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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND AUG 3 1907 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW WHO WILL BE NEXT PRESIDENT TIAL NINEMINE? CORTELYOU IS THE DARK HORSE J. W. Lyons Gives Views On the Southern Negro Voter--Fortune in Favor of Gov. Hughes I or Presidential Nominee. Washington, D. C., July 31.—Who will be the next republican nominee for the presidency This is the question that is agitating the minds of the politicians and of the laity, a nd wherever two or three are gathered together on the continent, the discussion turns to this everlasting problem. Will President Roosevelt stick to his pronuciamento given out on the night of the election of 1904, and decline a renomination? Or, will he finally yield to what may seem to be a spontaneous call for him, and allow the convention to name him, without protest on his part? Again, will he insist upon the nomination of Secretary Taft. If he decides that he will not, under any circumstances, permit his own name to be used? Then, should it be found impossible to make Taft the nominee, would he throw the strength of the administration to another candidate? In that event, would the "dark horses" be George Bruce Cortelyou, who surprised everybody by his phenomenal management of the campaign which gave Roosevelt the biggest popular majority received by any presidential aspirant since the rise of the republican party? If Roosevelt should eliminate himself and there should be a prolonged fight in the convention, who would benefit in the "break-up?"—Fairbanks, Cannon, Knox, Foraker, Hughes, La Follette or somebody yet unheard of? These are the queries that are worrying the wise-acres, and the attempt to reach a solution is going far to enrol the dull "dog-day" season in and out of the national capital. At this writing, it is anybody's fight, and there is little likelihood of a crystallization of sentiment along positive lines before the meeting of Congress in December. Some politics will doubtless be played in the various camps, and no one will be allowed to go to sleep after the game starts in earnest. Not the least of the burning questions that must come up for settlement will be the part of the South will play in the section of a candidate. It is expected that the usual agitation for a reduction of representation will be sprung on the score that with less than 200 northern votes in the convention, added to its own strength, the South, without ability to deliver a single electoral vote, will be powerful enough to dictate the nominee. The result will probably be the same that it has been in former years—the South will retain its representation, but the seats will go to those who are willing to support the candidate and platform that offer the best returns to the party as a whole. In the meantime, the friends of the administration and the ants, the lily-whites and the black-tans, the ins and the outs are looking to the main chance and overlooking no bets. Former Register Judson Lyons, has been on a trip through several districts of Georgia, examining the situation with reference to the fight that the whites are making to disfranchise the Negro. In a brief interview, he admitted that the struggle would be a force one and that there would soon be a strong "line-up" of the contending forces, preparatory to a fight to a finish. He hazarded no guesses as to the outcome, but there was a determined ring in his voice which gave an impression that the Negro would not submit tamely to a forfeiture of his existing right to vote. A strenuous effort, it is said, will be made to have every Negro in the State qualify for the suffrage, and in order to save the day, it will be necessary to get every one of the race's votes in the ballot box and see to it that they are honestly counted. Unless some extraordinary clever missionary work is done in this direction, the proud State of Georgia will fall in behind her sister commonwealths in the degradation of her black citizens and the autonomy of the Negro will be gone forever. As Georgia is the home of our most aggressive agitators for manhood rights for the race and a free ballot, a censure is now offered them to show in a practical way that true charity begins at their own hearthstone. If they do not themselves qualify and strain every nerve to preserve their sacred heritage, they will lay themselves open to a charge of inconsistency, if not cowardice. If they are constructive statesmen, and not mere doctrinaires and dreamers, they will bestir themselves and set so warm a pace in this matter that even if they should lose they will deserve the respect of their fellow men—men in all sections of the land. Reverting once more to politics and the presidency, T. Thomas Fortune, the brainy editor of The New York Age, essays the role of a prophet, and comes out flat footed and unequivocally in favor of Charles Evans Hughes, of New York. The stroke is a bold one, and is distinctively "Fortunesque." Its very audacity has set the loyal doubters on edge, and for the moment, no one has anything to say on the subject. The sages are shaking their heads and wondering what is behind it all. They cannot understand why a man of Mr. Fortune's experience and recognized sagacity should so suddenly strike out for an unknown quantity like Governor Hughes, and so completely burn his bridges behind him, as he has done in this instance, unless he sees something in sight of a definite and positive character. They argue that it is not "like fortune" to jump into nilstream without a life preserver concealed somewhere about his person. Be that as it may, here is what Mr. Fortune hands out to his readers at the head of the editorial columns of last week's Age: "It is written in the stars that the next Republican National Convention will nominate Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, as the candidate of the Republican hosts to be President. "It is written in the stars that Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, will arise in his seat in the Republican National Convention and place in nomination Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, as the candidate of the Republican hosts to be President. "It is written in the stars that Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, will be elected by the sovereign people of the United States to be their President in succession to Theodore Roosevelt, of New York." Now, there you have it! Is this daring slogan a bid or a "defi" to the Foraker masses? Will the friends of Senator Foraker content themselves with sending their champion back to the Senate, and enter upon this new and startling program? The attitude of the brilliant editor of the Age is dramatic in the extreme, and lovers of the spectacular are compelled to admire his success in creating thrilling stage pictures, even if they fail to rally to the rescue at the psychological moment, after the approved melodramatic fashion. But who knows? Mr. Fortune has sometimes missed his guess, but he may be wiser in his day and generation than we of the "great outside" wot of. The plot thickens. The gayety of nations is not lacking in valuable and entertaining contributions. It is the "press gang's" next move! Speaking of the New York Age, we are reminded that for several weeks—in fact, ever since the Age became the property of a stock company—it has been bruited abroad with much positiveness if statement that the paper had been bought outright by Dr. Booker T. Washington, as the official organ of the Tuskegee Institute and as the especial champion of industrial education and the policies in general of the head of that great school. It was further asserted with assurance that Mr. Fortune was no longer editor in his own right of the sheet that he founded in the long, long ago—that he was simply a paid writer and subject to others as to the kind of matter he must prepare for his patrons. The Washington Bee fathered the rumor, as did also the Washington Horizon, if our memory serves us alright. The close friends of Dr. Washington were in blissful ignorance of this alleged new move on the part of the man whose confidence they thought they enjoyed, and silently wondered why it was that the principal persons who possessed this great secret should be persons who have not been known as sympathizers with either the man or his work. They imagined they saw the virile and emphatic Fortune of other days in every line of the editorial page—but the "wise guys" thought differently. They knew what they were talking about; Fortune was in IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. HOME ENTER PRICES HOME INDUSTRIES THE SOUTH COME, BOYS, GET TOGETHER. HAYWOOD the office—in an advisory capacity, perhaps, but as the thinker of his own thoughts, he was no more. So they said. Commenting with some warmth on the matter contained in a recent issue of the Washington Bee, this is what Mr. Fortune has to say for himself on the subject: "The Washington Bee says there is a rumor, but where and how it originated it does not specify, that Mr. Fortune is no longer editor of the New York Age, but acts only in an advisory capacity. Now, this is not argument, although Mr. Chase may think it is. But, if he or any other person really thinks the rumor has any bottom in it, let him try to break into the Age reservation and he will get a jolt that will make him shiver from center to circumference of his hulk." If anyone really thinks Mr. Fortune is off on a vacation, or has degenerated into a mollycodile, here is a "come on" that sounds as if it means business. If Booker T. Washington has purchased a controlling interest in the paper, the person who first gets to Tuskegee, Ala., with the proof, will hear something very decidedly to his advantage. CHICAGO WINSTIGHT GAMES GRIFFIN'S PITCHING CREATES GEAT SENSATION Chicago, July 27.—Special.—A large bunch of Chicago "fans" who went out under the impression that the Indianapolis boys had advanced no further along the base ball alphabet than their A B C'c, were treated to a great surprise upon Saturday. The Hoosier lads played a ll the finer points of the game right up to the handle, and proved to all that they know it, all the way through the alphabet from A to Z. Mr. Talbott, who occupied the center of the diamond for the Hoosier boys, pitched a fine game and had the Lelands doing all kinds of funny stunts trying to solve his delivery and only for a dint of hard luck he would have held the heavy hitting aggregation to a more even score. The trouble started in the second inning, showing considering the fact that they were facing a pitcher who has not only beaten numbers of minor league teams, but has an actual defeat of the Brooklyn National League to his credit, and was backed up today by a half-dozen players who are the acknowledged head of their profession in their race. The boys were game to the core and took their defeat like men, and Manager Butler, who seems to be a prince of good fellows, received much praise for the showing his team made and says he would be glad to tackle us again; which we hope he will. This Is How It Happened. For the first four innings it was a pitching duel between Foster and Griffin, with Foster having a slight lead, but "Griff" working fine, and the crowd had settled down for a long drawn out contest. The A B C'c had not annexed a hit up to this time until West, after two were out, hit a screacher, which Wright tried for but failed; West immediately stole second and with Prim at bat, we thought there was something doing, but nay. The Lelands shoved one across the plate in the fourth and the crowd woke up; but in the fifth the *** Dr. Booker T. Washington's suggestion that the Negroes throughout the country appropriately observe the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier on the 17th day of December next, is a timely one. We cannot do too much to keep green the memory of the valient souls who gave the best that was in them to help on the work of throttling that monster evil, slavery, and "The Poet of Freedom" stood in the front rank of the revered abolitionists of New England who contended for the manhood rights of the Negro bondmen. His voice and pen and his means were liberally given to this noble cause, and whenever an opportunity presents itself for us to meet and gratetfully (Continued on page four.) CHICAGO WINSTIGT GAMES CHICAGO WINSTIGT GAMES GRIFFIN'S PITCHING CREATES GEAT SENSATION Chicago, July 27.—Special.—A large bunch of Chicago "fans" who went out under the impression that the Indianapolis boys had advanced no further along the base ball alphabet than their A B C'c, were treated to a great surprise upon Saturday. The Hoosier lads played ll the finer points of the game right up to the handle, and proved to all that they know it, all the way through the alphabet from A to Z. Mr. Talbott, who occupied the center of the diamond for the Hoosier boys, pitched a fine game and had the Lelands doing all kinds of funny stunts trying to solve his delivery and only for a dint of hard luck he would have held the heavy hitting aggregation to a more even score. The trouble started in the second inning, and after two men were out an easy grounder was hit to first baseman Board, with a man on second. It was an easy out, but instead of Board playing ball as he should, by tossing the ball to Merida, who had come up in time to receive the throw, he played for all the glory and failed to get his man, which resulted in a run—a stolen base, a hit and another run, making two. The A B C's played a smooth, game up until the seventh, when they went up a little, allowing every man on the Lelands a bat in this round and making three errors, allowing two hits and three runs. The A B C's scored their lone tally in the fourth, when Merida opened with a hit to center, was sacrificed to second by Shawler and scored when Primm came up and made the longest hit of the day. The boys made a good PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50 showing considering the fact that they were facing a pitcher who has not only beaten numbers of minor league teams, but has an actual defeat of the Brooklyn National League to his credit, and was backed up today bly a half-dozen players who are the acknowledged head of their profession in their race. The boys were game to the core and took their defeat like men, and Manager Butler, who seems to be a prince of good fellows, received much praise for the showing his team made and says he would be glad to tackle us again; which we hope he will. This Is How It Happened. For the first four innings it was a pitching duel between Foster and Griffin, with Foster having a slight lead, but "Griff" working fine, and the crowd had settled down for a long drawn out contest. The A B C'c had not annexed a hit up to this time until West, after two were out, hit a screacher, which Wright tried for but failed; West immediately stole second and with Prim at bat, we thought there was something doing, but nay. The Lelands shoved one across the plate in the fourth and the crowd woke up; but in the fifth the A B C's ran up against the hardest kind of luck. Ball was passed to first and West missed Wright's grounder, making two men on bases; Winston forced Ball out at third with a grounder, leaving two men still on; Harris up. Primm somehow failed to get his hand on a pitched ball and it rolled to the grandstand, two men scoring before the return of the ball. Harris got a hit, stole second and third and scored on Paynes bunt past the pitcher, making a total of four runs. The A B C'c were putting up a desperate uphill fight, but failed to reach the plate until the seventh, when they touched the "Reuben" up for three singles and scored. The crowd was frantic and the Lelands became somewhat irritated and in- (Continued on page tour) WILL PLAN TO AID NEWSBOYS CITIZENS OF FALL CITY TO GIVE OUTING FOR NEGRO LADS THE FISHERMEN ORGANIZE CLUB The National Training School to be Located in Washington, D. C. Preparations are being Made for the K. of P Encampement. Louisville, (Ky.)