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Historical Society. State House THE FORUM for advertising. T. S. Walter Casey's Last Chapter. --- Who Gets 40 Years in Penitentary. Casey was born in Alton 38 years ago and was well educated He held some responsible positions. He married young at 20. He was very profound in his conversation and had lefty ideals and high and noble aims, according to his auto-biography, but alas! He erred no doubt. He had queer imaginations about the unjust treatment accorded him by his wife at a time when life should have been serene and the very air should have been a balm of Gilliad, at a time when home should have shone with splendor and the children his most charming dreams, but alas! "It might have been." But we may say this is the end of his brief happy or real tour or sojourn here. What are you going to do with the children? How many of us will be a rod and a staff for them, yet how many will drag them down, it does not yet appear. According to the testimony of the prosecution the case was very dastard. But, let us now share a part of this mighty burden, and opening our hearts, have mercy for this dear old mother, whose steps lean toward the grave, and his fair weeping sister and penitent brother, for we have all these. You that shed a sincere tear for the dead, will now remember these, her offspring. Ah dear infants, you know not—ah young ladies, danghters, what shall you do to be saved? Please don't scorn these young poor lasies, if they have committed an offence, cheer them up for a new life. young men beware of your journey, tread softly this most dangerous road. "Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, He cometh forth as a flower, but in the evening it is cut down." Yes, may be, Casey gets it light, but that chapter is ended, it is now for us to learn and look ere we brag, let not another such a case happen, young men treat your wives "Be ye doers and not sayers only." right, get a good woman and if you believe her to be so depraved as to commit such wrongs, retain your mental equilibrium and bid her finally farewell, women when you have husbands, let not the siren cries of unscrupulous men and vagabonds lead you astray, nay let them not transform your life, for if you do you shall do so in vain. This appeal is to us all, guard your children, men stop entrapping young girls for, "the great day of his wrath shall surely come and you shall not be able to stand." Woman's Club Notes. The mother's section met at the residence of Mrs. Lucy Young, 1206 E. Madison street. There was no quilting done on account of the material not being there The chairman wishes everyone who donated towards this quilt will please have the donations at the next meeting so they can go to work Mrs. Eva Monroe and Clara Blackwell sang a vocal duett, after which Mrs. E. O. McKinney read a paper on the work of Miss Dean, a young colored woman. The paper was excellent and many good thoughts were brought out The Philantropic section will meet at the Home, Monday, February 25, 1907. The meeting will be a quilting for the home. The chairman wishes every one to come out as early as possible. Any donations brought will be appreciated also.—Clara Blackwell Reporter. News from Petersburg- Sylvester Penick and family of Tallula were the guest of their parents Sunday. John Miller of Tallula was a visitor here Sunday: Mrs. Ella Wade and Georgie Smith of Springfield visited here last Sunday: Mrs. Edward Motley and husband of Decatur visited their parents here last week. Womans Day at Culture Club. Choir Reading of Scriptures. Prayer by Mrs, Harvey. Choir. Solo-Mrs, B. H. Lucas. Paper-Womans Sphere-Mrs. E. J. Craddock. Choir. Paper-Mrs. J. C McClain-What the Illinois Negro should be to the Jamestown Exposition. Instrumental Solo - Miss Hazel Bates. Paper-Blue Dahlia - Mrs. H. D. Cottman. Duett-Mrs. and Miss Yates. Journalist Report. Critic Report. Griffith Now a Sure Winner. Campaign On in Earnest. POLITICAL MEETINGS HELD EVERY NIGHT IN THE INTEREST OF REPUBLICAN PARTY ALL REPUBLICAN FACTIONS UNITED. David S. Griffith, Republican candidate for Mayor, will be elected head of Springfield's government Tuesday, April 2. He is the peoples choice and he will make the best Mayor the city has ever had. The people want an economical business administration. They want to see improvements for the taxes they are paying instead of padded pay roils. They want clear and pure water and they want all the things that go to make a city greater and more beautiful. All of these things have been pledged by Mr. Griffith in his platform and the people have confidence in him and know that he will serve them and safeguard the interests of the tax payers. Mr. Griffith is practically a product of Springfield, having lived here since he was three months old. There is more than an ordinary reason why he wants to make the best Mayor Springfield has ever had. He has the interests of the city at heart. He has a future before him and his election as Mayor means a stepping stone for him. Mr, Griffith is close to the people. He is a man to whom