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2. ‘K RAGE 6. In 1865 the Freedmen’s Bureau was scanned under General Oliver 0. Howardwcarryontheworkthathad hen begun under the Federal generals at the'diflerent refugee camps. In bur years 30,000 black men were sent be: from the refugee and relief sta- tions to the farms and plantations. Under this Bureau schools and uni- usities were established. The Bureau are employment to a large number of ambitious colored men, and men who gained prominence looked back to their first training as agents of the Freed- men’s Bureau. f- The author has given us many inter- esting incidents of the rise of negro % Come in Chat Awhile actor and professional man and the negro in business. In poetry, music and art there is a great deal of talent. There is something in the slave music that touches the common heart of man. - uâ€" _.L_ It was tht first made It was the Fisk Jubilee Singers who first made the Negro folk-music pOpu- lar in America and Europe. The au- fior claims that "The creation of music an: original. by a people so wholly lack- ing in musical education. indicates a natural taste and talent for music in We Negro race. which perhaps has not m equalled by any other primitive people. This native talent has mani- fested itself not only in the songs spon- taneously produced by the slaves on the plantation. but by the ease with which Negro musicians have been able to cw:- acute and interpret the music of all ‘. :11L_- UV “-4-“ â€"-â€"‘._ people. It is the same natural ability tar picturesque expression which makes file Negro a natural orator. Even the disposition of the Negro to pick up and apeat high sounding words and ex- mmsions is but another indication of ifs sense; for impressive language." ' Phyllis Wheatley. who lived in thel 19th century was one of the first1 women. black or white to attalh lit- erary distinction in America. She was a Negro slave girl. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is considered the poet laureate of the Negro race. In sculpture .and painting the Negro likes his place among the greatest. Negroes have at all times and places :13: avoid crossing the color line, which it: a great disadvantage to the travel- IHIâ€" rut- - vâ€" vâ€"_ put 1’ a town a negro is not supposed to take lunch at a public counter while in another part 01 the same town he may do so. In some railway trains he is supposed to ride in a separate coach and on another he is welcome to ride with white people. This is only a couple of instances where the color fine- is drawn. It is also a disadvantage to the Negro {fiat his progress is constantly com- "â€"w“ with freedom. Had the Negro people been allowed during the days of sla- yery’ to organize and unite their efforts Jot their" own improvement. their pro- A--L-_. r~vv- -~~ wired to the progress of a people who time the advantage of many centuries at civilization. while the Negro has only hear: a little more than sixty-five years ” -vâ€" v .. grass would _bave. been even greater than it has been. Other books that have been written by B_<_)oker '1‘. Washâ€" “'v ~"â€"~ .ington are "Up from Slavery". “Char- .xcter Building". “Working with the Hands". "The Future of the American Negro". ‘The Story of My Life and. WEEK." "Sowing and aping”, "Tuskegee and Its People“, “ e Negro ‘11 Business". A Link With Laura Secord. It will be one hundred and sixteen years. on June 23. since» the young Suited Empire Loyalist matron, Laura Secord. walked past the guards of the trading Americans at Queenston by file simple ruse of going a-milking. flow her twenty-mile tramp tin-ough marsh and forest _ saved the British knee and resulted in the capture of five hundred of the invaders is a mat- ter of history. It almost seems ancient history. too. and yet there is living in‘ St- Catharines. Ont.. today. a lady who remembers Laura Secord very well. Mrs. Mary Ann Hawker. told. a news- paperman recently of the days when she lived with her grandparents on cue side of the Chippewa creek . and Lama Secord lived on the other. She recalls ‘the Sunday afternoon chats the heroine had. with her grandmother. Sara Slater. Today it is counted a dis- At Home hUL. DVDLL VAL» . . to pick up and Innem Fords and ex- . . . Narrow mdlcatlon of Fred language.” : lived in the $33 of the first by a la to attafi‘ lit- - . ‘ unlntclt mca. She was had re] .' for. ye musm The duties ' from place to j _ inspecting the "c mp“ that it has bee bei‘ngupuot on 1 nf music New Fined At WM WW“. \ -uv v treasury of Wavlâ€"iefgfi as, its officer was responsible for laying the inform- ation.