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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS AUG 19 1911 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS. PUBLIC BUILDINGS TASTE FULLY DECORATED. Colored Funeral Directors Association Held a Successful Session at Lebanon—Latest Personal and Society News. By Lee L. Brown. 1006 West Chestnut Street, Home Phone 8007-L. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The public buildings are decorated with national colors and fraternal emblems. The decorations are in home in the courtyard. Of those who are in their annual session here this week, Louisville has not a colored order of Hikes. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hays passed through the city en route to Henderson, Ky. where Prof. Hays will serve as assistant principal of the Douglass High School. Mr. John W. Snowden, brigadier general of the Knights of Pythias, spent two hours in the city last Sunday. Mr. Snowden is very enthusiastic over the Kentucky Uniform Rank. He hopes to bring home the bacon. At the Grand Lodge he was a very conspicuous person. He made the address nominating another term the Grand Chancellor, Prof. H. F. Jones, of Henderson, Ky. The children of the Kentucky Home Society for Colored Children were transient Norton Institute, where they will spend several weeks, enjoying the cool breezes of Bullitt county. They were accompanied by the caretaker. Every week we receive more items than we are able to insert in this column. Our friends, who are anxious for special write-ups, should take this in mind. We are always glad to insert whatever we are providing that it comes from the proper persons, with name and address added. Mrs. L. Watson Cooper, Miss Ella Smith and Mrs. Malissa Slaughter left this week for Boston Harbor, Mich. At this week will be joined by Mrs. Laydon, Mrs. Xavier, and Mrs. Merchant of Cincinnati, Ohio. Principal B. Snowden and Sir J. L. Yewshinton have announced themselves for the Grand Keeper of Records and Seals. Both are making every effort to urge their friends to give them a hearty support. Since the last session of the Grand Keeper of Knights of Pythias, which met in Denville, Ky., quite a number of candidates for Grand Chancellor have announced themselves. Promoted to the role we must mention R. E. Johnson, we must mention that he has been a very active Pythian, Mr. Johnson if elected, has promised his help in that that he will use every effort to help the Grand Chancellor, a limit of two years for Grand Chancellor, a lower Grand Lodge tax and to sepa- the office of Grand Secretary from Grand Keeper of Records and Seals. A much-needed organization has been formed by a number of persons who are interested in the welfare of the children. It seems we are passing through a very important period in the history of Louisville in the twentieth century. Already two home-finding societies are coming into existence, each having its object "the finding of a house for its children less child, and a child for every childless child." We also have a well-organized orphan's society that it seems as if many of the children toock up and down Walnut street late in the year are increasing. The T. M. C. A. and A. C. societies are making every effort to save them, yet the task seems discouraging. The centennial Banquet have conceived the idea that it was their purpose to encourage the children to stay on the streets at odd hours of night. As a result, they will have a large meeting place; they will be known as Louisville Gala Day, a number of prominent persons, who are interested invited to take a part. There will be a children meeting, every children will interest the welfare of the children, have been invited to take a part. There will be a children meeting, every children will interest the welfare of the children should be presented to Mr. Peter Pinchan is the president of the movement. a large number of the leading under- studies of the State of Kentucky met the last annual convention at Lebanon. It was one of the most successful meetings ever held by Colored Proud men. The convention was welcomed by the former L. A. Hocerty, a white postmaster, Hon. W. L. Snaulding, who in his work for Marion county, was a high tribute to the Kentucky Colored Children, and its importance work among the colored of Kentucky. Mr. H. L. Edison, T. H. McKinley, of Kentucky;ville; A. Burton, Lebanon, KY;ville; Prof. Burnett, of colored women; Mrs. Daisy Saffel, of colored women; Woman undertaker in Ken- ney. These women special addresses by Rev. Father, of Baltimore; priest, of Baltimore; Mr. Hawkins, of Eminence, spoke Treatment in the Necro; Causes Treatment were solos by Mary Norrell, Mrs. Lizzie Shively and Mrs. Lillian Cooper, in selections by the U. B. Band. AUG 19 1911 PUBLIC LIBRARY The following officers were elected: A. B. McAfee, Louisville, president; T. H. Hankins, Louisville, vice president; Mrs. Daisy Safel, Shelbyville, secretary; O. W. Eden, assistant secretary, and Mr. Frank Rice, assistant both of Lebanon. The next annual session will be held n Shelbyville, Ky. Mrs. F. S. Delaney and son Martin have returned to the city after a very pleasant visit to Bowling Green, Ky. Mrs. S. Butler of 531 East Jacob street, left this week for Indianapolis to visit her daughter, Miss Nettie Jenkins. The forty-third annual session of the Grand Lodge of United Brothers of Friendship, Sisters of Mysterious Tea and Judeen of Kentucky was called for order week Hafcourt, Mount W. Dardiff in the Court House, Mt. Sterling, Ky. After appropriate devotional excuses the address of welcome was delivered by Dr. W. H. Ballard, Lexington; Dr. S. A. O'Neil, Henderson, Prof. H. Currence Russell, Bloomfield; Prof. G. T. Warner, Prof. E. B. Davis, Georgetown; Prof. M. C. Laprete, Sharpsville. Friday was gala at, at which time there was a charge of $200 was given away in prizes in drivet contest. A large delegation from all parts of Kentucky was present. Cary B. Lewis, editor and manager of the Illinois Chronicle, of Chicago, arrived in the city today. He will do newspaper work for the Supreme Lodge. Knights of Pythias and encampment. After remaining here during the week he, with Col. John R. Marshall and Major R. R. Jackson, will leave for Springfield. He to go in camp with the Nighthawk. Content. Lewis will be one of the contributors to The Freeman, giving accounts and write-ups of Pythian visitors. Lewis has been on the staff of The Freeman for six years. NEGROES DEPLORE LYNCHING. National Education Convention at Denver Adopts Resolution. DENVER. August 16.—A resolution deploring the recent lynchings of Negroes in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma to end the educational Association, in convention here. The resolution, after pledging the renewed efforts of the organization to stamp out all forms of lawlessness to members of the Negro race, continues: "But we are unalterably opposed to the placing of one construction and in-law as applicable to the Negro and another as applicable to any other citizen." Among officers chosen were: President, William H. Harrison, Oklahoma; recording secretary, Miss J. C. Alves, Kentucky; corresponding secretary, H. R. Graham, Mississippi. St. Mary, was chosen for next year's convention. NEW PRESIDENT OF HAITI General Cincinnatus Leconte Elected Unanimously by Congress. PORT AU PRINCE, Haliti, August 14 —General Cincinnatus Leconte was today elected President of Haliti, unanimously, by Congress. Leconte headed the larger of the two revolutionary facets that overthrew President Antoine Simon. CHAMPAIGN ILL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG.19, 1911. KP WELCOME 10 MONTHS OUS 10 MONTHS OUS 10 MONTHS OUS WELCOME Miss Mammie and Miss Alice Swinck and Miss Ora Hunt, of Farmington, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Aleck McEloy, of Broadlands; Miss Nellie Nonell and George Patterson, of Palmetto palmetto people were present. The dinner consisted of five courses, and all who attended voted Mrs. Breckenridge a very charming hostess on Tuesday evening. August 5... Champaign swamped the town. The town was marked by St. Heavy's heavy hitting and good work of the battery. Nicholson made a double play. The game was witnessed by two hundred people, who were playing in the town. The Brewer's Juneville band furnished the music. The line-up was as follows: Matthew Alexander, pitch; David Webb, catch; Cecil Nicholson, right field; Spencer Cannon, center field; Scott, left field; John Brown, short stop and base; John Brown, third base; Arthur Woodruff, first base. OMAHA, NEB. SHEFFIELD, ALA., NOTES. Mrs. Belle Roach is back in the city, after spending several days in the interest of the Mosaic Templars. ..Mr. and Mrs. Mosaic Templars. Mr. J. Hatchett, the entertainer Mr. J. M. Brown, of Chicago, Ill., at their residence last Thursday evening.....Mrs. Belle Johnson, of Memphis, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Thomas Norton. ..Born boy, Mrs. Thomas Norton. ..Mrs. Jim Harper died last Friday evening, August 9, at her home in the Cale quarters. ..The State Grand Lodge, K of conceived in this city 4. The Grand Lodge assembled at 10 o'clock morning on the M. E. church, with seven hundred delegates present. The Court of Calanthe assembled in the First Baptist church by Mr. J. L. Parke has been owned by C. W. Wilson and Alfred Taylor. TEERE HAUTE, IND., SOCIAL NEWS. Mrs. Mary Eva Campbell left August 12 for M. Vernon, Ind., on a visit with her husband, Dr. Robert Hunt, Edna Edwards, of Terre Haute, Ind., 2425 Seventh avenue, will leave about the 23rd of September for Hampton, Md., where she will be attending Pilgrim Baptist church: Sunday morn- ing, 5:30; prayer meeting; 9:20 Sunday school; 11 preaching; in the afternoon, 3 preaching; 6:30 B. Y. P. U.; in the afternoon, 6:30 B. Y. P. U.; in the afternoon, meets every Monday night; mission society meets every Tuesday night; on Wednesday night grand prayer service; Thursday night the Willing Workers Club meets. The second Sunday in each month, the Baptist church is struggling very hard for the great state body, which is to meet in June, 1912. They are preparing to build and are having great success. The Pilgrim Baptist church, will be in Indianapolis at the general association. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OWENSBORO, KY. Messrs. Willie Jackson and Luther Murray have just returned from French Lick Springs, where they have taken excellent water treatment. They have taken water from various locations. Mr. George Johnson left for Indianapolis Monday evening to take a position as second porter in the Newton Claypool building. ..Mr. J. Raymond Johnson is visiting University at Washington, D. C. is visiting his parents and friends. ..The Dunbar Club had their regular meeting at Mrs. R. F. White's residence this morning. Mrs. R. F. White's business is a delightful guest wagered to Miss B. I. Lee entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. J. Raymond Johnson. ..Mrs. Mozelle Porter served Mrs. Mozelle Porter. J. Raymond Johnson. ..Miss Alberta Richardson is visiting in Andersonville. FORD'S HAIR POMADE. Ladies, your own hair is much better and handsomer than fake hair. If you have not long and wavy hair, try Ford's Hair Pomade; get it at your drugstores. You can get Ford's, with the name Charles Ford written on the package. HOBBLE SKIRT DANCE GIVEN BY THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON ENTERTAINERS Leading Citizens Give Smoker in Honor of Rev, Father Dorsey, of Montgomery, Ala—General Church and Social Notes. By Walker W. Thomas. (The Thomas News Bureau, 18 South Tarrognia Street. Phone 821.). The Friday Afternoon Entertainers delightfully entertained at a hobble dance at Castle Park last Friday night. Quite large, the younger set was present, and an enjoyable evening was spent....Miss Lodresser Huff delightfully entertained at Castle Park. Ala. Altha Cottrell, of Hainesville, Ala. The evening was spent in all kinds of games and dancing was the feature of the evening. A delightful evening, Mrs. A. T. Gambin has been on the sick list, and her many friends have been in attendance. Mr. Emmett McCrea has returned from New Orleans, La., after spending a few days of pleasure in the Crescent Park. Quite a large number attended the dancing academy last Thursday night at orro Castle Park. Lessons will be given to the students to learn some of the latest dances. ...Mr. Daniel Johnson delightfully entertained at a bay party given in honor or Miss %enora Meriweather, of Montana, and Mrs. Eric Evans, of Mrs. and Mrs. Eric Evans, of North Eighth avenue...Mrs. Thomas Hayes, of the Big Bay, is somewhat better after a visit to the beach. ...Miss Aletha Cottrell, who has been the guest of Miss Ledresser Huff, of North J street, left for her home in Hainalesville, Ala. Miss Cottrell reported his visit to Jordan and son Wesley are in Chicago, Ill., visiting her father, who has been there for some time...Mrs. Mary E. Homels is visiting in St. Louis, Mo., for a friend visiting you, or at a social let the Thomas News Bureau know. Leave a note or phone 821...Mr. William L. Johnson is somewhatWilliam later undergoing an operation last week him out again...Mr. Robert Diller is visiting in St. Louis, Mo., for a few days...Mr. and Mrs. Orange, Adbern, many friends for their speedy recovery...Mrs. T. S. Horton arrives in a few days, after spending part of the summer with her relatives in Alabama, her return, Miss Leander Patterson is visiting in Chicago, Ill., for a few weeks...The full report from state to finish of the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jordan will be given issue of August 26. Mr. H. Brown has been on the sick list for the past few days. His many friends are glad to learn that he is improved...Miss Ledresser Huff is given the very fine Miss Eulalia McCincio at her home on last Friday night. Quite an enjoyable evening was spent by members of the younger set, who reported a very fine visit on the sick list. His many friends are glad to know that he is improving...Mr. Edward Bardwell is in the city visiting after spending a few weeks in Mississippi for a few days on business. He will return in a few days...Miss Ledresser Huff is in Montgomery, Ala., visiting relatives for a few days...Miss Ledresser Huff is in Chicago, Ill., His friends are glad to learn his recovery...Mr. Wm. Ridley is visiting in St. Louis, Mo., for a few weeks...The ladies of St. Joseph Catholic Church on the school lawn last week, at which a very large number was present. BAPTISTS EN ROUTE TO PADU CAH, KY.—WILL ATTEND CONVENTION. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A large crowd of Baptist ministers and laymen from all parts of Kentucky passed through the Great General Association of Baptists at Paducah, Ky., following item noted in a current issue of the Dauville Torchlight: On next Wednesday, August 16, this great general association will will assemble in the city of Paducah, Rev. R. Mitchell, D. D., a ripe scholar, a sound Bantist and a progressive leader, the moderator and the swain the order as predicted that there will be assembled in the famous Washington Street Baptist Church as fine a body of Christians as we have been. The task of the tucky. The spendid array of talent, the sound, loyal Christians and the homes and business enterprises which this body will represent should make the task of the tucky more difficult. But we must do more than raise the $5,000; we must set a high Christian standard in Paducah. Our conduct and religious department must make every effort to be the most enthusiast back into their local churches and awaken in Baptist men and women everywhere a desire to do more for the master's missionary and educational master's body and be the meeting that no one will longer doubt that we mean to evangelize Kentucky and support the greatest institution of learning in the State. The eyes of the State be upon Paducah next week. What shall they see? COLUMBUS, KY Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson came home Sunday....M. Jerry Parker came home Sunday....A large party of people went to theickman Tuesday, August 16. Mr. Richard James came C. D. team and the Hickman boys. The score resulted 2 to 1 in favor of the C. D. club....Mr. Rickard James returned home Sunday....School began August 13. Prof. Bohanon, Mrs. Ella B. and Miss Zenobia Walker are the teachers. WEST BADEN IND In the Field of Sport 10 SPORTING NEWS. The A. B. C. Baseball club will play every afternoon the week of the 21st of August at Northwestern Park. Carl Morris and Jim Flynn will not fight in New York next Labor Day. Morris made this announcement today. He denies that the fight has been called out, declaring the bout will probably be staged the middle of September. Kid White and Smith, the "Columbia Park" player will appear at Northwestern Park August 12, bouts with Cyclone Morgan and Cyclone Jones respectively. Either of the first two winning will be matched against the Congo Kid. Louis Smith of Cincinnati, O., manager of Kid Ash, sent a telegram last week stating that the kid will play at the Northwestern Park August 22 and not before some club the 23rd. Kid Ash at the Northwestern Park only, August 22. No other date. Jack Donald, the peerless leader and captain of the Oklahoma City Monarch Baseball Club, is expected to be seen back the next week, not of course in a Bates team uniform. Jack Donald has spent a number of months at the St. Angelo health resort and now looks to be as well as he did in 1905, when he was in the best of form, when he was with the Birmingham Giants. The latest addition to the "white hope" ranks is Harry Wills, a Negro of New Orleans and now expected to meet all comers. Jack Johnson preferred. Wills has been employed in a railroad yards in New Orleans for several years, and during that time most of his spare moments have been taken in Louisiana colored pugilists to sleep. Wills weighs 227 pounds stripped and stands six feet two inches in height. On the evening of August 22 will be a big event in fistic affairs in Indianapolis. This will be the week of the great conclave of the Knights of Pythias. Boxing contests between some well known fighters will be held in this city. Kid Ash of Cincinnati, O., goes against Thunderbelt Smith of Columbus, O., 10 rounds. Smith, the "Columbia Club Pet," and Cyclone Jones of New Orleans diapolis, will go against Kid White of Pittsburg, Pa., 6 rounds. "The Riot Bout," a brand new stunt, will be put on by Kid Michonor, Kentucky Rosebud, Kid Jones Young Jack Johnson, Slow Drag, the Riot King, and the Dagen. Bob will go against Mississippi Kid 6 pounds at Northwestern A. B. C. Ball C. HOT SPRINGS REDS WIN AT MALVERN, ARK. Hot Springs Rede Bat Malvern Tigers Here August 9—The Score. H. S. Redns.....2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2-8 Malvern Tigers.....0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0-7 Batteries-Hot Springs, Harper and Mooan; Malvern Tigers, Spearman and Restor. Hot Springs Reds made ten hits and one error; Malvern Tigers, eight hits and two errors, Umpire, Jake Thomas. Stewart and Stewart The batting of Byran, Dell and Stewart was a feature of the game. CUBANS POPULAR AT HOME. Ball Players Get Complimentary Notices From Writers New York, Aug. 9.—Senor Marsans and Senor Almeida, of the Cincinnati team, are the recipients of many complimentary paragraphs in Cuban papers these days, a week, a week, and a Giants with a two-base hits in the ninth inning of a game, two Cuban correspondents tucked up to the team burned up clashes to the island team, glowing stories of his prowess. It is strange to note the affection with which one Cuban greets another. All over the island, Cubans would meet by several Cubans, and in almost every instance they have been greeted with kind words some of our Ameri- bals players being by a fellow-belong from the grand stand. OLD CAPITOL BASEBALL CLUB. The Old Capitol Baseball Club Champions of Georgia. Special to THE PREEMAN ALDROCHE HOLLAND Georgia — Just a few lines to let you know that the Old Capitol Baseball Club is the champion club of Georgia for the season of 1911. Out of eight teams, 11 won two straight games in Cottonon, Ga.; one won from Sparta, Ga.; wone one from Forsyth, Ga.; lost one to Forsyth, Ga.; won one to Pennville, Ga.; won one to Sandersville, Ga.; red one with 101 Ranch, Macon, 8-8; won a double header from 101 Ranch, Macon, 6-2 and two with two pitchers that are stars, Warren and Tennville. They are doing great work. If any club in Georgia disputes our rights to the championship of Georgia, or the secretary, or Dr. J, H. G. Williams, manage WEST BADEN SPRUDELS Play at Indianapolis Week of K. of P. Conclave. THEY BREAK EVEN The A. B. C.'s and Reserves of Indianapolis. A great crowd saw the lively contest between the A. B. C.'s and the Reserves in Indianapolis, last Sunday. In a double-headed, the Reserves are a gingerly set of white boys, who put the colored boys on the tobogan in the first game. Their field-inning is almost won. The A. B. C.'s recovered in the second game, winning it with comparative ease after they got warmed up. The scores were as follows: - **A. B. C.'s:** 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 01—2 - **Reserves:** 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 00—3 - **Second game:** 0 0 3 5 0 0 2 11—4 - **Reserves:** 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0—5 - **Batteries:** A. B. C.'s, Williams and Thompson Keys, Ian and Thomas. VALDOSTA COMETS DEFEAT BAINRIDEN CUBS 3 TIMES. VALDOSTA, Ga. — The Bainbridge Cubs went down before the Comets on August 7, 8 and 9 at the Magnolia Street Park. The 7th, the 8th and the 7th, the score being 2 to 0. Not a man on the Bainbridge club reached third base. This was the hottest game the Comets have been engaged in this season. The line-up for the Comets was: Cowan shortstop; Lane pitcher; Gay, second base; McDne, third base; Murray, center field; Smith, catcher; Fulton, left; Duncan, right field; Green, third base. The line-up for the Cubs was as fol- lows: Batey, catcher; Brooks, second catcher; Crawford, third; Fairchilds, center field; Sheffield, pitcher; Jones, third base; Franklin, shortstop; Loe, right base; Score of the first game: Bainbridge Cubs. ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Valdosta Comets. ... 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Batteries-Sheffield and Batey; Lane and Empire. Stafford. Truckout by Sheffield. 9; Lane. 10. Hits by the Comets. 4; by Cubs. 1. Time of game, 1 hour 22 minutes. Score of second game: Bainbridge Cubs.....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 — 5 Valdosta Comets.....0 4 1 0 2 1 1 * — 3 Batteries—Carter, Franklin and Batey. Green and Smith, Impey, McFarland. Green and Smith, Franklin, 3; by Green, 9. Hits by Cubs, 3, by Comets, 8. Time of game, 1:37. Score of third game: Batteries—Carter, Franklin and Jones; Duncan, Lane and Smith. Struck out by Duncan, 1; by Lane, 12; by Lott, 2; by Frank- kens, 5; by Comets, 5; by Cubs, 4, Umpires, Porter, Young and McDue. Time of game, 1:22. Two-base hits were made by Charley Franklin and Murray Fulton. Out of the last twelve games played by the Comets of the game, 1:22. Isaac S. Lane, of the Comets, is doubt- less the best pitcher of the Comets. The Comets left Thursday morning for Palatka. Fla., for a series of three games. Before returning they will play other Florida teams. Mr. Joseph H. Hawkins is manager of this strong aggregation. Address all letters to 223 South Patterson street. Address all letters to 223 South Patterson street. Willie Frank Williams is the agent, 210 Magnolia street, corner of York—"The Daylight Corner." 1930 "COLUMBIA CLUB PET" SMITH Tells All About Pugilism on the Conti- nent. Another message on hand from Billy Mc- leary is from the same person. "Somebody said that a very long letter McClain had some weeks ago about 'me and Jack Johnson' was unpardonable dope. Well, it depend on the depawnt and on who is ad- mired. So I said he had a veritable hodge podge, to others it was all right because they are yet chewing out it on this side—Pat Capelle and the other man. But the situation didn't break up Pat's show. I note that he is not going out this year after that he has things all signed up. But back to Billy's dope, he was about it was. "I would it were plainer." In McClain's recent publistic budget he says that his personal budget for other aspiring white hope, named George Rodell, champion of South Africa. He says that his man did the business in the past. He was a chance to take the move. Now it is THE BOXING CLUB me whether Rodell is the successful portege or the defeated white hope. I took it for granted that he was the white hope. He was the white hope. McClain, he fought one, Al Laugford, the 3rd of August, sailed the 5th to Liverpool from there to Australia. In that country he was the white hope. Langford and then go after the champion—presumably Jack Johnson. According to Bulletin de McClain McVeay, the black Euroweight is signed up to meet Jack Johnson. He says he "done" all himself and hence he is the big noise in his line in "Your Daddy Bill" expresses it this way: "Your Daddy Bill is instrumental in signing up the two sable warriors. I have signed over $200,000 of contracts for McVeay. What do you think of that?" But as B-4" That's McClain literatim no spatellim since he thinks highly of the so-called Roosevelt style of spelling. But McClain is like Eva Tangau. "I Don't care; I Don't Care." He's getting the money. "America wouldn't and look Sam McVeay over. The big smoke has name for himself in the French capital." THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. got himself une petite Francaise madame and has made himself a contented self- exile. His Sam is a very Trojan of a scraper. His record is an epitome of his mightiness. In the past it is as follows: Winner of over 100 battles; fought Jack Johnson three times; 20-round draw Sam and fought Jack twice; knocked out Denver Ed Marriott; Ben Taylor, Jack Scales, Jewey Smith, Harry Shearing, twice; Billy Richard, Cyclone Warren, Al Kublak, Jim Stewart, and fought Jack twice; born in California, 1885; height 5 feet inches; weight, 205 lbs. Mac Vea's only defeat was by Jack Johnson. Mac Vea knocked Jeannette out three times in forty-one-meetings and was robbed of the decision. The LA Vault Journal surnames Mac Vea "The Idol of the Parisians and Prince of Boxers." Sure Jack will have his hands full when he wins. But Jeannette's Betting will also be good. Mac Vea's styles self the coming champion and says Jack Johnson thinks that he is the man. Well, the Dublin mill didn't go, consequently there was a little subtraction for Dr. Johnson's prospective swollen fortune. But the continent—simply crazy to see the human dreadnought. As a consequence the nickels are following him just like the dimes, the quarters, the prize fighting and "Ould" Ireland and Africa did not have a chance to shake fists in their mutual faces. Well, it was a chance, but it was best that the fight did not come off. Negroes of America don't need any more enemies. Some long heads must have gotten together on the business of the docket, the docket, an English heavyweight, set down for September 3rd. Jack doesn't think any more of Bombardier than he did of Curran. Last week in New York Sam Langford disqualified another white hope. Farmer Jon Smith went up against the bunch of players in spite of the fact that the entire Smith family was rooting for him. The end came in the fifth round, a hard right upper arm in spite of the fact that Smith was tempted to frighten the Negro, but to no purpose. Sam has won two decided battles shows his series of near victories. Smith was tempted to man like him to qualify for Jack Johnson. Some writer in Milwaukee somehow got a strong line on Champion Jack concerning his aristocratic inclination. Says he: "Mistah Jack Johnson, the colored champion, was going to extreme style when he goes to Australia this fall, and is determined that even the rajah of India will have nothing on him. Johnson is even going to extremes as to the trips to Australia and the trips to the antipodes, which is in great contrast to the way he traveled three years ago when he was seeking a match with Tommy Burns in Sydney for the title." In a letter received from Hugh D. McIntosh today the latter announces that he has closed an ironclad contract with Johnson, extending over twelve months whereafter a new contract with McIntosh Langford, Bill Lang or any man living. He is also making a tour through India, China and Japan on his return from Australia and will be under the direction of McIntosh and the wholly owned company from London for Australia the beginning of October and will reach Sydney about the middle of November. Johnson, through Mr. McIntosh, has secured the finest site of cabins on board the ship, and will be the steamer of the Orient line, and known as the "dridal chambers." The colored Solomon is taking with him three automobiles, which include a new limousine, and a 90-horse power Austin, which were reconditioned. Armstrong will accompany him, also Monte Cutler, his valet and chauffeur. Can you obeat it—valet and chauffeur? Jack didn't care anything about a valet three years ago, so long as he got his pork chops. Mr. McIntosh will have complete control of Johnson for the twelve months, guaranteeing him for that time a net profit of $125,000, with an option of his services for another twelve months on the same conditions. Johnson is matched for a fight in London for a guaranteed purse of $40,000, of which $10,000 is already posted as a forfeit for Johnson. The contest will take place in September and immediately after forfeit the Johnson and sell it to a trailra. He is drawing fierce fences in London in the variety business, eclipsing all records for the summer season. LOUISVILLE TIGERS WIN FROM ALL-PROFESSIONALS AT LOUISVILLE, KY. The Louisville Tigers won from the All Professionals last week at old. League Park, 28th and Broadway, by the score of 5-4. The Tigers men seemed to do no harm to the Tigers. Sanford pitched in great form, allowing only two hits to the visitors. Mitchell also made a sacrifice. Turner made some sensational catches in center field. Score by innings: All Professionals..... 