The Freeman
Saturday, July 7, 1906
Indianapolis, Indiana
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FIND ENCLOSED TWO DOLLARS FOR MY ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE WORLD'S BEST NEGRO JOURNAL.--C. H. PLUMMER, President of the I. I. P. D. R. S. UNIONTOWN, PA
INDIANAPOLIS
JUL 7 1906
PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND ETHIOPIA
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Public Library 1-06
A NATIONAL
ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER
VOLUME XI X
NUMBER 27
THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW
ROOSEVELT'S GREATNESS IS CLEARLY ESTABLISHED
HIS NOBLE WORKS BEAR FRUIT
Rapid Tendency Toward Centralization Satisfactory to the Negro.--Dr. Washington at Wilber force.--Good Smartians Meet.
Staff Correspondence.
Theodore Roosevelt is the world's greatest constructive statesman! This has been clearly established by his masterly supervision of the vital issues that have been pending in the Congress that has just adjourned, and by the far-reaching results obtained by him in the way of legislation of vast benefit to the people.
The railroad rate bill, the pure food bill, the meat inspection phase of the agricultural appropriation bill, the statehood bill, the immigration bill, employers' liability bill, reform of the consuar service—all enacted into salutary laws, leaning toward the masses, rather than to the favored classes—bear the marks of the executive's genius for true stewardship, and they well forever stand as monuments to his matchless administration. At no period since the foundation of this magnificent government of our have we had in the White House a man in whom the plain people have reposed so large a measure of confidence, irrespective of partisan considerations, as they in Mr. Roosevelt. Let him smash precedents if he will; let him ignore tradition, if it stands in the path of the popular welfare; let him exhaust the presidential preerogative as a promoter of remedial legislation, if he deems it necessary to fulfill the solemn pledges made by his party to those who conferred upon it the laurel of power.
Let him follow the bent of his own patriotic, fearless, frank and expansive mind, and the people will follow him, will hild up his hands to the end of the chapter. They have done so in the past, they will continue to do so in the future. They believe in the honesty, the courage and the wisdom of President Roosevelt as they believe in no other man in public life today. He is trusted because his noble works have borne fruit.
Of course, there are captious critics who express a fear that his energy in directing legislation may establish a dangerous precedent, and tend to obliterate the safety line between the functions of the executive and Congress. Even admitting that Mr. Roosevelt's influence has been felt only for good, they are apprehensive that the toleration of any encroachment of the White House upon the free action of the Capitol might some time be used by a bad president to work evil to the body politic. There is nothing in such talk, as far as healthy-minded Americans are concerned. The thoughtful citizen has a happy faculty of crossing bridges only as he comes to them, and when he perceives a president or anybody else overstepping the bounds of propriety in legislation or proclamation, to the detriment of the republic, it will not take long for public sentiment to get in its deadly work and head him off. Whatever the constitutional restrictions on the chief executive may be, the people hold the president responsible for the good or the evil that befalls the nation, and if he would live up to the expectations of those who gave him his commission, he need not do any cheese-paring as to functions or courtesies when the fundamental policies underlying his ad-
ministration are at stake. In the parlance of the street, it is up to him to "make good." If anybody's toes have been trampled on while Theodore Roosevelt has been "making good" during this session of Congress, so much the worse for the toes that knew no better than to get in the way. With us, methods are mere means to an end. Results are what is wanted—and results we must have—or know the reason why.
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To the Negro citizen the most satisfactory result that has come out of the first session of the 59th Congress is the rapid tendency toward centralization—the advanced ground taken toward a recognition of the power of the federal government to regulate much that has previously been guarded so jealously as an inalienable function of the state. We have always contended that this American republic is a nation—not a loosely-jointed consideration of independent principalities, beyond the reach or control of any central governing influence, to respect or ignore the national will at their pleasure. It is universally conceded that the one great weakness in our governmental fabric, since the adoption of our comprising constitution by the well-meaning founders of the republic, has been the absorb idolatry of the so-called "states' rights," in opposition to national sovereignty. A bloody war was fought to afinish on the subject, and the backwardness of the south to this day in taking on the prevailing prosperity of the country at large, is mainly due to its worship of this stuffed fetish of the past, and its practical refusal to accept the results of the terrible civil war, which sought to settle for all time, among other things, the pre-eminence, within certain reasonable limitations, of the nation over the state. We do not believe in "paternalism,"—we do not argue that the government should do all and be all. We do not suggest the relinquishment by the state of any inherent civic privilege now enjoyed, touching autonomy in affairs strictly local. But we do most emphatically believe that if any state is negligent of the constitutional rights of the people within its borders—if it permits them to be robbed of their natural heritage of protection in the courts of justice, if it connives with common carriers in denying to any particular class the equal accommodations to which they are entitled by virtue of the payment tendered, if it fails to preserve order and encourages the mobocrat to usurp the functions of the law, if it persistently and criminally sets aside the organic principles of a free government to gratify the venal populace, if it conspires to shield the scroundrels who deny to intelligent and property-owing citizens the privilege of participating in the selection of public servants, and winks at the unspeakable curs who despoil defenseless women without let or hindrance,—when a state is guilty of these sins of omission and commission, it is not only the right, but it is the bounden duty of the general government to step in, and exert the full strength of its army, navy and loyal citizenry to maintain the sacred doctrines laid down in our national Bill of Rights and to uphold the integrity of the Federal Constitution, both in letter and in spirit. The Negro has faith in the general government in the matter of enforcement of the law, but he has small confidence in the disposition of certain states to protest the race in the enjoyment of his ordinary civil privileges, such as are guaranteed to other classes of citizens. "Jim crow" restrictions, denial of suffrage, meagerness of legal protection when accused of crime, and the failure to respect our property rights are all local shortcomings, when we are allowed to seek relief, it
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906.
HIS INITIAL BOW.
JANE MOSELEY
THAYWOOD
The Negro owns and manages an elegantly equipped steamer which has been licensed by the government to carry excursions on the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River.
is usually to be had only at the hands of the federal authorities, who to a very large extent, are immune from local prejudices and the narrow notions of the inhabitants of the centralization. If we could have our way, foot of American soil would be subject to the police power of the general government, if local discrimination could be shown by reliable evidence, for the federal constitution is a bigger institution—or ought to be—than any piece of paper a bigoted local community might see fit to foist upon the classes whom they wish to hold under subjection, in contravention of the great charter of the land. If President Roosevelt finds it necessary to invoke extraordinary powers to protect the shippers from discrimination to regulate immigration, to insure pure food for the people, to frame a state, and to establish uniformity in the administration of statutes which look to the good of white citizens primarily, is it not all the more necessary that we sustain his heroic policy with the hope that with the gradual extension of the federal authority, we may be able to appeal more and more successfully to its generosity for the rights that the states withhold. We welcome the centralization of power at the capital of the nation. National solidarity under just laws and honest administration, is national strength.
The address of Dr. Booker T. Washington at the Golden Jubilee of Wilberforce was notable for many good suggestions, but none of them went closer to the marrow of the situation than that which counseled the consolidation of the three great Methodist
organizations into one compact, sympathetic whole. He pointed out with graphic clearness the distinct advantages in numbers, in economy of administration, in increased effectiveness in spreading the Word of Christ, broader opportunities for uplifting the moral status of the masses, in relieving the perplexities of half-starved ministers by removing the friction of opposing churches in small communities, and in lightening the burdens of the people who are driven to their wits' ends to support these rival organizations in many places where one church of the Methodist persuasion would satisfy all reasonable demands. As he well says, there are no radical differences in creed, doctrines or discipline to adjust. The consolidation could easily be brought about within a few years by mutual concessions as to property and territory. The problem of officers need not create any widespread disagreements. The combine could use every Bishop and every general officer now in the service and pay the same salaries now in vogue by simply extending the boundaries of the work and making those of individual superintendence smaller, bringing the Bishop and heads of departments into much closer communion than is now possible. A worldwide denomination, with 1,500,000 members, working to acommon end, under a comprehensive system, with local churches distributed according to local needs, would be far more powerful in solving the problem of racial advancement than three scattered struggling and expensively administered establishments now painfully eking out an existence. This is an age of vast combinations and the
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church in the merciless conflict for the foreground. This idea has been a hobby with ye scribe for lo these many years, and it is especially gratifying to see our pet notion given such an impetus on such a timely occasion and by so eminent and convincing a force in our religious, and social and educational life as Dr. Washington. The applause which the suggestion evoked attested its popularity with the elements most deeply affected, by the changes it would bring about. A Greater Methodist church is a possibility if somebody in each branch will but take the initiative and champion the proposition as it deserves to be championed. Editors H. T. Johnson, C. C. Clement and R. T. Brown should start off with a ringing editorial endorsement in the official organs, and then the Bishops, general officers, presiding elders, ministers and laymen can take up the refrain and sing all along the way. Dr. Washington's Wilberforce speech was worthy of the man and of the sacred occasion which inspired it. Let us hope that it will bear the fruit that such a promising three should be expected to yield.
Word reaches us that Bishop Walters and the magnates of the Naitnoal Afra-American Council have decided to hold the ninth annual session of that organization in Washington, in conjunction with the Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, as urged in our last letter. This is as it should be and the results will no doubt be all the more helpful under this arrangement than had the capacity and ability of the Negro to (continued on page four.)
PROGRESS OF UNDERTAKERS
COLORED ASSOCIATION HELD
AT LOUISVILLE
THEIR AIMS STRONGLY PUTFORTH
Ability of the Negro to Give First- class Service.--Widows of the Pioneer Undertakers Conduo Business Successfully.
The state of Kentucky has the only organized body of colored undertakers. Their recent association held in Louisville will be long remembered by the gentlemen of gloomy conscience. Their aims were strongly set forth with many brilliant addresses, and the chief good came by hearing and seeing daily demonstrations upon a cadever by Allice Melton, an embalming demonstrator of National reputation. The general success of the meeting was due to the local committee and the secretary, A. B. McAfee. Louisville has ten thriving undertakers located in different sections of the city. J. H. Taylor and Wm. Watson were the pioneer undertakers of Louisville and through these lamented gletlemen the gained the support and confidence of the people and by politeness, ability and test built up a large patronage and made it possible for others to follow in their steps. J. H. Taylor died several years ago but left his business well established. His sons being likewise summoned dby death, Mrs. Nora B. Taylor became the proprietoress. This being the oldest establishment in the city and with able management of Abe Meaux, it does a fine business and is destined to long life. Wm. Watson, like Mr. Taylor, died and left his business on a firm bases. He was universally admired and esteemed in business circles. Mrs. William Watson is conducting the business and is receiving the hearty support from the community at large. The business conducted on the same bases as that of her husband. Their business is the largest patronized in the city. J. H. Hathaway is another of the enterprising undertakers. His liberality and public spirit is winning the people of all classes. He is polite, courteous and gentlemanly and is growing and receiving trade from both lodges and church people. He is treasurer of the state association. The most rapid and successful undertaker in so few of years is George Woolridge. He has kept apace with the progress of the business and put into his all the latest and up-to-date styles including the most modern office in the city. He is helping to draw quite a deal of trade that formerly was given white undertakers. T. H. Hankins recently launched into the undertaker business and by his long years of business experience along other lines mixed with his popularity he is conducting a most successful establishment. He is deacon of a church and well known among christian people and a good deal of patronage is received from them. The firm of R. R. Smith shares a honored distinction. Mr. Smith having died in 1905, his widow, Mr. Mrs. R. R. Smith, has been the conductress. She has been encouraged by a reality patronage of the whole people of Louisville. R. R. Curl is her manager and the business is marked by extreme courtesy and piliteness and on such plans the business is a success. One of the youngest undertakers is Percy Lively, located on one of the fashionable streets in the city. He is making a brilliant showing for the race and daily demonstrating the be of the first class service on all
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RACE CLEANINGS
The Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company, of Memphis, Senn., commenced business June 18. Special attention is given to accounts of lodges and churches.
In order to wipe out a mortgage debt of $3,200, the board of trustees of the State Home for Colored Aged and Orphans, located in Irvington, N. J., has sent out about 2,000 appeals to individuals and churches for help.
The Garnes Drug Company, of Memphis, Teun., has completed arrangements for the opening of its store August 15. The store is under the management of Dr. E. W. Barnes. Drs Irving and Henderson are among the incorporators.
Company L, Eighth Infantry of the National Illinois Guard stationed at Jacksonville, on invitation of the white G. A. R. of that city, was an escort in the grand parade and participants in the memorial exercises held at the church and cemetery Decoration Day. On special request an exhibition was given after the exercises. This company is one of the best and has the finest armory in the State. Captain Kenniebrew, officer in charge is highly respected by all. The company will be in camp July 14 to 22
THE LEAVEN OF THE SHOOLS.
Miss Wilma Pettiford, daughter of Banker W. R Pettiford of Birmingham, Ala., has been taking a course at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
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The Utica (Miss.) Industrial School expects to operate its brick plant next school term, and will enlarge the shops in which carpentry, blacksmithing and industries are carried on.
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Miss Gilberta F. Wallace, an Afro-American girl, graduated last week from the High School of Binghamton at the head of a class of thirty-six white students, delivering the valedictory address.
Elmer A. Carter, a 16-year old Afro-
American, a junior in the High School
at Gloversville, N. Y., won the Littauer
prize of $50 in gold in the oratorical
contest, over four contestants, all white.
His theme was "The Great Heritage or
The American Negro."
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Miss May Coleman, aged eighteen, is
the first colored graduate in many years
from the High School at Milwaukee.
Wis. She finished from the com-
mercial branch, and had an important part
on the commencement program June
21, 1906.
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THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER
J. A. Lankford, the noted architect and builder, who has made himself famous as a master mechanic in the Coleman Cotton Mills and installing machinery plants in many of the Industrial Schools in the South, the designer and builder of the great True Reformer Hall at Washington, D C., and the promoter and organizer of the Washington Colored Men's Business League, has been appointed commisster general of the Dist. lot of Columbia for the Negro Development and Exposition Company for the Jamestown Exposition.
For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, a Negro, Elbert A. Robinson, is the plaintiff in a case involving property rights: Robinson is suing the American Car Company and the Chicago Railway Company for $10,000,000 for the infringement of a patent granted in 1997, entitled "An improved method in casting composite and other wheels," of which he is the owner. It is claimed that this method reduced the cost of making car wheels from $65 to $9.
A commitee for the improvement of the industrial condition of the Negro in New York has been organized. It is the outgrowth of a series of meetings which have been held during the past two months. The plan of work is to approach the problems of the commu-
Rev. James Monroe Holt of Frankfort, Ky., Hubbard Pendleton Alexander, Howard's Creek, Ky., and Joseph Samuel King, Columbia, Ky., were this year's graduates from Central Law School, Louisville, Ky., of which Hon. Albert S. White is dean.
