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THE FREEMAN IS READ BY MORE THAN 100,000 ENERGETIC AND PROGRESSIVE AFRO-AMERICANS EACH WEEK. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? IF NOT, WHY NOT? THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXI NUMBER 33 WASHINGTON EXPECTS TO ENTERTAIN VISITORS Proceeds for the Homestead at Anacostia - Examination to be Held for Assistant Surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital. By the National Negro Press Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., August 12.—The formal program of the National Negro Business League has been widely circulated here through the corresponding secretary, Emmet M. McCormick, who is well gotten and a variety of business people who know what they purpose to talk about, and containing enough of the social admixture to give an air of the spice to the program. This completes the budget of information that has been going out in frequent installments from Tuskegee, and the business executives at Baltimore on next Wednesday morning, will be the very biggest and best of the brilliant which began at Boston in August, and will be the biggest of Baltimore, and his able assistants have done their work well, and their efforts deserve and will receive adequate appreciation at the hands of the business men and who will come from all parts of the country. The city of Washington will do its part in making the visitors from abroad welcome in this section of the land. It is will come over to Washington immediately after the grand banquet on Friday night and arrange to spend Saturday and Sunday here, seeing the sights, Chief W. R. S. McCormick, the service bus, has secured an extra supply of turing cars of beautiful design, and they will be at the disposal of the visitors. The local league, of which that energetic delegates who may wish to stop and visit the visitors, the rooms are located at 1742 1414 street easy of access from everywhere by the 14th street traction line. The various committees will be on duty and give the necessary information to the visitors. The grand national memorial in honor of Frederick Douglass, and the proceeds from all sources will be applied to the mortgage of the city, where the greatest Commander, at Anaconda, with the view of making it a Mecca for the race he did so much to advance. President L. E. McCormick will have his two big boats coming and we have his two big boats coming to the city and Washington ark, a beautiful place on the Potomac, where every phase of the amusement will be offered. Washington will be dedicated and the name of Douglass will be heard with reference from every tongue. ... The program will commence promptly at 6 p.m. and Judge Robert R. Terrell, of the Municipal Court of the District of Monroe, will officiate as master of ceremonies. He will be delivered by Dr. Booker T. Washington. On such a day, and with such a theme as the day affords him, the "Wizard" will be at his best. Other speakers invited to be at the event will be Mira Eva A. Chase, the kingsman; Rev. W. D. Norman, the Baptist churches; Rev. H. Welch, the A. M. E. Church; Rev. F. Grimke, the Presbyterian church; Rev. N. Brown, the Congregational church; Rev. O. the postmaster; and E. Episcopal church. Hon. J. Canye, the A. M. E. Zion church; Hon. Raphael W. Tyler, the federal government; Hon. Thomas L. Jones, the District bar; Edited by Thomas L. Jones, the press; Understakeer H. J. Habden, the Negroness interests of the city; and Chief W. Griffin, the True Reformer. Music will be amphitheatered by a leading band a large chorus by the managers that no less than $1,500 will be cleared for the Douglass Memorial Home fund, the raising of which is a duty to Dr. Washington's heart. It is understake accommodations been arranged for the home. . . . and attests the immense popularity he enjoys as the head of this world-wide fraternity. In every city he has been corralized everywhere, city officials, who express much pleasure upon meeting him and manifest deep interest in the work in which he is engaged. The white press of the South has been surpassed by the press of the North, interviews with him in each place visited, and the message he will bring back to the North be of no incalculable benefit in indicating his interest in pressions that have gone out concerning the State of Texas. The present week will be spent by Grand Master Houston in conference with the press all the largest cities of the "Lone Star State." While in Fort Worth, the Grand Master was the guest of Prof. L. W. Foster of the school system of that city and one of the foremost educators of the country. An effort will be made by the friends of Col. Perry H. Carson, white and colored, to find a snug berth for him and commensurate with his great service to his people. He was a member of the Senate and the death of Senator Allison recalls the close intimacy that has existed between the "Tall Black Oak" and the distinguished Iowan. A movement has been made in Carson a good place in the new Senate assembly and opened in December. Here, closely in touch with the men and memories that have made the history of the last half century, Col. Carson is presented as a past commander's jewel was presented to Col. Carson—or Sir Knight Carson, if you please—by the members of the Senate and the presentation membership and its ladies' auxiliary. "The exercises took place at 1915 12th street, N. W. Sir Carson was introduced by Past Commander John W. Freeman, and the presentation of the Senate membership dating back to 1866. He received the chapter and commandery degrees in 1872 and 1873 respectively. He goes to Boston next month to attend the session of the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, an event of international importance. Mrs. A. L. DeMond, a cousin of Architect W. Sidney Pittman, and who is a very successful music teacher at Buxton, Iowa, having both white and colored pupils, has been invited to speak at the Colored Women's Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., this month. Rev. Abraham Lincoln DeMond, editor of the Buxton Gazette, was an invited guest at the Old Home Week Celebration at Cortland, N. Y. the native home of Judge Alton B. Parker. --- Announcement is made by the Civil Service Commission that an examination will be held on September 2 for an assistant surgeon at Freedman's Hospital, conference room 101, in the state of New York can be examined in all the states and is open to all citizens of the United States who will comply with the requirements set forth by the commission. Usually a colleague of the commissioner, though there is nothing save custom governing the matter. A rumor is in circulation that a colored physician, who had been appointed by the Civil Service Commission, is a Commissioner of the Hospital for the Insane, in response to a certification by the commission, was "turned down" by the officials there, when upon presenting himself it was found that his competence, as determined by his excellent showing at the examination, and it is said the case will be fully investigated. In these hospital assignments there is support for the commissioner, as there is social aspect to the relations between the members of the staff at such institutions that brings about certain embarrassments when the colors are mixed. It is not an offense against the District government for a white man to marry a colored woman. The local press kicked up a big fuss last week because a white employee of the commissioner saluted a Negro woman, and the matter was called to the attention of the District commissioners, who decided that marriage is purely a personal affair and the choice of a life partner for their employees is none of business. Thus a great incident is closed. . . . Mrs. A. M. Curtis, whose watchful care of the finances of the Negro department commands her to the gratitude of the race and nation and whose constructive work Louis, helped to give us an enviable standing in the eyes of the best people of three continents, is a woman of extraordinary man service during the Spanish-American war as the head of the Red Cross nurses, colored and white, in Cuba, in conjunction with material and timely assistance in solving the problem of how best to afford national relief when the terrible earthquake visited San Francisco, proving a valued counselor to Secretary Taft, the president of the Red Cross, who asked to take an active part in the campaign this year, and will be likely to speak for the Taft and Sherman ticket in Rio Grande, Utah and California in the far west, where her influence is especially strong. Mrs. Curtis, who is well versed in politics, was for the nomination of Secretary Taft, the president of the Justice Department, will probably knowledge of his superior qualities as a statesman, his generous sympathy for down-trodden humanity, regardless of color, and his possession of the judicial police force, will be able to sane administration of the affairs of the American Republic. Mr. John W. White until recently connected with the Manassas Industrial School, has been reinstated in the War Department and assigned to the office of the Secretary of War, vice William Pannell, who resigned to go with Secretary Taft to Hot Springs. Register W. T. Vernon has returned from a hard siege of campaigning in Kansas, where he was the first to respond for the Senate was not nominated, he will give the successful man, Editor J. L. Bristow, his heartiest support. Former Register J. W. Lyons is still in the city, getting ready for the campaign. There is a disposition in some quarters to criticize; the kindly action of Mr. Lyons SAFE MAN AT THE THROTTLE. NEGRO 1908 INTERESTS WASHINGTON SUCCESS CLIDD VAT 08 The political pot is still simmering, but has not as yet been brought to the boiling point. The anti-administration leaders, Prs. Woldem, Corrothers, Ferguson, Hives, Woldem, and Brv. Browne,ocation meeting Monday night at True Reformers' Hall. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple and president of a Colored Taft and Sherman supporters who are attending at the church on August 17, at which time able speakers will answer the strictures of the Waldronites. Among the Taft and Sherman supporters who are attending at Madre's ark on Labor Day, are Judge Robert H. Terrell, Recorder John C. Daney, Auditor R. W. Tyrler, Rev. R. E. Bishop Johnson and Judge E. M. Jewett,campaign is getting in shape and by the first of September all parties will have donned their reddest war paint. The spellbinders are trying out their best argument, and the pushers are pasting things in their scrapbooks and laying in a supply of carbonpaper and typewriter ribbons, so as to be in on the ground floor when the bell taps for action. Miss Hennlett Vincent Dawson, the talented elocutionist, has been spending a week with mother, who is recuperating at St. Michael's MD. She is mentored this week at Atlantic City, and has accepted an invitation to appear in Baltimore on the 19th in connection with the press session. One National Negro Business Association is in the League and is urging the more general participation of the women of the race in business enterprises. She is a native of Baltimore, and was for a few years a portage of Frederick Douglass in the office of the Recorder of Deeds. Special to THE FREEMAN. NEW YORK, August 12—Bishop Alexander Walters, president of the National Afro-American Council, who lives in this city, has come out strongly against Mr. Walters, who nominee for the presidency. In an interview clares that it is time that there be a division of the Negro vote in the United States. He does not take any stock in the decision he makes. He says. Speaking of his present stand as an anti-Taft man, Bishop Walters says: "The Republican party has shown itself impatient with our interest. This is evidenced by its failure to have Congress pass a bill to have lynchers tried in the Federal courts against the Negro in the inducing Southern representation in Congress. "The Republican party through its President, the Theodore Roosevelt, and its candidate for president for the Taft, and its national convention recently held in Chicago, has indorsed the lily white movement of the South, the elimination of the Negro. The president of Luke E. Wright to succeed Mr. Taft as Secretary of War was a bid also for Southern support. Mr. Wright was born a Democrat as a Democrat in the South, and a Republican, in charge of the country's most treasured secrets. Yet there is no protest from white Republicans. Mr. Wright is a Democratic party does not ask for or want our support. The platform at Denver does not read that way. If its invitation to all and to each of us fails to understand the English language." JACKSONVILLE, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.60. SELMA. ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN held their annual order of Odd Fellows held their annual session here Aug. 4-8, presided over by District Grand Master C. First Johnson and Deputy Grand Master C. Johnson, and presided over the order to be in a prosperous condition. The order decided to establish a bank at Montgomery. Notwithstanding the troubles in the office, the delegates were pressed from all over to contribute to the prosperity of the order. The salary of all the officers was raised. Household expenses were raised. Some time and the indices were kept busy. A hundred and twenty deaths were reported in their department last year. The endowment of the House was raised. From the number of entertainments Selma must have done her duty toward looking after the delegates. A series of bad games were played in the gymnasium, in which Selma was victorious. MERIDIAN. MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN Died, at his home, August 6, aged 32 years. He was a faithful member of the family. He was a devoted friend at which place his funeral was conducted by Rev. H. H. Buckingham. Interment at COMING OF THE BAPTISTS NATIONAL CONVENTION TO MEET AT LEXINGTON MAYOR WILL MAKE WELCOME ADDRESS Woodland Park is the Place of Sessions-Miss Burroughs Will Make Annual Address-Visitors Will Visit Stock Farms. Special to THE FREEMAN. LEXINGTON, Ky. Aug. 10.—From all reports the coming of the National Baptist Convention will be the most largely attended in the history of the convention, and the most successful. Dr. E. C. Morris, president of the convention has every reason to feel proud that this city will entertain the large gathering. The Baptists in and around Lexington offered a concert of the convention to hold its session in this city. This is the first offer ever attempted by any community as an inducement to attend the convention in a city. Dr. Hawthorne says this month will be turned over to them the first day of the session. No city in America is more used to large crowds than Lexington. The feel of the crowd on the convention touches are being given to all arrangements and the most minute details are being worked on twitch perfect ease. It is not accommodated that the vast number not accommodate the vast number of messengers, but when it was proven that she housed 17,000 people year before last during the Lexington fair, the belief was soon realized that the local committee, with his very able corps of workers, have secured the massive Woodland Park to hold the convention. The representatives we saw in his five weeks of attending the Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge, and there was in attendance over 5,000 people seated with ease. The park is a beautiful street car line and is beautifully situated. IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. BY "DOROTHY" This column is devoted to the interests of all women and their organizations also. Address all communications to Dorothy. The Freeman Indianapolis, Ind. WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY. It was a noble Roman, In Rome's imperial day, Who heard a coward croaker He begged, "They're safe in such a fortress, There is no way to shake it" "On! on!" exclaimed the hero, "I'll find a way or make it!" Is Fame your aspiration? Her path is steep and high; In vain he seeks the temple, Content to gaze and sign. The tree is still mistifying, But he alone can take it Who says, with Roman firmness, I'll find a way or make it! Is Learning your ambition? There is no royal road; Allike the peer and peasant Must climb to her abode. Who feels the thirst of knowledge, That he has still the Roman will To find a way or make it! Are riches worth the getting? They must be bravely sought; With wishing and with fretting The boon cannot be bought; To all the prize is open, To all the treasure is open; Who says, with Roman courage, I'll find a way or make it! In Love's impassioned warfare, The tale has ever been That victory crowns the valiant; The brave are they who win; Though strong is Beauty's castle, Lover lies in her heart. Who says, with Roman daring, I'll find a way or make it! —John G. Saxe "AN EXTRAVAGANT AGE." Has a young man of 27, with a steady income of $25 a week, any right to marry a girl who has always had a home of his own, and be brave, brave, brave, the heart could wish? asks Ellia Wheeler Wilcox. They love each other dearly. He has $1,000 in the bank. But he knows so little of what it would take to satisfy all his reasons and senses that all he has to do is be hesitates to take the step, even though she be anxious. With good health and an absolute certainty of a continuance of this income, would marriage be wise or unwise? woman could be able to have very few, of the great masses of intelligent and refined families in the world have $25 a week to count upon as an abstraction, but when he is fortably and easily upon less, much less, the young man's question seems absurd. But when we realize what an American girl, brought up in luxury, might be led to do, we realize how incapable she might be of using the weekly stipend wisely, we do not wonder that he hesitates. It all depends wholly and entirely upon the order of girl she may want. How much money to the best advantage, how to buy food and clothing, how to use both properly, where to save and when to be free-handed, then couple and couple together on $25 a week. If they live in a large city, the grim ogre, rent, would make a sad inroad upon that land. It is to be hoped that the day is not far off when a more just and sensible and human order of things will exist, which shall be the awful and devastating question of rent. God never intended human beings to sell their very souls to pay for the air in the city, but they down upon, any more than He intended the fish in the sea to pay for the water they dwell in. He robbed of our rightful inheritance—the earth—but it must come back to our descendants in time. In the meanwhile the question of marriage for young men in cities is a serious one. Whereabout us, is contagious, and it requires the wisdom of a philosopher and the self-denial of an adept to rise above it. Women who do the right thing for their families are yet affected by the atmosphere of luxury which permeates the land, and are led into folly and extravagance which bring ruin Only recently I heard of a wife, whose husband has an income of $4,000 a year, complaining of her poverty, who can complain of her hardships to know what could do to earn money. She has a pleasant home, keeps a capable maid, and is the mother of one lovely child. She wants wealth and is full of great discontent. She wants wealth—great wealth—and she enjoys nothing she has in longing for what she has not. Her first order of woman who frequently drives her husband into being a defaulter or a forger. Almost invariably polish every great encounter, and money stands the extravagant wife or mistress. Knowing all this, my correspondent is asking me carefully before he establishes a home. But if he is sure that he has found the right kind of a woman, he is safe to pro HUSBAND AND WIFE No man yet was ever made more tender by having tenderness demanded of him; no man yet was ever cried into loving his wife more. I am willing to admit that man is often blind, and that they may easily be exasperated into small brutalities of speech. If a woman refrains from exacting devotion and is unswervingly kind and unselfish, a husband who has any affection for him will not out for doing his share. He will look out for it, anyway; no one else can make him. Neither tears nor entreaties will wring from him those small kindnesses and mercy to women — A Wife in Harper's Bazar. WOMEN THROW AWAY VEILS The veil which has for ages been the duty of Turkish women to wear, has been torn away in the wreck of the old regime, and now the veil is being received from Turkey, thousands of unveiled women are parading the streets, rejoicing in their new-found freedom. This innovation is being welcomed by the women of women at every opportunity. On every hand the smiling faces of women are seen, instead of the somber veils that hid them. RESULT OF POLITICAL UPHEAVAL The most remarkable feature of the political upheaval in Turkey which has just resulted in the granting of a constitution by the Sultan, has been the freeing of the Muslim minority from the privacy of harams, tore off their veils and marched bravely through the streets. The first women to abandon their veils were those at Monastir, the hotbed of the revolution. The command of the Koran was given to them, and the life was canceled by a Moslem priest, who issued his proclamation from the mosque, "We will help to make the world beautiful by this act," he declared. Many remarkable scenes greeted the radical change and without exception the innovations is approved. THE OLD TURKEY Up to the present day Turkey has been subject to the direct personal control of the Sultan, who has been at once temporal autocrat and recognized successor of the Mozamian court, conceived a constitution of the Moslem world. This democratic abstasis has been tempered not only by traditional usage, local privileges, the judiciary, the police, the education and the Privy Council, but also by the growing force of public opinion and the drive and indirect pressure of the powers of Emirate. DYSPEPSIA AND DIVORCES IN BREAD: BAKE THEM If Flour Contained Less Chemicals There Would Be More Happy Marriages Wiley Says. HOW TO DRESS. Did you ever notice how some women do just the right thing in regard to clothes and look comfortable, no matter what the occasion or the occasion? Other women always look warm or cold and uncomfortable. They do not seem to know just how to get the right things and when to put