The Freeman

SUCCESS TO THE FOURTEENTH BIENNIAL CONCLAVE OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS WHO PROCLAIM FRIENDSHIP CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE TO ALL MANKIND. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER A REVIEW OF LOUISVILLE AN GREAT STIR CREATED BY THE PHYTHIAS FROM ALLOV FALLS CITY FOLK WILL WELCOME Business Men and Women are Make Those Who Attend the Phythian Will, Make an Address--Mayor Will Also Speak at Large Gather A REVIEW OF LOUISVILLE AND ITS PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE GREAT STIR CREATED BY THE COMING OF THE KNIGHTS OF PHYTHIAS FROM ALLOVER THE UNITED STATES. FALLS CITY FOLK WILL WELCOME OVER FIFTY THOUSAND VISITORS Business Men and Women are Making Preparations to Accommodate Those Who Attend the Phythian Conclave--Booker T. Washington Will. Make an Address--Mayor Bingham and Governor Beckham Will Also Speak at Large Gathering at Quinn Chapel. BY CARY B. LEWIS. Monday, Sept. 2.—D. O. K. k. parade leaves Odd Fellows' Hall 8 p. m., marches through the principle streets and will have a reception at Odd Fellows' Hall 8 p. m., Sept. 2.—Welcome address at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church by Mayor Bingham and Gov. Beckham. Sept. 3d—Opening. Supreme Lodge, at 3d Opening Hall to order by Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks. Supreme Court of Calanthe called to order by S. W. Green. Odd Fellows' Hall. Ladies' night at the Cole. Sept. 4.—Regular sessions at the halls and ball game at the camp. Entertainment at the Camp. Entertainment at the Camp. Odd Fellows Hall, Will. Will Ninebweb Booker T. Washington to speak, at 4 p.m. Night at Coliseum, Military Ball and Drill Contest. Drill Contest. Sept. 7.—Final Business arrangements completed. Sept. 8.—Special sermons at all churches. Pythians invited. The coming of the Knights of Pythias at this time to this city has created quite a stir among the people on every hand, and preparations are being made to render the occasion memorable. In order that some little souvenir of our people may be taken to various parts of this country by the thousands of Pythians and Courts of Calanthe, we herewith present a series of brief sketches of some of our citizens who have distinguished themselves in more than one walk of life. For whatever progress is made by the colored race in any community, the knowledge of that fact must be an incentive and an inspiration to other communities of our people to move forward and upward. REV. C. H. PARRISH, D. D., Pres. Eckstein Norton Institute. Dr. C. H. Parrish was graduated from the State University with the degree of A. B., and studied Theology and received the degree of doctor of divinity. He was called to the pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church, which is now one of the leading churches of the state. His success as a leader of his flock has been phenomenal. Two years ago he made a trip to London, England, and delivered a most eloquent address which was printed in full in the Pall Mall Gazette and attracted wide spread attention. He visited the Garden of Gathsemene and the River Jordan and the Sephulcre of Jesus, and on his return delivered a series of lectures. Dr. Parrish is the president of the Eckstein Norton Institute, of Cane Springs, Ky., and is regarded by our people as the "Tuskegee of Ky." Its motto is the education of the "Head, Heart and Hand." Upon the occasion of the last commencement of the school, Dr. Parrish VOLUME XX NUMBER33 secured the services of Mr. Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier-Journal, to deliver an address to the graduates. The masterly oration on that occasion won the hearts of those who heard it, and drew forth favorable comments from the whole colored press of this country. Eckstein is doing a great work for the uplift of the race, and fortunate are the people who come under the spell of Dr. Parrish's influence and association. He recently purchased a home on Sixth Ave., in one of the most exclusive portions of the city. He is highly respected by both races and is a man of national reputation. D. L. KNIGHT, Pres. Falls City Realty Co. One of the most substantial and most successful business men in the city is Mr. D. L. Knight, who was the first man of color in Ky. to establish a transfer line. He began his career in a brick yard and by working regularly and saving his money, purchased a horse and wagon. Today he owns evelen wagons, this equipment is styled, "The Lightning Transfer Company." From the profits of his business he has purchased many and large holdings. He is a large tax payer on several pieces of property in desirable sections of the city. He puts into the hands of his race hundreds of dollars each month in wages, and is regarded by citizens as a successful business man, and exemplary citizen. He is a life member of the National Negro Business Men's League and is the chief spirit in the local league of this city. He is president of the Falls City Realty Co., a prosperous concern under the control of Negros. A. H. Dr. Walter Adams is one among the forty doctors practicing in Louisville. Dr. Adams is a graduate of the Meharry Medical College. As a student he made an unusual record in all the important branches of surgery, anatomy and physiology, therapeutics and ma- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1907. DR. WALTER ADAMS, Physician and Surgeon. teria medica, and the practice of medicine. There have been but few physicians to make such rapid strides as Doctor Adams in so short a time. He has one of the handsomest offices in Louvainville and his practice at his office is very large. He has deeply ingratiated himself into the confidence and favor of all races, through his skill in medicine as well as by his force of character. As resident physician to the Red Cross Sanitarium it has fallen to his lot to perform some of the most difficult and delicate operations of modern surgery. On several occasions, he has associated with him Dr. Daniel Williams, of Chicago, in several major operations which were performed at the Red Cross Sanitarium. He has a large and lucrative practice and is medical examiner of several of our important secret organizations. MRS. LAVINA WATSON, Undertaker and Business Woman. Mrs. Lavina Watson, the widow of the late William Watson and his successor in the undertaking business is widely known throughout the state and much beloved for her amiable and womanly qualities. She has always been a tower of strength in her wisdom and deep insight into business affairs. She has succeeded in carrying on the work begun by her husband and made improvements in all the joint properties. Mrs. Watson is largely engaged in public charities among her people and the door of her home swings upon the hinge of hospitality. She is today considered one of the leading undertakers south of the Ohio river, in point of equipment, style, service and general satisfaction. If anything happens to go wrong at any time, her favorite expression is "I will make everything alright without cost." The citizens of this city has nobly rallied to the support and patronage of this most deserving estimatable lady. HON. A. S. WHITE, Attorney-at-Law. At the head of the legal profession in the state stands Hon. A. S. White, a graduate of the State University and the law department of Howard University. Mr. White stands high among the attorneys at the bar and has distinguished himself as the foremost colored lawyer of the commonwealth. He has been admitted to practice before the State Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. The many important criminal cases that have been intrusted to him have been handled with ability that has challenged admiration of both bench and bar. Mr. White is a prolific writer and has contributed to a number of leading journals. He is an eloquent orator, a platform speaker and has made many brilliant speeches in all parts of the country. He is what one would call a true and tried Republican. In 1902 he was appointed United States Revenue agent, the most responsible political office held by an Afro-American in Ky. He is dean of the Central Law School of Louisville. Mrs. Sallie J. White, his wife, was the first colored woman to receive a diploma from a law school in Ky. and admitted to the bar. She is vice-president of the Woman's Improvement Club, and was first among the zealous workers who began the agitation for a free Kindergarten in the public schools. Mr. John B. Snowden, of Lexington, Ky., has for the last several years been one of the most potent factors in the Pythians ranks of Ky. Starting at the lowest round of the ladder in his home city and possessing courage, integrity and intelligence, he climbed until today he is the head of the order in the state, occupying the exalted position of Grand Chancellor. It is largely through his zeal and love for the order in Ky. that she now stands upon that high position, inferior to none of the grand *lodges* under the Supreme jurisdiction throughout the five continents. Through him Pythianism has made the most rapid strides of any Chancellor that has held a gavel in Ky. He placed his office above personal or selfish motives, and by his friendship and loyalty as a brother and a man, generous and kind, he won the hearts of thousands of many who were unknown to the order and today there is no fraternal organization in the state who is more JOHN B. SNOWDEN, State Grand Chancellor, K. of P. esteemed than the young Chancellor, John B. Snowden. Mr. Snowden is an employee of the Federal Government, and has a family consisting of a very charming wife and a bright little daughter. He is a man of frugal habits, simple life, and is the possessor of a beautiful home. Mr. A. B. Mc. Afee, United States Store-Keeper Gauger. Mr. A. B. Mc. Afee graduated from the Central High School in 1894, later from Clark's Embalming School, but began his career as an editor of a local journal. For several years he taught school in the public schools of this city, afterwards he occupied the responsible position of bookkeeper and embalmer for the late William Watson, the undertaker. His last and present employment being that of storekeeper gauger of the Fifth Dist. of Ky. where he is considered by the collector and his office force as one of the most efficient men in the service white or black. He has been very prominent in politics, having been president of the Young Men's Republican Club, and Secretary of City and County as well at the State Republican Conventions. He received a complimentary vote as delegate to the National Convention. He believes in the efficacy and power of organization, and it is due to his efforts that Ky. has the first Negro Undertaker's Association. Mr. Mc. Afee has a most charming wife who is a splendid housekeeper. They reside in a beautiful home on West Walnut street. Ten years ago Mr. S. W. Starks was elected Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Upon assuming the Supreme Chancellorship of the order, brother Starks found the order less coherent in spirit of its obligations and the affairs of its management less systematical than many of the wise ones might have desired. How be it, the order stands today throughout the world among the foremost and attractive fraternal organizations known to mankind. This collosal task has been accomplished under the direction and supervision of this sagacious, untiring and intrepid leader. No man standing alone could have the heart to take it, did he not feel the assurance that the thousands of hearts would beat in unison with his own, HON. S. W. STARKS, Supreme Chancellor of the K. of P. and thousands of hands would be ready at any moment to raise the banner when ever it was about to fall. The marvelous progress that has been made by this order is due primarily to Mr. Starks and secondary to the councils of zealous assistants. He brought to the management of the or- Public Library 1-06 der such principles as to put it on an economic and business like basis. His biennial reports have been models of neatness, clearness and accuracy. Everything so tabulated as to come within the comprehension of the dulless and to challenge the admiration of the wisest. This, the Fourteenth Biennial Conclave will be in many ways an auspicious occasion. This is the first visit officially of the Supreme Chancellor Starks on the occasion of a Conclave. The Pythians Uniform Rank and Courts of Calanthe that he has given so much time and thought have a warm spot in their hearts for him. Mr. Starks is a widely read man, being State Librarian of West Va. His opportunities for self culture has been exceptionally rare. He is not regarded as a florid speaker but an earnest, powerful and sincere man. He relies upon the logic of his statement to bring conviction. Mr. Starks is a man of character and high standing in his community, and is superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Baptist church at his home. He is a friend of Dr. Rooker T. Washington, and oftimes comments upon the success made by the "Wizard of Tuskegee." During his stay in the city of Louisville he will be the guest of Mrs. Walker, 729 West Walnut street and many entertainments will be given in his honor. Pythians all hall to the chief. REV. L. G. JORDAN, Pres. Douglass Improvement Co. and Pharmacy. The Rev. L. G. Jordan, "the Little Steam Engine of the Baptist Denomination," is the secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, and is also Corresponding Secretary of the Afro-American Council, with offices at the Douglass building, 726 W. Walnut street. His mail is so heavy and his work so arduous that he requires the assistance of a number of clerks. Miss Geneva Cowles of Xenia, Ohio, and Miss Herbert Webber, are his stenographers and Miss Lucy Flint is his bookkeeper. Rev. Jordan operates an electrical press and has a printing plant, the most modern this side of Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Jordan is now putting his finishing touch on his annual report to the National Baptist Convention. The latest and most helpful influence of Dr. Jordan was his thoughtfulness in erecting the first Negro office building in Ky. Under his supervision the Foreign Mission Department has grown from one missionary in Africa and one desk in an attic, to seven missionaries in West Africa, South Africa, and the West Indies and a well regulated office conducting the immense business of the board with such a degree of dispatch and accuracy as to receive the heartiest commendation of his large constituency throughout the country. Miss Nannle H. Burroughs is one of the most widely known women of the race and is the unquestioned leader of Baptist women of the country. As a business woman she has few equals. Her office is a "bee hive of industry." She has long ago distinguished herself as a platform orator. No writer or speaker has more courageously and eloquently championed the cause of the race than Miss Burroughs. She carried off the honors at two world Congresses. At the Young People's Congress in Atlanta, 1902, the Atlanta Constitution said: "Miss Burroughs' address created a stronger impression than any heard at the Negro Congress." It will be remembered that (Continued on page four.) How Actual Conditions in a Typical Southern Mill Village Seem to Him. (Communication in Hartford Courant.) A few observations on the race and other questions of the day, from a Connecticut man who has lived five months in one of the small villages of the South, may not be without interest to readers of a Northern paper. The writer avers, without quantification, that there is no race warfare in South Carolina; there is no hatred of one race by the other; there is no longer any politics in the situation, as the Negro has ceased to be a political factor to be dealt with in that State; and the two races are dependent on each other in a economic way and must be for many years to come, and finally, the Negroes would, if the dreams of some of their own race were carried out and they were transported to Africa, the Philippines or any other place, relapse into barbarism. The Northern man who goes to one of the cities of the South and attempts to study the situation as regards the race problem will not be well informed. He does not come in contact with the genuine Negro, who makes up the great bulk of the population of the South. The Negro that he meets is a hackman, a porter in a hotel, a barber or something other than a genuine worker; and then, too, he has lived in a place where half the population are white, and he is not the same darky by any means that you will find in the scattered communities of the South. It must be remembered that the South is undeveloped yet, as compared with the North, and that the great bulk of the population, both black and white, live in little villages and on the outlying farms. It is in a village like Howesville—with thirty-five white families in the village and perhaps fifteen more within a radius of two miles, and with a colored population of at least 1,000 in the same radius—that the Negro question can best be studied. Two hundred white people all told and a community of Negroes numbering 1,000 are typical of hundreds of communities all over the South. The reader should remember that the Negro of today is possessed of arms, a large number owning shotguns and others revolvers. If there are any such race warfare as some writers and speakers aver, how long would the white people exist in such a community as the one in which the writer has found himself for the last five months? The facts are that the two races are dependent on each other and must be for generations. Immigration will not settle the question, as only immigrants from the South of Europe could stand this climate and its hot sun. It goes without saying that, if Italian laborers in the home country were all to leave Italy and come to the South, there would not be nearly enough of them to do the field work that must be done in raising the cotton supply of the world. No white man who has been raised in a temperate