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Patronize Our Advertisers-they Want Your Trade. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XV. NUMBER 21. "ASLEEP IN JESUS!" "ASLEEP IN JESUS!" ARE TWO DEVOTED CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF CAIRO, ILL. TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE. The Barbecue and Social Given by the Pick-a-boo Bonnett Club Last Saturday Night, to be Repeated Tonight-Society Gossip in General. Cairo, Ill., Special.—The death of Miss Mattie Stewart, which occurred on the 14th inst., cast a gloom over the children and brought sadness to the hearts of her friends. She had been ill for several months. The funeral services were held at the Twelfth Street Baptist church on the 15th, conducted by Rev. Allison. The deceased was a true christian and was greatly beloved. She was a strict member of the church and was also a member of the Pick-a-boo Bonnett club. Mrs. Vina Baker died at her home in this city on the 17th, at the age of 44 years. She was a beloved member of Rev. Rick's church at Fifteenth and Walnut streets, where the funeral services were held on the 18th, conducted by Rev. Rick. She leaves a host of relatives to mourn her death. Eddie Quinberry and Miss Ida Bernew were married last week, and are at home to their friends at 428 Douglass street. Mrs. Amanda Smith, 1406 Locust street, is on the sick list. Mrs. Laura Caruthers is visiting in Paducah. Miss Iola Caruthers is visiting in Woodville, Ky. The Hubbard & McFaden Jubilee Sings made a hit in Charleston, Mo., on the 15th, 16th and 17th inst. They played to a crowded house at each performance. It is among the best shows on the road. Mrs. Ella Watson, of Bird's Point, made a brief visit to Mrs. Shain, 226 Fifth street. Misses Annie Jenkins and Dallas Watson, of Mound City, were in the city last week. R. A. Davis & Son are conducting a first class grocery at 3910 Commerce avenue. Mrs. Sarah Washington has opened a cafe and ice cream parlor at 3213 Commerce avenue. W. M. Miller is making quite an improvement on his property at 417 Seventeenth street. The ice cream social given at Fifteenth and Walnut streets on the 17th inst., by the Pick-a-boo Bonnet club, was well attended. There were about three hundred people on the grounds. It will be repeated this evening. The general public is invited, and a good time is guaranteed all who attend. Barbe cued greats of all kinds will be served. Music will be furnished by Overby's orchestra. J. W. Moore, of Paducah, is requested to visit this city at his earliest convenience. It is a matter of vast importance; call on El. Overby, 1503 Walnut street. Nearly everybody in these parts are busy picking strawberries. The different berry farms have more than five hundred men, women and children at work. Misses Mamie Hogan, Rose Hall and Mattie Price were accompanied to Mound City last Sunday by Messrs. Jodie Carr and Pleas Thomas, and quite a number of other young people, on a pleasure trip. A pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Mary Jackson, of 2012 Pine street, is on the sick list. Rev. Kelly left last week for Clarksville, Tenn., to visit his circuit. Miss Jennie L. Frellkill, of Nineteenth and Poplar streets, who has been ill, is improving. Rev. Kelly's church will have their entertainments on the 5th and 20th of each month except Sundays. They will also have a rally on the 4th Sunday in each month. We hope that all patrons will be prepared to settle for The Freeman when the agent calls, as we are required to make our report the first of each week. Edward Overby agent. FUTRELL CITY NOTES. W. M. and R. P. Futrell took their brother Walter, who was shot by William Hunter on the 11th, to Concord, Ky., where he was buried in the family grave yard. W. M. Futrell keeps ice for sale. BEECHWOOD NOTES DEECHWOOD NOTES. The entertainment given at the home of Mrs. Martha Washington, in honor of her 50th birthday anniversary, on the 10th inst., was a swell affair. The house was crowded to the utmost. A number of presents were given to Mrs. Washington. Ice cream and soft drinks were served. Music and games were the attractions of the evening. Rev. D. Paris has added sixteen converts to his church, and all will be baptized on the 25th. L. W. Washington is at the railroad hotel. He is a first class dining room man. Mrs. Lucy Hegue is conducting a first class catee at Odd Fellows' hall. Mrs. Sallie Jackson conducts a short order eating house and solicits your patronage. The Freeman is for sale at the restaurant of Mrs. Hattie Washington every Saturday. MOUND CITY NEWS. The programs and invitations that were issued for the commencement exercises were the swellest that "ever came down the pike." The following are the members of the school board: A. J. Doughty, John Schuler, Dan O. Sullivan, John Howard, O. J. Murphy, Tom Boydits B. Lulen, F. B Allen is principal. The class of '02 are: Ada Butler, Mimie Ervin, John D. Allen, Motto: "The palm is not gained without labor." Class colors: Apple green and white. New Presbyterian Church. Albany, Ga., Special—The Presbyterians held services in their new edifice on Sunday and Monday the 11th and 12th inst. Opening sermon on Sunday morning by Rev. Lawrence Miller, of Macon; Sabbath school at 2:30 p.m.; sermon by Rev. F. C. Clayton at 3:30 p.m.; sermon by Rev. J. W. Roberts of Savannah, at 8 p.m. Monday at 8 p.m., welcome address to new church and members by Capt. J. F. Hesten; brief addresses by Prof. J. L. Murray, Rev. H. H. Williams, Dr. O. A. Waddell; responses by Dr. R. E. Grier and Rev. J. W. Roberts. Prof. Sylvester Brown has returned from a trip in southern Florida in the interest of his profession as a barber and banjoist. Prof. Brown is the acknowledged leader of the ragtime banjists and has wonfor himself a reputation. Mr. Griffin, of Dallas, Tex., is visiting in the city. Dr. W. M. Bryant, of Cuthbert, has located in our city to practice his profession. The city schools have closed with two graduates from the grammar department. The closing exercises took place at Chantauqua Auditorium. The Normal school will close on the 28th inst. An elaborate program has been arranged. Commencement Exercises. Newport, Ark., Special.—On the 9th inst., the public high school of this city closed with the first commencement since it has been a high school. The exercises were held at the opera house, and was packed to the doors with both colored and white peot ple. The program rendered was regarded as an exceptionally good one, and it speaks volumes for the faculty under the leadership of Prof. Ed. Craigen, who is considered as one of the best educators in the state. Too much praise can not be given him for the management of our school, with his able assistants, Prof. Ed. Wheeler and Miss S. C. Robinson. Dr. J. M. Jones, president of school board, presented the diplomas, and expressed himself as highly pleased with the honor of presenting diplomas to the first graduating class of the colored high school of Newport. The graduating class was composed of Miss Amanda Tregville, Ethel Wooley, Salie] Love and Mr. Ollie Chatham. REV, W, B. WEST, B. D., Dallas, Texas. Rev. West is a native of South Carolina, but his ministerial career began in the state of Georgia. In his youth he pastored some of the best charges of his church, while in the state, and also taught in some of the best city schools where he pastored. He is now presiding elder of the Dallas district of the C. M. E. church and has held that position for nearly six years. He has proven himself to be quite a financier, both in state and church. He was one of the prime movers of the large establishment of the Peoples' Undertaking company in this city. He figures largely in the real estate world, and has proven his skill by his personal surroundings in this world's good. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1902. DR. C. V. ROMAN, DALLAS, TEXAS. Dr. Roman is an expert surgeon, an experienced gynecologist and a learned and successful physician. It is generally conceded that he is the best educated medical doctor in the state of Texas. Dr. Roman is an expert surgeon, an experienced gynecologist and a learned and successful physician. It is generally conceded that he is the best educated medical doctor in the state of Texas. Under the Lime Light. Jacksonville, Fla., Special—Bishop Jas. A. Handy and wife have returned to Baltimore, Md. The closing exercises of the Florida Baptist College at the new Opera DR. M. C. COOPER, Dentist, Dallas, Tex. the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. His subject, "Stephen the Martyr," was well received. Mr. Stephenson is a practicing attorney of Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. James Willis spent Sunday in Cincinnati, the guests of relatives. J. D, and J. H. Jones spent Sunday in Indianapolis. Charles Conway has returned from a week's visit in Connerville. The May fair to be held at the A. M. E. church has been postponed another week, making it occur next week. Mr. Jackson was buried from the Second Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Beech Grove cemetery. Graduating Exercises Held. Mobile, Ala., Special—The closing exercises of Mrs. Josephine Allen's private house on the 12th inst., was a complete success. "Bibi," the special feature of the program, was a real treat to all who attended. The pastor, officers and laity of Mt. Zion A. M. E. church, are receiving much commendation for the masterly effort of the rebuilding of the church without a mortgage. This demonstrates the fact that the Negro is learning to paddle his own canoe, D. S. D. Belling, district superintendent of the A. M. E. church, is manifesting great interest in the work of the Sunday schools throughout the district. Mr. Belling is much encouraged and sees a great future in the distance. Henry Stanley & Son, undertakers at 200 Bridge street, are doing a remarkable business. Mr. Stanley well deserves the support of the public. Grand Concert Given. Rook Springs, Mo., Special.—The S, of Z. club gave their first grand concert on the 23d ult., at the First Freewill Baptist church. The crowd was the largest ever seen at the church, standing room being at a premium. The Star Concert company certainly crowned themselves with glory and will be accorded a hearty welcome should they ever return. Those who appeared on the program were: Prof. P. D. Sankfort, Prof. L. K. Baker, W. L. McCullough, E. I. Hatten, Mmes, Lulu Haynes, Henen Kemp, L. Adams, L. D. Douglass, C. V. Adams, M. Harney, M. E. Shores. The S. of Z. club will give their first railroad excursion on June 25th, to Carbondale, Ill. The officers of the club are: J. A. McCullough, president; J. G. Adams, vice-president; L. B. Douglass, secretary; J. H. Fowler, treasurer. The Freeman is on sale at the S. of Z. club rooms, 3718 Rutger street. Boiled Brevities. Muncie, Ind., Special.—Prof. Stephenson, of Anderson, addressed the congregation at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. His subject, "Stephen the Martyr," was well received. Mr. Stephenson is a practicing attorney of Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. James Willis spent Sunday in Cincinnati, the guests of relatives, J. D, and J. H. Jones spent Sunday in Indianapolis. Charles Conway has returned from a week's visit in Connerville. The May fair to be held at the A. M. E. church has been postponed another week, making it occur next week. Mr. Jackson was buried from the Second Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Beech Grove cemetery. Graduating Exercises Held Mobile, Ala., Special.—The closing exercises of Mrs. Josephine Allen's private school at the Mobile Theatre, was one of grandest affairs and school closings exercises ever held in Mobile. The seating capacity of the colored churches not being sufficient, the largest theatre in the city was secured in order to accommodate the crowd, and yet W. H. H. H. MR. W. L. KIMBROUGH, 33°, Of Dallas, Tex., P. G. M. of the Masons of Texas, and P. G. Commander of the Knight Templars. scores were unable to gain admission, Mrs. Allen is considered one of the leading educators of the city, and is organist of State Street church. She is the wife of Clarence Allen, one of our popular mail carriers. The little ones did well and reflected much credit upon their instructor. Miss Della Hall, one of our popular young ladies, was married to Thomas Strait on the 15th inst. Mrs. Sophie Fields left last week for Nashville, Tenn., to attend the closing exercises of Central Tennessee College, her sister Miss Isabella Swan, being one of the graduates. Marshall Williams, former chef of the Commercial hotel, has accepted a position at the Delmonicoos. The cooks and waiters of the city had their annual sermon preached by Rev. A. F. Owens at the Union Baptist church on the 18th inst. J. S. Davis delivered the oration. The Free man can be purchased at A. C. Johnson's restaurant on Davis street. BY HIS OWN HAN REV. SILAS S. CURRY PASSES FORE HIS CREATOR. HE GOES VIA. THE ROPE ROOM Bad Health was the Cause of the rible Tragedy-Bishop B. W. A. Current News Condensed. French Lick, Ind., Special—Benj. Johnson is the new headwaiter at the French Lick hotel. W. H. Garrison, has been appointed assistant stewart at the French Lick hotel. He is well qualified for the position. Joe Williams, of the French Lick base ball team, is in Mitchell for a few days. It is rumored that Tyler Martin is in Louisville to buy an automobile. A new club has been organized here, known as the "Old Order." George Scott, of the Baden hotel, is recovering from pneumonia. Mrs. Oscar Edland, of Louisville, is visiting her husband here. Mrs. Clifford Ervin has returned home, after a pleasant visit to relatives in Louisville. Mrs. Robert Evans, of Indianapolis, is visiting her husband here. The Gay Society Whirl. Hannibal, Mo., Special.—Marion Lodge No. 1649 and Household of Ruth No. 101, G. U, O of O, F, held their Thanksgiving services at the Eighth and Center Street Baptist church on the 11th inst. The serion was delivered by Rev. C. R. Dowel, which was an excellent effort. Mrs. Ida Wilburn has gone to St. Louis to join her husband. The church and Sabbath school presented her with a fine gold ring before she left as a token of their appreciation of her services. Wm. Reidd has gone to St. Louis. Archie Gasberry and little brother are very sick. Mrs. Laura Stevens is quite ill at her home. Her husband, of Chicago, is at her bedside. The Freeman is for sale at Wm. Hamilton's barber shop, 120 N. Fourth street, every Saturday. Also at Johnson's barber shop in the West End. J. H. B. MR. A. J. M'CAULEY, Attorney at law, Dallas, Tex. A. J. McCauley was born in Whitefield county, Ga., March 15, 1861. He attended the common schools, and came to Texas in 1881. Entered the political arena in the memorable Prohibition campaign on the side of the Prohi's, in 1887. Began newspaper work in 1892 as city editor of the Baptist Star; associated with J. G. Griffin as editor of Item Index, and later became sole owner and editor of that publication, changing its name to the Dallas Item. Formed a partnership with his old friend, Hon. Wm. M. McDonald, in the publication of the Dallas World. Sold out to partner then became editor of the Dallas World, relinquishing in March, 1902, to prosecute study of the law. Has read law six years, took primary examination three years ago; will finish this year. Has been active in state and local politics since 1887, and is well and favorably known throughout the state. Said by critics to be one of the most forceful and logical public speakers in Texas, being a ready and convincing debator. He was almost invariably successful in all his political ventures. The foremost Negro in municipal campaigns on the side of the "winners" for many years in this city. He numbers his friends by the score among the best and most substantial citizens, black and white. BY HIS OWN HAND REV. SILAS S. CURRY PASSES BEFORE HIS CREATOR. HE GOES VIA. THE ROPE ROUTE. Bad Health was the Cause of the Terrible Tragedy-Bishop B. W. Arnett, Assisted by Eminent Divines, Officiates at the Funeral. Wilberforce, O., Special—Rev, Silas S. Curry, of Jacksonville, Fla., was found dead in his room in Payne Theological Seminary on the morning of the 15th inst., where he had committed suicide sometime during the night before by hanging himself. He was called to breakfast by one of the students, but failing to receive an answer, an effort was made to enter the room; the door being locked, access was made by climbing over the transom of the door. The body was hanging from the corner of the wardrobe with a small clothes line fastened around the neck and wrapped several times around the right hand to prevent it from slipping; also a towl around the neck to keep the rope from cutting, shows that the act was premeditated. He had been in bad health for some time, due from the heavy work of the seminary and nervous trouble, but was excused from the classes by the professors in order that he might recover health sufficient to graduate with the class in June. Upon the table a letter was found addressed to a young lady in Florida, to whom he was engaged, stating the condition of his health; also notes to Prof. R. R. Wright and students, asking them to pray for him; that he was unable to prepare the sermon to be delivered the coming Sunday to the students and citizens, also requesting the Bishop of the district to fill his appointment at South Charleston. Efforts were made by telegraph to ascertain his relatives who reside in the state of Georgia, and friends of the Florida conference, of which he was a conference student, but failing to receive word as to the disposition of the body, the interment took place in the Wilberforce cemetery Friday. The funeral sermon was preached by Bishop B. W. Arnett, assisted by Revs. John Coleman and J. H. Jones, of the University. Resolutions were read by the Senior class of '02, and the students from the Seminary. Floral offerings were made by the several classes and societies of which he was an active member. The remains were accompanied to the cemetery by the faculty, students and citizens. Spicv. Sparkling Splashes. Los Angeles, Cal., Special.