The Monitor

THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor --- $1.00 a Year. 5c a Copy. Disfranchisement and Non-Representation Civil Disabilities and Injustices Imposed Upon Colored Americans in Certain Sections. PROTECTION FOR NEGRO WOMEN John E. Milholland Boldly Speaks of Conditions as He Observes Them. Hope in Education of Races. Continuing the interesting article by Mr. Milholland which was originally published in the San Francisco Bulletin, at the point at which it was broken off in last week's issue of The Monitor, he charges his race with ingratitude for democracy which he maintains is the "priceless gift of the Ethiopian." He notes as evidence of this ingratitude disfranchisement, non-representation and the need of protection for Negro womanhood. This is what Mr. Milholland says on these points: Disfranchisement of Negro. "Today the Negro of the South is, to all intents and purposes, disfranchised. In the vast region south of the Potomac, wherein reside the overwhelming majority of the ten million colored citizens of the United States, Negro suffrage is a negligible quantity. It is practically abolished. Why? Because the Negroes are poor and ignorant? Certainly not. The census of 1900, which is the only one I have to hand, shows out of four million colored voters, fifty per cent fully literate. Of the 181,000 registered voters in the state of Alabama, more than 73,000 could read and write. More than 11,000 of these colored citizens owned or own their little farms. Nearly 3,000 more were part owners. More than 56,000 were cash tenants, and nearly 24,000 were share tenants. There were fully 1,000 colored male teachers in the public and private schools of the state. There were colored merchants, bankers, lawyers, editors, physicians and ministers to the number of not less than 5,000 in all. Yet, of all this vast army less than 3,000 of the 181,000 voters—that is less than two per cent—have been allowed to vote since the alleged adoption of the new state constitution, which from the standpoint of equity, if not of law, is not worth the paper upon which it is written. Why, Dr. Booker Washington himself has admitted that to vote at all he is at times compelled to vote the Democratic ticket. In Tallapoosa county, with a colored population of more than 2,000 only one Negro was allowed to vote in the entire county. Even Negro principals of colored schools were denied registration. The Negro Has No Representation. The Negro Has No Representation. "Just think of it—eleven millions of American citizens denied representation in the cabinet, in the courts or (Continued on third page) Omaha, Nebraska, September 25, 1915 Do You "MUF?" [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. CHARLES O. LOBECK, Congressman. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 24.—Mr. Isaac Fisher, many times prize winner in national essay contests, keeps adding to his laurels. Recently, the Birmingham News of Alabama said: "Isaac Fisher, editor of the Tuskegee Negro Farmer, who has gained nationwide fame as a writer on economic and business questions for which he has won many prizes, has written a love drama entitled, 'When True Love Wins.' So good is the story that the Southern Motion Picture Company, a local firm, has put it into a play, using a number of prominent people in the cast." This play was shown for the first time in the Champion Theater in Birmingham on September 13 and 14. The manager of the motion picture company has already asked Mr. Fisher to write other plays. In addition to this, Mr. Fisher won $10 in the recent Rice Leaders of the World contest for ideas, his name heading the list for Alabama. WANTS THE NOMINATION Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24.—John Norris, a prominent club man, has filed the necessary papers and will make the fight in the primary for the nomination as councilman from the Thirtieth ward. ISAAC FISHER WRITES SEARCHING FOR HEIRS St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 24.—J. O. Farris, 7 North Jefferson street, a Negro secret service investigator, has been retained to find the whereabouts of the legal heirs of Elizabeth Mary Simpson, formerly of New Orleans, La., who died in Paris, France, March, 1901, at the age of 73. Mrs. Simpson was familiarly known as "Aunt Liza Simpson," and was a chambermaid on a Mississippi river steamboat in the latter part of the seventies and early eighties, under the late Captain Peter Layman. She had three sisters and two brothers, and it is supposed that there must survive some nieces or nephews. She left an estate which is said to be worth $80,000. She was never married and died without making a will. A reward has been offered for information as to the location of any of her relatives. FEDERATED CHARITIES CON- TINUE GOOD WORK Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 24.—The Federated Charities of Memphis, Tenn., have just published their annual report. During the past year they have reached and helped over 5,000 persons. H. C. Shepard is president and V. W. Broughton, secretary. Volume I. Number 13 Scathingly Rebukes Southern Lawlessness The Milwaukee Free Press Publishes Strong Editorial Against Rampant Spirit of Blood Lust. ARRAIGNS SOUTH AT THE BAR Hopeful Sign When White Press of the Country Unmasks Hypocricy and States Unpleasant Facts. (Milwaukee (Wis.) Free Press.) The spirit and method of the Ku Klux Klan has once more triumphed in Georgia. Once more southern "gentility" and "chivalry" have revealed their true character in murder, secession and anarchy. For the same bestial spirit that sought to disrupt this union, the same spirit that lashed and ravished the helpless slave, the same southern spirit that even today is celebrating the blood-lust of the Ku Klux Klan as a virtue, is living in the persecution and murder of Leo Frank. Americans have gazed askance at the bloody immorality of Serbia. But Serbia is a paradise of civilization compared with the state of Georgia. Southern readers have written that we must not confuse the Georgian rabble with the "better classes." But where have the "better classes" been during all the nightmare of Frank's persecution? If the "better classes" permit the rabble to run Georgia's courts, its newspapers, and now its penal institutions, they are worse than the rabble—a cheap, spineless and degenerate social group. If there exist in Georgia any appreciable number of men and women who have passionately resented the prostitution of the most sacred machinery of government, the most precious dictates of humanity, the holiest considerations of justice, they have damned themselves far worse than the mob, because they have tolerated and through toleration condoned. And this is not the worst. The worst is that the spirit of Georgia is typical of the spirit that prevails throughout a large portion of the old South. Every southern state that tolerates lynch law, whose people revel in the writhings of tortured blacks, is capable of Georgia's monstrous outrage. Every community that burns Negroes at the stake or hangs them for unproven or petty crimes would act as Georgia did in the case of Frank. How can the nation—the civilized, responsible and self-governing part of it—longer tolerate this anarchy, this blood-lust on the part of a section that once defied humanity and government till it had to be broken with swords and bullets? The North, with the familiar sentimentality of the conqueror, has been (Continued on second page) General Race News 2 COLORED RAILROAD MEN FORM ORGANIZATION Chicago, Ill. Sept. 24.—The organized railroad men throughout the United States were called together at Masonic Hall, 3959 State street, September 15th, by Mr. R. J. Holloway, president of the local organized railroad men, acting as temporary chairman of the meeting. After prayers, by Mr. A. E. Barnhill, Kansas City, Mo., the chairman outlined the object of the meeting, namely, to organize a national body to control the various organizations throughout the country. Mr. Gillem of Indianapolis was elected temporary secretary. Officers Elected. It was moved that the organized railroad men become a national body and the motion carried. This marked the birth of the National Railroad Men's Benevolent Industrial Association. Mr. R. J. Holloway, the father of the movement, was elected president; Mr. Humphrey Bowling, Nashville, Tenn., first vice president; Mr. E. A. Barnhill, Kansas City, Mo., second vice president; Mr. Gillem, Indianapolis, Ind., secretary, and Mr. Lindsey, Chicago, treasurer; board of directors, Messrs. E. A. Barnhill, Kassas City, Mo.; C. C. Cannon, Nashville, Tenn.; Henry Hunter, Portsmouth, Va.; H. Jones, Louisville, Ky., and Rufus Wright, Chicago. There will be an annual session of the grand body of the association. DEATH OF A NOTED PHYSICIAN Newark, N. J., Sept. 15.