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Now is the Time to Subscribe for The Freeman. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE..... THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME 13 NUMBER 36 RACE ENTERPRISE SHOWN BY OUR PEOPLE IN THIS THRIVING BLUEGRASS CITY. MANY HAPPENINGS IN SOCIETY. Death Claims a Respected Citizen - Growing Interest Manifested in the Coming Annual Fair-Dr. Davis, a Graduate of Central College of Tennessee Doing Good Work. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1900 INDIANAPOLIS SEP. 8 1900 PUBLIC LIBRARY Dr. J. R. A. CROSSLAND, St. Joseph, Missouri. sale at its new depot, Lancaster & Co.'s drug store, 705 Jackson street, near Seventh. Lancaster & Co.'s drug store is gradually growing in popularity and publie favor. They keep a fresh line of goods. Prescriptions from any physician will be filled accurately by a registered pharmacist day or night. Prof. Law will leave next week for Jackson, Tenn., where he will enter upon his work in the Lane College. He thinks the prospects for an excellent session of school at the noted institution of learning are good. From Magnolia Land. Tallahassee Fla. Special.-Mr. and Mrs. F. Page of Apalachicola were pleasant visitors to the city the past week. Mrs. R. G. Farrell and Miss Maggie.B. Long, two of Leon's teachers'are home again after another successful term at their country schools. Dr. Geo. P. Norton and District Grand Master J.R. Page was among the visitors from Apalachicola the past week. Mr. Richard Shields of Woodville, and Miss Sarah English of this city were married at the former place Wednesday evening, Aug., 22nd. Mr. J. T. Starks of Monticello was in the city the past week attending the District Committee meetings. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Harris, of Jacksonville has been 'spending several pleasant days in the city this week. Mr. G. C. McPherson has been down the past week with fever. Robert Thigpen, one of the old Tallahassee boys, came up from Jacksonville Saturday to spend a few days with friends. P. E. Smith is out again after resting (several days with fever. Mrs. Nana B. Livingston, formerly of this city, but now of the metropolis, is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. M. E. Cox, of Jacksonville spent the past week in the city. Messrs. A. J. Cain, J. G. Riley, J. W. Davis. John Nelson and others attended the unveiling of the Masonic monument at Ocala this week. Call on P. E. Smith for the Freeman every Saturday. Interesting Notes. Milwaukee, Wisconsin Special—The St. Marks A. M. E. Church Barbecue was a great success. Addresses by Congressman Otjen, W. T. Green on disfranchisement of the Negro in the South, and by Attorney Chas. A. A. Megee who delivered a stirring address on Abraham Lincoln. Committee of arrangement, Wm. D. Hargrow, chairman; H. Bland, J. Thornton, A. A. Robinson, T. Burgett. Committee on dinner and refreshments, Mrs. Tate, chairman, Mrs. Lyvers, Mrs. E. Burnett, Mr. A. Blackwell and Mrs. S. A. Robinson, 2,500 G. A. R. veterans came on the Whaleback, white and colored and were entertained at Sclizt park. Mrs. A. Lawrence died Saturday evening September 1, 19.0. Rev. J. B. Odan is still carrying on his revival meetings which are largely attended. Mr. Charles Furgerson formerly the Freeman agent in Muncie Indiana writes that the Freeman is selling at 25 cents a copy in Anaconda Montana. Mr. Furgerson is head waiter at the Anaconda Hotel and he says more colored men should 'come West. Mr. Hale the veteran St. Paulporter celebrated his 26th year with the company lately. Mr. Reese of Waukesha is in the city. Mr. Bill Jack son, of Hollywood Miss. is in the city looking for lost relatives. Dick Catlin has arrived in the city and reports *n* delightful summer trip. Misses Rachel and Clara Black gave a pink tea Monday evening from 8 to 9. Mr. stevens is greatly missed at the Whaleback docks during afternoons. The young men's social club will give their firstautumn dance Sept., 30 at Keiens Hall. Mr. Willie Hawkins' arrived in the city from Washington D. C. on a short vacation visiting his parents. A. C. Beatty has left for Berea, Ky. G. W. Lay of this city left here on the 3rd, inst enroute to Mehary Medical College. Mr. Lay will spend a few days in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati before going to Nashville. News Items. East St.Louis, Ill., Special.—A grand rally was held at St. John A. M. E. Zion church last Sunday. Miss Lizzie Thomas and her mother were visiting in Springfield, Mo., last week. A grand barbecue and picnic were held at King's street Aug 25. Opened on Fifth street, a new restaurant, William Ellington, proprietor. The Negro Council club held its monthly meeting last week. The Knights of Tabor held their annual installation the 30th of August. We mourn the death of Miss E. Berkhalter which took place the 28th of August, and Alice Johnston the 23rd. The funeral of E. Berkhalter was attended at St. John and that of Alice Johnston at Macedonia. An Appeal Editor the Freeman: Please allow me to say to the many readers that no stronger aid could be given to race progression than the subscription of every family however poor, to some race journal! It matters not how humble or high their walks in life may be they should subscribe for some race paper. Our people need to read more for it is an incentive of aspiration that gives vent to zeal and courage in fostering the united action that might be the purpose of the race. We have no truer representatives than our newspapers. It seems to me that writers should throw their shoulders together in preserving this great idea of increasing the circulation of Negro literature in our homes, for by this alone we can tell the rise and the fall of our moral conditions, we can see defect and put into effect. For by the pen nations make great treaties. The child in its infancy is raised with the pen to its cultured womanhood or manhood. Why not infuse, enthuse and inspire our people to make at ence a mad rush, for Negro pictures; Negro histories and Negro newspapers which is the daily circular history of the present time; keep posted. Now when we read, like when we eat, we should eat the best, why not read the best? Subscribe for a Negro paper at once. I cannot attempt to advertise the Freeman it needs none, read it, business and professional men read it, let us fall in line. Not only read it but pay for it. Yours. S. P. MITCHELL, Pres. National Educational Council, Midway, Ky. Fred Bradley of Hart and Bradley proprietors of the Elite Tonsoral Emporium 604 Ship, St. "St. Joseph, Michigan, is one of the Freemen's most ardent admirers THE HOGAN CASES HOGAN CASES ARE ALL COMPROMISED TO SATISFACTION THE DREAM OF WEALTH CAME Minstrels Gets Fifteen Thousand Cold Hot or Warm Dollars From the Canadian - Australian Steamships Company--The Suit Caused From a Refusal to Transfer this Company. Fifteen thousand good hard dollars are to be poured into the pockets of the members of the Hogan minstrel troupe and those who backed them. Those merry black troubadours will have more money then they ever dreamed of before. The dream of wearn which came to them as a result of the numerous suits they filed against the Canadian-Australian Steamship Company last spring on account of the refusal of the company to carry them from Honolulu to Victoria, has been realized and they are to receive the cash as soon as the mails can take the money to them. This result was made known recently when the attorneys for Hogan and his troupe and those of the steamship company reached a compromise by which the suits were all discontinued and the entire matter ended by the payment of the lump sum of $15,000 to the attorneys for the plaintiffs. Baxter Bruce, chief counsel for the steamship company at Sydney, N. S. W., arrived on the Aorangi last week and he bore instructions from his company to reach a compromise of the suits at any cost. The company has feared for sometime that one of their vessels might be attached for the payment of the judgment already secured against them, and as a few days delay in port here would cost the company more than all the suits amounted to, they wished to compromise and get the matter entirely out of the way. The Hogan incident was one of the most sprightly that has enlivened Honolulu for a long time. Hogan and his troupe came from Australia early in the spring and played several weeks, and then several more weeks here. The "Unbleached Americans," as he proudly announced them, cut a wide swath, especially Hogan himself, who is a bright and merry Negro. But the pilikis began when the troupe started to leave for Victoria. They had some up from Australia on the Canadian-Australian boat, having purchased through tickets, with stopover privileges in Honolulu. But when they came to go away on the Miowera her captain refused to take them for some unexplained reason claiming that the ship was full, and urging other excuses. The unbleached Americans believed that the color line had been drawn, and they brought suit against the company for $5,000 each. There were twenty nine of these suits filed on one day by Kinney, Ballou & McClanahan, and three of them were brought to trial before a month had been passed. All three resulted in judgments against the company. Hogan got $2,250, Hurley Thyous $175, and Mrs. Jennie Alexander, $5,000. All were appealed, and the rest hung on awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court. But the end came when the suits were all compromised and those remaining on the docket will be stricken off, and the boats from Victoria need not lurk on the horizon line when they touch in future at this port, but may come boldly into the harbor without fear of an attachment. Visiting Friends St. Louis Mo. Special—Miss Carrie J. Lloyd, daughter of Hon. G. Lloyd. J. P. of Priars Point, Miss., is spending a delightful stay in the city of St. Louis. Miss Lloyd is the guest of Miss Mattie Horton, formerly of New Orleans. To say that Miss Lloyd is a favorite and a belle among the smarter set of the city would be but mildly putting it. We wish Miss Lloyd a pleasant stay while in our city. By the Sad Sea Waves. New York Special.—Mrs. $A. L. Jordan and son have returned to Atlantic City N. J., to spend the remainder of the summer. They will be joined in a few days by Mrs. J. H. Jarrott who is at present spending the summer with her husband H. Jarrott, who is head bellman at Sea Bright N. J. The Democratic position regarding trust is opposition to them provided we can do the talking; but protection for them if Republicans propose to do the acting. NEW YORK CITY. Negro Democrats in New York Trying to Fool Their Col-) 924 800d faith of the nation be unde Great parties arenot made in four ye ored Brothers. nor are they created in Nebraska, ee ee ee It is a noticeable fact thet all - howlers for a change in the presiden HISTORY OF ASSAULT AND BRUTALISM|os~ me: xem mre are short haired, and they are fami ee Ee with euch worke as “Looking Back wa Advice of Chairman Hanna to|‘#® feeling that nothing is sure or cer-| “Progress and Poverty,” “The Mo 7 tain except death and taxes, an@ we] of Nations” (which they do not hand all Republicans--Tamma- _ | shoald speedily get out of the habit of |“The Life and Times of W. J. Brya ny Hall Responsible accepting as gospel trath Democratic|and other stan ard literature mor: versions of the disintegration of that|less diverting. The Imperial Ros for Recent Riots party. Tammany Hall is as foxy now} Conkling once gave utterance to a s ale it has always been, and it always gets| tence in Fepiying to ane ths nent in t , which was as mee IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS |*9#thsr "ith oolerity and dispatch om |O°%r Weag meaningful: “The shall Gaba ae> cea. SONG eGR i OR eee RR ono Soa en ee eee ale a a al ge Mr. Croker's organ, The New York ‘Telegraph, seems to regard the stringing up of @ Negro to a lamp poet, in the streets of New York, by the mob daring the late riots in t-at city as a very rich joke. The incident seems to have far- nished considerable matter for its face tions space writers, who were bratally witty at the expense of this innocent ‘and outraged Negro citizen. ‘The Tammany police are the real ag- gressors and the criminals who should be punished for that disgraceful riot. The system of highway robbery intro- ved into the Tenderloin and other dis- tricts of New York City by police cap- tains, their go betweens, by which they exact blood money from the criminal classes in return tor immunity from ar- Test for open violation of the law, is the true cause of the recent riot there and the terrible consequences which follow- od it. The New York Democrats of the baser element are not novices at the business of hanging Negroes to lamp posts, They tried their hands at that businese dur- ing the draft riots in 1863, which have gone into history, and they made them selves infamous by breaking into the Negro orphan asylum and murdering innocent Negro babes in other quarters of the city. Of course the Negro De- moeracy of New York, ld by Chief Lee, will march the black legions to the polls in November next, and vote them solidly for Bryan and Stevenson. They would not be good and consistent Dem- ocrats if they did not lick the hands that smote them. ‘The delegation of colored men, headed by Chief Lee, that called on Acting Mayor Guggenhtimer to demand that the officers who clabbed tnnovent colored catizens during the riot be punished, are all of them humorists of a very superior order. Nobody has any faith in the sincerity of these new champions of the race, for the good reasons that they have heretofore had no word to s1y brutal treatwent of the Negro by the Democratic party in other States, that they have not used their influence (if they have auy) in urging the Democracy to put something in State and National platforms against lawlessness. . So that this recent ebulition of indignation which emanates from these Negro Dem ocrats is a grand stand play and the idea is not of Negro origin, ‘The Democrats are not in the habit of playing that kind of politics. - They do not keep it on tap. The significance of this moveis obvious, and the move itself will prove impotent. No police officers will be punished for clubbing Negroes, but the protest of Negro Democrats against their assaults upon the race is ‘of record and will be considered good campaign material by the short sighted black brethren who are unable to see how very shallow is this whole perform: ‘ace of the smooth and counterfeit pre- sentment of the Hon. Richard Croker. ‘Tammany Hall is the real criminal! Decanse it has made, and is making merchandise of its official power and it political mflaence, Tammany Hall reeking with corruption from head tc foot, a stench in the nostrils of decen men, a festering scab on the body o! society, is responsible for all the villainy all the ruffianism and rowdyism whic! recently disgraced the second larges city of the world, and caused the statue of Liberty on Bedlo’s Island to blush fo: shame at the depravity and barbarisn of its enlightened white men. 4 an any decent or self-respecting race lovin; Negro eo far foret his manhood as t case his vote for this party? God for bid! ‘ Chairman Hanna’s recent speech t Republicans of Asbury Park, N. J., i ‘worth remembering by all Republican who want to see Pres dent McKinley re Glected Too much over confidence wil not accomplish that result. “Eterna vigilance is the price of liberty” and th more vigilance all Republicans exercise the surer tue victory which is alreads expected, but which a foolish indiffer enve to the points of vantage we hav slready gained may prove disastrous ‘We want to go into this camp.ign wi THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLOKRiLD NEWSPAPEii should speedily get out of the habit of accepting as gospel truth Democratic versions of the disintegration of that party. Tammany Hall is as foxy now as it has always been, and it always ets together with celerity and dispatch on election day. The splits, factions and bad feeling said to exist in that party among the leaders who are more or less anxious to attend Mr. Croker’s political