-Simms Johnson left on the 20th for Lake Tahoe, to accept a position as head cook in a hotel. His family will follow him in a few weeks. Miss Ada Hawkins is suffering from lagrip. Revival services were begun on the 11th at the Second Baptist church. Rev. Anderson, the pastor, is assisted by Rev. Ganell, of Riverside. R. J. Boyd and Miss Emma Barnett visited in Pasadena on the 11th. Rev. T. C. Donohoo is conducting a revival at Wesley Chapel M. E. church with much success. Frank B. Rone, the famous tomm bone player, late of Roscoe & Holland's minstrels, is in the city. Mr. Rone hopes to organize a colored brass band here. Eugene Hester, of Texas, is in the city. Mrs. Mary J. Thomas, of Indianapolis, is very ill. A grand social and entertainment was given on the 19th by the colored Coachman's club, on N. Main street. Music was furnished by MeVea's orchestra. Dancing was the feature of the evening. Get The Freeman from F. H. Thomas, 242 E. Second street. Personal and Society News. Personal and Society News. Jackson, Mich., Special—Love Murdock spent last week in Detroit. Michael Gooden is visiting in Detroit. The industrious young colored men of this city gave a dance on the 15th, which was highly enjoyable. A party was given at the home of Miss Bessie Powers, on Milwankee street, the 16th. Miss Collins, Mrs. Taylor and Miss Flossie M, Johnson took part in the program rendered by the colored literary at the prison. Misses Emma Gough and Anna Williams, of Battle Creek, were in the city on the 15th. Tut. Freeman, of Battle Creek, spent Sunday in the city with his family. Messrs. Bond and Hudson, of Hudson, were in the city Sunday. Rev. Hill, of Lansing was in the city last week. Anyone wishing The Misses Emma Gough and Flossie M. Johnson, 216 E. Franklin street. FARM AND HOME R·I·P·A·N·S I had nervous indigestion and a general derangement of the entire system. It had been a continual torture for 12 years. My blood became very poor and at times my toe and finger nails would be diseased. After eating I would sit in a chair and put my feet on something to keep them from swelling, and at times would take off my shoes for the misery I had. Whenever I experience anything to remind me of past ashes I cannot be too elated to tell what Ripans Tabules have done for me. I still take one now and then, because I knew how bad I have been. They were just what I needed. The five-cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, sixty cents, contains a supply for a year. The Vexatious Sheep. The sheep is a curious and vexatious creature. There is no fence that she does not jump except a nailed board fence or a high wire net fence. She will work her way through the most complicated brush fence that was ever constructed and she will manage to get off the "rider" from a stone wall—a stone wall without a "rider" is no obstacle. Over she goes and where the ruling ewe goes, all the rest go. This is the tradition involved in the rustic proveb, "One go, all go, sheep." The notion is that the buck is the leader. Not at all. It may sometimes be so, and sometimes there may be a bell-weather, but there is always an ewe at the head of the flock and it is she that the sheep follow. And old ewe has the brains for the whole flock in her head. "Silly as a sheep," is only to be applied to the general mass; they know little more than men that belong to a party, but where the leser goes they follow. The leader on the contrary, has ideas and when she is dissatisfied—hurrah for fresh fields and pastures new! As for barbed wire fences, she cares nothing for them. To loose a handful of wool here and there does not deter her—through she goes and when she is found five miles off in a place where she has no business to be she will start off homeward without the least embarrassment or compunction. Study sheep—They are as interesting as men and women.—Springfield Republican. Co-Operation of Farmers. Preliminary plans for the disposal of the coming wheat crop so that farmers may realize the largest possible sum therefrom are being made by the co-operative companies of farmers that have been so successful during the last season. There are now seventy-seven such companies doing business in various parts of the State, most of them owning their own elevators and are handling practically all the produce of their respective communities. The plan is to bind the members of these companies as well as of those that may be organized later into an agreement by which they are held to specific prices for their produce. Each secretary of a local institution is to notify the State secretary of the amount the members have to sell are or likely to have naming the amount by persons, the price each is willing to take for his produce and the state of the local market. The object is to enable the State organization to determine how much grain, live stock, etc. may be ex- THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. pepted for the coming market and to enable it to force higher prices. The co.operative companies are also contemplating the establishment of new stores for the members on the plan of the Grange stores of a few years ago. It is claimed that with the better understanding of conditions and better equipment the new ventures will be more satisfactory than were the old — Topeka Kan., Letter. Alfalfa in Missouri. Profiling by the experiments conducted last year many Missouri farmers are according to reports, on "Change," preparing to sow alfalfa this spring. It was shown last year that beyond all manner of questioning, alfalfa will grow in Missouri as luxuriously as in any other States where it has been long established. It made four crops in Jackson county last year. A member of the Grain Exchange, who tried it, says that under the trying season of 1001 he made money out of the crop. "I got" said he "four cuttings which would have marketed at 4 tons per acre worsh $10 per acre. Already this year my alfalfa is a foot high. In thirty days I will get a crop. It thrives here in dry weather and does well in wet weather. It is a Missouri staple. I am astonished that every farmer does not put in enough to guarantee him feed for his stock in case of the other crops failing. I have seen alfalfa grow in Colorado where it is native, and in western Kansas and the Mexicos and I never saw it do better than it does right here in Missouri." Ask what the crop cost him, the informant said that at $6 per bushel for the seed it cost him $2 to cover the ground. He sows it broadcast and harrows the seed in. The first crop is usually three-fourths weeds; the second cutting half weeds; the third crop clean and the fourth cutting, the last of the year, absolutely free. Alfalfa runs weeds out of the business after it gets a fair start —Kansas City Journal. Green Manural Crops. The best time to begin with green manural crops for plowing under is as soon as the ground can be worked as it is then possible to grow two crops within a year. It is customary with some to sow rye or crimson clover in the fall, to be turned under in the spring but the mistake made is in not following with another green manural crop whenever possible by which method three crops can be plowed under in twelve months though the rule is two crops. Farmers however, are not partial to losing a year's time, without some return in the form of a crop that can be harvested, for which reason they plow the crimson clover under and plant corn or follow the rye with a potato crop. As crimson clover adds a large amount of nitrogen to the soil when plowed under it is really a salable crop, the farmer proving a home market therefor, as it saves him the cost of the same amount of nitrogen in commercial fertilizers that he may be compelled to purchase, and although the corn crop brings cash yet the crop takes from the fertility thereof, and the gain may not really be as large as supposed when the receipts and expenses are compared, especially if the soil is not fertile as it costs more to grow corn on poor soil than on that which is fertile owing to the larger yield on rich soil reducing the cost per bushel of corn, the proportionate outlay for labor being the same. THE WAITER.... [BY W. FORREST COZART.] Henry Feltenburg is now headwaiter at the Delaware hotel. Ft. Worth, Tex., where he succeeded Mr. Swift, a white headwaiter. Mr. Feltenburg formerly lived in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Feltenburg has also been headwaiter at the Fort Worth house, Ft. Worth, Tex. A. B. Rivers, a well-known waiter of Chicago and in New York State, is now employed at the Spalding hotel, Duluth, Minn. Mr. Rivers was employed at the Pan-American Exposition by the Bailey Catering Company, and later at the Hotel Gibbs. Mrs. Rivers is also in Duluth. Gilbert A. Burnett, head waiter at the Bertram hotel, and one of Philadelphia's leading caterers, is an old veteran in the culinary art and is called the grand old man of Philadelphia. Chas McCard, the genial headwaiter at Newell's hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., is still at his post "sawing wood" and saving nothing. Come, Charles, speak up; its your turn. Donglass Miller, the affable head, waiter at the Savery hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, has held his present position for years and has a cinch as long as Mr. Brown runs the hotel, which speaks volumes for Mr. Miller's ability. While Mr. Miller is a veteran at the business, he is progressive and an active member of the Head and Second Walters' Association. A. S. Pryor, a waiter, recently em I. C. ployed at the Hot Sulphur Wells hotel, San Antonio, Tex, has been appointed teacher for a school at Kearville, Texas, at a salary of $40 per month. The school term is nine months. Mr. Pryor halls from Virginia. Chas. F. Smith, steward at the Overland club, Butte, Mont., made a business trip to Helena and Great Falls recently, where he has valuable property. The Waiters' Royal Benefit Progressive League of Chicago, Ill. sive League of Chicago, m. The Waiters' Royal Benefit Progressive League was organized in Chicago, Cook county, Ill., June 13, 1899, at the Crystal printing house, having the encouragement of B. W. Fitts, proprietor. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: L. W. Washington, president. N. K. Hairston, first vice-president. A. W. Staten, second " " E. C. Simpson, third " " W. D. Samuels, secretary. S. C. Reeves, assistant secretary. L. B. McGhee, corresponding sec'y. M. K. Duzenbury, treasurer. Hon. Geo. F. Eton, chaplain. R. A. Banks, sergeant-at arms. F. Bell, captain of marching club. Constitution and by-laws were adopted. The above meeting was only participated in by twelve waiters, but they laid a foundation upon which a great edifice has been erected. The Waiters' Royal Benefit Progressive League has grown rapidly, having several hundred members, and bids fair to unite the colored waiters throughout the country. The officers of 1900 were: L. W. Washington, president. W. D. Samuels, secretary. G. W. Cotton, assistant secretary. D. Roach, treasurer. Wiley Clayton, sergeant-at arms. James F. Lockman, corresponding secretary. The officers in 1901 were: Geo. W. Cotton, assistant secretary. L. W. Washington, corresponding secretary. Geo. V. Davis, treasurer. Henry Lewis, chaplain. Wiley Clayton, sergeant-at-arms. N. K. Hariston, John Lowe and J. Reid, trustees. L. W. Washington, captain uniform rank. E. C. Reeves, assistant secretary. L. W. Washington, corresponding secretary. Geo. V. Davls, treasurer. Wiley Clayton, sergeant-at-arms. W. D. Samuels, chairman; H. Smith and J. Reid, trustees. The league will issue a call to waiters throughout the country to meet in Chicago to form a national association of side waiters. Interesting News Meridian, Miss., Saecial.- Rev. J. L. Wilson, principal of the Meridian Academy, had the commencement of the 23rd year of the Meridian Academy preached at St. Paul A. M. E. church Sunday May 11 at 3 p. m. Rev. Thirkield of Jackson, Miss. preached the annual sermon and it was a masterly one. At 8 p. m. Dr. Bowen delivered a very able address to a crowded church. The other part of the closing exercises of the school took place on 12, 13, 14 and 15. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, of Cincinnati, O., will be with us this week. The new academy building is nearing completion. Mrs. Sherwood of Macon has been visiting our city the past few weeks. J. W. Longstreet who has been visiting Mobile the past few weeks has returned to the city. On May 11 at 3 p. m. the Meridian Baptist Seminay closed its 7th session on May. 4. Rev. C. L Stamps of Brandon preached the commencement sermon at the New Hope Baptist church at 11 a. m. to a large congregation. Prof. Geo. M. Reese has made the school a success. The concert was by the intermediate grades. On Wednesday May 7, the graduating exercises took place. The next session will open September 30. William Webb who has been sick for several months died at his home on 33rd avenue and 13 street Thursday night, May 8th. He was 52 years of age. He was prepared for burial by the Riven, Harris & Co undertakers and the funeral service was held at the New Hope Baptist church on the 9th at 1 p. m. by Rev. L. S Lee. His request was that he be buried at Londerdale Miss. by the side of his five children and his wife. He was a faithful member of the New Hope Baptist church And was also a member of Crescent Lodge K. of P., No. 22, who escorted the remains to the depot and paid their last tribute of respect to their lamented Bro. Knight. Doing of the Week. Crawfordsville, Ind., Special. — The Odd Fellows' Thanksgiving anniversary was grand affair. Alford Mosley and Clarence Garson went to Waveland Sunday. Joe Peaks is improving slowly. The M E. church gave a social last Cures Weak Men Free. Cures Weak Men Free. 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Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded Price 25 CENTS PER BOX, all Druggists, or by Mall. DEODORENE MFG. CO, Germantown, Phila. $tib FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. eee (ee Ke SR | wh Fs atk a q ee <B Le sa OA ae ek WY EDITED BY if, FORREST GOZART, WHY HE IS LOSING GROUND. enscita etn ‘The Green's Waiters’ Association held their annual May entertainment Thurs- day evening, May 1st, at the Musteal Hull, Philadelphia, ‘The affair was one of the most brilliant events of the sea- on. Hverything was consummated in sach « laudable manner as té evade the slightest reproach from the most fas- tidious observer. All arrayed in their indlerous costumes the four couples of professional cake walkers who had been engaged for the affair jauntily pranced about the hall evoking considerable Isughter. ‘The large orchestra, under the leadership of F, S. Forman, filled the air with strains of delightful musi, sud cansed a profuston of joy to flow to thesoul. An excellent concert program was rendered by well selected artists. Sopper was prepared and served by a leading caterer, and was gladly wel- comed at 11:80, and every one did justice tothesame, Mesars, Wm. MoThomp- aed. BUSINESS MEDIUM. MES, MARTH, the world renowned and Uly celebrated banness and test MEDIUM, reveals srer7thing: (No mpoaition. an be cored on allaaea Ge Life Bustnoas, Love tei Marriage" specialty. "my Pee tac abeent Tieconsed ene, ling ads “Remover ail troubles ‘and eatrange ivy culeone ay Medinet exon ‘her startling. revelation of fist and tare event ia one fe Homen* sah wil DOW TOF latter you; you Su; rt snared ou will gala tots without Settee "Sho oan be sonsuited on, ell affairs 4f Lie, Love, Courtebip, Marriage, rienda, 4c, with description of future companion, She it very accurate in describing talesing tad Cotas, elas Her advice pon, lake fess change fn’ osiness, Journeys laws Sci wie vagee aid apecdlabon a ak Siblenad Telinble, She reads your destiny — Tae WARS se yee eR 45 pues, SMA is your ent vel aud futurecta eDiaD 'THANGE) has sorer of any two modiame_ yon ever i leet he tele your mothers. {ail asme. Bo: {fe tatrlage, the namen Of all your fmniy, {See ages aug deseription, dhe nazme nnd Dual et sbotr fobtte huabaady fhe maine of roar sez 7on are to have ong, the asso of the any man who now ealls om oR, the Feat fatare Nosband, aad tbe day, weouth snd ftsrof your marriage—how many obildren ren you {are or'wll have—whether you are married oF tose; whether your present sweethears, will etruoo you aud if he will marry you Af you Lave soaweeiheart, ahe will ll you wien you rilsare ‘and hie ame, Business and date of Kqpalntisee. Act YOUR POTORE will be {ellfs a0 hooest, olear, plain manner and in 8 dead anon. ‘Mothers should Know the success soa eutoands aud hilar, young indies 0% eve a sweet tetra cr inseuded nasbananr De uot Beep eupter, merry or go inte Dusinees nell you ‘eon ll dnote aily religious seraplos Bre: eatyour consuiting. Xisdame fs the only one tn the world who oan Wlyouthe FULL NAMB of your future hus: ‘had. wit'ege aud date of marriage, tells 700 "hether the One you love de true of false. sere are some persons ‘who belteve that Reeds no truth to be gained’ trom consulting {itcllon, bat such Bellefe are contrary to tbe (ee, cis only from the lack Of siacriminae fee itat such¥e conclusion eam be reached. a Got everyone who plaoards himself or her: Sigs siite that oan tana eee oF what oF the claim. “And @ pergon 0 ‘erroind may aak the reason why. Ie te" sim EY at tice ddvisore Go-not ‘take the fromblg “oty human mature. ‘They do. not. spent Ee: shoughte for amoment with sequiring the Hiei tienclogy and Kindrea, braushee that sce tendenay to make the Se rond or the buslneas clear end devold ot 1st undeniable faob that wit Erlor Advioewin fall knowledge ‘of what Se mant't) Know, and yet-aa soon as they uttoots Medlam thoy. Gry thele ubmost. ef (vet fo dispel trom helt minds what they Hor. to hear eit will be rehearsed by the Hci tee tbaoore ont of m erage By Fapic, "in ne tew eases is the art used. BY SAY torinclgaled Mediuras, but to take hold siike band aod gain control of the mind ghere ieee pia cormanerana saat AGU thie can be done, aad by consulting HES MARTE Uhie seeming mystery beoomer Tus ‘abet hau recelved no litsle attention i{iteot men ‘aod even college ‘professors. proves conclustvaly that. afthough there Hucstnour mat with oly toga” faapy, (he uaiee of wisdom havo mot besu Herel’ the Satine Semana Lika eat deal of study to become an Aeprolisned’ Medium, and bys oontiagous PeLSREFing effort the Key to ee well Of ep uy, pulninonabla sapairige Dave. eee Ficired by MES. MARTH for the benefit of fatty.” By “ietter, advice. $1.00, Hourt AiR 28 mtoopem. "AM letters mast com Satya for answers. ¥ MRS. M. B, MARTE. 