The Freeman

As an advertising medium, The Freeman is IT:----Distinctive in Name, Nature and Influence INDIANAPOLIS MAR 14 1903 PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ETHIOPIA SMALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 11. COLORED DOCTORS COMMENGEMENT EXERCISES OF MEHARRY COLLEGE. 5.000 PERSONS WERE PSESENT End of the Most Successful Year in the History of the Institution—Turns Out Forty-one Physicians, Seven Pharmacists and Five Dentists. from Nashville Daily American, March 3. The commencement exercises of the medical, pharmaceutical and dental departments of Walden University were given at the Tabernacle Monday night before one of the largest audiences of colored persons ever gathered in this city. The lower floor was filled, and there, was but a third of the seats in the gallery vacant, probably 5,000 persons being present, quite a number of whom were white. The occasion marked the end of the most successful year in the history of these departments of the institution. There were forty-one graduates from the Mehary Medical College, the largest number in its twenty-seven years. The Dental College, which has been established seventeen years, had five graduates, and the Pharmaceutical College celebrated its fourteenth anniversary with seven graduates. Besides the usual programme of addresses by graduates, presentation of medals and conferring of diplomas, there were two short talks by leading colored men, one of them being at the head of the third largest colored industrial and training school in the country, and the other a bishop in the A. M. E. church. ADDRESS BY DR. DUNTON. Dr. L. M. Dunton, President of Claflin, at Orangeburg, S. C., delivered a short ad, dress to the graduates. He said that this was his first visit to Nashville, but that he knew of Mehryar through copies of Nashville papers sent him. "These have given good accounts of your school," said he, "but the half has never been told. For six years I have traveled extensively from Maine to Iowa in the interest of my school, and I have spoken favorably of Mehryar whenever the opportunity offered. I recognize the necessity for a school of this kind. Colored physicians are needed almost everywhere in this section of the country. I visited Dr. Boyd's Infirmary to-day and saw what splendid work he is doing. I also visited Dr. Wilson's Infirmary and think he is accomplishing wonderful good. I am not acquainted with local conditions, but I think there is one needed here. Mehryar should have a splendid hospital run in connection with it. I think there would be no better opportunity for some man to build for himself an enduring monument than to endow such a department." Bishop Evans Tyree, of the A. M. E. church, who lives in this city, was called upon and responded with a short talk, full of practical suggestions and humor. He said it was an inspiring sight to see these young men and young women go out to help humanity. "Give them something to do," he said, "and also give them something for doing it. Don't think because he comes, stays only five minutes and charges you $2 that he thinks his time entirely too valuable. It is not the five minutes he is charging for, but for the four years, or twenty years, that he has been preparing for that five minutes. Hold on, young men. Your bread may be like the preacher's sometimes, rather source. Then some of you will have to follow some of you patients, but hold on and you will win." VALEDICTORY ADDRESSES. VALDICTORY ADDRESSES. Before the talks were made by Dr. Dunton and Bishop Tyre there were songs by a choral society of fifty voices, and other music. A Bernard McKissack then delivered the salutatory, having for his subject, "The Physician and his Civio Good." He was followed by T. Primus Moore with the pharmaceutical valedictory, his subject being "The Relation of the Physician to the Pharmacist." After a duet, John D. Frier, son delivered the dental valedictory, his subject being "The Dental Surgeon and his Work." He was followed by Harry Jordan, the medical valedictorian, whose subject was "Preventive Medicine." After several songs by a quartette, Dr. Dunton delivered his address and was followed by Bishop Tyre. Dr. George W. Hubbard, the dean of Me. harry, who had presided and had charge of the preseceedings, then awarded the various prizes and medals that had been offered. FACULTY AND GRADUATES MEHARRY MEDICAL, DENTAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL COLLEGE 1903 of Walden University He called on Dr. R. F. Boyd to present the medals offered by Dr. Daniel Williams, of Chicago, for the best paper on how to prepare a patient for operation at his own home. It afterwards turned out that this was done for the reason that a young man whom Dr. Boyd had trained in Mercy hospital won the prize. At the conclusion of these awards almost every graduate received one or more presents from relatives and friends. Dr. J. Benson Hamilton, President of the University, then conferred the degrees and awarded the diplomas, and the exercises closed with a benediction. THE GRADUATES. THE GRADUATES. Following is the list of graduates: F. W. Adams, Texas; W. S. Adams, Tennessee; R. B. and R. B. S. Bell, Louisiana; A. J. Baker, Florida; J. R. and A. B. Barber, South Carolina; L. L. Cheatham, Tennessee; S. Clarence Coleman, Mississippi; Susie L. Dilworth, Florida; A. B. Deany, A. W. and W. S. Davis, Alabama; W. N. Este, Antigua, W. I.; J. D. Evans, Tennessee; H. B. Gabashane, South Africa; R. G. Schohl, Kentucky; R. A. Gordon, A. B., Mississippi; G.C. Hill, Georgia; H. L. Jordan, A. B., Mississippi; W. P. Kyle, Van B. Lund- FACULTY AND MEH MEDICAL, DENTAL of WALDEN ley, Texas; W. H. Marshall, South Carolina; B. B. Mitchell, Alabama; A. B. McKissack, Tennessee; W. G. O'Neal, Mississippi; T. W. Prather, North Carolina; L. H. Roberts, Georgia; G. T. Sharpe, Kansas; W. H. Slaughter, Alabama; E. W. South, Missouri; C. Eugene Stephenson, South Carolina; W. H. Striokland, A. M., Arkansas; W. A Thompson, A. B., Tennessee; A. E. Thomas, Florida; H. C. Tinsley, B. L., Kentucky; R. L. Tweed, Arkansas; B. D. Taylor, Hayti; H. P. Taylor, Kentucky; B. L. Varian, Kentucky; J. F. Williams, Illinois; B. F. Easter, Ph. G., Texas; K. T. Stanley, L. L., Florida; J. W. Willis, Georgia. Pharmaceutical—Miss Mattie L. Blackwell, Tennessee; Solomon C. Clemmons, Georgia; A. T. Jones, Georgia; Mrs. E. M. McOcy, Mississippi; T. Primus Moore, Georgia; E. M. Turner, Arkansas; A. L. Logan, Kentucky. Dental-II. F. McCarrion, South Carolina; J. P. Frieder, Tennessee; Wm. D. Holder, Tennessee; L. P. Jacobs, Alabama; J. C. Johnson, Alabama THE PRIZES AWARDED. Prizes were awarded as follows: The U. G. Mason medal for gynaecology, was given to W. S. Adams, of Nashville, Tennessee. The medal offered by Dr. J. E. Perry, of Columbia, Mo, for the highest standing in the entire course of anatomy and dissecting was awarded to N. W. Este. The J. T. Wilson medal for best work in surgery was won by R. L. Gordan, of Mississippi. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, offered a prize for the best essay on the preparation of a patient and detailed method of preparing for and conducting a surgical operation in a private residence, for which W. P. Kyle, of Texas, was the successful contestant, H. C. Tinsley, of Kentucky, was given a second prize for the excellence of his essay on the same subject. The prize in obstetrics was won by W. G. O'Neal; a second prize, gynsecology, by A. B. Deaney; Morrisen medal for bridge work, J. C. Johnson; Singleton prize for metal-lurry, L. P. Jacobs; Mason medal, Walter Adams; second prize, by Dr. Boyd, A. D. Deaney. The attendance during the past session has been the largest of any during the 27 years of the existence of this institution, 252 medical, 47 dental and 30 pharmacenti- at the bus, of pre-own this man on of survived and of the and excises real students having been enrolled; also ten women have been taking a course in nurse training, making a total of 339. Students have been in attendance this session from several Northern states and Territories, South Africa, Liberia, Bermuda, Jamaica, Hayti and British and Dutch Guiana have sent representatives. Dr. Benjamin W. Payne, class of 1901, a native of Liberia, returned to his native land, and is now a self supporting medical missionary at Monrovia, where he is planning to establish a hospital, there not being an institution of the kind in all the republic of Liberia. Of the 505 graduates from this school, about 90 per cent, of those now living are practicing their professions. Poplar street. Parlie Blakemore is ill at her home in Ninth street. Miss Emma Wilkins is visiting in Paducah. Miss Ella Ousley is sick at her home in Nineteenth street. Mrs. Lizzie King is visiting in Mayfield, Ky. Mr. and John Painter are at home, 240 Poplar street. The Zunzer club invitations will be out next Tuesday. Anna C. Bell sends regards to Mrs. R. B. Cochran, of Mound City. Mrs. Belle Shannon was called to Mayfield, Ky., on last Monday by the death of her father. Mrs. Nancy Hudgins is ill at her home in Twenty-ninth street, Mr. Brown is not much improved. Mrs. James Goode, of Twentieth street, has recovered from a severe illness. James Blakemore is slowly recovering from his recent illness. Misses Ida B. Snearling and Altha Allen are ill at their homes. During the past year a new laboratory was erected and equipped at an expense of over $4,000, about $1,000 of which was contributed by the students and alumni of Meharry. Colored Show Makes a Hit. Washington, Pa, Special.—The "Hottest Coon in Dixie" company played to a packed house at the Lyric Theater here on the 4th GRADUATES HARRY AND PHARMACEUTICAL BOOKS 1903 University inst. The company made a big hit here. A grand entertainment was given at the A. M. E. Zion church on the 5th inst. A large crowd was in attendance. A fine program was rendered. Quarterly meeting will be held at St. Paul A. M. E. church on the 15th inst. Father Reuben Baker is slowly recovering from along illness. Miss Florence C. Hopper has returned to Avery Trade College, after a week's visit with her parents. Evan Baker was in Pittsburgh on last Sunday. J. B. Smith, of Allegheyn, is visiting in the city. Charles Norris, Jr., and and Harry Smith were instantly killed on the 4th, by a reel of wine fallen upon them. Ellsworth Wilson had a narrow escape. Walter Harris is visiting his mother in Philadelphia, William Barbour left for Wheeling, W. Va., on the 4th. L. B. Burgess is in Columbus, O. Walter Scott, who has been suffering from rheumatism for several weeks, is slowly improving. The new pool room of Fields & Campbell in Wheeling street, is doing a thriving business. The Freeman is for sale every Saturday at Wilk Chapman's barber shop, 18 East Chestnut street. NEGROES ASPIRE FOR ALDERMEN Prof, Ewing's Visit a Great Hit-Dam aging Water Spout-Notes. Cairo, Ill., Special.-The lady evangelist who has been assisting Rev. Spades at the A. M. E. church, has closed a successful revival with 52 converts and 9 accessions. It is to be hoped that she will return in the near future. We are authorized to announce Richard Taylor as a candidate for alderman from the 6th ward, and D. Farrow from the 4th ward. Now is the time for the Negro to show his race pride. Prof. Ewing and orchestra certainly gave our people a flawless entertainment before a crowded house, Overby's orchestra will return the visit on April with a grand excursion to Paducah. Grover Hubbard is on the sick list. Little Dickie Derby is ill at his home in Fourteenth street. Mrs. Rachel Covington is sick at her home in Forty-first street. A water spout bursted at Beechwood Sunday morning and did considerable damage to property. Miss Nina Menear is with Mrs. Ada Ross her dress making parlor. 240% --- Poplar street. Parlie Blakemore is ill at her home in Ninth street. Miss Emma Wilkins is visiting in Paducah. Miss Ella Ouelay is sick at her home in Nineteenth street. Mrs. Lizzie King is visiting in Mayfield, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. John Painter are at home, 2400 Poplar street. The Zinzer club invitations will be out next Tuesday. Anna C. Bell sends regards to Mrs. R. B. Cochran, of Mound City. Mrs. Belle Shannon was called to Mayfield, Ky., on last Monday by the death of her father. Mrs. Nancy Hudgins is ill at her house in Twenty-ninth street. Mr. Brown is not much improved. Mrs. James Goode, of Twentieth street, has recovered from a severe illness. James Blakemore is slowly recovering from his recent illness. Misses Ida B. Snearing and Altha Allen are ill at their homes. Mrs. W. O. Lancaster was called to East St. Louis last Saturday by the serious illness of her husband. Mrs. Bettie Marton is slowly regaining her health at her home, in Seventeenth street. We urge the voters of the race to give their hearty support to Hon-Claud Winters for Mayor, in the ensuing election, April 29th. He has proved to be the Negro's friend, and merits our support. Society and Personal Notes. Mound City, Ill., Special. — Mesdames Lillie Crice and Josephine Mosley are ill. The recent rains have inundated our town so that passage through a portion of the city is impossible. Several families have been compelled to seek higher ground, Frank Gordon has returned from St. Louis. In the contest between Misses Martha Bolen, Bertha Smith and Flora E. Howard, Misses Martha Bolen and Flora E. Howard tied, both having sold 201 tickets; Miss Smith sold 89. Accordingly, the first two were awarded cash prizes of $5 each and the third $3. Henry Kirby died at his home in Diamond street on the 7th inst., of consumption, at the age of 27 years. He served in the 8th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish-American war. His remains were buried at Palsaski on the 10th. Mrs. Mary Robinson wishes to learn the whereabouts. THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD'S FINEST ART THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC MEHARRY DENTAL COLLEGE of John and Esther Patrick, and her granddaughter, Viola McNeile. They were living in Little Rock, Ark., when last heard from. Emancipators Entertain. Terre Haute, Ind., Special.—The National Emancipators had their regular semimonthly ladies' night at the hall on the 5th inst. Among those present were: Misses Pearl Covington, Viola Davis, Wiletta Horner, Elena, Cabell, Florence Tabor, Essie Moore, Allie B. Bryant, Anna Cookies, Mesdames Samuel Berry, George Green, Harry Southad, Lydia Davis, George White, Ella Allen, John Floyd, Mary Mayers, Anna Robinson and Albert Anderson. Refreshments were served in abundance. Visitors present were: Mrs. Jones, of St. Louis, and Messrs. George Holland and George Ford. Carter Lyons furnished the music. D. E. Smith, of Indianapolis, is weighing the mail on the Southern Indiana read between this city and Seymour. Protracted Meeting Held. Lebanon, Ky., Special.—Rev. D. L. Irvin, of Louisville, has been conducting revival meetings at Zion church. He returned to his home on the 12th. The funeral of Mrs. M. Smith took place on the 4th, Rev. T. A. Brown officiating, assisted by Rev. D. L. Irvin. Mrs. H. Logan, an old christian lady, was buried on the 3d. Rev. D. L. Irvin and Rev. Dr. Brown and family dined with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Coward on the 5th; Mr. and Mrs. H. Durham on the 8th, and with Mrs. M. J. Sandsburry on the 9th. Notable, Newsy Nuggets. Jackson, Mich., Special.—George Gough has returned from Columbus. Mrs. Hobbs is very ill. Mrs. West Goins and daughter returned last week from Detroit. L, B. Thomas was in Lansing last week. Miss Bertha Harrison celebrated her 16th birthday anniversary on the 6th. Chas, Dolman, of Pittsburg, is in the city. Call on Miss Flossie M. Johnson, 216 E. Franklin street, and get the Freeman. Successful Trustees' Rally. Muncie, Ind., Special,—Sunday was trustees' rally and three services were held. Two were conducted by Rev. Taylor, and the third was conducted by Rev. Taylor, assisted by Rev. Warren, of the Second Baptist church. The day's collection was $34.50. Mrs. Curtis died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fletcher, on Thursday of last week, and was buried Saturday afternoon from the A. M. E. church. The Sewing Circle of the A. M. E. church gave an entertainment Monday evening, assisted by the Eagle band. Mrs. Harrold is ill at her home in S. Walnut street. Mrs. Nora Rickman left last Thursday for a two months' visit in Ohio with relatives. The Willing Workers will give an entertainment on Saturday evening at the A. M. E. church. The Sewing Circle of the Second Baptist church gave a "pie social" Monday evening. Will Rider made a business trip to Portland on last Thursday. Base Ball Club Organized. Enufaula, Ala., Special—The young men of this city have organized a base ball club with the following officers John Grimes, president; W. H. Wallace, secretary and manager; A. Scott, Jr., treasurer; Charles Fisher, captain THE MUSIC BOOKING HOUSE J. E. Neluns is happy over the arrival of a fine girl at his home. Virgil Davenport passed through the city last week enroute to Cuthbert, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thompson have moved to their new home on the Bluff. The Young People's Literary Union celebrated their first anniversary at the home of Prof. and Mrs. S. M. Murphy on the 27th ult. An excellent program was carried out. Cbplews of The Freeman can be found on sale every Saturday at J.E. Nelson's bar and lunch room. News Personal and General. Moberly, Mo., Special.