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A note from Amerlous, Ga., says that during the past year sixty-one public schools were operated in Summit county with a total scholarship enrollment of 3 852 pupils. Of this number 1,007 were white children and 2,845 colored children, the colored children predominating by nearly three to one. This statement does not include the Amerlous public schools where the attendance is 1,500 and nearly evenly divided.
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At the eighth annual commencement of the Colored Normal School of Louisville, Ky., diplomas were awarded to the following persons by Dr. E. J. Buechel, president of the Louisville School Bard: George W. Adams, Alberta E. Barry, Alee H Carroll. Lula Y. Hall, Corinne O. Kalfus, Plercy F. Kester, Lula H. Swindler, Carrie B. Warren, Henrietta Warren, Anna S. Wallace and Hattle McWilson.
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nity life of the colored people of a great city with sanity and spirit and along subb lines as will enlist co-operation in quarters which hitherto have acted independently of each other. William Jay Schieffeln is president of the committee and the industrial classes have been started.
Negroes can become Elks and wear an Elks' badge, according to the unani mons decision of the justice of the court of special sessions June 21 at New York, in the trial of Oldridge R. Johnson, who was prosecuted in a test case brought by the white elks. The
SOME MEN WHO AD
SOME MEN WHO ARE "DOING THINGS."
PETER B. BROWN
WILLIAM TECUMSEH VERNON,
New Register of the United States Treasury.
Register W. T. Vernon will be identified with the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church during his sojourn in Washington.
Edward Elmore Brook has been re-elected exalted ruler by the Brooklyn, N. Y., lodge No. 32 Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
William Henry Lewis, assistant U. S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, is in Virginia with the hope of finding relief from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism.
College at College, Ga. time. Prof. Wright that the students of he ad a southern speaker the passage of the XV colossal blunder.
Consul W. H. Hun will visit this country wife, who came over be present at the wed Miss Harriet A. Gibb Consul and Mrs. Hun Madagascar together heated term.
C. M. Battey, the photographer, has opened a new and fashionable studio in New York City. He is, probably, the best known colored photographer in the country, and recently had the honor of photographing the interlors of President Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay and the members of his family.
Prof. Richard R. Wright has been elected president of the Georgia State
IN THE REALM OF EDUCATION.
IN THE REALM OF EDUCATION.
Mrs. Laura Terrell Jones, formerly of the Washington, D. C., schools is now a valued attache of the Tuskegee Institute.
Miss Hallie Anderson has achieved an enviable success as the leader of the largest and best orchestras in New York City, and as an eminent and efficient instructor of the piano and violin.
Louisville has a new poet. His name is Charles E. Gilbert a student of the Eastern School, and the son of W. R. Gilbert, a prominent church worker in the city.
Ex-Register of the Treasury J. W. Lyons has completed a round of commencement dates in the South, and has begun a lecture tour covering a goodly portion of the Middle West.
Some of the best brick masonry work in Greensboro, Ala., is done by students formerly of Tuskegee. Horace Griffin now commands $5 00 per day, and Robert Rhodes receives from $3 00 to $4 00 per day. Industrial education pays.
During the summer as Tuskegee 414 young men and 185 young women will be retained on the school grounds to carry on the important operations of the school. Eighty teachers will remain to direct the students and otherwise serve the institution in divers ways.
The Utica (Miss.) Normal and Industrial Institute, W. H. Holtzclaw, principal has developed a school, as an off-
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action was brought under a section of the Penal Code, which makes it a misdemeanor to wrongfully wear the button of any order. It was conceded that Johnson is an Elk and wore the button submitted to the court in evidence. The title of the white Elks society is the "Benevolent Order of Elks of the United States" and the button is inscribed "B.P. O. E." The Negro solemty is known as the "Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World," and the button is the same as the white Elks, the "I." and "W" of the first and last words being lost in the antlers.
RE "DOING THINGS."
College at College, Ga, for the fifteenth time. Prof. Wright denies the report that the students of his school applauded a southern speaker who pronounced the passage of the XVth Amendment a colossal blunder.
Consul W. H. Hunt of Madagascar will visit this country soon to join his wife, who came over some time ago to be present at the wedding of her sister, Miss Harriet A. Gibbs, at Washington. Consul and Mrs. Hunt will return to Madagascar together at the close of the heated term.
Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, envoy of the Republic of Liberia to France, is one of the ablest colored men. He has rendered distinguished service to his race both in Liberia and in the British West African colonies. The special object of his mission in France is connected with the delimitation of the frontiers between Liberia and French territory. French territory touches Liberia on two sides and with British, nearly surrounds the Republic.
shoot of Tuskegee, that in eight years owns a plant valued at $30 000, and is free from debt. The school had 410 students this year, operated 16 industries, and keeps up its annual expense of $12,000.
Messrs R. C. Bruce, director: T E Owens, J E Owens, J W Whitaker, J. W Hubert, Booker T. Washington, Jr. E Davidson Washington, and Misses Sarah Hunt and Clara B. Coy constitute the summer faculty at Tuskegee Institute for the benefit of such of the 549 students on the grounds that may wish during the vacation.
The Louisville Teachers' Institute has elected the following officers for the next school year: President W. D. Thomas; vice-president, Miss Georgia G. Moore, secretary, Miss Mary V. Hicks; treasurer, Miss Jessie R. Carter. W. Pratt Annis, whose administration for the current year has been uniformly successful, declined re election.
Dr. E. Elliott Rawlins graduated recently from the Long Island College Hospital, New York, being the only Afrc-American student in a class of fifty-seven who received the degree of medicine. He was assigned to the staff of the dispensary of the hospital and made assistant in the diseases of children at St. David's Fresh Air Home at White Pains, N. J.
Tuskegee had eighty-eight graduates this year, but issued 181 certificates, some of the graduates receiving more than one industrial certificate. Five certificates were awarded to graduates from the Phelps Hall Training School
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two of whom were from South Africa Hon. N. H. Alexander, receiver of public money, Montgomery' Als., delivered an inspiring commencement address. Roscoe Conkling Bruce added materially to his laurels as an orator and thinker by his well-tempered Decoration Day address at Harvard College He told some unpalatable truths, but he showed, how the disagreeable phas s of our race may be eliminated by education, moral culture and the acquisition of money. He also spoke at Orange, N. J., where he was tendered an elaborate banquet.
The colored children of Louisville are to have a new public school this fall. A fitf thousand building is now in course of erection near the corner of Floyd and Pearl streets, to replace the old building on Main street which has been sold to a manufacturing firm. The new structure is located nearer the center of the district to be served, and will be much larger and better equipped in every way than the one vacated. S. B, Taylor. an enterprising and thoroughly competent educator, is principal.
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Teachers for the schools of New Albany have been elected as follows: Scribner High School, R. A. Roberts, and John A. Hodge: Second Street, D. S Maxwell and Miss Lila D Rckman; West Union M. W. Sparks and Miss Ella Rickman; Division Street, principalship not filled; Miss Maggie B. Sterrett, assistant. For the vacancy at Division Street, the names of R L. Anthony, of Vincennes, W, E. Shaw of Atkinson College, Madisonville, Ky., and Thomas H. Reynolds, of the State University at Bloomington, Ind., are under consideration.
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Rav G. H Shaffer, of Indianapolis, was offered the presidency of Western University at Qindaro, Kansas, of which he a trustee and director, but declined it, whereupon the Board reelected Dr. W. T. Vernon and gave him an indefinite leave of absence to perform the duties of Register of Treasury. This is a gracious and proper action and is in line with the course of Cornell University when president Schurmann went to the Philippines as commissioner, and with that of the University of Michigan when President Angell was sent as minister to Turkey: Western University does well to hold on to Dr. Vernon. Prof. Shalton French, of Sedalla, Mo., has been installed as acting president.
EVENTS AT THE FALLS CITY
EVENTS AT THE FALLS CITY
Louisville, Ky., Special.
Rev. D. Webster Davis spoke to a large gathering of Negroes at Masonic Theater on last Tuesday night. He was here in the interest of the Y. M. C. A. Building fund under the personal direction of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. Miss Burroughs has been extremely fortunate in the selection of the men who have come here at her request and Rev. D. Webster Davis is no exception to this rule. His subject "Jim Crow's Search of the Promise Land" was handled in a masterly way and never has an audience so thoroughly appreciated a speaker's oratory, wit, humor, music and poetry as did the one at Masonic Theater. Mr. Davis is extremely dramatic and his description of the Negro's bravery at San Juan Hill brought down thunderous applause. He told of the different nicknames of other races and he related all the nicknames applied to the Negro race, giving the history of each and discussed fully the "Jim Crow" Negro. He told of the Negro's religious liberty, his special gifts, his progress along all lines and his determination to be as high in the scale of civilization as any other race which would in due time give him a reserved seat in the Promise Land. Throughout his whole address he was warmly applauded and in one moment could bring tears of laughter, the next tears of joy and then of sorrow. When through, he was given the Chauantqua salute and was clapped so heartily that he was forced to return. Mr. Davis payed a high tribute to Miss Burroughs as the commissioned leader of the Baptist women of America. There was also a splendid musical program with Miss B. Mate Boyd of Jacksonville, Il., soloist. A neat sum was realized for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A.
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The local business met's league will be called to order by Pres. Sam'l Jordan next week. Every business man in the city will be requested to attend. C. B Lewis has been invited to speak on the business men of the South he has met. Deletes will be elected to attend the National Negro Business Men's League.
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Home Coming Week was unusually gay. There were visitors from all over the country and the Kentuckians were very jubilant over their comers. The lovely girls with opened hearted hospitality and the chivalrous gentlemen were ever on the alert to make it pleasant for all. The banquet of the State Undertakers Association was the social feature of the Home Coming Week.
Lawyer I. E. Black made an address before the white delegates of the National Home of Children's Society in which he said the city should employ Negro truan officers to help to increase attendance of colored schools.
C. B. LEWIS.
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THE CHUTES.
Chicago's Famous Water Park Fun nishes New Sensations.
No more wonderful pleasure resort exists than Chicago's famous water park, "The Chutes." Its fame is international. This season it offers two sensations which have set the big city agog. One is "Elter," the Beautiful Mystery of the Lake," and the other King Humboldt's Royal Italian Band, led by Maestro Francesco Pozzi. The "Banda Italiana Abruzzi" is an organization of forty skilled musicians, which created a furore in Europe. It is touring the world and will delight the Chutes' patrons this summer. "Elter," who is a beautiful young woman, emerges from the depths of the lake and disappears beneath its waves like a fabled nymph. Her marvelous feat amazes and mystifies.
"Shooting the Chutes" over the biggest artificial cascades in the world is the favorite pastime of Chicago. Shouting and laughing throngs descend the glistening cascades with the speed of the wind until their gay gonkies splash in the lake and glide swiftly forward on foam-crested waves to a plaid harbor.
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While Pozzi's big band fills the parks with majestic strains, delighted celebrities are whirled through mid-air at marvelous speed; phantom cars stare across the horizon haden with gaily attired children and young women; miss of opalescent spray cool the beautiful park; its blue lake glistens and sine-tillates under the glorious sun and against the blue sky flutter and gleam countless flags and vari-colored lights. A more entracing spectacle cannot be imagined than The Chutes, a citadel of beautiful-pavilions, thronged with happy people, animated by a thousand gay activities, illuminated like a fairyland and ringing with the metabolies of its world-famed band.
Among its unique devices are the Velvet Coaster, Aerostat Flying Machines, Radium Zoo, moving pictures of the San Francisco Fire, Electric Theatre, troupe of entertainers, Figure 8 Toboggan, Giant Automaton, Katzjanier Castle, free Children's Playground, Thousand Anamorphoses, Laughing Gallery, Helter Skelter, Mammoth Carousel, Mystic Rill, a Subterranean River, Haunted House, Pendant Swings, and a thousand others.
This matchless resort is Chicago's favorite playground, a Coney Island, circus and world's fair, in all one. No visit to the big city is complete without "seeing the Chutes." Access to all of its bewildering activities may be had for ten cents. Street cars transfer passengers to The Chutes from all parts of Chicago for five cents.
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T. H (Tom) Jackson is, this season, headwaiter at the Rudolf, Atlantic City, N.J., where he succeeded Mr F Funk (white) Mr. Jackson was formerly second waiter at the Rudolf, and is at home. He is making a great success, Mr. Jackson is an old Pittsburg boy.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad now alarms to have the best dining car service in the country, and besides making that department a profitable one, the a la carte plan gives better satisfaction to parous as they can get anything they want at any time from a cup of tea up.
The Chesapeake and Ohio adopted the a la carte system three years ago.
Prof. J. H. Bartleson, formerly of the Chittenden Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, is now one of the efficient crew of waiters at the Chalfonte Hotel, Atlantic City. N. J. Mr. Bartleson is a baritone singer and is making quite a hit with his new selections. He sends his best regards to all the boys out West, and says that he has an 8 room house, furnished, at 227 N. Carolina avenue,
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In all well conducted dining room the waiters are taught by the headwaiter to be gentlemanly and obliging. First of all, the headwaiter sets an example by practicing these things himself. Many would be headwaiters teach these items, but do not practice them; therefore their teaching is in vain, while the incompetent headwaiter does neither. The last two are in the majority. First, we need better headwaiters and then we will surely have better sidewaiters.
Two of the notables resigned from the Portland Hotel Cafe in the persons of Dr E E. Green and brother E L Ward. The former goes to Spokane to bathe in the smiles of some fair lassie, and to listen to the sonorous voice of the operator, as he calls out, "They are off," and the latter who is a good Christian of the new type and is honored and appreciated for his good qualities and ability goes to watch "Tacoma Grow." Both of these gentlemen are particular favorites among the hotel fraternity and their going is sadly regretted.—Portland (Ore) Advocate.
BERLIN MOB BEATS NEGRO
Lynching on Streets of German City Narrowly Averted.
Berlin, Special — A regular lynching of an American citizen came very near taking place in this city the other day. In one of the parks on side Berlin a Negro is employed in a restaurant and has been made to suffer much from the boys of the neighborhood because of his color.
The other day he was surrounded by a crowd of chldren, who finally exasperated him beyond endurance, and to drive them away he picked up a stone and threw it at them. It hit a little girl in the head, and immediately he was seized by an angry mob, who nearly beat him to death and were in the act of hanging him to the branch of a tree when the police came to his rescue.
He has been tried, and, after serving his sentence, will be sent to the United States, as he claims to be an American citizen.
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Upon a door I saw a sign
I cricked, "A Motto! and it's mine!"
A wiser thing I never saw—
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Its logic as firm as any rock—
"Push—don't knock!"
The Sunday funeral is frowned upon
by thoughtful people.
It is a queer circumstance that the
fellow who differs from you is invariably wrong.
This would be a happy world to live
in if the average man thought as much of his wife as he does of his lodge.
Bishop Grant ought to be quite well satisfied with the situation. Things have been coming his way for quite a while.
