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YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DURING YOUR VACATION REPRESENTING THE FREEMAN. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE SEND FOR OUR EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENT THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXI NUMBER 27 MANAGERS OF THE PARTY WANT SOBERADVICE All Sore Spots Will Be Healed When the Work Is Assigned Death of Dr. Furman J. Shadd of Howard University. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1.—Considerable mispreception seems to have been developed here and elsewhere with reference to the "steering committee" of prominent colored men, named at a dinner held by Dr. Furman J. Shadd of Howard University. Much stress is being laid upon the formation of the committee by certain ant-administration organs. An impression of bad behavior with a lack of admissiveness that a permanent arrangement is on foot, whereby the campaign work among the colored voters will be conducted as an annex to the general campaign machinery with the Negro members of the "steering" committee as a sort of "lim crow" department of the Republican machinery to "round up" the colored vote for the Taft and Sherman ticket. The Taft and Sherman ticket has been exposed by members of the committee now in Washington, and the studied effort to array the Negro leaders in opposing cars to who shall be chosen as chairmen of the committee, in addition to those in disastrous failure. The Washington Post, aided and abetted by the Herald, seems particularly anxious to stir up strife between the white and colored members of the Negro leadership seeds of jealousy and fractional discord among the Negro leaders themselves. This policy is also yielding no fruit, if the corral meetings of the so-called "Black Gray" for lunchroom and friendly discussion of issues are taken into account. --- the Secretary Taft ceased to be the head of the Department at high noon, December 10. Gen. Luke E. Wright, of Missouri, is his successor, and he is the major of the head of the department, Springs, Va. Mr. Fred W. Peters, trusted secretary, accompanies him after a few days of service, and in addition serves as secretary to the President when March 16 shall enter the White House. He accept nothing that he himself has administered, preferring to embark not on a business career; but his friends not only have him retire from life, and it will not one if he be precluded upon to take a seat at President Taft's Cabinet table. Grand Master W. W. Houston is working connection with the office of the commission which he appointed to secrete. rates for the delegates to the B. M. C. in Atlantic City in September. He expects the delegates to the meeting, and is satisfied they have 5,000 more persons, members and friends in order, will take advantage of the rates to attend the meeting and to pay a pleasant fee. He seaside the pageantry of the Patriarchies, from 3,000 to 5,000 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will be in line, bids fair to be the most brilliant spectacle ever witnessed in such a demonstration made by the colored people in this country. Dr. Furman J. Shadd, one of the leading physicians in the land, for thirty-two years committed with a demonstration made of Howard University, died last Wednesday morning as the result of a breakdown of fitness covered a period of two years, the mentorship of Bermuda and many health resorts proved unavailing in his effort to a revitalizing four years high standing of the Howz Medical School and to his capable and energetic management, and hundreds of poor boys whom he has assisted to graduate owe their success in the course of the race to be pursued by Dr. Shadd in permitting them to go out, depending on their honor to pay the school the balance due on their tui-ness the race is all too poor in uplifting agencies like Dr. Shadd, and he will be missed. The invitation sent out in sensational style by Editor Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, offering an open door to the Negro in the Democratic incarnation, the measured attention on the part of whites and blacks. It came as a surprise, in view of the recent anti-Negro declarations of individual incarcerations the measured attitude of Tillman Heffin, Vardaman attitude of Sharp Williams in opposition to the participation of colored men in politics, to say nothing of Mr. Bryan's own indorsement of the race, and Vardaman's argument put forth by Mr. Bryan that the Negro should cease to dwell upon issues between the races, when it is to his advantage to confront the respective parties and divide on such questions as the tariff, railroad regulation, currency legislation, etc. Mr. Bryan's utterances have been so fully realized in the summary is needed here. Discussing the novel change of front of Messrs. Watterson and Bryan, a prominent churchman—an erstwhile, anti-Taft man, too, by the SET OFF. DEM. CAMPAIGN REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. Uncle Sam—“It’s pretty hard to tell which one of these things will make the most noise.” Haiti and finished at Wilberforce University, in this country. Upon entering the ministry he was placed in charge of a new department, and in 1889 was sent to Washington as secretary of the Haitian flag. He resigned to accept a charge at Baltimore, and since then he has been identified with the work of Methodism in the Monumental City. He comes to Washington under pleasing auspices, and the financial headquarters will be a popular endeavor under his whole-souled landlordship. Bailey; “Our Hope in Education,” Mr. J. F. Bundy; “The True Patriot,” Hon. W. T. Vernon; “Our Culture in English,” Moore of York; “The Gospel of the Almighty,” J. M. Fraction; “Washington School Products,” H. G. Douglass; “The Mission of the Educated Man,” Prof. Kelly Curtis; “Ethical Culture,” Rev. Sterling N. Brown. The committee in charge of the elaborate function was made up of M. Graham Lucas, chrisman; J. Thomas H. N. E. Wetherless, philanthropist; J. E. W. Washington, R. A. Gillem. PEORIA, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Stephen Bailey is traveling three Kentucky and southern states to National Cooperage Company. He is the central city of the state, has a population of about 85,000, of which 3,500 colonies have the number of the coeduition have their membership in Methodist and Baptist churches... Woman’s Aid Club gave their annual break June 15, 2018. The home of Ockedoo. --- Rev. George W. Lee, one of the best known Baptist ministers in the country, was united in marriage last Wednesday to Mrs. Roberta Whiting of Falls Church, New York, and served with Rev. M. W. D. Norman, of the Metropolitan Baptist Church. The bride and groom spent a brief honeymoon at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and then dered a public reception at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, of which Dr. Lee has been pastor for many years. Rev. W. A. S. Wright, a graduate of King Hall, Howard University, was ordained a deacon in St. Luke's P. E. Church, last Sunday morning, the ordination ceremonies being conducted by Bishop William H. H. H. The ordination sermon was delivered by Rev. Alfred Harding, rector of St. Paul's P. E. Church. Willis M. Menard, son of Mr. W. T. Menard, the brilliant journalist, was awarded two prizes at the recent commencement exercises of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass, winning second prize and second in rhetoric for the junior class. As a merited compliment to his successful labors through the year of his administration as assistant superintendent of training, training, and representative citizens united, in kending Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce a magnificent banquet last Wednesday evening at the Masonic Hall, 1111 Ninetenth Street, N. W. 12th Avenue, New York, NY. Doctors, journalists, ministers, Federal officials and business men engaged in every branch of commercial enterprise, Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, the Board of Education, were specially invited guests. Other prominent persons present were Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. W. Tunnell, Prof. J. Moore, Dr. C. W. Murray, Prof. J. Moore, Dr. C. Murtis, Judge Robert H. Terrell, H. C. Tyson, Grand Master W. L. Houston, R. W. Thompson; Prof. A. O. Stafford of York, Dr. Walter H. Brooks of York, Dr. Walter H. Brooks of Daltimore; H. P. Slaughter, Dr. H. L. Bailey, George D. Haley, Denile H. Galley, D. Douglas, Rev. Sterling N. Brown, J. M. Fraction, Rev. Sterling N. Brown, J. M. Fraction, W. Bruce Evans, of the Armstrong Technical High School, was an admirable toastmaster. The toasts included the following: "The Mining of High Ideals," Robert H. Terrell; "The True Pedagogue," Dr. H. L. Bailey, "Our Hope in Education," Mr. J. F. Bundy; "The True Patriot," Hon. W. J. Vernon; "Our Culture in English," George D. Jenifer; "The Power of Personality," Fraction "Washington Gel Products," Fraction "Douglas Mission of the Educated Man," Prof. Kelly Miller; "The True Gentleman," Dr. A. M. Curtis; "Ethical Culture," Rev. Sterling N. Brown; the committee in charge of the Education, the chair of Grant Lucas, chairman. C. M. Thomas, A. H. Glenn. N. E. Wetherless, Smith Wormley, J. E. Washington, R. A. Gillem, A. C. Newman and Henry Jones. Superintendent Bruce's response to felicitous letters andholloverfort, and added to his laurels as an orator of the true Harvard type. --- The Amphion Glee Club, which has just passed its sixteenth anniversary, took occasion to celebrate the occasion, Wednesday evening, by installing its newly elected officers and the factors that have been identified with the club in the sixteen years of its existence. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, the founder and manager throughout this period, presided over the inauguration of the sucinct account of the purposes, progress and achievements of the Amphions, and set a warm pace for the remaining speakers. District has more friendly and has won such a standing socially as the Amphions, with their gentlemanly bearing, clean entertainments and silver voices. They have entertained, and have kept abreast of the times in the quality and character of their music, singing before Presidents, Cabinet officers, members of both houses of Congress, secretary, bishop, manors of the wealthiest citizens. The following officers were installed with appropriate ceremonies: President, J. H. Washington; vice president, George H. Jefferson; secretary, bishop, librarian, I. T. Hardy; manager and musical director, J. Henry Lewis. A toothsome banquet was then served in Caterer Walker's best style. The menu was as follows: Toasts were responded to in this order: "The Amphibians and the Press," R. W. Thompson; "The Amphibians as I Recall Them," C. H. Deans; "The Amphibians and the Amphibians as I Recall Them," William H. Carter, Jr.; "Auld Lang Syne," J. Henry Lewis. Covers were laid for forty, and the exercises were interspersed with choice selections by the Amphion Glee Club. Almost all the reminiscent refrains. The affair was held at Walker's spacious and well-appointed cafe, 3024 M st., Georgetown. R. W. THOMPSON. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. PEORIA. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. TEACHERS HOLD SESSION NOTED EDUCATORS FROM ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY SPLENDID PROGRAM AT EVERY SESSION Welcome Addresses by Mayor And Others-Reception and Trip to Mammoth Cave End Grand Meeting. Special to THE FREEMAN. SCHOOL REEMAN. LOUISVILLE, July 1—The fifth annual session of the National Teachers' Association convened here last week at the Male High School (white), with about 100 teachers present from all parts of the country. The program includes on its roster some of the most noted colored educators in this country, and many of them were present and added to the opening session was the address of President J. R. E. Lee, of Tuskegee, Ala., and director of the academic department of the school. Welcome addresses were made by Mayor James F. Grinstead, Superintendent E. H. Mark, the Rev. John H. Frank, and the Rev. Robert H. Williams. Responses were made by B. F. Allen and William Pickens, of Talladoga, Ala. Pupils of the various colored schools participated in the program the first day, and the exhibition was on this day, ment was thrown open on this day and remained open throughout the session. A magnificent program was given the first day of the exhibition was a feature of the evening's program. The second day's session was called to order by Prof. J. R. E. Lee. The gatherer was to be a red letter day. "How to Increase Interest in Rural Districts" was the principal topic of discussion. Principalists of the School in discussions, Lawyer T. C. Walker of Gladstone Va., told of the improvement organizations that had been organized in his county to aid in prolonging school terms. Prof. J. A. Martin, of Jackson, Miss., spoke on observations of the schools in his State. Prof. S. O. Johnson, of Louisville, said that the Negro in that section had determined not to go without an education. He said that the colored people of his State had made it their pride to help the children of the community at heart, so was given heathy food and that Alabama was not behind in educating the Negro in rural districts. Prof. S. O. Johnson, of Covington, Ky., spoke for this State, of the State of Huntington, W. Reported that his State was eral in educating the Negro. Prof. W. T. B. Williams, of Hampton, Va., J. B. Dudley, of North Carolina, and I. E. Page, of among the other interesting speakers. The night session was largely attended. Musical choruses were given by the Cen- tral musicians, the lamps of Hampton, Va., was one of the leading speakers. He is general field agent of the John F. Slater fund. He was the first to win both races in the South, where the Slater fund had given aid. He spoke of the awakening along educational lines in all countries. The motors of the Slater fund were continually looking into conditions where education was needed. He pointed out that Ala- naz was the first to have had been benefited by the Slater fund. Prof. William Pickens, of Talledega, Ala. closed the program. He spoke on the importance of education in the school education." His address was the gem of the meeting. None was more highly appreciated. He reasoned out the necessity of the mind being highly educated and that the need for a high level of triennial education of the hand. His peroration was subline and he was accorded much applause. Dr. Lucy Moten, of Washougal, taught the schools of her city. She was also loudly applauded. Her grace and dignity stood out prominently while speaking. Prof. W. G. Frost, president of Prof. W. G. Frost, president of the Berea College. He said that teaching was among the most helpful of all professions, yet the most poorly paid. He took up the position of the school's high tribute to John G. Fee, founder of the school. He spoke of the origin of the "Day bill, which now prohibits the coercion of students, and said that the it came under the Legislature he was opposed to. He said that Andrew Carnegie gave $200,000 on condition that the people of Kentucky raise $000,000. He had pledged $340,000. Prof. Frost told of the aims he had in view for the new Berea College. Prof. F. L. Williams of Covington, Ky., a graduate of the school, spoke on the subject during the discussion. He contended that it was through Prof. Frost that he unduly influenced white students to believe that education was the only place to get a liberal education angered whites of the State and culminated in the enactment of the Berea Act. Miss Essie Dorch read a fine paper on "Kindergarten a Most Important Link in the Chain of Education." Prof. I. E. Page, of Langston, Okla., spoke on The Berea College. He said the number of other addresses made by the leading educators who were present at the meeting. A new constitution was passed in 1915, and the number of other addresses was devoted to hearing a lengthy paper by Prof. E. L. Blackshear, of Prairie Continued on Page Four. IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. BY "DOROTHY" This column is devoted to the interests of a woman and their organizations also. Address all communications to Dorothy, The Freeman Indianapolis, Ind. THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK. There is no standing still in life—we are either growing better or worse. If you are looking for the gloomy things you will be pretty sure to find them. But if you are looking for the brightening things you will also be sure of finding them. Try and see the best that is in people. Every one has some good qualities if you take the trouble to look for them. Happy thoughts are worth cherishing. He who remembers a kindness done to him is happier far than he who treasures up his grievances. We should train ourselves to see the bright things in life. There are in the ordinary life a thousand pleasant things to one that is unpleasant. Courtesy is a quality of the heart, and suggests a forgetfulness of self, a remembrance of deceased friends, and prompts the charming act as impulse. TO HELP NEEDY WOMEN. The board of directors of the Woman's League of New York State has announced that it has decided to undertake a campaign to encourage women in this State who are out of work and facing destitution. It proposes to set aside August 15 as "prosperity day," and to urge influential employees of the organization to employ on or before that date. KEEP BUSY. There would be fewer empty hearts if there were more, occupied minds and less restless mind. There would be mind are restless when they have nothing to do. Keep busy; exercise; stir around. Activity is the law of the universe. Exercise is the law of its daily exercise and turn itself about. BIRTHDAY PINS. Instead of giving your women friends jewelry into which is introduced the birthstone, now is to give them sterling silver pins on which are enameled the representative flower of their mount. In January, these flowers are as follows: The snowdrop, pink, violet, daisy, lily of the valley, wild rose, pond hyacinth, taupe, cosmos, chrysanthemum and holly. WOULD SLAY ALL PUG DOG. "I sometimes think it were well if an angel would fly over the land and kill all pug dogs in it," declared the Rev, Samuel Edward Herring, in a sensational address in the Lutheran Church at Loganville, Pa., recently. His subject was "The Model Woman," and he denounced the woman who substitutes dogs for children. EASY WAY TO CLEAN SILVER. Some one has discovered a new way of cleaning silver that is so easy it sounds ridiculous. Nevertheless it works "like a charm." The whole secret lies in the fact that an aluminum pan is used. Place the silver in water in an aluminum pan, pour it over the silver for a few minutes. Dry the silver with a fine towel and it will be as bright as new. GIVEN AWAY BY MOTHER. A bride the other day was escorted up the channel by her father, but given away by her mother. It is quite a new idea for things to be managed in this way. As a rule, the nearest masculine connection or intimate friend gives away the bride; but it seems more suitable and far more sentimental for the mother to perform the pretty little ceremony of handing over the chivalrous protection of her husband. CHURCH MEMBERS MUST NOT EVER DANCE AGAIN. A strict ban has been placed on dancing by the First Baptist Church at Kittaning, Pa., of which the Rev. P. S. Calvin is pastor. A resolution adopted deed of the church growth of the Christian graces, and issues warning that any member of the church who continues to dance after due admonition will be dropped from the church robe. The action was taken by the official board and indorsed by the congregation. DOG JUMPS FOR BIG HAT. A bulldog belonging to a Mexican student at Cornell, jumped from the third floor of the building to the third floor at Ibna, N. Y., at a Merry Widow hat which he saw on the other side of the street and was saved from death by striking on anawning. The hat was seated on the window sill when a pronounced blonde walked by wearing a hat larger than the largest tray of the hat. On this city street, a bulldog crouched on his haunches, growled, and made one long dive. He struck the awning and lit on his feet unharmed. The awning will cost his own money. SWIMMING PARTIES JUST LIKE DANCES. Swimming parties are the real swagger thing in high society circles in Columbus just now. There is no bathing beach at the resort, but the aquarium is utilized. On the hot afternoons the young men call up their young women friends and invite them to go swimming. The suits hurriedly provided and a swimming party is then held. Plans are being made for a big swimming party at the resort. The various "swims" will be taken the same as dances at a ball. The grand march is said to be something great, as the bathers parade around the pool to the various "What Are the Wild Waves Saying?" TRAITS HEREDITARY. Drs. Heymans and Wiersma have concluded their investigations on the possible effects of the father's mental abilities, and announce as the result the father's traits predominate in children, particularly in male children. Twenty years and 3,000 physicians in all parts of the Netherlands dominions, colonies included, worked hand in hand with Heymans and Wiersma, and giving them the benefit of their personal investigations. Here follow some extracts from the report, which is soon to be published. "Logic-The ability to think logically and to formulate thoughts and express them in a convincing manner is almost impossible," Drs. Heymans and Wiersma too indolent to make use of their talents. As to mothers: Mothers scientifically include all other mental pursuits upon their sons, who are unusually bright, having a peculiar aptitude for study. The girls do not love their mother's wisdom or love of wisdom. "A good-natured father, a man with fine sentiments, will have sons equally in a mother and their characteristics in a mother are not inherited. "If the father is inclined to crime or to weaknesses of any sort, both his sons and daughters are liable to inherit these traits, and the sons suffer from melancholia, epilepsy and mental unbalance, ninety transferred these stigmata to their offspring. The mother will have to spar with the children, will have and daughters equally inclined. It is very important that a mother be neat and clean in every way as any deficiency in that way will affect the children. The mother transfers upon children, of both sexes any artistic talent she may be possessed of; from the father the children will have the sense of honor and talent for writing. Of the sum of cases investigated only 2.2% of cases could be because inheritance, could not be traced. STREET USHERS NEXT. An outdoor usher service in Fifth avenue at New York is one of the many things to be considered by the association that thoroughfare and who have organized for its betterment. When this notion becomes a fact there will be at every corner of the city a usher to the trolman, to hold up the carriages periodically, making passage safe for pedestrians, but the uniformed usher to render uniform woman or the child who needs it and it will be that usher's business to know everything there is to know as to the needs of the churches and hotels and to impart the information to anybody who asks for it. LET WOMEN LEARN. That late hours are a frequent cause of the appearance of premature wrinkles. That if we took the trouble occasionally to "count our mercies" most of us would find that we have more to be thankful for than to grumble at. That absence of occupation is not rest. That you can not expect admiration if you never take any trouble to deserve it. That if you really care for a person you will not say unkind things to, or of him. That personal remarks are seldom in good taste. That when you meet a friend and say to her, "How poorly you are looking!" it is by no means paying her a compliment. That your children will not love you a bit less for your firmness in saying "no" at the right moment. Blind women are now employed as operative private telephone switchboards and for taking dictation on shorthand typewriters. The women of Stamford and Greenwich, Conn., are wearing men's half hose and men's garters, not as a fad, but because they found them more comfortable. DANGER IN SILK SKIRT. "The swish of a silk petticoat around their heels has led a silk girls to destruction than anything else," said Mrs. Dan Wan, a senior executive in the Union League of St. Louis. "It is not the appearance they care for, it is the pleasure they take in hearing the rustic." As a result of Mrs. Kneller's views the league will wage a campaign to do away with the silk petticoat. The officers say that a deaf girl, not being able to hear the sound of the garment, care for such material in her wardrobe. Mrs. Kneller continued in explaining the new war: "Women have gone silk in the war. The poor girl to buy the half-worn-out petticoat at the rummage sale. She delights in the swish, although the garment may be in rags. The present renders her liable to two different points of attack—extravagance and the suspicion which a man naturally will entertain toward a girl wearing a silk