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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-06-10

with long black hair dismount and
fling the bride to negro boy.
He was startled at the deathly pallor
Of the girls face.
"Quick," she cried, ''for Heavens
sake let me hide you somewhere 1t
were ruin, indeed, for him to see you
herel"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-06-10
A Story Of the Late War.
eY BERNARD eIosnY,

Author Of Loyal at Last" " MY Lady Fantas-
TIC" "Ellen's Great Secret" Fell
Among Thieves" Etc.
The state capital., 1891-07-18
LINCOLN, ILL
Lincoln, H., July, 10Th 1St

Lincoln, Ill, july, lJth 1891
Albert JohnsOl and Joseph Hagaman
of Cincinnati, were in our city last week
They and Elder CotJrell were glad to
meet as they had not met for years
Elder Cottrell's subject last Sunday morn
ing and evening was the Nature a-.d De-
sign OF Baptism and its subject and mode.
Mrs. Harriet Dyer returned nome last
Friday from Springfield, where sne has
been visiting friends ana relatives. The
c"lored people Of this city contemplate
going to Mackinaw Falls, on Thursday,
July, 23d to spend the day in fishing and
enjoying the pure fresh ar in the woods.
Mr.. Al Crawford, of Decatur, has now
returned to our city and is now barber
ing tor Mr., Chas. NelsOn.-AbOut II
o'clock, last Monday night, our city was
visited by a storm of wind and rain. There
was great deal OF thunder and light
ming AS yet, 10 damages have been
heard Of. The rain was very much need
ed and the people should feel thankful,
The infant child of Mr.. and Mis-. Artist
has been very sick in the past week, and
is reported no better; but we ae glad to
report that Mrs. Artists health is lmprov-
ing very fast.--Those who read the Cap
ital consider it very good and are high
ly pleased With it-Mr James Williams,
of Peoria, was in our city last week. Hls
many friends were glad to meet HIM
again.. Boyd, L. Artist and Z GAM
bic attended the A. M E. church las
Sunday might've are glad to repol t
that MIR. Charles Smith is able to b,
around again. Mr.. and Mrs. Martin OF
Breadwell. Sundayed in Lincoln Mrs
Chales Nelson and children will /, ave
Saturday morning for Decatur where she
will visit her sister Mrs. l.. Nicken.--
Remember the basket meeting which
will be held at Clinton, July, 18th. Sev-
eraI ministers frOm abroad will be pres
ent. Among them will De Rev. Charles
Holmes, of Champai gn, formely pastor
| OF Clinton A.M.E. church. Several per-
sons from Lincoln will attend the meet
sing. Sarah Perkins.
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tits very discouraglng to the pub
fishers OF newspapers after having
notified its out of town subscribers
that a representative will call on
them to collect on a certain day
to be met with the news that they
can do nothing for them to-day.
That has been the luck of the Capi-
tai in some instances and we must
ask our subscribers to take note of
the time when our representatives
will call to collect our bills and en-
deavor to be prepared to settle. We
travel many miles and at consider
able trouble and expense and feel
that we should receive more gener-
Gus treatment than some of our sub
scribers give us. We send the pa
per and it is received. 1t is a
journal of which every Afro-Ameri-
can can be proud and trust that in
the future we shall receive encour-
agement in the shape of prompt
payments on the presentation of
our bills.
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THE HAYTIAN SITUATION.

All sorts of rumors continue to
float around concerning the cause
of Minister Fred. Douglas return
from Hayti. 1 he latest is to the
effect that the government of Haytl
fears this country and would rather
break off all diplomatic relations
with the United States than run the
risk Of giving Uncle Sam foothold
on the island which might be used
to it's disadvantage. Mr.. Douglas
denies all knowledge of such feel
ing existing in Hayti and any such
desi gns on the part of the United
States would be contrary to the
Monroe Doctrine which has long
been the established policy of this
country. W. believe in allowing
every government in this hemi-
sphere to settle its own affairs with
out outside interference either from
a European on an American source.
The first step made by this country
in contravention of such a policy
would be seized upon as an excuse
by European powers to establish
a foot hold in Cent, al and South
America which in time might be-
come serious menace to the well
fare of this government. Hayti
may have it's civil wars so did this
country and so has Chill; yet we
have not heard that any outside
government desires to step in and
arbitrarily exercise protectorate
over Chilli or any other country
which has its periodical revolution.
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THE STANDARD OF
THEIR PROFESSION.