climate can stand the sun for outdoor work when the thermometer stands at 114 in the sun and at 104 in the shade, as it did here all this week up to this morning. While the white man depends and must depend on the colored man to do his field work, the Negro depends and will depend for generations to come, on the white man to direct him in this work, and all other work as well. The Negro is a faithful worker under direction and the personal supervision of a white man, but he will not accomplish anything when left to himself. The present generation of Negroes can read and write and they are nearly half a century removed from the days of slavery, and yet they are nearly as dependent on the whites as were their ancestors of the old regime. That they are a happy, Contented race goes without question, and there is every reason why they should be. Any colored man can earn $6 a week, and as it does not cost him more than $1.25 for rations for his family for a week, and 50 cents at the most for rent of his cabin, and nothing for fuel and but little for clothes, there is no reason why he should not be happy and contented. A sullen Negro is rarely seen. They are a happy lot of men and women, and are almost all the time to be heard singing while at their work, and, if the mill shuts down for a minute, they are ready to execute a double shuffle. The superior race does not get half the enjoyment out of life with its artificialities that does the Negro. Under these conditions why should there be any attempt made to raise him in the scale of civilization? He has his little home and if he is not contented with the wife that he has taken without ceremony, in most cases, he simply leaves her and either takes the children along with him or leaves them for the next man that espouses his discarded wife to take care of. The thing of moment is that they are taken care of, and no Negroes in the South are to be found in the almshouse. The writer has been in a mill plant in the South for five months, where eighty Negroes and twenty whites are employed, and he has never seen a sign of race antagonism among these men. The whites employed are not as a rule among the best citizens of the South, either, as may be imagined, and yet they get along with the Negro and work by his side without friction. The only row on the premises took place between two Negroes when one floored another by striking him with a slab and laid him out so that he appeared to be dead. In that case one of the white men, who was a town officer, walked the assailant off to the guardhouse, and there was not a murmur among the Negroes, although it was generally believed that he had served the other fellow right in knocking him down. The governing class among the whites do not have any feeling toward the Negro of antagonism, but they do insist that he shall keep his place and not attempt in any way to claim social equality. A Negro woman wearing a cap to show that she is a nurse can enter a Pullman with her employer's baby, and all the white women in the car will stop to talk to her, but let a Negro woman with- out the badge of servitude enter that car and every white woman in it would reach for the bell cord to have the train stopped and the woman put off the train. colored, gave birth to three boys and two girls. The mother and children are doing well. C. H. Turner is a conspicuous example of scholarship among the colored The political question seems to be solved in the small communities where not a Negro attempts to vote and there is nothing to show that he cares to vote. All who wish to vote must be registered, and the Negro simply does not offer himself for registration, and his name does not appear on the voting list. The question has often been asked by the writer, "What would you do if a qualified Negro offered himself for registration?" And the answer has always been a shrug of the shoulders and the statement, "He will not offer himself." All matters are settled in the primaries of this State, and the battles fought out there between rival white candidates are very sharp. After the first primary the selection of candidates simmers down to the two men having the largest vote for a given office, and the final primary settles the matter as between these men. The Negro of today in the rural communities of the South can read and write, and he does not take the slightest interest in politics. He expects the white men to make and administer the laws, and he is perfectly satisfied to have him do it. It can be said that the white man is inclined to be exact in administering civil justice as between men of one color and between men of different colors. In administering the criminal law the white is inclined to bear down rather hard on the colored man and the excuse for it is that he must be kept under so far as crime is concerned; otherwise life and property would not be safe for a minute in any rural community of the South. In actual practice there is no great amount of crime that can be charged to the colored race. That they will pick up small thinks that are left around loose is true, but of larger crimes the Negro is not capable, and he does not seem to care to be mixed up with them. It is true that there is much of the animal about the Negro and that he is liable under excitement break loose, and, like a crazy herd of Texas cattle, might do much damage before he could be restrained. It is the object of the Southern people to see to it that he does not break loose, and a Negro that was attempting very far wrong would be shot to death with as little feeling in the matter as would be the Texas steer that was running amuck. In spite of all that has been said and written, the two races are living side by side in these Southern communities, and the colored man is doing the field work and the manual labor in all cases, and he is paid all that is agreed upon to the last cent, and the white man is scrupulous to see to it that he is never cheated out of what he has earned; and every Negro in the South today can find employment at wages of not less than $1 a day, and he can support his family in as good shape on that as the average mechanic of the North whose wages are twice that sum. If the Negro was provident and was a worker to the same extent that the laborer of the North is, he mightin a generation's time own the whole South. He will not work when he has money in his pocket, as he sees no reason for doing it. He knows that the whites will take care of him when he is sick and that they will see him decently buried when dead, and there is no possible incentive for him to work hard all the time. The Southern Negroes are an inferior and a dependent race and will be for generations to come, in spite of all that may be done for them by Northern sympathizers. G. A. BEERE. AROUND THE WORLD IN A WEEK'S TIME News Notes, Gathered from Every Section and Source, Concerning the Race. The colored people residing in Washington, D. C., whose homes are in Florida, have organized the Florida Club. Mr. E. G. Evans is president and I. H. Spears secretary. Mr. Corine Patterson is street commissioner of Kansas City, Kans. He was unanimously elected by the City Council. The position pays $1,200 a year, and carries with it an office, one clerk, a horse and buggy maintained by the city. He is prominent in church circles, and has held many political offices. He is past commander of the G. A. R. Post, and for the last ten years has been at the head of the city sanitary cleaning department. His appointment gave satisfaction to all classes, and is a reward of honesty and faithful service. Gabriel B. Miller, of the 1900 class, Tuskegee Institute, has been elected principal of the Voorhees Industrial School, Denmark, S. C. He was formerly instructor in carpentry in the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School. There are now 2,200 colored men and women employed in the different houses and departments of the stockyards in Chicago. According to the Chicago Daily News, the colored students at the University of Chicago stand very high. Most of them are self-supporting, and the manager of the employment bureau says that they are sought after, the students are earnest and hard workers, and rank high in scholarship, and are distinguished by their modesty and conservatism. Emily Smith, a colored woman, recently received a verdict at Yazoo, Miss., by a white jury, for $12,000, against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, for killing her husband. About a month ago the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company of Savannah, Ga., ordered fourteen hand trucks from Hampton Institute. These trucks were made by student labor. So well pleased were the officials of the company that an order for five hundred was given. There are ten colored women in the United States who have been admitted to the bar. In Terre Haute, Ind., race suicide is unknown. Mrs. Mattie Washington, colored, gave birth to three boys and two girls. The mother and children are doing well. C. H. Turner is a conspicuous example of scholarship among the colored students of Chicago University. He is a fellow in the department of zoology. At present he is engaged in research work in the university's zoological laboratory. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy at the last convocation of the university. This degree was accompanied by the coveted "magna cum laude." He is also a member of the Sigma Xi Fraternity, the honorary scientific organization, election to which was won by an extraordinary display of genius in zoology. At the recent meeting of the National Negro Teachers' Association, held at Hampton, a consolidation of the organization and of the Agricultural and Mechanical College Association was effected. This union will give new life to both bodies, and will add to their general efficiency. The meeting at Hampton was largely attended and was an exceedingly profitable session. Prof. J. R. S. Lee, director of the academic department, Tuskegee Institute, was re-elected president. President R. R. Wright, of the A. and M. College of Georgia, chairman of the executive committee, and Dr. Waring, principal of Baltimore High School, first vice-president. "Negro Day" at the Jamestown Exposition was celebrated August 3. Booker H. Washington made the principal address to an audience of 5,000 people. Addresses were also made by Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Exposition; T. J. Calloway, Dr. Joshua L. Jones, of Wilberforce College; Giles B. Jackson and Mrs. A. M. Curtis. Prof. J. H. Jackson, formerly president of Lincoln, University, Jefferson City, Mo., has been elected president of the State Normal School, Frankfort, Ky. Recently the newspapers chronicled the protest of the colored people of North Indianapolis, Ind., against the establishment of a saloon in their midst. They were successful, and the license was refused. Now the colored people of Atlantic City are doing the same, and as a result the City Council refused a license to two saloons. The historical mansion at Wainford, N. J., filled with priceless heirlooms of the socially prominent and aristocratic Wain family, was willed to John Wilson, her Negro servant, by Mrs. Sarah Wain Hendrickson, its late owner, who died last March. A lawsuit followed, and the Negro secured rightful possession. He is now preparing to sell the contents to the highest bidder. The Colored Interdenominational Sunday School Convention met at Greenwood, S. C., August 22-23. Among the noted speakers present were Prof. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Va., and Dr. J. E. Shepard, recently returned from the World's Sunday School Convention, held at Rome, Italy. Mr. George H. White, ex-Congressman from North Carolina, is now field secretary of the Bible Educational Association, organized for the betterment of the Negro socially and religiously. The colored people of Lancaster, S. C., have erected a monument to the memory of J. W. Williams, a white man, who gave the land upon which their church is built. This is the State in which, at Sumter, not long ago, white men erected a monument to an old colored man named Levan. The first jury of colored men ever called in St. Charles county, Mo., recently tried a colored man in Augusta. The judge and prosecuting attorney were the only white men in the room. The defendant was found guilty and given a six months' sentence. Mr. Emanuel Jackson, a colored man, is regarded as the most expert embalmer in the city of Chicago. The State of Illinois has issued a license to the American Wheel and Axle Company, composed entirely of colored men and commissioners. The capital stock is $50,000, single shares $10. The company will manufacture wheels and axles. Prof. E. W. B. Curry, the only Negro upon the National staff of the Anti-Saloon League, is doing great and effective work for the cause of temperance. He is now in Missouri, delivering addresses to large audiences of both races. He was a leading factor in the temperance fights of Tennessee and Kentucky. R. W. Thompson, now connected with the War Department at Washington, D. C., was recently appointed for the second time this year as a clerk in the postoffice at Louisville, Ky., but declined both offers in favor of the National capital. Mr. Thompson made the highest per cent. in the civil service examination, leading a class of more than eighty, including both races. The National Medical Association, of which Dr. N. F. Mossell, of Philadelphia, is president, meets at Baltimore August 27, 28 and 29. The session promises to be the best of the association's prosperous existence. The celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, December 17, bids fair to be a popular feature in every Negro community in the United States. Mrs. Giles B. Jackson, wife of the Director-General, is the official housekeeper of the Negro Building, at the Jamestown Exposition, at a salary of $40 per month. Mme. Sissiettra Jones ("Black Patti") is said to be a native of Portsmouth, Va. Alfred Harris is a successful painter of theatrical scenery and manufacturer of stage paraphernalia, at Topeka, Kans. L. W. Bright's new Mt. Vernon Hotel, at Norfolk, Va., is now ready for the traveling public. It cost $20,000 and will accommodate three hundred guests in comfortable style. Mr. Bright, the proprietor, is said to be because they stick to their jobs. All the wealthiest colored man in Tidewater, Virginia. The sudden solution of the race problem would mean the permanent occultation of Ben Tillman, Jim Vardaman, Tom Watson, Jeff Davis and a horde of cheap southern "statesmen," who have ridden into power and place by using color prejudice as a hobbyhorse. Some people can't hurry without making mistakes. $5,000 Reward Will be paid to any person who can find one atom of opium, chloral, morphine, cocaine, ether, chloroform, heroin, alpha and beta eucaine, cannabis indica, or chloral hydrate or any of their derivatives, in any of Dr. Miles' Remedies. This applies to goods in original packages, unopened, and not tampered with. 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Langh it away and weep no more When lips of love in the little door Lean to welcome you out of the day Where all your troubles went laugh- ing away! * * * * All roads lead to Topeka, Kans., this week. * * * * Loafers should be made to labor— or be locked up. * * * * At any arte, the "Black Hand" is not a Negro organization. * * * * Joe Gans made Battling Nelson an easy mark for Jimmy Britt. The business world wants men who will work without being watched. * * * * Good rural schools in the South will tend to keep the Negroes on the farms. * * * * We would rather appeal to the "enforced" law than to the "unwritten" statute. * * * * The festive summer girl is engaged in the delightful pastime of getting "engaged." * * * * The colored leaders in Ohio are still finding the tall timber a congenial abiding place. * * * * It is sincerely hoped that the Rev. R. C. Ransom is not the victim of a "flare back." * * * * By all means, go to the Topeka meeting of the National Negro Business League. Dr. J. E. Shepard is one of the race's most popular and effective young churchmen. * * * The Jim Crow question is a "live wire." Who can handle it with or without gloves? * * * Will the Afro-American Council absorb the Niagara Movement—or be absorbed by it? * * * The "lodge habit" wouldn't be so bad if it could be indulged in with moderation by the devotees. * * * Vice President Fairbanks simply smiles—and lets the other presidential pilgrims do the worrying. * * * An amateur gambleris a man who would rather have another spend his money than to enjoy it himself. It has been conclusively demonstrated that "marvelous" Marvin Hart cannot whip anybody that can fight. * * * * The typewriter is indispensable in fighting the battles of business, politics, governments—and bad handwriting. * * * * Political machines are all right—when engineered by the proper men and for the promotion of the general welfare. * * * * The South could greatly simplify the race problem by accepting the Fifteenth amendment as the supreme law of the land. * * * * Neither James Jeffries nor Tommy Burns can enjoy an untainted title as champion heavyweight until the put jack Johnson to sleep. Robert W. Taylor, formerly financial agent for Tuskegee Institute, has broken into Wall Street, New York, is a full-fledged broker. * * * Louisville, Ky., is one of the proud Southern cities that have managed to get along thus far without a Jim Crow street car regulation. * * * As yet the Negro race is poor in "nature fakirs," but we have an abundance of the ministerial, legal, medical and journalistic varieties. * * * Superintendent Rosco Conkling Bruce very sensibly declines to become excited over the perturbation in the public schools of Washington. * * * The policy of waiting until a people strong enough to give battle with some hope of success, is not necessarily "sumbition and surrender." It will not be healthy for the Negro's political future if the Republicans are permitted to elect a President without the