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ELLIIS PfIMIT 60. 11 East Quartz Wall Paper, Paint and Glass Contracting Painters and Paperhangers PACIFIC STUDIO PIIOTOGRAPiIS AND KODAK WORK FLASH LIGHT WORK AND PHOTO BUTTONS. 221 South Arizona Street. PHONE 845-B BUTTE......... MONTANA LOCAL NOTES Col. James Collins begins active work on his copper mine next week. We wish the colonel much success. Room to rent. Mrs. Lucas, 116 South Idaho street. Mrs. Emma Wilds spent last Sun day as the guest of Miss Elsa John son out at the Nine Mile. We also took dinner at Mrs. Lewis' on Monday evening, which was a very pleasing affair. There will be a baby show at Bethel Baptist church Tuesday JIuly 29, under the management of Mrs. Hattie Wilson, for the benefit of the church. Everybody is re quested to bring your babies and the most perfect and well dressed baby will get the prize. There will be two prizes, first and second. Miss Letha Esters was elected president of Band of Hope at the regular meeting Thursday. No more business the meeting adjourned to meet Thursday July 29th. Miss Elza Johnson and Mr. Charles Brown, who have charge of Mr. A. P. Henrye's summer home, were in town this week visiting friends. Mrs. W. M. Hooker returned last week from a ten days' visit tn Mis soula visiting Mrs. Freeman, who re turned with her and will reside in Butte again. ' The Band of Gideon gave a grand reception to the public on Monday evening at the Baptist church. At the close of the business meeting a 1 program under the direction of Rev. 1 Laws was rendered. Organ Voluntary....Mrs. Rayfield i Address-"Shall We Fight?"' .. .... ..........Mr. Chas. Davis Recitation-"The Baby Across the Hay"....... .. ......Miss Brown a Bong-Mrs. Charles Wilson, Miss E Rhodes and Mrs. Nathaniel Collins. 1 A delicious repast was served at 1 the expense of the society by Mrs. i Janie Lewis, who simply excelled herself in cooking. Mrs. Lewis' cakes alone being worth going miles to taste. The very worthy president, Mrs. I Henry Johnson, was smiling from her post of duty showing her appre ciation of the efforts her co-workers were making to entertain their guests. This little band was organ ized for the purpose of building a church. They ex~ict to let the pub lic hear from them again. We hope it may be soon and often. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Brooks are in the city from Washington. Mrs. Henry Johnson entertained at her home this week Mrs. sBen Adams.. of Billings. It is some months since Mr. Adams' business (interests called him to Billings. Butte society sustained quite a loess in the departure of this family, as Mrs. Adams was a singer, and quite popular in lodge circles. That for tune has smiled on them in their new home was indicated by Mrs. Adams' elegant appearance. Mr. Robert Lucus returns after a six months' trip to Puget Sound points, much benefited in health. He reports unfavorable weather, and work scarce. After a flying trip to Anaconda this gentleman returns to Helena to make arrangements to move his family to Butte. Mrs. Lee, of Saint Louis. arrived in the city Friday, visiting her hus band. who is interested in some horses that are running in Butte this season. Mrs. William H. Jones. of Elpaso. Texas, was in the city two days this week on business. She returned Wednesday evening on the Oregon Short line. Mr. Willie Willis. of Saint Paul, who is now running between that plal e and Anaconda, was in the city I; \Vedneslday. - t ROOM TO RENT-Mrs. Lucas, 116 r South Idaho street. -I Mr. Lonnie Clayton, our former jockey, who is now riding for H. I. Wilsop. has been indisposed this week and has been unable to ride. - c Mrs. Ennis Bell. who has heen con f ined to her bed for the last two weeks, is improving rapidly. We will be picased to see her out again. - Mrs. S. A. Smith has rented her house furnished and will leave next l week for Spokane to visit her mother. She will also visit several northern cities. The Crisenda club's inaugural ball which is to he given Wednesday evening. August 6, is looked forward to to be the grandest affair of its kind ever given by the colored people of Montana. The executive commit tee is doing everything