My Impressions of America ... Charles Wagner Dawn of Russia ... H. W. Nevinson Economic and Social History of New England ... W. B. Weeden The Packers, the Private Car Lines, and the People. J. Ogden Armour Industrial America ... J. Laurence Laughlin Organized Democracy ... Albert Stickney Vital Questions ... Henry Dwight Chapin, M. D. Nature of Capital and Income ... Irving Fisher ORGANIZED 1888. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT INCORPORATED 1891. Program of the 5th Triennial Meeting —OF THE— National Council : : of Women : : of the United States AFFILIATED WITH THE INTER-NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN TO BE HELD AT THE PYTHIAN TEMPLE Ninth Street, bet. K and L, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 9 to 15, 1905. HEADQUARTERS : THE SHOREHAM Motto: "Lead, Kindly Light." Officers of the National Council of Women of the United States. President, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, 824 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Cal. Vice-President-at-Large, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Alexandria, Va. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, Wilmington, Ill. First Recording Secretary, Mrs. Frances E. Burns, St. Louis, Mich. Second Recording Secretary, Mrs. Isabelle Quinlan, Galesburg, Ill. Treasurer, Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, 307 Kirby St., Detroit, Mich. Standing Committees. Peace Demonstration: Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Chairman. Arts and Letters: Miss Ellen H. Richardson, Chairman. Laws Concerning Domestic Relations: Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Chairman. Department of Home: Mrs. N. Coe Stewart, Chairman. Dress: Mrs. Anna L. Johnson, Chairman. Philanthropies and Charities: Mrs. Ellen E. Downer, Chairman. Education: Mrs. Elizabeth E. Brown, Chairman. Dependent and Delinquent Children: Kate Waller Barrett, M. D., Chairman. List of Societies Affiliated with the National council of Women of the United States National Woman's Suffrage Association. Universal Peace Union. National Woman's Relief Society. National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity. National Council of Jewish Women. Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Society. Supreme Hive, Ladies of Maccabees of the World. National Women's Relief Corps. National Association of Loyal Women of America. National Association of Colored Women. American Federation of Nurses. Great Hive of the Modern Maccabees. National Association of Business Women. National Catholic Benevolent Association. National Florence Crittenton Mission. Woman's Centenary Association. Ladies if the G.A.R. Rathbone Sisters of the World. National Free Baptist Missionary Society. State Council, Rhode Island. Local Councils. Local Council of Bloomington, Ind. Local Council of Toledo, Ohio. Local Council of Rochester, N.Y, Local Council of Indianapolis, Ind. Local Council of Portland, Me. Local Council of San Francisco, Cal. Local Council of Detroit, Mich. Local Council of Union City, Ind. Sunday, April 9th-3 P.M. First Congregational Church, corner of Tenth and G Street N.W. Chairman, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, President National Council of Woman Invocation: Mrs. S. D. La Fetra. Bible Reading: Mrs. E. B. Grannis. Solo: Miss Pierce. Addresses: Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Hannah G. Soloman, Chicago, Ill. Benediction: Rev. Amanda Deyo. Singing of Council Hymn: Lead, Kindly Light. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet! I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, or prayed that thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead thou me on! I loved the garish day; and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. So long Thy power has blest me, sure it still Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. Mrs. S. D. La Fetra, Mrs. Alfred Wood, Committee of Arrangements. The Local Council of Jewish Women, whose National body is affiliated with the National Council, will hold a service in the vestry of the Temple, Eighth Street, between H and I Streets N. W., at eight o'clock, Sunday evening, to which the public is invited. Monday, April 10th - 4 to 6 P.M. AT THE SHOREHAM. RECEPTION COMPLIMENTARY TO OFFICERS, DELEGATES AND VISITORS TO THE COUNCIL. 8 P.M. EXECUTIVE SESSION, THE SHOREHAM. NOTES Badges may be had from the Chairman, Miss HETTY ABRAHAM. All members of affiliated organizations are entitled to wear these badges. The business sessions which will be held each morning at 10 o'clock in one of the smaller halls of the Pythian Temple are open to the members of the Council, Patrons, Annual Contributors, Fraternal delegates, and specially invited guests. The afternoon and evening sessions will be open sessions, to which the public is cordially invited. Owing to the absence of President and Mrs. ROOSEVELT, it has been impossible to arrange for a reception at the White House, but special permission will be gotten for any delegate desiring it, to visit the rooms in the White House not usually shown to the public. The agent to visé railroad certificates will be in the hall on April 12th. The hour will be announced at the session of the Council on the 11th. Tuesday, April 11th - 10 A.M. PYTHIAN TEMPLE. Formal Opening of Triennial. Prayer. Appointment of Committee on Credentials. Reception of Applications for Membership. Presentation of Committee on Rules. First Report of Committee on Credentials. Reports of Officers. Appointment of Special Committees on Business of the Triennial. Reception of Fraternal Delegates. 2 P.M. President's Address: MRS. MARY WOOD SWIFT. Reports of Affiliated Organizations. National Woman's Suffrage Association, 2.30 to 2.45. Rev. ANNA SHAW. National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, 2.45 to 3.00. Mrs. ELIZABETH B. GRANNIS. Universal Peace Union, 3.00 to 3.15. Rev. AMANDA DEYO. American Federation of Nurses, 3.15 to 3.30. President or Delegate. Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Society, 3.30 to 3.45. President or Delegate. National Woman's Relief Society, 3.45 to 4.00. Mrs. EMMELINE B. WELLS. National Association of Business Women, 4.00 to 4.15. President or Delegate. 8 P.M. MUSIC. The Lord's Prayer, led by Rev. ALEXANDER KENT. Greeting of President, Mrs. MARY WOOD SWIFT. Greetings, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, President, International Suffrage Association. Greetings, Mrs. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Honorary President, International Council of Woman. Greetings from Canadian Council of Women, Mrs. ROBERT THOMPSON, President. Address: "The Ethics of Home Making," Mrs. N. COE STEWART. Address: EDWIN MARKHAM, "Woman and the Future Social Conscience." Wednesday, April 12th. Pythian Temple. 10 A.M. Minutes of Previous Meeting. Report of Committee on Credentials. Report of Special Committees. Report of Standing Committees. On Dress: Mrs. Anna L. Johnson, Chairman. Department of the Home: Mrs. N. Coe Stewart, Chairman. Programme: Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, Chairman. On Revision of the Constitution; Press: Miss Ackerman. Care of Dependent and Delinquent Children: K. W. Barrett, M. D 2 P.M. Reports of Affiliated Organizations: National Council of Jewish Women, 2.15 to 2.30. Mrs. Hannah G. Soloman National Catholic Benevolent Association, 2.30 to 2.45. President or Delegate Ladies of the G. A. R., 2.45 to 3.00. President or Delegate Report, Local Council of Detroit, Mich., 3.00 to 3.15. President or Delegate National Association of Colored Women, 3.15 to 3.30. Mrs. Josephine S. Yates The Woman's Centenary Association, 3.30 to 3.45. President or Delegate State Council of Rhode Island, 3.45 to 4.00. President or Delegate National Florence Crittenton Missions. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett. From 4 to 6 P.M. Through the courtesy of J. B. Henderson, a Tea, complimentary to the Officers, Delegates and Visitors to the Council, will be given at "The Castle." 8 P.M. Music. Report of Committee on Domestic Relations under the Law. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Chairman. Report on Committee of Arts and Letters. Mrs. Ellen H. Richardson. Adelaide Johnson. Address: "The Need of National Legislation on Child Labor." Hon. J. A. McKelway, Asst. Sec., National Committee on Child Labor. Reading: Edwin Markham, "The Man with the Hoe." Thursday, April 13th. Pythian Temple. 10 A.M. Minutes of the Previous Meeting. Adjourned Business Previously Presented. Report on Committee of Resolutions, Mrs. E. B. Grannis, Chairman. Discussion. Report of Peace Committee, Mrs. May Wright Sewall. Chairman. 2 P.M. Reports of Affiliated Organizations: National Free Baptist Missionary Society, 2.15 to 2.30. Mrs. Mary Davis. Rathbone Sisters of the World, 2.30 to 2.45. Delegate or President. Great Hive of Modern Maccabees, 2.45 to 3.00. Mrs. Frances Burns. Local Council of Bloomington, Ind., 3.00 to 3.15. Local Council of Toledo, Ohio, 3.15 to 3.30. Local Council of Rochester, N. Y., 3.30 to 3.45. Local Council of Indianapolis, Ind., 3.45 to 4.00. Local Council of Portland, Me., 4.00 to 4.15. Local Council of San Francisco, Cal., 4.15 to 4.30. The Patron, Her Duties, Privileges, and Responsibilities. Discussion. 8 P.M. Music. Address: Rev. Anna Shaw, Chairman, International Committee on Equal Suffrage. Address: Our International Relations, Mrs. Willoughby Cummings, Corresponding Secretary, National Council of Women of Canada, and Editor International Bulletin. Address: The Spirit of Internationalism, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Honorary President, International Council of Women, Honorary President, National Council of Women of the United States. Friday, April 14th. PYTHIAN TEMPLE AND THE SHOREHAM. 10 A. M. Minutes of the Previous Meeting. Election of Officers for Succeeding Administration. Presentation of Plans and Suggestions for the Increased Efficiency of the National Council. 1.30 P. M. Luncheon at the Shoreham, complimentary to newly elected officers. Tickets may be had from the Chairman of the Committee, Mrs. ROSA DUMARS. 8 P. M. CLOSING SESSION THE BALLROOM OF THE SHOREHAM MUSIC Patriotism, The National Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. FANNIE L. MINOT, President. What Fraternal Benefit Societies Mean to Women, Mrs. LILLIAN M. HOLLISTER, President Supreme Hive, Maccabees of the World. National Association of Loyal Women of America. Mrs. I. C. MANCHESTER. Report, Local Council of Union City, Ind., Miss JESSIE NELSON. The Responsibility and Opportunity of the Government towards the District of Columbia, Hon. GEO. S. WILSON. Presentation of the newly elected Officers and the transferring of powers and properties of the Council to the new Administration. THE USE OF A NATIONAL COUNCIL.* There are two parts of the work of a National Council, one of which may be said to represent its practical side, the other the side of sentiment. While there are many who would say that, in so far as the Council does practical work, it may lay claim to the term useful, very few seem to understand that the Council idea - that is the sentiment - may be as really useful as the concrete thing to which we may point, saying: "This has been done by the Council." One need not at this time in the history of civilization defend sentiment. * * * Love of country is only a sentiment, but how much it has done for the loved country. Even motherhood is a mighty force in Christian countries to-day, by virtue of the sentiment which gathers round it. * * * What is the sentiment underlying the Council idea? It is that, whatever affects the people of our country affects us; that we are bound up by innumerable ties to all who live under our skies and render allegiance to our rulers; that every condition making life easier or harder to them is a matter of supreme moment to us; and that through our organizations, we want to hold out hands of help to every movement that is meant to uplift, to educate, to relieve, or to brighten the lives of our fellowmen and women. And the value of a National Council lies not so much in what it has done as in what it may do when its powers are fully developed. We go to see a mother of our acquaintance. We find her in ecstasies about the baby. She says he has learned to walk. Have you ever known a mother scornful about these tottering first steps? Does she say severely, that the baby should never try to walk until he can emulate the manly stride of his father? She knows that there will be many a fall, many a hurt forehead, many a tear, before those little feet shall grow strong, and those steps firm like a man's; but for all that, she has nothing but praise for those first attempts; nothing but hope for a perfection of that feeble beginning. * * * Even a valuable thing may become valueless from disuse. * * * But when it is neither misused nor disused, what is the place in the community to be filled by the Council? It seems to me that it should be the eye and the heart of the body social, of which the educational societies may be the head; the philanthropic, the hands and feet. It should look round in the community to see what is to be done, and how to do it; it should see what is being overdone, and save the waste of effort; and it should be the sympathetic link between societies whose aims are apparently far apart, yet all of which are helping towards the betterment of society in some way. Sight and sympathy - the eye and the heart - should be the twofold function of the Council. * * * (Instances quoted of the manner in which National Councils are fulfilling this function) There are some objectors to the Council, who say that it has never done them any good. There is a sense in which it was not intended to do them good. Why are the societies organized at all? Is it to get good? Is it not rather to do good? The Council is not a porridge pot, out of which spoonfulls of nourishment are doled out to hungry participants; it is an instrument which can, and ought to be used to further the aims of the societies. And if you do not use it, never say it is of no use for you have not tried it. The Council is no abstract thing up in the clouds, it is you - you members of affiliated societies; and if you have not found the use of the Council, may I ask have you ever tried to use it? Have you not rather stood aloof critically, forgetting that it can only be of use when those who belong to it make of it an instrument to help them in the particular work to which they have put their hands. It is getting rusty maybe, for want of use; it is yours to make it serviceable; to bring the kingdom of heaven a little nearer to this tired world. Whenever there is a little child neglected, a home comfortless, a girl astray, a man inebriated, a city insanitary, a mind left uncultivated, a willing hand left idle for want of hiring, there is need for a National Council of Women. *Extracts from a paper read at Hobart, at a Meeting of the National Council of Tasmania, by the Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Alex. Morton. FISK UNIVERSITY General Anniversary Program 1905 EXHIBITION OF SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS, Friday, June Ninth, at 7:30 p.m. MISSIONARY SERMON, Sunday, June Eleventh, at 11 a.m. BACCALAUREATE SERMON, Sunday, June Eleventh, at 4 p.m. BASE BALL- ATHLETIC FIELD, Monday, June Twelfth, 9:30 a.m. ANNIVERSARY OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS, Business Meetings at 3:30 p.m. Anniversary Exercises at 7:30 p.m. THE LAST CHAPEL EXERCISES AND THE UNIVERSITY PLATFORM, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 8:45 a.m CLASS DAY EXERCISES- JUBILEE GROUNDS, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 4 p.m. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF NORMAL DEPARTMENT, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 7:30 p.m. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Wednesday, June Fourteenth, at 10 a.m. PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION Wednesday, June Fourteenth, at close of Alumni Dinner, at the President's Home. The piano used during the commencement exercises, a Steinway Concert Grand, is a recent gift from a friend who withholds his name. ANNIVERSARIES ANTEDATING COMMENCEMENT WEEK. _______ ANNUAL CONCERT OF MOZART SOCIETY, Fisk Memorial Chapel, April Fourteenth and Fifteenth ANNIVERSARY OF LITERARY SOCIETIES, Fisk Memorial Chapel, April Twenty-eighth. EXHIBITION OF DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twelfth. RECITAL BY CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twenty-Sixth. GRADUATING RECITAL OF CHARLES ALFRED ROBINSON McDOWELL, A. B. Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twentieth. GRADUATING RECITAL OF HAZEL TAYLOR THOMPSON, Fisk Memorial Chapel, June Third. ANNUAL GLEE CLUB CONCERT, Fisk Memorial Chapel, June Second. ANNIVERSARY OF TRAINING SCHOOL, Daniel Hand Training School, June Ninth. ______ SENIOR PREPARATORY EXHIBITION, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 7:30 P. M. ORGAN SOLO.--Lullaby...........Kinder. Daniel Ernest Johnson. PRAYER. SON.,--Irish Lullaby..........Needham. Florence Ellen Quinn. RECITATION.--Higher Education for Women...........Chancey M. Depew. Alice Evelyn Williams, Chatham, Ill. RECITATION.--Sonny's Diploma...........Ruth McEnery Stuart. Lawrence Cravath Caldwell, Mobile, Ala. ORATION.--The Choice of a Vocation..........William Edward Key, Helena, Ark. DECLAMATION.--The National Flag...........Henry Ward Beecher. George Edward Davidson, Lovejoy, Ill. SEMI-CHORUS.--Protect Us Through the Coming Night..........Curschmann. Misses Chestnutt, Norwood, Robinson, Smith and Quinn. RECITATION.--A Second Trial..........Sarah W. Kellogg. Birdie Henrietta Haynes, Hot Springs, Ark. RECITATION.--Books..........Henry Ward Beecher. Monroe Patterson, Harwood, Ark. ESSAY.--The Will and the Way..........Helen Louise Sheffey, Huntsville, Ala. SONG.--Thine Eyes so Blue and Tender..........Lassen-Parks. The Glee Club. RECITATION.--What The Fiddle Told..........Nora C. Franklin. Sadie Conrad Binford, Birmingham, Ala. ESSAY.--Education..........Anna Cahill Austin, Helena, Ark. ORATION.--The Reign of Law..........Richard Hill, Jr., Nashville. ADDRESS.--PRESIDENT MERRILL. CHORUS.--Thou Crownest the Year..........Fred C. Maker. The Mozart Society. ______ CLASS ROLL, SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS, 1905. Anderson, Joseph Edward, Nashville. Austin, Anna Cahill, Helena, Ark. Binford, Sadie Conrad, Birmingham, Ala. Brock, Theophilus Clay, Louisville, Ky. Brown, Maggie Viola, Florence, S. C. Brunfield, Thomas Mason, Bowling Green, Ky. Caldwell, Lawrence Cravath, Mobile, Ala. Childress, Jennie Louise, Nashville. Childress, William Hobbs, Nashville. Davidson, George Edward, Lovejoy, Ill. Evans, William Leonard, Louisville, Ky. Flowers, John Azzerree, Mount Adams, Ark. Green, John Anthony, Mound Bayou, Miss. Hargrave, Sophia Ligon, Sibley, Miss. Haynes, Birdie Henrietta, Hot Springs, Ark. Hill, Richard, Jr., Nashville. Hughes, John Henderson, Franklin, Tenn. Kakaza, Lettie, Point Elizabeth, South Africa. Kennedy, Estella Mahala, Harrod's Creek, Ky. Key, William Edward, Helena, Ark. McClellan, John Quincy, Wartrace, Tenn. Overstreet, Sophia Matilda, Camp Nelson, Ky. Patterson, Monroe, Harwood, Ark. Scott, Walter Lloyd, Florence, S. C. Sheffey, Helen Louise, Huntsville, Ala. Smith, Charles Webster, Lynchburg, Tenn. Thomas, Jessie Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky. Wade, John Edward, Malee, N. C. Wallis, Charles LaCrosse, Camden, Ark. Williams, Alice Evelyn, Chatham, Ill. SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Y.M.C.A. MEETING, THEOLOGICAL HALL, 9 A.M. Y.P.S.C.E. MEETING, JUBILEE HALL, 9 A.M. MISSIONARY SERVICE, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 11 A.M. ORGAN PRELUDE -- Andante Cantabile Dethier. INVOCATION. ANTHEM -- "Worthy is the Lamb" Handel's "Messiah." SCRIPTURE READING. PRAYER. HYMN -- Great God, Whose Universal Sway. No. 1128. OFFERTORY. OFFERTORY -- How Beautiful are-the Feet. Handel's "Messiah." No. 1172. SERMON BY REV. FREDERICK F. REESE. D. D., Rector Christ P. E. Church, -- "The Witness of the Missionary." HYMN -- From Greenland's Icy Mountains. No. 1169. ORGAN -- First Sonata, Largo e maestoso, Allegro. Guilmant. THE BACCALAUREATE, 4 P.M. ORGAN PRELUDE -- Pastorale Guilmant. INVOCATION. ANTHEM -- Sanctus. Gounod. HYMN-- Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us. No. 177. SCRIPTURE READING. PRAYER. HYMN-- Watchman, Tell Us of the Night. No. 1151. SERMON BY PRESIDENT MERRILL. HYMN-- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken. No. 1160. ORGAN POSTLUDE-- Alleluila. Dubois. HYMN-- Ye Christian Herald, Go Proclaim No. 1138. ANNIVERSARY OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS, TWENTY-FOURTH OF THE COLLEGE, TWENTIETH OF THE NORMAL. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 9:30 A.M. Base Ball Game, Alumni vs. "Varsity." MONDAY, JUNE 12, 3:30 P.M. Business meeting of the Associations in the Parlors of Jubilee Hall. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 7:30 P.M. COLLEGE MOTTO: Fidelitas Almae Matri et inter nos Unitas. L. C. ANDERSON, A.M. '80, President College Alumni Association. NORMAL MOTTO: Qualis Vita Finis Ita. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS SOUTHALL, '91, President Normal Alumni Association. ORGAN SOLO-- Andantino Lemare. Charles Alfred Robinson McDowell, A.B., '04, Savannah, Ga. PRAYER SONG-- There's a Beautiful Land on High Taylor. John Wesley Holloway, A.B., '94. Nashville, Tenn. REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATIONS. QUARTETTE-- Aud Lang Syne Messrs. J. W. Work, '95, F. J. Work, '03, C. A. R. McDowell, '04, T. W. Talley, '90. Address before the Normal Alumni Association Mrs. Mary W. Jennings, '95, Memphis, Tenn. DUETT -- Night Millilotti. Messrs. J. W. Work and F. J. Work. Address before the College Alumni Associations "Leadership and its Responsibilities." Joseph Lee Wiley, A.B., '95, Fessenden, Fla. SONG -- Last Night Kjrulf. Prof. J. W. Work, M A, '95, Nashville, and Fisk Glee Club. CLOSING CHAPEL EXERCISES AND THE UNIVERSITY PLATFORM LIVINGSTON HALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 8:45 A. M. CLASS DAY EXERCISES, JUBILEE GROUNDS, JUNE 13, 4:00 P. M. BURNING OF BOOKS Opening Remarks by President of Class, Hugh Elwood Macbeth, Charleston, S.C. Statistics..........................Robert Francis Morrison, Charleston, S.C. Class History......................Miss Raven Alberta Scott, Florence, S.C. QUARTETTE. Class Poem..............................John Luthern Rucker, Albany, Ga. Class Prophecy.................Miss Edna Frances Rose, Chattanooga, Tenn. PLANTING OF THE TREE. Tree Oration...........................Harry Crindlon Buster, Xenia, Ohio. Class Song................................................................................Class. GRADUATING EXERCISES—NORMAL DEPARTMENT. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 7:30 P. M. CLASS MOTTO:—"Be loyal to the royal in thyself." ORGAN SOLO.—Pastorale Impromptu..........................Buck. Charles Alfred Robertson McDowell, A.B. PRAYER. SONG—Callest Thou Thus, O Master........................Mietzke. Laura Page Smith. MAKING THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL.........Gertrude Ella Boyd, Fort Davis, Ala. ONE PHASE OF CHILD STUDY......Bernardine Ellen Dejoie, New Orleans, La. QUARTETTE—When the Corn is Waving.........................Buck. Messrs. Myers, Merrill, Boutte and Brown. THE VALUE OF AN ART CLUB IN SCHOOL. .......................... ............................Fannie Lawrence Deveaux, Savannah, Ga. EVIL INFLUENCES IN CURRENT LITERATURE.......................... ............................Daisy Ernestine Eslick, East St. Louis, Illinois. JNBILEE SONG.......... ................ ...................The Fisk Jubilee Club. WAR AND ARBITRATION......... ....Mary Elizabeth Keene, Cleveland, Ohio. ATTENTION AS A FACTOR IN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.................. ... ...........................Nettie Adenia Ledsinger, Dyersburg, Tenn. SONG.—The Highwayman's Song...................Huntington Woodman. Matthew Virgil Bouette. OLD COLONIAL DAYS.................Rebecca Louise Sykes, Decatur, Ala. ORIGIN AND CHANGE OF WORDS......Lillie Bradford Sheffey, Huntsville, Ala. SEMI-CHORUS,—Good Night...............................................Goldberg. Missess Chestnutt, Norwood, Robinson, Smith and Quinn. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. CHORUS.—The Dance of Pau-Puk-Keewis, from Hiawatha....Coleridge Taylor. The Mozart Society. FORTIETH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 10 A.M. CLASS MOTTO.—"Non Sibi, Sed Omnibus." ORGAN SOLO.N—March of the Magi Kings....... .............. Theo. Dubois. Daniel Ernest Johnson. PRAYER. JUBILEE SONG..... ............. ....................................................... The Fisk Jubilee Club. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH IT?......Colbert Smith Davis, Galveston, Texas. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING.....Jessie Belle Gadsden, Charleston, S.C. SONG.—My Desert Queen.................................................Hartwell Jones. Marie Vivian Peek. THE COLORED COLLEGE GRADUATE...Hugh Elwood Macbeth, Charleston, S.C. THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN LITERARY AND PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS. Eva Estelle Webster, Chicago, Ill. PIANO SOLOS{Air de Ballet, No. 4...................... .....Chaminade. Charles Alfred Robinson McDowell, A.B. Sparks ....... .. ......... ..........................Moszkowski. Hazel Taylor Thompson. THE ENDLESS QUEST............ ......James Columbus Russell, Waco, Texas. SONG.—Daddy............................... ....... ..............Behrends-Parks. The Glee Club. [Check mark] Address.—"Taking Things for Granted"............................ ..................Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, A. M. Washington, D.C. [Check mark] Song.—The Erl King.....................................................Schubert. James Andrew Myers CONFERRING OF DEGREES. HALLELUJAH CHORUS—From the Messiah...............................Handel. BENEDICTION. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Buster, Harry Crindlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xenia, Ohio. Cooper, Osceola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evansville, Ind. Davis, Colbert Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Galveston, Texas. Gadsden, Jessie Belle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charleston, S. C. Johnson, Lorenzo Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DeKalb, Texas. Jones, Florine Naomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macon, Ga. Leake, Mabel Clyde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyler, Texas. Lewis, Benjamin Curry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nashville. Macbeth, Hugh Elwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charleston, S. C. Marshall, James Earnest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vicksburg, Miss. Morrison, Robert Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charleston, S. C. Morse, George Skipwith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waco, Texas. Reeves, Evalyne Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macon, Ga. Ross, Edna Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chattanooga, Tenn. Rucker, John Luthern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albany, Ga. Scott, Alberta Raven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, S. C. Webster, Eva Estelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago, Ill. White, Pearl Amelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louisville, Ky. Wynn, William Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Albany, Ga. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. Gentry, Emery Marcus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winchester, Ky. Jones, Anderson Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Danville, Ky. Russell, James Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waco, Texas. GRADUATES FROM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC McDowell, Charles Alfred Robertson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Savannah, Ga. Thompson, Hazel Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nashville. CANDIDATES FOR NORMAL DIPLOMAS. Alexander, Willie Blanche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacksonville, Fla. Allison, Nannie Isabella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nashville. Anderson, Annie Mae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Athens, Ala. Boyd, Gertrude Ella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fort Davis, Ala. Dejoie, Bernardine Ellen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Orleans, La. Deveaux, Fannie Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Savannah Ga. Eslick, Daisy Ernestine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .East St. Louis, Ill. Howard, Nellie Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New Durham, N. J. Keene, Mary Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cleveland, Ohio. Ledsinger, Nettie Adenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dyersburg, Tenn. Nelson, Ella Belle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Athens, Ala. Sheffey, Lillie Bradford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Huntsville, Ala. Sykes, Rebecca Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Decatur, Ala. Taylor, Maria Gertrude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmington, N. C. TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING MAY 2 and 3, 1906. Woman's American Baptist Rome Mission Society FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH BEVERLY, MASS. Committees of the Beverly Church. —BADGES— Reception — Lavender. Entertainment — Red. Refreshments — Yellow. Lookout — Blue. Ushers — Green. Tremont Temple, Our Headquarters. Program. * WEDNESDAY, MAY, SECOND. ------- AFTERNOON SESSION, at two o'clock. Devotional Services. Appointment of Committees. Reports of State Vice - Presidents. Maine . . . . . . . Mrs. ANNA SARGENT HUNT, Auburn. Mrs. M. S. HOWES, Mechanic Falls, ( Junior ). New Hampshire . Mrs. M. T. HOAGUE, Concord. Mrs. F. L. KNAPP, Lebanon, ( Junior ). Vermont . . . . . Mrs. J. B. SAFFORD, Fairfax. Eastern Mass. . . Mrs. E. B. EARLE, Newton. Mrs. ALICE H. BRUNDAGE, Lynn, ( Junior ). Western Mass. . . Mrs. JOHN HILDRETH, Holyoke. Mrs. H. E. THAYER, Springfield, ( Junior ). Rhode Island. . . Mrs. W. H. Hinds, Providence. Connecticut . . . Mrs. HELEN R. DEWHURST, Voluntown. Miss MARY L. HOWARD, Hartford, ( Junior ). Paper. Shoshone Sacagawea. Mrs. M. T. HOAGUE, Conversation. Life at Kodiak Orphanage. By Beverly Boys. Address. Methods in Young Women's Work. Mrs. Horace McGuire, Portland, Me. Program WEDNESDAY, MAY SECOND Evening Session. at half past seven o'clock. Devotional Services. Address Immigration. A Problem in Democracy MR. PHILLIP DAVIS, Civic Service House, Boston, Mass. Address, The Progress of Colored Women, MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Washington, D.C. THURSDAY, MAY THIRD MORNING SESSION at half past nine o'clock. Devotional Meeting. From 9:30 to 10. Led by MRS. ALEXANDER BLACKBURN, Salem, Mass. Report of Board of Directors Corresponding Secretary, MRS. A.E. REYNOLDS Treasurer MISS GERTRUDE L. DAVIS Superintendent of Alaska MRS. JAMES MCWHINNIE. Report of Paper Mission. MISS EVA E. HOWLETT, Wakefield, Mass. Symposium - What Next? Information? MISS HATTIE A MANLEY, Melrose, Mass. Personal Work:? MRS. GUY LAMSON, Hyde Park, Mass. Courage? MISS FANNY STORY, Gloucester, Mass. Consecration? MRS. WOODMAN BRADBURY, Cambridge, Mass. Finances? MISS GERTRUDE L. DAVIS, Boston, Mass. [*10,000,000 Catholics might have been 10,000,000 Methodists 6 000,000 Baptists*] Program. MORNING SESSION. — Continued. Address, Miss MATHILDA BROWN, Boston, Mass. Address. City Work. Rev. W. B. C. MERRY, Boston, Mass. THURSDAY, MAY THIRD. AFTERNOON SESSION, at two o'clock. Devotional Exercises. Election of Officers. Address. A Plantation Girl in a Mission School, Miss S. E. OWEN, Beaufort, S.C. Address. Christina View of the Foreign Horde. Rev. J.H. SPENCER, North Adams, Mass. Address. Porto Rico. Mrs. JANE PRITCHARD DUGGAN, Porto Rico. Address. Rev. CAREY W. CHAMBERLIN, Beverly, Mass. BUND DEUTSCHER FRAUENVEREINE. Internationaler Frauenkongress 1904. Mitteilung an die auswärtigen Teilnehmerinnen am Internationalen Frauenkongress. Zum Zwecke der Aufnahme auswärtiger Teilnehmerinnen am Internationalen Frauenkongress haben wir eine Reihe von zuverlässigen Hotels und Pensionen gewonnen. Wir bitten diejenigen , welche während der Kongresstage davon Gebrauch machen wollen, ihre Wünsche und Ansprüche in Bezug auf Preis und Stadtgegend möglichst früh, spätestens aber bis zum 1. Mai 1904 Frau Maria Gubitz, Berlin W. 35, Lützowstrasse 85 b anzugeben. Delegierte zum International Council, sowie eingeladene Kongressrednerinnen, die es vorziehen, während der Kongresstage (v. 8. resp. 12.