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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06
COME TO ILLINOIS TO SPRING
FIELD.
FIELD.

Colored people in the south
and IN other states are invited to
come to Illinois and to this coun.
Gy and City and make their habi
tat. linois is rich in soil; rich
ia her supply of brain, rich with
tradition, the greatest state 10
manufactures and political sup.
ply of able men FOR high places.
We extend you the hand Of well
come out we want frugal, indus
trious, law.abiding colored men
~ en- VIII will prove a credit, not
dishonor; men who will work
not loaf; men who will go out and
farm and raise cattle and garden,
not peanut politicians. This is a
fine country for such men. Mon
ev is plentiful here for such men.
We also invite colored men here
who have some capital and de
sire to go into business. The
Negro Mems Business League
desires to encourage colored en-.
terprises. This, we have long
since discovered, is not encourag
ed enough. Our people are toe
lethargic in business. We need
from shoe stores TO first. class
shining parlors and people who
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06
WILLIAMS AND WALKER.

Five thousand dollars for one
nights performance. This is
the amount that was paid to close
the Great Northern Theatre,
Chicago. Something never heard
of before in the history of the
Chicago theatrical world. lnfor
nation on the matter has been
kept quiet. 1t only leaked out
on Monday night. 1t seems that
the AFFAIR was arranged early in
January to have the stars and
their company one night in the
last week of their engagement.
To do this the house had 10 be
bought out. And the trouble did
not end at his junction, and the
matter was forwarded to New
York to be settled. After d long
drawn out wrangle it was finally
agreed upon to allow the com
pany to appear before the most
select audience of Chicago. which
consisted of fifty persons. The
whole thing sounds like a fairy
tail, but still it is true. Such
things have happened IN Paris
when Count de Castellane was
spending the Gould millions.
Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston
has arranged some big stunts.
The Vanderbills have given Will
liams and Walk err $1,000 for them
selves for one nights entertain
ment on the lawn at Newport, r.
| 1t has been said through the
press in New York that different
opera stars got SO much and SO
much for one nights entertain
ment; but this is the first time in
the history of The American the
atrical world that a house has
been bought out and closed. This
seems TO be a Chicago society
fad. The Pekin stood alone. The
North Side -Four Hundred"
bought it out to see the Mayor
of Dixie but not at such a big
figure as the above. The funny
thing about the whole matter is
/ bat on both occasions that these
sansati )nal stunts have been pull
led off in Chicago. the Negro
actor has been on the funny end
of it. Williams and Walker are
TO receive $1,000 bonus extra.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06
JUDGE TERRELL PROMOTED.

Justice Robert H. Terrell,
since 1902 magis rate IN Wash
ington, D. c.. has just been pro-
noted by President Roosevelt to
the iudgeship Of the Municipal
Curt of the District recently
created by Congress, The pro
motion carries with it an increase
of authority and of salary.
When, in 1902, President
Roosevelt was casting about to
find representative among the
10000 negroes of the District for
a place in the justice courts. Mr..
Terrell was at once picked for
the position. His promotion tes-
titles as to the wisdom of the
choice. Possessing in an emf
nent degree, judicial poise, fair
ness and firmness and d thorough
student of the law he has been
the most popular justice in the
district. A graduate of Harvard
in the class of 1884, Judge Ter
rell through a conscientious per
Torrance of duty and hard work
, has forced his way forward; has
earned his promotion. Even
now, we venture to say that he
has not reached the zenith of his
career. New York Age.
]
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06

You may say what you please,
but our clergy must not fail to
teach the congregation some
thing aud not Chill their services
in taking up col!ectlons-all col.
lections should prec' de the ser
mon and should be done quietly
and orderly. The people should
pay what they agree TO pay with
out coaxiny and before you get to
church. Aud, too, every man
should give according to his abil
lty and poor washer woman
should not be exacted as much as
much as business or profession
al man who makes $75 to $3.50
per month Such men should
give $50 TO $50 per year.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06
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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06

The Negro Business Mems League
meets every two weeks. We have ex-
tended an invitation to all manner of
business people and you have no ex-
cuse
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06

Political integrity is the road
but thieves reap what is sown.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-03-06

have business qualities enough
to run them.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
DUN & co.'s TRADE BULLETIN
Every Large Business Center
Throughout the Country Reports
Progressive eAImprovement.

New York City.-R. G. Dun & Co. s
Wsellly Review of Trade says
From every large business center
throughout the country come reports
of progressive improvement in trade.
In most instances the reports are
more than satisfactory; they speak of
a present and prospective increase in
activity that is indicative of return
to even more than normal conditions.
In some cases the volume of trade is
described as equal to, or in excess of
previous records. In the iron and the
steel trade full productive capacity
appears to have been approached and
the outlook for 1910 is very bright.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
TO DlSFRANCHlSE THE NEGRO
Maryland Democrats Have Old Idea
with New and Specious Argu-
ments.

