The Freeman
Saturday, October 15, 1910
Indianapolis, Indiana
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THE FREEMAN
A NATIONAL
ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER
INDIANAPOLIS
VOL. XXIII.
NUMBER 42
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
ASSOCIATION FOR BENEFIT OF THE NEGRO RACE
HOLDS PLATFORM MEETING SUNDAY
At Lincoln Center-Large Audience Present-The Aim of the Organization Put Forth-Notes of General Interest.
Special to THE HERALD It made one feel hopeful for the race on last Sunday at Lincoln Center, when some of the most prominent people of Chicagc stood upon the platform and uttered words of faith and problem. This platform meeting was under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has its headquarters at New York. Its general committee is composed of some of the most wealthy and influential men and women of New York and Philadelphia, and holding in all parts of the United States. There was a magnificent audience of white and colored people present at the meeting Sunday. The speakers were Miss Jane Addams and the speakers were Miss Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House; Mrs. Wooley, founder of Fred Douglass Center; Mr. James Barnett, Chicago, and Mr. Richard T. Greener. All of the addresses were interesting and practical, dealing with the race question and the way out. Just another better treatment toward the Negro was the tenor of all the speeches. The story of all the addresses and aims of the organization may be summed up in a speech that spread belief that race feeling is so beated in some quarters of the country that public discussion of the legal and political situation of the colored people is important. Industrial and educational opportunity is almost universally admitted as desirable; yet many fail to recognize that race is a problem and still more fail to see that not even legal rights—whether expressly guarded by the Constitution or not—have any practical value whatever except when
There has been no effort to put the Negro situation squarely before the public as a whole and in a scientific way. The Negro situation is a manifestation of Colored People propose to investigate the actual facts of the problem and to provide for its full and free education of the Negro people, freedom of contract, and public education are not theoretical rights, but the fundamental rights of our civilization. Every American wants them present, and the education has shown, however, that in a number of states peonage exists in a dozen different forms. We have to spread that white schools in white children go forward, those for Negroes stagnate in some sections and others actually relegate, that in those sections the Negro is not in the national right of the individual that is not frequently violated by the legislature.
Sunday Literaries.
The Standard Literature Society of St. Peter's Baptist Church, Twenty-seventh year, dearborn streets, held its regular afternoon meeting, goodly numbered to bear The Care of Tears and The Care of The Mouth and Their Bearing on the General Health. The Barnes is a graduate dental surgeon and the care for several years. Having been a success, he showed that he was fully given to giving his hearers some wholesome advice and subjects were intelligently discussed, and the doctor received many flattering comments at the conclusion of his address, the pastor of the church, was pleased of the speakers. Mr Opal Cooper sang "M Dream of Paradise." The number was rendered and precision and sweetness that for a pastor to the musical treat of the afternoon was that Miss Gladys Edwards and Mr. George Both are trained singers and the recitation of "Miserere" from Ill Toware was done by the Windsor has an exceedingly charming
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voice, full and resonant and makes her high notes with perfect ease. Mr. Garner sings tenor cleverly and his voice was sweet and lyrical. Miss Lovia马布斯 received delightful musical selections.
The Standard Literary Society at Bethesda Baptist Church, 3823 Wabash avenue, held a very interesting Sunday service. The speaker was Mr. R. Hooper, subject "What Has the Farmer Boy Gained by Coming to Town." Mr. Frank A. Henry read a paper on "The Voice and How It Works." Miss B. Mae Boyd, one of Chicago's sweet singers rendered a sacred solo. This number was so pleasingly given that she was requested to sing an enunciation. There was a general discussion. Boy literaries will have meetings next Sunday.
Growing Demand for Patronage.
Colored men in business are beginning to make a demand for patronage. This was emphasized last week when Mr. Chinkscale, a musician and composer chants 'Laundry,' and Mr. William Dorsey, musical arranger and composer said that they are graciously desirous of doing a bigger business. Mr. Chinkscale said he is anxious for trade among colored people and if they give it to me I will assure the methe best of service." Mr. Chinkscale is proprietor of a laundry and he is anxious for trade among colored people. Mr. Wm. Dorsey, who is said to be serving his last week at the Monogram theater, is going to enlarge the scope on business and he is great deal interested in well ordering. Mr. Wm. Dorsey ranged "Some of These Days" and a number of the most popular songs of the season. He will cater to vaudieville artists in need of music of any description. Mr. Dorsey is a passionate poudence from all parts of the country. Mr. Dorsey thinks the Freeman the paper for such an ad. For patronage Freeman is the paper. Reaches more people than any colored paper published.
Miss Marie Johnston a Success.
Miss Marie Johnston, a graduate nurse of Provident Hospital, is the only colored girl in the city of Chicago that can be admitted to school. Miss Johnston looks after the care of children in the public schools. The position comes under civil service and little over a year ago she applied for an examination. She made a very successful average and was appointed. There are thirty-nine whites and she is the only colored. Miss Johnston has had charge of six district schools. Her work begins at 9 o'clock in the morning and concludes at 4:30 p. m. With grab and satchel, she makes her daily rounds and follows school physicians in their examinations of children that are in poor health and need medical attention. With instructions from the physicians she shows the children the needs and reports the progress of the case to the superintendent. Having passed the examination with a high average and three years in training, she acts in the capacity of teacher in the city, Miss Johnston's ability to do the work was very apparent. Her first year's work has been a great success. She acts in the capacity of teacher, making excellent reports have been heard from Miss Johnston at the Health Office Department, and her success there is said to be a fever for ether colored examination. It has been for ether colored examination. It has been for ether colored physician would pass the examination, that a position is open. Miss Johnston has been for ether colored examination. It has been for ether colored physician for several years and has made many friends hereabouts.
Queen of Milliners.
Madam Seay, 3551 State street, has been recently termed the "Queen of Milliners," saxon ladies and purchased a milliner last week. Madam Seay has one of the prettiest millinery parloris in the city of Chicago. Her place is a veritable dreamland of choice hats. They are wearing the most fashionable and her fall and winter styles are perfectly charming and the designs are right from Paris and New York. Madam Seay has been so busy this year that she did not have time to have her usual fall opening and she wishes her friends to not hesitate in coming earl to make their selection. While goods in the most material, prices are cheap and the creations the latest.
Wednesday evening, Oct 5th, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Smith entertained a select gathering of boys and girls at their home, 3850 Dearborn street, the occasion being the first of their birthday daughter. Miss Mabe. Nothing was lacking to make those present the participants in one of the season's most brilliant affairs among the younger set. The evening, Mrs. Smith and the evening, Mrs. Mesdames Lou Craig and R. Turnley assisted Mrs. Smith in serving. Among those present were Miss Hazel Craft, Flossie Browder, Gladys Hayes, John R. Browder, Kelly Vivian Ferguson, Helen Smith, Sinclaire White, Juanita Shaw, Olga Porter and Vetolia Bolden, Megsrs, Henry, Ann, Rob Rowe, Maurice Hayes, Simmons, Mack Ward, Maurice Hayes, Franklin Collins, William Green, James Green, Van. Barber, Lucian Corbin, John Gray, Lawrence Wooden, Nathan Jackson, Jerome Neal and Walter
Frogs Entertain.
For the first time since the organization of the famous "Frogs" of New York City, a dinner was given outside the hotel where the event was given last Friday night at Motts inn and Mr. Robert T. Motts, proprietor of the Pekin theater, was the host. The distinguished guest was President B. R. Burt Williams, the performance of the "Follies of 1910" Frog Burt Williams came to the dinner with his gold and green sash in front of his shirt and the old gold frog emblem. A member wore the sash and frog button.
Nassauiley
KING AND BAILEY
Who opened at Housa Theatre, Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 1, for four weeks.
Promptly at midnight the members were seated at a table specially arranged and the table decorations of gold and green were perfectly placed. President Burt Williams had the seat of honor at the head of the table and Frog Motts sat at the other end. Frog Sam J. Corker, Jr. was at the right of the table and they were Frog Jesse Shipp, of New York City; Frog Tom Brown, New York City; and Frog Ed. Green. The guests of the evening were Mr. Henry Jones, Mr. Richard B. Harrison and Mr. Jerry Mills.
These gentlemen representing exceptional theatrical and financial influence, and the others joined in making the evening witch a with a "fee of reason and flow of soul."
The menu: Martini Cocktail Oysters on Half Shell Medera Wine, Maryland Spring Chicken Frog Salad Sparkling Burgundy, Rocqfort Cheese and Crackers Cigars The "Frog's" is one of the most exclusive theatrical organizations of the race. It has become quite famous for its performance in New York City and having for its membership of honor and theatrical ability.
Mr. Geo. Martin, who has been a city of Chicago for several years, mount avenue has returned to the Tower Court. Mr. that he was delightfully enter Mr. Bailey and much impress the social life of the "Windy Bailey is expecting to visit Mt during the Xmas holidays.
Nov. 7 is the date that Macley will appear in Chicago. Mr. Bailey is to meet the musical will be held at In Church and it will be for the 01d Folks Home, Madam he be accompanied, who has made reputation in the East and W soprano singer. Arrangements made to crow the house.
Attorney Edward H. Morris his flat at 2124 Bermsir will winter at the home of I Jefferson 4314 Forrestville avail the time being he is at the Jasman Wal, M. will build a New Fifty-first and Michigan avail is expected to be one of the most fitful residences in that sectic city.
Locals.
Mr. Geo. Allen, one of the popular boys of the city, is ill at his home on the South Side.
Mrs. Sam Frye had a narrow escape of being seriously burned at home last week. Mrs. Frye lives at Forty-eighth and Wabash avenue.
Mrs. E. L. Randolph, 3254 Wabash avenue, has returned to the city from a trip to New York. She is thinking of going to Europe at an early date.
Mrs. Lucy Cast, 3291 Wabash avenue, died Monday with tumor. She leaves a daughter, Matilda Cast, and several relatives. She was a fashionable dressmaker.
Miss Ollie Burgolne of Paris, France, was in the city this week for a few days. Mrs. Burgolne was in Kansas City. She was delightfully entertained by her many friends.
Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Peteford of Springfield, Ohio, was in the city last week, stopping at the Randolph House, Thirty-third and Wabash avenue. They were much pleased with their short stay and expect to return next summer.
Mrs. Chas. Banks of Mound Bayou, Mrs. was operated on at St. Luke's Hospital. Mrs. Banks is fast improving. Mr. Horatio Cassanas of Cuba was operated on at St. Luke's by Dr. Williams. He will be able to go home soon.
Dr. Geo. Hall will leave next week for Atlanta, at the to hold a clinic at the infirmary which he was instrumental in having been invited Drs. Thomas Slater and Pat.
mer. He will pay a visit at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., and will be the guest at the "Oaks."
Mr. Geo. Martin, who has been in the city of Chicago for several weeks on a visit to Mr. Edward Bailey, 2826 Armour avenue, has returned to his home at Toronto, Can. Mr. Martin declares the mission of the Walt Disney Company, Mr. Bailey and much impressed with the social life of the "Windy City." Mr. Bailey is expecting to visit Mr. Martin during the Xmas holidays.
Nov. 7 is the date that Madam Hackley will appear in Chicago under the auspices of the Woman's Aid Society, the mission of the Walt Disney Company, and it will be for the benefit of 010 Folks Home. Madam Hackley will be accompanied by Miss Fitzhugh, the blind singer, who has made a great leap in music and will be as a soprano singer. Arrangements are being made to crowd the house.
Attorney Edward H. Morris has sold his hat at 2712 Boreal Street and the home of a tome of Jefferson's 4314 Forrestville avenue. For the time being he is at the home of Jessman Wal, Benton Harbor, Mich. Next year he will build a new home at Fifty-first and Michigan avenue, that would be to meet the most beautiful residences in that section of the city.
Hale, hearty and jubilant, Mr. Edward Green, nominee for the legislature for the First district of Chicago arrived in the city last week from a trip to Louisville and French Lick Springs. Mr. Edward Green, nominee for the President of Mr. Tom Cole, Mr. Green states that Kentuckians are lavishing with their hospitality. While in French Lick Springs he was the guest of Mr. rwin and some tangle work in the interests of his campaign.
The last Friday night in this month, the Chicago society girls will be out in their hobble skirts at Prof. Garfield Wilson's dancing class, at which time you will be able to see the most chique, petite and charming girls of Chicago, tiny and tall, are expected to grace the dance on this occasion. The fellows are going just awake with the look and the girls are going because it will be the fall event extraordinary.
"The ratchet polka and the new Spanish waltz was recently put on at the dance hall and the time they about a half dozen couple on the floor, now the hall is well filled with clever dancers of the new dance. The class has gone improved under Prof. Willman, manager of the orchestra is just 'sweet dreams'."
A delightful luncheon was given last Friday afternoon, at 209 N. second street, in honor of Mrs. A. L. Bell and daughter, Miss Pauline Hortense Bell. Miss Bell is the only student in the musical department at Northwestern University, and the luncheon a musical was given in the beautiful parlor of Mrs. Bell that was of a high class and greatly appreciated by the invited guests.
Miss Marie Burton, Chicago's sweetest girl,
"Some One Else, It's Always Some One Else," and several other choice selections. Miss Bell, who is taking instrumental music at the university, renamed her school to charming several numbers from German composers, Mr. George Garner sang several numbers and was accompanied by his sister, Miss Marian Garner.ose preside over uncheon veree-Mrs. Bell, Miss Paula Danez-mrs. Geo Garner, Jr., F. W. Taylor, Emma Chandler, Emma Richardson of Evanston, Geo. Duncan, Julia Burges, marion Garner, Lovita Simms, Marion Garner, Messrs. Cero Garner and Cary B. Lewis.
MERIDIAN. MISS.
Special to THE FREEMAN
MT. VERNON, OHIO
Mr. Sam Simmons is improving.... Rev. M. Toomey has gone to Cincinnati to attend the Ohio State Baptist Association meeting.... Mr. and Mrs. Banks, of this city, went to Lancaster, O. to attend the event. Judy has had a relapse and is confined to her bed again.... Mr. and Mrs. John Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. John Croston and Mrs. Marguerite Turner visited Mr. Richardson and Mrs. Marguerite Turner on Sunday.... Miss Alice Wood has returned after a visit to Roanoke, Va.... The Court of Calanthe will give a concert at Odd Fellows Hall, October 26.... Mr. and Mrs. Marguerite Turner have returned from a visit to Cleveland.... The Freeman will be found on sale at Hess's barber shop, 11 West High street, but will be delivered as usual to Hess's barber shop. The Freeman will thankfully be received by phone—"Citizens", Black 782.... Sam H. Lane's Minstrels showed at Homer last Saturday night to a full house, and Saturday, October 15, will be at Chesterville, featuring a feature of Millie R. Lanch, and also W. H. White.... The Curtis will open Monday, October 17, with a full crew of colored cooks and waiters, after ten years under white cooks and waiters, M. Stevens, of East Gambrel venue has returned from his vacation of ten days.
YOUNGSTOWN, O.
Special to THE FREEMAN
PAST WEEK IN CINGINNATI
DEATH OF UNDERTAKER GEORGE KELLY
RECTORS ATTENDING THE CONVENTION
Of the Episcopal Church-Less Blackburn Has Purchased New Motor Car-Ollie Dempsey Has New Interest.
Special to THE FREEMAN
VIEWS ON THE RACE QUESTION
The following address was delivered by Mr. R. W. Hunter, who is a successful merchant, bookkeeper and notary public of Selma, Ala. at the First Baptist Church last Wednesday; while hearing so much talk about the Negro problem, I have often wondered why we hear nothing of the white man's problem
Our Second Anniversary Sale
Presents Mountains of Merchandise at Lowered Prices—Continues With Constantly Added Attractions
During the great Anniversary Sale we will give FREE 25 extra Marrott's or Home Merchants' green trading stamps with every $1.00 and over purchase.
Free Automobile Coach Service
Transportation from both the traction station and Union railway station. Hall the coaches from any corner on Washington street. They will stop for you and bring you to our store.
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Dress Goods
Broadcloth, 52 inches wide,
assorted colors, no black,
$1.69 quality,
sale price, yard. $1.19
Natte suiting, 47 inches
wide, black and colors, our
regular $1.25 quali-
ity, yard.....98c
French serge, 42 inches,
black, cream and
colors, yard.....75c
Sicilian mohair, 50 inches
wide, colors only,
59c quality, yard.....49c
Mohair dress goods, 36 inches wide, fancy stripes, 50c quality, yard 39c
Challies in light and dark, 39c quality, yard 25c
Plaid dress goods for children's school dresses, 25c quality, yard 17c
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Women's black and tan cotton hose, come made in full sizes, double heel and toe, a good 15c value, sale price ..... 7¢
Women's Hose 19c
Women's black cotton hose, double heel, toe and sole, splendid 35c value, limit three pairs, during this sale, the pair ..... 19c
Women's Lisle H
Women's black lisle hose, with high
ton and pole, very best 50c value o
price, $ pairs $1.00, pair
Women's Lisle Hose 3
lisle hose, with high splice
my best 50c value obtainab
00, pair
Lisle Hose 35c
with high spliced heel and double
dc value obtainable, sale 35c
best. $1
value ...
$2.5
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Women's black lilie hose, with high spliced heel and double
toe and sole, very best 50c value obtainable, sale
price, 3 pairs $1.00, pair..... 35c
Silk Lisle Hose 17c
Women's silk lille hose, colors only
while they last during this sale, the
1-4
ale hose, colors only, a blk
during this sale, the
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colors only, a bly bargain at 25c,
to sale, the
17c
Women's silk lile hose, colors only, a big bargain at 25c,
while they last during this sale, the
17c
Stationery 24c
Linen finish writing paper, put up 25 envelopes and 25 sheets of paper in handsome box, 390 value, sale price. 24c
Hairpins 9c
One lot of hairpins, come 12 in a box, straight or crimped, 20s value, during this sale.
Taffeta Ribbon 11c
One lot of taffeta ribbon, 4
inches wide, metallic finish, in
white, plik, red, Copenhagen
and black, regular ltc
value, sale price.....11c
Women's Hand Bags 76c
With 8, 10 and 12-inch vases,
leather lined, fitted with cow
purses, in patent and real grain
leathers, $1.00 to $1.50
values, sale price. 76c
Toilet Special
Rose, Carnation, Air Float and
Violet of Sicily talcum powder,
19c value, sale
price
We will refrain railroad fares,
both ways within a radius of
fifty miles on all purchases of
$25.00 and over during this sale.