It is currently reported that "Uncle Sam" is short of small bills. That's nothing strange. So are we—and there are others.
Young men who depend upon a superficial gift of gab to "get by" on, instead of solid qualities, will be found wanting when the crucial test comes.
In trading Carmack off for "Bob" Taylor Tennessee can rest assured of one thing—it cannot, by any hook or crook, get the worst of the deal.
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William Lloyd Garrison is right. The Negro can learn how to vote only by being permitted to vote. To learn by doing is the most approved method of education.
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Holding down a job exactly right calls for hard work, but there is an intense satisfaction in doing more of anything and doing it a little bit better than any one else can do it.
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It would have been more in accord with the eternal fitness of things had the "insurgents" at Washington incorporated under the title of "Bethel Literary and Historical Association."
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The colored Elks are the "real thing" now, and can wear the antlers with fine scorn, in the very presence of the exalted rulers and mighty moguls of the "unimproved" white branch of the noble order.
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It may have escaped the eagle eye of the festive reporter, but it is a fact that Ernest Hogan is a pitcher with an outfit of curves, drops and in-shoots that would make Rube Waddell turn green with envy.
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Word reaches us that Recorder John C. Dancy has written a whole page on his long promised "Life of Dr. Joseph C. Price." It will, doubtless, be finished quite a while before the Panama canal is ready for use.
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The ex-slab pension movement is a bare-faced fraud. To beguile ignorant Negroes into a belief that such a thing is possible and collect a fee to promote the ganzy scheme is outlining money under false pretenses. There now.
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Now that the Negroes have a clear right and title to be Elks, perhaps they will turn their attention to the majestic principles embodied in the ancient Order of Red Men, the Druids and the Pyramid Builders. We won't be left behind.
Kansans at Washington'are planning to tender Register Vernon a banquet this month. Tae Vernon brand of
To all Knights of Pythias, Grand and Subordinate Lodges, Officers and Members of the Order-Greeting:
At the twelfth annual biennial session of the Supreme Lodge he'd in the city of St. Louis, Aug. 31, to Sept. 5, 1933, the following preamble and reso
At the twelfth annual biennial session of the Supreme Lodge held in the city of St. Louis, Aug. 31, to Sept. 5, 1923, the following preamble and resolution was adopted: "Whereas our Supreme jurisdiction has all the ranks of the Order of Knights of Pythias except the Oriental Rank called the Dramatic Order Knights of Korasan, be it Resolved, That the Supreme Chancellor be empowered to secure the ritual of this rank for the purpose of initiating the members of our order into its mysteries."
Pursuant to this resolution we have, through great difficulty, secured this work. It is not conducted like other branches of the order, as only one or two "Temples" by which it can be conferred are established in each State. This is a great achievement putting us in possession of all there is connected with our great and noble order. As this work is to be of universal
cratery will have a vogue in the next few months. The new luminary in the national capital's solar system will "make good."
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A delegation of Baltimoreans recently presented the Rev. "Jay" Albert Johnson with a chair. In view of the inglorious collapse of the reverend gentleman's sometime bishopric boom this very appropriate gift must be a delicate intimation that he ought to "go'way back and sit down."
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Bishop Galloway doesn't think well of Governor Vardaman—and it is violating no secret to state that Governor Vardaman isn't lying awake of nights because of any affection for the big-hearted pralate, who "insults" Mississippi's imperious pride by addressing Negroes as "Fellow-Americans." The idea!
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President Roosevelt is quoted as declaring that he "likes Senator Tillman." We cannot account for the President's queer taste, except on the ground that as a huntsman he has cultivated a fondness for wild animals—grizzly bears, coyotes, bobcats and skunks—and associating with the fiery, untamed South Carolinian makes him feel at home.
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These are the days when a fellow gets a notion into his head that a little garden and the simple life are twin passports to heavenly bliss. He spends $3.40 for implements and seed and wastes $15.00 worth of precious time, as well as a souring a normally sweet disposition, for the sake of finally raising thirty cents worth of *puny*, pithy vegetables.
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One Col. Lumkin, a son of a distinguished South Carolina family, is after Ben Tillman's senatorial toge, and we are sorry he hasn't a saintilla of a chance to get it. Tillman is just about what his bourbon constituency wants, and it is not likely that his laurels can be wrested from his brow until much missionary work is done in the Palmetto State.
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If a man walketh upright before his fellows, obeyeth the law of God; and the State, careeth for his family, payeth his just debts and dealeth squarely with his neighbors, the world will regard it as of little consequence whether he believes in open communion, infant baptism, immersion, foot washing or other minor considerations that have to do with mere denominationalism. This may be heresy, but it is true.
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As we read of the throwing of a deadly bomb at the King of Spain and his lovely bride, of a foul plot to assinate President Roosevelt, and of the evil designs of various cranks upon the lives of the Longworths, John D. Rockefeller, Speaker Cannon, Ex Governor Francis and others of high rank, the conviction selzes us that the ordinary, common place citizen, whom the world doesn't know or give a continental for, enjoys an immunity from trouble that crowned heads may well envy.
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The authorities of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists who gave up their plan to have Booker T. Washington and Ben Tillman debate the race problem, because the latter objected, simply missed an opportunity to coin dollars by the thousand and the people will be denied the pleasing, though tragic, spectacle of seeing South Carolina's mighty muckraker impaled upon his own pitchfork. Tillman plays safe by warring only in his class, and when he has the game cinched in advance.
scope and in order to give it a start befitting such an achievement, a team has been organized in the city of Indianapolis, Ind., under the direction of this office to confer the work and the first "Temple" will be organized in that city on August 15, 1906. All members of the order in good standing within our jurisdiction are eligible to take this rank. In connection with this important event the brethren composing the ten lodges and several Uniform Rank Companies of Indianapolis are preparing to hold a celebration at that time;commencing on August 15 and closing on the 17th, which will equal in solendor and brilliance the Supem Lodge sessions and Encampments. Efforts will be made to secure reduced rates on all railroads. The season of the year when vacations are usually taken was selected for this occasion and we hope that all Pythians who can possibly do so will be present to receive the last rank in the order and to participate in what promises to be a "Pythian week."
Done at Charleston, W. Va, this 9th day of June, 1966, P. P. XLIII.
C. K. ROBINSON, S. K. of R. and S.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Sources of This Dangerous and Protracted Disease.
Although there is always more or less typhoid fever in most of the larger cities of this country, the late summer and autumn are the seasons when it is most to be feared.
The disease is not so formidable, as regards the mortality, as some others, but its great length and the evil consequences which sometimes follow it in the form of weak heart, weak spine or nervous disorders make it quite as serious as some which are more fatal, but far less protracted.
Unless one knows how the disease is usually spread one cannot hope to avoid it, and so it may be useful to consider in what ways the germs of the malady find their way into the system.
Water is the usual vehicle for typhoid germs, as is well known, and probably all great outbreaks of the disease in cities are due to an infected water supply. This has been strikingly shown in Philadelphia, where some parts of the city are supplied with filtered water and others with unfiltered or mixed water. Comparing two parts of the city in which the conditions, except as to water supply, are almost the same, it was found that in the one supplied with filtered water the occurrence rate of typhoid fever was one in five thousand, while in the others, in which the unfiltered water was drunk, it was one in sixteen hundred.
But a city with an ideal water supply may be scourged with typhoid fever, although less severely, through the medium of impure ice, and it is almost as important to know where the ice is cut, or with what water it is made, if artificial, as where the city water comes from. Not long since a number of officers on one of the United States ships in the Mediterranean squadron were taken down with typhoid fever. When the source of the infection was traced it was found to be some ice bought at Athens, the ice machine on shipboard having broken down.
Another source of infection is found in oysters that have been fattened in streams contaminated with sewage. Not only has typhoid followed the eating of these fish, but the typhoid bacilli have been found in the stomachs of the oysters.
Raw vegetables used for salads may have been grown in soil contaminated with slops used as fertilizers or may have been washed in infected water.
Unless a water supply is above suspicion all that used for drinking, tooth cleaning and in the kitchen should be boiled and the drinking water cooled by putting vessels containing it on the ice, not by putting ice in the water itself.
Finally, great care should be taken to screen all food from flies, for if there is a case of typhoid fever in the neighborhood flies may become most active distributors of the poison.—Youth's Companion.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Jealousy is like some other things—the lid should be kept on it.
When you say no, say it in a manner that will leave no doubt of your meaning.
When giving advice to others here is a small slice to serve yourself: Keep still more.
How little the best doctor knows! And how helpless he is in the presence of serious illness!
It is said that disappointment is hard to bear, but we all stand it pretty well when we look in the glass.
A man just starting into a law suit has more faith in courts than his attorney ever claims to have.
There are too many young men who start out to make their mark in the world and stop at a soda fountain or hammock on the way.—Atchison Globe.
The Word "Cannibalism."
The word "canibalism" is really the name of a people. It is identical with Carib, many of the Caribs, who formerly flourished in the West Indies, having been consumers of human flesh. The letters "I," "n" and "r" are interchangeable in certain aboriginal American languages, so that Columbus found one West Indian island saying "Caniba" where another said "Carib," while Shakespeare's Caliban is another variety of the same. Columbus' own conjecture was that the name was connected with the great khan, and later philologistes of the old slapdash type associated with "canis," a dog. Apparently, however, the meaning of "carib" was brave and daring.
No Faith In Him
"Guess that freckled daughter of Thompson's must have a steady young man."
"What makes you think so?"
"The old man was in here yesterday to buy one of these newfangled contrivances that make a big saving in the gas you burn."
"I don't believe the young man's a steady. If he was they'd save all the gas."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There Are No Certain Ones.
"The only objection I have to this story," said the cynical bachelor, "is the frequent use of the phrase 'a certain girl.' The phrase is grossly inaccurate, as everybody well knows that all girls are exceedingly uncertain."—Chicago News.
Love when true, faithful and well fixed is eminently the sanctifying element of human life. Without it the soul cannot reach its fullest height or holiness.—Ruskin.
Comfort and independence abide with those who can postpone their desires.—Success Magazine.
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FALSE LEADERS.
Fora long time past this psper hashed
much to say about those members of the
race who accept every chance that presents
Itself for them to appoar at leaders, and
who also accept as readily every chance to
sell those who are foolish enough to fol-
low them. By some clroumstance they
‘are made to apnear prominent among their
people, and from this appearance they are
supposed to nos:ess a considerable in!lu-
ence. This supposed influence 1s to them
‘a commodity used for the purpose of gain,
tnever seems to occur to them that tho
confidence reposed in them by any num-
ber of their more humble fellows is a
sacred trust, or that any prominence or in-
fluence which they may hold carries with
Ita serlous responsibility. They have
never learned that every Negro cf influence
4s a trustee of the race whose obligation to
his people Is in exact proportion to the In-
fluecce he wields. Where littie is given,
Uttle is expected; where much Is given,
much is required. There was never a
time when moral responsibility rested
heavier upon those who are in a position to
help the race than It does today; nor was
there ever a time when we were more in
need of self help. Influences from without
that once safe guarded our interests have
fallen away. Sympathy and helpfulness
‘are not so common as in other days. More
and more we are brought to face the fact
that we must depend upon our own re-
sourcefulness. Of this we do not oom-
plain. On the contrary we welcome it, for
we have always had an abiding faith In the
ability of the race to meet all the require-
ments of Anglo Saxon clvilization. Nor
dowe complain because of the place or
pelf which these fais» leaders receive as a
price of their disloyalty to the interests of
the race. But we do complain because
every such act of disloyalty is a barter of
the manhood of the race and degrades It in
the eyes of those whose helpful co-opera~
tion we need. The leaders of a race are
‘Supposed to consist of its best. if these
will barter their Influence, what must be
thought of the rank and file of that race?
‘This fs the head and front of their offend-
ing. What Is the standing of the Irishman
who's disloyal to hls people? What would
be thought of the Jew In Russia who would
play his people into the hands of the police
‘and sples of Czar? Yet such a man would
be no more disloyal in principal than many
petty leaders of our race who may be found
4m almost any large city. We have them
here, and ye shall know them. We have
no apology to offer for calling attention to
them, If they are recognized by this
ploture we make, so much the worse for
them. These are the real enemies of the
race, for they would sell their brother's
birthright for a mess of pottege and then
have the brazen impudence to become in-
dignant because the whole family does not
‘approve or else hold silence.
THEN AND NOW.
We do net belleve that Indlanapolls Is
‘any exception in ts show of progress being
made by the race. We are of the opinion that
just as much evidence of racial progress
ean be found wherever any considerable
number of our people are found. We have
not got rid of the bad—by no means. They
are painfully evident, every day and every-
where—still, we are growing. Whethe,,
wo are any further front as measured by
he requirements of now, than we were ten
years ago as measured by the requirements
of then, may be a question. There Is,how-
ever, noquestion as toj whether we have
grown in the past twelve years. In spite
of ths fact that_there have! been enacted
during this period many laws{hostile to our
THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER,
rights as men and citizens; in spite of
fact that organized labor has been more
unjust toward our labor, and the Anglo
Saxon has strayed farther from the Golden
Rule, thereby bringing hardships tndis-
criminately upon the good and the bad of
the race—still we have grown.
Ifone wouldghave the proof that we are
making head, even against great odds, he
has only to look about him, A dozen years
ago we had no banks or large co-operative
‘business concerns. Today there are hun-
dreds of these undertakings doing a credit-
abie business in a creditable manner.Then,
there were few doctors above the grade of
“quacks” now, there are hundreds of
physicians with diplomas from schools of
recognized standing. ‘Then, we had but
fow dentists who ranked It, skill above a
plumber—now, we have skilled men in this
professsion using the latest appliances and
methods in this work. Sowe might go the
whole round In industrial, religious and
educational lines and note marked improve:
ment and growth everywhere. The cab-
bler is being supplanted by the finished
worker, and the botch carpenter is giving
way tothe man who can cut a line and fit
a joint, Ths place of the conceited schoo
teacher who could only teach children to
memorize what was in the books, and talk
parrot talk, ts having his place filled by
men and women who are capable of devel
oping} the child mind and leading i
to comprehend the relation it bears to the
things of life which surround it. Only the
Jim Crow churshes will tolerate the Jim
Crow preacher who oan only worshir
God by main strength and awkwardness.
In the places of these we are getting edu.
cated Christian gentlemen who {ns’ston
well ventillated churches, in which they
conduct a service worthy to be called
Christian. Instead of the old barber shor
with its greasy furniture, and still more
greasy barber, we have the latest furnisb-
Ings and tidy workman of the highest
skill who make your patronage a pleasure
instead of a dread. But we have already
written at too great length, and yet we
might fill this entire page with the eviden-
ces of growth to be seen by anyone. Yes
we are growing. There isa marked change
between then, and now.