aid of the colored vote. * * * Jamestown Exposition stock has risen away above par since the visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington and the immense throng that followed in his wake. * * * Don't allow yourself to be "down and out" until the referee has counted off the full ten scores. It is the part of a coward to "lay down" to adverse circumstances. * * * There is no room for the "Wilkins Macawber" Negro in this generation of hustle. The new Negro is "making things happen"—not waiting for them to happen of themselves. The Baltimore meeting of the Afro-American Council, according to reliable information furnished by Bishops Walters and Clinton, did not denounce Booker T. Washington. * * * Mississippi's preference is for John Sharp Williams for the United States Senate, and the Vardamann "hill-pillies" and "red-necks" will take a seat in the rear bench for awhile. * * * In the eyes of the Negro masses, Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner and Senator William Warner would run a neck and neck race for * * * *** *** *** an unpopularity medal about this time. * * * Had Editor D. R. Wilkins' conversion come before the eleventh hour, his misfortunes might have been warded on and on really fine intellect preserved for the uplift of humanity. * * * Every useful individual must be "servant" in one way or another, but the more enterpriseing may escape the role of "servitor." There is a vast difference between servitude and service. * * * The field of Culbersons, Bacons, Daniels, Carmacks, Vardamans and Glenns, in search of the Wall Street Democracy's "good Southern man." "Hoax" Smith has been "left at the post." The folks who are fortunate enough to own opera glasses are keeping an eye on one George Bruce Cortelyou's presidential boom, now looming up promisingly in the "dark horse" section of the National paddock. * * * One of the best things that have been said of Secretary Taft comes from the Review of Reviews. It is to the effect that he hates meddlers and will not tolerate tattlers. In these traits lie the fundamentals of true greatness. * * * There seems to be a pronounced slump in the market for Negro consuls since the State Department placed a premium upon the number of languages one must speak, rather than on the quantity they are able to use. If Editor F. H. M. Murray, of the Washington Horizon, would study his geography lesson real well, he would find that the present exposition site and buildings are to constitute a permanent city, to be known to the civilized world as "Jamestown." * * * * There may be foundation for the rumor that William Monroe Trotter has placed a big order for electric fans with a prominent Boston firm to insure a reasonable temperature during the coming session of the Niagara Movement. * * * * The friends of Secretary Taft are not allowing it to be forgotten that the genial Ohioan would have rescinded the "discharge without honor" of the Brownsville troops if he had had the power. It will be remembered that he did hold it up for one whole day. Pension Commissioner Warner's theory that a stepmother suspected of having a few stray drops of Negro blood in her veins ought to be cut out of her rightful widow's dower, is not putting him in the presidential class with fair minded people of any race. * * * It may be mentioned in passing that Mr. "Dock" Hart, of the Baptist publishing house at Nashville, who has been sprung by Editor "Phil" Brown as a candidate for the secretaryship of the A. M. E. Sunday School Union, is a nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree. * * * There are Baptists curious enough to wonder why Dr. Boyd does not permit the Methodist publishing house at Nashville to enjoy the rare talent of Foreman "Dock" Hart, and make room in his own establishment for some skilled brother of the strict Baptist faith and order. If tariff revision is shown to be to the interest of the consumer, would the non-manufacturing Negro, who is harrassed by exhortant taxes for the benefit of the corporations, lean toward Foraker on a "stand pat" protection platform, or "warm up" to Taft and tariff revision. "Plan your work; then work your plan," is a practical bit of advice handed out to young business men by Dr. E. W. Lampton, the painstaking and successful Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. connection, who is slated by popular consent for the bishopric of his church. A large and handsomely finished portrait of Hon. William Tecumseh Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, has been added to the attractive collection of famous Negroes that is being so widely circulated by the Colored American Novelty Company of Washington, D. C. The fanciful rumor that the principal of Tuskegee Institute takes more than a friendly interest in the matrimonial fortunes of his teachers is calculated to compel the feeling that the Boston Guardian is spoiling a wonderful lot of white paper that might be devoted to loftier purposes. The boom for Dr. A. M. Curtis's return in chief of the new Freedmen's Hospital, grows in volume. To him, more than to any other physician in the country, is due the passage of the bill granting the liberal appropriation for the erection of the magnificent structure now nearing completion at the foot of Howard Hill in the National Capital. Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom has been transferred from Charles Street A. M. E. Church, Boston, to Bethel A. M. E. Church, New York. Rev. T. Wellington Henderson, late of the New York charge, succeeds him at Boston. Perhaps Rev. J. G. Robinson can get Bishop Turner to explain the true inwardness of this significant shift at this particular time. Col. George B. Lockwood of Indiana, a newspaper man of large experience, has been appointed as private secretary to Vice President Fairbanks. It is hoped that a berth equally as good has been provided for the brilliant and faithful Mr. Russell King, who has rendered the Vice President such valuable service in this capacity for many months past. Washington, the erstwhile strong- * * * 串串串 * * * 宋 宋 宋 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Prevision ```markdown ``` time. hold of professionalism, is looking with enthusiastic eye upon the industrial propaganda that is making seersupporting and useful men and women of former office seekers and idle "waiters-for-something-to-turn-up." Where Booker T. Washington was once barely tolerated, he is now the hero of the hour. "He laughs best who laughs last." *** It would have a tendency to shut off acrimonious debate in the New York Age and other newspapers if Professors W. E. B. DuBois and L. M. Hershaw, of Georgia, would take immediate steps to qualify for the ballot box in their native State, and set an example for the remainder of their patriotic fellow citizens who wish to defeat the proposed disfranchising amendment. * * * * "Press Day" is still under consideration by the colored officials of the Jamestown Exposition. Newspaperdom boasts of some of the race's strongest orators, and with such eminent spokesmen as W. T. Vernon, John C. Dancy, Ralph W. Tyler, John Mitchell, George L. Knox, S. W. Starks and others, the cause of the Negro press would be immeasurably advanced and the utility and importance of the exposition happily emphasized. *** Prof. C. H. Johnson, of the Art Department of Wilberforce University, has completed his labors as field agent and installer of exhibits in connection with the Jamestown Exposition. He has done a splendid work for the race as the extensive displays of Wilberforce, Curry, Eckstein Norton, Kentucky State University (Baptist), Kentucky Normal at Frankfort, and other schools in his district are showing. His are and literary collection, contributed by individuals, is exceptionally fine. *** The people who want sound business methods to prevail in the A. M. E. Church are overwhelmingly in favor of the candidates who agree to get along with the least tax on the general fund. The man who can administer an office and make it self-supporting—refusing to accept subsidies that ought to remain in the several conferences for local needs—is as good as elected now. The day of loose business management and looser accounting is past with the wise men at the A. M. E. helm. The greatest convention yet held by the National Medical Association is scheduled for Baltimore, August 27, 28 and 29. Colored doctors from thirty States will lend their presence, and the program will show in graphic style the marvelous progress the race is making in medical science, surgery and hospital management. The fight against the monster evil, tuberculosis, will receive a marked impetus from this timely gathering. The Curtises, Halls, Williamses, Boyds, Sterrs', Mossells, Genneys, Gambles, Francises, Hunters, Joneses, and others physicians of National prominence, will figure in the 'clinical demonstrations. Labor agitators from Chicago have made their appearance in Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of organizing the colored cooks into a union, the alleged objects being to secure more money, shorter hours and Sundays off. If the promoters mean to do business on the level, the cooks of Nashville may be benefitted by such an organization, but if the local leaders are wise, they will watch these interlopers until it is demonstrated beyond the peradventure of a doubt that they are after something more altruistic than membership fees and the strengthening of a machine which may be turned against them in the "sweet, sweet bye and bye." "P. S. T." in the Newport News Star intimates that Prof. Kelly Miller "has gone over the views held by Dr. Washington," and concludes that Prof. Miller's socialological exhibit at Jamestown is confirmation of the alleged "flop." We have known Professor Miller for thirteen years and he was then, as now, the advocate of a sensible correlation of the higher and the industrial plans of education; if there has been a change in his attitude, it has not been "so as anyone could notice it." And, too, since Prof. Miller held these same views long before Dr. Washington's Atlanta speech, and further, since the Tuskegee wizard is not connected in any way with the Jamestown Exposition, we fail to see the force of the association of men or the alleged conversion set forth by "P. S. T." Mrs. M. S. Seibert, one of nature's noblemen, who had written much for the press in defense of the manhood rights and equality of citizenship for all Americans, was a recent visitor at the Negro Building, Jamestown Exposition, and was delighted with the many evidences of the race's substantial progress that she saw there. Mrs. Seibert is a lady of means and in her handsome home at Columbus, O., she is rearing an intelligent young colored girl, as an object lesson of the excellent results growing out of treating the Negro with kindness and offering a chance for self-betterment. 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When the people are right, the laws are right. Moral—Work on the people. And the "lid" was on in Topeka; the colored people spoke with great feeling concerning it. A cold analytical jurist with a predilection for his own kind—Hon W. H. Taft, secretary of war. Thirty-five banks in the country conducted by Negroes. As things go banks measure prosperity. An avalanche of ugly expressions and abuse will not help matters along; respectful dissent will be expected. Hot biscuits are to go if some people have their way; they will not go if most of the men have their way. Indiana Lodge of Elks at Woods-dale Island, O., September 2nd. Get on board. The fare is cheap and all can go. Ex-Goxernor Taylor, of Kentucky, will give the matter most careful consideration before he concludes to return home. The political complexion of the Registrar's books will have much to do with the eligibility of the Negro voter in Georgia. All kinds of Pythians expected in Louisville next week to attend the Grand Conclave. Great demonstrations, parades and prize drills. To all ye that labor—thine is the glory. Labor day, September 2. By proclamation of our chief executive and Governor, Hon. W. H. Hanley. Mr. Samuel Welch, who has recently returned home from the East, says that Mr. Bob Wetts, of Niagara Falls, has recently purchased a $20,000 hotel. Ladies and gentlemen, we will next have a song from the Niagara men, that princely few who also feel to be the whole show—T-the Co-l-u-m-b-la R-e-c-or-d. White men are getting in their work along the line of "disfranchisement," but when it comes to abuse of men and measures that are opposed to the race, we are very "long" at times. Colored people say many amusing things. The other day one of them, a man, referring to a lady's hair, remarked that it was as close to her head as 99 is to 100. Men fell out in every direction. Black Patti's "congregation" is being done in great folders—hand bills announcing this season's attractions. They look good. The Indianapolis contingent of admirers will enthuse when the madam comes. The Independent of Georgia still holds that the Negroes of that State are disfranchised. Well, if they see it that way, guess it's all right. Some people always love to nurse trouble; they aren't happy otherwise. O, yes, bishop; there are governments nearer than Africa that can be first sampled as an earnest of good intent. Porto Rico, Jamaica, Hayti, Santo Domingo might be given a touch of our genius for governing before we sigh for other worlds. The object is to limit or restrict the Negro vote. But is that a new thing in the South? If it is not done legitimately, it is done anyhow. Preserve the right by doing the very best under the conditions. In time, with everything else considered, all will be well. The A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis will have great occasion to rehear the Leland Giants of Chicago. The A. B. C.'s were most unmercibly drubbed—again and again. It is said they are taking vengeance on everything else that comes along. The licking they got was the making of them. The shooting of the young colored man, Herbert Mays, was a very deplorable happening. That he was engaged in a game of "craps," or that he attempted to escape, was not sufficient excuse for being shot down. The case is one that should be carefully looked into by the department. "College Heights" is the name of the prospective town adjoining Guthrie, Okla. It is already platted and lots are being sold. Mr. George L. Knox, of The Freeman, who recently THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLOKED NEWSPAPER visited that section, is greatly impressed with the new city. He thinks it an opportunity for colored people who think of trying the West. For the eighth time Booker T. Washington was elected president of the National Business Men's League. The honor has been worthily bestowed. Mr. Washington conceived and organized the Business Men's League, giving it the benefit of his experiences which have given value and standing to the organization. Mr. John Sharp Williams, the Senator-elect from Mississippi, in discussing the ways and means for getting along in the South, has hit upon a novel plan—reducing the Negroes, increasing the whites. If Mr. Williams can do this without resorting to heroic remedies, all so well and good; just so he isn't tinkering after the Fifteenth Amendment. It appears that Mayor Bookwalter will get his $500,000 addition to the County Court House. But will he have the pleasure of dedicating it to the public's use? Let us see; what about the eligibility for mayor? Mr. Abe Martin would at this point suddenly change the subject and remark "John McGregor is a perpetual county commissioner." In visiting Topeka, at the Capitol, Mr. George L. Knox had the pleasure of seeing the old cap that John Brown wore, and as noted in many of his pictures. In visiting Kansas City, he was met by Mr. D. C. Frantz, the general secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A., in company with whom he visited the Y. M. C. A. by the white people, a Mr. Bishop in charge as general secretary. Subsequently he visited the colored Y. M. C. A., where he made an address. He visited Allen Chapel Church where Rev. Dr. Peck is in charge. Here, among others, he was introduced to the congregation by the well-known Mr. Nelson Crews. A round of speechmaking was indulged in by the visitors. Secretary Taft doubtless gives comfort to the Southern States when he so clearly endorses their recent laws touching on the elective franchise. He holds that the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution does no require that every Negro should vote, but insists that he shall not be excluded from voting, because of race. Consequently laws may be made by a State regulating the elective franchise, the conditions of which are to be met by all. The source of comfort is in that the recent laws and Constitutions touching on the elective franchise are fairly endorsed. The States are not prohibited making laws regulating their elections; they are prohibited making laws that are partial. Most of the laws and parts of the Constitutions touching on the elective franchise have been held of doubtful constitutionality. Mr. Taft's speech is construed as in favor of the doubtful laws. SECRETARY TAFT'S LEXINGTON SPEECH. The most interesting speech touching on public matters made in recent days, was that by Secretary of War William H. Taft in Lexington, Ky., last week. The Negro question at times has been overshadowed by other questions; these other questions have given away before the political genius of the country. They have been solved, leaving but temporary traces of unpleasant feeling among the people. It has been different with the Negro question; it holds its own in face of the efforts of the best thought of the present and past days—a most stubborn proposition. If sections and localities had full say in the matter, and at all times, the question would perhaps be settled by the particular section and locality, at least according to their notions, and at least temporary. The object, however, has been to regulate affairs to accord the Negro rights and privileges that are enjoyed by others, having in mind the underlying principle of the government, which declares for civil and political equality. The effort has been to maintain the high principle which was guaranteed by the latter amendments to the general Constitution, but with indifferent success. The indifferent success and of times lamentable failure are due to the philosophy of the situation—the reasonable result of the former antipodal relation of the white man and the Negro in the South, and also the result of the none too hopeful view of the Negro entertained generally. Into all of this enter history, tradition, ethnology, that make for prejudice with its hurtful manifest—discrimination. Secretary Taft's speech is in recognition of the civil and political situation, and without doubt was intended as a peacemaker. What he said on the race question will be understood as the governmental policy as affecting Negroes, and also whiteness of the South. It is already evident that the Negroes generally are displeased, and largely because they feel that Republicans and the Republican party should not say or do anything that appears common cause with the "enemy." Mr. Taft expresses it when he says: "On the other hand, he is liable to encounter the criticism of the colored man, who, with a natural sensitivity and interest in their race, and remembering the wrongs and oppression to which their race has been in times past subjected, resents on the part of the Northern man any attitude which does not involve condemnation of the attitude of the Southern white man, or which manifests the slightest consideration for his view. I am not a pessimist with respect to the race question. I am conceived that it is working itself out and I am convinced that nothing has so much contributed to its gradual solution as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment." The secretary's speech appears a cold surrender in face of the well-known let-alone policy, or that of mild tinkering by the Republican party as it concerns Southern politics. But the race will make a mistake if it feels that the secretary is alone in his views, or if it feels that he voices only the views of President Roosevelt. Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt are politicians—their duty is to ride the crest of the wave of popularopinion—in other words, they do not reckon without their hosts. The secretary extends the South the olive branch, by inference, insisting that Southern men may safely vote their political convictions, and that the think of Negro domination is cared for by theregulations of the States, and which are legitimate, since they do no violence to the Constitution of the country. A REVIEW OF LOUISVILLE (Continued from first page.) all the stars of the Afro-American people were on the programme, but it remained for this young woman to carry off the laurels. At the recent Worlds Baptist Congress held in London, Miss Burroughs was one of the prominent speakers. The London Times, speaking of Miss Burroughs' effort, said: "It was as eloquent as it was profound. She has great oratorial gifts." The growth of the Missionary work among colored women under her direction as secretary has been marvelous. With the assistance of friends and the Baptist women of this A. MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, Sec'y Woman's National Baptist Convention. country, there will be established in Washington, D. C., a National Training School for young women. The site has been purchased and the dream of this energetic woman has been realized. Her caustic reply to Rev. Thomas Dixon's vile assertion that Negro women were without honor stands in the estimation of every man and woman as an argument as clear as light and as irrefutable as a mathematical demonstration. Miss Burroughs is engaged in practical work at the Douglass Office building as the leader of the industrial forces which make for the uplift of the race. T. E. H. W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary, Local Committee K. of P No order in the city of Louisville has grown like the Knights of Pythias This growth is due in a large measure to the fact that it recognizes the worth of young men. The young men who are energetic and full of push, always ready to advance the cause of the order, are the ones that are given places of honor and high station. Among the young men in Louisville that have merited the position as secretary of the Local Committee of the Fourteenth Biennial Conclave is Mr. William Williams. For nearly two years Mr. Williams has been in constant communication with the heads of the various lodges of this country, making preparation for the Fourth National Encampment. The success of this grand conclave will do to the Committee of two hundred, with J. L. V. Washington, chairman, and chiefly W. W. Williams, secretary. Mr. Williams is one of the youngest men in the Knights of Pythias, and his success has been rapid. He enjoys the distinction of being the most widely acquainted young Pythian of Ky. He will be at the headquarters of the Local Committee, 725 12th Street, during the conclave, looking after the interest of his brother Pythians. Mr. Thomas Cole, a native of Russellville, Ky., has for the last ten years been a resident of this city, and our people have cause to be proud that such an enterprising business man should come among us, and defuse some of the spirit in our own midst which has led him to acquire business success. Space forbids me to innumerate the various enterprises that have been fostered and caused success by the energy, push and keenness of Mr. Cole. Suffice it to say, he is one of the leading spirits in the Falls City Realty Co., large stockholder in the Greenwood Cemetery, a large holder of real JOHN B. HARRIS THOMAS COLE, Secretary Falls City Realty Co., Proprietor Coles Cafe. property, financial backer of Cole's Giants base ball team, and proprietor of Cole's Cafe. His cafe is the headquarters of the best class of traveling men as well as local people. Pythians coming to this city during the Conclave will find that Mr. Cole's establishment will have everything that is calculated to please a man who loves to mingle with a feast of reason and a foe of soul. It is acknowledged that Mr. Cole has one of the handsomest homes in the city owned by colored people. He is a lover of dogs and horses. At his ideal home is Mrs. Harriet Cole, his wife, and both are very agreeable people whose tastes and temperament seem identical. Some of the leading Pythians of the Conclave will be domiciled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cole. 1 PROF. A. E. MEYZEEK, Principal of Eastern School Prof. A. E. Meyzeek is one of the foremost educators of the State. He is principal of the Eastern School. He is a native of Terre Haute, Ind., and began life by becoming office boy in the law firm of the late Senator Daniel Voorhies. He studied law for a while, but finally decided that his duty to his race called him to another field of activity. Since coming to Louisville, which he has made his home, he has been at the head of two of the most important public schools of the city, including the Central High School. His scholarly attainments, profundity of thought and christian manhood has made him a beloved educator. It was largely through the personal efforts of Prof. A. E. Meyzeek, that the Colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. has the most beautiful and well equipped building among the colored people in this country. In the growth of the Carnegie library, it was Prof. Meyzeek that gave it an impetus in the eastern part of the city. He numbers one of the leaders of all public spirited movements. Prof. Meyzeek has always been the constant friend and adviser of the young men, and no professional man of this city stands higher in their estimation than Mr. Meyzeek. A. B. DR. J. A. C. LATTIMORE, Physician and Surgeon. Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore is one of the most successful physicians of the city. Having graduated from the Meharry College, Nashville, Tenn., he came to this city several years ago and hung out his shingle. His earnestness and self-sacrificing spirit soon won the confidence of our people and in a very short time without any advertisement his name became a popular household word. He had the faculty of so diagnosing a case, as to make the patient feel at once that he was in competent hands. Keeping constantly in touch with progressive thought of the medical world and allying himself with those movements that make for advancement, his practice has grown to such large dimensions that he was compelled on account of the numerous calls to use two horses, resting one with the other. Dr. Lattimore is president of the Falls City Medical Association. He is also president of the Young Men's Progressive League, the leading social club for young men. Through the personal influence of Dr. Lattimore and other members this club has option on several pieces of property which they hope soon to purchase. The home which he purchased a few years ago where he has his office is now undergoing extensive repairing and when finished will be exceedingly commodious. [Name] W. H. BROWN, Main Street Business Man. Mr. William Brown has the peculiar distinction of being a Main street business man. He is a Louisvillian by birth and training. He entered the public schools at an early age and soon evinced a bent for studies that have a bearing on the commercial world. He decided to go into the transfer business, and through genial manner and determination, he wrought success. Having started from a curb-stone office he has today an office on Main street near Second with all the necessaries required for business. He has in his employ about twenty men. Mr. Brown has experienced some very hardships of the early days, but was made of such material that says "success is mine" and today stands preeminent as a business man in the city. He has realized the benefit of fraternal orders, belonging to two of the most prominent in the city, they being Damon Lodge No. 3, K. of P., and Palm Lodge of Masons, the former of which he has served as Chancellor Commander. He is playing a conspicuous part in the Biennial Association as Chairman of the Transfer Committee and expects to employ all the colored teamsters in the city the first week of Sept. Mr. Brown is a public spirited man. He is a member of the vestry of the Episcopal Church of Our Merciful Savior and chairman of the finance committee. He is treasurer of the Louisville Cemetery, the wealthiest organization in the city. A. H. W. T. GARNETT, Transfer and Feed Man. Another one of Louisville's business men is Mr. W. T. Garnett. He has been in the business long enough to have a pay roll that equals or surpasses any Negro in business. He began at the bottom round of the ladder and by careful and conservative business management he now occupies a high place in the business world in the city of Louisville. He has taken every opportunity to foster and encourage business enterprises among Negroes of this city. Eight years ago when Dr. Booker T. Washington sent out letters calling the attention of Negroes to organize for business protection, W. T. Garnett was one of the most foremost men to take up the movement. Ever since that time he has been actively engaged in the promotion of the Local Negro Business Men's League. He is today, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Local League, and is in constant touch with the influential men throughout the country. He has a feed store and halls freight for some of the largest firms in the city. "Patronize Negroes" is Mr. Garnett's hobby. While a business man, he is also the leading spirit in the Centennial Baptist church. Like many other of Louisville's business men, he is always ready to lend a hand in all public affairs of the race. JOHN S. HOPSON. Mr. John S. Hopson, a native of Ala., now a citizen of Louisville, has been here for several years. He finished the academic and tailoring department of Tuskegee, Ala. He showed so much aptitude in his work as to attract the attention of Booker T. NOT THE FREEMAN AGENT. To the Public: Mr C. C. Clarkson now located at New berry, S. C., and who has been repre- senting The Freeman throughout South Caro- lina for several months, is no longer authorized to act in any particular for The Freeman. Persons giving him their sub- scription after June 22, '07, do so at their own risk. Those who have given it prio- t to this time who have any complaint will please send in notice of same accompanied with receipt for money for subscription. ELWOOD C. KNOX Mgr. Washington, whose influence and assistance he was able to matriculate in the John J. Mitchell cutting School in New York, whose diploma now adores the walls of Hopson's tailor shop. Mr. Hopson has been the leading colored tailor in the city of Louisville, but a large part of his patronage comes from the white race. He employs a bookkeeper and stenographer, coat maker, vest maker, pants maker and a bushelman. Mr. Hopson finding that his business affairs in the maintenance of his rights often made it necessary to seek legal advice, whereupon he decided that after his working hours he would begin reading law. This he did, and last May was graduated from the Central Law School with the degree of LL. B. He was the moving spirit in the revival of the local League and was honored with its presidency. Pythlans coming to this city will be cordially invited to inspect his business place and any service that can be rendered will be done with good grace. The latest enterprise in the city of Louisville is the Douglass Pharmacy, 726 West Walnut street, with Mr. Leonard Brown, as pharmacist. This centrally located and is the pride of colored people. It has all kinds of toilet articles, perfumes and stationery. They make prescriptions a specialty. The soda fountain will be the center of attraction during the conclave. Don't fail to get souvenir postal card of the Negro enterprises of this and other cities. Another late enterprise is the cafe of Mr. Thomas Pryor. It is located on Walnut street, between Eighth and Ninth. It is said to be finer than Archie Greathoushe or Ed Gather. Pythians wishing a beverage of any kind will find this cafe of brilliancy, electric light and mirrors open ready to serve. Mr. George Waddy, is proprietor of the Pekin Cafe, 1003 West Walnut street. This is the most up-to-date restaurant in the city of Louisville. It is brilliantly lighted and its service is strictly first class. Tables are reserved on application and the Table d'Hote dinner is the most delicious found in the south. They make a speciality of ladies and gentlemen hand quets. The public school system is the best in the south and the following are the principals: Miss Lucy Du Valle, Profs. D. L. Lawson, A. E. Meynock, S. B. Taylor, J. S. Cotter, Steve Bell, J. J. McKinley, Ida Curtis, W. H. Perry, Maud Taylor, Hattie Rink and Mrs. Aaron Payne. In the grocery business, the Johnson and Hansbern's market is the pride of the West End. There are ten other thriving grocers. There are numerous contracting carpenters with T. S. Lusby as a master mechanic. The People's Drug Store and the Douglass Drug Store do a flourishing business. Guy Smith and Sons do the largest packing and moving business in the state. Mr. Sam Jordan, the caterer, Neighbors the photographer, Shipley and Adams, the cleaners, Fannings the shoe merchant, Arthur Norris, the ice man, all have establishments of which Louisville is proud. Mr. R. H. Jewell operates a large dry goods store that commands a large phase of public patronage. There are barber shops, cafes and restaurants innumerable. There are 5,000 school children, 130 teachers, one high school eight grammar schools, one university, a law school, a medical college a fine Y. M. C. A., two hospitals and a Carnegie library. There are over forty churches. Among the many ministers that are working for the spiritual uplift, is the Rev. R. S. Rives. He is a candidate for Bishophonors in the A. M. E. Zion connection. Miss Athene Peyton, has written a cookbook and is a culinarian of recognized ability. There are nine undertaking establishments, five newspapers, several musical and Literary clubs. There are forty-four in the Government service as clerks, and a large number employed in the Internal Revenue Agency. The Falls City Realty Co. has a capitalized stock of $10,000. The culture intelligence, economic and industrial activity of the Louisville Negroes are winning for the race a place secure and high in the life of the city. Base Ball at Louisville, Ky. Paducah Team. Dusty Road Park, September 1, 2 and 3, 1907, LELAND GIANTS af Chicago, At ECLIPSE PARK. 7th and Kentucky Street, Sept. 3, 4 and 5. A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis, Ind, Dusty Road Park. September 6 and 7, 1907. WHITE SOX, of Indianapolis. Dusty Road Park, September 8, 1907. ED. LANCASTER, Manager. THE STAGE Joe Gallaway is spending his vacation at Omaha, Neb. Joseph Russell sends regards to P. G. Lowery, Billy Arnte and other friends. Harry Bell, the "Candy Kid," with the Wallace-Hagenbeck circus, was a Freeman caller last week. Richard Scott, of the Parker Amusement Company, was a caller at The Freeman office last week. Johnson & Johnson, Eugene and Louise, who are working in vaudeville, were in the city Tuesday. Mrs. Bessie La Belle Malone, who has been starring with the W. A. Mahara Minstrels, has returned to the city. The Brittons, Joe and Sadie, are meeting with their usual success in California in their lively eccentric dancing act, "How's That?" Jolly Charles Stafford is now stage manager for Scott and Silverlake Colored Amusement Company, having closed with Coney Island Minstrel Company last week. "Slim" Mason and Jimmy White, the slap ragi piano player, of Louisville, Ky., were Freeman callers last week. They were en route to join the Wallace-Hagenbeck circus. The Famous Buckeye Quartette, of Cleveland, O., will be the chief attraction at the grand opening of Hotel