—19. Juni 1904) als Gast in einer Familie Aufnahme zu finden, werden gebeten, ihre Wünsche in dieser Beziehung — unter genauester Angabe der Adresse — möglichst früh, spätestens aber bis zum 1. Mai 1904, an Fräulein Dr. Gottheiner, Berlin W. 30, Motzstrasse 88 gelangen zu lassen. Nachricht, ob und in wie weit diese Wünsche erfüllt werden können, wird den betr. Damen mit tunlichster Beschleunigung zugehen. Das Berliner Lokalkomitee. [*with kind regards yours sincerely Baroness Olga von Berschwitz*] Programm Des Internationalen Frauenkongresses in Berlin in samtlichen Räumen der "Philharmonie", Bernburger Strasse, vom 13.—18. Juni 1904. Sektionslikungen. 1. Sektion für Frauenbildung. Vorsitzende: Frl. Helene Lange; stellvertretende Vorsitzende: Frl. Gertrud Bäumer. Montag, den 13. Juni: Die Bildung der Frau für ihren Mutterberuf. Häusliche Erziehung. Kindergarten. Dienstag, den 14. Juni: Die Bildung der Mädchen durch die Volksschule Gemeinsame, Erziehung der Geichlechter. Einheitsschule [?] Die Ausgaben der Mädchenfortbildungsschule. Die [?Volksbildungsbestrebungen] für Frauen Donnerstag, den 16. Juni: Höhere Mädchenbildung (Höhere Mädchenschule, Gymnasium usiv.). Freitag, den 17. Juni: Das Universitätsstadium der Frauen. Sonnabend, den 18. Juni: Die Beteiligung der Frauen am Unterrichtswejen: a) als Lehrerinnen; b) ander Unterrichtsverwaltung. Sektion für Frauenerwerb und Berufe. Borsitzende: Frl. Alice Salomon; stellvertretende Borsitzende: Frl. Else Lüders. Montag, den 13 Juni: Landwirtschaft und häusliche Dienste. Dienstag, den 14. Juni: Frau in Gewerbe und Judustrie. Mittwoch, den 15. Juni: Frau in Handel und Berkehr Donnerstag, den 16. Juni: Wissenschaftliche Frauenberufe. Sonnabend, den 18. Juni Künstlerliche Frauenberufe. [* I spoke twice Monday. In the Morning on the Servant Problem and at night on The Progress and Problems of Colored Women*] [9-25-04] [?] 1904 THE LINCOLN TEMPLE CALENDAR VOLUME III WASHINGTON, D. C. NUMBER I. LINCOLN TEMPLE ELEVENTH AND R STREETS, N. W. LINCOLN TEMPLE CHAPEL SIXTH AND TRUMBULL STREETS, N. W. REV. STERLING N. BROWN, Pastor. 1701 ELEVENTH STREET, N. W. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 1904 Sunday Service. For the week beginning Sunday, September 25th, 1904. 9:30 A. M. Sunday School, Mrs. M. L. Mossell; Superintendent, For Sunday, October 2. Lesson Text: 11 Kings, 2:12-22.. Topic: Elisha Succeeded Elijah. Golden Text: "Let a Double Portion of Thy Spirit be Upon Me." - 11 Kings 2:9. 11:00 A. M. Public worship with sermon by the pastor. Theme: "The Characteristic Elements in a Great Church." 6:55 P. M. Christain Endeavor Meeting. 8:00 P. M. Sermon by pastor. "What is Hell?" The first of four sermons on fundamental truths. Week - Night Services. 7:00 Thursday, Sunday School Teachers' Club. 8:00 Thursday, Prayer Meeting. Topic: "One Thing I 'Mean to do for Christ and HIs Church." 8:00 Friday, The Clay Concert. Brother and Sister spoken of as artists in musical performance. Timely Opening. It will add to the pleasure and helpfulness of our services if all will be on time and enter heartily into the opening service. Our Third Anniversary as Lincoln Temple come next Sunday. The pastor will preach suitable to the occasion at 11 A. M., and the Evening Service will be conducted by the women of the church. Can't the church have extra decoration for the day! The choir is now in full force. We welcome the new faces. Entertainments ahead. Let us know about dates The pastors hearty greetings are hereby extended to all his people. We join with you in common purpose to "push the battle to the gates." Our duty grows with our enlarged opportunities. Work and expect results is our motto. THE CHURCH LOOK-OUT BAND. The pastor has taken the devotional and missionary member of each one of the Circle and formed what is to be known as the Church- Look-out Band whose duty shall be to attend, and seek to get the circle members to attend, regularly, all services of the church, and especially the mid-week and Sunday night services. The band is made up from each circle as follows: Circle 1, Mrs. Agnes Butler. 2, Mrs. W. D. Evans. 3, Mrs. Mamie Crutcher. 4. Miss Lillian Hill. 5, Mrs. Georgia Gordon. 6, Mrs. R. A. Lowe. 7, Mrs. C. C. Nolan. 8, Mrs. H. Quander. 9, Miss Helen Robinson. 10, Mrs. Attia Porter. 11, Mrs. M. J. Brown. 12 Mrs. E. A. Duffield. 13, Mrs. F. J. Douglas. 14, Mrs. M. I. Hill. 15, Mrs. Jennie Miles, 16, Mrs. Emma Lewis. 17, Mes. Logan Johnson. 18, Mrs. Mary Child. 19, Miss Florence Johnson, 20, Mrs. Louise Lee 21, Miss Mildred Thopson. 22, Mrs M. E. Thomas. 23, Mr. D. D. Rogers. 24, Mrs. Bettie Poindexter. 25, Miss Mamie Smith. 26, Miss Julia Young. 27, Mrs. Ware. 28, Mrs. Cornelia Brown. 29, Mrs. E. W. Turner. 30, Mrs. H. E. Thorne. 31, Miss Ida Mitchell. 32, Mr. James Ashton. 33, Mrs. Almira McNeil. 34, Mrs. W. H. Howard. 35, Mrs M E Jones. Personal Pride. Lincoln Temple takes personal pride in the unusual service rendered the Negro race by our own Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, in her recent addresses before the International Congress of Women in Berlin, Germany. The whole race is rightly proud of her abilities, courage and success, but, we, of Lincoln Temple, do especially rejoice in the achievement of this loyal sister of our Zion. The Lincoln Temple Business College, the School of Needlework, the Employment Agency, the Clubs for men, women, boys and girls in the main building and at the Chapel, tell of what our activities are to be. Our Circle Rally is to be one united endeavor by members and friends to raise, by November 1st, $1000. Books, dime albums and personal gifts are the methods to be mainly used Fifty dollars for each club is the watch cry. What are you doing to make this a certainly? MARY L. MOSSELL Dry Goods, Notions and Stationery 2234 Seventh Street, Northwest Give us a Call CLAFLIN OPTICAL COMPANY Practical and Scientific Opticians MASONIC TEMPLE, 907b F STREET, NORTHWEST LEWIS F. BROWN & COMPANY Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, and Gent's Furnishings 1900-1902 SEVENTH STREET, N.W. GEORGE W. GRICE 104 Prospect Street, Northeast Open and Closed Rubber Tires. Carriages for Hire. Polite Services Rendered. Phone N. 1367-K If You Have a Good Printer Stick to Him If Not, Have The MANLY PRINTING COMPANY PRINT YOUR NEXT ORDER AND YOU WILL CALL AGAIN This is a New Establishment Throughout, and is located at 1603 TENTH STREET, NORTHWEST ZEPH P. MOORE NORARY PUBLIC Lire, Life and Accident Insurance Pension Vouchers and Claims Executed. 1206 R Street, Northwest. Phone N. 814 Good Paying places for Reliable House-hold Workers APPLY AT LINCOLN TEMPLE OFFICE. [*Page 6 Spoke Thursday, Jan 25 - 1907*] Madison Square Presbyterian Church Madison Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street Rev. C. H. Parkhurst, D. D., Pastor Rev. G. R. Montgomery, Assistant Minister Sunday, January twentieth Nineteen hundred and seven Morning Service Eleven o'clock Organ Prelude, Schubert. Doxology. } Call to Worship. } (Congregation standing.) Invocation.} Hymn 93 (Congregation standing and joining.) Anthems, Adams. The Lord Omnipotent reigneth! Alleluia! O praise our God, all ye people; be glad and rejoice, all ye nations, for the lord Omnipotent reigneth, Alleluia! So we Thy people, and sheep of Thy pasture, will give Thee thanks forever. We will show forth Thy praise to all generations. AMEN. Responsive Reading. (Congregation standing.) Verses printed in Roman type will be read by the minister, and in Italic type by the congregation. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress ; my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shall thou trust : his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 2 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall be no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague cone nigh thy dwelling, For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him , and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. Gloria Patri (Choir and Congregation). Solo and Chorus. Little. When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean, And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion , That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth, And silver waves chime ever peacefully; And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flieth, Disturbs the sabbath of that deeper sea. So to the heart that knows Thy love, O Purest! There is a temple, sacred evermore: And all the strife of earth's discordant voices Dies in hushed stillness at its peaceful door. Where no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flieth, Disturbs the soul that dwells, O Lord, in Thee. New Testament Scripture, Mark xiv:26-42. Prayer. Notices. Collection in behalf of Current Expenses. Offertory (Chimes and Organ). Prayer. Hymn 618. (Congregation standing and joining.) Sermon. Hymn 623. (Congregation standing and joining.) Prayer and Benediction. (Congregation seated.) Organ Postlude. Notices. Dr. Parkhurst will preach this evening. Some of the classes in the Bible School have commenced map work, using the outline and the relief maps. A very complete set of copies of paintings on Biblical subjects has been compiled for the use of the classes. Session each Sunday morning at 9:45. The noon meetings held in the Auditorium of this church will be continued as in the past, commencing at 12:20 and closing at 12:35. Before the commencement of each service the organ will be played for ten minutes. The regular monthly meeting of the Foreign Missionary Society will be held in the Lecture Room, on Monday, January 21st, at eleven o'clock. The subject will be "China," and the address will be given by Mrs. Edwin C. Lobenstine of Hwai Yuen, in the Nanking Mission. This station is entirely supported by the Central Presbyterian Church of this city. There are eight missionaries in the station, and good work has begun along medical, educational and evangelistic lines. All the ladies of this congregation are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Rev. George T. Berry, Field Secretary of the American McAll Association, who has recently returned from a four months' stay in France, where he has made a careful study of the political and religious conditions, will speak on "The Present Crisis in France," at our Wednesday evening service, which will be held in the Lecture Room at 8:15. An address which will interest all who realize the seriousness of the Race Problem confronting our country, will be held in the Lecture Room of this church next Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock. A sketch of the remarkable career of Mrs. Terrell, the speaker, is given below. This is the third in the series of talks under the 5 auspices of the Young Men's Club. We would again call attention to the importance of these meetings, which are for enlightenment and stimulus and for effecting some participation on our part in the solution of vital problems of the present time. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. - A distinguished United States Senator, who should be and authority in such matters, Mr. Dolliver, of Iowa, has declared Mrs. Terrell to be "one of the most eloquent women in America." High praise this, but people that have heard her will be inclined to agree with him. Whether pleading the cause of her own race before public assemblies, or at the International Council of Women in Berlin and other places, defending the advanced positions taken by those of her own sex, she is, unquestionable, a potential force upon any platform: a scholarly, impressive, impassioned, persuasive speaker. Friends who know her best declare that, while forcible on any subject she takes -- educational, sociological, or scientific -- she is never so surety reach high-water mark as when she is telling the story of the wrongs under which her people of the South now suffer, and the cruel injustice frequently done them in the North and constantly done them in Dixie, This will be her the at the meeting in the Lecture Room on Thursday evening, January 24th. This subject is one which Mrs. Terrell is thoroughly familiar, for she is a Southerner by birth. Born in Memphis, she took a classical course and was graduated with honors from Oberlin College. In recognition of her ability she was invited immediately after graduation to become Registrar and Tutor in the College, a position that would have made her one of the faculty. The honor of this invitation was unmistakable; it was the first and only time that it has ever been offered to one of the Negro race, either by Oberlin or any other college of corresponding rank. The honor was declined for the very best reason in the world -- the young graduate, then Miss Church, had consented to become the wife of Mr. Terrell, now now of the Federal Judges of the District of Columbia. Before her marriage, however, Mrs. Terrell spent several years in Europe, traveling and pursuing her studies. Her father being a man of means, she was enable to gratify her aesthetic and educational tastes to the utmost. She studied French in Paris and Switzerland, German in Berlin, and afterwards went to Florence to study Italian. 6 She was the first colored woman to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Washington Public Schools. Through her energy and intelligence she has made her influence felt throughout the system. Last earth Judges of the District Supreme Court appointed her for the second time on the Board of Education. Of the nine members named she was the only one who had previously served on the Board of Education in the District of Columbia. She was the first President of the National Association of Colored Women. To this position she was elected three times. Declining to serve further, she was made Honorary President for Life. Referring to Mrs. Terrell's wonderful triumph in the International Congress of Women in Berlin, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper said in her comments this episode of the proceedings: "Mrs. Terrell was able to deliver one speech in excellent German and one equally good in French. This achievement on the part of a colored woman, added to a fine appearance and the eloquence of her words, carried the audience by storm, and she had to respond three times to the encores before they were satisfied. It was more than a personal triumph; it was a triumph for her race." "Le Temps," of Paris declared the "lady of Andalusian complexion," in "ease of manner and gracefulness, and force of gesture and naturalness of expression, was ahead of all the other oratrices." "Mrs. Terrell," it declared, "spoke in German with the same fluency and ease as her native tongue." The Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison agree that Mrs. Terrell "is a magnetic speaker and holds the undivided interest of her audience," and Booker T. Washington declares her to be "possessed of a unique, commanding personality, and will interest any audience to which she may be permitted to address herself. She speaks out of a cultured mind and quickly wins a sympathetic response from her audience. Her delivery is forceful and her expression fluent and descriptive." A meeting of the Prison Committee appointed by the Young Men's Club was dressed, on Thursday evening, by Mr. Ernest K. Coulter, Deputy Clerk of the Children's Court. Mr. Coulter spoke of personal work for boys who have been brought before the court, and it was decided to assign twelve boys to different members of the club as a beginning, with the intention of increasing the number as volunteers may be found. The committee is also to enter into communication with a committee appointed by Bishop Greer in regard to undertaking similar work for girls. 7 Our trained nurse can use any quantity of old linen or pieces of white cotton cloth. Such material will be gratefully received, and should be addressed to Miss Hofer, 432 Third Avenue From the Church house.--Mr. S. S. Terry is the Committeeman on the Gospel work for the current month. Mr. G. M. Richards, of Columbia University, who accompanied Wallace in his Labrador explorations, will give a lecture entitled "Through Unexplored Labrador, with an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Esquimaux," on Tuesday evening. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides. It is hoped that the members of the Home Church will avail themselves of this opportunity of learning at first hand about this hitherto unknown section of the Western Continent. The sermon of Mr. Goodman, of the International Committee Y. M. C. A., and the singing of Mr. Engel on last Sunday evening afforded one of the most inspiring meetings of the season. From Adams Memorial.