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Circulation is what the Advertiser Pays For. He Gets it Here. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XV. NUMBER 14. IN THE METROPOLIS OF KENTUCKY, THE CITY BY THE FALLS OF THE OHIO. NEGRO'S PROSPEROUS CONDITION In the Professions and Commerce—The Keystone Club an Established Success in the Life of the Gay and Fes- tive-Food for Thought. Lansville, Kv. Special. DEAR WOODBINE: I have just completed a week's stay in my old home by the falls, mining pleasure with business. During my visit I got around among those of the citizens who are accomplishing anything in a commercial way. A resume of my observations is given below. The Wm. Watson Undertaking company is still at the top in that line and is steadily growing. Mr. Watson is one of the veteran undertakers and embalmers of Louisville, and has surrounded himself with a very competent staff of attaches. Opposition in the past three years in the undertaking business among colored men has taken a tremendous spurt, and like mushrooms in some fruity spurt, the following firms with the exception of the Taylors, have sprung into existence: The Louisville, Funeral Directors, a corporation of much promise, under the management of Mr. William Silkman, corner Eleventh and Walnut streets, are in the fight to stay. They have a very nice oust and are in close touch with the various preachers throughout the city, which means much to any undertaking enterprise. The Kederkahn saloon, owned and managed by the genial proprietors, Thomas T. Prifor and James W Taylor, situated at 630 W. Green street, is perhaps one of the most THOMAS T. PRYOR. acceptable saloons in Louisville. The bar is neat and attractive, encompassing a stock of the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. The accompanying cuts are good like encasements of the proprietors. Since 1899 JAMES W. TAYLOR. the place has been in active operation, giving the general public entire satisfaction. The better class of citizens are attracted to this place by virtue of the superiority of their goods. Robert H. Taylor, for many years the backbone of his father's, the late J H. Taylor's, immense undertaking establishment on Ninth street, has, since his father's death, set up for himself a bu-inness a few doors from the old place, which bids fair to prove a flattering success in every way. Robert is a graduated embalmer and thoroughly understands the business. Reeves & Adams, first class Tailors, situated on Sixth street, between Green and Jefferson, are rapidly fogging to the front as first class tailors. The work they are turning out is giving entire satisfaction. As cutters and fitters they seem to have taken the swell dressers by storm. They are both energetic young fellows and are highly deserving of the big business they are estab lishing. E. I. Masterson, that brilliant product of Tuskegee Industrial school, and an old Louisville boy, is still the leader as a fashionable tailor. It was he that first established the precedent that a Negro really could put up a first class suit of clothes. Under his superior guidance he has turned out such men as Adams, of whom mention has just been made. Masterson is doing a business of $2,500 a year. Jordan & Son, Walnut, near Tenth, are the leading drapers in the city. Mr. Jordan enjoys a distinction in this line that has never been attained by any of his opponents. The firm's support comes from the better class of whites. Mr. Jordan is to Louisville, in this respect, what the venerable Charles Steers is to Montgomery. In conjunction with his business, Mr. Jordan conducts a first class confectionery and is a very extensive manufacturer of ice cream. Wm. Walker for many years has been holding forth at his old stand 940 Ninth street, where he has made the "Hero Saloon" one of the popular resorts of the city. He has bought and paid for the property in which his business is situated which is very valuable. Mr. Walker employs three men and handles a stock worth $3,000. Linzy Weaver and James Combs, the old reliable and highly popular Tonsorialists, are still running their shaving parlor at 800 Tenth street. This is one of the best shops in town and perhaps one of the oldest, having been in operation for four-en years. It is the choice of the swell set in the West End. The shop is cordially recommended to all strangers. The "Keystone Club" 543 Sixth street, is a distinct departure from the ordinary grooves heretofore traveled by similar organizations. Their reception parlors are very swell. The walls of the billiard hall are profusely decorated with first class paintings, giving the place a very cozy, home like appearance. The cafe is in the basement of the building where short orders of every description are served to the members at all hours. They have a membership of 200. Mr. Leonard Haley is President; Bristow Morris, Vice president and Treasurer; Chancellor Morris, Secretary and Manager. The American Fish Stand, N. E. corner Brook and Green streets, owned and managed by Danny Fines, is one of the best of its kind in Louisville. Danny is very popular with the people of the East End. He has been in business three years and has steadily advanced from the very start. He employs three men and is doing a business of $3,000 per year. My old friend Wm. N. Prather is back at the "Log Cabin" saloon, Sixth and Green streets; this time in the capacity of manager. Business has been a fluctuating, elusive thing for dear old "Spot," but where you find such tenacity and durability of purpose as are embodied in Prather's make-up, something tangible in the end is bound to materialize. "Spot" is "in right" this time and the "Log Cabin," once famous under the management of that Prince of good fellows, Willis Coats, is rounding out to its old time form under the guidance of Prather. "How's this 'Spot' old by?" Henry L. Babbage, proprietor of the French Lick Cafe, is doing a big business at 422 W. Green street. His meals are truly excellent. The service is polite and neat. Show people will find the place entirely satisfactory. J. T. Gillard, probably one of the best known instructors on the mandolin, guitar and violin in the South, is still doing an immense business in this line. His tele-tele is composed of the children of some of the most exclusive white families in Louisville. He has held graduating exercises of his classes at different times rich in artistic perfections and worthy of highest commendation. Prof. Gillard graduates from the Lousville National Medical College some time in April. Dr. Felix Grundy Fowler has ingratiated himself into the good graces of the people of Louisville as a thoroughly competent physician in the treatment of children. Dr. Fowler is now assistant Dean of the Louisville National Medical College and lectures on obstetrics. Mr R. R. Smith, Walnut, between Twelfth and Thirteenth, is very splendidly laid out INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902. JOHN L. SLAUGHTER IS BRINGING THE TOWN TO THE FRONT AS A PLACE WHERE THE PROGRESSIVE COLORED MAN CLIMBS TO THE TOP. Mr. John L. Slaughter wishes to announce to the public the opening of his new place, The Turf, to take place Saturday, April 12, at 217 Wells street, Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Slaughter has just completed one of finest three story buildings that has ever been built by any man of our race in the West. The building is strictly froproof with 21 rooms, and each room has one or more windows. Besides, there are all mod. the er improvements, as steam heat, lights, bells, baths and speaking tubes, each room being elegantly furnished throughout. Ir connection there is one of the finest barber shops in the city, with hot and cold baths and the beauty of it is Mr. Slaughter's establishment is in the heart of Milwaukee and is a credit not only to the colored, but to the white people as well. It is first class and up to date in every respect and is for the accommodation of gentlemen only, who will always find choice wines, liquors and cigars, besides billiards and pool, at The Turf, John L. Slaughter proprietor, 217 Wells street, Milwaukee, Wis. to carry on a first class business as a funeral director. Unlike most of the later enterprises, Mr. Smith has had considerable experience and is demonstrating his tact in the successful management of his place. He is identified with several orders and seems to be very popular with the people. The accompanying portrait is a very good likeness of Mr. Smith. The restaurant at Center and Green is doing a big business and is the place to get a "real" porter-house steak and good coffee. J. A. Agnew, the popular dentist, has very beautiful offices fitted up handsomely on Walnut, between Seventh and Eighth streets, where he turns out some very fine work His prices are reasonable, and by dint of ability alone he has built up quite a practice. J. D. HOWARD. CH-RLES SUMNER, THE HUMANITARIAN. The following oration by William R. Hill, son of Attorney James T. V. Hill, was one of the five orations selected from several submitted to a committee of the faculty of being elegantly farnished throughout. In connection there is one of the finest barber shops in the city, with hot and cold baths, and the beauty of it is Mr. Slaughter's establishment is in the heart of Milwaukee, and is a credit not only to the colored, but to the white people as well. It is first class and up-to-date in every respect and is for the accommodation of gentlemen only, who will always find choice wines, liquors and cigars, besides billiards and pool, at The Turf, John L. Slaughter proprietor, 217 Wells street, Milwaukee, Wis. the Shortridge High School and was delivered recently in the primary oratorical contest held at Masonic Hall: "CHARLES SUMNER, HUMANTARIAN. "The humanitarian is the world's chief benefactor. In diminishing man's inhumanity to man, alleviating the condition of the suffering and the oppressed and in asailing the instruments of oppression he emulates and embodies the most characteristic trait of Him who walked the Galilean shores and died on Calvary. He draws his inspiration from the human heart and before the sublimity of his determination all colors and classes are merged into one cosmopolitan mass and the boundaries of nations are obliterated wholly. In the interest of humanity he despises the subterfuges of expediency and policy and with the inspiring consciousness that his work belongs to generations and to God he pushes boldly and tearlessly into the white heat of passionate controversy, there to conquer or to die for man. "There are few men in American history who have been activated solely by a truly cosmopolitan, God-like teeling toward man. We have had during our brief day of glory men of purity, integrity and power unsurpassed if equaled in the world's heroic history. Some have loved the common man of the factory and the field and wrought for him. Some have given their all for liberty and died for her. Many with impassioned zeal have immolated their genius upon the altar of their country's glory. But one man luminous example of self-sacrifice has sounded every note in the scale of humanity and persuaded the most marvelous melody that human ears have heard—a superb master mind of the heroic mold—a spirit in the world of love, statesman, orator and man—Charles Sumner. "I will confine myself to this one phase of his versatile character. Time will not permit even a cursory discussion of his life in literature, in travel and in politics. In the final reckoning it is of minor importance that his early years were passed within an atmosphere of rare refinement or that his youthful genius was fanned into a lurid flame within Harvard's classic halls. After all the Summer who knelt with confidence, admiration and love at Story's feet to learn the deeper, grander lesson of jurisprudence has but little fascination for the world at large. The Summer whose early manhood of depression and bloom was -but up within a lawyer's gloomy rooms fails to inspire and while we follow with delighted steps the Summer who crossed the ocean, to meander through the galleries of Italian art, to琴er and meditate beside old Rome's crumbling monuments, to absorb Anglo-Saxon liberty among the green fields of old England, to commune with master minds and view European institutions, we see that after all Summer the nomad is no kin to us and so once more we turn to Summer the Humanitarian who wrought for man. "Summer first entered public life as a humanitarian with the olive branch of peace pleading for the cessation of armed hostilities. The remarkable oration delivered assembled Boston on our natal anniversary in 1844 was at once a proclamation and a prophecy. With audacious daring he defied the program of his Whig compatriots who contemplating a career of criminal aggression in Mexico, by demanding in the name of Christ the disarmament of nations. He was a Whig. With a compromising and politic policy he saw before him a brilliant career of political preferment, and with heroic subservience to conscience he challenged the hatred of the powerful with a declaration that opposed their plans. He was not politic—he was honest. He was not a politician—he was a humanitarian. And as a humanitarian he evoked the philosophy of the Prince of Peace against the orel, glutening bayonets of barbaric pomp. "With the ringing assertion that there can be but one