—Special.—A few weeks ago, the white "newsies" were given an outing in White City and every assistance was given them by the reporters, editors and publicists, and nothing was left undone to make it a most enjoyable affair. We feel that an entertainment of some kind in the open air should be shown the colored newsboys, which are many in this city. It is hoped that some of the public-spirited citizens of the press or pulp will come to the aid of the colored newsboys, and we dare say that The Freeman and its representative will be generous and give some support in charitable undertaking for the newsies. There was recently organized the Falls City Fishing Club, with Ed Caldwell, president; W. L. Ricks, secretary, and Tom Cole, treasurer. The camp is located seven miles down the river on the Indiana side. Every arrangement possible has been made to carry all the members and visitors to the camp, using an electrical launch. An experienced man is in charge of the camp and the twenty-five members with their host of friends claim they would rather go down there daily than be on the eastern coast. * * * The numerous friends of the National Training School for Women, to be located at Washington, D. C., will soon have an opportunity to see the cuts of the building which will appear in the leading Negro Journals. The building is situated near a car line in the northwestern part of Washington, and is an eight-room structure, surrounded by six acres. Miss Nannie Burroughs has the business arrangements in splendid shape. * * * The good Dr. J. H. Frank, for many years pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist church, is dishing out some "mighty powerful" correspondence to the Danville Torchlight. Brother Frank advises that the brethren settle their differences in Kentucky with their hearts in harmony with Jesus. He is right. They ought to be able to get together, since Mayor Bingham has put the "lid" on. One of the most generous gifts to the Y. M. C. A. was eight life-size pictures of the great and grand men of the race, including Lincoln. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox. The pictures were given and hung upon the walls by Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. They adorn the front hall of the new Y. M. C. A. with Dr. Booker T. Washington, Fred Douglass and Paul Lawrence Dunbar the most prominent. * * * Only a few months remain before the proud citizens will turn their faces towards the thousands of K. of P.'s who are to camp here in the heart of Kentucky hospitality. We are glad to hail this magnificent gathering. The intellectual giants of the organization will be here—men and women of the highest and brightest type—men who compare favorably with the best of any race, will be here. The delegates will not only see our pretty women, ride behind our fast horses and smell the perfume of our good whiskey that has been within the happy staves of oak, longing to touch their lips, but hey will get down to business. It will be a week of opportunity. A day for leaders to do great hings. The press will be there to tell the news to the country. Louisville is the place to do things. You feel more at home than in any other spot in this country. The people are generous and hospitable. While there are some who how to gun powder and women, there are others who stand up by the Golden Rule. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, Major R. R. Jackson, Knights of Pythias of this (Continued on page eight.) “THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ra COMMENDABLE MOVE. ‘The purpose of the Dougias® © torical and Memorial Association t¢ pay off the mortgage of the Douglass homestead is a very commendable move, The $5,000 against the Drop erty it is understood -has been placed since the death of Douglass, at the time the estate was purchased from the legal heirs. The association will pay off the debt with the ‘object of preserving the home as @ ‘memorial hall in honor of the distinguished serv- ices rendered by the former occupant to his race and country. The people generally have not been aroused to the importance of contributing to the association's purpose, simply because it is not thoroughly \nown. Popular subscription is sometimes a very poor way to get money together for. such ‘a purpose, but in this particular in’ stance the amount could be. quickly raised in that way. In fact, ought to be raised that way. There are hun- dreds of thousands that will gladly give their mite when the matter Is properly set before them. We will go so far as to say that the people will be disappointed if they are not permitted to show their appreciation of the distinguished Douglass. Some little sentiment is necessary to the world, perhaps as salt is to the sea, at least keeping it from get- ting sour. Some should attach here, even at the expense of worry and a Jong drawn out campaign for contri- butions, The large sums are all right, but should not be expected. The dimes, nickels or pennies will flow to the treasury like a stream if responsible managers, collectors or committees are named in every considerable community, ‘The lesson taught is worth the expense; that of veneration, regard, love, respect, esteem of the lights of the race or nation, and the yet more specific thing of racial near- ness, the need of which is very, very plain, We think that the peculiar occasion will appeal to all, every: where, and that th ecommittee will have no trouble beyond the manage- ment by: way of generalizing the work. Let the committee try it. We are satisfied that the results will be grati- tying. We insist that the people will will- ingly give generally give, and feel- ingly give for the preservation of those thimgs tnat were associated with the great Douglass. Again we insist, that they will be disappointed if not permitted an opportunity to give. GRAND COURT ©. of CG. The Twelfth Annual Session of the Grand Court of Illinois O, of C. convened in Alton last week, Sixteen courts were represented and several visitors from St. Louls, Mo. were present. The annual address of fhe G. W. Codnsellor, Mrs Irene L. Camp of Chicago, was very in- fi » ) eS | Mrs. Irene L. Camp. spiring, and with which all were much pleased. Mrs. Camp, who has held the first place in the Grand court for three years, deserves great credit for her faithful gervic's. The report of the G. R. of Deeds and GR. of Deposits showed the financial standing In good condition. The subject of the endowment was increased from $50 to $100. Ths meeting was very harmo- nious and session was @ great success. The following officers were duly elected for the ensuing year: ‘Mrs. Nora Makle, G. W. C. of Chicago; Mrs. Fanny Colley, G. W. 1., Danville; Mrs. Irene L. Camp, G. W. Intor., Chi cago; Miss Mildred Randolph, G. Sr. Dr. Champaign; Mrs. Ida Turner, G. Jr. Dr. Parls; Mrs. Mary Herderson, G. W. E. Miss Pauline Owens, G. W C., Mounds Mrs. Lizzto Errs, GW. A. C., Calro; Mrs Grace Cunningham, G. W. H., Chicago Mrs. Emma Harrls, G W.P., Chicago Mrs. Bell Eubanks, Grand Trustee, Ess St. Louls; Mrs. Irene L. Camp, Supreme Representative, Chicago. At the close of the Grand court the members of the Grand court presented Mrs, Irene L. Camp, the retiring G. W. C,. with a pair of sterling silver candle sticks in appreciation for services rendered them. Another one of the strongest and mos! brilliant officers in the court is Mrs. A. M. Hubbard of Chicago, who 1s now serving her fourth year 8G. R. of D. Too much ‘credit cannot be given the good women o Alton, whose hard work and unstinted Hberality made the meeting at Alton one of the delightful sessions of the order. The Grand court closed with singing ‘God be ‘With You Until We Meet Again.” DICK JONES SHOT TO DEATH. Was Husband of Black Patti—His Career as Manager. (By Sylvester Russell.) “Dick” Jones, former husband of Mad am issieretta Jones, the famou: Black Patt!, according to a dispatch from Portsmouth, Va., July 17, was shot by two men of his own race, of which details as yet remain unknown ‘When Jones discovered that he was wounded unto death, he requested that word be sent to Hon. Charles W Anderson, “collector of the port” ol New York City, a friend of former days, and from whom he had bor. rowed money while Mr. Anderson was Jon a recent visit south. ‘The personal and theatrical career fof Mr. Jones fills a brief but interest- ing chapter in stage annals. He had been a concért manager of plunging thriftiness. Barly in life he met and wooed a young girl in whose yoice he could see the dim shadow of a great future, and married her. Then he at once set out to make his for- tune by forming a jubilee company equal to the Fiske University singers, and with a superior voice to be the star card among the singers. Whea this country had become overrun and somewhat unnecessarily tired of ju- bile singers, and Europe and Canada were well supplied, Dick Jones sought out the West Indies as a new fieid for his managerial energies, which terminated into a great financial suc: cess. His wife who had now become known abroad as Matilda Jones and whose fame had reached America in advance of her return, was the first demonstration of Dick Jones real worth as a manager. When the troupe returned to America his wife's breast was covered with medals of all des- eriptions, presented to her by differ- ent personages of a foreign element of admirers. His wife assuming the name of Black Patti, Dick Jones gavé to the people of his own race, in par- ticular, -a first introduction in New York and other large cities. During this tour which was not decidedly suc- cessful financially, J. G. Bergen, hus- band and manager of Flora Batson, then immensely popular as the “queen of song,” engaged Madam Jones for a joint tour which terminated in jeal- ousy, in which the Jones’ got the worst of the deal. It was the first. great colored jubilee ever given at Madison Square Garden, New York,| by 8. Goodfriend, an unsuccessful speculator, that Jones really won the day for his wife. J. G. Bergen had been offered a big sum to have Flora Batson appear for the occasion, but Bergen refused the offer, and Jones clinched it, thereby gaining the day. The press was unanimous the next morning in declaring Sissieretta Jones (Black Patti) as the greatest living singer ever known of the colored race. She was at once engaged for a tour as soloist with Jules Levy's band, Then under the management of Major Pond, she sang in concert until the famous. Pond law suit ended their al- liance. Then Mrs. Astor had the mad- am sing at her private residence for 31000. ‘This was followed by a tour in vaudeville, as a headliner, both in America and Europe, at which time it was said that the madam sang for the royalty. Mr. Jones was with his wife during all these tours. On her return from Europe, Messrs. Voelcel and Nolan, operatic managers, offered to star the madam in a combination of comedy and opera. This she accept- ed. Her husband was no longer her real manager, but continued to travel with her for two seasons with the company hence imown as Black Patt!’s Troubadours. At this period in thelr life's history the madam and her managers were compelled to re- tire Jones permanently from travel | with the company, as his drinking habits and methods of exaggeration and braggadoccio, when under the influence of liquor, were not essential to her greater success. The madam got a bill of divorce and it was eald, very greatup to her credit, that she had fixed a sum for the maintenance lof his support as a recompense of his past services of former days, for it was not a lack of love and devotion exactly that led to a final separation, but rather the overridden —— of ob- jectionable sporting features that could not be cut off. Regardless of his faults it can well be said that Dick Jones was popular and much be- loved by men in the various walks of sporting and theatrical life. “He was worse to himself than he was to others and tidings of his untimely death with its regretful preceedings is but the end of all, to men who heed not warning, Tolstoy is not dead as it was report- ed. The grand old man is only im- portant -in that he stands for “Utop- ian” dreams. As a writer of books he has been a success. ‘These he does not care for; he seeks to advance the brotherhood of man on earth. He, high born, of title, property, re- nounces all in the adyocacy of the simple life, the appointed ways of man, as he views it. The world does not see it his way, and the plaudits of the thousands do not comfort him. Is he too soon or too late? LEADER OF CHICAGO SOCIETY FOR FIVE YEARS. Colored Girl is Belle of Ballroom and Highly Honored at University. ‘toviined Cuivemncaiemen) Chicago, Ill., July 27.—All_ society seems to be very much stirred up at the University of Chicago and else where over the revelation of the iden tity of one of the school’s most promi nent women students. Received into a secret society, made a belle at the proms and dances, the girl has been found to be colored. It developed that she is the sister of “Mushmouth’ Johnson, Chicago's gambling king and saloon Keeper, and formerly a partner of .the firm of Scott & Johnson. “Mushmouth” who keeps a saloon on the South State street levee, resides in an elaborately furnished house at 5830 Wabash avenue, with his sister, who is this belle of Chicago's largest school. Miss Cecelia Johnson is the strl She was a member up to a year agc of the society now known as Phi Delta Pst, and popular among the fraternity men, a scholarship student and at tractive generally. She wore dia monds, paid her sorority: bills prompt ly and spent money lavishly. ‘Then her class mates began to grow jealous of her popularity among the heads of the school and they began to plan a means to secure her down: fall. ‘They searched in vain to ascer- tain the sources of her money, then struggled internally and disbanded. For five years Miss Johnson has been a student in the university, aud during all this time she has been abie to conceal her identity. Several of ner sorority chums went ‘hrough the En- glewood High School with her and were not aware that she did not be- long to a white family. She attend- ed nearly all the social affairs at the university, a white student always ac- companying her. Feminine jealousy began to arise in the sorority because she made the biggest “hit” of the society at the dances. This grew’ into suspicion gradually and finally the girls got to- gether to thrash out what began to seem to them to be a huge mystery. ‘They never came to @ point near solu- tion. Some of the closer friends of the girl in the society “thought the matter was going too far.” This im- mediately provoked dissension in the society. Nearly three-fourths of the girls insisted on demanding an explan- ation of Miss Johnson, but the other fourth stood by her and a deadlock ensued. The result was the disband- ing of the society. ‘Those who were angry at Miss Johnson, however, got, together later and reorganized, leay- ing out Miss Johnson and the others. ‘They called their club the “Pi Della Psi.” Miss Johnson received her bachelor degree @ year ago, and it was thought she would leave school, thus offering an easy way to patch up the sorority troubles. She remained, however, and