The Freeman

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DURING YOUR VACATION REPRESENTING THE FREEMAN. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE SEND FOR OUR EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXI NUMBER 32 UNCONFIRMED RUMOR OF SOME CAMPAIGN PLANS Dr. B. F. Watson Located at Washington—Baptist Ministers Hold Conference—Isaac Hathaway Making Lifelike Busts. By the National Negro Press Bureau. INVINCTON, D. C., Aug. 5.—There is an unconfirmed rumor affoat that every colored Republican in the District who can read and write is about to offer to the national convention the siffification of the Negro voters of the several States. Assistant Register of the Treasury Cyrus Field Adams; Harry A. Clarke presides; and Dr. (or coworker) L. C. Moore, head of a labor organization, and a few others, are accused of harboring such design. Efforts have been made to revive the Washington convention, and E. C. Bishop) E. W. Lampton, but thus far no signs of activity have been observed in that quarter. It is likely, however, that the Negro newspaper, the Southern News and, at proper time Chairman Hitchcock will announce some interesting plans in this connection. The campaign will be one of education, and it is to be hoped free from villicaa- --- The large body of young women who attend Howard University will deeply appreciate the changes made in Miner Hall, the new building, and the extensive improvements are being made. The entire interior is being repainted, and the assembly rooms, parlor, etc., are being tastefully papered. The bath rooms have been refinished. The tubs have taken the place of the old bathhouses, which have been thrown out. The correspondence received by President Thinktack indicates a large attendance of students in the hall should make early application. The applications for entrance coming into the president and the deans promise an early application. The university, Dean Kelly Miller confidently expects an entering freshman class numbering over fifty. Dean L. B. Moore is conducting a successful summer program for students, the university represents a number of States and the teachers are enthusiastic in their work. Several graduates of the Teachers' College have been conducting the teachers' courses for efficient teachers are for beyond supply. It is rather remarkable that with the growth of public schools for colored People, the number in preparation at the university is growing quickly. It is not quickly doubled. There is a large opportunity before efficient, well-trained teachers, and Howard University, through its Teachers' College, proposes to do part in the preparation of its programs. Its splendid past is an excellent guarantee of what it can do in the future. President Thinktack has a united faculty and the entire confidence of the people to hold up his hands in this no-bake cause. --- This week Grand Master W. L. Houston has been presiding over District Grand Towers of Old Fellows in Arkansas and Tennessee; Lite Rock: Wednesday, at Fort Worth; Tux: Thursday, at Dallas; Saturday, at Fort Worth; For next week his itinerary will be to visit the State Museum to unveil monument to C. M. Ferguson; 13th, Galveston; 15th, Denison, to monument to the late Prof. D. W. Walker; 16th, Galveston; Grand Master touring the State of Mississippi, opening at Vicksburg on the 17th, and large meetings everywhere he has visited, and has been shown much social attention, and has prominent citizens in and out of the order. Interest increases in the ninth annual session of the National Negro Business League as the date for the convention begins. The selection of Baltimore is severely limited because of access from all parts of the country and because of the proverbial hospitality of her citizens. No pains or exertion is being spared by the local committee to ensure the meetings of the series. Everybody is asked to know that the morning sessions will be held at the beautiful Shapp Street Memorial Church, where the business can be transactional. At night the great Richmond Market Army will afford ample room for the mass will wish to attend. The illumination of the church by the city is an honor previously entrusted to the lar thoroughfare, upon which many people own business establishments, will be "a great white way," and the Honor, elaborately decorated with banners of worth coming across the continent to witness. The sail down the bay in the river steamer Latrobe, the carnival and outing Fitses Electric Park, the musical extravaganza of Prof. L. Elsworth Toomey, and the grand session on Friday evening by the local fraternities and citizens, will open as a grand a week as has been planned for delegates and their friends will come to Washington, where new hospitalities will meet them. On Monday, the 24th, two people to Washington steamers will take the chance to Washington to persons of an unusual character have been formed. This beautiful park will be dedicated, and through the kindness of Manuscript Corporation of the day will be added to the now being raised to liquidate the indemnities on the Frederick Douglass colored people of the city are being provided for 10,000 visitors. Dr. Booker T. Washington will deliver a principal address of the occasion, to the multiplicity of attractions about this city to postpone indefinitely the national testi- monial planned in honor of Dr. Washington. President W. Sidney Pittman, of the local Business League, has put his shoul- dle business out a fine deal, and made the Douglase- loring a fine deal at our neighboring suburb—Baltimore. It ought not to be necessary to say, "Come one, come all." Just—one that all! Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the Church Extension Board of the A. M. E. Church, is comfortably installed in the church, and now owns 1535 Fourteenth street, Northwest, which the connection still owns. The three-story building has been renovated from top to bottom, made painted, papped and pished, and now has an abundance of room—the one thing he lacked at Philadelphia—we may expect Dr. Watson's useful department to expand to pro- vise the church's shrewd financing and alert scent for bargains at the real estate counter. Dr. E. D. Williston, one of Washington's most popular physicians, has recovered from the effects of a delicate operation, and has resumed his large and lucrative practice. The operation was per- fected at Baldail, at a President's Hospital, and was successful in every particular. --- Williams and Walker are announced for a week's engagement at the Academy of Music, in Baltimore, beginning August 10. Washington was to have been included in the program, but she and they would have drawn big here; but the nation's capital is a "hoodoo" town as far as they are concerned, for since the terrific social crisis their appearance prevailed no manager has been liberal enough to come up to the terms insisted upon by Williams and Walker with reference to the trans. Arrangements were entered into for their appearance at Belasco, the Shubert house, but the negotiations fell through when the specter of "social equality" night and by day, until he had to "renig." Many parties of Washington society people are being made up to go to Baltimore during the Williams and Walker season, during the engagement will doubtless be a gala one. . . . Among the colored speakers tentatively agreed upon to take part in the campaign are: Register W. T. Vernon Ex-Gov. P. Richard backman former Consul Elizabeth Green, President there as L. Johns Recorder of Deeds John C. Dancy and Lawyer John P. Green. Other选葬 will be made later. It is expected that the campaign will be opened in earnest about the Negro vote there as L. Johns laid upon the Middle Western States, where the Negro vote is considered the "balance of power." Dr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Sidney Pittman Sunday. The "Wizard" left for the South Monday. Mrs. Washington went to Annapolis, where she delivered an engraved bench in evening. In Baltimore at the Sharp Street Memorial Church on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Washington is to spend some time at the museum for the biennial exhibition of the National Association of Colored Women, which assembles in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 24 to 29. The coast guard work of the First Separate Battalion at Fort Hunt is coming in for much praise at the hands of experienced army officers, and Major Arthur Brooks, the commander of the battalion, is wearing his laurels with becoming modesty. Lieut. B. O. Davis, of the regular service, military instructor at Wilberforce University, is here acting as a singer of the battalion has been one of the most enjoyable features of the camping-out period, and Sunday brings down hundreds of music lovers to hear the colored men's rich notes and soul-stirring --- It will be heard with pleasure by Col. Perry's host of friends throughout the country that he is planning to enter action. He will be collecting collections of forty years of political life. He was intimately acquainted with all of the great men who made American history from the Civil War to the admin-istration of the Cold War. His book will contain much data concerning Abraham Lincoln, Charles Summer, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine and others of their period that has never yet been placed in print. Colored Baptist ministers of this city, representing a membership of 29,000, held a conference last week in Washington. He praised his sermon in support of William Jennings Bryan, and INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908 NO NEGROES ALLOWED IN PUBLIC PARKS. FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY. TWO NEGRO PARKS BURNED IN BEAUMONT, TEX. LOSS $40,000.00 GARYWOOD Betwixt and Between disputed his assumed right to speak for the Baptists of Washington or of the country. These ministers say that the masses of the Negro people will not vote for the nomination of the Negro-American Political Alliance that it controls 75 per cent. of the Negro voters of the nation is false, and intended to give party managers as to the real attitude of the Negro-Americanism and those who profess to have received promises of reward from the Democratic nominee, in the face of his open denial of the same, and the ministers' denial of the same, in the intention to give the "old party" under Taft and Sherman, another trial in November. No stock is taken in the assertion of Dr. Walldron that any officeholders, black or white, are not the only or any other "independent" because of his opposition to the Republican administration. In truth, neither the administration nor the party managers are giving them the opportunity over the claims or the activities of the so-called Negro-American Political Alliance. --- A brilliant young lad has been taken from our midst in the passing away of Franklin Nichols Hilmer, the elder son of and Mrs. Andrew F. Hilmer, of 2352 Sixth Street, New York, and sixteen young Hilmer was stricken with typhoid fever, and steadily grew worse, in spite of the patient care that his physician, the end came, Wednesday evening last at 5:10 o'clock. Those who had known young Hilmer from his birth will recall what a precocious child he was, showing interest in the course of his career when he made an electric fan. He developed a penchant for electrical engineering, growing from the crudity of childish displays to the acumen of an expert and had built up a thriving business home was equipped with all the electrical appliances and on festive occasions he delighted in making electrical displays, waving a banner at a school, and School he made a miniature automobile, which he operated perfectly. When in his last year at Armstrong Technical High School he was a graduate of a patentative drill of the High School Cadets, Within the past year he has done some highly creditable work, having opened an automobile which many will recall seeing in the museum. Asiders for and executed skillfully all kinds of electrical work. He has done high-class work in some of the best homes in the city, where the most exacting service is required. Aside from being an electrician, an expert stenographer and typewriter, Franklin Nichols Hilmer was the exemplar of the race needs to give it the character of a man of integrity. He struggles for the heights, and in his untimely death, in the flower of a promising manhood, this community and the nation adequately expressed in words. His cleanly oftaspirazes are his best encomiums. . . . Mr. Isaac Hathaway, the talented Kentucky sculptor, is engaged in modeling a famous sculpture in Washington, which he will place on the market at an early date. The facial exaggeration, the object, and the admirers of "The Wizard" where will eagerly seize the opportunity to decorate their homes with such a reminder of the man and his massive legacy. Betwixt and Between. Mr. Hathaway will make the capital his headquarters this year, and rumor has it that he may eventually ask a smart little Hoosier malden to help him establish a home in this center of culture and esthetics. TUSCUMBIA. ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. The young people of the Social Club enjoyed a delightful picnic at Colbert Heights, Thursday, July 30. Misses M. L. Garcia, Geo. H. Ricks, M. Matthee Houston, Sanahara Woodruff, Pauline and Ella Gadd, Mrs. Will Farley, and Henry Houston, Jesse Ricks, O. Thompson, Moore and Geo. Houston were among those who attended. The baby of Arthur Battles died July 30. H. Birtis has moved to a new cottage, new new cottages. Jim Long has accepted a position in Riverton. Miss Maria Freeman died at her home, July 25. Miss Sherman turned from a few days visit to Barton, Ala. Frank Cager is erecting a neat cottage in the West End. Mrs. Sherman, Georgia, Tenn. are visiting relatives here. Mrs. James is improving. Jim Robinson, of Hallesville, Ala., is visiting Mrs. James and Mrs. Annie Surgeon were the guests of Mrs. Anna Tiller last week. GREENVILLE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN George Jonkins is again confined to his bed...Ike Brooks and Miss S. L. Barton were married Sunday...Ollie Howard was married Bertha Barton last week. Mrs. L. Dukes departed this life Friday, July 31, and her remains remained in Eastmont Cemetery. She was a member of the Household of Ruth. Mrs. Wkks was Christian wannier. She was the C. Church, a noble church worker, and was loved by all who knew her. She leaves a husband and two sons and a host of friends...Mrs. Moffet, Rev. J. D. Davis has returned from Longview and other East Texas points, from a vacation of two weeks...Delegates to the District of Texas, the M. E. Church to be held at Clarkville, Tex...Molly Moline has returned from Lassiter, Tex, where she has been for two weeks, visiting her mother, Diana Chisholm. The Joy Daniel met with a very painful accident Sunday, August 2. MINEOLA, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. Cotton is beginning to open now. About the second week in August there will be a new crop of cotton. Banc cane crops are good this year and there will be plenty of syrup in the countryside. Mineola, in Mineola, press and will run regular this year. Good hands are wanted at all times. The road from Mineola to Quitman is in good shape, but it is the county seat of this county. PITTSBURG, PA. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Cora B. Powell, aged 33 years, wife of the Rev. Dr. C. J. Powell, pastor of the Episcopal Church, and well known in colored religious circles throughout Western Pennsylvania, died yesterday at her home. Mrs. Powell was born, and educated in Gallipolis, O., and was married in that place in 1900 to Dr. Powell. Mrs. Powell, ching, her husband being pastor in ching, her husband being pastor in Monongahela City, Erie and Williamsport, Pa. Mr. Powell and his wife came to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church of the South Side. One year later he accepted the pastorate of the Avenue Church. Mrs. Powell leaves her husband and two small children. CORAOPOLIS, PA. Special to THE FREEMAN LOUISVILLE, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Jessie Harris was the guest of Mrs. Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., while attending the Grand Lodge, K. of P. Mrs. Harris received the prize, a postcard card, from the University counselor in the State of Kentucky, at Lexington, with 368 votes...Mr. and Mrs. J. J. C. McKinley will celebrate their twentieth marriage anniversary August 11 to 11 p. m., at their home 2322 magazine street. It will be an informal affair. SPOKANE. WASH. Edward Stone, one of the popular young men of the city, has gone to Portland to reside in E. Holmes Mrs. retires. He hath lived and hath been the reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Anderson in honor of Mrs. E. F. Edson's daughter, standing drinking at the square Deal bar, 236 Main avenue, at an early hour, Ace Peel fell dead as the result of severe injuries sustained at 34 Ferry avenue, had been here about two months. He had been a sufferer from consumption and unable to work, and his brothers of the deceased reside in Chippewa. ELKS HOLD THEIR SERVICES BIRMINGHAM ORDER IN GOOD CONDITION New A. M. E. Church Erected at Selma and the Congregational Repaired—Toms of Humphrey On County Committee. SELMA, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN The pastor of Brown's Chapel A. M. E. Church, ably assisted by an enthusiastic membership, has erected a new and beau- ronge screen wagon on service for this city hatchback in the hands of Mr. Duncan Irby, who has purchased a new outfit and will give the sensation has been sprung by the discovery of the wholesale sacrifice in the questions furnished by the school authorities said to be involved.... Moses C. Carter, one of our leading tailors, has moved his shop from Lauderdale street to the corner Johnson, an estimable Christian woman, departed this life Saturday, July 11.... The Congregational Church is undergoing ship of its pastor, Rev. James M. Morse, ...Ben Moffitt, of the leading bar- cars, who has been sick for two weeks, is on July 11.... The Freeman can be born of July.... The Freeman can be Master Herbert A. Bovid, 635 Syllent street RACE PROGRESS Special to THE FREEMAN. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July 30.—Three hundred and sixty-two medical students became full-fledged physicians to the University. Board completed its inspection of examination papers and announced the list of successful candidates, to whom doctors' certificates will be issued. The board was formed in 1935 and 395 applicants were examined. There were thirty-three failures, but the examiners declare that although the tests were extremely rigid, the examinations were 5 times better than past fourteen years. Among the few successful colored applicants was a Philadelphiaian, Dr. Chester A. Arthur Gordon, son of Dr. William A. Gordon received his preliminary and college education in the public schools of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the medical department of the University May 27, 1908, and took the board examinations June 23, 24, and 25 and HUMPHREY, ARK Special to THE FREEMAN. At the Republican township meeting, held Saturday evening, of Hinton township, to reorganize the county committee, M. T. Mots was elected a member of the county township. Rev. S. L. Thomas was nominated for justice of the peace for this township, to be voted for at the September election. Rev. S. L. Thomas was recommended to the county election commissioners to be appointed as our election judge...Miss Leola Bell, a student of Tuskegee, was selected as a member of the township commissioners. Mrs. Hiram Armstrong died August 1, after a long illness. She leaves a husband and mother and three brothers to mourn her loss...Rev. Washington, of M. E. Church, filled his pupil last Sunday. | geen Wf, fy RS: Ta Vi r7 Mi ep (20 Wy ATR Le ree ; i, OMe WS rene q) l Hi Se i,A WORLD.) A == <<, OB i BY “DOROTHY” ane ‘This column is devoted tothe intoresta of ait women and thelr organizations also. "Addn ee ry eee 2 ONE BY ONE. One by one the sands are flowing, ‘One by one the moments fall Some aro coming, some are Soin; Do not strive to grasp them all, ‘One by one thy duties walt thee, ‘Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, ‘Leam thou first what these can teach. ‘One by one Chright gifts from heaven) "Joys are sent ‘thee here below: ‘Take. them Feadily when given, Teatly, too, to let them Bo. One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed. band: ‘One will fade. as others ‘greet thee: Shadows passing through the land. Do, not look at life's long sorrow ; ‘sco how small each moment's pall, God ‘will heip thee. for to-morrow, ‘So each day begin again. Every hour that fleets so slowly iss Its task to do or bear? Luminous the crown, and holy, When each gem Is set with care, Do not linger with regretting ‘OF for passing hours. despond ; Nor, the daily toil forgetting, Took too eagerly beyond. Hours are golden links, God's token, Teaching heaven buit one by one ‘Take them, lest the chaln be broken ‘Bre the pilgrimage be done. —Adelatde Proctor. TO MR. RALPH TYLER. Miss Blanche Wright, of Chicago, has been transferred to the’ office of the au- ditor for the Navy Department, at $900 per annum, and will act as private secre- tary to Auditor Ralph W. ‘Tyler. — Miss Wright was appointed last year from the civil service register to a position as Stenographer in the supervising archi- tect's office, but after a stormy experience, in which her color is said to have figured to her disadvantage, she was informed that there was no work for her there and that she would be dropped at the end of the fiscal year, June 30. Rather than. sec a deserving young girl of his race thus lose out, Mr. ‘Tyler came to her rescue and asked that she be transferred to his Office at a good salary. ‘This generous and thoughtful act of Mr. ‘Tyler places him in the very highest re- gard of every Negro woman in the coun- try. We are so giad to know that there are men who are not afraid to stand ur for the women and do not find some flmsy excuse for not coming to their rescue ‘There are Negro men who hold and have held government positions who said it was necessary that they have white women assistants, “for the good of the service,” but Mr. ‘Tyler is not in that class. ‘To him, in’ behalf of our women, we extend our'sincere thanks and best wishes for his ‘success. RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS. Probably everybody in the city of Indi- anapolis has heard of Mrs. Helen Arm. strong, of Chicago. the famous expert and lecturer on domestic selence. Her name Is @ household word not only in this city but throughout the country. For a num: ber of years Mrs. Armstrong has given lectures and. practical demonstrations of economical and scientific cookery in. Indi- anapolis, at the expense of the Indianap- olis Gas Company, for the benefit of housewives and cooks who use the gas range. Mrs, Armstrong has also lectured extensively for the University of