--Our Annual Meeting has been convened by Session for the thirtieth of this month. A few figures concerning our Sabbath School for the past year may be of interest. In all 1.414 persons have been enrolled. Five hundred and thirty-eight of these were members of the Home Department, each of whom promises to spend at least one-half an hour a week in the study of an assigned portion of God's Word. This study has been of great help, especially to the mothers, as they study the same passage of Scripture as the children. The Sabbath School proper numbered 876. Of these 80 were officers and teachers. Our intermediate and adult department had 409 in actual attendance, and the primary class numbered 387. There were 40 more boys than girls. The average attendance was 346. This school is an inspiration, and in itself considered is reason enough for the existence of Adams Memorial Church. The Offering next Sabbath morning will be for Ministerial Relief. Evening Service Eight o'clock Organ Prelude, . . . . . Merkel. Processional (Hymn 980). Call to Worship Hymn 546. (Congregation standing.) Invocation. Crisagion and Sanctus, . . . . Hawley. Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious name, evermore praising Thee and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee, O Lord most high. Amen. Scripture Lesson, Ecclesiastes xi: 1-10 Choir Hymn, . . . . . . Pache. Peace, weary heart, cast off thy sorrow, For thy loving God is near thee: From Him thy heart may comfort borrow, He will help, sustain and cheer thee. Day-spring of joy, the sun of gladness, Whose beams can put to flight they sadness, Cast off thy sorrow. Trust in His mercy, He can banish All the sins that now oppress thee: At His word all thy woes will vanish, And eternal peace will bless thee. His love surrounds thee like a river, A stream of life that faileth never. Cast off thy sorrow. Prayer. Antiphonal - - - - - Parkhurst. (The responses of the congregation are in Roman type, those of the choir in Italics.) Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forge not all His benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; who healeth all thy diseases. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide; neither will He keep His anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens: and His kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that do His commandments, harkening unto the voice of His word. Bless the Lord, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure. Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion : bless the Lord, O my soul. 10 Notices. Offering in behalf of the Madison Square Church House. Offertory -- Selections. (Harp Chimes, and Organ) Sermon. Response. O Jesus, Thou art standing Outside the fast-closed door, In lowly patience waiting To pass the threshold o'er: Shame on us, Christian brethren, His Name and sign who bear, O shame, thrice shame upon us, To keep Him standing there. O Jesus, Thou art pleading In accents meek and low, "I died for you, My children, And will ye treat Me so?" O Lord, with shame and sorrow We open now the door: Dear Saviour, enter, enter, And leave us never more. AMEN. Hymn 849. (Congregation standing and joining.) Prayer and Benediction. Recessional (Hymn 993). Organ Postlude. 11 My dear Mrs M. C. T - Ive asked M Tebbells to save you a dozen copies - Glad the notic pleases you. Give them facts phrases that stick, dignified statement and cut out rhetorical drifting rigorously - Jen I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to the faithfulness round about thee? Thou rules the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is they hand, and high is the right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before they face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. Gloria Patri (Choir and Congregation). Chorus - Lacrymosa, from "Requiem." Rossini Day of mourning, Day of weeping, When from ashes rise the sleeping, Guilty man to hear his sentence, God of mercy, spare repentance. Holy Jesu, hear, O hear our prayer - Let the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary be at rest. AMEN. New Testament Scripture, Matthew xii: 1-13. Prayer. Notices. Collection in behalf of Ministerial Relief. Offertory--Bass solo, from "Elijah," . . Mendelssohn. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel: this day let it be known that Thou are God, and I am Thy servant! Lord God of Abraham! O show to all this people that I have done these things according to Thy word! O hear me, Lord, and answer me! Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel: O hear me, and answer me, and show this people that Thou art Lord God. And let their hearts again be turned. Prayer. Hymn 466. (Congregation standing and joining.) Sermon, Mark ii: 27. Hymn 642. (Congregation standing and joining.) Prayer and Benediction. (Congregation seated.) Organ Postlude. 4 Notices. Dr. Parkhurst will preach this evening. The Sessions of the Bible School begin Sunday mornings at 9:45, with classes for children and adults. "Mankind and the Hand of God" is the subject of the service for worship and Bible study on Wednesday evening at 8:15. The subject is suggested by the Sunday School lesson for next Sunday: "Noah Saved in the Ark." The noon meetings held in the Auditorium of this church will be continued as in the past, commencing at 12:20 and closing at 12:35. Before the commencement of each service the organ will be played for ten minutes. Mrs. Parkhurst will be at home, 133 East Thirty-fifth Street, to members of the congregation on Thursday afternoons during February. Rev. Dr. Rainsford.--There was sent to Dr. Rainsford recently a copy of our Dedicatory Services, which contained, among other things, a kindly allusion to him, made in the course of the evening service. Dr. Parkhurst has just received a letter from him, dated at Florence, Italy. in which he says, in part: "I was very deeply touched by your remembrance of me. How I wish I could have stood beside you in your beautiful new church! but, alas! work is not for me yet, although I am gaining and can now usually sleep." The box recently sent out by the Home Missionary Society to the family in Kansas was valued at $505. The young men of our church and congregation are invited to meet Monday evening in the new gymnasium, when the first meeting of the Madison Square Gymnasium Class will be held. This class will be under the direction of Mr. Montgomery. The French Crisis.--The Rev. George T. Berry, Field Secretary of the American McAll Association, spoke upon the above topic in our Lecture Room last Thursday evening. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, Mr. Berry was welcomed by an audience that completely filled the room. His representation of the situation was a distinct and impressive refutation of the claims made by the Vatican, and a forcefully phrased challenge to such cardinals, bishops, and priests as have been persistently vilifying the French Government for breach of contract, and for making spoil of ecclesiastical property. 5 Among the clear-cut and decided statements in Mr. Berry's address were the following: "The issue is distinctly between the ecclesiastics and the State-- not between Catholics and Protestants, of the latter of whom there are not enough in France to precipitate such a conflict, but the question is between Catholics and Catholics. It is a part of the spirit of manhood and democracy which does not allow of any monarchical institution existing beside a democratic institution. It is feudalism fighting its last fight. "Napoleon summoned the Pope to him and told him that all the Church property in France was the property of the State. This was agreed to by the Pontiff, which is an important point, as it makes valid the claims of the State at the present time. Napoleon also told the Pope that the State would appoint the bishops, and allow the Church at Rome eight million dollars annually, to all of which consent was given. Thus the Concordat, of which we hear so much, was originated. "The years went on and the Church gained great wealth and power, and began to exercise control in nearly all departments of the government. The climax was at length reached in the Dreyfus case. The government realized that another element was in its midst, working in opposition, and the result is seen in the measures lately adopted. The recent elections, which turned upon this point, demonstrated that two-thirds (a conservative estimate) of the people are back of their legislators. "The general desire is to break up the regime that has been; people are tired of sermons all loaded full of intrigues; they understand that it is impossible to have much time for curing souls when trying at the same time to get control of the departments of government. For fourteen centuries has the Church been dominant in France, and yet to-day that word 'church' is the most hated in the language." The Young Men's Club -- We shall continue to hold to the attention of the congregation the several new departments of service which are being initiated by our successive fortnightly addresses in the Lecture Room. From the Chairman of the Prison Reform Committee we report the following: The Prison Reform Committee desire to emphasize the necessity of an additional number of men to aid in the work undertaken in the interests of boys who have been within the jurisdiction of the Children's Court. We hope that the young men in the congregation will give the following paragraphs their careful consideration: Each boy will be assigned to one man, who will give to him his individual attention. The Committee believe that their immediate efforts should be directed to the uplift of the children, thereby beginning at the root of the matter and effecting a possible decrease in the number of prisoners in the future. Each man will, as far as he can, influence for good the boy while within the jurisdiction of the court, thus furthering the system of probation, and also preventing, if deemed expedient, commitment to any reform institution. 6 It is preferable to keep the children within their own homes, although under the supervision of a probation officer. Any who may desire personally to assist in this work may communicate with Mr. Montgomery or with Mr. S. L. Sinclair, Chairman of the Committee, 1504 Fuller Building. The Congo Committee met Saturday afternoon, January 19th, and took measures looking to our participation with a number of other churches in the framing of a wider appeal in behalf of the Congo natives. King Leopold proposes to give over the Congo to Belgium. It is not his to give. He holds it in trust for the signatory powers. It is stated that when, in 1894, Great Britain asked for a strip of the Congo in order to complete her Cape-to-Cairo Railway, Leopold was willing to grant it, but two of the signatory powers refused their consent. He proposes to do now a hundred times as much for his own kingdom as he was not allowed to do for Great Britain. An unusual opportunity which the Library Department of the Church House has recently availed of has been to purchase at a reduced rate the new edition of the International Encyclopedia. These books are among the hardest worked in our much-used library. Fifty dollars remains to be paid on the total amount, and should any one feel so inclined, any contribution could be made use of immediately and gratefully. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. --- The address delivered by this colored lady last Thursday evening far more than met our anticipations. She spoke for nearly two hours, and was listened to with intense interest to the close. After completing her address, followed by a few words, from Mr. John E. Milholland, a committee was chosen from those present to co-operate with the Constitution League of the United States. She spoke in part as follows: "Has the Negro, when at the close of the Civil War he was reduced almost to the level of the brute, proved himself worthy of all that the North did for him? I respond without hesitation in the affirmative. In thirty-five years illiteracy has been reduced forty-four per cent., the Negro is becoming possessed of land and property, and is graduating with highest honors from the leading universities. No white man can realize the prejudice and obstacles which the Negro must encounter because of his color. Realizing this, as the black man does, there is lack of incentive to higher effort, for only a limited number of positions are open to him, and those of a menial order. "Regarding the disenfranchisement of the Negro pulpit, press and platform, as well as the private citizen, are silent. The constitutional rights of the colored man are trampled on, and yet a vicious and lawless Southern white may vote. One infraction of the law always leads to another. In Louisville, Ky., with a population 7 of two hundred thousand, there are more murders than in London, with its seven millions. There are two sides to every lynching bee. The country hears only one side of it, for the reporter, wishing to preserve the integrity of his section, presents only the one favorable to it. Out of a hundred lynchings only fifteen per cent. are guilty of what is called 'usual crime,' and many are entirely innocent men. "The conditions which a colored woman faces in the South have never been brought to the attention of white women, who hear of the 'shocking immorality of the colored woman.' She is oftenest more sinned against than sinning, has no redress in the courts, and the Southern white women do not lift a finger to help her. "The Convict Lease System should be abolished. Often, on a trumped-up excuse, a colored man is convicted and sentenced to one of the convict camps. There he must work at incessant and heart-breaking labor, insufficiently fed and clothed, and brutally treated. Many of them die, many come away mental and physical wrecks. "The question has arisen whether the Negro alone should not be taxed for the maintenance of colored schools. In Alabama the colored people have paid two million dollars more than the cost of their schools. "The people of the United States are not naturally unkind or cruel, yet they ignore the atrocities committed on Negro citizens. They have sympathy for the oppressed of all other nations, and I urge the women of the North to see that something is done to help their Colored sisters." The girls of Christodora House have the use of our gymnasium, on Twenty-fourth Street, for basket ball one evening a week. The Trustees have taken pleasure in granting this, as there have long been close ties of interest between the settlement at 147 Avenue B and the Madison Square Church. We wish to express to Mr. Owen R. Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, our appreciation of the talk which he gave last Thursday afternoon at the "Mothers' Meeting" in the Church House. He is one of the best qualified speakers on the subject of Child Labor that there is in the country. From the Church House. -- Rev. Mr. Fithian, Chaplain of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will speak at the Gospel Meeting on Monday evening. He gave a talk on Abraham Lincoln, as a temperance man before the Loyal Temperance Legion last Wednesday afternoon. The legion is composed of children, of whom there were 451 present on this occasion. The Superintendent receives some most encouraging letters from parents and friends of those converted at the Church House. The two following are interesting: Mr. and Mrs. M., from New Jersey: "Thank you most heartily for the interest you have manifested in our son G., and the 8 great work done in him and for him." This son, in giving his testimony about a month after his conversion, said, among other things: "Jesus Christ has not only made me a better son and citizen, but my boss says He has made me a better steam-fitter." From Braunschweig, Germany: "Can you realize what a consolation it is for a mother to know that her son has become a Christian and is under such influences as to give him so happy a heart and make him now write letters that fill us all with so much joy, instead of worry and anxiety? With many thanks, yours sincerely, Frau D. H." There is great need at the Church House of second-hand clothing. Articles of this kind will be sent for upon notification at the Church House. The basket-ball teams of the Boys' Department are playing every Friday night in the new gymnasium of the Madison Square Church. The games played there with visiting teams arouse great interest among the boys and are well contested. The League games will begin in a couple of weeks for the championship, and our Boys' Department expects to enter three teams. The members of the church are invited to come any Friday night and see how it is done. The work of the winter term has begun in the manual training class, and it is planned by the Committee to continue this course for fifteen lessons. The women's meeting for Bible study, held every Friday evening, averages in attendance about fifty. Miss Haines reports that more Bibles were sold in 1906 than in any previous year, which, under all the circumstances, is an emphatic indication of their genuine interest. From Adams Memorial. -- The twenty-first annual meeting of the church and congregation will be held on Wednesday evening of this week to listen to the reports of our work for the past year and to transact all necessary business. The church will elect three elders, two deacons, and a treasurer. Since the first of March forty-nine persons have been received into church membership, thirty-nine upon profession of their faith, and ten by letter. Our present membership is eight hundred and twenty-eight. About two hundred of these, however, live at such a distance as to prevent their regularly worshipping with us, leaving about five hundred in actual attendance upon our services. Since our organization, twenty-one years ago, thirteen hundred and forty-seven have been received into the church. The fact that only five hundred are now actively represented shows how great is the drift of the population from this neighborhood. The Offering next Sabbath will be applied in carrying forward the work of this church. 