no one needs a second introduction. He is a man well qualified to be Mayor of Springfield. He has held numerous positions of trust Mr. Griffith was superintendent of the Republic Iron and Steel company's mill in Ridgley, he was elected city Treasurer six years ago by the largest majority ever given a candidate in this city and he is now chief deputy United States Marshal. There is nothing that can prevent the election of Mr. Griffith. The Democratic party is torn assunder by the independent candidacy of Frank H. Bode and the political machine built by Mayor Devereux and which has weathered many political storms is bent and twisted and members of its crue are deserting it to escape the bombardment that will come April 2. The Republican party is united There are no factions and every one has his shoulder to the wheel for the interest of the party. The remainder of the ticket is composed of men well known to the public. For the office of city clerk, J. Emil Smith is the candidate. He was the Republican nominee two years ago and was defeated by the narrow margin of eight votes despite the conditions that existed at that time. This time he has the united strength of his party, and in addition will poll large Democratic vote. Roy M. Seeley will be re-elected city attorney. He has made a record for himself and the party. He has been especially successful in winning damage cases instituted against the city. John H. Ruckel, candidate for treasurer, is a man well known in business circles. He if a resident of the fourth ward and can be relied upon to handle the funds of the city with care. For assessor the party has nominated L. W. Coe'an old resident of Springfield, who has had considerable experience in matters of this kind. He served under two administrations of John J. Heimberger and can be depended upon to give a 'square deal," to both the rich and the poor. Casey Denied a New Trial. W. T. Casey's lawyers appeared yesterday before Judge Creighton to ask for a new trial on the grounds that the defendant had not gotten a fair and impartial trial by 12 unbiased men. The court overruled the motion for a new trial and the defendant will have to go to the penitentary unless he appeals to higher judicial tribunals. Attorney Gil Christ Stewart of New York [Name] A member of the Constitutional League, who went tho Brownsville and investigated the alleged riot by the 25th U. S. Infantry. He declared there was no man killed. He is a brainy lawyer and a staunch republican. THE FORUM weekly magazine paper devoted to the interests of the whole people. Entered as second-class matter, February 24, 1904, at the postoffice at Springfield, Ill., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ROGERS & BARBOUR Propricitors One Year ..... $1.50 One Month ..... 15c Per Copy ..... 5c OFFICE: 385 1-2 6s Sixth St. Phone Malu 998 THE FORUM'S STAFF. B. L. Rogers, Editor and Manager. Will H. arbour, Associate Editor and Secretary. Thompson Bros., Branch Office. Gemann The Printer 1851 Se. 6th St. EDITORIAL Saturday February 23. 1907 Senator Culberson of Texas might have known that educated philosophical Senator Beveridge of Indiana was too much for him. All that Carmack and his colleagues in Congress can do is to introduce some unconstitutional measures. Great statesmen, they are. Does some of our semi-contemporaries know what a "worthy and deserving." man is? If a candidate gives you a dollar or a few drinks and promises, is he "worthy and deserving?" We would like for The Register to explain what it means by "democratic and right." The saying has lost its significance and became absolutely inefficacious. You can be democratic and then be wrong. Mr. Horace Tucker has been sick for the past two weeks, suffering from appendicitis. We hope he will soon recover. Old Tullman reminds one of a boy who had gotten a severe whipping he has been quiet for several weeks. As soon as his sore places have completely healed, we shall not be surprised to hear from him, as it were, a mighty rushing wind, full of fury, signifying nothing, tho. The Atlanta, Georgia, news, the paper edited by John Temple Graves, and the infamous race incubator, has suspended for lack of support. The grand jury, it will be remembered, accused this paper of being the cause of the Atlanta riots. There is no use talking nor doding the fact, you cannot live and continue to do such things as many of these papers are but wont to do. It is not the perogative of the Forum to go into the past and dig up a lot of bad things to say about people on the opposite side of this political campaign. The Forum will support in a large measure, if not entirely the Republican men this spring, but we shall ouly do so because they are as deserving as their oppo- THE FORUM nents, and because they are of the same political faith as we—some more deserving than their opponents. What About the Tariff Revision? What's the use tampering with the tariff, it does not need any revision just now. The democrats and some Republicans in Washington are not satisfied, like a baby, after a glass until it has let it fall and