petticoat." The poor girl ford. And there is the girl who does not withstand the allurements of luxury. The trouble with the social system is we must have higher standards. Standards are as wrong among the rich as among the poor. And we are losing our souls through love of luxury because we have not the moral courage to resist its temptation. WOMEN MUST ANSWER FOR DI- VORCE SPREAD. Anthony Comstock, secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, of New York, says that women have only themselves to blame for the excess of divorces in New York, particularly of New York city, he said: "There is that unyielding spirit too much evident here; that nagging which is driving men and women out of their homes, and that other to-day right in their own homes. "Many men in New York are under tremendous pressure all day long. When they come home they see women and other men not allowed to have it. Home is an aggravation; not a place for retreat from care. If men can't get rest at home, they will get it somewhere else. And so New York women and others also have this home country of ours and only themselves to blame. "I am not shielding the men at all, but the women must bear their share of the burden. A woman who occupies an excellent position in society, the wife of a physician who has an excellent practice, came to me and between sobs told me how her sister was going into her home for the purpose of ruining them. What shall we say to that?" Comstock then switched to the race-tracks and gambling. "I wouldn't for anything stand," he said, weighing each word, "in the place of a man who has voted against the recent racetrack bills. "EVERY ADVERSE INSTANCE ASLEEP. "We racetrack where betting was permitted violated the common law. The bookmakers could have been indicted as common gamblers. But who had the nerve to do it? The constitution of the New York was being flagrantly violated. "We tried to reach the Governors, but of what use was it? They paid no attention to the violations of the sentiment was dead, and greed for gain ran rampant. >The religious papers were as silent as oysters, and the prisoners were spiked by indifference, and professing Christian men seemed to be extremely unwilling to attack this form of immorality and dishonesty. "WOMEN GAMBLERS DENOUNCED. "And women gambled. Women in fashionable attire got to frequenting the racetracks in order to bet with common gam- blers. It was no unusual sight t osee a gambler or tout obsequiously waiting beate the carriagemen—ludgers of our own best society—to accommodate this spirit to gamble, this getting of another's money without rendering a fair qualifier for it. AMERICAN WOMEN. A noted Irish wit and playwright gives his opinion of American women in a pub, where he was a member. "The American woman really dresses very well; perhaps better than any other woman I know. You have the French woman, whose dressing is wose than that of the English woman, and looks like a human being. The English woman dresses better than the French woman, and the American better than the English." "You see, what is the matter with the American at the present time is that he or she is always loaded up with whole cartolets of stale ideas of Europe and England. American come over to see they are American, and they bring with them a dreadful sort of thing that they call intellectual equipment, while really they have only a cartoon of reading. They come and reckon that of the English they write thirty years ago when I was a young man, and they have their minds so full of these things that it is very hard to get at anything original. It is only because of their minds with other people's ideas. "The English woman never reads anything. She is not capable of playing with ideas. She amuses herself sometimes by pretending to be herself and sometimes with things that belong to herself and her children. Her tastes, and consequently anything she has to say, are her own. But the American woman is not a person who has a heap of second-hand goods in her head, which she piles up on top of you. You want to say: "These are the things I sold you second-hand ever so long ago. Do you want to buy a new pair of jeans like?" What will the American be like when the race is completely realized? One notices among the men a return to the Indian type. The climate is producing the weather it actually is. It's actually true that when several Americans go out in a party they walk in single file instead of abreast as they do in this country. It is quite interesting to see you. You don't see the American woman returning to the type of the squaw." 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This toilet article is as much a necessity to having straight hair as it is to one whose hair is curly, for it is an indisputable fact that every lady should bathe the hair at regular intervals, and when the long-time drying process is eliminated she will not hesitate as much to keep the scalp and hair clean by bathing. ```markdown ``` Straighten Your Hair EDDYVILLE, NY DRAAM GRAH - I have my your pomade and it is simply straightened my hair and is better than anything I ever used. MARY GRAH Dear SIRS--Please see New Orleans, in receipt of $5.00, one bottle of water, good hospitality from falling out and made easy to ecomb. Mrs. LILLY FORT 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. 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The proof of the value of our work is that we are being imitated and have grown the hair for hundreds, readily sew finger length and my temples were bald half way up my head, the value of our work is that we are being imitated and we have actually grown and the further foot that they have very frequently mentioned us when trying to sell their goods (saying that "their is the same" or "just as good.") or refer to "PORO." We advise you to use only "PORO"! Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind) See that the name "PORO" is on every box, and TIONS, Cell, or Address Mail to 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 they smell or dust as good.) prefer to "FORO." We advise you to use only "FORO" Hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind) See that the name "FORO" 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, BELL PHONE, BOMONT 8100. Robt. R. Baron, Bicycles & Hardware BICYCLE REPAIRING Paints, Tinware, General Repair Shop. Tires put on Go Carts, Etc. 335 Indiana Axenue. New Phone 5407. 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. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO, 2228 MARKET ST. ST. LOUIS MO BELL PHONE. BOMONT 8109. Paints, Tinware, General Repair Shop. Tires put on Go Carts. Etc. 335 Indiana Axenue. - - - - New Phone 5407. ing the bar amad re-attached when re-used for use. When ready, you use the bar amad to hold it when convenient, making pressure the bar upon it only, when deasuring it. With the Shampoo Drier the hair can be dried and arranged in thirty (30) minutes. "The use of the "Drier, properly 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 unsightly appearance, have made ladies feel sensitive and suspicious of all such devices, but from the many testimonials received from satisfied users, we can without fear give a guarantee of satisfaction." The "Drier" has been pronounced patent experts to be the most practical hair drier and straightener upon the market, combined with extraordinary merit. It should have a ready sale every And no lady need be embarrassed or over sensitive in acquainting any other lady its merits, 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 look of every other lady, if one will speak of the merits of the Magic Shampoo Hair We have sold the Magic Shampoo Drier to some of the foremost ladies of this country, and they are in evidence in every State of the Union and Canada. Take this circular to your drug store. Store the store and ask for the Request them to get one for you. They will be glad to get them for you and your When the Drier is once used it will never be abandoned or laid aside, for no lady's toilet is complete without it, and no woman's toilet is complete without it, in the appearance of her crowning beauty. If they cannot accommodate you, you us direct, and send us one P.O. Box 1000, New York, NY, certified or registered letter, and we will mail you. Agents are wanted in every city. The combs are aluminum, four and one-half inches long, with teeth one inch long, which fits into a receptacle on the bar and one-inch square, with a four-inch wooden handle. 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[CONTINUED.] But he made no answer, and they drove away to the Belwether house, a rather wide, old style mansion of brown stone, with a stoop dividing its ugly facade, and a series of unnecessary glass doors blockading the vestibule. A drawing room and a reception room flanked the marble tiled hall. Behind these the dining room ran the width of the rear. There were half a dozen people there lounging informally between the living room on the second floor and Sylvia's apartments in the rear—the residue from a luncheon and bridge party given that afternoon by Sylvia to a score or so of card-mad women. A few of these she had asked to remain for an informal dinner and a desperate game later—the sort of people she knew well enough to lose to heavily or win from without remorse—Grace Ferrall, Marion Page, Agatha Caithness. Trusting to the telephone that morning, she had secured the Mortimers and Quarrier, falling three men, and now the party, with Plank as Mortimer's substitute, was complete, all thorough gamesters—sex mattering nothing in the preparation. In Sylvia's boudoir Grace Ferrall and Agatha Caithness sat before the fire; Sylvia, at the mirror of her dresser, was correcting the pallor incident to the unbroken dissipation of a brilliant season; Marion, with her inevitable cigarette, wandered between Sylvia's quarters and the library, where Quarrier and Major Belwether were sitting in low voiced confab. Lella, greeted gayly from the boudoir, wqnt in. Plank entered the library, was mauled effusively by the major, returned Quarrier's firm hand shake and sat down with an inquiring smile. "Oh, yes, we're out for blood tonight," tittered Major Belwether, grasping Quarrier's arm humorously and shaking it to emphasize his words—a habit that Quarrier thoroughly disliked. "Sylvia had a lot of women here playing for the season score, so I suggested she keep the pick of them for dinner and call in a few choice ones to make a night of it." "It's agreeable to me," said Plank, still looking at Quarrier with the same inquiring expression, which that gentleman presently chose to understand. "I haven't had a chance to look into that matter," he said carelessly. "Some day when you have time to go over it." "I have time now," said Plank. "There's nothing to go over. There's no reason for any secrecy. All I wrote you was that I proposed to control the stock of Amalgamated Electric and that I wished your advice in the matter." "I could not give you any advice offhand on such an extraordinary suggestion." returned Quarrier coldly. "If you know where the stock is you'll understand." "Do you mean what it is quoted at or who owns it?" interrupted Plank. "Who owns it. Everybody knows where it has dropped to. I suppose. Most people know, too, where it is held." "Yes, I do." "And who is manipulating it." added Quarrier indifferently. "Do you mean Harrington's people?" "I don't mean anybody in particular, Mr. Plank." "Oh!" said Plank, staring. "I was sure you couldn't have meant Harrington, because," he went on deliberately, "there are other theories noaring about that mysterious pool, one of which I've proved." Quarrier looked at him out of his velvet lidded eyes. "What have you proved?" "I'll tell you if you'll appoint an interview." "I'll come, too," began Belwether, who had been listening, loose mouthed and intent. "We're all in it—Howard, Kemp Ferrall and I" "And Stephen Slward," observed Plank, so quietly that Quarrier never even raised his eyes to read the stolid face opposite. Presently he said: "Do you know anybody who can deliver you any considerable block of Amalgamated Electric at the market figures?" "I could deliver you several blocks, if you care to bid," said Plank bluntly. Belwether grew red, then pale. Quarrier stiffened in his chalr, but his eyes were only skeptical. Plank's under lip had begun to protrude again. He swung his massive head, looking from Belwether back to Quarrier. MILTON J. OWEN "Pool or no pool," he continued, "you Amalgamated people will want to see the stock climb back into the branches from which somebody shook it out, and I propose to put "I could deliver you several blocks if you care to bid," said Plank bluntly. The branches from which somebody shook it out, and I propose to put it there. That is all I had meant to say to you, Mr. Quarrier. I'm not averse to saying it here to you, and I do. There's no secrecy about it. Figure it out for yourself how much stock I control and who let it go. Settle your family questions and put your house in order, then invite me to call and I'll do it. And I have an idea that we are going to stand on our own legs again and recover our self respect and our fighting capacity, and I rather think we'll stop this holdup business and that our Intercounty friend will let go the sand bag and pocket the jimmy and talk business across the line fence." Quarrier's characteristic pallor was no index to his feelings, nor was his icy reticence. All hell might be boiling below. When anybody gave Quarrier a letter to read he took a long time reading it, but if he was slow he was also minute. He went over every word again and again, studying, absorbing each letter, each period, the conformation of every word. And when he ended he had in his brain a photograph of the letter which he would never forget. And now, slowly, minutely, methodically, he was going over and over Plank's words, and his manner of saying them, and their import, and the hidden one, if any. If Plank had spoken the truth—and there was no reason to doubt it—Plank had quietly acquired a controlling interest in Amalgamated Electric. That meant treachery in somebody. Who? Probably Siward, perhaps Belwether. He would not look at the latter just yet; not for a minute or two. There was time enough to see through that withered, pink and white old fraud. But why had Plank done this? And why did Plank suspect him of any desire to wreck his own property? He did suspect him, that was certain. After a silence he spoke quietly and without emotion; "Everybody concerned will be glad to see Amalgamated Electric declaring dividends. This is a shock to us," he glanced impassively at the shrunken major, "but a pleasant shock. I think it well to arrange a meeting as soon as possible." "Tomorrow," said Plank, with a manner of closing discussion. And in his brusque ending of the matter Quarrier detected the ringing undertone of an authority he never had and never would endure. If Plank suspected him, he must also suspect him of complicity in the Intercounty grab. He must suspect him of the ruthless crushing power that corrupts or annihilates opposition, making a mockery of legislation, a jest of the courts and an epigram of a people's indignation. As Quarrier sat there meditating, his long white fingers caressing his soft, pointed beard, Sylvia came in, greeting the men collectively with a nod and offering her hand to Plank. "Dinner is announced," she said. "Please go in farm fashion. Wait!" as Plank, following the major and Quarrier, stood aside for her to pass. "No, you go ahead, Howard, and you," to the major. Left for a moment in the room with Plank, she stood listening to the others descending the stairs, then: "Have you seen Mr. Slward?" "Yes," said Plank. "Oh! Is he well?" "Not very." "Is he well enough to read a letter and to answer one?" "Oh, yes; he's well enough in that way." "I supposed so. That is why I said to you, over the wire, not to trouble him with my request." "You mean that I am not to say anything about your offer to buy the hunter?" "No. If I make up my mind that I want the horse I'll write him—perhaps." Lingering still, she let one hand fall on the banisters, turning back toward Plank, who was following. "I understood you to mean that—that Mr. Sisward's financial affairs were anything but satisfactory?"—the sweet, trailing, upward inflection making it a question. "When did I say that?" demanded Plank. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "I didn't" said Plank bluntly. "Oh, I had inferred it, then, from something you said or something you were silent about. Is that it?" "I don't know." "Am I quite wrong then?" she asked, looking him in the eyes. And Plank, who never lied, found no answer. Considering him for a moment in silence, she turned again and descended the stairs. The dinner was one of those thoroughly well chosen dinners of few courses and faultless service suitable for card players, who neither care to stuff themselves as a preliminary to a battle royal nor to dawdle through courses, eliminating for themselves what is not good for them. The men drank a light, sound, aromatic Irish of the major's; the women—except Marion, who took what the men took—used claret sparingly. Coffee was served where they sat; the men smoking, Agatha and Marion producing their own cigarettes. "Good people, if you are ready we will go through the ceremony of cutting for partners—unless otherwise you decide. How say you?" said Sylvia. "I don't care to enter the scramble for a man," crled Grace. "If it's to choose, I'd as soon choose Marion." Plank looked at Lella, who laughed. "All right; choose, then," said Sylvia. "Howard, you're dying, of course, to play with me, but you're looking very guiltily at Agatha." The major asked Lella at once, Plank fell to Sylvia, pitted against Marion and Grace Ferrall. A few moments later the quiet of the library was broken by the butler entering with decanters and ice and glasses that tinkled frostily. Play began at table No. 1 on a passed make of no trumps by Sylvia, and at the other table on a doubled and red-doubled heart make, which sent a delicate fush into Agatha's face and drove the last vestige of lingering thoughtfulness from Quarrier's, leaving it a tense, pallid and expressionless mask, out of which looked the velvet fringed eyes of a woman. Of all the faces there at the two tables Sylvia's alone had not changed, neither assuming the gambler's mask nor the infatuated glare of the amateur. She was thoughtful, excited, delighted or dismayed by turns, but always wholesomely so, the game for its own sake and not the stakes absorbing her, partly because she had never permitted herself to weigh money and pleasure in the same balance, but kept a mental pair of scales for each. As usual, the fever of gain was fiercest in those who could afford to lose most. Quarrier, playing to rule with merciless precision, coldly exacted every penalty that a lapse in his opponents permitted. Agatha, her teeth set in her nether lip, her eyes like living jewels, answered Quarrier's every signal, interpreted every sign, her play fitting in exactly with his, as though she were his subconscious self balancing the perfectly adjusted mechanism of his body and mind. Now and then lifting her eyes she sent a long, limpid glance at Quarrier like a pale shaft of light, and under his heavy fringed lashes at moments his level gaze encountered hers with a slow narrowing of lids as though there was more than one game in progress, more than one stake being played for under the dull rose glow of the clustered lights. The collar of diamonds and aquarines shimmered like the reflection of shadowy lightning across her throat. A single splendid jewel glowed on her left hand as her fingers flashed among the cards for the makeup. "A hundred aces," broke in Plank's heavy voice as he played the last trick and picked up the scoring card and pencil. Once Marion, overintent, touched a card in the dummy when she should have played from her own hand, and Sylvia would have let it pass had not Plank calmly noted the penalty. "Oh, dear! It's too much like business," sighed Sylvia. "Can't we play for the sake of the sport? I don't think it good sportsmanship to profit by a blunder." "Rule," observed Marion laconically. "Ware barbed wire if you want the brush." "I myself never was crazy for the brush," murmured Sylvia. Grace whispered maliciously, "But you've got it, with the mask and pads," and her mischievous head barely tipped backward in the direction of Quarrier. "Especially the mask," returned Sylvia under her breath and laid on the table the last card of a Yarborough. Toward midnight Sylvia, absorbed in her dummy, fancied she heard the electric bell ringing at the front door. Later, having barely made the add, she was turning to look at the major when, beyond him, she saw Leroy Mortimer enter the room, sullen, pasty skinned, but perfectly sober and well groomed. "You are a trifle late," observed Sylvia carelessly. Grace Ferrall and Marion ignored him. Plank bade him good evening in a low voice. The people at the other table, having completed their rubber, looked around at Mortimer in disagreeable surprise. "I'll cut in if you want me. If you don't, say so." observed Mortimer. It was plain that they did not, so he settled himself in an armchair with an ugly glance at his wife and an insolent one at Quarrier, and the game went on in silence. Lella and the major still losing heavily under the sneering gaze of Mortimer. At last, "Who's carrying you?" he broke out, exasperated, and in the shocked silence Lella, very white, made a movement to rise, but Quarrier laid his long finger across her arm, pressing her backward. "You don't know what you're saying," he remarked, looking coldly at Mortimer. Plank laid down his cards, rose and walked over to Mortimer. "May I have a word with you?" he asked bluntly. "You may. And I'll help myself to a word or two with you." retorted Mortimer, following Plank out of the room, down the stairs to the lighted reception room, where they wheeled, confronting one another. "What is the matter?" demanded Plank. "At the club they told me you were asleep in the card room. I didn't tell Lella. What is wrong?" "I'm—I'm dead broke," said Mortimer harshly. "Billy Fleetwood took my paper. Can you help me out? It's due tomorrow." Plank looked at him gravely, but made no answer. "Can you?" repeated Mortimer violently. "Haven't I done enough for you? Haven't I done enough for everybody? Is anybody going to show me any consideration? Look at Quarrier's manner to me just now! And this very day I did him a service that all his millions can't repay. And there you stand, too, staring at me as though I were some importing shabby genteel hinting around for an opening to touch you. Yes, you do! And this very day I have done for you the—the most vital thing—the most sacred favor one man can do for another"— He halted, stammered something in coherent, his battered eyes wet with tears. The man was a wreck—nerves, stamina, mind on the very verge of collapse. "I'll help you, of course," said Plank, eying him. "Go home now and sleep. I tell you I'll help you in the morning. Don't give way. Have you no grift? Pull up sharp, I tell you!" But Mortimer had fallen into a chair, his ravaged face cradled in his hands. He began to ramble and even to laugh weakly, passing his puffy, shaking hands across his eyes. "It's good of you, Beverly. I appreciate it. But I've been good to you. You're all to the good, my boy! Understand? All to the good. I fixed it. I did it for you. You can have your innings now. You can have her when you want her, I tell you." "What do you mean?" said Plank menacingly. "Mean! I mean what I told you that day at Black Fells, when we were riding. I told you you had a chance to win out. Now the chance has come—same's I told you. Start in, and by the time you're ready to say 'When? she'll be there with the bottle.' (Continued next week.) SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. We note that J. Thomas Heflin, representative of Alabama, and the author of the "Jim Crow" street car law, which was introduced into the Congress of the United States for the District of Columbia, will second the nomination of William J. Bryan for the presidency at the Denver convention. Now there are Negroes in this country who say they will vote for William J. Bryan whose nomination will be seconded by Representative Heflin and others rather than William Taft, whose nomination no doubt will be seconded by some Negro, and yet these Negroes will pose as leaders and expect the Negroes to follow them, but the Negroes are not going to follow any such false leaders.