them on. They do not know how to put good materials. They are in the fashion, they always look as though they would be glad to have on something else. Some women depend on plenty of white dark skirts and muslin frocks, which soil easily and are out of commission half the time. While these are very good suits to have for everyday wear, they do not serve for train or train or train. Something is so special that will notoll before the need of it is over. The truth is that women are not careful enough to get variety. White skirts and waists are excellent for house and comfort, but for city street use they are perishable. For such occasions a white or a faintly colored pastel linen is also a costly thing to wear. This is best saved for dressy afternoon occasions. For days when one must have something dark and something cool nothing is better than a blue volle or a brown and white checked one, or a navy blue chin skirt. It is odd that so few women use this latter for everyday frocks. It has all the features of a dress, and is incredibly cool, sheds dust and has no weight. One of the prettiest of these frocks was made with a gored skirt laid in side down, and a sleeve draped flaring. At the footline was a four-inch band of blue and white finely checked taffeta ribbons, with a blue cord as selvage. A loose was cut low in front and back, fluffing up the stock of dark blue net. Around the line of the yoke was a band of the checked ribbon finished into a sailor's knot at the end. The sleeves were three-quarter length, laid into small pleats and finished at the cuff, with a band of the ribbon tied in a knot, finished with a two-inch cuff of white net. CLOSE AT HAND. The day is long and the day is hard. We are tired of the march and of keeping guard. Tired of the sense of a fight to be won. Of days to live through and of work to be done. Tired of ourselves and of being alone. And all the while, did we only see, And all the while, did we only see, We walk in the Lord's own company; We find it! tis He who nerves our arm; He finds the arrows which else might harm, And out of the storm He brings a calm. The work which we count so hard to do, He makes it easy, for He works, too; The days that are long to live are His, A bit of His bright eternities, And close to our need His helping is. O eyes that were holden and blinded quite, And caught no glimpse of the guiding light! O deaf, deaf ears, which did not hear The heavens garment trailing near! O faithless heart, which dared to fear! O hide! SALADS. PINEAPPLE AND PIMENTO SALAD. Have in readiness three cups of pineapple cubes, two cups of cut celery and one-half cup of pimentos, also cut small, coarsely chopped and garnished dressing and garnish with celery tips. KENTUCKY SALAD DRESSING. Prepare sweetbreads by simmering 20 minutes with seasonings and when cold add a little lemon juice. Add the amount of cucumbers cut in the same way and mix all with a mayonnaise which has been reduced with half its bulk of whipped cream. Place the mixture lightly into nests of tender lettuce leaves, fleek lightly with paprika and serve with crisp cheese wafers. Cut the tomatoes into thick slices after beating and place simply on shredded lettuce leaves. Spread each with a thick layer of mayonnaise mixed with chopped green peppers and sprinkle with tiny Germ oilons. Thirty-Ninth Annual NEAPOLITAN SALAD. To one pint of soft cream cheese (as Neuchatel or Philadelphia cream) add a little thick cream to moisten and half a cupful of chopped olives or Pim-Olas, as preferred. Press into a plain mold or a bowl and serve on lettuce or cress with a French dressing. Make dressing with one-half cup of Nicelle olive oil, three tablespoons tarragon vinegar and salt, paprika, onion juice and Worcestershire sauce. ORANGE SALAD Remove rind and all inner skin from oranges and cut into sections. Drain well and mix with half its bulk of cut celery and half its bulk of French dressing with a teaspoon of salt, one-fourth spoon of paprika, six tablespoons of Nicole olive oil and two of lemon juice, and mix with salad after arranging on lettuce leaves. FAIRY FRUIT SALAD. Prepare the dressing by cooking three tablespoons of butter and two of sugar with three beaten egg yolks in double boiling water. Add lemon, seasoning of salt, paprika and celery salt and cook again. When quite thick remove from fire and beat well. Cool in a bowl and add more of whipped cream. For the salad combine white grapes (halved and seeded), sliced bananas, orange and pineapple, also English walnuts and Maraschino EMERGENCY SALADS. Delicious salads may be made from canned vegetables of choice quality, such as green, wax or kidney beans. Brussels sprouts, asparagus beets, French peas or lightly digested French or cooked dressing may be used, and the vegetable should be removed from can and well chilled before serving. Mrs. Cora Hawkins, formerly of Chicago, is employed in the Department of Forestry at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Sade Duddie, of Indianapolis, was elected to the Courts of Indian and Mrs. Zella Ward, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds. Miss Cora McIntyre, a former Jackson (Miss H. Sch. College) and also a student of Wilberforce College, has just been appointed cashier of the Crown Savings Bank, at Newport News, Va. The Swastika Club, of Montgomery, Ala., is an organization composed of a few of the best young girls of that city. The object is not only to have a social club, but to do some charitable work as well. Miss Queenie Lee is president, Miss Queenie Secretary and Miss M. Culpepper reporter. The club recently donated $3 to the Reformatory. The Rev. C. F. Choolzlii, B. S., M. A., a graduate of King's College, Oxford, Trinity College, University of Berlin, special ecclesiastical envoy of King Menelik of Egypt, and special ecclesiastical priests of Abyssinia 3,500 years old, was in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, and, among other things, he said that Eve was a Negro, than Negroes, he bases his assertion that Moses was a Negro on a biblical story to the effect that God told Moses to put his hand in his bosom, and that Negroes were to have been white; the latter are to must have been black. He says that Solomon's mother was a Cushite, and that the Abyssinians are the only Cushites of the world. Even if it be true that Eve was a Negro, he makes conditions better or worse. It is needless to delive into musty records and old books to ascertain who were Negroes. The time could be better spent in finding the paths of industry and goodness of purpose. Words of instruction to the women of our race, how to be model wives and mothers, and the necessity of the paths of industry and goodness everywhere than to know or discuss Mother Eve's nationality. THE NEGRO QUESTION. Both parties are, we regret to say, somewhat noncommital on the race question. From Mr. Taft's speech of acceptance we should judge that he regards the Brownsville incident as closed, for he said nothing about it. All that he did was to congratulate the Negro on his progress, to remind him that he has been emancipated and to declare himself in sympathy with the demand of the Republican platform that the war amendments be enforced in "letter and spirit." As they have presumably been enforced ever since they were adopted, there is little in this to assure the Negro of any better treatment. Turning to Mr. Bryan and his party we find that they, too, neglected the Brownsville issue, and that there is nothing in the Democratic platform that gives the Negroes any considerable comfort. It is thought that Mr. Bryan would have insisted on some declaration on this subject, had not the Southern Democrats objected. Even an assurance of fair treatment to the Negro soldiers seemed obnoxious to many men in the South. But the Democrats of West Virginia are not so timid. On the contrary they speak out with the utmost clearness. Their convention Thursday adopted two planks, one declaring for Negro disfranchisement and the other for the separate car policy. There is, of course, nothing unfamiliar or startling in these demands, for they are designed to put West Virginia in line with the other Southern States. And every one knows what is the policy of the South on this subject. It is at least frank and outspoken. The West Virginia Democrats refused to be influenced by any national considerations, or to weigh the possibility of the unfavorable effect of their action on the Negro vote in the North. Probably Mr. Bryan will have little to say on the general subject. Speaking generally, we would say that, in our opinion, we shall never get rid of the Negro problem until we are prepared to deal with it fairly, to deal with it on the theory that Negroes are human beings. Many plans have been tried, and in spite of all that has been done in the way of control and repression, the problem is with us yet. And it seems to grow more difficult all the while. It will continue to grow more difficult as long as we insist on drawing a line politically between the two races. In a free country it is impossible to have two classes of men, all of whom are citizens, to one of which classes all political rights are denied. For this is to subject one class of citizens to the rule of the other class, and that is something that cannot continue always if this Government is to continue free. It may be that the issue will not assume an important place in the present campaign. But it will persist for many years, and will never be got r diof till we make up our minds to do equal and exact justice to all men. Just now the leaders on both sides seem chiefly interested in running away from the question.—The Indianapolis News. While you are strong, healthy and active invest your money in a paying proposition. For All Purposes and Conditions COMPOSED OF hardened and highly polished metals, associated as they are causing an influence which cannot be obtained by any other agencies. Metals being Copper, Brass and Steel—the steel not coming in contact with the hair. The teeth and washers, or partitions, being mounted on a steel rod and durably fastened by means of a nut on the handle. 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CHAMBERS. Copyright, 1908, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1908, by Robert W. Chambers. [CONTINUED] Furious to think of the time he had wasted with Plank, he crawled into a hanson and bade the driver take him to a number he gave, designating one of the new limestone basement houses on the upper west side. All the way up town as he jolted about in his seat he angrily regretted the meeting with Plank even in spite of the check. What demon had possessed him to boast—to display his hand when there had been no necessity? Plank was still ready to give him aid at a crisis, had always been ready. Time enough when Plank turned stingy to use persuasion. He lay back, rolling about in the jounged cah, scowling at space. "I'll shake down Quarrier," he said to himself. "I'll make him pay for his treachery—scaring me out of Amalgamated!" That will be restitution, not extortion! He was angry because he had been for days screwing up his courage to the point of seeking Quarrier face to face. He had not wished to do it. The scene and his own attitude in it could only be repugnant to him, although he continually explained to himself that it was restitution, not extortion. "Oh," he grouned, "what an ass I am!" And he got out of his cab in front of a very new limestone basement house with red geraniums blooming on the window sills and let himself in with a latchkey. The interior of the house was attractive in a rather bright, new, clean fashion. The maid, too, who appeared at the sound of the closing door and took his hat and gloves was as newly groomed as the floors and woodwork and so noiseless as to be conspicuous in her swift, silent movements. "Anybody here?" he growled, leering into the drawing room at a tiny grand piano cased in unvarnished Circassian wainut. "There is nobody at home, sir," said the maid. He began to ascend the stairway, breathing heavily, thud, thud over the deep velvet strip, his fat hand grasping the banister rail. Somewhere on the second floor a small dog barked, and Mortimer traversed the hall and opened the door into a room hung with gold Spanish leather and pale green curtains. "Hello, Tinto!" he said affably as a tiny Japanese spaniell hurled herself at him, barking furiously, then began writting and weaving herself about him, gurgling recognition and welcome. Presently another maid entered, with an apple cut into thin waters and a decanter of port, and Mortimer lay back in his chair, sopping his apple in the thick, crimson wine and feeding morsels of the combination to himself and to Tinto at intervals until the apple was all gone and the decanter three-fourths empty. It was very still in the room—so still that Mortimer, opening his eyes at longer and longer intervals to peer at the door, finally opened them no more. It was still daylight when Mortimer awoke, conscious of people about him. As he opened his eyes a man laughed. Several people seated by the windows joined in. He yawned, laughed, turning his heavy eyes from one to another, recognizing a couple of young girls at the window. He didn't want to get up, but there is in the society he now adorned a stringency of etiquette known as "re-finement" and which to ignore is to become unpopular. So he got on to his massive legs and went over to shake hands with a gravity becoming the ceremony. "How d'ye do, Miss Hutchinson? Thought you were at Asbury Park. How de do, Miss Del Garcia? Have you been out in Millbank's motor yet?" "We broke down at McGowan's pass," said Miss Del Garcia, laughing the laugh that had made her so attractive in "A Word to the Wise." "Muddy gasoline," nodded Millbank tersely, an iron jawed, overgroomed man of forty with a florid face shaved blue. "We passed Mr. Plank's big touring car," observed Lydia Vyse, shifting Tinto to the couch and brushing the black and white hairs from her automobile coat. "How much does a car like that cost, Leroy?" "About twenty-five thousand," he sald gloomily. Then, looking up: "Hold on, Millbank. Don't be going. Why can't you all dine with us? Never mind your car. Ours is all right, and we'll run out into the country for dinner. How about it, Miss Del Garcia?" But both Miss Del Garcia and Miss Hutchinson had accepted another invitation, in which Millbank was also included. They stood about, veils floating, leather decorated coats thrown back, lingering for awhile to talk the garage talk which fascinates people of their type. Then Millbank looked at the clock, made his adieu to Lydia, nodded significantly to Mortimer and followed the others downstairs. There was something amiss with his motor, for it made a startling racket in the street, finally plunging forward with a kick. "Well?" she inquired, as Mortimer turned back from the window to confront her. "I missed him." said Mortimer. I missed him, said another. She flung the coat over a chair, stood a moment, her fingers busy with her hair pegs, then sat down on the couch, taking Tinto into her lap. She was very pretty, dark, slim, marvelously graceful in her every movement. C. WILLIAMS "Can't you see him tomorrow?" she asked. "I suppose so," sail Mortimer slowly. "Oh Lord! How I hate this business!" "Can't you see him to-morrow?" she asked. "hate this business." "Hasn't he misused your confidence? Hasn't he taken your money?" she asked. "It may be unpleasant for you to make him unbelt, but you're a coward if you don't." "I wish I'd held fast now. I never supposed Plank would take hold. It was that driveling old Belwether who scared me stiff." The minute I saw him scurrying to cover like a singed cat I was fool enough to climb the first tree. I've had my lesson, little girl." "I hope you'll give Howard his. Somebody ought to," she said quietly. About half past 8 they dined in a white and pink dining room furnished in dull gray walnut and served by a stealthy, white haired, pink skinned butler. They had planned to go for a spin in Mortimer's motor after dinner, but in view of the Quarrier fasco neither was in the mood for anything. "Do you know, Leroy," she observed as they left the table and sauntered back into the pale blue drawing room, "do you know that the servants haven't been paid for three months?" "Oh, for heaven's sake," he expostulated, "don't begin that sort of thing. I get enough of that at home. I get it every time I show my nose!" "I only mentioned it," she said carelessly. "You had an opportunity to make Howard pay you back. What are you going to do?" "Do?" "Of course. You are going to do something, I suppose. You haven't yet told me how you intend to make Howard return the money you lost through his ingriggling with your stock." "I don't exactly know myself," admitted Mortimer, still overflushed. "I mean to put it to him squarely as a debt of honor that he owes. I asked him whether to invest. He never warned me not to. He is morally responsible." She nodded. "I'll tell him so, too." blustered Mortimer, shaking himself into an upright posture and laying a pudgy clinched fist on the table. "I'm not afraid of him. He'll find that out too. I know enough to stagger him. Not that I THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. mean to use it. I'm not going to have him think that my demands on him for my own property resemble extortion. I've half a mind to shake that money out of him in one way or another." He struck the table and looked at her for further sign of approval. "I'm not afraid of him," he repeated. "I wish to God he were here, and I'd tell him so." She said coolly. "I was wishing that too." For awhile they sat silent, preoccupied, avoiding each other's direct gaze. When she rose he started, watching her in a dazed way as she walked to the telephone. "Shall I?" she asked quietly, turning to him, her hand on the receiver. "Wait. W-what are you going to do?" he stammered. "Call him up. Shall I?" A dull throb of fright pulsed through him. "You say you are not afraid of him, Leroy." "No!" he said, with an oath. "I am not. Go ahead!" She unhooked the receiver. After a second or two her low, even voice sounded. There came a pause. She rested one elbow on the walnut shelf, the receiver tight to her ear. Then: "Mr. Quarrier, please. Yes, Mr. Howard Quarrier. No, no name. Say it is on business of immediate importance. Very well, then; you may say that Miss Vyse insists on speaking to him. Yes, I'll hold the wire." She turned, the receiver at her ear, and looked narrowly at Mortimer. "Won't he speak to you?" he demanded. "I'm going to find out. Hush a moment!" and in the same calm, almost childish voice: "Oh, Howard, is that you? Yes, I know I promised not to do this, but that was before things happened. Well, what am I to do when it is necessary to talk to you? Yes, it is necessary. I tell you it is necessary. I am sorry it is not convenient for you to talk to me, but I really must ask you to listen. No, I shall not write. I want to talk to you tonight—now! Yes, you may come here if you care to. I think you had better come, Howard, because I am liable to continue ringing your telephone until you are willing to listen. No, there is nobody here. I am alone. What time? Very well; I shall expect you. Goodby." She hung up the receiver and turned to Mortimer: "He's coming up at once. Did I say anything to scare him particularly?" "One thing's sure as preaching," said Mortimer. "He's a coward, and I'm glad of it," he added naively, relighting his cigar, which had gone out. (Continued next week.) Boys and girls can earn more than what it requires to keep them in school books and clothes by selling The Freeman every Saturday. Hotel Notes. Wm. Humphrey, who has been headwaiter at the Oriental Hotel, Dallas, Texas, has been succeeded by Mr. Crawford, of Kansas City. Henry Watts, formerly second waiter at the Oriental Hotel, Dallas, Texas, is now filling a similar position at the Southland, in that city. John Nicholls is the headwaiter at the Collack Hotel; Wm. Austin is the headwaiter at Hoffman's Cafe, and George Mitchel is steward at the California, San Francisco, Cal. The address of Messrs. Clas, Gaskin, Cecil Speak, and B. Davis is wanted. Any person knowing the address of these waiters will please send same to W. F. Cozart, care of the Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. E. J. Green, chief cook at the Brown House, Gainesville, Fla., would like to swap original recipes with other chefs. He invites correspondence. John Stewart, the sarpent hotel, sends regards to Owen Rawls and Henry Roberts, of Asbury Park, N. J. We must admit that the colored waiters are giving too much attention to having a good time and not enough to better the information and not enough to information pertaining to their profession. When we have better headwaiters we will then have better trained waiters. In these hard times the man who is not efficient soon loses out. We have received several letters from waiters inquiring about Wilson Harris, formerly headwaiter at the Hollendalen Hotel, O., Louisville Hotel, Louisville, Ky., and other hotels. We are sorry to say that we are reliably informed that Mr. Harris died in Chicago over a year ago. We have received several letters from the West inquiring if George Bland is still in charge at the Oliver Hotel, at South Bend, Ind. We are pleased to announce the Bland Hotel, which is business at the same old stand, having sued where many had failed, which attests his efficiency as a headwaiter, endowed with extraordinary managerial ability. The one of the best hotels west of New York. THE HEADWAITER THE AGENT. There were asked several questions in one of your issues some weeks ago concerning waiters and headwaiters, and why that they are losing all the best hotels and hotels in the city where our duties are in the way of service. The first place, we do not unite with each other. The next is, we know so much there is nothing for us to learn, and why that we have lost our duties in so many changes. Then again there is what we call the man who just wants to get by because he has an object in view, and of course, that left no co-workers, organization which we could have been proud of, but everybody wants to be head, and of course, that left no co-workers, organization which we could have almost brought it down to nothing. We have no agent to seek for openings for us, and we have to depend on is our headwaiters, although we are for positions for us, while looking for himself. I don't