A COLORED WINONA.
| Upnear the town of Warsaw in this state,
washed by the shore of one of the most
beautiful of our inland lakes, Is the Winona
assembly ground. It contains cottages,
halls, pavilions—in fact all of the accesso-
ries which goto complete it for the pur-
poses for which it was intended. Here are
conducted summer courses along almost
every religious, educational and litera y
line. It furnishes an ideal meeting place
forstate and National assemblages par-
taking of the above nature.
We have it from the highest authority
that there is a movement on by some phil-
anthropiomen to establish just such a place
for Colored people. They have seen the
need for just such a place, and are wiillng
to bear by far the greater part of the finan-
clal burden in bringing it to pass. They
have an vetion on fifty acres of forest land
lying on the shore of one of these Northern
lakes. Kor this work they need the help of
ahaif dozen representative Colored men
who have the fitness for managing such
work. And wouldit not be a most excel-
lent project to have just such a place for
the holding of large meetings,such as grand
lodge meetings, Baptist Conventions, Con
ferences, the Negro Business Men's League,
the Afro-American Council, etc, eto? We
believe that such a place would at once
become popular, for it would be an ideal
spot for all such gatherings. It would not
be the Intentisn to bave it fill the wants of
those who need a “‘midway” or a “‘loop the
loop" in order to be intertained. It would
be intended as a qulet retreat where real
clvilized people could assemble in the quiet
and shade foy rest and improvement. That
we need just such a place there can be n>
doubt. Its realization ig sure to come in
the near future, elther by outside help or
by the colored people themselves
Cuicaco has pessed an ordiance forbid-
ding the issuing of any more saloon
Hcenses until the population increases sz
that there shall be only one saloon to every
sO0Inhabitants. This 1s Indeed making
progress on the drinking evil, If that clty
will only make it 1 to 1,COO it will be still
better. In fact it is impossible to have too
few saloons anywhere.
One of the most stupendous crimes be-
Ing committed by us is the hundreds of
thousands of dollars we are paying annually
for hall rent, lodge regalia and paraphan-
alia, In all soberness, are we getting val-
ue recieved for this money?
OUR MEN TEACHERS,
There tssomething quite unsatisfactory
it the way jso manyZof our desirable men
teachers of city schools get away from us.
Marcus Gillam to Buxton, lowa; W. H-
Huffman to St. Louls; W.T. B, Williams
to,Hampton; and now it is Ezra Roberts to
Tuskegee, and Prof. Delaney to Evansville;
ang still the list might be lengthened. Such
a record of three years does not show good
for us. Any of these make an addition to
the place they go, and In thelr going we
have suffered a loss. Each of them was
more than a mere school teacher. They
all stood high In this community and added
much to it by the free use of their talents
in all the ways that help the forward move-
ment. Our school cemmissioners should
‘either pay better salaries or use be'ter
judgment, for we predict that it will be
many years before we make five additions
to our teaching list that will fill the places
of these men
Ur at the big white house in olden days
there were black men who were looked on
with supicion by those who worked in the
fields. This was because thote at the blg
house were in close contact with the land
lord, and for this reason held a kind of in-
fluence which was sometimes used against
the interest of the field hands. Do you
know we have those fellows emong us yet?
Teat was a preity smooth trick which
was played in the political game in this
city last week, and some one should
be held responsible for it. As for
ourselves we felt no particul?r interest ex-
cept to see honest dealing and fair treat
ment. If such things are to continue It
should be admitted that you can fool all of
the colored people all the time.
Ir Is interesting to watch a swarm of
bees, but much mor® interesting to watch
a swarm of people. The Russian peop e
are “swarming” and there Is no cer ainty
of just on what they will settle. The war
showed Japan's strength and Russia's
weakness. Since the close of the war
Japan has made much progress in recon-
structing her tosses whie Russla is still
tearing down.
From reports Memphis is having a bad
time of it with her “‘Jim Grow Street Cars."
Annumber of arrests have been made, but
the joke 1s on the other fellow. When a
white passenger Is asked to move forward
about a half dozen times to make room in
the rear for colored passengers he loses his
patience, refuses to move, and then gets
arrested for violating the law.
‘Tne Builders. Who are they? They
are the sober, serious members of the race
whohave organized to confer on them-
selves all of the benefits that accure from
seoret organizations with none of its atten-
dent weaknesses or evils. Such an organiza
tlon is actually in process of construction
here.
From reports there has been a great fal-
ling off in the sale of meats everywhere.
Sohere is at least one great benefit asa
result of resent exposures. We shall have
no packing house evils when we cease to
play the cannibal and stop cutting the
throats of animals and esting thelr car-
casses.
‘A Negro has been mobbed and burned at
Chickasha, Indian Territory. This should
remove any lingering doubt as to the fitness
of the people of thal territory to become
full fledged citizens of this country. They
look and act just like other highly clvilized
people.
‘Wuan are those whom we keep in office
going to be made to see that by all rules of
honesty and fairness we are entitled to
representative in the state legislature?
But to have our own men work against
this—that Is the straw that killed father.
Wrra the beginning of the heated season
it may be well to remember that there are
other people just as warm as you, so do
not add to thelr discomfort by your con-
stant complaints about the weather.
Tuat manin South Dokota who placed
placed five sticks of dynamite on his chest
and lighted a fuse attached to it was an ex-
travagent man, for he waisted at least four
sticks of good dynamite.
‘TweRe are people who en fool all the
People some of tue time, and there are
other people who cannot fool any of the
people any of the time.
Ir Bethel A. M. E. E. Church of this city
does not get some life in it it should bear
the name of sleeping Bethel.
Mosr political organizations might prop-
erly bear the name of—The Oifice Sesking
Club. 7
GYMNASIUM FOR
THE NORWOOD YOUTH,
‘Miss Ada B. Harris, principal of the
Norwood school, has undertaken to
provide a building for the suburb of
Norwood to be used as gymnasium,
readingroom and baths for the young
colored men of the cummunity. The
plan has its origin in the Boys’ Club,
which was organized in October, 1903,
and was given the name of the Look-
out Club, The object of the organiza-
tion was to improve the morals and
behavior of the boys. There were
thirty active members and after con-
tributions by members amounting to
$35, the idea occurred to Miss Harris
to use this money as the foundation
of a fund to provide a building. She
began to solicit subscriptions form the
colored public with a view to making
the building a monument to the thrift
and enterprise of the colored people
of the community. She issued promis-
sory notes payable to the American
National Bank. The were liberally
subscribed for, and in little more
more than a year the funds amounted
to a sum sufficient to make a part pay-
ment on property in Norwood valued
at $20,000. ‘The property is just off
Prospect street, and consists of five
lots and a six-room dwelling.
The title to the property will be
vested in a board of trustees, with a
provisi that the title shall always re-
main that of the institution for the
benefit if colored people.
Colored Boys’ Lookut Club, $3750;
Peter Baker, $2.00; Archie Greathuse,
35.00; H. L. Sanders, :1.50; Henry
Miller, $1.00; Frank Grundy, $2.50;
Samuel Mitchell, $1.00; Wm. Nichols,
$1.00; Chas. Ruble, $1.00; Htnry Um-
phreys, $1.00; Henry L. Martin, $1.00;
Wm. Coleman, $1.00; H. L. Cook,
$1.00; Henry Taylor, $1.00; J. H.
Brown, 50c; Estella MePheeters,
$1.00; Henry J. Wiethe, 5¢; Mr.
Neeley, 5c; Buelah W. Porter, $2.00;
Claude Burris, $1.00; C. C. Baker,
$2.00; Henderson Brown, $1.00; Bd
ward Brewer, $5.00; Thomas Ashley,
$1.00; Chas. 0. Johnson, $1.00; John
Douglass, 50¢; Andrew Smith, $1.00;
Nancy Smothers, $2.00; George Debbs,
$1.00; Lucas Willis, $2.00; J. W.
Bridges, $1.00; J. H. Baptist, $1.00;
Abner Jackson, $1.00; W. E. Baird
$1.00; Elias Taylor, $1.00; Abram Bur
ris, $1.00; Authur Lasley, $1.00; W.
W. Richardson, $1.00; A. S. Beard,
$1.00; Robt, Relford, $1.00; George
Worthington, $1.00; John W. Lewis,
50c; Carter Temple, Sr., $2.00; R. B.
Shelton, $1.00; J. M. Porter, $1.00;
George Finn, $1.00; W. W. Waldon,
$1.00; H. R. Bassett, $1.00; Robt. F.
Harper, $1.00; Thomas Logan, $1.00;
Mack Cato, $1.00; George Mills,
$5.00; David Adams, $1.00; W. W.
Freeman, $1.00; Chas. Johnson. $1.00;
Joseph BE. Dagley, $1.00; Wm. Wil
liams, $1.00; W. Shrewsbury, $2.00;
Wm. J. 1 Reed, $1.00; Lamma Mason,
$2.50; Noble Venerable, $1.00; G. M.
Chadwell, $2.00; Mary Cable, $1.00;
John Miller, $1.00; Peter Trabue,
32.00; John Cain, $1.00; Grant H.
Clay, $1.00; Ella J. Ernest, $1.00; Cor-
win Ernest, $1.00; Hanover Williams,
$5.00; Frank Brown, $2.00; James
Hughes, $1.00; Green Mayes, $1.00;
‘Thomas Warner, $1.00; Jennie War-
ner, $1.00; George Noles, $1.00; Man-
son Watkins, $1.00; Samuel Miller,
$1.00; cash, $5.00; Franklin McCray,
$1.00; cash, $1.50; George Vandiver,
$2.00; Joseph Ward, $1.00; Joseph
Smedley, $1.00; Emma V. Brown,
$1.00; John Buckner, $1.00; James
N. Shelton, $5.00; Wm. A. Wright,
31.00; Edward Lewis, $1.00; Henry
B Walker, $1.00; Chas. Inman, $1.00;
Silas Redmond, $1.00; George Thorn-
ton, $1.00. Total, $168.00.
THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW
(CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
original plan of going down to Char-
lotte been adhered to. The exact
dates and place of meeting will be
announced later.
‘The most profitable and enjoyable
session that the Kentucky State Grand
Lodge of the Order of Good Samari.
tans has held in many years was that
wich convened last week at George.
town, Ky. One hundred and ten dele-
gates were present. Grand Chief
Watts presided, and the proceedings
were marked by a harmony and brisk.
ness that speaks eloquently of the
fellowship that is being promoted by
this wing of the Good Samaritan
brotherhood and sisterhood. The re
ports showed the organization to be
in a thriving condition in ail parts of
the state. Grand Secretary, Mrs. M.
E. Washington, made an exceedingly
happy presentation of the numerical
and finacial strength of the Order.
and her fidelity as a keeper of the
records and seals and her accuracy
as an accountant were substantially
complimented by the gift of a beauti-
ful, gold chain by the local lodge and
magnificent gold ring on behalf of
the convention as a body. The recog-
nition was richly merited. Mrs. Wash-
ington was, of course, reelected by
acclamation. Rev. J.B. Wood, one
of the ablest divines, editors and fra-
ternity workers in the Blue Grass
State, was chosen as Right Worthy
Grand Chief. He is the editor of The
‘Torch-Light and lives at Danville,
he also pastors the leading Baptist
church. His election gives universal
satisfaction, and years of unexam-
pled prosperity may be safely looked
for. C. W. Haggard, of Covington
Mrs. Clara B. Woods, of New Albany,
was chosen deputy grand chief, and
Ind., associate deputy grand chief.
National Grand Chief, F. W. Curry, of
Urbana, Ohio, was in attendance, and
his presence did much to inspire the
convention to do its level best. He
delivered one of his stirring addreses
and aroused a high degree of enthus-
iasm. The next session of the Samar-
itans will be held in June, 1907, at
Louisville.
Dr. R. 8. Reves, of the Kentucky
Conference of the A. M. E. Zion con-
nection, is in receipt of a big batch
of letters from prominent ministers
all over the country, urging him to
remain in the race for the Bishopric,
and he has consented to allow his
name to stand, subject to the action
of the General Conference at Phili-
adelphia in 1908. Nevertheless, Dr.
Rives declines to enter a scramble
for a position which he holds in too
deep a reverence to be sought in an
undignified manner, and his canvass
‘will be in keeping with this lofty con-
‘ception of the fitness of things. Quite
a number of Dr. Rives’ intimate
friends, however, recognizing his
scholarly attainments and especial
qualifications for work ealling for an
expert knowledge of the Scriptures
are urging him to enter the race for
the editorship of the Sunday School
Literature, now held by Dr. R. B.
Bruce. In either niche, Bishop or
Sunday School editor, Dr.. Rives
would shine. Should the larger plum
be beyond his reach at this time, the
[General Conference will surely snap
him up for the second choice, if he
‘could be prevailed upon to accept tt
=
| Bditor James C. Carter, of the
‘Brunswick, Georgia, Herald, has our
most sincere congratulations upon
his appointment as consul to Sizas,
‘Turkey, the salary of which is $2,000
per annum. Mr. Carter has served
long and well in the local branch of
the government service at Brunswick,
has been a leader of the best. race
thought of his state, and is one of
the most active members of the na-
tional Negro Business League, being
a member of its executive committee.
Mr. Carter’s appointment indicates
the “door of hope” is still in good
working order, and that the southern
end is still available, reports to the
contrary notwithstanding. We be-
speak for Mr. Carter a brilliant re-
cord as Uncle Sam’s representative
in the domain of the Sultan. A re-
appointment that will delight the
Negroes of every section is that of
Gen. Robert Smalls, the hero of the
“Planter,” whose "famous exploit
forms one of the memorable episodes:
of the civil war. He remains as col-
lector of the port at Beaufort, South
Carolina.
Se
Rev. L. E. Christy, editor of the
sprightly East St. Louis, Ill, Senti-
nel, has flung his banner to the
breezes as a full-fledged candidate for
the editorship of the Christian Re-
corder. We are rather proud of the
fact that we were among the first to
suggest Rev Christy for this honor-
able and useful post, and it is pleas-
ing to learn that the encouragement
he has received at the hands of his
appreciative brethren is sufficiently
strong to warrant him in thus shying
his castor into the ring. No better
selection could be made, if the A. M.
E. church wants brains rather than
bumptiousness in the editorial sanc-
tum of the official spokesman.
R, W. THOMPSON
The Kicking Cow
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{Copyright, 1906, by Homer Sprague.)
“See here, parson,” said Aunt Hetty
Strong to her pastor, “I've come to
prefer charges against Samuel John-
son. He's a class leader in our church,
and yet he swears like a pirate.”,
“I am sorry to hear that. When did
you hear him swear and what about?”
“He's been cussing night and morn-
ing for the last week, and it bas al-
ways been when he was milking. He
has pounded one of his cows in a
dreadful manner three or four times.”
“T am going to Smithville today,” re-
plied the pastor, “and I'll stop and see
Brother Johnson.”
‘That afternoon the pastor drove out
and stopped at the farmer's, After
some little conversation on other topics
he introduced the matter of swearing.