funeral are part of deep scheme which is intended to create a feeling of security among Republicans which will of course assist the Democrats in sectiring the prize. The Demorratic family quarrel will be settled in sixty-five minutes after they have discovered that confiding Republi- cans have taken them seriously and are sleeping on their guns, Gans do not make good beds, and it is best not to sleep on them at all. Democrats never sleep. People who are hu gry for spoils have not time for sleep. We must give our friends, the enemy, credit for having a system of organization and a method of doing business with its opponents which is practical. if not always successful The tactical Democratic fighter takes noth- ing for granted. He believes in the potency and value of details, and in the efficacy of bull-dog tenacity in a fight for big stakes. He has a penchant for steaks and stakes, and when he wins them he enjoys them. Tne headquar- ters and blue pencil fighter, who is too fired to take the field, and too willing to take and adopt as his own the opinions and estimates of others, as to the result of the battle, has never yet won a battle and he never will. The Democratshave reduced campaigning toa positive sci- ence. They are real Democrats in the struggle for supremacy, for every man in the party from the highest to the lowest mingles in splendid alliance, each imbued with the one central idea—vic- tory—and to secure this they stop at nothing short of inglorious defeat. It is to be hoped that the Republicans in the present campaign will throw off some of their reserve and begin to “play ball” in earnest. The duty of all Re publicans is to get together immediate- ly. If they will do this Mr. Bryan will be one consecutive week after Noy 6th trying to find out whether he was blown ‘up by dynamite or kicked by the name- less long eared animal which is some- times pictured to represent the Demo- cratic party in action. Oneof Mr Lincoln’s witticisms, which will apply to the methods of the Demo- cratic party to-day, will not be out of place here. The passage occurs in one of his messages after his first inangura- tion. He said. “With rebellion thus sugar-coated they have been dragging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years until at length they have [brougut many good men to a willing- ness to take up arms against the gov- ernment.” ‘The public printer excepted to the use of the word “‘sngar-coated” as being undignified. The word expresees precise: ly my idea, and I am not going to change it. The time will never come when the people won't know exactly what sngar- coated means. Mr. Lincoln was right. ‘The sugar-coated speeches of Mr. Bryan have almost persuaded a number of good Americans to commit political suicide by going against the best and only party which has demonstrated its Jeapacity to govern this country as it ‘ought to be governed. | Ibis the only party that can honestly | be accused of possessing practical knowl- '| edge of the science of government. Democracy cott the South $5,262,403.. |558.26. At the close of the war of the rebellion the debt of the Confederate |Government was $2345,207,823. With | the surrender of the rebel armies every | dollar of this war debt was wiped out of existence, and it was a dead loss to -) those who held its securities. No better | illustration of Democratic incompetency |and incapacity can be furnished than these figares furnish. The Democratic | party bas not learned much since the || war of the rebellion. It has not demon- strated any more ability than it origi- | nally possessed. It still believes in re- |'padiation end in juggling with the | finances of the country. | Ittook a good many years to bring the Republican party up to its present |standard, and a great many millions of money, and thousands of lives to make possible the existence of such a party. | What has been accomplished cannot ‘and good faith of the nation be undone. Great parties arenot made in four years nor are they created in Nebraska, It is @ noticeable fact that all the howlers for # change in the presidential office wear long hair, except those who are short haired, and they are familiar with euch works as “Looking Back ward” “Progress and Poverty,” “The Money of Nations” (which they do not handle). “The Life and Times of W. J. Bryan,” and other stan.ard literature more or Jess diverting. The Imperial Roscoe Conkling once gave utterance to a sen- tence in replying toa Democratic oppo- nent in the Senate, which was as meaty agit was meaningfal: “The shallows murmar while the deeps are dumb.” If you will put your ear tothe ground you will hear a great deal of murmar- ing just now ot hungry patriots on the other side who are just dying for a chance to save the country from MeKin- leyiem, trusts, imperialism and all other iems in their political vocabulary. “Understanding the spirit of our in- stitutions,” said Lincoln, ‘to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to what- ever tends to degrade them.” This is not Democratic doctrine The Democ- racy believes in elevating black men with arope, and it degrades them by making them politica) pariabs, robbing them of constitutional rights and man- hood, Are you with these reformers? JOHN E. BRUCE. WATERPROOF COLLARS, Page 5. To campinkt wie Cledeienante. Milwaukee, Wis., special: Capt. J. B. Buford has returned from Rock Island, Ill, where he was attending K. of T. conclave, the Grand Arch Chapter and the Grand Commandery of K. of T., comprising the jurisdic- tion of Wisconsin, Ilinois and Towa. Officers elected for the ensuing year: R. B, Moore, Chicago, G. B. C.; G. IL Green, Springfield, G. H. P.; Dep. G. E, ., R. D. Foster. * * Mr. Oliver Davis, of Madison, Wis. paid the Cream City a brief visit Saturday. Mr. Dayis is the commodore of the Madison Yacht Club. * * Miss BL Morgan, of Louisville, Ky., is in the city. * * Miss L. Raynolds, of Madison, paid the Cream City a visit and called to see her many friends here. * * Mrs. Keel, of Chicago, is visiting her son, Mr. Keel, of State street, * * Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, of Chicago, are in the city, and stopping at the Hotel DeWalls. '* * Mr. C. Howard, of Chicago Heights, is in the city. * * Miss Willie Samuels, grad- uate of University of Wisconsin, 1900, has gone to Paris, Ky., to teach school. * *° Miss Mamie Green, of Madison, Wis., graduate of University of Wis- consin, class of 1900, will pay the Cream’ City a_visit before leaving for Washington, D.C. * * St. Marks A. M. B. Chureh wil give their annual barbecue Aug. 30 at Snider's Park. * * Rey. Odam is still carrying on his re- vival and is doing good work in the neighborhood of Fourth and Wells streets, Assistant, Tey. Jackson, of Bay View Baptist Church. * * Cora Jones committed suicide Saturday night. She is from Dallas, Tex. She left a letter stating her cause for the act. * * Several colored companies are billed for some of the Milwaukee theaters in the early season. * * Mr, Wm, Hutton, formerly head waiter xt ‘the Davidson, has gone to Montana. ‘The Freeman’ wishes him well. + * We are glad to announce at this writ- ing that Mrs. Burgett and baby are do- ing well. * * Chas. Furguson, L. T. Stevens, H. Vanghs and Wim. [Hutton left for Montana Wednesday evening. * * Rey. Win. Watson, who, has been attending the bedside of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Carr. has returned home. * © The colored young Republicans will organize and “demand something from the party, * * Mr, d. S$. Me- Fadden has organized a mandolin club at the Plankington House, * * Mr. Me, Moore has gone to Knoxville, ‘Tenn., on a short visit. * * Capt. C. White celebrated his twenty-first year as an employe at the Plank: ington. Captain White i@ a man of sterling ability and has a host of friends with the travel ing public, ‘The eaptain will soon take a better half. * * Mrs, Benson has opened up a first class ladies’ snd gents’ shoe shining parlor at 171% Third treet. WATERPROOF COLLARS, Page ©. Newsy Pointers. Enfala, Ala., special: Unless you read The Freeman you are not up with the times. Subscribe at once. * * Mrs. J. B. Nelms, who has been quite sick, is improving. * * Malone Bros. run a first-class grocery store and fish stand on Randolph street, and should have the patronage of our race. Mr. A. A. Malone, who is a member of the firm, fayored the agent with his sub- scription last week. * * Mr, Gus Askew has finished his beautiful resi- dence on the bluff. * * Mr. J. A. Ward, the well known colored mer- chant, is a subscriber to The Freeman. * * Mr. J. B. Nelms, the popular bar- tender, says he can’t get along without The Freeman in his home. * * The following names are readers of The Freeman: Mrs. C. E. Hughes, Mrs. Lee Brown, Mr. Willie Conner, Mrs. Ella Bowen, Mrs. D. S. Johnson, Miss Alice Jackson, Rev. C. H. Ammons, Mrs. Ola Wynn, Mrs. Edna Drewery, Miss M. B. Jackson, Mrs. Charlotte Ross. , 5s a . Ae i) ius. E | ee FHF [Greene | a ys ctut boy. z bs FH gur diaed, For f ae | Tans] | 41 | Phynenin | | | [i iscs- | | oes uw BUSINESS MEDIUM. MRS. MARTH, the world -enowned and bighly celebrated bantpene and toet MBDIU, reala everytsing. "No imposition. Oaa. be consulted on all allaire of Life, Business, Lov tnd “Marriage a specialty, very mystery re Fealed, also” of” absent, deceased and. Iving fiends. “Removes ail troubles and eatrange ‘2enla, challenges aby tedinm who oan exceed ia her ‘startling revelation of ths Prevent and thtarg event in one ie Hemem er, She Will Bob, for any price, Hatter sou; you ‘iay‘rest ensured you will gain facts without Sonsense. 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"fo eet the secret out of perscn by pomping,” in no few oases, ie the art used. bt nay anprivetonied Mediurar, but to talce hold or the hand and gain control of the mind there: 3y, 10 4 mantter of impossibility to most of them, 254 yet thie can be done, and by consulting ‘Miss "SIARTE thie seeming, myetery bevomss 3 realization. ‘This subject has recelved no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. 86 proven conclusively tune although. thers ive infringers in our midee with “olly tongues,” Derhaps, the gates of wisdom have not beon Slowed £0 the entire profession. Ie'takes a reat doal of stndy to become an sccomplinied Medium, and. bys continacue Sod’untiring exort the kay to te well of ap- parently unfathomable mysteries hava. beon procured by MUS, MARTH for the benefit ol Eumantty.” By letter, sdvice $1.00. Hours from 0 em, t09p.m, "All letters must con: tain stampe for auewers. 246 West Thirty-tirst Mention RK CITY ‘The Freeman. 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Lynch, General Passenzer Age Cincinnati, 0. WAITER THE WA.1 EDITED BY W. FORREST COZART. Mr. T. R. Griffin a well known waiter who formerly lived in Milwaukee, Wis. is now located in New Orleans, La., at 3119 Chestnut st. Messrs. J. F. Holt, Jas Brown, W. R. Scurry and W. R. Waulins, well known waiters of Dayton, O., are rusticating this summer at the world's famous seashore resort, Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. S. Williams is now head waiter at the Hotel Me ropole, Detroit, Mich. During the last year the Metropole has made several changes in its head waiters and crew having had two sets of white waiters, but as they cannot give satisfaction, a colored head and side waiters have been re-installed. The Metropole is on the European plan and is considered a hard house to hold as it has a very large trade. We hope that Mr. Williams will prove to be the right man. Mr. Lewis Devens, has succeeded Mr. T Murray, a white head waiter, at the Russel House, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Devens has been second waiter at the Russel for a long time, therefore he thoroughly understands the ins and outs of his new job. We wish Mr. Devens much success at the Russel and trust that he will further demonstrate the superiority of the colored man over the white man as a head waiter. If the Republican candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Wm. Mckinley was as sure of all other votes as he may be of the colored waiters' he could rest assured of his election next November. The boys are just pulling off their hats to McKinley and Roosevelt. There are 325 000 colored waiters in the United States and 99 per cent of them are going to vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. The Head and Second Waiters' National Benefit Association has accomplished more for the colored waiters in the last two years than has ever been accomplished. When the true spirit of the H. and S. W. N. B. A. is thoroughly understood by the side waiters and the hotel fraternity at large it will be proclaimed as the hotel waiters most ardent friend. The main object of the association is to find employment for the colored head and side waiter. The next important object is to teach them how to hold these positions after they have been secured. The Association has placed 100 head waiters in good paying positions, most of whom have suce ded white head waiters. The association has over 250 members and they are employing over 10,000 waiters throughout the country. In a few years the H. & S. W. N. B. A. will be to the colored waiter what the K of L. is to the laborer. Do you understand? The Columbus Hotel, Co., of Columbus, Ohio, operating the Great Southern, Chittenden, and Neil hotels has gone into the hands of a receiver. About six months' ago a hotel trust was organized in Columbus comprising the above hotels. Such an organization was uncalled for, therefore it was bitterly opposed by the waiters and other citizens of Columbus. The combination of the above hotels would not have been a bad one, neither would it have proved a financial failure had it been under the management of the proper persons. Unfortunately, however, the three hotels was placed under the management of a man who possessed the wrong conceptions as to how to properly organize the various departments of large hotels. His ideas were to drive, builddoze and abuse his employees, and thus make such cowards of them until they would shake with mortal fear whenever he approached them. His disrespect for those whom he had placed at the head of the various departments never failed to turn everything into chaos. Instead of being an organizer on which his personal success depended he was simply a disorganizer, and thus he destroyed the very confidence, co-operation and honesty which he absolutely needed to make his pet scheme a success. It can be plainly seen how the goose that laid the golden egg was killed, and how this foolish THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. man burned the bridges behind him, consequently he could not escape the financial crash which has justly overtaken him. The National Cash Register Co. courts the advice and good will of its employees, hence its great success. Is a hint to the wise sufficient? Mr. Wesley L. Edwards, a waiter at the beach hotel, Chicago, who has just returned from Lake Harbor, Mich., has just composed the following poem: AN OD LAKE HARBOR. Entrancing, inspiring and memorable. Beneficient, for a new grand. Thy lakes majestic swelling Views of the Holt Land; Thy ceremonies are many' Thou land of peace and rest. Revealing nature's beauty. Upon thy follicle contort. I love thy old Lake Harbor breeze Thy hotel and its guest; Thy frequent eails of laughter and after a late夜; I love thy no night lake, Its thrill of jo and bliss. I love thy rustic and lawn And nature's ever chang ng kiss. I love thy many golfers, That royal, ancient name, I am so sure of thy degree, And of thy fury fame; I am so sure of thy finest, The finest and the best; And all the lovely scenic views, With which thou'rt ever elest. Mr. John Williams, who was head waiter at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., for about thirty years, is reported to be in destitute circumstances. Mr. Williams is now an old man, and is unable to perform any manual labor. He is without money, relatives or friends, and his case is to be pitted. How a man can manage to hold one position for thirty years, receiving a good salary, and then neglect to provide for his feeble days is hard to explain, but Mr. Williams is not the only head nor side waiter who has been guilty of the above act, which is nothing short of criminal. In nearly every hotel of note there are old and young men who are following in John William's footsteps. These men spend their salary and tips for foolishness as fast as they receive it, and even, sometimes, before they get it in their possession it is all spent, and they have nothing to show for it. They rush into the future without considering the consequences. They believe that each day should be left to provide for itself. They do not make any provision for the days of adversity or old age. To this reckless class I will say that there is a day of reckoning coming, but then it will be too late. Now is the time to provide for the future—in the hey day of your youth and prosperity. As an example, the above, waiters, point to Mr. W. F. Martin, head waiter at the Denison Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., who was twenty years head waiter at the Grand Hotel of that city, during which time he accumulated a snug little fortune, and still he is working as hard as ever, but when he reaches that stage that he is not able to perform his duties he can spend the balance of his days peacefully and happily enjoying the fruits of his life savings. The same is true of Mr. J. J. Miles, head waiter at the Plankinton House, Milwankee, Wis. During the twenty-four years Mr. Miles has been at the Plankinton he has put his money to good use, consequently he owns valuable real estate, and the house in which he lives could not be purchased for less than $8,000. The old style of snapping the fingers, by the head waiters, at the waiters, has been abandoned except in a few cases where the head waiter is ignorant and ranks with the back numbers. When there are a first-class colored head waiters, who are thoroughly up-to-date in service and gentlemanly in their general deportment, in charge of the leading hotels of the country then the side waiters will receive the proper instructions. A waiter should always attempt to speak as intelligent and act as gentlemanly as possible while in the presence of the guest as the wrong doings and short comings of every individual colored man is charged up to the race. This can be done without, in the least, appearing to be officious. Clarksville, Tenn.