248 W. Sist St, New York City. Son and Wm. Wilson were ‘noticed Smong the judges of the cake walk. Their decision was a popular one. Bob Cole, accompanied by his old friends A. H. Reid, James L. Goodall and Chas, Sager, form a very jolly party. The affair was a grand success, and our hats are off to the Green hotel waiters. ‘The committee consisted of Geo. F. Harper, W. H. Brown, L. Coursey, W. H. Gra- thon, Robt. Oliver, Jos. Cabell and James W. Nickelby. Wm. H. Lane, who murdered Mrs. Ella Jarben and her two daughters, will be executed Tuesday, May 27th, eee Fitness fer Position. | Fitness for place or position of trust and responsibility, euch as managing ‘the business outputs or receiving and dispatching the orders of a hotel or a catering establishment depends much ‘Upon the individual organization and Preparation for said position. Certainly to attain the heights of chef, stewart, or headwaiter, aptitude and spectal training are confessedly essential, and itis recognized fact in every pursult, high or low, experience and training are conditions of successful achievements; business men seek as 2 pilot one who has had experience in their lines as an economist, one who has skill in the man- ‘agement of certaiu lines of their busi- ness. These men are considered easen- tial to their success, and when such material has been secured for important positions they consider their business organized for successful competion. ‘The man accepting same position should make the interest of his employer his own, and labor for the success of all concerned; too often we do not fally realize and appreciate the great confi: dence our employer has in our ability to handle the affairs of our departments, ‘but we should reassure ourselves that ‘we are filling the place satisfactorily or else we would not be retained. It may ‘be traly said that “Fitness is the quall- fication,” and fitness comes as a result of previous study, training and exper!- ence. The young man whd wishes to make or attain success must prepare for it by special training, and such practi- cal education has never been more in demand in the world’s history than now. The tendency in hotel life as in other lines of industry and endeavor is toward centralization; toward great combina- tions of interest andoapital. The Hotel Men's M. B. Association is an evidence of combined interest in'the whole. The Hotel Keepers’ Protective Association is combination of capital, issuing “eredit letters” accepted by members 85a guarantee or security. The hotel journals are the advocates of these com: binations and they are substantially supported by the hotel fraternity to @ man. Why cannot men of our race or- ganize for the success of their profes: sions and interest of their fellow men? ‘The white waiters, cooks, pastry cooks and waitresses in every section of the ‘country have formed societies for the betterment of their associates and the advancement of thelr interests. Why cannot the colored waiters organize along such lines and be sucoessfal? ‘Weekly or monthly meetings with spe- cial invitations to the leading men of the profession to address you upon topics concerning your pursuits would awaken and Kindle interest in every fellow waiter. ‘The prize was never 80 great or the opportunity 60 promising asnow. The young man must fit him- self for the position and learn to do his work well. E, T. Montcomery, Los Angeles, Cal. ey eee ee Editor Freeman—If you will allow me just a emall space in your dear paper I will endeavor to relate to you and your readers something about our new and up-to-date hotel which will be erected in a short while. As a waiter at the Hotel Calhoun I feel so greatfal over the matter that we are to have a new house, and will be ran py Mr. Robert H. Forman who, at present, has charge of the hotel mentioned, that per- haps some of the readers of The Free- man would like to know the upward rise Anniston is making. At one time Anniston had one of the best hotels in the South, known as the Inn, but as the traveling pablic was so small they soon saw that this hotel would not pay and turned it into a female college. Wm. H. Zimn, who is one of the best business men we have and one of the largest tax payers in Anniston saw the great need of the hotel. He pnt the question be- fore the people, who took to it at once and he soon had the amount raised re- quired to build, which was $75,000. Mr. Zinn will take an extensive trip East, and when he returns ground will be broken, which will only be a short while. ‘The waiters are rejoicing over the fact that they are to have new quarters and something that will be comfortable. The hotel will be a five story building, and will have one hundred and twenty rooms, one large American dining room ‘and one Enropean also, a roof garden— something that will be a treat to the public. James O. TANNER, Capt. of Watch, Hotel Calhoun, ‘The following is taken from the min- ‘utes of the Head and Second Waiters’ Association and may be of some interest to the public. The Martin and Terry ‘Assessment was paid by the following members: W. F. Cozart, ‘Thos. C. Frame, John A. Gloster, ¥. P. Thompson, C. Saunders, J. L, Gilbert, E. W. Harper, T. H. Smith, ‘Wm. Collins, J. W. Gaiter, J. L. Haile, W. C. Outlaw, ‘W. E. Tucker, F. H. Hightower, Henry Council, C. O. Lewis, H. F. Still, B. H. Thompkins, J.F. Holman, —_ W. W. Banks, G.B. Crawford, W. P. Landon, Thos. H. Frozier, J. J. Miles, W. A. Locke, G. H. Williams, G. B. Richardson. A Watteew Goswantian | ‘The colored waiters of Chicago are organizing in anticipation of. the pro- posed convention of their fellow crafts- men, to assembie in this olty August next, The movement thus far has not been very pronounced, but is expected to take tangible form in » few daye. Tt is said that the proposed convention 1s a kind of protest against the alleged action of the head waiters organization at its meeting in Buffalo, N. Y., last September. It appears that the elde waiters asked to have a representative in the convention of the head waiters, but this request was refused by the head waiters. This refusal ledito de- termination among the side waiters to organize a union of their own, and it is this organization which is to convene in Chicago in the near future. If the convention comes to Chicage the wait” ers all over the country may be gure of having a good time, for their brethren in this city will be hospitable in every sense of that term, The plans of the local organization includes a burean of information, a committee on. raising means for the purpose of defraying ex- pense, a committee on entertainment for the purpose of furnishing amuse- ment and good cheer to the visitors, and various other committees incident to such occasions. The local waiters’ or- ganization is officered by 0. W. Brown, president; A. W. Staten, vice-president; George Cotton, secretary, and' M. K, Duzenbury, treasurer.—Chicago Con- servator. The organization reterred to is the Waiters’ Royal Benefit Progreasive League. ‘Hot Sulphur Wells of Texas the Com- ing Resort of the South. San Antonio, Texas, the recent dis- covery and application of natural hot sulphur water within three miles of this city bids fair to make San Antonio and the Hot Sulphur Wells hotel the leading resort of the South. In recent years San Antonio has become the mecca of persons suffering with weak lungs as the genial climate here is much more beneficial than that in California or Colorado. The mid-winter weather here is mild; there are no certain changes like there are in Colorado. Snow is almost unknown here, Iam informed that none of the “white beautifnl” has fallen here since 1897, quite a contrast to the yearly blizzards of Colorado and the northern clime. After the month of January overcoats are useless and fire and heat for rooms is rarely used, No wonder the poor sufferers of con- sumption find ready relief here. San Antonio is noted for its dry, anti-mala- rial climate, its clear weather, its equa- ble weather, historical ruins and mem- ories and picturesque surroundings ‘The above attractions heretofore has been the drawing card. But the recent discovery of hot sulphur water in end- less quantity, possessing marvelous curative properties, revealing nature's long hidden secrets, which area sure cure for rheumatism, neuralgia, slatica, gout, scroffals, eczema, catarrh, mala- ria and diseases of the blood, and the erection of s large bath house with pri- vate and publio bathing tubs and pools, ‘and the Hot Sulphur Wells hotel, which 1s connected with the bath house by an overhead enclosed passage way, places San Antonio to the front at once as the earlsbad of America, The bot sulphur alkaline waters come from @ volcanic geyser 2000 feet deep with a natural temperature of 104 degrees, a natural pressure of 42 pounds and a flow of about 300,000 gallons daily. The water belongs to the State of Texas and is leased by a special act of the legislature. The Hot Sulphar Wells hotel contains about one hundred elegantly furnished rooms. The hotel opened January 26, 1902, and from the very start was un- able to accommodate one third of those who applied for accommodation, not- withstanding the rates range from $25 to $50 per week. The hotel ts owned by the Lone Star Brewery of San Antonio, and is beautifully located three miles from the elty on a plat of abont fifty acres. Thesurroundings are most beau- tifal, green lawns, fine drives, beautiful pecan grove and within a stone's throw ofthe pictureeque San Antonio river, where fishing is always good. The dining room isa marvel of beauty, in which only the finest of silver and Havi- Jand chinaware is used. An addition of one hundred rooms is planned, and will eae eae apagaael Lees ‘be ready for use January 1, 1903. Color. ed waiters (twenty to thirty) are em. ployed at the Hot Sulphur Wells hotel, and they receive $25 per month and room. During the past few years San Antonio has made remarkable strides forward in all essentials that constitute 8 modern up-to-date city aad that tend to the comfort and pleasure of its inhab- itants of nearly 60,000. Nearly two- thirds of the population are colored peo- ple and Mexicans, and the city itself hag all the appearance of a Spanish city. ‘The colored people are doing well, and 5 @ race they get along well. The Menger hotel is the largest in the city, and during the winter from thirty to forty colored waiters are employed, re- cetving seven dollars per week. — aa A prominent member of the Head and Second Waiters’ Association and vice- president of the State in which he re- sides writes: “Mr. Cozart, I wish to call your attention to the article in The Freeman of May 3d concerning the pro- ceedings of the Headwaiters’ Conven- tion that met inf Buffalo last year. I agree with you; I am quite sure there are any number of members that were not fortunate enough to attend have never known what business was trang- acted. I have never seen anything in print relating to or} the doings of the meeting except a few words occasionally from your pen. When Mr. Goins was secretary he malled’each}member cirou- lars or minutes of the convention, which I think is very essential.23I was not aware that the death§benefit had been cut out of the H. and 8. W. N.B. Ax and I presume many other changes have been made that I am not aware of. and I read the major portion of good hotel papers.” HOTEL de MOORE a iT! a Sample Foe a oom 5 ee a : - nme Se — POOL IN ANNEX, 171, 173 & 175 TWENTY-FIRST ST, CHICAGO, ILL. 3814S. Ludlow St 0 ‘y K \o : (Opposite Union Depot.) <5" ayton, onto. From Milwaukee, Wis.) In perasing the columns of The Free- man of May 10th I notice fan article written by one W. E. Tuoker, of the Southland, August, Ga., in which he offers oriticism to my article which ap- peared April 5th, written in the de- fense of the colored waiters. In look- ing over the register used at the Head and Second Waiters’ National conven- tion; held at Chicago Sept. 20 23, '99, I fail to find the name of W. E. Tucker. Perhaps Mr. Tucker is some one wo has found his way out of the kindergar- ten. Iwill state for the benefit of Mr, Tuoker and the craft that there ts no ill feeling between us. In conclusion I wish to say that if Mr. Tucker wishes to advertise himself to the people to let them know that he is out of the kinder- garten, he should use some other meth- od, and not through me, as I will not notice any more articles on this subject. J.J. Mes. 639 W. Green Street, Louisville, Ky. ae aaa aa a Be —Aa-- eoee he ae oer oe tee ee ee LW ie 5 Geis | |. ee a =: THOMAS L. PRYOR. ra Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars ‘ and Tobaccos & Daring the Race, meet the talent will ee most acceptable house in JAMES W. TAYLOR, THOMAS IL. PRYOR & JAMES W. TAYLOR Peonrietare. Mr. E. T. Montgomery writes; “The Freeman has greatly increased its news of hotel men, and its space for the pub- lication of their news, which seems to be springing up from every section of the country.” Right you are brother, and, to cap the climax, we are now pub- lishing hotel news from the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. The world is yours when you read The Freeman. ‘The Freeman in|Washington, D.. 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Pet Hae Bpee Entered at the postoflioy at Tadianapolis, Sndiaaa, as second clues waiter.” "enevol Ail matter should be addresed to THE FREEMAN, ® INDIANAPOLIS, IND, > GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. =— Important news 1vems will be received at the Freeman Office. Telephone number 2880 new. KANSANS-NOTICE. There is a fraud traveling in ‘the vicinities of Newton and Hutchinson claiming to be a representative of The Freeman, In this way ‘ Mr. 0. G. Williams,” as he styles himself, has collected sever- al hundred subscriptions for which he has given bogus re- ceipts, We will give $100 (one hundred dollars) cash for his apprehension and conviction. E, C. KNOX, Manager, é ‘The FREEMAN. —————————— ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE. The French colonial experiments in the island of Martinique, the scene of the recent awful disaster, have not, ac: cording to the publication of the Treas- ury Burean of Statistics, “Colonial Ad- ministration,” been altogether satisfac- tory. While many of the French col- onies have been successful and prosper- ous, those of the West Indies, by reason of their small area and distance from the mother country, have proved_not only a burden financially, but somewhat unsatisfactory in the demands which their representatives have made and continue to make upon the mother coun- try. France has tried the experiment, as did Spain, of giving to certain of her colonies representation in the legislative body of the home government, and, ac- cording to a quotation made in the Bureau of Statistics publication from M. Leroy Beaulten, that experiment has been unsatisfactory. The French col- onies in America, as is well known, con- sist of Martinique and Guadeloupe with their adjacent islands forming a part of the chain of small islands which stretches in a semi-circle sontheastward- ly from Porto Rico almost to the coast of South America. On the mainland of South America near the southern termi- nus of this semi-cirole-of: islands just mentioned is another colony of France, French Guiana, while further north, just off the sontbern coast of Newfound- landyis'the remainder of French colonial Amerioa, the islands of St. Pierre and Miqulon. Martiniquo has an area of 381 equare miles and a population okgbont 190,000, of which number about 5,000 are labor. ers brought from India and over 5,000 laborers from Africa; also about 500 Chinese immigrants. The remainder of the population is largely native Ne- groes, the white population numbering in all about 10,000. A large share of the interlor of the island has never been brought under cultivation, although it has been ocoupied by the French almost constantly since 1636, a period of 267 years; the only interruption in French control being the period from 17¥4 tc 1802, when the island was held by the British, Slavery existed until 1848, when it was abolished in this as well as other French colonies. Notwithstand- ing the fact that a large part ofits in- terlor has never been brought under cultivation, the island is described by ‘Reclus as ‘‘one of the most densely pop- ulated spots on the globe; on the arable lands people are packed as closely as in such industrial centers as Lancashire, Flanders or Saxony. The government of Martinique consists of a local legisia: tive body composed of natives which has the power to pass laws applicable to the exercise of political rights, the reg- ulation of contracts, matters relating to wills, legacies and successions, the in- stitution of juries, criminal procedare, recruiting for naval and military forces and the methods of electing looal officers in the cities and towns. The governor THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWOF Ar ER. and other officers are appointed by the French government, which also makes the tariff laws of the island, as is the case with reference to its other colonies. This and the other American colonies of France have, as already indicated, 8 much larger share of self-government than any other of her colonies, and are each represented by a senator and two deputies in the French legislative body corresponding to the Congress of the United States, ‘These large powers of self-government and of participation in national legislation are the subject of ope criticlem by French economic writers, LeroyBeaulieu, perlaps the most distinguished of French writers of the present day upon economic subjects, in his “Colonisation chez les Peuples Modernes,” says: As regards politics, we have introduced French liberty into our colonies; we give them civil gov- ernors, admit their representatives into our Parliament, and while all these re- forms are excellent in themselves, it is unfortunately to be feared that they will in practice result in abuser, and that unless the mother country is very