“I'm not going to deny it,” replied
the farmer as he gritted his teeth,
“Yes; I have been swearing. I know
it's wicked and that charges would Ile
against me, but I just couldn't help it
I expect to swear again this evening at
milking te”
“Is a cow mixed up with it?” askea
the pastor.
“Very much so. ‘Two weeks ago I
traded some hogs with a man over in
Delhi for a cow. She's the worst kicker
on the face of this earth. She has kick-
ed me off the milk stool from one to
three times every time I have tried to
milk her.”
“and you have sworn?”
“I couldn't help it.”
“And you have pounded her?”
“T have tried to break her back.”
“I am sorry, brother Johnson—very
sorry. You must expect to be tried in
this world, and you must expect to rise
superior. Swearing and cruelty to anl-
mais is altogether un-Christianlike. I
presume you have heartily repented?”
“{ won't admit that I have,” answer-
ed the farmer in stubborn tones,
‘The pastor shook his head and clasp-
ed his hands and looked up at the cell-
ine Tw nnd We he alla
“I think you need an object jean
in patience and kindness, oe
Johnson, and I guess I will stay to
Per and milk that cow myseig.”
“By John, but Pll put a bag of
tatoes into your buggy if you an
Yes, and if you want to criticise me
after the milking I won't say a wee
beyond begging your pardon.” |“
‘Three hours later the farmer and thy
pastor approached the barnyard to dy
the milking. ‘The kickine cow was the
most humble and demure of the thees
cows in the yard. There was seit at
negation in her pose and timidity jy
her eye. ‘The pastor stndied her fore
couple of minutes and then wondereg
It Brother Johnson hada't been tapping
a barrel of old cider.
“That's the critter,” said
ashe pointed her out." "=
‘The pastor approached and stroked
her and had a few kind words to say,
His look grew complacent as he did we
He was almost beaming as he planted
his stool and sat down aud bora,
work. ‘The cow stood like a statue
‘There were files trying to get in their
work on her hind legs, but she never
even switched her tail,
“Brother Jobnson,” was remarked)
after about five minutes, “don’t yoq
think you have been mistaken im thx!
cow?”
“Flardly ever, pastor.”
“Then I can’t quite make it out 4|
more kind and gentle animal I never_|
‘Thescow swung with her right leg!
and the hoof and all the weiht behing
it caught the good man full in the
stomach and sent him rolling over au
over. He tay gasping for breath for a
moment, and when helped to his feet
he leaned against a shed and gaid:
“Brother Johnson, 1 scem to hay
been kicked by your cow.”
“Right you are, parson. Ave you
thinking of any swear words?
The parson smiled faintly.
“Don't you want a feneo rail
pound her with?”
‘The parson smiled faintly some more|
and then said:
“You might go across the road and|
ask Aunt Hetty to step over here for a|
moment. Tell her T wish to speak
her.”
Ten minutes Inter Aunt Hetty arriy|
ed. She expected the pastor was going|
to confront her with Farmer Johnsoa|
as to the swearing and pounding, and
sne turned pale and grew nervous over
it, but he softly and kindly said:
“Sister Strong, would you kindly sit
down and milk this cow?"
“Why, certainly.” she replied. “This
is the new cow Brother Johnson's been
getting, and it's a shame the way he
has sworn at her and poundod her
around. As I was saying to my bus
band this morning, she’s as quiet a3 an
old sheep.”
‘The pastor and the farmer stoot
aside, and Aunt Hetty sat down with
stool and pail. For three or four mip.
utes the cow closed her eyes and
seemed to dream of babbling brooks
and grassy dells. ‘Then she opened
them and went to business with thit
right leg. A little extra steam was put
on for the occasion, and Aunt Hetty
went five feet beyond the pastor's ree
ord and was a full minute longer than
he in recovering her senses. Her first
exclamation was, “Darn that eow”
Her first move was to grab up a elub.
“Sister Strong, do you blame Brother
Johnson for swearing at and pounding
this cow?” asked the pastor.
“Not by a dum eight!” she heartily
replied,
“And you—you don't want him
ehurched?”
“Not unless he refuses to knock ber
horns off and break her back!"
“Well, I feel somewhat that way my-
self, and if you are willing we will
drop the matter of this morning and
say no more about it. Thanks for your
kindness in coming over and demon
strating, Sister Strong.” M. QUAD.
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‘The Bowles Trio, Charles, Maud and
jinn, appeared at the opera house at
Aierindra, od., last week in thelr clever
dogg ood dancing act, taking five en
og? nightly.
Horry L. Gilllam closed a successful
iegecemont of thirty-five wecks with
Rulus Restus, at Washington, and will
peed the summer on his farm at Wells,
iss. He has been reengaged for the
jamz company for next season.
Roy and Taylor, the black emperors cf
jnwic and comedy are now in the third
jek sith J. W. Gorman's Alabama Trou-
bedour.s paying Lowell, Mass., this week
icdtea. more weeks to follow. ‘They will
paton their new mustcal rug next week,
C.Cameron White, of Washington, D
the noted violinist sailed June 21, for
Lindon England, where he will be assoc!
aie with S. Coleridge Taylor, unlll Sep-
ater, |, after which he will enter the
sstrvatory of music at Berlin, Germany
fe completed his farewell tour and met
great success.
Prof, N. Clark Smith, Chicago, a com-
of note and the director of the
Eich WWincis Regiment Band will soon
upon a tour, lecturing on the origin
Negro melacy. He has composed some
ity selections and the Oliver Ditson
snpany of Boston has given him per-
sion to arrange them for mixed quar-
choir or chorus.
Wil Able, for @ long time the side part-
of Tom Logan in vaudeville and stock
tk, has assumed the management of
summer theater at Ninaweb Park,
uisville, { rmerly directed by Mr. Logan
r.Ablo has brought together an aggre-
lon of artists who can “deliver the
pois" ina highy satisfactory manner.
{s an accomplished baritone singer
well, and will carry a large share of
stage performance on his own
clders,
The Lawrence & Golna C. C. C. Com:
y's now in their fifth week of success
nCinada. The roster is as follows: Law-
wt & Goins, proprietor snd manager:
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Dieter a star more brightly shine,
Tits she: more ght on this race of
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"9 prove teneath that dusky hue,
Of which we're Part, both me and you.
Wise ies untold treasures, rare and
fine
The dar fathomed ocean
Oat hides the jewels there,
But yet it's just as prectous,
Med ts beauty just as rare.
—Gaxrietp T. Haywoop.
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| To THE Proression.~ Actors and
actress sseno me your latest photo |
today! Address Elwood C, Knox,
‘Man'gr The Freeman, Indianapolis
Dick Thomas, stage director; George Swan
band leader; A. Demming, orchestra lead-
er‘ Bernice Hale, S. Mason, Marle Bost-
wick, Stella Tamm, F. Smith, Mamie
Hays, W. G. Bostwick, A. Young, D.
Johnson, L White T. W. Hamilton, JE.
Moore, Skip Farrell, G. Brockman, A. C.
Fisher.
Eddle M. Gray, the tenor of Cincinnatl,
who has been scoring heavily the past sea-
son with the Rufus Rastus Company, un-
derstudying Henry Troy, has been spend-
ing a month at Louisvile, It is very likely
‘that Mr. Gray will be premier tenor with
the Hogan party next season, as rumor
has it that Mr Troy has made tengage-
ments with prominent London and Parls
music halls that will keep him abroad for
‘nearly ayear, Mr. Gray, besides being
vocalist of unusval power and range, Is
composer of acknowledged talent, and
expects to put anew song on the marke!
in a few weeks. He will recuperate at
French Lick and Chicago prior to report-
ing for rehearsals at New York in August:
We are still in lowa
ARKANSAW playing to fair houses.
‘Minsrrets. Everybody is well and
a happier bunch was
maver together. We played Dububue on
the fourteenth and we met Prof. Lowery's
band and minstrel with the Wallace cir-
cus after our evening performance. We
entertained them in our car. Regards to
P.G, and all his bunch. W. A. Bruce
wishes to heer from John W. Carson;
Crosby and Henderson wish to hear from
old timers.
We ate about to com-
P.G. Lowery’s plete our fourth week
Musicat in lowa with everybody
Enterprise. In good spirits. In a
few days we will then
be [minglinw with our Indiana (frleads
Prof Lowery has arranged an entirely
new program for the few days we are in
that state. The band had a beautiful se-
lection presented to them bo C. L Barn-
hou e at Oskaloosa, la. He was very much
pleysed with the band. The entire com-
pany has been welcomed and highly ap-
preciated at every town and {eity. Toney
Bar fleld, the basso profundo is making a
deolded hit singing ‘,When the Winds O'er
the Sza Blows a Gale” Fred C. Richard:
son, the clarionet soloist is still with us.
Everybody is well and
Haraisow’s perfectly satisfied, Our
Gaspen company Is a good one
Tueatke. and satisfactory to the
manager. Baby Smith
is still bringing down the house with “I'll
Be Back in a Minute.” The Deweys,
Will and Leone went big with their sunny
singing and dancing act. Robert Wil-
liams is singing "Kisses" and ‘Just One
Word of Consolation," with success. Our
dainty little singing and dancing soubret,
Nina Brown has easily sung herself into
the hearts of ths audience and is now the
favorite, and is singing ‘Movin’ Day"’ and
“Henry Brown.” Rich Matt’ ews Is still
doing some astonishing feats in acro-
batic turn. Jim Ringer still goes big;
Pearl Hunter is as funny as ever; Nellie
Thornton is singing “Dreaming Love of
You."’ The company sends regards to
friends.
TrROM NEW YORK CITY.|
Lew Payton is are: ! booking agent now.
Muriel Ringgold, the dancer is quite ill
Bobby Kemp is expected from Chicag
this week.
Mattie Hhilips is having a vaudeville
aot written.
Ernest Hogan went to Detroit last week
on business.
Hodges & Launchmere are in Philadel
phia this week.
Henry Troy has postponed his proposed
trip to London, Eng.
Lester Walton, a lyric writer of no mean
ability, sin the city.
The services of Will and Anita Wilkins
are much in demand.
Carle Browne Cooke is writing parodies
for a Broadway production.
Tony Byrd and his quartet are at ths
West End Theatre this week.
Henderson Smith's Fourteen Black Hus
sars have captured Coney Island.
Miss Jennie Thompson has opened
rooming house for professionals only.
If Harry Gilliamzis well at Wells, wel
his friends would be well pleased to hear it
Harry & Brown Delores are at Philadel
phia this week, withsome choice booking
ahead.
R. © Logan will find it to his interest
to write Tom Logan, care of Hurtig &
| Seamon.
Miss Carle Washington Day has re
turned from Baltimore tothe delight o!
her many frienus.
THE CO-STARS WHO WILL
PRESENT NEW MUSICAL, COMEDY,
| Vaudeville occasionally brings to light life, having asits main theme industrial
genuine merit that might remain undis- education and the music will have all that
Covered were it not for the fie'd fert!e in is characteristic in the old Negro. The
opportunities that are offered by the va- scenes are laid in the Southland and the
ity stage. A forciole example of this is Philippines and will be mounted in a
found in Cole & Johnson, the clever | lavish manner.
colored authors and composers whom| The cast is the best Negro talent be-
Melville B. Raymond will present in their { fore the public and will bs the first real all
original musical creation, “The Shoo-Fiy|star cast ever presented in an attraction
Reglment."” For the past five years Cole | of this kind, including the names of Tom
& Johnson have been one of the most|Brown, Sam Lucas, Bob A. Kelly, Hen
empha'ic hits of the vaudeville ‘stage, | Wise, Theo Pankey, Andrew Tribble, Si-
while their songs are world famous.|ren Navarro, Anna Cock, Mollie Diil,
“Under the Bamboo Tree."" “Cong> Love! Elizabeth Willlamsand Kate Milton. Re-
ae a \
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COLE AND JOHNSON.
Song.” ‘The Malden w.th the Dreamy hearsals fo
Eyes," ‘Nobody's Looking but the Owl Fly Regin
and the Moon,’’ “Oh, Didn't He Ramble,” | within a f
and ‘‘Mandy” are among them, sung from | zette of Lo
one end of the country to the other. as follows:
Although Cole & Johnson are always| * Messrs.
spoken of collectively it should be under- | ful Negro s
stood that they have different mental! provide at
¢qulpments and are in all respects distinct | most char
and seperat> persons. Johnson is a de-| ments ip L
lghtful baritone vocalist and accomplished | unapproact
pianist, while Cole is the clevarest Negro | of their me
character comedian of his race. The musi-! and abandc
cal comedy in which they wi'l star next| seen noth
season is anentirey new idea of Negro! yery poetrs
Sarah Price is expected from Tampa,
Fla., to rejoin her old partner, Bob Rus-
sell look-out sketch teams.
McPherson, Brymm and Hill arh prs-
paring a big musical number for vaude-
ville with Miss Mamie Emersoa as the
feature.
Bob A. Kelly is enjoying a much need-
ed vacation and incidentally relating to
everyone what asmart child the Junior
Kelly is.
| Sam Davis is now devoting all of his
spare time and spare change buying pawn
tickets that call for diamonds,
| Theodore Catastrophe Pankey is down
in Florida raising watermelons, and has
‘named his farm “The Isle of Repose.””
| Lost, Strayed or Stolen —One Jake
Harry Fiddler. A liberal reward is prom-
ised the person locating the party named.
| Jimmie Worles is studying law, and at
‘the expiration of present contract, -will
forsake the stage to practice his chosen
profession.
| Two days prior to Frank Wheaton win-
‘ning his case in court, the ‘Hello Bills’
were scrace, but now presto! “‘Every-
body's an Elk!”
| From the effect of a recent decision
handed down last week in the Court of
‘Spectal Sessions, it s more than likely
than the Grand Lodge of Elks will con-
vene at Brooklyn after all.
It ds reported that Mattie Wilkes will ar-
rive from across the pond within the next
ten days, and that she has accepted a
prominent part in one of the new shows
that take the road this season.
‘Among those wor ing at Coney Island
‘are Black Carl's Own Company, Billy
Moore, Ze Ball, Pearl Woods. Virgie
De O'r, Kid Thomas, Batley & Fletcher,
Birdie Allen, Oscar Thomas, Gus Hall
etal.
“Daddy” Sam Lucas has lost none of
‘bis aglilty and sprightliness of step, and
from appearances can still sing “I'm As
Young As I Used To Be." Sam is in-
deed a grand oldman, and may his shadow
“never grow less.