rule of duty for nations and for individuals, he dared declare that 'in our age there can be no place that is not honorable; no war that is not dishonorable.' He knew that nations are but an aggregation of individuals and the logic of common sense told him that the law of God is broad enough for all the combined powers of the earth. He had traversed the scenes of ancient splendor, where the hate environed hosts of old had struggled for the mastersy—had stood beside the ruins and listened to the mournful requirement of the solitude. He had watched with horror the bloody stream that flows through history's tear-stained pages from the earliest dawn of time. He had mastered the philosophy of ages and had been forced to the conclusion that war is wholesale murder demanded by the save age instincts of the brute to satisfy a selfish [Name] purpose. He saw treasures of gold poured into the blood-stained coffers of war. And he saw hands imploring vainly for bread, souls craying love and peace, minds begging for education and the means of amelioration being buried upon some barbaric battlefield. And thus it was he spoke—spoke with the authority of the divine appointed, with the irresistible logic of truth, with power and pathos, with mingled scorn and tenderness that beat like a malediction upon fort and arsenal, and put to shame the uniformed savages of civilization. Years have gone and the thunder of artillery still disturbs God's quiet. But the words of Summer are seeds that will grow until some day a splendid harvest will bend above his tomb. "Even nobler than his services as the advocate of peace, was his career as the champion of freedom. He was a pioneer in the cause of abolition. Hardly had he crossed the threshold of manhood when his sensitive soul was out by the chains of human slavery, and he cried out against that institution which was an insult to God, a degradation to man and a menace to human liberty. With stern subservience to conscience he determined to dedicate his lite to the hostility of traffic in human flesh. He knew that Whigism was permeated with the poison of slavery—knew that Democracy was subject to its control. Yet with that marvelous confidence in the saving power of right, he pushed out boldly on his unique career. While others were discussing party policy, he persisted in his demand for universal justice. He scorned the precedent of the bought and paid for politicians. Among the truly great orators and statesmen of the day he stood alone a moral inspiration and a benediction. "He was not a dreamer. He was as practical as common sense. He understood the necessity of organization—knew the need of co-operation, thus he burst the limits of party, renounced the Whig party that had through cowardly subterfuge compromised with wrong and out of the chaos or moral anarchy helped to evolve the Free Soil party, a party pledged to eternal warfare upon the slave power of the South. The inevitable reward of moral worth came through Free Soilism in the speedy election of Summer to the Senate. "Here it was that Summer assumed the colossal proportions that postivity will accord to him on the canvass of universal history. With apostolic devotion he scorned the political alliances that compromise the practical politician and with well-nigh frantic austerity clung to the purpose of his life—to aim blow after blow upon the prison walls that shamed our civilization. He found himself decided alone. Slavery was in the presidential chair. Slavery controlled within the cabinet. Slavery handed down decisions from the tribunal of the Supreme court. Slavery dictated the course of legislation. Slavery preached from the pulpit and proclaimed its poisonous doctrine from the sanctum of the editor. Slavery seemed entrenched behind the invulnerable bulwark—more reliable than the Bastile that frowned for centuries upon slavery-ridden France. And yet, single handed and with a courageous invective incomprehensible to the cowardly soul, he boldly assailed the ciadel in the hour of its haughtiest authority. He was desperately, passionately in earnest. Throwing himself body and soul into the conflict, he no longer contented himself with the defensive, but became aggressive. Not content with what he had, he sallied forth and assailed with vehement logic the stronghold of the enemy. With righteous scorn he held the Furitive Slave law up to the hissing contempt of all mankind. He assailed, with irrepressible passion, the crime against Kansas and scattered broadcast the literature of liberty for the edification of the nation. And then, radiant with the beauty of a perfect soul in its frutition, he fell beneath the bludgeon of a cowardly warden in the prison house of the liberty he defended. Little did the coward know that every blow that fell upon the martyrs' head loosened still more the cornerstone of the abhorred institution he embodied. "Here closed the agitation of the heroic martyr to humanity. Henceforth he merely followed the movement that gained proportion and momentum every hour until it swept aside policy and precedent and rolled only to break at Appomattox upon a people disenhralled. Until the spirit of liberty no longer inspires the human heart and the pulse no longer quickens at heroic deeds; until public purity and integrity cease to command the admiration and emulation of the world and tenderness and sweetness are despised of men; until our christian, humanitarian civilization goes out in darkness and savage and barbaric cruelty directs the movement of mankind, the name of Charles Sumner will stand out in the galaxy of immortals, the proudest, the purest and the best." A sympathetic hearer of sermons said recently that what he most misses in modern preaching is the note of encouragement. In reading the gospels he finds 'the most scathing condemnation of sin but the most wonderful stimulus and helpfulness for the sinner. Now a days there is too much fault finding too little attempt to awaken enthusiasm for goodness, too little exposition of the beauty and fragrance of the higher life." Send $1.50 for a year's subscription to The Freeman, the best Negro paper published. Advises All Persons Suffering From Lost Manhood to Send for This Free Cure. HAS THE OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT Of the U. S. Investigating Reports--the American Authority On All Matters of Public Welfare. ACCEPT IT TO-DAY. I have a message to every suffering and health-broken man in this country. If you are afflicted with Sexual Weakness or Nervous Debility, I want you to read this article and then write to me. I have a medicine with which I have cured hundreds of my friends and others who have written me for it. I am not a doctor or a sharper, but a plain business man, and I want every weak, disappointed and debilitated man to write to me for a copy of the formula from which this wonderful medicine is prepared. I do not ask you for money. It is free. Read the following, by William Cole, M. D., Washington, D. C., published in the United Investigating Reports regarding the prescription from which this remedy for curing Lost Manhood is prepared: During the examination of men for the army during our recent war with Spain, our officer was told that we were so large a percentage of men disqualified because of nervous disorders. It is not the purportation of causes, other than to say that the sufferer is seldom to blame. His condition is indeed deplorable; his memory fails him, his energy is low, his memory is weak, and his nervous stamina gone. He is pitted by those versed in nervous disorders and repelled by both sex who do not understand how the man is. Some fifteen years ago the writer gave attention to the cure of nervous disorders, are found that the cure of nervous disorders is the practice and Practitioner of Medicine in Bellevue Medical College of New York, had a formula of wonderful power to restore to the full man the nervous system. In the year 1883 the celebrated Dr. Wilson and his formula has been obtained by L. F. Page of 201 State street, Marshall, Mich., who prepared a routine of rinsing and analysis of the same, by our Board of Investigation, we find it composed of pure and fresh drugs, and that it is sold under the name "Marsiland." Our investigation was extended into a great number of similar preparations, none of which were found equal to the above, and many of which were nothing like therapies or materia medica. We hereby caution the public against the use of all uncertain remedies and all who need nerve-liening bringing medicine we recommend. We prepared and sold by L. F. Page, 201 State street, Marshall, Mich., and unto the aforesaid Dr. Wilson's Kes orative Remedies and Practitioner of Medicine of the United States Investigating Reports. To every one who writes in good faith I will send the full formula of this wonderful medicine. This prescription and full directions are sent free. Have it filled, or if you desire, you can buy the remedies and prepare it privately just as well yourself. One prescription will make a new man of you. One dose will be enough to convince you of its marvelous power. Among those whose attention has been attracted by this magnanimous offer is the Rev. J. S. B. Crawford of Waynesville, N. C., a very prominent divine, whose own vitality was seriously impaired. Being sick of paying money to quacks and charlatans who took his money without doing him any good, Mr. Crawford had the prescription made up and took it regularly, as he was directed. With this result he was perfectly cured, and after several years of enjoyment of his newly given powers, made the statement publicly that every man in need of help should do likewise. There are not many ministers who would be willing to publicly endorse and recommend a cure of this kind, with the statement that they themselves had been cured by it, but the Rev. Crawford has in him a great deal of true gratitude and love of mankind. This is shown in a recent letter in which he says that he makes public acknowledgment "in order that others may receive the same happy results." You are older now and can look back and see the mistakes you have made, but you cannot recall the vigor and fire of the spring-time of robust manhood. Your transgressions have left their mark upon you. Your errors and excesses have ravaged your system and undermined your nerve force. Quickness, backache, nervousness and debilitating drains and worn out, shrunken and lifeless organs are making your life a miserable existence devoid of pleasure. You hesitate and falter; you are not the man you once were, and you know it. Cast aside your modesty. This matter is too important. Act at once with manly decision. This formula is printed and costs me almost nothing, and I give it free of any charge, I do not ask it, but if you desire to do so you can pay something after using it. I want to help every suffering man in America to regain his health and strength and the ability to enjoy the pleasure of life as I do. Address L. F. Page, private box 835, Marshall, Mich. Dallas, Texas, and Return $18.20 Round Trip. On account of the Confederate Veterans Reunion to be held in Dallas, Texas, April 22 25, 1902, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad will place on sale at Louisville round trip tickets for $18.20. Dates of sale, April 18th, 19th and 20th, limit for return May 2d, by deposit May 15th. Double daily train service of through coaches and Dullman Sleeping H. Milliken, District Passenger address H. Milliken, District Passenger Louisville & Nashville R. R., Louisville, KY. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. FARM AND HOME Plant a grape vine wherever a place can be found for one. Grapes can be had in abundance and the vines take but little room if they are planted where they will not be in the way of anything else. --- Some farmers multiply the insects and assist them by growing one kind of crop on the same land every year. Each crop has its special enemies and many insects remain in the ground over winter feeding on the crops best adapted for their propagation. By changing the crops the liability of damage from insects will be greatly lessened. Inferior seed is not cheap at any price. Do not be tempted to pay high prices for some new variety of which you know nothing. Every year there are wonderful yleids given of new varieties of which nothing is mentioned the next season. Get the best to be had but do not venture too deeply on things that are new. + It is suggested that every farmer have his name over his farm gate. It is more difficult, sometimes, to find a farm in the country than a house in the city, as the latter is numbered. If every farm in the country could be designated by the name of its owner, or even by number it would be an improvement over the present system of using nothing at all. + Currant bushes should be sprayed with white hellebore in order to destroy the currant worm. As hellebore is a poison, some growers object to it. It is claimed that if wood ashes are dusted over the bushes, first spraying them with cold water, the worms will be destroyed. It is at least a harmless remedy and worth of a test trial by those having currant bushes. 