9 Evening Service Eight o'clock Prelude —(a) Chimes} - - - - - Chopin. (b) Organ Processional (Hymn 980). Call to Worship.} (Congregation Standing.) Hymn 529. Invocation. Anthem, - - - - - - Foster. Be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God, That hath dealt wondrously with you. He maketh peace in all thy borders, and filleth thee with the flour of wheat. Life up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things by the greatness of His might. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. O let my mouth be filled with Thy praise, that I may sing of Thy glory and honor all the day long. The valleys are covered with corn, they should for joy. Be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God! AMEN. Scripture Lesson, 2 Timothy i: 1-10. Choir Hymn, - - - - - - Nicode. Behold, a Stranger at the door: He gently knocks, has knocked before; Has waited long, is waiting still: You treat no other friend so ill. O lovely attitude! He stands With melting heart, and laden hands: O matchless kindness! and He shows This matchless kindness to His foes. 10 But will He prove a friend indeed? He will, the very friend you need; The friend of sinners—yes, 'tis He, With garments dyed at Calvary. Rise, touched with gratitude divine; Turn out His enemy and thine, That soul-destroying monster, Sin; And let the Heavenly Stranger in. Prayer. Antiphonal Service, - - - - - - Parkhurst. (The responses of the congregation are in Roman type, those of the choir in Italics.) Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide; neither will He keep His anger forever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 11 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens: and His kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that do His commandments, harkening unto the voice of His word. Bless the Lord, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure. Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul. Notices: Offering in behalf of the Madison Square Church house. Offertory -- "The Lost Chord," - - - Sullivan. (Harp, Chimes, and Organ) Sermon. Response, _ _ _ _ _ Barnby. Now the day is over, Through the long night-watches Night is drawing night; May Thine angels spread Shadows of the evening Their white wings above me, Steal Across the sky; Watching round my bed. Jesus, grant the weary When the morning wakens, Calm and sweet repose; Then may I arise With Thy tenderest blessing Pure, and fresh, and sinless May our eyelids close. In Thy holy eyes. Amen. hymn 990. (Congregation standing and joining.) Prayer and Benediction. Recessional (Hymn 88). Organ Postlude. 12 The Pushkin Literary and Social Club invites you to meet Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D. C. Thursday afternoon, February fifteenth, nineteen hundred six, at the residence of Mrs. E. I. Young. HOURS 5-8. PEOPLES PHONE 247 OFFICE HOURS 10 TO 2 4 TO 6 7 TO 8 Residence 1426 6th Avenue PHONES Bell 2438 peoples 2067 Dr. A. M. Brown 217 NORTH EIGHTEENTH STREET ALABAMA PENNY SAVING BANK BUILDING Rooms 4 and 5 Birmingham, Ala ———— LITERARY ENTERTAINMENT Under the Direction of the Semper Fidelis Club Monday Eve, Feb. 11, '07 at 8:00 First Baptist Church 6th Ave., Birmingham ——— Alabama Penny Saving & Loan Company A Bank Owned and Controlled by Negroes Interest Paid on Deposits ITS AIM IS TO ASSIST IN TEACHING 1. The Art of Saving. 2. Building Homes 3. Establishing Character. 4. Earning Money. Banking Hours: 9 to 2. Saturdays until 4 P. M. Bank Money Orders for Sale New York Exchange for its Customers Deposits by Mail Given Special Attention 217 North 18th St., Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues S. Dinkins & Son Our PRICES in the MARKET and GROCERY DEPTS. are RIGHT and we know it. Call to see us and you will know it. Peoples Phone 1585 607 S Eighteenth Street, Birmingham, Ala EAT AND DRINK AT Mitchell's Cafe and Restaurant OPEN DAY and NIGHT PEOPLE'S PHONE 1196 1713 2nd Ave. Opposite JEFFERSON THEATRE, Birmingham Ala P. M. EDWARDS, Prop. Any Doctor's Prescription filled at the PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE We have filled 82,000 Refilled 20,000 Total 102,000 Judge for yourselves if we are experienced along this line. 1717 3rd Ave. Both Local Phones 556. Long Distance 4601 PROGRAMME Piano Duet - - Misses Davis and Hadnott Violin Solo - - Mr. G. A. Badford Vocal Solo - - Mr. Julius James Weaver Piano Duet - - Misses McInnis and Wilhite Vocal Solo - - Miss Harris Piano and Violin Duet - -Mr. W.R.A. Palmer and Miss Winslow (FOR "AD" SPACE ADDRESS J.P. BOND, BIRMINGHAM) Davenport and Harris UNDERTAKERS 228 North Eighteenth Street BIRMINGHAM - - - ALABAMA Phone 284 CLIMAX BAKERY CONFECTIONERS AND BAKERS R. J. BROWN & Co. Proprietors 1100 8th Avenue, Bell Phone 3930 Birmingham, Ala. DR. W. E. LACY DENTIST 217 North Eighteenth Street PENNY SAVING BANK BUILDING Birmingham, Alabama HOURS 8 TO 10 12 T0 1 3 TO 5 PHONES: OFFICE 503 RESIDENCE BELL 1249 PEOPLES 484 DR. L. U. GOIN PHYSICIAN-AND SURGEON 217 North Eighteenth Street Alabama Penny Saving Bank Building Rooms 2 and 8 Birmingham, Ala ADDRESS by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington D. C. E. A. BROWN ATTORNEY AT LAW PENNY SAVING BANK BUILDING PHONES 503 BIRMINGHAM - - ALABAMA Every man has somewhere in his head, a dim notion of what he wants. We anticipate these notions ahead and Select your Styles accordingly. Gents' Jewelry, Hats, Caps, Belts and Shoes. BOND & COMPANY NEXT DOOR PENNY BANK The Peoples Investment & Banking Co., Will Loan You money at 6% Build you a Home and will Pay you 6% on your money. Bell Phone 1230 1727 Third Avenue Birmingham, Ala if you have a policy with THE UNION MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION of Mobile, Alabama It is protection against disease and accidents J. H. PHILLIPS, District Manager 317 1-2 North 20th St., Birmingham, Ala The Birmingham Literary Club Holds sessions Monday night of each week at the Congregational Church. ITS OBJECT The club was organized to promote an intellectual awakening among the Afro- Americans of Birmingham. The club stands for the moral, spiritual and, intellectual development of the race. While special attention is given to the intellectual side much attention is given to the general improvement of the race. The members are urged to acquire the habit of reading good literature, especially that written by Afro- Americans. The members are urged to observe the importance of time and punctuality. They are also requested to make special efforts to acquaint themselves with the laws and arts of debating, reading and oratory. Nothing short of the very best decorum is expected of all the members. The club stands for the erection of a library building and a first class library, for the Afro-Americans of Birmingham. F. P. McAlpine, President, Juliette Bradford, Secretary, U. G. MASON M. D. MASON BUILDING 1717 THIRD AVENUE BIRMINGHAM - - - ALABAMA ECHOLS and STRONG FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS Calls For Carriages Filled Promptly. Peoples Phones 705, 1946 1914 4th Ave., Birmingham If It's Shoes You Need, Phone Peoples 779 THAYER AND ADAMS SHOERS to the FAMILY 120 S. 20th St., near avenue B SPELMAN SEMINARY ATLANTA, GEORGIA TWENTY- FIFTH ANNIVERSARY APRIL 6--11, 1906 HOWE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, ROCKEFELLER HALL PROGRAM Friday, April 6, 7 : 30 p. m GREETINGS Hon. Wm. B. Merritt, State School Commissioner Prof. M. L. Brittain, Superintendent of Fulton County Schools Mrs. Alice B. Coleman, President of the W. A. B. . M. Society Prof. Jos. A. Booker, President of Arkansas Baptist College Prof. W. B. Matthews, Principal of Houston St. School, Atlanta Rev. Myron W. Adams, Dean of Atlanta University, Atlanta Prof. W. H. Crogman, President of Clark University, Atlanta Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, D. D., Gamnron Theological Seminary, Atlanta Prof. John Hope, Atlanta Baptist College, Atlanta HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SPELMAN (Illustrated) A Spelman Teacher Saturday, April 7, 2 : 30 p. m. THE SPELMAN GRADUATE AT WORK IN THE WORLD As a Teacher— Prof. M. W. Reddick, Principal of Americus Institute, Americus, Ga. As a Church Worker--- Rev. D. D. Crawford, Atlanta, Ga. As a Pastor's Wife--- Rev. J. H. Gadson, Tuskegee, Ala As a Helper in Every Good Work-- Prof. J. E. Brown, President of Walker Baptist Institute, Augusta, Ga. Remarks by Graduates and Other Saturday, April 7, 7 : 30 p. m. ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING OF THE SPELMAN ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION ADDRESS Miss Emma B. De Lany See Special Program Sunday, April 8, 3 p. m. ANNIVERSARY SERMON Rev. Emory W. Hunt, D. D., President of Denison University, Granville, O. Sunday, April 8. 7: 30 p. m. ADDRESSES Mr. E. M. Thresher, Dayton, O. And Others Monday, April 9, 9-11 : 30 a. m. THE SPELMAN STUDENT School Session ---Opportunity to visit literary and industrial classes Monday, April 9, 2 : 30 p. m. CLASS DAY EXERCISES Graduates of May 16, 1906 Monday, April 9, 7 : 30 p. m. ADDRESSES Dr. S. C. Mitchell, Richmond College, Richmond, Va. Subject : Five Factors in the Negro Problem Dr. C. F. Meserve, President of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Tuesday, April 10 9 : 30 a. m. WHAT THEN? MINISTERS' MORNING Rev. W. J. White, D. D., Augusta, Ga. Rev. E. R. Carter, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., Augusta, Ga. Rev. W. G. Johnson, D. D., Macon, Ga. Rev. E. P. Johnson, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Rev. P. J. Bryant, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Rev. V. C. Norcross, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. [*Dr. Spalding Gainesville Ga. Poor boy came one day— R.T. Wilson Poor boy My Lord what a morning when the Stars begin to fall*] Tuesday, April 10, 2 : 30 p. m. ADDRESSES Mrs. Mary C. Reynolds, Cor. Secretary of the W. A. B. H. M. Society, Boston, Mass. Subject: The Example of the Master—a Call to Service Prof. J.B. Simpson, Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. Subject: The Measure of Responsibility Tuesday, April 10, 7 : 30 p. m. ADDRESS Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. Subject: Why I am an Optimist CLOSING WORDS President Sale, Atlanta Baptist College Wednesday, April 11 FOUNDERS' DAY A Holiday Rev. H.L. Morehouse D.D., President of the Board of Trustees of Spelman Seminary, and Corresponding Secretary of the A. B. H. M. Society, New York, N. Y., will preside at the meetings --- [*Mrs Mench??*] Reduced rates of one and one-third fare, plus twenty-five cents, on the certificate plan have been secured over all railway lines south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers. Be sure to ask for a certificate when purchasing ticket. SPELMAN SEMINARY PRESS ORGANIZED 1888. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT INCORPORATED 1891 Program of the 5th Triennial Meeting of the National Council of Women of the United States AFFILIATED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN TO BE HELD AT THE PYTHIAN TEMPLE, Ninth Street, bet. K and L, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 9 to 15, 1905. HEADQUARTERS : THE SHOREHAM Motto: "Lead, Kindly Light." Officers of the National Council of Women of the United States. President, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, 824 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Cal. Vice President at Large, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Alexandria, Va. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, Wilmington, Ill. First Recording Secretary, Mrs. Frances E. Burns, St. Louis, Mich. Second Recording Secretary, Mrs. Isabelle Quinlan, Galesburg, Ill. Treasurer, Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, 307 Kirby St., Detroit, Mich. Standing Committees Peace Demonstration: Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Chairman. Arts and Letters: Miss Ellen H. Richardson, Chairman. Laws Concerning Domestic Relations: Mrs. J Ellen Foster, Chairman. Department of Home: Mrs. N. Coe Stewart, Chairman. Dress: Mrs. Anna L. Johnson, Chairman. Philanthropies and Charities: Mrs. Ellen E. Downer, Chairman. Education: Mrs. Elizabeth E. Brown, Chairman. Dependent and Delinquent Children: Kate Waller Barrett, M.D., Chairman. List of Societies Affiliated with the National Council of Women of the United States. National Woman's Suffrage Association. Universal Peace Union. National Woman's Relief Society. National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity. National Council of Jewish Women. Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Society. Supreme Hive, Ladies of the Maccabees of the World. National Woman's Relief Corps. National Association of Loyal Women of America. National Association of Colored Women. American Federation of Nurses. Great Hive of the Modern Maccabees. National Association of Business Women. National Catholic Benevolent Association. National Florence Crittenton Mission. Woman's Centenary Association. Ladies of the G. A. R. Rathbone Sisters of the World. National Free Baptist Missionary Society. State Council, Rhode Island. LOCAL COUNCILS Local Council of Bloomington, Ind. Local Council of Toledo, Ohio. Local Council of Rochester, N.Y. Local Council of Indianapolis, Ind. Local Council of Portland, Me. Local Council of San Francisco, Cal. Local Council of Detroit, Mich. Local Council of Union City, Ind. Sunday, April 9th-3 P.M. First Congregational Church, corner Tenth and G streets N.W. Chairman, MRS MARY WOOD SWIFT, President National Council of Women Invocation: Mrs. S. D. LA FETRA. Bible Reading: Mrs. E. B. GRANNIS. Solo: Miss PIERCE. Addresses: Mrs. J. ELLEN FOSTER, Washington, D.C. Mrs. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Washington D.C. Mrs. KATE WALLER BARRETT, Alexandria, Va. Mrs. HANNAH G. SOLOMAN, Chicago, Ill. Benediction: Rev. AMANDA DEVO. Singing of Council Hymn: LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet! I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, or prayed that thou Shouldst lead me on! I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead thou me on! I loved the garish day; and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will; remember not past years. So long Thy power has blest me, sure it still Will lead me on O'er moor and fen o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. MRS. S. D. LA FETRA, MRS. ALFRED WOOD, Committee of Arrangements The Local Council of Jewish Women, whose National body is affiliated with the National Council, will hold a service in the vestry of the Temple, Eight Street, between H and I Streets N.W., at eight o'clock, Sunday evening, to which the public is invited. Monday, April 10th - 4 to 6 P. M. AT THE SHOREHAM. RECEPTION COMPLIMENTARY TO OFFICERS, DELEGATES AND VISITORS TO THE COUNCIL. 