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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 VOLUME XXI NUMBER 26 NEGROES AND WHITES MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER Says Mr. Washington In Teaching Children the Proper Ideas of Justice and Spirit of Toleration and Friendship. There was in the white family a single daughter of refinement, on whom the set for the future and most were deeply set for the future. A mother of a deadly character made its appearance in this negro cabin. The germs of it were conveyed from this cabin into the maison where this young white woman lived for a few weeks she lay upon her deathbed. Who will dare to say that this wealthy, calmed white family did not have any reason to believe that the condition of the negro family in the cabin of squail and poverty? Small pox, for example, can not exert any community in the South among the health and happiness of the outcasts. Contagious diseases draw no color line. In nine-tenths of our Southern communities there are peace, good will and kindness, represents our Southern Christian civilization adequate results following the work being done in the church, Sunday school, public school and elsewhere. The most beneficent teaching which the negro is receiving is that when the negro is receiving is that which is showing him how to keep his feet upon the earth, showing him how, by patience, kindness and courage, to lay the same kind of trust in the same kind of ownership of property, in high Christian character that has made the white race and all other races strong and useful. The negro is often called to the fact that the negro is often called to the trouble. I grant that there is far too much crime committed by the negro youth, but in remission of this phase of negro life we must remember that it is the young of all races that gives us strength. Satisfies show that two years ago 1,000 children of my race entered no public school in a large proportion of those who were in charge and operated on four months during the year. There are hundreds of thousands of black children who go to Sunday school or church on the Sabbath and are exposed to corrosive amounts of work to be done, and has already been accomplished in math and religious growth indicates the possible impact of further efforts in that direction. The new people who are in the jails, the chain gangs and penitentiaries and the convict camps in those who have been trained in Sunday school in the church. This country owes a debt of gratitude to the group of brave, unselfish, courageous white men and women in the South who have been largely owing to the influence of the group, working in co-operation with the educated negro, that peace and harmony have been maintained in the South to the extent that they do. more for both of our races is not dark. It is all remember that nothing is ever given to racial hatred. Ignorance settles or solves it. We teach as much as each one of us goes away from every meeting determined to put into action as we walk and those teachings emphasized the Sunday schools throughout America between the same degree will there exist and man, between race and race, good race, good race, good serious co-operation in all good works. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. The Household of Ruth had their ser- tice at the Ballet Sunday afternoon, June 4, 2014. JUN 271908 largest audience. Rev. Henderson preached an able sermon, ..Mr. and Mrs. Della Wagner, after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Allen, her sister, and Mrs. Lynch, her mother, of South West street, ..Mrs. Naylor, of her mother, visiting her mother, Mrs. Barnett, of East Clifton, ..Charley Tinsley does not seem to improve much, ..Miss Mamie Jones does not improve much, ..John Evans, of Springfield, IL, selling songs entitled, "When the Storm of Life is Over. The Woman's Club sermon was preached Sunday night, June 14, by Mrs. W. Kirk, "Nearer, My God, by the choir; by the choir; paperw on "The Purpose of the Club," by Mrs. Grace Young. Mrs. Ben Brown, Mrs. S. Mandy Arbuckle, by the choir; paperw on "The Purpose of the collection. The collection was $14.80. Mrs. J. W. Kirk played the march. The sermon was largely attended. The East College concert given by Miss Clota Dealy, June 12, at K. of P. hall was largely attended. Great credit is due to Miss Clita out of the houses of the concert Mrs. Nanny Brown Eagle, Chambers street, had the misfortune to sprain her ankle. The Literary Society of Bethel A. M. E. church was attended by a good audience June 16. The inter- excellent talk by G. W. Cooper. The talk was on "Cuba," and was listened to with four girls; accompanied on piano, Alberta O'Leary...Mrs. Angeline Britt, of East Chamber street, was indisposed last week ...The Friday Art Club met recently with Mrs. Fanny Strong, and there was a dinner at Strong's birthday. An excellent program was rendered and an elegant repast was served. ...The Royal House had an ex-tenancy on the East Chamber street, on June 19. ...Charles Lewis, of Pittsfield, Ill., was the guest recently at the home of Peter Dealy. ...Peter Dealy is having a dinner to be up after a severe illness. ...Roy Rever is doing some fine work in music. ...The supper given on Thursday night, June 19, was at the home of Dan and Mrs. Fanny Strong was fairly well attended. ...Mrs. James Redding, who has been visiting her mother in Louisiana. Mo. has returned home. ...Master of the grandmother recently on Henry street. ...The little child of Mrs. Annie Carpenter Brown spent a pleasant day with Mr. and Mrs. Fanny Strong. He had his leg broken, is getting along nicely. ...The Domestic Social Club will meet with Mrs. M. J. Davis, on West Richard street. This will be the opening of the club, and the club will be rendered, and the club will be entertained by the president, Mrs. M. J. Davis, and the vice-president, Mrs. John Day. ...Mrs. Anderson Carter, of Arnold, Ill., was indisposed a few days last week. TERRE HAUTE, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special Franklin delivered an address to the daughters of Joel Tabernacle No. 64, Sir Knights of Tabor, and to the Tent. A large crowd were present and things of the life of the family were present. Porter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson, left Sunday to spend the summer with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Haines, of Jockport. The Entrance to the house was to be arranged for the celebration in September. The celebration this year will be the best one that has ever been held in the city. Graduates of German schools are the best of the best. Ben Washington and Misses Paloy Durrett and Edna Harris and Mrs. E. Lyle. Mr. and Mrs. Doc Saunders, of 2125 Beachside, New Jersey, was the 2125 Beechside, New Jersey. Mrs. Saunders's sister, Miss Susan Foggie, of Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday, June 17. The feature of the night was the great peanut hunt. Mrs. Amy Pacheco was a good-looking patient. The present were: Misses Susie Hinde, of Mississippi; Daphni Silence, of Vincennes, Ind.; Faye Anderson, Elizabeth Walden, Pearl Walden, Thomas Ritcha, the 18th Middle世纪 Pride and Floyd Churchill, Mesdames Eliza Davis, Mary Ritche, Beatrice Morgan, Elizabeth Ford, Anne Brown and Amy Baker. In the last year the family held a special Sunday at Allen's chapel. A large crowd was present and everything was of high order. Damon Lodge, No. 17, K. of P. P. elected the following 月 16th Week of the Week. Robert Hammock, C.C., William Garrett, V.C. Willis S. Jones, Prelate, Strong Smith, M. of E. Verdie Lyons, of St. Patrick's Church, and the city held a Rev. P. Baker, M.P.C. of Joseph Stewart, George Fisher and William Dinwiddie, Trustees Preston Morton. Representative. The Freeman can be bought at Hines's. The Limpsim and Verdie Lyon's barber shop and from Lloyd Churchill, 2218 Spruce street. PARIS, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. There were from four to six hundred people in our city June 18th to attend the grand Sunday school picnic at Reservoir Park, given by the Oak street Baptist, Third Street A. M. E. and Spruce Street churches of Terre Haute, and Second Baptist of Paris. The first cars arrived at 10:30 a. m. from Terre Haute, and every car thereafter brought its full share of people who were ready to take advantage of the outing for which our park is noted. The excursions on the Interim were in charge of the T. D. Blake's agreement, as they got a per cent. on all fares, it was a financial success for all churches concerned. The Second Baptist church of Paris had charge of the boats, stands and dining halls. The City of Paris, the largest steamer, in charge of Harry West, who was captain for the day, kept busy from early morning till late in the evening, taking its cargo on the freight to different places where the interest of the little group was with F. D. Middleton and Jerry Freeman in charge, did its share of plying from one end of the lake to the other, and as the Second Baptist church got a per cent. of all fares on boats, the receipts for their share was something near $100. Mayor T. C. McCord gave the welcome address and said many encouraging things for men. Revs. Hillman and Brown were the principal speakers. He also spoke of F. D. Blake acted great credit. . . . Miles & Roberts, of Clinton, Ind. came in their large touring car. THE HOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS Recently there has been completed at Fessenden, Florida, a building that is both novel and a model. It is another wise, well-designed building. It is a race, from that noble man, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who knows how to bless so well all races. The Carnegie Library-Dormitory, given to the Fessenden Academy and Industrial School, is an airy, commodious, well built structure that leaves indelibly impressed upon the mind of the beholder "well suited to the nature of the Negro sun." They were given a chance to own the world what they could do, and they have done their work well. The skilled workmen that took part were A. E. Lufford, of North Carolina; Andrew Howington, of North Carolina; J. H. Yancy, of Alabama; G. Wyatt, of Alabama; R. L. White, of Georgia; N. McLean, of Alabama; J. H. Harris, A. Singleton, Rev. Vann, Oliver Evans, R. Woodard, Ridgedell & Woodard, of Florida. The library has a fine basement and a solid brick foundation that makes a fine room for storage and steam boiler for heating. The door has a large room 36x50, a room 30x24, a large kitchen, pantry, store room and a boys' waiting room. There are three porches and four entrances to this floor. The front porch is a large kitchen, the library room is fitted with Macy cases and has a number of good books. The good to come into the lives of the thousands that shall read these books can be furnished by library buildings directed by and for colored people in the whole state. The power which shall come to the neglected great house can not be told. The second floor is reached by a beautiful stairway that shows excellent workmanship. The second floor has seven rooms to use for a basketball game. Then there is the Model Bed Room in to attend the picnic.....Miss Mamie Robinson is there when it comes to playing, as she is often the other game for a margin. Some of those who spent the day fishing report some good catches, as is the lake. The program held at the hall in the evening was carried out very nicely. Miss Alice Thomas and Mrs. Sam Beatty and her daughter Mar. on the same day were in the setting. Miss Flossy Dickens is convalescing.....Miss Helen Reed has succeeded Robert as agent for the Freeman. We wish her luck. Rev. W. H. Hill is somewhat indisposed. ELOQUENT ADDRESS TO RUSH- VILLE CITIZENS BY HON. GEO. GEO. L. KNOX. Special to THE FREEMAN RUSHVILLE, Ind.—Oriental Lodge No. 42, F. and A. M., had its annual service Sunday at the Second Baptist church. They large audience present, astonishing crowd from Indiana, Shawbilly, Connerville, New Castle, Cambridge City and Carthage. The fact that Hon George L. Knox was to speak caused the free visitors and occupants the remaining expectations, and they had come in from the country and the surrounding towns. The lodge, in impressive order, filled the free visitors and occupants the remaining rooms. Others stood up in the back of the church and in the aisles, and some crowded about the windows on the outside. The students, Grand Masonic Lecturer for Indiana, introduced Mr. Knox. He pictured in eloquent language the condition of the times in which Mr. Knox was born, the obstacles that he has faced, and the downsides. Others lowly life up to the high plane of honour and distinction. The speaker described Mr. Knox as "a real man," and in presenting him to the audience said that he was "A combination and a form indeed. Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man." Mr. Knox began by complimenting the people upon the beauty of their town, and upon owning their homes, as most of the people have done. He was not gone far in his address before it was apparent to all that he emitted all that had been said of him. He delivered one speech, and he heard it been heard here. He showed himself to be a flaming wit, and his humor is of the rarest quality. He has a fine presence, a well modulated and musical voice, that has a pleasant blending wit, humor and eloquence. For The students and teachers of this school sent Mr. Carnegie "A Book of Gratitude," and it was indeed a book that might have filled one of his libraries if all the Nees were there. The great man might have put in a page. At any rate ten millions thank God for Mr. Carnegie and for what he is doing at the Academy of Essenden Academy and Industrial School. one hour and fifteen minutes he held his audience in the hollow of his hand, and the whole period was one round of listening. He was one of the listeners were under the spell of his pathos. His speech was not only an elucidation of the principles of masonry as it affects orgonism on the philosophy of life. He pictured the prestige of the home owning, the power of knowledge, the value of cleanliness and kindness. He pointed out the relation between progress and industry, the beauty of liberty and freedom, and showed how these have affected the growing of nations. He pointed to the plea to a brighter future to be reached by development along social, moral and economic lines, urging that the colored people of the world be the needful avenues of human endeavor. In concluding he said: "Let us so live that when the final summons comes we may as children fall asleep, approach the projector and the king of Him who rules the destinies of nations." The speech had a profound effect, and it was settled that Mr. Knowl will be one of the speakers on the Masonic lecture course here next winter. PADUCAH, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN Will Dunang has gone to Louisville to reside....Miss Florence Ascorte, of Louisville, is visiting her mother on Harrison street...Alex Menife has gone to Charlevoix, Miss Liddie Tricohas returned to her home in Melber, Ky. after visiting Miss Beatrice Reeves....Miss Aggie Jones has returned home after attending school in Louisville, Ky....Miss Beatrice Reeves went to Metropolis, Ill., the 12th inst....Mr. C. B. Boyd sold out his English cafe to Mr. M. W. Humble on the 1st inst. Mr. Humble is open day and night....Miss Eva Scott is visiting her friends and relatives in St. Louis, Mo....Mrs. Macle Shon has moved to St. Louis....Mrs. Hettie Terry departed this life at her residence on North Eleventh street. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She leaves a host of friends to mourn her demise....Mr. and Mrs. Bane Boston, of 1238 Madison street, are the proud parents of a fine boy baby....George Taylor, of 424 North Twins, with street, is improving his a a house. She is 5.H. of Fulton, Ky. South Seventh streetSboliofs...cu t...oh was the guest of Mrs. Hattie Lyon. 725 South Seventh street....Mrs. C. Williams left Sunday for Paris, Tenn., for permanent residence with her daughter....Little Nora Ferguson left Tuesday to visit her cousin in Louisville, Ky....Mrs. Mary Cook is visiting in Chicago....J. A. Lindsay is ill this week....Mrs. Perlin Grubb has returned home from her annual visit to various lodges....Haywood Cook left Monday for Chicago....Mrs. A. C. Lindsay, Mrs. Lillie Smith and Mrs. Louisa Mitcherson are ill this week....The R. G. M. E. B. Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., will make her annual visit to the Eastern Star chapters, and a banquet will be given at the Masonic Hall, July 9....Mrs. Estella Dornos has gone to Indianapolis, Ind., to visit her mother, Mrs. N. Morgan....The Washington Street church will soon be complete. It will be one of the finest in the South. It cost $4,000. Dr. Smith is pastor....The young men of Washington Club gave one of the nicest moonlight excursions Thursday night of last week that ever was given in the city....Mr. G. W. McHerst got his back hurt last week....June 24, 1908, St. John's Day, was celebrated at Forest Park....Get The Freeman. 707 Tennessee street. GROWING RAPIDLY. Fessenden Academy and Industrial School, Fessenden, Fla. Special to THE FREEMAN Much has been said to and about the Negro's staying in the rural districts and on the farms in the South. Many publicists and well meaning people are constantly discoursing upon the advantages of education by developing the young colored men and women under the strong and natural influences of healthful rural sections. It is refreshing to note that a school in Florida has done a great job in proving that the strong women may be developed in such districts. We present below the growth of this school with the hope that it may be an institution for others to join in adding good work. Such school are away from the cities and are not so often visited. If philanthropy is present Fessenden and see the order, system, neatness, needs, opening and results, without doubt it would soon be endowed and its work would then be made certain. As it is the needs and objectives are far in excess of the funds at hand. Fessenden Academy, 1998. Academic building. Teachers' home. 10 acres land. 32 teachers. 50 students. Six Grades. Value of plant, $6,000. Fessenden Academy and Industrial School, 1908. Academic building enlarged and improved. Teachers' home improved. 150 acres of land. 11 teachers. Manual training shop. Cooking department. Sewing department. Military unit. Agricultural department. Carnegie building for library and dormitory. Boys' dormitory for 48. Girls' dormitory for 38. Boarding department (added in ten years five two-story buildings and four smaller houses). Value of plant $25,000. Students, 30. Normal department (13 grades in Academy's academic literary course). Thirteen gradates. Deputy school. Recognized by Slater Board. Recognized by State of Florida. Recognized by County Board of Public Trust. A barn. Students from various sections. Teachers' training. Beard Literary Society. Y. M. C. A. Y. P. S. C. E. Society. Sunday school. Music department. The present needs are: Girl's dormitory. Primary building. A barn. Equipment for domestic science rooms. A saw mill. Equipment for blacksmith shop Four mules. Four horses. Books for library. Furniture for 26 dormitory rooms. Pictures for library. Scholarships for $50 each for 30 worthy boys and girls whose parents have to the school to school. Each giver of a scholarship is put in touch with the student aided. Money for current expenses. The school is conducted by the American Missionary Association and ought to be aided by those who have the means to feel well disposed toward such benevolent enterprises. The school is in the center of Florida, near Ocala, and is popular among students, who draw its students in. These, however, are poor and deserve to be aided till they have been trained for self-supply and sent to such schools a dollar spent for good government and human elevation. The principal of the school invites the correspondent of those who want to aid institution. COMIC ARTIST DEAD. RED BANK, N. J.—Henry W. Ferguson, the comic artist died at his home March 23, after an illness of a few months, at the age of 19 years. He was a promising young man, full of ambition, and had gained quite a reputation. He was also accepted by some of the leading publications of the country. He was born in Augusta, Ga. GREENVILLE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN Speaker. Rev. Fred Douglas, the great boy preacher, has returned to our city again to carry on a series of meetings. It will be remembered that when Rev. Douglas was here before there were 250 conversions. Members of every church in the city are invited to take part in this great revival and help to bring the sinner to Christ. The popular mass violinist, Mr. M. Holloway, is again at home with his wife and friends after an absence of two weeks in Paris....Rev. W. J. King has recently come to our city as pastor of the A. M. E. church. Rev. King is a young man and an able speaker. C. C. Lawson has returned from the Grand Lodge of the K. of P. at Dallas and reports a grand session. VISITORS AT LOUISVILLE PROMINENT PERSONS IN BLUE GRASS REGION Booker T. Washington Gives Sound Advice to Mixed Audience at the Masonic Theatre Bishop Walters in the City. Special to THE FREEMAN. Louisville is filled with distinguished visitors. Bishop Alexander Walters and Walters Cooper, Bishop Walters is one of the most representative prelates of the country and heads the list of the race as taking high ground in the race. While here he was in conference with the Rev. L. G. Jordan and other prominent men, discussing questions that are of great interest, he can be learned there will be an unusual editorial in the Courier-Journal of this week in reference to the race. Where Mr. Booker T. Washington and Mr. Emmett J. Scott were the guests of Mr. William H. Steward, editor of the American Baptist. On Monday they were shown the city and the four beautiful parks. Many other courtesies were shown Mr. Washington, Mr. Scott and Bishop Walters. Mr. Washington and Mr. Scott were met at the depot by a number of business and professional men and the representative of the Freeman. On Monday they were shown the city and the four beautiful parks. Many other courtesies were shown Mr. Washington, Mr. Scott and Bishop Walters. Mr. Washington and Mr. Scott were met at the depot by a number of business and professional men and the representative of the Freeman. On Monday they were shown the city and the four beautiful parks. Many other courtesies were shown Mr. Washington, Mr. Scott and Bishop Walters. Teachers from all parts of the country are arriving in the city to attend the National Negro Inventory in next week's issue of the Freeman. CAREY B. LEWIS. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. SERVICED TO THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. Marshall Lee was drowned Thursday of last week in the M. K. & T. tracks. The funeral was held Saturday after being conducted by Rev. R. G. Light Mrs. Mary Watson and sister have left the city. CORAOPOLIS, PA. Special In The New Hope Baptist church at 11 a.m. Rev. F. J. Saunders, pastor, preached at 7:30 p. m. Children's Day services were held with the following program: Trayers wait for students; Writers write so by Miss Clementine Douglas; recitation by Miss Artie Floyd; duet by Miss C. Douglas and D. Douglas; recitation by Miss Ethel Brown; address by Miss Ethel Brown; address by Serina Porter; remarks by superintendent, Mrs. Mary Brown; solo by Miss Ida Wiley; address by Mrs. K. Porter; recitation by Miss Ethel Brown; address by Serina Porter; remarks at both services Sunday ... At Mt. Olive Baptist church, Rev. A. H. Tibbs preached both morning and evening. Mrs. Margaret Linne; Mrs. Walter Hays, her daughter, of Pittsburg, Pa. are visiting friends and relatives in town during the week. ... The Ladies' Aid Society met for the benefit of St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion church Thursday, June 18. Prayer by Rev V. T. Stout. There were several visitors preached by her address by Mr. T. Wren; Mephall; paper by Miss Brown; by Mr. Stout. Mrs. K. Porter, Miss S. Porter, Mr. George Brown and Mr. Finley Davis, of Pittsburg, O. J. were the Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Douglas Sthunday. 