is now a graduate student, studying for a master’s degree. Although up toa short time ago, nothing was known definitely about Miss Johnson she still retained many of her friend- ships. Miss Johnson recently won a schol- arship for excellent work in the his- tory department and received an “honorable mention” for work in the senior colleges a year ago. She was. one of the best players in the mando- lin club. In 1906 she graduated from the Balatka Musical College with first houses in fostrumental smnete, RICH WOMAN LEAVES ALL TO NEGRO. Strangest of Social Mysteries Is Un covered in Will. |,, Philadelphia, Pa., special: Through the discovery ‘today that Mrs. Sarah Wain Hendrickson, head of one of the oldest and richest Philadelphia fam- ilies, had fifteen months before- her death given to John Wilson, a negro servant, the famous Wain homestead in Wain Ford, Monmouth County, New Jersey, with all its treasures, there was uncovered the strangest. so: cial mystery that has ever puzzled this city. Family portraits, jewels, massive silver plate, antique furniture, family records and a thousand acres of the richest and most picturesque lands are now in complete possession of the black, who is now 62 years of age, but was only 20 when he entered her service. Mrs. Hendrickson was 91 at the time of her death. Hous& Has Another Occupant. Wilson is in complete possession of the old mansion, built more than 200 years ago. He runs the farm on which it stands and collects rents from grist mills and dwellings which form part of the estate. In the house also, as a relic of the old regime, lives an eld erly white woman of English birth, ‘Mrs. Ellen Richardson, who was for fifteen years Mrs. | Hendrickson’s housekeeper. Mrs. Richardson, who is more than 60 years og age, now acts as housekeeper for the Negro in charge of the ancient establishtient. ‘The estate is worth at least $250,000. It is given out that the estate was deeded the Negro because he clainied Mrs. Hendrickson owed him $10,000. One of the most curious things about the case is that John Meirs, a Cam- den lawyer, and the old woman's nephew, drew up the instrument turn: ing the estate over to Wilson. Mr. Meirs was very loath to have Wilson obtain possession of the family heir looms and the old mansion, but say’ he did it because his aunt told him if Hie refused that she would retain other counsel. Mrs. Hendrickson and other rela: tives were indignant when they learned of the transaction and at first contemplated legal proceedings _ to have the deed set aside, but Morris Wain, 1730 Mt. Vernon street, who is a member of the bar, advised them to leave the Negro in undisputed posses sion of the property to vaoid a scan dal. Richard Wain Meirs, a lawyer who is a member of the family, anc who lives at 1724 Walnut street, wa: of the same opinion. Henry Wain and Richard Wain sa that Wilson evereised undue influenc: over their aunt, and that she was no’ in entire possession of her menta faculties for a long time before he’ death. Wilson is as black as carbon paper and of sturdy build. He grew excited and incoherent when pressed Denies Any Force. “The deed was Aunt Sally's owr wish, and I did not persuade or force her to do it,” he said. “Some years ago Aunt Sallie made a will leaving all she-had to Richard Wain Meirs She liked him more than any othe nephews or nieces. Well, three 01 four years ago, he told her he dida’ want the place. Guess he had hearé about the mortgage and the deb: against the property. Aunt Sallie rea the letter one night when the thre of us were sitting about the fire. She read it to us, and then she said: “Well Tl pay my own debts then,” and she got up and threw the pieces in th fire. Not long after that she decidec to sign over the place and all her be longings to me, and the papers wa: signed by her and me in this hous in the presence of Mr. Quicksell. He told ue it was right and perfect! legal.” Difficult Breathing” FORD’S HAIR POMADE FORMERLY KNOWN AS “OZONIZED OX MARROW” Sea Makes the Hair Pliable, Soft and Easy to Comp READ WHAT THE PEOPLE say Ang, 28,1904. West Ohester, Pa,» nged only ono bate yout poids andi tad tyobota TSR GM. Poo, op BEIGE Stopeed breaking“ has rent ted theo older ots yi omnt proved. 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DELAW4RE ST., | INDIANAPOLIS, = INDIANA] We loan moaey on DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY: and all articles of value at lowest rates, Ertel’s Loan Office, OG Mascachuselts Avenue, Private office LOS E, Ohio Freer. New Phone 17 eh‘cle Sale At Reduced Prices. All Kinds of Repair Work. Rubber Tiring A SPFCIA' TY. ROCS, FISHBACK & ROSS, 209E.0n. Newsh n» 4808 — "Thinking people read The Freeman | itor’s Desk _ At The Editor’s Desk. = Seat. Re __ Let us not forget that we are citi--by the hand of God for the tin zens of the foremost country of the following are great in service world, It ‘sounds like a Fourth of ance and distinguished mors July ovation or a return to the spread lences: Dr. H. T. Johnson, eagieism of former days. But at that, M. Conner, Dr. H. B, Parks. it 18 @ gospel that cannot be gainsaid. | D. Chappelle, Dr. E. W. Lamy The foreigner 1s often impatient of |. H- Coe ee {ils Dreachment, yet he secretly be-| of the ‘aterestne ant lleves it, and as a consequence Our | ence of the A. M. E. church, “four” boundaries are beseiged with several bishops are to be mad him, No name sounds quite so sweet Conference, branes or Senn to the struggling of other nations as editor of the Recorder,a nd la pincrica, the land of the free, the | Cause the editor is setnatian home of the brave. exalted position of bishops. 1 ee ee be added by way of corollary, Mound Bayou, Miss., the well known |ist of names is these at ea Negro city, will soon have in opera-| aye considered as the prob tion a plant for manufacturing cotton- for elevation at the forthcomir Seed oll and other by-produets of the|rennial: here ls aueia sien business. The project is headed by] onq which, doubtless, will Mr. Isaiah T, Montgomery, the foun-| ‘ore than passing attention. fer of Mound Bayou, ad by other|""The article 1s most siguitc leading men of that community. The] aico intersting Me thee ie undertaking has every reason to suc-| Siowing account of Dr. Johnsor ceed, owing to the demands of the and value, and of course, in oil and by-products of the cottonseed. | *@% V2! and of course, in The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion’s ruling in the separate coach case is tentative—elastic, might be better. It aids and abets the State in what it may do, just so it declares fo accord aqual conditions, facilities or such like. Does it at least mean the supremacy of the State—more bower for the State? We are asking for information, Does it mean for the Negroes to get wise? | Double-deck streets is the latest The congested streets of New York have called for some sort of relief. ‘The genius of man as usual has come to the rescue, and in the near future according to proposition, the metropo: lis will have a subterranean city,, sit vated between the system of subway lines and the surface, and to where the heretofore heavy traffic of _ the Streets will be confined. It may be 2 continuous dream only, yet it appears feasible and is certainly in the in terest of the tight little tesland whosc only outlets are upwards and down wards,an d in consequence of which its streets are crowded to overflowing with all manner of freight. Our peculiar civilization calls for civil conditions that are more or less irregular, and wheein the colored peo- ple are sufferers. The reason for the condition is plain enough. We are not many years removed from a great War, before which we had an- other condition, the basest in human expérience, and the reminders of which linger, causing the delays and vexations of the present day. It means that there is to be a thorough under. standing of the situation, the causes of it, and action in accordance—pro ceeding along the line of the least resistance, until every stronghold o opposition falls. Men that will not see it that way have no places ir the forefront. ‘They can only be ob ‘etructionists, Not in the whole history of the race has there been such pronounced op- position to the party, if the govern- tment at Washington means the party. ‘What does it all mean? Does it mean defeat for Roosevelt, Taft or Root, if they stick up their heads for the presidency. It looks that way, and due to the Negro soldiers’ incident above anything else. Heretofore there have been grand stand plays, waiting to be “coerced” into line. “But the sleeping Brutuses have been aroused and without the prodding Cassius te sting them into activity, and we have the unparalled spectacle of the Ne gro Nation solidly opposing the politi cal life of the present incumbent o high places. The approaching con vention, or its result, will work n¢ change, judging by the determined op position, unless that result means the presentation of men that stand aloo from the present administration cir cles. It is the reading of the horo scope—plain’ and simple. MEN OF POWER. | We are all interested in men of power. The strong man, the man who has the ability to help, defend, or save others, and uses it, is sure not only to attract ou admiation, but to secure for himself the place of leader. Other {men become his followers. The worla |wants men of power, for it is in sore {need. It groans under the burden of ills which it cannot throw off and cries for a strong delivery. This is undeniable, it cannot be successfully contadicted. We see an eternal fit- ness in this picture as applied_to Dr. Booker T. Washington and Bishop Alexander Walters and the leagues these gentlemen represent as the respective leaders, viz.: the Business Men's and the AffoAmerican Coun- cil, both absolutely important and es- sential for the welfare of the race, and should receive the unqualified en- dorsement and suppott of the race. Our representative at the recent ses- sion of the Afro-American Council noticed that for the most, part too much the disposition to scramble for office, to magnify one’s self, to belit- tle and underestimate the work done by others, too frequent a mind to complain, to find fault and to “knock” othes who have won rightfully a place as leader among us, proven by the work done, the fruit borne or pro- duced, for after all “hot air” amounts to nothing, it's the man that delivers the goods” that interests us and who excites the admiration of the world. We hope the Afro-American Coun- cil will accomplish the work it has planned to do for the “civic uplirt” of the race this year, and that it will outride each and every opposition and produce the proof positive of the fact that it lives-for something more than hot air resolutions. Better let us get down to. business. BISHOP MAKING IN THE A. M. E. CHURCH. : In the Christian Recorder of recent date, a leading article starts off in this mest sifinificant language: “It has been observed that great men appear in constallations. The truth is, they appear when, in provi- dence, great oceasions call for them. Great: men ae not only made by the times, but are endowed and moulded by the hand of God for the times. The following are great in service, endur- ance and distinguished moral excel- lences: Dr. H. T. Johnson, Dr. J. M. Conner, Dr. H. B. Parks. Dr. W. 'D. Chappelle, Dr. E. W. Lampton, Dr. L. H. Reynolds, Dr. Singleton.” ‘The language is significant because of the approaching General Confer jence of the 2. M. B. church, because several bishops are to be made at this conference, because Dr. Johnson is the editor of the Recorder,a nd lastly, be cause the editor is a candidate for the exalted position of bishops. It might be added by way of corollary, that the list of names is those of mea who are considered as the probabilities for elevation at the forthcoming quad- rennial; here is again significance, and which, doubtless, will receive more than’ passing attention, The article is most significant and also interesting in that it gives a ‘glowing account of Dr. Johnson's work and value, and of course, in view of hhis candidacy. ‘The writer, while say- ing many excellent things of the scholarly Johnson, Ukens him as a writer to Herodotus and Homer, and also to others@whee the contrast is not so marked, but he should have at least excused Homer in. the compari- son as a matter of exact truth, and perhaps Herodotus. "It has long -geen maintained _ that Dr. Johnson could not resist the temp: tation of allowing articles In his favor to find way into the columns of the Recorder, the only charge against him. It is not serious, not defamatory o anything of such nature; it is a subject of journalistic propriety which weighs more or less with different in- dividuals. Dr. Johnson is able, brit liant, to keeness, and scientifically scholarly, if one may so phrase it. He has waited long for the distinguished honor he feels that is due him. He is noted for his executive tendencles— coldly business, and perhaps such men are needed. He is not of the rwet, tactful disposition of Grant, who must be the evangelical at all ‘times, nor like Gaines, who is similar to Grant. | But it has been some years since the writer has seen and heard Dr. | Johnson, who by this time may have sobered down to that serene and be nignant disposition all love to see in the bishops. People love to see them a little mellow with age and in man: ner—patriarchal; it may pot be best for the bishop, but it is here where the utmost respect is inspied. If Dr |Johnson has mellowed down to swee' serenity—not dotage—the age of love and, grace, where the mere passin by is a benediction, it ought be ee ‘Johnson. THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM. During the days-of slavery it was the instinctive inhumanity of the white man to prohibit slaves from re- ceiving an education, but there then existed even in the darkest parts of the South a more human class of white people who taught slaves on the sly. This good class of white people still exist today in the South in far greater numbers. When slavery was ended conditions were not of such that colored children could be sent directly to public schools. It was the duty of the North to have then made provisions and it is the duty of North- ern sentiment to favor a policy which reads: “White children of the South are no better than white children of the North, to go to mixed schools in a free country supported by tax pay- ers.” This precedent remains to be established in this enlightened age and the school system rectified. There no white men in the South at that time who were free enough from prej- udice or who had a voice, a say, or proper insight, on the great problem of public education enough to formu- late the standard American system ot New York and New England. If they had, the South would have been far better off today and race differences many miles nearer to a more cordial basis. With all political and educa- ttonal.odds against him, nothing re- mained for the black man to do but aply to the North for suport in build- ing normal anl industrial schools and even colleges, some ungraded, and without the fundamental advantages of a proper beginner's undercourse of schooling. In this respect the black man of the South had completely over- stepped the barriers of total educa- tional obstacles. It was slavery's war that makes Southern education infer- ior-even today in its entirety. White men sent their sons to Eastem col- leges and the mulatto sons of former master fathers, or white relatives, were sent North prepaid indirectly also. Now, the great problem is, wiil there be an educational contention in the future South or is