break, and then stand and look back at the mother, and if the mother scold it, cry. Many of them are howling for a revision of the tariff and were you to turn the matter over to them they would let it break and then look back at the Republicans to re-habilitate things. Let the tariff alone, you peanut politicians who do not know right from wrong nor justice from injustice. Thinks Court and Jury Unjust. W. T. Casey is reported as saying that, in substance, the jury was prejudiced and unjust in giving him 40 years in the penitentiary. He avers that it will not benefit society and that he is not the first nor the last man to be the victim of woman's perfidy. He declares he intended to educate his children. This may be good but let us hope that the jury acted conscientiously and strove to do right. Let us hope for and support the children in obtaining an education, let them not be blown to the four corners of the earth by low and defamed men and women—let the children take new courage—their future is before them. How awful it will be if they trod the unhallowed parts of this city with the blood stains of a foul deed upon their brow, transmitted to them from their sire, in depravity and the slums. The trial of Casey lasted six days—men and women attended the court every day and Saturday evening and Sunday morning of this week, listening to the evidence. The plea was temporary insanity. The lawyers fought on every conceivable technicality. Wines made a strong plea for conviction and Woodruff, Burke and Cummings plead for the life and liberation of the defendant. It was a dramatic case. Hatch in concluding, was brief but very pointed, declaring that the insanity plea was a farce or a loop hole, and that regardless of what Burke or any other counsel for the defense had attempted to prove, the defendant was guilty of murder—he had safely planted beneath six feet of sod, his wife. Cummings made a sympathetic and very able plea for two hours and thirty minutes. He declared that the defendant should be acquitted, to go back and rehabilitate the home and care for the remnant that was left behind. Negroes of New Orleans, La., are to erect a six story office and theatre building on the corner of Gavier and Saratoga streets, at the cost of $60,000 with a Negro bank on the first floor. Casey's Trial. We have opened a Public Stenographic office at 305 South Six Street. If you're in doubt let us lead trump to you? The is always the proper hat-- never alike two seasons together--except in price ---$3.00. 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(Much credit is due Miss Johnson for the active part she takes in all Christian work.) Mrs, Hickland’s paper on “pa arents duty,’’ was good, Mrs Minard read a selection from a magazine on home, ‘The discus siou of each paper showed a sin cere desire on tae part of the ladies to make the Mother's Lit ‘rary, interesting to the extent that its influence for good will be felt throughont the city. The sewing circle will meet next Thursday in the lecture room of the church, EL IS CT The Stalwart FPro- tective League. Meets First Monday of each Month at Odd Fellow’s Hall, South Fifth Street. R. S. DONALDSON, Pres. DR. J. H. MAGEE, Secy. The Weekly Courier Journal And The Both One year Send your order for this combina- tion to us, not the Courier Jeurnal.-The regular price of Weekly Courier- Jeurvel alene is $1 a year. Two Years for $1.25. A complete history of two history | against the gigantic trusts and mono -making years—1907 and 1906. The | polies. 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Two Years for $1.25 Social Sunlight Circle | The Social Sunlight Circlo met ‘with Miss M. Retta Davis lool North 4th street Wednesday af teraoon at 8o'clock’ The after noon was spent musically, which was enjoyed by all, Two prizes were offered in guessing contest and were awarded: first prize to Mrs Ben Jackson, and the second to Mrs, DeElward, The follow. ing officers were elected for the next six months: President, Miss M, Retta Davis; Vice Pres. ident, Mrs, Estella Cousius: Sec. retary, Mrs, Claude Pemberton, ‘Treasurer, Mrs, Page. Refresh- meuts were served by hostess’ nother, Mrs, Susan Davis. An tntertainment will be given at the residence of Mrs. Al Wilson on the evenins of February 28 to which the public is most coraially invited. The next meeting will be held Wednesday night ai the residence of Mrs, George Roliins on East Adams street: A Stork Visit. Last Satarday night at 11:30 the stork swooped down upon the peaceful home of Mr. and Mrs. Bender, 116S, 11th street carrying in its talons a frail bas- ket that was taxed !o its capacity with a 12 pound baby boy, which through the skilled and experi enced offices of Dr. Hare, was safely delivered to that happy family: Mother and boy are get. ting aloag nicely. ABode Meeting At Masonic Hall. Frank H Bode, the tindepend ent candidate for mayor and oth- er good speakers will address the colored voters at masonic hall,119 North 8th street, beginning at 8 o’clock pm, Tuesday, Februa- ry 26, All colored people who are taking an interest in the af- fairs of their city, are cordially requested to be present for $1.25. against the gigantic trusts and mono pores Every detail of the next na- ‘tional campaign, including all party conventions and the final result of the Presidential election of November, 19 (08. 