News of the Churches
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Directory.
Baptist—
Mt. Moriah -Twenty-sixth anil Sew
ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott,
pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30
a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.;
B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m.
Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin
(temporary location). The Rev. W. F.
Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 Grant
street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser
vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.;
preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School,
1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to
3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir
devotion, 7:30 p. m ; preaching 8 p. m.
Episcopal—
Church of St. Philip the Deacon—
Twenty-first near Paul street. The
Rev. John Albert Williams, rector.
Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first
street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser
vices daily at 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. Fri
days at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a.
m„ 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
I School at 12:45 p. m.
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Methodist—
Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and
Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan,
pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen
j ty-second street.
St. John’s A. M. 13.—Eighteenth and
Webster.streets. The Rev. W. T. Os
borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North
| Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug
ias 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m.
and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class;
1:15 p. m., Sunday School; 7 p. m..
Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., pray
er and class meetings. Everybody
made welcome at all of these meet
ings.
ONCE NOTED BLACK PIANIST,
MIND GONE, IS MAGICIAN OF
THE PIANO AT INGLESIDE
(World-Herald, Sunday, July 11.)
At the state hospital at Ingleside
Neb., is a blaek man who has often
been pronounced by musical experts
of note, all over the United States
and abroad, as the wonder of the mu
sical age for one of his race, Profes
sor George Franklin McPherson, who
was born at Marietta, O., July 4, 1864.
He is insane and always will he on
Prof. George E. McPherson, Mind-Ill
Musical Wonder of Ingleside State
Hospital.
• ■very subject except music. Y\ hen It
comes to music he is perfectly nor
mal and knows the piano as few men
do.
This man plays nothing but high
grade classical music, which he does
every day of his life in the large re
ception room of the hospital. He
plays the most difficult pieces from
tiie old masters from memory, yet so
perfectly does lie handle the keys
tbat no criticism of his work has ever
been made during his several yearn
residence at the state institution by
the many well-known musicians who
have visited him, and for whom he al
ways willingly entertains. Whenever
the governor of the state, or other of
ficials, are guests at the institute
Prof. McPherson supplies the music,
and no one would know he is Insane
were they not told. In appearance he
is neat and uses good language when
discussing music. At other times, in
talking, he rambles.
Son of Slave Parents.
Prof. McPherson is a son of slave
parents and was taken into the or
phans’ home of Washington county,
Ohio, when 9 years old and at once
began to take music lessons under the
supervision of Mrs. J. L. Palmer. He
remained there until he was 17, when,
owing to his unusual advancement in
music, and his other studies, he was
sent to the Oberlin, 0., academy of
music to become the private pupil of
Prof. Edward Baxter Perry. Two
years later he was pronounced an ex- j
pert by his teacher and at 19 began
his career as a teacher'and public |
performer. From 1885 to 1888 he was
solo pianist with the original Nash
ville students, an organization of na
tional fame.
Later he traveled abroad and played
in all the large cities of Europe, ap
pearing before crowned heads. When
he returned to America he had ac
cumulated a good-sized fortune, which
he had not realized, so busy had he
been w'ith his musical work And It
was this fortune that caused his down
fall, for he began to learn how to
spend money with a lavish hand. As
he now expresses it, during his nor
mal periods, "wine, women and songs
brought me where 1 now am.”
Later he braced.up and located in
Omaha where ho again began to teach
music. Among his pupils were sev
eral young men and women from the
best families. He successfully taught
for over five years and then, at a high
salary, in 1893, took a position with
a well known piano company having
an exhibit at the Chicago world’s fair,
as its demonstrator. During the fair,
in competition with many other piano
performers, he took first prize for
piano execution.
Has Noted Musical Companion.
Then came another period of dis
sipation and his mind was dethroned.