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0— Tigers..... 1 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0— Batteries—All Professionals: Green and Harris; Tigers; Sanford and Mitchell. WHAT OUR CLUB WOMEN ARE DOING TO UPLIFT OUR BACE National Association of Colored Women's History. *Where-Object Is to Build.* By MAY STRANATHAN. While the wonderful growth of the clubs, and the growing power of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reaching from India to the canal zone, has received much attention, there is one branch of clubs for women of which we hear almost nothing—the clubs of the Negro women of North America, the clubs of comparatively, know that there is such as the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, with a State Federation in every State in the Union. The work of these clubs is along the same lines as the clubs of white women and they have developed an educational social science, art, literature, work for young women, domestic science, home suffrage for women, evangelical work, mothers' clubs, rescue work, parliamentary work, juvenile court, forestry, church and religious work. It will be noticed that in one particular, that of having a suffrage department, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is in advance of General Federation of Women's Clubs, which has so far shiled at the subject. The official publication of the National Association of Colored Women, a monthly magazine called National Notes, published at Tuckekee, Ga., under the support of the National Association of Colored Women, who is vice president-at-large, is of absorbing interest, with its splendid papers and letters telling of the work of the different State associations. In Peninsula County, Mrs. Rebecca Aldridge, of Pittsburg, is president, Mrs. Blanche Dillard, of Newcastle, secretary, and Mrs. Lena Harris, of Johnstown, organizer, has established and supported for the past three years the Lawrence county Lawrence county, three miles west of Newcastle. The women purchased a five-acre farm, on which she is a house of rooms, which they have since built additional homes. Needed work, as there has been difficulty in finding good homes for colored children who come into the Juvenile Court. Mrs. Sadie Hamilton, the Negro Juvenile Court office for Allegheny County, has been a needed work, as there has been difficulty in finding good homes for colored children in Pittsburgh in the fall of 1903. and most of its clubs are in western Pennsylvania. Support Some Charity. Most of the State Federations support some home, or they are preparing to do so. During the past three years the Alabama Federation has given over three thousand dollars to the support of a farm reformatory for Negro boys who have been sentenced to tenentiaries with hardened criminals. Nearly three hundred boys between the ages of 7 and 12 years have been cared for during this time, and have been taught farming and the raising of pigs or cattle. The school is raising money to establish a reading room and model dining room in Little Rock, the president stating: "The object for our future work is to help lift from the gutters and save for the betterment of our race our young boys and girls." The school is sin and riotous living." The Kentucky Federation has for 16 years conducted a Colored Orphans' Industrial Home at Lexington, where they now own 18 acres of ground, two large brick buildings, and the property being worth nearly $ 15,000. These examples could be multiplied to include almost every State in the Union, and the Negro women of Oklahoma have just organized a State Federation. We support homes for aged and poor Negroes. Some years ago the State Federation of Negro Women of Pennsylvania asked permission of the New Era Club of members to attend the meetings of the New Era Club, that they might learn of the white women and thus make a more useful organization of their own. A question raised in the pot, a favorite objecting to the presence of the Negro women. However, the permission was given, and the Negro women attended several meetings. On looking over the work of the Negro women, it was not help arising whether the white women could not learn much from the colored women in regard to club work and aims. There is a fervency and a religious beal that the Negro women are making notes which make the articles in the Federation Bulletin, the official organ of the General Federation of Clubs of White Women, seem cold and formal. The national association is a member of the National Council of Women, founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and for which the entrance fee is $8. At the earlier meetings the women were Douglas, but in 1901 the colored women's organization became a regular member, and at the last meeting of the council, in Cleveland, greetings were brought to the conference, in representative, Mrs. William H. Talbert, "It means very much to the National Association of Colored Women," says Mrs. Talbert, "to be associated with such an organization, representing more than 3,000,000 women." Mrs. Talbert is part of the organization of Colored Women. Her home is in Buffalo, N. V., where she is librarian of the Graded Teachers' Union, an organization of more than one hundred teachers. She is a member of the National Association of Women at Ulemane, being the only Negro woman in Buffalo who is eligible to membership. The following national organizations are represented in the National Council of Women: The Young Ladies' National Association; the National Women's Surface Association; the National Women Relief Society; National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity; the Universal Peace Union; the National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty; the National Association of the Maccabees of the World; Ladies of the Modern Maccabees; Council of Jewish Women; National Florence Crittenden Mission; National Association of Colored Women; Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Grand Circle of Woodcraft and National Wooden's Started in Boston. The courtesy and fellowship extended to the Negro women by this council brings to mind the dramatic incidents attending the repudiation of the Era Club of Boston by the General Federation of 1902, at Los Angeles, Cal. The Boston Era Club, which is composed of both white and colored women, with the latter predominating, had joined the Mass Club, and on its recommendation applied for membership in the General Federation shortly before the biennial in Milwaukee in 1900. The dues of the Era Club were accepted and a letter of congratulation from the General Federation, Mrs. Rebecca Douglass Lowe. As its delegate to the Milwaukee biennial the Era Club sent its president, Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin, wife of Mr. Ruffin, to a Southern woman and the Southern women, as well as some of those of the North, saw that Mrs. Ruffin was a Negro, and they learned for the first time that the Era Club was composed of a great to-do and the manager of the biennial refused to allow Mrs. Ruffin to take her seat as a delegate. Mrs. Ruffin is also a member of the Boston Press Club, being the only colored woman in the club, and might take her seat as a representative of that club, but that she could not represent a club of Negro women. This she refused to do, saying that she could only represent the club from the other women. The sisters of the Era Club were returned to her. The Massachusetts State Federation, of which Mrs. May Alden Ward was then president, was greatly stirred up over the incident, and conceived a plan for the Federation, which would compel it to receive all delegates from clubs belonging to the State Federations. Mrs. M. Estelle Merrill visited many of the clubs of the Federation, and through her organization, and through her influence the Waltham Woman's Club sent Mrs. Kate Leyson Brown, the well-known writer and club woman, as a delegate to the next biennial, with instructions to help all she could in righting what the injustice had caused, and declared an injustice to one of its club members shortly before the biennial, which was held at Los Angeles, the Massachusetts Federation had a change of heart, or at least of policy, in regard to the matter, and on the way to Los Angeles Mrs. Leyson Brown, this woman, and that she would likely be the only advocate of the colored women in the biennial. Instructions were given in the train to the delegates of the Massachusetts Federation not to bring up the subject of reorganization, as it was found in the book "The Woman who is of famous old Welsh fighting style refused to lay down her colors, and declared she would obey the instructions of the Waltham Women's Club, which she represented. It turned out that with the exception of one other woman, she was the only champion of the colored women during the whole biennial. JACKSONVILLE, ILL., NEWS. Brief services were held recently at the residence of Mrs. Grant Weir over the remains of Elsie Thornton, who died suddenly in 1915. The sheriff, Mo., where interment took place, ...The dance given August 11 at Company L. Hall was largely attended. The boys die work in drilling that was fine. The girls work in gardening on August 28. Excellent lunch was furnished by Charles Reed. . . Mrs. Dickerson, of Danville, Ill., has moved to our city. . . Mrs. W. H. Robinson and Miss Murray, of W. Ill., have been quite ill are some better now. . . A supper will be given August 31 at the residence of Miss Mildred Bates, on South West street. Everybody welcome. Mrs. W. H. Robinson, of Ill., and Mr. Robert Pierson, of this city, were married recently. . . Edward, son of Mrs. Carl Mack, of South Ehey street, is still quite ill. . . Lewis, son of Mrs. Ada Murray, of South Springs, for Colorado Springs, Colo., for his health. . . Fannita Edwards, of Gotrait avenue, is some better now. . . Mrs. John McCree and daughter Thora have returned from the mouth. . . Ill., Mrs. Wallace and daughters of St. Louis, Mo., were the guests recently of Mrs. Mabel Floyd and Mrs. Fred Davis, of South West street. . . Mrs. Maria Murphy, of Clarksville, was the guest of Mrs. Mabel Floyd. TOMLINSON HALL WILL BE THE MECCA Of Mirth and Merriment During the Week of the Supreme Lodge Encampment, August 21 to 27—Matinee Tuesday and Thursday, 2 P. M.—Tuesday Matinee Benefit Sisters of Charity Hospital—Thursday Matinee the Superba Octette. What promises to be one of the most brilliant successes of the week of the K. of P. Encampment, from August 21 to 27, is the splendid vaudeville and dance program arranged for each evening of the week at Tomlinson Hall. Aside from the really remarkable array of talent gathered from the ranks of the very best, the real social affair will be the grand prominade and dance immediately following the vaudeville. This promises to eclipse in magnitude and genuine pleasure anything heretofore attempted. To the delightful music of one of the best orchestras, dancing and unlimited enjoyment will reign supreme until the break of day. And best of all, is one price admits to both the vaudeville and the dancing and other social features afterward. General admission only 25 cents. Reserved seats, 50c, 75c and $1.00. E. A. WILLIAMS New wheels on weekly payments, General Repairing. 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"Back to The Farm" to Be Especially Emphasized at Big Exposition Week of Sept. 4. With "back to the farm" as its slogan this year, the Indiana State Fair will, during the week of September 4, get closer to that agricultural interests of the State than it has ever been before. The Indiana Fair has for nearly sixty years been a powerful educative force among the farming and live stock element and, while never departing from this leadership in promoting the farming welfare, it has sought to quicken the interest of its visitors by offering rich programs of attractions. But for the coming Fair the expoion will concentrate practically its entire energy in spreading before its friends a magnificent display of all that is best within the State that the farming element may see in a great bird's-eye view what the agricultural and live stock resources of the State amount to. It is not proposed to measure these resources in dollars and cents, but by exhibiting the best horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, orchard and field products, show what the State is producing in quality. From other States, too, as in other years, will come specimens of live stock which will offer means of comparison with these products from Indiana. The "back to the farm" movement does not mean that the Indiana Fair is going to tie the men and women who visit it to sober programs requiring brain-fagging effort to get the educational values, but each day affairs will be spiced with clean and wholesome entertainment. Less emphasis will be placed on the lighter forms of entertainment, but the band concerts, live stock parades, the Parker midway shows will afford abundant diversions for the pleasure seeker. In the night shows, and in the day exhibitions of live stock and other regular departments the displays will keep pace with the high degree of excellency which now marks country life in Indiana. The horse show will be of such quality that vaudeville features will not be necessary to enhance its value. The farmer who is interested in shorthorn cattle will find these animals in such quality and abundance that if he desires he may spend two or three days at the Fair studying the good points of animals that are brought before his eye. The farm woman who is especially interested in poultry will find the Fair offers an endless amount of information along this line, or if she is particularly interested in her home dairy she may spend the entire week at the Fair, if she so desires, and give the time to a study of dairy methods. The State Fair, in fact, proposes to become a higher school of information along all lines which will enable the farming people to improve their crops, herds and flocks and in this improvement bring greater wealth to them selves. A short course September school when work at the farm may for the time be put by,—a school for the farmer, his wife, sons and daughters, an inexpensive and effective college course in agriculture and industry—this is the Indiana State Fair. Setting off one superb herd against another, one breed of poultry matched against another, field products from one portion of the State seeking greater favor than the products from another section, giving the visiting farmer opportunity to make comparisons, all will tend toward giving the visitors schooling of the valuable and pleasant sort. Of course, it is the ambition of the exhibitors to win prize ribbons, may be to dispose of some blooded stock to a farmer that is ambitious to improve his home herds, that brings the highest quality of exhibits to the Fair, but this competition is lost sight of by the visitor who would make of the Fair an educational force and turn it to his personal account. It is this line of educational work that the Indiana Fair has been doing among the farmers for two generations, and the exposition may to very large degree be credited with having brought about better homes, better farming, larger and finer herds, more industry through the use of better farm machinery, increased happiness, more money in bank—in fact, a new era of better living at the farm homes of the Hoosier land. State Fair Open at Night. The Indiana State Fair, at Indianaapolis the week of Sept. 4, will be open at night in a number of departments and it will be the first year in the history of the exposition that the night displays have been undertaken on such extensive scale. The coliseum with its horse shows, and the big brick barn for horses adjoining it, have for some years been gay with light and coloring after night, and in one or two years the Fine Arts hall has been open for about two hours in the evening. But during the coming Fair, the coliseum show and the brick barn will not only be lighted and open to visitors, but the Fine Arts Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry buildings, all of them arrayed with their wealth of Indiana farm and home products, will be brilliantly illuminated and open to all visitors without extra charge. Stage Notes STAGE NOTES. The Armes at Airdrum, Jackson, Tann, for three weeks. Having big success. The Lockharts (Thos, and Ada) original fammakers, are now with the Southern Saint Set Company. The Rainey Trio in their fifteenth week at Newport News, Va., now favorites, Green and Green opened recently in a good act. Happy Howe is also here making good. Harry Brooks just closed at the Maceo Theater at Columbia, S. C., after three weeks of success. Now at Dixie Theater is of the team of Brooks and Wilson. Lillian Gary, of Gary and Bamber, is sick at her home in Chicago. She has been to his mother in San Diego. Miss Gary will work single. Will delicate when she finds a good partner. The team of Mills and Teasel (Billy and Jack) have just closed a two weeks' agreement at the Pinker Theater, Savannah Ga., and have opened at the Grand Theater in Chattanooga, Tenn., and are Joseph Clark, Jr., the well-known stage director of Louisville, Ky., has just signed contracts with Mr. Ben Harrell of Big San Francisco, Cal., and Bill Gold of waddell audition to consist of fifteen colored performers. They are booked solid for to play over Bert Levy's circuit. DIXIE THEATER, TAMPA, FLA. Thornton and Long opened to a packed house July, 31, and were well received by the Tampa audiences. Once, the favorite, was a scream covered by Biddle Gleen, the favorite, was a scream start to finish. Then came Mine, Cordella McClain with her wardrobe of Parisian dresses, who set the audience on their fury says. She was heavily enclosed when she flashed "I'll Come Back." The Mintz The Dinner Theater is new and the large- est theater in Tampa. THE DIXIE THEATER, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA We are still playing to S. R. O. nightly. Larissa Baker has some voice, singing with success "Under the Jungle Moon" and the Way to Loveland." Show how to singaves she does her part well. Anna it looks like she's singing with Dixie Gray and Dixie Gray. Piano Manah 'nah Kid Sanders is going some in his new dancing. bork and wing his bionic Drake and his big act, the "King of Bulldown" and the "Trusted Friend," both comedy dramas, went great, while Mosley have to Murielia Digg is joining hands with her baby Dixie bunch. A RABBIT FOOT COMPANY. Will Not Go Out—All Contracts Canceled Until 1912. A rabbit's foot Company will not go no further in the road this season, as formerly advertised, on account of my continued illness. My physician advised me that the strain would be to much and all parties holding charge will kindly consult the doctor, enrolled, and parties whose were not answered will note the condition. And if life lasts and my health improvement will be pleased to book all parties for my company for the season of 1912 I remain yours with best wishes. PAT CHAPPELLE. THE J. C. O'BRIEN'S GEORGIA MINSTRELS. The J. C. O'Brien Georgia Minstrels played to S. R. O. in Wagner, Ocala, July 3, Tulsa, Ocala, August 3, and Guthrie, B. J. Tulsa, Ocala, August 3. We are doing a nice business. The Balwarks are now with us and they are a streamer. We have here they had finished from the beginning and we have quite a week of successful work. They also send regards to all friends in and out of the profession. McDows and Arrents and Misa Fiona Murdock and Miss Mildred are making some good hits with their music. The food and orchestra are both doing they under the management of Charles H. Alloway. Mr. O. R. Hull is doing some rice work and as a violinist and as leader of the orchestra. We are making arrangements to work through Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. Seen Edwards, our able stage manager, is doing nicely. He is singing the song "Restless Seen," and is making bits nightly. Charles A. Holloway sends regards to the professions of the profession. J. C. Brien is wearing that and smile of satisfaction. Johnie Sullivan is still handing out his tickets in exchange for 50 cents. MANAGE YOUR OWN "SISTERS" If You Have Any and Let the "Whit man Sisters" Alone. MAE WHITMAN, West End Theater THE PASTIME THEATER. MUSKQGEE, OKLA The McDaniel Comedy Company opened June 29 to a big business, which has continued throughout the entire en- vironment, hosting over six weeks, which takes on Saturday night, August 12. After this the McDaniel Comedy Company will go to Oklahoma City to play at Bean's authority for a period of four or six weeks. everybody seems to regret that the company has to leave, and they claim that the McDaniel Company is highly entertained by the McDaniel Wind which that the company is well pleased with. The people who patronize the Passenger Theater, which is one of the largest播放场所 in the Southwest, Mr. Louis T. Brown, the chairman of the of the best men in the business to be brief with, and he has been highly during the engagement of the house Company, who to every member, the Brown the credit of being a man respected through and; he is his highly re-requited by the patron as he stands for and who relocate to remodel and enlarge his theater work in and there will be plenty of good clean personnel and companies who to come to the theater to manage the manager of the McDaniel Company, can say that Muskogee is West, with plenty of the highest spots in the Middle and what is more, the ghost walks around; and AVS STUDENT TROLLY plays. Every manager has the cash waiting, because it is due, so everybody is happy who needs such men as (Bud) Louis T. Brown and A. Dean of Muskogee and Oklahoma City. Louis T. Brown is much talk here to the effect that quite a lot of money will be paid out by the government to the Cherokee natives here and vicinity. The McDaniel Comedy Company scored a big hit with Muskogee public with their own show, featuring Mr. Tom (Doe) Overton and comedian, and wife, Mrs. Anna Overton, who are a scream on every bill presented. The team of Brown and McDaniel never fail to leave them screaming after they finish their act of singing, dancing and comedy. Mr. Doc Straine, the versatile performer, is stage manager for the house, and his team runs smooth and easy. The Queen of the Brown Howard and McDaniel Brothers' is screaming when they sing their up to date medley selections and side-splitting comedian. Brown the versatile performer, has ever played with him when he plays the heavy part or with the dramas. One can often hear the people the audience say: "The bruite; why don't someone shoot him," and such remarks. Doe Doe, better known as Tom Overton, has the people laughing at him as he goes down the main street of the town over something done by him in the show, and the member of the show, is now playing in Oklahoma City at one of the Bean theaters. Chintz Moore, the versatile comedian and performer, will rejoin the company at Oklahoma City and go from there west with the company, Guthrie, Wichita, Kansas City and west. We are having lots of rain but business remains good. The Pastime has done a record business during the engagement of the orchestra. Prof. Frank M. Liston's orchestra of six pieces furnishes the music for the shows, playing all of the latest song hits and selections from the up to date pubs and they certainly make things hum in the music of Frank M. Liston is some musical director. O. H. McDANIEL MV S SUNDAY MILKY THE FOUR SPADES IN INDIANAPOLIS A group of lovely players styled "The Four Spades" was seen two weeks ago at the Crown Garden Theater and last week at the Family Theater. The four people were dressed in white, in their romping and dancing. In fact, they were formerly pickaninies, and who played the country from east to west—in all directions. They are full of fun, keeping up a rehearsal pace, and entertaining when the kids are on. The four people are H. B. Gray, Anna Gelle Robinson, Nellie Carr and Ed. Montgomery. All four are artists in their lines—singing and drumming. Mr. Montgomery is a young man with nimble feet who sure can dance. He does steps in dancing which seem imminent, travels over the continent, from coast to coast, and then across, and was very successful in his undertakings. He gives promise of being one of the leading artists of his era. Miss Robinson, who is a very small young lady, appearing as a child when she enters the stage, but oh! when she starts to dance, he of the opinion of the audience. She is winsome and graceful in her manners. She is a fancy dancer; requires faster music than the others. Miss Robinson is a dainty soubret, indeed—really a dainty soubret. Miss Carr is the girl with the dance you dream about. She starts to dance as though she was going to sit down, and dances several choreuses and encores. She is said to be the best colored Russian dancer in business. Mr. Gray, who is manager of the act, knows his business in that line. He is the comedian of the act, furnishing comedy that keeps the audience in splendid good humor. He costumes as a "Topsy" and on the show he uses nothing suggestive. At the finish he is thrown around the sage as though he was a rubber ball, without using a padded body as others do. Mr. Gray as a dancer is a riot. He does the famous seven-year item different from The act in whole has worked the best time known. In 1907-8 it worked Orpheum circuit three, two consecutive weeks, and one consecutive weeks, Considine circuit, 1909-10. They also worked forty consecutive weeks under the direction of Tibre William Morris' consolidated houses. It is very much doubted whether the Southern circuit could get the act if it weren't for Mr. Erarle Walker, who thanks him for the favors large and small. McKINNIE STREET THEATER, AU GUSTA, GA. The patrons of the McKinnie Street Theater, aside from the Odd Fellows' convention convening in the city, were presented with a fine bill comprising Gussie Bright, directed from Nellie Macro, and from O'Neill from the Maceo in Columbia, S. C. Meanwhile the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, contributed Miss Emma Skinner, rapid-fire monologist, to an attractive and pleasing bill. Webb Topsy, from Plantation Pastimes carried off first honors, new last act entitled "The Christening," staged by Billy Ward, proved a scream. The coming week's attraction will be Taylor and Taylor, sketch artists; and Anton, one of Mayne Benton and its original painters, which could be a big winner. PASSING SHOW AT WASHINGTON D. C. By W. P. Bayless. Howard Theater. The Smart Set Company, headed by S. Tutt Whitney and Homer Tutt, just closed a very successful week at the Howard Theater in a three-act musical entitled The Production. The production was well balanced, containing many novelities, several song hits and a number of unique situations. The scenery is new and best seen in the film, the performers up in splendid style without exhibiting garishness. The music is tuneful and harmonious. The songs are catchy and rendered in excellent style. Maybe you down delicately the character of the Indian girl with exactness and THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER grace. Babe Brown appears well in her part as a suffragette, wearing a very nifty harem skirt. Ed Tolliver sings sweetly and assumes the character of a Mexican work with J. Homer Marshall does excellent dancing stunt. Mr. Tutt exhibits some very fine togs in the first act and is clever in his smart dressing stunts throughout the show. S. Tutt Whitney, who wrote the play and assumes the character of Lem Lee, the mayor of New Town, is truly very funny and keeps his