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$200 in CASH FREE to the Subscribers of The Freeman. Send for Our Liberal Inducements! INDIANAPOLIS APR 11 1903 Public Library For AND ETHiopia SHALL STRATCH FORTH HER HAND THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 15. MARVELOUS LOGIC MARVELOUS LOGIC ARE TREATHOUGHTS AND DOINGS OF PETER GIBSON FINCH. FACTS ABOUT FREAK LITERATURE. An Up-to-date Diary Touching upon Practical, Every-day Life—The Negro a Natural Rag-time Musician—An Artistic, Up-to-date Liar. CHICAGO, March 25.—Publishers in their grasp after money are now turning out books with such rapidity that unless they quit, every other building will be a library or a bookstore. In former times when books were published it was done so because the books were felt to be needed; now a book is published because the publisher feels he needs the money. It is not the intrinsic value of the book that is considered nowadays, but whether or not it will bring in the money. Had Newton lived in this age and written his "Principia," he in all probability would have gone begging for a publisher. Literature to-day is in the throes of commerce, and a writer to be successful—in fact, to even find a publisher, must make his writings a merchantable commodity. Commerce classes it with soap, sugar, oil, coal, cotton and the other commodities. Literature, in bowing to the dictates of commerce, has reached that period of its existence where it changes the same as the style in wearing apparel. What was stylish and popular literature a year or so ago is quite out of style now. Commerce, too, has produced the freak in literature. Gram, marians, rhetoricians and writers in general have heretofore always vigorously condemned and eschewed the use of slangs in literature. George W. Ade is reaping a harvest financially from his "Fables in Slang," a book written in the venacular of the vulgar, a book composed from the refuse of the English language, a book which, when admitted into the decent company of the classics, stultifies our literary anterior. Not long since I read a long article from one of our well known book sellers, or literary critics, who maintained that the "Fables" were a good example of powerful, condensed English, Well, if the ofal of any language is good for the mental appeal, as this critic labors to prove, then garbage must be good food for the physical one. If this book of Ade's is such a good example of "powerful, condensed English," why don't the schools and colleges insert slang in their curriculum, and have a prow fessor of slang, and train the students in its use? Probably the silliest and most freakable book of the day is one written by a girl of nineteen summers, of Butte, Mon., named Mary Maclane. It is nothing but nonsense. She says her life is "nothingness," and she awaits the coming of the devil to bring her happiness. The book is a portrayal of herself, and she tries to create a sensation by soiling at everything most people hold dear. She makes light of religion. She is a devil worshipper. She says she would marry him if she could. She proves herself to be a liar and a thief. There is a noticeable reaction against these books, however. They are something like the rocket—indeed they might with fitness be called sky rocket literature. Like the rocket, they dazzle while they are going up, but after a while they prove to be notching but a literary protechnic, and fall with as dull thud as the rocket stick. But they have served their purpose: The public has been given a literary protechnic display while the publishing houses have increased their financial holdings. We must remove literature from the field of commerce simply for commerce's sake, or there is no telling to what extremes publishers will go in getting up these displays. *** March 20.—In spite of trusts and the greedy rich who are trying to gather all the money in a heap and fence it in, it does seem as if the ordinary family—the average family, to be exacter—is better off than the average family of, say, twenty-five years ago. It is not necessary to name the many things that is common to it now which twenty-five years ago was a luxury. I will name one only and that is the piano. Probably nothing has so marked the progress of the average family to a more prosperous meds of living as the piano. Any man of sound mind and a fair memory can recall the time when a piano coming into a neighborhood was a cause for considerable excitement, and was a fruitful theme of conversation for months afterwards. It meant the possession of unusual wealth by its owner. Now when a piano goes into a house in a neighborhood, instead of creating any excitement it only causes the remark "Why, they must have been quite poor folks not to have had one before." A piano now instead of representing wealth by its possession is looked upon as much a common piece of household furniture as a bed or a dresser. The Negro has his share of this modern sign of comfortable living. No sooner is the cook stove installed in a home before the piano is in. And be it said the cook stove wields no more autocratio power in his domain than the piano does in his. Two things the Negro must have, his meals and his music. It is a scientific fact that the Negro is the greatest and most fastidious eater and the most natural musician in the world. What the white man eats and thrives on is a starvation diet to the Negro. Let him be broke he is cheerful; let his clothes be seedy and he cares not; let his rent be in arrears and he is serene; let sickness overtake him and he bears it calmly; but just let there be the slightest difficulty in his getting his feet under the table—just place the slightest uncertainty on his meals and he is an unhappy being. The Negro, as I have said, is a natural musician. He takes to the piano with the same facility a duck does to water. He needs no instruction. Music with him is a pent-up energy that only needs to see a piano to burst loose with overflowing. He begins by hammering away at a rag. At rag time music the Negro excels. This is his long suit. The white man with his school-of-music training may excel him in classic music, but almost any Negro you meet, though his hands are as big and awkward as they can be, without any knowledge, edge of music, can make him take to the woods when it comes to dispensing rag time. It is this inborn musical ability of the Negro which makes the piano an almost indispensable necessity to him. Stroll up Dearborn street or Armour avenue at any time during the months when the windows are up and it will surprise you what a common household article a piano is among the Negroes. March 27.—Among my acquaintances is a man who is an up-to-date, artistic liar. He is such a constant liar that I believe he was born with a talent for lying. He can lie himself into an awkward position and then lie out of it again. To detect him requires a knowledge of the real facts in the case, and an unusual faculty in discerning truth. So great are his lying abilities that I have known him to get the sanction of truth to his assertions by persons, who knew he was lying remaining silent, rather than have the courage to prove him a liar to his face and in the presence of others. I have studied my lying acquaintance assiduously. I have even noticed the shape of his mouth, and whenever the opportunity presents itself, the shape and construction of the tongue. His tongue explodes that, for it is as smooth as it can be. Not only are his tongue and mouth normal, but his entire facial expression is so. His eyes seem to beam truth. His tongue lies, but his facial expressions and actions give it all the appurtenance of truth, and that is why his lies have such force. I am going to put my acquaintance under a new kind of surveillance. It may be that such lying is due to germs. This is a germinal age. Over three-fourths of the miseries of mankind are traceable to the germ. Even laziness arises from a germ, then why not lying? I mean to labor hard to discover the lying germ, if such a thing there be, and in these columns I will exploit the discovery. March 28.—Don't compromise with dis, honesty. Half honesty is a more dangerous thing than out and out dishonesty, for it is likely to be adopted by many as an expedient who would at once spurn the latter. No part of a genuinely honest man's trans- sitions should ever come under that class called shady. Even though the worst of it may be yours, always admit the sunlight of honesty shine on whatever you do. Dis- honesty wealth always comes to a bad end. PETER GURSON FUNCH Doings of the Smart Set. Jackson, Mich., Special. — Miss Lizzie Moore, of Ann Arbor, was in the city Sunday. Mrs. William Carter is visiting in the city. Communion service was held at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Mrs. Rev. Collins is ill at her home. The funeral of Eli Johnson, who died from heart disease, was held last Friday. Charles Dolman, of INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1903. P. Pittsburg, was in the city last week. Miss Nettie Goins, of Kalamazoo, is ill in this city. The A. M. E. and Baptist churches have prepared an elaborate program for Easter. The Jackson boys will give a ball shortly after Easter. Emmet Williams, of Parma, passed through the city last week. Bruce Thornton was in Kalamazoo last week. The second anniversary of the Ladies' Home Circle was observed at the A. M. E. church on the 25th ult. with an excellent musical concert, the salient features of which were Mme. Marguerite Egbert, the noted prima donna, and Master Leroy Smith, the violin virtuoso, of Detroit. A large audience was present. The purpose of this club is to assist in liquidating the church debt. The neat sum of $72.15 was raised. graduated from Sumner in the class of '01. The fun held at the A. M. E. church Rev. Sydes. The floral of merous and beautiful. The gave a swell reception of and dancing were the feast. Mrs. Ford is building her home in Fortieth st. Brown, who has been suffer at her home in Fortieth st. Miss Cora Dornis is in Douglass street. The municipal campaign on in full blast. The pre-centered in the mayoralty two candidates, Claude W. Jenneille, there seems to be News Personal and General. Logansport, Ind., Special,—Mr. and Mrs. P, L. Easterly entertained last Wednesday evening a few of their friends. Refreshments were served and a pleasant evening was spent. Miss Bertha Hunster has been called to her home on account of the serious illness of her mother. Mrs. Mary Gray and little daughter have returned from an extended visit to relatives in Kansas City. Many of the young people are preparing to spend Easter in Kokomo. The Ladies' Sewing Circle is progressing nicely with their work for the May fair. Homer Tutt will return to his home in Philadelphia Tuesday, Mrs. Harvey Russell still continues very ill. Mrs. A. M. Taylor is training the children for a unique play to be given during the fair. Mrs. Mary Garrett, of Indianapolis, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Charles Jones. SERVICES IN A DANCING HALL! Death of a Prominent Young Man-Interest in Municipal Election. Cairo, Ill., Special.