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. A drop of ink may make a million think. * * * * * The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts. * * * * * True politeness consists in being easy one's self and in making everybody about one as easy as one can. * * * * * Opportunity is coy. The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy, fail to see it or clutch at it when it has gone. The sharp fellow it instantly and catch it when on the wing. * * * * * People are commonly so much occupied in pointing out faults in those ahead of them that to forgive them some astern may at the same instant be desiccating on theirs in like manner. * * * * * Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. GRAND CHAPTER IN SESSION. The Twentieth Indiana Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star was in session this week at South Bend. State Grand Matron Mrs. Jennie L. Lewis, Mrs. Gertrude Hill and J. C. Dawson, of Union Chapel, Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon, Introducing Bagby, Laura Gaines and Rev Parker, of Leah Chapter No. 2, of this city was HOLD JOINT SESSION. The Mary Campbell Mite Missionary Society and the Flora Grant Missionary Society held a joint session yesterday at the office of Mrs. Mary L. Hunter, in Hillside avenue. BENEFIT OF NEW YORK Y. W. C. A. The Phyllis Wheatley Club, of New York City, gave their first annual picnic and summer night festival at Manhattan Casino, last night, for the benefit of the young Woman Christian Association. Moung D. Harvey president and Miss Cora Hays secretary. TROLLEY ROAD CAMPAIGN A trolley road campaign has been started in the upper counties of New York State by the suffragists. It is led by Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, who has associated with the campaign with vanasswers Mrs. de Rivera, Mrs. Johnston Wood, Miss Josephine Casey, of Chicago; Miss Maud Molone, the woman who started the open air meetings in New York; Miss Cook, the winner of the Woodford race; Miss Elizabeth Casey, of New York; Miss Adelaide H, Bird, a New York lawyer, and Miss Helen K, Hoy, who has just been appointed assistant counsel to the New York charter commission. The trip will cover all the towns along the trolley route, with a small carriage to New York Central Railroad down the Mohawk and Hudson valleys. WEDDINGS IN CHINA THAT BRING NO JOY. The editor of the Butler Collegian, at Indianapolis, is in receipt of a letter under date of December 5, from G. B. Baird, at St. Louis, in a station at Nanking, China, where he has been working since graduation from college. In the letter, which follows, he tells of weddings in the Orient; a bearing `man graduated from the Union Christian College at Nanking. Shortly afterward he returned to his old home about 200 miles north of here. He had been employed by the Press, and he was a young man early childhood he had been engaged by his mother to a neighbor girl, but he knew nothing of the girl and cared less. One day an old woman and her daughter came to him when he was staying. They were both dirty and clothed in rags. They were famine sufferers, who lived on what they could beg. They carried all their possessions in a little bungalow, and they were the old calmly announced that she had brought him his betrothed, the girl to whom he was engaged to years before without his consent to beg man for standing and asked to be out of the house of his mother and marry this poor, ignorant famine refugee! SHOWED HE DESPISED THE GIRL. "The girl, with her few belongings, was dumped down in his house and the mother left them alone. Public opinion and custom demanded that the young man carry out the agreement which he did not make and the marry the beggar girl. He did not have two voices not to assert to these two conditions assert his own manicures that he went through the outward forms of marriage. But he did it in such a way to show that he had much he despised her, to show all her manicures and rings of the cheapest brass. "After his marriage, day in and day out, he complained against and reviled his mother. He asked to resign. He was in no frame of mind to carry on his work at the Mission, it was no negotiation, he asked to resign. He wandered from school. He received a letter from his life is ruined by a custom which the Chinese realize is doomed to pass away. Another case that came to my notice was that I was sent to a school. He received a letter from his mother saying that she wished him to come home at once and marry a farmer. He said that he would not marry the girl, having never seen her. In regard to this he said to one of the teachers: "It was not myself that desired, not myself that decided not blame me. I don't get married." FEAST OF MANY COURSES "Nevertheless, he was married last week, and for several days took part in the wedding ceremonies which were so distasteful to him. This week he returned to school and his mother came also to arborize the table. One was given for the Chinese teachers, one for the senior class and one for the foreigners connected with the school. The young man was present at the one for the ceremony, sixteen different dishes for an introduction to the ceremonies of the feast, and we saw from the beginning that we were going to enjoy a spread of the most sumptuous type. Tea was served throughout the feast, and an introduction to eight or ten regular courses of nicely prepared meats and vegetables, and last with a rice course with vegetables. Tea was served throughout the feast, and an introduction to eight or ten regular courses of nicely prepared meats and vegetables. About the middle of the meal the young man came in and apologized for the poor feast—they are always full of polite sayings and that they have nothing at all fit to eat. "At the close of the meal one of the foreigners made a bargain with the mother for a boatload of straw. Business is allowable at almost any time or place in the country, and in some sacks that we might carry some of the remaining dainties home if we chose. "There seemed to be joy for every one except the one for whom it was intended. The woman who married her son to this girl, and without a barrassment she explained that she needed a new servant, and, of course, this was the most expedient way in which to obtain one. But many of the Chinese are giving up these ancient customs, and their doom is but a question of time. We who are here and can watch this evolution know that the dawn of this great empire is near at hand, and that all the customs and rites which have for centuries dwarfed the development of China will soon be relegated the past, and will then take her place with her sisters nations of both the Orient and Occident." INDUSTRIAL CLUB OPENING. The home recently purchased by the Afro-American Woman's Industrial Club and the Afro-American Woman's Industrial Club Monday evening. June 15. Then there was music and addresses by prominent persons. BAPTIST WOMEN IN SESSION. The eleventh annual meeting of the Wesleyan University College of Education in session this week at the city of Indiana is in session this week at Mary E. MRS. ANNIE E. WEBBER. Popolitan Baptist Church, in this out one hundred delegates are in ce. Mrs. Anna E. Webber is MRS. MATTIE D. GRIGGSBY. president of the society here and Mrs. Mattie E. Griggsby is secretary. An interesting session is being held. NAVY NEEDS WOMEN NURSES. "Women nurses should be employed in the United States navy, in order to raise naval medical service its highest standard of efficiency. This is done by Dr. R. W. Plummer, past assistant surgeon of the United States naval medical service, who spoke at Chicago at the opening of the National Legislature Council of the National Medical Association, in the Auditorium Hotel. A WOMAN'S MIND. (Woman.) There is nothing under heaven that the average woman dislikes so much as having to make up her mind. She knows it is not the sort of thing that she can be expected to do alone; it is one of those pieces of hair that for each immemorial custom decrees that the nearest male thing has to do for her. A WOMAN'S PLAN TO COLONIZE NEGROES. Miss Zoe Akins, a young white woman, is the author of a plank to colonize Negroes on government lands in the Philippines. She says that a number of promiscuous women have been killed. As most Caucasian society ladies must have a hobby, no doubt the "Colonization of Negroes" is hers. We do not think that any one will take her seriously, not even if she is a race who have been captivated by her smiles and perhaps her clever make-up. REMARRIAGE AFTER A DIVORCE IS POLYGAMY. The Pan-Anglican Congress was formally opened at London with seven meetings held simultaneously, the principal one being the one subject was "Marriage in Christendom." Some outspoken opinions were expressed on remarriage after divorce. Wilhelm Pössl, a pioneer of bany, N. Y., read paper which he referred to the almost "shameful pre-eminence of America in what one might almost call the divorce habit," the statistics of which he published. The last degree. The public conscience was, however, he continued, becoming stirred, and a widespread movement was in progress toward reducing the causes of divorce and arresting the possibility of remarriage. Bishop Dohoe added that in America they had two kinds of polygamy, one symphonic, called Mormonism, and the successive, called remarriage after divorce. The Rev. D. C. Gardner, of California, was the co-working conditions in California, where the one was divorce to every six marriages. Canon Brown, of Calcutta, thought the THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER congress ought to reaffirm that, whatever the State might do, it was not the function of the church to remarry the vowees while husband or wife was living. This was greeted with loud applause. HOW TO SEW Accurate measurement is absolutely essential if the hook and eye is not to pucker when fastened. It is folly to judge by not notching on both sides and the exact length of the opening. Put the two halves of the garment to be fastened side by side on a table, taking care the top and bottom are not to touch. The garment should tween them and with a piece of chalk mark the opposite notches for each hook and eye. This makes the work both quicker and surer. * * * * If the fastening of a garment is an edge-to-edge one, the hooks and eyes should be put on alternately on both sides, the hooks going one-sixteenth of an inch from the edge and the eyes the same distance out from. They should be not less than three-quarters of an inch apart. * * * * It pays to baste rather closely. There are women, amateurs, too, who always use the cane to make a frock without a single basting thread. Doctors are as good as their word, but somehow those gowns are distressing to the observer with a straight eye. It is a mistake in basting to use the coarse cotton that is so popular for this purpose. It necessitates a larger needle and bigger holes in any material into which it is applied. This point is specially needful for stiff silks. The women of Denmark are rejoicing over the granting of communal and mutual support from the Danish National Suffrage Association waited upon the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior to present memorials thanking them for their efforts in the fight against the public celebration both Ministers delivered short speeches congratulating the women on their victory. During the jubilee banquet that night a telegram was sent to the minister returned an answer expressing his good wishes for the results of the reform. STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR COLORED TEACHERS. Special to THE FREEMAN The State of Virginia is determined to raise the standard of efficiency in her teachers, and to this end a series of summer schools are being maintained by the State Department. The effort of teachers actively engaged or those who plan to follow teaching. Such a school for colored teachers has been established at the Christiansburg Industrial School, southwest section of the State. The selection of Christiansburg is very fortunate, because the equipment there far exceeds that to be found at any other available location. The school is located in an ideal location and the natural beauty of the scenery surrounding it leaves nothing to be desired. The accommodations at the school are excellent, including dormitory, containing complete water system, connected with the school, including shower and tub baths, of all which will be at the disposal of teachers in attendance. No charge will be made for rooms. Board will be $8.00. Washing, if done at the school, will be $1 for men and $1.50 for women. Tution is $2 for each teacher. These charges must be paid in advance. Teachers expect to attend should notify the manager, E. A. Long, C. I. L. of the subject the students proceed to nurse. The school will open June 29 and hold until July 31. A fellow named Cowherd is running for governor of Missouri on a declarative platform that the enfranchisement of the negro was a crime. It is needlessness of the negro to be enfranchised, and light in the camp to which a few inconsiderate Negro radicals would have the Negro bolt in the event that they cannot nominate a candidate to a House. Public leaders may make mistakes, but not one has ever allowed himself to stand for disfranchisement of any race, nor has any one of them condoned lynching, peacetime destruction of civic or political opportunity. MME. L. C. PARRISH HAIR CULTURIST 95 Camden Street, Boston Mary E. The largest manufacturer of Hair preparations in Boston. Dealer in Pure Human Hair Goods. For growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, use Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food. Per jar 50c. For developing and beautifying the skin, use Parrish's Orange Flower Skin Food. Per jar 25c. For cleansing and softening the skin, use Parrish's Velvet Liquid Powder. Per bottle 50c. For stimulating the growth of the hair, use Parrish's Wonderful Hair Tonic. Per bottle 50c. For cleansing, beautifying, and preserving the teeth, use Parrish's Pearl Top Tooth Powder 25c. Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food is absolutely one of the best preparations on the market. It stops the hair from falling out or breaking off. It beautifies and enriches it, and makes it grow. Mention The Freeman when ordering goods. INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. DESIGNERS. ENGRAVERS. ELECTROTYPEPS 23 West Pearl Street INDIANAPOLIS Both Phones 1870 10 The Magic Shampoo Hair Drier. CANCER WITH SOOTHING BALMY OILS Cancer, Tumor, Piles, Fistula, Eczema, and other skin diseases. Cancer of the eye, eye, lip, ear, neck, breast, stomach—in fact, all internal or external organs—cured with soothing plasters, but with soothing oils. Send for illustrated book on above cases. Home treatment sent in most cases. DR. BENJ. F. BYE INDIANAPOLIS, IND. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING A delightfully pertumed Hair Pomade presents by Oct. 10. People. Nelson's Hair Dressing makes Harah, Stubborn, Kinky, Curly Hair Soft, Pilant and Glossy. By supplying the needed oil directly to the roots of the hair it tones up the scalp, stops the hair from falling out, increases its growth, prevents its split- ings and breaks off severe Dandruff and curse lesions. Initiating Scalp Diseases. Large boxes at Drug Stores 25c, or sent by mail for 30c (stamps or silver). Good Agents Wanted (male or female). Write for terms. Address MELSON MANUFACTURING CO. Richmond, Virginia. EVERY LADY READ THIS. Years ago, when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leurcorhea, Displacement, Painful Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple, harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one having the recipe. I will send it FREE to every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping woman. I send it FREE. Address Mrs. A. B. HUDNUT, South Bend, Ind. MRS. WHITTEN, Millinery Special sale all next week of Tailored and Dress Hats. We also do exclusive ORDER WORK. Give us a call; we will convince you; our time is entirely yours. 335-337 Indiana Avenue. TAYLOR'S ELECTRIC COMB! Made of Solid Brass, highly polished and fully nickel plated. Retains heat much longer than cast from. It is indeed the handiest and simplest straightener ever introduced to the people. Sent postpaid on receipt of $50. HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of every description. Most complete line of Hair Goods in this country for colored people. Send stamp for catalogue. T.W. TAYLOR. Howell. Mich. Bar Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED CEO W. HOFFMAN, MFG. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. One Pound Boxes 25 cts., at Druggists and Dealers The Magi This circular, describing the Magic Shampoo Drier and Hair Straightener, should appeal to every lady who takes pride in having a beautiful head of hair. The Shampoo Hair Drier is a toilet. The Shampoo Hair Drier is a toilet article when once used, becomes indispensable to the hair care routine. We are in possession of hundreds of letters from ladies who inform us that they would not attempt to arrange their hair without it, since having had an opportunity to do so will straighten curly hair without injury to the hair or scalp. Its use will increase the growth of the hair, by keeping the scalp free from dust, dandruff and grease. In many instances the hair is allowed to go too long unwashed on account of the hair being too long, and the dampness contracting the hair, but with a moderately heated, as you would a curling iron, the hair can be dried quickly and lightened nicely, thereby making it look cool and natural in appearance. This toilet article is such a necessity to a lady having straight hair, one whose hair is curly, for it is an indisputable fact that every lady should bathe the hair at regular intervals, and when it is not done, the eliminated she will not hesitate as much to keep the scalp and hair clean by bathing. --- Straighten Your Hair ```markdown ``` Eddyville, Ky. DEAR SIRS: I have used a bottle of your cologne, straightened my hair and is better than anything I ever used. MARY CRUMP DAR SIRS--Please, new Orleans. I have receipts of $5, one bottle of your wine, a bottle of beer, from falling out and made easy to eumb. MRS. LILLY FORTS. Ford's Hair Pomade ```markdown ``` (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Morrow) has been giving satisfaction for fifty years. Its use straightens the hair—makes it glossy, soft and pliable—so you can do it up in any style consistent with its length. Delicately perfumed—ladies of refinement find its use a pleasure. Every bottle makes a permanent friend—try it if you want beautiful hair. Don't buy anything else said to be "just as good." Get the best—look for this name on the bottle Charlie Ford Press and insist on getting Ford's Hair Pomade, made only by The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 153 East Kinzie St. Chicago, ill. If your druggist will not supply you with the genuine send us, express or postal money order, 50 cents for regular size or 25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U.S.A. by return mail on receipt of price. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Its use straightens the hair—makes it glossy, soft and pliable—so you can do it up in any style consistent with its length. Delicately perfumed—ladies of refinement find its use a pleasure. Every bottle makes a permanent friend—try it if you want beautiful hair. Don't buy anything else said to be "just as good." Get the best look for this name on the bottle The Ozonized Ox Marrow $ \mathrm{C}_{0}. $ The Ozonized Ox Marrow $ \mathrm{C}_{0}. $ 153 East Kinzie St. Chicago, ill. If your druggist will not supply you with the genuine send us, express or postal money order, 50 cents for regular size or 25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any point in U.S.A. by return mail on receipt of price. Agents Wanted Everywhere The fishing-worms are getting ripe And the creeks are getting clear. The melancholy days have come. House cleaning time is here: The fishing worms are getting ripe. And the creeks are getting clear. This is merely to remind you that we are headquarters for house-cleaning requisites, such as Sponges, Paints, Varnishes, Furniture Polishes, Borax, Moth Balls, Roach and Bug Eradicators, Ammonia, etc. The Best Goods at the Lowest Prices. Pink's Cut Rate Pharmacy 550 INDIANA AVENUE, New, 4135. TELEPHONES, Old, Main, 4342. We also carry a complete line of Fishing Tackle and Base Ball Goods. This is merely to remind you that we are headquarters for house-cleaning requisites, such as Sponges, Paints, Varnishes, Furniture Polishes, Borax, Moth Balls, Roach and Bug Eradicators, Ammonia, etc. New, 4135. TELEPHONES, Old, Main, 4342. We also carry a complete line of Fishing Tackle and Base Ball Goods. SHANK STORAGE PACKING AND MOVING PHONE: 808-264 324 E WASHINGTON ST Best facilities for packing, transferring, storing or shipping furniture and household effects. SHANK. The Original Hair Growers. MRS A. M. POPE MRS. L. L. ROBEATS. We Grew Our Hair Now Let us Grow Yours With When we first began our wonderful work of growing lengths, and all conditions of hair, even to the growing head, many jerseys scorned the idea that such a thing was possible; but we hundreds, rapidly achieving success. The proof of the jerseys being imputed to us are being imputed to us. 4 years ago my hair was only a 4 years ago my hair just covers ed my shoulders. we were bald half way up in my hair. largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that they have very frequently mentioned us when trying to sell their goods (saying that "theirs is the same") or "just as good.") or refer to "PORO." We advise you to use only "PORO" Hairrow (the oldest and best of its kind) See that the name "PORO" is on every box, and genuine without it. Prepared only by MRS. A.M. POPE. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Call, or Address Mail to MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO, 2229 MARKET ST. ST. LOUIS MO. BELLPHONE, BOMONT 8109. The Jersey European Hotel, WEST BADEN, INDIANA. For colored People. Fifty elegant rooms with baths. Come and get the benefit of the waters of this famous resort. Write for terms. Address Chas. J. Rice, Owner, - West Baden, Ind. B. D. BROOKS, Coal, Coke and Lumber. Real Estate HOUSES TO SELL AND RENT. 1133 Harding Street. New Phone 1209; Old, Main, 1477 c Shampoo Hair Drier. largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that that hair is not grown, we refer to sell our goods (saying the same) or "just as good,") or refer to "PORO," "PORO" hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind) See that the name "PORO" is on every box, genuine without it. Prepared only by MRS. A. M. POPE, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Call, or Address Mail to MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO, MARKET ST. ST. LOUIS MO. BELL PHONE. BOMONT 3100. The Jersey European Hotel, For colored People. Fifty elegant rooms with baths. Come and get the benefit of the water of this famous resort. Write for terms. Address Chas. J. Rice; Owner, - West Baden, Ind. With the Shampoo Drier the hair can be dried and arranged in thirty (30) minutes. The use of the "Drier, properly arranged, remove excess hair, straight hair, but to curly hair it will leave the beautiful wave found in hair that is straight. The many so-called Hair Straighteners upon the market, which are available in unsightly appearance, have made ladies feel sensitive and suspicious of all such devices, but from the many testimonials received from satisfied users, we can with confidence satisfaction to any one following directions. ing the bar and arab re-attached when ready for use. When ready, you go through a process of combing the bar through it in the oven, then pressing the pressure with the bar upon it only, when desire to have it straight. The "Drerl" has been pronounced by patient experts to be the most practical market, combined with extraordinary merit. It should have a ready sale everywhere. And no lady need be embarrassed or sensitive in acquainting any other of its morsels, for it will Make Good whenever The Shampoo Drier does not mat the hair down to the head, as it is usually done with the old style straightener, but its use leaves it fluffy and in waves. Each lady can help to improve the looks of every other lady, if one will speak of the merits of the Magic Shampoo Hair Drier. We have sold the Magic Shampoo Drier to some of the foremost ladies of this country, and are they in evidence in every State of the Union and Canada. Take this circular to your drug store department store and ask for them. Request them to get one for you. They will glad to get them for you and your friend. If they cannot accommodate you, you must direct, and send us one letter P. Q. to us, or a certified letter or registered letter, and we will mail it or request we were wanted in every city. Write for terms. The combs are aluminum, four and one-half inches long, with teeth one inch long, which fits into a receptacle on the bar and a four-inch square, with a four-inch wooden handle. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER CO. Minneapolis, Minn. The combs can be removed when heat- RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN--FREE. Send Name and Address Today— You Can Have it Free and be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for neurology, lack of vigor, weakened man- hood, falling memory and lame back, brought by excesses, unnatural drains or the follies of youth that has cursed so worn and nor- veous men, to whom I have own homes without any additional help or medicine—that I think man who wishes to regain his manly power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So, I have determined to send a copy of this prescription to a man in a ordinary sealed envelope, to any man who will write me for it. I this prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am con- viced it is the surest-acting combination for manhood manhood and vigor-failure together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man, anywhere, who needs it may stop drugging himself or harm the patent medicine, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting, restorative, upward healing, so we cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Mr. A. E. Robinson, 3831 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich. and I will send you a copy of this uplifted brochure, plain, ordinary sealed envelope, free of charge. The Fighting Chance. BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. Copyright, 1808, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1808, by Robert W. Chambers. Then there came a time when he needed money. During the few days he spent circling tentatively and apprehensively around his wife he learned enough to know that there was money to be had from her at present. No doubt the money she raised to placate Plank—if she had placated him in that fashion—was a strain on her resources, whatever those resources were. One thing was certain, Plank had not remained very long in ignorance of the cheek drawn against his balance, if indeed, as Mortimer feared, the bank itself had not communicated with Plank as soon as the cheek was presented for payment. Therefore Plank must have been placated by Lella—how, Mortimer was satisfied not to know. "Some of these days," he said to himself, "I'll catch her tripping, and then there'll be a decent division of property or—there'll be a divorce." But, as usual, Mortimer found such practices more attractive in theory than in execution, and he was really quite contented to go on as things were going, if somebody would see that he had some money occasionally. One of these occasions when he needed it was approaching. He had made a "killing" at Desmond's and had used the money to stop up the more threatening gaps in the toterting financial fabric known as his "personal accounts." The fabric would hold for swish, but meantime he needed money to go on with. And Lella evidently had none. He tried everybody except Plank. He had scarcely the impudence to go to Plank just yet, but when completing the vicious circle he found his borrowing capacity exhausted and himself once more face to face with the only hope, Plank, he sat down to consider seriously the possibility of the matter. Of course Plank owed him more than he could ever pay—the ungrateful parvenu—but what Plank had thought of that check transaction he had never been able to discover. Somehow or other he must put Plank under fresh obligations, and that might have been possible had not Lelia invaded the ground, leaving nothing, now that Plank was secure in club life. Of course the first thing that presented itself to Mortimer's consideration was the engineering of Plank's matrimonial ambitions. Clearly the man had not changed. He was always at Sylvia's heels. He was seen with her in public. He went to the Belwether house a great deal. No possible doubt but that he was as infatuated as ever. And Quarrier was going to marry her next November—that is, if he Mortimer, chose to keep silent about a certain midnight episode at Shotover. Several times he called up Quarrier on the phone and made appointments to lunch with him, but these meetings never resulted in anything except luncheons which Mortimer paid for, and matters were becoming desperate. So one day, after having lunched too freely, he sat down and wrote Plank the following note: My Dear Beverly- You will remember that I once promised you my aid in securing what, to you, is the dearest object your existence. I have thought, I have perused, I have given the matter deep and I may add without irreverence, prayerful consideration, knowing that the life's success of my closest friend depended on judgment and wisdom and intelligence to for him the opportunity to crown his life's work by the acquisition of the brightest jewel in the diadem of old Manhattan. By George, that's wickedly good, though!" chuckled Mortimer, refreshing himself with his old standby, an apple, quartered and soaked in very old port. So he sopped his apple and swallowed it and picked up, his pen again, chary of overdoing it: All I say to you is, be ready! The time is close at hand when you may boldly depend upon your avowal. But be ready! All depends upon the psychological moment. An instant too soon, an instant too late, and you are lost. And she is lost forever. Remember! Be faithful; trust in me, and wait. And the instant I say, "Speak!" pour out your soul, my dear friend, and be certain you are not pouring it out in vain. L. M. Writing about "pouring out" made him thirsty, so he fortified himself several times, and then, sealing the letter, went out to a letter box and stood looking at it. WILLIAM OWEN "If I mail it I'm in for it," he muttered. After awhile he put the letter in his pocket and walked on. "It really doesn't commit me to any thing." he re- "By George, that's wickedly good, though!" "By George, that's wickedly good, though!" It really doesn't commit me to anything," he reflected at last, halting before another letter box. And as he stood there, hesitating, he glanced up and saw Quarrier entering the Lenox club. The next moment he flung up the metal box lid, dropped in his letter and followed Quarrier into the club. Then events tumbled forward almost without a push from him. Quarrier was alone in a window corner, drinking vichy and milk and glancing over the afternoon papers. He saw Mortimer and invited him to join him, and Mortimer, being thirsty, took champagne. "I've been trying a new coach," said Quarrier in his colorless and rather agreeable voice, and he went on leisurely explaining the points of the new mail coach which had been built in Paris after plans of his own, while Mortimer gulped glass after glass of chilled wine, which seemed only to make him thirstier. Meantime he listened, really interested, except that his fleshy head was too full of alcohol and his own project to contain additional statistics concerning coaching. Besides, Quarrier, who had never been overcordial to him, was more so now—enough for Mortimer to venture on a few tentative suggestions of a financial nature, and though, as usual, Quarrier was not responsive, he did not, as usual, get up and go away. A vague hope stirred Mortimer that it might not be beyond his persuasive tongue to make this chilly, reticent young man into a friend some day—a helpful friend. Once or twice he thought Quarrier looked at him rather strangely, but he would show Quarrier that he was a friend—a good stanch friend—and that Quarrier had long, long undervalued him. Waves of sentiment spread through and through him. His affection for Quarrier dampened his eyes, and still he blabbed on and on, gazing with brimming eyes upon Quarrier, who sat back silent and attentive as Mortimer circled and blundered nearer and nearer to the crucial point of his destination. Midway in one of his linguistic ellipses Quarrier leaned forward and caught his arm in a grip of steel. Another man had entered the room. Mortimer, made partly conscious by the pain of Quarrier's viselike grip was sober enough to recognize the impropriety of his continuing aloud the veiled story he had been constructing with what he supposed to be a cunning as matchless as it was impenetrable. Later he found himself upstairs in a private cardroom, facing Quarrier across a table, and still talking and quenching his increasing thirst. He knew now what he was telling Quarrier. He was unveiling the parable. He was stripping metaphor from a carefully precise story. He used Siward's name presently; presently he used Sylvia's name. A moment later—or was it an hour?—Quarrier stopped him, coldly, without a trace of passion, demanding corroborative detail. And Mortimer gave it, wagging his head and one fat forefinger as emphasis. "You saw that?" repeated Quarrier, deadly white of a sudden. "Yes, and I—" "At 3 in the morning?" "Yes, an' I want"— "You saw him enter her room?" "Yes, an' I wan' tersay thish to you, because I'm your fr'en'. Don' wan anny fr'en's mue get fooled on women. See? Thash how I feel. I respect the sect. See? Women, lovely women. See? Respec' sect. Glimme y'han' buzzer - er - brother Quarrier. Your m' fr'en'; I'm your fr'en'. I know how it is. Gotter wife m'own. Rotten one. Stingy. Takes money outter m'pockets. Dam 'stravagant. Ruin me. Say, old boy, what about dividend due 'morrow on Orange County Eclectic—mean Erlextic—no—mean 'Lettric Dam!—Wasser masser tongue?" Opening his fond and foggy eyes and finding himself alone in the card room he began to cry, and a little later, attempting to push the electric button, he fell over a lounge and lay there, his shirt front soiled with wine, one fat leg trailing to the floor, not the ideal position for slumber perhaps, but what difference do attitudes and postures and poses make when a gentleman, in the sacred seclusion of his own club, is wooing the drowsy goddess with blasts of votive music through his empurple nose? In the meantime, however, he was due to dine at the Beltwether house, and when S o'clock approached and he had not returned to dress Lella called up Sylvia Landis on the telephone: "My dear, Leroy hasn't returned, and I suppose he's forgotten about the bridge. I can bring Mr. Plank, if you like." "Very well," said Sylvia, adding, "if Mr. Plank is there may I speak to him a moment?" So Lella rose, setting the receiver on the desk, and Plank came in from the library and settled himself heavily in the chair. "Did you wish to speak to me, Miss Landis?" THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "Is that you, Mr. Plank? Yes. Will you dine with us at 8? Bridge afterward, if you don't mind." "Thank you." "And, Mr. Plank, you had a note from me this morning?" "Yes." "Please disregard it." "If you wish." "I do. It is not worth while." And as Plank made no comment, "I have no further interest in the matter. Do you understand?" "No," said Plank doggedly. "I have nothing more to say. I am sorry. We dine at 8." concluded Sylvia hurriedly. Plank hung up the receiver and sat eying it for awhile in silence. Then his jaw began to harden and his under lip protruded and he folded his great hands, resting them in front of him on the edge of the desk, brooding there, with eyes narrowing like a sleepy giant at prayer. When Leila entered in her evening wraps she found him there, so immersed in reverie that he failed to hear her, and she stood a moment at the doorway, smiling to herself, thinking how pleasant it was to come down ready for the evening and find him there, as though he belonged where he sat and was part of the familiar environment. Recently she had grown younger in a smooth skinned, full lipped way—so much younger that it was spoken of. "Beverly," she said, "I am ready." Plank stood up, dazed from his reverie, and walked toward her. His white tie had become disarranged. She raised her hands, halting him, and pulled it into shape for him, consciously innocent of the intimacy. "Thank you," he said. "Do you know how pretty you are this evening?" "Yes. I was very happy at my mirror. Do you know, the withered seem to be dropping from me like leaves from an autumn sapling. And I feel young enough to say so poetically. Did Sylvia try to flirt with you over the wire?" "Yes, as usual," he said drilly, descending the stairs beside her. "And really you don't love her any more?" she queried. "Scarcely." His voice was low and rather disagreeable and she looked up Scratchly. His voice was low and rather disagreeable, and she looked up. "I wish I knew what you and Sylvia find to talk about so frequently, if you're not in love." (Continued next week.) Hotel Notes. The Hotel World of Chicago, in a recent issue, said: "The Head and Side Waters' National Benefit Association, composed of local waiters, held its annual meeting a few days ago in Atlantic City, N. J., and waxed wooxy, warm and spiring in discussing the attitude of the colored man in the United States, and the United States. The account sent to the Hotel World related that "a drastic resolution condemning the President for discharging the colored soldiers was in effect, and the solutions demanding the reinstatement of the colored soldiers discharged at Brownville with full honors and back pay, and demanded that the Republican party nominate a candidate who would perform this operation. The Hotel World is not a political paper, and it will not for a moment discuss politics but as there are a great many soared out with it in the民宿Week, who read the Hotel World every week, and through them many side waiters learn of opinions expressed, it will not be out of the way to make it look good. It would be the color of his employees of America. Had a bunch of white soldiers behaved themselves at Brownsville as in all probability did these colored soldiers, and had a great deal of the goodness of the chief of the army and navy of the United States, by virtue of his office, discharged them, all that would have ever been heard about, would be a very short paragraph in the daily press of that media day. Instead of this, the Brownsville affair has been magnified a hundred times by disgruntled officeholders and the clerks of the world. The new, now over the head of the President, I am going to express the opinion that the colored man as a whole is magnifying his own importance, that he has brooded the people of the world and disgraced the tages until he not only feels that even the hands of his friends are raised against him, but that nowhere in this land can we get to the place of the world, and as fair to ask whether the colored man has a soldier or as citizen, is immune from living up to our laws in the same manner and degree of the white man? Unquestionably, the rights of the Regions often have outraged, but the Negro is not alone in this; the rights of tens of thousands of white men have time and again be outraged. One too often that the rimming of the two could be aided by the respectable and honest Negro. If the Negro population of both the North and the South take place special cases, they would have no other class, they would soon have an altogether different standing in the eyes of the white man. The Negro is impressed with the idea that the personal writing of the office of the white man. Any individual or class that gets that impression will see malice in every act. When that sensational falsehood was told about Booker, when the white men were in the house with President Roosevelt, and thereby, in curring the enmity of the Southern whites, the Negro did not criticise the President. And notwithstanding the statement was a schoolman who was so poor as to the slightest degree that the report was false or that he would hesitate to die with Booker Washington, but the�, when he was in the same place he is in the ignominy heaped upon him by the Negro-hating element of the Southern whites, and remained silent under the sensational life that was so long in the second and the second. Have the solid people for ten this? Do they not realize that the President who rose to this moral height would do justice by their race in this so-called "Rale" for the great spectacle Negro who criticises him in this matter should hang his head in shame, for if there has been a genuine and true friend of the colored race, a man who has been so well developed to circumstances and conditions, since the days of Abraham Lincoln, it is President Roosevelt. However, the small part of the great powerful media may not be one of the most important people in the small and net-reliance If the colored people wish to eliminate the sympathy and good will and the support it has for the black man, it no more effectually and no more quickly than by criticising the President of the United States. Among the common people race prejudice ever has and ever will be increased, and more than the leopard can change his spots. The white man is no more to blame for the color of the black man than the black man for the white man, and let the black man remember that he has risen not independently of the white man, but that his present intellectual advancement and improvement has been gained by association with the white race. The waiters of the Chicago hotels would be glad if a National Republican conven- ton would be held in that city every year, and that there were twice as many candidates for the presidency. A. Davidson, a well-known chef of Atlantic City, has been engaged for one of the big hotels at Lake George, N. Y. Mr. Frank C. Long, the veteran headwaiter of the Windermere hotel, Chicago, is making a brilliant record at that hotel, where he has been in charge for the past seven years. It is predicted in this column last week, in color, that he will be installed at the Baden Hotel, at West Baden, Ind. Mr. J. F. Fowler, of Louisville, Ky., is headwaiter, and he has a splendid ornamental design. He has a satisfaction. In this case, it has been clearly demonstrated that colored waiters have nothing to gain by strikes, and we hope that the lesson, which was learned from the prize, will be remembered and put to good use. It oftentimes happens that a headwaiter who is inclined to be overanxious or nervous mars the service by interfering with the guests. You may have to of some special guests. Such a headwaiter will disconcert the waiter, make him nervous, and soon become rattled by the guests. The waiter's interference will soon call the attention of the guests and they will think a new or green waiter has been given them, and their imagination will be pleased. My advice is give the party the best waiter you can, and then give the waiter a chance. You can watch him closely without being conspicuous, and an overly aggressive management will do more good than fussing. THE "UP" SYSTEM SERVICE. A New Idea or Scheme for Handling Waiters and Guests. (From the Hotel World.) The best system for assigning guests to waiters or waiters to guests in European cafes, of commercial business called the "up" system, and is now over the "station system" and the "catch-as-catch-an" system, and is one that gives the guest the waiter and the proprietor a fair deal, keeps an organization of waiters satisfied, makes the headquarter master of the situation completely, gives the stew-to-kitchen kitchen a new kitchen, keeps the waiters in the waiter and the chefs are doing the chefs' comments in the cafe to serving departments in consecutive numbers, prevents the guests making favorites of waiters, does not allow the boarders to select the best waiters, enables every waiter in the dining room to know who will serve a party as soon as that party appears at the door, and is a great advantage that it costs nothing to establish it causes the confusion, delights the waiters and is a gamble with the guests (which they don't at all dislike). It keeps the waiters in a good humor and interested while on watch. There is always the disagreeable guest and cranky boarder, and if that undesirable patron comes in on waiter No. 1's time and a week in the room, and No. 2's smile is reflected the face of No. 3 and 4, and on down the line. It is a system that should be adopted by every proprietor because it is not to any employee's advantage and is for the employer distinctly. By this system the headwaiter, second waiter or captains can be given the opportunity to vorteie waiters, but as the guests come, the waiter, no matter how new or how old he is, gets his chance. THE CORE CARD OR TALLY SHEET. In a popular Southern cafe the tables are numbered from 1 to 46, and the waiters numbered from 1 to 24, timing of each meal, breakfast, luncheon and dinner, the headwaiter makes up his tally sheet or score card on the back of a table, and the waiter comes in on the meal is served by wafer 1, on table 41; next guest by wafer No. 2, on table 39; wafer No. 3 catches two people on table 31. By the score card it is known that the meal has been served before wafer No. 1 gets a turn again. He watches proceedings, and if his turn is coming again, is alert and ready to the old catch-as-catch-can system, when the guest enters the dining room, several waiters jump to his service and not infrequently waiters fight it out as to who will serve the order after they leave the dining room. On the station system, where the waiters are assigned tables, the guest is concerned and annoyed, hoping to him to come to table, and the guest soon learns which are the most desirable tables, as far as view, light and ventilation are concerned, and the most desirable part of the room, away from the fans, windows, etc., becomes dissatisfied, quarrelsome and a hard servant to handle, the headwain to his business, the card keeper to his waiters are, and the waiter is absent from the cafe when his turn comes, it is known at once that he is not giving attention to his business, and himself from the dining room, he hands his score card to his assistant, who sees at a glance the waiter who has taken the last order, and assigns guests to waiter whose number is a few traveling men dislike the system, because when stopping at a hotel for several days the waiter "and they want what they want when they want it." In family hotels it won't work, because the Jones family, likewise the Smiths and Brown's, must have the same number at any all times, but they pay for it. Daniel C. Buntin, who claims to be the originator of the "up system" of handling waiters, guests and orders, is headwaiter at the Pittsburgh of the South. Very seldom is seen a better physique or more attractive and commanding headwaiter than he is at a Birmingham, Alabama hotel, who will come off. As a diplomat with the guests and officers he is a "crackerjack," protects his men, but is ever loyal to his employer. THE STEWARD. [The tally sheet which accompanies the above communication contains on the left margin a list of the waiters by name and the number of each name. To the right of each name appears a square check divided by a diagonal line, the upper space having written in the center the number of each name and underneath the number of the table at which they were served, the sheet being ruled so as to give ample room for this information. Every person served. This brief record shows not only how many persons were served by each waiter, but also at what time each person served, whether one, two or three, etc. were served at the same sitting.] Race Gleanings An Atlanta, Ga., Negro bank will begin business August 1. The Supreme Court of Florida has ruled that Negroes are entitled to jury service. The Rev. F. R. Sims, D. D., has been elected president of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. A colored man has opened a first-class hotel at Long Branch, N. J. The building and improvements cost $10,000. The State of Virginia will erect at Newport News a $25,000 school for colored dead and blind children. Several cities were competitors for its location. Miss Emma Jeffries, of Red Bank, N. J., a trained nurse, has been appointed as one of the nurses who will have charge of the milk depots in New York City. Miss Kitty Cheatham, a colored American artist, gave a highly successful entertainment at the Selle Fennia, Paris, where she introduced genuine Negro melodies. The Southern Presbyterian Church raised $1,000 more this year than last for colored wavelingzellation. There was unusual interest and given to this subject in the assembly. Two of the twelve jurors who are to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the men charged with graft in connection with the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., are Negroes, and one of them is the foreman. Mrs. Mary Corliss, white, who keeps a restaurant on Hanock street in Boston, Mass., is the Florida Gray because of her color. Mrs. Gray had the woman brought into court, where Mrs. Corliss was lined $50. Col. Giles B. Jackson, of Exposition fame, has gone into business in Richmond, Va. At last accounts the Negro building has not been carried to the Virgina to have the stockholders of the Negro Development Company received that overdue dividend on their investment. Colored ministers met recently at Lynchburg, Va. to consider ways and means of the City School Board to replace other things considered by that teachers be appointed for the high school; that the salaries of the colored teachers be increased. The income of the Freedmen's Board declined $1,600 this year from what it was last year. The number of churches continuing, however, was larger. The gift from this source was $3,000 in excess of last year. Margaret McClure, a Pittsburgh colored child, who had been left alone in poverty by her parents, became the heiress of seventy thousand dollars a few days ago, through the death of her father, who died in Canada. Dr. Booker T. Washington's presentation of upwards of $1,000 in door receipts for the benefit of the General Conferences of the University and Norfolk, is further proof of his active and missionish interest in the welfare of his people. Gus Lee, who killed his white forminator and boarded the armored cruiser West Virginia, near Culebra, Porto Rico, in May, 1905, has been pardoned. He had been sentenced to five years, but only served three. Dr. Travits J. A. Johnson, who recently graduated from the College of Physicians of New York, has been sentenced to the first and only Negro to successfully complete the four years' course at that institution. The physulians and some of the leading citizens of Chicago tendered Dr. D. H. Williams, of that city, a complimentary banquet a few days ago, in honor of the first and only secretary of his career as a successful physician and eminent surgeon of the Northwest. Sergeant Frederick A. Robinson, the only colored member of the police force of Cambridge, Mass., recently celebrated the twenty-fourth anniversary of his service to the jail and secured Jake McDonald (one of the men who saved a Negro that shot a policeman from being lynched) and killed him, then returned his body to the jail. It has stirred up the community, but as yet nothing has been done. Roy D. S. Keygue, corresponding secretary of the Educational Reed of the National Baptist Convention, has the promise of $2,500 from a responsible organization to build a National Theological Seminary for the Negro. The said amount will be forthcoming as soon as he can raise $10,000 among the Negroes and other friends. In a recent singing contest held in Toronto, Canada by Dr. Hawke, member of the Negro community, they were the only colored teacher out of several hundred in training, led the quartette that was awarded first prize from twenty-four competitors entered. They were the only colored teacher of each child was presented with a gold medal. At Montgomery, Ala., a medal was given Saturday to Bob Goodwyn, a one-armed Negro ferryman, who saved the life of a man who was the agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, a few weeks ago. Bliss and a companion were thrown from a boat and the latter drowned. Goodwyn got a boat to the river and the arm being gone, pulled him out. The medal was presented by Horace Hood, editor of the Montgomery Journal, and pinned on by Mayor Teague. J. J. Doessen, Vice President of Liberia; C. W. Gibson, former President of that Republic, and James Dunbar, a lawyer who was the agent of the conference days ago and secured a conference with the chief executive through the assistance of Booker T. Washington. It was learned that the representatives of the little African Republic say that both England and the United States maintain the integrity of their territory. From Atlanta, Ga., comes the following: The convicts at the State prison farm, near Milledgeville, have appealed to the Prison Commission for protection of the inmates. The Commission Coombs. The convicts allege that from ten to twenty prisoners are fearfully flogged each day for trivial offenses and that some have died as a result of the prison. It is also alleged that superintendent is in the habit of fastening Negro convicts in coffins, and that several of the Negroes have become insane through fear. It is charged that as many as seven Negroes have been held in the prison has ordered time. The prison commission has ordered a thorough investigation. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., recently made the following report to the State Corporation Commission. Capital stock paid in ..... $24,009.68 Surplus fund in ..... 3,500.00 Undivided profits, less amount paid for interest, expenses and taxes ..... 2,018.61 Dividends unpaid ..... 2,018.61 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 22,001.91 Demand certificates of deposit ..... 33,584.53 Time certificates of deposit ..... 33,584.53 Bills payable ..... - Total ..... $85,114.73 Resources ..... - Loans and discounts ..... $22,022.26 New boats and mortgages ..... 