—Mrs. Emma Teabeau has returned to Keokuk, after a pleasant stay with relatives. Messrs. Arthur Lyons, Harry Lowery and Jos. Newby have returned to Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Renfro spent Sunday in Kansas City, guests of their son, J. H. Boston. Messrs. Pearl Roman and Howard Tymony were among the excursionists to Kansas City. George West is visiting relatives in the city. Prof. R. L. Logan, of Huntsville, was in the city Sunday. --- FINANCIAL SUCCESS! WAS THE BOOTH ENTERTAINMENT AT ST. JAMES CHURCH. A MINSTREL GOES TO THE WALL Crack Base Ball Team Ready to Cross Bats with All Cemers-The Beer Bucket Brigade Being Looked After by the Women-Personal Notes. Dallas, Tex., Special. Edward Avery is in Bisbee, Ariz., on a business trip. Prof. H. D. Robinson, of Lancaster, was in the city to visit relatives and friends this week. Hon. C. E. W. Day, of Houston, was in the city a few days in the interest of the Taborian order. The Booth entertainment recently held at St. James A. M. E. church, netted over $126, which speaks well for those who had charge of the affair. The following persons are recovering from recent illness: Mesdames Frank Murry, Hester Anderson, Ella McHenry, Susie Hoard, Lena McCain, Mattie Rice, Susie McCoy, M. Knighton, M. E. Payne and Frank Holcomb. Mrs. John Walker and daughter Lence were called to Pittsboro to the bedside of her mother, on the 5th inst. Taylor Jordan, the sweet singer, is making good at the Fort. It is reported that Jordon's minstrels, which was composed of the best colored talent of this city, stranded at San Simmons. Cal McCollough is on the sick list. The following persons composes Porter & Hamley's Colts for this season, and have reported for service: Johnie Jones, Lewis Livingstone, Frank Miles, James Whitlow, Eddie Gardner, Tom Armstrong, Bunk Henderson, George Johnson, Arthur Simmons, Lyn Lightfoot, John Bow, and John Wright. These players have each faced the rubber in many Southern cities and have been made good records. The ball lovers will be glad to learn that Messra, Porter & Hamley have such an efficient team to represent them the coming season. Sam Bumpus, of McKinney, came to the city on the 6th inst., after the remains of Tobie French, who died in this city. His wife and several friends accompanied the remains to McKinney, where the funeral was held. The Black and Tan Social club is ready for the summer social functions. Mrs. Katie Lott, of Oberlin, spent several days here the past week, the guest of relatives. The ladies of Dallas have begun to wage war on the beer bucket brigate. Where is the Ministers' Union? They are being looked upon as an organization to bombard sin of all kinds and to hoist the purifier banner high above repreach. Mrs. Ellen Johnson, of Hillsboro, is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Briscoe, in main Street. The Epworth League at Ewing Chapel meets every Thursday evening and presents a choice program. Call at Griffin's parlor, 105 Central avenue, every Saturday and get the Freeman. A CORRECTION: EDITOR FREEMAN—I wish to correct an item which appeared in the Express in February, stating that M. E. Gordon attended the Porters' ball in Ft. Worth. There is a Miss M. E. Gordon, whose initials are the same as mine, who may have attended, but I have had no desire to attempt to christianize the ball room. I hope this will relieve the minds of my friends, and serve as a warning to my enemies. M. E. GORDON, 440 Young street. FERRIS NEWS NOTES. Rev. Harris preached at the C. M. E. church on the 1st and 2d to large audiences. Prof. A. B. Pittman is progressing nicely with his school, the attendance being very large. The B. Y. P. U. is progressing, and now meets on Thursday instead of Friday night. The C. M. E. church has organized an Epworth League. Rev. D. L. Lewis has been called to the pastorate of Ebenezer Freewill Baptist church. Quarterly meet. ing convened with the Freewill Baptist church on the 12th inst. Rev. H. E. Brown has returned from Lancaster and reports a good meeting, three being added to the church. Prohibition Voted Down. Mineola, Tex., Special.-In the election here on the 7th, in which the temperance question was involved, the Prohibition ticket was defeated by a majority of 67 votes. The women were out in full force, buttonholing the men and urging them to vote the Prohibition ticket. The young people paraded the streets and sang patriotic songs. The Freeman Would Like to See: T. Thomas Fortune's mission extended indefinitely. Alabama Wellman recognize the loyal colored Republicans. Postmaster Vick given "something equally as good." Dr. Crum confirmed. Other private secretaries rise after the fashion of George B. Cortelyou and Daniel S. Lamont. Negro business leagues organized throughout the land. A strong, reliable race paper established in the South, to handle the secular issues of the people. Washington Negroes acquire a love for work, and do less talking. Negroes do something themselves before they attempt to criticise Booker T. Washington. Farm life made so attractive that the boys will remain in the agricultural districts and operate the farms secured after much sacrifice by their fathers. A press association formed, as is a press associations. Personal journalism condemned. A big meeting of the Afro-American Council at Louisville next July. Council at Bousville Inc. Less space in our papers devoted to washing the dirty linen of the editors. The higher and the industrial educa- tional systems given their just pro- portions in our school economy. More manufacturing druggists like Dr. L. H. Harris, of Washington, D. C. Colored organizations erect buildings of their own, after the manner of the True Reformers. Architects skilled in their business of the type represented by John A. Lankford, master mechanic of the True Reformers. A True Reformers' Bank in Indian- apolis. The Capital Savings Bank at Wash- ington replaced by a solid institution, and run by competent and painstaking financiers. Fewer Negroes dependent upon the fuctuations of politics for a livelihood. Our barbers study the latest methods and keep up to date. The callings of nurse, laundering and housekeeping saved to the race. Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett back into the anti-lynching bureau of the Afro-American Council. The Chicago persecutors of Rev. A. L. Murray put up or shut up. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis at the head of her own company in legitimate drama, to tour the country. Paul Lawrence Dunbar in the harness again. The absurd talk about the "ham trust" given a quietus. Negroes stop worrying about men's politics and measuring them by their worth to civilization. Stronger support given to race journals of character and stamina. Mrs. Cox resume her postoffice at Indianola, Miss. Banks of the Tuskegee order established in all the large schools of the country. Charles Alexander at the head of a great Afro-American news syndicate, furnishing matter of vital interest for about fifty journals. Editorials from race papers clipped and commented upon by Caucasian journals, to get our sentiments upon current questions before the leaders of thought of the nation. Governor Pinchback, ex-Congressman White and Col. Pledger suitably provided for. Whitfield McKinlay win his great fight for the confirmation of Dr. Crum. Judge R. H. Terrell continued for life as justice of the peace for the District of Columbia. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell gracing an Indiana platform. Educated young women accept the broad field for usefulness that lies open for them in the Southland. Widespread interest developed in the great suffrage convention, which meets at Louisville in July. Pritchard set in the background. Editor W. D. Johnson nominated for the legislature and elected to champion the cause of the much-abused Kentucky Negroes. Another colored member of the Indiana Legislature. White business men advertise in colored papers as a bid for colored patronage. A genuine race paper in Boston. "Prof." Ferris secure a job in Washington, so he will not be dependent upon the bounty of his ungrateful Boston employers. Chris Perry's photogravure plant well patronized by the race, especially by journals which make a feature of well executed portraits of persons and scenes. Henry Y. Arnett enter the ministry. H. P. Cheatham installed in a comfortable government berth. The Liberian mission matter settled and the whole imbrogio allowed to become a closed incident. Rev. J. W. Smith secure a bishop's frock at St. Louis in 1904. More leaders of the race as sagacious, far seeing and resourceful as Washington, Walters, Clinton and Fortune. A test case of the Southern election laws reach the United States Supreme Court. The Hanna ex-slave pension bill withdrawn. Profs. Kelly Miller, W. E. B. DuBois and Jesse Lawson on the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, which ought to be provided by this Congress. Thieving church trustees punished by the strong arm of the law. "Rubbernecks" get it in the neck. A million-dollar donation to Negro education given by Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie and the rest—a paying investment in good citizenship. A Negro president of Howard University, to succeed Dr. Rankin, who resigned recently. The masses of the race work out their salvation in the South, moving only when a change can be made to the advantage of themselves and the community to which they may go. ```markdown ``` Young Negroes acquiring a love for work. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. A compulsory education law in force everywhere. A more strenuous effort to educate the poor whites of the South. An intelligent agitation of the question of the Negro and the trades unions. Energetic and talented young colored men paying less attention to politics and more to business. Recorder Dancy get his appropriation allowed, so as to enable him, to put his office in the condition to do the business of the District of Columbia. The Chicago Conservator remain unsold for one consecutive month. Loyal Roosevelt men placed on guard in the purely political offices under the national administration. Money-making colored men at the bank oftener than at the banquet. As much preparation made to live as to the matter of burying the dead. Aspiring young Afro-Americans read Washington's "Up From Slavey" and "Character Building." The A. M. E. Zion and the C. M. E. churches consolidated. The Christian Recorder management "get together" for the good of the great organization it speaks for. Our denominational publishing houses brag less about the relative bigness of their plants and get their work out more promptly and in better typographical style. The General Education Board get straight behind the white illiterates of the South and teach them that a ballot is not a thing they can eat. An employing class built up within the race, to provide openings for the products of our business training schools. Ex-slaves give the confidence sharks a wide berth when they come around for a fee to push the so-called pension bill. The uncultivated lands of the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama blossom as the rose through the thrift and industry of colored farmers who will buy and till them. "Gripsack" preachers, teachers, and "gripsack" leaders in general given a ticket of leave. Hot-air orators in the North shut up and go South, where they can study the race problem at close range. The Negro become a reading people. A strict enforcement of the vagrancy law in our overcrowded cities. A closer examination into the character of the men who claim a place in the pulpit. A VERY EXPLICIT LETTER BY PRESIDENT BOOSEVELT. The following letter from President Roosevelt to the editor of the Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., is a reply to a request for an expression concerning the recent letter from Mr. Harry Stillwell Edwards of Macon, in which Mr. Edwards made a statement of the President's position in the matter of Federal appointments of the South, bolding that the President had been misunderstood. President Roosevelt writes: "WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. F., Feb. 24, 1903 "The Hon. Clark Howell, Editor the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. 'Dear Mr. Howell—As to Federal appointments in the South, frankly, it seems to me that my appointments speak for themselves, and that my policy is self-explanatory. So far from feeling that they need the slightest apology or justification, my position is that, on the strength of what I have done, I have the right to claim the support of all good citizens who wish not only a high standard of Federal service, but fair and equitable dealing to the South as well as to the North and a policy of consistent and good will toward all men. In making appointments I have sought to consider the feeling of the people of each locality so far as I could consistently do so without sacrificing principle. The prime tests I have applied have been those of character, fitness and ability, and when I have been dissatisfied with what has been offered within by own party lines I have without hesitation gone to the oppsite party—and you are, of course aware that I have repeatedly done this in your own State of Georgia. Defines Race Policy. "I certainly cannot treat color as a permanent bar to holding office, any more than I could so treat creed or birthplace—always provided that in other respects the applicant or incumbent is a worthy and well-behaved American citizen. Just as little will I treat it as conferring a right to hold office. I have scant sympathy with the men of mere theory who refuse to face facts; but do you not think that in the long run it is safer for everybody if we act on the motto, 'All men up' rather than on that of 'Some men down?' "I ask you to judge not by what I say, but by what during the last seventeen months I have actually done. In your own State of Georgia you are competent to judge from your own experience. In the great bulk of the cases I have reappointed President McKinley's appointees. The changes I have made were, as I think you will agree, changes for the better and not for the worse. It happens I have appointed a white man to succeed a colored man as postmaster at Athens and surveyor at Atlanta. In South Carolina I have similarly appointed a white postmaster to succeed a colored postmaster. Again in South Carolina I have nominated a colored man to fill a vacancy in the position of collector of the port of Charleston, just as in Georgia I have appointed the colored man who is now serving as collector of the port of Savannah. Both are fit men. Why the appointment of one should cause any more exertion than the appointment of the other I am wholly at a loss to imagine. I need hardly say that to connect either of these appointments, or any or all my other appointments or my actions in upholding the law at Indiana, with such questions as 'social equality' and 'Negro domination' is as absurd as to connect them with the nebular hypothesis or the theory of atoms "I have consulted freely with your own senators and congressmen as to the character and capacity of any appointee in Georgia concerning whom their was question. My party advisers in the State have been Ma. Hanson of Macon. Mr. Walter Johnson of Atlanta—both of them ex-confederate soldiers—and Mr. Harry Still well Edwards, also of Macon. I believe you will agree with me that in no State would it be possible to find gentlemen abler and more upright or better qualified to fill the positions they have filled with reference to me. In every instance where these gentlemen have united in making a recommendation I have been able to follow their advice. Am I not right in saying that the Federal officeholders whom I have appointed throughout your State are, as a boy', men and women of a high order or efficiency and integrity? If you know of any Federal officeholder in Georgia of whom this is not true, pray let me know at once. I will welcome testimony from you or from any other reputable citizen which will tend to show that a given public officer is unworthy; and, most emphatically, short will be the shrift of any one whose lack of worth is proven. Incidentally I may mention that a large percentage of the incumbents of Federal offices in Georgia under me are, as I understand it, of your own political faith. But they are supported by me in every way as long as they continue to render good and faithful service to the public. "This is true of your own State; and by applying to Mr. Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia, to General Basil Duke of Kentucky, to Mr. George Crawford of Tennessee, to Mr. John Mellhenny of Louisiana, to Judge Joes of Alabama and Mr. Edgar S. Wilson of Mississippi, all of them Democrats, and all of them men of the highest standing in the respective communities, you will find that what I have done in Georgia stands not as the exception, but as the rule for all I have done throughout the South. High Standard of Service. "I have good reason to believe that my appointees in the different States mentioned—and as the sum of the parts in the whole, necessarily in the South at large—represent not merely an improvement upon those whose places they took, but upon the whole a higher standard of Federal service than has hitherto been attained in the communities in question. I may add that the proportion of colored men among these new appointees is only about one in a hundred. "I in view of all these facts I have been surprised, and somewhat pained, at what seems to me the incomprehensible outtery in the South about my actions—an outtery apparently started in New York for reasons wholly unconnected with the question nominally at issue. I am concerned at the attitude thus taken by so many of the Southern people; but I am not in the least angry; and still less will this attitude have the effect of making me swerve one hair's breadth, to one side or the other, from the course I have marked out—the course I have consistently followed in the past and shall consistently follow in the future. With regard, sincerely yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT." SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES The girl's new bath-room at Tuskegee is now in use; a great improvement over the old one. It supplies a long felt want. It cost $6,500. The one being constructed for the young men will cost $5,500 when completed. 000 For the past session our enrollment was 870 students. Of this number there were 200 males and 170 females. The number preparing for the ministry was 35, number in industrial departments 50; numbers preparing to teach, 83. Average attendance for the year, 221; number of boarders, 113. Almost every county in the black belt was represented by one or more students, also the States of Texas and Mississippi and Indian and Oklahoma Territories.—Prof Jos A. Booker Arkansas Baptist College. 000 The college classes are deeply interested in President Wright's class talks on ethics. His manner of explaining and simplifying the many abstractions met with in the study is interesting.—College, (Ga) Journal. 000 A conference of the Presidents of the Colored State A & M., Colleges has been called to meet in Chattanooga, Tenn, March 11th and 12th, to consider important matters connected with that work. 000 The twelfth annual Tuskegee Negro conference began its sessions at Tuskegee N. and I school at Tuskegee, Ala., February 14. It was organized by Principal Booker T. Washington for the purpose of bringing together the Negro farmers and their wives who live in the vincinity of Tuskegee once a year for the purpose of council and advice with each other. Mr. Washington presided at all the sessions and delivered the opening address, in part saying: "We shall get more out of struggle than out of contentment, etc. etc." Following this address was a general discussion by the farmers and their wives of their conditions. Those owning land and homes told how they acquired it, what difficulties they had met, etc. A careful census was made by Roscoe Conkiing Bruce to show how many owned land, homes, live stock, etc., how many mortgaged their crops, how many come out ahead each year, how many individuals in a family, the nature and length of the schools, nature of the homes, etc. There was a large attendance at the workers' conference Feb. 18, made up of prominent educators of both An Ideal Woman's Medicine. Mary So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of 325 So. College St., Nashville, Tenn., of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for female diseases equalled that attained by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never during the lifetime of this wonderful medicine has the demand for it been so great as it is to-day. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the length and breadth of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman's sufferings relieved by it, and thousands upon thousands of letters are pouring in from grateful women saying that it will and positively does cure the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all women who are puzzled about their health to write her at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Such correspondence is seen by women only, and no charge is made. races, and people interested in Negro education. Hot Springs, Ark., Special. — The week's carnival, which just closed on Friday night, March 6th, at Haven's Chapel was a financial success as well as an up-to-date entertainer. Mr. Will Daly and Lorena Williams were quietly married Feb. 22d. Mrs. E. D. Harrison of Chicago is here for the season. Bishop George Clinton of A. M. E. Zion church preached at the Auditorium on Sunday, March 1st. The seventh Bohemian fair at Roanoke Baptist church commenced March 9th, lasting one week. The late arrivals at the Manila hotel, this city, were John Franklin of New York, Miss Sallie Smith of Chicago, Ill., Sam Watson of St. Louis, Mo., and Charles Gordon of Chicago, Ill Say, good time waiters and bellmen, save your money as the season will soon be over and dull times on hand. Subscribe for The Freeman, the popular Negro journal. Copies of The Freeman are on sale at Fred D Thomas' barbershop, 242 E. Second street, Los Angeles, Cal. A SUMMER SCHOOL. The Tuskegee Summer Normal Institute for colored teachers will be in session from June 29 to August 4. B. Moore and Kelley Miller of Howard University and Dr. Lucy Moten, Principal of the Negro Normal School, Washington, D. C., Dr. W. Dr. Moore, and Prof. H. Albert of the State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Pa. will be among the lecturers and teachers of the school. For full information regarding courses offered, tuition, equipment, railway rates, etc., address Tuskegee, A. Boarer T., Washington, Principal, Tuskegee, A. Boarer. Hardware, Pumps, Pipes, Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE, Telephone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA H C. Krentler & Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Artificial Limbs, Deform ity Braces, Trusses, Elastic Stockings, Crutches Shoe Extensions, Ace Plates, Etc. Surgical Instrument Repairing Discount to Physician Discount to Carrier 303 Massachusetts Ave. 208 Esat New York St INDIANAPOLIS, IND. New Phone 1289. H C. Krentler & Co MANUFACTURERS OF Artificial Limbs, Deformity Braces, Trusses, Elastic Stockings, Crutches, or Plates, Etc., Surgical Instrument Repairing, Discount to Physicians Write for terms 303 Massachusetts Ave. 208 East New York St. INDIANAPOLIS, IN New Phone 1289. Palms and Plants of all Kinds 201 N. Illinois Street. Phone New 3002. THE CZAR CIGAR STORE AND SHINING PARLO First-class in every respect. The best attention 226 Indiana Avenue. HENRY BRACKEN, Manager, SAMUEL E. GRAY, Proprietor. Novel, Interesting, Monthly Magazine For the Colored Music Teacher, Student and Music-lover. Fine Premiere and Music-Exhibition Home. School and College Library! Year.$1.00.10c. per copy. For sample copy, send 10c. to THE NEGRO MUSIC JOURNAL I D. St. S. E. Washington, D.C. Whittemore's Polishes The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of Shoe Polishes in the World. "Gilt Edge" for Ladies' and Children's Black Shoes "Superb" (a Paste) for Patent or Enameled Leather Shoes "Elite" for "box calf" and black "Vicl Kid" Shoes "Champion" Friction Polish (a black liquid) ONCE USED. ALWAYS USED WE USE WHITTEMORES POLISHES WE USE WHITTEMORES POLISHES Liquid Cleaners (all colors), per qt., 38c; per gal. 1.00 Polishing Paste (all colors), per doz., large, 75c; medium, 42c; per 4 lb. box, 1lb.; per 4 lb. box. 25 WHITTEMORE BROS. & CO. 20-22-24 and 26 Albany Street, BOSTON, MASS SUITS - - $20.00 and TROUSERS $4.00 and SUITS - - $20.00 and up TROUSERS $4.00 and up Deutsch Tailoring Co. 41 S. Illinois Street. A Stetson H A Stetson Hat Wilson Shirt Braxtan Tie and one of Our New WH will help you to dress exceedingly !Let us show them to you. F. A. BRAXTA THE BOULDING SU Masonic, Pythian, Odd Fellows, Military Applications Aprons Books Badges Banners Buttons Belts Bells Caps Coats Cards Certificates Charts Charms Collars Columns Drill Tactic⁶ Demits Diplomas Engravings Flags Gavels Gloves Of Our New White VESTS will help you to dress exceedingly tasteful. I Let us show them to you. BRAXTAN. 42 W. Wash. Street THE BOULDING SUPPLY AGENCY OF Brian. Odd Fellows, Military, Band, Tent and Eastern Star S Gau Joker Lodge Lette Life Ac In Mass Med Man Ode Peth S Play Pine Prin Reg Seal Speed Swo Uni F. A. BRAXTAN. 42 W. Wash. Street Aprons Books Badges Banners Buttons Belts Bells Caps Coats Cards Certificates Charts Charms Collars Columns Drill Tactic⁶ Demits Diplomas Engravings Flags Gavels Gloves Joke Books Lodge Jewels Letter-heads Life and Accident Insurance Masonic Poetry Medals Mauls Ode Music Petitions Summon Plays Pins Printing Regalia Seals Speech Books 3words Uniforms BENJ. R. BOULDING, R. W., Grand Lecturer Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Virginia: Past Chancellor, Phoenix K. of P. Colonel 2nd Regiment, (10 companies) Uniform Rank, K. of People's Lodge Company, and in the U. S. Railway Mall Service and Charge" on the Southern R. R. He represents twelve (12) of the largest Publishing and Supply companies in America, best goods, lowest price no pay. There is no middleman, you save by buying from us, Prompt a Everything direct from the factories at factory prices. Discount give When writing, use your Iodge Seal or give name and number of position in same. Give names and addresses of Master and Secretary names and addresses of Grand Master and Secretary of State. Do you you papa? Let us teach think work and save. Is there a Negro Bank, Book, Drug, Dry Goods or Shoe Store in your Give your boy One Dollar and let him sell apples, cakes, candy, pay Teach him business. Canvass:--See each brother separately first, get their orders, then go backed by these orders. Can give you a yiking made, or make anything to or cash order for goods for samples. Send money by Money Order or Registered BENJ. R. BOULDING, 307 Church St., NOI Unlimited Testimonials:--J. M Russey, Sec., Chidester, Ark.: "Er Thank you, can give you a yiking made, or make anything to or cash order for goods for samples. Send money by Money Order or Registered BENJ. R. BOULDING, 307 Church St., NOI Unlimited Testimonials:--J. M Russey, Sec., Chidester, Ark.: "Er Thank you, can give you a yiking made, or make anything to or cash order for goods for samples. Send money by Money Order or Registered BENJ. R. BOULDING, 307 Church St., NOI Accepted Masons of Virginia; Past Chancollor, Phoenix Lodge and Second Regiment, (10 companies) Uniform Rank, K of P, Pr. Company, and is in the U. R. Railway Mail Service and runs a Southern R. R. He represents twelve (12) of the largest Manu- Supply companies in America, best goods, lowest prices, satis- iste is no middleman, you save by buying from us. Prompt attention direct from the factories at factory prices. Discount given. Write, use your Lodge Seal or give name and number of Lodge. Give names and addresses of Master and Secretary of Lodge. Address of Grand Master and Secretary of State. Do you subscribe is read, think, work and save. Negro Bank, Book, Drug, Dry Goods or Shoe Store in your city? Boy One Dollar and let him sell apples, cakes, candy, papers and business. Seek brother separately first. get their orders, then go before to orders. Can give you a ything made, or make anything to order. Seek goods for samples. Send money by Money Order or Registered Letter. BENJ. R. BOULDING, 307 Church St., NORFOLK Testimonials:—J. M Russey, Sec., Chidester, Ark.: "Entire sa-ies, W. M., Terry, Miss.: "The collars and jewels are finest so-ond, D. D. G. M., Winter Park, Fla.: "Bro. Boulding, we are so we-ss, that I have come again for another order." Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Virginia; Past Chancellor, Phoenix Lodge No. 44 K. of P., Colonel 2nd Regiment, (10 companies) Uniform Rank, K. of P.; President of People's Loan Company, and is in the U. S. Railway Mail Service and runs "Clerk in Charge" on the Southern R. R. He represents twelve (12) of the largest Manufacturing Publishing and Supply companies in America, best goods, lowest prices, satisfaction or no pay. There is no middleman, you save by buying from us. Prompt attention. Do not forget that for a discount give me a call. When writing, use your Lodge Seal or give name and number of Lodge and your position in same. Give names and addresses of Master and Secretary of Lodge, also names and addresses of Grand Master and Secretary of State. Do you subscribe to a race paper? Let us read, think, work and save. Is there a Negro Bank, Book, Drug, Dry Goods or Shoe Store in your city? Give your boy One Dollar and let him sell apples, cakes, candy, papers and peanuts. Taste him imminent. Cavess: See me, brother separately first, get their orders, then go before the lodge backed by these orders. Can give you a yithing made, or make anything to order. Send in your cash order for goods for samples. Send money by Money Order or Registered Letter to BENJ. R. BOULDING, 307 Church St., NORFOLK, VA. Unlimited Testimonials:—J. M. Russey, Sec., Chidester, Ark.: "Entire satisfaction. Thank you." M. W. Jones, W. M., Terry, Miss.: "The aprons, collars and jewels are finest seen in this section." section." A. T. Redmond, D. D. G. M., Winter Parr, Fla.: "Bro. Boulding, we are so well pleased with your goods, that I have come again for another order." Cut Prices on our special ground glasses for headache, distress in eyes or head, etc. Belief guaranteed. Eyes examined free. DR. BOYER, 21 W. Ohio street, INDIANAPOLIS, one square n of monument. 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of Every Description. Most Complete Line of Hair in this Country for Colored People. 30c buys a single braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. 60c buys a double braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. 