Vancouver, Niagara Falls, N. Y., September 9. R. T. Dett is the proprietor. H. L. Williams, manager for Eph Thompson, who presented his $150,000 herd of acrobatic, comedy and military elephants at Wonderland last week, was a caller at The Freeman office. Mrs. Cassie Buch, of Chicago, accompanied by Miss Daisy Collins, who have been appearing in the stock company at the Enterprise Theater at Dayton, were in town last week to witness the game between the Leland Giants of Chicago and the A. B. C.'s. Robert Gilkerson, formerly of the Rabbit's Foot baseball team, and who was with the Pittsburg Giants the earlier part of this season, is now playing in Cleveland, O., with Williams' Colts. He sends regards to Rabbit's Foot Company funny folks, Mr. Chappelle, Pearl Moppins, E. B. Dudley. All mail addressed to him at 210 Henry avenue, Sewickley, Pa. will reach him. Sylvester Russell, who has been visiting in New York, attended Hurtig and Seaman's Music Hall to witness "Captain Rufus," and "The Husband." On August 19, Mr. Russell took supper as guest of H. Lawrence Freeman. At the evening performance of "The Husband" he occupied an orchestra seat by courtesy of J. Ed. Green, but was transferred by Ernest Hogan to a box occupied by Robert Cole and himself, Madge Gans, Lester Walton and others. Two separate reviews of the performances under Mr. Russell's signature will be given in later issues of The Freeman. THE VAN AMBURG SHOWS. Prof. Ed. Mack and his band leaves for Versailles, Ky., on August 25. Eugene Clark sends regards to Billy Johnson and would like to hear from Dave Smith, also Kersands. Eugene Clark is still an Elk. PARKER AMUSEMENT COMPANY Richard Scott joined the Elks at Mt. Vernon, O., Pondexter Lodge, Nov. 107. Will H. Dozier was also made an Elk. Among the officers were H. C. Curry, George H. Ewing, W. A. Stewart, George Copeland. The Scotts send regards to all friends. MARSHALL'S OLD PLANTATION SHOW. Peter Porter, stage manager of Marshall's Old Plantation, says the show has been through North Carolina all summer, and has been making good, carrying twenty-two people with the show. We have a few more dates in this State. Little Rosters is still cleaning up with his buck and wing dancing. Everybody is well and sends regards to all professionals. TERRY'S U. T. C. COMPANY. Center Point, Ia., still holds her record as being a good show town. Terry's Uncle Tom's Cabin show was greeted by the largest crowd they have enjoyed this season on their appearance there August 24. The company gave a first-class performance, interspersed with high-class specialties. Wish Barnett and Perkins were good in their singing turn. The team of the Beechums are very clever in their sketch and keep the house in an uproar. The Browns were weel spoken of in their specialty. J. W. Beecher as Uncle Tom, knows what an old man means. Our U. T. C. ball team is cleaning up all along the line. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER AUGUST EVENTS. GEORGIA ELECTION LAWS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS · PREPARING FOR LOUISVILLE. TWO TOPEKA VIEWS. BEFORE NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE. AFTER MEETING TRYING TO HYPNOTISE LEXINGTON KY. GO ON, BILL, I AINT NO TRILBY. KENTUCKY RETURN OF THE THEATRICAL SEASON. GREATEST SNOW "MY NEXT STOP WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER." HOLYWOOD GLAZIER JUBILEE COMPANY. J. Louis Johnson is now managing the Glazier Jubilee Company for the Glazier Lyceum Bureau of Chicago. The company is as follows: Mrs. Annetta Highaiden, accompanist; Mrs. Lena Bryant, soprano; Mrs. D. R. Brown, contralto; William Oscar Bunn, bass; Charles Hughes, bari tone; Howard Washington, first tenor; J. Louis Johnson, second tenor. They are now in their fifth week of Chau tauqua. ATLANTA, GA.. HAS NEW PLAY: HOUSE. The colored people of Atlanta, Ga., are rejoicing over the new playhouse now under construction. The new GEORGIA ELECT TWO TOPEKA VIEWS. BEFORE NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE. AFTER MEETING HOLYWOOD theater will be christened the "Gayozo Theater," and when completed, which will be by October 1st, will be one of the largest colored theaters in the United States, seating 1,700 persons. To Mr. W. S. Miller, of Atlanta, goes the credit and honor of erecting the new enterprise. Mr. Miller saw the need of a good opera house for colored people, so he went to work to supply their needs, and spared neither pains nor money to give the colorful people what they have been clamoring for for years. The management has secured the services of Mr. V. L. Granberry, lately from the East, to manage the new opera house. Mr. Granberry is an experienced show man and manager, having been playing regularly in vaudeville until a few weeks ago. "The Gayoso" will play continuous vaudeville, also colored shows traveling South. They will give the people of Atlanta an opportunity to see the best colored troupes and vaudeville artists in the country. The Black Patti's Troubadours will open the new playhouse, October 3rd and 4th. RUFUS RASTUS IN DIXIE COM PANY. The company is still doing well. Just arrived in Minnesota and the S. R. O. sign has been out every night. Warren, Minn., was a banner night. The company is proud of their baseball team. We have been up against some tough propositions. They win some and lost some by small margins. The baseball team is composed of the following leaguers: W. M. Israel, 1b; W. Hewlitt, c; James Olney, ss; W. A. Bruce, rf; Will Hale, 3b; John Edwards, 2b; Will Randal, p; Ali Dassen, cf; Albert Hutt, f; substitutes, George Boutte and A. G. Jones. Mr. A. F. Hutt sends regards to Wm. Blue, John Eason, J. E. Adams, Little Steve Adams, Louis A. Coppridge, Joe Russell and wife, and all other friends in and out of the profession. Ali Dassen sends regards to Count De Robe. Billy Carroll joined the company at Warren, Minn., and he more than made good. Fitz Giles sends best regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Wm. Israel sends regards to Wolfscale & Co. Our stage manager, Mr. Stranger is getting everything in readiness for the new show that opens in Joplin, Mo. October 6. Bruce and Edwards send regards to all friends. James Harris's says "Hello" to Geo. Bryant and Joe Jordan. OUR CUBAN LETTER. Havana, Cuba, August 20. The Freeman. Dear Sirs: I wish to trank you for notice given our show in your last issue of Saturday, 17th instant. Everyone feels at home when The Freeman arrives. Everyone wants to read it at the same time. The show is a drawing card. Everybody is well excect Miss Estella Weaver, who contracted a severe cold in her eyes, but she will soon be out and ready for work. Webb and Harris are still taking five curtain calls nightly with their march song, "Sister," and "If You Don't Change Your Singing, That's the Way You Will Die." They finish with a red hot buck dance such as has never been seen in Cuba. Mrs. Pauline Crampton, our male impersonator, so natural you can hardly tell her from the real stuff. This week she is featuring that love ballad, "Good-bye, Sweetheat, Good-bye," Little Annie Force makes them wonder with her phonograph imitations, doing "Dear Estelle" as cornet solo. Johnson and Woods know just how to keep them going. Mrs. Ethel Coles this week are doing "Just to Love Me and the World is Thine." She is aibly sup- AUGUST EVENTS KNIGHTS OF TRYING TO HYPNOTISE LEXINGTON GO ON, BILL, I AINT NO TRILBY. KENTUCKY ported by the Williams Quartette: Harris, Webb, Johnson and Gibson, and when they open up there is harmony in the song and music in the air. Miss Mamie Payne is still killing them with "Those Wooden Shoes." Miss Ethel Smith this week (Marinina). Last week we played Mariano, Cuba, and at 7:45 we hung out the S. R. O. sign. Every number was applauded to its utmost capacity. This week. Thursday, August 22, Camp Columbia, with Cerro and Regla to follow, and prospects look good to us. It rains every day but it does not stop the crowd in the least. We are now headed for the Orient. Mr. Williams, our genial proprietor, seems very pleased with our workt. Thanks for that. The ghost walks every Monday, sure. We are much pleased with our manager, Mr. John D. Clair. He knows how to treat his people and we know how to work for him. There is not better man in the business. He is writing a play for the show, which he expects to introduce about October 1st. Will Goff Kennedy, of Funny Folks, write to Clair. I want to hear from you. OUR LONDON LETTER. The Fourteen Black Hussars are on their fifth week at London Hippodrome, with three more weeks to follow, and is one of the biggest hits on the bill and the most talked of act in London. As we are booked up solid, and in order not to interfere with our American engagement, our genial manager, Henderson Smith, is refusing more time in Russia, Germany, France and Ireland. All are well, and when we walk down the street it's manners for using a slang phrase, we look ready, and when we get to Chicago on our opening at the Majestic, look out "Pekin" for we are on our way there, and as we will be special guests of Mr. Smith, there will certainly be something doing. Judging from the hands and ears of some of the members on Twenty-seventh and State that night, there will be no need for any electric lights. Not only are we successful financially, but also socially, as was shown on August 8th, when Napoleon Johnson gave a birthday fete to his friends, and to say we had a jolly good time eating cake and drinking wine, would be putting it mildly. The lunch was prepared by Misses Alice Allen and Alice Leslie Carter, and served during the evening by Messrs. Chas. Brady, A. Hickman and Jim Jones. The bill of fare consisted of sandwiches, chicken salads, coffee, ice cream, cake, wines, beer and —— gin. The evening was spent in singing, dancing, social conversation and yarn telling. Those present were, of Black Hussars: Henderson Smith, Alice Leslie Carter, Alice Allen, Jennie Allen Claybrooks, Messrs. Chas. Brady, Jim Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hickman, Wm. Bolden, Alfonse Claybrooks, Harry Simmons, of Billy McClaim Co., Misses Alice Smith and Maud Yeager. Out of town visitors: Mr. Percy Painson, of Leeds, Eng.; also were present Maceo & Fox, James Chatman and George Daniels. At the small, wee, hours of the morning Chas. Brady, as toastmaster, called the house to order and suitable toasts were given by each member present. Among the many costly presents received by Johnson, were from Henderson Smith, a meerchaum cigarette and cigar holder and case; Chas. Brady, special imported Irish linen handkerchiefs; George Davies, buckskin tobacco pouch; Alice Leslie Carter, a shaving mug, brush and rack; Alice Smith, a fine leather stationary case; Alice Allen, special imported silk socks from Paris; Claremontos; PYTHIAS · PREPARING FOR LOUISVILLE. RETURN OF THE THEATRICAL SEASON. GREATEST SNOW "MY NEXT STOP WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER." a silver mounted walking cane and French silk socks; Percy Pawson, meerschaum pipe and tobacco pouch; Maud Yeager, a bunch of roses and carnations; Wm. Bolden, cigarette case; Claybrooks, a silk tie, etc., etc. Miss Alice Smith carried off the honors as the best conversationalist; with her witty saying and gestures she kept the crowd in a continuous roar of laughter. Then after another round of cake and wine, all left, wishing Napoleon every success, and may he live long to enjoy many more birthdays. A. B. C'S AND ATLAS DIVIDE Fast Double-Header at Northwestern Park Ends with Horse Farm Park Ends with Honors Even. The Atlas and A. B. C.'s broke even yesterday in a double-header that certainly furnished the spectators at Northwestern Park with some of the best baseball that has been seen at that grounds this season. Both games were featured with hitting and fast fielding on the part of both teams and sensational plays. Howard opposed Hutchinson in the first game and let the hard-hitting colored aggregation down with three hits, one of which was a homer by Merida, the heavy-clouting second sacker of the A. B. C.'s. However, in the second game the Atlas team was not to be outbatted, and landed on Talbott for enough hits to cause the southpaw to be replaced by Griffin, who got away much better. Barthell's homer, with three men on bases, in the third inning, gave the Atlas team a little the better of the argument in the last game, and practically cinched the victory for his team. G. Dauss also handled the willow very effectively, clouting a homer at the right time. Emmert was on the mound for the Atlas team in the second game, and proved a hard proposition for his opponents, letting them down with three scattered hits. Scores: First Game THE ELYSIUM THEATRE- SEATING CAPACITY 1400 First-Class and Thoroughly Up-to-Date, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Under Entire Control and Management of Colored Promoters (N. O. Amusement and Inv. Company, Ltd.) Open dates for good Colored shows, good Vaudeville and Specially Teams. Write once. Good engagements for the right people. Address AMERICAN THEATRICAL EXCHANGE, N. Y. Theatre Bid'g or W. J. Nickerson, 120 N. Galvez St., New Orleans, La. THEATRICAL ENGRAVING QUALITY RIGHT PRICES RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELECT. CO. P. O. Box 103. (MENTION THE FREEMAN) INDIANAPOLIS IND. Wanted Rufus Rastus in A GOOD BA To Handle Quartette Work Address H. HOMEWOC FOR THE Rufus Rastus in Dixie Company A GOOD BASS SINGER To Handle Quartette Work and Chorus. Address H. HOMEWOOD, Manager, care Freeman. THE DEATH OF REV. J. W. CARR. The death of Rev. J. W. Carr, of Savannah, Ga., is noted. Rev. Carr was a distinguished preacher of the Baptist denomination. He formerly held forth at the Second Baptist Church of this city, and for a number of years with great success. He was popular throughout the country, and was often called to fill various pulpits of other cities. He was a man of education. He was a student of human nature, and accordingly addressed himself to the understanding of his audiences, making him popular with all classes. On retiring from the Second Baptist Church of this city, he went to Savannah where he became pastor of one of the largest churches in the connection, where he was attended with his usual remarkable success. Recently he was called to Indianapolis again to take charge of a newly organized church, but he did not feel free to accept. His many friends throughout the Union will be pained by the information of his untimely taking off. He was a valued member of the National Baptist Association. That body suffers a loss as well as the general church and the Baptist cause. HE VISITS THE GREAT WEST. Mr. Geo. Knox, of The Freeman, Becomes a Landowner in Oklahoma. A few days prior to the opening of the recent convention of the National Negro Business Men's League, in Topeka, Kans., Mr. George L. Knox, the publisher of The Freeman, took in several cities and points of interest in Oklahoma. It was a tour of inspection. He had heard of the beautiful fertile country lying well to the Southwest, where it is favored of heaven in the dellihgtl climate. He visited Chandler and other cities, but he was most impressed with Guthrie and its vicinity. Here he was met by Mr. G. W. Chadwick and Attorney E. I. Sadler, colored men of prominence, means and influence. They saw to his comfort, extending never to be forgotten courtesies. Penny, prominent white citizens and Messrs, Amos A. Ewing and E. Penny, prominent white citizens and capitalists of Guthrie, appreciated the visit of Mr. Knox. These gentlemen are interested in an extensive territory adjoining Guthrie, recently platted, including all facilities—for school railroad and other features in the interest of a progressive town. Mr. Knox staked his business judgment as to the future growth of "College Heights," the name of the new city, purchased a lot in the beautiful prospect, and will advise his friends to do as he has done. In fact, he thinks the new city is ideal, and that it is an opportunity for the Negro to have a community of the very best conditions. Guthrie is a city of some 30,000 population, a comparatively new Western community with all the elements of growth that are known to the West. Thriving Guthrie, he thinks, is able to furnish employment for as many as may care to try their fortunes in the West. Many colored men called on Mr. Knox while at the office of Mr. Ewing, among whom was Judge Perkins. These were substantial business men, some of who had made small fortunes within a few years. In company with Mr. Ewing, Mr. Knox was shown the interesting sights of Guthrie, among which was a canning factory where 160 colored people are employed and 140 white people. He was entertained at the excellent home of Mrs. Washington, where he received marked attention. The colored people are well engaged in business and employed. Stores of various kinds are conducted by them. There are two papers, professional men of all kinds, and general prosperity reels. Mr. Knox will cheerfully furnish additional information concerning "College Heights." Address him, The Freeman office, Indianapolis, Ind. To read a paper belonging to someone else is simply a common holdup to the man who prints that paper. THE Dixie Company PRESS SINGER and Chorus. DD, Manager, care Freeman. "FOR RENT" Minstrel Shows UNDER CANVAS A. B. Ready to set up and do business, including cars, tent, 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 particulars will address PAT CHARPelle, 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." The America Theater Jackson, Miss. Open Dates for Good GLORED SHOWS. Entire management and ownership colorec Seating capacity 1200. W. J. LATHAM, Managr. WANTED--First and Second Tenor and Baritone for Quartet of Midland Jubilee Company. Time sold for 190 days, beginning October 1, 1907. No booze or cigarette need apply. W. A. Ham, manager Midland Jubilee Co., DesMoines, Iowa. MUSIC Arranger, Mak Transpositions and compose special music for acts. My rices are the lowest for which good work can be done. Write for Price List to-day R. H. BROOKS, Alexandria, Va. WANTED--For CALDWELL and THOMAS Fun Makers, male and female Singers, Dancers and Comedians, Musicians who double in string and brass. Address CALDWELL & THOMAS, 1807 State St., Room 29. Chicago, Ill. WANTED--To hear from Stella Harris. Business of importance. Address "Manager" The Are we a child race? Many white people we are and a good number of our own folks regard us in that light, but would really call a person forty-three years old a child? Boxing ‘= BaseBall*:, Athletics TO RESUME BOXING IN CHICAGO; RUSSELL KEEPS FITZ GERALD BUSY. (By Dare Phillips.) Indications of the last week are to the effect that the boxing game will be reopened in Chicago within a few weeks. The middle of September has been picked as the date on which the - authorities will let the promoters get busy, according to late reports, but when there is a loosening up clubs will not be allowed to spring up in discriminatel;. ‘There has been a meeting of pro- moters at which a plan was agreed on whereby the interests will be pooled and only two or possibly three elubs run. This does not include the legitimate clubs such as the Chicago Athletic Association, the New Illinois Athletic Club and others. There will be no conflict of promoters, however, if Mayor Busse has his way. If such a thing does develop there will be no boxing. Willie Fitzgerald and Unk Russell had a tussle in the East the other day and the verdict was a draw. The Eastern papers accused Willie of not trying to knock his man out, but the Harp has written me that Russell was a tough fellow, outweighed him about ten pounds, and he did not care to take a chance with him. Fitz had his opponent in a bad way several times and seems to have clearly out- classed him. Humphries Has Grievance. ‘There is blood in the pugilistic moon. And Joe Humphries vows he will spill it. He has a grievance. He had business tact and acumen enongh to see that by sending “Sailor” Burke against the colored heavyweight, Jack Johnson, sheckles galore would pour into the Humphries-Burke camp, win or loose. Besides the plan opened up a new tryout field for the black man, Hence “Joe” and “Sam” Fitzpatrick talked it over, and “Joe” signed the “Sailor” for a go with Fitzpatrick’s man, posting a forfeit of $250. “Sam,” with characteristic breeziness, said: “You are on, ‘Joe.’ The bout is yours. The match is practically made, but give me three days to think it over.” And when the three days sped by Fitzpatrick signed the articles with- out posting the forfeit and announced the fact that Burke had been signed to fight the Negro. Now comes la- mentations, for “Sam” has given “Joc” the double cross, having entered into an agreement to fight his man against “Tommy” Burns. “Now, wouldn't that frost you on a hot summer day,” roared “Joe” the other day. “Here I jump in and get on a match with the black feller, and we are sure of winning, too, when ‘Tommy’ Burns takes heart, gets brave enough to take the black man’s defi, and ‘Sam’ gets busy and makes the match. I guess he was forced to post the forfeit there, all right, but I didn't press him on’ that score for my man, taking his word of honor, which esems to be cheese. Burns Sidetracks Burke. “Ot course I've got a big holler com- ing, and I’m going to get even; watch me. No other white fighter outside ot Fitz capable of meeting Johnson would take him up until I tossed ‘Sailor’ Burke against him. Then Burns suddenly discovers that he has the nerve to meet Johnson and he steps in with an acceptance, sidetrack- ing us. That's what I call handing the green goods. “They have ducked me completely now, and it’s time for a showdown. Well, all I've got to add is that some of ‘these fight manager guys are slick as bunko gents, and it’s another evi- dence that you can’t take some peo- ple’s word without having a gold bond to back it up. Several clubs have made bids for the go, and, in all fair- ness, I think that Johnson should give Burke the first chance.” Now that Tommy Burns has ac cepted the challenge of Jack Johnson a geauine heavyweight championship battle will certainly come off. John son rejoices in the dignified title of “colored heavyweight champion of the world.” Burns, who has been confin ing his attentions to white men, has announced that he is willing to assert his claim to supremacy regardless of race or color. Jimmy Coffroth’s offer of a $25,000 purse is the incentive. Colma, Cal. will be the battle ground: forty-five rounds the distance. Forty-five rounds is practically a finish fight, for few finish affairs have passed that mark. This one surely will not. The big Zulu is a magnificent physical speci men. Few better built big men have ever put on a boxing glove. He stand: 6 feet 2 and weighs well over 20( pounds. He reminds one of the an cient bronze statues of the Greek boxers. He is long of limb, huge of shoulder and clean cut. Under his skin the bronze muscles stand out in sharp relief. Johnson Is a Giant. Physically Johnson is far more than a match for Burns. And he is a re markably clever boxer. His quicknes: and great strength give him ability to hit a heavy blow. With gamenes: and good intentions Johnson is one of the most dangerous men that ever fought in a ring. Sam McClintick manager of Dick Hyland, has seen Johnson fight in the West. “Johnson,” THE FREEMAN, AN [1] LUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Johnson or Burns to win or draw without pntting the other fellow in the hospits:. Burns has a great money: making future if he wins this fight. Johnson itas the same prospect if he wins. Bither can make more by win- ning than by “laying down” and bet- ting on the result. Dealing with fight. ers who are inclined to arrange mat- ters before entering the ring—iv's best to regard the whole thing as a busi. ness proposition—or a “commercial proposition. Will Be on the Level. Viewed as a “commercial proposi- tion,” this BurnsJohnson fight prom ises’ best results if it is fought on the level. It is a case where honesty is the best money-making policy. It will be a hummer—fought on the square. No one ever accused Tommy Burns of having a yellow streak. He's a great fighter of his inches. He is a savage fighting man. For all of his squat figure he will probably tear into the ebony giant as if he were just another Jack O’Brien or Bill Squires. Burns is half a foot shorter than the big Zulu. But he has a long reach. His arms are just as thick. He is broad shouldered. And he is tough and enduring as any heovyweight in the game. He can take a world of punching without losing a grain of his courage. This will surely be a longer fight than the affair between Burns and Squires or the short one between pena and Bob Fitzsimmons. Thirty rounds may finish it up. : Burns Ready for Jeffries. ima recent talk Tommy Burns said: “While I am not challenging Jeffries and am not camping on his trail, if the big fellow decides to again put ‘on the gloves I would like to get the first chance. I think that I am entitled to it in view of past performances. My personal opinion is that Jeff will never re-enter the ring, although such a magnificent offer as that made by Jim May—namely, $45,000—may tempt him to forsake his business for a few months to train for one more fistic battle. It is not my intention to go about the country on my theatrical tour challenging Jeffries. As I said before, if he wants to fight, well and good; Till be ready to sign with him.” Speaking of Jack Johnson, Burns said: “I'm not afraid of Johnson, as so many people seem to think. While the husky Negro is clever, he has a streak of yellow im his makeup that will show itself in short order when he gets into the ring with me.” So far as May’s offer for a battle with Jeffries as one of the principals is concerned, there is not much stock taken in it in well-informed sporting circles, either in California or the Bast. SHIFT IS MADE IN LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION OF THE BOXERS. Los Angeles, Cal., special: We are now ready for a new deal from the lightweight deck. The last two weeks have seen a shuffle seldom equaled in the history of the game, and while the big black ace of trumps is still the high card, the kings and seven spots have been shifted a bit. Nelson, generally regarded as the greatest white lightweight in the world, has ‘been tumbled from his position, and James Britt, the man who, everybody thought, was out to fight once more for the short end, is high in public favor and matched to fight Gans for the lightweight championship of the world. Nelson has been very chary with his utterances since the Britt fight. I have had ose postal card from him about the fight and it cast no light on the future of the Hegewisch fighter. He says that he can not understand how it all happened, as he felt confi- dent of winning from Britt. | 1 do not believe that the jabs and swings which came his way had much to do with the result of the fight. Nelson shot his bolt after fighting seven rounds, and after that he slowed down gradually and was well nigh helpless at the end of the last round. ‘This is what he means when he says that he does not understand. He admits that the two punches which Britt caught him in the last round jhurt him and had him groggy. One hit on the jaw and another landed on the stomach. They were not harder than others which Britt landed earlier in the fight, but Nelson, in his weak condition, felt them and they rocked him from top to toe. It is probable that Bat will take a long trip to the mountains, after which he will fight once more, prob- ably with the winner of the Gans: Britt fight. People say “Britt: came again, why not Bat?” ‘The conditions are different. Britt never took much punishment. The only feal beating which he ever re received was at Colma, and we who saw. him sprawling under the ropes in the eighteenth round must give him credit for as game a battle as a boy ever fought. He took more pun- ishment in that fight than in all his other battles put together, yet Nelson has had dozens of harder beatings, many of them in which he won. Careful training and six months of preparation brought Britt back into the game and it will take more than that to offset the countless wallops that the Dane has taken in his day. Nothing but # constitution can send the Dane back at his best, and new constitutions are not to be found even in the mountains. Now eliminating the Dane, we have Britt, Burns and Gans. Britt and Gans are soon to settle the question ‘once and for all. The Britts are eager to pick up all the money in sight and make the most of the haying season. There is in the North a tendency to overrate Britt because of the Nelson fight. They do not figure that it was a shadow of the old Nelson which Britt_whipped so decisively. They say Britt has developed the punch, which he always lacked, and point to the last few rounds of the Nelson fight. For this reason he will have many [supporters when he faces Joe Gans. Unless the Negro was permanently injured in the Goldfield fight and has gone back in consequence, the native son will stand little chance with him. Fa I i ed a a mel ha et Gans is his master at every depart- ment of the game. Britt is certainly a marvelous ring general. Gans in- vented the game. Britt is a cool head and is proud of the fact. Gans is like a cold storage plant and has no pride. They say Britt can hit. We know that Gans has the cleanest, most punishing blow in the business. In all accounts Gans should win. un- less his last fight should hurt him. No trace of injury or weakness showed in his training for the Her- man fight. ‘Then comes the local attraction— the fight with Burns. Here is the dark horse, the man who has never fought a topmotcher. Many a man has had championship timber in him and never had a chance to show it until he met a good man. Young Cor- bett was a sixround fighter until he met McGovern. Jeffries was more or less of a joke until he defeated Sharkey the first time. Nobody knows what a man like Jimmy Burns will do until he meets a man of un- questioned class. One thing is sure— he has the physique and natural strength. He is the youngest man of the trio—three years younger than Britt and eight years younger than Gans. It is an old saying that youth will be served, but we do not know just how this ‘particular youth. will be served until he meets Joe Gans in Los Angeles on the 27th of Septem- So COFFROTH TO MATCH SQUIRES. Joe Gans Is Now Down to 13% Pounds and in Good Condition. San Francisco, August 29.—Folliw- ing the return of Bill Squires to this city and the starting of his training at Shannon’s quarters near San Ra- fael, word has been received by cable from Australia that Bookmaker Jack Wrenn will again back him to the ex- tent of $5,000 in another match. Jim- my Coffroth wants to send Squires against the victor in the Schreck- Kaufman go. Squires seems to have profited by his stay in lumber camps, and_re- turned here tanned and sturdy look- ing. He announces that, if he can secure another match, he will chal- lenge Burns once more. Both Kauf: man and Schreck have also announced their intention of going after Tommy, so Brusso will be the target in the heavyweight class after the go of next | Thursday. Coffroth Arranges Match. Coffroth says that_ he will put Squires on with the ‘winner of the Schreck-Kaufman go September 21. Jim Flynn, of Pueblo, is laying claims to a chance, and word has been re- ceived here that Jack (Twin) Sullivan will start West shortly. Joe Gans has been working steadily at Croll’s gardens, near Alameda, and said yesterday that he was already down to 133 pounds. His appearance bears out this statement, Britt has departed for a final week of training at Harbin Springs, and has taken up the mountain-tramping practice fol- lowed by Jeffries. Squires has been trying to get De- laney to handle him and to get Spider Kelly as second and adviser. Delaney is handling, Haufman at preseat, but probably will take charge of Squires in case Schreck wins. Big Price for Seats. Manager Jack Gleason, who is han- dling the Gans-Britt fight, announced today that a special row of ringside seats had been arranged for the Gans: Britt fight, at which the price would be $25. ‘The sports to Frisco are beginning to stir in their sleep as the date of the Gans-Britt fight draws near, and some small wagers are already being laid, the privilege orders making Gans the favorite at 4 to 5. In some cases 7 to 10 is the quotation, put, naturally, the other is more popular. These odds will without doubt be hammered down as soon as any big money makes its appearance, the bets so far being only $2, $5 or $10. Neither of the fighters has as yet put up a bet, but Britt is expected fo wager the larger sum, as Gans’ money is tied up in real estate in Baltimore. Joe is a little ahead in ready cash at present, as he asked and received $1,000 from Manager McCarey as ree- ompense for the expenses he incurred in engaging training quarters at Los Angeles for his bout with George Memsic (Jimmy Burns), which has been postponed. McCarey Holds the Bag. sIncidentally, McCarey is a heavy loser through the many postponements of the fights, and unless he can se- cure some attractive bouts soon, the Pacific A. C. is likely to suffer a re- verse. Reports from Los Angeles say that Memsic looks to be far from fit, and that he can hardly get down to weight without injury to himself, be- fore September 27, the date set at the last postponement. GOTHAMITES TO SEE JOKE FIGHT New York, August 29—Final ar. rangements have been made to hold the Sailor BurkeJack Johnson fight in one of the big theaters at Bridge- port, Conn., on September 12. A’ special train will leave the Grand Central station on the night of the fight, and if the ticket sale continues at the present rate, another will have to be added to carry all the New York- ers who intend taking in the mill, Burke is hard at work at Stratford trying to build himself up. He ex- pects to enter the ring at about 165 pounds. Johnson, who will meet Kid Cutler at Reading, Pa., next Thursday, is training at Atlantic City. $10,000 PURSES AT FAIR. New York special: More than $10, 000 is offered in prizes for horses competing at the New York State Fair this year, which is to be held at Syra- cuse September 9 to 14 inclusive, and a more liberal program never has been arranged during the sixty-six years the annual @xhibition has been held. Entries close on Saturday, August 31. Already there is every indication that all previous records will be broken in the number of horses that will con- test the different events. Every class of horse is catered to in the program. GOSSIP OF THE BOXERS. | Joe Galligan, who some time age fought Unk Russell in this city and later lost to Packy Msfarland ai Davenport, is matched to box Maurice Sayres at Barilesville, I. T., Augus 20. Sees Kid Wilson (Kid Brune), the loca 128-pound boxer, has been matched t¢ meet Abe Goodman, the Boston light weight, in a ten-round semi-windup t the Fitzpatrick-Gardner _ tea-rounc bout at Ft. Wayne on Labor Day. | Sammy Phillips, a husky Chicag middleweight, is out with a chalieng to meet Bully’ Papke or any other mid dleweight in the country. As a guar antee of good faith he is willing t post $500 as a side bet for either the Spring Valley man or ‘Tony Caponi. Jack Goldswain, the English light weight whom Harry Lewis put awa in a round at Philadelphia, is back ir London again. He took his defeat ir a sportsmanlike manner, saying tha Lewis beat him in a punch, but Yewi had much the best of the weight Goldswain expects the National Sport ing Club of London to maten him witl Lewis curing the autumn. eee Jim Driscoll, the little English box er who won tie featherweight cham pionship from Joe Bowker, was mar ied recently in London, and has jus returned to that town after a honey moon of three weeks. Driscoll is con templating a trip to this country, an¢ as soun as the right inducements ar¢ offered he will start. One of the New York clubs has offered Driscol $500 expenses to come over, but he has not accepted. wee Jack and Mike (Twin) Sullivan aré