—The Mosaic Guide, Little Rock, Ark. The information, we presume, is correct. If so, those who have declared preference for Bryan in event certain men were nominated at Chicago will find themselves in a pretty fix. At this writing the Republican candidate for President has not been chosen. But it makes but very little difference. Mr. Heflin, it seems certain enough, will make a nominating speech or will second the nomination of Mr. Bryan. That fact being assured, will colored men see the result of rash conclusions and long before it is necessary to make conclusions? The Hon. Mr. Heflin demonstrated his love for the colored man—not that he felt that they should be cuffed about and shot up, for his action, we take it, was a "vigorous" resentment of what he considered a gross offense committed in the presence of ladies. He is known for his anti-Negro sentiment, belonging to the Tillman, Vardaman et al. class. This fact we think stronger than the act of assault, since it stands for the man, amounting to his principle, while the assault was an incident. The man and the incident coupled together make a very strong combination from the Negros' viewpoint. The question now arises, which condition do you prefer? Without carrying the discussion further one will readily see what a poor place a purely race question has in politics. The notion has been that respect could be threshed out, and to a reasonable extent it is true. But when the question resolves itself to whites versus blacks, and it wears some such phase, it is plain enough that the solution is not in political parties. That the solution should be in political parties, everything else being equal, is a safe proposition. But is everything else equal? There's the rub. The disadvantages under which the Negroes have labored in the past have not permitted the equality of opportunity. Beyond this are the other things that count so largely and which the race does not take sufficiently into account. In our effort to count for much we've forgotten to stand up a white man and a black man side by side with the object of taking an inventory. This inventory is the world's accumulated opinion of either, and as handed down from time to time. What history fails in saying is supplied from the lips of men. We often effect to be ignorant of the racial status in all the world. It is with reason, since every individual, every race hold to be at least as good as another individual or race. But why the deception? Nations are measured by their progress in the arts, sciences, by their engineering feats, their big buildings—in short, by their civilization. And in spite of us, "us" who have not done so much, we feel to concede something to the claim of superiority whether we will it or not. A confession of weakness? Not at all; the "superbest" strength. Men will not profit or prosper that have eyes and see not, ears and hear not. The tendency is to credit nations and individuals that do things. The Japanese are a distinctly yellow people, many of them are decidedly brown. In recent years they have come up, compelling respect by achievements. It will be said that the islanders carved out their place amid the nations by their successes on the battlefield. It is true as far as it goes. Had that country not awakened to the ways of advanced civilization years ago, it would have known no Port Arthur for the delight of the young Japanese in the schoolroom. The advance had been made on all lines, even unto the deadly science of war on water, on land, and which was impossible without an equal advance in most things. Perhaps the relation of ideas will not be at once seen, but it should be clear enough that the world "rages" over accomplishments. Color has always had influence, but it is modified by civilization. There are many more yellow peoples just as yellow as the Japanese. But who speaks of them? Say Japanese if you will, and the total world sits up and takes notice. It is very, very plain that the Negroes of the United States will have to get busy, and that quickly, doing greater things. By their fruits you shall know them is of Biblical writ. Can a thing be more true? And to make it fit closer yet, they shall be awarded as they yield. And, after all, man in his highest estate works right back to nature, yielding as true to the planting and culture as the insensate fields to the same. And what of that? * That it is the world's flat, whether to nature or to man, that as they sow they shall reap, making it imperative to do the things that count; to build buildings, to project a tunnel, make a bridge, construct a vessel, and to the other various and great work incident to this latter day civilization. Those nations that have done those things in the biggest way are the leading nations, both in the minds of men and in the ability to care for themselves, thus not only by their fruit are they known, but because of the fruit they enjoy an existence fairly exempt from the annoyances of those less diligent. These big, world-wide lessons ought to leave their impress for good. In fact, nothing much should be expected until the world's standards are approached. The ability to approach them is not a "cornered" affair; it is with the state, the people, the individual. Will the Negro race be influenced by the world-wide examples or still continue to tread the petty rounds of circumstance, hoping to enlarge into consequence through legislative acts and agitations? The flat is flung afar as the pillow of fire by night to guide onward through morass and mire unto the Canaan of man's earthly existence. Will it be heeded? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. There are those insisting that in the selection of Dr. J. L. Nuelson, a German, for Bishop by the recent General Conference of the M. E. Church, was the triumph of a principle. The German delegates held that they preferred a man of their own tongue, kith and kin to administer unto them; yet they did not care to have him elected as Bishop—this, perhaps, in the sense of modesty, saving against the idea of asking for so much. They wanted this man elected as a General Superintendent. Seemingly their "meek" position saved them; the Conference saw fit to make Dr. Nuelson a Bishop, and that at the earliest moment. The principle seems to be for the application to the needs of the Negro churches that are a part of the great connection. Dr. C. B. Mason, who received a very complimentary vote, hoped to be sustained along the lines essayed by the German delegates. He said his candidacy was based on that view—that he would have supervision of a special work over the Negro churches. However, it is not understood that the general Negro church had come to an understanding in the matter. At least, there was nothing of definite form, nothing to guarantee that such an arrangement was the expected or that it would be satisfactory. The thing of special Bishops for the Negro communicants is not a new question, but it has not approached the stage of settlement. When the mission idea was broached, and which would have called for Negro Bishops, or at least Superintendents, the matter was not caught up with any enthusiasm; consequently there was nothing to do but to declare all in the race that were willing to enter, a fair field and with no favor. The points of similarity are somewhat, in the cases of Dr. Nuelson and Dr. Mason, just enough to amount to a principle, scarcely more. The former, while standing for German constituents, a special people in a sense, was not hampered by race condition and color as in the case of Dr. Mason. We dare say he the general Negro church gotten together and asked for one of their kith and kin to oversee them we would have had, more than likely ere this, a Bishop Bowen, a Bishop Mason, either doing duty right in America as well as the one Negro Bishop. Scott, whose post is Africa. It is a matter that rests with the communicants. The Conference had nothing to reserve; there was no deception; colored men are put on their merits, and for favoritism as well as ability; they must compete with the field, and the field always recognizes fitness in all ways—meaning propriety and those things attended with the least amount of friction. The race problem, of course, is considered. Unfortunately, it enters everywhere; the church is not exempt. And how could it be when made up of the same people seen and known elsewhere? The door is open, however, to preferment—not in the way hoped, but much after the manner of most things done in the country under similar circumstances. 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Hntered at the posto ian Indvassocoudclearmation “fa nuanepons ‘All matter abvuld be addressed to THE FREEMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, New Phone 2SS0. GEORGE L, KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD ©. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908. ‘The Democratic party may not be Wooing the colored voters, but it is most excellent time for the business. Present but not voting will be the status of the six Filipino delegates to the Democratic National Convention at Denver. If in the course of human events Bryan should become President, it would be all right if he proved no worse than the late Grover Cleveland. “We are fast learning in every part of America that one cannot hold anoth- er man down in the ditch without remaining in the ditch with him.” Booker T. Washington. ‘The antiinjunction plank is what worries the Democratic platform mak- ers at Denver. The Republicans had the first say, speaking so effectively— well, so “strategically’—that the Democrats are fairly routed of their stronghold. “The Guardian,” of Boston, takes on awful about how it happened. It rages just like a heathen in spite of the fact that it is uttered from the classic shade of “Bosting,” being edited by a real Harvard man. The National Negro Business Men's League will be one more big meet- ing of the year void of politics. It ought to be really refreshing to those members who have also attended other meetings where politics got an inning. ; Prof. W. S. Scarborough, the well- known Greek scholar, is now at the head of Wilberforce University. He has been connected with the institu- tion for years and doubtless merited the promotion. The professor is scholarly and gentlemanly. By a vote of 57 to 15 the Philippine Assembly recently yoted for inde- pendence. it is not thought that an outbreak is impending. The vote is taken to mean that the Assembly stands convicted for independence, and also the people represented by the members. It was Rev. Dr. Rufus Stout, of the ©. M. E. Church, who said that what- Pever a people is found doing, it is indicative of their ability to do. Some of our communities should search themselves in order to know if what they are doing squares with the abil- ity to do. Just as sure as the Fourth comes there's going to be some casualties. It’s a pity that the day cannot pass without its enrollment of the dead and wounded. “Tomorrow's sun will be telling awful news"—sans fingers, sans arms, sans eyes, sans everything will be the report on the fifth day of July. And then suppose the President would conclude to restore the Negro soldiers right in the heat of the cam- paign. Perhaps it will be said that it would be too plain a case of poli- ties. A little plain, but maybe some little politics has not already entered in the business, He is very likely to do something like that. A spelling contest was one of the features of the National Education As- sociation which held forth at Cleve- land this week. A Marie: Bolden, a colored girl of Cleveland, was one of the spellers having a clean score. ‘Twenty thousand teachers were in at- tendance at the various meetings of the association. ‘The weather has been so_persist- ently good that the oldest inhabitant hasn't thought of complaining within the past six weeks. Bumper crops; somewhat down in our money's reach. So after all the good old law of adjustment is in operation, seeing to it that the thing of distribution isn’t all together a one-sided affair. If the matter had been left to Gro- ver Cleveland he would have broken up some of the political solidarity. ‘There was C. H. Taylor, at first ap- pointed to a South American minis- tership or consulship. The Senate would have nothing to do with it. He then appointed him to the office of Recorder of Deeds at Washington, one, two, three times before it would stick. Booker T. Washington recently said that “These blacks and whites are here to remain, in my opinion, for all time.” It was but another way of serving notice to get right on the race question, since we are here for all time. Nor need the white people feel especially aggrieved. The Negroes are in America at their earnest solici- tation. Some concessions on either side will help materially. “The Guardian,” of Boston, says that it was sop to the colored voter when Chairman Lodge surrendered the gavel and the chair to Franklin Augustus Dennison, a colored man of Chicago, while he delivered the nomi- nating speech in favor of Governor Curtis Guild, the favorite son of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. It was a splendid recognition and which most men would count among their earthly triumphs. “The Guardian” is getting cynical. “Blind Tom” had a decided passion for music, but he could imitate most sounds. But he preferred the piano on which he received a few lessons, but had opportunity to practice very much. He had a gift for the instru- ment and disposition, which perhaps would not have obtained in either case had he not been born so one- sided in his faculties, We feel to say that he would have been great under better circumstances, when the chances are that we would have had no “Blind Tom” under other cireum- stances. ‘The famous Dr. Osler, of London, England, now professor at Oxford, is standing for the lord rectorship’ of Edinburgh University. He is an in- dependent candidate. The doctor is one of the best-known men in the world. ‘The fact, however, may not help in his candidacy to a most im- portant office. Recently it was seen where he disclaimed the authorship of the well-known chloroform theory. He got some splendid advertising at any rate, and if no one is offended by the theory thrust on him, he, by the very logic of things, should become “mi lord rector.” Just when Mexico was attracting attention by the evenness of its po- litieal life, then comes the would-be revolution. The Diaz government was held to be a demonstration of a re- public whose head is without limita- tions as to secession, either officially or by public sentiment. It has been counted a success up until this time, but the plan does not appear true to such institutions, and where the aim and object is to escape anything savor- ing of a monarehy or the perpetuation in office of a set of men, who by the very nature of things in time would become corrupt. The Mexican Prest- dent from all accounts has been a splendid representative of the idea of presidential continuity, but the little revolution on hand dispels the dream of that kind of government. The re- lation in the matter is that, where there is the utmost satisfaction, a revolution is furtherest from the minds of men. Judge Pritchard, of the Criminal Court, has ruled that billiard and pool tables are amusement devices, and ac- cording to a State law have no right to be run in connection with saloons. The decision is sweeping and if sus- tained im the higher court will prove a serious blow to the saloon business. Most saloons find the billiard and pool tables a telling source of revenue and which the saloon men can ill afford to spare. Music in various forms has long since been cut out of the sa- loons, and presumably under the head of amusement devices. It apparently has never occurred to other judges to construe billiard and pool tables as coming under that head. The next judge may see it entirely in a differ- ent light. It is quite a question, one that may require the intent of the law as conceived by those making the law before it is settled. It is certain enough that the saloon will not yield until the last court has passed on the euéetion: Next week we get the grand and glorious Fourth, the greatest day of the political calendar. Most of us see in the day nothing but an opportunity for a great, big time—to make a loud noise, reflecting but little, if at all, on the manner in which the day came about. Great, big men have been seen parading the streets making deafening noise with some form of shooting irons, frightening women, children and horses, and sometimes inflicting injury, and at the same time had no knowledge of what it was-all about. A law of some kind should be in force —a qualification act by which those above a certain age would be permit: ted the “pleasure” when they could tell what they were having the pleas- ure about. Such a law would mean a mighty rustling and rumaging in old histories, but it would do good. Noth- ing appears so vain and idle as a great, big man a-bang, banging away just because it is a privilege. He has no moral right to be banging away unless he knows why he is banging away. Julia Ward Howe has had a most remarkable dream—a vision of a new era. In part it is as follows: “One night recently I experienced a sudden awakening. I had a vision of a new era, which is to dawn for man- Kind, and’in which men and women are battling equally, unitedly for the uplffting and emancipation of the race from evil. “I saw men and women of every clime working like bees to unwrap the evils of society and to discover the whole web of vice and misery, and to apply the remedies and also to find the influences that should best coun- teract evil and its attending suffer ings.” ‘Very much more she saw on the or- der of the millenium dawn and which she related most beautifully, but it was only a dream. Peradventure on the last day society will have its align- ments as it has today. And after all that supremest peace dreamed of, were it to come, would prove an in- sipid, hapless thing. The joy of life comes through contrasts. nut, satia- tion that clogs, would be the toll paid to enter the drear monotony of days, unaccented by that variety of happen- ings and conditions that give life its zest and makes it worth the while. Nothing here is meant to deny the THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ie race| contention for the greater love be-|no other course open to us than to| tion for all| tween the children of men, the rais-| support the Democratic nominee this | seq le feel | ing up from abject poverty in a land| year. We do not admit that we are | The egroes | of multi-millionaires, and by which|leaving the Republican party; the | Cle’ solici-| none would feel to have lived in vain. | party has left us. In view of the fact | pub either] But that roseate dream—a pink ¢ea | that Taft made possible to election of | reg: condition for every one—would rob|a Democratic Governor in his home}a p life of its “lights and shadows,” and | State two years ago, it will be com-| ing , says | without which there would be no joy | paratively easy for us to justify the | hele | voter | because there would be no sorrow and | action that we will take, even if we | arm ndered | disappointments. did not have other reasons that would | som anklin — compel similar action by any self-re- | brin nan of THE C. M. E. CHURCH. specting voter. What right has Taft | fore The C. M. E. Chureh is the latest of the greater denominations to enter Indianapolis. This church is strong in the South, where its communicants run up into the hundreds of thou- sands. They have great property holdings by way of schoolhouses, col- leges and churches. The denomiua- tion is spreading northward generally. If the present rate of growth is kept up it will not be very long before the church becomes a factor of the race in this section. Some eighteen months ago the Indi- anapolis mission was started; it at once made itself felt and known in the community. Quite a number of C. M. E. members are scattered throughout the city. Most of these have found their way to the church of their choice, in all making quite a showing for that branch of Metho- dism. ‘The church has been visited from time to time by those in author- ity, including such men as Bishop Phillips, Rev. Dr. Rufus S. Stont and Rev. H. J. Johnson. A few days ago these officials assisted Rev. J. H. Tay- lor in the dedicatory ceremonies of a new church built within the past six months . This splendid new church house is the result of the effort of the church and its friends. One hundred and four dollars were contributed at the opening. he bishop brought $500 from the general church, thus giving the work a sendoff that should lead to great results along the line of church endeavor. PROF. SCARBOROUGH NOW PRESI- DENT OF WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY. With some surprise we learn of the succession of Prof. W. S. Scarbor- ough to the presidency of Wilberforce University, the well-known institution of Wilberforce, 0, We are not aware of the kind of administration the school has been having in the recent past, but feel to say that; whatever kind, it will lose nothing nothing un- der its new head. Professor Scarborough is the best type of the schoolman—the college professor as popularly conceived— plain, unpretentious, but law and gos- pel when he speaks on his “favorite themes.” Long since the professor has been known the breadth of the land for his attainments, and espe- cially along the line of languages. The leading philological societies of the country acknowledge his ability, hon- oring him with membership. He is particularly known as a Greek scholar. His proficiency along this line has had much to do with his intellectual prominence. Not only has he become a recognized teacher of Greek, but he has published Greek textbooks yhich have won for him meritorious Ien- tion. Professor Scarborough is genial, kindly, mastering men through the respect they have for him—for his intelligence. A prosperous career is predicted for the institution under the new management. Already the name of Wilberforce is loved and venerated wherever African Methodism is known; her sons and daughters are throughout the land, and doubtless will rejoice to know that’ the most distinguished, the most erudite Scarborough will conduct its course in the future. Many excellent plans are already conceived for furthering the work of extending the university, to make it more useful, more progressive, fitting the latter day notion of a university— answering the popular demand. Much money is needed for carrying out these plans—some $100,000 is the amount desired, is the amount Pro- fessor Scarborough hopes to raise. ‘The campaign for this amount is now on, He says that he will leave no stone unturned in the hope of accom- plishing his purpose. He makes a wide appeal, asking that the sons and daughters of Wilberforce, wherever they are, that their friends and their friends’ friends sound the note of gladness for the new Wilberforce to be recreated through money, love and prayers, rededicated to the unborn generations who are yet to sit at the feet of the new Gamaliels, quafiing deep of the exhaustless fountain, go- ing forth living witnesses of the eff- cacy there. He asks that money, love and prayers be freely spent in the upbuilding of the splendid old insti- tution that is so worthy of being per- petuated—made a shrine of knowl- edge to which the total Negro race may pilgrimage, regardless of re- ligious denominations; a temple of beauty, inspiring respect and admira- tion, and which is in keeping with the notions of such institutions of to- day. The Freeman bids Dr. Scar- borough God-speed on his high mis- sion of teaching the people. ATTORNEY W. E. HENDERSON ‘SPEAKS OUT. According to W. E. Henderson, a well-known colored lawyer of this city, there will be an organized effort to beat Mr. Taft by Negroes right here in Indianapolis. Mr. Henderson was very much displeased with what he saw while in Chicago, consequent: ly he lost no time in joining the ranks of those against the methods em- ployed in the behalf of Mr. Taft’s can- didacy. Coming home, he ‘sees no reason yet for supporting Mr. Taft: but, on the other hand, feels encour- aged to wage war against him when and wherever he can. Says he: “T am neither afraid nor ashamed to let it be known that I am against Taft and the Republican party under its present management, and it will be found on election day next Novem- ber that the big majority of the Ne- gro voters have resented in an effec- tive way the insults that have been heaped on the Negroes of the coun- try by Taft and Roosevelt. “Tt is to be regretted that we have no other course open to us than to support the Democratic nominee this year. We do not admit that we are leaving the Republican party; the party has left us. In view of the fact that Taft made possible to election of a Democratic Governor in his home State two years ago, it will be com- paratively easy for us, to justify the action that we will take, even if we did not have other reasons that would compel similar aetion by any self-re- specting voter. What right has Taft to ask any’ Republican to support him? He came out against bossism in the party two years ago, but did he utter a whimper about disreputable meth- ‘ods while the machine was making him the nominee at Chicago?” Mr. Henderson showed considerable feeling—uncorked his wrath, as it were. He said the Republican party was not what it used to be under Grant, Garfield, Fred Douglass, and that it is now in the hands of a band of ruthless political pirates. It Mr. Henderson has it straight, the move- ment. will tend to support the Demo- cratic nominee for President, but will support the Republican legislative ticket. He thinks by this method there will not be much going either way; he thinks that the party needs @ good, sound thrashing that it be good. ‘Mr. Henderson went on to say that the trouble is of no recent date. The disfranchisement of the Negroes of the South has made it absolutely nee- essary that We take some radical ac- tion as 2 matter of self-preservation. He referred to Congress of today and that of twenty years ago when there were a number of black men from the South as members. That there is no black man in Congress today is charged also up to the Republicans, who permitted the Democrats to strike down the Negroes’ political manhood. ‘Mr. Henderson said that the ma- chine methods at Chicago was the last straw. It was practically an ulti- matum for the delegates to take the medicine. Says he: “What are you going to do about it?” was hurled in their teeth. “We hold the, balance of power in enough Northern States to make such a demonstration as will compel a reor- ganization of the Republican party before the next campaign, a reorgani- zation that will recognize the rights of the colored man.” According to the attorney there will be prominent Negroes in the State during the campaign for the purpose of making anti-Taft speeches. He ex- pects to be among them. In referring to the statement seen in the newspapers a few days ago that Captain Harry S. New was the last of the convention people to leave Chicago, he said that a Negro politi- cian who failed in making connection while in the city, declared that some of the contesting delegates were yet in that city. In fact, they were in no hurry to leave if they could, since they had been threatened with some- thing awful when they should reach their homes, and that those threaten- ing them were not Democrats. Final- ly Mr. Henderson said: “So-called Southern Republicans would try to do away with them. Just to think-of it! ‘These delegates will come again among our race in the North during the campaign and their stories will be enough to arouse the race to frenzy in their opposition to Taft and Roosevelt, the men who dis- charged in disgrace the Negro sol- diers who for so many years stood ready to risk their life for this gov- ernment.” GROVER CLEVELAND. When Grover Cleveland came to the presidency of the country the Negroes Were considerably disturbed as to what he wonld do, They had great reason for anxiety; it was the first Democratic President known to their civil day. All along the Negro voters had been fearful of the consequence ‘of a Democratic regime at Washing- ton. They were born under Repub- licanism; had been taught that all of their weals were of Republican origin ‘and that all of their woes were begot- ten of the Democrats. We say taught advisedly. ‘ Hadn't they lived in the two “dispensations”—under Demo- eratic and Republican rules? It did not take much teaching to convince them that their brighter prospects were with the Republican party. As the campaigns came they brought their stories of what would happen in event of Democratic success. But governments change—the best regu- lated governments change. The gov- ernment at Washington changed and a Democratic administration, with Grover Cleveland at its head, was es- tablished, and the Republicans, for the first time since the civil war, passed out of national existence. ‘There was a sort of “lonesomeness” in the situation of the colored people, who had come to believe that Demo- cratic success meant their civil and political undoing. But that party had greatly changed with the years. The disappearance of the slave from the political questions left fairly an equal- ity of attitudes toward the colored men by white meg North or South. ‘That is to say, all are mostly gov! ened by the sentiment of their local- ity—not much divergence of opinion concerning the colored people on the part of the white people, whatever the opinion is. In the North we find in this day white Republicans and white Democrats not very far apart; the same is equally true of the South. With the elimination of the slave there was no reason to suspect that @ Democratic President, especially when hailing from the North, would be different to other men about him, whether Republicans or Democrats. ‘This was found to be true when Mr. Cleveland took the reins of govern- ment. Perhaps as a Democrat, elect- ed mainly by Southern votes, he found it necessary not to speak out against some wrongs which he knew wero ex- isting, and which were practically “enacted” by the white South as against the colored people. These were not in the sense of persecution, but civil inconveniences, having for their purpose the segregation of . the Negroes and their nullification as fac- tors in the elections. Time, however, has proven that Mr. Cleveland in this respect—that of not knowing condi- tions—was not much different to sub- sequent or previous administrations. ‘The disposition on the part of Mr. Cleveland to be no different to Re- publican Presidents won the friendly regard of the Negroes. Indeed, he set a pace for the Republicans, appoint- ing Negroes to offices never before held by them. Thus he not only dis- armed the suspicion of re-enslavement sometimes entertained—he camé bringing salvation in a manner. He forever set at rest as to what a Demo- cratic President would do as it con- cerned the race. He showed at times a peculiar interest in them, being as tenacious as our Roosevelt in more than one instance concerning the ap- pointment of a Negro to office. As the Crum ease—but the Senate re- fused to sustdin him in the Matthews appointment—and in the Taylor ap- pointment in the first instance. His value was not to say fixed by these events; they helped in the matter .by giving emphasis to the disposition he had shown all along. Had the Senate had a disposition to second his ef- forts the Democratic party today would be the home of many Negroes. The distinguished ex-President went to his grave ‘mourned by an entire people, Not much reason he had for regarding the Negroes. They feared him in the beginning, and as it con- cerns them, voted the presidency to. other hands; yet through it all he re- garded them as others who were pro- fessed friends. However, Mr. Cleve- land was not unmindful of the esteem finally shown him by the Negroes. He saw many touching evidences of this as he grew older, and when it was something to bo in the patriarch’'s sphere as well as @ patriot—honored by all, reviled by none, the sum total of earthly awards, These things were his. TUSCALOOSA, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN: ‘The Children's day exercises of the M. EB. Church, conducted by Miss Carrie Combs, “were “a great success, recelving much fayorable cemment....Mrs. I. H. Foster, after a very pleasant visit to rel- atives, has returned to Denver, Col... Prof. ‘and. Mra, H. A. Barnes .and litle child, of Snow. Hill Institute, Snow Hil, Ala,’ are visiting the former's parents, Prof, and Mrs. Jeremiah Barnes... .The ‘Three Times ‘Ten Club held a very’ inter- esting meeting with Miss Allee Luffboro, Monday, June 22. ‘The semi-annual elec- tion of officers was held, the following offi- cers ‘being chosen: Mrs. Emma. Baugh, president; “Mrs, Cornelia Pickett, vice president; Mrs, Mattie Ball, recording sec- retary; Mrs. P. C. Yancey, financial sec- retary! Mrs. Ada i, M. Hall, correspond- ing secretary; Mrs. Louisa Garland, as- sistant secretary; Mrs. Loulsa Pickett, treasurer; Mrs, Nora Edmonds, chaplain. :-. Miss ‘Alice Luffboro entertained at a feception in honor of Mrs. Henry A. Bares, on June 26... The many friends of Mr. Luftboro Yancey will be pleased to learn of his convalescence trom a recent attack of typhoid fever... .The election of officers of Dorcas Chapter No. 14, Order of the Eastern Star, was recently held, the following officers being chosen and’ in- stalled: Mrs. Helen Spencer, worthy ma- fron; Prof. Jeremiah Barnes, worthy pa- tron; Mrs, Emma Baugh, associate _ma- tron Mrs. Rhoda Ward, ‘secretary ; Mrs. Pinkie Bryant, treasurer; Mrs. Emma Me- Guire, conduciress; Mrs’ Frances Macon, associate conductress; Mrs. Clarissa Downs, marshal; Mrs,’ Mattie Hargraves, warder; Alf Thomas, sentinel ; Rev. ‘Thur- man, chaplain.....Miss Lulu Watson is in Monigomery, thie guest of Miss. Inez Moore, MONTGOMERY, ALA. Special to Tue Freeacan. ‘The marriage of Miss Alice Mae Wat- kins, of this elty, to Dr. Frank Carl Good- win, of Mobile, took place at the home of the’ bride, June It. ‘Phe. bride Is the daughter of William Watkins, one of the leading contractors of this city, and a sister of Mrs. A. L. DeMond, of’ Buxton, Ta. Dr. Goodwin has a large dental prac: tice at Mobile, where they are at home c friends, Ooncluded ftom Paee Ones View, ‘Tex., and the hearing of the resolu- tions’ comnitttee, ‘The committee on nomination reported the following! President, Ru. Wright, Georgia: first. viee president, J./H. War: Ing, Maryland; second. Viee’ president, 8. ©." gohnson,. Kentucky ; “secretary, J.” B. Dudley North Caroling ; assistan€. séore- tary, Mise Ta Plummer, Washington. D, EP reamurer, James. Colston, Dinwiddie, Vai: “registrar, J. We Martin, Jackson, Misi, ; ‘chairman ‘of executive committee, Wet! i. Williams, ‘Thanks ‘were extended tothe school doard and ‘eitizens, and. all who. showed the teachers forms of Ikindness. At night the teachers were given # reception on the fawn of the ¥. MAGA.” The next ‘mom: thi a party of 140 made ateip to Ata moth Caves" 10" mai’ Mrs. Lillian Fox, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the guest of hp Lavinia Sneed. Misses Simms and Leak, two charming friends of Miss Pearl “White, are in’ the elty. "They Will remain feveral days. Mr. Kelly Robinson, son of Dr, P. D. Robinson, of Lexington, Ke, is in the eity, Stopping ‘atthe residence ot Mr. William Evans. Cee Bishop J, C. Caldwell, of the A. M. E. zion’ Church, was inthe ‘elty. this weeks and. preached to gil" the churches of “his connection. Prof. Grubbs, the hustling _ traveling agent of the Tadianapolis. Freeman, was in’ the ity Tast week and took a mimber of subseriptions. ss James Kenney, teamster of the Louls- ville & Portland canal, is °very much Erleved over lozing his favorite horse this Week. Te had’ to, be, shot. Miss Juanita Adams, the private secre- tary of Miss “Nannie H. ‘Burroughs, has returned from Kansas City.” While West she met a host of old friends. Henry, Newman and” Clarence Hamil- ton, of the Southern Raifroad freight. de- pot) were-on the sick list last week, but Bre able to be at, thelr posts again. Miss Amanda Webb, of Georgetown, Ky, was in the clty last week, attending the’ Teachers’ "Association. She ‘was the Ruest of Mrs, Nettie Steward Black, of est Chestnut st. Henry Newboy has organized a baseball club, known as the Newboy Baseball Clu. Wouid"bepieased co hear from al ama- teur clubs for games. "Cinrence Hamilton, manager. ere Miss Clara Calfug and Mr. George Hampton, Mias tua Nugent and Dr Pacy Were married this wel. Both weddings Were very quiet, and only afew friends Attended the matriage ceremonies, Miss Charity Boyd, of Frnaktort, Ky., was in the clty last week. “She will Fe: Tain here several days,” She attended the funeral of the mother of Miss Bessie Johnson, of West, Magazine st. Mrs. J. C. Jackson, of Lexington, Ky, as in the city this’ week, the guest of Mrs, Lavenia Watson Cooper. Mra. Jack son was highly entertained at the beauti- fil Rome of Mrs. Cooper. George, Tremble and daughter, Miss Georgia Tremble, of Glangow. Ky., are Visiting Mr. and'Mrs. E. He Willis,” 1213 West Avainut st. Miss “Georgia will re- main for a week or more. f. Roy Tibbs, of the Musereia School ot Musto: hap gone’ Mast to stacy. “atios ‘STRAIGHT PLIABLE SILKY Tigbesttaetenscnenarins eel eine eg Schtrecan uae OS Sener aman [aa Steamer: | gaia of hes Rind over Tavancet |“ CURL-I-CURE | J iQ ad and Broge as Sone Biome | sais tony eter tnt (Ae poerance, baeaoeereeunt: |) | isndie andreas | Peal Grieeteoadgrnne BC § stem tn forest [ARR Halrandremoreetoatensy: | aN Hipermccean (aa arin Wane inereaasinsde Syice MNT MARVELOUS HalA BE AUTiFiEg Inet sent frees GAUTIE esteem te ftchargea asa eit gend Sod clan. tar fucecmaaatsinaies strat cn poarantetantoneten cs LINCOLN MANUFACTURING co” auseay ne LINCOLN MANUFACTURING Co.. Aung is playing the pipe organ at ie Catt of our Merciful Savior in his y,on Dre J. A, Emerson, surgical dent Greensboro, N.C, is in the yy yt ot ing. Dr. Emerson is a gradi ees ard University. ‘The people nf. are very anxious 0 hate hiv Sot tt Tee Woodruff, foreman of the tenis & Portland canal, the first calc ee that has held the position sine. te 2 has been Mh existence, Ie wor ing ll Of men on the Olle Fats Tens 4 Sa Ing'to go to the Panama cinal «ae some gime in the future. ork, Prof, J.B. By Lee, president of they, tional Teachers’ Association. corny Ae seif with glory as a presiding utes ‘was largely through him that Uw asoelt tion was such a grand success. jo ADIY assleted by Wek Wihiant ght Johnson and Re Wy. Weight 3 Prof. F. L, Williams, of Covinston, ky and’ Prof. William Pickens, or aah: ‘Ala. were among the leading ors ing the association meeting. Both gee, mien acquitted themselves with hie ie as Ullnkers and reasoners of te alt sort, a ‘A number of independent clubs are te ing organized among the Negroes of ine city. Secretary ‘aft had a hard ines carry the State, and from the way te Bova are sulking in their tents, tie jie Dublicans will have to-do soins oor 1 Work between now and Sovener. Mrs. Ruth\ Mason, 647 Eleventh a, spent a few days in’ Frankfort, Ky., ths Week, “looking “after her propor.” Se ‘Owns a few houses. there ‘and has then rented, also has charge of one here, on the southwest ‘corner of West ani Gred sts, “She Is her own agent, and Is one at the foremost business women in the elt. One of the cleanest and neatest place to get & fine meal white In the city ete Testaurant at. the Young Men's. Curstan ‘Association... Visitors coming to this uty and’ ‘wishing, to be served in a hurry ant with best food and style should call at they. MG. A” restaurant, 11 West Chestnut st. Misa Bennett his charge at the dining room... Mr. E. Smith Jones, a young min of en- ergy and inspiration, ‘has gotten out Nery creditable book ‘of poet. ite tre Sented it to the Teachers” Association, hd many” of ‘the critics of that avis ‘bly Were very much pleased with tie efor Of the “invincible Ned.” “Mr. Jones has the books on sale, and many of” the hie folks are subseribing, for copies A good many of the members of the ln cai Negro Business “Men's Lagu are thinking about attending the meeting of the National Negro League, which meets in Baltimore, Mr, John S. Hopson, D, L. Knlebt, WH Brown, Wills Gare Cary B. Lewis and a few others will head the “delegation of this section.” An flor will ‘be made to. get persons’ from otter Sections to join the Louisville part. Miss Carolyn Stewart, of Tallanapals, Ind., and a progressive teacher of School 25, of that elty, has been ti this ely st tending the National ‘Teachers’ Associ tion. Miss Stewart Is tall. and. charming and singe here visit here she tis meta host ‘of Loulsvitle's charming clrcie” Sie leaves here for Pais, Ky whit sie Wil visit Mrs. Mary Howe, nd site wil Te main during the month of July Plenies, outing and, moonlight excur sions are all the rage In Lowlslle, Many of the lovers reach the. vine-cia bls 1 the western parks, while oilers take a stroll out lover's lane. Dut fow cities al ford a better opportunity to have a pleas~ ant time during the summer than Lou Mille. his week the parks wert ‘tie Gamp, and the bors ave a. sulrtwalst dang at'ans" oad Reiioes: Hall eum t until 12 o'clock p. m. Ms ie ‘The commencement of the, Central Hh School ‘took place here week Intore last ‘here were forty-eight “yraduates. The orations and music were very good, There Was no alumni. speaker ado cnt 0 te liver an. encouraging word {0 tho grat ates, “No alumni reception vor enteral: ment was ‘given the graduates, It al seemed to be the result of Principal La%- Son's attitude that the Schoo! snmnge ment fave no speaker fponn the alum Mra. Lillian Brown, wife of Dr, Wit iam E. Brown, of Indianapolis, Ind, and fateacher In the schools of that cits, was in Loulsvitle last week, attending the Nt Honal ‘Teachers’ Association. Mig Brox is well known here, and she hind tHe pleas ure of meeting a ost of old friends, Soe And Miss Stewart were beautifully «net tained by Louisville's society folk. Mr& Lavenia Sneed entertaimes! he {nlianare lis party at supper Friday night ¢ Bishop Alexander Walters, the Rew 1 G. Jordan and Dr. John H. Prank cal to see Me, Henry Watterson, eitor of the Louisville Courierstournal, fd, oer. lated him ‘upon. the editorial, “Oren he Door.” ‘The editorial made a bid for tie Negro vote by pleading to the Lemocratle party to Invert In the platform Ma eh ‘would draw the Negro vote. Manhood rights, equality and brotheriy avi nelgte boriy testing for the Negro a> i of the lengthy editorial.” Dr. Luey Moten, of Washington. D. Cs was another one of the charming (te). ers who attended the association. i hhend of the Normal School of Washinstaty D. C., and when she was introduce (0 te association ‘she took the house by Sor, She spoke graphically and intere=!inkly the work being done along «lucsiietsl lines "in her elt... She also visit Mammoth Gave withthe 130 port Se Was the guest of Mrs. William 1! § ard, 825 Eighth Lg ae ‘The Freeman representative w/s)"s { Jcongratuinte the “members of ‘loc committee who had charge of the National Teachers’ “Association. President, Let Rated to us that he was never Tore TO ally entertained, and he never 0! & i ter time on any'visit. Te sald ¢0t be dit hot, want to leave Kentucky. 0!" "at. lea and single, wala the sae te Jeheers for old Kentucky She 6 to do things, Everything we (ir came true, ‘Three, cheers for ever ly Mins Ida. Plamgner, of Wastinston, Cy was in the city. iast work. 7 £2 of Miss Mary’ V. Hicks. "St unm was the acting secretary of toe Nato, "Teachers’ Association, and her work M2 Pomey oF tet bey. aims Proms TE Tovally “entertained: while here 27d, made A fine impression upon 1 (<0 ‘this section, At the association MUP Plummer gvae evidence of bene 0 ‘the uncrowned queens of her pre! eee in Clark, ‘Through the efforts of Mr. Jobe CANe fa member of the entertainment (000s ‘of the National Teachers’ A=soc'0! <2." teachers were given an op000" 4° og visit Mammoth Cave. "One, Iuoit's 200 thin ‘were in the party. The (1) "op delightful, and it proved to ewe reat Interest to the teachers 0 04) gatherers.” ‘The story of the co ‘: cal itherers.” The story of tie Osco it cam Rei i asus er —" ———— S —— — ee THE CRITIC'S DIARY. sisep 00 dary of actors dear, Exo 0 dente T fove anger Pe eottos ae all Fiech 1 gitroy them all Favs oo dlary-—or other trash, La aa ho eu a daa, Fo er call ae dowty GF ne {omg town. tats liar’ or memor’s ool, at? ts rowte took Fe a gue ake Poe ch true amd. leds to tld Yuat diaries in the flats, far toll Us pose ag aristocrats, Wie bie eal coneele Miu Wouldn't that frost your feet? rvs Snes that’s worth the prlee, sper egal a fey Lr ae eee Le tn the Sine ‘Myivester Russell , pijes will present thelr act at pian Azsiin Hackley $8 appearing pane sie, Wie ene sph Thompson and his elephants sailed enrenee iat thursday. foe Gere iyses E. Cross, music Composer and (deer vis Girtied "at Omaha, Neb, se : fp Ment Stange of the Williams. & jee! Gigante spending the. summer f Panini At the Hogan benefit, testimonial, at yt ih UN Yndred dollars above’ ex= ere cleared. | Moppin, the hoop, roller artist, is peeing ne het in, the “Big Top,” With ee owe Circus oars MoKenaie fe meeting with much nig new "act. Regards to $ovtuneh and all friends, Lunoy Band, the character {mpersona- oh gin ouagement-at the Fanatiy Hr Mudianapolige next week rho Onsiey, comedian and author, has oii wih Miahura's Summer Show! and (feline de tine tn Indianapolis. ery Gant, of the Norris & Rowe Cir- qs nde reaarts to Prank Castry; Her= Si inv of the same cireus, to Bosan, ‘ie Chicaxo City Counell_has passed de owinanes sing the Meenses Bf alr Most nt Hu « aay. and $200 for elreuses. Prince Oskavima has sailed to Havana, ot cute on his trip. around =the Soi, ate Sighements nt he various Bee on) Logan is improving: nicely from a ject oration at, Meree Moapitaly at Pisielnin, sn) wilt reeelve! hig’ “honors Me dacharze” tn a short whiter own and iVodwes, cartoonists, after pean «ines weeks recoionsels Mame et wil'resine fein work at the Park Train, Bayona, N. J. duty 6 with the GOUT Cont ot Mae CIE The Egslestons’ Hefined Musical Act is pug big In the, Windy. Clty=taat! week Kite Linco “Theater; this week, ast i, Amvtican ‘Theater; next Week first fai Sau Soucel Park.” Regards to” Prof. Haley and tie Garlands. Sin Lucas, totter known ag the “Grand id in” nd is daughter, Marte TLueas, fe stdin’ their’ summer Vaeation in fall iver, as the guests of his daugh= ‘es lady’ friend, Miss Annle "Lawrence, Der oth sad fogarde to all fends tn iat au of the. profession. Tee two Wades, Bertha and 1a, are tor in Sin Antonio, Tex., for a ttle’ rest, i they have ven ‘rehearsing a new and for better’ act. than ‘the one they used wasn. Regar@s to all-in and out of de rmtestion. “Pal Carter write me at NT South Frio. ste Tie Rowner-Juckson Minstrels are re- Saring every night, getting ready. to ake a ten-woek tour, Last ~ Monday $i they surprised Mra. FD, Bowmer- Fey all met dnd rehearsed at her rest (60 and Sie" now thinking of Joining fen Frank Hention, the stage manager, Syorking the bows up toa “mighty Keen Re and says that it's the best bunch of 28S ‘leat’ obtainable." Arthur. Young Bille the audiences oft thelr feet when ‘ings one of his own’ compositions: jiindcson and Jay H, Goines, the Hisar polit colored’ comedians, report & Townivos success over the Keith elreult {isi-cass vaudeville, having Just closed Eg wae of nttythree “weeks. At Kids Phisadciphia, they. broke all re fis of colored ‘gets. Scoring. heavily bee “Phe” press and” public. claim Wah of the ‘ordinary of all acts er poee “ney ave Deine handled. by Beat Nan or the Unlted Bookne 2,0 America, “and “are booked: soll Ut season, commencing Septeriber We AT LIBERTY. Te twentieth century strap @rummnery Peas. Wheeler, recently of the Ringling Bros.’ Circuit.’ and wife, as chorus girl. Ailitess The bret _ NEW THEATER FOR CHICAGO. eGitgase, wil hve w new theater, ‘Tae bling a The ance clueater The Svemues on the" ou aise, Geant Grete Bectod to have the ou int Nadine Ben Tate sn the Yai ott case gat CLARK SMITH AND BAND WILL. TOUR COUNTRY. Mr. N. Clark Smith, Chicago's eminent anusican, Sn nan cosas” eminent Roges Ina ge ane eo th hue Gy tert tena ae date ar Bae, oO Washington's organisation” Ther Reee yi Bevcompoucd of Aft pects. he bande tre now Undergoing dish ia eee ALLEN’S MINISTRELS. J. B. Norton writes from Allen's Min- strels:' We are still in North Carolina, and ‘are playing to good business. — ‘The show has been newly organized and. is giving perfect satisfaction, ‘The comedi- ans are: John M. Dennis, J. 1. Wil- liams, J. Lester McDaniels, J.B. Norton, H. S. Smith, Johnnie Lee, Johnnie Smith, Charies ‘Thomas Downs, Philip Williams, W. A. Dodson. The band consists of J: H. MeCamran, leader; Elwood Johnson solo cornet; G. B. Brooks, Bfat’ cornet Robert H. Gant, solo alto; Robert Brown: Second alto; Robert Miller, third alto; P: L. Jenkins, first. trombone: George Will- son, second trombone; H. S. Smith, third trombone; Johnnie Jones, baritone; R. 0. Henderson, tuba; Charles EB. Ruel, bass drum; James .’ Cox, snare drum. ‘The Public 1s much pleased with the band and Show. M.A. Dodson, our tenor singer, recelved a broken leg while playing ball, J. Lester McDaniel has returned to the show after a short visit home. All of the members of the show are get- fing along niccly and send regards” tc friends. J, B. Norton, stage manager, would like to hear from John Goodlaw sind Charles McKinzie. Write. BILLY M’CLAIN IN ENGLAND, “Billy McClain is the most brilliant wit that has been placed at the service of the public since Negro amusements began,” said Harry Harper, late of the Music Hall and en ‘Tracte, now of the London Daily Mall. “Besides being a clever artist, pro. ducer, professional motor driver, he is a Philanthropist, as the last sult of clothes old Peter Jackson wore McClain put on his back, and was the frst to put his money down for ‘his monument. "He _ seconded George Dixon in his last fight at the Ne- tional Sporting Chub in London, against Owen Moran, the clever Bnglish’ bantam ; was behind young Peter Jackson and Jack Johnson in their initial bow to a London audience. besides numerous others” who have come to him for shelter and advice, Now he comes to the assistance of his old friend and associate, Ernest Hogan, and tells him that his money Is at his disposal, Another generous deed MeClain did. that is worthy of mention Is that he buried-a young man in Leeds, England, in Febru- ary, 1906, when his mother sent the money for him to come home. ‘The money. ar- rived a day after he was buried. MeClain returned the money. along with the te- celpt, name of cemetery, number of weave, showing her that everything had ~ beer paid, and he would not accept a penny. We "people in” Enuland appreciate” sueh deeds of greatness, and long live McClain “Billy, as we eal him.” THE EXCHANGE THEATER. Beatie MESA ra ding Nik: <- sricahete dane peat teats night. ‘The show business seems to be the whole thing: In Jacksonville. People never Ure seeing our show since we have noth ing ‘but ‘high-class, ‘vaudeville. \ Buddk Glenn, the father of comedians, 4s doing fine “singing this week his cid favorite Sjohn's Gone Away’ "“AMiss. Anita ‘worden ig: making good singing this week “Ans: Face,” ana tldng three and four encores Rlchinon V. ‘Cross. (poor boy) is fata fver. He is’ singing this week “Lat Hours.” No one could do more for tt thay hey. fie isa natural born comedian ‘Miss Mittic Bradford is well and doing fing wih Jove foal tend. rol. J C2 Haywood is well and master: ing the adie and bow: Stiss Aun Hareis ‘Will leave this week for her home in New. Orleans. Miss Vergie Deo ismaking a big hit singing “Dreaming.