in their power to make the event one that will go down in history. Special in vitations are being sent to Spokane. Helena, Great Falls, Salt Lake, Poca tello. Anaconda and several other towns throughout the state. The fol lowing named gentlemen have the conducting of the business affairs: J. H. Williams, J. Fletcher, Robert L~awrence, W. H. Spriggs, J. E. Fletcher. F. Golden. The auditorium is being overhauled and prepared to receive this grand affair. CHURCH NEWS. The Trinity A. M. E. church will hold their quarterly meeting and the dedication of their church Sunday. July 20th. The church choir has been reorganized and are preparing spe cial music for Sunday under the management of Mrs. E. D. Washing ton. Mrs. William Green will preside at the organ. The presiding elder, Rev. James Hubbard. will be present and a grand time is expected. Every one is cordially invited to attend all the services. The service at the Calvary Baptist church was well attended last Sun day, and a good spiritual interest was manifested. The Sunday school was better attended than any Sunday yet, which shows an interest among both parents and children. Special effort at Bethel Baptist church Sunday umy 29. to raise money for the building fund. Everybody are cordially invited to come out and help in the interprise. There should he a Baptist church here, and those who are going to heaven certainty ought to work for it. Rev. C. C. X. Laws and wife last Sunday were the guests of Mrs. D. Lewis from 3 to 5 p. m. The time was spent profusedly in ice cream and cake, which was highly appreciated, and a few minute after 6 we were at Mrs. Sadie Smith's. 711 Broadway. where we partook of the best in the storehouse, which was served in courses and very sumptu ously injoyed. Titer on we were at the church, where the people listened Ivery attentively to the sermon de livered by Miss Rhodes. the evange list, which was highly appreciated. OGDEN ITEMS. Mrs. Al Townsen left this week for Pocatello, where she will join her husband. They will make Pocatello their future home. Mrs. Abe Redd went to Pocatello -1 this week. Mr. Isaac Harper resigned his peel tion on the dining car and left for Po catello, where he will take a position as chef cook in the Pacific Hotel. The 1 Pacific Hotel company has employed white help throughout until the first of July. when it changed manage ment. Since that time the different positions are being filled by colored people. Mr. F. E. Lewis, the man ager of the Oregon Short line dining cars, and the Pacific hotel in Poca tello. has proved to be a friend to the colored people, and we trust that the men employed in the hotel and on the dining cars will show theil¶ appreciation by doing their work better than any one else. Let us follow Booker T. Washington'd motto: "Do a common thing in an uncommon way." By so doing the field of opportunity will ever widen for us until it will reach from one side of this great continent unto the other. Mr. Frank Ellison has accepted a position as chef cook on the 0. S. L. dining car. Mr. Griffn Mack is al smiles over a fine girl that was added to his family on the 7th inst. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. Ij Andrew Sledd, of Georgia, is pretty icertain to incur the denunciatios Of la large section of the Sonih. In the Atlantic Monthly he has a paper, "The Negro: Another View." In which he trefutes the claim made in defense of lynchings that these acts of mob vio lence are usually directed against black brutes who have comwnitted the nameless crime against women. He asserts that "only a very srail pro portion (in some years one-tenth) ".f Southern lynchings are due to rape, either actual or suspected." !dir. Sledd's paper is mainly a plea for the suppression of the mob and the reign of law. In this issue H. D. Sedgwick. Jr., pleads for discipline and contem-lto samas fcretn h inequalities that have arisen from the country's overrapid industrial develop ment. J. A. LeRoy discusses the race question in the Philippines, and says that the pacification of the nativ's has been greatly retarded by the Americans carrying their "anti-nig ger" prejudices there. American ex pansion is accomplishing