Wiscon- sin and. in many cites and_ towns has taught the valuue of foods and the proper and most saving methods of cooking. She is. therefore considered a high authority and her methods and recipes are not only Teliable, but of special value. By the courtesy of the Indianapolis Gas Company we are privileged to publish a number of useful and authentie fecipes’ as prepared by | Mrs.” Armstrong." very jousekeeper should preserve this dietary list, $0 as to be always handy for refer- ence and for use in the Kitchen. Every week we will have @ number: COCOA. Mix one teaspoon of cocoa with the same amount of sugar and two. table- Spoons of hot water. Let this boil twa minutes, add two-thirds of a cup of hot milk and serve. Cream may be added if desired. MUTTON BROTH. Use meat from the neck and shoulder and ent into, small pleces, removing the outer skin. Place In saucepan, cover with cold water and heat slowly. Let this sim- mer for several hours—season with sale and strain into a bow! to cool. Remove all fat before reheating. ALBUMENIZED, MILI, Ada half a cup of mite to the white of an egg and shake well in a glass fruit jar. When a little coffee Is permitted a few spoonfuls may be used to flavor. A sul “Heher drink may be prepared by using the whole egg-and adding a very little cream. CHICKEN CUSTARD. Beat an egg slightly and add a scant eup of chicken broth. Place in a small bow! or cup and steam until firm, This may be served elther hot or cold. "TOAST. Cut stale bread into half-inch slices and remove the crust, Toast slowly so that it will be erlsp throughout, butter lightly and serve immediately. When butter is not allowable, a little sale will make the dry toast more palatable. BEEF THA. Select meat from the round and cut into small pieces, allowing half a cup. of water to each pound of meat. Place in glass fruit jar, caver lightly and cook in a kettle of water slowly far several hours, Strain carefully to get every particle of jules and do not boll. “when reheating, Beer juice may be obtained by heating the meat’ ina frying pan quickly and. then squeezing In @ fruit press. SHIRRED EGGS, Use a deep saucer or individual baking dish, buttering lightly before breaking. the eggs into it. Set the dish In a pan of hot ‘water and cook in oven or on top of stove until exg Is set. Add a bit of butter and salt and serve promptly. HEALTH, BEAUTY AND COMFORT. Many complexions are ruined with se- vere massage. If you resort to home treatment, use the massage gently. ‘A mixture of lard and sulphur makes a splendid preparation for pimples on. the face or arms. Avoid getting this in the eyes. Do not use pumice stone to remove su- perfiuous hair. Tt will cause a heavier Erowth, ° Discourage the halr growth with ammonia. Salt baths are given In the finest sant- tariums in the United States. | "They are recommended as the most beneficial baths that are given. Buttermilk is good to clear the com- plexion, but great care must be taken aft. érward, as it makes the skin tender and it tans ‘much easier. Drinking a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt In a glass of water at each meal for three weeks will make a wonderful im- provement In the complexion. ‘Too frequent washing of, the hair will fade it if not ruin its growth. ‘Too much alkali makes brown hair the color of ash- es and gives a yellow tinge to. gray hair. ‘Every beauty specialist. In the country recommends the use of olive oll to correct the liver and stomach and clear the com- plexion. It should be taken in sweet wine br jelly water to destroy the taste. Facial blemishes are frequently caused ‘by eating too many cereals, especially when the food is not properly cooked. Oats should be cooked an hour at least in a double boiler, covered so the steam will assist in the cooking, ‘Have no faith In steaming the face to beautify it, Look at the washwoman’s wrinkled hands and see. the result. of steam, soap and water. Gentle massage is beneficial, but. steaming the skin or cooking it is certainly ruinous to any kind of @ complexion, Use lotions with alcohol in them if the face is olly; the oils must be supplied when the skin is dry. Pure mutton tallow melted wtih gum of benzoin 1s splendid for the compiexion; in fact, mutton is extensively used in’ the majority of the finest cold creams; it does not promote hair growth. he ygiente | properties | of lemons, which contain citric acid, have been well known for many years, but it is only late- ly that scientists discovered the acid was powerful enough to kill the germ of ty- phold fever in twenty-four hours. Some typhoid fever bacilli, treated with raw Temon fulee and placed in the sunshine, were killed in two hours, the sunshine proving a quick agent in connection with the medicinal properties of the fruit, Lemons have been found beneficial in the worst forms of smallpox and cholera, so itis well to know the medicinal properties of a harmless yet powerful fruit acid. When very warm put your wrists ‘un- der a stream of cool running water, and you Will feel relief at once. Bathing ‘the temple with cool water is also very good. It I were asked what was the greatest foe to beauty In both man and woman, I would say, not errors in diet, not lack ‘of exercise, hot overwork, not ‘corsets, “not any one of these, but bad mental habits, says a writer In’ Outing. If we observe closely the faces of the people we meet At random on the street, at’ the theater or in the great shops, we will observe that nearly all of them are characterized by the lined mouth, the drawn brows and other facial disfigurements whieh accom- pany dad mental states," What do T'mean by bad mental states? T mean anger, fear, worry, anxiety, irritability, regret, envy, Jealousy, lack of trust in one's self and in the Great Good—all these are bad mental states; and all these destroy beauty, not only by interfering with the action ‘of the vital organs, but by directly disfiguring the expression of the face. Uniess the beauty-secking young woman is prepared to cultivate deliberately good nature, kindness, calmness, cheerfulness even to bilarity—unless she is prepared to conquer deliberately all tendencies to. the bad mental states above mentioned, there will he little or no results from efforts to develop In herself that most divine gitt of sition According to Chinese law. a wife who is too talkative may be divorced. “Continually eating apples and_ other fruit” help de Mrs, Ann Hulsizer, of Ohio, well along toward 107 before she died. Children whose parents bundie them to bed at sundown will heartily welcome the theory advanced by ‘Thomas A. Edison that Sleep is merely a matter of habit and wholly unnecessary to life or health. Dr. W. S. Green, the pioneer of the medical profession in Indiana among col- dred doctors, and the wealthiest colored man in southern Indiana died on the 17th of July at his home in Evansville. Hatpins made from rea! rosebuds, by subjecting them to an electro bath. which deposits metal on the bud, preserving tt with all its delicate veining and tracery perfectly, is a novelty described by Popu- lar Mechanics. Gold, silver and. copper are the metals used, By the will of the late Blizabeth Lacey, of Wrightstown, Pa., Anna M. Reading, a colored woman, who was for many years a faithful servant of the deceased, inherits a 32-aere farm worth $5,000. Relatives of Mrs. Lacey teeeive the furniture of the tavink Seas Gnd sadeh: walnatia aliveonare. Antl-Taft leagues will be formed In ev- ery county and precinct in the State of Mlinois. ‘The students from many schools at As- bury Park have organized a Research and Information Club, A temporary reading room has been opened at Oklahoma City, for the benefit of colored people, by the Excelsior Club. ‘The annual meeting of the Woman's Presbyterian Society of Catawba Presby- tery will meet at. Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Charlotte, N. C., August 20. t cost the citizens of Alton, TIL, $2,- 503.52 for attempting to prevent colored children from “attending thelr “public ‘There are 117,000 colored men who pay taxes in the State and less than 30,000 are registered. | ‘The total number of Ne- gro voters is 223,000. ‘The regents of the Deaf and Dumb School of Oklahoma have made an order TEE TERE EMI IBN ICEUS Wee SD COLORED NEMST SUES —$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—————————————————————————— for a Jim Crow section, and. directed the Taree = superintendent to employ a Negro teacher | => eras peers = INCOLN =a i pore ay Bon, tne. ne | PBSC AR senior prelate of the A. M. E. arch, ri ‘ eer eta Re he Molten tcrioncy | GOOLE NURI LOD CN) ZCRD, Of the Star of Zion, and will Issue a state- = ment to that effect: ea ¢ ‘The National Medical Association of Physicians, Dentists and. Pharmacists ; fneets. in its, tenth annual convention at = 4 ; The Plaza Astembly" Rooms, Bast Pitty = mo} . hint street, between Park’ and Lexing- § = ton avenues, New York City, August 29, 1 ne rex ea oe a 8 So. 27, 1808: Enthusiasm inthis conven: lve Sore cu nrirova me uear stat baa itn’ is running high. Several hundred | 2= ‘e rraronnty — Aclesates ‘Crome all parts of the country wee = andsfrom ‘adjnoent [lands are preparing ; tovattend, “the organization in the pa w ; four Sear Nas tngreded te, members A_WOMAN’s_JUSI 800. per cent. —“Thiss association has in = its ranks many of the leading men of the PRIDE Is HER + ar | Professions: renreeented. and, a program eee yo at |fag heen arranged which will furmish an Address | Inteltent and scientific feast. Ail mem HAIR, Pooman | ers lot” the professions represented ate ee breed’ to-attend.. 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'Moruce Dourian, “Owensboro, 53-7 [H) of growth and naturally reduces |f|5° Y upplied | MY ‘and ‘Mrs. Minter Graham, Louisville, |} Of grow a tallow | Ky.; Mrs. Henry Black, Mrs. M. 1. Bell, e hair toa straight and comb- plendid | NYigyanevaie. Tag: G.'R Jones, of New|] able condition; but also supplies 1 Ron ta ai Wilehi; of Chicags, Dl. (Ml ges hate etek a atic phan ond lilese.s THE NEGRO PRESS ON THE PO- LITICAL SITUATION. It looks very much as if President Roosevelt, now that he has made Mr. ‘Taft his ‘rightful heir to the White House, will have to tell the voters of the country a great deal more about it—The Star, Newport News, Va. oe With the close of the Democratic National Convention in Denver and with the nomination of William Jen- nings Bryan for President and of Jo- seph Kern for Vice-President, comes now the beginning of the end of Dem- ocratie principles for all time. The Democrats feel that in the ticket to be jaunched this fall they have their strongest fort in many years, and no doubt they have, but there is no pos: sibility of a show for the presiden- tial chair, The two nominees will only serve to keep death watch over their party until the finish this fall—The Western Enterprise, Colorado Springs, Colo. The country is certainly to be con- gratulated that both political parties have placed before the people two gen- tlemen of spotless integrity, high fdeals and lofty purposes. Mr. Kern, the nominee for the vice-presidency, has not been in the limelight as much as has Mr. Bryan, but, hailing from Indiana, which is considered the doubtful State, it was thought to. be good politics to place him on the tick- et—The Charleston —_ Messenger, Charleston, 8. C. ue ‘The Democratic platform has been adopted and there is nothing in it from the beginning to the end relative to the Negro or his privileges. The fact that there are numbers of our so: called leaders running from one city to another in an effort to land the col- ored voter with the Democratic party seems rather puerile. It may be that the colored voter did not get his choice in the nomination of the Republican ticket, but is this sufficient reason why he should fill the ranks of the Democratic party, a party that has done absolutely nothing for the Ne- gro?—The Advocate-Verdict. ‘The action of the Democratic Na- tional Convention at Denver, Colo., in nominating the Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska for President and the Hon. John W. Kern of Indiana for Vice-President was, in our judgment, the wisest course to pursue and the strongest ticket that could be placed before the American people at this time.—The Richmond Planet. . The Democratic Convention which assembled in Denver, Colo., last week nominated William J. Bryan, of Ne- braska, for President, and John W. Kern, of Indiana, for Vice-President, also adopted a very lengthy platform which discussed most of the impor- tant questions at issue. It did not, however, touch the subject of the rights of the Negro, although in the early part of the week it was thought by many that some declaration on this point would be made, at least to go so far as to point out the hypocrisy of the Republican party's perennial declaration—The Christian Recorder. With reference to the “omnibus” plank in the Democratic platform, the following is noted: Is this a bid for the Negro vote? If the party favors the protection of the Negro in the South, why have they taken the vote from him? Why is it they Jim Crow him in almost every Southern State where they haye full control of the affairs of said States? Since they are in favor of protection and fair play to the Negro as a citi- zen, will some of them kindly tell us how many Negro delegates were pres: ent at the National Democratic Con- yention held in Denver, Colo., July 7? Or, will some one tell us if there was an authorized delegate to that conven- tion representing the Negro of the South, where most of them are dis- franchised? Perhaps Monroe Trotter, Bishop Walters or DuBois, who 50 ably defend the promises of the Dem- ocratic party, can throw some light upon this part of the platform.—The St. Louis Palladium. ‘The Republican “allies” and the dis- satisfied colored Republicans who de- sired to defeat Secretary Taft in No- vember had hoped that the Democ- racy would defeat Bryan in July, but ‘twas not to be. Now that Bryan has been nominated, the world knows the result in November. Taft will be the President.—Dallas, Tex., Express. Let the Negroes beware of DuBoise and that class of Negroes who are advising their race to vote for Bryan. Somebody is trying to sell you, sure. How can they see more in voting for Bryan, who offers nothing at all, than in voting the Republican ticket, which stands for the enforcement of the con- stitutional rights of the race, is very mysterious to us—The Southern Sun, Columbia, 8. C. The Highest Point Reached in a Comb. 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[CONTINUED] "That is true," said Plank earnestly, "I waste little temper over my likes and dislikes. But what I know and what I legitimately infer concerning the younger Quarrier is enough to rouse any man's anger. I won't tell you what I know. I can't. It has nothing to do with his financial methods, nothing to do with his business. But it is bad-bad all through! The blow his father struck at the integrity of the bench the son strikes at the very keystone of all social safeguard. I must go now. Goodby. Take care of that ankle. Any books I can send you—anything you want? No? All right. And don't worry over Amalgamated Electric, for I really believe we are beginning to frighten them badly." It was exactly 4 o'clock when Plank was ushered into Quarrier's private suit in the great marble Algonquin Loan and Trust building, the upper stories of which were all golden in the sun against a sky of sapphire. Quarrier was alone, gloved and hated, as though on the point of leaving. He showed a slight surprise at seeing Plank, as if he had not been expecting him, and the manner of offering his hand subtly emphasized it as he came forward with a trace of inquiry in his greeting. "You said 4 o'clock, I believe?" observed Plank bluntly. "Ah, yes. It was about that—ah—matter—ah— I beg your pardon, can you recollect?" "I don't know what it is you want. You requested this meeting," said Plank, yawning. "Mr. Plank," Quarrier said, "there should be some way for us to come together. Have you considered it?" "No, I haven't," replied Plank. "I mean for you and me to try to understand each other." "For us?" asked Plank, raising his blond eyebrows. "Do you mean Amal-agnized Electric and Intercounty impersonally?" "I mean for us personally. We are wasting opportunities. This whole matter is involving us in a tangle of litigation requiring our constant efforts, constant attention." "I beg your pardon, Mr. Quarrier, but you take it too seriously. I have found in this affair nothing except a rather agreeable mental exhilaration." "Mr. Quarrier, if you are not inclined to be serious?" "I am," said Plank so savagely that Quarrier, startled, could not doubt him. "I like this sort of thing, Mr. Quarrier. Anything that is hard to overcome I like to overcome. The pleasure in life to me is to win out. I am fighting you with the greatest possible satisfaction to myself." "Perhaps you see victory ahead," said Quarrier calmly. "I do, Mr. Quarrier, I do, but not in the manner you fear I may hope for it." Quarrier said without emotion, "I repeat that it would be easy for you and me to merge our differences on a basis absolutely satisfactory to you and to me—and to Harrington." "You are mistaken," said Plank, rising. "Good afternoon." Quarrier rose too. "You decline to discuss the matter?" he asked. "It has been discussed sufficiently." "Then why did you come here?" "To see for myself how afraid of me you really are," said Plank. "Now I know, and so do you. Mr. Quarrier, I want to tell you something. Never before in business differences has private indication against any individual interfered or modified my course of action. It does now, but it does not dictate my policy toward you; it merely as I say modifies it. I am perfectly aware of what I am doing, what social disaster I am inviting by this attitude toward you personally, what financial destruction I am courting in arousing the wrath of the Algonquin Trust company and of the powerful interests intrenched behind Intercounty Electric. I know what the lobby is; I know what judge cannot be counted on; I know my peril and my chances, every one, and I take them—every one. For it is a good fight, Mr. Quarrier. It will be talked of for years to come wonderingly, not because of your effrontery, not because of my obstinacy, but because such monstrous immorality could ever have existed in this land of ours. Your name, Harrington's mine, will have become utterly forgotten long, long before the horror of these present conditions shall cease to be remembered." He stretched out one ponderous arm, pointing full between Quarrier's unwinking eyes. "Take your fighting chance—it is the cleanest thing you ever touched—and use it cleanly, or there'll be no mercy shown you when your time comes. Let the courts alone. Do you hear me? Let the legislature alone. Keep your manicured hands off the ermine. And tell Harrington to shove his own cold, splay fingers into his own pocket for a change. They'll be warmer than his feet by this time next year." For a moment he towered there—no worful Let the courts alone. Do you hear me? Let the legislature alone. Keep your manicured hands off the ermine. And tell Harrington to shove his own cold, splay fingers into his own pocket for a change. They'll be warmer than his feet by this time next year." For a moment he towered there over me. -powerful, bulky menacing —then his arm "Take your fighting chance." bulky, menacing —then his arm dropped heavily, the old stolid expression came back into his face, leaving it calm, bovine, almost stupid again. And he turned, moving slowly toward the door, holding his hat carefully in his gloved hand. Stepping out of the elevator on the ground floor, he encountered Mortimer and hailed instinctively. He had not seen Mortimer for weeks; neither had Leilia, and now he looked at him inquiringly, disturbed at his battered and bloodshot appearance. "Oh," said Mortimer, "you down here?" "Have you been out of town?" asked Plank cautiously. Mortimer nodded and started to pass on toward the bronze cage of the elevator, but something seemed to occur to him suddenly. He checked his pace, turned and waddled after Plank, rejoining him on the marble steps of the rotunda. "Look here," he said, "I promised you something once, didn't I?" "Did you?" said Plank, with his bland, expressionless stare of an overgrown baby. "Oh, cut that out! You know I did, and when I say a thing I make good. D'ye see?" "I don't see," said Plank, "what you are talking about." "I'm talking about what I said I'd do for you. Haven't I made good? Haven't I put you into everything I said I would? Don't you go everywhere? Don't people ask you everywhere?" "Yes, in a way," said Plank wearily. "I am very grateful. I always will be. Can I do anything for you, Leroy?" Mortimer had attended a "killing" at Desmond's and, as usual, had provided the piece de resistance for his soft voiced host. All he wanted was a temporary deposit to tide over matters. He had never approached Plank in vain, and he did not do so now, for Plank had a pocket check book and a stylograph. "It's little to ask, isn't it?" he muttered resentfully. "That will only square matters with Desmond. It doesn't leave me anything to go on with." And he pocketed his check with a scowl. Plank was discreetly silent. "And that is not what I chased you for, either." continued Mortimer. "Beverly, old boy, I've got a certain mealy faced hypocrite where any decent man would like to have him—by the scruff of his neck. He's fit only to kick, and I'm going to kick him good and plenty, and in the process he's going to let go of several things. One of 'em's yours." Plank looked at him. "I told you once that I'd let you know when to step up and say 'Good evening,' didn't I?" Plank continued to stare. "Didn't I?" repeated Mortimer peevishly, beginning to lose countenance. "I don't understand you," said Plank, "and I don't think I want to understand you." "What do you mean?" demanded Mortimer thickly. "Don't you want to marry that girl?" But he shrank dismayed under the slow blaze that lighted Plank's blue eyes. "All right," he stammered, struggling to his fat legs and instinctively backing away. "I thought you meant business. I—what the devil I care who you marry! It's the last time I try to do anything for you or for anybody else!" Plank gazed at him for a moment. The anger in his face died out. "I am not ungrateful," he said. "You may say almost anything except that, Leroy. I am not disloyal, no matter what else I may be. But you have made a bad mistake. So let us forget the matter." But Mortimer, keenly appreciative of the pleasures of being misunderstood, squeezed some moisture out of his distended eyes and sat down, a martyr to his emotions. "To think," he gulped, "that you of all men should turn on me like this!" "I didn't mean to. Can't you understand, Leroy, that you hurt me?" THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Own Your Own Home Start Today. We will show you the way. Why pay rent? We are offering large lots North-east, close in, at one-half the price that all adjoining property has been sold, on the easy terms of $1.00 per week, on which we will arrange to build 4, 5 and 6 room cottages and let you pay for them like rent. Baltimore, Hillside, Brouse and Key tone. 25th to 28th Sts. TAKE COLUMBIA AVE. CAR to 25th and Martindale, and walk east to our large red and white sign on addition. Or take Brightwood car to 19th St. and walk north on Hillside ave. to addition. All lots 41 feet wide. Abstract showing clear title with each purchase. No interest and no taxes. PRICES $150 TO $175 EACH. Come out Sunday afternoon and let us show you what we have. New Phone, 805. 