audience in an uproar of laughter while he is on the stage. The whole the show is a very neat production. Minnehaha Theater Pankey and Cook are the great drawing cards that packed the Minnehaha last week with Cook sang by Bleeding Out" by request with song by big Mr. Pankey appeared at his best. The high class work that these artists do is highly appreciated. As a proof of the same they played to S. Jones and Space worked as a team last week and came in for a huge share of the applause. They went fine. She has sang very acceptably. She has an excellent voice and sings a high grade of music. The Seminole musical act was quite an attraction at the Chelsea last week. Edwards and Edwards closed their second week with great success. Sutton and Triche are still a big scream at the Foraker Open Air Pavilion. They dig up something new each week that is a hummer. They seem to have won a home with the patrons of this theater. Louis Mitchell, late of "My Friend from Dale," was on the bill at the Dabney last week. He return that they might again enjoy the clever work of this merrymaker. Miss Ona Crowdy's Trio was on the bill and quite an attraction. The act went fine. --- Hen Wise and Kate Milton were at the Fairyland last week in a very clever travel scene which was quite a hit. Mr. Wise impersonates an Indian very cleverly. The entire act is fine and was received well. Mae Whitman and her Toy Comedians are at the Blue Mouse, playing to a packed audience. W. A. Henson is directing the orchestra. [Image of a man with a beard and a headscarf]. FOND DU LAC, WIS. Prof. John Eason's Band and Minstrels, with 191 Ranch Wild West are still moving merrily along in the Middle States, doing fine and giving satisfaction everywhere. We are all here, recently we had the pleasure of meeting George Jones, the well-known cornetist, formerly band master with Dandy Dixie Minstrels, and W. H. Collins, well-known tap trumpeter, with a brother to E. M. Collins, mellophone player, with us. After the show at night the whole band were invited to the palatial residence of Mr. Collins, where we were entertained by a few small hours. We jumped into the left corner, Mr. Collins and his charming wife DREAMLAND THEATER, SAN ANTONIO. TEX. Our bunch is doing nicely and showing to S. R. O. We have the reputation of having a clean vandeville show. We have played nightly calls singing "Buckweed Cakes." Weavers and Weavers, a sketch team, are making nightly hits in their talkative act and singing "What Makes Me Love You the Way I Do." Misses Birdie Wade and Rosa Brown joined our company a few days ago and are making a success in their work. Birdie were served spring chicken on toast, Brown little sonnette, Ruth Crosby, singing "Big Senational," assisted by Huff, rule the house every evening for 45 minutes. Charles Klein is pianist, Harry Simpson, trap drummed, and Lee Baxter, trombonist. READY TO BEGIN BIG CAMPAIGN. Many Religious Bodies Federated in New Forward Movement—Outline of Plan and Scope. The men and religion forward movement is a co-operative effort of all the religious organizations among the men and boys of the United States. Year 1123 has special emphasis on Christian work among and by men and boys and through the special campaigns this year t o bring the men and boys of the United States to working strength from among the men and boys who are at present untouched by or under the influence of the Christian church. The idea of such an aggressive movement among men and boys has been in the thought of the church brotherhoods for some time as well as in the plans of the United States. The association through its international committee. Federated in this movement are the church brotherhoods of the Episcopal, Baptist, Congregational, Jesuit, Lutheran, Methodist, Brethren and Lutheran denominations, the International Sunday School Association and the international association of the Young Men's Christian Association. The movement is vested in a general committee called the committee of ninety-seven, representing all the participating men and boys of all parts of Canada and the United States. The earnestness of the effort can be judged from the fact that Mr. James G. Earnest, chairman of the committee of ninety-seven, Mr. Cannon is president of the Fourth National Bank of New York, chairman of the clearing house committee of New York Bankers, and president of New York Bankers, which expresident Roosevelt called to Washington to consider measures for quieting the banking system. Of course, movement Mr. Cannon is giving unstinted time, and represents the type of substantial Americans who are behind the movement. Among the well-known members of the committee are Hon. W. J. Bryan, Hon. H. B. F. MacFarlane, of Washington; Judge B. S. Spencer, of St. Louis; Mr. P. W. B. Spencer, of St. Louis; Hunton, international secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and many other leaders in the business and government. The campaign leader is Fred B. Smith, a successful evangelist to men. This personnel ought certainly to impress any thoughtful man with the force that is behind the conception, so sait nothing of the bigness of the conception. To Operate in Ninety-Seven Cities. We now turn to the plan of this great movement. First ninety cities of the United States and Canada have been selected. In each of these cities forward a long period of thorough prepa The STAR STORE 360~310 W.Washington St. We have a complete department store carrying a full line of clothing for men, women and children, also Shoes, House Furnishings, Millinery, Dry Goods, Carpets, Rugs, Silk Dress Goods, Laces Underwear, Hosiery Etc. We invite all visitors coming to Indianapolis to pay us a visit where you are sure of getting courteous treatment. As we sell for cash only you will find our price 10 to 25 per cent lower than elsewhere. One reason why you should visit our store is the fact that from Aug. 12th to Sept. 1st., we hold our annual ....LOOM END SALE.... Which is the talk of Indiana and where values such as we give cannot be duplicated any where in the United States We are now busily engaged in closing out all summer stock at a mere fraction of their value, in order to make room for the new fall stocks which are already begining to arrive We offer Ladies' Woolen Suits in the new fall and winter styles at prices ranging from $10 to 25 Dollars We also offer Men's New Fall Suits at $7.50, $10, $15, $20 and $22 50 Suits for boys with knickerbocker knee pants at $1.98, $2.98, $3.98, $5. and $7.50 ration by prayer and most aggressive work directed by a local committee of 100 city committees, conjunction with the committee of ninety percent, an eight-day campaign will be inaugurated in each city, during which teams of the city will specially trained in methods of appeal and study and individual evangelistic study of the sanest kind, in boys's work and in such service will visit each city. The service will take every phase of the work addressing great needs for kind for men and boys, holding conferences for worker's and giving inspiration and methods advice to organization and methods and conserving the results. The Christian force and organizations in each city, along with those who have been won, will then carry on a somewhat similar campaign on a somewhat smaller scale to twenty smaller cities. This will help to insure for years to come the con-ference of the work of the church along very greatly the same scale, and ensure to be discovered and developed in the campaign. Thus also will be employed the greatly increased numbers of greatly won to personal allegiance to Christ. It will be interesting to know how such a movement came into being. Invitations were sent out by the religious work committee of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian Association for a conference to discuss suggestions concerning "a forward movement campaign in behalf of the religious group of the young men and boys of North America," representing specially the international committee of the various church brotherhoods, spent May 18, 1910, in prayer and conference at the Hotel Manhattan, New York. During the day it developed that three different organizations had been considering, each independently, some such plan. Conference Results Put in Action. The result of the conference was a resolution to undertake "a forward movement in behalf of the religious life of the men and boys of North America." A committee on the occasion many religious bodies on the ground convened a religious sentiment toward so bold a movement and brought in its report August 22, 1910, at the Niagara Falls conference, where it was decided to hold a conference and submit its findings and recommendations. Two matters were discussed at this meeting—the appointment of an international committee to have charge of the conference and submit its findings and recommendations. Two buffalo meetings were held in Buffalo in October. This Buffalo conference had present 262 delegates from seventy-two countries in the United States and Canada. The majority of the delegates sent officially by religious organizations of men in the various cities represented. This conference appointed the committee to ninety-seven and the executive committee to The program submitted by the committee of ninety-seven to the men of the continent for the realization of the splenium has been well calculated to accomplish these ends. Every method suggested and every scheme proposed has the stamp of practicability and the methods of schemes have been tried out in the context of experience and when prayerfully and faithfully applied in the spirit of the Master who bring results. Then the scope of the program has broadest Christian humanitarianism—God our common Father, Jesus Christ our redeemer and men our brothers. Therefore the committee of ninety-seven is sparing men in mass, in groups or individuals, regardless of the continent through this remarkable program. The program proposes to reach men in mass, in groups or individuals, regardless of the continent or nationality. Effective Way of Receiving Experience has taught us that true can be very effectually appealed to in their respective groups—e. g., students, individuals students, can often be reached and touched effectively by appealing to them as students or in a group of students, can be particularly impressed when the gospel is presented to them as shopmen. The gospel message comes with peculiar force to an order man when you present to him the message of Jesus from his origin, provided in a special way for the work. One team will be sent where desired and requested to bring the message of the The ST Established in 1888 We have a complete department of children, also Shoes, House Furniture, Goods, Laces Underwear, Hosiery. We invite all visitors coming for courteous treatment. As we lower than elsewhere, One realizes 12th to Sept. 1st., we hold our a Which is the talk of Indiana where in the United States We mere fraction of their value, in beginning to arrive We offer Ladies' Woolen S We also offer Men's New Fashion Suits for boys with knickerbockers. All goods marked in plain figures WANTED! Stock Company of five or six people. Good Sister Team, Three months' work to right parties. Pastime Thcatre, Muskogee Okla, Louis T.Brown, Bus Mgr. WANTED! At Once-Colored Performers in all lines, those who double in brass preferred. State lowest salary in first letter pay every week. Show will open Hagerstown Ma. Sept. 1st. Address all mail' Dixie Greater Minstrel, Burdine Pa., Box 201. Send all wires to Pittsburgh, Pa. At Unce—Colored Performers in all lines, those who double in brass preferred. State lowest salary in first letter pay every week. Show will open Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 1st. Address all mail 'Dixie Greater Minstrel, Burdine Pa., Box 201. Send all wires to Pittsburg, Pa. WANTED! For our 3-BIG-3-ENTERPRISES. John L. White's Alabama Minstrels, White and Mason's Troupe and Walt Disney Mascot. Fig L. Dome, Birmingham, Alabama. Chorus ladies who work in stock. Teams and acts that are real ones two trap drummers. Low season for competent people. Address G. W. A. Johnston, Secretary, 631 S. 16th St., Birmingham, Ala. Song Writers We publish and market your own songs and compositions. Set words to music and music to words. Your song guaranteed to reach the public through our hands. Music Buyers Join Our Staff Club and get the latest music published. We distribute 50,000 copies each month. HUGGS & HEARD House of Hits Music Publishers 88 EAST 21st St New York City SUITE 1—3150 State St. Chicago, Ill men and religion forward movement to employees colored men, foreign speaking men, For example, in their effort to bring to the colored men and boys of the continent the committee of ninety-seven has deemed the colored man as one of its official secretaries to work among these men and boys. While it is believed that this will be the most practical of reaching the largest number of men and boys, given group, especially in committees in the bers of that group live in large numbers, so to be understood that the working of this man in any way to hinder men from attending meetings according to their own judgment. Rev. D. F. White, recently of Indianapolis, Ind., is the man appointed to the position above referred to. Mr. White is a graduate of Knoxville College Seminary, and he is always has manifested a deep and abiding love for men and boys, and has achieved splendid suits in working among them, both as an educator and a pastor. Mr. White will WANT Stock Company of five or six people. Good to right parties. Pastime Thcatre, Muskogee. At Once—Colored Performers in all lines, those who salary in first letter pay every week. Show will open mail Dixie Greater Minstrel, Burdine Pa., Box 201. WANT For our 3-BIG-3-ENTERPRISES. John L. White's Tronbadours, and White and Mason's Big Air Domes who work in stock; Teams and acts that are real live competent people. Address G. W. A. Johnston, Sec. We publish songs and to music and song gua ra through our Join Our Staff published each month. 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Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Minnie Beal, Miss Essie Ross, Miss Bonnie贝莱 Thomas and Miss Lorena Edwards returned Tuesday night from Birmingham, Ala., after a short stay. They entertained by Messrs. Perry and Davenport and on Tuesday morning Mr. Henry Ledbetter, of Meridian, Miss, entertained the girls with an auto ride out to Enseley City. They left the city with regret. The Freeman is on sale in East St. Louis, Ill., at the Tennessee barber shop, E. E. Barnes, proprietor. TED! Wood Sister Team, Three months' work Skogee Okla, Louis T. Brown, Bus Mgr. TED! who double in brass preferred. State lowest open Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 1st. Address all 201. Send all wires to Pittsburg, Pa. TED! White's Alabama Minstrels, White and Mason's Dome, Birmingham, Alabama. Choose ladies live ones two trap drummers. Long season for Secretary, 631 S. 16th St., Birmingham Ala. Long Writers publish and market your own and compositions. Set words and music to words. Your garanteed to reach the public our hands. Music Buyers Staff Club and get the latest music used. We distribute 50,000 copies month. BUGGS & HEARD House of Hits Music Publishers 21st St Park City SUITE 1—3159 State St. Chicago, Ill Thrifty RE Magnon St. and square dealing of clothing for men, women and ads, Carpets, Rugs, Silk Dress visit where you are sure of get- our price 10 to 25 per cent is the fact that from Aug. LE... give cannot be duplicated any using out all summer stock at a new fall stocks which are already at prices ranging from 0 and $22.50 8, $3.98, $5. and $7.50 Every body treated alike One price to all 12 COIN SYSTEM AT FAIR NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT INDIANA EXPOSITION. Visitors Will Provide Themselves With Coins to Open Turnstiles at the Gates. The coin system of paying admissions to the Indiana State Fair is to be tried for the first time the week of Sept. 4. It is to be tried to the end of making it more convenient for visitors to get within the gates and avoid the usual crowds which flock about the ticket windows. It is thought that every person in Indiana knows that the admission fee for an adult to the Fair is fifty cents, and for a boy or girl under twelve years the price is 25 cents. Heretofore it has been the practice for the street cars to unload thousands of people at the Fair gates, followed by a rush for the ticket windows. It is now the purpose of the fair management to do away with this inconvenience to visitors by asking each person to provide himself with the exact change. A man or woman is asked to leave home for the Fair with a fifty cent piece to pay the gate admission, but instead of buying a ticket at the Fair, the visitor will proceed from the street car to the gate and deposit the coin in the turnstile. These mechanical devices will register, or count, coins as readily as they will receive and count tickets, and the visitor will avoid the rush for tickets. All of the admission gates around the Fair grounds are provided with turnstiles and the coin system will be tried at all of them. The coin system will be followed at the race track grandstand. Where a visitor arrives at the gates without the exact change, money changers will be on duty to supply them. The coin system will be so generally followed by visitors that the selling of tickets will be entirely done away with, not only for the convenience of visitors, but it will do away with the counting of tickets, which requires all the time of a clerical force while the Fair is in progress. FIGHTING GARDEN PESTS ENTOMOLOGIST WILL EXPLAIN HOW AT STATE FAIR. Extensive Exhibit, Use of Sprays, Big Show of Fruit and Grapes Among the Features. The town and country gardener who would successfully fight insect pests and diseases which, if unhindered, make such havoc to trees, vines and bushes, should by all means see the exhibit and demonstrations that State Etomologist B. W. Douglass will make at the Indiana State Fair the week of Sept. 4. Those who saw his educational work in Horticultural hall at the Fair last year turned the information to profitable ends, but at the coming Fair this exhibit will be on still more extensive scale. Both displays and demonstrations will cover every phase of insect and disease fighting with which the grower has to contend. The exhibit will be made up of specimens from the various State experiment orchards and will show trees and bushes which have been attacked both by pests and diseases. Fruit from trees that were and were not sprayed, and the superiority of the sprayed fruit, will be exhibited, and what sprays to use, how to make them, and how to use them, will be included in the demonstrations. Specimen trees from the nurseries and how the grower should prune and plant them will be shown. Specimens of plant and insect diseases, photographs and charts on a variety of garden and orchard subjects will give the grower a comprehensive idea of what must be done if the gardener would be successful. The etomologist's exhibit will also show a cage of flying bees and hives of the working insects, and the information that will be available will go far to solving the difficulties which confront the bee keeper. This display will occupy the center of Horticultural hall, and around it in rich array will be long tables laden with the very best apples, peaches, grapes and other fruits from the orchards of Indiana's most experienced growers. With Mr. Douglass at the Fair will be a number of experts ready to answer all questions, and this feature will have immeasurable educational value to all interested in fruit and garden subjects. Another Contest For the Boys The judging contest for boys at the State Fair last year was so successful, both in number of contestants and in the educational values they obtained, that a similar contest will be held at the coming Fair. It will be again under the direction of Purdue University, with Prof. G. I. Christie in charge. It will be open to any boy in Indiana, from 16 to 19 years old, who has not regularly attended an agricultural college and who has not won a prize in previous judging contests at the Fair. The boys will judge horses, cattle, sheep, swine, corn and wheat that is on exhibition, and four scholarships in the Purdue School of Agriculture will be awarded. Boys who enter the contest must send their names to Charles Downing, secretary of the Fair, Indianapolis, before August 19. UNIVERSAL RACE CONGRESS CLOSED. Responders, the Nergy Question in the United States. The Negro Question in the United States. At the close of the Civil War in the States, the northern and southern sections of that country were rent asunder, and when gloom, despair and demoralization had taken hold, the war was large sympathy in the northern part for the emancipated slave. Friends of the Negro were in evidence everywhere and held sympathy and friendship. These friendships were organized, meant to aid schools and churches for the freedmen. People of the best classes flocked to the Southland to teach and help the newly enfranchised people. The Southland period and the ballot was given the race, and other safeguards were thrown about to insure, as was supposed at the time, protection in its civil and political rights. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries tended to settle irreversibly the question of slavery, of citizenship and of the ballot for all time to come. But as time has proved, it these did not succeed. The safeguards were not sufficient. The amendments did not cover the possible evasions which would wrest the exercise of citizenship from the race. The Emancipation Procedures simply freed from physical shackles. The seeming acquiescence of the Southland was merely a matter of expediency for the time being. It knew how to wait and work for the opportunity it craved. It was able to subdue it, but that the constitutional ennahad we intended to accomplish. From that time onward there has been a continuous appeal to the northern secessionists that sympathy and co-operation which would ultimately bring about a change and keep the Negro in a state of peonage at least. To this end it has declared repeatedly and unanimously that none but the southern section understood how to deal with the race. It has processed a love for the Negro such as no one else could feel. It has begged to be allowed, without hindrance, to deal with him as it alone would. Northern capital has been courted to help on both commercial and educational interests, and securing it, the two sections of country have been cemented in closer union. Domestic relations by interment between the sections have strengthened the bond. It has made the most possible out of the appeal to Anglo-Saxon brotherhood. With all this the Negro's mistakes and misdeeds have been paraded before the world, and have been insisted upon as characteristic of the entire race. No discrimination has been made between good and bad, ignorant and educated, offensive and inoffensive, innovative and creative. The Negro of Chateaubriand to "throw mud, throw mud continually, something will be sure to stick," have been followed literally and constantly that the world might be made to believe that the Negro is black in character as painted—to be spurned, scorned, hissed and spat upon by all. The emissaries have become bold because all this has received no counter check by an indulgei. North, which has been spurned, has been spat upon to which this policy has given birth. The result has been a growing subsidization as it were of the Northern section of the States. It has become largely silent and has held hands off in the matter of the Southern section, and progress. Friends have been diverted in sympathy or rendered indifferent. It has felt it far wiser to bewalt the sufferings of the Southern section, and has come very sensitive to the repeated charges of greater love for those of African blood than for those of Anglo-Saxon, and that it is seeking disruption to the sentiment of union between the two sections. Taking advantage of the desire of the North not to offend the South, the former was placed its opinions at the feet of the former, and under the digestive influence of that section—that there is no good in the race. As a further result the press, pulpit and platform have been muzzled by a large degree with the purpose of checking the progress of the people. Through such pernicious activities which have permeated the country at large, the Negro Church has been built with the facilities for morals, intellectual and social improvement that he once enjoyed. Heinds himself denied the right of worship to Young Men's Christian Associations because Church shut him out by south- [Name] M. B. H. W. S. SCARBOROUGH. President Wilberforce University. ern membership. He is debarred from most hotel and restaurant accommodations because of southern guests. Certain higher institutions of learning refuse him admittance because of southern white students. Objections are made to his bathing in the ocean at seaside resorts, etc., etc. It amounts to this: That largely the places of culture, elevation, comfort and health in the ocean at seaside resorts are found in the dive, the brothel, the saloon and the prize ring. Thus the conditions are inviting to increased criminality in the race and those responsible for the situation are uniting in blaming the race because of the criminality found therein. Cape Haytien to put down the Scottsman who had caused and as commander the氯水 was the hud he had the氯水 steamship Markomania wmunition consigned to Alexis. Killick perished during the exception is found in the dive, the brothel, the saloon and the prize ring. Thus the conditions are inviting to increased criminality in the race and those responsible for the situation are uniting in blaming the race because of the criminality found therein. I say that those who are denying the Negro admission to the best that the public affords, who are excluding him from the highest forms of individual and commercial endeavor, who are segregating him in cities and relegating him to disgraceful separate cars, denying him justice in the courts, showing contempt for his highest form of education, his advancement educationally and professionally, taking away his right to vote, giving him brutal treatment by mob violection, opportunity and who refuse to treat and respect him in consideration or respect—al those who have determined to make the Negro keep a certain priority—are to be held responsible when they are rehabilitated, defiant under the great injustice, a THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. weak ignorant class determines to be a law unto itself and is forced into the criminal paths. On the other hand there has been a most remarkable growth of a large, cultured, refined, educated, even wealthy class of Negroes. It is this class that protests against the sentiment that no one should imminently helpless and degrades all alike, and that refuses ordinary courtesies, rights and privileges to the meritorious. Here is there we are placed as a people and a living train of pertinent suggestions follows. That the wide world is awakening to the dangers confronting society at large is a good sign. We are sure that the weapons of good will continually be more important than evil in adjusting the Negro question in the States. There must be an uprising of fearless men of all races—men who see the right and dare to do it in brotherhood but not in violence, anything that panders to race prejudice, men who will preach untrifling and unceasing the gospel of the common brotherhood of man, who will work for brotherhood but not for evil, all who will unite in stifling crime, helping the fallen and guarding the youth, who will plead for that general exercise of Christian fellowship that will lead to reconciliation in and respect for self and others. The Negro is needed in the development of America, he is native to its customs, its religion and its laws, has virtues as well as vices, he has given his blood in the fight against slavery, it becomes a matter of right and duty that both North and South should unite in mutual co-operation with the race for law and order, for peace and fraternity, for the protection of human life, for path to peace and the final adjustment of this question—to use the law for the protection and punishment of white and black citizens alike, to practice the true Christianity that is preached and to leave the world in peace with all humanity to any other people. This work will devolve upon godly preachers, self-sacrificing, intelligent teachers, devoted philanthropists, and wide-awake, earnest students, who will be the teachers of the higher institutions of learning for the Negro in the United States to raise up, educate, and inspire the coming generations of the race to assist in the consumption of this