some of its most beneflcient results in Pbrto Rico. W. F. Willoughby, the island treas urer, mums up the important work ac complished by two years of legislation W. J. Henderson, the musical critic. is also an authority on boating, and he has a delightful paper on sailing Walks with Ellery Channing, selected excerpts from the unpublished diary of Emerison; a study of Walter Pater. by Edward Dowden; The Plays of Eugene Brieux. by Geo. P. Baker, and an essay on the reading of books, by Gerald Stanley Lee. are the special literary features of this number. "Our Lady of the Beeches," a new serial by the Baroness von Hutten, is begun. and there are short stories by R. E. Young. Geo. S. Wasson and Dallas L. Sharp.--Globe Democrat. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL DEVEL. OPMENTS. - Is A conference of prominent men at Atlanta recently brought out some in- ai teresting information as to the indus- Ici trial employment of negroes; but noth ing in connection with the event was s so instructive as the visit of some of b the leading Southern delegates to the o Tuskiegee industrial institute. The ji old South was indifferent to indus- h trial training and education, and while ii there has been some change in this respect, there is still too much indif ference to the industrial training of tl Southern whites. Some of these viii- ci tors had their eyes opened to the fact y that the Negroes, through the impetus a of the Tuskegee institute, are likely ji to surpass the Southern whites in this it respect. One Georgia delegate said: o "The results here attained by one c man fratify but frighten me. Every c thinking Southern man would feel the ti same way who had seen what I-have a seen today. Industrial education is a h good thing for the Negro, but it is TI absolutely necessary for the whites. s I am going back to Georgia and preach c the necessity of industrial traininj e for both races." n Governor Jeiks, of Alabama. said: p 'I have always admired Booker T. o Washington, and felt that he was do- ti ing a great work for the state, bat I T1 had no idea that he was coming tz s near to a solution of the Negro prob- r lem." ji The reports made to this Atlanta h conference show that the Negro is p making great progress as an artisan, e and through this industrial training v is gradually and quietly winning his t way industrially in the South. It is t: perhaps not generally known that t there are scores of smaller but similar b~ institutions to those at Hampton and Tuskegee, founded by graduates from p these schools. The results are so satisfactory, and the influence of the industriaily educated negro is so L wholesome, that the whites have be- I come much interested in the indus trial education not only of the negrofi I but oC their own race as well. So it is coming to peass that a move ment inaugurated by a colored man 1 primarily for the benefit of his ownt race is to be extended and is in fact being extended ahrdlu shrdluhrdluta Sbeing expanded for the instruction sand benefit of the white race in the South also. Booker T. Washington has revolutionized sentiment among his own people, and exerted a powerful -influence upon the whole race in that 1 section of the country also. The ne" groew are no longer altogether mere cotton pickers and common laborers, 1 tbut are becoming skilled mechanics, 1trained farmers, men and women go ing out with not only the ambition be! the equipment to become home build- I ters and state builders; and their sue- 1 Scess has been so marked that it has 1 tstimulated the whites to the adoption of similar methods. And so, after all, the despised negro, erstwhile a slave, Sis a chief factor in the new develop. e ment and upbuilding of the South. aOldest Ship Afloat. "What is stated to be the oldest ship in the world has recently been sold at v Teneriffe to be broken up This is athe Italian ship Anita, of Genoa. She dresembles Christopher Columbus' ship d anta Maria. was built in Genoa in 1548, and effected her last voyage at the end of March, 1802, from Naples to Teneriffe six or seven weeks ago. yThe Anita was of tremendously ifstout build, and had weathered count ,e less storms and tornadoes in all parts