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TEACHERS AND PUPILS---YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DURING YOUR SUMMER VACATION REPRESENTING THE FREEMAN, AGENTS WANTED, WRITE FOR TERM THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS JUN 26 1909 PUBLIC LIBRARY VOLUME XXII NUMBER 26 TO ENTERTAIN NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE Citizens Will Subscribe to Fund W. H. Wright Candidate for State Legislature—School Principals Give Banquet. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Special—Now that the City Council has appropriated $300 for the entertainment of the National News Association, the citizens to fall in line with cash money to raise the necessary amount for the success of the coming meeting. Our white friends have taken the lead, and now it is up to the City Council to help make it pleasant for our neighbors and friends who are coming from both far and near. Before did Louisville welcome such a magnificent aggregation of business men and women who have become battle scared and pioneers in business. They will be successful men and women, who come as an inspiration and an enlightenment, because they are beginning to enter a commercial life. This organization is worthy of the greatest attention by our citizens, and it's important to hold the head of the city carry out the past reputation of Louisville and Kentucky. Our good name for hospitality and courtesy is known far and near. It must not trail in the dust. Its importance is to help the homeless and come to the rescue of the various committees who have matters in charge. It has been claimed by the president of the National News Association that lukewarm toward the local organization. If merely writing up matters as they have gone on during the past six months can be termed "lukewarm," then we plead saintly. We further plead guilty of writing, as best we can, "news that is true, if not otherwise." Whatever has been the shortcomings of the president as an executive influence in the organization, we naught now to say. We have to lay aside our criticism and go to work, as the city is fast approaching when the National News Association will call. We subscribe $2,00 to the financial committee, and The Freeman representative is willing to subscribe more if needed. We call upon the president and other citizens of Louisville to give five hundred friends would do the same, there will be no need for an embarrassment of the financial committee to meet its plans and carry them out. We will be giving the aid of every individual, firm or business house that will contribute to this cause. Again let us say that it is not to the honor of any individual member of the league of the colored citizens of Louisville, that the coming meeting will be a success. Louisville has always given Mr. Washington a royal welcome. His reception at the ballroom of the bank of every people, whose hospitality and welcome sweet as summer. Let it be remembered that the prettiest women, fastest horses, the most generous people and the best mint julips are found in old Kentucky. Mr. E. H. Fields spent a few days this week at Decatur. Mr. Charles Irwin is in the city of Indianapolis on a visit. Mr. Frank Wallace, who has been quite ill several weeks, is improving. ill several weeks, is improving. Miss Sittie Bell, of Cherokee, Ala., is the guest of Mrs. Charley Moore. Miss Josephine Davis arrived in the city last week from Atlanta, Tenn., where she has been attending Fisk University. J. L. V. Washington and Clark Jefferson will leave soon for Indianapolis to attend the first constitutional convention of the D. O. K. K. Louisville had three graduates from Fisk University this year. They arrived with the Kentucky colony, Thursday, in a special car. Miss Susie Lee Sandusky is in French Lick Springs, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Babbage, the annual parties have been planned in her honor. Prof. S. O. Johnson, Dr. W. H. Perry and Miss G. A. Moore will leave soon for Asheville, N.C. to attend the annual convention of the National Teachers Association. Misses Margaret Parks, Irene Bowman, Clara Barbour, Harleigh Jackson and Jackson have returned to the city from Nashville, where they have been attending Fisk University. Miss Alice Thomas, of French Lick Springs, was in the city this week to attend the annual commencement of the Center High School. She was the guest of Miss Carrie Anderson. Miss Nettle Hancock, of California, was in the city a few days, the guest of Miss Georgia Lattimore. She has been attending Fisk University, and will leave for Nashville to visit relatives. Mr. W. H. Parker one of the leading students of the city, has been added to the staff of the Council, a weekly journal of the city, Mr. Paris is an orator and will play quite a prominent part in the coming campaign. The Freeman correspondent spent several days in Indianapolis, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown. He went there on business with The Freeman, and will spend ten days at French Lick Springs. Mr. A. B. McAfee, who has just started in the undertaking business on West Chestnut street, has had one funeral. He is receiving congratulations from his fellow-states and country, encouraging him to stick to the business and make it a success. The principals of the city were given a banquet last Monday night at the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church. The Rev. Dr. L. H. Brown delivered the welcome address and the principals of the city were also speakers of the occasion. Miss Hattle Renx sang a solo. Prof. Charles Moore, national organizer of National Negro Business League, writes that the city of Indiana and Ohio are planning to come to Louisville in August. This means that the citizens of this city must put on their "best bib and tucker." Mr. Eddie Lee is thinking of reopening the Pekin Theater on Sunday nights. He is communicating with Joel and Glickerstein, who are in the circuit of colored vaudeville houses in the South. Louisville is likely to be one of the points of operation. Mrs. J. B. Cooper, one of the most successful business women of the city, and president of the Women's Auxiliary to the local League left the city last Friday, to be the guest of Mrs. B. B. Henderson in Indianapolis. Ind. While there she was the guest of Mrs. Lillian Henderson. Hon. B. F. Jones, who was elected at Lexington, Ky., last year, as Grand Chancellor of the K. of P.'s, will be in the city this week to visit the various Pythian lodges. Prof. Jones is at the head of the schools at Henderson, Ky., and a graduate of the law department, Howard University. Hon. W. L. Ricks has been chosen by the U. B. F.'s to deliver the annual oration on July 4, at their big picnic. Two years ago Mr. Ricks spoke at the school picnic and won quite a reputation as an orator. On this occasion he states that he will give out the best that's in the shop. Mr. Ricks is a graduate of the Wisconsin University and a practicing attorney. The twenty-sixth annual commencement of the Central Colored High School took place at Macauley's Theater, Friday night of last week. The house was crowded with interested friends and parents of the graduates. The class numbered forty-one, thirty-four girls and seven boys. The address of Beulah M. Hammonds, "True Nobility," was especially good, and splendidly delivered. --- Most all the local Pythian lodges have elected delegates to the Grand Lodge, the Pythian Lodge, and the Paducah Lodge is in the western part of the State, yet this will not keep the electors from attending the annual convention present. The Pythian Grand Lodge is usually the most interesting and largely attended of any order of the State, and this record, it is hoped, will not be broken this year. --- It is reported that Mr. Tom Cole will subscribe $10 to the local Business League for the entertainment of the National League. Mr. Cole is one of the most enlightened and successful business men in the city. He has the spirit of the league at heart, and such a contribution will mean much in a tangible way, and it is his steps. Mr. Cole does not spout; he does things, and if the report is true, it's good as gold. Hon. Charles Banks and his legion of business men from the State of Mississippi will have "Mississippi Day" at the National Business Men's League, which serves much recognition, and especially Mr. Charles Banks, who is not only a prominent factor in the National League, but president of one of the most successful clubs in the country. All Louisville will doft hats to the Mississippiians. Mr. C. H. Bullock, secretary of the Y. M. A. Arts League, Hon. Geo. L. Knox an invitation to be present at the membership banquet. July 4. Mr. Thomas E. Taylor, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, Hon. Matthias Knox. Both well known Y. M. C. A. workers, and have an international reputation for encouraging associations wherever they go. Louisville extends a welcome to these now distinguished men, and we wish them a pleasant stay. --- A charming party of thirty played whist at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Susan Holden, 1220 West Chestnut street, last Thursday night. The function was in honor of me, the home of the late Mrs. for six months, from Cleveland, O. The guests played us and other innocent games, and the pleasure of the evening was increased by the presence of an orchestra. Mrs. Holden, the Mrs. and the evening proved to be most pleasant and enjoyable. Thomas is a manicurist and hair dresser, and has succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice. It is now up to the financial committee of the local Negro Business League to hustle and bring in the "coin" for the entertainment of the National League. If they would go to the right man, it would be telling how much would be given for such a worthy cause. Negroes have their money in banks, they patronize all the large stores, and it's the amount how much money is stored in the banks and fraternal organizations. There is only some system needed to get the money, and if they would be about it, it is believed that a good sum would be realized. Knowing how much is done in this case, if he has done nothing, it's time he was "jumping." W. H. Wright, one of the leading young lawyers of the State League, has announced himself as a candidate for Representative of the Fifth district of the State Legislature. Mr. Wright has been a practicing attorney for several years. He is just as well known of Howard University, Washington, D. C. He was shown by the Republicans for the nomi- THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE. ASSOCIATION THE INNOCENT DEGRADATION MIRE. G.T.H. nation and told that it was too early for a Negro to run for office. He will run will be an independent in the black ward, while he will be in the black ward, majority of voters being colored people. He will immediately effect an organization and go in the race to win. Mr. Wright's greatest opposition will be what is called the "office seekers' function of this "office seekers' trust" is to hold all the colored voters in line and dare them to vote for any one save a man who is not colored. They themselves and are supposed to distribute the "ple." They stand out on a platform, "Vote for us; we are the wing of the G.O. While the white, Wright will have none of this a revenge for a great chance for his election if the race-loving Negroes will support him. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN. The noted and the most eventful occasion since the erection of the First Baptist Church was the installation of the first members and friends of the church, in honor of the fourth anniversary of Rev. C. Penl, B. D., pastor last Sunday. The new members and friends were exceptionally fine. The music, as rendered by the choir, was superb in sweetness and harmony. Mrs. Cora Philharmonic conductor was the audience with a special choice selection. The instrumental solo by Prof. Calhoun was excellent and sublime in its music. The audience was densely crowded to see the completion of the unique program. The cornet solo by G. W. Franklin most memorable in the detection by Rev. I. T. Simpson, D. D, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church, Mrs. Jackson, organist; J. B. Conyers, chorister. KANSAS CITY, MO. Special to THE FREEMAN. Miss Gertrude Majors, niece of Mrs. C. H. Tull, 2220 Woodland avenue, will be married to G. A. Bigbee, of Topeka, Kan., Sunday, June 20, in Ottawa, Kan., and will be married to G. A. Bigbee, Kan., where they will reside. Miss Majors has been a teacher in the Dougless School under Foster. For the past eleven years, she has taught in the Baltimore Hotel grill room, after three weeks' illness. . . Michigan Miles, of the Baltimore Hotel, will leave for Colorado Springs to be Charles Washington's head waiters at the Baltimore Hotel will soon take their vacation, one at a time. There are eight of them, as follows: in cafe, M. Nightingale, in Pertins, grill, W. M. Garrett and Charles McAfee, grill, W. M. Garrett and Charles Tull; in the Egyptian cafe, Frank Neal and John Crawford. COVINGTON, KY. The closing of the year's work of the William Grant High School was a success in every way, and was marked by several interesting events. One interesting item in the week's calendar was the class day of the school's annual retreat, the form of a reception given the seniors by the High School had its match in a beautiful cuckoo clock left by the graduating class as a gift for the school. The patrons and friends were delighted and impressed by the work in the manual training and sewing departments, as well as in art, penmanship and composition. On the solicitation of Superintendent Sluss, this work was put on hold for several days, and now for several days. The commencement exercises were a decided success in every way. The music was highly complimented, and its rendition reflected great credit to the designing teacher. The cultural theme for graduates' orations was "An Evening with the Natural Resources of America." Each graduate, in discussing a branch of this theme, acquitted himself or herself with great credit to the five graduates were Brownwell, Bickwell, Wells, Wells, Janies Smith and James McLean. Superintendent Slus, in discussing the schools of Covington, said that if William Grant School lost its Moses when Prof. Williams resigned, this school has found a new leader. Mr. Church was his successor. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., delivered the address to the graduates. She chose "The Race Problem" as her subject, and handled it satisfactorily...Since our last graduation, the infant son of Dr. Bryant, and Marcelus, the little son of Oliver Hardling. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Mrs. Belle Steele was married at her home on Ninth street, Sunday, to Ned Smith, of Poston street. The couple received some very handsome presents... Mrs. Belle Steele was married again, after a few days' illness... Mrs. Mary Caldwell, Mrs. M. M. L. Kelley, Norman Kimbro, Dr. C. A. Kelley and Rev. C. A. Kelley, of Lodge session at Nashville, Tenn., and the dedication of the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge...Ed Broadus is not improvement...Ed Broadus is at the Main street, G. P. Lilson, agen LOGANSPORT. IND. Mrs. Elwood Winslow went to Crawfordsville Tuesday to attend the annual meeting of the Eastern Star.....John Tayler for the past five weeks, is not much better. .....Mrs. Blanche Hill was quite sick a few days last week.....Mrs. Belle, Ridgeway, after being at the bedside of her brother John Taylor, for four weeks.....Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Craven returned home from Richmond and Wilberforce, Ohio, last Friday invention in Richmond Mrs. Craven received an office as State delegate.....Mrs. Abble McCree and niece returned home, after spending a week in Rockville with John Taylor.....Mrs. S. L. Harris and sons John and Harry returned home Sunday, after spending a week in Rockville with A. J. Allen spent Sunday in Chicago.....Mrs Rhoda Jones and Ollie Brown, of Fort Wayne, passed through the city Tuesday, en route for Crawfordsville with Mrs. J. A. Johnson, of St. Paul, Minn., spent a couple of days last week with Horace Turner and family.....Mrs. Moley Jones spent Sunday conference with Bethel A. M. E. Church showed that $852.40 had been raised between March 15 and June 13, and two accessions to the church, and a balance of goodness on the remodeling of only $269. CENTERVILLE, LA Mrs. Georgiana Baldwin is ill...Dan Dunbar has returned to the city from Port Bard, where he has been in charge of the largest hardwood swamps in that section. Special to THE FREEMAN Rt. Rev, Bishop Turner, of Atlanta, Ga., lectured at the court house last Tuesday night. While in the city he was the guest of the Bishop Turner event, spent Monday in Evansville and attended the lecture of Bishop Turner Monday night. ..... Miss Mossie Butler spent Monday in Evansville and made a business trip to Illinois the first of the week. ..... Mrs. Sadle B. Dungey, the PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. Grand Worthy Councilor of the Court of Calanthe of the State, was in the city Tuesday night and Wednesday. She lectured to the court Wednesday afternoon, and her lecture was appreciated by all who attended the meeting. She attended the M.M. Mary F. Thompson's M.D. Dungeon out driving Wednesday morning over the city, and she expressed herself much pleased with the beauty and cleanliness, and especially the heartfelt support of the General. She attended the yearly meeting at Murray, Ky., last week....L.S. Garrette and Mrs. Carrie Polk were united in marriage Wednesday night....Next Sunday is Woman's Day at the A. M. E. Church....Mrs. Garrett was present at the meeting. Attended the grand session of the O. E. S. at Crawfordsville, Ind., this week....The Tabernacles celebrated their annual sermon Sunday at the Free Baptist Church. The sermon was delivered by Rev. J. W. H. H. at the Hall of the First Sunday. At Brewer Hills next Sunday....H. J. Thompson held his regular service at Brewer Hills Sunday. There will be an entertainment there July 3. Spiritually the church is doing nicely....Sunday night's service is open to all the people. We will attend. Quite a number of visitors attended the services, and also some white friends. The sermon, by Rev. T. J. White, was wel-taken, and the choir rendered some of its favorite selections. Next Sunday was the 19th of November. This was a National and Wilson, of Brewer Hills, attended the carnival Saturday....William Johnson, the point township corn kling, will finish laying by corn this week—Mrs. Hattie Duster has returned home from Evansville. The carnival was held at the Halls, since the death of their father, have taken the responsibility of their 190-acre farm, and are doing good work. CLARKSDALE MISS Sports Its The Freeman Specia to the Freeman. her niece, Miss Jessie Fraison, Monday, June 21, with an outing on the banks of the large Sunflower river. The young people were highly entertained by Mr. Jeon Carter and Harry Baines. They were received their schools by different yells. . Mr. Willie Woodruff is with us again from Memphis. . Mrs. Polly Gunter and Mrs. Miss Burrell are with us. Mrs. Boose and Mr. H. H. Andrews Wednesday night at Mrs. Dr. Raines' residence. . Mr. Joe Sanders' cars are out announcing his wedding June 23 to Miss Burrell. Miss Burrell's dresses cards are out announcing his wedding June 24 to Miss Alva Boose, of Clarkesdale, Miss. Miss Boose is the sister of Mrs. Charles Banks of, Mound Bayou, Miss. Miss Eiffie Glam up again. After coming to town the girls all jump around. We welcome you, Mr. King Phillips. Special to THE FREEMAN. Copies of THE FREEMAN are to be found at "The Katy," Elmer Williams proprietor, ... The Defiance Lodge of Elks crossed with a crack, and the 18th and 19th floors of Coursing Park. Both games were won by Defiance Lodge, the first 11 to 4, the second 10 to 0... The two big Juneteenth celebrations have come and gone, hundreds of people from out of town attended, and there was a grand street parade, with decorated carriages, floats, heads by gentlemen representing the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, and her aides, followed by business wagons. The procession was nearly a mile long, and attracted thousands of people. After the parade all returned to the beacon, and the Wood Lake Pavilion the Masonville Cornet Band and Royal's famous orchestra discured music throughout the occasion, several hundred people attended. For further Freeman, go to James Carber, barber. CONFLICTING STORIES OF BISHOP LAMPTON John A. Lankford Elected Life Member Wilberforce Trustee Board—Celebration of Liberty League Anniversary. Thompson's National News Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.—Conflicting stories are being told here concerning the rumored eviction of Bishop Lampton, the late pastor of the church, during the commencement, he discreetly maintained silence and the inference is drawn that he does not want to tell anything ungrateful to the whole history of the episode can be given. The pastor of the estate Bible is in receipt of telegrams and letters from the best white citizens of Greenville asking him to return and assuring northern friends, however protected, their fears, and think it would be wiser for him to establish an Episcopal residence in a more congenial clime, provided, of course, that he would be building with the too great a sacrifice. We have full faith in the sagacity of Bishop Lampton. He has been tried in many furnaces, some of them hotter than this, and he came out of the house with a smile, upon, think we, to do the right thing at the right time. Candidates are scarce at this writing—waiting for the tariff drama to end its run in Congress. Major John R. Lynch, paymaster United States Army, was reported at San Francisco a few days ago from the Philippines, has been ordered before the retiring board at that point. The offices of the Auditor for the Navy Department and of the Auditor for the Interior Department are to be moved to the Union Building on G street, between 6th and 7th streets northwest. The colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. raised $500 in cash at its big meeting last week. The new meeting will be resumed at an early time, and is expected to have the structure ready for dedication by Thanksgiving day. The new $400,000 theater and office building, projected by the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, is taking form and is being made and the outlook for success is said to be bright. Architect W. Sidney Pittman is president of the company. Dr. W. Bruce Evans principal of Armstrong Technical High School, is with Dr. Booker T. Washington this week on a tour of the new Virginia railroad, which became the purpose of the itinerary is to awaken interest in the education and material development of the colored people of the Tidewater section of the Old Dominion. Mr. T. J. Calloway, who made such a success of the Negro Department of the Jamestown Exposition, delivered the alumnums of the students in a corded a warm reception by his erstwhile college mates. Mr. Caloway is making gratifying progress in disposing of lots to colored people in the desirable suburban Lincoln, Md., just outside the District line. Rumor has it that Dr. R. W. Furris, Minister to Halit, is booked to stay; likewise Collector Charles W. Anderson and Assistant District Attorneys W. H. Lewis, James A. Cobb and S. Laing Williams, James A. Cobb and S. Laing Williams, J. C. Napier is to be handsomely provided for here, and that there are plums surely in waiting for certain folks hailing from middlescott, Missouri and Illinois, with a moderate size but appetizing slice of pie for Indiana. The Negroes are standing by Senators Beveridge, Cummins, Dolliver and LaFolette in their contention for tariff revision and the Senate's decision June at Chicago. The President's recommendation of a tax of 2-per cent, on the Negroes, has the heartiest approval of the Negro "ultimate consumer," who some influential Senators say, does not exist. The consumer is heard of by-and-by if an effort to reduce the cost of living is not made. Selah. ... Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the elocutionist, filled an engagement at Cumberland, Md., this week, and goes on to Pittsburgh next week, after which she will make a presentation at Pittsburgh. Miss Davis is planning to give a recital in Louisville in August, in connection with the meeting of the National Negro Business League, in which she takes a deep interest in the profession. A brilliant career, was introduced to a great audience in Louisville by the immortal Frederick Douglass. The local branch of the National Negro Business League is arranging for a monster public meeting, to be held at Zion Baptist Church in South Washington, on the 7th of July or thereabouts. At this event, the Negro Business League will stalled and there will be able speeches by representative business men of both races. A special sleeping-car will be made up to take the eastern delegates to the Louisville convention, starting at Boston, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. 