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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? THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER NATIONAL ORGANIZATION CAPTURES BALTIMORE Mayor Mahool Opened Session Auspiciously—Meeting Turns Into Love-feast for All—Papers Cover Wide Range. THE LEAGUE IN ACTION. The regular proceedings began Wednesday morning shortly after 10 o'clock, in the beautiful St. Mary Street Memorial M. E. Church, composed of Dolphin and Etting streets. The partitions of the League were escorted to the pavilion, Mr. Harry T. Pratt, fourth vice president of the League, throughout the preliminary period of the convention. Music was furnished by a collection of twenty-five selected voices, under the direction of Mr. James F. Fessenden, Rev. A. A. McGulah, pastor of Trinity A. M. Church, delivered the opening prayer. Serving to Baltimore as a model city, with official head who was mayor of the city, the president presented mayor J. Barry Mahol, who delivered a message of welcome on behalf of the city. Mr. Mahol was given an ovation which lasted five minutes and testified unmistakably of popularity he had heard by four, and of classes within his jurisdiction. Thank-May Mahol said he was Mayor of all the people he would be as long as he was in office, and that he was unmistakably committed the League for its instilling labored for the material out that he most, industrious and self-sufficient, and that he most community, while the lazy, shiftless the action. The City Council in making certain improvements for the entertainment had given him more genuine satisfaction than the signing him more the ordinance to the life, closing with a high tribune. The work of Dr. Booker T. Washington. ovation as he sat down and warm applause greeted every mention of his name by subsequent speakers during the session. J. L. H. Smith, grand master of Masons of Omaha, Maryland, in his仁慈 speech, welcomed the citizens of the city, the citizens and pledged the support of his people to important local measures dear to the Mayor's heart. Dr. J. H. N. Waring, principal of the High and Training School, welcomed the organization in the city. Dr. J. H. N. Waring, one of the most scholarly and practical addresses of the convention. Rev. William F. Naylor then spoke for the ministers and the religious denominations and William L. Fitzgerald extended the hand of fellowship in behalf of the local league. After a solo and chorus, "Pray of the Peace of Jerusalem," by the choir, Vice President Pratt turned over the meeting room for the first time, and the choir him a richly carved gavel made from the wood of a tree that had lived for 100 years in San Domingo and had come into the possession of the Grand Lodge of Mason and the United Kingdom. He was a member of the Dr. Washington received an ovation rivaling that of Mayo Maholm as he stepped to the front of the restrum. He thanked the Grand Lodge for the historic contribution of the Hall of Fame to the celebration of the broad-minded utterances of the Mayor and of the lofty conception of his relations to his constituents, lauding the principles for which he so consistently stands in an inquisitoring way. He doth, of course, been a member of the Hall of Fame when he remarked that if the audience voted as vigorously as it cheered, Mayor Maholm's political future would be safe. MR. NAPIER MAKES A HIT. James C. Napier, president of the One-cent Savings Bank at Nashville, Tenn., was the head of the group to the Welcome addresses on behalf of the League. He is chairman of the executive committee, and is recognized by the Nation as one of the very ablest, cleanest and most trusting member of the Association of the Church produced. He stood up for the South as the natural home of the Negro, and declared that the black man would continue to live in that section, develop it by his own will, and to make the best of it by his tiny as best he could by righteous conduct, intelligent industry and by making peace with those among whom he must make his home. Mr. Napier, referring to the group, said that he was not a member of the Association and stating that men of his caliber deserved the support of their colored neighbors in the South, made a pronounced hit with the group. "If this country continues to produce good Democrats like Mayor Maholm, who has just addressed us, then let the good work go on. All we want in this country is to make the people of the United States more through what, source if come," Mr. Napier's unusually strong address was so liberally punctuated with applauses and political activity that its significant abandonment of the sentimental for that which brings results could not escape attention. The next response was from Isaiah T. Mahoney, the founder of Mount Bounty Miss., and who served as its first mayor. He was a slave of Jefferson Davis, and now owns the plantation of his former master. He was the head of the convention of Mississippi, and let his powerful influence to prevent much legislation that would have been exceptionally detrimental to the Negro race. Mr. Montgomery, the founder of cotton planters and his possessions rank well with those of any citizen of his State, regardless of color. His address also was practical and met with hearty approval. GOOD MEN ON THE COMMITTEES. The following committees were named by the Commission: On Credentials—R. H. Gilbert, New York, chairman; J. T. Writt, Pennsylvania; W. M. Porter, Ohio; John Covington, Texas; J. D. McDuffy, Florida; T. J. Caldwell, Florida; On Auditing—G. W. Franklin, Tennessee; chairman, W. Calvin Chase, District of Columbia; W. T. Anderson, Virginia; E. P. Booze, Colorado; M. E. Davis, Mississippi. On Resolutions—R. L. Texas, W. M. Alexander, Arkansas; J. E. Keford, Alabama; Wilford H. Smith, New York; Daniel Freeman, District of Columbia. On Nominations—C. First Johnson, Alabama; A. D. Barrett, Pennsylvania; W. C. Gordon, Missouri; R. F. Boyd, Tennessee; E. P. Booze, Maryland; J. M. Wright, Kansas. Before entering upon the business section of the program, Dr. Washington made a statement which set the pace for the rest of the day, that the convention was not made up of orators. It was a gathering of strong, thoughtful and active men, plain of speech, who had really done something worth mentioning. The plea facts touching their achievements—what they had done and how they did it. They are here to tell what had actually been accomplished. The little attention would be paid to resolutions and parliamentary quibbles would be serupously avoided. In the nine years of the organization no one had yet been present, no point would be missed, and the result would remain unbroken at Baltimore. The delegates would be inspired by hearing of the struggles and triumphs of men who had the courage, tenacity of purpose and patience to their business until they "meet good." The program got a fine start at the morning session, and the discussions which followed were well-filled, illuminating Newport, R. Y., opened on "One Hundred Years of Blacksmithing" followed by "Truck Farming in Maryland," by Jeremiah Galther, of the Livery Business, and "The Livery Business," by Thomas Harris, of Larchmont, N. Y., of whom sustained himself well in the rapid cross-fire of questions from the members of the DEWINGTON'S MESSAGE. A night the great Richmond Market Armory was crowded to the doors, notwithstanding the fact that tickets were required and a fee was exacted, in order to handle the strong with more systems. The theatre, the main floor, gallery and stage were filled early, and many were compelled to stand. The attendance was conservatively estimated at 600,000, and they came to hear from Dr. Washington's ips was given rapt attention. The "Wizard" was in excellent voice and fairly bubbled over with the story, his story was along lines of the most serious character. He so hap- THE CAUSE AND EFFECT BRYCE FIELD, ILLINOIS POLITICAL GARN. G. HAYWOOD Of the Pall That Falls Over Springfield. ply intermingled witty illustrations with sage advice that the hour and a quarter which he spoke passed all too rapidly for his absorbed listeners. Booker Washingtons, a former president of the piece, and this was no exception. The annual address of the president is the feature of each year's convention. It is the keynote of the organization's deliberations on the issue of the president's mark with a clearer ring and a greater degree of confidence than ever before. The League is no longer an experiment, and the organization has an important support that his task of leading proportionately easier year by year. Dr. Washington and the League, and the president, after nine years of anxious labor the trinity seems to be established on such a firm basis that no fear can now be felt as to the permanency of the combination. The president of the super address he took occasion to pay a high tribute to the generous people of Baltimore, and made a happy reference to Cardinal Gibbon's influence bringing the president to race, that meant so much for the peace and prosperity of all here in the city he honored by making it his episcopal residence. Dr. Washington said in part: WHAT THE LEAGUE STANDS FOR. "It is well that the National Negro Business League meets in Baltimore, a Southern city, where, with perhaps two exceptions, the Negro population of any city in the country is the most city, for the most part, there is a thrifty, prosperous and law-abiding Negro population, and here the most kindly relations exist between the races. Much of this, let alone the most great citizen and churchman, Cardinal Gibbons, whom every Negro loves and honors. (Long and enthusiastic applause.) "The Negro Business League stands for courageous optimism, constructive work and races. It is now composed of 400 local lakes, scattered throughout the country, as well as hundreds of individuals. Its organization, beginning nine years ago in the state of Arkansas, sends the humble but courageous efforts of a race of ten millions of people to take some part in the industrial, commercial and country industries. Heretofore, for the most part, the varieties of the race have naturally been confined to the production of raw material. While not leaving aside or neglecting this work, the organization would go a step farther and some share in the placing of products upon the markets of the world. * * * * * The organization is not only composed of individuals who possess courage—the only reason courage that is worth the name. Any weakling can sit down and cry and complain, from day to day, about the conditions that surround him and his race; but the man who starts in business or some industry in a simple way, as many of you are, is the one who is the only one who can really battle against poverty, lack of experience, want of confidence and sometimes race prejudice, till through his success he makes all who know him respect and honor him, the one who has the elements of the highest course, has the elements of the highest course. "While we are not overtook wrongs and injustices and obstacles needlessly placed in our pathway, we are more concerned in finding a way to overcome these difficulties than in merely exploiting them. More and more, as a race, we must be more vigilant about the others, the neighbors and in our country. No banker ever lends money to a man who doubts his ability to return the loan. No people put confidence in a race that doubts its ability to succeed." Dr. Washington extolled the South as the section of the state was the first measure of encouragement to develop along practical business lines, and remarked that, strange as it may seem to the uninformed, opportunity for industry, for business, increases as one goes farther south, and it is in the far South that the most precious of the most numerous and most successful. He cited the State of Mississippi, with more banks controlled by black men than in any other State in the Union, and pointed out the fact that white men draw no color like one of the dollars of these black men, but are not the same as the business with them and their institutions. "The members of the National Negro Business League have faith in the assurance that he has the power to succeed and who are willing to offer opportunities for our development; and they should not be overlooked. The world has heard much about the possibilities of the Negro; it should, through us, hear more of the Southern white man who does stand by us through all of the challenges we face. Like the possibilities here has dozens of such men of the white race to whom many of us are largely indebted for whatever we have done, our community represented here has dozens of our friends our friends more and our enemies less. Let us think more about our opportunities and less about our disadvantages. We are in earnest and worthy, others may be more interested, but cannot defeat us." (Tumultuous applause and Chautaquaua salute.) COUNCILMAN CUMMINGS STRONG IN HIS WOOM HOME. First Vice President Charles Banks presided during the evening, but the duty of introducing Dr. Washington, by common consent, fell upon the shoulders of that energetic resource and the knowledge of Baltimore and the knowledge tribune of his people, Harry S. Cummings. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.80. for many years a member of the city council and who will be re-elected for many years to come. The mention of his work as a teacher and wave of applause that lasted for several minutes and scarcely died away until new memories of his chievements for the race started the cheering again. The ovation was applauded for the week. Not only was it a high personal compliment to a gallant and faithful leader, but it indicated the hard work and sheer determination of our people, that character and ability do win respect and confidence, and such demonstrations serve as an inspiration to others who may be faltering because of their lack of ability by-path of doubtful expediency. The great reception accorded Mr. Cummings proved beyond cavil that some prophets are honored in their own country despite the con Mr. Cummings' introduction of the "Wizard was worthy of the man and the occasion. It fitted the situation snugly, and the kernel of his story - emphasizing Dr. Cummings' own friend relationships between the races as a work that ranked equally with his triumph in building up magic Tuskegee in a southern wilderness - paved the way admirably for the keynote watch. The league's president Mr. Cummings watched the address gave him a firmer hold upon his old friends and earned for him a host of new ones. The progressive young Baltimorean who seconded the nomination of president Roosevelt but was not a sturdy worker, as the brilliance of the local arrangements so emblitarily showed. Lady Pharmacists Charm Great Audience. The program was continued by Mrs. J. P. Sullivan, a full drug store and manufactory at Newport News, Va. She spoke on "Woman's Possibilities in Pharmacy", and described graphics in Pharmacy. She discussed disagreements of her sex and built up a small business into a large one and how she developed a plant for the manufacture of toilet articles which she sold to Dr. Amanda V. Gray, whose handsomely appointed establishment at Washington, D.C., is patronized by the best people in the profession. Mrs. Gray is in the nation's capital, Mrs. Gray is a leader in her calling, and her paper brought forward statistics and arguments that India is an independent nation in the world's work, as well as her possibilities in pharmacy. J. H. Dabney of Washington told much about "Managing an indented business", and discussed during the evening by a splendid orchestra and the choir rendered a number of selections, Miss Marle Wayne of New York gave, please violin solo. I narsary was "field day," and the con- Thursday was "field day," and the con- Continued on Page Four. WANTS JUSTICE FOR NEGRO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MAKES ANOTHER PLEA Twenty-five Negroes Lynched Within Sixty Days—Mob Law Terrifies Innocent—Emboldens the Vicious. BALTIMORE, Aug. 19.—Within the past sixty days twenty-five Negroes have been lynched in different parts of the United States. Of this number only four were women. Nine were lynched in one day on the charge of being connected with murder. Four were lynched in one day on child abuse charges in a lodge approving the murder of an individual. Three were lynched in one day on the charge that they had taken in the burning of a gin house. The others were lynched for miscellaneous reasons. She was publicly burned in open daylight in the presence of women and children, body, at Greenville, Tex., and reports state that a thousand people witnessed the spectacle in the open square of the town. One other victim was eighty years of age. How did this happen? I am making no special plea for the Negro, innocent or guilty, but I am calling attention to the danger that threatens our community, and no legal punishment is too severe for the brute that assaults a woman. It requires no courage for 500 men to tie the hands of an individual to the stake or to hang or shoot him. But young men and boys who have once witnessed or who have been involved in scenes of burnings and lynchings often get the idea that there is something heroic attacking some individual in the community who is at least able to defend himself. No doubt the people who engage in lynchings, and excuse them, believe that they will have the effect of striking terrorists, and whether the persons lynched are guilty? There is no way of distinguishing the innocent from the guilty except by due process of law. That is what courts are for. The police are not always known only too well that in the wild justice of the mob it is frequently the innocent man who is executed. These lynchings terrify the innocent, but they embolden the criminal. The criminal knows it is much easier to escape the mad fury of the mob than the man is so innocent that he can be safe at all times from the frenzy of the mob. Statistics show that the past ten years an average of thirty-two Negroes a year assaulting women. Granting that thirty-two per year are guilty, is that a just reason for condemning over 3,000,000 adult Negro men who have no part in such assaulting women. Granting that thirty-two criminals a year out of a race of 10,000,000 of people to throw us into a frenzy and change the complexion of our nation's reign nations as an uncivilized people not governed by law or order? Again I would say I a moot making any special plea for the Negro, but because I feel that lynching is not wrong, but a mistake—awful mistake **Effect of Mob Justice** Mob justice undermines the very foundation upon which our civilization rests, and of its security. There are, in my opinion, two remedies—first of all, let us unite to a determined effort everywhere to see that the persons lynched are guilty at times and all places see that the man charged with crime is given a fair trial. Secondly, let all good citizens unite in an effort to aid the communities, especially in the war against the Hite who and gambling element. And in this connection I would not be just and would not be frank unless I stated that the betters of the black race could use their influence, especially in the lives by the wits without permanent or reliable occupation or place of abode is either reformed or gotten rid of in some manner. In most cases it is this element that furnishes the powder for these explosions. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. CARY B. LEYWAT KHOSPINVILLE Special to THE FREEMAN: Special to THE FREEMAN: CARY B. Lewis, of Louisville, Ky., was in the city last week, the guest of Horace D. Slatter and the wife. Mr. Lewis is correspondent for The Freeman, the Louisville Courier Journal and Louisville Daily. He was emailed yet by Editor Phil Brown, and was rendered a number of social functions. NEGRO NATIONAL ORGANIZATION Chicago Special—The Negro Law and Order League, organized in Chicago last Monday as a result of the Springfield riot as a result of a black scapegoat. It is proposed to organize a Negro Law and Order League in every State in the Union, to stamp out lawlessness on the streets as a blight on the city. E. H. Stewart, pastor of the Institutional M. E. church, of this city, is at the head of the movement. It is proposed to place men at the head of the different State. Law and Order League, establish entire time headquarters and give their entire time to the work. The Freeman is the leading Negro journal. 