* Mir, Daniel Htobliison will leave this week for Palatka with the Odd Fellows. iss “Agnes Powells is. taking two and three encores every night singing “Mandy.” with whieh she has’ the aseistance of ti Female quartet Misses “Anita: Borden, Mit tie Bradvord, Vergie Deo. Miss Anita Borden received a very fine aiamond bracelet as\ atrophy. Sie. Youn ‘Nicole. che trap drummer, ts well and. dome fie. “He urecetved very igh merits for nis expert_ drumming’ fo the parton lilonaes with which lett fast week to’ piay. for ‘entertainment Special regards to Billy Reeves, Miss Car- Ho Hall Picolo Jones, “Gold_ Kennedy Pheo. "Reading, “aso ‘Dhdley of | Dandy Dine, Address 125 Bridge street, Asberry Wright sends regards to Laugh- ing Lamar and. ail old. friends. ‘nomas Thomas sends resards to J. W. Hamniton, Chas Fleming, red ‘Bowery Sale Smith and gil, ‘The Enterprise Cornet Band is drawing larger erowds to Lincoln Pri with thet Splendid. music. Mr. L.-T. Lawson sends ibveto all friends. “Prof. Papino |e doing Bine’ean te please the people with must Str."Eeky ‘Hunt seins to be very, much pleaged to be over rushed with the ticket Pr'gunday.” Mr. Johnson says that over Sop people attended Lincoln, Park tne Sanday, "incon Park Ciacksonville) ine best outing and. Sundas--ammusemen Disce for colored folks inthe South He" Hammon, J.B Powe and Rich Hol tomon. are ail weil Prot. J. Mz Hobinson is well but {s ken very busy Writing’ musle Yor. each “show. We change twice a week. We keep Poor Fess pee busy. Regards to Jakie Smith. L. Bradford is well and doing fine, Wun start the week to tear down and rebulld the entire stages of the xchange Theater ‘and ‘Lincoln Park with beautiful dainerg, “Wack ‘and every one. coming to this elie will be pleased when they” see our, show nnd scenery, ‘Prot, “‘Mikell and. his famous concert band has Fetumed to the olty after a sue- pata trip through the South. The music {ters are glad to see Prof. Mikell. Mr, Arnos Glisard hae Juat arrived from yracon’ this ‘morning and feeling very happy. ‘Mr. Edgar Connor has just arrived here after a Succesctul season with Cole & Sohmaon, “Tviends are wad 19965 Hi Aine Fred ‘Newsome Jimmie Dick) -ar- rived’ this morning, from Savannah. Ga. here be didlo work ‘at Linco se “The, Mines team fs with us yet and doing ang”? they wilt Teave us when Mr. Chap: fine They win eee Rabbit Poot Co. WINONA LAKE, IND. eee Tt Gintth, ohet 3 ‘Mrs. ©, Smith, chef at the Westmin- ster Hotel, entertained with a party in the social’ hail of the Westminster last week. Miss Alfreda Raymond sang, Bru- tus M, Williams presided at the plano and William Lacey was master of ceremonies. LOCKLAND, OHIO. By the National Negro Press Bureau. ‘Miss Pearly Graves, of Glendale, and Mr. ‘Shimall, of Covenington, Ky., were joled in matrimnoy June 18... .Strangers goming to-our twon on Sunday will en- quire for Cammack Hall they will be en- tertained, ...Gray’s Band led the Masonic werer to Cola city Sunday, June 18. Pw a ae THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. i | | | } 3 pe be ‘ oy et fay I eee | ! a ; ip ie 5 te — a . FIDDLER & SHELTON, Those two colored boys suffocated with delightfulness, will play a return engagement at the Olympic Theatre, Chicago, week of July 6th, their last Western date prior to their opening Proctor’s Theatre, Newark. N.J.. woek of July 2th. under the direction of Pat J. Casey. whe has full charge of their Eastern bookings over the united time. ee NN SS A. B.C’ WALLOP CLEVELAND |by the local colored agsremation after 4 ALEC 'G tuelee tuning Bebe ee ne ne Last Saturday and Sunday the Indian- apolis A.B, Cos won three east victories from. thé Cieveland Glants at. the North- Westen Park of this celts. “Good hitting Was the real cause of the continued sue cess of the home: team. FIRST GAME, AB Clan ib 1003 040 %-44 Gieveland Giants <1 0001 01 4 07 Uinpire Adams." ‘Time-—1:50. * Atten: aance—150, SECOND GAME, Cleve, Giants..0 00-202 02 12 0—3 ALB Giervs0 05101012 6 S415 ‘Umpire “Adams. °Time—t 330." Atten- aance1,000. THIRD GAME, ALB Gis nee 00-8 10201 #3 Gieveland Gianis 221 0,0 00.0.0 1 Os CUmpire<Wiliams. 'fiments0. VAt tendance—800- LAKE CITY, FLA, DEFEATED. Jacksonville, Fla., Team Is Making a Great Record. Special to Tam FREEMAN, The Jacksonville, Plas, baseball club, managed by Prof. J. M. Robinson, Is play: Ing more hall than ever in the history of Florida. ‘They have played 15. games ‘and lost none, ‘They. took two straights from Lake City. Score of first game: Tacksonville ssss...0'0 00.0.0 10 0-1 Lake City....0.....0 000 0 0.0 0 0—0 imei 2i6. “Umpire V. Cross. Second game Jacksonvilfe ss:....0.00010 01 0-2 Lake Cityeg 202010 000.000 0 00 Time—1 36." “Umpire. V, Cross, Jacksonville played a ‘very exciting game with Fernandina, in which Jackson- Ville’ won a silversmotinted bat, made. of mahogany ‘and sliver, weighing 26. pounds Tt was presented to the winning team a3 trophy. Score: Jacksonville =..0. 001010000 1—3 Femandina, 0.01 00.0.0 03 0 0x8 Time-i:43..” Umpire—R. V. Cross. Of ficial scorer cL. br eradtara, PITTSBURG AND COLUMBUS TIE. The Ohio Team Wins One and Loses One. Special to ‘THe Faeratay. : COLUMBUS, 0.—Four of the fastest games ever pidiged in this city was pulled Of ‘Thursday, Friday and Sunday of last Week ‘at Hecreation Park between the Pittsburg Giants and, the Columbus. team, champions of Ohio. The home team. took the first game of the series by some bril- liant playing. In the Sunday game both teams did some wonderful playing. For five innings the seore was 1 to Win Co- lumbus" favor. FIRST GAME. Pittsburg Giants...0 1 1-0°0 0.0.3 1-8 Columbus tee 0100 01 Tae Batteries—pitisburg, Hall and Arm: strong; Columbus, Teid_and ‘Thomas. SECOND GAME. Pitisbarg 2.2.0 00001 02 0 25 Cokumbus 212.520. 20010000 03 Batteries—-Pittsburg, _ Pangborn and Armstrong; Columbus, Wade and ‘Thomas, THIRD GAME, Pittsburg oe 0 P00 O51 0 441 Columbus “212255250000024 5 0 7 Batterles—Plitsburg, _Pangborn and Armstrong; Columbus, Wade, “Rela and CUBANS WIN FROM UNIONS. Large Crowd Witness Fine Exhibi- tion at Tuesday’s Game. ET ATITOUTLYEE We. Th LOUISVILLE, Ky., July ,1.—Baseball fans were treated toa fine ‘exhibition of ‘semi-professional ball playing ‘Tuesday at the Unions’ park, Twenty-eight and Broad- way. ‘The game was between the Louis- ville Unions and the New York Cuban Giants, "Over 1.500 people saw the Unions go down in defeat for the first time this Season. ‘The game was interesting but not so. fast. Tt was seen in the first in- hing that the Visitors out-classed | the home boys and had the game down to a selence rather than luck. ‘The whole in ‘and out field played fine ball on the Giants! side, and during the last inning they closed in on the Unions, not a man playing in the field. Nat Rogers at short got hurt during the first part of the game, and from that time on the home boys seemed to Jack in quickness and baseball spirit. ‘At one time the catcher for the Unions made no attempt to run a bal. ‘Up until the first four innings the root- ers wero treated to a fine game of ball, when the Glants began to hit the ball and thelr men ran around the bases like race horses. ‘The Giants brought in. seven scores in the fourth inning. In the. ftth the Unions pleked up courage and did some good work.” ‘They Drought in three scores ‘and another in the sixth. The Giants con- tinued ithe ‘good fight by, bringing in one every inning until the close. . ‘The score qnded, 31210 4 in favor of the Giants Score: Cuban Giants.....10 070121 %—12 Louis, Uning 0 000310 00—4 UNIONS WIN FROM WALDORFS. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, KY.—The Louisville Unions and the Waldorfs played an inter- esting game ast Sunday’ at. the Union Park. “Cwenty-eighth street and Board- way. Tt was the nineteenth straight, vie- tory for the Unions, and It was one of the closest calls they have had this season. ‘The defeat of the Waldorts was due. to their errors ‘and lack of fast team work. Jesse Jackson, of the Waldorts, did some good playing in the sixth inning. Woods, of the Unions, did good work at the bat, and he made a splendid catch in left fleld with one hend, ‘In the first five innings the Unions looked as if they had a. walkover, but In the beginning of the sixth the Waldorfs brought in four scores, and at this point it looked as’ though the visitors would Win,” The score during the next two in- hings remained § tot in favor of, the ‘Unions. Lee umpired the game and there was an attendance of 1,300, ‘The score Between the Unions and Waldorfs follows: Waldorfs ....-e----1.902.0 400 0—7 Unions ..cccc2cs0-5 2001060 %—8 LOUISVILLE GIANTS WIN. ‘One-Arm Man Feature of Last Sun- day's Game. Special to THE FREEATAN. LOUISVILLE, KY.—Baseball fans were treated to a unique exhibition of the na- ‘onal game in last Sunday's contest be- tween the Louisville Giants and the In- @ianapolis Wonderlands, which was won panes GN eee (einer ae noes GaN ae oem ee uae Ween ye ane ees re Speen e Sah, dag eee 2 % ny ee " by the local colored aggregation after a twelve-inning ‘battle by 4 score of 7 to. 6- ‘The visitors ‘had a genuine baseball phe- nom on their team. His name is John Able, and he has but one arm, his right, his left having been taken off at the elbow. Able played right fleld in brilliant fashion, habbing four flies with his one gloved hand and sent two solid hits out to the feld, stole one base and drew a base on bails. ‘The game had hardly started before he was the whole show, and the erowd of 2,000. that gathered at Spring Bank Park applauded him vigorously. Able” throws well to the bases after catching fly bails, He does not have to remove his glove, but throws straight and true to the bag. Score: Giants... 0000-02012 00 27 Wonderiands “3.0 001001000 1-6 Umpire—Nutter, Attendanee—2,000, PADUCAH, KY. Se ie ae Rena AR., Aire. James’ “Armattong, of | Rowland, ‘Tenn, tias been’ on the sick list for_ sev: eral Weeks, but is Somewhat improved... Rev. 'G. W. Keys, of Washington. st,” is very sick... Mrs. Sulla Lee is some better and able to’ be about her room: Mrs. J. A.'Morton, who has been quite sick for the past two ieeeks, Was out Sundays. Rev. Bell, pastor of C. Mt B. Chureh, leit Mon: aay’ for ‘an’ extensive. trip through the eastern’ part ‘of the State, and “will ‘be fone for several days.+-"A very success: ful'rally was held at Mechanicsburg Ac Mt B. Church, Sunday, June 28." The Rev. J, W. Whiteside, of Rowlandiown, assist: ed....The A. MEE. Mission at’ Rowland- town’ will hola a special meeting Wednes- day night, duly teat which time the P: E.and'cliy ministers will be ‘presents. Simday,. June 28, was’ the ‘annual rally at Burk’s Chapel’ Aw ME. B. Chureh, Con: Sidering the financial panic, the rally was Quite ‘a sucess. The “Rev. G, Prive,” of Mavficla, "Ksr,, preached morning "and evening,” and "the pastor of Washington Street Haptist Chureh preached In the aft: emoon. "Rey. Price. preached” a money Sermon on. Sunday night, and the clubs Certainly’ rallied, ‘the paator, Rev. W. Robinson, is certainly leading and feeding the flock’ “rhis is his third. year. “they are striving to erect a new edifice of mod- ern style, They succeeded in raising 3861.80... the “Twentieth Century Club or the Seventh: Street ‘Baptist. Chueh wil Ineet in its wewtlar weekly meeting ‘yes: ay evening, at the residence of Mis. ‘Ture Ret “Ketreshments will-be served +. "The Sevensi Street Baptist Sunday school will give tte annual pienie July @°.- Attorney folin W." Bester retumed fronn’ the Na: onal Hepubliean convention att. Chicago, And. reports 'm vers’ pleasant tp. Wile there’ he wag tendered @ pleasant. repast by Mr and Mis. Jerry M2 Reid, at their residence. My. Egester was’ the’ only: col- Ored man present at the convention from this city. "He was a\ frequent visitor at the Kentucky headquarters.< "1B. Hi. Pots ter, formerly of this elty, died at. Frank lin, Ky..'on June 10, aged 48 Yeats, of tas boreniosis.” “Me Patter. was a. regula member of Burk’s Chapel A ME, Chueh dnd.a member of Stone Sauare Lodge No. SMR and A. Me of this city. He was man ‘of sterling ‘worth, and Was a genius boing an expert mechanic. “ite ‘eame. t6 the city” twelve years ‘ago from. Towing Green, “Kys and. was ‘one ‘ot Padueals slancliest citizens, He leaves a mother, sister and five “children, who ‘reside. in Franktin, Ky." Me lett ‘the city. in Dex cember tor the purpose "of seeking his heath, put gradualle grew worse ‘until the end came Mr, Potter was aiso past grand senior steward of the Grand. Lodge of Kentucky, and. was buried under. the Auspives of the Masonte fraternity at Bow= ting Green, Kyu his. former home, the focal “lode was also. in “attendance.” Mrs. S.'Suiph died at her home on North Blevenih st. She. leaves. a husband, two children, three sisters, four brothers... Mrs. "J. Perry. is visiting “her friends. in Princeton, “Ky....Mrs, Lillie Fisher 8 Visiting her friends in Tennessee and. her husbana at" Prineeton, Key... Mise "ie Brown 4s Visiting her friends ‘at Mavteld, Kyiv .Mrs. Hattie “Hynes has returned from a trip to St Lonls, Mo. Mrs. 3. Bell’ is on" the sick list: suffering with toothache...Mrs. J. Porter and. chilaren left last “Sinday. “for Hvansviile. "Inds Where they "will'epend a, few week heh Ho to Indianapolis to visit her sister, Mrs, Beg Jackson... Washington Street Ghureh gave a Sunday. school “picnic at the Oaks last "thursday, sand. it™was the hilcest ‘one ‘eevr given. in’ the city.” There Were over $00. people out and not a cross word was heard on the round.” Washing: ton Street Church ts almost completed. Tt cost 940,000, and is one of the finest in the South, ‘they will have a $3,000 rally July 52". George Key Ia very low, and not ex- pected to fives” Phe Mason’ ‘ad n nice eet on Ae ike oe WAXAHACHIE, TEX. Special to Tae FREEMAN: ‘The Summer Normal School is in_ses: sion now in this city, conducted by. Prof. P.-E. Goldthwait... “Delegates from all parts of the "Stats attended “the ‘Grand ge of the Knights of Honor, which was in session in our city last week. Dr, J. W. Rankin was elected as chief dicta- tor of the State..-.Little Will Etter Bur- nett, daughter of “Mr, and Mrs. Robert Burnett, is very sick at their home. in Newtown. -. ‘The Samaria Baptist Church Is being enlatged....Mr. Joe Perry left on the 25th for Henderson, ‘Tex., to visit his mother and other relatives....Cotton is blooming in all parts of the country... Waxahachie has greanized a Ninctecn Committee. Dr. C. 8. Diggs, president... . Mrs. Alice Green and daughter, Miss Ada, expect to leave soon for the’ North. ... If you want ‘The Freeman, see Bruce... The Negroes need to unite in all parts of the country, if they want to have strength. ....Wanted, two small boys to sell The Freeman. "1 Wwant honest and. upright boys: ng others need to apply. G. Wash- ington Bruce, agent....Young_men, save your money and buy’ iand....Rev. R. D. Dennis filled his appointment in Ferris last Sunday....Many attended the picnic and barbecue ‘at Saddhor's Grove, about five miles south of Waxahachie... .You can get The Freeman at 130 Wyatt st. every, Saturday, when you fail to get it on the ,strects. G. Washington Bruce, agent, 129 Alkin st. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. ‘Mrs, Emma Hamilton’ and her daugh ter, Miss Ruba May Hamilton, of Chatta- nooga, Tenn. are the guests of her sister Mrs. Annie Hall, on Furnace Hill. They will remain here several weeks... .Mrs Lizzie Jackson, the worthy mistress of th mosaic Templars, is a subscriber to thi journal, also assistant agent. She wil leave soon for Paducah, Ky.,,to attend th Grand Lodge of the Mosaic’ Templars... Miss Angie Gray is ill... .Mrs. Bob fy tick and Mrs, B. B. Myrick called on Mrs John Taylor last Sunday. ...Mrs. Minerva Winston was buried last ‘Thursday, June “a ” Wanted, “In Old Ky.” Co., Brass and Reed Instruments for Pickaninny Band. Address JOHN M. POWELL, Musical Director, 2218 South Meridian St., - - Indianapolis, Indiana. Tocer bene 3® the ,mother-in-law of Mr. Izeer Long, @ well-known cltizen of Shef- field, “Mrs. Winston was 94 years of age. Rev. Father Cross conducted the services: Interment took ‘place in South Florence Cemetery. ‘The funeral was under the direction of G. W. Minor, our funeral di- rector ‘and embalmer...-Rev. J. P. Bar- ton, of Talladaga, Ala. was’ in our city last week... .Mrs, Magiie Pride is visit- ing relatives in Cherokee, Ala... .Unity Lodge No. 46, A. F. and A. M., bad their Public installation ‘Wednesday’ night, at the First Baptist Church. The following Program was rendered: Song, “Blest Be the ‘Tie;" prayer: music by choir; ad- dress, P. M., C. H. Moore; address, 'N. Bennett; sdng, “The Comforter Has Come ;” ‘address, W. C. Carter? paper, 1. RK. Johnson; closing song, “Abide with Me." ...Doss White has returned to Bir- mingham. ...Mr. and’ Mrs. Lytle enter. tained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones... John Wynn had the misfortune to break ‘his leg last week....Mrs. Emma Hamilton, of Chattanooga, ‘Penn, is. on the sick’ lst....Will. Williams has’, re- turned from’ Birmingham, Ala... The Freeman can be found on sale every Sat- urday at Dr. A. W. Davis" drugstore In Tuscumbia, Ala....‘The interesting paper read by E. R. Johnson at the Masonic in- stallation ‘was ‘listened ‘to with great at tention....The Bible Band had their an- nual sermon preached last Sunday by Hew B. Crawford. JACKSONVILLE, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr, Hubbard, of this clty, died recently at Minneapolis, Minn. after'a long illness. He was a man well liked by ail and was well known in this city, where he had livea for fitty years. ‘He departed this life at the agen of eighty-one years. His many traits of character endeared, him to Tany by whom he will be missed. "Rev, Henderson had charge of the services, which were held at the A, ME, church June 28 in the presence of @ large audi: enee. Rev. ‘Henderson. was" asssited “by Revs, Muse and Kirk.” Mr Hubbard wes ‘a member of the Bastern Star and Ma- Sonie order. ‘Two sons, Maurice and tle ward A. H. Hubbard, one sister who lives in Evanston, Til, survive him. Interment took place in East Cemetery... ..The excel- ent. program rendered. by ‘Misses “Alberta O'Leary and Josie Waddle at the Bthel A. M. ©, chureh Sunday afternoon, June 21, Was fairly well attended, ‘The Program Was as follows: ‘Chorus, ‘No. 160) recita- tion, “Berle Ross; recitation, “Mabel Lee Eertiss ong. choir song, Allee Johnson, Earl Briscol; chorus, No.’ 158; recitation, Mary Johnson; recitation, Harvey. Yates! recitation, Carrie Johnson; song, choir; Gialogue, ‘seven pupils recitation, Nanna ‘Trumbo : vocal solo, Alice Johnson’; recita~ tion. Bevie Boss; tecltation,Cliota Hil; recitation, Bertha’ ‘Trumbo; song, five fins, No: 57 recitations by Koy’ Ross, izzie Harris, Opal Bell, Juilus Harris; sn, chorus, No.°174 }recilations by Paul Briscoe “and Bugene “Harris; vocal solo, ‘Opal Bell } recitations ‘by Minnie Jackson and Bevie Ross. ..'The funeral of iey Sey- mour, who died Saturday, June 20, was held ‘Monday ‘afternoon, June 22, at ‘her home on’ Bpler street, at 2:30 glock. Music was furnished by. Misses ‘Serena Herman, Lottie Davis and Matilda Smith. ‘The floral offerings were beautiful, and it charge of Misses Glendora and’ ‘Olivie Brown and Gertrude Herman and Bessie Winey. “Tey was a lovable child and will be greatly. missed. “She was @ member of Mt. Emery Baptist Church, and Rev. Cromwell conducted the" services, She Teaves a mother, two sisters and’ three brothers. “Interment took place in East Cemetery... Miss Annie Byers, of Alton, was in the’ city recently, visiting ¢riends, we. Word. was recently’ received of. the Sérious iliness of Mrs. Bleanor Mitcherson, of Alton, Ill. Mrs. Ollie Williams left to be ‘at “her bedside,...Mrs. Nancy. Brown Easley, who had ber ankle sprained. re- cently,’ does not seem ‘to get_along very Well... Mrs, Files had the misfortune re- centiy ‘fo fail and sprain her foot, which ie ‘very painful. -- Many’ people attended the pienle at Havana, Il, June 26... Mrs. George West, of South Sandy st, is Quite iil at this writing... -Mrs.” Joseph Wheeler, of North Prairie st, royaily en- tertained Mrs. Alice Barly and. daughter Nellie, at an excellent ‘supper, Friday evening, June 20... Miss litta,’ Stewart, Who has been attending Wilberforce Col: Tege, in Ohio, has returied home..*-Word Was’ received of the deaths of Dea Byers and Kittie Byers, in Alton, Ii, well known here....Mrs. Mitcherson,” of” South Lur- ton st, was indisposed ‘a ‘few days last Week.,Born, to Mr. and Mrs. William Gray, of South Bhey st, a fine daughter. wars Will Blye. is living on South, Meu- iaisterre’ st... Cornelia Wright, of Sin= clair, Ii, is visiting Mrs. Wheeler, on ey eke oe M'ALISTER, OKLA., AND PITTS- BURG Co. Special to THE FREEMAN, The Teachers’ Fourth Congressional District Normal was a great success, with 150 In attendance. Tt was held at. Harts- horn, Okla., and conducted by Prof. J. Wilson Petiis, principal of the city school at MeAlester:' Prof. Benton and. Prof. Vanhorn, of Hartshorn and Oberlin, Okla. Hartshorn is a beautiful city or village, on the electric car line, 14 miles from MeAlester, an. ideal place for’ a normal. Those who attended the normal were noi required to take an examination. At the closing session. the teachers rendered a program, which was grand. Able _ad- (iresses were delivered by Prof. Benton, Prof. Pettis and Prof. Vanhorn, and Prof Hill’ and Prof. Burnsides, of Boswell Some very interesting papers were read The teachers organized a. teachers’ asso- ciation. ... Masonic Lodge 59, A. F. and A. M. held their annual election, Thurs- day, June 18, as follows: 1. B.'McDan- jel, Sr, W. ML; C.J. Lain, 8. W. James Brown, J.’ W.; Matt Brown, secretary ; HH. ‘Cleaver,’ C.; C. H, “Robuck, treas- urer |’ Mr. Cox, tyler. Ail were installed last Wednesday, June 24, by Past W. M. J. W, Thompson... Mrs,” Baily will leave for Kansas City’ this week...-Dr_ M. C. Clabourn, president, of the State League has left for Guthrie.....The “jim crow” demurrer will be argued at Guihrie, June 29. Pittsburg county people are, urged to meet at Hartshorn, Okla., July 2, to hely face the “jim crow” fight. DICKSON, TENN. Special to THE FReeatan. Mrs. Mattie Greer, of this city, left May 5 for Chattanooga, Tenn., for’ a few months’ stay, On ‘June’ she met with a serious accident, and was carried to the hospital and grew steadily worse until Friday, June 26, she died. Her remains were brought to this elty for burial, Mrs, Greer was a member of the Household of Ruth, who took charge of the services, which were held at the M. B, Chureh at 10 o'elock. The sermon was preached by Rev. Vain, IRONTON, MO. Special to THe Freeway. Miss Birdie . Collier, daughter of Mr. and Mr. B.D. Blanks,’ died June 23, at the age of 28 years, 11 months and 23 days. Miss. Collier was a successful teacher in the public schools, and a mem- her of the Calanthe Court,” “She was a lovable young woman and highly respect- ed, Her father, mother and one sister survive her. ‘The funeral services were held at the M, E. Church, conducted by Rev. Poston. Roys and girls can earn more than what it requires to keep them In school books and clothes by selling The Freeman every Saturday. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Special to ‘THe FREEMAN. "The B. ¥. P. U. held thelr annual ses sion on the 24th at the Fifth Ward Bap- tist Church and closed on the 28th inst. The session was a grand success, and our citizens enjoyed a treat listening to some of the most able ministers of the connec- tlon, rendering sermons of Christ and the cause. We will be giad to see the day come when our preachers can find some- thing else for their texts than their de- nomination. ‘The people are tired of it, And it looks very small in the speaker: The delegates (were ‘highly. enteriained white Inthe city, and the session was @ financial “success. "The Fifth “Ward ‘Chureh has been’ Yieautitully. remodeled. az..leana. Craven died on the 25th, at Gracds, Key, "with ‘typhoid fever, while Visiting! her ‘parents. “Miss Craven’ was @ Christan “and a” “handsome ‘young. indy, Her ‘many soclety friends mourn her de- nise....G. “TR, “‘Wedford, of Woodiong, Tenn., attended the State Teachers Insti: tute “at Nashville, which closed on. the 26th, “and won the ‘place on the Toll of honor.” ‘We are glad to learn of Prof. Ted ford's’ success. “It. speaks well for the Tace.....‘The Dabny Bros. orchestra ban= quet,” given ‘at ‘Buck's Hall on. the 26th, Wasa’ great success,....Don't forget The Freeman. It doesn't forget you. ROUTE. RABBIT'S FOOT COMPANY—Pat Chap: pelle, owner and manager, Wayeross, Ga. July (8; Jessup, 95 Bastman, 205 Cochran, 11. FIDLER & SIBLTON—Olymple Theater, Chicago, Hl. week of July 4 BARNUM & BATLEY—Wheeling, W. Va, July, 6; Unrichsville, 0.. 