Free Transportation to Out-of-Town Customers
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A . few patterns left of those high grade Axminster rugs, the kind that regularly sell at $24.00, size x12, sale price ...$14.75
Heavy oak frame, Early
English or golden oak finish,
large box under seat for
bedding, upholstered
chaise lounge, oil tinted
pored steel coil springs,
$11.00 value,
sale price ..... $15.95
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Lace Curtains
Just received a new shipment of lace curtains consisting of Saxonys and Nottinghams, three yards long, 50 inches wide, regularly sell at $1.50 to $3.00, sale price ..... 98c
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Axminster Rugs
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Now is the Time to Select Your Fall and Winter Apparel Women's New $ 10.00 Fall Dresses..
Women who appreciate clothes of superfine quality, character and correct fashioning can satisfy their most exacting desires in this magnificent line. Made of best serges, panamas and voiles. Some have lace yokes, others braid trimmed; in all the new fall shades; all sizes from 16 to 42. They would be reasonably priced at $15.00. Anniversary Sale price $10.00
Tailored Suits $16.50
A splendid line of suits just received have been added to the big collection of suits we have been selling during this Anniversary Sale for $16.50. Not a suit in this great gathering that is worth under $20.00. Ir. fact, most of them are the $25.00 kind. The ones just received are the kind you would judge to cost $30.00. All during Anniversary Sale..... $16.50
Women's Fall Coats $19.50
Defining the new and correct styles that will prevail this autumn;
56-inch coat, of black broadcloth and novelties, plain tailored; also
some with collars and cuffs of satin or bengaline silk; lined with
guaranteed satin or taffeta; just the proper coats for fall and winter
wear. Not a coat worth less than $25.00. During
Anniversary Sale.....$19.50
All That is Best in Millinery
$12 Trimmed Hats
$8.95
Seventy-five of them and every one is an artistic creation, embodying this season's newest effects. Each hat is a pattern—no two alike. The materials used in their building are the very best. $12.00 value ..... $8.95
All the new colors, also
black and white, every pair
perfect, $2.50 value,
Anniversary price . . . 95¢
Rugs
Furniture
N. Shipment of Lace Curtains
Dining Tables
Fine quartered oak dining tables, polished finished,
45-inch top, heavy pedestal and claw feet, worth $20.00, sale
price..... $12.85
Sewing Tables
One lot of sewing tables,
size 18x36 inches, with
yard measure on one
edge, strong and durable,
regular $1.00 value,
sale price.....59c
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The Time to Select
and Winter Apparel
it's New $10
Presses...
appreciate clothes of
character and correct fa-
y their most exacting or
sufficient line. Made o
namas and voiles. Some
others braid trimmed; in
des; all sizes from 16
the reasonably priced at S
Sale
$10.
Red Suits $16.50
Just received have been added
have been selling during this A
suit in this great gathering the
most of them are the $25.00 kine
and you would judge to cost
anniversary Sale.
Fall Coats $19
Correct styles that will prevail the
padcloth and novelties, plain ta
uffs of satin or bengalline silk;
sta; just the proper coats for f
orth less than $25.00. Dur-
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Men's
Furnishings
Men's Underwear
98c
Men's union suits, extra
well made and perfect
fitting, come in silver
gray and ecru, regular
$1.59 value, sale
price, the garment. 98c
Sweater Coats 59c
Men's heavy warm
sweater coats, come
in plain gray, gray,
with blue trimming and
solid blue, regularly sell
at $1.00, sale price... 59c
Handkerchiefs 10c
Men's white, hemstitched
hinted handkerchiefs, extra
size, regular 15c value,
3 for 25c, or,
each.....10c
Men's Hose 35c
Men's pure silk hose in
all the new solid shades,
50c value, 3 pairs
$1.00, the pair.....35c
Men's Neckw'r 23c
Men's four-in-hand tiles,
all the newest color combi-
nations, 50c value,
sale price.....23c
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Cotton blankets, tan and gray, large 11-4 size, with colored borders, regular price, $1.25, pair 98c
Extra large 12-4 gray cotton blankets, blue and pink borders, $1.50 quality, pair $1.29
All-wool blankets, large 11-4 size, guaranteed not to shrink in washing, plain colors and assorted plaids, pair $4.98
Extra fine wool blankets, plain colors and fancy plaids, sale price, pair $7.48
$7.00 Trimmed Hats
$4.95
100 smartly trimmed dress and suit hats—no two alike—in the very latest shapes, all the newest colors and combinations, regular $7.00 values, Anniversary price... $4.95
$2.50 Dress Shapes
$1.39
Untrimmed fall hats of satin and rep, with full velvet facings, in this autumn's newest shapes and effects, $2.50 value, Anniversary price... $1.39
Blanket Specials
Cotton blankets for single beds, with colored borders, 50 quality, pair ..... 39c
Grey cotton blankets, large 11-4 size, with colored borders, $1.00 quality, pair ..... 69c
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Women's Street Gloves 49c
1,000 pairs women's cape street gloves, in assorted shades of tan and brown, full P. K. seam, with three rows of embroidery stitching, $1.00 value, 49c sale price .....
Kid Gloves $1.00
Our "Daljes" import glace kid gloves brown, green, gray, and tan, with three brodery stitching, sale price .....
Auto Chiffon auto veils, t ends, in white, black value, sale price ....
Our "Daljes" imported French glace kid gloves, in black, brown, green, gray, white, navy and tan, with three rows embroidery stitching, $1.25 value, sale price $1.00 Auto Scarfs Chiffon auto veils, two yards long ends, in white, black end all s value, sale price
99c
and gray, large 11-4 size, with
regular price, $1.25,
98c
large 11-4 size, with
price, $1.25.
98c
in blankets, blue and
$1.29
size, guaranteed not
colors and
$4.98
in colors and fancy
$7.48
25 Extra Trading Stamps with Purchases of $1.00 and Over
Daisy flannel, light blue, pink,
white, cream and gray. 10¢
12½¢ quality, yard.
Fancy outing flannel, pink, light
blue, gray, checks and stripes, extra good value,
yard. 8³¢
Bleached domet, soft and fluffy, regular price 8 1-3c, yard. 6´¢
Unbleached canton flannel, for underwear, etc., 7c quality, yard. 5¢
Gray Domet Flannel, extra heavy, 12¢ quality, yard. 8³¢
All-wool Flannel, checks and stripes, for petticoats, men's shirts, etc. 50¢ quality, yd. 36¢
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Silk
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Anniversary Sale Prices
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Silks
Black peau de cygne, 35
inches wide, $1.00
quality, yard.....69c
Black taffeta silk, 35 inches wide, 90c quality, yard ..... 59c
Cheney's foulard silks, 23 inches wide, all new patterns, 85c qualities, yard ..... 59c
Silk crepe, 22 inches wide, black, white and all evening and street shades, 59c quality, yard... 49c
Persian silk, 26 inches wide, for scarfs, waists and dresses, yard... 29c
Pongee silk, 27 inches wide, light and dark shades, 50c quality, yard .....19c
Ma Dis To silk, 27 inches wide, half silk, in black and colors, 25c quality, sale price, the yard.....19c
s Street Gloves 49c
imported French
moves, in black,
gray, white, navy
three rows em-
ing, $1.25 value,
$1.00
Auto Scarfs 69c
eils, two yards long, wi
, black end all shades
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two yards long, with hemstitched
ck end all shades, $1.00
69c
LongSilk Kimones $3.98
All pure silk to
pire back and
also shirred be
all the pretty
dark effects. I
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All pure silk long kimonos, empire back and flowing sleeves, also shirred back and front, in all the pretty light, medium and dark effects. Regular $6.00 value, for this sale $3.98
Children's Drawers 2c
Children's muslin drawers, with hemsitched hems and cluster of tucks, sizes 2 to 12 years, 15c value. 9c
Linene Tailored Waists
Embroidered plaited bocoms, embroidered cuffs and collars, large pearl buttons, stand collars, different styles to select from, $1.50 value, fec. 79c
One lot of medium length batiste
corsets, lace trimmed, with two
pairs hose supporters, sizes 24 to
30 only, $3.99
value ..... $89c
Children's Coats
From 2 to 6 years only, come in
brown, blue and green, splendid
cloth, braid and velvet trimmed,
values $3.00 to $4.00
for $2.49 and ..... $1.49
Extra Trading Stamps with
purchases of $1.00 and Over
From 2 to 6 years only, come in brown, blue and green, splendid cloth, braid and velvet trimmed, values $3.00 to $4.00 for $2.49 and..... $1.49
Trading Stamps with cases of $1.00 and Over
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Corsets 89c
Children's Coats
DON'T STEP ON A RAT Short Flights.
The safest and surest way to kill rats, mice and other vermin is to get from your druggist a package of the guaranteed exterminator, Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste.
Ready for use; better than traps, for it drives rats and mice out of the house to die. Money back if it fails. 2-oz. box 25c.; 16 oz. box $1.00. For sale by druggists or sent express prepaid to nearest express office on receipt of price.
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C.H. & D.
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Decatur and return $1.50
Hume " " $1.25
Bloomingdale " " $1.00
Cincinnati $1.50
Rushville and return $1.00
Connersville " " $1.00
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Shelton & Willis,
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AND EMBALMERS
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418 Indiana Ave.
Open all Night
The National Religious
Training School,
Durham, N. C.
Offers the following Special Courses;
I. RELIGIOUS TRAINING. This course
is especially adapted to those who desire train-
ings as Sentinel Workers, presidents, Y. M.
C. A, and Y. W. C. A. secretaries, Evangelists
and Home Workers or Visitors.
II. TRAINING FOR THE CHRISTIAN
MINISTRY. In this Department young men
will be trained especially in practical Theology
will be trained and saving men. This
course will be very thorough. The teachers
have been selected with great care.
III. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC. Vocal and Instrument.
IV. LITERARY BRANCHES Academic and Collegiate.
V. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
VI. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY
Young men and women, to a limited number, who are worthy will be helped. All applications for admission must be made by September 15, 1910. Regular School term begins October 12, 1910. For further information address the President, National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C.
By R. W. Thompson.
Give Us Men.
Men from every rank,
Fresh and free and frank;
Men of thought and reading,
Men of delightful laughs,
Men of loyal breeding.
The nation's welfare speeding;
Men of faith and not of faction,
Men of loathing and action;
Give us men—I say again,
Give us Men!
Give us Men!
Strong and stalwart ones;
Men whom highest hope inspires,
Men whom purest honor fires,
Men who trample self beneath them,
make their country wreathe them
As her noble sons,
Wear stray their fires!
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers,
True, however false are others;
Climb up!
Give us Men!
Men who, when the tempest gathers,
Grasp the standards of their fathers
In the thickest of the light;
Men who stalk in home and altar,
Let the coward cringe and falter,
God defend the right!
True as truth, though lorn and lonely,
Tender, as the brave are only;
Men who treat were victims to trod,
Men for Country—Home—and God;
Give us Men! I say again—again—
Give us such men!
—Bishop of Exeter.
To this, we say "Amen!"
It is time for Mr. C. Napier to "land."
Scott Bond is entitled to a season of the
"rest cure."
No one is sore over the things that enemies do to us.
The true philosopher thanks the Lord that things are no worse.
Fame is denied public men in Chicago whom the Broad-Axe has never "roasted."
The election of Dr. A. M. Curtis gives an international aspect to the National Medical Association.
Our educational scheme will not be complete until it teaches women how to get off of a street car backwards.
The fellows who fail to get their pet appropriations through Congress are not shedding any tears over the downfall of Mr. Tawney.
The fifty-seven Negro banks in the country do not represent as many varieties as Heinz's celebrated pickles. The banks are all fright and sound.
A new banking establishment has been opened, colored men at Emf house, Eastern Show, Va. at the attention of Tillmans, Vardamans, Tom Watts et al., is respectfully invited to this fact.
The N. B. Dodson news syndicate is an indispensable adjunct to modern race journalism. Every paper that does not set all of its own type should subscribe to the accuser, the live matter the nibbled by Mr. Dodson at a nominal rate.
Again the iconoclasts have a strong argument that "there's nothing in a name," Dr. Dr. Dr. president of Gammon Theological Seminary and Clark University at Atlanta, Ga., is said to be a "hustler" from "way back
Col. Roosevelt and Mayor Gaynor unite in denouncing "muckraking," newspapers. The National Negro Press Association is holding a news conference to "personal organs," which do not reflect the decency for which the Association so firmly stands.
A news item in an exchange tells of a really pretty girl who can cook and sew, keep house tidily, play the piano, converse into a business and wear clothes. Will somebody give us this girl's address? We know where she can get a good husband.
The Durham (N. C.) Reformer is eleven years old. Under the management of W. S. Young, it has become one of the strongest moulders of public sentiment in the country. May it live long and continue to prosper!
North Carolina raised this year the largest corn crop in the history of the state. The agricultural reports give the Negro farmers a large measure of the credit for spills and burns made in this direction and to them a valuable asset in the state's development.
The "press agent" was once looked upon as a luxury in which only the opulent were expected to indulge. The publicity man is now recognized as a prime necessity in the business world, a general nature, to every moral cause, to every large business enterprise or educational system. * * * * *
No newspaper is worthy the name that has not a paid correspondent at the strategic points throughout the nation. News to be news, must be reliable, and reliability cannot be had in a haphazard hit or miss style, from a gratuitous concession to the press held to any responsibility for his deliverances. Get wise on this idea, brethren.
Take Emmett J. Scott's sane advice and cultivate the acquaintance of the representative of the Associated Press in your home town. Keep in touch with him and impress the good side of the race upon him, and these objectionable reports of the press from the headlines of the metropolitan dailies. Mr. Scott's diplomatic plan is worthy of a patient trial.
There was one colored man in Minnesota who felt as much concern over the fate of Congressman Frederick Stone himself. That man was Frederick Douglass McCracken, his secretary and confident, who wants nothing to happen that we prevent his spike in the economy. McCracken is an exceedingly useful man, and is one of the most forceful and well-posted orators that have come to the nation's capital.
If a competent cook is still needed at the White House, the short Flight's main man is the most important post, Mrs. Belle Stone, of Indianapolis, Ind., who can cook a meal fit for the king of the proudest realms of the world. He is the magnificent banquet of the National Negro Business League at Indianapolis in 1904, will second the nomination of Mrs. Stone, who served that role for the first time any reason why Mrs. Stone cannot accept this big job at the White House?
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL.
Judge M. W. Gibbs, another distinguishable representative of the disappearing Ode to God, has his daughter, Mrs. Ida Gibbs Stuart, his daughter, Mrs. Ida Gibbs Stuart, of W. H. Hunt, consult at St. Ethelne, France, is here, visiting her father, sister and friends.
A determined effort will be made to pass the Freedmen's Bank bill at the coming session. If the president can best desire of the colored people to have the depositors of the former government bank reimbursed for their losses, every voter this fall should make it a priority to vote in the individual district to vote for it and endeavor to line up the entire congress for the measure in advance of the session. Last spring it was reported that the senate and committees of the house and the senate and only failed to become a law because of the rush of other matters at the close of the session.
It looks now as if President Taft would name Justice John M. Harlan as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This would be an appointment that all America would be especially imbent. Justice Har
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THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER.
lan has always been sound on the great questions affecting human rights, and has never lost an opportunity to dissent from the views of the learned colleagues when he tries to plead against the equality of all citizens of the United States, and to twist the constitution to suit prevailing prejudices. Let it be Chief ustice Harian by all means.
Mr.orge W. Hall, of Savannah, a, a delegate to the B. M. C., has been spending the week in the city. He is secretary of the Republican organization in the state, and was for years a trusted lieutenant of the late Col. H. Deveaux. He is a practical marine engineer and is one of the few Negroes in the country holding a position in the navy vessels. Until recently he was in the engineer department of the United States government, but resigned to take up educational work. He is considering an offer to an attorney of engineering and kindred sciences at Livingstone College, at Salisbury, N. C.
Grand Master W. L. Houston of the G. U. of O. F., left for Chicago last night, after a week in the city, recuperating from his arduous labors at aBitmore last week.
Frank Blagburn, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, where he served for a long time as market master, has been elected a lay delegate to the A. M. E. General Assembly, and has won over McGregor, May, 1912. eH made a fine race, and won over Prof. John T. Layton, one of the most popular men in the connection. Mr. Blagburn has also been placed in charge of the university, having been elected general superintendent a short time ago. Mr. Blagburn's colleague is Mr. G. W. Hilliard, of Baltimore. It is pretty generally understood that the university conference will support Dr. John Hurst for the Bishopric at the coming conference.
MOBILE, ALA.
Special to THE FREEMAN.
Miss Frances Collins was in the city during the week, being called from Brewton by the illness of her father, Mr. Durham Collins....The Mobile LYr. of the University, meeting at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. on Friday evening. Prof. Carter's remarks were much enjoyed....All of the public schools opened on Monday, October 2, the day of the one ones large attendance is expected. Camille Wilson, a talented young musician, took charge of the organ at Lilly Baptist Church on Sunday, October 2. The edible fruit of the vocate, formerly of Bayminet, has moved the office to this city....Mr. Grover Dixon and Mrs. Mayne N. Williams were married on Tuesday of last week. We wish the misuse....The university is found at the Gulf City Drug Store.
MARION. IND.
Special to THE FREEMAN.
Mrs. Thornton Beck and daughter,
Miss Nina, of Flint, Mich., are in this
city en route to Crawfordsville, where
Rev. Beck has a charge this year...
Miss M. Holliday, of Lansing, Mich.,
Allen of Lansing, Mich.; Wesdames
Joseph Hornaday, Olive Holliday, D. H.
Morrell, Alice Walker and Mrs. Buckner
spent Sunday in Kokomo, the guests
at the Mansion of Madison,
Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of Illinois, are
in this city...Miss Ada Frazier and
Prof. Vasal Casey, teacher of the colored
school in this city, were united
marriage Saturday evening...Jerry
Nichols, of Lansing, Mich., and
George Moss, Edward Claybrooks, Ida
Morgan and John Wallace entertained
Friday, September 30, at the home of
Mrs. Moss, in honor of Mrs. O. P.
Alter, of Lansing, Mich.,
Club was entertained Wednesday
afternoon by Mrs. John Wallace at her home
on South Nebraska street.
MERCER, TENN.
TheFerguson-Palmer Manufacturing Company (white) of Paducah, Ky., are doing a big business in this olcality. They are getting out a large amount of their inventory from their manufacturing plant in Paducah. ..Mr. Dock Fuller, our enterprising merchant, is doing a splendid business at present, selling a variety of fectionery and soft drinks. Mr. I. H, Halsey and his wife, Mrs. Francis, are here from Olmstead and Calro, Ill. His wife is visiting her many friends and is introducing his fine line of tailor-made clothing. ..Mr. Chas, Cobb, our hustling basket maker, is putting out a good many of his
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.
...Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flood of Mound City, Ill. left recently after a pleasant visit with their sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Abington, of East Sumner, Mass.