purpose. President Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, U. S. A. The American Minister at Port-au-Prince, the Hon. Henry W. Furniss, notified the State Department Saturday that efforts to mediate between the revolutionary factions and that a conflict seemed to be inevitable. Mr. Furniss ought to know the signs impending readjustment that he had by this time the decline and collapse of the rule of the aged Alexis and witnessed the triumphal entry of General Antonio Simon into the capital at the head of a tattered army. He was a military man and former Secretary of War the brushed aside the claims to the Presidency of C. Fouchard, who had been a mere Secretary of the Treasury, convened Congress and had himself appointed President a full The present situation bears some resemblance to the emergency of 1908; that time General Cincinnatus leon, who was possessed of Port-au-Prince General Cincinnatus Leon, who was driven into exile by Nord Alexis in 1902; but this time the victorious soldier will have been taken by the French type from Fouchard, the man of budgets. General Anteror Firmin is not only a chronic candidate for the Presidency, but also a member of the previous official record. He has been Minister to France, Secretary of Exterior Relations; that is, head of the State Department, and has been a member of the previous administrations. Firmin first distinguished himself as a member of President Hypollite's Cabinet in what was called the Mole Sir Nicholas affair, during which he was involved. On that occasion the Haytians were greatly excited about a proposal to let the United States have the place for a naval base in the Caribbean, which voked the Constitution, which forbids the alienation of any part of the national territory. When General Tireslas Simon Sam was taken from the Presidency in 1902, he was forced to France, became a candidate, with headquarters in his native town, Cape Haytien, and was forthwith known as Gen. Sir Sir Nicholas. The usual bloodletting and disarray, General Naual appointed then Secretary of War was despatched to A. Cape Haytien to put down the insurrection. About that time Admiral Willick, the Scotsman who had espoused Firmin's cause and as commander of the gunboat Crete-a-Pierlot was the head of the navy, the German steamship Markomania with arms and munition consigned to General Nord Alexis. Killick perished in an explosion of the magazine after he had refused to surrender the German man-of-war Panther. The tragic death of Killick and the loss of the consignment of war material settled Firmin's fortunes, and he died to the island of Iguana as Nord Alexis vanced on Cape Haytien. General Firmin was a candidate for the Presidency of Nord Alexis suffered the fate of Tiresias in the same ignominy, however. Fouchard received post under Antoine Simon's government, but Firmin wisely concluded to remain in Iguana when General Simon occupied Port-au-Prince. According to a despatch from San Juan, Porto Rico, General Firmin has for Porto Haytien on a French steamship, with despatch and a denancy. There is probably no Haytien better equipped for its duties, and he will be allowed to follow in the republic. It is said that Haytien received assurances that Leconte would not oppose him, but the Haytian politician is too treacherous. The man at the head of the head of Port-au-Prince is too strong as a plerier. HAYTI. to be dislodged and has seldom resisted the temptation to make himself Presi- l Doubtless General Firmin upon his arrival at Cape Haytien will begin his campaign in the usual way by drumming up the capital, where his adherents, according to Mr. Furniss, are already numerous and active. The administration at Washington will have to await developments in the capital, where he will promptly recognized as president when he was seen to be in full control of the situation. He had no dangerous rival, and was a man not to be trilled with. The troops were ready to do his battling, but he was quickly suppressed and driven into exile by old Nord Alexis, but President Simon has had a different experience with him. It may be presumed that the administration will not stand anarchy and the presidency can not compose their differences it may become necessary to land marines and keep the peace. A squadron of five warships has been assembled in Haytian waters, a fact that indicates the importance of the capital, while the United States has not yet followed the example of Great Britain and Germany, which have sent troops ashore, to protect the interests of their subjects, and the warships will be taken to police Port-o-Prince in the emergency arises. The New York Sun. NEGRO REFORMERS HELD FOR WRECKING BANK Shortage Estimated at $290,000 and Three Thousand Lodges Richmond Va., Aug. 9.—The grand Jury has indicted five general officers of the Grand Fountain at the Order of True Compromise in the negotiation of true complicity in the looting and wrecking of the True Reformers' Bank. The officers indicted are: W. L. Taylor, grand master; W. Elise, Elise; W. P. Burrell, grand secretary; J. C. Robertson, general attorney, and Reuben T. Hill, cashier of the True Compromise Bank. The grand jury estimates the amount of shortage as traced to date at $290,000. Richmond Negroes are excited by the developments. Many of them have lost the savings from the crash of the reformers' Bank, and the collapse of the fraternal order which founded it. There are upward of 3,000 subordinate founders, many of them member- AVENGES POLICEMAN'S DEATH. Brother Officer Kills Negro Burglar Who Had Shot Captor. Louisville. Aug. 9.—Policeman Michael Baldwin was shot and killed last week by a negro at Nineteenth and Jefferson streets, and his death was avenged a few moments later when another patrolman shot and killed the Negro. Hearing a call from a neighbor, Baldwin killed a corner to see Baldwin on the ground dead, and the Negro, revolver in hand, running away. Sullivan gave chase, and in the duel which followed the Negro was killed. The Negro had been arrested on the charge of burglary, and Baldwin was him to a house which had been robbed, with a view to establishing his identity. VALDOSTA, GA. (By Willie F. Williams.) MOBILE (ALA.) DOTS. Bishop Scott, of the M. E. Church, who has headquarters in Africa, spent several days in Mobile, speaking at the night, and State Street Church on Thursday night. His subject was on Africa and church work in general. He was given two large audiences on each night, and visited his native land, said Bishop Scott gave him much valuable information concerning the country, which he visited with his travel in interior. He was the guest of the Woods on Friday evening. The Bishop left for New Orleans, La. Friday morning... Dr. Woodie Hobbs, of Chicago, once being a business nature, Mr. Willie Blackledge, the drummer, left for Pensacola, Fla. last Friday...Mobile has another lawyer in Mr. A. Fisher, of Chicago, who has come by our loyal race supporters...Mr. Albert Boyd was elected president of the Safety Bank and Realty Company, at the last meeting of the board and the addition of the bank is very good, and we wish continued success to the institution. ATHENS, GA. Special to THE FREEMAN. The entire city was thrown into a gloom over the death of Mrs. Pattie Reid Payne, the wife of one of our most highly respected citizens. She had been in declining health for several months, but it was not until she was 75 that Before her marriage she was Miss Pattie Reid, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Reid, one of our most highly and respected families. Besides her husband she leaves two daughters and two sons. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. C. S. Reid, pastor of the Congregational Church. DOTHAN, ALA. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Barnett entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Barnett. The dining room was beautifully decorated with ferns and flowers of different varieties. As Japanese lanterns is a fad, the room was decorated with Ed Simon and Mr. J. C. Hall played for the occasion. Those present were: The Messrs. R. S. Smith, D. F. Butler, O. J. McMillon, J. Horn, E. Corbett, A. A. Morris, Jr.; Misses N. Gordwin, G. Rivers, M. C. Cone, M. C. Cope, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. 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Supreme lodge officers, delegates and Uniform Rank officials who will attend the meeting of the K. of P's at Indianapolis, Ind., August 21-26, are urged to bring their cuts and accords of Pythian success in their city or state. Cary B. Lewis, Pythian press bureau, 701 North Senate avenue, or Camp Strauther, Indianapolis, Ind. A full line of Wines, Liquor and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch. Good service and courteous treatment to all. When out for a good time, stop in. MADAM McNAIRDEE The Talented Clairvoyant The gifted clairvoyant, the great female wonder, born with the double (caul) veil. She is one of the old ancient Southern Clairvoyants of New Orleans. She is a living phrenologos and physiognomist. She tells you what you need to do in life 'by' reading your brain and mind. With a grasp of her hand she gives you a course of influence to enable you to overcome all bad habits. 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Highly recommended by four of the leading lawyers, lawyers and doctors, and come well recommended by four of the leading lodges, the S. M. T., United Order of True Church, the church society of her home, known by the name of United Sisters of Charity of the Missionary Church, and loved by all. God has endowed her with an unspeakable gift. She deals in nothing to be ashamed of. She wants to hear from all that are in trouble or distress. Address MADAM McNADORE, 1103 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Positively no attention paid to letters without one dollar enclosed. AH HOO? AH HOO? AH HOO? A A THE AFRO-AMERICAN ORDER OF OWLS Want capable women to organize nests in every city. For particulars address Mrs. Emma J. Hines Supreme Organizer, W. A. A. O. O. O., 1124 West Want capable women to organize nests in every city. For particulars address Mrs. Emma J. Hines Supreme Organizer, W. A. A. O. O. O., 112 West Colfax Street, South Bend, Ind. Men Organizers are also wanted. Address G. W. 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Sec 6th Annual Encampment of the Uniform Rank at State Fair Ground 50,000 visitors coming to Indianapolis AUG. 20--26, 1911 8,000 Uniformed K. of P's. in camp with a varied military and social Program every day and night. Tuesday Booker T. Washington Day Tuesday The noted Educator and Race leader will address the Pythians and visitors on this date Wonderland Park open every day and night, Programs and Souvenir Badges now on sale For further information address: Remus Moore, Sec. Geo. P. Stewart, Chrm. Headquarters 701 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Moonlight Picnic and Lawn Fete of Knights of Pythias—New Colored Grocery—Miss Ellis in Auto Party—Social Function. (By Hardin Tolbert.) Special to THE FEMALE MANAGER OF THE WEEK Nancy Weissless Pride of Frankton, No. 15, United Order of Pythians, gave a moonlight picnic at the bea- tiful Gienwood Park, Friday, August 4, from 7 to 12 p. m. The weather was wet, and the weather was rudely reduced by the wee-known Recumbent Shetton Mecca Orchestra. Retreatments were served by the Court of Calantane. The Pride of Frankfort, which won the pictured prize, was in attendance at $200 in money and a $100 flag, at the last national encampment at Kau- sas City, Mo., was in evidence. The people of this city are sure that the lodge and with the Spartan spirit to conquer or die, they will stand by their captain, D. O. Roberson who commands as Leondas at Thermoplae. About 500 citizens of the city are in the spirit of this dark and blood-grown state, their native home, "Old Kentucky." The B. K. Brusse of the Knights of Pythias has won similar honor to that of the teacher in the Clinton Street High School, and popular in society circles, will leave in a few days with an auto party, the guest at the event, and will be a member of one of the wealthiest families in Ohio. Mrs. Moore and party will go to Indianapolis to visit the encampment and will be joined by Miss Bernice, a teacher in this city; and in a few days Mrs. M. C. Moore and Miss Ellis will sail for Europe. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Holm street.....Miss Eugenia Harris is very ill at her residence on Church street.....Mrs. Dolly Boots, of Fowler street.....Mrs. Lizzie Kibby, of Logan street, is improving.....Mrs. W. H. Mayo, of Wilkerson street, is about the same.....Mrs. Lizzie Kibby, of Logan street, the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carter, on East Main street.....Mr. S. Garth, young violinist of this attack is able to talk about after a recent attack of rheumatism. IN BOWLING GREEN, KY. Councilman E. B. Eubanks Makes Welcome Address to Grand Lodge of Masons—Grand Lodge Closes Interesting Session. (By J. F. Moxley.) First Day's Meeting. E. B. Davis, grand master, called the St. James Lodge, No. 28, to order Tuesday, August 1, at 11 o'clock a.m. at St. James Lodge, No. 28, ninth street, and goes into the business session, which proved to be of great interest to masonry. At 8 p.m., Councilman E. B. Eubank made a welcome adoration to the masonry crew, commonwealth and citizens of Bowling Green, Ky. Response by Prof. J. H. Garvin, of inchester, Ky. Welcome of St. James Lodge, No. 28, Smith Room, by Deputy Grand Master Munday, of Henderson, Ky. Welcome of Victoria chapter by Mrs. J. L. Gordon. Response by Mrs. W. A. Brown, Loussier Room, by Deputy Grand clock p., m. Grand Master E. B. Davis was toastmaster of the evening. Second Day's Meeting. The lodge of sorrow was held Wednesday evening at State street Baptist church where an excellent program was rendered. The principal address was made by Prof. Wm. Wolf. It was an eloquent and scholarly system of morals to which and of which much is expected of man in the duties of life. The auditorium of State street Baptist church was filled to the brim. The church seemed to enjoy it to their soul's thirst, and partake of the food of knowledge as it fell from the tongue of the speaker. The Election of Officers. Thursday, August 3, the election of officers was held in the afternoon. The following officers were elected: Grand master, J. W. Erister, Paducah, Ky.; S. G. Warden, J. E. Kuykendall, Bowling Park, Ky.; K. E. Kuykendall, Paris, Ky.; Grand treasurer, W. E. Johnson, Louisville, Ky.; grand secretary, W. P. Annis, Louisville; grand chaplain, Prof. Wm. Wolf, Bowling Green, Ky. The following officers were installed at the courthouse of Tahoe, where many of the citizens had gathered to witness the banquet, which was indeed a grand affair; along lines for success, the grand lodge sessions were dismissed. Till We Meet Again "Prayer was offered by Grand Chaplain Prof. Wm. Wolf. The next meeting will be held at Paducah Ky., August, 1912, where it may bring wonderful results owing to the fact that Paducah is the location Paducah are erecting a $14,000 temple. In the afternoon the grand parade was made in the principal streets and business parts of the city, ed. by the centenary bodies, and with eighty men's bodies in line, which made a beautiful showing. They were dressed in plain citizens' clothing with white aprons as they arrived, and were furnished music for the banquet accompanied by Mr. Joe Haskins baritone vocal music, which helped to make the music more lovely. Grand Master E. B. B. Haskins, of Paris, Mgr. Marie L. Freeman, of Paris, KY, led the grand march at the banquet. Meets, cakes, salads, ices, etc., were served at the banquet, and the direction of Messrs. J. M. Porter, Charles Carpenter, Ben Covington. Many of the delegates left on the night train, while others stayed over to give a speech, and one of the Seven Wonders of the world. The Eastern Star held its grand session at the C. P. church, College street, and the Bowling Green citizen sliding. "The meeting was a successful one throughout the grand session of the Eastern Star. Election of officers resulted in the election of the President, Park KY, R. G. M. Miss Mame Matlock, of Paducah, KY, assistant R. G. M. Mr. W. D. Lucas, grand treasurer; Mrs. W. D. Lucas, grand treasurer; Mrs. L. Stone, grand secretary; Mrs. L. Stone, grand lecturer. The meeting of Victoria Chapter, Eastern Star was one of great interest and a record breaker, being far ahead of any ongoing meeting, and will live in the memory of the Bowling Green citizen at large. The grand lodge of K. of P.'s will convene in the city of Bowling Green in July 1912. Chancellor Commander James Wilson, of local lodge No. 1 has begun to visit the city for a session. The P.'s feel that it is a grand treat to be honored with the grand lodge in 1912, and will do its best to entertain it royalty... and here among the young people, which is indeed a wise step for the progressive young citizens. Miss Clara Bland and Mr. Walter Cox were united in marriage Thursday, June 16, 1912. 858 Eleventh street. Miss Clara and Miss Etta Bland were to have had a double wedding but the latter's marriage was postponed for some reason or other. Delaney, of Louisville, Ky., are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Dr. O. D. Porter, 439 State street. No doubt the friends will make their acquaintance and visit the Porter Bell, of Birmingham, Ala., was the guest of Sherman Bell, on Chestnut street, last week... Miss Ethel Burman, of Tennessee, will be the guests of Mrs. George Blewitt, 634 Center street, next week... Mrs. Wille Williams and Miss Archer Woods, of Woodside, Ky., a pleasant visit with Mrs. Frank Eaters, 442 Kentucky street, last Thursday. DALLAS, TEXAS. 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But the crime was so flagrant that there was no mercy, save that coming from the Greater Judge. So on the morning of July 28, 1911, in the city of Oklahoma, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma State, Prather must die, unless justice balks. But like a case of fiction, or, better, like many another truth, there was another scene being enacted at the Governor's office, and far different to any ever enacted there. Really it was enacted in the heart of Lee Crue, Governor of the Commonwealth of Oklahoma, aided and abetted by one lone Negro woman. The case was strange in that Prather had no string of relatives and friends to implore for mercy of the Governor. None cared to have the fearful sentence commuted saving the one woman. One Negro woman pleaded for the life of Prather. She prayed that he might be permitted to live; that the gallows be cheated of its prey. The Governor was touched by the singular affair. Heretofore his office had been thronged with scores importuning for respite whenever there were those unfortunate happenings. It was so strange that he concluded to throw himself in the scale with the woman. This was contrary to all precedent, excepting that of the human heart, which does beat in sympathy at times with the baffled and beaten. Of course the terrible crime permitted no mercy to be shown; it was the extra phase of the case—a friendless man—that worked on the Governor's humanity until it played its appointed role in the affairs of men, of restoring the equilibrium that is so often lost between man and man. The death sentence was changed to that of imprisonment for life. The Governor in his letter to the sheriff who had charge of the execution said, in part: "He is absolutely friendless and alone; one Negro woman has appealed to me for clemency in his behalf, and I have received a letter from one prominent white citizen of this State. This is the sum total of the interest taken in his behalf; so that what I do in this matter is done solely upon my own responsibility, and in answer to the demands of my conscience." He then referred to the twenty-one years of Oklahoma City's existence, during which time there had been many crimes more atrocious, but up until this time only one person had paid the penalty of death. Then again he said: "It occurs to me that in the exercise of clemency it is the duty of every official to take into consideration all the circumstances surrounding each individual case, and if mercy is to be shown to any one, it should be shown to the weak rather than to the strong. Had this offense been committed by a white boy eighteen years of age I would have received thousands and thousands of letters petitioning me for clemency; as it is, the offense was committed by a Negro boy without friends and without parents, who has had no fair opportunity to make a man of himself by any training that he might have received; a member of an inferior and despised race, and now as the hour of doom approaches there is not a voice raised in his behalf. "I believe that every end of justice will have been met by confining this boy to imprisonment for life, and I so decree. I am committing his sentence to life imprisonment. In doing so I realize that I will call down upon my head the indignation and criticism of tens of thousands of the best citizenship of this State, but be that as it may, I am doing what my conscience tells me should be done, and I had rather live, feeling that I had done this boy and his race no wrong than to have the commendation and applause of every citizen of this universe." We are not in for excusing crime, or even defeating it of its just penalty, yet we think that a white man, a Governor of a State, that gives such consideration to a poor, defenseless Negro is worth thinking about. This has in mind his humaneness, and which quality is the only mediator between the strong and the weak. Rather than pronounce the Oklahoma executive weak, we see him as he should be. He showed how clemency had been shown and simply because there were those to claim it. Here comes one who, besides a lone Negro woman, has no friend this side of heaven. The spectacle excited pity. Clemency followed, and John Henry Prather lives. POSTAL VIEWS Postal views of Chicago noted Negro churches and buildings are something new along race advancement. This is receipt of twelve subjects of Chicago, published by the Wm. Foster Music Commission. The Wm. Foster Music Commission no better has ever been offered to the market. We congratulate this firm for their efforts to put the race on basis of other races. Every church and big business enterprise should write for samples of the race as every church and big colored concern should have postals of their own buildings. MINEOLA, TEXAS There will be a grand picnic and barbecue at Mack's Switch on the 12th and 13th floors of the building. R. S. Smith, of Terrell, is organizer and manager of the Union Fraternal League Don't miss the best paternal while our honorary paternal on only 40 per year... Henry Carpenter has twenty acres of cotton and it is good... M. D. Davis, of Tyler, was here last week, teaching at st. Paul Baptist church every fourth Sunday, T. B. Thompson, pastor. THE FREEMAN Can be found each week at the Northern Star Dining Room, Jamison and Jamison, proprietors, 78 E. Long street, Columbus. Few counties offer the chance for Negro farmers, who are willing to work to have something, to be somebody and to train their children as Macon county, the county in which Tuskegee Institute is located. The best place to raise the boys and girls is on the farm, especially when you can give them a good education. There are good chances for families to locate and purchase homes on easy terms, at reasonable prices. Lands in Macon county, Alabama, are Brewed from the choicest Malta Every bottle perfectly st Bee-Se BEER choicest Malt and Imported tle perfectly sterilized. Free A Bee-See ..BEER.. Brewed from the choicest Malt and Imported Bohemian Hops Every bottle perfectly sterilized. Free from any adulteration or preservatives A HIGH GRADE American Brewing BOTH PH Its Vow FOR T Sir Knight visiting the Encampment will our enormous stock including in the line of Hardware, C You can save money by taking such things as you need. Carpenter's Tools, Bricklayers' Cement workers' tools, Cabin Upholstering Goods, Builder We carry the finest line of high cluding the best brands of F Vonnegut H 120-124 East W HO KNIG GREETING While in the city DUESSER The prize winner of the W THE INDIANAPO HIGH GRADE BOTTLE CO. Brewing Co. Inc. BOTH PHONES 935 Vonneg FOR TOOLS Knights encampment will be amply repaid stock including everything which Hardware, Cutlery, Tools money by taking advantage of you need. Bricklayers' Tools, Contract tools, Cabinet Hardware, L Goods, Builders' Hardware best line of high grade cutlery best brands of Razors and good Regut Hardware -124 East Washington St KNIGHTS! GETINGS! in the city drink that SSELDOI winner of the World's Greatest INDIANAPOLIS BREW visiting the Encampment will be amply repaid by a visit to view our enormous stock including everything which could be desired in the line of Hardware, Cutlery, Tools & Specialties You can save money by taking advantage of this visit to buy such things as you need. Carpenter's Tools, Bricklayers' Tools, Contractors' supplies Cement workers' tools, Cabinet Hardware, Barbers' Tools Upholstering Goods, Builders' Hardware Stone Cutters' tools. Etc We carry the finest line of high grade cutlery in the state including the best brands of Razors and good kitchen cutlery Vonnegut Hardware Co. 120-124 East Washington Street The prize winner of the World's Greatest Exhibitions THE INDIANAPOLIS BREWING CO. HOTEL DALE Cape May, N. J. SALE SALES DALEY This magnificent four-story structure, replete with every modern convenience, and containing every modern improvement, has just been completed at a cost of $50,000. The architectural design of this hotel makes it one of the most beautiful and most unique coast. It is, without exception the finest and most complete hostelry in the United States for the accommodation of our race. It is located on the highest elevation in the heart of the residence portion of Cape May Golf Club and the widely celebrated links of the Cape May Golf Club and its environments on all sides are perfect. The location of the hotel is magnificent on the front, overlooking the golf links, the vista stretches away to take in the beautiful driveways and farms of the inland lands and an extensive view of the harbor and sea glistening like gems in the sunlight. The invigorating ocean breeze reaches every corner. The interior of this hotel, conceived in perfect taste, even in seemingly insignificant details, cannot be surpassed. In fact it may be described as the acme of luxurious The Hotel Dale contains one hundred light, airy, and luxuriously furnished room. The contain every modern convenience. The electric lights throughout the entire house. Suites with bath and long distance telephone connections. The gem of the whole hotel is the spacious reception room. Considered either as a work of art or, with a view to comfort it is a masterpiece. The elegantly furnished dining room is operated under both European and American plan. The cuisine will contain all the delicacies of the season prepared by a master of the culinary art. Sea foods a specialty. One of the most unique features of the --- productive. From one-fourth bale to two bales of cotton to the acre, owing to the grade of land and to the grade of man, can be produced. Lands are colony everywhere in this section because of the demand for land. I will show this land, and I would like to see it. Come to see me, or write at once for further information. e-See ER.. and Imported Bohemian Hops sterilized. Free from any THE BOTTLE BEER Bug Co. Indianapolis TONES 935 Inneguts TOOLS nts be amply repaid by a visit to view everything which could be desired Utility, Tools & Specialties advantage of this visit to buy Tools, Contractors' supplies Net Hardware, Barbers' Tools ers' Hardware Stone Cutters' tools. Etc. a grade cutlery in the state in- Razors and good kitchen cutlery Hardware Co. Washington Street HTS! GS! drink that Good Beer LDORFER World's Greatest Exhibitions LIS BREWING CO. THE BAR hotel is the beautiful grill room. The management has engaged the full Abyssinian Orchestra to render afternoon and evening concerts in the room dainly during the day. The open air amusements available to the guests are numerous. The lawn of the hotel contains both croquet and tennis courts. The sea bathing at Cape May is unsurpassed on the Atlantic Ocean. It is re-created every year and is safe at all times for women and children. The hotel has its own private bath houses. The sailing and fishing in the harbor and in the harbor are productive and boats may be had at all times. Cape May is famous for its beautiful driveways. Cabs or autos may be quickly secured from the street. The hotel is under the personal management of the owner, E. W. Dale, one of the most progressive and successful drivers in Cape May. The hotel man has enabled him to use his very thorough knowledge of details in bringing the equipment of his hotel to perfection. Guests may be assured that, irrespective of their location, the hotel stalling everything that goes to complete a first-class hotel, the proprietor will devote his personal attention to the comfort of his guests in his sojourn in his hostelry as homelike and agreeable as possible. The most fastidious may be assured that will find no trouble in a short visit or special attention given to ladies and children. This hotel is well adapted either to the enjoyment or a short visit or parolled on by a guest. It is easy to access from the stations of either the Pennsylvania or the Reading Railroads. Care and additional information will be mailed upon request. --- 50 CALLOWAY, Real Estate Dealer, Tuskegee Inst., Ala E. W. DALE, Owner and Proprietor. 