8 P. M. EXECUTIVE SESSION, THE SHOREHAM. NOTES. Badges may be had from the Chairman, Miss HETTY ABRAHAM. All members of affiliated organizations are entitled to wear these badges. The business sessions which will be held each morning at 10 o'clock in one of the smaller halls of the Pythian Temple are open to the members of the Council, Patrons Annual Contributors, Fraternal delegates, and specially invited guests. The afternoon and evening sessions will be open sessions, to which the public is cordially invited,, Owing to the absence of President and Mrs., ROOSEVELT, it has been impossible to arrange for a reception at the White House, but special permission will be gotten for any delegate desiring it, to visit the rooms in the White House not usually shown to the public. The agent to vise railroad certificates will be in the hall on April 12th. The hour will be announced at the session of the Council on the 11th. Tuesday, April 11th - 10 A. M. PYTHIAN TEMPLE. Formal Opening of Triennial. Prayer. Appointment of Committee on Credentials. Reception of Applications for Membership. Presentation of Committee on Rules. First Report of Committee on Credentials. Reports of Officers. Appointment of Special Committees on business of the Triennial. Reception of Fraternal Delegates. 2 P. M. President's Address: Mrs. MARY WOOD SWIFT. Reports of affiliated Organizations. National Woman's Suffrage Association, 2.30 to 2.45. Rev. ANNA SHAW. National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, 2.45 to 3.00. Mrs. ELIZABETH B. GRANNIS. Universal Peace Union, 3.00 to 315. Rev. AMANDA DEYO. American Federation of Nurses, 3.15 to 3.30. President or Delegate. Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Society, 3.30 to 3.45. President or Delegate. National Woman's Relief Society, 3.45 to 4.00. Mrs. EMMELINE B. WELLS. National Association of Business Women, 4.00 to 4.15. President or Delegate. 8 P. M. Music The Lord's Prayer, led by Rev. ALEXANDER KENT. Greeting of President, Mrs. MARY WOOD SWIFT. Greetings, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, President, International Suffrage Association. Greetings, Mrs. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Honorary President, International Council of Women. Greetings from Canadian Council of Women, Mrs. ROBERT THOMPSON, President. Address: "The Ethics of Home Making," Mrs. N. COE STEWART. Address: EDWIN MARKHAM, "Woman and the Future Social Conscience." Wednesday, April 12. PYTHIAN TEMPLE. 10 A. M. Minutes of Previous Meeting. Report of Committee on Credentials. Report of Special Committees. Report of Standing Committees: On Dress: Mrs. ANNA L. JOHNSON, Chairman. Department of the Home: Mrs. N. COE STEWART, Chairman. Programme: Mrs. FLO JAMISON MILLER, Chairman. On Revision of the Constitution: Press: Miss ACKERMAN. Care of Dependent and Delinquent Children: K. W. BARRETT, M. D 2 P. M. Reports of Affiliated Organizations: National Council of Jewish Women, 2.15 to 2.30. Mrs. HANNAH G. SOLOMAN. National Catholic Benevolent Association, 2.30 to 2.45. President or Delegate. Ladies of the G. A. R., 2.45 to 3.00. President or Delegate. Report, Local Council of Detroit, Mich,, 3.00 to 3.15. President or Delegate. National Association of Colored Women, 3.15 to 3.30. Mrs. JOSEPHINE S. YATES. The Woman's Centenary Association, 3.30 to 3.45. Mrs. C, QUINBY, Hon. Prest. State Council of Rhode Island, 3.45 to 4.00. President or Delegate. National Florence Crittenton Missions. Mrs. KATE WAER BARRETT. From 4 to 6 P. M. Through the courtesy of Mrs. J. B. HENDERSON, a Tea, complimentary to the Officers Delegates and Visitors to the Council, will be given. 8 P. M. Music. Report of Committee on Arts and Letters. Mrs. ELLEN H. RICHARDSON. ADELAIDE JOHNSON. Address: Rev. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Chairman, International Committee on Equal Suffrage. Address: "The Need of National Legislation on Child Labor," Hon. J. A. MCKELWAY, Asst. Sec., National committee on Child Labor. Reading, EDWIN MARKHAM, "The Man with the Hoe." Thursday, April 13th. PYTHIAN TEMPLE. 10 A. M. Minutes of the Previous Meeting. Adjourned Business Previously Presented. Report of Committee on Resolutions, Mrs. E. B. GRANNIS, Chairman. Discussion. Report of Peace Committee, Mrs. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chairman. 2 P. M. Reports of Affiliated Organizations: National free Baptist Missionary Society, 2.15 to 2.30. Mrs. MARY DAVIS. Rathbone Sisters of the World, 2.30 to 2.45. Delegate or President. Great Hive of the Modern Maccabees, 2.45 to 3.00. Mrs. FRANCES BURNS. Local Council of Bloomington, Ind., 3.00 to 3.15. Local Council of Toledo, Ohio, 3.15 to 3.30. Local Council of Rochester, N. Y., 3.30 to 3.45. Local Council of Indianapolis, Ind., 3.45 to 4.00. Local Council of San Francisco, Cal., 415 to 4.30. The Patron, Her Duties, Privileges, and Responsibilities. Discussion. 8 P. M. Report of Committee on Domestic Relations under the Law. Mrs. J. ELLEN FOSTER, Chairman. Address: Our International Relations, Mrs. WILLOUGHBY CUMMINGS, Corresponding Secretary, National Council of Women of Canada, and Editor International Bulletin. Address: The Spirit of Internationalism, Mrs. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Honorary President, International Council of Women, Honorary President, National Council of Women off the United States. Friday, April 14th. PYTHIAN TEMPLE AND THE SHOREHAM. 10 A. M. Minutes of the Previous Meeting. Election of Officers for Succeeding Administration. Presentation of Plans and Suggestions for the Increased Efficiency of the National Council. 1.30 P. M. Luncheon at the Shoreham, complimentary to newly elected officers. Tickets may be had from the Chairman of the Committee, MRS. ROSA DUMARS. 8 P. M. CLOSING SESSION. THE BALLROOM OF THE SHOREHAM. MUSIC. Patriotism, The National Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. FANNIE L. MINOT, President. What Fraternal Benefit Societies Mean to Women, MRS. LILLIAN M. HOLLISTER, President Supreme Hive, Maccabees of the World. National Association of Loyal Women of America. MRS. I. C. MANCHESTER. Report, Local Council of Union City, Ind., MISS JESSIE NELSON. The Responsibility and Opportunity of the Government towards the District of Columbia, Hon. GEO. S. WILSON. Presentation of the newly elected Officers and the transferring of powers and properties of the Council to the new Administration. THE USE OF A NATIONAL COUNCIL.* There are two parts of the work of a National Council, one of which may be said to represent its practical side, the other the side of sentiment. While there are many who would say that, in so far as the Council does practical work, it may lay claim to the term useful, very few seem to understand that the Council idea--that is the sentiment--may be as really useful as the concrete thing to which we may point, saying: "This has been done by the Council." One need not at this time in the history of civilization defend sentiment. * * * Love of country is only a sentiment, but how much it has done for the loved country. Even motherhood is a mighty force in Christian countries today , by virtue of the sentiment which gathers round it. * * * What is the sentiment underlying the Council idea? It is that, whatever affects the people of our country affects us; that we are bound up by innumerable ties to all who live under our skies and render allegiance to our rulers; that every condition making life easier or harder to them is a matter of supreme moment to us; and that through our organizations, we want to hold out hands of help to every movement that is meant to uplift, to educate, to relieve, or to brighten the lives of our fellowmen and women. And the value of a National Council lies not so much in what it has done as in what it may do when its powers are fully developed. We go to see a mother of our acquaintance. We find her in ecstasies about the baby. She says he has learned to walk. Have you ever known a mother scornful about these tottering first steps? Does she say severely, that the baby should never try to walk until he can emulate the manly stride of his father? She knows that there will be many a fall, many a hurt forehead, many a tear, before those little feet shall grow strong, and those steps firm like a man's; but for all that, she has nothing but praise for those first attempts; nothing but hope for a perfection of that feeble beginning. * * * Even a valuable thing may become valueless from disuse. * * * But when it is neither misused nor disused, what is the place in the community to be filled by the Council? It seems to me that it should be the eye and the heart of the body social, of which the educational societies may be the head; the philanthropic, the hands and feet. It should look round in the community to see what is to be done, and how to do it; it should see what is being overdone, and save the waste of effort; and it should be the sympathetic link between societies whose aims are apparently far apart, yet all of which are helps towards the betterment of society in some way. Sight and sympathy--the eye and the heart--should be the twofold function of the Council. * * * (Instances quoted of the manner in which National Councils are fulfilling this function) There are some objectors to the Council, who say that it has never done them any good. There is a sense in which it was not intended to do them good. Why are the societies organized at all? Is it to get good? Is it not rather to do good? The Council is not a porridge pot, out of which spoonfulls of nourishment are doled out to hungry participants; it is an instrument which can, and ought to be used to further the aims of the societies. And if you do not use it, never say it is of no use for you have not tried it. The Council is no abstract thing up in the clouds, it is you--you members of affiliated societies; and if you have not found the use of the Council, may I ask have you ever tried to use it? Have you not rather stood aloof critically, instrument that it can only be of use when those who belong to it make it serviceable; to bring the kingdom of heaven a little nearer to this tired world. Whenever there is a little child neglected, a home comfortless, a girl astray, a man inebriated, a city insanitary, a mind left uncultivated, a willing hand left idle for want of hiring, there is need for a National Council of Women. __________________ * Extracts from a paper read at Hobart, at a Meeting of the National Council of Tasmania, by the Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Alex. Morton. Anniversary Celebration of the 1948 Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, Wednesday, May 27th, 1908. [*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] PROGRAMME: UNVEILING OF THE COMMEMORATIVE TABLET. JOHNSON OPERA HOUSE, 11:30 a. m. Invocation by - - - - Rev. Charles Sicard Addresses by Mary Church Terrell, Lyia K. Commander, Annis Ford Eastman Exercises at the High School for the Pupils - - 2:30 p. m. Henry Stowell, Chairman. Rev. Wm. Bours Clarke, - - - - Invocation Gladys L. Crowell, - - - - Recitation Harriot Stanton Blatch, - - - - The Event we Celebrate Prof. Earl Barnes, - - The Educative Value of Political Life MEETING TO HONOR THE PIONEERS, Johnson opera House 4 p. m. Elizabeth Smith Miller, - Chairman Mary H. Hallowell, - - - - - Impressions of 1848 Fanny Garrison Villard, - - - - - - Lucretia Mott Harriot Stanton Blatch, - - - - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Eliza Wright Osborne, - - - - - - Martha Wright Mary Church Terrill, - - - - - Frederick Douglass Antoinette Brown Blackwell - - - - The Early Days Alice Hooker Day - - - - - - A Bit of Biography Mary Seymour Howell, - - - - - - Reminiscences Evening Meeting, Presbyterian Church, 8:15 p. m. Harrison Chamberlain, - Chairman. Rev. Wm. P. Schell, - - - - - - Invocation Elizabeth E. Cook, - - - - - Woodford Prize Oration Maud Nathan, - - - - - - The Suffrage Argument Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, - - - - Vitilized Democracy Anna Garlin Spencer, - - - - - - - Address [*I deliver the Commencement Address*] FISK UNIVERSITY General Anniversary Program 1905. EXHIBITION OF SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS, Friday, June Ninth, at 7:30 p.m. MISSIONARY SERMON, Sunday, June Eleventh, at 11 a.m. BACCALAUREATE SERMON, Sunday, June Eleventh, at 4 p.m. BASE BALL —ATHLETIC FIELD, Monday, June Twelfth, at 9:30 a.m. ANNIVERSARY OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS, Business Meetings at 3:30 p.m Anniversary Exercises at 7:30 p.m. THE LAST CHAPEL EXERCISES AND THE UNIVERSITY PLATFORM, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 8:45 a.m CLASS DAY EXERCISES — JUBILEE GROUNDS, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 4 p.m. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF NORMAL DEPARTMENT, Tuesday, June Thirteenth, at 7:30 p.m. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Wednesday, June Fourteenth, at 10 a.m. PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION, Wednesday, June Fourteenth, at close of Alumni Dinner. at the President's Home. The piano used during the commencement exercises, a Steinway Concert Grand, is a recent gift from a friend who withholds his name. ANNIVERSARIES ANTEDATING COMMENCEMENT WEEK. ANNUAL CONCERT OF MOZART SOCIETY, Fisk Memorial Chapel, April Fourteenth and Fifteenth ANNIVERSARY OF LITERARY SOCIETIES, Fisk Memorial Chapel. April Twenty-eight. EXHIBITION OF DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twelfth. RECITAL BY CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twenty-Sixth. GRADUATING RECITAL OF CHARLES ALFRED ROBINSON McDOWELL, A.B. Fisk Memorial Chapel, May Twentieth. GRADUATING RECITAL OF HAZEL TAYLOR THOMPSON, Fisk Memorial Chapel, June Third. ANNUAL GLEE CLUB CONCERT, Fisk Memorial Chapel, June Second. ANNIVERSARY OF TRAINING SCHOOL, Daniel Hand Training School, June Ninth. SENIOR PREPARATORY EXHIBITION, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 7:30 P.M. ORGAN SOLO. —Lullaby Kindler. Daniel Ernest Johnson. PRAYER. SONG.—Irish Lullaby Needham. Florence Ellen Quinn. RECITATION.—Higher Education for Women Chancey M. Depew. Alice Evelyn Williams, Chatham, Ill. RECITATION.—Sonny's Diploma Ruth McEnery Stuart. Lawrence Cravath Caldwell, Mobile, Ala. ORATION.—The Choice of a Vocation William Edward Key, Helena , Ark. DECLAMATION.—The National Flag Henry Ward Beecher. George Edward Davidson, Lovejoy, Ill. SEMI-CHORUS.—Protect Us Through the Coming Night Curschmann. Misses Chestnutt, Norwood, Robinson, Smith and Quinn. RECITATION - A Second Trial - Sarah W. Kellogg. Birdie Henrietta Haynes, Hot Springs, Ark. RECITATION - Books. Henry Ward Beecher. Monroe Patterson, Harwood, Ark. ESSAY. - The Will and the Way - Helen Louise Sheffey, Huntsville, Ala. SONG - Thine Eyes So Blue and Tender - Lassen-Parks, The Glee Club. RECITATION - What the Fiddle told - Nora C. Franklin. Sadie Conrad Binford, Birmingham, Ala. ESSAY. - Education- Anna Cahill Austin, Helena, Ark. ORATION - The Reign of Law. - Richard Hill, Jr. Nashville. ADDRESS - PRESIDENT MERRILL. CHORUS - Thou Crownest the Year - Fred C. Maker, The Mozart Society. CLASS ROLL, SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS, 1905. Anderson, Joseph Edward, Nashville. Austin, Anna Cahill, Helena, Ark. Binford, Sadie Conrad, Birmingham, Ala. Brock, Theophilus Clay, Louisville, Ky. Brown, Maggie Viola, Florence, S.C. Brunfield, Thomas Mason, Bowling Green, Ky. Caldwell, Lawrence Cravath, Mobile, Ala. Childress, Jennie Louise, Nashville. Childress, William Hobbs, Nashville. Davidson, George Edward, Lovejoy, Ill. Evans, William Leonard, Louisville, Ky. Flowers, John Azzerree, Mount Adams, Ark. Green, John Anthony, Mound Bayou, Miss. Hargrave, Sophia Ligon, Sibley, Miss. Haynes, Birdie Henrietta, Hot Springs, Ark. Hill, Richard, Jr., Nashville. Hughes, John Henderson, Franklin, Tenn. Kakaza, Lettie, Point Elizabeth, South Africa. Kennedy, Estella Mahala, Harrod's Creek, Ky. Key, William Edward, Helena, Ark. McClellan, John Quincy, Wartrace, Tenn. Overstreet, Sophia Matilda, Camp Nelson, Ky. Patterson, Monroe, Harwood, Ark. Scott, Walter Lloyd, Florence, S.C. Sheffey, Helen Louise, Huntsville, Ala. Smith, Charles Webster, Lynchburg, Tenn. Thomas, Jessie Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky. Wade, John Edward, Malee, N.C. Wallis, Charles LaCrosse, Camden, Ark. Williams, Alice Evelyn, Chatham, Ill. SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Y.M.C.A. MEETING, THEOLOGICAL HALL, 9 A.M. Y.P.S.C.E. MEETING , JUBILEE HALL, 9 A.M. MISSIONARY SERVICE SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 11 A.M. ORGAN PRELUDE—Andante Cantabile Dethier. INVOCATION. ANTHEM—"Worthy is the Lamb" Handel's "Messiah" SCRIPTURE READING. PRAYER. HYMN.