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YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DURING YOUR VACATION REPRESENTING THE FREEMAN. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE SEND FOR OUR EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER NAPOLIS ON 6-1908 PUBLIC LIBRARY VOLUME XXI NUMBER 23 CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED THE CAPITAL PREPARING FOR CHICAGO EVENT Looking for Suitable Candidate for Vice-president—Judson W. Lyons Attending National Committee Meeting. By the National Negro Press Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—Congress has gone "on its way rejoicing," and the capital is taking a breathing spell preparatory to getting a firm grip on the political situation about to develop at The canvass for a suitable vice presidential candidate goes merrily on. Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, Murphy, of Connecticut, of New York, Dolphin, of California, are mentioned as available, but the consensus of opinion, as observed, is that neck-o-the-woods, is that Fairbanks must be strength than any man that might be named, and it is likely that pressure of the will will be brought to bear upon the head of the candidate, place on the Taft ticket, when his nomination or the head shall have been found impressed by the Fairbanks enjoy confidence and respect of the people, and they would be glad to have a chance to vote for a ticket which bears his name. Taft and Fairbanks would win in a walk. made. He should then yield gracefully to the will of the party. I am a Republican, and shall pull off my coat and do all I can to elect the choice of the convention, whoever he may happen to be. I am opposed to the proposed reduction of representation, based upon disfranchisement of the Negro. I do not want a stamp of approval placed upon disfranchisement, even if the South is willing to pay the price. The thing to do is to insist upon a rigid enforcement of the constitution of the republic. If any man comes into Congress claiming a title to a seat, and it can be shown that his so-called election has been secured by fraud, the House, exercising its prerogative to pass upon the qualifications of its members, should refuse to allow such a claimant to take part in legislation. The remedy for disfranchisement lies in Congress' control over its own membership—not in perpetuating restriction of suffrage by licensing it. Auditor Ralph W. Tyrler left for Chicago Wednesday, by way of Columbus and Cleveland. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Tyrler, who will be in the Palmer House, together with Col. G. A. Myers, of Cleveland, Mr. Tyrler and staff will keep "open house" for the reception having reserved apartments several weeks ago for the purpose. Recorder J. C. Dancy goes on later in the week, after filling a speaking engagement for the colored audience, and will be the reception Judge Robert H. Terrell, Assistant District Attorney James A. Cobb, Whitfield McKinley and Lieut. F. W. Check, who will be present generally, is understood pretty generally that H. H. Flather and R. R. Horner, the district delegates will vote for Taft. Senator Burrows will stick as temporary chair; Judge Lodge shall be permanent presiding officer. Congressman Burton, of Ohio, is to place the name of Secretary Taft before the convention, and seconding speeches will be made. In the list is a colored man, whose name can not be given out. He is a "cracker-jack," and will "deliver the jinks" is a safe bet that there will be jinks in Chicago at the middle of the month. Washington is being honored by a visit at the hands of a delegation of distinguished colored men, representing the Republie of Liberia. They reached New York on May 1, and arrived in Washington on the 22d. Day. The party made of Garreg son W. Gibson a former president of Liberia; James Dossen, now vice president, and Charles B. Dunbar, a practicing at the Washington State College of Law, who was only two years' extraordinary from President Arthur Barclay, of Liberia, and their mission is to seek the good offices of the United States to prevent encroachments upon the United States. Theirs are the most important and German governments occupy adjacent colonies, and they are about to make aggressive claim to a slice of land which is the most important part of the United States could not interfere in any official sense, the fact that Liberia was largely settled by American Negroes gives a warrant for the exercise of a moratorium. The U.S. government has been to intervene and see that fair play is guaranteed. The delegation bore letters from United States Minister James Dossen, who is the most important part of the State Department an interview was had Monday last with President Roosevelt, after which the party paid a visit to Tuskegee Institute, under his instruction to the U.S. government there in time to witness the imposing commencement exercises. While in this country they will endeavor to interest American capitalists in the future, the U.S. are in a more arduous and indismissable way with which Liberia abounds. With money, machinery and desirable immigration, the delegates say Liberia could be made one of the most pre-war war-treaties in the world. It was about 45,000 citizens, and about 2,500,000 natives, who with proper training in the industrial arts could be developed into a reliable laboring class. The other was not to be a far-relic of the work at Tuskegee, and efforts will be made to have Dr. Washington send over a number of instructors from Tuskegee, with a view of establishing a national service of trade. It is the most important of their land. Since their advent in this city the envoys, who are a fine-looking group of gentlemen, have been guests at the National, Washington and the artostatic hostelers, and their elegant parliors have been besieged by all kinds and conditions of callers, from Cabinet of Officers and diplomats, and a series of other dinners played by a writer of the federal official contingent, among whom were Auditor Tyler, Register Vernon, Judge Terrell, Recorder of Nancy, and District Attorney Cobb. The Washington State Board and a few other distinguished men as invited guests. A large public meeting is announced for Thursday evening, June 4, at which time the herbalist envoys were called to the city to the national commercial aspects of their mission here. Dr. Booker T. Washington is to be present and will be heard briefly. In connection with the envoys's proposition to the U.S. and the Washington Branch and the Secretaries of the United States and the American Consul, J. R. Faulkner, and the American Consul General, Mr. Charles H. Adams, of Boston, a descendant of the famous Adams family of colonial times. The company was made as a primary depreciation of the main company's negotiations, teaching their labors are yet pending. The colored leaders here, Messrs. Tyler, Terrell, Cobb, McKinlay and Dancy, deserve especial credit for their strenuous efforts to have the restrictions from the sale of the homeestead lands owned by the Negro-Indian tribes in Oklahoma, granted by the government many years ago, designed to give women in Indian homes home which could never be taken from their possession or alienated, to use the legal term. It seemed certain that these ignorant Indians marks if the restrictions were removed, and the gentlemen put it up to the President and Secretary Garfield in the strongest language their community could give by the use of the veto power, as the measure had passed both houses of Congress. The pressure from other sources, however, was too great. The President was instructed to affix his signature to the bill. Mr. W. J. Houston, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Florida at Jacksonville, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908. HEATHEN CIVILIZATION. YES, IF YOU DON'T LIKE HIM, YOU CAN JUST GET A DIVORCE AND MARRY AGAIN THAT'S THE CIVILIZED WAY. HOW TO DIVORCE. MISSIONARY THE BIBLE which presented him with a beautiful cane, elegantly carried and with bedeet with the head of an alligator, symbol of the typical animal of the state. Mr. Houston will be re-elected Grand Master without notable opposition at the next meeting of the B. M. C. at Atlantic City, September 14 to Calvin Buford, Percie C. Hatch, Daniel J. Hughett, Charles Butler Nuckels, Norman Winnon, Lurena B. Hamilton, Grace Bell, Elizabeth State Dept., Augusta Elizabeth Manion, Maud Lella Parker and Henrietta Woodson. William C. Buford will be valedictorian and Lu cipically of the Ladies' Relief, a memorial carried with undoubted attention by angels and approval Lord. The following persons de addresses: Rev. Smith, R. C. Prof. G. W. Jackson, Rev. V. S. D. and Rev. G. W. Robinson, in element terms of the cases --- Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was a delegate to the meeting of woman suffragists, held at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on the 27th of June, 1865, and some stained friend of the cause who has passed beyond. Mrs. Terell, with characteristic race pride and as a tribute to one of the propaganda's most ardent champion, represented Frederick Douglass. Plans are being arranged whereby a plane is to be shown at Washington Park, Dr. Booker, Washington is to be present, and Manager Jefferson has agreed that the proceeds of the day are to go to swell the fund for the re-establishment of the old homestead of Frederick Douglass. PADUCAH. KY. Special to THE FREEMAN. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. cipally of the Ladies' Relief Corp. The services were conducted in a manner sanctioned by angels and approved by the Lord. The following persons delivered the addresses: Rev. Smith, R. C. McClure, Prof. G. W. Jackson, Rev. V. S. Smith, D. D, and Rev. G. W. Robinson, who spoke and much stress was laid on and much stress was laid on all who survive them. Much credit was given the martyred, sainted and immortal Lincoln. TUSCALOOSA, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. At the prize oratorial contest of the graduating class of the city schools of the first prize was won by Miss Clara Ferguson and the second by Miss Justina Thom-Furton. For the prize, spending and helpful talks were made by the following: Hon. W. M. Faulk, mayor of Tuscaloosa; Dr. Buchner, professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, the first professor to be the similar professorship at the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Geo. A. Weaver, and Prof. Benj. H. Barnes, vice principal of the Colorado City, who was on the Perryson, Birmingham, is spending few days with her mother, Mrs. M. C. Johnson. Ernest Rhoul, after spending some time with his cousin, Alfred Hall, has returned to Presphyros, the first of the first-time. The school is at the age of 25, with a large crowd, for the graduating exercises of the Stillman Theological Institute. Ev-Jessie Spakel, the first-time, is a member of the przy-klapus. The following was the program: Academic Department—Music, Player; music; The Christian Doctor; Hampton London, Jr. of Jackson; La Parenta Negled of the Dipabhat School; John McWilson of Tuscaloosa; "The Diversification of Farming in Alabama," Augustus Powell, of Eutaw; music; "The Colored People and the Prohibition Movement," Blackstock S. C., "The Curse of Idiness," Judge Matthew Williams, of Tuscaloosa. Theological Department—Music is "The Call of the Church of Education and the Wiss. Mom: Ambient Jade" in the Cente of the 1952. The following teachers of the city schools have left for their homes for the summer Misses Laura B and Ethel Smith, for Chattanooga, Tenn.; Miss Mollie Mahon, Vicksburg, Miss. Miss Blanche I. Sherrod of this city, is spending a few weeks in Birmingham... The local ball club, the Tuscaloosa Unions, played two interesting games, and the last year of Memphis, Tenn., recently. Memphis won the first game with a score of 10 to 5, while Tuscaloosa won the second, and the score being 4 to 3. Tuscaloosa has played good� this year as Greenboro and Bessemer. The following is the line-up of the team: Taggett, p.; Jackson, p. and captain; Collins, c.; Logan, 1st b. Gray, 2nd b. Wood, c. t.; W. S. Hool, f. Hool, Campbell, i. t.; Luffboro and Wright, managers. HOWARD'S BANNER YEAR! NOTED SCHOOL'S BRILLIANT COMMENCEMENT. Best Year in History of Howard— Fruit of Two Years of Intelligent and Co-operative Effort— Bright Prospects Ahead. SPECIAL TO THE FREEMAN TO THE UNIVERSITY June 11—Howard University's fortieth year has closed in a blaze of glory. Unprecedented enthusiasm and unparalleled brilliance have marked the exercises of the commencement week, and the annual meeting of the university's Thirkield, submitted to the annual meeting of the board of trustees, indicates the attainment of the school's loftiest financial prosperity and appreciable results in the making of sturdy men and women. Brilliant Commencement Week—On Friday, the commencement and the graduating exercises of the School of Theology in Andrew McDowell, Sunday, the monsoon the backcalureate sermon delivered by Bishop William Frazer McDowell, of Chicago. Aside from the eloquence of the sermons, the stirring music of the choir, the occasion was made notable by the presence of the three envoys from Liberia and their staff, who arrived on a diplomatic and commercial mission. On Monday evening the Teachers' College held its exercises, and seven young women who finished the normal training course in dent Thirkleld. The address to the class was delivered by Prof. J. H. N. Waring, '88, now principal of the High and Training Schools of Moore presided, and Chief Justice Stanton J. Peele, of the United States Court of Claims, made interesting remarks. He expressed a desire that all children should be exposed to the treatment of black man should have the same advantages enjoyed by those of the white man. He referred to the great work of Dr. Moore in the teaching of public schools also praised the work of Mary Lyon in providing college education for women. Tuesday afternoon the School of Liberal Arts held the central training for forty nine graduates, in the evening twenty-one members of the Academy and Preparatory classes received diplomas. White, now practiced law in Philadelphia, delivered a telling oration on the occasion of the Alumni reunion Wednesday afternoon, after which the vast strong view of the university was received. Wednesday evening the First Congregational Church was crowded to the doors with an eager mass of humanity to welcome the graduates of the university. Of the ninety-two graduates in the several departments on whom degrees were conferred nineteen received the degree of bachelor of arts; four, bachelor of science; nine, doctor of pharmacy; five, doctor of dental surgery; twenty-five, doctor of medicine, and twenty-five, bachelor of law. Thirkleld, after an invocation to the graduates touching the sacred trust which the diplomas imposed upon each of them. Gov. J. Frank Hanley, of Indiana, delivered an impressive address to the class, commending the race upon its marvelous progress since emancipation, pointing out the great success of the campaign, and a question of property, lauding the part Howard University had played in the labor of racial redemption, and urged his hearers to take an active interest in the struggles of the American nation. He said, as he did, which is doing more harm to the colored race than any other evil of the times. Referring specifically to the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the poor graduates and the poor. Gov. Hanley said: “When I speak of your progress, and of the future of this class and the 3,000 live which have already reached a level of the best, by the hard University, I do not mean that all the difficulties are overcome. Your responsibility was never greater than at this house, your destiny never more in your own keeping than never more in your own hands. Your rights under the laws an constitution of this nation or to draw limitations about you; but if you with sobriety, with meekness and with sincerity, do not have the power to do so, you will come to and maintain their own. We may sometimes forget; we may be sometimes careless, but deep down in the heart of the American people, the man or race who conducts himself or of itself with a care for the obligations laid on him or it, need not long appeal to the people who believe in justice to all the people.” Of conjure you to consecrate yourselves that you may justify the opportunity that has come to you. Waste no time in praying for opportunities. You may not have them, when they come. No one need fret for opportunities; they lie about him everywhere. Opportunity has come to you in this institution; it is coming to you tomorrow. May God help you to measure Rev. Walter H. Brooks invoked the blessings of Providence upon the immense assemblage, and Commissioner Thirkfield and the university upon the happy culmination of the best year in its history. Most crowds attended each of the functions announced, and throughout the commencement season the Lyric Orchestra and the choir of the University furnished high-grade music, which added immeasurable to the faculty and the student body alike. Many distinguished persons from abroad—being investigators in sociology and educational methods and others having children among the graduates—honored the Continued on Page Four. 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. THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK. Woman's at best a contradiction—Pope. Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.—Young. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.—Lytton. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam—Milton. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Things which can not be altered are to be borne, not blamed; follies past are sooner remembered than redressed; and the lost may well be repented, but never recalled. Mary Stubbs Moore, chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, paid President Roosevelt at the White House recently. She was highly praised by him because she saw an ever chosen to an elective state office in Indiana, but praised more highly because she gave up the office to get married. Mrs. Moore went to Washington to attend the statistician's meeting of Agriculture to take the agricultural statistics of the Indiana bureau as the official Government statistics. Secretary Wilson said he would be glad to do the statistician's job in States that he would accept them. The suggestion may help a bill to make uniform the gathering of such statistics in the State. Mrs. Moore also called on S. Warren to explain how the statistician works in Indiana was carried on, and showed a great number of blanks which are used in this State. Mr. North was greatly pleased the work he declared that he had not imagined the such effective work was being done. WOULD CURB MOTHER-IN-LAW. Justice Kelly, of the Supreme Court, sitting in Brooklyn, declared today that he favored the enactment of a law to curb mothers-in-law. Fifty per cent, of the diverse cases that come before him, he said, are due to the interference of parents. WOMEN OPPOSE HOPKINS. The women's clubs of Salt Lake City have issued an appeal to the women of Illinois to work for the defeat of United States Senator A. P. Hopkins for re-election because of the part he took in defending Senator Reed Smoot from charges of insulting a woman that Hopkins went out of his way to misrepresent Mormon conditions in Utah. MOUSE IN MERRY WIDOW. Mrs. Ellen Steele, at Marion, widow of the late William Steele, who was treasurer of Grant county, had an unusual experience with a mouse recently. Mrs. Steele had donned her new merry widow hat to see what she would do when she detected in the crown of the hat a rustling not made by foliage. An investigation disclosed the fact that a mouse had taken up its home in the hat crown. Mrs. Steele's fingers while she was removing the hat plus. She went immediately to a physician and had the wounds catered. $2,25 A DAY FOR SEVENTEEN. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bennett, of Fulton, are the parents of eighteen children, and they are the parents of six sons. The youngest, a boy, was born Tuesday night. Of this number two daughters are twins. One son died in inpatient care, the other in hospital and eat at the same table. The parents were born in this city, and were married here twenty-four years ago last February, and are now living in this city years old. Mr. Bennett is a stonecutter, and has supported and reared this large family over $2.25 a day. He is forty-eight years of age, and his wife is six years his junior. JULIA WARD HOWE 89 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was eighty-nine years old May 28, and her birthday was celebrated and flowers from all parts of the country. She spent the day quietly with her family at her home in Beacon street at Boston, Mass. It being desired, owing to her adamant love for her children, fatigue, although appreciating the many kind greetings and messages, she received only a few intimate friends outside the family. Mrs. Howe is in good health considering her age, and looked forward with great interest to the fordite anniversary of the birth of her husband, she is president. The anniversary exercises were held yesterday evening in the South Congregational church, and Mrs. was able to be present for a brief time. WOMEN LEARN TO DRESS. Impressions of America, formed by Miss Ellen Terry on her first appearance in this country in 1883, are given in the book *Miss Terry* by it was a member of Sir Henry Irving's company Miss Terry came to New York. It will be recalled that on her last visit to this country, she met former Goshen (Ind.) man, James Carew, won the heart and hand of Miss Terry and they were married shortly before the famous actress sailed for home. Of her appearance in America Miss Terry says: Henry made his first appearance in America in 1883, and he was his best on the first night, but he could be pretty good even when he was not at his best. I watched him from a box. Nervousness made the company very slow, and he was not quite embittering and appreciative. We felt that the Americans wanted to like us. We felt in a few days so extraordinarily at home. The first sensation of entering a new world. On the second night in New York it was my turn. "Command yourself; this is the time to show you can act." I said to my wife, "I am at the Spring Theater, dressed as Heinriela Maria. But I could not command myself. I played badly and cried too much in the last act. But the people liked me, and they liked me too. Because I used to move when he made that involuntary effort to kneel to his subject, Moray, but the Lyceum audiences never seemed to notice it. In New York the audience burst into the room, and I pleaded that I have never heard in a theater. WOMEN DID NOT DRESS WELL. Miss Terry says her first impression of the way the American women dressed in 1883 was not favorable. Not so on her last visit. She says: In 1883 of them wore Indian earrings. They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theater. All this has changed. The stores in New York are now the most beautiful in the world, and the women are at the demi-toilet as the Parisian, and the extreme neatness and smartness of their walking gowns is very refreshing after the floppy, blowy, trailing dresses, accompanied by the inevitable feather boa, of which English girls, who wear it, are so fond. We now seem so fond. The universal white waist is so pretty and trim on the American girl. It is one of the distinguishing marks of a land of the free, a land where class barely exists. The girl in the store girl is so fond, so does the rich girl on Fifth avenue. It costs anything from 75 cents to $50. London, when I come back from America, always seems at first like an ill-lighted village, strangely tame, peaceful and forward. Above all, I miss the sunlight of America, and the clear blues of an evening. "Are you glad to get back?" said an English friend. "Very." "It's a land of vulgarity, isn't it?" "It's a land of vulgarity, isn't it?" On you, it is. The land of sunshine and light, of happiness, of faith in the future," I answered. I saw no misery or poverty there. Every one looked happy. What are you doing about the hopeless look on so many faces; the dejection and apathy of the people standing about in the streets. Of course, there is poverty in New York, but not among the poor. The Rathbunians, the Poles—all the host of immigrants washed in daily across the harbor—these are poor, but you don't see them. You don't see them, and even then you can't help feeling that in their sufferings there is always hope. Vulgarity? I saw little of it. I thought that the people who had amassed large numbers of people, when a man is rich enough to build himself a big, new house, he remembers some old house which he once admired, and he skill and care that can be had in America. This accounts for the odd jumble of styles in Fifth avenue, along the lakeside in the heart of the city of Louis and elsewhere. One millionaire's house is modeled on a French chateau, another on an old colonial house in Virginia, another on a monastery in Mexico. Their imitations are never weak or pretentious. The architects in America seem to me to be far more able than ours, or else they have been so impressed by the palazzo. And their imitations are never weak or pretentious. THE ARCHITECTS in America seem to me to be far more able than ours, or else they have been so impressed by the palazzo. And their imitations are never weak or pretentious. WHERE MEN ENTER SOCIETY. Washington was the first city I had seen in America where the people did not hurry, and where the social life did not seem entirely the work of women. The people in America were more than machines in the background, unintently turning out the dollars while their wives and daughters give luncheons and teas at only which women Beautifully as the women dress, they talk very little about clothes. I was much more interested in the appearance of that they had read far more and developed a more fastidious taste than most young Englishwomen. Yet it is all mixed up with extraordinary naivetie. Their V-necked sweater appeared to be a gift to the animal world of energy of American women delighted me. They are very sympathetic, too, in spite of a certain callousness which comes of regarding everything that they do, not think that they, or the men either, had much natural sense of beauty. They admire beauty in a curious way through their intellect. Nearly every American woman admires Viola the Louvre in her room. She makes it a point of her education to admire it. There! I am beginning to generalize, as I am beginning to generalize about how I to generalize about a country which embraces such extremes of climate as the sharp winters of Boston and New York, and the warm winds of Florida, and blow through palms and orange groves. HETTY GREEN IS MADE OVER AT BEAUTY SHOP. When Mrs. Hetty Green's guests saw her at her dinner at the Plaza at New York, she marveled at the wonderful rejuvenation of one of the wealthiest women of the world. The secret developed that Mrs. Green has ben taking a series of treatments at a famous beauty parlor in upper Fifth avenue. Mrs. Green has paid $300 for a course of twenty-one treatments. The effects are a few days ago Mrs. Green, attired in a black merino with a most unobtrusive bonnet, appeared in the doorway. She was wearing a white cape and maids of muddame, who is now in Paris. "What do you do here?" asked Mrs. Green, and she peered into the beauty parlor. One young woman stepped forward and in English tinged with a Parisian accent a triumphant tale of the destruction of wristles and the production of a pink dress. GASPED AT THE PRICE. "What do you charge?" demanded Mrs. Green, and she was told that $300 was the price of twenty-one applications of the secret black unguent which created an enchanting effect. Mrs. Green gasped, but courageously made her investigation complete. She shoved the bottle of strongly scented oils. She made countless demands for information; her skepticism never vanished. Finally she asked the girl and made the astonishing statement: "I think I'll try this treatment." "IT will pay for this now," said Mrs. Green as she lifted her drop skirt and from a little pocket in the underskirt brought off six $50 bills of bills. She peeled off six $50 bills and handed them to the astonished assistant. GAVE HER REAL NAME, TOO. She gave her name as "Mrs. Green" and her address "The Plaza." She was taken in favor of an immediate treatment. She was taken to one of the little loges in the rear. Her face was steamed. Then the black unguent, which is man's name, was removed from her face. A generous layer, Mrs. Green was then abandoned to her thoughts and told to relax her muscles. After twenty minutes the demonstrator removed her face. The thick paste was removed with various scented oils. The treatment was finished and Mrs. Green abandoned her reclining pos- BEHELD FACE IN A MIRROR. A mirror was given to her, so she might discern the results of this wonderful work. Since then she has had six treatments and fifteen reman. She has been living the fact, Mrs. Green's rejuvenation is astonishing. She is scarcely recognized by her old friends since living at the Plaza. She is dressing with due regard for the conventions. She has provided herself with additional snow-white hair, which is arranged. She has also worn clothes although simple, follow closely the direc-tory fashions, now in general favor. WHAT WOMEN WEAR. White and black polka dot stockings, with dull green pumps, are used with a front zipper. Old-fashioned shirt studs to fasten the front of the shirt waist are back in favor. The sleeves are cut short that include cuff buttons and collar button. Elizabeth ruffs of colored satin ribbon to stand high around the chin, fitting the sleeves at back with upright loops and long ends. Swastika belt buckles in black, blue and yellow enamel. This is the symbol of good luck. Wide rolling Puritan collar on shirt waists for all girls under twenty. There is a flowing tie to go with it. Mouse gray silk gloves with two heavy buttons for all street occasions. These take the place of the stitched tan ones for warm weather. Made green wherever it can be put, even to coat and skirt of linen hopsacking. CORSICANA, TEX. Special to The Freeman. The close of this public school term marks the twenty-sixth year under the same principal. Thirty-one graduated, all of whom fill important positions, some as teachers, some as administrators, and mothers in many homes. This year's class numbers but three. The domestic science department, under the principal, has been well-recommended. Such fine needlework and sewing of all kinds are systematically taught. The children are also taught to cook all kinds of food. Many plain dishes are prepared for the small girls. The parents are much pleased with the advancement and the general department of the children. When the slaves of the South were set free, all were sold to the Freedom of earlship due to the Texas slave system. 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Copyright, 1906, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1906, by Robert W. Chambers. CHAPTER NINE His world and his city had almost ceased to think of Siward. But there were two people who had not forgotten him—Howard Quarrier and Beverly Plank—and one other, a third, who could not yet forget him if she would, but as yet she had not tried very desperately. The day that Siward left New York to visit everybody's friend, Mr. Mulqueen, in the country, Plank called on him for the second time in his life and was presently received in the south drawing room, the library being limited to an informality and intimacy not for Mr. Plank. Sward, still lame and using unskillfully two shiny new crutches, came down the stairs and stumped into the drawing room, which, in spite of the somber, clustering curtains, was brightly illuminated by the winter sunshine reflected from the snow in the street. Plank was shocked at the change in him—at the ghost of a voice, listlessly formal; at the thin, nerveless hand offered; started so that he forgot his shyness and retained the bony hand tightly in his and instinctively laid his other great cushionlike paw over it, holding it imprisoned, unable to speak, unconscious, in the impulse of the moment, of the liberty he permitted himself and which he had never dreamed of taking with such a man as Siward. The effect on Siward was composite—his tired voice ceased; surprise, inability to understand, tinged with instinctive displeasure, were succeeded by humorous curiosity, and very slowly it became plain to him that this beefy young man liked him, was naively concerned about him, felt friendly toward him and was showing it as spontaneously as a child. "I thought I'd come," began Plank, "growing redder and redder as he began to realize the enormity of familiarity committed only on the warrant of impulse. "You don't look well." "It was good of you to think of me," said Siward. "Come up to the library if you've a few minutes to spare an invalid. Please go first. I'm a trifle lame yet." "I-I am sorry," muttered Plank; "very, very sorry." At first, in the library, Plank was awkward and silent, finding nothing to say and nowhere to dispose of his hands until Siward gave him a cigar to occupy his fingers. Siward rang for tea, although the hour was early. After a little while either the toast or the tea appeared to act on Plank as a lingual laxative, for he began suddenly to talk, which is characteristic of bashful men, and Siward gravely helped him on when he foundered and turned shy. After a little matters went very well with them, and Plank, much more at ease than he had ever dared to hope he could be with Siward, talked and talked, and Siward, his crutches across his --- knees, lay back in his armchair, chatting with that winning informality so becoming to men who are unconscious of their charm. Watching Plank, it occurred to him gradually that this great, cumbersome creature was not a shrewd, thrifty, self made and self finished adult at all—only a big, wistful, lonely boy without comrades and with nowhere to play. Plank spoke of himself after awhile, sounding the personal note with tentative timidity. Sliward gravely encouraged him, and in a little while the outlines of his crude autobiography appeared, embodying his eventless boyhood in a Pennsylvania town, his career at the high school, the dawning desire for college equipment, satisfied by his father, who owned shares in the promising Deepvale Steel Plank company; the unhappy years at Harvard—hard years, for he learned with difficulty; solitary years, for he was not sought by those whom he desired to know. Then he ventured to speak of his father's growing interest in steel, the merging and absorbing of independent plants, his own entry upon the scene on the death of his father, and—the rest—material fortune and prosperity, which perhaps might stand substitute as a social sponsor for him; stand perhaps for something of what he lacked in himself, which Doyle Beverly Plank. only long residence amid the best, long formed habits for the best or a long inheritance of the best could give. Did Slward think so? Was the best beyond his reach? Was it hopeless for such a man as he to try? And why? "Is it worth while?" repeated Plank, flushing heavily. "It is worth while to me. I wish to be able to go where such men as you go; be permitted, asked, desired to be part of what you always have been part of. Is it a great deal I ask? Tell me, Mr. Slward—for I don't know—is it too much to expect?" "I don't think it is a very high ambition," said Slward, smiling. "What you ask is not very much to ask of life, Mr. Plank." Plank laughed a little, and his squared jaws relaxed; then after a few moments' thought: "It is curious that what you cast away from you so easily I am waiting for with all the patience I have in me. And yet it is always yours to pick up again whenever you wish, and I may never live to possess it." He was so perfectly right that Siward said nothing—in fact, he could have no particular interest or sympathy for a man's quest of what he himself did not understand the lack of. He was, now that he knew Plank, contented to accept him anywhere he met him, but Plank's upward evolutions upon the social ladder were of no interest to him, and his naive snobbery was becoming something of a bore. So Siward directed the conversation into other channels, and Plank, accepting another cup of tea, became very communicative about his stables and his dogs. "I—would you—I should like to ask you to try some shooting at the Fells," stammered Plank, "next season if you would care to." "You're very good. I should like to if I were going to shoot at all, but I fancy my shooting days are over for awhile." "Over!" "Business," nodded Siward, absently grave again. "I see no prospect of my idling for the next year or two." "You are in—in Amalgamated Electric, I think," ventured Plank. "Very much in," replied the other frankly. "You've read the papers and heard rumors, I suppose?" "Some. I don't suppose anybody quite understands the attacks on Amalgamated." "I don't—not yet. Do you?" Plank sat silent; then his shrewd under lip began to protrude. "I'm wondering," he began cautiously, "how much the Algonquin crowd understands about the matter?" Siward's troubled eyes were on him as he spoke, watching closely, narrowly. "I've heard that rumor before," he said. "So have I," said Plank, "and it seems incredible." He looked warily at Siward. "Suppose it is true that the Algonquin Trust company is godfather to Intercount. That doesn't explain why a man should kick his own door down when there's a bell to ring and servants to let him in—and out again too." "I have wondered," said Siward, "whether the door he might be inclined to kick down is really his own door any longer." "I, too," said Plank simply. "It may belong to a personal enemy—if he has THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER any. He could afford to have an enemy, I suppose." Siward nodded. "Then didn't you better—I beg your pardon! You have not asked me to advise you." "No. I may ask your advice some day. Will you give it when I do?" "With pleasure," said Plank, so warmly disinterested, so plainly proud and eager to do a service that Siward, surprised and touched, found no word to utter. Plank rose. Siward attempted to stand up, but had trouble with his crutches. "Please don't try." said Plank, coming over and offering his hand. "May I stop in again soon? Oh, you are off to the country for a month or two? I see. You don't look very well. I hope it will benefit you. Awfully glad to have seen you. I—I hope you won't forget me—entirely." "I am the man people are forgetting." returned Siward, "not you. It was very nice of you to come. You are one of very few who remember me at all." "I have very few people to remember," said Plank, "and if I had as many as I could desire I should remember you first." Here he became very much embarrassed. Siward offered his hand again. Plank shook it awkwardly and went away on tiptoe down the stairs, which creaked decorously under his weight. And that ended. the first interview between Plank and Siward in the first days of the latter's decline. The months that passed during Siward's absence from the city began to prove rather eventful for Plank. He was finally elected a member of the Patroons club without serious opposition; he had dined twice with the Kemp Ferrals; he and Major Belwether were seen together at the Caithness dance and in the Caithness box at the opera. Once a respectable newspaper reported him at Tuxedo for the week's end; his name, linked with the clergy, frequently occupied such space under the column headed "Ecclesiastical News" as was devoted to the progress of the new chapel, and many old ladies began to become familiar with his name. At the right moment the Mortimers featured him between two fashionable bishops at a dinner. Mrs. Vendenning, who adored bishops, immediately remembered him among those asked to her famous annual bal poudre, a celebrated yacht club admitted him to membership, a whole shoal of excellent minor clubs which really needed new members followed suit, and even the rockribbed Lenox, wearied of its own time honored immobility, displayed the preliminary fidgets which boded well for the stolid candidate. Yes, he was doing well, for that despatic beauty, Sylvia Landis, whose capricious perseverity had recently astonished those who remembered her in her first season as a sweet, reasonable and unspoiled girl, was always friendly with him. That must be looked upon as important, considering Sylvia's unassailable position and her kinship to the autocratic old lady whose kindly ulase had for generations remained the undisputed law in the social system of Manhattan. At a ball at the Pages', to which Mrs. Mortimer took him, Plank met Sylvia. Her escort, Ferrall, nodded to him pleasantly. She leaned forward from Ferrall's arm, saying under her breath: "I have saved a dance for you. Please ask me at once. Quick! Do you want me?" "I-I do," stammered Plank. "I—I do," stammered Plank. Ferrall, suspicious, stepped forward to exchange civilities, then turning to the girl beside him: "See here, Sylvia, you've dragged me all over this house on one pretext on another. Do you want any supper, or don't you? If you don't, it's our dance." "No, I don't. No, it isn't. Kemp, you annoy me." "That's a nice thing to say. Is it your delicately immitable way of giving me my conge?" "Yes, thank you," nodded Miss Landis coolly. "You may go now." "You're spoiled, that's what's the matter," retorted Ferrall wrathfully. "I thought I was to have this dance. You said"— "I said 'perhaps,' because I didn't see Mr. Plank coming to claim it Thank you, Kemp, for finding him." Her nod and smile took the edge from her malice. Ferrall, who really adored dancing, glared about for anybody to dance with. Sylvia, standing beside Plank, looked up at him with her confident and friendly smile. "You don't care to dance, do you? Would you mind if we sat out this dance?" "If you'd rather," he said, so wistfully that she hesitated; then with a little shrug laid one hand on his arm, and they swung out across the floor together into the scented whirl. Plank, like many heavy men, danced beautifully, and Sylvia, who still loved dancing with all the arder of a schoolgirl, permitted a moment or two of keen delight to sweep her dreamily from her purpose. But that purpose must have been a strong one, for she returned to it in a few minutes and, looking up at Plank, said very gently that she cared to dance no more. Her hand resting lightly on his arm, it did not seem possible that any pressure of hers was directing them to the conservatory, yet he did not know where he was going, and she was familiar with the house, and they soon entered the conservatory, where, in the shadow of various