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. LONGING. If you could be with me at sea, Or while I wander o'er the lea, I would not find The world so harsh nor unkind. Or, if I could see you when I choose And tell you of my griefs and woes, Life would be the more sublime, And earth would seem far more divine. Or, if your heart, as mine, was warm, And would cease my own to scorn, I would not be so much forlorn Nor frown upon the sunlit morn, And Brown ABOUT THE SHEATH GOWN. The woman now seen in the restaurants and public places, tall, slender, with a hat of such proportions that the landlord once once the big hat gets in the way, with her hair increased in size by the use of rats and frizzes, and her form brought into startling prominence by the clinging spectacle of her final clad to be a spectacle than her sisters of previous ages have been. Anybody who thinks that the ancients were wearing the fashion plates of that day to find that the most extreme sheath gown of today, no matter how far up the side it may be cleft, is mild in comparison to styles that come before her. Consider, for example, the dress of Helen's time, when the beauty of the fair Trojan was causing fleets to be fitted out, and sending thousands of men to bloody Classic Helen Extreme. What is now called the classical was then the mode. It existed before Helen's time, but the leaders of fashion, it became necessary for the beautiful woman to carry it to further extremes. Considering that poets of her day and succeeding days have devoted some of their works to the figure of Helen, it is not astonishing that the garb which she made the vogue was designed to permit a most liberal dress. The most famous painting of the Louvre shows her in a loose robe, whose folds outline all her glorious figure from the waist to the hem, and bare, so is the upper chest across which the upper part of the robe is permitted to sag so that it is not bound over the right side. The Greeks liked this fashion, too, only they went it one better. In this nation, where above all things physical perfection was sought, a woman of the body was far more important than charm of the face. When she had the proper blessing of pulchritude she made her dress out of her dress was so designed as to display most fully her claims to distinction. Not Even Stockings. The sheath gown of today, which at its very worst shows the outline of the figure, or is slashed up the side enough to permit the moderate display of silk hosiery, is merely an adaptation of the classical robe of ancient dress, except that in that warm clime the fair sex dispensable with stockings of gown. What is known as the directoire style is modeled on the ancient Greek, and was the fashion during the days of Napoleon's ascendancy, the "precieues," as the social leaders of that day were called, vying with each other to see who could carry farthest the extremes of the new fashion. In similar way all the radical changes that have from time to time come over woman's wear can be traced by a little backward glance over the pages of his story. It is as the change comes to the "cave lady's" beads, so the British woman eyeing, then imitating, the coifure of the Roman matron when the invasion brought the imperial legions to Angleterre, see Norway ladies astonishing the Saxon with their French fashions. In every period some one woman stands out as a fashion leader, both in history and in Eve founded the entire system of dress when she donned the fig leaves; Venus presented a mode that has not yet been worn. She was the most radical of dress reformers; Helen of Troy set a classical model that is still the admiration of the art world. Cleopatra was another innovator. Egypt's slim brown women had to consider their figures very carefully, for in their warm climate not much was worn; in their cooler climate they were very distinctly the modeling of their bodies. Those expedients of dress or undress by which the "Serapit of the Nile" were the affections of the Roman soldier, Marc Antony, quickly appealed to the sisters of Cleopatra. It was perhaps not a fashion that would suit everybody, but this is an example of the fashion with women. Adopted or not, if thing be the mode they will wear it, hence though the directoire is aimed exclusively at showing off the beauties of a slender woman, the common to see short fat women striving to look beautiful in its prisoning layers. We are wont to hear of news of historic events traveling fast, of armies springing up over night, of thousands of men rushing to the front almost before the toosin rounded to die for their king or country. But the alacrity with which tidings of statecraft travel is slothlike compared to the realism with which fashions circum-navigate the globe. Already in Japan that percentage of the feminine population that dresses according to the occidental mode, and the number is steadily increasing, is trying a wafer for a woolen body to the heroic height prescribed for the ideal wearer of the directoire gown. Queen Elizabeth of England was a leader of fashion. She started the vogue of the fashion. An interesting tradition says that she did not have a pretty neck, and envying the beautiful body of her great rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, she determined upward to make a slender, well-fashioned neck with fine skin totally unnecessary. Hence she began to wear the great ruff. Imitators naturally sprup up, and the huge ruff became indispensable. Surviving records tell of money made by those who cutting, folding and pinching a ruff. The ruff was the great beginning of added things to woman's wear. The hoop skirt, the giant bustle, the great wafer for a woolen body, the same parent idea, but now all these have gone, and the woman of today is a creature with a bare neck, lace collar over her shoulders, no whalebone around her and skin on her in the way of petticoat, that nothing but wearing her figure is left to the imagination. Athletics Aid Cause. It is said that athletics helped to bring back the classical ideal. Woman from taking part in tennis, golf, rowing, riding, and horse riding, now cumbersome were all the essentials to the toilet of other days. The increasing tendency to swimming and bathing also familiarizes women of herself than had for a long time been deemed permissible. The athletic girl directly killed the girl of the type that Du Marier drew, the artistic Bohemian woman who seemed determined to abandon grace, beauty, charm and all those gifts, which account for her success over the world. This dread creature wore short skirts, short hair, heavy boots, tweed skirts and stiff collars. The athletic ideal brought in the trim-waisted, brown-skinned, healthy-looking girl with the fearless face and square chin. She only lasted for a time before the craze for the pictures drawn by Charles Dana Gibson opened the way for the tall, slender, bending girl with the long waist and face. Now she in turn has given way to the various phases of the directoire girl, who will do her fitful turn on the stage of woman's preference till the time for a new change of mind comes. The tall, slender Walker has been the only and is the first colored woman to appear in the sheath gown. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE The Woman's Suffrage question is causing much attention both in the United States and abroad. Mrs. Humphrey has given out the following letter: During an absence of nearly four months in the United States and Canada, I have done my best to follow from a discussion of the movement in England, and I have also endeavored to acquaint myself with the position and prospects of the movement in the United States. If I have been heard, even by many of those in England who have no real sympathy with the suffrage movement, who believe, indeed, that its results, if successful, would be that, that so is now the less "innovative" that people are to think that when, in a democratic country, a claim of this kind has been asserted sufficiently long and with sufficient vehemence, more clamor and more violence, more violence, and the claim must ultimately be granted. Movement Dead in America. The success of the movement, however, is not "inevitable" at all—in spite of the increased parliamentary vote or the skill organization a party are meeting. Let me give the example of After sixty years' agitation—for the movement is generally dated in America from the meeting held in New York in 1876, and in 1877 in which during the second third of the nineteenth century was active throughout the States and succeeded in forcing a constitution. The men's vote in four of the sparsely-peopled States of the West, is now in process of defeat and extinction—and that at not at wounds men, men at the hands of wounds men, men at the hands of wounds men, men have been made to revive it, especially by suffragists from this side of the water. But the results have been very small, and the movement has to strengthen the hands of the opposition. Even School Suffrage Rejected. Lewis Scholar Suffrage Rejected. Since 1960 indeed, in five States the suffrage movement has been defeated at the polls, and in 1903 the Legislatures of thirteen States rejected the woman suffrage bills of one type or another. School suffrage has been defeated in all of the States, but the striking thing is that the suffrage agitation and the "unwise pressure brought to bear on Legislatures and public officials" has hindered the natural development of women, and a bill "requiring that at least one-third of the members of boards of education appointed by mayors should be women" was defeated in New York in 1903, melancholy resulted in an English point to be taken, and a due to the general disapproval and opposition which the woman suffrage movement has excited; so that we have even the untoward fact that at the press conference of the New York or the Boston boards of education. The movement has not only failed; it has checked the legitimate development of women's influence in the political arena. Opposed by "Home-Loving" Women. We, however, in this country are safe, thanks to the concession of the local government vote to women, and to the act of last year enabling them to sit on local governmental bodies, from any similar relegation. We are also grateful to American women, now that the anti-suffrage movement has practically attained its end, will soon find means and chance to participate in the agitating influence in matters of educational and social reform shall be more fully brought to bear. The important thing for us to notice is that the suffrage movement has been rejected within the last two years by a group of women who have been treated, by women themselves. In Oregon an amendment to the constitution bestowing the suffrage on women has been rejected within the last two years by a group of women who have been treated, by women themselves. They issued an appeal to the men "not to mistake the clamor of outsiders for the sentiment of the home-loving women of Oregon," protesting that such burdens were not necessary, and the instance of women agitators from distant States, where the people are too sensible to adopt woman suffrage." The State of Washington, where woman suffrage ended while it was still a Territory, refused to grant it when it became a State. Asks English Women to Oppose It. By quiet, resolute and slowly strengthening opposition the women of America, then, have defeated the woman suffrage movement. The same result has now to be achieved, and the women achieved, if only the women of this country will rouse themselves to the danger before us. We in many ways are 'a national institution' that is 'a national in organizing this counter-agitation. For, through the full admission of women to local government, the nation has given satisfaction to their legitimate demand for the right to work in the public work and life of England. Nor would it be at all difficult to dissolve such machinery, arising from local government by which views and claims of women on those legislative matters before Parliament which specially concern them — factory owners — could be clearly and effectively expressed. Proposes Permanent Committee. A permanent committee, for instance, consisting of representatives of the women sitting on local bodies, might be placed in some consultative relation with the men sitting on local boards. But what we have to do now is to see to it that the present women's agitation, interfering as it does with the power and responsibility of men, of those spheres where men are alone in the decision-making process, common benefit of the state, should meet with a speedy and effective opposition among women themselves. The work must be begin with energy and carried out with the help of women, possits to that effect will, I believe, soon be laid before the public. Meanwhile the so and so far triumphant opposition offered to the movement in the States, by the common sense and public spirit of women, must be made permanent for us, and worthy of being brought to the notice of the women of England. USEFUL RECIPES. ROAST OF BEEF Select choice rib roast and remove small end of bone, to use as short ribs or for stock, leaving a standing roast. Score the edges of meat with a sharp knife and place on rack in open pan. Sear the meat well under gas flame. Reduce the heat when meat is crisp, season well and finish cooking in upper oven if roast is large, basting meat often with foil in the pain. Turn flame out ten minutes before roast is done and make a gravy with four tablespoons each of meat fat and flour and a pint of stock or boll-in water. Season well. Add Kitchen Bouquet to color and flavor, and strain before serving. Meat cooked in this fashion is more like the roast prepared over an open fire, and no such flavor or juiciness can be obtained by baking in a wood or coal oven. Thirty-Ninth Annual FAIR Colored A. & M. Association, (INCORPORATED.) Lexington, Ky. BROWNED POTATOES Use potatoes of even size, pare them and boil for fifteen minutes. Drain well and place around the roast, basting occasionally, until well done and nicely browned, until the forty minutes will be required in the oven. ASPARAGUS ON TOAST. Place the asparagus in boiling salted water, after wrapping each bunch loosely with a strip of cloth. When cooking has begun, transfer the flesh to the oven and cover with foil. Drain carefully place on slices of toast, season, and bits of butter and serve very hot. SWEET PICKLES. Dried fruits, such as peaches, prunes and apricots, make excellent sweet pickles. The fruit should first be carefully washed and dried on a light lightly until tender (preferably in the oven) and placed in the following syrup while hot. Boil one quart of vinegar with an ounce each of stick cinnamon and cloves and three pounds of brown sugar for twenty minutes. FRENCH DRESSING FOR VEGETABLE SAUDS Make dressing with a level teaspoon of salt, one-fourth spoon of paprika, six tablespoons of Nicole olive oil and two of vinegar. Dried lima beans may be soaked over night, cooked slowly until tender, then chilled and mixed with chives or bits of onion or shredded lettuce or chopped beans. APRICOT ROLL. Sift two cups of flour with three teaspoons of baking powder, a little salt and one tablespoon of sugar. Mix in one-third of the flour and one fourth of the cup of milk, to make a soft dough. Roll out lightly and spread with a cup or more of apricots (or other dried fruit) and sprinkle with softened and stewed. 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When seen last night he was all smiles, while congratulations were being showered upon him from all over the Ostenshire he went West to look over the political situation and to place himself in touch with the conditions that confront the Republican party in the West. He was also pleased His Incentive conciliation have been rewarded with success, and if he were able his entire time would be taken up by speech-making in the end of the campaign; but his services have been placed in the hands of the National committee. For the first time in many years we have at the Nation's capital a man who attends all promotions of the Western boys and seeing that they come into their own. He is not saying much, and there is no blaze of trumpets announcing his approach to the office of the Auditor for the War Depart- HON. W. T. 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In a conversation with a friend he said that he had not end with the tenure of my office, but I mean to continue to secure recognition for the race whenever and wherever the op-ed presents are shown in the men promoted are shown in the men promoted are shown in the men having served in the Legislature of Ohio, and the latter was for many years corporation clerk in the Secretary of State's office and major of the Ninth Bat- Hon. Louis A. Coolidge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is demonstrating his friendship for the colored race by interesting himself in their welfare and in what he does to help them in matter of promotion. With him merit knows no color and deserving men receive their reward. The best and freshest news is always to be found in the columns of The Free-entered News, training to the best interest of the race you can obtain it for one year for $1.50. 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Copyright, 1906, by Robert W. Chambers. [CONTINUED] "The sweetest of all," observed a man, disconsolately emptying his glass, "Oh, irony! What a marriage!" Beverly Plankk had no time for anything outside of his own particular business except to go every day to the big, darkened house in lower Fifth avenue where the days had been hard on Siward and the nights harder. Siward, however, could walk now, using his crutches still, but often stopping to gently test his left foot and see how much weight he was able to bear on it, even taking a tentative step or two without crutch support. He drove when he thought it prudent to use the horses in the heat, usually very early in the morning, though sometimes at night with Plankk when the latter had time to run his touring car through the park and out into the Bronx or Westchester for a breath of air. But Plank wanted him to go away, get out of the city for his convalescence, and Siward flatly declined, demanding that Plank permit him to do his share in the fight against the Intercounty people. When it was that he first began to like Plank very much he could not exactly remember. He was not perhaps aware of how much he liked him. Plank's unexpected fits of shyness, of formality, often and often amused him. But there was a subtler feeling under the unexpressed amusement and, beneath all, a constantly increasing substratum of respect. Too, he found himself curiously at ease with Plank as with one born to his own ouste. And this feeling, unconscious, but more and more apparent, meant more to Plank than anything that had ever happened to him. Then one sultry day toward the last week in August a certain judge of a certain court, known among some as "Harrington's judge," sent secretly for Plank. And Plank knew that the crisis was over. But neither Harrington nor Quarrier dreamed of such a thing. Fear sat heavy on that judge's soul—the godless, selfish fear that sends the first coward slinking from the councils of conspiracy to seek immunity from those slowly grinding millstones that grind exceeding fine. M. H. H. Quarrier at Shotover, with his private car and his loco- Pear net heavy on that judge's soul. Shotover, with his private car and his locomotive within an hour's drive, strolled with Syla on the eve of her departure for Lenox with Lela Mortimer; then when their conference was ended he returned to Agatha calmly unconscious of impending events. Hartington at Seabright paced his veranda awaiting this same judge, annoyed as two boats came in without the expected guest. And never for one instant did he dream that his creature sat closed with Plank, tremulous, sallow, hearing the edge of cringing avowal, only held back from utter collapse by the agonizing necessity of completing a bargein that might save himself from the degradation of the punishment that had seemed inevitable. All day long he sat with Plank. Nobody except those two knew he was there And after a very long time Plank consented that nobody else except Slward and Harrington and Quarrier should ever know. So he called up Harrington on the telephone, saying that there was in the office somebody who desired to speak to him. And when Harrington caught the judge's first faint, stammered word he reeled where he stood, ashen, unbelieving, speechless. Harrington was an old man, a very old man, mortally hurt, but he steadled himself along the wall of his study to the desk and sank into the chair. After a little while he passed a thin hand over his eyes, over his gray head, over the mouth that all men watched with fear, over the shaven jaw now grimly set but trembling. His hand, too, shook with palsy as he wrote, painfully picking out the words and figures of the cipher from his code book, but he closed his thin lips and squared his unsteady jaw and wrote his message to Quarrier: It is all up. Plank will take over Intercounty. Come at once. Plank slept the sleep of utter exhaustion that night. The morning found him haggard, but strong, cool in his triumph, serious, stern faced, almost sad that his work was done, the battle won. From his own house he telegraphed a curt summons to Harrington and to Quarrier for a conference in his own office, then, finishing whatever business his morning mail required, put on his hat and went to see the one man in the world he was most glad for. "It's all over, Siward," he said, with a laugh. "Harrington knows it. Quarrier knows it by this time. Their judge crawled in yesterday and threw himself on our mercy, and the men whose whip he obeyed will be on their way to surrender by this time. Well, haven't you a word?" "Many," said Siward slowly, "too many to utter, but not enough to express what I feel. If you will take two on account here they are in one phrase—thank you." "Debt's canceled," said Plank, laughing. "Do you want to hear the details?" The narrative exchanged by Plank in return for Siward's intensely interested questions was a simple, limpid review of a short but terrific campaign that only yesterday had threatened to rage through court after court, year after year. In the sudden shock of the cessation from battle, Plank himself was a little dazed. Yet he himself had expected the treason that ended all. He himself had foreseen it. "Plank," said Siward at last, "there is nothing in the world that men admire more than a man. It is a good deal of a privilege for me to tell you so." Plank turned red with surprise and embarrassment, stammering out something incoherent. That was all that was said about the victory. Siward, unusually gay for awhile, presently turned somber, and it was Plank's turn to lift him out of it by careless remarks about his rapid convalescence and the chance for vacation he so much needed. Once Siward looked up vacantly. "Where am I to go?" he asked. "I'd as soon stay here." "But I'm going," insisted Plank. "The Fells is all ready for us." "The Fells! I can't go there!" "You once promised"— "Plank, I'll go anywhere except there with you. I'd rather be with you than with anybody. Can I say more than that?" "I think you ought to, Siward. A—a fellow feels the refusal of his offered rooftree." "Man! Man! It isn't your