e* of the world; but. says the Shipping eWorld, it was also the slowest ship ,eafloat, taking 205 day, on one voyage 'f from Baltimore to Rio do Janerio. NEGRO CITIZENSHIP! THERE CANNOT BE TWO GRADES OF CITIZENS IN AMERICA. NEGRO ADVENT NOT VOLUNTARY -1 The White Man's Sense of Justice Has Been and Still Is the Chief Force Influencing Laws and Customs Favorabie to Colored People. Editor Freeman:-If there ever waa a time when the colored citizens should take a decided and aggressive part in helping to settle the many questions that arise from the impact 'of the white and colored citizens OS our country, this is the hour. This is the white man's country, not only by right of discovery and con quest. but by every other recognized claim. He founded the nation and has Instituted apd developed the gov ernment. The Chinamnan is excluded from the privilege of citizenship and to an extent Is denied even the privi lege of residence. flat the same course is not pursued toward the Ne gro Is due to the fact that his advent was not voluntary. While the grant ing of citizenship to the Negro and his descendants Is strictly in accord with justice, the fact is that the acceptance of the condition that results puts the noblest qualities of the white man to the severest test. Thus far no state, city or community where the condi tions have been strained have been able to live up to either the letter or tespirit of the law. In all such Icommunities there are many individ uals who are at heart just, but they cannot prevent outbreaks upon th.a part of others. Governors, judges and sheritfs have found themselves power less to control the "mobs" which have been arrayed by "actual feelings" against a more or less abstract prin ciple. If the time ever comes when the i white man of this country accepts the black man as a fellow citizen on terms of equality, It T-i be a triumph of justice over race prejudice such as the history of man has never before furn fished. While it is true that the white man's sense of ustice has been and still is the chief force influencing law. and customs favorable to colored citizen,, yet it must also be remembered that apart from the mere desire to deal justly, the white man is bound to be influenced by considerations of hisE own welfare and of the welfare of the - country in dealing with the colored citizen. In the end he must accept the black man as a fellow citizen and accord him equal rights and protect him in the enjoyment of the same. There cannot be two grades of citizen ship in this republic. The negroes can neither be segregated nor deport ed. They are here as citizens and must be dealt with as such. If it were possible to deal with the negro in any other way than as a citizen, the ques tion would be settled in short order. That class of white men who are swayed by prejudices and sentiment rather than by the dictates of sober judgment and the sense of justice. have been and are doing all things possible to fix the status of the color ed citizen, but that class cannot pre vaiL. They have in the past and at ' the present time still are subjecting the negro to many hardships; they may continue to do so for many years, but the end will come. The colored citizen has it in his power to shorten the period of his op pression and suffering and to hasten i he day of his prosperity. He will, progevres towuarde thi untlke becomesat hrowrever beouable toi makl e anyogreat able to calmly recognise the plaini facts and to be guided by sober judg- 1 menL. The three chief lines along which progress should be made are those that will secure for the race greater economic efficiency, more social and political modesty and increased moral and intellectual soundness and strength. J. YI. HRNDRRSON, Ii. D. 2224 Fitswater St., Philadelphia, Pa. Texas, the Lone Star State, would seemingly be one of the last states in the Union to which our race should look to for a long step forward, Still it is the unexpected that always hap pens. Down in Texas, it would ap pear that they have a set of men in the supreme court who are endo'wed by God with that greatest of all bless ings, common sense. Robert Smith was recently convicted of having mur dered a white