7; Columbus, &; Piava. 9 Marion, 10 Anderson, 11, WALLACE TTAGENBECK Aurora, Neb, July" 6; Hastings, 7; Holdredge, & } Met Cook, 9; Ft: Morgan, Col, 10} ‘Dens ver, i. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly ‘send. for mail, as the names. will appear four times and ‘then returned to writer or dead-letter Office. “Tt "would prevent delay if-all-per= formers would. send Toute from time. to timeand’ letter could be forwarded at ‘aoe. Gentlemen's List. Anderson, J. W. Minstrels. Glare James BH. Powell, Clarence. Crosby, Goldie, Prof, Robert Brown, Drakers, Alfred. St. Glale, Harry. Johnson, Bille, ‘Smith, Andrew: Jones, A. Ge Simpson, Fred. Johnson, oy. ‘Putt Homer. James and Moody. Whitney, & Tutt, Tavion, ‘The Great. Willis: Ysane. Mar. New Orleans Ladies’ List.’ Kersands, Laura. Russell, Emma, WANTED, WANTED, At once, for Carroll's Great United Shows, Good tube and cornet. players, mate and female Singers and dancers” Good lady singers and dlancors wanted at all times. State all in frst letter. Don't write if'yon can't make 00d. ‘Address ail letterw to J. "We Bolianngn® per foute: Audubon, fa,, June 200 July 4: Colfax. Tacduly oto. At once for Wim. Walker's Band and Coontown 400 Co, with Heinz Bros.’ Shows, All must be strictly sober and reliable. Address, The Free- man or Cincinnati Billboard. AT ONCE! An energetic and experienced man- ager 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 R. W. THOMPSON, 1948 Wallace Place, N. W., Washington, D.C Coming Soon FOOT 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, | —THE— 66 HOLTON” BAND INSTRUMENTS Are Used by the Best Colored Musicians in Preference to Any Other. PG. Lo sided one of allt 2; Soiree rast golotete tn the $ectheY ole also one of the most ef Elout bandmasters being sonnocted with the Wallace-Hagenbuck show the it Seaon He hinge used the “New Pro: Sortioa” cornet and has his bend ae Feeney” Siophtlon of our fastra- instruments, His opinion Peg = 2 : Ce ai re : be) e88 : pee Lange fe Beorono, Ino. Bopt. 1. Prank Holton, Chicago, fil: Dear Friend:—After thoroughly test ing the qualities of your “Now Pfoper- tion’ cornet you sent met found ita comet for all lines of tusinesn: {have Played al tho standard makes, ob foe oth business work and sole: f find tho New Broportion® cornet ie cornet I cheerfully recommend it to anyone wwito wants fhe beet. P. G, LOWERY, Cornet Soloist and Bandmaster, “Holton” instruments are sold for cash of on fastaliments, “We allow & seeck's trial before the deal io closed 20 Phere aboolatly nak in prchaning ‘them, ‘The “Holton” is the instrument Uhat ig coming. to be universally used fend all up-to-dato musicians should find out ‘about. them. "Our catalogue and other Literature free on requests FRANK HOLTON CO., 160-171 Gladys Ave, - Chicago, IL ae IRMESS i 5 Oe A i \ f @ ee Ae ae Gee ie aor Ese a Aer ee i 6 THE NEGRO TO HIS MOTHER. —By Leslie Pinckney Hitl.— ‘O mother, there are’ moments ‘when I know God's presence to the full; the city stree! May, wrap me in the tumult and the eat Of futile strivings; surly winds may blow ‘Their winter-wilting freeze of hail and snow, And (all iny hopes fall shattered in de- feat ; But in my heart the springtime blos- soms sweet, And heavens seems very near th eway I £0. ‘These moments are the angels of that prayer ‘Which thou hast breathed for many a troubled year With bended knee and swarthy stream- ing face ; “Uphold him, Father, with a double care. He is but mortal, yet his days must bear ‘The burdens of ‘the world—and of his The New Bngland Conference of the A. M. B. Church’ as announced by Bishop Gaines to meet at New Bedford, Mass., on July 8. ‘The Baptist Foreign Mission Board paid nearly $6,000 interest on borrowed money. It takes $100,000 every quarter to pay all the bills of the foreign mission work. ‘The Foster Drug Go, of Little Rock, Ark, enjoys the distinction of being ond of the very few Negro business establish- ments in which the United States govern- ment has a sub-postal station. One hundred and seventy-five diplomas were awarded graduates at the Tuskegee (Ala.) commencement this year. ‘This is the largest number of graduates turned out from any institution in the South. From Bristol, Pa., comes the news that the ‘will of the late’ Bllzabeth "Lacy, of Wrightstown, Anna M. Reading. a colored Woman who was for tuany years a faith~ ful servant of the deceased, inherits. at S2-acre farm worth $5,000. Relatives: of Mrs. ‘Lacy ‘receive “the furniture of the farmhouse and much valuable silvreware. Rev, C.F. Choolazi, B.S. M. A., grad- vate of ‘King’s. College. Oxford, “trinity College, University of Berlin, special ec. Glesiastical’ envoy of King” Menelik« “of Abyssenia. and descendant of line. of ecclesiastical priests of Abyssenia, 3,500 years, ‘says that. fva, “Moses, Solomon nd Homer were Negroes. He’ says. that Solomon's mother was a Cushite and that the’ Abyssenians was the only Cushites in ‘the world. ‘One June 5, the comer stone of the colored “Pythian ‘Temple was, laid by the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Lou- isiana. “The new. temple will be a six- story structure, of steel construction, ab- Solutely fire proof, ‘and. will compare fa- Yorably with the best inthe State. ‘The Building Committee is composed of S. W. Green, ‘chairman ; John ‘D. Brown, secre- tary;' J. W. Cook, Dr. Hi, H. Ford and Hon. ¥.B. Smith. A. Mr, Retter, @ deat mute who is in charge of a school for Negro deaf mutes and blind at Hampton, Va. is in Raleigh, NN. C,, ‘inspecting the schools there. « He finds ‘a Negro deal mute by the name of Roger O'Kelley, a graduate of this school, and in the senior law class of Shaw Unt Xersity soon to graduate to be the only Negro deaf mute lawyer in the world. ‘There are two White deat mute lawyers, one in Chicago, the other in San’ Brant Senne Set Pane ee ae ae mosynary institution, the only institution Of its kind in this part of the State. It is to be a home for frlendiess and home- Tess’ colored girls and will be known as the Flyorence Lily Home. A. petition for incorporation was filed ‘yesterday in ‘court. ‘Seven young colored women of this city are behind the movement, In the petition filed with Prothonotary ‘W.'M. ‘Bunnell, they set forth that the Purpose of the home is to provide for the spiritual, mental, physical and social welfare of colored girls without home or friends, ‘The home is to. be managed bdy'a board of trustess ‘of three members of the Association. ‘The Association will have no capital stock and its yearly in- eee Seat Cone ance BE OO., Joseph L. Lee, a wealthy Negro hotel proprietor and caterer known all-over the Zountry for the excelience of his cuisine, Wherever established, died at Boston; Mass, June 14, aged 65. He was. was dorn in, Charleston, S.C. and was pres: ent at the bombardment of Fort Sumter, He was the son of slaves and was him: Seif ‘a slave until the close of the war. He came ‘North in 1865 and ran a cater: ing ‘establishment. where he became. fa- mous among Back Bay entertainers. He eontrolled the Woodland Park Hotel, the Tesort for college teams in’ training,” and Squantum Yan, famous for its fish ding hers: He was the inventor of a bread Puaiting machine which made possible. the “Bread Trust," the National Bread. Com- pany, with a ‘capital of $3,000,000,000. ‘The Phyllis Wheatley Home for colored Women, at 630. Forest avenue, Chicago, Une was dedicated. June 15, "before larige number of persons. ‘The home was Tounded by the ‘Phyllis. Wheatley” club, Tormed: twelve years ago at Fifty-firet Street and Dearborn, to better the neigh Dothood conditions “of. the colored peo- pie, fis a tworstory. and basement brick fuitaing, purchased recently. for $4,000, The home Will be devoted to. the. Interests oof frlendiess colored witls arriving in Chi- fago from the South and elsewhere, The Sing may obtain board at the low rate Br Suse 4 week. Mrs. Bitzabeth Lindsay Davis tx the president of the club and i in charge of the home. Phyllis Wheatley Was a slave girl, who was brought from Africa in 1778, and Sold to @ well-to-do family in Boston. She Showed ‘wnusual intelligence, “and became ihe Ast [poctess of her Face in America. ‘The incorporators of the Mound Bayou (liss.) “Oil Mil” and. Manufacturing Co Inet of May 29th and organized under the Charter, granted by the State of Missi Sippt, by tlecting a board of directors, and Set of officers, to serve for one year.” The Tule’ place in Mound Bayo i the, ofc Of the Mound Rayou Olt Mull and Manu. Yacturing Co. ‘The office force is “hard Atit trom. morn tll nosht.” saya & corre: Sbondent, “and it. seems. that. the colored ple, from ail over the country have Just Begun’ to. take stock. in. the enterprise.” During ‘the meeting of the directors. ob ‘May 25, ‘a committee was appointed to. sc lect and secure site for the plant. secure Plans and specifications, and contract. for Pullding “Wis committee” has. already gotten down to business, and we expect t hear the ringing of the saws and ham- mers, in the very near future, Just think Dt it, & hundred thousand dollar enter prise, owned and controlled ‘by Negroes, Bnd this plant located In a Negro town— cea Stee NEGRO PRIEST CELEBRATE MASS. Three Negro priests celebrated, mass at St Peta Claver's Colored Catholic Shure in Baltimore recently. It was the first timo in the history of the Catholic chureh' in ‘the United States that the officiating priests at a mass have all been Negroes. This is because there are only three Negro priests in the eureh in this country. They are Rev. John Henry Dor- Sey of St. John's College, Montgomery, ‘Ala., who was the celebrant; Rev. Ran- @otph Uncles of Epiphany College, Wal- po cie teenie suet eer cote Sie uaaie ot the Apostolic Mission’ House of Wash- ington, sub-deacon. | NATHAN ALEXANDER MADE REGISTER. Hon. Nathan 1H. Alexander, of Mont- gomery, Ala. who has for the past four years served the Government here as Re- celver of the Public Land Office, has been promoted by President Roosevelt. to the more important position of Register of the Public Land office, succeeding Col It D. Johnston, a Southerner, who has been holding the ‘office for several years. Mr. Alexander brings to this position especial fitness, and in holding this particular place he wili be filling a position which no man of the race has ever held before in the State of Alabama, The colored people of Alabama and of this section cordially appreciate the President’s recognition of this worthy citizen. ONLY NEGRO BANK IN ARKANSAS CLOSES DOORS. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June 19.—The Capital City Savings Banks, the only col- ored bank in Arkansas, Went into the hands of a receiver to-day on request of Charles B. King, the cashier. Marvin Harris was appoitited recelver by Chancellor Martineau. Because an il- literate Negro had overdrawn his ac- count and the check was turned down the report was started that the bank was in- solvent, causing @ run, ‘To-day several hundred colored depositors appeared, clamoring for their money. ‘There was only $2,000 on hand and the doors were hot opened. ‘The liabilities are about $75,- 000, with assets considerably in excess, Following the failure of the bank came an application for a receivership for the People's Mutual Ald Association, a life insurance company operated on ‘the in- dustrial plan in connection with the bank. Mr. Harris also appointed a receiver for ‘Mis earkume BRYAN PRAISES NEGRO ORATOR. Noted Nebraskan Presided Over Re- cent Inter-Collegiate Debate. LINCOLN, Neb—(Special—The great intercollegiate debate, held in this city, June 14, between Nebraska and Wiscon” sin universities presented a great oppor- tunity for the Afro-American that’ was improved to the fullest. When the Wisconsin party alighted from thelr Pullman all “eyes were on Marshall, who was driven to the best ho- tel in. the city, where he put up. ‘Eriday night the hall was packed with 1,500 people. ‘There were a brass band, orchestra, a quartet and Bryan Marshall's oratory completely captured the great crowd and it was full three minutes before the applause ‘subsided after he had. fin- ished. Mr. Bryan, as did hundreds. of others, declared that Marshall's speech was the finest ever heard in Nebraska. Led by Mr. Bryan, the gentlemen with their wives and daughters pressed forward to grasp the hand of the most. brilliant Agro-American orator in. the northwest, Eugene J. Marshall. NEGROES OPEN DEPARTMENT STORE. Special to THe FREEMAN: ‘At the corner of Forty-sixth street and Eighth avenue, New York City, on Wed- nesday evening, June 10, the doors of tie first colored department ‘store dn that city Were thrown open to the publle, ‘marking the “dedication of the Metropoittan , and Realty” Company's pultaing. Nearly. 2,000 stockholders of the ‘company crowded. tn to "hear the exercises “and. to inspect. the Various Toms. of the spacious. bullding. This splendid ‘plece. of property, In. the heart of the great business section of the West Side, was secured by the Metro- politan Mercantile &' Tealty "Company Rbout a year and & half’ ago. Te was then a four-story structure, measuring 80 feet on Blgiith avenue, and 150 feet on West "Forty-sixth street. ‘The’ butlding has. been remodeled at @ cost of about $50,000, and is now six stories and base- nent, with a hundred-foot 1, running back’ trom the side street. tt ts the plan ofthe company to open a large. depart- ment store here, whieh will “occupy” five Stories and basement. Upon the sixth floor An" elevator willbe’ installed. whien wil Win be the general omices of the compnay. The arrangement will permit the real es: tate, "mercantile, benehelal and” banking departments being ail under one roof. An levator will be installed which ‘Will add to the convenience. LABOR RECOGNIZES THE NEGRO. Iron and Steel Association Admit Col- cored Workmen. Special to THs FREEMAN > PITTSBURG, Pa., June 26.—By action of the annual convention ofthe Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and ‘Tin Workers, in session at Youngstown, the Negro has" been admitted to. industrial equality by organized labor. ‘This Is. as important an ceonomic and sociological development as any of recent date. How far reaching its influence may le we do not attempt to predict. ‘The settled policy until now has been to keep the black man apart and subordinate; to deny him an equal chance in the struggle for existence in the ranks of the skilled occupations by handicapping him with ineligibility for membership In organizations controlied by White artisans and craftsmen. Now’ the turn of a long lane has been reached and 80 far as one labor organization is con- cerned the color of a skin and the curl of hair is no longer tabooed. In the labor world as elsewhere the Ne- gro bas been the victim of race prejudice sagmething that ts inborn and ustally de clared to be incredable.. He bas been Kept on the outside because of it by those Who hold the portal, and to gain a foot- hold and entrance anywhere he has been compelled to show himself In some way to be possessed of greater ability. than his white competitor in his particular line of effort. | His superiority may only. con- sist In ability to live cheaper and there- fore to. work for less, but that alone makes him dangerous in industrial -pur- suits to competitors. We may. be_surd that he Is not admitted to such protee- tion and privileges as the Amalgamated Association can’ throw around him. in Southern Birmingham no less. than in Northern Pittsburg, because the | mem- bers of that organization differ in any degree from those of others in, their nat. ural attitude toward the members of £0 opposite a race; we may be sure that as individuals they are not in the average less antipathetic to the Negro as a Ne- gro. We can be certain that the action Fecorded isnot. because they love him more, Dut that it is due to economic ne- cessity. Nevertheless, its importance. Is not to be underestimated. It means that black men in competition with the mem- bership of the Amalgamated Association have ‘consciously or, unconsciously © fol- lowed the precepts of Tuskegee and there. by won @ measure of equality which would not have been accorded to violence or con- ceded by cultivated sentiment. ‘They have proved themselves in an industrial compe- tition and what followed fs merely the ap- plication in a particular case and to par- Heular conditions of th enatural law of self-preservation, not for the benefit of the persons to whom privileges are ex. fended, but for that of the ones who yield em. What are you doing with your mon- ey? Why not invest in College Heights? THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. strange one, and perhaps is not known | fite otel OteG, |X! of the Haitian Island. Owing | ter 1 ame: ———-~ |to the repeated adttempts at govern- | Sund ment breaking the custom held in Th as arte force by the consulates is perhaps | She By W. Forrest Cozanr. for the better operating as some high- | int ae er law, holding a sort of “autonomy” | bitio R. in spite of civil strife. Haiti proper is Mr. R. A. Gibbons, the veteran head- Dall waiter at the National Hotel, Peoria, ill,,|rarely disturbed as has been noted in | insti a recently celebrated his twenty-fifth annl-|recent days. San Domingo has been | larit versary im that hotel as headwalter.”""” |the scene of the more frequent dis- |e There is a. ively ane on as, to who eee Nord | Alexis sioubéless nize will ‘be headwalter, at’ the Grand Hotel, {feels deeply the humiliation of the | wher was formerly in charge at the Grana |Pecent outbreak since he has made a |") ss reputation for peace. Six years is al ne \ vent of summer, the headwalters of Waste | Cousicersule Period for an elective rul-| tore Watoat qm, ae meadauuers of Waster, even in countries that are more |¥!%s season, many’ of them have gone to tueit| “duiet” than those of the volcanic | matu summer engagements. belt. His anxiety to crush out all hopes aoe Our ola friend 1 W. Tarper, i= again [Of future outbreaks ina quality. of | {sm at the head of the helin at the Catwract|fitness and which quality no doubt | wit Tnterational Hotel, Niagara Falls, N.Y: |has assured his official longevity. It, | mucl gne of the Head and Second Waiters’ Assoelation, |MOre than likely, is very chagrinning | [ip Meats |e een Serene sociation: /¢5 him to know that he can not exer- | stad Asian’ the: kag Tipel eteeee aha else full authority on the island strik- |he DE | auccenstit young headwalters of the East, |! Out those who would strike out |i % Mnvgonn “Gloster, “the eMelent’ head: [his government. This does not con- | tate alter at the Stening Hotel, Wilks Barre, | template any scheme of massacre, nor font: |e aember of the Head and’ site'Wate: [G0 We suspect that Nord Alexis enter-| “tur |ers’ National Benefit Association. tained any such motives. The lives ss been eee of foreigners when not engaged in un- to the} Mr. B.C. ‘Tyree returns for the fourth|dermining the government should be| M: so, tHe | season as headwaiter at the Chippewa, Ho ster Of tc Mackanae island, Mich. ar. ‘tyres |Sacred—the lives of any sort of men, | ished 1s been |Was formerly at the Palace. Cincinnatl,|native or foreigner. The Baltimore | Tusk e MSie [and Algonquin, Dayton, 0.7 aigo the Men“ | Sun says: a Speaiti|ger Hotel San “Antonio, “exase ithe 8: a mos T iopewa is can on the Seropean plan.) ie thore word uo forcienasa fn eiatn |The ‘The Cliffs Hotel, Newport, R. 1, was burned last week, causing a loss’ of ‘about 375,000. ‘The house had not opened, but Manager J. 'V. Jordan, wit eand. twelve- year-old son were in the house, and es- caped by jumping out a window, which fa- tally wounded the boy. ‘The loss of this house Will be sad news to the walters. It often happens that a headwaiter who is over-anxious to please, and ‘rushes ‘up to a party of guests everytime they hap- pen to look up, will lead the guest to be- Heve that the waiter is inexperienced, therefore is not capable to give good serv- ice. My advice is tgoive the guest a good walter and then give the waiter a chance. Just how much a headwaiter should in- terfere with a waiter while serving the guest or a party, caused quite a. dis- cussion among a ‘group of headwaiters, While attending the National convention, It was the consensus of opinion that a nervous or over-anxious headwalter would often mar the service by interfering too much with the waiter, causing him to get nervous, sulky or rattie-brained, ‘The hab- it of some headwaiters snapping their fin- Gers, creating excitement, and making grandstand plays was also condemned. TRAINING THE COLORED WAITER. Some one of a utilitarian as well as an altruistic tum of mind should spend. his fife in an effort to redeem a portion of the Negro race by making neat, cleanly, eff cient, trained waiters out of the young men of color, Perhaps military discipline, rooming facilities, with proper equipment and proper supervision when off | duty ould result in a product that might ald in the solution of one of the most sert- ‘ous questions confronting the American hotel keeper. ‘Our high-priced, profitable hotels, will, of course, always’ employ trained, white male walters, but the thousands of estab: lishments where good and heavy. work Is to be performed, and which are located far from the labor supply, are confronted with conditions constantly’ growing worse. "he Negro “has it in him” to be a good waiter. Most hotel proprietors and man- agers of experience admit this. ‘That ad- mission should go far towards the further acknowledgment that he can be made a good waiter. It is simply an instance Where ‘no effort at scientific or, technical training has been attempted. The hap- hazard, methods that apply in the educa- tion of white male waiters is a. failure With the Negro in our day.” A. school. for this race only, and for the training sim- ply of waiters, nothing else, Is a subject worthy of Investigation. It’ might aid in the solution of the Negro question. As matters stand now, most patrons as well as employers unite in the preference of the girl or woman waiter, unless it be an establishment that can afford to pay for the. better class of the male Caucasian. Hotel men should unite in a petition to the public schoool board in localities where colored material exists and see wWhat might be accomplished in this diree- tion.—Hotel World. We are glad to see the World interested in the elevating of the colored waiter, but as we have often stated the theory of an institution to train waiters, even though there were a dozen of them, would not be able to supply the demand, there- fore the school plan would not be success- ful. TROUBLE IN HAITI. We of the United States do not like to think of such a thing as a color line in Haiti, where the State is con- trolled by Negroes, where the popula- tion is largely of Negroes. In fact, the white man is ingenious if he se- cures a foot of land in his own right. Yet information comes of a source that does not admit of much doubt, that the recent attempt at revolution was the result of a misunderstanding between the blacks and the mulattoes. Perhaps some imagination enters the matter, but those acquainted with the life of L’Overture, the first leader of the Negro Republic, will remember that it was the question of color that caused the greatest dissention In his government. Before he eame up from slavery and obscurity there were no identity between the blacks and the mulattoes. The blacks were slaves; the mulattoes were of education, rich- es, but without citizenship. ‘The third party were the white people who ex- ercised all civil authority, but from all accounts were extremely indulgent with the mulattoes, permitting them every privilege except that of citizen- ship. It is held that Nord Alexis, the Pres: ident, favors the mulattoes. L’Over- ture was accused of favoring the white people whom he recalled from exile after peace had been established, But they did not take to the Negro “‘em- peror.” And history repeats itself; we have only to think of what happened in our own country, in the Southern States to realize the trying situation of L’Overture—the position of slave and master reversed—the proudest blood, the humblest blood. He could fashion no secure government on such civil “seismicism”; he sacrificed here and there, but all to no purpose. In the present crisis the blacks are re- ported as being favored by General Firmin, the leader of the recent re- volt, and after which he took refuge under the French flag. Apparently the revolution is at end. ‘The outside world has not paid it much mind, other than a temporary dis- play of uneasiness at the possible re- sult of the government's method of ferretting out offenders, and wherein lives of foreigners were menaced. Doubiless Nord Alexis grits his teeth in rage in not being able to exercise full control in his country; not be- ing able to pursue offenders wherever they may be. But he has honored custom in permitting the asylums of immunity; he is reported as having accepted ‘such hospitality himself, hence could not consistently deny the same to others. ‘The custom of “immunity’ {s a The Greatest Razor Strop of the Century ee , ee % ae see DO gk: és , x i | . eo . i a | 4 : ee. “ We refer with pride to our latest creation, the “Superior” Razor Strop, which is a conswnited achievement of a tonsorial genius, and is the result of twenty years of trial, experimenting an v0'ttl knowledge. ‘This Strop practically marks a new era in American strop manufacturing. ‘The met! au care which is exercised in the manufacture of this strop is the limit of human ingenuity. (oe of most beneficial treatments is applied to this strop, which is our secret chemical mixture. ‘This mixtut® penetrates the air spaces between the molecules and contracts the pores of the leather to the vio. the same time killing every germ inhabitant of the animal skin. After having carried throug! 