Cole & Johnson's “‘Shoo-Fly Regiment”
Company is slated to begin rehearsals on
July 14, while the Rufus Rastus Company,
life, having asits main theme industrial
education and the music will have all tha
ts characteristic in the old Negro. The
scenes are laldin the Southland and the
Philippines and will be mounted in a
lavish manner,
The cast Is the best Negro talent be:
fore the public and will bs the first real all
star cast ever presented in an attraction
of this kind, Including the names of Tom
Brown, Sam Lucas, Bob A. Kelly, Hen
‘Wise, Theo Pankey, Andrew Tribble, Si-
ron Navarro, Anna Cook, Molile Dill
Elizabeth Willlamsand Kate Milton. Re-
hearsals for,the production of the ‘“‘Shoo-
Fly Regiment” will begin in New Yor
| tthin a few weeks. The St. James Ga
‘zette of London spoke of Cole & Johnsor
a3 follows: ~
* Messrs. C le and Johnson, the delight-
ful Negro singers and dancers, continue to
provide atthe Palace Theatre one of the
‘most charming ‘and artistic entertain-
ments in London. They are unique and
‘unapproachable in the delicloes cadences
‘of their melodies and the careless grace
[and abandon of thelr dining. We have
‘seen nothing quite like it befor, It is the
very poetry of sound and movement.
the Smart Set and Black Pattl;Trouba
dours are expected to begin theirs during
the week folowing that date.
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THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION OF FOUNDING
OF WILBERFORCE
HIGH WATER MARK OF PROGRESS
Dr. B. T. Washington Principal Speaker—Plea for United Negro Methodism and a Clean Ministry—The Spirit of Union.
Wilberforce, Ohio, (Special)—The principal address on June 21, during the exercises in connection with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Wilberforce University, was delivered by Dr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Washington's address in full was as follows:
Wilberforce University is synonymous with the progress of the Negro race. Fifty years of Wilberforce means fifty years of racial growth. I come to you today not only to bring the greetings of the Tuskegee Institute, but our hearty congratulations as well upon the magnificent work you are here accomplishing. All honor to the memories of those whose faith and pioneer efforts made this institution possible. All honor to those that are at present sustaining it. Led on and inspired as they are by such men as President J. H. Jones, Wilberforce University has demonstrated that the Negro race possesses two elements essential to the highest civilization of our people,—first, that the race has the power of self-control and of executive leadership; and second, that the race is capable of receiving and imparting the highest forms of learning.
But Wilberforce stands for more than the progress of a single institution, or group of scholars. It represents the high water mark of the progress of a great church with 850,000 members.
As encouraging and praiseworthy as has been the past, I believe that the great African Methodist Episcopal Church, whose representative Wilberforce is, can lead the way in the future to still higher and greater things in racial progress. In the commercial world, the political world, and in the educational world the age is being marked by union, by combination. The North and the South each year are drawing closer together, politically and commercially. Scarcely any man is now asked whether he fought on the on the Southern side or the Northern side, or whether he votes the republican or democratic ticket. The spirit of union is everywhere in the atmosphere. The same spirit of union is at work in the religious world. Each year sees the Northern Baptist, Southern Baptists, Northern Methodist, and Southern Methodist, Northern Presbyterians and Southern Presbyterians are drawing closer together, blitting out lines of separation, because all of those potential forces recognize the fact that in union there is power and added usefulness. All this leads me to say that the time has come when, in my opinion, the black independent legions of Methodism should also unite themselves in one mighty organization for the promotion of the spread of the gospel and the education of the race. No vital doctrinal differences separate the three principal independent branches of black Methodists. Such differences as exist, for the most part, relate to history and church policy, and not one member in a score can explain what those diffeences are, or would consider them vital if he understood them. I believe, that the leaders in the three principal branches of Negro Methodism are big enough and unselfish enough to sink all personal and denominational differences and devise a method of union that shall mean not the loss of a bishop, or general of fusor, or anything vital to the church, but that shall save to the race the tremendous expense of supporting in the same territory, as is now sometimes true, from two to four sets of bishops and from two to four sets of presiding elders and the same number of annual conferences, church buildings and other machinery. Let the Negro church catch the spirit of the age, and instead of three branches with a scattered membership, let us present the object lesson of a united Negro Methodism with a million and a half members. With the money, time and strength saved, that are now spent in duplicating and triplicating church work, concentrated in material, educational and religious growth of a single organization, we can have a racial unit that shall command and compel the highest respect of the nation. Mexico, Italy and Germany so long as they were, divided into small countries were impotent and without influence. We want to find a man or men who shall be to the Negro Methodism what Diaz was to Mexico, Cavour to Italy, and Bismarck to Germany. Such a man or men can be found. With a strengthened and united Methodism, Wilberforce University—and all of the coleges supported by the Negro Methodist can more than treble their strength and power within the next fifty years.
THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER.
There should be, in my opinion, union and concentrated effort in one other direction. Take the African Methodist Episcopal Church connection, for example. You have eight thousand churches or pastorates. How are those churches to be supplied with intelligent, upright and capable men? There are numberless high schools and colleges, both South and North, that will provide without cost to your church the purely literary and scientific training to your men, but there is no institution except that which you yourselves will sustain which will train your ministry in the special faith and practice of your church. In other words, you must train your own ministers or be without them. If other institutions will provide literary training without charge, and will not provide for theological training, the logic of all this is that you should concentrate and unite in the direction of having at least one strong, well sustained theological seminary here at Wilberforce and one other in the heart of the South.
Ar the rate you are now turning out ministers from your seminary, that is, a few dozen a year, you can never keep eight thousand churches supplied with ministers of ability and character. Let me repeat, then, that our public schools, state colleges, and other institutions will aid or relieve you in the matter of purely literary training, but none will aid you in the training of ministers for your particular branch of Christian work. Relieved, then, of the cost of secular education, at a comparatively small outlay you can have two great theological seminaries—one at Wilberforce and one in the heart of the South, that will do the work no one can perform for you.
Again, there should be unity of action, and therefore racial strength, in two other directions' I believe in Wilberberforce, in its president and its other officials' because it presents at present the best rallying point of the perpetual union of the forces of the Northern Negro and the Southern Negro. We should see to it at any cost that the two elements of the race are kept in closest, harmonious touch. The black man at the North is dependent upon his Southern brother for much. The Negro of the South is constantly obligated to his brother at the North. This is going to be true, in certain directions, in an increasing degree. The Negro at the North has not only the responsibility of casting his ballot in such a wise and patriotic manner that will conserve and protect his interests, but he has the added responsibility of using his ballot in such a wise and patriotic manner that his vote will help forward the interests of the race at the South. In a word, the Negro at the North must, in a large degree, vote both for himself and for his brother at the South.
Further in the direction of union I believe that as a race we should let no opportunity escape us in the North or in the South to cultivate in every straightforward, manly manner the most cordial relations between ourselves and the white race by whom we are surrounded. Any other course will prove stortightened and sulceal.
Not all white men, in the South. or in the North, are our enemies, and at all times we should have the courage to give credit to those who are our friends. Do not misunderstand me in this connection. Let us repeat in substance what I recently said in the heart of the South, that in connection with our religious, educational and material growth we should not lose sight of the fact that if this country is to continue to be a Republic its task will never be completed as long as seven or eight million of its people are in a large degree regarded as aliens and are without voice or interest in the welfare of the government. Such a course will not merely inflict great injustice upon these millions of people but the nation will pay the price of finding the genius and form of its government changed, not perhaps in name, but certainly in reality, and because of this the world will say that free government is a failure.
If you doubt the statement of our having friends in the South. I wish you to read the following extracts from an address delivered by the Hon. Walter A. Fleming at the commencement of the University of Georgia. Braver and truer words have seldom been uttered North in behalf of the race:
"Race differences may necessite social distinctions, but race differences cannot repeat the moral law. The foundation of the moral law is justice. Let us solve the Negro problem by giving the Negro justice, and applying to him the recognized principles of the moral law. This does not require social equality. It does not require that we should surrender unto his inexperienced and incompetent hands the reins of political government, but it does require that we recognize his fundamental rights as a man.
The right of exemption from discrimination in the exercise of sufferage on account of race is one of the guaranteed constitutional rights of all American citizens. Let us respect the national laws to the limit of endurance, and if that limit should be passed let us resort to some means of redress more typical of Southern manhood than fraudulent subterfuge." Finally, there should be united and
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W. H. COUNCILL, President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Ala
To the Friends of Right and Justice:
I have no gall for enemies, nor bitterness for foes, but peace and good-will for everybody. I am prompted to address you these few words, not as a strike-back, not as a defense, but to express my feeling after a most severe denunciation.
I have seen all in the life of the Negro since the firing of the first gun on Fort Sumter to the present day; and I am forced to say, that the recent expressions of displeasure show more clearly the capabilities of the Negro race at invective and incidently the race's educational forces and powers, than anything else that has occurred since the bloody guns of Fort Sumter called the nation to battle, which resulted in the annihilation of human slavery on the American Continent.
For forty years without intermission,
I have labored in the school-room for
the advancement of my people—thirty-
and courageous effort in one other
direction. I sometimes fear that the
enemy that lurks within the race is more
to be feared than the enemy on the
outside.
Municipal. state and national bodies may attempt to pass laws to degrade and blacken and weaken the moral character of the Negro race, but not all of these forces combined can pass a law to degrade or weaken the moral character or weaken the Christian standing of a single black man in America. We may be convinced, our progress retarded and our patience sorely tried, but no law can degrade us. We ourselves are the only beings who can inflict that punishment. There are certain virtues too high for the law to touch. The Bible, which you and I love and believe, says: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law."
This leads me to say that I believe that the race has a right to ask that the great African Methodist Episcopal Church led on by such institutions as Wilberforce, shall see to it that the race continues to make rapid progress in the intelligence and high moral character of its ministers. In the raising of the character of its ministers, the whole race is making progress. For this all deserve congratulation. But the race is also going forward at a tremendous rate; it demands more of its leaders each year. One unclean, intoxicated minister can do more in a week to tear down the reputation of your church than many righteous men with combined effort can do to build up the church or the race. I plead not for the punishment of the guilty so much as I plead for the protection of the standing and influence of the minister who is trying to lead a pure life. The masses cannot be deceived by the mere moving of an individual with vicious habits from one city to another, or from one section of the country to another. The more such a man is moved the more the rottenness spreads and the greater the damage to church and race. Some-
# no of these forty years being spent here at this place with the same Board of Trustees, making "bricks without straw," out of which has grown Normal. Through all of the years of my life to the present, from the Pine Groves of North Carolina, through the Richmond Slave Pen and the Cotton Felds of Alabama, I have been true to my race. My ears have been open to the cries of the needy; to the struggling School boy, whether from the distant jungles of Africa, or the swamps of my own country; the pulpit, undominational or inter-denominational; orders and societies of every description my heart has throbbed in unison with their cause and to their call wherever I saw aspiration or inspiration for the uplift of the Negro race. To every cause and everybody I have divided my strength and substance as God has vouch-safed, ungrudgingly, my strength and substance to me, and without respect to race or condition, with
where within every Negro denomination there is a force that is potential enough to rise Samson-like in all the majesty and beauty of its strength and rid the church and the race of the burden of impure. unsafe ministeral leaders, no matter what their standing or influence may be. Do this and you present to the young Negro minister an object lesson that shall promote right-ousness and rebuke sin for many generations. Such heroić treatment will not drive people from the church-it will bring them into the church. Lost the race unite in unflocking and unfrocking every impure immunistial leader.
Let us not deceive ourselves into the belief that we are serving the interests of any individual or the masses by attempting to hide or whitewash wrong doing. The greatest kindness to the individual as well as to the race is to let the truth come to the surface.
In conclusion, permit us to add that I appreciate thoroughly the difficulties through which the race is passing Wrongs and injustices have been inflicted upon it, but I see nothing in our condition to cause us to become discouraged, but much to make us determined to go forward with a new courage.
On the completion of its fiftieth anniversary, the race congratulates Wilberforce University, and few events of recent years prove more conclusively that as a people we are destined to succeed than the fact that a great university like this can exist under the leadership and guidance of black men for half a century. As we depart from these historic and sacred grounds, let us do so with a firm and new resolve that we shall give our lives with renewed zeal to the furtherance of the highest interest of our entire race.
In thus acting, we shall stand magnificently and bravely by the men who have built so wisely and successfully in the past and are to make Wilberforce a still greater power for good in the future.
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respect to my conception of God's generosity which dispenses to all as freely as the common air is given. I have tried to be courteous, kind and helpful to everybody, regardless of race or condition and God alone knows how well I have done my duty. This characterizes my dealing toward all men, white and black, of every condition and station. I give to each justice truth and right, as well as the goods of this world, as God enables me to see it.
In the great battle for human rights, and, especially, the rights of the Negro, we have no forces to spare. The united Negro race can sooner come into recognition of the civilized world than a race full of the energy of internecine strife and inter-racial destruction.
With malice toward none and charity for all, I am, Yours Truly,
Pres. Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Ala.
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THEODOREDRURY IN CARMEN
Theodore Drury, impressario, baritone and operatic star, and his grand opera company came to a hearty and jubilant ending at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York City, Saturday evening, June 2d, when Bizos opera, "Carmen," with Mr. Drury as Escamillo and Franklyn Brown in the title role of Don Jose, was presented. The cast was as follows:
Carmen.....Madam Mary Terrell
Micaela.....Madam Estelle Clough
Frasquita.....Miss Daisy Allen
Mercedes.....Miss Genevieve Motley
Don Jose.....Mr. Franklyn Brown
Escamillo.....Mr. Theodore Drury
Morales.....Mr. Richard Brooks
Zuniga.....Mr. George Taylor
El Remerdads...Mr. Arthur Franklyn
El Dancearo.....Mr. J. D. Payne
Oriental Dancer.....M. De Forreste
That Theodore Drury has fulfilled his mission in his hard struggle and past efforts to give to America an all colored grand opera organization right in a New York theatre is a miracle beyond compare. He even did more than that; he went through the hardest to present an all-colored cast only to receive a star disappointment which compelled him to substitute a white singer. Then again, as a sacrifice to himself, he gave a young white pupil a chance to sing at the Saturday matinee, but the greatest sacrifice of all was that Drury took the critics' advice of season's past by stepping down and out of high tenor roles, never to sing them again, to assume the baritone, his rightful vocation of Escamillo, as second figure to a mere youth, a young upstart, with the voice of an angel, whom he had intrusted with the most pretentious role of Don Jose. The Don Jose in question is Mr. Franklyn Brown, tenor singer of Indianapolis, Ind., who, in advance of his age, dramatic experience and vocal education, made his debut as the most important personage in a standard grand opera. It was a pathetic source of joy to other critics who were present to see this yound, wild, slender boy advance to the footlights to impress us that we had once heard Campanini, Tamagno, Ze de Reske and Alvary, and now read of Caruso in the music-drama tragedy "Carmen"; so we journeyed to Fourteenth street to hear the tenor of a new angel voice, but to see what our eyes would rather not be held dramatically. Franklyn Brown (or Frank Fowler Brown, I don't know which), was not aware that he was fluguring in tragic drama of a musical sort that calls for strenuous study, all he had to think about was the glorious opportunity of bellowing out his robust notes, whenever he could catch them at a grasp within his reach to bellow. As an actor we had expected nothing from one so young as Mr. Brown, but he gave us one nice little picture scene seated in a chair while Carmen danced around him in true grysy style. In his duel scene we missed the treat that Drury and Ruffin once gave us. At tragic moments, traces of wrath could be seen only in the flashes from his eyes, for in stature Mr. Brown is tall, with long straight legs, projected backwards, that looked quite well concealed in boots.