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The leading mea market in city-Fresh meats every day 628 East Washington Street. A. C. CONNER, Proprietor. A. Paul Laurence Dunbar Literary and Reading Circle, is the name of a club to be organized soon. Paul Laurence Dunbar Literary and Reading Circle, is the name of a club to be organized soon. SEE HERE! THE FORUM mpany s. nem, is. Time Table of Springfield Consolidated Railway Co. Cars for North Fifth street will leave Fifth and Monroe every 7½ minutes from 6:07 a. m., until 8:00 p. m.; every 10 minutes from 8:00 p. m. until 11:20 p. m.; owl cars will leave at 11:40 p. m., 12:07 and 12:30 a. m. Cars for South Fifth street will leave Fifth and Monroe every 7½ minutes from 6:07 a. m. until 7:45 p. m.; every 10 minutes from 7:55 p. m. at 11:45 p. m. p. m. Cars for South $ leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:48 p. m., 12:00 midnight and 12:24 a. m. Cars for North Seventh street leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:24 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:48 p. m. and 12:24 a. m. Cars for Spring street leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:08 a. m. until 11:20 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:44 p. m., 12:08 and 12:30 a. m. Cars for East Carpenter street leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:08 a. m. until 11:20 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:44 p. m., 12:07 and 12:30 a. m. Cars for South Grand avenue leave Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes from 6:07 a. m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:45 p. m., 12:07 and 12:30 a. m. Cars for Lawrence avenue leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m., until 11:36 p. m.; owl cars leave at 12:00 midnight and 12:30 a. m. Cars for North Ninth street leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:36 p. m. Cars for East Capitol avenue leave Fifth and Monroe every 12 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:36 p. m.; owl cars leave at 12:00 midnight and 12:30 a. m. Cars for South Eleventh and Rutledge streets leave Fifth and Washington every 15 minutes from 6:07 a. m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:52 p. m. and 12:22 a. m. Cars for West Washington street leave Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:15 p. m.; owl cars leave at 11:45 p. m. and 12:07 a. m. Cars for Governor street leave Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes from 6:07 a. m. until 11:22 p. m.; owl cars leave at 12:30 a. m. Cars for South Eighth street leave Fifth and Monroe every 15 minutes from 6:00 a. m. until 11:15 p. m. The Tuxedo Club's Candy Pulling Tuescay Evening at W. H.Farmers Last Tuesday evening at their ```markdown ``` residence, 1411 East Adams St. Mr. and Mrs. W H. Farmer entertained the Tuxedo Club at candy pulling. The time was spent in games and jolly conversation and reminicences. Those present were: Ladies, Retta Davis, Bertha Wyler, Levina Watts. Gertrude and Eva Harris, Martha Wheeler, Salone Nelson; Men, Johu Orendorff, John McWorters Clarende Leggins, I. C. Woods, W. L. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer. A vote of thanks was tendered the guests for their hospitality. Successful Negro Farmers. The champion cotton raiser of Oklahoma is a colored man named Alfred Smith. He has not only taken all the premiums offered in that state for the first and best cotton, but his product has received the blue ribbon at the world's fair and first prize in England. Smith was born near Atlanta and says that when Sherman marched through he was ploughing near by with an old gray mule. Another colored farmer who has become noted in his state is Julius G. Groves of Kansas, who owns 500 acres of fine land in the Kaw valley. Groves raises about seventy-five thousand bushels of potatoes every year, which is considerably more than is produced, by any other individual grower in the world. These illustrations show that a Negro when he is industrious can be as successful as a white man. There is no race war against industrious, honest Negroes, Where is that J. A. Hall Negro Clerical Appointee? It is up to the many Negroes who were running insane about J A. Hall to impart to the anxious public the above information Where is the colored boy or man that was to be in Hall's office as a rebuttal or to even up with Sullivan who had Richard Douglas 8 months for four years. Where is he; Mr. Will George, W. T. S. D. C. J., Thos. S. B. Burton and many others who were so loyal to Hall? Where is he Oh! where is he? I pause to hear a reply, —A reader of the Forum. Daugherty Retaliates Rev. J. W. Daugherty and the lerders of Zion Baptist church are having no end of trouble and notoriety here of late. The feud that was thought to have come to an end Saturday was re-kindled when, on last Monday, Daugherty swore out warrants for Samuel Alexander, Charles Watters, Ralph Holman, Lewis Wilson, Silas Edwards and Crastus Hicks. It is very strange that Rev. Daugherty, being intelligent, will persist on holding on to this church. He charges conspiracy against these six men. We are not concerned particularly who is right in their or his contention, but ought not Rev. Daugherty "let 'em alone?" CHICAGO & ALTON RY. TIME TABLE Northbound. Arrive. Depart. *Alton Limited ... 