5,000.00 FREEMN—IN—OUR ..... 28,000.00 Banking house ..... 3,798.73 Furniture and fixtures ..... 3,798.73 Checks and other items ..... 2,350.11 Due from National banks ..... 7,233.43 Due from State banks and private bankers ..... 26.83 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 4,115.60 Paper currency ..... 6,276.00 All other items of resources ..... 4,111.77 J. H. Hamlin, an ex-slab, belonging to the family of Mr. J. E. 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What kind of meat are these men fed on? The President will pitch hay and cut wood for a while. Well, he ought to feel willing for the jobs. These most sweltering days of all! Old June is living up to its reputation for "redolent" weather. Just a lynching bee of nine to call attention to the fact that America is made of white folks and Negroes. The platform makers spoke without reserve concerning the present administration. Roosevelt and Rooseveltism were set out in full, and from all indications the convention liked it. Hayti is getting a move on. It will have a permanent exhibition in this country of the models of the fruits and vegetables of the soil. It evidently hopes to stimulate its commerce. Taft and Sherman is the ticket. "Taft" has the particular hardish sound, and will go big as a campaign yell. Got that singer's "a"—the carrying "a" especially when broadened a little into the Italian. A third party is not necessary to get back at the Republicans. Let us see—there's the Democratic party, the Prohibition party, the Socialist party and a few more, each of which are willing enough to receive votes. In the community plan the offices, stores, banks, real estate companies and every other conceivable business is conducted by those making up the community. The laws of the country are favorable to such experiments. The paper trust is reaping some of the fruits of its methods. Twenty-four companies have been finned $2,000 each. Quite moderate when contrasted to some fines now on record. But the judge said there were extinguish circumstances. They helped some. We again call attention to the National Negro Business League which meets at Baltimore, August 19, 20 and 21. Booker T. Washington, the president, is calling attention to the meeting, hoping to encourage attendance at what promises to be the greatest convention ever held by the league. The platform by the Republicans at Chicago was a beautiful piece of mechanism. It has been a long day since such a finished work came from a political workshop. It was "ample" on all lines, and if promises equaled performances the party would only need formal endorsement at the polls next November. During the Saengerfest a trio of the singers did a brass band turn with their mouths. To be sure there were but three in the band, but they "took" off three of the leading instruments. The music was a close imitation, and was a feature of the visit. This remarkable demonstration took place in the office of the Indianapolis News. The singers' festival was a huge success, even financially. It is said that the festivals have not been money makers. Indianapolis is placed in a very enviable light because the meeting was successful financially as well as artistically. The singers will be wanting to come back to that dear Indianapolis, and why shouldn't they? The National Business Men's League meets in convention at Baltimore, August 19-21. Much good has resulted since the organization of the league a few years ago. Many Negroes in all parts and who are really doing things have become known. Mr. Carnegie mentioned Groves, the "Potato King," in his Scotland speech. In another place we said that fanciful or towering structures must rest on deeply imbedded foundations if they are to endure. The assertion applies equally to spiritual and material existence, and makes one of those beautiful illustrations of the parallelism of the existencies which at times strike men with mighty force. Booker T. Washington made a very notable address before the Interna- tional Sunday-school Convention at Louisville last Monday. Apparently he took a more positive stand for fair play toward the race. As usual, he stood for the moral, industrial elevation of the colored people and more kindness on the part of the white people. Hon. James S. Sherman, nominated for Vice-President on the Republican ticket, is not so generally known. But from all accounts he has rendered excellent service in the House of Representatives. He has been on the right side of most public questions. Those who were instrumental in bringing about his nomination are satisfied at his high attainment, having in mind the possibility of succeeding to the presidency. George L. Knox, of this city, who is known and respected by all the old residents of Indianapolis without regard to party, mixed in the convention throngs at Chicago. If the colored race had a score of men like Mr. Knox in each State their influence would soon wipe out colored prejudice and the man of his race would be judged by his merits and not by his color.—The Independent. A few years ago watermelons were not due until about the first of July, just as if the best melon "made" made its debut for the Fourth of July, the biggest day in American history. It is different today; watermelons were on market by the 10th of June. Next year, more than likely, they will still reduce the time, clipping off a day or two. We live in a very progressive age. The rage is to beat the previous record. Not long since Dr. Ostier declared that soup had no nourishing qualities, or it is alleged that he said so. Now comes another doctor declaring that diphtheria germs have been found in raw eggs. Most of us do not take our eggs raw when we do take them, consequently are immune from the contagion via raw eggs. But at that we do not care to know that we are being served diphtheria germs even when cooked. What next? All this talk of forming a new party—a third party will result in but very little else than talk. A new party based on the ill feelings engendered of the Brownsville affair, or because of what happened at Chicago, would be a very ill-advised affair, even if it managed to get on its feet. Really the only premises for a new party are the civil wrongs. In event of such an organization it could only hope to be supported by Negroes, since some form of civil injustice is known in every community where there are white and colored people. It would mean the intensifying of the relation between them, since the issues would have to be thrashed out and which virtually would mean Whites versus Negroes, a condition which we are not prepared for. The race needs strong race advocates, but it wants to be saved from those who get their zeal and discretion mixed. Mr. Taft is a regular goer; he seems to have a passion for railroad cars, steamships and other means of rapid transit. One would think that from his readiness to travel, all he has to do is to "gather" up his hat and start for his destination. We hear of him in Washington this week, next week he may be well on his way to Manila or Panama. When at home in the States he does not seem to think anything of taking a little jaunt to Oklahoma or to the Carolinas, or to any other place over these "wide-extended plains." It may not be that Mr. Taft enjoys the mere going; rather seems that the annihilation of space—making "ports"—is the greater thing with him. New York and Cuba fairly look alike to him, from the standpoint of distance. In fact, he is a man of "magnificent distances." When he sobers down—or will he sober down to the routine of business in event he becomes President? But more than likely his traveling has been of strictly business necessity and in connection with the Government and in the interest of his candidacy. At any rate, he went some in the past two years, and, by the way, not without beneficial results to the Government and to his candidacy. The Negroes are far from satisfied at the result of the Chicago convention. Much of the "opposition" was pre-convention bluster, aimed at the candidacy of Mr. Taft, and of course with the hope of defeating him for the nomination. But considerable remains—perhaps enough to make a serious condition. The wisdom of their course is a different matter. As usual, some opposition is the expected, and which generally gives away before the pressure of the campaign. The opposition known today is not similar to that of other years in municipal campaigns, in State campaigns, but appears deep seated and determined. Whether time does its duty as heretofore is more than the brightest politician is able to say. Will the muttering totally subside, or will the Negroes of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, New York and New Jersey live up to their professions in the matter until election day? Whatever they may do, the situation calls for the utmost reserve and conservation. No party has ever been so threatened, so denounced, so menaced with defeat and by forces that could defeat, provided the defection were not made up from elsewhere. It is just the rub. Will not a race demonstration be answered by one in kind? Here's your job for your "longest"-headed Negro politician: to guard against the danger of political suicide. William J. Bryan falls on the Republican party because of anti-injunction plank in the platform. It is as follows: "The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, State and Federal, and will ever insist that their powers to enforce their processes and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in Federal courts, with respect to the issuance of a writ of injunction. on at present or fair al, he elevate more white inated bliccan n. But exed repre- right Those linging died at mind o the should be more accurately defined by the statute; that no injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, except where irreparable injury would result from delay, in which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted." The tendency of the plank is to set the Republicans right on a question which reaches the laboring people, and from where Mr. Bryan has considerable strength. Evidently he does not want these people won away from him by "fine" promises. The fact of the matter is that the plank is all that could be expected, showing respect to courts and at the same time asking that "the issuance of a writ of injunction be more accurately defined by the statute," things of such evident fairness that they promise to undermine Mr. Bryan in one of his strongholds. to a blind horse. The one essential qualification all Negro aspirants for the bishopric lack, and that is a white skin, with parents of pure Anglo-Saxon blood. Even the mixed-blood Negro with 99 per cent of Negro blood is found wanting in the episcopal scales. There is no ghost of a chance of ever electing Drs. Bowen or Mason full-fledged bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To even aspire to such exalted position is like visiting Mars or some of the distant planets. If we were to give a friendly advice, we would advise the Negro aspirants not to allow their names to be presented unless there is some understanding that an election is sure. It verifies the contention that the Methodist Episcopal Church has not and never will have a full-fledged Negro bishop. The colored brother is given a general the locatist rahe all for resi tin na tic ed w 70 cl ex The following bit of information from Houston, Tex., is not very cheering from a racial standpoint, nor from any standpoint. Nine colored men dead at the hands of a mob is a fearful happening, and had it happened a dozen years ago it would have been the sensation of the hour. The details as seen in the daily papers are as follows: "Last night (June 21) nine colored men met death at the hands of a mob in the vicinity of Hemphill, Sabine county. Today both races secured arms and the tension is ominous tonight. The lynchings followed the killing of two white men. Two weeks ago Hugh Dean and several other white men visited a schoolhouse where a dance was in progress, presumably in quest of liquor. Dean was killed and six colored men were held for the killing. Saturday night Aaron M. Johnson, a farmer, was assassinated while seated at his dining table, the bullet being fired through a window. For this Perry Price, a colored man, was arrested and implicated Robert Wright, who declared he was offered $5 to kill Johnson. Then followed the forming of the mob last night, the overpowering of the jailer at Hemphill and the lynching. Five men were hanged to the same tree, while another attempted to escape and was shot to death. Later in the night William McCoy, colored, was shot and killed, and this morning the bodies of two more Negroes were found in the creek bottom." Battles have been fought when not more than nine men fell. And to think of this awful slaughter right in a peaceful land! The United States National Museum has received a gift through J. N. Leger, the Haitian minister, of a case containing models representing over one hundred different fruits and vegetables of Haytiyi arranged for exhibition. It is the same collection shown at hte Jamestown Exposition. The purpose of the collection was to call attention to the productions of the country. No fitter place than the National Museum could have been selected for the permanent exhibit. It will be taken for granted that the Negro republic means to call attention to its varied vegetable products with the hope of stimulating an industry easy within reach. That country is most favorably situated, where the climate is the greater partner to agricultural ventures. It is very strange that the Haitians have not long since made a place for themselves according to their "ability." Sugar and tobacco have made millions for Cuba; the same may be said of Jamaica and Porto Rico, and especially as it pertains to sugar, molasses and ruins. But Hayti is not distinguished by any of those productions. Not that they are unknown; they have not been made the objects of commerce. Hayti "enjoys" the reputation of raising crops of disturbances, and which is yet often more forcibly expressed. This new movement, if it is a new movement, augurs good for the republic; it is the only hope of a great commercial life, and without which nations cannot become first-rate or formidable. Hayti has had the reputation of educating her sons in Paris; in fact, it is the most "recommendable" thing known of her by the big-feeling Negro in America. Years ago this was said of her, and with much pride. But we who were elated, nor they, had the right conception as to what it takes to "constitute a state." However, the country seems to be undergoing a change; we in this country are also getting our eyes open, and are becoming aware of the price. Fanciful and towering structures must be deeply imbedded; it is a truth that applies throughout all life, spiritual or material; it is one of those rare truths that admit of no exceptions. NEGRO BISHOPS IN THE M. E. CHURCH. The Christian Index, discoursing on the problem of a Negro bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, had the following to say: "The Negro constituents of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been waiting long, and we might say with the patience of Job, to get a full-fledged Negro bishop co-ordinate with the white bishops of that church. President John Wesley E. Bowen, of Gammon School of Theology, was the candidate of the Negro delegates for three general conferences. In 1904 he received 396 votes for the episcopacy. This year they decided to run Dr. M. C. B. Mason, the corresponding secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society, and who is more widely known, believing that they had a winning candidate, as a combination had been formed between the Negro delegates and the Germans to have a bishop of their own race. Somehow, the Germans won out by the aid of the Negro votes. Dr. Nuelsen, of Berea College, was elected. So the Germans got their bishop, while the colored brother is again left out in the cold. He has been lavishly complimented, and that was all that was intended. The election of a Negro bishop has never been seriously considered by the white delegates. They have again and again placated the colored brother, tickled him some to make him feel good. The Negro delegates have strenuously pressed their claims, but all in vain. A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. The one essential qualification all Negro aspirants for the bishopric lack, and that is a white skin, with parents of pure Anglo-Saxon blood. Even the mixed-blood Negro with 99 per cent of Negro blood is found wanting in the episcopal scales. There is no ghost of a chance of ever electing Drs. Bowen or Mason full-fledged bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To even aspire to such exalted position is like visiting Mars or some of the distant planets. If we were to give a friendly advice, we would advise the Negro aspirants not to allow their names to be presented unless there is some understanding that an election is sure. It verifies the contention that the Methodist Episcopal Church has not and never will have a full-fledged Negro bishop. The colored brother is given a general office, which pays well, but he is forbidden to eat of the episcopal tree, which stands in the midst of progress. He has been told that its fruit is too delicious for the tooth of the colored brethren. So seemingly the inference is that Bishop I. B. Scott, elected by that church to the episcopacy, is not "a full-fledged Negro bishop co-ordinate with the white bishops." It is a peculiar view, and perhaps entertained only by the Index. It is a question in the minds of those having any thought in the matter whether Dr. Scott could have been elected but for the assured fact of his assignment to the African field. As to the question of equality—"co-ordinate with the white bishops"—it is quite different. It is our opinion that Bishop Scott is a full-fledged bishop, just as much as a Negro teacher is a teacher, notwithstanding there is not very much social mixup'as it concerns white and colored school people. No one thinks of either as not being teachers in every sense. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AT LOUISVILLE. In his speech last Monday before the International Sunday-school Convention at Louisville, Ky., Booker T. Washington expressed himself in a very courageous, intelligent and telling way on the racial situation. It is very evident that the eminent apostle of industrialism sees the need of taking a more positive stand, and that in accordance with his "title" of leadership. It means, according to this relation—that of leadership—that if he would be accepted he will continue to preach the platform of principles preached at Louisville. We do not feel to be mistaken when we say that perhaps on no other occasion has he taken quite the advance noted in this speech. The drift of things may have influenced him, practically driven him in a manner to declare an "utimatum." A stand wherein was the utmost conservatism and yet a sense of standing up for the race. Here is an indication of deep earnestness, and which speaks plainly of the responsibility of leadership: "I was born in the South. I was born a slave. In the southern part of the United States there are more than 8,000,000 of my race. These blacks and whites are here to remain, in my opinion, for all time. What ever affects the one race affects the other. We are fast learning in every part of America that one cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining in the ditch with him." Mr. Washington went on to say: "The Good Father has so arranged matters on this earth that one man cannot get on without the help of the other man. Our relations are so delicately and minutely interwoven that one race cannot in any large degree get away from the other." This is particularly true as it concerns the people in general. Perhaps the Negro race is not essential to the well-being of the country, yet it is not in the way; it can fit in, and does fit in many places, and, furthermore, should fit in many places, since it is here and not responsible for the coming. He made reference to an unclearly home by a Negro family, and from which disease was spread, causing death in the home of a white family which had employed the colored people. It was a telling appeal for cleanliness—in fact, according to the condition cited, it is necessary to give more attention to the sanitary side. If Mr. Washington may be taken as authority, conditions are much better in the sections where the Negroes dwell in the greatest numbers. He said: "In nine-tenths of our Southern communities there are peace, good will and evidences of friendship existing between the races. The outside world hears of the isolated cases of friction resulting in mob violence and lynching and often concludes that this represents our Southern Christian civilization and that there are no adequate results following the work being done in church, Sunday-school, public school and elsewhere." If the statement may be depended on, the race problem is in a very satisfactory way. And yet we hear mutterings owing to civil injustice. Does this peace mean acquiescence in the things complained of, feeling that conditions warrant them, or is it that peace that follows exhaustion, despair? Let us rather hope that it is a cheerful, hopeful peace, born of that optimism "seen" and felt. Mr. Washington paid proper tribute to the effort on the part of the Southern white people, whose support is felt in every considerable project in the Southland. He also said: "This country owes a debt of gratitude already to the group of brave, unselfish, courageous Christian white men and women in the South which cannot be repaid. It has been largely owing to the influence of this group, working in co-operation with the educated Negro, that peace and harmony and good will prevail in the South to the extent that they do." He concluded as follows: "The future for both of our races is not dark. Let us all remember that nothing is ever gained by racial hatred. Ignorance settles or solves no problem. In proportion as each one of us goes away from this great meeting determined to put into everyday life the teachings of the Master as we find those teachings emphasized in the Sunday-schools throughout America, in the same degree will there exist between man and man, between race and race, good will and the most hearty and generous co-operation in all good works." AFTER THE BATTLE. The great political battle has been fought out at Chicago, and with what result is known generally by this time. William Howard Taft has been named for the first place on the ticket, and in accordance with the predictions of his managers, who even builted better than they knew. Mr. Taft was nominated on the first ballot with 702 votes, exceeding the advertised claims of those of the most sanguine expectations. In the history of President-making such a tremendous vote on the first ballot has never been known. It would strike the casual observer that it was a splendid tribute to Mr. Taft's fitness and also to his acceptability. But, on closer inspection, there appears some dissatisfaction, and from quarters where such a condition counts. It may mean merely that it is but the aftermath to nominations similar to that attending all nominations, and which generally disappears as the campaign grows warmer, when incidents are sacrificed to the success of the ticket. The nominee is conceded a splendid specimen of an American, fitted by education, training and disposition for the great office of President. The manner of his selection is what is urged against him. The disposition in some parts is to resent what has been called the Roosevelt hand in the selection of Mr. Talt. And, after the Roosevelt manner, he made no effort to conceal the fact that he was very anxious for the Secretary to have the nomination, and doubtless did what he could to assist him in getting it. There are no written laws prohibiting such usage, simply being improper, unfair, owing to the prestige of the office, from which it takes its mightiness in such matters. Is the offense deep enough for defeat—a thing talked of at this time? The Negroes, while not carried away with some of the methods employed in the selection of Mr. Taft, have what they feel to be a greater grievance. The Brownsville matter rankles deep; they refuse to be comforted. The demonstration in Chicago by unseated colored men, visitors and citizens during the convention will not be considered inspiring to the success of the ticket, if their views and sentiments are entertained throughout the country. The inclination has been to treat the "revolt" as a trifling affair, and there is no great reason why it should not have been thus treated. Yet it will be a mistake not to take note of the matter, and, thus failing, deal with it as it appears. There has not been revoltable grounds, as we view it, and especially as it pertains to Mr. Taft. But without doubt the colored voters are more outspoken than heretofore; in fact, many are ready for an opportunity to revolt, at least to the extent of expressing themselves as without great faith in the Republican party in these latter days when great civil wrongs are enacted and practiced without let or hindrance. With them the inference is that the party in power can correct any or all such abuses simply because it is in power. The philosophy of the struggle does not reach them, insisting that if the Government says there shall be no more separate coaches or inferior accommodations for Negroes, it would be the end of it. And when the Government fails to say so, that Government is not counted any too friendly. Further discussion on the point is useless and out of place here, suffice to say that those having the problems to deal with can readily understand the discontent when one party is set down as being as good as another. And it appears that way to those who do not have the broader vision. It appears to them that one party endorses the action of the other by a studious silence, speaking only when forced to, and then with the utmost reserve. Many of us know the wherefore of this silence, knowing that the general peace of the country is always the issue when dealing with race questions. The Government moves with the people, and the people in the instance means the great majority, including wealth, influence, wisdom—everything that makes for power. On such questions the Government is a sick man, as sick as the sovereign of the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan of Turkey, who is at the mercy of the "concert" of Europe. But the struggling American Negro knows nothing about the importance of governments; he knows that he is writ into the Constitution, and where it occurs in the spirit, at least, that all men are to fare allie, civilly. The party that fails to deliver loses in his estimation in the long run. His present needs are what confronts him; everything is based on them, often giving him the appearance of an inmate for what has been done. But in the matter he is not different to most men that are under the "voke." He of a right should be restless in the hope of salvation, but not destructive, destroying salvation's source. The Republican party reiterates its stand for the Negroes, as will be observed in the plank of the platform: "The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. "We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color. We declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." The Negro has a prominent place quickly made straight, soft and affectionate through use of the finest preparation of its kind ever invented Lincoln Ideal Pomade which not only gives that refine, smooth, glossy appearance, but does also time imvigorating and refreshing it. It softens the fibres of the hair and removes that curly, brittle condition one it has in dressing the hair in the latest fashionable styles. BEAUTIFIER It is a toilet necessity for ladies' comfort, for it actually removes doorknobs, knives and makes hair straight, soft and easy to comb. It will chill hair, and is a jar—unless to last a long time—for only its purity and satisfaction guaranteed, or money back. LINCOLN POMADE CO. AURORA ILL. in the platform of principles enunciated. Already it has been said that these were but promises, fairy tales, so to speak. It is not the proper view to take of them. Those men representing the party at Chicago declared for equal opportunity, civil equality, going as far as they thought proper. What will other parties do, those of tens of thousands from all walks of life, having the ability to carry out their contracts? Will the great opponent at Denver do as well? If so, then the chances of getting the very best conditions are excellent. DEATH OF GROVER, CLEVE LAND. The death of Grover Cleveland, expresident of the United States was the sad intelligence that flashed across the country last Wednesday. Mr. Cleveland had been ailing for some months with a complication of diseases but his early death was not expected. He died at his home in Princeton, N. J. where he had been living since his retirement from the presidency. Mr. Cleveland was the only living expresident and the only Democrat that filled the chief executive's chair since the Civil War. As a president he was extremely popular and which popularity did not diminish with the increasing years. When Mr. Cleveland spoke the world was eager to hear. The colored people had great respect for Mr. Cleveland, a thing worthy of mention, since he was the first Democratic president known to them, civally speaking. What he would do disturbed them not a little. But he proved so different to expectation that they learned to love him, to appreciate him as others. His political attitude toward them was all that could have been expected. KANSAS CITY, MO. Special to the FREMAN. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Read The Freman, 729, the first of the first short stories. The water at this writing is shown going down. There was a double head in Kansas City yesterday afternoon. The Owls beat the St. Joe Wonders 7 to 5 and The Zone Elms beat the Giants 6 to 0. Several went from this side... Mr. Collins, of Fisk's University, spoke at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon.... There was a large number of to the morning service at Alloy-Chapel Sunday. Rev. Peck asked his church to go over to the Second Baptist church in the evening and help them in the rally, which they did. The collection was over $600. The funeral of Samuel Carson was held from Rev. Hurs's church in the afternoon. The band and Hod Carried had a set, and he was a member of the above union or lodge. Nearly all our citizens were out of some where. The Sons and Daughters of Tabernickers had their sermon preached last Sunday at Allen chapel. They had a large crowd out and a band... Louis Woods, George Love and several others have returned from the Windy City... Mr. Hays's Long, and the men of the park's convention of doctors. The marks have been to some business the last two Sundays as it is the only two Sundays we haven't had rain. CHATTANOOGA, TENN Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. Louisville, Ky. traveling sales agent for Paul Jones, was in the city Friday and Saturday of last week, visiting his brother, L. Hamilton of Fortwood street. He returned to Louisville on Saturday and joined Chattanooga, Ga., crossed hats at Luna Park Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week. One thousand fans saw Rome get a good beating. The score was 16 to 5. Luna Park. Every colored person in Chattanooga should visit Luna Park, for it is the best, the finest and the coolest place in the city. . . Mrs. Thrower leaves tomorrow night. Mrs. Ambus, O., to visit her daughter, Mrs. D. L. D. Alfred is agent for The Freeman. FLINT, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN. The credit is due M. S. Nina Becks for the success of the Children's Day exercises which was carried out at the A. M. E. church the 21st night. The church was tastefully decorated. Special credit is due the little trio—Vera Kersey, Valerya Linney and Walheita Enos—in the two selections; also the theodet by lits. the twins and solo by Needs. Special credit is due the Linney were good. The choir sang lovely with Miss Bicks at the organ. Armstrong, of Detroit, is in the role for a days. Thomas of Lansing, spent day and day his brother, William Lyons. Lorenzo his brother, who has been working for Dr. J. C. MacGregor for the past five years, resigned his job at Martha Linney and talented musician, gave a concert for the W. C. T. u. at Mt. Huron last week to a crowded house and played takes well. Linney and Ruben Johnson, of Lapeer, is visiting his brother, Chas. Johnson. Wiggins' chestra furnished music for the grandson of Mt. Morris Friday. June 16. Linney and Ruben Johnson, of Lake. Ruben Johnson, of Lapeer, is visiting his brother, Chas. Johnson. Wiggins' chestra furnished music for the grandson of Mt. Morris Friday. June 16. Mrs. J. O. Linney entered the Thursday Club the 18th at which he gave a Japanese wedding at the A. M. E. church to help the stewardess of the church of T. Roberts, of Detroit, is visit her husband at the午班, for a week or two. Mr. Arthur Smith had an accident his way home a few days ago, counten his bicycle took the wrong direction, and he gave his wheel quite a jar. Mr. himself escaped all injuries. bar and wife and A. Kernes. spent one day last week at Holly fish report a fine catch and a delightful time. MT. VERNON, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN, M. T. VERNON, Ind.-Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Thompson, Ind.-Grace Wiesley mandate for South Bend, Ind. attend the State Grand Chapter. The Daughters of Tabor held the annual thanksgiving services Sunday at the A. M. E. church. The sermon was preached by Mr. Jackson spent Sunday in this city. THE STAGE J. A. Cohn's Great Barlow Minstrels open their season Sept. 1, 1908. 1. A. Johnson's Great Barlow Minstrels will open their season Sept. 1, 1908. 2. Doyd Wolfson passed through the city last week and regards regards to Tom Logan, Allen and Daisy Brown, on tour to Denver, Colo. IN THE THEATRICAL WORLD. BY CHARLES D. MARSHALL. Last week it was announced that Chas. B. Burton, for several years general manager for the company, over the popular priced plays of that manager and would operate them himself, beginning next season. That is to signify that the company is to have a "new star" company are to have a new manager in the person of Mr. Burton, whom many state is a good one. What ever be the case, he will be the case out his popular priced companies, preparing for the much planned of plan of organizing colored stock companies throughout some of the leading cities of the country, and that if be so it will required all of his time to bring about operations. In connection with this plan it is declared that he will organize a number of traveling shows, and that the number of old variety shows, for which he has been offered good booking by E. F. Albee. Like John W. Isham and Sam T. Jack he has ever been one of the best friends he is colored performer has in every line. Tom Miner has purchased the proprietary rights to the late burlesque king's name, Sam. T. Jack, and will send out next season over the western wheel a tour of Burlesque clubs. T. Jack Home Burlesque." There is never any danger of Miner sending out a mixed show, as did Jack, for in this case prejudice rules over the pocketbook. It is not known whether Andrew Tribble who made such a great hit as "Phelix" in the movie used with Cole & Johnson, for the coming season, but should he not it is the opinion of the writer that a grave mistake would be made. Cole & Johnson need not be made, but then discovered this young comedian of "no mean" ability. They can't lose a good man. Billy Kersands, for many years commander-in-chief of the army of fun, is going big in the theatrical world when he publishes the newspapers set up and take notice. He has sprung a fresh one on them in a comedy called "Dark-town Fire Brigade," which is a clean, up-to-date, well written piece that plays takes thirty-five minutes and in that time some very clever comedy is handed out by Kersands and company. Billy Kersands has written what many of the real good guys are, and is surprising when one notes the time or years that Kersands has held the boards and then at this late date comes out with a real strong, fresh one. An unimited amount of credit is to "Unce Billy." Miss Abbie Mittle, the famous dumma is again starring with the femme-de-forme Miss Mitch Fletcher, who sits with Miss Mitch while sixteen of the leading vaudeville houses in the East. The act looks as good as new, with two pretty back drops and a picturequestue set. Miss Mitch works with Miss Mitch while sixteen of the leading vaudeville houses in the East. The "Students" hold the stage for seventen minutes, and in that time one of the most pleasing entertainments to be met with anywhere. Eph Thompson, the elephant trainer, has recovered from his late illness. Rumor has it that Mr. Thompson is anxious to help Mr. Thompson by one agent by name of Leamy, of New York has offered him $15,000, but the great trainer wanted $20,000. He is reaped to be worth $250,000. A. G. Jones writes that he is now traveling again after taking a much-needed meal with friends and relatives in Ripley, O., at the home of Alfred Strander. At present he is bandmaster; Mike Almire is bandmaster; Miss A. Harris of the Garden Exchange at Jacksonville, Fla., and to all friends of the profession. J. E. Green, the actor and promoter, is spending ten days at French Lick, Ind, the guest of E. Slye. David Roseborough, one of Al G. J.'s servants, opened at Columbus Friday night of last week at the Columbus Theater and made such a hit that he was named the bandmaster. America's greatest colored magician. He has several vaudeville engagements in view. Simas and Lemley are doing nicely in baseball. Lemley is singing "Ministrel Show" and a parody on Joe Gans and Jack John. J. Croshaw sends send regards to J. Croshaw. H. Christie THE TWO JOHNSONS HIT THEM HARD. The two Johnson, Billy B. and Loncey, were wiling up a record-breaking week of singing at the Family Theatre in Kentucky avenue, and set received that they had to be called back many times in the midst of other long-waited were on. They were simply one long-waited event at every appearance, and have wellaved the way for other colored acts here. Johnson's singing and dancing was far more the average. Her singing she showed it is for a pronounce each word distinctly and to add gestures just when they are necrousize too much but enough Her voice is good enough but rattaggy, but rather mellow. She sheed marked improvement over last year her dancing, being more nimble Billy was ever on the jump, creating laughter at every step because he delivers a stuff that was new to everybody. Her hints steps in dancing and other funny interactions. The team brought down the house when she sang "In the Shadow of the Silvery Sun." Other songs that were well received were "He's Just a Friend of Our Family." A RABBIT FOOT COMEDY CO. Much money has been invested this season and now repairs for a Rabbit Foot Co. we are going to give the greatest shows of its kind in the world. We've been famous's famous concert band of twenty musicians and overtures. Carrying this season as a class performers. The ollo consists of three performers: Mimes and Mimes in singing and dancing entitled "Give Me Back My Eleven Bells" Campbell & Jones, great music act doubled by Mimes singing and talking act; William & in their electrical singing and dancing act; principle comedians, Richard Eddy, Means, Williams and Tim Moore, Weebwwebw Mcallen, the twentieth century wire walker. Carrying about fifty-eight peole. Of the band is as follows: Prof. D. Anderson and master Lewis Lewis, solo cornet; E. D. Baker, solo, faithful second cornet Rogers, solo alto G. W. H. Jones, second alto Stewart, G. W. H.ales, baritone Ben Stephens, tuba Cherry, tacillock, trombonist Joe Means, bass drum climbs Tim More, snaw drum, Williams clairnetist, picao player Jones, Thompson Davis, Davis, French horn Jackson, euphonium G. Green, melowphone, Caswell, ojin bakes WEAR HATS IN THEATERS Some London women, it appears, still insist upon wearing their hats during the performances without reference to the feelings of the spectators behind them. The feelings of the manager of the Queen's Theater has found it useful to point the following notice upon his tickets: "Ladies are kindly requested to note that this ticket is sold on condition that they wear their hats or bonnets during the performance, and also placed placards at all entrances bearing the request. 'Ladies who may be wearing their hats when entering the auditorium will be good enough to remove them, and if they are not in action of a similar kind has been taken in of the West End theaters. On the programs of one of the Paris theaters there is a note explaining that the management offer an obligation to insure to each spectator a place on the stage, and, that if it fails to do this, any member of the public defrauded of his or her just right may claim the return of the money expended. It seems, therefore, that good manners, at least, American women are in advance of their European sisters. DANDY DIXIE MINISTRELS. The Dandy Dixie Ministrel Co. have arrived in Canada. All are well with one exception, and that one is Roland Meaux, a graduate of the slight illness. We had a "sly old fox" in our midst during our engagement at London Ont. He attempted to steal one of his maids, "mops" a sheep, "old sheep" and the skill of the "shepherd" outwitted him. We extend him an invitation to call again and he will be received with greattesy and brotherly love as he was before. Our new act referred to sometime since has been staged and the curtain arose on the stage. We received no end of praise from both performers and spectators, they claiming that never before in the entire history of minstrel shows did a number been place before an audience. GEORGIA MINISTRELS The show is now touring Canada with great success. Prof. Woolfiscales is well known for his work with Thomas, alto and musical director; John Bason, tuba and orchestra leader; W. R. Russell, cornet and bass violin; Roy Cohen, bass clarinet; Cornet and violin; Fred Richardson, clarinet; B. N. Witt, baritone; James A. Harris, trombone; W. L. Hulet, trombone; W. Taylor, trombone; John Long, alto and violin. Miss John Ella Gala is singing one of John Larimar's best songs, "It Your Heart Is Breaking." Eva Thomas is singing, "T Want Some Eva Thomas is singing "I Want Some One to Be Real Nice to Me." Miss Lena Hullett is singing, "Bye Bye, My Caroline" with great success. We also had the pleasure of meeting the Dandy Dixie and Richard & Pringle Georgia Ministrels last week. The band sends regards to both companies. KENNEDY-WHITFIELD. A very pretty home wedding was solemnized at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Holt, 407 Fourth avenue, Pleasant Hill, Macon, Ga. Tuesday evening, the wedding of Mrs. and Mr. were Miss Gussie A. L. Whitfield and Mr. Will Goff Kennedy, stage manager at Ocmulge Park. Rev. E. H. Myers performed the ceremony. Miss Blanche Hall, 407 Fourth avenue, and Mr. Charles Collier was the best man. Miss Rosa Johnson was bridesmaid and Mr. Amos L. Gillard was groomsman. The bride was attired in a brilliant white dress and was the host of a mass of lace. The house was decorated with a profusion of cut and pot flowers. The young couple were the recipients of many valuable and useful presents. Mrs. Henry H. Thompson, mother of the bride; Dr. J. C. Atkinson, Mr. John Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Piccalo Jones, Misses Carrie Hall, Theresa Burroughs, Emmy Foster, Misses Kathryn and Misses host of others. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are at home at 407 Fourth avenue, Macon, Ga. A. B. C.'S WIN THREE GAMES. Home Team Troubles Dunville Unions by Superior Base Running. The Indianapolis A. B. C. got revenge for their defeat of last year when they walloped the Danville Unions one game before the funnel, and two and a half games June 21, at Northwestern Park. The Indianapolis colored champions had things all their own way in each of the three real strength until the last game. Score: A. B. C. R. H. O. A. E. Allen, 3 b. 1 2 1 1 0 Burrell, 3 b. 1 2 1 1 0 Herron, c. f. 1 3 1 0 0 Hutchinson, s. s. 1 3 1 1 1 Merida, 2 b. 1 1 2 0 Board, 1 b. 1 2 6 0 Jacob, 1 b. 0 6 0 0 Reeves, r. f. 1 2 0 0 0 Brown, l. f. 1 0 4 0 0 Washington, p. 1 0 1 0 0 Totals 8 11 24 4 2 Unions. R. H. O. A. E. Munroe, c. f. 0 1 2 0 0 Otto, c. f. 0 1 2 0 0 Bishop, c. 0 1 4 1 0 Jackson, 2b. 2 1 1 2 1 M. Johnson, l. f. 0 1 1 0 0 Nolan, s. s. 0 2 2 1 1 G. Johnson, 1b. 1 1 1 1 1 Ayres, 3b. 0 2 1 0 0 Lawrence, p. 0 1 0 2 0 Totals.....3 10 27 13 3 A. B. C. s.....3 2 0 0 1 0 1 3 Unions.....3 2 0 0 1 0 1 3 Juveniles pitched by Washington, 9; by Lawrence, 9; Base hits-Off Washington, 10; off Lawrence, 11. Bases on balls Off Washington, 2. off Lawrence, 2. Struck out Washington, 6; by Lawrence, 4. Struck out Washington, 6; by pitcher-Bishop, Jackson, Two-base hits-Hutchinson (2). Board, Reeves, Ayres, Nolan, Three-base hit-Allen. Home run-Merida, Stolen bases—Allen Hutchinson, Milpra, Nolan, Umple-Adams. Time-44. Attendance—200. Scores for Sunday's games: A. C. C.....R. H. O. A.E. Allen, 3b.....2 2 1 1 1 1 Herron, c. f.....0 2 0 0 0 Hutchinson, s. s.....0 2 1 2 1 Merida, 2b.....0 2 1 2 1 Gawedwood, r. f.....0 2 1 4 0 Hogan, c.....0 0 5 1 0 Brown, l. f.....0 3 2 0 Johnson, p.....0 0 2 3 0 Totals Union. R. H. O. A.E. Munroe, c. f. 1 3 2 1 0 Gordon, c. 0 1 8 1 0 Barber, s. s. 0 0 1 0 0 Jackson, 2b. 1 1 1 0 0 Miner, r. f. 1 1 2 0 0 G. Johnson, 1b. 0 0 8 1 2 Nolan, l. f. 0 1 1 0 0 Ayres, 3b. 0 0 1 5 0 THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Totals ..... 3. 7 14 2 12 A. B. C.'s ..... 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 * 4 Unions ..... 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 - 3 Innings pitched-Johnson, 9; M. Johnson, 9. Hits-Off Johnson, 7; off M. Johnson, 8. B. on balls-on-Billson, 8. Crush out-By Johnson, 5. by M. Johnson, 8. Hit-by Johnson-Johnson, 2-base-hits-Munroe, 2. Three-base hits-Allen 2. Board. Double plays-Johnson to Board; Herron to Board. Stolen bases-Merida, Barber. Passed ball-Gordon. Umpire-Adams. Time- A. B. C. Allen, 3b.....1 1 0 1 1 Herron, c. f.....1 2 1 0 0 Hutchinson, s. s.....0 1 2 2 0 Merida, 3b.....1 0 3 1 0 Board, 10.....2 1 0 0 0 Gatewood, r. f.....1 1 0 0 0 Hogan, c.....0 0 4 0 0 Brown, l. f.....1 0 2 0 0 Higbee, p.....1 1 0 1 1 Totals.....8 7 18 5 2 Unions.....R. H. O. A. E. Munroe, c. f.....0 0 3 1 0 Gordon, c.....0 0 2 0 0 Barber, s. s.....0 0 2 0 0 Jackson, 2b.....0 0 0 0 0 Miner, r. f.....0 1 0 0 0 G. Johnson, 1b.....0 0 5 0 0 Nolan, l. f.....0 0 3 0 0 Jayne, 3b.....0 1 0 0 0 M. Johnson, p.....0 0 1 0 0 Lawrence, p.....0 0 0 0 0 Totals.....0 2 15 6 2 A. B. C. s.....1 2 4 0 0 0 Unions.....0 0 0 0 0 0 Innings pitched—Higbee; 6; M. Johnson; , Lawrence, 5. Hits—Off Higbee, on balls—Off Higbee; 2; off Johnson, 1; off Lawrence, 3. Struck out—By Higbee, base hits—Allen, Gatewood, Higbee, base hits—Allen, Gatewood, Higbee. Double plays—Merida to Board; Munroe to Barber. Stolen bases—Allen, 2; Herron, Stolen bases—Allen, 2. Time—1:00. Attendance—800. LOUISVILLE DEFEAT CHICAGO. Local Boys Take Three Games from the Windy City Boys. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 25.—Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21, the Louisville and Kentucky teams play in a series of three games. The feature of the game was the all-round playing of the Giants and daring base running of the Union. The first game was a regular battle of Giants...0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1—4 Unions...0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1—3 Batteries—Sanford and Coleman. Talbott and Prentice. Second game— Giants...1 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 1—9 Unions...0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1—5 Series—Griffin. Coleman. Norman and Prentice. Umpire—Nutter. GIANTS CHALLENGE UNIONS. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Louisville Giants are willing at any time to play at home, and are a side bet of $500 and all gate receipts. The Giants will line up against the T. T. of indianapolis to-morrow at Springfield at Thirty-seventh and Greenwood streets. UNIONS CAPTURE SERIES. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Louisville Unions took the last game of a series at Louisville Sunday, losing 10-9. They scored a score of 4 to 1. Bradley and Mitchell did the star playing of the day, figuring out how to sustain a captain Martin as shortstop, deserves much credit for his excellent work. Score: Unions 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Recuse 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 impure—Lee NEW ORLEANS CLUBS TO TOUR. Eagles Will Shortly Go Into Missis sinsi. Special to THE FREEMAN NEW ORLEANS, June 19.—The New Orleans baseball club, under the management of Frank Palamba, left for an extended four through Texas playing the following games: Houston, Fort Worth, Austin and Dallas. The Eagles, who are now open to dates, will leave today for a trip through Mississippi and Tennessee. Manager Sterling McCormick, in the bunch in the business. For games, address Mr. Chick Steasley, 1236 Sage for this season is as follows: Clark, s.s. F. North, 1 b. capt., Baptist, 3 b.; Willett, 1 c. officers, c.f.; Green, W. Green, r.f.; Smith, c.; H. North, p.; Ross, p.; Robinson, p. SCRAPS OF SPORT. A close record is being kept by a noted sporting writer who gives out the following statement, which may serve as an advice tonic to the Eastern promoters of corporate brand, who can say the color of what they will accomplish when they meet the great Leland Giants of the West. The New York press is showering more compliments upon Monroe, of the Royal Giants, that they have a color of player now before the Eastern public. Another issue to Monroe's drawing qualities comes from the lips of the manager of the Atlantic City team, who declared to the writer that he would prefer to have the Royal Giants of the East and the East-Mount Monroe being on the former line-up, and a great favorite with the Atlantic City fans. Modest P. Hill is playing great ball for the Leland Giants, and seems to have caught the eyes of the fans and critics like. In the event they are played Hill has cracked out ten hits. Andrew Foster, whose record decrees him to be without a peer in the colored profession as far as the pitching are is, has been a few years after he has been a record which we doubt, has ever been equaled by a colored pitcher. Mr. Foster recently pitched forty-four innings without a single run being scored against him, an average of five games, less one inning. In the event he offered the local Quaker Giants to move to Newark, N. J., where Sunday ball can be played. Just at the time when things looked brightest for the resumption of fictive battles on a large scale in Illinois, an unfavorable news report from the sentiment, which culminated in the lid being clamped down tight in the distillery city, and from now on there will be no news of the war, until the rapidly becoming a pugilistic center. The mayor telephoned word to the chief of police, Kernan, at Peoria, and asked that the order be rigidly enforced. The result of a bout between the original Kid Farmer, of Chicago, and Jack Morgan, of Indianapolis, at Weast's Pavilion, in Peoria, in the early spring of 1915, the tenth round and revived and taken to his corner, fainted from overexertion, a weakened heart, and the pummeling he had received, and for many hours hovered between life and death at the hospital there. WHITE ELKS SEEK INJUNCTION AGAINST COLORED. Special to THE FREEMAN Special New YORK CITY, June 26—Elks all over the United States are interested in the final outcome of a temporary_injunction which Supreme Court Justice Morschauser, at White Plains, has granted to Elks the right to sue the Elks of the Empire State against the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, which is a colored organization, not using the name of Elks. Elks own a card. The temporary injunction was obtained by John F. Brennan, a lawyer and member of Yonkers lodge, and Lawyer Thomas J. Curry, a lawyer in Manhattan, which represents the grand exalted ruler of the State of New York. To-day Lawyer Brennan appeared before the jury for the permanent injunction against the colored order, which lattier lodge, they said, would to the corporate rights of the white elks. SHERMAN, TEX. Copies of The Freeman on sale every day at Mrs. G. W. Hume's handsome cafe 419 East ..... Polar Star Lodge 03. N. F. 33. A. M.; Union Chapter No. 27. Order of the Eastern Star, Queen Elizabeth Court No. 53, Herons of Jericho, had their installation Thursday night, host the Masonic hall, C. H. Stone and the Manatee stallion officers...Dr. A. N. Prince was re-elected G. C. C. of the Pythians at the state Grand Pythian Lodge in Dallas last week. The people celebrated the right place, Sherman people celebrated the Juneteenth at the beautiful Fred Douglas school grounds and the handsome-Wood Lake park pavilion, mid-September. Sherman and Denison, on the electric railway. MINEOLA. TEX Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Eugene Griffin, wife were ill this week.... Mrs. Eugene Griffin, of Greeneville, Tex, were here last week on a visit.... S. Anderson will bring The Free- mew to your door for twenty cents per month, and don't fail to give him your order. THE EDUCATIONAL WORLD By R. W. Thompson. "The Fair Play," a sprightly journal published at Parkersburg, W. Va., by Mr. Jackson, a graduate of the law department of Howard University has just closed a banner year. She is easily the greatest Negro university in the world, and takes a leading role in the country. A degree from Howard is recognized by Cornell, Michigan, Yale, Pennsylvania and Harvard. She has ten departments, more than 1,000 students and almost 1,000 faculty members. Almost every Negro of any prominence has at some time been a student of Howard, and has felt her refining influence. She has taught at many universities and countries represented in her student body: Every State in the Union, Africa, Greece, West Indies, Hawaii, China, Japan, Korea and England. She has taught this magnificent school enjoys to-day is due in the largest measure to the industry, tact, broad-gauged policies and lofty Christian values. Dr. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield. He came at a crucial period in the life of the university, and his consecrated labors have been crowned with a success that graced the university. He has regarded of type of education or the color or race of the beneficiaries thereof. The Curry Normal and Industrial Institute, at Urbana, headed by that splendid educator, orator, and temperance advocates, and, in the course of the new, has closed and unusually successful veyry. The principal annual commencement of the school was held Friday, May 29, and there were in accordance some of the best people of the state. Ohio, the state's capital, wide to see what Prof. Curry is doing to assist the young Negroes of the country to rise in the scale of usefulness. An excellent school of education is the school of the "The Curious" of the occasion was the "Boys' Convention," for which Prof. Curry had been arranging with special care for several weeks of boys' movement, as maugual-man, by Prof. R. J. Jones, a national effort to save the prospective men of the race by having them pledge themselves to live according to right principles. The school was in the pluppy state of the develop boyhood into noble manhood. The topics presented were all along the line of what to do to bring our boys into the nanks of honorable and constructive citizenship of the people of the Rev. J. W. C. Carter, of Chillicothe, O., Rev. W. Z. Thomas, Columbus; Henry Hamlin, Urbana; Warren King and G. W. Hays, R. W. H. H. Rev. L. Guard, George H. Smith, Urbana. Short talks were made by a number of others, and the movement started off with a healthy impulses of the school. The principal annual commencement was held Friday, May 29, and the diplomacy was presented by Mr. G. W. Conrad, of Richmond, Ind., the group of the same men. The school was the operating of the summer by an instructor in agriculture, assisted by the students. A number of free scholarships of the school were held in the city of New York and women, and positions of the of teachers were, if, at the same time, the principal. The fall term of the school was then over, and the board of trustees express themselves to the Tuskegee Institute issued 175 certificates to 110 different persons at its twenty-seventh annual commencement, May 28, Collector Charles W. Anderson, of New York, delivered the commencement address, which the Montgomery Advertiser pronounced one of the best ever heard at Tuskegee, and states that it was received with the greatest enthusiasm. He said the second time Mr. Anderson had had the honor of being the principal speaker at a Tuskegee commencement, having been the orator in 1897, when he was chief clerk in the office of the State Treasurer at Albany, N.Y. Dr. Len G. Broughton's baccalaureate sermon, on "The Minus Sign in Character," was pronounced a magnificent effort. The enrollment during the year has been practically up to the limit of the school's capacity. There were 1,622 students, 1,150 young men and 536 young women. Counting students in Tuskegee town night school and the cooking school, and the children enrolled in the "Children's House," or training school for teachers, the total number enjoying instruction under Tuskegee Institute's direction is very near the 2,000 mark. President Roosevelt is uiring a "back to the farm" propaganda and will ask Secretary Wilson to assist him in placing more emphasis on farm land and some practicable method by which farm life can be made more attractive and yield better financial returns. Until now, the farm has little lights, and all will agree that unless some encouragement be given the boys of the coming generation to take care of the farm, they will not conserve the fundamental interests of the nation, the charm of city life is apt to lure away the brain and brawn so essential to the healthy growth of the republic. The boys of the farm will soon be ready for harvesting; the markets are begging for more cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, and the manufacture of materials which enter into their products. Rich red blood and sturdy character, best fostered through the simple life, "near to the heart of our posterity, and the vast fields offer untold rewards to those who would seek them in the best way. The President is bringing forward a suburban East, North and South. And, let it be borne in mind, too, that this proposed "back-to-the-soil" propaganda is not designed to be a kind of boy and black girl are asked to do only their part in the great scheme of national development, and they must do it if they want to be a Booker T. Washington joins with President Roosevelt and Secretary and Secretary Wilson in pointing the way. The medical profession of Boston is rejoicing over the establishment in that city of a nurse's training school in connection with the Plymouth Hospital. The Armstrong Manual Traininfi School at Washington, D. C., is now known as the Armstrong High School. The principal, Dr. W. Bruce Evans, is one of the most progressive and best equipped education institutions in the world, and it is fortunate in being able to command the services of such a sturdy champion of practical training for the race. If it can be successfully maintained that the presence of the Negro in the South is the cause of the excessive illiteracy in that section, our people and the country at large may find some satisfaction in comparing the figures showing the high per capita income of the Negro forms no part of the population. For instance, the illiterates Louisiana includes 88.5 per cent of the countries ; in Roumania, the per cent of illiteracy is 20.5 per cent. The table will show very vividly and encouragingly how much better off are the states of Louisiana and Texas than the illiteracy is most marked, than are of the best known countries of Europe. This table of comparisons is sufficient to indicate that there are countries people to indicate that there are countries people to indicate that the black where the percentage of illiterate is higher than the process of that of the American states in which the Negroes form the larger proportion of the population. These figures the work of looking for closer study, and they point a lesson to the opportunity that should not be lost upon those of us who are disposed to take a pessimistic view of our intellectual and moral condition under the American republic. Tuskegee Institute and the constructive spirit generated by the labors of Dr. Booker Tuskegee is responsible for the large number of neat, comfortable homes owned in that vicinity by ministers of the A. M. E. Zion connection. A recent issue of the Star of Zion carries the message that churches built through the moral and material assistance of "The Wizard of Tuskegee," and the Bishops who preside over the Alabama conferences are eloquent in their influence of Tuskegee Institute on both the ministry and laity thereabouts. President Thirkind releases that plans have been made for a summer school for teachers at Howard University for teachers at general direction of Dr. L. B. Moore, dean of the College. The courses will continue from July 1 to July 31, and the subjects to be studied will be psychology, history of education, biology, mathematics, theory, English, mathematics, nature study and millinery. A certificate will be given teachers who complete the courses. Prof. G. E. Richings is doing good work in western Pennsylvania in the interest of the Curry School at Urbana, Ohio. The curry School is a stauchn friend of the Negro. He is engaged for years in pushing forward the educational interests of the race. The Western University at Quaidarang, of which Dr. W. T. Vernon is president, will graduate this year from the various departments: Normal, 8; commercial department, 5; printing, 2; tailoring, 2; millinery, 1; cooking, 8; total 29. John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, delivered a stirring address a few days ago to the faculty and students of the Knoxville College, at Knoxville, Tenn. He was enthralled with the practical address was highly praised by the press and people of that section. Business was suspended during the exercises, which brought Mr. Dancy to the city, and the city and county officials joined in the extension extended the eloquent North Carolinian. . . . In a recent symposium at the Curry Normal and Industrial Institute, Prof. F. W. his student-body: "There are are copes, said I would have you include: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington." On the 25th of May, the occasion being the annual commencement of the A. and W. H. Council for president, the degree of master mechanic (M.M.) was conferred upon Mr. John A. Lankford, Washington's pioneer architect. The forty-sixth annual convention of the National Educational Association will be held on July 3. No order will be drawn by the hotels and places of public accommodation. The colored public schools of Washington, D. C., gave a liberal contribution to the fund for the Douglass Memorial Home and the Douglass Assistant Superintendent Roosevelt Conkling Druse. The amount realized was over $100. The Institute for Colored Youth at Cheney, Pa., has at last been successful in bringing a competent colored man to manage the school's programs and acres of the school's plants are under cultivation. This work has heretofore been done by a white man. The Institute is responsible for the direction of Principal Hugh M. Browne. * * * The fifth annual session of the National Association of African Americans to be held in Louisville, Ky., June 24 to 26. The sessions will be held in the main auditorium of the Male High School, and will be held at the school's persons and addresses by some of the ablest and best known educators in the land. Prot. J. R. E. Lee, director of the academy, is president of the association. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice.—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly send for them a letter to the office and then returned to writer or dead-letter office. It would prevent delay if all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at the office. Gentlemen's List. Anderson, J. W. Payton, Lew. Clark, James B. H. Perry and Crosby. Dudley, Clarence. Quinn, Andrew. Davis, Tom W. Robert Brown. Frye, Ed. Smith, Andrew. Hill, Ed. Shields, James. Harris, James A. Shields, Willie. Johnson, Ellie. Sherman, J. E. Leach, Robt. The Jolly Prices. Miller, Calvin. Tutt, Homer. McCannon, J. H. Thomas, The. McCannon, F. H. Mullen, McW. L. Williams, Charles P. Mahara, Frank. Williams and Bayna Ladies' List. Anderson, Susie. Gibbons, Edith Brown, Kittie. Harris, Jennie Beaver, Susie. Jones, Gracie Campbell, Mamie. Russell, Emma. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. courses. Any young man who is ambitious enough to finish any of the courses offered here immediate employment at good salary. Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. The cost of board is $8.50 per month. No charge for instruction. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. ERIE. PA. Special to THE FREEMAN. WAXAHACHIE, TEX. saint Meonau, who was accidentally thrown out of back and a busy on the night of the 7th, is improving. The Juneteen in Waxahachie was the grandest for many years. It seems like old times. No fights and no arrests were made. Had everything from bacon and hamburgers been backed, it was the most. Many spent the Juneteen out of the city last Friday and report a grand time with friends. G. Washington, Brue spent the Juneteen in Dallas... Dave Carroll and George Oldham spent the Juneteen in Dallas on the Day of the War of Galveston, preached at the A.M.E. church on the night of the 16th to a crowded house. Bud Olephant has closed out his grocery on account of bad health. The Odd Fel-19th of June... SSateooC, hrdu rdlu rdlu and the old. Sated with the 19th of June, and the line-up was as follows: K. of P.P.E. Goldwait, p; R. T. Burnell fb; John Haywood, sb; S. Burnell, lb; J. Brewer, rf; George W. of R. Borders, cf. Chaucer, Robert Turner. Odd Fellows-Arnold Aiken, c; Ed Davis, p; Geo W. Reagan, 1b; B. Brooks, 2b; Natt Pewn, 3b; Walter Bell, ss; R. Gibson, lf; Van L. Burnett, cf; George Hill, rf; Time 60 minutes. Scores to the fact, the Fellows-Arnold Fellows. When you want the Freeman and do not see the agent, you can get it at his office, 130 Wyatt street. THE DEMAND FOR AN EDUCATED MINISTRY. Realizing the demand among the Negro people for an educated ministry, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has established a series of parments, a Bible Training School. The courses of study are so arranged that not only ministers and liocontacts may be benefited, but those also who desire to do better in the world become intelligent Sunday school teachers. The chief aim of the Bible Training School is to afford a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible, in the hearts of those who attend an ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. They supplementary exercises, designed to instill in the students a sense of clarity and accuracy, are provided. The teaching is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work being done elsewhere, but, instead, to assist all denominations. During the past year the enrollment in the Bible Training School has been satisfied, and a considerably larger number, The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, laundering, fee is $40. To be paid the tuition fee is $7.00, to be paid in cash by each student when he registers. Students will be given the opportunity to work out much of the $8.50, in some cases all of it. But further should not keep any one from entering the Bible School. If the student is not afraid of work and study, he will succeed. Information address Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. WANTED AT ONCE! An energetic and experienced manager or advance agent, with some capital, to handle A Well-known and Talented Dramatic Star. A paying proposition to the right person. For particulars write immediately to Heitkam's Buffet, 602 N. Senate Ave. Foreign and Domestic Cigars. Wines and Liquors. Courteous treatment to all YOUR TRADE SOLICITED. Fifteen Ball Pool. Paul Carter Principal Comedian, and Stage Manager of Florida Blossoms Co. The greatest colored amusement organization of its kind—comprising Minstrel and Drama. Coming Soon A RABBIT'S FOOT COMEDY, The greatest Negro show of them all. A Continued Success. Watch and wait for the Big Comedy PAT CHAPPELLE, Box 702. Jacksonville, Fla. Old Ky." Co., for Pickaninny Band. Address Musical Director, Indianapolis, Indiana. SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON. I'm no reformer, for I see more light Than darkness in the old. Mine eyes are quite To touch the first dim radiance that threatens storm. she fragrance and beauty of the rose Delight me so, slight thought I give the thorn. And the sweet music of the lark's dear son. Stays longer with me than the night- hawk's cry. And, even in this great three of pain called Life. I find a ratpure linked with each despair, Well worth the price of anguish. I detect More good than evil in humanity; Love rights, more fines than hate, actin- Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes. And men grow better as the world grows old. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The nominee of the Chicago convention will be the next President of the United States. * * "Don't be a knocker!" Boosting is pleasanter, safer and brings greater profit to you in every form. * Only great men can remain silent in the face of slander. Any weakling can whine "cuss" or explain. * It now becomes the painful duty of Editor Roscoe Conkling Simmons to explain "how it happened." * The agitators have had a long inning. It is now up to the "safe and sane" to have a turn at the bat. * Real workers seldom find it necessary to seek newspaper notoriety. Great deeds are their own advertisement. * The "Amen Cormor" in the Taft Temple has become uncomfortably crowded, but nobody is making any effort to relive the strain by going out. * A bore is a fellow who takes up so much of our time telling his troubles that we have no chance to get n a word edge-wise on our own woes. Vagrancy should be suppressed. The state should "work" the idier who won't work for himself, regardless of color, race or previous condition. Almost any kind of a man can get along in some way with almost any kind of a wife the "Nobility of each can be eliminated from the equation. Nowadays a man who wishes to keep on the side of his love-letter if it were intended for publication. It might show up in cold type by-and-by. If Freedmen's Hospital at Washington is anxious to have a new surgeon in chief, it will have the ability of strong, capable and willing material to select from. The only thing that keeps the Negro from having a reliable, up-to-date Association Press service of its own is the unwillingness of the Negro press to pay for it. Our newspapers are somewhat "lean" this week. The editors all went to the Chicago convention and—well, never mind, We shall hear all about it as it comes to them. Many months ago "Short Flights" said "The next President of the United States will tariff reformer." William Howard Taft is a high priest of the gospel of tariff revision. The colored Republicans simply refuse to be led by cooled Democracy. The governing Taft against Philadelphia was too thin to hide the bogus wood it was designed to cover. No honest and law-abiding workingman can have any interest against Secretary Taft. He is a friend of the labor element and will poll the bulk of the votes of the workingmen who work with their hands instead of their mouths. Up to the time of going to press, Mr. Emmett J. Scott still holds down the job of executive secretary at Tuskegee Institute—despite the herculean efforts of a New England journal to "land" him in a government assignment at Washington. The Boston Guardian in its palmy days had an editor who could at least write, although he seldom wrote. He degenerated into a badly made up conglomeration of clippings from Washington Dailies, stock cuts and job type. Lawyer Seipol Africanana Jones, of Arkansas, secured his seat at the Chicago convention "hands down." His name entitled him to aictory writing. A stugue, of the florida audience and stentorian lungs—was the Frank Hitchcock of the occasion. After all is said and done, it will be found that "home, sweet home" is the best summer resort. No exorbitant prices for inferior accommodations, no tips, no sacrifice of regular conveniences and every comfort just around the corner. Study it out! In addition to being an accomplished planist, Mrs. Portia Washington Pitman is a fine cook, a clever seamstress, a tasteful milliner and a neat housekeeper. "The Wizard of Tuskegee" gives his own daughter the advocates for the daughters of others. With Tillman's nerves on keen edge, Bailey's throat out of commission, Vadaman squeiled and Jeff Davis given a hard throw-down by his Arkansas constituency, doughears of special equality" and "Negro domination" is enjoying a thinned needest. If the House of Representatives will jay justice against the fraudulent claims from the rotten borough of the South, the cause of honest elections will take an upward jump. Reduction of representation is a major operation that sacrifices a limb which might be saved by an anti-septic treatment. It is noticeable that the early departure of Missionary Bishop Jay Albert Johnson is no regrets. His selection for this out-of-the-way corner of the earth gives universal satisfaction, and, all things considered, may be set down as the wisest action taken by the Norfolks General Conference. The Richmond Reformer truthfully observes: "The chief glory of the life and work of Dr. W. L. Taylor and Dr. Booker T. Washington consists in the fact that they have done something besides killing the world is becoming impatient with the man whose stock is in his gab." Amen! The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows has reached its high-water mark under the constructive leadership of Grand Master Josephine. The membership has increased from $40,000 to $380,000 since he took hold of the reins of government eighteen months ago. It would pay the order to elect a man like Houston Grand Master for life. The Florida Sentinel, edited by the veteran M. M. Lewey, has a new Whitlock press-room, a place for meetings about $3,000 and capable of printing 2,800 copies of the Sentinel per hour. This kind of enterprise on the part of our journalists deserves substantial recognition in the shape of a monster subscription list, fully packed in advance. When an editor or correspondent takes his valuable time* to refer to you as a "prominent citizen," "race reporter," or any of the nice things that set you high in popular favor, you might show a small measure of appreciation by purchasing a copy of the paper containing the compilation. A hint to the wise ought to be sufficient. A photograph of Col. Giles B. Jackson shouldering the Negro building and carrying it off to Richmond would make the mourning stockholders of the Negro Development Corporation their unrealized dividends and interest and cause them to almost overlook 6 OPTIMISM --- --- *** --- --- the fact that they had not even got back the money they were foolish enough to invest. Prof. E. W. B. Curry, president of the Curry Normal and Industrial Institute, Urbana, Ohio, a temperance orator of national repute, whose drawing power is pronounced second one to that of Dr. Bohle, who will spend the principal part of his time this summer in the western states, where he has a long list of engagements to deliver addresses in behalf of local option. Oklahoma, already beset with fifty-seven varieties of the race problem, is up against the fifty-eight. Railroad companies are inimical to whether the "jim-crowing" Negroes include Chinese, Japs, Indians, dages and other "off-color" elements of the human family. In many instances, a report says, the Indians prefer riding with the colored people, and the whites prefer riding with the white people to do when they refuse to go into the coaches set apart for the whites. The Zlonites at Philadelphia broke all general conference records, electing three bishops, thirty or more general officers, listening to all kinds of addresses, serving on all committees, department and various committees, and enacting an unprecedented amount of necessary legislation in the short space of sixteen days. The Zlon folks believe that a speaker who can say it quickly, and that a body having anything to do that is worth while can do it speedily and adjourn. In addition to being noted for its nightriders, mountainainer feudists, energetic teachers, skilled politicians, well-fed preachers, beautiful women, blooded preachers, beautiful women,mers Young, W. H. Steward and Cary B. Lewis, as wel as Albert S. White, Kentucky is breaking all previous records for unusual by producing white coal. If you want to be a preacher and cannot account for its origin, it is pretty safe to charge it up to ric, rare and resourceful Kentucky. Thirteen years of adulation have not "addled" the level head of Booker T. Washington. With glory to give away, he embarked on a journey of personal consideration from any one, and inspiring every enterprise which he touches, the "Wizard of Tuskegee" pursues the highest qualities of leadership, impartiality of judgment, and disinterested counsel, he would wield a powerful influence with a National administration of any party. Those who have charge of the printing for entertainments, excursions, etc., given by our people, are standing in their own office, and are responsible for offices to have a share of their work. Our offices may not be able to do the large posters and some particular jobs that require extensive plants and elaborate outfits. We must admit the entire population of a city and dodgers enough to plaster the town from end to end. Cary B. Lewis does well to manage the business in his Louisville ballwick and good results are growing out of his sturdy aptitation. One of the ablest, most eloquent and most affable members of the bar of the District of Columbia is Thomas L. Jones, a former member of the Congress in Langston, Mr. Jones is a t ower of strength before a jury, is matchless in debate and convincing in the presentation of arguments. Jones made a masterly race argument. Congress ago from the fourth district