His thin pale tan-colored face is proportioned by thick straight auburn-like hair and large eyes that are vain but impressive in their lustre. As a songbird, Franklin Brown is a new discovery and truly a great robust tenor with a voice that is rich, sweet and plentiful. He will be equal to the task of heavy tenor roles in grand opera only when he has acquired a more advanced vocal and dramatic education. All his highest notes above A had to be taken in falsetto, notes that he could have easily met in fortissimo if he had only known how. His middle notes were taken advantage of both by himself and the orchestra almost to overdoing. Male voices are generally unreliable, but it does seem possible in Mr. Brown's case, if he has the happy gift of self-control, enough to take good care of himself and lose sight of self-importance, that Indianapolis may some day be able to boast of having produced the world's greatest colored tenor.
Madam Mary Terrell assumed the role of "Carmen." From her very entrance on the stage it could be seen that she is a woman gifted by nature both as an actress and singer. Her portrayal of the famous gypsy character was something wonderful for a woman who has not had years of experience and training. The music which is written for mezzo-soprano or contralto was easily within her grasp, superbly executed, and in the dainty bits of character work her jestication was grand but in the tragic climax of the last act she was naturally doomed to fail dramatically. Madam Terrell has a soprano voice of greater power than Madam Clough and qualifies in ample sweetness and power enough to sustain opera. Be-
sides Madam Terrell is handsome and has a generous share of temperamental magnitude. Madam Estelle Clough appeared as Micaela. If we are to speak of art Madam Clough, like Drury, both can be spoken of as the most genuine dramatic artists of the performance. It was a most refreshing treat to see Madam Clough dealing in the kind of art that one has been accustomed to seeing in Emma Juch and other noted white singers whom I have so often witnessed in the same part. Madam Clough has long been the subject of much discussion in musical circles in New York and New England, but this review of her art and vocal ability will no doubt render a decision for those who have not considered her great and those who thought she was. As a singer, Madam Clough is a soprano, possessing all the qualities attributed to greatness except a powerful voice. Her voice is not quite heavy enough for grand opera, but her ability as an artist renders her capable of attempting it. Her voice is one of genuine sweetness, especially in shading, always reliable in possibilities of execution. She is superior in voice and art to Madam Hackley in every way excepting Madam Hackley's extreme high notes. It is not to beate Madam Hackley that I mention this fact. If Madam Hackley was a good teacher she was certainly over-rated as an artist and will require an exacting course in Europe to compete with Madam Clough and do what Madam Clough can do in grand opera. Theodore Drury as Escamillo, was at his best and heard to a better advantage in a medium sized theatre in Terrace Garden. His rendition of the Toreador song was a masterpiece of vocal art hardly equalled by any other male singer in the company. Genevieve Motley, Daisy Allen, Richard Brooks, George Taylor, Arthur Franklin and J. D. Payne played other parts in the cast. The orchestra under the direction of Eugene Salvatore, a skillful Italian conductor, was a little noisy, but otherwise perfection. Mr. Drury complained to me that the colored race did not support the opera as they should, but I attributed their lack of patronage to hot weather and the unconcern of a large element of the race who are not yet educated to grand opera. Of a whole week's performance of a first venture, Mr. Drury probably got all the educated class there was in three different days. Of the white race patronage the hot weather certainly was a hindrance. That the white race responded at all to a colored grand opera company is a sure sign that one company of the kind will soon be a paying venture, as all the white people who attended from day to day, including the newspapers, spoke highly of the performances.
This is encouraging when we consider that white grand opera in America has been little short of failure. Madam Julia Nordica, the great opera singer, gratified Mr. Drury with her presence in a box on the opening night, and Madam Sissietta Jones (Black Patti) also sent him a telegram of congratulation. Mr. Drury has now fully established his reputation as a grand opera purveyor and the Freeman bids him bon voyage and the critic is much obliged for a reserved seat in the orchestra. After a few local performances during the summer, the company is preparing to take the road next season.
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STEAMSHIP ENGAGEMENTS
By C. B. LEWIS
Copyright, 1806, by M. M. Cunningham
It may have been that in the hurry and confusion of getting away from London the purser of the steamship Bramble got things mixed up. He knew that he had among the passengers no less than three fond American mammas who had been trailing over Europe with marriageable daughters and were coming home with disappointed looks, and he hoped to give one of them a last chance.
However it happened, it was known among the passengers even before the Bramble left her dock that a great man was on board. It was Mr. Julius Smithers of the Chicago beef trust, and his fortune was variously estimated at from ten to fifty million dollars. There were men who at first denied that Smithers was a member of the trust. They could name over every packer who had ever been mentioned in the papers, and the name of Smithers didn't figure in the list. They were about to denounce him as an impostor when a red headed man suggested that Smithers might have come into the trust on a merger of some sort. There were mergers merging all the time, and what if the beef trust and the tombstone trust had consolidated their interests?
The thing was as good as settled in an hour. Mr. Smithers was a man of forty. He was rather rotfnd and bald headed. He had just the faintest inclination to be fashy. Mr. Smithers was very democratic for a man worth untold millions. He made acquaintances rapidly, and the steamer had not made a hundred miles to the westward when he started a game of poker in the smoking room and had for companions a drummer, a cattleman, a ward politician and the inventor of the sausage stuffing machine. He was given a seat at the captain's table. It was afterward said that this was a mistake and
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that he had taken the place assigned to a bishop. If he hadn't been worth millions upon millions his table manners would have been open to criticism.
There was much to overlook in Mr. Julius Smithers or there would have been under any other circumstances. He was about the only one who didn't know it, and he was happy.
Within forty-eight hours those mammas were laying wires. If they had failed to pick up a lord, a duke or count abroad it wasn't such a bad thing to fall back on one of the "its" of the beef trust. Mr. Smithers could not only restore the family beefsteaks to the old time prices, but he had millions to spend in castles, yachts and diamonds. These mammas had male friends aboard, who were instructed to obtain information about Smithers. He met them halfway and more.
"Say, you take my word for it, it's going to be the biggest success of anything for the last ten years," was his sanguine reply. "You'll hear all about it within a month after we land. Money in it? Well, I guess yes. I expect to make bonfires of fifty-dollar bills." He was talking about the merger, of course. His replies were reported to the waiting mammas, and they were introduced. The said introductions came about in a careless way, as if by mere accident. The mammas found him hearty and jovial in his speech. He didn't always follow the rules of grammar, and he sometimes caught himself just in time to bite off a cuss word, but a man may be forgiven much if he can draw his check for several millions.
It was decided in all three cases that Mr. Smithers would do as a member of the family. When he became a son-in-law they could polish him up a bit and gradually reduce the size of his two watch chains and his diamond pin. Then the daughters were introduced. This was also carelessly accomplished—that is, while Mr. Smithers was making intervals between his poker games in order to get a breath of ocean air he would suddenly find some one in his path and be compelled to pause and be introduced. He wasn't a man with a grain of suspicion in his composition, and he was the soul of good nature. He gave up his poker to sit down and make himself agreeable to Miss Blank. "You may have heard of the beef
trust?" was his way of starting off the conversation. "It's going to be the biggest thing the United States ever heard of. My, but that was a great thought of mine, and I can't help but feel rather swelled up over it! No more bust-ups; no more walking the railroad tracks for Julius Smithers, Esq."
The girls elevated their eyebrows in surprise and perplexity. They had never heard any merger talk before, and it was as Greek to them. They reported to their respective mammas that Mr. Smithers didn't get into college the day he called, that his ways were rather familiar, that he evidently hadn't attended over a thousand high teas and grand receptions and that it would take a carload of sandpaper to rub him down, but he had a good heart as a foundation to build on. If his conversation wasn't exactly up to the notch the windup was intended to draw applause. He always finished by saying:
"I shall now have to ask you to excuse me, but I will see you again. In fact, I want to see you again. I think I can figure it out before we arrive at Sandy Hook to offer you the best thing of the season, but keep that to yourself."
"Mamma, what did he mean by that?" asked the respective daughters of their respective mothers.
"Why, child, how silly you are?" was the reply. "What could he mean but one thing?"
"But we have known him such a little while."
"You haven't got to know a millionaire over a day or two. They are different from other men. They have the cash."
There were men aboard looking to get into a good thing on the ground floor. They knew that the beef trust was a good thing. They threw out hints to Mr. Smithers, but he laughed and shook his head and replied:
"Not yet, my boy. I've got the dough to start it off, and I want all the plunks there are in it. See me next season."
"Will beef go up?"
"Thunder, no! We expect to knock the price down to 15 cents a pound."
"Then how will you make your millions out of it?"
Mr. Smithers didn't make any direct answer. He simply winked a long, quivering wink with his left eye and conveyed the impression that there was a coon up the tree. The merger man enjoyed the sunshine of flattery and envy and toadyism for five or six days.
Then Sandy Hook was sighted one morning, and he announced to the three scheming mammas that he wanted to hold converse with their three daughters. It was to be private converse. There was agitation. There was perturbation. There were consultations. Mr. Smithers selected a corner of the music room, and to that spot the victims were led in turn. The conversation was about the same in each instance.
"My dear girl," began Mr. Smithers, with paternal blondness, "I told you I had a good thing on hand and would try to arrange to make you an offer. I am about to do so. You have never had any experience on the stage, but you are a mighty good looker."
"Sir!" demanded the maiden as she retreated a step.
"Oh, I shan't ask you to dress unbecomingly. It's just a plain, straight play called 'The Beef Trust' and showing how that corporation by raising the prices parted two happy lovers and brought grief and death to other households. Three corking acts and a cast of twelve people. We introduce a drove of cattle, a slaughter house and a butcher shop among other spectacular effects. Will move right along without a hitch. Papers are bound to give it free columns of advertising. I can put you in the cast at $30 per to begin on. What do you say?"
None of the three said anything—not to Mr. Smithers. Ten minutes after the last interview a murmur swept over the great steamer. That was followed by a growl. After the growl came cries of "Kill him! Throw him overboard!" There was a rush of feet along the decks, but Mr. Smithers was pulled into the purser's room and saved from total wreckage, and when the steamer reached her dock the captain lent him a pair of false red whiskers to disguise himself and escape the mob.
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This is the way an infant is christened in Morocco: "When the first child is born—and the parents are accustomed to wish for a girl as a happy omen—the mother of the young matron sends a basket containing the layette of the infant, along with henna, eggs and pigeons. The baby is stained with henna from head to foot and the little body smeared with butter and wrapped in flannels. The seventh day is the dap of baptism. At the first hour of the morning the friends are invited to the repast. About 9 o'clock a 'taleb,' or, better still, a 'shereef,' sacrifices a sheep on behalf of the child and as he cuts the animal's throat pronounces the sacramental words, 'In the name of God it is the baptism of such an one, son of such an one.' Then the child is washed for the first time, henna is put on its hands and feet, khol under its eyes; it is clothed in its finest robes and put into its mother's bed, at the head of which lighted tapers are burning."
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"I'm sure, Ethel," said the girl's mother sternly, "that I saw him kissing you last evening." "Nonsense, mother! He's entirely too bashful"—
"Don't contradict me, child! I saw the performance with my own"— "Pardon me, mother. You merely saw me kissing him."—Detroit Free Press.
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CHILDREN'S Wareables
for Ridiculously Little.
Several lots of suits, dresses and headwear were marked down at inventory to prices that need but to be known to clear out every garment within a few hours. The largest lots are these:
Boys' Russian blouse suits of white and colored washable material in 2, 3 and 4 year sizes, former prices $3.75 to $4.55, now .98c
Percale and gingham dresses for 2, 3 and 4 year old chi dhien, some a trifle shop.solved and mussed, choice .25c
Baby bonnets of mull, elaborately decorated with embroidery, lace and insertion, values up to $1.25, choice .15c
— Third Floor South.
Wash Frocks and Waists are Decidedly Cheaper
One lot of women's snirtwaists in short-sleeve style, with 1 ice and embroidery trimming, now .98c
Hand-embroidered white mull waists, allover embroidered ones and waists trimmed with Val. lace, former prices up to $4.00 choice .92 95
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CITY AND SOCIETY.
Charles Webb is quite' ill at his home in Wyoming Street.
Hon. Judson W. Lyons] was a caller at The Freeman last week.
Woodbine Perfume has magic powers. On sale at Biodan's Drug Store.
C. C. Powell, the music writer, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., was in the city last week.
Bethel A. M E. Sunday] School will convene at 9:30 a. m. instead of 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. Ethel Nance Sweeney, of Chicago is visiting relatives and friends in the city.
Miss Zenobla Fisher, of Denver, Colo., is the guest of her aunt, Miss Lizzle Sweeney.
Mrs. Norrell of Richmond, Ind., is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, 724 N. West St.
Elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of the Grand Lodge of the K. of P, which will meet in the city this month.
Miss Lucy Gardiner who has been reeling for sometime in this city with Mrs. Emma Parks, has returned to her home in New York.
Mrs. G. H. Shaffer entertained at luncheon, Friday evening of last week in honor of Mrs. Riley, of Hamilton, O, and Mrs Matthews, of Washington, Pa.
Miss Bessie Cox, of Lebanon and Miss Blanch Pattison, of Crawfordsville were among the delegates to the Indianapolis District Sunday School Convention last week.
Mrs. Riley of Hamilton, Ohio; Mrs. Matthews of Washington, Pa; sisters of Rev Geo. C. Sampson, and Mrs. Burles and little son of Belpre, Ohio, cousin of Mrs Geo C. Sampson, visited in the city last week.
A reception was given by the members of Simpson Chapel, Thursday evening of last week for their pastor Rev J. S. Bailey and family and presiding elder Sketton and family. A large number of friends were present and Hon. Judson W. Lyons was among the guests.
A DONATION
The Easiest Way to Learn of Things
That You Would Like to Know
of is to Read About Them.
An Aiding Society of New York City has placed in our hands for distribution a large supply of reading matter, especially for the colored people and their interest. This matter consists of articles pertaining to some subjects that has never before been placed within the colored man's reach, and as we are now sending to any one that will send us their address on a st-mped envelope for return some of these tracts together with a complete list from which can select your choice subject. Write at once before the supply is exhausted. Address NATIONAL NEGRO AID LEAGUE, 106 Gibson street, Dallas, Texas J H SIRLS, President
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Second Floor, Room 208, State Lil
(Formerly Stevenson)
Front Room 15 E. Washington
THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER.