roof I am refusing. I want to go. I'd give anything to go. If it were anywhere except where it is, I'd go fast enough. Now do you understand? If—if Shotover House and Shotover people were not next door to the Fells I'd go. Do you know what's the matter with me, Plank?" "I think so." "I have wondered. I wonder now how much you know." "Very little, Siward." "How much?" Plank looked up, hesitated and shook his head, "One infers from what one hears." "Infers what?" "The truth, I suppose," replied Plank simply. "And what," insisted Siward, "have you inferred that you believe to be the truth? Don't parry, Plank. It isn't easy for me, and I—I never before spoke this way to any man. It is likely I should have spoken to my mother about it. I had expected to. It may be weakness—I don't know, but I'd like to talk a little about it to somebody. And there's nobody fit to listen, except you. You know what a pillow is to a tired man's shoulders. I want to use your sane intelligence to rest on a moment. It's my brain that's tired, Plank." Although everybody had cynically used Plank, nobody had ever before found him a necessity. "Go on." he said unsteadily. "If I can be of use to you, Siward, in God's name let me be, for I have never been necessary to anybody in all my life." Silward rested his head on one clinched hand. "How much chance do you think I have?" he asked wearily. "Chance to get well?" "Yes." Plank considered for a moment, then, "You are not trying. Silward." "I have been trying since—since March. In March Miss Landis spoke to me. I've made a better fight since." Plank's serious face darkened. "Is she the only anchor you have?" "Plank, I am not even sure of her. I have made a better fight since then. That is all I dare say. I know what men think about a man like me. I know they demand character, pride, self denial. But, Plank, I am driving THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER faster and faster toward the breakers, and these anchors are dragging. For it is not in my case the physical failure to obey the will. It is the will itself that had been attacked from the first. That is the horror of it. And what is there behind the will power to strengthen it? Only the source of will power—the will. It is the mind that cannot help me. What am I to do?” “There is a spiritual strength,” said Plank timidly. “I have never dreamed of denying it,” said Siward. “I have tried to find it through the accepted sources—accepted by me too. God knows that I desire to be decent. He must be aware, too, that all anchors save one have failed to hold me.” “You mean Miss Landis?” "Yes. It may be weakness; it may be to my shame that the cables of pride and self respect, even the spiritual respect for the Highest, cannot hold me when this one anchor holds. She said that I might see her. I have waited a long time. I have taken my fighting chance again, and I've won out so far." He looked up at Plank, curiously embarrassed. "Your body is normal; your intelligence wholesome, balanced, sane, and I want to ask you if you think that perhaps without understanding how I have found in her or through her in some way the spiritual source that I think might help me to help myself?" "You ask me if I believe it possible that she can be the medium?" "Yes." Plank said deliberately, "Yes, I do think so." The silence was again broken by Plank: "Slward, you have asked me what I think. Now you must listen to the end. If you believed that through her—her love, marrying her—you stood the best chance in the world to win out, it would be cowardly to ask her to take the risk. As much as I care for you I had rather see you lose the fight than accept such a risk from her. Now you know what I think, but you don't know all. Slward, I say to you that if you are man enough to take her, take her! And I say that of the two risks she is running today the chance she might take with you is infinitely the lesser risk, for with you, if you continue slowly losing your fight, the mental suffering only will be hers. But if she closes this bargain with Quarrler, selling to him her body, the light will go out of her soul forever." He rose, striding the length of the room once or twice, turned, holding out his broad hand. "Goodby," he said. "Harrington is about due at my office. Quarrier will probably turn up tonight. I am not vindictive. I shall be just with them—as just as I know how, which is to be as merciful as I dare be. Goodby, Siward." (Continued next week.) Hotel Notes. By W. FORREST COZART. J. W. Eubanks is making good at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Mich. Mr. Doe Cross, a well-known Eastern waiter, is now residing in Oakland, Cal. The Secor, a new ten-story hotel with 350 rooms, was recently opened at Toledo, Ohio. A new wave of race prejudice is sweeping over this country. Let every colored hotel owner be efficient and make his service indispensable. In the death of J. D. Fanning former proprietor of the Albany Hotel, Denver Colo., the colored waiters have lost a good friend. Mr. Fanning believed in colored help and always employed them. J. Burns, a waiter employed at one of the Atlantic City hotels, was drowned last week while in battling. Burns was a good former, but he ventured out too far. Some old story. His home was in the South. Mr. Mudge, proprietor of the Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Tex., died recently. Mr. Mudge was a good friend to colored waiters. We are glad to say that Mr. R. H. Bradley will still retain the head waiter's position. In a recent issue the Hotel World said that the Negro was becoming too high toned to be trained as a waiter. Is this true the editor would be pleased to receive the head and side waiters on this subject. S. A. Williams, formerly head waiter at the Park Hotel at Spring Lake and who went as assistant waiter with W. F. Cozart at the Southland Hotel, Dallas, Tex., is now filling a similar position with Mr. Van Cliff at the Hotel Secor, Toledo, Ohio. The marriage recently of Mr. Potter Palmer Jr. and Miss K. Kohlsaat, both of Chicago, recalls the memory of Potter Palmer, a former employed collar waiter, which was a home for colored waiters. Miss Kohlsaat is the daughter of H. H. Kohlsaat, the founder of the famous employed counter in Chicago, employed colored help up to the strike of 1902. Can it be possible that a howling, blood thirsty mod should run rampant for two or three days in the city of Springfield, the capital of the great State of Illinois, the home of Lincoln and Grant, in defiance of the majority of the law, and kill and beat innocent citizens and destroy the property of the public at will? Is this the land of the Free and the home of the brave, or are we in the land of the cruel Russians or the unspeakable Turk? ..... * The outbreak of a mob composed mostly of miners and other poor whites at Springfield in growth, regardless of his standing and character as a citizen, were beaten to death or mobbed, not even sparing the old, young, women or children, brings every Negro with a grain of brains to that North and South, that the Negro must prepare to protect his home and family. WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY. This institution will begin its fall session Tuesday, September 1. All who ex- pose for the first day will be present on the first day. The seminary does not open till the first Tuesday in October. For further information address Denise Inberforce, Ohio, W. S. Scarborough. DINING ROOM SERVICE Extracts from a paper read by S. C. 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He declares, after having had lunch, that "they are easier to secure capable girls of most appearance and that they are preferable in most places, but where good girls cannot be secured, colored men are preferable, they can always be found, not being so scarcely, but they he thinks men are preferable. The dining room brings many, many kicks and complaints, and when a traveling man calls you to him and hands you a bouquet or a hip, or both, Then "Mrs. Smith comes in to arrange for a banquet for the 'Daughters of the Covenant' group, and as she is to bear the brunt of the expense she does not wish to pay more than fifty cents per plate. As Mr. Smith says, "I will be here for the course we try to please her, even if she does not see why she cannot have oysters on the consume fish, an entre, shebert tendering sixteen rooms, salad, ice cream and cake, and other things, for this price, informing you of the cost of the Sunday dinner for fifty cents. Then she wants to decorate the dining room and have the assistance of your house car for those time, of course, costs you nothing." "I do not believe anyone can afford to serve any kind of a banquet after his regular evening meal for less than one dollar per plate, as I have learned that in order to get good and satisfactory service to a banquet one must pay his waiters extra. I believe that this is largely the secret of good service at banquets." A Few Figures Submitted. Peoria, Ill., Aug. 21, 1908. To The Fragment. To the Freeman: read an article in the Hotel World of the World where it is claimed that Mr. Vardaman of Mississippi may be right in a public speech a few years ago in regard to the condition of the Negroes of this country. While if is true that the better class of colored men have not followed the rule of the king for over thirty-five years they have gone into other lines of business that are preferable, as colored waiters are not recognized by the better class of colored people any more than the white waiter is by the overall development of the better class of colored men have left the field to the tramp waiters and they would be only too glad to see the day when the colored waiters will not be employed in a hotel in this country, as they will be better one of the same figures which that no race of people on earth has made greater progress within the last forty years, with the prejudice against them, than the Negro race of this country. We know that the "Nessus" is 1900, which would be the most high-paid for 187,797 acres of farm land valued at $82,000,000; the Negro homes of this country are valued at $335,000,000; personal property at $172,000,000; church property at $42,000,000. They have been and libraries are placed at a making a total of $20,550,000. Negroes are engaged in the following gainful pursuits: Planters and overseers, carpenters and construction agents, 208, 389; manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, 275-166; actors and professional showmen, 1, 166; architects and drafters, 154; civil engineers, 112; journalists, 191; musicians, 2,397; Government offices, 584. These lage have been taken from the highest ranks of the eletrical industries and Labor, and the National Negro Business Men's League. A article will show that when one of the staff of the Hotel World was traveling through the country he did not get the arguments of the best class of Negroes, out of the worst element, or in the best class of the best class, through colored glasses. There is more wealth in the South among the Negroes than in the North; this statement will help you to understand why they are to be found in dining rooms and cafes, as their parents have been opposed to their children following waitering for a meal. Negroes waiters that come to this country are perfectly welcome to all such positions as far as the better-thinking Negroes are concerned. J. J. MILLES Head Walter National Hotel, Pearl, Ill. KAÑSAS CITY (MO.) HOTEL NOTES Hage Long has resumed his position as head waiter at the Coates Hotel. The Athletic Club will use all colored waiters after Sept. 1. Mr. M. Knight, head waiter at the Baltimore Hotel, is spending his vacation in the East. Mr. Kelly is now at the Waiters' Club. Race Gleanings Negro Government officials will hold a grand rally Labor Day, in the interest of Judge Taft. Nearly 4,000 pensioners in Kentucky will have to wait some time for their pensions because, of mistakes by their attorneys in filling the new blanks. Dr. J. R. L. Diggs has resigned the presidency of Kentucky State University to accept the position as head of the Virginia Seminary of Lynchburg, a Baptist theological school. "Prophet" W. S. Crowdy, the official head of the Church of God and Saints of Christ is dead at Philadelphia, Pa. "Elder" Joe Crowdy is slated to succeed his father as "Prophet." Bishop Abraham Grant celebrated his sixtieth birthday August 25 and 26 in Kansas City. At the same time that marked his thirty-four year in the ministry and twenty years in Episcopalay. The Negro Deaf Doub and Blind Institute of Newport News, Va. seems to be a certain now and congratulations are being extended to the white people who have worked so hard and who are still working hard for the success of this institution. The Masonic Congress convened in Washington, D. C., last Thursday, John Jones, thirty-third Degree Mason, president. Marianne Lillian was present. After the deliberations the bers adjourned to meet the Grand Consistory of the Thirty-second Degree at Staunton, Va. The managers of the Frederick Douglass Homestead Fund expect to lift the entire mortgage of something over $3500 from the proceeds of the "outing" at the Masonic Temple. It will immediately follow the testimonial to Dr. Booker T. Washington, and "The Wizard" will remain to be the principal speaker down the river on this occasion. Several of the young colored men of Sioux City Ia., have incorporated a new company to be a business Company, with an authorized capital stock of $25,000. The object of the company is to buy and sell real estate, collect rents and exchange land. The company manages and collateral. The incorporators are E. Matthews, Caster W. Schmitz and R. Byron Reed. The fourth annual grand session of the G. U. O. S. and D. of Peace was held in Newport News, Va., the week of August 1. There were seventy-five delegates present. The Rev. S. A. Howell is Supreme Grand Commander with headquarters at Newport News, Va. The organization is growing fast and now numbers forty-five commercial addresses or subordinate bodies in two States. There are owned and controlled by colored people four banks, the True Reformers Insurance Company, which employs about eighty clerks and stenographers with a surplus of $300,000 and a business of $1,000,000. They own and operate clothing, stores, drug stores, printing establishments, insurance companies and many other sorts of business enterprises. In Richmond also there are even Negro lawyers, fifteen physicians, three dentists, three five school teachers and forty-six churches. Nearly thirty years ago the late W. H. Watson and Rev. E. W. S. Peck, of Baltimore, founded the first Pythian lodge in the State of Maryland. Mr. Watson had elected the first Grand Chocolat. The order has at present 41 lodges, besides women's lodges, in that State. There are nearly 2,500 male members. The local lodges own a castle at 227 St. Paul street. George A. Wathy is the Grand Chocolat or Maryland and the District of Columbia, and Mrs. Lillie G. Jones as Grand Worthy Councilor, heads the Courts of Calantha—the female division. S. W. Green of New Orleans is the Supreme Chancellor. W. Ashbie Hawkins is the Supreme Chancellor of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere division of the order. --- J. P. France, of 1100 Parker street, Columbus, O., has been informed that a patent for his automatic railroad signaling device has been issued at Washington, D.C., and that it will be used of compressed air to operate semaphores through an attachment at the rail, which is affected by the flange of the semaphore. The semaphore is thus blocked so that no other train or part of train can enter. The road is clear and the engineer can proceed as assurance or behind, for if a other engineer should ignore the signal, either in front or behind, and seek to run past it, he would be derailed. Mr. France an employee of the Water Works Department and a former sleeping car porter. FARMERS OPPOSE FOREIGNERS IN SOUTH. Special to THE FREEMAN Columbia, S. C.-Special—The State Farmers' Union convention adopted resolution calling for the establishment of a commission to be operated as convict labor. Still another resolution adopted as is follows: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this Union that it should be compressed at the gins and cotton bagging be used on such compressed bales, and that we ask the national union to take up and press it to speedy conclusion." WESTFIELD. N. J. Special to THE FREEMAN. The B. Y. P. U. of Crawford discussed temperance last week and the movement had its origin in the nature and condition of the people. The man of Mrs. Emma Freeman of Embree Crescent Sunday, Aug. 16, was held a family reunion. Among the present were Alexander Freeman of Orange, Mrs. Edna Edwards, Florence and a large party of friends. 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Charles Hnnter, presiding elder of the Richmond district has declared against Mr. Taft. Men's trousers are getting shorter right along, bidding fair to rival the articles of the good old George Washington days. A little foretaste of winter this week. The nights, a few of then, had a frosty smell, doubtless making the farmer nervous about his crop. Any one knowing the whereabouts of Mary or Maria Booker, will notify E. B. Hale, at 1011 N. West street, in settlement of property in Missouri. The law breakers at Springfield are charged with riot and murder. That's just what took place. It looks as if some one is going to pay the penalty. A few colored men showing something at the fair in their own right would be a helpful, hopeful, sign. Foo late this year; get ready for next year. The National Baptist Convention of Kentucky will be held in Lexington, next month. It is needless to say that the meeting is looked forward to with great expectation. The race is not doing enough independent thinking. It is too content with what is. That glorious old Micawber of Dickens fame had his ups and downs, but he was eternally witting to turn something up. Mr. Taft expressed himself feelingly on the Springfield happening. Some one will see campaign in it. The candidate finds himself in a most awkward situation. He finds it extremely difficult to make people believe what he says. We take it, however, that Mr. Taft was sincere in the matter, most thoughtful people regret the occurrence. Mr. Kern also knows by this time, that he was selected by his party at Denver as Mr. Bryan's running mate. He expressed his "surprise" in well chosen language, emphasizing the principles for which the party stands. He was more than pleased to have had the opportunity of thanking the Democratic party for the confidence it had in him. We have a bit of Rome that we read about in Fall Creek north, with its well kept boulevards, guarded by stone facades that take on the "insinuities" of that stream. Property in that part of the city is in keeping with the improvement and which is most highly accentuated by beautiful bridges. Indianapolis is destined to be the Paris of America; it will be money well spent. John W. Kern's notification meeting was a big success. The fact that Mr. Bryan was expected had its influence. Thousands struggled to see the distinguished standard bearer of the Democracy, and one who may be President. The day was ideal and the great coliseum was tested to its capacity, Mr. Bryan was in fine form, bore himself as one of supreme confidence, charming his hearers as of the olden days. It is estimated that the work of the mob will cost the county in which Springfield is situated $200,00, a very costly happening it will be seen. But the county purse is not nearly so sensitive as that of the individual. If the cost fell on individuals, more than likely there would be mob insurance companies and such like, and whose vigilance would tend to keep down the mob spirit. The opinion is becoming more general that Mr. Bryan is after the Presidency in the right way. He has reversed his tactics altogether. The aggressive, voluble Bryan has given way to the veritable tactician, putting thus himself in accord with his fellow workers, taking more than giving advice. He has come to the conclusion that "fine speeches buttered no parsnips." They won him much, but not the coveted distinction. His admirers are enthusiastic in their praise of the new tractable Bryan. The salvation is to be worked out, not fought out. The advice to get guns is needless, really it is harmful. There is a better way to get along; it is up to the Negroes to find the way. Men intently bent upon their duties in life will not attract the attention of the curious, or the idle minded, or the mischief makers. High purposes and --- resolves are their own advocates. Those who came to "scoff remained to pray," is the way Goldsmith puts it when speaking of the village humble preacher. Civic righteousness also includes the idea of voting your convictions. If the Democratic party holds inducements to the Negroes, or any other party, they should find their way into them. Even the Socialist party have principles that appear laudable enough and doubtless are uttered with the best intent. Negroes of similar views should be found with the party doing whatever is possible to promote its notions when not opposed to the fundamental principles of the land. The Prohibition party is of high moral excellence. There are colored men who could easily embrace the tenets of that party which is so content with having voted its conviction. Mr. G. W. Sandford, of St. Louis, has received a letter from Mr. Taft, which is as follows: "I have a letter of August 15, in reference to the race riot at Springfield, Ill. Every good citizen must deplore the fiendish work of the disgraceful mob that has brought the city of Springfield to sorrow. Such an outbreak of lawlessness and bitter race prejudice makes the lover of his country sad. It should nerve those in favor of improving the administration of the criminal law to more earnest effort because I am confident