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Accept the agency for The Freeman in your city. Write today for our liberal terms. INDIANAPOLIS SEP 2 1911 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 34 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WITH NEW FACES AMONG THE TEACHING FORCE REV. S. E. GRIGGS DELIVERS LECTURE The Kentucky Boys have Returned Home from the Big K. of P. Meet, well Pleased with the Laurels Won While There. By Lee L. Brown. (1068 West Chestnut St. Home Phone 8007-L.) The public schools of Louisville will throw open their doors September 5th. A number of new faces among the teachers will greet the pupils. As yet the principal of the Central High School has not been announced. Prof. Lawson, who was not named for another term, seems to be the least concerned, having very little to say upon the subject. He can well afford to wear the expression of independence when he meets the teachers, and regardless of the actions of the new superintendent last spring. Prof. William T. Peyton, the very program principal of the normal department of the public schools, has returned after a very profitable vacation spent in the east, where he gave violin recitals. Prof. Peyton is very much interested in the Normal Alumni, and already is planning interest during the coming academic term. Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, the well known minister, author and orator of Nashville, is the city mayor of Nashville. After crowded house last Wednesday evening at the Fifth Street Baptist church, of which Rev. John Frank is pastor. Rev. Griggs' latest book is entitled "Wisdom's Call." It is said to be the best book I have read. I report that Rev. Frank has purchased a new automobile. Our Kentucky boys have returned from the Supreme Encampment of K. O. P.S. said you several weeks ago in these collections that Kentucky would be well-ventured. The document of the Uniform Rank. We feel safe in saying that this fact has been demonstrated by the many persons who gathered at the same time as the민사의 참가자, which was a number of prizes, attracted a great deal of attention in camp, were a jolly set of follows, well behaved and always on the side of the courteous to the many Plist-ers who looked into their beاتars of Hamilton's Military Band, the pride of Kentucky, rendered sweet music at dresses. On Gala Day the D. O. K.'s at-the-market was made of a question of line of march. They were white uniforms, with their colors flying from the shoulders, also carried parasols. The quick brown fox were the usual amount of Jockies received by Washington, who is very often styled the Father of Kentucky Pythians, was elected chairman of a commission of three. Mr. Washington, who will know as Supreme Potentate, while Mr. A. Newells, of Braddock, Pa., is the Supreme Recorder, and T. M. Tate, of Pittsburg, Pa., as Supreme Recorder. This commission will have charge of the others. O. K. O. P. S. at over the United States. Already Penn-sylvania, Mississippi, Kansas, California, and the New Jersey and Kentucky have been given the same companies. While it is true that the Kentucky and the same companies are seeking part of the Pythian lodge, yet there are many lessons to be learned from some mode of operation. Only three companies are permitted in a state, one in a city. The following gentlemen enjoyed a pleasant trip to Indianapolis during the Encampment of the Members. Clark Jefferson, Press Venerable George White, George Slaughter and Jack Basky. Mr. Felix Brewer is wife, after spending a few days in Indianapolis during the encampment have gone to Chicago, where they will remain for some time. Mr. Frank Hall, the well known colored drive of Cincinnati, was in the city this week on official business. Mr. Hall has been connected with the police department for a job and is well known all over the United States. Mr. Lawson, who recently opened a very fine ice cream shop in Elgath and almut, has added a dairy lunch room, a much needed place in Louisville. He is energetic business man and wants to make good. 9ready he is enjoying a large order in his wholesale ice cream business. Mr. Lacey A. Brown and Rupert Brown of 1906 West Chestnut street, after a stay of nine months, returned to the city, Mrs. Brown takes this week for Midway to attend the outside of a sick mother. It has been reported that the drug stores Twelfth and Chestnut street, owned by Richard Oliver, has been sold to Mr. Oquain Johnson, a former Louisville boy is a graduate from pharmacy in one of the best schools in Ohio. Mr. S. W. Jordan, one of the oldest owners in the city, has installed a very durable Marble 20th Century Soda Mountain. Mr. Jordan has built up a much larger business of dealers were arrested for havoc in large cream, the inspector placed a stamp of approval upon the products of Mr. Jordan. Mr. George Slaughter, the hustling representative of the Freeman, wishes to think of his friends for the liberal marriage given him for purchasing of the Freeman. A large number of THE PARADE A VIEW OF THE BIG K. OF P. STREET PARADE LAST WEEK. HEADED SOUTH ON MERIDIAN STREET. NEAR OHIO. are sold in Louisville each week. Very often the news stands sell out early in the week. Mrs. Nute Yarnell, of Brooklyn, N. X. is visiting her brother, Mr. and Mrs. George Yarnell of 412 South Brook street. Mrs. Lotta Smith Watson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is here on a visit at her sister's, Mrs. Eliza Jordon, 1402 W. Madison street, Louisville, Ky. Among the number of visitors in the city we have needed Mr. Joseph C. Moon, who is employed in the Chicago postoffice. He is the guest of Prof. F. S. Delaney, 260 Haldenman avenue, principal of the colored department of the Blind institute. Fourteen companies of Pythians from Kentucky were in camp at Indianapolis under command of Brigadier John B. Snowden, of Lexington. The war cry was suddenly beaten on. Our son of 1917 Kentuckyians are now to know that the boys made such a showing during the Encampment. They were the only companies tat held brigade school. Kentucky was represented at the recent National Funeral Director's Association by Mr. J. B. Cooper, the undertaker at Tenth and Chestnut street. He had the honor of being elected first Vice Press Association meets every year at the same time of the Negro Business League. A large number of children gathered last Sunday to listen to the first exercises of the new organization recently started for the benefit of the children who have no particular place to go on Sunday. The day was known as the Juvenile Gala day. Meetings will be held all during the winter. A number of addresses were delivered last Sunday by prominent speakers. . . . State Grand Chancellor of Henderson, and Brigadier John B. Snowden are filled with smiles on account of the grand showing made by the boys. The students were given the Kentucky panies; Class A, regulation drill—Company from Richmond, Ky., first prize; Ivanhoe Company B, Louisville, Ky., second prize; Company D, Louisville, Ky., (companies never having won first prize)—Ivanhoe Co. B, Louisville, Ky., first prize. Class E, cadet drill—Battle Co. 2, second prize, Frankfort, Ky. There will be a meeting of the Normal Alumni Saturday, September 2, in the lecture room of the public library, Tenth and Chestnut street will mean a busy has son for the Alumni. Last year they began a new era in Louisville. They instituted a new social function which was means of much pleasure and literary pursuits. There has been a mistaken idea that the Normal Alumni is composed only of normal graduates of the last few years, is not true, and all graduates of the Normal Alumni are expected to be present at the meetings. KANSAS CITY, MO. BY A C OGLESBY. Death has again invaded our city and this time robbed us of one of our popular head waiters, namely Mr. Ed. Scott, better known as "Scotty". Mr. Scott was born in Memphis, Missouri, ago from Memphis, Tennessee, and during that time he worked in all the leading hotels here. Mr. McKnight, the head waiter of the Baltimore hotel, the finest hotel in the city, says of Mr. Scott that he was a man of good habits, an earnest and willing worker and one whose place will be in the hotel where he worked. Mr. Scott gradually won his way by his merits alone until he found himself head waiter of the Jefferson hotel here, which position he held until forced to leave the hotel where he was head waiter there about three three years. His physician advised him to go out to Colorado, so about two weeks ago he started for the west, but he was unable to do so. He refused to let go so when he found INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1911. out that his days were numbered, he said in the language of W. M. McKinley, "God's Will be done" and died like a good soldier. His death came as a shock for him. His body was taken back to Memphis for interment...Mr. Samuel Fernandez, the head waiter that is liked by everyone of the employees as well as the man who was the owner of the store from the east. It is Mr. Fernandez custom to go east every summer to get new ideas for Mr. McKnight. Mr. Fernandez visited Ne w York, Boston, Wash. and Chicago. Mr. Fernandez came back bubbling over with new ideas to hand to our well-trained head waiter. He will start to work in a few days, as business is getting better. He is beginning to drop back in...Mr. Neville, of Detroit, is in the city for a few days...Mr. Thompson is still on the sick list. Mrs. Golesby is improving his health. Mrs. Golesby is from 2629 Euclid avenue, Kansas City, Mo. to 653 Winona avenue, Kansas City, Kan...Mr. W. M. McKnight is back at work after two weeks vacation. He is in Springs, Denver, Chicago and Jefferson City, Mrs. McKnight accompanied him. McCOMB. MISS. Willie Scofiel is out again....Miss Johnnie Raford, who graduated last Thursday night at the K. of P. hall, in elocution, was honored by the presence of Misses Lillie Berry, and Jessie Moore, of New Orleans; Lizzie Gill, Beulah Gill, Orlie McRay, Messrs. Article Borlooks, Washington Rateliffe, Johnnie Rale, and Johnnie Rale. The program rendered last Friday night by the normal and home talent was the grandest of its kind of this season....The marriage of Miss Ellen Leggitt was a surprise to her friends....Mrs. Henry Jones is in Jackson this week...Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Walker have had recent addition to their family....Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie is in the home, this week....Miss Geneva Gill and Mr. Eddie Miller are home from Chicago. Ill....Miss Clara Branch was the guest of Miss Jaunita Thurston last week....Mrs. Mary Terry, of Jackson is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Sam Barnes. We hope for her a pleasant stay....Mr. and Mrs. John is in the home, Mr. and Mrs. Cray. ...Prof. A. W. Jones asks the friends to please pay for the paper....We are sad to learn of the illness of Mrs. Dr. Dickey....Mrs. Prof. Hall left last week for Alcorn, A. M. college....Mr. George Mason has moved to McComb....Little Miss Slmer won the prize last Thursday night at the K. of P. hall. The guest is in the home, Mr. and Mrs. John. The Professor will be glad to put The Freeman in your hands. It is the paper for the best colored people. CHAMPAIGN, ILL. Mrs. Jauanta Phillips is in town visiting her mother, Mrs. Overton, 109 N. Champain street... Mr. John Fisher, of Rock Lake, is in town attending Mr. Garland Fisher, 505 E. Tremont street. Mrs. Morris has returned home, 110 N. Market street, after a delightful visit of the children. Mrs. Moline and Rock Island, Ill., and she also attended the district meeting of Odd Fellows in Davenport, Iowa...There was a bar, Bracescron Hall, 508 N. Fountain street, in hour of Frias. Refreshments were served... Miss Jessie Jordan and Miss Willie May Knight street, after attending the attending Knights of Pythias in Indianapolis, Ind. ... Mrs. Eathel Burse, of Rock Island, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry John, of Inez and Myrthle Moss have returned home, 51 N. Walnut street, from a visit at Camargo, Ill. ... Salem Baptist Church, the B. Y. P. U. will meet next Sunday at the Mystery Moss body is cordially invited. Mrs. L. G. Rabb is president and Mary White secretary. The woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will meet in the church at 30 o'clock this afternoon at there was no work at 4110. W. Hill street, Urbana, for the purpose of raising money for the pastor's trip to the national convention. Refreshments of all kinds were served. Bethel African Episcopal Church. Because of the absence of Rev. and Mrs. Jones at Edwardsville on account of the illness, vice, Rev. J. J. Walden preached morning and evening, Sunday, August 27. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kirklin and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Al Crawford and Mrs. Alice Williams of Columbia, Mr. visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mallory and family at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hall, a very richard and of Smyrna, and a visitor in our city recently. ...Miss Clarabelle Wright, of Cleveland, O., was a visitor in our city recently. ...Miss Grace Roberts, of South Carolina, was a visitor in our city recently. ...Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mallory and family at the high school again this fall. ...Mr. Thomas Wagoner has been offered a position as piano player at a theater in Pittsfield, Ill. He expects to take it up. ...Miss Nellie Marie Early, of 627th Street, New York, is a member of the American Miller, have returned from a pleasant visit with her cousin, Mrs. Edward Wright and family, at Sinclair....Jessie Carter continues verypoorly....Mr. and Mrs. Edward, the son of Mr. Freeman, Mrs. Simmons and Mrs. Chase, Reed, and Miss Margaret DeWitt were Springfield visitors recently....Mr. William Butler, of Hadley, Ill., is building a new house at his home. Mr. and Mrs. Edward, the son of Mr. Freeman, of Chisler, of this city....Mr. T. Roberts, of South Clay avenue, returned from a pleasure trip at Lake Mantano, recently....Peoria Cubs crossed bats with the Com- mies. ...Mr. and Mrs. Edward, the son of Mr. August 20, which was a very successful and hardfought game. They played nine innings with the score standing 7 to 7 in the last half of the ninth. The game had to be called on account of the Superstition of the team to train at 5:20 o'clock. While in the city the Cubs stopped at Arthur Stewart's cafe and was furnished with excellent meals....The literary held recently at the A. M. E. church was largely attend- CENTRALIA. ILL. Mr. James Williams, one of the most highly respected citizens of Centralia, III., died August 11, at the age of 68 years. He leaves a life and children to Mr. George Williams of Chicago and Mrs. L. Taylor, of Centralia. He had a host of friends who mourn his death. Mrs. Henrietta Williams, Mr. George Williams and wife, of Centralia, III., died on 12 August 1848. Miss Ollie Folk, of Springfield, III., wish to express their heartfelt thanks to those who so kindly assisted them during the illness of the death of their loved mother. Mr. W. Lewis is on the sick list.... Mr. Z. K. Lewis, of Terre Haute, Ind., is here assisting his brother, William Lewis in the restaurant. The K of L.L.W., who is a great-great-grandson of Labor Day, and good time for all is expected... Miss S. Grigsley, student of the Normal (II.L.) University, is home for two days to stay with her parents. Mr. Mr. Black, in Cincinnati, Ohio, is here visiting his brother, W. Brock, and wife. Miss G. A. Cannon and Mr. J. Carneal were delegates to the Sunday School of Conventioal Condolence August 8, 1957. Mr. T. Wany, Hine, entered the Women's Industrial Club on August 30, 1958. Miss Rosal and Miss Alice Oates, of St. Louis, Mo., are the most popular women of the world. Miss Maude Macklin accompanied the Misses Rosa Powell and Alice Oates to their home in St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Goldie Hall, the first woman of the State. Mr. Mr. Carwell and family... Mrs. B. Hite took advantage of the excursion to West Champaign, III., last Sunday to see her son... Mr. Ed. Simpson has gone to the same place. Mr. W. E. Smith has a good position. His friends are very sorry that he left here. Miss M. Perkins, of St. Louis, was here last week visiting her parents and Mrs. S. S. S. S. was the last week visiting her relatives. Miss Blanche, Bunick was married Au PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR, $1.50. gust 17 to Mr. E. Mattson, of Chicago, ...Mrs. Bunick on the sick list, but her son is up again.....Mr. O. A. Cash is about through pickling his peaches. He had the finest crop of peaches in the hill ship about 400 aushels of the fruit BILOXI, MISS. By J. Lee. Mrs. W. H, Powell and daughter have returned home from a week's visit to relatives in Scranton....Dr. Dickerson has remodeled his drug store and it is located at the corner of Main and Division streets....Mr. Major Gilbert, an old Biloxian, now of Moss Point, is in the City last week....Miss Ellen Ford has moved to her relatives in New Orleans....Miss Sarah Bradford and Mrs. Lizzie House gave a concert Wednesday night to a much-pleased audience. Mrs. Ford is on a visit to New Orleans....The Freeman can be had every Saturday at Chappelle's restaurant from J. Lee....Mr. Sydney Edwards was over last week visiting his wife and Washington street....Messrs. Henry Johnson and Clarence Thornton made a flying trip to Gulport Sunday....Mrs. Angeline Michard and Miss Pele left New Orleans. They report a very pleasant trip....Among those registered at the Smith Hotel, Main street, last week were: P. Cooper, stormer, Mr. Charles Cox, Will Haster, C. Jefferson and Mrs. Alice Cooper, of Jackson, Miss, and Mary Whiten, of Hattisburg, Miss....Mr. Eugene Breeaux has connected with the fire brigade on the second floor, where there is plenty of cool breezes all the time. WEST BADEN, IND., NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN West Baden Springs and French Lick Spurs, the 19th-century, farmlands of America, bid fair to a busy fall season. Never in the history of the two places did we have such a large number of guests. Each year the people of West Baden are making greater preparation to accommodate the many people who visit here in search of health and rest. Aside from the Rice's European hotel, one of the nicest equipped hotels for colored people to be found anywhere with both a "famous" hotel and a "lentent" and first class barber shop and all up-to-date improvements. There are many private residents to accommodate guests and see that nothing is left undone to make them have a pleasant time always. A great many distinguished guests have visited the Springs this season and all have gone away greatly benefited, both in health and rest. Miss Gennery Scott is the guest of Miss Irena Brown. Miss Eliza Phillips is taking a ten days' course of the water, a guest of Mrs. Jennie Bella....Miss Stella Guffit, of Louisville, has returned home after a visit at West Baden with Mrs. Mary Milligan....Miss Mamie Sebree, who has been very ill, is somewhat convalescent, but is still in bed. Mrs. Wright Potter is on the sick list....Miss Madeline Tutt, of Louisville, is the guest of her sister and brother, Mr. and M. M. M. M. Tutt....Miss Marguerite Wintersmith, of Louisville, Kyr. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Burnette....Mrs. Gertrude E. Vana made a flying trip to Chicago on the 25th inst. NEWPORT, ARK. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Royal Circle of Friends of the World grand lodge will meet here next Monday. About 1,000 delegates will be opened a first-class billiard and pool hall at 614 Front street.....Miss Helen Stark, of ondale, is visiting friends, the Bombay Club and Sam Smith, of Memphis, are cleaning and pressing for Edgar Smith's pressing shop....You can find the Freeman at Smith's pressing shop, 413 Second street. A DESERVED RAP ON THE DANCE HALL EVIL COLORED PROBATE OFFICER ASKED FOR Swell Banquet Given in Honor of Two "Strangers Within Our Gates," which was Largely Attended-Baseball Season Ends. Special to THE FREEMAN Dallas is a busy place now. move on. Joint closing, but clubs are running night and day....Sergeant John H. Lewis is in Hillsboro, on the Chase Fur- relatives, stock arranging....Mrs. Jennie Mason is stock arranging, vise- relatives in Carona, Kan....Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Hart, of Galveston, stopped here to see Mr. Ed Wilburn, his cousin. They were visiting in northern Texas, to see tour. The many inquiries of Mr. S. Gibb's avenue, were cleared up several days ago, when it was made known that a bright, bouncing boy was a new boarder home. Sis is faring bad with the boys of Mr. S. Gibb's Hardin and children are sending some of these hot days in Galveston, visiting on vacation time....It will pay you to see Griffin and advertise for your people whom you have not seen or heard of what you are doing and where you are. It takes a live wire to make things these days, so let The Freeman secure your wants. Call at 800 Main street, when in Dallas.... Mrs. L. S. Logan is doing a job with a Mr. Wilson at the Navadeville at Fort Wadson time in the Freeman every week. Other performers have been in it. There are not for rushing their friends so much over time when off the stage. There are others who want to owe you all the time and never settle up. All performers are not that way, there are too many who are strictly on the beat here and there. It is now time that the taxpayers and land owners were seeing to it that some vested rights of their own and respected by that element of men and women the race who come and go and wherever their hat is off that's home sweet home to them. It is that element of the race here who are causing the race as a whole to lose its one-time prestige in business, politics and almost everything else and the end is not yet in sight. With some of the officials blind towards the way of the world that are nightly going on these evil things are calling for the 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Texas to save the boys. Let us add to our race sane men, women and all the children we can.... Mr. Matt Anderson spent several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayees and family in Muskogee, Okla. He carried little J. A. and Minna Mai with him to see their great love and grandmother.... Mr. Carl Wilson, of Debrac, is here mingling with friends and relatives, Mrs. Agnes Scott and daughter are back from a pleasant stay of several months in Clarksville, their former home. Mrs. Columbus Johnson and son are on a three-weeks' tour in southern Texas, where he will spend four weeks. The action of some memorials that is causing one and all to have to sometimes suffer hardships and agony. A Negro probate officer is now being sent to the white officer. We await the result of this opportunity to see what will be the outcome. It is where the landholder can do his art of the dictating in a way that is more effective. The sessionalists is no more this season, but the locals are having games in Frogtown and they are good ones. All the locals are having games in Frogtown and they are good ones. The remnants of the Dallas Giants Sunday their offerings brought out a great crowd. ..Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jackson entertained Messrs. Ganther, of San Antonio, Texas, and Coleman, of Mobile, of Alabama. They sat at the Silver King cafe on the evening of the 23rd. The table was decorated to the latest adopted design with ferns and pine needles. The menu consisted of boonx cocktails, fruit baskets, consommee, spring chicken, malay, Julengux claret sup peas, tomatoees, consommee noir, cigarettes, cigars, maiden feet Following were the guests: Misses Carter, Gilmore, House, Green, Green, James; Messrs, Manning, James, Grace, Thomason, Hunter, House and Young. For the Dallas Club big banquet soon. They all like to read the Freeman. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO SPECIAL IO THE FREEMAN Mrs. Thomas Lonesome returned from Niagara Falls and Toronto Monday.... Mrs. Bengerman Lawden returned to two homes. Eric Pa. will visit a visit two homes with Mr. Clarence Thomas and other relatives. A godly number of house parties were given in her honor.... The Buckeye Lodge of Elks, No. 10, opened house for day in Dayboray (Day) in our room. In the evening dancing and whist will be the amusements, together with good music.... J. M. Fagan was called to McKeenes of his sister, Mrs. Christian. Word has reached here that Mrs. Anderson Victor, who is ill at Cannonburg, Pa., will return to it. It is thought she will be able to return to this city soon.... Rev. King, of Macon, Ga., officiated at the St. Augustine Episcopal Mission and will probably locate B. Y. P. U. and Mahoning avenue a lawn fete on Mahoning avenue Monday. September 4. A ll are invited to attend. See bills for particulars.... Mr. Mrs. Freeman, of Stafford street, are rejoicing over the birth of a fine baby boy. 2 MADAM McNAIRDEE The Talented Clairvoyant 一 The gifted clairvoyant, the great female wonder, born with the double (caul) vell. she is one of the old ancient Southern women, one of the old ancient Southern living phrenologist and psychologist. She tells plainly what you are adapted for 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 make thousands of homes happy. Read the fifth chapter, ninth verse, of St. Matthews: "Biased are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." She separates makes where there is confusion with husbands or wife and sweetheart will never forsake you, but will love you and marry you sooner if you will only heed this lady's consultation. Read what several ladies of the church say. Read what Goddess to us. My husband and I separated over a year ago, and just think, since I called on this lady, he returned to me. We are together and happy." This lady uses to call or write me. I called on this lady and we are now engaged." You can't afford to miss consulting this gifted lady. She is gifted to read characters. She challenges the world to excel her advice on business, to solve problems, to reunite the separated, causes speedy marriages with one of your choice. No cards allowed in her place of business. No one's ill wishes filled; strictly a woman's gift. You are the heavenly gift. If you are painful or silling, think you are withercrafted. 100 go to see her. She spent thirty years in the jungles of Africa and has traveled through 34 countries, doing good everywhere. Rest in Peace, John, 9th chapter, 33rd verse, "If this man is not of God he could do nothing." I for one, as one in the midst. My heathen friend has been my husband and the way he would throw away his time and money, until I consulted this wonderful lady. It will soon be a year. Through her he has been a loving friend, a loyal supporter, a lovely lot on which he will build a home. Tongue can't praise her too hilarity." Thousands are flocking to see this wonderful lady daily. Her powerful consultation when heeded has sent sunshine to the homes of all who called. Don't put off, don't wait, don't wait, don't wait, future happiness. You may call at all hours, also Sunday. Don't delay. Highly endorsed by all the press, teachers, preachers, recommended by doctors, the leaders of lodges, the S. M. T., United Order of True Reformers, also the Calanathan Court. The name of United Sisters of Charity of the Missionary Church, and loved by all. God has endowed her with an unspeakable blessing to aid humanity. She deals in She wants to hear from all that are in trouble or distress. Address MADAM McNAIRDEE, 1103 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Positively no attention paid to letters without one dollar enclosed. AH HOO? AH HOO? AH HOO? AA THE AFRO-AMERICAN ORDER OF OWLS ```markdown ``` Want capable women to organize nests in every city. For particulars address Mrs. Emma J. Hines Supreme Organizer, W. A. A. O. O. , 112 West Colfax Street, South Bend, Ind. Men Organizers are also Wanted. Address G. W. BLAND, H. S. P., Home Nest, 112 West Colfax St., South Bend, Ind. JAS. N. SHELTON. LUCAS B WILLIS Phones—New 3058 —Old, Main, 4894. Shelton & Willis, (Licensed Embalmers) FUNKERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant. Lowest Prices. 418 Indiana Ava. Open all Night Burton Jewelry Co HAS Ready Money to loan on all articles of value, Watches, Jewelry and Diamond RATES REASONABLE. 58 MONUMENT PLACE. (OLD STAR BUILDING) Charles H. Cook, PANTATORIUM Ladies' and Gentlemen's Garment: Cleaned. Dyed and Pressed. First Class Work Guaranteed 134 West New York Street. CALL Mrs. Belle Davis FOR ICE. 919 N. West St. Both Phones 1774. Prompt attention given all orders. The Right Place for Fine Diamonds and Diamond Jewelry. Perfect Light. Quality considered. The Right Place for Fine Diamonds and Diamond Jewelry. Prices Right. Quality considered. C. L. LANDE Reliable Jeweler and Optician 3518 State St., Chicago, Ill., Tel. Douglas 4474. Artistic Engraving free. Eyes tested free. Old Jewelry Made like new Watch. Repairing My Specialty CHICAGO CAPTURES LEAGUE CONVENTION Strong Delegation from Windy City— Realignations Adopted. The Chicago delegation of Negro business men to Little Rock, Ark., succeeded in capturing the next convention for that city in 1912. PRESENTED: "The National Negro Business League in twelfth annual session assembled, finds many things for which the race and the country may well rejoice. The movement among the Negroes of this country to buy land, establish commercial enterprises, and other organizations, is growing stronger each year. The race has recognized the truth that that the standard by which it is to FREEMAN—SIX— is issppiHJ be measured in its permanent place is that which has been applied to all other elements which enter into our common environment." "Having by reason or past conditions been deprived of capital, training and opportunity to enter the field of management, we necessarily turned our attention almost exclusively to agriculture. But now, under the stimulus of this organization, we are starting upon the more advanced stage so necessary to our full development." "We find that since our last session more banks have been started, more banks have been opened, more banks have been opened, and more manufactories begun than any other single year in our history. We believe that the ownership or land the acquisition of an educational institution of the vocational education, the improvement of the home, both as to its appearance and the inner life and loyalty to the teachings of Christ, are the foundations upon which this civilization is to be "We urge with all the emphasis at our command that the people buy land. Buy it now, for even sooner than we may buy it now, for even sooner than we may close it. We too owe our moral responsibility. On every moral issue we urge our race at the ballot box to allign itself with the forces of law and order and civic righteousness. No man can be permanently kept out of a place that demands us to be more righteousness as a factor in the industrial life of the community. His character as a man and has ability enables him to look upon matters of general concern with a vision wide enough to protect the interest." "We are profoundly grateful for the interest shown in our progress by the best element of the white people, both North and South. Their spoken word of cheer and their deeds of kindness speak of the words and have much to inspire us." "We reaffirm our faith in the wisdom, judgment and purity of purpose of our leader, Booker T. Washington, and believe that under his safe and sane leadership, we can step into full and complete citizenship." A petition to Congress was read by the same committee renewing a former petition to the President and both the houses of Congress with reference to the freedoms andºs established in the National Memorial House for aged and infirm colored people. The following officers were elected: President, Booker T. Washington, Alabama, first vice president, Charles Banks, Mississippi; J.E. Buch. Arkansas; third vice president, J.E. Buch. Arkansas; third vice president, Harry T. Pratt, Maryland; fourth vice president, S.G. Elbert, Delaware; fifth vice president, D.J. Turner, Oklahoma; corresponding secretary, Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Massachusetts; former G.I. Morris, Massachusetts; registrar, F.H. Gilbert, New York; assistant registrar, R.C. Houston, Texas; transportation agent, Cyrus Field Adams, Illinois; compiler, S. Irving Williams, Illinois; official stenophor, William H. Davis, Washington, D.C. The executive committee J.C. Napier, chairman, Tennessee; Scipio A. Jones, Arkansas; S. E. Courtney, Massachusetts; W. C. Gordon, Missouri; Geo. C. J. Illinois; R. C. Jones, Louisiana; T. H. Hays, Tennessee; W. T. Andrews, South Carolina; J. B. Bell, Texas; J. C. Jackson, Kentucky; M. M. Lewey, Florida; T. J. Ellot, Oklahoma; S. A. Furniss, Indiana; and J. C. Thomas, New Session a Notable One. Regular attendants of the National Negro Business League for the past twelve years declare that in the point manifested and superbness of local arrangements the twelfth annual session of the National Negro Business League, which was the best yet held. All the sessions were held in the beautiful Kempner Theater, which was placed at the disposal of organization by the Little Rock Chamber. The splendid address of welcome that was given by Governor George W. Donahaye and other Little Rock and Arkansas cordial reception and entertainment ever given the league. "Such an occasion as this would have been thought impossible thirty years ago," said the governor. "I am proud of the staff. Fifty years ago you distinguished chairman was a slave; today he is the foremost representative of a free people, who are making rapid progress, presiding with dignity over a commercial congress composed of some of the former slaves. Indeed, this occasion augurs that we will be able to but our common country, for the interests o f the white race and the black race are blended together and here in the southland affects the other. "You have something to be proud of. Your unfailling good humor is a gerat racial asset; perhaps no race can boast greater votion as yours can. Your race must enamble itself from grinding poverty and accumulate wealth before you have enough money to tell the truth, intellectual and cultural elements of our civilization. You must own your land, shops, stores, banks; you must build and keep comfortable, heat, efficient and thrifty housewives, and your men must have a regular occupation and stick to it. "Let me assure you of the good will and care here, efficient and thrifty. While there and there a white man may wrong the colored people, yet you may be assured that all honest and meritorious movements by the colored people are appreciated by the people of Arkansas. Other addresses of welcome were made by Dr. J. G Morton, Dr. G. W. Hayman and Dr. T. G Morton. The Kempner Theater was packed to overflowing, an equally as large number below, an awful amount above. Dr. Washington delivered his nal address. The meeting was presided over by Charles Banks, of Mound Bayou, first vice president of the National Negro Business League, and then his speak Dr. Washington was given such an ovation that it was several minutes before he could proceed with his address. The second day's session of the Negro Business League was designated "Oklahoma Day," and was devoted entirely to an exploitation of what the Negroes of that State had done in the meeting was opened by Charles Banks, first vice president, who declared that the Negroes of that State had made more progress than in any other State. A treasurer, of the Fifth Episcopal Diocese of the colored Methodist Church. Great interest was manifested in the exhibits placed by the delegation from Boley, Oklahoma, Muskogee and other Oklahoma towns. Bishop Elias Cottrell, of Holly Springs, MN, addresses at the close of the meeting. NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION Pittsburgh Will Give Ten Thousand Visitors Royal Welcome. Two weeks more and Pittsburgh, Pa. becomes the Bantist Mecca, toward all the Negro Baptist host, Arabian like, will wind their way. There will be ten thousand strangers sojourning in the Smoky City for seven days, and great, very great will be the occasion that will bring them to Pittsburgh. The Bantist family has done big business this year, and its big leaders will lassesemble in a THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. big convention to tell big tales concerning it. Big old Tennessee, the largest of them all, will share in the jubilation, and her proud sons and daughters will lend additional honor to her great accomplishment. March five hundred strong, into this Frick-Carnegie stronghold, and show the other Baptist folks how Tennessee does things. With President Searcy leading the colony, with the Townsend, Turner, Clark, Hamilton, Fletcher Broughton and three of the secretaries of national boards—Isaac, Grigg and Boyd—and merry music and joyful dance will be the first and last number on the schedule. What mighty works have been done in grand old Tennessee. The Clarion is thrive happy in all this; and, ordinarily it is pleased with all that the Tennessee people do. It will just be one little department it would suggest, it hopes will be taken seriously. Nashville, the proud capital of Tennessee, the boasted Athens of the South, has three of the convention boards located here in PU boards; it would suggest that PU boards—and, for that reason Tennessee should contribute more money to the work to the National Baptist Convention than any other State in the Union. So may it be. On Monday night, I will go to 11, at 7 o'clock, a fine day coach and a palace Pullman will pull out from the Broad Street Station, carrying seventy-five or one hundred persons out of Nashville when these valliant warriors go marching in. One fare for the round trip is so cheap that all can go. Make up your minds, get ready, join the number and send them to the Clarion office. On to Pittsburgh. Every loyal Baptist must heed the cry. The local committee of the national entertainment committee has issued an appeal for aid in raising a fund sufficient to pay the expense of holding the event from September 12 to 19. Between 15,500 and 20,000 delegates will attend, and it will necessitate the expenditure of $2,300 to arrange for the meeting. It is requested that the committee will spend $100,000 or more in Pittsburgh during their stay. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Brown, chairman of the finance committee, will make a presentation of the materials of the business men of Pittsburgh. He is the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, colored, Coldwell and Miller streets, where he has officiated for nine years. President signed by the Rev. Dr. C. M. Messner, chairman, the Rev. Dr. C. P. Patterson, secretary of the national entertainment committee, will be presented by him. Contributions may be sent to the Rev. Dr. W. W. Brown, 2803 E. 12th St. Suitable Seating Provided. The hardest question before the committee is now settled, namely, the question of seating the two large pavilions in which the women's and men's conventions will be held. The committee chairman Messner, several thousand chairs. National Chorister N. H. Plus, D. D., will arrive next Sunday to take charge of the 1,000 voiced choir which will sing on Wednesday nights. Great Concert September 12 the committee has arranged to hold a great concert at which time one of the great lights of the Baptist Church will make an announcement, and one of the vocalists will be underdressed. This concert will be held in convention hall, Luna Park. The name of the speaker will appear in the next issue of The Courier. Pittsburgh's one great Negro newspaper, will be issued during the concert. The charge of this work and the paper will contain special articles by leading Baptists of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dwelle will also be on "Young Baptists and Their Ideals." Everybody is looking forward to this big convention and the city will be overrun with strangers and men of national importance. We will be here. Every business man and citizen of the race should lend a helping hand to make this aair a complete success and open their homes to the delegates and strangers. If you have any questions, you can contact Roe H. Messer, 5109 Broad street, know it at once. All ministers and their people should be interested in the success of this convention, and show our own hostility to them. We are happy for their coming to Pittsburgh. Every business place and home should be decorated for this occasion. The people of Pittsburgh cannot realize what a great city is and what its success means for its colored citizens—The Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. FOR NEGRO APPOINTMENTS. PITTTSBURGH, Pa., August 22—"Race prejudice is not so deeply rooted as many believe, and it is due more to a lack of moral courage on the part of the people. We need the statement made by Mayor W. A. Magee, of Pittsburgh, a few evenings ago, when the question arose over appointing N. T. Velar a memoirist, the board of assessors, is negated in representation position. Mayor Magee astounded some of his white conferences by making such a bold and truthful declaration, but none present made an effort to convince Pittsburgh chief executive that he was wrong. A party of colored citizens, headed by Assistant City Attorney William M. Randolph, called on Mayor Magee recently and urged the appointment of Mr. Velar to fill the vacancy made by the death of one of the assessors. Mayor Magee informed his visitors that he was in favor of making such an appointment, and promised to take the matter up with the leaders of the Republican party in When the subject was broached at a conference of Republican leaders, several held up their hands in horror at the question of whether the responsible position. The same motteaten and inconsistent cry, "the time is not yet ripe to put a colored man on the board of tax assessors," was made, which Mayor Magee that many whites lacked moral courage on the Negro question. It has been decided to fill the vacancy on the board of tax assessors after the closure of the Magee office. Mayor Magee is regarded as a friend of the Negro citizens of Pittsburgh, and is popular with the colored voters. He had the courage to appoint Counselor Magee years ago, despite the protest of leaders, who predicted that the Republican party would suffer because of the appointment. However, the Republicans have not been able to occur since the making of the appointment. Twenty-odd years ago there was not a colored lawyer in Pittsburgh, and the city attorney M. A. first made known that he intended to take the examination for admission to the bar, he, too, was informed by whites that the time was not ripe for Negro lawyers in Pittsburgh. A made eight despite such talk, and was finally given permission to practice law. There are now five colored lawyers in Pittsburgh. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT ATLANTIC CITY Soap Box Minstrels of Philadelphia Give Big Banquet at Ridley's—List of Banqueters Present. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 22.—Atlantic City was in full bloom last Saturday and Sunday and at no time has such a crow of visitors been found, famous at the third Saturday and Sunday in August. The hotels and cottages were unable to accommodate those halling from distant cities, and those it is absolutely necessary for them to occupy a room alone were told that they would either have to share common rooms with others—or else invariably accepted a ship plan, as "or else" meant to sleep. on the sidewalk Philadelphia, as usual, owing to its close proximity to Atlantic City, had the largest representation. New York, Ballantyne, St. Louis, St. Louis, Newark, Richmond and other cities, however, were represented in goodly numbers. The members of the gentler sex were out in full force, and the dress of the gentlemen was a dazzling affair, in which the latest creations of the dressmaker and milliner were shown to marked advantage. The entertainment furnished by the St. Louis theater company for Fitzgerald's Auditorium, Saturday night, and the banquet given by the organization at Ridley's, Sunday afternoon, were large and successful affairs. Sunday audiences were guests from the various cities, and everybody had an enjoyable time. On the menu were many good things which tickled the palates of the revelers, and so performers spoiled the menu. Andrew E. Greenman was postmaster. Among those present were: Henry Tobias, George W. Benson, George H. Harper, Amos Scott, John H. Haines, William T. Gaines, Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, William Carl Bolivar, Henry S. Martin, Nat Goodwin, C. W. Childs, W. H. Taylor, W. S. Kennard, J. Thomas Williams, Counselor Isaac H. Nutter, Jr., Thomas Butler, A. J. Sellers, Charles E. Steward, Taylor Parker, George A. Drye, William Grant Lee, Andrew F. Stevens, E. B. Webster, W. P. Stewart, R. C. Eddy, William A. Parker, G. F. Kasey, Robert A. Baxter, U. Smith, William T. Demby, John M. Pouison, Edward N. Baxter, S. W. Morgan, Charles C. Bester, A. Watson, W. A. Ash, George Co., E. Bernard Taylor, William A. Allmond, Jr., E. Robert E. Rosell, J. E. Howard, Edward W. Henry, John B. Morris, James A. Morris, James Jacobs, Elliot Carpenter, Chris J. Perry, John B. Williams, Frank S. Snowdon, George A. Robinson, Percy R. Warfield, A. D. Russell, William J. Draper, Oscar T. Capps, Ferdinand S. Upshew, C. S. Chew, William H. Ardley and Edward L. Johnson. ASK NEGROES TO JOIN UNION. American Federation of Labor Gives Golden Opportunity to the Colored Men. PITTSBURGH, Fa.