watchfal those very powers which she has granted to her?oolonies will become powers of oppression. The deputies whom Martinique send to our Parlia- ment serve only to represent the malice, prejudice and ignorance of the blacks. ‘The weak executive power in France allows itself to be intimidated by these deputies and sends out to the colonies cowardly and incapable governors whose indecision of character feeds the more or less barbarous hopes of the native population of the island.” MOB AT PITTSBURG, GEORGIA. In the interest of racial peace it is to be hoped that it will bea very, very long while before such an outbreak as occarred at Pittsburg, Ga, last week, will be repeated. In fact we cannot afford to ever have it repeated. Rely. ing on newspapers as authority, and that is what they are for, to tell the news, the trouble is chargeable to color. ed men, Wetake no pleasure in blam: ing colored men for creating disturb: ances, nor white men for that matter, but the fact of the matter is that some of the race, some of those in front, must stand as ready to censure those in the wrong as to applaud those in the right. We admit the painful fact that we are not quite prepared to receive rebuke, no matter as to the extent of the wrong. ‘The spirit of clannishness is displayed in the wrong direction. We stand charged with screening criminals of our own kind, except when we wish to criminalize. The ascertions are not altogether fancifal. To-day, as never before, the country looks to the Negro press for an expres- sion on the ugly situation. What will iteay? We will not be governed by its opinions unless they are confiu- ent with our own. We will have no mental reservation as to what may or may not be known, but will, in the lan- guage of the good old judge, judge ac: cording to the facts and evidence in the case and on the assumption that the evidence fa all in. That those colored men set about to “do up” an ex-policeman is certainly against them, ‘The fearful results fol- lowing could have been avoided by peaceably surrendering to the officers of the law. What may have been in store, of course, are the mitigating circam ‘stances, unknown, 'tis true, but judged by the past, perhaps, caused such a des: perate stand by Will Richardson. ‘We, a8 a newspaper, cannot more afford to countenance the actions of the colored man than can papers conducted by white men afford to support the ac tions of a burning mob, no matter how atrocious the victim's crime. We have it yet to see in a northern paper—nor very often in sonthern ones—the record: ed reverberation: “Hang him!” “Mot him!” “Burn him!” They have alway: taken the sober, sane view, even wher the racial situation made it a too bitter a pill to swallow. Yet swallowed it, they have. ‘They did this in the inter est of the majesty of the law. Shoot ing down of innocent Negro bystanders of course, was no more nor less thar murder. It may be that owing to th excitement, those crimes will be over looked, but hell to those perpetrating them will be coming in due time; ther can be no escape. The conscience wil adjudicate when sharp eyed, keer scented, quick witted man finds thos organs or faculties bleared, dulled anc witless. ‘We insist that the hopes of the Ne groes rest in abiding by the laws a well as in conforming to those action that bespeak the good and usefal citi zen. We have spoken of the fear o mob rule that will be taken in consider ation, and yet that with all of its horror is not to be weighed against the reigr of the law. Man in man’s mind may exouse man for the presumption and action in accord, but it is equally an: archistic with the mob idea when car. tied out. One no more than the other should be endorsed. The mob and the mobbed should obey the laws. ‘We, from this distance, viewing the situation, believe that had the colored men acted. more discreetly there wonld not be now sixor eight-men dead, in- cluding officer of the law, men both black and white. ‘That the bisck men came off so well will not tend to lessen the racial friction nor ought it magnify our self esteem. That we must so often be the center of such spectacular trag- edies is not conducive to the welfare of our racial life in America, Banish the day that holds in store for us or fatare generations those balefal inflaences that seek to counteract, to neutralize the good by the worthy thousands who have nothing in common with the many more thousands who wear the world as one long holiday. Thanks are due those citizens, those prominent citizens, those that must be re Med upon to fashion thought, mould the sentiment of communities, for conn: seling moderation, peace. It.1s to those that the race must turn yet in the hours of civil and political depression, relying on their conserving sense, their sense o! justice, right and even pity, as it doe for its daily bread. For one-third of century is an inexperienced teache when contrasted with the thousand years on the other hand. / OUBA, Caba libre is nolongeramytb. Cuba has emerged from her swaddling cloths and has taken her place amid the galaxy of nations—free and independent. She begins her career right auspicionsly Having been succored, nurtured and protected by her all powerful protecting mother, the United States of America, to whom it has looked in the four year Past; it has aright tolive, Under that guiding genius, that patriot and liberty loving enthusiast, T. Estrada Palms, the first president, great things are promised for the little Republic. It is ‘hoped that he will prove no disappoint ment, nor the people, who were 0 prayerfally solicitous of the welfare of their country in the dark past, and who demonstrated so unmistakably their heartfelt thanks at the birth of the Republic. They battled fearlessly against awful odds to reach this day, the recollection of which should ever insure eternal fraternal peace and con- cord. The world will train its glasses of observation for quite a while on the new Republic, the American foster child; its every action will be noted, its words weighed. Itis hoped that it will be ciroumspect, sacrificing the ambi- tions of parties and individual to the common weal. Of outward foes she need not fear. The same strong arm that planted her high and dry above snapping, snarling, dogged war will be no less faithful in any emergency provided she is trae to herself. The Freeman acknowledges invita- tions to attend the twenty-first anniver- sary exerelses of the Tuskegee Normal and-Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Als. May 25-29, the twentieth annual com- mencement of Livingstone College and State Normal School, Salisbury, N, C., May 21-28, the commencement exercises of the graduating classes of the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College of Normal, Ala, the graduating exercises of the class of the Law Department of Walden University, Nashville, Tenn., the com- mencement exercises and dedication of the building in the auditorium of Bur- rowes Hall of Samuel Honston College, Austin, Tex, May 22, the commence- ment exercises of Brace High School, Dyersburg, Tenn., May 30th to June 3d. Rev. James D. Corrothere, author of the “Black Cat’s Club,” has been reliev- ed of his charge at Hackensack, N. J, by Bishop Walters. Following this is the disagreeable information that the bishop has been placed in an ugly posi- tion by a charge preferred against him for which he must answer in court Corrothers is a friend of Booker Wash- ington, The bishop insists that Cor- rothers and the individnal preferring the charge conspired to undo him, Cor- rothers, the author, is in jail. Bond was furnished Bishop Walters. We hope for the best ont of the very ugly situation, The thirty-thfrd annual commence: ment exercises of Atlanta University will begin May 25. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by President Bumstead May 25. The orator for com- mencement day will be the Rev. Stephen M. Newman, D. D., pastor of the First Congregational church of Washington, D.C. Dr. Newman is an exceptionally comprehensive and eloquent speaker. The Seventh Atlanta Conference will be held May 27, Subject, “The Negro ite 3 Theodore Drury, the famous colored tenor, met with great success in the pro- duction of “Faust” in New York last week. A large, appreciative audience greeted the singer in his very ambitious role. He was nobly supported by a company of talented men and women, many of whom are known to fame. ‘He will make a tour with the company, visiting the larger cities. Mr, Drary will be remembered in Indianapolle, where he appeared several years ago in ‘a recital. ‘The President is right. This is no age of barbarism in which either mental or physical torture is to be employed to extort confessions of any kind. He has taken a decided stend in that Filipino business and insists that it must be thor- oughly ventilated. The people are with hin. NEGRO. MELODIES---BOOKEX T. ‘WASHINGTON. The first request made by Prince Henry after being received in New ‘York was that I should arrange to give him some of the old Southern melodies, if possible, enng by the Negroes; that he was passionately fond of them, and had been all his life—not the rag-time songs, but the old Negro melodies. Several times during his trip { endeav- ored to carry ont his wishes, with more or less success: but, finally, at the Wel- dorf-Astoria, the Hampton singers pre- sented themselves in one of the recep- tion rooms and gave him a recital of Indian and Negro melodies. He was charmed. And while I was talking to him just after a Sioux Indian had sung a lullaby, he suddenly turned and said, ‘Isn't that Booker T. Washington over there?” I recognized Washington and replied that it was, and he said: ‘Evans, would you mind presenting him to me’ Ikmow how some of your people feel about Washington, but I have always had great sympathy with the African race, and I want to mest the man I re- gard-as the leader of that race.” So 1 went at once to Washington and told him that the Prince wished him to be presented, and took him myself and pre- sented him to the Prince. Booker T. Washington eat down und talked with him for fally ten minutes, and it was a most interesting conversation—one of the most interesting I ever heard in my life. The ease witn which Washington conducted himself was very striking, and I only accounted for it afterwards when I remembered that he had dined with the Queen of England two or three times, so that this was not a new thing for him, Indeed, Booker Washington's manner was easier than that of almost any other man I saw meet the Prince in this country. The Prince afterwards referred to President Roosevelt’s action in regard to Booker Washington, and applanded it very bighly.—Rear Ad- miral Robley D. Evans in Mo(lure's ‘Magaxine. . Dr. M. ©. B, Mason, senior secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid and Education Society, witn headquarters at Cincin- nati, is to deliver the annual commence- ment address at the commencement ex- ercises of the Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial Institute, May 29th. People from many sections of the South are planning to be present at these com- mencement exercises, and Dr. Mason will be listened to with interest and pleasure. Brilliantly Entertained. Coatesville, Pa, Special—Rev. Cor- bin, of the A. M. E. church, was ten- dered a reception by the young ladies of his congregation. Among the die- tingnished guests present were Mies Carrie Clarkson, of Philadelphia, and several students from Lincoln Univer- aity. Speeches were made by several distinguished gentlemen, after which Miss Hannah Clarkson conducted a Tamborine drill, which was highly ap- preclated. Conference is in session in Wilmington, Del., with 150 in attend- ance from this clty. ‘The largest funer- al to take place in Coatesville for many years, was that of Joseph Coleman, a young man of sterling worth, who died afew days ago. A reception was given on the 17th inst., at the home of Mrs. Williams, in Hon. 1, H. Nutter, Dr. Marshall and brother and the represen- tative of The Freeman, which will long be remembered by those present. Spen- cer Adams has been appointed a mail carrier. Mr. Adams is a worthy young man and we wish him success. There wasa large attendance at the Gates- Wert wedding, which took place at the home of the bride. Mr. Clarkson and ‘Miss Alice Reed and mother are dele- gates at conference. It is the desire of the congregation that Rev. Corbin be returned to this charge. The funeral of Mrs. Reynolds was held at the A. M. E. church on the 17th, condnoted by Rev. Henry. Perey Woods, who hae been ill is able to be ont. There will be a grand opperetta drill given for the ‘benefit of Bethel on the 29th inst. Mr. Harrod, of Dawningtown, visited in the city recently, Fifty colored men cap find employment at Houston’s mills. ‘The Freeman can be purchased from W.G, Anderson, 154 Merchant street, ‘ovecy Batordas. Of a General Character. Toledo, O., Special.—Mre, D, E, Bush has gone to Carthage for an indefinite stay. Wm. Culpher is visiting in Elemore, Mrs, Williams has returned to her home in Ft. Wayne. John Thomas has returned to his position on the Clover Leaf railroad. Jobn Gatliff met with a serious accident last week, While opening a box a piece of wire proke, striking him in the eye destroying the sight, Hall and Hunter have opened an ice cream parlor on Washington street. ‘Freeman Stations Nashville, Tenn., Special,—The most popx ular of all Negvo journals, The Freeman can be secured at: Ideal hotel, 417 N. Cherry street; Kelly's restaurant, Maxwell passage; Davis's shoe shop, 313 Ash street: Brown building of H. Cole; Palace of Surets, 417 Cedar street; 22 Tennesseo street, Master Goodman: B. Z, Eakin, general agent and reporter, 512 Cedar street, ’phone 334, Ring 4. Send $1.50 for a year’s subscription to The Freeman, the leader of Negro journals. ADDITIONAL STAGE. " Notes from A. G. Allen's New Or” leans Minstrels:—Everybody is well this writing. A week ago we received a new topfrom Murray and company which easily seats 2000 people and three days later our other new one came which cost the company #1800, so the company is now in good trim for business. Thurs- day May 15, completed the third year of this show on the road and wine, ice cream were seen from one end of our cars to the other. Friday night we showed the opera house in Columbia Tenn., toa large audience, ‘The show is now stronger than ever. We metoue of our old members, Hi Henry Hunt, fire king and contortionist, at Athens, Ala. We play his home Huntsville, Ala., Monday 19 where he intends to give the boys a spread. W. Benbow sends regards to H. Troy, Bud Sively and C. Ferguson. Arant and Roberson want to hear from W. Cheatham. W. Grant sends best regards to W. H. Fos- ter. PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS IN COLORED PAPERS. Business men that have goods for eale will advertise in papers published by colored men, if there is a disposition on the part of the patrons of the paper to patronize the advertisers. Write to these business men. It will build up the papers. The papers will be able to employ more colored women and men ‘and thus help along the race problem. ‘The Freeman has in its employ directly and indirectly about 500 persons. This may look unreasonable, but when it is remembered that there 1s a Freeman agent in nearly vevery great city in the country, and in nearly all Southern and Southwestern cities, st will not appear unreasonable. Many of these do noth- ing beyond putting in thelr time for The Freeman. Some have families, We are doing onr share for the race. Write to our advertisers. Many of our readers cannot reach the great stores to have their needs supplied Write to the advertisere in The Freeman, they will send you what you need to your Postoffice. Mention The Free- man. Let these business people know abont its vast circulation, Trading by Mall is quite the thing. Try it; your community may not be able to eupply your wants, Mention The Freeman.when you write. LUCK. ‘Those who are in need end unlucky, write to Madam Harper and she will make things go your way. Write for a free consultation, The Madam is an expert in business, law suits, marriages and all kinds of chance, Makes life happy to those who consult her. Write and enclose a stamp, as letters are not noticed unless stamp 1s enclosed, Ad- dress Mre. M, F, Harper, 711 W. Spring street, Lima, O, 15 Good, Honest Agents Wanted. $300 per week selling belts. Write at once; enclose 75 cents for outfit, Perfume & Novelty Co,, box 466, Fayetteville, Ark, Sample 100. $20 to $1 eure, Secrot and etiress W.M. BLLIS & 00., 1123 W. Chestnut Street, Lonisville, Ky, Go To Robert Oakley's FOR HAIR - CUT AND SHAVE. He is the Man. Springfield, IN. 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Stall fx pts tan, rar pote rr moved without haruito the skin.’ When fou get the color you wish, top using the preyaration. ‘THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to paid tries hare" A ary fa mm falling out. on makes the halt soft and easy 1 comb any “our cusiomers say one of Gur dollar boxes i worth fen dollars ote sells one olla box. THE NO-SMELL thrown i free ‘oy person sendingue one dollar a a letter o Poat-Ofice money onder, exprem money” ordst Of registered letter, we will send it through the mail ‘prepaid; or if you want it sent. 0. D., EPwitt come by express, 25c. extra. sil eStart baa send ae” li wo ‘or sond a bor fee charge. "Fucked so that a0 ote ‘will ‘Snot Gos fonts Sxoept reeelver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, ‘RiouMonp, Va. Postmaster of So. Glen Falls, N. Y., des cribes a condition which thous. ands of men and women find identical with theirs, Read what he Says, and note the similzrity of your own case. Writeto him, enclosing stamped ad- dressed envel LD. Palmer, OPE for rep] and get a per. sonal corroboration of what here given. He says regarding Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure: “I suffered agonizing pain in the left Visas sud bethean me shoukie rice heart trouble. | My heart would palpi. tate, flutter, then skip beats, until [ could no longer lie in bed. Night afer night 1 walked the floor, for toliedows would have meant sudden deat! My Gondition seemed almost hopeless whed Thegan taking Dr. Mies Heart Cac ‘but epee me fromthe first. Later I took Dr. Miles’ Nervine with the Heart Cure and the effect was aston. jshing. J earnestly implore sila: sak ferers to give these remedies a trial” Sold by all Druggists on guarantee. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, ind, The PRESENT of HOUSEWIVES will no doubt remember this picture on the wrappers around 44 4. 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BEN BAKER’S Shining Parlors 138 N. Illinois Street. LADIES SERVED POLITELY. ewe ‘The Freeman in Philadeipis. OA. H. Reid at 1804 Webster street hae charge of The Freeman in Philadelphis. [Saw THE MARKET ‘Cotton. New Onuraxs, May 17.—Cotton dull ond oor thal "Sales, 815 bales.” Ordinary, 7 £004 ordinary, Ske: low middling, 8. oitdlne 93:16c; good miadiing, 9%e: | middling, {1 101-16¢. Receipts, 1,85 bales; stock, 1! bales. i New Orleans, May 19.—Ootton viet tle ssbloalen, “Ordinary, Woes good ordionsy.°3; Jom tnidalipg, biter amidafing, i e middling, 9%; middling fair, [0 1-lve. Heo 'p%® Tate bales; stock, 190,051 baics. New York. May 18—Cotton—Spot clsid steady srmiddiing uplands, ie; 10 i0¢ £0 tse. Sales, 1,512 bales. New Orleans, May 20.—Cotton stews. fal 125 bales. Ordinary, 7.13-l6¢; good oriinsry, food iniGdhing. er miadting fa, BE Selpte, 68 baled; stock, 147171 bales” New York, May 2 Spat. cotton lo! ofan Lite bighers middling apis) middiing gulf, 8 1l-l6c. Sales, #) bale ———— Something new for Ladies and (ientleme Two Can Play for 5 Cents. TODD & TODD. 2% Indians Ave eee eS aaa Dr.Joseph H. Ward | orrion HOURS: 8tol0a.m, 1todp.m. 6to8 p.m OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 8 4854 Indiana Ave., INDIANAPO) ‘New "Phone 1974—Old Phone 1-4 oe STAGE. THE FREEMAN POST OFFICE. A stamped enveloped, plainly addressed, must be enclosed for each letter, and the line of business followed by the person addressed should be given, in order to prevent mistakes. Now, in professional letters, one must bear in mind that all letters, etc., in transit between the United States and Canada, must be prepaid, otherwise they are not forwarded. --- NOTICE..Advertised letters will be held in The Freeman Post Office for FOUR WEEKS ONLY hereafter. LADIES LIST. Hampton, Mrs. Luciel Hampton, Mrs. Alice Hunter, Mrs. Ada Kniddle, Flora Kinney, Miss Bessie L Kinney, Miss Bessie L Royal Mrs. Alice Russell, Gertrude Smith, Miss Mattle Tyner, Miss Jessie Walker, Miss Daisy Ardenan, Mrs. Carter, Mrs Nancy Crosby, Oma Butterfield, Mrs. Belle Fernando, Mrs Jas Floyd, Mrs Hattie Grayson Greeen, Mrs Greeen, Mette M. Miss Irene Harris Mrs Eliza Haynes, Lincolnina Alen, Mack Barrett, K. Banks, Billy Benbery, B F Brewner, B F Brewner, Frank Bryant, Frank Bryant, S. E Bryant, E J Bire, Wm Brooks, B G Cassell, Frank Cassell and Petitt Cooper, W Cotton, Anderson Cowper, A. Cowper, A. Chatman, C. Chapelle, P. Cogreth, Harry Dodd D. E. Edwards, Guy Edwards, Guy Charles, Charles Franklin, George Frederick, Alb rt A. Farber, K Davis Grant, Wm Green, J. Ed. Goulds, L. James Harris, James Harris, Geo C Harrison, Hugh 2 Harrison Bros. Hose, Rt Bice, W.B Hallback, Wm. Housely, G. W. Huskins, Marshall H Hughes, H James, James Jackson, Calvin Jackson Billie Johnson, SAM Kemp, Boby Kennedy, Will Goff Kennedy, A. W. Layne, James Montgomery, A. H. McDade, Henry Oliver, Jack Pamplin, John Perkins, U. Pervin, Geyley Powell, Clarence Powell, John Price, J. W Rucker, John Robinson, Erb Rucker, John Simmons, J. W. Sherman, James E. Theo, A. Thomas, Ed. S. Thomas, Richard Van Slack, Henry Whitman, L. Wright, L. J. Walker, Frank Walker, Geo Wae, W. Wilson®R. L. Williams, Webster P. G. Lowery's CONCERT BAND (4 Pawls Sells Bros., Circus)—Brooklyn, N. Y., May 28-33 BROOMS & PRINGLE'S FAMOUS GEORGIAI- T. J. Colligan, Manager: Calumet May 24. PAWKER BULL'S WILD WEST (and Concert Co. Dan Washington Manager.)—West Minster, Va. May 24. LaShe, slack wire artist has something up his sleeve for next season. Geo. Swan sends regards to A—and says he is still waiting for that letter. Cambell Bros., of Gideon's Minstrels are hitting 'em hard with their new act, "Don't Butt In." Grandpa, Harry Waters, the original Rastus is taking the towns by storm. His act is a feature. F. L. Denton sends regards to Chas. Scott and family in St. Louis Mo. and would like to hear from them. Address The Freeman. * * * W. A. Seymour, (Black Booth) No. 9. Oark street, Hot Springs, Ark., would like to hear from some colored play-wright of drama, with a view of accepting his MS. --- Pat Chappelle, of the Buckingham Theatre, Tampa, Fla., would like to hear from Amos Galliord, Calvin Jackson, Al. Bailey and T. H. Price, "the Black Emmett." --- The Oriental Quartette, of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., is said to be one of the best and most unique of its kind in the country. George K. Davidson is its manager. One Billy Earrell, "popular comedian and cake Walker," as he appears on the programs of the London music halls is at the Brighton Alhambra, this week and is making a tremendous hit. --- All Georgia Minstrels, No. 2. send regards to P. G. Lowery and faction and are much pleased to learn of their brilliant success among the white tents. We hope to meet you sometime this season. Dan. Washington, of Pawnee Bill's Wild West show has had bad luck recently. His little daughter died in Chicago. May 5, after he had been out with the show but two or three days. P. A. Tanner with the great Pan-American shows, writes that he is meeting with wonderful success in the state of Washington. He adds that Williams THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER & Walker, in the Sons of Ham" took Washington, California, Oregon and Montana by storm and will likewise take the natives of Colorado. McKissick & Jones, knockabout comedians are booked for the Olympic and Chicago Opera Houses. Will open at the Olympic May 26 and Reed's Lake Grand Rapids Mich., the week of June 80. Mrs. Amelia Tolbert, of Kansas City, Mo., the leading soprano singer of that burg, sang in St. Joseph, Mo. May 2, and met with such great success that she has been engaged to re-appear in that city again in June. Monroe, La., notes—Our town has been greatly enlivened by the opening of a new colored vaudeville show in the rear of the two Brothers saloon under the management of the late "Billy" Nichols of Kind and Bush's big colored minstrels. --- Miss Jennie Schepar, one of the prettiest young women on any stage is in the Old World, recently appearing in Kiel Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark. She sends regards to Williams & Walker and their wives with whom she traveled last year. --- Tom Golden has opened the Workingmen's Palace and Lincoln Park at Savannah, Ga. with vaudeville attractions and has the following staff: Wm. West stage manager; Wm. Bing, property hand; Prof. Ike Johnson, musical director; Tom Golden, proprietor and general manager. The star comedians are Wm. West, Seaborn Brown, Tom Scott and Allen Brown. Others were Madame Coates, the Golden Gate Quartette, Master James Price and Prof. C. H. Williams. *** The Great Southern Meadow company is carrying the following people: Thomas Lane, musical director; Eugene Riley, guitar virtuoso; John Goodloo, eccentric comedian and Henry Anderson, better known as "Bollowooler, the Father of the mule. Eugene Riley sends regards to Geo. C. Harris. Rileys address is 920 W. Madison street, Louisville, Ky. Thomas Dane sends regards to Webster Williams and Keeting Irving. Dr. E. F. F. Barry sends best regards to X. W. Whitman and The Freeman staff. Henry Anderson says, hello to Addle Brown and George Temple. Notes From Sells and Down's circus in mighty Union with James Wolfscales Plantation Minstrels and Concert Band: We opened at Newport Ky., April 26, and everything is running smoothly ank can say that Sells and Downs are meeting with words of praise everywhere for having one of the cleanest and up-to-date circuses of the season. The vandeville under the management of Lawrence Cheatam, is proving a winner. All send regards to friends, Much credit is due Mr. Wolfscales for his band. They are not the best but as good. McCamon sends regards to Augustus Stevens, Kid Arrant and the Allen push. Ed. Williams sends regards to Dave Barton and Dude Kelley. Sam Johnson sends regards to Allen's push. Notes from "The y South Minstrel Co.,—We opened in Algiers, La. to a packed house Thursday night May 1st. Our initial performance was received with such ovations and hearty applauses that our proprietors, Messrs. Stoake and Danford can see nothing but success ahead of them. Our canvas theatre which is a 170 foot round top with a 35 foot middle piece a seating capacity of 2000, a costly and very pretty curtain, two large chandeliers, 3 drop curtains, 12 gasoline lamps and a 26 foot stage. Our managrs, both are business men of New Orleans and they being old experienced showmen we feel confident of success. We played New Orleans May 4-11. Notes from P. G. Lowery's Band and Vaudeville company:—We opened in Pittsburgh last Friday and played to large crowds. We met several professional people there. Miss Esste Williams was highly entertained by her husband. The Four-in-hand Quartette was also highly entertained. Prof. Lowery has been sick for the past week and his place is being filled by Jeff Smith. We hope to have him with us again soon. Prentis Oliver is making a hit singing, "Ain't That a Gala Dream. Jack Watkins is making a tremendous hit singing, "Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow." He is a member of the Four-in-Hand Quartette. Sallie Lee was entertained by her cousin while in Pittsburg. John L. Jones sends regards to Simpson & Pittman, Harry Jackson, Al. Turner and Henry Austin. Mr. Bert Rodgers; our head waiter, closed while in Pittsburg and his place is filled by Joe Baker. Seymour Payne can carry more ladies wraps at night than any ather waiter with the company. Capt. Archie is always on hand. Dennis Lowery, one of the porters was highly entertained while in Pittsburg. Johnsons Operatic Cake Walkers and Museum, (billed like a circus) opens Monday May 12, at Springfield Ill. The headliners are Tom McIntosh, Johnson & Ried, Chrisman and Chrisman, Mrs. E. M. Johnson, Miss Estelle Harris Chas F. Scott, Andy Harris and wife, Miss Ella Carr, J. B. Brown, Henderson Smith, leader of band; W. L. Jackson, leader of orchestra; E. C. Harris, stage manager. In the museum are: Mme. Devier, the bearded lady; Mada Spaulding, snake enchantress; Woran Sisters, the fat and lean people; the Derochess; the hypnotic Ben All Groupe, the South Sea Islander. R. Johnson proprietor; J. W. Devier and Nelson Spaulding, lecturers. J. M. Friedman, manager. Notes from Gideon's Minstrels:—Mr. Frank Kirk, the tramp, musical acrobat closed a successful season with the "Queen of Hayti" company in which he played the character of "Happy Hoolligan" very successfully and has now joined Gideon's Minstrels. The band under the leadership of Prof. Geo. Bryant is one of the best I've heard since I have heard Henderson Smith's band of the Darkest America, company. We have a red hot minstrel show from the rise to the drop of the curtain. A great deal of credit is due to Desdunes and Harris for staging such a show. There is not a dull moment in it and unlike many minstrel shows, the singers are not drowned out by a sensational orchestra. Dan. Desdunes made a flying business trip to Minneapolis, May 8-11. Notes from the Tennesseean Jubilee Singers:—The personnel of the company is as follows: Julia Ware, 1st. Soprano; Alice Conley, 2nd. soprano; Mamie Johnson, alto; Geo. Watkins, bass; Albert B. Johnson accompanist; Geo. L. Conley and Aaron Ware, tenors; Walter Webb baritone. Monus K. Gilbert advance representative. This company is an unique one from the fact that it is owned managed and represented by members of the race. In going from Escanaba to Gladstone Mich., we went on the same boat with Richards & Pringles Minstrels who were on their way to Rapid River. When we disembarked at Gladstone, the band from the upper deck gave us a serenade for which we extend our thanks. The trip through Wisconsin and northern Michigan was very pleasant. One of the chief pastimes of the company is fishing and one which the ladies of the company have taken up, with quite as much zest as the men. --- Notes from the Famous Georgia Minstrels: We are still doing good business though the weather is quite cool up here around the lakes. We met with quite a heavy snow at Green Bay, Wis., on the 10th, inst. In Escanaba, Mich., we put on a new show throughout. Opera house managers through this section of the country, claim we bring them the best show ever visiting their section of country and offers any date we wish for return. Simon Bonomore's Five Arabian Whirlwinds in an entirely new act of their kind, planned by themselves are taking the people off their feet. The Alabama Quartette with Dick Thomas as its leader is cleaning house in their closing act. We intend to carry the best show to the coast that has ever been there in our line. Our Mendleshon Quartette is still the hit of the show. Mr. Wm. White got off in Iron Mountain Mich., for a few week's recreation and to visit a doctor in St. Paul. He hopes to resume his duty when we show there July, 15. The Honsely Bros., put on an entirely new musical act in Escanaba. Ed Tolliver, the most eccentric monologist on the American stage to day put on an entirely new monologue in Escanaba. He is featuring a screamer entitled "You Couldn't hardly notice it at all. J. A. Watts, the famous tenor, sends regards to H.S. Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. Kersands and Herbert LaShe. The Houseley Bros. also the big trio, Cooper, Jones and Jackson send regards to LaShe. A REVIEW OF THE STAGE. THE DEGENERATIVE spirit of man, which has been so much manifested in the pettifoggery of the past, has taught us all a morbid lesson. We find the seed of ill will, which has been sewn by hypocrites—one towards another has fallen upon the well-known stars. Many of the most brilliant lights of the stage are now being slandered by outside writers who are foolish enough to believe the world is applauding their ignorance. People who thirst for notoriety, having neither brains nor talent are creatures of sympathy, but when such people are reminded of the error of their ways and heed not, all sympathy and friendship is lost and they are left to wander along out into the field of destiny, alone. HISTORY OF NO VALUE. The ignominious attitude shown by the author of a series of stage articles which happened in these columns recently, is to him, a sad mistake. He must remember that every item given to the public through the newspapers, under signature follows a man to his grave. If he has any respect for the Freeman management and for himself he will "give it up." He has lost much of the good will of the profession and the public already. If he continues he will surely loose his dearest friends; he will see them gradually desert him entirely. He may mark my words and see. Those honorable people of the stage whose hearts have been wounded, need not grieve. I am telling to the world that such history is of no value. TOM THE TATTLER: All bad news about actors comes from the West. "Tom The Tattler" who writes on another page of this paper occasionally fills up his extra space with bad grammar and cheap ideas about actors. The good effects of what he had already written on other subjects is thereby lost. Tom says he had occasion to witness a brutal stage rehearsal in Chicago, against his will—which was too bad. I should like for Tom to take a trip to New York early next fall to witness the rehearsal of a new repertoire company to be headed by Mr. Ernest Hogan of Chicago and William McClain, of Indianapolis, just to see if they wouldn't bolt the door and bar him out. No Western "actors monkey" writers have ever dared to blaspheme the names of Hogan or McClain for fear of being killed; while other stars from other sections of the country are continually being disgraced. Now doesn't it seem to be—between us all—quite interesting? Its as good as a circus, only a little more serious. To the public, its as good as a variety sketch by Williams and Walker. BOB COLE IN LITERATURE. Mr. Robert Cole, legitimate comedian prolific song writer and producer, has entered into literature. "The Negro and the Stage"—with reference to the drama—is the title of a subject which he demonstrates in the March number 1910 SYLVESTER RUSSELL of the Colored American Monthly Mag.azine. Mr. Cole's accounts of the earliest attainments of the black man in ancient French and Greek history appertaining to the drama, plawrights, black characters and their usages, is rather scientifically drawn but adroitly handled and is really a valuable bit of history. He pays a tribute to the great French dramatists—the elder and younger Alexander Dumas. Turning to the American drama—after mention of Ira Aldridge, the greatest colored American actor of his time, who lived and died in a foreign land—Mr. Cole Cole speaks of Sam Lucas as the first of his race in this country to contend to play dramatic roles. His portrayal of "Uncle Tom', was praised by its author Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. I, therefore, agree with Mr. Cole, that Mr. Lucas is an actor and not a comedian, as has been stated. Mr. Cole scores the white playwrights of the cheap class, who use the Negro character as a villain in white plays, and so keeps alive race prejudice. "Our Robert need not speak of prejudice along the line of stage work having been himself, chief among the actors of his race to help erase the "Hand Writing on the Wall," Cheap, drama's with a Negro Villain will therefore cut but little figure in the coming generation. Mr. Cole further says: "The greatest dramas of Negro life will be written by Negroes themselves." But his greatest surprise to readers is that Mr. T. Thomas Fortune will soon launch to the naked eye, upon the stage, a brand new drama. In conclusion, Mr. Cole "lets the cat out of the bag," andelle what he and his co-workers, James W. and Rosamond Johnson, are doing and something about the composers, Will Marion Cook Willis Accoe and Coleridge Taylor, who by the way, is said to be the greatest composer of his race and hails from the West. Mr. Cole is writing a libretto for Mr. Cooke's opera, "The Cannibal King." This means that Paul Law- SHAW'S OPERA HOUSE OPELIKA, ALA. Now booking shows for this and next set 29thapr8mojuly The Oldest, Largest, Strongest Can place immediately first-class Perf first-class girls quick. Must be good Sis the right people, any part of United Sta P. S.