of Virginia, and was defeated only by a small margin, in spite of the trickery employed by the adversary to overwhelm him. He will be heard to advantage in the approaching campaign. If there are colored men in the M. E. Church who are ambitious to wear the bishop's toga, it will behoove them to urge organic union with one or both of the big Negro Methodist connections. The M. E. Church with the Methodist with the M. E. Church South than it is to the election of a full-fledged Negro bishop—and Drs. Mason, Bacon, Thomas, and Drs. Johnson, would have headed parsons of that faith and order have "gotten wise" to this dismal fact. Methodist solidarity, embracing 2,000,000 Negro communicants, would solve some of the race problems and would immeasurably strengthen our religious fortresses. Southern leaders of the John Sharp Williams type are simply "buffling" when they say they are willing to have their own candidates reduced, if thereby they can rid themselves of the so-called "black peril" of Negro domination and social equality. The Democrat's effort to elect a Democratic President entirely obliterated; they prefer to retain their present representation and take chances with the new president. The Crumpacker amendment to the publicity bill throw the gang into a "duck-fit"—as do all measures that menace the South wants any more. The South wants no reduction any more than the Negro wants to be eliminated. There is neither politics nor religion in Negro education. Every practical-minded individual brings out the highest usefulness of the individual or class to be considered, be that training industrial, profession or commerce, or that training education that hits the mark. President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, VicePresident Kennedy, Secretary Eisenhower, Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland, Democrats; Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic; Presidents J. Kennedy, Joseph R. Rockefeller, Baptists and Wilbur P. Thirkfield, Methodist, representing diverse religions and politics, cordially agree on this much-mooted problem of Negro education. The appointment of a Mississippi white man as Minister to Bolivia serves to remind us that President Cleveland once appointed a minister to the United States for that post, but the naming was rejected by the Senate. This was the first instance on record of a Negro being appointed to represent a country of the United States in government. The nomination of a white Californian as consul Vladivostok, Russian, also serves to remind that Richard T. Greener filled this position in 1912, and the appreciative fellow countrymen would be pleased to see him given another assignment "equally as good" by the State Department. The white man appointed by Bahia, Brazil, as consul once creditably filled by Dr. Henry W. Furnish, of Indiana. Brother Nahum D. Brascher, the scholarly and enterprising editor of Ohio's finest race paper, the Cleveland journal's finest fragrant nosegay: "The National Negro Press Bureau in Washington is doing a great job of government fresh news each week for the leading race papers. The chief scribe, president and treasurer, R. W. Thompson, he looks out on the future with an eye of faith, and he sees that his news is wholesome and free from personal abuse. Such news is Bouquets like this go far to cheer the humble scribbler along the weary way. Fervent 'amens' are the tokens by which he knows he is delivering the message with the spirit and the understanding. Something ought to be done to remedy the flagrant inequalities in the matter of congressional representation between districts in the South and North. On action of the South, Mr. Dalzell voted the South has a shameful advantage of the North in the number of votes necessary to secure the election of a member of the lower house of Congress. For instance, the Mississippi district holds his seat by virtue of a measly 2,563 votes, while the Representative of the First Pennsylvania district polled 29,870 votes. The record is that the state has sent eight men to Congress from the State of Mississippi—a smaller total than is cast in a single ward in Mr. Dalzell's Pennsylvania bailiwick. It may be difficult to say what can be done—but, nevertheless, something ought to be done, and much, too. --- --- . . . --- --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER The Official Head of the Race's Greatest Fraternal Order. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8—Grand Master William L. Houston, of the G. U. O. of O. F., has returned from his "swing around the circle," which included St. Augustine, St. Jackson, the St. Augustine, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., and New York City. In each of these cities he delivered informing addresses and was accorded an enthusiastic ovation by the vantage point of St. Augustine. He noted with pleasure that the Ovid Fellows had purchased the old High School, a solid, three-story structure, which had originally cost a great deal of money. The building was a cozy and excellent condition. The acquisition of this commodious building gives the order there one of the most desirable halls in the country for public receptions, committee meetings, and lodging room conveniences. This structure, it may be added here, has a history that is intensely interesting and unique. It was the place in which the school was founded, and the college was educated, and was the area in which was laid the foundation of the fame that came later to such sterling old families as the Rutledges, the Rhetts, the Barnwells, the Pettigrews, and the Tewksbury that made South Carolina the center of social grandeur in the Southland of ante-bellum days; here was plighted the troth of lovers who became heads of those that are renowned in song and story. In Jacksonville the Grand Master presided over the District Grand Lodge and the District Household of Ruth. in session at the place, was present, with costly coffee, coffee and hand of ivory, carved into an alligator on a log, a distinctly unique and typical souvenir of the State. He was also presented with an illuminated address of welcome, handwritten by the master, of a beautifully painted salutation of the order in Florida. In Atlanta he spoke to a crowded house in Friendship Baptist Church, and was entertained at dinner by the leading members of the fraternity and moment citizens of the Georgia metropolis. COLLECTOR ANDERSON HONORED NEW YORK, N. Y., June 6.—New Yorkers have seldom, if ever, witnessed a more elaborate luncheon, both in point of service and in the distinction of the guests. The guests were dredged guests on board the new palace steamship, Principe de Udini, of the Lloyd Sabauda line, on last Thursday afternoon, in honor of Baron Meyer des Planches, the official American diplomat and dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington. The function also celebrated the initial trip of the Principe de Udini, which is the largest, fastest and most beautiful steamship in the world, the ranean waters between Naples and New York. The gangways, main salons and cabins de luxe were all profusely decorated with flowering plants, while the other rooms were adorned with roses. The menu was most unusual, owing to the fact that it was supplied entirely with Italian products, and as the choosest of game can be obtained in Italy, the guests were treated to a delightful surprise in being served with pheasants and quails in the month of June. party included, many diplomats, jurists, and leading men of the professions, as well as the representatives of the White Star, Cunard, Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd, Transantique, American and other leading At the guests' table were the following: Chevalier Cesare Conti, president of the Bank of Naples in New York and general manager of the San Francisco Bank; Baron Meyer des Planches, Italian Ambassador to the United States; Count di Rossa, Italian Consul-General at New York; Carlo Foster, Royal Commissioner of the Italian Consul-General Zucca, president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce; Supreme Court Judge Chas. A. Truax; Supreme Court Judge James A. Tucker; Commissioner of the Italian Colonel Samuel N. Dickerson, Secretary of State of New Jersey; Hon. Allen N. Spooner, Commissioner of Dorset and Forsyth Counties; Commissioner of States Internal Revenue Officer; Sig. Vicario, editor of the Italian Herald; Sig. Salvatore Banome, vice president of the Northern Bank of New York; Lawson State Bank, vice president of the Conference of steamship lines, and Sig. Bojaino, president of the Italian Savings Bank. Mr. Anderson was the only colonel named gentlemen were taken on board of Chevalier Conti's yacht, The Owlet, at the Battery, and conveyed to the ship which was anchored at Pier R. Bennett. The Principi di Udilani is named in honor of the youngest son of the House of Saad, the reigning monarch, and the ship he is traveling on the titled guest will sail to attend the Elkins-Dlans-Bruzziia wedding. Grand Master Houston's trip to New York was to deliver an address at the annual celebration in honor of Peter Ogden, the founder of the Grand United Orders of Fashion. For the occasion, a contribution to the current history of this phase of Negro fraternity life in the Republic, Houston reports that he is gratified with the marvelous progress the order has made during his administration. In his travels he has found it thriving everywhere, elevating Greek the theater place among all the fraternities of the race. During his eighteen months of service he has seen it increase by 1,200 to 340,000 to 380,000. Congratulatory letters are coming in at a lively rate, testifying to the pride of the order in the achievement. The master Houston is making as the official head of the race's banner fraternal organization. FAVORABLE TO NEGRO HELP Since it is a fact that the National Hotel pay waiters per month, according to their ability, as much money as all hotels pay, colored waiters in the State, outside Chicago, are not always common that the waiters are allowed to eat anything to want in the way of food and are treated well, the following number of waiters have come and gone from January 1, 1907, to May 19, 1908. This statement shows that the National must have been the dumping ground for all tramp waiters, as this will show the length of time the following nine waiters that have been employed are not usually in the form of all different proprietors. And as Mr. Dick Townsend, the present proprietor, is known all over the country to be a friend to the Negro race, as he has got both colloquial and women employed all over the house. Employes of dining room of the National Hotel, Peoria, Ill., who have served long terms of service: Robert A. Gibbons, head waiter, 25 years; Annew, Whitesides, waiter, 20 years; Wm. Murdock, waiter, 18 years; J. Robt, H. Davis, waiter, 15 years; Jno, B. Bradford, waiter, 16 years; Wilson, G. Patterson, waiter, 9 years; John Smalley, waiter, 10 years; John Williams, waiter, 5 years; John Moore, waiter, 7 years; J. Smith, waiter, 5 years. CLARKSVILLE. TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN Baptising is still in order among our churches here, the following churches baptised their candidates on the 7th: St. Peters A. M. E. Church, baptised five converts at 6 a. m.; Wesely's Chapel M. E. Church, one convert at 6:30 a. m.; Mt. Olivet Baptist Church five at 6 p. m.; F. D. Dix, Clarksville's only colored car-net player, rendered a clarinet solo at St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion Church on the 7th at 11 a. m., which was much commented upon in the city... The United Club's eighteenth annual steamboat outing on the 17th will be one of the largest yet. There are already 500 tickets sold.... 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In that time, he profited the professional exponents of the boxing art did not command the position he do now, and the story of his early bouts, and declared himself thought he was lucky when he could get $15 for a battle. Matches were hard to get, especially for a lightweight, and he tried to over the country, corners. meeting his days in the ring were over he opened a boxing school in Chicago and from that went to written articles with all ways a world of world interest when he referred the Jim Corbett-Bob Fitzsimmons at Carson City, Nev., in which Fitzsimmons became the champion of the war. This battle was fought under so-called Marquis of Queenberry rules, but they were the rules and the rules which he laid down for that battle are almost identically those which govern the American prize ring today and are the rules which he laid down for the credit for them and the code will be given his name, as there is no reason why the American prize ring today and are the rules which he laid down for the long series of articles Siler has written of the pugilistic game in his country, speaking from first-hand information and by no other man. He has dealt with prize ring affairs almost from the start of the game in this country until the present time, and battles have always been characterized by a blunt accuracy that impressed sporting readers. In addition to his own history of boxing which is about a little thing of its kind in existence. Personally he was one of the kindiest of men. His honesty was never questioned although his decisions frequently were in the sport about a year ago, when a testimonial was tendered him at the Coliseum, Chicago. During late years it had been his ambition to become a promoter of amusement enterprises, but his health was poor at the time, and he has a great part of his it. and he has been a great part of his farm during the last year on his farm. THE GANZ-NELSON FIGHT. The approaching battle between Joe Gans and Battle Nelson is receiving the attention of fight fans throughout the country. It is the general belief that Nelson is the leader of the hands of the black two years ago Labor Day, but in spite of this an inordinate amount of interest is being taken in the coming bout, especially on the coast, where Nelson has done considerable damage. While in his advantage, with Uhnhoel he showed to poor advantage, on the other hand, in his contest with Attell, Bat, according to Jimmy Coffe, had the Hebrew so nearly out in the closing bout, the punch he had finished the affair. While Nelson still has many admirers on the coast, Gans will be an odds-on favorite in the big league but can stay. That he still can assimilate punishment is unquestioned, but there seems to be no doubt as to his retrogression so far as handing it out is conceived as good as he ever was, and would be in much better condition even than he was in the Goldfield fight. It was the Negro, and not the Dane, who made the conditions of the ring unhampered by the ironclad causes which obtained at their first meeting. Gans has everything in his favor for improvement in his fighting, as his age has yet shown no signs of slowing him. He will confident he will end the bout in short order, and shortly before leaving for the West stated that he did not expect the fight to go over a dozen rounds, and that chance would oppose, though, and enter the best possible condition. He is not far above weight now, and his two weeks of training will give him ample time to reduce and fit himself for the encounter. BLACKBURN A REMARKABLE FIGHTER Jack Blackburn, the well-known lightweight champion of this city, by giving away fifteen pounds to O'Brien in their recent light at Philadelphia, and then in a few weeks himself to be one of the best boxers in the country to-day. Some of the reports of the encounter旧 O'Brien as the winner detailed reports, as far as they could be sure, of Jack Blackburn did the execution, while O'Brien was heavy on footwork and getting out of the way. It was a mighty best, which did not receive a great amount of attention, probably not as much as it deserved. BLACKRURN CLEVER BOXER. Blackburn seems never to have done anything to cast a shadow on his name, as nearly as I can learn, yet the facts are that he is one of the best, if not the best in his weight, in the country. Joe Gans is his best, and there is nothing on this black fighter, who is just as dangerous a man as any boxer wants to meet. If Blackburn and Gans meet to meet this month I am not sure that I would not favor the chances of Jack in spite of his class he does not get man bouts. He is not widely known, and man bouts. Gans admit that he is a tough customer who is not too impatient to see in the ring. I cannot help making that it is only lack of proper management that keeps Blackburn back. His court is the bar, because Gans gets the money for the bar, because Gans gets could give away fifteen pounds and as good a man as O'Brien. He can be recognized in the ring we might as well consider all of the good ones and give Blackburn a chance. It has been argued that he is a game fighter, but his proposition is he Gans wants to tackle him and he is so wonderful that if there is any lightweight to take him could get to him. Because they on the big feather, he has to take hold his own wrist. LANGFORD WINS BY KNOCKOUT. Jim Barry, Chicago Heavyweight, is Put Out in Third Round. special to THE FREEMAN NEW YORK CITY — Friday night, June 16, with a terrific right-hand upper cupcet to Sam Langford knocked out Jim Barry, the 6-foot-6, 180-pound third round of a baut suit challenge to go six rounds at the Fairmount A. C. The men battled on even terms when Langford was opening and slipped in the knockout but the barry claimed that the blow was accidental. The jury assumed the aggressive at the start and judged several good blows which panked Langford who even matters, however, at the second round, sending two heavy right-hand punches in the second round, and honors were in a series of exchanges in the third round. Langford put a left to the jaw and followed with a terrific right upper cupcet, which put him to the floor, where he was counted out. THE LOUISVILLE GIANTS. playing of the Louisville Glants that commented upon him. Lancaster has put it. may be called one of the strongest teams in the West, according to their showing. Above, Griffin, who have played so far has become one of them. Their pitching staff has been known wonderfully well, and the leader of them is Griffin, formerly of the Indianapolis A. B. club of the Indianapolis A. B. club who made a wonderful show the lad who made such a series of games played by the Leland Giants of Indianapolis A. B. C. club last season. The young, Griffin is one of the most faithful and inconsistent players in the business always always in his full share of the work, and then some. JACK BLACKBURN WINS EASILY At Philadelphia. Thursday night, June 19. Jack Blackburn easily outpaced Geo. Gimson in Australia, at the Broadway A. C. Blackburn played with his man throughout the contest. UNHOLZ AND BROCK WILL FIGHT. Rudolph Unhole, the South African lightweight champion, who received such a title from the San Francisco a short time ago, has matched to meet Phil Brook, the little welterweight, who was recently defended in the United States. Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight, at Wrestles' club at Los Angeles, Calif. They won the title. They Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles, Cal. June 26. JOHN TAYLOR'S STANDING In the American contest for the Olympic games it is to be seen, amid the long list, that J. B. Taylor, the colored runner, stands far ahead. 440-YARD DASH. J. B. Taylor, University of Pa. .0:48 4-5 J. C. Aitie, Princeton .0:48 4-5 J. C. Carpenter, Cornell .0:50 1-5 W. C. Proust, Boston A. A. .0:50 1-5 FRANK YOUNG'S EXPLANATION Frank Young, who is to-day one of the best second basemen in the business, formerly of the A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis, Chicago Unions, with a record creditable of the swat athletes, believes in handing 'em as good as they send when it comes to a bank. you see, is not only a never-say-die team, but among the Union boys, being a "kidder" along good-natured lines, and as full of wit as a walnut of meat. Frank, on account of having worked in Indianapolis, is asking Frank to be an authority on everything pertaining to the subject. Carl Primm, the well-known catcher of the Unions, who has a lot of asking any old kind of question, got in touch asking Frank about iron one day last week. While at Indianapolis recently the two lads were seated before Ran Butler's baseball favorite batsm—when suddenly turning "By the way, Frank, how was iron first discovered?" They smelt it" quickly shot back Young and then then the printing match between the second baseman and the catcher, and the catcher caught. COLORED LAD WINS FIRST HEAT. RED BANK, N. J.—The third annual track meet of the East Jersey High School League which should have come off Dewey Field (20) will have been postponed on account of rain, was held at the Asbury Park athletic grounds in the Red Bank High School, in the Red Bank High School, the only colored boy in his class, took part in the athletic contests. In the 100 yard dash dash the heat was won by Mr. Fortune, the first heat was won by Mr. Fortune, the Bank boys won third place in the relay. Mr. Fortune enjoys the distinction of being in Red Bank in Red Bank to take part in these sports. BLACK JOCKEY WINS. J. Lee Capturing Great Stakes at Parkway. Jockey J. Lee, the little whirlwind, who sprang into prominence last year by his success on the race tracks in the South and West. Is attracting, much attention the race tracks in the North, the saddle. About the middle of the season of 1907, while Lee was riding at Latonia, the local press was criticised for lavishing so much praise on the race tracks, and considered good authority on race matters went so far as to call him a "mushroom;" another referred to him as "an accident." but despite all the black jacket, the race tracks of the East last week, he added to his long list of victories the Parkway handicap, one of the classic events of the Gravesend meet, along at a great clip, putting one and two under the wire first every day. Last year the charge was made that there were no first-class jockeys in the West, and that if they were not, McCarthy and others to contend with he would not stand a ghost of a show. But Lee is now winning every day from these same boys, and that if they were not, Western boys in 1907, that proves conclusively that he ranks among the best jockeys in the world to-day. He is a very young boy yet, and if properly handled will some day be a great jockey on the turf. The Nashville Globe. RUBE FOSTER OFFERS PURSE. Rube Foster says he is willing to bring the Leland Giants to Philadelphia and play the Nets for $2,500 of his own money, winner take all, or a percentage proposition, with a loser and winner end. He also says that in looking forward to the first entered professional baseball he has met Dan McClelland in twelve different contests. He says McClelland, and that the many friends who are claiming the honors for friendship, sake, should know that the team is in oque of any standing is decided by the number of games won and lost. BURNS STILL DUCKING THE BLOW. A legitimate championship battle between Tommy Burns and Eig Jack Johnson is just as far off as ever. The Caick's latest ultimatum is that the black fellow will have to wait now until after his Australian engagements have been concluded, and as these will probably consist of three battles, with a long series of music hall engagements to be filled, if it is probably be next spring before consideration can again again be on Johnson's claims. It is not that the syndicate which is arranging for Burns' visit to Australia has deposited $10,000 to bind the match between Burns and Lang, the Australian boxer. The fight is to take place at Sydney in August. The syndicate also has the option of arranging two additional fights for $7,500 each. Who his opponents will be in the other two contests? (2) may only be conjectured; there isn't a man of any claim to pugilish distinction in the Antipodes, and the name of the man they now deem worthy to meet Burns is Lang, a third-rate fighter, whom Jack Johnson easily defeated, and who was never considered the equal of Boshter Bill Squirres, as fine a quince as ever tumbled off a tree. Being technically frozen with Burns for a week, I would not be Australia ahead of Burns and cleaned up the whole bunch of pretenders before the champ got a crack at them, able to make the conclusion, with the prestige that would come to him from acquiring several victories, Burns' path would not be the proverbial one of primroses, and he would find it convenient to be available to give Johnson the he is aching for. That $30,000 for himself, win, lose or draw demand, will not, I am sure, appeal, podeans, who appreciate fair play, regardless of whether a fighter is a white man or a black one. Tommy Burns must be a little bit jealous of the presumption which Jack Johnson, believing from the British public, which can only see the fact that the black fellow on the spot and the Burns, the champion, refuses to do so. In Jack Curley, who offered THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER [Image of a black man in a suit with a white collar and tie]. JACK BLACKBURN Whose recent good show in with O'Brien pronounced him one of the greatest basketball players today. Burns a $35,000 purse for a fight at Goldfield, but which the latter refused on the phone, $20,000, win, lose or draw, and subsequently accepted an offer to fight Lang in Australia for $20,000. Burns says: The Sporting Club yesterday, lording it in a disgusting way, and I turned him down cold—wouldn't shake hands with the big name Brusso—that is, if I can get him into a ring with me. You can put your last penny down on me as regards the big name Brusso in a googly face to trim Squires on the day of the Grand Prix, but after that I will be ready to sail for America. Fix everything up in the backpack and go down to Australia, where I will find another lemon. I know I have been regarded as a joke during all my fighting with Joe Nelson, money so, what's the difference? Thirty thousand for mine, though, don't forget that. Of course, the unlocked for can always happen in pugilism, but it is hard to believe that Battling Nelson in his present condition has even an outside chance to win from Joe Gans when they meet in Australia. Since his grueling