Digby. There were about 200 children present. The decorations were parasols, Japanese lanterns with streamers of roses. Mrs Frank R. Wallace was at the punch bowl and refreshments were served by an Eastern catering company, assisted by Alex Taylor, of Pern, Ind., Miss Nellie Davis, Mary Murry, Charlie and Henry Fowler. Master Kenneth Mann rendered some good songs. Many valuable presents were received.
The colored high school will have for industrial training one thousand dol-
DALLAS
TEXAS.
lars. The public is very much pleased to have this department added —Thos. J. Scott, of Denver was in the city last week.—Mrs. Mollie Clark of Waco. is the guest of Mrs. Fred Minor at her home —Marshall Robertson, of Waco visited his sister Mrs. Maggie Morris here last week. They had not seen each other for twenty years.—Dr. Prince is the Stats Grand 'Chancellor of the K. of P. for a year. Many other changes were made in the officers. Frank Uies and Miss Elsetts Winn were married last week at the home of the bride. Many valuable presents were received.
Mr. and Mrs.'William Jackson spent
OHIO. Sunday at Columbus
Ohio.—Miss Fm m a
Williams of Toledo, is visiting friends in the city.—Mrs. Sarah Bibbs was brought home from Toledo quite ill. Mr and Mrs. E. L. Marshall and son Roscoe and Mr. and Mrs. Bibbs and daughter attended the twentieth anniversary of the A. M. E church at Finley, O., Sunday—Mrs. William and D. Burton are visiting at Toledo—Mrs. William Nelson and William Roberts are ill—The Eastern Star Sewing Circle met with Mrs. Nettle Wilders last Thur day—Eigle Smith has accepted a position at Cook's restaurant on North Main street.
The Sunday School CHAMPAIGN convention met at ILLINOIS. Bloomington the last
were Mrs. Mary Norvell, Misses Nina Moore, Caroline Woodruff and Mary Dickerson, and Claude Scott, Cecil Nicholson, A. B. Lee, William Carlton and Thomas Stringfollow.—Mrs. Nettie Williams has returned from her visit at Chicago—Mr. Desdoune who has been cooking at the Central Depot has gone to Chicago—Miss Mary Blackburn and Jordan Johnson spent Sunday at Homer.—John A. Gatewood is in the city the guest of his sister and friends.—Preparations are being made for the Grand Session of the Kulghts of Pythias which meets here next week.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C.
FT. MADISON,
REld, Mesdames Har-
IOWA.
vey Smith, Mahalie
Henry. D L Holmes.
Mattie Thomas; Miss Alpha Jackson; and Fred Henry have returned from the State S. S. Convention at Ottawa, with excellent reports.—Mr. Chas Bentick visited his sister Jenkins at Ottumma.—Rev D. M. A Holmer of Davenport was the guest of Ambrose Jackson last week.—Waen Murphy, E Harper and Mrs Arnold were delegas es to Des Moines, Odd Fellows, State Conclave last week.—Joseph Crawson died Tuesday of Typhoid fever. He was a young man with bright future. He professed religion before his death. The funeral was held at the A M E Church, Rev. J. D. Peterson conducted the services assisted by Revs McClelland and Chambers. A wife and several relatives survive him.—Harry Yelser, will reside in Keokuk.—S. Brown of Burlington has established a pauliorium—the Ladies Aid Society gave an entertainment at the Second Baptist Church Thursday evening.—Miss Ruth Ray of Keateville, Mo., is visiting her aunt Mrs. Crawson.—Walter Hall has returned to the Santa
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When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Sate and Reasonabla always.
We make loans to FURNITURE ORGANS and PAYMENTS OF all kinds without removing. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, £250 or more in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on ATCHES as well as PAYMENTS of all kinds. We concure difficult treatment to all. It is most important to investigate.
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Fe shops and resumed his old position.—Rev. S. C. Reid made the principal address to the Lecture Club banquet at Kookuk and Miss Alpha Jackson sang and received many compliments The activity of the club ceased for the summer months—Revs Peterson and Reid represented Ft. Madison at the Ministerial Association outing at Kookuk, Monday.—H Blade read an interesting paper at the Men's Sunday Club, Sunday.—John Woods is spending a few days in the country for his health.—Edgar Dunlap is at Danville superintending the laying of side walks—Miss A. Jackson was re-elected recording secretary for the State S. S. Convention—B. Y. P. U. was organized Sunday at the Second Baptist Church.—The two younger children of Mrs. E. Dunlap are convalescent.
of the illness of his wife.—The funeral of Robert McCains, who died in Cairo after a few days illness was held last Monday afternoon.—John Kennedy and Robert Green of Cairo, Ill., were the guests of Miss Sirah Capers last Sunday.—Miss Willie Brassfield is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson in Mound City.—F. Hyens is visiting in Clinton, Ky.—W. H. Green, of St. Louis J. M. Carr, of Cairo and Arthur Street were the guests of Mrs. J S Carr last Sunday.—Will Johnson, of Olmstead is visiting in the city.—Henry Hunt has returned from Cairo—John Thomas, and Jasper McKinney of Cairo, Arthur Ramsey, of St. Louis and James Kay of Mound City were in the city Sunday Prof. C. W. Thompson of Mound City was in the city this week.—Miss Fanie Siltt and sister were in Mound City last week.
was the mask party, chaperoned by Mesdames Luolie Dobbins and Marie Birdson at the beautiful home of Dr. A. T. Braxton, Friday night of last week in honor of Misses A. L. Burrows of Henderson, N. C. and L. N. White of Atlanta, Ga. The guests be an to arrive about 8:30 o'clock and soon the spacious parlor were filled with many species of humanity. Chocolate ice cream and frappe were served—Mrs Malissa Brown is the guest of her two sons at Chicago—Mrs. T. A. Frierson has returned to New Decatur Ala.—Mrs. Ruth Shaottlett died last week after an illness of two years—Miss Maggie E. Kelly has gone to Chicago for a six weeks course in music—Mrs. Alice Comack and children have gone to Birmingham, Ala.—Misses Halle Dickerson, Lula Ames, Magnolia Daniels and Camb Brown have gone to Monteagle Spring to spend the summer.
William Bundy and WILKESBARRE Charles Tyler have Penn. taken charge of the
ampton street formerly managed by Turner and Brown.—Elmer A. Carter the son of Rev G. G. Carter. won the Hon. L. N. Littner prize of $50, in the high school contest. Last year he won the prize of $15—Mr. T. Brown and Miss G. Hazen of this city gave a concert and literary program in the hall of Bethel A. M E, church at Scoranton last month. The affair met with great success and $24 was realized for the benefit of the church—It is very ne es. sary that that we should have a business league in this valley. Organized effort is most successful. It is time we were making a change in our condition and prepare for our young men and women by opening up avenues of employment. All persons interested in the organization will meet Sunday afternoon, July 15. at three o'clock at the Eureka Reading Rooms, 309 Center street.
SOUTH BEND breath have gone to INDIANA. their home at Beat rue Nebraska—Mrs
Hines, a cousin of George Bland, the headwaiter at the Oliver House is a guest in the city—Miss Bertha Morgan entertained with a birthday party recently. Whist was the feature of the evening. The first prize was won by Mrs. Earl Finley; the second by Thad Ash, the booby by Mr. Barton. The decorations were in pink and white and a three course lunch was served—Mrs. D D Palmer, Meedames C. W. Kittrrell, W. W. Anderson, J. W. Wade, Foster, Earl Finley, R. O. Grady, G. Clay and Hickman will attend the National Federation of Women's Clubs at Detroit July 9-14—Rev Stoval, pastor of Mt Zion's Baptist church and Mrs. Helen Black of this city were married at Niles, Mich., recently—Mrs Will Manning has gone to Mt Vernon to attend the grand lodge meeting—Secure The Freeman at Hedgepath's barr shop, the Two-tenth Century Club inquire of D. D Palmer Oliver Hotel. Leave news of importance with the agent.
Muoh credit is due the public especially PENN. the members of the Elgth Ward Club for the contributions for the burial of James Richards, a stranger, who came to this city a few days before his death from heart failure — The Ladies of the Mite Missionary Society of the Howard Place A. M E church will give a Carnival of All Nations, July 10, at the church hall. It is to be an unique and entertaining affair. Every nation will be represented. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Battle attended the races at Wilkes barre, this week. The stork presented Mr. and Mrs. Champ Burke with a boy. Mrs. Burke was formerly Miss Gold e Emery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Sim Emery of Williamsport, Pa. — The committee of the Anthracite Lodge, No 57, of T. B. P. O E W gave an excursion to Mountain Park July 5. There will be a special meeting Sunday evening at 2:30, at 309 Center street, Chas Webster, chairman. — It is with much great ende that the colored population of this city welcome a Negro publication in their midst, that their news may be sent everywhere. The Freeman is cheerfully received.
PROGRESS OF UNDERTAKERS
funeral occassions. He is associated with Wm. Sykman, a prominent embalmer and undertaker. Thomas & McErvin firm is the latest to enter the business. Wallace Thomas runs a large livery stable which receives patronage from the well-to-do people. McErvin being associated the opened up an undertaking establishment and are now prepared to serve his race at any call. The undertakers of Louisville are well equipped with funeral care, carnages, call buggies, latest embalming utensils, polite and dignified people. They are making their way fast and becoming a factor in the community. They wish through the columns of the Freeman to thank the generous public for the patronage. C. B. Lewis.
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OR
KITCHEN PLEASURE
The "PERFECT" Gas Rail
convenience, besides helping
trouble and expense.
$3 00 DOWN. $2
INDIANAPOLIS
LADIES' EXCHANGE
THE FAVORITE
REFRESHMENTS, ICE
With Good
THE CAFE DEPARTMENT please al
15 and 20 Cents. SMITH
STUCKY'S D
FOR LOW PRICES ON D
Prescriptions given
LINOIS and OHIO STREETS.
JUST A MINUTE!
Eureka S
Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh
prices. Prompt delivery of all orders.
1202 N. W
Old Phone Main 5474
KITCHEN PLEASURE,
The "PERFECT" Gas Range gives all the comfort and convenience, besides helping the housewife to save time, trouble and expense.
$3.00 DOWN. $2.00 PER MONTH.
INDIANAPOLIS GAS COMPANY.
LADIES' EXCHANGE== MORE POPULAR THAN EVER
THE FAVORITE PLACE FOR
REFRESHMENTS, ICE CREAM and SODA
With Good Fruit Juices
THE CAFE DEPARTMENT pleases all. Best Meals and Lunches at all Hours.
15 and 20 Cents. SMITH & BATES, 534 Indiana Avenue.
STUCKY'S DRUG STORE.
FOR LOW PRICES ON DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Prescriptions given particular attention.
LINOIS and OHIO STREETS. PHONE 722. MAIN 1329
Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh Meats, Butter, Eggs at the bottom rock prices. Prompt delivery of all orders guaranteed Don't forget the number 1202 N. West Street, Old Phone Main 5474 INDIANAPOLIS, IND
GEM LAUNDRY
235,237,239 and 241 INDIANA AVE. Rough dry family washing 5 cents per pound. Phones 1671
Pennsylvania
EXCURSION TO
$1 50 MADISON and RETURN $ . 50
Leave Indianapolis...7:30 s. m.
Returning
Leave Madison...6:00 p. m.
$1.25 TERRE HAUTE and Return $1 25
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Indiana Avenue
(Salt Lake)
Indianapolis, Ind.
R. L. WELLS, Proprietor.
CHAS. W. MOSBY,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Notary Public,
UNITY BUILDING,
Room 209.†
142 E. Market St.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Miss Edna A. Scott,
TEACHER OF
... MILLINERY ...
Hours from 1 to 5 p. m.
1110 N. Senate Avenue
MRS. WHITTEN,
Millinery
Special all this week. We are closing out 50 patterns that are slightly solled expensive patterns, for 500 and up. Come and see them. 837 Indiana Ave
MRS. IDA YOUNG,
Restaurant and Roaming House
Old Phone 657 Main
Boarding by Day, Week or Meal,
Everything First-class.
885-887 Ft. Wayne Ave., Indianapolis.
For Sale LOT on
Chicago St.
Cement Walk Made.
BARGAIN
O T. BYRAM, 200 Unity Building
Phone 8273
Every lady in the land should secure J. W. Taylor's latest catalogue of hair goods, sent free. Address J. W. Taylor, Howell, Mich.
H. L. SANDERS,
ESTABLISHED 1889.
Send Us Your Order.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
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— ALSO —
Dentists' and Physicians'
Operating Coats and
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All Mail Orders receive prompt attention. Write for
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Store 206 Indiana Ave, Factory 110, 112 W. Ohio St.
Phone 2541.
DGERY
Which?
TREASURE,
as Range gives all the comfort and
helping the housewife to save time,
OWN. $2.00 PER MONTH.
DOLIS GAS COMPANY.
HANGE== MORE POPULAR THAN EVER
FAVORITE PLACE FOR
SUS, ICE CREAM and SODA
With Good Fruit Juices
Releases all. Best Meals and Lunches at all Hours.
SMITH & BATES, 534 Indiana Avenue.
DRUG STORE,
ON DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Given particular attention.
ETS. PHONE 722, MAIN 1329
Have You Heard of The
Supply Co.
Fresh Meals, Butter, Eggs at the bottom rack
orders guaranteed Don't forget the number
. West Street,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND
5 cents per pound. Phones 1671
FIRST SEASHORE EXCURSION
(Season of 1906.)
TO
Atlantic City,
OCEAN CITY, CAPE MAY, or SEA
ISLE CITY, via
BigFour,
L. S. & M. S. Railway and
Lehigh Valley Route.
$17,00
Rate from
INDIANAPOLIS
For the Round Trip.
Return limit 15 days, including date of
sale. Good for stop at Philadelphia
and Niagara Falls, also at Westfield for
Chantagua Lake, side trip, returning,
providing tickets are deposited with
agent immediately on arrival.
For full information and particulars
as to rates and tickets, etc, call or
agents "Big Pour Route," or address
the undersigned H J RHEIN.
Gen'l Pass, Agt., Chnoutnol, O.
C. C CLARK Gen'l Asst. Pas Agt.
Indianapolis, Ind
The Old and Original
Cut Rate Market
Is still at 238 Indiana Ave., Retail Meats at wholesale prices. Give him a call. . .
W. E. SAYER
New Phone 1839.
Burley's Exchange
541 INDIANA AVENUE
SALOON and POOLROOM
Liquors, Cigars and Lunch
Give us a trial.
ANDREW L. BURLEY, Manager.
Miss M. Deery,
Exclusive styles in MILLINERY,
NOTIONS & HAIR GOODS. Prie
ces reasonable.
1214 North Senate Ave.
Wanted - A first class shinemaker at the Rocky Mountain Shoe Shop, 317 1 diana ave. About the first of the month; colored.