75c buys a Grete Switch, to inches long Brown or Black. BICYCLES $25 to $85 ATHLETIC GOODS. Geo. C. Detch Wheel Co. 206 N. Penn. St. BED WETTING CURED. BOX FREE. Kanervo Co., R. 28, 1009-18th St., Milwaukee, Wisc. KANETO CO., R. 25, 1000-13th St., MINNACO, WI. WHITEN MORE'S GILT EDGE ADDRESSING FINE FINES LIGHTWEIGHT LAUNDRY COLOR IUSTRE GILT EDGE BLACKKES' COLOR FINISH WITH WATER WHITE MORE'S GILT EDGE WHITEN MORE'S GILT EDGE HISTORICAL MUSEUM MILITARY MEDICINE HISTON HIRES 1892 Better than ever. As good as the best. $20.00 and up $4.00 and up Betson Hat shirt Tie VESTS 42 W. Wash. Street AGENCY OF Tent and Eastern Star Supplies Gauges Joke Books Lodge Jewels Letter-heads Life and Accident Insurance Masonic Poetry Medals Mauls Ode Music Petitions Summon Plays Pins Printing Regalia Seals Speech Books Swords Uniforms Chancellor, Phoenix Lodge No. 44 iform Rank, K, of P.; President of v mall Service and runs "Clerk in the (12) of the largest Manufacturing goods, lowest prices, satisfaction or from us, Prompt attention. Prices. Discount given. name and number of Lodge and your ister and Secretary of Lodge, also of State. Do you subscribe to a race or Shoe Store in your city? socks, candy, papers and peanuts. your orders, then go before the Lodge make anything to order. Send in your order or Registered Letter to Church St., NORFOLK, VA. kidder, Ark.: "Entire satisfaction, collar and jewels are finest seen in this Gro. Boulding, we are so well pleased er." HAIR SWITCHES hangs and Wigs of Every Description. Most Complete Ling of Hair Goods in this Country for Colored Coats. Kinky Hair 10 inches long 72. Kinky Hair 10 inches long, Brown or Black $1.00 buys a Creeel Switch, 20 inches long, Brown or Black $3.00 buys a Creeel Switch, 22 inches long, Black or Brown $3.00 buys a Naural, Wavy, Hand- made switch like cut and of hair when ordering Creeel Switches. Send money with order and get your goods by return mail. Send Stamp for catalogue. T. W. TAYLOR, 39 Congress St., E. Detroit, Mich. When Writing Please Mention this Paper. BOX CALF PASTE FOR BOX CALF VICI KID PATENT ENAMEL LEATHERS WHITTEMO ELITE POLE BOX CALF KID AND ELITE LEATHERS Box Calf 1.1 for THE W DILLARD roo you his the he ing den Spr of me hig C er THE FREEMAN desires the name and address of every colored headwaiter in the United States. Please send us your name and address, also that of all other headwaiters that you know. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. Written for The Indianapolis Freeman, DON'T FRET. And there are moments fraught with sigh and tear; Think of her whose eyes are wet, Whose heart is sad, and the unsung song Lies dull on lips that sadly miss The press of the warm impassioned kiss Look up through the skies are black above Still shines the star of hope and love; Best thee assured it is God's way, And joy'll be thine some day, some day. Josie D. Henderson Heard J. C Donley, formerly assistant superintendent of cafes at Hotel-Pantena, Grand Rapids. Mich., and captain in gents' cafe, Palmer house, Chicago, is now superintendent of dining room at the Boody house, Toledo, O. P. BUSINESS MEDIUM. MRS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test MEDIUM, everything she fears of Life, Business, Love and Marriage a speciality. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangement from her life. Her in her startling revelation of the past present and future event in one's life. Remember, she will not, for any price, flatter you, you will not. She can be consulted on all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friends, see, with description of future companion. She can be consulted on all affairs of friends, enemies, etc. Her advice upon sickness, change in business, journeys, isawitness. contested wills, divorce and speculation is valiant good or bad; she withholds nothing. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not everyone who placards her or herself as a medium that can stand a test of what the medium is. And a person of any enquiring mind should be able to acquire that these advisers do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a mom, with acquiring the art of persuasion, and they will have a tendency to n. the pathway to the road of the business and devoid of accidents. They are undeniable fact that persons will some for advice-in full knowledge. so of what they want to know, and yet as on as they confront a Medium they try the. most enmorable to dispel from their minds, that they know the medium. To get the secret out of a person by "pumping," in no few cases, is the art used by unprincipaled Mediums, but to take hold of the medium, by persuasion, by is a matter of impossibility to most of them, and yet this can be done, and by consulting a medium. This seeming mystery becomes a real threat has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. It proves conclusively that although there are singers in our midst with "oily tongues," perhaps of wisdom have not been closed to them. It takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished Medium, and by a continuous and diligent effort, the key to the well of appreciation is the belief that we open procured by MRS. MARTH for the benefit of humanity. By letter, advice $1.00. Hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. All letters must contain sta ps for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH 246 iW. 315f St.' New York City. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER C. H. Barton, headwaiter at the Illinois house, Bloomington, ill., is covering himself with glory in his present position. His management of the dining room is superb, and he is among the young class of headwaiters. He lectures his men in dining room conduct, and they congratulate him upon the interest he takes in them. Mr. Barton is boarding his earnings, and as one of the evidences, he owns stock in a grocery in Springfield. Mr. Taylor, the manager of the hotel, also has the respect of his men, and they, in turn, hold him in high admiration. Charles Saunders, formerly headwaiter at the Iroquois, St. Paul, Minn., is now a prominent caterer of that city. Chesa William Wadkins, who has been in charge of the culinary department of the Caddo, Shreveport, La., is now at his home in Rogersville, Tenn. He was called home on account of the death of his father, and will now remain there until May when he will go to Tate Springs for the season. Mr. Wadkins is one of the leading chefs in the South. ```markdown ``` 1—Chicken salad. 2—Lobster salad. 3—Bread and butter sandwiches. 4—Bon bons. 5—Olives. An excellent full-page likeness of Major T. H. Frazier, one of the leading headwaiters of the country, in charge of the dining rooms of the Chittenden, Columbus, O., appears on the frontispiece of the current issue of "Hotel Life" published at Cleveland, O. In commenting upon the efficiency of his work, among other things, it says: "He is fully acquainted with the duties of all parts of hotel work, having started in his boyhood days as a barber shop boy; second, as a bell boy; then into the dining room as officers' waiter. Having proved his faithfulness, he lost no time in pushing himself from ordinary sidewaiter to captain of watch; then as second waiter, until he reached his present position." I Headwaiter (The English Hotel) who, in all probability, will assume charge of the new Claypool (old Bates house) Indianapolis, Ind. The West house at Minneapolis, Minn., is among the latest hotels wrestled from the colored hotel men, having gone on the European plan. The reasons for this are manifold, among which may be mentioned a crew that was reported to be sloven and "behind the times." The same old, old story of non-progressive, ante-deluvian waiters who boss the headwatter and attempt to run the hotel over the manager's protest. The chef and his crew also "got gay" and they were turned out in the "frost and snow." Some colored men must understand that hotels are run for the benefit of guests and not for the special accommodation of its servants. The Freeman regrets to learn of this misfortune, but, at the same time, glad to know that a large part of the crew found employment with Mr. Charles W. Dwyer, headwalter of the Commercial Club, that city. The Faulkner-Webb Co 615-625 South Capital Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Manufacturers of Pickles, Catsups, Mustards, Vinegars, Sauces and Packers of "The Fa-W Brand" Pork and Beans, Kidney Beans, Concentrated Soups, Sweet Corn and Peas. All Headwalters, Steward and Butlers are respectfully asked to support this Ad so far as may lay in their power. Mr. Stein, manager of the Nicolett house, Minneapolis, Minn., recently presented a type-written letter to his waiters impressing them of his knowledge of their bad conduct in accepting tips. It spoke of them holding back checks and mistreating guests who would not tip them. Where was the headwaiter? Mr. B. Holman, headwaiter of the Albion hotel, St. Paul, Minn., would like to know the whereabouts of Mr John Lindsay, chef cook; would like to 6—Six-inch plates, piled. 7—Table spoons. 8—Forks. 9—Large vase of cut flowers. x—Roses. correspond with him'on very important business. Please reply at once. 14 tf Tod Mack of Troy, O., is now at the Illinois house, Bloomington, Ill. Personal Items. Palo Alto, Cal., Special.—Mr. L. Terrell has accepted a position with Dr. Black. Mrs. McCall was in town last week making arrangements to build. Mrs. Harding of Red Wood City is the guest of Mrs. Wm. Picket. R. English made a business trip last week. THE PENCE 132 W. Washington Street, Near Park Theatre. Cool Beer Between Acts. Has been Sport. L.Hamilton Fine Wines, Liquors and Clgars. 442 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. While passing why dont you stop at The Boys Exchange 429 Indiana Ave. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. You can have a fine time. We handle the very best of goods wines, cigars and liquors of all kinds. Good music every evening from 7 to 11. at bar {William Harris Herman Wright entertainers {Samuel Elliott E. T. Snow FRANK BUCKNER, -PROPRIETOR. CLARENCE ELLIOTT, Dispenser. 125 West Colfax Street "The Derby Bar" JAS. C. THOMAS, Prop. Fine Wines and Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars. Celebrated K. & S. Beer always on tap. South Bend, Ind. ROUND TABLE. o—Ferns. TELEPHONES 545 Beds and Butlers are respectfully asked to support in their power. METZGER'S 1877 RYE WHISKEY YELLOW AND NUTRITIOUS Choice Liquors, Wines and Cigars Trade Solicited on Merit of Goods Pool and Billiard Parlors. .....New'Phone 3026 Prop. ARCHIE GREATHOUSE Liquors the Purest. Cigars the Best. Get Your Money's Worth at SAM F. 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The field is promising and offers wonderful inducements to men with money to invest. All inquiries along this line will receive immediate attention by sending your communications to the above address. IE BARRISTER" Oc use and Robert Parker champions of this SMOKE "THE BARRISTER" Archie Greathouse and Robert Parker Special champions of this THE KEYSTONE A High Class Hotel for GENTLEMEN ONLY. ELECTRIC LIGHT, STEAM HEAT, HOT AND COLD BATHS. CAFE and SAMPLE ROOM ATTACHED. 3002 State Street, Chicago, Ill S. R. SNOWDEN, Proprietor. Melrose 440 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. "The Bank Liquor House"-Choice Wines and Liquors. The best 5 cent drink in the city. Cigars and Tobacco. Special price on all bottled goods. ABE KRAUSS, Proprietor—ormerly with E. Mantell, corner of Capitol and Indiana Avenues. (1) PETER H. 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Beet Yates on WE TE Urs. PTB eee eee Be Entered at tha postofie. at Indi Sndlans, asteco.d choas matter” alanapolis ——— il mattor should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND, > GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. ——— SATURDAY, MAROH 14, 1908. CLOSE SCRUTINY. Owing to the interest manifest in the race question we are receiving many clippings and marked newspapers that comment on the situaticn. Asa whole the comment {s favorable and usually those unfavorable spring some traths that are worth coneidering. Among a late batch of clippings, more or less violent in tone, is one which we repro- aoe in part: “The only ambition of the best edu- cated Negro is to have his ability recog- nized by the whites. His love for his own people—his interests in thelr ad- vancement, generally speaking —has never yet reached the point where he mates the sacrifice of living among his Jess favored brethren and doing personal work in trying to uplift them. On the contrary, the greatest ‘aristocrats’ and the most exclusive people—from thelr standpotat —in our country are the Negroes with a little education and a Uttle white blood. They hold them- selves most rigidly aloof from ‘common niggers,’ as they call them This trait 1s as noticeable in the North as in the South.” ‘The accusation, while not altogether just, is not without some trath. The arraignment from the “white side” of the question proves the close scrutiny that the “black side” is receiving. The criticism is one that has been spoken in whispers by the Negroes and not in whispers at all times, but at that the writer 1s too severe. He has touched on 8 question that is as intricately woven in the race question as the question in the main. It would be folly to attempt to discuss the many phases, but it can be said, in short, that the white peopie are quite as much responsible for the situation spoken of as those accused, owing to the preference chown the class. ‘The question branches out and the race, ethnologically considered, enters with its type-man, deals, and so forth, which calls for unending discussion that would be wasted except on those who are simply searching for the trath for truth’s sake. It opens up the ques- tions of bloods, heredity, descent, eto. Nor can it be seen that these sub-ques- tions vitally affect the main question. They can be only successfully treated at length and by other means than news- Paper articles. It 1s question within the race and it should be considered there. A subscriber from Rogersville, Tenn., bemoans the fate of his town because, in a recent election, it voted anti- saloons or against whisky. Hesays the town overflowed with white women, and that it was a sight tosee them grab colored men and carry them to the polls to vote in their interest. The writer then says: “But the ‘Negroes have done what the white peo- ple want, and now if they look ata white woman they will be lynched.” Nothing of the kind. The women’s ‘work was in the interest of morals, good cltizenship, economy and home; a work in the right direction, althongh their zeal displayed may haye overshot the mark of what may be considered the rights of others ‘The writer may be sarcastic when he says, ‘I have always asked my friends to come to my home and epend their vacation with me, but as it is now I will have to hunt meanew home. I won't stay in any town that can’t afford to have whisky,” but it doed not appear so. It may be seen why the writer might object if his living depended on a “wet” town, but otherwise he ought to be contented to abide by the will of the majority. ‘The writer says farther: “One of our leading colored citizens swore he would not votes dry ticket, but before the ballot box was closed he forsook all his friends and voted it; he conld not withstand the temptation of the white ladies.” The writer evidently is in earnest, but is misguided as to duty and right. The leading citizen of color simply filled his post as he should have done. If the town was being debauched by whisky as the ladies seems to have thought ic was not beyond thelr daty to attempt to eave it, and if erring, then with Goldsmith, it was on virtue’s side. The leading colored citizen has nothing to be ashamed of, and if there is any honor in it, it came from the side he aocepted. Whisky needs no advocates; its strong combatant; it oan generally win in its own victories. The vigilance must be practiced on the other elde. ‘The Freeman has no cause against saloons nor whisky, but they need at- tention, need limitations as those of years gone by had the excellent fore- sight to see; especially is it so in small communities where there is not that diversity of amusement to occupy the minds of the people. Rev. H. 8. Herrod, at the ex-slave pension meeting, said that the idea of getting pensions for old Negroes was foolish, and that the colored man should not depend on Congress to help him, but should work ont bis own salvation. His speech met the approval of the au- dience. So the Mr. Promoter can just fold up his tent and sneak away. Rev. Herrod had the righteous hardihood to throttle the engine of mischief in this community. He deeerves the applause of all right thinking people for helping toequelch @ movement that promises never ending troubles. ‘The race was not a public ward when it should have been one. And now, at this day, there is a0 disposition to make it one, nor is the necessity nearly so great, and great as the necessity may be, there still is the lack of disposition for severa} reasons far too great to ever overcome. Rev. Morton made the expression that the “fool Negroes could never organize.” Well, if that isa sample of the organ- izing industry it would better that they never organize. Cut ont the fool pro- ject. ‘Fool’ needs a good forcible ex- pletive in front of it at that. Indi- vidual assininity is sufficient without an order—vale—exit. ‘The Bungaloos are again in evidence according to the reports of Sunday night’s melee. It is said that two drunken Negroes caused the row by their conduct on the main streets, eto. The Bungaloos are not the police, whc should have dealt with the rowdy Ne groes. The city narrowly escaped lynching scene, which would have add- ed farther disgrace. The Negroes are to be condemned for thelr conduct as well as the Bungaloos, who are not policemen. What we may say for or against the parties will not help very much, We may say, how. ever, that all Negroes know that there is some race feeling; it's everywhere and knowing this, drunken men and sober men, in running counter to it, dc it at their peril. it’s no pleasing tack to defend rowdy drunken men under any circumstances. Punishment was dne them, but we insist that the police and not the mob should have taken the matter in hand. It is said that the Negroes of Mis- sonri will petition the President with the view of having him defeat the meas- ure to give the St. Louis World's Fair #5 000,000 by Congress for its promotion in event the legislature passes the “Jim Crow” car law in that State. It would be better to exert the influence toward the defeat of the bill rather than at- tempting to defeat the project. The movement, if what is said is trae, is indiscreet—very, very indiscreet. ‘Jim Crow” cars are not desirable simply be- cause they stand for an un-American idea and not abhorrent otherwise, at teast to that degree which calls for such retaliation. Petition the legislators; we are in no attitude to threaten, as much as we may not like tne assertion ‘The Missouri leaders will make a blun- der if they carry out what is said to be thelr program. Work on the legisla- iat ‘The Kansas Legislature bas passed a barber's bill with an examining board attachment. The board is to be made up of two members who must be mem- bers of the union. Colored men do not belong to the union, and there you are. “Nick” Chiles, the colored politician, says, “We will see that the law is knocked out by the Supreme Court” “We will see, ete,;” that is a pretty brisk statement, and under the circum- stances most especially so. It does ap- pear to us that inserting a word that would designate race would be quite as fairas a word designating a soolety, and in jastice to colored men who are so largely in the barbering business, a position is due them on such boards. ‘Mr Chiles will stand a better chance of winning his case if he does not try to win it before he files it. The legislature adjourned without making a new primary election law or revising the old one. The great major- ity of the members had no personal ex- periencs with the working of the present law, hence could not know its defects. The Marion county delegation, however, could have helped in the matter, bat could they afford to impeach the very laws that had so much to do with their own making? Thanks are due the Maron county delegation in the legislature for putting down the barbers’ bill. It was legisla- tion by negation, and those opposed to the bill, mainly the colored barbers, are bappy- Dr. J. M. Townsend of this city has just closed s very suocessful revival meeting, during which many persons were added to the church as converts and by renewing their membership Dr. Townsend is of the A. M. E church ands prominent candidate for bishop. ‘The very mach desired position has been almost within his grasp on several 00- casions, but he has relied on the theory of everything comes to those who wait, perhaps, too much so. In the amended form and to sult the day, it reads, “Everything comes to those who wait and work, even unto eclesiastical can- Aldates.”” THE BIGGEST RACE ENTERPAL (INCORPORATED) Capi apital Stock, $50,000. 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Thus the lack of $500 or $1,000 in ready money costs multitudes of men thelr one chance of success— snatched from thelr grasp the luxury of financial independence and doomed them to the perpetual grind of pover- ty. This is more true of the colored man than of any other race or class. ‘This was in our minds when The Wilgera Oil & Gas Co., offered to place the sale of its stock at Two ($2) dollars per share. We recognize that this stock would make the fortunes of hundreds. And we resolved to make the price of this stock so that a lack of money should not cause deserving colored men to lose there one chance to gain Competence—that we would place it at a price that men and women of moderate means might become stockol’ ers and stand shoulder to shoulder with thuse more fortunate financially. The stock is non-assessable, thas mak- {ng {t imposelble for the wealthier colored men to force the man of small means out of a good thing. Subscribe atonce. The Only Way to Earn Riches Is in Good investment, Such as Rey. J. D, Gordon of Atlanta, Ga., has an excellent article in a recent issue of the Atlanta News, wherein he thanks the editor of that paper for his timely words on the race question. Rev. Gor- don’s article is temperate, conservative and full of judicious advice to his own race. The News was very generous, according him much space, which was well occupied. ‘The mase meeting in New York was ® great affair. It hailed President Roosevelt as the great apostle of free- dom. Fervid ‘Lord bless him,” puncta- ated at every favorable angle. Bishop W. B. Derrick paid his respects to Sen- ator Tillman in very forcefal language. ‘While casting around for Presidential timber don’t forget the distinguished Fairbanks, the Senfor Senator of In- diana; he’s a thirteen-inch gun also. The Indiana Legislature needed a nerve tonic or comethirg quieting; it had the legislative jim jams. Mayor E. P. Howell of Atlanta, Ga., at the edacational mass meeting recent- ly held in that city, said in part: “There is 8 false ides throughout this country regarding the condition of the races.”” “I don't believe there is any difference between the good white man and the good Negro ‘There is no feeling between the old master and bisex slave. Why shouldn't we be willing to help you? We were not responsible for your being here England evarted the slave trade and later New England took it up and brought the bulk of them over here. As a former slave owner I tell you I thank God yon are free. “The great reason why we don’t get along better is prejudice.» You have suffered from it; we have suffered from “Why, these race problems have always existed. They have been here ever since the time that Cain and Abel came into the world “The way to settle the race problem is for you to work for the uplifting of both races If @ man does something wrong, or commits a orime, don't shield him. Giye him up to the law. He Is degrading you. He is pulling you down.” Mayor Howell advised the Negroes to bay land and commence farming. “Keep out of politics” “Have noth- ing to do with it. I don’tcare how you vote. All I want you todo is to keep away from the politicians.” A Good Appointment. Mommonth, Ill., Special —The weath- erman has been very good to us the past few days, spring weather. The boys of the Warren County Republican Club were all smiles on the morning of the 12th, because the man they endorsed for the janitorship of the court-house, R. L. Wallace, began work the ist, at a salary of $1.120 per year. There were twenty-five applicants, all white but two, This is the first time that a black man has’ had fall charge. The Club was organized a little over a year ago by 8. J. Willians and they are doing excellent work and obtaining the proper recognition, Rev J. W. Crashan ts is here assisting Rev. G. C. Mason of the Second Baptist church in a revival. Zacariah Twyman is lying very low at his home in S First street. Mrs Mar- tha Mason, wife of Rev G O. Mason is very sick. Rev G. W. Jones ts meeting with much snecese in his pastorate of the A. M. E church. Paid a Welcome Visit. New Albany, Miss.. Special.—H. B. Jordan, an old representative of The Freeman, stopped in our clty last week ‘and secured several subscribers. While ia the city he stopped at Bigham’s res- taurant. We feel that he did us much good and will welcome him again. A Good Advice. If you are troubled with kinky or curly hair use Ozonized Ox Marrow, it will make your hair straight, soft and beantifal. If your hair is falling out, Ozonized Ox Mar. row 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 that imparts to the hair a healthy, life: like appearance so much desired. Sold over 40 years, Never fails. Warranted harm: less. 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Kink, rank Watson, Jacke Larking, Jno Watkins, Jack Ease, 8 ‘West, Pap McCoy, Geo. Williams, Andy tol OL — —s—iéi109004 FRO TE- 193 -ROUTE— = 1004 Hoon & McCuats's tant sxx" Co—Spring eli’ Mansy Starch 16t0 51. WA. Misana, Mixerna, ( estorn-Frank Wvahare Mer-Poutins Tit, Mare ie ‘Tue Horrest Goox 1% Dixte. Beaver Falls, Pag Maroh Ti endville, 10; New Castle, 17: 8 HS eof abil OU Os Rictanns & Parsaur ~ Fawous Ganratas—To ke, Kane, Mare 10. Wiunus 4 WauEee’s “In Dasowor” Com {ici Work elty Indefinite by Miyoruan, Fusrivat, (Busco & Holland) — aycltcrlle, Teun. Mareb 10; 8, Pittsburg i’MeMinnville, 17; Tallahoma, 18; Shelby: tes 18; Jackson, 20. biacx Pari Taowaanouas (Yoolekel & Nolan iHsmnliton, On March ld: Koxomo, 1nd. 10 Marion, li; Brankfort, 18; Indianapolis, 10 Daytou, On 20 and 21 Msiiony Bris, (Feuberg Stock, Co.}—Bangor, ics week of burch 16 <Corge Bass, the young comedian, with Gideon's” minstrels, is singing Tho Missionary Man.” “La” She writes that he has a few jars, county and street fairs booked for the summer season. Lana Prampin, cornet soloist and oculist, is playing a retun date week af the thh at the Crystal Grotto, Madi- on, Wis. Regards to friends. Will Goff Kennedy sends regards to Ri Tolliver, Will Garland, Henry Me- Caton, Fountain Woods, the Allen hush, and all friends, You will hear irdine sneclweeee Amos Gillaird is at Pat Chappelle's Rockingham Theatér, Sends his -best regards to. the “Student Doctors,” boys, I will certainly be up in God's country next season if nothing hap- pens. Mattie Wilkes was among those seen present at the Williams and Walker Performance by Sylvester Russell, on Monday evening, March 2. She was hooling as beautiful as when last seen in the “Smart Set” Company. Hurry Brown opened the 9th on the Wiconsin eireuit, playing Racine, Mil- Kapkce and Madison with Kensington, Ul. to follow. Mr. Brown has signed & tite years’ contract with the Mu- ‘ue! Lyceum Bureau as feature and Daneser of one of their companies. “The Great Wang-Doodie Comedy Quarette,” James White, Erb Robin- fou, Tarvey Goodall and Julius Glenn, hay Joon engaged as especial attrac: tion with Gus Hill and Bob Manches- ters “Vanity Fair” Company. They Dove vat @ quartette of saxophones to their set whieh is quite a new and Novel feature. Holman writes from “Hottest SA Dixie” Company: Our en- Sisement at Wheeling, W, Va. was very enjoyable and incidentally profit- : we broke all records for five off ive shows, and during the en- fecnent Billy Miller, our leading Soimedian, tendered the entire com- Jon 0 banquet, and it was the most i: © event of the season, this be- 1. 5ulv’s home (by acclamation). Vis, he was well remembered: by his THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. friends, both white and black, having had so many bouquets passed over the footlights that the show was delayed at each performance from ten to eigh- teen minutes. Prof, James Y. Gilliam's cornet band and Harry C. Holland’s “Hottest Coon in Dixie” orchestra came in for their share of praise from both pres sand public. The new show is meeting with the public's approval. The entire company sends regards to Daddy Love, P, Ross Hendrix, and all friends. Notes from the Domino Theatre, Fernandina, Fla.:—We are still among the land of the living. DeVine & Wil- liams are on their third week and are making more than good. They’ are taking from two to three encores and curtain calls nightly. Miss Minnie Carrol‘has apened for an indefinite period. We are among the many houses in the South that never close, and can make room for a few more creole ladies, Hi Henry Hunt, of the N. O.°Minstrels, spent two days with his friend. Webster Williams, Den- nis & Jones send regaards to all friends. Dennis is singing “I'm a Jonah,” with success. Web. Williams is featuring “I've got my Eyes on You.” Miss Stella Jones is rendering “When ate and I were Coming through the Rye.” Miss Vida DeVine is intro- ducing “My Starlight Sue.” Miss Car- rie Hall is rendering “I just can’t Help from Loving that Man.” Miss Minnie Carrol is singing “Gracie, Father Kin- nie,” says the band played my “High Born Lady.” Regards to Tom Logan. We clip the following from a Rock- ford, Ill, daily? “A large house and a thoroughly de- lighted one marked the appearance here at the rGand last night, of Gid eon’s Big Minstrels. Not for a long time has a better troupe of cclored minstrels visited Rockford, if indeed, a better one ever came here. A good deal of the genuine spirit of minstrel- sy in injected into the performance, and this with some especially good singing, clever specialties and genuine comedy makes up a decidedly interest- ing program. Many unmistakable “hits” featured the engagement. The rst part is a strong one and the set- ting was very pretty. ‘The vocal se lections of Copeland, Moss, Harris, Rice, Turner, Johnson were all praise- worthy. Skinner Harris perhapsiead- ing in favor. His comedy caught the audience and the little satire he and Dusdanes contrive was a good thing. ‘The singing of the quartette was pleas- ing in every way. It is an exception ally well balanced organization. “La he” did his remarkable feats on the slack wire and a number of novelties in the way of specialties illumined the program. ‘Many people there are who say min- strelsy is far from what it was in the good old days, but nevertheless there are a number of first class organiza- tions in theis favorite line of entertain- ment and the Gideons seem to be in the van.” Napoleon Johnson writes from Big Minstrel Festival: There are two towns we played this season that I will never forget, viz., Lampasses, ‘Tex., and Brocton, Ala. We played the latter on the 6th and any one that has had—may I say thé pleasure—of show- ing either one of the said places will quite agree with me when I say once played they will never be forgotten, es- pecially when you have to parade from car. ct the business done amply paid for the walk we had. The show is run- ning smoothly now since the change, and Wm. Garland, as interlocutor, is more than making good. In Ensley some Ofay’s band men hearing that we had “William ‘Tell’ in our repertoire, requested §, B, Dodd, our band leader, to have the band play it. So after we had finished they were heard to re- mark: “Those niggers has certainly got a fine band and know how to han- die classic overtures.” S. E. Dodd, as ‘a director, is making quite a hit. S. H, Dudley is now singing, “If You Can't Be the Bell Cow Fall Behind,” and it is a winner. Clarence Powell, the big-mouth comedian, is holding his own and spells chicken to the satisfac- tion of all. He will put on two new songs in a few days. Still the hoops are being rolled by Kraton. Enough said. ** Simpson & Pittman, the mu- sical cadets are still a feature in the olio. * * It would like to hear from John Mobley, trombone player, former- ly of Nashville Students, and Ed. Looney of “Hottest » Coon in Dixie.” Frank Clermont, during our short stay in New Orleans I was out to headquar- ters —when we, the Students, played there season before last—and had a fine time. They all asked about you ‘and send regards. Notes from Buckingham Theater, Tampa, Fla.: Business continues good, and active preparations are be- ing made for the opening of the season of the “Rabbit Foot.” Rehearsals are in progress and everything is getting in ship-shape order. Our brass band, under the leadership of Prof. A. G. Jones, will be one of the best on the road. Following is the roster of the musicians and others expected daily: Prof, A. G. Jones, cornetist, leader of band and orchestra; Willie Lewis, cor- net B and O; * Lewis Williams, clar- jonet; Frank Hopkins, first violin and solo alto; E. D. Collins, alto; W. @. Kennedy, alto; Amos Gaillaird, trom- bone, B and 0; Aifred Hunt, second trombone; Rudolph Reynolds, trom- bone and second