515 Terminal Building. Old, Main, 4249. SPECIAL NOTICE—Cut out this ad. and bring it with you, or to our office, and it will be good for two dollars ($2.00). This offer good for 10 days only. "Hurt nothing!" retorted Mortimer indictively. "You've had sensation battered out of you by this time. I guess society has landed you a few while I was boosting you over the out- works. There's another lady, that's all." WILKIN "Let it go at them, then," said Plank, reddening. "And now let me ask you a question where were you going when I met you?" "Let it go at that, then." where were you going when I met you?" "What do you want to know for?" asked Mortier sullenly. "Why, I'll tell you, Leroy. If you have any idea of identifying yourself with Quarrier's people, of seeking him at this juncture with the expectation of investing any money in his schemes, you had better not do so." "Investing!" sneered Mortier. "Well, no, not exactly, having nothing to invest, thanks to my being swindled into joining his Amalgamated Electric gang. Don't worry. If there's any shaking down to be done I'll do it, my friend." And he rose and started toward the elevators. "Wait," said Plank. "Why, man, you can't frighten Quarrier. What did you sell your holdings for? Why didn't you come to us—to me? What's the use of going to Quarrier now and scolding? You can't scare a man like that." Mortimer fairly grinned in his face. "Your big mistake." he sneered, "is in undervailing others. I want you to understand a few things, my friend, and one of them is that I'm not afraid of Quarrier, and another is I'm not afraid of you!" "Leroy"— "No, not afraid of you either!" repeated Mortimer, with an ugly stare. "You keep a civil tongue in your head after this—do you understand?—and we'll get on all right. If you don't, I've the means to make you!" "Are you crazy?" "Not a bit of it! Too sane for you and Lella to hoodwink!" "You are crazy!" repeated Plank, aghast. "Am I? You and Lella can take the matter into court if you want to—unless I do. And"—here he leaned forward, showing his teeth again—"the next time you kiss her close the door!" (Continued next week.) THE IMMIGRATION PLANK. The Democratic National Convention expressed itself as follows regarding Asiatic immigrants: "We favor full protection by both national and state governments within their respective spheres of all foreigners residing in the United States under treaty, but we are opposed to the admission of Asiatic immigrants who can not be amalgamated with our population or whose presence among us would raise a race issue and involve us in diplomatic controversies with oriental powers." It is said that the Japanese are indignant at what they conceive to be a blow aimed especially at them. And there is reason for concluding that the blow was aimed at them, since they are one of the only two peoples of Asia that come to America in large numbers. The Chinese, the other of the two peoples have the same reason for being offended as the natives of Japan. The Japanese are a very sensitive people, due to their education—in fact to their very susceptibility—their ability and capacity for taking on education, and by which the way guage the individual or individuals more than the actual accomplishments. The Japanese have proven abundantly able and capacitated, qualities that set up in them notions similar to those of any other people who think and achieve. The Chinese do not live in the same age with the Japanese. The statement is no particular reflection on the Chinese. There are other nations that boast of being branches of Aryan offshoots, that have been surpassed by these sad eyed mongolians. But one naturally thinks of the Chinese when thinking of the Japanese since they are closely related and Baltimore, Hillside, Brouse and Key tone. 25th to 28th Sts. have many attributes in kind. Soil, climate, water are what not have added unto the dwellers of the island giving them that something which the Chinaman has not got. Owing to the nature of the Japanese, and which by the way, is not to be despised, the little provision thrown in the Democratic platform was most timely. This appears rather paradoxical in view of their excellent character as viewed in the light of the greatest civilization. But unhappily the greatest civilization manifests some little impatience with those that do not measure up to the conceded standard of physical perfection. Our country especially trains its glasses on the aspirant for favor just as a connoisseur in a China shop or picture gallery, or an expert horseman at a horse show—things must be without a blemish. Of all nations, the Americans, perhaps apply the glasses more "rigidly" than any other people. Its own problem, its Negro problem where the combined things of race and slavery make a compound that many have found exceedingly difficult to take on. The effect has been to place a discount on all the darker races coming along; owing of course to, and chargeable to the habit of arbitrarily lowering the Negro—that is, without aforethought as to what he might be as a man, when thinking of him in relation to other men. And indeed there is but one thing in this to be severely condemned—enough charity is not shown, and because of the past, and present, and we may as well say the probable future. The Negro does not measure up in instances sufficient to establish a rule. The Japanese do, and are accorded all that can possibly come to a people that are not purely Caucasian. If the Japanese are freely admitted to our country we may as well prepare for infinite trouble unless they are prepared to "amalgamate." And we suppose this amalgamation means intermarrying, a thing that is really not thinkable, at least, at this time. The thing is not utterly repugnant to our notion, holding that it is a matter of conscience, very much like religion, and which the other man has but very little to do with. But as the good conference would say, "we are now on the state of the country"—what it will stand for? The far-sseeing Caucasian feels to see disaster even in Japanese-American amalgamation. The offsprings would easily enough set up an "affinity," which would be caught up by the Negroes' offsprings, and really prove the open sesame to the great unlooked, and unhoped for. But here is not the menace the wise committee of the convention had in mind. What has been advanced is of remote probability. It knew by what has already happened that the Japanese are sticky for what they feel to be treaty rights, human rights, rights without a slur, straight up-an-up rights, rights that man now enjoys; it knew of the trouble concerning the public schools, and that in all likelihood the same condition would obtain wherever these people were. The South has had its case of the kind, and where a Japanese student was held to look like a Negro and received similar treatment. If he had been treated differently it would have greatly complicated matters where society is divided into two great classes. The white schools of the South will not concede more to the Japs than to the Negroes. We said on another occasion that this was no small compliment to the Negro, who has not done nearly so much as the Japanese, yet when it comes to the thing of discrimination no other "colteum." This recognition of a condition, such a condition does not say very much for manhood. But in the great contention we may pause a while under the great white flag of truce and read hearts—the intent; and which after all, in most instances are after the manner of giving as one sees by the light within. The contention is for the supremeest place among the supremeest men, but in the mean while we will not appear indifferent or unaffected by what small concessions that may be made in our favor from time to time. Just as it is, that little by little the liberties of a people are stolen away, so bit by bit they may be added unto until finally the whole is a beautiful civil and political mosaic, whose whole is strong because strong in every part. Thus when Japan in America is not conceded much more than the Negro in America, men are thinking; and when men think long and hard, somehow they will stumble on the truth. It is little more thought concession to the Negroes, and which in time will take shape in decrees of laws of hearts, souls and minds having in view the solidarity of a nation to which the world will point some day as it now points to Rome. It means if the Negroes subscribe fully to the conditions laid down for civilization, answering every demand, their race will come into their own without a great ado; and of they do not come up to the requirement the penalty is plain—self applied as the reward is self applied. Perhaps the Democratic convention did not have so much philosophy "on the brains" when it writ, but it saved against vast and varied complications, at least in theory. The Republican convention, the Democratic convention nor parties, nor individuals as such will not do a great deal toward changing racial relations, but they can do much in legislating against similar possible ills. Such legislation is confession of ills endured and which is the most to be expected of the situation. It is plain enough that the country does not want the same scenes enacted with the Japanese as with the Negroes. The situation is extremely unfortunate and one that belongs only to a country like America—a country of immigrants, a country of vast undeveloped resources, situated favorably as to climate, seas, the God sent of the continents, having its own very peculiar problems and with which it must deal as it reaches them, and indeed before it reaches them as may be noted by this plank. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. An interesting account is noted in the daily papers of a Hungarian couple—man and wife—who came to America two years ago, and in which time they saved $1,600. The woman did washing at $1.50 per day. She was good in her line and had no difficulty in finding all the work she could do. The man was employed in a hotel, consequently he saved his board bill. The pair, concluding that they were rich enough, decided to return home, where they could live in ease the rest of their days on what they held to be a fortune when at home. The incident points a moral, and also adorns a tale. It is a striking illustration of getting along if one is determined. But few American-born people would deny themselves as the Hungarians do. Nevertheless they are examples of what could be done. The Hungarian man referred to congratulated himself on his success, saying that he was rich, while he knew Americans who were born in the country who were not worth $5. Of course such close saving if followed out generally would give us a far different country than it is today. These people who are on their way back to Hungary would not have found it so easy to pick up the money they did in the given time. Yet their economy is not without value to the poor who sometimes fail to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them. The colored people are the most prodigal of all. They are not found in the situations with high-sounding names as the rule; they are washer-women, dining room men—servants generally; yet they make the wages made by the Hungarian and his wife. Indeed they make much more, but they do not value their money as the foreigners do. The humble classes from most of the European countries have an appreciation for a dollar not dreamed of by the American Negro. The foreigners have been rocked in the cradle of adversity and for centuries; they have seen wealth flitting through their lands, possessed and used mainly by the titled people and great people, not diffused, spread about as with us. With us, every pleasure, vice or virtue, that can be indulged in by the very rich may be enjoyed by the common people, even if but for a little while. They make and have sufficient money to indulge their tastes, a thing unknown to the foreigner, who craves money that he may be of the important class on returning home. The ambition is with him; he is influenced by the ease and gaiety of lives and hopes to be of the class some day. The American Negro has great freedom, notwithstanding his complaint. The trouble is he affects the airs of the rich without the $,000 kronens possessed by the Hungarian couple. The contention is for more liberty rather than for more kronens. The Hungarian people knew they would amount to nothing at home unless they had the kronens on them. The American Negro does not see it quite that way. They would have the cake all right, but they would also eat it—a almost impossible thing. TAKE COLUMBIA AVE. CAR to 25th and Martindale, and walk east to our large red and white sign on addition. Or take Brightwood car to 19th St. and walk north on Hillside ave. to addition. 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Some showers judiciously sand- wiched in at this time and we would have a “reproduction” of the tropics right here in good old Indianny. It's now Mr. Bryan's time to deliver a personal message. Mr. Taft deliv- ered himself most beautifully and did not forget to get specific on the Negro question. The true Negro statesmen—not partisan—would see his race of all parties. In them because of their political notions and policies, not us- ing them for “battering rams” no more than is absolutely required. So much investigation is not hav- ing the most wholesome effect on the Republican party in Marion County. If the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks were living today he would be making the welkins ring with “Turn the ras- cals out.” It goes without saying that the race is passing through perilous times. In seeking relief nothing has been sug- gested excepting politics. It is all right as far as it goes, but it is not the only means to the expected end, even if a means at all. A few more Negro communities will help the race problem very much. It would prove the governing genius sc enthusiastically demonstrated at times. All the offices and_ stores, banks and so forth would go to those making up such —_ communities, Wouldn't that be a dream? “Tonica,” a near beer, has been held to be non-intoxicating by Judge Whal lon. The chemist who analyzed a sample said that there was but one half of one per cent alcohol—a prec. ious little. Now if “Tonica” don’t Manage to get in an advanced per. centage of the “jubilant” it will do very well as a “soft commodity” that it prefers to be. The College Heights Investment Proposition should not be overlooked by our women. Take advantage of the opportunity to buy a home, or to in- vest in this as a money-maker. Sev. eral women have already bought homes and others should follow the example. It costs but a postal to learn the particulars. Write to day and learn the the advantages, Good, honest, courageous leaders in whom the people will have confidence. Apply to the Negro race. But aré we so sure that the thing confidence is a known quantity? Are we sure of a stock from which to select good, cour- ageous leaders, incapable of being in- fluenced, seeing the struggle for race success away above personal gain? Are we so sure? Mr. Taft stands with the President, indorses his administration, upholds his policies and acts. Whatever is con- sidered hurtful in Mr. Roosevelt is re- flected in Mr. Taft, even to the Brownsville matter. Mr. Bryan’s main support will come from the Southern Democracy, and which is solid and secure owing to the race question—it is anti-Negro. What's your choice, gentlemen, what's your choice? The unveiling of Turkey was an- other triumph for woman, and who really threatens to make considerable noise in the world. If she will con- sent to fight the battles man will no longer have a particular right to call himself the master. Even the calling of war is not without its Joan of Arcs, its Amazons and more, who are more or less known to history. With her onward march there's no telling what the men will be doing a half century from now. The colored people are the only class in this country with a business opportunity, beyond that of fearful competition. They may engage in what they choose; if they fail, it is because they fail to support their en- terprises or fail to conduct them prop- erly. The trade of the colored man is appreciated in a general way, but it is not solicited in the same sense that the trade, of others is solicited. In many instances pat- ronage by colored people is not ex- pected. It leaves the duty plain. And West Virginia, as if through spite, comes up bad, just when there was ‘a feeling that the Democratic party wouldn't mind making terms with the Negroes. The Democratic convention of that State declared the other day for the “Jim Crow” car idea and for the disfranchisement of the Negro. It appears that they are wed- ded to their idol in the South, and that they prefer being let alone in the worship. Thoughtful Negroes _had hoped for something different from the Democracy, and especially of such a State as West Virginia, which is as often Republican as Democratic. The Star-Messenger, Fordye, Ark. says that the Republican party and Judge Taft should not be. held re- sponsible for the shortcomings of President Roosevelt. Why not? Has nof President Roosevelt dominated the Republican party ever since he has been President. Of course he has. Not only this, but what has the President and the Republican party done in the past seven years to miti- gate the conditions of the Negro in the South? Has he carried out the laws made in Congress and signed by the several Presidents of the United States? Of course not, Well, then, we can hold the whole bunch responsi: ble—Afro-American Ledger, Balti- more, Md. ‘What would the Ledger suggest as a remedy? It seems a little chary in advice. Of course, by inference the Democratic party is held out as the hope. That party, however, is doing ‘more htinking than acting. . We are glad to call the attention of our readers to a statement of the number of colored officials and em- ployes in the service of the Govern. inent in the State of Louisiana. There are altogether 244 such persons draw. ing a yearly salary of $231,162. These salaries in three instances amount to $3,000 per year. Perhaps there is no set of Negroes in the country who have such large number of remunera- tive Governmental jobs—except those in hte District of Columbia—as are to be found in the State of Louisiana, At the same time there are no Ne groes in the country who have s0 little to show for their income as the Negroes of Louisiana. We could wish that these men were to get-together and support some business enterprise. It strikes us that with the support of these Governmental officials a bank- ing enterprise would meet with large success—The Southwestern Chris- tian Advocate. Louisiana comes in for a good share of patronage. Not many States will exeeed it. When the 244 places with the yearly salary of $231,162, one can readily understand the why of the quadrennial wrangle between the Lily White and Black and Tan wings of the Republican party in that State. NEGROES AND U. S. SAILORS MIX IT UP NEAR NORFOLK. There was a serious clash between Negroes and United States sailors in Berkley and South Norfolk, Va. a few days ago, and but for the timely arrival of the civil authorities who took charge of three Negroes with whom the trouble originated, and gave them police protection, there might have been loss of life. It is said that the sailors from the St. Helena naval training station, a short distance away, had been taking corn from the farm land of the Negroes. One of the Negroes fired on the sailors, but said he did so only to frighten them off. The seamen then drove the Ne- groes with their families into the house on the place and many shots, it is said, were fired into the house, ‘The police called on the naval authori- ties for aid, and the Negroes, who were being attacked, were finally got into Berkley ward police station. Sev- eral hundred sailors assembled and the police, hearing threats of lynch- ing, hastened the Negroes in a spe- cial car from Berkley across the river to the central police station in this city, where they still remain. The sailors assembled around the Berkley police station openly threatened at- tack and the naval authorities again had to send aid to disperse and run the enlisted men back to their station. THE COMMUNITY IDEA. The American Negroes, those of the United States, do have much reason for complaint owing to civil wrongs inflicted, consisting mostly in the de- nial of the right to freely mingle with the white people. Viewed in relation to the rights and privileges enjoyed ‘by white people, knowing that they are not favored of the laws, as best understood, the situation is not with- out friction wherever the races live in the same communities. The Ne- groes, however, are heedless of their opportunity to’ form communities of themselves where they could secure all the advantages known. The op: portunity to voluntarily segregate is so great that it is without more than passing notice. It is not so every- where. Only very recently Israel Zangwill, the well-known Hebrew poet and philanthropist, implored the Rus- sian government for just such a privt- lege, that of colonization for his peo- ple in communities at their own elec- tion. Judging by the spirit of im- portuning, the opportunity for such colonization is a privilege that is not always accorded. The relation of the Jews to Russia has a striking parallel- ism to that of the Negroes in America. ‘The policy of colonization, however, seems repugnant to the Negroes of America. True enough, there are a few efforts of the kind’ which at the best appear scarcely more than “half- hearted,” when the material is at hand for great and thriving communities— the real test of the thing independ- ence spoken of. Our country asks no questions of those choosing to set up for themselves, simply requiring that such communities abide by the gen- eral laws of the land. Often when the community idea is advanced it is received in a cold, dis. trustful way, as if the thing was a matter of compulsion Instead of op- portunity. In time, if the racial ten- sion continues to tighten, some such feeling—that of — compulsion—may play a part in Negro affairs in Ameri- ca, but at this time nothing of the kind appears. We do not feel to be hasty in suggesting the thing, citing the action of the recent convention of Democrats in West Virginia, who declared for Negro disfranchisement and the separate car idea, actions