—Mr. William Parrish, better known as "pap," head waiter of the Arlington Hotel, after a romantic courtship, issued invitations to his wedding on the 22d inst., to Mrs. Mattie Simson the 23d inst. The wedding ceremonies were performed by Rev. J. W. Smith, on Gupton avenue. The wedding was more of a quiet than an elaborate affair, and was witnessed by a large number of friends, including the entire corps of waiters, who were led by "Pomp" Quarles, who offered a toast to the Freeman in the following political lines: "Here's to the Freeman and its management of the week; I drink his contents of this glass to their health." After the pastime the bride and groom were received. To the great number of Afro-Ameri- CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGE Dr.Shea, Marvelous Medium. Gives the names of dead and living friends, tells who and when you will marry, also of business journeys, lawsuits, absent friends, health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions, don't ask you to write names for him. Don't try to pump you in any way, but tells you right off. He is thoroughly indorsed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show, can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons. Twenty-five years' practice-seven in Brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he tells of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings, in short, what is best to do. He succeeds when all others fail. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You all find it lucky to consult this Christie gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure' drunkenness, can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty. Through his perfect knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there is a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither grits, credentials nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Chas. Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. Wm. Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleva d avenue, and Mr. Fred Lampe, grocer, 641 Fulton street, Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The Doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville; understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is direct to. He has now and always bad patronage from them. PLEASE READ FOLLOWING: Brooklyn, Aug. 15.—This is to certify that I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad luck, slick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, ALBERT AYRES. Plainfield, N. J. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN—A MINISTER'S STATEMENT: I wish to state that one of my parish oners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors, but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought I would call and see him myself. I found him a sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers; told me to send him a lock of the patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter and in a short time cured her sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. REV. WILLIAM JOHNSON. Pastor Lebanon Church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as he above. DR. SHEA. Has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric schools of medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis, rneumaism, asthma, sore eyes, tumors, cancers, constipation, ague dyspnea, tape worms, liver complaints deafness, catarrh, dropsy, piles, nervous debility, heart diseases, consumption, diseases of women and children, fits, kidney disease and all strange, mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment. He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospitals and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlors. A is registered physician. A new remedy for rheumatism just discovered, not a filiment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. Closed Sundays. Mention this paper. 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. A. G. Kreitlein Co. Bargain hoe Store The Largest Sale on Boots and Shoes Boots and Shoes We are Re ailing at Whole sale price. Many Ladies' and Children's Shoes. We are also-celling Rubbers Articles and Felt Boots at bottom prices. Call and see us. 336 Indiana Avenue HAIR SWITCHES ```markdown ``` like cut 22 inches long short stem made of black kinky hair. Sent postpaid on receipt of $1.00 60c buys a pair of black kinky hair Braids 16 inches long. 30c buys a Single Braid kinky hair 1 inchles long. Bangs Hair Pin and Ornaments of every description. Most complete line of hair goods in this country for Colored * People Send stamp for N w Illustrate t Catalogue. 153 Larch St. LANSING, MICH (In writing please mention the Freeman.) HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT INCLUDING: Medical, Dental & Pharmaceutical Colleges Thi-ty-third Session, 1901, 1901) will begin October 1, 1900, and continue even (7) months. Tutti n fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmac- nic Coll go, $70. All students must register before Oct. 12, 700. For catalogue or further information ap ply to— F. J. SHADP. M. D., Sec. caryt. 901 R Street, N. W., City of Washington. The Gem Laundry Don't forget us we are still doing business at 235 and 237 Indiana Ave. The largest and best Laundry in the city. THE GEM LAUNDRY, Phone 1671 Pennsylvania Line FOR Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Dayton. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg. Columbus. FOUR PAST TRAINS DAILY Leave Indianapolis, 3:35 AM; 8:25 AM, 3:05 PM Ship Car on P.M. rough Sleeping and Dining Car Service. FOR CHICAGO and NORTHWEST TWO PAST TRAINS DAILY. Leave Indianapolis, 11:35 AM; 12:20 PM Buffet Parlor Car on day train and local Sleeping Car on night train. Open every night 8:30 for passengers. LOUISVILLE and SOUTH Lv Indianapolis, 4:10 A M 8:05 A M 9:00 M 7:10 M 7:10 M T 11:00, daily except SUN. For tickets and sleeping car space call on agency at Washington street, Union Station or address W. W. RICHARDSON, D. P. A. E. A. FORD, G. P. A. SANTAL MIDY In & Sears Gomorrihy and dischayed from the tertiary or- ganis, arrested by Sands Midy Capenuleswithoutintention Price $1.4, of ALL Prints or P.O. Box 2081, New York. NOTICE MISS IDA PRETER, of Paris, Mo., writes the following: I have been using the Original OZONIZED OX MARROW for two months only and I am well pleased with it. I was so bald that I were shamed of myself, to-day I have a thick growth of hair call over my head three inches long. When I am asked by people what I am do- ing for my hair that it is grown so beati- fully I tell them it is the original Ozonized Ox Marrow that did the work. Oceaneed Ox Marrow (copyrighted) also makes curly or kinky hair straight, smooth and pizable. Prevents fa ling out and breaks out of the creative new disguise. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers. If your dealer cannot supply you, will send you grover pack one bottle for 65 cents or three for $1.440. Write your name and address plainly to the GZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 80 Wabash Ave. Chicago. =HARTONA= Matchless and Positively Unequalled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA will make the hair grow long, soft, and straight. The use of one box of HARTONA will show immediate results. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. HARTONA cures Dandruff, Baldness, Falling Out of the Hair and all Skin pains. Remember, that HARTONA can help hair remedy by the market because it the best. Price $1,00 a box. Don't allow your hair and face to be ruined by the worst chemicals that are sold cheap to catch the ignorant and uneducated classes. HARTONA is used by over 50,000 people in every State in the Union. HARTONA does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally straight after the use of HARTONA. On box of HARTONA can be used by every one in the family. Benefitus and improves children's hair just the same as adults. Money positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied. HARTONA FACE WASH will gradually turn the skin of a black will turn the skin of a mulatto person WASH will not lighten the skin in softs remains and bright without conti does the work. It is your duty to look delighted patrons send us testimonials States. HARTON FACE WASH will Black-Heads, Freckles, and a hemless shade of skin on pack, face, and with each bottle. HARTON FACE to any part of the United States on Remember, your money is positively r fied and delighted with the Hartona Re will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE WASH will not lighten the skin in spots, but all over evenly. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle does the work. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year from all over the United States. HARTONA FACE WASH will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, Black-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemishes of the Skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face, and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. HARTONA FACE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. Remember, your money is positively refunded if you are not absolutely satisfied and delighted with the Hartona Medies. HARTONA NO-SMELL will remove all smells and bad odors of chafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SMEL ing from disagreeable odors caused by Sent anywhere on receipt of price—50c. Address all orders to— HART To introduce our remedies in this ci cut out and mail to us this Coupon and HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.0 SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of securely sealed, so that no one can tell Coupon. Order goods now, as this gra Write your name and address plainly. M Order, Express, or enclosed in a Register HARTONA REMEM 909 E. Main Street GENTLEMEN: I enclose you ONE lowing goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HA Two Large Bottles HARTONA FAC One Package HARTONA NO-SMEL My Name is House No._____, Street_____ City_____, County_____ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AM COKE, COKE, will remove all smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price—50c. a package. To introduce our remedies in this city, we will send to all persons who will cut out and mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent securely sealed, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this Coupon. Order goods now, as this grand offer will last but a short time only. Write your name and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money Order, Express, or enclosed in a Registered Letter. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY, 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. GENTLEMEN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the following goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - worth $2.00 One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, - worth .50 AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. Lump and Crushed FOR SALE BY Indianapolis Gas ——:For Tickets, Call at Office:—— SPECIAL Blood Medicine Dr. Hickman's Blood Alterative Specific Compound is a purely vegetable compound and free from mercury and poison; specially manufactured for the treatment and cure of Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Syphilis, Cancer, Scrofula, Eczema and Untaneous diseases, that other blood remedies fail to reach and cure; and will cut e the worst case in a very short time to stay cured. Put up in 16 ounce bottle, price per Bottle $1.50, shipped on receipt of price. Get free to patients taking our Blood Medicine. Manufactured By Dr. T. L. Hickman & Co. Wholesale Office and Laboratory, 45 Main Street, FT, WAYNE, IND No Money in Advance $1550 HIGH GRADE BICYCLES Shipped anywhere G.O.D., with staggered shipping for maximum Latest styles for men Women, Boys and Girls well made and durable $60 "Oakwood" $24.9 $50 "Arlington" $22.0 Others at $10, $12.50, $12.50, $11.50 a $18.99 all special value. Buy direct from manufacturers, thus saving dealers' large profits. Write today for special offer. Illus trusted Canadian Store 934-814-8188. UNION 162 W. Van Buren St. B-170, Chicago, Illa REDUCED TO $1.00 BLACK SKIN REMOVER COPYRIGHTED BEFORE AFTER HAIR STRAIGHTENER. **One LARGE JAR** thrown in, enough to make any one person's hair grow long and straight. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutant four or five shades darker than the shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white. One box of this preparation is all that is required for the preparation of the skin without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples and black-heads, small pits, tan and liver spots without harm. Will not cause any irritation. Will stop using the preparation. The directions and preparation will be sent to any person for $1.00, or send Post-Office Money Order, Express Money Order, Registered Letter, or Express Money Order, that no one will know contents except receiver. THOS, BRANE, € 122½ W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. black person five or six shades lighter, and person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE in spots, but all over evenly. The skin continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of animals every year from all over the United will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, amines of the Skin. You can regulate the ends to any shade you wish. Full directions FACE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. Only refunded if you are not absolutely satis- a Remedies. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY 909 E. 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All matter for publication, to ensure insertion in the current issue AGENTS. agents are wanted in every town and city now occupied, and liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary inducements to agents. ADVERTISING RATES. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8 1900. PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Prof. Booker T. Washington has been among us, and right proud are we of the fact. We are proud owing to his eminent worth to his race, country and to humanity. We are proud of him because his usefulness is recognized by the country at large regardless of race. We are proud of him because his reputation chafes at all bonds or bounds—a world character. He is the compliment of the age; born as it were for the necessities of days in which he is to live—like Abraham Lincoln—created, invented out of dire necessity. Mr. Washington has not lost his powerful hold on the affections of the people as was demonstrated by the vast audience that greeted him in the Senate chamber of the State capitol. Not delegates of the Afro-American Council alone, but thousands of either race met the distinguished educator with raptuous applause. Governor Mount, James Whitcomb Riley, Attorney-General Taylor and many other eminent white men and women were among his very notable audience. Eminent Negroes from every section of the country were there, lending an air to an occasion that will not soon be forgotten. The speaker, true to his life's work, uttered irrefutable proposition after proposition which, from the result of years of ceaseless endeavor, he was prepared to prove. He has been arraigned by the unthinking ones of his own race for exposing the foibles and frailties of the race, and especially has it been asserted that he opposed higher education for Negroes. This one point he condescended to answer. Mr. Washington reiterates that higher education for Negroes is all right for those who are able to pay for the same. It is all right whenever and wherever conditions are so that the same can be readily employed. He very justly insists that, that education is due a race that fits the individuals to best compete in those avenues where circumstances throw them. When visiting a certain school of technology in Europe, Mr. Washington says, that the pupils were required to give information as to the leading pursuits of business at their homes. The pupils were taught in reference to these pursuits, as they were the ones most likely to engage the pupils; and for two reasons: These pursuits are near the homes. These pursuits, dominating, will demand the individual's peculiar ability. The argument, as we see it, cannot be challenged. There are too many colored men, young colored men, who are huddling around dives and places of infamy, trying to live on their wits, says Mr. Wash. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ington. This part of the speech, while applauded, did not receive that support that it should have received. Mr. Washington is eminently correct. There are too many who are posing as gentlemen of leisure, ladies of leisure without a regular legitimate income of "tupence per mo." It is a phase of Negro life that has no counterpart in any other race. It threatens to beat back the good of years. It is on the increase. It is a problem in itself—shallow—mockery—imitation, servile imitation. The race will, certainly will, become the laughing stock of the world if it persists in putting on airs with empty purses. Put money in thy purse, says Washington, says Shakespeare, the greatest philosopher the world has ever known. Shakespeare built better than he knew. No race is violating that immortal injunction so ruthlessly as the Negroes. Get a bank account or property. its equivalent, says Washington. He speaks none too soon nor inconsiderately. Some one must take the bulls by the horns. These lessons must be taught. and they must be learned. The race is not without its spectators. That apathy now so apparent cannot warm into love if the race continues to fly in the face of the first principles of racial or individual existence. It may bewail its fate, it may curse the day of its birth, but none of these things bring surcease from hard trials and tribulations. The fate of nations, races, individuals, to the greater extent is within their own hands. If they sow to the wind they must reap a whirlwind. The race needs leaders, not professional leaders, who simply lead in the language of Washington. It needs leaders with names and homes. It does not need leaders with invisible occupations, who are subject to "stand and deliver." The race needs leaders who are profoundly interested in that peace and harmony that should exist between peoples. It needs leaders who are not bent on agitation and race disturbances other than that which is right and just, and in the interest of all, rather than a means of plucking a precarious existence from a flood tide of racial perplexities brought on by their own selfish endeavors. Mr. Washington, as usual, has spoken well. In arraigning Negroes for their short comings he did not forget to condemn the practices put in operation by the whites which show a feeling of Negro hatred that is unexpected of a race that is in a position to be more tolerant and charitable. It was a notable address to a notable audience on a notable occasion. He receives our unstinted applause because he speaks excathedra. He departs from us carrying our best wishes for his manly resolves and work. Our large faith in him is justified by his great accomplishments. The gods prosper those who are in the right. THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE. The political tug of war is waxing daily warmer. The great question is how will the Negroes vote? The spirit of tolerance concerning such matters has grown rapidly within the last few years. The Negroes are insisting that as American citizens that they choose their party according to its merits, as they see it, and that they vote accordingly. This freedom of selection will not be, is not denied, nor is it impeached, morally impeached when the reasons for selection are manifest The elective franchise, judiciously exercised, is the acme of Americanism, politically speaking. It is judiciously exercised when it is wielded in defense of the State, the community and, last, but not least, the citizen. The thinking Negro will pause a long time before he consents to cast a vote that in any way effects his own interests. If he pauses sufficiently long to consider the trend of the policies enunciated by the two great parties of to-day there can be no hesitancy about his choice. Separate and aside from those pernicious tendencies set in operation by the Democratic party in the South that strikes at his very civil existence, the good of the country at large is menaced by the policies of Bryan and his party. The silver money fallacy, once defeated at the polls like banquo's ghost, rises to haunt us still. What the depreciated silver currency, as a basis for sustaining the great business of the country and its financial credit abroad, will do has been thoroughly explained. We trust the financial conduct of the country to those who make such matters a life's study. We have an abiding faith in those individuals who have most to risk in the financial affray. They are not likely to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by insisting on such legislation as to pauperize themselves and the country as well. The cry that there is a conspiracy to crush the poor on the part of the gold standard advocates is without foundation. Those individuals are long sighted enough to see the blasting influences of silver. They are to save the people in spite of the people. The cry of imperialism is a twin attraction set up to garner the discontents and the disgruntled ones. It is but a shield under which those who are opposed to the administration owing to disappointments may safely and respectably masquerade. Happily, they are but few. We glory in the ascendency of the American flag. Chance and the fortunes of war brought us our foreign possessions, fortitude and valor will secure them to us. No fear of oppression from the government at Washington needs to obtain. It is not the administration that is working the hardships for Negroes in America; it is the Southern appendage of the Democratic party. It is not the Republicans who are enacting the present measures of Southern States that seek to assassinate Negro citizenship in America. We cannot answer for the future policies of the Republican party as it concerns Negroes in America, but the present and past stands out boldly. The arguments of man cannot in any wise change or alter its position. The Republican party stands for enfranchisement, the Democratic party stands for disfranchisement. The Democratic party North may disclaim all participation in the late Southern disfranchising schemes, and they stand excused as individuals, but those Southern votes are as potent in creating Mr. Bryan president of the United States as the votes of the North. A vote for Mr. Bryan is an indirect indorsement of the actions of Southern States. A VOICE FROM PRISON. A man in the State prison at Michigan, Indiana, writes: "I am a race man, but a very poor representative." He has views on the race question notwithstanding the fact that he is domiciled behind dreary walls. Says he: "The year 1900 seems to be a dark year for the Negro, with such things as the New Orleans and New York riots." "I hope, when the Council meets in your beautiful city, that it may be able to formulate plans by which these disturbances may end." A prison, perhaps, may be a good place for reflection, perforce of circumstances, but it is even better to reflect as the effect of force than not to reflect at all. There are far too many who have their present liberties that are not in a reflective mood. The result of reflection may unbar prison doors, while non-reflection may engulf the whole race into a civil gloom that might mitigate the terrors of even prison walls. We do not know Harrison F. Jackson No. 47 of prison North, nor the nature of the offense, the penalty of which he now suffers. We know, however, that he has expressed some noble sentiments in regard to his race. But regardless of who he may be, regardless of the nature of his offense, he seems to wear in his breast a heart of hearts that remains unscathed, unscared, the one out of which he offers his deep solicitude for the welfare of his kind. Men with reputation, with liberty accorded by the laws and unsullied by crime, many of them, are not doing so much as this culprit who stands quivering and quaking in the fetters of the law. He hopes, he trusts, that the Afro-American Council may bring peace out of confusion and light out of darkness. He is not sitting on the wheel, croking in tones of disapproval, but he confidingly trusts that that body, of which he knows nothing, may be equal to the emergency. Blessed is he who sees Me not and yet believes in Me, says the Christ, for that very simplicity will he be blessed. It is to be hoped that, if liberty ever comes to prisoner 47, that his high sense of racial duty will preserve him from the pitfalls and the things that ensnare. May he live beyond temptation, despising it as a serpent, even to the extent of bruising its head. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, of St. Joseph, Mo., was one of those brainy young Afro-Americans who helped to shape the policy of the Afro-American Council, which met in Indianapolis last week. Dr. Crossland enjoys a reputation of worth and integrity at his home. He is the recognized leader of the Negroes in St. Joseph, and considered one of the foremost Negroes in the State. He is a stalwart Republican, and as such he has been made the leader of the Negro State League, one of the strongest political organizations in the country. He is a member at large of the Republican State Central Committee, which honor is in keeping with his worth to his party. He has enjoyed many honors and much confidence at the hands of his party and the race. He was a delegate to the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church, which met at Columbus, Ohio, last May. He is a thirty-third degree Mason. Rev. C. A. Leftwich, A. M., B. D., D. D., educational and financial traveling field agent of Lane College, Tenn., is in New York in the interest of his school. He was recently in Saratoga, where he made speeches along the lines of his work to the white and colored people. His subject was: "The New Negro for a New Century." His treatment of the subject meets with general approval. He is making a commendable headway. In New York City he was heard with interest at St. Mark's M. E. Church. Rev. Leftwich and others who should the financial responsibilities of these institutions, upon which is founded the hope of the race, certainly merit much consideration. They should receive it. A consideration is due them owing to their peculiar field of labor. When Senator Pritehard said that white men must learn to stop mobbing, it was accepted by common consent, but when he said that Negroes must stop committing the crimes which causes the mobbing, there were protests. The spirit manifest was wrong. It is true that much of the accusation against Negroes relative to such matters is not true, but much is true. It is the spirit of intolerance again. Mr. Washington uttered some truths, last week, that were not at all relished, but they were truths. The Negroes are growing too intolerant, they are unwilling to admit the baldest facts when they are not complimentary. The leaders must work hard to stay such a spirit. It will work untold mischief. It will arrest the work of all Negroes. Owing to the rigid color lines drawn in Cincinnati the colored people have organized with the view of bringing about a change. AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL NOTES The banquet—The high water mark in social functions. Ernest Lyons of Baltimore—The Little Trojan. He is a member of the advisory committee for the State of Maryland. Wm M. Lewis,—General Utility man; a little of everything. He was appointed Secretary by Bishop Walters. "A noble discontent" very good—W. S. Scarborongh, Professor in Greek—Wilberforce University. PROF. JESSE LAWSON, Washington, D. C. We have twenty-six graduates of Colleges at Tuskegee. My views on higher education—Booker T. Washington. Mr. Moore of the Chicago Record sent his paper daily communication. The Record is fortunate in having Moore. Flanner & Buchanan, 320 N. Illinois St., bet. New York and Vermon' St BEST SERVICE FAIR PRICES Hon. Judson W. Lyons taken captive by Wm. M. Lewis while enthralled at the entrancing beauties of our non-comparable monument—he did the rest. Hon. Jno. P. Green settled the little difficulty on the day following—they, kissed and made up. Bishop Walters versus Green. M. B. EDWARD EVERETT BROWN Boston, Mass. EDWARD EVERETT BROWN, Boston, Mass. The Journal was a journalistic giant during the convention. It did not spare ink. The News, Press, Sentinal, and Sun all vied. Senator Pritchard's position was simply impregnable; he could not be dislodged. A. H. J. E. BRUCE—"BRUCE GRIT," Albany. N. 