that if all charges of crime were promptly investigated and convicted criminals punished, there would be much less temptation to the formation of such conscienceeless and cruel mobs as that which ran riot at Springfield." "There is no hope for the Negro race or any people except in the direction of constructive work. Thus constructive work must find a place and a needed right in the communities where we live. There are golden opportunities for it in the cultivation of the soil, work in the wood, in iron, the home, the world of trade. "No matter what the exception or the temptation may be in local policies of National policies, let us resolve that nothing shall turn us aside for a minute from getting the essential and fundamental things in life. Political parties and public issues and public men change and disappear, but the fundamentals of industry, thrift and high rugged character remain forever. Without them, all else is vain. With them, nothing can defeat us." Booker T. Washington, at the Negro Business League in Baltimore. Booker T. Washington, speaking recently in reference to the Springfield mob said, that within the past sixty days twenty-five Negroes had been lynched in different parts of the country. Four of these only were charged with criminal assault on women. Four of these were lynched in one day on the charge that they passed resolutions in a lodge approving the murder of an individual. The charges against the others were more or less serious, but trifling in view of the awful punishment. Perhaps it is not always best to be parading these happenings. Mr. Washington has said as much, but at times it seems necessary to expose conditions that proper condemnation be invited, that public sentiment be directed to the evil. The public will not be influenced unless the horror on the doings be held up before it. True enough, there are those who want to see the Negro wince and are happiest when they are goaded deepest; they love to read every word of how 'twas one. They, happily, are only capable of mischief. But they are the active vicious who on account of their activity seem to be the majority. The vast majority had nothing to do with the major, nor o n the know of the large number of its victims until someone like Mr. Washington makes the facts known. Even the colored people are surprised to know that twenty-five Negroes have been mobbed within sixty days; it is stating information; it is having effect in the proper place. The better citizens do not care to hear that America is becoming a second Russia, a country universally disliked for its atrocities. The Springfield hapening is a good lead in that direction. The country is great and prosperous; the Negroes enjoy somewhat on its prosperity and also of its freedom. They are not counted in affairs generally as the other races, but at that, there is nothing preventing their directing their energies to their opportunities, much of the ill feeling will pass away. The white people in the main bear the Negroes no ill will. They do not prefer their society. But here honors ought to be easy. The race must learn to appreciate its own kind; much of the future success depends on it. It is one of the little things, but one of the little essential things. The strife is not altogether a one-sided affair. There should be concession, and admission and confessions, an then for the greater day of racial affairs in America. A CONVINCING ARGUMENT. Success of Prohibition Means Destruction of the Negroe's Best Commercial Interests. At no time in the history of this country has the Negro showed to better commercial advantage than the present day. Statistics will show that more than 50 per cent of the traffic throughout the country have made their fortunes in the liquor traffic. To every colored man in the United States that has accumulated more than $10,000 by commercial activity, the traffic, ten percent pointed out who have accumulated that amount in the liquor trade. These facts as pertains to the indorsement of every measure and principle tending to promote the interests of the trade in the liquor industry, and to waged against it by the Prohibitionists produce a rather inverse ratio in favor of the liquor interests so far as the Negro's best commercial and financial welfare is concerned. Let us look into the situation further: Taking the commonwealth of Kentucky, in which state there are one hundred and sixty counties, and the them "dry," or, in other words, under the rule and control of the Prohibition people. These ninety-seven counties represent, in Kentucky, the largest and most grogged each county that were directly dependent upon the liquor traffic for a livelihood. Multiplying 300 by 97 we see the appalling number of 2,810 Negro grogged in ill-paid situations, the result of Prohibition. In Kentucky, as in Indiana, the suffrage of the Negro is the decisive quantity in the voting process. What fares? What have the theories and principles of the Prohibition element offered The time has come for the Negro to observe politics from the white man's point of view, to survive the fites that pertains to his well-being—me being considered. The Negro vote heretofore has been simply a pivot upon which was revolted the ambitions and designs of the Negro, with years of jugling, misrepresentations and false promises, they now seek to utterly destroy the best avenue of trade and commerce, the best way to thinking, intelligent colored citizens take up the slogan "Self Protection," and sail into the fray this fall with his ballot in hand (for the platform which offers him salute from commercial and industrial annihilation. x] John H. Tyler, Republican candidate for Judge of Probate, wishes you to put an X in the square before his hame (like the above) on Sept. 1. He has worked his own way through life, his father having died when John was only 11. He is his son. His son is his. His son is his. He call him "Bonac J. John" and "Abe" because he resembles Lincoln. Vote for him and make no mistake. INDIANA DISTRICT OF THE LEX JINGTON M. E. CONFERENCE. The Indiana District of the Lexington Conference met at Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 19 to 23, the D. E. Skelton, district superintendent, presiding. The following superintendent, presiding. He was H. H. Connerville, secretary; Rev. Chas, Jones, of New Castle, treasurer; Mr. Abraham Trible, chairman of the district stewards; Rev. Bailey, reporter for the firm; Mr. P. A. Cofley, reporter for the Southwestern Christian Advocate. The roll call showed 23 preachers present and 3 absent. Rev. J. B. Redmond and Mr. P. A. Cofley, reporter for the illness and Rev. T. R. Prentiss on account of the death of a relative, Mrs. Susie Miller. The attendance reached the highwater mark. The total number of ministers and delegates presiding was 140. The presiding officers were Dr. L. L. Thomas and Hon. G. L. Knox, each of whom made excellent addresses on Wednesday evening. Thursday evening Conference Ace addressed the conference in the interest of the academy. Cash and subscriptions for school. $140. On Friday evening Dr. M. C. B. Mason spoke to the dolls in a large audience Conference Ace addressed the conference in the interest of the academy. America and Ace Ares the "Sea." The reports of pastors and delegates at this session of the conference were quite encouraging, being in advance of last year. The program of the Sunday School instead of the end of the regular days, his hightute and the expanding discussions being spirited and lively. Hon. G. L. Knox won the young people with his forceful address on "How to Be an Ideal Superintendent." Mr. R. A. S. Croley, of Chicago, the president of S. A. Institute, deep up the interest of the institution. Dr. D. A. Bithea, M. D. D. Terre Haute, president of the District Epworth League, kept his department up to a high degree of interest by his wit and humor. Mrs. Carrie Ross, president of W. H. M. S., held an excellent and profitable session in connection with the conference. Dr. D. A. D. D. D. M. C. E. Clarke each addressed the conference in the interest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Harriet Kelley read a very interesting paper before the conference that was well received and highly spoken of. Rev. Squire Belle and Preson Morrow were in the process of the re-reconstruction of the works. Mr. A. L. Smith and J. D. Compton were given license to preach. Thirty-five local preachers had their licenses renewed. On Friday brief memorial services were held at the home of the Concert. Rev. D. A. Heston and Rev. L. C. Harris, the wife of Rev. J. C. Carson and Mrs. Ann. Simmers, wife of the late Rev. Summers. The entertainment by the people of Shelbyville was superb. On Sunday night the audience was under the superintendency of Rev. Skelton was brought to a close. Our next meeting will be in North Vernon, Ind. The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, Dr. I. L. Thomas has had the opportunity to visit the Indiana District Conference, and Whereas, his visit has been of incalcube good. Therefore, be it. Our research has been of incubation. Therefore, we Resolved. That we express our highest appreciation for his able address and rich influence in bringing to us the knowledge of the work of Home Mission and Church Extension. TRIBUTE TO THE LATE SUSAN WALKER MILLER. Mrs. Susan Walker Miller began her career as teacher in the public schools of Indianapolis twenty-two years ago. Many youths and maidens, many men and women, were taught the character and thoroughly sympathetic manner of her teaching. The little child just framing his character was led to be a true leader, and her teacher such a person as Mrs. Miller. She recognized the fact that to teach was to lead, and to be a true leader one must be a power of imparting knowledge and her naturally strong will and good judgment and her well-balanced mind made her an ideal teacher. Her great love for human beings and her ability to to her pupils. They loved and trusted her. She was to them an example of what is good in mankind. Her educational ideals were high and she lived up to them. There were many more than the upright lives and characters of those she guided. To her associate teachers she was especially endearled for her and unprejudiced attitude in all things. Being very slow to wretch and speaking the whole truth made her strong influence felt in every direction. I believe it can be so thoroughly enjoyed the confidence of her co-laborers. The young teacher found her staunch and loyal, willing ever to give much aid and a bit of advice when she was tired and tired. She tremely modest that nothing but the A VOTE FOR FRANK S. FISHBACK DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR COUNTY TREASURER IS A VOTE TO OPEN UP THE BOOKS IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE length of service that God allowed her could have given to the world this knowledge of her beautiful character. One of the best illustrations of her molesty is the story of a principal's certificate in the city schools, yet made no mention of it, neither did she seek in any way to obtain what her ability and knowledge of the Immunitary law was truly free from rumors, her conscience was her strong retreat, she was ruler of herself and inward on wilingness in the work assigned to her. This life was truly free from School Commissioners instituted a search among its primary teachers for one to place in charge of a work which would be carried on without much supervision. People could not superintend such superintendents Mrs. Miller was offered the work, because, as the superintendent said, she would work faithfully anywhere without any supervision. In the case of regard was she held by all school people. We come today to pay our last tribute of respect to this good woman whose upbringing was worthy of emulation. Her work will indeed speak for her. She was an honor to her profession and the world is truly her. It is not dead, but in the words of the poet, has only answered the summons which only moves on to that mysterious realm. She has truly wrapped the drapery of her couch around her and laid down to pleasanter dreams. Peace be with her. Amen! Lillian Jones Brown. NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Concluded from Page One. vention got down to business early and pushed things until late in the afternoon, when the program were addressed by R. E. Sharrow of Birmingham, Ala., on "General Building Contracting"; Stonewall J. Chester of Chester, N.., on "Co-Operative Design at New Rochdale, N. Y."; and by J. W. Bloedget of Jacksonville, Fla., all of whom described their journey upward from poverty to comparative wealth. The Men Have Accomplished" was participated in by W. J. Latham, a lawyer, of Jackson, Miss.; J. H. Stuart of Denver, Colo.; Heber E. Wharton of Baltimore, and Rosie E. Wharton of New York City, editor of the National Review. In the evening at the Armory, which was again filled to overflowing, M. C. Fromen, hospice ear, spatite, Navy New York, vault spatite, "Developing a Real Estate Business", Samuel D. Hayward of Baltimore, manager of the Metropolitan Mercantile Company, on "Managing the Real Estate Business" of the Ford of Washington, D. C., secretary of the National Benefit Association, on "Insurance"; E. E. Ward of Columbus, Ohio, and Real Estate Company; as the closing agent of the Huntington presented H. William T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, who was received with such hearty acknowledgment, as the ordinarian, v eloquent and well-worded ten-minute address, he was compelled to make repeated acknowledgements of the applause. Register Vernon praised the action of the Negro Business League and subscribed $25 for a life membership, which was taken to the park, where the fresh air camp is located, and the delegates were agreeably surprised with the perfect arrangements for the little folks and in- The "Get-Away" on Friday. Friday was "get-away" day and Dr. Washington crowded two days' work into one and finished the essentials in good order. The star event of the morning was executive insurance by William S. Dodd, special attorney for the Mutual Life Association, with headquarters at Hampton, Va. Mr. Dodd is a white man who has made a career of tables and showed himself a master of every phase of the insurance business. J. C. Napier's address on "Business Failures" will probably be published in pamphlet form. William H. Dodd of Baltimore on "Furniture Business," and S. G. Craig of Brooklyn, N. Y., on "Succeeding as a businessman," outounded us a highly interesting symposium. The Undertakers' Association, affiliated with the League, held a business session, made reports showing a greater degree of success than the group elected C. W. Franklin of Chattanooga, Tennessee, president; James N. Shelton of Indianapolis, Ind., secretary, and W. M. Porter of Cincinnati, Ohio. Bankers set internally and continued the organization so auspiciously started two years ago at Atlanta. Capt. C. W. Posey, of Pittsburg, Pa., on "River Houston," a bank in Houston, Texas, who combines the work of preaching with a management of a shoe store, a brick yard, drug store and grocery, concluded the routine business Election of Officers. The committee reported the following list of officers and all were elected by acclaim name was called loud cheering for each as President, Booker T. Washington; first vice president, Charles Banks; second vice president, C. S. Elbert; third vice president, J. A. Lankford; corresponding secretary, Emmett J. Scott; treasurer, Gilbert C. Harris; compiler, S. Laing Williams; committee member, S. Laing Williams; trar, R. C. Houston; transportation agent, Cyrus Field Adams; official stenographer, William H. Davis; the executive committee member, T. Thomas Fortune; the succeeding T. Thomas Fortune, and the remaining members were announced as follows: Dr. S. E. Courtney, Massacusets; J. C. Jackson, Kentucky, W. L. Carr, Kentucky, W. L. Carr; E. Bush, Arkansas; Dr. S. A. Furniss, Indiana; N. M. Lewey, Florida; M. T. Velar, Pennsylvania; E. T. Andrews, Pennsylvania; F. D. Patterson, Ohio; J. E. Carolina, The resolutions, read by Charles Banks, re-affirmed the faith of the League in the city to business obligations, plied for a suppression of the lawless element of the race, and urged the acquisition of homes and useful occupations for a greatest number of the wittless, mayor and city council of Baltimore were thanked for their great service in making the meeting a success; the officials of the city were thanked for their great appreciation for the use of Big Four Excursions, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30th, $1.75 Cincinnati and Return $1.75 Special Train Leaves 7:00 a.m. $1.50 Champaign, Ill. Danville, Ill $1.25 Special Train Leaves 7:25 a.m. Saturday Night, Sept. 12 L. E. & W. Ry. and L. S. & M. S. Ry. $2.50===Round Trip===$2.50. Special train leaves Union Station 10:00 p. m., Saturday, Sept. 12th, arrives La Salle Street Station, Chicago, 6:00 a. m., Sunday, Sept. 13th; returning leaves Chicago 11:00 p. m., Sept. 13th, arrives Indianapolis 6:00 a. m., Sept. 14th. No change of cars. Get tickets at City Office, 1 E. Wash. St., or at Union Station. R. C. KENNEDY. C. L. HILLEARY. their magnificent edifice, and the press and citizens were well remembered for their countless courtesies and open-handed hospitality. Mr. Furniss, from the executive of the Royal Office of the City, as the next place of meeting and the choice was ratified with many expressions of satisfaction. The audience was treated to a surprise by Dr. Washington in introductory dramas. The famous famous glaciers artist, Dr. Purdy had his orphaned club sing some pathetic ballads and the Hampton Quartet, made up of F. W. Crawley, J. H. Wainwright, S. A. Thomas and the other examples applied to the league that the boat ride down the bay was postponed until all got their fill of the charming music. The sail to Brown's Grove on the Chesapeake was a delightful diversion and the exercises were brought to a brilance of the closeness of the grand station banquet, at the Armory at night. There was an exhibition drill by the First Separate Batallion of the Maryland Guards and the grand march was led by Dr. Washington, accompanied by Mrs. J. H. N. Wainwright. The thousand beautiful gowned ladies and gallant men, aided by an orchestra of rare excellence, tripped the light fantastic until the wee small hours, and the greatest meeting of the group of the Big Data League and Baltimore's most brilliant social season passed ittingly into history. The Indianapolis 45 South Penns Capital N UNITED STATE Capital Surplus and Profit Resources OFFICI FRANK D. STALNAKER, President, GWYNN F. L. Cash Transact a General Banking Bus Courteous SAFE DEPOSIT B C., H. & D. R. R., S. ROUND TRIP. CONNERSVILLE ..... 75c RUSHVILLE ..... 50c Rushville and Connersville tickets good going and returning on all trains (regular or special) of Sunday for which sold. Big Four B SUNDAY, AU $1.75 Cincinnati Special Train L $1.50 Champaign, Ill Special Train L Annual Excurs Saturday Night L. E. & W. 