The forum. [volume], July 06, 1907, Image 7

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UfK Shop forltatiies"
Our Third Semi-Annual
Clearing Sale Now Going On
On Monday, July 1st, we inaugurated our Third Great Semi-Annual Clearing Sale; a sale
which has gained-great popularity among the ladies of Springfield and vicinity, because of the superior
, values and astonishing bargains which it offers and a sale, the success of which has been greater every
season since its inception.
The Following Facts we Wish to Impress most
Forcibly:
First,*The Sale Is a bona fide sale. Second, Values are not exaggerated. Third, Prices are not raised then
cut. The merchandise is not bought especially for this sale, but consists of the entire stock on hand.
The prices quoted below go to show that we are selling the entire remainder of the Spring and Summer
"NEWMAN” Garments regardless of original cost or values.
¥ 1 Twelve Suits in this lot. Silk
^ Jumper, Panama and Worsted in
Eton and Coat Styles. Forrmerly sold er
up to 112.95 Clearing Sale. O.wv
* " “ -—
| ¥ j^x ^ Nine Suits in this lot. Velvet and
" Voile, Eton and Coat Styles. Form
erly sold up to 915.00, Clearing Sale
¥ X Eleven Suits in this lot. Mostly
" '■J Panama. 8 button cutaway Prince
Chap and‘blouse. Formerly sold up
to 920. Clearing Sale price. lw»Vv
f A''' Eighteen Suits in this lot. Chiffon
» Panama, fancy mixtures and wor
sted. Biazsr, Eton and Coat styles 1 Q EA
Formerly sold up to $26.75. l»*OU
¥ 4SJ Twenty-six suits in this lot. Voile
^ and Chiffon Panama in Eton, Pony
and Coat styles. Formerly sold up , it
to $33.75. Sale price. lO.V/VJ
¥ £y Nine suits in this lot. High grade i
\J imported materials in cloth and silk
Formerly sold up to $42.50, Clearing 20.00 I
Clearing of Skirts
$7.60 Striped Worsted Skirt, self bands around
bottom. Comes in thiee different shades, A QC
Clearing Sale price.
$6.50 black Panama Skirt A QE
Clearing Sale price. “*170
$7.60 black Panama Skirt EE Qt
Clearing Sale price..
$8 #5 Chiffon Panama Skirt £9 EA
Clearing Sale price. w. i/W
$10 00 Chiffon Panama Skirt AE
Clearing Sale price. • .170
$10.95 Chiffon Paiamt Skirt O E A
Clearing Sale price.;*. "lOU
$11.95 Chiffod Panama Skirt wfE
$10.00 Taffeta Walking Skirt Q EA
Clearing Sale price... 0«0\/
$10.00 Voile Skirts, 3 style* *9 fiO
Clearing Sale price.. • • Ow
Clearing of Silk Coats
$6.50 Taffeta Silk Eton Coat O AC
Clearing Sale price. w* t/O
$8.95 Taffeta Silk Braided Coat A AE
f G earing Sale price.
* $12.95 T.«ffeta Silk Coat £9
Clearing Sale price..... O.OV
Clearing of Cloth Coats
6 93 Covert Coat. Box Style, Satin lined Q Qfc
Clearing Sale price. 0.00
•8.95 Panama Coat a wa |
Clearing Sale price. 0*Vv
• 10.95 Panama Coat Q ka
Clearing Sale price. O. Ov
- $7.50 Kersey Coat PL Gk PL I
Clearing Sale price. O. vO
•15,00 Braid Coat AA
Clearing Sale price.,.JLw.W
•10 00 Ponge Coats, Braid trimmed /> Air
Clearing Sale price. .. O* €70
•10 00 Black and white Chick Silk Coats Sr QPL I
Clearing Sale price. 0*€70 j
Linen Suits
•6.95 Linen.Suita A
•9.75 Lawn Dress / erry
Cleariug Sale price... • • OV7
Waists
$1.75 Lawn Waists < ^y/y
Clearing Sale price.
$1.25 Lawn Waists OC.
Clearing Sale price. OOC
The Progress of the Negro.
By Miss Birrissia Darwin, of Tay
lorvik be/ore T. //• S
Junior Oration, May, 27, 1907.
The measures of the|success of
a race is the depths from which
it has eome, difficulties under
which it has developed, and
heights to which it has risen, To
know what the Negro race has
accomplished in the last 40 fears
one must know something of his
life as a slave and his opportu.
nities since emancipatioe*
History shows that the cruelty
of slavery has no parallel, but
despite this fact it must be said
that slavery has g’ven to the Ne.
gro some of the arts of civilized
life. Brought here from Africa
in a more or less primitive stage
of civilization, they went into sla
very we may say, practically
without a language; nay more,
almost without a God. From
what too was the Negro deprived?
There were no laws in the slave
code more rigidly enforced than
those prohibiting educational in.
struction. They were denied the
rights of an American citizen.
They were not even allowed to
claim their own children. But
no such injustice could long pre
vail in a Democracy like ours.
There were many able and dis
tinguished men among the clave
holders themselves who rebelled
against the system. Such men
as Thomas Jeffersen. Henry
Clay, Cassius M. Clay and hun
dreds of others never became re
conciled to the system of slavery
and the degradation of the slave.
Hon. Frederisk Douglas, the
father of freedom and noblest
orator of his day, did great work
to promote liberty’s cause.
Through the influence of his
speeches, the question arose
‘‘Shall slavery be abolished?’’ It
was the talk around the firesides
at the dining tables, at the Sun
u*j auuuuio; it uiv iucu uic uuuiuu
and even the nation. In I860,
Abraham Lincoln, the noblest
man of his race, who is honored
above all others by the American
Negro, was elected President,
and with one stroke of the penj
liberated four million slaves.
The Negro soldiers enlisted in
the army and turned the scale of
victory toward the North at a
critical point.
In 1865, the Negro started out,
iestitute of property; void of ed
ucation; but splendid opportuni.
,ies were extended to him by the
white people of both the North
rod the South. Thousands of
iollars were given for buildiug
schools and providing h ones for
he degraded people.
Meanwhiie, has the Negro im
proved these great opportunities?
lust forty years ago, there was
uot in the entire Southland a sin
gle Negro school. Today there’er
20.000 Negro school houses, 30,
O#0 Negro teachers* and three
million Negro school children.
Over 45 percent, of illiteracy has
Kaon irinarl All f. Wo fin^ iKaii.
sands of Negroes learning trades,
other thousands successfully op.
erating many commercial enter
prises, among these several
canks, one cotton mill, and one
silk mill. We find Negroes per
forming four-fifths of the free
labor of tne South. To havejthus
become a strong industrial factor
of tl^at section is an achievement
of which we need not be asham.
ed.
We refer with a keen sense of
gratification to the 2525 morecol
lege graduates who are helpieg
to raise the standards of the race
from all points of view, we point
with pride to our geniuses such
as Frederick Douglas, Booker T
Washington, B. K. Bruce, Ray.
mond DuBoise, Paul Lawrence
Dunbar and others whose names
should be enshrined in the hearts
of the present nd future geuer.
ations. We glory in calling your
attention to the forty thousand
Negro students pursuing courses
in the higher institutions of
learning. There are 156 institu*
tions for the higher education of
Negroes. There are 2000 prac.
ticing colored physicians. There
are 300 newspapers and 500 books
written and published by Negroes
i Call to your minds the increase
of discrimination in all those
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