palms, various youths looked up impatiently as they passed and various maidens sat up very straight in their chairs. Threading their dim way into the farther recesses, they found seats among thickets of forced lilies over hung by early wistaria. A spring-like odor hung in the air. Somewhere a tiny fountain grew musical in the semidarkness. "Marion told me you had been asked," she said. "We have been so friendly. You've always asked me to dance whenever we have met, so I thought I'd save you one. Are you flattered, Mr. Plank?" He said he was, very pleasantly, perfectly undeceived and convinced of her purpose—a purpose never even tacitly admitted between them, and the old loneliness came over him again—not resentment, for he was willing that she should use him. Why not? Others used him, everybody used him, and if they found no use for him they let him alone. Mortimer, Fleetwood, Belwether—all, all had something to exact from him. It was for that he was tolerated. He knew it. He had slowly and unwillingly learned it. His intrusion among these people, of whom he was not one, would be endured only while he might be turned to some account. The hospital used him, the clergy found plenty for him to do for them, the museum had room for other pictures of his. Who among them all had ever sought him without a motive? Who among them all had ever found unselfish pleasure in him? Not one. He wished she would come to her point, but he dared not lead her to it too brusquely, because her purpose and her point were supposed to be absolutely hidden from his thick and credulous understanding. It had taken him some time to make this clear to himself. Passing from suspicion through chagrin and overwounded feeling to dull certainty that she, too, was using him, harmlessly enough from her standpoint, but how bitterly from his, he alone could know. The flutter of her fan meant impatience to learn from him what she had come to him to learn and then, satisfied, to leave him alone again amid the peopleled solitude of clustered lights. He wished she would speak. He was tired of the sadness of it all. Whenever in his isolation, in his utter destitution of friendship, he turned gullessly to meet a new advance, always, sooner or later, the friendly mask was lifted enough for him to divine the cool, fixed gaze of self interest inspecting him through the damask slits. Sylvia was speaking now, and the plumy fan was under savant control, waving graceful accompaniment to her soft voice, punctuating her sentences at times, at times making an emphasis or outlining a gesture. It was the familiar sequence—topics that led to themes which adroitly skirted the salient point; returned capriciously, just avoiding it—a subtly charming pattern of words which required so little in reply that his smile and nod were almost enough to keep her aria and his accompaniment afloat. It began to fascinate him to watch the delicacy of her strategy, the coqueting with her purpose; her naive advance to the very edges of it, the airy retreat, the innocent detour, the elaborate and circuitous return. And at last she drifted into it so naturally that it seemed impossible that fattous man could have the most primitive suspicion of her premeditation. And Plank, now recognizing his cue, answered her. "No, I have not heard that he is in town. I stopped to see him the other day, but nobody there knew how soon he intended to return from the country." "I didn't know he had gone to the country," she said without apparent interest. And Plank was either too kind to terminate the subject or too anxious to serve his turn and release her, for he went on. "I thought I told you at Mrs. Ferrall's that Mr. Shrall had gone to the country." "Perhaps you did. No doubt I've forgotten." J. M. "I'm quite sure I did, because I remember saying that he looks ed very ill, and you said, rather no business to be a?" "You hope so?" you said, rather sharply, that he had no business to be ill. Do you remember? "Yes," she said slowly. "Is he better? "I hope so." "You hope so," with the controlled emphasis of impatience. "Yes. Don't you, Miss Landis? When I saw him at his home he was lame—on crutches—and he looked rather ghastly, and all he said was that he expected to leave for the country. I asked him to shoot next year at Black Fells, and he seemed bothered about business and said it might keep him from taking any vacation." "He spoke about his business?" "Yes, he—" "What is the trouble with his business? Is it anything about Amalgamated and Intercounty?" "I think so." "Is he worried?" Plank said deliberately, "I should be if my interests were locked up in Amalgamated Electric." "Could you tell me why that would worry you?" she a.s.ted, smiling persuasively across at him. "No," he said, "I can't tell you." "Because I wouldn't understand?" "Because I myself don't understand." She thought awhile, brushing the rose velvet of her mouth with the fan's edge, then, looking up confidently: "Mr. Siward is such a boy. I'm so glad he has you to advise him in such matters." "What matters?" asked Plank bluntly. "Why, in—in financial matters." "But I don't advise him." "Why not?" "Because he hasn't asked me to, Miss Landis." "The ought to ask you." We must ask you. Don't wait for him, Mr. Plank. He is only a boy in such things." And, as Plank was silent: "You will, won't you?" "Do what—make his business my business without an invitation?" asked Plank so quietly that she flushed with annoyance. "If you pretend to be his friend, is it not your duty to advise him?" she asked impatiently. "No; that is for his business associates to do. Friendship comes to grief when it crosses the frontiers of business." "That is a narrow view to take, Mr. Plank." "Yes, straight and narrow. The boundaries of friendship are straight and narrow. It is best to keep to the trodden path—best not to walk on the grass or trample the flowers." "I think you are sacrificing friendship for an epigram," she said, careless of the undertone of contempt in her voice. "I have never sacrificed friendship." He turned and looked at her pleasantly. "I never made an epigram consciously, and I have never required of a friend more than I had to offer in return. Have you?" The flush of hot displeasure stained her cheeks. "Are you really questioning me, Mr. Plank?" "Yes. You have been questioning me rather seriously, have you not?" "I did not comprehend your definition of friendship. I did not agree with it. I questioned it, not you. That is all." Plank rested his head on one big hand and stared at the clusters of dim blossoms behind her, and after awhile he said, as though thinking aloud: "Many have taken my friendship for granted and have never offered their own in return. I do not know about Mr. Siward. There is nothing I can do for him, nothing he can do for me. If there is to be friendship between us it will be disinterested, and I would rather have that than anything in the world, I think." There was a pause, but when Syivia would have broken it his gesture committed her to silence, with the dignity one might use in checking a persistent child. (Continued next week.) A SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL PROPOSED. Literary London and Shakespeare enthusiasts are in a quandary as to the litter mode of perpetuating the memory of the world's greatest literary genius. "Perpetuating" is not good when applied to him. It is the contention of many that his memory needs no perpetuating; that his works are immortal, in a class by themselves, and that any attempt to add glory to him is a sort of desecration. And most people are inclined, doubtless, to agree with the view that monuments, memorial chapels, or what not, will not help to fix Shakespeare in the minds of enlightened nations. But there seems to be another side. Those contending for some visible recognition seem to think that a testimonial is due him; that the world's estimation should take some tangible form in order that substance in its best form compete with spirit in honoring the great_bard. That he lives so universally is why he has been "neglected"—fairly a studied negligence, the working of love and honor in a way befitting the individual. Notwithstanding the protests of those who feel that Shakespeare sufficiently honors Shakespeare, the work of honoring him by memorial is already under way. After much delay and no little difficulty, a prominent site has been secured in the city of London. The next move, according to the London papers, will be competition for what is to be known as an architectural monument, including a statue. According to the same authorities, the whole world of artists of the line will be invited to compete in the designing. In fact, the committee in charge expects a world movement in the matter. Contribution in small amounts is the desideratum, the object being to popularize, giving Shakespeare students and admirers everywhere opportunity to have a hand in fashioning a memorial for the great writer. If the plans carry, not less than $1,000,000 will be spent for the purpose, systematically raised by especially appointed agents in all parts of the world. Very much is expected of America. Messrs. Chatee and Whitelaw Reid are spoken of as eminent patrons, and are apparently relied on by the London Executive Committee to give impetus to the movement in our country. A sum realized exceeding the estimated outlay of $1,000,000 will be used in furthering Shakespeare interest. Just what form this will take is not certain at this time, but it may be used, if sufficiently large, to carry out the notions of those who are in for a great memorial hall. Public opinion seems fairly divided between the two ideas, that of the monument and statue and a memorial building. For our part, we would have preferred something unusual, out of the ordinary, for such a unique and distinguished character. As he was so vastly different from other men, the ordinary marking of distinguished men should not have been his. Some genius, as he was a genius, might have snatched a plan from his artistic dreaming, that when taking form would distance the world. 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The sweet girl graduate will soon be the rage, and her complement, young hopeful. According to the concensus of opinions of the leading newspapers, the nomination of Mr. Bryan at Denver is a foregone conclusion. Will the Negro communicants of the M. E. Church get together and ask for a Negro Bishop to oversee their work within the next four years? Well, these are campaign days, Mr. Taft, and mole hills easily enlarge into mountains. A man's got to be extremely careful or he will do a bit of political strangulation. It is pleasing to note that ex-President Cleveland is improving in health. We should have an "ex" or so always, just to show that the chair does not mean shortened lives. William R. Hearst is reported as gaining in the mayoralty recount of New York. If he should gain enough to prove that he was elected, there would be some interesting developments. Uncle Joe Cannon evidently thinks that years do not have all to do with a person's age. The automobile stunt from Washington to his home in Illinois would not be hurriedly taken by some many years his junior. If the general Negro M. E. Church takes a stand for Negro bishops, asking that they be assigned work among their kith and kin, the chances are that they will be forthcoming. The church is not a panacea for racial lills. The ministers see nothing harmfuil in the graceful movements taught in the public schools. They, however, advise caution for fear the thing may go too far. They do not think that it should be thought that "real" dancing is taught in the public schools. Among those who passed the examination for internes for the City Hospital was Dr. Clarence Lucas, a young colored man, who took sixth place. Considerable interest is manifested in Dr. Lucas, and a bright future is thought to be in front of him. A "House of Governors" is the latest political wrinkle. The idea grew out of the recent meeting of the Governors which was recently held in Washington at the call of the President. Such a body, it has been suggested, would be the means of uniform legislation, and in other ways could assist in the general lines of government. Sydney Kirke, who sang at the entertainment given by School 26 at Allen Chapel, last week, proved a very attractive feature of the program. Mr. Kirke is a professional singer, and of reputation, which he ably sustained by his renditions. His encore was in a lighter vein. The audience went wild. Mr. Kirke has every reason to be proud of his success. The whole entertainment was very pleasing. With all of those two hundred and more contests to be decided by the Credentials Committee at Chicago, it looks as if the balance of power was right there. And, after all, it may be some fine hand that fixes it there, hoping to unriddle the "Sphinx" at the proper moment. The committee will be a very much abused affair when it is all over. There's going to be some wailing and gnashing of teeth, and really the result may influence the selection of the candidate. The Western Negro Press Association will meet at Des Moines, Ia., June 10 and 11. The management has been very much in earnest in working up an interest in the forthcoming meeting. A cordial invitation has been extended the newspaper fraternity, and many are expected to be in attendance. Speakers of ability will appear before the convention who will talk along newspaper lines and on topics having to do with the welfare of the race. The campaign by both of the greater parties was opened this week by speeches by the Hon. James E. Watson and Thomas H. Marshall, Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor. The early opening promises a long campaign, and vigorous. Mr. Watson ought to have the advantage in a long drawn-out contest. The man that gets around to see the people, and --- with other conditions equal, has the better chance, and especially if the personality is pleasing. The Congressman is a brilliant campaigner—he simply needs the time. Booker T. Washington thinks that December 2, 1909, will be a very fitting time to celebrate the half-century mark since John Brown made his "descent" on Harper's Ferry. At another time, in speaking of John Brown, we said that there was much to commend in his action, and from the humane side. His spirit of philanthropy, although crudely expressed, is a theme for that order of men. The Negro race owes him much in that he gave buoyancy to their cause—pushed it along, making it stand out plainer before men. The very act itself is not a subject for praise, since he struck at a government. It is the motive that we will praise if we are careful. A colored man in Louisville "stole" an automobile for a while a few days ago that he might treat his friends to a ride. He was a chauffeur and doubtless desired to exhibit his skill to his admirers. The machine, however, proved balky; it took an unexpected shoot and landed the occupants all up in a nearby fence. Fortunately, they sustained but slight injuries. The chauffeur escaped unhurt. But the calamity of the machine weighed on his mind. He lost no time in making for Indianapolis. Perhaps he was not aware of the fame of Indiana avenue. At any rate, he made for that thoroughfare, and, as might have been expected, was picked up in "a little of no time." If a man gives a tip, does he not also bribe? And what's the difference between a little bit of a wrong and a great big wrong? Of course, it is first to be shown that tipping is wrong. In the main the spirit is not wrong, since the object is to eke out the waiter's or the porter's salary. But very often the tip is given as an inducement for better service. The object is not to oppose the system of tipping, since it is very much needed. The waiters and porters, many of them, would not find their jobs worth while if it were not for what they "picked up" from time to time among the guests. But when the principle is carried out further in life, is the system still as harmless as it was when the waiter was fixed for a good order? Annie Manley had been cared for very well by the professor; she should have let good enough alone. She said that he had given her an average of about $2,600 a year during their engagement of six years. He allowed her regularly $150 a month, but made extra presents. She testified that he had given her six diamond rings valued at from $50 to $250 each, and also $500 to buy diamond earrings, a watch and chain—in all about $2,000 worth of jewelry. She added that when she bought the new lodging house with money given by him she changed her name to Annie Davis. She said she consulted the professor and he agreed to the change. In a letter written in a cafe in Paris the writer says: "There are lots of pretty colored girls here. Your friend, the Queen of Madagascar, is coming here next month to look for a husband. I guess I'll stick to my old lady." And yet she gave him a world of trouble. Oh, woman, your name is Instability. "Banker—Horsethief" was the startling headliner in one of the papers this week. The combination does not sound good even to the commoners who have but little to do with bankers. But most of us have fixed the banker a place in our minds, and that, too, of respect, and despite the occasionally falling out of the rank, respect does not diminish for the "genus." We have also a fixed place for the horse-thief, and which is the lowest in the category of common crimes. He is the only thief men get together for hanging. Then to think of these two extremes! Violation is done to the imagination. But this man who operated in Indiana was no ordinary horse-thief—he did not steal horses by the ones; he took them in quantity—bunches, batches—selling them for big money. Perhaps he was all down and out and took this method for recouping his fortune. He was right in thinking that a banker would be thought the last person in the world to steal a horse. And had he stole but one horse no one would have ever guessed it. But when it comes to horses in droves, it was evident a master hand was at the business. The Washington Post, in speaking of the possibility of a defection in the Negro vote, gives the following interesting summary: "If the Negro vote had gone over from Harrison to Cleveland in 1888, Cleveland would have been elected. It is doubtful if the colored vote would have turned subsequent elections, on account of the large majorities received by McKinley and Roosevelt. But it seems to be conceded that the election in 1908 will not be a walkover for the candidate of either party. If Taft and Bryan are the nominees, as now seems probable, the race may be very close, and it is possible that the colored voter will hold the balance of power. "New York, Connecticut and Indiana would hardly be classed as rock-bound Republican States, under normal conditions. New York alternated between a Republican and a Democratic majority for years. The Negro male population of voting age in New York in 1900 was 31.425. If this should swing away from the Republican candidate, he would be under a very heavy handicap, McKinley and Roosevelt would have been elected if every Negro had voted for Bryan and Parker. Could Taft do equally well? "In Ohio there were 31,235 Negroes of voting age in 1900. If they had gone against McKinley in 1896, he would have lost the State, since his majority was only 51,000. Roosevelt received the phenomenal majority of 256,000 in Ohio. He could have dispensed with the colored vote. There are now supposed to be about 50,000 colored voters in the State, and a Democrat was elected Governor. Could a Republican candidate opposed by all the colored voters, and with local complications favoring the Democrats, overcome such a handicap? "There were 18.186 Negroes of vot- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLOED NEWSPAPER as the if the gress- er—he s that fitting entry he his at an- brown, com- the hu- hropy, theme Negro gave ed it not a ck at nomee. "If the two parties should be running neck and neck this summer and fall, it is well within the possibilities that the colored voter will have the deciding vote." "BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT." In speaking of the National Baptist Sunday-School Congress and Young People's Chautauqua, information is as follows: "It will open Wednesday morning, June 24, for a five-day session. The final arrangements for the speakers, the program for the five-day session, the entertainment of the delegates and visitors, have been completed and the excursion rates on the railroads have been announced. There are thirty-six well-prepared, carefully-selected subjects, covering every phase of Sunday-school work, which will be discussed in the five days' proceedings. "It is not a deliberative body, and a unique feature of dividing the meeting off into departmental sessions in the afternoon of each day guarantees an interesting and instructive Chautauqua. The principal object of the meeting will be kept in view. There will be no effort to transform the meeting into anything other than a Sunday-School Congress and a Young People's Chautauqua." This movement will be held at Jacksonville, Fla. It is great and significant, demanding the best "lights" of the church, many of whom will appear before the body. Among those who will take part as speakers are: Rev. N. B. Broughton, of Releigh, N. C.; H. T. Musselman, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Lieut. Col. Allen Allensworth (retired), of Los Angeles, Cal.; Chas. T. Walker, of