ADDYSTON. O.
Special to THE FREEMAN.
Evans, Miss Lizzie Garnett and Mrs. Florence Murphy were the committee of arrangements...Rev. S. D. Sanders has returned from Xenia, O. Rev. W. H. Sanders, and Mrs. William is visiting this place, occupied the pulpit at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning and evening, in the absence of Rev. S. D. Sanders, pastor... Mrs. Josephine Dickerson and Mrs. M. Fleiss, pastor... The public is invited to visit the Dunbar Literature and News Agency Company's headquarters and inspect their line of race books, pictures and magazine supply. You will be surprised if you see a copy offered for the holiday trade. See us now... The Dunbar Literary Society held a business meeting Wednesday evening... Quite a number of people attended the North Bend Saturday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hayes.
...Keep a lookout for the Freeman; always on time...Mose Harris and Mrs. Alfred Taylor left Friday morning for Fenwick, Torn, to visit relatives.
...Rev. J. H. Brooks, formerly pastor of the A. M. E. Church, was a visitor in our village Saturday and Sunday...the hospital looking much improved... Mrs. Fannie Harris, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mose Browne, of Philadelphia, and funeral of Allie B. Lucas, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Oscar Lucas, was held at the First Baptist Church, Wednesday night. Amanda Neal, Naomi Neal, Victoria Reese, Francis Higgins served as pall bearers. Geneva Boyer and Uuna M. Browne, of New York, served B. Lucas was a member of the children's choir, a dutiful Sabbath school child and was loved by all who knew him. He was booked "the Black Man Father of Civilization."
DR. J. S. JACKSON.
We present to the readers of The Freeman the likeness of Dr. J. S. Jackson, the financial secretary the M. K. Jackson of Alabama, with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa. We had the pleasure of meeting with the financial secretary, hearing his report as financial secretary of his great denomination. His report was one of the best we have ever heard, and he was among the foremost church financiers of his race. The bishops and leaders of Zion Church
[Image of a man in a suit and tie].
regard him as such. He is not only a financier of marked ability, but one who has been a teacher and a mission. He is friendly and unassuming, and he is a real leader of men. From what we learn at Evansville, he is a great teacher and a copacity in 1912. While the Doctor has some of this world's goods, you will never know it unless some big church has a doctor. He is fluence and means are wanted. He is a graduate of the State Normal School and the title of Doctor of Devinity in Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C.
SPECIAL OFFER TO THE FREEMAN READERS.
Send us 49 cents in stamps, cash or money order, with name and address or phone number. Send us 10 cents in hundred elegant visiting, business or professional cards, on 4-ply bristol card stock. Send us 10 cents in Regular one dollar value. This is a very special offer to our readers and is open for a limited time only. Postage prepares Address, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind.
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BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
Special to THE FREEMAN
There will be a Halloween party given by the K. of P. lodge Tuesday, November 1, at the Auditorium, Music by Summon Public Scheduled for Kidz mazoo. All are cordially invited to attend...Mrs. Ella Lewis and grandson, Percy, spent Sunday in Detroit, Mich., as the guests of Mr. E. Taylor, the home of Mrs. J. W. Patterson last Friday evening...Miss Emma Burton has returned to this city from Gull Lake...The University Society left the home of Mrs. J. Cebolt...Married last Wednesday, September 28, Mr. Davis and Miss Hazel Burns...Mrs. Ella Lewis spent week at heat in Marsh, Md., the Musical Club meet of the home of Mr. S. L. Henderson last Friday night...Mrs. E. Clark and daughter, Alice, spent Sunday in Chicago, IL.
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If the Sheriff's Office, as now Administered, suits you
VOTE FOR
Jacob Woessner,
Democratic Candidate for Sheriff of Marion County.
Election November 8, 1910.
A Few Good Things to Think About.
Woessner's management of the office of sheriff in the county $13,906.80 less than it did under an office. A nice saving to the taxpayers.
Test sheriff in the history of Marion county that he treasury more Sheriff's Fees than his salary as think about.
Test Sheriff in the history of Marion county that he may religious services in the jail for the benefit in favor of a continuation of the present police sheriff's office, vote for Mr. Woessner.
Vote For
John Weaver
Republican Candidate for Prosecuting Attorney
ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
Insurer of Marion County,
VOTE FOR
G. G. Sourbey
Of Overland Auto Company
Republican Nominee
ON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
Read and Th
Her positively guarantees to Grow the Hand your money. Agents now selling fris es monthly. Good commission. Special tec. Write for trial package and terms. W making puffs, curls, braids and transforma nation address
Slaughter Manufacturing Com
venue,
Under Mr. Woessner's management of the office of sheriff during the past year, it has cost the county $13,906.80 less than it did under his predecessor's first year in office. A nice saving to the taxpayers.
He is the first sheriff in the history of Marion county that has collected and turned into the treasury more Sheriff's Fees than his salary amounted to. A good thing to think about.
He is the first Sheriff in the history of Marion county that has had conducted regular Sunday religious services in the jail for the benefit of the prisoners.
If you are in favor of a continuation of the present policies and management of the Sheriff's office, vote for Mr. Woessner.
Vote For
John Weaver,
Republican Candidate for
Prosecuting Attorney.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1910.
For Treasurer of Marion County,
VOTE FOR
Ed.G.Sourbier
Of Overland Auto Company.
Republican Nominee.
ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1910.
Stop, Read and Think!
Lyda Slaughter positively guarantees to Grow the Hair, cure Scalp Disease or refund your money. Agents now selling from $40 to $50 worth of goods monthly. Good commission. Special terms for agents and druggists. Write for trial package and terms. We also make a specialty of making puffs, curls, braids and transformations. For further information address
Lyda Slaughter Manufacturing Company,
3001 Lawton Avenue,
St. Louis, Missouri.
NYAN AND GOODMEN N. Frist Undertaking Co., who owned the business condical Directors & Emba temple 8th and Ohio St., Terre Hante, Ind. Phones: OL associated with Mr. Nisbet for a number of years and is
RHYAN AND GOODMAN
Successors of the J. N. Frist Undertaking Co., who owned the business conducted by the late J. A. Nisbet.
Odd Fellows' Temple 8th and Ohio St., Terre Haute, Ind. Phones: Old 716: New 238
Mr. Goodman was associated with Mr. Nisbet for a number of years and is widely known in
the city
We treat all alike Best Service. Reasonable Prices.
Only Place of its Kind in City
ROBERT ROSS, Mgr.
ONE EUGENE RECTOR,
Mixologist.
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Bell Phone Main 3963 The Finest Oriental Chop Suey Par ors in the 119-121 West 6th Street City, HUNG LEE the Chinese Chef Kansas City, Mo. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL PERFESSIONAL PEOPLE.
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Agents Wanted!
For Johnson's History of the Negro Race and Light Ahead for the Negro. No better books for stimulating race pride and progress can be in our library. Entertaining to the old and stimulating to the young. Price, 75c per copy for each. Large commission to agents. Address
One agent writes: "They sell faster than any books I have ever handled before."
Under Mr. Woesse
war, it has cost the
earn's first year in office.
He is the first she
arned into the treas
ood thing to think at.
He is the first She
regular Sunday rela-
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accessors of the J. N. Frie
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Goodman was associ
at the office of sheriff during the period less than it did under his predicte the taxpayers.
Marion county that has collected a less than his salary amounted to.
Marion county that has had conduct jail for the benefit of the prisoner of the present policies and mana gesner.
For=
Heaver
Candidate for
Attorney.
NOVEMBER 8, 1910
On County,
FOR=
Curbier
To Company.
Nominee.
NOVEMBER 8, 1910
and Think
to Grow the Hair, cure Scars now selling from $40 to $50.
Session. Special terms for agent age and terms. We also make kids and transformations. F
ructuring Company,
St. Louis, Missouri
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COPENHAGEN, October 3.-King Frederick today received Booker T. Washington and conversed at length with him on the subject of the colored race. His majesty asked the American for a copy of one of his publications. Later, as the guest of prominent Danes, Mr. Washington motored to Roskilde, the old capital, where he visited a school and had lunch. To night he will dine at the palace, meeting the members of the royal family, including Queen Mother Alexandria, the widow of King Edward.
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KOKOMO, Ind.-Miss Rella Ritchell, Russian Jewess, and a school teacher of this city, has sued the L. & N. railroad company in the Bourbon county circuit court, Kentucky, for $25,000. She claims she was forced by Robert Lusk, conductor, to ride in the "jim crow" car from Middlesburg to Lexington. The conductor claimed that Miss Ritchell, who is a pronounced blonde, was a negress, and using her roughly led her by the arm to the "nigger" compartment, throwing her valise upon the floor.
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WASHINGTON—Just what constitutes a Negro in the United States may be a question which the United States Supreme Court will be asked to settle in the near future. One sixteenth Negro blood in an individual classifies him as a Negro in the District of Columbia, according to a decision by Justice Daniel T. Wright, of the District Supreme Court, in the case of Isabel I. Wall, an eight-year-old child, who recently was barred from a white public school because the principal had information that she was of Negro parentage.
The father of the girl attempted to force the Board of Education to reinstate the child, but failed, Justice Wright deciding she was a Negro. The case was appealed to the District Court of Appeals. If the Appellate Court affirms Justice Wright's decision an effort will be made immediately to have the United States Supreme Court pass on the question.
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CHICAGO—Stephen Green, the Negro charged with killing William Sidel at Jericho, Ark., and who was arrested here several weeks ago on a fugitive warrent, was ordered discharged from custody by Judge Tuthill.
The courtroom was crowded with Negroes when Judge Tuthill announced his decision. They applauded until reprimanded by the court.
The court based its action on the technicality that Green was not named in the indictment as the murderer. According to Green's story he and Sidel quarreled and began shooting at each other. Sidel was killed and Green wounded. He managed to escape to Chicago, where he remained in hiding until another Negro betrayed him to the police.
Green was nearly out of the State on his way back to Arkansas when the officers in charge were ordered by telegraph to return the prisoner to Chicago on a writ of habeas corpus. Green declared that he could not get a fair trial in Arkansas.
BEING STUDIED.
In a talk before a group of colored people, not long since, the speaker said that when the white people saw the necessity for organizing societies for the purpose of studying the Negro race, it was high time that the Negroes get busy along the same line, not merely to study questions affecting the race, but for the studying of the white race as it concerns its relation to the Negroes. This should be with the very best intent, the object being to discover what are the hindering causes that keep the races from approaching a plane of better understanding and how best to go about removing those causes.
In the more recent years the cry has been that too much race discussion was going on, and that as a consequence the Negro's cause was being hurt. There is such a thing as overparading, thereby inviting a contagious condition, involving others who otherwise would not have been concerned. The advice was acted on; there was a perceptible lull in the thing of setting forth race grievances; but this proved no reedy. The alliment is deep seated. The remedy was superficial, and it is painfully evident that there must be fitting activities, those that cope with the conditions, as best they may, until the very best possible conditions obtain. What is radically wrong? Groups of colored people might form for the purpose of finding it out, just as they are being studied by groups of white people, whose purpose also is to find out things.
We have been laying stress on our accumulations, materially speaking, our wealth in dollars and cents, insisting on making it the first thing in our curriculum of racial salvation, holding gto the theory: Get money, and all things else shall be added unto you. The money idea is not to be cried down; it probably is the most potent thing in winning one's way in earthly affairs, but it has been shown that money is not all of it, especially as it applies to the race. With the present-day fetters removed, standing as the white people, without restraints on every hand, it would not be necessary to think of influences operating differently than with those people. But when a colored man is charged $3.00 for a crab and a cup of coffee, as happened in Baltimore the other day, when the price should have been 35 cents, his money was well-nigh counterfeit. In the same city it is also noted that the white residents of a certain section are petitioning the city council to
draw up and pass an ordinance forbidding Negroes, on the pain of a jail sentence and a fine, from crossing a certain line restricting the section. Here, again, the Negro's money is well-nigh counterfeit. Then money can become valueless excepting as it may be the means of contributing to the immediate wants.
It will be said, and with reason, that the offenses mentioned are offset by the splendid general progress, and which is not to be impeded by incidents of the kind. But if incidents of the kind are not merely incidents, but widespread and infectious, making manifest in every community where the Negroes are in large numbers, then the consolation is not so complete. Who is at fault? Why should public places of all kinds, theaters, hotels, no matter whatever section, be drawing back, turtle-head fashion on the approach of suspected danger, when colored people are the subject? And if these were the only ones that stood out against the race it would matter but very little, since in numbers, as compared with the millions, they would count but for little. But unfortunately these are the indices of the millions; they are influenced by them. This same influence ramifies everywhere, contaminating everything until nothing of the spiritual life of the country comes to us unsullied. Why should this be? Not why should it have been? This we know, we may well say. But at this day, when enlightenment is in the ascendancy, in the language of Hiawatha, "Why should these things be?" Is the fault in our stars, our fate, or is it remedial? If remedial, groups may not be too quickly formed, having for their object the study of the conditions, just as the race is being studied, and, of course, with the hope of the best possible good resulting.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 1910.
Thursday was an ideal day for the visit of Colonel Roosevelt.
Bishop Smith wires that the Quarter Centennial Fund of Morris Brown College, of Atlanta, Ga., amounted to twenty-nine thousand, five hundred dollars.
"Abe Martin" in a restaurant recently observed: "Those ordering steaks must be identified." He might have said, those ordering steaks shall be indemnified.
Andrew Carnegie is still extending the full, glad hand wherever it is most beneficial. He has given $15,000 for a library to the Colored Normal School of Montgomery, Ala.
King Manuel will yet enjoy his health—will have plenty to eat and wear and a nice comfortable place to lie down in. That's as much as the most of us get at the very best.
New nationalism and the rest of it was the theme. It is a much better political investment, he evidently thinks, than the tariff question with its opportunity for sectional strife.
A restaurant keeper of Baltimore had nerve to charge a colored man three dollars for a cup of coffee, but did not have nerve to give him receipt for the money, which the colored man asked for.
A writer speaking of the recent Louisville fair by colored people said that the "Darned affair was so rotten that it was good." It is very possible, all very possible. We've seen things of that kind, many and many a time.
The race question is not a question of party versus the colored race; it is a question of races. The voter should this in mind and cultivate as much friendship as possible with his vote. Mix it up a bit.
If moving pictures had been invented long ago perhaps the necessity for insane asylums would not have been so great. Whether jails would have been in so great demand would have depended on the character of the pictures shown.
The old Negro in time of trial called on the good Lord and good devil. He refused to take any chances. The colored voters may profit by the example and vote for good Democrats and good Republicans.
Remember that all the political virtue does not reside in one set of men. There are good Democrats as well as Republicans. In fact there are no distinguishing marks about them. If the Democrat appeals to you, looks best to you, why, by all means, vote for him.
Indianapolis has graduated into the genuine skyscraper class. A "fourteener" is going up and being done in most excellent trimmings. Our visiting friends will not have seen Indianapolis until they see this beauty—our beauty. Ours even if some one else does foot the bills.
The Negro has the reputation of detesting slavery in any form. What about political slavery? Cut away for principle's sake if there are no other inducements. But there are other inducements. There are good men on the Democratic ticket. Now take a chance.
The falling of kingdoms and empires is not very beautiful to contemplate since the ruins carry down with them individuals of prominence in the world, positions conceded them by custom and usage, and which concession is so general that these rulers and their immediate nobility learn to occupy a plane very far from the people. It is no wonder that the divine right of succession is so often put forward as a theory of monarchies.
Nor will the people care very much what is Mr. Roosevelt's motive if he brings them relief. Even if he tries and fails he will get credit—that's the only witchery of the business. It's astonishing that other high politicians had not thought of the same thing. No; they thought of being condemned by the limited aristocracy and as a consequence the stress has ever been towards it. And they are not different it is the whole stress of life, to turn to those just beyond, to those of money strength in spite of the vastly greater power measured by influence, education, intelligence in its broadest sense and also numbers which are as a thousand to one.
Not all of these will turn to Mr. Roosevelt but the condition is his field, and none better than he knows how to care for it.
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STICK TO YOUR JOB, JACK.
Jack Johnson insists on taking on a new fad—automobiling; racing at that. He is just like the rest of those who get enough to care for their wants. These generally want more. Johnson runs to notoriety. Money don't seem to be his long suite. He wants fame, more and more fame. He has conquered the pugilistic world, he now sighs for new fields.
Our advice has been that Johnson should stick to his job. Anybody can run an automobile that's got nerve. If he should clean up the whole racing outfit, it would be because he had the best machine and equal nerve. If he thinks he can add much to his glory by winning an automobile contest he is sadly mistaken. He can lose a great deal of his glory if he is defeated, and simply owing to who he is.
Then Johnson should remember that his carcass is too precious to risk bruising and mangling in one of those "devil's own," that is, when they are careering around a race track. We don't regret it at all that his license was denied him for that particular thing. Of course, we note the fact that Johnson's color cut a figure in the matter. This is regrettable in the sense that every happening of that kind is regrettable. Here, however, was a case where Johnson had to be saved against Johnson.
GOT THE COLONEL CORNERED.
Some think to have the Colonel gigged, owing to the variance between what he gives out as his own personal views and that of the plank on tariff in the platform of the Republican party in New York. It seems to have been the understanding that the New York convention was virtually a Roosevelt creation down to the dotting of an "i" and the crossing of a "t" in the platform of principles.
When down in Atlanta the other day Mr. Roosevelt was questioned by two very enterprising newspaper reporters, who asked him, how could he reconcile the two attitudes on the tariff question, the inference being that the New York platform was his own. He gave it out that he did not stand on the section in question, but stood on the declaration of principles enunciated in his speech as temporary chairman. Mr. Roosevelt maintained that his influence did not extend so far as to compel the committee on resolutions or the platform committee to accept his views as a whole.
Will the country be satisfied with the explanation? The insurgent West admires Mr. Roosevelt's talking attitude where it is understood he stands for the material reduction of the tariff. The New York platform being of the standpat variety is of course in accord with the view of the Easterners. The question comes up naturally: How is the Colonel to ride these two horses going in opposite directions?
The fact of it is Mr. Roosevelt is not relying on the solution of this tangle to carry him through; he is kicking up vast more dust than that, and by which those questions as matters of principles would not be fatal in either event, are obscured. His New Nationalism is a hummer it appears, and startling captions, the old morality is maintained, and new propositions which are founded on it are released from the fecund brain. The old propositions which were his political assets stand him well in hand, since through them he has won his place before the American people, and they are everlasting, at least, until the last and least has the justice and consideration shown that is shown the first and greatest. The Colonel is adroit enough to keep the principles working, just as money capital in the hands of a shrewd investor.
Heat him in.