the American total public school system to be regu- lated until it becomes a perfect, gen- eral, complete, national system of open doors to all children? This conten- tion reaching the South, however, per- plexing ft may seem to a prejudiced white man or a poor, ignorant Negro, it is best that it should be—it is be for the South and for the Southern white man, if he only can see it, and for the nation, that all children be ed- ucated together. ‘This sentiment has not only been voiced by President Roosevelt, but by all the best thinking men of the nation, who have had cause to express it. In the gift of one million dollars by Miss Anna Jeanes, of Philadelphia, a white lady, to the support of Negro, but pub- lic education (a fact we can't get away from) in the South, naming Booker 'T. Washington and Holis Burke Frissell as trustees, etc., we have reached on educational problem of very great pro- portions. Whether this problem will be nroperly and perfectly solved by Mr. Washington and his co-workers or not is a question which carries with it rather a serious deal of practical doubt. It is the “American public school system” that will be affected by any miscarriage of this donation that may, either by caste evil or jealousy. In reviewing Mr. Washington's past record on public school matters, it is quite necesary that we take up the situation from the North working South to face the great problem we are after. It seems more than regret- ful during his early career in building up Tuskegee, that Mr. Washington had not acquired the simplest understand- Bsr a Rr tl Nw ieg ete ee " BTeen, not conceived by the fight of Stewart and Fortune nor surveyed by the conditions confronting the chil dren of his race, North as well South. We want to-be square with Mr. Washington in this matter, but _ the whole truth and story must be told regardless of him. His was a | Southern view from a Southern stand. Polat, with no knowledge or thought | of knowledge here presented, up until the school trouble at Hast Orange, N. J. two years ago. He overlooked the fact that in all branches of educational work and School problems, that the North leads and the South has td follow. It is in this very work that Mr. Washington will have to follow after the precepts of the New York test and the Ameri- can public school system, in using the million dollar fund, and’ using itin a manner that will gradually and ulti- mately formulate a complete establish. ment of the public school system of America, which opens the doors of a public school to all children. The sol- utlon of the problem is that Mr. Wash- ington shall effect a complete compro- mise with the school boards of the South, wherein that all children be schooled together in the hamltes, and that mixed teachers be installed, for the good of the mixed races of chil- dren, and the upbuilding of Ameri- can civilization, that the boards of ed- ucation be mixed in proportion equally of white and colored men and that two thirds of the money, if necessary, to build each school, be apportioned from the million dollar fund. As a hamlet issue this could be effective and is totally within Mr. Washington's power, in faet, it is the only last ed- ucational effort in his work that will cause his name to live as a shining emblem to his life's history. Now, this donation compelis the conditions ‘of the poor whites to be advanced as well, if they will accept the compro- mise for all children to be educated together, as they are in the North and the majority of populaces of the country. It will not ke wise for Mr. _ Washington to spend’ one cent of the money until he has tested this propo- sition, ‘The further building of “col- "ored” schools in the South should be abolished and it is the duty of these | trustees to advance the colored chil- dren on a purely Americin basis of “all children faring alike in public, primary, grammar and high schools.” This money, if held back, ean never waste. It will be the duty of Mr, ; Washington to change his mind and convert the South to the Northern sys: , tem, which is right, rather than try to convert the North to the Southern system, which is wrong. There is nc hesitaney in this review to point out the weak places of Booker T. Washing , ton’s position and policies on the pub lic school question, since he is ar > industrial educator and has assumed 1 ; national interest in public school mat ¢ ters, which have been in some cases ¢ antagonistic to what the American sys ; tem ealls for, and inconsequence, t¢ > the welfare of his race, not so muet of the present but so very much in eed of the future. Mr. Washington’ F national publie school record show: ; that his aim had been to bring th 5 children of his race in the North dows s, to the level of the inferior school con © ditions of the South, and so giv , Southern graduates positions as teach h ers by the further establishment 0 ¢ colored schools in the North, wher ; they have been almost completel * abolished, and just for the sake o 3 giving colored teachers employment {which their edueation would not qual! ¢|fy them to fill in the North. {| This is not the only proof of Mi {Washington's doctrine. The hoar: s-| headed anniversary of President Ello {of Harvard University, led Mr. Elio nj to speak in favor of a separate colleg: ;|system for colored students, in viev of an increasing ration. Y] Now Mr. Eliot, naturally, as a clos t | friend of Mr. Washington, voiced on “| theory as a furtherance of Mr. Wash ljington’s policies. But Harvard Uni ‘versity of the State of Massachusetts ®, |to those who know the state's history it} will never change its policy and Go forbid that President Wliot shall eve 4 zo astray or that Mr. Washington ma: @'further strive to change any provisioi * that has been established in favor o f ‘nis people in the nation’s greatest in K}stitution of learning, which gave ui Jour latest great president—Theodor | Rooselevt. It is not that Mr. Washing "lton is more eminently fitted than an} “Jother man of the nation's greates e}]men to best direct the future cours: ‘of Negro education. He is nol. Hi rlis a man who has come up througt | various channels of indirect promo Y|tion. Greater and wiser colored met Ii than Mr. Washington live in the South 'Hioday, as well as the North, wh A }could’ handle the problem of ‘public -|school education, which now involves -|the million dollar fund, to a better ad 1 vantage than if he be called upon. "| If Mrf. Washington has planned a “|national “colored” school policy i 1/should be opposed by the well-known »Jmen of his race who do not believe tin it and who sit like cowards under his wing and shiver. If this is the \{ Washington policy it will meet with {Northern disapproval and colored men of the South who do not believe in a \|general American mixed public school ‘}system are as blind as bats, prognostic .]as moles in the ground. From a public ‘| school standpoint, it is not to the best sJinterests of the race that the million j ee é oa . | Ye co) M1) Ta Z ni) fi : iA i\ ! 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Don't fail to attend the big JULY SALE, Shoes at your own price} Wil- son’s Cut Price ‘Sample Shoe Store, 217 INDIFE A AY NUE, THE STAGE Ritchie and Francis are managing their own company and are playing at summer resorts during the heated term. Russell Smith, a young musician of Indianapolis, has just composed his first piece of music, "The Princess," which has been published by the Wulscher Music Publishing Company. The Freeman acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt of one of the first copies. Meyers and Free will manage the newly organized Billy Kersaud's Minutels this season and they are booked over the Crawford and Greenwald and Klaw and Erlanger circuits in Southern Illinois and the South. Billy Kersaud will head the company, assisted by thirty-six comedians, singers and dancers and James Lacey's famous band. The season opens September 1, at Danville, Ill. FROM THE COAST Lew Purcell, of the So Different, writes from San Francisco; Grant and Grant played the Orpheum the week of July 21. The Hunns are at the Wigwam; Dude Kelly at the Novelry, Robertson and Thompson have joined hands again and have a gift offer for Australia; Selta Wiley of the trio of Reed, Wiley and Evans, have split out. Miss Wiley left for Deaver. The Jones—Dock and Nina— are at the So Different, Miss Marie Bestwick left to join the Mahara's show in Dakota. * * * The Golden West comedy four are taking a much needed rest. Oscar Caster, formerly of Caster Bros.' Con- ditionists, has joined hands with Joe Basso, and will be seen over the three Le Circut. Foster and Henderson lift for Sacramento with ten weeks to follow. With regards to the pro- fession. FROM WHITE CITY SHOW. The band is as follows: Prof. Godf- lory, Ib cornet; Charlie Long, soloist; net base, Reese; clarinet, Louis Wilder, tuba; Frank Peyman, trom- nale; Nathaniel Westbrooks, snare drum; A. D. Patterson, bass drum. Lumm-Ratcliff, the Beaumont, Teas, trombone player, closed at Harrisburg, Ill., and went to Marion, Ill. The Pantonation Show is as follows: Harvy Robinson, better known as Skeeter, is making a hit with him monologue and his coon song. Wm. Burko is making a hit with his buck and wing dancing. Harrison Kinnison is holding his own down. A. D. Patterson is making good singing "All in, Down and Out." Lizzie Phillips is making a hit singing "Little One, Good Bye." Alma Smith is doing well, singing "Meet Me Down at the Corner." Mrs. Minnie McCorimons is making a hit with her buck and wing turn and is singing "I Can't Tell How I Miss You." Kinnison and Patterson close the house by storm and are sending them away screaming. This is our last stop in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Godfrey send regards to friends in Brunswick, Ga. Frank Peveyman sends regards to George Israel, John McGown, Will Butter. The whole company send regards to all friends. Walter S. Lyons' 'Dixieland Troubadours,' located at Land of Cotton Theater, at White City on the Lakes. Business is still good, a nd the performance is a grand success under the able management of Ben Luse. Chas Carroll is sending them away screaming, singing "Where is Brown?" James Turner, as Uncle Rufus, and Maud Singleton as Aunt Dinah, are the feature of the afterpiece. Luther Burkes, our tenor vocalist, is pleasing, Lena Turner, our able soubrette, is making good, singing "Good-Bye, Dickie Dear." Dave Merritt, our character comedian, is delighting them at every show. Walter S. Lyons, our stage manager THE FREEMAN GALLERY ST WAYWOOD AL. WATTS. Who Was Seen With Black Patti's Troubadours Last Season. I wonder why the man that aint Delights to black his face And he that is, the other way, Declares it a disgrace. Tis like the poor dispenser of The pills we term a quack; He's just as much offended As the other is of black. —Garfield T. Haywood. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER and comedian, is a howling success in his monologue, songs and dances, singing his own song, "Black Water Melon Dude." Mr. Rickets, our musical director, always has something brand new for our patrons. The old reliable Freeman is always a welcome visitor in our midst. S. T. DUNMIRE'S FAMOUS HONO- LULU MINSTRELS. Our general manager, Mr. Arthur Hoffman, is well pleased with our show and can be seen at every performance enjoying the show as much as the natives. J. T. Dunnore, the funny comedian, always makes a hit with his funny jokes and his song of "Down and Out" and let it alone," never fail to receive applause. Miss Ceola Vaughan, our clever little soubrette, is making a big hit singing "Sweettie Dear" and "I'd Like a Little Loving Now and Then." Miss Pearl Dunnore, our charming coon shoucher, is still shouting and responding to encores daily. Mr. Arthur Moore's singing and dancing pleases his audiences highly. Mr. Dunnore has just purchased a fine brindle Bull dog, which he is using in his specialty. Rosters of 4-Paw and Sells Bros.' Annex: Arthur Hoffman, manager; Lawrence Norris, W. P. Maher, Sammie Carer, giant; Capt. Jack Barnett, world's smallest man; Amor Hindoo, magician; Miss Emma Houser, snake enchantress; Al Mastiff, orator Punch and Judy; Miss Mamie Gilmore, bag puncher; Prof. Hilliar, England's premier coin manipulator and master magician, and S. T. Dunnore's Honolulu Minstrels. J. H. Wickliffe, the Louisville trap drummer, sends regards to all Louisville friends. NUGGETS OF STAGE NEWS. (By Sylvester Russell.) Not one word or even a love-token has been heard of Clarence Powell's summer minstrels. * * * * The critic has been the recipient of a set of character photographs from Mr. Le Roy Bland, of Frank Mahara's Minstrels. The critic has been unable to locate the company and takes this method to publically thank Mr. Bland for the pictures. * * * * Prof. William C. Enty, the well known pianist, has finally retired from the profession. He is at present busy furnishing up a little home for his family. His wife, Mrs. Maud Enty, is quite an entertaining singer and his only son, Ralph, 15 years of age, will no doubt be a musician also. The Enty's are domiciled at Hazelton, Pa. * * * * The announcement that Salam Tutt Whitney, the talented actor and comedian, has been engaged as leading comedian for Voleckel and Nolan's Black Patti's Troubadours, is quite a feather in Mr. Whitney's cap and very deservingly so. It must be an awful blow to S. H. Dudleya and quite a rip in the cost of Jolly John Larkins, and then besides, Whitney has patience which will prove a virtue to him in dealing with a fussy, fretful manager like Mr. Voeckel, a man who beats the record in discipline and regularity. ```markdown ``` Billy McClain, Bert Williams and George Walker will next be able to shake hands across the sea in their falling efforts to subordinate the critic. Critics are not bothered about the importance of fsome actors now. There is but one critic of their race who had come up in advance of these three actors who were busy learning the business in New York, while they were yet in the woods. If in the future they do not respect the critic's position, he will have no reason whatever to respect them as public actors. *** One of the daily newspapers of Philadelphia recently announced that Sissieretta Jones (Black Patti) was to be under the Shubert management this season, and that she had promised to be the first to sing at the opening of a new Shubert theatre in Paris, but no word has come to us that she has severed her contract and relations with Voelckel & Nolan, or that the company is going abroad. The famous diva, we are quite sure, is not in Europe, she has been spending her summer vacation at her home in Providence, R. I. Miss Marie Dorsa, prima donna of Carey's Canadian Jubilee Singers, has been spending her vacation at her home in Danville, Pa. Her father, Mr. Morris, is a contractor, whose residence overlooks the castle of a millionaire on the opposite side of the most prominent residential street of the town. I knew Miss Dorsa fifteen years ago when as Miss Mamie Norris, she had visited Providence, R. I., as the star soprano of the Eastern Star troupe of jubilee singers under the management of Dr. J. W. Stephenson, the great church builder. Since that time she has acquired a more advanced education. After a chat in the parlor, I was transferred and reseated in the music room, where I listened attentively to a mezzo-soprano of beautiful tone and a splendid method of high execution. Escorted to the door by the pleasing dark-skinned cantatree, who is known and idolized by all the Dominion of Canada, who wore a white embroidered walking dress, "and such lovely beads." We said