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THE FREEMAN IS READ BY OVER 100,000 EACH WEEK. ARE YOU ONE OF THE NUMBER? IF NOT SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY AND KEEP POSTED. THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL-STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXI NUMBER 18 WILLIAM BRYAN UPHOLDS CONSTITUTIONSOF SOUTH Promoters of Philadelphia Convention Look Upon Shattered Idol—Washington Star's Sane Comment—General Conference. By the National Negro Press Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29.—William Jennings Bryan, the probable Democratic nominee for president, has opened a newsroom and has "put his foot into it." The Democratic propensity for blundering at the right time is again made manifold, in part because Bryan's presence is a few days ago in New York, in which he undertakes to "square himself" in the South, where he has been losing ground in the Democratic nominations that disfranchise the Negro. Notwithstanding the vociferous demonstration of the handful of subsidized colored men who met a few days ago at Philadelphia University in preference to Secretary Taft, the perilous bidder for Democratic support unobscens himself in this wise when interrogated in New York as to the suf- "The white man in the South," says Mr. Bryan, "has disfrigenced the North in self-protection, and there is not a republic where the same thing under the same circumstances. Those Republicans in the North who dispute this or say that they want to disfrigence the North do not frank with themselves or are assuming what is not true. The white men in the South will not allow a men to use the solid black vote to further their own interests. And that is what is being done." Thus Mr. Bryan, at one fell stroke, delivers every "man of straw" set up in his own state to Philadelphia to offer his camp as a refuge for the disgruntled ones of our race. Out of his own mouth he has enunciated a doctrine which makes it impossible for the probable nominee of the Republicans to rally to the standard of the Democracy. The Washington Star, which is always sound on questions of moment touching the Negro, in answer to Mr. Bryan's plaint about the evil of allowing "a few men to use the solid black vote to influence the probable nominee and political interests," says editorially: "But how about allowing a few white men in the South to use the solid black population to power in National affairs?" And how about power in National affairs? And how about power to help elect Mr. Bryan President of the United States? What sort of a man of the Constitution would that man have to support in a violation of that instrument? In other words, if men are unfit to vote in local matters, should they be made the unwilling basis for the control of National matters? Mr. Bryan's attitude on this question is that of his supporters, and his argument that he is not a country familiar. He does not discuss it from a constitutional standpoint. (Sie.) He cannot do so with good results to his case, and he is not a case against him. His friends concede as much. It was only last week that Mr. Cockran, of New York, in a speech in the House, himed his party associates that in dealing with the constitution they had launched the Constitution." The Star, in this and other editorials, when it plain to Mr. Bryan that he is not candidly with the Negro suffrage problem, probes the tactics of the "artful dodger" when he seeks to shuffle out of the subway to a discussion of the evils of carp-bag rule, which is no longer an issue, when he fares better than the diliterate whites as great a danger as in votes of litterate Negroes. He begs his mission miserably when he concludes with the statement that "the white men of the Negro community that the Negro shall be disfranchised whenever it is necessary to prevent the prevalence of the horrors of carpet-bag rule," which is the truth of the whole matter is that the Negro shall be determined that the Negro shall be misled everywhere his vote is powerlessness of his intelligence, wealth and power, possibly opposed to the participation of black men in the affairs of govern-New York. On this point Mr. Bryan's sympathy is shows that he is in entire support upon his support he must depend for all chance he may have to be elected President of the United States. Now Mr. Bryan is completely eliminated at the ballot box. To use the Republican vote is concerned, it makes no difference that the Republicans may nominate him. To use the forcible veneration of a distressed colored man in Boston, "a yellow dog the Negro tiktot will be able to get more Negro votes than Mr. Bryan." The bulletin given out this week by the Managers shows a substantial gain, and Mr. McCock is more confident than ever that the secretary will be nominated on the first ballot. He will claim an even 300, out of a total of 1,000 candidates elected; 272 of the 32 nominated will be claimed the $3 unstructured, he can count on a majority. The result in Kentucky this week is Taftward, and the delegates accredited to the knowledge Taft as second choice. Some time elapse before the result is definitely known states are rapidly changing their opinion of Secretary Taft, in the light of information that is now coming to them touching his true character and his libido towards the Negro and the dark-skinned man, and his return from Panama he is to make some speeches in the South, and many Negroes who have never come into contact with the Negro's opportunity to study the man at close range, and he made the standard-bearer at Chicago is now a foregone conclusion, and that he be elected, with the Negroes loyalty support, to be the management will Negro voters, of course, desire and will very properly insist upon honorable consideration in matters pertaining to the campaign, but the management will there be no trouble in adjusting various party elements into their most helpful relation to the contest of the year. The Republican convention of the Second congressional district of Georgia last Saturday, at Dawson, elected H. F. Brimberry (white), of Albany, and J. D. Lawson (black), of Dawson, as delegates to the Chicago convention, and endorsement to the Roosevelt administration say the convention was made up principally of Negroes. In the Seventh congressional district of Kings county, New York, elected Mr. Moore, author of the New York Age, has elected alternate delegate by a unanimous vote. In the South, Negroes and whites are being elected rapidly, and a number of conventions may be settled strictly on its merits, and a full hearing given all concerned, Chairman Harry S. New, of the National committee, has issued notice that the committee should prepare to answer a call to Chicago any time after the first of June. An event of more or less political significance was the withdrawal of Gen. Andrew S. Burt and John W. Patterson from the contest for delegates from the District of California to the House of Representatives for Poraker, but as it appeared that the ticket headed by Henry B. Flather and R. R. Horner was likewise for Poraker, harmonic results could best be attained by the candidates for the House of Representatives and Patterson retired. B. L. Gaskins, candidate for alternate on the same ticket, however, was persuaded not to retire, and was appointed to the position of Calvin Chase editor of the Washington Bee, is also offering himself as a candidate, in company with W. S. Odell, white. The result has not yet been announced, and the candidates for the House of Representatives, Horner-Flatter ticket by a goodly majority, which will also mean the election of Sidney Bieber, a white business man, as the District of Columbia's member of the National Association of Businessmen with Horner and Flatter are William Tindall, secretary to the District Commissioners, and Daniel Murray, assistant librarian of Congress. It is exaggerated that the candidates for the position be given, but with the proviso that they support the probable nominee when the Ohio Senator shall give the word. The fate of the soldiers discharged in connection with the Brownville incident still trembles in the balance. Their reinforcement depends upon how the re-enlistment takes the practical view of the situation. Senator Foraker's measure provides for re-enlistment upon making oath that they did not partake of the guilty ones are. Senator Warner's bill allows the President to use his judgment as who should be entrusted with the duty of restoring them. It is double if the soldier passes his session, owing to the unfortunate political coloring that has become attached to his efforts in behalf of the men. The hint is that the President must pass the bill passed by the Senate, the President will probably veto it, regarding a refusal to allow him the desired discretion in the matter of fairness. Unless the advocates of the respective measures effect some compromise within the next few days, there is small probability of getting either the soldier or the Congress. The question is being asked hereabouts. Shall the friends of the soldiers insist that the battalion shall return to the army or be restored, probably fall of relief, or shall they allow the President to act and accept his verdict, through which it is likely that every man can be restored. A friendship to the men that would lead any one to suggest that they be sacrificed entirely if they cannot name the method by which they are to be led to the known race leader to your correspondent; INDIANAPOLIS, IND. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1908. FAIR BANKS LILY-WHITEISM TAFT FORAKER HUGHES BROWN VILLE AFFAIR TARUER REVISION CANNON 3RD TERM LA FOLKET TO CHICAGO CONVENTION FOLYWOOD "I have just returned from a visit to South Africa, and I wanted the President to stand by him to the last difficult can be done by him or any other Republican to obliterate the debt we owe to the part of freedom that liberals must manage, who are animated, Chicago, whether President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, Vice President Falkbanks or Senators who support of the Negroes of the country. Whatever feeling of animosity may have been entertained in connection with the Brownsville incident will pass away." With the approach of the two General Conferences of next month—the A. M. E. at Norfolk and the A. M. E. Zion at Philadelphia—the apprehension which existed between the two countries to transact an immense amount of pressure in both meetings for the good of the church grows less and less. The conferences have bared themselves together. Therefore, the cool heads of the nation have nounced their determination to insist upon a rigid adherence to the business of the churches, and do not intend to permit parochial leaders to be involved in legitimate work before them. If such sagacious leaders as Bishops Grant, Galanes, Clinton, Hood, Lee, Derrick and Harris can be done, there will be no politics played at either Norfolk or Philadelphia, at the expense of the well-being of Bethel or Zion. S. Coleridge-Taylor's masterly composition, *Hawthaw*, was rendered in flawless style in this work by the prolific A. M. E. Church, by the S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society of one hundred and fifty voices, under the direction of the late Michael Mitchell, who shows no signs of deterioration or wearness, and renders the stately music with the lively swing and realization of artistic detail that has characterized all previous works. The music is beautiful, the Mitchell, of Cleveland, a prima donna who has no superior among the race, sang the soprano score, and created a deep impression by the purity of her voice and charm. Her work was also responded to hearty encores, and the ensemble work was especially well received. The accompaniment to the masterly production was intrusted to Miss Mary L. Willett, who is a Baltimore, sang the baritone with remarkable vocal technique, which she carried the difficult music and countless variations marked her as a finished artist. Her work was a distinct feature of the magnificent production. On the second day of her work, she will be tendered a complimentary testimonial by the colored and white citizens of Washington, and on the 21st the Coleridge-Taylor Society will present "The White recital," May 18, introducing Mrs. Portia Washington Potton as a pianist, and blinding farewell to Mr. Clarence Cameron White, who goes for a year's stay in Europe, will mark the close of an unusually brilliant musical season in Washington. Mr. William H. Lewis, Assistant United States District Attorney of Boston, Mass., has been in the city for several days, attaining the status of a district attorney who have charge of naturalization matters. The instructions given by the Attorney General were of the most importance to the subject bearing on the subject throughout the Nation. Mr. Lewis is a man of pleasing personality, and was the object of much attention by the leading people here. He was a guest at the Boston Hotel. Tuskegee Institute was favored this week with a visit to Dr. A. M. Curtis, in chief of the Freedman's Hospital, who came here from Montgomery, where he had been attending the sessions of the Negro Medical, Dental and Pharmacology in-chief of the Freedman's Hospital, came here primarily at Dr. Kenny's invitation to perform a major operation in the hospital upon one call, and to teach the students of the complete success. Dr. Kenny, in the administration of our hospital and nurse training school, has sought from time to time to bring the students of the school geos and physicians of the country to Tuskegee Institute and to have them conduct clinics for the benefit of those who will be in need of medical care. Among these may be mentioned Dr. Daniel H. Williams, who was at one time head of the Freedman's Hospital, and Dr. George C. Hall, who has rapidly come to the front both as a physician being regarded in many quarters as the three leading representatives of the race in the practice of medicine and surgery, and have other notable representatives of our people come to Tuskegee Institute for the purpose of lecturing before the young men attending the hospital and nurses' training school. JACKSONVILLE. ILL Clay Mallory, of Chicago, Ill., who was paralyzed recently, is able to be up.... Mrs. Geneva Woodson Taylor, of South West. Geneva surfing from the hills. Hubert Lytle, of New York, the misfortune recently to injure his eye and head by being hit with a ball accidentally, is getting along nicely.... Mrs. Ovena Hyatt, of Chicago, Ill., is in the city for a night, April 19, Mr. and Mrs. Green and Miss Nellie Early.... Mrs. Carrie Williams, of Chicago, Ill., is in the city for a night, April 19, Mrs. Green and her mother, Mrs. Lydia Bassett, of South West street.... Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weldy left recently for Hannibal, Mo., to visit her mother, Mrs. Lydia Bassett, of South West street.... Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weldy left recently for Hannibal, Mo., to visit her mother, Mrs. Lydia Bassett, of South West street.... Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mitcherson, of Alton, Ill., were visitors in our city Easter.... The dance given Monday night, April 19, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weldy tended and good success.... Mesdames Clara Edwards, Katherine Rhodes and Redding and W. M. Boyd are slowly recovering from their illness.... Mrs. Mamie Weldy, of Chicago, Ill., is in the Goltra avenue.... Mrs. Charles Berry, of North Diamond street, has a very sick child.... Read THE FREEMAN. It is in the company of twenty members.... The Womans Club met recently with Mrs. Postley. KANSAS CITY, MO. The service at Allen Temple was well attended last Sunday, both morning and evening. Rev. Peck, of Los Angeles, Cal., delivered an able sermon in the morning, and Mr. Beardsey, of Chicago, the evening of the 24th Dr. Williams, of Chicago, Ill., lectured at the same church. He gave a grand talk...The Hon. H. M. Beardsey, our pastor, the Rev. Dr. Williams, our April 28, Subject "Character Building" Mr. Beardsey is to be banqueted at the Coats House April 30...Mr. Edward Wilson and Dotson Spivey, of Texas, are in connection with that hotel. Mr. Wilson is on the Frisco road, between here and St. Louis. Mr. Spivey expects to leave for Texas soon with some others...The Mid- THE PRIMARY AT LOUISVILLE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TAFT AND FAIRBANKS FORCES Treats in Musical Line—Red Letter Day at State University—Orphan Boys' Band of Eckstein Give Program at Church. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 28. The topic of the city of Louisville among all classes of people is the result of the primary that Orphan Boys' Band of Eckstein has. The contest was a struggle between the Taft and Fairbanks forces to control the next State Republican convention. Actually, returns Secretary Taft has 114 votes from the Republican candidate has 516, uninstructed 99 and 405 contested. A fierce fight is expected at the State convention as the Fairbanks and Indiana all the uninstructed and contested votes. The city of Louisville went for Taft, under the leadership of Marshall Bullitt, to overwhelmingly done by repeating and frightening the Fairbanks leaders and the press, that a meeting is scheduled to be held soon to denounce the methods of the Taftites. It is clear that the Fairbanks leaders would not let the Fairbanks in the polls and the Fairbanks people had to establish polls at other places after being led by Senator-elect Bradley and the Taft wing by Marshall Bullitt, chairman of the Board of Public Safety. An official organ, takes a strong whack at the conduct of the primary and said "it was a disgrace to the Republicans of the city." To the clever districts Taft appears to have the ability to control the Fairbanks claim they will have a comfortable majority to control the State convention. The correspondent of the Freeman had the pleasure last summer to report many interesting enterprises that had been in existence for a high-class entertainment which there were high-class vocal and instrumental artists. The people of Louisville have given so much encouragement to the high-class entertainment that this city is the center. The coming of Mr. Roy Tibbs, a graduate of Fisk University, and the persistent efforts of Prof. G. M. McChellan to train the musicians in and out of the city, places Louisville among the other cities of this country who are always ready to idealize and worship a trained voice, a harmonious chorus and a symphony orchestra. The musical entertainments have increased and it has reached to Jeffersonville, New Albany and a number of suburbs. The musical entertainments have best talent in the country to the city, much at a sacrifice to the management, but the work has moved on. The first success of the people of the city is the pie of Louisville are becoming more cultured and the music spirit is becoming more cherished. This fina artistic temperament that characterizes other cities dawned on the people here and uplifted the cry now and we will have, on May 7, 8 and 9, one of the best musicals in the South. May 16 the Treble Cef will arrive with the people here and the Esther" opera will be sung by a chorus of 160 voices. Mr. Frank B. Waring, of Chicago, will arrive here soon to assist the promoters with the colored papers and the "Mikado." While The Freeman representative has but the kindest words for all these musicals, yet we would like to see the promoters give the colored papers and the "Mikado." We suggest to the promoters to spend something with the colored newspapers when appropriate money for advertisements will be given to the Delaney, Prent McChellan and Miss Charles, an great success, and will be there possible to give the public, not a criticism, but an account of each performance. IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. BY "DOROTHY" This column is devoted to the interests of all women and their organizations also. Address all communications to Dorothy, The Freeman Indianapolis, Ind. 2 EASY TO DRIFT. Easy to drift to the open sea, Easy to drift to the open sea. The oceans are eager and swift and strong. And whistling and free are the rushing winds vines But, oh, to get back is hard and long! Easy as told in Arabian tale, To free from his jar the evil sprite. Till he rises like smoke to stupidous size. But, oh, nevermore can we prison him tight! Easy as told in an English tale, To fashion a Frankenstein body and soul. And breathe in his bosom a breath of life But, oh, we create what we cannot control! Easy to drift to the sea of doubt, conceal Easy to think that fancy is fate, And, oh, the wisdom that comes too late WOMEN DISCUSS GOSSIP. "Gossip is a rehearsal of opinions or conjectures, wandering from one subject to another in desultory fashion," says Mrs S. F. Nicholas. "You run about and tattle; to tell tales," says Webster. One or the other definition is right; perhaps both are. However, either authority will do when it comes to describing a girl's behavior, or when it comes to "gossips" at the Great Northern Hotel, recently, who got pointers on