"According to our ability we intend to safeguard the rights of the mighty; but we intend no less zealously to safeguard the rights of the lowly. Our ideal is equal justice for all; justice alike for the rich man and for the poor man who does right; and the same stern justice for the rich man and the poor man who does wrong."
Here is the old political gospel put forward as only a Roosevelt knows how. It is plain that he is of the opinion that the American has got none too much faith in tariff tinkering as a relief from any woes endured. He hammers in the place the people know positively about—'equal justice for all'—the thing that has been uppermost in the minds of men ever since time began. He also contends for the other present day demands which appeal directly to the people. It is said that Mr. Roosevelt is an adoit politician. It is not owing to any superior intelligence and understanding that he has such a great hold on the people. It is because he went after them rather than for the aristocracy to which other men appealed, it being the natural thing to flock to the classes when up in life. Mr. Roosevelt resisted the infatuation, played consistently the role of an intense Democrat. Is he honest? Don't know. He acts very much like a sincere man in his devotion to the interests of the people.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HUGHES.
It is now Associate Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The New York Governor has been distinguished for his fine talents since he entered public life. In fact he is of singularly fine ability, having a mind of rare susceptibility and keenly analytical.
In his student life Mr. Hughes greatly outclassed those about him; proved so apt that at times he was taken from school for the good of his health. The genius of the school room does not always maintain the standard through life. The dull plodding Grant graduated from West Point way down in the list, yet his name was writ like that of Abou Ben Adhem at the close of the civil war. Gen. Robert E. Lee graduated from the same institution in the first or second place, and beautifully held his own. Mr. Hughes is not unlike him in the matter of applied scholarship, maintained his own in whatever relation of life.
True, enough some reforms he sought to institute did not meet the approval of political bosses and simply because through them they saw their power of manipulation vanishing. He stood for the primary election as the first step in the selection of public officers, and which is held an advanced step by the best political thought.
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The failure did not detract from the individual, rather enhanced his value since it showed the manner of man—the man who stood.
The selection of Mr. Hughes for the Supreme Court was an acknowledgment of his political virtue and legal acumen. Here is the fitting place for great, fair minded men, this, the final court in deciding the conflicting interests of the citizens. All of his fine qualities will be steadily drawn on as they should be that the country benefit by them.
Among the important questions the court may have to deal with in the future are those where the races are concerned. No other question will call for more wisdom, intelligence based wisdom than these should they be presented. Perhaps it is not proper to think of Mr. Hughes as a special friend of the Negroes at court in these matters, but it is proper, we think, to rely on him doing the utmost to conserve the public weal.
To say more would be to prejudice our future in that important court.
KING MANUEL OF PORTUGAL.
The people, at times, when oppressed by hardships incident to their life, refuse to be further oppressed, rise up in their might and smite right and left in the name of their firesides. The condition seems to have been in King Manuel's land. He did not profit by the experience of his father, who while in a great measure loved, had nothing in common with his people, spending the people's millions for follies while woe and want stalked through the land. This kind of condition will be less and less endured as enlightenment becomes more and more.
The day seems to be gone when those furthest from the people are nearest the people. The example of Mr. Roosevelt proves the proposition's opposite conclusively. The people want a King Humbert, if they must have a king. He was one of the first to throw himself in the breach of woe and want a few years ago when Italy had her day of trials. Those with ears near the ground where the faintest murmur of unrest is caught up and then reflected back by way of good wholesome activity, legislation that is remedial in effect are the ones who will lead in this era.
Manifestly King Manuel did not catch his cue aright. He thought on Manuel too much; he paid the price. But calamitous as it looks there need be no grief excepting for those who laid down their lives. The seed of the new government are sown in the blood of these martyrs, whether for or against the new regime.
The king will still have his health, his freedom outside of his small country, and plenty of the wherewith to keep the wolf from the door. He will yet enjoy a high and select companionship and moreover, the association of his relatives. He has been deprived of nothing, excepting the right to lord it over a nation of people, every one of whom God made his equal in all respects.
STAND UP FOR MEN.
Stand up for men! The candidates are busy in these days, telling the voters all about it. It's the same old story with a new version, sometimes; the end is always the same, the men want the offices. Nothing wrong in that excepting when one set of men want the offices all the time. In local affairs men ought to be the idea when there are no vital principles at stake. Of course it is just as reasonable for Republicans to hold the offices as Democrats; but why Democrats or Republicans as party men?
All of the good men are not found in one party. This goodness means capability and respectability as the term goes in reference to men. Some good men are found in the Democratic party, in the Prohibition party, in the Socialist party, in any party that is before the American people asking for their suffrage. If one set of men had all of the qualifications for office it would be so much the worse for the people, since in the end these would also become corrupt, according to the rule of men entrenched in power. The candidates are before the people, of all parties. Good and qualified as men are, some are better than others, more fitted for public office holding. Some are congenial in their ways when of equal capacity, and that counts. There are good capable men on the Democratic ticket, some of whom appeal as men to the voters rather than Republicans for the same offices. What's the matter with giving them a boost? Nothing at all.
The colored voters have earned the reputation of being hide bound; they have placed too much stress on their Republicanism. This squands an impossible thing. It is a fact nevertheless. The colored voters have in the past stuck so tight to the Republican party that they have proven a menace. This in the words of white Republican leaders. The colored voters have a right to vote the Republican ticket in spite of what may be said, yet if this same love and devotion beget opposition from a race viewpoint, the wise thing to do is to do the other thing whatever it may be that will tend to increase race respect. There is a great deal of principle in that under the very peculiar circumstances.
A vote for a good Democrat is a vote for race preservation. Viewing it in a narrower sense it means more consideration when the jobs are to be given out, and after all, those are the two essentials, the increased value of the race and the increased chances of livelihood. These things being threatened by the one party idea, it's the wise one that will look around a bit with the view of using his political activity as a leverage for boosting along the essentials.
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In the convention of the Christian Church now holding at Topeka, Kan., the Negro question came up for discussion. Among the expressions let fall was the following by J. D. Lehman, of the Southern Christian Institute, in Mississippi: "If we do not take steps to discharge our duty toward the Negroes this generation will rapidly undermine our society. The emancipation proclamation freed about 4,000,000 slaves. In the last forty-five years these have increased to about 10,000,
000, so that they are about one-tenth of our population. The social condition of our towns and villages is simply alarming. Unless we arrest sinister tendencies we must prepare to see in the next fifty or seventy-five years labor, strife, mob violence and night rider depredations."
JOHN BAUCH.
Persuant to our expressed policy of last week—the survival of the fittest in politics—we take pleasure in presenting the name of John Rauch to the colored electorate of Marion county for the office of county clerk. In the presentation of Mr. Rauch we have taken into consideration all the dominant facts of a sterling personality involving the principles of business sagacity, honor and uprightness; a man in whom we believe are centered all the requirements necessary to the proper conduct of the office. As has been stated, it shall be the policy of The Freeman to indorse only men of known callibre and uprightness, regardless of political affiliations, for the various offices representing the government of the people.
Mr. Rauch is perhaps one of the best-known business men to the colored voters in all Marion county. He has been identified in a business way with most every colored business man in the city. He came to Indianapolis in the fall of 1870 and embarked in the cigar business one year later on Indiana avenue, near the old yellow bridge, where he remained for seven years. He then moved to the Circle, now Monument Place, and started a jobbing and retail cigar and tobacco business, later removing to Washington street, near the Park Theatre, where he remained for twenty-three years. Ten years ago he moved into his own factory building on W. New York street directly off of Indiana avenue, where he still conducts a prosperous business. With a business career, such as we have pointed out, behind him, together with his known principles of honesty and uprightness is the strongest possible endorsement of Mr. Rauch's fitness for the office he seeks.
SAYS NEGROES ARE LEARNING
Speaker Declares Only 43 Per Cent of Race Is Illiterate.
DURHAM, N. C., Oct. 12—Mrs. Erskine Hahn, of New York City, addressing the students of the National Religious Training School here, a Negro institution, declared today that only 43 per cent. of the colored people in the United States is illiterate, compared with 83 per cent. ten years ago. Her, point was made to show the steady advance of education among Negroes. The school has an enrollment of more than 100. Today was the opening of the fall term.
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Special to THE FREEMAN.
The Randolph School of Law, which announced its existence a few weeks ago, through your valuable paper, desires to express and also tender sincere thanks and appreciation for the very work you have done. It brought to the school—the enrollment of several students. On October 3 the school opened with an excellent enrollment of both male and female. Many others will be added soon, judging from the number of students. What was a mere project is now a positive reality. We are already made to feel the lofty appreciation of our school in the form of congratulatory letters of gratitude to the country, same of them from prominent white persons. Very respectfully.
W. H. RANDOLPH, Dean.
LOUISIANA, MO.
Special to THE FREEMAN
Rev, Oaks leaves tomorrow for St. Charles, Mo., to attend the conference. The good people of St. Charles, Sarah Rose and Hattie Clifton left yesterday for Springfield, to visit friends and attend the State Fair., Madam Thomas Brown is visiting this week., Mrs. Eliza Wells is visiting relatives in Paynesville this week., Call them, or check the newspaper at former Third and Maryland streets. Wm. Braxton, Agent.
PARKERSBURG, W. VA.
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Hollinger, vice president and Mr. Guy Hollinger, vice president and secretary of the Art Club, have gone east to spend their vacations. They expect to be gone three weeks, and will visit Baltimore, Maryland, Jersey City, New York and other points. Mrs. William Merriman is papering and expects to move in her new quarters soon....Mrs. Grace Washington died Sunday at the clock. She left her sister, sister and brother to move to Mrs. Stella Dodge of Columbus was at the bedside of her sister when she died. ...Henry Lee arrived Saturday from Charleston, where he was attending United States court. He left Monday for Fiji, where he will meet Judge Davon.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
Ms. W. M. Bradshall, of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Ring and daughter have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Abby, of 2530 Oakland avenue.....Mrs. M. W. H. Burke, of Montgomery, Monton and baby are in the city....The funeral of the little son of Mrs. Arthur Van Spence was held last Monday at the场尔. Morris undertaking establishment, 507. Morris found of Guthrie, Mitchell of Guthrie, Okla. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. Hammond....The Forum meets at the Peteers, Sunday, October 16 at the Gopher at the residence of the Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs....Those wishing to obtain this paper may do so at Brown & Parker's barber shop and from the agent, Hiram K. Gibbs, of Telephone, South 3380. Also send news.
DALLAS, TEXAS.
Special to THE FREEMAN.
Mr. C. W. Adams, of Houston, is here, recuperating and visiting relatives and friends. . . Miss Ozella Thompson, of Houston, once met me over several weeks' stay in the metropolis, visiting relatives and friends. . . Mr. U. D. Davidson, the hair-wig king, was here talking with me. Mrs. Ozella Thompson and Taylor will make Oklahoma City their future home. . . Mrs. Ed Pickett is home, after a brief stay in east Texas. . . Ask Mrs. Pickett about Saturday. It will help to secure a better service. . . Pythians are after some of their timber, and one more jolly time is in town. Mrs. Pickett and District Deputies Patton and Overstreet are busy straightening out some kinks in their brave boys' chains, which will help them to the Knights. . . Dallas will be
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"The Teddy Roosevelt march," by Miss Blanche K. Thomas, is one of the newest musical hits on the market. It is dedicated to the "first American citizen."
Miss Josephine Tobias, a very capable singer, is at the Foraker this week. Spencer Finley closes a successful season at the Hiawatha, where he is to be a fixture.
Prof. Charles G. Hurts, until recently chormaster at St. Mary's P. E. Chapel, has taken charge of the musical work at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, and Prof. W. Scott Mayo has succeeded W. H. Carter, Jr., as chormaster at St. Luke's P. E. Church.
Benoni Prici Hurst, son of Dr. John F. Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Choristers, has joined the violinists in the Amherst College orchestra, and is the only colored student in the orchestra. He is giving eminent satisfaction to his manners have made him very popular with his fellow-students and with the faculty.
Miss Minnie Brown, the accomplished vocalist and dramatic interpreter, left for New York Sunday night, to superintend extensive wardrobe and costumes which she use this fall and winter as leading lady of the New Hiawatha Stock Company. She will open at the Hiawatha, in conjunction with T. Spencer Finley, comedian and producing manager, on the 17th. Erb Robinson, the auburn-haired, black-faced monologist, with the George Wilson smile, remains another week at Ford Motor Company, where the moving picture houses are a boon to the colored performer, not only as a porkchop provider, but as an incubator of budding talent. He wittily observes that in the five and ten-cent vaudeville houses live actors are made while you wait."
Within the fewest of weeks G. Luthen Sadgwar, the talented librettist and composer, will present at the New Howard Theater his latest work, which bears the title of "Mr. Cameron the Californian." It is said to be written in his happiest vein and will excel all of his previous very meritorious productions. The music is by Clarence Cameron White, which is a part of the "Mr. Cameron the Californian" standard. Washington well remembers "The Isle of Never," by these gifted artists.
Miss Bessie Oliver Brown, "Mammy's Lasses Candy Chile," is in her second week at Ford Dabney's, and is repeating her triumph of last week. By general request, Miss Brown is continuing "Mammy's Lasses Candy Chile" in natty male attire, and her other selections are "Rubber-necking Moon" and "Colored Romeo," both of which are good for hearty encore. Miss Brown is existing with white hair. In迎来 a member of the Pekin Theater Stock Company in Chicago.
The Maude Cuney Hare stellar recital at Lincoln Temple, on the evening of the 21st, bids fair to be one of the season's finest musical treats. Mrs. Hare, who comes from Boston, highly recommended as a pianist of rare ability, will be supplanted by the pianist; H. Leonard Jeter, 'cellist'; Miss Lottie Wallace, contrato soloist, and
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The Barton and Wiswell Company, writing to your correspondent, express themselves as delighted with the warm reception accorded "The Smart Set" that you can rest assured that this very earliest opportunity we shall place another one of our companies in Washington.
Stetson's spectacular production of Harriet Beecher Stowey, perennial heartthrob, "Uncle Tom's Cottage" been drawing well all this week at the Howard. Manager Washburn has gone together splendid company, and is giving the seriousness of its theme in interposed with up-to-date vaudeville, that is appealing to the last degree. Hundreds of other performances in memory of the good old boys were boys and girls and witnessed this place in first experience on the inside of a theater and many saw it for the first time in their lives here this week. The engagement is proving to be a gratifying success.
Manager G. W. Hamilton, of Ford Dabney's Theater, is growing in popularity, as patrons of this cozy house and with the help of many who visit it several times each week. The soul of affability and knows how to treat everybody right. He preserves perfect behavior, instructor or officiousness, and the performers, manager, and other attaches say it is a genuine ability to work under a director who can "job without being a bossy." Mr. Hamilton, a young man, has had large experience in the theater's success and is an unerring judge of what the popular fancy. Mr. Dabney is fortunate in securing such a level-headed and manager as Mr. Hamilton to represent his interests in the Nation's capital.
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On Friday evening, November 4, Maurice Thomas, Washington's talented composer, will appear in a grand musical charmist, will appear in a grand musical charmist, cital at True Reformers' Hall, opening a season which promises to be very success, and will present the first eight popular selections, among Armstrong Manual Training School March the 10th to the Marine Band March the 10th. The Y. M. C. Marine Band original compositions. Mr. Thomas will train his training as a pianist under Miss Emma Smith, a noted instructor, and his friend Arthur Tregina, of the U. S. Marine Band Marching Mr. Thomas will be Miss Marie James, contralto; Felix Weir, violinist; Henry Grant, bassist; elocutionists; Henry Grant and Miss Nolye B. Thomas, pianists.
The Howard Stock Company is getting into working shape, and J. Leubie Hill the producing manager, is elated over the success of the production. The initial production is to be called "My Friend from Dixie," and the grand opening has been definitely set for the fall of 2013. Howard is known for merely of Brown and Calvert as the "straight man" of the piece, and the principal comedy role will fall to R. Shelton, who, though new to Washington, is a long-time friend of the art of fun-making. Miss Lloyd Marshall the graceful and winsome "Minnesota" of "The Red Moon" company, is the leading lady, and her host of friends here will be the star of the play. Miss Mayne Butler, a control of the has a part in which she will appear to excellent advantage. Manager W. H Smith says he intends to spare no pains in the production, and what they want, and all he asks is that he turn out and sustain him in his effort to solve the problem in this prejudice-ridder town, and to justify the Howard production. The Negro's sense of appreciation of a golden opportunity to invest $100,000 in cold cash in the prettiest playhouse oper to colored people in this country. To place such an enterprise should not only be regarded as a pleasure; it is a bounded duty.
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Joe A. Hageman is singing through Kansas and Missouri this great bass solo, "A Thousand Leagues Beneath the Sea."
Sam Shelton, writing from St. Louis, says that he is making it all right in virtually every manner he has been sitting up, the better part of the summer.
The "Twee Liceorce Sticks," with Nettie Glen, were made just a week at the Grand Theatre. After making a few Indiana towns, they will go to New York.
Jas Edward Simpson, after having finished a successful engagement at the Dixie Theatre, Richmond, Va., "as producer and stage manager, has opened at the West End Theatre of Washington, D. C., formerly the Blue Mouse.
The Darktown Swells are touring the South; they report good business. The man in white in his private car, Neco, was sitting in the back of the White and others would like to hear from the McNelis, Kenner and Lewis.
Johnson Theatre is a new house just opened at Jankoville, Vla. House was packed from the beginning. The show was also new. The company was as follows: John W. Jones, Willie Green, Leen W. Brown, Rosa Smith and Ernestine Johnson.
Joe A. Hageman, the big Lion Basso, says: "Boys keep yourself in the Freeman, buy the Freeman, read the Freeman, buy your friends, will know where you are and you know where to find your friends. And remember that if you are faithful to the Freeman, it will be faithful to you." So says Hageman.
The Whitman Sisters and company have just finished a three days' engagement during which time they had 10,000 paid admissions. The fifteen people making up the company are as follows: William Wallington, Walter Smith, Wellington, Walter Smith, A. Carroll, The Whitmans, May, Essie, Alberta and Alice, Lula Smith, Jeanette Murphy, Annie Gay, Inez Gomez and Bessie Taylor, the Macon, Ga. October 3.
H. L. RAWLS' BAND AND MINSTRELS
With the Fourpaugh and Sells Bros. Shows.