good-night, and as I left I said to myself: She's Miss Marie Dorsa now, sure enough! The Robinson—Parquette Trio, or the Parquette Trio, as it should be rightly called (or why not put Mr. Parquette's name first)? comprises James B. Robinson, William Parquette and Ella Blunt (Mrs. Parquette) have been playing over the Eastern Park circuits of Pennsylvania. They have been the hit of the summer park attractions in that section. Mr. Parquette is the hit and feature of the show, upon whom chief interest is centered. James Robinson, a fine tenor isinger, who has a voice much like Henry Troy and Miss Blount, a contralto singer, together with their acrobatic comedy and dancing, goes to make up one of the worthy acts that can be depended upon for successful entertainment in vaudeville. Messrs. Charles E. Hunter and Marion A. Brooks, of St. Louis, Mo., have submitted to me a program of their new comedy, "An Exodus of Panama," accompanied by a letter asking me to review the manuscript. Now in the first place they failed to send me any stamps for a reply. People who fall to get replies from professional men in the newspaper line should know that public writers are always over-run with mail, some of which they would not object to answering if people were not too ignorant and inconsiderate to enclose stamps. No writer will spend $3 a day to answer trash. While stamps and subscriptions would pay the bill nicely, as for me, I would rather not be bothered at all. I am through with reading manuscripts. Please don't bother me any more! MIDSUMMER THEATRICAL MELANGE. (By AR-UU-TEF.) Frank Fowler Brown, the popular lyric tenor, is said to be picking orange blossoms for the brow of a fair Washington society belle—the granddaughter of a famous Afro-American statesman and sometime member of Congress from Virginia. * * * The ladies of the theatrical profession welcome a visit to Indianapolis, where they always meet with such handsome treatment, both socially and journalistically, at the hands of that talented writer and painstaking critic, "Dorothy," who conducts the brilliant "Woman's Department" on The Freeman. * * * Steps are being taken by local dramatists in Louisville to produce Joseph Seamon Cotter's realistic picture of the American race problem, "Caleb, the Degenerate." Miss Carita Day, the brilliant leading lady of Ernest Hogan's "Rufus Rastus" company for the past two seasons, has entered vaudeville for the summer, after a thorough course of instruction in her musical repertoire by Will Marion Cook. Miss Day has no peer on the Afro-American stage in versatility of talent, being at once an emotional actress, a vocalist, dancer and comedienne of pronounced ability. She is highly conscientious in all that she does, and her numerous admirers are hoping to find her engaged during the coming season as the bright and particular star of one of the larger theatrical organizations, assigned to a role that will allow her the latitude and opportunity commensurate with her acknowledged histrionic attainments and rare personal charms. Miss Day can be addressed at 586 Seventh avenue, New York. Tom Logan, the irrepressible stage manager of the reorganized and rejuvenated "Smart Set," and right-hand man of Comedian S. H. Dudley, is a resourceful fellow you cannot lose at any stage of the game. While estivating at Hot Springs, Ark., and drinking the mineral waters—and other things—at that well known health resort, he has been acting as the private secretary to the Hon. E. E. Perkins, editor of the New Light, a newspaper published at Edwards, Miss., and studying out some novelties for his company to hand out to the amusement-loving public, and incidentally putting in some effective licks in behalf of the bishopic boom of his great and good friend, Dr. E. W. Lampton, at present financial secretary of the race's biggest Methodist denomination. In this connection, we are reminded that there is a wildcat rumor in circulation in Arkansas and Mississippi that some years back, when Dr. Lampton was a presiding elder in that section, he ran into Logan, and seeing that he had in his makeup an extraordinary lot of vim, vigor and constructive genius, coupled with a phenomenal "gift of gab," he conceived the idea that he had just the requisites needed to win him a great future in the A. M. E. Church. They say that Logan, always eager for a new experience, actually "professed," and was ordained in due to preach the gospel. After passing two or three small charges in the Southwest, and earning no small degree of fame as an effective rival deliverance, the ministerial life became too tame for Tom, and he forthwith forseek the long-tailed coat and white "choker" to join a Negro minstrel aggregation headed for Frisco. The beauty of the situation developed this summer when Logan again met Dr. Lampton in Arkansas, together with Mr. Perkins, and in the vicinity of Hot Springs and Pine Bluff, came into the closest contact with a score or more of the erstwhile "sinners" who had been converted under the spell of his eloquent preaching. To their infinite credit let it be said that they were all walking in "the straight and narrow path" marked out for them by the persuasive and silver-tongued Logan, and overlooking the circumstance of his hurried and unexplained departure for other fields, they gave every evidence of joy at meeting their quondam shepherd, their sometime "guide, councillor and friend." Further, the deponent sayeth not. The America Theater Entire management and ownership colored Seating capacity 1200. W. J. LATHAM, Managr. IMPORTANT NOTICE. If George Easily will write or wire L. V., Purcell at 520 acifle street, San Francisco Cal., he will learn of business import or to him. WANTED—1,000 COUPLES CAFE WALKERS to complete for the chairmanship of the West for the New State Fair and Industrial Exposition at New August 4th to 10th, 1907 $,000 to be distrib upon premiums. For parties address W. A. Hill, Board of Trade build ng. S. Joseph, Mo. and dancer. Steady work the whole season. Can you join Aug. 5th? Will send ticket. Address Theo. Henderson, box 625 Belleville, O t. Wanted -A young man to sing and dance must be able to sing illustrated songs also. Steady work the whole season. Can you join Aug. 5th? Will send ticket. Address Theo. Henderson, box 625 Belleville, O t. "FOR RENT" Minstrel Shows UNDER CANVAS Ready to set up and do business, including cars, to-t seats, lights, advance agents, performers and musicians. Will route shows and make all railroad contracts; in fact, show complete and ready to set up and do business. Have one show on road now, and the manager has been making clear for himself $200 to $400 per week since opening. Parties desiring such business will do well to write me for full particulars. Don't write unless you mean business and have money to do business with. And a person don't have to know anything about the business to be successful, as I guide and protect the show. Parties desiring full particuliers will address PAT CHAPPELLE, Manager and Owner, RABBIT'S FOOT AND FUNNY FOLKS COMEDY CO. The successful manager who has made over $50,000 in five years. Performers and musicians write; can place 200 or more. Address, 1054 West Church St., Jacksonville, "la. or en route of "A Rabbit's Foot Co." HE FREEMAN PORTOFFICE [We ask that an employee send their dad and their man to be forwarded to them without delay. We also ask that pers as whose names are promptly] - Manager LADIES' LIST. Arnute, Graco Alen, Mand' Anderson, Mable Gentry, Mrs Jinnie Irver, Mrs James Jones, Ella Joseph, Miss Emma Lee, Mrs Francis Moon, Mrs Ruby Moon, Mrs Jinnie Ferry, Mrs Lizzie Perry, Lizzie Robson, Miss Ada Roberson, Miss Ann Roberson, Miss Lydia Smith, Mrs Elma Scott, Emma Steve, Loisie Stella, Mrs Lulu Taylor, Carrie Thomas, Mrs, Lula Wilson, Mrs Margret Woods, Mrs Annie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Adams, Wm Armstrong, Roy Airmond, Kid Aerand, Kid Armstrong, Roy Armstrong, Thos Armstrong, Mitchell Marmon, Finn Belo, Frank Brown, Warren Briso, Buddy Burton, H.W. Bryant's Musical Family Bonnion, W H Coa ee, Sherman Cooke, K. cooker, L. Cro-san a Fack Cros & Cros Cros & Cros Chapman, J. C. Craby, Frank-2 Clay, Louis A Frank, Cros Crom, Tom Dudley, H Damon's N. O. Students Earthquake, Billy Edwards, Ch s Edwards, John Edwards, John Fleming, Charle Fergunon, Chas Galloway, Joe E Galen, B L Galen, J Gallonay, Joe Hans, Skinner Hacklem, n E M Hacklem, J H Howard Ed Hyne, N R Hurdle, Levi Hurdle, Thos Henderson, Shel on Ier, Arthur Johnson, J Lewis Johnson, J h L Johon, J Lems Lewis, Fird Johon, J L Jnes, Simon Jones, George A Ju e, Ge W Ju e, Ge W K n Cares E Knuner, Lade Kenney, Arthur L Kemp, Koult Laurie, Kid LaShope, J H Loug, Asher Norton, J B Milican, Joy Milican, J r hur McKenney, Chus Maxwell, Arthur Mitchell, Finn McKenney, Joy McMameron Prof. J McDade, G W McDade, G W McKanahas, W H McWatt, H Montgomery, A H Mr. McQuilty Pope, R Hoy Pope, R Hoy Pittle, K r Pittle, K r Russell, Joe Rowell, Juggle Rowell, J h e Procter, Geo H Powell, Clarence Quine, Geo W Frank, Cros Rossean, Harry Roe e and Funon Reed, Eelw d Reed, Eelw d Reyno ds, Wm Ress, J h Aq Roan Edwar Roan Edwar Smith, David Scott, richard Soe s, Winter Shirman, J e Shirman, J e Smith, J J Smith, Prof J J Simmons, J h E Smith, Harry C Smith, Cries Sherman, J E Sherman, J E Thompson, A B Tobi s, John The Maiveans fields The Mitchells Vas s, R Will Wiso s, Kid Wilo s, Kid Wo d, F W Wilson, rhur Williams, J H Wilson, Turner Walt, r Wison, James Kid Wison, Chas Williams, A, -2 Wison, J H either y, Joe Williams, J d 1907. ROUTE. 1908 J. E. Adams, with Norris & Rowe Chess Berron, Wig, Aug 5; Fomahawk, 6; Iron Mountain Mack, 7; Ontonagon, 8;ran- cock, 9; Calumet, 10 The Dandy Dixie Minstrels—Pococel o Idaho, Aug 6; Oden, Utah Hotest Com In Dixie-Turo, N. S, Aug 7 Aug 6; Raymond—Variety Theatre, Terre House, I. d., week of Aug. 5. P. G. Lowery's Musical Enterprise with the Hug nback & Wallace Shoes in Ianapo- l, Aug. 5; Bloomingdale, 6; Linton, Robinson, Ill., 8; Vincennes, ind., 9. Two girls wanted to entertain a Moseley's Roof Garden, Richmond, Va. Must be good singer and dances; also bright and good looking. Will send tickets Address C. W. MOSLEY, 920 North First Street, Richmond Va. Write a once and state lowest terms in first letter Send photo if convenient. (N. O. Amusement and Inv. Company, Ltd.) Open dates for good Colored shows, good Vaudeville and Specialty Teams. Write a once. Good engagements for the right people. Address AMERICAN THEATRICAL EXCHANGE. N. Y. Theatre B d'g or W. J. Nickerson, 120 N Galvez St., New Orleans, La. Must be Good Singers; prefer those that understand Canvas Theatre Work. Will send Tickets. Write or wire as per route in Freeman P. G. Lowery, With B. E. WALLACE and HAGENBECK. Dixie Minstrels August 6—Pocatello, Utah. August 8—Ogden, Utah. August 9—Evanston, Wyoming. August 10—Green River, Wyoming. August 12—Rock Springs, Wyoming. August 13—Laramie, Wyoming. VOELCKEL & NOLAN 1431 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. COLORED PERFORMERS and MU VOELCKEL & NOLAN 1431 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. ED PERFORMERS and MU VOE LCKEL & NOLAN, 1431 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. Richards & Pringle's Wants Immediately Base Drum Player to A "1" Cornet Player GOOD TENOR Will be pleased to hear from Musician every branch of the mins THIS IS THE OLD RELIE The Show that gives you work the y cut salaries In the su A Drunkard Won't la Snow Flair Address HOLLA 1512 Tribune Building, Tell it all in first letter. THEATRICAL E QUALITY RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING P. O. Box 103. MENTION THE FREEMAN Wants Immediately Drum Player to double Tra- cornet Player To do or OLD TENORSING leased to hear from Musicians and P every branch of the minstrel business IS THE OLD RELIABLE S that gives you work the year round, a cut salaries in the summer. unkard Won't last here a Snow Flake in a war HOLLAND & FILK bune Building, Chicago all in first letter. EATRICAL ENGRAV LITY RIGHT P RIGHT ANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELE OX 103. MENTION THE FREEMAN INDIAN Base Drum Player to double Trap Drums In Orchestra. A "1" Cornet Player To double Stage or Orchestra. GOOD TENORSINGER. Will be pleased to hear from Musicians and Performers in every branch of the minstrel business. The Show that gives you work the year round, and does not cut salaries In the summer. THEATRICAL ENGRAVING QUALITY RIGHT PRICES RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELECT. CO. P. O. Box 103. MENTION THE FREEMAN INDIANAPOLIS IND. MUSIC /rranger, Make Transpositions and compose special music for acts My sices are the Jwest for which good work can be done. Write for Price List to day. R H BROOKS, Alexandria, Va. Thinking people read The Freeman people read The Freeman The Freeman wants OLAN, City, N. Y. nd MUSICIANS. MINSTRELS THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Boxing LATEST RING NEWS. Base-Ball AND Athletics Says Tommy Not World Beater—Nelson May Fight Gans, After All. By Jimmy Williams, of Lyle. The next big battle undoubtedly will be between either Tommy Burns and Mike Shreck or Battling Nelson and Joe Gans. The Tonopah, Nev., club is going after the latter match first and if it fails to land it will try Burns and Schreck. Jack Curley has been commissioned to look the matter up. He's Tex Rickard's right hand man in the negotiations and says that nothing but the very best will satisfy the gold camp people. The recent Squires flasco has killed the game so dead in San Francisco that there is no chance for Britt and Nelson to go on there, even if they ever seriously considered doing so, which I very much doubt. Boxing Game Is Quiet. Boxing is unusually quiet all over the remainder of the country. There is not a match of much consequence scheduled anywhere. Benny Yanger is to meet Walter Little at Ft. Wayne, but there will not be a wide amount of interest in this battle. I have been asked: "Who is the logical candidate for the honors that Burns is claiming, and I have usually answered them in this way: Jack Johnson is good, Mike Schreck will give any fighter in the arena today a hot run for the money. Twin Jack Sullivan is a fast, shifty and hard hitting lad that is feared by a good many of the title claimants, and Hugo Kelly is not to be forgotten. Hugo had two draws to his credit with Tommy and as both have improved a go between these two heavys would be a warm mixup. Burns Not a World Beater. As a matter of fact Burns should have a clean slate before he has the brass to ask Jim Jeffries for a bout, which he is several points shy. A few dark spots on the career of Burns are sufficient to prove that Burns is not a world beater by a big margin. It was in October, 1905, that Jack Sullivan took on Burns and when the gong rang for the end of the fray Jack had a margin large enough to give him the decision. This bout took place at Los Angeles, which is Tommy's own stamping ground and makes the result all the more fruitful. Sullivan is hot after the champ with a roll of greenbacks that is large enough to choke a horse and he should be given a chance. He is American born and is a good drawing card. Tommy is now talking of going to England to mix it with Gunner Moir. Now, for right down foolishness this is the limit. Jack Palmer, as large a lemon as Bill Squires, had no trouble in taking the measure of Moir and way should the American champ cross the ocean to take on a dead one. However, the purses offered on the other side are not very large and the chances are that Tommy will see the error of his way. Schreck Should Get Chance. I