十 The farmer who sends inferior butter to market assists in creating a demand for oleomargarine. There are but two kinds of butter-good and bad-and unless the farmer ships that which is of the best quality only, he will lose the profit. The consumers of oleomargarine will not use infe or butter as long as they can procure a substitute therefor that is more satisfactory. + The fact that last year some crop did not bring good price is an indication that this year prices may be high for the reason that such a crop is liable to be discarded this season for something else. A successful fruit grower once stated that whenever he found his neighbors discarding a crop he invariably selected it for himself as he expected a scarcity of the crop in the market by reason of less land being devoted to it. Practical Points Ventilation and hygiene are important factors in the success of the poultry raiser. It will soon be time to cull your flocks and secure good breeding birds. A few birds with serious defects may spoil a flock which it has taken much care and patience to bring to its present slate of excellence. Never allow soiled eggs among those to be marketed as strictly fresh. They will create a suspicion. Clean all rubbish away from your poultry house and you will be troubled less with rats and lice. Remember that careful mating is a very valuable means of improvement. If you have a good flock be very care WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. ful that you do not introduce serious defects when you bring in new blood. Success with poultry is not another name for pampering the flock. To much doctoring is to be objected to for it is only by the survival of the fittest that a good, healthy flock may be maintained. Evergreens are very desirable trees to be planted in the yard as they may be pruned low. They will absorb much moisture, so there is little danger from dampness.—O. P. Greer, in Franciers' Gazette. Crows and Corn My experience is that one cannot keep crowns from cornfields any easier or more surely than by stringing twine about the field, occasionally adding a cross line. From my earliest recollection this was our practice and we suffered very little from crowns; while our neighbors who depended on scarecrows, guns, tinware or corn soaked with tar came out much worse. We always saved the twine from year to year as it has to come down with the first cultivation, and it is still strong. As to watching a field with a shot gun, it sometimes needs grit that would go through a South African war, especially if a colony of crowns get it "in" for a field. A neighbor two years ago opened such a campaign, and had to shoot eighteen crowns fairly finishing the flock before what was left of the field was saved. It is safe to say that the crop was a good many bushels cut down by what was taken even then. I believe in crowns as they live on insects and mice from preference; but they must live or die and, if preferred food is not plentiful, they will do crops harm. Better, then, adopt a harmless way of driving them from cornfields. A Feeder's Practical Way. In general, early feeding is the most profitable. The quicker you can mature an animal the more money it will make. It is not profitable to feed after cattle are ripe and ready for the market. I have made cattle gain $ \frac{5}{2} $ pounds for 60 days but after that not nearly that average. I have had much more success in feeding ground feed than I ever had in any other way, and I've tried every way almost and have come to the conclusion that to grind corn and cob together, rather fine is much better than to feed clear meal. I have never had so good results as when I have fed five times a day, but I never feed so the cattle leave the least bit in the boxes. Cattle will not eat any more when fed five times a day than when fed all they will eat three times a day, but the advantage is that you do not overload their stomach, therefore the food is the more easily digested and they fatten faster on the same food. I have had better success in feeding cattle kept in their stalls than in any other way of keeping them. I am a great advocate of feeding bran and middles and think they are nearly or quite as good as the same weight of corn. I am greatly in favor of dehorning cattle as you can feed them in a much smaller space and they will do much better.—Farm and Home. Race Gleanings Race Gleanings There is in the mail service at Shreveport, La., two Negro carrier and one stamper. Mr. A. O. Redwine is from Houston, Texas. Both passed the civil service examination which is an evidence of their qualifications. Uncle Sam with his forked tail is blind to color. Geo. E. Jones, of Little Rock, died last week at his home leaving a large and valuable estate. He owned one of the largest blocks in Little Rock, and was known to have been identified with all measures intended for the upbuilding of the Negro race. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, Senior Secretary and Field Agent of the Friedman's Aid and Southern Education Society is to deliver the commencement address at Tuskegee, Thursday, May, 29. Dr. Mason is one of the strongest men of our race and is a powerful, eloquent and convincing speaker. Nr. S. N. Calloway, the Tuskegee teacher of agriculture, who a year and a half ago went with three of the graduates of Tuskegee Industrial Institute to the German colony of Togo, in West Africa to teach cotton raising to the natives there, has returned to his home in Tuskegee on a month's vacation. The three young men who went with him remained. Mr. Calloway expects to return the last of March and wishes to take back with him a limited number of young Negro men who understand practical, modern agriculture—more especially the cultivation of cotton—who can be located among the natives as model farmers. Miss Ella Sheppard Moore, Mrs. Jennie Jackson DeHart and Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor are the sole survivors of the famous Fish Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Miss Moore is still connected with the institution; Mrs. DeHart lives on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O., and Mrs Taylor at Nashville. Kansas City Mo., is the proud possessor of a young woman who within the last few years has made wonderful progress in her chosen line of work. Miss Victoria, dramatic reader, impersonator, Delsartist, dansse and actress of wonderful versatility, is a rising star in the galaxy of America's noblest ty, e of Negro womanhood. Rev. D. P. Roberts, of St. Louis is said to be a candidate for Commissioner General of the Negro exhibit at the proposed exposition. Miss Cornelia Bowen, Principal of the Mt. Meigs School at Waugh, Ala., has built a dormitory for the girls. The girls live within a radius of 15 miles but too far away to go home each day. As they are unable to pay for their board in cash, Miss Bowen has the parents of the girls bring, at the beginning of each month, uncooked "rations" for the month, including what the girls would have at home, even to the soda, salt and pepper. The recent census statistics are creating much discussion. There is a surprising exodus of the Negroes from the South to the North and West. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Boston and Chicago have shown in Negroes little short of marvelous. The aggregate salaries paid to the employees of the Mobile Post Office amounts to $31,550.00 of which $11,050. is paid to 14 white employees, an average of 700 00 each year, and $30,500 is paid to 25 colored employees an average of $802.00 each per annum; in addition to which there are two colored special delivery boys employed who get fees amounting to about $500 Personal Pointed Pickings: Personal Pointed Pickings. Atlanta, Ga, Special—The funeral service was conducted last Sunday afternoon at Bethel A. M. E church over the remains of Rev. L. B. Maxwell field secretary of the interdenominated international Sunday-school convention. Rev Maxwell died in Los Angeles California where he went several months ago in the hope of regaining his health. This perhaps was one of the saddest funerals I have ever attended, Bishop W. J. Gaines Revs., P. J. Bryant and H. H. Pioctor, Dr. E. R. Carter and others officiating. The remains were taken from the parlors of Messrs L. L. Lee and Son Sunday morning, to the first congregational church where they lay in state until the afterhoon. It was followed from there by an escort from the Uniform Rank, K. of P., and a large concourse of people to the Bethel church. Among the prominent visitors from other cities were Prof. S. B. Morse, Sol Johnson, Cal. Deveax, of Savannah; Prof. Lewis Clark, Dr. C. S. Haynes, of Athens; Prof. S. F. Floyd, Miss Mamie Jackson, of Anguista, Dr. McLain, of Macon. Messrs H. A. Rucker, Dr. H. R. Butler, Dr. J. R. Porter, L. B. Palmer, S. F. Floyd and Sol Johnson were the palbarriers. The Freeman on Sale Copies of The Freeman on sale at Colemans restaurant 1214 Wylie Ave. Pittsburg, Pa., every Saturday. 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Wolf (white), ordinary men. Seymour Swarts of Chicago, was recently ejected from the Hotel Kenosha, Wis., by Proprietor W. TafferweinNow Mr. Swarts has brought a damage suit for $10,000, claiming that he was ejected because he was a Jew. As the law of Wisconsin forbids a person being ejected from a hotel on account of race or color this case will be watched with much interest. The aftermath news of the various banquets given in honor of his highness Prince Henry is coming in, and they are very damaging to the reputation of the white waiters. The most damaging news come from New York. It will be remembered that Miss Alice Roosevelt christened Emperor William's yatch the Meteor III, in the presence of Prince Henry, after which Mr. Rupert Fritz, steward of the Liederkranz club, served a luncheon to Prince Henry and about 2,000 other guests. After the luncheon was over it was discovered that several hundred dollars worth of silverware, spoons, knives and forks were missed, and an investigation disclosed the fact that several waiters had sold the above articles as souvenirs to the guests, each claiming that said article were used by the Prince, thus the white waiters did a land office business, some receiving as high as ten dollars for a spoon claimed to have been used by the Prince. As a result there are hundreds of people are holding spoons, etc., as souvenirs, each thinking that they have the original spoon used by the Prince. The game was worked so strong and successful that it bankrupt Mr. Fritz, who was unable to pay for the silverware missing. E. A. West, who was employed at the Pan-American Exposition by the editor of this department, is now at the Beechwood hotel, Summit, N. J. Mr. West sends regards to all Buffalo associates, and says that he will meet them in St. Louis in 1903. If the colored waiters would learn to enter into a friendly discussion of the scientific points relating to their profession, talk less foolishness, stop giving each other a good time joking and giving each other nicknames there would be some reason to believe that the colored waiters of to-day are much more advanced in every particular than the waiter and routabouts of ten years ago. Milwaukee Hotel Notes. J. M. Jiles, Jr., has gone to Minneapolis, Minn., where he expects to reside in the future...Edward Potes and Geo. Clark were so evenly matched in the contest for the manager's prize for the neatest and cleanest waiter for the month of January that the judges could not agree, so it was decided a tie and the prize divided equally between the two. To cap the climax John Sims and Clifton Miller tied for the prize for February, which was also divided between the two...Mrs. Geo. Harwell, the beloved wife of George Harwell, died on the 6th and was interred on the 8th at Forest Home Cemetery. The waiters of the Plankinton sent a beautiful pillow of flowers. The funeral services were held at the St. Mark A. M. E. church, the services being conducted by the Rev. Lewis.....W. J. Miles, after entertaining Prince Henry for several days, has accepted a position at the Plankinton again....On Prince Henry day the cafe and grill room at the Plankinton, as well as other cafes throughout the city could not feed the people. The manager of the Plankinton informed the headwaiter that he would lose one hundred people unless the American plan waiters could help the white waiters out. Although the American plan dining room was packed, to show our brothers in white what his brothers in black knew about alacarte, we threw open the French room, and with four colored waiters waited on all the guests that wanted to be served, and could have waited on as many more... Judge W. T. Green was defeated at the primary for justice of the peace of the fourth ward. The colored voters stood pat for Mr. Green to a man...All the first class hotels of th Cream City are in hopes to be able to go on the European plan by May first.....J. J. Miles was elected as a delegate to the city, district and judicial conventions. It is a rare thing for one to be elected a delegate to three conventions in one day unless he has got a strong pull. Messrs. J. B. Buford, S. Banks and J. L. Golns were also elected as delegates.... We are in hope for the success of the Republican ticket, as all gambling will have to go, which has ruined many happy homes. From New York. Mr. Cozart—No doubt you will be surprised to learn that the Park Ave. hotel, recently burned, had colored waiters in the American dining room, which has been recently renovated from top to bottom by Reed and Barnett. Mr. Wilson