3 COOKS Waiters and Cooks Prefer our Make of Jackets and Aprons because they have found them satisfactory. Write for Complete Catalogue FREE giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben, Inc., 300 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See m for bargains if you are looking for a home o investment. Cash or easy payments. DO YOU KNOW that you can save from 75 to 100 per cent. on all household goods bought of WILLIAM H. BARON dealer in new and second hand goods. It costs you nothing to inspect my stock. Always something on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. New phone 5407. 563 Indiana Ave. 223 West Vermont street. INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. DESIGNERS, ENGRAVERS, ELECTROTYPERS 23 Great Peart Street INDIANAPOLIS Not with hot irons. But do it with Kink-no-more, the greatest hair straightener, preparing prematurely. Kink-no-more will straighten the kinkiest kind of hair. Think about it—a preparation that all you have to do is apply it on the hair, and with a little combing, the hair, and with a light, stay for one day or one week, but to last six to eight months. Water nor nothing else will make it kink again after it has been straightened. Kink-no-more is a wonder wielding—marvelous dose it works that one can hardly believe their own eyes. It works like magic, and is unique because there is not another preparation in the world like it. We offer a reward of $100 for any head of hair that Kink-no-more will not straighten. Kink-no-more is a vegetable compound. it is perfectly harmless and will ston it from hair, scalp nor hair, but will move dandruff, promotes a luxuriant growth of healthy hair and keeps it soft and glossy. Remember that Kink-no-more is sold under a guarantee to do all of its work. We will send to any one on the receipt of $1 a regular size box of Kink-no-more, enough to straighten from one end to the other hair. Our ordering send registered post mail postmaster or express money order. Liberal documents offered to agents. Write today for special terms. Inclose 2-cent coupon for 2 cents and antisease everywhere. Add Adhesive to Box and everywhere. Springwood Avenue, Ashbury Park, N. Mme. L. C. Parrish Hair Culturing, Manicuring and Scalp Treatment M. E. H. For stimulating the growth of the hair, use Parrish's Wonderful Hair Tonic. Per bottle 50c. For cleansing, beautifying, and preserving the teeth, use Parrish's Pearl Top Tooth Powder 25c. Wigs, Switches, Pumps and Puffs to match your hair. Splendid workmanship. Reasonable price. Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food is absolutely one of the best preparations on the market. It stops the hair from falling out or breaking off. It beautifies and enriches it, and makes it grow. Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Agents wanted. Write for terms. MME. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Mention the Freeman when ordering goods And Apparatus Invalid Rolling Chairs, Crutches, Splints, Irrigators, Sterilizers, Bsth and Hot Air Cabinets, Bed Pans, Urinals, Syringes, Trusses, Band- ages and Window Tents. | W. H. Armstrong Company Surgical! instrument Maker | 31 W. Maryland St. Grand Hotel Blk. Indianapolis, Ind Use our “‘Anticor” and cure your corns, Send for Booklet. 4 A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWEPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ‘AT 220 W. VERMONT STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. a nay aU SSCRIPTION BATES: part of the United States: fete eee oom eee Mizoad money: by express some onder. pst office money ordaror registered iether. “Aponte wanted ip very van and, city ot agwrocenpicd, aud iera| inducements pl Pemietieesie Sendtor our extruordinary ADVERTISING RATES ane, fr lined ¢5 as tach: 276 se inp Seley Beclal position BS perocat aulitioun “ea Ny fates on standing professional and business ere ect Fonention tne Graced Seco. Heading notiose 100 per line Special Sates-on “writeupe” Batesocoocd ces mater: onepolls ee GEORGE L. KNOX, PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR. ELWOOD C. KNOX, BUSINESS MANAGER. ‘All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, Mew Phone 2880. SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1911. Swat the mob! €ome on to Indianapolis. Somepin doin’ in Injinopolis all mext week. Better come. The weather is ideal this week. Is it merely a mirage to lead us into a week of wetness? Visitors coming to Indianapolis next week want to be prepared for a six days in one entertainment. The mob was rather active this week—broke out in two places. It was bad, but there are many good things to announce this week also. According to program, Haiti has a new president in the person of Gen- eral Cincinnatus Leconte, who was elected to that office this week. The general doubtless knows that his ten- Bre of office is by no means certain. He will govern himself accordingly. Im these days of mill end sales, oso of season sales, closing out sales, is the time to get yourself to- gether along the wardrobe line, Half- price attire may not be up to the lat- st moment, but it means clothing. wks dilerensn oii seeet be cae, Professional men and those of note etherwise in their communities, on starting for Indianapolis this week will do well to bring along cuts or good photograph, Same for use in special Pythian number of The Free- man. Agents will please send in at enee for increase in orders. The mob got in its work this week at Coatesville, Pa., and at Durant, Okla, The victims in either incident ‘were Negroes. The mob in the South is no new or strange thing. We do not mean that it should flourish be- eause of its custom. It is a mean thing anywhere, and if it happens every day the only possible hopeful reflection is that the mean doing has Deen confined—limited to a certain section. Coatesville, Pa., is north—the sec- tien where Negroes hope for better civic conditions—and it is to be hoped yet that the mob will be discouraged by the angry frown of the law. North, South—whatever section— kas no privilege to take life except- img those permitted to the courts by the citizens at the beginning of com- munities. It will seem almost an in- Justice to jail a mob of five hundred or more persons, yet if they are not jailed or punished the law in such in- stances will be a farce. POLICE CHARGE NEGRO MOB. Dezen Rioters Taken to Hospital After Gta: CARDIFF, Wales, Aug. 15.—The po lice today charged a mob of 500 strik- ing Negro seamen who had started an attack against the officers of the shipping companies. The police used their billies freely, and a dozen of the Negroes were taken to a hospital, two of them suffering from dangerous wounds. PETE BROOKS, ST. LOUIS, MO. Pete Brooks, of St. Louis, Mo., a staunch Knight of Pythias of fourteen years’ standing, will be in Indianap- lis next week. He is also a uniform rank man and has been for the same length of time. Mr. Brooks is thirty-seven years old. He is proud of his affiliation, proving it by coming to Indianapolis to be one of the many thousands. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS IN INDI- ANAPOLIS. Supreme Lodge and Order of Calanthe In Sixteenth Biennial Session— Sixth Encampment of Uni- deren Rank. Next week, August 20-26, representa tives and delegations from’ tho various K. of P. lodges throughout the Union and from abroad, will meet In. Indian- apolls, Ind., in convention for the fur- ther good “of the order. Along with these “Will come entire “bodies of the uniform rank, who will delight thou- sands of visitors by their gala day at- tire, and by exhibitions and competitive dritis which will take place during the week, ‘The gathering promises to be the greatest in the history of the race. The thousands of lodges will be represented not to speak of the many friends of the great. order who will accompany the Knights to Indianapolis, ‘The trousands of letters received here within the past few months give assurance of the vast ‘rong that will enjoy the hospitality of our beautiful city, ‘The State Fair Grounds, with its ca- paeious acres, will be covered with fents for the 8,000 uniformed men, thus presenting a very worthy attraction in Kself, Here General R. R. Jackson will be. in command, thus “guaranteeing an orderly array of things that will vie with the real thing in ‘militarism. | Dr. Booker T. Washington, the world renowned educator and race leader, Will be the Pythian's guest of honor. "He will speak in the beautiful coliseum on the State Fair Grounds on Tuesday, at Sp. m.. A’ reception will be accorded him a2 p. m,, at Wonderland park, at which time the well-known Hlghth Heg- iment band of Chicago will furnish the music. | The great military parade will take place Thursday, moving at 10 a mM Sharp. This event will eclipse all pre- vious’ parades of the kind with its 26 bands, "8,000 uniformed men and 10,000 Knights in line. “Automobiles, carriages with their loads of distinguished lodge officials and individuals will be an at- tractive feature of this greatest of race Pageants. | ‘The competitive Gri will be a strong feature of the program of entertain: ment. Companies of the uniform rank have been drilling for months. Word comes from these various companies that they mean to carry the trophies back to their homes. ‘The spirit of com- petition is high, consequently an excit- Ing time is expected as well as inter- esting. ‘The competitive drills take place in the coliseum Friday at_§ p. m. Prizes amount to $1,200 cash. Saturday the supreme officers’ will be Installed, Omiclal headquarters, K, of P. Temple, North Senate avenue and’ Walnut street, new phone, 1793, old phone, 7916. BT, ‘Pidrington, grand chancellor; Geo. PB. Stewart,” chairman; Remus Moore, secretary; L. . Davidson, treas- urer; Sadie B. Dungey, grand. ‘worthy counsellor; Wi, C. Gardner, brigadier general. ‘The chairmen of the various commit- tees are as follows: Gurley Brewer, ways and means: W. J. I. Reed, pro- ram and entertainment: publicity ‘and Gecorations, Dr. J. H. Ward; arrange- ments, John Gibbs: tiekets and admis- sion, W.C. Brown: parades and prizes, L. 8, Willis; refreshments and stands, Baward M. Scott; souvenirs and badges, Dr. H. W. Armistead: music and bands, J. HL. Ringgold: reception and invite- tion, ‘Dr. B. KR. Gaddie; printing and ad- vertising, L. M. Jefferson: homes and halls, J.'N. Shelton: uniform rank and camp grounds, W. H. Porter; auditing and accounting, J.D, Cox; Court of Ca= lanthe, Sadie B. Dungey. ‘All visitors wearing official souvenir padze Will be accorded unusual courte- AN INVITATION TO MEET MADAM M'NAIRDEE WHEN IN INDIANAPOLIS. ‘An invitation to all that would like to meet the greatest woman of the age is extended, “She is one whom you all have read of for years, and you should call to Bee her during your stay or visit to In- Gianapolis; take'a grasp of her hand see, feel and know for yourself that there are none other that have such wonderful con- trolling power to read life as an open book. She can put you on the road to Success through her wonderful consulta- tion. If you will only heed her, you will never regret your visit to her hoine. Don’t fail to call and take a grasp of her hand. You may never have. this opportunity again. ‘The rates are low: so come and consuit this wonderful LADY and read her many testimonals that’ you will find on file in her office concerning the good that she has done for suffering humanity, Young and old, come and visit our city and call to see her. MADAME McNAIRDEE, 1103 N. Senate Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. SOME RESULTS OF GOOD FEEL- f ING BETWEEN THE RACES. The best way to tell how a thing will work Is to try it, This the colored and white people of Macon county, Alabama, have done in the way of pulling to- gether to build up the county, ‘Any honest Negro, whether he be farmer, preacher, school teacher, doctor, lawyer’ or businéss man, is appreciated in this county and treated with respect, and given a chance, This is the only Dlack-belt county in the State of Ala- bama which showed, at the last census, @ creditable increasé in people, and this is because of the relation between the races, The Negroes are working hard trying to educate their children to be honest, intelligent and industrious citt- zens, by helping to support good eight- month schools in nearly every commu- nity in the county. T have secured an option on several hundred acres of land located near these schools, which will. make good homes for families who would like to locate in this county and educate their chil- dren. I will be glad to show anyone this tana, "or give Information concerning it CLINTON J. CALLOWAY, Real Estate Dealer, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Bee ee hee oie elma. caer lea on a | wee i: oF If i Ci pCR + i passe, LT < OU ie pi tine ae pr oh . ppeese. LEONARD, GRIFFIN, Louisville Cubs’ Crack Pitcher. GOES TO HAVANA, CUBA. Mr. Charles Alexander, of Boston, Mass, ‘the printer-journalist, sailed on the Steamship Saratoga, of the “Ward Line, trom New York fof Havans, Cuba, Saturday, ‘August 12, where he has been commissioned by a large ‘Chicago Cor- poration to do some special work. “He will return in’ two. weeks, Yes, and On Its Good Behavior. $0 the “Black Cabinet 1s on deck again and deine: business at the old scand“Gale Cee at roe. ‘THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. nt ee a wont Hewes Fe THR STORE OF MODEST PRICKS EMME THE COOL PLACE TO Stor, me Summer Closing Hours—5 P. M. Daily, Saturday 9:30 P. M, Big Reduction Sal SPECIALS FOR K. of P. ENCAMPMENT Wee Whil in the city attending the Encamj it don’t fail to visit th reat bi tT cra ABCA Shon ice he voy aey Sage eee Zou ea, eas Our guarantee means just what it says, “SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK. n® #74 Femember that Se ee ee eee Our fall and winter line of S Big Reduction Sal ; Half es DS, : of Waists 49 Boy’s and Children’s Price / CAD Paton wats ious ieee Y Seema ent wah. Sunda SUITS or Less Jyh | fitiie ee f 4 ha fal ee a8 $3 Waists 98¢ is now ready. Children’s Russian 17-64 LZR | serecycf ths prettiest waists or blouse styles, boys’ double Every Tailor ie femson. ‘Come areas ict, Se breasted coats and Knickerbocker Made Suit Ni x ee Real cae pants, many have two pair, All * Wa ressing Sacques the newest patterns in brown, gray | Ht the House (FF | gees Miia and blue mixture, also blue serge. f ; HIG AG | i vatore. 39e Bip nace a thats ceacocra ce, WL ARMM | Sead aise iti, ot Coe < | -— i ey L x 01.890 (plain and with black if dit ii $1.95 stripe) alg backs in'pem, FE | kone, Lar Kimonos amas, serges and worsted (iM MAA] | sicns. resutarss0 ind or B9@ materials, for vacation (AMEN 1) HM to neo es in Umbrellas Regular $15.00 | Pa horn and natural wood gag $7.95 Tama. 5 $7.50 | a. bie Regular ss gg.gg flit Silk Petticoats values nas We 1) Taffeta or messaline, in colors or back Free Alterations: Ss Meal excellent quality, regular @ ier races 96.25 SEE | es = ; : MEN’S SHIRTS i y | See the New | New fall shirts made in coat style ~&B | ° and cuffs attached, light or dar \ 4 ‘White Felt Hats) som iio sco gg srt | __ For Women and Misses [worst es Say | Allthe rage now. ‘They come in large and BEG es small shapes, trimmed and untrimmed. S75) at ia 82.98 24s $2.98. $2.96)50 THe, $1.00 kine Wf Corsets |rmszare csr ge) md ZA nlm) Negus «Gente es sans, °° GT ee | ereieeee eee ee << HHA iar bends 2G: |rnis season's bet srl, mado of tnens,|_ ArH, esatimcmam® aaa |SITE OE 05 | yoni GRIRTS By I) Have styles to Suita | $200 Dremes, @1.48—Protty styles. made of | 1,00 valued .orrc.vne 998 TUUMGEN Sse stesso oo, |erstnv uv to 0 chasbere 91-48] Fin quay back a si ty tte PREG $2.50 ana $8.00 | fs00 cress 0202S es | tow values ccs S98 ili Fall Underwear Went carry the bet (Qe Reg nr at fee a eee at ec ercrete a | | ) VF ara eS “te a ce 50c Cee) Ty Nh ay setae 50e to $3.00 Rai WalGEE Ieee E. D. Lancaster and C. Coleman, of the ‘Loulsville Cube, were callers at "Tho Freeman office last’ week. CUBS DEFEATED RESERVES. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Louisville Cubs de- feaied the Louisville Reserves ‘last Sun- day in the second game of the series, by a score of 6 19 2. Woods, the ‘new pitcher for the Cubs, was too much for the Reserves; while the Cubs found Louis Durham for twelve hits, which brought ‘them six runs. Goleman, the old rellable of the Cubs, ts still playing the game all around, nit ting, stealing bases and ‘receiving. Phe game was full of double plays: Watson to Goleman to Martin; Rogers to Wallace to Martin. ‘These two teams will play a double- header next Sunday, August 20, ‘at ‘Spring Bank. Park, Thirty-seventh street and Granwood avenue, The frst “game will be called at 2 o'clock. “After this double- header the Cubs will leave Sunday nisht for Indianapolis, to meet the fast “Taste Tells” on. Tuesday at Atkins South side Park, and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 23, 24 and 25, they will play, the world’s famous. Leland Giants, Of, Chicago, at the same pari. ‘The Cubs leave Indianapolis for Chi- cago after this series to meet one of the fastest white teams, on. Saturday, and the Chicago Giants’ on” Sunday, August 21, at the American Giants’ Park, at ‘Thirty-ninth street and. Wentworth ‘ave- nue,” They” will return home “September 10 to meet the Reccus team for a series of, games, ‘The score of the Cubs-Reserve game is as follows: RWB Cubs .......04020000 e512 2 Reserves "11201000100 0-3 6 3 Batterles—Cubs, Woods and Coleman; Reserves, Durbam and Long. Umpire— CHICAGO GIANTS TAKE FIRST TILT OF SERIES ialends. seams Mistortous) in aan, Against American Giants— Score Is 5 to 1, CHICAGO, T—The Chicago Giants won the first game of the. big” three-game series from. the American, Giants at Schorling’s" Park last’ Sunday by. the score of 5 to 1. Walter Ball and Wick- ware hooked up in a great pitchers’ bat- He, the former having all the best of it, although his opponent held him even atter the second inning. Leland's men. started to cinch the game in the first inning when Winston fot to first after Pierce had dropped a third strike, stole second and came home on Johnson's single. They added four more in the next. session on three hits, one of which was a three bagger by Bar ber, and a double steal. The home play- ers’ saved. a shut-out in the ninth When Pryor and Hill got infield hits,” the for- mer scoring on ‘Monroe's single. Wins- ton. fielded in'fine style. "The score: Chicago G. 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Umpire— Goedkel,” Time—1:40. it BLACK PATTI. a . a Of High Grade Pianos Two car loads of fine pianos will go at the following unheard of prices $600 pianos will go at = $310 550 pianos - - 290 500 pianos - = 268 450 pianos - - 225 400 pianos - . 210 350 pianos - - 190 300 pianos - - 178 275 pianos = = 157 Square pianos as low as $10 Every piano fully warrented tor ro yrs., free stool, scarf and drayage; terms as lowas $5 per month; cat fare refunded to out of town purchases within roo miles ot Indianapolis. _ Kine Piano Co. Wm. HAMPE, Mgr. oi ee Probably no colored singer of the present day has sung before aa. many Of the nobility as has Madame Sissler- étta Jones, aptly styled the Patti of the colored race. Under the management of Mr. Te. Voelekel, her pregent mana: ger, in the early nineties, Madame Jones fnade a tour of continental Europe, and in most every country she was ‘com- manded to, and did appear before the reigning families, who expressed un- qualified pleasure and admiration of the agreeable quality, sweetness and range of her voice. This season Madame Sis- Sleretta Jones (Black Patti) 1s appear- ing in the leading theaters of the coun- try in a musical comedy entitled “In ‘The Jungles,” supported by a company of colored artists who leave nothing to be ‘desired. ‘The Black Patti Musical Comedy Company is the next attraction at the Park Theatre. POSITIONS OPEN For a stenographer and dressmaker, of experience and Christian character. | Ad- Gress the president of the Curry Institute, Urbana, Ohio. WANTED—Ten live wideawake colored insurance agents. Good chance for a hustler. Report, Monday morning, Au- gust 14, at 9 o'clock, at room 7, Sanders Bide, £18 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis, Williams’ “ez has led all others the world over since 1840, THE J, B WILLIAMS €0,, Glastonbury, Conn. Dawson & Somer, with their new act, start rehearsals August 15. Owsley and Bowman are at the Idle Hour Theater, Indianapolis, this week. The Smith Family gave one of the finest concerts here last Thursday night, at Asbury Park, N. J. The Golden Gate Trio received plenty of applause at the Pekin Theater, last at Asbury Park, N. J. innovation and his wife, such a doll a little thing was that could be dired and just suitable for a picture house. The orchestra had difficult music which was well played. A Good Show at the New Grand. The Three Juggling Millers in club swinging gas a prime novelty, was the opening number on the bill which brought forth heavy applause, and the Kentucky Trio, the only colored act was entirely satisfactory. The comedian was clever. The Lees—Pearl and Johnnie—have just closed an eight weeks' engagement at the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla. Little Johnny Jones and Eva Moore at the m-dome, Fifty-third street and Avenue, island avenue, Chicago, week of August 14. Peaf. W. A. Barclay, hypnotist and magician, is in New York City indelibly, under the management of M. Lathan. Foxen, the wizard comedy juggler, is making a big hit playing around Philadelphia. He has some nice offers for this season. Mattie Phillips, the well-known star, has joined hands with Karle B. Cooke, the comedian, and will be known as the Cooke and Phillips Duo. Fa F. Peaf. and Mrs. Ella Hayes will appear in vaudeville as a team, under the name of Peaf and Hayes. They opened last Monday on the Cleveland. The Southern Comedy Quartette has closed a three weeks' engagement at the Ameuse Theater, Wickburg, Miss. Now at the Acme Theater, Meridian. Ray and Williams put on their new musical clusters at Normbega Park, Boston, Mass., and was a knock-out. Next week, Salem Willows Theater, Salem, Mass. Tom Fletcher the singing comedian, is back New York, after a successful tour through the West. He appeared at the Crescent Theater, New York City, and scored a big hit. McNeil and McNeil, refined and comedy sketch artists, are still at the Belmont theater, Pensacola, Fla., where they are scoring a hit with their sensational buck and wing dancinck. The Moores made a big impression with their act at the Crescent Theater, New York, where they very funny in his imitation of a country boy. The singing and dancing was good. The Ten Dark Knights Company are rivals a highly successful show this week at English's Opera House, Indianapolis, where the Tale of Mumbai boy, takes a prominent town calling home in London, England. Karle B. Cooke, the well-known comedian, and A. Prof. Brooks, the ventriloquist, are filling engagements at the Dandy Dine Minstrels week, Prof. Brooks will join the Dandy Dine Minstrels at Washington, D. C., the 21st. D. W. Batsell, formerly solo b-flat clarinetist with the Sunny Dixie Minstrels, has closed with said company, and is now playing wiley songs, Memphis, Tenn., and teaching a band at Elendale, Tenn. All friends write him, care of the Freeman. William E. Jones, the phenomenal harpist, who is billed as the man with the biggest musical voice in the world, is introducing with great success the Danny Dine Minstrels, the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad, receiving three encores, at the Criterion Theater. Mr. Jones has signed to go to Washington, D. C., Sunday, August 19. While at Asbury Park, N. J. Mr. Jones made many friends in and out of the profession, who regret THE LYRE THEATER, LOUIS VILLE, KY. By George Slaughter. The bill this week is one of the best ever seen by the Louisville patrons. Five his acts completed the bill, and the band credited to its capacity. Most great hits are the audience and although this lady has appeared here time and again, she received her amount of appreciation. Her act was entirely new to Miller and Green were next on the bill, and they are real laugh producers. Their new act, which they produced this week, is a scream, and they left the audience an unrook. Brown was as those clever singers and dancers. Brown and Delk, this being their fourth week to play the house. They were as big a hit as they were the first week they appeared here. Not a dull hit in their new act, and the singing of "Thompson" was a needed hit. They closed with a neat dance. Clarks were next on the bill, and they were to the Louisville audience this week. They are very clever singers and dancers and are as good as has ever been. Mr. Clark is the best character seen here since Leroy Blind was here. His Jew and Dago intermissions were very good. The Southern Comedy Four closed the second this act was also a new one to the show; they were well received. This closed show, the best bill ever seen in Louisville, Clark, Jr., the well-known store owner of the Lyre Theater, has announced an ad for a show with Ben Burry to play over the Fort Erie Bank on a dollar circuit. There are to be fifteen in the act, with John Ruckus, the star of Blossom and Joseph Clark, Jr. the star of the act. They are to go to where they are booked solid for one week from the best colored performers in business, male and female. Transfers here and back, and salary for a guaranteed by the Bank of Australia. Agent Gant's Picks at the Monogram —Lizzie Wallace Dazzles in a Monkey Song. It was a "hang up" good show that it had on Monogram last Monday eveni- ner. Agent Gant, to my surprise, was with the goods in her stage de- partment. She was a superb dazzler, struggling the stage and to prance her act well as any white soubrette, and two hosts were regulated and with the Wallace and Saniflo extremely well known of partners. Mill Wallace had her grace to add to her charm and sound, and her dancing was most excellent, and she knew how the lively story was artistically clever. His otherwise very good. Both performers had a good routine. Miss Irene was a curustist, more than she will will be in her ractime ditties, which would have the last costume she wore would be a royal order. The two is a comedian. Mr. Her is a versatility comedian and one who has her property to soon develop lar- tions of prize fights. His dancing imita- tions. Another Illustrated Song Hit at the Phoenix. Manager Hammond delivers the goods right along, and his patronage continues to keep up to the average. "Star Miley Adams" was a song which elicited much applause and was rendered by Ed Goodbar, a very fine tenor singer. Several new devices in pictures are promised at this house next week. George Bailey's Female band, a most creditable collection of ladies, was loudly applauded at the Provident hospital benefit ball game, where they played. W. Roger Jones the tenor singer, has just completed two song lyrics, which are to be submitted to Will Rossiter, the song publisher. Mr. Jones is a former student of Tuskegee. Mrs. Anna Eny, mother of Prof. William C. Enty, the well-known pianist and composer of Kingston, N. Y., died suddenly at her home in that city August 10. Mrs. Enty was a lady of high qualities and highly respected by everybody. Duke Brennon, manager of the Grand, is away on his vacation, but everything is serene. One thing is that everything goes well. Moves along by a system that is so well regulated as to be above criticism. Miller and Lyles have been sued by Manager Miles, of Miles' theater, Dec. 15, 2013, cancelling certain date at his house. Flourney Miller claims to have no knowledge of the disagreement between his booking agent and Mr. Miles. Among those who, for some reason, failed to appear at the Motts Memorial were Adam Anita Patti Brown (out of touch) and Lyles, Perrin Crosby and Saparo, Bert Murphy, Rosa Lee Tyler, Simms and Thompson and others. The report that Bob Cole committed suicide appears to have no foundation. It was the deranged condition of his mind that no doubt caused him to wade out in the water to his death. It will probably surprise certain laymen that he am continually praised and flattered by individuals and besieged by letters of the same order, including those who request advice and others asking charity. I am in receipt of two mourning cards, which read as follows: "Miss Lucy Lindsay wishes to thank you for your kind expression of sympathy in her brother, Robert T. Motts," and "The family of the late Robert Cole acknowledges with grateful appreciation the kind expression of your sympathy." Manager Frank Crowd remained over to attend the Pekin memorial performance. I had given notice to the management, and I was in town, and received no invitation, as I had been informed he would. He secured a box on his arrival at the theater and I at once introduced him to manager Crowd. Even who cared for him and who was too busy to converse. Mr. Crowd is wealthy and the owner of the Globe theater of Jacksonville, Fla. His house is the only colored man in the south that is a real manager by experience. To be plain about it, I think Mr. Crowd should have been invited by the other crowd to make a extemporaneous speech at the theater as only colored man in the south is a real manager by experience. Mr. Crowd is a native of Boston by birth, and I was impressed by his unsummarized manner and culture. As his guest we met with him not on campus. He left the city Monday noon to be the guest of Elwood C. Knox, of The Freeman, at Indianapolis, Ind. Shelton A. Brooks and Walter Harris, are nearing a completion of the decorating of their upper dining room. Clarence Tisbitt is the pianist and Sparrow Kimbrow is the pianist, well-known in the city, of course. INDIANAPOLIS SHOW TALK. Some Spot-Lighters. By Billie. The 'Winsome Lillian Brown. Among those showing at the Crown Garden theater, Indianapolis this week is Lillian Brown, a delightful soubret, who halls from the South and is rather proud of the fact that she is of that section. This is her first season North and her first time in Indianapolis. Miss Brown does a classy act, her teleconference is everything entirely new. She tells George all about it in a catchy way. She sings with a rich, clear voice that fills the house. Now and then is noted that delightful performance is so pleasing. She gets the hands throughout, and at the close is accorded fairly an ovation. In one of her songs she declares she is the most honest woman in the world—not much. Her very attractive appearance and rich costuming will take up for her in any old place. Miss Brown has taken stage manners and in all ways appears a successful, up-to-date performer. Her quality also may be judged when it is known that she formerly teamed with Earl Walker, present manager of the Crown theater, who is a capable performer. Julian Costello. Julian Costello is styled "the best ever." Well, it looks that way. He appears at the Crown Garden the way he amid the galaxy of good. The auction of the best treat by the happy characterizations of Mr. Costello, who does male or female equally well. No more pleasing impersonations he has done in the Crown Garden stage. It is doubtful if another man in the business does a similar business so finely. His impersonations are rather feminish, but the fact does not mean he is an artist, feels it, and knows it, is apparent to all. The beauty of the acting, the beauty of the earnestness, the beauty of all response from that portion of audience's nature in kind. And he got the hands just as soon as it was understood what he was doing. He colored a servant girl is quietly done, well done. She has no hurry; just a plain girl, who deported herself. Costello's "Porto Rico" is a very pretty piece of work, the best "Porto Rico" THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER seen at that playhouse. He goes into it whole souled making a success where the half hearted would fall. His dancing and singing is in strict keeping with his heart. His costuming is good, and fitting, which together with his fine acting, make a great success. He wins 'em as he goes along. **King and Mobley.