On our trips through the state
we find a great many men and wo-
men whose confidence has beeu i'm
posed upon by men in the pulpit
who borrow. money and incur other
obligations from the business men
where they have been stationed by
the conference. The white business
men, assuming that they are honor
able and representative men. allow
them TO run small bills and leaving
it to their honesty to pay, and nine
cases out Of ten the ministers leave
the town without paying any of
their creditors. These dishonest
men in the pulpits must be exposed.
They are doing the Afro-American
people more harm than good. 1t
is not our intention to wage war
upon the church or christianity but
it is our purpose to show men up
who are not what they profess to
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The Afr0'AmeriCan

There are 100000 Baptists in tn
South.
A colored man in Birmingham, Ala
shot his year old child last week. will
the same old story, che didn't know i
was loaded"
A hea1tless woman in Augusta, Ga
has thrown her baby away IN order tt
return to her mothers home il
Pittsburg, Pa. She was music teacher
in Augusta but was dlspelled.
1t is reported that white man in Dow
/ er, Del, had his own son imprisoned on
insanity because he was in love with an
| Afro American.
Young George Vanderbnilt processes
| to care nothing for society and to dispose
| dispose of the advantages which vast
wealth is able to confer.
, Washington, July = Superintendent
Porter of the ensus Bureau has in prep
aration bulletin upon the membership
of the Roman Catholic church in the
United States, which will show the mem
bership to be $3.50, 900 communicates
over ID years of age.
Hon. Frederick Douglass, u. S. Min
lister to Ha ii, accompanied by his wife,
arrived in New York from Hayti yester-
day morning, and were met by Mr.. Lew
is II. Douglass
Tha party left on the Congressional
limited from Jersey City for Washington
at / clock.
Mrs. Jane Lewis, all sged cOlored lady,
living at Springfield, o., has been award
ell her share of $50, 900, left by her form
er master, Col. Taylor, KY. planter
The will has been in litigation for more
than 30 years.
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis of Balti-
more, is the name of colOred actress
who made her debut in Washington in
1888 and has played Juliet, Desdem0nia
and Leah with success.
The Silver Cross Circle OF Kings Daugh-
ters proposes soon to open house where
apartments OF one, two or three looms
VIII be rented at the lowest possible rate
to widows with children to support.
The Houston, Texas, Fire Department
has a novel auxiliary in the shape of
newly organized bicycle corps. The
members carry Oh their wheels axes,
ropes hooks, hose and other light appar
tus. The advantages of this novel idea in
fire control have been demonstrated to
be very great.
School teachers who feel that their
salaries are not as high they ought to be
in this country can go to Spain where
the salary of the pedagogue is from $16
to $40 month. At this rate warrants are |
issued in ell of cash, and are not paid for
five or six we rs. 1t is not picnic to teach |
school in Spain.
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ST. DAVID ILL.

The new side walk that is being
laid will add a great deal to the
looks of our city and new street
will soon be open which proves
that st. David is greatly on the in
crease.--The miners of Dumfermine
are overjoyed at the recent ap-
pointment of Charles Cane as bank
boss of the White Bress Coal Shaft;
he is an experienced miner and
will fill the position with credit
The miners made wise choice
when they selected Thomas Larkin
as their check weighman. We are
satisfied that Toms close observ-
ing eye will not allow one pound
of coal be passed unnoticed.--A
party of colored miners went to
the river this week to have good
time fishing; after arriving at their
destination, a boat was procured
and in short time was in the mid
die of the stream, but when the
time arrived to return from whence
they came, the oarsman forgot the
art of caring and the boat and four
frightened miners were left to the
merciless waves. "Cant you get
us back?" said one; "Use your right
hand" said the other; "Oh Lordie, y
said the third as the boat leaned a
good deal to one side and the poor
oarsman with feet set firm on the
bottom of the boat was using the
oars back ard forth about two feet
above the water and such was the
state Of things until the ferrymar
came to their rescue. Olympus
The state capital., 1891-07-18
The AfrO-A americans
OF GaiesbuIG. have
Orga niZed Il BUS
mess and loan
a SSnoia
ASSOcia ton.