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Scott and A. G. Robinson, two popular Bridge St., tonsorialists, of Jacksonville, Fla., have consolidated, and invite all their friends to give them a call. Clemo Harris, contortionist, and Miss Florence Robinson, members of Harrison Brothers "New and Ancient South Co.," were married at St. Joseph, Mich., last week. J. D. Howard, author of "Know Thy Self," now appearing in the columns of The Freeman, would like to hear from J. Ed Green and I. N. Smith, address care this office. Mr. Lash Gideon, manager of the Nashville Students, was in Columbus, O., during the performance of the Oliver Scott's minstrels and was the guest of Messrs. Clarence Powell and J. Ed. Green. Frank Clermont sends regards to James S. Lacy and W. Gof Kennedy; wants to hear from Ralph Nicolas. Ralph, send for letter at this office and wire me as per route. Miss Cora Akers sends regards to Mr. and Mrs. Tutt, the Smalls, Miss Jennie Williams, Miss Ella Spencer and all acquaintences with the first and original "Coontown 400" company. Address me at 322 Alfred St., Detroit, Mich. John Weaver. the one-armed comedian, is making quite a hit singing the funny coon song "A Bad Man." He sends regards to D. Ireland Thomas, and would like to hear from him at the Exchange theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. Lew Payton writes from the Harrison Bros' "New and Ancient South Co.," that five new car was waiting for them at Hammond, Ind., and is a thing of beauty. Mr. Harris is all smiles and is making preparations for a swell reception which will be held on our new palace. Dan Washington and Miss Minnie Edison, an Indianapolis girl, are making good in their artistic cake walk act. The new drama written and composed by Sam Robinson entitled "Colored Sporting Life" is quite a card, and is being featured with great success at the Exchange theatre, Jacksonville. Fla. The leading parts are being played by Roberts, Brooks, Hall, Wykaff and the only Billy Reeves. "King Jersey" has just arrived from Cuba, where he has been playing dates. Mr. J. Weaver, the one-armed comedian, has been winning much applause nightly. Lincoln J. Carter's latest venture "Down in Mobile" opened at Michigan City, Ind, 27th ult, to bug biz, the cast is strong one, numbering 20 people, 8 colored, including May C. Hyer, who is creating the character of Mother Grubare, the Voo-Doo Woman; Charles T. Small is doing Remus; Nellie V. Small, Aunt Sue; Manie Holman, Martha Jane; while Kastus, Pete, Ginger Sam, and Ephraham, are looked after by Al E Holman, Alex Johnson, Pearl Hunter and Small, who also constitute the "Down in Mobile" unartette. Notes from Houston, Tex. "Want to know the whereabouts of John Dennis, monologust and comedian. Any information will be gladly received by Ed. Hall, manager Solo theatre, Houston. Tex. Ed. H. 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A local musician is contemplating putting together a concert company, committing musicians, songsters and a ladies' orchestra. He intends to tour the neighboring towns, playing churches principally. Further data could not be secured at present by The Freeman. The Clarksville brass band did not honor the challenge of the Young Men's band of Memphis, Tenn., owing to the fact that one of the members dreamed the $100 purse was a 'gold brick', and decided to remain on the fence. Notes from A Rabbit's Foot Comedy Company.—"After two weeks steady rehearsing we made our initial bow in the Bijon theatre at Patterson. N. J., and the hearty ovation tendered us was far beyond our expectations. Our show caught on from start to finish and is bound to be a winner. So they said we wouldn't but we did. Among the strong features in our superb olo are, Ben Hunn. Florence Hines, the Paynes, Brandon & Arlington, the Betters, the Perrins, in a musical melange, and the great Gowonpo, also Bailey & Fletcher, grotesque artists, in all, the strongest colored olio before the public today. Our Philipino minstrel first part, presided over by Major Ben F. Payne, is something grand and unique in ever particular. Our special palace car "Tampa" took her first roll from the shops last Saturday, and was hailed with great joy by the members of the company. We are all well and happy and ere long as we become better acquainted we will be one big black family. J. Harry Jackson, our esteemed secretary, is kept very busy in the routine of his duties, though "Jack" is a stayer. We are now heading down through New Jersey for a short while, but in time will strike Brooklyn, Philadelphia and many of the principal coast towns. In next issue, owing to space, we will give our roster, showing who is here. They are all birds and hard to clip their wings".—Payne. "Hello central! Hello, who's there? A representative of A. G. Allen, Quine & Oake's New Orleans minstrels. How is your business? Good! Where are you now? We are in the state of Kansas. Business was good in Oklahoma; we are expected to play return dates through there. Will A. Dean closed with us in Arkansas city, Kan. Arthur Isler, slide trombone player in No. 2 band, in pain Pawnee, O. T, met a host of his relatives, and after spending two days with them joined the show in Perry, O. T. Miss Pearl Wyatte is fast improving as a singer; making high C nightly. W. Cooper sends regards to F. Kirk and Mallory Bros. Prof. McCammon sends regards to W. H. Fannings and W. M. Fletcher. G. Stevens would like to hear from L. Bland, D. Marion and R. Louis. W. G. Bostwick wishes A. Neal and C. H. Scott success. Our old reliable 'stand by,' N. Barge, sends regards to Dave Smith and S. Prince. F. Viacas, everybody's friend, violinist, clarinetist and crayon artist sends regards to all. J. T. Cox sends regards and says he's still eating Mr. Allen's porkchops. Mr. Vasser sends regards to the Bryon family and Prof. Lee Jackson. T Caster says he's still cracking window panes with his $12 tuba. J. S. Walker sends regards to Baxter & Cashen, also entire company. Rob I'm hitting 'em hard, so they'll have to hurry." A special notice from our correspondent of the Georgia Up-to-Date writes.—"The Georgia Up-to-Date Minstrel continues to pack them nightly. Harry L. Gillam in his latest and greatest success the Silly Kid, is taking the west by storm. The press and public and managers claim the act funnest on the stage. Mr. Gillam is busy rehearsing his wife for his new comedy acrobatic turn. The team will be known as the Gillams, Harry and Laura, and the act is the only one of its kind on the American stage. He sends regards to all friends. Mrs Woods was compelled to add another song to her repertoire cowing to the amount of applause she receives nightly. Mr. Wood is pleasing them with his trombone solos. The Adamses are still with the Georgias; Adams and Ellis are still making their way up the ladder of fame; Mrs. Adams is just recovering from a short but painful illness, and we hope she will soon be herself again. Mr. Adams sends his regards to John Eason and Charles Parker and all Buffaloes of St Louis. Miss Tina Mahoney, after an illness of two weeks, has just given up her bed. She hopes to be at her post in a week. R O Henderson, monologist with us is making good and sends regards to Forepaugh & Sells. Miss Lagretta Henderson, comedienne, is making quite a success singing Ma Ragtime Baby. She promises much in that line. Mrs Prampin is singing Louisiana Lize to great success. Harry Prampin has resigned the leadership of the band in favor of his esteemed friend, Fountain Wood, former band master. Pap West is still fiddling. Harry Prampin sends his regards to McCurdy, Desdunes, Gideon and Jean Jacque of the Nashville Students." Notes from the Alabama Minstrels.—"We are in our eighth week under canvas and judging from the weather and business we will continue the tenting season for weeks to come. Several of our company who were with Ernest Hogan's company in Australia, and who had instituted damage suits against the C. A. Steamship Co., have, through their attorneys, been notified of a compromise of the cases, and that their money had been paid in and ready to forward. The following are interested: Blog Logan, Laura Moss, L. H. Salisbury, Kid Alston and Tom Logan. Miss Gusta Dorsey, a promising contralto, joined us at Woodland, Cal. Miss Lucy Walker has signed and will make her initial appearance with this company at Sacramento. Harry Stafford has returned from a visit to Sacramento and has resumed his position in the orchestra. Brown & Howard are recipients of nightly applause in their rendition of Tom Logan's song, 'Break Away Mr. Coon.' Mable Hearde and Katie Carter do a really artistic double song and dance. Tom Logan done Ernest Hogan's famous stump speech, 'What is Man,' Tuesday evening and the title has become a by-word already. Miss Laura Moss, the Hawaiian nightingale, is a strong feature of our owl and beats the world singing 'Suwane River.' (Fact.) Ed. Tolliver proves himself a really funny commedian. Miss Ida Disard as interlocutress is a pleasing innovation in minstrelsy. Kid Alston has a new 'prop' smile that he uses for parades only. Mr. Salisbury, our lyric tenor, has returned from a flying trip to San Francisco. (On business of course) Robert C. Logan's bass voice is a hit everywhere. Tom Logan has written two new songs, the names of which will be disclosed as soon as copyrighted. Several new faces will be seen with this attraction next week. Pete Wews sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Would be pleased to learn the whereabouts of Father Henderson Smith. We opened Sept. 3rd for a ten days' engagement at the Clunie Opera house, Secramento, Cal."—Nagoe Mot. Charles R. Parker, of the Rusco & Holland Bald Minstrel Festival, writes. "The sixth week of the big show was as usual a very successful one and the Cincinnati people are unanimous in their praise of the big show: the fine music, the singing and the beautiful scenery. The weather was very warm there but it did not seem to bother the audience as the beautiful theatre is provided with electric tans, and the show simply went big. While in Cincinnati we had the pleasure of playing the stage hands of Henck's theatre a game of ball. It resulted in a score of 13 to 14 in our favor. The game looked as if the stage hands were going to win until George Davis jumped from the grand stand and relieved Mr. Spibles from behind the bat, as he was too light to hold poleman, the pitcher, who throws a very strong ball. After Davis went behind the bat it seemed as if the stage hands couldn't find the ball. This is the first time they have been organized since they have been organized this being their second season. Coleman in the box, George Davis behind the bat, and Samuel Davis on first base, played great ball. Coleman is a very fine pitcher, having pitched for the Oberlin college team three seasons. During our stay there we were entertained most sumptuously by several of our friends. On Thursday night we were tended a Spaghetti supper by Mr. Ferdinand Patterson, who is a fast friend of the profession. Friday evening saw us the guests of Mr. Lawrence Cenault, the Queen city's favorite tenor, coupled with Miss Bessie Walton as hostess and Mrs. Anna Williams and a bevy of Cincinnati young ladies as coadjutors. There were two present several lady guests from out of town who helped to make it pleasant for us. At a late hour we retired with the unanimous verdict that it was the swellest affair of the season. Among the many delightful receptions given us during our stay prominent mention must be given the one tendered by Mr. Louis Hunche at the Bellevue Brewery. This affair was managed with rare tasse, and the dainty lunch and liquid refreshments was all that one could wish. Success to the brewery and long life and happiness to Mr. Hunche. W. A. Dixon, the sweet tenor, is still knocking them a twister singing New York's favorite ballad, "In The After While." he sends regards to J. Ed. Green, J. N. Smith Ed. Hood, J. Watts and all professionals. Charles R. Parker sends regards to the VerValins, Clarence C. Powell and Ben Moore. Notes from the Richards & Pringle's Minstrels. This is our second stand in Iowa, and our fourth week out. The weather still remains quite warm, but not to hurt our box office receipts to a great extent. We are now soon to enter Kansas, and some of the boys, who reside in that State, are making preparations already to meet their friends and relatives. They say its quite early in the season to commence "banqueting" any one, but they will have to do it on passing through their homes. Oh, by the way, I never had any idea that New York City was so large, but it certainly fooled me. How about it, Percy? If you don't know, just ask "Crip," he's been there. So far the boys are all jolly. Mr. J. J. Holland's son, Marvin Holland, is now on with us, and expects to remain the season. Our manager, Mr. Culligan, finds in him quite a companion. There is several things over here that we can boast of: the first of all, Mr. W. L. Jackson, America's greatest colored violinist, who is successfully rendering Vieuxtemp's Grand Concerto in D minor; Beethoven's Concerto in D major, and other high class solos, will be pleased to hear from Mr. Richard Byron. Then we can point out to your notice Mr. Angelo Houseley, the celebrated euphone soloist. I think there are a few of you who have heard of him. Then comes Mr. Lloyd Cooper, tuba soloist, James Orshame, saxophone soloist. The above mentioned gentlemen are considered to be at the top of the ladder in their respective lines, and are under the able leadership of Mr. G. W. Houseley, who has our band and orchestra under his full care. C. A. Hughes, nature gifted ballad singer, with his rendition of "Some Day Our Paths Will Cross Again," is knocking them a twister. Kid Langford is creating quite a sensation singing "The Ghost of a Coon," being presented here enti dly different from any other show. Nothing but praise everywhere for our parade and show. All the members sends regards to No.1 and No.3, wishing you both a prosperous season. The Freeman is a happy visitor among us weekly, hoping to still receive same. Chris, we have organized a ball team among ourselves, and will shortly play local teams in the different towns we make. Our general manager, Mr. Culligan, seems to try hard, and always succeeds in making it pleasant for us all, and there is not one of us under that wouldn't go their length for him at any time. Lloyd Cooper sends regards to Piccolo Jones, Hedgepath, John E. Jackson, Bailey, Carter and all friends of the profession. Richard L. Wilson sends regards to Tom McIntosh, Furber and Davis, Say, Lacey, everything was O. K. in Eau Clair. I guess some of them wonder how it happened, etc. Well, you just em' Chris, Crip and Percy, how are you? Baldie wants four dogs for next summer's tent show, with short tails. No waging show! Notes from the Original Nashville Students in mighty union with L. E. Gideon's minstrels, under the direction of Messrs. Rusco & Holland,—"We opened in Indiana to good biz, and our show from beginning to end is a corker, as the management is sparing no pains or money fitting the show as an up-to-date and modern attraction. Messrs. Bobby Kemp, the singing commedian, and Julius Glenn, an insumountable commedian of the age, are pressing their work before the foot-lights and receiving hearty encores jointly, and Messrs. Skinner Harris and Emmett Davis are getting thethes by storms. One of the hits of the show is the marvelous wonder Marsh Craig. His work puzzling spectators and the best medical advisors in this section. The McCarvers and Reid in their acrobatic specialty are doing nice work in the olio. Ed. Winn, N. Johnson and Loomy, Douglass and Craine are the balladists with the show. Frank Kirk, musical acrobat with his 'who and a who are you,' is getting his nightly. Our band is considered the best in the biz, having the best selected musicians in the profession, Prof. S. E RUSCO & HOLLAND'S ATTTRACTIONS NOW THE LARGEST AND BEST: Tom McIntosh, John Rucker, Allie Brown, Furber and Davis, McKissick and Jones, Byron Family and fifty others. Two Big Bands. Special Train of Cars. Monster Parade, introducing the latest designs in Horsescarriages. Carrying Scenery for every act. DIRECTION OF RUSCO & HOLLAND. Two Bands. Special Train. Elaborate Street Parade, introducing the Boulevard Stanhopes and Kentucky Thoroughbred Horses. Special Scenery. DIRECTION OF RUSCO & HOLLAND. Two Bands. Special Train. Special Scenery. Massive Parade introducing Horses, Traps, Buglers and Mounted Gymnasts. Home Office: RUSCO & HOLLAND, 346 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. A.G. ALLEN'S NEW ORLEANS MINSTRELS ...ALLEN, QIUNE & OAKES Equal Owners... THE WORLD'S LARGEST MINSTREL SHOW. TWO BIG BANDS. A TRAIN OF CARS. WANTED—Good Musicians and Performers that double. Also good Novelty acts We use Colored talent exclusively. Address: GEO. W. QUINE, Manager, care The Free man, Indianapolis, Ind., or National Printing Co., Chicago. Of the Grand Fountain U. O. T. R., owned and controlled exclusively by colored people—A first-class place of amusement—a splendid one night stand. Large crowds to greet good plays. All colored turtles visiting the town are given a royal reception by colored citizens. Street cars from door to all parts of the city. W. S. WOODSHARE, CHIFF AND MANAGER Send to Us dieties to pick from. Collars 25 and 35 cents, Cuffs 50 cents. Dress Fronts $1.00. We can make you anything you wish, write for prices on specials. UNITED STATES AGENCY COMPANY, 128, 130, 132 Water Street, CLEVELAND, O. AGENTS WANTED. Mention this paper. Dodds, leader of the band and orchestra, does nothing but direct his big concert band and playing nothing but the standard music, viz. William Tell, Faust, Poet and Peasant. Fantastic, Barbee the Seville, Ill travatore and others. Roster, band No. 1, S. E. Dodds leader, Dan Desdunes, James Tucker, Skinner Harris, Ralph Devine, James Harris, Menzie Campbell, Charles McCurdy, Henry Carter, George Bryant, George Bailey, N. Johnson, Julius Glenn. Band No. 2, Frank Clermont, leader, Frank T. Patrick, Joseph Pleasant, J. W. Toomey, Fred Campbell, J. W. Mobley, Will Jones, H. Blake, and Harry Reid. Our concert are so thronged with spectators that at times you would imagine that its utterly impossible to pass for the stage entrance. Following is the roster of the entire company. L. E. Gideon, manager; W. A. Junker, business manager; Mrs. Ida Lee Wright, treasurer; Col. W. E. Fuller, advance representative; Mrs. S. E. Dodds, wardrobe mistress; George Carmon, stage carpenter; Fred Thomas, chef. T. H. Moxley, assistant chef; James Norman, porter; commediants; Bobby Kemp, Skinner Harris, Howard McCarrer, Julius Glenn, Emmett, Davis, Will McCarrer; balladists. W. C. Craine, J. R. Donglass, N. Johnson, E. J. Loomy, Ed. Winn conversationalist; specialty artists: Marsh Craig, Frank Kirk, McCarrer, Reid & McCarver, Julius Glenn, Bobby Kemp and his one man band, Campbell brothers, A. A. Copeland; musicians: Prof. S. E. Dodds, band master No. 1 band and orchestra director; Frank Clermont No. 2 bandmaster. Anderson, Ind., Special.