11:53 am 11:53 am *Prairie State Express ... 2:45 pm 2:45 pm *Bloomington Accom ... Starts 5:00 pm †Capital City Flyer ... 8:35 pm Stops *Palace Express ... 12:20 am 12:20 am *Midnight Special ... 2:43 am 2:43 am *Atlantic Express-ChI ... Starts 7:00 am *St. Louis Accom ... 11:35 am 11:35 am *Spfid-Eldred Accom ... 10:35 am Stops *Sunday Special ... 10:45 pm Stops Southbound. Arrive. Depart. *St. Louis Express ... 3:25 am 3:25 am *Midnight Special ... 5:05 am 5:05 am †Capital City Flyer ... Starts 9:15 am Stops *Bloomington Accom ... 9:00 am Stops *Spfid-St. Louis Accom ... Starts 6:30 am *Prairie State Express ... 2:35 pm 2:35 pm *Alton Limited ... 4:16 pm 4:16 pm *Chicago Accom ... 8:40 pm Stops *Spfid-Eldred Accom ... Starts 5:00 pm *Sunday Special ... Starts 7:15 pm Peoria Division. Arrive. Depart. *Peoria accom ... 9:10 am Stops †Peoria express ... 4:00 pm Stops †Peoria Accom ... Starts 3:10 pm *Peoria Express ... Starts 6:45 am *Sunday Special ... Starts 6:30 pm *Sunday Special ... 9:00 pm Stops C. & A. INTERURBAN SERVICE. Springfield at 11:50 a. m., 5:50 p.m. daily. Springfield at 9:40 m. 12:25 daily. Springfield-Lincoln Interurbans arrive at Springfield at 11:50 a. m., 5:50 p.m. daily. *Daily, †Daily ex. Sunday, sSunday only For folders, rates and further information call upon or address D. G. CAMPBELL. Ticket Agent Chicago & Alton Ry. Springfield, Ill. RAILWAY TIME TABLES. WABASH Depot Tenth, between Washington and Jefferson streets. Going East. Arrive Depart • Buffalo Fast Mall... 2:15 am 2:16 am • Chicago Express Starts 7:30 am • Continental Limited 9:45 am 9:50 am • Lafayette Accom Starts 1:40 pm • Decatur Accom 4:30 pm 5:15 pm • New York Express... 10:00 pm 10:05 pm Going West. Arrive Depart. • Kansas City Express... 5:50 am 5:55 am • Clayton Accom 8:41 am 8:44 am • Springfield Accom 11:35 am Stops • Kansas City-Denver Lim. 12:30 pm 12:35 pm • Continental Limited 5:45 pm 5:50 pm • Chicago-Springfield Exp. 9:10 pm Stops • Dally. aDaily except Sunday. ILLINOIS CENTRAJ RAILWAY. Taking effect Sunday. December 4. Northbound. Arrive. Depart. *Diamond Special ... 12:35 am 12:40 am Midnight Limited ... 2:42 am 2:45 am *Chicago Express ... 7:05 am Northern Ill. Express ... 11:25 am 11:30 am *Daylight Special ... 2:40 pm 2:48 pm *St. Louis & Spfld Accom. 6:45 pm Stops Southbound Arrive Depart. *Diamond Special ... 3:50 am 3:55 am *Midnight Limited ... 4:45 am 4:50 am *St. Louis & Spfld Accom. Starts 7:00 am *Daylight Special ... 5:05 pm 5:10 pm *St. Louis Express ... 5:30 pm 5:35 pm *Chicago Mall ... 10:25 am Stops *Daily. aDaily except Sunday. B. & O. S. W. RAILWAY Eastbound Trains. Arrive. Depart. • Royal Blue Limited..... 7:30 am 7:30 am • Wash. & New York Lim.. Starts 8:00 pm • Beardstown & Pana Ac..... 3:25 pm 3:25 pm • Sunday Passenger ..... 8:00 pm 8:00 pm Westbound Trains. • Royal Blue Limited..... 7:25 pm 7:25 pm • Wash. & New York Lim.. 8:30 am Stops • Pana & Beardstown Ac..... 10:30 am 10:30 am Sunday only..... 8:50 am 8:50 am • Daily. aDaily, except Sunday. bSunday. To and from Peoria. Arrive. Depart. Daily Express . 3:10 pm 12:10 pm Daily Mall . 11:00 am 2:40 pm Daily Mall . 6:55 pm 7:25 am To and from St. Louis. Arrive. Depart Daily Express . 12:10 pm 9:10 pm Daily ex. Sunday, Accom. 9:20 pm 6:30 am Vote for the best men. Register March 12. They are still proving at Brownsville that a squad of colored soldiers shot up the town on the night of August 13 last. An admission of the fact appears to be inadmissible as evidence—St. Louis Globe Democrat. --- THE FORUM Fred Douglass Home at Anacostia, D. C. The home of Fred Douglass, a beautiful place out from Washington, is to be made the memorial of the Negroes of this nation. They desire to purchase this memorable place and to ever hold sacred the place where once dwelt the greatest orator and champion of an oppressed people There is a mortgage of $5,400 bearing interest at 6 per cent per annum. Booker Washington urges that the Negroes pay this off and save this magnificent home, and has issued a call for volunteer contributions who shall be given due credit for the same. Booker T. pledges $150. It will rebound greatly upon Springfield if the Negro churches send up something. Send it to Booker T Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. We ask the Culture Club to go down on record as sending a $5 bill, all contributors names ap. pear in The Freeman and other papers. To the Public. Any peason who enters the night class at Ambidexter Institute with in ten days from date will be given three months tuition free in any of the common Branches. But these students must sign a contract, to enroll for the rest of the year, with tuition paid up. JAS, B, WALKER. Teacher. SHILL CARD WASHINGTON TRAGTION SYSTEM East Bound for Decatur, Clinton and all intermediate points. *7:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. 