the so-called feminine accomplishment from Mrs. Nicholas, who filled the role of "gossip-in-chief." And maybe this gray-haired "orator of the day" didn't refute that moss-grown charge that old women and aged cats are always associated in the mind when the subject of gossip is broached! And perhaps the great real-life inference that men are not total strangers. It's a pity the story has to be confined principally to the remarks of Mrs. Nicholas, who reasoned a reason that girls were lost when she the discussion "open." Confusion is one of the terms that might fit the situation. It ran into "the tea" that followed, and gossip was still being gossiped when the meeting was adjourned to reconvene the following All About the Gentle Art. When conversation among those seated about was reduced to the whisper stage, the speaker started to civilize the guest, gave Sosip choice morsels about the police force in days gone by, then said: "The efficiency of the police force now depends upon the water" (strong emphasis) displacement. "Ment gossip just as well as the women," argued Mrs. Nicholas, "although pop speaker specializes with women with the pencil picture during generally makes it elderly women, characterized as idle and malleolous, accompanied by numerous cups of tea and one or more glasses." But gossip is by no means confined within the limits of our atmosphere. Men are just as bad. Men are quite at home with the presidential nomination, about Carnegie's troubles with his money, housecleaning, on the 'back yard beautiful', the suppression of many things which don't concern them. Talks of President Roosevelt. Mrs. Nicholas next "gossiped" about the Panama canal, said she was "surprised at the ignorance of people regarding South America, and discussed Presidency, and she said the fleet around the world, and then mentioned men and roosters, complimenting Mr. Roosevelt in these words: "It reminds me of Josh Billings' saying that the eastern Hemisphere is crow, and second because he has the spurs to back up his crow." Mrs. Nicholas entitled her talk "Gossiped on the eastern Hemisphere and uttered our own property from the time Columbus landed on these shores down to the present day to the gossip and discussion of leading men." The candor of the women in admitting their growing was only equaled by their wisdom in seating about the room. They came as near forming a hollow square as possible, the evident purpose being to prevent blocking a view of the city, and the first time many of these ladies had met since getting their Easter headgear. GERMS HIDE IN STOCKING. first time after it is issued and a new bill presented in its stead. WOMEN DEMAND RELIEF. Mohammedmen women of Orenburg province have sent a petition to the Russian Douma demanding relief from the Russian government of their husbands. The document reads: "Although our holy religion declares us free, some of the ignorant despots, our husbands, are oppressing us and force us to work in the fields of the Arabian countries according to the books of doctrine, women have the right to learn, to travel, to pray in mosques, engage in business, become a businessman in Arabia and countries there have been noted women writers and poetesses. Now our husbands would forbid us even to work in the fields of the Arabian countries we Mohammedmen women. Allah be praised, now begin to receive education and to understand our holy chariot (book of doctrine), which did not deprive the women of Mohammedmen deputies, you are obliged to demand all rights for Mohammedmen women. You must carry through legislation that will help you, and the necessity of these despot husbands, against oppression and torture. We, mothers of the people, have in our hands the education and progress of the people, and if our husbands do not want them will when the men, too, will become slaves, and then the whole Mohammedmen world will perish." No action has been taken on the petition. THE YARD BEAUTIFUL. A few hours put in each day on the yard will soon develop it into a flower paradise. Seeds can be purchased for a small amount, and with a little care and attention they will be maintained. Put in a few flower beds this season and see how you will like it. ARTIFICIAL LIMB FUND FINISHED THE FREEMAN has succeeded in raising the fund and has purchased the ljm for some of the children, and parents, are happy. The little girl is walking on it very nicely. The amount over has been placed for her benefit, when she is 18 years old. On some line by which she can earn living. The persons who contributed have done a commendable act, which will be remembered by all parties concerned in this work. The words, "Make some other heart rejoice." HER MODEL HUSBAND IDEAS. Qualifications for an ideal husband, according to a Chicago girl: He must be a good meal ticket provider. He must not stay out too many nights in the week, but he would not be forced to tell where he has been. He must be old enough to know what life is. He can't learn this too young. He must be a teacher. He will attract dogs and babies. Beauty is no object. He must be an American, and gentleman. Foreign noblemen and Americans of the Thaw class need not apply. He must be a lawyer. La Salle street, Chicago, won the first prize from an Omaha (Neb.) newspaper, when she sent the above in answer to the query, "What kind of man would you propose to a Dahlman, of Omaha, as a model, but declares it is not the "cowboy" mayor she wants, for he has been married several years. As Bascom, who is a blonde, and admits she is past eighteen, said: "Man and wife should live together and each keep in their own sphere. If a man tried to tell me what to do and it was none of my business, I would hit the head with a skillet. And he could hit me, tooo, if I mixed up in his business." HEALTH, BEAUTY AND COMFORT Three or four raw carrots eaten each day for several months will bring good health, and three or four carrots eaten each day complexion. An orange eaten every morning at breakfast will also help the beauty work along. It is very important to observe the proper position in walking and standing, not only from the standpoint of health, but of grace as well. You should walk with grace as well of your body shown on the bells of your feet, the chest thrown out to give the lungs full play, and the abdomen drawn in. This will give the perfect carriage. There is nothing more needful than the daily bath. Good hot water, soap and water, and a warm weather approach purities. As the warm weather approaches it is necessary, that closer attention is needed to allow the body to come in contact with bad odors, and it is the result of downright laziness, water is free and soap cheap (and even if you are not in good health, if persons are unable to buy), Children should be taught how necessary the bath is to their own health and comfort, and to others also. Let cleanliness be your relief. FOR ODOROUS PERSPIRATION Make a powder of one-half ounce of oleate of zinc, one ounce of powdered starch and one serule of salicylic acid. Mix thoroughly. Buy some salicylic soap to wipe over the pores and to be effected. Dry and wipe over with toilet vinegar. The vinegar helps to contract the pores, preventing perspiration. After wiping with vinegar, dust on powder. Put fresh in a dish as often as possible and put fresh in less as often every day, washed with the salicylic soap. ONE-SIDED WOMEN. Sooner or later, the dressmaker tells each woman of us the sad, inevitable truth that she has to cut our skirts longer than they are in an inch or so higher that the left shoulder is an inch or so higher than the right, or vice versa. It is a trying moment. We are never afraid of it, but only thing to do is to receive the information with courage and lean determinedly to the other side. There is no dressmaker to point out to us, but the kindred sagging of our minds as we grow older. The woman who is not one-sided in her mind at 40 is far rarer than she is of the perfect figure. She is not the kindred household affairs, or dress, or club life, or suitable work, or bridge, or matries, or saving money, or extravagance, or bookishness, or gossip, or women's rights, in a well-rounded mind. The practical certainty of being somewhat one-sided may be conceded, perhaps; yet the fact that she recognizes her special leaning may be her mother's saving grace, says Harper's Bazar. ENGLISH DIVORCES EASY. To make divorce easier in England is the object of a bill to be introduced in parliament by Boris Boltz, well-known lawyer overseeing divorce. Divorce are granted under the existing law on limited grounds, and there is a movement in favor of making a divorce legal on the ground of the insanity or criminality. There are 70,000 married people in that THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. country who are incurably insane, and the proposed new law would release the unfortunate husbands and wives who are tied for life to hopeless lunatics. HER FACE ON THE DOLLAR. Destitute and eighty years old, Mrs. Caroline Williams, whose face, if her story is true, appears on all of Uclean Sam's silver dollars, has been taken to the Broome county almshouse, at Binghamton, N. N., says she not only has received a covenant for her portrait in silver, but that she even has been robbed of the honor due her. A NEW CARRIE NATION. A Sunday coling crusade has been inaugurated at Leadville by the arrest of six saloon keepers for alleged violations of the Sunday law. The evidence was secured by Mrs. Eunice Ovens, who, accompanied by an assailant, an escort of saloon saloons. The section of Mrs. Ovens is believed to be a part of the program of the W. C. T. U. WOMEN WATCHED THE SALOONS. The city election at Paris, Ill., Wednesday of last week, resulted in the choice of 120 men, the political complexion of the new Council being ten to two Republican. As in the recent election, in order to win at the polls in large numbers watching the saloons and seeking to prevent vote-buying, their efforts in both participation extended with a large number of success. WOMEN WANT FEMALE POLICE. Appointment of women policemen is advocated by the Women's Democratic Club of New York, who, at their monthly March meeting, in the Hoffman House, followed with the reading of a poem, the subject by Miss Hattie Miller, and enthusiastically indored her views. The women guardians of the peace which the club would like to see appointed will not only be expected to watch over children and arbitrate their disputes, but must also look out for the protection of those of their sex in the streets of the city. Germany sends 29,000,000 feathers a year to England for millinery purposes. Among flowers the chrysanthemum is said to live the longest after being cut. Every father of seven or more children is practically exempt from taxation in France. There are 17,000,000 children in Russia between the ages of six and fourteen receiving absolutely no education. Many housekeepers are paying from 15 to 30 cents a pound for paper, paper, pasteboard, tin and cloak and throw away, but it is all to the advantage of the man who sold them the goods and counted the wrappers in the weight which the purchasers paid for. The club women of Boston are proclaiming the fact that women are no more members of the club than section they call attention to the recent meeting of the Republican State convention of Tennessee, when members engaged in a memorial wielding a hatchet; the meeting of the Boston Common Council, when the members indulged in a wild uprora, bitter vulturement, nisses and cateals, the members not only scratched each other's faces, but pulled out handfels of hair. The pretty Kentish village of Fordwych, near Canterbury, is in danger of losing its duckling stock, for which a large number of the town's treasured millionaire. This is one of the very few remaining examples left in England of the instrument formerly designed for the manufacture of satisfactory wives. This distinction, of course, is shared with the now similarly rare scold's bridle. It is said, by the author, that the instrument was even used in the punishment of so-called witches, after the barbarous fashion of those times.—Westminster Gazette. The women of Concord, N. H., are struggling to have the word male omitted from the new city charter that Mayor Charles R. Corning has made. It is asserted that the present charter of Concord is one of the most antiquated in America. It is a copy of Boston's original charter, designed to the chief of police, assigning him all sorts of puritanical duties. Witches are also practiced and tradedmen against selling rum to Indians. The women now say that to prohibit them from voting at this advanced state of the world is just an annoyance, as the provisions relating to witches. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN The capital of Illinois is busy, progressive, and in a continuous growth... all churches, and from all the churches, and from early dawn until the wee small hours the甘肅-gastumed occasion the dayaster an ideal one, the most pleasant Baster had here in many a day. Never before in Springfield's history has so pleasant a day been varied and beautiful have the people shone, in garments gorgous and beautiful "umbrella hats," called ...Politics is warming up again. Yates and Deneen, Republican candidates for Governor, have gone after each other in the last few years, since seen since the days of Lincoln and Douglas, over fifty years ago, when the one stood for annihilation of slavery, the other granting State's rights as not within the power of the federal fight to interfere. This material fight has been called the trials has ever seen. Many other important officers are to be elected, which will create much fury. The Secretary of State for one. In this county there will be a judge, the State's Attorney, County Coroner, and no doubt for Recorder and Circuit Clerk. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Jacob Henderson, the head waiter of the Wilson Hotel, was successful in getting the colored boys back in the hotel...Easter exercises were held in both churches and splendid programs were rendered...The K. of P.s here more than regret the death of their supreme chancellor, S. W. Starks...The Freeman can always be found at the O. K. Barber Shop, E. M. Johnson, proprietor. ```markdown ``` The Magic Shampoo Hair Drier. CANCER CURED WITH SOOTHING BALMY OILS Cancer, Tumor, Piles, Fistula, Eczema, and all skin diseases. Cancer of the nose, eye, lip, ear, neck, breast, stomach-injured or cured without knife or burning plasters, but with soothing oils. DR. BENJ. F. BYE INDIANAPOLIS, IND. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING A delightfully perfumed Hair Pomade prepared especially for Colored People. 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I will care himself at home quietly and I just drop me a line like this: Mr. A. Bollinson. 3831 Lucas, CA. I will send you a copy of this splendid envelope, free plain, ordinary sealed envelope, free Jewel Tires $2.50 to $3.00. Bicycle Repairing. Base Ball Headquarters. Geo C Detch Wheel Co ATHLETIC GOODS The Fighting Chance. By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. Copyright, 1908, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1908, by Robert W. Chambers. [CONTINUED.] So he brought his letter to a close with a tender and uneasy inquiry concerning her health, which, she had intimated, was not exactly satisfactory, and for that reason she had opened the house in town in order to be near Dr. Grisby, their family doctor. Sealing and directing the letter, he looked up to see Sylvia standing at his elbow. She dropped a light hand on his shoulder for a second, barely touching him a fugitive caress, delicate as the smile hovering on her lips, as the shy tenderness in her eyes. "More letters to your sweetheart?" she asked, abandoning her hand to him. "One more, the last before I see her. I wish you could see her, Sylvia." I wish you could see her, Sylvia." "I wish so, too," she answered simply, seating herself on the arm of his chair as though it were a sidesaddle. "Would she care for me, do you think?" asked the girl in a low voice. "I think so, for your real self." "I know. She could only feel contempt for me as I am." "She is old fashioned," he said revenerly. "That means all that is best in a woman—the old fashion of truth and faith, the old fashion of honor and faith in honor, the old, old fashion of love. All that is best, Stephen; all that is worth the love of a man. Some day somebody will revive those fashions." "Will you?" "Dear, they would not become me," she said, the tenderness in her eyes deepening a little, and she touched his head lightly in humorous caress. "What shall we do with the waning daylight?" she asked. "It is my last day with you. I told Howard it was my last day with you and I did not care to be disturbed." "You probably didn't say it that way," he commented, amused. "I did." "How much of that sort of thing is he prepared to stand?" asked Siward curiously. "How much? I don't know. I don't believe he cares. It is my uncle, Major Belwether, who is making things unpleasant for me. I had to tell Howard, you know." "What! exclaimed Siward incredulously. "Certainly. Do you think my conduct has passed without protest?" "You told Quarrier!" he repeated. "Did you imagine I could do otherwise?" she asked coolly. "I have that much decency left. Certainly I told him. Do you suppose that after what we did, what I admitted to you, that I could meet him as usual? Do you think I am afraid of him?" "I thought you were afraid of losing him." muttered Siward. I was dreadfully. And the morning after you and I had been imprudent enough to sit up until nearly daylight and do what we did I made him take a long walk with me, and I told him plainly that I cared for you, that I was too selfish and cowardly to marry you, and that if he couldn't endure the news he was at liberty to terminate the engagement without notice." "What did he say?" stammered Siward. "I was informed that he held me strictly and precisely to my promise; that he would never release me voluntarily, though I was, of course, at liberty to do what I chose. My poor friend, he cares no more for love than do I! I happen to be the one woman in New York whom he considers absolutely suitable for him—by race, by breeding, by virtue of appearance and presence eminently fitted to complete the material portion of his fortune and estate." Her voice had hardened as she spoke. Now it rang a little at the end, and she laughed unpleasantly. "It appears that I was a little truer to myself than you gave me credit for—a little truer to you, a little less treacherous, less shameless, than you must have thought me. But I have gone to my limit of decency, and were I ten times more in love with you than I am I could not put away the position and power offered me, but I will not lie for it nor betray for it." She dropped one arm on the back of his chair and rested her chin on it, staring at space across his shoulders. "That's how it had to be, you see, when I found that I cared for you. There was nothing to do but to tell him. He trusts me enough to marry me. He will be safe enough as far as my personal conduct is concerned," she added nivalley. "It seems that I am capable of love, but I am incapable of its degradation." Siward, leaning heavily forward over his desk, rested his head in both hands, and she stooped from her perch on the arm of the chair, pressing her hot cheeks against his hands—a moment only; then, slipping to her feet, she curled up in a great armchair by the fire, head tipped back, blue gaze concentrated on him. "The thing for you to do," she said, "is to ambush me some night and throw me into a hansom and drive us both to the parson's. I'd hate you for it as much as I'd love you, but I'd make you an interesting wife." "I may do that yet," he said, lifting his head from his hands. "You've a year to do it in," she observed. "By the way, you're to take me in to dinner, as you did the first night. Do you remember? I asked Grace Ferrall then. I asked her again today. Heigho! It was years ago, wasn't it, that I drove up to the station and saw a very attractive and perplexed young man looking anxiously about somebody to take him to Shotover? Ahem! The notorious Mr. Slward! Dear, I didn't mean to hurt you! You know it, silly! Mayn't I have my little joke about your badness—your redoubtable badness of reputation? There! You had just better smile. How dare you frighten me by making me think I had hurt you? Besides, you are probably unrepentant." She watched him closely for a moment or two, then, "Are you unrepentant?" "About what?" "About your general wickedness—about"—she hesitated—"about that girl, for example." "What girl?" he asked coldly. "That reminds me that you have told me absolutely nothing about her." Bayer Lord Alderdene. "There is nothing to tell," he said in a tone so utterly new to her in its finality that she sat up as though listening to an unknown voice. Tone and words so completely excluded her from the new intimacy into which she had imperceptibly drifted that both suddenly developed a significance from sheer contrast. Who was the girl, then, of