—Dr. James A. Wormley, a well-known Negro physician, died in this city Friday, September 10th, after a brief illness, at his residence, 19 Marshall street. Dr. Wormley had practiced medicine in this city for more than twenty-six years. He was originally from Washington, a member of the Wormley family of hotel fame in that city, and his body was taken there for interment. Funeral services were held on Saturday evening by the Alpha lodge, F. & A. Masons, of which he was a past master, after which the body was taken to the train for shipment. Dr. Wormley was deeply interested in the welfare of his race, and was one of the ablest physicians in this city. His patients numbered into the thousands. DR. I. GARLAND PENN, SECRETARY OF FREEDMAN'S AID SOCIETY. AN OMAHA VISITOR I. Garland Penn, secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a welcome and distinguished visitor in Omaha this week. Sunday morning he delivered a most helpful address in Grove M. E. church at Twenty-second and Seward streets. In the evening he spoke to a large congregation at St. John's A. M. E. church. Tuesday evening he delivered a very practical and helpful lecture on Grace, Grit and Gumption," in Grove Methodist church, to an all-too-small, but representative and appreciative audience. Wednesday morning he addressed the Nebraska Conference in the First Methodist church, where his dramatic recital of hard facts of the progress of education among the colored people of the South made a pro- THE MONITOR Remember and Don't Forget Prompt Phone Service Web. 3769 Your account is solicited in our checking and savings department Interest paid on savings Automobile and Horse Drawn Hearses Open Day and Night CHAS. EDERER FLORIST Plants, Cut Flowers, Designs, Decorations CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresn and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon G. OLSE Ta son why found impression. Among many things he said that over $1,750,000 was spent by the society last year, and he told of one colored doctor in Neshville, Tenn., who donated $10,000 of his fortune of $100,000 to Meharry Medical college. "When I heard that a Negro, while he was alive, gave that much, I thought that was going some," exclaimed Penn, and the conference cheered. His dramatic story of a police judge who repented of his treatment of colored prisoners and wept while he sat in a meeting of educated colored men, then pledged his support to the work of the Gammon Theological seminary at Atlanta, visibly impressed the conference. This was Dr. Penn's first visit to Omaha since 1892 when he attended the General Conference and he was most favorably impressed with the wonderful growth of the city. He left Wednesday night for Sedalia, Mo., to welcome and take part in the installation of the new president of George R. Smith college. SCATHINGLY REBUKES SOUTHERN LAWLESSNESS (Continued from first page.) inclined to accept the southern explanation of the continued persecution of the blacks. With a romanticism unworthy of school girls, the North has swallowed the pretense of "chivalry," "honor" and superior "gentility" with which the South has veneered its barbarism. It is time that this folly came to an end. Statistics prove that not 3 per cent of Negro lynchings are for the crime of rape. STATISTICS PROVE THAT SOUTHERN WHITES ARE THE RAPE FIENDS AND NOT THE BLACKS. The truth is and it should be driven home to every fool who applauds "Dixie"—the tune that was played to disrupt the union and conserve slavery—that Negroes are lynched for the pettiest of crimes to satisfy the racial venom and bloodlust of their former masters. And then this rot about the dangers of miscegenation! Who is responsible for the mixture of Caucasian and Ethiopian blood in the country, the Negro or the southern white? Not one light-colored black in 5,000 is the result of a Negro's design on a white woman. The light-colored black, with scarcely an exception, dates his ancestry to the lust of some southern white master, who did not hesitate to make the creature he bought and sold as an animal the mother of his children. So much for the southern hypocrisy that prates of miscegenation to justify its crimes. Hundreds of thousands of splendid men and women inhabit the southland, just as they did at the time of the rebellion. Stock that could produce a Lee has in it much of human virtue. But as at the time of the rebellion, so now, these men and women are not determining; they have permitted themselves to be swept along by the current of the majority because of sectional prejudice, reactionary tradition and the recognized danger of opposing hectic public sentiment that thrives nowhere as in the South. But because the South seems helpless to redeem itself is no reason why the bulk of the nation should stand idly by and permit it continuously to disgrace this country in the eyes of the world; least of all, to propagandize its doctrine of race hatred, anarchy and blood lust throughout the land by means of lying novels and motion pictures. If the cries of the burning black victims of a hundred southern stakes have not been able to rouse the conscience of the North, can it remain deaf to the last agonized prayer of Leo Frank as his tortured body was swung by "southern gentlemen" from a southern pine? If Georgia cannot be scourged from out the sisterhood of states, if she cannot be reduced to a condition of dependence lower than that of the Philippines, she can at least be visit with a commercial, social and political ostracism which will convince its gentry that true Americans still enthrone justice and humanity as the chief bulwarks of the nation. 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Services: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1 to 2 p. m.; pastor's Bible class, 2 to 3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m. Episcopal— Church of St. Philip the Deacon Twenty-first near Paul street. The Rev. John Albert Williams, rector. Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser- Science Notes BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES. How Excitement Relieves Fatigue. Every one knows from his own experience how intense excitement or alarm may act as a powerful stimulus to a jaded body, calling forth unsuspected stores of energy. This explains not only some seemingly miraculous exploits in rescues from fire, drowning or other sudden perils, but also some of the heroic deeds so common in war. The scientific reason for these sudden outbursts of energy from an aparently exhausted body is set forth in an article contributed by Professor Jakobi to the Munchener Medizinische Wochenschrift and quoted in the April-May number of the Naturwissenschaftliche Umschau, a supplement of the Chemiker Zeitung (Berlin), June 4th. Professor Jakobi observes that a very high degree of fatigue, such as is caused by a long march, continued hard labor, making intrenchments, etc., is commonly, but incorrectly, called exhaustion. This state of incapacity for exertion, he says, is better defined as an extreme degree of fatigue, which may indeed lead to complete exhaustion. He says: "This high degree of fatigue is due to the fact that strenuous and continued solution of energy in a muscle results in an alteration taking place in the blood-vessels which supply it, and correspondingly in the current of blood supplied. By reason of this the metabolic processes in the muscle (and moreover, those of more distant organs and even of the nervous apparatus) are influenced in such wise that it becomes increasingly difficult for the body to make use of the energy-producing material on hand, even though such material be very plentiful. "Now it is a well-known fact that by imbibing preparations of the group of substances which contain caffein, THE MONITOR vices daily at 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. Fridays at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a. m., 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 12:45 p. m. Allen Chapel, A. M. E., 181 South Twenty-fifth street, South Omaha.—The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor. Residence, 181 South Twenty-fifth street. Services: Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m. Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan, pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twenty-second street. Services: Sunday School at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Epworth League, 6:30 p. m. St. John's A. M. E.—Eighteenth and Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Osborne, pastor. Residence, 613 North Eighteenth street. Telephone Douglas 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class; 1:15 p. m., Sunday School; 7 p. m., Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., prayer and class meetings. Everybody made welcome at all of these meetings. such as coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, etc., the first symptoms of fatigue can be successfully overcome. This favorable influence rests partly in the fact that these substances facilitate the power of the muscle to react to the impulse of innervation. * * * It is known, however, that caffein itself, as well as the etheric oils in tea and the empyreumatic products in the decoction of roasted coffee, stimulate the nervous center controlling the blood-vessels (Gefaszzentrum), so that in this way the relaxation of the arteries is diminished and there results a favorable distribution of blood. Herein lies the reason for the lavish use by our troops of coffee, tea, coca cola and chocolate. But such preparations are incapable of relieving severe fatigue—the so-called 'exhaustion,' for a very long time." But Nature herself, Professor Jakobi points out, has made a very wonderful provision for influencing the blood-vessels so as to produce increased blood pressures, with corresponding influx of energy, under conditions of exceptional danger, which imperil life itself. "It is a well-known circumstance that the powerful psychic stimuli of the emotions of fear and anxiety, as well as great excitement or enthusiasm, render even a seriously fatigued person capable of uncommonly great exertion, i. e., expenditure of energy, and that, too, for a surprisingly long time. This is readily explained by the fact that a mental impression received by the cerebrum may operate as an extraordinarily effective and extensive stimulus to the whole vascular system. In this way we may account for the extraordinary outputs of energy which take place in war, far surpassing ordinary efforts, both in amount and in duration, as the effect of mental stimulus acting directly upon the blood-vessels which supply the muscles."—Scientific American. Mother (who is teaching her child the alphabet) — Now, dearie, what comes after "g"? Methodist— The Child—Whiz!—Judge. congress, or scarcely in the legislatures of the various states, and taxed, oftentimes unfairly, and always unrepresented—the very issue upon which the revolution of 1776 was based. No other people in the United States are discriminated against in this way. The Irish, the Germans, the Jews and even the Indians are represented in the government, but not a colored congressman has been in Washington since George White was driven from public life in consequence of the Wilmington massacre years ago. This is indefensible, and all this chatter about Negro domination is too silly to talk about. It is on a par with the defense of lynching, when every court from the Potomac to the Rio Grande is entirely in the hands of white men. Colored Women Need Protection. "To put it forth as a necessity for the protection of southern womanhood is hypocrisy gone daft. It is not white, but colored womanhood, that needs protection. Any man familiar with conditions knows that where one white woman is attacked by the conventional black brute there are a thousand girls seduced by white men. "It is not a question of virtue, but ambition for power, power in the state and power in the nation, that constitutes the driving force of the anti-Negro crusade, and has been ever since the war. There is not race prejudice in the South. In the South there is only caste. The Negro is not physically repulsive in Dixie—quite the contrary. If the Negro were physically repulsive, then how do you account for the two or three million mulattos, octorooons and quadrooons? It is almost impossible to find an audience of real black people anywhere in the South. "Instead of being held before the world as a race of lawless rapists, that have to be lynched to be held in subjection, the South should erect a monument in their honor. Why? By the way in which they guarded the wives and families of the masters who were fighting to hold them in bondage. By proving false to the trust, they could have weakened the southern armies, and aided in their destruction. How? By attacking the women. That would have brought back the confederate army by the hundreds and thousands. So far as we know, not a single case is on record. This idea is not an idea of a northerner, but was expressed to me only a month ago by Colonel John Temple Graves, a southerner, and one whose loyalty to the lost cause is unquestioned. "It is time for the South to wake up, for the New South to assert itself. Think of a race that can reduce its illiteracy from ninety-nine per cent to less than forty per cent in fifty years, notwithstanding all the obstacles that have been thrown in the way! Why, the public school system of the South had its origin in the black man's rule. It was the colored people who started the first public school in the South. What!—'The Clansman?" It is the most infamous perversion of history that has ever been presented to the American people, in its attempts to deify the Klu Klux Klan with the lynchers of the reconstruction period. The only difference between the Klu Klux Klan and the lynching mobs of today is that the Klu Klux Klan worked by night, but their successors, grown brazen, work now by day. I know all about this clatter of abuse of power. Possibly the Negroes rev- (Continued from first page.) elling in their new-found freedom, went to excess just as white folks have done under similar circumstances. But if every dollar stolen or wrongfully appropriated by the Negroes while in power were turned into gold and put in the scale and weighed against that stolen by the white political rings of New York and Pennsylvania, it would kick the beam so high as to make your head swim. Beginning of the End. "How long will this go on? I don't pretend to predict. But this I will say, that that decision of the United States supreme court the other day wiping out as unconstitutional the infamous 'grandfather clause,' was the beginning of the end. Coming on the heels of the peonage decision that ended physical slavery in the woods and swamps, it marks a new era in the story of the colored race in Georgia. I rejoice particularly not only because it was the unanimous action of the supreme court, but also that the opinion should have been written by a Southerner, a Confederate officer, who is the presiding justice of the high court. It shows what I have always contended—that there are two Souths, the new and old, the progressive and the reactionary, the wise and the foolish. Nothing better typifies the reactionary South than a little incident which happened to me in a little Southern town. I arrived on Sunday. I wanted to see the famous lynching oak, which had to its record the hanging of ten Negroes in a few years, the most recent being a lad of thirteen years. As I stood trying to get my bearings for the tree, an officer approached me and told me I must keep off the street. 'You are evidently a stranger,' he said. 