00" 1" septic process the closest grain possible is produced; increasing knowledge and modern science |i } Bes without a doubt that closeness of grain produces the finest cutting edge obtainable, ‘The hig! siawlatl of excellence and efficiency of this Strop is maintained by Mr. Haynes? rigid system of persova! 1s? tion of every strop during the successive stages of manufacture. The durability and practical v(ility of the “Superior” Razor Strop has passed beyond the questionable stage into a demonstrated fut. TH? “Superior” Razor we are offering in connection with our “Superior” Razor Strop, is made es)°«!*!l £0" us by one of the best razor makers in Germany, and we guarantee it to be first class. We wil! s nd pre paid to any part of the United States one pair of our ‘‘Superior” Razor Strops and one “Superio®” aor for $2.50, or $1.35 each, Do not send money in Ietter. Send all money by Postal or Express Money Order, payable to The Haynes Razor Strop Company, 335 Broadway, Dept. F., - New York City: strange one, and perhaps is not known outside of the Haitian Island. Owing to the repeated adttempts at govern- ment breaking the custom held in force by the consulates is perhaps for the better operating as some high- er law, holding a sort of “autonomy” in spite of civil strife. Haiti proper is rarely disturbed as has been noted in recent days. San Domingo has been the scene of the more frequent dis- turbances. Nord Alexis doubtless feels deeply the humiliation of the recent outbreak since he has made a reputation for peace. Six years is a considerable period for an elective rul- er, even in countries that are more “quiet” than those of the volcanic belt. His anxiety to rush out all hopes of future outbreaks in a quality of fitness and which quality no doubt has assured his oficial longevity. It, more than likely, is very chagrinning to him to know that he can not exer- cise full authority on the island strik- ing out those who would strike out his government. This does not con- template any scheme of massacre, nor do we suspect that Nord Alexis enter- tained any such motives. The lives of foreigners when not engaged in un- dermining the government should be ‘sacred—the lives of any sort of men, native or foreigner. The Baltimore Sun says: “If there were no foreigners in Haiti the inhabitants of the ‘Black Republic’ might, without loss to civilization, be permitted to exterminate each other. * * * Incendiarism, pillage, revolu- tion,a nd massaere are the normal con- ditions in that country. It might not be a bad plan if Haiti were fenced around and the population left free to fight it out until the last ‘general’ was gathered to his forefathers.” This is extreme indifference, and we say so very advisedly, since it argues the likelihood that Haiti will be let alone, to work out its own salvation. It is not so certain that this extreme indifference will continue. In fact, in- terest is picking up right along in spite of the assertion of the Balti- more Sun. It is with the Haitians to preserve their country, it should con- form to all the latter day doctrines of civilization that it be pointed to with pride. Haiti should make a noise in the world; it should be an ex- ponent of the highest possible develop- ment of the Negro race and where the limitations are infinity. Everything is about the island to make it grand and glorious—the gem of the Antilles, It should be as a magnet, drawing on the over-abundant population of Ne- groes in the United States and ospe- cially of the South, its proximity— for people who should delight in the glories of the Negro Republic. If Haiti fails with its chance—just write it finis—that’s all. The Negro race as an entirety, will have given up the ghost, and the idea of amalgamation will grow more detestable owing to the “unworthy” strain. THE DEMAND FOR AN EDUCATED MINISTRY. Realizing the demand among the Negro people for an educated ministry, the Tus- kegee Normal and Industrial Institute conducts, in connection with its other de- Partments, a Bible ‘Training School. ‘The courses of study are so arranged that not only ministers and licontiates may be ben- efited, but those also who desire to do bet- ter missionary work or become intelligent ‘Sunday school teachers. ‘The chief aim of the Bible ‘Training School is to afford a comprehensive know!- edge of the English Bible and to implant in the hearts of those who attend an am- bition to dedicate their lives to the eleva- tion and Christianization of their people Dally supplementary, exereises, designed to Instill habits of sobriety, cleanliness, regu- larity, and accuracy, ate provided: | ‘The teaching is wholly tndenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antago- nize any theological work being done else- where, but, instead, to assist all denomi- nations. During the past year the enrollment in the Bible Training School has been satis- factory, but the opportunity is now pro- vided for a considerabiy larger number. ‘The teaching is free, ‘The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, Jaun- dering, etc., 1s $8.50 per month. ‘The en- tranes feo is 37-00, 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. Lack of means should not, keep any one from entering the Bible School. If the student Is not afraid of work and study, he will succeed. ; For further Information address Booker ‘T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Insti- tute, Alabama. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. ‘Many of the young men who have fin- ished the courses in agriculture at the ‘Tuskegee Institute are commanding sala- ries ranging from $50 to $100 per month. The graduates of this department of the school are successfully employed as in- structors or as managers of important agricultural operations. ‘The school has an agricultural faculty of twenty instruct- ors, men who have received their training In the best agricultural schools of the country. Young colored men and women who de- sire to take courses in practical and scien- tifie agriculture are now offered the best opportunity to pursue such courses in one of the largest and best equipped schools for practical and scientific agriculture) to be found in the South. ‘The following courses are offered: Dairying, three-year course; dairy hus- bandry, two-year course: swine raising, two-year course; beef raising, three-year course; slaughtering, two-year course: fruit raising, two-year course; general farming, two-year course; truck garden- ing, two-vear course; care and manage- ment of cattle and stock, two-year Course ; poultry raising, two-year course. In addition, there is a special post-grad- uate course of one or two years provided for graduates of high schools and col- leges. We are especially anxious to have a large number of agricultural students who have finished high school or college courses. Any young man who is ambi- ous ‘enough to finish any, of the courses above mentioned can readily secure imme- diate 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 instruc- Jessup & Antrim Ice Gream and Fruit Ices For Church Entertainments, Weddings, Parties and Lodge Afairs. Phones {94 Main. sor-ser, 713-715 North Illinois St. Picture Frames L ——Made to Order.— % Off MONDAY SPECIAL All Mouldings that sell fron 7c to 18¢ per foot, today at just 4, 33<e to Ye per foot 223 Ind. Ave. R. E. WELL’S PICTURE PLACE. 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Thirkield, Li. + President Located in the Capital of the yoy Advantages unsurpassed. Ca s",.%tin faeres. Modern scientific © ,,{",% 4 equipment.” Plant worti, oye, Sa dollars. Faculty of 10), sg" lie last year. Unusual opportuni:.5 mete support. for see THE COLLEGR'OF anrs xp ENCES. Devoted to “iis ai ND Se Courses in English, Mathensatiog “PAR Greek, French, German, Tis. ltt ty, Blology, History, Pailoso iy Sue Social Beleness: such as are civen ty approved colleges. dic 8 Miller, A. NE, Dean, 88 ely THE TEACHERS COLLEGE, ay special opportunities for" pre niite teachers. “Regular collexe cy aos 3, chology, Pedagogy, Educat si, sic” ogres Of A. B.; Pedagosic:! viuscy St Ing to Pd, B. degree. Hix urate gist tn Normal ‘Praining, Music. ‘Sian uc ‘and Domestic Science." Grades hat 10 positions, “Address Ly. 4 A. M., Ph. D., Dean. Be Mocrg, THE ACADEMY. Faculty of tn. courses of four veers il) “ii Tse preparatory school. Adesso Cummings, A. M., Dean. ree 4, THE COMMERCIAL COLLEop Gourses in Bookkeeping, © Stangege Commercial Law, History, “civics Gives business and English hich-sehgo oe ucation combined. Address” Georg. Cook, A. M., LL. M., Dean, ‘ SCHOOL” OF MANUAL ants ayp APPLIED SCIENCES. “Huriisics 482 ough courses. Six Instructors. Otert Year courses in Mechanical snd cen et THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Inte. denominational. ’ Five protessors’ pee and thorough courses ot suds. stood English courses. | Advantas. 00 coms witha a great university. Stadene Ae Low. expenses. “Address Isanc’ Cari fy ‘THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE—ygp, ICAL, DENTAL AND PHARMACECH COLLEGES. Over 40 professors alee ern laboratories and equipment. Lass building directly connected with me Freedmen’s Hospital costing halt mili, dollars. Clinical facilities ‘not. suryaneal in America.” “Pharmaceutic. Colla: tt professors. “Dental College: 23 protcaone Post-graduate School and Polvelinic At dress Robert Reyburn, M.D, Dean, Kieth and W. streets, N.W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW—Faculty of § Courses of three years, giving thou Knowledge of theory and practice of lew, Large Ubrary. Occupies own bullding osite Court House. “Address Danae Leighton, LL.B, Dean, «20 Hi street, NW. FOR CATALOG AND sPrctat IN. FORMATION ADDRESS DIAN OF DE PARTMENT. PROFESSIONAL SCHOoLs This Razor is Perfect. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. SOME SPORTING COMMENT. — B. R. — In the guts of Gans and Nelson, the getting world has brought up another world that looks good to everybody in a way that is not as good to anyone. Joe is a confident that he will be able to make short work of Nelson that he and others have began to make preparations to right Packy McFarlane at the nearest bake, with a large wager in his talk. in back. The Gans did not seriously consider that Nelson had a chance to beat him in California, but he did not want to negotiate with Packey for a fight at a later time. Joe both holds the bishop's heart and as a gentleman, and he is confident that he can him, he says Packey will give him the hardest right of the present day 153-154. pickers, he never seen McFarland fight, but Ben Sling, my manager out West, who I consulted, is a great fighter, and their close friends of mine, tell me that Packey is there and would save my best to win," said Gans. "Sirly watched him trim Jimmy Britt and studied McFarland and Ben Sling, fight, and Ben think of the Chicago fighter. Packey is as clever as they come nowadays. I am told, has hard defense and can catch, has hard defense and any assailant. A man who can do that and his head can fight and Joe Gans is not unbeatable." "Men who stressed the fight between McFarland and Britt are greatly impressed with the Chicago lad's fighting, and while there are few who would not pick me to win, there are many who would bet that clincher can not stop him inside the box." it looks us through Packey and I could look up for what looks like a $40,000 purse, and I am anxious to be in the ring at the Packey in a small clap. I have met him on occasional occasions and he impressed me as being a clean-cut little girl. We he not in my place, but we are possible, but, things being they are, every word of advice I would save him would mean a blow to myself. Gans got in a chance to McFarlane day, when he Harvey Gilmore down and was groomed ahead on his own book without any guidance, to say a few things on that subject, but some more than any of the fighters to who have any pretensions to class and is therefore eminently qualified to talk intelligently upon the subject. Referring to the McFarlane-Gilmore inc. "Packey needs a manager, and needs one more now than ever before. This is no reflection of the mood at the end now, and it is when in that position that a fighter needs a manager. Were Packey picking up $200 and $300 parses he could handle his own affairs, but as he is to-day, he needs a manager." Al Herbert the Baltimore promoter, who first brought Joe Gans into promi- nation, a fighter, told me in Montreal the other day that Gans is confident he will knock Battling Nelson out inside of fifteen minutes. He was on July 4. In his letter to Berford the colored fighter expressed great joy over signing with Nelson and ad- dressed his life's aim had now been ac- When the representatives of the principles signed up for this bout both Nelson and Gauss had fights in view, and one Coffin was that the solemnities be called off, Nelson dropped his match with Scaler, and Joe who was signed up for the June date for Sam Berger's club, called off that match and started in training for the longer and more important bout. Jim Jeffries is one among many who doesn't thing Tommy Burns has acted right in the controversy with Jack Johnson by demanding a $30,000 certainty for the solemnities as strong as you like," said Jeffries, "that I consider Burns' actions a disgrace to the modern ring. Tommy Burns doesn't draw the cover line so long as he is willing to fight Johnson at all, he should do so under something like reasonable arrangements. I never dreamed of demanding such cutthroat terms when I was the active opponent as the Canadian is now doing. "With one exception, every fight I had was on the percentage basis; that is, so less to the winner and so much to the 15 and 25 percent," "It it is Burns' intention to fight Johnson at all he should do so under terms that will not cause every American sportman to blush for the hoggish and unimpactful tactics of the man they call the champions." * * * * Tony Burns has cinched that match with Lang, the Australian, and will soon have Burns will get $3000 for the antipodes. Burns will get $2000 for fighting the man who has tasted defeat at the hands of Bill Squires and Jack Johnson. Just so he would be willing to pay fancy prices for Burns and such a one does in combat is hard. Burns will do whatever Australian promoters figure that the soldiers after that voyage from California will fall for anything. Without making any big full about it, Mike Shriek will go to England in a few weeks to seek honors in the ring. He follows the footsteps of Tommy Burns in boxes, picking up some coin but, unlike Mr. Shriek, he doesn't worry anything soft in the fighting line. He very anxious to tackle Burns, does not will the color line on Johnson, or he will run on any of the English heavy weights which sports consider, why the foot in Reading, his home, for the last season so, but, seeing that there is a serious talent in England, he has made up his country, train faithfully and fight hard he knows how, trusting that he Burns is not with. Shriek is not that he has it on back Shriek, as once boxed in prizefinal and Mike claims to have easily bested him. As to Tommy Burns, always was his master and made him look at every time they met. At Toughest one, Mr. Marvin Hart, who holds a decision on heavy weight will have strong claims to demand recognition across the big Jake Schreck goes to England, Frank Kelvin Cincinnati, will accompany him as manager. Kelly will also take Billy Griffton, who will waiter weight, with Billy Kelvin. Kelly thinks the Schreck will prove big drawing cards in America, as there is a big demand for American players in that country at presses. Schreck is a very clever boy and much more of a spectacular order so in favor among the players. Schreck is a rough and ready man to take a lot of punishment and in superior condition has a chance with any man in the world. Mike has the best wishes for many friends in twon, and still feel in the world. some day become the heavy-weight champion. In connection with boxing in England, a well-known sport writer has received word from London that Tommy Burns is very much in disfavor just now. Jack has taken Burns' place with the swell follower in the Sporting Club and he is receiving much attention. If Johnson can get a purse he have no trouble getting men to meet him. He has been a Sporting Club and Marvin Hart anxious to go over and fight the black, it appears as though we will soon hear of two American scrapers who star in the stunt at the National Sporting Club. John McMahon Hart's manager, writes from Toronto, where he is attending the races, that he is ready to take Hart to England as soon as possible. He has written regarding purses and the pects to pick up some money on the side around the music halls. Several good players are likely to be arranged when these three noted heavyweights are all in London at the same time. GOODMAN LOOKING FOR BOUTS CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Louis Goodman, of this city, a clever 155-pound wrestler, is looking for dates and is now doing light training. He is a catch as a wrestler, but not as all. Goodman is challenging any one in the country at his weight and especially Northern wrestlers. He can be addressed with respect to the city. Chattanooga, Tenn., concerning wrestling. BLACKBURN TO GO EAST Jack Blackburn will go East in a few days to face the big fellows to the front. He has issued a challenge to fight some of the "biggest" in the middleweight division of the country. LOUISVILLE GIANTS TO VISIT HERE. The Louisville Giants, one of the crack teams the South, will play the A. B. C's on July 4 at Northwestern Park. A large number of Louisville persons will attend the game, and a great amount of fans are attracted to one of the star attractions of the season. FOUNCE BACK IN THE CITY. Founce, the well-known pitcher, has returned to the city, after spending some time with the Giants. Founce states that he was signed up for the season with the Giants, but owing to the management's failure to pay him a full, he jumped to good old Hoosier town. FIGHTERS GOING TO ENGLAND. Two more fighters have announced their intentions of going to England and meeting the best men they have over there to win the championship, the lightweight champion, and Bill Pappke, the middleweight ex-champion. Gans says he will sail in August if he defeats Battling Nelson on July 4, and if the winner of the McMahalan-Welsh fight does not consent to the fight, he will claim his claims he will star tover in September if Ketchell does not agree to fight him again. BALL. The Cleveland Giants who played here last week is one of the best base ball teams in the country. In their games they have played against every team they beat about every game they have played so far this season. Their battery is a strong one, always showing up in the clever light the team is an excellent team for the Birmingham (Ala.) team or the Leland Giants. GANS TO RETIRE THIS YEAR: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-Joe Gans the champion light weight of the world, is going to retire from the ring in September. He made this announcement here, and states that he really means to fight with Battling Nelson on July 4 at Colma, Gans will issue a challenge to fight the winner of the Packey McFarland-Freddie Welsh battle for the title on Labor day. If the victor declines to take him on then he will fight. McFarland says he is getting too old to fight, but wants to engage in these two battles. CHANCE AN AUTO DRIVER TAKES Listen to what Louis Strang, the auto driver, who won both the Savannah and the Briarcliff races, says: "When a human being travels on a racing car at the rate of two miles, or four miles, he is not ready to pedaling entirely upon his five senses for guidance, staking his nerve and judgment, his experience or inexperience with the course, against a thousand chances of disaster, or worse, he is presumably too weak, or too thin, he realize or remember it at the time? Never—if he wishes to win. "Accidents may happen to the best regulated machines, and to that extent the driver must unquestionably have and hold his hand when driving in a great race." CLEVER IMITATION OF RACE HORRE. Special to THE FREEMAN: STAIRINGTON, Ky.—The training camp at the fair grounds boasts a wonder in the person of an eight-year-old, whose name is John L. Hooks. Hooks with a pair of the cans which lie under the stairs give him a good imitation of a horse in action and he goes all the gaits. He trots, paces and canters, and closes his exhibition with some clever high acting. He has been at this about a year now, an heist he has done all on all tours. He can really trot or pace as rapidly as the average boy can run. He is much in demand among the trainers during the idle hours of the afternoon when he picks up many a penny for his original stunt, and this money he takes home to "Mammy Mat," who does a goodly portion of the washing for the trainers. Bill Evans has decided to take books along with him as a must-have when he goes out on the Grand Circuit this year. JEFFERIES OUT FOR BIG GAME. That Jim Jeffries is out for big game is evidenced by the latest offer he has made for a bounty he has agreed to hand up a $20,000 prize for Joe Gans to box the winner of the McFarlane-Welsh bout, said offerman Jeffrey Bottling. Batting Nelson when these two meet July 4. Jeffries wants the bout for the third week in August, and would like to win if CoFar would care to guarantee more than that amount for such a contest, and if Gans is victorious over the Cain, as though he would be rewarded cinched to Twenty thousand dollars is a THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. 