The reading colored men of Galesburg
have organized an association known as
The eAfro-Americans Benefit Association.
Its purposes and plans are TO interest the
race into purchasing and accommodating
property, acquiring lands and trades and
to become successful business men and
women. Its officers and the majority of
it's members are thorough and compe-
tent men who conduct successful business
of their own. This is step in the right
direction and should they manage it right
on strictly business principles success is
bound to crown their efforts. There are
only three things the race must acquire
TO solve their fnture condition In this
country, and that is education, property
and ask for no special Legislation. The
officers are;
L. Nj, Washington, Pres
h. II. Nelson, Vice Pres.
f. C.. Carter, Sec.
r. Washington, Tres.
Trustees, ID. III. Nelson, Z. M S4r1es Z. 0.
Waleington..and John Davis.
We wish them success anu the CAPITAL
will do all in its power TO encourage sim
liar organizations throughout the State.
Let the goJd work go on.
The state capital., 1891-07-18

On our arrival from Pontiac, the
other day W found on the desk, a
letter from OairO I'LL. sent by Mr.
A. A. Martin an Atro-A merican
whose letters have been commen-
ted upon by the entire patrons of
the Capital. Such men as Mr.. Mar
tin are fast gaining friends for the
race among the more favored class,
the whites, in practicing what he
breaches. We are pleased to note
the increased circulation and inter-
est manifested in the Capital since
he assumed the editorship in Cairo.
Had the race more men like Martin
the condition of the black man would
be better. He holds one Of the
most responsible positions Of any
man in Cairo, and has the conf
dence Of his employers.
The state capital., 1891-07-18

Tt will be remembered that Mr..
Cullom is opposed to our country being
made an asylum, for European paupers
and the dumping ground and recep
table for all the cut throat thieves, and
laWless band of criminals that con-
tinue to pour into this country, from
Italy and Germany and many Euro
pean countries whose chief aim is to
breed contention and revolution in the
hope of destroying our government and
esta blishing Anarchy or monarchy in
this land Cullom favors the passage
of law restriction of immigration.
And since the ballot is the shield of
our liberties and the preserver of the
destiny of the republic. He would ad-
vOcate the enactment Ofsuch laws reg
ulating the elections of members Of
congress as would enable every Amer
can citizen who is entitled to vote to
do so without fear ofmolestation either
in his person or property and have
such vote honestly counted, such
measure for instance as the Lodges
Election Bill.n
Senator CulIom is IAN ardent advO-
cate for protection to the American
la Dor and produce, and favOrs such
legislation, upon tariff and reciprocity
as to encourage commercial relations
with our neighbOring republic and
European countries and at the same
time throw around our home markets
such protection against foreign compe-
titiOn as to make our government what
it ought to be, the model government
of the world, in wealth, in influence
and in power.
Let each state see to it, that their
delegates go to the convention i'll 1892,
pledged to do the best thing for the
people, and should Mr.. Harrison fail to
get the nomination, let them concen-
trate on Mr.. CullOm, and he will i'll
be elected without doubt.
n b.
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NOTICE.