Augustua, Ga.; W. B. Reed, Madison, N. J.; E. W. D. Isaac and W. S. Elington, of Nashville, Tenn.; N. W. Hartshorn, of Boston, Mass. SENATOR TILLMAN RAMPANT. Senator Tillman, speaking of the race question, said: "The question never will be settled until the North shall agree to the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment and the modification of the Fourteenth, so as to set at rest at once the Negro's aspiration to social equality, by taking from him political equality or leaving it to each State to settle." So this is the dope being spread by a man in high place, and what's more he has disciples in abundance who pray in accord with the preaching. What effect does he think this kind of message will have on the Negroes? Will he expect them to be politically docile, coming up to the halter as the sheep to the shambles? Will those of similar views also think likewise, thus belying the spirit of the nation's institutions, striking down the spirit of enlightenment as taught in the schools, setting man in opposition to himself. If the things contended for by Mr. Tillman and his likes obtain, it will be when the schoolhouse is struck out of the civil equation and ignorance substituted. Main force is brutal force, is clumsy force, and will not stand before the genius of the period the result of not only the present day schools, but of the accumulated wisdom and the experiences of the ages. Man once tasting the delights of freedom, feeling it to be vouchsafed by God, by his country, he will not slink back toward barbarism. He may appear restless, surely, bedogged because, hunted and hounded, but the intelligence once implanted will seek its own salvation. This may appear a riotous gospel; it is not so. It is the other fellow that is riotous. A nation, a man has a right to maintain self. And what's more, the Negro is trying to maintain himself right within the law. It is the Tillman set that seeks to override the law, uttering a special "dispensation" in the interest of the Negroes. The fear of social contact has much to do with this latter day notion of Negro subjection. And why should this be when an individual's society is a matter of his own selection? It will be conceded that the coming of the Negro injected unlooked for conditions into the civil life of the country. It will be conceded that they were not prepared altogether for this citizenship, but the thing has been done; the laws sustain him, Christianity sustains him, humanity sustains him in his position, and especially when the effort is to make good, to keep within the laws and to do those things consonant with the law of increase. In view of all of this, why such manifest impatience? The institution of peculiar institutions, the separation and segregating of Negroes, have been indured because the Negroes felt that in the main they were not prepared for general society. Here was the spirit of compromise—laudable, patriotic—since it had in mind the minimum of friction. But how is it answered? "Unconditional surrender," of hope, of ambition, of the very senses. Neither preach nor pray for your deliverance on the pain of manacles. And yet every liberty is written down—yea, in blood—in the charter that gives civil life to any—to all. The Negroes are not a disturbing factor; they clamor for those things only that are gradually being stolen from them, and this clamoring in the most respectful way. Instead of having the heavy hand of condemnation suspended over the race, like the sword of Damocles, ready to descend at any moment, it should be commended for the qualities shown in subscribing to the laws and the embracing citizenship according to the understanding. Special to THE FREEMAN June 28 has been set for a special rally at the McKinney Library, to add to the building fund for the new church, and Rev. Becks asks all the members and well wishers to give and pledge largely on that day in Port Huron, to the day in Port Huron, .Daniel Heims is a candidate for prosecuting attorney... Owing to the inclement weather, but a court ended the lecture at B. Russell of Richmond, Ky., on "The Negro of America," but those that attended felt well paid. The lecture was fine, also the solos by the band. Miss B. Walker has gone to Lansing to spend a few days..Mrs. William Lyons, of Pine street, is very sick... Julius T. Roberts, marble setter, of DeKalb, on the new City Hall here, and has two men in his employ at present, Henry Field and C. N. Meadows, and expects to increase the force soon. Col. O. Swayze, court, of Amherst, on Court, Geo. Brown, of Rochester, made a visit to Flint on business last Thursday... Miss Nina Beck has returned home to spend the vacation, at the close of school, to the school she has been teaching music... J. Sharp and family and Fred Harris have moved to Grand Rapids to live... Miss For Lawrence was elected delegate to attend the convention, June 10. Sam Grinage was in Detroit Saturday. If you have any items for THE FREEMAN, which is gaining a large circulation hurry, to the building fund, June 10. Don't forget James Parker, who is a candidate for prosecuting attorney. MT. VERNON. IND. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. Special to THEF FREEMAN. the concert baby, the show and support the concert baby, the show and support a success and largely attended. . . Many pupils of the different public schools were promoted to higher grades. . . Misses baby, the concert baby, the show and support from the eighth grade and received their diplomas. Miss Coleman received many beautiful presents, among them being a beautiful watch. Miss Roberts also received a diploma not mentioned from the eighth grade and received their diplomas. Miss Coleman received many beautiful presents. . . Misses Mamie Jones and Icy Seymour are still very nice. . . Mrs Annie Cairn are not very nice. . . Mrs Stewart graduated from the High School and received many beautiful presents. . . Misses Mamie Jones and Icy Seymour are still very nice. . . Mrs Annie Cairn are not very nice. . . Miss Katherine Branum who has been quite ill, is able to be up. . . Mrs James Redding left recently for a place in the school. . . Mrs was preached Sunday afternoon, May 24 at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, and was largely attended. Rev Henderson preached an able performance. Remarks were by the following persons. Rayhill, Dr. A. H. Kinnlebrow, G. W. Cooper, and music was furnished by the choir. Mrs. Kirk, presided at the most beautiful day of the march. A collection of $8,295 was raised, which was paid to the pastor for preaching the sermon. . . Mrs Ollie Hobbs, of Louisiana, Mo., left recently after a pleasant visit. Mrs. Lynch and daughters have returned home, after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Nora Gaines, of Petersburg, Ill. . . Mrs. Early, who proposed a few days last, Mrs. Lynch and Trippet is doing some nice work in music. Any man who presents himself at the door of the House of Representatives, bearing a certificate of election known to him, will be shown out at the first practicable house. The House is the sole judge of the qualifications of its members, and should not hesitate to vote against it, beats the 'reduction of representation' makeshift to an unrecognizable pulp. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Here in the capital of the State of Illinois, the city of Chicago and will soon command the attention of the most humble citizen; even people who are anxious to "keep out the process" will be trusted in the "Korea and forced" fight at rates and Dense and the cry Dense will be nominated, however, by a large majority. Dense's adherents are now in the fight to the finish. He has some of the strongest and most but the politicians as alds are the top in the county and the state. In this county a fierce fight will be waged, but it will be a harmonious one. The people are too same to lose theirs. The people are too sad to be so very, most of the thinking colored people prefer Hughes or some other man to Taft, but they do not mean by that they will not support Taft if nominated. Taft is the most serious moment of the politicians's�, where he is supposed from Denen's side, where he is supposed to have been aligned on account of the fact that he has had a good position in the country. The city administration may be against Denen, but it will be an amicable difference of opinion... E. H. Bellamy, Senior Arkansas Chapter College, is the most important. Arla's back, and busy as usual, Bellamy is a promising young man and aims to be a lawyer of no mean ability. He has begun active work to make the emancipation celebration the greatest this day. He has had a great interest in doing well in the capacity of head-water at the Leland. Mr. Cousins is back in the city. C. H. Barton, one of the most well-known young men, has a great ability in the State, who held a good position as head-water at a first-class hotel in Baltimore, Md. is home, being forced to give up his position to recuperate his health. He has been a member of the city's middle-income young men, members of Company's H. Elighth Illinois Regiment, were in Chicago, week before last to take the military examination. The one for Bal. Adj. is the first-class hotel in Baltimore, Md. is home, being forced to give up his position to recuperate his health for Commissary of Subsistence. Vice Hinton, promoted. They passed with a good margin. Attorney O. V. Royall, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind., and formerly in the city's city of Chicago, was a good practice, and thinks Illinois is a very promising State for colored lawyers, especially Springfield. He says that compulsory and recognized services than in Indianapolis, are giving that a colored man has not been known to appear in a court of appeals, and finds same not to be marvelled here. He and his as-well as the state's law is a very important practice. Royal building up is a client a wholesale business firm (white), by which firm he is employed by the year. Mr. Royall is quite studious, and believes that he is the best man in the city. He is intelligent, but unassuming. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Royall is recognized by all the leading women of the city as a man of the college's ability, and becomes extended. The following colored persons have been appointed to position under Governor Denen, salaries aggregating in 110 per year. Col. John R. Marry, H. H. Chica, the district of San Francisco. K. OF P. GRAND LODGE CONCLAVE. Special to THE TREE for the TREE ALLIES of the twenty-fourth annual conclave of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the eleventh session of the Grand Court of Calanthe of Texas, under supreme jurisdiction of New York, on this city June 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, at Majestic Hall, corner Good and Elm streets, under the auspices of St. Luke Lodge, No. 1; Pride of West Lodge, No. 12; St. Luke Lodge, No. 13; Pride of Pythias Lodge, No. 44; Pythias Lodge, No. 46; Emanuel Lodge, No. 145; Mantone Lodge, No. 282; The Grand Court with Queen Thelmata Court, No. 1; Western Beauty Court, No. 6; Leading Star Court, No. 7; Pride of St. Luke Lodge, No. 125; Golden Lodge Court, No. 171; Le Auto Court, No. 175; Early Rose Court, No. 71. The Grand Court will hold its business session at St. Paul M. E. Church, corner Jullette and Burford streets. Our motto has been "The Church is the coming session promises to be greater and grander than any previous session in the history of the institution. PROGRAM. —Monday, June 8, 10 a. m.— 1 On Monday, June 8, at 10 a. m., the annual meeting of the Endowment Board and Board of Directors will convene at Majestic Hall. Monday, June 8, 8:30 p. m., program at City Hall. 2 Music. 3 Instruction. Rev. H. A. Wells, Grand Prelate. 4 Welcome Address in behalf of Citizens. Hon. Mayor S. J. Hay. 5 Response in behalf of Grand Lodge, Prof. J. D. Martin, Georgetown, Tex. 6 Music. 7 Welcome Address in behalf of Local Courts. Mrs. J. A. L. Weems, Dallas, Tex. 8 Response in behalf of Grand Court. Miss C. A. R. Grant, Bryan, Tex. 9 Music. 10 Welcome Address in behalf of Local Lodges. C. Rice, Dallas, Tex. 11 Response. Prof. R. S. Thweatt, Paris, Tex. 12 Instrumental Solo. Miss Ella M. Rice, Dallas, Tex. 13 Music. Master of Ceremonies, Dr. B. R. Blutt, Presents Gavel to Grand Chancellor. 14 Music. (a) Announcement by Grand Chancellor, convening Grand Lodge. (b) Announcement by Grand Worthy Counselor, convening Grand Court. Tuesday, June 9, 10 a. m.—The Grand Chancellor, Dr. A. N. Prince, will sound the gavel for the opening of the Twenty-fourth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge, Colored Knights of Pythias, in the and regular form. Tuesday, June 9, 8:30 p. m., the annual sermon will be delivered by Rev. H. A. Wells, Grand Prelate, at St. John Baptist Church. Special memorial of our departed Supreme Chancellor will be held in connec- Wednesday, June 10.— The Grand Lodge will convene in regular session. Wednesday, 8:30 p. m. the annual banquet will take place at Fair Grounds Auditorium. The Uniform Rank companies will be m. m. at the banquet. —Thursday, June 11.— Regular session of Grand Lodge at Majestic Hall. At 8:30 p. m. the three ranks will be exemplified and Past Chancellor's Degree ceremony. Competitive Drill at Wiley Park, at 10:30 p. m. — The local lodges of the city will guarantee a prize of $100 to the best wallever in the second best drilled company. Not less than three companies must take part in drill in order to be awarded above named companies. $25 to each uniform company participating in the drill, provided that as many as three companies take part. Admission to the drill 25 p. m. — Friday, June 12. Regular meeting of the Grand Lodge, Unfinished business. At 4 p. m. the Grand Lodge annual meeting take place, with 1,000 Knights in line, and the Uniform Rank companies. At 8:30 p. m. installation of Grand Lodge officers in Grounds Auditorium. Address by G. L. B. Kinchion. — Committees. Finance—D. M. Mason, chairman; Thos. Walker, James Overstreet, M. C. Cooper, J. P. Guess, T. D. Bradley, chairman; J. F. Guess, R. Bills, W. A. Best, Sam Cross. places—Thos. Walker, chairman; J. P. Guess, Jim Dixon, D. M. Mason, J. Manack. Program—E. D. Wilbur, chairman; T. G. Garrison, W. A. Best, John Brown, Frank J. Hawkins, W. M. Banks, M. C. Cooper. Music—A. G. Weems, chairman; Wm. Moore, J. R. Jordan, W. R. White, Dixon. Hedges—Jas. Overstreet, chairman; J. R. Jordan, Jas. Tolbert, J. L. Lockhart, Hacks—J. R. Moore, chairman; J. A. L. Weems, C. H. McIntosh, J. Manack. Homes—A. D. Hancock, chairman; S. J. Jordan, C. H. McIntosh, F. H. T. Bagby, Jas. Cross, Henry Jones, C. H. McIntosh, Jas. Tolbert, J. A. L. Weems, J. L. Lockhart, R. Bills, J. R. Moore, S. C. Black, O. Norrington, J. M. Overstreet, Banquet—Dr. Frank Jawkins, chairman; T. J. Bagby, A. D. Hancock, Richard Bills, Jonas Manack. Reception—C. H. McIntosh, chairman; W. R. Jordan, Sam Cross, John Brown, J. M. Tolbert. Chairman of Committee on Homes, A. D. Hancock, Postoffice Box 852, Dallas, Tex.; headquarters 556 Main street, Worcester, Mass. Also headquarters of Uniform Rank. Line of march is as follows: Friday; at 4 p. m., form at Majestic Hall; thence west on Elm to Austin, south on Austin knits to Commerce, east on Commerce to Exposition, south on Exposition to Fair Grounds, of San Antonio, Grand Marshal of the day; A. D. Hancock Assistant Grand Marshal of the day. Reduced rates on all railroads leading into Dallas, at one and one-third fare, to the city of Fort Worth, Starke, secretary; T. J. Baghy, treasurer; L. S. Simmons, G. K of R, and S. A. N. Prince, Grand Chancellor of the Daughters and Juveniles of the Tabors in the city observed Decoration Day and with a band visited the cemeteries and decorated their graves. The flood sufferers of Frogton, West Dallas and Boggy Bayo are being carefully looked after by the relief committee, who have hundreds of our people who lost all their belongings. Many lives were lost also. Every church, lodge and society, social group has been asked to relieve the situation. Besides, much heroic work has been done by everybody. The Ancient Order of Pilgrims will hold a memorial service at the stork left a boy at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. B. Hill and a girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. Hancock. The department in the county court against O. B. Clairbon for the sum of $346. Mr. Clairbon was treasurer of the organization and failed to turn over the money to the district attorney. dies of taste, possess soft skin, Stainbom, ceryk,辛ky hair, soft skin, possess soft and beautiful through use of the tissues present in the skin. A. Lincoln Ideal Pomade which not only gives that refined, sophisticated look, but does it quickly, at the same time inwardly and upwardly, and the scip wonderfully. It softens the fibres of the hair and removes the tangles, conditioned which prevents one from the itch that it causes. It is the latest fashionable style. MARVELOUS HAIR BEAUTIFIER It is a hair necessity for ladies and gentlemen, and makes the hair straight, not curled, to cover all charges, and will send you a large full head of purity and satisfaction guaranteed, or made by LINCOLN POMADE CO., AURORA HL. TERRE HAUTE, IND Special to THE FREEMAN There was a chair rally concert given Friday, May 29, which was a success. . . . The colored schools of this city will have their commencements as follows: The University of Nebraska at Lincoln School, June 16; Booker T. Washington School, June 11; Lincoln School, June 12; Wake Forest, of this city, died at the home of his son in South 31½ street, after a few days' illness. The Giants had the game cinched in at Indianapolis, and had been here Hante about two years. The Gast. Columbian Giants won a victory over the Red Sox team of Greencastle, Sunday, at Athletics Stadium. The Giants and let Greencastle had the game cinched in at Indianapolis, with Ben Davis, the old original "400" (von den) was at the receiving end, and played a great game. Hayton and Counry were a semi-professional team in the county Address all communications to Verdale North Fourth Street. . . Miss Amelie Harman has been visiting relatives in Evanston and while there found her little niece Leah Edmunds, very sick. . . Mrs. Mary Wilkinson has 31½ street, is slightly improving from an area not enforced on her last week at St. Anthony. A rally was held at Spruce Street A.M. E. Church, last Sunday, and $101 was raised. Rev. Baker preached... The타 was ing Circle of Spruce Street A.M. E. Church met at Mrs. Elizabeth Walden's on South Gilbert avenue... Rev. Baker preached to a large audience at Spruce Street A.M. E. Church last Sunday... Sunday, June 6, there will be a rally at the Allen Chapel. Rev. Baker looks for a handsome sum of money... There was a ball given at Odd Fellow's Hall, on sixteenth street and Wabash avenue Friday. May 29, by the K. of P. Lodge... There will be a trolley ride to Paris. Ill. June 18, given by the Second Baptist Church and Spruce Street A.M. E. Church. THE FREEMAN can be bought at John Walden's and Simpson's barber shops, on North Third street; Harry Southard's, on North Third; Parks & Edwards's, on South Thirteenth street. Address all news to Lloyd Churchill, 2219 Spruce Street... Miss Bessie Carmeal, of Cincinnati, O., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. William Davis, No. 205 Spruce Street. HOWARD'S BANNER YEAR HOWARD'S BANNER YEAR Concluded from Page One. institution with their presence during the brilliant week. —President Thirkeld's Achievements. The meeting of the board of trustees on Tuesday brought out some significant and high points in the condition and prospects of Howard University. Justice Job Barnard, of the Supreme Court of the District, president of the board, occupied the chair. The trustees of the board, Chief Justice Stanton J. Dee, Dr. E. M. Gailandet, W. V. Cox, John F. Cook Dr. W. V. Tunnell, Cuno H. Rudolph, Rev. Charles H. Richards, Rev. J. E. Noriand, Rev. J. J. Grifith, Henry E. Pellew, and Dr. J. H. N. Wapat The report of President Thirkield covered the work of the various departments of the university in a comprehensive work. The work of the various departments of the year has been the largest in the history of the institution, aggregating 1,091, even after some extensive and necessary changes. The increases were shown in the College of Arts and Sciences, in the Academy and in the School of Medicine. In 1966 the College of Arts and Sciences and an enrollment of 1,091 students had increased to 106, and the prospects are that the entering class next fall will considerably more than double the attendance in the freshman class of fifty at least is shadowed by the school's correspondence. In the last two years the attendance in the freshman class of fifty at least is 331. The student body, both in personnel and discipline, has been vastly improved. A comprehensive and general curriculum for the school of medicine was adopted by the board, giving under the new system a general faculty, an administrative faculty and a number of seven. That this will allow the school to excel in the various staffs goes without the saying. —Finances in Excellent Condition— The finances were shown to be in excellent condition. The receipts from many sources have increased in the last month, and the demands of the University fully met, but the board has been enabled to liquidate some accumulated debts. The government's appropriations for the year are in excess of any previous amount, and the Interior Garfield. During the past year the school has been jogging along one congressional appropriation of $100. Next year the amount available will increase for a 10 percent, increase in the salaries of all the teachers, which will stimulate them to put forth stronger efforts in their departments. This advance is probable, and the fact that it is the only advance of salaries carried by the Sunday Civil Bill, except in one case, where $100 was allowed. Provided also made for a new steam building that will heat the classrooms on the beginning of the fall term. Sufficient funds are in hand, says Dr. Thirlfield, authorize the reception of plans for the new steam building and to gift from Andrew Carnegie in connection with the structure and its maintenance. Commendable progress is being made to ward raising the $100 loan, and to gift from $25,000, pledged by the Alumni last November, relieves the trustees of a large part of the burden. —New Trustees on the Board. The following trustees, to fill vacancies, were elected: Judge Geoff A. Kinson, of Charleston; Rev. Charles C. Cowan, Church of the Covenant, Washington; D. C.; Dr J. R. Franks, of Washington; Dr. B. P. Purk, Boston, and J. Deull Miller, of City, Purk was announced, Dr. Charles C. Cowan, forty years a professor in the School of Medicine, and the Chief of Freedman's Hospital, which is placed on a pension under the Carnegie Foundation, has announced the allowance of $2,000. The constant support and a stantial sympathy of Secretary Garald patron ex office of the institution which has in charge the approach from outside to the administration, commended, and pleasure was manifested in the concise evidences of the popularity of the university with all classes, the broad-bauged policies and through-guided administration of Secretary Thirkind Dr. Thirkind has no peer as a leader among the heads of the institutions open to our people, and the wisdom and experience amply justified by his splendid results he has worked out in the two years of his incumbency. THE STAGE Mrs. Callie Vassar sends regards to friends. The reception to P. G. Lowery was a success at Milwaukee. P. G. Adams has an excellent stunt, ap- pearing in the circus line. The Kratons closed the bill with their hoop-rolling act at Hammerstein's, last week. William Bostwick closed with the Norris and Rowe circus at Portland, Ore. May 12. Pearl Moppin is still with Norris & Rowe circus and will be East soon. Re- wards to all. George H. Watkins is manager of the Watkins Tennessee Jubilee Singers, with headquarters at Portland, Ore. Anna Cooke Pankey, prima donna of the Cole and Johnson Company, is very ill at New York the result of an operation for appendicitis. Prof. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Freeman and little son Vaddor are spending some time at Pern, Ind., the guests of Mrs. Waltkins. Ernest Hogan was in New York City last month, where he met his mother from Bowling Green, Ky., en route to a New Jersey summer resort. A bill has been introduced in the State Legislature of Louisiana making it a mea-sonnerate for a theatrical manager to seat a patron after the curtain is raised. Le Roy Bland, the character impersonator, is appearing this week at the Lincoln Theater, Chicago. Next week he will be seen at the Air Dome, Rockford, Iowa. Williams and Stevens opened at Chicago, at the Premier Theater, May 25, with twenty weeks to follow, on the Western Vaudeville Association. Regards to all friends. Sydney Kirkpatrick, a favorite tenor soloist of this city, who is starring with Richard and Helene Minstrels, spent a week at the city last week, the guest of friends and relatives. The Milwaukee Band, under the able management of Mr. Harry Jones, in connection with P. J. Cooper's Troubadours, will present a double program in Whiteface and cover artists: Messrs. Harry Jones, N. Robinson, S. Scott, Guy McFadden, Soiler Vader, Newton Cooper, Kiah Sandlingly and twenty others. Robert C. White is manager and director of the Coney Island Minstrels. The company is as follows: Joseph Russell and wife, Sam Jones, W. Fontroy and wife, Rhiie Dawson, W. Lodge, wife, Young, Kid Chandler, M. McBunnels, Miss Stella Crumley, Stella Swain, Scala Finley, Mary Baker, Johnny Mars. Everybody in fine health and they enjoy the message sent by their old friend, May 2 for England with Millican's Big Pantation Show. Robt. C. White was sorry he could not leave this country and take charge of that one in England, as he was requested by Millican, but he could not make good. Regards to Me, by the company, also Kid Arnte and Levards. S. T. Dunsmore's Mighty Modern Minstrel Jubilee Co. are all well and enjoying the "Man in White" and never worry about being dugged onto his jubistrel first part Aunt Dina. His opening act is of thirty minutes and well arraigned and full of ginger. It is pleasing to the show-going people, all of whom are well-known coon song shouter, joined the company and is making good in her coon songs and back dancing. We met the Rossi and the Google girl at the place and the plaque eating at the whisky tops of the Ringling Bros circus, under the management of S. T. Dunsmore. Prof. A. A. Wright spares no pain in keeping the twelve-piece band and for his twelve-piece band and keeps it in the best position. Howdy Tom Logan. W. A. MAHARA'S SUMMER SHOW. The summer show consists of the following people: Ladies—Bessie La Belle, Miss—Missed Jussie Johnson, so Blank—Missed Jussie Johnson, Shelton, Gentleman—Tim Wimbs, Clever Billy Young, Ed Wilson, Author Johnson, Lord—Iron, Jones, solo cornet and lead tenor, the tenor trombone; Oliver Mead, baritone; Doc Green, tuba; J. Elazier, first clarinet; Howard, Mice; piccolo; W. Crump, solo cornet; Osborn, Osborn, Brim, alto; Carlo, alto; Haley, drums. The orchestra consists of eight pieces, Jones, violin; Louis Johnson, pitcher, flute; Elazier, clarinet; Crump, cornet; its trombone; Osborn, saxophone; Haley drum. DEATH OF JNO. W. SIMMONS. John W. Simmons, soprano saxophone virtuoso of the Simmons High-class Musical Entertainers, departed life at the home of Saturday morning at 1:15, May 23. He had relicd in the God of his salvation. His remains was buried at the home of his wife, Rev. Marlow, assisted by Rev. C. Wilson, assisted by Rev. C. Wilson, devoted wife, mourn his sister mother-in-law, father-in-law, aunts, uncles, and a host of friends to mourn his Pythian Lodge No. 2 and the Protective Union of Chicago. Shetton and Wendy undertakers, also her most esteemed wife, mourn their generous hospitality, and the many loved ones who so kindly extended Luthessa sympathetic assistance. Mr. W. T. Syssus Luthessa and daughter and Mrs. Thomas H. Day, of Cincinnati, O. were the relatives who will return home Sun-days. WM. REID BAND AND CONCERT CO. There are sixteen people, and as they are on their way to California, Mr. Reid joins his company larger, Prof. Walt-Number of members in his company, has received a number of awards, has played the best trained musicians that come with a circus. He has received encephalitis in the band concert for playing his solo, which was arranged. Prof. Johnson is cleaning up for all trombone solo and Rash is playing a solo which was arranged himself, entitled, "The King of the Music," and the quartet of musicians that are four of the young musicians in the business—Harry Mossaggle, L. W. Clark, Otto Hurtmann, and a selection from the opera, Mr. William Clarnet, leader of the opera, is a wonder on the violin, and also the new open-air company, Mr. Collins, the solo alto play company, received his new mallow-solo. In regard to cleaning up with his alto company, he was on the road with a circus, and he is receiving compliments both from press and public. Mr. Reid has got one of the best colored bands before he buble to-day, and all of the members of his band send regards to all friends and wish all musicians success in every respect. THE WHITMAS SISTERS For the past two weeks this city has been musically electrified by some of the great musical artists in this country. Notwithstanding the Bailey's Circus, Buffalo Bill and other great concerts, the concerts that have been given by the Whitman Sisters in the several churches have been attended by overflowing young ladies and their renditions of their musical numbers certainly electrify their audiences. Before over three thousand people attended the morning at the laying of the corner stone, the Temple Baptist Church Miss Essie Whitman had her auditors in tears. At the Wernon Avenue Baptist Church on Wernon Avenue, the Temple Baptist Church Miss Essie Whitman had her auditors in tears. At the Tuesday evening Mt. Airy Baptist Church was too small to hold the people. Thursdays Trinity A. M. E. Church was crowded to the tenth Street Baptist Church, Rev. S. G. Lankins, gave these young girls a great ovation. Next Monday night the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church will be taxed to host the next three wonderful singers have not heard these wonderful singers should not fall to go early and secure a seat. Miss Essie Whitman is no doubt the most wonderful singer in this country. Every prominence has been opened to these artists. Miss Mabel Whitman is not only a woman of great executive ability, but she is also a teacher. Berta Whitman is the youngest of the three sisters. She possesses a sweet voice, the little boy who takes part in this combination is a genius. "The Washington Bee." FLORIDA BLOSSONMS CO. The Florida Blossoms Minstrels are having continued success. Several valuable additions have been made, both to the stage and band. Paul Carter is a credit both to himself and the show. He is showing his ability as a stage manager by startling the South with his wonderful production. N. E. Pockins whose name appeared on the announcements as bandmaster and musical director, joined the show in Cordele on the 20th of May, and was accompanied by Messrs. Jim Wise, comedian; Joe Miller, tuba, and Wm. Phillips, clarinet, also Miss Effie Means, ne Perkins, the Jacksonville soubrette. Mr. Carter is doing "Jim Jackson from Jacksonville, Fla." to perfection, and Hi Jerry Barnes, the bear wonder, makes the world laugh. The Fishers are holding their own way and defy the country with their buck and wing dancing. Mr. McKenny is doing the middle, and doing it like a man of ten years' experience. His work as a contortionist is unrivaled. His latest and most famous productions is the ladder drop of 25 feet. Miss Susie Beavers is doing well and singing every day. She wants Something Elas. She sends regards to all friends and acquaintances. The management is well pleased with the show and believes that it can't be beaten. Paul Carter as a monologist is great and is singing. I Just Can't Stand the Heat. You can't stand the positions. "You Don't Look Half as Good to Me as My Straight-haired Yellow Man." MRS. PITTMAN'S TRIUMPH. Her Debut at a Pianist Captivates Audience at Nation's Capital. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—The widely-advised musical recital given Monday evening at the Metropolitan Arena, Clarence Cameron White, the race's most accomplished violinist, was of the highest classical type. In point of quality, as well as quantity, the recital was highly famous as the capital is for entertainments of the very best order of merit. The most noted composers of every age were drawn upon liberally, and honoured by the old masters and modern producers of the S. Coleridge-Taylor generation. All of the carefully selected numbers were rendered in the works which Mr. White had gathered about him. Notwithstanding the fact that the past six weeks have been crowded with recitals which have appealed largely to singing, the high admission rate of admission have been charged, the spacious edifice was well filled with one of the most fashionable and most enthusiastic audiences that has ever assembled upon a similar occasion. Mr. White was greeted by a burst of spontaneous applause as he appeared to present the first number of his succeeding contributions to the brilliant offering were so well received that he was compelled to frequently acknowledge encores, achieving in all a distinct triumph. Mr. White and his magnificent team met him sympathetically, and coming fresh from a successful invasion of the Middle West, Southwest and far Rockies, he was at his best, and proved himself to be one prophet, at least, as was not without country. Mr. H, Leonard Jeter, of Newport, Hampshire, a 'cellist of wide interest' who has selected and by his happy selections and by his peculiar mannerisms, formed his own text, feet, and unconscious unconscious of the presence of anything or anybody save the instrument under his command. As an example of the "impressionist" school of musicians, a la Creature, Mr. Jeter stands in Class W. Few people knew there was so much raku music in a 'cello until they heard Mr. Jeter extract it with such reckless prodigality. Theme, Kathryn Skene Mitchell, the well-known Cleveland prima donna, who has made her name a household word hereabouts through the world in Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha," was also warmly received, and sang herself anew into the hearts of her host of admirers. Mr. Charles Marshall, hartone, of Philadelphia, has several books, and acquitted himself with marked credit. Like his associates, he was heartily enced. In presenting this unusually strong demonstration of the long strides the Negro has made in the city, Mr. Cox has on professional business. Whatever he will be in the company of Dr. Walter Mc Kissick and other leading members of the medical profession. The Rev. A. J. Gorham, of Knoxville, Trav. arrived just last Sunday and took of anything or anybody save the instrument under his command. As an example of the "impressionist" school of musicians, a la Creature, Mr. Jeter stands in Class W. Few people knew there was so much raku music in a 'cello until they heard Mr. Jeter extract it with such reckless prodigality. Theme, Kathryn Skene Mitchell, the well-known Cleveland prima donna, who has made her name a household word hereabouts through the world in Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha," was also warmly received, and sang herself anew into the hearts of her host of admirers. Mr. Charles Marshall, hartone, of Philadelphia, has several books, and acquitted himself with marked credit. Like his associates, he was heartily enced. In presenting this unusually strong demonstration of the long strides the Negro has made in the city, Mr. Cox has on professional business. Whatever he will be in the company of Dr. Walter Mc Kissick and other leading members of the medical profession. The Rev. A. J. Gorham, of Knoxville, Trav. arrived just last Sunday and took Miss Mary L. Europe, the painstaking instrumentalist, instructor in the public school Choir, presided at the plano, and contributed no small share to the celtat of the hall. To Dr. W. H. Conner, who looked after the business arrangements of the recital, is due a large measure of the credit for the handsome balance that accrued to the choir. We are grateful about the middle of this month for Europe, to take a special course in classical arts, under the provisions of the scholarship conferred by Mme. E. Azala Hackley. KANSAS CITY, MO Special to THE FREEMAN SPECIAL TO THE FREEMAN. MAY BURGERS, THE QUANTUM MEETING AT Allen Temple, a large crowd was out, as was also at the love feast Monday night, William Bates, of Pine Bluff, Ark., was marri- Wednesday evening May 27, 1970. Rev. Picture performed the ceremony. The best man was Mr. Fitzure and bridesmaid was Miss Goldie Stewart. The costumes were not so important. The photos of the two men were all good and useful. Refreshments were servd. Mr. All Rogers, president and assistant secretary; H. Patten, secretary and Wall Street, was the most important of the Walters' Social Club, have moved into their commodious club rooms at No. 1022 Wyandote street, Kansas City, Mo., and the new city. The new house was the only boys of members. The Midland Hotel closed May 26 at 10:30 p.m., There were forty waivers on the payroll at the closing. Messrs. Arthur Brown, John Watkins and the other men were in the way of the� at the event, and the management and officialss until the last of May, until all the guests got out, then they sat down with the two men. The two men were in the way of the worker. Walker, the porter in the wash room, was an employee for over seventeen years. Ben Johnson, a waiter, about the same number years, and were not employed, had been to the from the room. Mr. W. Banks, who was at the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Ark., last season, was the most important of the two men. The two men were in the way of the work. H. May's Long, the head waiter at the Coates, has been very busy the last two weeks, as the headquarters of the Presbyterian convention was at The Coates Out of the Row. With the same time and time, there was a light of the old Midland boys out to Fairmont Park last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Fry ...The Topeka, Kan., ball team won from our boys Saturday, but our team won Sunday...Read The Freeman every week. You can get it at The Walters in the office, or from the agent Amos T. Stewart, 715 Charlotte street, Kansas City, Mo. "QUEEN ESTHER" IS GIVEN Special to THE FREEMAN While the oratorio is a grand success in every way, the press of the city is also thriving through the printing and mailing his printing to colored newspaper and printing offices and for so thoroughly advertising the extraordinary event. Every color of the printing is dedicated to homes of their friends and disposed of tickets. Three cheers for Prof. Delany and the chorus. The church society, under the direction of W. W. W. W., held the chorus on Monday night, June 8, at which time there may be effected a permanent organization. Mrs. Sarah Lewis, on Decoration Day, decorated the grave of her departed husband, and a number of friends and sympathizers were present. President J. L. R. Fliggs, of the State University of Wisconsin, Klast week to deliver the annual commencement address to the graduates of the public school. Dr. Wilson Barrald, dentist, has gone to Ohio and will make a trip all through the state. He will attend the commencements of his Alma mater. The commencement of the Normal School, of which Prof. S. O. Johnson is principal, will take place June 12 and 13, and the high school commencement on June 18. Dr. Lloyd Cox, of Dayton, O. was in the city this week, the guest of his brother, Dr. Leroy Cox, of the Douglass drug store. Dr. Cox was highly entertained while here by his brother and members of the medical fraternity. Dr. Walter Adams, one of the leading physicians of the city, will leave soon for a few days' trip to Chicago, Ill., on professional business. While there he will accompany the company of Dr. Walter Mc. Kissick and leading members of the medical profession. The Rev. A. J. Geckam, of Knoxville, Tenn., arrived here last Sunday and took charge of the Thirteenth Street and Broadway Street A. M. E. Zion Church. The Rev. R. S. Rives, former pastor of the Church, sent to Knoxville, Bishop George W. Clintin, transferred from this episcopal district and Bishop J. S. Caldwell will take his place. Miss Juanta Adams, of Kansas City, Mo., who has been the private secretary Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, has gone home to New York to work in the city for a year, and has given entire satisfaction as a stenographer and typewriter. Miss Adams was at one time the Plaindealer, of Topka, Kans., of which "Nick" Chiles is editor and manager. The Baptist Woman's Missionary Society held a session here last Tuesday at the Fifth-street Baptist Church. Mrs. Tina Givens is president and she deferred her time to attend the N. Nurroughs, Mrs. Mary V. Parrish and Mrs. Vienna Parker delivered addresses, Mrs. J. H. Frank, the Revs. L. G. Jordan and W. M. Johnson were among the speakers. * * * Word reached the citizens of Louisville that Dr. W. H. Ballard, proprietor of Ballard and the Office of the Lexington Colored Fair Association, has announced himself as candidate for the office of the State. Mr. Ballard has given years of services to this order, and the brothers all over the State, as well as this city, are speaking highly of the candidacy of Dr. W. H. Ballard. --- Miss Mary Stewart and Mr. Wilson Crompton were married last evening at the home of the bride. The house was decorated with flowers and poted palms in a Stewart was the matron of honor and Miss Fronnie and Miss Mary Lang were bridesmaids. Miss Emma Lang played the wedding march, and Mrs. Susan Lang presents, Mrs. Susian Moorman, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Haynes, of Cloverport, Ky., attended the wedding. According to the report of the high school committee, the services of Prof. D. Lawson has not been satisfactory and remains yet to be seen, whether he will attend the meeting or the National Negro Teachers' Association meets here in June, some good principal who can come well recommended and is a man of force and character and a disciplinarian. The reinintendent of the school board or write Dr. J. E. Simpson, in care of the board. The representative of THE FREEMAN is in receipt of an invitation from Col. John R. Marshall to attend the full-dress reception of the annual awards in honor of the delegates to the National Republican convention. The reception will take place June 18, at the First Regiment Armory. Many of these boys in the regiment last summer