mean to go out and catch those new things and hold them and add more to them. Learn to take the good with the bad, and if you make a good bargain, stick; if it's bad, stick. My experience is that I have been in the business, as to Mr. Simmons. I have experienced his business since I have been in the business, and I could not agree with him. Now, for instance, take the proprietor and manager of to-day with the same idea that Mr. Simmons encouraged encouragement in changing from colored headwriters to white, and the headwriters. he begins to work and get his own color in, for they are more in sympathy with him, for we are more in our own. My experience has taught that in order to be strong we must unite and cultivate the friendship of each other. I carry on my pay roll 32 waiters, and I hate them more than I love them from parts of the dining room, and we work quietly together. I never have a complaint to go to the office from the dining room. CHAS. S. SMITH, Headwaiter of the Hotel Strand, Atlantic City, N. J. In this issue will be found a very interesting article copied from the Hotel World, in which the World makes serious charges against the waiters. World has been one of the best friends the colored waiters have had, and we must regard this accusation as coming from a friend, who has been worked up a letter written by one M. J. Horsley. We do not know Mr. Homsley, but we are sure that he is not in a position to speak authoritatively for the colored waiter, and he is not in a position to not drilled in the school of experience pertaining to the colored waiter, his needs, and the past efforts of the Hotel World's editorial on training colored waiters. If the colored waiters are guilty of the charges as stated by the World, and no doubt are good and most so, we are every good and most waiter, start a crusade and let us better our condition by becoming efficient and better trained in the art of our craft and learn to be more punctual in our duties and establish a world for honesty, sobriety and reliability. The old axiom, "Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well," should be kept in mind, and whatever may be our condition or shortcoming, there is room for improvement, and the time to complain or to fight, but while it is yet day let us get our house in order. TOO HIGH-TONED. Negro Too Stuck-up to be Trained in a School for Table Waiting—An Boston, Mass., June 30, 1908. Editor Hotel World: Allow me to congratulate you for what you said in your editorial column of the Hotel World of the 29th inst., headed, "The World of the 29th inst., headed," seems that you have had your brain cells severely taxed, brooding over the "Negro Question" and trying to form in your efficient mind a solution to this great nature. And what you wrote on the above subject seems to be the outcome of your effort. Doubless you expect the readers of this book to be able to understand that you have the interest of this poor, struggling people at heart, after they finish reading your suggestions. Make-up is the same as yours would form such an opinion of you, and since you have in you such a "God-like spirit," don't you think that you would be able to attain altruistic turn of mind that should take the initiative in the great and important effort to redeem the Negro race by making of bim a neat, clean, efficient trained staff, a trained staff, a trained staff and establishments, where not even your white waiters, who are trained by the "haphazard" methods, will work on account of the cheap wages and poor con It is true that there is room for great improvement in the Negro waiter, and that he needs discipline; but what incarnation of the Negro waiter direction? You say that all the high-priced places and establishments will always employ white waiters, and the next class of hotels and restaurants will embody the hazard trained" waiters and waitresses. Now, pray tell me, what is left for a well-trained colored waiter? What encouragement has he to make happen with cheap and cheap places, with cheap pay and poor conveniences, and you require him to take the places of the silver girls, the dishwashers and the scrub women, and yet you want him to be a good waiter. Sir, if you had ever tasted a drop of the milk of human kindness and had one spark of brotherly feeling in you, you would not have given the public such valuable magazine. It only serves to show you up and places you in a position to be scorned by broad-minded and rational thinkers of our and country who need to be in the face and country who said nothing to encourage an effort on the part of the hotel people to give the Negro waiter a chance to improve himself by giving him better places in proportion to the improvement he makes in making restaurants. Possibly you are not to blame for what you said. It may be your first effort on a new job. You may not have your mind will have expanded by the time you write on the subject again. For me ask you to kindly publish this letter in the next use of your Hotel World. Thanking you is in advance for the least concern you may give this letter. I remain your respectful reader. VARDAMAN MAY BE RIGHT. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, in a notable speech a few years ago, stated that the effort to educate the Negro race was crucial to the welfare. He placed special emphasis upon what was being done in the higher education of the race by people of the North who came South, established schools especially for the Negro, and that in higher education alone would the Negro question be properly solved. These efforts, said Governor Vardaman, were not a matter of the fact, but fast. A correspondent to the Hotel World who spent the winter in Alabama a few years ago, wrote that the higher education of the Negro was making him a better teacher, and that every educated Negro insisted on being a preacher, editor, lawyer or wants to hold some professional job. After becoming educated the Negro, he began to work as a car or do the work that falls to the lot of common humanity. The Hotel World at the time denounced Governor Vardaman's speech, and has always said that education could hurt the Negro or any one else. However, twenty-five years among hotel proprietors who employed colored waiters still have their services in and about the hotel, inclines one to believe that there is more truth in what Governor Vardaman said, and why our correspondent in the sixth edition of the schools, wrote, than is generally believed. The writer of the foregoing letter certainly clinches the argument, if he speaks of the girls in his letter advanced the idea that if the Negro were properly educated for the position, he might continue to be a waiter, of the girls and men who are rapidly supplanting him in all parts of the country. The excuse for using valuable space in the Hotel World for any discussion of this issue is the indifference of impudent gnance and egotism is grown among those Negroes who assume to write and dominate the rising generation of the Negro race in this country. While thousands of them are still in the technical and manual training schools, making them capable and useful men and women, the addle-pated, arrogant, impudent gnance, where he believes he is above manual labor. A GREAT MOCK CONGRESS. The student-waiters of Atlantic City, N. J., held a mock Congress recently, and it was a grand success. The Congress was attended by a large number of litteraries, which are composed entirely of hotel employees, with the college students at the helm. The Congress was held in the Eighth District of the Eighth Church. Several hundred people were turned away. The auditorium was artistically decorated in the National colors. Each college and school was allotted a space in the auditorium where were displayed. The following schools were much in evidence: Howard, Shaw, Morgan, Lincoln, Delaware and Atlantic City. The Congress was accurately conducted from a parliamentary standpoint, and the flow of language was inexhaustible, as the students addressed the Senate in support of or antagonizing a bill, and would have cast glittering rays of grammatical perfection upon the assembly of the real Senate. As a result, the Senate was addressed by Handy, pastor of Asbury A. M. E. Church, was equal to the emergency, displaying remarkable familiarity with parliamentary law, and was even willing to render a The session was opened with prayer by the chaplain, after which the president of the Senate announced the appointment of the Secretary of Education and education. President Roosevelt transmitted a message to the Senate, in which he submitted the following appointments to be made: Secretary of Education, to succeed W. E. Duboise, and Bishop Alexander Walters, to succeed T. Thomas Fortune as minister to Haiti. The Democrats were in favor of confirming the industrial education, and the Republicans were in favor of retaining Duboise because he advocated a high education. After trying to confirm Dr. Washington, expressing a desire that Mr. Duboise be retained as Commissioner of Education. Bishop Walters, though a Democrat, was confirmed to succeed T. Thomas Fortune, Republican. The introduction of a drastic emigration bill by the Republicans, which would exclude all foreigners for ten years, precipitated by the Senate's met Greek. The Democrats, under the leadership of Senator Culberson, of Texas, opposed the bill, and the general debate brought out several sensational speeches. Indeed, the debate was so hot that the senators met that they kept the sergeant-at-arms busy to keep them separated. Messrs. E. Hodges (Senator La Follette), W. A. Love (Senator Knox), W. A. Love (Senator Knox), F. Cooper (Senator Lodge), L. McCoy (Senator Kean), Miss L. Carey (Senator Foraker), G. E. Brown (Senator Platt), and others represented the Republican. All the above Senators were in a real amusing, and he was presented a large bouquet. The speech of the evening was made by Miss Carey (Senator Foraker), one of Atlantic City's high school girls. Miss Carey has a sweet voice, and the audience spellbound. Messrs. L. D. Gross (Senator Culberson), B. A. Webb (Senator Tillman), F. Hutson (Senator Daniels), H. Hutson (Senator Daniels), R. Rose (Senator Simmons) and Miss Ada Smyth (Senator Rayner) represented the Democrats, and they made fire-eating speeches. Miss Simmons delivered a scholarly and forceful address. The speeches of Messrs. Webb and Mitchell were quite sensational, and carried the audience by storm. Messrs. Simmons defended the Negro. He impersonated Senator Tillman so well he made a great hit. G. E. Brown (Senator Platt) bolted his presentation against the bill. M. T. 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SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1908 Mr. Bryan is now at the bat. A voter can be an Independent with out being a Democrat. The President is now bidding the farmers stand up and walk. If you can't take on any more Republicanism, and if Democracy is distasteful—better go afishin'. The weather is ideal, sleeping with or without cover. Thermometer ranging from 68 to 78—strict schoolhouse regulation. Perhaps young Turkey is growing too rapidly. If it is not careful the old Sultan will forget all about that Constitution. The Negro boys like the white boys at Winona would do no bad thing if they got together in an effort at city keeping. Good at imitation—get busy. Bishop Walters, of the A. M. E. Zion Church, and Rev. Callis, of this city, have indorsed William J. Bryan for president. The Negro is beginning to think for himself like all other nationalities. He must do that if he expects to be a man and be respected by all. Who passed the civil rights bill in Indiana, giving the Negro free and equal rights in all public places in the state of Indiana? Answer this if you wish. The farmers are now preparing for their second crop, due in the "Indian summer." Pumpkins, turnips, greens, tomatoes and other sundries will be among the appearances. The spirit of independence is increasing. There never has been in the history of the colored voter so deep, seated and determined stand for independence as is now being demonstrated. Fighting for an opportunity to contribute something in the basket was a recent spectacle at Old Orchard, Maine. Generally it is the other way. Persons have been known to make a break for the door at this "opportune" moment. A $90,000 contract for building a schoolhouse was recently awarded W. Sydney Pittman, the Negro contractor. Considerable evidence of the prosperity of the United States colored people. The National Negro Business League at Baltimore, 19-21 of this month. By the way, has Indiana become tired? Don't hear very much noise from the local league. Southern States have been talking Baltimore for months. There is a controversy between the President and Mr. Taft as to who did issue the orders discharging colored soldiers at Brownsville, Tex. The President said he did it himself, and a writer says that Mr. Taft issued the orders while the President was visiting Porto Rico and Panama. F. C. Leland, manager of the well-known baseball club, the "Leland Giants," has been nominated for County Commissioner for the city of Chicago. There were forty-three contestants, ten were to be selected. It goes without saying that the vote was very complimentary to Mr. Leland. The automobile is claiming its victims right along, but the man with money and a "git" is nothing daunted. They are fascinating machines. Once in one, knowing the speed in it, we imagine a fell is not content until he tries it out. Even the women seem to enjoy the long streak effect of a rapid goer. Isaiah T. Montgomery, the grand old man of Mississippi, founded the Negro city, Mound Bayou. He gave it that most beautiful name around which the romancer ought to be able to weave a spell that binds. Mound Bayou should greet this twentieth century with 100,000' souls as an earnest effort of Negro endeavor. Mr. Taft has planted himself squarely on the Republican platform. Those choosing to assail him will have to hunt another point of attack. His speech of acceptance was in a most happy vein, and by some said to be even a better document than the platform itself. When it comes to diplomacy, your Mr. Taft is the man. Under the circumstances there should be many more Negro communities. They would give opportunities not now enjoyed. A Negro community of 10,000 inhabitants would call for every conceivable kind of business. It should be a pleasure to assist in proving the capability of the race. We complain about position, office and so forth. These may be had in communities managed by Negroes. The National Negro Business League conventions are where business thoughts and processes are worked out, or stumbled on, are divulged—talked out in meeting for the benefit of those who are anxious to make their business all it should be. Booker T. Washington conceived the business league idea; it has proven a good thing in numerous ways. It is a sort of an annual exposition of Negro industrialism, spoken of rather than seen. As we view it the teaching of most of the churches, if followed out, would correct all abuses and would serve to set man right with his Maker. The teaching is for the conduct of lives in the world, and, falling there, fail in the purpose. Our relation to others is the only test of the lessons taught. Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you, is the "word," the law—so simple that a child may understand. So utmost that the very few stand the test. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler understands as does no other man in the country the potency of the colored press in moulding public sentiment among our people on the issues of the day. He believes in the wisdom of a campaign of education and could be depended upon to see it to that the Negro press is "taken care of" properly by the national chairman. A newspaper bureau should be created, and Mr. Tyler should be placed at the head of its colored department. Augusta, Ga., is all stirred up because of the arrival home of Robt. B. Williams, a black British mayor of Onslow City, N. Z., who was once a barefoot pickaninny playing around the streets of Augusta. He left Georgia years ago, and finally settled at Onslow, studied law and was admitted to the bar. Finally he was elected mayor by the votes of the white citizens. Williams came to America to see his aged mother. From here he goes to England to pay his respects to King Edward. The Demonstrator joins with the journalistic fraternity of the country in deploring the death of Editor Edward E. Cooper, of Washington, D.C. He approached our ideal of a newspaper maker. We never enjoyed the honor of his personal acquaintance, but we have been captive under the influence of his writings. We have long been pleased to entertain a sentiment of friendship for the man and to feel a sense of proprietary interest in his wonderful ability. The Indianapolis Freeman, the great illustrated Negro weekly, is a living tribute to the journalistic genius of Edward E. Cooper.—Demonstrator, Mound Bay, Miss. President Roosevelt has expressed himself as anxious to know more about farm life in the country, to know its hindering causes, with the view of doing whatever possible to make life in the country more attractive. He has appointed a commission who will look into the matter. He promises to make a recommendation to Congress of a helpful nature. He expressed himself at length, showing solicitude for the great body of breadwinners who snatch their subsistence from the soil. The President accords the farmers the place formerly accorded, manifesting anxiety to do what he can to make the calling look up, that it not only hold its own, but win from the crowded cities. A $50,000 job by a Negro architect is something to think about. It is the amount allowed W. Sidney Pittman to erect a school in the vicinity of Washington, D. C. What he will make depends on the percentage, which will amount to a neat sum under any circumstances. Mr. Pittman had in charge the construction of the Negro Building at the recent Jamestown Exposition. He was very much praised for his excellent work. The Government did not fail to take notice, expressing confidence in him by awarding him the largest job ever let to a Negro in the history of the country. The work will be done at Garfield, D. C. The schoolhouse is for colored children. Mr. Pittman is son-in-law to Booker T. Washington. The ephemeral character of fame is illustrated by the Omaha Enterprise's statement, in its last issue, that Mr. Emmett J. Scott, private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington, was for several years associate editor of the Colored American at the national capital. If our memory serves us correctly, it was Mr. R. W. Thompson who served so capably as the manager of the literary end of the Colored American throughout the major portion of its meteoric career, and who was also identified with The Freeman as chief editorial writer at the hour of its birth, and for a long period thereafter. It will be agreed by those who know the facts that to Mr. Thompson's fidelity to Mr. Cooper's interests and active association with him in each of his three newspaper ventures, covering more than a score of years, are due much of the success that attended the brilliant Hoosier's dash into the arena of modern journalism. The usually accurate Editor Mahammitt should get out some of his old scrapbooks and post up. As we understand it, that "steering committee" of colored men, named at Chicago, is not to manage any "Jim Crow" annex to the national committee. It was formed to lay before Mr. Hitchcock certain facts touching the Negro that the committee ought to know and to be the temporary mouthpiece of the colored delegates who attended the Chicago convention, with there com- portu- o com- would busi- to as- of the sit- tion, may be by Ne- business busi- are are di- for the to oud be. the view of opening a way for an effective working agreement between the national committee and the Negro voters of the several states. When that duty is performed, the "steering committee," as such, passes out of existence. In all probability the coterie of prominent colored leaders, headed by Mr. R. W. Tyler, will advise against any such thing as a Negro annex, and that the race will have representation on the general advisory committee, with the same power to make recommendations as to speak-ers, writers, organizers and campaign policies as is accorded to any other members who sit at the council table. As we enter the campaign, let us get our facts on straight, and keep them straight. The idea. Really, the religious schemes do not appear "calculated" to care for social and racial conditions. Some go further than others in carrying for the highway, byway and hedges proposition, but the thing of sociality creeps in, and of course in the individual, and so general is it that it seems the expected. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN. The 8th of August was celebrated here as Emancipation Day, under the auspices of Warfield Lodge, No. 44, A. F. and A. A. at Maryville, in the Knights Templar mounted parade, headed by the Masonic Band of Cumberland, Tenn., and followed by the magnificent float containing Miss Maria Sandaly, as the Goddess Liberty, surrounded by twelve misses as aides, was the grandest showing the The other day when the President was discussing the farmer phase of American life, he said in part: "No nation has ever achieved permanent greatness unless this greatness was based on the well-being of the great farmer class, the men who live on the soil, for it is upon their welfare, material and moral, that the welfare of the rest of the nation ultimately rests. In the United States, disregarding certain sections and taking the nation as a whole, I believe it to be true that the farmers in general are better off today than they ever were before. We Americans are making great progress in the development of our agricultural resources. But it is equally true that the social and economic institutions of the open country are not keeping pace with the development of the nation as a whole. "The farmer is, as a rule, better off than his forebears; but his increase in well-being has not kept pace with that of the country as a whole. While the condition of the farmers in some of our best farming regions leaves little to be desired, we are far from having reached so high a level in all parts of the country. In portions of the South, for example, where the Department of Agriculture, through the farmers' co-operative demonstration work of Dr. Knapp, is directly instructing more than 30,000 farmers in better methods of farming, there is nevertheless much unnecessary suffering and a needless loss of efficiency on the farm." THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The National Negro Business League meets in Baltimore on the 19th, 20th and 21st of this month. This great organization is notable for the exchange of business thought among its members. It answers largely the purposes of those numerous organizations by white men and which meet from time to time for the interchange of views along the lines of business endeavor. Mr. Washington saw the necessity of such an organization several years ago. It as yet is an omnibus affair, including in its membership Negroes of whatsoever trade or business calling, representing the somewhat chaotic business condition at present, but which is simplifying as the years go by under the "magic wand" of the Wizard of Tuskegee. It goes without saying that the National Business League is the most useful general organization of the race. It has actually turned the minds of hundreds toward business; many have become engaged in business, not a few winning success, because of the expressions and suggestions let fall at the yearly conventions. It is a good sign when such interest is aroused that members and visitors travel hundreds of miles, paying their own fares, in order to be at these meetings. The influence on those of the cities in which the meetings are held is like benedictions. This is true and not merely a good-sounding phrase. The Indianapolis meeting of the league left the city rich in the intent; also in the effort on the part of colored men to enter business walks. Several concerns are now in existence owing to that meeting. The same may be said of other cities. Thus the meetings prove incentives, inducing others to take up their share of the race burden—that of caring for young men and women by way of occupation, consonant with the notions of life taught in the schools, and as they see about them. THE CHURCH ORGANIZATION Viewed in the sight of God, as we conceive God to be, discrimination among mankind is not right any place. We see no reason for citing the church, or making an unusual to do because the church refuses to be different to the world in the matter. It being a place of worship will not change the views of the people on social affairs. Really, if there is to be a reform it is to begin from without, working inward through the teachings to the church as an organization. Discrimination is a moral question; the church teaches religion, the practice of which is not for the church-house; but for the outer world, and embraces the thing morals as a sequence of the religious teachings. If the religion taught will not save way out where men may not see, it appears that something is wrong or we expect too much, since the church-house is for that purpose, to prepare men and women for the trials of the six days. It has no more right to be efficacious on Sunday than on other days, nor less effective far than near. We do not see the virtue in the organization; it is made up as other organizations. We do see virtue in the teachings, and which are intended to influence the practices of life; falling in the instance, it is not remarkable. The church organization itself, as such, will not change any more than other organizations, since it is not different to other organizations. The object here is not to relieve the church of its duty. It—the organization—knows what is required of it through the teachings. But we insist that the particular body is no more to be influenced than other bodies. In other words, and again, the truths heard in church-houses are for the influencing of life wheresoever. The fact of the business is that but very few carry into practice the principles expounded from the pulpits. This has in mind condition based on race and the social idea. Really, the religious schemes do not appear "calculated" to care for social and racial conditions. Some go further than others in carrying for the highway, byway and hedges proposition, but the thing of sociality creeps in, and of course in the individual, and so general is it that it seems the expected. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. The 8th of August was celebrated here as Emancipation Day, under the auspices of Warfield Lodge, No. 44, A. F. anad A. M. at Portlor's Bulf Park. The Knights of Masonic Band of Cumberland, Tenn., and followed by the magnificent float containing Miss Maureau Saunders as the Goddess of Liberty, surrounded by twelve misses and Masonic Band of Cumberland, Masons have yet made. There were 6,000 people in attendance at the speaking at the park. Rev. T. J. Goodall was the orator. Liberty was esteemed by the Stonkes. Wylie Johnson, one of Clarksville's old reliable citizens, died on the 24th and was buried on the 26th, Mr. Johnson was highly esteemed by the Stonkes. He was wife, three sons and one daughter....The following marriages took place last week: Mrs. Maggie Steele Johnson to Mr. Squire Gill; Mrs. Maggie Steele Stonkes to Mr. Leena Guffey; Mr. Norman Cobb, H. T. Callaway, of Chicago, was in the city the 5th on business....Peter Barksdale, of Louisville, Ky., was in the city the 5th on business...He has returned to French Lick, Ind., after a short visit....Richard Johnson has returned to St. Louis, after attending his visit to Chicago, is in the city visiting politics. ...Miss Mamle Boyce, of Chicago, is in the city, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parnish, corner Kelloge and Marion streets, Mrs. Henry Clark and children of Gustave Kelloge and the Marion Mrs. and Mrs. Sandy Randolph, on Ninth street... Mrs. Daisy Watkins and daughter, of Belleville, Ill., are here on a visit to relatives... Mrs. Emma Cobb has rewritten her letter to Mrs. Merriweather, of Louisville, Ky., is in the city on a visit... Louis, Harrish, headwaiter of the Haliday Hotel, Calro, Ill, is in the city... Dr. W. L. Turner, of Belleville, Ill., has been a mom, Sunday afternoon, at Mr. Peter Baptist Church, for the True Reformers' Order... Jas. Reeves & Co. have opened up a first-class tailor shop at No. 111 St. street, Reena Wilcox has from Evansville, Ind. after visiting relatives there. CORAOPOLIS. PA. Special to THE FREEMAN The Frick A. C. Baseball Club of Pittsburgh will hold a porch party the latter part of August at the residence of Mr. Robert B. Sullivan, north side. Edward Booze will look after the music and Charles Clinton will act as chairman. The Frick Quartette will sing. . .Rev. J. T. Saunders preached a baptism at 11 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Baptist church both morning and evening. . .At Mt. Olive Baptist church Rev. A. H. Tibbs preached at 11 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Baptist church both morning and evening. . .Monessen, preached at the rally to a large congregation. . .Miss Hester Hunt returned during the week after spending several hours at Smith's of Youngstown, O., is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bowman. . .Mrs. Maggie Lewis, of Youngstown, O., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Malinda Dahlia Smith, of Youngstown, O., is Mrs. Mulley who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Redman, of Youngstown, O., spent a few days in the city. . .Mrs. C. Wright who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Gadon returned home during the week after spending several weeks visiting relatives in Point leasant and Charleston, W. Va., spent visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. Va., was visiting in town during the week. Also Mr. George Boardy of Morgantown, W. Va., spent several days in town. ELMIRA. N. Y. Special to THE FREEMAN: HENDERSON, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN At Henderson, Ky., the colored people have organized the Workingman's Association, which is doing much to help the community in a business way. They have a large number of barbers in the heart of the city. ...One of the few really valuable orders (fraternal) which have originated among our people is the Western beauty Lodge, at the head of which is the Kentucky Ky. This fraternal is two and a half years old and has spread over a large part of western Kentucky. It has now begun to reach out into other states. ...Prof. H. F. Jones, of Henderson, was elected as a member of the K. P. of Kentucky, Mr. Jones is the principal of the High School of Henderson and the only colored lawyer in the city. He owns several hundred acres of land in the country. ...One of the prettiest as well economically stituted barber shops Henderson is that owned by Mr. G. W. Hatchet. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Special trustees of the A. M. E. Church had fifty loads of dirt put in the parsonage yard and have also graded it this week. When the grass comes up it will add very little to the yard. Mrs. White has returned home after two months absence...Miss Mannerva Kennedy and Mrs. Lottie Montgomery went to Henderson, Ky., to spend a week. Mrs. White has returned home after very ill...Mrs. Mollie Edwards, of Evansville, is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Bettie Offut...Mrs. Jannie Ruckler, of Henderson, Ky., to spend a week. account of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Jenifer...Mr. and Mrs. James Gest took in the excursion to Shawneetown, Ill., on the 4th. Rev. W. D. Kanen, of Henderson, Ky., to spend a week. Miss Minnie Bishop has returned from Terre Haute after attending the summer term of school in the oNrmal. There barbecue at the Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday night for the benefit of the church. PRINGETON, IND. One of the promising institutions for our people is the Princeton Normal and Industrial University at rinceton, Ind., of which the school is situated at the edge of the town on a lovely spot of ten acres. Every part of this land is very fertile and the school is surrounded by a crop of vegetables this year. Dr. Oberle (white), formerly of Velodia, Ind., a graduate of Wisconsin, is dean of the department and a wife with a blind young man will travel through several of the northern states giving musical concerts in the interest of the blind young man to take up his collegiate work at the School for the Blind at New York next year. The blind man plays the piano, the well and the others are excellent singers. LOUISVILLE, KY. Lee Woodruff, foreman on the govern- ment, had a narrow escape from growling men. POLITICAL NEWS A. E. Manning, the prominent Negro Democrat, has gone to Lincoln, Neb., to ocrat, has been a little quiet for year. He is being seen circulating. J. T. V. Hill, the "original" Negro Democrat, has been a little quiet for year. He is being seen circulating. The Republican county committee will open headquarters on the second floor of the State Life Building, August 15. Secretary Fred B. Akin, who has rendered efficient service before, will again be in charge. The Summer League outing was a success. Several thousand people took advantage of the opportunity to spend a day amid the varied scenes of the State fair grounds. The League is somewhat of a political organization, but speeches were not in point of order of the day. The club will get busy further on. John C. Ruckelshaus, chairman of the Marion county Republican committee, is the mayor of Michigan. He comes back fresh, invigorated, and full of action for the fight he has on hand. He says that the Republicans intend to carry the county and that he will do all with his power from now on to bring about victory. A show of hands is expected very soon on the colored political leaders. At this time they don't know just where they are at. The Brownies matter is still ranking. It is expected that there'll be some changing on the "side" side. Many, however, did out to the very last, judging from indications. "A political action committee" is the latest addition to the political lexicon of the United States, under a new guise. It is a Marlon Club affair, and is in keeping with the process of composing the committee are: L. G. Rothschild, W. A. Bogardus, R. H. Bryson, Harry D. Jutewiller and Edward H. D. Hare. There are more or less known to political fame. last week. The barges on which they were working broke and went over the falls and were smashed to splinters. The team had to their rescue and saved all of them. The cause of the accident was the rise in the river, and the line that was holding the boat will go to Lawrenceburg, Ky., this week, for her summer vacation, and from there to Lexington to the fair...Miss Mary K. H. Willis, the coach, will visit Paducah this week. visit friends...Bore Collier made a trip to Cincinnati, O., last Sunday, and had a delightful time. He expects to make a visit to Paducah so she can visit Mrs. E. H. Willis, 1213 West Wainut street, will make a visit to Cleveland, O., to visit Henry Sherly and sister...Miss Maggie Murman, 1214 Madison street will make a visit to Paducah this month, to visit her brother...Johnnie Duke, vice president of the Jagger Club, is thinking seriously of going in training with the girls. We bombers in his class, at 133 pounds. We wish him much success in his undertaking. Tinsley & Caldwell have removed their saloon from their grocery, 735 Tenth, to 738 Tenth street, and held their opening Saturday, August 1. Things promising have been engaged in the grocery and saloon business for the past three years. Mr. Caldwell is well known in Indianapolis. Will be glad to see friends at all times. Mr. Caldwell was employed at one establishment in Louisville for thirty-nine years. Andrew H. Mills, of the Chicago Police Department, was in Louisville this week when his bosser wanted for assault with intent to kill. SPECIAL TRAIN TO LEXINGTON. Old-time basket meeting. Special train to Lexington, Ky., L. & N. First Street Station, the fourth Sunday, August 23 2015, to manager, 640 Preston street, Louisville, Ky. TUSCALOOSA. ALA. WAXAHACHIE, TEX. Mrs. Mary Adams and Wm. Richardson were delegates to Fort Worth at the Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge. ...Mrs. L. B. Brown, of New Town, left on the 1st for a visit to the University of Eliza Williams, of New Town, left Sunday, August 2, for Waco, to visit relatives and friends.... Sam Williams has returned home from Oklahoma City after a six weeks' stay. At the City Hall, she met Tinsley, after a long illness, August 5. Her remains were brought to Waxahachie for burial. The funeral was conducted at the A. M. E. Church, Thursday evening, at 11:30 a.m. The funeral order relatives and friends.... I would like to get two small teams to contest for a gold watch. See me at once. G. Washington Bruce, agent, 130 Wyatt street.... Died, at the home of his brother-in-law, T. M. Williams, of New York, east of Waxahachie, Clarke Cade, August 4, after a brief illness. His funeral was held at the First Baptist Church, August 5 at 3:30 p.m. Rev. A. A. Gordon concludes the service with a tribute Arthur who was shot some time ago is getting along nicely. NEGRO BOLT FROM TAFT Roosevelt and Party Leaders Realize that it is Formidable. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. TOO MUCH. 11-1. A dispatch from Boston to the Herald says: "President Roosevelt recognizes how formidable is the boil of the Negro vote from Taft. J. T. V. Hill, the "original" Nego Democritus, is the little quiet for years. He is being seen circled a little bit in these days, as if he had hopped in his a stalwart in any cause; he is ideal in and out of season, bitched up, he goes out and out of season, strong in convincing speech, and appears yet consistent when he comes off the "stage" many degrees have been known to drop. Democritus is not over. Not even with Hill; he belongs to the reconstructed—a Democrat all of the time. "We expect to open." "We expect to open the county campaign about September 1. There is going to be speech-making in this campaign, and Immigration and Marion county will get some best outliers that the Republican party can command. The exact time of opening the fight is not known. I expect to appoint in the next few days. It has been decided yet just how we will open our campaign—whether it will be with a big hurry meeting at Tomlinson Hall or whether we meet at Tomlinson Hall in the different wards and townships. We need matters will be settled within the next few days."—Chairman Ruckelshaus. According to arrangement, Mr. Kerk will be notified on the 25th inst. Notification exercises will take place in the grounds, Mr. Dion R. King, who has charter grounds, the arrangements, estimates that 15,000 can be accommodated in the building. Mr. can be assisted by the following well-known team members: Relley, secretary of the Democratic State committee; John E. Hollett, Robert Spencer, Albert Sahm, Millard F. Cox-Wilman A. Hast, A. McDyke, John F. Darmody, Joseph A. McDyke, Martin, Charles Jones, August M. Fred Grossart, William M. Fogarty, Bernard Korbly, B. Hilleary, Sol Kiser, Gustave Kevers, Frank T. Edenharter, William A. Pickens, William T. Moore. The whole Republican party from the President down realizes it. Such explanation explains General Henry C. Corbitt making public the cable message sent by the President from Porto Rico to Mr. Dion R. King, who has charter grounds, the arrangements, estimates that 15,000 can be accommodated in the building. Mr. can be assisted by the following well-known team members: Relley, secretary of the Democratic State committee; John E. Hollett, Robert Spencer, Albert Sahm, Millard F. Cox-Wilman A. Hast, A. McDyke, John F. Darmody, Joseph A. McDyke, Martin, Charles Jones, August M. Fred Grossart, William M. Fogarty, Bernard Korbly, B. Hilleary, Sol Kiser, Gustave Kevers, Frank T. Edenharter, William A. Pickens, William T. Moore. The whole Republican party from the President down realizes it. Such explanation explains General Henry C. Corbitt making public the cable message sent by the President from Porto Rico to Mr. Dion R. King, who has charter grounds, the arrangements, estimates that 15,000 can be accommodated in the building. Mr. can be assisted by the following well-known team members: Relley, secretary of the Democratic State committee; John E. Hollett, Robert Spencer, Albert Sahm, Millard F. Cox-Wilman A. Hast, A. McDyke, John F. Darmody, Joseph A. McDyke, Martin, Charles Jones, August M. Fred Grossart, William M. Fogarty, Bernard Korbly, B. Hilleary, Sol Kiser, Gustave Kevers, Frank T. Edenharter, William A. Pickens, William T. Moore. o this sentiment William M. Trotter, editor of Negro voters from Judge Taft will hold 60 per cent. Mr. Trotter returned to his office recently after an extensive trip in his work with the National Negro-American Political League. "Not only are the rank and file of the Negro voters against Taft, he said, but work, assuring us that the belt will be especially felt in the doubtful States. From the present outlook we are assured of a big bolt in Massachusetts. In Connecticut, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Maryland. There will also be a big bolt in Massachusetts. In New York, New York, the Negro botters not supporting Taft. Of these botters, 20 per cent. may vote for Bryan, 20 per cent. for other parties, and 20 per cent. will stay at home and not vote. "The President's effort in the interests of Taft, attempting to hold himself persecuted, is responsible. Brownville order, will hold responsibility on one "Publication of the original Brownville documents as campaign material does not have never Taft personally responsible for Taft personally against Taft, however, is not alone because of the Brownville incident but because of his approval of the revised conditions of the South, disfranchising it as per the law, people regard less of their qualifications." L'OVERTURE CLUB OPENING The Toussaint L'Overture Club, a new organization, with headquarters at 1632 Sandes street, gave way the booths of the club to the new connection with the club's first opening several candidates of the Republican party made addresses in a repast were served in the club's meeting and fraternity devoted much time in praising the officers as well as all members of the club for the "splendid effort they had made in establishment." The president, Abston, the president, is conducting a strong administration, which was brought "to the full" last Wednesday night. The club's membership is any better situated than the Toussaint L'Overture Club. Its rooms are palatial and the furniture ideal. Citizens of the club are one of the best clubs in the State. COMING OF THE BAPTISTS Concluded from Page One. at a small sum it will be an easy matter for the visitors to get to all parts of the city. Bureau of information will be located in parts of the city where the delegates will be present. Every phase of Baptist progress will come up for discussion. The religious and educational development of the ablissfs of this country as well as foreign fields will be heard from by those who are well informed. The Lexington air Association will be held prior to the convention and many who have never witnessed this suspense spectacle may avail themselves of this opportunity. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala., has been invited and will speak at the Fair Grounds on Friday before the convention. Twenty-five of the delegates are expected to attend this occasion. Mr. C. C. Jackson, who is one of the leading spirits in the Fair Association, stated yesterday that they expect excursions from every section of the State Visitors will also have an opportunity to remain over and see some of the greatest stock farms in the world. In this section comes some of the finest horticulture America. 