—For Sale· A set of 'Spaulding color. Cheap for cash. Would Like to Hear From To feature. Salary must be low as it is sure SUNNY SOUTH H Would like to hear from Sig Malta Musicians, address. ALPHONSE GUIGU WAN Colored woman to play piano and guitar per week and expenses. Also a man to lady musicians write. Address 1809 2nd flat, State Street, CHICA Now booking shows for this and next season. W. E. SHAW, Proprietor, 29thadr8mojuly Opellka, Ala. The Oldest, Largest, Strongest and the Best Theatre South Can place immediately first-class Performers and Musicians. Want ten (10) first-class girls quick. Must be good Singers and Dancers. Will send ticket to the right people, any part of United States. Address PAT CHAPPELLE, TAMPA, FLA. P. S.—For Sale A set of "Spandling's best quality Base Ball Suits," marroon color. Cheap for cash. To feature. Salary must be low as it is sure. Other good performers; write SUNNY SOUTH MINSTREL CO., Hennen Building, Room 322, New Orleans, La. Would like to hear from Sig Maltae; would also like to hear from musicians, Musicians, address ALPHONSE GUIGUESSE, 112 S. Franklin St., New Orleans, La. Colored woman to play piano and guitar; woman to play cornet, salary $10.00 per week and expenses. Also a man to play tuba, who can sing bass. Colored lady musicians write. Address B. TAYLOR, 1800 2nd St, State Street, OH 45212 rence Dunbar is out of the business. Mr. Cole understands the traditions of the stage and we can look forward to see an interesting comic opera. We have no assurance of Mr. Cole's going on tour next season, all his time is taken up at present with the Johnson Bros. preparing musical numbers for Klaw & Erlanger and May Irwin and in dramatizing a novel of Negro life for Mrs. Caroline Pemberton. Some of the Southern colleges have entered into the theatrical swim; so, everything Mr. Cole has gladly said will mean a thing or two for the coming season. This information which comes direct from New York sets the pace for all follow-errs. The best element of the profession is moving forward a healthy revolution is expected. Call... All People engaged in Johnson's Operatic Car Walkers and Museum, report for Rehearsal at Springfield Ill., Friday, May 23. A knowledge this call by letter write 624 Washington street at 2 p.m. WANTED--A good musical team A No.1 sister teat that S. and D; M. Cecil Vaughn, Bob Pannell, Clis and Mines, please write, R. JOHNSON Theodore Drury and his local opera company gave a performance of 'Faust' at the Lexington Opera House, Monday May. 5. The supporting company was made up of colored and white performers. The event was one of those gala occasions in New York never seen in other cities. There was upwards of 2000 people present about 200 of whom were white. Every box including the balcony stalls was filled with the wealthiest element of New York, Brooklyn, Newark and Boston society. Prominent people from Providence, Cleveland and Indianapolis were also present. More than half of the audience was in evening dress and many of the ladies wore diamond necklaces. Books of the opera and cheep fans were sold by white boys and white servants were in common demand. The curtain arose at 9 p. m. and the performance lasted until til after 12 30 a.m. Two of the prominent characters of the opera were taken by white people—those of Siebel and Mephistopheles. The man who played the latter character was a poor actor. He also sang off the key repeatedly and weakened the performance. The three principal characters of the opera were taken as follows: Faust, Theodore Drury; Marguerite, C. Marie Rovelto; Valentine, Geo, L. Ruffin. The teetotal interest of the evening was centered in those three stars who received flowers in profusion form their large number of friends and admirers. Theodore Drury the star and instigator of the performance was born in Kentucky but was musically educated in New York. Mr. Drury as Faust gave the best dramatic work of the opera, his jestures being easy and graceful. As a singer Mr. Drury was naturally heavy-laden in singing a great tenor role in a baritone voice which forced him to take many of his high notes in falsetto. His voice lacks the power of a grand opera singer but his finished vocal training, artistic skill and pleasing quality of voice served him well. Drury now occupies a peculiar position; he is the greatest male opera singer, of his race, but not the greatest male singer of his race by odds. Mr. Drury, who is deserving of uttermost praise, took me into his dressing room and scolded me but what I said before I re-iterate; that comic opera would pay him well. Corrine Marie Rovelto, of Providence, R. I., as Marguerite—I must confess—a very favorable impression. She looked the part to perfection. Her voice is of sweet quality beautifully trained and skillfully used. Her voice has no power for grand opera but she would make a pleasing comic opera star. She was aware of the task before her and was naturally a little nervous. Her most trying scenes were all over acted almost to excentricity. She would occasionally bow her head too low in grief and at one time had her back almost to the audience. Some "dummy" in a near box showed his ignorance by throwing a bognet in the midst of her jewel song nearly spoiling the scene. In that place Miss Rovelto should have ignored flowers entirely. In the last act she quite overshadowed both Drury and Ruffin. Her rendition of the music was most perfect and, dramatically, she can be said to have given promise. Geo. L. Ruffin, of Boston, as Valentine, made a fair showing. "Ever Brav- FAUST IN NEW YORK. Jason. W. E. SHAW, Proprietor, Opelika, Ala. At and the Best Theatre South Farmers and Musicians. Want ten (10) ergers and Dancers. Will send ticket to es. Address PAT CHAPPELLE, TAMPA, FLA. 's best quality Base Ball Suits," marroon Good Novelty Performers Other good performers; write MINSTREL CO., annen Building, Room 322, New Orleans, La. ne: would also like to hear from musicians. ESSE, 112 S. Franklin St., New Orleans, Ia. UNITED ; woman to play cornet, salary $10.00 play tuba, who can sing bass. Colored B. TAYLOR. GO, ILL., in care Grace Pennington. Call... R. JOHNSON Postoffice Box 200 SPRINGFIELD, ILL acknowledged Black Hermann, the Great clan of only colored lady magma clan, in their high-class, necromant experiments. The most wonderful act in the black profession, Address. eat heart was his best vocal effort. His voice is well trained but far too weak for grand opera. His acting was surprisingly good. After his duel scene with drury—which lacked courage—his recovery from his wounds was too quick and his vigor so great that his death came entirely too sudden for an illusion. This, however, being his only notable defect. The colored girls were the most attractive members of the chorus. They were not well drilled and a comical incident, to those who understood the opera, was when the girls remained upon their knees for five minutes instead of a few seconds, bowing at the convent door, retarding the next scene and stopping the orchestra. Mr. Felix Jager conducted the orchestra. He is an excellent leader and kept his men well under control. Colored people who possess the voice to sing grand opera do not have the education and the educated ones do not possess the voice. So, until we become better equipped, the subject is dismissed. My every aim in the past has been to promote and advance the interests of the Negro professionals. In a few isolated cases I have detected appreciation but in the majority, I find gratitude a prime factor in the make of those with whom I've dealt. The crowning point of baseness and treachery, gratitude and low cunning was reached last Monday when a lovely trio composed of one W. H. Dorsey, a pianist of Louisville Ky., and a team of alleged "comedians" known as Reeves and Floyd, served me a trick that ought to go down on the tablets of memory of every business and stage manager and every proprietor whose affairs call for the service of the Negro Professional. Last Monday these three innocents ab. oad came to my office, received and signed for their salaries; attended rehearsal, and from their actions save no one reason to suppose that a conspiracy as low and unprincipiled was afoot. After receiving their money, they (Reeves & Floyd) slipped away from town to go Savannah to accept a date at $2.50 less per week than they were getting here. So great was their desire to keep up their reputation for underhand methods.) This man Dorsey, whose only grievance lies in the fact that I suggested he pay more attention to his work than to the mulatto lady patrons, entered into an abominable compact with these "Hamfat" actors (?) and without a moment's warning, left my service. Nothing was known of this affair until nearly show time, when it was discovered that these three worthies had closed. WITHOUT A MOMENTS NOTIC'E. By this despicable action, I was forced to cancel my other performers and close down my show because I had not sufficient people to do the work. Their action has affected me financially, in a way, and wrought a hardship upon the remaining performers some of whom could not well afford to lose the time. This letter is written for the purpose of exposing the true character and unreliable disposition of this trio; Dorsey, Reeves and Floyd and is coupled with a suggestion to managers that if you are in need of good people, profit by my experience and leave W. H. Dorsey, Billy Reeves and Chink Floyd severely alone. Yours Truly: R. S. DONALDSON, Proprietor Mascotte Theatre Tampa, Fl. Proprietor, Mascotte Theatre Tampa Fla. All People engaged for Johnson's Operatic Cake Walkers and Museum, report for Rehearsal at Springfield, Ill., Friday, May 23. Acknowledge this call by letter, write 624 Washington street at 2 p.m. WANTED. A good musical team A No.1 sister team that S. and D; M. 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[In writing please mention The Freeman] WEAK MEN! Instant Relief. Cure in 15 days. Never returns. I will satisfy send to any sufferer in a plain sealed envelope. FREE a prescription with full directions for a quick, private cure for Lost Manhood, Night Losses, Nervous Bellery, Small Weak Parts, Varicose, etc. Address L. F. PAGE, Private Box 710, MARSHALL, MICH, The other night I had a young lady acquaintance of mine out to supper. She is one of those young ladies, of which the woods are full, who never read a newspaper, and of course knew nothing of the recent escapades of the beef trust. With a Napoleonic sang-froid, with an abandon that caused the blood to freeze in our veins, when the bill of fare was placed in her hands by the diabolical waiter, she ordered a porter-house steak. Had she omitted "steak" and changed "porter" to "tenement," making the order a tenement house, I could not have been more the victim of surprise. I fainted seven times, a regular scale of saints. My hair arose on ends; my ears moved; my heart came to my mouth then settled on my right side; my nostrils dilated; my eyes started from their sockets and if they had not been stopped there is no telling where they would have gone. After several physicians had exhausted their medical skill I came to myself again. Immediately after my reviving I went to that waiter and said, "if you fill that order I will brain you." He compromised the order with my lady acquaintance by bringing her some toast and tea, for which I paid. We left that eating place without saying a word, and reader, as far as she is concerned, I have been dumb ever since. Do you blame me? Performer, are you not glad that you bear not the name of Jas. Crosby? Prayer is a wireless telephone reaching to heaven. About the only persons some of our race leaders lead are themselves. How many do you think are following Ida B. Wells-Barnett? Do you see them going her way in droves or in processions? I should say not. She is a lonely leader treading a lonely path. What the race needs is real leaders, not those who merely use it to their own self-aggrandizement. The "trust" may belong to the rich man, but it is the poor men that keeps the things a going. It used to be "put your trust in God." Now if you have a trust the proper thing to do is to put it in Morgan. The other day a visitor called at the home of little Willie. Willie has a sister named Florence. The visitor gave Florence and Willie an apple to be divided between them. Willie, with the rapaciousness of a trust, ate nearly all the apple, giving his sister only a small bite. This so incensed her that she went to her mother crying, at the same time exclaiming, "Mamma, Willie Morganized that apple!" Owing to the many fluctuations in the weather recently, she is strongly lead to suspect there is a weather trust. What a change has take place! At present there is not a prima donna in sight. This is remarkable when only a short time ago the woods were so full of them. Then they were as plentiful as could be; now they are scarcer than hen's teeth. The other day I met a young lady who used to have prima donna aspirations, and having a friend with me, I introduced her to him as such. "Beg pardon," she quickly responded. "he misrepresents me; I am only a soprano singer." From a prima donna just to a plain, ordinary soprano singer, was such a drop, I confess I was nonplussed at the lady's reply. I remember the time had she been told she was just a "soprano singer," and not a prima donna, the weather would have taken a decided change for the cooler in her neighborhood. Whatever has caused this sudden change of prima donnas into plain sopranos again, it is a good one nevertheless. Not long since one of our large attractions came here, and one of our former prima donnas was so far back in the chorus that, figuratively speaking, she was completely smothered. You could hardly have found her with field glasses. I uttered a silent amen. I know it was an awful lessening of her prima donna dignity to be thus compelled to stand in a chorus, but the management of that show knew what the public wanted and catered to that want. I know the "prima" would have much preferred to have come alone to the footlights and delivered "Ernani, Fly With Me," or "Una Voce Poce Fa," or something in that vein, but the manager thought her voice just the thing to help carry the chorus of "My Castle on the Nile" along and that is what he made her do. I don't know whether this return of the prima donna to the soprano, is due to the fact that she finds the job of prima donna a pork-chopless one, or whether she has awakened to the fact that real prima donnas come about two or three to the generation, and that this generation is brimming full. At any rate, whatever has caused the change, let God be thanked for it. I was spectator to an incident not long since, which I think so good, I will relate. A very neat, business-looking colored man was going down the street, and he seemed to be quietly absorbed thinking of his own affairs. He passed by a yard in which a child of about five years was playing. Its mother was at the gate looking first one way then another. The child spied the colored man coming down the street, and tugging at its mother, said so the colored man could hear it: "Look, mamma, there comes a 'nigger.'" The mother, with a blush on her cheek for the child's indiscretion, made the child shut up. The colored man walked straight to the mother and delivered himself thus: "Madam, a child at that age reflects its parents. The child is sincere. You have either taught it to use that word, or have used it in the child's presence, so it could understnd the meaning of it. When you rebuke the child in my presence for using it, you act the hypocrite. You should rebuke yourself. In the future when you teach your child in private life, teach it that which will not cause the blush of shame to come to your cheeks when the child gives vent to your teachings in the presence of others." With that, the young man went his way, and the mother went in the house leading her child, looking as though she had been bought at a bargain counter for a nickle. After the recent furious and diabolical outbreak of Senator Tillman in the U. S. Senate, I have decided to confer a degree on him. No college will confer one on him, so I am going to play college for him. The degree I will confer is Benjamin Tillman, D. D. Don't for a minute think "D D." means "Doctor of Divinity." It doesn't. It means Diabolical Democrat. TOM THE TATTLER Interesting Church Notes. Dyersburg, Tenn., Special.-Rev. A. A. Allison filled the pulpit for Rev. L. E. B. Rosser, D. D., on the 11th, he being at Nashville attending conference. T. G. Robinson, superintendent of the National Sick and Accident Association, of Nashville, made a brief visit to the city last week. The scholars of Bruce high school gave an entertainment at Odd Fellows' hall recently. Short, Spicy Snapshots Des Moines, Ia., Special.—The Christian Working club met at the residence of Mrs. J. R. Roberts, 206 W. Walnut street, on the 8th inst. After all business had been disposed of, various games were indulged by those present. Refreshments were served. Miss Ora Shafer celebrated her 18th birthday anniversary on Tuesday evening, the 6th inst., by giving a party at her home, Tenth and Center streets. The invited guests consisted of about forty-five of her young lady and gentlemen friends. Dancing was the main enjoyment of the evening. Delicious refreshments were served. Messrs. Percy Townsend and Mack Thomas left the city for Cripple Creek, Wis., on the 10th. The Freeman is for sale by Isaac Toulbert, 411 Walnut street. News of a General Character. News of a General Character. South Bend, Ind., Special.