—The Second Bapti-t Church has extended a call to Rev. W. B. Thomas of Princeton Ind. The stewardess of the M.E. church conducted a hay ride last week, a good time was reported. Messes John Summerville, Thomas Reynolds, William Vance and Horace Horier have arrived from Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. P. Blakemore spent Sunday in Indianapolis. Misses Ada Thomas and FRONT 2/4 IN BACK 1/8 IN. Anderson News. At Leisure about September 15th Williams' Orchestra (Colored) 1st and 2n Violins, Clarionet, Cornet, and Bass Violi Double Brass. Address Lena Druley, Florence Miller and Mrs. Alice Scott are in Chicago. Mrs. Matilda Griffin and Miss Eva Benson are guests of friends in Owensboro, Ky. Miss Alice Davis is visiting friends in Covert-Mich, Rev. Jasper Siler goes to conference next week. Mrs. E, R. Lewis is the guest of friends in Indianapolis. Mr. Manuel Edlin has troubles of his own just now so don't tell him yours. ATTEMPTED TO "LECTURE." Lights Turned Out on W Allison Sweeney, Who Then Sought Protection. Who Then Sought Protection. Muncie, Ind., Special. There came near being a riot in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday night, the presence of policemen in anticipation of trouble averting serious results, over the attempt of W. Allison Sweyney, colored, of Indianapolis, to deliver a "lecture," Sweyney is known to be a Democrat, and a committee of colored people met him at the depot and warned him not to attempt speech making in a Muncie church where there are but three known colored Democrats in a population of 2,000. But a small crowd was present, and soon after the speaker began and his theme was discovered both men and women rushed into the church from the street like wild people and stopped the "lecture" by turning out the lights. The officers protected Sweyney, who is an old acquaintance of Rev. Tucker Wilson, pastor of the church. Tickets of admission were sold at the door. Upon each was printed the names of McKinley and Bryan, and the holder was to vote them at the conclusion of the "lecture." The people declare that it would disgrace the church to have a Democratic speech made in it. TRON ss rare aot THE I ARIS OK Hy PER ne gst oO Re Ne eR OE ES ance. Unlike the other attaches of the place, he was clad in civilian garb of the neatest pattern. It was clear, from the manner of the new customers just entered, that they were no strang: ers to the place. ‘The room was furnished in that quaint, Oriental style that makes the palaces of far-away China famous for their gilded splendor. From the many- colored lanterns that hung in profu: sion from the ceiling, a soft, mellow light cast its alabaster rays through- out the apartment. ‘The carpet was of softest velvet; couches of unique mod- el and dainty upholstery were _ar- ranged in every niche and corner of the large aparement. Upon these were reclining the patrons of the place. Some were in the ecstasy of that en- trancing siesta, dreaming those rare and beautiful dreams that come to them, while under the influence of the deadly drug. Others were lounging about in various attitudes. The pale faces and heavy eyes of some showed that they had but recently survived the effect of the drug, and had been ruthlessly dragged from the realms of the flowery kingdom, through which they had just winged their visionary flight, back to a stern realization of thecr environments. Some were lying comfortably back, slowly puffing the poison. By the death-like whiteness of their countenances and the far-away look out of their expressionless eyes, it was obvious they were slowly drift- ing into the fairy lands, just evacuat- ed by their wretched companions. Jack and his party were soon pro- vided with the necessary “outfit,” and in a short time were quietly smoking away. They had repaired to a rear corner of the room, forming a seclu- sive little group of their own. As the peals of laughter and funny sayings proceeded from their midst, it was evl- dent they were enjoying | themselves hugely. Unlike most of the unfortu- nate occupants of the place, not one of Jack's party were fiends by habit to the influence of the drug; but were what is known as “pleasure smokers.” ‘They simply indulged in the dangerous pastime for the novelty of the sensa- tion produced, and then only at rare intervals. When their nerves had been strung to a satisfactory pitch and raised to a hilarious tension, they latd aside their pipes. Jack paid the bills, and they left the place. As they stepped out upon the sidewalk Swift was accosted by a thin-faced, poorly clad young man, whose sunken cheeks and hollow eyes gave him a cadaverous appeat- ance, positively appalling. “Hello Andy,” sald Swift, appearing not to see the extended hand of the man who had stopped him, but stood at a respectful distance looking with something like pity In his face upon the attenuated, nervous form of the wretched individual before him. ‘The poor wretch, with the instinct of one who “has seen better days.” noticed the slight to which he had been sub- jected by Swift's refusal to accept his profferred hand. He hung his head as though this action on the part of Swift had wounded him deeply. “What can Ido for you?" continued Swift, after a moment's pause. “It is the sume old story,” replied the man, whose voice fairly’ trembled with suppressed emotion; “I haven't got the price, and old Sam won't trust me. I have ben in a fearful condi- tion since long before 4 o'clock this afternoon—yon know the rest!” ‘The wretched creature's story was quite plain. He was one of those poor unfortunates who had become an habitual slave to the Influence of the drug. And, being as he said, “with- out the price,” had suffered for more than four hours, according to his story, as it was then quite half-past eight o'clock, most exeruclating agon- ies, the result of his inability to pro- eure the price of a smoke. With a spontaneity of action pecu- Nar to such men, who are often times genrous to a fault, especially when ‘one of their comrades is reduced to penury—the inevitable end of all such lives—the three men quickly produced their purses, and the indigent creature before them was liberally provided with funds sufficient to his present wants. So eager was the man to get the money that he almost ran into the place, not even pausing long enough to thank his benefactors. “Poor Andy,” said Swift, turning to: his companions, “he is fast nearing the end of his line. He has been against the stem for twelve years. It isa game he can't beat; and it is only a question of a short time till he must cash in his checks.” So saying. they got in the cab; Swift gave the eab- man his directions, and they were driven off. | “Who was that chap?" inquired’ Jack, as the carriage rolled on, “Oh,” responded Jake, “that is An- dy Smith, known to the gang as ‘Dopey Smith? At one time he was a clever fellow: ranked with the best in the ‘profesh. A disappointment in| ‘a love affair caused hint to resort to the dreams of the pipe for consolk- tion, He never has been himself since: but has gradually sunk lower and lower, until the pipe has enervat- ed his pristine vigor completely, and Te eae he Ba a ee a ian : ) ey NE (CONTINUATION OF LAST WEEK.) THE FKEEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. VY J.D. Howard. out this narrative, and, judging from the expressions upon the faces of hi two companions, the memories the foregoing had recalled, were distinetl3 unpleasant to both of them. “I cannot imagine, for the life of me how under the heavons a mano} Smith's good sense ever allowed a pet ty weakness to so completely maste1 him,” said Swift. “For a time, the en tire gang did all within their power t convince hin of his error, and the con sequences it would lead to, but om warnings were of no avail. So, one b3 one, the gang dropped him from the list of their associates, until now, 1 fear, he is only a memory, and a sa¢ wherever it presents itself,” repliec example of what might have been Frankly, 1 would prefer the silence 0} the grave to his present lot.” Just here the cabman reined up hi horses again, and the party found themselves at “Queen Anne's,” or the “White Front,” one of the most ex clusive resorts of the kind in Chicago The men alighted and proceeded uy the marble steps at the door. In re sponse to the ring of the nell, che door was opened by a Negress, neatly at tired in cap and apron. She invited them to enter, and conducted them te a handsome patior, opening on the left of the hall, where she left them, au- nouncing that the “girls” would be down directly. ‘The apartment to which they had been conducted was a perfect dream of loveliness. Every thing that money could lavish upon it was to be seen ‘on every hand. An open piano stood in one corner; on either side of which was a life-size, perfectly executed nude statue of feminine beauty. In a few moments the heavy portier cur- tains hanging over what, one would suppose at a casual glance, to be a blind window, in the rear of the room, were noiselessly parted, and “Queen Anne,” as she Was called, who was the proprietress of the establishment, ad- vanced gracefully into the room, with a smiling welcome to her guests. She was a woman perhaps thirty- five years of age, upon whose face the traces of a now faded beauty were yet distinguishable, Her exquisite gown hung in tasteful folds, displaying to advantage the symetrical contour of her faultless figure. ‘The graceful car- riage of her head and elegant demean- or all betokened the studied art of the crafty courtesan. Being quite well acquainted with the men, a lively con- versation ensued. “I hear, Queen,” observed Arnold, “you have a new acquisition that bids fair to prove a raging success.” “Quite true,” replied the woman, “put then, ont of modesty, I must re- frain from commenting upon my ‘find,’ until the success or failure of it has been determined. You will soon have an oppostunity of judging for your- self.” “That Is precisely what brought us down this evening,” said Swift. “Yes,” joined in Jack, “to worship at the shrine of the ‘foundling’ is the sole object of our visit, Let us drink to the health of the new queen, and give her a royal welconie into. our ranks, Bring us Iu a bottle of wine.” Here “Queen Anne” touched the bell upon the table, near which she sat; the servant gitl responded, and was given Jack's order. In a short while she re- turned, bearing upon a tray the wine and glasses, which she served and left the room, Many were the toasts offered to the health and success of the unknown girl. Scarcely had the echo of the clicking glasses died away when the curtains, at the rear door, were again parted, and the object of their merri- ment, closely followed by three young women, walked into the room. She was indeed all, and more, than the three men expected. Tall and graceful, with a wealth of sunny, gold- en hair hanging in a Inxurious pro- fusion of ringlets upon her back and shoulders. Her high, intellectual fore- head gave her a decidedly distin- guished appearance. She had large, dreamy blue eyes, a nose and chin so delicately perfect, that they appeared to have been chiseld out of marbl by some master-hand of art. Her skin was fair, very: she wore a gown of some soft, white material, daintily trimmed in rich old laces. Her bare arms and shoulders were not less white and shapely than those of the lifeless statues at her back. ‘As she efitered the room her eyes wandered rapidly over the faces of the men present, Jack’s being the last to receive the honor. As their eyes met a crimson flush suffused the face of each, the girl quickly lowering her eyes to the floor. A moment later Jack Ashton was introduced to “Gladys Gray.” CHAPTER VI. ik eh te ee “My Lite Has Been a Siank. — It was 2 o'clock the nevt morning when Jack and his companions left the “White Front.” Exch was heavily under the influence of the wine that had been imbibed quite freely through- out their stay in the place. With bloat- ed faces, soiled apparel, and worn out, exhausted bodies, they got into the carriage, which was still in waiting for them, Swift giving the direction, “59 Polk street.” ‘The trio of inebriates were driven to Swift's apartment, where they retired, thus closing the last number upon their checkered program. It was quite noon when the three again descended and proceeded down the street, finally entering the cafe, where we have sen Swift and Ashton enter once before. Seating themselves Tee te te eM Gee eee oe Jat one of the tables, the waiter was given an expensive order, after which they fell to discussing the events incl- dent to thelr night's carousal. “By Jove,” observed Jack; “it may be a weakness on my part to admit it, and no doubt you fellows will give me the laugh for what you may term an impressionable nature: yet I must run the gauntlet of your ridicule, and come out point blank and confess that her ladyship, the fair Gladys, was a per- fect dream.” “No,” said Swift, thonghtfully, “I, for one, have nanght to say detracting that opinion, as you haye yoieed my sentiments precisely. She ts ynques- tionably far aboye the average! of her class.” At this, Arnold laughed bolgterous- ly. “Well,” said he, “'pon my word, if you two are not a pair of bright youths. I am positively ashamed of both of you. ‘The idea of allowing yourselves to become enamored with a woman of the town—a common pros- titute! Bah! I am proud to so that I sm quite beyond any such silly, whim- siealities, I dare say, the fair damsel will soon have one, or perhips both, ‘of you upon her glove and bon-bon list, which, you know, is but a step from paying board bills and becoming gen- eral utility man. ‘The story of poor Andy Smith, and {t's sad end, should cause men of our stamp to look upon an alliance with a woman in tlie light of the direst of calamities.” “One can admire beauty when and Swift, somewhat guardediy. It is a God-given attribute, and one should not be prescribed for expressing ad- miration for the divine work of the Almighty.” "6 At this they all laughed. “For my part,” said Jack, “Tam prepared to say, without fear of contradiction, from what I saw of her list night, that, from a standpoint of thorough traning and accomplishments, she ean lay many of the so-called ‘society la- dies’ and ‘drawing-room belles’ ‘com- pletely in the shade. Upon investiga- tion, Wwe will all find, no doubt, that, like