We were highly entertained Saturday, September 24, at Leavenworth, Kan. Robert Henderson, tuba, and John E. Roberts, bass, and us for the afternoon. Miss Annie Cook paid Logan Kitchen a visit from Kansas City. Mrs. Lizzie Graham paid F. L. Roberts, bass, and us for the same evening, after the show was over, Sam Ford and Logan Kitchen left for Kansas City to meet the families and friends. They returned to Lawn Ridge, where they had a fine time in the city. Sam Ford had such a good time until he had to run to catch the parade a day in winter in Wichita, Kan. He was this season. He was entertained this afternoon by his family and friends from Wichita, Kan. The rest of the company was entertained by H. L. Rawles sends regards to P. G. and Co. Also, R. Roy Pope and Co.
"A RABBIT'S-FOOT" COMPANY.
We played Bessemer, Ala., Monday, September 26, to a crowded house. Sunday during our layover the company played at the company house, Mr. Hi Jerry Barnes, Mr. Irving Brown and the Mises Mamie Miller and Beatrice Mitchell. Miss Miller spent a day at the company house, Joseph Means, our interlocutor, left the company Tuesday to go to Montgomery, Ala., to open his engagement in vaudeville there. The company regretted the loss of the company house now in Mississippi playing to packed houses, and everyone is pleased as we have a good strong show. Our new sent to a supermarket, Mr. J. Our music teacher Mr. Irving Brown, is still furnishing good overtures. The band, under the direction of Mr. M. J. Nettles, is better and niner Ford and Bayham, the oWods Sisters team, Isabelle and Mamie; the Skinners, Verne and Emma; Neeley and Mitchell, Jerry Barnes and the great Mack Allen. The band members are Prof. M. J. Nettles, Irving Brown, Joseph Gale, W. L. Blake, John W. Brown, Seward W. Miller, John W. Brown, JimChappelle is ticket agent and Mr. Son Chappelle boss canvasman and transportation master. Our spieler and announcer, Mr. James Lloyd London, is
Edward Miller sends regards to E. B. Dudley and Garfield Carter, Globe theater, Norfolk, and Hillary King, Miller sends says "hello." James White and the Whangdooodle Comedy Four. Says he will be in New York City in a few months.
GLOBE THEATRE
JACKSONVILLE, FLA
By J. W. SEER.
The week of October 3rd, the management of the Globe offered its patrons an enormous year-end bill. In fact the matter that was ever been presented in this house for the money.
MACEO THEATER, CHARLESTON,
The patrons of this popular play house were presented a high class comedy acts, "Only a Pair of Pants," and "The Book Start to start with, with Lew Kenner doing the principal comedy, ably assisted by the clever comedian, Billy Munneryll. The play starts to start with the comedian, who showed the appreciation by packing the house nightly. The Comedy Four, Kenner, Lewis, Williams, Thornton, was a scream the play was, for the second part. The Comedy Trio Around the Mountain, which is there yet. Kenner, Thornton and Williams, were the singings, which went big also, and Master Sammy, our pick, is some dancer. During the latter part of the week Emma Thornton did the while white Sammy, Chesterfield, doing a little tragedy in the Booking Agency. His partner, Kenner attend-
ed to the comedy, while Millie Williams, was there as Lize. We seet, we are going to have a Southern circuit which will will have a lot of people around. Mr. L. D. Joel, formerly of Jacksonville, Fla., and booking agent of the Globe Theater, has secured the Arcade theater, Atlanta, Ga. and given him his job in forming the circuit. Our manager, Mr. J. H. Hubert, will be quite a main factor in such a venture, as he has two theaters, Macco here, and the Macco in Columbia, Macco here, and the Macco in Columbia, Capt. Jock O'Brien, is still on the job, and is in for the enterprise. Kenner and Lewis sends regards to Jerry Barnes, Mack Allen, Billy & Beaulieu, Wilson & Davis, G. G. FREMAN—SIX
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The House of Hits, Dallas, Tex.
Manager Austin is quite positive that in Mr. Dav's new act, "Mr. DuQuake," he has a most pretentious novelty for the WWE. He is the best show of the season, and it was a scream, one of those shows where you laugh until you get a pain in your side. It was a double bill, two shows in one. It was a show that Shop, and Jolly (E.) Dav's & Co. in "Any Clams." Both were hits. Starting Monday night, Mr. Jolly Dav will put on for the first time in Dallas. Kemp & Kemp, this pair of mith-makers were such a hit last week, that Mr. Austin will hold their act over for another week. There is nothing to worry about all the time. Next week they will be seen in Mr. Kemp's latest sketch, "This Room Will Do." Now this team has been a hit here for the last three weeks, and the man these headliners himself on securing these headliners.
Miss Carrie L. Huff, our leading lady scored the biggest hit of her life, assisted by the chorus singing, a very touching song entitled, Don't Forget to Drop a Man with his funny saying and funny dancing pleasing every night. Keep it up Johnson with our orchestra leader, Miss Bell Hunter, is still giving the public all the latest music and with the assistance of Mr. Alf Stokes, Jim Moore, and Jack Fritz, they produce the goods. Thomas Lee, a property man and a stage manager you are one of the best. Well if you don't like the way I am doing you can pay me off, so says Reed Conners, and Austin did. (Good luck Reed.) The Fireman is still selling at the Good
EUGENE FRANCIS MIKELL
Eugene Francis Mikell, the subject of this sketch, was born in Charleston, S. C., of one of the best known families in that city, was educated in schools of his home city. In 1894 Mr. Mikell took charge of the mr. Mikelluskegue Institute, and gave full contact with the music rector. To better equip himself in his chosen profession of music he entered the New York Conservatory of Music in New York, where he studied in a class of ten. He afterward entered State Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, at Orangeburg, where he made musical director of that college. After serving in this capacity for a while he was made musical director of the Florida Baptist Academy, the same city. Mr. Mikell also kept in Jacksonville a regular musical studio, giving lessons on violin, guitar, mandolin, cornet
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and clarinet. When he left to go on a concert tour through the West, he and L. V. English, his studio was closed. On the way to the leading schools and colleges and play houses of note, always winning much glory and gold.
Mr. Mikell traveled one season with Fritz Mintrels's Minstrels and was musical director of that minstrel, and was also director of Jenkins' Orphan Band of Charlesen, which took part in the inaugural concert in March. He is now musical director of the Colored Globe Theater of Jacksonville, Fla., and well sustains his popularity by appearing on local concert programs with violin or cornet, winning awards. Mr. Mikell readily stands at the head as all around versatile musician. His name is a drawing card, and his skill is outstanding in demand, a tireless worker, thrillingly brilliant in execution, and full of soul.
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The house which typifies a regular Southern audience in attendance to a colored show is necessarily top-tier, but the audience is not necessarily top-tier in the extreme, and are now giving vent to their unrest by the most obstreperous chattering and rithmatic stampinw of the feet. The stage manager calls out, Overture. The orchestra men enemen, the bandmen, and the kind of tumultuous applause. Then comes a smart overture. Even the audience is aware of the end of the orchestra's strains, the curtain slips up on a bunch of gorgeous instruments, and so about the stage chanting away the great opening chorus, "We're the Grand Smart Set." The end brings on Miss Daisy Martin as Mrs. Dewer, Miss Nettie Taylor, Miss Emily, Miss John C. Wright and W. All Baynard as Leventen Mildew and Grafton Smoothe respectively. After a brief conversation Mrs. Dewar withdraws, leaving Mildew and Smoothe antagonize each other, which ends in Miss Johnson's singing "Lucinda Be My Lady Lu." assisted by a double sextette. This number starts the house to go. After Mrs. Dewar has answered to a sufficient number of encores Mrs. Dewar and Mr. Smoothe enter, Smoothe eagerly pressing his suit for the Widow Dewar's hand, who he has learned to handle in conversation which enues between them she introduces Mr. J. Homer Tutt
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as Sam Cain. He is preceded by a dozen girls in a slow enchanting ensemble dance. Then enters Cain in "When I hear a Minstrel Band," assisted by the girls and as many men on parade. The girls and men form a monochrome machine grow monotonous. There might be some difficulty in passing this number bitt for the exciting entrance of Mr. Sank Sims as Surtu Ketchem, attired in a thong train has arrived having a strange looking individual. Due investigation proves this individual to be no other than Geo. Washington Bullion. Fancy Salem Tutt in an automobile, with J. H. Woodson, the great basso, Schaffean and a half dozen men in attendance. The running, yelling, wowing of a bunch of girls foresees a second later Mr. Bullion is driven in lordy decked, upon a wheelbarrow laden with suitcases, etc., and is abruptly dumped on the stage in the midst of a surprised bunch of laces and gentlemen, who seconds the friend, Sam Cain. The ladies and gentlemen soon disappear. Bullion and Cain then hold the comedy-thirst audience at bay eight minutes with their catchy monochrome appearance and takes a shot at Bullion's money. But Mr. J. H. Woodson, as Chief Rain-in-the-Face, the big Indian, interferes. Pretty soon Bullion gets rid of both of them with the deverous use of his big razor, and ends the first scene in
The second scene opens with "Our Hearts Remain the Same." Mr. Woodson soloist and full chorus, which is a duet with the conductor, but Mr. Bullion refuses to be initiated into the "swell sociisity," notwithstanding he is tormented by gents, goats, gigantic rusters, ghosts, and counsels. The scene then finally shows a general slush up, when Bullion gets his razor into play again. But Cain appears in time to save his friend from disgrace by presuading him to leave and doctor him. The scene then costsed by Mr. Frank Jackson, royal high initiator. At this point Bullion enters suddenly and the encounter between him and the initiator is followed by no iso in the second scene, full chorus. Closing the first act with screams.
The third act opens with a full chorus, "This Short Life is but a Dream." (It would take a column to detach it from the song.) Mrs. Dewar, then Miss Nida Marshall as Moana in a boy's attire, appears, announcing Mr. Bullion. "That's Fair Enough. You're a Miss. You're Miss Marlin scores heavily. At this juncture Mr. Bullion loses some valuable papers, the boy finds them. Smooth gets hold of them and in the fight, he himself is challenged for a duel by Bullion, and they go on to the field and pull off one of the greatest spasms ever written, "Yes, for Honor They will Fight. On the street, the street with his target practice and succeeds in bluffing Bullion, but Sam Cain forces Bullion to fight. So they are in the slow count begins, the duel is interrupted by the arrival of Mr. Al Strander as Parson Snow, who blesses the duelsists, the slow count is begun once more, the slow count begins, the duel is interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Dewar and Johnson and other ladies in a feeble attempt to have it called off, but to no avail. Two shots are fired, but miss their mark. Slow counting once more, excitement reigns, Major Johnson makes his get-away. Surtro and Moana in time to prevent bloodshed. A grand medley finale follows, closing with "When the Sun Sets in the South sand, the sun sets in the cold damp. The applause emends one of the beginning of the show.
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Miss Mabel DeHeards would like to hear from the Claybrooks, Miss Alice Leslie Carter, Clemente and Miner, We We Simmons and Lill'an Garny. Address 3130 State street, Chicago, Ill.
Mr. H. F. Waterson, musical director and Mr. Lawrence Williams, trap drummer of the company, became members of the American Federation of Musicians in Dallas, Texas, on the 10th of September last.
The ostentatious hospitality of Texans to the company is almost immeasurable. Dallas stands at the head so far.
Close your eyes and do some napin'; pretty soon some'in nice is goin' to happen."—J. J. W.
Mr. J. H. Woodson sends regards to Billie Ward.
The Smart Set Co. will be in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 16 and 17.
While playing a night's engagement at Calvert on the 30th of September in a little two by four theater, an old colored gentleman, who boasted a man of forty for fifteen consecutive years, was asked by Stage Carpenter Strander to provide three soap boxes for prop. When fifteen minutes was called three boxes were found on the floor, and the man was so soap. The bill was presented to our manager, but I think it wasn't settled.
GEORGE COTTON BEATEN.
Protage of Jack Johnson.
PITTSBURG-Morris Harris, of New York, had much the better of George Cotton, protege of Jack Johnson, in a six-round bout before the Union Club the other evening. He ended the fighting up to the middle of the fifth round, and did some very effective work with a right uppercut in the clinches, which were very frequent, thanks to Harris. The first session was Cotton's on work with the aggressiveness, though Harris landed a couple of good rights to the law and clinched. Cotton had first
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blood in this round from Harris' nose, and his stock looked pretty good.
The second went to Harris, who was flipped over by the crowd, a most healthy respect for Cotton and followed his hit-and-hug style, which did not add to his popularity. Still he planted Cotton some forceful rights to the face and his fighting his affectionate proclivities and had George clearly rattled and fighting wildly.
The third was fast, but even, Cotton was still coming in, as he was doing his best to get Harris.
The fourth was very slow. Cotton still forcing, but not very fiercely, and Harris paying his less-experienced opponent the cowardly charge. Early in the fifth Harris landed a crashing right swing to the jaw of Cotton, who was still coming in, and dropped on the count of six. This was Harris' round, as much as he had seven crashing rights to the jaw and Cotton's address looked to be No. 33 Queer street. Harris did his only forcing right, right here, but couldn't drop Cotton again.
The sixth went to show that Harris himself had been on the business end or some effective blows and though it bolted to his fire, if he slipped to the floor at one stage and appeared a very tired and winder fighter as he lay there. There were but four blows struck in this round. Three rights to his fire, he proceeded, but he was very slow in facing the fighting.
The semi-final was between McCulligan and McCulligan, of Pittsburgh. This was McCulligan's fight all the way. He proved himself a good, cool, two-handed fighter, who should be heard from. Morgan, though game and though appeared slow and in poor wind.
The second bout was between "Kid" Coffey, of the Hill, and Young Sullivan, or Lawrence, who was an even older fighter, though Coffey appeared to be much the cleverer of the two, he refused to open up and fight except in the fifth, when he got the worst of it. To perfection, but was carrying the thing rather far when he wanted the referee to caution Sullivan in the fourth round because the latter struck him on the back of the head to try and make him open
The first bout was between "Kid" Braun of Homestead, and "Young Stone" Braun of Homestead. Skiing nothing whatever but gameness, and the clever "Kid" cut him to pieces for six rounds, but couldn't drop him and couldn't make him back up. He forced the fightin' George Little, one time manager of Jack Johnson, was at the ringside and Ferguson against Johnson, Lang or Ferguson against Johnson, Lang or Ferguson was also present.
DECATUR, ILL.
The Sewing Circle of St. Peters' A. M. E. Church sent a very pleasant day last Thursday, five miles in the country, with Mrs. Thomas Miller and Mrs. Julia Miller, both farmers. At noon a most elaborate dinner was served. The Sewing Circle deserves great credit for their faithful work, and large sums of money turned into gifts. Anna Vanderburg is outfit ill...The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robinson is very sick...St. Peter's will have a little son of Mrs. and Mrs. Miss Belah McMurray left Sunday for Springfield to attend the State Fair...Mrs. Hattie Tyler of this city was married last Thursday to Mr. J. W. Ala McMurray for her new home...Mrs. Ruth Rowe has just returned from Parmer and Taylorville, Ill. where she has been visiting her daughter and friends...She has been attending strenuous efforts to increase the membership. They are sending out many invitations. This one may reach some one who has yet seen you. You can attend our Junior League meetings, held every Sunday morning from 9:30 to 10:45 at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church. You will next Sunday morning. Your lovingly, Minnie Kelley, Sr. President.
SHEFFIELD, ALA.
The First Baptist Church had a rally for the benefit of the Mussel Shoal Association. The amount raised was $33.00. There will be a grand enterance Church on October 10 for the benefit of the church...Mrs. Thos. Walker left last week for St. Louis, to spend a few weeks on a pleasure trip...Rev. W. H. McCormick, the agent, is in the city. All houseseekers should call on Rev. R. W. Willis.
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Bee, Lee M.
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Butler, Homer
Brown, Harry A.
Childs, W. A.
Julie C. Gerl.
Cameron, Oscar.
Clark, Robert
Culligan, S. J.
Flint, M. Foy.
Edwards, B. E.
English, Chas.
Eason, John.
Gat, Peter T.
Horne, Wm.
Hamilton, J. Wesley
Ideal Concert C.
Johnson, Roy.
Joplin, Scott.
Jenkins, P. P.
Jenkins, Miles.
Lockhart, Carter.
Lee, L. Fish.
Mallburg, Mrs. Ray (2).
Wiggins and Wiggins.
Ladies' List:
Arlington Blanche, Taylor, Stella
Jurnes, M. E.
Elsie, Vassar, Calle
Payne, Miss Rosa
McNell and McNell
McCammon, Henry
J. Francis,
Powell, John
Pugley, William
Porter and Porter
Quine, W. A.
Powell, Wille
Smith, Jakey
Short, C. W.
Stiles, Beans
Strander, Foy
Stewart, Richard
Scott, Tom
Trott, Oo. A.
Williams, Mille
Williams, Pwee
Hamilton, J. Wesley
Williams, R. W.
Ideal Concert C.
Waterson, Henry
Walls, Cecil
Watkins, Walter
Wintes, John
Willy, Hily
White, Bob
Lee, L. Fish
Mallburg, Mrs. Ray (2).
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In the Field of Sport.
. SUGILISTIC SURPRISE.
“gpucred on BY PSS ere
ya) wonders never cease? Old man
Wil Siig since supposed to have been
sari’ 0S Grable army of has beens,
Oe ee ete means to meet Jack
ooune.> Ns from hima the coveted dis
Bins?) Sie" Johnson will “consent to
oC. soy ts not an old man in years
on Spy other folks than ting peo-
seg He age an_old one even for
Be they slay green by ‘continu-
faite tnd sometimes: winning a
os fs) Spears old after @ lapse of
alt {URity, and especially when
yars 1" Jie Game about through a se=
fer ie But the sailor gives
Bee of 0k ver gid ay down his
ott at he has been in soft
eer Ail the while. Keeping up
Pict unl maintaining his Aghting
tere way a certain writer puts tt:
jf flomos Sharkey, able seaman, the
8 scully destined to reclaim the
PA Muleit championship for, the white
doy Welnuer things than that have hap-
(ne Si lhomas sincerely believes. that
Foe in whom fate bas ordained to
Fes hte mans burden. fromthe
jeu" Uijer, Down at Sheepshead Bay,
se JP cing memories, where the beatl-
fac (fue ho Toner echoes to. the foot
ol en Sri famous. thoroughbreds, a
fs OL Atle “squaresiawed mam 1s
oa ay at apunehing bag ina barn
sue ng runs on deserted thorough-
yo OS Fanldente indulge I OSS.
fre 00" otive, earnest. person is the
bs Miia who retired from. the prize
sue Sui) after a sensational career,
fas hich he put up @ wonderful twen=
gone vod fight with Jas, J. Jeffries.”
fe" 2" andon We necessary In refer-
cagio Mt, Thomas Sharkey as an old man
Fog Wi is not, and We have explained
OCs of the use of the expression.
fe eisyont stand for Jack being called
DM vran Now this. is extremely bad
4 v0HiST ores no loop hole of escape by
fre tailing Ita pleasantry. ‘The term
oie nveving the one meaning
fiihuson has something unearned or
at ica not entitted to have.
iil ie pure, was ever a clear title to
vaiing. ou earth it 4s Johnson's title to
AUTLNA weight championship of the world
My ator calls always for the real helr to
APMisine’ Happily in this case the
Ie ane merit that must be proven on
[ate on any old. spot. ‘Trot out the
Peiaents. Johnson is Feady and willing.