looking over the Great White Way (New York), and if they don’t decide to buy it, will in a few days move on to the Pacific Coast, where Mike ex pects to fight Joe Thomas. Jack is after big game, he says, and will chal lenge Tommy Burns. wee Walter Little, the fast Chicage featherweight, whose recent showing in the ring has put him’ in a promi nent position in pugilistic circies, is not on the trail of Abe Attell and Freddie Weeks, and his manage: claims he is willing to bet a large suni that his man can defeat the champion ‘The best man that Little as yet face: is Freddie Cole, the local feather weight, and he gave the Chicago box er the hardest fight of nis career anc lost a ten-round decision. It is the opinion of local fight fans that Cok is as good a fighter as Walter Little who is a claimant for the feather weight title. Danny Goodman and Bobbie Harris, two of the cleverest boxers in Chi- cago, fought a lively six-round bout at Ludington, Mich., Friday night be- fore « small crowd. Bota proved to be clever, but were unable to score a knockout. Young Mack, of Indian- apolis, challenged the winner. Wal- ter Parker, who last winter fought a ten-round draw with Jerry Murphy, stopped a lad by the name of Barry in one round. ‘Tony Ferguson, known in the ring as Billy Griffith, a former local light- weight, who left this city about two years ago for the East to make a name for himself in the squared etr- cle, writes to Izzy Brill that he may come home shortly for a visit and would like to get on a mateh for this city with no one but Joe Gregg. The Hoosier boxer has made a reputation for himself in the East, where he has defeated some good boxers. His most recent battle was with Henry Lewis, whom he bested in a six-round bout in Philadelphia. Battling Nelson will take the moun- tain cure in an effort to regain his former ruggedness and vitality. The Dane says he will buy a pair of rub- ber-soled Oxfords and a flannel shirt and then lose himself in the Rockies for several months. Nelson craves a fourth meeting with Britt. He does not want to take any of the blue-rib- bon effects from the Californian’s re- cent victory, but now that his first de- pression has worn off he says that it was his physical condition which beat him, tae Dick Hyland, who meets Tommy Murphy September 11 at Philadelphia in a sixround bout, says that if he is successful in ‘defeating Murphy he will go after the winner of the Britt- Gans bout. eae Frankie Neil, the little California featherweight, who was brought East a short time ago by Frank Poth for the purpose of fighting Tommy O'Toole, the Quaker City pugilist, is on his way back to California. Young Ketchell, who is to meet Joe Thomas at Colma September 2 for the welterweight championship of the world, is a Polander who knows noth- ing but fight. He made himself fa- mous in one night by fighting a draw with Joe Thomas a few months azo. 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September will be a busy month with matinee and special exhibitions. Show the owner the speed by winning the coin and not in preparatory trial miles. Your steeds will have ample opportunity from now on to show if they are money getters. Some driving clubs will have a hard time to get several present useful officials to serve next year. Many will soon find out whit it costs to train and keep a dub with speed of no account in a race. A percentage of all fines and commissions should go to a fund for injured, aged and infirm drivers. * * * * Of the number of driving clubs due to give meetings on Labor Day, how many will enrich their treasuries? * * * * All races outside of the Grand and Fair Circuits are now termed minor events by the trotting turf journals. * * * * The more I am raced, the poorer I am fed, would be the remark of many jaded steeds if they could but talk. * * * * The big fair circuit opens at Scranton, Pa., August 20 to 24, and the entries for the same close on Tuesday next. * * * * Ann Direct, winner of the 1906 M. and M., is improving and going steadier and will be a biddder for the honor. * * * * Bonanza has won second money in the last three Chamber of Commerce stakes. Well, that's making winter oats. * * * The man who says least in victory and defeat with an evenness of temperament that is admirable is James Bell. * * * It will not be hard to count the money that will be our city horsemen's share of the winnings in the big circuit. Bingen will likely have another 2:10 performed before long in John Ward, that stepped at Readville the other day in 2:09. They say that Glenwood M., 2:07¼ will not stand the preparation for his races in Austria, and has been retired to the stud. Trainer Finnegan has great hopes of cleaning up a nice bunch of money this coming fall with Bingen Maid, by Bingen. Princeway, the pacing gelding by Steinway, which took a record of 2:11¼ recently, is 17 years old. Some really improve with age. There will be an opportunity to see some mile ring steppers perform over a half mile course this week at the East Suffolk track. Well, Dolly Sparks got within the money recently. It is to be hoped that Frank Jackson will have better luck this year than he did in 1906. They now term Sonoma Girl, 2:06% the M. and M. winner, "The Girl From the Golden West," but she struck the gold in the East. They say that $35,000 is the prace now asked for Sonoma Girl, 2:06% Not so much if she keeps good and wins her remaining races. All the trotting turf journals have commented on P. McCabe's shipment of Pero Belle, 2:12% to the harlem of Dick Croker's Derby winner, Orby. Since Minnie Elyria, by Elyria, trotted Belmont in 2:17% her price has advanced from $600 to $1,000. Has it ever been definitely settled who owns her? * * * Blacklock, 2.07%4, is on the shelf, temporarily at least. It looks as though Ben Kenny was right when he said the fast pacer was not a sound horse. * * * The Blair County Road Drivers' Association will hold a four days' race meeting at Altoona, Pa., September 25 to 28. The purses will be $400 and more. Altoona is favored with one of the best tracks in the State and the management is excellent. SOME REMINISCENCES OF NEGRO BALL PLAYERS. A Record of Star Ball Players of Dif ferent Races—What the Cuban Giants Were. (By Paul Stanley.) An old-time fan, whose interest in the players is evidently of a keen and analytic nature, sends in a query concerning the nationalities of the various big league players. The section of his question in regard to the races is as follows: "Was there ever a really great Negro player? If so, who, and where did he play? "Speaking of nationalities, was there ever a really great French player, aside from Lajoie? "Who are some of the big Swedes or Norwegians in the game?" "Is the game so distinctly American that foreign-born citizens never become expert at it? "Have we ever had a great player a Cuban or Spaniard? "There are some fine Indian players, like Bender. Does this fact show that it appeals to that nationality? Who are some of the other big Indians in the game? "Who are some of the distinctly Canadian players, and what have they done? "Who is the greatest player of German descent in the game? I suppose you will say Wagner, but who are the others? "I have never heard of an Italian player of any importance, but I presume there must be one somewhere in this cosmopolitan country." The African brother has found the color line in the big leagues a barrier that is insurmountable. While a few of them in the early days of the game managed to break in, they found life unpleasant and soon withdrew. Many of the Negro players in their own teams have shown skill fully equal to that of the best minor leaguers and might have made good had they been given a show in the fastest company. One of the best of the black players was a catcher named Walker, formerly with the Syracuse Stars. Then there was Grand and Stovey. Today we have Foster, Williams and a number of others who would be major league stars if their color was not against them. Several Frenchmen of great ability have figured in the game, besides the wonderful Lajoie. The first Frenchman to gain lasting fame was Berthrong, of the Washington Nationals, whose record for running the bases, made in 1868, still stands unbroken. Others of French descent now in the game are Moren, of the Phillies; Beaumont, of Boston; Laporte of the Mountains, and Parent, of the Pilgrims. Two of the best French players have left the big only lately—La Chance and Mertes. It was always claimed that Uncle Anson is of Scandinavian descent, and he certainly looks the part. John Anderson of Washington, is the largest Scandinavian now performing. Isbell of the Chicago Americans, is alleged to be a Swede, and also to be of the Chicago lineage. Lundgish, of the Chicago Nationals, is swedish; Ferguson, of the New York Nationals, is said to be a Swede under an old Irish name; Anderson, of Pittsburg, is either Danish or Norwegian; Jacobsen, of the Boston Americans, is a Dane. The first Indian to gain fame at baseball was Sockalexis, who drank himself out of the fast company Clarke, the Cleveland catcher, is said to be a Wyandotte Indian, and Phyle who has just joined the New York Nationals, is of Sloux descent. Bruce a clever pitcher, formerly with the Athletics, is an Indian, as is Jimison formerly of the Phillies. Indians from time immemorial, have played ball games—lacrosse being only a civilized form of their favorite sport—and any game in which tossing and catching a ball is the diversion seems to appeal naturally to the red man. A few Cubans are playing in minor leagues, and the Cubans show great speed and fielding skill, but are shy on batting ability. The Origin of the Bunt. I have been "called" by many old-timers for saying that I thought "Dicky" Pearce was the first player to originate the bunt. The consensus of opinion among those who ought to know (of course I am too young to know by experience) is that Tommy Barlow was the player who first worked that buntation business that is cousing so much trouble to pitchers and infelders nowadays. I therefore hasten to give credit to Tommy Barlow, but I think Barlow's bunt was the fair-foul. I wasn't personally acquainted with my bold Tommy, but I feel like "Dasher" Troy about the thing, and the "Dasher"'s customary remark about the bunt is, "to Helliopolis with your buntations, hop 'em off their shins as the old Mets used to do whenever they played the Cuban Giants." And let it be known the Old Mets never drew any color line. They would "hop 'em" off a white player's shins as well as off a colored man's, but to tell the truth, they took a blamed sight more pleasure in doing the latter. And perhaps they couldn't and didn't. Ask Clarence Williams, Grant and others of the old Cubans. In their day Williams and Grant were about the best batters I have ever seen. What Williams did in the ground covering line cannot be found in Spaulding's Guide or in Beadle's of long, long ago, either. When on the run, there was not a spot between third and second bases that his spike didn't tear up turf or scratch gravel, and his partners in crime, Grant and Stovey, were not loafing any. GIANTS TAKE THREE-GAME SERIES. A. B. C.'s No Match for the Chicago ane. On Wednesday, August 22, nearly a thousand enthusiastic baseball fans gathered at the Northwestern Ball Park to witness a game of ball to be played by the Leland Giants, one of the fastest teams traveling out of Chicago, and the A. B. C.'s Club, champions of Indiana. The game was called at 3:30 and from that time on ball playing of the professional order was played in the strictest sense. The visitors began with stiff ball playing and it looked very gloomy for the home boys until toward the closing innings. Rube Foster, of the Giants, and one of the greatest pitchers in history, sent them over in such great style that the boys could not tap him for some while. His opponent, Talbott, who stood in the box for the A. B. C.'s, did excellently for one of his experience, and served to make the score different from what it might have been had he not "fired 'em in" as he did. Foster was a little more effective with men on bases, and, although he alowed the locals ten hits, he kept them indeed well scattered. That was his game. He knew there was little chance for them getting in home. Talbott played for the batter so strong in the opening that the Giants simply cinched five runs to the good. The score was as follows: A. B. C.'s .0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 -4 1 0 2 Giants . . . 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 -7 1 0 2 On Thursday, August 22, the Chicago boys again met the Indianapolis lads, and worked to a success an ancient crossroad league play and won the game by the one-sided combination of 14 to 8, after the locals had the battle sewed up. With the count 7 to 4 against the visitors, and with three Giants covering the sacks, Foster yelled out, "Let me see that ball. I think it's ripped." Griffin, the A. B. --- C. pitcher, who was a favorite at Chicago, hastened to heave the ball to him. Rube stepped out of the way and let the ball go by and the trio of visitors simply scooted for home. After this there was little ban; praying done by the home boys, and the Lelands sent in three more. Score: A. B. C.'s.4 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1--8 2 2 Giants ..1 0 0 0 3 0 0 7 3--14 16 2 Batteries—Griffen and Primm; Normal and Booker. Umpire—Puryear. Attendance—800. Friday afternoon saw the last of the three-game series to be played by the Leland Giants against the A. B. C.'s at Northwestern Park, and it proved a walkaway for the visitors, despite the hard play of the home boys. Hutchinson proved to be more easy than Griffin or Talbott, and the Giants batted him at will. But the A. B. C.'s saw nothing of the same when it came to hitting Hayes of the Giants. Hayes was almost invincible, allowing but four hits. Score: A. B. C.'s 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 S 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—1 4 2 Giants 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 4 0—11 15 1 Batteries—S. Hutchinson and Chenault; Haynes and Rose. Umpire—Puryear. It can be said that the A. B. C.'s club is a good one and did clever work for a team of the kind. But it must be remembered that the Giants have many days ahead of them in playing the game, so far as experience is concerned. They have a man at the head who has had ten years experience and in that time has played with and against the best ball teams in the country. This man has taken time to teach every man of his team all the arts of the game, and why should they not play good ball. Mr. Earl Foster is one of the best pitchers in this country, so say the big critics, "and if he were white would belong to the biggest league in America." The A. B. C.'s have no real trainer—that is, one who understands every twist of the game under the sun, but the A. B. C. Club has good players. They are young and have not learned to be cool, as have the Giants, under any circumstances—"their blood is yet hot." But there'll come a time some day. SMALL TALK OF THE PLAYERS. Primm, you certainly lined them out. Everyone should always watch Foster in a game. If something exceptional would only chance "Rube" Foster's color he would be in the big league and be one of the stars. There was probably never a pitcher that lived who had more than the big manager of the Leland Giants. White Press. Griffin, anyone is liable to do a thing like that. Well, it's a cinch that they won't be able to do it again. Ran Butler kept smoking good cigars, anyway. The A. B. C.'s play ball next season. Although Mr. Frank Leland is a deputy sheriff in Chicago, but nevertheless he found time to come down and see Foster ask Griffin for the ball. Mr. F. C. Leland looked well and was among the boys who enjoyed the games. Harry Harris, who played second base for the Giants, has played on about all the Eastern teams, and is a college graduate. His home is in Columbus, O. ATLANTIC CITY ISSHUT OUT. For the First Time in Their History the Colegians Are Blanked Without a Hit or a Run—Royal Giants Did the Stunt. Atlantic City special: For the first time in the history of seashore baseball, the Atlantic Collegians were shut out without a run or hit, Buckner, the doughy pitcher of the Brooklyn Royal Giants, performing the feat at the Inlet Park this afternoon before a large crowd. "Buck" was in great form, and barring two bases on balls and H'il's error, the visitors played perfectly. But twenty-nine batters faced Buckner, and the contest was cleanly played throughout. Gaiser, for the Atlantics, pitched fairly well after the third inning, when six successive hits netted the Royals four runs of the earned variety. The Baltimore Eastern Leaguers play here Monday and Tuesday. The score: ATLANTIC CITY. R. H. O. A.E. Kelly, 3b. 0 0 1 1 0 Curtis, cf. 0 0 1 0 0 Smith, 2b. 0 0 5 3 0 Flynn, rf. 0 0 0 0 Perkins, lf. 0 0 3 0 0 Frye, 1b. 0 0 5 0 0 O'Hara, ss. 0 0 4 3 2 Whalen, c. 0 0 3 0 0 Gaiser, p. 0 0 6 0 Dowd, 2b. 0 0 2 1 1 # ROTAL GIANTS Johnson, ss. 1 2 2 6 0 Patterson, lf. 1 2 1 0 0 Buckner, p. 1 1 0 3 0 Miller, rf. 1 1 1 0 0 Jordon, 1b. 0 1 14, 1 0 James, 2b. 0 1 0 2 0 Hill, 3b. 1 2 2 1 1 Johnson, c. 0 1 5 1 0 Merritt, cf. 0 0 2 0 0 Totals 5 11 27 14 1 Atlantic City .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Royal Giants .0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 Royal City ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Royal City ..... 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 Earned runs, Royal Giants 4. Double plays, Dowd, Smith and O'Hara. Stolen base, Milliner. Struck out, by Gaiser 2, by Buckner 5. Left on bases, Atlantic City 2, Royal Giants 7. First base on called balls, off Gaiser 1, off Bunckner 2. First base on errors, Atlantic City 1, Royal Giants 3. Wild pitch, Gaiser. Time. 1:40. Umpire, Stanton. Attendance, 1.125. YORKS LOSE TO A. B. C'S Plainfield, Ind., August 24—The A. B. C. colored baseball team of Indianapolis defeated the Plainfield Yorks here this afternoon by a score of 15 to 13. Both Reude of the Yorks and Griffin of the A. B. C.'s were hit freely. Errors by the locals at critical times were responsible for the loss of the game. Score: A. B. C.'s 0 1 0 1 4 6 0 3 1 0—15 12 3 Yorks ... 