-The American Federation of Labor is about to organize all the colored workmen of the city of Pittsburgh and vicinity. The name of the new organization will be "American Federation of Labor Union" of Pittsburgh and vicinity, and affiliated directly with the American Federation of Labor. The first meeting was held in the Labor Temple, Washington and website avenues, on Sunday, August 27, 1993. The general organizer of the A. F. of L., who addressed the meeting with others, said: "The American Federation of Labor knows no creed, color or nationality, in the industrial line, and realizes the fact that the white race is the white race, it is equally essential that the same power and influence now wielded by the whites in bettering their industrial condition should be equally the same man in his various vocations of life." "We may differ in social lines, but there cannot be any question along industrial lines," the colored people of the region noted, and visual time to time been disbarred from membership in the various organizations, but when the fountainhead, known as the American Federation of labor, with its president John D. Rockefeller, comed them into our fold, it is now time for the colored people to grasp the golden opportunity that presents itself in the attendance at the meeting for the benefit of themselves, their race and their posterity. 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SHAMPOO DRYER htening Comb rid! Price $1.00. Owner and Proprietor RACE PREJUDICE BEING FOUGHT BY EDUCATORS Noted Men Meet in London as Delegates to First Universal Race Congress—Better Feeling Is Urged. LONDON, England—Leading sociologists, educators, scientists, statesmen, scholars, representatives of all the races and cultures, and militants met in London in the first universal races congress, which is designed about closer relations between Occidental and Eastern Europe, a movement toward international brotherhood, and to combat that prejudice of sets white against black and yellow and divides humanity into warring factions. "For East is East, and West is West," sang Kipling, and it is this common sense of humanity at large that the congress offered hopes to dissipate. Special treatment occured to mighty problem of the contact of European, American and other developed types, including the Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Persian and Negro. English French, German and Italian were the official languages of the congress. Resolutions of a political character were excluded from the deliberations. Under congress, as set forth by Lord Weardale, the president, is expressed in the following statement: "I discuss in the light of modern knowledge and a sober conscience, the general relation obstinate to the people of the West and those of the East, between so-called white and so-called colored peoples, with a view to engaging between them a fuller understandment of their feelings and a heartier co-operation." The program of the first session dealt with "Meaning of Race and Nation," and included the preservation of papers by Brajendranath Seal, an Indian educator; Dr. Felix von Luschan, of the University of Berlin; Prof. Foulllee, of the Institute of France, and G. Spiller, of London, author of "The Mind of Man." At the second session papers were presented by John M. Robertson, M. P., of London; Dr. T. Rhys Davids, of the University of Manchester; Dr. Guiseppe Sorg, of the University of Rome; Sister Nivedita, of Indian, and M. Joseph Deniker, of Paris. Lord Weardle presided at the congress, and Lord Avebury is the vice president. The honorary vice presidents include all the members of the permanent Court of Arbitration and of the second Hague conference, the presidents of the parliaments of nearly all of the leading nations of Europe, Asia and South America, and many governors, ambassadors and other prominent government officials of various nations. The United States was represented in this list by the United States ambassador to Japan. The Executive committee was headed by the Hague Committee was The sessions were held in the central building of the University of London, and it was a notable gathering of the "intellectuals" of all nations that assembled to discuss the culture and Americans of all types, swarthy Indians and Malays, Negroes of all shades and yellow-skinned representatives of the culture and learning of the far East mingled and met on the basis of a common language. Two notable papers were contributed by Americans, Dr. E. B. DuBois, the author of "Souls of Black Folk," and perhaps the most scholarly Negro in the world, wrote a monograph on "The Negro in America" and Dr. Charles Eastman prepared a paper on "The American Indian." The congress, the first of its kind in the world's history, had its origin in a suggestion made some four years ago by a group of students speaking at a congress in Elseman, he suggested the desirability of a great international meeting of the races to ascertain how far it was possible to bring the enlightened conscience of the modern world to the attention presented by racial divisions. Since man was man, the yellow, black and white races have clashed in a million ways, the differences of religion, language and custom being added to the natural antagonism between men of different races and color. Few of those in attendance at the meeting believe or hope that there will be a race of people with the masses of the white, yellow and black races. Strict justice, however, is held to be possible, and for the fraternity of men of intellect who have outgrown the petty prejudices which, it is alleged, are the causes of the childhood of humanity, and which the great majority of people of all the races have not outgrown. The hatred of "white devils" in China is of a piece with the deception of the American emerald and emerald-brown speaker. Transient political questions and theological problems were not discussed during the congress. Eight half-day sessions were held, with general themes as follows: 1. "Fundamental Considerations — Meaning of Race and Nation." 2. "General Conditions of Progress." 3. "Peaceful Contact Between Civilizations." 4. "Special Problems in Inter-Racial Economics." 5-6. "The Modern Conscience in Relation to Racial Questions." 6. "The Role of Promoting Inter-Racial Friendliness." One of the most interesting sessions was that in which papers were presented by Wu Ting-Fang, late Chinese, of the National University of Saskatchewan, president of the Japanese House of Representatives; Said Bey, president of the legislative section of the Turkish Council of State; Moh. Sourour Bey, of the National University of Saskatchewan, former president of Haiti; Sir Sydney Olivier, governor of Jamaica; M. H. LaFontaine, president of the International Peace Bureau; Frederick C. Croxon, chief statistician of the United States Immigration Commission and others. The proceedings will be published in book form, in both English and French, constitute a compendium of information on all phases of the great race question. WHERE DOES BISHOP SCOTT STAND? Under "Will, Negroes Leave M. E. Church?" in your paper of July 20, Bishop I. B. Scott is prominently brought up in the scousehold to represent his neutral, with his face toward separation. The bishop is not neutral, because in no uncertain way he gave his opinion more than one year before his present with his previous popularity, he can tell you whether he struck a popular or an unpopular chord in the church. On previous vows that his present with his services could hardly be secured. Everywhere, regardless of color, the church used him. In fact, the colored churches could harden him, as he was accused among the church members. But now, you hardly know that he is in this country. If his position on this question has not made the difference to his popularity, on this question has decreased his popularity, is separation a ston, popular subject in the church? Is a thing that he did, the recipient would it kill himself likely to come to pass? It is rather discouraging to the church that in her first effort to give us what we want, the recipient would be disheartened. If a half-Nerro bishop will do such a thing, what would a whole Negro bishop do? An old colored woman once said, "The first thing a Negro does after promotion is to turn without consultation or co-operation, he will be pastor should try to keep the flock together and separate them. We had woken in Bishop Scott to secure our first full-fledged bishop, but his seeming failure in his present field has perished our hope. His mission was to separate the church and become bishop separation. It would be bad enough to start with an unknown failure, but to start with a known failure would be dreadful. The safe thing for the bishop is to make good his job and reserve his opinion. "All else is sea to him." Apart from the above consideration, there is a strong possibility and probability members, regardless of race, securing full power in the Episcopal Church. Those who deny this possibility and probability, base their denial on race affinity and upon the imposition of the right thing. In spite of race affinity, spite of the white man's inability to do right, the Negro has advanced in securing his rights, both in church and in life, for over 70 years, from chattel to a man, from slave to man, to a citizen, to a voter, to a farmer, doctor, lawyer, preacher, judge, pastor, bishop and numberless other things he seems to be filling as it flows. why do men reason downward from it? In spite of race affinity, the injustice of man, white men have been ostracized, man, white men have been mobbed for them, been shot for them, been sitions, always that white men wanted, and in many cases could better fill. John Brown was hanged for us, thousands of soldiers died for us on the battlefield, Sunday, thousands of thousands of Irishmen would gladly have the Senate, Lincoln died for us at the landmark assassin. Policeman Battles was appointed to his position by white men in spite of race affinity, owing to other thousands of thousands of Irishmen affinity is only one of the many forces operating among men. Let us not charge too much against it, nor credit it with too much. And when white men are too blinded toward it and toward injustice, remain blinded toward injustice, and do your best to move them from it. I for one am unwilling to credit race affinity with so much. Experimentally, I know it is weak. No, I should encode race affinity superior to justice, sense and sense and Christianity, especially when I see what has been accomplished in her opposing presence. Unless the 'insurgents' assign better reasons for separating, I should encode race affinity both high and low life race affinity falls.—S. H. Norwood, in the New York Age. HOW MEN CHANGED COLOR. Prof. Lionel Lyde, who teaches economic geography in University College, London, has attained a deal of attention recently, recently subject to the subjecting of skin color. It is interesting to note just what he really has said on this much-discussed subject. Wherever the color of primitive man in the beginning, the conditions of life during the glacial period were such that unification was possible, the northern Asia, possibly in Africa, certainly in Europe, they say. His original color is supposed to have been a sort of brownish-yellow, not like any of the other colors used in academia and scientists call him, for the sake of calling him something, a Condwana. He lived in Southern attitudes; this, thus, is certain, any migrations, and the Prof. Lyde shows the variations of color began. Some turned white, some turned black, some brown and some yellow, all according to climate in which they found themselves. Climatic influences worked directly and indirectly. In the tropics the skin is thick and moist, and in temperate zones is thrown on the lungs. So when man found himself in cooler lands the increased activity of the lungs, together with the lessened activity of the skin. When he found himself in hotter climates the increased activity of the liver and the presence of great light favored a dark skin. The race are pretty well discarded for men of the same race, under differing conditions, would come to be outwardly very different. Thus, even in Africa, which everybody is of the land of blacks, black is not all the more colorful of Soudan, where there is great light and little humidity and no shade, the men are very black. Elsewhere in Africa, where it is forest, more humidity, less light than in the meat, the color is brown and even yellow. As primitive man went on his way over the globe he adapted himself to the conditions he found. Prof. Lyde bokeh (bokeh) is his name, and which is injurious. There are in the tropics dangerous X-like rays which must be stopped, and they were stopped by the rain. There is a lack of moisture also tends to give a tawny color it is found in that rainy countries the people are fairer than in places where there are long and frequent rains. The frost then, that found a home in moderate and damp climates turned whiter and whiter. It is only in such climates that white skins can endure, and presumably, if the present white climate fails to hold the heat of the world for many hundreds of years, the whiteness of skin would gradually be lost—perhaps, since the climate made it too hot to endure, it would be far to say it will in such cases be lost, the whiteness being retained only in climates that have the conditions under which the grass lands are grown. Intensity of light and little humidity made black. Trade winds and little humidity gave the tinge of brown to the subtropical Mediterranean people. Then the temperature fell down as the result of "vast desiccating grass lands" in intemperate latitudes. The yellow man is the product of the grass lands with lack of humidity and seasonal extremes of temperature. The grasslands would naturally take would be one which conserves heat nearly as well as white, but which also protects from light—for which combination yellow grasslands would be created. These folk of the grasslands would be changed by special local conditions, such as the presence of mountains or proximity to the sea. The mountaineers of Asia and the maritime Mongolians would be prepared for than their brothers of the inland plains. To Prof. Lyde, therefore, skin color is entirely a matter of climate. It is a well established phenomenon now because the desert portions of the grasslands lie in areas prepared for thousands of years in special areas, but the same forces that made men white and black and yellow are operating today, slowly but surely. Men who change their lands dreds of generations, change also their skins as they did in the epoch of the first migrations. THE PROFESSOR THINKS WE'LL ALL I'RE GONE IN 100 YEARS. RICHMOND, Va.—The American Negro will be extinct in the course of the next century, according to Dr. E. C. C. Moore, a professor of history. To bear out this statement Dr. Levy says that the inexplicable mortality among the colored race is steadily and rapidly depleting the Negro population, the birth rate of the Negro being far below the average. Dr. Levy says: "A comparison of the mortality of the white and colored race is always interesting and instructive. According to the last estimate of the population of the Negro race, of 127,914 is made up of 80,532 whites and 47,321 colored persons. These figures show that the colored population is 38 per cent. of the total. The percentage of the colored population is 60 per cent. of the white total. 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Taking advantage of our thrift and prosperity. The Freeman is under obligations to the Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star, this week, for much of the information of the doings of the Supreme Lodge, K. of P. September steps in clear, crisp, cool, without apology to anybody. Some of the months have a habit, sometimes, of masquerading a bit, taking on the appearance of other months for a few days. Dr. Rubassano, of Cape Colony, the first black member of a South African Parliament, was a member of the recent Universal Races Congress, which recently met in London, England. He says there is nothing in what has been called the "black peril." Cary B. Lewis, of the Chicago Chronicle, who did special work for an Indianapolis daily paper during the K. of P. Encampment, says that the delegates were delighted with this city. They cheerfully agreed that the Indianapolis meeting was ahead of all so far. THE MOB RAMPANT. The burning of a Negro in any section of the country should not be viewed as an ordinary happening. Yet we do hear, now and then, of such atrocities in the South, without the former shudder of horror. The voice of protest, nevertheless, is against them there, since such practice is inhuman and shameful. In the North we were thought to be immune from the mob—at least, the mob at its worst. The burning in Pennsylvania, however, disturbs the hope that the other sections, the North especially, are free of the dreadful doings of lawless bodies of men. It may be that the simple outbreak will stop with the one happening. Indeed, some way must be found by which the mob spirit may be hindered. The race is coming up right along, making the "necessity" for such happenings less and less all the time. This does not mean that the Negro criminal is no longer to be found. It means that his criminality is no more frequent than that of other men, nor any more vicious or hideous; consequently he should be dealt with according as other men are dealt with. It is too much to expect that any class of men will go on forever, submitting ever to maltreatment, as has been the practice on Negroes in the South. Intelligence and reason are against the idea, and it is up to those in control to take care of their end of the situation. Rope can be secured as readily by the courts of justice, when necessary, as b y the lawless. Vengeance is a mean thing; it is a double-edged sword, the truth of which ought to appear very, very plain. Government by mob is not to be desired in American affairs, even if there were no dream of retaliation. The name of the country should be preserved against such a possibility at any cost. The mob has no rights above those of the citizens. It will not matter how difficult a matter it will be to stampede the mob, it must be done, or else it will breed a fearful opponent. RACE EGOTISM. The Literary Digest, in speaking of the recent Universal Races Congress, said: "There was a tone of racial egotism and exultation to be noticed in many of the speeches. For instance, Dr. Eastman, a North American Indian, described his race as the most spiritual in the world. That they had not made material progress was not to say that they did not think. "Scalping did not originate with the Indian, as he explained, and contrasting the 'sublime philosophy' of the Indian, which 'he had lived up to,' he said: 'The white man was false from top to toe—hair, teeth, and other things.'" We are inclined to think, sometimes, that this egotism spoken of was an unfortunate tendency. And then again it appears a preservative—a sort of rallying cry—self-gratulation in the interest of a nation's reputation, and also its perpetuity. Our own DuBois described himself as a descendant of five generations of mulattoes. We take for granted that the doctor has not been imposed on and that he really did say what is charged to him. The inference is that the doctor charged up his virility to this uninterrupted line of forbears. What is the conclusion? One would think the forte of the amalgamated strains. But the good doctor is so intelligent we do not presume to put words in his mouth, yet we fail to see the strength of the postulate, unless it is as given—strength due to the mixed bloods; perhaps in that it was preserved from contact by white or black for five generations. The professor is a student along the line of genealogy, and therefore may not be mistaken about his own family tree. We think, nevertheless, that when a Negro of forty years and up can talk intelligently of five generations of mulattoes, thinking he has in mind five mother and father antecedents, he has his data pretty well in hand. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS IN INDIANAPOLIS. The managers of the Supreme Lodge, K. of P., meeting held in this city, last week, are to be congratulated on the success of the big undertaking. The work was new, but they went at it with a right good will, carrying it out essentially as planned. The citizens, regardless of color, were pleased with the Knights and the visitors. In all ways they conducted themselves becomingly, winning the good opinions expressed of them. We take this occasion to say again that the meeting left an impress for good. The white people had forced home to them the fact that the Negro was a worthy factor of the country, and which fact, we hope, will be useful in shaping affairs for the best in the future. The Knights of Pythias are to be congratulated in that their meetings improve with the years. That the Indianapolis meeting was the very best is simply consistent with the theory of progression, and on which theory the next meeting two years hence should be still greater. There was nothing beggarly about the encampment. There was not the haste of former years to leave the city, Knights and visitors took their time, some not leaving until the present week. This was one of the most agreeable phases. A few complained of high prices, but from the viewpoint of money, as such, the excess charge was a mere bagatelle; they opposed the principle of hold-up. The complaint was not general. Knights and visitors, as far as known, were delighted and highly satisfied. The conclave was thoroughly representative. States where the order flourishes sent representatives. The uniformed men came from the sections where Negroes live in large numbers, Knights and visitors came from New York to California; they came from Minnesota to Texas, practically declaring for the universality of the order on the American continent. The presence of Dr. Booker T. Washington was a most distinguished feature of the conclave. Thousands took advantage of the occasion to hear the renowned educator, thus presenting a brilliant audience of white and colored, who found pleasure in listening to what he has to say. He received most careful attention and was generously applauded throughout his speech. Mr. Washington spoke in the splendid Coliseum building at the State Fair grounds. The parade was a monster demonstration, standing for the progress of the entire race, rather than for the one fraternal organization. Every member of the race, of the thousands that lined the ways, was jubilant, holding the exhibition as a race success. For more than an hour the pageant wended its way to its destination. There were floats of variety, scores of cabs and automobiles, representing the various States, all laden with enthusiastic Knights, ladies and children, who were no less buoyant than the thousands who watched them with joyful interest. Various other interesting happenings during the week made for a festival of Negro possibility, all worthy of consideration. We take pleasure in referring to one more, the audience that assembled at the Coliseum to witness the contest between various bodies of Uniform Rank men. This was on Friday evening. We feel safe in saying that this audience was the largest and most brilliant audience of Negroes ever assembled in the world. For immensity it left a profound impression. Here is one of the greatest auditoriums in the world; it was filled to overflowing. This appeared quite an impossible thing to those who knew the capacity of the great building. THE STATUS OF HAITI. The United States has formally recognized General Cincinnatus Leconte as President of Haiti. Peace, accordingly, is assured for a time. It is manageable indeed that the prospects of peace cannot be spoken of in a positive way. The past, however, with its record of interrupted "reigns," does not permit any such hope for the future. The changes in the administrations of Haiti have generally been accompanied with violence, thus arresting the attention of the civilized world. The fact is serious, since civilization is coming up, and one of the best evidences that it is doing so is the universal effort to reduce the horrors of war, if not to eliminate the thing entirely. No country more than our own stands for progress along this line. In fact, it is fairly the initiative spirit in the matter by way of tangible contribution toward bringing the thing to pass. This has reference to Mr. Carnegie's munificence in providing an international temple of justice where to adjust questions that might otherwise lead to war. Mr. Carnegie is fairly an index of millions who see war as useless—criminal. All fairly agree that it should come about only when every other remedy fails at bringing mutual satisfaction. It means that the country is considerably worked up when Haiti breaks out in one of its persistent perennials, owing, of course, to its proximity, in view of the increasing peace sentiment in opposition to violence and the shedding of blood. Race men of the United States, noting the attitude of the white press relative to the little republic and thinking it a reflex of the attitude of THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the white people generally, have expressed some fear as to what our country may do in event Haiti continues restless. These Negroes hope to see the island yet dominated by Negroes, maintained for Negroes. Perhaps all of the Negroes who think of the situation would prefer to see Haiti an independent country rather than see it gobbled up by any nation. But as earnest and serious as we may be in our desires, it is certainly becoming to that country to look well to its behavior. However indignant we may feel concerning the overreaching manners of nations, it is no less a fact. The world of first-class nations have concluded to stand sponsor for the peace of the world. It will be a sorry day if Haiti must go down, and because it fails to subscribe to the tenets of to-day's civilization. But Haiti can do it, can subscribe to the demands of to-day, and simply because it is not physically impossible. It ought to do it in the interest of its own preservation. It must conform to the agreements of its own society—that of nations—or else pay the awful penalty. We would prefer to discuss the situation above the plane of races. But it is useless to deny that the white races are not en rapport with black races, to state the case in its hardest form. The "itching palm" has something to do with influencing sentiment. In short, there are those who think of exploiting the little island, thinking it a very Croesus of wealth. This disposition may attain the wholesomeness of our country's keenness in looking Haiti over, yet the fact remains that Haiti does not keep itself above reproach. It will be very difficult to defend the republic if it is persistent in giving offense to civilization. The laws of ownership in such matters seem to be limited, ending when such possession means inconvenience to one's neighbors. Haiti is not beyond hope; it knows how it is regarded by other nations. It should not fail to take a hint. IN AND ABOUT PENSACOLA, FLA. By Walter W. Thomas. list, is in the city on his annual visit. His many friends are glad to see him... Don't forget the grand trolley ride every Wednesday night. Rev. R. D. D. Lewis, manager...The Smart Set company is booked for this theatrical season. From St. Louis after a visit of two weeks... ...Mr. John McKyandels returned from Chicago. Ill..*Mr. Lymus Watson returned from Birmingham, Ala... Don't forget to leave your notes at colored drug stores of the Thomson Bureau, 18 South Tangonia street, phone #21. Walker W. Thomas, manager. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mrs. James Lasha and children and Miss Crissie Corrine sup have returned from Detroit, where they were the guests of Mrs. Clarence Sims....At the home of Mrs. Clarence Sims, the home occurred the death of Orlando D. Grant, at the age of 86 years, August 21. The funeral services were held from the residence Wednesday at 2 p. m....The twenty-seventh annual educational day and piano concert Sunday, September 27....Those who failed to attend the entertainment given by Philip Loulie Payor, our poet, and Florence White, the blind soloist and pianist. His poems and their jubilee songs were worthy of the highest commendation....After a long illness Ashley Coleman passed away at the home of his brother, Joseph Coleman, on Henry street, Saturday. Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon, Rev. Simpson officiating....Mrs. Chrystal Johnson was the mother of her brother, Ashley Coleman, Mrs. Adeline Jefferson and Rev. Brownee attended the B. Y. P. U. convention at Ann Arbor the past week....Mr. and Mrs. James Coleman, the honor of Miss Marguerite Goings, whose marriage to Mr. Morris Murray, of Washington, takes place on September 6....Mr. Booker, a former student of the veterinary college, has visited the city, Mr. Johnson, who was burned about the face and hands at the Wealthy Heights Garage, is able to be out again....Rev. Simpson delivered a farewell sermon to the congregation, and left Tuesday for the annual conference at Jackson, Mich. BOWLING GREEN, KY. Rev. J. C. Caldwell, D. D., secretary of Allen Christian Endeavor League of the A. M. E. Church, of Nashville, Tenn., will address the young people Sunday evening Taylor's temple church. Young people and citizens will cordially invite to be present to witness the lecture.....Rev. J. W. Hill, presiding elder of the Bowling Green district, held his last quarterly conference for his conference to be successful one.....The union services Sunday in the afternoon was very nicely conducted. R. G. W. Harris, pastor of College-street, Church delivered the sermon on behalf of the Passover, which he treated very carefully. The various churches were nicely represented at the communion service, which were very enjoyable.....Miss C. Williams, pastor of Mrs. James Harris, 1029 Kenton street.....Mrs. Mattie Carmans, of Chestnut street, has gone to Nashville, Tenn., to spend two weeks with Mrs. Glip Taylor, who was very well known of Mrs. James Harris, 1029 Kenton street.....Mrs. Mattie Carmans, of Chestnut street, has gone to Nashville, Tenn., to spend two weeks with Mrs. Glip Taylor, who was very well known of Mrs. James Harris, 1029 Kenton street.....Mrs. William Porter is spending a week with Mrs. Lena Rogan Patterson, of Indianapolis, Ind. On her return she spend two days with Louisville, KY, with relatives and friends. Misses Nell Bradet and Emma Kinard, of Louisville, is spending a week with Mrs. Clara Herston, 553 Kentucky street.....Mr. W. W. West, of Eleventh street, is spending evening in Indianapolis, Ind., where he will make his home for the future. CENTERVILLE, LA. Miss Mabel Sims, of Morgan City, is visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Henderson.....Mrs. Catherine Ina and little sister, Miss Catherine Baldwin, returned home Sunday after a week's stay with relatives and friends of Verdunville and Centerville.....Miss Alice Baldwin, returned home after a week's stay with relatives and friends of Wexley Williams, of Patterson, returned home Tuesday from Centerville, where she has been the guest of the Misses Selma Baldwin and Alice Baldwin, emma Osborne returned home Sunday from Greydon, where she has been visiting.....Master Leonard Henderson sent Sunday in Bernick City.....A party of our guests arrived at Lake last Friday. Those present were: Misses Nettie Hudson, Susie Henderson, Bessie Gage, Alice Baldwin, Emma Baldwin, Ruth Williams, Selma Henderson; Ruth Williams, Selma Henderson; Dewitt Gilmore, Jesse Mandersz, John Henry, Jr., Srilas Henderson, Misses Winkle Henderson, Ruth Williams, and Mrs. Henderson spent Monday in Verdunville. A RECEPTION. CHICAGO. Ill.—A reception to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of the members of John R. Tanner Camp No. 2, the 1916 Army Corps, was given by John R. Tanner Camp. Monday night. The reception was given at the Eighth Regiment Armary. Commander Vampelt made the welcome address to the ladies and comrades. His address was given by ex-Commander Butler, Lleut. Col. Johnson, Comrade Ross and Comrade J. Chavis. Many valuable suggestions were made to follow when they organize a auxiliary. Those that were present were Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Mrs. W. H. Peterson, Miss J. M. Butler, Mrs. J. R. Marshall, Mrs. J. R. Marshall, Mrs. M. F. Limas, Mrs. P. T. Mottley, Mrs. G. H. Smith, Mrs. F. B. Selby, Mrs. L. Brewer, Miss M. Hughes, Miss C. Mitchell, H. A. Dabney, Mrs. H. Mitchell, Mrs. H. C. Chavis, Mrs. P. Lloyd and Mrs. G. Hunt. COLUMBUS, KY. There was a party of people went up on the lake to spend the day. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson, of Cairo, Ill.; Miss Willie Hide, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. R. B. Vincent, Miss Berthaniel Vincent and Mr. John Perkins, of Clinton, Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. S. Vaughn, Mr. and Mrs. Porter Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Smith, Misses Clarice Canty, Adela Buggy, Mr. Claudius Montgomery, Mr. George Bugg, Miss Sellist Smith, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Montgomery, all of Columbus, Ky.; and Mrs. Thomas Comptant, of Cairo, Ill. The day was spent delightfully. Ices of all kinds were served. The table was a beautiful sight, and it was good enough for the president....Mr. Augusta Mangnim made a flying trip to Memphis, Tenn.Dr. Bohanan, Miss Ettao Mangnim and Mrs. %enobia Walke spent Saturday and Sunday in Charlston, Mo. NEW ORLEANS (LA.) NOTES. Mrs. Eliza B. Steele, of New Orleans returned from acksonville, Ill., after a pleasant stay of two weeps with Mrs Troy Geeter....The excursion from New Orleans to Mount Bawn was a great succes. Mrs. William Bell is conva lescing. (By Geo, Slaughter.) The bill at the Lyre theater this week is exceptionally good, every act being a headliner. The record breaking attendance for the show is its standard two thousand patrons, went to see one of the best bills of the season. It seems as if Mr. Louis A. Evans, the manager of the Lyre, knows what he's doing. He is giving them the best acts obtainable. Julian Costello opens the bill and his act is entirely new from last week, his Spanish, number in which he does a musical, his act only acts held over, Kling and Mobley HOLLYWOOD THE LONGEST JAUNT IN AN AU- TOMOBILE EVER UNDERTAKEN BY COLORED MEN. Dr. D. W. Roberts and W. M. Martin St. Augustine, Fla., Together With E. A. Pottsdam, of Tallahassee, Fla., Drive to Indianapolis, Attend K. of P. En- campment. Perhaps the most talked of visitors of last week's encampment of the K. of P.s. was Dr. D. W. Roberts, W. M. Martin and E. A. Pottsdam all of W. M. Martin and E. A. Pottsdam all of W. M. Martin, the hazardous task of motoring all the way from their faraway homes in the South to attend the encampment. The success of their undertaking was the topic of general discussion in the week that party left St. Augustine on the morning of August 8, in the forty-five horse power car of the "Glyde" make owned by Dr. D. W. Roberts, with a seating capacity of passengers covering 400 miles. The first stop was Jacksonville, and the titerancy from thence was as follows: Live Oak, Fla.; Macon, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Rowling Green, Ky.; Louisville, KY, and Indianapolis. The party arrived at Indianapolis o the afternoon of August 23rd, covering the entire distance after several delays due to breakdowns. The breakdowns occurred the following, the injuries referred to occurred at Jacksonville on the first thirty-six miles run, and was the only serious mishap on the entire trip. They had detained two of the injured, the head had to detain Peoria, Ill., for the parts injured and did not get away from Jacksonville until the 14th, arriving in Atlanta in good shape. On the afternoon of the 14th, they left for that camp in the striking base of Cumberland mountains were confronted with the most EVENTS AT THE KENTUCKY CAPITAL. Pythians Honored at the Hoosier Capital-The Alhambuck Club is Growing Popular Here-A Colored Hospital is Wanted-Social Function FRANKFORT Ky.—King Solomon said: "Train a child up right and he will not depart from it when he is old." It was said to be the same name, and these young Ptyhians, whose ages ranges from 6 to 15 years of age. This was the first time for these young Ptyhians to visit a national encampment and being little to see the last last. The child having not been used to seeing so many people, was one of the chief causes of not winning the first price, but as it was very good to be the first price, it having won the second prize in the display, a test, at their first visit to a national encampment, the prize being $50 cash. But that makes chicken a very good and the same thing. The chief causes of the elder companies of the Ptyhians not winning some of the prizes was that there was so much time taken up in the year 1940. The same company was the first time, but it was from a Biblical standpoint that it was more important to train the youth than to win the hon- consecutive of the men to the youth-trained. Even when the Milk Major was the last to be the first price, the child will be the last to be the first price, their good works will be shown in these youths of whom they have to be the most commanding. The child of P. I. in this city believes somewhat in the philosophy of P. L. Dunbar, expressed in the poem entitled "For the Man Who Falls, as follows: The world is now in the way of the man, and the child's chap for its money's worth, and the just of success causes half of the sins that are cursing this brave old earth. For it is the most up to the end of a place, is sweet to the heart, and man who falls in a noble cause is a hero that is no less dear. The Alhamuck club is an organization composed of the children of the school of the school of the school and it has a high standard and is one of the popular clubs in the society circles here, whose members stand for a general and the most characteristic of any person has ever been be- ished, and it is known through the be-investigating committee their application will be barred, for this club can not af- reached the real standard. This is not a club of quantity but of quality. The Kings' Daughters of this city are good, they're with the direct a hospital every for the operations of the people, because many of our people are dying here just for the want of attention. The masses of our people are in no way see good people, one should get sick with some contagious disease it is likely that the whole family will have it because they are compelled to be a room, and there is no need for them to be. We are poor. We are not able to serious problem as to roads and the best way of making the ascent over mountainous areas encountered during their trip. Progress was slow indeed and it was impossible to make more than half the time to the hour. Dangerous trips with travel margins were the reason with all brakes they dared not take less than an hour to down some of the declivities encountered on over the mountains. It took them a long time to travel these night time. The unknown roadway was a difficult part of party even advised to not venture Tracy City to put up and not continue this seemed only to add to their nearer destination on Indianapolis near the opening encampment as possible, and they daught them after considerable struggles and after Nashville was reached and they were away the morning of the 21st. Bowling Green the morning of the same afternoon, and the party arrived Louisville on the 22d at 515. Louisville citizens were very hospitable to theangers and the Florida people claim they were back to their home some very grateful treatment of the treatment they received during their trip in the Falls City. Tee trip from Louisville in the Napoleon was made without mishap of any kind and they were among the Knights of Pythias on the afternoon of August 23. Dr. Roberts, the owner of the car, is very successful physician and surgeon. He is also the property. W. M. Martin is a wine merchant, the color Augustine and represents the colored Augustine owners of St. John county. E. A. Potter dam is a manufacturer of imported and dressed cannery hausse. The trout left Indiana at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd for Christmas from there they motor to New York, which place they will ship the car by the side steamer back to Jacksonville Fla. and they will continue their trip home by rail. FORD'S HAIR DOMADE MAKES HAIR KUNKY OR CURLY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLUSABLE EASY TO COMBS AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIBE DIVENELY PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT BANDAGE AND OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS GET FREE GUIDE, PUT IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCEELED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES. ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND TO YOU DRUGGIST ON THE FOLLOWING Prices, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25* LASED BOTTLE 50*. THE OZONIZED O MARRY WOOL CO. 32 LAKE ST. DEPT. 208 CHICAGO, IL 60611 GOSSIP OF THE STAGE Black Patti company is at Cincinnati, O. this week. Porter and Porter are now in Philadelphia and doing fine. The Watermelon Trust is this week at the Pantages theater, Tacoma, Wash. Willie Vaudrey has signed to go with the Smart Set company as musical director. Pawea, the wizard comedy juggler, is closing the old with the Down in Dixie minstrels. James Burriss, Hattie Christian and Ida Bluford have signed to go with the Smart Set company. The Roy and Williams musical act is at J. W. Gorman's Theater, Medford Boulevard, Boston, Mass. The Lewis stock company is still holding forth at the Duvall theater, Atlanta, Ga, and are making good. Mr. Wooten, tenor with the Dandy Dixie minstrels, will feature "If I Had Thousand Lives to Live." Ada Overton Walker's company, with Bobby Kemp, scored a big hit at Hammerstein's theater, New York, last week. Pwee, comedy juggler, signed with the Down in Dixie minstrels to play ornet in band, will also appear in the solo. Carita Day, well known in theatrical circles, was married August 12th, to Sigmond L. Mussondon, a native of British Guiana. Frank Kirk, the original musical acrobat will open on the Walter F. Keefer stage, September 4, at the Temple Theater, Grand Kapids, Mich. The Roy are dated the week of August 28 at Bowdow Square, Boston, Mass., and the week of September 4 at Bullock's Theater, Providence, R. I. The Kratons have been able to have their foreign bookings set back and will not sail this week. Week of 28th at the Orpheum, Brooklyn. Harry Brooks opened up at the Dixie theater in Birmingham Va., on the 28th month, and is making a big hit, since he is to be Brooks and Wilson. Harrington Carter brought his summer show in which had a successful season. Carter and Bluford are making arrangements to return to vaudeville. J. Leubee Hill will not go out in this show. He will write with a friend and Johnson, supplying lyrics for the Midnight Revette, at the Follies Bergere, New York. Cas English, of the team of Brown and English, has closed with the Sunny Dixie Minstrels, and is now with the Kit Carson Show, and has joined hands with W. L. Eldridge. They will play vaudeville this winter. Chicken Jones, star comedian of the Dandy Dixie minstrels, which are now rehearsing at the New York Theater, will feature his big song hit, "Coy Rag," and "New York, New Haven and Hartford." Sims and Thompson, have just closed a two weeks engagement at the Crown Garden Theater, Indianapolis, and will open at the Pelkin Theater, in Cincinnati, September Ky, September 11. Hiram Torrell, the famous Chinese, Jew and Dago impersonator, singer and musician, is meeting with great success through the far west and will return to the east in September to visit his sister and friends of Old Baltimore, MD. Jeel E. Browne, the king coin and ball manipulator, is with the great Roseborough, the magician, who has just closed Browne's Brecken Stock company at the Globe theater, Jacksonville, Fla., is now resting up for a few weeks. Wm. Benbow's Big Four act from the sunny south, is still going big and has proven to be one of the best acts seen in Philadelphia from the south. This act will be at the Orpheum another week then it will go over the National vaucelle circuit, Felix Stein, manager. Taylor and Taylor are at the McKinnie Theatre, Augusta, Me, and doing well, Taylor has charge of the stage, and the company has been than pleasing the audience. The company consists of Billy Reeves, Charles Beasley (Kid Boots), Gussie Bright, Ella Webb, Taylor and Taylor. All are working hard. The team of Wiggins and Wiggins closed three successful weeks on the floor laying the best of the best Philadelphia theater and the Auditorium, Had quite a success. Opened at Daly theater, in Baltimore, on the 28th. This is one of the most popular houses of its kind in the city. Thornton and Long are in their second week at the Dixie theater, at Charleston meeting with envoyary success. The theater on and off the stage. Others appearing are Muriel Ringgold, the female Ernest and her work calls for curtail after curtain fell. Emma Skinner leaves her audience laughing. The Oneal Sisters are becoming favorites. The Orchestra theater, Philadelphia, has just broken ground in the rear to put the stage back one hundred feet enclosing the house, owing to the imminent patronage. Mr. Geo Bundy has made the way to Hebrews, many friends. Great work has been done in the last years at this house, the amatex stock permanently suspended and the highest of vaudeville and stock people prevail. The Hamiltonts are back home again. They have an original vaudeville act, The Tamer and the Fly" in which they played the lead roles of the Goodwin and Webster's time. They have contracted with the great Billie Bills jubilee Singers, now booked up to December. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have made a standing record for themselves in the address. The spring. Address now is 428 Hamilton avenue, North Minneapolis, Minn. DIXIE THEATER—TAMPA, FLA. This theater is meeting with success. Buddie Glenn, the veteran comedian, fourth week and still a drawing card with his funny jugging with his funny doings and he. He is a host within himself, Madam Jill her recitations, is good quite to the show, and many of the theater. Miss Ivy Hubbard a dainty little soubret, is quite male impersonations audiences, in herpton opened Monday, the 21st, and took audience by storm, and had to respond to several encores. The show was a success. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. 2. The McDaniel Comedy company No. 2, the personal direction of Mr. Chintz McIntyre now playing Oklahoma City at Beauregard, featuring Ella B. Moore, Dock Strain. The show last week was an amateur show, three acts comedy-drama from the peek of the eye, and Missella B. Moore, Mrs. Ebble and Missella B. Moore, Mrs. Ebble. Louisiana nightingale, is making good. OCMULGEE PARK, MACON, GA. The Oemultgee park, Macon, Ga., is still in bloom and doing the usual good business. Mr. Chas. Collier is well blessed with his bunch. The bunch consists of Pete and Blanch; Mr. Simons, opening 21, singing one of his own compositions, entitled "Who is Dat in Dere?" Miss Tressle Legge, very pleasing little girl, and dances like Carrie Holt, singing "I Love You." Mr Kid Boots, a buck dancing genius. The one Billie Reeves has closed, to take a trip to Charleston, S. C., for medical treatment. She also joins the bunch August 21. Next week's attraction is entitled "My Friends' Wife," in two big acts and five scenes, staged by Mr. A. Gates, stage manager. The orchestra consists of Butler and McGarr, ianist and trap drummer. CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW All Star Acts at the New Grand Thee- Chris. Smith and Billy B. Johnson were the chief comedy entertainers at the New Grand Theater, and they scored big one the opening night. As Smith played the lead role, and did the choreography a very novel way. The new Chris Smith son, "Fishing," sung by Johnson, made a hit. Rosa Lee Tyler and Lucretia Lawson made their first appearance together at the opening duet was Cole and Johnson's "Medium." Lawson sang a semi-classical number which fully captivated the prison scene from II Trovatore was hampered by the criticism, which spilled off criticism, the music too low. Daisy Payton, who is a young but promising conductor, failed to control the orchestra, which dragged and syncopated where he was sitting. Miss Lawson sat up to a concerted one, and suit was a trying one for Madam Tyler, but the two singers got a rousing reception. Ora Criswell appeared for the first time, and at once took her place as an artistic and at once took her place as a singer. She has found out that the critics' advice to wear a handsome wardrobe has been effective. There were three white dogs, brittle brittle dogs, and the fhest little actors I ever and the prettiest little set of intelligent beasts imaginable. The Four Haydens as expert walkers did some marvellous dance, and the furious farce entitled "Slick Dick," with one soubret and two men in the cast, lent its share of jollity to the occasion. Slick Dick was a blad-headed cuirpit whose hair was a bit messy, and who very much annoyed a handsome looking young fellow whose name was George. Three Good Assorted Acts at the Monogram. Butler May (string beans) and his wife have returned to us again to prove that the rumor of May's death was untrue and he was very much alive on Monday evening when his handsome bunch of racial oddities captivated as of yore. The Griffin Sisters reappeared, still poular and with new songs and an entertaining dialogue. Emma Griffin introduced "Fishing," which made a distinct hit on its merits. Billy Sweet and wife returned in a new act. His wife, a dainty little soubrette, proved to be more clever than when on her former appearance. Mr. Sweet is not only a naturally clever conedian, but most of his work is legitimate and he has a acting qualities of mimicry which he has not given to some of his sire star to the late Ernest Hogan. His song, "A Fat Gal Am the Best Gal, After All," was a literal scream, and if Mr. Sweet continues to obe progressive and unaffected he will soon become a headliner and a favorite. Billy Cross, a black-face comedian, was on the bill, but Fanny Wise would have been a profitable holdover. Everything else was satisfactory. The Phoenix Theater Has Novel Pictures People who want to see a nice, early set of good pictures go to the Phoenix, in a place to bring children. "It Happened in the West," was a nice picture story, and "The Atonement" was another novelty. Erskine Jackson has filled the bill nicely as a young orchestra leader. New illustrated songs, too, are evidence nightly. The Hillmans, who were at the Grand opening, accompany their parents on the road as mascots. The way Hillman put his clean, legitimate comedy over at the Grand, last week, should assure him of big time book- and lots of pork chops to feed the kids. . . . The fall of September is here, the season has opened, and now let us consider that we have turned over a new leaf. It would be well for actors to revert back and read the first twenty-four lines in Dr. Major's speech, last week, in the Freeman supplement. Lash Gideon, the well-known manager, left last Sunday for Boston, Mass, on a special business trip. He will remain in the East. The Reese Brothers "Africana" company has just signed for twenty weeks over the Sun time, which will consume the greater part of the bookings, which will be all in vaudeville this season. Mr. Gerald Brothers, the well-known baritone singer, pianist and teacher, prevailed in special for the Allen Chapel, Kansas City, Mo, August 23. Two of his special singing numbers were "Carry Me Back to the Pinewood by Harvey B. Teich, Jr." and "Be by Sheridan Taipa, a song and chorus. Mr. Tyler was assisted by his pupils. He will take up his new position as supervisor of music in the schools of St. Louis, Mo., early in September, leaves Kansas City with great reluctance. When Manager Crowd was in Chicago I took him on a visit to the stockyards, by his own request. He expressed great satisfaction in a visit through the Armour building, the killing of bullocks, the preparing of meats and the canning of smoked bee fand tongue. From a heathen bee farm in Iowa, it was a severe change of temperature which did not appeal to Mr. Crowd so well as his visit through the slaughter house. Mott's Pekin Theater opened again last Saturday and Sunday evenings to well-filled houses. The bill was headed by Alonzo Moore, a magician, whose work gave great satisfaction, especially the prose that filled the room. The empty bag and the appearance of a boy from an empty cabinet box. Other acts were Miller and Green, singing and talking comedians. Their act at one time had been a comedy show, but now it was, withal, very satisfactory. The Wilson Trio, very sweet singers, gave evidence of what they will be able to do in jungle specialities a little later on. Ed Williams played the banjo and an accordion, and the large opening chorus of female minstrels was quite attractable. Gertie Brown was the middle lady, and Dollie Stewart and Mrs. Lewis had the opposite role. The program managed the show for the actors. There is to be another show to-night, Sunday night and Labor Day. The program should not be announced from the stage. George Williams, formerly of the team of Smart and Williams, was recently ap- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WANTED! For Horne's Georgia Minstrels with Young Buffalo's Wild West; long season South. Solo Bl Cornet, Clairnet and Singing and Dancing Saubrette. State lowest salary in first letter; trans- portation advanced to responsible parties. W. L. Horne. care of Young Buffalo's Wild West The Evanston Theatre 13th AND WALNUT STS. Chas.O.Harding, Agt., Wm.D.Evans, Mgr SONG HITS OF THE DAY 15C PER COPY POST PAID Monkey Rag Fishing If I Forget Billy Down in My Heart Alamo Rag Ther'll Come a Time Alexanders Band Oceana Roll Carolina Rag Cozy Rag Just For You Babe Barn Yard Rag All Right in My Younger Days When I Woke Up in the Morning she was Gone When the Trees Shed their Leaves in the Fall Gee! but It's Great to Meet a Friend From Your Home Town It's Awful Hard to Say Good- Bye. When I Say Good Bye I Mean Good Bye. Wm. FOSTER Music Co., 3035 St. te St. Chicago prehended by the authorities for examination as to his sanity. The hearing took place last Thursday morning, and after he would be harmless, and as he is not dangerous he was discharged and taken to the home of his sister. Mr. Williams is a comedian who lived in luxury during his career, and was always booked up in the best vaudeville houses at the highest possible salary. When Williams first began to realize what a great financial change the death of his father had brought to his hard drinker. On his arrival in Chicago over a year ago his memory would seem to fall in his talking specialties, his dancer grew weaker, and it was intimated that he would die from alcoholic drugs. But the worst of all was that several months ago he fell in love with Goldie Crosby, the pretty actress and talented wife of Sidney L. Perrin. There was no problem with his life, but alas even so much as cultivated his affections and there was nothing between them. In fact, the Perrins, like other professional people, used to help him along. But, alas, he was not a good person, and there was much comment regarding his condition mentally, until the climax came. I saw Mr. Williams just before he was taken, and all the talk of his roving mind was about his life. He was not of unfortunate circumstances of dissipated life, and where love had blossomed unconsciously into the face of mortgaged beauty, where mimetic sight and genuine symmetry, and silent grief affects the inevitable. Three Solemn Views of Love. PASSING SHOW AT WASHINGTON. D.C. (By W. P. Bayless.) The week og August 28th, the "Missouri Girl," a white production, opened with a good attendance. The Dandy mustrels, colored, will open on Monday at the Larkins will appear in his latest production entitled "Royal Sam." September 11th. There will be no other colored shows in he Howard until next March, when Mr. S. H. Dudley will appear. The show will for this season will be white. It is a lamentable fact that there are not more good colored shows on the road to appear in this beautiful and commodious playhouse. The Dixie minrels, owned by Mr. Arbuckle, proprietor of the Black Patti company, and under the management of Mr. H. D. Collins, who is very hopeful and feels that he mustrels show in season that he has even more to offer with Mr. Edward W. Cook acting as advance agent, is rehearsing at the Howard and will open September 1st in Annapolis, Md., and return to play one at the Howard the week of September 4th. The show is staged under the personal attire of the performers as Messrs. James Crosby, and the company includes such excellent performers as Messrs. James Crosby, and the company known here as a performer, John Pamulli, George Taylor, Allie Johnson, Ed Alexander, John G. Payne, Walter Long, Owens, Billy Ritchie, Sugar Browne, McQuitty, George Floyd, Alonzo Montgomery, George McWharton, Edgar Campbell, Eugene Hellman, Alex Johnson, the writer has been very reliably informed that Mr. Voelckie is in no wise connected with a minstrel company, Mr. J. D. Howard intimates that such is the case, Mr. Howard, is such true? Mae Whitman and toy comedians are still at the Minnehaha. They are a scream. Last week Little Aaron Palmer featured "Susanna Sue, by Mr. Louis Johnson," the power of the Minnehaha. The song was rendered in fine style and went good. Johnson and Johnson were on the bill and made things lively. They got their shirt on. Miss Whitman seems to be quite a favorite here. She has been in the city for many years, and is any empty seats. In the toy comedians she has a great future. These lads are keen and clever. Not that the bill will consist of Maggie Taylor and Pick, Mae Whitman and toy comedians. Johnson and Johnson are playing at the Blue Mouse this week. They are going fine. --- Leroy Graham, the Jew impersonator, was at the Dabney theater last week. He labored hard for applause, which was frugely given. Col. R. W. Thompson, president and manager of the National News Bureau, was chief reporter for the Medical Convention held at Hampton, Va., last week. He keeps the public well posted on the proceedings of the convention. Misses Little Gee and Effie King known as Ford Dabney's Ginger Girls, chose their second week of a return engagement at the Dabney theater last Saturday. Mr. James Lee, of the Howard theater, who signed to travel this season with the National Set Company, has returned to the city, after bein gout with the show for three weeks. Mr. Lee states that he is in poor health. Mr. J. Leubrie Hill will not take a show on the road this season. Pankey and Cook, the high class singer after a city three very successful weeks in vaudelle in this city, left M ondy with a personal letter from the White House. Mr. F. G. Doggett made a flying trip to New York on business the early part of the year. Vaudeville has been dispersed with at the Fairyland for a few weeks. With motion pictures are excellent and at large crowds. Manager F. P. Kaur is planning to present something to his patrons in the future. Tribble and sattou are still at the Foraker. They give the public a new line of dope each week. The Owl Club gave its second reception of the season 915 Reeve street, n. w., August 26th. A well-written menu was served. Among those presidents Messrs Nelson Rhon, president; C. K. Moore, vice-president; John Smith, secretary; Lew Henry, treasurer; Sam Harrison, Sergeant-at-arms; James Curtis, Charles Brooks, Ben Brooks, Andrew Williams, Laster Johnson, William Thomas, J. Reeves, Jeff De Mount, Andrew Tribble, Joseph Smith and John Miller. Mrs. Anna Mae Reeves gave a very toothsome luncheon in honor of Mrs. M. Mrs. Miss N. Taylor, Mr. Calvin Branch, Ben Brooks, Memphis, Tenn. A number of Mrs. Reeves' Washington friends were present. Mack Allen, America's most famous slack wrist walker, is delighting the peo- ders in this new original death- daring feats. En route with the J. C. O'Brien Minstrels. CROWN GARGEN THEATER, INDIANAPOLIS Earl Walker, Manager; R. S. Geyer, Proprietor. The Crown continues presenting high-class bills. This week the attractions are well-known people, most of whom are bowlers at the Crown. The Crown also who close the show, are particularly good. The leading man is strong; in fact, one of the very best in the business. Tim Owley is a young man who has climbed to the top of a class with Dudley—easy, natural, every-day funny. The team is among the leaders. Elvira Johnson and Rebecca Roper are decided for the Crown. Their work is pretty and entertaining. Both dance well, sing well. Elvira as a dansuse is about as good as they get to be. Miss Roper makes a very attractive team. Dick Stewart is making it all right as a monologist. He advertises as the Black Chatterbox. He gets off some good ones in good style. He keeps the audience Stewart is very nimble with his feet. The Clarkes furnish much fun with their witty sayings. Miss Clark has a very good coon shouting voice, and she is very good impersonator. Clark does some good impersonation—John Halligan—that take well with the audience. Brown and Delk are neat entertainers. They do a turn as kids, which gets them laughing. They do laugh in great style, doing many graceful steps and other stage play that keeps the audience in good humor. Mr. Antetole Victor, of the Wallace-Hagenbeck Circus, was in Indianapolis Wednesday. ROUTE. PROF. P. G. LOWERY COMPANY, with Wallace-Hagenbeck Circus—Vandalia, Ill., September 2; Beleville, 4; Marion, 5; Cape Girardeau, Mo., 6; Silkston, 7; Caruthersville, 8; Blythville, Ark., September 9. PROF. C. M. DAVIS' MAZEPPA BAND—Columbus, Ohio, September 2 to 10. WM. MCABES' GEORGIA TROUBA-DOURS—Buxton, Iowa, September 4. RENIX BROS. MINSTRELS — West Union, Iowa, September 5 to 8. TEN DARK KNIGHTS—Atlantic City, N. J., Young's Ocean Pier. PROF. BISMARK FERRIS' BAND with Buffalo Bill's Wild West—Kansas City, Mo., September 4; Harrisonville, 5; Nevada, 6; Joplin, 7; Pittsburgh, Kans., 8; Fort Scott, 9. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY -Maysville, Ky., September 4; Paris, 5; Winchester, 6; Frankfort, 7; Gainesville, 8; Gainesville, "JOLLY" JOHN CARKINS -Wilkes- raon, Pa., September 4, 5, 6; Scranton, 7, 8, 9. Albright, Captola Boyd, Al. Johnson, Ray Johnson, Jack (Cherus director) Lockhart, Carter Mason, Slim McMahon, Travalee Milli Hill Perdie, David Prosser, J. C. Russell, C. E. Warner Skilling, Earl Sudley, E. B. Sharpe, B. A. The Butlers The Jerry "Jerry" Turner James. Thomas and Ward Vinney, John Vernie, E. E. Wilgal Harry Lee. Warnego Wilson, George F. Walsh, onzo Walsh, H. T. Whitney, S. H. Webb, Jeff White, Bob Young, J. W. Young, Thomas Broder, Homer Bueargar, Hapy Barttell, D. W. W. Buerger, Clark, Gene. Baker, George Butler, Edw. Davis, Jolly C. Davis, E. B. Davis. Hill, J. Lubri Hill, Aarchie M. Indian Spliftre Kelley, Howard. Kitchen, Logan. Jones, Arche Lewis, Mrs. Ge, Nugent, Carrie Reeves, Jesse, Trander, Jesse Lizzie, Lizzie Ransom, Mrs. Jas, Whitman, Mae. Brown, Jessie. Butler, Trixie. Gant, Berta. Houts, Berla. Howard, Mrs. M. C. Priess, Ethel Priess, Mery Ethel After Aug. 27th, lead violinist, double trom address F. Miller 600 S. Joliet street Joliet, IL 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. In all branches, novelty acts, at once. Performers address Prof. Eph Williams. Musicians address Prof. R. J. Anderson, care No. 2; Prof. R. D. Collins, care No. 1, or Prof. R W. Penn, care No. 3 Famous Troubadours, as per route: London, W. Va., Aug. 23; Boomer, 24-25; Gauley Bridge, 26; Glen Jean, 28-29; MuDonald, 30 Sept. 1; Minden, 2; Thurmond, 3; Montgomery, 5-6. Wanted at Once! Trap Drummer! Preference given those doubling brass or stage. Can place A No. 1 Clarinet. State salary and what you can do in first letter. 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We dread no as we have in our little shop son to please them all. the Best aim to please the and our best success gh giving the people e dread no audience tle shop something Costumes the Best It has been our aim to please the public in all we do and our best success has come to us through giving the people what they want. We dread no audience as we have in our little shop something to please them all. Permanant Address THE FREEMAN --- THE MUSICAL 5 6 SUPREME LODGE K. OF P. SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL SESSION IN INDIANAPOLIS SUPREME CHANCELLOR GREEN, RE-ELECTED Greatest of Negro Demonstra- tions Aug. 21 to 26 After much apprehension and specula- tion about the re-election of S. W. Greene, the office of Supreme Chanc- celor of the Knights of Pythias, at Indianapolis, last week, he was elected without much opposition. Supreme Chancellor—S. W. Greene, New Orleans, La. Supreme Chancellor—L. J. Jones Supreme Vice Chancellor—J. L. Jones, Cincinnati. O. Supreme Officer of Exchequer—J. H. Young, Pine Bluff, Ark. Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals K. Robinson, St. Louis. Supreme Attorney—S. A. T. Watkins, Chicago. Supreme Outer Guard—Dennis Taylor, Florida. Supreme Inner Guard—G. A. Watty, Maryland. Supreme Master at Arms—D. F. Miller, Kentucky. Supreme Prelate—The Rev. A. H. Newton, New Jersey. Supreme Lecturer—L. M. Mitchell, Texas. Supreme Major General of Uniform Rank—R. R. Jackson, Chicago. Chishan Temple and Sanitarium Committee. M. H. Hazelwood, West Virginia; E. E. Underwood, Kentucky; John M. Harris, Mississippi; C. M. Wade, Arkansas; George N. Stoney, Georgia; Reed, Indiana, and A. W. Lloyd, Missouri. The election and reports by a number of the supreme officers consumed all the time of the convention during the day. Greene Speaks. The Supreme Chancellor, in speaking, said in part: "Industry, honesty and reliability are the things we are trying to put into the lives we are trying to people, if it can accomplish this year we will see great change in our condition. There are entirely too many young men in this country who have a desire to live with friends, to gamble, to pocket-picking and many unlawful means of getting money. It is this class that is making it against us, and it is time for us to call a halt as far as possible." **Criminals Are Barred.