—St. Michael church on Fourteenth street, is meeting with great success. We believe that Rev. Brown and members should seek a more fitting place than Clancey's hall to hold services. There is a dance one night and preaching the next. Mrs. Mollie Edwards sends regards to her daughter, Lillie Williams, in Indianapolis, Miss Mary L. Hill was a recent guest of Miss Mattie Ousley in Nineteenth street. Fred, Wise and John Freeman were in Chicago last week. Miss Nina Mercer, of Mound City, is a guest of Miss Ada Ross, in Poplar street. Allen Johnson, of Douglass street, died last Saturday from pneumonia. His remains were laid to rest in the Cairo cemetery. Don't forget the ball at Twenty-sixth street hall on the 13th. Remember the concert to be given by Rev. Knowles in the near future. Miss Azelie Dumas has recovered from her late illness. John William liams is convalescing. Miss Ida B. Snearing is ill at her home in Twenty-sixth street, Mrs. Lena Scott and daughter left last week for their home in New Madrid, Mo., after a visit to Mrs. Earl Gilbert, in Twenty-fifth street. Wm. Hunter died at the home of his parents in Seventeenth street, on the 17th ult., leaving a wife, one child and many other relatives to mourn his demise. He graduated from Summer high school with the class of '01. The funeral services were held at the A. M. E. church, conducted by Rev. Sydes. The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. The Roosevelt club gave a swell reception on the 2d. Music and dancing were the features of the evening. Mrs. Ford is building an addition to her home in Fortieth street. Mrs. Anna Brown, who has been suffering from quinzy at her home in Fortieth street, is improving. Miss Cora Dorns is ill at her home in Douglass street. The municipal campaign in Cairo is now on in full blast. The principal interest is centered in the mayoralty contest. Of the two candidates, Claude Winters and J. J. Jennelle, there seems to be only one in the race as far as the white people are concerned. The colored people, perhaps a small majority, have been until recently favoring Mr. Jennelle, but the tide is chang- M. B. HON. CLAUDE WINTERS, Candidate for Mayor of Cairo, Illinois. ing and changing rapidly. The colored people lately are seeing things in the right light—they are beginning to see that their friend is Claude Winters, a man of the peo- ple and for the people. A man who will give the colored man all the representation that he by right is entitled to. He has promised that, and he has the reputation of never having gone back on his word. W. M. Kluge, the old reliable, is out for City Treasurer. He is the laboring man's friend, black or white, and should not be forgotten on the 21st. — George H. Yunker is a candidate for alderman from the 5th ward. He has been a resident of Carro for fifteen years, and your vote and influence will be highly appreciated. — James Mulkha is our candidate for alderman from the 6th ward, and your vote and influence is solicited. — We desire to call attention to Peter W. Kebler, Republican candidate for city Treasurer. Your vote is respectfully solicited. — J. J. Webster is a candidate for alderman of the 7th ward, and asks the support of the voters of his ward. He is a laboring man's friend. FUTRELL CITY NOTES. Mrs. L. Waid is sick at her home. The C. M. E. church is making extensive arrangements for Easter. Presiding Elder Brown will be present. The marriage of Alex. Bass to Miss Gertrude Hays was a grand affair. Pertinent, Pithy Pickings. Ferris, Tex., Special—Rev. Humphrey preached a noble sermon Sunday night at the C. M. E. church. The Epworth League preached a fine program Tuesday evening. A. L. Burkley and A. R. Daverson left Monday for Red Oak. All the churches are preparing for Easter exercises. Rev. H. E. Brown left for Lancaster Wednesday. The wedding bells will soon ring. Young Lady Burned to Death. Grant, L.T., Special.—The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Robucks was destroyed by fire last week, caused by the explosion of a lamp. One of the daughters was burned to death while the rest of the family were attending a concert. The public school closed with a concert, which was enjoyable. Mrs. L. C. Gainer, who has trained a number of children, will present a fine Easter program. The trouble between the races at Hugo has abated. Every Negro should read The Freeman weekly. Nuggets New and Novel. Mound City, Ill., Special — Jas. Willingham has been quite ill at his home. Mrs. James Collins has returned from a visit to Joppa and Lovings. Miss Ada Butler, of Cache, is visiting her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Fannie Alexander has returned from St. Louis. Mrs. O. T. Judge was initiated into the Daughters of Tabernacle on the 1st. Mrs. McKenzie Reed is making improvements on her property. Rev. W. A. Hancock, who has been sick for several months, filled his pulpit at the First Baptist church last Sunday. Twenty-one converts will be baptized on the 25th inst. under the auspices of the Second Baptist church. Solomon Liggins met with the misfortune of having his arm shattered while at work in the Hoop factory last Monday. Special program at the A M. E. church Easter. Henry Howard, a farmer living near Beechwood, died from general debility on the 8d. He leaves a wife and several children, two of whom are Mrs. Eva Edwards and Mrs. Ella Benson, of this city. The death of Mrs. Lucinda Williams, of America, occurred on the 1st. Several members of her family are residents of this city. Mrs. Hattie Perry man, formerly Hattie Jemerson, wishes to learn the whereabouts of her two sisters in-law, Mrs Jennie Murray and Miss Mattle Jemerson When last heard of they were both in Memphis, Tenn. Miss Mattle Jemerson had charge of one of the schools there. Mattle Jemerson then lived in Huntingdon, Tenn. Institute Notes. Tuskegee, Ala., Special.—Miss Susan B. Anthony, the great woman suffragist, accompanied by her sister and quite a number of other distinguished women, visited the school Sunday, March 29. Speeches were made to the students in the chapel by Miss Anthony and others and were thoroughly enjoyed by all Miss Anthony met the girls separately. Everybody is preparing for commencement which is only a short distance off. Quite a number of students in the higher classes are preparing to compete for the different prizes awarded and it promises, to be a great oratorical contest. Bishop G. W. Clinton of the A. M. E. Z. church is spending a while with us. He is here primarily to lecture to the students of the Phelps Hall Bible school, but will speak to all the students from time to time. Field-marshal Viscount Wolseley, K. P., continues in the March COSMOPOLITAN his penetrating study of the "Young Napoleon." The English general is outspoken in his admiration of the illustrious Frenchman. The story of the campaign of 1796 he writes, will be forever followed in all its minutia by those who wish to learn the science of war. It will be remembered as Napoleon's first independent undertaking as Commander-in-chief, and for having made known to history the greatest human being whom God has ever allowed to govern here below. SPECIAL PROGRAMS! TO BE RENDERED AT THE MANY CHURCHES EASTER SUNDAY. K. OF P. DRILL TEAM ORGANIZED! Church Rally Netted Large Sum for Building Committee-Base Ball Season to Open To-morrow-Cupid Cuts a Wide Swarth-Social Notes. WANTED—A sober and reliable practical tailor, colored preferred. State terms in first communication. Permanent situation for right party—none other need apply. Address the Bankin Haberdasher and Tailoring company, 333 Bryan street, Dallas, Tex. Everyone knowing the whereabouts of S. H. Ingram will confer a favor by addressing his ingram at 142 Done street, Dallas, Texas. When last heard from he was in St. Louis. WANTED—To know the whereabouts of Tom Smith and Mrs. Mary Norris. When last heard of were in Newberry, S. C. It is of importance to Mrs. Della Nelson, wife of Samuel J. Nelson, 459 Young street, Dallas, Texas. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. THE BIGGEST RACE ENTERPRISE The WILGERA Oil ..and Gas Company Owned, Controlled and Officered Exclusively by Colored Men, and Controlling over 500 Acres in Ohio's Richest Oil, Coal and Gas Field, and now have a gas well in with gas Stockholders are doubling their holdings in anticipation of the rise in price of stock. Don't Delay--Buy Now WHEN YOU CAN GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR. The only oil and gas stock put on the market at its par value---the best possible evidence of its worth as good investment. Not a dollar's worth of this stock can be had for less than par value. Cut This Out and Mail With Your Remittance. THE WILGERA OIL AND GAS COMPANY. Nine out of ten men can recall the opportunity that would have brought them rich. Some hesitated because of timidity, and others fail to hear Fortune's knock at the door. But the vast majority lost their chance because they could not spare the money to take advantage of it. Thus the lack of $500 or $1,000 in ready money costs multitudes of men their one chance of success—snatched from their grasp the luxury of financial independence and doomed them to the perpetual grind of poverty. This is more true of the colored man than of any other race or class. This was in our minds when The Wilgera Oll & 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 a competence—that we would plac it at a price that men and women of moderate means might become stockholders and stand shoulder to shoulder with those more fortunate financially. The stock is non-assessable, thus making it impossible for the wealthier colored men to force the man of small means out of a good thing. Not more than ten shares sold to one person. Subscribe at once. The Only Way to Earn Riches Is in Good investment. Such as THE WILGERA OIL & GAS CO. COLUMBUS.O. Safest Investment. The WIL ...and G Capital S Owned, Controlled and Men, and Controlling Coal and Gas Field, and Stockholders are of the rise in price Don't D WHEN YOU GRO The only oil and gas stock put evidence of its worth as stock can be had for less Cut This Out Taken from The Freeman. GENTLEMEN: I enclose with t Two ($2) Dollars per share) stock of THE WIL Witnessed my signature Name..... Street or P, O. Box..... Town or City..... State..... Nine out of ten men can recall Some hesitated because of time majority lost their chance because they Thus the lack of $500 or $1,000 snatched from their grasp the luxury of tv. This is more true of the colored man This was in our minds when T ($2) dollars per share. We recognize that this stock was of this stock so that a lack of money show competence—that we would pla. it at ers and stand shoulder to shoulder with ing it impossible for the wealthier color Not more than ten shares Subscribe at on Riches Is in Go THE WILGE For further particulars, write us. Largest Profits Assured THE WILGERA OIL & GAS CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO. W. W. Brown, formerly headwaiter at the Portland Flats, has succeeded Mr. R Wilson, who is white, at the Hotel Barton, Washing'on, D. C. Mr. Brown, with his colored crew, took charge of the Barton hotel, which is run on the European plan, March 20th. The Barton is one of the leading hotels of the city. Mr. Brown is a young man of great ambition, and we are satisfied he is the right man in the right place. ADVICE TO SIDEWAITERS. Good Sound Judgment from One on the Firing Line. The time has come when we, as waiters, should work not to hold our positions only, but improve our service, and unless we do so we will continue to lose ground, and when such come about can we blame the headwaiters? Absolutely there are too many of us who think we do too much, or the headwaiter is a little too strict, or the rules do not suit us. Well, if that is the case, why not quit like a man instead of assailing the officers? Suppose we were required to show a recommendation from the headwaiter where last employed, do you think that would promote more interest in our profession? Then suppose there was a board of examiners, and it was necessary to show a certificate before our applications were considered, is it not a fact that quite a number of us would fail to qualify? We are solely to blame. I have been employed in various hotels for the past twenty three years, and I find the best thing for a waiter to do is to do as you are told and under no circumstances dictate to your superior officer. Always try to master your profession; be polite, attentive to your duties, obey your superior officer, and positively stop talking in the dining room. WILLIAM PARKER. Capt. No. 1 Watch Gault House. Louisville, Ky. MANY WILL GO HUNGRY. Denver Restaurants Closed by Strike of Cooks and Waiters. Seventy-four restaurants in Denver, Col., closed March 31 in consequence of the cooks' and waiters' strike and thousands of people were greatly inconvenienced. The grocers, butchers and bakers' clerks threaten to strike in sympathy with the cooks and waiters and let the entire city go hungry. Many restaurant keepers declare they will never again unionize their places and are endeavoring to secure non-union workers. The strike was ordered because non union cooks and waiters had been employed in two restaurants that were members of the Restaurant Keepers' Association. The Restaurant Keepers' Association presented its ultimatum to the Cooks' and Waiters' Union this afternoon. The terms offered are that strikers will be taken back at the old wage scale if they report for work not later than to-morrow morning. The union now demands an increase of $1 a week in wages of both cooks and waiters and a reduction of one hour a day in the waiters' working time. The organization of a central labor body, to be known as the Denver Pure Food Trades Council, is proposed, to include the unions of the cooks, waiters, butchers, bakers, grocery clerks, packing house employees, etc. Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D., corresponding secretary of the Foreign Mission board of the National Baptist convention, Louisville, Ky., has made an appeal to the colored Baptists of the United States to be liberal in their contributions Sunday, for the Missionary department of the National convention of the Baptist churches. He tells of the needs of those who have left their friends and relatives in this country and took up work in Africa and South America, striving to point out to the heathens the way of salvation and to christianize and civilize them. It is the duty of those who have voted to send missionaries to foreign fields to remember them. We can decorate ourselves in new outfits Sunday from head to foot and walk the streets of the cities, towns and villages, but we should truly remember that while we are being admired for the neat fit of our new garments, there are men and women in Africa who are laboring for us among a heathen people, shoeless, hungry and have been unable to purchase a new garment since they have been at work. We commend the work of Secretary Jordan, and ask our readers to respond in a liberal manner to the appeal. Society and Personal Notes. Salt Lake City, Utah, Special.—Miss Mancie Harrington, formerly of Cincinnati, O, will return to the latter city on a visit, accompanied by Mrs C. Griffin, of this city. The Calvary Baptist church will give a drama about the 14th inst. Mrs. G. D. Whipple will entertain a few friends Thursday afternoon. Fred Anderson will return to the city on the 12th inst. Whittemore's Polishes "Elite" for "box calf" and black "Vci Kid" Shoes "Champion" Friction Polish (a black liquid) WE USE WHITTEMORES POUSHES "Boston" Heel and Edge Polish, per ct ..... 7.5 Liquid Cleaners (all col- ors), per qt. 38c; per gal ..... 1.00 Polishing Paste (all col- ors), per doz., large, 75c; medium, 13c; per ¼ lb. box, 18c; per ½ lb. box ..... 2.5 WHITTEMORE BROS. & CO. 20-22-24 and 26 Albany Street, BOSTON, MASS The Proper Thing LOW CROWN AND WIL We have them for DANBURY HA The Proper Thing for Spring in a Hat LOW CROWN AND WIDE BRIM IS THE STYLE. We have them for $3.00 and $2.00 DANBURY HAT COMPANY. No. 8 East Washington Street. This Colored Lady Has Used Cream-o and Hairoleum They have given her a clear peach-like complexion and beautiful flowing hair. Cream-o is the most wonderful skin toilet known for beautifying your complexion and is guaranteed to remove that dark oily color, remove pimples, blackheads, splotches, dark spots, roughness, freckles and makes your skin look healthier. It removes dandruff, makes it soft and easily combed, takes out the knick and curl. Our toilets throw off a fine fragrant smell when applied, and are GUARANTEED to do what we say or your MONEY REFUNDED. Will any other company give you this guarantee? If you have been fooled don't be fooled, but buy CREAM-O and HAIROLEUM and get a free sample. Either or any three will be sent for $4.00. See for free sample. Address: what you pay for. Send us 50c for a large size ad. Sold only by us. Send for free sample. Address THE TIFFANY-ROC INDIANAPOLIS, I THE TIFFANY-ROGERS TOILET CO INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, U. S. A. SUITS - - $20.00 and up TROUSERS $4.00 and up Deutsch Tailoring Co. 41 S. Illinois Street. Fibroid Tumors Cured Note the result of Mrs. Pinkham's advice and medicine. "Some time ago I wrote to you describing my symptoms and asked your advice. You replied, and I followed all your directions carefully, and today I am a well woman. "The use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound entirely expelled the tumor and strengthened my whole system. I can walk miles now. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is worth five dollars a drop. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or female trouble of any kind to give it a faithful trial."—(Signed) Mrs. E. F. HAYES, 252 Dudley St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass.—$5000 forfeit if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Mountains of gold could not purchase such testimony—or take the place of the health and happiness which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs. Hayes. Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing evidence that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound stands without a peer as a remedy for all the distressing ills of women; all ovarian troubles; tumors; inflammations; ulceration, falling and displacement of the womb; backache; irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation. Surely the volume and character of the testimonial letters we are daily printing in the newspapers can leave no room for doubt in the minds of fair people. Patronize our Advertisers. WHITE MOORE'S GILT EDGE BROWNIE'S FINE SHOPS EASTERN COLOR JUSTINE GILT EDGE BLACKBERRY COLOR FINE SHOPS WEAK, LONGER WHITE MOORE'S BROOKS BROOKS MARKET ```markdown ``` P JOHN BLEWIS NUFFSED SR RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOL BOX CALF PASTE FOR BOX CALF VICI KID PATENT ENAMEL LEATHERS WHITTEMO ELITE PO BOX CALF FOR BOX CALF VICI KID PATENT ENAMEL LEATHERS THE MILK COFFEE COFFEE CUSTOM MADE COFFEE Better than ever. As good as the best. Contractor's Notice We solicit sealed estimates on Girls Dormitory for Campbell College at Jackson, Miss. Bids to be sent to "Building Committee," care of Campbell College, April 30, 1903. Committee reserve right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications may be seen at college office. Done by order of Building Committee, P. H. FISHER, Chairman, D. H. BUTLER, Secretary. 207 INDIANA AVENUE New Phone 1844 Ladies and Gentlemen's Clothing, Cleaned Dyed and Repaired. Ball 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 Creole Switch, 12 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.00 buys a Creole Switch, 20 inches long, Brown or Black. $3.00 buys a Creole Switch, 22 inches long, Black or Brown. $3.00 buys a Natural, Wavy, Hand-made Switch like cut. Send sample of hair when ordering Creole Switch. Send money with order and get your goods by return mail. Send Samp for catalogue. T. W. TAYLOR, 39 Congress St. E., Detroit, Mich. When Writing Please mention this paper. K The MOWER that will cut your short grass, tall grass and weeds and do all the trimming along edges and walks. Seld for catalogue and prices. FREE College Education with diploma or degree. Study at home. Born 1933, Denyer, Ohio. HOTEL de MOORE [Picture of a man in a bowler hat and suit]. TWENTY-FIRST ST. AGO, ILL. 171,173 & 175 TWENTY-FIRST ST. CHICAGO, ILL. The Jefferson Bar GEO. S. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. JAS. JACKSON, Entertainer. 715 Linden St., ST. LOUIS, MO Private Reception Rooms for Ladies and Special Parties. NOTICE Any enterprising colored man can make money in St. Louis during the great World' Fair. The field is promising and offers wonderful inducements to men with money to invest. All inquiries along this line will receive imm ate attention by sending your communications above address. JEFF, SMITH, Prop. GEO, FOUNTAIN, Mgr MIXERS Jas. Williams, Chas. St. Clair TheGreeleySaloon Fine Wines, Liquors Excursionists give us a call. Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan Street ST. LOUIS, MO BARNETT'S PLACE Wines,Liquors & Cigars ing strictly first-class. A resort for the genteel and polite only. ALLS SERVED IN THE CAFE parties wishing to be reserved. BARNETT, PROP. Street and 805 N. 23rd Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. and Sports' Headquarters.... ARNETT'S PLACE Fine Wines,Liquors & Cigars Everything strictly first-class. A resort for the genteel and polite only. E. L. ARNETT, PROP. 2301 and 2303 Morgan Street and 805 N. 23rd Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Railroad Men and Sports' Headquarters..... JOHN HICKLIN, Manager The Haymarket ple Room. 214 N. Washington Street, A. ILLINOIS ocial Athletic Club Phone 1564. 214 N. Washington Street, PEORIA, ILLINOIS Jersey Social Athletic Club Rooms, 2nd Floor This place is political headquarte, and here you may meet all your friends and discuss questions pertaining to the best interest of the city. THE KEYSTONE A High Class Hotel for LEMEN ONLY. TEAM HEAT, HOT AND COLD BATHS. 3022 State Street, Chicago, Ill. SNOWDEN, Proprietor. GENTLEMEN ONLY. ELECTRIC LIGHT, STEAM HEAT, HOT AND COLD BATHS. CAFE and SAMPLE ROOM ATTACHED. 8023 State Street, Chicago, Ill. S. R. SNOWDEN, Proprietor. [Image of a young man in a suit and tie]. [Name] M. B. WILLIAM H. BROOKS THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Turf Sample Room AND HOICE WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS PONEY MOORE Proprietor Thirty Elegantly Furnished Rooms. Cafe in connect ion. European Plan. Prices Reasonable. Steam Bath. Electric Lift Bells. Bath and Speakin Tubes in connection with every room. BILLIARD AND POOL IN ANNEX. Chas. St. Clair THE W BILL'S FARE A Plea for Colored Waiters. In regard to the changing of colored waiters it is all right in private families, but where English people come in contact with each other it requires English service, and every colored man born under the American flag can speak the English language; not that I am finding fault with white waiters, but believe in holding to them that have made a thorough study of his own trade. We are trying to be roped into unions, but we don't think we can get justice in them. If a man is raised up in a profession he should have a chance to labor at that profession. The colored man has spent more time in this profession than in any other, and, in fact, has made a thorough study of all the minute details of professional waiting. The colored waiter will protect the proprietor and his profession even if every employee outside the colored waiters be white. If they continue to change they will find, in the future, that the white The Greathouse 220 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Choice Liquors, Wines and Cigars Trade Solicited on Merit of Goods Pool and Billiard Parlors. .....New'Phone 3026 Prop.ARCHIE GREATHOUSE R. B. Parkers Exchange Choice Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars Fine Pool AND Billiard Parlor. ROBERT B. PARKER, Prop. 527 Indiana Avenue, Phone 4357 new. Indianapolis, Ind. Ran Butler 462 W. 15th St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. B. J. Taylor, Mgr. Headquarters for A. B. C. Baseball Team. CLARENCE ELLIOTT, Dispenser. 125 West Colfax Street "The Derby Bar" JAS. C. THOMAS, Dro JAS. C. THOMAS, Plop. Fine Wines and Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars. Celebrated;K. & S.;Beer always on tap. South Bend, Ind. The Boys Exchange 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. Liquors the Purest, Cigars the Best, Get Your Money's Worth at C. PATTERSON at the Bar Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 1202 Roosevelt Avenue. Old Phone Brown 447. INDIANAPOLIS, IND same as all other strikers, and if the colored waiter should want his former position as waiter he will have to be placed there by law. In order to keep down strikes and to keep the study off the mind of the proprietor is to have two rooms and have both colored and white help no matter what plan, or all colored for waiting is our profession. We work to please the proprietor and our superior officers. We have made the art of waiting a study, and how to cater to the want of the guest of the dining room, not only on the American plan, but the European as well. I am not speaking for myself only, but for men that have given this question a study as well as myself. Our tables are our work-bench, and we will stand by them as long as we have the chance to do so. We are not contending for any favors along this line or in any avenue of human existence. All we want is a man's chance, and if we fall short of the mark fill our places with men who are more proficient. Don't turn us out because our skin is of a darker hue. We are men; yea, more than that, we are human, and are determined by thought and skill to keep our heads above water as long as we have a chance. I am a young man, thirty-one years of age, and been in the hotel business for fifteen years, and I do not see why a change should be made to remove the colored waiter for I have always found him faithful to his duty. G. L. LANG. Headwalter Colonial Hotel, Cleveland, O. Head and Second Waiters' National Benefit Association. Oregon 111 W. 22th Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., March 27, '03. Dear Brother—If the association to which we are pledged is to increase in membership and to be of the benefit for which it was started we must do more in the current year than we have done in the past. Every person and everything to be anything must progress. It is my desire that our association shall grow in every way and be a power for good among us. To accomplish this end I have resolved to use my best efforts, and I do not intend to let the interest which members may have in the association lie dormant for twelve months in the year, only to be revived at annual conventions. It is my opinion that in the interim between conventions we ought to be doing some work, not only in increasing the membership, but in formulating plans for our mutual interest in a material way. We are scattered over such a wide area that we are prevented from consulting frequently with each other, and this disadvantage is used by some of the brethren to shift the burden on others. This must A DINING ROOM HINT 23 24 12 11 10 9 4 3 13 10 15 10 17 14 12 9 6 5 1 2 DIAGRAM OF PRIVATE TRAY-DINNER ORD 5 1, Soup; 2, dinner plate; 3, roast beef; 4, asparagus; 5, fish; 7, onumbers; 8, salt, pepper, oil, vinegar; 9, bread, crackers; matoes; 12, potatoes; 13, ice cream; 14, cake; 15, fruit; 16, oat and saucer; 18, hard sugar, soft sugar, cream; 19, glass of waste 1, butter; 22, napkin; 23, tray; 24, tray cloth; 25, tray cover. 