violin; Josiah Gayles, baritone; Wm. Thomas, tuba; Oscar Hicks, traps; C. D. Brooks, bass drum; Bradley and Leach are still making good. Panline Crampton, the magnet, is installed as a permanent Tampa favorite. Happy Howe is still tickling them, W. Goff Kennedy. is singing “all” the late songs and is setting a hot pace. Lucy Pettus is singing in good form and always pleases. Laura Logan, Ada Harris, Lizzie Roberts, Pearl Wyatt, eGo. McDaniels, Clifford D. Brooks complete our list of enter- tainers. Each and every member wishes to be remembered to all friends. D. Ireland Thomas, bookkeep- er and stage director, is spending a few days in New Orleans. In his ab- sence Will Goff Kennedy is at the helm. ‘The Golor Line in Providencs, R. 1 ‘When Sylvester Russell entered Wolf's Dairy Lunch Cafe at Provi- dence, R. I, Feb. 23d, at noon, and seat- ed himself at a front table, he was asked to take another seat at a rear table reserved for colored people. Mr. Russell politely refused to move, and the proprietor refused to serve “him. Mr. Russell further replied that he had plenty of time and would remain seat- ed until he was served. In the mean- er eae ss . ey oe he 2 AS. ¢ ee See Hi LEAR yaaa We ‘ | {07 ee ayy is Ney eo ee gah 5 ee ae ic \ | a \ ye WN 3 FJ i j ; | | AN ey Te at | EAM DO a ec “ane ae i : (: ee Arg ba: en Mallory Brothers and Miss Mazie Brooks are with the Fenberg Stock Company (white), as a special vaude- ville feature. The company is now touring the New England States. The press and public where they have ap- peared with this company speak in the highest terms of their artistic work. ‘They carry an expensive outfit of in- struments in their act, the cost of which will exceed $2,000, very notice- able among which is Miss Brooks's Italian harp, manufactured by the firm of Lyons & Healy. (Chicago) at an ex- pense of one thousand dollars. Miss Brooks has recently purchased some very expensive gowns, and the Mal- lory Bros. have added a comedy finish Ram ee time a reporter on the Telegram ap- peared with a sketch artist, who sketched Mr, Russell's position seated at the table, from an outside window. After one hour had elapsed and nearly ‘all the guests had left the dining room Mr. Russell was served to his heart’s content. When he left the cafe he was besieged by reporters and a’ snapshot photographer. All these pictures were reproduced in the Evening Telegram (first edition), Feb. 24th. In giving out a statement, Mr. Russell said: “The color line is drawn more by waiters than by guests or proprietors.” All of the guests were in sympathy with Rus- sell. eine I wish to thank all the performers who so liberally and promptly con- tributed to the Bland fund. This first effort has been praiseworthy. It was entered into with a good spirit of brotherhood. In behalf of LeRoy Bland, whose burden of sorrow we have part- ly shared, I thank you all. SYLVESTER RUSSELL. aici ol Matec ce ER ae Wallace King, the greatest colored tenor of his time, who died in Oakland Cal., Feb. 20, from Bright's disease was born in Newark, N. J., about 1840 He came from a fine family, was dis covered and trained by Prof. J. H. O'Fake, a noted voieé and piano in structor, who once taught in all the wealthiest white families yof New Jer sey. Prof. O'Fake, who Was killed at a railroad crossing a few years ago at the age of 80, was very particular and erabbed. He only boasted of three singers of his own race—Wallace King, the first and oldest; Belle Parker Harris and Sylvester Russell, the last the youngest, whom he discovered an¢ tutored. ; Wallace King’s greatest success in America was won at the Fourteenth Street ‘Theater, New York, in Callen: der's Georgia Minstrels, about fifteer years ago. He was held in high favor and itis greatest song successes were “Some Day” and “A Boy's Best Frien¢ Is His Mother,” The Callender min strels had just returned from their Eu Topean success, and notably in the cast were Billy Kersands, Sam Lucas, Billy Greene, Billy Wilson, Billy Speed and ‘Madah and Louise Hyer. Shortly after this engagement Mr. King went to Au stralia with Hicks and Sawyer’s min strels, which stranded in favor o} Hicks and Sawyer, themselves return ing to America. Judging from the re cent report from California, King ha¢ been struggling, evidently on his wa} coming home to die. (New York Age please copy.) Notes from Boston, Mass. ‘There is one thing especially noticea- ble about the Golder-Gate Quartette, that has just cleosed their engagement at Keith’s new theatre; that is, the sev- eral changes they make. Mrs, Fanny Winifred assisted the quartette; the costumes that she wore took the breath of the audience. The week’s Dill at Kieth’s is said to be the hardest in two years. Am glad to say that the quar- tette hold their own and received sev- eral encores. ‘The Grant Club is as popular as ever pene all evad performers; you can get more amusement at the Grant than at any other place in Boston. Judge Hardy is very popular with all the boys; he is on hand every night look- ing out for the side board. Chas. Nich- ols, an old employee of the Club, can be found up stairs as usual. Mr. William Hardy, proprietor, de- serves great credit for the way he man- ages their swell place of amusement. Several hundred dollars have just been spent in remodeling his club; he sends regards to all the performers. ‘The Western boys have changed their name onee more; they call themselves the Totelon Gang. George Bill is President and McCarty is ever the sport on Pleasant street. He is trying to find out their game. Pete Armsted, who is known the country over as the Black Prince, is still the favorite at the club; his dia- monds are sparkling as usual. Da ene A ict asta to the act, (The Hpnotized Chicken), which is novel, laughable, and artistne, they have been engaged for the month’s of July and August, to appear at Forest Highland park, St. Louis, Mo.; Sans Souci Park, Chicago; In gersoll Park, Des Moines, Ia. and Lake Contrary Park, St. Joseph, Mo. Miss raGeie Holliday is with them and mak- ing quite a hit with her work, she alsc plays parts in the dramas with the company and’she has received flatter ing notices for her dramatic work in the same. The Mallory Bros. are very progressive, and they are preparing tc go a step higher on the ladder of fame next season. Lawrence Burt is at present head steward of the Grant Club. When he first took the position, it was predicted that he would not be popular with the boys, but am glad to say that their pre- diction has proven untrue. He is re- garded as the most popular man the club ever had. As a mixologist he is one of the best in the country, regard- less of color. Mr. Burt is very hum- ‘orous and for that alone makes him a prime favorite with all the performers. ‘Mr. James Allen, the well-known ton- /sorial artist, is doing a very good busi- ness at his place on Pleasant street; he is assisted by the well-known gentle- men, Charles Bill, Thomas Tillman and Murry W. Evans. They always try to pleasevever one. The Freeman is al- ways on file in their shop. For facial massage call at Elite Bar- bershop, 844 Indiana avenue, Allblem: ishes, pimples, black heads removed by our treatment, , Grand Masquerade Ball. Youngstown, O., Special.—Prof. A ‘H, Berry’s masquerade ball of February 16th was a grand success. Pittsburg afd New Castle, Pa., and Warren, O, were very largely represented. Mrs. E. F, Hall and Mrs. J. P, Arnold of Green- ville, Pa., attended the ball and will spend a few days in the city visiting their sister, Mrs, Henderson Smith, 31 N, Phelps street. It is said that Mr. J. W. and Miss W.S8 were the prides of the ball. Thefr costumes were all right. The Youngstown Catering Co. served refreshments, Mr. E. F, Matrh- ‘ews, who has been quite sick for sev- eral weeks, is able to be ont again. Mr. Charles a. Hedgepath, proprietor of the Buckeye Club, 246 E. Boardman street, conducts a barbershop and a billiard hail in connection for the bene- fit of the young men. While in the city give him call. You can also get The Freeman there every Saturday. Mrs. Robert Mackey, 331 Covington St., was quite sick laet week, but is much better at this writing. Simon Standart spent a few days last week in Cleveland on business, WANTED AT ONCE for Seymour & Harris’ Afro-American World’s Fair Dramatic Stock Company, 6 more directors to invest $100.00 each in stock of this company. A rare chance in deed, as this company appears at St, Louis, Mo., during the coming exposition as 4 special feature of the Negro exbibits. Show ing the progress the race has made in legitimate drama, Presenting 4 $10,000 production of Mr. A, L. Harris’ great Negro drama, “The Prince of Hayti” company headed by W. A. Seymour, “Black Booth,” the greatest Negro exponent of the drama, supported by a capable company. Fall details on application, write for circulars, address 107 Cliff Street, Hot Springs, Ark. W. A. SEYMOUR, Manager, The reeman, as ‘admitted by all Negro newspapers, is the peer of weekly journals, ‘Are youa subscriber? If not, why not? FOUR BIG SONG HITS ‘which are the rage all through the country! Made co by our oolored friends! Evergbod “xP TIME WAS] money: towEs MILLIONAIRE” “HOME AINT NOTHING LIE THIS.” “Has YOUR SOROS any monn 21mm OUP? mine ST eae ES eae act te Peer, HBO RIE, Flt " SYOU' CANT GO WRONG WITH 8 “FEISP SONG.” ee uw ” A Rabbit's Foot” Comedy Co. ns the season April 6th, under Canvass. Can use Rood Bhawan: doubles’ Ale good Flats and Piso Player. Other useful people write. “Address PAT CHAPPELLE | Buckingham Theatre, Tampa, Fla. es HELLO, WHAT’S THAIS? The Phantom Hooper Not the best, but goo’ as the rest, © Permanent address, ‘The Clipper, The Freeman and Bill Board. ‘ for Montgomery Bros. Greater Famous Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., and Historic Black South, Colored musicians for band that can work on stage. Or will contract with an organized 7 or 8 piece band. Good looking colored girls for drum. ree thatcan singand dance. Also want Biante ay ore Soar nat amncner Peace Aiea and season pens about Apel 25th. Good sleeping and dining car accommodations. Direct all Seah GOW Tae ae, good iepiog a cing peek ie BURTON & BANKS | WAMTAN Londiug Headquarters of Indian- . polis, Tadiens. The subject of this sketch was born im Greenville, Ohio, December 1, 1866, attended the public schools there, and afterwards graduated at U. L Institute, Winchester, Ind. In 1889 Mr. Burton engaged in the livery husiness in Green- ville, Ohio, and later operated a barber- shop in Richmond, Ind., formerly owned by Norman Weaver, who was appointed to agovernment position under Presi- dent Harriion’s administration. For the pest eleven years Mr. Burton has Gc | ‘ i 3 ome I a ee. Ee d : o. CLARK BURTON. resided in this city, being engaged iu the retail liquor business, In social circles Mr. Burton is among the fore: most. He is a Scottieh Rite Mason, and also belongs to several other secret or. ganizations. Altogether, Mr. Burtor is a whole-souled, genial and big-hearted fellow. He is one of the few young colored men who seems to be on the high sea to fame and fortune, and has gained an enviable reputation as a busi a oa cael Faso i | £ ea Lo oe : eI oe a ha” oa v i JOHN BANKS, Who, bimeelf, is a Lord Mod ilister and popular gentleman, is now associated with Mr. Burton as a business partner. Perhaps there is no place in the country more talked of among the sporting colored people than the Oakwood Sam- ple Room and Music Hall now operated by these two genial gentlemen. It has gained its reputation by being the head- quarters for all sporting events. where the latest reports are received from all over the world of all important base ball games, glove contests and the race course. This place has been newly re- modeled—new masio hal:, clab rooms, mannal training echool—and there are plans now bemg made to construct a summer roof garden, which, when com: pleted, will be the only one operated by colored men in the country. Their grand opening for the epring occurred on Monday evening, March %, 1903. ‘Their invitation extended to ail, and s panguet was served after 11p.m. Thelt place {s located at 214 Indiana avenue ae ‘Nicholasville, Ky , Special.—Protract: ‘ed meeting going on at the Christian church, Rev. Davie, will do the preach: ing all are invited to attend, Rev. C. ©. Goines will preach a serles of doctrinal sermons when he comes home he deliver: edhis first sermon Feb, 22nd. Mrs Eliza Favors and Mrs. Margret West To Managerg and Owners, I Wm. H. Hallback have written a THREE ACT COMEDY DRAMA ENTITLED: f Mi SES FULL OF > Gass Bright YWitty saying and fonny situations. Copy- right fully protected in United States and Canada to be let or will put it out jointly, Address WM. HALLBACK, =; care of The Freeman. P. 8—If you aint got the money, don't write. FREE CATALOGUES Band and Orchestra, Tustrements, Musi Boxes, Vister Talting Machines’ Bises music; Be. 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The MOWER that will cut your short grass, tall grass and weeds and do all the trimming along fences and walks. Send for catalogue and prices. RACE CLEANINGS. Dr. Daniel Williams, the famous Chicago surgeon, will deliver a lecture in Atlanta March 16, in the college chapel, for the benefit of Morris Brown nurse training department. It will be a treat to see this famous man, much less to hear him. The physiologists and surgeons, dentists and pharmacists are preparing to give the doctor a royal welcome. Two millionaires, Messrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., and William H. Baldwin, Jr., and their wives were the guests of Dr. Booker T. Washington last week. Thease people are the creme de la creme of the blue blooded aristocracy, yet we see them paying homage to the sausage of Tuskegee. And there are others. Mr. Rodman M. Smith, has recently been appointed as United States Ganger in the internal Revenue Department. Mr Smith passed the examination for admission to the Central High School from the E. M. Stauton School, Seventeenth and Christian streets, the only colored boy in a class of twenty that passed the examination. The Freshman Class of the Central High School numbered over six hundred students that year, of which eight or nine were colored, at the end of the Sophomore year all the colored boys had left but Mr. Smith, who graduated June 13, 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the only colored graduate in a class of 120. Mr. Sm th also has the honor of being the first colored graduate from the new Central High School, which has recently been dedicated, having spent his Senior year there. On October 7, 1901, he passed the civil service examination for clerk gauger in the First Revenue district of Pennsylvania, standing No. 7 on a list of twenty, being the only colored competitor, and was appointed January 28, 1903, as United States Gauger in the First District of Pennsylvania by the Secretary of the United States Some Pertinent Questions For Head-waiters. In a recent issue of The Freeman a correspondent asks some pertinent questions which we do hope some of the colored headwaiters who recently attacked the colored sidewaiter in a manner very compromising on the propriety of their actions as men and as race lovers, who, from the pressing needs of life, work under white men filling the position of headwaiter where colored waiters are employed. In repeating the questions so pertinently put before the headwaiters in last week's issue of The Freeman, we look forward with no small degree of pleasure to an intelligent and satisfactory solution to the increasing difficulties which the colored man as a waiter must face. The parties who so viciously assailed the colored waiters heretofore will find some very "hard nuts to crack" in the questions: 1. "When a white headwaiter has been engaged to work colored waiters, what must the sidewaiters do?" Please give some useful suggestions for future actions on this particular point. 2. "When it comes to be a question of work under a white headwaiter or no work at all, what shall the sidewaiter do in such case?" 3. "Is it a fault of the sidewater that some managers want a white head-waiter?" Ahl there is the rub, will some of the much-offended colored headwalters please give some information upon this point? 4. "Is it a fault of the colored head-waiter, if so, what is the remedy?" Do not look back upon dead yesterday for excuses to shame unborn to-morrow! for excuses to shame unborn to-morrow. 