** "The Knights of Pythias will not admit into its ranks any known criminal, and we have always put forth an effort to prevent it from happening, and if we failed it has not been our fault. "I was sorry indeed when news reached me that a young man had been arrested for trying to take the pocket-picking right in the hall. While I say I am sorry, at the same time I am glad that he was caught. Perhaps this will help to make him a better man. It may have been a mistake, but he was caught in the right time. All of these pretty men who dress up and gad around the streets, being too pretty to work or join the moving crowd." S. H. Highland, of Vicksburg, Miss, grand master of exchequer for Missi- slai, spdl: "We are looking after the bank and we are looking after the meant fund we raise over $150,000 every year and we hope to continue. We have a membership in the State of a little $100,000; and at the head is one of the greatest leaders of the country, John W. Harris." Was Justice of Peace. Mr. Highland served as justice of the peace in Mississippi for ten years, and is said to have made a good official. At West Point, Miss., last summer, and West Point, Miss., last July, he was elected master of exchequer to succeed John W. Strauther. He is one of the aggressive young Negroes in the South who has accumulated considerable wealth. L. M. Mitchell, of Austin, Tex., who later been a mailmaster in Austin for a quarter century, is a recognized leader among his people. Administration Sustained. Hot speeches were made during the election, and the administration people easily won out. The fight followed the report of the several financial committees. The administration forces, led by Dr. George Greene, were defeated by Dr. B. Smith, of Louisiana, although fought bitterly at every step by the "insurgents," were never in danger of defeat. The Supreme Chancellor, S. W. Greene, was nominated by P. W. Kinkead, and Dr. Smith, of Indiana, and eloquent speech, and seconded by the Rev. James Jones, of Arkansas. Almost every State represented seconded the nomination. John Mitchell, Jr., objected to a motion to declare the Suction of the nomination for election, and named J. Rupert Jefferson, of Parkersburg, W. Va., who declined the nomination. A vote stood 80 to 24 in favor of Greene. Jones, of Cincinnati, Supreme Vice Chancellor, was elected by acclamation for two years. He has been serving out the unexpired term of John Strauther. The successor of St. Louis, Mo., Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals, reported that all money was accounted for and the receipts for the last two years had been $8,272.02 and expenditures had been $13,203.39. He pointed out that it was very important that the Supreme Vice receipts must be made to increase. Edward Green, of Chicago, chairman of the Pythian Temple committee, told how the funds from the rental of that building had been expended and the wisdom from the Supreme Committee in purchasing the property at Chicago and Hot Springs, Ark. Green is the only Negro member of the Illinois Legislature. John H. Young, of Pine Bluff, Ark., Supreme Master of Exchequer, gave an item of support of 10 million handhelds by him. It was received with honorable mention. Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, of Chicago, gave an account of all legal transactions instituted by him. Fraises Uniform Bank. The report of the House of Chairman of the finance committee, showed that financial affairs of the order are in a good shape. One of the features of the morning session was the compliment paid to the Supreme Chancellor's executive secretary, Jack Brown. Brown was the president of the system of bookkeeping by the Order. The report that was given much attention was that of Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson, of Chicago. He said the military department is a great asset to the order in increasing its membership and in affecting the policy of the become informed on military affairs. His report was received amid cheers. The day's session of the Supreme Court of Calanthe was called to order by Joseph L. Jones, Cincinnati, O. R., and Joseph L. Jones, Cincinnati, O. R., read. A membership of 52,000 women was reported and many addresses were made. There was much discussion of the Pythian Temple building at Chicago and the Pythian Sanitarium at Hot Springs. A vote of officers of the court will take place this afternoon after the parade. The vice chancellor elected by the Supreme Lodge will be the counselor of the Court of Calanthe. In the band contests were the Eighth Regiment, Chicago; Hamilton's Band, Lexington and Pittsburgh. Each band gave a highly creditable program. The music drill by companies of the First Regiment of Chicago, under the command of General Jackson, attracted attention. The practice was a part of one outfit by the head of the military department. CALANTHE COURT HEARS SPEECHES BY MEMBERS OF SUPREME LODGE In opening the third day's session of the Supreme Court of Calanthe, General Joseph L. Jones advocated race pride, race love and the education of the Negro in the South, and the home that such lessons were to be taught, and the women occupied an important place in the development of the race. To witness our wives and daughters and mothers going up to our lodges," said Jones, "initiated into our ancient mysteries and imbued with the spirit of our mission, is a spectacle which Pythians contemplate with mingled interest in the past and present at which civilized man worships—God and woman. The greatest minds, the purest hearts, have sung the praises of woman, but the world has never placed a proper estimate upon her worth to be a woman. She has resisted in her power, polished in her manners, affectionate in her disposition, she at once entwines herself around our souls and sheds the all-animating and transforming fragrance of her noble nature into every phase of man's life and work. "Man represents the understanding of the universe, woman the will; man the heart, woman the love; man who walked through the streets of Alexandria with hair hanging in tangled locks upon her shoulders; her bosom heaving with the emotion or the bidden sorrow of her sorrow; her torch in one hand and a vessel of water in the other, exclaiming: 'I will burn the heavens with this torch and extinish them with this water, that man may love his God.' Supreme Inspectrix Reports. Supreme Inspectrix Reports. "It is a great honor for you to preside on a woman, and the work you are doing now is helping to make the race what it should be." The session was devoted largely to hearing Reports from Supreme Court officers, the session was held by the Supreme Court, the highest office held by a woman under the constitution of the order, the presiding officer being a man, delivered an address, and the session was years the visited several grand courts of the work which brought forth an enthusiastic ovation was the establishment of a grand court in New York State. She could speak to her people on her people in all parts of the country. "When women get together," she said, "that means something for the people they represent. She fills an important role in the lives of her by assuming her nature as a tabernacle of his divinity, and a temple of the Holy Ghost." The report of the Supreme Register or Deeess, Mrs. C, A. C. Aurr, Johnny the past and to be able to say to you after having served under five dierent Supreme Worthy Counselors, none of them thus far has brought to you any word against me; and I, in turn, have none to offer," said she. "My relations with the courtwarder were extraordinary exceptions, have been that of fidelity, harmony and love. The steady growth of the order is simply wonderful. Praise for Counselor. "Our present Supreme Worthy Counselor coming into office, found an untitled amount of business to be adjusted; back claims to be paid, and much work of all kind belonging to his office to be set tid. "It is wonderful how he ever did the work so well and so quickly. He seemed to be the officer of the preme Worthy Counselor, and his honest, pleasant dealings with the people have won their admiration and respect. From each charter comes the request for one-elective. "We have a membership at present of 52,000 under the present administration eighteight courts have been organized and one grand court—South Carolina—under Colonel F. M. Cohen, who has also proved himself to be a faithful worker. Mrs. A. E. Loetterve of Cincinnati State University next report. Her work embraces visiting grand courts, as well as subordinate courts, giving them information on the condition of the order. Its work and the like." "We rejoice to know that we have noble women of our race, who followed the examples set by grand women of our race, and who said, 'Take Harriett Tubman, the founder of the Tubman Home; Phyllis Wheatley, the American poet; Edmona Teiwis, the great sculptor; Edna Lewis, who beautifully inspired by God to point out to the dependant race the silver lining, and establish confidence in God; Ida B. Wells, whose love of the land and the United States, pleading as only she can plead, that justice and fair treatment be given her long suering and unhappy people, and our own beloved country, and that tiring efforts have brought hundreds to the feet of Christ and have also established a home for friendless girls." Perhaps the most important medical mission we have made in the Medical Director, Dr. A. N. Prince, of Sherman, Texas. This touched the health condition of the race, especially those applying to two years' work. He took up the sanitary condition of homes, urging the importance of proper ventilation, and that a crusade be made at all times against two years' work. He had much to do with spreading disease. Tuberculosis Discussed. "The onward march of science and research are bringing to our knowledge many facts heretofore hidden," he said. "The one which, no doubt, affects this disease, is the heretofore known fact that of tuberculosis. For centuries it was the opinion that this much dreaded disease was hereditary only, but it has been clearly demonstrated that it is an acute disease and that it is due to the tubercla germ. Not only in this institution, but I find in many others that more die from tuberculo- is than any other one trouble. The old doctor who wrote about the worth a pound of cure, should be the motto of every court under the supreme jurisdiction. "We find that many of the states are providing tubercular sanatoriums. First, for the treatment of tuberculosis, second to provide better accommodation and treatment for those who are affected. Many of the railroads have adopted the individual drinking cup, and many cities have adopted the individual dining tins and resorts. This system has also reached many of the public schools, and the churches are falling in line by removing the public communion cups, and done to prevent the spread of disease." Dr. Prince then reported in detall the work done in each State in the Union. He said that 2,621 certificates had been issued and of the number 1,772 were passed and 229 rejected. The Supreme Court received a committee from the Supreme Lodge bearing greetings. The committee consisted of Dr. Tidrington, Indiana; J. L. Derrick, California. Mr. Mitchell delivered the address. The morning session was spent in hearing the reading of resolutions by states and there were many of them addressed. Dr. E. E. Underwood, of Frankfort, Ky., made a short address. Dr. Underwood is one of the most noted men of the State. The Rev. N. W. Wallace, of Meridian, Miss., followed him with an address. KENTUCKY WINS Principal Award Goes to Uniform Rank of Richmond. Competing companies: Class A Regulation Drill—Richmond Company A, Richmond, Ky. first; Ivan- hoe Company, Richmond, Ky. first; Enterprise Company A, Columbus, Ohio, third. Class B Exhibition Drill—Mound City Company B, St. Louis, Mo. first; Pala- sine Company B, Cincinnati, Ohio. second; Syracuse Company 12, Chicago, third. Class C, Sword Exercise Drill—Clarion Company 1, Charleston, W. Va. first; THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Elite Company 5, Pittsburgh, Pa., second. Class D, Regulation Drill (companies) never having first prize — Ivanhoe Company B, Louisville, Ky., first; First Regiment Company D, Springfield, Ohio; Marion Company 2, Indianapolis, third. Class E, Cadet Drill — Columbian Battle Company 1, St. Louis, Mo., first; Battle Ax Company 2, Lexington, Ky., second. Falestine Company 1, of Milwaukee, Iowa; Falestine Company 2, of cleanest quarters, and Ivanhoe Company pany B, Louisville, Ky., took a prize for having had the largest company in the country; nine-yine officers and men in the company. Prize in Band Contest. First prize in the band contest went to the Eighth Regiment Band, with the only Regiment Band of Pennsylvania second, the Hamilton Band, Lexington, Ky., third. The Uniform Rank broke camp at 6 o'clock Saturday morning, Major General Janet J. Garrett left field, Ill., where the Illinois Regiment has its headquarters, and Camp Strauther, as the camp was known, passes into PTO and history. The men loud in their praise of the arrangement and the general conveniences of the camp, details of which, it is said, were more carefully looked at than the general meeting. They are also pleased with the courteous treatment extended to them by the newspapers and the citizens, who have helped to make this one of the most successful held. Many of the visitors left for their homes Saturday, and others departed later. Others will visit other cities while in this section, while many there for more or less extended visits. Calanthe Court Adjourns. When Supreme Counselor Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, called to order the Supreme Court of California Saturday morning, he urged the department to "This is our closing day," said General Jones, "and we have much to claim our attention. We must indeed delighted with the success of this judgment, consider it the greatest held in our history. The entire race will be benefitted by this session, and we are now in the process of making the impression will be lasting and will result in our boys and girls looking up. "I have great faith in the final outcome of the misrepresentation and downright persecution put upon my people in many parts of this country is simply the dark hours before the break of day. These people are the most hardened andress of all people whom God has tested to prove their fitness for continued existence. As pressure makes power, as pressure makes power, as pressure makes power, forward manhood. No Judas, no betrayal. No betrayal, no humiliating trial. No humiliating trial, no conviction. No conviction, no cross. No cross, Christian, no Christian, no Christianity to bless the world. "It would be folly to expect an individual to rise to honor, dignity and usefulness in the world without running the rapids of prejudice on the part of others. He will have always triumphed and will continue to triumph. All public sentiments, all legislative enactments and customs established through prejudice, whether of North or South, detrimental to weaker members of society, hard work, patience, peace and good will for all men on the part of the Negro will overcome all opposition. Prejudice must give way before right and intelligence, as the dark shadows are all closed away by the sun. Justice and truth are ternal and wrong must go down." General Jones closed his talk amid enthusiastic applause from the women. His conservative speeches and labor among his people have won for him the respect of the nation. He is now at the head of the largest female organization in the country. "These addresses or talks each morning have been inspiring to us," said John S. Fielding, of Cincinnati, the supreme judge of the court, a man who will look out to us, go into our needs and give us such plain practical doctrine. The Negro race is producing great men all over the country, and we are all in the mood today. I have never been to a meeting where I have got so much out of it through the presiding officer." Reports of committees were in order. Major John T. T. Warren, of Hot Springs, made a report on financial condition of the lodge and court throughout the country. He spoke of the splendid system of bookkeeping followed by the officers, and commented on the work of the officers. D. D. Warren, of Carson, J. T. Warren has been secretary of the committee for sixteen years. Mrs. A. D. Key, of Greenville, Texas, who has held the position of receiver of deposits for years, is also the Grand Master of the lodge, having under her eight thousand women. "We are like the other States, working for the betterment of the race from every viewpoint," she said, "and I have been taking notes here this week in order to help my people when I return home." All the officers were re-elected with but one exception, Mrs. Lulu Sommers, of Kansas City, being elected the Superintendent of the Library of Ohio. Other officers are: Mrs. R. L. Barnes, Savannah, Ga., inspector; Mrs. Jessie D. Robinson, St. Louis, inspector; Mrs. Cora M. Allen, Shreveport, Jacksonville, Fl., Lizzie Licke, Jacksonville, Fl., asistant director; M. J. Hazelwood, Charleston, W. Va.; orator; Mrs. C. L. Proctor, Birmingham, Al., escort; M. L. Chiles, Richmond, Va., connectress; M. L. Chiles, oakburg, Va., as assistant director; M. A. C. Curil, Chicago, register of deeds; Mrs. A. D. Key, Greenville, Texas, receiver of deposits; Mrs. Bertha Reed, Indianapolis, herald; John S. FIELDing, with assistance, Lulu Sommers, Kansas City, lecturer; A. N. Prince, M. D. Sherman, Texas, medical director. Prof. Viril L. Ruben, Bolton, Miss, Grand Lecturer of the Mississippi Pythian Court, and delivered an address "I am proud that I a ma Negro," he said, "and I am proud of our women. To me they are the greatest women on the earth, and I am proud of them to see this Supreme Court and what it represents. You are a great people." Professor Ruben spoke in terms of praise of Indianapolis and his treatment and declared that he was coming again. Resolutions were passed thanking the press for courtesies extended the court. The citizens were also thanked and the mayor of Indianapolis was praised in some expressing a desire to see him fill higher places in the gift of the nation. "I have attended many meetings," said Supreme Counsel Jones, "but I am proud of the place where the mayor took such an inn in He is a gerat man. We felt highly honored to have the mayor and the chief of police in our parade. He is a man who is not afraid of people because of their long live the mayor of Indianapolis." Supreme Court of Calanthe Elect Officers. The following officers were elected: Susan M. Moser (assistant)-Joseph L Jones, Cincinnati, Ohio. Supreme Worthy Receiver of Deposits —Mrs. A. D Key, Texas. Supreme Worthy Escort—Mrs. C. L Proctor, Alabama. Supreme Worthy Senior Directress— Mrs. Cora M. Allen, Louisiana. Supreme Worthy Directress— Mrs. Cora M. Allen, Arkansas. Supreme Worthy Lecturer—Mrs. Lula Summers, Kansas. Supreme Worthy Conducture—Miss M. L. Chiles, Richmond, Va. Supreme Worthy Assistant Conductor- Mrs. M. S. Johenburger, Ft. Smith, Ark. Supreme Worthy Herald—Mrs. Bertha Supreme Worthy Protector—John S. Supreme Worthy Protector—John S. 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 BOLLS 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" Fielding, Ohio. Fielding, Ohio Supreme Ortho Medical Director—Dr. A. N. Prince, Texas. A New Constitution. A new constitution, as formulated by the committee on law and supervision and the seventh national encampment, there was little doubt but that Baltimore would land the next Baltimore, was loaded down with letters from prominent citizens of Maryland, including Governor Crothers. Baltimore, was loaded down with letters from prominent citizens of Maryland, including Governor Crothers. Baltimore, was loaded down as the next meeting place of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias. In Memoriam. The Supreme Lodge spent an hour in paying tribute to the memories of John M. Strauther, of Mississippi, and Chas C. Cresswell, of Georgia, of Mississippi, Coakley, of York, of Mississippi, "Strauther, the Black Mississippi," and George N. Stoney and John B. Snowden, of Kentucky, paid tribute to the memory of former Grand Chancellor Cresswell. The services were very important. From the committee on the state of the order came a recommendation that the proposition to erect a memorial to the memory of G. Tarks, for an event near Chancellor Cresswell, it is likely that the memorial will take the form of a monument to be erected in some central city. Among the large number of prominent citizens of J. P. Westbrook, the leading colored citizen of Colorado, "When conditions become unbearable out this way," says Dr. Westbrook, who is a Mississippi boy, "come out to the Rocky Mountains. The colored citizens are a progressive and the relations between the races are more than cordial." THE K. OF P. PARADE A MONSTER DEMONSTRATION. Owing to the rain the parade was postponed from Thursday to Friday morning. This was most unfortunate, because many strangers were in the city, and many of them came from the smaller cities, principally those of Indiana. The thousands already in the city, however, seemed determined to resist, and finally resigned their hopes until the next day. The sun was still hidden on Friday morning, and some rain fell, but the day turned out fine for marching in the city. But not a drop of rain since very early morn. The streets soon took on activity; the people finally realized that there were some folks in town. Before this march, the city had been a camp, and it was much doubted if the number of Knights and visitors was nearly as great as thought. As the morning new was readily seen that number of visitors was not very much overestimated. The Parade. At the head of the parade rode a platoon of police, followed by the Colonial Brass Band of Pittsburgh, Pa. Next came Mayor Shank and Lucius Browne, both from New York. In the Union was represented. The largest regiments were from Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. In the second division Kentucky troops, led by Gen. William H. Browne, attracted, the men showing that they had been well drilled. Hamilton's Band, in that division, played stirring alps, such as "My Old Kentucky Home," "Dear Old Kentucky Lady." In the Kentucky divisions appeared the most dashing lines of the entire procession, composed of the Dramatic Browne, that line was commanded by J. L. V. Washington, and each man was dressed in a Turkish suit, wore a red fez and carried a blue, red and yellow umbrella. Battle Axiom Company, No. 4 of St. Louis Mo., was dressed in white panel suits, as was a company from Ohio. They made a neat appearance and were applauded. The Indiana division, under command of Gen. W. H. Gardner, made the rear and made a brilliant appearance. Officers in Line. Dr. Joseph Ward, of Indianapolis, was elected supreme medical register by a large vote, at Thursday's session. 