—James Mitchell, one of our leading citizens, died at his home on the 9th inst., after a long illness. His remains were taken to Michigan for burial. Mrs. Lucy Johnson was buried from Mt. Zion Baptist church on the 2d inst. She was one of the old mothers of the church and died in full triumph of the faith. The funeral services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. P. Green. The Eastern Star Reading circle was entertained by Mrs. Lottie Stewart at the home of Mrs. Clide Mathews, on N. Main street. A dainty luncheon was served. Mrs. Ed. Cooksey entertained the St. P. Ruffin club at her home in Colfax avenue, on Wednesday afternoon. Dainty refreshments were served. The Masons will move to their new hall on Michigan street, in a few weeks. Anyone wishing The Freeman should call on the agent, Wm. Manning, 720 W. Monroe street. Of a General Character. Greenfield, Tenn., Special.—Mrs. S. Hayes it not any better. Mrs. Mosley is somewhat improved. Bill Ward is much better. Scott Scatis and family were taken to the pest house suffering from small pox on the 12th inst. Mrs. Julia Carr has returned to her home in Jackson, Tenn., after a visit to friends here. Charles Richle, who has been studying for the ministry for two years in Nashville, preached his first sermon on the 4th inst., at Beach Grove, a village near here. Messra Berry and Ransom, and Misses Ezill, Williams and Vick, of this city, were in Milan on the 11th, the guests of friends. IN OLD KENTUCKY. A General Gleaning of News--Other In- treats. Etc. Paducah, Ky., Special.—Lee Brown and Bill Hill of Wickliff, Ky., spent Saturday week in the city on business. Mrs. Pete Johnson expects to spend the sultry days in Madisonville, her home. Mrs. Georgia Leverta is able be out again. Mrs Maggie Holt of Clay street, entertained Messrs. Willis Kain of Louisville, Lawyer Isom Townsend, John Glover and Ishmeal Enge on the 28th ult. Miss Ethel Smith was called to Corinth, Miss., to attend the bedside of her mother who is very ill. The death of Mr. Green Bright last Friday night week, took from our midst one of the best colored citizens Paducah afforded. The vast multitude who attended the funeral showed plainly the popularity of the deceased and the secret organizations of which he was an esteemed member performed the last sad rites. The floral donations were perfectly beautiful. The Rev. John Ore on N. Twelfth street is visiting relatives and friends in Murray, Ky., this week. Mrs. Mahala Reid on Harris street, is very sick. The 5th ward Baptist church is in the midst of an interesting revival, Rev. W. E. Glover, the pastor is certainly doing a great work in the field. Miss Annie Dickinson and Master Maceo Bonds, are very sick this week. Ed Robinson and family have gone to Cairo to reside. Presiding Elder G H. Burk is somewhat improved. George Alexander returned from an extended visit to St. Louis a few day ago. Tobe Towland, a prosperous farmer of Woodville, Ky., was in the city last Saturday week and subscribed for The Freeman. We trust that Mr. Towland will get his neighbors interested in this most popular of all colored journals. Thus securing a few more of the intelligent people of Woodville upon our subscription list. Marshall & Winfrey, proprietors of the Cottage Grove saloon have just completed a fine cafe in connection with their saloon. John Armstrong of the Palmer House force, is now in Hot Springs for his health. John Newman now carries a bass violin in Prof. Hillman's orchestra. Mrs. Fannie Williams of Jersey, died last Friday week and was buried Sunday morning. Henry Pickrin of Owensboro is visiting his sister on South Tenth street. Personal and Society News Hot Springs, Ark, Special.—Mrs. Eva Tyler, of Covington, Ky., was called here recently on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. Chalmers on Ozark street. W. S. Gardner was in Little Rock on the 11th, in the interest of the Christian Endeavor Society. JRev. P. W. Walls preached the annual sermon to the Courts of Calanthe at Visitors' Chapel A. M. E. church, on the 11th. Al. Taylor and wife have left the city for Manitou Springs, Col. Mr. Taylor will have charge of the Clift Hotel dining room during the summer. Mrs. Means, of Ozark street, who was called to Alabama by the death of her mother, has returned home. Robt. Macleomore has returned to the city, after an absence of about four weeks. Rev. P. W. Walls preached an able sermon at Visitors' Chapel A. M. E. church, to a large audience, on the evening of the 11th. Arthur Holmes is much improved in health. Louis H. Butler, of Dallas, Tex., is visiting in the city. I. H. Hones & company solicits your patronage. They carry a fine line of groceries at 435 Gaines avenue. Joshua Clark has gone to Ardmore, I. T., to practice law. If successful, he will make that place his future home. Mr. Clark is an able lawyer and much admired by all acquaintances. The United Order of True Reformers, which perfected an organization here not long since, is getting along nicely. Call on Mrs. Salina Mitchell for nicely furnished rooms at reasonable rates. G. H. Golden carries a fine line of fresh meats and game of all kinds, on Malvern avenue. A. D. Davis, of Pine Bluff, Ark; Will Hutchinson, Wamego, Kan.; Mrs. Hatch, New Orleans, La., are at the sanitarium for treatment. Of Special Notice: Toledo, O., Special.—F. C. Frye of Sandusky is visiting in the city. Chas Lee and Mrs. M. Berry are suffering with the muscular rheumatism. Mrs. Annie Brown has returned from South Bend, Ind. Mrs. Mrs. Lewis of Cleveland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Gorman. Miss Goldie Wilson has accepted a school in Chillicothe, O. Frank Clark of Bowling Green, O., has moved to our city. Mr. Ellison of Chicago is visiting in the city. Miss Pettiford of Freemont, was the guest of Mrs. Albert Anderson last Sunday week. Mr. Boston has returned from Springfield. Miss Edith Howard entertained a number of her friends at cards last Friday evening week, the following: Misses Mary McCown, Lona Warner, Clara Bell, Winnie Thompson, Miss Beacher and Mikes Fikes, Messrs. Newman, Hart, Fry, Dosey, Jackson, Blackburn and Curstly. A delightful time was enjoyed. Newsy Nuggets. Durham, N. C., Special.—St. Joseph Sunday-school was in its glory last Sunday and the review, by: Mr. Alexander Moore was grand and Superintendant W. G. Pearson was well please. In the afternoon Rev. King, D. D., the pastor, preached a fine sermon to the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows at 3 o'clock. Monday the 12th, the Odd Fellows gave a grand festival, Knight's band furnished music. The Whitted base ball team under the management of D. T. Watson, left Monday the 12th, to cross bats with the Henderson team, Henderson, N. C. P. W. 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Mr, Gaines deserved rather —_—— MADAM MNAIRDER ‘ges Returned to the OGity. ited Clairvoyant, the great female cat ? ora with the double(eaul) veil, she fate ify old ancient Southern Clairvoy> Ste iw Orleans, She's a living Phren- stand Paysogomint,” She tlle plainly dinstou are best adapted for in life by fatay your brains and mind, With a ‘of her hand she gives you a coil o: ExZote wo eauble you to overcome all bad ei Gie’ ius made thousands ‘of homes fopy., Head the filth chapter ix verse of Byffit: Blessed are the peacemakers for hey shell be called sho) colitis of God.” Sates the separated, makes pence ay ‘there is confusion, Your husband or Uivieever Decne angry or your aweet fart foreake you, Bat will love you better ‘afaarry you ssouer it yon will only heed Heinys covsultation, “Read what several seilyour city say, “Yen, we believe her Misiwot to cur city: my husband and I Liteen seperated over year and just teense called on this lady, he returned terns ore toyether and happy. ‘This feutuiy cays: "The one loved refused to Mer welte tie; Tcalled on this lady and alssnow engaaed.” You can’t afford to :: Has consulting this gifted lady; she 4s gitted to read characters, She chal ages the world to excell’ her advice (2 love, losses business, fomily and foaoval iroubies, Re-unites the separated tutes speedy marriage with the one of your fine. 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She {isis is the wonderful womam of the 20th Mectry, She has made a many heart hap" Mbrough her wouderderful power, I, for Rasone in the midst, My heart ached 8 the cruel treatment of my husbandand eray he would throw away hye time and a Wotil I consulted this wonderfal lady ‘Tilsoon bea year. Through her he has tent s loving husband; and today he pre FREE® Sith s lovely lot on which he will liesoriue erect a home. Tongue can’t Mibeher too highly, A LADY of Naw Thiet SSITE NER AT ONCE FOR ALL ong’ 9° lonbt of this lady’s_ prophetic Ira, She is «living phrenologist; palmnise gi8 natura torn clairvoyant. tor which mani will testi'y., Sho ly a God eend to feuntey—born with a gift that mo one Paticiat, ‘Tell yon every inoident of your mitt! present life and put you on the Mol success both, financially and physic {ly you will only heed ber instructions. {fle on her shen the one T lovetad gone Tew not Where and he returned at once, Mitodsy Tam his dear wife, Al \vy of Fort Gibson, Ind. T. 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BS ee aS a alae The nineteenth annual commence- ment exercises of Princeton Theological Seminary of Princeton, N. J., were held in Miller Chapel the morning of the 6th with Rev. George D. Baker of Philadel phia, president of the board of directors, presiding. Addresses were delivered by Morris H. Stratton of Salem, N. J., and Prot. Benjamin B, Warfield of the sem- inary. Diplomas were presented by Dr. Baker to the 44 members of the graduating class, and the degree of Bachelor of Divinity was conferred ‘up on eight members of that class and three Bradnate students. The following fel- lowships and prizes were awarded: New Testament Fellowship of $500, to George J. Russell of Montclair, N. J.; George 8. Green Fellowship of $600, to Albert B, Dodd of Greenwood, Md.,and Fellowship in Church History, to Ben- jamin 1. Patst, Jr., of Cornwells, Pa. Among those to whom prizes were warded were Shohkiehi Hata of Yama- yachi, Japan, who received the Scribner prize of $100. Of those who received ‘the degree of Bachelor of Divinity was George S. Stark, the only colored man in his class and the first Negro to re- ceive the bachelor’s degree in the histo- ry of theseminary. W.T.M Beale of Philadelphia, the president of the grad- nating claes, was among those who received high honors in echolarship, ‘The constitution of Virginia is by far the best yet adopted by the recent con- stitutional conventions. It, on its face, does not deny the import of its creation, but at the same time avggests ite neces- sity. Itis growing impression on all men regardless of color, that there should befmetes and bounds even to the voting privilege. Men who fail to sub- scribe to |honest, reasonable provisions faithfally executed have no cause for appeal. a ‘The total number of farms in Ala- bama is given as 223,220, of which 129,- 187 are operated by white farmers and 94,088 by colored farmers. a |_ The TowerjHill House, on the top of ‘Tower hill, South Kensington at Narra- gansott Pier, R. I., has been donated by Gordon Mackay of Newport, for a man- ual training echool for colored children. noludod in the gift of the hotel proper- ty are tenvacres of land and four cot- tages. The principal of the school will be the Rev. Mr. Holly of Philadelphia. A prominent and wealthy white;man, ‘a native of South Carolina, engaged in business in Birmingham, Als, has made a contribntion of #500 to the Tuskegee Normaland Industrial Institute. This is the largest donation ever received by ‘this institution from a Southern white man. In his letter to Principal Booker ‘'T. Washington, the donor says: “As a Sonthern manjand the son of one of the largest slave owners of the South, I am anxious for the people to do ail that can be reasonably expected of them for the education of the Negroes thereby mak- ing them more content and usefal citi- zens and friends.” + Lawyer Albert 8. White, a prominent Lonisvitle man, hes been handed down a nice ripe plam by Commissioner ‘Yerkes in the form of a $6 00 per day ‘and expenses, revenue agency. We congratulate Lonisville and her honored ‘oltizen. = . | Current News Condensed. Coateville, Pa, Special—On May 4 Joseph Coleman departed this life and Siid before leaving that he was going to dwell with the angels. He was carried to’bis last resting place fromthe U. A. M. EB. church. His funeral was preached by Rev: J. 8. Corbin and lar- gely attended, Mise Hannah Clarkson played the young man’s favorite piéce, ‘Fade, Fade Each Earthly Joy,” while the choir at the close sang, “Lead Gen- tle Light.” Mrs. Fray was buried the following Friday. Mrs. MoOay of New ‘York was at the faneral of her brother Joxeph Coleman snd returned Monday ‘May 12 There was a social Thursday fat the Masonic Hall given py Mrs Gos- mer. Qaitea sum was realized At the U. A.M. E, church # social was given by Mrs, Milburn. It was large- lyattended. Mrs. Katie States is pre- paring to give an entertainment for the benefit of the pastor. ‘Those interested are requested to attend Wedoesday nights for drill. Miss Hannah Clarkson is getting up a drill for Tuesday nights reception. Allare invited to attend. a petition was presented to the city for 3 My. Conditions are so Slight that They Come Within the Reach of All. WANT yon to write to me and send me your name and addrees on a postal card. Iam ina poriticn to put you in the way of making more money ] in one day than you can make in one month at the ordinary vocations of life. I don’t care how well you may be doing or how gocd the job is that you already hold. I know when you get my reply to your postal card that you will give up everything and work forme. If you wiil only do as I shall tell you, and follow the instruoticns that I shall give you, you will be yourown “Boss,” and eit at ycur own desk in your own cfiice. ‘This is no fake. but a true and honest chance that I cffer to every man or woman, black or white. I make no discrimination as to color, race, or cordition, If you are willing to work, I am willing to help you on to independence. This is the chance of your lifetime. Do not delay; eend me ycur name and ad- dress to-day, and I will send you a valuable present free. Write to— | T M 1700 LUCAS AVE. ST. LOUIS, MO. | ( athe Readers of this Great Paper: The Freeman Know All Men bv these Presents--Greeting: ‘Whereas Storms, Tornados, Droughts, Floods, and divers evils have devastated the country, and whereas money is scarce and/bread is dear, and whereas we desire to show our appreciation for the patronage 60 bountifully bestowed upon us by the noble readers of this great paper; there- © fore, be it known to all who shall read this Proclamation that, until farther notice, we shall send to all who shall send us their name and address on a a postal card a full size package of OZONO, free of all charges, and not one cent to pay for this great King of all Hair Tonics, which removes the curl from the hair and gives it length, lustre and beauty, thus enabling anyone to arrange the hair in any desired style or fashion. And whereas we send ponte OZONO, King of all Hair Tonics and Hair Straighteners, to prove its superior merits, now be it known that we send no sample, but a full size package free. Therefore, write your name and address plainly, so that you may receive the OZONO without delay and send your letter quickly, as this great chance will not last forever. Address— oe «| BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY aoe re Manufacturing Chemists. 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va the removal of [Alford Burrell but wa laid upon the, table; Philina Coleman Petitioner; W.{G. Anderson, attorney. ‘Mr. Spence Adams was appointed May 1, mail carrier. The Coatesville band givesentertainments Thursday and Sat- urday nights of ecah week over Hen- derson’s restaurant. Coateville has now & much needed first-class barbershop over Henderson's restaurant. Miss Carrie Clarkson returned to Philadel- phia May 11, She is a dressmaker with business located at 1426 Lombard street and is well loved in these parts. Rev. Corbin leaves soon to attend conference. He is an able minister and it is hoped that hewill be returned. Walford G. Anderson has been appointed agent for the Freeman. Those desiring this pa- per leave word at 754 Merchant at. Spicy, Sparkling Splashes. __ Memphis, Tenn, Special. — Avery Chapel A. M. E. church holds a unique Position throughout the entire connec- tion. In the second quarterly confer- snee held on the 28th ult., it was shown by the resords that we still have the banner. Under the leadership of Rev Wm. Flagg, B. D, assisted by mem- bers and friends, we have reduced our $10,881 debt to $3,200, paid all current expenses and collected $7279 for our presiding elder. All departments are in good condition and meet every de- mand. We have eleven organizations of which all members and friends have been active in giving aid to the work. ‘We hope to soon be able to liquidate our entire indebtedness, Our grand Angust rally is in progress, We un- donbtedly have the most valuable Ne- Bro church property in the South, lo- cated inthe central part of the city. For this reason we earnestly solicit the aid of every member and friend, both colored and white. The great revival begun on the ist inst, is still in pro gress. There is a wonderfal working of God’s power in our midst and many souls are being converted. Interesting Collewe Notes, Normal, Ala., Special —Dr. E. W. 8. Hammond, dean of Walden University apenta part of the 11th at Normal He made a very encouraging talk tc the students and teachers, which wa: greatly appreciated by all, Our com mencement exercises will be held on the 25th, 26th and 27th of this month. Al are looking forward to this event with much pleasure. Bishop Turner, of At lanta; Dr. Boyd, of Nashville, and Dr. Morris, of Helena, will deliver the ad dresses to tne gradnating classes, Diipimee ad ahceioas Peorial, Ill, Speclal-—The D. L. ©. Ciub gave a grand ball at Pfeiffer’s hall which was largely attended. Mra, Stel- Ja Richardson daughter of Mrs, Rev. Stewart, who has been quite ill for ome time 1s slowly improving. The Oad Fellows and the Household of Ruth had thelr annual sermon preached Sun- day afternoon at Mt. Zion Baptist chareh by Rev. Hart. The attendance Was unusually large. Thelr ball will begiven Monday night. Miss Nettie Summgrsisat the Rock island depot in Mrs. Shepperd’s place. 