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MARVELOUS HAIR BEAUTIFIER It is a beauty necessity for ladies and gentlemen, it actually does remove curls, kninky hair, straight hair, straight hair, soft hair, and you a large number of Jar—enough to last a long time in a quality, Fashionable, and comfortable, or money back LINCOLN MANUFACTURING CO., AURORA IL THE STAGE Williams and Stevens are at the Pekin this week. P. J. Cooper had the pleasure of meeting his cousin, the Beechums, when they played Milwaukee with Prof. Lowery's company. Jno. H. Tobias, formerly of the Florida Bosses now with W. A. Mahara's Mini-stress bonds regards to P. G. Lowery and other friends. William McCabe's Georgia Troubadours, in the musical satire, "A Trip to the Jungle," making good throughout the State of Illinois. Miss Lucy Holmes, a blind musician of Kansas, recitals throughout that State and Oklahoma, to assist in worthy charitable enterprises. Mrs. Electra Puge Perry, prima donna of the Sterling and Daniels Singer Singles last season, is suffering with her eyes, and is at Chicago for treatment. Chinzt Moore and wife are now in New Orleans, la. in vaudeville. Regards to 1150 Glad Street, New Orleans, La. M. Dunnsonse and his company, of the Blinger Bros.' circus, picnicked with the Cream City Band by special invitation, during their engagement in Milwaukee. Jao. W. Anderson, of Mahara's Mingrals, sends regards to A. G. Jones, Ed Dedley, Carence (icolo) Jones, Dandy Eate Mintrels and Florida Blossoms. The Richardson Military Band, of Peoria, Ill., which was organized September 1, 1905, has developed into a superb musical organization. There are twenty-five posers. After the performance of the Sells-Plains Circus Monday evening, at Kansas City, Mo., Ben Hun, a comedian in the show, was shot by a member of the show. Cause unknown. Rowland, the great trump juggler, is filling a three weeks' engagement at the Woodland Park, Ashland, Pa. He has been very successful since his two years in the East. Regards to all friends. Robert Leach is spending a few months on his one-quarter section homestead in the woodland for the wheat crop for next season. Regards to Farmer Harry Gilliam. It is rumored that Edward Howard, of the Howard Hotel, will open a theater this coming fall. Mr. Howard is an enterprising business man, and it will be the first colored theater in Milwaukee. The P. Joseph Cooper Oriental Stock Company of Milwaukee, is the auditor of the Sunday School Union and Cream CITY Band, and will be presented next month. Murphy and Francis, the big sketch team, are filling a successful engagement at the National Theater, at Havana, and are pleasing Cuban audiences with their buck and wing dances, singing and cake-walks. The Cannibal King Extravaganza, owned by Arthur G. Owens, have finished ownership. Emmett Brown is comedian and Madame Beatrice Owens is the prima donna, with a company of fifty people. Hi Jerry Barnes closed with the Florida Blossoms Company at Buchanan, Va., July 30, and arrived in Chicago Sunday, July 4, greeted by a host of friends. Mr. Barnes attended Eureka College. Regards to all friends. Address 244 State street, Chicago, Ill. The Centers, the comedy sketch team of Texas, are cleaning up nightly and are going public at the Lincoln Theater, top-growing public at the Lincoln Theater, Johnnie-Would like to hear from the Sweres, Johnnie-and Floris, and also Alf Stokes, of Dallas, Tex., and others. Messrs. Arganbright and Harmon have done well since opening the Family Theaesure, securing such acts as the two Johnsons, McCarvers and Elmore and Ray. These are arousing much interest in theatrical lines by billing such high-class artists. Anita Wilkins, formerly of the "Rufus Bastus" Company, and later of the Pekin forces, was in the city this week. Mrs. Bastus signed with Williams and Walker for the firm on account of the illness of her grandmother will not join them until a later date. Thomas' Quartette, Noble L. S. Lissle, Thomas W. B. Talbert, pianist and tenor; E. W. Boyd, reader and baritone, and K. Thomas, bass and manager, under the management of Michigan Lyeum Burian, were in the city, midday of last week en route to Rushville. An Afro-American concert band, to be composed of the best musical artists in the country, being organized at St. Louis, Mo. William N. Tatum, musician of Pittsburgh, Fau. now touring music of the more Modern Minstrels in the North. He has been selected as a member, and Albert A. the director, has signified his intention to play Pittsburgh in the near future in search of talent. Johnny Jones, baritone player of Aller's Minstrels was shot on Monday night, August 3, by J. McDaniels, cyclist and died at 11 Tuesday morning, August 4. McDaniels was shot three times an unknown party, but is not seriously injured, and is now in prison at Abingdon. Johnny was held on Wednesday, August 5. The company regrets the death of Johnny Jones and the members extend their sympathy to the parents. Johnny Jones was from Cincinnati, was widely known among the profession. Much credit is given to the Cream City band, the citizens of Milwaukee and only successful in its business, it being the first and only successful band in the State of Wisconsin. Their first concert will be at their band room, August 11, not missed a week the following three months. Much of its overwhelming success is to the ever-faithful efforts of Messrs. Harry Jones, P. J. Cooper, E. Livers and Allen Robinson, its charter members. The Sells-Folia Colored Circus Band is composed of the following: Bismark Merker, his clarinet; Ben Tow and H. Harper Masson and Caskry, tuba; Emmet Masson and Baines, tubone; Gaines, baritone; William Thomas, Bill Woods, snare drum; Dick Thomas, drum. The minstrels under the direction ofages, comedians, Hunn and Dick Thorns, bassist, Bill Woods, snare drum; ballet dancers Mrs. Ben Hunn, Mrs. Rashee Anderson, Mrs. Ben Hunn, Mrs. Rashee Anderson to friends. Would he hear from Jeff Schoenberg? SUNNY SOUTH COMEDY CO. company is still doing a good busi- ness, playing all the little rube town, showing in Oxford of shows. We are standing in Oxford room only. Oxford is a town of about 500 inhabitants, and they come to the show from ten to fifteen miles in the south, and counted thirty-eight Saturday night. We the guest of Mr. A. Works at a six o'clock dinner Sunday evening. Mr. Works is a young farmer, owning 350 acres of land of about 80 acres, well stocked and cultivated, and he also owns 80 acres in Oklahoma. We had a day to remember, and we will always have a day in our hearts for Mr. and Mrs. Works. AT KANSAS CITY, MO. John Langa, manager of the Blind Burne Company, is at home for a few weeks. John Glass is making quite a hit at the Dunbar Rozf Vaudeville Theater. Booker Washington Park will have some special sketches for the new air dome. The Waiters' Club and the Athletic Club are making some improvements in the dome's interior and professional location. Location on Wyandotte. Joe Gallaway closed at Fairmont Park. LEADING MANAGERS ORGANIZE. An organization of men representing theatrical interests throughout the country, for the purpose of co-operation for the betterment of the theatre conditions given were the first meeting was held at the office of Klaw & Erlanger. A. L. Erlanger was made chairman and H. M. Zlegier secretary. A committee was appointed to pre-committee the work submitted as a basis for permanent organization. Measures to discourage the erection of theaters for which no suitable bookings can be obtained were discussed. This, with other matters pertaining to the managers and performers, will be taken up. STERLING JUBILEE SINGERS W. Henri Bowman, first tenor, who has been suffering with a severe cold for the last week, is much improved. Regardless appear at each performance, with marked success. Chautauqua work closes in about three weeks, away from the bass in the bass profounds, and I'll sure be glad. I have been singing steadily now long enough. When the winter season closed I went immediately into vaudeville, and as soon as as soon as I left, I entered the theater. I'm all out and down, 'tis that I'm be "down" all right, but it's to B flat. His voice still possesses the power, depth and melody of years ago. He's Virginia Warbler Monday, and greetings were exchanged. Members of the company send regards to the "Dixies." One member especially is interested in the Dixies. That member knows BLUE EAGLE THEATER. The Blue Eagle Theater opened at Plant City, Fla., August 1, with great success, winster first part, headed by R. Wintzer but first part, headed by R. Wickardson is funnier than ever in his monologue speciality. I. A. Wright, who plays extreme from Billy Richardson, is making great music old and has a song dedicated. Miss Mary Old has a audience screaming, singing "Rosaline," Miss Eulee Galvan's great hit is in singing "I Took My Wife Home." Miss Cora Hanna is taking them to four encores nightly, singing "In Dear Old Georgia." Jimmie Price is cleaning up in his buck and wing dance. W. H. Butler is specializing in music, in speciality and comical act. Miss Pearl Stewart is with us in her singing and dancing. Prof. Frank Jackson, better known as Brown, is the leading art teacher. Best Brown is the leading art teacher, the Blue Eagle saloon and is ready to meet all comers. I. A. Wright, stage manager; Brown and Gardner, managers; Sawyer and Sandra, managers; mascot. D. McDonald, singing and dancing artist, will be with us next week. THE GEORGE BUNDY MINISTRELS Audiences of Elmira, N. Y., have been favored the entire season by the appearance of the George Bundy Minstrels, and had a colored stock company previous to the present time. The first week they flocked to see the "darkeyed show, thinking that they have been rocking, so the children hardly got a show unless they squeezed in at matinee time. Mr. Bundy deserves great credit for the week, and has received the attraction. The show is now in the eleventh week, and has been asked by the railroad company to cancel their other dates and remain until the other day the park on which they may stay. Mr. Richard Murray, the stage manager, is the finest gentleman I ever met, and when he sings in his rich baritone voice, he makes Taylor a Turn Night Time into Day", the audience fairly goes wild. Mr. Murray is also the straight comedian man, and works opposite Mr. Bundy. Mr. Taylor is leading lady and knows how to sing. Miss Taylor, in her collection, has any number of German and Italian melodies. The show is a wizard of stringed instruments, and, together with a good voice, makes quite a hit. When Walter Howard, the "Bon-Bon Bun," makes his appearance, the recension is good. Joseph Outen and Edith Gibson are the sketch artists of the show. Mr. Outen is an actor, and Ms. Gibson is of the Beau Davis type, making together a warm combination. Samuel Pitts is an artist, bassist, and writer of the Bad Man from the West, he makes you shiver. Miss Harriet Palmer has a very large voice and sings herself into favor. voice and singers herself into favor. Hagen makes them vell when she asks him Indian impersonations. She is really great. Prof. Robt. Lee is musical director, and has many admirers. The quartette was invited to the A. M. E. Church, two Sun升升 colleges, the McGregor large congregation greeted them and they sang at the morning services. W. C. Hall, one of Elimira's oldest white residents, gave the entire company a piece were made by Mr. Murray and Miss Hagen, and the party was a swell affair. The company is booked to appear at Plymouth Park, Pennsylvania, two weeks early, September, where the summer season will begin. Mr. Little, the manager of Eldridge Park, says when he booked the Bundy Minstrels for two weeks he thought a change would be good, but never expected it to be good. Now he will often use colored actors. FLASHES FROM FOOTLIGHTS. —By Charles D. Marshall.— I have been informed that Williams and Walker, in "Bandanna Land," are to open the Grand Opera House on August 17. Pew alterations have been made in the production over last season, and the cast is about the same, it is said. New York audiences are excited by the great comedians' work each year that they appear, because of their noticeable improvement and advance in high-class comedy. The company will remain two weeks. The Morphis Students, with Abbie Mitchell and Tom Fletcher leading, are closing a long run at the Hammersstein Theater with much success. Some of the New York papers state that the Mitchell bitterly for singing too much, and on the other hand, lauds Tom Fletcher for his qualities as a vocalist as well as a good dancer. Mr. Fletcher receives much applause from the song called "I Am Going Out" after his week will number their eighth at the Hammerstein—one of the best in the East. Andrew Tribble and wife have been signed up for the season with Cole and Johnson, who are to appear in a new vehicle called "The Red Moon." Rehearsals are already under way, and things look good for another star in the crown of the new great actor-comedians, what of Tribble? The expected has happened so far as his being among those who will help "The Red Moon" to success. If they pat "Andy" in long or short dresses, they will be a black or red ribbon, along with a "black" chalk on his face, it seems to me that "The Red Moon" is already a success. self very becoming off of the stage, and her appearance ca nstand for being called "a well-costumed and pretty faced young woman." "FOOTSLUG." CHICAGO VAUDEVILLE. By Julli Jones, Jr. State street vaudeville is still raging. One of the seven houses fell during the storm without a time closed its doors indefinitely, but the "Flatlock" is still hot. "Dahomey Broadway" is fairly ablaze every night. The Illinois Central Railroad has added its usual Number 1500 direct from Bam. In other words, the out exercise from New Orleans and way stations, that yearly, add the mighty growing population. And yet there are two more to come. Chicago has begun to look like the Atlantic City of the Voyage. "Til tell you a funny story and maybe you can work it up into a funny story or joke," writes a friend to me. "I put an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and you can tell me what you are responded with the lady, but we remained anonymous. Finally we arranged a meeting. And it was my sister! What do you know about that?" I know just what you were asking. "What reflection on the subject is that it is hard lines to have two fools in one family." A thriller call: "A Croole Slave's Revenge" traveling under the management of A. H. Woods is carrying a large chorus of colored men and women, and their singing in many of the large cities they have visited so far has attracted more than a million paper cities devoted so much space that the chorus program has been cut short. Fred McCarver, of the two McCarvers, is an ardent admirer of baseball, and—well, just a little fishing now and then. But Fred likes to go fishing at those times in your line and pull it out right away with a fish as big as a whale. A short time ago, while in Indianapolis, one morning he ordered a little breakfast to be him some his bedroom so a man could eat with him, and rolls and—oh, yes, some nice brown fish. When Fred had gotten fairly well started into the melon, who should come into the room but Elwood Knox. "Stop!" said he when Fred had ordered. Fred was doing all, he paused with his spoon in midmelon. "Don't eat now, for what we want to do is to go out near White river and catch our breakfast," said Knox. "There's a caterpillar or cricket boy, that are just the ticket. We'll come back in less than a half hour with a couple of big, fat fellows that long, and then you'll have an appetite that's worth eating. We'll go out the window to some boys going down a canal near by with great strings of fish. They looked good to Fred, but so did that melon. But finally it was agreed upon, and boxed it up and took it to fishing. Fred said in relating the story to several friends: "I watched him, and I watched the cork on my line, too. Also, I watched Wood's line and saw him hail it in and throw on over the creek. I bought him a way, and I was getting hungrier and hungrier every minute. "Don't seem to be biting this morning," I suggested, finally. "Sometimes they're a little slow," agreed Knox. "But you just wait—just wait." "I waited another half hour and then some more. "Perhaps, I suggested, again, 'those carp didn't understand you. You asked carp, asked Knox, asked fellows, you know, that you had the date with. Looks like they'd signed out with the opposing wood. They'd signed out with the wood. Fish to jump out on the bank? Then he threw his line in again. I got that appetite with me, you knew." know, Wood did not want to feel vindictive, but he was more than starved out for want of pork chops, and Wood was not making good. Wood mattered something, but he was not careful with them and pretended to have a bite. After an hour or so Fred fell into a doze and began to dream about catching eight, nine and ten-pound bass, shaped like a bat. But one of a while he awoke and saw Wood still at it. Often Wood looked as if he was asleep, too, but Fred was awake. Finally, Wood gave up the ghost, and both returned almost to the Parker House without saying a word excepting when they came in sight of a fish market with a big bass. Finally, Wood gave up the ghost, and both returned almost to the Parker House without saying a word excepting when they came in sight of a fish market with a big bass in the window. It was just 4 p. m. They had bass for dinner, when they were able to sit at the table—one big bass because they recognized them as being two of the fish the boy was carrying down the canal that morning. "Well," said Fred, laughingly, "we certify that the dog's sport." But Wood had fallen asleep. Grant Watkins, who for some time has been known as an actor of exceptional talent, has been asked to say, is the proper "card" for legitimate work in "straight" parts, as well as comedy. Mr. Watkins has been asked to work of the "Darkey Dream" company, and did some character work that was worth mentioning. As a character artist to well known directors, he should there be any initial opening for a good artist in such shows as the "Bandanna Land" "The Red Moon" or the "Gregg" he is fitted for any part in such aggregation. ELMORE AND RAY AT THE FAMILY THEATER. At the Family Theater there is appearing one of the best acts of the season, presented by George Elmore and Beulah Newman, a new to Negro comedy. It is far different from anything that has been seen in this city. George Elmore, as a comedian, is in "his own class." He has originated new things in his voice, gestures, speaking parts and manners, and does not intend to facial contortions in order to amuse his audience, but relies on his wit and natural manner to gain the audience's attention to the Negro artist, and does not do "slapstick" work to please the white management. Mr. Elmore's rendition of "Take the Witch Out" is the best bits of character work he has seen in song may be a little old, but he "shilts" THE FASHION here as a prince in gesture-making and acquaints you with a good singing voice. But the most astounding thing is yet to come is the midst of great applause he brings out a violin. "Good-night, beloved, good-night," you can near the instrument say, under the guidance of a careful hand, which shows he is master then. Beulah Ray, who is an ideal actress in appearance and general make-up, and brought down the house, singing qualities, brought down the house, under the song, "Running Wild." Her voice runs high above the average of vanity soprans, but her gestures could be imbuished. Her show shows much nimbleness of foot. She makes self very becoming off of the stage, and her appearance ca nstand for being called "a well-costumed and pretty faced young woman." "FOOTSUG" CHICAGO VAUDEVILLE —By Juli Jones, Jr.— State street maudeville is still raging. One of the seven houses fell during the storm without a home close its doors indefinitely, but the "hot" Dahomey Broadway is fairly ablaze every night. The Illinois Central Railroad has added its usual Number 1500 station from New York to the noted "excursion" from New Orleans to way stations, that yearly adds to the mighty growing population. And yet the station began to look like the Atlantic City of the West. Instead of the "board walk" we have the "Dahomian stroll." The five-story building on the line. The Pelkin towers above them all but none of them are bad. Accommodations are first-class in every way. The firefighters are at the different theaters this week are. The Pekin—Forhead liners, "The Lady Oriental Minstrels." I think the word 'oriental' means something foreign; any woman is oriental and we exceptionally bad orchestra, faces before, and they sing lots of our songs. The Lady Minstrels have become a rad far of late. This show had a very chorus and we exceptionally bad orchestra, fairly well. If they had any jokes, they kept them to themselves. There were three very good people among the company, and she did her position in a way that would decredit her position in a way that would decredit to many men performers doing that class of work to-day. Miss Crowford, one of the end men (?), was quite clever. She was a girl, and race she belonged, her work being of that delicate nature. Oppose her worked Miss Gary, one of the lady ends. A pure lady is she. It is worth the price of admission to a minstrel singing a parody on "Love Me and the World Is Mine." She received five encores and deserved every one. The exception to be made when ladies are offering a minstrel, but there is positively no excuse to be offered in staging a minstrel without including a ballad. A sweet ballad singer is just as essential a minstrel show as an elephant is to a circus. The vaudeville opened with Miss Lula Weathers, a soprano singer with a good voice, bad song, bad slides, bad music, bad dance, bad choreography and gentleman acrobatic team that was funny and not tiresome. All their tricks were new; they did not hold the show to try something on this easy audience. Next it was Thomas, a dancer who introduced Thomas a dancing team. Right Church, but the Wrong Pew. The correct player and Mr. Thomas got hooked up in such a complicated way that it was hard to imagine what he was doing. Thomas got his. He was forced himself by which he can do with both feet, Mr. Thomas has acquired an unpleasant habit, and that is becoming too familiar with his audience. He should take all the encores and him; he should take all the corps. Next on was Sapiro and Barney, new faces, new costumes, with singing and dancing in the same old way. This act is sadly in need of a new one. That is why he is meeting the ladies has been used by every sketch team in America. These young men are questionably talented. Mr. Barney, the junior member of the firm, is the only one who has been the year ago. Every one looked forward to him for an improvement. This act starts off like all new acts that eventually make good, when they get the right kind of music and dancing. Mr. Kin is offering the biggest bill that has ever been seen in this part of the city. The Dunbar—This house has come in the limelight for considerable gossip in the last week. The Dunbar Theater Company has taken