** Billy King and James Mobley are among that choice bunch of attractions seen at the Crown Garden theater this week. The pair is distinctly odd and manic, but they are in a quarrel and count which appears between two fairly respectable "culled gents" of the old school. They are rather quiet—unobtrusive in their manner, but they are consequence the audience is in a constant bubble of merriment breaking out and then in hearty applause. One would think that the team didn't have him to mind, but they don't mind that a bit. They just keep on, quietly grinding out the apparently never ending fountain of fun, winning the house as they provide it to other artists work so quietly and In the second part they do something of a skit that is about as funny as tomer and clerk in various kinds of stores, bringing down the house owing to the lack of furniture. This is new to Crown Garden patrons. That it is appreciated is shown by the bursts of laughter and hearty applause. Billy King recently doubled with his present partner. King was formerly of Bridards and Pringles' Minstrel show, when he was a very successful performer. They open on big time in September. Madame St. Clair and Her Dancing Whirlwind, Raymond, Thomas. Madame St. Clair and dauphin boy, Raymond Thomas, furnish their share of the amusement at the Crown Garden theater this week. The Madame wins applause by her pleasing stage work. He is the only excellent stage presence. Her dancing movements, together with her fetishing wardrobe, gets her in favor at once. Raymond Thomas is a little stage wheeled boy who is far more than he does, but much more things more graceful than he can. Perhaps he has no rival. He taps the floor almost as gently as a purring kitten when he plays. He will not find it necessary to beat up the floor if he keeps up his present style. The audience did not forget to take note of him. The taperedization of a pew-wed—one year—with a sample of the crop the girls would have to contend with when married, was funny. He showed possibilities of good actor of comic parts. He has the elements of great success in him—a bright stage kid. The closing dance between the Madame and the boy, either in pretty, becoming costumes, was a fitting finale. The Great Southern Quartette in India ananolis One of the most enjoyable shows seen in this city in recent days is that by Great Southern Quartet at the Gayleville concert hall, people are real singers, winning and holding their audiences by the rich blending of tones—now fortissimo, then always beautifully harmed, but always beautifully harmed, but excel in this particular feature, rivaling a well-played church organ. The humor of the quartet is sometimes noted that sameness which is sometimes noted of quartet singing. In short, they furnish a program of very pleasing and entertaining variety. Those make up the quartet are: Elizabeth Huddleson, Thomas W. Reid. WAN Music For Dandy Mins Two Cornets, Three Trombo ADD R. Voo Mgr. Black High Street Theatre, Phone Douglass 4482 THE LA VERDO C (CAFE NEW 3100-2 State Str TABLE DE HOTE SERVE .....HIGH CLASS H Richards & Mins WANTED! Musicians For the Dandy Dixie Minstrels Two Cornets, Two Clarinets Three Trombones, One Alto. ADDRESS R. Voelckel, Phone Douglass 4482 Automatic phone 71001 THE LA VERDO CAFE AND BUFFET (CAFE NEW OPENED) 3100-2 State Street, Chicago, Ill TABLE DE HOTE SERVED FROM 5 TO 8 P. M. .....HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINERS..... Richards & Pringle's Minstrels Wants Immediately Good second violin for orchestra to double band, also good A No. 1 Chorus Director Other musicians ple write. Whisky heads and big heads steer clear. route in The Freeman, and "tell it al" in first letter. we know you. Holland & Filk Managers Richards & Pringle's Min Good second violin for orchestra to double band, alto preferred; also good A No. 1 Chorus Director Other musicians and useful people write. Whisky heads and big heads steer clear. Address as per route in The Freeman, and "tell it al" in first letter. Yes, ticket if we know you. A. L. Huddleson and Bud Smith. Bud Smith is a comedian as well as a singer. He plays down the house with his fun. The Huddleson never gets tired of this young man, who is among the best. Bud Smith has a decidedly sweet voice. Her relationship with Man Moon" merited the applause given All through the work her voice helped largely in giving the singing its taking distinction. Bud Huddleson and Reid do pleasing work as bass and tenor. The more notable songs are the Chinese song, which never fails to "get 'em", and the callope imitation which keeps the singing and a-singin'. The audience never gets tired of them. We use no orchestra, nor do they need one. The quartet is now playing Gus Sun timber. Will open up on big time, September Washington and Jones. Washington and Jones, playing this week at the Family Theater, are a pair or classy, performers who are highly skilled, the audiences of that popular show house, and the actors in the country doing neater or cleaner work. They do strictly the "legit" and get the hands. At all times Mr. Washington and Miss Jones, who is Mrs. Washington, are fashionably attired, not overly attired, but just as they would be at a show house, and in the last part of the act Mr. Washington princely, and Miss Jones is in strict keeping, presenting as swell a pair as ever bowed behind the footlights. It is well sung; it gets the applause. Mr. Washington follows in a whistling novelty, faithfully imitating various birds. This rare ability was highly appreciated by audience, which applauded heavily. Mr. Washington responded to the encore. Miss Jones proves a very pleasing soprano. Hers is not a big voice, but flexible, showing the effect of culture, and the passages by Mr. Dusky Rose" is by Mr. Washington, who sings from the audience. The rendition is pretty and taking. They close with a well-rendered grand opera touch. It proves a winner. Mr. Washington is is of jubilee fame, he was formerly manager of Carter's Jubilee Boutique, with other companies, doing chauatouqua work and other high-class entertaining. His present concert company is the season's work in September. He insists that it is the best in the world. Miss Jones is a graduate of a Cleveland husband, has been engaged in chauatouqua and jubilee work. The team is well fitted for their work, and will capable entertainers before any audience. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY CO—Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 21, 22, 23; Richmond, 24; Xenia, O., 25; Squirrelfield, 26. RICHARD PRILEGLE'S GEORGIA MINSTRELS—Hood River, Ore, Aug. 21; The Dalles, 22; Pendleton, 23; La Grande, 24; Baker City, 25; Welser, Idaho, 26. JOEL HARKIN—Paterson, N. J., Aug. 21, 22, 23; Plainfield, 24; S. Bethlehem, Pa., 25; Allentown, 26. P. G. LOWERY CO. WITH WALLACE-AGENBECK CIRCUS—Vincennes, IA., 24; Bethlehem, 22; Evansville, 23; Carml, Ill., 24; Robinson, 25; Bloomington, 26. PROF. R. ROY POPE'S ANNEX CONCERT BAND, with Ringling Bros. Catering, at C. August 21, Bellinbham, Wash., 22; Yakima, 23; Tacoma, 24; North Yakima, 24. UNITED! Medicians for the My Dixie Strels Two Clarinets Bones, One Alto. ADDRESS Delckel, Black Patti Co. e, Columbus, Ohio Automatic phone 71001 CAFE AND BUFFET (NEW OPENED) Street, Chicago, Ill SERVED FROM 5 TO 8 P. M. S ENTERTAINERS..... Harry J. Kelly Proprietor & Pringle's strels stra to double band, alto preferred; actor Other musicians and useful peo big heads steer clear. Address as per it al" in first letter. Yes, ticket if & Filkins, s & Pringle's Minstrels ROUTE. FOR SALE! Vaudeville and Picture Theatre. Only colored theatre in city of 60000 Pop.; 6000 colored people, playing to good business every night; a good hustler can double it; big money for the right man; a bargain, if you want this, answer quick. Address. CUNCINNATI, OHIO WANTED DLORED PERFORMER versatile and can change their acts to two or more weeks for the right or wardrobe. Write or wire at once. BIN W. D. AMENT, JACKSON, TOM'S CABIN P Calling Slave Drama h eight colored performers in the c ICES : goes to the Park. Aug. 1 WANTED! That are versatile and can change their acts three times weekly. Two or more weeks for the right ones. Must have good wardrobe. Write or wire at once. Address, CAPTAIN W. D. AMENT, JACKSON, TENN. With eight colored performers in the cast POPULAR PRICES : : 3-DAYS-3 Every body goes to the Park. Aug. 17, 18, 19th Lease season beginning October 1, 1 00 Pythian Temple. Absolutely FI Manager 305-6 K. of P. T S, W. GREEN, Chairman, New Orleans, La. ANTE —AT THE NEW' AND ONLY— Olympia Theatre mail and female singers and dancers, character of stage room for all acts. Seating capacity 120 ant engagement to the right people; Salary $ you do. No transportation or fares advanced to clubs and grafters save stamps. $ ate all in f For Rent or Lease season beginning October 1, 1911. Located in the$200,000 Pythian Temple. Absolutely Fire Proof. Apply Manager 305-6 K. of P. Temple S, W. GREEN, Chairman, New Orleans, La. WANTED! First Class performers, mail and female singers and dancers, character people, and sister teams doing specialties; plenty of stage room for all acts. Seating capacity 1200; good climate, healthful water long and pleasant engagement to the right people; Salary $30 and upwards to start with, according to what you do. No transportation or fares advanced to anyone outside of Cuba Boozers, mashers, dope fiends and grafters save stamps. S ate all in first letter. Address, Williams & Williams OLEMPIA THATRE WAN First class acts of all kinds. Good Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Pro above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Park T 3 D AUG. 21st, DAILY THE BLA Musical Com In their la "In the J ANTE all kinds. Good novelty acts of re . GIBSON, Prop. Auditorium The Philadelphia, Pa. k Theatre 3 DAYS 3 21st, 22nd, DAILY MATINEES THE BLACK PATT ical Comedy Comp In their latest success the Jungl WANTED! First class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognized ability Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop. Auditorium Theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Park Theatre! 3 DAYS 3 A. B. MME. SISSIE THE ORIGINAL "HAPPY" WITH SISSIERETTA THE ORIGINAL BLACK PATTERN PPY" JULIUS GL THE WANGDOODLE COMEDIAN 40 MMEDIANS. VOCALISTS. AM MME. SISSIERETTA JONES THE ORIGINAL BLACK PATTI "HAPPY" JULIUS GLENN THE WANGDOODLE COMEDIAN COLORED COMMEDIANS, VOCALISTS, AND DANCERS Theater October 1, 1911. Located Absolutely Fire Proof. K. of P. Temple New Orleans, La. TED! AND ONLY— theatre dancers, character people, and sister teams eating capacity 1200; good climate, health people; Salary $30 and upwards to start fares advanced to anyone outside of Cuba amps. S ate all in first letter. Address, OLEMPIA THEATRE Steva Gerona Isle of Pines, Cuba, W. I TED! belty acts of recognized ability editorium Theatre, South Stree theatre! 3 22nd, 23rd INEES K PATTI y Company success ungles” ETTA JONES BLACK PATTI US GLENN COMEDIAN 5 GOSSIP OF THE STAGE 6 THE GREAT COXES, PENSACOLA, FLA. The two reasons why they are now playing at the Acme Theater, Merdian, Miss, and are still holding their own reputation throughout the entire Southwestern theater, they get out of the South for about three or four weeks or more, and somehow or other the managers don't like to let them go. Of course, there is no doubt they may have some knackers, but at the same time every knock is a boost. The Coxes can't pretend say that if any manager wants a No. 1 team, let him send for the Coxes. And any time that the Coxes don't make good, there is no team in the business that will make good. All they want is to be allowed a show. If you want to be M. Jacoby, Bolmont Street Theater, Pensacola, Fla. THE LINCOLN THEATER. LEXINGTON, KY. The Lincoln theater had booked for the week of July 31st one of the highest-class acts of the season in the persons who possesses a rich baritone voice, opened the bill singing "Down By The Old Mill Stream." His rendition of this song was high class and entertaining to all who possesses personality, sang "Twilight." Her simplicity was admirable and she sang in a clear sweet voice. The presentation was excellent. Their act was natural to the Redman's life. They left their audiences screening singing "The Big Chief." Miss May D. Clark, the Clarks, misplaced several days last week, all be out again and delighted several large audiences Sunday singing "Holy City." This week the Clarks are playing a rehearsal for the next week Kolored Kandy Kids will be here, Best yet. Mr. Ray Cole, the popular chauffer of "Cincy" who has been making a lot of money at the city this week, "Get the Habit." Read The Freeman. For sale at box office. DUVAL THEATER, ATLANTA, GA. Running along smoothly under new management; packed houses nightly. The company comprises some very good performers who are making themselves known, and there is a man called There's Rustus Nealy, that funny comedian, who keeps them laughing with his funny sayings. Joyner and Joyner are very good, the man being a very good man, and the woman a good looker and singer. Bessie Oliver, a clever soubret, is going some singing "Put Your Arms Around Me. Prof. Hinton, the man of mystery, is doing his triple guessing nightly. Belle McIntyre is doing the little soubret, who is going big singing "Whistle and I'll Wait for You." The sister team of Henderson and Conley are doing nicely and have a very nice sound. John E. Lewis, that clever, versatile performer and tenor soloist, has showed the patrons of the house that he can deliver a coon song, as they are termed, as he can classical one. He is singing "Stanley and "Tit!" the Man You Take Me to Be" with four and five encores nightly. JOHN RUCKER, COMEDIAN, AT THE HEAD OF THE LIST Of the really great Negro comedians now living, Bert Williams is one, S. H. Dudley is another, and John Rucker is the third one. Some thought that Rucker was traveling on his name because he was known in minstrelsy several years ago. He was a comedian who oils a few weeks ago he changed all such opinions, proving one of the very best in the business. As a single worker he stands right up with Bert Williams, yet he has nothing of his style. He is exclusively, and without successful limits, for a part of him. Every utterance is full of humor; his success does not depend THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS Rucker has been very successful—has made good. In "The Oyster Man" and other well-known roles he carried the sword that seldom colored acts. As singles and Dart Bert Williams are in the very front, where he promises to remain, since he is progressive. He has added art to nature, and he has added compound that will not readily be eclipsed. Rucker will be seen at Tomlinson Hall under the management of the Indianapolis Amusement Company, the week of April 16. The annual conceptual conclave of the Knights of Pythias. Perhaps this will be the last time to see the inimitable Rucker for a great performance. He chooses to do, will carry him to other parts. Europe is a possible part of his future program. In that event he will make good, since he is of the peerless order, nature's own, which falls not in the recognition wherever it is seen. Funeral of Robert Cole The funeral of the late Robert Allen Cole took place at his late residence, 102 West 136 street, New York City. Ten Brooks officiated and the Dr. Layman, who was with the cedars, wished the sermon, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "Abide with Me," "Asleep in Jesus" and "I Need Thee Every Hour" were sung. Mr. Arthur Payne was the sermoners were Bert A. Williams, Jesse A. Hippster, A. Walton, Shepard N. Edmonds and a son of Booker T, Washington. Mr. Cole's mother and sisters were prostrated with grief. The floral offerings were interment was at Woodlawn Cemetery. NOTES FROM EPH WILLIAMS' BIG CITY MINSTRELS We are now in our fourth month, and business improves daily; also the show is getting up to a standard seldom equaled. The roster is as follows: Prof. Eph Williams, proprietor; R. C. Puggsley, business manager; W. H. Baynard, assistant manager; Eleanor Barker, books, advance representative; W. Goff Kennedy, amusement director; The Osts (Chas, and Lillian), the sketch artists; George Baker, the daredevil; and William Elliott (Frank and Ella), singers and dancers; Kid Holmes, dancer; "Happy" Charley Lewis, monologuist, and artist; Andrew Anderson, and is as follows; Fred Goodwin, piccolo; Fred Kewley and Wm. Phillips, clarinets; R. J. Mitchell, Chas, Logan and R. J. Anderson, cornetts; Bradley Bartone, Watkins, tuba; Jesse Reeves and Tom Reed, trombones, Leonard Nelson and Chas, Ost, battery. Avery Anderson is happy and send regards to friends in and out of the profession. COLUMBIA, S. C. JOHNSON'S THEATORIUM The Theatorem has just opened to the public. Some of the best Southern musical comedies will be staged by Bert Murray or of the leading comedians of the section. Nelson, a high-class soloist, is joining the famous ballet with success. George Thunn is doing clear straight work. He is singing the famous boy magician, is still holding the audiences spellbound with his clever line of work. Bessie Roseborough, a clever little singing songwriter, is bursting with the buttons off nightly with his funny sayings. Miss Viola Wallis, a new soubret in the profession, is doing good, featuring "Ogalaia" Dress Groves, comedienne, is creating a stump of applause nightly. Houze and Houze, "nuff said." Bert Houze is due much credit for his high-class shows he has been putting on since he was a child. Arthur Johnson, our manager and proprietor, is wearing the golden smile each night. The Freeman is for sale every Saturday at Johnson's Theaterum, 1416 Assembly street. CINCINNATI THEATERS. Packed houses were the results Monday night at the Pekin Theater. Two of the old favorite teams and Miss Lucy Shepard made up a very interesting card, with several nice selections, followed by Johnson and Roper, with a very classy turn. The girls are putting on about the same act as when they were seen here before, and the boys are putting on Johnson is featuring the "Monkey Rag," and she knows how to put it on. This team shows real class. May and May, billed as "String Beans and String Beans," close the show, putting on real life, as is the second pecance of this team here, and they were well received. Just what kind of an ace they are putting on it is hard to determine, but the team proved one thing, and that is they know how to produce the goods desired around here. On their former visit here they worked two weeks, giving us a new act each week and now everything they know now Miss Swantey has some stunning new costumes. The Gaither The Gather held over the most of last week's bill. The only change is a novelty act. The Eagle and Red Eagle, two Indian elephants, are principal feature of their act. Bowman and Owlsley are putting on one of their shows. The Uncle Sam." The boys work hard, and their act was a feature of the show. The Two Sweets close the bill again this week. They work over. They work in a bunch of good comedy, and they use some parodies on popular songs that score big. This is the only act they have done. Good house every show. Monday night. THE CROWN GARDEN THEATER INDIANAPOLIS The Crown Garden is again successful in presenting a highly attractive bill for this week. Some of the numbers are too good, too rich, of more comment than is possible to give in these brief show reviews. The first number, by Princess Rajah (Miss Williams) goes past all expectation from arts, if you please, one includes to the list a head of her class. Her movements are serpentine in grace. At times she flings her clothes alarmingly high, but the firm figure finishes the dance from the audience applause of appreciation for the art phase of her work. La madame est plus grande! Yah, yah, die Frau ist sehr gross! Trio, direct from New York, gives a pleasing skirt. R. O. Henderson does a fine old "mammy" act. The boys, O. D. Carter and Jorge Boute, do good talking, singing and dancing turns. They get the applause. W. J. Wright is a young man with a cape, voice, which shows cultivation. His sound is "Sailors, Beware," is well rendered. His two-kone whistling novelty was pleasing. Merriwether and Brown have a changed act this week. Better than ever, the novelty is possible to give in these brief show reviews. The famous old minstrel, Billy Kersands, has not forgotten his cunning. He is not as frisky as he has been, but he amuse and pleases. His recital of "The Hill" was a great success at the Hill." was a winner. Mrs. Kersands his wife. is a good one. She does clean up-to-date work, sings with success, and does a fine talking part. Their work is brilliant. They won on their merits rather than on the fame of their Kersands name. ATLANTA (GA.) MUSIC FESTIVAL The music-loving people of Atlanta, Ga., will give a music festival the 8th and 9th of August, which they insist will surpass anything yet attempted by the race. It is saying something, yet they may do what they say. Boston and New York and sometimes Chicago have been distin THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER guished for big things in the way of music. That is, in the more recent days. Indianapolis, however, long before had made history with its great musicales, where such singers as Rachael Walker, now in Europe, sang, also others of note. These festivals threatened to make this city as peculiarly distinct as Oberammergau. This was some fifteen or eighteen years ago, when music at its best was young with the race. The precocious Negro Indianapolisans were with it at its very beginning. But, alas! the newer generations having been reared with it set no store-by -it-do not value it. Had they been brought up on "hog and hominy" they doubtless would value the blessing of the legitimate. We had then our plethora; we now have our dearth. Why not that evenness of things that makes for stability? Atlanta is to be congratulated for what it proposes. The music festival of magnitude and merit leaves its influence for good—an incentive for lagging musicians, for those who would tire of music, and also engenders a spirit for it. As yet legitimate music or the art phase does not pay in dollars and cents. Looking at it from that viewpoint, only the very foremost few succeed in making it worth the while. But right happily life is more than food and raiment. Cultivation for cultivation's sake enters into civilization's compound and should find large place in the individuals existence. With some little sense of envy, pardonable envy, however, reasonable jealousy, we concede what is due to Atlanta for standing up for one of the immortal nine—the muses—and which has not lost its hold on the affections of the cultivated of other races. More than we think the civilization of the past is judged by the remains of its fine arts, whatever arts that are left. Modern times are not different. The status is registered as the eye takes in the proportionment. So if we are wise we will not neglect the great good things, even though our bread and butter come through things not so great and good. POLITICAL FORECAST The World's Work, a well-known publication, recently gave out some interesting information, as it concerns the result of a recent straw vote on presidential preferences. The names balloted on were among those of individuals most prominently mentioned for President. On the Republican side Taft led, but the Roosevelt vote was large enough to be interesting, he received more than half as many as were cast for Mr. Taft. The various comments and explanations given with Taft votes were quite as interesting as the indication of choice. These modifiers in part were as follows: "Provided he continues his present course," one wrote; another, "If he keeps it up"; still another, "Provided he continues to make good"; * * another, "I want to see if Taft can make good." The consensus of opinion seems to be that President Taft has been in the balances all along, and also that the scales are now kicking the beam in his favor. The fact of it is the President had a hard man to follow. Mr. Roosevelt won a place in the affections of the masses by opposing what was held to be wrongs in high places. No executive in recent times had taken the initiative in reforms that promised such general relief. And then, too, he had that progressive makeup which is compatible with that of the American people. What's in the people will out. They applaud consciously and unconsciously those that are after their own hearts. Also, Mr. Roosevelt was not averse to doing a little politicalizing, a thing for which he has such peculiar ability, all of which gave the country one of its most brilliant political figures. It is not too much to say that he stood the country's best representative as a world's statesman. A careful survey of his career, we think, will bear out the conclusion. Not only was Mr. Taft of a judicial temperament, his "patron saints" along the presidential line seemingly were those conventional presidents, who clung to the old order of things, who "merely presided," permitting Congress to act according as the spirit moved it. These former presidents were particularly mild-mannered, suggested in the midwest way the needed reforms, reviewed annually the country's operations, then retired to the executive desk to indorse or veto the actions of Congress. But the era of presidential activity having been inaugurated, it appears that it came to stay. Mr. Taft has found it imprudent, viewing it from the standpoint of presidential succession, to remain longer a sort of recluse, as it were. The pace has been set. He seems to know it as the country knows it. The people seem to expect him to "get on his nerve" now and then. When they say he is coming up they have reference to the aggressive spirit, as shown in the Canadian reciprocity business, and in the recent Supreme Court decision limiting the operations of colossal combines, and which they so much like. The Lorimer investigation has, it is thought, aroused the dignity of the lawmakers at Washington. They evidently mean to protect the fair names of the respective lawmaking bodies, and to which end drastic measures have been drafted by way of a pre-election publicity bill. By the provisions candidates for either house must publish itemized accounts of their expenses and which must not exceed limitations prescribed. The main provision of the proposed bill is as follows: "No candidate for the Senate or House shall spend in the election more than a sum equal to 10 cents for each voter in his district or state. "No senatorial candidate shall spend a total of more than $10,000 in the primary and general election, and no candidate for the house shall spend more than $5,000. "Publicity must be given to all primary campaign contributions and expenditures. "All general election expenses must THE $10,000 BALLAD SENSATION "IF I FORGET" Words by Alfred Anderson—Music by De Koven Thompson The World's Greatest Ballard sung by the World's Greatest Singers. Adapted to all classes of Players and Singers Don't miss the B K & Co. Numbers, they stand in a class of their own "AS LONG AS THE SEA ROLLS ON" "SQUAW MAN" "LONGING FOR THE LOVE THAT USED TO BE" "THE SOUL OF LOVE IS THE RED RED ROSE" "SOME ONE, SOME WHERE, SOME DAY" If your dealer cannot supply, send order direct to: Blood, Koehler, & Co., Music Publishers 145 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. be made public before the election, beginning fifteen days before election, and making publication each six days until election. "All promises of political jobs must be made public. The bill further makes it illegal to promise political places in order to procure election support, or to aid in influencing the election of any member of a state legislature." The bill was introduced in the house of representatives, but the senators refusing to be outdone, added amendments that were yet more drastic. It appears that the Lorimer leaven is working and for the good of American politics. STARKVILLE (MISS.) NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN. JACKSONVILLE (ILL.) NEWS WEST BADEN, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Spencer HEMMAN guests the hotel as visiting West Baden Springs and stopping at the Jersey European Hotel are: C. D. Brown, Des Moines, Ia.; H. Black,慈华, Ind., Mr. Alex. Smith, Anchorage, Ky.; K. Alza, Anchorage, Ky.; K. Mary, Mary Bibbles, Louisville, Ky.; K. Mr. Wm, Garr, Anchorage, Ky.; Mrs. R. Stogson, Louisville, Ky.; Mr. Chas, Northington, Chicago, Ill.; James Stockdale, Louisville, Ky.; Mr. Gloves, Morganfield, Ky.; Mr. Frank Simmers, Bloomington, Ind.; Mr. Onis Williams, IndianaInd, Ind. PARKERSBURG, W. VA. Special to THE FREEMAN Saturday morning and made good and then left for Ripley....You can get ice cream at Martha Brown's on Sixth street. First Minnie Merman and Alwilla Merman went to visit her mother on Monday. SHEET·MUSIC FREE CATALOG OF 100 Picked Popular Songs, Rags and Waltzes selected from latest Season Hits. Free Catalog. Write to-day for one. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC GOMPANY 5025 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. WANTED! In Song, Dance and Rapid fire Monologue. Repettoire consists of 7 well dressed, clean, clean and entertaining acts. "Somethng different from the rest" Played 10 weeks at one theatre and 8 weeks at another in Washington, D. C. last season. Home Address 351 W. 30th Street New York City. WANTED! Acts, all kids those having written, write again; good acts indefinite run; want big feature openness; make a movie; Sunday, Amusement Diner. New Orlean Theater, 123-285 South St., Philadelphia, PA. Acts, all kids those having written, write again; good acts indefinite run; want big feature openness; make a movie; Sunday, Amusement Diner. New Orlean Theater, 123-285 South St., Philadelphia, PA. Coca Cola WANTED! For Church's Theatre, first class performers who can work stock and vaudeville. State salary and what you can do in first letter. Won't answer if salary isn't stated. Wardrobe considered. Add. Church's Park, Memphis, Tenn. WANTED! For the John H. Sparks Annex Band. long season south. Colored Musicians that can read music, especially trombones. Harvey McCloudy, Jerry Martin. Write, Alonzo Turner, care of John H. Spark's Annex Band, care of The Freeman. Will Appear in Your City Soon The Florida Blossom Comp'y With 40 All Star Performers, in their 2 Palace Cars. Engagements open at all times for first class musicians and performers, male and female. Contract jumpers and boozers save stamps. Douglass & Worthey, sole owners, 841 Fourth street, Macon, Ga Coming to Your City Soon THE GREAT A. G. ALLEN'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS The Show that has Made all the South Laugh Opening for first class musicians and performers at all times. Those doubling in brass preferred. Salary sure. We never close. State all you can do in first letter. Address GEORGE W. QUINE, Mgr., Mail forwarded each day to show. Hazan, Arkansas. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville, Moving Pictures FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICABUILT FOR COLORED PEOPLE Want to hear from all colored acts Grand Amusement Company 3110-12 S. State St., Chicago, Illinois You Can Play Your Act. From 4 to 5 weeks at the Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. Two Shows Nightly, No Matinees. State all in first letter. Write or wire Frank Crowd, Owner and Manager, Jacksonville, Florida. DRINK BOTTLED 5 Cts at all first-class places 8 Odd Lots of Combination Suits in large sizes, trimmed with lace and embroidery, have had their prices changed from $2.50 up to $4.00 to $1.50 and up. They are smooth fitting without any unnecessary fullness,beautifully trimmed, such as a woman of perfect taste would herself select. Third floor, south. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. Mrs. Amy Lewis is much improved. Dr. S. A. Furniss returned today from Little Rock. Mr. George Bightower spent Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Mr. Sheppard Rickman is critically ill at the city hospital. Miss Bertie Thompson has returned home from Dayton, O. Miss Sarah Tyrese left Tuesday for a week's visit in Anderson, Ind. Mrs. Belle Davis will entertain in honor of her guests on Wednesday evening. Henry R. Roose, of Chicago, will be the guest of Mrs. Mabel Tucker for two weeks. The old folk's concert given at Mt. Zion church Tuesday evening was quite a success. Mrs. Harriet Craig is visiting her grand-mother, Mrs. Vincent, in Hanover, ind. Mrs. A. J. Allen and sister-in-law will visit her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, a few days next week. Misses Nora and Maud S. Baker, in West North street, spent Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Master Spillman, of Wayman Cove in Harrisburg, Ky., is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Belle Davis. All delegates stopping at the Parker House will be entertained each evening during the K. of P. encampment. Mesdames Sade Hayes and Pete Tribble, of Chicago, are expected to visit Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips. Mrs. Wilhelmia Myers and son of Louisville, Ky., are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furnills. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Allen, of Milwaukee, Wis., will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown. Attorney J. H. Lott and family are not pleased by beautiful home in North California street. Miss Ethel Dean, of Muncie, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lucy Young, in Fayette street. Mrs. Beulah Brooks and Miss Nannie Jackson, of Peoria, Ill., will arrive on Tuesday to remain until after the encampment. Grandmother Counsellor, Mrs. Sadie B. Doyle, was in greenfield, Ind, Tuesday, on business. Mr. Robert Quinn is visiting his mother in North Carolina and will return to the city on the 25th inst. Mrs. Edith Caldwell, of Denver, Colo., is visiting Mrs. John Johnson, in North California street. Mrs. Mattie Gray and son, of Columbus, Ohio, are the guests of Mrs. Ora Jefferson, in West North street. Mrs. Zora Rickman, of South Bend, Ohio, is the guest of Mrs. Ora Jefferson next week. Mrs. F. C. Duerson is able to be at her home, after a successful operation at the city hospital. Lrs. Maude M. Taylor and son, of Mrs. Maude M. Taylor, visiting Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furlum. Rev. H, W. Tate attended the M. E. missionary and educational convention held in New York. Mr. W, H. Fielding suffered a relapse Wednesday morning and is seriously ill FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES,SMALL SIZED BOTTLE,25+ LARGE SIZED BOTTLE,50+ THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 57 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. at his home, 330 West Michigan street. Mrs. Mary M. White and daughter and little Miss Maud Webb, of Win- chester, Ky., are in the city for the King's Cup. Modame Mamie Adams will be the guest of her sister, 602 Agnes street, during the conclave. Misses Janie Lee and Lizzie Caldwell, and Mr. Lee Grimes, of Danville, Ky. , are in the city for Michigan street, next week. Miss Hagar Hawkins and Mr. Nick Rice were quietly married Tuesday af- ternoon, and are now at home to their friends at 1013 North West street. Mrs. Marshall of Leesburg, Mich. , Wm. Davidson, of Chicago, and John Dorssey, of Louisville, Ky., are guests at the Parker House. Mrs. Lavenia Watson Cooper, of Louis- ville, of Cincinnati, O., are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Henderson, in Athon street. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Smith, of New York, are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Lucas B. Willis, in Camp Mrs. Mattle Russell entertained at dinner, Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Phillips, of Winchester, Ky., and Mrs. Martha Boone, of Cincinnati, Mrs. Martha Boone, of Cincinnati, will entertain visiting delegates at the hospital Wednesday evening, August 23, from 7 to 10 o'clock. The White Rose and Blue Ribbon Social Club will entertain a number of visitors the residence of Mrs. Felix Larkin in Iowa on Thursday evening, from 8 to 12 o'clock. The Young Ladies' Club met with Miss Katie Clay, Monday evening, and made arrangements for a social function to be given in honor of a large number of delegates, Mrs. Larkin. Mrs. Edwards died suddenly at her home in Fayette street, Sunday morning. The funeral services were held from the Second Baptist church, in charge of Queen Esther Court Wednesday, Mr. George Nugent and daughters, Misses Ida and Georgia, of Louisville, Ky.; Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Paey, of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Lizzie Young, of Olea, Ohio, will be the house guests Mrs. Briar, in North West street, next week. Mr. and Mrs. Bern Fisher will have as their house guests during the K. of week, Mrs Wm Fisher, Mrs Dora Pocock, Prince Fisher and so of Chicago, and Mrs Rose Hines, of New York City. Rev. H. C. Randolph, of Lansing, Mich., was in the city for a few days this week. He has been visiting his home in the state. He is moderator of Chain Lake Baptist Association, which convenes at Ann Arbor, Mich. The auditing committee of the Superintendent of the Knights of Fythias builds the Committee is as follows: J. M. Hazleton, Charleston, W. Va. chairman; J. T. T. Warren, Hot Springs, Ark.; J. T. Jasonington, Louisville; J. A. Brown, New Orleans secretary. Rev. Wm S. McCutcheon, A. B. M. D. and wife were in the city last week. Rev. McCutcheon is attending the Baptist convention being held at Calvary and they can make 'em. They take off a cuspassor. The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary convention of the Baptist church will be held in his church at Chicago and they will be cuspassed to the church will be rebuilt for the occasion. Among the out-of-town guests in the city for the K. of P. encampment are: M. J. Mack, of Arkansasville, Tennessee; M. Mack, of Mt. Vernon, N. M.; Y. Beatrice Buckner, a prominent teacher of Lexington, Ky.; Messrs. William and Jerry Howard, of Montgomery; Mr. Johnson, of Jackson; Mr. Wesley Leafette, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson, of Louisville, Ky. THE PYTHIAN EATING HOUSE. One of the most distinct enterprises yet launched preparatory for the coming of the National Conclave of K. of P.'s is the opening of the Pythian Eating House. House, which is the only place of value to the visiting Knights, owing to the fact that accommodations to the colored people in white restaurants are practically denied. The cafe is being put up in the courtyard of the hotel, the waiter of the Grand Hotel Cafe and is perhaps one of the best-known and best-fitted men in this line anywhere in the State thereby insuring to the visiting delights of the guests the matter of eating. The cafe is situated in the Shiel block, one of the handsome commercial buildings of the city, and is located in the very heart of the business district of the city, in the squares of the great Soldiers and Sailors' Monument, which marks the exact center of the city. The rooms occupied by the restaurant are those formerly used by the hotel's staff. Prices for meals will be normal, and the menu will consist of the very best the markets afford. Mr. Motley is a prominent knight himself, and extends a cordial invitation to all brave men in the city to attend headquarters during their stay in the city. A unique feature of the management of this restaurant will be the installment of automobiles in front of the place at all hours for the accommodation of guests in the city. It will be the opportunity to see the city. Music will be on hand from 6 to 8 and 10 to 12. A NOVELTY IN SOAP. The strangers in the city are cordially invited to investigate the merits of the Knox-All Soap, a product of local manufacture. This soap is of particular interest to janitors and porters generally, so can be offered to them or to the work of such persons. This soap is put up in different sized cartons and can be shipped in any quantity, from a gallon to a barrel. The makers of this soap invite all delegates to the convention, who are engaged in thector or poter service and a inspect their plant at $27 South Illinois street. Y. C. W. P. A. NOTES Miss Harriet Hodge, of the club home, has returned from her visit in Owenbess, Mrs. Maggie Crenshaw Brown, of Chicago, is stopping at the home. C. Wilson, of Texas, will be a guest of the home during the encampment. Miss Ellen Dean has returned to Jamaica, to take up her school exhapation. MARION, IND. The Spencer Hotel has replaced the white girl waiters with colored waiters, for the good of the service. FOR SALE—Airdome, colored neighborhood; good proposition. Address X, care Freeman. THE WILKERSON HOTEL. Phone New 4687. European plan cake in connection. Specta rates to guests. Good service. Moderate prices. James. H F. Wilkerson, prop., 115 N. Senate. BUSINESS LOCALS Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Biodau's Drug Store. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price, 60 cents (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R. P. Biodau, drug rist. Indianapolis, Ind. 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This applies absolutely to everything in stock, as nothing is reserved and positively nothing will be moved to the new building. You can come expecting the greatest values that you have ever been offered by an Indianapolis store, and your choice is not limited. We have whatever you desire and it is yours at Removal Sale prices. BASEMENT Decorated chinaware, crockery, glassware, lamps, house furnishings, enamel ware. cut glass, silverware Also sheets, pillow cases, sheltings and muslins, bed blankets and comforters, gingham and other domestics Decorated chinaware, crockery, glassware, lamps, house furnishings, enamel ware, cut glass, silverware Also sheets, pillow cases, sheetings and muslins, bed blankets and comforters, gingham and other domestics All at Removal Sale prices MAIL Embroideries, laces, rihosiery, summer under neckwear, jewelry, fan SECO Women's and Misses, petticoats, wash dress, wear, corsets and child THIS Carpets, rugs, linoleum, dow blinds, screens, sl embroideries, laces, ribbons, dress trimmings, g osiery, summer underwear, handkerchiefs, veils, backwear, jewelry, fancy combs, notions, toilet an Embroideries, laces, ribbons, dress trimmings, gloves, hosiery, summer underwear, haudkierchiefs, veils, ladies neckwear, jewelry, fancy combs, notions, toilet articles SECOND FLOOR Women's and Misses suits, skirts, coats, waists etticoats, wash dresses, house dresses, muslin u ear, corsets and children's and infants' wear Women's and Misses suits, skirts, coats, waists, silk petticoats, wash dresses, house dresses, muslin underwear, corsets and children's and infants' wear THIRD FLOOR arpets, rugs, linoleums, portieres, lace curtains, new blinds, screens, shirtwaist boxes, pillows and large draperies of all kinds. 5 per cent to 75 per cent L the WM H.BLOC Carpets, rugs, linoleums, portieres, lace curtains, window blinds, screens, shirtwaist boxes, pillows and yardage draperies of all kinds. 25 per cent to 75 per cent Less The W.M.H.BLOCK CO. FASHION TRENDS DA NELSON Walk-Over Boot Shop sylvania St., Indianapolis THE Cooks' Pride! A FLOUR THAT SATISFIES It makes the wholesome loaf. Include it in your next order, you can not go amiss. Mill Cor. Washington and Davidson Sta. Elevator 142-144 S. Alabama St. Tel. Mills Prospect, 3270; New, phone 1771-K. Elevator, both phones 90. Wm. Rouse & Son Indianapolis d Agents MAKE MONEY--WRITE US ES CO., NORFOLK VA. CANDY KITCHEN Chile, Cigars and Tobacco Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. OCK'S NAL SALE every article of merchan- to be sold at prices rang- ourth to Three-Fourths to everything in stock, as nothing is nothing will be moved to the new expecting the greatest values that you in Indianapolis store, and your choice whatever you desire and it is yours at BASEMENT crockery, glassware, lamps, camel ware. cut glass, silverware cases, sheltings and muslins, bed s, gingham and other domestics MAIN FLOOR bbons, dress trimmings, gloves, wear, handkerchiefs, veils, ladies body combs, notions, toilet articles ND FLOOR suits, skirts, coats, waists, silk es, house dresses, muslin under ren's and infants' wear o 75 per cent Less BLOCK CO. he ' IAN BPO | Il lan Supplement PLuaoie Lior: — te a fae a See e i UIBRARY- VOL. XXIV. NO. 32. pe ee ey INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 19. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. jruaps CHICAGO, WHO WILL] in western Pennsytvanta He is a gradu-| at Marion....Henry Coker, past eminent jof Latonia, ity. and Mary ¥. Poynter of| Freeman is Mr. H. Clay Willis, head walter o— FERNY IT, IS THE GREATEST |%0 of Wayland Seminary and” has boon | comanigar, ia eeteAGe ihe eto Gai | Martie Deve Cotes MAY, Povnter ot | Preeman is Mr. ola Menger. Mr. Wills | COT A FEW DOTS—THAT'S ALL. DEXTER OF AFRICAN METHOD-|injivential chuveher te Wi eeyce the, most |mandery at Marion, Ind Be ea nccbi | Menting the reuslog “at Min. Cbrowa's.|auite promigent ere i ehireh ocety and ae ENTER. O! fa} Churches in Pittsburg. He will|ton is attending the Grand Chapter at ee jotel circles. Every member’ of his. effl~ eo GeNTER Ne WORLD. Of puesto vice president trom: the ‘State| Marion, “Indy Mr, SGumeda has re-| Prot. J. Garth, ‘former instructor ot te) neltt Set, Eve, member of Pxeun | nats Publishing Comsi(ttee Teer hg iM . of Pennsylvania. turned ‘to thé cit yatter being absent for| Amplcultural Department at Kentucky In-| Mr. J. Mt. Posey left the chy Seturdag c;| M. E. Book Concern—Dr. R. R ts Is the Pastor of the), Rev... HI. C: Messer, D. D., has been|one year. ‘We are glad to have him. with | #liute, passed away at. bis home Im Att | ete tees, et Galveston: --. Mr: Lee 1. ott eteeh and ts ere, | Gazer a tvs Ate Bai Conver: | te Sein," his iy, ‘or't snouia "gay [bama.” Hie inven a widow, hice date | Gtk yo4 Hout esse” hereto spend Wright, Jr. the Hero. Gsed by the Preachers at the |unimportant tector in* its wesdortal de | Sic aye ene Mouth, Bama, had |" And two sone, ©” Banke, “RH, "Bush and. Sere Powel | Robin “Cenferences for the Episcopate. | velopment. To him, by right of long serv- [evangelist Mrs, Ania IN’ Brown, of Baltic| Mr. Eugene Stone, a prominent barber of |Meat Yone'n, Brest ey een ‘seriously| (BY J. G. Robinson, D. D.) Chery State Has Members of |{¢e,) longed the honor of chairman of the| more. ‘The spiritually. starved “souls hd thit city. had m muiden hemorrhage, but fo] Me fencer meets hae Been, seriously — every State * miatl Committee, and his work thus tar has| given them an abundance of heaveniy food | able to walle about now Mice M. J. Smith, is visiting Mr. and Mra | pho great A.M, 12. Church, during her the family in Chicago, an Sustained the wisdom of ‘the choice. which should. sustain for. some time to ae dranthomas at 221 Refugio, streot....Mce |nistory has fin Up ceMee & erent ee “the A. M. E. Church Must ars P beng Wak teat {he conven-| come. Mrs. Brown, who is engaged in a| 1 a large, auto party composed ot the| Stanley Faster snes feturned to the city critical’ places, and whenever a. ¢rials the A. M , Tanny Menren Seu, attended to by Mrs.|great child work away down among the | Meters, W.” Bennett Ray Vales, I-atter a few weeks’ stay at her home vieit- | CTI - i. Hear the Voice of the Fanny Morton Mrs. ‘T. F.C. Mester and [ores ee oe Te ay GOWN AMO te ith ot Rae one, ee Ye, Walem, Ue |atter a few weeks’ stay at her home visit |<Titical Places, and whenever a crisis People There. the local ton Mrs. T. H. C. Messer and | evergiades « i told| R. Smith of 3 t greater tribute could’ have been wat vaio" fore of the Iowa Confer: pet tthe lle strict. conference after 6 ¥0 jorsed Dr. D. P. Roberts as the men aaoder She West for the bishopric, than doer a1 We SS stute and efficient. sec- we seit 0! Church Extension Society, poy Of VScom, on seeing. the sent & 8) “West, announced that he was mt of Toidate for the Eplseopate? me anon is a man beloved and Toe ie tauady”™ of the depart xt wich he offciates, but $3 a man pei it Mie great work Years before he fr A et in stoops aside wher solo; 42° retnnen have ‘select aes goud-souled, | solid ehurch- & He loperts as the standard bearer Piya yortion ofthe connection whict Mie ie center of the future bat we 4) Tier, himself the favorite ot Poe West and of his home land fo 2% teal seeretaryship} Dr. Horace ye nar most polished and poten- Govabe pastor of the West; Dr. Bot gals os Hecular old’ Roman; Bider HESt ctesstu and chock full of ambi. Bek ee essie Woods, one of the sound- we eof tie chiureh in theology, one of ae liest stonewalls for What Is. law- Aecirneht and at heart one of, the i omfalle and truest of men; Dr. Stew- met folest fitted man the ehureh has we Sroduced to be dean of Payne Semi- gore old Brother Dr. ‘Timothy Foca who, barks old time theology bul fer w date with his men and church ie le and numbers of the brethren a enol vet widely known but who Pinos, Knowledge’ and. ability are BJMtvtiose seen at the forefront, all ave. Dt, Hoberts Pe es ust be recognized at. the pon) snierenee, and it demands Rob- Eiri the Episeopate and Carey for the fiscal secretarvship,. ‘There is not a Heh or cis in the South that has not iar penber in the elty of Chicago. who fro been benefited by these two men i vio dors not love them. ‘They will fo wallantly and with the kindly man- Seiut characteriaes them at-all_ times UT ise the seneral ‘conference to. con- Gir‘teir claims. But there are back of fen a vost host. that. will clamor, - ‘Che mie does not bow and retire, ‘The Net must te rerognized this time, even Kircoer pas yet been, A detailed ar. fee mith facts and. figures. and reasons titer follow. "This is to let all gee the Phimrt at the strongest center of Afri Ga Methodism in the world, rd. M. Conner, Dr. Lee, the great eercan, and vilicrs who are already fxed fie connectional mind are In, hearty deord with the “WIIL of the West.” It what Pishop Grant would have fa- writ Do not take my opinion, Dut ask try were close enough to know. ABk Buy Staffer. who. was ag near to the fect sn dsoul of Bishop Grant. as any ma eer came. "There has never been @ Serr man_on the beneh than Bishop Site al never one, with more git and the quality. that the Immortal paint sures In “The Master Before Pilot,” Beywaer to be silent. No district has fer prospered in “a more all-round _man- Stan jos the district over which és) Shafer presides now.” ‘There is mis preactier in all of its bounds that fe pimte or public will not. staunchly apthat he is kind and just, He. has Bie'n graves, yohbed nd. mite soclets frawries, aniered no men: he 1s a Renen—ask him. Ask Dr. B. F, Wat fa mt knows everything about ‘every: tel." Aske the writer, who would. hesi be ot no danger to’ warm the churel Sie on fuproper aspirant. Study the frig and tives of the two men that the et ote,” They ‘will gaake the race teoving thot thier mon of equal oF per: hie gn orth “wilt vatso. be in the nm, iit the west demands: recognition, ‘JM HENDERSON, M. D. WCOMB, MISS. Ws are hivine one of the greatest re- Ys in'our history at Sweet Home Bap- Heine. Mrs Johnson, of. Prentice, Str swt if her mother, Mrs. LaBranch €Penwo}. Mises. Mfiss Te TaBranch citing her triénds in Brookhaven, Hear, Winlams, of Meharry Unie sr" Nashville, ‘Fenn. ts the guest of Ye Swectie Crokrom this week.....The Edy scion) convention was fine. We Sia treat having Bishop ‘Tearner with B..Wo sre giad to learn of the mar- Jes of Miss Bessie Martin to. Mr. John~ woMiss Tena Moore and sister are be Siete of Mine C. Portenberg.c- Mr. B Crookruin is at home again to the de- Net of his mang" triende. Sohn and Mrs Liths bad as thelr guests this week thelr Wes, Misses Jessie and Ada. Luchis... (Eee Nesro paper, ‘The Freeman, 1s $& © the hearts of the colored people. cv can et sample to take home. with EL, Tou will find it to he the greatest Mee rarer we have. ...1t will pay you Bute Po Ao W. Jones your name and (Mee and tet’ him Send ‘The Freeman to fence a week. PITTSBURG TO BE BAPTIST MECCA. ‘tc Committee Announces Program of Exercises. (By N. Barnett Dodson.) ney, SURG.—The local committee hav- oxi of arrangements for the en- youument of the National Baptist Con- Recrayttighcomvenes in this, city en focesay, September. 13, is right FRYE with ite work. “Chairman. Sa'nglesser and. Secretary Patterson, Ee ay jill, Dwelte and other members, EEE lowing forecast of the program Spl opening. session, which "will be Ty Wroted to addeess of welcome: water John Tener will make. the SPs Ig behait “of “the State: Mayor Frenal yMleGee for the olty: Rev. R. en\ Torey, D.'D, in behait of sister rifatous? Rev. W."w. Brown In be- E08 Bobtists of the elty; Attorney Fuj,l2% for the. young Baptists of wy aa ind vicinity? ev. J. HL. Holder 1 {fo% (Or the Ministers’ Conference, Sic ,B. \V. Jonson, president of the eos, ii0tist “Convention, "will welcome fyfsnsl body in behalt of that organ- peo, Ailitortum, where the men’s con- feat" be hela, will seat 3,000. comn- goo (ite Women's auditorium has Bo} 08 2.00 A. “special souvenir eft Eh process of publication, that foo ]aie pictures and’ short sketches Soo iaf Baptist pioneers and pas- ag Pitehurg and vigintty. SLOPSa chorus of 1,000 volces 1s being Sri? fender a musical concert on qc, )yeeling dle. opening of. the S200, September 12.°"the mational foci ot the MB. G. will arrive ten rip) Nance of the other delegates to Sn.