Percival, formerly head-waiter of the Tampa Bay hotel, Tampa, Fla., and Sturtevant house, New York City, some years ago, is now the head-waiter. This hotel had colored waiters twenty-five years ago, and is the first hotel that has re-installed the colored boys in New York City since the putting out of colored waiters here years ago. Robert Logan is the second waiter, formerly head-waiter of the Rossmore and Madison Avenue hotels some years ago. Mr. Percival has one of your "Waiters' Manual," and considers it a good and very instructive piece of literature. Messrs. Wm. Patterson and R Gurley, two of your waiters connected with the crew here previous to the exodus of colored waiters to Florida, which State has by its hotels and climate caused the colored waiters to lose the city hotels here, have encouraged the influx of foreign waiters to New York City and to the West. Hoping you will continue the Waiters' department in The Freeman I close. JOSEPH BROWN. Notice to Delinguent Members. Notice to Delinquent Members. To the delinquent members of the Head and Second Walters' National Benefit Association, Greeting: Again I find it my duty to impress upon your minds the importance of paying up your annual dues. Let me appeal to you as a man and a brother to be loyal to the ones whom you have elected to office in your association; let me appeal to you as one who loves you and one who loves the work which we are engaged in, to kindly give us your support. Every day the question comes to us how is the Head and Second Walters' National Benefit Association getting along? To such question the answer goes out the association is doing well; its influence is being felt from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and pretty soon you will find when you go to apply for a situation, if you are not a member of the H. and S. W. N. B. A., you will hear the answer come back "we do not need any one to day." That the association will be a success there is no doubt; we have made up our minds to that effect, and we are working to that end, but what are you doing toward making it a success? Some of you have never paid a cent into the organization since your names have been on the roll book, not even your initiation fees; others have paid initiation fees but have never paid one cent of dues since their names have been on the books. Is it a fact that you cannot afford to pay the pitiful sum of $1 00 per year for such a cause as this? If you cannot you are not worthy of the name of headwaiter. I am in a position to know that we have some true and tried members in our association, who have worked hard day and night trying to make our association a success. They have sacrificed time and money for the advancement of the association. To them too much cannot be said of their good work, but there are others who are just the opposite. To them we appeal. As I have already said the association will most undoubtedly be a grand success, and we have a right to be proud of the association, as now I have in my possession more than a half dozen letters from prominent hotel men assuring me of their co-operation. E. C. HOLLAND, Secretary. The Colored Man As He Appears in the Role of a Waiter in American and European Plan Hotels. and European Plan Hotels. I have read many articles in the Hotel World on the colored waiter problem, and I rally most vigorously to his vindication. Several noticeable features stand out boldly in confutation of the many charges set forth by many of the writers on the subject, which will be recorded later. There is, however, one deplorable fact pressed upon us with startling distinctiveness, and which may cast a faint ray of light upon the impending gloom. Colored waiters are socially debarred from the best Negro societies, and his chances of recognition by the first families in the Eastern cities are very remote. But I must recede. I am wandering away from my most desired subject. An article appearing in the Hotel World of December 7, 1901, from the pen of E.C. Holland, claiming the distinction of headwattership in one of Ohio's country hotels, causes much merriment and cannot be received as an article of benefit to colored "knights of the tray." In this article he gives as his opinion on the closing of doors against colored waiters in the European plan hotels throughout the West; that owing to lack of energy, interest and totally lack of education the white waiters are fast supplanting them. This I claim as untrue. I am at the present time employed where there are both white and colored waiters, and in every instance the services of the colored waiters are far in advance of their white co-laborers. Regarding their education and ability to serve equally as well in the European as in the American plan I would ask any number of educated gentlemen to pick out one hundred white and colored waiters respective and give them a civil service examination, and I dare say, without fear of contradiction, that the colored waiters would stand above the average. I would like to be shown one white man with brain for any other occupation seeking employment as waiter in any hotel. As a more test put all the white waiters in the places of colored waiters, accepting all the prejudices due the colored waiters, and place the colored waiters in the white waiters places, surrounded by social distinctions such as accorded white men, and I dare say that it would be a very difficult task to find five hundred colored waiters in the country. What would become of them? A careful look into the machine shops, the manufacturing plants, clerkships and various other occupations would virtually reveal their whereabouts. No white man would care to follow waiting as a business who has tact and skill in other lines of work. Is it not plausible to the most conservative mind why colored waiters seek hotels and restaurants for means of livelihood? The statement made by Mr. Holland was quite a surprise, coming as it were from a man endowed with a sense of reason. His attack on the men who keep him in his position is a trifle short of an insult. I am also surprised at the side waiters remaining passive under his severe perfidy, allowing their sacred rights to be trampled under foot, endeavoring to keep him from sinking into oblivion as a "has been." What can a head waiter do in a dining room without a crew? This question was neatly settled at the Lincoln hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., when the headwaiter resigned and the second man was appointed in his place. It is no trick at all to become proficient in the service under the European plan. It is doubtless the easiest system under the up-to-date Hick's check system. Brain has been put into the check, thus enhancing the service of waiters. I claim that the colored waiters are eventually the best. All he requires is a fair chance and he will clearly establish his rights to the leadership in the various lines in hotel work. I wish to state here that it is a very singular thing to see colored waiters enjoy the hospitality of good society; not a fault of the waiter, however. Wealth and education acts as no bridge across the widened channel of indifference. Face to face with such a ponderous obstacle, where shall he go? As an euphonious balm for those head-waiters struggling with waiter problem I will say that it is neither the colored head nor side waiter's fault, as the colored waiters are wanted to clean silver of various kinds and perform other duties that requires over time work without extra charges. As a matter of fact, managers and proprietors are making these changes, the same as all other industries throughout the country. By displacing colored waiters does not reflect on their ability to serve equally with their white collaborers. It must be remembered that girl waiters are displacing white men waiters throughout the Pacific slope and coast. Girl waiters will displace both white and colored waiters at Yellowstone Park this coming season for the first time in the history of the park. In all the leading hotels and cafes throughout the European empire ten girl waiters can be found to one man waiter. Possibly the greatest mistake made by the colored waiters was to allow themselves to be led into a strike by a scheming white man in 1893, during the World's Fair. Many colored waiters would now be in the employ of H. H. Kingsley and other first class restaurants were it not for this lamentable act. It simply shows in a forcible manner that when we fall in recognition of our own race we will fall even more at the hands of the Anglo-Saxon. The fault practically lies with our own race. A very noticeable feature in the lack of social recognition can be found in many of the so-called leading colored barber shops throughout the country. In many instances the white barber will shave a colored man with even more grace than the colored barber. This should not be The Anglo-Saxon makes note of all these minor affairs to the detriment of the Afro-American. There are both good and bad colored waiters, and this term can be applied to the white waiters. Any waiter employed in cheap restaurants, possessing the natural qualifications of good manners, is eligible for a position in any European hotel but not in an American plan hotel. The requirements differ greatly. A waiter must possess a sound mind and judg- HOTEL de MOORE [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie, seated in a chair with his hands resting on his lap.] TWENTY-FIRST ST. AGO, ILL. ITERS' MANUAL Every waiter who wishes to make money should buy a book. Every headwaiter who desires to make autation should advise his men to obtain it. W. Forrest Cozart HEAD- WAITER Become a Good Waiter; How to Get Up an Order Serve a Banquet; Remarks to Young Headwaiters FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. CONTENTS: How to Become a Good Waiter; How to Get Up an Order How to Serve Meals; How to Serve a Banquet; Remarks to Young Headwaiters etc., etc., etc. Address: THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. Mallory Hotel! Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Arcade ade Hotel Lunch Counter Connected. 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And only when headwaiters seek to eliminate from the waiters' quarters, gambling of what'er nature, and refrain from selling shoddy uniforms to waiters at exorbitant prices, will good waiters return once more to their favorite occupation. Headwaiter at the Plankinton. Milwaukee, Wis. The Freeman in Washington, D.C. Copies of The Freeman can be found at the Metropolitan store and news depot 1501 M. st. N. W. Turf Sample Room CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. PONEY MOORE Proprietor Thirty Elegantly Furnished Rooms, Cafe in connection European Plan. Prices Reasonable 3 Spain Heath Electric Lights Bells, Baths and Speaking Tubes in connection with every room. BILLIARD AND POOL IN ANNEXT. 314 S. Ludlow St (Opposite Union Depot.) DAYTON, OHIO. RATES REASONABLE. 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Reading notice 100 per line. Special rates on WR.TE Urs. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. ATURDAY. APRIL 5, 1902. THOSE RESOLUTIONS IN DOUBT. Representative Grosvenor, who was authorized to report to the House a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the Southern representation in Congress, said that he did not know just when he would bring the measure before the House. He said that he was inclined to think that he would take no action, in the matter for some time, and he felt that it might be necessary to call another canon before anything was done. He said that there always had been a division of entiment in the House on the matter, and it would not be wise to go ahead until there was a distinct unanimity of sentiment. There is a growing feeding among the Reynbicans of the House that this is one of the things which could go over until the short session of the Congress with advantage. To have the whole question pending now, when a congressional election is approaching, would be to leave the country in doubt as what was to be done and would cause misunderstandings as to the intentions of the Republicans. It is suggested that if the committee should be appointed now it might leave in the public mind the impression that the Republicans meant to make important changes in the laws governing the apportionment, when in reality the plan was only to investigate and report to Congress the facts and permit the national legislature to make such changes as seemed essential to fairness Representative Groveson states the position very fairly when he says that the appointment of a committee at present to investigate the election methods of the Southern States would cause misunderstanding and doubt as to what was to be done. The impression already prevails that the Republicans mean to make some sweeping changes when, in fact, the proposed committee could only investigate and report the result as data for future legislative action. The Freeman has all along tried to sound a note of warning concerning this matter—these resolutions—insisting that, while they were right and proper, the country was in a poor frame of mind to resort to radical methods of intervention. It is always summer when it comes to a matter of justice, as has well been said, but making the others see the point is the point. All the investigating committees in the world