woman. He was sen tenced to death. Fortunately for him, and fortunately for the colored race, he was able to carry the case to the highest court in the state. There it was argued that becamse twelve white men sat in the jury box they were prejudiced against the ac cused because he was black and the woman he was accused of killing was of the jury's race. Lawyers laughed at the plea, hut the men of the bench tdid not and a few days ago rendered a decision holding the plea well-takes, and the conviction illegal because the - prosecution in selecting the jury had i discriminated against colored men. ISmith was ordered set tree. This may not be law in other states, hut it seems to be common sense, and the day that sees common serns injected into the so.called race problem in all parts of the United States will mark the end of the problem. Texas haa opened the way that other states may follow. There is no more reason for baring a negro from the jury box at the trial of a fellow negro than bar ring a Mason from the trial of a Ma son, an Odd Fellow from the trial o[ an Odd Fellow, a Protestant from the trial of a Protestant, a Catholic from the trial of a Catholic, or a white man from the trialof a white man. S[nIth & Mattinalu'3 HIGH CLASS SUMMER Shirrts In All the New Fabrics of the Sea son Now on Sale. Smith 1& Matting1ly The Hatters and Furnishers 117 NORTH MAIN. DRINK CENTENNIAL ~ER The Beer that Made Butte 'Famous Centennial Brewing 1Company lALW~AY Orrnr. Wa Ninsa SrzxP tTelephone and Telegraph Orders SPromptly Answered. tNOTARY PUBLIC Secretary Mount Morish Cemetery Association. 1JOSEPH RICHARDSi THE BUTTE UNDERTAKER SPractical Embelmor's and Funeral eDirectors 140 WEST PARK STREET TXLUPUOIfU 3(07. Residence. 409 South Montana Street. eTelephone 708-M. Stale Sarngh BWn John A. Creighton...... President 0. W. Stapleton.....Vice President T. MI. Hodgens ..............Cashier JT. 0. Hodgen ....Assistant Cashier R. B. Nuckolls-..-Assistant Cashier Under state supervision and junis diction. Interest paid on deposits. Sells exchange available in all the principal cities at the United States and Europe. Collections promptly at. tended to. Transact general banking business. Directors: J. A. Creighton, Omaha; 0. W. Stapleton, A. H. Barret. N. D. Levitt, S. V. Kemper, T. M. Hodgens, J. 0. Hodgens. Corner Main and Park streets, Butte. DALY BANK &o TRUST CO. OF BUTTE CAPITAL $100,000.00. John D. Ryan.............President John R. Toole .....Vice President C. C. Swinborne............Cashier R. A. Kunkel....Assistant Cashier Burna, MONTANA. Capital $zoo~ooo.oo. l Under state supervision. Five .per cent interest, payable quarter. lv, paid on deposits. ` ]t'q Is Lai mu Real lh uet ,F Auc. HEINZE, - President iCHAS. R. LEONARD, -Vice Pres.. 1A. B. CzEMENTS, - - Cashier' The Fines Eui ý West of'4 New gt~ The Lsaal.0 EatTobGa~eist 23 EatBroadway, Butte, Goods delivered~al all oYerth stab Road 6db & Trdnier ý WJIGKEST IRND BIM, To be had at BOARD OF TRADE LOAN f Mose Lana, 20 8. Mali 8t. Also bargains in unredeemed moods, Watches and Jewsn Liquors and ººGloars fl SpeGialtU r i6 North Main Street, Butte. Dr, A. D, Ga1braith Offices-3o4 and 305, Goldberg iBlock, Butte, Montana. Hawthorne $8ioIU 24 WEST GAI:ENA, Just refitted with all social coeva lences for pleasant evenings. A as Brunswick-Balke pool table just pat h. Earl Dunne..............Presldui Jim Jefferson .....Vice PresidiM Sam Harden. Secretary and Tree~iff Visitors in the city are invited b drop in. OxIord Mdrkcý Mendelsohn L Bailey, Preps, Wholesale and Retail Dealer' is Fanhllu rGcrI166S6 Fruilts and VegctalM$ BUTTER AND EGGS, Dried and Smoked Meats. F1'11 "d' Game in Season. Phone $$2-M. 46W. Park K W. Ii. BLACK Ice Cream and Confectionery 6. W. Park St. BUTTE Standard Ladies' Tailuidg COMPANY We have now on display a 5 and choice collection of Fabrics d5 haahion Plates of the latest Spri and Summer styles. We shall be pleased to have call on us. We can guarantee U$ ' date styles. Every garment nud t measure. High grade work and p~i low by comparison. WITS FROM $5.100 TO Nm We Furnish Our Own oo' Yours Truly. Standard Ladies' Tailorinig CO. 125 WEST BROADWMNANA BmUTTE ..- ..........MOTN