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Write or wire IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. MCGATH. Sam Lanford reached Boston the other day after he beat up Jack O'Brien, he said his next meal is Jack Johns, the Assistant to the American Sammy he is a federal citizen of these United States and feels confident that he can all over Mr. Johnson, who has been credited with making unpatriotic remarks. The boxing show at the A. B. C. Park, Indianapolis, last week, did not pan out. The pain even for a man of Cincinnati thunderbolt Smith was not relieved. There were only one hundred spectators, and Ash aided to go on. The Columbia Club Pet went eight to eight, the Jones of New Orleans, and two other six-round bouts were pulled off. At London Jack Johnson gave a spring exhibition at Earl's Court, last week, and watched the black champ flash his golden smiles as he through the paces. Johnson has started on a motor trip toward Paris, giving him smiles to expect Bombadier Wells to give a good show when he meets me the ring," said Johnson. "But I don't be anything is anything to pick a little money on the side if Wells's back-to lay down some bets." At London, because of the great showing Bombardier Wells has been making in his early training, and the evident amount of superfluous flesh the champion is carrying, he is killing Wells in fight and defeating Johnson in fight there on September 30 has dropped from 20 to 1 to 5 to 1. The supreme confidence of the former lance corporal is infective and enthusiastic. He will open a camp and will work hard up to the evening of the fight. One of his training stunts will be sculling on the Thames, which will aid his wind. Johnson starts training well and will be in connection with his theatrical enagagement, as he is hiked for two a day for three weeks. He will try to make this camp a social center, and as he thinks he does not need much condition, most of his training will be road work in the Bols de France. JACK HAS MUSIC HALL ENGAGE MENTS GALORE. TORONTO, Ont.—Finding that thee was no immediate prospect of a championship fight in England or Ireland for Jack Johnson, we Little as manager of the heavyweight champion, returned to his home in this city somewhat unexpected. Flammanagan says that Johnson was that and that he has fairly knocked the Britons off their feet. He also took occasion to deny the reported interview with Johnson, in which the big fellow is accused against American for England. WINS THEM ALL. Takes Series of Three from the A. B. C's. INDIANAPOLIS—On Saturday, August 26, the West Baden Spruedels defeated the crack A. B. C. Baseball Club, 4 to 3, in a twelve-inning pitchers' battle. Dismusks and Higbee both pitched in the second. Slawyer for the A. B. C.'s, pulled o a sensational circus catch in left field when C. Taylor drove one clear to the fence. The score: Spruedels 2, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1—4 A. B. C.'s 2, 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3—Batteries—Dismusks and Watts; Higbee and Silly. On Sunday, August 27, the A. B. C.'s and the Spruedels crossed bats again in double-hender, at the Northwestern streak. The A. B. C.'s played ball, but the visitors played more ball. Manager Taylor talked to his boys all along, and they went some under his fathery Score of first game: ```text first kline first kline A. B. C. B. $rudels = 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1-2 $rudels = 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1-2 ``` A. R. C.'s..... 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 3 — 7 $studles..... 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 0 0 1 12 Tatson, Williams, Williams and Thompson; $studles, Dismukes and Watts. Notes. Home runs—Williams, Lyons and Pratt. The games were well patronized. Manager Todd, of the A. B. C.'s, was up. He was missed at third. The managers' mergers of Cincinnati, Ohio, in Sunday. 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Through the other rounds Langford hammered Ross unmercifully, and in the fourth was robbed of a knockout by the ball after Ross had taken the count. It was in this fourth round that Ross took the hardest beating. With an assortment of hooks, jabs, swings and uppercuts, delivered in whirlwind style, stollered in heart but his opponent until the latter rdropped to the floor. Every one believed this was the end, but the bell rang in time to save the Pittsburgh man. The surprise of everybody Ross came back to the floor. Langford with a right to the stomach and the latter slowed up. Ross followed his advantage with right and left swings and claimed the honors at the tap. In the sixth round, as they came out of a clinch, the Boston fighter stepped back suddenly and swung a right uppercut to the chin and, as Ross staggered, shot a terrific left to the jaw and Ross wished out a corner. He had to be carried to his corner. The Marquais of Queensbury was a snake's response to demands made a brief speech. IT IS HARDER TO COME BACK Jack O'Brien Finds It Out Before Dusky Langford. NEW YORK CITY.—They can't come back. This inexorable law of the prize rings claimed another foolish victim last night, when Philadelphia Jack O'Brien to the win was to be found. Over four rounds and one minute of fighting real hard fighting the one-time pride of Philadelphia lay helpless down on the way. It was not, however, always that the way there, insensible to all. Referee Charles White, who has seen them all come and go, raised his hand, and it was over. Then he was away. Like a gorilla gloating over a crushing car, he was a red-throated black of color, but with the strength of an ox, this gladiator grinned. It was only one more poor unfortunate added to the world's more severe equipment. The play member of the veteran division it was a fitting occasion. They were all there to wish Jack O'Brien bon voyage. While the desperate, pallid-looking fight-carries the last moment from his black conqueror, the thousands who were jammed into the clubhouse gasped. Under the glare of the lights and the garganta of the depended on a poor, wounded mouse trying to escape the maw of a cat, with all avenues of escape cut off. From corner to corner the white man sped. But that grinning color was the last moment. And when nature was entirely exhausted the black's left shot through the air and landed fairly on Jack O'Brien's jaw, and he was to be so weak for the course. It would have been impossible for O'Brien to continue without getting severely hurt. Charley White saw that all was over, and waved Langford to his corner. The new home over over, laughing at his friends scattered throughout the audience. His delight did not take in the dismay and sorrow of his life. The light of O'Brien to his grave in the prize rings, An ill omen hung over the battle for Jack O'Brien. Before he entered the ring the relics and derelictes of the ring were Fitzsimmons made his bow, and a little slip, in which he remarked that he was not thinking of returning to the ring, but him Corbett wanted to erase Carson Clyde from his memory, him an opportunity. Peter Maher was the next 'probable' to strut across the arena. Then Tom Sharky followed, and O'Brien fanned and cautioned by Kid McCoy. So the O'Brien star was dimmed under auspicious circumstances, and he was baffled by a crowd of 5,000, who gave hearty applause to O'Brien as he staggered around the ring, with now and then a flash of his old-time form, but steadily weakening under the blow from his younger adversary. JACK JOHNSON-BOMBADIER WELLS FIGHT SURE PLACE Battle Will Be Staged the Latter Part of Next Month. LONDON—Jack Johnson is real serious about that match with Bombardier Wells. He told the English scribes the other day that he intended to train for exactness in this engagement, which is one week longer. He was in training for the match with James Jeries. Artha says that any man as fast and clever as he has a chance with any one in the world. He is a Bombardier Wells in action, and in his opinion Mr. Wells is quite a capable person. Although the English press is against the match, Johnson says that before they meet Wells will certainly have a chance to win. He intends to be caught napping in this go and will work just as hard for Wells as he would for any man they could match him with. Artha feels that there is no such thing as a catch in the boxing game, especially of the "sure thing" The syndicate which has secured the prize in headed by a Manchester man named James White, who has a great interest in bringing it off in the open air, "gambling on the weather" as it is called here, but at present he is divided between his predilection for his own town and his interest in results can be obtained in London. He has given it out that the fight will take place on the last day of September, which will fall on Saturday. As suitable open air places she difficult to obtain, he has given it out that he may be compelled to change his mind and bring it off a few days earlier. In the meantime Johnson is pursuing his merry way, burning up the roads and making a step further by burning up his best car while on the road to Birmingham, where he was to give a public training exhibition. Next week he gives two training exhibitions at Nottingham. Wells is given a training exhibition in a football field at Blackpool. They have opened a new race course there under National Hunt rules and the resort is crowded. Thousands flock to see the national setting himself fit for a world championship. Johnson gets 20 per cent. of the receipts for his exhibitions, with all ex-works sold. The $10,000 that he is to get for his end of the match includes al that is to be his from all sources of the venture. Johnson has agreed to go through the process of getting before the match, and he says that it will be the hardest part of getting the money, as he doesn't like to work and says that he will be a consumptive gent like Wells. "with a consumptive gent like Wells." Johnson will sail for Australia under cover with Wells and fight with Wells. McMtosh left for Sydney to prepare the way for the heavy brigade he has secured for his big sea-ice. Sam McVeey, Sam McVeey, Billy McClay, the black comedian who is now managing the "Paris idol." THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Bandsman Rice, the English light heavyweight champion, accompanied by his brother, Peter Rice, an English heavyweight, and several others will sail from Bristol to New York to Vey will pick up some easy money at Sheffield by meeting Alf Langford, the big black, in a bout scheduled to go 20 minutes longer than McVeigh. The American continent is booked to sail from Vancouver, B.C. early this month. Johnson will be the last of the bunch to die in the southern Cross. He will sail on the steamship Orvieto, which leaves England on September 29. Should his fight with Wells place the 30th of the match, he will travel to the rail to Marselles, France, and catch the steamer there. Of course, if the fight comes o a few days ahead of that date Johnson's go ahead the ship here. Johnson's go ahead would record so quickly after his fight with the English champion indicates that he proposes to make the contest as brief as possible. Johnson is guaranteed $30,000 for his trip to the Antipodes. FIGHT TO RETAIN K. OF P. NAME. INDIANAPOLIS—The proceedings of the session session of the Supreme K. of K. of the impiis. C. K. Robinson, Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, made a report showing the work which had passed through his department during the last two years. His receipts had been $8.272.02. the expenditures had been $13.023.39. it was important that there should be an increase in the Supreme Lodge revenue. Other Reports Given. The respect of John H. Young followed. He is Supreme Master of Examination, the most respected of that of the Keeper of Records and Seal. One of the most interesting reports was that of Major General R. R. Jackson of the Uniform Rank. General Jackson also a major in the Illinois National College Hilda in part. "We have justified the oft-repeated assertion that we are the leading fraternal organization among our people by having a large number of young age to defend our name and our title, and stand ready to battle with the enemy until the field of our efforts is strenu with the Pythian dead. We have not been perilous. From the city and county courts we have passed through the corridor of law and trial to the highest court in the land. We have not suffered thereby, and we have been treated by the military department has gone steadily on. Here and there discriminating decisions have been rendered that threatened our very existence, but, like warriors, we have been manhood and have faltered not. Truly, we are being initiated again. Order Has New Test. The entire order is undergoing a test that means much to the twelve million colored people of this country. If we win, the entire race will triumph. If we lose, the first序序序序orders among our people will suffer thereby. Many have said that the order of Knights of Pythias is the only organization that will suffer defeat, but let me tell you, my brother, and I proclaim this utterance to the world, that when this order is compelled to adopt or patent another name, it is the beginning of the end of all orders. Success against us means the annihilation of all other similar societies, and it becomes the people of our race stand together and support our cause. With our men, money, brains and talent have we withstood the attack of a relentless foe, and without the support of any other society, although there are more than one hundred orders among our people. Of all organizations and of all nations, this organization of worthy followers of Damon and Pythias is here to stay. "We have been under the watchful care of Almighty Providence for more than forty years, and with His helpings hand the stern old Romans of the ship of state, with their watchful eyes of protection, and with their unshattered thunder day he day to those who would disuse us, the stern and remorseless sentiment that, as long as one of us is left to carry our banner, its beautiful colors and escutcheon shall not trail in the dust. Longs for Utopia. "It does seem that sometimes law will flee when justice is involved. If we could only go back to the days of Utopia when there were no lawyers and but few people, we would have to present the present day. It would be glorious in this country in which we live if the people would live the lives of the people we work for. It could to make the vision of man and all people a solid and glorious reality. But let us not despair. We must do some work to make our work not be done unless we do it. "All o f us are saddled with a certain allotment of fraternal toll. Each and every person is entitled to share of effort in one way or another. It is our fixed price for the right of all to perform. So long as you are competent to perform it, you are excused from service, and none should fail to do his full financial duty. Those who leave their post of duty will answer time before the court martial of destiny." "The military department of the order is keeping pace with the times. We have thousands of active souls. We have an army today that was a corporal's guard a few years ago. The legislation has ended us, and in only one or two small places has it affected us to any extent. We have continued to increase our membership and are really the military pride of all the larger cities of the States. "Our war cry is, 'Don't live in the past when the future beckons you. For you young and Old.' "The University must more than a young man's pride. It is just as encouraging and healthy for the old man as it is for the young man. Feel young and youth is yours, but no one can feel young who persists in living in the Past. "We are leading the world with our military effort, and such organizations as the Knights Templar, Knights of Tartar, the Patriarchs are trying to follow in our footsteps and organize a national encampment such as you behold here at this time. But we are too far advanced. Our department may be equalled, but I might say this by way of comparison: The man who has accumulated a fortune and loses it and lives in the ashes of the past, the man who spends himself in the process. He must have the electricity of tomorrow. We are too far in front. To catch up with the man in manimpossibility. We have no equal. "It is true we are enthusiastic. We have splendid reasons to be. Success has been achieved twelve years, and our encampments have become the attractions of the semi-military world. Enthusiasm has made many of our leaders have accomplished the greatest achievements of our order and its spirit is very much alive, however, been carried away with it to the extent of falling into deceptive hands. Our experience at Kansas City at the last session taught us a lesson in how to receive money received at the camp ground was taken from us and used to pay off the promises made by Nelson C. Crews. "Encampment bills that should have come out of the camp receipts were denied by Mr. Crews and his committee. The department was compelled to pay the legitimate bills of the camp to the extent of $2,500, which depleted its treasury for the first time in twelve years. The department was advanced $2,400 by the Supreme Chancellor, S. W. Green, to pay off the bills of the organization to save its honor and good name. I have succeeded in covering the expense of this department for the last two years and have returned to the Supreme Chancellor $1,100 of the $2,400 advanced. This, however, crippled us and the department attached to this report, including the report and itemized accounts. The Supreme Lodge should know the facts, and I present them for your consideration," the Supreme Lodge meeting touching the race question in America. "Through their industry, honesty and thrift," said Supreme Chancellor S. W. Oleas, "our people have reached their purpose in country, and we intend to continue along this line. The Knights of Pythias condemn in the strongest possible language our people criminals, and we call upon our people criminals against these evils. We believe in law and order, and there is not a Pythian ally country who would condone crime. Glad to Note Progress. I am indeed glad to note our progress, as we strong intelligent men, the hearing of the American people, the ability to create sentiment for the race as they carry themselves through the streets of Indiana. "I believe that the time will come that the American people will wake up and put a stop to lynching. This is a curse to our civilization. Any man who would guilty or not guilty, is wrong and culprit whose life he takes. Our country will have to see it that this form of hatlessness is discontinued. I want to see that the people are safe and property will be safe everywhere." S. W. Green is one of the leading men of race in the country. It was under his leadership that the collar of Louisiana that the colored Pythians erected a temple in New Orleans costing over one hundred thousand dollars, and it is said to be the only skyline in the country. His business methods and ability have commended him to the people, and it was for this that he was placed at the center of the collar of S. W. Starkes. He is constantly giving good advice to the members of his race. Chancellor Reports. While the Supreme Chancellor was making his report, Dr. A. Wesley, of Chicago, Grand Chancellor Commander of little library and bridges contained little that was of interest to public, but much of direct interest to Pythians. Mr. Green showed that he had made a special study of the work of the order throughout the country, taking care of the states, and the states. Some valuable property had been acquired by the state organizations since the last session two years ago and many of the local lodges have purchased property in the states which the Supreme Chancellor approves. "A pauper is not wanted in any part of the world," he declared, "and if you want the respect of the people in the country where you live, then become a substantial citizen of that community." Mr. Green spoke of the legal contests in some of the States south where an army is being built, knights to prevent their colored brothers from using the name, signs, grips and insignia of the order, but in each case where the lower courts decided against the Negro they were reversed in the case, the order permitted to continue doing business. Regrets Race Friction. "We are separate and distinct in our order and we do not seek to infringe on the rights of the white knights. We both have our own houses and keep them safe. We want to get after us is a mystery to me. We do not seek admission into their lodge rooms, for we are perfectly satisfied with our own, and there is room enough in the United States for us to live—and live without friction." Reference was made to the contemplated Negro Pythian Temple to be placed in the city, perhaps had been purchased and paid for on State street, and is bringing in a handsome revenue from rents. It was said that within a short time the work of the Pythian Temple would take a higher place in the estimation of the thinking world. The Pythian Sanatorium, Hot Springs, was discussed, and its benefits to a%lated Pythians were shown. The adduced forth many favorable comments. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. SOUTHERN JUDGE SPEAKS HIS MIND Tells White Jurors Whites Have No Assurance as to Future Supremacy. UNION SPRINGS, Ala.