Maryland Democrats have opened
another campaign for the disfran-
chisement of the negro, which is be-
ing urged with novel and specious
pleading. The proposed amendment
to the constitution would bar negroes
who have not been thrifty enough to
accumulate $500 and an education
OF course there are the usual argu.
ments about restricting the suffrage
to the intelligent and responsible ele-
ment, barring the illiterate and igno-
rant, and all that. The new wrinkle
is the assertion that by adopting the
amendment the grandfather clause
can be brought at last squarely before
the United States supreme court and
a decisive ruling obtained on the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments. Ac-
companying this is the Rayner argu-
ment that these amendments are an
iniquitous interference with the
states rights and furnish an alleged
! necessity for defending them.
All this, of course, makes cam
paign defamation, but it may be
doubted whether it can obscure the
real purpose of the Maryland politi-
clans in pushing the issue. There are
some 10000 negro voters in the state.
The Democrats believe that these rep
resent the balance of power. BY the
elimination of the great majority of
the negro voters the state, they think,
can be made safely Democratic. That
is all there is to it. The alleged anxi-
ETY. to get the federal amendments be-
fore the supreme court by tdopting the
state amendment and having a test
made is simply campaign dust thrown
in the eyes of the voters. If the DEM
ocracy is so anxious to obtain such
Lewiston on this issue there have been
numerous opportunities in the south
ern states that have been carefully
overlooked.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
TILTED GIRL BLOWS
OFF HEAD WITH GUN
VILLA OF AN AMERICAN PAINTER
AT ROLLEBoISE, FRANCE, THE
SCENE OF TRAGEDY.
GIRL NOTED FOR HER BEAUTY
She Served at Night in the Double
Capacity of Domestic and Model
Was Thrown Down by Her
Lover at Public Bail.

Mantes-Sur-Seine, France.-The VIII
la of Daniel Ridgway knight, the
American painter at Rollerboise, over
looking the Seine, was the scene
of a dramatic tragedy October 6. Ar
mande Pisoni, a 17-year-old-girl, re-
nowned throughout the countryside for
her beauty and who served at night in
the double capacity of domestic and
model, after being publicly Tilted at
village ball by her lover, Gustaye For
tune, returned to Mr.. knights home,
took the painters shotgun and, placing
the barrel under her chin, blew off her
head. Mr.. Knight found the body of
the girl the following morning upon
his return from Paris.
Before killing herself Armande
wrote pathetic letter to her father, a
chimney sweep in Paris, and to her
sisters, adjuring the latter to avoid
love affairs and never to believe mans
word. She also left a letter to Mr..
knight asking forgiveness for the
trouble and annoyance she was caus-
ing him in committing such a deed in
his home. The coroner returned a
verdict of suicide during temporary
fit of madness. When Fortune heard
of the tragic death of his sweetheart
he tried to kill himself
The funeral of the girl was the oc-
casion of remarkable demonstration of
affection for her. The entire populace
of the village attended the services
and followed the coffin to the grave
Mr.. Knight paid all funeral expenses.
He said that the girl had a face of
the most remarkable beauty he had
ever seen. She was posing for pic
lures Mr.. Knight is painting which he
said are valued by him at $50 ,000. One
of them is for John II. Converse, presi-
dent of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works at Philadelphia.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
PERSONAL.

Mrs. E. E. Pitts of Laurens, S. c.,
is said to have been cured recently of
pellagra in an advanced stage.
Miss Ruth Bryan has announced
herself as a candidate for congress
from Colorado district.
Attorney General Wickersham and
Secretary Nagel of the department of
commerce and labor arrived in Wash
ington after their vacations.
Richard U. Sherman. son Of Vice
President Sherman, and Miss Eleanor
Mills. society belle Of Utica. N. y,
were married at that city.
Postmaster General Hitchcock is at
Flagstaff. Ariz.. for a bear hunt. He
will join the Taft party at Yuma.
Prof Abbott Lawrence Lowell was
inaugurated as president of Harvard
university.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Taft's South Carolina Appointments