will not be able to stem the tide of public opinion and sentiment if it is determinedly set one way. And we have great reason to believe that at this time the hearts of the white men of the North and of the South beat quite in unison on the racial situation. If so force will be but a poor, ill-timed persuasive to wring out good will and respect as are expected by the colored people. Every colored man has had reason to know that the country-to-day is not mad with love for the colored people. The sun that rises to day rises to-morrow with the chasm widened. It is madness to expect legislative action for the race until there is a better understanding as to its own intentions. Intentions are not fine speeches, set phrases nor honied words. Fine words, according to Carlyle, butter no parsnips. A radical change must come from within. Race actions must conform to the platform of national action as it is, and not one built on racial conceit. Smallish racial qualities and tribal meannesses must be eliminated or else we are done for. It was Prof. Jordan of the Leland Standford University of California who said in effect; that those attributes and qualities that are the distinguishing traits of a race at home will be found cropping out in those races, no matter where they are, and to reduce it farther; those qualities and habits characteristic of the Negro in his tribal relation will crop out 10 matter where he is. This scientific utterance is or is not a fact. However, it needs no demonstrator in general to prove it. Every one who has eyes to see may see and know. The shut eyes of conceit may for a time shut out the light, but in time like the penetrating force of an X-ray the truthfulness or falsity will be forced home. * It has been considered a poor policy to *raign* the race by members of the race when it comes to the little meanness that have become proverbial and THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. the greater ones that are criminal, but it will prove a rich policy if by such arraignment the colored people will be awakened to a full sense of their duty. When they are willing to expose known villians instead of trying to create new ones, when they quit screening racsals because their names are writ big in the public eye: moral cowards, and trying to make a scape-goat, a poor pack all of some presumed unknown quantity, then they will have reached the sum total of man's expectation of man, and think, not like an ostrich, that because the head is hid the hinderpart is not exposed. We are suffering very much at this time in the public estimation the country over. The good men of the race who are busy trying to save it are the targets of attack—scurrilous criticism-Booker T Washington, W. H. Councill, and that class of men, which are far too few, are not loved as they should be, and the why is, because those men are loved by the white people. And thus we engender and perpetuate hate from our own assinine stupidity. It is the leaders, so called, that teach these lessons of hate, for the masses revere Washington and his kind. It is jealousy, madness—criminal. What may we expect from Congress, which is but the people' proxy? We opine that there must be a moral awakening in the race, and it must be made manifest before the much needed relief comes. God is not dead, nor are the white people fools. Crime cloaked in cloth and tolerated—known and tolerated. If these things must be, the price must be paid. The assassin's cold steel could do more to strike down a race than what has been done in this very city of Indianapolis, with its noble shaft that towers to God, typical of His large gifts to the sons of men embodied in bronze and stone, and which should serve as a cleansing fire. Man and God called? leaders have turned political highwaymen, intriguers and looters. Falling around us are these, like autumnal leaves from the full summer of villiany, but unlike the autumnal leaves they stagger on in all their sere and yellowness, tinging, stunting the new growth rather than becoming the mellow mold of experience for the advancement of a newer fruitage. In the language of Longfellow's Hiawatha, "and shall these things be?" Indianapolis has now a Y. M. C. A., a very much needed institution. It is hoped that it will not become a star chambered affair or a society center, but that it will reach out after fallen men and falling men, as well as men who have not fallen. Its mission is to save. Christ came into the world to save mankind, the poor, humble, despised, rejected the nondescripts of the world and not those who were on the better side especially. No man can be so base or steeped in crime but what should be eligible to the redeeming embrace of the new institution. Christ forgave that class; man can do no less. The governing board as a whole is well made up, and if a few of them will broaden out and not feel that the sun rises and sets in them, it will be better yet. These places are not private snaps to enhance the individual nor for catering to the few. MEHARRY'S GREAT DAY. The Nashville American, speaking of the great record breaking term of Meharry College, which recently closed, says: Between 3 000 and 4 000 representative colored citizens filled the Tabernacle, the occasion being the graduating exercises marking the close of the twenty sixth year of Meharry Medical College of Walden University. The program was rendered in an excellent manner, not an incident occurring to mar the great success. Dr. G. W Hubbard presided, and there were on the platform the members of the faculty, the graduates, those taking part in the program, and friends of the institution. The opening invocation was by Bishop Tyree. The close of this year marks the most successful in the history of the institution, the number of graduates having grown from one the first year to fifty-six this year. The first graduate is now practicing in Topeka Kas. This is now said to be the largest colored medical college in the world. One half of the medical students of the South are said to attend this college, and two-thirds of those in the world. The addresses of the graduates showed much careful preparation and thought, and were evidence of the great advancement they have made. The vocal and instrumental music with which the program was interspersed was excellent. Dr. W. P. Thirkield of Cincinnati in delivering the annual address, urged the graduates to still pursue the bent of their calling, insisting that they do not confine their knowledge to what they had learned in the four years. The medical science has made great strides and is still moving on, and the graduate must keep pace or become a degenerate. He has applied the universal law which recognizes only two forces, growth and decay, there being no middle ground—standing still—for standing still is but stagnation and stagnation is but decay. "Standing in a sacred relation in having access to the homes, he should be an inspiration and an example" says Dr. Thirkeld. "Let your motto be to give. Selfishness never made any man great, and leads to no great deeds. Do all for love. This is greatness." Dr. G. W. Hubbard made a few remarks on the great success of the close of the year, and the growth of the institution, after which the degrees were conferred by Dr. J. Benson Hamilton, resident of the college. The degree was conferred on six pharmaceutical graduates and three dental graduates. Miss Davis, one of the dental graduates, is the first woman to graduate from this department. There were fifty-six graduates in the medical department, upon which the degree was conferred, one of them being a young woman. The prizes were presented as follows Mason prize in gynaecology, Dr. C. O Hunter; secone prize, R. A. Williams priz offered by Morrison Bros. for mechanical denistry. A. R. Hodges; priz offered by Dr. Neil for practice of medicine, A. M. Townsend. A large number of presents were distributed to the graduates after the close of the program one being from the Governor of Mississippi for Dr. Broomfield. SIMPLY OBSERVING. "T. Thomas Fortune seems to have the support of the Negro press for the ministership to Haytii. If he can only get his senators and the president he will be all right."—Indianapolis Freeman. O, no, my brother, the colored press is by no means a unit for the appointment of Mr. Fortune. In the first place Mr. Fortune is not a citizen of New Jersey, or if he is one, it is for revenue only, as everybody knows that Mr. Fortune is a New Yorker. Besides New Jersey has the honor of having the present minister to Hayti and it is not likely that a real Jerseyman will be set aside for a bogus one. Mr. Fortune's running out of New York into another State for an indorsement for the office would indicate that he is persona non grata at home, and thus being without honor at home would seem to be a real prophet; but he is too good a politician not to know that he cannot get so important a position as minister to Hayti without the indorsement of h's State machine. New York has a candidate in Mr Charles Anderson, the brilliant young orator, upon whom "Uncle" Thomas Platt has smiled, and New Jersey, of course, is behind Minister Powell. So in the language of himself Brother Fortune seems to fall outside the breastworks in the minister business.—The Guardian, Boston. We were simply observing that if Mr. Fortune could get his senators and the president that he would be all right. But, as the Guardian says, that's the rub. The Clarence Ray Buffalo Hump Gold Mining Company is an institution managed by colored men and doing business in Washington. Judging from its circular letter the company is in a very good way to prove a paying investment. It, like similar concerns, needs capital for working its claims, and to that end it has placed its stock on the market. Colored men have been, as a rule, skeptical as to mining concerns, perhaps too much so. Many have proven bogus, yet to the contrary many have brought multiplied fortunes to the fortunate operators. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, will do to put forward in a moderate sense in order to relieve a gambling aspect, but it is a fact that ventures very often must be blindly made, trusting in the honesty of other individuals as to an honest endeavor towards a successful outcome. Such ventures are not forced, but that desire to get rich feeling will not be satisfied unless some chances are taken. The progress of the colored mining company will be watched with considerable interest. No field of speculation is so alluring as gold mines. If the company has any show of finding paying dirt as it claims it will not suffer for want of funds, providing that the company's business is wisely, economically and honestly carried on. "The World's Sugar Production and Consumption, 1800-1900" is the title of a monograph just issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. It discusses the sugar production and consumption of the world during the past century, and especially during the last half century in which the burden of sugar production has been transferred from cane to the sugar beet, and in which the world has so largely increased its consumption of sugar. The world's sugar production has grown from 1,150 000 tons in 1840 to 8,800 000 tons in 1900. During the same period the world's population has grown, according to the best estimates, from 950,000 000 to about 1,500,000,000. Thus sugar production has increased about 650 per cent while population was increasing but about 50 per cent. Coming nearer home and considering the United States alone, it is found that the consumption of sugar, which in 1850 was only 23 pounds per capita, was in 1901 over 68 pounds per capita. Emmett J. Scott, corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business League, announces that reduced rates of one and one third fare from all sections of the country have been secured for the third annual meeting of the League to be held at Richmond, Va., August 25, 26 and 27. This is the organization of which Booker T. Washington is president and which was organized by him at Boston, August 1900 It already has a large membership throughout the country. The local Negro Business League at Richmond is already at work and have preparations well in hand for a successful meeting. his conversation with Prince Henry, says, "As I understand it, the Prince asked Admiral Evans to have me presented to him mainly for the reason that he wanted to talk with me concerning the work of the Tuskegee graduates who are introducing the raising of cotton in the German African colony. "The Prince also spoke of being deeply interested in the progress of the negro in America, about whom he asked many questions. He also asked me to send him a copy of my book, 'Up from Slavery, and a volume of the Hampton Institute plantation songs. He said that few things had pleased him so much as the singing of the Hampton students' and expressed as an earnest wish that those songs might not be permitted to die." By an act of the Kentucky Legislature the name of the State Normal School for Colored Persons has been changed to Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons. It is presumed that the legislature recognized the greater needs of the average colored youth, which is along industrial lines, and that since the State sustains the institution it will spend the money to the best advantage. Industrialism is now the thing in education. Not among colored folks alone, as we are too apt to think, but the educational world has accorded it a proper place in the curriculum for the mascant man. Rev. L. G. Jordan, D D., of Louisville, Ky., corresponding secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, calls attention to the observation of the fifth Sunday. Those that cannot observe that day are respectfully asked to select another day. The fifth Sunday is the great rally day of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board. The great work being done along that line needs encouragement. Africa for Christ is the watchword, but it requires work, and to work men must be sustained. Churches must be maintained. On with your mites. THE CHICAGO CONSERVATOR MISTAKEN. Prof. Council's review of Mr. W. H. Thomas' American Negro was written last fall at the solicitation of Mr. Colyer Meriwether, editor of the magazine of the Southern History Association, Washington, D.C. The article was in the hands of Mr. Meriwether last November, and appeared in the January, 1902, Magazine of the Association. Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the church extension department of the A. M. E. church, has been in the city a few days. He has just returned from a Southern tour in the interest of the church. The doctor is a great singer. He entertained Bethel congregation last funday evening, Easter Sunday, with some of his sacred solos. He has a remarkable voice, and is noted for his singing. In reply to L. A. Williams of Chaneyville, La., as to the existence of an insurance company in the United States controlled by colored men, and which company does a general business, we do not think there is. But if so Mr. Williams would like to know something about it. Those knowing more about the matter will please write to him. Rev Dr. C. H. Parish of Eckstein Norton University of Cane Springs, Ky., has been in the city for a few days. He is well known throughout the country for his endeavors in educating colored youths. His school is conducted along the lines of Booker T. Washington's school—the industrial idea well to the front. Neely, Rathbone and Reeves, the alleged looters of the Cuban postoffice, have been severely dealt with by the hand of Cuban authorities. The American public was startled by what the Cubans consider justice, which is in remarkable contrast to American justice when it comes to cases of "very" grand larceny. Charleston, S. C., is to have two more papers published by colored men. One of them is to be known as the "Charles ton Fighting Cook." Judging from its name it will always be out with its neck feathers ruffled up the wrong way—a standing invitation to battle. It will be accommodated. Cards are out announcing the coming marriage of Miss Mamie Rachael of New York to Mr. Joseph Taylor Porter of Charleston, S. C. The event will take place on the 16th inst., after which time they will be at home at 159 Spring street, Charleston, S. C. J. E. Moreland, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who has been in the city for a few days, has abon completed his work of permanently establishing a Y. M. C. A in this city. It is always summer when it comes to a matter of justice, says the Indianapolis Journal. The young man's prayer band has merged in a very much needed Y. M. C. A. Success to it. ```markdown ``` Headache kills, not necessarily suddenly, but SURELY. It preys upon the intellectual powers more than we realize. It consumes the vitality faster than nature can replenish it, and we cannot tell just what moment a temporary or complete aberration of the mind will result. Headache and pain should be promptly removed—but properly. Many pain cures are more harmful than the pain. Beware. If you would be safe, take Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. "As a result of neuralgia I lost the sight of my right eye, and the pain I have suffered is incomprehensible, being obliged to take opiates almost continually. I then gave me one of Dr. Fills and it promptly relieved me. I then purchased brace and now my trouble is gone. They have also cured my daughter of nerve headache, and I heartily recommend them to others." W. J. Coryl Bream, Texas. Sold by Druggists. 25 Doses, 250. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Eikhart, Ind. Jno. T. Kelly, inimitable comedian and well known song writer, has placed with his publishers, M. Witmark & Sons, his two latest efforts: "I Can't Live Without You, Katie Reilly" and "After Years." TWO BOOKS IN ONE History of the Negro Race and History of the Negro Soldiers in the EVERY PAGE BRIMMING FULL OF NEW and interesting reading, with about 63 full pages embraying of soldiers, officers and scenes of the Spanish-American war, with a fine picture of the American soldiers, the Filipinos and their civilization. Handmade picture of General Nelson A Miles, major scout in the American army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around the Philippines was "with the enemy." 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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Grimes, who have been attendants at the Shelbyville sanitarium, have severed their connection with that institution and have gone to West Baden. Chester Grisom and Miss Katie Goodwin were quietly married last Wednesday evening at the home of A. S. Hodges. They were the recipients of many costly presents. Covers were laid and the guests were served in courses. The guests from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Bevey Goodwin, Mrs. William Goodwin, Mrs. Mattie Johnson and sons and daughters. They were serenaded by the Marine band. Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Cushenberry, of Indianapolis, were here in the interest of the Missionary society last Sunday.—[Write on one side of the paper only.] NOTICE. Owing to crowded space I shall not be able to insert the remainder of the New Orleans letter. The continuation of the article will appear in full April 12th. J. D. HOWARD. BEFORE USING HARTONA TRADE MARK Spanish-American War, c bined. Price only $1.50. 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Housley, Bros. Avery, Dan Housley, S. W. Bannery, Ben F Houseley, J. Brewer, Pearl Harris, James Brown, Richard Jackson, Calvin Bryant, Frank Jones, V. H. Sette, E. Jones, C. P. Blew, Wm. Kennedy, Will Goff Chatten and Petitt Kemp, Bobby Cooper, K. Kennedy, A. C. Malone, Wilh. Malone Will Anderson Malone Will Cromwell, J. A. McDade, Henry Cissel & Mines McCarrer Howard Chatman, U. Payne, Major B. F. Christian Payne, Major B. F. Franklin, Harry Price, J. W. Dodd L. E. Robinson, Erb. Fair, William Robinson, suddy Fernando, Ja T. Robinson, suddy Charles Shalton, James Franklin, George Sherman, James F. Freyer, Geo. A. The Fosters Glimmer Jesse Thomas, E. A. Gassner, J. A. Willey, John Miss Lillian Wilhite, Lonie Harris, James Wright, L. J. L. Harris, Geo C Webster, M. D Hullman,ugh Walker, J. H. Hinson, Brose Walker, Geo. Hollie, W. B Wilson, R. L. Hoskins, Marshall Watts, Ch. S. 1900 — ROUTE — 1901 BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS, Donaldsville, La. 8: Baton Rouge, 7: Natchez, Miss, 8: Vickersburg, 9: Pine Bluff, Ark, 11: Little Rock, 12. GIDEON's NASHVILLE STUDENS—Dallas Center Iowa, April, 7: Perry 8: Mallard, 9: Ruthven, 10: Brutt, 11: Austin, Ninn, 12. Hello, Lash Gideon, I hear that you are born for good luck. — T. L. * * * Tom Logan, general manager of the Mascotte Theatre, Tampa, Fla., wants to hear from a good sister team. * * * Tom Logan sends regards to Dooley Alexander, Dilsey Bradley, Bob Logan and the members of the late Afro.American Minstrels who toured Australia. Kid Alston sends regards to Tom Logan. Mr. Tom—the raglan is all o. k. just a little light for this frost and snow. I would like to hear from you. Foster and Henderson are resting in Milwaukee after a run of 18 weeks on the North Western Circuit over which they have return dates. They are making big hits with their act "Miss It and Mr. That." Regards to all professional friends. --- Notes from the Buckingham Theatre, Tampa, Fla.: "This week's bill is headed by our great swinging, female ministrel extravaganza, which is a strong attraction and is giving tremendous satisfaction judging from the fun, wit and humor that is so ably furnished by our lady comedians. Our ends are represented thusly: Bones, Misses Vida Vaughn, Hattie Harris; tambos, Grace Dodd and Trixie Ford. Everything is going red hot from start to finish. Our finale under the direction of J. W. Dennis is giving great satisfaction and leaves them screening. Our olio is closely arranged with the following artists: Miss Carrie Smith, still pleasing with her vocal selections. Mr. Paynus comes in for a share of praise as a soft shoe buck and wing artist. Our old favorite, Miss May Fisher is still holding the audience spell bound This is the 3rd week for Cliff Brooks and the 10th week of the singing and dancing comedians, Payton and Harris. Will Goff Kennedy, is holding his own with credit in his big song and dance, "Im Free," arranged and produced by S. E. Dodd. The hit of the continent, Overture by our challenge orchestra under the leadership of Prof. I. B Foster; A few moments with the cannon ball catcher, J. W. Dennis; The dashing soubrette, Miss Trixie Ford. Mr Ben Hen, the cyclone of minstrelsy and fashion plate is still scoring hits nightly. Miss Ada Harris, the timid and dashing seri-o-comic and Miss Laura Logan are featuring, "My Carolina Twins" with credit. We are enjoying very pleasant weather. The orange trees are in bloom THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER and all nature seems to smile. Ralph DeVine has been on the sick list but is up again and sends regards to all friends in the profession. Our show is composed of ladies and gentlemen and seems to move as one large family. Miss Leatha Liverpool opens next Monday night. Our laughable afterpiece arranged by J. W. Dennis, entitled "Troubles of a College Student" is a winner and pleases all. Notes from the Mascotte Theatre, Tampa Fla.:-Business continues fair and we are enjoying our share of the patronage Our current program containing (besides the high grade vaudeville contribution) a first act and an afterpiece by Tom Logan and a middle piece by Troy and Lewis is conceded to be the most evenly cast and uniformly creditable show ever presented in a similar house; and in fact it is head and shoulders above the average road attraction that visits our city. The first act depicts the "ups and downs" of the average "Jig-walk' performer—his 'flush times' when the "Ghost" walks, his "medium" times between pay days, his "tough" times when the manager has "ducked with the coin," and the ingenious plan they adopt to get back to "Good Old New York Town." All ends well, however, and the curtain falls on the Buffalo spread at the Douglass Club. The middle act, entitled, "All on," is a happy blending of sweet music, pretty poses, graceful dancing and light comedy that pleases everybody. The last act is devoid of plot or fixed abode, having for its object the desire to create as much wholesome comedy as can be crowded into the short sixty minutes of the hour consumed in its presentation. In short it is to enjoy. Miss Pearl Watt, a nimble-footed soubrette opens the olio and acquits herself with credit. Wingie Donaldson (El Braco Colo) follows with an up-to-date budget of coon songs. Mariam Viola Brown styled "The Floridian Nightingale," contributes a pleasing number from C. K. Harris' latest. Then we have little Nettle Lewis, winsome, airy fairy: Nettle, who secures deserved applause for her efforts. Happy Jessie Thomas appears in a fetching costume of the latest in London ideas of dress and gives a male impersonation that reminds one of dear Flo Hines in the good old Creole days. Henry (Dan) Troy, who justly claims the title, "America's foremost Ballad Reader," is heard to good advantage in his beautiful conceptions of "Tis better to have Loved and Lost," "When I Hold Your Hand," "A Mother's Prayer." &c. That clever singing comedian, Paul Simmons, sings Coon Songs as they ought to be sung and is a great favorite here. Tom Logan presents a satire on the English soldier which is something new here and his songs, "The Brave (?) Sojet" and "Good Old Raspberry," interspersed with original patter comes pretty near cleaning up. Next week's openenigs are Russell and Russell, Buddie Glenn, Ida Larkins, the marvelous Shields, Olive Stanley and H. McBooker. We can place good people at any minute of the day or night. Artists having open time will do well to wire us Donaldson's Telegraphic code used. A Day With The "Georgias." "A Day with the Georgias. "Woodbine" and I took a day off and paid the boys with the Rusco & Holland show a visit. The day was fruitful of many pleasant surprises and Anderson Ind., was the scene of much Bacchanalian gaity. To speak of the show as a whole, it is free from all offensive odors and the Grand Old Man, "Billy Kersands" is still "making good." The first part is replete with good things and you do not have to wait long for anything. This is a positive credit to the management. Of the olio, the following could be said in perfect truth: Harry Brown, in his crayon work, was exceptionally good. This youngster bids fair to be heard from anon. Clarence Powell is dead funny and could "clean up" in high vaudeville. Bailey and