ourselves, she has a history, sec- ond to none in the land, and that she springs from a long line of blue-blood- ed ancestors.” Here they afl-langhed again, “Such patrician manners could not be So smoothly assumed were they not the real thing.” Farther discussion of the subject was cut short just here by the waiter setting before them a most costly and appetizing dinner. After tie waiter had withdrawn the conversation was resumed, ‘and throughout the meal the “Gem” of the “White Front” was the sole topic of their discourse. While the last course of thelr repast was be- ing served Ashton astounded his com- panions by quietly remarking: “Tell you what, fellows; I see in the future for myself, so far as the fair young miss is concerned, a racy bit of fun and pastime, and I mean to get all out of it there is in it. She is « beautiful toy, and I mean to strive for the un- questioned possession of it.” “What do you mean to do?" asked Swift, eying him suspiciously, Leaning back in his chair, and drumming indifferently upon the ta- ble with “his fingers, Jack codlly re- plied: “Oh, nothing more than to pro- ceed at once to make the fair Gladys love me madly.” “Make is a strong term, my lad, when applied to women of her type,” said Arnold with a solicitious expres- sion upon his face. “Be careful that you do not get your own wings singed for your trouble.” “Eiave no fear,” responded Juck, de- fiantly. “I feel quite equal to the emergency, and am willing to run my chances. If I should lose, the gang can afford the luxury of another ‘Dopey Smith’ upon their® hands, if for no other reason that the humor the situation will produge., But ser- iously fellows, I mean to sail in, and cut quite a swath with the girl, What a bore it will be to the West Side gang when I produce for their inspection an article of such rare quality, I mean to put my plans into exeention at once. So, pursuant to a secretly contracted engigement last night, 1 must ask that you two excuse ine this after- noon, as it is promised, exclusively, to the fair Miss Gray.” “Much success to you, my boy,” said Swift, as the three arose from the table, “Be careful, lest you sue- cum to the arts and wiles of the girl, by permitting a silly sentimentality to usurp the place of common sense. If the affair is to be one of amusement, let the entire proceedings be conduct: ed upon that line only.” Proceeding to. the cashier's desk, Jack paid the bills of his companions and himself, after which the three sauntered out of the place, and strolled leisurely down the street to the corner of the square. Here Jack hailed a passing cab; and, remarking to his friends as he got in, “I will see you at the den this evening,” was whirled alway in the direction of the “White Front,” Arnold and Swift con- tinuing on down the street. ‘There was an eager expectancy up- on the face of Jack, and it may be said, a slight increase in the pulsation nea RN es Oe NE ee she had been the most courted belle in the city, Jack led her to a soft, silken couch, upon which they both sat down. There was a blissful Si- lence of perhaps a moment's duration, which these two hearts, so strangely united, beat rapturously within each breast, imparting, one to the other, through that quixotie and impulsive medium, “Love at first sight,” their secret desires and passions, Jack was the first to break the si- lence. “Gladys,” he said, with a strange look in his eyes, “you will permit me to address yo uthus, as I feel all for- mality between us from now on would be but a mockery and a farce—I have come to speake with you to-day con- cerning yourself. I feel, that like my own, your life has a most bitter his- tory attached to it—that your present environments are not those for which nature intended you. Since ours is a common misery—a common sorrow !— I want you to confide in me as a friend, and tell _me something about Your past life. I am willing to ex- change experiences with you; and would have you know from the start that Tam actuated in making this re- quest by the most friendly motives. I need not add—that—that—I am deep- ly interested in you.” As though this peculiar and seem- ingly rash request, coming as it did, from a man whom she had known but a few hours—recalled a tirade of un- pleasant memories, the eyes of the beautiful girl, which had hitherto been riveted upon the floor, quickly filled with tears, “Mr. Ashton,” she replied, with an effort, without raising her eyes from the floor. “I fear that what you ask is impossible. My life has been a blank! And the shamful melange of tnistakes and errors, with which it is stained, I haye promised myself to never reveal.” “Gladys.” said Jack, touched by her emotion, “as I said before, J have your own best interests at‘ heart in presum- ing to inquire into your past. If, how- ever, you can not trust me, I shant in- sist further. Although, by refusing this request, you are putting from you the best and truest friend, perhaps, you will ever know. You would, no doubt, look differently upon the mat- ter—if you only knew—how much— how muck—I cared!” Here his voice sank alnost to a whisper. “Gladys, when I looked into your face last night —I felt—I knew—that—that I had met one woman in all the world whom I could trust, in whom I could contide my innermost secrets. Won't you— can’t you trust me?” ‘There was so much vehement and constrained sadness in this last ap peal, that the girl slowly turned her head and looked wistfully into Jack’s face. So searchingly was the stare that she appeared to be gazing into the very soul of the man before her. In that one moment all the bitter hatred sbe had harbored and fostered in her ‘heart against mankind. the re- sult of the great wrongs she had sos- tained at their hands, seemed to yan- ish. ‘The heart that bad so long prov- en adamant against the advances of selfish men had suddenly awakened to all the maddening eestacies of a wild and passionate love for the wayward, dissipated youth before her. The very sound of his voice had .been sweetest, music from the very moment in which his merry laugh had fallen upon her ears the night before. She, Gladys Gray—known to the profligate element in which she moved its acknowledged queen as “the Marble Heart”—who had twisted the hearts of men around her tiny little finger,’ and spent their fortines in wanton recklessness, had, nt last, fallen victim to Cupid's dart, and was swept away in the wihrlwind of the one real devotion of her life. This man had weilded an irresistable power over her from the very moment in which her large blue eyes had looked into his. From thenseforward. ne had been her conqueror—her idol— ner God! ‘The filerceness of her love, whose cradle had been a honse of | shame, whose birthright was sin and de- pauchery, was like unto all such pas- sions, engendered under similar cir- pumstances and by women of her lass. It was one of those clinging, idolatrous affections, such only as fallen women can bestow upon the mtn who really fascinates them, and which ever after remains the ruling passion of their lives, “I can—I do trust you—Mr. Ashton,” che said at length. “Please do not mis- mnderstand me. But—but—the mem- ries of a recital of my past life would recall are most unpleasant, and would reproduce with most cruel exactness my life's bitterness! Yet—it you really desire to hear it—I—I will tell vou, for I feel—I know—I can trust you.” “My darling!” exchimed Jack, and ‘he next moment he was straining the voluptuous girl passionately to his preast, with his lips pressed to hers, in a long, lingering kiss; vowing, in the most impressive language the nndying love he bore her. Gently releasing her from his spas- modie embrace, he began pacing up and down the room. He was in the Jn a moment the girl was at his side and, entwining her arms about his neck, softly whispered: “Dear Jack, will you always love me as you do now?” “Always, my darling!” he replied, showering passionate kisses upon the beautiful brow and eyes. “Even after you have heard my shameful past?” “Yes, always. Whatever you may have to tell can not be more disgrace- ful than my own life’s story—I shall love you—even beyond the grave!” Long afterwards, in the years that followed, he recalled those words, and they smote him ke@nly. They again sat down upon the divan, and Jack drew her to him, gently pillowing the golden head upon his breast. “My dear, as it Is to be an exchange of confidences, shall I proceed with my story first?” he said. “If you wish,” she replied, softly. So Jack began, and in a straightfor- ward, truthful manner disclosed to the girl beside him the whole course and cirenmstances of his misguided career, closing his narration by remarking: “Thus, you see, from bad to worse, how rapidly it is possible for one to sink in the scale of being. T stand be- fore you a common swindler—a com- mon thief!” As he completed his story, the arms of the girl again found ‘their way about his neck in a clinging embrace. Her eyes were dimmed with tears; the story she had just listened to was so like the one she had to impart of her own disgrace and downfall, that the similitude of their likeness Seemed to draw her, if possible, more closely to Tack. After i moment’s silent weeping she slid down at Jack’s feet upon a low stool, and, resting her head upon hiis knee, slowly began her tale. “I was born at Omaha, Nebraska. 1am now nearly twenty years of age. A little more than two years ago my father, who then, as now, was con- dueting a large wholesale drug estab- lishment. One afternoon he brought home with him one Julian Gray, who at that time was in his employ as traveling salesman. I was introduced to him, and being as I was a silly, un- sophisticated, impressionable school girl, soon fancied myself desperately in love with him, listening in almost. childish ecstacy to his deceit and flat- tery. It was not long mfore my father discovered the drift of our re- lations, whereupon, greatly incensed at Tulian’s presumption, forbade him coming to the house, and I was severe- ly reprimanded for my iiseonduct in encouraging ‘his advances. I was warned that Julian was not a proper person for me to consider among my immediate friends and acquaintances. This piqued me, and I resolved to con- tinue my filrtation by clandestine meetings. “Matters went on thus for a few monthseand finally I yielded to his persuasions and ran away with the man whom I—I—I thought I loved! We fled to Boston. Upon our arrival there he claimed to have received in- formation of the sudden demise of a wealthy uncle to whose vast estate he was sole heir, So, procuring for me a lovely suite of rooms, in one of the fashionable hotels, he hurriedly left ine, supposedly to go to New York to. confer with the lawyers who had charge of his uncle's affairs, In a few days he returned, and, with an as- sumed despondency, bordering upon abject despair, told me that the condi- tions of his deceased relative’s will Were stich as rendered it utterly im- possible for bim to make me his wife antil he had reached his majority. He said our marriage need be deferred but a few months at most, when he would keep his promise and—and— make he his wife!” Here, as though her recitation re- called memories she fain would have forgotten, the tears flowed afresh. Be- pween her sobs she continued: “T was too young and inexperienced fhen to understand his evil designs. So, believing that at such time as he could, in accordance with his uncle's stipulations, he would make me his wife, I remained with him. For five months he bestowed upon me every luxury I could possibly desire. It— was the—same old story! One night he failed to come home. I—I—have ever Seen him since. T stayed on at the hotel for a few weeks, nursing the vain hope that he would return, Fin- ily realizing that I had been deserted | became desperate. Soon the pro- prietor of the hotel, who was a bach- ‘lor, guessing my true situation made Frantic love to me. T encouraged him, und in a short time had forgotten the ld love for the new. Diamonds, ear- rages, servants, in fact all the gilded adjuncts ‘hich wealth holds out s0 emptingly to weak woman ax a barter for the sacrifice of her virtue, T had in abundance. I enjoyed this life for 1 little more than a year. One day there came to the hotel a theatrical manager. In a spirit of amusement I ommenced a flirtation with him—my over protested—we quarrefed—and I eft him. From that time until now I nave—have heen leading—a life of shame! Until last night I had been striving continually to crowd as much xcitement into my existence as possi- ple, as tat was the only respite ob- fainable from my sorrows!—until Se 6 ene eee eee ree ‘WATERPROOF COLLARS, Page 5. A Statement. ‘There are no people whose hair is so beautiful as the Creoles of New Orleans, and they all use Mme Turner's Great French System for the hair. See large ad—address 1312 Carondelet street, New Orleans, La. A GENEROUS OFFER, Ge ree B. 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States Healtn seports, published at Washington, D. C.: We, as tue highest American author ity, om all matters of health, sanitation and hygiene, are constantly receiving letters of inquiry about a reliable cure for lost strength in men, Therefore we have ordered an inves tigation to be made into the subject and our medical staff found there were many so-called cures on the market but that many were worthless and some actually harmful. Therefore when we came upon the prescription furnished free by George B. Wright, a merchant of Marshall, Mich. we in- stituted examination and found that its wonderful efficacy depended ‘Upon its being exactly compounded accord. ing to proper chemical requirements in order to establish the proper chemical actions and reactions in the human system, and that it should especially, and above all, contain each and every ingredient named in the prescription, otherwise it would be quite Inactive and worthless. Properly mixed and containing ey- erything called for in the preseription, its effect upon the nerve centers is truly wonderful and its nerve tonic properties easily surpassed all ordinary methods of medication. Among the benefactors of the race ‘may be mentioned the said George B. Wright, inasmuch that he gives this grand discovery free to all who write for it. ‘Taken according to directions, it builds up the weak and restores to full size and vigor the nerve muscles. It brings hope and cheer and lifts up the discouraged man so that he once more enjoys the beauties of nature and the Pleasures of life. Failure in business and love surely falls upon him who is weakened physically and mentally, and “us sad condition is at once relleral and a new man made of him who uss this prescription. ‘Wherefore, upon the highly favorsile report of our medical staff we extend to George B. Wright's preseription for lost manhood the full editorial and of! clal endorsement of the United States health reports. As certain as a wound leaves a scar, and as sure as effect fol- lows cause, do men live to repeut theit follies and indiscretions in weakness and suffering. The tortured sufferer may bear no tell-tale marks of ruin upon his face to betray his lost man- hood, He goes to his grave a human wreck, and never tells of his sutferinss for fear of shame. Such mental an guish at times drives him to the verge of desperation, and he Is easy prey for those vultures in human form—uack doctors—who hold ont alluring hopes of cure only to disappoint, and after robbing him of his money, plunge him into absolute despair. No one can appreciate these horrors of lost manhood except lie who sut- fered them, No one can hielp such suf- ferers except he who knows a cure and has himself been restored to fll man- hood, A notable cure of lost usanliood in an extreme case was effected in the person of George B. Wright, @ music dealer and well known citizen of Marshall, Mich. Mr, Wright for years suffered the agony of lost vital powers. He saw his physical power go frdin him’ as the result of insidious disease, until he was reduces! to @ cov dition of senility, and the best doctors in the country gave him up to ile. Like many others, he tried the va rious remedies offered by specialists for the treatment of weaknesses pecul iar to men, and It was this experience that drove him to a little study aud research for his own benefit. 