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The fertile mind of Dunbar ceased to he start with the oath and so When "Malindy's singing" put it o' he then could see some glory in the he'd tuned his mind to rhythm, for o' And like a mariner wandered over t' With every team involved, poulled in There was not a raging billow over o' He saw no force in nature that coul he start with the oath and so And with all his ardent soul he stro' For in the ear-marks of success he o' With frail and feeble form, with sca He felt the race's loss too great sho' And with a deep sound searching in He tried to shift the paddle wheels But the songs Paul sung were sweet Lent a fragrance to his writings that Yes, accommodated Nature, for his He sounded the deepest waters that He rummaged all the mysteries, love He pierced the hearts and so And with gentle, simple rythm he pa He sought for pearls and diamonds, Nor did he cast his anchor in the And with a deep sound searching for Yes, on the mast-pole of his hopes h Like a surcharged language-master, Expeditionion he sent them as mess And, too, like homing pigeons, bring Reward for his frail efforts, for all He pitched his tune on lowly keys, And yet oftimes he thundered on ac As his little fancy-capers pictured cr He did not grove in the dirt, nor st By wicked, silly sillies; yet, altho' If he stung, or whacked some creature It was literary thrashing, and that s If he had a funny story, he could tell And could pitch the meter sweetly, And in that lining seemed to make Africa's race had marked him, sires For he a full-blood racer in literature He oftimes, like a charger, seemed c To get upon life's race track and that s The appalling hand had touched him To write the word IMMORTAL albo "Albo" because Blessed time, take Look heath, ain't you Well, you don't k The fertile mind of Dunbar ceased to vibrate when he died. But his name will sweeten history and thus be glorified; When he "Malindy's singing" but in poor passions. Then he "some glory in the good that he had done. He'd tuned his mind to rhythm, for his heart was light and free, And like a mariner wandered o'er the literary sea. With every item invoiled, required as a guide, There was not a raging billow over which he could not ride. He saw no force in nature that could long obstruct his plan, It might cripple his incentive, not prevent him being a man, And with all his ardent soul he strove so that he might a train, With a succession of successions, succeeded again. With frail and feeble form, with scarcely strength enough to work, He felt the race's loss too great should he his duty shirk, And with his pen so feebly held in weakened, sickly grip, He tried to shift the paddle wheels 'thout steam to move the ship. But the songs Paul sung were sweeter than the songs of birds at dawn Making pictures vari-colored, like a pretty landscape lawn, Lent a fragrance to his writings that perfumed the very air, And once, for instance, for instance, for instance, He sounded the deepest waters that sparkled clear with thought, He rummaged all the mysteries, loved to see what God had wrought; He pierced the gates of ether, and swept the domed sky, And with gentle, simple rythm he passed the masters by. He sought for pearls and diamonds, these glittering gems to find; Nor did he cast his anchor till in the ocean of the mind, And with a deep, sound searching found pebbles rich and rare— Yes, on the mast-pole of his hopes he left them shining there. Like a surcharged language-master, over words he had control, And so he sounded them as he said them as he said them. And, too, like homing pigeons, bringing in their flight. Reward for his frail efforts, for all that he could write. He pitched his tune on lowly keys, to portray lowly life, And yet oftimes he thundered on account of what seemed strife, And yet oftimes he thundered on account of what seemed strife, As his little fancy-capers pictured crude and simple days. He did not grovel in the dirt, nor stain his poet heart. By wicked, silly sallies; yet, altho' he knew the art. If he stung, or whacked some foul thing on his race harm, It was literary thrashing, and that stinging rod was warm. If he had a funny story, he could tell it in good rhyme, If he had a funny story, he could tell it in good rhyme, Yet in literary grandeur no poet eir lifted pen. And in that lifting seemed to make all of creation kin. Africa's race had marked him, sires disgraced by none. Africa's race had marked him, sires disgraced by none. He oftimes, like a charger, seemed chafing at his bit. To get upon life's race challenge and to run the length of it. The appalling hand had touched him and he must hasten now. To write the word IMMORTAL about his mental brow. "Ain't you nevah heer'd Malindy? Blessed soul, take up de cross! Look heath in him! howy? Well—you don't know what you loss." IS DUNBAR DEAD? Contributed to the Melindy Dunbar Club. He came and went as the rays of the Sun, Thanking his Collaborators one by one. Albeit he was master of Poetical things, From Elevator Boy to the guest of Kings, He did not know what his Soul possessed, His talent was small he only guessed. He possessed integrity, genius and pride. That commanded silence when he replied. Still enthusiastic readers of his harmless whim Declarant that his light is only dim. That it is not out, it is rutilant still In the great Necropolis just over the hill. His hand may be seen where his work re- mains. He broke the lock on a thousand chains Of his kindred folk, both black and white. He Lamented the latter, then said good-bye. Our History is blistered with the tears he shed: A Paradoxical question: Is Dunbar dead? He lives in memory by night and by day. And for all colored poets he cleaved the way. He was primal to rise from the great Com-weal. He wrote of the slaves in the harvest field. He wined and dined in the garden of Gods, And expressed his gratitude by pencil nods. From Oak and Ivy to his Joggin' Erlang. He wrote the words to our National Song. He kissed pretty maidens, they kissed the mea- ture. Emotion drove his pencil with lightning speed. With Christian equipment, O! can is be said He is only a dormant? Is Dunbar dead? He left in his fancy, but God only knows; Composing a line of sweet Dialect and Orchestra. That never was expressed by tongue nor pen. But remained in space for other great men. Although none have proven worthy of his name. Poets have left and poets have came. They have dipped their Souls in the Mystic Sea: They have thrown their personality out, as did he. They have loved and mused of a romance afar. But put him in the spirit of Paul Dunbar. There's a Book well thumbed called Lowy Life; He left his mother and a noble wife. When he saw his books my tears are shed. Is Dunbar dead? NAPOLEON. The Bird That Tells. Sue left th' door of th' cage open, an 'l' jist came out, that's all, an 'l' don't know when I goin' back, 'things' didn't been goin' on right at th' house howay, an' it a' relief afer a feller to get out. Fresh air, they say, is good for you. Well, I am to test that. Me to see, and not be seen. Wuz on a north-bound Indiana avenue street car th' other evenin', an' I heard that, about another—an acquaintance of theirs. "He acts curious—a crazy guy," said one. "Yes, I know he is about that wife of his; an' would you know, he_owes everybody in th' North End, an'" "he wuz in my boy. Who wuz standin' by them durin' their talk, interrupted, jist as th' car wuz nearin' Eleventh street, by saying: "Yes, it man you two were talkin' about is my father, and I'm goin' tell him, too." "Th' car stopped. The little boy got off; an' he got to the carers say." "Twelfth street!" the conductor, Nothin' had they yet sed. "Thirteenth!" Nothin' sed. "Fourteenth!" "The car stopped; the two men parted, only sayin' 'So long' S-s-tung? Well, I guess. "An' it went kinder hard with some of the morn' folk to remove their hats at Simpson' th' house! Gee, but I wish I had a sunflower seed!" VIEWS OF THE PRESS. There is too much fear of fresh air,—The Yonkers Standard. No set of officials can govern a people who will not submit to the laws they have made to be governed by. And every citizen owes it to the city in which he lives to do everything he can do in maintenance of law and promoting justice of every other citizen—Nashville Globe. In these days, when throughout the length and breadth of our land schools are concluding their year's work and holding commencements for the purpose of commissioning thousands of the youth of the city to fight them, for now it is generally the torch of "Let there be light" in their hands, we are reminded of the wonderful educational progress made within the past year, for now it is generally believed that the very foundation of good popular government is strengthened and made more substantial by those who learned well the lessons taught in our common schools—The Odd Fellows Journal. The idea of training the hands has taken hold of the people of this country in a way that is indicative of permanency. The idea is that we should not schools only have to get their lessons well, and be able to recite in a way satisfactory to the schoolmaster, and while it is just as essential now as it has ever been that children be apt and accurate in the study of mathematics, we have convinced our most advanced thinkers that to keep pace with the world THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. vibrate when he died, old that he retired; at the lips of every one, good that he had done. his heart was light and free, the literary sea, a guide, which he could not ride. I long obstruct his plan, several than his plight in man, for that he might attain, could see the race's gain. peculiarly strength enough to work, would he his duty shirk, would he sky grenched, sky gripp, without steam to move the ship. For the songs of birds at dawn, pretty landscape lawn, purity attached every air, soul was everywhere, sparkled clear with thought, and to see what God had wrought; went the domed sky, used the masters by. These glittering gems to find; ocean of the mind, numb bobble rich and rare— left them shining there. over words he had control, angers of his soul, singing in their flight what he could write. To portray lowly life, count of what seemed strife, wave is lowy, mode and simple days. in his poet heart he knew the art, he bent on doing his race harm, singing rod was warm. It in good rhyme, so's to keep the finest time; differed from all of creation kin. disgusted by none, could run. having at his bit, run the length of it. And he must hasten now at his mental brow. 'D Malindy? up to erase! jokin', honey? now what you look America must train her youth to work. After reaching this conclusion, the next problem to be decided was at what age should she be trained by some to be too much to expect children in the public schools to do manual work with their literary studies, but experiments in this city have proved that children should have seniority over the Negro firemen, without regard to length of service or special fitness of the latter. In the past, Negro firemen have no rights even in the pursuit of bread-winning which the white man should respect. This seems very hard, and we have honest, faithful, trustworthy Negro will be utterly shut out of all the places in this connection which he has for these many years held to the complete satisfaction of his duties. The very firmy for the Negro who have given it such a commendable service for these many years. Of course, viewed from a different perspective, this is a very grave contest. Right, however, should prevail. The Western Star. HABIT OF READING There is no one thing which makes for the progress of an individual quite so much as a well-directed habit of reading. Any man who confines himself to his own life, a variety of matters in shackling himself with the chain of a strong way that slavery ever forged. Indeed, one of the surest signs of ignorance and one of the most discouraging obstacles to all progress is that disposition in a man which makes him intolerant of the opinions of other men. No one who visits New England can help admiring the wonderful institutions and generally advanced and happy civilization that he has to go to in the future. Life is thrift, progress and a broad spiel of charity seem to characterize the whole of the people. And why? Back in the homes of the people, no matter how humble, will be found in a most prominent place a well-known set of books and weeks of papers of good standard. Through these mediums the heads of the homes, as well as the children, drink in the best thought of the past as well as that of to-day. Reading the varying and progressive types of other people, we are instead of thinking for themselves. And this habit of thinking, once formed, works itself out in the improvement of the conditions of the home, and of the community, and finally, and more largely, of the great, wide Every home * * * should have its small library and its newspapers, the for- mer of which will be given to give the best suggestions of the present. And these books and papers should be read by every member of the class, and the be accessible—The Baltimore Advocate. C. F. Schulz, a broad-minded white citizen of Seguin, Texas, who owns and operates one of the largest blacksmith shops in Texas, employs Negroes. From 1863 to 1907 illiteracy in the South has been reduced to 40 per cent. There are 2,000,000 Negro children in the South, 20,000 teachers, 20,000 students learning trades, 1,500 students pursuing classical courses, 1,200 pursuing scientific courses, 1,000 instructors, 400 volumes of Charles W. Dodge colored institutes for higher education, 1,000 physicians, 1,800 books and pamphlets written by Negroes, 800 lawyers, 10 banks, 6 magazines, and 500 newspapers owned and controlled by colored people. With the awarding of 250 diplomas and trade certificates to boys and girls, 105 of them were awarded to industrial branches. Tuskegee Institute has brought its twenty-eighth year to a close. The executive committee of the Colored State Fair Association of Columbia could not accept the conditions offered them by the white fair association as to the grounds in Columbia ($1,000 for the rent, and other conditions), and have devided the fair in Eatsburg, November 8 to 13, on the ground of the white fair association. Hampton is blessed with through, up-to-date business and professional men. It has three doctors, four lawyers, one postal clerk, three carriers, many public school teachers, and many public environments are about as good as any in the South, and it has developed a progressive, energetic people, who rely greatly upon their own industrial habits for sustenance. Hampton is also black is perhaps the most coronal of any country.—The Fisherman's Net. TIME AND PLACE TO GET A HOME. Time is now. The place is Tuskegee, Macon county, Alabama. Every man who is at the head of a family or plans to have a farm, should be a home, either at a village or a farm. Every man find no better place in which to permanently settle than in Macon county, Alabama, in which the Tuskegee Institute is located. The first place, the white people in Macon county are among the finest and fairest in the world. No racial friction exists; justice is meted out to black and white. The second place, there are can thousand acres of farming land in Macon county which can be bought for cash or on easy terms. Individual persons do not wish to buy, but wish to move into the county and rent, and work by the day, they can easily arrange to do this. Fourth, aside from the land scattered in other sections of Macon county, there are acres of farming land in small tracts for sale within sight of the Normal School. Fifth, the public schools for colored people in Macon county are the best, in our own neighborhood. Sixth, Aside from the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, the town schools RACE NEWS as well as the country schools throughout the county, are in session from eight to nine months in the year. These schools are located in the city, the school, the celled or plastered, and whitewashed or painted on the outside, and nothing but the best teachers are employed. The Macon county are among the best in the South, and the ministers are improving every year. If you wish to buy a lot, a farm, or locate in this county on any terms, for any purpose, please call and see or correspond with the college and real estate agent, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. RAMBLING The Fiddler and Shelton act seems to be going particularly big; likewise the boys seem to be improving with age. Even their best and closest friends did not suspect they had so much ability. They were not as good as the passable things, but not thought able to hold the boards as they do now, to the delight of the thousands. And the best is not yet generally known. Tell it not in the streets, since it may not come to pass. Here it is: The boys, Fiddler and Shelton, Indianapolis boys, are under consideration for the headliners in a new show for next year. Well, why not Fiddler and Shelton, since they can deliver the goods? As they do, the names sound about as food as other names. But Indianapolis will be delighted if the young men are to be shoved to the fore. When they reach "old home" they will have the "one more" time. What they will need is a man to mute and stage a juvenile pandemonium. Of course, the promoters know their quality, so it is inferred that they will be no lemons. This city will expect to see them at the crest of the road. We know it out of the route. We know our reputation. The boys know it. So come on, fellows, if you are satisfied you are there; if not, pass it up. This city has the very best people on the stage, excepting come and go. We will join the ranks of the topnotchers. If the company comes through, the public will have a chance to see if he is the goods. Frank Fowler Brown is at home, spending his vacation with his parents. His wife is with him. Both were members of the company, and their season, far as it is known, they will be with it. Frank has what might be called a phenomenal voice—beautiful in voice quality. It is much like gold in the bar, improved in the in ore, but capers highly bright, highly vivid, wonderful things. He would prove a most excellent man in a first-class opera, provided his voice had more of a certain Kind of culture. Sufficient beauty is not sufficient to make the result of culture, enabling one to do the scale and semi-scale passages with such ease that the listener does not note the effort. It means more; it means the trills and the bellowed acid that make more difficult the brilliant running of the scales. Years of vigorous training are required for certain effects; those that great artists are ever seeking; even more than a physical effort—a soul effort that somehow enters into the thing. Brown's voice was beautiful from the beginning, but rigid, just like he is rigid in his movements, inclined to gawkness. In his movements, he is not the stringent criticism of his friends at home and elsewhere. Brown apparently hated to bend; hated to do the little things so compatibly with his profession. Constitutionally he was so—by nature, Charles W. Woolsey, who knew him very well, knew him. He goes in a certain gait—no slower, no faster. He has his set notions of life—a sort of mastery dignity, from which he can be a man, and as relacious with him seemingly. Frank was a chip off the old block, and was rapidly learning to be set in his ways—no agility in voice nor in limb. Handsome as Frank is, this unignailiness lingers to some small extent. He is not mentioning all this is to show that there were inherent reasons for his stiffness. But with his faults I think he is incomparably the best of the race. Two voices the recent past have been in heart here with the recent past have been in heart here arousing the feelings of the h individual, and one which had more of the thing which Brown stands most in need of. Henry Troy has a touching voice, it is a touching voice, and Batson's a ballad voice. Batson did not have the timbre of voice for the greatest singing, nor has Troy. He will always sing pleasingly, and perhaps wn more applause than greatness, and just as greatness is not always bread and butter. The other singer who sang sweetly and plaintively, his name I can not recall, but I think he was here in the past. His voice was a call. His voice was music, striking one as; at least it did me. Brown's voice seems music and intellect combined. If voices, even when good, were divided into two, Brown's would be put in the classic column. Lloyd Gibbs was the singer that had the finish. I think I heard him years ago, when he was a child, the Madam Selkka school, standing about as she stood, and consequently the very best exponents of the singing art among the race. Gibbs came along when there was a new school, and on the "schedule" laid down for the white prospective singers, and which admitted no short cuts. The same vigorous training is required. Individuals of money should, however, indulge their tastes when running strongly in the art direction, since it means so much to the race as a people, and so much to the music as a singing, in acting, although I believe an actor only incidentally. With what has been said, it will now be well understood, the criticism of Brown. Of course, Gibbs has never been Brown. Of course, never had, but he has the art of singing down finer. Brown is young, and with the kind of attention necessary he should be Caruso in all respects—not a black one—another one "Adelina Patti never suffered from the financial timidity of a Jenny Lind. 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The Georgia strike situation is giving the Negro people of every part of the South much apprehension. After all the emphasis that has been placed on training for the Negro people, it is very discouraging to the honest advocates of industrial education to see what is going on to close this door of opportunity as others have been doing in the country. In this case, T. Washington, the apostle of industrial training, who has pleaded so tirelessly and with such signal success for the recognition of the need for this training in this country, it is feared, will be unable to stile the rising from the crowding of whites in the field which he worked so faithfully to keep open to the members of his own race in the country. In the Nation. And if he prove powerless to save the fruits of his endeavors to his people, who can save it to them? He is a world figure, with powers of enlisting and training, who is not possessed. And if he can do nothing, what is to become of the Negro people? His people deserve the opportunities that his foresight has planned for their benefit in the industrial fields. He has also encouraged the opportunities ought they to enjoy if the heart of the American people is right on the principle of fair play. Is there not enough to give the people of Georgia the opportunity in the South in the letter addressed to the white people of Georgia by the second vice president of the Locomotive Firemen and Engineers' Brotherhood, the other governor of Georgia, to "We respectfully ask that any help or assistance by statements or otherwise that can be brought to bear to secure this victory will be given, so that when the veterans of the Civil War in the State of Georgia will know that they are not subordinate to the Negro, even if it does affect the financial interests of the railroad corporations, for we shall not allow them to be involved in this unnecessary issue right without unnecessary delay. If Negroes are shut out in this strike settlement, the beginning of shutting the race out of work on the railroads in the South will be on, and there is no telling what the next blow will be. Bishop Lampton Said to Have Beer Ordered Away from His Home Because He Tried to Right a Wrong Done His Daughter. News reached New Orleans last week that Bishop E. W. Lampton, of the A. M. E. Church, who lives in Greenville, Miss., gave a speech on the exchange of white citizens of the place because he called on the telephone exchange people for explanation of the conduct and language of certain employee members of the phone. Some one asked "exchange for" the "Miss Gertrude Lampton," explaining that the lady asked for was Bishop Lampton, of the church, who is the bishop, who, of course, has a 'phone in his house. "Exchange" rang the bishop's number, and, hearing the "hello" from the phone, the bishop answered that Miss Gertrude was at the 'phone herself and replied that "Miss Gertrude Lampton was at the 'phone." The person at the 'phone at the church, said if "Gertrude was there," and that "exchange" was not asking for any "Miss Gertrude," but "Gertrude Lampton." Miss Lampton hung up the receiver and told her that the bishop lost no time in going over to the exchange to ask for an explanation of the familiarity of some one at the exchange with his daughter, and to explain the familiarity. The result was, so the report has it that Bishop Lampton was THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Howard University Choir Entering Memorial Chapel, Washington, D. C. THE BANK The Home of the Colored Y. M. C. A., Indianapolis, Ind. waited on by a committee, who informed him that they would allow him and his daughter a few hours to leave town. It is not known at this time if the bishop and his daughter left because they were away, or because they left to attend other events. When they did leave Greenville they were to leave to attend a meeting of the board of trustees of Wilberforce University. Bishop Lampton is reputed to be quite wealthy, owning something like a hundred thousand dollars of property right in Greenville alone. The Colored Young Men's Christian Association of New Orleans held its first "book social" Friday night, June 18, and received as gifts from friends about two years of values of the exercises for the evening were creditable both to the association and to the cause it represents. Many friends were out, and among these were a large number of Christian young women, who were loud in their praise of work already accomplished by the association. Mr. Hamilley was not a retreator. Dr. L. T. Burbridge, the treasurer, Rev. H. H. Dunn, member of the executive board, and Rev. Andrew Hubbs spoke of commendable efforts the Y. M. C. A. were making upon the new Christian life, and their remarks were received with rounds of applause. The Y. M. C. A. orchestra furnished the music and Mr. Burchস and very delightfully several please airers. McKay recited in Neuro-Dental, pieces of the kept the chaltschina was in laughing humor until everything was over. The rooms of the building were shining with evidences of improvement, and, adorned as they were with so many fine looking people, presented a scene that was admirable to complete. The President has appointed Hon. L. P. Bryant, a leading new Republican, to be surveyor of the port of New Orleans, and President of the country to be appointment. Mr. Bryant did not get the appointment without a fight, being opposed for the Howard University Choir Entering sition by Mr. John A. Brookshire, a local captain of inspectors of customs commander of the Department of Louisiana and Mississippi Grand Army of the Republic, and lifelong Republican, who was backed by the leaders of the old-line Republicans, headed by Register of the Land Office Walter L. Cohen. Captain Brookshire's position in the customs service is under the surveyor of the port, and by Mr. Bryant's victory in the contest for the surveyorship, Captain Brookshire finds himself in the awkward position of having to serve under the man that he put up a strong fight against. Mr. Bryant was indorsed for the position by the executive committee of the regular Republican organization, and had the hearty support of National Committeeman Pearl Wright. Mr. Bryant's appointment is the second time that President Taft recognized the claims of the Williams faction in this state and it seems to indicate the source of whose recommendation he will take for Federal appointments in this State. The first recognition of the Williams faction came when Gen. W. J. Behan was ap The Home of the Colored V. pointed postmaster of New Orleans a few weeks ago. Mr. Bryant succeeds Hon. F. W. H. Woodward, who succeeded Hon. Thomas J. Woodward, who resigned because he wished to retire to private life and rest. He favored and recommended the appointment of his suc- MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Special to the FEMAN. Mr. Plummer, 1102 E. East, last week with street. Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Mrs. Minnie, of Holder and John J. J. of the New England King. The choral was the home of Mrs. Holder. The Choral Study Club gave its musical concert Wednesday evening. June afternoon, the school was held at laudence. Following is the program: "Sol- diers" Chorus," from "Faust," by the club's plano duet from "Tannheuses," Misses L. L. and the son of Miss. the Scott; "A Hong-Kong Romance," and "The Club," reading, selected, by Mrs. Ida Sellers; quartette, Absent, Metcalf, by John J. J. of the New England Fiction, Jensen, Nov. 33, by Mr. Marlene E. Jeffrey; remarks by H. B. Burke; Inv. tion to the Dance," Polka Rondo, Vest. the musical organization of recent birth. It is the purpose is to encourage the study of music in those who sing, to increase the appreciation of the badness of the music, and to it is members of the time and service without pay, and it desires from its con- certs only money sufficient to meet its necess- ties, and to provide a child to be born, the factor in the lives of our people, and, through discipline, zeal and earnest co-op- eration, point the way to successful accom- plishment. It needs your help. Join he- lent, the school's board, a member of the associate body. Information gladly- given for the asking, by M. E. Jeffrey, di- rector. The club offers a consist of a pres- ideary, a performance, a book, a booklet, a sector. The "Borg" Literary and Athletic JEFFERSONVILLE. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. On Friday evening, June 4, the Jeffersonville Colored High School had its twenty-fifth commencement. There were young ladies in the class: Hattie M. Durrett, Lavinia B. Heddin, Cora E. Middleton, Blanche M. Parker, and Emily E. Middleton. New and commodious hall was well filled with an appreciative audience of our best citizens. Each young lady who appeared on the stage was a faculty manner. The address by Miss Burroughs was an eloquent, forceful plea for a life of usefulness, and she urged that each student be an honorable task, and not wait for the pre- Memorial Chapel, Washington, D. C. ferred work. The importance of realizing that the occasion was really the "commencement," and that each should see to it that a prompt, determined beginning should be made. Emphasis. The address was on the bedside most likely, livered to a graduating class from this school...Mrs. F. E. Talbott, of Dayton, O. is in the city, visiting relatives. She is in the school, and is principal of the schools. Simon Dunlap his little grandson, Otho, of Earlington, Ky., and Mrs. Corda Ross and son Roscoe, of Madisonville, Ky., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, of Madisonville, Ky., Mrs. E. F. McDaniel left Thursday for Richmond, Ind., to attend the Women's Missionary Convention...Mrs. Nelle M. Strong, who has been attending the bedside of her sister, returned to her home in Muncle, Ind., last Thursday...Henry Williams, who has the contract for putting down the concrete sidewalk on Sixth street, is about finishing his homework. He is returned to a colored man in this city...Wesley Chapel M. E. Church tendered the graduates M. C. A., Indianapolis, Ind. of the class of '09 a reception on last Monday evening, June 7. The committee, under the direction of Mrs. W. C. Statesman, had the church beautifully decorated in class colors and natural flowers. A musical and leading features were the welcome address by Mrs. Sallie Heady; solo by Mrs. Mary Carter; address, by Rev. D. E. Skelton, district superintendent; duet, by Mrs. Florence Holloway and Miss Carles Statesman; recollection of the class of Mrs. R. F. Taylor. Jas. O. Oglebsy acted as master of ceremonies. At the close of the program Rev. Skelton, in behalf of the principal, presented each member of the class with a beautiful hat each, the workmanship of which was half of Mrs. W. C. Statesman presented Miss Hardin, Middleton and Willis, graduates, who were members of Wesley Chapel, with a beautiful hat each, the workmanship of which was half of Mrs. W. C. Statesman presented elaborate affair, reflecting much credit upon Mrs. Statesman and her faithful assistants. PADUCAH, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN The sum of $805 was raised at the rally at Burk's Chapel A. M. E. Church, last Sunday.... W. B. Martin has returned from Montpelier, where he has been Glenbush.... The annual closing exercises of the Lincoln High School were held at the Opera House "Kentucky," Friday night, June 11, and were largely attended. Owing to Rev. H. Huffman was called on for the invocation. Thirty children appeared, arrayed in the national colors, singing "The Lord Is My Shepard," comedied for an idea," was given by members of the freshman class. One of the most appreciated selections of the evening was the solo, "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled," by Miss Mabel Smith, who was unable to attend. Rev W. Huffman appearance was graceful. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., delivered a brief address, not only to the class, but to the race, in which will be found good advice. In her talk she related a brief sketch of the race from the bondage of slavery unto the future possibilities. During her remarks the audience showed by bilingual attention that it was being well entertained. Diplomas were presented to the members of the class: Wm. Wim, Hammond, Hammond, Percie C. Hatch, A. E. Manlon, M. L. Manlon, Winnon, Heenlafta Woodson, by Prof. Carnagie, superintendent of city schools. Previous to the presentation he addressed the class, and in his remarks gave much good instructions to them. The program ended with benediction by Rev. W. H. Huffman. SEKITAN, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Riddell, of Cincinnati, came, tendered the commencement in Covington,zie Wakes, of High street, accompanied by Wakes, of High street, accompanied by Newport, of Newport, in Lexington, KY. Skipped in Lexington, KY. M. B. Mr. Thomas E. Taylor, General Secretary of the Colored Y. M. C. A., Indianapolis, Ind. there was the guest of Miss Carrie Stiller, of 580 Thomas street...Mr. I. R. Grubbs, sociologist at the Cincinnati Avenue Cafe, specializes in public health, spending Thursday, in the city...Mr. Geo. Woodson has about finished all of the painting and hanging of swings, etc., in the new Fairmount building, when complete. He is based on the new equipped pleasure resort in this vicinity...Vin Higgins, of High street, has been elected as a delegate to the Ohio District Lodge and Tenth Grand House Association in August...Mr. W. Davis, Jr., and Miss Stella Hathaway, both of this city, were married Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The marriage was a special occasion, on center street, Rev. J. H. Brooks officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Clayton acted as bridegroom and bridemaid. Mr. Bennie Cunningham and a social ladies in the village. The bridegroom was a lady and the costume was white silk. Light lunch was served and many nice presents were received. Mr. Davis is a member of the First Baptist Church, and a social ladies in the village. The bridegroom was a lady and the costume was white silk. Light lunch was held Thursday evening, June 17. The rostrum and hal were beautifully decorated with flowers and class colors. Mr. Ralph Cunningham and a social ladies in high honors, in a class of twenty-five pupils. Addresses were made by prominent educators, and the affair was quite interesting. The students were successful sending out two graduates to public schools. One of them, Miss Lizzie Wakes, l sat present bookkeeper and clerk at the S. H. Yellow Cash Grocery and soda shops in the city. He was a thorough scholar, spending several years as a student in the Galnes High School of Cincinnati. Mr. Grubbs at present his studies in the fall at an industrial college...I. F. Grubbs, of this city, and Miss the commencement in Covington, Ky., Wednesday evening. HOPKINSVILLE, KY Special to THE FREEMAN. The postponement of the opening date of White City is causing considerable talk, as every one is anxious for the opening....All society gathered witness the bountiful harvest of Mr. Robertson Banks this city, and Mr. James Robertson, of Terre Haute, Ind. The house was beautifully decorated with flowers and ferns. After the ceremony delicious ices and cakes were served to the guests who home in Terre Haute on the late train....The Eutropian Whist Club was delightfully entertained by Messrs. Jack Bond, Walter Graham, and the luncheon was one of the most beautiful events the women were awarded to Mr. Sargent Banks and Miss Cornelia Boyd. DELHI, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN. The quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. Church was held Sunday morning. Rev. L. C. Holloway, of Newport, Ky., occupied the pulpit at 11 o'clock. At 7:30 in the evening sacrament was administered by the pastor, Rev. W. J. Birden, of Newark, The New Jersey, Mr. Birden's Dudley will attend the preclint mass meeting as a delegate, on College Hill, Sunday, and in company with Mr. Clifford Gillespie will represent the church and Sunday school at the district confer-ence, which comes from Glenside June 26, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Gillespie entertained Sunday at dinner, Mrs. Ella Balley and Mrs. G. Douglas... Mrs. Julia Underwood entertained Sunday evening at 6 o'clock tea. Covers were laid for four. Mr. W. T. Jackson, of Cincinnati, and Rev. P. P. P. K. Kowalski, the western of the book meeting will be given at the A. M. E. Church the fourth Sunday in June. Rev. John F. Farley, of Walnut Hills; Rev. J. H. Brooks, D. D. of Sekitan; Rev. Geo. Lewis, of Cincinnati, and Rev. L. C. Holloway, of Newark, The New Jersey, in the first in the program. Rev. W. H. Blackburn is pastor... Miss Jeanette Hedges, of Lincoln avenue, will leave Saturday for a visit of ten days at the residence of her aunt. Mrs. Mattie Hedges of White River Street, and Mrs. A. W. Jackson and Rev. Geo. Lewis and Mrs. Jennie Madison, of Cincinnati, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. Graves, Sunday. ...Mrs. Luia Smith, in company with a number of the Sunday school boys and girls, spent a very pleasant outing at the Zooole, where she met a girl named Myria Smith, Orlander Willis, Charles and Julia Bradford and Jeanette Hedges. Dinner was spread and all enjoyed a pleasant day of recreation. ...Mrs. America Harvey, of Masonville, spent a day with Miss Mire Julia Underwood. ...Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hall entertained a number of guests at their residence, Sunday. Covers were laid for three. Among the guests were Mrs. Mire Julia Underwood, Miss Mire Malebo Moore. ...Rev. S. Dudley will occupy the pulpit in Burlington, Ky., Sunday, at the First Baptist Church basket meeting. CLEVES, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN who were held at the Second Methodist Church, Sunday, were well attended and quite a success. Rev. Smith, of Sekitan, filled the pulpit in the morning at 11 o'clock. At 3 o'clock Rev. Smith, of Sekitan, were carried out in a most pleasing manner. At 7:30 p. m. the pastor, Rev. J. H. White, preached an eloquent sermon., Rev. Smith, Mrs. Clara Gaines at Mr. and Mrs. John Neas over Sunday...Mrs. Harriett Baldock, of Main street, met with a very serious accident, Friday, by the explosion of a gasoline tank, when Mrs. Harriett Neas was taken suddenly ill Sunday, but is better at the present writing...Miss Georgina Barkley and Miss Eliza and Maggie Coleman attended the quarterly conference in New York, where Mrs. Neas will have charge of the delivery of papers and news items for The Freeman. Any courtesy extended to him will be greatly appreciated. N. C. Hawkins, general agent. An advertisement in The Freeman always brings results. 5 Waiters and Cooks Prefer our Make of Jackets and Aprons because they have found them satisfactory. Write for Complete Catalogue FREE giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben, Inc., 300 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. Watches $6.50 buys a fine 15-jewelled Watch, "thin model." 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The farms and gardens are "walking about" in these days. If you've done your part, the rain and shine will do the rest. Thomas Jefferson said all men were due "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." He called them inalienable rights—those of which man may not be divested. Colored men of the South have begun kicking at the treatment received regardless of the big excursions which means thousands of dollars to the railroad companies every season. The teachers have dispersed, after months of hard work. The recreation will be very much needed. The money will hold out until the end of the recreation season, when all must be begun over again. Bishop Walters is now at the head of an out-and-out political party. It is independent. The bishop couldn't be regular. He is constructed psychologically in opposition. This has reference only to his politics. As a churchman he is orthodox. Fourth of July! Great, grand day! And if we could only avoid the annual slaughter on account of the day it would be a still greater and grander day. One life needlessly sacrificed is far "too many." Guess the most that can be said is "Be careful." Blue gas is a new product from Germany; it threatens to make inroads on the gas methods now in vogue. Blue gas comes in cans, is in liquid form, and is sold by the pound. It is said to be good for all purposes, and cheaper than any product now used. --- Indiana Avenue is looking a trifle like its former self. The neat, little stores so often spoken of are beginning to show up, having the same effect that dashes of red have on too sombre pictures. If the people will patronize them they will prosper, and others will follow. Bishop C. H. Phillips, of the A. M. E. Church, is spoken of as the scholar of the bench. He has been touring Texas in the interest of the church, accompanied by his two daughters. He will soon be in Indianapolis, where a church of that denomination has been recently erected and named in honor of him. School No. 17, as a departmental school, is the newest in school circles. This school was the first of considerable size built for colored people. At one time it became necessary to turn the school over to the white people; it continued a school for white pupils up until this year, when it was again assigned for the use of colored pupils. At the unveiling of the monument to Paul Lawrence Dunbar next Sunday, addresses will be made by Prof. W. S. Scarborough, of Wilberforce University; Bishop David W. Moore, and the Rev. D. W. Clarke. The memorial is a fine granite bowler bearing a bronze plate on which is inscribed the last verse of the poet's "Death Song." The Liberian Register and the Lagos Record are in a war of words about the condition of Liberia. The Register does not want the Record to know so much. But apparently the Record knows more than what is good for Liberia. In explaining the status of that country the Register was forced to say that the Congress of Liberia was not satisfied with the mission of Barelay to England and France, consequently commissioners were ordered to America. Mr. W. N. Harding, candidate for the nomination for Mayor on the Republican ticket, has made some ideal promises in event of his nomination and election. He stands for good government, the strict enforcement of the written laws, and is opposed to graft in its various forms. He is in for retrenchment, economy in the conduct of government—declaring for a strictly business administration. He believes in the growth of the city; would not hamper its growth; his efforts for economy would not be exerted along that line. The golden charlot of day has run its limit and now must return to do duty on the other side, even to the south pole, dispersing the six months of gloom encircled there. As it recedes to its southern home it will strew in its wake those precious things of the earth, out of the earth, called up by it out of the earth as reminders of its having been here. Like a king when departing, his visit is rich in the distribution of his gifts. What munificence! No one is neglected. IN MEMORIAM. On Sunday, June 27, a monument to the Negro poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, will be unveiled in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. This fitting recognition of his genius, we feel saft in saying, is pleasing information to the friends of the poet, and who are everywhere. Wherever the English language is spoken, the name of Dunbar is known, and that to fame. The memorial is a fine granite boulder, bearing a bronze plate on which a verse from his well-known "Death Song" is engraved. So far the effort to memorialize Dunbar has been modest, as the testimonial shows. Yet it is extremely doubtful if a more appropriate selection could have been made, having in mind his simple taste. Not only was he poet; he had that intense sanity, better known as common sense, knowing well the fitness of things. He would doubtless have scoffed at a towering monument or a great church, knowing that his simple lines, his simple life by the way of poverty and the simple life of his people did not call for that kind of pomp and parade. He was a poet for true, broad in his sympathies, and which includes the Christ idea of suffering with others, for others—deeply marked with the humanities, a soul nature, and which he could no more escape than the features of his corporeal manner. According to his "Death" poem, he would have preferred a simpler tomb—where the willows are. This in similitude of his soul nature, that also sagged and sang. God once in a great while sends along these fine natures to qualify the earth. Juliet, of Romeo and Juliet fame, was said to have been so fine that at her death she should have been ground to powder and sprinkled over the world to make it fine. Dunbar was fine; he was rich in what makes for content; nor was he miserly with his riches, but spread it with a lavish hand, filling well his mission of buoying up the spiritual world. And the pity of it, that these bright and shining ones do not linger long—like the loaned pictures on the walls of a gallery. Mozart, Byron, Poe and Dunbar died young, as if in exemplification of the proposition that death loves a shining mark. They were rare, choice spirits, of whom the world never tires. Excepting Mozart, who was a musician, the lives were irregular enough, yet they preached at most times a most beautiful gospel. They sang of freedom, especially Byron, of peace, patriotism, beauty, love, of those things which added unto the spiritual man. No degrading notes disfigured their themes, and especially is it true of Dunbar, who was in that respect elegant in his chastity. Poe was overcome with his feeling too often, thus entering too largely in his work, giving the world in consequence great poems because so true to the individual. But they reflected individual suffering, quieter tragedies. Dunbar spoke in quieter tone of the miseries of life, and not "Ah, I have sighed to rest me, deep in the quiet grave" as a Poe. When dead he would simply rest mid the things he knew and loved so well—the flowers, the trees. AN OLD-FASHIONED INDIGNATION MEETING—MRS. BARNETT ROASTS DR. WASHINGTON. CHICAGO, Ill.-Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett has again broke loose. Her recent style of oratory abounds in vituperation and boisterous harangue, and she wholly disregards philosophy, sound reason and self-help. She would never up herself into a sober reflective mood doubtless she would see the logic of appealing to sweet reason, and her thereafter years when it were foolhardiness to say many things either from the rostrum or in the printed page. The people of the South are not accustomed to her style of speaking, but she also knows what it is or her for an idle hair. It is utter nonsense to believe that Mrs. Barnett falls to see the danger of her kind of talk before Negroes. She also knows what it is to listen to a person who can stop raised in the hearts of Southern white men. It is no credit to any Negro to insult the people among whom he is to live. No one proclaims that peace prevails before Negroes, but she can stop familiar with the prejudices of the South. Is it supposed that a few hot speeches made in Chicago against the tyranny we know to exist in the South against our prejudices in health? "Arouse," the position they say, "and the white North when they have listened to their tirades and bellcock utterances will be enlisted to help stop these injustices in health? "They not know (bless their little souls) that the North and South are almost married? Do they forget the kinship of the whit race? Are they ignorant of the disposition of the white man England owes the African natives of Zuidland? These kicking Negroes (chronic kickers) are not any more respectable nor more sense and know better. When high heaven is insulted and justice is trailed in the dust, we who don't kick are just as alive and sensitive against any kind of abuse as those who kick by force of habit. In spite of the injustice against which these helpless creatures protest, the sober, trouble, paying their debts, properly bringing up their sons and daughters, educating them in the best schools and colleges, accumulating property, opening banks, churches, planting more cotton and corn. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER earth, arth as here. s visit gifts. s neg- mentence wence The white man is himself a serious proposition. The ordeals of his civilization will constantly test the metal of any race. The mandates of age are serious. There are people who lighten up, will be crushed who fails to go ahead, and so is this applicable to the white man. The white man kills the white man; he lynches the white man; he night rides, and he kills the white man; his whites, and Negroes are to be ground in the maelstrom of this great age of progress just like others. The gibbet, and inquisition, and guillotine belonged to another age, but those who died those horribly killed were killed, their executioners were also white men. People will be killed. This is the friction and spasmodic conulsion of the times, here, there, anywhere, now, and in the future. "Twas every thus, and so it will ever be." Special to THE FREEMAN. A graduate from New York City, after six weeks' nursing. MINEOLA. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN Everybody had a lovely time on the 19th. There was only one stand, and it did good business. The people had plenty to do. A large crowd went to Quiltman, and they reported a nice trip. The public road went west on the south side of the railway, and the crowd came to Nettle Turman went to Dallas to visit friends and relations. Rev. Griffin, of Edgewood, was with us last week. The daughter of Columbus Davis lost her baby MARION IND Special to THE FREEMAN. Stone Star Court of Calanthe No. 310 held its semi-annual election of officers with the following result: Mrs. R. J. Keyes, W. C.; Mrs. Tnma L. Pettiford, W. I.; Mrs. Robert Julius, W. I.; Mrs. Anna P. Lulus, W. O.; Miss Gertrude Worthington, R. of D.; Miss Violetta Bray, R. of A.; Mrs. Luella Smith, R. of Dep. Mrs. William Julius, S. D.; Miss Charlottee Hamilton, J. D.; Mrs. M. M. Nickles, Cond.; Mrs. Frank Weaver, A. Cond.; Mrs. Charles Stires, W. E.; Miss May Hyatt, W. H.; Amos T. Nickles, W. P. Delegates to Grand Lodge, which convenes here July 26, Mesdames Charles Spires, R. J. Keyes and Miss Gertrude Worthington. Alternates, Mrs. Emma Pettiford, M. M. M. Nickles, Lotta Hamilton, Mrs. Anna P. Julius, Mrs. Emma Pettiford and Mrs. Clara Weaver left for Crawfordsville, Ind., to attend the Grand Chapter... Mrs. Hiatt left for Louisville, Ky. after a visit with Mrs. Anna P. Julius. EDMONTON. ALBERTA. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN headquarters on Sunday, June 13, to discuss the future welfare of the race, and will be held every week hereafter until June 16. Payne have just closed a successful week at the Empire with their whirlwind and roll-stake dancing...Mrs. Payne, of Edinburgh, A Goodie, of Calgary, was in the city on business last week...C. J. Sheman, a well-known barber around Strathcooma and Calgary, left it 15 for a two months' visit in Indiana and Illinois...C. Walker has been out on his homestead for the past few days...Miss Pearl Hayes is improving rapidly. PADUCAH, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN Masons of Goulds Golconda, India, and report a pleasant trip. More than 500 left with them...The Odd Fellows are going to have an anniversary soon...All lines of architecture are slowly...W. Atkins is on the slick list. BEAUMONT, TEX Special to THE FREEMAN Prof. Len E. Bryant came in Saturday night, on his way to attend the normal school at the South End High School, in a principal of the South End High School, is in Austin, Tex., attending the summer normal...Prof. T. T. Pollard is to leave for Austin in a few days to attend the normal...The Masons will have a meeting at the School St. James M. E. Church, corner Neces and College streets...The Juneteenth is over, and every incoming train brings in a group of students from the school which left Thursday evening carried eighteen coaches, with something over 1,200 passengers. There was a large excursion from different points in Louisiana to the South End High School, which carried fourteen coaches loaded to suffocation. MUNCIE, IND. Special to The Freeman. Hilra Chavis was the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Belle Mitchell, Sunday.... Evelyn Brown spent a few days in Carthage last week.... Harry Valten visited Mitchell and John Douglas. Mitchell attended the missionary convention at Franklin, Ind. this week.... Miss Sarria Wingfel spent a few days with her brother at New Castle.... Misses Wingfel, Mitchell, John Douglas, have gone to Mackinaw, Mich.... There are a number of men from Indianapolis working in this city.... Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Battle have gone to Petoskey for a visit. John Douglas has gone to Kokomo as a delegate of the Eastern Star convention. McALESTER, OKLA Special to THE FREEMAN. The city is now making great improvements, such as paving, laying of concrete, and the expansion of the McDaniel has several contracts for excavating for the large sewers that are being laid....The city normal has a larger attendance this summer than has ever been known, and about seventy-five are enrolled. Proof of instructor, instructor....The people of McAleran celebrated their first 19th of June last week and the grand picnic is given at San Jose Park Park of the largest and swellest parks in the South exclusively for the use of colored people, under the management of S. C. McAleran. The largest and most magnificent hotel in the State, and the only first-class, up-to-date opera house....Rev. D. Barrows, of Klamich Town Site Company, was here interested in the interest of his town site and other legal business. He says the town is improving fast, and that there is lots of work to be done to get all the colored people he can to settle up this town and farming country. DUQUOIN. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN Duquinco is a thriving little city, with 8,000 population, about 750 of them colored. We have several places of business conducted and owned by colored men. We have two well-equipped grocery stores, two well-equipped many smaller places of business among our people. This is a mining town, and the Thursday evening of this week occurred the annual sermon of the Masonic Lodge. . . The rally at the A. M. E. Zion Church was a success Sunday. . . Two of our highly relevant students this fall, where they Tate and Miss Bates, left for the summer session of the State Normal, where they will each do some special work prior to the opening of school this fall, where they Owens, our mail carrier, has recently returned from his annual vacation, which time he spent in various parts of Illinois hospital and university. . . Albert Jenkins has just returned to Harrisonburg, Ill. . . Braxton Rubin turned home from the State's capital, where they were very nice position. W. H. B. W. H. B. Kingfisher, Okla, are here, the guests of friends they have not seen for twenty-four weeks. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Master Frank Porter, of Braddock, Pa. spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. W. Porter. James Heath is able to be about again. Mrs. Jefferson has neuralgia. The Buckeye Lodge of Elka added seven members to their roll Friday evening, and Tuesday evening, June 29, will have a reception in the rest and a picnic and dance at Mill Creek Pavilion Monday afternoon and evening, July 5. Mr. and Master Green, of Chicago, and Mrs. McDonnaughey, of North Walnut street, spent two days in E.A.C. are. August Thompson the Chestnut street barber, visited his parents in Bluefield, Va. ... James Gibson remains the same. Mrs. Robert Kerr and Mrs. Hattie Williams are on the sick list... Paris and Fanny Duff entertained a number of their friends in honor of their birthdays. Mrs. Johnson, of Deed street, is able to be about again. Mrs. Washington is on the sick list....Sir Theophilus Pulum attended the funeral of Sir Harvey L. Roberts in Pittsburg, Pa., Friday....William Saunders will have his next skating party Monday evening, June 28, which will be the last for two weeks. BEST ON EARTH. Enclosed find renewal for the 1909 subscription for the BEST PAPER ON EARTH for news of the colored people. Yours for success. P. M. JOHNSON, M. D.. Editor FREEMAN: You will find enclosed the sum of $1.50 for subscription of twelve months. I wish to say that I can speak without hesitancy and I can read newspapers that I have read, and rest assured that all efforts you have given it are highly appreciated by me. I am sure that other readers should appreciate and be well informed a journal. Wishing you success, I remain. FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. While there are not so many people at the hostels, the hostels are bustling and happy as ever. Baseball is the topic of discussion, and the fans are turning out in large numbers. Read THE FREEMAN. Lee Babbage, agent. Mrs. James Locus, of Louisville, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Shockency. Miss Katie Masterson, of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of Mrs. Dudley Sebre. Mrs. McNairy, of Hopkinsville, Ky., has been visiting here for several days. Mrs. Josie Lloyd is making a success as a manicurist and hair dresser. Miss Elizabeth Thomas, of Louisville, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Burnette. Mrs. Marie Richards has just returned from Louisville, after a two weeks' visit. Mrs. W. O. Martin left Tuesday for Louisville to attend the funeral of a relative. An entertainment was given Tuesday night by the Court of Calanthe at Pythian Hall. Clarence E. Stockdale has been ill for the past two weeks. He is able to be out again. Mrs. Lula More, Mrs. Pearl Stockdale and Mrs. Ida Lloyd are in Louisville on a two weeks' visit. Mrs. George L. Smith returned Tuesday from Louisville, where she has been visiting relatives and friends. Charles Rice, proprietor of the Rice Hotel, West Baden is recovered from a serious illness, and is able to be out again. Several marriages are to take place here soon. One of the most popular girls in the valley is reported to be married next week. William Washington James Briggs, Clarence Stockdale, Moses Yancy and Glennmore Gentry are among the best pool players in the village. James Gibbs, head waiter of French Lick Springs Hotel, is making a complete success, carrying a crew of forty waiters and more are expected. Lee Babbage, the agent of the FREE MAN, is still pushing the "largest illustrated" for all it is worth. Visitors and home, people welcome THE FREEMAN weekly. Mrs. J. C. Snowden an officer of the Juvenile Court, Illinois is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson. She is one of the best informed women of the race. She recently attended the National Association of Juvenile Officers at Buffalo. Most of the well-known people here are waiting to go to Louisville during the month of August, especially the week of August, when the effort will be made to organize a local league and send a delegate to the national meeting. The A. M. E. Church, Rev. Charles Slmms, pastor, and the West Baden Baptist Church, Rev. J. L. Mason, pastor, are having quite a success. Both churches are Sunday-school at the West Baden Baptist Church is led by Mrs. Lula Cook, and at the A. M. E. Church by Mrs. Sol Pittman. Irvin Slye has returned from Louisville and New Albany. Mr. Slye has the neatest and most up-to-date cafe in this section of the city, and he is a member of America, who travel for their health and reach the Springs, find Mr. Slye to be congenial and pleasant, at the head of a business house that is a credit to the race of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a recent visitor. Rochelle Court of Calanthe No. 14 gave the audience a formal and literary entertainment at the Pythian Hall, Tuesday night. An appreciative audience was present, and Mrs. William Payne read a paper, and Mrs. William Payne read a musical, King rendered a musical selection, and Luther Miller delivered a recitation. A dance followed, with music furnished by the Pythian Band, Mrs. Payne and other members of the Court of Calanthe served refreshments. NEWS OF "BUCKEYEDOM" Unvelling of Dunbar Memorial Monument—General Notes. By J. G. ROBINSON, D. D. DAYTON, Ohio.—THE FREEMAN is taking well in Dayton, and we shall soon be bound to the Walt and foray German town, Xenia, Springfield, Eaton and other nearby towns, with the hope of making this one of the strongest branch offices connected with THE FREEMAN. "Mr. Ralph W. Tyler should be retained." is the hue and cry all over Ohio. Well, he will be. Dr. J. B. Anderson closed his rally for Bethel Baptist Church last Sunday. Quite $400 was realized. The Chicago Bureau, managed by Dr. M. A. Majors, will be read with deep interest throughout the country. Miss Nannie Wood and Miss Mamie Harris, both of Maysville, Ky., are guests at the home of Mrs. N. H. Talbott, on Olive street. Look out for the Dayton "ads" next week. We are preparing to give several illustrated views of some Dayton business enterprises. Hon. M. H. Jones, of Dayton, is pulling hard to land a place in the Department of Justice. He is one of the ablest lawyers in the country. Come on, Mr. Taft; let us have a few more plums. We put much of the stuff around the tree that made it bloom and bear fruit at the White House. Mr. A. B. Poston, one of the best known newspaper men of our race, can be seen dabbling in the garden, digging new aids the whip dalles that puts the good side of the race forward. Mr. Poston is one of the most valuable men of the race in Dayton. Ezra Koontz, president of the City Council, will very likely be the next Republican nominee for Mayor of Dayton. He is a candidate for the nomination. He will not suffer at his hands if he should be elected to head our city government. Rev. N. H. Talbott, M. D., preached the annual thanksgiving sermon to the Knights of Columbus at Eaker Street A. M. E. Church last Sunday. The order was out in full regalia, and made a grand showing. Dr. Talbott preached a masterly sermon. The marriage of George Ellis to Miss Berta Willis was a brilliant affair. The bride was handsomely dressed, while the groom was dressed in black. The presents were many and costly. Ceremony by Dr. J. G. Robinson, THE FREEMAN staff extends congratulations to the new-made family. Rev. J. E. Morris lectured at Hamilton, OH, on the subject of packed house last Monday night; subject, "Progress of Education in the Negro Race." The lecturer sustained his well-earned reputation as a worthy Snelson, the pastor was ordial in his reception and entertainment of the speaker. Dr. Snelson is doing well at Hamilton. Rev. John M. Henderson, M. D., has recently located at his home in Oberlin, Ohio. Dr. Henderson returns to Ohio with the Bishop. He went to Bermuda with Bishop Derrick, and attended him in his afflictions. Bishop Derrick claims that as a result of Henderson's treatment his health is better than at any time in the last ten years. --- Dayton experienced a triple tragedy last Thursday among our people. J. H. Hardcastle, who was boarding at the residence of Mrs. Miller, became insanely jealous of home and shot Mrs. Miller's four-year-old boy in the back, shot Mrs. Miller twice through the lungs, killing her instantly; so then turned the weapon on himself and shot Mrs. Miller twice and died two hours later. The little boy may recover. From Wednesday, June 23, to Monday, June 28, entertaining programs will be rendered at the Euclid Avenue A. M. E. Church. The occasion is the fortieth anniversary of Dr. William H. Coleman as a pastor, who spent forty years in the active service as a pastor, serving all these years in the Ohio Conference. He is popular and most highly affluent affairs will be one of the most brilliant affairs in the history of Dayton among our people. --- The unveiling of the Dunbar memorial monument will take place on the 26th. This occasion promises to be one of his greatest achievements, and seems unpleasant, and is distasteful to Daytonians, is that our people are not represented on the program, after we have given so much of the money from our diffuse donations, and are proud that the white people of this country stand ready to honor one of our people so distinguished as the late poet of the race—Dunbar. Rev. J. G. Robinson is quietly but firmly pushing the claims of the Negro to have a member in the Legislature from Montana, and to have a Negro ever attempted to make the race in this county. With 3,000 Negro voters in this county, with a normal Republican majority of 2,500, we as Republicans, demand official recognition, and Robinson will be candid and, if all together we shall have a member in the Ohio Legislature who will do the race much good. Dr. Robinson will be supported by the United City committees, also by one strong candidate for the United States Senate. Dayton has had a number of distinguished visitors recently. Last Sunday Dr. H. T. Johnson, editor of the Christian Reformation, presided over Dr. J. G. Robinson, Dr. Chapelle preached. One of the most severe arrangements of God's judgment against human lips was given out in the sermon of this master philosopher from the State of Ben Tillman. Dr. H. T. Johnson, the great editor of the Christian Reformation, presided over Dr. Robinson to spend a few days with "ye, quill pusher." Other distinguished visitors to Dr. Robinson's home were Dr. E. W. Lee, president of Morris College, and Dr. D. Pine Bluff, Rev. James Jones, D. D., Pine Bluff, Ark; Rev. R. H. Leake, D. D., Raleigh, N. C.; Rev. J. E. Morris, D. D., of Monongahela, N.C.; Rev. J. E. Morris, D. D., of Kansas City. All of these able and well-known A. M. E. ministers spent several days in Dayton, the guests of Dr. Robinson. They preached at the different churches and lasting impressions in Dayton, Dr. E. W. Lee, president of Morris Brown College, and Dr. W. Chappelle, president of Allen University, were carried by Dr. Robinson, the philanthropic capitalist. These men placed their schools favorably in the minds of these rich men, and now they will be expected to help in the uplift of our people. Dayton was one of the most day—one at Zion Baptist Church and one at Eaker Street A. M. E. Church. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL length by your correspondent but a few hours before his lifeless body was discovered. He was a favorite in the Adjutant General's office and a widely read student of literature, of no mean ability and a connoisseur on matters theatrical. Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, is to retire in December. His place in the Cabinet is to be taken by Congressman Charles F. Scott, of the second district of Kansas, a good friend of the elected people. The appointment of Mr. Scott is an exceptionally fit one, as he has for years been chairman of the House committee on agriculture, and is fully conversant with all the up-to-date methods of agriculture. The elevation of Mr. Scott will be "fat" for Mr. C. C. Johnson, who has served long and well in the committee rooms of the chairman on agriculture, and he will contribute his chief to the new department. --- Judge and Mrs. Rober H. Terrell, accompanied by their daughters, Misses Phyllis and Mary, have gone to Boston to attend the commencement of Harvard College. Judge Judge Terrell is an alumus. Numerous social functions have been planned for their entertainment. It is no small achievement for a colored man to leave Boston and practice empty-handed and return after a few years a full-fledged judge and recognized by the people of his bailwail as the very ablest jurist on their municipal court. The strictness sense of that much abused term, and is entitled to the highest need of praise for the distance he has had to climb, with no aid except his strong right arm and unconquerable determination to do something and to be something. The celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the National Colored Personal Liberty Association, the opening of the 16th was an enjoyable affair. The Ladies' Auxiliary, of which Mrs. L. C. Moore is president, was the special guest of honor this year. On previous occasions this booth has been filled with flowers and flowers from L. A. Wiles of Iowa, presided, and delivered that follows taking a dose of castor oil, salts or calomel, is about the worst you can endure -Ugh it gives you the creeps. You don't have to have it -CASCARETS move the bowels -tone up the liver -without these bad feelings. Try them. CASCARETS 10c a box for a week's treatment, all drug留 for a bigger seller in the world. Million boxes. the address of welcome, and Mr. Charles C. Curtis, likewise of Iowa, founder and national organizer of the league, gave a succinct history of the organization, paying a tribute to the late president, Mr. Henry Clay Hawkins, of West Virginia. Among the speakers were Messrs. L. Marshaw, R. W. Thompson, J. Frank blagburn, L. C. Moore, J. A. Lankford, Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, Sergeant Hayman, Lieut. R. E. S. Toomey and others. A toothsome repast was served by the Ladies' Auxiliary. Letters of regret were read from Vice President Sherman, Congressmen McKinley, Lloyd and Olmstead. Recorder John C. Dancy, Commissioner Macfarland, President Oyster, of the board of education, and Governors Harmon and Marshall, of Ohio and Indiana. At the recent commencement at Wilberforce University, the well-known architect, E. Church, of Oxford, M. S., was elected a life member of the board of trustees of that noted institution. He is the first man thus far honored with a life membership on this board, and his friends are because of the interest with congratulations because of the interest with a mark of esteem on the part of the E. Church. He is the official supervising architect of the connection, and also of the degree of M. S. was conferred upon Mr. Church, Johner, now of Howard University, but he and tried alumns of Wilberforce. Dr. W. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, delivered a message of encouragement and those who heard it were oratory, logic and practical information. It is regarded as easily the finest address on the kind ever delivered at a Wilberforce University, the elequent register had prepared himself to care, and in the hour and quarter which he spoke he held his audience spell-bound. He won a new hold upon the affections of the country, and friends from all parts of the country has a fine reception at his own school, the Western University at Quindaro, Kan. where he preached the haccalareate lesson, with part in the commencement exercises, with Governor Stubbs as principal orator. PITTSBURG SHOW SHOP. By JASSIMINE. Things are going along just lovely on the Avenue. We are having the finest kid's theater, and strolling on the Avenue has proved to be the popular "fad" of the season. Harry C. Waters, the well-known and popular student, *Unhollywood Union 471*, has opened a first location at 1322 Wylie avenue. Headquarters of the Union and the Western School of Music and Publishing Company are also in London. R. Anthony Busi, the well-known composer and pianist at the Fulton Theater, has just finished a very pretty march, received its first rendition Monday night, but is now in a home house. It is very nicely arranged, a nice swing to it, and, above all, has an abundance of real good harmony in it. It is very well arranged, and being Drummer," and is being published by the Western School of Music and Publishing Company. G. Walter Grade, K. of P. concert band, the Pythons' pride of Pennsylvania under the direction of Prof. C. Walter Striplin, will give the first of a series of sacred dress rehearsals Sunday evening, and will be performing at the Center avenue. Prof. Striplin is arranged an excellent program for the occasion, assisted by the following soloists: G. Harry Bolden, tenor; Walter Williams, bass; W. Waters, euphonium; John E. Lain, cello. H. B. Washington, the well-known trombonist and orchestra leader of the Sunny South Company the past season, will be in the city Sunday to spend his summer vacation. Billie Betters and Robert Johnson, two well-known comedians of this city, have joined hands, and will be known hereafter as the city's only offer a nice act, which consists of singing, talking and dancing. Meggins and Green, that ever-popular pair of comedians, are now playing the piano in the city. These young men are hard workers, and if nothing happens they will be found very near the "top" before very long. At last it has arrived. The "climax" was reached in the cinema Theater remained dark on account of a musicians' strike, the first one to occur in our quiet little city. What the real cause of the strike is I have been able to tell you. It's something about it before the next writing. Foster White, pianist, and Billie Butler, trap drummer, have closed at the Star Theater, and have both joined Beauty's Orchestra, one of the finest of its kind in Eddie Anderson, one of the city's best known young colored men in theatrical circles, is now amusement director at the Star Theater. Mr. Anderson and his wife, theatrical affairs, have been employed at the Bijou Theater for a number of years. The vaudeville houses still contain to date good bills, and usual, are visited by theater fans in nightly. THE STAR—This house offers a very good bill, headed by the Everett, in a very good singing and talking act. a lady member of the team, the assessor, and knows how to use it. Then came Charles Stinson, the "Wizard of the Banjo," who played his way into the hearts of his audience from the start, and was forced to respond to his questions. He also team and moving pictures closed the bill. THE FULTON, offers an excellent bill this week, headed by Lena Mitchell, a very clever singer and dancer. Mitchell is a very good singer and a dancer. She is a hard worker, and was heartily applauded for her work. Then came Le Roy, a very good magician, who was received. Ben Humery monologist, and very good moving pictures closed the bill. NASHVILLE LOSES BEFORE LARGE CROWD Special to THE FREEMAN: Special to THE MONDAY PRESENT 3,761 PAYMENTS. Before a crowd of 3,761 paid admissions at Kuebler's Park the St. Louis Giants defeated the Standards from Nashville, Tenn. 5 to 1. The pitching of Saddler for the Giants, the much of Saddler, the Southern boys. Blair on the Giants, the Giants was in the game like a demon. The tricky playing of the St. Louis boys showed to good advantage and kept the crowd in an uproar, they catching six Tennessee boys naping during the game. [B. H. E. Giants ... 1 B. H. E. 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0 Nashville ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 4 Batteries—Saddler and Casey; Freeman and Williams. FIRST OF ATKINS—A. B. C. SERIES. Rivals for City Baseball Honors Play Double-Header Sunday. The two strongest teams in the city, the Atkins and A. B. C.'s, will meet in double-header Sunday at the Scottsdale Park. General admission is free; no charges; no dress codes and stand for ladies. This will be the opening of a series of games for city honors, and as both teams are in mid-season form and play class ball, these will be the banner games The Atkins lineup is as follows: Murphy, if; Baeren, 2b; Mitchel, cf; Chase, 1b; Churchill, ss; Klinger, rt; Dyle, 3b; Cook or Schissel, c; Noffke or Mewer. The Atkins team plays the Maxwell-Brisco at New Castle, Ind., to-day (Sat. THE STAGE time And if you didn't make no money vaude- ville wouldn't pay? To some this rhyme may seem foolish— I'll admit it's rather silly— But it costs money to make a jump, if it's only one Phillip. So to tell my brothers and sisters in vau- deville I speak: Don't wait for the other feller; go on and take a week. If you do this, pally, you'll never want for But, old cook, you must admit that I've studied up this bliz. You oppose waited when you lay around and New York town. You oppose your stomach when meal time comes round! You oppose your dim in life when your stomach is full. You oppose your good nature whenever you get mad! You are an opposite color when you are thick. You oppose the railroad company if you have to walk the track. Don't oppose the track. You can beat the train if you will. Suppose we transpose the word suppose—we will find opposition vaudelle. Dixon and White are entertaining appreciative audiences at Grand Rapids. Carita Day and her "picks" entertained audiences this week at Victoria, B. C. The Lincoln Theater, at Vicksburg, Miss., has responded under the direction of Mitchell J. W. Ellis. Brown and Hodges are at the State Street Theater, Trenton, N. J., this week, with the Unique Theater, Philadelphia, to follow. John W. Dennies, of A. G. Allen's Minstrel Company, will please joel & Glickstein, the Colored Airdome, Jacksonville, Fla. Important. C. H. Douglass, of Douglass and Worthy, proprietors of the Florida Blossoms, is ill at his home at Macon, Ga. The show is doing very nicely in North Carolina. The Bradfords, Harry and Lillian, are the first colored act to play for William in all nineteen consecutive weeks in and around New York City. Happy Arthur Howe has closed a very successful engagement with Benbow's Chocolate Drops, and is now filling an engagement at the Electric Theater at Montgomery, Al. regards to all friends. "Slim" Mason, formerly with P. G. Lloyd, and now with B. J. Thomas Hopkins were FREEMAN callers this week. They are en route to Milwaukee, Wis., to fill a special summer engagement. Monroe Tabar, the Southern tenor and yodier, is singing "Girl of My Dreams" and is scoring quite a hit. Would like to hear from T. M. Seldom and Manzie Camp- Jacksonville, Fl. The Darkies' Dream Co., under the management of George Trouw of Indalene, and William Walker, of Marion, Ind., are meeting with grand success. They are playing the vaudeville circuit the first of week and return and play Goldthale Benton when they opened the first Sunday in June. The Whitman Sisters and company of clever performers closed a live weeks' engagement at the Colored Alrdome, Jacksonville. Fla. on the 27th, having been invited to perform at night. T's seating capacity is 700, giving performances every night, standing room being at a premium at very nearly every performance. Mrs. Maude Beatty, of this city, leaves to-day for Chicago to join Carter's Concert Company. The company is filling contagious engagements this summer. Mrs. Beatty will be quite a valuable addition to Sharon's young woman, and has quite a pleasing voice, and takes part in all the musicallections given here. She is a member of the E. choir, and also a pianist. Mrs. Beatty is amiable disposition, and has many friends. Collien's Nashville students closed in Davenport, Wash., June 9. Herbert La Sheerman of Georgia Coon Shouters for the summer in Washington, her brother Mitchell and Walter Shouters doubling vadevillee, opening in Walla Walla, Mrs Rose Mitchell is in Oakland resentment to Portland, Smith and Bo Adams to Boston and Albert Hutt, who have an orchestra, there