sug- gestive of increasing political and THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. eee ed the | civil hostility. The community idea] each Negro’s soul the spirit of pro- ar idea | whenever carried out will tend to|gression, more of the spirit of good- of the| prove an attempt on the part of the|ness, industrialism, until the mob e wed-| colored people to make less the fric-| grows mean in its own estimation, h, and| tion through a willingness to under-| because of its acts. There's a balm in the] take the schemes and plans of other | for every wound—find the balm fs the s had| peoples at self-government, showing | idea. - from | also an appreciation for the race in — yf such | such a movement. THAT MIGHTY FINE. n is as a — Re THE COMMUNITY IDEA. The $29,000,000 fine did not look The Colored Statesman, in speaking on the community proposition, has the following: “The proposition laid before the re- cent session of the Colorado State Negro Business League looking to the establishment in this State of a Ne- gro’s colony on a scale large enough to compare well with any similar at- tempt previously engaged in by Ne- groes anywhere in the United States, is worthy of the thought of every seri- ous person who has the welfare of the race at heart. All colonization plans are based upon the principle of race aggregation, though they also in- yolve the principle of isolation from other elements. “In our opinion the formation of a Negro community 1s beneficial beyond the natura! inerease which will accrue to the value of the lands occupied, and beyond all other consequent business profits. The experience in self-gov- government is by far the most impor- tant feature to be considered. While this experience must follow and grow up after the actual establishment of the colony, it is the one ultimate feat. ure which every member of the com- munity should seek to develop care- fully, with due regard for compari- sons that will be made with other communities composed of different people. ‘The Negro needs this experi- ence. No people can become a com petent social element in a progressive state or nation without the opportu- nity, wisely improved, to educate and disseminate the faculty of govern: ment. Mixed in with and lost among the larger populations of white com munities and municipalities, the Ne- gro’s experience in this line is_prac- tically nothing. Our accustomed scramble for paltry benefits in present day polities in white communities, and throughout all our relationships in the nation, however large, are real- ly disgraceful, compared with the dig: nified heritage which arises out of the absolute control and government of a local community, of which its people cannot be deprived. But, as we have said, this local government must follow the actual establishment of the colony. The conditions for the establishment of a Negro colony in Colorado are almost ideal. It could be made successful with families who are already citizens of the state alone, but those conditions will appeal strongly to persons who are now citt- zens of other states with less advan- tages. Our climate, our soil, our fa- cilities for communication and com- mercial intercourse with other com- munities, our markets, the newness of the country and consequent easy ac- cess to land, and above all the free- dom to which all citizens of this state are heirs, combine to make the oppor- tunity a great one. Care, caution, sober determination, a sincere com: munity effort and judgment and a wise ambition and pride for the Negro, for- tifled with patience, are the ‘only requisites for a Negro Utopia in Colo: rado.” EVIL REPORT. The following information from Rus: sellville, Ky., is a reminder that busi ness is being conducted at the same “old stand,” regardless of the ap proaching campaign: “Four Negroes, Virgil, Tom and Robert Jones and Joe Riley, were taken from jail here early today and hanged to a tree on the edge of town No shots were fired by the mob, which was composed of about fifty men, and the people of the town knew nothing of the affair until daylight revealed the four bodies dangling from a tree just outside Russellville on the Nash- ville pike. “The following note was found pinned on one of the Kodies: ‘Let this be a warning to you niggers to let white people alone or you will go the same way. Hugh Rogers better shut up or quit.’ “The Negroes who were lynched were members of a lodge, and at 2 meeting recently, it is said, they ap proved of the murder of James Cun ningham, a white farmer, by his Ne gro tenant, Rufus Browder. This murder occurred in the southern part of Logan county, and it is supposed here that the mob was made up of men from that part of the county.” Most of us have been trying to think that the lynching evil was on the wane, trying to think that be twixt the respect for the law, the shame of committing crime and the growing worthiness of colored peo ple that the custom was rapidly go ing to where it belongs—with the things that were. But every now and then our civil life is accentuated by the dreadful happenings—deaths in bunches, as if there were an effort to make’ up for lost time. It is decidedly useless to attempt to discuss the mob in the better sense. It seems to enjoy a serious considera tion, a detailed account of “how ‘twas done.” It seems that merely a pass in gnotice is best. Those that are at all acquainted with the situation know how hopeless Negroes are at correct ing such flagrant abuses, If white men are not aroused to step out and take up for the reputation of thelr country, it looks as if the reputation will be lost along the lines of court justice. Because of the great number of Negroes, practically, these happenings cut no figure in the affairs of the race They are incidentally and far be tween; the Negroes are millions in number. Mob law hurts theoretically, since a particular race is assailed as the rule, making the belief common that the mob is a necessity as an agency in correcting the morals of Negroes. But the mob is not without a redeeming feature; it is a test of the chagrin and even madness of some be cause of the Negro’s progress. There are not admirable qualities to draw out and at such a fearful price; but very often the ‘only way of knowing the standing. Then, again, the mot ghéult: be the menue of ésttine on to each Negro’s soul the spirit of pro- gression, more of the spirit of good- ness, industrialism, until the mob grows mean in its own estimation, because of its acts. There's a balm for every wound—find the balm is the idea. THAT MIGHTY FINE. The $29,000,000 fine did not look right to us in the first place, not that a man or concern could not offend to the extent at so much per, but the fine was so enormous as to surpass belief, having the appearance of “doing” the company, giving it what it deserved according to its standing at the bar of public opinion, giving it the extent beeause the public would stand for it And, strange enough, much of the pub: lic gloated over the impending calam. ity as though the great company had offended it one by one. There ap- peared an “unconscious” conspiracy to put the “octopus” out of commission, There was much elation when papers were served on Mr. John D.,. proof enough that he was thought to have more than his share. Those outside of the courtroom, and who also were in for prosecution, contended that he had sinned and sinned, and had never been brought to book because of his sinning; he was said to be elusive and that the court was justified in fixing him while they had him in hand It doesn’t stand to reason that nearly so many had ground for complaint nor had they sulfered the least bit on account of those “sins,” nor had they knowledge of the facts other than told them—the great majority. Yet the great majority is opposed to the great corporation, when it in no way is harmed by ‘the company’s operations ‘The small operator is the only one hurt by the road roller processes of the Standard Oil Company. It em- ploys men by the thousands, pays the wages paid others doing similar work. ‘The “sin” of great success had more to do with the opposition by the pub- lie than its overt acts. The small operator will combine whenever there is opportunity. Men just love a trust; and none is so hum- ble but what pricks up his ears when the thing looks a possibility. The man that despises a trust is the man that can't break into one. ‘They are hateful institutions in instances, but rarely do they ever disturb the work man. He may be temporarily. dis placed; he may suffer in a particular locality, but in the main his number will be the same. Trusts are wrong in principle, but inflict serious injury only when ‘grinding down the work- men, as seems the case in Kentucky, where the tobacco growers insist that the tobacco trust has by virtue of its monopoly made prices so low that to- bacco raising at this time was with- ‘out profit. When such conditions fol low, the trust will be held a menace, otherwise it will be held a shrewd business move, and on a greater seale than is usual ‘in the conduct of busi- ness, Mr. Rockefeller and his company needs but little sympathy from us; it is ample enough to care for itself, but the true American spirit ought to stand out against anything that looks like confiscation. This is aside from the legal aspect of the case, knowing, however, that penalties are at the court's discretion. It strikes us that somehow Judge Landis could have corrected the evil practices of the com- pany without consuming it at one stroke. He could have done this and still have been right within the law, pressing harder the warning side than that of penalty. JACKSONVILLE, ILL. bin can tat teeth apneic Mr. and Mrs. Curtis: Raymond left re- cently after a pleasant visit with parents and Telatives and friends, for St. Paul, Minn....Miss Alferetta Jameston left re: cently, “after a very pleasant. visit. with Mrs. W. M. Cooper, and Mrs. G. W. Coop- er....The “Woman's Club met recently, witha good attendance, at the club room, and were nicely entertained by Mesdames Ross, Herndon and Lafayette. Mrs. Mar- shall; of Columbia, Mo., was the guest at the club... A very pleasant surprise party was given Friday night, July 31, atthe home of Mr. Sherman Mounts, in honor of his birthday... .A. Yates Marching Club Was organized fcently. by Voters of our Sits. the tittle ehila “ot “Mrs. “Lepna Jones,” ‘of South West street, who” has been ‘quite ill, is some better... . Henry Davis and Marvin Jones left recently for Maysville, Mo., to cook for Jeffries Band, ‘The members of the Bethel A. M. B, Church are preparing to remodel thelr church... About sixteen young: ladies and kentlemen enjoyed an. outing at Nicholas Park, July 40:...Mrs, Ollie Brown. left recently for Hadley, Iil., on account of the serious illness of her father, Mr. Butler, ;...Little Daniel Tinsley, of South Har- din avenue, is Ill this week... .A. Republie- an Club Was recently organized. Dr. A. H. Kinntebrew is president and W. Parrish is secretary....Mrs. Matilda Smith left recently ‘for ‘Omaha, Neb. to reside. .... Mrs. Annie Carpenter’ and. Mfrs. Go West ‘are’ still very Th Mrs. Willis Biue is now living on West 'Ragmond street....Mrs, M. Carpenter, who has been quite ‘ili,’ is” improving. ...Mrs. Fanny Brown, of Champaign, Tli,, left’ recently, after a pleasant visit ‘with Mr. and Mrs, Green and Mr.’anad Mrs. Samuel Bolden. Mrs. Carrie Starks, of Harvey, Ik, formerly of this city, stopped over for a visit with Mrs, Overila Hyatt. She was on her way to be at the bedside of ‘her mother in Clarksville, Mo....Mrs.. John Easley entertained a number of friends at her home on East Chamber street, Satur- day evening, July 25.” Among those pres. ent Were Mr. and. Mrs. Curtis Raymond and Miss Mabel Johnson, of | St. Paul, Minn; Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cooper, Mr, and Mrs. W.-M. Cooper, Mr. and” Mrs. George Young, Little Albert Cooper and Alferctta Jameston, of Mexico, Mo...» Mrs. ‘Taylor and two daughters, of | St, Louis, Mo., who have been visiting Mrs, Frank Myers, ‘of South Mauraisterre etreet, Gave sturned tome. ELMIRA, N. Y. Special to THE FReewaw. Miss Isabelle Hardy. of Homell, N. ¥., spent Sunday: and Monday in the city... Clarence Jones. of Addison, apn a few days In the eliy. Visiting friends and felatives: = Mins Finima Scheder. of Brad: ford, Pa, is spending @ short time in the City... Stisses’ Mayme Parsiey and ‘Helen Wilkinson, of Menton Falisy were inthe cig Satarday.. Me, and’ Mrs. James Hera, very” pleasantly” entertained afew friends “at. their home ‘on. Second, street. The guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur Johnson and Mrs. L. Mack... Jesse Streets, who has been confined to the house for the past week with rheumatism ig able ‘to be out again... Mr. and. Mex Comelius Reed and Mrs. Bacom, of Wat: kkins, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry" Mason last Sunday. Clarenes Howard, of Big Flats, was a caijer in the cig Sunday. | CLARKSVILLE, TENN. ae Special to THE FREEMAN. SrGur churches are having _much success with moonlight pienies..-sRev. D. Le tre es oem ice ee ‘Pencherst Institute sermon_at Russellville ast. week... .Our tending politicians have organized’ a’ Republican Club. which, wil bes known as the Foraker Club. 1S." A, Pe aoe te the Onatnaton Pie oiab eroce te eZ STICRL Fr Cage” ai - iS = Jee rn mr oe a WEG Se ey rr — Ss SRE ing, as usual, for something to turn up— Hake has never asked ott ME. Ve Jacob Woessner is proving a formidable candidate for the office of sheriff. His large and favorable acquaintance among the better class of colored citizens of the South Side has made him a pronounced favorite in the race. Chas. F, Maas declares himself strong- ly opposed to any legislation that will take away or bias the rights of one citizen in favor of another. He Is a. bitter antl- “jim-crowist.” Mr. Maas is a candidate for Representative, Candidate J. B. Watson addressed an enthusiastic crowd of thirty colored men and women at the State fair grounds Wednesday. ‘The candidate for Governor was introduced to the vast audience by Gurley Brewer, the colored spell-binder of Indianapolis.—The Independent. Isidor Wulfson, inspector of weights and measures, Is making a reputation for him- self through his agility, in running down those who “short-weiglt” the people, Mr, Wulfson Is candidate for trustee of Cen- ter township on the Republican ticket. He is one of the best advertised ‘men on the tieket—the kind that counts, Salem D. Clark, candidate, for State Senator, according to his eard, “will follow the dictates of his own conscience if elect- ed.” No bad card, by the way, in these days of great combines which have “in- terests” and need men to carry them out. Mr, Clark Is'a Democrat. He wants the votes of all the citizens. Frank S. Fishback is making a strong Impression in colored circles. ‘The think- ing and property owning, ciasses of the Negroes are a unit in their determination to see to it that only clean business men shall be chosen as their standard bearers in the offices of public trust. ‘The office of treasurer is certainly one of them, ‘A straw vote recently taken on one of the interurban trains, among the twenty- five passengers, showed elghteen votes for ‘Taft, six for Bryan and one for Hisgen. Fiftéen voted for Marshall for Governor ‘and nine for Watson and one for the Pro- hibition candidate, It is evident, there Is going to be some “discrimination” on elec- tion day. ‘Phe Demoerats of Marion county are not very, much different from the Repub Heans. It does not stand to. reason. that they should give offices to colored: men, who do so. little in return. © What litte boost’ that has been given that party has been appreciated. All the colored Demo- crats of ability of this city that had nerve to stick have been rewarded. ‘The liberal views of Jas. E. Berry, can- didate for Representative, are causing con- siderable comment. and krowing popular~ ity. He stands for progressive legislation that will tend to the betterment of all Classes, frowning down all measures that Will restrict the liberty and rights of the people. Sunday baseball will haye a sub- Stantlal friend in Mr. Berry, He is against discrimination of any character. stronger every meeting....Mr. and Mrs, Jienry Shellby entertained’ the following guesis at thelr residence. on Washington Street, in honor of their sisters, Miss Hat- tle Drain, of St. Louis, Mo. and Miss Bertha Drain, of Walden University, at Nashville, ‘Tenn.: Mrs. Laura Pettus, of St. Louis; Mrs. Berthenia People, of ‘Pex- as; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lamton,’ Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Simmons, Mrs. Birdie Qualls, Miss Rossie Comard, Miss Nannie Dix, ‘Mise Hutchinson. Mr. Quint Hutchinson, O. F, Hunter and J. P. Steele... Dr, L. 'T. Williams lett for Hickman, “Ky. for’ an indefinite stay on account of his health. “....Bd Kimbrough, of Chicago, spent. his Vacation here with his mother and rela- tives, MY. Kimbrough had a big time ‘ishing in. the Cumberland river... .Mrs. Sue Beaumont, of Cleeviand, | 6.,” for- merly of Clarksville, is in the city, visit- ing her. brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Cooper... .Jack Murphy suffered a bad accident on the 29th. “He got a nail stuck through his foot....John Stuart got his hand mashed badly last week... .Miss Hattie ‘Drain left for St. Louis ‘on the 20th, after @ pleasant stay in the city... . Bud’ Martin, of French Lick, Ind., is’ in the city ona visit... Get ‘The Freeman every Saturday at 107 South First street. TP. Steele, agent. FLORENCE, ALA. Special to ‘THE FREEMAN. 5. F. Portlock has accepted the agency of ‘The Indianapolis Freeman. Copies on sale at $15 Court street eevry Saturday. ..-Little Miss Hattie May Alexander is Stil visiting friends and relatives in Jack- Son, ‘Tenn... .Mrs. Lena. Norwood "and Mrs. Emily Jordan, who have been on. the alck list, are able to be up again....Mrs. Eliza Deberry leaves to-day. to visit friends and relatives In Jackson, ‘Tenn. MIDDLESBORO, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. I. C. Campbell and Mrs, Frank Emery went’ to Knoxville shopping last week....Miss Florence Ely and her sis; ter Annie are the guests of Mrs, Prank Emery. ...Miss Mary Campbell, of Knox: ville, is visiting friends here this week... Mrs. Josie Vance, who has been suffering for a long time’ with a cancer of — the breast, passed away Sunday morning and was buried Monday of last week... -Mrs Patton is very sick at her home on ‘twen- tieth "street... Mise Lassie Tye Is some better... Mrs D. BR. Wells was on. the Sick list last week....Mrs. Wm, Staton, who has been fl for some time, will soon be out again. WAXAHACHIE, TEX. Special to THE Freeaan. Miss Mary Carroll and Mrs, Eddie 31 liams left last week for ‘Teague, Tex, ‘They expect to be absent two or. three weeks....C. I. B. Childs was in Dallas one day last week....Mrs. H. Cook has returned from Murtan, after spending two weeks or more at the’ bedside of her. sick daughter...Read ‘The Freeman, — Bach copy, 5 cents, at G. Washington Bruce's, Sunday school convention of the Wax: fhachle District will convene. at Mexia, ‘Tex. August 18,19, 20... Rev. Griggs is carrying on a protracted meeting at his chureh....Rev. J. H. Freison has been in Kearn for the last ten or twelve days Reling. th, a protracted "meeting. | th A.M. B, Chureh had a grand time in gen. eral class meeting last Sunday, conducted by Rev. C. HL. Bell and Rev. JA. Austin, ..Two joined the A. M. B. Church last Sunday....Can I get two or three boys ta Sell The Freeman each Saturday evening’ Call at 120 Wyatt street. GAINESVILLE, FLA. ‘Special to THE FREEMAN. ‘This is a beautiful little inland elty, sit- uated in the center of the State, with Population, of ‘about 8.000, of whom a least 4,500 are colored, ‘They are. very prosperous. The following is a list of the principal places of busines run by col- bred people: Seven up-to-date grocery Stores, two fine drug ‘stores, three shoe shops, six barber shops, fifteen restau- rants, ten public hacks and twelve drays, six fish and meat markets, seven tailor shops, one printing press and newspaper. and many other business enterprises, tod humerous to mention. There, are sixteen people employed in the postoffice, eight of ‘whom are colored; four city mali carriers, two subs, one rural and one clerk. Tho colored people here are very prosperous, Carl Von Hake presents himset people of ation County fi te Hlotarat of the secon "i Hake has never asked ottice jogo Yee ig one of the successful business roid the clty, He ts eminently «ualined st gt the duties of the office ana Would exo Wise Judgment in the neeogry" «tee Tent the oops one fo ae dnd improventent of thera and institutions. Properties ‘The remarkable eagray” and even vertare aged by Prac, ae Hooton in the case last “winter of go State agminst'a certain wie, $e rurder of albert tfartey ah vandal aout that hei aneetat discharge! of Mis ‘el ‘i se man WH always ecrmtera Se Inweabiding citizen’ andy & 8 Proper Kind of san {all he Ate Bike of mroseeuter : Rey, Dr. Collis, of the A.M, Church, Tost no time ‘in aynnday Ae Principle of independence, “yc'Rite Be BR hie cout, wolled pis ett ke rere, aad Wat oaeed gh ye at Sepepaunt fen fa on te toe ake seri is elsewhere, ana’ ts une co fee that ho Wi 160) Quo, Of people ‘up to the. pulls’ nxt Us eae who wi Tealster a "proicn aan Republican pare ‘the resi colori palfcimn, te Gp round eipout, done tot ila, tte Bones vee te ee ee don't ow tat wnat to tho At fons fhe Hea nocke iia AN RE Care een Be oe ee hs they"are without a loader of erat! 2S abil” Whese ie Gat oh rasan Democracy? It ts now 11 o'clock for thet opportunity, Wal Ie push’ it'an ippporenniey. 