whom he had absolutely nothing to say? What was she to him? What could she be to him—an actress, a woman of common antecedents? She felt a little irritated, a little humiliated, a little hurt, and took refuge in a silence that he did not offer to break. Early twilight had fallen in the room. The firelight grew redder. "Sylvia," he said abruptly, reverting to the old, light tone hinting of the laughter in his eyes which she could no longer see, "suppose, as you suggested, I did ambush you—say after the opera—selze you under the very nose of your escort and make madly for a hansom?" "I know of no other way," she said demurely. "Would you resist physically?" "Would you resist physically?" "Yes, I would. If I were going to surrender at once I might as well go off to church with you now." "Wenniston church!" he said promptly. "I'll order the motor." She laughed, lazily settling herself more snugly by the fire. "Suppose it were our fire?" she smiled. "There would be a dog lying across that rug, and a comfortable Angora tabby dozing by the fender, and—you, cross-legged, at my feet, with that fascinating head of yours tipped back against my knees." The laughter in her voice died out, and he had risen, saying unsteadily: "Don't! I-I can't stand that sort of thing you know." She had made a mistake too. She THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. also had suddenly 'become aware of her own limits in the same direction. "Forgive me, dear! I meant no mockery." "I know. After awhile a man finds laughter difficult." "I was not laughing at—anything. I was only pretending to be happy." "Your happiness is before you," he said sullenly. "My future, you mean. You know I am exchanging one for the other. And some day you will awake to the infamy of it. You will comprehend the deprivacy of the monstrous trade I made. And then—and then"—she passed one slim hand over her face—"then you will shake yourself free from this dream of me; then, awake, my punishment at your hands will begin. Dear, no man in his right senses can continue to love a girl such as I am." After a long silence, "Do you think before the year is out that you might be granted enough courage," he asked. "No. I shall not even pray for it. I want what is offered me. He might have stopped me. He did not. And now what is there on earth to halt me? Love cannot. Common decency and courage cannot. Fear of your unhappiness and mine cannot. No, even the certitude of your contempt some day is powerless to halt me now. I could not love—I am utterly incapable of loving—you enough to balance the sacrifice. And that is final." Grace Ferrall came into the room and found a duel of silence in progress under the dull fire glow tinting the ceiling. "Another quarrel," she commented, turning on the current of the drop light above the desk from which Siward had risen at her entrance. "You quarrel enough to marry. Why don't you?" "I wish we could," said Sylvia simply. Grace laughed. "What a little fool you are!" she said tenderly, seating herself in Siward's chair and dropping one hand over his where it rested on the arm. "Stephen, can't you make her—a big, strong fellow like you? Oh, well; on your heads be it! My conscience is now clear for the first time, and I'll never meddle again." She gave Siward's hand a perfunctory pat and released him with a discreetly stifled yawn. "I'm disgracefully sleepy. The wind blew like fury along the coast. Sylvia, have you had a good time at Shotover—the time of your life?" Sylvia raised her eyes and encountered Siward's. "I certainly have," she said faintly. The dinner was very gay. The ceremony of christening the Shotover cup, which Quarrier had won, proceeded with presentation speech and a speech of acceptance faultlessly commonplace, during which Quarrier wore his smile—which was the only humorous thing he contributed. The cup was full. Siward eyed it, perplexed, deadly afraid, yet seeing no avenue of escape from what must appear a public exhibition of contempt for Quarrier if he refused to taste its contents. That meant a bad night for him. Yet he shrank more from the certain misinterpretation of a refusal to drink from the huge loving cup, with its heavy wreath of scented orchids, now already on its way toward him, than he feared the waking struggle so sure to follow. Marlon received the cup, lifted it in both hands and said distinctly, "Good hunting!" as she drank to Quarrier. Her brother Gordon took it and drank entirely too much. Then Sylvia lifted it, her white hands half buried among the orchids. "To you!" she murmured for Siward's ear alone, then drank gayly, mischievously, "To the best shot at Shotover!" And Siward took the cup. "I salute victory," he said, smiling, "always and everywhere. To him who takes the fighting chance and wins out! To the best man! Health!" And he drank as a gentleman drinks, with a gay bow to Quarrier and with death in his heart. Later the irony of it struck him so grimly that he laughed, and Sylvia, beside him, looked up, dismayed to see the gray change in his face. Later at cards the aromatic odor of Alderdene's decanter roused him to fierce desire, but he fought it down until only the deadened, tearing ache remained to shake and loosen every nerve. And when Ferrall, finishing his usual batch of business letters, arrived to cut in if needed Siward dropped his cards, with a shudder, and rose so utterly unnerved that Captain Voucher, noticing his drawn face, asked him if he were not ill. He was leaving on an earlier train than the others, having decided to pass through Boston and Deptford, at which latter place he meant to leave Sagmore for the winter in care of the manager of his mother's farm, so he took a quiet leave of those to whom the civility might not prove an interruption. In the big hall he passed Marion and stopped to take his leave. No, he would do no hunting this season either at Carysford or with the two trial packs at Eastwood. Possibly at Warrenton later, but probably not. Business threatened to detain him in town more or less. And that was all, unless he disturbed Sylvia, seated at cards with Quarrier and Major Belwether and Lella Mortimer and very intent on the dummy, very still and a trifle pallid with the pallor of concentration. So that was all, then. Ascending the stairs, a servant handed him a letter bearing the crest of the Lenox club. He pocketed it unopened and continued his way. In the darkness of his own room he sat down, the devil's own clutch on his shrinking nerves, a deathly desire tearing at his very vitals and every vein a tiny trail of fire run riot. He had been too long without it too long to endure the craving aroused by that gay draft from Quarrier's loving cup. The awakened fury of his desire appalled him, and for awhile that occupied him, enabling him to endure. But fear and dismay soon passed in the purely physical distress. He walked the floor, haggard, the sweat starting on his face; he lay with clinched hands stiffened out across the bed, deafened by the riotous clamor of his pulses, conscious that he wds holding out, unconscious how long he could hold out. He turned on the light later to look for his pipe, and he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. It was a sick man who stared back at him out of hollow eyes, and the physical revulsion shocked him into something resembling self command. "D—n you!" he said fiercely, setting his teeth and staring back at his reflected face. "I'll kill you yet before I've finished with you!" Then he filled his pipe and, opening his bedroom window, sat down, resting his arm on the sill. A splendid moon silvered the sea. Through the intense stillness he heard the surf, magnificently dissonant among the reefs, and he listened, fascinated, loathing the tides as he feared and loathed the inexorable tides that surged and ebbed with his accursed desire. Once he said to himself weakly, for he was deadly tired, "What am I making the fight for anyway?" And, "Who are you making the fight for?" echoed his heavy pulses. He had asked that question and received that answer before. After all, it had been for his mother's sake alone. And now—and now? His heart beat out another answer, and before his eyes two other eyes seemed to open, fearlessly, sweetly, divinely tender. But they were no longer his mother's grave gray eyes. After the second pipe he remembered his letter. It gave him something to do, so he opened it and tried to read it, but for a long while, in his confused physical and mental tender. but they were no longer his mother's grave gray eyes. After the second pipe he remembered his letter. It gave him something to do, so he opened it and tried to read it, but for a long while, in his confused physical and mental condition, he could make no sense of it. Little by little he began to comprehend its purport. Little by little he began to comprehend its purport—that his resignation was regretfully requested by the governors of the Lenox club for reasons unassigned. (Continued next week.) SENATOR-ELECT BRADLEY, OF KENTUCKY, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS. Senator-elect W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, is in evidence on the presidential situation. In his recent speech at Bowling Green he insisted that the Negroes must be considered. Says he: "Some say glibly, 'Damn the Negro, but regardless of that he is the balance of power in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey and New York." The Senator is aware of the remarkable opposition on the part of the Negroes generally against Mr. Taft, consequently advises his party against committing the serious blunder of forcing him over the vigorous protest. He referred to Vice-President Fairbanks as one in every way worthy of the great honor; a man who will be acceptable, and who will create no chism or dissension in the event of his nomination. The Senator thought that Mr. Taft would also have trouble in reconciling the labor vote. With these forces against the Secretary, he was not sanguine of his election if nominated at Chicago. He greatly admires the Vice-President, to whom he referred as great in the qualities that make men, that make statesmen. He admired him for the struggle of his youthful days and for the victory that is now his. Mr. Bradley salu that Kentucky appreciated him for services rendered; it stands committed to him, and that it would prove an ingrate if it were otherwise. A BAD PREDICTION. Mr. Walter S. Thomas, of the Ohio Afro-American League, is being extensively quoted in these days. Mr. Thomas has headquarters at Columbus, thus halling from Mr. Taft's State and culminating from the very capital, his "stuff" gets a go that would not be accorded otherwise. We are not especially in the salvation business as it pertains to Mr. Taft; the race needs salvation in the instance. However, when Mr. Thomas says that 95 per cent of the Negroes will cast their votes for any other candidate other than Mr. Taft in event of his nomination, we are unwilling that the statement go broadcast unchallenged. Here is plainly a case where conservation of race is required. A defection and a deflection of 95 per cent of the Negro voters, owing to a question that is mooted and doubtful, argues against political sanity. That the situation entertains an element of danger will be admitted, but colored men will think very long before they choose to indorse the perpetuated wrongs inflicted by the Southern wing of the Democratic party. We will not play the Samson act if we are wise. If we seek to take advantage of the party at this day when it has no time to become angry, however great the occasion, we need not be surprised if we pay the price in the end. Already the "war" has been carried too far, and it stands to reason that if carried much farther it will not mean much good for any man the Republicans may select. We contend for honorable opposition sufficiently based and respectfully followed up, having for purpose the good, the greatest good rather than a species of vengeance that is being exhibited from time to time. While we feel that the candidate of our own State will give the greater satisfaction to the race, yet we are not with those who see nothing short of destruction in Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt. Indeed, either of them are on record for doing good for the race, and which at least should be set down to their credit. TIMELY ADVICE. The American Baptist, of Louisville, KY, is noted for its sound advice. Lately it has had occasion to say, among other pleasing references to Vice President Fairbanks, that "There is no doubt in the minds of even a casual observer that Fairbanks is the choice of a great majority of the colored voters and no candidate likely to be nominated by the Republicans will receive a more cordial support from that class of voters, indeed, there will be no defections if he is nominated." This sage-like editor tenders other advice along political lines that is very opportune at this time. Speaking of the very unpleasant muddle growing out of the Brownville affair that journal says: "Independence and courage are commendable qualities in men in every walk of life, but those race leaders who claim to be Republicans who declare before the nomination that they will not support this or that candidate if he is nominated, weaken their course in the interest of any candidate. They have a right to their convictions and preferences just as other Republicans have, but they have no more right to dictate the nomination of any candidate than those who differ with them and they are under as much obligations to support the nominee as are other Republicans if they make the contest in the party conventions, if they lose or win. This is the only reasonable way, otherwise their wishes and preferences are not entitled to the serious consideration at the hands of the party or the party conventions which they would otherwise receive. We share in the opinion so generally expressed among our people that it would be unwise to nominate Mr. Taft, but we are not prepared to join with Vardamon, Tillman, Hefflin and other pronounced enemies of the race to support Bryan or any other Democrat nominee for the Presidency in preference to the nominee of the Republican party." As we see it, there is no other course to advocate. According to parliamentary usage, men are governed by the compacts of bodies they enter and become a part of. Some such notion more than likely will prevail. We are also of the opinion that there is some danger in nominating Mr. Taft; not all as serious as it is pretended by the politicians who hoped to beat him, but serious enough. REPUBLICANS MEAN BUSINESS. The plank in the Ohio platform protesting against the districhasing laws of the South, and suggesting a reduction of representation in States where the suffrage is restricted, has drawn blood, and the rapists of the ballotbox are being made to realize that their shameless violations of the federal constitution must be stopped. The retreatment of the Ohio declaration by Rhode Island and Illinois is a guarantee that the Republicans of the North are in earnest at last on this question, and do not purpose to longer endure the inequalities forced upon them by the rotten boroughs of the Southland. If Ohio, Illinois and Rhode Island are compelled to obey the law, and bring forward thousands of bona fide voters in order to maintain their representation, they are determined the South must do the same. It is manifestly unfair to allow John Sharp Williams to be elected to Congress from a district giving a bare total of 1,500 votes, when any Northern Congressman's constituency runs into the hundreds of thousands. Northern Republicans have some rights which Southern Democrats are bound to respect, and Ohio rendered the nation a distinct service when she placed this significant plank in her State platform at the suggestion of Secretary Taft, President Roosevelt and certain colored friends of fair play and good government. MME. L. C. PARRISH HAIR CULTURIST 95 Camden Street. Boston Mary E. The largest manufacturer of Hair preparation motion. Dealer in Pure Human Hair Goods. Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food is absolutely one of the best preparations on the market. It stops the hair from falling out or breaking off. It beautifies and enriches it, and makes it grow. Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Agents wanted. Write for terms. MME. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. 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There is such a thing as asking big in order to get anything at all. The rain it falls upon the just, And, too, upon the unjust fellows; But more upon the just, because The unjust have the just's umbrellas. —Judge. The temperance wave has struck the New England States, and hundreds of saloons are quitting the business. Evidently we are in the "millenium dawn." A beauty contest was recently pulled off in the city of Chicago. There are some splendid looking colored women in the Windy City or else they have the photographer's calling down very fine. Vice-President Fairbanks is the only "favorite son" who has captured the entire delegation of his own State. It is held to be quite a point, and which should weight with the delegates. The Bishops have never declared themselves on that Washington meeting. It has been ascertained, however, from other sources that the resolutions were framed up in an ad-journed meeting. Mr. Bryan may not receive the votes of New York at the Denver Convention, but what difference does it make? He has a "skinch." and the little opposition will only add to the "gaiety of the nations." By the way, haven't heard much of the greatest fine on record, $29,000,-000. It is doubtful if the court and the rest of them could keep serious faces while discussing the unthinkable sum. Editor Mitchell, of the Richmond Planet, recently visited Senator Foraker's home in Washington, D. C. He expresses himself as delighted with what he saw there. The Senator was very busy, but not too busy to see Editor Mitchell. But the consent of Governor Hanley the State offices will close the afternoon of May 23. That date has been set for a game of baseball between the Commercial Club and the Board of Trade baseball teams. The proceeds will be used for charitable purposes. Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, will not be disappointed if he is not chosen as the candidate for the presidency on the Democratic ticket. Well, no. Mr. Johnson looks like a good Democratic proposition, but most people don't see it that way. The Sumner League minstrel was a big winner. A great, big, enthusiastic audience greeted the players. The event was long expected and really has become a society feature. The performance was strictly up-to-date. The audience was brilliant in point of gowning and costumes. A large sum was realized. Raisuil, the notorious Moroccan bandit, according to report has been slain. The doughty old outlaw made good while he was in the flesh—made a name for himself. He drove some good bargains; but evidently he was too dangerous to be at large. His capture or death through violence were only a question of time. The good bandit is a dead bandit in the eyes of civilization. There are a number of "merry" widows in Indiana since Congress decided to increase the pension of war widows. Minors and orphan children are included, all of whom receiving less than $12 per month will be increased to that amount. The Government will not require the long drawn out process known to pension seekers; they will be paid on the receipt of properly executed pension vouchers. A Norwegian has invented a mechanical device for sorting small coins. You pour the money into the mouth of a chute and the instrument does the rest. It's a good thing for those engaged in large financial concerns, shows and such like, where money of small denominations come thick and fast. Most of the rest of us will take pleasure in sorting out the nickels and dimes in the same old way. The Banco Espanolo Filipino has been looted to the tune of $60,000 by employees and outside accomplices. The method, if the plan equaled a method, was to have the outsiders present checks; these were honored by the clerks, when the individuals had no accounts, the clerks altering the books to conceal the fraud. The operation, it is said, extended over years. It was very crude "business," but perhaps very well for Filipinos who have a great deal to learn. "Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray," —Goldsmith Richmond Planet has the above anent Foraker's speech last week in the Senate. It does not apply close up. No one has for a moment suspected the Senator of being anything else than sound. He is generally spoken of as brilliant. Perhaps no man in public life more fits the term brilliant than the Ohio Senator. The Mayor has promptly stepped in and stopped the commission of $2 per on the pretense of finding the Hunyaks employment. It appears that the city contemplates a movement through which the foreigners may be employed. Some "officious" busybodies accordingly hatched a game to do some skirting. Mr. Bookwalter wants it understood that there's no takeoff to it, going so far as to say that the man will not be employed that pays some other man for getting him a job. Guess there'll be no doubt about understanding that. As long as nations put their trust in war for peace and security, such things as battleships will be expected as consistent with the nation. Mr. Roosevelt seems of the opinion that since fighting is yet a part of civilization, and as long as preparation for fighting is the boast of nations, that America should be among the first in the business. It is a lamentable fact that the pride of the greatest nations is their armies, their navies. It's the ruling patriotic passion, and our country sees as much glory in war as the most barbarous nations. The world is yet one on the fighting proposition. He is a colossus, with the neck and shoulders of Atlas. Struggles and difficulties are a joy to him. He is a demonstrative and cordial giant in whom intellectual life flourishes side by side with a powerful physical life. When he speaks, all his features are filled with animation, his eyes gleam with a glad luster behind his binocle, and the swelling veins of his forehead indicate the intense activity of his mind. One feels that all sorts of activity, study, the cares of government, sports, political combat, are necessary to an organism which is that of an athlete."