and expect to open up Harvey Holland return to Carnegie Company, Harvey Holland return to Carnegie Company, and eron street, Victoria, B. C. Ed L. Anderson returned to his family, $22 Lewis Wilson are at San Lukes, at 486 Pacific street, San Francisco. LINCOLN THEATER, VICKSBURG, MISS. The house has reopened under the man- agement of the council. The night of last week there was a blaze in the house. We are now in Ohio, after our tour through Kentucky. Business is good. The glam plays every Sunday. Everybody is well. We sit to say, we lost our tambourine solitary; we home on account of illness of his mother, and we hereder with Cherokee Ed's Wid Wil Weiss. Miss Helen Young, our leading scoring regularly singing "Kinky" Edwards and White are cleaning up with us, assisted with his bunch, although he resigned the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Jean Clark. He regards to Wolfscale and company. GREAT FERDON MEDICAL CO. R. O. Henderson writes from the Great River Medical Experts: The medicine show opened April 14 at Long Beach, Cornell. Played three successful weeks there, Cornell or three and a half weeks, then the Great River and the companied rest of two weeks, while the Theater, Los Angeles first week, June 7, "Trip to Africa," with show big. Second in comedy role; show big. Second in Georgia Camp Meeting, "Sydney Carter," where they furnished the comedy with many specials so big. Regards to all friends in our medicine show season resumes at Fairview Park, June 23, for an indie- nate run. Bob Minstrels, and Q. C. Clark and P. G. Lewy's lunch. Would be pleased to hear from all friends at all times. All letters should be addressed to Fresno, Cal, care of the Great Ferdon's Medical Experts, for the next six weeks. LINCOLN PARK, NEW ORLEANS. On Sunday night, June 27, 1909, the great and only Bush and his Rigime were invited to the Jealous Woman," their latest musical show special, request, Prof. Balley Robinson married flight to the cloads and demanded that he, the Manager, William Haywood, Superintendent; H. G. Coulloux, Secretary and Treasurer. Music by Robichaux's Orchestra. COLORADO GRANT OLD KEN TUCKY COLORED MINSTRELS. The Colorado Grant Minstrels are now in dear old Illinois. They open each performance with a beautiful spectacular performance. F. B. Fenneman, a former noted interlocutor, Joe Clark and Jim Anderson hold down the extreme ends, murphy, and Jones are rattling some behind. The players keep the house in screams. Gossom, the famed contortionist, is undoubtedly the limberest colored boy on the stage, and he is on the mound. Knows. Maybe he don't clean up! The band is composed of Corgile, Nelson and Miller, cornetes; Hargraves and Hall, trombones; Gossom and Herdman, horns Tyler, bassist; Grant, Smith, and Murphy; Murphy and Clarke on the drums. RICH PALM MINISTRELS The Rich-Palm Minstrels, en route with the Great Parker Shows, are showing to the monologue daisy and night. Lew Weyler joined the band last year. Lew Weyler monologue and dancing in the olso. Chas. English has been away for a few weeks, joined him, and playing in Iowa, Iowa, and playing in the Ohio. The Chas. Lizzie and Thomas, send regards to Lewis Kenner, of New Orleans, Mrs. Thompson is cleaning up with the Right Church but he is not sure if he wants to "I Want a Boy to Love Like You," while Mrs. Rosa Scott puts on "Good Evening, Caroline" with some class, I reckon, Prof. Baxter, of the brass band, and his boys certainly do some wind-jamming when he joins the Regards to all in and out of the profession. BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST SHOWS. This show does not discriminate, but goes on principle and ability. The African and American Negroes alike are headliners and the Jam Francis Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, is the promoter and organizer of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and Major Gordon Hill's, whose name became famous in the Far East Shows. This combination is owned and controlled by these two men, the only two original scouts living. The African and American scouts are arena tent, two large horse tents that care for 500 head of horses, one dripping room tent. Penn Oskazuma, the African-Indian scout and scout, earned much success as a company. Other performers are Fred Smart, R. S. Larkins, Ed Tandy, Emmett Tappley, H. L. Leser, Oglesy, Leser Poster, Mrs. Verda Wren, members of S. H. Lane's Alabama Blossoms. THE DIXIELAND SPECTACLE AT SEATTLE. WASH. A banquet to the excursionists from California was given June 15 in the New York Building, under the joint auspices of the Exposition and the Chamber of Commerce, to hold an exhibition held on the grounds in honor of the California travelers. All members of the Dixieland Spectacle were invited guests, and not as entertainers. Owing to the fact that they (the travelers) were so well known, the merrymakers of Dixieland, many have decided to remain in Seattle for California Day. The merrymakers are made in last week's program. "The Going to Get Myself a Black Salone" is a new song out here, and Jess Banks responds to several encores. Stella Phillips is also very pleasing with "Sheath Gown in Darktown. This is the only dress you can purchase a copy of THE FREEMAN every week. A fine of $1 is imposed upon any one reading another FREEMAN. Nearly a hundred and sixty-five are ordered weekly, and the ghost walks every Tuesday. IRVIN JONES SETTLES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT Comedian Gets Into Trouble by Trying to Fill Two Dates at Once. Some few days ago a suit for breach of contract was brought against Irvin Jones, the well-known comedian. He signed a contract for an engagement at the Hammerstier theater, New York, for the same date that he had signed the agreement. He appeared in the New York engagement and he sent a man to the Connecticut people styling himself as "Triving Jones." In some way it was discovered that the man was not the original Irving Jones, the original was sued for breach of contract. When the agent brought the suit, Jones wanted to settle by playing the original agent refused to consider a transaction any further in the future than immediately. The case was dropped upon Jones' payment of the cost of billing him in payment, Conn., and the agent's commission. WHITNEY STOCK COMPANY. Sunday, June 21, will always be reckoned as a red-letter day with the Whitney Stock Company. After being especially invited to listen to one of the grandest addresses it has ever been my privilege to hear, delivered by the world's greatest educator, Booker T. Washington, I was further honored by being chosen by fifty of Newport News's most distinguished zens to occupy some of the honor at table this great American. The supper, served by Matt Lewis, a lawyer, and also proprietor of the Wells Hotel, was most elaborate. It was interspersed by speeches which showed deep thought, and their delivery proved conclusively that oratory is not dead. Dr. Washington made short snip of the farmland in which he reply to the business men of Newport News on their rapid advancement. He said that the future of the Negro as a race lay in the hands of the leaders. He exhorted them to unity, wherein lies progression. Dr. Washington appeared delighted to meet the different members of the company, and said he was glued not only the process of providing for the making in the theatrical world. He inquired very earnestly after the health of George Walker, and expressed sorrow for the death of Ernest Hogan. "THE WHANGDOODLE TRIO." We opened at the White City here June 5, and the stunt we put on was the biggest hit that has ever been made in Seattle as the good work up the good work for ten weeks, and change performance each week. Dude Kellet stage manager and develper gave credit for the opening chorus, "Minstrels in the Palm," a big hit, staged by Dude Kelley, Ace Brooks' twelve-time winner, Jessica Asson, David Headline, T. Payne, the double-voice wonders, sing "If I had a THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER letters, care, treats, for Miss Helen Leitridge, the charming little soubrette, cleans up the mess in the living room with that coon dity, "Oh You Lovin' Gal!" Alice Whittaker is also a very pleasing soubrette, Miss Beulah Roffle, the conductor of the band, and the scream with the bass solo, "King Over Land and Sea. Philip Nelson goes big with J. Berni Barbour's latest success, "Till the Sun Shines Down on Them." Bairn Seat, the sweetest Ninja, J. P. Fanklin, the robust tenor, sings "Silver Threads Among the Gold." Amen Davis, the clever comedian, sings "When the Sun Shines Down on Them." Bairn Seat, the sweetest Ninja, J. P. Fanklin, the robust tenor, sings "Silver Threads Among the Gold." Amen Davis, the clever comedian, sings "When the Sun Shines Down on Them." Bairn Seat, the sweetest Ninja, J. P. Fanklin, the robust tenor, sings "Silver Threads Among the Gold." The company is under a large salary, and we do forty minutes twice per day, F. R. (Ace) Brooks the vocal director, who is also a well-known composer. Best regards to P. G. Lowery, different Eastern papers. The Brooklyn Eagle had a lengthy editorial on the subject, finally another judge granted them their charter membership over the names of the charter members on will find them to be men worthy to represent any kind of reputable organization. Their club represents the third generation of the professional Negro in the theatrical world, combined with lawyers, publishers and lawyers, the Frogs have been organized a little over the last well showed their worth. Their first call to aid was met like men. The body of the late Ian Logan was sent to Kansas City to help the Frogs make late Ernest Hogan wrecked his funds, and the Frogs put on a big benefit, the process which tided him over to the end, they were all there to help Mr. Hogan away. The Frogs, not as a name, but as men, have stood the test and they are here to stay. The Fiddler and Shelton engagement at the Majestic had the whole of Chicago DEHOMEY THE GREAT BY JULI JONES J8 Oh, the sweet times! It doesn't seem that we have ever had any trouble or that we came near freezing last winter. Anyway, we are going to crow while the snow falls, and when the snow comes again. But it's a case of on with the dance; let joy flow, for it's never going to snow. The fun of the whole business is that continued battle betterers. Yet the public pays. The managers have to keep up the gait they are going, or lose their trade. Every bill the last week was a knockout. The Pekin had to hold off the company and company, Harrison Stewart and Jerry Mills and company. It looked like a down-town bill; packed houses at every show. The Grand presented Miller and the Monogram for things at every show. The Monogram for things at Leroy Leroy and Claybourne Jones, and Mr. Blondy Robinson. These three are acts any way that you place them—single, double, or triple. Called "the goods," any place or on any bill. The Temple of Music is taking life one sweet way, with two extra attractions and the regular stock—six little boys that play the music, George Hall, Buddle Hall, the trio and a magician act. Big business. --- It is said that Wise and Milton have patched up their difference with the managers out West, and are back on the job again. --- Marsh Craig, the contortionist, will appear at the Majestic next week, after playing all the United Booking. Craig has been with the Class A for ten years. Craig is ready! Sydney Perrin has been engaged by Billy King to write all the music for the Georgia Minstrels this season. Mr. King has promised the proprietors of the Georgias a new show and new faces. Tom Kane, the well-known mixer, both politically and professionally, had a run with the trolley car. Tom is in the Wesley Hospital. The car is in the repair shop. Both are getting along nicely. The clubs along the stroll have a new lease on life. One more has been opened in Madison, Caldwell and Thomas. The popularity of Mr. Thomas has commenced to show itself already. Glass and Glass are at Milwaukee this week. This young act has come like a house on fire. It is said that they will be ready soon. Mr. Glass says that when they do they will be ready in every department. The United Booking Agency has given out the sad report that Bert A. Williams would not appear here this season, and he has been a regular at the club. They have certainly upset some big plans, for Dehomey was going to meet him with the full Eighth Regiment Band. Sweetman, leader of the Grand Orchestra, paid his sister a flying visit at Kansas City, and arrived there on her wedding day. He had such a good time that Dr. Brown was there to see him. Now he can't remember anything about his sister's wedding. He was met by the boys and a band, but when and how he left he will never be able to tell. Miss Pearl Brown, formerly leading lady of the Pekin Stock Company, has been quite ill. Miss Brown and Mrs. Madge Brown were in the front for a summer bathing beach. The weather has been against the business, as the sons and daughters of Ham never bother with Lake Michigan water until it was the thousand in the shade. Don't rush them. --- J. Ed Green, the man in charge of the Pekin Theater, dropped while at work with a peculiar malady. It was first thought that a wife was a slim woman, but now the doctor do not seem to know just what troubles him, and have advised the constant attendance of a trained nurse. His wife, Mrs. Jeannette Murphy Green, has been sent for and will remain until he recovers. *** The birthday of Jul Jones, Jr., is July 4th. He is interested in fruits and flowers will please fruit fruits and flowers made up in "wretch" style, and also sealed explosive packages. In fact, they do not need to send anything, for he has plenty of money to receive or congratulations over the long-distance telephone. What happened to Jones last year was sufficient. George Walker, of Williams and Walker, has changed his summer resort from Lakewood, N. J. to Mt. Clemens, Mich. Every one hopes for the better. He is impatient to be able to appear this season. Shipp and Rogers are preparing the new show so it can be handled with a single or double star. It also has Brown and Navarro in one-up, and also a number of new faces. . . . Dehomey was called out again to the Majestic, to see Frank Rogers, the great ventriloquist, and he is great. This is the same Rogers that appeared in Dehomey's book, *The Great Ventriloquist*, known, playing ten shows a day, but now he is playing at one of the best houses in the vaudeville big wheel and is one of the biggest hits on the stage. When Juju presides through the theater, he was taken as a little joke, but now it has come to pass. This young man has worked hard and shows the effect, placing his tricks far above the heads of the fakers. He is a man of great tell how it is going to take a novelty act until it has done its turn. But in Rogers' case it was different. He caught them at the cart and simped to the house down with them. These great comedians, Jerry and Rastus, Rogers is a real Negro novelty. Miss Gracie Daniels, the ticket seller at the Monogram, is one of the prettiest girls that sells tickets in Chicago. Miss Daniels is quite clever, and jollies every one with a nice word and a pleasant smile, although every one knows that an officer on the local police force gets the original. Miss Gracie, however, met her match in an old vet that began life in Chicago. This old owl mistook Grace's smiles and got serious on her hands, and commenced to bring flowers and fruit. Then Miss Grace commenced to look far away out of it, but he would not have it. Grace was quiet; things got desperate; so he made a bold dash and went right up to her and said: "Miss Grace, if all the men of Chicago were dead, would you look on me with favor?" This cold question stopped her for a while, and then with a smile she quietly said if there were a few millions left in New York for him he need not worry, for in the future she would call him grandpa. The Frofile of the Frogs in New York has been the gossip of the Negro performers in the West for the last week. It seems as though some of the Western Frogs are more interested in the Frogs as is their intention. Yet the popularity of the organization has had a bad effect on a few people, who are always interested in the Frogs, and some way to get a little graft, regardless of whom it may hurt. These grafters should go slow, as the Frogs are incorporated and fully protected under the laws of the United States, in open court about a year ago, and received more than its share of publicity when Judge Goff, refused to grant the Frogs share, the time the names of the other members came out. There was no end of comment from the different Eastern papers. The Brooklyn Eagle had a lengthy editorial on the subject, and finally another judge granted them their charter. After looking over the them their charter. The former members one will find them to be men in any kind of reputable organization. Their past is as clear as their present. In short, the club represents the third generation of the Frogs, the theatre world, combined with lawyers and newspaper men. The Frogs have been organized a little over a year, and have well showed their worth. Their first call to aid was met like men. The body of the Frogs was at their expense; the long illness of the late Ernest Hogan wrecked his funds, and the Frogs put on a big benefit, the prosecution that idied him over to the end. They were the first man to bring Mr. Hogan away. The Frogs, not as a name, but as men, have stood the test and they are here to stay. LELAND GIANTS SLAM SPHERE AND SHUT OUT COLTS Gatewood Gives Four Hits and Fans Eight Men—First Three Teams of League Win Sunday. Chicago League Standing. Won. Lost. Percent. Leland Giants.....82.800 Gunthers.....93.750 Logans Squares.....84.667 Arson's Colts.....46.400 West Ends.....48.333 Milwaukee.....11.083 Club Batting. S. 27B. R. H. TB. SH. SB. AV. Lelands.....94.1017.281 Logans.....10359.598114205.253 Anson's Colts.....827634680911246 Gunthers.....1032849501001021244 West Ends.....103343681931719243 Milwaukee.....10343271941613.207 Special to THE FREEMAN. CHICAGO, IL.—All three leaders in the Chicago Baseball League won their games Sunday, the Leland Giants winning from Anson's Colts 3 to 0, Gunthers downing "Chic" Fraser and the Milwaukee 10 to 5, and the West Ends falling victims to Lo- gan's Super 5 Anson's men made a gallant effort to beat the Glants at Auburn Park, Joe Bradshaw holding the colored men safe for six innings by pitching himself out of some bad holes. Poor infield work at crutches and a bad pitching form full on the head by a pitched ball and knocked out, but went back into the field when his side was scored. Score: Leland Glants. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 * 1 - 3 Struck out—By Gatewood, 8; by Bradshaw, 4. Bases on balls—Off Gatewood, Bidbass, 2. Umpire—Goeckel. Time—1:35 Gunthers, 10; Milwaukee, 5. "Chic" Fraser's appearance on the slab for Milwaukee attracted a big crowd to Gunther Park. Score: **1** 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 * 10 Milwaukee ..... 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 -- 10 Milwaukee ..... 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 -- 10 Two-base hits—Gertenrich, White, Fenton, Medley, Bullen, Devlin, Fraser, Three-base hit—Gertenrich. Struck out—Bernerman, 6; by Parker; 1; by Fraser, 6; by Bermanage. Bases on balloff Off Fraser, 6; off Bermanage. 4. Umpire—Pitpatrick. Time—2:00. Logan Squares, 5: West Ends, 1. Logan Squares defeated West Ends for the second time this year at McNichols Park, 5 to 1. The West Siders put in Munich, 5 to 1. The Hilderbrand's error and a misjudged fly by Gannon proved costly. The West Ends filled the bases in the ninth inning, but Austin, batting for Lynch, could not connect. Score: Logans Squares... 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 -5 West Ends... Hite-Hite... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 -5 Hite-Hite... Hite-Hite... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 -5 Hit by pitcher—Lynch, Struck out By Pelletier, 2; by Murphy, 4. Bases on balls—Off Pelletier, 2; off Murphy, 8. Umpire—White. Timel 35. TAKE MEASUREMENTS OF RIVER FOREST AND SPALDINGS. Cuban Stars Win Both Games by Like Scores, 7 to 2—Losers Each Make Scores in Only One Inning. Special to THE FREEMAN. CHICAGO, Ill.—River Forest was defeated by the Cuban Stars last Saturday by the suburban diamond, the islanders overcoming two-run inning. Hoyne's men had a brilliant chance for a double play in the fourth, when the Cubans had started to hit, but lost the game. A fast double play by the Cubans, with the bases full and none out, was the feature of the game. Score: Cuban Stars..... 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 -7 Cuban Stars..... 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 -7 Cuban Stars..... 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0-7 River Forest..... 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0-2 River Forest..... 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0-2 Lane, Eckersall, Three-base hit—Hermendez. Double plays—Munoz, Sanchez and Parpetta; Munoz, Hermendez and Parpetta. Struck out—By Wallace, 3; by Munoz. Bases on ball—Wallace, 2; off Munoz, 1. Umpire—Mike Meyer. The Cuban Stars defeated the Spaldings of 7 to 2, the islanders bunching their hits off Brosius and backing them up with some fine base running that netted them a big lead. Heavy hitting by Babcock and the defenders from a shutout on the seventh. Score: Spaldings ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 -2 Cuban Stars ..... 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 -2 Bramante ..... 2 0 2 0 2 0 -2 runa-Babock Donatón ..... Struck out-by-Brosius, 4; by Mendez, 7; Bases on balls W. N. HARDING FOR MAYOR. Subject to Republican Primary, Aug. 5th. 100 Branch Music Stores to be Opened WANTED-In the next 30 days, 100 good, honest and reliable young colored men and ladies, as applicants for the management of our branch music stores in different localities, outside of the state of Indiana. No capital required. We furnish stocked and ever updated equipment. Further information apply with stamp to The International Music Publishing Co., Incorporated, Richmond, Ind. After one year in the Island. Watch for my big tent show, 1910. The company will be known as the Cuban Exposition Company, combined with Our Island Cousins or Black America, headed by Prince Oskazuma, the Cuban Scout. Regards to friends. Season 1909 with Buffalo Bill and Wild West Pawnee Bill's Far East. WANTED! At the Colored Air Dome, Jacksonville, Fla. Good Vaudeville performers, single or teams. Can book you elsewhere—nearby cities—if you make good. Good salaries to right people. State salary wanted in first letter. -Off Brosius, 2; off Mendez, 8. Umpire- O'Brien. Special to THE FREEMAN. CHICAGO, Ill.—Jake Vance let up in only one inning in the game with the Leland Giants, but five runs came across before he setad, and the game was lost 5 to 0, at Auburn Park. Four hits, one a wild pitch in Ill., combined with a wild pitch by Vance. A Vance was good outside of the bad inning, "Rube" Foster pitched for the Giants, and allowed only three hits. A stab by Wright and a brilliant catch by Payne were the fielding features. Score: Leland Giants ..... 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 *-5* Leland Giants ..... 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 *-5* Two-base hit—Hill ..... Struck out—By Vance, 2; by Foster, 4. Bases on balls— Vance, 1; off Foster, 1. Umpire White. Things will come your way if you become an agent of The Freeman. New Lineup—Played West Baden Two Games—Miller Does Good Work. Special to THE FREEMAN. FRENCH LICK, Ind.—The Plutos have reorganized for the new lineup: Catchers, Washington, Chenault; pitchers, Washington, Miller and Harris; first base, Womack; second base, Lee; third base, Golich; shortstop, Harris; first base, Golich; middle hit, Harris, and right field, White. The Plutos would like to book games with any first-class teams, the A. B. C.'s and Dayton Marcos preferred. Address John Chenault, Miller, left field, and middle hit. They played West Baden last Saturday and Sunday, and gave a good exhibition. Saturday's game resulted in twelve innings, score 4 to 3 in favor of the West Baden, left field, and middle hit. Miller, the new twirler, graced the mound for the Plutos, handled the pill with much satisfaction, and struck out nine men. The old ex-A. B. C. battery, Washington, Miller, left field, there in Sunday's game, while Woods did score good stick work, getting three taps in four times at bat. Score: R. H. E. West Baden...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 62 Plutos...1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 62 Batteries—West Baden, Daugherty and Pierce; Plutos, Washington and Chenault. GIANTS AND NATIONALS WIN. Special to THE FREEMAN. MUNICIE, Ind.—The Odd Fellows Giants defeated the Whiteley A. C. team (white) by a score of 6 to 4. Sunday afternoon, the Whiteley A. C. Hartford City (white) in their second game of the season by the score of 4 to 2. EAGLES TO FLY NORTH. Kings of the Air in Search of Prey—To Play Kansas City (Kan.) Giante Next Week. SHRDEVEPORT, La.-Up to date the Eagles have played the following towns: Dallas, Lafayette, Lake Charles, in Louisiana, and Orange, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Vaco and Waxahachie, in Texas. Altogether, they played in 39 of 17 and lost 12. They are going North to play some of the strong teams. July 4 they will play the Kansas City Giants. ERRORS COSTLY TO MONARCHS Kansas City (Kan.) Giants Beat—Pettus' three-Base Hit Wins Game. Special to THE FREEMAN. KANSAS CITY, Kan.—In a close and exciting game, Sunday, the Kansas City (Kan.) Giants defeated the Monarchs for the third time at Riverside Park, 1 to 0. Pettus won the game in the seventh inning, scoring Sternman with a long three-base drive. Both pitchers were in good form. Attendance, 2,500. Score: R.H.E. Monarchs .....000000000000064 K.C. Giants .....00000010*—141 The Giants challenge any strong team in the city for a purse of from $100 to $500 a side. Call Bell phone West 380, or Home phone West 171, and ask for Jack Johnson. The Giants defeated the Monarchs Saturday by a score of 12 to 4. GOPHERS TOURING HOME STATE ST. PAUL, Minn. The Colored Gophers baseball team are touring the State of Minnesota, and are meeting with much they play the Leland Giants July 26 to 31. THIRD SEASON OF GOPHERS. St. Paul, Minn., Team Playing a Good Game—Phil E. Reid, Manager. Special to THE FREEMAN. ST. PAUL, Minn.