5 Wk Te bas Joseph A. Lee, a colored member of the Taft notification committer engaged 4 room at the swell Sinton Hotel of Cinsige nati, and the hotel manager was asivnl ed when he appeared and revistered and demanded to be shown his room. As Me, Chas. P. Taft. was the principal ‘sode holder in the hotel, the matter was tom: promised by Mr. Lee being slven “the Foom, but agreeing € not inva the de ing room, He was told by the terrted clerk that should ‘he be allowed to enter the dining room every waiter would go a strike—Exchange. ac One of the most unique declarations yet to come to our notice, In 2 poiltical way, was voiced a few days ago by Henry Schroeder, nominee for township. trusts Mr. Schroeder announces that in the case of his election he will select one colored lady from each of the colored churches fy the township and form them into a com: mittee to look up and pass upon the Worthiness of the pauper poor among cae ored citizens entitled to aid. trum the county. “He further claims. that he will accept the ‘verdict of this committee as final and act accordingly. The yruposte tion has sunk deep in. the minds of the People, as one of the ‘qunrest lon tent itis given much significance by those who have known Mr. Schroeder during his long career as a poilce officer, where he was rewarded as an exception for probity ant uprightness. as a walk throughout the different strvets occupied by colored people Will show. The ice looking homes. and. well-kept lavns show ‘that they have home pride, We have seven colored churches ant a up-to date graded school... Augustus J. Sith, the comedian and author, will open up an up-to-date dancing school and concert tall some time during next__month... Rome Kendrick, of Tatpa, returned. home. on the Ist, ‘after a visit of several days to his mother and sisters... ‘The Preeman can be secured every Saturday from A. J Smith, at his home, 709 North Garden eeeoe FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Special to THE FREEMAN. DANVILLE, Til, August 8—Mr. and Mrs. Will Beeler will celebrate thelr sft wedding anniversary Moray. night, a their home in Robinson street. A number of out-of-town guests will be present OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Special to Tam FREEMAN, Rev. Jernagin, the pastor of the ‘Taber- nacle Baptist Church, had a rally at the auditorium, 501 West. California, Sunday Dr. B,C. Morris, president of the National Baptist Convention, filled the pulpit Sun: Gay at 11 o'clock,’ Rev. Westhrook at 3 O'clock. “Dr. Morris lectured Sunday ight. ° The tally collection was somthing over $1,200....G, B. Sparks left towt Monday ‘morning for Guthriv PADUCAH, KY. Special to ‘Tne Freew an, "The Padueah Bloomer Girls played a Metropolis, “l., last Sunday. ‘he soor was tot in favor of the Bloomer Gil S--Mrs, Louls ‘Thomas has recovered ftom a’ eeent (rouble of the eyes. ..W. D. Li cas is in Louisville, “Ky... aitending te Grand Lodge... Starling ‘Dane Is 1 Mesdames Waudfeld, Mattock, Mattn Miss Kissle Boyd, Mr. and Mrs). © Morton ‘attended. ‘the Grand Lose a Loulsvitte...George. Shoir and Miss Us Frazier were quietly married at te re dence of the bride last sunday nistt Sim Owens is very ill.. .Mrs. Hattie Wand has moved into her home on Sout! Bigth street...Mrs, Maggie Steele ts tuiliint & fine Hotel with the latest, jnvnrocements on. Jackson street. -Mrs. Lull) White of Cairo, Tih, is visiting relatives here The county teachers are holding weir institut At the Lineoin Building this week... Pt G. W. Jackson is instructor. Mrs. Jott fon Js visiting relatives at, St Louis Phe Odd Fellows have a sii imyeute eine Sar tan tinct Abor of their bulidinl. Lillian Watkins, a colored tr, had ero ‘ood nhc "el. ho, a reteatagt Pow” aya ano trea Srasnost human a8 divert tet Seotkat ghe"and ten ion ine rata fakin from ie. SIM athe Pratl of te ult, Te Sart of Blood fe the esl ines ie ——$—${— ‘STRAIGHT PLIABLE SILKY ! Phesenuitapenetnerreing 2S Piaerneeeeete tayo isecnreeece ae ea. wl atare tes |S CURL-I-CURE | 4 =" T RUBLICURE aa Pond sod Ding hn, Jase, ol ich nt ony iar tt ae msvcioy es ieieusnhete ieee Fake tre (ame ae pei iaeny |g ee It softens the fibres or tho | aR. a ahaa seen ee (a Kioky or matted coodition es 1 He percerccrte (aa anrus kr u'es | rt iSvantaaaitee spice De MARVELOUS HaIA BEAUTIFIE” Free ete ae ee panaeanaecreatesatian onions iiraceraee eed ta Saree at jarcencugh tolascalong tine torn!" 2200)" Hajenttciuniosetaetod or INCOLN MANUFACTURING CO.. AURO! THE STAGE Douglas and Worthy's Florida Blossoms closed their season at Buchanan, Va., July 30. A. John and Susie Anderson are with W. John and Mahara's Minstrels and sends best regards to friends. C. Adam La Rose, female impersonator with A. G. Allen's minstrels, sends regards to all friends. Mable De Heard write. The Centers are still at the Lincoln Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn., holding their own, and they would like to hear from all friends. The Griffin sisters are playing in Alaska and are booked for three months, after which they will return to the United States. Prof. D. E. K. Hull still leads the orchestra which consists of eight pieces and its music is surprising of which Graner speaks very highly. "Sim" Mason, formerly of the P. G. Lowry Musical Enterprise, with the Wallace-Hagenbock Circus, is now with the Teorion Amusement Company. Mr. Mason sends regards to P. G. Lowry and Sam P. Gardner, stage manager; Sank Sims, sims assistant stage manager, and Henry Watterson, musical director, at the Theatre continue to present the best in their line. Regards to friends. D. P. Granger of this city, manager and stage director of the Great Patter. Season, he has just closed a most successful season and is at home for a much needed rest. Granger will go out in September in vaudeville with Robert B. Jopin, author and manager of the Cuban Balls. Sarpo and Reno, the singing, dancing and talking comedian, are making a tremendous effort in vaudeville and are booked until October, and following this engagement they are booked indefinitely over the Gus Sims circuit. Regards to the Pamphlet and Wining Ferrice & the entire profession. Charles English, the Indiana Blossom, formerly of this city, now traveling with the Great Patterson Shows and Prof. Dr. James H. Hunt, the best records to all their Indianapolis friends. English as a female impressor has grown quite popular and at the sign of him he no longer successes and later仕 is "Gratitude and "If the Place Called Heaven Was Only Mine," and from the time he appears on the stage he has the audience laughing until he retires. Gordon Bunch, who traveled for four years with Jim Key, the educated horse, as lecturer, is now a museum Park Clevens horse show for two years, the horse being ill. Since then he has been door talker for some of the biggest parks and fair shows in the country and an introduced to the world by the Brothers Spirit Hindu Writer and made him. He attributes his success to the getting to work strenuously to business, from habits of dissipation. NORRIS AND BOWE CIRCUS Mort Poppin, hoop roller, sends regards to "A Rabbit Foot" company. 600 Kid Hoy sends his regards to all Daddy and Lucy White send regards to Golden Gate Quintette. Daddy White says hello to Tim Owlsley and all friends. Prof Jno, C. Adams and company send regards to Prof. Wolfscole and his com- ALLEN'S MINSTRELS. J. B. Norton writes from the Allens Minstrels. We are now in Tennessee turning them away more than pleased nightly, and public says that we have the best show, the best Smith is making good singing "Parson Mars." Three Reasons Why." Chas. E. Jones uses singing with his classical son and thousand miles from show. Phil Williams is making good with "Nobody Knows." Johnnie Lee is singing that Where Friendship Ends" with his funny songs, making it hard for all bicycle riders. John Dempsey, the funny old man, is still his funny tales of woe. Joe B. Norton has his funny songs. Joe B. Rose, our female impersonator, is still pacing the public singing F. B. Havland "Won't You Be My Honey." E. J. Minstrels, our female ensemboro, Ky., to family and friends, the company sends regards to all friends. DIXON AND DANIELS STERLING JUBILEE SINGERS. The Iverson and Daniels Sterling Jubilee Sisters visited the Midland Jubilee Singing Grand Island, Neb., while enroute to their tour. The Sisters entered the Chautauqua grounds the Midlands were giving their usual hair and entertainment, much to their curiosity and to the delight of the Midlands. The Highwarden, pianist for the Sisters, Singers, celebrated her birthday ensemble for the first time. The Broken Bow, Neb. The Grand Center is a large, spacious building, the location of the Broken Bow, and the grand proprietor of the venue, to the services of the Sterlings on holiday. A very enjoyable time was had by the Highwarden was the recipient of many gift items from each member of the company. Julia E. Ware is making good as being soprano this season, and Wma never fails to please in "Cause I Get Good Common Scense." THE ROYAL THEATER theatre is playing S. R. O. nightly. Liggins sends regards to J. N. Green. Alice McQuillier, our pianist, is Paperface. Why don't you write? Miss Ila Gardner is making a great singing "The Malden With the Miss Star Crawl" and would like to hear from Miss Susie Beavers of the "Funny Miss Manle Chester, one of the souls is suffering from severe tonsilitis, is rapidly recovering, and appeared on Elizabeth Grisby is making a great hit saying "You to Treat Me Right, Yes in a Whale, greatest team of the season is Gene Benton and Tom Briggs, better known as Bent-Bent, and making a big hit saying "Dorothy" in Countown, entire company brings entire The company sends regards to performers of and on the road. Hello, Pekka. MOVING PICTURE SHOW AT THE ELECTRIC THEATER. in the corner of 13th and Walnut sts. in Loveland, where the larger, yawning picture is a moving picture. The smaller, keeping the Hopkins, which is in mid-picture show, or elsewhere in the theatre. This moving picture show or elsewhere in the theatre. ated in a splendid building, namely the Odd Fellows Building, and is named therefrom "Odd Fellows Theatre." Mr. Ed. Wren's response for the up-to-date place of enlightenment and of Louisville, for this is a colored theatre, the only one there. It is managed and operated absolutely by colored people and is proving quite a success. The seating is arranged to spend evenings and very often there is not standing room. This is a long felt want, fulfilled for the younger set of folks in the city are bright, intelligent and up-to-date, and had absurdly little to spend their evenings. However Mr. Lester comes also just a dainty place for passing away the time and to learn something at the same time. They have an "amateur night" time each week and number of folks are benefited in these, for their revered compensation for their services rendered. One admirable quality in the courteous manager of this theatre is his readiness to assist in helping those who are deserving. On Monday night, July 26, they presented the "Passion Play," or the Life of Christ exactly as it is produced at Ober Ammergam, Bavaria, and the churches of Paris. This has made this one event a memorable one. On the first night, the Misses Alice Crutcher, Mary Bullitt and Mrs. Minnis of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, one of the popular churches of the city, assisted by Mr. Lee for the new dormitory for girls to be erected at the State University, and the attraction offered was the Passion Play. It was a decided success. On the following day, the congregation of Rev. Wee Johnson pastor, was benefited by Mr. Lee's generosity. The following week the following churches will be benefited: Aug. 3, A. M. E. Zion; Aug. 4, Em. F. Calvary; Aug. 5, Ge. Parrish; Aug. 6, Quinn Church; Aug. 10, Rev. Brown's church. The orphans and the old folks have been special guests of the management and one evening's receipts will be taken to replenish the library. Such things as are much needed by them. It is the wish of every good citizen that good fortune and luck follow this enterprise, and that the benefits of this wonderful story told so vividly by beautiful hand-colored pictures are not only mercenary, but many men have been made to think twice and be usher that some greater good will be achieved by his wife, Mrs. L. Fish Hubbard Lee. GOOD MINSTREL SHOW AT BEN NETT'S. THE SUNNY SOUTH COMEDY CO. We are still doing nicely, although we have encountered some six weeks of rain in the past, and the show is running nice and smooth, after eliminating all of the dead wood and excess baggage. We are now making the show more accessible, yielding with each other in singing the praise of the show. Every town we have played this season has turned us out good and the best, the newest, the cleanest show and the best, behaved people on and off the stage; in fact, we have received written testimonials from several mayor's city clerks and other mu- Prof. Wm. L. Horne is praised daily for the way he conducts his band and orchestra. They all say that it is the best music he has to play, the magister, is certainly staging every play with an elaborateness hard to beat under canvas, and incidentally mopping up with his slide trombone every day on parade and concert. Kitchen, our leading comedian, is keeping the crowds laughing from start to finish. Norman Cherry, our challenge buck and wink, is cleaning up nightly, and every day he makes them say that he's the only snare drummer ever in the town. Tom A. Leonard is making them encore nightly with his comical songs and dances, and with his bass drum every day in the parade. Harry Ford is making them yell with his kid and dude parts, and also mopping with his slide trombone daily. His soprano is sending them away wondering how she sustains those high notes, and Mrs. Lulu Horne gets her share of praise nightly with serio-comics, while Miss Clare Ford, with her funny sayings, will laugh nightly with her funny sayings. Dr. S. Ford (Sam Ford), the old-time producer and manager, is holding his own, and after 20 years has taken up the cornet again and making goers go to the concert in his way. Our two "picks," Reginald Horne and Sammy Ford, Jr., age 5 and 4, are the dancers, the dancers, the dancers, and Mrs. Dollie Ford, at the door, is a mother to all of the boys and girls. We are playing three-night stands, and the girls are playing three-night stands, and Ford, that are ticklers. We met and followed the Mahara Minstrels this season, also met P. G. Lowery long enough to shake his hand. Regards to both companies. Hope we'll meet when we have more time. CHICAGO SHOW SHOP not on the map. But they get the real money, no matter how old the songs are; they are always new over this route. To prove how good business is in the "Jube" line, Buckner's No. 2 Warbling Birds have been out two years and haven't lost a day. The last time we heard from them was three months ago, and the report read, "The old ship is moving along, moving along." that base ball disease "bad luck" that visits all ball teams. To begin with, Harris, their great second baseman, broke his right hand and will be out of the game the rest of the season. Geo. Wright has been called home on account of the death of his mother and will move to are certified Duberry, a promising pitcher, strayed away one day. With all this handicap Chicago has some actor's goat. J. Ed Green, general director of the Pekin Theater, has been puzzled for the last month as to what to do. He offers a downward offer, but for the coming season and is yet undecided what he will do. Mr. Green has unbounded faith in his old love, the Pekin, but the situation at present has been difficult, with no space, without a word to say. The five-cent theater craze has every legitimate outlaying house in the city trying to fathom the reasons why they must be mousely decided that they will have to wait and wonder how long will this craze last. Mr. Green's troubles are not so severe, the male members of his late stock company are refusing good offers for the coming season, waiting to see what their former director was going to do; yet when he closed his companies they were informed it was indelible. Yet they bop up every day and ask, "What's doing?" He has struck a plan to teach his students a situation immediately, and that is in collecting his young company together with local new blood, and form a strong dramatic club and give a series of dramas a day and a Saturday matinees. In this way he will open a field for young, talented ambitious people, as he is a stanch believer through this channel. Yet he is not able to say on his own word that he is able to cope with this problem alone, as he is the best speaking of ability in directing this film and It is well supposed that when he and Mr. Motts get their heads together they will settle on some course to meet the issue. Simon Dunsmore, manager of the colored show department of Ringling Bros.' big show, a branch out of the coming season, full-breast suit. He was cage he completed arrangements with J. Ed Green and Marion A. Brooks, the playwrights, to produce him a show according to the cage's instructions. He mina and Her Chile," with a cast of 20 to support him. Mr. Dunsmore had in advance effected arrangements with the Dawes brothers, who produced the "Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour," to furnish scenery, property, etc. Wingfield and Gazzallo, booking agents of Chicago, are booking the time to begin the season. The company will produce the "Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour," to furnish scenery, property, etc. Wingfield and Gazzallo, booking agents of Chicago, are booking the time to begin the season. The company will travel on its merits—no show, but be road trip through the Northwest to the coast, and if will play East next season. Tim Bryan has been engaged to set the music. Mr. Brooks has been engaged to stage it, but will play in the show. The cast has been selected. The Empire Theatre will open its regular season on Thursday, August 13, with a special production, the lesque production, as the offering. The Ducklings company is owned by Heuck & Fennessy, the firm which owns the Emperor Theatre, and the New York Sunday and give final dress rehearsals on the Empire stage Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The company offers forty people, including such well-known stars as Miss Lou Dacre, the popular comedienne; Tiki Ginger Girl; George C. Clark, the GermanEDIan; Colton and Darrow; Halley and LOUIE DACRE McKinnon, the famous Berg family; six musicians of wide reputation, and a chorus of thirty pretty girls. Two big burelesques, "Berrywood's Busy Day" and "Many Important Improvisations" have been made at the Empire. The building has been entirely renovated from top to bottom. New furnishings have been added. The interior of the lobby has changed and redecorated. The new box office has been opened. The exterior of the building has been painted, and iron exit stairways have been added. BATTING RALLY IN THE NINTH GIVES LELAND GIANTS GAME CHICAGO, Ill., July 29.—A battling rally in the ninth innning gave the Leland Giants a hard fought victory over the Philadelphia Giants yesterday at Logan Square, where the team had dentally the odd game in the first three of the series between the clubs. With the score a tie in the ninth and one man gone, the Giants fined out, but Ball shot a single to center field, earning it third, and Wiston hit to left, winning the game. The visiting counterpitch, pitched a wonderful field for six innings, ened towards the close. Petway's throwing and plays by Lloyd and Francis furnished the fielding features of the game. Leland Giants. R H P A E Winston, l. f. 1 1 4 1 4 Hill, c. f. 0 0 7 0 0 Frey, s. f. 0 0 2 0 0 Talbert, 2 b. 0 1 1 0 Moore, 1 b. 0 0 4 0 0 Smith, s. s. 0 1 3 2 0 Booker, c. 2 3 3 2 1 Bowman, 2 b. 0 0 3 0 0 Ball, p. - 2 0 2 0 Totals 3 8 27 8 4 Philadelphia Giants. R H P A E James, 2 b. 0 1 3 2 0 Peterson, c. 0 0 3 2 0 McClellan, c. f. 0 0 3 0 0 Lloyd, s. s. 1 1 3 2 1 Duncan, l. f. 1 2 2 0 0 Weaver, l. b. 1 0 8 1 0 Martin, r. f. 1 1 9 2 0 Francis, 3 b. 0 1 2 0 1 Fisher, p. 0 1 0 2 0 Totals 2 8 26 9 3 Leland Giants. 0 1 0 0 1 0 Phil. Giants. 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Two base hits—Duncan, Booker, Three base hit—Martin, Double plays—Francis-James, Weaver (2). Struck out—By Ball, Bases on balls—Off-Ball, 2; off Fisher. 4. Umpire—White. Attendance, 1,800. "BASE HITS" Chicago is over base ball wild. The Philadelphia Giants are here. Then some more. The two star pitchers, Fisher and Hayman, have got a new copyright on the "strike out bee." The Leland Giants have begun to catch that base ball disease "bad luck" that visits all ball teams. To begin with, Harris, their great second baseman, broke his right hand and will be out of the game the rest of the season. Geo. Wright has been called home on account of the death of his brother, and he remains until some family matters are settled. Dubery, a promising pitcher, strayed away one day. With all this handicap they are playing good ball. The Leland Giants are the greatest jokers on small town ball teams in the country, and get away with them all. The Leland Giants were seated on their way back from Cleveland, and they were engaging an engagement, they had an agreement to play a little "woods town" team called the Cow Boys. The contract for the Cow Boys was for the Bob Foster pitch. After the Lelands had arrived in the city Mr. Foster found out that no one knew him from any of the other players, and an idea struck him that he might fool all his players together and "tipped them off" to call the catcher, whose name is Booker, Foster. It worked like a charm. He did not want to pitch the game as on his regular game and he was short at the time on his pitching staff. None of the members of the team was wise as to what game he would pitch. The Bobooker went in to pitch and Foster did the catching. It worked fine, score 23 to 0. The Cow Boys were more than delighted, as they had gotten five hits during the game, and aming his shoulders, hands, arms and neck. Everything went well until a commercial traveler who knows each player on the Leland Giants very well, remarked, "The Cow Boys would have struck out every man." Some one asked, "Didn't Foster pitch that game?" The man said, "No, the Cow Boys would have struck out every game he would have struck out every man." Some one asked, "Didn't Foster pitch that game?" The man said, "No, the Cow Boys would have struck out every man." The whole town was in a rage in a little while, and it is a good thing that the Lelands didn't stop for supper, for those country people would have a chance to play. He, Ha! What will they hand out next? A. B. C.'S TAKE HARD BATTLE. Sawmakers Lose One of Best Games of Year at Northwestern. The A. B. C's triumphed over the Atkins Club Sunday afternoon at Northwestern Park by the score of 4 to 2 in one of the best independent games of the season, and the struggle. The colored sluggers located Milam, the star hurler of the Sawmakers, in the sixth, getting the first run of the game over. In the eighth the A. B. C's batted in a triple, his jersey. Highee had the Atkins team hooked up until the ninth, when he weakened slightly and Uhl led a rally with a double, which resulted in two runs. Highee again struck his masterly stride, however, and retired the team without further Atkins R H O A E Kenworthy, s. s. 0 0 3 6 7 Unhill, c. f. 0 0 3 6 7 Unhill, b. 0 1 2 11 0 Scanlon, 2 b. 1 2 11 0 Bryant, 3 b. 0 0 3 3 2 Muss, r. f. 0 0 3 3 2 Kluy, l. f. 0 0 1 1 Schissel, c. 0 1 2 0 0 Milan, p. 0 0 2 0 0 Totals 2 4 24 17 3 A. B. C.'s R H O A E Gronger, l. f. 0 1 0 0 1 Herron, c. f. 0 1 1 0 0 Hilton, b. 0 1 1 0 0 Hutchinson, s. s. 1 1 1 1 0 Merida, 2 b. 1 1 5 1 0 Board, 1 b. 0 2 8 0 0 Gordon, c. 0 2 16 2 0 Pris, r. f. 1 1 1 0 0 Higbee, p. 0 1 2 3 0 A. B. C.'s GIANTS WIN OUT IN NINTH CHICAGO, Ill. Aug. 2.—A spectacular ninth inning rally, which produced five runs, gave the Leland Giants the victory over the West Ends eysteady at West Ends and the Sacramento West one run over and the bases full in this session, Harry Moore hit the ball over the fence for a home run. Bowman was effective, but toward the end he lost all control. Percy Skillin was hit hard and was relieved in the last in- Score: Leland Giants R H P A E Hill, f. 2 0 1 1 0 Winn, c. f. 1 2 1 0 0 Payne, r. f. 1 2 1 0 0 Talbert, 3 b. 2 1 4 2 0 Moore, 2 b. 3 2 5 1 0 Foster, b. 1 4 5 0 0 Smith, s. s. 0 1 3 5 2 Struthers, s. s. 0 3 7 1 0 Bowman, p. 0 3 1 3 0 Totals. 