Goldfield battle with the Baltimore, Nelson has done nothing to warrant the opinion that he is still to beat the possible champion. Britt beat him decisively, and he drew a draw. Unholy outclassed him in ten rounds. Gans went through Britt with such ease that we took Jimmy a week to realize what happened, and Unholy was beaten, and quite handily, too. Nelson has yet to see the Elysian fields of dreamland. But from present indication looks as if the process consists of pink mules and purple elephants, says one critic. Every one knows that the Dane is not the tough nut of old. Much of his old ruggedness is still there, consist of pink mules. On the other hand, Gans is cleverer than he ever was. He is rapidly approaching the Oster age, but he still has the ammunition. The Negro will surely be a big threat to Nelson his defeat by the knockout process. HUTCHINSON QUITS CHICAGO UNIONS. "Pug" Hutchinson, the crack shortstop, was released through his own consent from the Chicago Unions, after playing a series of games with the A. B. C. team in the city, of which he was a former member. Friends cite no reasons for his quitting. ATTELL WILL NOT FIGHT GANS. Every once in a while, when a period of dullness provides little for the pugilistic enthusiasm than good judgment starts the story that Abe Attell believes he can defeat Joe Gans and wants to make a match. A simple announcement is enough to hang simple announcements, but an important issue is discussed pro and con to an almost interminable length, but the fact remains that the match is not to be made. The match and are not likely to do so. Attell is in the fighting business for the money there is in it. The last time Attell was in the fight, he did not. "I shall never fight Gans. He could de- JACK BL Whose recent good showing with O'Brien pugilist in this feat me, as he can defeat any man in his class. Whenever you hear of my signing to fight a man you may know that I am convinced that I can defeat him. I'll never go into the ring with a man that I am positive can陪 me up. I know Gai is positive can陪 me up. I know Gai is night him. Nothing could induce me to face a man that I know can beat me." THE JOHNSON-BURNS MATCH. Stung by the criticism inspired by his persistent eagerness to evade a fight with Jack Johnson, and fearful of losing prestige in England because of his actions, mommy Burns goes on to the ring with his black rival and the other day sent a cablegram to Jack Curley, at Chicago, accepting an offer to fight in Nevada on Labor Day for a purse of $35,000. Burns to have an excuse or draw. Burns' privilege is as follows: "I will accept $35,000 for Labor Day, You know my terms, Jeffries to referee." Of course, with that $30,000 clause it is no sure thing now that the fight will take place. But the opponent would agree to such an absurd proposition, and Burns' insistent demand will be met with an absolute refusal, as it should be; but the acceptance of Johnson's challenge is at least one step in the right direction. The opponent would be effected. That Burns has fallen considerably in the estimation of the British sporting public because of his actions toward Johnson is evidenced in the comments made in the columns of The Sportsman, in the boxing paper, London, on the pending controversy. The article is as follows: "Tommy Burns has positively declined to meet Jack Johnson for the purse of £2,500 ($12,500) offered by the National Sporting Club, and followers of boxing are demanding his demand for $6,000 ($30,000), win, lose or draw, is ridiculed and laughed at. Johnson claims that it is a get-out on the part of Burns, a way of evading a meeting, and may be punished by my remarks. The remarkable punishment made by Burns only shows the difference between the game to-day and a few years back. Apparently we are behind the times in the matter of match-making, yet on the other hand, Burns has not been punished ($30,000), win, lose or draw, seems absolutely lunatic. The clause, too, has nothing like a sporting sound about it, and may be put down, as it has been more than once during the few days, to the extent that such a penalty may also never previously been suggested in England, and I may here say that even if the National Sporting Club could give ten times the sum Burns asks for the purse, I would not buy in that way. This has been decided by the committee at headquarters. "Both Burns and Johnson have been very prominent in print recently, and from what I have heard, not only in the club, but on the race course, and in sporting resorts generally, the black has come out on top. It hardly seems possible that Burns, who, according to the American press, has long been thirsting for the blood of the blacks, and who, in his own opinion, could knock spots off Johnson in double quick time, should miss this easy chance of picking up £4,000 ($20,000). The Na- tional have offered £2,500 ($12,500), of which they will award £2,000 ($10,000), and the rest will be given to Johnson putting up £1,000 ($5,000), but I can assure him that the black can command backing for twice the amount*. I will give you a shirt to our American athletes, have taken up Johnson's end of the controversy as soon as following letter, printed in aandon sporting shirt, to The Editor of The Sportsman: Sir—I should think that other of the EBPs being public besides myself must be getting a bidding bluffing, which is at the present time filling the sporting press. From the control of the EBPs, the Bursars and Johnson am all the more content of our national blindness to these American methods, and I think it would be bet-ter that we should give the feather-bed world's champions a return to their native heath, where the public understand better the "soft soap" so read- given by the American boxing fraternity. I have read the letters appearing in the press from Tommy Burns, but up to the moment we have not seen an explanation of the fact that Burns is the only player counters in this country no difficulty was found in finding a suitable purse to sat at the world’s champion’s swollen-head cravings; and as he has pretensions to the title arrives on the scene Burns’ head swells to such an extent as immediately to render it impossible to play in the real game as your champion! The man that has been picking up our gold in sacks shows us that when put to the real test he is found lamentably wanting. Inclose my card and beg to sign my name. Lewisham, S. E. May 6. ‘there is the whole controversy in a nutshell,’ Burns said in the press for Burns for beating Gunner Moir, Jack Palmer and Jem Roche, yte for a battle with Jack Johnson he demands $30,000 for his end, win, lose or draw! ‘I would be more unfair or unsportsmanlike!’ * * * * Johnson looks upon Burns’ demands as ridiculous in a letter to me the other day he says. “I am also here for money, but am prepared to fight at once, and not write long letters to the British public to tell them street. New Orleans. La. Their—line-up is the line of the line—line-up before I enter the ring. Mr. Burns states that he has been offered £7,000 (£35,000) to fight me. Is it not rather a curious thing that the offer should not have been made to me also, as surely Mr. Burns would not be right on the way we have offers not been made to me? We all know that it takes two men to make a fight. So far only one has been approached, and surely his quandam opponent should have done some of the same work. With regard to the fact that Mr. Burns could that it would be deposited at the National Sporting Club, and the money was posted with Mr. Bettinson, and this was clearly understood by Mr. Burns when he met Mr. Fitzgerald and the national sports done. “Surely everybody has had enough of this twaddle and dreams of £6,000 for winning, losing or drawing. However, coming down to cold facts, Mr. Bettinson has my £1,000, and am prepared to accept the £2,500, and a $1,000 for the winner and £500 to the loser, or if Mr. Burns prefers if, the winner to take the lot. Most previous offers have, I regret to say, been only made to the other. But, it is not just that this through being made to both of us. Mr. Burns will alter his decision, and see his way to accept same.” Of course, since writing this letter some ACKBURN ien pronounced him one of the greatest country, today. painful developments have appeared in the case as far as Tommy is concerned, notably the gradual "getting wise" of the team, the gradual improvement of schemes and the consequent cold shoulder for the recently lauded champion. Still, Johnson's letter was straight and to the point, and perchance its publication in England carried the ball rolling down hill Tommy. JOE GANS HAS A SAY. "Til knock out Battling Nelson just as sure as we step into the ring at Colma Jubil. This was the message that Joe Gans brought to Chicago last week. The dusty king of all 133-pounders spent the day in the city en route East on business. The team that Nelson has never been sent down for the long count, and that he still is sturdy enough to take a hard beating before he will come for the game, that Nelson has never been sent down for the long count, and that he still is sturdy enough to take a hard beating before he will come for the game, that I am looking for a hard light, but I am absolutely confident that I shall be the winner. I expect that the boat will go at that there is any man in the business that can stow away the Dane in less time than that. I can may take my word for that. I am the one best in this forty-five-round affair at Colma. O'BRIEN DEFEATS BLACKBURN. Jack O'Brien bested Jack Blackburn in the fastest six-round bout ever fought in Philadelphia, last Wednesday night, June 10. It was seen that O'Brien had been able to finish weighing over fourteen pounds more than Blackburn. It was also discovered that O'Brien had no easy thing, for Blackburn fought him like a lion, making every blow more difficult. O'Brien turned completely tired, and he had to clinch to save himself from the punishment that Blackburn was raining on him, so he had to make a grand-stand finish, but he found the colored boy more than willing, for he mixed at every opportunity. Blackburn opened up an old cut over O'Brien's eye, and he flowed freely. In the sixth round O'Brien's mouth began bleeding and continued for some time. Manager Peters, of the Chicago Unions, has secured four of the star Indianapolis, A. B. C. team players in Primm, catcher; Tolbert, pitcher; Hutchinson, shortstop, and Young, right-half. They are making good with this cracked team, which is now in its twenty-third season. There is great dissatisfaction existing among the ranks of players in Eastern Conference teams, and the ranks is one of the contemplated remedies. The great independent Hoboken team has trimmed every colored team they have met this season. 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There will be a grand rally at Allen Chapel tomorrow. The mother of Mrs. Stewart; 1103 N. Senate avenue is ill. Mrs. H. W. Simmons, of Lexington, Ky., is visiting in the city. George L. Knox addressed the Masons at Rushville last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dunlop spent last Sunday in Logansport. Clifford Cain will leave tomorrow for Louisville to spend the week. Mrs. Carrie Boyer left Thursday for an extended visit at Denver. Col Mrs. Cassie Smith left Wednesday for Crawfordsville for an indefinite stay. Dr. J. W. Norrell was in Muncie, Ind., Wednesday on professional business. Mrs. Annie Jefferson, of Cincinnati, O., is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Thomas E. Taylor, secretary of the Y.-M. C. A., returned from Louisville, Tuesday. Loss Seaton, an old resident of this city, is seriously ill at his home in Baltimore avenue. Tomorrow will be quarterly meeting day at Barnes Chapel. Superintendent Skelton will be present. Mrs. Edna Brown Fleming will leave July 1, for St. Paul, Minn., for a month's visit with her mother. Miss Mary Woodfork, a teacher in the Louisville public schools is visiting her cousin in Columbia avenue. Prof. W. E. Grubbs left Wednesday afternoon for Louisville and other points south in the interest of The Freeman. George Boyer, well-known in the hotels of this city died at Omaha, Neb., Monday after an illness of several months. Rev. T. E. Wilson, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was a guest in the city this week. Rev. Wilson is the successful pastor of the A. M. E. Church in that city. The Young Men's Progressive Club will give a picnic at Hammond's Grove July 4. There will be a special entertainment for the Louisville Giants. Mrs. Alberta J. Grubbs has been tendered the position of the musical department of Sango Baptist College, Muskogee, Okla., at a substantial salary. James Williams, of Rushville, State Grand Lecturer of the F. and A. M. was the guest of honor at the observance of St. John's day by the Masons of this city. Miss Jessie Williams spent two days at Chicago this week with her cousin, Mrs. Irene Sawner of Oklahoma, who is spending some time in that city the guest of their aunt. Prof. W. T. B. Williams, formerly principal of McCoy School of this city, now connected with the Hampton Institute, Va., will lecture at Bethel A. M. E. Church tomorrow night. Rev. Rufus S. Stout, D. D., general secretary of the Church Extension Department C. M. E. Church and president of the Williams Industrial College of Arkansas was in the city this week. The Eighth Illinois Regiment and its officers tendered a banquet to the visit-delegates at the Chicago convention. The visitors, especially those from Indiana, expressed their thanks in great WASH SUITS SKIRTS WAISTS At Popular Prices S. L. KISER & CO., Washington and Delaware Sts. terms to the famous regiment for the way in which they were entertained. The Rev. H. J. Callis, the new pastor of Jones Tabernacle, will preach tomorrow morning and evening. The subject at 10:45 a. m. will be "Receiving the Holy Ghost;" at 8 p. m., "A Friend in Need." St. Paul Temple A. M. E. church will celebrate July 4, with a big tent, and platform meeting the grove near Hillside avenue and Twenty-fifth street Revs H. L. Herod and McColl will make addresses. Among those in attendance to the Women's Baptist Missionary State Convention this week are: Edna Conrad, Mrs. King, Mrs. N. E. Conrad, Richmond; Jakie Collins, Ophelia Clark, Hattie Buck, Carrie Hughes, Connerville; Mrs. M. L. Ivory, Anderson; Mrs. Janet Hines, Mattie P. Griffin Aquilla Senours. Shelbyville; Mary Bell. Franklin; Mrs. Fannie Henson, mesdames Moore and Crow, Terre Haute; Mary Pittman, Greencastle. Rev. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, addressed the Woman's Missionary Convention, Friday evening, which is in session at Metropolitan church. Judge Stubbs of Juvenile Court addressed the children Friday afternoon. Rev. Hillman, moderator of the general association of Terre Haute, addressed the convention Thursday night. The convention will hold a mass meeting Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. H. W. Jones of Shelbyville, Ind., and Rev. L. G. Jordan will be the speakers of the evening. Alpha Home Benefit Picnic. Thursday, July 9, '08, at Zion Chautauqua. Plenty of shade, amusement and plenty to eat. Train leaves Union Station at 8:00 a. m. Zion Chautauqua is on the main line of the Big Four railroad, and is one of the prettiest parks in Indiana. Round trip, including admission to grounds, 50c to all. For stand privileges, call New phone 3549. Col. Marshall To Visit The City. Within a few days Col. John R-Marshall of the Illinois Eighth Regiment will come to the city to spend several days viewing the sights prior to the coming of the regiment in September. The colonel and his men expect to take part in maneuvers at Fort Benjamin Harrison in September. This regiment has fourteen hundred members and is the only colored state national guard in the country. Bishop Grant Moves To Kansas. Bishop Abraham Grant, who for the last eight years has made this city his home, moved this week to Kansas City, Kas. At the time of his coming here to live he had the supervision of the Fourth Episcopal District, which embraces the Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and West Conferences. Four years ago his field was changed to the Fifth District of which Kansas is a part. The General Conference at Norfolk, Va., continued his work in this territory, making, necessary the change of residence. Following the entertainment by the Stewardess Board and the Mary Campbell Mite Missionary Society at Bethel A. M. E. Church the members and friends tendered the bishop an informal reception. M. E. Missionary Officers Elected At the eighth annual convention of the Women's Missionary Society of the Lexington, Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which met at Simpson Chapel three days last week. The following officers were elected: Mrs. J. T. Leggett, Rushville, president; Mrs. M, C. B. Mason, first vice president; Mrs. M. A. Sissle, second vice president; Mrs. H. E. Hickman, third vice president; Mrs. B. Lewis, fourth vice president; Mrs. M. B. Minnis, recording secretary; Mrs. C. D. C. Mebane, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. P. Monroe, secretary of literature: Mrs. W. C. Stovall young people's secretary; Mrs. A. E. Stanley, treasurer and Mrs. H. W. Simmons, temperance secretary, On Thursday evening the Rev. W. C. Stovall, of Chicago, preached the annual sermon and on Friday night Dr. M. C. B. Mason, of Cincinnati, addressed the convention. The final session was held Saturday morning. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Hunton Bible Institute will begin its three days work tomorrow at the Y. M. C. A. The sessions on Sunday will be from 8 until 9:30 a. m. and from 3 until 5 p. m. and the Monday and Tuesday sessions will be from 10 until 12 a. m. and from 3 until 5 and from 8 until 10 p. m. Rev. C. W. McColl, who will have charge of the Institute, will be assisted by Mrs. M. J. Baldwin, Messrs George N. Bernie, J. M. Ogden and Bertram C. Day able Bible expounders. All the sessions will be open to both women and men, and those who attend will be kept cool with electric fans, ice water and lemonade. Rev. C, W. McColl's resignation as minister of the Witherspoon United Presbyterian church goes into effect tomorrow and at the evening service he will preach his farewell sermon from the subject: THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. CLASSIFIED COLUMN The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. 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McColl leaves the Withhorspoon United Presbyterian pulpit in order to give his entire time to the work of the National Colored Temperance League, of which he is president and will travel through the several states lecturing and lining up the churches of all denominations against the liquor traffic. 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 4083. USCALOOSA, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN The U.S. was preached Sunday afternoon at the First African Baptist church. That they are a very strong organization in Tuscaloosa was evidenced by the large number of members in attendance... Mrs. L. H. A. W. and the present days last week in Marion. Visiting his sister, Mr. N. and his. Miss Rosma. Weaver arrived home last week to spend the summer after teaching the past year in the city schools at Ensley... Children's Day Education, the M. E. church Sunday Day, Jan. 14, was successful. The first children participating in the interesting program performed nicely... Mr. John G. Wright has just had completed two more very pretty cottages for rent... Mrs. Mat-Bow B.B. spent several days in Birmingham last week at a regular communication to David's Temple Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M., the following newly elected officers were installed by Master Alfred Hall: Worshipful Master, Jeremiah Barnes, Senior Warden, Roland L. Douglas; Jun-W. Warby, Geor. W. Saug. Secretary; Frank Cole; Senior Deacon, Donald B. Maboy; Junior Deason, Lamplkn Downs; Senior Steward, Samuel Bryant; Junior Steward, Thomas Crayton; Chaplain, Rev. Martin Pyleer; Lake A. Vaborne. Rev. N. Smith, pastor of the first African Baptist church, this city. is a condom Begins at 10:00 am and continues until 11:00 am. 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Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. do not take anything that is claimed to be good, but insist on getting the genuine NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. Agents wanted everywhere. Writes for parties and keeps 20 dollars in silver or stamps to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO. Describes the party. We will send you a bottle by return mail. DEFORMITY Apparatus Trusses. We have recently opened our new office and factory, carry a full line of Trusses, Supporters, Elastic Hosiery etc., and with full equipment for the production of the most approved appliances for the correction of deformities. Truss Fitting a Specialty Mr. Magee was formerly with William H. Armstrong & Co.; for eighteen years in charge of the manufacturing and truss fitting departments. All work guaranteed. R. W. MAGEE & Co., 425 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana. The Indiana Dairy Lunch ROOM. EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE! Come in and call for what you see. Cafe and Dining Room up stairs for ladies and gents. 214 Indiana Avenue. a revival in Birmingham.....A very large crowd of pleasure-seekers attended the annual picnic of the A. M. E. Zion Sunday school, Friday, June 19th, at Riverview Park, where the Warrior Cocktail Warrior river, between this city and Holt. A most enjoyable time was had. HATTIESBURG, MISS. Dr. M. M. Pont of Campbell College, lectured at the M. A. M. church Thursday night, June 18, 1908, B. S. Williams, pastor. We were favored with quite a large number of friends. Dr. Ponton is a graduate of the University satisfied...Mrs. H. R. Woods has returned from Gulfport, where she has been spending vacation after the closing of her school...Mrs. J. H. Howard has received a degree from Church of the Adkins, of the eMiridian district, passed through en route home to see his family. Rev. Adkins did so much good work in time of our revival meeting here. He has been assisting Rev. Goodwine at Laurel...Mrs. J. H. Howard will preach the anniversary sermon for the Woodmen of the World next Sunday...A large congregation attends the A. M. E. church every day at the Woodmen's preaching day at Mt. Carmel Baptist church. They have large attendance all day. BERWICK, LA. Special to THE FREEMAN. In spite of the hard times the Spotless Cleaning Club, operated by E. Y. Mack, seems to be doing a big business.....Miss Florence Duncan, of Baldwin, La., Miss Martha McCormick, of Maryville, Miss Mary Smiles, of Iebria, La. is the guest of Mrs. Augustus Breaux.....Mrs. Frank Henderson, Leonard Henderson and Miss Martha McCormick, of Maryville, Miss raletleys in Berwick.....Sandy Wilson left last week for Oakland, Cal......Miss Edna Rau returned home Tuesday for a short visit to Centerville.....Read the article. See the agent in Berwick, Jos. W. Ryan DIGBY BELL TURNER DROWNED. Special to THE FREEMAN Digby Bell Turner, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. James: Julius Turner, was drowned in the Wabash river, June 18, the day previous to his thirteenth birthday. He was spanning his vacation to Peru, Ind., with relatives. His mother, who had been with him there, had left a few days before for their home at Providence, R.I. to meet Mr. Turner who had just returned from Kingston, Jamaica, where he has been spending the past several months on account of poor health. Mr. Turner's journey home she was somewhat hurt, and she was only slightly. Digby Bell was a lovable little fellow and greatly admired by every one he came in contact. It was his father's intention to take him to England this fall to complete him education. Mr. and Mrs. Turner are well known in this city, and have the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. "PERFECT" OR "VULCAN" GAS RANGE ORDERED NOW Do your Cooking in Comfort and get the Plates in the Bargain. The Indianapolis Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania Street. Buy Your Next Suit at GOODMAN'S 261 E. Washington St. S. W. Cor. Alabama and Washington. ON EASY PAYMENTS OF $1.00 PER WEEK. New Patterns Arriving Daily. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital - - - $ 500,000.00 Surplus and Profits - $220,000.00 Resources - - - - $6,400,000.00 OFFICERS: FRANK D. STALNAKER, President, ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, GWYNN F. PATTERSON, Cashier. Transact a General Banking Business. Your Account Solicited. Courteous Treatment. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. Big Four Excursion, SUNDAY, JUNE 28th, $2 Louisville and Return $2 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. C., H. & D. R. R., Sunday, June 28th. THEATRICAL ENGRAVING QUALITY RIGHT PRICES RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELECT. CO. P. O. Box 103. (MENTION THE FREEMAN) INDIANAPOLIS IND. Subscribe for The Freeman. 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Always some thing on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. Tires put on go-carts. 341 Indiana Ave. Style Variety Attractiveness and Price Havé Made Walk-Over Shoes Famous. HUTCHINSON'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 28 North Pennsylvania Street. Gas Company's FREE DRESDEN ART PLATES, Free With Any N" GAS RANGE ORDERED NOW in Comfort and get the the Bargain. apolis Gas Co. nsylvania Street. Next Suit at DMAN'S B. W. Cor. Alabama and Washington. PAYMENTS OF PER WEEK. Arriving Daily. National Bank TES DEPOSITORY - - $ 500,000.00 Profits - $220,000.00 - - - $6,400,000.00 FICERS: ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, F. PATTERSON, Cashier. Business. Your Account Solicited. us Treatment. BOXES FOR RENT. Excursion, JUNE 28th, and Return $2 n Leaves 7:00 a. m. Sunday, June 28th. BOUND TRIP DECATUR $1.50 HUME $1.25 BLOOMINGDALE $1.00 Special train leaves 7 a. m. Returning leaves Decatur 6:30 p. m. ENGRAVING PRICES RIGHT GRAVING & ELECT. CO. TION THE (REEMAN) INDIANAPOLIS IND. The Freeman. Hadley Bros., 755-757 Indiana Avenue. Near St. Clair St. Indianapolis. J. WALTER HODGE BOTH PHONES 1173. 536 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis Ind.