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"Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods." ..CITY NOTES... Mrs. Kathryn Harper is out again after a brief illness. T. A. Byrd, a well-known citizen of Kokomo, Ind., was in the city last week. Mrs. Lucretia Knox went to Noblesville last night to visit Mrs. Henderson. Joe Carter of Terre Haute, Ind., was in the city last week en route to Chicago. C. W. Hunter of Crawfordsville, Ind., was among the many visitors last week. Important news items will be received at The Freeman office. Telephone No. 2880 new. Mrs. Ora Dulop will return home to-morrow after a four weeks' visit out of the city. Mrs. Sallie Brown visited her daughter, Mrs. Julia Hillman, in Covington last Sunday. Bishop Grant has returned home after a trip to Philadelphia, Washington and points in Canada. Harry Fidler will go to Anderson, Ind., on the 26th to give an entertainment at the M. E. church. Mesdames Mayme Shelton and Sallie Robinson and Mr. D. D. Hunter were in Franklin last Sunday. The second Sunday in June is Childrens' day at Allen Chapel. An excellent program is being arranged. Mrs. Nannie Houston of Princeton, Ind., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lucy Hopkins, 423 W. North street. C. W. Hines, the hustling representative of The Freeman in Shelbyville, Ind., was a pleasant caller last week. The Parker House has put in a bathroom to be used exclusively by ladies. It is the first of the kind in the city. Burt Morris left last Wednesday for Birmingham, Ala., to accept a position with the Penny Saving bank of that city. Capt. Rudd, late of the 48th U. S. V. Infantry, who spent twenty-one months in the Philippines, was in the city last Sunday. A Dalsarte entertainment will be given at Olivat Baptist church May 27 under the direction of Miss Daisy Walker. The Second Christian church is conducting a rummage sale in the lecture room of the church, Corner Thirteenth and Missouri streets. Mr. Burton Cummings of Frankfort, Ind., was in the city attending the dedicatory celebration of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument. Go to Sampson Meads, place for ice cream, soda water, and candies. You will be treated all right. Polite lady attendant. 420 W. Michigan st. Messrs. Moses A. Watkins, Edward Jacobs, George Murray and Wesley Thens of Decatur, Ill., were in the city last Sunday among their friends. The Cantata, 'Jeptha's Daughter,' was rendered last Monday evening at Bethel Baptist church. A large appreciative audience was in attendance. The entertainment given by the Women club last Friday evening atodd Fellows' hall was a great success. An excellent program was rendered. Mrs. Julia Turner of Providence, R. l.,has gone to Chicago for her health. During her visit West she will go to Peru, Ind., to look after her property interests. The first anniversary of St. Phillips Mission will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Every one is invited to come. There will be special services for the occasion. Mr. G. L. Knox, after a brief illness ```markdown ``` is out again. While confined to his bed he received two gorgeous bouquets of flowers, one from Epworth League, the other from Simpson Chapel church. Mr. W. M. Bell, mixologist at the English bar, met with a painful accident that will lay him up for a couple of weeks. Several bottles of beer exploded last Wednesday, cutting his fingers severely. Misses Ella Preston, Mary Willa Richardson and Bessie Batts entertained a few friends at cards Wednesday evening, May 14th, at the residence of Mrs. Miller, 841 Peck street, the guest of honor being Mr. and Mrs. Robertson. Sent Free to Men. A Most Remarkable Remedy That Quickly Restores Vigor To Men. A Free Trial Package Sent By Mail To All Who Write. Free trial packages of a most remarkable remedy are being mailed to all who will write the State Medical Institute. They cured so many men who had battled for years against the mental and physical suffering of lost manhood that the Institute has decided to distribute free trial packages to all who write. It is Write or call on H. L. Sanders MANUFACTURER OF Waiters' and Cooks' Jackets, Bar and Barber Coats, Butcher Coats, Frocks and Aprons, Physicians and Dentists's Operation Coats, Duck Pants and Oversleeves. Send for catalogue. Dress Suits to let. 206 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. C N. Grandison, D. D., late President of Bennett College, Goldsboro, N.C. one of the most eloquent speakers of the race, will preach Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. at Simpson Chapel. He will remain in the city several days, the guest of Rev. E. L. Gilliam. The International Employment agency, 24 S. Illinois street, deserves attention on the part of the colored people. They are finding employment for many of them. It, as a rule, has greater demands for laborers than can be furnished. If you are out of employment, call and see them or write to them. The colored Y. M. C. A. special services will be held Sunday at the Second Baptist church. Rev. Frank O. Ballard, D. D., will deliver an address. He is an ab'e speaker and a good entertainer. Come and hear him. Special music. All are cordially invited. Y. M. C. A. Bible class meets at the Christian church Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Elder Herod has charge of this department. All are welcome. The sacred song service given last Sunday evening at Simpson Chapel by the Beethoven Quartet, assisted by the choir, was enjoyed thoroughly by the large audience that greeted them It will be remembered that the Beethoven Quartet, composed of W. D. Collins, F. F. Brown, Mesdames Lucretia Knox and Kathryn Harper, are singing in the interest of the Flanner Guild work. Quite a neat little sum was raised, which will be credited to Simpson Chapel in our classified report of subscriptions received. Go to J. B. Owen for a refreshing drink of ice cream soda. He gives you quality as well as quantity. Pure fruit juices used. Corner North and Senate avenue. Everbody is going to Bethany Park picnic of the A. M. E. churches, Tuesday June, 24th., 1902. General fare 50 cents. Children 35 cents. Committee on arrangements, Revs. R. F. Hurley, L. W. Rattifle, R. R. Downs Dr G. H. Clay is the only Dentist in the city who solicits the patronage of the colored people. His office is located 150 North Illinois street. We are happy to say that the Carr Club is increasing in numbers right along. We had the largest attendance last Monday night that we have ever had since the club has been organized. We have received some valuable information which we must not make known just now. Everybody was very happy over the news. All say they intend to stick to the Carr Club. They feel greatly encouraged. Everybody is working like a Trojan. The readers of The Freeman will see, a little later, the true object of the club. We will greatly surprise some of our friends. We will show them better than we can tell them. WANTED Competent Colored Men for positions in factories, railroads, Stores, Porters, Janitors, Drivers, Coachmen, Positions in any part of the country. Free pass to positions from this point, state job wanted and send 250 application fee. International Employment Agency, 24 South Illinois street, Indianapolis, Ind. If you are troubled with kinky or curley hair use Ozonized Ox Marrow, it will make your hair straight, soft and beautiful. If you are troubled with Hair falling out, Ozonized Ox Morrow will stop it. If you have Dandruff and itching in the head, Ozonized Ox Marrow will give you instant relief, and make the hair grow, Ozonized Ox Marrow is a hair food and imparts to the hair that healthy life-like appearance, so much desired. Sold over 40 years. Never fails. Warranted harmless. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois. Condensed Cullings. Brinkley, Ark., Special.—The Republican county convention met here and elected delegates to the state convention. The delegates were instructed to vote for Hon. H. H. Myers, of this city, for governor. He is a staunch Republican and believes in equal rights to all men. Bishop Tye passed through the city last week enroute to Shorter University. Rev. Carolina preached for Rev. J. N. Campbell Sunday morning and for Rev. Montgomery at night. The closing exercises of the public schools took place on the evening of the 12th. The evening was highly enjoyed by all present. Send $1.50 for a year's subscription to The Freeman, the best Negro paper published. Sent Free to Men. A Most Remarkable Remedy That Quickly Restores Lost Vigor To Men. A Free Trial Package Sent By Mail To All Who Write. Free trial packages of a most remarkable remedy are being mailed to all who will write the State Medical Institute. They cured so many men who had battled for years against the mental and physical suffering of lost manhood that the Institute has decided to distribute free trial packages to all who write. It is a home treatment and all men who suffer with any form of sexual weakness resulting from youthful folly, premature loss of strength and memory, weak back, varicocelle, or emaciation of parts can now cure themselves at home. The remedy has a peculiarly grateful effect of warmth and seems to act direct to the desired location giving strength and development just where it is needed. It cures all the ills and troubles that come from: years of misuse of the natural functions and has been an absolute success in all cases. A request to the State Medical Institute 1614 Elektron Building Ft. Wayne, Ind, stating you desire one of their free trial packages will be complied with promptly. The Institute is desirous of reaching that great class of men who are unable to leave home to be treated and the free sample will enable them to see how easy it is to be cured of sexual weakness when the proper remedies are employed. The Institute makes no restrictions. Any man who writes will be sent a free sample, carefully sealed in a plain package so that its recipient need have no fear of embarrassment or publicity. Readers are requested to write without delay. FINANCIAL MONEY One dollar when you need it is worth ten when you don't. Let us loan you the money--any amount from $5.50 up--on your furniture, plano, horses, wagons, fixtures or any kind of personal property, without removal. You will be surprised how little it will cost you. You can pay us back in weekly, monthly or any way to suit yourself. Everything confidential. You will get fair, honest dealing if you borrow from us. THE MOST REASONABLE FIRM THE MOST RELIABLE FIRM Come in and talk it over. EAST MARKET ST. MORTGAGE LOAN CO., Room 205 Law Building 134 E. Market st. Old phone 2983 WE LOAN YOU MONEY TO PAY YOUR BILLS. And advance you more money also. Come in and talk it over with us. You will be surprised when we change, because money can be borrowed. It is better than troubling friends. You will think so, too. MONEY LOADED ON FURNITURE Planes, organs, horses, wagons, etc., from 1 to 12 months; no removal of goods; and we will have been, the cheapest in the city; while for easy payments, fair dealing and honest treatment, we have always been held up at the door. We have Mortgage or Loan Co. Room 10, Indiana Block, 147 E. Market street Indianaapolis, Ind. Corns $ .005 A Piece. Do you suffer with corn? If so, you want our Egyptian Corn Cure for the painless cerdation of Corns on your skin, cutting required. Enough for 20 corn for 16c Indianapolis Specialty Co. 1532 Martindale Ave, Indiana jolls, Ind. $5 A DAY Why work for a mere living when you can easily increase your $3 day a week for your own identity. Our plan and complete instructions by return mail for $25 in silver. AGENTS WANTED to sell sugar; 500 pounds of sugar per day for your sweeten a cup of coffee. Agents are making from $3.00 to $7.00 per day. We give exclusive territory and liberal terms. Sample of agents' products. Specialty Co. 1532 Martindale Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. $10 Cash paid per 100 for used stamps. Send $10 for prl e listpaid. A. Scott, Cohoes, N. Y. $8 Paid Per 100 for Distributing Samples of Washing fluid. Send to Cohoes, N. Y. A. Scott, Cohoes, N. Y. BIOYCLES Sundrie, Expert Repairing, Enameling, Brazing, Nickeling, Wheels built to order. Good second hand Wheels from $2.00 up. We call for and deliver work promptly. Phone, green 780. 313 INDIANA AVE. Charles M. INDIANAPOLIS Is the place to purchase presents of a to beautify the home. TOILET S Silver-Plated Knives and Forks Warranted $4.00 best brand, low The best Hammock On Market in a Ping Pong Charles Mayer & Co. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Is the place to purchase presents of all kinds. Artistic and unique designs to beautify the home. Silver-Plated Knives and Forks Warranted $4.00 per doxen. Set of 6 knives and forks best brand, lowest prices. From $1.75 to $10.00 per set. $ Money Saved is Money PINK'S CUT F Headquarters for Chemicals, for Pure D Medicines. Here are a few of our money Peruna..... 60c Mennen's Borated Talcum 15c 2 for..... 25c Wine of Cardul..... 69c Duffy's Malt Whiskey..... 79c Pink's Red Seal Sarsaparilla, a guaran- teed cure..... 6c One pound of the Best Perfumed, Borated Pink's Cut Rate Pharmacy, 550 Goods delivered to a $ Money Saved is Money Earned $ To do this Go to..... PINK'S CUT RATE PHARMACY Headquarters for Chemicals, for Pure Drugs, Toilet Articles, Sundries, Patent Medicines. Here are a few of our money savers: Pink's Cut Rate Pharmacy, 550 Indiana Ave., cor. West Street Goods delivered to any part of the State. H. L. Sanders MANUFACTURER OF Waiters' and Cooks' Jackets, Bar and Barber Coats. Butcher Coats, Frocks and Aprons, Physicians and Dentists' Operation Coats, Duck Pants and Oversleeves. Send for catalogue. Dress Suits to let. 206 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Gray & Gribben Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware. ELWOOD SANDS, LOCAL AGENT. Goods Sold on Time or for Cash. He cordially soiolts colored patronage. All Terms Confidential. Parker's Hotel When visiting Indianapolis, tell your hack man to take you to that famous hostelry. First-class in every particular. Excellent Service. Once its guest, always its guest. 817-821 West Michigan Street, INDIANAPOLIS,IND. Old Phone main 2997 $25-In Gold-$25 We will pay the above amount for the largest Caladium Leaf or (Elephant Ear) September 1st. Each person wishing to contest must register with us. THE VAIL SEED CO. 150 N. Delaware Street. L. Krauss' LOAN OFFICE Money loaned on Diamonds, Watches, Guns and all articles of value. Sporting boys give me a call. I will treat you right. 305 W. Washington St. CHAS. PARKER Formerly with A. J. Treat & Son, now with $7.00 Trousers at $6.00 $6.00 Trousers at $5.00 $22.00 Suits now $20.00 SPRING STYLES now ready. Wesolicit your patronage. Suits. $18.00 up and Trousers from $5.00 up. Old Phone 4121. The Old Bargain For BARGAINS. YOUR OLD GOODS WANTED. Furniture bought and sold at 427 Indiana Avenue. Layer & Co. POLIS, IND. all kinds. Artistic and unique designs ETS $5.00 KS 9 per doxen. Set of 6 knives and forks best prices. al colors $1.50 each. Y Earned $ To do this Go to...... RATE PHARMACY Drugs, Toilet Articles, Sundries, Patent my savers: Kilmer's Swamp Boot 35c and... 67c Lodia Pinkham's Compound... 60c Syrup of Figs, genuine... 83c Eagle Brand Condensed Milk... 15c Witch Hazel, pints... 23c Beet Wine and Iron, full pints... 40c Calcium Powder... 17c Indiana Ave., cor. West Street my part of the State. Flanner & Buchanan. Flanner & Buchanan. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 320 N. Illinois St., bet. New York and Vermont St BEST SERVICE FAIR PRICES SmoketheTROPHY SmoketheTROPHY Not 100 goods but just as good. Leading seller at Greathouse's and Clark Burton's Indianapolis, Ind. SHOES Shoes for every prices. Better shoes can get elsewhere prices. Only store in the a colored salesman; a Hightower, No.19. GEO. J. MAROTT. 26 and 28 East W SAKS & C INDIANA'S LARGEST MEN'S Men's and Boys' F Shoes, Hats, Reliable Goods- SAKS & C Washington and Pen CHOICE CONFECTIONS "THE FAW 534 INDIANA ICE CREAM, FI We Manufacture Our Deliver to any P REED & ROBINS Also dealers in Oils and Gasol INSURANCE GAS 28 East Washington KS & COMPANY INDIANA'S LARGEST MEN'S AND BOYS' OUTFITTING and Boys' Fit Reform Shoes, Hats, Furnishing Table Goods-Lowest H KS & COMPANY Washington and Pennsylvania Streets ACTIONS ICE THE FAVORIT 534 INDIANA AVENUE, CREAM, FRUITS, O Manufacture Our Own Ice Cream Deliver to any Part of the City & ROBINSON, Prop dealers in Oils and Gasoline. New Phone ANCE GASOLINE S 26 and 28 East Washington Street. INDIANA'S LARGEST MEN'S AND BOYS' OUTFITTERS. Reliable Goods-Lowest Prices SAKS & COMPANY Washington and Pennsylvania Streets ICE CREAM, FRUITS, CIGARS We Manufacture Our Own Ice Cream and Deliver to any Part of the City REED & ROBINSON, Proprietors Also dealers in Oils and Gasoline. New Phone 2574. INSURANCE GASOLINE STOVES The Best in the World Economical - Positively non-Explosive If flames should be blown out, or valve left open, no accident can result, as the supply of gasoline is shut off automatically. Come in and see the stove lighted. 114 and 116 East Washington Street INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Cincinnati A WM: L. H. MANUFACTURE ARTIFI Dincinnati Artificial L WM: L. RICHEN, H MANUFACTURER OF LATEST IMPRO Cincinnati Artificial Limb Co. WM: L. RICHEN·Prop. MANUFACTURER OF LATEST IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL ...LIMBS 501 to 507 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. U. S. Government Manufacturer. Satisfaction Guaranteed or No Pay. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meats, &c. COR. BRIGHT AND NORTH STREETS. OLD PHONE GREEN 2774. Shoes for everybody and all prices. Better shoes than you can get elsewhere at the same prices. Only store in the city having a colored salesman; ask for Oscar Hightower, No.19. Washington Street. COMPANY MEN'S AND BOYS' OUTFITTERS. Fit Reform Clothing S, Furnishings Beds-Lowest Prices COMPANY and Pennsylvania Streets ICE CREAM SODA. AVORITE" MANA AVENUE, FRUITS, CIGARS Our Own Ice Cream and any Part of the City JNSON, Proprietors Gasoline. New Phone 2574. GASOLINE STOVES CHEVROLET Artificial Limb Co. L. RICHEN. Prop. OCTURER OF LATEST IMPROVED