attending the Knights of Pythias conclave, and the story they told while in camp, marching and drilling, together with their discipline, moved Mr. Henry Watterson to write a brilliant and illuminating editorial their behalf. Little or no interest is being taken in the high school commencement this year, and the parents are not satisfied have deteriorated to such a low ebb and the parents are not satisfied with the discipline of the school. The Kentucky Standard charges last week that under Prof. Lawson children are allowed to go to corpse graves, and the parents are not flirt, Mr. D. L. Knight, one of Louisville's leading citizens, filed charges that his girls were allowed to go out of school, and this in particular has caused much of the community to follow and many are urging that Prof. Lawson may be demoted or dropped. Mr. George Chatman scores a great hit with his town people by receiving a patient from Washington, D.C., for a job at the school pole attachment which, it is believed, will not only be entirely successful from a practical standpoint, but attract attention of the street crowd. The school pole is the object of the invention is to prevent the trolley pole from jumping the wire. While attending school Chatman lived a good life, but he was often delayed by the trolley pole jumping the wire. This led him to study for two years on the invention. He is a Louisville graduate and is a member of the School. Many thousands of dollars have been offered him for the invention. The annual commencement exercises of the Russell High School, Lexington, Ky., will take place Friday evening, June 5, at the Lexington Opera House. Prof. G. J. H. McCarthy, former president for the occasion and large numbers will go from this city and Georgetown, Paris, Versailles and other towns in eastern Kentucky to hear the exercises. The following are the dates for the exercise: Misses Pearl Elizabeth Payne, Katie Nermia Cowan, Carrie Hardieest, Carrie Beatrice Johnson, Edyth Bird Marshall, Hattie Eliza Maggs, Alice Sopronia Richardson, Lottie Hawkins, Edward Florence Richardson, Lottie Hawkins, Edward Florence Willie Dunn, Messrs. Levl Royalty Harden, Benj. W. Johnson, Alexander H. Stevenson and Lee Ernest White. James Clark and Walter Tinsley have plucked up nerve enough to give an old fashioned ministrel at Masonic Theater, where such stars as Wm. Abel, Bud Livelly, Jos. Clark, James Price and Louie and Nettie Taylor and other stars of well-known character, Roderick Faye. He will introduce songs hits. Several well-known young ladies who have charming voices will assist in the fun making. The young ladies are as charming as the well-known Charlotte Ahlfeld, Arnie Matthews, Laura Ramsey, Hattie Hill, Cuttle Burks. Prof. Tobe Brown's full orchestra has been secured to furnish the band, and the orchestra has formed themselves into the Metropolitan Colored Stock Company, and they hope to give some very creditable performances during the summer. The annual commencement of the Jeffersonville High School took place Monday night, June 1, at Specht's Hall, principal of the school, presided at the commencement. The following program was given: Music, "Dream of the Rarebelt Friend." Oration, "Do Efforts Count?" Floyd H. Essay, "The Little Rift within the Lute." Eula B. Vertrace. Essay, "On Demand." Lillian Jerfferies. Oration, "The Negro in America." William H. Circey. Marshall Phillip. Presentation of diplomas by Suprintendent C. M. Marbel. A graduating address was delivered. The following received the certificate of graduation: Jerfferies, Virginia Twyman, Iola Tytler, Eula Eile Vertrace, Verina Vertrace, William Harrison Cleey and Floyd Tyler. The physicians of Louisville will commemorate the life and character of the late Starks Sunday June 14 at Charleston Hall at Rock. The program to be given is as follows: 1. Voluntary 2. Organ 3. Hymn, "Jesus Lover of My Soul" 4. Invocation 5. Dr. C. H. Parrish 6. Responsive Reading. 7. By All 8. Jesus Lover 9. Testimonials from Lodges. C. B. Lewis 10. Testimonials from Courts. Solo Bass Singer. Also wish to hear from good ballad singers and musicians at all times. Communicate as per route. Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, June 6; Stratford, 8; Berlin, 9; Guelph, 10; Galt, 11; St. Catherines, 13; Hamilton, 14. 10. "Shall We Meet Beyond the River." 11. Biographical Sketch (read) 12. Tributes of Respect (read) E. H. Haynes 13. Vocal Solo.....Sir Knight John Emily 14. Eulogy.....J. L. V. Washington 15. Ode of the Order. 16. Benediction. A piano recital by Miss Sadie Walker, one of the most finished musicians of the young school, was given last week at the Plymouth Congregational Church. Miss Walker is the first pupil to receive a certificate of graduation of the Y. M. C. A. Conservatory of Music. Miss Walker has been a valuable assistant in preparing the commencement for the Central High School. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Walker, Brook and Breckenridge streets, and will also graduate from the Central High School with second honors. The following high-class program was given on the night of her graduation from the music school: .....Beehoven "Moonshine" .....MacDowell "Mac Apples" .....Emery Elute, Op. 8, No. 18. Invention No. 8 .....Bach Waltz .....Bach Elute No. 1 .....Kulak "To Spring" .....White "The Nightingale" .....Llisz "The Chariot Race" .....Schytte The Louisville Giants are certainly playing in the championship field with Lola, Watson, Wallace and Belfield, the fastest ever seen here, also the outfield is good with Robison in right, Griffin playing center and Briscoe in left. They tied up to see the Giant for a series of games, winning two, which proves they are the best team in Kentucky. Dickey, Gaffney and Griffin pitching some fine ball, also the Giant for a series, some fine back stopping. Manager Lancaster has a great team and is giving Louisville some clean sport. We would like the Giant for and A. the up once more. Attendance at both games 4,000. Score: Giants ..... 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 *-5 Reccins ..... 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4-4 Batteries, Giants, Sanford, Thompson; Reccins, Weakley, Yetter. 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But this will be "difficult" to do when the country is agog, still we may not hasten trouble, ill-feelings, which are so sure to grow out of agitating such a question. It has long since been held that the question would some day become uppermost in the minds of the American people, coming of its own accord. It was not expected so soon, nor would we now be confronted by it, had not it been for the misguided few that sat down to a banquet the other day in New York—putting the question formally "on." We rail at these, not because they had no rights in the matter, but because the times are all ready out of joint with the Negroes, and to inject such a question at such a time is the height of civil madness. Some consideration is due those people, the white ones especially who think to break down prejudice by attacking it in its forte. Yet, they are unprepared to take the advance, and simply because they have not stopped to count the cost, they may think so; holding it means social ostracism for them, personally—and is not that a sort of death? And is it not quite sufficient? It may look that way, but it is not that way that the cost comes. It may be considered a sacrifice, when a sacrifice, but it is one that merely contributes to the Negro's undoing—uncalled for, and not worth the while. They perhaps were honest enough when they sat and chatted about the marital millennium, but they were unsophisticated; they were without the greater outlook. Every Negro in the land has received a shock and check, and without the least show of compensation now, or for the future. It perhaps will be held by the promoters that they are paving the way, and that after the "shock," it will be but a matter of time before things become easy and the desired end will quickly follow, this kind of reasoning will answer for some questions, for most movements when making way; it, however, will not answer in this case, whose sitting down at the feast, simply saw New York, where the Negro is at his best, at least in outward show, making a "favorable impression. Many other localities are scarcely behind New York. In fact the whole North is a fair example of the well developed Negro in most respects, and where there were no prejudice, slavery, and war to begin with. A propaganda of the kind there would not mean the same as it would where the Negroes live by the millions. It is here where the movement will be hardest hit, and since it is the heart of the race, the blows rained there will be felt in all parts. Already the feast has been echoed throughout the land. No one does it "reverence." White and colored people very much deplore what has taken place. The New York Times says: "In the North we may be said to have no Negro question, but there is a Negro question in the South, and it would be well-nigh impossible to do the Negroes of the South a greater injury than was done by these flabby-minded persons who assembled in New York City on Monday to talk about and to exemplify the social 'equality' of the races. The wise friends of the Negro race, those high-minded and philanthropic men who have given of their time, their thought, and their substance for its welfare and advancement, will be appalled by this performance. In the South it will be discussed with a degree of passion and resentment that must inevitably intensify existing differences and retard works of beneficence undertaken in behalf of the Negroes. * * * "Out of the many evils springing from this most unwise and unnatural venture for the further spread of Socialism there will emerge, as we have said, the corrective influence. That will be salutary, and it is the only good thing we discern in the escape." It will be seen that the Times is also of the opinion that instead of reaping the expected result of the gospel preached by the Cosmopolitan Club, a "corrective influence will follow that will be salutary." So thus in New York the best filled community for the flourishing of the idea, the race gets preached down to in a style that's not good for its civil health. Socialism is dealt a blow which it also must feel, since it is put in the light of fostering a scheme so repugnant to the general notion of matters along this line. It is very evident that that class, and which stands for some good principles, will have to exercise considerable care or men of purpose will identify them solely with those nations provocative of harm, rather than their better ones. The social equality idea is not criminal; it is unpopular, and the agitation is altogether unnecessary. The Negroes are not concerned about intermarriage, it is never the subject of their councils. The manifest discriminations along lines of industry, in public conveyances, in places patronized by the public, are the crying evils. A bunch of white people acting along these lines make reformers. Senator Foraker has lost nothing in chosing to stand for the race in the Brownsville matter. Speaking again of the unwisdom of the movement the Louisville Courier Journal says: "The disastrous effect of such a dinner can not be estimated." And not long since the race made a friend out of Mr. Watterson, the distinguished editor of that well known journal. The Atlanta Journal says: "Nothing in recent years has so stirred the white people of the United States as this 'social equality' dinner." Senator Tillman remarked that the incident was trivial, yet, it "marks the rapid progress we are making toward the inevitable catastrophe." The papers generally have had a "word" to say about the affair, and of course they are unanimous on the "word." The Negro pulpit of the South has given the matter attention, deploring the unfortunate happening, putting itself on record as against it, and in the interest of the general good, Considerable rancor has entered the discussion in the Southern papers, much more than justifiable by the event. In fact, it is in deference to their feeling that colored men everywhere so vigorously disclaim inclination to the intermarriage theory. One would imagine by the outburst that thing, the dreaded expected was on. And really the thing can not come about without their aid and consent. If they refuse to enter marriage contracts, not one may be solemnized. Some such view of the matter should be taken rather than acting if it were a one-sided affair. BISHOP TURNER, "FORTIER IN MODO." One of the admirers of Bishop Turner has it that the greatest Negro God has made for the race. Quite fulsome praise and perhaps deserving to some extent. "For the race" is the qualification that the admirer has strongest in mind. There are many who think that Bishop Turner is the greatest advocate for the race as such. The writer as usal, contrasts the notions and principles of Booker T. Washington with those of Bishop Turner. The bishop will be known for his African scheme; his twenty-five, more or less, miles of names to petition congress for ships conveying Negroes to that continent. It is not thought that he was so much enamored of the movement as he was incensed at the treatment the race was receiving, suggesting that from the scene. The writer does not seem to question or criticise the very outlandish movement, and during which time, the time of the agitation, the bishop worked himself up to such a frenzy; calling those that did not take to his colonization views all the kind of names that he dared put in print—they were something to see. But he was a sick man at the time, mentally and physically sick, which may have accounted for his then overbearing condition. He rides no such hobbies in these days, proving that he has become somewhat reconciled to conditions and that he means to fight it out where he is. Mr. Washington long ago said so: "Let down your buckets where you are." Bishop Turner is still a stalwart for the race, but not different to most Negroes in purpose, in the intent. He and the rest of us want an untrammeled citizenship; it is in the heart of every man to secure the greatest freedom possible, measured by the freest individual of the State. The bishop thought the rest of us silly in that we were content with less; it was a huge mistake. Great as he has been called, and doubtless is, along his chosen calling, he was unfitted at the business of the peculiar phase of statecraft. Theologians are generally for right founded on the Christian notion. In fact, their high offices compel them as a rule to view men in only two great classes, the saved and the unsaved; the Christ spirit forbidding any other notion. They put the spiritual life first, knowing that physical freedom is best conducive to it. It stands to reason that in a government of theocracy the greatest liberty would prevail, everything else being equal—being representative, etc. However, we are but a few years removed from the ugliest civil condition know, and as much as wew may chafe, the destiny is with the years—long or short, according to the work. Bishop Turner in dropping his African emigration scheme, doubtless has found much at hand to do, just like Mr. Washington has found. It is not a reflection to know that Negroes have not all contended for; the reflection true and proper will come if the best is not made of the opportunities that are presented to-day; that the best may follow. GOOD ADVICE. Colored men who are given to the weakness of advising our people to support Democracy rather than stand by an unpopular Republican nominee for presidential honors, should be careful and not allow their feelings to run away with their better judgment. This counsel, if followed, means the injury of the masses in the South to an extent that the unwise agitators who, for the most part, live in the North, do not even faintly conceive. It should be remembered by colored voters that the Democratic party, as such, gives them not a scintilla of hope or showing, and is responsible for every ill and outrage suffered by the race in the South. It is the father of Jimcrowism, the mother of lynchings, the grandfather of disfranchisement and the sponsor of every anti-Negro law or custom, North or South. The Negro voter who believes that the future has anything good in store for him at the hands of this party must be deaf indeed to the proclamations of such of its apostles and spokesmen as Tillman, Helflin and Jeff Davis. These men and their allies defend disfranchisement, Jimcrowism, lynch law and the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment on the floors of Congress, and with a Democratic President and Congress to back them, would soon reduce our people in the South to a condition worse than serfdom.—The Christian Recorder. The foregoing is not so much political buncombe thrown out for reasons other than noted. The Christian Recorder is staid, conservative and respectable. When it feels the necessity of advising along political lines it is well to pay it some mind. There is really danger in the political "iberalism" displayed in these days by the race, which really is not political liberalism; it is nothing short of political recklessness. The admirable quality of broadness is indeed admirable, and should be cultivated when conditions are equal. If the Democratic party has something just a little better to offer than another party marked yet, it we are cataclys have affair, onous on of the convention, opening, insist it, al good, red the papers, by theence to every-incolnina- v. One that was on. having the ability to carry out its contracts, the Negroes would be silly not to embrace the chance. The Recorder states it plainly enough—what is to be expected in the event the threatened notion to help the Democrats into national power is carried out. This has in mind the prospective action of the Chicago Convention. Nothing serious can be urged against breaking up, in municipal politics, where really there is but little of the partisanship as it is best understood. Here no great principles are involved—rather men and measures for insuring municipal reforms or the ordinary transaction of the public's business. On the other hand, in national politics the race is never without a menace to its civil and political existence. A Large Selection of Latest Patterns. 14k gold LAVALIERS at prices below competition. Will be pleased to show you the selection. CARL L. ROST, DIAMOND MERCHANT, 15 N. Illinois St. It may be a great big joke when Georgia threatens to come up to Washington for the express purpose of defeating the Negroes of the benefits of the latter amendments to the general Constitution. But there should be no chances taken, especially when we have "Jim Crow" cars, "electors' qualifications" and other manifestations of the earnestness along that line. It is true, we have had a Democratic President, a very excellent one from most anybody's standpoint; Congress has been Demoeratic, all without the frightful result. Yet wise men do not of a purpose select a doubtful path when one clear of obstructions may be chosen just as well. That the calamitous has not occurred has nothing to do with the future. We do not really think that even Georgia means all it says when it threatens to come up to Washington, but it has served notice. And what is said of Georgia may be said of some other States who desire the Negroes out of civil and political commission. Relations are changing daily, and what failed to pass under Grover Cleveland may come to pass at another time. We cannot afford to toy with the future. Race Gleanings The second annual meeting of the Texas Negro Business League will be held at Fort Worth, June 30, July 1 and 2, 1998. The W. B, H. and S. M. T. building committee of this city is making strenuous efforts to raise $1,000 by June 21. On that day a rally will be held at their present place of meeting in Delaware street. E. P. Calloway and other prominent Negroes of Texarkana, Ark., have organized a Fair Association for the purpose of giving annual fairs on grounds about $40,000. The association will have $40,000 capital improving and $25,000 will be spent in improving the grounds. The fourth annual convention of the Rosebud Nursery of the Western division of the True Reformers, held a three days' session in this city last week. Rev. W. L. Taylor, of Richmond, Vg., national presi- president, Mrs. Luella Young, of Chicago, president of the Western district, were in attendance. Samuel Coles, Sr., of Harrisburg, who served recently on the jury as foreman in Daughntown county, in capital conspiracy to defraud the jury in the head of the jury box in so important a case in the 123 years of the county's court. The remainder of the jury were white. The Rev. Dr. William M. Alexander, the efficient and popular pastor of Sharon Baptist Church, of Baltimore, Md., has been appointed to the publican Convention, which meets in Chicago to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Dr. Alexander is the only colored man who is a delegate from this State. William J. Conn, of Trenton, N. J., was a child in the lot. The cemetery's by-laws prohibit the sale of a lot to a person of African descent. The court now holds that in this case no proof was subpoenaed to show that Conn's ancestors were Africans. Since industrial training was introduced into the colored schools of Columbus, Ga., it has grown in popular favor with the Negroes has had the thorough approval of the state legislature to have a large part of the taxes for the support of the Negro schools, and has attracted to Columbus the attention of many educators. After the graduation of the students, sewing, dining service and general housekeeping were added for the girls, and in September, 1906, a blacksmith shop was fitted up for the boys. The esculpanian Medical Society of Indianapolis, met last week at the office of Dr. W. E. Brown 357 Indiana avenue, and met last week at the office of Dr. W. E. Brown as a committee to confer with the Sisters of Charity concerning the proposed colored hospital in this city. With the state board of directors of the Sisters of Charity in Dr. Brown's office last Monday night. Dr. W. E. Brown read a paper on "Lobar Pneumonia." The so-called board of directors a public meeting the third week in June. PROVES CIVILIZATION OF NEGROES IN EGYPT Dr. David Randall Mac Iver, of the University of Pennsylvania's archaeological expedition to Egypt, has returned to America to show that at the time of the decline of the Roman empire the Negro race had been highly advanced in the arts and sciences for Dr. Mac Iver stands ready to refute the claims of ethnologists that the Negro race is only one that never produced a civilization of its own. "Our excavations," he says, "have shown that the source of the civilization is the past, and that work in lower Nubia covered was Ethiopian tiquities cover every phase of this new school of art. The sculptures are of a arbarian, non-Egyptian type, showing discontinuity rather than the Mediterranean orkian." FARM SCHOOL FOR COLORED PEOPLE. The Lexington Conference of the M. E. 