—The St. Paul Colored Gym has been selected for the third season of their career, and playing phenomenal ball. Managers Phile E. Reid and Irving Williams deserve great credit for she has done one race in promoting and financing this team throughout the Northwest in the three seasons past, opening and making a field for our colored players and teams in a vast range of positions. The baseball fandom prior to 1907. The brilliant and super play of this clever team, their gently conduct on and off the during period about which mentioned, has woven throughout a won of their admiration from the press and public throughout the entire Northwest. This season's team is composed of the following players; Taylor, Garrison and W. N. HARDY Subject to Republica 100 Branch Music Stores to and reliable young colored men and ladies, as music stores in different localities, outside of t furnish stock and everything that's required. The International Music Publishing Co., Incorpor Hello, St London, p; McMurray and Taylor, c; Bobby Marshall 1b; Felix Wallace, 2b; John Taylor, 3b; Arte McDougal, ss; Milliner, Barton and Bingo, outfielders. The team is the greatest yet financed by Messrs. Reid and Williams. They have already won the independent championship of the Northwest, defeating last season's champions, the Hibbing team, five out of seven games. On July 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, during the U.B.F. convention, they meet Rube Foster's crack Leland Giants at the downtown park here, and already great enthusiasm prevails, and the fans of the Twin Cities and surrounding country will turn out in large numbers to witness this series, which will doubtless prove the best baseball ever put on in the Twin Cities. During September the Colored Gophers will make a tour of the South, and are desirous of hearing from managers in that section desiring games. For information address Irving Williams, 40 East Third street, St. Paul, Minn. By JESSE PALMER. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The High Arts, of Evansville, Ind. came to Louisville her- aided as the invincible ball tossers of southern Indiana. They will go back much wiser. The Cubs didn't allow any of the High Arts to cross home plate. Hale pitched one of the best games seen here this season, allowing the High Arts two measley hits. Hale's pitching and Owrie's first base playing were the features of the game. Score: 02001023*8 Louisville Cubs.....02001023*00 High Arts.....00000000000 Batteries-Cubs, Hale and Collins; High Arts, Schlosky and Budke. Hits-Cubs, 9; High Arts, 2. Two-base hits-Rafter, Wallace, Collins. Double play-Wallace and Ownie. Struck out-by Hale, 8; by Schlosky, 5. Bases on balls-Off Hale, 2; off Schlosky, 3. Errors-Cubs, 3; High Arts, 6. Time of game-1.55 Captain Booker played in fine form Sunday. Sunday the Cubs will play the Cincys of Cleveland a double-header. Watson continues to please the public by his glit-edge work at third. his gilt-edge work at third. Briscoe, Robinson and Emory did not have much to do but look wise. Briscoe, Robinson and Emory as if they had been playing together all season. Wallace used his head as well as his hands in pulling off that double play with Ownie. He played a great game on first, but batted unluckily, Ownie, old fellow, you are all right. Let the good work go on. Hale seems to have struck the right crowd in the Cubs. He gave as fine an ex- portion of pitching as was ever seen in Louisville. The Cubs left Sunday night on their Southern trip. They played Birmingham, Ala., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Friday, Thursday, Nashville, Friday and Saturday. BASE BALL OLD ENEMIES CLASH AGAIN Atkins vs. A. B. C's At the Atkins South Side Park, Sunday, June 27 IN A DOUBLE-HEADER. This will be the opening of a series of seven games between the two teams for the City Championship. Admission 250. Take Shelby St. or Garfield Park cars to end of line, where busses will transfer patrons to and from the park free of charge. Sheet Music CATALOG FREE A special selected Catalogue of 100 latest songs—Classic, Ballad, Sacred—the hits from every composer in the world. Popular hits from Vaudeville, Musical Comedies and Concert Stage. Free Catalogue; write for one. THE W FOSTER MUSIC SUPPLY 3008 STATE ST. ~ CHICAGO CHICAGO BUREAU OF THE INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN. 3106 STATE STREET. DR. M. A. MAJORS, Editor. J. HACKLEY SMILEY, Local Editor. W. P. PERRY, Soliciting Editor. 6 Special to THE FREEMAN. Chicago has many notable young men, men who count for place and preferment, and whose influence is ever wielded for good in behalf of the Negro. The New York City office of the Negro D. Thompson, whose position in the United States Express office put him in a class by himself, and at once brings him in daily touch with hundreds. Chicago's leading business men have less access than that which has been the means of helping hundreds of young colored men to get places in stores, elevator jobs, hotel and restaurant positions, and many young colored women in the city. He has frequently recommended colored stenographers, who have made good with their employers. Recently, during a campaign, Mr. Thompson, although not a politician, was sent for by an enlistment judge, and was sent to the office of more than two hundred colored men procuring employment. One week prior to this great man's request that Mr. Thompson speak for him, Mr. Thompson, ever thoughtful of the great good of men of color on his own initiative, and used his kindly offices to the en dthat two hundred colored men will continue to hold their jobs, was all done quietly and unnotiously, and no one has ever been any the wiser. Mr. Jesse Binga, the banker; Mr. Julius Avendolph; Robert Tailor, of the election commissioners' office; Lawrence Ferribee and many others rank in the class with Mr. Thompson, and are making for themselves warm places in the respect and high regard of all our citizens. On the 27th of June (to-morrow) Mr. Avendolph will prepare over the memorial meeting to Faulla Lawrence Dunbar, at the Institutional Church, pastored by that champion of good deeds, Rev. H. E. Stewart, D. D. The program promises to be one par excellent. Hon. Clarence S. Darrow, an eminent white lawyer, and friend of our race, will be the chief speaker. The Dunbar is now the popularity, and should be the race is awakening rapidly to the idea of perpetuating and revering the names of those who, although they are dead, left the impress of their genius upon a lofty summit. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett is once more actively enlisted in the cause of helping the Regor. A large race meeting was held at the famous Pekin Thatee Sunda afternoon and advanced plans were set forth how to help the Negro. This column will keep the reading world posted on her far-reaching good work. Mrs. Minnie E. Howard, of 3716 Wabash avenue, will entertain during the months of July and August Miss Bennie Alexanen, a graduate of the vacation school of the Chicago University, Miss Alexander is a graduate of the Waco High School, and an A. B. from Bishop McKinley High School. An assistant she is a teacher in the public schools of San Antonio, and comes to Chicago to advance herself in pedagogy. Some one has said that man ought to be able to do all the animals do, and more. He should be able to walk, climb, jump, swim and fly, as well as the birds and beasts, and to invent a hundred new machines. He can do without trouble, but he undervalues greatly the accomplishment. Because it is so matter of fact, he does not realize that it is the most natural exercise in the form of walking. He is building up the forces of the body. In walking every muscle is brought into play, the breathing is stimulated, the lungs filled with oxygen, the heart is increased. When exercise is attainable, walks taken with discretion will keep the body in a healthy condition. Excessive walking is a drain on the vital strength once intrenched upon to any great degree. Be sensible and moderate in this as well as in all other things. Mrs. Ellis Monroe, of Austin, Tex., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edna L. Bunn, 6220 Morgan street. She comes to attend the high school graduation of her grandmother, Benni Bunn, and that of Master Frank Bunn, of the Englewood grammar school. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. W. R. McKinley are happy, she always has a tasty son, who, although seven days old at this writing, has been named Wm. R., Jr. Dr. J. H. Garnett, of Evanston, is solving the problem of courtesy and may bearing, broken into "bankers' row" in that rich, intellectual suburb of Chicago. The Doctor has a lovely family, and is making good. Dr. Bradden, of Berean Baptist Church, is not saying, because he is driving things at a rapid clip. The present church property at Fort-eighty and Dearborn streets is for sale, and a beautiful site has been selected upon which to build a new $20,000 edifice. Dr. Bradden is an officer of famous Eighth Illinois National Guard. --- Miss Hallie Q. Brown has made Chicago her headquarters all spring, and has been in constant demand throughout the West and Northwest learning in the leading women's clubs of both races. Read The Freeman, wherein is found each week all the most important race doings. For sale at all news stands. The Richardson's Educational Review, devoted to the evolution and history of women and Northwest learning, edited. This magazine has made its appearance monthly during the past year, and is rapidly becoming a household need for the business and thinking people of Chicago. The June rank it far in advance of any similar journal devoted to race upliftment. The Freeman delights to laud any effort on the part of our educated men who strive with all their might to make good. Major R. R. Jackson is our authority for saying that the greatest event of the New York City will be the premiere Lodge of Knights of Pythias and the Encampment of the Uniform Rank, which convenes in Kansas City, Mo., authorizing and tendence to date is more than seven thousand. On to Kansas City, ye knights. Dr. M. A. Majors is in his office from 9 a. m. to 12 m., 2 to 5 p. m. and 6 to 8 p. m. Special attention is given to all chronic diseases. Dr. Majors makes calls day after day effectively and successfully all acute or chronic diseases. Phone 5059 Douglass. Say, reader, did it ever occur to you what beauty and power is given to the world every morning of six days in the week, and what glory on that holy seventh day is given to the city like Chicago, where almost a thousand whistles blow at 7 o'clock, calling the laborer to his work, beginning the life of a new day booming with the brightest prosecco, and it must be so. In Chicago more than a million men and women listen for these great suction tubes to draw out the music of the great industries, and what a lusty, and wonderful life it is, these whistles make! All the keys are played upon known to music, but there isn't harmony in the humming, screeching, and whistling, if these whistles did not blow, and the fires allowed to die out in the great furnaces of thousands of factories in Chicago? It would bring misery, want, desolation and pain in all parts of the South, and then to thousands of foreign homes beyond the sea. Commerce will have weakened, of course, and panic will pervade the land, and these whistles were not allowed to blow in Chicago. Whenever a great movement is set on foot to erect a monument, applaud a hero, or pay a glowing tribute to some worthy man or woman, the fool can be rewarded. If you are the hero he done? Chicago is getting ready to do the honors to one of their distinguished Negro surgeons, and some few of the seventy Negro physicians are asking in a whining (cheap) manner what the (cheap) man has done? When the colossal affair is pulled off, even the Tribute, Record-Herald, Inter Ocean and Daily News will take special delight in giving the tribute to the surgeon and physician has done. It would not be a very bad idea to let one little (nigger) doctor linger in the spotlight just for a brief moment, that the little man has done for this little, insipid, insignificant idiot trying to practice an art wholly too abstruse and difficult for his small brain. The citizens of Chicago are the testimonial to the proposition, and the big testimonial will represent every organization in Chicago. On Sunday the bell ring. Then will come that joy in nature. None but hearts can understand. It is church day. And especially a day in Chicago for general rest and recreation, where women have heard the chimes at least by 10 o'clock Sunday mornings, and at 11 every one of ten thousand churches in this great city is crowded from the altars to the pews. Women wait until the benediction has been pronounced by the ministers of Chicago, and then the people turn to the other pleasures of the day, and Chicago can accommodate the hundred thousand methods known to man. The whistles every morning at 7 in the week remind us of our obligation to our fellow-man and the duties we owe to society. The bells and chimes on the holy Sabbath teach us to venerate and "adore the Lord, for He is good," and to remember that, no matter who we are, or how high we are, that on this great Lord's day we are all just one diminutive size. THE FREEMAN in Chicago; oh! well. THE FREEMAN has been widely circulated in Chicago for seventeen years, and is known by all for its various departments in her newsy columns. Loaded down each week with its manifold varieties of information, at once brings the reading public in touch with the entire race the world over, because THE FREEMAN goes weekly to the utmost parts of the two hemispheres. Chicago indeed may feel congratulated. Her numerous prominent men and women, hitherto enjoying only local prominence, may have the opportunity if they but avail themselves of the money. But as they know, as THE FREEMAN is anational newspaper, enjoying international distinction. The columns of THE FREEMAN should be weekly perused by the Chicago reading public, not alone for the local news which often reports on the events of very fact that in no other Negro journal be found one-half of the race news, bearing upon every live topic actuating the mind of the up-to-date leaders, thinkers and teachers in every part of the world. The Chicago newspaper, the Defender and the Illinois Idea—but remember that you are putting every five-cent piece you spend for THE FREEMAN in the office of the Defender. Then again, you don't need to wonder if THE FREEMAN will get out on time. You won't have to wait until the following Monday to find out what has already been written in the newspaper, have given your presence had you been informed Saturday. THE FREEMAN reaches the Chicago postoffice for general distribution every Friday morning. You will get it more often in Friday evening's mail. You will receive it more often in the morning moment; you can depend on it reaching you on time if the mail train can bring it. There is not another race newspaper read by more than a hundred thousand readers and readership that number. There is not another Negro paper in the world read by one-fourth as many people as THE FREEMAN. Our circuit, with any other Negro paper on earth, and we read it. We have the facility and every means to make THE FREEMAN the great race forum, and no pains or expense will be spared, to meet the demands of the Chickens, the Crocodiles, the Cormorants, nor in the great body of the greatest Negro newspaper. Ask for THE FREEMAN at all the newsstands. Editors, MORS, M. D., Editors, Chicacoville. MERIDIAN. MISS. Mrs. Ellen Moore is the guest of her son at Nashville, Tenn....Mrs. James, of Washington, D.C., is visiting friends in the city....Rev. J. T. Davis, L. S. Lee, N. W. Wallace and E. S. Johnson have returned from Nashville, where they attended the Baptist Sunday-school Congress... Rev. J.-B. Branam, of Bethel Baptist Church, is conducting a revival with much success....Chas. Stewart, the popular newspaper correspondent, was in the city this week en route to Jackson, Miss., on business. CLARKSVILLE TENN The teachers of the colored public school have been re-elected for the ensuing term, with Miss Lizzie Ramey, principal.....Miss Birdle Garrett is home from Normal, Ala., where she completed the course of a trained nurse.....Mrs Lizzie Keecee spent several years as a nurse at Hunter Diggs, Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Ann Proudly are ill....Ed. Brodus is confined to his bed and all are quite anxious about him.....Miss Hattie Floyd is visiting her friends at Treebstock and Eliza Grissard suffers a stroke of paralysis is still very sick....The United Standard Club's eighteenth annual outing was quite a success, carrying two well-loaded boats. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. Mrs. J. Mason has returned home from Chicago, Ill., after a pleasant visit with her daughters... Mrs. Jacob Stewart and son, and Mrs. Robert H. to attend the graduation of her daughter Brittie berforce. She will graduate in music and a general course... the sermon of the Household of Ruth was preached June 13 at M. Emery Baptist Church, by Rev. Mason. Mr. Emery, 1901, 1901, 1901, on South West street... Mrs. Frank Mallory is now living on South Main street.... Mrs. John King is now living in her new remodeled house on West College Avenue.... Isabel Blue was born in April 1901, 1901, the 10th of the ice cream social given June 10 at the residence of Mrs. Fanny Jordan, on South Maurasterstee street, was largely at- social given June 10, Mr. M. Mee's and his school class, at Mr. Emery Baptist Church, was quite a success, and fairly well attended... ... The Dunbar Club met June 1, with a performance of Mr. William Jones to inquire that Mr. Mrs. Eva Monroof at the State Federation... Miss Julia Duncan and Mrs. Jennie McClain, of Springfield; Miss Julia Gibson, of Peoria, and Miss Jessie Smith, of the same meeting June 10. A reception was given to Mr. Monroof and her staff. The rally held June 6 at the Bethel A. M. E. Church was largely attended. There were three services during the year. Mr. M. Mee's was at the Harlis represented the Shaffer Club, which won in the contest, led by Mr. Levi Postley. An excellent program was rendered, and, by the same method, was raised. Rev. M. M. Mass and W. W. Soh, these were the Grant Club... Mrs. Clara Edwards, who has been very ill in Paris, Mo., has returned to the home on South Sandy street. Her male friends are and are in the library's Society of the McCabe Church Friday night, June 11, and was fairly well attended. Each number on the program was well rendered. Mrs. Earl Franklin was left recently for a visit with friends in Chicago. THE SHIPP CASE IN A DIFFER ENT LIGHT. The case of Sheriff Shipp, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is being violently agitated in that city. Last Tuesday he was to have been sentenced for punishment with others by the United States Supreme Court for negligency of duty in permitting one Johnson, a Negro, accused of a serious offense, to be taken from the jail by a mob. The affair still has a racial aspect; the white people, many of them, including the influential Chattanooga Times, are against the punishment of Shipp. A portion of the Negroes are also against the punishment of the sheriff. Those in favor of Shipp circulated the report that last Sunday, when he was on his way to Washington, a crowd of Negroes assembled at the depot, hooted and jeered the sheriff, owing to his prospective sentence, On investigation it proved that the crowd was at the depot for another purpose. The report does not deny that the crowd took advantage of the sheriff's plight, although it did not assemble on account of his summons to Washington. Owing to the incident at the depot, feeling ran high. A committee representing a meeting of a large number of conservative colored citizens prepared a statement, the sense of the meeting, and which was as follows: fic is one of a class; he is not many in any community compared with the others as they are employed. Of course, office holding is a good thing, and the race is right in expecting to share in it incidentally, but it has no more right to make special war for office than it has for the thousand and one other things denied or tendered with a string. The attack is at the wrong point. We have a way of assailing the party or the administration simply because it seems the shortest route to the expected or the most vulnerable point. And, if so, it is only momentarily. If the people of a representative country whose officers or their creatures are not one "The article appearing in yesterday's paper, relative to the large crowd of colored people assembling at the Central shed to see Capt. Shipp and his party off to Washington, D.C., placed the colored citizens of Chattanooga in a very undesirable light before the public. Upon a careful investigation, we found that the unusually large crowd assembled at the Central Station was due to a special party of 150 or more, en route to Ooltewah to a lodge anniversary, which necessitated their taking two extra cars on the same train as Capt. Shipp and party. "Upon further investigation, we found that the conservative, better thinking colored people are in sympathy with Capt. Shipp in the unfortunate predicament in which this case has unfortunately brought him. We realize keenly that a man of Capt. Shipp's age, in his declining days, should be free from trouble and cares; therefore, we most sincerely join our white fellow citizens in the popular sympathy for him." The article was prepared especially for the Chattanooga Times. And, strange to note, the meeting declared in favor of Capt. Shipp. We do not know what the opponents of the sheriff have to say; do not know whether those here represented stand for the advancement of community interest or otherwise. The one side is sent this paper, and presumably for what influence might follow publication. We cannot quite understand why colored people should sympathize with the sheriff, but it is an affair of that community. If the leading Negroes see further trouble in event of the punishment of Shipp, they do the proper thing in taking steps to prevent it. What about the law? Well, what about it? Isn't it sidestepped right along in such cases? If the white people and colored people agreed as to the disposition of the sheriff, we can't see who else is to be served to keep down friction, since the Supreme Court has said the races were ordinarily "hostile," a truth, and on which was based the Berea College decision. The Chattanooga News, commenting on the situation, said: "We believe that when the court thoroughly understands this case, the first verdict will be overthrown. Really, there is nothing in the case upon which to condemn Capt. Shipp on the charge of willfully and maliciously insulting the court. The dissenting opinion, as we have remarked in commenting on the decision, hits the sense and the right of the case. If the full court finally comes to this conclusion, which we hope it will do, it will be a fortunate ending to the proceedings. "The case is loaded with dangerous possibilities, and all of the danger is not in the South. We can conceive of nothing except a crime like that committed by the Negro, Johnson, better calculated to arouse violent race antagonism all over the country than the prosecution of Capt. Shipp on the charge of aiding and abetting the mob. The prosecution cannot be carried on without producing race antagonism and prejudice. No amount of legal learning and academic argument can make it otherwise than a breeder of disorder and probably violence. It is really a bigger thing than the court thought it was, and its dangerous consequences were doubtless brought home to the judges by a display of race prejudice, even at the national capital." MAKING THE BEST OF IT. At times the Freeman has spoken out on the political situation, preferring to have faith in the great men chosen to administer the affairs of the nation in spite of what may seem dark and forbidding. It feels to make this half apologetic statement more out of deference to the known views of many prominent Negroes than on its own behalf. There has been a sort of sleeping peace in the recent past, and which was aroused somewhat by the Columbus, Ohio, meeting, as the following from the Star, of Newport News, Va., shows: "President Taft admits in his speeches, when made to Negroes, that they have done and are doing exceedingly well, considering the overpowering obstacles which surround them on every side, and he advises that they try to make friends of their white neighbors and strive to make the best of their surroundings, yet he has made it known that wherever a Negro holds an office in the South, that he is to be removed and a white man appointed to the place. "He seems to be thoroughly imbued with the idea that the Negro needs only an industrial education and that his best calling in life is on the form." In dealing with so important an individual as the President, it will be better for us to learn to weigh our words. It is better to be a little "diplomatic," concealing a little, rather than adding to the "gravity of the situation." Mr. Taft has not associated the Negro especially with the farm, and until he does so repeatedly we are not justified in this kind of onslaught. To say that the race should farm is fast becoming the height of sinning. The President is yet in the redemption class because he has made no such assertion or implication. The President said industrial training, such as is being conducted at Tuskegee. The Freeman has nothing to say against office holding, yet it would be a flimsy something on which to predicate racial prosperity. The hundreds of thousands will never hold office; it is on these that race success must depend. The man of public of If your dealer is slow about filling your order, let us know, We'll see that you are supplied promptly and easily. Always the latest extreme styles. Ask your friends. John L. Bardmaker, MEAT MARKET. Fresh and Salt Meats. 