'You do not know our custom. Every one is in church at this hour, and those who do not go to church are expected, during services, to keep off the street.' Educate White Environment. "There is only one thing to do that will clean up this whole mass of ignorance, and that is the enactment of federal-aided education. There is no use educating the black boy unless you educate the white environment. It only makes things harder for him. The Negro's environment must be made better, more unprejudiced, more tolerant, more enlightened, if he is to have the full benefits of education and culture. Give the South good schools, in abundance, and an administration of its affairs will follow—at least, that is a reasonable probability. Long experience favors such a conclusion." ASK FOR Metz OMAHA'S FAVORITE BEER THE BEER OF QUALITY 2509 No. 24th Street Phone Webster 7802 THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Omaha and vicinity, with the desire to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community. Published Every Saturday. Entered as Second-Class Mailer office at Omaha, Neb., under the THE REV. JOHN ALBERT W. Lucille Skaggs Edward's, William Pryor, Asson Joseph LaCour, Jr., Advertising SUBSCRIPTION RATE Advertising rates, 25 c Address, The Monitor, 1119 N Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards, William Garnett Haynes and Ellsworth W. Pryor, Associate Editors. Joseph LaCour, Jr., Advertising and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.00 per year. Advertising rates, 25 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. We have received an interesting letter from our very dear friend of many years' standing, the Rev. John Williams, which we gladly publish, and in which he takes issue with John E. Milholland as to the ethnic type represented by Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses and to the claim advanced that he was the originator of democracy. We are very sure that all our readers will be interested in what Father Williams has to say. We hope that the views advanced by Mr. Milholland and Father Williams, respectively, may lead to wider reading, investigation and study along these lines by our readers. As a matter of fact, we know too little of the important part played by Africa and Africans in the history of civilization. We take it too much for granted that civilization has been advanced solely and wholly by the Caucasian race, which is by no means true. It may be sufficient to state here that Ethiopian means black faced. Black faced people are Africans. Africans are Negroes. Negroes by modern terminology are all people in whose veins flow the rich warm blood of Africa, even though it be but a very small quantity. That in the United States determines the ethnic type. There are scholars of repute like Flinders Petrie, who claim that the Egyptians are Negroes, and they certainly have the features. Our only contention now is that Ethiopians, Africans or Negroes have contributed an important part to the world's civilization, even though accepting Ridpath's inaccurate and unscientific classification of races, we exclude Egyptians, Abyssinians and Nubians, and other races, and place them as he does among the WHITE races. WHITE NUBIANS! WHITE ABYSSINIANS! We have not attempted here to defend Mr. Milholland's position, or to answer in full our correspondent. We desire simply to indicate a line of investigation for our readers to follow and to point out that Ethiopian, Negro and African are interchangeable terms. If this be conceded and history is read from this viewpoint it will be discovered that Negroes have played an important part in the past, as they are destined to play a far more important part in the future. For after all, the important thing for individual, race or nation, is not what he or it has been, but what he or it is NOW and shall BECOME. As touching the Negro race in America and throughout the world—for being a Christian race we are cosmopolitan in our vision and sympathy—we are of those who believe that "IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE." 4 DUTY, NOT RACE. Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post-act of March 3, 1879. WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Garnett Haynes and Ellsworth W. Associate Editors. Using and Circulation Manager. STATES, $1.00 per year. Cents an inch per issue. North Twenty-first street, Omaha. What we are anxious to see is every member of our race making the most of his present opportunities and acquiring and building himself up in that worthiness of character that will enable him to do his share in the world's work, in whatsoever way and at whatsoever time God may indicate what that work shall be. At present, it is to do honest and faithful work wherever he has been called to service. True greatness for individual or race is found in faithful service to God and to humanity. And, after all, is there not only one race—the human race? Are not racial groups largely artificial? Are not Jethro and Moses and Pharoah and Confucius and Lincoln and Dr. Alexander Crummell, for example, all brethren of the one blood? The important part is to do one's full duty. PHARISAISM REPELLENT. The Cleveland Gazette, thanks to the weak-kneed three—two ministers, supposedly of grace, and a musician—all of sanctimonious speech and manner, whom we have been advised constituted the local sub-committee responsible for the action, is given the opportunity to take this fling at the Christianity of our city: Omaha, Neb., churches (white) refused to admit our church choirs to their "Billy" Sunday meetings' chorus, after sending them invitations. What kind of Christians(?) must the white church members of Omaha be? It gives us pleasure to assure our contemporary that there are many consistent Christians even among "the white church members of Omaha"—not, of course, as many as there should be, but they are not found in very large numbers among those who are devotees of Sundayism. That peculiar type of religion, being peculiarly individualistic and pharisaical, is not the kind that develops that catholic-mindedness and racial comprehensiveness for which true Christianity stands, and which it seeks to promote. This type is permeated with the spirit manifested by the Pharisee in the well-known parable of the Pharisee and the publican, and which spirit our blessed Lord condemns. The publican, realizing his sinful state, penitently prayed for pardon. How reverent he was! The Pharisee, with breezy irreverence and overweening egotism, bragged of his goodness and greatness, and immediately disproved both by sneering at the publican and boasting of his superiority to him. The publican was justified; the Pharisee condemned. The pharisaic temper still survives, but it does not make for righteousness. It repels, rather than attracts. It is antagonistic to the spirit of Christianity, which teaches brotherly love, kindness, courtesy, charity and forebearance. THE MONITOR Letters From Our Readers PLEASED WITH MONITOR Omaha, September 18, 1915. The Rev. John Albert Williams, Publisher The Monitor. Omaha. My dear Father Williams: I send you herewith my check for $1 in payment of one year's subscription to The Monitor. I have been reading The Monitor with constantly growing interest. It fairly bristles with good things, and it reflects distinct credit not only upon its thoughtful, fair-minded editor, but upon the colored people, for whose rights he is so sanely and manfully battling. I congratulate you particularly upon the singular excellence of your literary style. It is rare that one meets with better writing than that to be found in the editorial columns of The Monitor. With all good wishes for the success of The Monitor, and for your own happiness, I am, Yours very cordially, LEIGH LESLIE. Publisher The Daily Omaha Price Current and The Daily Cash Grain Bidder. TAKES ISSUE. 906 No. 49th St., Sept. 18. Editor The Monitor: Of course I read The Monitor with great interest, and I therefore, for your sake and your people's sake, regret such an absurdity as that which appeared today in it about Jethro being an Ethiopian—a Negro, and originator of democratic government. Ethiopia and Ethiopians, as you must know, are terms so vague, geographically and ethnologically, that it is the fondest sort of racial self-love to make them correspond with our popular usage of calling the Negroes Ethiopians. The ancient kingdom of Ethiopia was not a Negro kingdom, and if it were, Jethro could not be identified with it. He was a Midianite, so named as descended from Madian, son of Abraham and Keturah, as the Ishmaelites were descended from Abraham and Hagar. Both the Ishmaelites and the Midianites were Semites and dwelt in Arabia, side by side, if not intermingled in a measure, as the story of Jethro and his father, Reuel or Raguel, would clearly enough show. The Ethiopians proper were Cushites doubtless, as the Egyptians were, but this is no proof at all that they were Negroes in either instance; though they may have had, and doubtless did have, Negroes mingled with them, perhaps some of which may have become men of ability. But the Ethiopians of ancient times were no more Negroes than they were Senegambians. To think so is a like historical blunder to the one which makes St. Augustine and St. Cyprian Negroes. These, of course, were Romans — Caucasians. Even Othello is very commonly dressed up as a Negro, when Shakespeare only calls him a Moor, a name indeed indicating nothing more ethnographically than that he was a North African of the middle ages, either Arabic or Cushite. Negroes were never dominant in North Africa, remotely