10 16 27 13 4 West. Ends. R H P A E Mahoney, c. f. 1 0 6 0 0 Hilg d'ir, s. s. 1 1 3 4 0 Stock, b. 1 0 1 4 0 Stephan, 1 b. 0 1 9 0 0 Doll, 2 b. 1 0 1 3 1 Duffy, r. f. 2 0 0 1 0 Hage, c. f. 0 1 2 1 0 Dickman, c. 2 2 5 1 0 Skillin, p. 0 1 0 5 0 Merz, p. 0 0 0 0 0 Totals. 5 5 0 15 2 Totals ..... 7 6 27 15 2 Leland Giants ..... 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 5 10 West End ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 — Moore, Base hits—Stanley, Struthers, Hill, Moore, Skillin. Home runs—Mooor, Foster, Struck out—By Skillin, 1; by Bowman, 5. Base on nballs—Off Skillin, 2; off Bowman, 10. Umpire—Long. Time— 2:00. QUAKER GIANTS BEAT LELANDS IN 11 INNINGS, 5 TO 4. CHICAGO. Ill., July 28.—The Philadelphia Giants evened up matters on the Leland's by defeating them in an eleventh game, and by defeating them in an eleventh day by the score of 5 to 4. Garrison, a new pitcher, was tried out by Frank McClellan, and was tried out by eleventh. Early in the game the Philadelphiaians had it won, but a couple of errors in the fifth gave the Leland's lead, 4 to 3, and the Easterners' tie it up in. McClellan, the Easterners, had it in good form, although he issued seven passes, while Garrison was in trouble several times, brilliant fending by Payne and off counts already over the plate. Score: Philadelphia Giants. R H P A E James, 2 b. -1 4 5 3 2 McClellan, c. f. -1 1 5 0 0 McClellan, c. f. THEATRICAL ENGRAVING QUALITY RIGHT PRICES RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENGRAVING & ELECT. CO. P. O. Box 103. MENTION. THE FREEMAN INDIANAPOLIS IND. NOTE—Rushville and Connersville tickets on sale every Sunday, good going and returning on all trains (regular and special) of Sunday for which sold. Lloyd, s. s.....1 2 4 4 1 Dunkin, l. f.....0 2 3 0 0 Weaver, 1 b.....0 0 8 0 0 Martin, r. f.....1 2 1 0 0 Frances, 3 b.....1 0 2 1 0 Hayman, p.....1 0 0 4 1 Totals.....5 13 33 13 4 Iland Giants.....R H P A E Winston, l. f.....0 0 0 0 Hill, c. f.....0 3 0 0 Payne, r. f.....1 1 1 0 0 Albert, 3 b.....1 0 1 2 0 Melbert, 2 b.....1 0 2 0 0 Foster, 1 b.....1 0 15 0 1 Smith, s. s.....0 0 2 0 1 Strothers, c.....1 3 0 0 Garrison, p.....1 0 0 0 Totals.....4 4 33 15 2 Philadelphia.....1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1–5 Lelands.....0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 4–4 Two base hits, James, Moore. Hit by pitcher, Hyman, Wesley. Hit by pitcher, Garrison, Petway, Dunkin. Double plays, James to Lloyd to Weaver; James to Petray. Struck out By Hyman. 3; by Garrison. Struck out By Hyman. 7; off Garrison. 4, Passed ball Strothers. Umpire: Tom White. Aattendance—600. Time—2:10. PHILADELPHIA GIANTS, 4; FELIX COLTS. 2. CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 2.—The Philadelphia Giants defeated the Felix Coils yesterday at Logan Square Park in an inter- ing game by a score of 4 to 2. Both Manny Hultz, hitched the ball, but errors by the Coils in the third game. Fenner made a sensational catch, while Lloyd's work was a feature. The Philadelphia Giants. R H P A E McClean, c. f. 0 0 4 1 0 Lloyd, s. l. 0 1 6 4 0 Puncan, if. 1 1 1 1 0 Victor, c. 1 1 5 0 0 Martin, c. 1 1 0 2 0 Francis, 3 b. 0 0 9 3 1 Hayman, 1 b. 0 0 9 1 1 Fisher, r. f. 0 2 0 0 0 James, 2 b. 1 2 2 2 1 Totals 4 8 27 14 3 Felix Coils. R H P A E Fenner, l. f. 1 1 1 0 0 Bionjon, c. f. 0 0 3 0 0 Kling, 1 b. 0 13 0 0 Vick, s. s. 1 1 2 2 1 Owens, 2 b. 0 2 1 2 0 Hultz, p. 0 0 0 4 0 Rieto, 3 b. p. 0 1 4 1 Schaffer, c. p. 0 6 2 1 Ternand, r. f. 0 0 0 0 0 Totals ..... 2 5 27 14 3 Phil. Ginats ..... 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0-4 Felix Colts ..... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-2 Joseph Hines hits... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-3 three base hits... James, Vick. Struck out... By Martin, 4; by Hultz, 5. Bases on balls... Off Martin, 4; off Hultz, 1. LELAND GIANTS AGAIN WIN CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 3. —McCiel essayed to pitch for the Philadelphia Giants yesterday against the Leland Giants at subway bank, but was pounded hard, and rushed after for a hit on him and twirled good ball. Rube Foster pitched for the home club, and was wonderfully effective. The hitting of Hill and Smith was a feature. The Leland Giants Leland Giants. R H P A E Winston, l. f. 2 1 1 0 0 C. f. f. 2 3 3 0 1 Payne, f. 1 0 3 0 1 Talbert, 3 b. 1 1 2 0 0 Moore, 1 b. 0 1 1 0 0 Ooster, p. 1 1 0 0 1 Roe, c. 1 1 7 0 1 Smith, s. s. 1 3 2 3 0 Bowman, 2 b. 1 1 3 2 0 Totals 11 12 27 8 3 Phil. Giants. R H P A E James, 2 b. 0 1 2 3 0 McCellan, p; 1 b. 0 1 10 3 C. f. f. 0 1 0 2 0 Duncan, c. 1 1 0 2 0 Martin, r. f. 0 1 3 0 0 Patterson, 1 f. 0 1 2 0 1 Borer, b. 0 1 1 0 0 Hayman, c. 0 0 4 0 0 Petway, c. 0 0 4 0 1 Francis, c. 0 0 1 1 0 Totals 1 5 24 13 3 Leland Giants. 0 2 1 5 2 0 0 1 *-11 Phil. Giants. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 Two base hit--Hill. Three base hit- Bubble play--Hill. Four base hit-- Assisted. Hayman to McCellan to Pet- way Struck out--By Foster, 5; by McCellan, 1. Bases on balls--Cff Foster, 1. L. Bases off Hayman, 1. Umpire -Leng. Time--2:00 AN AWFUL SLAUGHTER. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Waldorfs of Cincinnati met two disgraceful defeats at the hands of the gingery Giants here in a game that was the first time the Giants toed with the bunch from Porkopolis like a kitten playing with a mouse. In the second spasm the Louisville boys were out of position, the buildup until commencing with the left fielder things were swapped up till he had held the position of catcher, having occupied every station around to back stop, the over throw and the outspinning. This was an awful 'show up' for the boys from the Queen city. In the first game only five hits were scored of the delivery of Sanford. Griffin pitches, the only hitting only three bingles. Score of first game. Waldorfs ..... 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 - 5 COURTLAND VS. LEIGHTON. Special to THE FREEMAN. COURTland, ALA—The first game of the season was here, July 21. The score was 5 to 3 in favor of Courtland, Albert, Ashton, manager. FLORENCE DEFEATS DECATUR. FLORENCE, Ala., Aug. 1.—The Florence baseball team crossed bats here with Decatur Thursday, Friday and Saturday in three very exciting games. Thursday the score: 60 to 5, and Friday 4 to 3. The double header played Saturday was also won by Florence. Batteries: Florence—Brewer-Canidy, Terry Phillips. De- THEATRICAL QUALITY RIGHT INDIANAPOLIS ENG catur — McDonald-Street-Cheatham, Jordan. Umpires — Albert Ashton, John Alston and Harry Jones. Attendance, 200. Pool and Billiard Hall, Open to colored trade, whose patronage is so large that it is often called the "coastal Prop." 183 Green street, Louisville, Ky. NORRIS AND ROWE CIRCUS—Grand RAPIDS, Minn., Aug. 10; Bemidji, 11; Brainerd, 12; Mandan, N. D., 14; Dick- inson, 16. ALLEN'S MINSTRELS—Knoxville Teenn. Aug. 9, 10; Sweet Water, 11; Chattan- anooga, 12; W. Pittsburg, 13; Sheffield, Ala., 14. 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 write or deadetter. It would prevent delay. If all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at once. Gentlemen's List. Crosby, Goldie, Prof. Powell, Clarence, Drakers, Alfred. Hill, C. C. Johnson Ellie. Johnson A. G. Johnson Roy. James and Moody. Layton, The Great. McQuinn, Mr. Gentlemen's List. Crosby, Goldie, Prof. Powell, Clarence, Drakers, Alfred. Hill, C. C. St. Clair, Harry. Smith, Andrew. Shimpson, Fred. Tutt, Homer. Whitney, S. Tutt. Layton, The Great. McQuinn, Mr. Ladies' List. Alexander, Ada Lee. Kersands, Laura. Position Wanted! by a double novelty man, magician and slack wire performer. Address THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. WANTED For the New Dixie Theatre for colored people. Florence, S. C. Lady and gentleman performers, also good piano player. Salary must be low as it is sure. Address C. E. McPherson, Mgr. Dixie Theatre, 304 Church St., Florence, S. C. For the Norris & Rowe Annex, musicians, lady singers and dancers Boozers and disorganizers save stamps. Address Pap Adams, 106 N. thirdenth street, St. Louis, Mo. See route in The Freeman. Wanted at Once FOR CARROLL'S UNITED SHOWS. Male and female singers and dancers, also No. 1 musicians, cornet, trombone, baritone, tuba players and snare drummer. Those doubling stage given preference. Must be ready to join at once. If you can't make good don't answer. Address J. W. BOHANON, As per route: Louisiana, Mo., Aug. 3-8 WANTED Singers, Dancers, Musicians and Specialty Acts for the Dandy Dixie Minstrels and BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS Voelckel & Nolan, 1431 Broadway, New York City. OR PER DANDY DIXIE MINSTRELS ROUTE: Corinth, N. Y., Aug. 10: Glens Falls, 11; Catskills, 12; Sangerties, 13; Kingston, 14; Newburgh, 15. Coming Soon A RABBIT'S FOOT COMEDY. The greatest Negro show of them all. Watch and wait for the Big Comedy PAT CHAPPELLE, Box 702, Jacksonville, Fla. ENGRAVING PRICES RIGHT RAVING & ELECT. CO. BLIND TOM AGAIN A Few Facts of his Early Life, by one who Knew him from Boyhood. --- A short time since we ventured the assertion that the famous Negro player familiar known as "Blind Tom," while possessing peculiar and astonishing traits that expressed themselves by way of music mainly, that he was not the popularly conceived "Blind Tom." It was generally thought that his faculty for imitation was so highly developed that he could reproduce the most difficult musical compositions after hearing them once played and precisely as they were heard. The object was not to discredit whatever the prodigy could do, but to ascertain the truth concerning him. It strikes us as being humanly impossible to reproduce the great masterpieces of the great composers without intelligence and in most directions, and that nothing short of mechanical devices, such as music boxes and "piano players" can become the "unconscious" vehicles for the reproduction of great musical thought. In fact, this is conceding something to those mechanical devices. Strictly speaking, the intelligent mind and the well-trained hand acting in concert are the agencies, and which are simply aids to what we call gifts—predilection, predisposition or any other term having in mind the spiritual tendency. A few days ago the Louisville Counter-Journal had an interesting account of "Blind Tom's" life—the life of the blind player, as it was. It was by one who knew him from the beginning of his musical career, and who knew very well the family to which he belonged as a slave. So when we are inclined to resent the severe criticism we must yet see it as the truth, and by one who would have no reason for detracting from his merits. The writer says: "I first heard of him through Robert Heller—William Henry Palmer—best known in his day as a popular magician, but a most accomplished pianist. It was at Washington and in the autumn of 1860. Palmer had just come up with "Blind Tom" in Louisville, I think, and had been of course at once perplexed and amazed by his extraordinary characteristics. His crude, often grotesque, attempts to imitate whatever fell upon his ear, either vocally or on the keyboard, were startling. He had heard Judge Douglas speak and graphically reproduced a few sentences. He had heard a reigning prima donna sing and repeated her soprano in a few bars. The Bethune girls, daughters of General Bethune, of Columbus, Ga, his old master, had taught him a few jingles, which he rattled off upon the piano. He knew nothing very complicated or very well. But he was blind and clearly an idiot; in short, he was a prodigy." The writer insists that his few pieces were played over and over again for him; that he learned these, but nothing new. This will be surprising news to most of us, who granted that he could make great pretensions at doing anything he hard at once. Now it appears that he was endowed with a sort of psychological something by which he was able to rush to the piano and throw back what he hard, somewhat after the manner of a tree casting a shadow. The writer says it was more than imitation; he asks what was it? Very evidently the writer is not an artist or the instinct. It is plain that "Blind Tom" had a mental picture of what he heard, conceived vividly by him because of his predisposition; he had to throw this picture on the piano, grasping in the fever of the moment those keys and groups of keys that corresponded to his mind's notion of what he heard. He "saw" as a whole, and not different to the way in which artists as a rule see. It is not maintained that he could not imitate as will be noted, but that his reproductions were crude and not finished as the world has been led to believe, as they concerned the piano. Again the writer says: "He would spin about the piano, like a baboon, mumbling to himself while Palmer or Baylor played, and, if they stopped, he would rush headlong to the instrument and try to follow after them precisely as they had phrased. Two or three of such 'lessons' sufficed, and though he learned nothing accurately nor played with any other expression than they had rendered, what he did was surprising, even to those who knew the process and the limitation. "There was in the Tennessee line a certain Major Macconico, who had a great barytone voice. He taught Tom to sing "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," very much as he sang it. There was a tailor in Griffin, Ga, by the name of Hanlon, whose tenor voice was fetching, and he taught Tom two or three love ditties, which Tom repeated in rich though rather guttural tones, yet in undoubted tenor. It was something more than a phenomenon of memory. Though blind, he could handle the keyboard readily, whilst his vocal imitations from bass to treble, from deep barytone to mezzo soprano, were sufficiently accurate and individualized to be recognized. * * * "What was it? Memory? Yes, it was memory without doubt; but what else? Whence the hand power that enabled him to manipulate the keys, the vocal power that enabled him to imitate the voice? "When he was a tot of four or five years old he strayed from the Negro cabin into the parlor of the mansion and hid himself whilst the children were having a concert. When they had gone, leaving the room, as they supposed, quite empty, they heard the piano tinkle. They ran back, and there, to their amazement, sat the chubby little black monkey on the stool, banging away for dear life, yet not without sequence and rhythm, trying to repeat what they had just been singing and playing. From that time onward he was the pet of the family, "I cannot trust myself to write of him as I feel. It is as ifsome trusty, well-loved mastiff—mute but affectionate—closely associated with the dead and gone—had been suddenly recalled to be as suddenly taken away. The wires that flash his death lighten a picture gallery for me of the old, familiar faces. What was he? Whence came he? Was he the prince of the fairy tale held by the wicked enchant- ress; nor any Beauty—not even the heaven-born Maid of Melody—to re- lease him? Blind, deformed and black —as black even as Erebus—idiocy, the idiocy of a mysterious, perpetual frenzy, the sole companion of his waking visions and his dreams—whence came he, and was he, and wherefore? That there was a soul there, be sure, im- prisoned, chained, in that little black bosom, released at last; gone to the angels, not to imitate the seraph songs of heaven, but to join the choir invisible forever and forever. WHAT DID THE SUPREME COURT DO? Mr. Frederick L. McGhee, the well known Negro attorney of St. Paul, Minn., is responsible for the statement that the Supreme Court has not decided, as popularly supposed, in the matter of separate coaches. He says: "The fact is that this Court has done nothing of the kind, but decided that separate car laws do not apply to Inter-State passengers. The question of the validity of statutes that require passengers to ride according to their color or race under penalties in separate coaches, provided they be equal in accommodations has never been directly presented to or decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. "We are pleased to announce that there is now pending in the United States, Circuit Court, at St. Paul Minn., a case where all these questions can be and are squarely put in issue, and will be fought out." We are somewhat surprised to know that the Supreme Court has not made some ruling which emphasized the "contention" of the Southern States along this line. In fact we are yet of the opinion that, that countr has made a manifest, but whether to the extent of the general supposition, is unknown to us. We are inclined to accept the views of attorney McGhee who has been retained especially to look into such matters. In insisting that the Supreme Court has made some sort of a manifest, we have in mind the report of the InterState Commerce Commission to Conress a few months ago and which report said, or to the effect said, that the Supreme Court had made a ruling or that it held that there was nothing in the amendments to the Federal Constitution that might be construed as prohibiting the operation of separate coaches for the colored people. Not long since President Roosevelt in calling attention to the neglect of those portions of separate coach contracts calling for equal accommodations also said, if we are not mistaken, that the Supreme Court held that there was nothing in the amendments that prohibited the operation of separate coaches. We are not lawyers here at this office, don't know the import of a decision along the lines of the above, if there has been one. We, however, can readily see the difference between "such decisions" that of a permissible condition, and one where separate coach laws are part of the organic laws of the land, and therefore compulsory. And again; we will have to think fast and hard to get around the "construction" if the court has spoken, according to President Roosevelt and the Inter-State Commerce Commission. The laws in the essence, and as enunciated through the three latter amendments to the general constitution, are that no citizen shall be denied the civil rights enjoyed by another citizen. Of course all know the intent in the beginning was not to have separate coaches, the idea having sprung out of the unknown conditions. It was not much of a trick to work past the Federal Constitution on the matter. The amendments are wide open enough to drive a team through when the necessity is seen, and plenty close enough when men choose to abide by the spirit, by the intent. We have said that under the circumstances, the unpleasant race relations along certain lines, that it was extremely fortunate that the loopholes were discoverable. This is no throw down for the race—friction has been reduced as it has by those other "unexpecteds" in our special political economy, and which are not without purpose as base as we sometimes construct the motive. Here is no palliative to the white race, since what is, is, regardless of what we may think of the matter. And furthermore it is time for us to concede that these unexpected conditions are because the laws permit them technically. Absolutely there is no way to defeat them. The greatest jurists in the Southland exercises their ingenuity in avoiding legal meshes, snatching and setting up a "fabric" that stands alls the tests. Make it plain, that if the equal accommodation idea is complied with, that the law is satisfied. Is it? Why isn't it? They make it plain that if the law declares for the same qualifications for voters that the law is satisfied. Is it? Why isn't it? In fact the laws are compiled with in the letter, and we just as well get wise to it. If the Constitution don't talk specific enough, and it doesn't in these instances, guess we'll have to agree with Mr. Roosevelt in getting one that don't work "coming and going." A child can defeat the latter amendments to the Constitution before a judge who knows nothing but the evidence, and as said before, they are plenty strong if the spirit is obeyed as well as the letter. We had occasion to say at another time, that those states that have no 'fear of Negro domination, find the Constitution sufficient for all purposes. This includes all citizens—the Negroes having no reason to be very much dissatisfied under their operation. It is plain enough that the instrument is elastic but not essentially so. is as much culture in the study of beet roots as in the study of Greek roots. We are to be living examples. We are to emphasize not only the healthful environment of farm life but the opportunity it affords for one to utilize his business ability." The above from that excellent publication, the Southern Workman, is WHITE AUSTRALIA What eminent Japanese say of the White Australian Act: The Mayor of Yokohama said: "It is impolitic for the Australians, and, from a humanitarian point of view, a wrong against other nation to pass and carry out such a law." The Mayor of Tokyo, capital of Japan, a foremost and eloquent political leader, in response to the question whether the Japanese were annoyed at being excluded from Australia by the White Australian Act, answered most emphatically with one word, "Naturally." The Vice-Governor of Hokkaido, the northern island, said: "The act of the Australians is wrong and cannot last. The population of Japan is increasing at the rate of 500,000 a year, and this increase must go and settle somewhere—not the lowest class, but some of the higher class must go and settle." Dr. Nitobe, the talented author of that wonderful English-written book, "Bushido, or the Soul of Japan," said: "When coming home from London to Japan I applied for a passage at Ceylon, but none of the captains of the ships would take me. I then applied to "Cook's" for an explanation, and they informed me that the reason was because I was a colored man. I think that the act is a wrong against humanity, and will be an injury to Australia itself, especially to Queensland; and I think it cannot last." The acting Governor of Hokkaido said: "Our first father was one, so we are all brothers, and it is bad to hate each other or make distinction on account of the color of the skin which is caused by climate. This will gradually become apparent to all mankind, for the truth must win." The Governor of Nagasaki said: "The principle of just and proper reciprocity should exist between all men. If Japan allows the respectable people of all nations to come into her country, all nations should allow respectable Japanese to come into their countries." The president of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce said: "Japan is increasing in population, which must overflow into other countries. With respect to color, our people are brown in the south and light in the north, and the white people in warm Australia will get brown in a hundred years and black in a thousand years." The President of the Chamber of Commerce of Yokohama said: "A white Australia may be possible, for a time, but it is impossible