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Pennsylvania Street. National Bank DEPOSITORY - $ 500,000.00 - $ 220,000.00 - - $ 6,400,000.00 ERS: ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, ATTERTSON, er. Business. Your Account Solicited. Treatment. BOXES FOR RENT. Sunday, Aug. 30th. ROUND TRIP. DEGATUR..... $1.50 RUME..... $1.25 BLOOMINGDALE..... $1.00 Special train leaves 7 a. m. Returning leaves Decatur 6:30 p. m. Excursions, GUST 30th, and Return $1.75 leaves 7:00 a. m. Danville, Ill $1.25 leaves 7:25 a. m. ion to Chicago ight, Sept. 12 L. S. & M. S. Ry. Trip---$2.50. o. m., Saturday, Sept. 12th, arrives La Sunday, Sept. 13th; returning leaves Indianapolis 6:00 a. m., Sept. 14 No. 1 E. Wash. St., or at Union Station. C. L. HILLEARY, G. P. A. BACK URER THE STAGE The Centers continue to be pleasing at the Lincoln Theatre at Knoxville, Tenn. Elmore and Rave were in the city Sunday en route to Elwood to fill a week's engagement. Soan Edward's bass profundo, who took unto himself a wife he kept busy putting new songs on the market. E J. Elliott of the battery section is seriously contemplating matrimony, it is narrowed. Regards to all friends. Tom Logan, of the Smart Set Company, pretends at New York, but hopes to be able to in the ranks in a short time. G H. Clark and wife send regards to Bob Henderson, Rob Brown, Geo. Hamilton and John Mobely of Ten Dark Knights. Lehman Smith, the celebrated comedian, is making a great hit in Memphis, also Miss Renee M. Colquitt, known as Southern Trixle. "Slim" Mason has closed his engagement with Thornton's Amusement Company. He was in the city a few days en H. B. Washington of the Sunny South Company, leader of the orchestra and trombone artist in band, sends best wishes to P. G. Lowery and Enterprise. Ben Hunn, an old comedian, who was shot by one of the members of the Seils Photo Circus, died from the effects and was buried at Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 13. Tim Owley, the comedian, is meeting with much success on the Lyric Vaudeville Circuit. Besides presenting pictures, he daily Ledger at Noblesville speaks very highly of his ability as an entertainer. Brian Herry's Comedy Company is playable at the Dunbar Palm Vaudeville Theatre at Kansas City, Mo. Leon Jordan is manager and J. S. Paxton stage manager. Mr Jackson is pianist and Steve Wheeler is holding forth at the drums. W. R. Woss Famous Company of Royal Entertainers in a new auto full of fun, introducing Mr. Wheeler from Greenville," opened their season at the Grand Masonic Temple at Pine Bluff, Ark. "Thursday evening. The Real Comedy Four is making 'em laugh at Frankfort, Ind., this week. Week of Aug. 21 will make 'em laugh at Frankfort, Ind., this week. The real laugh at Marion, Ind. Regards to all, Human Hoy, the cornetist, has returned to the city. The Old Southland Sextette, filling special engagements in the Middle West, were guests of the Parker House Sunday. The rater is as follows: S. R. Overstreet, manager; J. Anderson, James Worsham, Mr. and Mrs. John Witson, Mme. Holmes and Miss M. Tailbert. The Smart Set Company is in rehearsals and will open Saturday, Sept. 5, at around the summer resorts they go direct on their Southern tour, beginning in Florida. Bob Kelley will take Tom Logan's place, pending the latter's recovery. The Fishers, Laurence L. and Cora, closed their engagement at the Lincoln Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 15. Mr. Fisher has been idle for several weeks on account of a aime foot, but has resumed engagement. The bunch of the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, also friends in and out of the profession. The Florida Blossoms Company will soon start rehearsing to open their fall season in the South. They created quite a class performance, so soon they are class performance. Their cars are being required and repainted and they have ordered new costumes, etc., and will look and span when they appear in their fall adve. M. W. Walker, formerly of Williams' Mistress, writes from Pittsburgh, Pa., August 14. He has visited Williams' Mistress arrived via S. S. Nerion from Liverpool, Aug. 23. We had a very pleasant passage on our return trip and we were on a nice sea sickness. The Rue was A. C. Burrell, Volleyball and Jackson and myself. Regards to all our professional friends. Will write your descriptive letter as soon as I reach Pine Buff, for which point I am now en route. A CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT The plantation show at the Wonderland Park, Indianapolis, has changed management, enterprise was formerly managed by J. McKinley, and the fame. The proprietors have transferred management to Wm. Goodall, who is in charge with a wim. His brother, John Goodall, the manager of the plantation is a sensation. Manager Goodall has managed the personnel of the cast and has actually a really creditable show. The plantation is one of the hits of the midway. THE SUNNY SOUTH COMPANY The Sunny South Comedy Co., showing here Wednesday and Thursday night was typical Negro show. The plays were heavily interspersed with dancing and dancing, and used benches, temporary platform and the flaring produced by the old tent with the flaring produced by the naturalness to the singing and dancing as induced by those real lovers of Southern ways that is seldom one's lot to see. A lively show was present both nights. They will be with us tonight. Admission 15 and 25 cents each. At 8:30. The Norwich Herald, Aug. 4. FRANK MAHARA'S MINSTRELS. the company is back in Minnesota playing back business as usual. The St. Louis, Harry and Bertha, left St. Louis, Aug. 5. The Don and Hazel, joined at Courts Avenue. Humps) Harris, trombone solos and a knee roller, joined a few days ago. Steve Ackerman, trombone and trap marmer leaves for his last tour to town, comming to illness of his wife. to The People at all well and sends regards the death of John Jones. GIFT FOR MR. SAM LUCAS. an appreciation of what Mr. Sam Larkin has been to the profession George W. Clinton has been into his dressing room on the night of the 19th of November. Grandmother and promoted the grand gift of a beautiful solid gold ring, with Miss Larkin is a flower in diamonds. Mr. Larkin is a flower in diamonds. Mr. Larkin is as regarded as the dean of the profession and is called the grand old man by his host, friends and members of the board of Education in College and Johnson's "Shoo-Fly Regl- THE GREAT LONDON SHOW NO. 2 this company are doing a rec breakout in Stockton, Ca, and the European medium in Belfast. company is curing diseases in a way that makes the home doctors wonder what kind of a man he is. He works week in Stockton. We change every night. The show opens with a minstrel first part. We do specialties and close with an act. The members of the company are: Fred Cramer, comedian Ed Anderson, comedian, and Tuba Willingham, comedian, M. McDuff, band leader, cornet, Bert De Leo; C. L. Banks, plano and traps; Mr. Venable, trombone; M. P. Ford, euphonim band and orchestra. The company sends regards to friends and glad to hear from any of the old bunch. Ford says hello to Fred Simpson and would like to hear from Frank De Brote. PEKIN THEATER. So great have been the throngs nightly to see the Lady Minstrels and Big Vaudeville now going on at the Pekin that pocemen have been detailed to keep the audience entertained. The house and this style of entertainment has caught on immensely with the Pekinites. The paceman act has held the boards in vaudeville for the past six weeks and they all seem to be well received by the patrons. A big act opened this week, Adair Dale and De Armond & Co., who change their act twice a week. Monday they have a ractrack, Tuesday a ractrack. They will change their act on Thursday in a comedy skit entitled "Willel's Visit." Both proved very entertaining. The house has been undergoing numerous improvements for the opening of the season. The lobby is being enlarged into one of the finest lobbies in the city. New chairs in the boxes, new carpets, beautiful electrical decorations. The company has been engaged for the opening, consisting of Wise & Milton and the famous Golden Gate Quintette and Kentucky's sweetest singer, Caroline Boyd, Billie Earthquake, come- The policy of this house this season will be entirely different this season from any previous one, as two shows will be given nightly. Prices have also been changed. The entire lower floor will be 15 cents, every 10 cents. All box and lodge seats, 25 cents. THE SMART SET COMPANY. Lord Byron said, "Laugh when you can, it is the cheapest medicine." The theater-going people in the South can follow Lord Byron's advice when the Smart Set," he said. "You can sit down and present the ripping musical comedy, "The Black Politician." So if you are troubled with "that tired feeling" go and take a laugh for two hours and a half. It is better than the mountains. It is better than to marshore. It is even better than going to Europe, especially if you are a bad sailor. This is one of the good things that George Washington missed. That could have been a bad thing. The United States will see it, because this is a company that will last as long as hite government. If you have seen it ounce, then you want to see it three times. Then your wife makes you go the fourth time, and then you realize you to buy tickets. It is the real colored comedy success of the century. S. H. Dudley, the noted colored comedian who plays the principle role in "The Black Politician" again this season, tells a funny story of an experience on a New York street where he met the Smart Set" company, as is usual, simply said "Company" when the conductor came along, so of course no one had to produce tickets except the manager. A smart young colored chap who had just entered the theater, was conducted reach him, he airly waved his hand and said "Company." As he did not look the part the conductor was suspiciosa, and said, "Company? What company?" The youth was nonplussed for a moment, then "The Boston Ice Company." He paid his fare. "The Smart Set" this season numbers fifty people, among the leaders being S. H. Dudley, Jennie Pearl, Jerry Mills, Netty Glynn, Allen, Irene Tasker and Geo McLaine. DIXON & DANIELS STERLING JUBILEE SINGERS. This is the only Jubilee Company this season that carries a reader, and Miss Mayne E. Clay is making nightly hits in that line. A. J. Watts, tenor, better known in the company as "Pop" Watts, though he is past his sixtieth milestone, still holds his own. "Pop's" voice rings out clear and sweet without a break or a quaver. He has been on the stage since 1873, with various quartets, jubilees and minstrels. He is also the composer of the Cumbria Bros. "big show at Sabeth, Kan. They were shown the courtesies of the profession and spent a very pleasant afternoon at the show grounds. Seasons J. Watts sends regards to the Billy Kersands and Richard & Pringles minstrels. P. G. LOWERY & CO. WITH WAL- LACE-HAGENBECK SHOWS. Chicago is the general conversation. Invitations have already been extended to various members of the company to visit our many friends. As we have three weeks no one will be slighted. A great time is expected. P. G. Lowery has the most peaceable company he has had for years. It is justly termed the happy family. The text last Sunday was, "Where will we spend enternity?" The question with Charley Payne is, where will we spend October (Toledo, Ohio). Henry H. Rawles, member of P. G. Lowery's company, received the sad news of the death of his sister. We all share his sorrow. To add his past and present life the answer is that Mr. Rawles is a getnleman. It is rumored around that Mr. John Carson will play a game of checkers after the season closes. Carson, don't get in the double corner. Lowery's band has five soloists for Chicago: Wm. Bolden, cornet; Wm. Jones, trombone; Fred Garland, trombone; Jason Hall, baritone, and Wm. May and Lowery play a little solo once in a while. Jack Johnson and Tony Barefield are the vocal basses with Lowery's Nashville Students and Morgans Minstrels. John L. Edwards is writing a new song called Wonder why Tom May must go to Columbus, Ohio, when the season closes. Messrs. Lawrence Perkins, Henry Lee and Chas, Payne hold prominent positions with the Wallace & Hagenbeck Circus. Hilly May expects to get married this fall. THE REAL COMEDY FOUR. "The Real Comedy Four," composed of George L. Conley, Spot A. Ware, Chas. Turner and Burrie Price, appeared at the premiere of the great hit. This quartet is one of exceptional merit in voice and comedy; each member being a singer and actor of high class attentions and a master of the art of Mr. George L. Conley, first tenor and manager of the aggregation, who sang "Swanee River" in a way that was pleasing to the audience, as only Mr. Conley can render it, was a creation of much applause on account of the splendid illustrations that were shown. Mr. Conley, Ware, who sing second tones made good, also, in minor comedy and strict, clever solo work. What was a surprise to many was the deep, round tones that Mr. Burrie Price, with much ease, delivered to the woman and sliding bass made much comedy on account of the peculiar contrast of voice and attire. Charles Turner enjoyed a large amount of the applause given in his behalf, partly because of his clever lines in comedy as the "olden time Negro and sharing favor with the rest as a baritone singer. The "Real Comedy Four" is all right as entertainers so long as they resort to singing, but in our opinion fail to a certain extent their dialogue. However there is success on any stage, for they are real artists. This "sour grape" belch is too childish to even be considered in any other light than that of contempt. Taylor is a good pitcher and hard to make take the baloon in the tightest situations. These qualities are valuable in a slab man. The "game keeper" George Abrahams, is all smiles over the results of the games. To end the story will simply say that he took down "Nuff Ced." Centerfielder Treen is a graceful ball SHOWS OF THE PAST WEEK. Bv. L. D. H. "Folles of the Day" did big business at the Empire. As a burlesque aggregation it was a bit superior to the average. It was Walton's Barney Goose, inducted with the vehicles offered and produced some clever comedy situations. Sam Sidman and Harvey Brooks were clever in their imitation of David Warfield and David Belasco in a scene from the Music Channel. Alexander Car in impersonating Mr. Warfield. The Olio was well balanced, both in variety and quality. "Broadway Galeety Girls" opened Monday. Broadway Galeety Women, Milk J. Kelly is the chief fun maker. "A trip through India" was the title of the two Burlettas, and was well received. The Burman sisters in a sidewalk stunt were well costumed and could sing. Eugene Rogers may make a German comedian some day if he sticks to the job long. "Fighting Parson," a play of the evangelistic type came to the Park for three nights. It was a poorly constructed affair with strained and unnatural situations. The presenting company was good and carried the sympathy of the audiences in their desperate attempts to make the "Lena Rivers" opened at the Park Monday for a week's stand, featuring Miss Beau Poyner, a writer and playwright, is her little success. The play is her dramatization of Miss Holmes' famous novel. The situations of the book were more accurately followed than is usual in such productions. The cast has been cared for and maintained, and the character people. Miss Poyner's best efforts perhaps are in the prologue, where she appears as the untutored Lena of the New England village. Her work has a similarity to Rose Melville in "Sis Hopkins." "SHOWED UP." Chicago Unions Shot to Pieces by the Fearful Bombardment of the A. B. C. Artillery. By J.D.H The gruelling the snappy Chicago Unions received at the hands of the A. B. C.'s Sunday at Northwestern Park will be a distinct event in local base ball history. The game will be doubly valuable to the local boys, as the Unions earlier in the season carried the Indianapolis crowd down the line for a whole series of three games. This it must be remembered that the A. B. C.'s were sadly disorganized. In fact they had only a shadow of their present lineup. The Unions have three former A. B. C.'s on their team, Premm, catcher; B. C.'s on their team, catcher field. The defeat of the Chicago bunch was gauling to those lads. They were all cocked and primed to repeat their former stunt of vanquishing their old team mates. As they filled out of the team after the game they had away they were sorry bunch to behold. The former feathers they had placed in their crests at the expense of the A. B. C.'s were dishevelled, broken and seered, the result of their chasing and drubbing they had received. A certain element of Indian avenue fans were out in force armed with megaphones and other weapons intimidating and otherwise demoralizing the local boys. Just why this demonstration was so successful? The persons being here is unknown. However they skulked away like a bunch of half drowned rats at the conclusion of the show. They were certainly silenced, and like the Arabs of old they tucked their "mouthpieces" under their coats and silently stole away. The A. B. C. R. H. O. A. E. Granger, lf. 0 0 1 0 0 Herron, cf. 0 0 6 1 0 Jeb. 2 1 2 0 Hutchinson, s. 1 2 3 Merida, 2 1 1 3 0 Board, 1 1 1 3 0 Gordon, c. 1 1 7 1 0 Davis, rf. 1 1 5 0 0 Hilgbe, p. 0 1 0 4 0 Totals 6 9 27 8 4 Unions. 1 A. H. O. A. E. Tony, s. 3 2 0 3 Robinson, s. 0 0 13 0 3 Green, cf. 1 1 1 0 0 Pryor, 3 1 1 0 0 Shawler, lf. 0 0 2 0 Primm, c. 0 1 3 1 0 Young, 2 0 0 2 1 0 Blankenship, rf. 0 0 0 0 Taylor, p. 1 1 0 4 0 Totals ..... 5 6*25 12 3 *One out when winning run was scored. A ties ..... 0 10 10 10 Unions ..... 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0-5 Innings pitched-Higbee, 9; Taylor, 9. Base hits—Off Higbee, 6; off Taylor, 9. Bases on balls—Off Higbee, 4; off Taylor, 9. Bases on balls—Off Higbee, 7; off Taylor, 9. pitcher—Board, Hutchinson, Two-base hits-Hutchinson, Merenda, Toney, Taylor, Green, Three-base hits-Allen, Davis. Home run—Allen. Double play—Higbee to Board to Allen. Stolen bases—Herron. Home run—Allen. Higbee. Umpire— Adams. Time—1:40 SECOND CHAIR A. B. C. Granger, lf. Herron, cf. Allen, 3 Murchinson, s. Merida, 4 Board, 1 Gordon, c. Davis, rf. Johnson, p. Totals Unions Toney, s. Rosey, rf, p. Green, cf. Pryor, 3 Shawler, lf. Robinson, 1 Washington, c. Young, 2 Haines, p. Blankenship, rf. R. H. O. A. E. 3 2 2 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 0 1 1 5 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 9 11 27 4 1 R. H. O. A. E. 2 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 6 7 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 Totals 6 11 24 6 2 0 0 0 7 1 0 1 -9 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 -6 - By Johnson, 7; by Raines, 1; by Ramsey, 1. - Hit by hitter-Granger, Gordon, Two-base hit-Merida, Davis, Ramsey, Board. Home runs-Granger, Toney, boben-Granger, Toney, Passed boben-Washington, boben-Washington, Adams Time-1:40, Attendance-12:00 SMALL TALK OF THE GAME. Higbee fought like a Trojan and won a great battle. Where did Lancaster go to? Did "Landy" land in the hedges? Captain Merida did not have quite so much tobacco in his mouth. Gordon is the "grand old man" at the receiving. Please don't go down to second on him. "Sheeensey" Prim caught a good game for the team. He has lost none of his old-time vim and ginger. Although touched up for eleven safeties Johnson managed to keep them well scattered and his support was gilt-edged. An ample pile is a pretty hard time. The team has always had Emile Adams very often during the first game. Things looked very dangerous for Umpire Adams very often during the first game. Adams grinned. He caused a shower when he poled the ball over the left field fence for a homer in the last game. They are a shortstop of dash and ability. He never loses his head and always knows where the ball belongs when he gets it. As usual the "welchers" and quitters seated in the box that the umpire was partial to the local baseball team. This "sour grape" belch is too childish to even be considered in any other light than that of contempt. Taylor is a good pitcher and hard to make take the baloon in the tightest situations. These qualities are valuable in a small man. The "game keeper." George Abrahams, is all smiles over the results of the games. To end the story will simply say that he took down "Nuff Ced." Centerfielder Treen is a graceful ball player, is a good coach and in the game he is sunny disposition makes him a favorite winger. "Babe" Herron is undoubtedly one of the safest center fielders in the business. If his hitting improves he is going to be greatly in demand next season. Captain Robinson had three errors in the first game, one of them the inexcusable variety. Bobby kept the smile that was of through it all. The pitching of Lestis Johnson was indeed sensational. He certainly put them over the plate in handsome style. Johnson, we'll be sorry when you leave us. John Tellman of 809 South Walnut St., Dayton, O., certainly let every one know that he was at the Northwestern Park all-right Sunday. John is a rooter epistola. Did you notice that Green, who is captain of the Chicago boys, looked real sad even before the first game. He must have felt the blow immediately or he knew that he was nearly bit his cigar into bits several times during the progress of the first game. But you should have seen him after the last game. All smiles. Did he really throw a wasovered by the great third base-man's mighty swatt in the opening of the ninth inning in the first game when the soo stood 5 to 3 in favor of the Chicagos. Frank Young is playing a snappy game at second. He is perhaps one of the most versatile colored ball players in the business, having played satisfactorily in every Indianapolis roots wish him success. Shawner is making good in left for the Chicago. He was expected to step in to some long hits, but frosted against the great Higbee. He stung the ball twice to deep right, which looked good for extra power. He was not the only player he always got under them. By the way, "Deadney" is not altogether dead after all. Puggy Hutchinson was there with three costly bobbies in the first game. It would be well for him to get up early of mornings and play the game. There while away an hour or so heaving at some dummy object that he may bring that wild whip of his under better control. In his present form it is even money that he could not throw the sphere in a hogshead. Each of his burn pegs in the first game was costly and came near losing the game. Barnes Williams, better known as Preach, is about the best rooter that ever hit the park. It never gets too warm for Preach, for he has always got plenty of cracks laid up for his friends. At the first game Sunday it seemed that a majority of the fans were red hot rooters for the visitors and amid the noise of bells, horns and strong voices you could hear old Preach trying hard to champion the cause of the A. B. C. boys. If our club had a few more rooters like Preach their playing would be, indeed, a great deal better because he makes them feel a great deal better because he makes them feel a great deal better by his clever coaching. BALL SHUTS OUT ANSONS. Leland Giants Win by a Score of 5 to 0 —Schwartz Touched for 12 Hits. CHICAGO. Aug. 23.—Walter Ball was the real thing in the game between the Cincinnati and the Colts yesterday at Anson's park, the colored chaps winning by the score of 5 to 0. Ball allowed only three hits and was never in trouble. Schwartz, who hurled for the Anns, did not pitch bad ball, but some erratic plays at third by Kennedy in the fifth put the game to the cleaners. Berry Winston made one of the best catches of the season with one hand off Andrews' bat. Score: Leeland, Giants. R. H. P. A. E. Winston, If. 1 2 1 0 0 Hill, cf. 1 1 1 1 0 Payne, rf. 0 1 1 0 0 Barker, c. 1 1 4 0 0 Struthers, c. 0 1 1 0 0 Kore, lb. 0 0 13 0 0 Bowman, 2b. 2 3 4 0 Tolbert, 2b. 0 1 4 1 Wright, s. 1 2 2 5 1 Ball, p. 1 2 0 2 0 Totals 5 12 27 16 2 Anns. R. H. P. A. E. Eckersall, rf. 0 1 2 0 1 Andrews, cf. 0 1 2 0 1 Odyssey, 3b. 0 0 3 2 1 Anson, 0 0 11 0 0 Kennedy, 3b. 0 1 0 2 1 Smith, c. 0 0 8 2 0 Gretz. 0 0 8 2 0 Penfield, 0 0 1 0 1 Schwartz, p. 1 0 3 0 Leland Giants . . . 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 -5 Ansons . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 Bob Browns hits his 100th Double plays—Hill to Moore; Wright to Bowman to Moore; Smith to Kennedy to Smith; Struck out—By Ball, 4; by Ball, 1; Base out—Ball, 1; Ball, 1; off Schwartz; Umple—Corbett NORMALS WIN IN TENTH. Talberts' Error Gives Them Victory Over Leland Giants. 