—Great God, Whose Universal Sway No. 1128. OFFERTORY. OFFERTORY—How Beautiful are the Feet Handel's "Messiah," No. 1172. SERMON BY REV. FREDERICK F. REESE, D. D., Rector Christ P.E. Church,—"The Witness of the Missionary." HYMN—From Greenland's Icy Mountains No. 1169. ORGAN—First Sonata, Largo e maestoso, Allegro Guilmant. THE BACCALAUREATE, 4 P.M. ORGAN PRELUDE—Pastorale Guilmant. INVOCATION. ANTHEM - Sanctus Gounod. HYMN - Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us. No. 177. SCRIPTURE READING. PRAYER. HYMN - Watchman, Tell Us of the Night No. 1151. SERMON BY PRESIDENT MERRILL. HYMN - Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken No. 1160. ORGAN POSTLUDE - Alleluila Dubois. HYMN - Ye Christian Heralds, Go Proclaim No. 1138. ANNIVERSARY OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS. TWENTY-FOURTH OF THE COLLEGE, TWENTIETH OF THE NORMAL. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 9:30 A.M. Base Ball Game, Alumni vs. "Varsity." MONDAY, JUNE 12, 3:30 P.M. Business meeting of the Associations in the Parlors of Jubilee Hall. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 7:30 P.M. COLLEGE MOTTO: Fidelitas Aimae Matri et inter nos Unitas. L.C. ANDERSON, A.M. '80, President College Alumni Association. NORMAL MOTTO: Qualis Vita Finis Ita. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS SOUTHALL, '91, President Normal Alumni Association. ORGAN SOLO - Andantino.............................................................Lemare. Charles Alfred Robinson Mcdowell, A.B., '04, Savannah, Ga. PRAYER SONG- There's a Beautiful Land on High.....................................Taylor. John Wesley Holloway, A.B , '94, Nashville, Tenn. REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATIONS. QUARTETTE - Auld Lang Syne Messrs. J.W. Work, '95, F.J. Work, '03, C. A. R. McDowell, '04, T.W. Talley, '90. Address before the Normal Alumni Association Mrs. Mary W. Jennings, '95, Memphis, Tenn. DUETT - Night..................................................................................Millilotti. Messrs. J.W. Work and F.J. Work, Address before the College Alumni Association "Leadership and its Responsibilities." Joseph Lee Wiley, A.B., '95, Fessenden, Fla. SONG - Last Night.................................................................................Kjrulf. Prof. J.W. Work, M.A., '95, Nashville, and Fisk Glee Club. CLOSING CHAPEL EXERCISES AND THE UNIVERSITY PLATFORM, LIVINGSTON HALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 8:45 A.M. CLASS DAY EXERCISES, JUBILEE GROUNDS, JUNE 13, 4:00 P.M. BURNING OF BOOKS Opening Remarks by President of Class, Hugh Elwood Macbeth, Charleston, S.C. Statistics Robert Francis Morrison, Charleston, S.C. Class History Miss Raven Alberta Scott, Florence, S.C. QUARTETTE. Class Poem John Luthern Rucker, Albany, Ga. Class Prophecy Miss Edna Frances Rose, Chattanooga, Tenn. PLANTING OF THE TREE, Tree Oration Harry Crindlon Buster, Xenia, Ohio. Class Song Class. GRADUATING EXERCISES —NORMAL DEPARTMENT. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 7:30 P.M. CLASS MOTTO:—"Be loyal to the royal in thyself." ORGAN SOLO.—Pastorale Impromptu Buck. Charles Alfred Robertson McDowell, A.B. PRAYER. SONG—Callest Thou Thus, O Master Mietzke. Laura Page Smith. MAKING THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL Gertrude Ella Boyd, Ford Davis, Ala. ONE PHASE OF CHILD STUDY Bernadine Ellen Dejoie, New Orleans, La. QUARTETTE. —When the Corn is Waving Buck. Messrs. Myers, Merrill, Boutte and Brown. THE VALUE OF AN ART CLUB IN SCHOOL Fannie Lawrence Deveaux, Savannah, Ga. EVIL INFLUENCES "IN CURRENT LITERATURE Daisy Ernestine Eslick, East St. Louis, Illinois. JNBILEE SONG The Fisk Jubilee Club. WAR AND ARBITRATION Mary Elizabeth Keene, Cleveland , Ohio. ATTENTION AS A FACTOR IN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION Nettie Adenia Ledsinger, Dyersburg, Tenn. SONG.—The Highwayman's Song Huntington Woodman. Matthew Virgil Boutte. OLD COLONIAL DAYS Rebecca Louise Sykes, Decatur, Ala. ORIGIN AND CHANGE OF WORDS Lillie Bradford Sheffey, Huntsville, Ala. SEMI-CHORUS.—Good Night Goldberg. Misses Chestnutt, Norwood, Robinson, Smith and Quinn. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. CHORUS.—The Dance of Pau-Puk-Keewis, from Hiawatha Coleridge Taylor. The Mozart Society. FORTIETH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 10 A.M. CLASS MOTTO.—"Non Sibi, Sed Omnibus." ORGAN SOLO.—March of the Magi Kings Theo. Dubois. Daniel Ernest Johnson. PRAYER. JUBILEE SONG The Fisk Jubilee Club. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH IT? Colbert Smith Davis, Galveston, Texas. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING Jessie Belle Gadsden,. Charleston, S.C. SONG,—My Desert Queen Hartwell Jones. Marie Vivian Peek. THE COLORED COLLEGE GRADUATE Hugh Elwood Macbeth, Charleston, S.C THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN LITERARY AND PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS. Eva Estelle Webster, Chicago Ill. PIANO SOLOS{ Air de Ballet, No. 4 Chaminade. Charles Alfred Robinson McDowell, A.B. {Sparks Moszkowski. Hazel Taylor Thompson. THE ENDLESS QUEST James Columbus Russell, Waco, Texas. SONG.—Daddy Behrends-Parks. The Glee Club. ADDRESS.—"Taking Things for Granted" Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, A.M. Washington, D.C. SONG.—The Erl King Schubert. James Andrew Myers. CONFERRING OF DEGREES. HALLELUJAH CHORUS—From the Messiah Handel. BENEDICTION. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Buster, Harry Crindlon Xenia, Ohio. Cooper, Osceola Evansville, Ind. Davis, Colbert Smith Galveston, Texas. Gadsden, Jessie Belle Charleston, S.C. Johnson, Lorenzo Major DeKalb, Texas. Jones, Florine Naomi Macon, Ga. Leake, Mabel Clyde Tyler, Texas. Lewis, Benjamin Curry Nashville, Macbeth, Hugh Elwood Charleston, S.C. Marshall, James Earnest Vicksburg, Miss. Morrison, Robert Francis Charleston, S.C. Morse, George Skipwith Waco , Texas Reeves, Evalyne Alberta Macon, Ga. Ross, Edna Frances Chattanooga, Tenn. Rucker, John Frances Albany, Ga. Scott, Alberta Raven Florence, S.C. Webster, Eva Estelle Chicago, Ill. White, Pearl Amelia Louisville, Ky. Wynn, William Anthony Albany, Ga. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. Gentry, Emery Marcus Winchester, Ky. Jones, Anderson Benjamin Danville, Ky. Russell, James Columbus Waco, Texas GRADUATES FROM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC McDowell, Charles Alfred Robertson Savannah, Ga. Thompson, Hazel Taylor Nashville CANDIDATES FOR NORMAL DIPLOMAS. Alexander, Willie Blanche Jacksonville, Fla. Allison, Nannie Isabella Nashville. Anderson, Annie Mae Athens, Ala. Boyd, Gertrude Ella Fort Davis, Ala. Dejoie, Bernardine Ellen New Orleans, La. Deveaux, Fannie Lawrence Savannah, Ga. Eslick, Daisy Ernestine East St. Louis, Ill. Howard, Nellie Elizabeth New Durham, N.J. Keene, Mary Elizabeth Cleveland, Ohio Ledsinger, Nettie Adenia Dyersburg, Tenn. Nelson, Ella Belle Athens, Ala. Sheffey, Lillie Bradford Huntsville, Ala. Sykes, Rebecca Louise Decatur, Ala. Taylor, Maria Gertrude Wilmington, N.C. PROGRAM N. A. A. C. OF THE NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL TO BE HELD IN New York City, October 9th, 10th, 11th, 1906 Tuesday, October 9th THE SESSION WILL BE HELD AT ST. MARK'S M. E. CHURCH 53rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues Wednesday, October 10th THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON SESSIONS WILL BE HELD AT MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH 53rd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues Wednesday Night A GREAT MASS MEETING AT COOPER UNION Cooper Square and East 9th Street Thursday, October 11th THE SESSION WILL BE HELD AT MOTHER ZION CHURCH 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues NEW YORK CITY PLEASE RETAIN THIS PROGRAM Night Session-7:30 O'clock Opening Chorus. Prayer: Rev. John W. Johnson. President's Annual Address, -Bishop Alexander Walters, D.D., Jersey City, N.J. Solo: Miss Lotta Gills. Address: "American Prejudice Subversive of American Institutions," Rev. A. L. Gains, Baltimore, Md. Address: Hon. William H. Lewis, Boston, Mass. Address: "Our Side of It," Prof. J R. E. Lee, Principal of Corona, Alabama, Industrial School. Solo: Mr. W. P. Pelham. Address: "Are Local Councils Essential to the Life of the National Organization?" -Miss Nannie Burroughs, Louisville, Kentucky. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH At Mount Olivet Baptist Church, 53d St., bwt, 6th & 7th Aves. 9 A. M., Meeting Executive Committee. 10 A. M., Meeting National Afro-American Council. Opening Chorus. Prayer: Rev. M. W. Gilbert, D.D. Report of Directors of Bureaus: Legal-J. Douglass Wetmore, New York; Business-Emmett J. Scott, Alabama; Education-Prof. J. T. Kealing, Pennsylvania; Literary-Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, Illinois; Ecclesiastical-Rev. M. C. B. Mason, D.D., Ohio; Newspaper-R. W. Thompson, Indiana; Anti-Lynching-Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, District of Columbia; Emigration-S. Joe Brown, Iowa; Vital Statistics-Dr. J. W. AMes, Michigan. Address: Arthur Wells Smith, M.D., Jacksonville, Florida. Address: Rev. W. R. Lawton, Brooklyn, N. Y. Afternoon Session- 2 o'clock Opening CHorus Prayer, Rev. A. R. Cooper, Brooklyn, N.Y. Report of Nominating Committee. Election of Officers. General Subject: "Constitutional Disfranchisement: The Evil and Its Remedy"- Counsellor A. S White, Louisville, Kentucky; A. N. Johnson, Mobile, Alabama; Counsellor Wilford H. Smith, New York City; J. A. Lankford, Washington, D. C. Address: Wm H. Steward, Louisville, Kentucky. Address: "Effect of Disenfranchisement in North Carolina, Hon. E. A. Johnson, Raleigh, N. C. Address: "Effect of Disenfranchisement in Mississippi," Isaiah T. Montgomery, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Address: "Organization for Protection," Oswald Garrison Villard, editor Evening Post, New York City. Night Session-Cooper Union, 8 P. M. Subject: "Lynching and Its Remedy" Opening Chorus Prayer: Rev. J. H. McMullen, D.D. Address: Hon. John E. Millholland. Solo: Harry T. Burleigh Address: T. Thomas Fortune, New Jersey. Address: Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, Washington, D. C. Address: Rev. L. G. Jordan, D.D., Louisville, Ky. Address: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. Address: J. C. Napier, Tennessee. Address: J. Douglass Wetmore. Address: R. L. Smith, Texas. Solo: Miss Mable Diggs, New York City. Address: Rev. C. S. Morris, D. D. Solo: Mrs. J. Green. Address: Dr. O. M. Waller. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11th Mother Zion Church, 89th St., Columbus and Amsterdam Aves 9 A. M. Meeting Executive Committee. 10 A. M., Meeting Afro-American Council. Opening Chotus. Prayer, Dr. C.T. Walker, Augusta, Ga. Report of Executive Committee. Report of Committee on Resolutions and Address. Address : Miss S. Elizabeth Frazier. Afternoon Session -- 2 o'clock Opening Chorus. Prayer, Rev. F. M. Jacobs, Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: " To What Extent is the White Man Responsible for the Present Day's Phases of the Negro Problem?" Bishop G. W. Clinton, D.D. Address: "A Subsidized North," Prof. W. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce, Ohio. Address: "The Attitude of Northern Opinion," W. L. Bulkley. Address: "Our Women and the Council," Mrs. Lelia Waters. Address: "A Plea to the National Conscience," G. C. Clement, D.D. Address: Mr. Gaylord Wilishire. Night Session-- 7:30 o'clock Opening Chorus. Prayer, Rev. T. W. Henderson, D. D., New York City. Address: Ex. Governor Frank S. Black, Troy, N.Y. Address: "The Future Habitat of the Nergo to be Deter- Mined by his Right of Suffrage, " Rev. E. C Morris, President National Baptist Convention. Solo: Mrs. L. Tucket. Address: "Reconstruction," Judge R. H. Terrell, Wash- ington, D. C. Address: Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C. Address: " The Requirements of Citizenship," Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. Solo: Mr. George Taylor. Address: Rev. M. C. B. Mason, Cincinnati, Ohio. "God BE WITH US TILL WE MEET AGAIN." ADJOURNMENT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH At St. Mark's M. E. Church, 53d St., bwt. 7th & 8th Aves. 9 o'clock Meeting, Executive Committee, -- Mr. Wm. H. Steward, Chairman. 10 o'clock, Opening Exercises. Chorus: "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." Opening Remarks by Rev. M. W. Gilbert, D. D., Chairman of Local Committee. Prayer, Rev. J. H. Gordon, D.D. Music. Roll Call. Announcements. Reports of Officers: Secretary, Cyrus Field Adams; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. L. G. Jordan, D.D.; Treasurer, John W. Thompson; National Organizer, Bishop G. W. Clinton, D. D. LL.D. Report of Committee on Credentials. Afternoon Session -- 2 o'clock Opening Chorus. Invocation: Rev. Wm. T. Dixon, Brooklyn, N. Y. Welcome Address on Behalf of City, -- Hon. John J. Delany, Corporation Counsel. Address: Hon. Charles W. Anderson, New York City. Response: Hon. J. C Dancy, Washington, D. C. Address on Behalf of Churches, -- Rev. W. H. Brooks, D.D., New York city. Response: Bishop G. W. Clinton, D.D., Charlotte, N. C. Address on Behalf of Schools, -- Dr. Wm. L. Bulkley, Brooklyn, N. Y. Response: Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register U. S. Treasury. Address on Behalf of Business Men, -- Mr. J. C. Thomas, New York City. Response: Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee, Ala. Address on Behalf of Bar, -- D. Macon Webster, Esq., New York City. Response: Hon. J. Madison Vance, New Orleans, La. Address on Behalf of Medical Profession, -- Dr. E. P. Roberts, New York City. Response: Dr. John R. Francis, Washington, D. C. (Each Speaker will be limited to ten minutes.) HEADQUARTERS Y.M.C.A. Rooms, 250 West 53rd Street OFFICERS BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS, President 28 Oak Street, Jersey City, N.J. J.C. NAPIER, 1st Vice President Nashville, Tenn. F.A. CHEW, 2nd " " Troy, New New York WALTER H. STOWERS, 3rd " " Detroit, Michigan MRS. Mary Church Terrell, 4th " " Washington, D.C. C.N. SELLER, 5th " " Iowa MRS. R.J. JEFFREY, 6th Rochester, New York W.H. LEWIS, 7th Boston, Massachusetts R.L. SMITH, 8th Texas W.S. SCARBOROUGH, 9th Wilberforce, Ohio CYRUS FIELD ADAMS, Recording Secretary Chicago, Ill. REV. L.G. Jordan Corresponding Secretary 726 W. Walnut street, Louisville, Kentucky WM. A. SINCLAIR, Assistant Secretary Philadelphia, Pa. JOHN W. THOMPSON, Treasurer Rochester, N.Y. BISHOP GEO. W. CLINTON, National Organizer Charlotte, N.C. REV. E.L. GILLIAM, Chaplain W.H. STEWART, Chairman Executive Committee T. THOMAS FORTUNE Chairman Central Committee Local Officers Dr. M. W. Gilbert, D.D., Chairman Dr. T. Wellington Henderson, First Vice Chairman Dr. J.H. McMullen, Second Vice Chairman Mr. Fred. R. Moore, Secretary Mr. R.L. Stokes, Assistant Secretary Mr. J.C. Thomas, Treasurer Directors of Bureaus 1. Legal—J. Douglas Wetmore, Jacksonville, Fla. 2. Education—Prof. H.T. Kealing, Philadelphia, Pa. 3. Literary—Mrs. Fannie B. Williams, Chicago, Ill. 4. Ecclesiastical—Rev. M.C.B. Mason, Cincinnati, Ohio. 5. Newspaper—R.W. Thompson, New Albany, Ind. 6. Anti-Lynching—Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. 7. Emigration—S. Joseph Brown, Iowa. 8. Vital Statistics—Dr. J.W. Ames, Detroit, Mich. 9. Business—Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee, Ala. THE MOORE PRINTING CO. 181 PEARL ST. NEW YORK Report of the Chairman of the Volunteer Committee on Free Lectures to the People appointed by the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, June 25th, 1904 201 Second Street, N. E. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30th, 1905. MR. A. T. STUART, Superintendent of Schools, SIR:—Reviewing the work of my Department for the initial year ending June 30th, 1905, the results are found to be very encouraging. The majority of the lectures were illustrated by stereopticon views; the average attendance was high, as shown by the statistics of attendance; the audiences as a rule were well behaved and intelligent; the instruction imparted was of a high order, as will be seen from the subjects of the lectures and the standing of the speakers whose services were secured. There were five lectures on Nature subjects; seven on History and Biography; nine on Science; thirty- two on Travel and Geography. The predominance of travel and cultural subjects is indicative of a first year's work. Next year an effort will be made to emphasize Science and History subjects, and to have the majority presented in courses of three, thus insuring continuity of treatment. It cannot always be said that instructors succeed in making learning so enticing that the fact has to be explained to their auditors that what seems like play is in reality serious work! But this is true in the case of FREE LECTURES TO THE PEOPLE; there is danger that some part of the large audiences may lose sight of the educational purpose in so entertaining a mode of instruction, therefore the educational aim of this Free Lecture Movement was repeatedly presented to the audiences, in order that their conscious cooperation with its underlying purport might dignify the work and increase its value to each individual hearer. To further emphasize the educational value, each lecturer was required to furnish a list of reference books on the subject of his lecture; and there were instituted desk libraries of reference books, available for use by the auditors, and selected with especial reference to the subjects presented at each lecture centre.* During the second term lists of reference books were printed and distributed among the audiences. Free Lectures to the People 1904-5. FIRST TERM AT THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL BUILDING Sixth Street and Virginia Avenue, Southwest On Tuesdays at 8 o'clock P.M. H. W. Wiley, Ph.D. Subject: "Feeding Preservative to Young Men." Mr. Henry Oldys. Subject: "Bird Notes." C. P. Fairman. Subject: "100 Miles on the Tow-path." Mr. Granville M. Hunt. Subject: "China." Prof. Ormond Stone. Subject: "The Sky We See." Barry Bulkley. Subject: "Yellowstone National Park." Mr. H. W. Wilson. Subject: "India, Its People and Temples." Mr. John P. Haylord. Subject: "Measuring the Earth." Mr. George O. Totten, Jr. Subject: "Spanish Architecture." Mrs. W. F. Crafts. Subject: "Jerusalem, Its Story." AT THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH F Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, Southwest On Wednesdays at 8 o'clock P.M. Dr. D. Percy Hickling. Subject: "First Aid to the Injured." *It is encouraging to note that the total loss of books amounted to only $1.30. 2 Mrs. L. J. Young-Withee. Subject: "Round the World in Forty Minutes." J. O. Spencer, Ph.D. Subject: "Problem of the Far East." Major Horace L. Piper. Subject: "Storm Warriors of the United States Life-saving Service." Mr. William L. Hall. Subject: "The Life of a Tree." Mr. H. A. Pressey. Subject: "The Water We Drink." President John Gordon, D.D. Subject: "Wars of the United States." Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr. Subject: "England." Dr. B. R. Slaughter. Subject: "Home Nursing." Dr. L. R. Klemm. Subject: "Marie Antoinette, Queen of France." AT THE M STREET HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING M Street, Between First Street and New Jersey Ave., Northwest On Fridays at 8 o'clock P.M. Rev. U. G. B. Pierce. Subject: "A Night in the Nether World." Max West, Ph. D. Subject: "The Making of a Million Americans in Porto Rico." Mr. Charles F. Warren. Subject: "Canada." Howard L. Hodgkins, Ph. D. Subject: "Light." Mr. B. H. Warner. Subject: "Mexico." Mr. Chas. F. Warren. Subject: "Mexico." Mr. George H. Horton. Subject: "Russia and Japan." Rev. John Gordon. Subject: "Wars of the United States." Mr. John W. Titcomb. Subject: "South America." Mr. John Hitz. Subject: "Switzerland." EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL- Second Term. Fridays at 8 o'clock P.M. Rev. U. G. B. Pierce. Subject: "Arizona Wonderland." Prof. Howard L. Hodgkins, Professor of Physics of the George Washington University. Subject: "Light." Major Horace L. Piper, Assistant General Superintendent Life-saving Service. Subject: "Twenty Years in the Lifesaving Service." Prof. N. Floyd Featherstone. Subject: "Tone and Tone-producing Qualities." Rev. John Van Shaick, Jr. Subject: "Vacation Days in Scotland." 3 Prof. J. Howard Gore, Ph.D., Department of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University. Subject: "Holland's War With the Sea." J. Frank Hogan, of the Washington Bar. Subject: "From the Nation's Capital to and Through the Philippine Archipelago." Col. John McElroy, Past Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Subject: "Gateways of the World." Rev. Wm. R. Turner. Subject: "Scotland." Capt. George A. Van Smith, late political editor of the St. Paul Globe. Subject: "The Making of a Newspaper." Charles F. Nesbit. Subject: "City Gardens." Dr. B. Rosalie Slaughter. Subject: "Ceylon and Its People." J. O. Spencer, Ph.D., President of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md. Subject: "Russia and Japan." Rev. S. M. Newman, D.D. Subject: "Venice." THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Fridays at 8 o'clock P.M. W. H. H. Smith. Subject: "Our New Navy." Rev. D. W. Skellinger. Subject: "Rips in the Rockies." Gen. George B. Loud. Subject: "The Stars and Stripes." Hon. I. E. Rider, M.C. Subject: "Duties and Responsibilities of Citizenship." Rev. S. M. Newman, D.D. Subject: "Venice." Col. J. A. Goulden, M.C. Subject: "Gettysburg's Famous Battlefield." William L. Hall, Esq, of the Bureau of Forestry. Subject: "The Life of a Tree." Rev. U. G. B. Pierce. Subject: "The Wonderland of Arizona." G. O. Totten, Jr., of the International Institute of Architects. Subject: "Spanish Architecture." Prof. Wilbur L. Davison, President of the International Chautauqua Alliance. Subject: "In and About Shakespeare's Home." Charles S. Nesbit, of the City Gardens Association. Subject: "City Gardens." Prof. J. Howard Gore, Ph.D. Subject: "Beauties and Wonders of the Arctics." SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH Thursdays at 8 o'clock P.M. Barry Bulkley, secretary of the Business Men's Association. Subject: "The Yellowstone Park." 4 Hon. John Hitz, ex-Consul of Switzerland at Washington. Subject: "An Evening With the Swiss." Gen. George B. Loud. Subject: "The Stars and Stripes." Mr. James A. Sample, Chief of the Division of Issue, Treasury Department. Subject: "What I Saw in Porto Rico." J. O. Spencer, Ph. D., President of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md. Subject: "Russian and Japan." Dr. John Gordon, President of Howard University. Subject: "Florence and Its Art Treasures." Prof. Kelley Miller. Subject: "The Drift and Tendency of the Negro Population." Capt. George Anson Van Smith. Subject: "The Making of a Newspaper." Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, honorary President of the National Association of Colored Women. Subject: "Abroad at the Women's Congress." Hon. Ira E. Rider, M.C. Subject: "Citizenship." Statistics of Attendance FIRST TERM Term Attendance 6,914 Number of Lectures 30 Average Attendance 231 SECOND TERM Term Attendance 8,874 Number of Lectures 36 Average Attendance 247 TOTAL Total Attendance 15,788 Number of Lectures 66 Average Attendance 239 Much expense of administration was met privately and the work of general supervision was volunteer, so that the specific Congressional appropriation of $1,500 was enabled to supply lectures for 15,788 persons, or about one-fortieth of the entire population of the District of Columbia, at an annual 5 cost of less than then cents per capita. The results are gratifying, as evinced by numerous letters from pleased members among the auditors. It seems fitting to incorporate into this first report an expression of feeling universally shared, that of regret for the death of two men who believed in the possibility of a success which has now been demonstrated - General H. V. Boynton and Major Horace L. Piper. General Boynton long anticipated the introduction of this form of adult instruction in connection with the Schools of the District, and was its strongest advocate; Major Piper was a stanch friend of the move- ment, which he characterized in a letter as "noble work." Belief in those whom Lincoln delighted to call "the plain people," and belief in their appreciation of the best in human knowledge and experience when that best is popularly presented to them by speakers of distinction, - such belief, characteristic of both men, seems to have been justified by the large and attentive audiences of which this report gives some account. Very respectfully, (Signed) A. S. Gitterman, A. M. Chairman Volunteer Committee on FREE LECTURES TO THE PEOPLE. 6 Preserve for Reference Rochester Political Equality Club 1904 1905 Members and friends of Political Equality are cordially invited to all meetings Officers Honorary Presidents Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf Mary S. Anthony President Miss Mabel A. Clark Hollenbeck and Norton Streets First Vice President Mrs. Georgia F. Rainsford 195 Saratoga Avenue Second Vice President Dr. Estella Gamble-Holdren 70 South Union Street Recording Secretary Dr. Lillian B. Daily 531 Monroe Avenue Corresponding Secretary Miss Emogene L. Dewey 54 Gibbs Street Financial Secretary Mrs. Emma B. Sweet 294 Alexander St., or Security Trust Co. Treasurer Mrs. Florence D. Alexander 25 Reynolds Street Auditors Mrs. Louise Brayer Miss Harriet L. Brewer Chairmen of Standing Committees Foreign Affairs - Home Affairs Dr. Estella Gamble-Holdren 70 South Union Street Program Mrs. Florence D. Alexander 25 Reynolds Street Lectures Mrs. Emma B. Sweet 294 Alexander St., or Security Trust Co. Program Thursday evening, October 20 eight o'clock ANNUAL RECEPTION. With Mr. and Mrs. James Sargent, 98 East Avenue. Report of State Convention, and reminiscences of visit to Berlin International Council of Women. Committee: Mrs. John Force, Mrs. Mary Thayer Sanford, Mrs. E. M. Perry Thursday evening, November 17 eight o'clock BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. With Mrs. Sarah L. Willis, 93 Plymouth Avenue. Paper written by Mrs. Stanton on her Seventieth birthday. "Pleasures of Old Age," read by Mrs. Mary Moore Hoyt. Committee: Mrs. Jessie Post Baulch, Mrs. Georgie Bemish, Mrs. Jeanette R. Leavitt Sunday evening, November 20 eight o'clock MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY, New York. Secretary of National Consumers' League. Subject: "The Chil- dren Whose Labor Clothes and Feeds Us" Sunday evening, December 18 eight o'clock MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Washington, D.C. Subject: "Uncle Sam and the Sons of Ham" (In regard to lectures see note on last page) Sunday evening, January 8 eight o'clock MRS. LUCIA AMES MEAD, Boston, Subject: "I Time of Peace Prepare for—What?" Wednesday evening, February 15 eight o'clock BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY With Rev. W. C. and Mrs. M. T. L. Gannett, 15 Sibley Place. Committee: Mr. and Mrs. Gannett, Mrs. S. C. Blackall, Mrs. W. A. Montgomery Thursday evening, March 16 eight o'clock With Mr. and Mrs. George D. Forsyth, 22 Atkinson Street. "The Race Question in Our Midst." Committee: Mrs. Georgia Rainsford, Mrs. Charles Mann Plymouth Avenue car Thursday afternoon, April 20 three o'clock BUSINESS MEETING. Reynolds Library Thursday afternoon, May 18 three o'clock ANNUAL MEETING. Election of Officers. At the home of the President, Miss Mabel A. Clark, Hollenbeck and Norton Streets Clinton Avenue car to end of route, then one block west and one block north. The place of holding the lectures will be announced later. The primary object of this course is to make converts to the cause of Political Equality, and it is hoped that sufficient money will be subscribed in advance so that no admission need be charged. How much will YOU give? CHARLES MANN PRINTING CO. "DEEDS, NOT WORDS" FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION ——OF THE—— OHIO STATE FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS K. of P. Hall, Corner Second and Jefferson Streets, DAYTON, OHIO JULY 6 and 7, 1905. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING JULY 5. 2 to 4 P. M. MISS HALLIE Q. BROWN, Chairman. [*Delivered an address July 5— Stayed with Paul Dunbar/*] Thursday, July 6. Morning Session--8 O'Clock. Devotional Exercises--Mrs. ARIA SELLERS, Chaplain. Roll-Call. Appointment of Committees. New Clubs Welcomed. Report of Literary Clubs. Report of Committee on Credentials. Miscellaneous. Afternoon Session--1:30 O'Clock. HOME LIFE. Discussion--"Value of Art Needlework in Our Homes." Opened by Mrs. J. E. RICHARDSON, followed by Delegates of the Art Embroidery Club. " " Fine Needlework Exhibit. MUSIC. Paper--The Child--Its Threefold Nature".....Mrs. ANNA J. COLEMAN Discussion--"What We Owe the Child." Members of Mothers' Clubs. Instrumental Solo (by a child)......RITA ELOISE HIGGINS Paper--"Kindergarten".....Miss ALICE GRANDISON ROUND TABLE. "City Federations".....By their Presidents Night Session--8 O'Clock. MUSIC Club Women's Welcome.....Mrs. LUGENIA FOSTON Citizens' Welcome.....Colonel E. T. SHERMAN Response.....First Vice President Mrs. HATTIE MORIN Violin Solo.....Miss BESSIE RAMEY Annual Address of the President.....Mrs. CARRIE W. CLIFFORD Vocal Solo.....Miss HELEN B. MUMFORD Friday, July 7. Morning Session--9 O'Clock. Devotional Exercises--Mrs. ARIA SELLERS, Chaplain. Reports of Clubs--Charity, Temperance, Missionary, Mothers', Embroidery. Paper--"The Power of Woman".....Mrs. ELIZABETH WILLIAMS Reports of Committees and Officers-- Ways and Means, Business League. Corresponding Secretary, Statistical Clerk, State Organizer, Treasurer, Superintendent of Music. Discussion....."Our Business Women".....Mrs. ROSA L. MOORMAN "Business Hints".....Mrs. CHARLOTTE ROBINSON .....Mrs. D. L. BUTLER Annual Election of Officers. Afternoon Session--1:30 O'Clock Paper--"The Literary Outlook".....Mrs. SARAH G. JONES, Chairman Department of Literature. General Discussion--"Literary Field".....Delegates of Literary Clubs Instrumental Solo......Mrs.DOVIE CLARKE ROUND TABLE "New Light on Our State Federation Work".....By Members of the Convention--Mrs. SUSIE I. SHORTER, Conductor. Closing Session--8 P. M. MUSIC "America".....Members of the Convention Violin Solo.....Mrs. GRAFTON STEWART Accompanist--Mrs. BELLE MILTON. Lecture--"The Nation's Foe--Intemperance".....Miss HALLIE Q. BROWN Instrumental Solo.....Mrs. BELLE MILTON Miscellaneous. Adjournment. Officers of the Ohio State Federation. Mrs. CARRIE W. CLIFFORD, President. Mrs. HATTIE MORIN, First Vice President. Mrs. ALICE MAXEY, Second Vice President. Miss ---- DOWDY, Third Vice President. Mrs. ELLA V. CLARK, Recording Secreta Mrs. JEWLIA HIGGINS, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. S. E. HUFFMAN, Treasurer. Mrs. ARIA SELLERS, Chaplain. Mrs. MINNIE MOORE WATERS, Organizer. Mrs. E. COLLINS, Superintendent of Mus APPOINTMENTS. Miss HALLIE Q. BROWN, Chairman Executive Board. Mrs. FLORENCE LINDSAY, Chairman Ways and Means Com. Mrs. HENRY LINDEN, Chairman Business League. Mrs. SARAH G. JONES, Chairman Department of Literature. Mrs. J. E. RICHARDSON, Chairman Department of Craf and Arts. Mrs. DOVIE CLARKE, Statistical Clerk. Committees on Entertainment of Convention Committee of Arrangements Miss EVA O. ANDERSON, Chairman; Mrs. LAURA CHAMBERS, Mrs. AMANDA ANDERSON, Mrs. JANE LEWIS, Mrs. AMANDA FRIEND. Committee on Reception. Mrs. EMMA SHERMAN, Chairman; Mrs. CHARLOTTE STEWART, Mrs. ELIZA BOOTH. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY Atlanta, Ga. Rev. Horace Bumstead, D. D., President. Miss Frances B. Clemmer, Local Secretary. The following news item is hereby communicated to a select number of journals with the request that it be printed, in whole or in part, in the interest of the philanthropic and patriotic work which Atlanta University is doing for the Freedmen of the South. [*1903*] The Eighth Atlanta Conference will assemble May 26, at Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. The subject for consideration will be "The Negro Church," which will include a study of the moral and religious condition of the Negroes. Reports are being received from nearly all the states of the Union— from bishops and general officers, and from men of affairs in all sections. The conference will be addressed by the Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, the eminent president of the American Missionary Association, Professor Kelly Miller of Howard University, a careful student; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, former president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the Rev. C. B. Wilmer, rector of St. Luke's Church, Atlanta. The Episcopal Bishop of Georgia and many of the officers of other churches are expected to be present. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.