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NOTE—Rushville and Connerville tickets on sale every Sunday, good going and returning on all trains (regular and special) on Sunday for which sold. In Effect June 1, '09. I.C.B.S. SOUTHERN TRACTION CO. Cars Leave Indianapolis. A. Rothschilds, Garment Cleaning and Pressing Pantatorium. First class work guaranteed. Colored help employed. Prices Reasonable. Otto Aldendorf, 50r Agnes St., Indianapolis. Old Phone, Main, 2299. TRY MY DOCTOR and get well and strong. I had been sick five years, lost 40 pounds, kidneys diseased, skinallow, no appetite, bowels bowel, nausea, nervousness. Doctor Shafer made me well and strong. MRS. MARY HAUSMAN, MRS. MARY HAUSMAN, You can be curved at home. Counsiliation send free urine for analysis. Mailing case for urine sent free. Charges for treat- ment may be made. 455. Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. --- fic is one of a class; he is not many in any community compared with the others as they are employed. Of course, office holding is a good thing, and the race is right in expecting to share in it incidentally, but it has no more right to make special war for office than it has for the thousand and one other things denied or tendered with a string. The attack is at the wrong point. We have a way of assailing the party or the administration simply because it seems the shortest route to the expected or the most vulnerable point. And, if so, it is only momentarily. If the people of a representative country whose officers or their creatures are not one with the administration or the government, or readily influenced to the administration's or government's way of thinking, that administration or government is shortlived. And little as we may be struck by the logic of the greater rules of political economy entering such questions, yet all of them, when racial, may be traced to the greater rules of that science—people and government, government and people. What's their relation? The people are those who dominate. Will we ask who they are in America? Not necessary. "We can't see where the President helps the situation any by pandering to the silly prejudice of many white people who preach one thing and practice another," the Star further observes. The question might be appropriately asked, why he does not "pander" to us—the Negroes. And again: "The President understands, as all observing men of the country do, that the intelligent Negro finds that in the future he is an outlaw in politics. "Long since the Democratic party has signified that it neither asked nor appreciated the Negro's support or vote, because it clearly defines that only white men are asked or accepted to name the candidates for office on their tickets, and now, with the assistance of the Republican President of the Nation, the Republican party of the South is adopting the same method of eliminating the Negro. "This situation of affairs necessitates the Negro's independence in politics, and compels him to study well the situation, and when he casts his vote, give his support to the best men for the places who will recognize the Negro's interest in the best manner commensurate with his standing in the community." The last statement stands approved by the most advanced Negro thought of today. Really, white men of whatever party see that it is best for the colored voters to "divide up." But at that it does not mean an immediate or an easy solution of the problem. White men's parties of reputation, of ability, hold out no great inducement along the line discussed, yet to join them or assist individuals will simplify matters very much. In the meanwhile, loyalty to government or administration always, inasmuch as it does not do more than represent the people as representation is best understood. BALTIMORE, MD. The Freeman can be found at 602 South room, at all times, Harry McCubbins, asg seller. 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Upholstering and packing and crating for shipment a specialty Agent for Diamond Mirror Plating Co. Old Phone, Main, 3355. 238 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. SCRAPS FROM THE SPORTING WORLD Al Mites and Cyclone Mike Webb met last Friday in Sapulca, Okla. The Nelson-Cifford go was to take place at Oklahoma City, Okla., Tuesday. Ketchel is getting careless in his speech. He now says he can whip both Johnson and Jeffries. Of eighty-four games of baseball played between Harvard and Princeton since 1870 each has won forty-two. The 100-mile record for a horse was made by Conqueror, November 12, 1853. The distance was covered in 8 hours, 52 minutes and 55 seconds. He will "make time" for a baseball game, but for a morning time: "Our clock's out to watch." My wife did not get breakfast until late, etc. Chicago Jack, the Windy City champion, has had nineteen fights, sixteen and lost three decisions, to Rube Smith, Jack Blackburn and Terry Mortin. The annual meeting of the Afro-American Trapshooters' League was held under the auspices of Blue Wing Gun Club at St. Louis, Mo., Thursday and Friday. When a team goes into a gam thinking it will be beaten, it is already half beaten, which means less work for their opponents to do in actually defeating them. J. W. Anthony, of Pennsylvania, recently made a new collegiate record of 18 minutes in a second for half-mile swim. The old record was 13 minutes and 59.4 seconds. The Mobile baseball club is willing to arrange arrangements for out-of-town clubs for dates. Address any communications to W. J. Robinson, secretary, 555½ Dauphin street, Mobile, Ala. Jack Johnson was not asked to attend the little six-round bout Jeffries and his sparring partner gave at the Dauquesne Garden in Pittsburgh, for fear the place would be overrun with Negroes. Mr. James J. Jeffries says that he is going to hit the ball says that he has never hit a man his hardest, but for Johnson—"I want to see how far I can knock him." Pretty good scare, isn't it? The striking record of Henry Cordts in the game with the Boone (Iowa) Germania club is announced by the coofficial scorer in the game. The former record was 19. This makes the record the more phenomenal. According to statistics compiled by the American and British Y. M. C. A.s, the American athletes are slightly better than the British athletes, but the British athlete is a well-known fact that a good big man is invariably better than a good little man, and this applies to athletics as to other branches of sport. The British general is longer athletic career than the Americans. SPRUDELS BEST PLUTOS. WEST BADEN, Ind.—For the sixth straight time the West Baden Spruels defeated the French Lick Plutos last Friday by a score of 7. Batteris—Spruels, and Pierce. RUBE WENNER BESTED BY ED SMITH. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thunderbolt Ed Smith, of this city, was awarded the decision over Rube Wenner, of Marysville, in a high-stakes game on Thursday of last week. It was one of the best bouts held in this city for some time. Wenner, whil he had abundant staying qualities, suffered from more punishment than his protagonist. He went to the carpet with the team. "RANITES" BEAT COLTS. The A. B. C.'s defeated the Thompson Colts, Sunday, by a score of 19 to 2. The Chicago boys couldn't hit, Davis, of course, made a home run. A. B. C.'s, 0 0 2 9 2 4 2 0 *-19 Cols 0 0 2 9 0 0 0 1 0-1 Batteries:- B. C.'s, Griffin, Tiller and Merida; Cols, Renroft, Haynes and Walla GANS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. "Old Ring Master" Not Dying of Consumption, as Was Reported. NEW YORK, June 19—Joe Gans is not dying of consumption, as has been reported. His wife wired from Baltimore denying the story from the coast, which William wrote in two letters to Willie Keefe saving the life and had not long to live. Keefe is the man who trained with Gans for many of his important battles, and he claimed to have received a letter from Mrs. Gans saying that Joe was coughing a great deal and hold out much longer. Later she is said to have wired that Joe was in a critical condition. MUST BE HIMSELF TO WIN. Jack Munro Says Jim Will Meet a Tough Pronunciation in Johnson. NEW YORK—Jack Munro, the former Montana pugilist, who was twice in the final wives James J. Jeffries, and who fought in Philadelphia four years ago, is now in New York City. Having retired from the prize ring, Munro is now mayor of Elk County, Canada, and it reported that he is very well known to man who can beat Johnson, and he can win by a knockout inside of fifteen rounds. off of course, must be himself to do this for the big black is a tough proposition. Ketchel is too small to whip Johnson. Double-Header at Giants' Park Special. A double-handed played Sunday at the Giants' park. Twenty-eighth street and broadway. The first game was between and the K of Ps. The Hermes was in the first game, and the second game was between the Louisville giants and the Hermes. The Hermes was batting in the first inning like real players, but the Giants made three scores. The Giants made one and this was duplicated in the second inning. This first inning the Giants found the weakness, and the Giants made four scores, while Pugh knocked the over the fence. The Hermes, by three inning, brought in three scores in the fourth inning, but were unable to score thereafter. In the eighth inning the Glants began fastball and snappy ball playing, and four more soon joined. An excellent double play was made by Williams, Jones and Brown, of the Glants. Of the Hermes, made a long running out, the Glants, Defester and John Hermes did some star playing. Hale, of the Glants, pitched a game, striking out seven men. Soon. Hernes .. 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 R. HEE Lou. Gants. 1 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 4 * 12 12 4 A. B. C. S' WIN TWO GAMES FROM STANDARD GIANTS Tennessee Tossers Hit a Losing Streak at Louisville, West Baden, Ind., and Indianapolis. The A. B. C.'s won two games from the Standard Giants of Nashville, Tenn., Thursday and Friday. The first game resulted in a score of 9 to 4. Tiller and Higoee pitched for the locals and Church for the visitors. The second game ended with a score of 14 to 7. Talbott pitched for the A. B. C.'s and Moorman and O'Neal for the Tennesseeans. As the score shows, the home boys doubled the total marks on their opponents. Davis made a home run with two men on bases in the elghth. Herron and Coleman also made the circuit. Higbee stretched a two-bagger into a three-base hit, and then walked in home while Watkins, the Giants catcher, stood waiting for him—having fun with the wistful Scores. Thursday's game: A. B. C.s. 2.00004300 Nashville Giants 001020014 Innings pitched—Tiller, 5; Higbee, 4; Church, Hit-Off Tiller, 6; off Higbee, 2; off Church, 8; bases on balls—Off Tiller, 2; off Church, 8; Struck out—By Tiller, 3; by Higbee, 3; by Church, 4. Hit by pitcher—Williams. Two-base hits—Merida, Allen. Three-base hit—Merida, Double play—Allen to Lolla. Base-base board, Hannan. O'Neal, Wright. Umpire—Adams. Time—1:50. Attendance—150. Friday's game: A. B. C.s. 4.0120016 Nashville Giants 0200103 Innings pitched—Talbott, 9; Moorman, 1; O'Neal, 8; Base-base hit—Tolbott, 7; Off Moorman, 3; off O'Neal, 10. B. O'Neal on balls—Off Moorman, 2. Struck out—Tolbott, 4; by Moorman, 1; by O'Neal, 5. Two-base hits—Davis, McLain (2), Herron. Three-base hit—Coleman. Home runs: Heison Davis, Coleman. Stolen bases Morris, Higbee, O'Neal. Umpire-Adams, Timbs (2); O'Neal. Umpire- JOHNSON GOES INTO TRAINING Will Meet Marvin Hart or Tony Ross June 30—Offered Bout at Albany. BOSTON.-Jack Johnson has gone into active training for his coming bout at Pittsburg, where he is scheduled to fight six rounds with either Marvin Hart or John McAfee. He also offered an exhibition mill at Alhany, July 2, if Tom McCarey's arrangement for a bout for him in Los Angeles during the Elks' week fails. Johnson says he is willful. Los Angeles, and has named Al Kauffman as the opponent most acceptable to him. JEFFRIES DISAPPOINTS CROWD Fast, but Not in Shape—Gives Six One Minute Rounds Exhibition. PTTTSBURG.—James J. Jeffries, retired heavyweight champion of the world, received a great ovation at Duquesne Garage, where he was presented by he engaged in a six-round boxing exhibition with his sparring partner, Sam Berger. Jeffries appeared to have lost a great deal of weight, but was still heavy. He was extremely fast on his feet and very quick with his hands. The crowd was badly disappointed with Jeffries' exhibition, but not in shape was shown by the fact that the rounds were cut to one minute each. Jeffries did the leading and delivered punch after Berger taking the punishment. One during Jeffries Jeffries forgot and stung Berger a hard one in the stomach that made the big California wince and growl. "Gentlemen, I can not say anything more than the papers have said regarding my approaching fight with Johnson, but the time comes I will be three with the goods." JOHNSON BOXES IN BOSTON. Says if Jeffries is Serious It is Time He Should Cover Forfeit. BOSTON.-Jack Johnson, world's heavy weight champion, made his appearance in the ring of the Armory A. A. Tuesday night, the week, boxing eagle tame with George Byers. He was a crossexhibition, neither man in the least exerting himself. Johnson had a lot of hog fat, and displayed a big stomach, which made him look like a giant elephant around like a big elephant in a quagmire. He showed himself to be in poor condition, and the local sports were of the opinion that it will take him many months to get in shape again. But Byers must not be taken seriously, for neither tried to do any serious damage. They made several wild lunges at each other, and would fondly embrace until they felt like separating, until they felt time, and the members had a good laugh. Johnson was accorded a good reception before the bout when he addressed the members, in which he said he thought if he could win, he would be covered the $5,000 posted by Johnson. SPRUDELS WIN GAME. WEST BADEN, Ind.—The Nashville (Tenn.) Standard Giants tell easy victims the story of their team's scoring being 11 to 2. Batteries—Sprurels, Lyons areerce; Standard Giants, Mound of QNiel. MAJOR TAYLOR WINS AGAIN. PARIS, France.—at the Buffalo Velodrome, Thursday week ago, Major Taylor of America, won the ten-mile race in the best and fastest cyclists in the world. IS IT TRUE? We are given very much to working og beautiful moral platitudes when discussing the race question, and which very often mean nothing. A very well-written article is noted in another publication on the recent trouble in Georgia owing to the employment of colored men as railroad firemen. The observation is: "No race of people ever lived in safety, much less in prosperity, if it deliberately set about to degrade another race." The proposition is strongly put as to meaning, but the meaning is understood. If it were true of the Negroes, any unduly subjugated people might rest content knowing that "justice" would come about in time, it is not true; most glaringly is it not true, setting up in our Christian civilization one of its most vexed anomalies or contradictions, at least for theoretical reconciliation. That poetic justice, in other words, does not obtain. The people of the earth that have been stripped to the bare, as it were, by other peoples have continued bare, sometimes disappearing totally from the face of the earth; at other times they have become incorporated with the conquerors and loss all semblance of racial identity; at other times they have become subjugated subjects, more or less abject, and still continue so. Might is right; it's a stranger to the Christian code, yet it has ever been in force with the strong governments, much more so in the past than at the present time, the weak having no rights that the strong are bound to respect. Civilization has advanced under the hard rule of the survival of the fittest, and perhaps it was best, but we should not lose sight of the facts of the matter. The most brilliant in civilization have relentlessly carried out their decrees. If Gaul and Briton must be tapped that the flow to Rome be greater, then they are tapped, added on, any way, contributing in one way or the other to its growth. That Rome is no more, not as a thing or retributive justice, an incident merely, for that empire in land extent did not compare with the territory of most of the leading nations and who are no less guilty, if it is to be so termed, of taking on lands and peoples through the law of might. Incidentally, the oppressor meets THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. defeat; one order of things could not continue indefinitely without reverse. The Civil War broke down physical restraint, the material snack, the tangible yoke—no more than that. The hoped for can only come about by tact, carefulness—a unionized care when one becomes his brother's keeper. Perhaps it is too much and too bad that every Negro, and at all times, is on his good behavior, but such is the case and is due time report is made. To whom? Not a direct report, but a characterization of the Negro in general, gleaned from time to time and communicated as occasions arise among those most interested. And we are very sorry to admit that the report is not often exaggerated. There are individuals whose outer conduct is such as to warrant most things said of them and done to them. How to reach them is the question. Most of those in front praying for relief are praying mostly for themselves, their sons and their sons' wives. Or at most they have in mind a set, and, really, who are too "nice" to be subjected to humiliations. They fail in reckoning with the people as a whole and who have got a great distance to go in order to join civilization's ranks. The duty of the hour is apparent, is confessed, but note the little sacrifice. The "saved," the white people, are more vigilant in staying saved than we are in trying to be "saved." A vigorous campaign is essential that the great principles of propriety become manifest rather than that intense individualism now known—everybody for himself and may the devil overtake the hindernost man. And many a hindernost man there be, too. To reduce the thing to plainer terms, the idea of today is "let me get by," just barely get by, but that is quite sufficient, and in consequence there is not much for the common good. The good, old, unselfish soul of the race has become as small as a crabapple. Everybody trying to be wise, but mostly in the wrong direction. So our total ignorance and foolish wise are being jotted down and served against us in due time. Better the simple life with affectation or much ado when life is real—not worn bare by man hypocrisy. The strife to get on, the struggle to "get by," means very little for those that are to follow. They will also merely have to "get by"—insuring nothing on which to build, either materially or intellectually. For we may believe that the same cry will be heard in the schools, if not already—"let me get by," "let me get out," and then good-bye to Mr. Books, which, of course, means good-bye to Mr. or Miss Negro, since the work for the intellectual life has just begun. We do not want to establish a national trait, nor develop one which says intellectual indifference, compelling educators to ease Negroes by rather than quarrel with them. This tendency among schooled, not to speak of the disposition of the ignorant, would not make a very favorable impression, and owing to which some of what is called oppression is conducive to sanity. MORE LIGHT ON THE LIBERIAN SITUATION. The Lagos Weekly Record of West Coast, Africa, and the Liberian Register, of Liberia, are at war, owing to the entanglement of Liberia with foreign countries. Some time ago the Record commented on the affairs of Liberia, charging that that government had become hopelessly enmeshed by foreign countries, practically having no "soul" of its own. The Liberian publication took the matter up at once, defending the method of the government, insisting that the Liberian government had been traduced. In explaining the situation, the Record said: "In the month of August, 1907, it was decided by the executive government, in response to the most urgent suggestions of our official representatives in London and Paris, that President Barclay should pay a visit to Europe, as it was divined that some movements on the political chessboard of Europe were contemplated in which the republic was deeply concerned. Acting upon this decision of his government, President Barclay left for England on the 17th of August. Upon his arrival in England he at once called at the Foreign Office and took up the discussion of Liberian affairs. The British Foreign Office, among other things, expressed itself as seeing with regret the gradual curtailment of the interior of the republic, and attributed that curtailment to the ineffective administration on our part in matters of police and finance. This conference at the Foreign Office resulted in the embodiment in a formal memorandum of the suggested reforms by the British Government, and in which was expressed the hope that Liberia would see the necessity of speedily putting on foot these necessary reforms." President Barclay assured the British Government that there would be reforms, and on the strength of which he asked a definite guarantee of the territorial integrity and political autonomy of Liberia. "The British Government said that it would be unable to give such a guarantee, as it was calculated to involve the British Empire without compensatory advantages, but if Liberia took the advice tendered by Great Britain upon the subject of internal reforms, no one was likely to disturb her." President Barclay then proceeded to Paris, where he was received by the President of France. He was informed that France had no designs on the country. The French minister said: "France had endeavored to arrange that Liberia have the territory intended by the Agreement of 1892, and that with reference to the guaranteeing of the integrity and political autonomy of Liberia by France, the Frontier Agreement then being negotiated with this republic was a sufficient guarantee so far as France was concerned. "President Barclay, after concluding the Frontier Delimitation Agreement with France, left Paris for Liberia via England and arrived at Monrovia in October, 1907." President Barclay was well received on returning home, but the Legislature was not assured with the replies and in consequence decided to send a diplomatic mission to America. The Liberian Register in detail spoke of this mission, and of other matters in connection with the situation. It, however, has nothing t osay on the matter of loans, the matter which the Record persistently keeps in front. Speaking to that point again, it said: "The explanation given in the article under review of the circumstances that led up to the question of reforms propounded by certain European powers, avails to throw welcome light upon affairs political in Liberia, but it hardly suffices to remove the impression that the Liberian Government exposed itself to the charge of incapability to manage its own affairs by the bungling and unbusiness-like manner in which it contracted the recent loan, and by the wholesale and unqualified privileges accorded the foreign company who were to control the management and disbursement of the loan." GREENVILLE, TEX Special to THE FREEMAN William Howard Jackson, Jr., has opened up his pressing parlor on South Johnson street. It is very neat...Mrs. Mattie Vance and Jessie Wesley are on the sick list...R. Rev. Bartlett returned from Mineral Wells, city ten days, carrying on a revival at Warren Chapel M. E. Church. W. F. 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Hindel Brothers. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Cleft, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Cold Home Beer always on tap. G. H. TAYLOR, Prop., 325-329 Indiana Ave., - Indianapolis Old Phone, Main. 6208 Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POUSSES COMBINED GEOW HOPPARD, BAY MFG. INDIANA, INC. One-pound boxes 25 cents at druggists and dealers. 1313 N. Senate Ave. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Courteous treatment. Your trade solicited. Boys Exchange Buffet A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always hand. Business Lunch. Good service and courteous treatment to all. When out for a good time, stop in. Brutus Owens, Prop., 483 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. The New Savoy Bar AND CAFE First class line of Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Headquarters of the I. B. P. O. Elks WILLIAM ROBERTS, Prop. Scip Williams, Mgr. Frank Whitney, Mixer. 440 Indiana Ave. New Phone 5286. "DIFFERENT" THAT'S THE WORD. There is nothing that so clearly expresses the exclusive characteristic of "Levinson Straw Hats" like the word "different" - for they are "different." They have a "style-exactness" that cannot be copied. And the prices represent a supreme degree in value-giving. 37 North Penna. Street. LEVINSON YOUNG MEN'S COLORED REPUBLIC OF THE NINTH WAR Open Day and Night. Visitors to 544 Ninth Street, - Lou OFFICERS: Joe Mayfield, Pres.; Pink Alexander, Vice- Edington, Sec.; George Mallory, Rec. Sec.; V Treas.; Dick Bibbs, Sergt.-at-arms; John Pa- red man in the state who deals directly carer in all the goods he handles. Would colored people in the United States wh the purchase of a Piano, to write for ten A. A. Braboy Phone 1240. - Kok MEN'S COLORED REPUBLICAN CLUB OF THE NINTH WARD Even Day and Night. Visitors Welcome Ninth Street, - Louisville, Ky. OFFICERS : Warfield, Pres.; Pink Alexander, Vice-Pres.; William Sec.; George Mallory, Rec. Sec.; William Walker, Bick Bibbs, Sergt. at arms; John Page, Inner Guard. ANOS! in the state who deals directly with the the goods he handles. Would be glad to people in the United States who are con- nase of a Piano, to write for terms. . Braboy, 1240. - Kokomo, Ind. YOUNG MEN'S COLORED REPUBLICAN CLUB BILLY LEMP. Joe Mayfield, Pres.; Pink Alexander, Vice-Pres.; William Edington, Sec.; George Mallory, Rec. Sec.; William Walker, Treas.; Dick Bibbs, Sergt.-at-arms; John Page, Inner Guard. PIANOS! Only colored man in the state who deals directly with the Manufacturer in all the goods he handles. Would be glad to have all colored people in the United States who are contemplating the purchase of a Piano, to write for terms. J. A. Braboy, Citizen's Phone 1240. - Kokomo, Ind. PIANOS! Only colored man in the state who deals directly with the Manufacturer in all the goods he handles. Would be glad to have all colored people in the United States who are contemplating the purchase of a Piano, to write for terms. J. A. Braboy, Citizen's Phone 1240. Kokomo, Ind. Packing, Shipping, Transfer, Storage, New and Second Hand Furniture. SHANK FURNITURE & STORAGE CO. 339 East Washington Street. Auction Room 227-9 New Jersey St. Phones 2028 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Packing, Shipping, Transfer, Storage, New and Second Hand Furniture. SHANK FURNITURE & STORAGE CO. 339 East Washington Street. Auction Room 227-9 New Jersey St. Phones 2028 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. SHANK FURNITURE & STORAGE CO, 339 East Washington Street. Auction Room 227-9 New Jersey St. Phones 2028 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J. C. W FUNERAL D Good service. Reasonable price Old Phone, Prospect, 322. 