5. "Has the colored headwater neglected or failed to impress managers that he is as competent as a white man?" That is the unkindest out of all. There is the question upon which the future destiny of the Negro waiter is hinged; the pivot that must either make or remove him from the public eye as a valuable servant at the table of fashionable society people. When replying to questions set forth herewith do not, through malice or to justify some ignited feeling of injustice, try to parade any certain party before the public eye, nor would we appreciate your silence as a salient virtue. We look forward with infinite pleasure to a solution which will prove an aid and a help to the sidewaiter in the future. A. B. CARTER. Hot Springs, Ark. DR. G. S. GUILLORY. P. O. Box 157, San Antonio, Texas Tresury upon the recommendation of the Collector of Internal Revenue William McCoach, at a salary of twelve to eighteen hundred a year, nine to ten months. The Rev. Henry T. Johnson, a colored minister of Camden, got a judgement for $500, in the United States Circuit court last week against the Pullman Car Company, because of the refusal of the superintendent of a dining car to serve him with breakfast Johnson is editor of the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The plaintiff was travelling on the Seaboard Air Line in March, 1902, and between Jacksonville and Richmond was served with two meals on the train. At Richmond a dining car was added to the train. When he entered it on the first call for breakfast, he said the conductor told him there was no room. He tried again on the second call, and the result was the same. Johnson testified that he then asked the conductor whether the refusal was on account of his color and was told that it was. After the third call and when all the other passengers had breakfast, Johnson said he was told by a waiter that he could get breakfast. He went again to the dining car where he found the crew sitting down to breakfast. He then refused to eat. Conductor Greeley denied that the question of color had entered into his conversation with the colored preacher. Judge Kirkpatrick instructed the jury that the question was purely one of fact. If they found that Johnson's breakfast was refused because he was black it was their duty to find a verdict for the amount prescribed in the act. The company had a right to make reasonable regulations for convenience of its passengers, and was not compelled to accommodate all the passengers at the same time. Revival Meetings Still in Progress. Jacksonville, Ill., Special - The revival meetings are still in progress at Bethel A. M. E. church in charge of the evangelist, Rev. Lena Mason. Large audiences have been in attendance and there have been numerous conversions. Forty persons have united with the church. A great deal of interest is evidenced. The public is invited to attend. The funeral of Mrs. Mattie Walker was held at Mt. Emory Baptist church on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. A large number of friends and acquaintances were present. The services were conducted by Rev. H. H. Dewitt, assisted by Messrs. Russell, Rirk and Moore. Mrs. Fannie Strawn is very ill at her home on Arnett street. James Corbin is lying seriously ill at his residence on South Sandy street. Mrs Mary Clark is very ill at her residence on Marion street. Social and General News Munole, Ind., Special—Mr. Guy, of Anderson, spent Sunday in the city, the guest of friends. The funeral of Mrs. Edward Lewis was held Saturday afternoon at the Second Baptist church, Rev. Warren conducting the services. The Wayman club rendered a special program Friday evening. Mrs. Curtis, mother of Mrs. L. A. Fletcher, continues very ill. P. S. Rhodes, of New York, is in the city visiting his mother- Robert Riff and wife were called to Indianapolis on Friday last to attend the funeral of the former's sister. Wallace Johnston is visiting in Chicago. The Women's Progressive club will give a mock wedding at the A. M. E. church on the 10th A beautiful guilt will be [Name] Doctor Pronounced My Case Incurable, Said I Would Die Of Heart Disease. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Brought Good Health. "I am a druggist and have sold and recommended Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, for I know what it has done for me, and I wish I could state more clearly the splendid good health I am enjoying now. Your Restorative Nervine gives excellent satisfaction."—Dr. T. H. Watts, Druggist, Hot Springs, S. D. Druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. 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On the particular day this little tale opens, which, by the way was Christmas morning, our philosophic theorist was quietly seated by his little desk in a modest, but neatly furnished apartment of his quiet home, abstractedly gazing into the smoldering embers of the well filled fire place. Kirk had been unusually successful and was rapidly gaining a National reputation as a rising young colored song writer. Some of the best publishing houses had put out his "stuff." and the Negro theatrical profession had swarmed to him as the coming genius of his race in supplying them with trueful lyrics. Something had evidently gone amiss with him on this particular morning. The truth was he had been sorely put out by the failure of an old school chum to put in an appearance. Paul'Stanley had written him more than three weeks before that he would surely be in Chicago and would spend the holidays as his great. Christmas day had come and was fast passing away, yet no Paul. "Confound it, why could he not have had the good grace to write a fellow a line and explain if he were not coming. However, I shan't be too hard in my criticism just yet, as I strongly suspect his fellow-townsmen have extended him such a cordial welcome on his return to the states from his long labors in the islands that he has been too up-set to even think of me or his engagement. Then, too, he may have put off his coming to the last moment in order to give me a genuine Christmas surprise. I shall wait till noon before I give him out." Kirk stretched himself out in his chair as he flushed this little soliloquy and running his hands into his trousers' pockets, leaned his head lazily back into the big armed chair. He was seated thus for some moments still gazing into the fire, when lo! he looked up and there stood his friend Paul Stanley—big, robust, healthy Paul of old. He thought his friend looked quite stunning in his English cut raiment, which set his tanned complexion off to a nicety that was really attractive. "Well, by all that is holy," exclaimed Kirk, springing from his seat and grasping the proffered hand of his friend, "if it isn't you Paul, old man, at last! Really I had about given you out, and was beginning to think how I was going to offer an excuse to my friends up at the club, where I have arranged a little spread for 5 o'clock a afternoon in your honor." "It was an unavoidable detention I assure you, old fellow," quickly apologized Paul. "That beastly train had to be more than three hours late. However, I am here and yours—all yours for the rest of the week." "Do sit down and warm yourself," said Paul, pushing a chair up to the "THAT IS THE VENERABLE PAUL LAWRENCE BUNEAR, NOW CALLED THE GRAND OLD MAN OF LITERATURE," OBSERVED KIRK. THAT IS THE VENERABLE PAUL LAWRENCE BUNNER, NOW CALLED THE GRAND OLD MAN OF LETTATURE," OBSERVED KIRK. fire. "Ah, that's better," he went on, hangin' his friend's raglan over the back of a chair and placing his hat on the desk. "Now old man while I am mixing a toddy, sail right in and tell me something of your educational laborers in Porto Rico. I am dying to know." "Well, to start with, I like it imminently. The petty prejudices with which I had first to contend consequent the spasm exodus of Southern white women to the field, shortly after our appointment as you will remember, have, in a measure, all passed away, BECOME USING THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER HARRIS 1893 KIRK ROCHELLE WAS NOTHING, IF NOT A DAY DREAMER. ( By J. B. HOWARD. ) and I am glad to say that I am getting on swimmingly. In this particular governmental employment Uncle Sam is certainly treating his agents as one and the same. The seed planted by the McKinley administration immediately after the occupation of the Island at the close of the Spanish-Americoan war, have developed into wholesome results, and the precedents then established have never been altered as regards the survival of the fittest. The white teachers have begun to look upon the field as belonging in part to especial Negro labor. This is due, old man, to the mongrelity of the people, the result of the old Spanish regime and its brutal misoegenation. I am now drawing first class pay, having worked myself up, as you know, from an humble assistant. It is a good field for all Negroes, both men and women, who have any knowledge of the Spanish language and are willing to weather the isolation, and can, of course, pass the examination. But more of this anon. Tell me what shall we be doing to while away the time between now and the hour set for your little dinner party? As this little recitation was finished relative to his connection with the government in the capacity of teacher to the Porto Rican children in the faraway Island, Paul arose and accepted the glass which Kirk extended. "Confound you, old man, I am proud of you." now a ning. in my respect him turn to in the set to ment. boom- give se. I him in his doquy rous- back seat- a-zing up and ley— He stun- which nicety calmed rasp- lend, last! , and going up at little oon in tion I apolo- head to How- ers for KIRK ROCHELLE WAS NOTHING, I observed Rochelle as he looked admiringly at his companion. "We will reserve further of this interesting talk 'till we get to the club this evening, where I am sure the other fellows will be delighted to listen in rapture to your narrative." After a short discussion of the dear old school life they had spent together in the sweet long ago, and the thousand and one amusing events incident thereto, the two friends started down town to take in a Christmas matinee as a means of whiling away the time until dinner, which was ordered at 5 o'clock at the Appomattox Club. "Time brings many changes, eh, old man?" observed Paul, as they strolled leisurely along. "I should say it does," responded Kirk. "Let me see, how long has it been since we met? Why, bless me, it must be fully twelve years." "Quite," answered Paul. "It seems almost impossible for me to conceive the rapid flight of time. 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They could not have sent a better exponent and advocate of the principles of civic justice to all than he. Don't you remember how the Association of American Bankers about this time had begun to cast suspicious glances at the various banking establishments this organization were putting into operation in different sections of the country, and how their mutterings were going abroad to the people in concerted voice relative to the growing substantiality and ambitions of the Negroes along this line? Well, they got no encouragement from President Johnson, who flatly refused, if you remember, to lend his support to any measure tending to restrict the progress of this work. He pointed out that the fundamental basis upon which his political career had been built, dated from the very day on which he took the stand of the conmon people's friend in the great street railway upheaval in Cleveland twenty years before. 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The building at whose portals they had halted was indeed a magnificent piece of architecture, massive and modern in design. Kirk remarked to his friend that they had lots of time before the curtain rose and suggested that they linger in the lobby and inspect minutely the elegant oil paintings which decorated the walls on either side. They stopped in front of a colossal gothic pillow forming one of the supports in the entrance upon which was an elaborately done portrait in oil. "Who is this?" asked Paul, pointing to the picture. "His looks of gray give him an exceptionally distinguished bearing." "Why, that is the famous Dunbar, author, poet and dramatist," answered Kirk. "Not Paul Lawrence?" 'The same. He is styled the grand old man of literature.' He is the author of the play we are to see here this afternoon," continued Kirk. "It has had quite a run, this is its fifth week." "You don't say." "Yes, and I think it is going to 'go big' (as the professionals would say) over the entire circuit. Its most powerful novelty lies in the fact that it is the first society drama this talented old man has put before the public wherein every character depicted is a Negro, and every scene afame with the progress and domestic customs of our present people." The two passed on slowly down the lobby stopping for a brief explanation at each picture. "Oh!" exclaimed Paul, as they halted in front of a handsomely framed double portrait, "that is the once famous team, Williams & Walker. I remember having read of them quite often in The Freeman Gazette—a theatrical journal gotten out weekly by the management of The Freeman Publishing Co., in conjunction with their regular issue of their great paper." "Yes, they are revered by the entire profession as the first link in the now almost endless chain of theatrical successes and top-notch stars," observed Kirk. 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Some little time had been consumed in the inspection of the pictures, and to their surprise, the two young men found the theatre comfortably filled when they entered and were ushered to their seats. The audience at once attracted attention. (Most holiday matinees do.) The gowns worn by the ladies of the several box assemblies were perfect creations of the modistes latest designs. "Who is that distinguished looking young chap over there in the lower box with the glasses?" finally loquired Paul after he and Kirk had settled comfort- Cures Weak Men Free A Simple Home Treatment Which Never Fails to Restore Full Strength and Vigor of Youth K There is no longer any need for men to suffer from lost vitality, night losses, variocose, etc., when it can be cured almostlike magic in the privacy of your own home and restore small weak organs to their strength and vigor of youth by anew discovery which any man can use. 