5 to 4. CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Errors by Talbert and Foster in the tenth inning gave the Normals a victory over the Leland Giants on Friday at Auburn Park by a score of 5 to 4. Jake Vance was in the box for the city champions and was hit pretty freely for great innings. But after that he pitched all Score: Normals, R. H. P. A. E. Marcers, s, R. H. 0 1 3 1 Fenton, i, 1 1 1 0 0 Ernst, c, 0 2 6 2 1 Martin, 2b 1 2 1 0 0 Heehan, cf, 1 0 3 0 0 Hornsell, p 0 1 13 0 0 Malloy, rf, 0 1 0 0 0 Black, 3b 0 0 2 0 1 Vance, p, 1 1 1 2 3 Totals 5 6 30 7 5 Leland Giants, R. H. P. A. E. Winston, if, 1 1 3 0 0 Berman, p, 1 0 1 2 0 Foster, p, 0 0 0 0 1 Hill, cf, 1 1 3 0 0 Payne, rf, 1 2 0 0 Bocker, c, 1 1 6 1 0 Moore, 1b, 0 10 0 0 Talbert, 3b 0 0 1 3 1 Wright, s, 0 0 1 0 0 Harris, 2b 0 0 4 3 0 Totals 4 5 30 3 9 Normals 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3-5 Gliants 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3-5 Two-base blt--Booker. Three-base hit- Malloy. Double play--Harris to Moore. Struck out--By Bowman, 5; by Vance, 5. Strike out--By Bowman, 5; by Vance, 5. Umpires--Fitzgerald and McCarthy. UNIONS TO PLAY GIANTS. "The Chicago Unions will play the Loussas 25, August 25, August 25, August 25, 25, and 31, at Springbank Park. GREENWOOD WINS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Greenwood, Miss., again defeated the Memphis B. Bells last Wednesday by a score of 6 to 4. Bras's catch in the two scores that would have tied the game. Boman also pulled a good one down. LEBANON EASY FOR A. B. C.'S LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 18.—The A. B. C's defeated the local team here today in a score of 16 to 6. It was an easy victory for the pions, as they batted the ball at will. Lewis Johnson proved himself a star in the game, and as the home boys were unable to hit him, WHITE SOX TO PLAY A. B. C.'S The White Sox will line up against the A. B. C's next Sunday at Northwestern Park. The first game will be called at 1 p.m. Both teams are very strong the White Sox have played their games and lost only six. The A. B. C's one of the strongest line-ups in the middle west and should have but little trouble in holding their own. Pew fans of today know that "Watty" Tom Tighe's genial bartender was at one time on the sphere. He played third base for some of the best teams about the city. His first services were rendered for the old Southern Stars. GIANTS WIN FROM MERITS. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Special.—In last Sunday's games here between the Louisville Giants and the Indianapolis Merits the Giants showed much ability by defeating the visitors in a score of 9 to 2 in the first game and 2 to 0 in the second. The score by innings was as follows: FIRST GAME. Giants ..... 0 0 0 1 6 0 2 *—9 Merits ..... 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0—2 Batteries—Giants, Sanford and Collin; Merits, Scherer and Pratton. SECOND GAME. Giants ..... 0 0 0 2 *—2 Merits ..... 0 0 0 0 0—0 Batteries—Merits, Pratton and Rake; Giants, Griffin and Coleman. NOTES OF THE GAME Booker is playing good short stop and batting very good. Lolla played star first base, but is not behind him and is inbound. Wallace is trying to play center field. Wallace is trying to play center field, but was off in both games. Lolla played star first base but is not batting up to his standard. Wood is holding left field down for the Glants, but not batting so well. Griffin played the right field and also did good batting in the first game. Collins caught a good game, only allowing one man to steal second in the game. Collins caught a good game, only allowing one man to steal second in the game. Roberson played star second base for the Giants in both games, robbing the Merits of three clear hits and did fine receiving at the sack. Roberson played star second base for the Giants with games robbing the Merits of three clear Texas league hits and did fine receiving at the sack. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice.—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly send for mail, as the names will appear four times and the received to writer or deadletter office. It would prevent delay if all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at once. Gentlemen's List. Bryant, George. Pugley, the Acrobat. Carter, Paul. Smith, N, Clarke. Clark, Prof. H. I. Williams, Geo. A. Lee, Walter. Wilkerson, George. McDaniel, Mance. Wilson, Miss Dora. Malone, William. Ladies' List. Crosby, Miss Oma. Mey, the Acrobat. N. Clarke. Aams, Geo. A. Person, George. On, Miss Dora. t. Com A RABBIT'S AT LIBERTY 1025 Charlotte St., Kansas City, Mo. Take God as Add Equal to Equal and The Western Beauty, Supreme Grand Union derson, Ky., organized by Joseph Hatchett June of Kentucky May 29, 1888, and certified in the 1888, George W. Smith, Clerk, by T. H. Beverley Waterson, according to act of Congress, July 27 at Washington, D. C. for the purpose of uniting race. For this purpose the order of Western B appeal to the thinking Negroes of America who you love and respect. Are you proud of you let us inside and get together in the grand order are your best friends, who laugh when you la ready and willing to extend the hand of fellow guide you by deeds rather than by words, the trone. The order of Western Beauties, fame and in the near future. Organizers wanted in each JOSEPH HATC to Equal and the Total who preme Grand Union Local Lodge No. Naph Hatchett June 28, 1886 incorpora- tion of culture the Ministry of Order of Western Beauties, with its g es of America who for various read are you proud of your being in the we grand of W. Washington, re- tired when you laugh and weep wha the hand of fellowship; who will a an by words, the true bond of race u Beauties, fame and name, is not in it wanted in each state and territo Take God as Our Leader! Add Equal to Equal and the Total will be Equal. The Western Beauty, Supreme Grand Union Local Lodge No. 1, located in the city of Henderson, Ky. organized by Joseph Hatchett June 28, 1888, incorporated under the general statutes of Kentucky June 28, 1888, and is called the Lodge. In the Henderson County Court the day of May 1888, George W. Smith, Clerk, by T. H. Beverley, Deputy Clerk; copyrighted by Joseph Hatchett, entered according to act of Congress July 2, 1906, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. for the purpose of uniting the Negroes of America in union and love as a force. For this purpose the order of Western Beauties, with its great membership, do this day appeal to the thinking Neighbors of America. In the library people are not invited as a reason. Do you love your people? Are you proud of your being in the world among men? If you are, let us hustle and get together in the grand order of Western Beauties and be among those who are your best friends, who laugh when you laugh and weep when you weep; who are always appealing to you, who help you, who assist and counsel you and guide you by deeds rather than by words, the true boss of race relations in one. The order of Western Beauties, fame and name, is not in its zenith to day, but will come in the near future. Organizers wanted in each state and territory. For information address JOSEPH HATCHETT, S. G. C., Western Beauty, 129 Second St., Henderson, Kentucky. PEKIN T R. T. Motts, Pro Season begins Sept. 6, 1908. Wanted at ladies and gentlemen performers. Will no act is too big for this house, as we b ted booking agencies. We will play all and can give three days or one week to act the bigger the money. Can play re All performers wanting time, address MANAGER PEK IN THEATRE Notts, Prop., Chicag 2008. Wanted at all times for the performers. Will book at all time house, as we book in conjunce. We will play all acts coming to or one week to acts that lay. Can play reputable people time, address ER PEKIN TI PEKIN THEATRE Season begins Sept. 6, 1908. Wanted at all times for the Pekin Stock Company ladies and gentlemen performers. Will book at all times vaudeville performers. No act is too big for this house, as we book in conjunction with all the associated booking agencies. We will play all acts coming to Chicago or going through and can give three days or one week to acts that lay off here. The better the act the bigger the money. Can play reputable people from four to six weeks. All performers wanting time, address MANAGER PEKIN THEATRE. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. WANTE A high class colored female singer, One who can be featured for Stetson U. T. C. company. Address LEON WASHBU Bound Brook, N. J. ANTE colored female singer, be featured for Stetson company. Address N WASHBU Bound Brook, N. J. WANTED! A high class colored female singer, soprano voice, One who can be featured for Stetson's Big Eastern U. T. C. company. Address LEON WASHBURN, Bound Brook, N. J. THAT FUNNY ACT "IN ONE," George ELMORE & RAY Beulah THE MAN WITH THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE FIDDLE. THE BIG NOISE. Open for Polite Vaudeville or Burlesque. Per. Add. 2442 State street, Chicago. WANTED! AT LIBERTY AFTER SEPT. 6. 3602 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill. Coming Soon! A moonlight invasion of "THE SUNNY SOUTH." The Smart Set, In the Jolly, Jingling Musical Melange THE BLACK POLITICIAN Headed by the Southland's "Sunny Boy" S. H. DUDLEY, 59-OTHERS-59 Colored Woman! to play piano and sing. One that reads music well. Address Mrs. Lucia Caldwell, HOUSTON, TEXAS. WANTED For the Sunny South Comedy Co., musicians and performers at all times. W. L. Horne. Answer care 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 ROUTE: Danville, Pa., Aug. 31; Shenandoah, Sept. 1; Mt. Carmel, 2. 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. Our Leader! the Total will be Equal. Local Lodge No. 1, located in the city of Hensol, incumbent under the general Council of Hensol County Court, the 6th day of May. Deputy Clerk; copyrighted by Joseph Hatch-1906, in the office of the Librarian of Congress that negroes of America in union and love as a nation, with its great membership, do this day for various reasons are not united as a race, or being in the world among men? If you are, north of Western, British and as a wise high and weep when you weep; who are always ship, who will aid and assist counsel and us bond of race union and love that binds us as name, is not in its zenith to day, but will come state and territory. For information address HETT, S. G. C., THEATRE op., Chicago, Ill. all times for the Pekin Stock Company book at all times vaudeville performers. book in conjunction with all the associac- acts coming to Chicago or going through acts that lay off here. The better the puttable people from four to six weeks. KIN THEATRE, TED! ale singer, soprano voice, for Stetson's Big Eastern ess SHBURN, ook, N. J. Henderson, Kentucky. The MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER LADIES everywhere now use this great toilet necessity. Besides being the only perfect device for drying the hair quickly, it works wonders in that IT WILL SURELY STRAIGHTEN CURLY HAIR, and give a durable duffy and wavy appearance, so much desired. 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The Baltimore meeting of the National Negro Business League did not have any delegates who looked as if they belonged to a "downtrodden" race. The B. M. C. at Atlantic City, the Good Samaritans at Baltimore and the National Baptist convention at Lexington, Ky., will hold the floor for September. To those whom it may concern: The St. Louis Palladium is offering a reward of $10 to any qualified man that a respectable Negro who is a Democrat. Now that Mr. Bryan has admitted a fondness for fried chicken, it will be useless for his managers to make any further denial that he is bidding for the colored vote. The re-election of William L. Houston as grand master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows by the B. M. C. next month, at Atlantic City, is universally conceded. --- In playing a star part in the divorce court Joe Gans is simply keeping pace with such eminent footlighters as E. H. Sothern, James K. Hackett, Robert Mantell et al. Will Pro. DuBots vote with his Bryant-like friends in favor of the disfranchising clause in the Georgia Constitution, which would up for adoption at the October election? Brother Waldron is silent on the action of the West Virginia Democrats, who are hastening to disfranchising and jim-crowd the Negro people of that excellent State. --- It is to be hoped that after next month there will be but one national lodge of colored Elks. The future of the organization depends upon the capacity of its head men to stand together. Elbert Hubbard, the eminent Roycrofter, has discovered that the American people's conception of a "nigger" is "a colored person who no money." Dr Hubbard may go to the head of the class. The Buxton Gazette, of Buxton, Ia. is the only official county paper published by colored man in the State. The editor, Rev. William Lincoln, only has designated a contract with the State officials for the State Fair advertising. With Robert W. Taylor in Wall street and Major C. W. Fillmore breaking into the financial operations of the magnates on Broadway, the Negro is rapidly ceasing to be a cipher in the money market. The leavening influence of the National Negro Business League is having its effect. Col. Stewart, whom the President has marooned at the deserted and surrey Fort Grant, and to whom he denies a court of justice, the man many people Roosevelt does not permit of to enter into the visitation of what he believes to be rovered punishment. "The Frogs" of New York seem determined to frolic whether Judge Goff approves of them or not. If we have Elks, Owls, Eagles, Buffaloes and Lambs, there may not allow men to be "Frogs." If it please them to call themselves by that name. No information is being given out as to how many $2,000 has been collected by Missionary Bishop Jay Albert Johnson, the amount he has asked for to get him "onto his job" in Africa. He ought to have the money at once, so his departure may not be delayed. Prof. R. R. 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West Virginia has some of the most thirty and industrious colored citizens on earth. --- Samuel Gompers is having as hard a time trying to deliver the labor vote to Bryan as one or two of the colored bishops are having in their efforts to transfer the Negro vote to the Democracy. The Negro vote is a powerful force of the churches seem to feel that they have sufficient intelligence to think and act for themselves—and they are right. ... The National Negro Fair, to be opened at Mobile, Ala., this fall, is a worthy enterprise, and should be loyally and enthusiastically supported by people of every section of the country. In putting our best foot foremost to prove our capacity for progress in the arts that have made the white race great the Newfoundland of this land have a cause in common. --- The National Negro Fair at Mobile ought to be made a success. Rev. H. N. Newsome, the projector in chief, is a rebel millionaire and a dollar or five hundred dollars he may be able to invest in it. The movement is sapably backed, both in point of brains and money, and Congress is pretty sure to grant a financial appropriation to boost" it along. boost it along. Te Buffalo Commercial intimates that "the White House will never be opened to a professional knocker. In view of the professionalism may be necessary for William Horne Trotter, James H. Hayes, Julius P. Taylor and Harry C. Smith to make arrangements with President Taft's messenger to have their conferences on a bench in Lafayette Square—just across the street. General Corbin, who ought to know all about the United States army, says Judge Taft is no no sense to blame, or to disconnect with the Navy. He is connected with the Brownsville riot. The President, who ought to know where to place the blame for the action, says General Corbin is right. This ought to settle a case of the Navy properly an issue in the present campaign. The programs gotten out of the defense department are U.S. Navy new headquarters at Philadelphia are the finest and prettiest specimens of the typographical art we have seen in many a year. The quality and beauty of the new programs fully meet the needs with the excellent structure, the opening chapters of whose history they so graphically described. tibed. Iowa is setting a pace in the matter of recognizing the Negro press which her sister States would do well to imitate. In the state Gazette, it was announced that the county county paper conducted by a colored man. The editor, Rev. Abraham Lincoln DeMond, has just signed a contract with the State officials to provide the county owned people of Buxton own more property in proportion to their population than is true of any other city in the North. Joseph E. Lee, the Florida committee man, robs the opponents of Judge Taft of a sweet morsel when he emphatically denies that he was snubbed at the Hotel Sinton, in Cincinnati, on account of his involvement in the capital against the Republican nominee because, it is said, Charles P. Taft owns a large block of stock in the hotel. If Mr. Lee says he was treated all right, he seems to whoqt to know best. He was there. --- Richmond, Va., has contributed another musical prodigy to the New York reservoir of race talent in the person of Mr. R. Hilford White. He has achieved success as a pianist and is said to render selections from Beethoven, Rubinstein, Liszt, Chopin, MacDowell and other great composers, with wonderful skill and technique. He memorization short notice are attracting marked attention at the hands of the best musical critics of Gotham. The Liberian envoy scored heavily for their country both in America and in Germany. A case is half won when the representatives are introduced by the proper sponsors, and is wholly won when the case is dismissed by the judgment of mankind. The Liberians are to be congratulated upon the successful outcome of their international negotiations, and Dr. Booker T. Washington's contribution to the retention of the American government will leave an indelible impress upon the history of the famous "Black Republic." In response to popular demand, the faculty of Tuskegee Institute has caused to be reprinted a large edition of Elbert Hubbard's surpassingly interesting and illuminating story, entitled "A Little Journey to Tuskegee, which appeared in the Philadelphia some time ago. This article appealed so strongly to the friend of W. Washington's school that the famous author amplified the story, injecting much of his own home-grown philosophy and searching analysis and gave it its place in his series of "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers." It appeared as a separate publication, being the July number of the series. President Thirkield, of Howard University, calls attention to the congestion of doctors at Washington, noting that there are doctor thives in the city, persons, the largest per cent of physicians, to population in the country. The smallest proportion is found in South Carolina, where the most doctor thives are 400 persons. President Thirkield very sensibly activizes his medical graduates to get out of Washington and locate in the South, where they may not only win for themselves a livelihood, but can let their light shine for the benefit of their less fortunate brethren. --- Rev. B. G. Shaw, who is achieving such signal success as pastor of the leading Zion church at Evansville, Ind., is building a $5,000 temple of worship for his augmented congregation. He is both a brilliant financier and a powerful Gospel preacher. He has deep intellectuality, exhaustless energy, untiring industry, unfailing tact and a faith in the future of his church that moves mountains and overrides obstacles. Dr. Shaw was one of the few of the younger men who made a distinct impression upon the General Conference at Philadelphia. He has won the confidence of the entire connection, stands high in the esteem of his presiding bishop, and there is no doubt that substantial honors await him at Charlotte in 1912. Rev. Matthew Anderson, the official head of the Berean Industrial Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's neighborhood he founded the Quaker City and the "blue-blooded aristocrat" of that section do not like it. They threaten to bring the influence of the wealthy promoters of the Quaker religion out of the way, but the latter has the support of a coterie of rich white neighbors, who are standing by him to get even with them. The Quaker community admit them into the charmed inner circle because of shyness in the length of ancestral pedigrees. It is a pretty mess, and the Quaker community wrestling with their social problem Brother Anderson is serenely holding the fort. Private Secretary Emmett J. Scott is being commended far and wide for his timely service in having the War Department masters for colored regiments in the United States army. As a direct result of his activities, two of the four regiment masters; one of the three bandmasters; in the third, a Negro leader is acting, and will receive a permanent appointment as soon as a vacancy occurs. The Negro civilian sician is still in charge, a change will be made at the earliest opportunity, by transfer or otherwise, and a Negro will be one, and is tending toward happier conditions for both the leaders and the men in the ranks. Mr. Scott never fails to "do the work" for his people when he has the chance. --- At a recent banquet in Washington, tendered by the educators and professional men of the capital in honor of Roscoe Kleidler, the founder of the public schools, Haley G. Douglas, a grandson of Frederick Douglass, in responding to the toast, "Washington School Products" referred to the honored guest as news "needed" him as merely "the son of Blanche K. Bruce, successful planter, statesman and champion of his race," but as an honor-man, "the son of the Harvard Mining Exeter Academy; vanquisher of Princeon and Yale upon the rostrum; president of the Harvard University Debating winner of the Harvard Monthly winner of the scholarship; and phi Beta Kappa; class day orator-graduate of Harvard College, magna cum laude; principal of the academic department of the Industrial Institute at Tuskegee; supervising principal and assistant superintendent of the public schools of Washington, the city of Tuskegee, two promising children and not yet thirty." Needless to say that this sally of wit and happy eulogium "brought down the house, and caused the audience to laugh," he wrote, "yet among us in the genial personality of his talented grandson. GREAT TEMPERANCE WORKER Short Sketch of a Distinguished Fellow-Townsman. Rev. C. W. McColl was born in Bennettville, S. C., and after attending the common schools of his native town, pumphouse, he took course in Benedict College, Columbia, S. C., and Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C. Soon after leaving school he was married to Clifton University, Orangeburg, S. C. Mrs. McColl died about three years ago in Philadelphia, Pa., where the family was living. He was Jerusalem Baptist Church, dained Baptist minister for twenty-seven years, during which time he pastored the Pee Cee Union Baptist Church, Cheraw, N. C., Jerusalem Baptist Church, Hartsville, N. C., and Zion Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va. At the close of his Petersburg pastorate he became field secretary of the Pennsylvania Baptist Hayward school Convention, and served two terms. He was, the first colored man in the United States to receive appointment by the Baptist Church in the temperance work, the office being REV. C. W. McCOLL. that of superintendent of the colored department of the Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylvania, and evoke the National Colored Temperature League, of which he was elected president. This league became an auxiliary of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and has rapidly changed its name to the Colored Anti-Saloon League of America. The League has its national office in the Colored Y. M. C. A. Building, Indianapolis, Aside from the work of temperance and pastoring, Rev. McColl has edited newspapers, taught music, conducted Bible institutes, written poetry, lectured extensions, taught in the league, taught in the public schools and served as president of Berean Academy in his own State. He now working to make a great meeting of the Indiana State Colored Anti-Saloon League convention, which is to meet in Jones Tabernacle, Indianapolis, September 14. Each church and auxiliary in the State is guided to send one delegate to this convention. 