6:00 a.m. †12:00 noon. †6:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. †8:00 a.m. †2:00 p.m. °8:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. °9:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. †4:00 p.m. °11:00 p.m. South Bound for Carlinville, Gillespie, Staunton, Litchfield, Edwardsville and all intermediate points. *7:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. §6:00 a.m. 12:00 noon. §6:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. §2:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. §1:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m. *Daily except Sunday. †Limited cars, stopph g at towns only. †Limited cars, making all stops. §"Corn Belt Limited" Tdally except Sunday. All others daily. ROUND TRIP TICKETS sold on the cars by conductors to all points, at 11:45 per mile. $10 FARE BOOKS, sold at ticket offices for $7.50, good for individuals, limit one year, good for faillies, limit six months. ROUTE YOUR SHIPMENTS via the Interurban Express. Express service at freight rates. NO DUST DIRT SMOKE CINDERS Douthat Society of Ambidexter Institue. The Officers are President...Jas B Walker..... Secretary.....Julia A Wit Pianist, Miss L V McDaniel..... Journalist,.....M. Chorister.....Miss E Brown..... Moore, Miss Florence Williams, chair Walker S L coleman, R Harris, W T President.....Jas B Walker.....Vice piesident, R Hassie Secretary.....Julia A Wilson.....Treas S L Coleman Pianist, Miss L V McDaniel.....Critic.....W F Moore Journalist, .....Miss L Johnson.....Usher, E Starn Chorister.....Miss E Brown...committee on Program: R Harris, W T Moore, Miss Florence Williams, chairman. committee constitution: J B Walker S L coleman, R Harris, W T Moore The U. R. Club will give the swellest thing of the season at Masonic hall Tuesday March 5th The committee is sparing no pains to make the affair grand. Vote for Seeley for City att'y. Vote for Griffiths for mayor. Dr. C. L. BOYD. 59-60 Franklin Life Bld'g PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Specialist in Diseases of Women and Chil- dren. HOURS: 9 to 11:30 A. M. 2 to 5 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M. Phones: Old, 1298, Few,2396 2 r Roy M. Seeley Attorney at Law. 5231 North Side Square Both Phones1503 Dr. S. A. WARE, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE: 627 East Adamsstreet, HOURS: 10 a. m. to 12 m. 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. 7 p. m. to 9. Phones:---- calls promptly made. Dr. J E. Henderson Office: 107½ West Side Square. HOURS: 9 to 11 a. m.; 3 to 5; 7 to 8 p. m. FIRST WARD PLACE: 218 North 13th Street HOURS; Till 8 a. m.; 12 to 1 m.; 5:30 to 6:3 p. m., and at night. Telephone Main l122v Dr.C.H JONES. Contractor -- Builder Real Estate Rentals and Manager Peerless Ideal Portrait Co Business Letters, Deeds. Wills and Mortgages drawn. All business confidential. Office: 116 South Seventh Street. (MOTTO) Esse Quam Videre. The Officers are as follows: Professional. re as follows: Vice piesident, R Hassi elson....Treas S L Coleman Critic....W F Moore ss L Johnson....Usher, E Starn committee on Program: R Harris, W T man. committee constitution: J B Moore For Home-Made Cakes, Pies, Cookies, And a first-class meal, patronize BROWN & NEIL'S Restaurant 726 East Washington Street Regular Meals, 20c SUNDAYS: 25c. The Negro does right to continue to enlist in the army. We do not propose to close any door against us. Vote J. E. Smith for city clerk and John H. Ruckel for treasure. The VOICE The Diagno, Colored American Magazine, and McGirt's Magazine.. are here each month.. Price, 10c.. We will deliver each or all to your door each month. Give us your order and read good literature DuBois and his class or contributors. Order by Phone Old 998. 3051/2 S. 6th St. E. L. ROGERS, Agent. --- Yes, its true, we do not read enough about Negro men and women, we emphasize this fact frequently through the columns of this paper and direct you to read Negro magazines and papers—why don't you do it? "Fred Douglas, the Great," is not exaggeration nor excess. England may proudly turn back her age-worn history and refer to and revere Pitt, Gladstone. Balfour, Pouncefote and others, Germany her Bismark, Luther, et al, France her Napoleon, Ireland her Burke, Italy her Marconi, Greece her Demosthenes, Russia her Tolsti, Spain her Cortez, America her Hastings. Webster, Blaine, Garrison, W. Phillips, Washington, Sumner, Greeley, yea, her Lincoln, Hayti her L'Overture, but ah! ye recently emancipated American Negroes, come go with us and let us bow at the shrine and before the altar let us pay homage to him "the bright consomate flower of our noon day sun," yea, a conspicuous figure towering equally as high as the highest and radiating as luminous a ray as the most brilliant star in the whole galaxy—Fred Douglas, born February 