1. Soup; 2. dinner plate; 3. roast beef; 4. asparagus; 5. fish; 6. peach fritters; 7. onumbers; 8. salt, pepper, oil, vinegar; 9. bread, crackers; 10. peas; 11. tomatoes; 12. potatoes; 13. ice cream; 14. cake; 15. fruit; 16. coffee pot; 17. cup and saucer; 18. hard sugar, soft sugar, cream; 19. glass of water; 20. soup ladle; 21. butter; 22. napkin; 23. tray; 24. tray cloth; 25. tray cover. not continue any longer for no one man can carry this association. Each and every one of us has a duty to perform for our success means not the elevation of any individual, but the elevation of every member, and further still, the elevation of a large number of persons whose occupations are identified with our interests. I have, therefore, decided to address much needed; which ought to have succeeded, but failed from sheer inertia on the part of members who were unable or unwilling to enter into the true spirit of the movement. Let this not be the case with us. I hope you will write and let me know your views on what plans ought to be inaugurated to build up our association. I expect every member will Head and Second Waiters SUMMARY Name. Loc. N. H. Smiley . West Su John P. Gloster . Wilkensb George R. Wilson . DesaMoil W. Alonzo Locke . Calro, I. Noah Chage . Soranto C. B. Coles . New He Robert Granger . Zanesvli C. Lamar . Brookly F. P. Thompson . New Yo a quarterly letter to each of the members on matters appertaining to the association. This is my first installment. I solicit not only your advice, but I wish you to give me that encouragement in the effort I am making as will convince me that you have the interest --- 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. TELEPHON All Headwalters, Stewards and Bu his Ad so far as may lay in their P Special Attention Paid To Private Family Trade. & THE BEST IN THE Wieder Fine All Headwalters, Stewards and Butlers are respectfully asked to support his Ad so far as may lay in their power. Special Attention Paid To BRAND3: Bohemlan, Royal Amber Private Family Trade. Muenchner. A THE BEST IN THE WORLD. TRY IT Wiedemann's Fine Beers For Health, Fles E. H. RENTS Indianapolis Branch, 92 We Want Old Phone Main 2530. Write for Pr DRINK ME 187 PURE RYE SOFT, MELLOW 30 and 32 E. Maryland Street. SMOKE "THE E. H. RENTSCH, Manager Indianapolis Branch, 920 E. Washington street We Want Your Order. Old Phone Main 2530. Write for Prices. Delivered to Any Part of City DRINK METZGER'S PURE RYE WHISKEY SOFT, MELLOW AND NUTRITIOUS 30 and 32 E. Maryland Street. Both Phones 407. SMOKE "THE BARRISTER" Archie Greathouse Special chan Archie Greathouse and Robert Parker Special champions of this of the association at heart, and will hold up my hands in the struggle I am making to uplift our race. You know the shore is strewn with the wrecks of too many colored enterprises which started well; which were f; 4, asparagus; 5, fish; 6, peach fritters; jar; 9, bread, crackers; 10, peas; 11, to- cake; 15, fruit; 16, coffee pot; 17, cup ream; 19, glass of water; 20, soup ladle; cloth; 25, tray cover.** much needed; which ought to have suc- ceeded, but failed from sheer inertia on the part of members who were un- able or unwilling to enter into the true spirit of the movement. Let this not be the case with us. 1 hope you will write and let me know your views on what plans ought to be inaugurated to build up our association. I expect every member will S' National Prize Contest. MARY. Location. Subscribers: Superior, Wis. 9 Barre, Pa. 6 Oles, Iowa. 6 Al. 4 N. Pa. 3 Even, Conn. 2 Le, Ohio. 1 N. Y. 1 Park City, N. Y. 1 see to it that all of their friends join us. Wishing you all prosperity and happiness, believe me fraternally yours. F. P. THOMPSON, President. Robert Granger is meeting with great success as headwaiter at the Rogge --- Special Attention Given to the Hotel Trade. TELEPHONES 545 Letters, Stewards and Butlers are respectfully ask as may lay in their power. In Paid To Trade. BRAND3: Bohemian Muen & THE BEST IN THE WORLD. TRY IT, Wiedemann's ne Bee IN BOTTLE OR KEG Health, Flesh and Stre A Trial Order Will Convince You. H. RENTSCH, Manag- er of the Molis Branch, 920 E. Washington We Want Your Order. 2530. Write for Prices. Delivered to A DRINK METZGER 1877 RE RYE WHISK SOFT, MELLOW AND NUTRITIOUS Maryland Street. Both KE "THE BARRIS 10c Greathouse and Robert Special champions of this CIGAR --- tellers are respectfully asked to support power. BRAND3: Bohemian, Royal Amber Muenchner. WORLD. ITRY IT, mann's Beers E OR KEG sh and Strength SCH, Manager 200 E. Washington street Your Order. Services. Delivered to Any Part of City ETZGER'S 777 WHISKEY AND NUTRITIOUS Both Phones 407. BARRISTER" and Robert Parker nions of this HEADQUARTERS SALCON & RESTAURANT Strict a tention paid to customers. M. SAPIRIE, Prop. 423 W. Ohio Street, INDIANAPOIS, IND. Phone Brown 4741. Ed Thompson and Tom Donley at the Bar. Branch at 363 Indiana Avenue, Frank Jeffries and Paul Moore at the Bar. Also branch at 537 Bright St. Moonshine Liquor House. Old Phone Brown 777. 132 W. Washington Street, Near Park Theatre. Cool Beer Between Acts. Has been Sport. The New York Street SAMPLE ROOM AND CAFE. Nothing but Union Goods Handled. Oyster Soup free every Saturday night. Business Men's Lunch free from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Music afternoon and evenings, Stock & Recer, Proprietors, 401 West New York Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Phone 7092 Black. Hours: 8 to 10 a.m. New Phone 1656 2 to 4; 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays: 9 to 10 a.m. 2 to 3; 7 to 8 p.m. DR. H. L. HUMMONS 7541 Indiana Ave., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Hotel, Zanesville, Ohio. He has only been at this hotel for eighteen months, but his success is phenomenal. The new dining room of the Rogge has just been completed, and is well fitted in all appointments. Mr. Granger has entered the head and second waiters' national contest. John H. Brooks is now headwaiter at the Hotel Somerset, New York City, having succeeded a white crew several weeks ago. This is the second house in two years, wherein Mr. Brooks has succeeded white crews, the other one being the Schuyler. Mr. Brooks spent sixteen seasons at Hotel Saratoga under J. T. Lee, working his way from or dinary to second waiter. We hope to have more to say of Mr. Brook's success in the near future. --- THE FREEMAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 309 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; Any part of the United States and Canada one year, postage paid $1.60 Six Month.....85 Three Months.....60 Fourth Countries.....1.60 extra Send money by express, money order, post- office order or registered letter. Agents wanted i every town and city not now occupied, and i liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary inducements. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Fase of measure—solid agate, 14 cents to an ince. 272 lines in a column. 42 cents position, 25 percent additional. **No** advertisement inserted on this page. Special notes on standing professorial and business cards. Reasonable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 10c per line. Special rates on WR.TE UPS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., GEORGE L. NOX, Publisher. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1903. Senator Tillman says that he would die for his colored man Jo. He is not certain as to the ownership; Jo may own him or he may own Jo. So it is not a man's public utterances at all times that bespeak his sentiments. The senator may love Jo as his horse, but at that it is a care, an interest that is not manifested in all. To be above want and responsibility for existence in the more exacting sense would be a boon to many who do not find the world one holiday. The poor old darky, the reliot of other days, has this class of philanthropists to thank, although their philanthropy may be in a narrower, more restricted form than we are accustomed to think of it. But if viewed properly and closely there will not be found very wide divergence from the other. The late Thomas A Hendricks was another such a man. On the stump, the rostrum he was relentless as it concerned the Negroes, but in the privacy of his home he acted as if afraid of offending the least one of them. He had no harsh word for them in his vocabulary; as a child, heeding them, rather than otherwise. His amable wife, who yet lives, was of the same disposition; seemingly made it a study to be as little trouble as possible to those who attended their wants as noted in their hotel life in this city. Snoh men as Tillman and Hendricks sometimes need the other half of their lives viewed in order to strike a just average. They were both deeply imbued with their notion of the Negroes' place in the body politics of the country, but for the Negro per se they evinced much love as Mr. Tillman shows for his Jo. It would be useless to attempt to justify Mr. Tillman's very violent public utterances concerning the Negroes; further than Mr. Hendriks ever went, who was suave, polished, graceful, diplomatic, yet for his love manifested in his own way, Mr. Tillman should have credit. The South is filled with Tillmans who will not give a rap for a Negro when it comes to "starring," but who will die for their "man" if imposed upon. The majority of Negroes are dependent, hence the condition is not without its redeeming qualities. While struggling for greater consideration the good done ought not be overlooked. The Boston Enterprise is a new newspaper venture of that city. The chances are that the Guardian, which has been stronely anti-Washington, will find something doing right at home. The Enterprise runs Mr. Washington's cut on title page with sketch of work, etc., which may be taken as an indication of that paper's policy as it may concern Mr. Washington and his effort. The Guardian, while ably edited, has at times went out of its way to attack Mr. Washington. Credit is certainly due him for his theory of race promotion The others who have other notions should put them in practice and not waste their ammunition on him. Mr. Washington does not strike back, and in that shows his superiority and a far better indication of the kind of education men should have. He enters no controversy and thus shows his fitness to stay where he is, at the head of the greatest uplifting agency known to the race. The assertion is not an empty platitude; he is doing; others are doing, but as a single agency he is doing the most. To morrow, Sunday, April 12th, is the day set apart by the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention for raising $7,000 for foreign missions. The board is making a grand effort to carry the gospel to the benighted people of other lands. It needs encouragement. A contribution, great or small, will be appreciated. Missions cannot exist without support. Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D, Louisville, Ky., the corresponding secretary, will cheerfully acknowledge all donations sent him. General Lew Wallace evidently believes in defending his honor on any part of the ground. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler of the Wilgera Oil Company of Columbus, Ohio, needs special mention for his skill in engineering that great corporation to the success attained. Mr. Tyler, it is said, is doing his work as a matter of love, accepting no remuneration whatever. His genius as a financier is felt in welding together the greatest concern ever put forward by colored men. Indiana again showed her appreciation for her dead soldiers by erecting a beautiful monument on Shiloh's field, which was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies last Monday. Among the notable personages who took part were General Lew Wallace, Colonel J. S. Wright, Governor Durbin, Senator Beveridge and the poet, James Whitcomb Riley. The Loyal Legion of Labor Educator, a national organ of the Loyal Legion of Labor, has just made its appearance at Akron, O. Its purposes are as indicated by its name, to subserve the interests of that order. It is a bright looking sheet of sixteen pages with good illustrations by way of likenesses, groups and officers of the order. It will be published monthly. Mrs. Ada Walker Overton is enjoying herself in high class society in the east. She has something that the white people want; she can teach them to cake walk. She is getting invitations right and left. Such people as the Belmonts, DeForests, Pagets, Dyers, Rhinelanders and Neilson have been paying Mrs. Walder considerable attention. Patronize colored men in business when possible. There is more opportunity to get on than we acknowledge. Twenty thousand people would make a town of good size, one that would support the twenty thousand from bank clarks to rag pickers. Why don't they do it? You need them now. The Christian Recorder, published at Philadelphia, is bearing down on the bad element of that city. It insists that the pulpit and all redeeming agencies be pressed into service or else that element will drag all down. It heads the article, "The Jim Crow Negro in Philadelphia." Beautifully designed invitations have been issued and sent out by the board of management of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo. in view of the dedication which takes place April 30th and May 1st and 2d. After the convention then comes the election. LOUIS M. Fashionable Y. M. C. A. Building 31 N. II. Suits from $23.00 up. Call and inspect Styles The Freeman indorses this house REMOVA D·L. Nesbitt, The Now at 342 I. Next door to Po Great variety of spring styles now Spring and Summer We have made a clean sweep of la- ng season are entirely new; the se- lates novelties. May we have th W. G. SCHNEIDER, Merchant Tailor: Braden & TAILORS and 120 Monument Place. TECHENTIN Manufacturer HARNESS and Complete Line of Gilliam's Horse Boots, 136 East Washington Street, between Old Phone Main 23 ATTENTION COACHMEN! Best Work. Telephone "Nick" Fine Repairing, Cleaning and Pressing LOUIS MUELLER Fashionable Tailor Y. M. C. A. Building 31 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Suits from $23.00 up. Call and inspect our goods. Fit guaranteed. Up-to-date Styles The Freeman indorses this house. REMOVAL NOTICE D·L. Nesbitt, The Leading Colored Tailor Now at 342 Indiana Avenue Next door to Porter's Barbershop Great variety of spring styles now being shown. Call and see them. Spring and Summer Season... We have made a clean sweep of last season's goods and fabrics for the coming season are entirely new; the styles are original and comprise all the latex novelties. May we have the pleasure of seeing you early? W. G. SCHNEIDER, Merchant Tailor: Fine Fabrics, Excellent Work, Moderate Prices 38 West Monument Place TAILORSandIMPORTERS 120 Monument Place. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. HARNESS and SADDLERY Complete Line of Gilliam's Horse Boots, Trunks and Trave ing Bags 136 East Washington Street, between Delaware and Pennsylvania Streets, W. C. HAZEL FASHIONABE Wishes your trade. Suits at popular p a specialty. GRAY & DEALS Diamonds, Watches, Clock 154 N. Illinois Street, INDIANA ELWOOD SANDS, Agent. Calls answ Wishes your trade. Suits at popular prices Cleaning, Pressing and Altering a specialty. 327 Indiana Avenue. DEALERS IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware 154 N, Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Teephone Green 1861 ELWOOD SANDS, Agent. Calls answered by phone or mail. Roscoe Conkling Bruce has been mentioned for the Presidency of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Mr. Bruce is a capable young man, a graduate of Harvard and now at the head of the normal department of Tuskegee. Grand Chancellor Mitchell of the Knights of Pythias of Texas has issued a proclamation to the 7,000 knights of that State to the effect that they observe the annual Thanksgiving sermon on the 26th day of April. Thanks are due the Missouri Legislature for holding up the "Jim Crow" proposition that was pending before that body. It was another Missouri compromise. Senator Tillman's tour North was attended with just a little friction. In Madison. Wis., a few kisses were tendered him as well as cheers. Wanted good honest colored men to the fore who do not have convictions for sale. The last of the original Uncle Tom's of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame is said to be dead. Every Lady Read This Every Lady Read This. Years ago when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leucorrhea, Displacement, Painful Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one who cooks the recipe. I will send it Free for every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping woman. I send it Free. Address Mrs. A. B. Hudnut, South Bend, Ind. Money Advanced on Old Phone Diamonds, 982 Brown Watches, Jewelry or any Article of Value. ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE, 209 Massachusetts Ave., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Private Entrance 108 East Ohio Street. Taggarts Bakery 234 W. Vermont Street. 233, 235, 237 Massachusetts Avenue. 18, 20, 24 N. New Jersey Street. 1538 N. Illinois St. 1532 College Ave. Tomlinsoo Hall Market HAVALUNCH In a Box for 10 cents. MUELLER Table Tailor Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind. our goods. Fit guaranteed. Up-to-date use. ALL NOTICE Leading Colored Tailor Indiana Avenue Carter's Barbershop new being shown. Call and see them. Other Season... Best season's goods and fabrics for the com- styles are original and comprise all the pleasure of seeing you early? The Fabrics, Excellent Work, Moderate Prices 38 West Monument Place & Buskirk IMPORTERS INDIANAPOLIS, IND. & FRIEBERG ers and Dealers in d SADDLERY Trunks and Trave ing Bag- ten Delaware and Pennsylvania Streets, 134, Indianapolis, Ind. THIS IS THE PLACE TO J.B.U.Y. Green 2143. Lowest Price. The Tailor 121 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. BLE TAILOR Porloes Cleaning, Pressing and Altering 1827 Indiana Avenue. G RIBB E N, CLERKS IN—— Exs, Jewelry and Silverware POLIS, IND. Teephone Green 1861 powered by phone or mail. W. H. "You will make millions out of these Mines. Ever since my connection with the Canton Mining Company I have been in touch with the Ely Camp, and the properties owned by us are of great value." President William McKinley. People who engage in legitimate mining investments, in a businesslike way must take one of two courses. They must rely upon their own personal inspection of the mining property, or, they must depend upon the judgment and advice of some one individual in whom they repose confidence. Unless you are upon the ground yourself, familiar with the property and able to distinguish between a good prop Copyright, 1900, by Charles A. Gray. WILLIAM M'KIN erty and a mere prospect, you must rely upon some expert mining man of undoubted integrity and with the ability to pass judgment. Judgment of Experts. The largest minilog investors in the country have finely trained experts constantly in their employ for this purpose. It is for this reason that the ordinary Western mine whose stock is advertised for sale is subject to doubt. In a majority of cases, if the mines were as sure of results as the advertisements state, these well-equipped experts of very rich mining men would see that their principals acquired these extraordinary valuable properties before the stock was ever presented to the public. This does not apply in every instance, but it does apply in a majority of instances. Mining men know that it is necessary to have this judgment of experts. Treadwell as Authority. When Prof. George A. Treadwell, whose word as an expert is confidently accepted by the best mining men of many countries, said ten years ago that the United Verde Mine would become one of the most prolific copper producers in the world, many experienced investors accepted that judgment and procured stock in the company, then selling at $1 00 a share. Many persons who were not professional mining men and who were only occasional investors in such things, put a few hundred or a few thousand dollars into the United Verde stock at $1 00 a share, and as a result are now able to draw their check for hundreds of thousands of dollars. From 1849 up to the discovery of the United Verde Mine. Prof. Treadwell had examined hundred of mining claims. He picked out this mine as the most promising one he had examined since the old days in California. Seven years later the Green Consolidated Copper mine appeared in the market with $5.00 the price of its shares McKinley Minin Office open at 8 A. M. We call upon all Head