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Facial massage a specialty; beautifies the face, removes pimples and blackheads. Elite Barbershop, 344 Indiana avenue. Phone 5502 black. Don't forget the grand musical and literary entertainment at Corinthian Baptist church, Wednesday evening, March 18. Admission 15 cents. Mr. Charles W. Green, chorister of Allen Chapel choir, was called to Jeffersonville, Ind., last Thursday week, to attend the bedside of a very sick sister. She died Friday and was buried Monday last. The entertainment at the Corinthian church, March 18th, will be under the auspices of the Barbers and Hotel Club. Robt. F. Williams and John D. Morris, managers. Among those taking part will be G. G. Simmons in St. Peter at the Gate; Brutus McWilliams, cello solo; Rastus Jones and the Nightingale Quartette and John W. Evans, bass solo. The Y. M. C. A. gave a men's supper in Bethel church, Tuesday night, which was a great success. The entire French menu was prepared and served by men, members of the association. S. A. Furniss, headwaiter; G. L. Knox, second THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. walter. These gentlemen were dressed according to their positions, and performed as old timers at the business All the waiters, water boys, etc., were dressed accordingly. The last two wore white and aprons. Dr. Furniss wore a full dress suit; G. L. Knox wore a full dress suit with white vest A large crowd was present and devoured everything the men had prepared. BUSINESS INTERESTS Wanted—Two experienced hair dressers. Apply 112 Monument Place. Ladies wanted at the Atlas Cloak House, 211 Indiana avenue, four doors from Illinois street. Call on Emanuel Williams for coal, coke, wood and kindling, 402 W. North street. Phone 1884 main, old. tf Trousers $5 00 up; suits, $20 00 up, Charles A. Parker & Co, 464 N. Pennsylvania street, room 20—The Tailors. We solicit your patronage. Charles A. Parker, formerly with A. J. Treat & Son. Cleaning, dying and repairing a specialty. New phone 2885. Indianapolis, Ind. WONDERFUL SUCCESS OF THE WILGERA OIL COMPANY. Acquires More Valuable Oil and Gas Lands and Already Have a Gas Well. Special to the Indianapolis Freeman. Marietta, O, March 5—Oil operators here were simply dazed this week when they learned that the Wilgera Oil and Gas Company of Columbus, Ohio, had purchased the leases on 350 acres of oil and gas lands in this county. The leases cover the Perdew, Haas, Hanna and Milligan farms, considered as among the finest tracts in this rich oil belt. In addition to the purchase of these leases the Wilgera Oil and Gas Company has secured an option on the Barnett farms, aggregating over two hundred acres more. All this property has been sought after, and rich oil operators and speculators felt sure they would secure the land, and, feeling sure, simply stood passive. Last week the owner went to Columbus, and after a close conference of five hours signed and delivered the papers to this great Afro-American oil company. In an interview he said that he never went up against shrewder business men than these colored officers of this colored oil company, and that he was surprised at their grasp of business, and their thorough knowledge of the oil business. Said he, "I went to their firm in the resolve that I would not sell for a cent less than the price I had set, but when I concluded found that these shrewd black business men had dictated the price themselves, and I had signed away my interests in these valuable oil and gas lands almost as if under compulsion. Tell me the Negro does not know business; why these men know the alpha and omega of business." On one of the tracts purchased by the Wilgera Oil Company is two gas wells, the gas now seeping up through the tubing and burning, and one oil well, which, on reaching what is known as the Kingsley sand made a good showing of oil. This company now controls over 500 acres in this and Morgan, the adjoining county, sufficient territory to last them for the next twenty years. When oil men here first learned that colored men were to incorporate a fifty thousand dollar oil and gas company, they passed it off without comment, believing that it was more of a joke than anything else, little dreaming that there were colored men with sufficient push and energy and business forethought to undertake such a thing, and believing that it would be impossible for them to raise money to secure oil 4% On Time Deposits NO CHARGE FOR STEEL BANKS 3 1/2 % ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS COMMERCIAL TRUST CO 4 East Market Street. If so, we will advance it to you on your furniture, piano, horses, wagons, warehouse receipts, etc. and allow you to pay it back in small amounts of time. We have plenty of time, from one month to one year. You have the use of both the property and the money. Our rates are reasonable, terms easy and no inquiries among your friends or neighbors. We also loan money to salaried people holding jobs in the construction or a guaranty on cerns on their own note without endorsement. Our having been in business so long and our liaison with a guaranty of fair and courteous treatment, we plan. All information cheerfully given. Security Mortgage Loan Company Security Mortgage Loan Company 207 Indiana Trust Building, Corner Washington St. and Virginia Ave. Office Hours--8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays 9 p.m. and gas territory. When they learned that the same company had secured seventy-five acres of oil lands in Morgan county it set them to thinking, but at the same time they believed that their operations would end here. But when they learned, this week, that this gigantic Negro company had closed the deal, had the papers signed and delivered them for 350 acres of oil and gasands in this (Washington) county, theywere simply dazed and thunderstruck at the aggressiveness of the Negro. The predictions are now freely made that the Wilgera Oil and Gas Company,this Negro corporation, will be a magnificent success; that they, or rather it,will yet realize the dream of the race—make the race an independent factor in the business world, and control vastarea of land, industries and mercantileestablishments. One of the membersof the company is here in this countynow, and he is very enthusiastic overthe success and the future of thecompany. For once we have one coloredenterprise, great in scope and possibilities, that the white man has failed to defeat. With the company's newpossessions of 350 acres of oil and gaslands in this county, the stock, whichhas been selling at $3 per share, is likely tojump to a high figure. As has beenwell said, "they have the goods." It isa remarkable corporation, and one whichhas the brightest future of any yetlaunched, and the officers are all shrewd,safe, careful business men who aretrue to their race. A GREAT ENTERPRISE OPENED To the Persevering and Energetic Negro Who Has Small Capital to Invest. The Indiana Tropical Company has two thousand acres of the finest agricultural land in the tropics situated in the Republic of Colombia, South America, on the east coast of the Gulf of Darlen. It is said the land slopes gradually from the coast back to the foothills of the Andes, and the soil is a rich loam from six to ten feet in depth. The land is well drained and the rainfalls are abundant. It is ideal banana land. This company proposes to bring into full bearing within twenty-four to thirty-six months these two thousand acres of land, which will be planted in bananas, and also proposes to develop an industry for the extraction of the fibre from the stalk, which will be equal in strength and durability to the Manila hemp, both for textiles and in tensile strength. This company will not be confined, necessarily, to the cultivation of bananas only. The land of this plantation is adapted to the cultivation and production of rubber, coffee, vanilla, pineapples, oranges, lemons, tobacco, SUGAR CANE cocoanuts and chocolate. But the banana has the merit of quick growth, prolific yield, constant crop and unlimited demand, united to splendid profits. The genial climate of the tropic appeal especially to the constitution of the Negro. I have no hesitancy in saying that the proposition put forth by this company is distinctly the best investment for the money ever offered to the modern Negro. This company is organized under the laws of Indiana for $50,000 for the purpose of engaging in tropical agriculture. The shares are of a par value of ten dollars each and are FULLY PAID and NON-ASSESSABLE. There is no preferred stock. YOU ARE WANTED at 17 Virginia Avenue any time between now and JUNE 1, 1903 by S L. TAY OR & 00. to select Your Spring Suits. The goods are now ready for your inspection. Get samples and make your purchase. Your suits $15.00 to $20.00; trousers $10.00 to $30.00. New Phone 3659 150 N. Illinois St. Indianapolis, Ind. 14 years with New York Dental Co. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Bresette-Dugan Co. MANUFACTURERS SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS Hospital Supplies, Trusses, Supporters Elastic Stockings, 133 S. Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND Civil Liberty Party Convention will convene at Cincinnati, O , May 24. to ferret out plans to moderate the extremes of the old parties. Also do all that is possible to bring about a PARTISIME OU S. P. MITCHELL, Chairman The Executive Committee, Box 81, WASHINGTON, D. C. A Remarkable Cure of Cancer. St. Louis, Dec. 4, J. J. Frizzell, an engineer on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, residing at No. 458 Columbia Place, East St. Louis, has home yesterday from Indianapolis, Ind., where he has been undergoing treatment for cancer which almost covered the entire nose. He was under the treatment of Dr. B. F. Bye, of that city, who Cancer or Tumor Cured by the American School of Bone Surgery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Fruzzell says there were hundreds there under the oil treatment from all parts of the United States and Canada. The most remarkable feature of the treatment is that it is entirely painless and the short time in which it requires to effect a cure. In Mr. Frizzell's case it required less than three weeks. FREE. College Education, with diploma and degree. Study at home. Box 833. Denver, Col. WANTED - To correspond with refined young ladies theatrically inclined. Address F. lock box 16, Cedar Falls, Ia. WANTED - A first-class young colored barber. Must be a good barber and dice appearant in the 30 years of your guarantee $12 pgr week. Address D. D. Thomas, 205 state street, Jacksonville, Ill. All stock is common and equal. As was stated in our last issue in the extensive advertisement of this company, ten dollars invested will secure fully paid and non-assessable stock to the value of THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Over $44,000 worth of stock sold to bankers, lawyers, doctors, merchants and other business and professional people. Less than six hundred shares remain to be sold. This truly is a great opportunity for the business Negro to act promptly. ADVERTISE 'IN! The Hearts of Oak, for good results, a high class monthly magazine. 10c a copy; $1.00 per year. Ad rates 10c per line; 90c per inch. Address The Hearts of Oak, Richmond, Ind. $10 DRESSES YOU COMPLETE FROM HEAD TO TOE. We will make to your measure a genuine cheviot suit in the latest stek style and give you with each suit ABSOLUTELY FREE a dress outfit consisting of a hat, pair of shoes, socks, shirt, collar, cuffs, suspenders, hand-kerchief and slik necklace, all for $10. You need a new coat, not your old one, amined same. Send for free samples. Model Outfitting Company, 156 Monroe street, Dept. M, Chicago, IL. FOR SALE A complete printing outfit, 9 different sets of type, furniture, cases, etc., etc. A good chance for to start in a paying business. $14.00 takes the lot. Address Box 237, Mt. Vernon, O. GUS GOINS, WANTED Gentlemen or Ladies—Agents for The Hearts of Oak, a monthly magazine devoted to the interest of secret society. Members of secret orders preferred. Address The Hearts of Oak, Richmond, Indiana. WANTED Canvassing "THE NEGRO AGENTS for IN DEVICES, MEMONIES IN THIS TORY AND IN CITIZENSHIP; What the Race Has Done and Is Doing in Arts, Arts, Letters, the Forum, the School and the Marts of Trade." A record of his achievements and a demonstration of his possibilities. 500 pages, 230 engravings. By Rev. J. Bypin. Supervised and introduced by Gen. John B. Gordon, former Major General in Confederate Army. Address, for description, terms, and full particulars and what is said of it by Democrats and Republicans—white and black! N. D. THOMPSON PUBLISHING CO., St. Louis, Mo. LALLEYBROTHERS TAILORS 110 Monument Place English Hotel Block New Phone 3281. Inspect our goods and be convinced our prices are right 320 N: Illinois St., bet. New York and Vermont St. BEST SERVICE FAIR PRICES PINK'S CUT RATE PHARMACY 550 Indiana Avenue, Corner West Street, HEADQUARTERS for everything pure, fresh and up-to-date to be found in a first-class drug store. Powder. 60c S. S. S. 69 and c. Syrup of Figs, genuine. 38c Kilimers Swamp Root 385 and Duffy's Malt Whisky. 79 Bell's Pine Tar Honey, 15c, 38c Laxoline's Bromo Quinine 15c 2 for. 25c per Petrolina, pomade. 67 Palmer's Success Remedies, each. 11 Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. ROT SODA Ice Cream. I you can't come call us up. Phones, New 4125. Old, Red 5781 Goods Promptly Delivered. Prescriptions accurately and carefully compounded at the lowest, possible prices. AL W A Y S R E L I A B L E. RUBENS "KING OF CLOTHERS" 39 West Washington S We show the greatest line of fine hand-made clothing in and our prices are lower than others charge for ordinary read Suits $6 00 to $15 00. Trousers $1.5 Bingham Street, hand-made clothing in the United States, charge for ordinary ready-mades Trousers $1.50 to $5.00 e Freeman. R. BARON REPAIRING Selling. ALL WORK GUARANTEED ever work promptly. BOND-HAND WHEELS. Street. Phone 7186 Black MARKET Handed Lard, Poultry, Etc. Queue. (new building). S, IND. JOHNNY FUNK, Manager. 39 West Washington Street. We show the greatest line of fine hand-made clothing in the United States and our prices are lower than others charge for ordinary ready-mades When making purchases, mention The Freeman. ROBT. R. BAR BICYCLE REPAIR Sundries, Enameling, Brazing and Nickelling. All We call for and deliver work BARGAINS IN SECOND-HA 329 Indiana Avenue, near New York Street. BOSTON MA For Choice Meats, Home rendered I 339 Indiana Avenue. (new Opposite Standard Tea Co. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Sundries, Enameling, Brazing and Nickeling. ALL WORK GUARANTEED We call for and deliver work promptly. BARGAINS IN SECOND-HAND WHEELS. 839 Indiana Avenue, near New York Street. Phone 7186 Black BOSTON MARKET BOSTON MARKET For Choice Meats, Home rendered Lard, Poultry, Etc. 339 Indiana Avenue, (new building). Opposite Standard Tea Co. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. JOHNY FUNK, Manager. BARRY THE TAILOR An Easy Way 227 Indiana Ave. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. TO Borrow Money. Great variety of spring styles now being shown. Fine repairing, cleaning and pressing. pecial Notice to Colored Barbers. A very rare business opportunity for a colony with a little capital. For particular address 480 Weekly payment on a $20.00 loan for fifty weeks. CHARLES PRESTON, General Delivery, Providence, R. I. D. P. Stirk & Co. 208 N. East St. 600 Weekly payment on a **£25.00 loss** for fifty weeks. 720s Weekly payment on a $30.00 loss for fifty weeks. Other amounts in the same proportion You can borrow money at the show dates on household goods, planes, teams, house receipts, etc., without a moral INDIANAPOLIS. IND. We make a speciality of Artificial Limbs and Braces, Shoe Extensions and Crutches. Trusses made and adjusted in all bad cases. Lady Physicians. Work guaranteed. Send for circular. You can borrow any amount from $5.00 up. Old Phone (green) 2655. New Phone 3655. FRANK M. HAY, AY, INDIANA MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, Witnesses located Business confidential. Best of reference. Consultation free on detective work. Don't Buy a Gold Plated WATCH which will year off in 3 or 4 weeks when you can get a genuine 25 year gold-filled Watch for $5 99. A guaranteed in book of every case. The case fitted with a full jewel American model movement, guaranteed perfect in every respect you want to watch so that for this one and be convinced. Send your (Established 1871.) Room 4, Lombard Building. 244 East Washington Street. Both Phones. 3286. name and address and we will send you by email. Filled WATCH C. O. D. $ 5.90. A gold plated chain free with every watch. Mention size and color. SCHOOL & YOUNG. BOX 511, Columbus, Ohio. HOME MADE 10 CENTS (money or stamps) pays for your name in the "Reader's Directory. We shall publish all over the U. S. to publishers and others who will send you lots of sample copies of newspapers, magazines, catalogues, circulars, books, pictures, cards, calendars, &c., free of charge. Y. in good reading free and be well pleased with the small investment. Three names inserted for 25 cents, or seven for 50c. Wra) silver in small piece of paper before putting in letter. Address S. P. Seawell, Eagle Springs, N. O. [Established 1878] LAW AND COLLECTIONS BULLOCK'S LEGAL BUREAU H. W. BULLOCK, Attorney Attorneys in all towns. When in trouble consult us free. New Phone 3905, Old 2905 Green, 32 Baldwin Building --- --- Bone Foot Ankle Brace 10 FINE Our business is strictly confidential. Our company is the oldest in the city If ever in need of any money call us see us. Preserves, Jellies and Jams Select Groceries and Fine Meats. M. C. Shea & Co. Both Phones: Old 826; New 300. 201 and 203 Indiana Avenue. 214 and 216 N. Illinois Street. FALLING HAIR AND BAIDNESS ABOLUTED CURED There is but one way to tell the reason of balding, falling hair, and that is by a microscope examination. The condition of your scalp is afflicted must be known before it is intentionally treated. The use of dandruff cream or of tonic water will help to correct the cause of your case, is like taking medicine without knowing your type. You should be sure to cure. Send three fallen hairs from your scalp to the doctor, the magnifierologist, who will send you absolutely free a copy of your case, a booklet on care and care and a sample box. Enclose postage and write to: PROF. J. H. AUSTIN, 505 McVicker's Mile, (Austin) TO