charge itself no way on earth for an outsider to find the excuse for the trouble. From outside appearance everything seemed to be going well, but the management has taken charge different. Anyway, things have changed. The management looked quite amateurish, but the bill offered is quite good, including comedians. Washington is the most business-like comedian of the black face variety that one is likely to see in many a day. It would be great to see this comedian himself, the self-proclaimed straight man. The next offering on the bill was one of most unique style—Mrs. Hubbard and a little "Major." Mrs. Hubbard brought in her engagement has linked herself with the company, this string of theaters. She handles C above the staff with such ease that it looks like those other soprano singers have been working on their novelty of the act is a little "Major," who steps beside her in such a gallant manner and begins to sing the chorus in such an unconcerned way that it brings down the crowd. This is the biggest novelty that has turned up from the woods in some time. Mrs. Hubbard is one of the best that has turned around to hear many a day, and State Street has heard more and, no doubt some of the large cities. --- The Grand—This theater is getting its share of the spotlight. It is still offering big bills. Pamplin, the great juggler, just about heads the bill—the man that juggles toothpicks, cannot sleep. He makes up like the devil, and his tricks will equal the devil. Pamplin is an old artist that is forever springing new tricks. He is a hit. Following him is Miss Ethel James, an actress who is Miss James has one of the best alto voices that has been heard around here. She is well known in the professional world, being once a member of the Pekin Stock Company, late of the Cole and Anson companies, is billed the "girl with the big voice." Every word of it is true. She has a phenomenal voice and will make good anywhere. Prof. Rogers is the next offered, with his two looks of the two start the house to going before the professor makes them open their mouths. There is nothing to be said about Prof. Rogers, as he has worked all the houses along the line, and this looks like finish over the great State Street Circuit. --- The Royal—This house offers one big act, the Hatches. This act is one of the best that has been offered over the circuit. The Hatches can certify this act. If Mr. Hatch can change this act in some ways, dress, and put some low comedy in it, it would not be long in getting the act to be a big comedy and dance. The rest of the bill contains pictures and song slides. --- The Military Quartette is the name of a new sensation that has sprung up since the closing of the Pekin Stock Company. The company, whose workers and ought to make good. The act is called "The Act Behind the Gun," and consists of Messrs. Glasp, Glinp, Chas. Maars, William Spencer and John Turner. Wise and Milton are in town, en route to Hongkong, China, booked solid for twelve years. Doubling in string and brass. Plantation people in all lines. Banjo player comedian. We board. State lowest salary. LELAND GIANTS DOWN ROGERS PARKS, 6 TO 3 Colored Boys Get Commanding Lead Early in the Game. Special to THE FREEMAN. HOO, Aug. 8—The Leland Giants trounced the Oakland Giants at the North Shore grounds yesterday, by the score of 6 to 3. Two hits, bunched with a four, drove in two runs, and boys three runs early in the contest and held the lead the rest of the way. Willie McCoy caught by Winston and the batting of Hill, and Talbert were the features. The score: Winston, l. f. R. H. O. A. E. Hill, f. 1 1 2 0 Payne, r. f. 0 3 1 0 Booker, c. 1 1 1 0 Moore, 2b 0 1 2 4 Foster, 1b 1 2 12 2 Talbert, 3b 1 3 0 3 Wright, c. f. 1 1 1 1 Bowman, p. 1 1 1 1 Totals 6 14 27 13 1 ROGERS HARK R. H. O. A. E. Convey, c. f. R. H. O. A. E. Bartell, c. f. 0 0 0 0 Matt, s. f. 0 1 2 1 1 Rasmussen, l. f. 0 2 4 1 Hussey, 2b 0 0 0 0 Austin, 1b 0 2 9 0 0 Kennedy, 3b 0 0 0 1 1 Ullman, r. f. 1 0 2 1 1 Kruger, c. 1 0 4 3 0 Walker, p. 0 0 1 2 0 Totals 3 6 27 11 5 Rogers Park 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 Louisiana, l. f. 0 0 1 0 0 3 Two-base hits—Austin, Bowman, Winston. Three-base hit—Booker, Double play—Ullman to Austin. Struck out—by Walker, 3; by Bowman, 2. Bases on balls Walker, 2; off Bowman, 3. Umpire —Fyfe. Time of game=1:47. Attendance=1.841. PHILADELPHIA GIANTS DEFEAT CITY "CHAMPS" Colored Team Trounces the Normals in Game at City Park. Special to THE FREEMAN PHILADELPHIA GIANTS. James, b. R. H. O. A. E. Petway, c. 0 1 1 3 2 0 Francis, 3b 1 1 1 0 2 0 Smith, c. f. 2 2 2 0 1 McLellan, p. 0 1 0 0 0 Pollan, p. 0 2 1 0 2 Duncan, l. f. 1 1 4 0 2 Martin, r. f. 1 0 0 0 0 Weaver, 1b 1 1 7 0 0 Total 6 9 27 6 4 NORMALS. R. H. O. A. E. Fenton, l. f. 1 2 0 0 0 Mehan, c. f. 1 2 0 2 1 Martin, 2b 0 1 4 3 Norris, r. f. 1 1 10 0 1 Hommes, 1b 1 1 0 1 1 Bost, c. f. 1 1 4 4 1 Magers, s. s. 0 3 2 2 1 Black, 3b 0 1 2 2 0 Vance, 0 0 1 3 0 Totals 2 6 27 13 3 Phila. Giants 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 5 Nomura, b. 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 5 Two-base hits—Smith, Weaver, Double plays—Vance to Ernst to Hommes; James to Weaver. Struck out—By Vance, 4; by McLellan, 8; Bases on balls—Off Vance, 5; McLellan, 8; Griffin. Time—2,000. Attendance—2,600. TAKE THIRD STRAIGHT FROM LELAND GIANTS Rube Foster Allows but Two Hits, but Is Generous with Passes. Special to THE FREEMAN CHICAGO, Ill., August 9.—The Logan Squares won their third successive victory from the Leland Giants yesterday, beating the colored stars by the score of 4 to 3, at Callahan's grounds. Rube Foster allowed the Giants to score on bases on balls and was walloped at the critical moments. Percy Hertel got a two-base hit over the fence off a bound that scored a couple of men in the first inning, and the Giants scored a goal. Callahan pitched a beautiful game, and most of the nine hits made off him were charged up to the big crowd, which made ground rules necessary. The old coach, who had been until the ninth, when he let up a trifle and Leland's men put a couple of tallies across the pan. A double play started by Frank McNichols was one of the sensational plays that harry Booker hit like a fiend. The score: LOGAN SQUARES R. H. O. A. E. McNichols, 3b 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 2 3 0 Halsman, 2b 1 0 3 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 Calihan, p. 0 0 2 0 Hertel, b. 1 1 13 0 1 13 0 0 Liptin, c. f. 0 1 0 0 Dunty, r. f. 0 1 0 0 Mienke, s. s. 0 1 5 2 Donovan, c. 1 0 5 2 Totals ..... 3 9 24 10 4 Logan Squares ..... 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 Leland Giants ..... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Two-base hits—Hertel, Hill, Booker, McNichols to Hertel, Struck out—By Calhann, 4; by Foster, 5. Bases on balls—Off Calhann, 2; off Foster, 7. Umpire O'Brien. Time—2:00. Attendance—11,436. QUAKER GIANTS TRIM CALLLAHAN'S MEN. 5 TO 1 Philadelphia Colored Team Maintains Fast Clip Against Logan Squares. Special to THE FREEMAN. CHICAGO, Ill., August 8. — Playing in the same formation as the best visiting colored team of being the best visiting colored team which ever showed here, the Philadelphia Giants defeated the Logan Squares yesterday, Logan Square the Park, to 1. The team was handicapped by the absence of two of its stars. Eddie Hughes was hard hit, outside of the fifth and eight innings, Hayman twirled fine ball, while the felding of Haisman and Donovan and the hiting of Weaver and Francis were features. Duncan, l. f. 1 1 0 0 0 Martin, r. f. 0 2 0 0 0 Weaver, 1b 1 3 9 1 0 Francis, 3b 1 2 2 4 1 Hayman, p. 0 1 1 0 0 Totals 5 13 27 16 2 LOGAN SQUARES. R. H. O. A. E. Beall, r. f. 0 2 0 0 Flavin, c. f. 0 1 0 0 Haisman, s. 1 0 1 8 Callahan, l. f. 0 0 1 0 0 Hertel, 2b 1 0 1 0 0 Duncan, 1b 0 18 0 0 Mikeke, s. 0 0 4 0 Kluth, c. s. 0 1 5 0 0 Hughes, p. 0 1 0 0 0 Totals 1 7 27 18 0 Logan Squares 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Phila. Giants 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 2 Two-base hits—Weaver, Francis (2), Hughes, Hughes, Lloyd. Strouck out—Bust- Hughes, 3 by Hayman, 5. Bases on balls Hughes, 3 by Hayman, 5. Humans. Umpire —Kelly, Attendance=1745. BASEBALL AT CORAOPOLIS, PA. A. Bailey is manager of the F. A. C. Team has played fifteen games, losing four. MT. VERNON. IND. TEAM. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Cyclone ball team left Saturday night to play the Jeffersonville team Sunday, August 9. Thomas Boyd is general manager, Thomas, David Harper, Eugene Jenkins, and Abraham White, Ike Butler, Alfred Hughes, Jr., Allen Jefferson and George Tolbert compose the team. Bud Sellers, Frank Ewin and Henry Glivins accompany the team played Centralla last Sunday week. The score was 6 to 4 in favor of the Cyclones. LOWERY'S MUSICAL ENTERPRISE P. G. Lowery's Musical Enterprise with the Wallace & Hagenbeck show is now in New York. The show at Lowery is much pleased with his new Holton cornet and recommends it very highly. The show at Lowery sends regards to Will and Mamie Garland. Little John Edwards would like to hear The Bechams, Charles and Blanch, will be seen this season in their new turns with P. G. Lowery's Nashville Students. P. G. Lowery, color boy in the team, never fail to be inspired by the team. They are said to be the fastest working cavanasson on the road this season. The staff, is still on hand and still cooking then good meals and said ask Elwood Knox about them. Company sends regards to friends. ROUTE. BROWN & HODGES—Week of August 17, Keith's Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. P. G. LOWERY'S ENTERPRISE, WITH WALLACE-HAGENBECK CIRCUE, Hampton, 18; Oldew, 18; New Amsterdam, 20; Montclair, 21; Maguokue, 22. S. T. DUNSMORE, WITH RINGLING BROS. CIRCUE—Decatur, III. Aug. 17; Springfield, 18; Bloomington, 19; Peoria, 24; Galesburg, 21; Quincy, 22. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice.—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly send for them a letter to the office and then returned to writer or dead-letter office. It would prevent delay if all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at the office. Gentlemen's List. Bryant, George. Carter, Paul. Clark, Prof. H. I. Fluyer, Spencer. Lee, Walter. Lewis, George M. McDaniel, Mance. Malone, William. Pugsley, the Acrobat. Smith, N. Clarke. Williams, Gee, A. Wilkerson, George. Wilson, Miss Dora. Ladies' List. Crosby, Miss Oma. WANTED For the Sunny South Comedy Co., musicians and performers at all times. W. L. Horne. Answer care The Freeman. WANTED For the Norris & Rowe Annex, musicians, lady singers and dancers. Boozers and disorganize wore stamps. Address Pap Adams, 160 N. Thirteenth street, St. Louis, Mo. See route in The Freeman. 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 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. A Continued Success. Watch and wait for the Big Comedy PAT CHAPPELLE, Box 702, Jacksonville,'Fla. ACT "IN ONE," E & RAY Beulah THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG NOISE. Deville or Burlesque. The street, Chicago. colored Quartet SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON AN INCENTIVE TO ENERGY. It is exceedingly difficult to get around the conviction that the Democratic party is "a white man's party." After careful scrutiny of all surrounding circumstances, it will be found that home is the very best summer resort. The fourbours of New Orleans are having "spells" because little Miss Maria Bolden, of Cleveland, was able to spell so well. Editor Nick Chiles is charitable enough to think that William Monroe Trotter's case is a mild one and may yet yield to treatment. Without dropping into slang, we may be permitted to remark that the new manager of the Zion Publishing House at Charlotte is a "Bird." It looks as if the successful candidates for the Bishopric have retired from public view as completely as did those who were "snowed under." It is to be hoped that Joe Gans' capacity for "bringing home the bacon" is not exhausted. Surely, there is another winning fight in "the old master." Some women have been known to marry insistent suitors "to get rid of them." Churches have been known to elect barcaries for the same purpose. A man who won't work is a potential thief, and the authorities should take him up on the principle that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Organizations cannot serve any good purpose where the major portion of their time is taken up in struggling over cheap honors and passing fulsome resolutions. A big publishing plant at Philadelphia is one of the possibilities of the future, if the ideas of the progressive leaders of the G. U. O. of O. F. prevails among their brethren. The Norfolk Lodge Journal and Guide "rubs it in" on a distinguished supporter of Mr. Bryan by alluding to him as "some Mr. W. T. Ferguson," etc. This is "going some," as it were. It is the cruelest irony of fate that compels the veneered "vardman to accept gold made value by the signature of one whom he is pleased to denominate as a "veneered savage." Secretary Emmett J. Scott stubbornly refuses to accept any of the lucrative offices that the Boston Guardian is thoughtful enough to pick out for him. Some people are so very passionate. Those colored journals that depend upon a campaign funds to keep them going are usually rather watered down; these days, they are being issued on the "half shell," as it were—and the worst is yet to come. Newspapers may come and newspapers may go at the national capital, but Bro W. Calvin Chase and his busy Bee goes on forever. Since the passing of the Record, the Bee is treading the wine press alone. No one has to be told nowadays who the Grand Master of the Grand United Church is "on the job" every minute, and like a certain well-known specific, "works while you sleep." Bishop W. H. Heard is to sail for his post of duty in West Africa in the fall, and is preparing to pay his own way, like the little man that he is. He realizes that a prolate of a great church, with an ever-ended "mit," is not an inspiring spectacle. 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The gratitudous suggestion is being offered that political managers will do well to avoid the ephemeral "campaign sheet" and deal exclusively with standard, personalJOBS, which will provide confidence. A paper that comes out for a season to boom a single idea, without a definite constituency, can wield no appreciable influence. Mrs. A. A. Bowie, president of the Baptist Woman's Convention of Alabama, was fraternally asked by a white man in浸透 Alabama. An attorney as he claimed, she entered a street car ahead of his wife. Mrs. Bowie appealed to a policeman, who, instead of protecting conduct, and upon presentation to a trial justice, she was convicted and fined. If this is a sample of Alabama justice, there is no wonder the tide of emigration to the East and West is growing stronger every day. Dan Cupid, the sly little wretch, is getting in some effective side swipes, left hooks, upper cuts and straight jabs to point of paw among the fair members of the school boards. The school boards are beginning to worry over the scarcity of seasoned material that is bound to come if the glided arrows strike as fatally every year as has been done in the past. It is a healthy sign when our beautiful and talented young women incline to home making, rather than salaried independence. Mr. Sylvester Russell, the well-known lyric artist and dramatic critic, is giving a series of exclusive recitals in the fashionable resorts of New York and Pennsylvania, and winning encomias at the best young artists in the country. We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of a number of handsome postcards from Mr. Russell indicating his appearance at Chautauqua, N. Y., and the Colonial, Bedford Springs, Pa. He expects to resume the publication of his magazine at an early date. Prof. W. S. Scarborough as president of Wilberforce University is undoubtedly the right man in the right place, but the job of raising $100,000 to rescue the insane from the hospital and to his resources to the utmost. The alumni of Wilberforce represents some of the country's ablest men and women and they will rally with money and influence, and the chusot as a whole will also make selections to a top whoiship passing away from the old moorings so carefully built by Bishops Payne, Arnett, Shorter and Lee. Kingdon Gould, the only son of the multi-millionaire railroad man, George J. Gould, is to go to work at common labor in the mines of Colorado, "roughing it" as a finishing touch to the theorem of the locomotive, mines and trains at the famous Columbia University. This will be refreshing news for those folks who have been claiming that industrial training was intended solely for Negroes, and adding mothers as weeding fathers think their curled and petted darlings are too good to labor with their hands. One Tom Watson, of Georgia, who will be remembered as the nominee of the Populists for President, is not satisfied what he did not say to the colored delegation that called upon him at Lincoln. Mr. Watson wants to know what Mr. Obama will do to John with what that he will smoke out the "Peerless One" on the Brownville matter before he is a month older. In short, Mr. Watson is not satisfied with a "gum-shoe" pro-Negro campaign in the North and a scorching anti-Negro propaganda for Southern consumption, if he can prevent it. We extend the heartiest congratulations to Bishop Alexander Walters, who reached the White House last week was duly celebrated at "Pilgrim's Rest." Bishop Walters' beautiful home in upper New York City, his estimable wife having been a member throughout the country, asking friends to attend in making the occasion memorable. Ab --- --- *** --- --- --- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the time of co-operation is an expression, however, that will stand some qualification. In business matters only have they failed to grasp opportunities, excepting within the last few years, when the necessity became so glaring. Cooperation in lodge affairs and churches has been notably successful, and really a matter for admiration, as it concerns the lodge where some business principles are necessary. The writer, who is a principal in a New York school, speaking further along the line of co-operation, says: "That colored men are weak when it comes to co-operation and do not nth. It率 rate trips the wise, legislative question who offer Benson clear himself the time of co-operation is an expression, however, that will stand some qualification. In business matters only have they failed to grasp opportunities, excepting within the last few years, when the necessity became so glaring. Cooperation in lodge affairs and churches has been notably successful, and really a matter for admiration, as it concerns the lodge where some business principles are necessary. The writer, who is a principal in a New York school, speaking further along the line of co-operation, says: "That colored men are weak when it comes to co-operation and do not The Rt. Rev. Jay Albert Johnson, recently elected missionary bishop for South Africa, will be able to defray his expenses by opining $2000 for his wife. If this comparatively small sum will enable the country to get rid of him speedily, he will be able to spend the years, the amount ought to be raised without delay. Any sums sent to the financial headquarters of the A. M. E. Church at the University of the needy prelate, and the fact should not be overlooked that the more liberal the offering and the more promptly it is given, the more the general rejoicing over his departure. --- A movement has been set on foot by the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati to celebrate the semi-centennial of peace beween the United States and the United States in 1915 a great Southern Exposition in Cincinnati and dedicating a peace monument there. The idea is a good one and should be followed by a press release the Negro would, of necessity, be a figure in an exposition that has to do with the progress of the South and to bind the South and the North together. In sides, here would be another chance to bring forward those veteran expositors, Col. Giles B. Jackson and Prof. Thomas O. Alloway and celebrate a "peace pact" as the final chapter of the Jamestown effort. --- Manager Marie B. Shields of the Kentucky Torchlight wants to know why the press gang of the Blue Grass State, controlling nearly a score of papers, cannot get together for offense and defense, and they are not able to coordinate their circulation and influence among the people they aim to serve. The representatives of the "fourth estate" in Kentucky are a capable and progressive set, and they could do even more efficient work by making a working agreement with one of the Torchlight leaders. The international Negro Press Association seems to have passed into "innocuous desucture." What is the matter, Brother Adams? At the closing recital of the Yale School of Music in New Haven, Conn., held in the great Woolsey Hall, where nearly 3,000 people had assembled, the Lockwood scholarship for singing was awarded to a young woman of modest demeanor, who has won her way to the front by hard and conscientious effort and she has made a wonderful favorite among the public, of Yaleedom by her superior culture, which color could not obscure. It is understood that she will prepare herself for a career as a teacher of classic music, for which she will have a strong singing, spelling, taste, talking, fighting, dancing, running, cycling, acting, wrestling or writing, a Negro is invariably found in the front row. Since a national press association seems not to be available, owing to the great distances to be traversed and the scarcity of time, we have to bretchen, the suggestion of the Buxton Gazette and other wide-awake journals that sectional associations be formed, is cerified. The fact that the press has made an excellent start and is achieving substantial results. Other associations, grouping in race papers of the Southern States, have made the owner of the Southern States, the border States of the South, and the territory east of the Mississippi, to delegate fields for publication and could do much to strengthen them to do the specific work called for by their respective localities, to increase the great number of sections far removed. Let us discuss this idea, gentlemen of the press. Race Gleanings The ninth annual session of the colored Elks was held at St. Louis, Mo., this week. Ficklin and Irvin