for it to last for long, inasmuch as it is against the interest of other nations and against the interest of Australia herself." The Vice-Minister of Justice said: "Such an unreasonable law will not last long. The Australians themselves will soon tire of it." Mr. Kondo, the president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, said: "The area of Australia is large, with few inhabitants, while the area of Japan is small with many inhabitants; therefore it is absolutely necessary for the Japanese to emigrate to Australia and elsewhere where there is uninhabited land." The Chief Justice of Japan said: "The Australians are mistaken in acting so. It is unreasonable, it is an act against humanity and therefore cannot stand long." Mr. Usui, member of the House of Representatives, and leader of the Anti-Russian Party, said: "Such a law is unfair and a mistake. The English government is against such a law being passed, and I think it cannot last long. Political necessity may compel some people to pass such a law, but in the end right must win." The Governor-General of Formosa, one of the foremost, ablest and most energetic politicians of Japan, said: "The white people do not seem to understand the colored people. If the Americans don't like the Philippines they should give the Philippines back to them, and the Dutch should give up Java to the Javanese." The Mayor of Kobe said: "It is a selfish principle, against the heart of humanity and against the conscience. Bad Americans enslaved the colored people and good Americans underwent a fearful war to liberate them; and now the Australians would persecute colored people by prohibition from that continent, which is just the same in principle. The Australians should not object to respectable colored immigrants coming into the country to settle." The Mayor of Nagasaki said: "We all came from our first parents and therefore are all brethren. All the human beings on earth are of one race, and the color of the skin, which is caused by the sun, makes no difference. If this foolish color-exclusion principle of the Australians were carried out in Japan, our light people from the north and high country would exclude our dark countrymen who live in the south and low lands, or go exposed to the sun." Mr. Noma, member of the House of Representatives, said: "I brought the matter before the House, and all the members agreed with me that it was an insulting action' toward our people, and I felt inclined to weep; and so keenly did my countrymen feel the slight that I think they would sooner fight Australia and America on this excluding question than they would fight the Russians on the vexatious territorial question." ALSO CULTIVATE BEET ROOTS. "We who have received a limited knowledge of Nature's laws feel that it is our duty not only to make the soil more productive, but to use our influence to change the present aversion to farming among the young Negroes of the South. With Mr. Bailey, we are to assert that 'all things may be put in a pedagogic form and be made a means of culture and discipline for the mind, and that the potato is as sacred as Greek and Latin.' Like Holden we are to maintain that 'there is as much culture in the study of beet roots as in the study of Greek roots.' We are to be living examples. We are to emphasize not only the healthful environment of farm life but the opportunity it affords for one to utilize his business aptility." For State Senator. The Popular Candidate of the People. Will follow the dictates of his own conscience if elected. The above from that excellent publication, the Southern Workman, is very happily put. The tenency has been to turn up the noses when speaking of the field, when really it is the poor man's opportunity. One can be fairly paid for his time if he works and more for his brain if he thinks. A certain painter on being asked what he mixed with his paints in order to get such glorious results; he replied, that he mixed brains. The application is good here. All cannot enter into any given occupation, but more should think better of agriculture. The community of Indianapolis has something like thirty thousand Negroes, yet they depend wholly on the white man, we may say, for every morsel of food put in their mouths. HENRY L. KLAUSMAN, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Surveyor Marion County. Election November 3d who stands for equal privileges to all and no discriminating legislation. NEW NEGRO ENTERPRISE. First Class Hotel and Bath House Opened at Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Information has come to us from a very reliable source that Mr. George I. Hutchinson of Mt. Clemens, Michigan has opened up a first class Hotel and Bath House at 48 Welts Street in the above named city for colored people. It is very fortunate indeed for the traveling public to be in possession of such knowledge. Mr. Hutchinson is a business man of rare ability and has proven himself as a success in other lines. It is natural therefore for us to assume that as manager and proprietor of the Mt. Clemens Hotel and Eureka Mineral Bath House Company that he will give to the public the best possible service. The Freeman takes the liberty to make this announcement for the benefit of its many readers in the city of Indianapolis, and especially for our subscribers east and west, and convenient to spend their vacation in this part of the country. The hotel as we have been informed I pledge myself to an honest enforcement of the law as applies to the office, fair treatment to every citizen, special privileges to none. The good of the people Shall be my first consideration at all times. James E. Berry, For Representative. Your support is respectfully solicited. If elected I promise to select a committee of colored ladies from the different churches in the city to act as sponsors for worthy colored citizens entitled to the charity of the county, and shall act according to their reports. A. When elected will clean out graffits in court house and save the tax payers thousands of dollars. This can be done only by putting an honest man in power. FRANK S. FISHBACK, For County Treasurer, Whose Motto is honesty and faithful performance of duty. GEORGE I. HUTCHINSON. will be of a most modern nature with every faculty of entertaining of private parties and banquets etc. Hot and cold water and electric light and bell service in every room. For a number of years it has been encubered upon our local travelers to secure other parts of the country to spend their summer vacation in a white hotel and bath house. The reason they could not get the accommodation on account of their color. Mr. Hutchinson seen the necessity of such a hotel and bath house, availed himself of the first opportunity to be the first to open up a swell resort with the prices in reach of every one who are in the habit of spending their vacation out of the cities during the summer months. Special attention will be paid to families and the best possible service will be given to all of their patronage. A Mineral Bath house in connection with the hotel that will bathe 150 to 200 people daily will be another one of its attractive features for those of bad health. The constructions and plans as laid out by Mr. Hutchinson for the new Mt. Clemens Hotel and Eureka Mineral Bath House Company will surpass any this side of Atlantic City, owned and controlled by a Negro. Mt. Clemens is noted the world over as one of the greatest health resorts and best fishing grounds in this country open the year around. Our hotel rates are $2 per day; special rates by the week $8.75, $10.50 and $12.25, American plan. Mineral baths are 75c each, including attendant fees. It is the only hotel and bath house owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health and summer resorts in the United States, and be sure to write and send your check in advance in order to secure rooms for special dates before the house is filled. Any one desiring any further information may write to George I. Hutchinson, Proprietor and Manager, 48 Welts street, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Your vote solicited on the merits of an honest business career in Marion County. I submit my past administration in office as recommendation for your future support. Elliott R. Hooton, Candidate for Prosecutor Marion County. As his fitness will warrant your support. He is a reasonable and capable man, and the people will have a square deal with him. Hon. Lawson M. Harvey, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Judge Superior Court Room 4. Election Nov. 3d. Republican Nominee for Township Assessor Election November 3, 1908. Pliny W. Bartholomew, Candidate for Judge of Superior Court, room 5, on Democratic ticket; former Judge room 3. Record approved by the people. Negro Drifting The thoughtful people of both sections are faithfully admonishing the migratory element in the South not to move North in such large procession. There are already too many Negroes in the North without paying employment, or the probability of securing it. This fills the Northern cities up with a lot of vagrants and intensifies the situation between the races. The odds are against our people in labor circles in the North. The Northern white men who seem quite willing to eat and sleep with them are not in any wise willing to grant the opportunity to labor, when once they have gotten without money with which to buy them something to eat. The Northern white laborer makes it a point to organize against Negro labor. The organization is so strong that white laborers feel impelled by a sense of duty and obligation to abandon their job if they are forced to have Negroes work along by their sides. The South is to all intents and purposes the best place for the industrious Negro and the Negro with large ambitions. Here he can make all the money he wants, and invest it wisely and profitably without any interference from the white people whatever. In fact, in nearly every community in the South white men have enabled the well-to-do Negroes to get their hands on good property, and to make business ventures successful. They have sold them land and built them houses on the installment plan, giving them a splendid opportunity in every case to make their payments. They have loaned them money with which to manipulate their business enterprises, and protected their paper in many cases, when, in accordance with the ordinary rules of business, it should have gone to protest. The Southern white man has many peculiarities and many unnecessary prejudices on account of color: he freightens too often at the "social identity" ghost, of which most Negroes never dream; meanwhile he gives the industrious Negro the very best opportunity to make money with which to buy property, and speculate in legal business ventures—The National Baptist Union. The above is well said and sizes up the situation nicely. It will make the story complete to say that the majority of those floating do not make the most desirable citizens, and simply because they were not that at home. It does not mean that they were criminals at home, but the ne'er do wells, the restless sets and far too often the rowdy, quarrelsome sets. If there is inclination to doubt the truthfulness of the assertion one has only to cast about to see the class that "a rovin go." The good, substantial, law-binding citizen is at home paying for his home, educating his children; in fact, caring for his various interests that may not be readily uprooted. The man of civic virtue is not a bird of passage; he loves his home, his community, his state; speaks of them with pride, when circumstances so fashion his life that he is compelled to live elsewhere. Of course there are many excellent people who do go from their homes and for good reasons; they are found in other communities, making a headway not dreamed of when at home; they prosper as it were by change of "measure." In fact, there is an ambition of few of every community who, like the man of Nazareth, find themselves without honor in that community. They know their value and also know that it will not receive due recognition in the community of their birth. This species is found in other cities and generally at the head of affairs. They have the necessary "gute up" about them, minus the opposition; they have the education—all of the requisites, thus walk right to the front of affairs, while the old inhabitant wonders how it was done. Many more of the "movers" have back in other cities, find good common jobs settle down in the good most desirable citizens. But the great mass that floats northward is of the other class, who seem to think the world was especially made for them, then some. As said before, they may be criminal, but they lack in civilization, in spite of the refining influences about them, running with "gut" feet toward the civic ills, avoiding as much as possible the civic virtues—the hurtful, frothy crest that two often rides in the very front of affairs. And how could they be otherwise? They flee the things that make for the greater life as if they were resilience, showing a decided tendency to slink back to semi-barbarians. It is this class that could afford to stay or atake on some train before coming North. Nor does it mean to confine the stricture to the South; every city has its effervescence, its scummy few that can well afford to be patched up before going out for inspection. but it is reasonable to think that the greater number of these "nomads" are from the South. They too often run from one extreme to another—from that of repression in the South to that of license on liberty simply because no man sees snav. "Guess Ise free, n'thag Ah?" On, yes, free enough; but in this are the eyes of every man is on every other man, and if the theory is that the Negro is but half man, then he gets his half an eye—or perhaps an eye and a half—he will not be without notice. Now what's the cure for this idiosyncrasy disposition—no thought of tomorrow's disposition, that really seems growing especially in the North? Perhaps none, until the debris ceases to float to the surface and upward and northward. It says without reason that weve got a good long wait; but it will not hurt to work in the mean while. somebody said: "Do we all agree at a call rapid and noble im- mortality?" pulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us." And who has defined it, inspiration, better than that "rapid thought and noble impulse?" But does that beautiful definition quite care for the condition? On reflecting long, and seriously, inspiration seems to equal rapid thought plus noble impulse, and yet plus a something else that is very hard to define, difficult to confine; an evanescent something, fleeting, playing its somewhat unknown part as electricity so longed played in the more material, ere man could fix it in the economy of the Cosmos. All along the Centuries he got glimpses of the agency which was to be the crowning force, or its means, but not within in recent years did he find the required something for holding the thing while he looked at it squarely in the face, chiding it, as it were, for its recalcitrancy. It appears that in this "final" find, that man has run his gamut along the line of "physical" dynamics. In short electricity seems to be the president force, force at its best or rather it is the means of force—the most efficient means. It is not in too close similitude of inspiration, excepting the elevated plains which either occupy, but in their respective spheres. There is not the growing sense, the ascent as noted in the run of inspiration, where one grows on oneself as if by a sort of evolution. In the matter of inspiration, much that is spiritual enters—a growing something which may or may not be allied to what is popularly conceived to be spiritual. Who knows? It is known that there is a gradual ascent, which may be fairly likened unto a "trained" hysteria, if it is not that very thing, hysteria, when held in leash. Hysteria seems that unmanageable something—manifesting itself in another form as if a matter of pure demonstration of inspiration. The very religious when "expressing" themselves may be said to be in this state of "inspiration"; the more ignorant encourage it by giving way to it—rather indulging the estatic condition, when it might as well be restrained. We may successfully say, that the poet, the painter, the pianist, the violinist are influenced in the same manner, but education suggests tact, and this "supernal" is harnessed up and given out in doses to suit. They become human storage batteries with energy to let. The uneducated take the one fatal step, leading from the sublime to the ridiculous and simply because they do not know where to apply the brakes. Some men strive for this state of "ecestacy," and really find it difficult to enter the zone; others are more nearly in the state and find it of but little exort to walk out into the "higher life." The preacher in the pulpit, the lawyer at the bar, the actor on the stage must partake of this element of "frenzy" or there's no impression of consequence. This is particularly true of the public speaker who is pronounced great according as he has the ability to "walk about," the term used among many of the older order of Negroes when encouraging their preachers to "come down the line." The great and educated speaker knows where to aply the brakes, and when to throw open the throttle. It is the difference between those who have and those who have no respect for lights and shadows. * Inspiration as we view it, does not belong to the "smart set" only, although it does seem to enjoy a sort of monopoly in the application. The humblest creature especially when stricken down, modified by goodness—godness lives in very nearness to the zone, lying about as the sick at the pool, awaiting the troubling of the water. The poor are largely endowed with the spiritual enthusiasm as if a preservative against the blows rained in life against the spiritual man. Tears are always on tap, and at times these are greater in the blessing efficacy than the mints of governments. To hear any man say, go, God bless you, is music; to hear a poor man say God bless you, is heaven; to hear a poor woman say God bless you is God. This effect is attributable to the soul condition responding to soul in kind making the desert waste places of life bloom as a rose, if for but a little while. The poor ignorant Negroes of other days rocked and crooned in their cabins, fed by the Promethan fire, that charged and surcharged, rendering them proof against the things that striks down the ordinary. Wrap up in this spiritual casement they lived their altar ego—the other and higher self—as the eagle in the sunshine, above the clouds. Without this spirit they could not have withstood the shocks incident to their lives. TURKEY'S DRY REVOLUTION. A distinguished traveler when in Turkey asked one of the men the theory of velled women, the custom of the country. The Turk replied that, "No woman could be trusted." Most people, in thinking about the matter, would imagine that it was a habit originating with the women, and who desired protection from the vulgar gaze of men. But it turns out that it was the "invention" of man, and whose object was to protect his own against the gaze of some other man, and that the woman, owing to the long established usage, 'thought but very little on the matter on her own account. In deference to his wishes she long since consented to go "hooded and cloaked" to her very eyes, and more than likely the custom was not really a burden, at least not the burden such a custom would be in Amer- THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ica if ordered today. It is plain that the woman of Turkey were not enamored of the situation, judging by the demonstration on their part when the news broke to them that the custom was to be no more. The Turkish women more than likely have chafed under the ban imposed by the men in safeguarding their charms, and most especially in these latter days when the news of the women of the Occident is filling the world, telling of their freedom, of their joy of being at large—uncaged. The sluggish Ottoman daughters, doubtless, sat up and took notice, even unto the harem, and it is safe to say that the desire grew and grew to enlist in the rapidly increasing ranks of those who preferred to stand up and answer for themselves when their names were called, until the country was ripe for the reformation. Information has it that the innovation is being welcomed by the men, who cheer the unveiled women at every opportunity. On every hand the smiling faces of women are seen, instead of the somber veils that hid them. The new young men of Turkey, like those of Japan, are beginning to see through the eyes of foreigners, seeing as foreigners see. The most advanced countries—America, England, Germany, France—cannot but appeal to those who would have their own country good and great, independent as the individual; the type of the proper individual the state should be, no less in the thought. Inferior governments, tied down by the customs of years, tributary and vassal-like, will not be Englands and Americas, ever. Such nations will be none the less when its individuals think and act like those of England and America, as small as they may be. A people actuated by less motives than those of the best nations are not occupying the place even man, the master, concedes when speaking out of his better nature. Liberty-loving men everywhere thrill with joy to know that one more nation has broken with thralldom, making it plainer that the civil destiny of nations is to be like the families of a community, and in the end will be no more subject to reprisal and invasion than those families as now known. The young men of Turkey demanded a constitution and the wise old Sultan knew that if he expected to remain long the head of his empire that he would have to conform to the latter day nations. The wisdom of state governing, gathered from the most enlightened nations, were better for the conservation of the interests of Turkey as it is for the safe-keeping of those nations where applied. In fact, a wave of reformation seemingly has struck the world. The tendency is to move out into the "vastness" of liberty. When the Moslem priest published the proclamation of liberty of women from the mosque, he said, "We will help to make the world beautiful by this act." The demonstration over the granting of a constitution by two hundred thousand in front of the Sultan's palace, said with greater emphasis yet, "We will help to make the world beautiful by this act." Up to the present day Turkey has been a "theocratic absolute monarchy" subject to the direct personal control of the Sultan, who has been at once temporal autocrat and recognized successor of the prophet and consequently spiritual head of the Moslem world. This theocratic absolution has been tempered not only by traditional usage, local privileges, the judicial and spiritual precepts of the Koran and the privy council, but also by the growing force of public opinion and the direct and indirect pressure of the powers of Europe. AN ORGANIZATION WITH HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW YORK. A number of colored men have organized a "Negro Anti-Trust and Tariff Reform League," with headquarters in New York. There have been organizations and rumors of organizations, but this one looks like a good one. When T. Thomas Fortune mixes up you can just set it down that something is doing. And T. Timothy is one of the movement, and right up toward the front where he always "circulates." Another leading light of the movement is the Hon. Richard T. Greener, who formerly held an important ministerial post in Russia. Others of the organization are: Frank J. Farrell, of New York; T. H. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania, and Cornelius A. Hughes of New York. The organization primarily is intended to assist in bringing about the repeal of the present tariff laws. It, however, according to its platform of principles, will make a wide excursion into politics, and with the hope of interesting the race in the great economic questions of the day. Here follows its motives for existence: "Feeling that the time is at hand when each community of Negroes should assume its share of responsibilities which are due to the race as a whole, to broaden and deepen the channel of intelligent thought on some of the great economic questions which at the present time are calling for the most profound thought and action on the part of patriotic citizens, in order to preserve those fundamental principles of a republican form of government based upon equality, justice and liberty, and looking to this end we have banded together and pledge our best efforts toward a campaign of economic education of the Negroes of America. "It will be our purpose to give moral support to no man in public life who does not pledge himself to assist in bringing about the repeal of the present tariff laws." Excepting the last paragraph, which has to do with the tariff, the principles adopted appear sensible and reasonabl even if serving only as an excuse for the organization's existence. It, however, seems far-fetched for such an organization, any organization by colored men, to invigle so specifically against the tariff measures. Of course, if the organization takes the high ground that the Negroes are really hindered in their material progress by their operations, the question would amount to a question at least, and would fall properly under the title of "Matters for Investigation." It is not so clear that the Negroes do not benefit more under the tariff meas ures as thought out, advocated and made into laws by the Republicans more than they would benefit if conditions were otherwise. Directly the Negroes do not benefit by tariff laws, but there are many other classes, classes along the line of industrialism, that are not different to the Negroes. Can we so narrow the great program of industrialism? We do not think so. Industrial relations are interdependent, and when provisions are made for conserving "especially," as we choose to say sometimes, it is not without aforethought, looking forward to the best interest of all. Perhaps we anticipate the organization's line of attack along the line of tariff measures, and perhaps fail to catch the cue. We must admit that we fail to understand the strenuosity noted unless it is because the cotorite of gentlemen feel to have stumbled on sleeping error and falsehood, and which it conceives to be its duty to set aright at once. Revision of the tariff schedule seems to be in the air. The "severest" protectionist is of the opinion that many good and wholesome changes may be made, but nowhere is it noted the demand for the sweeping change implied in the above. Again, the Negroes benefit under the tariff in a general way; they are not of the great army of shop workers, and who seem to benefit solely, together with the owners. But wages are by contrast; the wages of all men rising and falling according as the country is prosperous and otherwise. If the object is to inject race in the matter it will be a great mistake. The relation sustained by the Negroes to the industrial world will be the same under any event, their wages rising and declining as those of other men more directly benefiting. NEGRO BISHOP IN THE M. E. CHURCH. Considerable criticism has resulted owing to the failure of the recent M. E. General Conference to elect a Negro Bishop. The Southwestern Christian Advocate, after a "season" of silence on the situation, was compelled to express itself in sheer defense. This well-known journal is an organ of the church, and more than likely chose to let the question rest. In fact, a contributor of that journal, speaking to the question, advised such a course, using the well-known expression, "If it does not concern you, just let it alone." But the Advocate editorially sets the matter out at length, winding up by giving a set of interesting facts and figures that explain the difficulty of selecting a Negro Bishop in that church. It says: "We do, however, appreciate the difficulties involved in such undertaking. Here are some of them—ponder them over: "1. The number of candidates. On the first ballot of the last General Conference showed that there were 248 men voted for, and in all probability 200 of these would have made acceptable general superintendents. "2. 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Miss Daisy Bishop, of Terre Haute was in the city Tuesday. The Alpha Home will hold their annual picnic Thursday. Mrs. Nina Floyd Board continues very ill at her home in Blake street. Dr. W. H. Witherspoon was in the city last week en route to Louisville. Thomas E. Taylor, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has recovered from a recent sunstroke. Miss Brenta Webber who has been with relatives at Chicago for the past year has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. James Glenn entertained at dinner last Sunday Rev. J. S. Bailey and George L. Knox. There will be song services at Allen Chapel tomorrow evening by the Junior choir at 7:45. Regular services at the morning hour. Rev. J. S. Bailey will deliver a sermon at Connersville Sunday evening, and Rev. McColl will occupy the pulpit at Simpson Chapel. The Bachelors will change the date of their outing from Thursday August 13, to Wednesday August, 12, on account of the Alpha Home picnic. Dr. C. W. Page has returned to the city from a business trip at Lexington, Ky. Dr. Page is a graduate from the Medical College at Ontario, Can., and is located here permanently. Frank B. Waring, a letter-carrier of Chicago, and wife were in the city Wednesday en route home from Louisville. They were entertained during the day by W. L. Fielding, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Porter and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Henderson. Stockholder's Meeting. The Stockholders of the Siren Gold Mining and Milling Company will hold a meeting Wednesday evening August 12 at Mt. Paran Baptist church, corner Eleventh and Senate avenue. The officers and directors will be present and a free concert will be given. The public is invited to be present. 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. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Elijah Spotsville has returned home, after attending the Terre Haute Normal for the past ten months. Mrs. Lue Hoyan, of M. Vernon, Ill., and her Holay, Sam Odlersone, and family, Wednesday. Mrs. Frances Slaughter, of M. Vernon, Ill., died Monday night, and was brought to this city and buried from the Catholic Church Wednesday morning. Mrs. Odlersone, and family, body of her mother to this city for burial. John Hardin, of M. Vernon, Ill., has returned home after a visit to his mother, Mrs. Nellie Hardin, of M. Vernon, number attended the K. P. session at Evansville. Mrs. Stella and Nacy McGill are visiting their grandparents in the country this week. Little Miss Beatrice White is busy making bead work for her friends. Mrs. Nancy McGill, Ind. is adding two more rooms to her residence on East Fourth street. Mrs. Ellen Cook, of Evansville, is visiting Mrs. Thos. Bryant. Mrs. Carrie Polk was a delegate to the B. Y. P. U. and Sunday CLEARANCE SALE SUITS, SKIRTS, WAISTS. KISER'S, Washington and Delaware Streets. school convention at Marion.....The Free Baptist Conference closed last night and reported a very interesting session. Rev. W. C. Church attended the conference of Indianapolis, attended the conference, ...Rev. M. Coleman, the presiding elder of the A. M. E. Church, has just arrived to hold quarterly conference to-night....Be Jennifer is on the sick list. Bessie Spleen is on badly last week....Frank Ramsey was in Evansville Thursday on business. FLINT, MICH., CANDIDATES. FLINT, MICH., CANDIDATES. JOHN BALLANTINE. John Ballantyne, candidate for renomination for register of deeds of Genesee County, solicits the support of the Republican voters at the primaries, Sept. 1. My Ballantyne has been a courteous and efficient officer and is deserving a renomination. J. S. PARKER. J. S. Parker of the Sixth Ward of the city of Flint, is a candidate for prosecuting attorney for Genesee County and kindly asks the support of the voters at the primaries Sept. 1, 1908. Mr. Parker is a stanch Republican and is worthy to be elected. IRA G. ORMSBEE. Ira G. Ormsbee, Republican candidate for representative Second District, Genesee County, respectfully solicits your support at the primaries. Mr. Ormsbee is an old veteran of the war of 1861 to 1865. COL. O. SWAYZE. Col. O. Swayze of this city is a candidate for judge of probate for this county. He is a young man, well fitted for the office he is seeking. He has been a great worker in the party as chairman and secretary of the county committee for six years, has always been a friend to our people of his city and solicits their support to a man. Everything points to his success at this time, so don't forget him at the primaries Sept. 1, 1908. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER LELAND GIANTS DEFEAT PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO, Ill., July 28.—In one of the most sensational games of the year the Leland Giants defeated the Philadelphia Giants yesterday at Logan Square Park in the game series by the score of 6 to 4. The Giants gained an early lead through hitting and a few errors, but were fortunate to stave off defeat toward the end. Payne saved the Leland Giants in the eighth inning, when with a mishap and none out he stabbed a line drive with his bare hand which was ticked for three bases. Score: | Island Giants. | R | H | P | A | E | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Winston, I. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | | Hill, c. f. | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | | Payne, r. f. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | | Talbert, 3 b. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | | Foster, 1 b. | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | | Booker, c. | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Smith, s. s. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | | Bowman, p. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Totals Leland Giants 3 1 0 2 0 0 15 6 Leland Giants 3 1 0 2 0 0 15 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Two base hit-Hill. Three base hits- Smith, Hill. Double plays-Payne to Foster; Payne to Foster to Barker to Barker to Barker to Barker to McClellan. 3. Struck out-By Bowman. 2; by McClellan. 3. Base on balls-Off Bowman. 4; off McClellan. 1. Umpire- LEIGHTON VS. COURTLAND Special to THE FREEMAN. SHEFFIELD, Ala. — A game of base- ball was played on Friday. The score, was 15 to 10 in favor of depletion. BASEBALL AT DECATUR, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. DECATUR, Ala.—A game of baseball was played July 23 and 24 between Decatur and Florence. The score first day Decatur, 4 to 2. Decatur, 2 to 2. day, 6 to 8, in favor of Florence. Batteries—Florence, Brewer and Phillips. A. B. C.'S DEFEAT THE LOUIS-VILLE GIANTS. Special to The Freeman LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The hard-hitting A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis, dropped in and captured two games from the locals, detained in and batteried in Batteries—A. B. C.'s, Washington and Gordon; Louisville Giants, Sanford and Mitchell. 26—The score was 3 to 2. Batteries—A. B. C., Higbee and Gordon; Louisville Giants, Griffin and Coleman; A. B. C.'s tarrier from longhough the A. B. C.'s tarrier from longhough in West Baden Springs to win three games from the hotel men, Johnson, Washington and Higbee doing the pitching for the A. B. SCHSECK VS. JOHNSON Cnicinnati Heavyweight Gets Match in London. CINCINNATI, August 1.—Mike Schreck, of this city, and Jack Johnson, the best colored heavyweight in the world, have been matched to box twenty rounds at the WBC in October 19. Frank Kelly, the well-known Cincinnati sporting man, who is now managing Schreck, received word to that effect yesterday. Kelly opened negotiation with the American representative in Mathison. The Schreck and Johnson will fight for the world's heavyweight championship, as Johnson now claims the title, Tommy Burns having refused to meet him under a purse of $5,000 and all expenses. Schreck, Kelly and Billy Griffiths will leave for London the latter part of August. Before going abroad they will go to New York to fight Griffith, who is to accompany Schreck, is the Cincinnati welterweight, who has been doing such good work in the ring out East. Kelly will also try to find several opponents. Griffith will over there, and the latter will also act as Schreck's sparing partner. JOHNSON DEMONSTRATES KNOCKOUT IN LONDON British Heavyweight Taylor Is Easy Victim. LONDON, August 1. Jack Johnson, on the heavyweight championship, claims the world's title because of Tommy Burns's refusal to meet him, stopped Ben Taylor, one of the best English heavyweights, in the eighth round of a scheduled ten-round battle at Plymouth last night. It was Johnson's fight from the very beginning, and, as he said after the battle, he let Taylor stay as long as he did to the spectators a run for their money. The men fought for a $500 side bet and a percentage. Johnson was far too clever and once during the eight round did Taylor land more than a light iab on Johnson. On the other hand, Johnson had his man in a bad way many times, but always let him go when the gong rang round he could hardly walk. Johnson feinted with his left for the body. Taylor dropped his guard low to block and in a flash Johnson when the gong rang round he could hardly walk. Taylor dropped as though he had been hit by a charge of dynamite, and it was several minutes before he fully recovered from the blow. The Phoenix, Ariz., Cubs ball team defeated the Temple boys 9 to 7, July 19. The Cubs were but recently organized, but much is expected in the future. The Louisville Unions defeated the New Albany team Sunday, 7 to 1. Manager Brian Anderson fought for parts of Indiana, and is open to play all comers, white or black. Mr. Ernest Papay, one of the best known barbers and sporting men in the South, is located at Gainesville, Fla., where he is raising and breeding some of the finest pit bulldogs in the country, the thirty-five pound dog, Sophie, he will hire to work for him for amount, from $50 to $500. Address Papay's Palace Barber Shop. PHOENIX, ARIZ. Mrs. Wm. McClure and Mrs. William Crump left for Prescott to spend the reverence of the late Rev. Steven and Earl Delocho left for Steven's ranch...V. C. Lane, of Los Angeles, is one of our recent visitors...Fred Gard-that has just completed a five-room cottage. SHEFFIELD. ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Miss Etta Jackson spent a very pleasant time in Corinth. Miss.....Frank Brown departed this life at his home on Furnace for a funeral. F. Mineral was largely attended. Rev. F. W. Mineral was largely attended. Rev. F. W. Mineral services.....Albert Ashton, of Courtland, spent several days in the tri-cities last week. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Mineral was the Glee Home of Sheffield was entertained home of Mrs. Frances Reed, Wednesday night, July 29.....Mrs. Annie Brown, of Town Creek, was the guest of Mrs. Abernathy last week, Mrs. Silvia Thompson, wife J. H. Thompson, of Town Penn, and her remains were brought to Sheffield Sunday. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, where the funeral was largely attended Monday mornethenberathy. Thomas Glipson, J. H. Flush, Harry Sellers, G. Lytle and Mrs. Laura Dennis The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cfs (stamp) Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blodan, druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed, 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. 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. Agents want to introduce our wonderful Curl-I-Cure. It positively makes hair straight. Removes curls and kinks like magic. Lincoln M'Tt Co. Aurora, Ill. WANTED—Agents to sell chewing gum with new advertising scheme. Right party can make big money. Address Yalu Manufacturing Co., 225 Kinsie St. Chicago. For Sale—The Manhattan Ice Cream and Confectionery store, 622 Indiana avenue. The whole outfit to be sold at a sacrifice. Good trade and splendid location. 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. Handsome picture of a Colored Angel on her flight to heaven, copyrighted; also, Charge of the Colored Troops at San Juan, both 16:20; works of art, simply lovely, highly endorsed by all leading colored people. Sample, postpaid, both 34 cents; be loyal. Southern Photograph Co., Lethotheat孝, Ala. 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 sure on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. Tires put on Go-carts. 341 Indiana Ave. J. WALTER HODGE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me for bargains you are looking for a home or investment. Careers on line. BOTH PHONES 1173. 556 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. The New Savoy Bar AND CAFE First class line of Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Headquarters of the I. B. P. O. Elks WILLIAM ROBERTS, Prop. Scip Williams, Mgr. Frank Whitney, Mixer. 440 Indiana Ave. New Phone 5286. Satellite and Pool Room Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Wet goods of all kinds. Cool Beer always on tap. Give us a call. 764 W. North St. Indianapolis. The La Sola Bar, 740 Indiana Avenue. Foreign and Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars and Tobacco. Courteous treatment to all. MY PRICES ARE RIGHT. Wm. Davis, Prop., Indianapolis. PENNSYLVANIA LINES! Excursion Tomorrow $2.00 Louisville Ky. 40° Franklin $1.10 Seymour 60° Edinburg $1.30 Crothersville 75° Columbus $1.45 Scottsburg Leave Indianapolis 7 a.m. Colored A. & M. Association, (INCORPORATED.) Lexington, Ky., SEPT. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1908. The Celebrated Columbus Band will furnish music. Booker T. Washington Speaks Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Fair Grounds. Big Exhibits of all kinds. Races daily. Free attractions. Big ring shows. Balloon races. etc. Reduced rates on all roads running into Lexington. T. J. WILSON, Pres. A. L. HARDEN, Sec. left on the 8th for Anniston, Ala., to attend the Grand Lodge of the K. of P.... W. H. Wallace, the Freeman's representative, spent several days in Chattanooga, Tenn., this week. HOW TO KILL BUGS AND FLEAS. July and August are the months in which bedbugs and fleas get ripe, and this hot weather makes the crop unusually large. A reporter of the news heard that Jillus A. Haag, the Pennsylvania druggist, had invented a remedy that was not poisonous, yet one application with a powder gun would kill all the bugs and other insects in the house, and one application on a dog would kill all the fleas. It also kills plant lice, roaches, ants and water bugs. Mr. Haag says he intends to get his invention patented, although he is now selling it in 10c and 25c boxes (the powder gun 10c extinct) at three Hana drug stores, 112 North Pennsylvania street, opposite Grand Opera House; 9 South Illinois, near Washington street, and 802 Massachusetts avenue, corner College avenue. Mr. Haag says he sends remedy by mail, postage and address. All orders should be directed to Julius A. Haag, 112 North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, Ind. TRADE MARK REG US PAT OFF GEOE KEITH COMPANY PERFECT The Indiana 45 South Penn AGENTS For Johnson's History and Light Ahead No better books for stimu can be in your library. Entert to the young. Price 75c per session to agents. Address The Indianapolis Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania Street. AGENTS WANTED AGENTS WANTED For Johnson's History of the Negro Race and Light Ahead for the Negro. No better books for stimulating Race Pride and Progress can be in your library. Entertaining to the old and stimulating to the young. Price 75c per copy for each. Large commission to agents. Address E. A. JOHNSON. 335 Broadway, One Agent writes: "They sell fa handled before. John E. & F. PROPRIET 335 Broadway, New York City. One Agent writes: "They sell faster than any books I have ever handled before. John E. & Frank Walter, PROPRIETORS OF All Orders Promptly Attended To. Telephone 209. 810-812-814 Clay St., Louisville, Ky. Big Four Excursions, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th, $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG, AURORA AND WAY POINTS $1.50 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. $1.25 Terre Haute. Greencastle 75c Special Train Leaves 8:00 a.m. LAST CHANCE! To buy Dry Goods, Notions, Furnishing Goods, House Furnishings, Shoes, Stoves and Groceries at about half their value from the Co-Operative Department Store, as we will close the store for Invoice Monday evening, Aug. 10. Don't fail to take advantage of this last sale, as everything must go at some price. All fixtures for sale. CO-OPERATIVE DEPARTMENT STORE CO., 35-37-39-41 N Capitol Ave. New Phone, 4728. Old, Main, 873. $5.00 Oxfords.....$3.75 $4.00 Oxfords.....$3.00 $3.50 Oxfords.....$2.75 Rather unusual for us to have an advertised sale of any kind—our perfect-fitting shoes and high-grade quality are too well known, all over the world to require it. But to induce the MEN and WOMEN in Indianapolis and vicinity who are not acquainted with the WALK OVER QUALITY, this announcement is intended, as a special invitation. Our regular patrons we know will take advantage of this invitation. WALK = OVER, 28 North Pennsylvania Street. Do Your Cooking The 'Perfect' Way KEEP COOL. "PERFECT" GAS RANGE, $2 Down, $2 a Month, Connected Free. We offer three very beautiful Dresden Art Plates FREE with every "Perfect" Gas Range. Get your order in soon. apolis Gas Co. Pennsylvania Sreet. WANTED History of the Negro Race, read for the Negro. Simulating Race Pride and Progress curtaining to the old and stimulating or copy for each. Large commis- New York City. faster than any books I have ever Frank Walter,