For fourteen years now he has spent
practically all his time in an insane
asylum. With him at the Ingleslae
institution he has Prof. Hans Albert,
formerly of Omaha, one of the most
noted violinists throughout the middle
west for many years. Prof. Albert
lost his mind a few years ago while
giving a performance at Colorado j
Springs, Colo., and was brought later .
to Ingleside. He frequently accompa .
nies McPherson on his violin, but Al-.
bert no longer has the wonderful
touch with the bow that once brought
him fame in the musical world. He
wears his hair long as he did when a
resident of Omaha. Of the two men,
McPherson is mentally the brighter.
Albert plays a part of the time in the
hospital band, while McPherson ac
companies on the piano.
Superintendent M. W. Baxter of the
Ingleside institution, who has had
many years’ experience in handling
people with diseased minds, and who
is an acknowledged authority on such
subjects, says that both McPherson
and Albert will die in an insane hos
pital, as there is no possible chance
for either to recover. Neither of the
men is violent, on the contrary, being
easy to handle, and are consequently
granted many privileges that would
not be possible had their minds drift
ed into other channels.
HANDICAPFING THE BABY.
■ “A baby who comes into the world
has less chance to live one week than
an old man of ninety, and less chance
to live a year than one of eighty.”
This aphorism is borne out by the
Department of Labor’s field study of
Johnstown, Pa., based on all the births
in one calendar year. The conditions
revealed are undoubtedly typical of
those in hundreds of our industrial
cities; bad as they are, they are no
worse than those shown in the 1913
report of the New York state health
commission, which contrasted the
health of the state as a whole unfa
vorably with that of its metropolis.
In brief, the Johnstown babies died
during the first year at the rate of 134
per 1,000, and of these 108 died in the
first quarter. Unsanitary environ
ment was largely responsible, for in
the worst-drained ward the rate rose
tto 271; the part played by housing is
fehown by the fact that in well venti
lated homes the rate was 28.1; in
poorly ventilated, 170; while the mor
tality rate where a midwife was in
attendance was nearly twice that
where a physician was called in. What
could be done by better wages, thus
stopping the overwork of mothers, by
inspection of milk supply, and by the
teaching of visiting nurses, is set forth
in figures as nearly eloquent as fig
ures can be.—New York Evening Post.
=-r~ -jar. BERG SUITS ME ■ ■ ==■
It’s Really Amusing
when competition is mentioned in connection
with our
Grand Half-Price Suits
absolutely the best in the whole wide world.
“Kuppenheimer” “Hart Schaffner & Marx”
“Stein Block” “Society Brand”
ALL AT HALF PRICE
$10.00 to $40.00 Suits are now
$5.00 10 $20.00
2kg8MMf&)
MAJOR LYNCH TAKES ISSUE
WITH CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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can make out of it. The second class
is composed of those who utilize race
prejudice for the purpose of securing
political distinction and official recog
nition which they could never secure
through any merit of their own. It
makes no difference with these people
how much harm to the public or injus
tice is done to any people or race as
long as they can accomplish the pur
pose desired. They know' there is not
a particle of truth in anything they
say or produce relative to this matter
But W'hat difference does that make
to them? The office seeker finds that
this is his best paying political asset.
W'hat is the use. then, of considering
or discussing the tariff, the financial
or any other subject or question as
long as this mythical race question
will answer the purpose? They find
that this is the one question upon
which they can hold the white men of
the south in abject political subjec
tion and upon which the average
white man at the -north can be easily
fooled and deceived. As long then, as
the country believes, as you seem to
believe, that these things are true and
that public sentiment must .derate
them and approve methods that are
criminal and practices that would be
otherwise indefensible for the purpose
of preventing “Negro domination”
just so long will this state of affairs
continue. Let us hope that the eyes
of the people w'ill eventually be open
ed and that justice and eair play for
all will be the accepted nde of action
in all parts of our country.
JOHN R. LYNCH,
Author of “The Facts of Reconstruc
tion."
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Good Reason, Too.
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Mollle—Yes, on some men.
“But it hides the dace.”
“Yes, that’s the reason I like a
beard.”
If you are a good salesman, you
will forget your ow-n hobbies and
help your prospective customer to
ride his favorite hobby..