kindred though they doubtless were to the Carthaginians, who were Palestinian Cushites by descent. But Jethro was not a Cushite, nor yet the founder of democracy. He advised Moses to select the elders who were to assist him in governing the people, not to have the people elect them. Who is your queer expositor? White man, black man, beggar man, thief? Fight shy of extravagant contributors. God may, and I hope He will, give the Negro his day. But He has not yet. I should have far less hope for his future if I thought He gave it to him in the long ago and he failed to make good. JOHN WILLIAMS. A CONVERSATION. "Didn't see the point in publishing the picture of that fierce looking dog on your front page." "Didn't you? You must be English. We wanted you to see the dog's teeth." "Why?" "To make you 'Muf'." "Muf'?" "Yes, Muf. Now, will you Muf?" "Say, that's good; I catch ti now. I'll admit it's one on me. With a dog like that looking at me I'd 'Muf.' you bet, on the street car or anywhere else." Our subscription list and advertising patronage is steadily growing, for which we again desire to thank our subscribers and patrons, who all seem to be well pleased with The Monitor. As the only publication of its class in Nebraska, it is being recognized more and more as a good advertising medium. SWEET TONED Schmoller & Mueller Pianos and Player Pianos Sold direct from factory to home, eliminating the middleman's profit, which means a saving of $75 to $150. Many different styles to select from. Sold on terms of $5.00 per month. Free Stool and Scarf. Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. 1311-13 Farnam Street Phone Douglas 4287 Fontenelle Investment Co. Real Estate and Insurance 220 South 13th St., Omaha, Neb. (Over Pope's Drug Store) Lumiere Studio Modern Photography 1515-17 Farnam St. Omaha Phone Doug. 3004 Let the Monitor Do Your Events and Persons In Which You Will Be More or Less Interested. News for This Department Must Be Received by Wednesday Night. --- Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt and Mrs. H. J. Pinkett gave a delightful Omaha sight-seeing automobile party Thursday afternoon, September 16th, in honor of their guests, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Allen Boyd and daughter Catherine, of Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. C. W. Peguese, of Raleigh, N. C. After the return from the ride, luncheon was served and a pleasant social evening was spent, at which an impromptu musical and literary program was given by several of the guests. Dr. Boyd, who is in charge of the National Baptist Publication House of Nashville, gave a most interesting address on Nashville, "the Athens of the South," and Mrs. Peguese, whose husband, Dr. Peguese, is in charge of the State School for the Negro Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Raleigh, and who herself had been for years a teacher in the school, told of the splendid work being done there and gave a verse of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" in the sign language. About thirty guests were present, and it was a most delightful affair. Dr. Boyd and party were en route to the Pacific coast. Miss Mattie Banks, of Nashville, Tenn., sister of Mrs. H. J. Pinkett and Mrs. G. D. Gordon, arrived in the city Friday and is the guest of Mrs. Pinkett. Mrs. J. H. Hill, of 2601 Grant street, gave a birthday party Wednesday, September 15th, and was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Dependable dress making. Prices reasonable. Mrs. Gladys Counsellor, 2428 Lake street. Webster 604. Mr. Dillard Simpson has returned from a three weeks' visit to Excelsior Springs, Mo., where he spent a most enjoyable time, several social events being given in his honor. Mr. McKnight, head waiter at the Elms hotel, who has a very competent corps of waiters under him, was among the number of Mr. Simpson's friends who made his visit pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Jethro Brooks of North Twenty-fifth street entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Grant Pegg at dinner Tuesday evening. Mrs. S. T. Phanix and Mrs. William Rose entertained at the residence of the former, 3702 North Twenty-third street, Thursday evening, September 9, in honor of Mrs. Lee and the Misses Beaks and Kyles of Los Angeles, Cal. Thirty-three guests were present. Isaac N. Harper died at the county hospital last Thursday and was buried Saturday. The Rev. William T. and Mrs. Osborne left Tuesday night for Kansas City, Kan., to attend the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church. It is hoped that Elder Osborne will be reappointed to the pastorate of St. John's church. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Dillard of South Twenty-fourth avenue entertained Dr. I. Garland Penn at dinner Tuesday night. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott, pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist church, this THE MONITOR city, was married to Dorothy Geraldine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clement R. Wilkes, of Boston, Mass., in Ebenezer Baptist church, that city, Wednesday evening, September 22nd. A reception followed the ceremony. The Rev. Mr. Scott and his bride will be at home after September 30th at 2627 Decatur street. The Monitor extends congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life and a permanent and fruitful pastorate in Omaha. Dr. J. N. C. Coggins of Atlanta, Ga., secretary of the Board of Temperance of the Methodist Episcopal church, arrived in Omaha Wednesday to attend the Nebraska annual conference. Mrs. C. G. Garrett has returned from a three months' trip to her home in Miami, Mo., and Kansas City, bringing with her Mrs. Jesse Bell of Kansas City, who will be her guest for two weeks. Mrs. Dan Desdunes, of 2516 Burdette street, entertained at a card party Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Belle Butler and W. H. Lacey, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Mrs. A. Kellar, of Little Rock, Ark., and Miss Mattie Banks, of Nashville, Tenn. Miss Lovie Alexander and Mrs. Beth of Little Rock, Ark., who have been the guests of Mrs. J: W. Walker, of 2808 Miami street, Miss Alexander's sister, left Saturday for St. Louis, Mo. Prior to their departure they were entertained by Mrs. R. B. Thomas, of 3312 Blondo street. Mr. Eugene Bell, of Oak Mills, Kans., came to Omaha Friday and spent a few days visiting his sister, Mrs. Jno. Norman, of 2214 North 26th street, and his sister-in-law and family, Mrs. U. G. Bell, of 926 North Twenty-seventh avenue. Miss Iris Bell, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. George P. Johnson, 3612 South Twenty-ninth street, left last Friday for her home at Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. A. L. Phillips, of Tulsa, Okla., arrived in the city last Monday to visit her mother, Mrs. Clara Belle Parks, of 2712 Parker street. The Owl Club gave their annual ball Wednesday evening at the Alamo Hall. The hall was artistically decorated with palms, ferns and blue and white Japanese umbrellas, the club colors. Desdune's full orchestra gave the music, and as usual, delighted the dancers. It was a full dress affair, with two hundred and fifty in attendance. Out-of-town guests were the Misses Edith Nillis and Corine Scott, of Lincoln; Mrs. Patterson, of Atlanta, Ia., and Mr. and Mrs. Cruse, of Topeka, Kans. Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Peebles entertained at dinner Wednesday evening Dr. I. G. Penn, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Rev. Dr. J. C. C. Coggins, of Atlanta, Ga. A party was given Wednesday evening, September 15th, by Miss Leila Dudley at her home, 2244 Madison street, South Side, in honor of Mr. Morrison Rivers, of Leavenworth, Kansas, guest of Mr. Roy Shepherd. Mrs. Geraldine Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ricketts, died under tragic circumstances in Oakland, Calif., Friday, Sept. 17th. The body was brought to Omaha Wednesday night by her uncle, Julius Jones, and was buried from St. John's A. M. E. Church Thursday afternoon. The Rev. G. G. Logan, pastor of Grove M. E. Church, officiated in the absence at conference of the Rev. W. T. Osborne. Geraldine was only twenty years old, and was born and raised in Omaha. She was married about a year ago and went to California only a few months ago. Dependable dress making. Prices reasonable. Mrs. Gladys Counsellor, 2428 Lake street. Webster 604. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McCoy left Thursday morning for Duluth, Minn., where they will make their future home. Mrs. Leon A. Smallwood and Mrs. Earl Stephenson gave a dancing party Friday night at Peterson Hall in honor of several out-of-town guests. The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor of Allen chapel, South Side, left Tuesday night to attend the annual conference at Kansas City, Kans. George W. Parker, who has been making his home for the past year in Chicago and Denver, has returned to the city. It pays to advertise in The Monitor. W. J. CATTIN COMPANY PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING 910 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE ROUGH DRY 5 Cents Per Pound The Omaha Stationery Co. "Stationery That Satisfies" Phone Doug. 805 309 So. 17th St. Omaha, Neb. Over 60 New Models in Pleated Skirts Buttons, 40 different styles Hemstitching, Picot Edging, Embroidery, Scollopping, Braiding and Beading Ideal Button and Pleating Co. 107-109-111 South 16th Street OMAHA LAUNDRY Tel. Web. 7788 5 SOME NEW TOILET GOODS PRICES 50c Pompeian Massage Cream **29c** 25c Houbigant's Rice Powder **17c** $1.00 Listerine, Lambert's.....59c 50c Malvina Cream for .....29c 25c Mennen's Taicum (4 kinds) each .....12c 25c Rogers and Gallet Perfumed Rice Powder for .....17c 25c 4711 White Rose Soap.....12c 25c Woodbury's Facial Soap..17c You "save time and money" by coming to the Rexall Stores for toilet goods. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. 4 Good Drug Stores DO NOT buy your Fall suit until you see us. Most reasonable and reliable ladies cloak and suit store in Omaha. Always high price samples on hand at reasonable prices BONOFF New York Sample Store 206 No. 16th St. Krug Lusus REG. U.S. DATE OF The beer you like A beer of quality with a coupon on each bottle Save coupons and get free premiums Phone Douglas 1899 Luxus Mercantile Co. Distributors and have a case sent home. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Tip Top Bread Best Bread Made Patronize Our Advertisers ils in Pleated Skirts ferent styles dging, Embroidery, ing and Beading Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. 6 THE REMEDY. The horror with which we view the liquor business and its evil influences sometimes causes us to overlook the substantial, the real, progress that is being made. Many are enthusiastic enough to believe that force and legislation will produce effective results, but in the many states and counties where this has failed—so far as a real control of the evil—disproves that any amount of permanent good may thus be obtained. To close to men the avenues to the things they desire results in the opening up of new channels. We shall have saloons, in one form or another, so long as they have so large a number of customers. Take away a man's evil spirit by force and he will seek out seven others. Law cannot purify the heart. In the influences of the home and the church lies the remedy. The old, slow but sure method of overcoming evil with good. Public sentiment is being shaped by the teachings of the church and the home, aided by the press and the example of good people. These influences are changing the attitude of corporations and employers generally. The time seems not far distant when a drinking man will be unable to obtain employment. The sentiment of temperance is gaining in labor unions, fraternal organizations and in social life. All evils are conquered from within. The life can be no better than the heart. As the good influences permeate us, the muscle, the brain and the heart will gradually free themselves from the deadly trammels of alcohol and other evils that are fully as horrible. L. S. E. A MOTHER'S TALK TO HER CHIL DREN ABOUT THEIR HU- MAN BODIES. By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, D. D. A great many, many years ago, people thought they could see each other, and you think we see each other now, do you, Master Know-all? You will probably be surprised when I tell you that you never saw any one in your life, and no one ever saw you. How do we know each other, then? you ask. Why, by our houses, of course. We see a light in the window, or hear a voice from the open door, and know that the person is at home, but we never see him. Another strange thing is that our houses are all built after the same plan, have each just so many rooms, arranged in just the same order, with just the same number of doors and windows. You shake your head as if you scarcely believed me, but I assure you I am telling you only the truth. You, the real, thinking, enjoying, knowing you, are shut up in your house, and will never get out of it as long as you live on the earth. You entered this house when it was very small, and found yourself a prisoner in it. I fancy you did not like it very well, for you cried out for help, and a good fairy named Aura rushed into your house and took possession of one of the empty rooms, and has made her home there ever since. With Aura came the gift of earthly life. Maybe you will better understand me if I tell you that Aura is the Latin name for air. THE MONITOR Have you ever taken much interest in learning about your body and how to keep it in good repair? If a man builds a house of brick or stone, he is interested in keeping it in order; he insures it against fire, and if the roof leaks or a window is broken, he does not think it an evidence of good sense to be indifferent, but he calls the roofer or glazier at once to repair the damages; and yes he coud pull his house down and rebuild it, he could sell it or give it away, or he could move out and leave it to take up his abode in another dwelling; but he can never have but one bodily house, and this he cannot sell nor give away. He can tear it down, but he cannot rebuild it, and when he moves out and leaves it he is done with earthly life. It is, therefore, very important that he should study this wonderful house and its needs, so that he may know how to keep it in repair for many years of happy, useful occupancy. Let us study the body as a house in which we dwell here on earth, a house built by a Divine Architect, fitted up with every comfort, divided into many rooms, each with its own appropriate furniture, and adapted to its own especial use. It is a beautiful building, more expulsitely adorned than any structure of man's creation. Through the beautiful windows of Man's marvelous house we may catch a glimpse of the light he has kindled by the glow of divine love or the fire of base passion. Through its doorway of speech issues the voice of sweet music or the discordant note of anger that betrays the feelings of the occupant. Its messengers run to and fro on errands of mercy or business; its servants obey the commands of the master and minister to his needs. Its structure embodies wonders of mechanism, skill of engineering, and prophesies the improvements of modern science. It is the oldest, the most beautiful, the most perfect dwelling ever built. It is not only a dwelling, but a wonderful workshop, where man does many wonderful things; a laboratory wherein many marvelous processes are carried on; a manufactory where worn-out materials are destroyed and new substances created. In its secret chambers of thought originate the marvels of poetry, music, art, and literature that proclaim Man worthy of the honor with which he is crowned. As it is only through his house that Man becomes acquainted with the outside world, and only by means of it is he able to carry out the projects which his mind conceives, it behooves him to learn its powers, cultivate its organs, study its laws, and reverence its Creator. A NEW BUSINESS FIRM. A new business enterprise has been launched in Omaha. It is the Progressive Publishing company, and its place of business is at 2518 Lake street. Mr. Theodore B. Russell, who says he was "born in a print shop in Texas," his father being in the printing business, has come from Kansas City, to be manager. The firm announces that they are prepared to do first-class and up-to-date job printing. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR. MATTHEWS BOOK STORE Stationers and Engravers Have moved to their new location 1620 Harney St., State Bank Bldg. Where larger facilities enable them to give you better service The State Furniture Co. Corner 14th and Dodge Sts. as the most reliable, accommodating and economical furniture store to buy from. Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents Furnishings 1514 North 24th St. Omaha, Neh. HENRI H. CLAIBORNE Notary Public Justice of the Peace Tel. Red 7401 Res. 