have the pleasure of knowing Mike Schreck personally and I think that he is the best man today to send Tommy crashing down and out. He is a big, tough fellow, a willing mixer and his weight is just suitable for Burns. These two men have stood shoulder and shoulder twice before, honors going to the Irishman the first time and the second bout being called a draw. The first bout was a tenound affair in which Mike gave Tommy a good beating. Both boxers were young and did not possess the skill and strength they have now, but Schreck has shown as much improvement as Burns, and a fight between the two would be a sensational affair. Mike is there without the knockout wallop, having sent such men as George Gardner, Dave Barry, John Willie and Marvin Hart to dreamland; men who Burns failed to put away. When Mike sent home his terrific left to Hart's jaw and sent the Kentucky fighter down and out it was shortly after Hart had defeated Jack Johnson. This alone should give the Cincinnati boy the preference. Mike Has Reputation. Burns can not stand behind his title and tell Schreck to go get a reputation, as Mike has always been willing to try conclusions with anybody and at most any place. He never has drawn the color line and he has never worried over the size of the purse often going in and fighting a hard go for money that a large percentage of fighters would refuse to fight for. He Must Defeat Johnson, Shreck and Chicago special: Pugilistic championship titles are sometimes rather confusing. For instance Tommy Burns (Noah Brusso), the Canadian, who on July 4 whipped Bill Squires of Australia, has a better claim to the championship of the world than John L. Sullivan, who was by far the best fighter of his day, ever had. Burns, by whipping Squires, unquestionably won the championship of Australia, and by beating Jack O'Brien he won whatever right Jack had to the championship of England, which he claimed to have won some years back. For a matter of fact, however, Gunner Moir, England's best fighter of the present day will have to be beaten before anyone can claim the championship of Great Britain. But Burns is not by any means a real world's champion, since he has yet to win the championship of America. Mike Schreck and Jack Johnson stand between him and the coveted goal, counting Jim Jeffries as on the retired list, and should the big oilmaker conclude to fight again Tommy's championship aspirations would go a glimmering since there is little doubt that eJiff is still good enough to ship two or three men like Burns. Tommy knows this as well as does Jeffries, and is in no hurry to get on a match with the real champion. There was no questioning Jeffries' right to the title of world's champion until he retired, asserts a veteran of the fighting game. He whipped Fitzsimmons, who whipped Corbett, who beat Charley Mitchell when Charley was the champion of England. Fitzsimmons was the best man in Australia when he came to this country, so there is little chance to dispute Jeffries' title, England, Australia and America constituting the world so far as pugilistic matters go. They have great wrestlers and fencers in some of the other countries, but know little or nothing about fighting with gloves. Sullivan failed to win the championship of England when his London prize ring bout with Charley Mitchell, fought at Chantilly, France, in 1888, ended in a draw, and he refused to fight Peter Jackson for the championship of Australia because Jackson was a colored man. Notwithstanding Sullivan's lack of a world's championship title he was, with the possible exception of Jeffries, the greatest fighter the world has ever known. Compared with with either Sullivan or Jeffries, when those fighters were at the best, Burns is only a second-rater, and yet if he can whip Shreck and Johnson, which many believe he can, he will have a clear title to the championship of Australia and America as long as Jeffries remains retired, and when he whips Gunner Moir he can claim the championship of the world. The man that is likely to give Burns [Portrait of a man in a suit and tie]. ED. LANCASTER. Manager of the Louisville Giants. The above is the cut of Ed. Lancaster, who is serving his second term as manager of the Louisville Giants, the crack team of this section. Under Mr. Lancaster's management, the people of Louisville have been witnessing usually every Sunday some of the best baseball gabs seen in the south by any team, white or black. They have not only played well at home, but have won honors abroad. Mr. Black is the president of the team, and will at any time lay up odds on his young champions. Mr. Lancaster is a splendid business man and his personality has in a large measure, helped to make the team what it is today, one of the leading teams of the country. most trouble in his march to the championship is Jack Johnson, the big Negro who has made all the white heavyweights sidestep. Johnson is the one man that Jeffries has refused to fight, not that Jeffries was afraid of the Negro, for anyone who has even seen the big fellow fight knows that could not be true, but because he refuses to fight a championship, battle with a Negro. Jeffries, who is as big-headed as he is big and strong, says so long as he has anything to do with the championship a colored man shall never figure in a contest. Burns takes a different view of the subject and says that color will be no bar when it comes to a match for the championship. As it stands now, Johnson is more grittled to a match than Shreck, although both men must be disposed of before Burns can earn the right to grow chesty. Burns has met Shreck twice and has never done better than get a draw with him. That was in a six-round bout before the Milwaukee Athletic Club in 1904, while Mike gained a ten-round decision over Tommy at Detroit in 1902. Johnson, Burns has never met, and it will be no surprise if the Negro should be his next opponent. Johnson is now matched to box Bob Fitzsimmons six rounds in Philadelphia during the Elks' carnival, but that contest is not likely to amount to much, since Bob has aged shamefully since his lay-down to Jack O'Brien in 1905, and can hardly get into condition for an honest contest. MATTHEWS TO COACH DORCHES William C. Matthews, '97, who won especial distinction at Harvard University as a baseball and football player, has been engaged to coach the Dorchester (Mass.) High School football squad next fall. Matthews won a great reputation as being one of the best short stops Harvard ever had. SAYS JEFFRIES WAS NOT THE HARDEST HITTER. While on his farm training for his recent fight with Johnson, Fitzsimmons told the following concerning some of his fights in the ring: "Don't let anyone tell you that Jeff was a harder hitter than old Joe Choyinski," said Fitz, smiling and walloping the old bay mare. "Will I ever forget the night that fellow hit me in Boston$^1\frac{1}{4}$ By George$^1\frac{1}{2}$ I think it was the third round I was fooling around trying to make him lead at me, and, stepping in and out, dropped my hands for a second to pull him on when—bang$^1\frac{1}{2}$ the first thing I knew I hit the floor on my face, sprawling over the ring like a lobster. "I heard them all yelling and I heard the referee count, and I tried my best to get up, but in the excitement I thought that up was down and down was up, and instead of getting up I was trying to crawl down through the rig. Fitz Is Dazed "Somehow or other I got up on my knees and saw the gallery sliding over me. The chairs and poles and seats were all sliding on me, and raising my left-hand to hold the gallery up. I arose and fought Choyinski with the other. I don't know how I ever did it, but they tell me I gave Joe an awful lacing with that one hand before the gong came to my rescue. The fight was a draw and it was one of the toughest I ever went through. "My best hand 1/4 Oh, I don't know. You see, my right arm is two inches shorter than my left, and I didn't discover it for years. Bob Armstrong hit me on the elbow once and the arm kind of got a cramp and has been short ever since. I used to miss these big guys a yard with my right and never got onto it until one day when I was working the pulley machine. I noticed that I had to get up to it sideways like a crab, and there was the right arm two inches shorter than the other. When I want to hit a fellow on the jaw now I aim for his ear, and you can bet I never miss 'em. Fought Blacks Before. "Ever fight colored fellows¼ Yes, I licked black Griffo and George Godfrey, and they were never heard of again. "Who, Burns? Of course I'll fight him. He's the luckiest fellow in the world. It's a good thing for him that he didn't fight in Essington last year when the cops stopped the show. He caught O'Brien off his guard in the fake fight, caught Squires when he was stage struck, and now has first chance at this Gunner Moir fellow. MRS. SCHRECK DOESN'T WANT MIKE TO FIGHT JOHNSON. "I would be the proudest woman in the world if Mike should win the heavyweight championship of the world. I love to see a good fight and will be at the ringside if Mike fights Tommy Burns at Ely, Nev., on Labor Day." That's the way Mrs. Anna Schreck wife of the Cincinnati pugilist, who is just now looked upon by the world as the logical successor of Jim Jeffries in the ring, feels about it. "Yes, I am going to make Mike take me along and see him fight Tommy Burns. I want to see Mike whip Burns, not only because of the mean things he has said about Mike, but because Burns is a Canadian, and I could not bear to see a foreigner take Jeffries' title out of America, even if it is only over the border line. "I want Mike to whip the man who would take the title from America," she continued. "I am proud of my husband now, but, oh, wouldn't I be ever so much prouder if he should become the champion of the world? "I would like to see Mike fight Jeffries. Of course, I would want Jeffries given plenty of time to get in condition. But Jeffries is a mighty man. They tell me he is fearfully strong and hits ever so hard, but Mike can hit, too, and no one has ever been able to hurt him or make him quit. He put Marvin Hart out of the business," she added with a little laugh. "No, I do not approve of Mike fighting a colored man, unless he held the title. Then I would insist on Mike's fighting him. But there is no chance for Mike to meet Jack Johnson as long as Johnson is not the champion." A GREAT SEASON EXPECTED ON TURF. Harness Horses for Racing Season of 1907 Regarded as Unusually Promising. Just one week from today and the thousands in the grand stand at the Grosse Pointe track in Detroit will be participating in what promises to be the greatest harness race meeting in the history of the turf. That is a broad assertion, but it has facts to substantiate it. There are more horses in training today than ever before, more of them have the qualities of race horses and more have great speed—so what else is needed, aside from sunshine? Preparations for the opening of the Grand Circuit in Detroit are going on in various parts of the country, and soon the horses will begin to move to the broad track where they will engage in their first real strife for the coin of the realm. Cleveland and Libertyville have been the favored training points, but Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Lexington in the West should not be overlooked, while Poughkeepsie and the New England tracks are the scenes of some splendid preparatory efforts. In addition to these big tracks from which great things flow are the half-mile rings, a sort of kindergarten, and productive of fine results. In Michigan we have seen them race at two towns and of the many that have started a number are being pointed for the blue ribbon meeting. The Sylvester Russell's Review A National Co-Operative Magazine and Advertiser, Catering to no special Race, Creed or Color. Published at Hazleton, Pa., SYLVESTER RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor. same applies to the Canadian circuit and that which centers around Cleveland, these half-milers very often showing plenty or class when they reach the full mile rings. There will be no lacking of horses, indications now being that the average entry a race will be in excess of that at any meeting of the Detroit Driving Club. What Is a Green Trotter? All the most important details of the American Stage, abbreviated Editorialists on National Questions, Passion Poems, Comic Prose and a special Domestic Subject will appear each month by the Famous Stage Critic, Domestic Poet and common Philosopher, What is a Green Trotter? One of the pertinent questions of the turf today is this—what is a green trotter? One without record, is the answer, but in reality it should be qualified and sound something like this—"one with no record that can beat 2:10." 50c=== Special Subscription === 50c FOR ONE YEAR. Address all mail to THE SYLVESTER RUSSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Hazleton, Pa. The M. and M. field this year gives such an answer, at least. 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When in the Market look me up. HONEST PRICES and FAIR DEALING . is my motto. There are some folks who make a cloak of their religion while others make a whole suit. SPORT Patchen Wilkes Farm track in 2:29% and repeated in 2:25%. | Andrew Crawford, president of the New York Road Drivers’ Association, has sent his mare Belfry Chimes, 2:17%, to Geo. Huber's Ti Point stock farm to be bred ta Lake Red, brother to Lake Queen, 2:05%4. It is reported from Cleveland that Ben Kenney has been engaged to drive the Jack Grabtree stable. Nut Boy, My Star, Princeen and Hal Dir. ect are some of the most prominent members of the string. ‘The fast green pacer Straight Ad vice, by Free Adviee, 2:10%4, that has been in Geers’s hands for some time past, recently worked in 2:08% at Memphis.