an 403 Law Building, Indianapolis, Ind. If this coupon is returned before April 15, shares may be obtained for $3 per share, after which date they will be $5. of the stock, $1,000 invested when the shares were $5 each, has grown into a sung little fortune of $5,400. The Ely Mines. When it was announced that M. C. Prof. Treadwell, who, in the meantime, had examined many other mines, again advised his friends to invest, with the statement that this was unquestionably one of the largest copper properties in the world. At the present selling price M'KINLEY. Barber, of Canton, O., and his brother-in-law, the late President William McKinley, were negotiating for the organization of a company to work the eighteen mining mines at Ely, Nevada, which had descended to Mrs. McKinley and her sister, Mrs. Barber, from their father, James A. Saxton, the expert who was asked to examine the property was Prof. George A. Treadwell. Prof. Treadwell made a complete examination, especially of two of the mines—the Saxton and the Aultman. He found an abundance of red iron oxides overlying gold ore, and after a thorough examination of all surface indications and of the development work at the stage then reached, reported that there would be found at the permanent water level one of the richest deposits of copper sulphides that had ever been discovered. This quite changed the aspect of the undertaking, as the two mines had been looked upon only as gold mines, the fact having been established that the deposits of gold ore were present in very incrative quantities. Prof. Tradewell advised sinking shafts at certain points and the running of drifts. He also advised the saving of the gold ore as the most economical flux that could be used in the treatment of the copper ore. By this means the copper is produced at a minimum cost and more of the gold is saved than would be the case with a stamp mill. Company Organized. President McKinley turned the property over to the company then organized. His brother-in-law, Mr. Barber, was elected president, directors were chosen and committees organized. It was determined to open the stock to public subscription. Prof. Treadwell was made chairman of the executive committee and of the mining committee, and W N. McGill, an experienced mining man, was made manager of the mine. In the development of the Saxton ming and Smel M. 403 Law Buildi d and Second Waiters to ent "I think the McKinley Mines have a great future and will come to the front as big copper and Gold producers. The Stock ought to be selling at Ten Dollars a share on the merits of the mines." Prof. George A. Treadwell. mine the rich deposit of orewas found to continue in one direction through seven additional mining claims, and these have since been acquired by the company, the properties now consisting of twenty-five very valuable mines. It may be judged that backed by such circumstances and governed by such influences, the stock of the McKinley Mining & Smelting Company has met with a very flattering reception by the public. Professor Treadwell said that the McKinley mine had a great future, and would come to the front as one of the greatest copper and gold producers in the world. He said: "I have examined many hundreds of mines. Among them I have found probably half a dozen first-class mines. "The property of the McKinley Mining and Smelting Company I rank as one of the best of these. The stock is cheap, at the present development, at $10 a share. This is the same great mining engineer who advised investment in the United Verde when $1,000 would purchase stock worth $300,000, and who likewise advised investment in the Green Consolidated stock at $5 a share, three years ago now worth $27 a share on the market. A Safe Investment. Is it likely that President William McKinley would have turnedr these properties over to the company unless it was one of the best and safest mining propositions ever presented? If it was good enough for him to indorse with his name, should it not be a good investment for the average investor? If the present development, as reported last week by Manager McGill, bears out everything foretold by Professor Treadwell, is it not a better investment now than it was then? If this report shows that native copper has already been reached, underlying an immense quantity of pay gold, will it take many months for McKinley stock to follow in the upward path of the United Verde and the Green Consolidated? When you consider that there are twenty-three other mines belonging to the company to be worked in turn, in the same neighborhood and with the same prospects of success, isn't the value of the stock already far beyond the price at which it is offered? Isn't it better to invest in such a mine, with values determined and with a monthly pay roll for over $6,000, than it is to invest in a prospect confined to one mining claim? If the capitalization, fixed by President McKinley, is $1,000,000, and there is blocked out at present in the Saxton and Aultman mines about $600,000 tons of gold ore, which at $5 a ton is worth $3,000,000, isn't the investment an extraordinarily safe one? --- You have here the opinion of one of the world's experts, and you know the property as well as it is possible for an investor to know any mining property. It is safe to say the stock will not remain at $3,00 a share for any considerable length of time. Checks and drafts should be made payable to DONAD R. KUNKELMAN. A letter addressed to him at the company's office will bring complete information on any point. TAGE. A THE FREEMAN POST OFFICE. A stamped enveloped, plainly addressed, must be enclosed for each letter, and the line of business followed by the name address should be given in order to prevent mistakes. Nurses - Professionals and others should bear in mind that all letters, etc., in transit between the United States and Canada, must be prepaid, otherwise they are not forwarded. NOTICE - Advertised letters will be held in the Freeman Post Office for FOUR WEEKS ONLY hereafter. LADIES LIST. Brister, Miss Grace Cornell, Miss Min'ie Cressa, Mrs Cora Davis, Miss H V Delacic Miss Annie Edmonds, Miss Bertie Francis, Miss C Fearle, Miss M C Harris, Mrs Eliza Henderson, Mrs L Hobbs, Mrs Hattie Locke, Miss Ida Mitchell, Estelle Morris, Miss Emma Morton, Clara Marion, Glenn Seoul, Miss Olara Perry, Mrs Edna M Winfred, Mrs Fannia Anderson, Ed Benson, Willie Bootwick, W. G. Booher, Sweeny Brown, Richard Boehner, G. Chaen and Petitt Cissel & Mines Donaldson, F. B Edwards, Will Fermann, Will Garland, G W George, J. E. Geyer, E. Fry Heater, Edward Enghes, E. Horace, Geo. Hawkins, Hry Holus Billy Hughes, Chas. Harrison, Bros. Harrison, H 5 Jackson, W. L Johnson, Sam King, Engne Lantford, Kid Lankford, Kid Larkins, Jno LaShie Lawson, George Loner, E J McCoy, Geo. McCamon, J. H. McCurdy, Chas McCarver, Howard Miner, Perel McCade, Henry McCabe, D W McCamon, Henry Mooden, John P Perrin, Syringe Price, J. W Piercy, Gray Russell Lacola G Rawles, Henry Steward, Wm. Sherman, James E. Sherman, Wilber C Smith, J. 3 Tait, D Whittle The Foeters The Foeters The Pittits Wright I. J. L. Watters, Jam, E Watts, Chas T Watson, Jack Watkins, Jack Wilson, Richard Young, Billy SEYTEN'S UNCLE Tom's CARIB Co.—Albert Lea, Minn. April 15. BIG MONSTER FESTIVAL (Brusco & Holland).— Wheeling, W. W., April 13-14 15 RICHARDS & PINNOLY's "MUSS GEORGIAIS -Sloux Falls, S.D. , April 12, Leavenworth, Kan. , 19. A RABBIT's Foot Co-Ocala, Fla., April 13; Dun- lain, W. Springs, Springs, 15, Galveston, 15, Wald, 11; Rafter, 15 BLACK PATTI TROUBLAUDOURS (Voelckel & Nolan) Bacurys, P. April 13; Findley, 14; Tiflin, 15; Mulliony Brass. (Feuberg Stock, Co.)—No:th Adams, Mass, April 13. BELM & YOUNG'S BLACK BOSTONIANS — Fairmount, Neb., April 13; Sawyer, 14; Milligan, 15; Tobias, 16; Helve, 17; Fairbury 18. Frank Jackson sends regards to Campbell Bros. and Frank Castray, of Rusco & Holland No. 1. G. W. Houseley, of the Georgia Minstrels, wants to hear from musicians. Piccolo and clarinet players be sure and write. Jolly Joe Pleasants of the Mahara Minstrels, is at home at Macon, Mo., visiting friends, and attending the bed side of his mother who is ill. Little Rose and Powell Johnson, of Stetson's Uncle Toms Cabin Co., have been with them for three seasons, making a big hit all through the coast. They will go to their home in Boston for the summer, they are both all round workers. Best regards to their friend, Clarence Powell and the Turners. Frank Kirk the well known tramp musical acrobat, will be seen in a new musical specialty the coming season. Robert H. Gant, of Cincinnati, will look after the interest of Wm. H. Reid, who is organizing the Big Concert Co., which opens its season at Springfield, Ohio, April 18. He sends regards to P. G. Lowery and Jas Wolfcales. Ell R. Rice, of Gideon's Minstrels, closes the show on the 18th of April, and will depart for his home, Lawrence, Kansas, to rest up for the summen and will join his partner, Ed. L. Anderson, next season. He sends regards to Mamie Turner and Frank King. Would like to hear from Young & Brown. The Jackson's, the well known musical comedy singing and dancing team, gave an entertainment last Thursday night in Pawtucket, R. I., to about 600 boys and friends, at the Boy's Club in that city. All united in saying that Ellis Jackson, Jr., the boy wonder, is the cleverest child living. He held the crowd spell bound for 40 minutes. They send regards to J. Harry Jackson, Madame Flower and Mae C. Hyer. A. A. Copeland, assistant stage manager of Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival, was in Chicago last week to see some of his friends and also to arrange his booking for the summer season. He will put out his latest hit next season entitled, "If you can't come Home, just send your Money," by Copeland & Hardin. He sends regards to Miss Ida Forcen of the Patti show, also Cook & Jones, and would like to hear from Charlie Arnold at once. Among the