—A French writer's view of President Roosevelt The recent stand taken by the M. E. church greatly reduces the chances of Dr. M. C. B. Mason for the seat of Bishops. His many admirers have felt that the "mantle" would next fall on the eminent churchman and pulpit expounder. Dr. Mason, however, is of great understanding, broad culture and of course is aware of the delicate question involved, and which is the same one of race, becoming delicate because it enters the church. Could Dr. Mason consistently ask a diocese of Negroes only? Could he expect to otherwise preside? The church has wisely permitted him the choice of winning in the general field as others do, thus putting the responsibility of whatever follows on the general church. Dr. M. A. Majors, of Chicago, but formerly of Texas, has succeeded Editor Max Barber, of the Chicago Conservator. Mr. Barber, it will be remembered, is the patriot who was forced to leave Atlanta at the time of the riot there some time ago. He did not prove to be breezy enough for the "Windy City," hence he has skid-dooed. Dr. Majors has been a newspaper writer for a quarter of a century, and with him on the job the Conservator may be expected to occupy a seat away up about the head of the table. The Freeman congratulates Dr. Majors, also the Conservator. The doctor is well known to The Freeman readers, having contributed for quite a while to its columns. He is able and versatile and delights in the "trade." He is also thoughtful and in earnest—excellent qualities for the important position he assumes. During the past year 71,000 people went to the Isthmus and 44,000 left it, which gave an increase in population of 27,000. The total population of the Canal Zone last year was 102,000, and during the year there was an average of 39,343 employed on the canal in one capacity or another. Of these employees, 10,709 were whites and 28,634 were Negroes. Among the white employees the death rate was 16.71 per thousand, as against a rate in 1906 of 16.27 per thousand. Among the Negroes the death rate was 33.28 per thousand, as against 49.01 per thousand in 1906. The death rate among the whole number of employees, irrespective of color, was 28.77 per thousand in 1907, as against 41.24 per thousand in 1906; that is to say, the improved health conditions last year over those of 1906 resulted in the saving of the lives of 507 men of the laboring force. A similar improvement has occurred in the health of the total population, both employees and non-employees. In 1906 the death rate was 49.10 per thousand, and this was reduced last year to 33.63 per thousand, which represents the saving of 1,632 lives in a total population of 102,000. Now that the Y. M. C. A. by the white people is well under way, it ought to prove) an incentive for the colored people of this city. There is great demand for a well-equipped building. The streets are filled with young colored men, who are as homeless, in the better sense, as Nomads. The present building does not afford strong enough attractions. It is all right enough to talk about content under the present circumstances, but THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER FAIRBANK'S SOAP LEADERS GOLD DUST GOLD DUST IMMITATIONS GOLD DUST FAIRY SUNNY MONDAY THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Makers, Chicago. human nature is about the same the world over. Young colored men are not easily pleased, a thing quite natural since their daily work throws them among the belongings of the well-to-do and the rich. They are unconsciously influenced by them. It stands to reason that the Y. M. C. A. people will have to deal with these young men as they find them. Their homes are practically among the rich; the Y. M. C. A. that succeeds in alluring them must have the comforts of easy life in order to prove more inducing than the places visited generally. With baths and other modern improvements, the Y. M. C. A. will win from the streets and other loitering places. The A. M. E. Church thinks seriously of creating a new office. The growing need of architectural supervision is seen by those who have the management in hand. It is put forward that thousands of dollars are wasted yearly in experiments which could be saved if such an office as the one proposed were created, and which would not only be the means of great saving—through systematic effort and conduct. There would be an increase in the beauty of church edifices, no small matter in church economy. The well-known John Anderson Lankford has been proposed for the important office. Mr. Lankford is meeting flattering success in his profession, which bespeaks his usefulness and efficiency. The move is a wise one for that church, the control of which is one of the best types of the centralization of authority, and a splendid tribute to the governing genius of the race. This has in mind spiritual affairs, since, in truth, the same results or even disposition are not apparent in the matter of purely temporal government. That is another question, however. The church will lose nothing in the venture. Negro workmen will be employed, a condition hardy to be expected under other arrangements. It will be an incentive for the arts and crafts with its surer and greater rewards. "VIGOROUS" ADVICE. The Taft men in the South are the Federal office holders. They are things not only cuts dirt and greese from dishes with scarcely any rubbing, but is an anti-septic that goes deep after every minute, and oft-times hidden, impurity. GOLD DUST will sterilize your kitchen things and make them wholesome and sanitary—Besides, doing most of the cleaning without your assistance. For washing dishes, scrubbing floors, cleaning woodwork, oil cloth, silverware and tinware, polishing brasswork, cleaning bath room pipes, refrigerators, etc., softening hard water, washing clothes and making the finest soft soap. "Let the GOLD DUST Twins do your work" Good soap is naturally white. If coloring matter or high perfumes are incorporated, they add nothing to the virtue or efficiency of the product—more often they are used to cover up the inferior quality of the raw materials and the greasy smell. FAIRY SOAP though it sells for but 5c a cake, is the equal of any 25c or 50c soap on the market. It is made from edible products, and is just as pure and high grade as any soap can be—contains no free alkali, no coloring matter and no adulterants. In buying FAIRY SOAP, you get the highest possible grade for the lowest possible price. "Have You a Little 'Fairy' in Your Home?" Sunny Monday Laundry Soap who do not think, but eat; whose belies are their gods. Senator J. B. Foaker is the man for the Negroes to vote for the coming election, and if they can't vote for him, vote for Bryan, that they may be felt by the party to which they have clung so long.—The Sunday School Monitor, Nashville, Tenn. Don't think the "Monitor" is in the best business in the world when dealing out such advice. Even office holders are men, and with preferences. It is true that they work the situation a little hard at times, considering their supposed silence in political affairs. These, however, are no worse than the previous sets, committing no other offense than impropriety in view of the public service in which they are engaged, and of course contrary to rules, custom and orders. Senator Foraker is deserving support by Negro voters, but it will be very much doubted that if the Negroes generally advocated such a radical step as suggested in the event opportunity is not afforded to vote for the Senator we would most surely get Mr. Bryan and then some. Standing by the large voice of party is the only wisdom in the matter, as we see it. MUST BECOME BISHOPS ON THEIR MERITS. By practically a unanimous vote the Baltimore Conference of the M. E. Church decided against racial Bishops—that is, colored Bishops to preside over distinctively colored conferences. The election will have to be made in the same old way, if the dictum of the Baltimoreans is finally accepted by the General Conference, which meets in our Maryland suburb next month, and colored candidates will be compelled to take their chances with their white competitors. Drs. E. W. S. Hammond, J. W. E. Bowen and M. C. B. Mason are again prominently mentioned as candidates. At the last general conference, Dr. I. B. Scott was chosen as Missionary Bishop to Africa. Dr. W. W. Thirkield, president of Howard University, is said to be seriously considered as a bishopric quantity to succeed one of the deceased episcopates. He would make a good one, but it is feared that it would be difficult to find another parties for the municipal offices, and also the State offices. Candidates are still entering the lists, all feeling their chances to be equally as good. The county is Republican, normally; just at times it has been known to have spells, going the other way. The Democrats think one of these intervals is now here, hence the great size The primary election commissioners who will have charge of the county primaries May 15, have asked that all candidates for nomination for county judicial, legislative or township offices to be voted on at the primaries, for ward their names to the board with out delay that the work of printing may be begun. The law requires at least ten days' notice by prospective candidates, but the commissioners point out that the preliminary work will be expedited by earlier announcements. The board also calls attention to the fact that petitions for the placing of names on the ballots must be attested by a notary public. The law allows twenty-five or more voters to place a name of the ballots through petition. Following is a brief resume of the career of Alfred F. Potts, candidate for the Republican legislative ticket noted in the Indianapolis Star: "He has lived in Indianapolis for forty-five years. One of the incidents of his career in Indianapolis of which he is most occurred in 1887 when he organized the Consumers' Gas Trust Company, which he believed saved the citizens of Indianapolis $1,000,000 a year for fifteen years. In 1891 Mr. Potts assisted in organizing the Commercial Club. He has served as president of that club, and is still a director. In 1898 Mr. Potts fought againstagainst the granting of a street railway franchise by the city, and was enthusiastic for a 3-cent fare. In 1900 he helped organize the Citizens' Gas Company, which proposes 60-cent gas for Indianapolis. Since he announced his candidacy Mr. Potts has attended from two to four Republican meetings each week." Boys and girls can earn more than what it requires to keep them in school books and clothes by selling the Freeman every Saturday. 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FIRY SOAP, you get the highest possible You a Little 'Fairy' in You or high perfumes are incor- pated the product—more often they materials and the greasy smell. It is the equal of any 25c or 50c s, and is just as pure and high ring matter and no adulterants. possible grade for the lowest in Your Home?" equally acceptable president for Howard if Dr. Thirkind should be taken away. The policy of the church may not be so pleasing, yet it is honest in the speech. The chances of Negro Bishops of that church are not nearly so good since the church puts no checks on the race question. But it is no longer of doubtful attitude; it greatly eliminates a serious phase of the color question and simplifies conditions by putting men on their merit before the Bishop-making bodies. POLITICAL. The race is warming up. The primary May 15 is near enough to make things interesting. Well, the Democrats do really have some good-looking men amonb them, judging by the appearance of the recent bunches of candidates. George C. Thompson and Newton J. McGuire are recent additions to the list of candidates who hope to be favored at the primary election for places on the Republican ticket for the Legislature. The Marion Club is preparing to march on Chicago in proper form. Some 400 men are expected in line, and who'll make the welkins ring for one Charles W. Fairbanks, from the land of the Wabash. The club will be fitted out with blue serge suits and white caps. The Hon. Charles W. Miller, who made the brilliant race for Governor, is being urged to make the race for Congressman from the Thirteenth District. Mr. Miller has not made up his mind. His many friends throughout the State hope he will decide to make the race. A colored man for the Legislature has been a mooted question for some days. There are a few eligibles, and who are not averse to the thing. Dr. Joseph H. Ward, Dr. Sumner Furniss, James N. Shelton, Joseph H. Broyles, Willis Kersey are Dr. B. J. Morgan are among the most available. Confidence is at high tide in both THE STAGE Tim Owley, the author and comedian, and Don Jones, the music writer, have saved hands. The Smart Set Company closed a successful season at Atlantic City, N. J., last Saturday night. Charles T. Small and wife were in the city this week, with the "Tempest and Sunshine" Company, playing at the Park Theater. Lulu M. Hoges, of the team of Brown and Hoges, singing cartoonists, is meeting with much success. This is her first season behind the footlights. Oleie Mason of Louisville, was in the city this week, en route to Peru, to join P. L. Lowery's Enterprise, with the Walton-Hagenck aggregation. The Beechhorn's the Garlands and Anatole Victor Scott Wednesday for Peru to join P. L. Lowery's Enterprise, with the Wallace-Hagenck aggregation. Henrietta Davis made quite a reputation for herself as a dancing soubret, at a recitalateur minstrel given for the of St. Philip's Mission. Harry A. Southern and R. Roy Pope were in the city Sunday, en route to join Millican's company, which sails for England to-day. They send regards to all. A company numbering eight people, headed by Cole and Johnson, have an engagement of four weeks over the Williams circuit, beginning the latter part of May. Belle Davis and her company sailed last Saturday for England, to fill her engagements there. Next fall she will return to a thirty weeks' contract over the Orpheum and Western time. It is reported that there are prospects of a repetition of last year's circus clash in Indiana territory. Barnum & Bailey, Buffalo Bill and its Wallace aggregations are all billed for Lafayette in June. This week's attraction at the Dunbar Theater, Columbus, O., is a strong bill of police, firefighters, by Derrim and Brandy Trio, Billy Sim, "Slim" Henderson, Walter Crumley, Tom White and many other big acts. S.P. Gardner, assisted by Sank Simms, presented for the first half of the week, at the Lincoln Theater, Knoxville, Tennessee, one act comedy drama, Cripple in the Days of 1845, the second act "Countown Minstrels" held the boards. Richard Jackson, the comet solist, who was born in S. Powery's Enterprise last season, and has been residing in this city for the past several months, left Wednesday night for Philadelphia to join Fred S. Milius's Plantation and Plantation Company, which sails for England to-day. Billy Arne, the North Carolina sunbam, and his wife, Grace Arnute, have assisted with the plantation and have joined Fred S. Milius's Plantation and Plantation combed, and will sail for England to-day. They send best regards to all friends. At the Fifth Avenue Arcade, at Coral Springs Pa., the Eureka Quartette, in old plantation songs and jokes, buck and wing dancing, with violin, banjo and guitar, are meeting with much success. The quartette is composed of William Johnson, Carl Queries, Joe Porter and Henry Rob. FIDDLER AND SHELTON. Fidder and Shelton, undoubtedly the best colored team that ever graced the final victory of the season, evening at Saginaw, Mich. Theirs is a fine assortment of singing, mimicking and singing and what one member of the team seems unable to do, the other is a part of it. DOWNIE'S UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Well, it is our luck every Saturday, which is our only matinee day, to run into something. We clashed with the Parker Amusement Co. at Hutchinson Square, the brown, the brown, and a fair house that night. It was the banner night for the carnival company, but sad to say, the wind wiped the sore about 8 o'clock, taking the carnival by. Who said we was lucky, watching the bawd-down from the opera house window? PLANTATION CO. SAILS. Fred S. Millican has contracted to put on two mammoth plantation minstrel companies in Europe this summer, one at Manchester, Manchester, Eng., and one at Brighton, Brighton. The companies sail to-day, and will open at both places May 16. They will show in two very large and elegant theaters, the CMI Theater seats several thousand, and the CMI Theater seats over 5,000 persons, and is considered one of the finest and best equipped theaters all Europe, costing a half million dollars in the close of the park season they will be through France, England and Spain. Remaining in Europe for at least two years. BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS. The Tutt Bros. were given an ovation at their home, Logansport, Ind., April 23. The audience was composed almost entirely friends and relatives of the boys, showcased enthusiastic appreciation of a home product, and the entire company were tended a magnificent banquet, given by the Elite Social Composed of schoolmates of the brethren. The program was: Reception, 11-12 p.m.; Mime, 11-12 p.m.; Mgeo, 11-12 p.m.; Geo, C. Parker and James Turrell the two most active members of the effort one of the grandest in the social arena, cooled society in Logansport. The brethren presented with congratulations, and the unbounded hospitality shown to the Black Patti Company made an indelible impression upon their hearts that time will fail to OCMULGEE PARK, MACON, GA. The grand opening of this popular park was very auspicious. The show, under the management of W. Goff Kennedy, was all that was desired, and many good things were seen in the and much applause was given the authorities. The honorary was of course, the principal funerary. His spontaneous and unctuous much in evidence. Carrie Hall came in for a goodly amount of applause, and Johnson Emma was also present. Bosser's rendition of Tim Owlesy's elitated much applause and dion was moment. Tom Johnson, his favored moment. John Sherman, our inking partner, was pleased and he was much apperior so music lovers. Sallie Boswell, crowd W. Goff Kennedy is featuring the Gotham Armory Music Company's publications and is of course the band. The band, under the leadership of E. B. Dudley, is a hit. The orchestra, under "Piccolo" Jones, is hard to beat. Folk singer he personnel, E. B. Dudley, first violin, he cornet, Irvin Dixon, clarinet; Walter Law, bone; "Piccolo" Jones, piano and director; trap drummer, Skip Farrell. It is not hard to hear. Kennedy would like to hear from "friends." Address 366 Fourth street, Macon, Ga. THE SMALLS IN COMEDY DRAMA The Smalls—Nellie V. and Charles—appeared at the Park Theater the first half of the week, in the comedy drama, The Smalls and Sunshine. It was the first time that the Smalls were real colored performers cast in white show whose lines were a necessary part in the unraveling of the plot. The Smalls are both capable performers. What they are capable of doing far towards establishing the Negro's superiority in delineation of Negro characters. It is only a question of time when all dramas and far comedies which contain Negro parts have colored people doing them, the fact that they are longer realism could be given a scene ororation aban naturalness. What could be more natural than a real Negro acting a Negro? This fact is becoming an important consideration among thoughtful managers. THE DANDY DIXIE MINSTRELS BLUE BIRDS WIN OPENING GAME The Blue Birds, formerly of Covington, Ky, had quite a large crowd at the opening game in their new park at Cincinnati, (white), of Cincinnati, by the score of 4 to 2. Not a hit was made off of Pitcher Hall, of the Blue Birds, in the five innings he pitched. The score: R.H.E. Blue Birds.....0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 * 4 - 0 2 Diamonds.....0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 - 0 2 4 Lloox and Hall; Roberts and Kortescame. The Blue Birds would like, to arrange games with all colored traveling teams. Address Chas, W. Haggard, 29 Attey avenger, in Covington, Ky. U. S. storeckepauger. GRIFFIN WINS FOR COLONELS. Former Indianapolis Star in Great Form. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 26—Manages the bestest and the strongest honeys of the best and fastest colored teams in the South, which was proven Sunday by playing the strong White Sox of Indianapolis at their park. Thirty-seventh and Green Wooden, the feature of game was the pitching of Sandford, and also the mighty Demus at short, Watson, Lolly and Bivens. The batteries: Sandford and Thomas; Gifford and Dugan. Score by innings: White Sox ..... 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—3 Giants ..... 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 11 *—15 Summary: Bases on Balls—Off Sandford, 3; off Giffel, 4. Struck Out—By Sandford, 6; by Gifford, 4. Umpire—Nutter. Attendance—3,000. The troop of Vaccus and Giants will play May 8 at Thirty-seventh and Greenwood avenue, Louisville, Ky. LOUISVILLE UNIONS WIN. The Louisville Unions, colored, and the Humboldt, white, two crack baseball teams, crossed bats yesterday at the old league game in Nashville. The teams and Broadway. The visiting team was from Mumboldt. Tenn., and is a member of the West Tennessee and a kansas League. The Unions won the game and had the Unions won by a score of 16 to 2. The Unions have won three straight games this season and are in the top three. They will play the Rock City Unions, colored, of Nashville, Tenn., three games, beginning next Saturday and finishing Monday. The attention of baseball enthusiasts is on the games of games. The largest crowds of the season are expected to be in attendance. Honest "Will" Lee will be the impure. The Unions. The Unions to form a colored league in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana. The score: Humboldts ... 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 — Unions ... 2 0 0 4 0 6 1 3 * — 16 Attendance — 900. Umpire — Will Lee. The A. B. C's and the T. T's opened the season last Sunday, at Northwestern Park, by playing a tie game, 5 to 5. To tomorrow the A. B. C's and White Sox play a double header. "Puggy" Hutchinson, "Sheeney" Primm, Frank Tolbert and Frank Young, for left season wins with the A. B. C. team, left to join the Chicago Giants. Manager Butler, of the A. B. C's, has secured some very fast men to fill the posi- tions, who will greatly strengthen the team. Geo. Bowman, last season with the Pittsburg Giants, and brother of Emmitt Bowman, who pitches for the Philadelphia Giants, and the formerly formerly formerly City Giants of Pittsburgh, Pe and late of Pat Chapple's "rabbit THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER foot" team, will leave Pittsburgh May 1 to touch the Cleveland Giants, of Cleveland LOCKLAND. O. Special TO THE FREEMAN. On way is fill. The churches of the city await them all they can to make the town better. Mr. Cook is the proprietor of the first-class barber shop. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Special to THE FREEMAN Missouri left April 30 for Norfolk, Va., for the General Conference. ...Mrs. Cynthia Davis is very low masters home, 1430 West Grand. Mrs. Susan Stuart is very low Denver, Col., to her bedside. ...The Oklahoma City Colorized High School boys went to Guthrie Friday and played ball. The Oklahoma City boys won by a score of 20 to 10. MINEOLA TEX Special to THE FREEMAN The colored public school closed here on the 18th ult. . . We had a rain and a storm on the 24 . . There were a large number of bushes. There were two bushes. There are only two business houses in town among the colored people. Mr. A. Jaccee and bus. gas. a restauraunt in the business. Mr. T. H. Willingham is working for Mr. Mansel. Some of the brick buildings were damaged badly on the street and clewwhere. Sandy Anderson and her broom on the paper each week. Don't fail to read it. TERRE HAUTE, IND. The Allen Chapel Sewing Circle met at Mrs. Will Davis', 220 Spruce street. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Robt. Crute's, on South Fourteenth street.... The Bible Club meets at Mrs. John Brown's, on South Fourteenth-and-a-half street, on South Fourteenth, on Mrs. Mary Jackson's, on South Thirteenth Mrs. Barnhill and Mrs. V. Markey, of Paris, Ill., were the guests of Mrs. Ben Davis', 2217 Spruce street.... The Free Baptist Sewing Circle meets at Mrs. Tur MARLIN, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Easter exercises, which were post- poned from a week ago last Sunday night, at the A.E. Church, were resumed last night. ... Rev, Dr. Williams, of the First Baptist Church, preached an able sermon last Sunday night to a well-crowded house... he came near the Stranger, Tex., closed her school last Friday evening with an excellent con- junction with Johnson and Mrs. John Moors are ill. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. Special to THE FERMAN Special Truant Officer E. Stevenson, after a lingering illness of six weeks, died last Sunday morning, April 26, at 7 o'clock. Mr. Stevenson was well liked by every one, and had many friends among both white and colored people. Mr. Stevenson was a member of the orders, being a member of the Golden Gate Lodge, No. 23, K. of P, and the Hercules Lodge of Elks, No. 90. The funeral services were held at the Rock Road Church, No. 23, K. of P, and Elks having charge. Mr. Stevenson was buried in St. George's Cemetery. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Sunday was quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. T. J. White, of Princeton, assisted Rev. G. H. White in his communion, as the presiding elder, and the pastor, as well as Mrs. Willis Rucker, of Evansville, spent Sunday in the city, the guests of H. J. Thompson and family... The entertainment given by the Relief Corps, the Evansville Baptist Church, the Bishop was manager, Rev. C. W. McColl, of Indianapolis, was in the city last week, in the interest of the anti-saloon movement... The K. of P.'s held memorial services in their hall Sunday after the service, Starks, the National Grand Chancellor. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. The Republicans of the State have called for a special State convention, to be held in Nashville on May 16, 1905, on account of the distranchissement of the Negroes in the former convention. The convention will be held Sunday afternoon, at Greenwood M. E. Church. The Union will be held at Wesley Chapel to-morrow, at 3 p. m. all denominations are invited. Rev. Colman pertained a great many of their friends with a delicious luncheon at their residence on Sullivan avenue, on the 21st, in honor of Miss Jessie Raller and Miss Robbins, who were among the Misses Raller and Morrish made many friends and acquaintances on their first visit to Clarksville...Ben Lot died on the 20th and was buried on the 21st at Golden Hill Cemetery. He leaves a widow and four children, and a host of friends. Rev. S. R. Reid D. D., presiding elder of the A. M. E. Church, held his district conference from April 9 to 30, at Farmville, Va., to attend the A. M. E. General Conference, being a delegate of that body. THE PRIMARY AT LOUISVILLE THE PRIMARY AT LOUISVILLE Concluded from Page One. of all creeds to land the Rev. R. S. Rives, D. D. LL. D. of the Thirteenth and Broadway, D. D. LL. D. of the Fourteenth and Broadway as bishop of his connection. Four years ago he succeeded the Rev. Dr. Clement, editor of the "Star of Zion," as pastor of the church and served as pastor of church. Dr. Rives has spent forty years of active unbroken service in his church, thirty odd years of which has been spent in preaching the gospel and teaching the faith. It was due somewhat to the faith- fulness and courageous manhood of Dr. Rives that the Sunday closing was a success. It was due somewhat to other public projects that have redoubled to the best interest to the race. Dr. Rives is a man of scholarship, high moral char- acter, and a strong spirit. He is a day night, May 1, the citizens at large will tender him a farewell reception and testimonial of his services as a minister. The entire medal of profession is present worldwide and the reception and present memorials for his endorsement, which will be forwarded to the General Conference, which meet at the United States Conference of Bishops been arranged and it is expected to be an event extraordinary in church circles. There was a red letter day at the State University, 712 West Kentucky street, April 28, when ground was broken to begin construction of the Domestic Science Hall. For almost any efforts have been made to raise the necessary amount of $5,000 by the oWen's Educational Board of the State University of Kentucky. The oWen's Educational Board of New York a year ago. At a joint meeting of the trustees of the University it was reported that the oWen's Educational Board has let a contract and the work of erecting the new girls' dormitory and Domestic Science Hall will begin in a few weeks. The building was broken for the building and there was a large number of Baptists and friends of the institution present to hear exercises in memory of the occasion. Prof. J. L. Difrancio, the Director of the building and it was he who was largely instructed in securing the $5,000 from the general board. Editor William H. Steward is preparing the individual board, and he has secured a number of individual subscriptions for the school. The Orphan Boys' Band of Eckstein-Norton Institute, Cane Springs, Ky., made their appearance here last Thursday and Friday nights at the Calvary Baptist Church. The band is composed of fifteen little orphan boys who are attending the institution toward the indigent fund of the school. The attainment was of a high class, and a credit to the institution. On Friday night they staged three acts of Shakspear's "Julius Caesar." Their presentation of this drama was given to a large house and each was applauded as they protrayed the characters in a great play, among those who took part in the play were Hundley Dickeson, John White, Alexander Brent, John King, Roger Johnson, Henry Scales, George Peyton, James Johnson, John Wheeler, and Miss Mary Watkins, Dr. Booker, Washington will speak in the interest the school June 18. The Rev. Augustus Jones, pastor of the Virginia-avenue Baptist Church, took the occasion to introduce Mr. George Slaughter, a congregation last Sunday, Mr. Slaughter modestly spoke of the merits of the paper he represented and urged the colored people of that section of the city subscribe and purchase weekly The Freeman in order to purchase water for the papers of the race in the country. Mr. W. McGowan, superintendent of the Sunday school, also spoke of the Freeman, and urged every member of the church to buy purchased at the ice cream parlor of Messrs. Wm. Wingo and T. J. Antle every Saturday. The Parkland is making great progress along business lines and many of their own homes. Last night the Rev. Jones held communion services at his church. The eighteenth annual commencement exercises of the Central Law School of the State University will take place next Monday at the Custhouse in Church Hill, choice of the program has been arranged. There will be orations by Mr. C. H. Platt, of the Junior class; Mr. Charles B. Preston, who graduates from Ypsilanti High School; Brown, who finishes a post-graduate course. Hon. M. H. Thatcher, State Inspector and Examiner, will be the principal speaker. Mr. G. H. Winstead will present his lecture of grades 6-12. A. S. White will be master of ceremonies. Among the marriages that are reported hereabouts are: Miss Ada Nugent and Jillian L. Hammond; Mrs. E. Bucknern, of Washington D. C.; Miss Willie B. Cooper and Mr. James Tate; Dr. Morris Blackburn and Mr. Willie Deadmind; Miss Clara Kalfus and Mr. Willie B. Bucknern; Miss Phyphy and a New Yorker. It is reported that their will be a marriage of one of the teachers of the Central High School. --- The Negroes are certainly taking Chestnut street, one of the leading thoroughfares in the city. Two well known young students on this street, and others purchased homes on this street, are following the example set by Misses DuValle, Tom Cole and the Rev. E. G. Harris. The watchword of the times is "Buy Homes." Every indication points to a successful meeting of the State Medical Association here May 13 and 14. The reception will be held at the Baltimore sociation, of which Dr. E. D. Wedhee is president. Dr. Hunter, of Lexington, KY., will be the principal surgeon at the clinic to be held for the benefit of young doctors. The Rev. Francis D. Irvin, pastor of the Fourth-avenue Presbyterian Church, was the principal speaker at the Knox Elysian Church. Madison street, between Bellevue and Baltimore, dance was very large and Mr. John Clark, a professor of the high school, acted as master of ceremonies. The Louisville Courier published on last Sunday a half-page story feature of the Frankfort Normal and Industrial Institute, by Cary B. Lewis, their correspondent, a large number of papers were sold to students of the school and citizens all over the State. The "Columbia," an organ of the Columbian Brotherhood, of which Dr. W. T. Peyton was editor, has suspended publication of the last eight years has been published for the last eight years and quite a circulation. Miss Atholee Peyton was the city editor. The Rev. J. C. Anderson, pastor of the Quin Chapel A. M. E. Church, held quarterly meeting last Sunday. The Rev. Anderson will leave tomorrow for Norfolk, where he will general Conference of the A. M. E. Church. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews of West Chestnut street, held their twentieth marriage anniversary celebration last Saturday night. A large number of their friends were present and they received a great many handsome presents. The "Dark Horse" for the principalship of the Central High School is looming up brightly and people are thinking that his chances are good. Misses Daisy Moss and Nettie Alves, of Hampshire, are involved in the city Sunday. They were accompanied by Prof. Lee Brown, a teacher of Henderson. Prof. James R. Harris and Attorney W. L. Hicks will be the principal speakers at Teachers' Institute today. Both are well-attended men and a rich program is expected. Miss Amanda Webb, of Georgetown, Ky., visited the Pearl-street school last week and she was much pleased with or work and general appearance of the school. --- Mrs. William O. Martin and Miss Gonzella Williams have just returned from French Lick Springs, Ind., where they attended the Faircastle Flat Boys entertainment. Louisville and Chicago will be greatly interested in the arrival of Mrs. Myra Fitzbutter Denison, of the Philippine Isle, expected to be in Auckland during the next week. Miss Denison was educated in Louisville and is the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Fitzbutter, one of the ploneers of the city. A grand reception and hearty welcome awaits Mrs. Denison and the baby. Nearly all the Methodist churches will be minus their pastors next week as the majority of them will be at Philadelphia Norfolk attending the General Conference. BARKLAND John B. Snowden, Grand Chancellor of the State of Kentucky, was here in Louisville on his official visit through the State, for his prosperity No. 25. Standard No. 49 and Eureka No. 15. We had good lessons on industrial lines. J. L. V. Washington, Past Grand Chancellor, was the guest of D. D. Floyd Smith, 712 Fitzgerald for sale at Wm. McGowan's confectionery in Parkland, Thirty-sixth and Virginia avenue....A Phyllian Club has been organized in Parkland, and it is ex-tenuation for a near future....Rev. Jones of the Parkland Baptist Church, is doing great work and stands well with his congregation. PADUCAH. KY Special to THE FREEMAN. The Masonic lodges of this city held a memorial exercise, sacred to the memory of Chas. Steele, M. W. G. Master, deceased, at the Washington Street Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon, April 28, 1908, under the direction of the Hon. John W. Ecster, Paducah's only Negro lawyer, whose ability as a practitioner at the local bar is well exemplified by the wide scope of the dutty address, which was appropriate and impressive, after which Prof. Thos. D. Hilbis, principal of Garfield School, wrote paper on the subject and leadership of the Grand Master, followed by Prof. E. C. Phillips in behalf of Silver Crown Lodge, Metropolis, Ill. Rev. J. W. Bell, of the Husbandry Association, on the subject of Freemasonry. The Rev. M. V. S. Smith, D. V., the very able pastor of the Washington Street Church, delivered a very eloquent and forcible musical performance, mustest the audience spellbound. The choir, under the leadership of Dr. C. A. Isbell, rendered sweet and appropriate music for the occasion. Silver Crown Lodge, of Metropolis, Ill. was in attendance in full, and grand officers from the State of Illinois were present: Deputy Grand Master Rufus Mitchell; Rev. J. B. McCreary, Grand Chapel; Rev. J. Nancy Eckert, lodge escorted by local lodges to and from the church, head- Levinson has you Slated for your Spring Hat TwoDollars THEATRICAL ENGRAVING QUALITY RIGHT PRICES RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELECT. CO. P. O. Box 103. MENTION THE FREEMAN INDIANAPOLIS IND. OLD RELIABLE MARKET. Your Patronage is Solicited. Old Phone, Prospect, 378 New Phone, 9105 902 to 906 VIRGINIA AVE., Indianapolis, Ind. ed by the Paducah, brass band, after which the visitors were bidden farewell at the river front by Hon. John W. Eyestar. Floral designs were presented by the chapels and individuals....Dr. W. P. Paterson, the director of the Tenn. last week, looked after his mother's real estate....Mrs. Ed Jones and Mrs. Baird Loyd and Miss Ida Jones, of Metropolis, are the guests of Mrs. Gus Turner, the owner of Susie Turner, of Metropolis, is visiting Miss Evelyn Huddleson, on James street. Rev. J. O. Griffith was called to Cairo, by the illness of his wife....Mrs. Mealh Clayton, the owner of centilless. Miss Nettie Dale is visiting her uncle, in South Sixth street....John Steel is on the sick list this week. Miss Collet Howard is on the sick list; Mrs. Clayton, the owner of Montgory entertained a number of her friends in her home on South Eleventh street. Mrs. Jennie Mitcherson, 500 South Eleventh street, entertained her brother and sister from Oaks Saturday. W. M. Simpson, the owner of Home, is ill. Hubert Johnson has opened a nice ice cream parlor on the corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets. O. THE FREEMAN at 707 Tennessee street. ROUTE BLACK AND JONES—New York City, Keith & Proctor's Theater, week of 4 BLACK PATTI TROUBAUDORS—Week of May 4, Blaney's Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa. FULLER AND SHELTON—Week of May 4, Bjou Theater, Muskegon, Mich. THE BUTTONS—Week of May 4, Bridge- port, Conn. HENA A BROWN AND HODGES, SINGING CARTOONERS—Week of 4, Family Theater, Hagerstown, Md. THE POLICY KING, UNDER THE MAN- HUNGER—New York City, May 4 to June 23 PAYTON AND BASS—Week of May 4, Lockport, N. Y. FRIENDS AND SPELLERS—Week of 4, Boston, Mass. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Genlemen's List NOTICE—We will be pleased to have all schools send us their route regularly and also performers to send name and permanent address, or if traveling, what may be communicated that all mail may be promptly forwarded. Anderson, James. Kersands, Billy. Bowman, Mary. Henry. Lacy, James. Lacy, Wm. A. Bunch, Gordon. M. McInty, M. Bland Leroy. McCabe, Wm. Burton, Earl. Norton, J. B. Carral, Quail. Crosby, Priggsley, Harper. Cameron, Oscar. Quinn, Andrew. Ford, Morris R. Rucker, John. Holy, Rankoff G. Robert Brown. Garral, Wm. P. Priggsley, Harper. Cameron, Oscar. Quinn, Andrew. Ford, Morris R. Rucker, John. Holy, Rankoff G. Robert Brown. Garral, Wm. P. Priggsley, Harper. Harris, Jas. H. The Hallbacks. Johnson, William. The Real Comedy 4. Johnson, Roy. Thompson, T. A. J. G. Jackson. Wood, W. J. Jones, Simon. W. J. Anderson, James. Bowman, W. Henry. Bland, Leroy. Bland Leroy. Bland Leroy. Burton, Earl. Clark H. Quall. Lampton B. Cameron, Oscar. Ford, Morris P. Holly, Rankford G. Gant, Robert H. Lampton B. Harris, Jas. H. Johnson, William. Johnson, Roy. J. C. Freemont. Jones, Simon. Kersands, Billy. Lacy, James. Levard, Wm. A. McCabe, Wm. Norton, J. B. Perry and Crosby. Quinn, Andrew. Rucker, John. Robert Brown. Santana, Charles. The Price. The Hallbacks. The Real Comedy Thompson, T. A. Wood, T. B. Williams, J. H. Ladies' List Glbons, Edith Dafoe, H. White, Minnie B. Jones, Gracie. If We Make Your SPRING OR SUMMER SUIT SUIT It will be correct in every detail and have Character, Style and Individuality. All our garments this season have the distinction of shape retaining quality. This is only found in garments Made-to-Order of Reliable Fabrics by skillful workmen. We have every facility of making your spring or summer garments that will please satisfy and at a moderate price of $15.00 and higher. Tanners of Fashion, 107 N. Illinois St. Opp. Terminal Station Indianapolis, Indiana. 