Spiller dealt out some very tuneful doses of music. This team should not have to look for an engagement next season. Cooper, the ventilroquist is a "top notcher" and can make good anywhere. McKissick and Jones left them yelling. Marsh Craig is still a distinct feature. His turn is always pleasing and never seems to grow old. Everyone had a crack at the afterpiece, "Mandy's Birthday Party with honor's evenly divided." J. D. HOWARD. TIPS FOR ACTORS AND OTHERS. (BY SYLVESTER RUSSELL) A few words of good advice is often of great value to an actor who needs criticism; very often it is of no value whatever, especially when he is mor- tally ignorant; it makes him worse. Its a good thing, too. We shall be able to distinguish three classes; Sheep, Hypocrites and Goats. Actors who show their intelligence by conducting themselves with dignity and quietude and who have nothing to crow over or kick about are certainly distinguished in quality—they are the sheep. Performers who are small enough to slur each other through the hospitable, use of the Freeman's stage columns; the managers of small shows who criticise other shows and performers who criticise other performers do not belong to the sheep. There are too many critics and frosty writers among actors at present. It is very painful to the intelligent ones and shows to the public the ignorance for which all are accused. Any superfous task outside of the regular pure and unadulterated announcements undertaken by an actor is hypocry and places him in a secondary position, between the sheep and the goats, into the category of the hypocrites. THE BULLY MUST GO. Comedians who have been guilty of bluffing the weaker performers around and managers of the same stripe are also included; they will soon all find themselves on the side track course of the new era stage arena; the thrift and tidal wave of the white sheep will work them there. The assertive actor, too, who refers to himself as, I am "Mr. So and So" belongs in the goat "class" with Mr. Bully. Goats who pose as sheep are easily detected and the best element of the stage will soon overthrow them with immensity. If the history of the past few season's revelations count for anything they are already on the eve of dethronement. IN DEFENCE OF ACTORS. IN DEFENCE OF ACTORS. People who write and insert newspaper articles about actors, whether in the Freeman or any other race journal, do so because they know nothing else to write about, and need not be regarded seriously. What they say about actors is, generally incorrect. The authentic accounts and criticisms of the actors can only be found on the regular stage page of the Freeman. In this respect, the Freeman champions over any other race journal. The foremost colored actors of to-day are too busy to be identified with the idle classes of people who have nothing else to do but seek after their society, write about them, talk about them and very often do them lots of other injuries. Even decent people have very often been held aloft as strangers by first-class actors simply because its a rough guess who is who and they are at a loss to know what kind of a game is to be played on them; and well do performers know that the penalty of envy is treachery. Our performers average well with the race and in proportion better than the whites, in respectability. There is a new channel wherein the decent actors and the social element of the race meet. All people who give music of any sort on the outside campus, pose as "actor's monkey." THE FOREIGN FRACASES. In view of the combat between the "Globe trotters" and established American stars, it may be well to state that there is a divided opinion regarding colored performers who go abroad. Several star performers have been forced to leave America to seek an engagement in some other country worthy of their talents. This has been invariably due to disagreements or lack of confidence and American managers have evaded rather than seek to employ them. The female singers are quite the most successful of those who go abroad. The comedy market is crowded and money is not so plentiful. People like Belle Davis and Johnson and Dean who are sought after, go abroad for a short time, only for the sake of glory and not for riches. No colored performers come home rich. Billy McClain has been the most successful comedian who has journeyed abroad lately and he, too, will be glad to get home and be happy. None of the performers who went abroad in former years were actual failures, they all got a reception, not quite as good as they get at home, they were educating the foreigners to "Coon Comedy." HOGAN'S MAGNIFICENT "AD" Ernest Hogan must be credited with the first good advertisement he has ever cherished. He wants to fight a duel with Prince Cupid, of Honolulu, who has insulted him. Many people are of the opinion that if the battle got hot Hogan would run. This is based on the fact that he ran for dear life in the New York riot a few summer's ago. What he would do abroad and what he did do at home—isn't it a contrast? Minstrels, Comedians and Singers [Under the above headline will appear a series of articles concerning Negro celebrities of the past, as they have been remembered by the writer, or the articles will be critical as well as complimentary. We make this last remark be e colored folks general to have their vanity tickled altogether instead of a sirtified man in their conceit now and then. Other Negro celebrities are to follow.—Ed] When young Mr. Will S. Cleveland put his first batch of genuine Negro minstrels on the road, after having successfully managed MoNish, Johnson & Slavin, Billy McClain was a star of more than ordinary significance, and since then he has not lost any of his luster. Billy McClain, year in and year out, has blossomed while many a promising flower has withered and died by the wayside. If we are not mistaken in the name, Dan. Palmer was one of the team firm of McClain & Palmer and they did a clever "turn." Billy McClain has ability in more ways than one. While a good comedian he has also demonstrated executive ability in a superlative sense. Several years ago, in New York City, he put on a sort of festival of music with nearly a thousand people and handled this aggregation with profit and credit to all parties interested. In Africa and Australia he has within the past three years cultivated a field for colored Thespians which heretofore has not been thoroughly explored, from the fact that our performers immediately succumb to a siege of "theatrical seasickness" going abroad and as immediately fall victims of homesickness after they set foot on solid soil Over and above Billy McClain there have been few other American Negroes to achieve honors in histrionics abroad and few others than he to have had applause from the peasantry in the galleries and praise and applause from royalty in the loges. Finally, Billy McClain's name will scale the annals of time until it shall have received an historic recording in theatrical folklore which shall be lasting after all of him is immortal. Beside his name on the scroll of fame, the names of none of his brother performers will have shone more sparklingly. Jack Evans and Charley Pope were among the stars who went with Charles B. Hicks and Al. D. Sawyer to Australia quite a number of years ago. Others of this outfit were Wallace King, the great lyric tenor, and Charley Bruce, musician. Jack Evans was a clog dancer, a top notcher in the business at that time and what became of him after Hicks and Sawyer's minstrels were stranded, no one seems to know. Charley Pope died abroad and his funeral dirge was played by strangers. Pope was the originator of what is called the "cane dance." He has had many imitators but no equals. He was both peer and pioneer. The last heard of Wallace King, of the stranded minstrels, he was in Bombay. India. Charley Bruce married and settled down in China. Speaking of stranded American Negro minstrels abroad, "Jack" Haverly seems to be the only man who ever made a success outside the States. While jubilee singers have thrived to surprising extent, our minstrels have failed almost wholly, not in their acting but in their efforts to arouse enthusiasm and appreciation. Witness "Jack" Haverly, by jove, who organized a company headed by Billy Kersands and made it a paying investment in Europe. Harry Callender tried it and failed. William Foote tried it and failed. M. B. Curtis, of "Sam'l of Posen" fame, tried it and failed. Orpheus McAdoo's troupe finally fell flat in his own country—Australia. And singular as it may seem our best musicians seem to have gotten entangled in these failures. There were Charley Bruce, N. C. Smith and Henderson Smith—one with the Hicks-Sawyer aggregation, another with Curtis and the other with McAdoo—as they follow respectively. George Freeman who dropped dead in Pittsfield, Ill., several years ago, while in parade with Primrose & West's contingent of blacks made one successful tour abroad with Haverly and one unsuccessful one with Callender. There would have been many more failures had Will S. Cleveland, J. H. Halladay, Richards & Pringle, Mahara, Shafraff and Clark, Rusco & Holland, McCabe & Young et. al. not seen the foolishness in going abroad with Negro minstrels and stayed in them own backyard. Billy Eldridge did good work as a minstrel when he was in acrobatic harness with Frank Broom, but his very best work was done when he and his wife Jennie were features with "The Derby Winner." Harry Eaton never did any work to amount to anything after the Hicks-Sawyer forces were d sbanded indefinitely. Dan McCabe and Billy Young came into prominence by wearing black silk knickerbockers and dancing a little and by singing 'Upper Tens and Lower Fives,' or something like that. Billy Young used to be a remarkably good singer but some folks say his voice has failed him Dan McCabe seemed always to us to be a sort of 'fill in.' He couldn't do anything, poor fellow, and mattes went from bad to worse with him after Miss Fannie Woodland of Kansas City, Kas, spurned his love. After that he was always $3.00 shy in his upper story. Billy Johnson first appeared as a minister with Hicks & Sawyer. Later he was with Sissieretta Jones, s troupe and finally with Bob Cole he appeared at the head of his own company, which traveled uninterrupted for three seasons, during which time he achieved phenomenal success as a comedian and as a writer of coon songs. Johnson is a good man though somewhat inflated with his own importance. From behind our next shift of scenes will come Billy Wisdom (now W. W. Windom) contra tenor, Billy Farrell, Billy Miller the late Neil Moore, Jim Crosby Dan Avery, John Rucker and a few mimics, as George Catlin, Harry Waters Tom Brown, Harry Fidler and Tom Logan. I. McCORKER. J. Harry Jackson sends the following from New York City: "The testimonial benefit given on the 24th ult. to the veteran comedian, Sam Lucas, at the Murray Hill Lyceum was a grand suc R. R. CHURCH'S AUDITORIUM R. R. CHURCH'S AUDITORIUM MEMPHISTEVN VAUDEVILLE SHOW Every Night. Now booking shows for this a next season. R. R. CHURCH, PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER. R. S. DONALDSON, Proprietor. TOM LOGAN, General Manager THE MASCOTTE THEATRE 702 Folk Street, TAMPA, FLA. NOT ONLY THE MOST POPULAR, BUT THE BEST THEATRE IN TAMPA. We pay the best salaries. We employ the best performers. We present the best shows. New features being constantly booked. Good people with good acts will do well by sending in their earliest open time. Prize Fighters and Peace Disturbers save stamps. Address all communications to TOM LOGAN, General Manager, 702 Polk Street. COLORED PERFORMERS WANTED - Male and Female Singers, Dancers and Musicians every description. Will send tickets to any part of U.S. State terms and full particulars first letter. Perform rs to work the Chappelle Bros' Circuit, Tampa, Fla: Jacksonville, Fla, and savannah Ga. We also have contracted to furnish attractions all the Street Railway Parks in the South next Summer. Can give from three to five months work to professionals only. PAT CHAPPELLE, Manager, Buckingham Theatre, Tampa, Fla WANTED for PAWNEE B. DAN. E. WASHING A SISTER TE MILTTON B. V. Cornet and Violinist, at Liberty WANT One Hundred To Play Brass. GEOH NEGRO MI Also fifty Ladies, Singers. Ladies' drum corps. All man- Full brass orchestra. Season- play brass don't answer. Ad J. EDWARD GEOH WANT For LENCONI White and Colored Creole Opera Co., th (15) men those who can double with brass. Th's is one of the largest compa- music new and written expressly for one. Address all business communicat D. C. SCOTT, I 500 37th Street, Ch Would like to hear from all Par- Mezzitto, Proprietors and Managers. Would also like to hear from Geo- Bailey of the Great Baileys. for PAWNEE BILL'S BIG CONCERT CO DAN, E. WASHINGTON, MANAGER. A SISTER TEAM. Send photos and mail to THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind MILTTON B. VASSOR Cornet and Violinist, at Liberty. Address 509 Commerce Avenue. CAIRO, ILL. WANTED One Hundred Musicians To Play Brass. For the New GEORGE'S NEGRO MINSTRELS Also fifty Ladies, Singers, Dancers and Drummers, Ladies' drum corps. All male members must play brass. Full brass orchestra. Season opens May 1st, if you don't play brass don't answer. Address all letters to J. EDWARD GEORGE, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada. White and Colored Creole Opera Co., thirty (30) chorus girls, mixed. Also fifteen (15) men those who can double with brass preferred. Th's is one of the largest companies of its kind ever put on any stage. All musio new and written expressly for our use. We originate, not imitate. Address all business communications to D. C. SCOTT, Business Manager Would like to hear from all Park managers with open dates —Lenconi & Mezzitto, Proprietors and Managers. Pascuele Amoto, Advance Agent. Would also like to hear from George L. Moxley, Leroy Bland, Miss Rachel Bailey of the Great Baileys. WANTED Partner for Musical Act, lady. Cornet player. Addr. 72 Park Place, Newark, Partner for Musical Act, lady or gent, must be A No. 1 Cornet player. Address JAMES GODMAN. 