- He is owned by George Cornell of Chicago, who expects to turn him over to Charley Dean to race this season. C. R. Bentley, the Buffalo secretary, has purchased from the Grattan farm the pacing mare Carrie B., by Grattan, dam Adinda, the dam of Redinda, 2:07%, ete. by Attorney. She will be turned over to M. L. Allen. Bent: ley bought Doris B., 2:06%, from the same parties before she was devel: oped. ‘Trainer Robert Ellison, Lima, O. has the following horses in his stable at the Lima track: Grace Direct, by Direct Hal, 2:04%, dam Grace Chimes, by Chimes; ‘Miss MeKerron by John A. McKerron, 2:04%; a colt by Todd, 2:14, dam by The Director General; Coral Bead, by McKinney 2:11%, out of a daughter of Election: eer, and Hilda, by Norval, 2:14%, a very fast pacing mare. E. I White, of Syracuse, unfortu nately lost by death his very promis: ing five-year-old stallion Lord Wilton Lord Wilton was staked in several of the slow classes in the Grand Cireuit He worked a mile better than 2:16 to wagon last year and was valuec very highly by Mr. White, and is con sidered a great loss to the trotting interests of that section. H. M. Childs bas fifteen head o} Senator J. W. Bailey's youngsters by Prodigal, 2:16, in charge. Each mem her is giving entire satisfaction sc far, although none has been asked te perform at a fast pace, miles in 2:51 having been all required of them sc far. Lucille Marlowe (2), 2:17, nov three, has trained heats in 2:50 te 2:45, as has also her full brother, Buc Bonner (3), 2:19%4. “MAJOR” TAYLOR WILL RIDE AGAIN. Major Taylor, the world-famous cy- clist. who is now riding in Europe, has demonstrated the fact that he is far from being a back number. __ Three years ago he retired from the track becanse of the continued Amer. ican prejudice. He had a contract to ride in France, but canceled it and re- turned home, because McFarland, Kramer and a number of American riders had planned to do some more of their famous combination trickery in a great international meeting. Major Taylor was willing to meet any man in the world ina specia match race. He met and defeated the ‘champion of every country while he was in Europe, and then McFarland and Lawson went to Australia from here and challenged him. In one race they got him in a pocket and run him up the bank. In his attempt to go around they fouled him, throw ing him over the fence and injuring him severely. When he recovered, several weeks later, to prove that he was their master, he rode both of them special match races and defeat ed them. ‘Then he refused to ride any more races and returned to America and retired from the tracks, and for breaking his contract he was ‘sued for $10,000 by the French syndi cate, ‘The case remained in court several years,—and was settled this spring by Mr. Taylor agreeing to re: turn to Paris and ride. Since being there he has broken the world’s rec ord and defeated all comers. It sim ply proves that if a man takes good care of himself that he is good for many years in athletics. Little Major Taylor is a “most remarkable litte gentleman, and when he quit riding the public quit attending bicycle races and {t soon died out. SNAPS FROM THE GINGER JAR, By ‘Ghasies Maseuaii It is to a man’s credit if he can truthfully say that his credit is good. vee A great many people seem to en- joy coming out of a church more than they do going in. wae Some women can make a dollar go so far that their husbands will never see it again. see Some girls will ask you to call on them and when you do they get mad even when they see you coming. yee Some people, after expressing the wish that to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, let it go at that. sae One of the worst breaks that a man ‘can make when he doesn't know what to give a girl for a birthday present, is i. ask for suggestions from another sirl. ie eee Girls, when you invite a young man to your home to eat a dinner that you cooked yourself, do not tell him that you did the cooking until he has fin- ished eating. see A portion of our people are the greatest dreamers or air Castle build- ers in existence. They will tell you without any strain how they are going to get hold of a big sum of money and what they are going to do for thetr race in the future. They know the only and best way of solving the race problem. If you will listen and look ‘as though you believe every word they say, they will tell you that they have attended Harvard and. have lots of money just when appearance and con- yersation are strongly against such argument. AROUND THE WORLD IN A WEEK'S TIME el ee ee ae ee ae) ee pointed by the United States govern- ment as sculptress for the Negro ex- hibit at the Jamestown Exposition, il- lustrates the history of the Negro race from the landing of the first boatload of African slaves at Jamestown in 1619 to the present time. She has models showing the Negro at work in the cottonfield, the escaping slave, the soldier, the protector of the family of the absent master, ‘ihe Negro as a farmer, mechanic, ‘panker, poet, ora- tor, painter and physician. James Jones, colored, who was a body guard of Jefferson Davis and who has the Cenfederate seal that was entrusted to him by President Davis just before the evacuation of Richmond, was offered $15,000 to pro- duce the seal by men representing leading confederates. He _ replied that no amount of money could tempt him to betray the trust imposed by Jefferson Davis and that the secret would be buried with him. Senator John P. Doliver, of Iowa, says that Tom Dixson, Jr. recently wrote-him and asked him for his cun- did opinion on his books, “The Clans- man” and “Leopard Spots,.” He said he replied, saying that any man like Dixon who held out no hope for 10,- 000,000 human souls was certainly not showing a Christian spirit, but rather had the disposition of an atheist. A race war was threatened at the University of Chicago, at the sum- mer school. When three colored stud- ents took seats at the Commons table several of the attgndants from the South rose and left the roof. Three Texas students made angry protests when colored swimmers appeared in the gymmasium tank. AN of the Southern students have threatened to leave the school. Booker ‘T. Washington says the reason he leased a home for the sum- mer on Long Island was because he wishes to obtain a quiet spot in which to finish a book which he had bect working for some time. He also states that he and the President are still friends, but it was not to be near the President that he leased his home. Hiram §. Thomas, who, besides boasting the honor of having prepared meals for Presidents Grant, Cleveland and McKinley, is also entitled to fame ag the inventor of “Saratoga chips,” died last week at his home, the Ram json Inn; Rumson Road, near Red Bank, N. J. Mr. Thomas was the best | known colored man in the hotel bust ness, having followed it for more than |forty years. | George Herbert, of Comer, Ga., was '|shot to death last week by a posse o} ||white brutes near here as the result of a controversy between his wife anc Cicero Woods (white), in whict | Woods was wounded. Herbert barri jcaded himself in a house and the | posse Opened fire, killing him. Wood: insulted Mrs. Herbert. pase | Walter Perkins, a member of the race, of Nashville, Tenn, recentl3 {found a handsome ‘pearly ‘valued ai -|$200 by local jewelers, while hunting ;| mussel shells in the Cumberland river ja short distance north of this city | He says he will send his find to New '| York, where, he has been told, it wil ‘| bring $500. as | The Supreme Court of Kansas ha: decided that the city of Wichita, bs |its board of education, in the absenck of statutory authority, has no right {to exelude a child, hy reason of its {color, from any of its public schools -]In 1889 Wichita passed an ordinance |providing separate schools for Nearc | children. || Boston, Mass.—According. to the {New England Conference of the A '|M. E. Church, the action of President | Roosevelt in discharging the Browns [ville troops will become an issue al [the next campaign. A resolution adopted says: “Slavery fs dead, bu the spirit of the Southern oligarchy still lives.” The State Supreme Court of Geor gia has handed down a decision hold ing that Negro Knights. of Pythias should not be allowed to secure ¢ charter-from the State. The Georgia Knights of Pythias alleged that the efforts of the Negroes to secure charter was an infringement upon their name. Oyster Bay, N. ¥.—Booker T. Wash: ington, principal of the Tuskegee | Ala., institute, has established himself |for the summer in the old Van Wyck mansion on West Neck, near Hunting ton, L. I. The place is about. three miles distant from Sagamore Hill, and from it the summer home of President Roosevelt is plainly in view. | Charleston, W. Va—The W. M. Rit ter Lumber Company, charged with peonage and conspiracy to avoid the alien labor law in the U. 8. Court, pleaded guilty to ten of twenty-two counts in the indictment. The mint- mum fine of $1,000 on each count was imposed by Judge Dayton. ‘The British admiralty and the war office have both drawn the color line against a youth born in London of a Here is an opportunity for colored women ranging from 17to 35 to oc cupy one of the largest factories o} its kind in Indianapolis, Ind. Edwarc Sanders, son of H. L. Sanders, the dr) goods merchant, hopes to enroll 10( or more names of women who can sev within the next ten days. From Vernal, Ptah,-comes the re port of the birth of a freak lamb. The lamb_or lambs were fully devoleped but were killed in being born, as alsc the mother had to be killed. The te —=- —_ lambs had six legs, two tails and two Perfect heads, the necks separating at the shoulders. A bill has been introduced {a the City House of Delegates to separate Negroes and whites in all street and railway cars. The cars are to be equally divided and a penalty of $100 is provided for a person of either color invading the compartment of the other. A white jury of Briscoe, Ark., has, exonerated Thomas Hartsell for ki!l- ing J. E. Foster (white). On the night of June 15, Hartzell returning home, caught Foster crawling out of a win. dow of his home and fired upon and instantly killing him, Mr. Daniel Murray, an assistant If- brarian of Congress, is preparing an Afro-American biography. He finds that more than 5,000 different books have been writteh by colored men, and that colored men have composed more than 3,000 pieces of music. Howard University was founded on the 15th of November, 1867, and it is Proposed to celebrate that event when. the date-comes around next fall. Pres- ident Wilbur Patterson Thirkield has: conferred with President Roosevelt, who is expected to be the principal in the ceremonies. W. H. Rogers the only Negro mem- ber of the Georgia Legislature, repre- senting McIntosh County, has won. ils contest instituted against him before the house by George E. Atwood, a white man, who alleged that he should have the seat of the Negro member. The Business Men’s Club of Hunts- ville, Ala., has shown its appreciation of a faithful old colored citizen, Matt Gray, who has served as a faithful Janitor ‘of the Chamber of Commerce, by presenting him a purse to visit Jamestown Exposition and visit his old home in Albemarle, Ala. There is a movement on foot among the tax paying coijored citizens of the District of Columbia to purchase fifty or more acres of land somewhere down on the Potomac river, for the purpose of laying out a colored Luna Park. Albert Logan, a Negro elevator op- erator of San Antonio, Tex., recently found a check for $10,000 which had been lost by a wealthy citizen of that place and turned same in to the cash- ier of the Maverick Bank. Contributions are being received for the Paul Lawrence Dunbar monument at 222 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, 0., by Dr. D. W. Clark. About $506 has been contributed and that mostly by whites. The colored people of Lexington, Ky., will give their second annual charity ball the week of August 20. The ball will be for the benofit-of tne Good Samaritan and St. Joseph’s Hos: pitals and the Orphans’ Home. | Alain Leroy Locke, a Negro living in Philadelphia, won the Rhodes ||scholarship for Pennsylvania, He {s 20 years of age, and took the quali: |fying examination with fifty others. | At an entertainment given at_ the True Reformers’ Opera Hall at Rich: mond, Va., President Roosevelt's. pic- | ture was hissed off of a canvas by over five hundred colored people. Irving Talley, a Negro, was sén- tenced at Atlanta, Ga., to twenty years Jin prison and to pay’a fine of $9,000 for raising a $2 bill to $20. The Order of Daughters of Sphinx is one of the prominent secret soci eties among colored people in the eity of Chicago, Ml. The Interstate Commerce Commie- sion says cars for whites and blacks Jmust be equal. Joe Gans is erecting a $2,008 hotel Jat Baltimore. { IN LIBERIA, Our well-known, and erstwhile bril- liant lawyer, T. McCants Stewart, is now in Liberia, Africa. In speaking of the country, he advises none but thoughtful people who are willing ot become pioneers to think of going to the Negro Republic. Farmers are needed above all—men to till the soil. He insists that the product would find ready market in Burope. He has the following to say, and which will not be viewed as a saultary comment on the situation in our own country: “I wish in conclusion to emphasize this statement, that no good results accrue, to Liberia or to Negroes, who come here, if emigration to this coun- try is entered upon with the expecta- tion of finding boulevards and ave- nues lighted by electricity; magnifi- cent school houses and spacious church edifices; street cars and dance halls; hotels and eating saloons. For purposes of handling large moneys from wages or salaries, or from other sources of industry; for purposes of eating and drinking and dancing; for purposes of wearing fine clothes and patent shoes, and having a good time generally, let the Negro stay in the United States, where, under the lead- ership, and domination of the white man, “flesh pots,” like the “flesh pots ot Egypt,” have been established on every hand. Here, in Liberia, is self- denial and work, and the serious busi- ness of homebuilding and nation- building.” U. D. DAVIDSON CO., Wholesale and Retall Human Halr Dealers 1108, 81500 per dozen or #.76ench em Lup SWIC, #00 perdonn or too cucu an ‘Up; POMPADOULES, $100 per dosrn oF Toe each and up; uinky ‘hair. wavy. bate abd Sitgit date dark brown and jc binek oor lonry mrst weesmpany ail mil order. Ade teas 40g ‘Ninkh St, Masonic Temple, Fort Worth, Texon. The Aqres Bulletin 7,000 Tooth Brushes Priced Below Usual Import Cost. The season's end surplus of one of the biggest importers of brushes in the country. It's a peculiar collection, embracing almost every kind of brush you ever saw for cleansing the teeth, including all the favorite shapes and most of the fads and freaks. They cost about 60 per cent of their invoiced value and will be sold at almost as great a reduction. 7c for 10c brushes. 14c for 20c quality. 19c for 25c and 35c brushes. —Basement, Center Aisle. Kayser's Silk Gloves—New A late shipment of Kayser's silk gloves just received. 16-button length black and white gloves with dullie tipped fingers at $2 00 and $2.50 12-button length silk gloves, black and white, double tipped fingers & pair. $1.50 k-button clap and silk gloves, with double-tipped fingers, a pair. $50c —Main Floor, East Aisle. L.S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Orange Dennis of Shelbyville, Ind., is in the city. Dr. W. E. Brown left Tuesday for a month's vacation in the East. Rev. G. F. Crosland of Noblesville was in the city Monday. Prof. O. H. Hammonds of Terre Haute was in the city this week. The Woman's Club will be the guest of Mrs. Bee Davis, Monday. Tan Oxford for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington street. Mrs. J. Franklin Walker and children of Cincinnati are the guest of friends in the city. Mrs. David Catthell of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. W. Norman Curry and Mrs. Maude Beauty. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Welch are on an extensive automobile tour throughout the East. Misses Elizabeth and Katherine Easton of Chicago are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Brown and family. Woodbine Perfume, Ohio now fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. C. J. Crawford a member of the detective force at Cleveland, Ohio was in the city on business Saturday. Meadames Carrie Mays, Katie Franklin of Louisville, Ky., are visiting Mrs. Isaac Masdam in N. California street. Mrs. Lulu Grubbs, who has been quite ill, with typhus id pneumonia her at home 526 N. Missouri street is improving. Chas. A. Bailey of Connersville, was in the city Fr day of last week en route home from the Grand Lodge father Kokomo. Mrs. W. T. Gale accompanied by Mrs. Addle Howard left Sunday to spc1 three weks with the former's father Robert Sublet of Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ward are in the East visiting at Boston, New York. Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and the Exposition at Norfolk, Va. Mrs. W. Norman Curry and daughter Mrs. Maude Reaty, ent retained at whist Thursday afternoon, complimentary to their guest, Mrs. David Caitheil of Chicago. Rev. J. L. Bailey and Georgo L. Knox spent Sunday at Anderson assisting Rev. White, Rev. Bailey preached at night and Mr. Knox made an address in the after moon. Mr. and Mrs. Remus Moore entertained at supper, Mrs. Lucy Turner at a garden party and Mrs. Rita M as at dinner this week complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. George G. Jones of Cleveland, O. Mr. Isaac Masdam, of 606 North Cali orla street, left Saturday to spend tendays with his brother and sister at Lebanon Junction, Ky. Mr Masdam has been connected with his Feeny furniture company for seventeen years and this is his first leave of absence during that time. Mrs. Susie Williams, and guests Mesdames John W. Lewis and Betie F. Lewis of Georgetown, Ky. have returned from South Bend, I.d., where they were guests of Mrs Noah Hubbard. The entire party spent sometime at St. Joe, Benton Harb r. Mihch., and Chicago. The Sumter League have secured the Fair Grounds for the purpose of giving a Grard Outing Thursday, August 15th. This will be made a day of pressure for everybody. Special street car service has been secured for the occasion, and good THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. order is absolutely guaranteed. A first-class orchestra will be constantly in operation for the amusement of all pleasure seekers. Admission 25 cents. ANNIVERSARY & REOPENING The Greater Simpson Chapel M. E. Church. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., preachin 11 a.m., special music by the choral class. 7:35 Special service. Choral Class. Invocation. Address Miss Matte Bolden, Jr. League " Mrs. M, S Johnson Sunday school " Mrs. Havener, Ald No. 1 " Hon. Geo. L. Knox, Trustee Board Collection. Benediction. All are welcome A. Bybee. Master Ceromony J. S. Belley, Pastor. Yes, I was thinking of going away for a day or so about August 15th, but I see the Summer League will give an outing on that date. You know I can't miss that. They conduct everything so nicely and such perfect order is maintained that one feels at home when with them, and only 25 cents admission. NEGROESSHOULD LEAVE THE SOUTH Only Solutio for the Prseent Oppression. The on y way for the Negroes to relieve the degrading and awful conditions of peonage, prejudice, disfranchisement and injustice of the South is to leave the South, and emigrate to other sections where their rights will be respected and their strivings to better themselves encouraged. Such a course would make the Southern states enact laws to protect the colored citizens who remain or lose the bulk of the laboring c ass, whose labor has helped to create the wealth of that section. Speaking on the subject of desirable places to which such emigrants could go, Mr. Pearl Abernathy of East St. Louis, Ill., a colored real estate and employment agent said: "Five thousand industrious colored men and women can secure employment in the factories, mills and foundries of East St. Louis and the vicinity. The wages for unskilled labor runs from $1.50 to three dollars a day for men, and rom three dollars to ten dollars a week for women. Skilled mechanics make from $250 to seven dollars per day. House work pays from three dollars to six dollars a week with board and room. Homes can be bought on easy terms, the payments in many cases being the same as rent. Mr. Pearl Abernathy, 605 Missouri avenue, East St. Louis, Ill., will gladly furnish further information to all who are interested in the greater opportunities and better educational facilities that East St. Louis affords. WILL PLAN TO AID NEWSBOYS WILL PLAN TO AID NEWSBOYS (Concluded from page one.) country, Louisville, salutes you! Come to see us! You will find the latch string always on the outside of the door. The city of Louisville has the distinction of having five female doctors. The oldest practicing physician is Mrs. Dr. Sarah Fitzbutler. Her ability and skill is well known over the country. Her practice is very lucrative. The name of Fitzbutler carries with it scientific medical intelligence. The other lady physicians are Misses M. Etta Green, Esther Brown, Prima Fitzbutler and Miss Metcalf. D. Webster Davis, one of the race's greatest platform speakers and poets, who came to this city last year and made a "hit," is booked to speak here in August. His coming will be under the personal direction of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The people of Louisville are anxiously awaiting his arrival as they claim he is the best that has ever come to Louisville to please, instruct and influence. GIANTS BRYANIZED THE HIAWATHAS The Hiawathas received a generous roasting yesterday from the large crowd of rooters who came all the way from Cincinnati with the hope of seeing their team win. The Louisville Giants captured the game in the second inning, and had easy sailing until the close of the ninth inning. The Giants did some sharp fielding all through the game. Jesse Briscoe made a swell catch with one hand after a long hard run for the ball. The Hiawathas batted well, but could not get around the bases. Both pitchers kept the hits well scattered, while Gip Thomas, of the Giants, was the most effective with men on bases. In the fifth inning the game was such an easy snap for the Giants that Cap Coleman ordered his men to change positions in the field. They were able to bring in five more scores, while the visitors were unable to get to second base. Next Sunday afternoon Cut Price Drugs and School Supplies PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST Sole Agent for the famous "Kink Straight ener" Hair Pomade. Price 50 cents. Cor. St. Clair St., and Senate Ave at Recclus Park the Louisville Giants and the strong Recclus team will begin to battle at 3 o'clock. The score: Hlawasias ..... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 1 Giants ..... 0 9 1 0 1 2 2 0 * — 16 Umpire—Nutter. Attendance — 900. C. B. LEWIS. CLASSIFIED COLUMN A want ad in this column at one cent a word. FOR SALE An ad in The Freeman always brings results. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington St. The genuine Caler's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50ct stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Blodau, druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. FOR SALE--Six room, two story house -Lot 40x125 feet; $800.00 -Will take part cash, balance monthly payments. Call C. F. W. -C. k 2020 N. Capitol avenue. New Phone 7678. In a Live Weekly Newspaper, unlimited possibilities for bright, haunting man. In Southern city with Fifty Thousand colored population. Address S Y...th off co. TAYL R'R'S HAIR GROW R dandruff pomade 220 at all drug stores v mall upon rice lot of price. cures dandruff, sea suns, Drynes and every rupure f titles, thereby const g hairs, short, thin hair to grow long, thick, beautiful, s it, gloss and pll ble. An idea hair dressing. Improve wntounder in a short time. Agents can make $1.00 $5 per day. Write to day for of 108 free articles and particulars. Address Kry Remedy Co. Dept. 4, Louisville Ky. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Meals at Mrs. Nelie Brown's, 108 Vanda data街 Edwardsville, Ill. Tan Oxford's for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 325 W. Washington St. Tan Oxford's for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington St. Men's dress shirts 39c; Ladies' Hose 60c children's drawers 9c—Od Granger Store If you have once tried Aquos Sodas you will not be satisfied with the ordinary kind. At your grocer Dr. Langston, dentist at 404 Indiana Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a speciality of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Between the Physician and Patient stands the Pharmacist. It is his office to d spense the purest and best drugs. Upon his skill and integrity the physician depends for results. An error on his part may result seriously for the patient. You can with confidence, bring your prescriptions to Gaud's Pharmacy. 601 Indiana Ave. EVERYBODY Indiana Ave., and Michigan reet, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prisons are the places in all CUT RATE Drug Stores. Only registered clerks employed. Soil agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Straightener. HOW TO KILL BFD BUGS AND FLEAS. July and August are the months in which bed bugs and fleas get ripe, and this hot weather makes the crop unusually large. A reporter of the News heard that Julius A. Haag, the Pennsylvania street druggist, had invented a remedy that was not polsonous, yet one application with a powder gun would kill all the bugs and other insects in the house, and one application on a cog would kill all the fleas; it also kills plant lice, roaches, ants and water bugs. Mr. Haag says he inends to get his invention pated. ted. a though he is now selling it in 100 and 250 boxes (the powder gun 100 extra), at the three Haag Drug Stores, 112 North Penny vanla street, opposite Grand Opens House, 9 South Illinois street, near Washington street, and 802 Massachusetts avenue, corner College. Mr. Haag says he sends thremy by mail, po taged paid, to any address. All orders should be directed to Julius A. Haag, 112 North Pennsylvania street, I Indianapolis, Ind. NOTICE. The Stand privileges at the State Fair Ground, Aug 15, at the Sumner League celebration, will be sold at the League's headquarters at 8 o'clock Monday evening. Aug. 12, 1907. There will only five re freshment stands sold to the highest bidders. Committee on Stands and Other Privileges, G. L. Jones, chairman; J. Water Hodge and Wm. B. Frazier. ANY HAT CAP STYLE COLOR $1.00 FROM·FACTORY·TO·YOU Hats and Caps MAIL, ORDERS SOLICITED Money With Order—No Goods Sent C.O.D. SEND SIZE, STYLE and COLOR CATALOGUE FREE DR. W. N. SHORT, President STERLING R. HOLT, Vice-President HARRY E. HILL, Secretary AMERICAN HAT CO., Department C., 31 S. Illinois St., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. MANUFACTURER'S Clean-Up Sale. OUR buyer just returned with thousands of BARGAINS gathered from many of the lar est manufacturers in the country. We are in position to offer you the greatest lot of bargains ever presented to any one. We have what we advertise, at the prices advertised. The Old Granger Store, 336-338 W. Washington St. SPECIALS SPECIALS. $10.00 values. Men's suits, f. r. ... $9.99 $4.00 "Ladies' dress skirts" ... $2.98 $2.00 "Ladies' fin dress hats" ... 250 $90 "Men's under shirts" ... 390 500 "Fine dress silks" ... 290 750 "Men's nigele shirts" ... 390 $2.00 "Men's fine dress pants" ... $1.49 THE OLD GRANGER STORE. 336-338 W. WASHINGTON ST. WE LOAN MONEY CONFIDENTIALLY. ```markdown ```text If you are short of money, don't hesitate to come to us. We will loan you from $5 to $200 on Household Goods, Plans o, Horses, Wagons, Fixtures, Warehouse Receipts, etc., without removal, in a strictly confidential manner, so that no one will know of the transaction. $1.20 is the weekly payment on a $5 loan for 50 weeks. Other amounts in the same proportion. You can pay weekly, monthly or quarterly, and every payment made reduces the loan. ``` Loans made in all parts of the city; also at Shelbyville, Green- field, Knightstown, Franklin, Columbus, Greencastle, Martinsville, Lebanon, Noblesville, St. Paul, Greensburg, Spiceland, Danville, Plainfield, and all towns reached by interurban roads. Mail or phone applica- tions receive our prompt atten- tion. If you need money, fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it to us, and our Agent will call on you. Name. Wife's Name. Name. Street and Number. City. Amount Wanted. Call on or address IND. MORTGAGE LOAN CO., Established 1887. ROOM 4, LOMBARD BLDG., 24½ E. WASHINGTON STREET. BOTH PHONES 3286. THE PARKER HOUSE Good weather on and more coming. Traveling season now open. When heading for Indianaapolis can't forget that the Picker House is still trading. Ask for hostelry; none better in the countrys Everything in season and the very best service. Excellent table, good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holiman, Prop 317-321 W Michigan street. Phones N w 4972: Old 651. WANTED—= FOR SALE all kinds to one as well as no excivies. One million will be basked at the Negro Tri-State Fair and Industry Exposition. For particular address, W A Hill, secretary and tre surer, Board of Trade building, St. Joseph, Mo. TRADE MARK REG U.S. PAT OFF GEORGE KEITH COMPANY The Great U Lexington September Everybody Attend Among the many f Wm. G. McKin The Great Chicago B Engaged to F Reduced Rates on T. J. WILSON, President. AUGUST Final $4 and $5 Ha $5.00 and $7.00 $1.50 WAISTS DOMB BRO 134 W. Wash BIG FOUR Great Colored Fair Lexington, Kentucky, September 10th to 14th 1907. Everybody Attends this Great Fair, Among the many free attractions will be G. McKinney Great Chicago Eighth Regiment Band Engaged to Furnish Music. Rates on all Railroads Running INTO LEXINGTON KY. President. A. L. HARDEN, Secretary. CUST Final Clearance SALE and $5 Hats - $1.25 10 and $7.00 SKIRTS - $2.75 WAISTS - 50c OMB BROS, LADIES' OUTFITTERS. 134 W. Washington Street. FOUR Excursions Wm. G. McKinney The Great Chicago Eighth Regiment Band Engaged to Furnish Music. Reduced Rates on all Railroads Running INTO LEXINGTON KY. T. J. WILSON, President. A. L. HARDEN, Secretary. AUGUST Final Clearance SALE $5.00 and $7.00 SKIRTS - $2.75 DOMB BROS, LADIES' OUTFATTERS. 134 W. Washington Street. BIG FOUR Excursions SUNDAY, AUGUST 4th. 51.50 LAWRENCEBURG and AUROPE Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. 51.25 TERRE HAUTE and RETURN Special train leaves 7:40 a. m. To the Colored Men of the United We adopt the ducing our o High Gr We are saving Traveling S. AWRENCEBURG and AURORA $1.50 Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. TERRE HAUTE and RETURN $1.25 Special train leaves 7:40 a. m. $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG and AURORA $1.50 Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. $1.25 TERRE HAUTE and RETURN $1.25 Special train leaves 7:40 a. m. COOKS PREFER TO COOK WITH GAS IT'S EASIER AND COOLER. THE INDIANAPOLIS cheerful give the cresspin- d discount on all goods pur- nated thr ugh this advertise- ment, to together with the special discount we allow to the trade. Brooms $1.75 to $3.50 PER DOZ N. ALSO Daisers in Baskets, Burlaps, Excelsior AND Manufacturer's Supplies. L. C. CAUMMISAR & SONS, THE INDIANAPOLIS Gas Company DO IT NOW! Have Those Teeth Fixed SEE Kuykendall & Huffman, DENTIST, 513 INDIAN AVE. Try a classified ad in The Freeman THE GRAND 75c WASH WASH SUITS, of sheer lace Regular $1.50 suits. Sat Choice THE GRAND LEADER 338-340 E.WASH.ST. WASH SUITS 750 ITS, of sheer lawns, light grounds, with pin dots 1.50 suits. Saturday while they last 750 THE GRAND LEADER 338-340 E.WASH.ST. WASH SUITS, of sheer lawns, light grounds, with pin dits. Regular $1.50 suits. Saturday while they last 75c Choice Style and Comfort Perhaps you've observed that Walkover Style and Comfort Go Together. That's one of the Secrets of WALK-OVER Superiority, Style, Comfort, Dignity and Service are blended in WALK-OVER Notice Our Windows. $5.00, $4.00, $3.50 HUTCHINSON'S Walk-Over Boot Shop, 28 N PENNSYLVANIA ST To the Colored Business Men of the United States. We adopt this method of introducing our cell-based make of High Grade Brooms We are saving the expense of a Traveing Salesman, and will cheerfully give the cresponding discount on all goods purchased through this advertiser with the special discount to the trade. OVERHEAD Brooms $1.75 to $3.50 PER DOZ N. ALSO Dealers in Baskets, Burlaps, Excelsior AND EXCELSIOR ALSO Fees Payable PURPOSES EXCEED FIND AUTHORIZED PUBLISHER TOTE BAG 123 THIRD STREET, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. Write us at once; we can save you money. Hotel Vancouver Niagara Falls, N. Y., FIRST-CLASS In All Appointments. Situated Near The FALLS, PARKS, CEPOTS