Mir. Taft's record in the way of ap-
pointments in South Carolina is one
to which he may point with pride"
and for which he is entitled to the
thanks of the people of this state. The
roll is worth calling at times to show
how far we have travelled since the
unhappy blunders of the last admins
tration: Durant, collector of the port
of Charleston, with Pete" Jennings as
deputy collector thrown in for good
count; Floyd as postmaster at Spar
tanhurg, with the Endorsement of many
of the best men in that city; Hastie as
assistant district attorney at Charles
ton; Storen as census supervisor of
the First district; Waterhouse at
Beaufort; Russell at Anderson; Pritch-
ard at Greenville Douglas for the
Fifth district Dupre for the Columbia
district, and possibly Alexander for
the Sixth district. All these men are
white men; number of them are
Democrats, and the majority of them
are natives of the state. We think
that this is good record and that, be-
sides pleasing the people and making
them think that they really have an
interest in the government at Wash.
ington, the government itself will get
first rate service.-Charleston Is. c.
News and Courier Dem).
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
MEN MUST BE SOMEBODY
Progressive Women of New York De-
eide that 1t Is Not Incumbent on
Wife to Use Husbands Name.

New York City.-The New York
legislative league, composed of pro-
gressive women, has decided by reso-
luton that it is not incumbent on a
married woman to use her husbands
name. While this resolution was
unanimously carried many prominent
speakers declared that at the present
time, with men in a more powerful
political position it would be ex-
pedient for women to use some part
of their husbands names.
my husband objected to me using
my own name" declared Mrs. Mar
garet Holmes Bates, and it did not
do him any good. / wrote and signed
my writings with my own name. 1t
is all very well in private and social
life to use your husbands name if he
is anybody. | don't see why anybody
should use the name of a nonentity."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
TRAINS COLLIDE WITH CRASH
Seventeen People Were Killed and
Ten Severely Injured Near To-
Peka, Kan.

Topeka. Kan.-Seventeen persons
were killed and ton severely in
jured in a collision between a freight
train and a construction train On the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
near here. The dead are eleven Mex
leans, four section foremen and two
brakemen. The injured are all Mexi-
cans and are at the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe hospital. 1t is believed
some of them arc fatally injured. The
work train was backing into Topeka
with 90 Mexicans riding on the fiat
cars. AS the train was rounding a
curve the north bound freight crashed
into it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
SUMMARY !
Of A
WEEKS EVENTS !;
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
. ssesssssssssssee Q
TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT.

President Taft was given hearty
welcome on his arrival at San Fran
cisco and the program for his enter
tainment was carried out without a
hitch.
President Taft officiated at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the First
Universalist church at East Portland,
Ore.
President Taft visited the Alaska
Yukon. Pacific exposition at Seattle.
Wash, and was the center OF interest
for the great crowds at the fair.
President Taft. at Seattle exposi-
ton. in his speech said he would ask
congress to pass a ship subsidy law.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Sensational developments are eX-
pected in the jury-tampering scandal
at Chicago States Attorney Way
man has discovered much new evi-
dence and drafts of more indictments
are being prepared and the present
grand jury is expected to return them.
Action has been begun at Washing
ton before the interstate commerce
commission by the Federal Sugar Re-
fining Company of New York against
several eastern railroads in which al
legations of unjust and unreasonable
charges for transportation of sugar
are made.
The Spanish ambassador to France
has again formally assured Foreign
Minister Pichon that Spain has no in
tention of departing from her original
program regarding Morocco as COM
municated to the powers.
The Upper Mississippi River I'M
provement association in session at
Winona, Mimi, has adopted resolu-
tion requesting congress to appropri-
ate s20,000,000 for siX-foot channel
in the Mississippi river from Mime
apolis to ST. Louis
A dense fog at Detroit caused many
collisions between street cars
in which several persons were in
jured. One boy was killed
The Mayor of Marshalltown, Ia, and
six members of the police force and
sheriff's office have been indicted by
federal grand jury for placing an In
dian service officer in Jail and keeping
him there for more than "a hours.
The old-fashioned lord mayors
show which for many centuries
has been one of the most picturesque
functions to be witnessed in England,
will be abandoned this year by the
new lord mayor-eect, Sir John Knill.
"Near-beer" dealers in Tennessee
must pay tax of $1,5O0 year, COL
lection of which is to be begun at
once
Kings Mountain day." the anniver.
sary of the victory over the British in
1880 at Kings Mountain, n. c., was
celebrated in South Carolina and
Tennessee.
AS each graduating class at West
Point is about eighty men short of the
number of officers needed by the
army, an effort will be made by Presi-
dent Taft to persuade congress to in
crease the number of cadets to be ap-
pointed.
Prominent public men who were to
have been called by the government
in the Panama libel case against Della
van Smith and Charles r. Williams of
the indianapolis News have not been
summoned to the hearing next Mon
day at the Indiana capital.
The biennial convention of the Ma
tonal German.American alliance WAS
held in Cincinnati, more than 300 dele.
gates attending
The thirty-second annual meeting
tional German American alliance was
held in Cincinnati. more than three
hundred delegates attending.
Charles r.. Crane. the new American
minister to China. sailed from San
Francisco 10 assume his duties.
The celebration OF the centennial
OF the American Humane association
opened in St Paul Mimi. with Presi.
dent Stillman OF Albany, N. Y, in the
chai'
1t is reported that John r. Walsh
he former Chicago banker, is prenar
M a .!.anci coup and regain his Tor.
ner power.
bandits who attacked the post of1ce
al Mass. II Samara province. iiuss!a
escaped with $4,000 after E!lllug tour
Onlcers
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
ANALYSIS of Reason.