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A delegation of representative citizens of Liberia, the well-known Negro Republic of Africa, is in the country for the purpose of seeking council and support in the effort to maintain the Republic, and for the promotion of its growth. It appears from all accounts that country has been in a bad way for some years. The impression is general with those who give the matter any thought, that severely more than the brave form of government is kept up. Perhaps the recent spurt taken by way of exposition, whereby agriculture, manufacture, arts and sciences were to benefit should be noted, at least, for the effort. And strange enough, that country had not undertaken such expositions in a great way until Minister Lyons appeared on the scene a few years ago with his United States ideas. But more than likely, the nation as it is best understood, died a boomin', and which is the natural consequence where so many feel born to rule. The "hated fields," the "first principle" of civilization is not conducive to the greater outlook. The gravities well cared for and civilization is a very Mercury-wings on its beels. It cannot come otherwise. The first few that came to America sowed and reaped until the fear of want hinsened; and then men had time for reflection, for scheming and devising, for books and the whole outfit, incident to civilization. Not long since, a well-known colored doctor of Chicago passing through Indianapolis on his way to the Republic called in the Freeman office. In unfolding his purpose, said, that he was one of a company that had obtained a concession from the Government, or a franchaeise under which the company were to build and operate a telegraph plant, and we think also a railway system, the object is not to deyoy the undertaking, for it stands to reason, that even Liberia should be beyond the ox team methods. But when we think of the total country, consisting of not more than 30,000 civilized persons, the point will be seen. The object is to point out the fact, that the man with the farming implements, plows (that walk), cultivators, etc., was not equally in evidence not announcing his mission with the same eclat, and by the way, this is not intended as a "dig" at the Negro, who by many are held best fitted for the hoe. It is simply imperative in the instance. Every nation that comes up by the agricultural way, it is the simple gate. Liberia boasts of climate, of soil, producing nearly every known variety of vegetable, and kinds unknown to other countries. It boasts of a very fair coffee, one of the staplest articles in the world, one of the most desirable. According to information, cotton can be grown; it is true the country is comparably rich. Sugar also can be "raised." What more? It is said that the country is agricultural. Not nearly enough so with such opportunities. It strikes one at this distance that the little country should get an ocean commerce. Let it read of, and imitate the white man in his right place. The white man even in the midst of civilization is hot yet, beseaching the markets of the world, hoping to introduce his "wares." When the individual concerns are too poor the government itself steps in, promotes and in every way encourages, knowing that, its the Government's perpetuity and prosperity is vouchesafed solely by the industrialism of the people. It is said that England expects more of Liberia as a government, in fact, demands more of that country, insisting that a better Government be maintained. Perhaps the English Government has not made such a formal demand. Such a demand, however, is morally made by the civilized world. This publication made mention from time to time of the poor show the country was making in spite of its favorable situation. Liberia has never equalled its opportunity. That it has existed this long is ample proof of the ability to have existed better. It means that fevers, sickness and such like are not waiting to strike the people down. The death rate is not abnormal; this, with the natural ad- AGENTS WANTED! in every locality to sell Goodmoore's Herb Teas, Large profits and a fast seller. Every package sold is sure to sell others. A FULL SIZE 10% PACKAGE OF THE BEST LIVER AND STOMACH MEDICINE. GOODMOORE'S- LIVER AND STOMACH TERM WILL BE SENT BY MAIL FOR THIS COUPON AND SEE INSTAMPS. WE WANT EVERYBODY TO TRAY. THINGS WHAT WE MARRY THIS OFFER. IT'S SAVES DOCTORS BILLS. KEeps THE SYSTEM IN GOOD ORDER. SIGN NAME: TOWN. THE GOODMOORE MEDICAL TERM CO 36 38 STATE STREET CHICAGO IL vantages, clearly put the Liberians up against it. Much also has been made of the supposed aggression of England, of France and other countries, owning adjacent territory. True enough such a manace is sufficient to hamper the countries are friendly enough, simply it has been manifest only recently, if the thing amounts to more than the imagination. Or perhaps those ambition of the State as a nation, but insisting that Liberia get a move on itself. Those great countries with their miles of territory may not be waiting to gobble up the Negro Republic as it thinks. It is to be hoped that the thing so dreaded may never come about, at least until it is thoroughly proven that the Negroes have no governmental qualities. Liberia must make a noise in the world; it has the facilities What our country can do in the matter is not apparent. Liberia was the outgrowth of a philanthropical impulse during the days of slavery, when a set of well known individuals, headed by Henry Clay, thought to intrigate the evil of slavery by preparing an asylum for the freed Negroes of America. We do not know that the country is even morally obligated. We believe that Congress granted money to foster the enterprise, which has always turned eyes towards America when in trouble. At that time this country was not in the "sovereignty" business as it is now, has made no preference of a protectoracy, existing at no time an influence that spoke of an understanding different to that between Liberia and other nations. We think, however, that the nations would stand for American influence, in the sense of domination, simply because "custom" means something. Custom in this case would be the small "parental" recognition voted from time to time, but principally owing to the origination of the State. If we have any superior and well founded claims they have not been recognized, other than that acquiring the country, and which was through private enterprise, although publicity abetted. We hope the best for the Liberians, but are not acquainted with the true nature of their quarrel with England. We are not inclined, however, to think of that country as imposing on the little Republic; it's not England's way. Hotel Notes. Messrs. A. Wright and Jas. Thomas, two well-known waiters that cut quite a dash at Manitou, Colo., last summer, arrived in Chicago recently, poorer but wiser. The various head and side waiters are cordially invited to send all the news pertaining to the profession to the editor. W. Porrezzio Cozart, care The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. John H. Griffin, the O.G. veteran hostess in Washington, G. will be in charge of the American Garden, Atlantic City, this year, succeeding the late M. J. Carter. Mr. W. C. Jackson will again be in charge of the dining room at the Watch Hill House, Watch Hill, R. I. Mr. Jackson was formerly at the West Minster Hotel, New York. Every waiter should subscribe for The Freeman, the only paper giving news and events in hoteldom and about the waiters throughout the country. If you want hotel news read The Freeman. Mr. A. Wilson, a well-known colored chef in Chicago and other Western cities, is now located in Atlantic City, where he will be working at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mr. Wilson will soon open an employment bureau for all kind of hotel employees. Mr. M. D. Frye, one of the old veteran waiters and formerly second waiter at the Nelson House, Rockford, Ill., but recently employed for some time at the Illinois Bloody Mary Restaurant in Kansas City, where he is employed at the Midland Hotel. Mr. G. Craig recently succeeded Mr. Wm. Briley at the Acacia, at Colorado Springs. The Acacia is a first-class European hotel. Mr. Craig is a student of W. Forrest Cozart, having been with him at both the Oriental and Southland hotels at Dallas, Tex. W. Forrest Cozart, editor of this department, delivered the principal address before the Head and Side Waiters National Convention at Atlantic City in the presence of the mayor and several hotel proprietors, receiving great applause for his plea on behalf of the colored waiters. Mr. Edward Western, who has been in the employee of the Cliff House, at Manitou, Colo., spent the winter in Kansas City, Mo., where he was employed at the Midland Hotel. Mr. Western has been eminent and is Proprietor Nichols' right-hand man, he also owns very valuable property in Manitou and is a prime favorite among the waiters at the Cliff each season. Mr. Western is now on duty at the Cliff. Look out for the "Chosen People," a book written by W. Forrest Cozart, and deals with the Negro and his ancient ancestors. The book will be in interial form in The Freeman. Those who have read the manuscript of this gives it their hearty approval and say that it fills a long-felt want. i. e., a true history of the Negro's ancient ancestors and color and moves that it is not a curse and that the Negro is not an inferior race. John B. Goins, author of the "American Colored Waiters," has just issued a revised edition of his book, "The great improvement over the first edition, which has been made to include European service instructions and has about fifty illustrations. The revised edition is handsomely bound, the cover is lettered of gold. The price of the book is the same, $1, and may be secured from the "Hotel World," 3324 Dearborn street, Chicago. Mr. Lee Lumpkin, a head waiter of note, who has been the star attraction in Western and Southern hotels for the past twelve years, is now in charge of a European hotel at Omaha. Among the hotels he may be mentioned the Eastman, Hot Springs, Ark.; The Arlington, Petosky, Mich., and Cadillac, Petosky,ampsky, Mich., a business in a growing Chicago, and it is said he sunk about $20,000 in this enterprise. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, which is composed of hotel proprietors and managers, will hold their annual congress from July 10 to July 12. It is to be hoped that the waiters at the Saratoga hotels will not fail to give these hotel proprietors the best of service and deport themselves to the hotel staff, and thus help to create a good sentiment for the continued employment of the colored waiters throughout the country. A correspondent stated recently that Mr. L. Morgan Whitaker entertained recently the local Negro Business League at her home, 510 E. Neururfano street, Monday night. An interesting meeting held, among the waiters, was held at Roses and carnations in pretty arrangement were the decorations. Twenty-five guests were present. The social hour was passed by the waiters, and the estimable wife of Mr. Whitaker, one of the prominent waiters. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER employed by Headwalt Loper, at the Alamo Hotel, Colorado Springs. The national convention of Head and Side Walters in their national convention in Atlantic City last week, adopted the following resolution: Resolved That the Head and Side Walters National Benefit Association, in convention assembled, deplore the wholesale and honorable dismortal or trial in which wity solders their innocence. Be it further resolved, that we, as Republicans, so notify the Republicans at large and the delegates to the national convention, that we will expect them to nominate a candidate who will be in favor of repealing the armed solders to their former posts of duty with honor and full pay." that conscience is a shifting attribute stinging to the quick in this event, be numbing the senses in that? Even this condition could be easily understood where there were no other justice. Vigilant committees have been necessary in lieu of law. But as a rule men readily give away before the higher law, born of every man's opinion and vote, and whose functions are those that the mob so often chooses to exercise. We have never seen the necessity for defending the criminal when such. Punishment in itself is not so com- Thieving white help has been very active lately in robbing the various hotels in every section of the country. Not long ago, a man who had established an organized system of robbery which extended from New York to Los Angeles, Cal. Last week a white hiker who was robbed at a hotel in Atlantic City was arrested systematically robbing the beach front hotels. The detectives located two big hotels, and the man had filled with all kinds of articles purloined from hotels, including silverware, etchings, shipped to confederates in Philadelphia, and kept on the table when the hotel proprietors will appreciate honest colored employees. In Chicago the other day it was disclosed that a white man had taken the bank account of $30,000. How did he get it? The election of Ira T. Bryant as manager of the Sunday-school Union over Rev. Chappelle, is a decided victory of the lay movement, and he ployed in the Government printing office at Washington, being one of the few colored men manipulating a Inotype machine. Mr. Bryant, who while pastoring at Selima Ala., and editing a weekly paper, wrote an article for which the Southerners attempted to persuade his members, openly defied the mob, threatening to give dose for dose of their own medicine. Rev. Bryant put up such efforts, and the members were, backed down. Later Bryant left Selma secretly and went to Nashville. Rev. Bryant was traveling in the city, and his life would have been justly guarded by church. The above incident occurred in 1899. OFFICIAL PROGRAM. Following is the official program of the tenth annual convention of the National women association of lead and Sidewalkers of the city held in Atlantic City, N. J. M. May 29 to 28, 1908; —Tuesday Afternoon, May 26, 2:30 O'Clock— Fitzgerald's Auditorium. Invocation. Rev. L. Murray. Introductory. Address. . . . . . . Mr. Wm. J. Nicholas, Pres. Atlantic City Local Acceptance of Gavel.. National President General Greetings to Convention. Test. Prompt Eight (5-minute) Addresses by Prominent Members. Appointments of Committees. Notice. Aidment. —Tuesday Evening, May 26, 8:30 O'Clock. Invocation.... Rev. Frederick Handy Address of Welcome..... .....Hon. Franklin P. Stoy, Mayor of Atlantic City Response to Mayor....Mr. J. M. Butler Annual Address.....The President Talks on the Subjects 1st. What Is Expected of the Waiter? 2nd. "Relation of Headwaiter to Steward." Opened by..., Charles O. Marquette, President Atlantic City Hotel Men's Association Participated in by Hotel Proprietors, Managers and Stewards. Followed by Three Headwaiters. — Wednesday Morning, May 27, 10:30 — Wednesday Morning, May 27, 10:30 O'Clock— Executive Session. Completion of Appointment of Committees. Report of Committee on Credentials. Board of Directors' Annual Report, by its Aquila —Wednesday Afternoon, May 27, 2:30 O'Clock— Public Session, Fitzgerald's Auditorium. Invocation...Rev. J. P. Gregory, S. T. B. Five Minute Addresses by Members of the Association. Address, "One a Water"...... ...Dr. S. Letoy Morris, M. D. ...Thursday Morning, May 28, 10:30 'OClock.' Executive Session. Reports of Committees. Revision and Adoption of Constitution. —Thursday Afternoon, May 28, 2:30 'OClock.' Executive Session. Completion of Revision and Adoptino of Constitution. Unfinished Business. Consideration of Uniforms. Discussions. New Business. —Friday Morning, May 29, 10:30 'OClock.' Executive Session. Unfinished Business. New Business. —Friday Afternoon, May 29, 2:30 'OClock.' Executive Session. Unfinished Business. Election of National Officers. Election of Board of Directors. Appointment of Auditor. Selection of the Next Convention and any other Business that may come be- fore Convention. Wednesday Evening—Reception at Elks' Hall by the Ladies' Auxiliary, 8:30 to 10:30 at Vaudeville at Bay State Hotel, 10:30 to Thursday Evening—Reception and Dance of the National Benefit Association at Fitzgerald's Auditorium. Fitzgerald's Auditorium THE LINGERING EVIL. A lynching in Alabama and another one in Mississippi were among the recent happenings. As may have been expected, the victims were colored men. The crimes, or alleged crimes, were serious enough, but none can be so serious as to get beyond the jurisdiction of the courts. It's a mere waste of words, it seems, to call attention at length to these cases of mob justice. In fact, it appears the better thing to give as little prominence to such happenings as possible, since they are indicative of helplessness. Such an individual or people gets but little regard in the eyes of the world. Everything else being equal, public protesting in meetings, through newspapers, would appear quite the proper thing. But when such demonstrations are so much means for satisfaction of the mob, and where none may say nay to its work, it is better to "go bury thy sorrow." The time was when our race journals were filled with executions called down on those bodies of lawless men who took the law in their own hands, issuing out justice with all the assurance of a regularly organized court. This amazing audacity is indeed amazed, and, one will inquire, what manner of men that can commit murder and feel no sense of blame. It is all too amazing. Thing of it, that which yesterday was a horrible crime is today a virtue. The killing takes place; every man departs to his home highly satisfied with his share of the work, suffering no compunctions of conscience, meets his family, greets his family with the mark of Cain nowhere. Oh, yes, it is amazing enough. After all, are we compelled to admit --- that conscience is a shifting attribute stinging to the quick in this event, benumbing the senses in that? Even this condition could be easily understood where there were no other justice. Vigilant committees have been necessary in lieu of the law. But as a rule men readily give away before the higher law, born of every man's opinion and vote, and whose functions are those that the mob so often chooses to exercise. We have never seen the necessity for defending the criminal when such. Punishment in itself is not so complained of; it is the extra authority, a species of presumption, and which must not always exist. The thing is becoming extremely unfashionable, and should be clearly out of date, and will be out of date sooner or later. If the laws are not strong enough, they should be made stronger. Clearly the colored people prefer to live within the law, to obey the law, to accept punishment by the law when due. This spirit bespeaks the good citizen. The hangman's noose can spread just as much terror to the lawless directed by the sheriff as by the hands of the mob. Furthermore, emensity of a kind is engendered that does not make for the racial peace of localities. The white man, with his greater and wider discernment, should view the matter in some such light. He has no right to commit deeds that jeopardize the integrity of his country, that advertises its weakness simply to take spite out on some poor, ignorant "nigger" who could have as well been legally killed and thus answering the spirit of the nation. The College Heights Investment proposition should not be overlooked by our women. 