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ОМАНА 24 South Thirteenth Telephone Douglas 2190 522-24 South Thirteenth St. Telephone Douglas 2190 White Furs Cleaned so they look clear and bright as new. It costs $1.50 for the average set and we guarantee perfect satisfaction. Send them in now before it gets cold. White Polo Coats Cleaned, Dyed or Bleached. If you have failed to get satisfactory work elsewhere, try us. Pantorium work is different. We know how, and we take time to do it right. Now is the time to have all your fall clothes put in shape to wear. Phone for us to call. The Pantorium "Good Cleaners and Dyers." 1513-15-17 Jones Street. Phone Doug. 963. Branch Office, 2016 Farnam St. South Side, 528 No. 24th St. N. B.—We pay parcel post one way on all out of town orders. Write for prices. T. J. Moriarty PLUMBER 1844 N. 20th St. Tel. Web. 3553 Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets elden & Co. ixteenth Sts. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation ```markdown ``` Specimen Polypodium Mandalianum. THE WINDOW GARDEN By EBEN E. REXFORD. It may not seem reasonable to the reader to treat of winter window gardens in midsummer, but a careful consideration of the subject from my point of view will convince the flower-loving person, I feel quite sure, that this article is "timely." Look over the window gardens of your neighbors, in winter, when they ought to be at their best to give the fullest degree of satisfaction, and I think you will find the majority of them far from satisfactory. The plants will be small, much too small to be ornamental; and if you keep an eye on them throughout the season you will find that few of them reach the flowering stage before March, which is to say that most specimens in the ordinary house collection of plants give few or no flowers at the period when a window garden should afford us the greatest amount of pleasure. What we aim at is flowers in winter not in the spring, when the blossoms of the outdoor garden are at hand. Said a woman to me, not long since: "I don't see why it is that I can't have flowers in the winter. Some of my friends have, and they don't take half as good care of their plants as I do. Why, some of them don't repot their plants at all, still I notice they have flowers from them; and I go over all my plants just before winter sets in, and repot them and cut them back or start new ones and take pains to give them the best soil and am so careful about watering, and fertilizing, and airing, but most of them will not blossom for me. They look healthy and they grow well, but one doesn't care for just leaves. Now, this woman's failure to obtain flowers from her plants was explained by three words she made use of—"just before winter." The attention she gave the plants at that period came several months too late. The fact is, as anyone will readily see when they come to think the matter over, a plant cannot be satisfactorily developed in two or three months. Not much can be expected from a plant that is not made ready for winter until that season is about upon us. In order to secure a good collection of good-sized plants for the winter, one must begin to get ready during the summer. By the term "good-sized," I do not mean large plants in the usual sense of the word, but rather plants of sufficient development to justify one in expecting flowers from them for the holidays. Age is often a more important factor in plant culture than mere size. Young plants seldom bloom while development is taking place most rapidly. They must "get their growth" so to speak, before we can expect them to bend their energies to the production of flowers. Therefore, I advise the owner of a collection of house plants from which she wishes to secure flowers all through the winter season to get the plants under way now. If some of them are large, cut them back and allow them to renew themselves wholly, as to branches, during the months between now and winter. Report now, if necessary, and shift such as seem to need larger pots. If young plants are to be used, procure them at once and keep them going ahead steadily. Do not be so anxious to secure rapid development that you fall into the error of overfeeding. Simply aim to bring about a strong, healthy growth, and as long as a plant seems to be making such growth do not make use of the fertilizers. It is one of the hardest things I know of to make an enthusiastic amateur plant grower satisfied to "let well enough alone." She is constantly wanting to urge her pets on a little faster, and in her efforts to do this she gives them more food than they can digest, and the consequence is a breakdown from overstimulation nine times out of ten. A plant that does not get as much food as it can make good use of, will give vastly greater satisfaction in the long run, than the plant that gets so much food that it doesn't know what to do with it. Some persons are under the impression that all plants for winter use must be young ones. Such is not the case, however. Year-old plants, as a general thing, are much preferable to the young ones. There are exceptions as in the case of Chinese primroses, Primula obconica and others of a habit similar, in some respects to our annuals; but for the majority of plants adapted to house culture like geraniums, heliotropes, begonias, abutilons, asparagus in variety and carnations, older plants should always be chosen. This summer I start the geraniums which I intend to depend upon for win- THE MONITOR ter flowers a year from the coming winter. These will bloom some this winter if I let them, but I shall hold them in check to a great extent for future service. The person who preaches "young plants for winter flowering" to you does not take into consideration the fact that a plant started this season from a cutting will have but few branches by winter, and a plant that has but few branches cannot give many flowers because ample flowering surface means many branches. Therefore, instead of letting the geraniums you start this summer blossom in the winter, keep pinching them back to produce a sufficient number of branches to give the desired amount of flowering surface. The more branches there are the more flowers you may expect. Cut your ferns apart now and use each division of the roots that has a piece of crown attached as the basis of a new plant. Use leaf mold or turfy loam for this class of plants, if obtainable. Hanging baskets should receive attention at once. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR. Autumn Signs Browning and falling leaves again call our attention to the promise that summer and winter shall not cease. Prudent people prepare. Are you ready with your autumn dress? If not, why not? We can help you. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. EMERSON LAUNDRY F. S. MOREY, Proprietor --- Sow Grass Seed Now! STEWART SEED STORE --- 1303-05 North 24th Street Phone Webster 820 H. GROSS LUMBER AND WRECKING 21st and Paul Streets 119 North 16th Street (Opposite Post Office) 7 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES—1* cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for less than 15c. Cash should accompany advertisement. HOUSES FOR RENT. Good five-room cottage, modern excejt bath and furnace, 2018 Clark st. $16.00 a month. Western Real Estate Co., Doug. 3607. Five-room cottage, bath, toilet and laundry, newly painted and papered; very reasonable. Call Webster 3184. A good nine-room house, suitable for roomers, modern except heat, $25 a month. 207 South 28th street. Phone Walnut 1301. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. One modern desirable, furnished room, close in. 2824 Douglas street. Harney 4822. Nicely furnished rooms, with hot and cold water, at reasonable rates. 2417 Caldwell street. Webster 5434. Furnished rooms with hot and cold water; furnace heat. 1810 No. 23rd street. Webster 340. Desirable furnished rooms; hot and cold water; reasonable rates. 