14. or 17, 1817, back in the dark and gloomy days when poor old Maryland was not a free country for one so poor as to have Negro blood coursing through his or her veins. Are any of you so "poor as not to give reverence?" Read his life and go shed a tear for the sake of his posterity and yours—reared up at a time when this country reeled before the indomitable institution, slavery—bled, yes, was tortured, but made his peace, calling and election sure. New York knows him—all the north admire him and the southern slave was the beneficiary of his greatness—rise! then O Ethiopa and let your cries be heard from hamlet and village, praising him the mighty. Manhood Rights and Surrender. The Washington Bee has given to the world a very salient fact and has, we hope, made the Conservator and other papers of the ilk. feel a little small: How true is it what the Bee says:—"This talk of surrendering manhood's rights because you tell Negroes that they must become materialists and not remain theorists, practical and not theoretical, producers and not consumers only." The Bee well says that if any Negro in the land had manhood's rights and nothing to eat, what would he do. Yes, we advocate, as the parmount essentials, as does the Bee, the tradesmen, professions, carpentry, manufacturing etc. industrial education for the masses—the Chicago Conservator's and The Guardian's idiotic and idiosyncratic assertions and emissions to the contrary notwithstanding. The Bee asks—"Will manhood rights build a house, work a farm or cook a meal? Will it give you a bank account? Every sane and patriotic man desires manhood rights and every privilege and right, but why not be consistent and use common sense. How many Negroes in Chicago with all rights, who can not get 15 cents of credit? Nor we all cannot be teachers, doctors and lawyers, These Negroes THE FORUM Republican City and Township Ticket Election Tuesday, April 2, 1907. FOR MAYOR, David S. Griffith. FOR CITY CLERK, J. Emil Smith. FOR CITY ATTORNEY, Roy M. Seeley. FOR CITY TREASURER, John H. Ruckel FOR ALDERMAN, First Ward Kim Haynes, Second Ward Charles W. Kearns, Third Ward Charles F. Muttera, Fourth Ward John C. Neuman, Fifth Ward (long term) Harry O. McGrue, (short term) Lawrence L, Flinn Sixth Ward Charles Millard, Seventh Ward D. C. Kearns. FOR ASSESSOR, L. W. Coe. FOR ASSISTANT SUPERVISORS, A. B. Cochran. George E. Keys, Thomas E. Lyon. Joseph D. Myers, James R. Osby, George D. Parkin, George Simmons. who clamor loudest for our rights and denounce Booker Washington's teaching will not employ a colored doctor, nor lawyer. nor will they vote for a colored man running for office, nor endorse a good colored man for appointment. Neither will they support a Negro paper, grocery store or restaurant. All such men are pure hypocrits and ignoramouses. Some of them will hang around in a Negro saloon and buy all their nefarious "booze" from some other place. The ballot is a good thing in the hands of intelligent reliable people, but dangerous and a reproach in the hands of cutthroats and libertines. What do ignorant people know about political economy? Patronize yourself-get a liberal education if you can and let it be so liberal that you will use it, not graduate and then complain about opportunity education is supposed to make opportunities. You read history Cicero to Roosevelt and find that all great men from the merchant of Venice to Edmund Burke and down to Rocketeller and Wanamaker and even Lincoln came up through hard trials and yet you desire something sublime, easy, even electricity can but be produced by friction which is work. Go work in my vineyard, not howl and complain. The city council of Atlanta Ga.. as its last act' closing the stormiest period of its existence, passed over the veto of the retiring mayor. James G. Woodward, an ordinance increasing the saloon license from $1,000 to $2,000 a year. by a vote of o18 to 1. The new ordinance is expected to force many low Negro and white saloons and dives out of business. John D. Rockefeller on Sunday attended morning service at Big Bethel. Augusta, Ga., Rev. C. T. Walker president, the leading Negro Baptist church in the city. When the plate was passed he deposited a silver dollar. Then he astonished the congregation by calling the collector and emptying his pockets of change into the plate, about twenty dollars in all. Mr. Rockefeller occupied a pew with Negroes—The Indianapolis Freeman. --- REPUBLICA NOTE You must you will los Whən? T 12. Where ting place inct. You must go In P ter...-no person Only ONE Reg Tuesday M 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from postoffice to which they are directed they are responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If the subscriber moves to another place without informing the publisher, and the papers are sent to the former directions, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that the refusing to take periodicals from postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of international fraud. 6. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice to the publishers, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue it otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, the subscriber will be responsible until an express notice with payment of arrearages is sent to the publisher. 7. The latest postal laws are such that newspaper publishers can arrest any one for fraud who takes a paper and refuses to pay for it. Under this law the man who allows his subscription to run along for some time, unpaid, and then orders the postmaster to mark it "refused." and has a card sent notifying the publishers, lays himself liable to arrest and fine, the SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS Typewriter. For typewritten letters and essay W. H. BARBOUR. HARTMA Finest Wh Retail Bake HARTMAN BROS. Both Phones 527 Outside Shipping Outside Shipping Orders a Specialty Finest Wholesale and Retail Bakery in City NOTICE! THE FORUM has opened a Business Men's Directory cheap enough for all to advertise. 1 inch 1 month .50 1-2 " 1 month .25 NO CHANGE. G. LEWARD GAUMANN CHAS. T. BAUHAS Baumann Bros. Prescription Druggists Deutsche Apotheke Cor. 7th and Washington Sts. Tel. Main 654 115 West Side Square Tel. Main 653 REISCH BREWERY CO. City Brewery Their Bottle Beer is Fine Bock's Special Can't be Beat Try it! AN BROS. olesale and ery in City 900 and 902 East Washington St. Orders a Specialty 25c. per box, sold only at Feltham's Drug Stores Springfield, Illinois. Cleaning, Dyeing, Repairing and Pressing. Special attention Given Ladies' Garments All work guaranteed. Goods Called for and Delivered. Monthly terms given, Reasonable Prices. GIVE ME A. Call. Bell. Phone 2990. L. E. ARBUCKLE, Proprietor. Society and Local Mrs. Ethel Pemberton is about recovered and is able to be about again. Do you believe the fish story or the ground hog story? Which? If you will just be prepared to pay something, if not all on your Fo rnm every Monday or Saturday, you will please the collector and oblige the management. Now that the campaign has opened in earnest let us be truth ful-if we say for a man don' lie about it. Will you? Mr. Jury Thomas is in Alton this week in the interest of The Forum. See the U. R. ad in The Forum, this week. That Entertainment by the U. R. will be a novelty. Mr. Arval Terrill is now employed on the Interurban car as buffet porter, and travels from one end of the line to the other, being on the car with the President, Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Sarah Harris of N. 2nd street has been very sick with LaGrippe. Mrs. C. B. Morgan of South Spring street was in Decatur last week. Mrs. Outland was in Liucoln Sunday to attend a funeral. She was also a pleasant caller at this office this week. that Cold WITH HAM'S QUININE LETS sold only at Drug Stores Pantatorium. erson Street. Illinois. pairing and Pressing. Garments foods Called for and Delivered. Reasonable Prices Bell Phone 2990. UCKLE, Proprietor. Mrs. C, H. Jones' brother was her guest last Sunday. Registration Day. Republican voters! It is imperative that you go, in person. March 12th and register else you lose your vote, not only April 2, this year, but for the next 2 years as the registration will only take place every two years. There is no alternative - you positively can not vote unless you go in person, March 12th and see that your name is placed on the books. Don't fail—the registration places will be at each precinct in each ward, and the books will be opened until 9 p, m, on the evening of Tuesday, March, 12. 1907. Mrs. Pearl Addleheart, the mother of the baby over which there was so much controversy in the county court Saturday, yesterday withdrew her consent given to Mr. and Mrs. John Ize to adopt the child. Judge Murray will have the baby returned to its mother. Alex Bender has resigned his position as an employee of the city and has accepted a position as painter with August Brand. Vote J. E. Smith for city clerk and John H. Ruckel for treasure. THE FORUM old E ores um. Illinois. Delivered. Prices. phone 2990. rietor. Ch A Sho Hom TR 814 A. D. J 728 Ruc Interstat I O Chilli Parlor & Lunch Room. 814 East Washington Street. A First-class Lunch Room. (The 5 and 10 cent place.) Short orders · Good service. The best coffee in town. " " soup| " " The best stews in town. Home made pies. Best order. The only colored chilli house in the city. All invited All welcome 814 East Washington Street. A. D. JOHNSON, H. TUCKER. Proprietors. Rucker & Thompson, Props. Interstate Telephone 779 A first-class place in every respect. Best service. Best attention given to all customers. Everything neat and clean. Regular Meals and Short Orders TUCKER'S PLACE. Board and Lodging House, First class accommodations Regular meals at regular meal hours. 206 North 14 St. New Telepone, 1478. Leland Hotel Pantatorium..... BASEMENT LELAND HOTEL French Dry Cleaning, Steam Cleaning, Steam Dying, first-class repairing and modern pressing establishment First-class work guaranteed to Ladies and Gents Certificate of membership to pressing club, $1. 12 garments all work called for and delivered. Give me a call. H. TUCKER, Proprietor.