—In charging the grand jury which is being presented with the facts concerning the lynching on a colorado man who was killed this morning, Judge Mike Sollie, of the Circuit Court of Bullock 7 county, declared that the white people cannot allow mob justice to go unnoticed, and reminded the jurors that although the whites are now in the ascendancy, they have no assurance that they will be able to resist. The jurors were told that history shows that conditions and relations among nations change constantly, and that people enjoying supremacy in one are found to believe it and become subservient in another. by emancipating himself from ignorance, helplessness and poverty, and making himself a useful, industrious and helpful citizen; and knowing that there is a certain element of many American communities embodied in the civilized powers—hierarchical as well as political—that are secretly bending every energy to the destruction of American institutions and American spirit; that are willing to feel and feeling that the statement given out as to the acts and the confession of Walker are one-sided and cannot now be confuted by the miserable victim of their savagery, and the meager fact in his favor that he is not through the press censorship, that he killed the policeman in self-defense; I, as an old newspaper man and man of the world, expert in the analysis and side of human actions, base my pro- uction upon the well-known facts given by me above. Judge Sollie touched upon the race problem in the South, and called attention to the fact that in a government such as this all that is legal for equal rights legally and civilly, that the people rule and govern; that they believe in law and liberty; that this is a form of government that depends upon the protection and preservation of the protection and preservation of all citizens, and a due and orderly administration of the law; that the whites, as the dominant element, owe it to the protection him against organized violence; that he owes it to the protection of his legal and constitutional rights, as fully as they secure and protect themselves; that the whites owe it to the Negro to protect him; that these rights are not only due to the Negro, but the white man owes them to the cause of right. Next to the awful inhumanarity of such fendish deeds, my greatest objection is to their thorough un-Americanism! Back of them is a suggestion of clericalism, more even than racialism; and, ask my countrymen to beware of the growth the secret power that lies back of it all. LOUIS J. LIVINGSTON. He said the white people cannot allow mob violence to go unnoticed and unwhipped of justice; it is the duty of every grand jury to investigate every crime, and to hold other committed privately by individuals. The mobs. If the charge is true that a mob has recently taken a citizen from the local jail and killed "in your midst," I charge you it is your solemn, sacred duty to outshoot shortly to be taken, to run the mob to which you great diligence, and if you can learn who the guilty parties are, to indict every one of them. I know nothing of the facts in this case. It is not my province. You are to investigate and learn for yourselves what the truth in each case is." EVERY LADY READ THIS. 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Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. Mr. Harvey Johnson is in the city. Miss Carrie Wallace is on the sick list. Mrs. Hattie Clark returned to her home in Detroit, Mich., Tuesday. Mr. Peter Postell, of Hopkinsville, Ky., was mingling with friends last week. Miss Brenta F. Webber left Saturday for permanent residence in Chicago. Miss Regina Pierce is committed to her home in N. West street this week. Mr. and Mrs. eo. Harris, of Chicago, were the guests of Miss Brenta Webber E. S. Scott and wife, of Little Rock, Ark., attended the K. of P. encampment last week. W. H. F. Washington and Wm. C. Rush, of Pittsburgh, Pa., were Freeman callers last week. Mr. Harriet Craig left Saturday for Chicago, where she will join a concert company and tour the east. Mrs. S. S. Haddex, in W. 10th street, left Saturday for a five weeks' visit in northern Michigan. Miss Geneva Lucas returned to her home in New York, accompanied by Mrs. Gussie Greene, who will visit in Dayton before her return. Services will be held at 4 o'clock at St. Phillips Church Sunday. Miss Anna Baxter has returned to the city. Prof. S. O. Johnson and Paul Starks, of Louisville, Messrs. James Greer and William Hall, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Benjamin Martin, a postal clerk, has returned to his home in Chicago after spending several days with relatives and friends. Mrs. Carrie Miller Brown, of Chicago, has returned to Mr. and Mrs. Ward Wilson last week. Mrs. Annie E. Webber entertained Saturday at luncheon in honor of her daughter's guests, Lieut. and Mrs. Harris and Lieut. Lucas, of Chicago. Lieut. and Mrs. Wm. Adams, of Paris, lieut. and Mrs. Miss Willard Webber the past week. Mr. Geo. W. Bausley entertained Mr. and Mr. Geo. W. Bausley last week. and Mrs. Geo. Harris, of Chicago, at dinner at the Parker House Thursday evening of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laudrum, in 843 Chestnut, announce the marriage of the daughter Myrle to George McClain, July 15, 1911. Mr. illiam Harrison, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was entertained at dinner Sunday at the home of Miss Camille Pierer. Mrs. Camille Boyer will leave today for Oklahoma City, Okla., to resume her school work. Mrs. Fannie Staleton, of 1514 Martindale avenue, entertained at dinner on Monday, in honor of Miss Jessie Woods, of Mobile, Ala. Miss Jessie Woods, who was visiting Miss Stella Crowdus in 2125 Massachusetts avenue, returned to her home on Friday. Miss Stella Crowdus, of 2125 Massachusetts avenue, entertained Miss Jessie Wods Wednesday at a four-course luncheon. Mr. George McCune, of Petersburg, Va., was the guest of his mother, Mrs. McCune, last week. Miss McCune, of Louisville, is in the city for a few weeks, visiting relatives and friends. Lawyer William Harrison, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was prominent among the K. of P.'s last week. Mr. William Beeler, of Danville, Ill., was the guest of Elwood Knox last week. Mrs. Estella Singleton, of New York; Mrs. Mary Young, Atlantic City, N. J. were the guests of Mrs. James Gibbs, 410 Muskingum street. Mr. A. P. Bedon, of New Orleans, La. aundered the K. of P. encampment last week. Robert Quinn has returned to the city after a pleasant visit with his mother in North Carolina. Mrs. S. L. Cochran, of Springfield, O. is in the city, the guest of Mrs. J. W. Cochran, of 936 Camp street, this week. Mrs. W. Cochran, of 936 Camp street, Hills West. Mrs. Taylor, of Lisbon, Ohio, and week Anderson, of Pittsburg, Pa., were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Rowan last week. Mrs. L. M. Warner, of Kansas City, Mo. was the guest of Mrs. L. W. Green, 2446 West Church Street. Mrs. and Mrs. Harra Greenly, were callers at The Freeman office last week The Greenleys are of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Marie Marshall, formerly of this city, but now residing in Kansas City. FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR Two years ago I had fever which took out all my hair, I used your Pomade and now have a nice head of hair, long and thick. I owe it to your Pomade, writes Mrs. L. Garrett, 3619 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old time tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair, that has been giving satisfaction for over fifty years. Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion is a highly antiseptic, nonfirritant skin remedy. It makes the skin whiter immediately upon application. Ask your druggist about these remedies. Be sure and get Ford's, manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Mo., was the guest of relatives last week. Miss Clyde Johnson returned to her home in Chicago after spending six weeks with her sister, Mrs. Mabel Tucker. A. A. H. Tyson, of Wewoka, Okla., was in the city last week attending the K. of P. conclave. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Rogers, of Louisville, Ky., attended the encampment last week. William Donners, A. M. principal of the Street School, of West Chester, Pa., was the guest of his friend-in-law, W. E. Henderson, the past week. Mesdames Nona ilmer, Mathe Lee, of Chicago, and Madame Tyler were entertained by Mrs. R. W. Wilson encampment week. Mrs. Irene Watkins, of Hot Springs, Ark., who was in the city during the encampment, left for her home this week. Mrs. Henrietta Whittaker and Mr. and Mrs. Harris and daughter of Columbus, Ohio, were the guests of Mrs. Johnson the past week. Mesdames Gertrude Bally, Chicago; Lonnie Bush and A. J. Burden, Lima, Ohio, were in the city last week the guests of Mrs. M. J. Smith, of Yandes street. Dr. J. W. Curtiss, of Hot Springs, Ark., was a caller at The Freeman office this week. The doctor was on his appointment of the Eighth Illinois Regiment. Mrs. Marie Richards, of West Baden, Ind., and Miss Mary Ferris, of Louisville, Ky., are visiting Moses Yancy, at 425 Muskingum street. Mrs. Ninaus of Pittsburg, Pa. Elite Company, Nus. 5, K. of P, was entertained by his brother, Mr. Earl E. Tits, uwhom he had not met in twenty-one years. Mrs. Wm Moten, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs. Hyde of Omaha, Iowa, were the guests of Mrs. W. H. Roberts in California street during the K. of P. encampment. Rev. Mr. Culpher, of Mechanicsburg, and pastor of the A. M. E. Church in Omaha, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart, 912 North California street, this week. Dr. W. D. Clinton, of Chambersburg, Pa., one of the supreme representatives, and Bishop Blackwell and Mr. D. Brush, were the guests of Mrs. Mrs. Rowan, 948 Campus street, last week Messrs Chas. W. Watts, R. H. Jewel, of Louisville, K. Wy. Luster J. Johnson, of Louisville, K. Wy. Burger J. Johnson, of Pine Bluff, Ark., were among the callers at the Freeman office last week. Mr. Henry Jackson, in W. Vermont street, while in attendance at the Grand Hotel, in Louisville, where sonville, Ind., was taken ill and brought to his home Tuesday. His many friends are anxious for a speedy recovery. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson, in Miley avenue, entertained at dinner Mrs. Nonna Tabor and Mrs. Sade Phillips, Bishop of Bloch and Mrs. M. Sade Phillips, Bishop of Philadelphia; Mr. Scott Tabor, of St. Paul; Rev. J. M. Dovir and Rev. A. J. Shockley. Mrs. Mary McCune was hostess at dinner on Wednesday evening, at in honor of the following: Mrs. Jessie Taylor, of Denver, Colo.; Mesdames L. Breeden and F. Frazier, of Chicago; Ellis Daniels, Burger and Miss Daniels; Messrs. Burger and Miss Burger and Charles Johnson, of Louisville. Mrs. C. M. Day, of 47 West Thirtieth street, Chicago, and Mrs. Rance Eddings of 2814 LaSalle street, Chicago, and Mrs. Rance Eddings of 2814 LaSalle street, Chicago, and Mrs. Louiseville, KY., who visited Mrs. Dee Granger, of 385 Smith, last week, have gone to visit friends in Louisville, with Mrs. Vernon, Inc. for ten days, after which they will return home to Chicago. Mrs. Esther Chapman and Miss Gertrude Gillippe, of Chicago, Ill., were the guests of Mrs. Vernon, Inc. and Mary Allen, 921 North California street, for the last fortnight. The relatives and friends of these young ladies have spared no pain in their lives, their pleas and profitable. They are a jolly pair an dare asked to come again soon. Mrs. Thomas Smith will give an informal reception in honor of her daughter, Mrs. L. Black, Tuesday, September 5, from 3 to 6 p. m., at her residence, 1616 Yandes street. Mrs. Smith will return her home to an encounter C., the last of a month, visiting friends in Chicago and St. Paul, Minn. Phillips Chapel Colored M. E. Church, Drake and West streets, J. L. Thompson, pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a. m., preaching service 11 a. m. and communal on special services 8. "on D.D. Mother" Rev. Frank Bookins, B.D. Epworth League 7 p. m. On account of preparation for the annual conference, which meet at this church each member is urged to attend regular. Messrs. N. S. Buhne, of Zanesville, Ohio, R. J. Latham, of Jackson, Miss.; M. M. R. R. Longu, of Louisville, K. K. Lewis, Dayton, Ohio; George T. Simpson, Wilberforce, Ohio; Robert J. Temple, St. Louis; Drs. C. A. Kelley, Clarksville, Tenn., and J. P. Crawford, Nashville, Tenn.; H. M. Porter, Dayton, Ohio; Col. C. M. Prada, Chattanooga, Tenn. and Attorney, C. C. "Ark, were Freeman callers during the K. of P. conclave last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Finley, 622 West North street, had for their guests during the encampment last week the following well-known people, Mr. and Mrs. Ella M. Davis (G. L. and D. G. of Kentucky), of Louisville; Mrs. Lina Harris, P. W. C. Louisville; Mrs. Sallie Bundy, Louisville; Mrs. Catherine Reed, New Albany, Ind.; Miss Luretta Dueub, Louisville, Mr. Finley is a popular bartender in the employ of Mr. Robert Parker. THE STAR STORE One of Indianapolis best-known department stores is the Star Store, located at West Washington street and 10th Avenue. The store is our store the customer of modest means is always sure to find a just and fair price placed on all articles. The store is out of touch with the rural consequence, he gets the difference to his credit represented in the cost of operation. Th is store has always demonstrated a very substantial manner of loyalty, worthy proposition concerning the welfare of the colored people was called to their attention, to render financial aid, and to encourage the quality of the management, but the fact that they give employment, wherever it is possible for them so to do, to colored people, carrying several on their pay, is the reason the city of the management, has a smile for everyone and is fast becoming well known by the better class of colored people. The colored lady or gentleman is always treated with the same courteous treatment as that accorded the white lady or gentleman, in fact, it is barely less important, but his attention is given to the colored trade. The colored people are beginning to take notice of the indifferent manner in which they are standing in big downtown stores and the flippant manner in which they are waited on by the shop girls employed in them. The shop girls are a big man and woman must stand up for their rights and resent any and all insults and not forget the fact that they represent the merchants to the merchants of the city, considering their numbers, than any other race in the city, and should patronize only those where their trade is respectfully received. JONES TABERNACLE North and Blackford Streets Sunday September 3, 1911. Sunday, will close one of the most sacred sites, years after the ones Tabernacle for several centuries. He raised unusually large sums of money and had access to the sacraments and having registered the temple. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. bursery, the pastor and trustees and the general public are invited to spend Sunday, September 11th them and witness the closing services. following is the program for Sunday. At 11 a. m. preaching by the pastor. Four to five, closed doors praise service (the doors closing at 4:30 p. m.) 7:45 preaching by the pastor. Two to five, closed doors to contribute at least five cents Sunday, as that will be gleaning day. Y. M. C. A. NOTES: The Y. M. C. A. did itself proud in the handling of the Y. M. C. A. tent at the encampment last week, and the knights brought fullness of the association in providing the excellent accommodations. The writing and reading tables were in conference, and at all times the tent was crowded with people, the dress parade, at which time the secretary and assistant got a little chance to sit down. T he regular services, which commenced at 10 a.m. were attended and enthusiastically re-peated in by the men. The checker-boardes were always in use; and in fact, was one of the easiest places on the camp floor. The number of visitors than was expected by anyone, as the following figures will attest: Mali sent out from the camp postoffice during the camp week, 32 special letters, 3 registered cards, and 32 papers. Stamps sold: 5.947 one-cent, 17 special and 3 registers. It was s hard to keep the ice water barrel flush, but all in the end one of the best things on the grounds. The K. of P. encampment is over. The things now before the colored citizens is the job of campaign for funds for the proposed project. It behoves every man in Indianapolis to rally to the standard and deliver the goods by taking upon themselves a certain degree of success or failure depends upon the citizens themselves. It is intended to hold the campaign in October, and if it to be conducted at that time, "We must get it." If it is not, "We must get it." Others have done the thing, and what others can do we can do and we must do. We must do. Directors will meet an next Wednesday to make preliminary arrangements for conducting the campaign. Seventy-five thousand dollars must be raised in Indianapolis in order to get money from Mr. Rosenwald, of Chicago. Y. C. W. P. A. NOTES. Mrs. Dayse Walker Booker was in the city for a few days and left to fill an engagement in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, among in callers at the home last week in Michigan, Mich.; Dr. Web Curtis, Mrs. McCorkle, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Hot Springs, Ark; Charles Trige, Spring, Ohio; Miss Mary Hicks, Louisville; Miss Jennie Haster, Louisville; Mrs Haster, of Evansville; Mrs. Jackson, of Louisville, and many others. FAMILY REUNION A family reunion was held on last Thursday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith, 1615 Yandes street, Henderson, Mrs. O. M. Henderson (officer), Dr. M. R. Bill, Dr. T. S. Officer, Dr. A. W. Aesley, Mrs. L. E. Newman, Mrs. J. B. Burden, Mrs. L. E. Newman and Mrs. A. J. Burden, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lush, Lima, Ohio; Mr. Grant Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Ben Davis, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. W. L. Smith, Mrs. L. Lewis, Mrs. G. Gertrude Guthrie and Mrs. Bertha Smith, Indianapolis. This family, though widely separated, meets every day the next meeting will be held in Chicago. SIR JOSEPH SIMMS As he appeared in line with the great paul daphnis, last week, Mr. Silmans and Mr. Sullivan were in line. THE GREAT WAR his partner, Mr. Walker Thompson and he does two weeks engagement at the Crown Garden. He is engagement camp week. T his team is app week and will be in Louisville next week and will be in Louisville next week. SHEFFIELD, ALA., NOTES Miss Effie Cobb, of Town, has returned home after a week's visit with friends.....W. W. Floyd, vice president held in Denver, Colo., during August, trined over his commission to the congress after having much success in his own State, also in Alabama. he has now accepted the position as Southern and Cotton Belt from Texarkana, W. W. Floyd recently resided in Sheffield and was very popular, both in business and social circles, and has a host of friends who will be delighted to hear of his Valentine left Sunday for Nashville, Tennessi relatives and friends.....Miss Sadie B. Web barrived Monday from Indianapolis, where she spent nine days with her friends. Miss s Webb reports a most enlightened stay.....The Freeman can be found at H. Coffey's restaurant on second street. QMAHA, NEB Brief services were held at the Mount Mortah Baptist Church Sunday. Rev. Vivian Baptist Church pastor. He is with his church every Sunday and some good work. He had a call meeting to organize the B. Y. P. U. Sunday at 11 a.m., and the services were at 11 a.m., m., and Sunday p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. The members of the church gave a reception Monday night, the members of the lamps and wife. They have been members of this church for eleven years, and Brother Williams never missed a meeting, and something of equal importance. He was very successful in collecting money for the church, and was a representative of the church. Church, the collections at which were $1,200. He is one of the oldest hotel waiters in this city and he was a long-time employee for fifteen years. He will leave the city this week to make his home in Fort Worth, Texas, at 1030 Morgan street. T his fall he will be in New York to visit citizens bid him farewell with regret, for he has been a faithful friend to the church and community...Mr. Cyrus Restaurant, at 1122 Dodge street, and his son Price Terrel left last week on a vacation, going to St. Paul and Minneapolis restaurant business for fifteen years. AT DOTHAN, ALA. The Acme club entertained in honor of Miss Lillie Adams, of Montgomery, Ala., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Conee., Mr. and Mrs. D. Chambers entertained in honor of Miss Alvee Jackson, of Greenville, Ala., at Mr. F. D. Butler went to Saco and Eufaula, Ala., and Cuthbert, O., on a pleasure trip...Mrs. Dr. Johnson, of Bainbridge Ga., is visiting Mrs. Cora Ranbo, on North street, and spent a few pleasant hours with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ferguson on South street....Mrs. Emma Kate Robertson, of Columbus, Ga., is visiting Mrs. F. L. Robertson, on Troy street...Miss Lillie Adams left for her home in Montgomery, Ala., Sunday, after sending a pleasant week in Dothan. ...Miss Anna B. Williams, of Ozark, Ala., is visiting Mrs. A. L. Cone, on East Newton street...Mr. Chas. B. Reid, of Wadesboro, N. C., is in the city. He is a brother of Mr. William Reid, of Washington, D. C...Get The Freeman at Barnett Bros.' barber shop on St. Andrews street. PARIS, KY. Miss Williams, of Cincinnati, O., a teacher in the kindergarten of Douglass school, is visiting Miss Beetle Bedford and sisters.; Charley Calman was visiting Miss Lizzie Dickerson, of Carlisle. is visiting the Institute of Paris this week ..Prof. Smith, of Versailles, Ky., is conducting the Institute at Paris this week ..Mrs. William Fishback, of Axiina, O., is visiting Mrs. William Evans, LOVER'S GUIDE. Tells "How to Woo an Herliess, "How to Court a Bashful Girl," How a Lady Can Propose Marriage," How to Catch a Rich Bachelor," Love Letters," How to Win the Favor of Ladies," Wedding Gifts for a Woman," a way most helpful to lovers. This great book will be sent postpaid for only 10c, or 2 for 25c coin. Oliver Elmore & Co., Box 333, Rome, Ga. WANTED—A position as general assistant in hair store. Can weave very neat hair. Looks like 305 North Walnut street, Braid, Indiana. FOR RACE LOVERS. DUNBAR POSTER, in red, brown and gold, sent to any address for 25 cents. Address Blaine Gray, 514 Alfred street, Detroit, Mich. Live agents' sample, 10c. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE State of Indiana, Marion county, ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana. No. 2047. No. 2047. Jacob B. Reynolds vs. Anna E. Reynolds. complaint, divorce. Be it known that on the 29th day of August, 1911, the above named plaintiff, by his attorney, filed in the office of the State of Indiana, in said court, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, and the said defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, in office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, in said divorce; and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and whereas chereto on the 25th day of October, 1911. 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