5 DEFORMITY Apparatus Trusses. We have recently opened our new office and factory, carry a full line of Trusses, Supporters, Elastic Hosiery etc., and with full equipment for the production of the most approved appliances for the correction of deformities. Truss Fitting a Specialty Mr. Magee was formerly with William H. Armstrong & Co.; for eighteen years in charge of the manufacturing and truss fitting departments. All work guaranteed. R. W. MAGEE & Co., 425 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana. THE "HOLTON" BAND INSTRUMENTS Are Used by the Best Colored Musicians in Preference to Any Other. Mr. P. G. Lowery is considered one of the best colored cornet soloists in the world. He is also one of the most effi- cient bandmasters, being connected with the Wallace-Hagenbeck show the past season. He himself used the 'New Pro- portion' cornet and has his band al- ways played with 'Holton' instruments. His opinion of our instruments is worth reading: BEDFORD, IND., Sept. 1. Frank Holton, Chicago, Ill. Dear Friend:--After thoroughly testing the qualities of your "New Proportion" cornet you sent me, I found it a comet for all kinds of business. I have played all the standard makes, but for both business work and solo. I find the "New Proportion" cornet THE cornet. I cheerfully recommend it to anyone who wants the best. Cornet Solist and Bandmaster. "Holton" instruments are sold for cash or on installment. We allow week's trial before the deal is closed, so there is absolutely no risk in purchasing them. The "Holton" is the instrument that is coming to be universally used and all-up-to-date musicians should find out about them. Our catalogue and other literature free on request. FRANK HOLTON CO., 169-171 Gladys Ave. Chicago, Ill. Paul Carter Principal Comedian, and Stage Manager of Florida Blossoms Co. The greatest colored amusement organization of its kind—comprising Minstrel and Drama. WANTED Performers, Musicians, both Ladies and Gentlemen for my Three Shows, A Rabbit's Foot Co., Funny Folks Comedy, AND HARRISON BROS. MINSTREL. All three shows under canvas, traveling in my own cars. Tickets advanced to right parties. Address PAT CHAPPELLE, Owner and General Manager of all three Shows. 1054 W. Church St., Jacksonville, Fla. P. S. Minstrel Show under canvas for rent: R. E. Richardson of St. Matthews, S. C., is representing The Freeman in that State. for your Spring Hat RACE CLEANINGS The Greatest Razor Strop of the Century We refer with pride to our latest creation, the "Superior" Razor Strop, which is a consummated achievement of a tonsorial genius, and is the result of twenty years of trial, experimenting and practical knowledge. This Strop practically marks a new era in American strop manufacturing. The method and care which is exercised in the manufacture of this strop is the limit of human ingenuity. One of our most beneficial treatments is applied to this strop, which is our secret chemical mixture. This mixture penetrates the air spaces between the molecules and contracts the pores of the leather to the utmost, at the same time killing every germ inhabitant of the animal skin. After having carried through our antiseptic process the closest grain possible is produced; increasing knowledge and modern science have proven without a doubt that closeness of grain produces the finest cutting edge obtainable. The high standard of excellence and efficiency of this Strop is maintained by Mr. Haynes' rigid system of personal inspection of every strop during the successive stages of manufacture. The durability and practical utility of the "Superior" Razor Strop has passed beyond the questionable stage into a demonstrated fact. The "Superior" Razor we are offering in connection with our "Superior" Razor Strop, is made especially for us by one of the best razor makers in Germany, and we guarantee it to be first class. We will send prepaid to any part of the United States one pair of our "Superior" Razor Strops and one "Superior" Razor for $2.50, or $1.35 each. Do not send money in letter. Send all money by Postal or Express Money Order, payable to 6 The Twenty-fourth United States Infantry were given a most hospitable welcome in Buffalo, N. Y., where they stop day in en route east from the Philippines. Charles B. Preston is the only graduate of the two year course of the Central Law School, Law Department of the State University, W. C. Brown received the degree of LL. M. Dr. E. W. S. Hammond, dean of the Theological Department of Walden University, delivered the annual address to the students of Meridian Academy, Meridian, Miss, May 1. The conductors on the railroads in Oklahoma are unable to distinguish between the latter and the earlier race. Neither age suits the conductors refuse to disturb persons regarding whose condition of birth of birth they are in dout. J. S. Andrews, formerly of Chicago, now living at Lincoln, Neb., has purchased a two thousand dollar residence in the latter. Mr. Andrews is managing catering arrangements of a large dry goods house of Miller & Payne. An effort is being made to have Leut- Col. Allen Allensworth, the only retired Negro leutenant-colonel of the United States Army, and the only graduate June or July. Col. Allensworth will address the Baptist Sunday School Congress at Jacksonville, Fla. The colored men of London and Hugheston, Va., have organized a club known as the Protective Independent Club, and has a membership of 31. S. B. Graves is presi- dent of the Club; C. T. Burke, Brown, treasurer; C. T. Burke, secretary; William Brown, assistant secretary; William Holmes, master-at-arms. Some time ago the A. M. E. Review, Philadelphia, offered a prize for the best essay on "Saving Faith." The contest has just closed, the award made and the win- ning contestant will appear in the April number of the Review. The judges were Prs. Geo. Woodson, dean of Payne Theological School, St.eward Chaplain U. S. Army, and D. F. Calman, pastor of Allen Temple, Cincinnati, O. The Capital Building and Loan Association of Raleigh, N. C., with the following substantial citizens as officers, C. W. Johnson, C. W. Johnson, and Dr. Prof. J. H. Branch, attorney, and Dr. M. T. Pope, secretary and treasurer, was recently inspected and reported upon by Insurance Commissioner J. R. Young, and being rather poor in his state. The officers deserve much credit for their correct business dealings. Gladstone, a Jamestown Negro, was assistant to a district physician in the canal zone, and, being rather poor in his Latin, the bottles had been numbered for his benefit. One day a Spanish laborer came to the house and was worthy assistant to give him two pills out of number six. After he had gone the doctor asked: "Gladstone, did you give the doctor a pill?" The sah, doctor; numbix six was finished, so I just give him one pill out of numbum foah and one out of numbum two." The Argonaut. After twenty years of litigation the Su preme Court has finally disposed of the Alton school case by the most drastic action recorded in its history. Disregarding the law, the judge refused to enforce the law against the seminole white and Negro school children, the court took the matter into its own hands, declared the Alton authorities were not enlisted to any agency, gave judgment for the Negro, the Negro began years ago when Alton established separate schools for Negroes and Scott Bibb refused to send his children to the school. Andrew Whitlow, at Danville, Ill., has been arrested and fined $20 and costs in a dispute of the peace court for wearing the emblem of the colored designee. The Men. The case is the outcome of an effort on the part of Negroes to organize a tribe of the Red Men in eastern Illinois. Whitlow, who is backed by the head officers of the Colored designee, grand keeper of records of the Indian Men, at once entered an appeal to the Circuit Court, and the case will be heard for the second time at the May term of court. The case is against Chicago, grand keeper of records of the Indian Men, came to Danville for the purpose of prosecuting Whitlow. Whitlow was fired under a statute which prohibits the wearer of a modest society emblem in the State of Illinois unless the wearer is a member of the order. THE NEGRO AS A FACTOR. The Boston Herald, speaking to Senator Foraker's Brownsville speech, for which there is a growing demand for the full power of the senator, a republican congressional campaign are seeking considering what this may mean. The Herald continues: "The congressional election affyfive Republicans were elected by less than 3,000 majority and nineteen were elected by less than 1,000 majority. In nearly all the districts represented by these men, the majority of them wipe out the majority if it should be taken from the Republican ranks. The colored vote holds a strategic position in Ohio. It is not at all impossible that the outcome of the House may be determined by the Negro vote. The political wisdom of Senator Foraker's policy, as well as its direct influence, now beginning to be widely appreciated. SAVANNAH, GA. Polite attention to his people and careful compounding are features that mark Dr. Ford, a wide-awake young man. His drumstick went West Broad St. is pointed to hide by wide hide. He is vivalt at the First African Baptist Church has just closed. Dr. Jackson, of Macon, Ga., who was in charge, is by safe distance from the church. The church is still in mourning for the late Dr. Carr. The members of the First African Church are among the best in the city. West West, Fla., is preaching in Savannah these days. It was hardly to be expected that this city would look Key Westward for him. He cowed the customers he stands on . . . Mr. Joe Davis has a beautiful new store in E. Montgomery St., where he is dealing out both solid and cash. He is a customer of Rev. Dougherty preached to appreciative congregation at his church in Bryan Over twenty thousand sold in Greater New York. The "Superior" Brand is without doubt or question the most intelligent conception and the most enterprising endeavor ever put forth to master the highest problem in Razor Strops. This is the Strop that has thrilled the Barbers of two Continents. And is recognized by the leading Barbers in the world as a Master-piece in Perfection. WRITE FOR OUR BOOKLET on Facial Treatment. Sent on application. Special to THE FREEMAN THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. St. last Sunday, the sermon was short on the wrath to come, but long on opportunities at hand. The Sunday Club held the center of the stage at 5 p. m. m. last week, and the students sentiment along given lines or whether they were driving at, but I guess it wan all right. It is said to be the body elite of the city. I do not know whether it is an ornament or a sentiment along given lines or whether I am the delegates to the A. M. E. General Conference are off with our prayers for the favorite son, Dr. T. N. M. Smith. The ways of a demeanor are like out. It is to be hoped that Georgia may make her claims good... Savannah is a dry city. Nothing to appeal to for moist soil, and a mighty Almighty—occasional shower, save when the blind tiger weeps a few tears, which are eagerly caught by the natives and sold as a sure cure for blues. The police captured a few nights ago, but we have a dry city... The Negro of Georgia is said to be slow about registering to vote against the distranchising amendment. Dr. Cannon, a few nights ago, has done great work in the city. He manifests a deep interest in all the live questions before our people. His church is the finest church for colored people in Georgia the Freemason Savannah to stay. The paper is the business man's friend and urges the race to sustain every creditable Negro venture. We defend the right to the last ditch; but will use the same zeal in the wrong. WANDERER Razor Strop, which is a consummated of trial, experimenting and practical top manufacturing. The method and of human ingenuity. One of our best chemical mixture. This mixture stores of the leather to the utmost, at or having carried through our antidege and modern science have proven obtainable. The high standard is rigid system of personal inspec durability and practical utility of age into a demonstrated fact. The Razor Strop, is made especially for to be first class. We will send pre- Strops and one "Superior" Razor all money by Postal or Express Company, --- FLINT, MICH. GREENVILLE. MISS. Nothing Better For Easy Shave New York City. community abounds in rich cultivated land and gardening is carried on very extensively as well as advantageously. Of the latter pursuit it is largely on the inward side, but the latter and its product find a ready demand. Tuxedo Park is the place for business men. We have three very respectable stores doing business in the grocery line, yet there is a good barber shop and a wood and coal yard would do a paying business. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON OFFERS WHOLESOME ADVICE. In every large city of the South, there is an opportunity for truck gardening. Near every large city, there is a chance for the young man who will thoroughly master that industry —and I am glad to see that quite a number of our students are mastering it at Tuskegee—there is a chance for a young man to go three or four miles out from Montgomery, from Mobile, or Atlanta, or Chattanooga, or any other city of the South, and start in a small way in the work of gardening, the raising of vegetables. He will soon grow independent and useful and be the "boss" of his surroundings—dependent upon no one. Turnips, cabbages, all of those things, will respond to the touch of a white hand. That is what Itallans, Germans—foreigners of every description, of every name, are coming to this country and doing, and the young black man must wake up and understand that there is a chance, an opportunity in all these respects for him, as for some other man—Booker T. Washington, in his Sunday Afternoon Talks at Tuskegee. When it comes to good, sound, wholesome industrial doctrine, Booker T. Washington may be depended on to give it. What he says is by no means a recent discovery. The Freeman has also mentioned most of it from time to time. There are many ways to earn a living, ways that are not particularly crowded. It is not meant for the many to adopt the ways suggested, but in every community where there is a considerable Negro population this phase of industrialism ought to be well represented by colored men, especially, should find a way to such fields; they have superior advantages, making it possible to inject more system and science in the business. Really the times demand more of the independent spirit along the lines of industry. If we wish to be viewed as a normal people—well balanced—it is plain that we should find our way into what we choose to call the humbler pursuits. And indeed, it is no more the necessity, owing to how the world may rate the race, than it is a matter of self-preservation, self-help, and yet more to instill the notion that all labor is honorable, and should be willingly entered into. The College Heights Investment proposition should not be overlooked by our women. Take advantage of the opportunity to buy a home, or to invest in this as a money-maker. Several women have already bought homes and others should follow the example. It costs but a postal to learn the particulars. Write to day and learn the the advantages. For Representative from Marion County Chas. L. Hutchinson, Subject to Republican Primary. May 15, 1908. Polls open 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. For Representative from Marion County Wm. D. Headrick, Subject to the Decision of Republican Primary Election, May 15. The Oath of Office is my Platform. Harry O. Chamberlin, Republican Candidate For Prosecuting Attorney. John R. Allen, Subject to the Decision of the Rep- ublican Primary Election ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. VOTE FOR Dr. G. A. Petersdorf, Candidate for Coroner at Primary Election Louis Bauer, Subject to the Republican Primary FOR REPRESENTATIVE J. H. C. Denman, Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary. Jesse W. Potter, Candidate for Representative Marion County. Subject to Republican Nominating Primaries. VOTE FOR Ira M. Holmes For Prosecuting Attorney Republican Nominating Primaries. I want your vote to nominate me Republican candidate for prosecuting Attorney for Marion county. My platform in brief: Honest administration of office. Official duties well performed. Laws endorsed without favoritism. Mercy to effect reform. Earnest endeavor to serve the people. Such is my pledge. I SOLICIT YOUR VOTE. Russell B. Harrison For Representative, Subject to the Decision of the Re- publican Primary. For Representative, Thomas A. Daily, Subject to Republican Primary. For Judge Superior Court, Room 5, Vincent G. Clifford, Subject to decision of Repub- lican Primary Election. Lewis Shank, Subject to the Decision of the Republican Primary. VOTE FOR Michael Jefferson FOR ASSESSOR. Republican Primaries. Willis N. Coval, Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary. James M. Ogden. Subject to Marion County Re- publican Primary. For Representative from Marion County, John F. Engelke, LAWYER. Subject to Republican Primary. Lawson M. Harvey, For Judge Superior Court, Room 4. For Judge of Marion Circuit Court Henry Clay Allen Subject to Republican Primary. 1908. VOTE FOR Alfred R. Hovey For Prosecuting Attorney At Marion County Republican Primary. For Representative from Marion County Frank C. Olive, LAWYER 905 State Life Building. Subject to the Republican Primary. VOTE J. F. Co For S At the Democratic VOTE Wm. A Candidate for She Subject to Democratic Pr VOTE Jacob W Candidate for She Subject to Democratic Pr At the Democratic Primary, May 15th. VOTE FOR Wm. A. Holt, Candidate for Sheriff Marion County. Subject to Democratic Primaries, Friday, May 15th. Candidate for Sheriff Marion County. Subject to Democratic Primary, Friday, May 15th. For County Commissioner, Second District, D. B. Brook Subject to Decision of Democra Primary, Friday, May 15th. A Substantial Well Wisher of the Colore Subject to Decision of Democratic Primary, Friday, May 15th. "My highest ambition is to be a good citizen and to help to promote good government. If this ambition makes me a good candidate I shall be glad to offer myself." Alfred F. Potts Republican Candidate for State Senator Subject to the Decision at Approaching Primary Election. Wm. E. English For State Senator Subject to Republican Primary Election James T. Layman For State Senator Subject to Republican Primary Election Joseph A. Minturn For State Senator, Subject to Republican Primary Election For Judge of the Circuit Court, Linn D. Hay, Subject to Republican Primary Election John F. Wood, For Assessor Center Township, Subject to Decision of the Republican Primary. Republican Primary Dr. E. E. Hodgin Sollicits your vote FOR CORONER. ONE TERM ONLY. VOTE FOR Peter T. Travers For Township Trustee At Republican Primaries. VOTE FOR Dr. B. A. Brown FOR TRUSTEE Of Center Township. MERLE N. A. WALKER FOR Probate Judge. For Prosecuting Attorney JOHN WEAVER Subject to Republican Primaries. For Judge Superior Court, Room 5, Charles T. Hanna, Subject to Marion County Repub lican Primary, 1908. FOR ncannon, Cheriff Primary, May 15th. FOR A. Holt, Cheriff Marion County. maries, Friday, May 15th. FOR Oessner, Cheriff Marion County. primary, Friday, May 15th. Brooks, on of Democratic ay, May 15th. er of the Colored People. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. NEW CLEVELAND TRACK. Glenville to Be Abandoned by Grand Circuit Race Men. CLEVELAND, O.