â€"â€"Walkerton TeleSOOpe. ously since that time has been asso-' ciated with the Walkerton Egg 8: Dairy 00., where he was head of the egg de-' partment, received word from the Do - minion Government at Ottawa on Fri- day last notifying him of his appointâ€" ment to the position of Egg Inspector for this district, which comprises the counties of Bruce, Grey, Huron and Wellington. The salary attached to the sit .is something over $1600, with all travelling and other expenses provided homeroom Talent-Yon OI! Wu that it has been properly graded before being put on the market for sale. As “Cloe” is an expert with eggs and knows quite as much what’s in the shell as the average butcher knows what’s in l his sausage, an over-ripe offering on â€"‘- A - “C‘Ah 1113 “WOW, I.-. v - -_ _ the egg market would have as much chance of getting by him as a colored baby would have of copping of! the prize at a beauty contest open only to the “white trash”. Cloe commenced the open warfare against stale eggs and. the improper grading of ‘biddy’s famous produce by inspecting a consignment of the shells :at Clinton on Friday.â€" Walkerton Fred Stafiord, of McIntyre district, had a miraculous escape from serious injury, Saturday noon, when run over by a land disc. He was in the act of third animal, on seeing its mates start for the barn. made for there also, drawing the disc with it. Fred endea- vored to catch the line leading to the horse’s mouth but only succeeded in '7‘ “no a fhon 55". UV up catching the bridle. ; tripped by the tongue of the heavy machine, w: wheels. went completel: --â€" ‘1. DOISCD ulvuuu qu catching the bride?“ He was then tripped by the tongue of . the .disc and Drilling for oil at the 01d uanauiau! Oilfields property west of town, which had been going on fairly steadily for. several months past. has again stopped been moved away. that there were fairly good indications of oil at one stage of the operations, but that these signs grew less as the drill went deeper. Those who were be- hind the operations appeared to have must have spent quite a bit ‘he project before they decided to the fight.-â€"Shelburne Free EX'NI. r. I. mun-vâ€" Col. Carmichael, M.C., ex-MZPjP" had duties entail the going ‘about HIGH officials of the Canadian Pacific were much relieved when Dr. . Ernest French, the Harley Street specialist, refuted the statement originating in London to the effect that mustard plasters were as beneficial as ultraâ€"violet rays. During a long winter the Company has been engaged in building for 'use on the Trans-Canada special Solariumâ€"Lounge cars equipped with “vita glass” windows which will admit the most beneficial sun-rays. It almost came to the question of whether the Company would scrap the new equipment and issue plasters to its patrons. â€" The new cars, designed for the rear end of the limited trains, will be the most magnificent cars ever to be used on a non-premium train on the continent. Given over entirely to the free use of the passenger, the lounge cars, besides the Solarium feature, have the added attrac- fl»" 0? hath-robms for m’n and women. completely a” lavishly W Simpleâ€" Safeâ€" ‘ and Dependable HE Ford car fuel system is simple because it is direct. Gravity flow does away with forced feed. A short feed line with a mini- mum of elbows and connections is easy to O The nine gallon tank is so placed that it is well protected from front or rear end collision. Any overflow runs 05 on the ground with no serious results, since ~ the only point ' of possible spark contact is the rear end of the exhaust. -Three screens instead of one, asin most fuel systems, prevent foreign matter reaching the tank. A solid steel dash sep« .arates the Ford gas tank from the engine. The gas guage on the dash of the Ford car is controlled by a simple float as shown in diagram, being more direct, simple and accurate- than any other type. Another point of driving convenience made possible by the gravity flow system is the ease with which the tank may be filled, while the driver supervises the operation without moving from behind the wheel. SMITH BROTHERS Arrange for your demonstration ride with the nearest Ford dealer Durham; Ontario by.“ ‘23 ' Aâ€"Filler Cap. Bâ€"Filtcrspoutscreenfiltefi gas and prevents splashing throngh filler opening. Mice. of colours 5: to “mile. on he" Ford Car Features Drive it Yourself- there is no Better Test \‘ .u, what I’d like and what you'd like‘ 3 plain pnough to see: Just to have old Prbiridence Mom Silm Timing Chain Full Force Feed Lubrication Red Sea! Continental Motor Bendix Four- Wine] Brake: My, my 3., 1m Poi 8.1133011. T“ (S showingthl-f be, DU