Shu Nincrican people. will not permit him
Pe Qiwhat is not his own or what he did
(Aitidy'win, "He ‘must defend his title
Oy a he Hzhtful pretenders ; such being
fete how comes it that he 1s an Usur-
Hes AGun' see Iecthat way.
suarkey feels that it is up to him to
gan: he, however, does not put it $0
ied Sihoe'ne Insists he has never Tet
yin his training. But the public knows
thee las been out of the limelight for
lal years, just as Jeftries was out for
Semi Sears"Well, maybe "he'll “come
TuShavbe he won't! Tt he fights he will
Wefaat get a consolation. prize by way
Benue be the: shekels which will be
stot Hit fate may ordain that,this Shar-
Eije tie man to put the Negro to sleep,
fu does not appear at all: reasonable,
je shariey retired under a succession of
diate that showd have cured him. for ¢ 1
fine, Well, maybe it ts fate that this
{alier came from his reetuse and in the
pane of Caueasia, do and win, But it
Girt look that way. ‘The public viewed
Sturkes as having gone, it will think of
himas tying to come back.
Ti is said that after Sharkey had seen
tucnghe at Reno that he struck out for his
Ipmeceeretiy, confident that he could whip
{olnson and feeover the championship for
ineiwhite race, In fact he felt that 1¢ was
feambent on him to do $0. He went into
Shore vigorous tralning, $0 he says, and
fst faking inventory Of hls physical self,
nnwunces that he Is tn fit condition to con
tina with the magter, of the game.
‘The above quoted writer had also the fol-
ving to say) “Sharkey 1s 85 years old,
cwwar ‘older than Johnson. He has ale
fish wisarded ax a physteal marvel:
Int when he got through with: Jeffries at
Cine Island, he was taken to a hospital,
fufering trom two fractured ribs and a
Hoke nase. ‘That was In 1899, when
Sharkey was in his prime, but the terrific
Testing he received 6n that occasion took
say much of M8 stamina and a year
inter, Fitzsimmons’ stopped. nim in “two
funds with afew well directed punches,
Sharkey" tackled Jit Munroe in a six-round
Wut in Philadelphia in 1903 and. was
Sindy beaten. Hs poor showing tn that
ffir convineed Sharkey. that his fighting
(ios vere oh and fe Retired to attend to
ive the white man’s chances to hang. on
suit slender reed? Well, tis up to him.
Tut we think’ after ¢he Teffries experience
that “one Thomas” Sharkey. will have to
Hive himself most valiantly before given
fers much credence. ‘Phe white man has
een tost beautifully “taken im once; the
nt time—welly it 10okS as If. there'll: be
fost time. When the white man unites
fm man again Jack had JUst as well not
fehl So far as the assurance of vietory 18
Gocerned. Jeffries was thé best In all re~
Sects, was Young as men go; was & re
tre} champion, and. the retirement was
rent; was a physical giant; was @ mas-
tern ide erat. "Phese conditions all must
te mict, seen and gone one better before
Ne Csucesia ‘consents tO. recognize the
eaimant carte blanche as the white man’s
hope The writer again:
Tot’ Sharkey has taken care of his
Seah over since and the fighting bee has
ver coasted to buga in his head. He is a
fini, determined fellow, and would rather
fight than do anything else except count-
Ing money Possessed of great strength,
he sil commands the respect of the rough
unt fumble artists and with a single word
he can''cow' A gang leader as well as a
Flan ordinary ‘trouble seeker.” Sharkey
fas" known Johnson for a. good many
Years sini has always despised him as a
urls! He was dead sure that Jeffries
Yould knock the big Negro into a state
of coliapse ina few rounds, and when
the boiler maker was defeated Sharkey
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BY HAROLD C. McGATH.
refused to believe that Jeff was himself.”
“I can beat Johnson,” he. told’ some
of the sporting ‘men at Reno, but they
laughed at him.” That is. why he has
been, training in secret, for he never
could stand ridicule.’ But to hear him
tell it he will surprise the sporting
world some of these days by coming out
of retirement in superb condition, with a
real challenge anda big forfeit, hoping
that Johnson will recognize him.
Sharkey when asked to ouiline his
plans the other day, wasn't inclined to
discuss them at length,
“I am working down’ here all the time,’
he sald, “and T feel fine. I am going to
come back and I'll surprise a lot of peo-
ple. When I am ready to fight you'll
hear from me. Yes, I feel sure i can
beat Johnson.” He's’ overrated and will
not last long.”
‘The able seaman weighs about 195
pounds at present and looks to be in
rugged health. He seems to have a_re-
markable capacity for hard work and is
preceeding with his training according
fo original ideas, During the coming
winter he may ask for a tryout at one
of the New York clubs ‘in which event
skeptics will have a chance’ to see for
themselves just what the husky veteran
is like. ree,
‘The champion will soon have his
card full of engagements if all are per-
mitted on that’ want a whirl with. him.
Stanley Ketchel, one of the latest aspir.
ants for the distinguished honor, and
ahnoileekrm etaoin shrdlu em{wyp xzz
more than likely he has the nerve to
face the old battering ram, despite the
fact that he only weighs 175 pounds to
Johnson’s 208 and upwards. "The dispar-
ity of their weights does not mean any-
thing with certainty. George Dixon
fought and whipped men of all sizes,
relying on selence rather than bulk. But
that promise does not seem to be’ with
Mr. Stanley. At any rate he hopes a
go with the man highest. up, insisting
that it's not ‘the goods he. seeks, but
glory, and the redemption of the crown
and its restoration to where he thinks it
Staiger Seainiaaa
THE CONGO KID, WYOMING
COLORED LIGHTWEIGHT,
Defeats Kid Stone, of Indianapolis, at
Logansport, Ind.
In a three-round go at Logansport the
Congo Kid, of Wyoming, put Kid Stone,
the Indianapolis lad, to the bad, In the
Second round Kid Stone broke his thumb
thus disabling him, and the contest was
called oft
Phe Congo Kid was born in Kingston,
Jamnica, im 1886, stands 6 feet 4 Inches
heigh, Weighs from 130 to 18 pounds.
He. started boxing in 1904, ab Cape
Town, South Africa, since which time
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he has fought many times and in many
cities, including cities in Africa, Europe
and America.
In his long list of engagements he
has" founght the leading. men of his
Class, Wwinnin ‘gabout one-half of the
contests, His more important engaxe-
ments were with Dudley Jones, four
rounds; Bert Petter, four rounds: Dale
Williams, six rounds, and Boer Unholtz
of Afries, ten rounds, all of whom he
Sereated.
phe Kid will be pleased to hear trom
‘those of his class, ‘all addressed to The
Seanuan wil remohe taane
ANNE BAND AND MENAG-
ERIE MEN PLAY BALL
At, Clarkesville, ‘Tenn., Prof. R. Ros
Pope's Annex Band, enroute “with the
Ringling Bros. circus, defeated the men-
agerie men in a game of ball. ‘The follow.
dng was the score by innings:
fa 22345867 Total
Annex Band........0000109 10
Menagerie Men......3000001 4
Menagerie Men—Schuyler and Philips.
Hits of Pope, 4 off Schuyler 8." Base
hits, 2, ‘Tussell ‘and Ganes, Band.” Home
Tons, §, Jackson, Belt and’ London, Band.
ple plays, Cradiock, Venable. Hinson,
Band; Jones, Bekhearg, Sehuyler, MN.
Siruck oue by Schuyler 3; by Pope 3.Pime
hour, 19° minutes.
STANLY KETCHEL ALSO EAGER
Wants to Take on the Champion—
Will Fight Anywhere.
Stanley Ketchel says that within hx
months he ‘will issue a challenge to Aght
Fonnson. He feels tobe in geod repair
After peveral ‘weeks’ of ‘retirement. at
Springfield, Mo,” He says that he is rap:
idly regaining his old form, and thet his
break down was only temporary.
Wetchel is quoted as saying "I don't
want a cent f Johmagn beats me, and it
Ro"nsists one losers end, Iwi ive
nine to charity, if he, beats me” When
Pgome’ back to. the ring Til weigh. 173
pounds, and will be better than ever. I
Think i know how te fight Johnson. now,
and it's a-einch that I ean make a. better
Showing ‘than’ Jeffries “did at Reno.
Sit'nehe him anywhere, England, France
Or Australia, amd shall” aske Hugh Meth:
tosh to hang up-a purse.”
When and How It Will Happen
During the Season at Chicago.
‘The news was received here October 2
that “ube "“Honter's Leland ‘Giants had
teteated’ the, Bridgewoods, champions. of
New York City, 21 to 7. ,They left New
Pork or ‘agekionvili, ‘ila, where they
will ping. this week, after which they ‘will
all Ror Havana, Cuba.
"They" wil play ‘auscries of games, that
weil! bean October: 8. The ‘Lelands broke
The. world's record’ of playing eighteen
Straight games with professional teams
fed “wining allot" them It" wan dee
Slated’ tw’ New "Yorke that they were the
qetet” demi-profeasionat ball “players
Fiat have ‘ever ome Basts All the bors
retin the best of spirits, They. will be
inthe South ail winter.
CHICAGO GIANTS LOSE.
rene Chicago Giants had another un-
uch” day ‘last Sunday, by losing to_ he
Sisaihings_ the lowest” team" in standing
Beithe City’ heague,. Tt was Perey Skil
Tin's fine form that deeded the success of
Ule game, "The ‘white boys “didnot al
tow the Giants a semblance of a hit un-
{ithe seventh Inning, when Wright put
htwo-bagger to'right after two were Out
tne’ ‘Spaldinga, made. two scores In the
SEs plaked "a, good ‘game, but “Taylor
jants "played but ‘Taylor
Se Tete Gaile The lust ee
THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER.
the City ‘League games will be played on
hext, Sunday, and the Chicago Giants will
finish second. "They go. to. Caiiforma. in
November to representa league team at
Los Angeles,
‘The score was 2 to, 0.
FOOTBALL,
More and more interest is being mani
fested In football among’ the colwred
Schools of the South. Several captains
have ‘writen’ us ‘that they are. becoming
conversant with the new. rules and. the
boys are taking right to them.
Tt is the ‘concensus of opinion that
there will be more open play than ever.
Shore Ducks and end runs, forward passes
and trick plays “will be’ seen but. there
Will have to be some tall playing to make
Successful ‘touchdowns. A great deal of
Stress will be placed on Kleising as usual,
hot the man who ean boot the bail forty
or Atty yards, but the man hay ean piace
the kicks 30 as to Keep them away trom
his opponents.
‘The colored teams of the South have
had some very fine kickers.” ‘The men on
Central,” Suinner and Pearl were con-
sistent sand accurate kickers “and were
not-easily rattled, |
—Games Between Central and Sumner.—
190% at St. Louis, Sumner 0, Central, 0.
{i204 jae Loulavilie, Sumner 0, Louis:
ville. 5
iis at St. Louls, Sumner 0, Louis.
ville 0.
08, at Loulsvitie, Sumner 6, Louls-
ville 12.
poll at St Louls, Sumner 17, Central
1¥08 at Louisville, Sumner 6, Central 5.
1908 at St. Louis, Sumner 3, Central 9.
{320 Me Loutsvinig, hot etatin they” wil
win.
‘At various times Central and Pearl
have played, also Sumner, but we have
not the score of “Pearl,” ‘Phe “deciding
Hames for the States of “Tennessee, Ken-
tucky” and “Missouri have ‘been between
Central and Sumner. "The attendance at
the games have been very large, due t0
the ‘Interest manifested by the "players,
teachers and citizens, There is a report
that the new superintendent, does not fa-
Vor Sumner going out of the State this
year, but this 1s not confirmed. If Sum-
her does not go ‘to Loulsvilie, an effort
will be made to have the great AM Street
High School, Washington, D.C, come to
Loulsvilie.
CEYRANL WITH LEXINGTON.
Central has played everything in reach.
She tried Lexington High School for four
consecutive yeurs, but, the Blue Grass
boys were not in, the frunnings.”
Word has reached us that three col-
red boys have been assigned to’ play on
Big university ‘ceam this) meason.” Loyd
Wheeler informs us that he personally
knows of several men that, he thinks will
make the big teams at various colleges in
the North,
‘Teams in the cities such as Louisville
and. St. Louis will experience some. trou
[ble to.‘get parks this year on ‘Thanksgiv=
|ing. "there will be so many’ white teams
to play on tis day that possibly: the best
Parks are or may be insecurable. Such
teams as Wilberfree, Meharry, Tuskegee,
Talledega will have’ no trouble for. they
have thelr own campus and ball grounds.
News reached here today that Wilber-
force Will have a cracking good team this
year, The ‘report runs that the team. is
Geveloping. kickers of some value” this
year, which 8 an mportant feature.
BURT WILLIAMS WITH THE CUE.
Burt Willams, the “funniest man in
the world,” as ‘one of the papers calls
him, “is a pretty’ good one with the cue.
Monday “the celebdater comedian hada
pool game, with Jerry Mills, the stage
Manager. The game began carly” in the
morning at Twenty-eighth and State sts.
Ata fashionable pool parlor and. lasted
until it'was time for the show.
‘Burt declares that he is a, “wizard”
with the ‘cue, but he hada hard time
trying to beat Mr. Milis. "It is real funny
to hear the many strange things sald dur-
Ing the game and the faces made by Mr.
Williams. when Mr. Mills would put one
over for him.
During the week Mr. Tom Brown and
Mr. Williams are to have several games,
then Mr. Mills ig ta play the champion,
News reached us Monday that John-
son is to fight Sam Langford in England.
John Frye is making great preparations
to’ have some expert billiard, playing at
his ‘place’ this winter. "The Keystone is
one ‘of the most ‘widely known cafes in
the country. AS soon as the baseball sea-
son closes, the minds of the sporting traz
ternity will turn toward pool and billiard.
George Holt and others In business have
fine tables for the games and are expect=
ing some. great games to be pulled off
at their places. “The Freeman ‘will give.
Tan accounts of the games,
Quite «number of poolrooms have been
opened up'on State street. Most of. the
places have barber ‘shops mathe front
And pooirooms in’ the rear. Brown's 1s
one of the most. up-to-date’ poolrooms in
the city. The younger element. of the
best respect assemble there and play the
xames daily. “A tournament 1 being ar=
Tanged and’ The Freeman will make. a
specialty of giving news of these and oth-
€F games pulled of in the city.
Jerry Mills has sent a challenge to S.
H. Dudley, of the “Smart Set," to play
him a series during the Xmas-holidays,
Other popular pool players are etme
their cues in order for similar tourna:
ments.
Another form of sport will be the Le-
land” Giants" Amusement | Company's
skating rink, 52rd and State streets: With
the coming of the cold and winter nights
great crowds are expected to assemble at
the tink.” Mr. ‘Bearguard Mosely, ‘sec-
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crowd by having the latest ball-bearing
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KANSAS CITY (KAN.) WINS,
Plays ‘Double-Header and Takes Both
Games.
‘The Kansas Giants romped home
with two more victories Sunday in a
double-header at Riverside Park. The
Royal Giants went down to defeat be-
fore the Kansas boys.
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Batteries: “Royals, “Sunny Jim and
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‘The’ Kansis. City’ (Kan) Giants” and
the Kansas City ‘(Mlo.) Blues, of the
American Association, will open a series
of games Sunday, October 9, at Asso-
ciation Park. These games will be hot-
ly contested as the Blues have always
been a little shy of the Kansas boys.
The series will. be the closing of the
season for the Giants. ‘The entire team
will Winter in Kansas City, Kans, Mr.
Smith having secured positions for all
his boys.
BASEBALL IN NEW ORLEANS.
The New Orleans Eagles have closed
the season, not losing one game on our
home, grounds since we returned home,
July 25.
‘Out of the last 23 games we played we
won 22 losing the one game to Mobile
in Mobile.
All the regulars have been, playing, ball
as good as any manager could expect.
Ciark, formerly of St. Louis Giants, and
IMinols ‘Giants, tried hard three times to
stop those flying Eagles, but he found it
impossible.
‘The New Orleans Eagles are composed
of some of the cinssiest ball players in
the South, such men as Bud Wilson,
Buteh Hill, Kid Bantholum and Captain
Walker being on the team. These men
have shown the class against every team
they have met.
‘Mr. Frank Palambo, owner of the New
Orleans Eagles, says he will nave one of
{he finest colored teams in the South next
spring.
All teams who intend ane South
next Spring should write to Mr. Frank
Palambo or Frank Walker, who, by the
way; as been" made ‘managing’ eaptatn
for i911.” His address is 8888 Oak street
New Orleans,
On September 25 a large crowd of en
thuslastic fans turned out to see the last
kame of the season between ‘the bagtes
and the All-Stars. Babe Lee was on the
found for the agies and Tobinson: ex
New York: Black Sex, pitched for the All
Stars.
‘The feature of the game was the de-
livery of Babe Lee. This fellow. 1s some
pitcher, only 17 years of age, and he held
the All-Stars down to four hits.
Joseph played first in the place of Cap.
tain Walker, who is out of the game on
account af a’ bad knee.
Oout of four times up Joseph got three
hits, two being two-bazgers.
Bartholomew also played & great. game
at short, "and ‘accepted eleven chances
without an ‘error,
It looked as if the Stars would win
the ase game Until “the. elgith inning
when “Bud Wilson came. up to. bat. With
fvo''men’ on’ bases ‘and as usual cleared
Final score :
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N.O. Hagiés 271112100004 0 *—7
Batteries-—Robinson and Lewis; Babe
Lee and Wiley.
Tmpire—Ridgely.
JIM JEFFRIES IN BAD HEALTH.
Ailment Baffling Physicians.