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Searls, No. 17.06. Complaint Divorce. BE IT KNOWN. That on the 3rd day of August, 1908, the above named plaintiff by her name filed a plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's notice that the plaintiff said defendant, William H. Searls, is 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 plaintiff said defendant on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or demurrage on said complaint of October, 1908. NOW THEREFORE, said court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against him, and that unless he appear and answer and said plaintiff has called on the 30th day of October of the same being the 23d judicial day of a term House in the city of Indianapolis, on the first day of October of the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. LEONARD M. 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Candidate Prosecutor Ma Vote Henry C For Juvenile As his fitness will warrant your supple man, and the people will ha Hon. Lawson REPUBLICAN Judge Superior Court Room "WHO IS M.IKE?" Mike L. J Republican Nominee for Election November Vote Pliny W. B Candidate for Judge of Superior Court; former Judge room 3. Re Vote Salem D For State The Popular Candidate Will follow the dictates of his own conscience if elected HENRY L. K REPUBLICAN Surveyor Marion County. Chas. F For Repres who stands for equal no discriminating A Square D Jacob W For Sheriff Ma I pledge myself to an honest enforcer office, fair treatment to every citizen Commissioner 2d District solicited on the merits of an honest business in Marion County. It my past administration in our commendation for your future s Siott R. Hoot Candidate for Prosecutor Marion County Vote For Henry C. C For Juvenile Judge, ess will warrant your support. He is a reasona man, and the people will have a square deal with S. Lawson M. 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He is a reasonable and capable man, and the people will have a square deal with him. Hon. Lawson M. Harvey, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Judge Superior Court Room 4. Election Nov. 3d. Republican Nominee for Township Assessor Election November 3, 1903. Pliny W. Bartholomew. Candidate for Judge of Superior Court, room 5, on Democratic ticket; former Judge room 3. Record approved by the people. For State Senator. The Popular Candidate of the People. Will follow the dictates of his own conscience if elected. HENRY L. KLAUSMAN, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Surveyor Marion County. Election November 3d. who stands for equal privi eges 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. For Assessor Cen Your support is resp Vote I HENRY C. SC For Township If elected I promise to select a comm different churches in the city to act citizens entitled to the charity of the to their reports. Vote I GEORGE For County Commiss James E. Bent For Assessor Center Township support is respectfully solic Vote For NRY C. SCHROED For Township Trustee. promise to select a committee of colored la- curches in the city to act as sponsors for wo- tled to the charity of the county, and shall a- ports. Vote For GEORGE HI County Commissioner 2d Dis For Assessor Center Township 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 sands of dollars. This can be done only by putting an hon will clean out grafters in court house and save the tax dollars. This can be done only by putting an honest man When elected will clean out grafters in court house and save the tax payers thousands of dollars. This can be done only by putting an honest man in power. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. SOME SPORTING COMMENT. —By Charles D. Marshall. Jack Johnson, who claims the world's most because of Tommy Burns' refusal to meet him, picked Ben Taylor, one of the best biped heavyweights, in the eighth of a scheduled tenure at Pinnacle, England, one night last week. It was Johnson's fight from the very beginning. He said after the battle he let just stay just to give the spectators a chance for their money, though he fought for a percentage. # 600 side the far too clever for his hardiness. Johnson's far too clever for his hardiness. rounds did Taylor land more sham hand, a light bat hand, a hard hand, his man in a bad way times, but always let up on him when he saw he had bad hands. six right hand, Johnson shot a right hand book to the jaw and Taylor like a log. The English expert who saw the battle with and have seen Burns in actual claim that Johnson is Burns' all stages of the game. One of the best known critics in London had the following to say "Johnson is 100 per cent, better man than Burns. He is cleverer, can hit hard- er, can stand more punishment and is just as cool intuition. Speaker of Johnson, it transpires that the players of Milwaukee, Schireck, of Cincinnati, have been matched to fight in London on October 19, before the tournament for the wienerweight championship. The team receive a purse of $5,000 and expenses. Schireck's selection to be Johnson's opponent brings him prominently to the attention of the coaching staff, the refusal of Tommy Burns to meet Johnson in London, the burns of the National Sporting Club, the burns to look around for a white weight who would be good showing against Giant Negro. It was not the desire of the club managers to put two skinned men into the ring, and with Burns in Australia and no white man in England who could compete with American, they turned their Barry was at first suggested, but his speedy defeat at the hands of Sam Landgraf put Schreck was in a running. Schreck was suggested. It was with the exception of his seven defeat at the hands of Al Kauffman a year ago. Schreck's record was excellent, with Hino Kelly and other clever bites, while Schreck has scored successive knockouts over George Gardiner, David Kernan, Will Kernan and it was this string of victories that impelled Jim Corbett to declare that in his opinion Schreck would eventually win the season, match between Schreck and Kernan, resulting in a speedy victory for the younger fighter. In explanation Schreck set forth that too, that he would on to put up a vigorous contest, that may be, it cannot be denied that Schreck has an excellent record and has defeated two opponents, asserts that Schreck has tried greatly to get Jack Johnson into the match, but failed, with one exception. On that occasion it was the man, members that Schreck has tried to get Jack Johnson refused to box after the third round, alleging that the white man was fighting in earnest. The man, members of the opinion that Schreck will be Johnson a stubborn argument. Always a drawing card, the California promoters have figured it out that there is one more good fight in Joe Gans, and as they have matched him for the third and probably the last time with Battling Nelson. Joe who realizes better than anyone else how much cleverer than Nelson is, is probably believes that this open-air life at Harbin Stonings such has brought his weight up. 144 pounds, will give him the return to beat Nelson. Anyway, despite the stories of great wealth and his big hotel in Baltimore, Joe is practically broke. He took the Unholz fight because he needed the money badly, and after that contest he traveled to Chicago to get on Packey McFarland, because he needed more money. In California their heads are turned by this match. When the negotiations with Joe and the other party started, Willus Britt manager of $50,000. This is the amusing program he sent to Coffroth several days before the deal was closed, from Nevada, when he had gone to talk to Tex Rickard about holding the fight in the mining camps. If you can get United Railroads to you 212-cent fare to Colton, will you go $50,000 purses for Gans Nelson match? Will take September 7 or 9 provided inducements are satisfactory. Ind Coffrout put up the purse it would have in the world. "The promoter's answer, however, is not known. But the fighters know it was the cent. when the match was finally made. . . . Jim Jeffries evidently meant it when he, after being so severely criticized by Mike McKierland bunch, forwards a letter to Freddie Weich that he would never again appear in the ring in any capacity whatever, for only the other day he positively refused to play in the ring, which Jim Coffroth will stage at San Francisco on Labor Day. Jeff says it is impossible for him to be there on that day as he has an engagement in the South. Did you ever stop to consider what a hard time of it the umpire has. There are times when you are overjoyed at his decision, but you could fairly go up against him. But do you realize that a great many times when you think that the umpire has his decisions that he is perfectly right? When you think that the grandstand once a ball pitched that looks like the fairest strike that was ever purely a ball of the commonest sort. When you sit badly that a ball breaks before landing over the plate, but the umpire is where he must see unless he is blind. When he makes mistakes, but what he makes mistakes sometimes, but does not? I never saw any good way to squabble over a decision that did not happen because a beaver it destroyed all pleasure it derived from the great game. We should tell the umpire as we are with the players and the player err and there is not near as much as when the poor laboring umpire to make a mistake once in a while. --- Sam Lanford, the middleweight wonder, is steadily climbing to the front. Today is the foremost Negro pugilist in the country, or I might say the cleverest in the heavyweight division. Some of the entries he weren't black he would be the champion. But that was what they did of Joblong once. Lanford's work was the best of him, and how is going to force the top notchers to fight him despite color; the promoters and the sporting public are going to make Ketchell break up the color line and that will come through the power of money. You know money does most anything. There may be no chance just now, but then she is on the way. Sam has been fighting since 1902, and has lost five battles out of about 75. He said, marring an otherwise unspotted word then pertaining to Joseph. In over years he has not lost a fight. He is a only one of the most old-time men who saw the red Langford went against Tony Ross down in New York, and what appeared to Ross was a shame. The ring who saw the scrap say it would be made for Langford to go against any new Jones and others. He himself wants to be Johnson or Tommy Burns. and Burns, fight anybody but Burns, and Burns won't fight anybody but easy things, unless he can get Jeffries into a The A.B.C's pitchers this season have have done work that seems remarkable just think of it! Out of lost. Such a record shows that this team's pitchers have done some wonderful tossing, and some strong twirling, whirlwind, has done some strong twirling, son. His showing against the Philadelphia Giants showed him to be as clever a lad in the box as there is playing on the field. He was playing in the making that Higgisse made recently when playing the strong Atkins team places him among the best pitchers we have ever played in, losing our core the Louisville Giants at home. He was stunner for managers who value pitchers of the top notch elk. There is likely to be a lot of other pitchers in the near future that may cause Manager Butter to actually quake. Baseball has made great progress on its technical side during the last generation. The game as now played by professional players is now more obvious and scientific than it was twenty or thirty years ago—many old-timers to the contrary notwithstanding. It embodies more team work, "inside ball" and patient teamwork, "outside ball" and steal, the hit-and-run game, the squeeze play and other innovations have worked a transformation in the game. The modern game makes larger demands on the field, the more ground covering. The development of bunting, for example, has called for greater speed in the work of the third-basemen, first-basemen and catchers. Come in fast to cut off bunts; the latter must be able to cover front in front of the plate as well as behind it. Formerly, since the catcher played back near the wall when he came up, and from this position could make comparatively easy work of the high fouls. Now the catcher is up "under the bat" at time, and has to go back fast in order to catch the ball. The player today must be not only a backstop and a strong thrower, but a fast man in covering ground about the plate. In order to catch the ball, he has greatly widened the territory which certain players are expected to cover. WE WANT ALL SPORT PHOTOS. Send to the sporting editor of this paper your photo or cut and if we can find it possible we shall use them. Write us for information concerning such matters. SEND IN YOUR FOOTBALL NEWS These columns are now ready for footnotes, the editor of these columns wishes you to keep the attention to write and tell us what your squad is doing. Send us your challenge and SCHRECK AND JOHNSON MATCHED. Cincinnati. O—Special—Word has been released. Will McCormick and Schreck will meet October 19 in London. The fight is to be twenty rounds and Schreck will be handling hard p. Reading with Billy Griffith. WILL HARPER SIDETRACK? Jack Morgan, the clever little featherweight of Louisville, Ky., issued a challenge to Ben Harper, the husky Indian mascot, but so far nothing has been done in the Harper camp toward taking up the Morgan challenge. Fred Hazel, the Bloomington sportsman and manager of Harper, has not given Morgan any consideration. KANSAS CLUBS PLAY LIVELY. Kansas City, Mo.—Special—One of the livestest games of baseball that has ever been played in the United States. City Athletics and the Autumn Leaves in a ten-inning game played Tuesday, Aug. 8. The Autumn Leaves proved them to be the best team in the game by defeating the City Athletics by a score of 12 to 10. Mr. Felix H. Layman is manager of the Autumn Leaves. Gibbs is manager of the Autumn Leaves. IRON LEAGUE PLAYS TIGERS. The Iron League Giants will cross bats with the North Side Tigers for a doubleheader at the Arnold Park, this city, Monday. August 31. After the game the park will be turned on and off, which will give a band concert. Dancing and several others things will assist in entertaining. The committee on arrangements must host Nick Robinson, Tom Blinn and L. Hilliard. MAY BUY BALL PARK. Indianapolis to Have Another Ball Park Next Season. A great stir is being made over the rumor given out by some very good auctions. The first class baseball Club is to have a first-class ball park and amusement ground next year. Already negotiated, the ground is a ground and it is almost a realization that the Iron League Base Ball Co. will own one of the finest base ball parks of base ball sets in. KID BELL AFTER TOP NOTCHERS Will Go to Frisco in Search of Big Game. Special to THE FREEMAN Salt Lake City, Utah, August 23—Kid Bell, the well-known whirlwind lightweight champion of this year, will play in San Francisco, where he will go after the big fighters, also with an eye single to the lightweight championship of the world. Bell has been a long-time member of person of Edward Nell, the widely known sportsman throughout the West. At presen- tence, Nell will continue until Nell returns from a fishing trip. Fight fans say Bell is a fit man to take up where Gans will leave off and is ready to win the winner of the coming Gans-Nelson fight. JACK JOHNSON IS POPULAR. London Sports Fall for Black Jack with Acclaim London, August 15.—Jack Johnson, the colored boxer, is being received with acclaim in England because of his easy victory over Ben Taylor at Plymouth a fortnight ago. His British sporting press on Burns because of his refusal to fight men who seemed dangerous, while Johnson is receiving considerable eulogy over his readiness to meet the same class of men. One writer in the London Sportsman's Journal wrote that Johnson has made a better showing in the heavyweight class than Sharkey or Gus Ruhlin. RACE HORSES FLYING SOUTH. South America Getting United States Running Nags in Large Numbers. New York, August 28.—One hundred horses belonging to the stables of James R. Keene and J. B. Haggin will be shipped Buenos Aires on August 20, for the purposes and to take part in rides there. This is the largest single shipment of horses in the country since the recent depression in the racing game here. On outgoing ships during the last few months there have been several consignments for the race track at Jamaica, and consignments by other New York racing men are soon expected at Haraana. On outgoing ships on outgoing horses for southern countries is said to be far greater than ever before. ATHLETES TO VISIT TEDDY. He Will Be Unable to Attend Reception for Olympic Heroes. New York—Special—That President Roosevelt will meet and speak to took part in the Olympic games in London is likely, although the games will not participate in the celebration be- THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE BOXING CLUB The Utah boxer, who challenges the winner of the Gans-Nelson fight ing arranged in their honor. A letter from the President to that effect was received by Secretary McLoughlin of the Olympic athletes' reception committee at having been named honorary president of the committee, but said that it would be impossible for him to attend the reception. He closed the letter by asking that the team visit him at Oyster Bay. Arrangements made for their visit to the President. SCRAPS ABOUT SCRAPPERS Young Pierce, the Germantown (Pa.) colored featherweight, defeated Teddy Maloney in a hard six-round contest at the Broadway A. C., Philadelphia, on July 30. Jack Welsh will referee the Gans-Nelson fight at Colma, Cal., on September 9. Jabez White is acting as sparring partner to Jimmy Britt in the English music halls. The lid is on the boxing game in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the proposed Clifford-Sholes battle was called off. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was offered a match in Boston, Mass., with Jack (Twin) Sullivan, but declined to meet the Twin. It is reported that Stanley Ketchell is going to get $7,000, win, lose or draw, to fight Young Peter Jackson on Labor Day afternoon at Goldfield, Nev. Johnny Summers beat Boss Edwards at Wonderland Pavilion, in London, the other night. It was a six-round go, and Jawn had the lead from the start. Jack O'Brien wanted to make a match with Billy Papke at 162 pounds, but Papke would not agree to let him weigh over 158 pounds, and the negotiations were called off. Bartley Connolly, the Portland, Me. wealtweight, expects to return to England in September to fight Tom Thomas of England, at the National Sporting Club, London. SOUTH PAWS ARE LESS FEARED. Left-Handed Pitchers Not Regarded as Dangerous as, Yorg. The day of the crack left-handed pitcher seems to be passing—that is, so far as he is capable of hitting a massive defeats of famous southpaws this season have emphasized this fact. Two or three years ago no American League pitcher had ever made a ple of left-handed heavers. Chicago used KID The Utah boxer, who challenges t White and Altrock to win a pennant, and Philadelphia did it twice with Plank and Waddell. Detroit had a couple in Siever last year, and Philadelphia last year. And all these clubs, with the exception of the Tigers, worked their southpaws uniformly and in regular turn. But the day of the left-hander in the Tigers had had an unfair far as the naked eye can discern, Siever had this year as much speed and curve had had in his life but was unable to win, and even back to Altrock is still with Chicago, but occupies the bench most of the time. Plank and White, as well as Killan, are all mighty and are not winning with anything like their former The name of Waddell no longer makes the cold shivers run up the backs of the team's teams. The team brought on a year Burns of Washington seems to be the only one of real value. Boston expected a whirlwind in Burchell, but he has disappointed. St. Louis still has a chance to win, but her faith to Howell, Dineen, Powell and Pelty. Case Patten and Jesse Tannellhill are about from pillar to post, and they used their great pitchers as there were in the game. CHICAGO COLORED LADS WIN. Holmes Takes Honors at World's Olympic Games. F. Leroy Holmes, a Chicago colored athlete, represents the Frederick Douglass College in the national place for colored Americans by his wonderful ability in the high jumps, making a mark only one inch under the world's recumbent. Holmes is also making good, the cabegette, his innomable mention three times. In the final jump he won a place among the finals. JOCKEYS BELOW STANDARD Riders of Modern Days Could Not be Compared to Tarals or Garrisons. That the present-time jockey is not up to the high standard of the olden days is proved by a glance at a few boys of ten or twenty years age, with two of the present day. Odom, Madem, O'Connor and O'Neil would give much better satisfaction to-day were they given a chance against such lads as McCarthy or Gurjun, while Miller is a sort of a go-between. It is many years since the East was so lamentably weak in jockey material as it is the season. Actor, E. Dugan are in a class by themselves, yet neither can be considered a finished horseman. Both ride exceedingly weak races at times, and their work is a long way from showing the consistency that was noticeable in the years when men were given the mounts instead of mere children. The horses, Murphy, Williams and Johnson horses ran to form, and that is something they seldom do now. The start settles the race now, not unless a horse gets off in front of the horse. Unless a horse gets off in front of the horse, has no chance, for the jockey on him does not know enough about pace to make up his ground where he ought to, but goes at it hard and songs, and tries to get to it hard in the quarter, as if his whole life depended upon it. There will never be consistent form she gets, the weights are raised, permitting skilled riding, and it naturally and get enough riding to keep fit. Nowadays when a jockey gets to be 112 pounds he gets so little riding that he uses, and confidence. Consequently when he does get a mount he can not do it justice. You don't find the ginger in the present day white rider as you did in the jockey world. You don't find the phy and other great colored riders of that ilk. The present day riders have put racing to the lowest ebb in the sporting world. The average sportsman does not ride a day race as was found in those races of the past. What an important part—predjudice played in demonstrating the fact that when the colored jockey was barred from a large number of the American tracks the best race horse form riders were then retired in the Negro jockeys. The Negro is equal, for he loves the horse—it is his life—and the horse loves him in return. NEGROES HEAD WHITE LEAGUE Colored Players at the Top of Utah League. Special to THE FREEMAN. Salt Lake City, Utah, August 28—A compilation of the batting averages of the Utah baseball league various teams in the Utah baseball league various teams all have been hitting at a merry clip. Owing to the fact that several of the games played at Murray were not scored by the batting average in these games, the average published herewith, therefore, does not contain the batting of about five games that were played by the various teams. As far as individual batting is concerned, Sam Hawkins, the elongated Negro shortstop of the Occidentals (colored) as the remainder of the bunch faded a SALT LAKE 429. Deane of Salt Lake leads the list with an average of 500, but as he has appeared in but two games thus far the baseball league is the only regular Greenwell of Ogden is the only regular who is any where near close to Hawkins. The Ogden butcher has been pestering the球 at a level of 275. Wells of the baseball league of the Salt Lake team is close on to BELL. the winner of the Gans-Nelson fight. Greenwell's heels with the fine average of 370. Wells is one of the most valuable letters in the league and one of the best pinchers. Murphy, the Ogden pitcher, who has been up but twenty-three times, is fifth in the list with a percentage of 348, while Greenwell is sixth with an average of 346. Margaret the former Laker, now with Gimlin, is seventh with 343. The others who are among the best pitchers and Langford, all of the Occidentals, the only Negro team in the league. Lumley of Salt Lake is hovering close onto the 390. Castro and Margetts have secured only one less hit each than Greenwell, the leading hit getter, but they have been hit by many pitchers, as many walks, bases on balls or sacrifices. All told, however, the men now in the league, with but a few exceptions, have been hitting well. Vahrenhorst, Gimlin and a few others are among those who have been hitting below their usual standards. Both Greenwell and Margetts, but have been hitting on hard luck. Sam Hawkins is the coming wonder of this country in baseball. 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These are those dainty wash swisses that make such pretty curtains and bed sets. The lots are broken, the lengths ranging from 3 yards to a full bolt. Prices are reduced from a third to a half, as follows: Imported figured swisses in white, 45 inches wide, usually selling at 60c, 75c and $1.00. choice of the lot at.....35c White figured swisses, 45 inches wide, were selling at 50c now just half price.....25c White and colored swisses in 42-inch width, regular 30c value, repriced.....20c Short lengths of white figured swisses, 3 to 5 yards in a piece, were 25c a yard, now.....15c White muslins with embroidered edges, pretty for curtains, reduced from 25c a yard to.....17c —Fifth floor. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. Mrs. Lucinda Hayden has returned from Canada. William Harvey visited his brother in Chicago last week. Miss Jessie Darnal is spending the week at North Vernon, Ind. Mrs. Maude Beatty will leave Tues day to visit friends at Chicago. William H. Lacey, the popular head-waiter has returned to the city. John Tellam, of 809 S. Walnut street, Dayton, O., spent Sunday in the city. Miss Malissa Davidson has gone to Detroit, Mich., for permanent residence. Bonaparte Beatty, was in the city Tuesday en route to visit his mother at Paris, Ky. Mrs. Frances Simpson will be the guests of friends at Marion, Ind., tomorrow. Mrs. A. E. Bell, of Evansville, was the guest of Mrs. Leroy Patterson in Senate avenue. George L. Knox will lecture at the M. E. church at North Vernon, Ind., tomorrow evening. Mrs. Mary Lawson is spending two weeks at Shelbyville, Ky., the guest of friends and relatives. Rev. Joel C. Carson, of Evansville was the city Sunday, en route from the District Conference at Shelbyville. Rev. Henry Griffin and wife were in the city a few days this week en route to their home from Shelbyville, Ind. Dr. I. S. Thomas, of the M. E. Church Extension and Educational Society has returned to his home at Baltimore. Dr. J. Francis Robinson has returned to the city. Dr. Robinson is working in the interest of the Prohibition Party. Mrs. Carrie C. Norrel, of Frank fort, Ky., is visiting her sons, Doctors John W. and James R. Norrel for a few weeks. Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Hagood and daughter Mary have returned from a several weeks' visit at Lexington and Paris, Ky. Rev. H. H. Hurton, of Connersville, filled the pulpit at Simpson Chapel last Sunday night, and delivered an eloquent sermon. Rev. B. F. Watson, of Washington, D.C., secretary of the Board of Extension of the A. M. E. church, was in the city, this week. Dr. G. F. Croland, of Noblesville was in the city Tuesday accompanied by his mother, who was en route home in Southern Illinois. F. D. Hooker, of the American Express Company of Chicago, was in the city this week, leaving Friday for a short stay at Louisville. A. E. Manning, who is in charge of the Democratic Headquarters at Chicago was in the city Tuesday to attend the notification ceremonies of John W. Kern. Dr. J. H. Stanley, pastor of the M. E. church of Flemingburg, Ky., died Saturday August 22 and was buried, Monday August 24 from Asbury church Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Dorsey Gatewood, of Pittsburg, Pa., formerly president of the Aged Colored Women's Home of that place and Miss Mammie Reed, of New York, were in the city this week. Rev. N. H. Pius, of Springfield, O., will occupy the pulpit at Union Tabernacle Sunday, subject "In Camp." On Tuesday night he will give a lecture, "Watchman, What of the Night." John H. Parker left last Tuesday for Nashville and Gallatin, Tenn., where he will spend a few days visiting rela- CLEARANCE SALE SUITS, SKIRTS, WAISTS. KISER'S, Washington and Delaware Streets. tives and friends. Mr. Parker's home is in Gallatin and it is his first time in nine years to visit his parents. There will be a big basket meeting in the Oak Hill Grove Sunday held by Wayman chapel. Love-feast at 9:30 a.m.; preaching at 10:45 a.m. Rev. McColl will preach the sacramental sermon at 3 p.m. Rev. C. E. Hardimon, pastor. Rev. I. H. Jones, A. B., B. D., Ph.B., pastor of Lane Tabernacle C. M. E. church at Nashville, Tenn., is in the city assisting Rev. J. F. Taylor, pastor of Phillips chapel C. M. E. church. He will preach next Sunday and tomorrow night in Phillips Temple on Drake street. Mr. Charles Furgason, well-known in this city as a progressive and energetic newspaper man has returned here recently from Chicago and taken a position as head mixologist at Burley's buffet, 541 Indiana avenue. Mr. Furgason is "one of the boys" who knows how to "do things" and how to treat his friends and customers right. Call and see him as he wishes to grasp your hand. Death List. The death list for the week is as follows : Susie Lewis, Juliet Shores, Martha Atkins, Cora Willis, Mary Neixon, Elva Lewis, Jane Bell, Katie Charles and Matilda Wilson. Grand Lodge Elects Officers At the second session of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Indiana at Evansville last week, the following officers were elected: Grand master, D. W. Caine, Seymour; deputy grand master, W. H. Russell, Wabash; junior warden, D. F. Brown, Crawfordsville; grand treasurer, F. D. Blake, Terre Haute; grand chaplain, the Rev. W. H. Anderson, Evansville; grand lecturer F. S. Williams, Crawfordsville. Charles Lanier and Clarence Dunlap of this city were among the delegates. Ferger's Pharmacy. Mr. Gus Ferger, of the Feager brothers, well-known pharmacists of this city, has opened a drug store in his own new building at 502 Indiana avenue, corner of Michigan street. His opening is today and he present to the citizens of the vicinity one of the best appointed and most complete up-to-date drug stores in the city. Prescriptions carefully compounded by registered pharmacists. Patent medicines, toilet articles, choice foreign and domestic cigars and all things kept in a first class drug store can be obtained there. The Ferger brothers are well-known as they have now first class drug stores in the Occidental Hotel and the Terminal Station. If you are looking for "good goods" at popular prices in the drug store line then see Mr. Ferger at 502 Indiana avenue. Business Locals Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges, Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178: Old, Main 4083. SUMMER LEAGUE ROBBED. John Kelly and Stanley Jennings were wounded in the attack, and with burglarizing the Summer League Club. Their bonds were fixed at $1,250 and $1,000. Both are well known men about town. FIRST CHAPTER FINISHED What Will Be the Result of the Springfield Recent Riot Special to The Freeman. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 22—It is now ten days since the little capital and the pride of Illinois was thrown from its hilltop to the sand pieces by the cowardly hands of hoodhams, the thieves and murderers, and has added another plank to America's platform of troubles. It is not race problem but a problem of peaceful community of lynchers and murderers who have made an archists look like lambs? There have been two doses of the poison that had the effect of killing the deadly man. It has been forgotten by this time. The first was given by William McKinley, the late president, when he was governor of Washington, O. saying "Send troops to preserve life and property." He forwarded the troops at once. The next message was at once. The next message shall we do?" The answer was "Fire to kill." The governor's orders were obeyed. The rioting ceased on the first volley for always. Some went peacefully and some peacefully to their judgmen. The next unpleasant affair like this happened at Evansville, Ind. Another unlawful crowd came together, went to the jail and turned on the mob. He be turned over to them. The sheriff ordered them away. The mob charged and the sheriff ordered "Fire!" and one volley quickly reminded them of what happened to the mob. It cured matters for a short while, but Springfield, O., had to get its name up by arranging one of these ugly affairs, followed by Springfield, Mo., there was a field call. There was a will number two among the dead, who were murdered for no other reason than that they were colored. William Donigan and Scott Burton. The former was a victim of the mob, and a spect of everybody and had never been brought to face the law for any reason, but the hoodlum crowd placed against him two most serious (C) crimes. First, he was arrested for the best real estate in the city, and the records show that he had bought it forty-one years ago. For these two crimes he was arrested, and the mob said that he had been in this country one year, having come from Russia. Scott Burton, the next victim of these hoodium thieves, was one of the oldest men in the city to grow. He gave up his sweet life in a way that would be an honor to any man, and THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER home time in meeting at 9:30 a. v. Mc- ermon , pas- ph the sacrifice will live forever in the minds of the people. When he saw the mob coming and began shooting at him, he quietly stepped inside his door, got his gun and faced the whole mob single hand- ed. ought until he dropped, holding them at bay until they were sure that he was dead. The Springfield rioters, murderers and inveins were different from any others. Mobsters always drove their work in one night, quickly and hide their work from the public; but this one carried its work on two nights in succession and perhaps would have gone on longer had they found more to steal and drink. They stole over $2,000 worth of goods and damaged property, to double that amount. CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE FOR SALE—Four beautiful lots, Columbia Place, only $300; $2 cash, $5 month. Also lot Chicago street, same terms. Lew Nicoll, 200 Unity Building. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Bladan, drugtest, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS The grand jury is at work, slowly but successfully, and has indicted over one hundred participants in this gala affair. Howard, who led the charge on Loper's cafe, are safe behind the bars. In Mrs. Howard's house were found two dozen men table cloths, which she claimed that she had taken from the room of canard, and a truck load of other things that had been presented to her by her rioting friends. One Mr. Paymer, one year from Russia, confessed that he was involved in the riot. Next was Mr. Young, who claims Missouri as his home, and has been here about a month to see something about his rioting friends. When questioned why he had taken part in the riot, he replied that "It wasn't any harm in his part of the country to tyrone a nigger. He has no resiliency. He was caught red-handed trying to sell a man plunder to whom it belonged. The exodus of these thugs and thieves since then has been something terrible. Putting you miss some of their cowardly faces. Their political friends have failed their attempt to scare or bribe this grand jury. gave these murders a tip to leave town. The public press has dealt more than fair with the situation, but has not been able to keep up with the ways people are leaving in herds. The same people leave everywhere when the least bit of noise comes up, but the old citizens have not and have no intention of doing so. The have lived in hospitals and families have lived here all their lives and are bitterly opposed to the open space that has grafting piece of news is that these political grievers will not reap any harvest from this deadly war. Today Springfield is as peaceful as any other city in the world. Springfield, Ill., Aug. 20, 1989. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,—Special—Springfield, the home of Lincoln and cradle of liberty, has witnessed an awful pillaging, a furious mob of hoodlums, anarchists and thieves. We have witnessed terrible access-ness far more terrible may never be known. The alleged cause of the riot and subsequent destruction of property is the alleged assassin, Mrs. Earl Hammann, white wife of a street car conductor, on Thursday night, Aug. 13. Many people do not believe that a Negro did it, yet he might have done it. Mr. Hammann said he would fore Mrs. Hallann she said; "I believe he is the wretch, but I cannot say positively." At this interview Richardson was at Mrs. Hammann's office, and he the sheriff's office that he was positive that Richardson is the man and the reason she would not say so at the first interview because her husband was there armed with a gun. Richardson then and there, Richardson declares he is innocent and can prove an alibut. The sheriff thought it best to have Joe James and Richardson taken to Bloomington to meet the mob. He called out to fool the mob from the jail, telephone for Mr. Loper's automobile to meet him at Sixth and Washington Sts. and hurried the men to a place where the mob was so flagged and took them to Bloomington. The sheriff asked the governor for one company of soldiers to be placed at the jail at 8 p. m. the same evening, Friday, and that a company of Troop D, Section of the "wating gun" be placed at the jail, but the orders were not to send the guttling gun to the soldiers. So the mob proceeded to shoot and the company at Loper's restaurant faced a howling mob without loaded guns. These guns were taken from the soldiers. So the mob proceeded to shoot and the company at town, and one of the mob was killed. The mob then proceeded to the colored business district on East Washington street in the Negroes shot like soldiers storming a fort and never retreated until their ammunition gave out. The mob shot a Negro is reported dead except the two aged men who were not able to fight nor run, Scott Burton and W. H. Donnegan, both three-score or more. Several of the mob are dead, and there may be several dead who are not known. The Negroes knew they were being imposed upon and driven from their own homes and places of business so they were not able to fight nor run. Supplies gave out. The report that all Negroes fled is erroneous. Many women and a few men cowards fled, but most of the Negroes harried themselves at the police station. Many of the colored people, however, were not supplied in their homes with arms, and were only a pen knife. But others were "restricted" to using only a pen knife. The mob wrecked every colored place of business, saloon, dive, restaurant and several Jewish places. In this respect their enemies were more aggressive. Big mob fell dead at these battles. The famous battle was at Eleventh and Madison streets, where two white saloons (dives) are run for New York trade mostly and where the saloons were armed. The matter of what is called the "Bad Lands" Practically all the shanties in the "Bad Lands" were burned. They also wrecked the zero home in the city of Major Duncan, 112 North Thirtieth street. They looted every place, stole and burned everything they recorded. Many Negroes ran. One man left and his wife does not know his whereabouts. Some sold out, others locked up their doors. One lady declared, "Give me the money." The writer tried to console all those who were nervous and begged the valient men to stand and die for liberty, justice and freedom. The murders were terminated and the idea of running. In an almost incredible short time over 5,000 soldiers were here located in all parts of the city of the situation. Many displeasing signs were seen and people seem to think the safest way is to run—this is a mistake and too "rabbit-belt." A whole thing you will find that a lot of irresponsible hoodlums who are prejudiced seek the positions occupied by the colored men. My advise to every man is to stay in Springfield, you will be killed in the dust be killed. Stay in your home city and never allow it to be said that you were run out. The pure flag of freedom was destroyed in the dust because there were not sons enough left to keep her to the breeze. The business men, the State's attorney, the Governor and our soldiers are to be held accountable for the affair. It was a case of right against wrong and right will rule. E. L. R. That portion of Mr. Taft's speech of acceptance referring to the Negro should be satisfactory to every thoughtful member of the race. He stands firmly on all the pledges of the party to accord to the Negro all rights of American citizens.—Exchange. JOHN L. 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