72 Park Place, Newark, N. J., or care of The Freeman cess both financially and artistically. The large hall was filled with a representative metropolitan audience which was well pleased with the lengthy program offered. Al Brown, the "author" opened the show singing one of his own compositions, "You Must Show Your Invitation," followed by Theodore Parker who sang a tenor solo very pleasingly. Harry Brown, the eccentric singing comedian, who delights in being styled "The coon just of the griddle," was next and was well received. He was followed by the "trombone kings," Simpson and Pittman, who played the above named instruments as they have never been played before for which they were profusely applauded. Abbie Mitchell sang, "Emandipation Day" a new "coon" song with words by Paul L. Dunbark and music by Will Marlon Cook. The next proved to be the biggest hit of the evening-Smart and Williams. This team kept the audience in a continual uproar the whole time they were upon the stage. Shephard N. Edmonds author of "Deed I Do," "I'm Going to Live Anyhow Until I Die" and other successes, introduced his latest entitled "I was There and I had no Business to be There" which brought forth much applause. Goggin & Davis in comicalities and acrobatic stunts were well received as was also Billy Johnson, who sang his latest composition entitled "Christopher Columbus was a Coon." Elmer Bowman and Al Johns, authors of "Go Way Back and Sit Down," were followed by Smith and Bowman vocalists and authors, who sang their "Anna Let Me Hear From You," also their latest success "The Rain Am Falling." --- or gent, must be A No. 1 less JAMES GODMAN. N. J., or care of The Freeman OPENING The Colored Traction Park will open on or about April 20. For open time write W. L. Lawlar, box 471, Birmingham, Ala. James White, the clever monologist was the second big hit on the bill. He kept the audience in good humor by his funny sayings and topical songs. A recitation by Lawrence Dunbar, entitled "Daddy's Brown Baby W'd de Black Eyes, brought down the house. The Williams & Walker company were next and gave several scenes from "The Sons of Ham." Owing to the sudden illness of Bart Williams he was unable to appear. Pete G. Hampton led the old man's chorus in which he was assisted by Messrs. Craig, Reese Bros., Pickett, Connors, Tapley, Washington, Catlin and Douglass. Ada Overton Walker sang, "Miss Hanna From Savannah," admirably assisted by the lady members of the company, and Chas. L. Moore sang a bass solo, afterwhich George Walker sang "The Leader of the Ball." Carl Dante, master of ceremonies in a short speech thanked the audience in behalf of Mr. Lucas for their presence and dancing began which lasted until the wee sma' hours. The success of the affair was due to Thomas Johnson an attache of the Klaw & Erlanger forces, who was one of the prime movers in the benefit for the widow of the late Gussie L. Davis, also Wm Foster, the originator, and Thos. Tucker, the treasurer. Mr. Lucas received over $200. --- THE MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE. GREAT IN GROWTH, GREAT IN WHAT IT DOES. Its Students "From Everywhere" They Go Everywhere, Singing Its Praises. Among the educational institutions of America that stand for the higher education of the Negro, the Meharry Medical College of Walden University, DR. R. I [Name] 9 DR. R. F. BOYD Nashville, Tenn., is entitled to distinguished consideration, owing to its excellence as demonstrated by its high class instructors who conserve its well earned reputation, and by its rich output of scholarly men who walk in the very eminence of their profession. The output of schools will always be the truest test of the greatness of the institution. That a stream rises no higher than its source is the accepted philosophy. That it rises quite as high will be testimony sufficient to establish in the minds of discerning men of the efficiency of the teaching corps of white men of colored men of Meharry, for as before noted, its students are among the lights of the medical profession—and something proceeds not from nothing. And thus again is demonstrated the theory of the Biogenists, that life begets life. Mehairy Medical College was established in 1876 as a medical department of Central Tennessee College. In accordance with a recent change in the charter, it became known as "Mehairy Medical College of Walden University." It was the first medical college opened in the Southern states for the education of colored physicians. At that time probably not more than a score of regularly educated colored physicians were practicing in the Southern states. The following table shows the small beginning and the rapid growth of this work of Mehairy: Enrollment. No. Graduates. 1876-7. 9 1 1877-8. 18 3 1878-9. 22 8 1879-80. 22 8 1880-1. 35 3 1881-2. 29 8 1882-3. 30 5 1883-4. 31 8 1884-5. 88 8 1885-6. 39 10 1886-7. 54 10 1887-8. 62 18 1888-9. 55 14 1889-90. 59 14 1890-1. 80 13 1891-2. 121 25 Enrollment. No. Graduates. 9 1 18 3 22 8 22 8 35 3 29 8 30 5 31 8 88 8 39 10 54 10 62 18 55 14 59 14 80 13 121 25 occupation unknown physicians, 366. Its graduates are THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK L. W. BROWN, Ph. C., Lexington, Ky. Pharmaceutical Valedictorian. 1892-3.....121 86 1893 4.....109 41 1894 5.....102 29 the states of Alabama orado, Florida, Georgia ana, Kentucky, Kansas --- 1895-6 .....115 11 1896-7 .....151 34 1897-8 .....151 31 1898-9 .....165 38 1899-1900 .....175 34 1900-1 .....217 39 1901-2 .....233 56 Total .....505 Meharry keeps vigilant trace of her creations. Of the 402 graduates now living, not including those of 1902, she finds them engaged thus: printers, 1; pharmacists, 1; medical missionaries, 2; F. BOYD. editors, 1; bishops, 1; disabled by sickness, 3; in the United States service, 2; preachers, 3; teachers, 11; dentists, 1 occupation unknown, 11; practicing physicians, 366. Its graduates are found residing in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Mis- THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. FACULTY AND GRADUATES MEMARRY MEDICAL DENTAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL COLLEGES 1902 DENTAL DEC OF Walden University souri, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. They had accumulated up until 1900 real estate and personal property to the amount of $339,031. Total volumes in libraries 18,700. Many report cordial relations existing between white physicians of their ```markdown ``` S. S. A. M. TOWNSEND, A. B., M. D., Winchester, Tenn. Medical Vadictorian. community and themselves, some report port white patronage, but their mainstay is their own race. Among some of the noted graduates are: Dr. Benjamin W. Payne, now of Liberia, Africa; Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, recently appointed Minister to Liberia, and Dr. A. H. Kennibrew, resident phy- FACULTY AND MEHA MEDICAL DENTAL AND COLLEGE 1904 OF WALDEN sician at Tuskegee. THE FACULTY: The faculty for the present year is as MERCY HOSPITAL, MEH. ULTY AND GRADUATE MEMARRY DENTAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL COLLEGES 1902 DENTAL DEP. Valden University Y HOSPITAL, MEHARRY MEDICAL CO THE HOUSE OF THE MAYOR follows: Rev. J. Benson Hamilton, D. medical chemistry; W. A. D., president; G. W. Hubbard, M. D., dean, professor of chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics; D. R. Neil, M. D., professor of theory and practice of instructor in analytical ch. H. Williams, M. D., lecturer and operative surgery; J. I. M. D., lecturer on disease ```markdown ``` medicine; W. J. Sneed, M. D., professor of surgery; W. H. Baskette, M. D., professor of obstetrics; R. F. Boyd, A. M. M. D., D. D. S., professor of gynaecology and clinical medicine, office 417 Cedar street; W. Patterson, A. M. assistant professor of chemistry; P. R. Burrus, A. M., M. D., professor of anatomy, 815 Cedar street; John A. Lester, A. B., M. D., professor of physiol- 2 ogy, 408 Cedar street; F. A. Stewart, A. M., M. D., professor of pathology and physical diagnosis, office 407 Spruce street; J. H. Holman, M. D., professor of botany, histology and bacteriology; W. R. Baker, M. D., instructor of hygiene and toxicology, office and residence 903 S. Summer street; C. O. Hadley, A. B. M. D., assistant demonstrat- GRADUATES BERRY PHARMACEUTICAL GES University tor of anatomy; J. T. Wilson, M.D., G. H. Bandy, M.D., chemical instructors; D. W. Byrd, A. M., M.D., instructor in ARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE. medical chemistry; W. A. Reed, M. D., instructor in analytical chemistry; D. H. Williams, M. D., lecturer on clinical and operative surgery; J. F. McKinley, M. D., lecturer on diseases of the eye, ear and throat. In addition to the above faculty, there is a special dental faculty, consisting of : J. O. Hall, D. D. S., professor of mechanical dentistry; J. B. Singleton, D. D. S., professor of operative dentistry; R. B. Scott, D. D. S., H. M. Whitby, D. D. S., demonstrators in dentistry. The department of pharmacy is under the supervision of Wm. Sevier, M. D, Ph. G., assisted by W. H. Bailey, Ph. G., and B. F. Easter, Ph. G. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, was one of the recent notable accessions to that famous school. He enjoys the 1930 1920 O. S, SAWYER, M. D., Dyersburg, Tenn. Medical Salutatorian, distinction of being one of the great surgeons of the country. The excellents at Malemur this year. The enrollment at Meharry this year The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a series of circular images with varying shades of gray, possibly representing different scenes or objects. was larger than any in the history of the institution : 233 medical, 29 pharmacy, and 32 dental students were en- C M. D. C. WARREN, D. D. S. McMinnigan, Tenn. Dental Valedictorial. rolled. It justly boasts of having the largest attendance of any medical college in the world conducted for col- casts of having the of any medical col- conducted for col- ery, Birmingham Pensacola, St Augu ville, Fla.; New rolled. It justly boasts of having the ery, Birmingham and Mobile, Als: largest attendance of any medical college in the world conducted for col- ville, Fla.; New Orleans and New ored students. They came from Oklahoma and Indian Territories, District of Columbia, Bermuda, Jamaica, Antigua, Liberia, South Africa and Dutch Guinea. The Meharry students have enjoyed during the year excellent clinical advantages under the direction of Drs. J. T. Wilson and G. H. Bandy, also under Dr. R. F. Boyd, who gave his services free at the Boyd building. COURSE OF STUDY. The course of study consists of four sessions of six months each, which must be taken in separate calendar years. Those who have completed a regular [Name] college course and received the degree of A. B., or B S., are allowed to complete the course in three years, provided they pass all the required examinations and perform the laboratory work. Applicants for admission should, in addition to a thorough English course, have attended at least one year in some good high school, normal school or academy. Students are earnestly advised to complete a normal, high school or college preparatory course of study before commencing the study of medicine. Tuition, $40 per session. The next session will open Sept. 3, 1902. For catalogue or other information, address G. W. Hubbard, M. D., Dean. MEHARRY DENTAL COLLEGE. This department was opened in 1886. Since that time 48 students have completed the required course and received the degree of D. D. S. They have been welcomed by the white dentists of the South, who have kindly assisted them in their work. The patronage which they have received, in the cities and towns where they have located, has been very encouraging, and there is at the present time a promising and lucrative field open in this direction. This school is a member of "The National Association of Dental Faculties," and is probably the only one in the United States, which requires four sessions of six months each to complete a course in dentistry. MEHARRY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. This department was organized in 1889, and since that time 53 young men and 11 young women have completed the prescribed course. This course requires three sessions of six months each. The demand for educated, qualified Negro pharmacists far exceed the supply. The graduates of the school own or manage drug stores in the following places: Nashville, Columbia, Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn; Montgom- ```markdown ``` ery, Birmingham and Mobile, Ala; Pensacola, St Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla.; New Orleans and New