There was a resolution passed at
the annual conference which met in
Springfield last August, that the P
E and Pastor of each circuit, sta
ton and mission should constitute
a committee to examine the deeds
of orr church property and report
a. the ensuing annual conference
J Stephenson.
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PROTEST AGAINST THE COLOR
LINE,

KNOXVILLE Teen, July 17-Special
Telegram.-The AfrO-American League
of the United States met here to- day in
annual session. A number of uolored
men of III" country are present. among
wnom are the Rev. j. C.. Prue, the noted
educator of North Carolina, and Il.
Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age
At the meeting to-day the separation
of races on railway trains was denounced
and discussed fir ely. and the nom
political clause stricken from the con-
stitution, leaving each local league to
act for itself in political campaigns. T..
Thomas Fortune has been elected
president for the next year, and
Philadelphia selected as the place Of
meeting.
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MINISTERS AND DEACoNs INSTITUTE

The Ministers and Deacons In
stitute will meet in the I'd Baptist
Church in Champaign, on Thurs
day, June 23rd, the fourth sunday
in July. All the deacons and min
listers are invited.
Rev. Jas. Thomas, President.
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NOTICE

The Executive Committee Of the
Atro-American League of Illinois
will meet at the Palmer House in
Chicago on Monday July 9th.
E. I'll. Wright. President.
J. III. Porter. Secretary.
The state capital., 1891-07-18

If you want the news you must
ubscri be for the CAPITAL.
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They appreciate the CAPITAL.


Elkhart, Ill. July 18th 1891 .
S. B Turner;
Dtar SIR
Enclosed, find postal note
for $1.50, for the Estate Capitrr' for an
other year. MIR. Gibbe and both called
not long ago bnt you was out.
respectfully yours,
Mrs. Emma Gi5be.
The state capital., 1891-07-18

There are 100000 Baptists in the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-09
THAT "cENsUKE" OF BLAINE.

Occasionally. irregularly, somewhat
Historically, the ladies of the w. c. T. Q.
have ''censuring" spasms. Some time ago
Vice-President Morton was the object of
one of these, because at hotel kept in a
house owned by him intoxicants are dealt
out to its patrons. The latest spasmodic
manifestation in this line occurred last
tary Blaine was its victim. He, it seems,
has been trying to devise methods for ex-
tending our trade with Central and South
America, and for introducing, among other
products, American beer into those coun-
tries.
Beer is but one in an almost innumer-
able list of articles, but they hunted it out
and segregated it. And then paroxysml
1t is thus that these ladies are continually
thwarting weli-meant efforts to magnify
the equal or superior capacity of their in
comparison with the other sex. Only the
other day, in these columns, the example
of Mrs. Deborah Powers, centennarian
who recently died at Lansingburg, New
York, was seized upon and elaborated with
this object in view. Here was woman
who, starting at 20 as an itinerant tai
loress, working for 81 week, built up
great manufacturing and banking bust
ness. acquired great learning, was a noted
philanthropist, and left fortune of two
millions.
1t is not recorded, nor even limited, that
at any period of her useful life this noble
woman ever publicly censured any person
or thing. 1t is not limited that she made
it any part of her busy and exemplary life
to hunt for subjects for censure, or for par
ticular acts or otherwise and generally
estimable people to find fault with. In
this, evidently, if in no other respect,
there was a notable difference between
Mrs. Deborah Powers and the governing
spirits-at least the censure resolutionists
--of the w. C, T. U.
Her success in life suggests that Mrs.
Powers probably investigated the facts in
every case, before exploiting an opinion in
regard to them, denunciatory or otherwise.
This, apparently, the ladies of the w. C. T.
U. have not done in respect to Mr.. Blaine
and the introduction of American beer
into those Southern countries.
Investigation would have revealed that
the favorite beverage manufactured and
used in those southern countries to aqua
FORTS as aqua FORTS is to sasafras tea.
1t stands next to, if not abreast of, orig
inal sin in its pernicious effects on those
who use it. Used to excess, parricide and
infanticide are its usual accompaniments;
taken in moderation it prompts the COM
mission of every sin forbidden by the deca-
logue; partaken of transiently and in so
cial way it leads to political revolutions
and commercial Generalization.
1t must be conceded that it would be
a blessing to those people, great
humanitarian achievement, to free them
from their thraldom to this prolific source
of crime and disorder. Nothing would
more conduce to the placing of them on a
plane where We might enjoy greater and
closer political, social and trade relations
with them. Our own oft-tried and bitter
experience is conclusive that prohibition
will not free them from that thraldom.
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success of the movement depends. Those
engaged in this class Of trade have this OPP
portunity of gaining rest and recreation
before them and it can be secured by the
exercise of q little thoughtfulness and
good humor on the part of the public.
There are doubtless isolated cases in which
there will be some inconvenience, but
little foresight viii remove most Of these
in time; and if those who are put to
trouble by the remainder viii submit for
the sake of q greater good TO large num-
Der, the movement cannot fail of success.
The people at large are proverbially good
natured in such matters and there is no
reason for supposing that they viii not be
in this instance. The case is an excellent
example of those in which relief can be
afforded class without doing injury to
any; and it is to be hoped that the dry
goods trade is to prove but the first to
which the reform is applied, for there are
several others to which it is equally appli-
cable
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THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