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 1 4—13 8 6 Batteries—Griffin and Cenault; Reude and Cully. Umpire—Robinson. An ad in The Freeman always brings results. Nicelle OLIVE OIL MADE AND BOTTLED IN NICE, FRANCE The highest type of pure olive oil producible. For the tables of those who discriminate Purity, flavor and brilliancy are the charac- teristics of this perfect table oil. Try it in your next salad. GOOD GROCERS KEEP IT Send for our beautifully illustrated book of salad recipes, free. NICELLE OLIVE OIL CO., NEW YORK CITY THEY are good shoes and their cost to the wearer is far less than others in their class. $3.00 to $4.00 a pair for QUEEN QUALITY pays for woman's footwear that is the acme of good style, the perfection of shoemaking and a sure fit. Moreover, the leather that goes into a QUEEN QUALITY shoe is the best possible to procure Do you wonder that 10,000 pairs a day often falls short of meeting the demand? L.S.Ayres&Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Mr. and Mrs. John Puryear are at Atlantic, City. Mrs. J. T. V. Hill has returned from Chicago. Mrs. Susie Miller is visiting friends at Columbus, Ohio Rev. J. G. Robinson, of Louisville was in the city Wednesday. Miss Alice Warfield and Mrs. Helen Hill are visiting in the city. Mrs. Sallie Brown is the guest of the Easton family at Chicago. Mack 'Williams left last Thursday for Pittsburg, Pa., for Indefinite stay. John Walker will be among the attendants at the K. of P. meeting at Louisville next week. Mrs. King J, Reynolds and Mrs. Robert Harris of Knoxville are the guest of friends in the city. Henry Rochelle, of Terre Haute, Ind., was the guest of Fawn Wilson and William Lancaster last week. Woodbine Perfume, Oh! now fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. James D. Hoss of Knoxuille, Tenn., is the gueet of Mr, and Mrs. Issac H. Hoss in West St. Clair street. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones left Sunday for Louisville and other points in Kentucky to visit relatives and friends. J. E. Gibbs, headwatter at the Grand Hotel has returned from a fifteen days trip to Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Charles H. Watkins a student at the Mehary Medical College at Nashville, Tenn., was in the city Saturday enroute to Chicago. Dr. J. Lyte of Hopkinsville, Ky., and Mrs. Nancy A. Anderson of Gallatin, Tenn. are visiting their sister, Mrs. Hummons in Paca street. Dr. W. E. Brown will return to the city today and will receive his patients for the present at his residence 1109 N. Senate avenue. Dr. and Mrs. Hagood have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter Martha Louisa to Mr. William Hill, Wednesday September 4. The ceremony will be performed at Simpson Chapel. Mr. and Mrs. Hill will be at home at 5701 Grove avenue. Chicago, Ill. Nicel OLIVE THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. General Correspondence From Various Sections. THURSTON BEYANT left recently for Omaha Nebraska where he expects to locate. Messars Homer and R. Redding left recently for a visit with friends in Louisiana, Mo. Mrs. Lena Hogan Spencer is slowly improving from her illness.—Mesdames Medora Bryant and Fannie Strong were delegates at Rock Island.—Arthur Stewart has a position at Douglass' Store.—The Domestic Social Club met recently with Mrs. Mary Spencer on South East street.—Mrs. Samuel Rhodes is getting along nicely.—Misses Gracie and Gladys Mallory were the guest at the home of Miss Nellie Earlys home recently.—Miss Jennie Grassly gave an excellent lecture at the Second Christian Church, Thursday, August 22, which was largely attended and a good success. She lectured on Egypt and the Holy Land which was listened with Interest.—The Sweet Sixteen Club met recently with Miss Eva Reed of South Ebey street, DALLAS, TEXAS. The past week was filled with many sensational surprises to the people of the of which would not look good In printers ink to the young and old, big and little.—The Masonic Grand Lodge in session at Ft. Worth last week did much important business over any previous years meeting the following grand offices were elected for the ensuing year.—J. W. McKinney, G. M.; Wm, McDonald, G. S; E, Hines, G. S. W.; R. D. Lyons, G. J. W; G. D. Pierson, asst. sec.: Dr. B. R. Bluitt, G. T.; W. H. Burnnett, G. L.; Dr. C. A. Harris, G. C.; Bro. Weaner, G. T.—To the readers in the metropolis:—If you have any kicks to register do so at once, call at 108 Main street or 599 Cochran street, where I can look them over for the mutual good of all concerned,—yours the Reporter.—Mr. and Mrs. George Mays were in the Attending the grand lodge last week and are now visiting in Muscoogee, I. T., and other interesting points.—While the hot days last many of the masons were the guest of the Grand Lodge during the season at the Fort.—It is mighty hard to down the right, Any old time you will find it shining brighter than ever. Save a little from the good times these hot days because crimp will tell you about it sure as you are born in the winter time.—Yes: We are at home and ready for business cash and strickly for your benefit. Order now. Advertise that place of yours, find those lost ones now in these columns or see Griffin the Freeman man about becoming a reeder at once.—Drs. Hamilton and Bluitt are making some wonderful cures since they were off on their vacation.—Mrs. Ed, Avery is visiting In Pilot Point.—Mrs. Jefferson Mays is in Marshall.—Mrs. Maggie Moore is visiting in Chicago and St. Louis.—Negroes are improving and home buying. See next week's issue. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. Mission Band will go to Simpson Chapel corner of 11th and Missouri streets, on tomorrow night at 8:30. A good program has been arranged. We like for at least 25 of the members to be present as the general secretary will be with us. EN ROUTE TO CHICACO. Monday night the delegation of Elks of Atlanta, Georgia, in their private car spent a few hours in the city en route to Chicago to attend the Supreme Grand Lodge session Those in the party were: Mr. and Mrs H. Strawbridge, L. B. Byron, T. C. Strickland, D. H. Stith, H. W. Chisholm, E. L. Gibson, J. H. Quiggs, E. W. Roberts, C. M. Floods, W E Smith, J. C. Tucker, J. H. Kendall, Jno. Willis, Henry Watts, Jno. McNeal, Ewd. Roberts, Samuel Johnson, C. G. L. Grimes. PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST Sole Agent for the famous "Klok Straigh ener" Hair Pomade. Prices 50 cents. Cor. St. Clair St., and Senate Ave CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED Wanted—Two Colored Boys about 18 years old for Bowling Alley. Steady job. Apply Baron, 335 Indiana Avenue. Wanted—Competent Pharmsclst by the Peoples Drug Store, 18 and El Paso Kansas City, Mo. Reference required as to competency and business ability. Wanted—Position as foreman or assis tant manager in some enterprise or busi- ness; am willing to work for promotion. Reference furnished. Address Box 123 Sparts, Ill FOR SALE. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50cts (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Blodau, druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Men's dress shirts 39c; Ladies' Hose 6c children's drawers 9c—Old Granger Store First class service at G. W. Carr's restaurant and barber shop, 1314 Poplar St., Cairo, Ill If you have once tried Aquos Sodas you will not be satisfied with the ordinary kind At your grocers. Dr. Langston, dentist at 404 Indiana Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Between the Physician and Patient stands the Pharmacist'. It is his office to dispense 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 Gauld's Pharmacy. 601 Indiana Ave. Thomas Pearl, successor to Bates & Young, has re-opened the well-known cafe and restaurant at 534 Indiana avenue, where he will be pleased to see the former patrons. Patronage of the general public is solicited. Everything has been done to make a first-class place. A complete stock of new goods on hand. Meals at all hours at popular prices will be served com mencing Monday, Aug. 26, 1907. Fall Tailored Suits for Women. The New Model We are showing a combination of superior styles and low pricing such as can be seen in no other store in this city. Smartly made, of high grade materials, every detail showing splendid workmanship—garments that are conspicuous for their perfect taste and attractive newness. At $12.50 Womens' TAILORED SUITS worth $17.50. At $15.00 Womens' TAILORED SUITS worth $20.00. At $22.50 Womens' TAILORED SUITS worth $30.00. Grand Closing Out 200 Summer Dresses. $5 and $6 Tailored Linen Suits $8 and $10 Eton and Prince chap Linen Suits $8 and $10 Embroidered and Lace Trimmed $2,50 Lingerie Dresses..... DOMB BROS. 134 West Washington Street. We want every girl and boy to become agent and reporters for the Indianapolis Freeman. You can make $4 to $5 a week during the months of vacation. 1,500 Men Wanted. THE NEGRO SHOULD LEAVE THE SOUTH. The Negro should leave the South now while he has an opportunity and there is a demand for him in northern cities. East St. Louis, Ill., is a city that has more work than it can find men to do it, and as a natural result wages are the very best for all classes of labor, and colored men of the South who come to East St. Louis are being offered liberal inducemees to buy property on the time payment plan, which is almost likk paying rent, the only difference being that in a short time the property belongs to the man who keeps up his paymen's, but be it remembered that now is not the time to think, but to act, as this notice is paid for by colored people who do so for the sole benefit of the race. They are men that have come to East St. Louis and like it so well, that they desire to let others, who will come, know of its advantages. For further particulars address Pearl Abernathy, 605 Missouri Ayenue East St. Louis, Ill. --- 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. ATTEND THE 12-DAY Co-Operative SALE AT THE Old Granger Store, 336-338 W. Washington St Commencing Aug. 31 To Sept. 14th Free with each $1.00 Purchase One of our Bank Books, making you a full Member to 5 Per Cent Discount on each Cash purchase for one year. EASY IRONING FOR COMFORT CONVENIENCE AND ECONOMY USE THE "VULCAN" IRON HEATER ON YOUR Gas Range. 25 cents THE INDIANAPOLIS Gas Company 45 S. Pennsylvania Street. LEGAL DIVORCE Louise | State of Indiana, Marion Co., ss Lyons | In the vs. | Circuit Court of Marion County, William | In the State of Indiana, Lyons | N. 1000 Complaint Divorce. BE KNOWN, That on the 16th day of August, 1907, the above named plaintiff by her attorneys, filed in the office of the Clerk in the State of Indiana, court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, court of Marion County, in the above named defendant William Lyons and the said plaintiff, having also filed in the same court of Marion County, in the person, showing that said defendant William Lyons, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and said cause is for divorce, and above named defendant is a necessary party to the complaint, having said complaint having by endorsement on said complaint required required descendant to appear in suit and demand derur thereto on the 15th day of October. NOW THEREFORE, by order of said Court said defendant last above named is hereby compelled to give up all complaint against him, and that upon the appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 15th day of Oct., 1907, he is to be sent a term of said Court, to be begin and head at the Court House in the city of I- di-napolis, on the first Monday in October, 1907, sa d complaint and the matters and things therein and determined in his absence. LEONARD M. QUILL. Clerk. JAMES T. V. HILL, Attorney for Plaintiff. 20% North Delaware street. TAYLOR'S HAIR GROWER and Dandruff (pomade 250 at all drug stores and pharmacies). Stimulates hair growth. Dandruff, Sealiness, Dryness and every eruptional scalp affection. Stimulates the hair follicles, thereby causing harsh, short, thin hair to grow long, thick, beautiful, soft, glossy and pliable. Idea hair treatment. In- and pro-vent wonderful in a short time. Agents can make $2 to $5 per day. Write to-day for all of 108 free articles and particulators. AddRESS REMedy Co., Dept. 4, Louisville, KY. THE PARKER HOUSE The Parker House is easily in the lead as a first-class hostelry when visiting Indianapolis ask for it. Prepared to care for the troops, and the individual theatrical people and the traveling public generally in satisfactory manner. Good meals at reasonable prices. First-class sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holliman, Prop., 317 321 W. Michigan street, Phones New 4972: Old 651. Indianapolis. LOTS A Few Choice Lots $110to $125 50 Cents 40x140 feet..... Payments WEEK 50 cents Cash and 50 cents Per Week H. C. TUTTLE & BRO., NO INTEREST. 200 N. DELAWARE STREET BIG FOUR Excursions SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st. $1.25 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. Adults - - - $1.00 Children (Under Fourteen) - - - 500 Tickets on sale at The Freeman Office, Pink's Drug Store and 240 S. Illinois Street Special Train Leaves Union Station at 7:15. Returning Leave Island at 6:40. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital - - - - - $ 500,000.00 Surplus and Profits - $220,000.00 Resources - - - - - $6,400,000.00 OFFICERS: FRANK D. STALNAKER, President. HIRAM W. MOORE, Cashier. ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President. G. F. PATTERSON, Ass't Cashier. Transact a General Banking Business. Your Account Solicited. Courteous Treatment. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. Peninsular Base Burners, SOFT COAL BURNERS, HOT BLASTS Steel Ranges and Cast Cooks; A'so Our Great Renowned Starting in prices from $5.50 Upwards, which gave our customers such universal satisfaction last season, and we feel that we must, this season, supply you with a Stove of some description, as you will need one, so do Not Fail to Come and See Our Line. We are also prepared to show you a full and complete line of Furniture, Carpets, Room-Size Rugs, Linoliums, Cloths, Lace Curtains and Draperies At the Lowest consistent prices with quality We want 500 More New Customers on Our Books, and Want You to be One of Them. So come and let us show you what we can do for you. We Make the Terms to Suit Your Convenience to Pay See Our Premium Offers in East Window. CASH or EASY PAYMENTS. The Famous FURNITURE CO DYE-WORKS|FUNERAL DIRECTOR TRADE MARK REG U.S. PAT OF E GEOE KEITH COMPANY LOTS 50 Cents A WEEK A Few Choice 40x140 feet 50 cents Cash H. C. TUTTLE 200 BIG FOUR SUNDAY, SEE $1.25 TERRE HAUT Special train $1.50 LAWRENCE BUIL Special train The COLORED Will Run and Woodsdale LABOR DAY ROUND T Adults - - - $1.00 Tickets on sale at The Freeman Office, Special Train Leaves Union Station Capital N UNITED STATES Capital Surplus and Pro Resources OFFI FRANK D. STALNAKER, President, HIRAM W. MOORE, Cashler, Transact a General Banking Bu Courteous SAFE DEPOSIT E New Phone 1068. J. A. Munc 448, 450 452, 454 W We are now beginning to Sho STO Consisting of Peninsular B SOFT COAL BURN Steel Ranges a Also Our Gr Famous Soft Starting in prices from $5.50 Upwards, w satisfaction last season, and we feel with a Stove of some descript Not Fail to Come a We are also prepared to show Furniture, Carpets, Room Cloths, Lace Curta At the Lowest consist We want 500 More N Books, and Want You So come and let us show We Make the Terms to Suit See Our Premium O CASH or EASY The Famous FU HARBOURD Indiana's Best and Most Modern Dyeing and Clean- ing Establishment. 218 N. ILLINOIS ST. and 205 INDIANA AVE. Phone-New. 2532; Old main 3888 PRESSING PARLOR. igan a rest, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prices are the same as in all CUT RATE Drug Stores Only registered clerks employed. Sol agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Straightener. The Freeman is on sale at the Crystal Barber Snop, Aibert Guy, proprietor, Toledo, O. Walk=Over and Talk Over the Walk=Over Shoes with the Walk=over Man at HUTCHINSON'S Walk=Over Boot Shop, 28 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST. Price Lots bet..... $110 to $125 Payments fish and 50 cents Per Week SALE & BRO.. NO INTEREST. N. DELAWARE STREET. Excursions APTEMBER 1st. E and RETURN $1.25 leaves 7:40 a.m. RG and AURORA $1.50 leaves 7:00 a.m. Elk Lodge An Excursion to Island, Ohio, AY, SEPT. 2. RIP FARE: Children (Under Fourteen) - 50c Pink's Drug Store and 240 S. Illinois Street at 7:15. Returning Leave Island at 6:30. National Bank DEPOSITORY - $ 500,000.00 Fits - $220,000.00 - - $6,400,000.00 CERS: ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, G. F. PATTerson, Asa't Cashier business. Your Account Sollicited. Treatment. BOXES FOR RENT. FURNITURE CO., One-half Square West of STAR STORE. North Side. Shhof, Prop., W. Washington Street our Full and Complete Line of VES the Renowned Base Burners, MERS, HOT BLASTS and Cast Cooks; Great Renowned Coal Burners. which gave our customers such univers that we must, this season, supply you on, as you will need one, so do and See Our Line. you a full and complete line of Size Rugs, Linoliums, O mains and Draperies ant prices with quality New Customers on Our you to be One of Them, you what we can do for you. At Your Convenience to Pay offers in East Window. PAYMENTS. FURNITURE CO. FUNERAL DIRECTOR A. H. B. G. W. Frierson Co., from Nash- Tenn., have opened Funeral Parls on the south side of Indiana Ave., based California and Wash- Polite attention prompt service. Oc- answered day and on Lady Attendance. now at your service. Prices below competitors. Fifteen years in Nat- ten years in Louisville Ky. Phone 321 The Freeman has a larger direc- tion than any other Negro publ- ished. An ad in The Freeman always brow- results. ---