have opened a grocery store in St. Louis and are doing a thriving business. The Interstate Conference of the Knights Templar will be held at Chicago, Ill., August 17. The Supreme Grand Session of the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem of Missouri will convene in St. Louis, August 24. Ernest Tidrington, of Evansville, was elected Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Indiana for the third term. George W. Johnson is the Ohio organizer of the National Negro American Political League, and will make a big fight to defeat Taft. Dorsey Green, a Negro attorney of Kansas City, Kans., has been nominated for a short term judge for the Court of Common Pleas, here are forty-six days to serve. The Antioch Missionary Baptist Association of Missouri held their annual meeting at St. Louis at the Central Baptist Church in Burroughs was among the speakers. The Grand Chapter of the Negro Royal Arch Masons of Missouri elected the following officers: Grand high priest, Samuel Prince, of St. Louis; deputy grand master, of St. Louis; B. G. King, James Gordon, of St. Joseph; R. E. G. Scribe, D. W. Mason, Richmond. The Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, convened last week. The Bible Educational Association is holding a National conference for colored people at the Berea Chautauqua Cottage, located at 1000 N. 10th Street, given to the study of the English Bible and also a course of normal training for public school teachers, and a course of lectures in New York, and Rev. Isaac N. Rendell of Lincoln University, are among the speakers. A fine of $2,000 has been imposed on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, by Judge Brunot, at Baton Rouge, where passengers with accommodations as good as those furnished white people. The matter was carried to court by the State Railroad Commission to sustain its ruling that the train be equal accommodations for both races. CO-OPERATION, THE WORD. The growing disposition to study the conditions under which the Negroes labor by the Negroes themselves is a very good sign of an awakening to those conditions which have not worked the good hoped for. A writer commenting on the situation recently had the following to say: "The Negro has had little opportunity, certainly none in slavery days, to learn the value of co-operation. In the pursuits in which he is now most commonly found he works singly. Therefore too few have realized that it is by supporting each other, by patronizing those who start up business enterprises, by giving employment to each other when possible, that all will get ahead." The matter of co-operation is but a part of it, yet a very significant part. In fact, no other race stands so much in need of co-operation in business matters. To say that the Negroes have had little opportunity to learn the value of co-operation is an expression, however, that will stand some qualification. In business matters only have they failed to grasp opportunities, excepting within the last few years, when the necessity became so glaring. Co-operation in lodge affairs and churches has been notably successful, and really a matter for admiration, as it concerns the lodge where some business principles are necessary. The writer, who is a principal in a New York school, speaking further along the line of co-operation, says: "That colored men are weak when it comes to co-operation and do not support each other. "That at present there is practically no opportunity for a colored boy to learn a trade. "The public at large has little confidence in the colored race and employers hesitate on this account, as well as because it may cause trouble with the white employees to hire Negroes; but when a colored man has had his chance and 'made good,' when he is known and liked, he often receives exceptional favors. As individuals are able to make fast friends. As a colored man said to me, 'Every white man has his exceptional Negro.'" The condition spoken of applies particularly to New York City, where the writer has made quite an extensive study of the industrial phase of the Negro question. With some little modification one way or the other his observations will fit most Northern communities where Negroes are found. He advises trade schools in the city of New York, and which may be maintained of evenings, and of course for young men who are nearly grown. The necessity for co-operation is felt in the stricter business fields—in the arena of commercialism where it makes for prosperity and comfort and the height of worldly happiness. As much as this condition is desired individually, very poor tact has been displayed in the past toward bringing it about. We insist again that all the races the Negroes of America stand most in need of cohesive qualities. In the first place, the wages paid them, while equaling those paid the ordinary workman, are not sufficient to readily amass sums of money required for business purposes. There are but few big salaries drawn by Negroes, hence as a matter of salvation they are compelled to cooperate, merging the mites. The thing is being understood better in the South, and perforce of circumstances. The thousands had to be fed, supplied with the necessities of life. The white people did not care for Negro patronage, as the rule, and as a consequence the Negroes were driven to see their advantage. So, today, one will see the Negroes well engaged in every industrial field. The situation was not the hoped for, but it has not been without its merits. The North has yet to catch the "healing stream," and, as said before, it shows some signs of an awakening. Its opportunity is scarcely less than that of the South. Increased racial friction may not be a thing of the future, but increased racial indifference may be confidently expected. And, logically, increased industrial effort should follow. Really, it must follow, and not only to save against the idea of spending money where it is not wanted, but as a matter of general employment. No race has the special opportunity to engage in business that the Negroes have. And in this respect the law of compensation is sustained, proving the great proposition that no ill attends without a corresponding good somewhere. Washington, D. C. Wilbur P. Thirkield, LL D., President. Located in the Capital of the Nation, Advantages unsurpassed, Campus of 20 acres. Modern scientific and general equipment. Plant worth over one million dollars. Faculty of 100. 1091 students last year. Unusual opportunities for self-sufficiency. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. 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The College Heights Investment proposition should not be overlooked by our women. Take advantage of the opportunity to buy a home, or to invest in this as a money-maker. Several women have already bought homes and others should follow the example. It costs but a postal to learn the particulars. Write to day and learn the the advantages. Hon. Lawson M. Harvey, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Republican Nominee for Township Assessor Election November 3, 1908. Candidate for Judge of Superior Court, room 5, on Democratic ticket; former Judge room 3. Record approved by the people HENRY L. KLAUSMAN, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Surveyor Marion County. Election November 3d. who stands for equal privileges to all and no discriminating legislation. 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. Candidate on Prohibition Ticket. When elected will clean out grafters in court house and save the tax payers than sands of dollars. This can be done only by putting an honest man in power. Whose Motto is honesty and faithful performance of duty. 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. As his fitness will warrant your support. He is a reasonable and capable man, and the people will have a square deal with him. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. SOME SPORTING COMMENT. BY CHARLES D. MARSHALL. Jack Blackburn, the stury Philadelphia Nero, but the weltweight and mid- distance would-be champions "bullied, it appears so since the champions, and otherwise, persistently refuse to take. Barke, who must struggle to take 158 pounds in the ring, Lewis, who has taken 150 pounds in the ring, and Mike Sullivan, who is as tough as Lewis, will have nothing to do with this remarkable fighter, whose weight higher than 145 pounds, Gardiner, of Lowell, Mass., who recently beaten Kyle Whitney, the San Francisco Bullwinkle, the Blackburn East club. He can get more now for the match in the West. He has some sense in that reason. There must pass up Blackburn for the press- writer Eddie Keevin, manager of Geller, from Philadelphia, is probably not afraid of Philadelphia, having fought him twice in Philadelphia. Philadelphia has two conspirators, observers who sat at the closed doors them fakes. "Not for me, but for a match-maker to contact," was suggested. Not for the sake of contest was suggested. Bassett has said that Sailor Burke in the stomape and ever since then to think of black man makes the Sailor seakiss. Hago Kelly, the captain of Consequently Hugo is barred by the Eastern middleweights. But wise managers match them against the boy who walloped Kelly twice. It is a case of the lightweight of them who have any repulsion to lose will meet Young Erne, of Philadelphia. But they are willing to box Joe Gans. Joe is so great that the minor highweights have everything in mind and nothing to lose by a contest with him. Tommy Burke is now on his way from England to Australia and New Zealand, the value of the American fleet to those Sailors and Jack Lang. Jack Johnson, the colored champion, met and defeated Lang in nine rounds in 1907, it is up how what he can do against Tommy gets $25,000 for the three flights, so he cares not who they set so long as they understand a understanding be-Burke and Johnson that they will some time next winter. Tex Rickard, the Goldfield pugilistic promoter, off but a bigger lump than he could when he offered Battling Nelson and the Gans $30,000 to fight at a Labor Day rally. He was the eye of signage and posting forfeits the battle declared off. The reason given for the cancellation of the proposed contest is the refusal of the railroads leading to Ey to grant a special excursion rate for the railroad mining camp, does not contain more than 2,500 inhabitants, and Tex Rickard and the other promoters of the bout were counting on the fight fans for many hundreds of miles about Ey to fill the mining camp. When the railroads refused to offer a rededicated the promoters found themselves up against a losing proposition. They had guaranteed 10,000 pursue, and the promoters would have to be present in order to give the backers of the match a chance to break even. It was soon seen that with the railroads charging the full mileage this was out of the question, and the promoters gave up the idea of holding the LANFORD DEFEATS ROSS. Special to THE FREEMAN. NEW YORK.—On Friday night, August 7, Lamand Froeman easily defeated Terry In less than two rounds before Lamand was able to very sart it was seen that Lamand was more than a match for Ross. After the fight Lamand was given an ovation over a challenge to Ketchell that was made by PITCHER JOHNSON MAY GO. Humor has it that Lewis Johnson, one of the strongest pitchers the Indianapolis Royals before several more weeks have passed. It is not known where Johnson will go, but he has been signed up with any team that though Chicago is after him, it is said. Johnson will be greatly missed by the A. C. player, especially as a crack pitcher and "sister" of LANFORD AFTER KETCHELL. At New York the other night Lanford said: "Would I fight Ketchell? Well, I have $2,000 to post as a side bet. I'll do the weight, too, and if this wonderful man wants another cow to brand I'm sure I will." What, Burns? Yes, any of them. Lord Lonsdale wanted to bet $25,000 that I could beat Burns when we were both in London, but Tommy said that he had an arm from St. Petersburg and couldn't wait." LINK ROBINSON IN THE RING Link Robinson, who runs a buffet at the center of Walnut and Douglas streets, is a former football player. He told stories concerning the experience he has had in the historic world. He is making headquarters for West Walnut street a headquarters for the athletic life, who pursue the athletic life. Mr. Robinson is a manager of the Iron League ball team that has had bad wonderful success. He is putting up a gymnasium in the near future, benefit of his many athletic THE "KID" BALL PLAYER. We are often filled with doubt regarding the development and physical prowess of the players. We are often in a situation where actually included often thinks of the home team we used to make and how he sprinted away from the struggling mass on some warm lot and dashed down the field for a touchdown. He stops and watches a batsman drive up to the opposing team to take on the glove and spear it. Then, with what appears to be the same movement, throws it to first base. He plays a double play, rounds the watcher of the ball and did a game a few years ago. It does not matter of the to-do array are going back in the athletics. PITCHER JOHNSON'S QUERY. No matter where a professional ball player gives he is constantly beset by a set of rules, who will hold him up on every occasion or his views on some point about baseball. Nothing amends the spike-shoe boys so burnished as this cross-examination by the spike-shoe player, and although the majority of the spike-shoe players, yet deep down in their hearts would like to tell their inquisitor what they think of him. The game is more prevalent around a hotter time, and stoppings than it is at any other point. In June, when the A. B. C. Johnson was play in West Baden, Ind., Johnson was appalled by a well-groomed man who looked like the pampered son of Pittsburgh millionaire. "Way, way," Johnson, he said, no previous interview, either, "don't you get tired of being ball should think that the strain on your arm would hurt?" cried the exasperated Johnson, "do you for a living? Blow bubbles!" HERCULEANS HOLD MEETING Herculean football club members battled at a meeting last Wednesday bearer, at a club in Indiana, for a situation, in Indiana avenue. Plans strong for an effective season of of the old-time playing. There were many of the old-time players, and for this club very encouraging. Prior to that great little left tackle or all-round player, made such a great two-season player. the strongest teams in the country, was present and looked to be in excellent shape. He will play this season. The El. Lakers' Stewart, were on the scene and reported in the press well-known stars of the gridiron. Manager Gaillard is now busy signing up dates for the season. Coach Wilson has begun to pick his men for a series of try- FINE WORDS FOR JOHNSON OLYMPIC ATHLETES' RECEPTION. Big Parade to Be Held in New York City. Special to THE FREEMAN NEW YORK—Plans for the reception of the Olympic athletes on August 23 are about complete. The parade will depart from Central Park down Broadway to the city hall, where medals will be presented to the athletes, and the team will receive at least three medals for his part. Every member of the team will get a gold medal, the winners of the various events being an inscription of their event. Applications have been received for places in the parade from all the prominent athletic bodies, including the athletic organizations, public school athletic league and the Sunday school athletic league. BOUTI A NEAR-MASSACRE Foolish Colored Boy Enters Ring with Johnny Coulon. WAUKEGAN, Ill., August 7.—What was probably the most farcical world’s championship prize fight in the history of the game took place here last night, when a silver of colored flesh calling himself the wrestler bantam championship away from Johnny Coulon, of Chicago, at 165 pounds. Once during the trifle over four rounds that the fight lasted did the Negro show he had a right to meet even a third-rater, let alone a champion. Although he had a much longer reach and was about a foot taller than Coulon, the Negro could not land an effective blow, and showed lift. Time after time, probably twenty-five times during the four rounds and ten seconds of fighting, did “Gans” take the count, only to be knocked down again, and then covered himself and let Coulon batter his arms and back. This kept up for four rounds, and when the fifth started Coulon started to finish it. Within ten seconds Gans was down the floor, and then Referee Cans was down the floor, and prevented a bending knock-out. CLARK JEFFERSON, LOUISVILLE. The accompanying cut is an excellent portrait of Mr. Clark Jefferson, a popular saloonist and ali-cro sporting man of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Jefferson is an earl of game dogs and fast horses. He is proprietor of the Eureka Saloon. Tenth and [Name] Green streets, Louisville. Mr. Jefferson was bitterly disappointed at the result of his team's loss to Louisville Giants and the A. B. C's of Indianapolis, claiming that the umpire wagged $18,000. Louisville Indianapolis. His declaration has caused considerable comment in sporting circles. GEORGE DIXSON'S CAREER. Being a Historical Sketch of the Great Fighter. —By John L. Footsung— Prize ring experts who followed the career of the late Dixon. Dixon bobbed the featherweight championship for nine years, say that the little boxer was extremely lucky in scoring many of his most notable successes, for he had more than one close call. Twenty-one years ago Dixon started with the right people behind him. Dr. A. P. Ordway, Dianchard and Capt. A. W. Cooke, who had big money and much experience in the pugilistic game, hold of Dixon's interests, attend nearly all of his early battles and saw to it that he got fair play. They were the men who engaged Tom O'Rourke to train and handle Dixon, soon after the colored boy demonstrated that he was more than There was one lad in the Hub whom Dixon could never put down for the count, although he took four separate cracks at Brennan, who worked at a trade all day and had neither time nor backing to get in proper condition for his encounters with Dixon, nine in five, in a fourteen-round draw on June 21, 1888. Then in December of the same year he met Dixon twice, two weeks separating the contest's first and ninth rounds and of fifteen resting rounds. Soon after that Brennan hooked up with Dixon in a twenty-six round draw before the Parnell Club, at Boston. Old-time players, rather than the players they will tell you that if Brennan had been properly trained and handled, he instead of the colored wonder, would have been the cathedral church where Dixon's luck first manifested itself, and it was still in evidence when he met Cal McCarthy, then the featherweight champion, who had won that contest in a Boston boxing club with two-ounce gloves, that cut and stung. There was a notable crowd of sporting men at the ring, away. Among the New Yorkers who saw THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the mill were James C. Kennedy, P. J. Donohue, Warren Lewis, Charley Johnston, B. M. McCormick, Frank Steven John, John B. McCormick, Frank Steven Billy Bison, John Flood, Jack Dempsey, Mike Dwyer, Joe Coburn, Billy O'Brien, Harry Hill, Jimmy Patterson, Billy Edwards, Barry Aroyd, Bill McCormick, of the forty rounds, after which he became tired and exhausted from the fast pace that he had been setting. Time and again he had Dixon in Queen street, but the little colorful binty of sheer clearness and physical endurance managed to wriggle out of all unpleasant predicaments. It was about the forty-fifth round when Dixon's legs became stiff and his handlers forked up. He went into action between the rounds. So weak were Dixon's legs after a while that he was afraid to sit down after each round, standing up, with his long arms resting on the ropes. Joe Early, who was McCarthy's manager and leading soon, noticed the condition of Dixon and quickly McCarthy to put the colored lad down. "Rush him, Cal! Get him off his feet! His legs are stiff and he won't be able to get either pleaded or but McCarthy was get either stronger or but tired, for he turned to Early and growned: "I'm doing the fighting, not you! Leave me alone!" Early coaxed McCarthy, but McCarthy would not take a chance and sit at long hours in the dark. Dixon finally lost patience and had some hot words with McCarthy. "If you don't do as I tell you," yelled Early, "Till quit you!" Go, the day after, was McCarthy's reply, centered. Early put on his overcoat, skipped out of the hall and caught a train for New York. It was not long afterward that the spectators, seeing that both boys were all in and could not longer inflict harm, called for the police. So that at the seventh round Al Smith, one of the best referees that ever decided a glove fight, rendered that kind of a vengeance. Dixon had received the worst punishment. (To be continued.) Pool and Billiard Hall. Open to colored trade, whose patronage is so large that the city is called the leader Prop. 138 Green street, Louisville, KY. 