Last evening for the first time in the
history of Seattle the dry goods stores
were closed by the unanimous consent of
their proprietors throughout the city.
This was the beginning of a movement
which cannot but have beneficial result
upon the city in general, and more par.
ticularly upon those who are directly con.
nected with the trade in question.
The movement is one against which
hardly anything can be said and in favor
Of which reasons multiply. The retail
branch Of the dry goods trade is one that
is unusually exacting upon those engaged
In IL, large proportion of whom are
women. The hours during which the
stores have been kept open range from
twelve to fifteen to say nothing of the ad-
ditional time spent in replacing stock-this
taken in connection with the fatigue of
being on foot all day long, harrassed with
the cares and responsibilities incidental to
the work. shows what the relief must mean
to the clerks and to the employers who
have to work an equal length of time.
As all the stores are to close, the volume
and proportion Of business viii continue
the same to each. BY common consent an
exception is to be made of Saturday nights
and probably the evenings before holidays,
20 that the desire TO accommodate is ap-
parent on all sides.
The movement is one in which the pub
Tic is very nearly concerned, fcrupon ii the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-09
CONTRAsTED EDUCATIONAL
SCHEMES.

Recent dispatches announce two schemes
Tor the inauguration of as many Scam
paigns OF education" One has been Con-
ceived and will be set in motion by Presi-
dent Polk, OF the National Farmers ALI
ance, with Congressman Jerry Simpson as
his lieutenant, and the other by a number
of prominent New Workers, who for edu-
cational and philanthropic purposes have
organized society which is to bear the
novel and pulling title of the university
Settlement Society"
President Polk and Congressman Simp-
son are to meet and harangue the conyen.
ton Of different industrial organizations
to be held in La Crosse, Wis, TODAY. after
which they will speak at a number of
places in that state, and then extend their
evangelizing efforts through Illinois. Indi-
ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York, President Polk gives the fur
Their information that he has arranged
through the preidents of State Alliances.
to have mass meetings at several points in
each of the forty states, in which connec-
ton hundreds of speakers. will be de-
tailed and set at word educating the peo-
pie to the Alliance cause" in anticipation
of the meeting of the Fifty-second Con-
gress.
The New York scheme has for its object
the sytematic location of college graduates
and other educated people who care to
take part in the work, in tenement house
districts inhabited by the poorer and more
ignorant clesses, ''to bring men and women
Of education into closer relations with the
laboring classes. for their mutual benefit
Places of residence will be established for
the college men in these tenement dis
tricts, and it is intimsted that the places
where people of the neighborhood meet for
social and educational purposes will be the
principal scenes of their activity.
The legitimacy and merit of this move
ment is not open to question or criticism.
/, is not apparent that any selfish benefit
can accrue 10 the college men, whose only
gain will be better knowledge of the
tastes and needs of those whom they are
disposed TO serve, an increased fitness for
works of philanthropy; and a pleasant
consciousness Of well-intended efforts at
least for the amelioration of the lot of
fellow-mortsls less favored of fortune than
themselves. There is no tinge of pre-
sumption to mar the indisputahle benigni-
ty of their movement. The advantages
that have been vouchsafed them, and the
diplomas they bear, justify them in assum-
ing TO guide On lines of social and edu.
caticnal improvement those who have