Reason is always kind of brute
force; those who appeal to the head
rather than the heart, however pallid
and polite, are necessarily men of
violence. We speak of touching a
mans heart. but we can do nothing to
his head but hit it.-G. X. Chester
ton.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14

gard the passage of the Payne bill
and President Taft's frank discussion
thereof as an earnest that the Repub-
fort to fulfill the party pledge, where
as the debate and the votes on the
Payne bill amply demonstrated that
party pledges have no binding force
with the members of the opposition.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
One Killed; Eight Injured.

Waterloo, Ia.-One person was
killed and eight others We're injured
at Greene, 40 miles north of Water
loo. The locoTative of a passenger
train picked up loose plank which
broke switch and caused the wreck.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14

A local minister who listened close
ly to the hymn caught the lady men,
bers of his choir singing: yield not
to filtration, for flirting is sin; some
sister will help you a brother to win"
Lawrence World.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Area Not the Biggest Factor.

ANY scientific farmer can tell the
modern Malthuses that it is cheaper
10 raise certain product on so acres
well farmed than on 200 poor acres.
Area and its present yield may al
most be disregarded in figuring what
population the earth can support
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Handle

'Precocious children do not always
grow up to be geniuses." NO" an
swered Miss Cayenne. Sometimes
they are kept so busy thinking up odd
things for their fathers to tell down
town that they neglect the ordinary
branches of education. Washington
Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Life's UPS and Downs.

THE world is full of ups and
downs" quoted the Wise Guy. That's
right" agreed the Simple Mug. I'VE
are either trying to live up to
good reputation or trying to live
bad one down"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Really a Puzzle,

did she marry for love?' That's
what everybody is wondering. Her
husband is charming in manner,
wealthy, has no bad habits, and
moves in the best society. Judge.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Queer New York Street sions.

A barber in the Bronx who halls
from Italy has a sign painted on his
window "Barbitonsorial Parlor." And
on hotel by Bronx road is the an
nouncement, Automobile and Fun
eral Parties Cheerfully Accommodated"
New York Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Just a Gentle Hint.

A clergyman startled his drowsy
congregation the other day as fol-
lows: My dearly beloved friends,
permit me to remind you that | came
here to preach, not to act as umpire
in q snoring match. ."-Tit-Bits.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Old Monitor Officer Dead.

New York City-Capt john Joshua
N. Webber, so years old, Who served
rs an executive officer On Il" IRON
clad Monitor during her batt,e with
tho Mcrrimac in 1864 is Geci :. a
Staten Island seamen's resort.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
National Differences,

"Chinamen are very different from
us in one thing, amt they, pop?" In
why, if a Chinaman don't get yell
lowjacket on him, he's stung."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
No Proof of Hereditary Leprosy.

The London Lancet says six hun
dred children of leprous parents are
being educated by the Mission of Lep-
ers, and the children show no signs of
leprosy
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Has the Sad Conuicfinn-

After man has tried in vain to Dor
row few paltry dollars you can't con-
vince him that the world isn't growing
wiser,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Best Milk for Babies

Morning milk is best for babies
fresher and fewer germs than the
previous nights milk, but slightly
weaker in cream.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14

At the rate new quarre!s are spring
ing up in the Democratic party In
states without which it can never
hope to win again. It may easily be
that the great advertiser of Lincoln
will be the only man willing to accept
Democratic presidential nomination.
in 1912.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
.JOR PRINTING.

The Job department. OF the PREss is complete
Snd affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW
PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear-
kges are paid except at the option OF the pub
usher.
Papers sent out of the county must be paid
for In advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Tests of Success

Sometimes it seems easier to mum.
Der your successes by counting the
chances you didn't take.-Puck.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
M9~im

It's all right for man to hold three
or four queens in a game of cards
but not in the game of love.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Few Attain Iona Iife.

Few Attain Long Life.
Taking the average for the world
around fewer than half of the babies
born live to be so years of age.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-14
Uncle Ezra Saws

It's a short road thet hez no tenn
tations fur the autymobile speeder."