2408 Lake street. Nicely furnished roms; modern; for gentlemen only; $2.00 a week in advance. Mrs. Fanny Roberts, 2103 No. 27th street. Webster 7790. Clean, modern furnished room, close to both Dodge and 24th street carlines. Mrs. Ellen Golden, 2302 North 25th street. Webster 448. Clean, modern, furnished rooms, with hot and cold water. On Dodge and Twenty-fourth car lines, walking distance business center. Mrs. A. Banks, 912 North 20th Street. Douglas 4379. Mrs. L. M. Bentley-Webster, first class modern furnished rooms, 1702 N. 26th St. Phone Webster 4769. Nicely furnished rooms, $1.50 and up per week. Mrs. Hayes, 1836 No. 23rd St. Webster 5639. FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE—Hard coal base burner, $10.00 Lee Allen, 1710 N. 26th street. Webster 1713. CORSETS made to measure, $3.50 and up. Mrs. Hayes, 1826 No. 23d St. If you have anything to dispose of, a Want Ad in The Monitor will sell it. HAIR GOODS, all kinds. Fine line straightening combs. Mrs. Hayes, 1826 No. 23rd St. FOR SALE—Large hard coal heater in excellent condition; size No. 17. Harney 4360. WANTED. WANTED—Correspondents and subscription solicitors for The Monitor in Nebraska cities and towns. WANTED—A middle-aged woman who desires a nice home. For further information call Webster 996. 15 SHOES made like new with our rapid shoe repair methods, one-fifth the cost. Sold uncalled-for shoes. We have a selection; all sizes, all prices. Men's half soles.....75c Ladies' half soles.....50c FRIEDMAN BROS. 211 South 14th St., Omaha. No. 9 South Main St., Council Bluffs. --- News of the Lodges and Fraternities Rough Ashler Lodge No. 74, A. F. & A. M., Omaha Neb. Meetings, first and third Tuesdays in each month. J. H. Wakefield, W. M.; E. C. Underwood, Secretary. Excelsior Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays in each month. Zaha Temple No. 52, A. E. A. O. U. M. S., Omaha, Neb. Meetings the fourth Wednesday in each month. N. Hunter, Ill. Potentate; Charles W. Dickerson, Ill. Recorder. Shaffer Chapter No. 42, O. E. S., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Friday in each month. Maggie Ransom, R. M. Elnora Obee, Secretary. Rescue Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Monday in each month. Lodge rooms, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. William Burrell, W. M.; H. Warner, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursday of each month. C. Lewis, C. C.; A. Marshall, K. of R. S. Omaha Lodge No. 2226, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. Meeting nights, the first and third Thursdays of each month. Lodge rooms, 2522 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Lake street. C. M. Johnson, N. G.; J. C. Belcher, Cor. Secretary. Western Star No. 1, K. of P.—Meetings second and fourth Thursdays in each month. J. N. Thomas, C. C.; E. R. Ro.binson, K. of R. and S. The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses recently held its annual meeting at Raleigh, N. C. The sessions were attended by delegates from many states and cities. Something About Government Ownership The Bell Company has created the entire art of telephony. Almost without exception, none of the important contributions to the art have been made by any governmentowned telephone administration, or by any other telephone company, either in this country or abroad. Type after type of instruments, of cable and switchboards have been invented, built and discarded for something better. In modern quality of se reasonableness no telephone sys world approa Bell organizati Bell Telephone Service Has Set the Standard for the Rest of the World. NEBRASKA TEL 8 Masonic. Ak-Sar-Bens have come and gone, King Samson has ruled wisely and justly for twenty years, but no king has had the good fortune to reign as has the present king, Samson XX. He will hold forth during the festivities, which will celebrate the greatest year in the history of Ak-Sar-Ben with Nebraska and Iowa, the territory served by Ak-Sar-Ben, groaning under the most wonderful crops in years and years. The festivities will celebrate in no uncertain way this wonderful output of a wonderful country, coming at a time when the world is looking to this section for its bread and meat. The festivities will begin September 29th and continue until and including October 10th, with every day featured by something that will long be remembered in the history of Ak-Sar-Ben. Three parades, supplemented by a grand concert by the Boston Symphony orchestra, will furnish diversion from the carnival features. On Thursday afternoon, October 5, there will be the first of the parades, a huge automobile floral affair, with gaily decorated cars from everywhere. The Electrical parade, recognized the world over for its originality, uniqueness and completeness, is set for Wednesday night, October 6. The Boston Symphony orchestra concert comes Thursday night, the festivities closing with the Coronation ball Friday night. The carnival grounds have been shifted again this year. The welcome arch will be located at Fifteenth and Howard streets, with the grounds extending from Howard to Jackson, Jones and Leavenworth streets, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. The Wortham cofbined shows have been secured for the ten days and promise the best carnival feature attractions possible. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. All Europe, with 405 million people, has less than three million telephones, or less than one-tenth the number per population used in the United States. During the last eight years Bell telephone wires have been erected at the rate of two miles a minute— NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY LOCAL LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE BELL SYSTEM AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEPHONE CO. In modern facilities, quality of service, and reasonableness of rates, no telephone system in the world approaches the Bell organization. No. 5 THE MONITOR Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People-Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. DR. A. G. EDWARDS Physician and Surgeon Residence and Office, 2411 Erskine St. WILLIAMSON & TERRELL Druggists Free Delivery Excellent Service Web. 4443 24th and Grant North Side Second-Hand Store R. B. RHODES Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves Household Goods Bought and Sold Rentals and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Omaha, Neb. AMERICAN HAND LAUNDRY LEWIS AND POLK, Props. Ladies' and children's fine dresses and clothes given special attention. Bundle washing. Work called for and delivered. Get our prices. Phone Web. 6118, 1809 N. 24th St. Patton Hotel and Cafe N. P. PATTON, Prop. 48 modern and neatly furnished rooms Meals served at all hours 1014-1016-1018 South 11th Street Phone Douglas 4445 Stand Phone, Doug. 3724 Res. Phone, Doug. 2378 Call Doug. 1491 From 1 a. m. to 5 a. m. For service and safety call BOB ROBINSON and his 7-passenger Abbott car Stand Jack's Buffet 111 So. 14th St. Auto for Hire Special attention to private partles Special prices PHONES: 7 p. m. to 11:55, Williamson, Terrill Drug Co., Web. 4443 12:05 p. m. to 5 a. m., Midway Doug. 1491-3459 5 a. m. to 7 p. m. Residence Web. 7661 Res. Phone Web. 4831 Office Doug. 4287 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 220 South 13th Street (Over Pope's Drug Store) Omaha, Neb. Have your shoes shined right at The Daisy Boot Black Parlor 309 So. 15th Street (Opposite Beaton Drug Co.) Open Wednesday, August 11th Have your voice trained by a singer MR. J. A. HILL Teacher Studio Phone 2606 Seward St. Webster 4490 Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed Phones, Res, Doug, 4379, Office Doug, 3718 1914 Cuming Street L. O. GREGORY ICE CO. IS AT YOUR SERVICE Phone Webster 6421 The Business World BOB ROBINSON BANKS-WILKES THE PEOPLES DRUG STORE 109 South 14th Street Drugs, Cigars and Soda Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We appreciate your patronage Phone Douglas 1446 Dress Well and Save Money It is economy to have your clothes Custom Tailored individually, where you not alone get a perfect fit, but get superior quality in both the material and in the tailoring. Your garment lasts longer and looks better. Let us make your fall suit. H. LIVINGSTON 103 South Fourteenth Street MRS. J. M. ROBINSON Milliner and Dressmaker All Work Strictly First Class 2524 Lake St. Omaha, Neb. MADAM LEVER Manufactures The World's Wonderful Hair Grower and Shampoo Hair Dressing and Manicuring 913 N. 27th Ave. Phone Harney 1497 C. M. Simmons, Prop. Economy Tailoring Co. Suits Made to Order, $15 up Cleaning and Repairing Goods Called for and Delivered 114 So. 13th St. Omaha, Neb. MUSIC (THE RIGHT KIND) By Dan Desdunes Orcbestra 2516 Burdette St. Web. 710 J. W. MOSS HOME BAKERY and DELICATESSEN Strictly home made bread, pies, cakes, etc. Discount to churches, lodges or special parties OUR SPECIALTY: Pure home made ice cream and all kinds of salads and sandwiches. Phone Web. 6507 2530 Lake Street Omaha, Neb. THE CASTLE The Broomfield Hotel 116-118 South Ninth St. Strictly modern and up-to-date Prices moderate Phone Douglas 2378