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 Mr. Haag was a druggrist, 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 appliance in the dog would kill the cats it also kills and touches the cats it 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 extra), at the three Haag streets, and the street opposite Grand Opera House; 8 South Illinois, near Washington street; and 802 Massachusetts avenue, corner College avenue. Mr. Haag says he sends the remedy by mail, postage paid, to any person in the United States directed to Julius A. Haag, 112 North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, Ind. SOCIOLOGICAL MELANGE. The "blending" of the races is not a nearday dream. It has been thought that, very soon, such a phase would be a part of the national life. This thought was more prevalent a few years ago, and based on the friction incident to the Negroes "pouring" into the civil life of the country. It was thought that the only way to minimize the friction would be by the way of amalgamation, thus "relationizing" (needed the word, you see), thinking this "political" kindredness would make for peace. As most contracts go, more than one party is necessary to give them force and effect. The white people did not see it quite that way; and after all, the thing has proven unnecessary. In refusing to consider the proposal an unconscious good was performed the race, and most especially at the stage where the ideals of beauty and loveliness is so afar from us in the main, and who would have to subscribe to the tests in order to be in any way eligible. Amalgamation is not a ready theme between the darks and the whites. Through all history are glimpses of attempts to "jam the black folks up in a corner." A few of the darker races disdain intermixture just as much as the Caucasians of this country. The Orientals—the Turk, Arabs, Egyptians and their kith and kin—do not seem to care for others. The same may be said of Japanese and Chinese. They do occasionally break over the lines; they at least have no passion for hunting up "superiors" or opportunities for advantageous marriages. The Negro's mistake is that he takes a too poor an estimate of himself; he shows plainly that he stands for what he receives by way of treatment. It is either a Uriah Heep humbleness—oozy, sickly, or else it is a haughtiness that screams "Pretension! pretension!" Even educated men and women sometimes appear quite unnatural before white people, the psychological something arising in spite of them, dictating the "terms" of aca- and speak as one to another, you may put it down that "you've crossed the line." The efficacy is in the individual, and it will not take an extreme judge of human nature to know when one is in his "proper lines." The Jews are a brilliant example of racial solidarity, the most brilliant in all history. They cover the face of the earth as the waters did the earth in another day. They take their customs with them, time doing but little spoliation. They interdict intermarriage and wee unto him that violates that tenet of their faith. Dead, dead is he to those nearest him, as if he were already sepulchered. The Jews are an abused people, but it has enured to their racial good; it has made them strong for endurance, knit and tied together. Touch one here and the cry reverberates around the world. Not so much in the sense of deadly revenge, but deadly memory—beautiful in stoicism—exhibiting a fine sense of reserve which is akin to terror. 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The Men's Meeting at Jones Tabernacle last Sunday was well attended. Mrs. Willis Clark and daughter, Mrs. Harriet Kelley are visiting in Canada. Miss Ida Coleman, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Mrs. Arthur Goins, of Elkhart, Ind., came to the city Sunday for several weeks' visit. Regular services at Jones Tabernale Sunday. Rev. Callis will deliver a sermon at night on "Our Advocate." William Hoag, a photographer, is in the city and will open business as soon as a suitable location can be found. Rev. C. W. McColl, president of the Anti-Saloon League, will occupy the pulpit at Allen Chapel tomorrow evening. Rev. G. W. Woodbey, of San Diego, Cal., a delegate to the Socialist convention at Chicago, spoke in this city last week. Prof R. L. Anthony, president Princeton Normal and Industrial University of Princeton, Ind., visited this office Thursday. Prof. Ezra Roberts, formerly of the public schools of this city but now an instructor at the Tuskegee Institute is visiting in the city this week. The fourth quarterly meeting will be held at St. Paul Temple A. M. E. church tomorrow. Rev. Sampson will preach the sacramental sermon at 3 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley who reside at the Passadena Flats in North Illinois street served luncheon in honor of Frank Thomas, last Saturday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Curry of Greenfield, Ind., celebrated their twentieth anniversary Friday evening of last week. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Knox, Mrs. Lou Smoots, Mrs. Retta Moss and Mrs. Andrew Hart of this city were among the guests. Mrs. W. H. Richardson of Nashville, Tenn., is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Erwing 1120 N. Missouri street. After a two weeks' stay she will visit Chicago where she will be the guest of her sister Mrs. Frank Brown. The Jolly Fourteen Club was organized last Thursday night at the home of Miss Ora Skelton, and the following officers were elected: Ora Skelton, president; Herbert Webber, vice pres; Louis Bartley, secretary; William Trice, asst. secretary; Thomas Bartley, treasurer and Lurena Jennings, corresponding secretary. The Knight Templars are going to have an interstate conference at Chicago next week. Grand Commander H. A. Rogan, of Indiana, and past eminent commanders, Wilbert Elliott, William Abstom, Henry Moore, Charles Langston, F. D. Patridge and Sir Knights of the Gethsemene Commandery will attend. The Rev. A. Wakefield-D. D., former pastor of Jones Tabernacle occupying the pulpit here for six years will be in the city next week and preach at Jones Tabernacle, corner North and Blackford streets on Wednesday night August CLEARANCE SALE SUITS, SKIRTS, WAISTS. KISER'S, Washington and Delaware Streets. 19. All of his former friends and acquaintances are cordially invited to come out and hear him. Rev. Charles Jones at Newcastle is conducting a camp meeting at that place, Friday night, George L. Knox was the speaker subject, "The American Negro and His Possibilities." On Sunday Dr. D. E. Skelton and Rev. W. H. Stevenson will be the speakers. Y. M. C. A. Notes. All men are invited to the McColl Bible Class which meets every Sunday at 8 a. m. This is the greatest class of its kind in the country, if you come once you will come all the time. Its sessions last one hour and are held in the assembly room of the Colored Y. M. C. A. Business Locals Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges, Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178, Old, Main 4032. KANSAS CITY, MO. Speaker TO THE FREEMAN Delegates and representatives of Tyler Louis and the E. of the World are attending the Grand Lodge at St. Louis... H. Patton is conducting a news- stand at 911 Wyndotte street. The Freeman is on sale every week. RALEIGH, N. C. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Gertrude Reese, of Columbia, S. C. is in the city visiting her father, W. M. H. Lytle. . . M. A. Smith has left for Richmond, where he will visit cities. . . John Wilson is visiting Friends in Goldsboro, N. C. . . Tupper Memorial Baptist Sunday Schol has its annual picnic H. A. at Baptist Grove. The Memorial Baptist Church Durham, was in the city last Sunday and sang at St. Pauls A. M. E. Church. . . Dr. Levister of South Carolina, brother of Dr. Levister of Charleston, preached an excellent sermon at the First Baptist Church last Sunday night. SPOKANE. WASH. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. M. B. Sykes is camping at Camp Comfort, on the bank of Medical Lake, for the summer....The private picnic in honour of Mrs. Sykes, those present were a well affair, those present were W. F. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Billings, Mr. and Mrs. The K. of F. gave its annual clinic, August 15, 1914, which was quite a success....J. H. Thompson, who had a backset and was confined to his bed for a week, is improving, and will be able to be out soon....N. Curtley spent the 5th at Medical Lake. HUMPHREY, ARK. Special to THE FREEMAN. Jake Long's new residence has been completed, and he and family are now the occupants.....Mr. Prince, of Dumas, representing the Dumas Nursery Company, the Dumas Nursery Company, the Squire J. P. Gunse is erecting a two-story office for the People's Tabernacles Industrial Company.....M. T. Toms attended the Masonic Grand Lodge at Pine Bluff this week.....Miss Albertaukes has resigned from the University uncle at Roe.....Miss Jennie Wormley, of Biscoe, is the guest of Mrs. Nelly Dunson.....Rev. S. W. Wilkerson, of the A. M. E. Church, filled the pulpit Sunday and added one member to the roll—Miss Margie Carlisle. ERIE. PA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. D. Godfrey, who has been quite ill, is convalescent. . . Mrs. Florence Turner has returned to her home after spending a delightful time in Philadelphia and Pittsburg. . . Mis H. Van Dusen, of Cleveland, is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wheeler, of Philadelphia. A. M. of Deborah Court, Erie, who was the delegate to the Grand Court in Philadelphia, has returned to her home. She also visited Atlantic City and Pittsburg. ...Miss Fannie Price, of Lockport, N. Y., is the guest of Miss Eilee Lawrence.. Mrs. Emma Lawrence, who has been ill, is able to be about again. GULFPORT. MISS. Special to The Freeman. G. V. Raby and his daughter, Miss Blanche Raby, and Miss Bertha Stunt, his sister-nil-law, of Ocean Springs, Miss, Mrs H. M. Farley, the charming wife of Miss Blanche Raby, and Miss Bertha Stunt, men will leave for Chicago and other points north and east. Miss Blanche Raby will spend the winter with her aunt, Mrs J. N. Young, of 5097 Dearborn street, and attend school....Dave Webster, the great and great with his family in Detroit, Mich. J. F. Douglass, his second, will act as chef during his absence....Jessie Dawns, head waiter at the Great Southern Hotel, will spend his vacation with his wife Phillip A. Robinson, his second, will act as head waiter during Mr. Dawns absence. PADUCAH, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN FLINT, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN. The excursion to Sanwich was well patronized. . . Miss Gregraud Rueba, of Washington, D. C., is visiting relatives and friends for a few weeks. . . Death visited her on August 4 and took their little two-year-old son. . . Mrs. Mary Meaux and Maggie Barber, of Lansing, visited their sister, Mrs. J. O Linney for a few days last August and turned from Mackinac Island. . . Hon. Samuel W. Smith, M. C., is a candidate for re-election in the Sixth District of Michigan. Mr. Smith has been a hard worker. The office of the Michigan office. The voters of the Sixth District cannot do better than give him their support, as he has always been found working for the interest and welfare of his constituents. The bank, a resident of the township of Genesee, county Michigan, is a candidate for representative from the Second District, Genesee county, Mr. Fairbank is a man of sturdy quality. The well post-graduate faculty of the state well fits him for the position he is seek- THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ing. He was a soldier in the late civil war, with high honors. It is hoped that the voters off the dirt, will poll him a full vote at the primaries. CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE EVANSVILLE. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN For the last few years no city in Indiana has grown more nor taken greater interest in its own internal improvement business than the local government, to establish and maintain a safe, sound, and efficient system of administration than Evansville. The colored contingency has caught the state prosecution with some exceptions contributing to the welfare of the welfare of this prosperous community. They are launching out into various business undertakings and are making a good effort to provide services to all of which is known almost the country now. 10 restaurants and lodging houses, 15 barber shops, 9 lodges, 3 doctors, 1 undercover police officer, 3 shelters, churches, 2 good grocery stores, 1 company, 1 deputy sheriff, 2 mail clerks, 1 lawyer, 1 real estate business, 1 saloon, 1 newspaper, B, M. C. A., several contractors, 2 blacksmiths, shoesmakers, musicians, caterers, etc... Evansville seems to have secured a monopoly of the head of all the businesses in the city, the U. B. F. Ernest J. Tidrington, the K of P, and Dr. S. D. Supeh has just been elected head of the Knights of Labor of Evansville. These gentlemen live at Evansville. When the city goes into next week, Evansville will have entertained two state grand lodges this year. GREENVILLE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Toussaint Club Wins The Tousaint Base Ball Club played the strong Ackron team, defeating them by the score of 7 to 2. The feature of the game was the pitching of young Rube Anderson, a former CW Warrior and Third Baseman Hogan. Manager Harrison has arranged to play the Lucks and Kokome, a strong white semi-professional team, Sunday, August 16, at Northwestern A SIGNAL VICTORY Hard Hitting A. B. C.'s Take Double Header from Lebanon Team. Northwestern Park was the scene of another farcical fray last Sunday. The Lebanon team, composed of a bright, husky bunch of youngsters, sallied forth in the game, and the team bats, and were promptly unhoused in both. In the first game the Lebanon had proved a pesky, scrapping outfit, and the A. B. C's had to tussle manfully to nose them out. When the smoke of battle subsided, everyone stood 5 to 4 in favor of the A. B. C's. The second game was a runaway for the colored team, and they bagged the game to the tune of 13 to 6. The feature of the game was the phenomenal fielding of center fielder Laughlin, of the Lebanon team. The first game went to ten innings. There were two out when Board poled out a two-bagger, scoring the winning run. A. B. C. U.S. R. H. O. A. E. Granger, l. f. s. s. 0 0 2 1 Herron, c. f. 1 1 2 1 Allen, 3b. 1 3 2 2 Hightonman, s. s. 0 1 0 1 Higbee, l. f. 0 1 0 1 Merida, 2b. 2 3 5 4 Board, 1b. 2 3 10 0 Gordon, b. 1 1 6 1 Davis, r. f. 0 1 0 1 Washington, p. 0 1 0 2 Totals 5 13 30 1 LEBANON. R. H. O. A. E. Shelby, 2b 0 2 2 2 Waits, 3b 0 2 3 2 Pearson, 1b 0 2 13 0 Pavey, s. s. 1 2 0 4 Harvey, r. f. 0 1 0 0 Laughlin, c. f. 1 6 1 0 Simons, l. f. 0 0 0 1 Cox, s. s. 0 0 4 1 Lafollette, p. 0 0 1 3 2 Trials *out* winning run, run. 8 *29* 15 2 *A* *B*. C. s. (1) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 -1 *B*. C. s. (2) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 5 Totals ..... 13 9 27 11 0 LEBANON. R. H. O. A. Shelby, 2b 0 0 1 1 1 Walls, p 0 2 3 3 4 Pierce, 1b 2 12 12 2 Harvey, s 2 1 0 2 Harvey, 3b 0 1 3 0 Laughlin, c f 0 2 2 1 1 Simons, l 5 0 1 3 0 Ox, c 0 0 4 1 0 Lafollette, r f 0 0 0 0 Totals ..... 6 9 3 12 12 A. B. C.'s ..... 2 3 0 9 10 13 Jebus ..... 1 0 10 13 Hits-Off Johnson, 9; off Walls, 9 Bases on balls-Off Johnson, 2; off Walls, 4 Struck out-By Johnson, 3; by Walls, 4 Struck out-By Johnson, 3; by Walls, 4 Herron (3), Johnson, Granger, Pierce, Walls, Laughlin, Hutchinson, Merida, Double play-Laughlin to Pavey to Pierce, Stolen bases-Hutchinson, Gordon. Passed ball-Gordon. Umpire-Adams. Time-15 Notes of the Game. Little "Red", Laughlin, of the Lebanons, is some fielder. Merida's home run was the longest-hit second basetball beat by Pawel, of the Lebanons, has the promise of making a first-class hitter. Catcher Cox, of the visitors, is a game little backstop, and always in the fray. Pawel, of the Lebanons, has played Dahan yesterday. The official score will appear in next issue. Gordon showed signs of a catcher when he laffed on a passed ball, allowing a score that could have easily been prevented. "Puggy" Hutchinson was injured in the third inning of the first game, and "Rabbit" Tranger was sent to short and played good. With the bases full, in the second inning of the second game, Herron, of the A. B. C, s.c. came up and ripped off a slashing ball, clearing the bases. The crowd went wild. Johnson's dumb base running in the CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE—Four beautiful lots, Columbia Place, only $20; $25 cash, $5 mouth. Also lot Chicago street, same terms. Lew Nicoli, 200 Unity Building. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamp) Has cured drugs; will cure you. Address R.P. Blodan, druggest, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Wanted--Colored agents. Good pay. Chowning Card Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed. 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. TO LET--Colored people see my new flat, "The Ehte." 718 Indiana Ave.; finest three-room suites in the city; modern. J. A. Shirley, 915 State Life. WANTED--Agents to sell chewing gum with new advertising scheme. Right party can make big money. Address Yalu Manufacturing Co., 225 Kinzie St., Chicago. Handsome picture of a Colored Angel on her flight to heaven, copyrighted; also, Charge of the Colored Troops at San Juan, both 16x20; works of art, simply lovely, highly endorsed by all leading colored people. Sample, postpaid, both 34 cents; be loyal. Southern Photograph Co., Lethohatchee, Ala. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY—I am about to enter into a sound gilt edge business proposition and am desirous to get in touch with a business man who can furnish the amount of twenty five hundred 'dollars ($2,500) capital, to act in the capacity of secretary and treasurer, salary $75 per month, and a guaranteed dividend of fifteen (15) per cent. on his investment. This is not a get-rich scheme, but a legitimate, r.iable business proposition, which will stand the closest investigation. Parties replying to this advertisement will please furnish references as to their ability. For further information write to H. C. Haynes, Moffat Bldg., 355 Broadway, New York City. P. S. can be seen personally at the National Negro Business Men's League, which meets in Baltimore, Md. Aug. 19, 20 and 21. DIVORCE. Elizabeth A Searls| State of Indiana, Marion County, ss. A Searls| in the vs. Circuit Court of Marion County, William H. Searls| in the State of Indiana, H. Searls| No. 17.033 Complaint Divorce. BE TK KNOWN. That on the 3rd day of August, 1908, the above named plaintiff by her attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the State of Indiana, the Court in the State of Indiana, her complaint named in the name named defendant. William H. Searls, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showcased the evidence of the complaint, not a resident of the state of Indiana, and said cause is for divorce, and that the above named defendant is a necessary party thereto, and said cause is for divorce. H. Searls, and said defendant required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or demur thereto on the 30th day of October, 1908, and answer or demur thereto on the said complaint required said defendant last above, and is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against him, and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto at the calling of the same being the 32d judicial day of a term of said court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday in October, 1908, said complaint and answer, and that unless he appeared in the alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. LEONARD M. QUILL. Clerk second game was inexcusable. He forced Gordon to start home on a fly ball, causing him to be thrown out at the plate and manning the defense. George Board was sadly off in, fielding ground hit balls. With a little more nerve and confidence in himself, with his imprecision, he be one of the top notch first-sackers in the ranks of semi-professional baseball. LOUISVILLE DEFEATS PADUCAH. Special to THE FREEMAN. PADUCAH, KY., August 8. — Two of the most exciting game played at the Pepes was that Louisville Giants and the Paduccah club, played here Saturday, the first game ending in a score of 3 to 2 in favor of Louisville. The second being 3 to 1 in favor of Louisville boys. A large crowd and enthusiastic crowd saw the game. Louisville Giants: 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-3 Second game: Louisville Giants 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3–4 Padres 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3–4 SMALL TALK OF THE GAME. Wallace played a fine game for the Giants, breaking the club house down for Robinson looked to be lost in left field for the Giants, not having a chance at the ball. Watson did fine base running in both games for the Giants. Collins did not show up as well as usual behind the bat, he was a little shy of the runner coming home. He had to play fine game and also did some fielding. Woods is improving in his fielding and made some fast running catches. made some fast running catches. He did some fine pitching in the last game at Memphis, but he gave the grace at Memphis. He played two good balls at short, but did not get the ball at Memphis. MEMPHIS WINS FROM LOUISVILLE MEMPHIS. Team, August 9.—The Louis- ville Giants were defeated by the Memphis team by a score of 8 to 5. In no part of the game did the visitors show any effort to rally. Guffin, the Giants pitcher, made a poor showing on account of a bad arm. FLORAS BEATEN BY A. B. C.'S. Colored Sluggers Knock Out T to 4 Victory Over Crack Club. Special to THE FREEMAN Had it all, HAD it all—The Indianapolis A. B. C.'s had little trouble here today in defeating Floria by the score of 9-2. They were the best team in the game and the excellent playing of the Indianapolis colored champions' battery, Higge and Gordon, were the features of the game. A large crowd saw the contest, which was the first time this team squared off. BASEBALL COMMENT. The Negro has been a factor in professional baseball for more than twenty-five years. The time is about ripe for start buzing in the bonnet of some enterprising dreamer. Next! The writer has written many talks with members of the Indianapolis American baseball team, had played against colored teams to learn that most all of them, at some time or another during their professional careers, had played against colored teams. So White, now of the Philadelphia Giants, Grant Williams, of the Cuban Giants, and Fred Grant, of the Waldorfs, Cincinnati, became world records. White, people not question naturally arises: Why, then, if this be true, are they not still playing? A Negro has made good every branch of baseball. It has made every chance—in fact, has developed many world-famed stars. In racing, prize fighting, cycling and college sports he has played. It has not only tolerate him in these sports, but pay enormous sums to see him in the different lines. Why, then, repeat, is he not accepted altogether it has been treated altogether to prejudice, for if this The Indianapolis Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania Street. Now is your chance to get better and bigger Bargains than ever. We have marked down all our Summer Goods to rock bottom prices, to make them move. We need the space for our fall arrivals. If you need anything in our line, we know you will be pleased with the low prices shown. Give us a look through our immense store, and we know you can save many dollars by investing in some of the Great Bargains submitted to your inspection. This sale commences Friday Morning, August 14, 1908 The Granger Store, w. Washington Street. C., H. & D. R. R., Sunday, Aug. 16th. 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