1 Of the University of Pennsylvania, who has the record for 440 yard dash world of money for two light weights, and it would take a big crowd at high prices to get the promoter out in the clear, even holding a bout are large, and these, coupled with the purse, it would take at least a $25,000 gate for the club to break even. The outskirts of San Francisco has announced the prices of admission for the Gans-Nelson light-weight championship fight, which is scheduled for his club say 4 May. The seats are $3. $5 and $7.50; box seats, $10, $15 and $20. Nelson has many admirers in California, who believe he can hold championship and at the small figures above Carson expects one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a fight in the West. The last time Gans and Nelson met at Goldstein, he said he had not but he says he nearly had heart failure several times during the contest, as the outcome was uncertain round after round. He says he won't bet a dollar either way money, as life to him is sweeter than money. AUSTRALIAN TO FIGHT ATTELL. About this young Australian, Charley Griffin, whom Harry Pollock has brought here from England to fight Abetell for the featherweight championship, there is more or less of a mystery. He says he is a boss featherweight. The Antidorcs now want to fight Abetell the World's premiership among the 122ponders. He is going about it in a roughshod manner by challenging Attell to battle for the job, saying he make a weight of 123 pounds at the Griffin in when the mystery of Griffin comes in when it is shown by Australian papers that for an least three yeas Griffin never has missed the game and recently in England, when he boxed Driscoll and saved himself a clean defeat by losing on a foul, showed that 123 pounds he was too weak to do himself justice. Arthur Simpson, a local sporting man, was going to bring Griffin to this countryside, but he was Griffin was in England at the time and wrote to Simpson, saying he would cross the ocean and box under his management he could secure some good matches with Griffin, but Driscoll plainly stated that he could not do less than 136 pounds. Now, Harry Mack, his latest manager, states he is long along that Griffin easily make 122 pounds at the rimside. NEGRO COTTAGE HOLDER The Misses Biddle and a score of others of Philadelphia's aristocracy who have cottages at Atlantic City, N. J., are vexed. And it is just because, in the cottage across from the Biddles' home, the family of the Biddles, Anderson, president of the Beren School, Philadelphia have set up their household. But, then, the Anderson family are black. Formerly a Mrs. Burton owned the Anderson cottage. She was ignored by the blue blood family. She was vengeful. William Wanamaker and other rich Philadelphiaians who finance the Be- J. B. T. Of the University of Pennsylvania. rean School are to be asked to induce the family to take his family to some other family rean School. SALARIES OF NEGRO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES. The number of Negroes holding government jobs in Washington in 1892 was 2,237. In 1907 there were 2,785 of them. In 1912 there were 2,960 of them. In the same period the increase in the number of white employees in Washington was only about 9 per cent. The number of white government office examinations is constantly increasing. Comparatively well educated Negroes are perfectly willing, indeed glad, to take minor clerkships under the government, and to take positions of ability for the simple reason that the white man can do better. In Washington one government employee in every nine has a proportion is constantly growing larger. Most of the Negro employees at the capital fill minor places. They are laborers or messengers, women, elevator men or messengers, twenty-five men, who receive less than $500 each a year. But there are 222 of them in the District receiving more than $1,000 a year, and some have received less than $200. Ralph W. Tylier, auditor of the navy at a salary of $4,000, is a colored man. So are William T. Vernon, register of the district, and William T. C. deeds has been regarded for years as a praetisite to be presented to a Negro politician, but it is no longer the flat plum it once was. In 1882, when the recorder was paid in fees, he received $18,000. The tune of $18,000. At the same time he had on his pay roll tennegro clerks, getting in fees from $40 to $100 per month. Clauses have since been put on the salary. Among government employees outside of the District of Columbia the proportion of Negroes is 67.7% not so pronounced, yet there are 187,000 United States rolls. Eighteen of them receive annual salaries of $2,500 and over. Twelve hundred of them get more than $1,000 a year. Outside the District the increase in colored employees is chiefly in the Postoffice and in more Negroes are taking the examinations for clerks and carriers. BOXERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. Even to the last Terry, McGovern's enthusiastic followers were with him. The little fighter had his faults, but his friends couldn't see them. Terry might be wrong, but right or wrong he was Terry McGovern, the greatest little man of his inches the world ever saw, and we loved him much throughout until he said, "Boys, I'm all in, so I guess I'll have to quit." In his own city of Brooklyn, when he first began the boxing contest, he was always a good crowd when he boxed, and after he became generally known throughout the country Terry could depend on having his big following of any boxing contest in which he took part. George Dixon was well liked when he was in his prime, but when he could no longer make good in the ring his popularity waned considerably, through his careless living, although he has had a fountain erected to his memory—an honor which he did not always the star boxers who have their largest following personally, for many a scraper who never gets past the preliminary class has enough admirers to make him a star manager, hunt him up, Says Dick Kane of Philadelphia: "Take the case of the New York fighters, Danny McBride and Marty McCue, the latter now being an Assemblyman, the former an Assemblytrict; they belonged to rival social clubs, and it was the usual thing for the friends of each to form in a body and, preceded by a brass band, march in procession to the arena, where they would mean more money in the box office than would be the case where more noted men would fight in the windup. In small cities, especially in a manufacturing or town, a man becomes a sorb of her hero and certain of the people, and if he displays any ability at all his friends get the idea in their heads that their man is the greatest fighter who can be blind to his real ability and are to make foolish bets on his chances with some much better boxer when a match is made. Take the case of Horace Leeds, who was a boxer before he boxed Jack McAfee, in Fruit aldephin, when almost every hotel owner and saloon-keeper in that city would have been willing to have bet all he had to make a bet on the boxer Corbett. Dominick McCaffrey or any other of the big fellows of that day, while as a matter of fact Horace was not even a champion in his own class. "PLAY GOOD A NEW MOVEMENT. An industrial association has been proposed for the community of Indianapolis. The plan as thought out includes tilling the soil. In fact, the work will be based on the land. Space will be one of the requirements. Truck gardening will be largely considered as a means of support and as a matter of experiment and practice for the members of the association. This means that the project will be located out from the city. The object is to engage a class of colored boys and young men, also girls and young women, in useful lines of work, both in the sense of occupation and for training. The common and useful occupations are contemplated, and which will be engaged in from the standpoint of practice and profit. The management has in mind a work that will do very much toward sustaining the concern. For instance, laundry work will be solicited, done and delivered. The same idea will run through whatever is attempted—always with the view of making for greater efficiency, through AYLOR, who has the record for 440 yard dash. increased facilities, through experience. The further object will be to "furnish" competent individuals at the shortest notice to fill places in domestic service - waiters, housemen, cooks and women for all manner of domestic service. The scheme contemplates the making of good men for the farm, the dairy, the dining-room, the stock and the rest of it. In short, whatever kind of working man or woman that may be called for will be a part of the plan. The association will be a place to learn to do practical things, and at the same time making the work pay its way. It will endeavor to have classes in printing, carpentry, baking, sewing, tailoring, millinery, and, as said before, with the view of promoting the work through doing the work. Beyond all of this is to promote a wholesome community idea, the intelligent dispersing into all lines of endeavor, and also the spreading the gospel of mutual respect. At most times the race has two standards of respect—one for the white people, another for itself. This unconscious habit has had the tendency to fix a line of esteem over which the race seldom crosses. For instance, the line is drawn when it comes to giving patronage in a good and fulsome way to concerns conducted by colored people. The association can do much in overcoming the idea that the race has nothing to offer worth the while. The movement will be stimulated by the offering of rewards for the best results; fairs, picnics and such like will be meant as means of revenue as well as incentives. Music will be considered in various forms—a band, vested choir, choruses. Studies in books will be considered as desired. The scheme has in mind a religious phase, but which will take no denominational tinge. Those engaged in promoting the work of the association will be known as manager and assistant managers. General manager will apply to the head of the movement. Already considerable interest has been manifested by young men of trades who will help further the movement. 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Here are examples of what has been done to prices: $29.50 for a $150 gown. Of black chiffon trimmed in black lace, slightly mussed. $39.50 for a $95 gown. Of black net, appliqued in taffeta silk, a little damaged. $17.50 for a $50 gold spangled, feather-edge scarf of net. $17.50 for an $55 gown. White net over yellow silk, trimmed in French roses. Mussed. $25.00 for a $99 gown. Two-piece style. of white voile, trimmed in satin braid, silk drop. —Third floor, south. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Mrs. J. T. V. Hill is the guest of her son at Chicago. Bristo Morris will leave shortly for a trip to the West. Mrs. Grace D. Howard, of 2428 Superior street, is seriously ill. Prof. F. S. Delany, of Louisville, Ky., is spending the week in the city. A. E. Manning, publisher of The World, has gone to Denver, Colo. Charles Clinton, of French Lick is spending a few days in the city. J. Ed. Green, promoter of amusements is the guest of Elwood C. Knox. Mrs. Augustus M. Farland, who has been seriously ill is rapidly improving. Mrs. Mary Finley, mother of Howard Finley, died at Louisville, Ky., last week. Rev. McColl will occupy the pulpit at St. Paul Temple at the rally services tomorrow. Horrace Morris, of Washington, D. C., spent last week in the city visiting his sister. Mrs. Julia Lytle will leave Sunday to spend a week with her sisters at Cincinnati. Mrs. George P. Stewart is improving from a recent illness at her home in Fayette street. Tim Owsley, the well-known comedian, returned to the city Monday from Holton, Kansas. Rev. A. D. Williams, the evangelist will occupy the pulpit at Allen Chapel tomorrow morning. The Flora Grant Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. Venable in Yandes street next Friday. St. Paul Temple A. M. E. church will have an outing today in the grove at Twenty-fifth and Hillside avenue. The Girl's National Training School Club will meet at the home of Miss Mattie Tucker in Yandes street, tomorrow. Edward Lancaster, manager of the Louisville Giants, and wife, are spending the week here visiting relatives and friends. P. T. Walker, of Virginia delivered an address at Simpson Chapel last Sunday evening to an appreciative audience. Henry Martin, a widely known young man about town especially in the tailor business, died of consumption at his home in West North street last Monday morning. Mrs. Thomas Edmunds, of Washington, D. C., will come in two weeks to be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Carr Settles in North Senate avenue for several weeks. Miss Lillian Maxey entertained last Tuesday eveninw at her home in Jones street in honor of the Rev. Wood's daughter, Jessie, who will leave next week for Mobile, Ala. W. E. Scott, who has been studying drawing in the Chicago Art Institute is here visiting his parents in N. Senate avenue. Mr. Scott will further his studies at Paris, France. A committee of ladies will give a street fair July 17, in North Missouri street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets for the benefit of the Charity Organization. Admission 10 cents. 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 WASH SUITS SKIRTS WAISTS At Popular Prices S. L. KISER & CO., Washington and Delaware Sts. 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. C. W. Brown, of Makeneng, Basutoland, South Africa, who has come to this country in search of two hundred skilled laborers for residence in the Basutolands, will come to the city next week to deliver a series of lectures on "Ethiopian Movement." The Masonic Lodges Celebrate The Central, Trinity, Waterford, and Southern Cross Masonic lodges celebrated St. John's Day last Sunday at Masonic Hall, corner Delaware and Courts streets. The exercises were led by H. A. Rogan, W. M. after which followed prayer by Chaplain Stapleton. The oration of the day was delivered by James H. Williams, grand lecturer. The program was in charge of Henry Moore, E. C. Hamilton and F. D. Patridge. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Hunton Bible Institute was brought to a close last night and was a success in every particular. Much credit is due to Rev. C. W. McColl who conducted the study, also Messrs J. M. Ogdert, Bertram C. Day, George C. Bernie and Miss M. J. Baldwin who each gave an address. A feature of the closing was the presentation of a fountain pen to the Rev. McColl by the Sunday Morning Bible Class which was a complete surprise to him. This class will continue its sessions and is open to all men. It meets each Sunday morning at 8:30 a. m. and lasts one hour. On next Wednesday evening will be the regular monthly gather of the members and a special feature of this gathering will be that each member will be permitted to bring one friend with them, either male or female, refreshments will be served during the evening, also a stereocicon trip through the associations of the world by the state secretary this is well worth coming miles to see. Electric fan will keep you cool. A Floral Party. Mrs. Edwin F. Stokes was hostess to the "Decem Discipulae" club last Tuesday afternoon from three to six, at her home in West Thirteenth street. The entertainment was a floral party complimentary to Misses Beulah Beck and Olevia Chavis. The former is a member of the 1908 class of Shortridge High School. The party was a novel and pleasant affair. The rooms were prettily decorated with cut flowers and vines; the dining room was especially attractive with festoons of rose color and white, and many flowers of the same color. These being the club colors, the color scheme and floral idea were carried out in the dainty refreshments. A feature was the answering of floral conundrums. Miss Myrtle Broadie won the prize, a gold pansy, for answering the greatest number. The favors were beautiful handpainted floral place cards. Mrs. Stokes was assisted by her mother, Mrs. McCullum, Mrs. John Beck and Mrs. Charles Chavis. Those present were the members of the "Decem Disbipulae" club as follows: Misses Beulah Beck, Olevia Chavis, Myrtle Broadie, Mary Fields, Helen Pritchett, Maurine Moss; Flossie Davis and Rose Henderson. Business Locals Woodbine Perfume, Oh!howfragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges, Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178; Old, Main 4032. CORAOPOLIS, PA. Special to THE FREEMAN St. Louis, at 7:30 p.m. At the New Haven Baptist Church, at 11 a.m., Rev. J. L. Saunders preached to a large congregation, also at 7:30 p.m. At the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, at 11 a.m., covenant meeting was held at 7:30 p.m., Rev. Eubanks, of the North Side, preached at 7:30 Rev. A. H. Tibbs preached to a large congregation...Rev. Crockett, of Sharon, Pa., preached at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's, of the North Side, preached a week to spend a few days...Mrs. Gale, of Third ave., and Mublberry st., underwent a serious operation on her face, from which she is improving...Mrs. O. J. Hargreaves, who has been quite sick, convalescent. Miss Wren Winston returned home during the week, after spending several weeks visiting relatives and friends in Bridgeport, O. The latter visited the Baptist Church, Thursday, was quite a success. Those taking part in the program were: Mrs Wiley and Mr. Stout, duet; Mrs. Ferrell, paper; M. Haney, adjoining the Baptist Church, during the week and D. Douglas, duet; Miss Viola Douglas, selection...Mrs. R. B. Allen, of Cleveland, O., who has been visiting Mrs. Tortoise, during the week to spend several days in Pittsburgh...Arte Winston, of Pittsburgh, was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Winston, during the week...Mr. and Mrs. Vannale, of Elizabethtown, Pa., were the sisters of Mrs. Elizabeth Winston, week...Mrs. Thomas Parks, who has been quite sick, is convalescent. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Lawyer Wm. Harrison returned home last week from Chicago.... The A. M. E. last Sunday at $500.... Rev. Jeannine jacques to have a rally the second Sunday in July, at the Convention Hall, at 501 West California holds left the city for Fort. South, Supa THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER SERIES OF BIG MEETINGS SERIES OF BIG MEETINGS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HEARD SEVERAL TIMES Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, KY, June 24.—Dr. Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Institute, concluded here last night a series of remarkable meetings. On Monday evening, June 22, he was principal speaker at the University's Southern Association, on which occasion he spoke to an audience of more than 8,000 people. His great fame as an orator and his high achievement in the largest audience of the session of the largest to the great Armory Hall, where the meetings have been held. Delegates from twenty-seven countries as well as from nine other countries listened with rapt attention to his plea for recognition of the Negro as a citizen and as one deserving of the best support of the American people. It was an address pitched on an especially powerful floor, delivered with all the Washingtonian pride for the occasion, and won for him and his race the sympathy and interest of the hundreds gathered for the evening. His appeal was well calculated to help the Negro people who were not well and have no doubt that much good will follow the delivery of his notable address. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, S. C., one of the colored secretaries of the Inter-American League, also spoke for fifteen or twenty minutes. On the next day, at the special invitation of the board of managers, Dr. Washington addressed the industrial School of Law, which he honored the superintendent, Dr. Washington, Mr. W. H. Steward, the editor of the American Baptist, Dr. Washington's secretary, Mr. C. H. Steward, the secretary of the board of managers, were met at the gate by a band, made up entirely of the white boys of the institution, and escorted through the grounds to the assembly room where the students were gathered, white boys and girls, together with the colored boys and girls, were lined up to receive him, and were afterward reviewed by the board of managers, who were party. Colonel Leathers, who is cashier of the Louisville National Banking Company, introduced Dr. Washington in a splendid address. Many white citizens of Louisville were also present on this occasion. On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Dr. Washington spoke again in the Masonic Institute of letters of the Norton University, which Dr. H. Parish is president. The audience was almost entirely divided between white and colored citizens. In spite of the intensity of the discussion, the audience had gathered to hear this third of his messages. Dr. Washington spoke for nearly two hours with the same convoking of expression and with a darkness well calculated to help those who listened to him. During his stay here many social courtesies were performed, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Steward, by Dr. G. H. Parish and by the colored citizens of Louisville, more than twenty of whom, in carriages, met him at the depot on the street. The same afternoon a trolley citizen, ladies and gentlemen participated, went over all the principal lines of the city and the outlying territory. Dr. Washington is "at home" in Louisville, and is marked and distinguished consideration. FLINT, MICH. GREENVILLE. TEX. HATTIESBURG, MISS Special to THE FREEMAN Sunday was quarterly conference day at at Zion Chapel A. M. E. church. The presiding elder preached two powerful services and found...Mr. Sank Bolt and Miss Liggle Williams were united in holy matrimony, Rev. B. S. Williams officiating...Mr. Wilson has been changed from July 5 to August 15. Maud McCune is reporter for the Freeman from the A. M. E. church and all its connections...Mrs. Wilson and her daughter Woods...Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith their daughter, Miss Annie Smith, a birthday party June 24, at 500 6th street. The daughter, Lea Wade, Dotha Bolden, Mr. Chester Johnson, Ben Tatum, Doc Gilbert and others too numerous to mention. Miss Anne is now seventeen years of age. She is a loving lady and is formerly of Hickory, Miss. For All Purposes and Conditions COMPOSED OF hardened and highly polished metals, associated as they are causing an influence which cannot be obtained by any other agencies. Metals being Copper, Brass and Steel—the steel not coming in contact with the hair. The teeth and washers, or partitions, being mounted on a steel rod and durably fastened by means of a nut on the handle. The comb being differently constructed than others, necessarily so, makes it productive throughout its working capacity, putting the scalp and hair in the most perfect condition. Hair (being ohrn), these metals are friendly toward it, when properly PAT. MAY 21 1907 THE EUREKA COMB The genuine Carter's Rhematic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamp) has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blodan, druggest, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Twenty-five calling cards absolutely free. Chowning Card Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Call at 609 1-2 North West street and see Dr Langston's Dental and Manicuring Parlors. Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed, 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. Male or Female make $150 to $200 per month for Sheeler Jewelry Co. Send 50c for outfit. Winston, N. C. TO LEET-Colored people see my new flat, "The Elite," 718 Indiana Ave.; finest three-room suites in the city; modern. J. A. Shirley, 915 State Life. Dr. Langston, the dentist at 609 1-2 North West street makes a specialty of good plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Wanted-Teachers, experienced; from good schools, christian character for dressmaking, music printing, shorehand, millinery, Address President, The Curry Institute, Urbana, O. WANTED-Local agents to sell Snow Flake Complexion Cream, a most perfect bleach. Satisfaction guaranteed. Full size jar 25 cents (coin or stamps) postpaid. Burton Toilet Goods Co., St. Joseph, Mich. Wanted-A competent plumber and steam filter at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Candidates are requested to write R. R. Taylor, Director of Mechanical Industries, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. FOR SALE - A nicely fitted-up Drug Store in a Southern city of more than 200,000, 50,000 of whom are Negroes. Tce whole outfit, with good will, for sale at a bargain and on easy terms, to the right man. Address "Douglass," care The Freeman. 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. William Cabell, Prop., 214 Indiana Avenue. Hadley Bros., DRUGGISTS. 755-757 Indiana Avenue. Near St. Clair St. Indianapolis. J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me for bargains if you are looking for a home or investment. Cash or easy payments. BOTH PHONES 1173. 538 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. IN THE LEAD. Cafe, Restaurant, Oyster Bay. Open Day and Night- Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. DO YOU KNOW that you can save from 75 to 100 per cent. on all household articles bought of WILLIAM H. BARON. dealer in new and second hand goods. It costs you nothing to inspect my stock. Always see hand on thing that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. Tires put on Go-carts. 341 Indiana Ave. VICKSBURG. MISS Special to THE FREEMAN. The marriage of Miss Willie Ethel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis E. Mollison, b. Mr. Cassor B. Minor, took place June 28, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Minor are at home to friends at 897 North Locust st. For All Pu The High COMPOSED OF hardened and high- tained by any other agencies. Meal. The teeth and washers, or partitions, be. The comb being differently constructed t ting the scalp and hair in the most perfe MADE MARK REG US PAI OFF GEOE KEITH COMPANY PERFECT The Indianap 45 South Penn July Closin AT The Indianapolis Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania Street. GRANGER STORE. Now is your chance for Big Bargains— water mark. Don't be backward, but come offered in this great sale. LOOK AT TRE $2.50 Value. Ladies' Trimmed Hats, sale $4.00 " Ladies' Fancy Trimmed Dr $8.00 " Men's Good Worsted Suits, $3.00 " Men's Fine Dress Shoes, sa .08 " Good 8" in. wide Unbleache .07 " Good Bleached Toweling, s .13 " Men's Fancy Embroidered .75 " Dress Shirts, s COME TO THE GRANGER ST 386-838 WEST C., H. & D. R. R., C., H. & D. R. R., Sunday, July 5th. BOUND TRIP. CONNERSVILLE 75c RUSHVILLE 60c Rushville and Connersville tickets good going and returning on all trains (regular or special) of Sunday for which sold. Big Four SUNDAY, $1.75 Cincinnati Special Train L Big Four Excursion, SUNDAY, JULY 5th, $1.75 Cincinnati and Return $1.75 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. Subscribe for The Freeman. Style Variety Attractiveness and Price Have Made Walk-Over Shoes Famous. HUTCHINSON'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 28 North Pennsylvania Street. THIS "PERFECT" GAS RANGE All Complete Connected ready for Cooking, And Three Beautiful Dresden Art Plates For a first payment of $2.00, Balance on easy payments of $2.00 a month. WHY NOT GET A "PERFECT" And the Free Plates? upolis Gas Co. nsylvania Sreet. ng Out Sale THE business—everything in the house is marked to low time at once and take in some of the good things THESE PRICES and see if you can beat them: sale price .49 Dress Skirts, sale price $1.98 Tops, sale price $3.95 Sale price $1.98 Ched Muslin, sale price .05 Sale price .4¼ Ded Socks, sale price .08 Sale price .39 STORE AND FILL YOUR WANTS, AT WASHINGTON STREET. Sunday, July 5th. ROUND TRIP. DECATUR .$1.50 JUICE .$1.25 BLOOMINGDALE .$1.00 Special train leaves 7 a. m. Returning leaves Decatur 8:30 p. m. Excursion, JULY 5th, and Return $1.75 n Leaves 7:00 a. m.