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Write us THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ‘B.SQUARE'S ? ; BLUSTER § A MUCH NEEDED CORRECTION. [wish toeay to the readers of The freeman that I never use any valgar or profaue wo ds in my writings so from fhisont, if you see any such lay it at the door of the man, woman or child that set# ap the type for my “Bluster.”” eee jnwy “Bluster” of Angust 11th, the printer made me say “‘goll dam” when [ wrote plainly, “gol darn’’—g-o-l1 dora. eee T have just received aletter from some “gmart Alex” in New Orleans saying, “We thongit from your Bluster of Aug 11, you lived ap North in God's country, at wese+ they lynch and mob our opie in the heart of New York City jast the same as they do down here. What have you to say about the matter? eee Well Mr. “smart Alex,” I'l say this. Wedo live in God’s country, but the {evil cometimes crosses the line bat the got prople of New York City, both black and white, soon drive him back to his den and send a lot of his imps to state’s prison or the electric ‘chair. The best people of this section azo the best people, eee They say” that several Negro Demo- crits will not vote for Bryan this’ fall ecuuse some of their white fellow Dem- | ocrats cracked their skulls in the recent rots and they will not be out of the lopitals in time to vote. It costs souething to bea “nigger” Democrat. eee ‘Tho friends of Negro/disfranchise- neut cry that it is to “protect Southern women.” Does it? Mississippi was the ft State to doit, and Mississippi has today a higher average of lyuchings than any other state in the Sonth. Where is the “protection” that this act was to bring?—N. Y. Press. | wee ‘The other day I was asked a question Tooald not answer. I met Will Johnson Brooklyn's leading “Negro Democrat” when he remarked with a smile, “Why are you all the time pounding us on ac- count of our political convictions?” “Po litical convietions, do you call it, Glad you haye found a name; bat you know the gauntlet I chrew down years ago about yon dare skinned Democrats? I said, aud L repeat that any Negro who says that he is a Democrat in this cam- paign is either a fool or # knave. wee Ho smiled, I smiled and we walked into the corner store where we both “smiled.” Between the drin—smiles he remarked, ‘Its hke this Gus; we all havd a living to make and it would not do for us to engage inthe same kind of business.” “True,” I replied, “but there are some kinds of business Iwill not engage in; for example, it may be a oltable occupation (it isa honest one) toewply and cart garbage and ewill but Iwill uot doit, neither will I drive a piltical garbage wagon ora Democratic swilcart, as the nauseons smell of blood of the thousands of black men murdered ‘othe South by your white political finds, wold force its way through the ners Yes the cries of the black citi min the South whose citizenship has ten stolen by your fellow robbers in Miitein that section where ‘‘govern- bat without the consent of the’— ‘Hold on!” old man, where do yon think Jouare? Yov are not in a political ueting, yon are in a—well, in a hotel Now af you will answer a printed ques. tou will show you, I will renounce Deaooracy aud hereafter vote the Re- Pablican ticket.” eee We both “smiled” when Johnson re: urked, “We but this ont of a good Re- Pnblican paper, the Colored American Sud we intend to make it a campaign ‘bee aod ask the question in ten thous- ‘dbani bills? Can you answer the Stiont Hegave mea elipping which a: “There is no legal barrier to our d- = tancs to West Point or Annapolis. * members of Congress have the Wer to reccommend whomsoever they Rib, rocardiess of color, creed or des- he Itit be argued that the white sins whan the competitive system Aulopted, the fact may be cited that Represent has a quota of appoint: “ts which attach to his office and he Ruy make his selections from the United PAGS at lane Why has Mr MeKinley Toes(in passing by the thousands of qalkhle, bright young: Negroes many [quit are graduates of excellent co - Usmited no more asT.conld not an- ‘Wer the gnestion. B SQUARE. THE WAITER aa waiters in the United States I send Seetings, In preparing the work for many waiters in the hotel service in this country I have had several well defined objectsin view. First, to advise and seek to better the condition in the hotel world that large numbers who are engaged in the responsible duties of hotel service. Second, to place within their reach the snovess nl achievements of unity. Happy indeed shonld the peo- ple of onr race be in the closing year of the 19th century. Slavery with its bar- barism is gone. The night of darkness is past. The morning light has broken. ‘The sun of liberty is rising gloriously in the heavens and shedding his effalzent rays on that great race of people in whom thespirit of liberty was eo recent- ly born, Thestar of hope has arisen in onr sky and the star shail rise higher and higer and shine brighter and bright- er until ite rays shall dispel all darkness of slavery, persecution, superstition and lnre our race onward toa grander fatare than is yet in your minds to imagine Ou no other body of people does this star shine 60 brightly as those who are engaged in hotel service. Our advan- tages and oppo:tunities are great and we have only to grasp and improvethem to insure our success ” Mr. John Sails, second heed waiter of the Southern Hotel of Chattanooga, has taken charge of the dining room at White Sulphur Springs, Ala. ‘When serving a party in which there are ladies the ladies should be served first. This is simply common politeness and should be practiced by every waiter. SUSE ara aay Vicksburg, Miss., spectal: Vicksburg society was treated to a most remark- able debutante entertainment on the evening of the 14th inst. Long before the appointed hour, 8 p. m., the beau- tiful yards, spacious porch dainty par- lors and waiting rooms were over- towed with guests, chatting merrily and favorably of the occasion which So many had come to honor. ‘The above name will at once reveal the purpose of the gathering. ‘The residence was that of Mr. and Mrs, William Laws on Marshall street, one of Vieksbrug’s noted and honorable colored families. ‘The debutantes were Misses Alice, Catherinia and Jennie, their three daughters, sweet and accomplished girls, Their parents bad promised them some time ago that if they should prove good and obedient, worthy a true, a formal presentation to. their friends, in the form of an evening of pleasure, should be theirs. ‘They proved the test easily, and on the o¢- casion spoken of some of thelr friends were present to do honor to the pleas- ant occasion, Mr. Laws, being una- voidably absent from the city, Madam Laws, in a few well selected words, in- troduced the debutantes, who were all dressed alike in white, and beautifully. Mr. Anthony J. Taylor spoke fittingly and splendidly of the young ladies, as he knew them in Sabbath school long years past. Miss Emma Dunham, on behalf of associates, spoke, welcom- ing the ladies into their midst and so- cial arena, Mr. J. G. H. Bowman sang a solo, the Misses Laws sang a trio and Dr. C. Henri Woode delivered a most appropriate address to the de- light of a splendid and most attentive audience, Mr, Cland McKinney, re- cently at Tuskegee, an old associate of the familly, spoke pleasingly. ‘Thus ended the literary and introductory portion of the “Debit Entertainment.” Miss Maud G. Lowett, graduate in -ma sie of Straigh University, New Or- leans, agitated the ivory of the beautt- ful ebony upright to the delight of the dancing young. Refreshments with- out end were served and after the Disky lights of the Japanese lanterns had melted away, giving place for the more brilliant rays of “Lady Luna.” the throng did likewise, thus ending one of the most eventful and pleasur- able evenings ever witnessed in the Hill City, * * Subscribe for The Freeman, the greatest of all Negro journals, It is up to date. * * Miss Blnora ‘Turner is on the sick list at this writing. ‘The friends of this es- timable lady hope for her a speedy re- covery. * * One of the largest ex- cursions of the season left this clty for Natchez, Miss, Aug. 14th. From all reports a good tithe was enjoyed by all concerned in any way. * * Miss Ber- tha “Allen, of that city, gave a swell social at her home for the benefit of her Vieksburg friends. Those present were: Miss Mable Newton, Henry Washington, Miss Bertha Allen, Ery Brooks, Miss Luella Reid, Fred Platt, Miss Sarah Montgomery, Albert S. Barnes, Jr., Miss Augusta Reid, Arthur G. 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WASHINGTON, tpn fat SS Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute YG LIN fand the popular leader of the Negro. Race. LE \) Ss Published in one Jargo volumeof over 400 pases and Fi i DN s2ietire and plitoceneravines: sien @ x oi keghoa: Tro Segoe i a a ett ot y TY AS AY ip pape Si? Waiting Robina 7 UW \\\ Prominent men and the public press throughtout the Dyfi \ auutry have mony words of praise. ‘he following are a Samples: 1S . ciated.” — iN ‘wn, Mekiniey, Presigent of te Onitea State “The book is of more than ordi interest for it ponsconce, a double significance. $ te reat oe et eta Fee problem.” Philadelphia OUTFIT FREE TO AGENTS: Send24 in stamps for naling andwe vil € with ful] instructions for canvassing, ‘The book is sold only on subscription through ¢ Our wuthorized agents. Address, J. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, lil ¢ UU UTE UUUVUUUUUVCULEVUVUVUUTUV UCT YT ©, ta Friday, Aug. 17. They report hay- ing had a very pleasant stay in Minne. sota with relatives and friends. * * Mr, Ike Colman, manager of the Pal ace billiard and’ pool room and lunch counter, is doing a very flourishing business on South Washington street, Tke is a jolly good fellow. * * Read The Freeman. It contains all the lat. est news of the race's. progress—read by all the thinking men and women of the race. Be up to date. Read ‘The Freeman. Mr. Jesse W. William. agent, * * The Young People’s Lit erary and Progressive Association stil holds the realm as being the foremost organization of its kind In the State. Seiihemaaa aire a Chicago, Ii, special: A reception was given last ‘Monday evening at Mrs. F. ‘Thomas's residence, 509 Weiland street, by the members of Wayman Mission, in honor of their pastor, Rev. IN. Daniels. * * Mr. John. Jones was in Rock Island last week attend- ing the Masonic conclave. * * Miss Pearl Elliston, of 73 Larrabee street, Is serionsly sick with the bronchitis. * * Mr; and Mrs. R. Weaver, of 70 Walton place, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sawyers at Benton Harbor, Mich,, have returned home. North Star Tabernacle, No. 102, Daughters of Tabor, will give a grand public instal- Jation and concert at 601 Wells street, Sept. 13. * * Mrs. Stark, of 157 Clark street, is spending a few weeks in Cincinnati with her friends and rel- atives. * * Rev. J. H. Green organ- ized a Baptist-church in Harvey last Sunday. He was assisted by Mr. J. H. G. Davis, J. H. Lawrence and Rev. Iistey. * * The members of Herman Church were aroused from their state of lethargy last Sunday evening by the able sermon which was preached by Rey. Duncan, of California. * * Miss Emma Williams is pending her vacation in Paris, 1. * * Herman and Provident. Baptist Churches will run an excursion to Joliet, Sunday, Sept. 23. Round trip, $1.00. * * Mrs. Edwards, of Pensacola, Fla., is visit- ing Mrs. §. B. Bell, at 568 Weiland street. * * Mr. and Mrs. Childress, of 6025 Prairie avenue, entertained a large number of friends on the 12th inst. * * Mr. G. W. Hawkins, of 643 Lincoln avenue, was quietly married to Miss Eliza Walker, formerly of Vir- ginia, on the 15th inst. Miss Walker was one of the most popular young ladies on the North Side. ‘The nuptial knot was tied by Rev. J. H. Green. + * Two prominent married ladies had a fight last week about a dude. + * ‘The Odd Fellows will run an ex- enrsion to Louisville, Ky., Sept. 30. Round trip, $7.00. _C. Hughes has tick- ats on sale at 135 N. Clark street. * * Mrs. A. Tinney, of 16 Chestnut place, tied on the 18th inst., after having an aperation performed. She leaves a husband, two children and a mother to In the Spanish-American War The First Martyr of the War was a Colored Man! Br EDWARD A. JOHNSON, shes of "Fhe amous Schoo! History of the Negro Race,” Kaleigh ‘B.C. Price $100, Ty Seats ‘Wanted, Pen Pleare e the During Ohasgr mate by Negro Saidioy at Sua ten, Caney ond "en ing Cha e a around Santags. Cor eral Brows killed eh hs pot while rine caanon whlch scoked ever the block house and saved the Rough Riders, Sergeant Ber the colored soldier who was first te raise the American flag on San Juan Hill, ve glowing tributes of MeKinley, Miles, Roosevelt and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers, General Morgan ‘sdvoestes Negro Officers, Antonio and Jose Maceo, Gomes, Miss Cisneros ang the Cuban Women Cavalry. The Negro Paymasters in the Army, 0 Ne Poet, Paal Lawrence Dunbar. “Eddie” Savoy, the colored man whe outwitied the diplomacy sf the Spanish Minister at Washington, Ete, Person Ought to Know. Allanswored in the Hits, of the N atts ann Sh ka a arr he Tis SO the destruction of the Battleship Maine? 2. What colored aallor was the frat martyr im the Spanish-American War? 3. What colored soldier was the first martyr of the War of the Revolution? 4 What colored soldier had charge of .Hotchkiss gun knocked over the Spanish Block House and saved the Rough Riders im the ‘Spanish-American War? & What colored soldigr reached the look House rst on San Juan Hil Wok dows the Spanish and hoisted the American fag? 6 What colored, soldier did the same at the Block House at El. meee 7, What colored man outwitted the Spanish Minister at Washington, D.C.? 8 What greatest General in the United States said the oolored soldiers “fought rvithon’ ‘a parallel in Es history of world,” in the Spanish-American Wart ne i 7 OF NEW and int reading, with about 43: every Page Brimming Full Sits secretin ery vierare a yparters, « Filipino Lady of Minilia, and'a Brist Skotah tliptnoe tnd fhelr eivilintion: “Aantsoabe piotire of ~eneral Nelson A. 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D. 1312 Carondelet Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA. mourn ber loss, * * The following officers were elected by the ‘Twenty- fourth Ward Republican Marching Club on the 1th inst.: Mr. C. Hamp- ton, Captain; Mr, N. Allen, First Lien- tenant; Mr. A. Price, Second Lieuten- ant; Mr. Bradford, Secretary. * * Miss Eva Craig, of Iowa. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, at 206 Wells street Poet Dunbar Drugged- ‘New York, Special.- Pan! Lawrence Danbar, the Negro poet, reported to the police Monday night that he had -met a young Negro whocalled himself William Ries, Satarday morning, and the latter cautioned him against walking in West Thirty-Seventh street, where the Negro riots took place last week. When the poet insisted on going, Richs volunteered to accompany him to protect him ‘Then Richs proposed that they have a drink together, and after Dunbar had taken a ulass of beer he became unconscious. When he revived he fonnd himself in a strange honse with bis $150 diamond ring. his gold watchand #40 in money missing. ‘WATERPROOF COLLARS, Page 5. The Georgia State Industrial College ‘Open to Both Sexes. ‘The fall term beginning October 3. 1900, the Georgia State Industrial College will receive both young men and young women as boarders. The entire expenses for board, washing, fuel and lights will be only $5.00 per month. The location and surroundings are healthfal and elevating. A first class opportunity for young men and women to obain a good literary and indastrial education. The trades of Blacksmithing, Wheelwrighting, Carpentry, Painting, Bricklaying, and Shormaking will be taught the boys and the art of Sewing and Cooking will be tanght the girls Boarding space is limited and those who wish to come must apply early. Re: spectfally, R. R, Wright, LL.D., President. College, Ga. 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