1408 Prospect Street New Phone, 9871. The Charles M. Pfeifer & Company, Wholesale Liquor Dealers of Cincinnati, O., The house that places those popular brands of high grade Gins and Whiskies at Greathouse's Sample Room, Indianapolis. The A. B. C. Base Ball Club, Northwestern Park. Games played at home and abroad. We bar no good team. Correspondence solicited. Address, 462 W. 15TH STREET, RAN BUTLER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GREAT COMPEER CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells It. Monypeny Hammond Co.'s Club House 5c Cigar. John E. & Frank Walter, PROPRIETORS OF All Orders Promptly Attended To. Telephone 209. 810-812-814 Clay St., Louisville, Ky. W. N. HARDING FOR MAYOR Subject to Republican Primary, Aug. 5th. Subject to Democratic Primary Election. 37 North Penna. Street. BILLY LEMP. Straw Hats, any.....$2 Best Panama.....$5 Stiff and Soft Felt Hats, any style.....$2 Ladies' Panama Hats, at only.....$5 SON 41 South Illinois Street. will be easy, Because at present prices there'll be little left to invoice. The finer fabrics are specially alluring in price. Bordered imported poplin, just two pieces in light blue and pink, border 6 inches from selvage, 45 inches wide, 75c value, at...59c Two pieces only of Scotch cotton crepe in light blue and pink, 30 inches wide, 55c value, at...23c Novelty crepe, three pieces in pink with rose stripe, gray with white stripe and tan with white stripe, 59c value, at...44c Embroidered cotton crepe in navy, old rose, cadet, tan and pink with figures embroidered in white, 69c & 75c value, at...49c French pique, white grounds in two-toned stripes of pink and rose, navy and black and tan and brown, 30 inches wide, 59c value, at...43c 2d floor, center aisle L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. Bishop Grant left for his home at Kansas City Sunday evening. Chester Booth leaves to night for Evanston, Ill., to spend the summer. Miss Etta Brabay, of Kokomo, attended the Bachelors' outing last Friday. Oweny Kirk, the Hooster baritone, as "Kig Saul" at Bethel A. M. Church June 30. It will be worth the price of admission to see the witches in "Saul, King of Israel." W. B. Grubbs left Saturday for Illinois and the Southwest in the interest of THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Angie Blackwell died Wednesday at her home, on the South Side, after a lingering illness. Miss Ambla Keene, formerly a teacher in the city schools, spent the week visiting the school. Mrs. Ida Cushimbery, of the Informer office, has returned from a pleasant trip to Louisville and Nashville. Western Star Temple No. 11 and St. John Lodge No. 10 will give a lawn fete July 15 at 1901 Beach boulevard. W. E. Baugh and G. W. Hayes will learn about the life of Jesus, where they will enter the State University. Charles Sneed, well known in this city, will graduate this month from one of the leading medical colleges at Chicago. Fifty voices, all leading singers of India, have attended Assistant Scul King of Israel "June 20." Admission 25 cents. Miss Alice Minter, maid at Rink's cloak house, has gone to New York and other points in the East to spend the summer. George and Allen Shaffer, of Kansas City, have attended Scul King with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Shaffer. G. M. Campbell, a teacher in the public schools at Somerset, Ky., was in the city a few days this week, the guest of friends. Miss Ada Allen, of Covington, Ky., spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Julia Blandon, on street. She was en route to New York. Mrs. I. J. Person, of Brownsville, Tenn., accompanied her brother, G. M. Reese, to this city. Mr. Reese went South for the benefit of his health. Mr. Baird F. Cousins and Miss Corinne E. Blanton, of Decatur, Ill., were visitors in the city last Sunday. Mrs. Hazel Hendrick, accompanied by Mrs. Henry Hart, left Sunday for Peoria, where her husband is practicing medicine. The funeral of Mrs. Myrtle Polk was held at her late home in Haughville last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Polk had been ill several months with tuberculosis. She had dames, Lizzie Garrardte Hill, Lizzie Stewart, attended the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at Crawfordsville this week. Miss Mauce Wright left Sunday for Washington, D. C., where she will visit for ten days before going to Philadelphia. Enough to her home at New Hayen, Conn. Dr. John W. and James R. Norrell, of this city, were called to Frankfort during the week to attend the funeral of an uncle, Major Trimbo, an estimable citizen of Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burden, of Marion, Ind., were in the city Sunday, en route to Crawfordsville, to attend the Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star. Prof. W. R. Valentine left last Sunday for N. W. where he goes to attend the National Association of Outreach Teachers. Mr. Valentine is the vice-presidents. Miss Pauline Nickens, who has been attending Wilberforce University, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Names, en route to Durham, III, where she will spend the summer. Rev. Leroy Mitchell, pastor of the Bap- "The Best at the Price— No matter what the Price." MAROTT DEPARTMENT STORE COMPANY, 342 to 358 Mass. Ave. GROCERY SPECIALS Saturday Sale 5 pounds H. & E. granulated sugar with grocery order Saturday for.....24c Pig hams, 6 to 8 lbs, Sat- turday, the pound.....16c Seeded raisins, 10c seller, Saturday 4 packages.....25c Evaporated peaches, 10c seller, Saturday, 5 lbs.....25c Pawnee or Quaker oats, 10c Saturday 2 packages for.....15c Michigan hand picked navy beans, 3 cans for.....25c Table peaches in syrup, 20c seller, Saturday 2 cans for.....35c Borden's condensed milk, demon- strated Saturday; get a fan free; 7 small or 4 large cans for.....25c Marott's trading stamps free with your purchase. Better get a book to- morrow, something good going to-happen soon. Premium parlor 3d floor. tist Church at Muncie, was in the city Wednesday, en route to Franklin to attend the Woman's Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary State Convention. Miss Frances Berry entertained a company of musicians, musical, Wednesday, from 4 to 6, in honor of her brother, Henry Berry, of Oklahoma City, and his bride, who are passing through the city. Mrs. Annie E. Webber, president, Mrs. Mattie D. Griggs, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Wilke K. for making the four or five months, is spending a few days in the city with his relatives at 933 Fayette street. Mr. Florence is a well-known hotel waiter about town. He intends to go to Seattle, Wash., in a few Among the officers elected by Queen Esther Court of Calanthe No. 264 at the last regular meeting were: Mrs. Magnolia White, Worthy Counselor; Danea Donnell, Worthy Register of Dededs; Mrs. Julia Worthy, Worthy Received of Accounts; Lizzie Bybee, Worthy Receiver of Denosis. The Colored Jubilee Singers' are holding a camp meeting at Greenwood, in Cook's Park, under the management of Rev. J. H. Russell, the world-renowned traveling evangelist, assisted by Rev. Queen Celia and Rev. Dr. John. He played at 10:30 a.m. m. 3:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. and at 7:30 p. m. during the week. Straw Hats at Seaton's Hat Store. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street. HAIR WORK DONE AND TAUGHT. Mrs. Millie Alexander has a full stock of all kinds of hair goods at reasonable prices. Shampooing and hair-dressing, in the work daily from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Your patronage solicited. Mall orders promptly filled. 324 Indiana avenue. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street. DID YOU REST WELL? 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See advertisement and picture of these springs elsewhere in this issue in making purchases, kindly mention TRIEMAN. Straw Hats at Seaton's Hat Store. Call Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call Spring Styles. 4 Shoe Store. 352 West Washington street. HINTON CLUB ENTERTAINS Last Friday night the Hinton Club entertained in a lavish way a large number of friends. There was pseech-making, and large quantities of smoking and "wetting the whistle," until a very late hour. The affair was not given over to any other club, but it was a social enjoyment to its members and friends. Alonzo Gaten appeared upon the program in a clever Italian dialect recitation which had much to do with the late 1950s. He himself to be as rich in entertaining as of old. Bud Hill sang several of the popular song successes of the day in a pleasing manner. He was McRoy made short and spicy addresses. The rest of the evening was spent in happy conversation, smoking and the particular pleasure of the place. It is the place of the club to give such entertainments regularly in the future. The same club will give a picnic Monday at the State Fair Grounds. A street patrol will start from the club house at 10 a.m. Kuykendall & Huffman, dentists $359.1% Indiana avenue. Expert crown, plate and bridge work. New phone 5067. INDIANAPOLIS COLORED SCHOOLS UNDERGEO SEVERAL CHANGES. Owing to the varied personnel of the corps of teachers of the Indianapolis colored schools, more than local interest attaches to their movements. This is not unusual in the country, being represented by persons healing from almost every part of the United States hold positions in the schools, many of the leading colleges and universities of the country being represented by incidental mention at this time is the retirement with the recent close of the schools of three teachers who, because of their long and active service, are eminent in the Indianapolis school system. They are Mrs. Emma Brown, after thirty years' faithful service as primary teacher at the Charles Summer School, during the summer of 1915, and has laid the foundation upon which hundreds of our grown-up young men and women have built capable and in many instances successful institutions. Miss Mary Victoria Willson, who have served over thirty years as teachers in the city schools, for the latter half of this time principals of the Charles Summer School, have enforced discipline, which are among the chief corner-stones on which pedagogical ethics rest. The attributes mentioned, manifested in so marked a degree in their work, have made their places difficult to fill, because of the standard they have established for faithful and efficient service. M.E. Baugh, who were awarded the Gregg scholarships, which are given out each year to teachers chosen on the merit of their work from an endowment left for the purpose. Most of them have entrusted their work in the early fall, Mesdames Lena Kirk Porter and Grace Valentine will have leaves of absence for one year. The opening of School No. 17 (used until the end of the school year) of the grade department school is one of the innovations of the forthcoming year. This increases the list of colored schools to eight. The appointments for the year will be made. School No. 17—Department, seventh and eighth grades. William Edward Baugh, Hazel Hart Hendricks, Lillian Brown, Mattie F. Roberts, Frances M. Berry. Frederick Douglass School, No. 18—School, William Edward Baugh, 5A, Goldie Hicks, prec. 5B, 4A, 4B, Ladeskay Tyler, 3A, 3B, 2A, Mary Field, 2B, 1A, 1B, Alethea Byrd. Charles Summer School, No. 23—George L. Thomas, prec. 5B, 4A, principal, 3B, Thomas; 6B, Nora Roberts; 5A, Mamie Huffman, 5B, Pauline L. Battis; 4A, Gertrude Crossen; 4B, Rose Henderson; 3B, Aesop Catherine Stead; 3B, Aesop Davis; 2B, Marion Curtis; 2B, 1A, Mary Smith, 1A, B Clara A. Smith. 2B, 1A, Mrs. Mary Cable principal and director of practice; 6A, 6B, Carriage Page; 6B, 5A, Cora C. Willis; 5B, Carrie Heston; 4A, Bealuh Bake, practice; 6A, Myrtle Broadle, practice; 3A, 3B, 5A, Myrtle Broadle, prec. 1A, 1A, Ella Croker; 1A, 1B, Lucinda Hayden. School No. 26—W. R. Valentine, supervising principal; department, Arthur Long, 5A, Bessel M. Barnes, prec. 5A, 5B, Bessel M. Barnes; 4B, 3A, Maude Wright; 3B, 2A THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED COLUMN The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 ects (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blood. druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Male teacher of experience and ability (college graduate) desires position. Prefers normal or college. Good references. Address Teacher* care Freeman. Detective business, civil and criminal, careful and thorough. Investigated. Evidence secure for leisure. Good writing. Owing. Bird's Secret Service. 2458 Ethel street. Old phone, North, 2732, indianapolis, Ind. For Sale On Payment Or Trade-Eight room house on Southside in good location. Fruit and shade. $25 per month. Will buy it. Call Main dlls, or address The Freeman. DRESSMAKING BOOK FREE- Take measure, make patterns, make suits, make kinds of garments. Send ten-lee stamps for our free plan. The book will not cost you a cent. Rhino1 M't G Co, Carrotrillo, M. WANTED: first more-class lady barbers for colored trade, in a first-class seven bars. Make suits, make the latest fixtures for modern consular work—such as tuses, etc. five well furnished bath rooms. Shop onts the best patronage in the city. Work for week for the right kind of artists. Call or write Paul Davis, 377 Jackson Street, Dallas, Texas. IN THE LEAD. Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. Sarah L. Hamler; 2A, 2B, Jessie Willis; 2B, Hattie L. Gaillard; 1A, Edith May Butler; 1B, Sadie E. Hill. School No. 37—1B, 6A, 6B, 5A, William A. Gaillard; 3A, 6A, 4B, 4A, Flora Harper; 3A, 8B, 2B, Carrie Boyer; 2B, 1A, 1B, Irene Bagby. Robert Gould Shaw School, No. 40— 5A, William Forter, principal; 4A, 4B, Stella Hatch; 3A, 8B, Louise Royall; 2A, 2B, Etta L. Simms; 1A, Irene Pobar; 1B, Mary G. Carter. School No. 42—7B, 6A, 6B, William E. Gumbles; 5A, 5B, 4A, Hilda Reeder; 3A, 2B, Claudia Walker; 1B, 1A, Fanny D. Carter. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 362 West Washington street. ST. PAUL MINN The St. Paul Presbytery will donate $2,000 to the colored Zion Presbyterian congregation has been worshipping in the church since its founding, but hope to build a new church in the near future.....St. James A. M. E. Church has received its new pipe organ. The church has received a new organ recital given by Mrs. Hetherington, who is organist of the Central Park M. E. Church, and she is looked upon as being the most beautiful church in the place a new hardwood floor in the main auditorium, and the walls have been beautifully decorated, and the church presents a magnificent appearance. St. James has been a part of the church in the connection.....Rev. H. S. Graves, pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church spent the last week in the church with Mrs. W. T. Franks entertained in honor of the graduates of the high school on last Thursday evening.....The Guide Publishing Company will get out some servant post books and give them to the club will present "Gallia" and selections from Haydn's Third Mass at one of the colored churches during the week of the church service. Mrs. W. T. Franks, the French, Jr., is the director, and the chorus will consist of nearly 150 voices.....R. C. Minor last week for Labrador. Mr. W. T. Franks, Jr. Hill's private car for a good many years. Special to THE FREEMAN. The First Baptist Church was dedicated Sunday. The program was a grand one. The exercises at 11 a. m. were conducted by Dr. L. Green, the pastor, preached an able sermon. At 3 p. m., Dr. L. G. Green, of Florence, preached the dedicatory sermon. Dr. Green ably handed his subject and held his audience spell-out. Dr. L. Green was suitable to the occasion. E. R. Johnson presented the history of the church. Miss Bessie Johnson presented the history of the Sunday-school. Dr. L. Green gave history of the Sunday-school and Mrs. Mattie Swinney the history of the missionary society. Mrs. Mary Bennett and Mrs. T. E. Knowles sang solos. Rev. J. H. Mastin preached at night an able sermon. The history was given by Rev. W. M. Carter, pastor. $1,711.85. The day's collection was $72.79. 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 I eliver prescriptions. Any thing ordered by 'phone will be selec- ted as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges. Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178: Old, Main 4083. Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIBS:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER, Sta. I—Harriman, Teen. Ford's Hair Pomade (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) The use of success has proved its merits. The use of Forshall has proved its merits. born, kinky or curly-hair straight, soft and glossy and easy to comb, and arrange in a neat, tightly-fitted style. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or browning, and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with mild results even on the youngest children. The use of a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere, Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't be sure else alleged to be "just as good." If you want to look good, Pomade- it will pay you. Look for this name If your druggists cannot supply you with the genuine, we will send you One bottle regular size for $0.50 Three bottles $1.40 Six One bottle, small Wepay postage and express charges to all points in U.S.A. When ordering send Postal or Express Money Order. All orders shipped promptly on receipt of price. Address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 East Kinzie St. Chicago, IL FORD'S MAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. THE GRAND LEADER 336-338-340 EAST WASHINGTON ST. Attend the Big White Sale Gowns for Women, of cambric finish muslin, hemstitched, tucked yoke; regular 50c grade, June sale... 36c Petticoats, of cambric finished muslins, flounce of lawn, with dust ruffle, trimmed in rows of lace insertion with edge to match; other styles trimmed in deep embroideries; up to $2.00 values, June sale... 98c Combination Suits, drawers or short skirts with corset covers trimmed in laces, beading and ribbon at the waist; regular 85c values, June sale... 49c Jumper Dresses, of stripe lawn, trimmed in plain lawn; regular $2.00 values, June sale... 98c DEMAND Yuncker's Soda Absolutely Pure. Transfer and Storage, Furniture and Pianos moved, packed, Shipped and stored. Special rates for storage. 925 North California Street. Old Phone. Main. 5819. New Phone 5295 K Largest Van in the city. 6TH & 7TH BOOKS OF MOSES All complete, 129 pages, 125 illustrations. Contains marvelous secrets! Brings. health, wealth and happiness. Mailed for 40 cents, money order or four dimes. Address W. B. Jones Co., Silver Creek, N. Y. JOHN T. CUSACK WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN CHINA, GLASS, HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS Hotel china, bar glassware, dinner and toilet sets, fine lamps and brisa-brac. 357-361 W. Washington Street. Old Phone 4053. Indianapolis, Ind New Phone 1846 Res. Phone 9894 Banner Storage Co. Miss Youtsey, Prop. 360 S. Meridian Street. First Class Separate Apartments. IT IS A PLEASANT REFLECTION for any woman to feel that her toilet is perfect. Our electric fixtures will help to attain that result with all that effort, want to know how, just stop in and be shown. The more you see the woman, the more will be that you cannot the Hungsten Lamp cuts for any woman to feel that her toilet is perfect. Our electric fixtures will help to attach the toilet to the solute surety. If you want to know how, just stop in and be shown. You can use the fixtures, the surer you will be that you cannot down your light bill. C. 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Indianapolis, Ind THE PREFERENCIA, 1116 North Senate Ave. German and American cooking. Short order and exclusive service. Private Dining room. FLOYD & SANDERS, Props. THE FREEMAN AT NEW ORLEANS No. 117 South Franklin street. No. 321 Dryards street. Box Office Lincoln Park. ATTN: J. A. PRESERVOY Agent ```markdown ``` PERFECT IT IS SO EASY FOR ANYONE TO GET The Indianapolis 45 South Pennsylvania OR ANYONE TO GET ianapolis h Pennsylvania TO GET A "PERFECT" NOW. polis Gas Co.sylvania Street. $3.50 to $5.00 J. & K. SHOES. on of our shoes with Hand Made and sewed shoes are st erts, Made by Ex antee a perfect FIT Ladies S 30 N ARDING Republican Prim An investigation of our shoes will Our shoes are all Hand Made and we where machine sewed shoes are still Designed by Experts, Made by Exper perts. We guarantee a perfect FIT J. & K. Ladies S 30 N. W. N. 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NEXT TIME I WILL SEND TO U D DAVIDSON CO. FORT WORTH TEXAS, AND GET MY WIG. We will send to your address of $50.00 worth of high-grade of one dozen sets of large finger puffs, nots; one beautiful curly wig built on a the center or on the side; one wig made with ventilated part in center, made witches, each from 16 to 30 inches long; nook curis, three in a bunch. This hair own and jet black. Our grade of hair is also send you one dozen boxes of our al as a hair grower. Mail to us $5.00 we will send to you by express this d to us is good faith money, and the Bank & Trust Co., Fort Worth, Texas. addressed pounds of high-grade hair already any part of America. To any person to us allows you an open account from month. position been offered to the public before, addressed pounds of high-grade hair already any part of America. To any person to us allows you an open account from month. goods and your territory. ON COMPANY, Connection. Fort Worth, Texas. Butler's Restaurant Meals and Lunches Served. 419 Indiana Ave., Indiana A CHANCE TO GET RICH QUICKLY Selling human hair for the U. D. Davidson, man hair. Our $50.00 stock consists of one three in a set; one dozen large psyche knots; one pe net foundation with a ventilated part in the center o of natural Creole hair, twenty inches long, with ver to wear up or down; three beautiful switches, two three beautiful pompadour, one dozen neck curls, comes in three shades, brown, dark brown and jet kinky, crimpy, wavy and straight. We also send a Cinton Scalp Food, which has no equal as a hair postoffice, money order or express and we will send $50.00 stock of hair goods. Remember, the $5.00 that you send to us is same will be deposited in the Provident Bank & Tr When you are home collecting, one goods for us, we us the goods that you have on hand and we will The good faith money that you send to us allows $1.00 to $500.00 worth of goods per month. Over in history, as such a proposition been We wish to say that we have several hundred pounds made up. We will send these goods to any part that is in the hair business we can stock them above mentioned. This offer will only last for a show above mention we refer you to the Provident Bank Worth, Texas. Send today and get your stock of goods and you U. D. DAVIDSON CO 403 E. Ninth St., Phone Connection. THE FREEMAN AT NEW ORLEANS THE FRI Rer's Resta- ture Served. themes Served. GET RICH QUICK for the U. D. Davidson NEXT WILL U D D. FORT AND G Stock consists of one dozen large psyche knots; one is stitched part in the center of teny inches long, with ve- rious beautiful switches, each one dozen neck quirks, brown, dark brown and jet straight. We also send each has no equal as a hair express and we will s- that you send to us allow- the Provident Bank & T ing goods for the U. take on hand, we will that you send to us allow- goods per month. such a proposition been have several hundred pounds these goods to any part ness we can stock them will only last for a shi- you to the Provident B your stock of goods and y DAVIDSON CO. Phone Connection. Butler's Restaurant Meals and Lunches Served. Prompt Service. 419 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. A CHANCE TO GET RICH QUICK IN ONE YEAR Selling human hair for the U. D. Davidson, Co., Ft. Worth, Tex. "YES I BUY ALL MY WIGS FROM HIM ONLY" NEXT TIME I WILL SEND TO U D DAVIDSON CO. FORT WORTH TEXAS AND GET MY WIG. man hair. Our $50.00 stock consists of one dozen sets of large finger puffs in three a set; one dozen large psyche knots; one beautiful curly wig built on a net foundation with a ventilated part in the center or on the side; one wig made of natural Crochel hair, twenty inches long, with ventilated part in center and one wig made of three beautiful pompadours; one dozen neck curls, three in a bunch. This hair comes in three shades, brown, dark brown and jet black. Our grade of hair is kinky, crimpy, wavy and straight. We also send you one dozen boxes of our $50.00 stock of hair goods, which has no equal as a hair grower. Mail us $5.00 postoffice money order, express and we will send to you by express this $50.00 stock of hair goods. Remember, the $5.00 that you send to us is good faith money, and the same will be deposited in the Provident Bank & Trust Co. Fort Worth, Texas. We will send you $5.00 forward to us the goods that you have on hand and we will forward to you your $5.00. The good faith money that you send to us allows you an open account from $1.00 to $500.00 worth of goods per month. We have offered you our money been offered to the public before. We wish to say that we have several hundred pounds of high-grade hair already made up. We will send these goods to any part of America. To any person that is in the hair business we can stock them up for the same money as above mentioned. This offer will only last for a short while. If in doubt to above mention we refer you to the Provident Bank & Trust Company. Fort Worth, Texas. Send today and get your stock of goods and your territory. The Freeman can be secured at any time at 602 South Entan, or Camden Station baggage room. Harry M. Cubbins, representative. Our agent is F. R. Anderson. Leave news and orders for copies at 321 Dryades street or Calloux's Barber Shop, 117 S. Frankip. ```markdown ``` --- --- WILLIAM & MORGAN CO. "Rest Easy" THE FREEMAN AT BALTIMORE. 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