* ‘wishing touches on this. great Be yil'tlon of Dr. F.C. Morris is sure. fhe Jsdership, world-wide influence Te pi {Sberience make this doubly sure. Yoe'(m'eet) denominational publishing fy0 Ge word has grown ‘up under Pt Puvign aletshtp—the "National Bap- Au isting House, of Nashvitie, ‘Tenn. feaccr 1D), Ds manager, where seven- te aoa! the ‘Sunday’ sehool literature Rs cous, Nexo Baptists ts published. po‘ norg 8 remarkable performance of md WW tion, Ny Webb who deserves special ts, one of the oldest Negro Bap- Ts in the State, and the oldest te ostern Pennsytvan‘a. He is a gradu- ‘ate of Wayland Seminary and has been Successful in building up one of the most {nfluential churches in Pittsburg. . He will be elected vice president from the State of Pennsylvania.’ Rev. T. H. C. Messer, D. D., has been @ member of the National Baptist Conven. tion from its beginning and has been no unimportant, factor in its wonderful de ¥elopment. To him, by right of long serv- ce, belonged the honor of chairman of the local committee, and his work thus far has Sustained the wisdom of ‘the cholee. ‘The women's department of the conven. tion is being well attended to by Mrs Fanny Morton Mra. ‘T. H.C. Messer and the local presidents of missionary elrcles, Who are making arrangements for the en: tertainment of their Baptist sisters. Miss N. H. Burroughs has already twice visited the city and dropped words of in- formation trom her wonderful experiences, which ‘have proved helpful to the women locally and which they have not been slow to accept. SKETCH OF LIFE OF THE su. PREME CHANCELLOR. By Cary B. Lewie, 8. Green became a member of the order of K. of P. on July 12, 1883, when the or- der was in its infancy, being a. charter member of Pride of ‘Tensaa Lodge No. 21 St. Joseph, Tensas Ph., Louisiana, He was elected to'the station of V.-C. of the lodge, but served as C. C. from the time. of the organization of the ledge until June 30, 1886; was the grand. representative from his lodge and immediately upon. entering the Grand Lodge his ability. to handle finances commenced to show itself, and. in May, 1884, he was elected to the’ position of G. M. ‘of F.. and served for one year. Tho oMice has since been abolished. In Aprit, 1886, he was electel to the po- sition of tGand Keeper ‘of Records and Seal and served in that station until 1891, at which time he was renominated for the position, but declined renomination. He Wea elected to the position of G. C. in May, 1892, served until" 1397 and deciined re: election. “In April, 1899, he was again elected to the position of G. C.. and upon assuming that’ station he found the finances of the Grand Lodge in an. insoly- ent condition. ‘The general fund had no Assets, while Its Iabilities amounted to $105.62. The endowment fund showed the small amount of assets as $196.40, while its Habilities showed death claims due and un- paid aggregating $3,424.25. ‘The member- ship at that. time was only. $79. Year by year he has schemed and per- severed towards placing ‘Louisiana upon 4 solid foundation financially, and his people, ever ready to ald him In earrying out the plans that he had under way, re-elected him to the position of G, C. by acclama- tion, and since the date of his first election he ‘has been unanimously elected to that position every ‘year, He found that it was necessary to tn- crease the endowment dues if the Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana was to. be resurrected, and accordingly he recom- mended that instead of the members pay- Ing 25 cents per month endowment tax that It be increased to £0 cents per month for six months of the year, and 26 cents ees ; Te eae wae ec) i ae [PM ae ¢ ee of eh Oe } a AC |. - Cn Br 3 SS Ce ee ee ee be S a JOS. L, JONES Saprenie Worthy Counsellor K: of F. for the other six months, ‘That recom- ‘mendation was adopted and became a part of the laws of the Grand Lodge, with’ the Fesult that a suflicient sum was soon ac- ‘cumulated to pay ef all "outstanding claims for endowment, and when the Grand Lodge met tn April, 1902, tney found them- selves entirely out’ ef debt, with a small Surplus on hand to the credit of the en- Sowment department. The Grand Lodge was then paying an endowment of $200 ninety days after filing claim. In April, 1908, he recommended that the endowment policies be raised to $500, pay- able on the graded system, and that the Assesment be 60 cents per month for each month of the year, and the claims be paid within thirty days after they were. filed. In the year 1908 the surplus in the endow- ment fund had reached such a large sum and was growing all the time, that the Question arose, “What shall we do with this, money?” Tt was then necessary for SW. Green to study out a way of in- Vesting It. Accordingly, in 1906, at the Grand Lodge session In Alexandris, La., he Fecommended that the Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana erect @ Pythian Temple, ‘and accordingly an appropriation of $12,000 was made by the Grand Lodge for the pur- Chase of a site for same. ‘This appropria- tlon was found to be insufficient to pur- chase a site in the desired locality, and an ‘Additional $3,000. was therefore appropri- ated to pay for same, and sald appropria- tlon resulted in the purchase of a desir- fable fite in the elty of New Orleans, La, to be used ata later date for a Pythian ‘Temple. ‘The original appropriation for the temple was only $60,000 Dut realizing that ‘a $60,000 building in a city like New Orleans would not serve the purpose for which ft was intended, he allied his Torees and carried them to. the Grand Lodge, which convened In the city of New Orleans in 1908, and by such alliance the Grand Lodge approved his action in refer- fence. to. building a magnificent structure, which is now completed, and cost in the neighborhood of $200,000. Thus we see that from the crippled condition of affairs when assuming control of the office, we find that the Grand Lodge of the State of Lou- Isiana has 181 cdges in the State, with a membership of 9,000, and with the total Fesources of $128,354.07 endowment claims being paid within thirty days after filing "Ho attended the fret Supreme Lodge ‘session In August, 1898, a8 supreme repro- Sentative tor the State of Louisiana, in Au- ‘gust, 1895, at St. Loule, Mfo., and has at- tended eviry Supreme Lodge session as a representative since that date. At the Supreme Lodge session at Pitts- burg, Pa.. in 1905 he was elected to the position “of Supreme. Vice-Chancellor and éx officio Supreme Worthy Counsellor. and ‘his Tecord In that need not be referred to, as it stands for Itself. At the Supreme ‘Lodge session In Louisville, Ky., in 1907 he was. re-elected to the position, held that position until April 3, 1808, when he as- Samed ‘the duties of Supreme Chancellor, caused by the death ef the late SW. ak SOUTH BEND, IND. Mr. C. H. Bell, the hoot lecturer of the Afro-American Order of Owls, spent last Sunday in Chicago....Mr. Moses Milan was the guest of Mr. C. Ff Bell in Chi- cago, Sunday....Mr. and Mrs. E, 8. Find- lay spent Sunday in Detroit... .Mr. Clyde Mathews, W. M. of St, Peters Lodge, F. and A. M, is attending the Grand Lodge at Marion... .Henry Coker, past eminent commander, is attending the Grand Com- mandery at Marion, Ind....Mr. 8. A. Bar- ton is attending the Grand Chapter at Marion, Indy... Afr. 'S. Gumeda, has re- turned ‘to thé’ cit yafter being absent for ‘one year. We are glad to have him with use again... ‘This city, or I should say the colored ‘citizens of South Bend, had a godsend for the last two weeks In the evangelist, Mrs. Anna E. Brown, of Balti- more, ‘The spiritually starved souls had given them an abundance of heavenly food which should sustain for some time. to come. Mrs. Brown, who is engaged in a great child work away down among the everglades of Florida, visited us and, told about conditions which this part of the civilized Union knew nothing of and it caused amazement, ns to how such things could really exist Ia Plorida, the first State to be colonized on the west shores of the Atlantic, “Mrs, Brown departed for Chi- ago, there to continue her great mission. We ‘hope she ‘will convert and awaken amen as she has done here. "The Afro- American Order of Owls presented Mrs. ‘Brown with a check for the Turthrence of ‘the great work in which she Is ensased, May God speed her in the task she has haters bar. = oes, | ‘ Bm § | PS x | ee } os OF a ee \ i : i & oe ay rs Pome MAJOR R. R'JACKSON EVENTS AT KENTUCKY Eee (ber os wentucky 1 Citizens Celebrated Rev. E. J. Jacker:! 3. yg son's Birthday—New Colored Gro- ja? 'wno cery Set Up—Miss Marie Ellis Will |revivat tn Make a Tour in Auto Party and Will | 10, coms! Sail for Europe—Pythians Bound for |ing tne. ge Hoceler Castal—Aocial Punctionn: |auch, 5. Special to THe FREEMAN. Rev. E. J. Jackerson 1s pastor of Corinth- jan Baptist church, and the members of all the local churches of this clty met togeth- er and went In a hody to the residence of Rev. Jackerson in Murry strect. Tt was a great surprise to him, as he was sitting in his Hbr-ty reading when he heard the melodious music ringing forth of "A Stranger at the Door.” He arose and went to the door, and as far as he could see there were women ‘with bundles, men and boys with clothes baskets filled’ with pro- visions. The. country people came In fpring wagons, with vegetables of all de- scriptions. Many. of them left money, and many of them promised. bim some of the hams off thelr first how killing In the fail All_the people could not get into such small house at once, but when the bun- dies were presented and after the dining- room table had been filled they began te put the things on the floor and in the hall ‘They were Invited into the parior and 4 delightfal. program was rendered aa f0l- lows: Instrumental solos, Misses Lettye A. Todd, Cornelia Dockery and J.C. Brown: addresses by Dr. W. M. McFatridge, Mrs Kate Sage, Mr. A. C. Brent, Mrs. Florence Young and Rev. Jackerson. After the program refreshments were sorved. T will Just mention a few that were pres- ent:” Mra, T. L. Anderson, Misses Florence Anderson, Esteene Dockery, Mrs. ilen Taylor, “Mrs, Aggie Morton, Mra. Maria Roberson, Mra, C.D. Dockery, Mrs, Mattie Johnson,” Mrs. MeFatridge, "Mrs. Carrie Norrell,’ Mra. Florence Young. Mrs. Mar- garet Gray, Mrs, Jane Mordéeca, Mra. Eve- lyn Weaver, Mrs. Ellen Taylor. Mra. Alice Taylor, Mra. Mattie Dilion, Mrs. Jennte Brooks, Mra Marla Dent, Mrs” Nannie Woolfork, Mrs, Mary UL. Hirdon, Miss Caro- line Taylor,” Mrs. F.” Johnson, Mrs. E. ‘Thompson, Mrs. Julia Dent, Mra, Bell Tay- lor, Mra, H. Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs, P. L. Jones, Mesers. J. Ray and R. Harri, God has certainty went Rev. Jackerson here. He game to this city highiy recommended by Rev. H. C. Parrish, of Louisville. He gave up a large Job “as tutor in the public schools of Loulavilie. He has united the ‘churches In a way that they have never been here before. He has treated all the peonle the kame regardiess of previous condition “ot servitude, and. tt was shown ‘thelr appreciation by ‘tHe surprise. “When Rey. Jackerson has gone from this city or Called to the great beyond and returned to the mother dust from whence he came the examples which he has taught. will abide within the risen and unborn generations to come, At the corner of Washington and Mero streets, In the $10,000 Odd. Fellows’ bulld- Ing, Messe T. I. Brooks and ¢. Norman have started m grocery, carrying a full line of first-class goods, with a horse and wagon to deliver same and a ‘phone to an- Iwer the calls... The colored people of this ‘city should united to help these men in this great cause of race development. Mixs Marie Bilis of this city, tutor tn the Clinton High School, and popular. in. the society circles, will viet Mra. M. C. Moore of Dayton, ©., and will go in an auto party to the encampment. Mrs. N. 'T. O'Neal will join them at Indianapolis on their way back to thie city. After the auto tour Mrs. Moore and Mise Bilis will sail for Europe. The Moore family is one of the wealthiest famities in Ohio.” Over 500 people of this elty will leave here for the Hoosler Capital. ‘The Uniform Rank will bring honor back’ as usual. The Pride ‘of Frankfort No. 15, won second honors at Lexington with” six months’ training, and rst at the last encampment at Kansas City, Mo. in the display drill. What do you think they will do with over three year training? If the. Pride. of Frankfort. don't capture it, we are sure that B. K. Bruce Company D will, as they have won slmilar honors. ‘Messrs. H. and S. Poynter of Fitegerald, Ga, who have been away from this elty for over @ quarter of a century, are here attending the family reunion’ at Mra Brown's, in Fowler street. Misses Clarer of Latonta, Ky. and Mary E. Poynter of Morris Drown College are’ also im the, cle attending “the reunion “at Mrs. “Brown's Prof. J. Garth, ‘former instructor of the Agglcuitural ‘Department at Kentucky Te mifute, paased “away at ie Boone iy Ale amie.” He teaves “a widow, three dave Mr. Eugene Stone, a prominent barber of thie ct, "had a mudden hemorrhage, but able to walk about now. Th a large auto party. composed of the Mosars. W. Bennett; J. Rage ay Wales, K. Smith of New York, Prot. i Reed Del Craik: atinsen Willie, Beaale! and. Vir ylnla Silvey. Mary "i. ‘Maderson, “motored {rot tere to Versailles and Lealnston and tngk, ‘and. were served: with Iaache at, Ma Walte ‘recelved. tite an ovation: also Mla Malerson's home. in ‘Logan’ street. The} Age" tomatoen in" erdshed, “ee, “renee frigd yotutocn, not corn’ cakes "and “igh Tolle nd. iced’ tea Miss Georgia Reed "graduated from Clin ton) Tigh Senool Kentucky” Institute, Clark Tniversity,ustructor, in music. at Coving LOOREY: Hlgh Goneol, te th the cite See jing her mother, Mrs. Mary B Reed, at Kentucky Institute. Dr. 7. 8 Silvey, the well-known evangel- ist, who preached for twelve weeks in a revival this year, and Mr, T. L. Brooks, Who. constructed ‘the $10,008 Odd Fellows’ dullaing in’ Washington street, are attend- ing the general Baptist convention at Pa- aueah, Ky. Mr. Lee R. Morgan, a graduate of Hamp- ton Institute, bas again accepted the posl- tion as instructor in the Manval ‘Training School of New Jersey. Prof. W. H. Clark, dean of the A. and M, College, Normat, Ala., had a very pleas- anit visit here and’ has Jett for Cineinnats, Ohio. ae Mr, Oscar ‘Thomason of New Jersey will leave this city for Washington, D. C. Mra. TL. E, Payne of Carrollton, Ky.; Mise Vioa Myles of “Indianapolis,” Miss America Sanders of Loulsville and Miss Mury Myles of Carrollton, Ky., are visiting thelr aunt, Mist Eliza Hutson.” Many. re- ceptions have been given. in thelr honer. Mr. P, Harrie and Mise Hutson were quietly united in matrimony at Carroll- ton, Ky. = Misses Jones of Cincinnat! and Jackerson of Versailles are the guests of Miss Mary BE Materson in Logan street Mr. Woods, representing the | Welling Machine Company of Memphis, ‘Tenn... is in the elty, and will give an exhibit at’ the First Baptist church. Mr. P. Sage has recovered from a hard spell of ‘slekness. Mra, Annie Gray, in East Main street, is very sick. eee Mra. B. Newton, in East Main street, is very i, Misses Helen Chambers of Lexington and Clara Chambers of Cincinnatl are the guests of Miss” Cordelia Woolfork, in Murry street. Mra, Mary E. Price is, very tl. Mra, Magele Brown is a little better. Mrs, Minnie Calhoun ig a Mttle better. Mr, Harris ie very Ul, Mr. P. Black te 2 little better. Mrs. Violet Hawkins is somewhat better. Mra, Cornel Ewine is very fil ‘Mr, Thomas ts improving a Uttle, Miss L. Kibby ts improving. Mr. Scipio Garth, a talented violinist of this city, is able to be around after a hard spell of ‘rheumatism. ‘The Pythians of this city will hold thelr ‘wait ab Laaataas a Wheres.” ‘The Stag Social Club lately organized is fast. making an impression upon San An- tonlo soctety. ‘The few affaire given have been characterized by thelr unique individ. vality. Among these the soiree of the 2d Inst. and the baseball game of the 10th are being commented upon as of the swell- ent of the scagon....The ball game played was the ‘Stag Social Club vs. Professional Men. “Batteries for Stage: Marcum and Adamson; Professionals: Dr. Walton and Dr. Drake. The game was very interesting deeause of the participants, among whom were some of the most prominent doctors, Tawyers end business men of the city. ‘The proceeds are tobe applied to the Orphans’ Home fund, now under the supervision of the Woman's ‘Club of the elty, who, with Mrs. M.A. Brown ag president, are accom- pilshing a grand and ‘noble work. ...Misses Minnie Bell and Lilly Yearby have re- torned from a pleasant stay in Galveston, where they were royally entertained as the guests of Mr. and Mrs, D.T. Shelton....Dr. Bowden, our popular druggist, Is on the sick. list this ‘week....The Ancient Order of Pilgrims are making a great showing here fraternally....Among the thrifty and progressive Afro-Americans who are en Coraging oer efforts bere to. cireniate The SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Freeman is Mr. H. Clay Willis, head waiter at the famous old Menger. Mr. Willis Ie quite prominent here in church, soclety and hotel circles. Every member’ of his. effi« clent crew réads ‘The Freeman weekly. Mr. J.-M. Posey left the city Saturday en route to Houston and Galvesion.-.-Mr Lee Clark of Houston, ‘Tex. Is here to spond. Several days as the guest of Messrs. James Banks, R. H. Bush and Sergt. Powell. Mrs. John ‘. West, who has been ‘seriously i “for several weeks, is convalescent Miss M. J. Smith ‘is visiting Mr. and Mra, A. ‘Thomas at 227 Refugio. street.-..Mra. Stanley Faster has returned to the’ city attor a few weeks’ stay at her home visit ing relatives and friends....Mra. Florence Isaacs returned to the elty Sunday after a long visit to friends in Houston and Co- umbus....Call at Bowden's drug store, 602 East Commerce street, and get a copy of ‘The Freeman, OAKLAND, CAL. Among those who will be present at the meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the Uni- form Rank and the Order of Calanthe of the Knights of Pythias In this elty, In- dianapolis, Ind., next week is J. Lincoln Derrick, of Oakland, Cal, Mr. Derrick has the honor of being the Deputy Supreme Chancellor of the IK. of P's for northern California. He comes as a representative of Marchal Neil Lodge ee katie Oo, ute gt Fy a tae BESS Rs nae Sieg a eae yr ol eh. oe seen encieer 8y J. LINCOLN DERRICK. No. 4, of San Francisco, Cal., and for the purpose of inducing the bodies to ‘hold thelr sessions in Ban Ironclsco in 1918 during the world's fair. Mr. Derrick has done very much tor Pythianism in hia State, ‘In his position as deputy. for seven years he has been largely instrumental nt increasing: the one lodge ‘of 17 members to four lodges with 240" members. He is a min of distinction at hig home, being a member of the Masons, the Gad Follows, the Poresters, the 1. D. 0. ie. K's and. ‘the’ Associated ‘Rallway ” Binployce, Ho tea clerk Inthe office of the: Itoyai Insuranes Company, LAd,, one of the lead- ing fire insurance eompanles of te world, a eposition he has held: for. twonty-ews Sears. per of the Pacibe Goasts ts. publishes faper “of the Du Hyp an of ‘Sebich "alo odlton "he ik of Px and the citizens. of In- auandpotis “doubts antictpate. tho de Ungulshed Galitornian ‘with pleasure. LOS ANGELES, CAL. The A.-M. 1 general conference con- venes here soon, and there ts much spect lation ‘as to, the ‘prospective. Bishopric of Rev. i J..Pecle. “he peopie realize Mr Peck as @ benefactor in the chureh ciretes and would highly appreciate hit as bishop, ut prefer him ns their pastors +s kevs 9 ‘Til, pastor of Me Zion apilet Church, hhas returned to the city trom 4 yacation ti horthern. Catlfurniac.*. Her. Kineton, ot Wesley Chapel and itev: MeMickens, of the Christian Church, "boi ‘being. "ih new charges, apparently are right inen inthe Hane pikecs..¢ |The Atrodumotiean Gone Pee . re i ee ei Po I fe k bm key ee? iy ee ey SCR ees ‘gress will meet August 28 for four days. *.+-Mr. William Shores, a Freeman read- éF, and head Janitor of the big Security Bink, has returned from a visit to San Frangisco and other northern points... . Mr. Charles Stovall, a strong advocate’ of he Freeman, 18 spending his vacation In San Diego, Cal....Mr. Fred Roberts, an enterprising young man, Is putting out a publleation called the Fraternal Bulletin. In the editing of this paper Mr. Roberts is very broad in the scope of fraternal news and invites news items of interest. He can, be reached by addressing the colored ¥. M. C._A....Mrs. Annie Williams, for- merly of Littie Rock, Ark, and Texas, was Secretly married to’ Mr. Wm. Barber, of Texas, The bride is the mother-in-law of The Freeman depresentative in this city, -..-Mr. Frank Watts, trap drummer of Kansas City, 1s now located here and is playing with Prof. Anderson’s orchestra. ... Prof. MeVea’s orchestra is playing at Reaondo Beach in a white moving picture theater. That's going some for the colored musicians. ...Collections on ‘the first_in- Staliment of the Y. M. C. A. building is beyond expectation: ...Get ‘The Freeman from L. G. Eggleston, 812 Maple avenue. MOBILE (ALA.) DOTS. Dr. Augustus T. Adams, a former Mo- bilian, spent last weeks here en route from Nashville. ‘Tenn. where he was happily married to Miss Lula Wells, of Nashville Tenn. ‘The doctor and his bride left las Monday afternoon for Smithsville Texas where he has a thriving practice... . Rev J. 'W. Woods gave an illustrated lecture or his recent trip to Africa on Tuesday even. Ing, August 8, to a large audience.” ‘The lecture was very instructive. ‘The doctor left the elty Thursday for Knoxville, Tenn. to attend the Bishop Counell... : Mobile and Gulfport played @ series of three bal games in this city. Our boys took two of them....Bud Davis and Joe McCoy have been’ coaching the baseball boys, and George Hogan has been taking care of his band of pulley workers. ‘The amateurs have been furnishing good sport. ‘The Excelsior Band furnishes music at the Park on Sunday evenings for the fans. JUST A FEW DOTS—THAT'S ALL, That Publishing Committee—The A. M. E. Book Concern—Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., the Hero. (By J. G. Robinson, D. D.) ‘Phe great A. M. 1. Church, during her history, has run up against a’ great mamy critical’ places, and whenever a ¢risis Would appear ‘there has alwaya been @ man standing with foresight, brains, nerve and chureh pride to bridge her over and give her a safe anchorage until. te storms subsided. No department in our church has had to Tun up against as many misfortunes a3 has the A. AL 8. Book Concern known te us_as ‘the ‘publication department. ‘The deaths of Dr. JohnH. Collett and of Dr. HLT. Johnson created two vacancies ‘ind the Board of Publication gave a “com mittee” of general officers power and aus thority to ‘run ‘the department until. the coming general conference and to meet ail obligations against the concern. Dr. KR. Wright was selected t0 do the service ‘of ‘both manager and editor of the Christian. Recorder. Without. says one word as to the wisdom of the Public cation Board in leasing or letting out. the department to 'a committee, many. of us tought the committee's selection et Young Mr, Wright was a mistake and unwise. T shall not attempt to discuss the treat~ ment, that has been meted out. {0 Dr, Wright ‘by, those “who could ‘and should Lave helped him, but just a word on. the Fecent Mrs, Collett caso and its settle: T Sat, last Monday, in the Philadelphia preachers meeting and heard a general fticer talk one hour, in a. vain attempt to dismredit tho hereulean work of Dr. Wright, wherein Dr. Wright, personally, singie-tianded and ‘alone had ‘saved the church from the greatest disgrace and humilfation ‘that tas faced her in ‘the many years of her history trom the days of Richard Allen. down. to the present. Now, here are the facts—and the church everywhere knows them to be facts. Mrs. Huth M. Collett made claims against the ALM. “EL” Book Concern for $4,100— ‘whether we owed this or not, long neégotia- Uons were carried on between Mrs. Collett and those in control of the Boob Concern looking forward to settlement, before she Drought suit. Now, those who want to deprive Mr, Wright of his ‘well-earned laurels, could have, with the surplus they had on hand, settled with ‘Mrs. ‘Collett before ‘the “sult Was filed. “But the suit was fled; Mrs, Collett won. “A judgment was given her for her full claimis and cost of the action. Those who ure. trying to prevent Dr, Wright from having the honors won by himself, could have settled. this judgment on some Kind of a basis, before a sale was Ordered—but_ they ‘did’ not do. so. But when everyone else with authority had, in one way or another, failed to settle. this, matter, Dr. Wright ‘settled the $4,700 by compromising with Mrs, Collett, and by. paying out Of iis own pocket, the sum of $1,800, witha saving of quite $3,000, and the preventing of the. sale, which would have caused every African "Methodist, the World over, to hang his head in’ shame. ‘Too late now to attempt to rob this young hero. He has saved the chureb, ‘The financial department has a surplus of $50,000; the church extension depart~ Mment about $12,000, and the educational department, '$8,000' making a total of $70,000, yet. in " nd with all of thig surplus In the hands Of the “Committee” it was lett for Mr. Wright to save the Book Concern, and to umn the ehureh of Alen will ever Be srate- IL My understanding of the matter, too, has “been all_aiong, that a, part of the Tease ‘agreement. was that the committee would assume. ail obligations and. meet them. ‘this last chapter gives us a young hero, who has bought a judgment whieh he can Sell’ and collect $4,700 on for $1,800, and hie church love” ia so great “that ' even though we rightly and, fegally owe lim $4,700, all. he ‘wants 18. $1,800, ‘Again, the long and tedious’ negotiations which ‘Mrs. Collett submitted to before Zoing to court, shows that she 18 a lover Of her church’ and the sacrifices: she “hag made in selling her claim at a discount of nearly’ $3,000, stamps her as being one of the daughters of Allen, whose name will nover die. es Later—Well, well! I forgot to say that tho very general officer who made the one hour's talk, trying to turn the tide against Mr. Wright jn open’ meeting was told by Mr, Wright that he, (the sala general offi cer) had “resigned” from. the committee, Now that Mr. Wright has written his name in blazes of sory. he (our general officer) Wants to “come ack.” No! Not! Nott! Too late. Mr. Wright is our hero, and at Kansas City a grateful chureh will re- ward him with a. trlumphant election. to the editorship of. the Christian. Recorder. Had we had such men as Weight. there long ago, we would today be operating a house commensurate with ‘our great history. Sure, T confess, 1 am one of the many who felt and thought. that we had been Slanderea ‘when Wright was put. at the helm, but Tam not writing now off-handed. T heard the ‘battle and saw’ the sparks. ‘There are some in our ehureh who would attempt to keep an angel from enjoying his place inthe ‘church, but, mark. you, Wright is safe. %23' South Main. street, Bellefontaine Ohio, Auguat 1, 1911. WHAT THE SAGES ARE SAYING. Don't “Slobber.” It is an excellent thing to be able to support man’s work and to’ accord him. due credit, without “slobbering” over him, to the disiust of the sensible public. No right-thinking man, no matter how anx- lous he is to. be’ properly, appreciated, Wishes anybody to “slobber” over bim.— Florida Sentinel. Better to Help than to Idly Complain. ‘The Washington Bee js charging about an “editorial association,” and attempts to discredit the National Negro Press Asso- clation. What we need to do is to carry to a conclusion the start we have made— Nashville Gloge. Your Turn at the Bat Will Come. Booker 'T. Washington is moving on, helping the helpless and scattering sun- shine throughout this Southland. Let his enemies rest. awhile and look at the good which he Is doing, and then go and do like- Wise,” Tt ‘ls ‘Bookers ay today; but. to- morrow it may be thelr day. Fill up the day with hard labor, and when the band- wagon comes by, you can jump on and ride—Fortune Teller, Huntsville, Ali Oklahomians to Storm Little Rock. ‘The business Negro of Oklahoma is making preparations to take the Negro Business League by. storm. Little Rock will be required to do nothing but to ex- tend weleofe—The American, Wagoner, Okla, Henry Lincoln Johneon a Leader. Col, Henry Lincoln Johnson is one col- ored leader ‘who isn't afraid to go up to the White House or to any of the depart- ments and ask for what he wants. He ought to be the next Georgia member of the national committee—Pythian Monitor, Cincinnatl, Onio, Drs. Jackson and Corrothers for the Zion Bench. ‘The A. M. E. Zion Conference, in_ses- sion here last week, endorsed Dr. S. L. Corrothers for the bishopric. ‘The confer- ence will also vote for Dr. J. 8. Jackson, finanelal secretary, of the connection, for ‘episcopal honors. - The two vacancies’ now existing will be filled, and it is probable that one additional bishop will be elected by the general conference at Charlotte, i. C,, next May.—National Union, Wash- Seeteen ae Ge