Word comes from Los Angeles that
Jeffries is anything but a well man,
‘That, the trouble that seemed to fasten
itself on him at Reno two days before
the fight has developed into a case that
is puzzling the doctors, says Otto Floto,
ot Denver, who is very close to the for-
mer champion. Jeff's blood seems to be
in terrible shape, and boils, large and
small, are appearing all over his. body.
if this is true, then we will know what
alled him on duly 4 last, and there will
be a reason Tor’ the ‘miserable ‘showing
he made against Johnson in that. ring
that day. “Once before when Jeff fought
Sharkey at Coney Island, the same trou-
ble appeared, and for a’ time Billy De-
laney thought that he kould have to post-
pone the fight, But Jef was much young-
erat that time, and it did not bother
him. With years ereeping on, he lacked
the vitality to shake it off, and he sut-
Tered a. perfect’ collapse “just. before en-
tering ‘the Ting. “Farmer Burns, "in the
dressing room, was one of the first to no-
tice this sad situation, but was warned
not to make it Known to Jeffries or any-
‘one else.” ‘This accusing him ot coward.
feo is ail rot.” Twill never forget what
Billy Delaney said to me about ten years
ago: “Jeff is the gamest man inside the
Fopes I ever’ save, and, the ‘mildest and
most patient wheh he is not engaged n
av fight T ever saw. He. is surely @
Strange creation.” Why was he never
Accused ‘of cowardice in. his previous
fights? It’s too late to start a story of
that kind now.
THE WHITE MAN'S NEW HOPE RE-
TURNS TO HIS FARM.
_ CHICAGO,—Miles McLeod, the “white
man's hope,” has. returned. to his farm
in Missouri’ to stay until the fall, crops
ate ready for the market, having réceived
during his short stay in Chicago his first
step.in preparation for the annihilation
Of Jack Johnson some years hence.
Joe Choynski declared his boxing with
the Missourl giant showed him that Mc-
Leod had the makings of a world-beater.
Xs evidence, McLeod displayed a blacken-
ed eye, puffed nose and a pair of badly
swollen lips,
‘McLeod stands six feet five, weighs 225
pounds and is 26 years old.’ He landed
én Choynsicl but once or twice, but that
Was enough to start the fighter off. When
the bout ended a brigade was needed to
clean up the gore. Chynski said they
boxed one round, but McLeod declared it
was three.
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GET THE HABIT.
Read The Freeman—Religious, Po:
titleal, Stage, Sport, and all other
news. On sale at your news dealer or
‘agent every Saturday.
Miss Marie Young, of Noblesville, Ind.,
was in the city Tuesday.
Miss Nellie M. Powell, of Chicago, is
visiting relatives in the city.
The Waiters’ Club held its usual ‘Tues-
day evening soiree. Good attendance.
‘Mr. Arthur Martin, of St. Paul, Minn,
will be the guest of Mrs. Grant and
daughter, in Capitol avenue,
‘Mrs. Celia M. Stewart and little son,
Charies Gienn, have returned from a tive
weeks’ stay at Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Sadie B. Dungey, Grand Worthy
Counselor of the Calantie Courts of In-
diana, was at Vincennes this. week on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. James Glenn, of North
West street, ‘entertained “at dinner last
Sunday afternoon, Kev. Dr. HW. Tate
and Mr. George L. Knox,
‘The Endowment Board of the Knights
of Pythias, Jurisdiction of Indiana, and
also of the Calanthe Courts of Indiana,
will meet in this city Sunday.
Mrs. John Ward and daughter, Mrs
Mayme Ward Jamison, and Mr. and Mrs
Silds Bundy were the’ guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Kuykendall, of Golden Hil.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood C, Knox and Mr.
Russell Smith were entertained at dinner
‘Tuesday evening at the Parker House by
‘Mr. Oscar C. Carter, song writer, of Chi-
cago, Il.
‘Mr. Jesse Bishop, of Chicago, is in the
city, visiting relatives and friends, Mr.
Bisliop was formerly of Indianapolis, be-
fore the war. He is past eighty years
but active.
James H. Lott, Rufus Kukyendall_and
William eid were among. the . colored
Members of the committee that met ex-
President Roosevelt in Covington, Ky., en-
route to Indianapolis.
‘The | Woman's Interdenominational
Prayer Band will hold thelr meeting Sun-
day at 3 p.m. at Mount Carmel Baptist
Church, Bast "Twenty-firth street and
Manlove avenue.” Mrs, J. ‘T. V. Hill wil
Gea -the. Renita. tenon.
NO EXTRA CHARGES
For extreme styles. We make them the
way you like. No extra charges of any
Kind." Suit or overcoat to. order, $13.15
and up. S.J. Singer & Sons, 42 West
Washington street,
SIMPSON CHAPEL NOTES.
Rev, H. W, Tate, D. D., Pastor,
‘The quarterly class rally will be held
Tuesday night, the 18th, by ‘the leaders.
‘The pastor will, preach ‘Sunday at 11a,
m, on “Woman's Work in the Church ;*
8p. m, on “Can a Bastard Be Saved?"
(See Deut. 23:2.) Mrs. Lena Mason,
evangelist, will preach at’ this church
Thursday ‘night, the 20th, in the interest
of the new pipe organ, ‘fund. Refresh-
ments served after services by the com-
mittee, Mrs, Franklin, Mrs. Clay and oth-
ers. Miss Bessie M.’ Garrison, field sec-
retary, W. H. M. Society of ‘the M. E.
Chureh, will spend November 3-6 in’ the
city in the interest of home mission work.
Sunday, October 23, will be Southwestern
Christin Advocate Day, “at_ which time
subscriptions will be taken for that pa-
er.
PHILLIPS’ CHAPEL.
Rev. T. A. Edwards preached his fare-
well sermon last Sunday, night to a fine
audience. He left Monday for his con-
Terence, which is being held this week at
Millersburg, Ky. His five months" pastor-
ate, under ‘the conditions, was very. suc-
wessful. It is expected that he will be re-
turned,
‘The men of the church, buoyed up by
Rheir success at the stag social, have con
wluded to put on a banquet in the very:
near future. “The men will cook and
serve as before.
“the choir is coming up in fine form.
Bpworth League is reaching out, tak-
ingin” new members. It meets’ at 7
o'lock p.m. cach Sunday. Visitors in-
SitidrtO take part td the discussions,
DON’T ORDER
Your fall sult or overcoat until you have
Zocn Gur fail line ‘of woolens., We wil
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BRIE Se'orercoat ‘us your measures $12.75
Bnd Ub. ge Singer: & Sone, 43 "Went
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Y. M,C. A. NOTES.
A large crowd of men and women are
expected at the platform meeting to. be
felon. next’ Sunday ‘under’ the auspices
Of the Colored Young Men's Christian’ As-
Soctation, at, South» Calvary. Baptist
Church, ‘A splendid program is being pre-
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and glee club and addresses by city pas-
tors. 'Giverybody' is invited. ‘Women as
well as men are expected. “Program be-
gins promptly at 3 p.m
‘The Sunday Schoo! Lesson Bible Class
is here to stay. Every man and woman
interested in the Sanday. School ‘lesson
should be out next ‘Thursday, at 8 p. m.
Prof. Todd is the instructor.
Night school Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, 8 "to 9:20 p.m.” Now Is te time
(0. Join.
Gymnasium classes every Monday and
‘Thursday, from § to 9:30 p. m.
Every member and ex-member of the
association is expected at the building
on Tuesday night. Membership reunion.
Bean supper. Good time. Come.
DON'T PAY HIGH PRICES
To your tailor when you can get an up-
to-date suit made to your measure at
$18.75, Local shops, get, $25, for same.
8. J. Singer & Sons, 43 West Washington
street.
MAKING GOOD AS HEADWAITER.
Mr. A. R. Manning, who holds the posi-
tion of headwaiter at English’s Hotel, is
proving a capable man. He is quite
young, but -he has ‘had considerable ex-
perience in his line, all of which adds to
his usefulness as the head of a well-con-
ducted dining room.
‘Mr, Manning believes in having his men
devoted to their calling, insists that they
be all-attention in order to answer the
demands of the dining room. —Eifictent
service always is bis motto.
He is a native of Tennessee, but is re-
‘cently from Chicago.
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BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES.
By special request, Dr. Smythe will
preach to-morrow morning from the top-
fc, “The Law of Success.” In. the eyen-
ing the Junior Christian’ Endeavor Socl-
ety will render a program. All are cor-
slay Invited
ATLANTIC CITY, N. Js
Special to THE FREEMAN.
Our night schools open on the 17th
this year. ‘The sessions will be held in
the hew $40,000 grammar school, on
Ohio near Pacifie, “We are proud to say
that the board of education employes
quite a number of our colored teachers
and the vast number that attend the
Classes are eager to acquire the founda-
ton of a good education... Inspector
Fox of Patriarchie 78, G. U. D. of odd
Fellows, and one of our most prominent
citizens, is very ill at his, residence,
1613 Arctic ayenue....Rev. C.-L. Hazel,
of the Zion Wesley’ connection conduct:
ed service all day at Price Memorial,
fon North Olio avenue. Over $300 were
raised for the new heater fund... Mr.
Mantley, former porter at the iiotel
‘Traymore, with lis family, left Sunday
for Baltimore, where Mr. Mantley, who
has been sick’ for the past few months,
Will spend the Winter....Mr. Fleming,
one of the trusted employes of Barton's
coal yard, died Sunday Oct. 1st, leaving
& wife and children to mourn his loss.
Mr, Eugene Wright is home again after
spending a few days in the city of
brotherly love. He was the honored
guest at the card party given by Miss
Goot. one of the social lights of Phila-
deiphia...:Mrs. Sarah Manning, one of
the oldest’ members of AUantic House-
hold of Ruth, No. 417, is quite ill at
her residence, 1513 Baltic avenue...
Miss Robipson, matron at the Old Folks
Home in Philadelphia, Pa,, ts the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson, 1917
Arctic. avenue. Miss. Robinson, some
years ago, Was a resident of the resort
and is. surprised at the marvelous
growth of the city, and its increase in
Value of real esiate....Naomi House-
hold, which is attached to Arctic lodye
G. U, 0. of Gad Fellows, was set_apart
Friday evening, Oct. 7th, by Leah H.
H. No. 2138, after ‘the business, ete.,
was transacted. The visitors and officers
were given a collation....Prof, T. Col-
Tins organist and chorister of Asbury
Chureh, also agent and jocal reporter of
the Atlantic City Weekly Topic, has re-
turned from an eleven days’ ‘visit to
New York, Philadelphia and other places
PENSACOLA, FLA.
Special to THE FREEMa.
Miss Hazel Lyman left last week for
Nashville, Tenn., where she will re-
enter on ler second term in Walden Col-
lege, Miss Lyman has been quite pop-
ular among the young set, being the
hostess of several social affairs....Mrs.
Montray Jolinson, of, New Orleans, who
has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Har-
rison Johnson, on West Laura street,
left last week for her home after a very.
pleasant visit....Misses Legutha and
Wella Watson left last week for Atlanta,
Ga, ‘where they enter Morrinson Brow
College....Mr. Roy Surler, who has
been spending the. summer in Norway,
Conn., will be home. Mr. Surler's many
friends will be glad to see him back. ...
Miss Emma Lewfs left last week for
Atlanta, Ga. ‘where ‘she will re-enter
Morrison Brown College....Miss Katie
Spencer, who has been inthe north for
the summer, is expected home soon...
Mr. Walter Charles, son of Mr. Samuel
Charles, arrived last week from Tus-
kegee,Ala., where he has been quite
il in ‘Tuskegee Institution. Tt ts hoped
by friends of Mr. Charles that he will
be out again soon. ...Mr. Anderson Wan-
glas, Jr., is reported to be ill at the
Tuskegee institution....Miss Harriet
Ridley and brother, Mr! Hughes, lett
for Livingston, N. C., where they will
re-enter on their second. term in Liv-
{ngston College....Mr. Sentor-Coleman
lett for Nashvilie, Tenn.. where he will
enter Meharry College, Where he studies
pharmaceutial....Miss Mamie Rivers
has charge of the Phoenix pharmacy...
Messrs. W. J. and R. Moses left ‘for
New Orleans, La., where they will enter
New Orleans University....Mr. Oscar
Pettiwag lett for Tuskegee, Ala., where
he will enter Tuskegee Institution. ..
Miss Marion Miller and Miss Gerhive
Boley left for Jacksonville, Fla., where
they. will enter Edward Waters College.
=. Mr. R. C. Cooper of West Wagner
Street, has been on the sick list for the
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men as}out soon....The public school, colored, eee cards, on 4-piy bristol card
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oe hehe piyailans Den ee. turner
his is a. Food. showing fora Nog en:
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preached’ ‘his frst. sermon at St dames
RM E. Church to a crowded: house, both
morning and evening. Iev. Jones. comes
{ous highly, recommended, “trom Kceokule
Tas sitev. HS, Graves ‘and faunily tet
fast ‘week for Evanston, le where hy has
been “appointed to. preach” at “A. ME.
Ghuroh Pot that ‘citys Phe Young La-
See and young Sen's Ghus of Se peter
Givens ‘crunch will give a minstéel” and
ballon ie 18th ‘inst © scarda: have. been
issued for the marriage ‘of Miss Harriet
‘Loomis to Mr, Cleat Oliver, formerly of
tins" cits,” but now. residing’ at Brandon,
Man. <"‘Siiss “Loomis sone of St. aul
Poptlar "young indies” and’ i a “aoprano
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EAP Mis Gougtit the Argue’ barber ‘shop
Gna ‘the ‘New Capitol "barver shops
Madame Mt Mare has. opened. up ‘a, ait
Mrecaine aug wmnnue’ potion at Tie ee:
fren nae Me: eleva. King-Cross
Presented her “husband “with twit girs
fist "week!" afr Walley” Hobinaon “has
fone Yo Vanicouver, BG. to visit his
fathers, ..atrs,. Stella. Green ‘has’ bougit
out Dif, TS. Harris’ interest inthe
Dublin inn,” the popular Minnesota street
restaurant. Reve SteDonaid Hes moved
toils new home at G81 West Cagtent ay
ghues. Mrs, Jamies ‘Thomas hagegorte to
indisiipoie Indes to "visit tena
Siti Langford appeared at the tar ‘tie:
ater ign week. He was ncconmtied bs
Bob Aviation. .- the Negra eBusiness
Dengue met ae the Busy Comer tat Mons
dayenight. cthe Afro-American Civic
{ndusteial League was organized at St
James Churcheon October s+ with Bir
Walker ‘Williams as president! “The club
hopes: tov ameliorate. the. elvic’and indus.
{ehiconaltion of Negroes tn our citys”
Kev, Stephen tayion, of Chicago, preached
a Piigrhin Baptise ‘Chureh on. last Sun
day! evenings sreAfr, (amd. Afra, Harvey
Hidimes have gone to California to spend
Holmes ha
YAZOO CITY, MISS.
Misses Willella Johnson and Angeline
Mills haye left for, Natchez College...
Master Gamet Langford left for the "A.
and. M__ College ‘at Alcorn, Miss, . fon:
Tp. Suttlar, secretary Of Branch 986,
Of the National Association of Letter Car:
tiers. and also’ a_member of the. local
doard “ot civil service examiners, has
temporarily: moved his family. to Benton,
Mise, while his. $2,000 residence ts being
but! “Mrs J.D. Suttar and her tittle
daughter’ Matie called to see. papa and
husband, and were well pleased with the
progress Mr, Wesley Laws, the contract:
br was making. on thelr’ nice bullding.
on -Mr. Garnet Armstrong Is now at the
‘Waier” street “Poo! oom, “whieh tes
managing with credit & himself and race
poste, Plotan’ Blossoms “and Ravoit
Foot’ Companies were amon} mans
Attractions last wel. The Morida. Bios
Soms didn't have standing room.” More
than a’ thousand people were “present.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.
Mrs, Nellfe Meantiaed departed for
Richmond, Va, to spend the winter...
Mrs. "fannie Woolrlige ig visiting in
Chicazos.:.Mrs, Minnie Watson sand
Missi Wateon nas returned trem Peo-
fa. cite Wm. ‘Tinsley. has’ Feturned
from’ Decatur... Rev. Evans “has te-
turned from Springield...-Mrs. ‘Thomas
Scrogeing and Jessie Scroggins are vis-
Hing in Springfield... Mrs. Fred Rush
Hutus Lashley: the crack fisherman, has
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VOL. XXIII. NO. 42.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Political Skies Brightening for the Colored Brother.
(Thompson's National News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 12. The political skies seem to be brightening for the colored brother.
President Taft, following his program to take up in orderly fashion the many and varied problems that require attention at his hands as president of all the people, held a conference at Beverly last Wednesday, by appointment, with a group of Negro leaders, out of which, doubtless, will soon come some important and far-reaching results.
Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington; Charles W. Anderson, collector of internal revenue for the Second district of New York, and James A. Cobb, assistant U. S. district attorney, Washington, D. C., were the president's visitors. The president expressed himself as appreciating general conditions as they exist among the colored people, as expalained by his visitors, and announced himself as being in hearty sympathy with the suggestion that some encouragement be given to them along the lines suggested in his inaugural address—that "the recognition of their distinguished men, any appointment to office from among their number, is properly taken as an encouragement and an appreciation of their progress."
Some appointments out of the ordinary class of places bestowed upon colored citizens are likely to be made at an early date. This will mark a new era in the progress of the colored people, and be a distinct advance over political conditions of the past. The conference is said to have been marked with great cordiality and yet with very great frankness on both sides. The president's assurances are said to have led his visitors to take a most hopeful view of the policies to be pursued in the future with regard to the Negro people.
Gov. Pinchback Deputy Internal Revenue Collector.
Announcement is made of the appointment of Former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, one time governor of Louisiana, as a deputy collector of internal revenue, in charge of the corporation tax. His headquarters will be in New York City, and it is understood that the place carries a salary of about $3,500 per annum. The selection is an admirable one from every point of view and will be received with general rejoicing all over the country. The silver-haired ex-Louisianian is immensely popular with both the masses and the classes in every section of the land. There is not the slightest doubt that the appointment will go far to allay the complaint in some quarters that President Taft's administration is not friendly disposed toward the Negro as an officeholder. No man deserves more at the hands of his party than ex-Governor Pinchback, and the recognition enables him to round out a picturesque and powerful career in a manner befitting his valuable services and personal dignity.
The early life of "Pinckney Stewart" as he was known in his boyhood days, reads like a romance. He attended school in Cinchmatti, but left while a very young man and secured a "run" on the Mississippi river steamboats, a calling which he pursued for years. Finally he located in New Orleans and became active in political life. In 1872 he was elected governor of the State of Louisiana, and later was chosen as United States senator. Complications arose which prevented him from taking his seat in the upper legislative body of the nation and he never qualified for the office. The blocking of the senate resolution granting him his seat is accredited to Former Senator George F. Edmunds, a Republican from Vermont.
Governor Pinchback wielded a tremendous influence in politics during and after reconstruction days, and has participated in all of the campaigns since the Negro became a citizen. In many national conventions he has been a delegate and a potent factor in naming the candidate for the presidency. He is now a citizen of the State of New York, but for the greater part of the last twenty-five years he has made his home in Washington, where he has been a large property owner. It i presumed that the appointment of Governor Pinchback may be attributed to the activities of his friends identified with the Booker T. Washington wing of the civic compact.