—Special—Discounts for the five years' war against the province racing track, the men whose operation of it made Cleveland one of the principal racing cities in the state, will abandon the famous course and establish a new home twelve miles south of city. It is possible that the new course will be the scene of the Grand Circumfests. A town be called North Randall has been organized. The old course in St. Clement's, where Maud S. startled by boy trotting a mile in 2.08'', before a high wheel sulky, will be soiled, build- ing serious bjections to the selling of pools, courts, far above the average, will be at that races the will be given. BACKEY AFTER NELSON. Later Will Be Prepared to Tackle Champion, Gans. BICHAGO, April 24—Goldfield wants Bob McFarland to fight Joe Gans July 3. The offer came yesterday in the form of a telegram sent to the McFarland Athletic Club, practically an organization that promoted the Nelson battle. The telegram was as follows: "Will you fight Joe Gans here July 4, in rounds, for a purse of $20,000?" Harry Glimores, Jr., manager of McFarland, received the telegram and answered in this way: "Want Nelson first. Would consider the same terms. Can get Gans later—probably Labor day." This would indicate that McFarland will be prepare short time to tackle him. That Goldfield is still on the fighting map will be a bit of news that will stir long and practically to a finish that could enable in Nevada, are the sort that leads championships. FIRST MONUMENT TO BOXER George Dixon, the colored fighter, who for nine years held the featherweight championship, is the first boxer to have a monument erected in his honor. The monument will be in the shape of a fountain, will be ten feet in diameter. There will be a lamp post twelve feet high, wrought in bronze and beautifully ornamented, in the center of the structure, and the metal work will all be Dixon's admirers subscribed $1,200 for the monument, which is to be erected at Horatio street and eighth avenue, New York. The sculptor, Chloe Schwartz, as he was known in the sporting world, was defeating every one that came his way. This would have seemed a paltry sum. Yet, after his defeat by Terry McCoy, he was defeated by his close friend in Bellevue Hospital, after naval several fortunes. PACKEY AFTER GANS. Chicago Boxer Demands Long Fight with Champion. SAN FANCISCO—Packey McFarland, Chicago's whirlwind lightweight, who knocked out Jimmy Britt here in six rounds of winnings, expresses his wiggle-goose attitude. McFarland depends that the bounce be of forty-five rounds' duration, or to a finish. McFarland has retracted the statement that he wants none of the colored fighter's game, and now is willing Packey says Gans is getting older, and cannot stand the long fight, especially with a youngster like himself. It is true that Packey has gained more bounce but be it twenty, forty-five or finish, McFarland had better stay away from the collar lad if he intends to make use of reputation, has gained thus far. Packey has gained interest in the four-division division, save Gans. THE "BLUE BIRDS" CHIRPING Manager Haggard, of the Covington, Ky. "Blue Birds" has secured the Cumminsville Ball Park, at Cincinnati, O. for the season, and would like to book games with all first-class colored or white teams, with all second-class colored or white teams, strengthened for the season, and expect to equal their great record of last year, when they defied some of the best white and colored teams in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, including the Waldorfs of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Rooters, and many others, with the Chicago Cubs, Chicago 29, Alley Avenue, Covington, Ky. BLACKBURN SHOWS PUNCH. Indianapolis Boxer Stops Australian Heavyweight Hevron. PHILADLEPHA—Jack Blackburn, the Indianapolis lightweight pugilist, knocked out heavyweight Bill Hevron, of the Indianapolis in the third round, before the West End in the fourth. He of the bell Blackburn had all the better of the fight, and repeatedly floored the Australian. In the third round a stiff right to the heart, followed by a left jab to the all the fight out of Hevron, and through the neck to the neck to the Negro, Blackburn sent him down with a left swing to the jaw and repeated it a moment later. Hevron got up weak, only go down again, when his manager up the sponge, as he was about to fall. GREENVILLE, MISS. The colored baseball season opened at Bedownd Park, Sunday, April 5, with a game between the Greenville Giants and Leeland Canyon, scoring 3 to 1, 10 innings. In favor of the Giants. The features of the game were the features of Leonard Bank, Jennie Rice and Washington for Greenville, of which all wished to get down their opponents with only two hits, and two of these were scratch on another feature of the game was the battle between the Giants and Jennie Rice and Robert Howard. All runs was up six times, getting six hits, and Howard was up six times, getting five hits, and Howard was a home run. In the last half of the game, the Giants (alias Pike) caught the first ball off of and throw out the first man. We had a good attendance. Over 375 times was good attendance. Over 375 times was worth and were well pleased with the team. If some of our able Southern colored could only invest some money, the North team are doing, and organize a colored league, what a success they would make! The Greenville Giants line-up: How- GUT THIS OUT MAIL TOUS WITH 58 INSTAMPS A FULL SIZE 10% PACKAGE OF THE BEST LIVER AND STOMACH MEDICINE, GOODMOORE'S MOVES THE BOWELS LIVER AND STOMACH TEA WILL BE SENT BY MAIL FOR THIS COUPON AND SEE IN STAMPS, WE WANT EVERYDAY TO TELL YOU THAT'S WHY WE MAKE THIS OFFER. SAVE DOCTORS BILLS. KEEP THE SYSTEM IN GOOD ORDER. SIGN NAME: TOWN. STATE. THE GOODMOORE MEDICINAL TECO 36 SR STATE STREET CHICAGO IL ard, catcher; Bank, Washington and Rice, Rice; agent (agent for THE FREE-AM first base); base, Johnson; Kray, third base; Johnson, shortstop; Gibson, left field; Gibson, center field; E. Willis Business is very dull just now, although the colored people are still living. Had a Sunday night at Redwood Park for the benefit of college baseball, which was under austerity that popular gentleman, Mr. Oliver (alias Loving Dairy"). Had a very good music and good music was furnished by Prof. McMillan and pieces. The Redwood Park is under the supervision of Ross & Jones. Mr. David Gibson is manager of the baseball team, and Scott Curry is assistant manager and captain. Still, the baseballman Publishing Company and colored league are my best regards to all in the baseball profession. SCOTT CURRY. WILLING TO MEET BLACKBURN PHILADELPHIA—Special.—For some past Jake Blackburn has been voicing his burning desire to meet Joe Gans, who constantly put $100 with Manager McGigan to win the necessary to meet the champion at 133 pounds, weigh in at 6 o'clock. Evidently Gans has weared of these challenges, as will be seen in the following: "Sir—I have been invited by Manager John J. McGigan, of the National Athletic Club of your city, that Jack Blackburn has posted a forfeit of $100 to box me and insists that the weight shall be at box. I will bring him into the ring weighing in the neighborhood of 137 or 138 pounds. Why should I favor a fellow like him, who is not a boxer and telling people that I am afraid of him. "Now, I want to prove that Blackburn is not a lightweight, which he is claiming. I will make this proposition to Blackburn. I will insist that the National Athletic Club of your city if he wagre to weigh in at 133 pounds ringside, but I will insist that he posa a forfeit of not less than $500 for weight. If he is the right player, he will be the chance for him to make good his claim. If he thinks the distance—six rounds—is, too short, I will go a longer route with him. But I feel satisfied that he will make the lightweight limit, six rounds with the right question of supremacy. Very respectfully yours, JOE GANS. ROBS JOHNSON OF OPPONENT. Langford, Colored Wonder, Stops Big Jim Barry in Jig Time—Bout Ends in Second Round. BOSTON.—Sam Langford, the husky Negro middleweight pugilist of this city, ended the heavyweight aspirations of Jim Furyk in the time, before the Armory Athletic Association. Darril Langford put his opponent out of business in the second round of their bout, which was scheduled to go twelve rounds for a fight. He right right hook to the jaw that sent Barry to the mat for the count. Barry managed to get to his feet, and then tightened his grip on him with another right and looked him in his left as the white man was falling. Barry sprawled upon his face and could not get up. He was considerably dazed and his eyes were fixed on his corner, but revived in a few minutes. Barry was the favorite at 5 to 4, largely because he topped Langford by nearly twenty pounds and because he had exerted himself in the fight his opponent. That there was bad blood between the pair was evidenced as soon as they faced each other in the center of the ring, and many clean breaks, the referee twice cautioned Barry for hitting in clinches. When Langford saw what he had to expect he did not hesitate to respond in kind when a free mitt. Langford did all the forcing. RUDY SIZES UP GANS. Boer Thinks It's Up to Himself to Humble the Ethiopian. PHILADELPHIA—Rudolph Unholz, the "Boring Borer," was at the ringside to see the Gans-Robson battle, in Phila-den, when he saw the "old master" in action, and Unholz says he was a bit disappointed in the bout, for Gans was not forced to fully extend his arm. "Still, he says, 'I have seen enough of him to know that he is a great ring general, with a punch in either hand. My sense of what he is to do is the best championship, and am more than confident that I am the only lightweight in the world who can lower his colors. I know that a lot of people will say that I am a champion, and he am more than confident is what they said when I fought Jimmy Burns. "Gans is a great fighter, but there are other men. He is a good man then ways a better man than ways and strong. I hit good and short with either hand, and I have the advantage of ten years in youth. I believe body blows will hit him, and that is what I will give him." OHIO COLORED LEAGUE MEETS. DAYTON, O.—Mr. Wilkie Collins, vice president of the Ohio State Colored Baseball League and manager of the Lima team, O. L. Appent Tuesday in Dayton, O.—on business. The Dayton Giants gave a smoker, Thursday night, at Williams and Walker's college football games. Dayton H. Settles, of Columbus, president of the Ohio State Colored Baseball League; Albert W. Hubbard, secretary of the League, of Dayton; Colleen C. O'Neill, of Dayton; William Bushion, president of the Dayton Giants, and Scott Thompson, manager, were in Springfield Sunday, April 26, to attend the schedule of the committee are London Williams and B. H. Andrews, of the Springfield Elks Baseball Club. The schedule of the Ohio State Colored Baseball League will appear in our next issue. "Steinfeldt set some of the Reds an excellent example, when he struck out in the third inning. McLean muffed the ball, which call it a steal. Steinfeldt was as fast as he could go. There wasn't one chance in a hundred that he could make it in safety, but he was taking that chance. That kind of playing makes a team look good. One reason that Toorens could hold his face is that he never shirked on any play, no matter how hopeless it looked. Whenever you see a batter walk to the bench on a hit, you know he is on the first on an easy grounder to the infield, make up your mind that that player will never be a member of a championship team. The Cubs never loaf, and that is why they are the world's champions."—Cincinnati Enquirer Let some of our colored players set an example by reading this. I notice that some of our boys fail to on the last pitch, and some of their half run for looking back at the catcher. CREDIT TO BASEBALL McGovern Says His Recovery Is Due to Work on Diamond. NEW YORK, April 24—Terry McGovern credits his recovery to the fact that he never took medicine because Terry says that ever since his trouble began he has managed to get out of taking medicine. "Throw me in the dogs, I'll one of it," said Terry, who has been listening to Harry Stevens. Macbeth's advice has surely been good in Terry's case. "When they had me in the sanatorium." Terry says, "I watched the other patients and I noticed how they got thick- THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER headed after they took their medicine. I got a notion in my nut that the 'does' got a notion in their mind to keep them quiet and save trouble. I don't want to dope business in mine, so I managed to throw out the dope they handed me. The 'does' used to look me over and change my behavior. When I got out at last I went to playing baseball, and that's sure the greatest thing I ever struck for getting a job. I ever struck for getting what McGraw and the boys did for me. SOME NEW DECISIONS Harry Pulliam Clears Away Darkness Surrounding Points Which Have Bothered the Scorers. Hereafter baseball players must get what is coming to them from the official scorers. The World President Harry Pulliam, of the National League—and he’s the gentleman who O. K.’s the averages of the players in his league. Here are some of Mr. Pulliam’s enlightening decisions on plays that have been made in the work with scorers for lo, these many years: “A batsman should not receive credit for a base hit on an infield tap on which an umpire has thrown the ball, an man at another bag, unless it is plain that the batsman could not have been thrown out at first base if the play had been made to that bag originally. If the batsman caught a double steal and one man is thrown out, the other man, provided he reach the bag for which he started, shall be credited with a stolen base, as he takes the same chance of being retired as does the man who is stealing the ball, and doing his side to get a run nearer the plate. “A stolen base should be scored where a runner gets his start as the pitcher gets his start as the catcher subsequently drops. The intent to is there, and it is no fault of the runner if the catcher drops the ball. However, no stolen base should be scored on this play if the runner does not start until after the ball is dropped.” "A sacrifice hit should be credited to a batsman on every long fly that is hit on which, trained score, from third base, Died in the plate, is made to assist the runner crossing the plate." The Occidental Baseball Club, Salt Lake City, Utah, gave an elegant banquet Elder Everett of the American Club. Mr. Hal Haydn is president and Mr. Frank Black vice president. St. Augustine College, at Raleigh, N. C. developed one of the most formidable football teams of the college the past season, and has a great surprise in store in her baseball team. It is rumored that the Philadelphia Giants, Cuban Giants of New York, Royal Giants of Brooklyn and the Cuban Stars of Havana are going West, and will refuse to play any teams which have contact with the Cuban or representatives of any of the said teams. HOTEL NOTES. The Atlantic City hotels did a big "bib" Easter Sunday, which greatly benefited the many thousand colored employees, all of whom are looking forward to the summer season. The Stewards' National Association has made wonderful professional store it was organized in Buffalo in 1901. The association is about to open up headquarters and clubhouse in Chicago. It has not been definitely settled yet as to who will succeed the late R. M. Rush, at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island. The Hotel World recently contained an ad. for heads of departments for that hotel. W. F. Cozart, editor of the Walters' Department, has been involved in the street car accident, while visiting Cape May, N. J., receiving a fracture of the knee cap of his right leg, from which he is rapidly recovering. A rumor it has that Mr. J. M. Butler, formerly headwaiter at the Marlborough, Atlantic City, has a big surprise up his sleeve for the summer. Mr. Butler is now working in the store and waiters' supplies at 17 North Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. The colored waiters throughout the country are giving loyal support to the colored soldiers, and are not going to advocate the nomination of any candidate to the restatement of the colored soldiers, with full pay and complete exhonoration. We are pulling together all right politically, brothers. Now let us get closer to the realities of our lives together. Go forward and success is ours. Mr. Joseph McGuin, who has been headwaiter at the Brighton Hotel, Atlantic City, for the past twenty years, is still at his post of duty, well and hearty. Mr. N. H. Smiley, so says dame rumor, will be in charge of the Cliff House, at Manitou, Colo., the coming summer. Mr. Smiley served the Cliff for two seasons, but for the past year and a half has been seawater at the Hotel Mohawk Mobile, Ala. It is an old adage that "a burnt child dreads the fire." However, Mr. Smiley goes back to the Cliff. The International Geneva Association of white waiters has established clubs in several cities. In New York they have reorganized their clubs and have formed Forty-fourth street. Noting the success of the above, it pains us to think of our Headwaiters' Association, which was organized in 1898. What is the matter with the headwaiters? They are not successful to maintain an organization like white waiters? The colored waiters of this country are about 50,000 strong, and have an excellent opportunity to work with them in educational, educational and political affairs. WAXAHACHIE, TEX Special to THE FREEMAN. The District Conference of the A. M. E. Church convened in Blooming Grove, Tex., with J. and W. was in session three days, those W. W. attended. Those who attended from Waxahachie were as follows: Rev. C. H. Bell, P. E.; Bros. J. A. Austin, James Hoope, E. I. Macro, Joe Corders, Miss aide Hayes. Bro. J. E. McCorders, aide gate from Joshua Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Waxahachie. All the reports at the conference were grand, spiritually and emotionally good showing for these hard times... Will Martin and Miss Eliza Austin were送上 Sunday school, April 12, at 7 p.m. at the parent's parish. Gabe Austin, on Dunlap street, Rev. C. H. Bell officiating... Miss Maude Gibson spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Austin, last week... Dr. J. W. Rankin departed for New York City to attend the Educational Board... Died, at the home of his parents, little Theodore Bruce, the child about 8 o'clock p. m., Bruce, April 13, about 8 o'clock p. m., Bruce, April 13, about 23 days. The funeral was held at the home, by Rev. Gordon. The little Mrs. Jane Pettit died about the same hour, by a neighborhood. A protracted meeting is now progress at the A. M. E. Church and one at the M. E. Church... Rev. King closed his meeting, big baptizing at the creek Sunday evening. Brown is up, after a few weeks' illness. .Mrs. Donnie Brown, who was reported very low, is able to be up again...Mr. Brown was connected to his bed last week with the doctor. Richle and Mrs. Mitchell are on the sck list this week...Prof. C. E. W. Day, of our city en route home Saturday morning. He was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Westbrook, on Murdock street...Mr. Mathews Narsingle is porter at the Fearis Drug Store. 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Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are sold by your drugstreet, who will guarantee that the first package will benefit. If it falls, he will return your money. 25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. DESIGNERS, ENGRAVERS, ELECTROTYPEERS 23 West Pearl Street BOTH Phones 1870 INDIANAPOLIS A Large Selection at prices below competition. Will be pleased to show you the selection. CARL L. ROST, DIAMOND MERCHANT, 15 N. Illinois St. TheClaypool Hotel is Opposite Me. PAWNBROKER. We loan money on DIAMONDSI, WATCHES, JEWELRY and all articles of value at lowest rates. Ertel's Loan Office, 209 Massachusetts Avenue, Private office 108 E. Ohio Street. New Phone 1790 SPRING HOUSE CLEANING IS NOW AT HAND. Don't forget that cheap wall paper at the Nothing higher. The same goods you pay 25c for anywhere in the city. 423 MASS. AVE SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. KARSTADT BROS', DYE-WORKS 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. Newport Hotel W. T. CURTIS, Prop. 2821 2823 MARKET STREET CAFE 2321 Market St. In three Squares of Union Station, BUFFET BELL, Bomont 65 KINLOCH, C-1199 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. JAS. N. SHELTON. LUCAS B. WILLIS Phones—New 3058. Old, Main, 4694. Shelton & Willis, (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant. Lowest Prices. 418 Indiana Ave. Open all Night MONEY Loaned on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Gems, Revolvers and all articles of value, at 203 Ind. Ave., - Shiel Blk. SUPERIOR SUPERIOR New Phone 641 Frank W. Flanner. FUNERAL 320 N. Illinois St Proprietors India D. P. STIR Artificial Limb Abdomin Trusses M Work Guaranteed. Lady Attendant. 20 Old Phone Main 2485 New Phone 8670 Take East M HOOSI Club Room 10 Cent We deliver goods direct to con Give us a John Rauch Cigar Co MONEY New 2882 New Phone 641 W. Flanner. Chas. J. Butler FUNERAL DIRECTORS N. Illinois St., Indianapolis Proprietors Indianapolis Cremate D. P. STIRK & CO., Artificial Limbs and Braces, Abdominal Supporters and Trusses Made and Adjusted In Bad Case Work Guaranteed. Lady Attendant. 208 N. EAST STREET Indiana Take East Michigan Street Car to N. Kansas MORE ORDERS TAKEN HOOSIER POET Club Room Londre 10 Cent Cigar. Over goods direct to consumers and pay all express Give us a Trial Order. Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis HONEY TO LOA New Phone 641 Frank W. Flanner. Chas. J. Buchanan. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 320 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. Proprietors Indianapolis Crematory. D. P. STIRK & CO., ESTABLISHED 1878. Artificial Limbs and Braces, Abdominal Supporters and Crutches Trusses Made and Adjusted in Bad Cases. Work Guaranteed. 