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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Free Lunch with Each Drink. Special brands—Captain Tom, Daniel Boone and Corinne. Geo. White, Prop. Geo. Brown, Mgr. 537 W. Green St. Home Phone 6920. LOUISVILLE, KY. Salem Vote For Vote For em D. Clark, For State Senator. The Popular Candidate of the People. Union Co-Open Respectfully A The Laundry of Qu If we do it—it is done n JOHN F. WHITE, Mgr., - Levinson h In Co-Operative Lau Respectfully Asks Your Patronage. The Laundry of Quality—On the Viac If we do it—it is done right. Both Phones 1269. WHITE, Mgr., - - 232-238 Virg inson has you Sh for yo Operative Laundry Successfully Asks Your Patronage. of Quality-On the Viaduct. Union Co-Operative Laundry 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. Levinson has you Slated for your Spring Hat Two Dollars Northwestern Base Ball Park RAN BUTLER, Manager and Owner. Best colored Base Ball Team in the United States will meet all "comers." Write early for dates. GOOD colored or white teams solicited. If you are not "right," don't write. 462 W. 15TH STREET, RAN BUTLER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. They're Going Fast. In spite of the fact that there were nearly a hundred full 60-yard pieces in the lot, the present rate of selling threatens to leave the color range broken in a few days. 69c a yard for the best selling dollar silk of the year is certainly a bargain to attract attention from every quarter. Better investigate early. Choice of natural pongee color, copenhagen, navy and marine blues, golden, russet and wood browns, reseda and heliotrope. "Shah," "first cousin to Rajah," and the best of the dollar rough silks, while this bargain purchase lasts, a yard.....69c —2d floor, east aisle. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Susie Miller is quite ill at her home in North West street. Mrs. J. S. Bailey visited friends at New Castle last Saturday. Mrs. Sarah Wilson returned from Xenia, O., Tuesday evening. Miss Agnes Booth is visiting friends in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. William Brown have returned from Washington, D. C. The Wistaria Club gave their first large party at Odd Fellows' Hall last night. Mrs. Augustus McFarland continues ill at her home in North California street. T. V. Johnson, who is employed at French Lick, Ind., is in the city for a few days on business. Mrs. A. E. Webber attended the Missionary Institute, at Terre Haute, Thursday of last week. George Childs, an old ditizen died last week. The funeral was held at the Union Baptist church Monday. Usual services at Simpson Chapel last Sunday. Rev. Bailey delivered an excellent sermon in the evening. Mrs. Ella Posey will be hostess to the Woman's Improvement Club next Tuesday at her home in Paca street. William Edmonson is now entering upon his ninth year in the service of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. Blind Harris, the pianist is in the city, giving a series of entertainments, assisted by Alex. Schooler, the magician. George W. Taylor, of London, Ont., is the guest of his son, Thomas E. Taylor, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Rev. George C. Sampson, pastor of Allen Chapel will give a talk on his trip to General Conference tomorrow evening at 7:45. The Progressive Club will give a lawn and children's party, June 11, at the residence of Mrs. Salie Robinson, in North West street. Alfred W. Hampton, representing the H. Thomas Calloway tailoring establishment of Chicago was in the city this week on business. R. Williams, with the Big Four, of Chicago, was in the city Wednesday en route to Cincinnati on business. Next week, Mr. Williams will go to New Mexico to visit his son who is ill. Gen. R. R. Jackson, of Chicago, John Gibbs and wife, Mrs. Docia Rochelle, of Terre Haute, and Ernest Tidrington, of Evansville were in the city this week to attend the Pythian Jubilee. James G. Green, of Evansville State Grand Master of the U. B. F. Lodge was in the city this week, making his annual visit to the local lodges. The organization will hold its grand session in August at Shelbyville. Charles Humble, the newly elected president of Sumner League leaves today for West Baden Springs, Ind., to take a weeks' rest after his vigorous campaign. He will also make his list of the different committees. The following deaths were reported this week: Alffed Mitchell, Emma Heater, Eliza Edwards, George Childs, Mary Bulitt, Emery Moss, John W. Simmons, Charles W. Clemons, Anderson, Ind, Mattie Welch, Susie Harris. A special program will be given at Bethel A. M. E. church tomorrow night. Miss Laura Donnan of Short- WASH SUITS SKIRTS WAISTS At Popular Prices S. L. KISER & CO., Washington and Delaware Sts. ridge High School and W. E. Baugh of the Charles Sumner School will read papers. Musical numbers will also be given. The third annual Negro Folk-Lore Concert for the benefit of the building fund of the Second Christian church was given Tuesday evening at Caleb Mills Hall before a large and appreciative audience. The numbers were well received and a good amount was realized. Department Superintendents of Women's Clubs Will Meet. Mrs. Minnie Scott, president of the Federated Colored Women's Clubs of Indiana has issued a call for a meeting of superintendents of the various departments, namely arts and crafts, reciprocity, statistics, ways and means, and domestic science, to be held June 8 at the Robert Gould Shaw School. It is the object of this commitee to place the work for the ensuing club year on a more systematic basis. Those in charge of the work are Mesdames Elizabeth Dixon, Anna T. Julius, Anna C. Clayborn, Roxie Dixon and Lucy Philpott. The superintendents will hold their session from 2 to 3 p.m. ways and means and local presidents 3:30 to 4:30. Reception of Woman's Club to president and delegates 4:30 to 6 oclock. Reception for Graduates. A reception will be held for the graduates of the High Schools at Simpson Chapel June 11. Rev Shaffer will give the invocation; Supeintendents Mirick and Kendall and Prof. G, M. Chadwell will deliver addresses; Gol Hicks, Theodore Cable and Y. M. C. A. orchestra will furnish musical numbers. The following are graduates from Shortridge: Beulah Beck, Camilla Boyer, Myrtle Broadie, Theodore Cable, Sylvester DuValle, Lenina B. Smith, Irene Hayden, M. Edna West. From Manual Training: Sadie L. Bennett, Mayme Boniface, Goldie D. Hicks, Robert W. Malone, Naomi E. Hardrick Bennie Martin, Benjamin Jones, Grace Johnson. 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. If you want the best photos go to Bennett's, 36 E. Washington. THANKS TO SUPPORTERS. The tour to Europe contest is over, and though we did not win one of the prizes, we cannot help feeling deeply grateful for those who supported us, some of whom never heard of us before. It was not their fault that we didn't win. We cannot will not permit our giving the names of all who collected ballots and gave subscriptions. The newspapers—The Freeman, Recorder and Informer—were most kind and we entertained the race, and some of the schools and churches worked nobly for our success. The Star acted with utmost fairness, and we feel that we got every vote due us. We experienced an experience in that we have gained many new friends and have seen the loyalty of the old thoroughly demonstrated. Yours gratefully. MRS. ALBERTA GRUBBS. A. B. C'S CUTT BALL AT WILL Local Colored Sluggers Smother Kokomo Team in Two Games. A. B. C.'S CAPTURE TWO GAMES. Get Batting Practice at Expense of Kahn. The Kahn Tailoring Company team proved easy for the A. B. C.'s in the double header. Northwestern in Decoration The Kahn team took by the score of 9 to 2 and won the second 15 to 2. The game was good batting practice for the A. B. C. team. Reed, Shawler and Merida all got three baggers ... A. B. C. s..1 1 1 2 0 3 0 1 *-8 Kahn's ..1 1 2 0 3 0 1 *-8 A. B. C. s..1 1 2 0 3 0 1 *-8 Base hits—Off Washington, 8; off Sagalowsky, 2. Struck out—By Washington, 2; By Sagalowsky, 2. Hit by pitcher—Shawler, Two-base, hits—Reed, Fitch, Shawler, Two-base, Shawler, Merida, Stolen bases—Nelgeral, White, Umpire Adams, Attendance—500. —Second Game. A. B. C. .5 6 0 2 1 0 1 *-8 15 Kahn's ..5 6 0 2 1 0 1 *-8 Base hits—Off Higbee, 2; off Young, 14 Base on balls—Off Higbee, 6; off Young, 2. Struck out—By Higbee, 8; by Young, 7. Two-base hits—Reed, Shawler, Davis, Gateway, oBard, Three-base hits—Shawler, Allen, Stolen bases—Reed, White. FOGLEMAN. ARK. Special to THE FREEMAN. There was a grand rally at the A. M. E. Church on Sunday. Collection. $116.78. A good crowd was present all day. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WAXAHACHIE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. Brian McKenzie took included, G. W. Bruce, U. Cunningham, Mr. John Wickens and W. M. Richardson.....Dr. J. H. Freeman is drilling twenty-five small girls for his education rally from June 9 to 14....Dr. J. H. Freeman is many friends in honor of Attorney John Myers, of Washington, D. C. May 28 from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. ...Miss B. T. Bruce is home after a month's stay in the city as restorer for Rev. Dr. J. W. Rankin while he was absent at the General Conference at Norfolk, Va. ...Mrs. Rhoda Lamink is able to up again John Myers was in the city as restorer for Rev. Dr. J. W. Rankin, D. D, and Rev. C. H. Bell, D. D, arrived from Norfolk, Va. where they attended the A. M. E. General Conference at Norfolk, Va. ...Mrs. Morton and Prot. I. M. Kemp, of Chattain, passed through Friday, en route to their homes....The H. P., Mrs. Georgia T. Bruce, and Mrs. Mara Reagor, of the Chattain, passed through Friday, on the 10th, an ice cream party, at the home of Mrs. Bruce. 129 Aiken strett. HATTIESBURG. MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN of the A. M. E. Church, has 350 city members, and on Sunday took great pleasure in giving each class leader from twenty to twenty-five men a memorial service. E. Church was sold at Saturday the F. and A. M. Oswego Lodge No. 381, in Venice Park at 12:30 p. m. There was mess at the park, and m. Cox, T. R. Rogers is pastor. .D. Cox, in ten days will visit Miss Eva Shumplford. ... Oliver Rogers has moved his real es- sence to the city. ... Dr. J. H. Kelley has opened his drug store for business on East Seventh street OKLAHOMA. OKLA Special to THE FREEMAN The following persons are on the sick list: Mr. J. E. Brooks and Mrs. Randal. Mr. J. E. Brooks, every sick, on a street car at his Capitol hill...Mrs. Susie Davis has returned from Dover, Okla., where she was called up in 1933 Black and have Leonard Sparks bride you a Freeman every Saturday evening. ...Rev. Jas. A. Johnson has returned from Norfolk, Va., and filled his pulpit after three weeks at the General Conference. BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN. Annie Johnson, a well known professional nurse, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Wilson Dennison, last Saturday after several months illness from paralysis. The deceased was a native of Harford County, Maryland, and since the days of the Civil War. Thirteen grandchildren also survive the deceased. One grandson, Franklin F. Johnson, is connected with the Afro-American Ledger, and two granddaughters, Misses Linda and Irene Ledger, in the city schools. The late George Wesley Johnson, a prominent member of the Maryland Grand Lodge of Masons, was a son of the deceased. The funeral took place Tuesday morning, from Union Bap-ter Church. Interment was in Laurel Cemetery. ELMIRA. N. Y. By the National Negro Press Bureau. Rev. A. B. Moreton preached a very vibrant sermon the young men of a sino Club on Sunday even which was largely attended....The choir of Bethel A. M. E. Church rendered some very choice music on Sunday evening....The Mimie Olof Ouesthey and the dinner on Incoming on Sunday evening. Wm. Sykes and Chas. Moore attended the dance in Couring....Miss Jessie Collins has returned home from Philadelphia....Miss Mimie Jones Spent Saturday and Sunday at the Miss Olof Ouesthey and Miss Cora Frame is spending a few days with her sister and brother....Mrs. Nelson and daughter were the guests of Mrs. Brooke Baker who has been in ill health for some time, has gone to the Armot Orgod hospital....Isaac Collins is home from the hospital much improved in health....Mrs. Clara Jones has returned home from Binghamton, spent Sunday in our city—Mrs. Chas. Payne is quite ill at the Amot Orgod hospital....The Busy Bee Club of the Miss Olof Ouesthey home of Mrs. Edward Parker....Mrs. Maggie Man has returned from Philadelphia. M. E. CONFERENCE ADJOURNS. S. BALTIMORE, June 1, 1988.—The A. M. E. General Conference adjourned tonight after a notable session here. The eighty-one colored delegates were many of them from the University of Chicago, in appropriate addresses, presented the fraternal greetings of the A. M. E. Zion, A. M. E. and C. M. E. Churches. Rev. M. C. E. Mason and Dr. R. E. Mason, the secretary of the secretary and editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate respectively, last Friday. The secretary, a field secretary of the Fredman's Ald Society, was elected white corresponding secretary Saturday. The position is coordinate with that to which Dr. Mason was elected. Rev. Dr. I. L. Thomas, field agent of the Church Extension Society, Rev. Dr. C. C. Jacobs, field agent of the Sunday School Union, and will be re-elected by their respective boards. The Conference has adopted plans by which $300,000 will be raised in 1989 for African missions. Bishops I. B. Scott and the charge of the work in the dark continent. Exceedingly Rare Offer We have one hundred sample Linen Suits to close out at any price, therefore we are reducing the same to the utmost minimum, and offer $5.00 and $7.00 values for $1.75 Naturally they are somewhat soiled from handling by the drummers. DOMB BROS. WOMEN'S OUTFITTERS. 134 W. Washington Street. GRAND PICTURES 3 for 25c 8 for 50c Beautiful reproductions, in many colors, of famous works of art. Large size 10x20 inches. Ideal for training. Son postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed. Order now. Agents wanted. UNITED SPECIALTY CO. Dept. 778, Chicago. IN THE LEAD. Cafe, Restaurant, Oyster Bay. Open Day and Night. Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Sale—Six room house, 918 N. California street. Call 414 Indiana avenue. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blodan, druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. FOR SALE—Very cheap, seven room house, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Good well, cistern and barn. Inquire at room 1. 19% N. Meridian street, or 1422 N. Senate avenue. Wm. Harvey. MISCELLANEOUS Call at 609 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. Wanted—a first class man to work in a Pantatorium. Apply at once. Address 525 Pulaski St., phone 8522 Lincoln. III. Girl with common school education wishes to work for business people. Address 120 W. Walnut street, L. N., Louisville, Ky. 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. WANTED—Local agents to sell Snow Flake Complexion Cream, a most perfect bleach. Satisfaction guaranteed. Full size jar 25 cents (coin or stamps) postpaid. Burton Toilet Goods Co., St. Joseph, Mich. Would like to hear from some lady who would consider marriage with gentleman age 30. Well able to work and support wife; true christian preferred. Excellent opportunity. Write E. A. Jones, 1018 Brooklyn ave., Algiers, La. How colored school teachers can earn extra pay. If you are a school teacher and want to earn some extra money after school hours or during vacation, write at once for particulars to A. P. Stewart, Tuskegee, Institute, Ala. Do you want your son or daughter to earn some extra money? If you wish to start your daughter or son out in business by letting him or her earn some extra money, after school hours or on Saturday, write at once for particulars to A. P. Stewart, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. FOR RENT-2127 N. Arsenal ave., 3 rooms, $8.50; 2129 N. Arsenal ave., 3 rooms, $8.50; 938 W. Eleventh st., 4 rooms, $9; 937 Wayne st., 4 rooms, The Anderson, 4 rooms, $4; 212 Geisendorf, 5 rooms, $10; 508 W. Sixteenth, 5 rooms, $10; 508 W. Sixteenth, 5 rooms, $10. The Freeman Reality Co., 225 Indiana avenue. New Phone 2880. J. WALTER HODGE REAL ESTATE Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me at a home or investment. Cash or easy payments. FREE PRETTY POST CARD ALBUM. We give to everyone sending us 25 cents for 30 of our grand high art post cards, an album, having gold illuminated cover, that holographic cards. Cards also a few more. Big catalog. United Specialty Co., Dept. 708, Chicago. Cor. Penn. and Ft. Wayne Ave. Indianapolis First Class Dyeing, Cleaning, Repairing of Ladies and Gent's Clothing. All work guaranteed. Suits made to order. Prices THICK BOOK that tells how to do cute and clever tricks, making you a favorite friends. Mailed with our great big catalogue in stamps. United Specialty Co. Dept. 74, Chicago. Hardware, Paints, Glass and Tools. 547 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Money Makers' Manual Free Another name for our mammoth catalog loaded with money-making propositions and money saving offers for everybody. You need it. Write for one today sure. Sent free and postpaid. United Specialty Co., Dept. 770. Chicago. HAZEL, Fashionable Tailor. Taste is the dominating element in the selection as well as the make-up of a Suit of Clothes. one part is yours, one part is mine. come let us join hands. Prices right. 333 INDIANA AVENUE NEW PHONE 4681. FREE KNITTING AND LACEMAKING INSTRUCTION BOOK. Everyone sending us only 10 cents is accordingly beautiful, assorted, highly colored art, and gets absolutely free and postpaid the great needleworkers book mentioned above which contains 64 double column pages of instructions for knitting and lace, both catalog also free. Don't delay. Order today. United Specialty Co. Dept. 775, Chicago. BON-TON MILLINERY SHOP. BON-TON MILLINERY SHOP. Trimmed Hats a Specialty Correct styles and popular prices. Life in the Woods. Tells how to make and bait all kinds of traps, how to catch Mink, Skunks, Weasels, Foxes, Birds, etc. How to skin animals, dress and skins, furs and leather. How to breed Minks, skinks, and weasels, helps and suggestions for campers. Gives information making all kinds of Fish Lures, etc. A great book for only 10 cents postpaid. United Specialty Co., Dept. 776, Chicago. DO YOU KNOW that you can save from 75 to 100 per cent. on a bill of £125 bought of WILLIAM J. HAMILTON dealer in new and second hand goods. It costs you nothing to inspect my stock. Always something on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. Tires put on Go-carts. 341 Indiana Ave. BRADE MARK REG US PAT OFF GIO E KELIN COMPANY Buy Your N GOOD 261 E. Washington St. S. W ON EASY PAY $1.00 PER New Patterns A 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. PERFECT The Indiana 45 South Penn PERSONAL C People who are suffering wi and Lung Trou Dr. Emmons Lung 45 South Pennsylvania Street. PERSONAL GUARANTEE! People who are suffering with Consumption, Throat and Lung Trouble to know that IS AN ABSOLUTE CURE. 411 State Life Bld., - Indian Robt. R. Baron, Bicycles & H BICYCLE REPAIRING Paints, Tinware, General Repair Shop. Tires put on 335 Indiana Axenue. M. HERRMANN. 411 State Life Bld., Indianapolis, Ind. Robt. R. Baron, Bicycles & Hardware Paints, Tinware, General Repair Shop. Tires put on Go Carts, Etc. 335 Indiana Avenue. - - - - New Phone 5407. HERRMANN BROS.. Distillers of Fine K Importers of Fine Wines and Liqui 234-236 SIXTH ST C., H. & D. R. R., Distillers of Fine Kentucky Whiskies, Importers of Fine Wines and Liquors. Both Telephones 1948 234-236 SIXH ST., LOUISVILLE, KY. C., H. & D. R. R., Sunday, June 7th. CONNERSVILLE 75c RUSHVILLE 50c Rushville and Connersville tickets good going and returning on all trains (regular or special) of Sunday for which sold. Big Four B SUNDAY, $1.75 Cincinnati Special Train L $1.50 Champaign, IL Special Train L $1.75 Cincinnati and Return $1.75 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. $1.50 Champaign, Ill. Danville, Ill $1.25 Special Train Leaves 7:25 a.m. Meat Market PURE GROCERIES, Every item a Cut Price Saturday. Free—One Japanese Screen Fan, a beauty. 400 acre home free, with 50c worth of Coffees or Teas. Sugar cured Bacon, small strips, fine for cooking, a lb. Smoked Pig Jowls, fine a lb. Special roast for Saturday, 2,000 lbs $12\frac{1}{2}$ fancy Rio Coffee, a lb Just in, new crop choice Imperial Tea, a lb. Ball Blue, regular 5c boxes. 5c Regular 5c box Shoe Blacking. 1c Rose Guaranteed Silverware given away ask for coupons. Mail or phone your order. COURT HOUSE GROCERY COMPANY. INDIANA'S GREATEST GROCERY. Main Store, 302 E. Washington Street, Both Phones 1641. Style Variety Attractiveness and Price Have Made Walk-Over Shoes Famous. HUTCHINSON'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 28 North Pennsylvania Street. Next Suit at MAN'S W. Cor. Alabama and Washington. AYMENTS OF ER WEEK. Arriving Daily. THE BARGAIN SALE IS ON Perfect the ever-popular two-oven style 16-inch size, perfectly new. SPECIAL OFFER: $15.30 FOR CASH. $17.00 on easy payments of $2 on delivery, $2 a month Connected free, ready to use. Umpolis Gas Co. Pennsylvania Sreet. GUARANTEE! with Consumption, Throat double to know that 's' Throat and Healer - Indianapolis, Ind. cycles & Hardware REPAIRING Shop. Tires put on Go Carts. Etc. - - - New Phone 5407. Kentucky Whiskies, quors. Both Telephones 1948. T., LOUISVILLE, KY. Sunday, June 7th. ROUND TRIP. DECATUR ... $1.50 HUME ... $1.25 BLOOMINGDALE ... $1.00 Special train leaves 7 a. m. Returning leaves Decatur 6:30 p. m. Excursions, JUNE 7th, and Return $1.75 Leaves 7:00 a. m. II. Danville, Ill $1.25 Leaves 7:25 a. m. WATCH AND WAIT For the Big JUNE REDUCTION SALE, AT THE Granger Store, 336 W. Wash. St. F. J. HERRMANN