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The National Independents Hold Conference.
The executive committee of the National Independent League held a conference Thursday at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church. Rev. S. L. Corrothers, president of the local league, presided. At the public meeting in the evening Bishop Alexander Walters, president of the national organization, delivered an earnest address, urging the Negro to unite for his political salvation, independent of any party—to establish what is now a negligible quantity—a political leadership. W. Monroe Trotter devoted his speech to an arraignment at the Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the New York meeting of the National Negro Business Men's League, concluding with a challenge to the Colonel to meet him (Trotter) in joint debate on the race question at any point that might be mutually agreed upon.
The league, by agreement, decided to advise the colored voters in New York to support Dix for governor; in New Jersey to stand by Woodrow Wilson; in Ohio to vote for Harmon; in Indiana vote for legislators favorable
to John W. Kern for senator, and in Massachusetts vote against legislative candidates favorable to the re-election of Senator Lodge. Senator Bulkeley is to be supported in Connecticut, and in West Virginia and Delaware the voters are advised to stand up for the full Republican ticket. The league, it is said, plans to wage a vigorous campaign along the lines marked out, and will have the sinews of war to carry out their policies.
Dick Shaw Out of Senate Restaurant. Without the sale of liquor the Senate restaurant is a losing proposition, according to the experience of Richard A. Shaw, the veteran headwaiter, who for the past two years has been in full charge of the cafe where the "grave and reverend seignors" are wont to fill the inner man. When Mr. Shaw was given the management two years ago after thirty-five years of service as headwaiter, it was thought that he could make it a "go" if any body could, as he knew better than anyone else just what appealed to the appetite of every senator in the chamber. He was to receive any profit he could make; but, not only were there no profits, despite the fact that he had no rent, or other expenses to pay, he is poorer in pocket today by something over $600, and needs no further proof that a Senate restaurant cannot be conducted successfully on a prohibition basis. Shaw's predecessors like wise "went into the hole," following the curtailment of the liquor privilege. The committee on rules has elected Lyman F. Sterns, formerly manager of the cafe at the Chevy Chase Golf club, as Shaw's successor. Sterns is a white man.
That "Mass Meeting" a "Frost."
The allegel "mass meeting," called by some irresponsible individual to "protest" against the administration of the existing school system and to force the removal of Assistant Superintendent Rocosee Conkling Bruce, developed into the worst kind of a "frost." Widespread advertising and much fuss and feathers succeeded in bringing to True Reformers Hall last Friday evening an "outpouring" of ten indignant citizens. Sundry orators "orated," and some cut-and-dried resolutions were presented, all to the effect that there is something the matter with our public schools. No remedy was suggested, save the removal of Superintendent Bruce, although no nomination was made of any other educator who would be likely to give any large degree of satisfaction to the various elements of our 100,000 people than the present incumbent. No one claims that the school system is perfect, but it is producing better results than any that has yet been devised, and it is difficult to convince the substantial removal of this community that the removal of Mr. Bruce would make the situation better. He is able, conscientious and painstaking, and he should be supported instead of being made the victim of abuse and misrepresentation the fight against Mr. Bruce is purely personal and malicious, and those who are fostering this campaign are trying to grind an axe at the expense of the peace and wellbeing of the constructive workers of the community. The change of teachers at Deanwood, which is made the excuse for the present agitation, is endorsed by both the Board of Education and the citizens of Deanwood themselves, and it is understood that Miss Kinner herself repudiates the movement alleged to have been inaugurated in her behalf. The whole thing is a "tempest in a teapot," and from on these so-called "mas" meetings will be given the cold shoulder by the people who are honestly interested in the proper development of our educational system. The True Reformers' Hall meeting was deservedly a failure.
Ase the Gossips See It.
Prof. William Jenifer is growing in strength as a candidate for probation officer of the District of Columbia. He is the best fitted aspirant in the field.
It is customary to tender a banquet in honor of all of the principal federal appointees shortly after their investment with the robes of office. According to this time-honored custom, dinners are due Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds; Col. W. D. Johnson, special agent of the general land office, and Whitfield McKinley, collector of the Port of Georgetown, D. C. Besides these there should also be a public function in acknowledgment of the election of Dr. A. H. Curtis as president of the National Medical Association.
Bethel Literary and Historical Association had a grand opening on the 4th of October, signalizing the beginning of its twenty-ninth year. Prof W. E. B. DuBois delivered a scholarly address on "The New Forward Movement," counselling unity of racial action against all forms of prescription on account of color. The discussion was a lively one, the participants being Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Prof Kelly Miller, Attorneys E. M. Hewlett, Robert L. Waring and N. B. Marshall and Professors W. H. Richard and Jesse Lawson. At the second meeting, held Tuesday evening of this week, Mr. Neval H. Thomas, of the M Street High School, has just returned from an extended tour of Europe, told a graphic story of his experiences abroad. The administration of President Garnet C. Wilkerson starts off in admirable fashion.
Bishop J. W. Smith, of the A. M. E. Zion church, is seriously ill with a complication of complaints. He is at his home, 1309 R street, northwest, under the care of Dr. E. D. Williston. It is feared that a delicate operation may be found necessary.
Dr. L. G. Jordan, of Louisville, Ky., corresponding secretary of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Board of the National Baptists Convention, and the
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treasurer of the National Negro Press Association, was in the city last week attending the grand opening of the National Training School for Girls, of which Miss Nannie H. Burroughs is president. He reports an excellent state of affairs at this thriving institution at Lincoln Heights, D. C.
The movement to have Justice John M. Harlan named as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court is receiving warm support at the hands of the press of Washington, regardless of politics or other extraneous considerations. He is the logical choice for this exalted post, and it is the sincere hope of our people that the president permit him to round out his long and useful career as the head of the nation's court of last resort.
Miss Sarah J. Janifer, a prominent factor in the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the A. M. E. church, has under consideration the question of taking up systematic missionary work in western Africa. Miss Janifer is especially adapted to a mission of this kind and should she accept, she will be a powerful agency for the illumination of the Dark Continent.
W. D. Johnson, special agent of the general land office, is in the city for a brief period. While in the field Mr. Johnson visited eleventh States and successfully handled some of the most difficult cases that have fallen to the lost of his department. The work agrees with the courageous Kentuckian, for he is oloking the picture of health and has taken on considerable avoidupos since his appointment. Mr. Johnson is still of the opinion that a hustling, fearless, straight-from-the-shoulder Negro journal is needed at the nation's capital, and as soon as he can make the necessary arrangements it is very likely that he will launch a paper here of the kind he formerly
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The colored night schools are being wel lpatronized. The enrollment on the opening night was 1,149, and Director Bruce Evans is of the opinion that the total will reach 2,000 before the books are closed. A wide range of practical subjects are included in the curriculum. The Night Business High School is overflowing, and a brilliant year is promised under the principalship of William H. Davis, the expert stenographer and specialist in commercial education.
All of the blue prints used in the architectural and engineering work of the War Department are made by a colored man, Samuel F. Tyre, who draws a salary of $900 per annum. He does his work with the skill of an artist, and his competency is vouchered for by every official with whom he is brought into contact.
W. Sidney Pittman, the noted architect, has been spending some time in the South. He is superintending the erection of a number of fine buildings for Dr. J. E. Sheard's National Religious Training School at Durham, N.C., and will look after the Carnegie Library for Colored People at Montgomery, Ala., his plans for this splendid building having been accepted by the trustees. Mr. Pittman is the son-in-law of Dr. Booker T. Washington. It is said that pressure is now being brought to bear upon Mr. Pittman to locate in Birmingham or Atlanta, but it is scarcely probable that he will abandon his lucrative field in Washington or leave the beautiful home he has established at Farmmount Heights, a growing suburb of the nation's capital.
Col. James Lewis has returned to his home in New Orleans after a very pleasant visit.
The local Negro Business League is being revived by President Robert L. Waring. Mr. Waring was elected to the chairmanship over W. Calvin Chase by a majority numbering two to one, not long ago. Mr. Waring pro-
proses to run the league on strictly business principles. The league and the Commercial Council will probably consolidate.
Upwards of two hundred students are registered at the Normal School No. 2, of which the cultured Dr. Lucy E. Moten is the official head. Miss Moten has sent hundreds of capable teachers into the field, and this crop bids fair to be among the best she has yet turned out.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of the Board of Education, delivered an able address Wednesday to an immense audience at the Appalachian Exposition at Knoxville, Tenn. Before returning eastward Mrs. Terrell will visit her father, Col. R. R. Church, at Memphis, and friends at Nashville and Chattanooga, filling lecture engagements at each point. Mrs. Terrell continues to make sentiment for the forthcoming celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Edgar Commer, the winning mascot of Cole and Johnson's "The Red Moon" company, is spending a forty-night in the city. Edgar, who is a "pocket edition of George W. Walker," is the adopted son of J. Rosamond Johnson and makes his home in New York City. He is an actor, comedian and dancer of stellar proportions.
The intellectual standard of Howard Law School is to be raised. President Thirkield has announced that after 1911 all students who desire to enter the law department would be compelled to submit certificates of graduation from an accredited high school or to pass an examination showing an equivalent training precedent to entrance. Heretofore an elementary education has been sufficient for entrance to this school. The annual tuition fee is to be increased from $25 to $50. The effect of this elevation of
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mental standard and increase of fee will be the bringing in of a superior grade of men, and the restriction of privileges to those whose previous education prepares them to grasp the intricate problems constantly arising in the study of law. A course of lectures is being arranged for. A similar elevation of mental standard is to be made in the medical department. Howard alms to rank with Harvard in toughness, and under President Thirkield's plan a Howard diploma will eventually mean as much as a "sheepskin" from the proudest school in any land.
The following promotions of colored clerks at the Census Office are announced: From $900 to $1,000 per annum, Ocea Taylor, Alabama; $840 to $900, William P. Bayless, Ohio; $600 to $720, Stanley H. Cox, John S. Hunnicut and Nathaniel M. Nesbitt, Ohio; H. H. Thwatt, Texas.
Hon. John C. Dancy attended the dedication of the new and magnificent Varick Memorial Temple, at Philadelphia, last week. Mr. Dancy says the edifice is one of the very best in the denomination. He delivered the most telling address of the occasion. Since his retirement from federal office Mr. Dancy has devoted much of his time to the lecture platform and there has been a steady demand for his services.
The North Carolina tour of Dr. Booker T. Washington, beginning on October 28 at Charlotte is attracting much attention here. A number of Washingtonians will be members of the party, including Former Recorder John C. Dancy, R. W. Thompson and others. Bishop G. W. Clinton will direct the tour, which is factiously described as an "educational pilgrimage." Since these state tours have been carried on with such advantageous results in cementing the relations of the races, Dr. Washington has been rechristened "The Advance Agent of Peace."
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PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE
Kentucky Home Society for the Colored Children Organized.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The Kentucky Home Society for Neglected, Abandoned and Helpless Colored Children has been organized and incorporated in this city and bids fair to become a great power in the salvation and betterment of the general condition of Lane, and Mr. Benjamin Hayes. He the race in this State. Nearly four years ago, after the establishment of the Juvenile Court, with its probation and truant officers, a number of prominent citizens, taking cognizance of the sad neglect of the colored child, sought to arouse the sympathies and awaken the interests of our fellowmen for the purpose of securing appropriate quarters in Louisville and out in the country, where this class of children might be received, cared for and kept until adoption. The judge of the Jefferson County Court called a meeting of citizens of both races and indorsed the movement. The plan of the Jefferson County Court was explained in detail, but at first our white friends were slow and timid, for fear that it might entail a great financial burden upon them. It was then thought advisable to call together a few thoughtful colored people to ascertain if they could be induced to undertake the enterprise. At this and at a subsequent meeting, both of which were held at the residence of the Rev. C. H. Parish, the matter was most thoroughly canvassed and it was decided to make an effort to secure a farm in Bullitt county, owned by the United Brothers of Friendship. This came to naught, and, undismayed, the friends of the organization went before the General Assembly and stated the needs of the destitute colored children. The joint committee on appropriations promised that if they would complete the organization and perfect plans for carrying on the work, that State help would be forthcoming gin the near future.
The letters of incorporation were secured in August, 1908, and the Eckstein-Norton Institute was chosen as the temporary receiving home. This society is pledged to foster and promulgate the following splendid objects: To protect the inherent rights of children; to preserve the sacred interests of the family home; to bring forward the Kingdom of God among mankind by the salvation of children; for the making and enforcement of salutary laws affecting motherhood and childhood; for the diffusion of that love and interest in our neighbor's child that we feel for our own. The great civic idea that is expected to be commuted is the diminution of criminality among members of our race; to increase the number of useful citizens and to bridge the chasm between the helpless child and the childless home. The work is to be carried on at present by voluntary pledges of one dollar per annum by our own people and by whatever outside assistance is available.
The board of advisors is as follows:
Hon. Chas. A. Wilson, president; Senator W. O. Bradley, Col. Bennett H Young, Attorney Benj. F. Washer, Hon. Arthur Peter, Mr. Hugo Krause, Mr. A. T. McDonald, Mr. F. C. Nunemacher, Mr. G. L. Schon, Attorneys J. M. Chatterson, Bert F. Fink, Enos Spencer, Miss Rebecca G. Averill, Mrs. Amanda Cabell. The board of directors: Rev. C. H. Parrish, president; J. Gaddis, vice president; W. W. Spradling, treasurer; Mrs. Bessie L. Allen, secretary; E. D. Brunson, Mary V. Parrish, T. W. Bradford, Dr. L. G Jordan and D. L. Knight. All communications should be addressed to Rev. C. H. Parrish, at the office, 807 Sixth street.
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The Negroes of this city are awakening to the necessity of more varied business and industrial activities, as is well shown by a movement now far advanced to project a Negro building and loan association. Some of the promoters are men of means, and if they can secure the aid and co-operation of the rank and file of those who earn their living by toil, the project will soon be established on a firm foundation. It will have what very few business propositions among our people can boast, and that is men of legal training and tried ability to protect the interests of the stockholders. It is to be hoped that such a capital can be raised that will enable the society to afford our poor some relief from the sharp tooth of the remorseless loan sharks. These and similar organizations, honestly and faithfully conducted, will make our people come in closer business and financial relations with each other, and promote that race unity and coherence, the lack of which has retarded us in countless ways. Mr. W. H. Wright, attorney at law, has issued this circular letter to the colored citizens of Louisville:
We have written to a large number of gentlemen of our city, impressing upon them the idea of branching out into some enterprise; that is, to come together, combine their financial, material and intellectual interest. Do you know that in the city of Louisville there are fifty thousand men, women and children of the Negro race? Do you know that thousands of your own children are in the public schools, preparing themselves for the higher pursuits of life, and yet when they shall have finished their courses of study, prepared themselves for some pursuit in life other than the common laborer, there is not anything for them to do? If you have
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not thought of these things, please begin to-day, for the time is now at hand when men are measured by their financial interest, their material worth and their rability to do.
I have thought of presenting to you the idea of establishing and organizing a Negro building and loan association; hence I am writing you this letter, and at the same time asking that you do me the honor of favoring me with any suggestion that you may have to offer.
I desire to call your attention to the fact that the time nor the opportunities will never be better for some proposition or the one mentioned to be put into execution. Why? Because we can truly see ourselves as never before. We, who like mirth and pleasure, have seen the theater closed in our faces, and for that reason there are now in operation two show houses owned and controlled by colored people.
My friend, grasp the idea and write me your thoughts, or call at my office and I will try to place before you my thoughts more fully.
I am, yours for the preservation of the Negro race,
W. H. WRIGHT.
Mr. Howard Boone, well-known ton-sorialist, of Ocinnattn, is in the city having a good time with the boys. He is a native Kentuckian and claims to be a great-grandson of Daniel Boone.
Mr. Rochelle I. Smith, one of the leading young business men of the city, interested in church and social affairs, after nearly a score of years in building up his father's business as a mover, packer and shipper, has severed his connection with the firm of Guy W. Smith & Sons and gone out on his own account to meet the blows of destiny. He is in many ways an exemplary young man, and deserves the support and patronage of the public.
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Mr. William Lane, manager of a club at French Lick Springs, was in the city last week to attend the wedding of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth met all his old companions and left highly elated over his new step-father.
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The celebrated painting and decorating firm of Evans & Furst has the contract to paint the beautiful Houston Theater.
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Mr. Ocie Williams, of Chicago, is visiting his uncle, Mr. J. B. Williams, of 918 West Walnut street.
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Miss Sarah Martin, of French Lick, Ind., is visiting her mother at 922 West Walnut street.
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Mr. Jas. Moore, of Chicago, is visiting his sister.
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Miss Jennie Overstreet, of Springfield, O., is visiting Miss Annie Watson, of 710 Tenth street.
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Mr. Jas. Todd was the guest of honor at the Lane-Hayes wedding. They have all returned to French Lick.
Mr. W. L. Leavels is in the city visiting friends.
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Miss Lula Pettis, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Mamie Wilkins, 636 Twelfth street.
Mr. Hayes Booker, of New York, is the guest of Mrs. Harris, at 722 West Walnut street.
Mr. Abe Meaux is expecting to go into business soon.
Mr. Ed Munfries, of Chicago, is visiting friends.
The Rev. LeoY Ferguson, rector of the Church of Our Merciful Savior, has just returned from Cincinnati, where he has been in attendance upon the Protestant Episcopal Convention of the House of Bishops, and was received with distingished courtesy by the eminent prelates who assembled there. He took a prominent part in the proceedings and shed luster upon the parish which he represented. He was very much impressed with the native Japanese missionary, Rev. J. L. Motoda, of Tokio, who appealed to the American women to come to Japan to show the Japanese women how to live, "for if you save the Japanese women," he said, "you save the children, and if you save the children, you save the whole nation of Japan." Father Ferguson was much delighted over the appropriation of five thousand dollars which will go to St. Augustine's Mission, in North Carolina, to build a school for colored boys.
The House of Bishops defeated the amendment for the appointment of Suffragant Bishops, and this was highly pleasing to the delegation of colored clergymen, who contend that the passage of the amendment would prevent the Negro communicants of the church securing representation at the General Conference through missionary bishops of their own race, whom they seek to have appointed. There were many prominent people present and participating, the most notable of whom was J. Pierpont Morgan, whom Father Ferguson has interested in the uplift of the colored race. On Sunday next a special service at the Church of Our Merciful Savior will be held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his pastorate. The choir will render a special musical service.
The Rev. Locust, of the First Baptist Church at Anchorage, and Miss Esther Lillie were quietly married last week at the home of the bride.
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