208 N. EAST STREET Indianapolis, Ind. Lady Attendant. Old Phone Main 2485 Take East Michigan Street Car to N. East and Ohio Streets New Phone 3670 MORE ORDERS TAKEN. HOOSIER POET Club Room Londres, 10 Cent Cigar. We deliver goods direct to consumers and pay all express charges. Give us a Trial Order. John Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind. MONEY TO LOAN The Borrowing Question. Nobody questions the fact that row money. The only question isifying you on every point and figures to offer. You'll find the reliable firm. Loans on furniture, pianos, horline. Any sum, any time, most pocket book. Intending borrow a deal; all others should bear up later. A good enough reference we've been established nineteen years. Indianapolis Mortgage 210 Unity Building. Old. Main, 541-TEI Picture ½ Off Madison MONDAY All Mouldings that sell from 7c to 18c p. 223 Ind. Ave. R. E. WELL'S The melancholy days have come. House cleaning time is here: This is merely to remind you that we requisites, such as Sponges, Paints, Moth Balls, Roach and Bug Eradication. The Best Goods at Pink's Cut R 550 INDIA New, 4135. TELEPHONE We also carry a complete line of questions the fact that it is often very convenient. The only question is, which company? You on every point and have some interesting offer. You'll find the "Indianapolis" a real on furniture, pianos, horses, carriages, wagons, sum, any time, most any size payments or knots. Intending borrowers should see us because others should bear us in mind—they may be good enough reference for most people is the established nineteen years. Indianapolis Mortgage and Loan Unity Building. - 147 E. Markle Old, Main, 541—TELEPHONES—New, 1419. Fiture Frame Made to Order. MONDAY SPECIAL ings that sell from 7c to 18c per foot, today at just 1/2, 3/4c to 1/2c. R. E. WELL'S PICTURE PLACE. moholy days have come. The fishing-worms are getting cleaning time is here; And the creeks are getting only to remind you that we are headquarters for both as Sponges, Paints, Varnishes, Furniture Poach and Bug Eradicators, Ammonia, etc. The Best Goods at the Lowest Prices. K's Cut Rate Pharmacy 550 INDIANA AVENUE, 4135. TELEPHONES, Old, Main, by a complete line of Fishing Tackle and Base fact that it is often very convenient to bor- question is, which company? We are sat- point and have some interesting facts and will find the "Indianapolis" a reasonable and ranos, horses, carriages, wagons, etc., is our time, most any size payments to suit your borrowers should see us before closing and bear us in mind—they may need money reference for most people is the fact that nineteen years. Mortgage and Loan Co., Living, 147 E. Market St. in, 541—TELEPHONES—New, 1419. Fire Frames Made to Order. MONDAY SPECIAL in 7c to 18c per foot, today at just 1/4, 3/4c to 9c per foot. WELL'S PICTURE PLACE. Shiel Bl'k are come, are: The fishing-worms are getting ripe And the creeks are getting clear. you that we are headquarters for house-cleaning Paints, Varnishes, Furniture Polishes, Borax, ug Eradicators, Ammonia, etc. Goods at the Lowest Prices. But Rate Pharmacy INDIANA AVENUE, TELEPHONES, Old, Main, 4342. The line of Fishing Tackle and Base Ball Goods. Nobody questions the fact that it is often very convenient to borrow money. The only question is, which company? We are satisfying you on every point and have some interesting facts and figures to offer. You'll find the "Indianapolis" a reasonable and reliable firm. Loans on furniture, pianos, horses, carriages, wagons, etc., is our line. Any sum, any time, most any size payments to suit your pocket book. Intending borrowers should see us before closing a deal; all others should bear us in mind—they may need money later. A good enough reference for most people is the fact that we've been established nineteen years. Indianapolis Mortgage and Loan Co., 210 Unity Building. - 147 E. Market St. Old, Main, 541-TELEPHONES-New, 1419. Picture Frames All Mouldings that sell from 7 to 18 per foot, today at just 1%, 3% to 9 per foot. 223 Ind. Ave. R. E. WELL'S PICTURE PLACE. Shiel B!k'. This is merely to remind you that we are headquarters for house-cleaning requisites, such as Sponges, Paints, Varnishes, Furniture Polishes, Borax, Moth Balls, Roach and Bug Eradicators, Ammonia, etc. New, 4135. TELEPHONES, Old, Main, 4342. We also carry a complete line of Fishing Tackle and Base Ball Goods. A. B. The Log Cabin Saloon, Fine Liquors and Cip Private Wine Rooms A OPEN DAY AND Free Lunch with Each Drink brands—Captain Tom, Daniel Corinne. Geo., White, Prop. Geo. 587 W. Green St. Home F LOUISVILLE, K R. Baron, Bicycles & Ha Fine Liquors and Cigars. Private Wine Rooms Attached. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Free Lunch with Each Drink. Special brands-Cantain Tom, Daniel Boone and Robt. R. Baron, B BICYCLE The Bargain Store. 25 335 Indiana Avenue. Northwestern RAN BUTLER, B Best colored Base Ball Team in the United States GOOD colored or white teams solic 462 W. 15TH STREET, RAN The Bargain Store. 25 Kinds of Bicycle Tires. 335 Indiana Avenue. - - - - New Phone 5407. Northwestern Base Ball Park A special repricing of several hundred Turkish and Persian rugs—an assortment representative of almost every rug produced in the Orient—good usable sizes in each kind. Hamadan Rugs includes sizes from 2x3.3 ft. to 2.9x4.5 ft. regular prices range from $9 to $11. Any one you choose in this sale. $5.35 Kazakdjies Rugs, dark, rich coloring, long, lustrous and geometrical designs are characteristic of these rugs. In this lot sizes range from 2.1x0.3 x 3.1x0.4, values from $11 to $14.50, now. $7.95 Baluchistans are among the handsomest of Oriental rugs. Sizes range from 2.8x4.2 to 2.8x5.2, regular prices from $28 to $27.50, sale price. $17.35 sale price.....$17.35 Fourth floor, south. L. S. Ayres &' Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Arthur Goens, of Elkhart, Ind., is in the city. Miss Isabel Boldin, of Madison, Ind., is visiting friends in the city. Mrs. B. J. Morgan continues ill at her home in Graceland avenue. H. Bishop, of Kansas City, Mo., was in the city a few days this week. Mrs. Lois Long will entertain the Woman's Club Monday afternoon at her home in West Eleventh street. The funeral of Robert Miller was held Thursday, conducted by Rev. Seymour. Mr. Miller was ill about three days. Mrs. Alice Crane has returned from the burial of her sister, Mrs. Hettie Bosley, of Lebanon, Ky., who died April 22. Communion services will be held at Allen Chapel tomorrow. Revs. Chas. Hunter and J. S. Bailey will be in charge. The Mary Campbell Mite Missionary Society will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ollie Cheatham in Toledo street. The Daughters of Charity held their annual services at Simpson Chapel last Sunday night. Rev. J. S. Bailey delivered the sermon. Mrs. James A. Taylor, of Kansas City Mo., formerly Miss Clara Coley, of this city is the guest of her mother and sister at their home, 334 West Tenth street. The W. C. T. U, will hold a meeting at Flanner Guild Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Shoemaker, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League will be the speaker. Miss Maple Chism and mother of Chicago are visiting the latter's sister Mrs. Davis in Center street. Tuesday evening they were the guests of honor at a six o'clock dinner given by Mrs. Nelson Caldwell and her daughter, Mrs. Emmett Walker. Blaine Scott, a well-known young man of this city, died at Chicago last week and his remains were brought here for burial, accompanied by Mrs. Lizzie Snell Scott, Tom Scott and two sons. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Bethel A. M. E. church. Bishops Abram Grant and Shaffer, Revs. Jesse Peck, W. T. Cook, Frank Peck, A. C. Collins, A. Gilbert, W. D. Barksdale and Dr. McDonald of the Western Recorder passed through the city Wednesday afternoon en route to Norfolk, Va. to attend the General Conference. Rev. Shaffer of this city joined the party here. Business Locals Woodbine Perfume, Oh how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges, Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178; Old, Main 4032. If you want the best photos, go to Bennett's, 36 E. Washington street. THE PARKER HOUSE TO CLOSE for personal reasons the present management of this famous hostelry has decided to go out of business on June 1. The chance of a life time for some one who wishes to go into busi- SUITS High grade goods at pop SKIRTS WAISTS ular price. No charge JACKETS MILLINERY for alterations. PETTICOATS S. L. KISER & CO., Washington and Delaware Sts. ness on small capital. Must be sold by June 1, or else a big auction. J. W. Holiman, proprietor. Friends, will you help us win the trip to Europe offered by the Indianapolis Star? *What is needed, now, is place started in this contest, now, is fourth. Not much is needed to reach first place. Take at once at once a subscription to The Star. We should be far in the lead in our district if just twenty-five persons subscribe this week. Then let all who hold subscriptions in our grand rush send me their names at once. What is to hinder us from winning? *nothing entured, nothing won!" This opportunity, at the time, effort and money we can give. The committee having in hand the Clarence Cameron White recital are meeting with success in disposing of tickets. Already numerous parties are being arraigned for the offence of offence to be gathered in Simpson Chapel, on May 8, to greet this famous violinist. The supporting numbers have been well chosen. The supporters are the one, the most prominent programs will be presented, dianapolis will be put to the test, and it is hoped that she will maintain her reputation of being ready to support all that stands for advancement. Mr. White needs his recommendation to Indianapolis. His ability was clearly demonstrated on his visit here some two years ago, when he gave a recital at Caleb Mills Hall. Those supporting Mr. White are the one leading soprano of the Withering U. P. Church; Mrs. Alberta J. Grubbs, pianist of the Metropolitan School of Music, and the only colored Star contestant composer and reader of his own selections, and the Colored Y. M. C. A. Orchestra, under the direction of Samuel A. Rattile. This should prove one of the strongest program itself. Aside from composer itself, the object should appeal to all. The orchestra, which is instrumental in bringing Mr. White here, is desirous of being given an association rooms, and is one of the ways the association have of raising money to do so. Mr. White is making a farewell tour before going abroad, and Indianapolis is fortunate in having the opportunity of hearing him at this time. The standing of the basketball tournament is as follows: Won. Lost. Reds 3 1 Blues 2 2 Blacks 2 2 Whites 3 1 Next Monday evening at 8 p.m. Opens to the public. All are welcome. Yes, ladies can next. A company of men has agreed to meet their needs in May and June, at the Colored Y. M. C. A., for one hour of Bible study and Call as teacher. Any man may attend. Slaves To Be Reimbursed. WASHINGTON, April. 29.—Former slaves or their heirs are to be benefited to the extent of $1,000,000 if a bill favorably reported today by the House Committee on Banking and Currency becomes a law. The measure, which has been in Congress for many years, has passed the Senate. It is based upon the claims of former slaves who lost money deposited in the Freedman's Bank, which was established in this city for the benefit of colored men soon after the close of the civil war. The bank failed after a brief existence and for more than thirty-five years the depositors or their heirs have been trying to induce the Government to reimburse them. t ALFRED R. HOVEY, ESQ. The candidacy of Mr. Alfred R. Hovey for prosecuting attorney of this county at the coming Republican primaries should prove a hope, thought to all citizens asking for a clean, thorough administration of the affairs of this important office. Mr. Hovey is among the oldest and best known as well as among the best attorneys at the local bar. He is popular, a man of high attaintments and good character, and would lend dignity to the position that his friends are insisting on him seeking. It is sadom and potent administration enough to have such a man to present himself at a personal sacrifice for this office, especially an attorney of Mr. Hovey's experience and recognized ability. No attorney in this city is more popular and in AN APPEAL. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED COLUMN The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamp) has cured others: will cure you. Address R.P. Bload. druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. Call at 600 1-2 North West street and see Dr Langston's Dental and Manicuring Parlor. Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed. 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. Visiting cards, latest styles, 50 for 20 cents. Samples free. Agents wanted. Chowning Card Co. Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. Langston, the dentist at 609 1-2 North West street makes a specialty of good plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Genuine Diamond Rings and Silver Sets Free. Sell ten of our Champion Iron Cleaners and Linen Polishers. Every housewife uses it. We give you your choice of premiums. No fake. Enclose two dimes for samples to Edward Johnson. Desk P. 606 Maple St. Williamport, Pa. FOR RENT—2127 N. Arsenal ave., 3 rooms. $8.50; 2129 N. Arsenal ave., 3 rooms. $8.50; 989 W. Eleventh st., 4 rooms. $9; 937 Wayne st., 4 rooms. The Anderson, 4 rooms. $4; 212 Geisendorf, 5 rooms. $10 50; 538 W. Sixteenth, 5 rooms. $10 536 W. Sixteenth, 5 rooms. $10. The Freeman Realty Co., 225 Indiana avenue. New Phone 2880. Wanted—Every colored lady and gentleman to write us for large samples of Stra-Ko Hair Tonic, the best hair dressing used with comb and brush only, no pressing, and Creole Face Cream, made especially for our race. Send ten two cent stamps to cover packing and postage. Agents wanted everywhere. The Burton Toilet Goods Co. St. Joseph Mich. WANTED-Agents with some experience in canvassing in every county in the Union to take orders for our Guaranteed Preparations; deliver, collect and appoint sub agents. We give 40 per cent. commission for the first 90 days work, and will pay a monthly salary to all trustworthy agents thereafter, according to their work. Send 10c for postage and we will send you a package of our Sachet Perfume with contract and full particulars. Address The McPherson Specialty Co., Dorchester, Va. Hardware, Paints, Glass and Tools. 547 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. IN THE LEAD. Cafe, Restaurant, Oyster Bay. Open Day and Night- Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. HAZEL, Fashionable Tailor. Taste is the dominating element in the selection as well as the make-up of a Suit of Clothes. To combine those properly is A High Art, one part is yours, one part is mine. Come let us join hands. Prices right. 333 INDIANA AVENUE NEW PHONE 4681. J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me for bargains if you are looking for a home or investment. Cash or easy payments. 536 Indiana Ave.. Indianapolis, Ind. SCHNEIDERMAN'S STEAM DYE HOUSE, 601 N. ILLINOIS. ST.. Corr. Penn. and Ft. Wayne Ave. Indianapolis First Class Dyeing, Cleaning, Repairing of Ladies and Gents' Clothing. All work Suites. Suite made to order. Prices possessable. The Freeman can be found at the Mt. Vernon House, Norfolk, Va., L. W. Bright, proprietor. better favor with the colored voters than is he, and it is safe to predict that he will receive a favorable and merited consideration at their hands. He was born on a farm in New York in 1853, worked on the farm till he was nineteen years old. He graduated from Alfred University, NY. He came to dianapolis in 1877, was admitted to the bar of the State and Federal Courts in 1878. He formed a partnership with Wm. building at the farm still continues. He has had a large practice and has been engaged in many important cases. The interests of the people will be ably looked after if they place Mr. Hovey in charge. He is friendly with union labor. FOR SALE. MISCELLANEOUS LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MEN'S HAIR SOFT COLOUR SUNSHINE KEEP'S HAIR PROFESSIONAL OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE WHEN YOU WOULD YOU RATHER SHAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SINNAT YOU CAN NOT IT UPFRONT THE LASTST STYLE ON SHORT AND NURY KEEP'S HAIR FRESH COLOUR SUNSHINE KEEP'S HAIR PROFESSIONAL OFF A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. HAIR. To straighten out that kinky, curly hair, putting it in the most perfect condition to be combed into any shape, just try a bottle of LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. There is no other preparation on earth to equal LINCOLN HAIR POMADE in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair cleanser—a natural promoter of growth and naturally reduces the hair to a straight and combable condition; but also supplies the hair with a silky sheen and gloss. No matter how rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how hard or curly it may be, the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give your hair that can well be the envy of others Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be good, but insist on getting the genuine. PRICE 15 CENTS. Manufactured by THE LINCOLN POMADE COMPANY, NORFOLK, VA, U. S. A. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer do-s not keep it. send 20 cents in silver or stamps to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO., De- partment D., Norfolk, Va., and we will send you a bottle by return mail. HELLO DID YOU KNOW IT? Cohen & Gillmer, Artistic Tailors, HAVE OPENED FIRST CLASS PARLORS, Catering to Colored Dressers in Smart Clothes. We are showing the latest designs and fabrics. Your trade is solicited on the merit of our work and goods. A visit to our parlors is all we ask. If we do not sell you, the fault is ours. A chance is all we ask. 205 Indiana Ave. MEN'S SPRING SUITS, Ladies', Misses' and Children's Spring Jackets, Skirts and Millinery, At Our Price, The Lowest Price. THE Granger Store, 336 W. Wash. St. Heitkam's Buffet, 602 N. Senate Ave. Foreign and Dome tie Cigars, Wines and Liquors. Courteous treatment to all. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED. Fifteen Ball Pool. Hindel's Buffets, 256-551 Indiana Ave. Choice Foreign and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Hindel Brothers. DO YOU KNOW that you can save from 75 to 100 per cent. on all household articles bought of WILLI - M H BARON dealer in new and second hand goods. It costs you nothing to inspect my stock. Always some- thing on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. Tires put on do-carts. 841 Inciana Ave. EUREKA DRUG STORE. Everything at Cut Prices. Pure Drugs of all descriptions, Toilet Articles, Sundries, Cigars, etc. Prescriptions a Specialty. C. W. Shaffer, Chas. Chavis, PROPRIETORS. 638 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. The Indianapolis Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania Street. Buy Your Next Suit at GOODMAN'S 261 E. Washington St. S. W. Cor. Alabama and Washington. ON EASY PAYMENTS OF $1.00 PER WEEK. New Patterns Arriving Daily. 363 South Meridian Street 363 Insist on Getting Bryce's Bread. Subject to Democratic Primary Election, May 15, 1908. Union Co-Operative Laundry Respectfully Asks Your Patronage. The Laundry of Quality—On the Viaduct. If we do it—it is done right. Both Phones 1269. JOHN F. WHITE, Mgr., 232-238 Virginia Avenue. PERFECT MISSION LAMP FREE Best material is used to make this PERFECT MISSION LAMP. The Shade is Mission Finish wrought iron, with wedge riveted joints and fitted with Opaqueest Art Glass, mounted on Mission Oak Standard Pedestal. Fitted complete for Gas, Electricity or Oil. A ticket given with each 10c purchase. McKee's Medical Hall Pharmacy, In the Shiel Block. Illinois Street and Indiana Avenue. Big Four Excursions, SUNDAY, MAY 3rd. $2 Louisville and Return $2 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. $1.50 Champaign, Ill. Danville, Ill $1.25 Special Train Leave 7:25 a.m. $1.25 Terre Haute and Return $1.25 Special Train Leaves 7:40 a.m. $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG, AURORA AND WAY POINTS $1.50 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. TRADE MARK 966 US DALOFF GOF WITH COMPANY PERFECT The Indiana 45 South Penn Buy Your N GOOD 261 E. Washington St. S. V ON EASY PAY $1.00 PER New Patterns BAYCOT MOMENTS WITH KC Save get b els a our s 363 South Meri Insist on Getting For State John F Submit to ROMEO Style Variety Attractiveness and Price Have Made Walk-Over Shoes Famous. HUTCHINSON'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 28 North Pennsylvania Street. Have You a Gas Range? THE Perfect GAS RANGE does all your cooking for less money than it costs to cook on the hot coal stove. It does better cooking. It keeps the kitchen cool. It is clean. It saves so much time. $2.00 will place a PERFECT in your kitchen. Balance at $2.00 a month. napolis Gas Co. Pennsylvania Sreet. Next Suit at DMAN'S S. W. Cor. Alabama and Washington. Y PAYMENTS OF PER WEEK. ns Arriving Daily. The Best Made Mother's Bread, Bryce's Make. Save the labels from any of Bryce's Bread and get beautiful chinaware premiums. The labels are red, white and blue. Bring them to our store. Meridian Street 363 Lining Bryce's Bread. State Senate, F. White, Senatic Primum Eleg.