late musical publications by M. Witmark & Sons, of New York, are: "I'm a Jonah Man." Bert Wil- THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. liam's great success in "In Dahomey," "While the Moon Shines Bright," by Howard, Emerson and Stonehill, a popular waits song, "Love's Voyage," a beautiful intermezzo by Gaylord Barrett; "My own United States," the new national song from "When Johnny comes Marching Home." "I'm your Sweetheart Forever," the charming love song by Van Rensselaer Wheeler in a Chinese Honeymoon, and "My Little Hong-Kong Baby" sung by Adele Richie in "A Chinese Honeymoon." Notes from the Gideon's Minstrels:—We are now in the State of Michigan, still showing to great business. All the boys are well and enjoying the fresh breezes from the great lakes. Skinner Harris, our principal comedian and stage manager, has been on the sick list for the past two weeks, but is able to discharge his duty now. Herbert LaShe our slack wire artist is rehearsing a new act for next season. He sends regards to the Houseley Bros. and Willie Shields. J. R. Johnson sends regards to the members of Mahara's No. 1 Co. All the boys are planning to come out new on Easter Sunday. Charlie Hall who has lately taken up the clarinet, will soon be able to play in the band. All send regards to Richard & Pringle's No. 2. J. Harry Jackson sends the following from New York city: Cooper and Bailey, a clever singing and dancing team, are among the headliners at the Circle Music Hall this week....Rastus and Banks have returned to the city after a successful engagement in Boston....Irving Jones was a big card at the New Star Theater Sunday night....Williams and Walker and company have finished their phenomenal run at the New York Theater. They left Sunday afternoon for Philadelphia, where they are booked for an engagement of two weeks, after which they will return to New York, where they will appear at a Harlem theater....Murphy and Slater were on the vaudeville bill at the Third Avenue Theater Sunday night....Jones and Sutton are at Keith's Union Square Theater this week....The Wangloode Comedy Four are in Brooklyn this week....The Washingtons—and Minnie—are with Briggs and Mills" "Way Down South" Company, now touring the New England States....Jones, Grant and Jones have once more united, and are headliners at Tony Pastor's this week....Mattie Allen and her "picks" were one of the big hits at the New York Theater Sunday night of last week. Notes from the Famous Georgia Minstrel Co.-We are *in* the State of Nebraska, doing a wonderful biz, and our show seems to be just the order for Nebraska, as the managers wire all the way from five to six stands ahead, or as far ahead as they have influence telling the other managers to hustle, that they have one of the best shows of the kind that has ever visited the city, hence we always expect good houses with such assistance as that and a good show also. Mr. Harry Fiddler has been away for two weeks at his home in Indianapolis, Ind. He reports an enjoyable trip, and joined the show at Freemont, Neb., looking fine. There is a slight rumor that Frank Clermont, cornetist, is going to leave this season, which the company regrets very much, and really hopes the report will prove frivolous. Our sick list is quite large this spring. M. D. Houseley has been on that list for better than two weeks, but nearly alright now. John E. Jackson has been on sick list for better than a month and is slowly improving. Chas. Watts has been on the list for sometime, but is fast improving. G. W. Houseley has been complaining considerable, but still keeps moving. We are anticipating a summer season again under tent. We will have the same show and people under a new name (Culligan & Morgan's Alabama Minstrels), aiming to play quite a few of the prominent cities of the East, during summer. We all send regards to all professional people in and out of the business. To George A. Swan, 'howdy.' R. L. Wilson come this way if you want to see your friends L. Cooper, Chas. Parker and John Jackson sends regards to all St. Louis friends, expecting to see them within a few days, near the first of May. Napoleon Johnson writes from the Big Minstrel Festival.—Now that we are back among the old folks once again the audiences do not, as the funny man used to say, resemble the keys of a piano. We are in Ohio for a few stands, then we go into the State of West Virginia. Business has been up to the standard, and still they vote the Georgia's the best that ever happened. In Louisville, Jude Brown, on account of sickness was unable to make the parade, but at this writing, he is all right, and in fact all the boys are, excepting a few have colds. The Georgia Minstrel Cycling Club held their first race meet in Jackson, Ohio, Sunday, April 5. The officers of the club are as follows; J. L. McDaniels, President; Clarence Powell, Vice-President; Wm. Garland, Secretary; Jube Brown, Assistant; S. H. Dudley, Treasurer; Jno. Pittman, Robt. Leach and Frank Castry, Judges and Henry Bartlett, Timekeeper. The races were run in inheats, best two out of three. The preliminaries were run as follows: 1st, S. H. Dudley and C. Powell; won by Dudley, time, 10 sec. 2d, H. Kraton and F. Hansett; won by Hansett, time 11 3-5 sec. 3d. Manzie Campbell and Allie Brown, won by M. Campbell, time, 12 sec. The main race was between Wm. Cooper and Sidney Kirkpatrick, with Cooper as favorite at 5 to 3. The race was won by Kirkpatrick, time 8 sec. Richard E. Hayes and Fred Simpson, starters. As this was the beginning of a series of races, no records were broken, but in the future longer distances and better time is expected, and all are looking for the great handicap race with Lester J. McDaniels on scratch. Sidney Kirkpatrick baritone soloist, formerly of the Nightingale Quartette, joined us in Louisville, and is wining his nightly, singing "You are my all in all." Allie Brown slack wire artist is still a feature in the oloi, and from the amount of applause he receives it goes to show that whenever you deliver the goods the public will give it to you. Also the Campbell Bros, are working hard as usual, and always get theirs. Dude Kelly left this morning for his old home in Columbus, Ohio, to spend the day with his sister. He received word last week that his mother has been dead a year. We all sympathize with Kelley for when one loses his mother, he loses the dearest and truest friend. As my flow of words will not allow me to express my feeling, allow me to use the words of the poet who said: "Take good care of mother, Nurse her every hour, Treat her just as tender as you would a little flower. Kiss her and caress every night and morn, For you'll never miss your mother boxes till she gone." MR. RUSSELL'S OPINION. Mr. Elwood C. Knox: Dear Sir, I have been asked by people in Boston to express my or on the New York Theatre color line affair, made public by Chas. Moore. I think that all colored show people should have sense enough to keep their lips sealed to newspaper reporters on the race question. I regret that Mr. Moore was not on his guard. His Freeman explanation is also to be regretted. He make quite a mistake in going out of his way to assail the rough element of his own race, who were not in question in the controversy at all. The management of the New York theatre should have expected that some of the well-to-do colored families, of the greatest city in America, would expect to be accommodated on the lower floor, to see Williams & Walker. Some of these managers who are drawing the color line are Hebrews. No manager with Hebrew blood in his vains should draw the color line and expect the Americans to cease discriminating against Jews in the exclusive hotel summer resorts, when they are drawing a race line themselves. The New York managers who discriminate on account of color are greatly to be condemned. The public cares nothing about where a respectable colored person sits, in the northern theatres, in this enlightened age. The thoroughbred white people would be delighted to sit next to the families of Bishop Derricks, who rode with a foreign prince, or Booker T. Washington, who dined with the President, and converse with them. SYLVESTER RUSSELL A LITTLE COMMOH SENSE. I put this little notice in for the benefit of my friends in the profession. I would like to have it (first of all) understood that I was the first colored man to do a hoop-act before the American public. I rehearsed the same three years before I ventured out. I had always doubted myself as to my ability in the juggling art to please an audience, but as time passed on I saw other great actors, and after I saw them, I compared myself with them, and in this way I gained confidence in myself, and went before the people with a hoop act on the stage, not on paper. Last summer while playing at the Chicago Opera House, I had the pleasure of meeting the two greatest hoop-rolling actors before the public. Ollie Young, Allie Hale and Miss Frances. Mr. Young said this was one of the best single acts he had ever witnessed. Mr. Hale was surprised at so much originality. I did not steal this act from any one. I heard of a hoop act, then I set to work at it and put my own ideas to every trick I do and that accounts for my doing so different an act from the rest. If you see anybody do t trick like I do, they just simply stole it form me, and their photo would stick out like a 24 sheet in a Rogue's gallery. I waited three years before I ever thought of letting the public know I was doing a hoop act. All other colored artists looked at it but thought it impossible to do until I (the youngest in the biz, with only three years of experience in show business) broke the ice. Now the public is being deceived everywhere you see a hoop-act, nearly, with the word hoop-roller, you really see more on paper than on stage. For a living example look at this. I was with a colored farce comedy last season entitled the "Queen of Hayti." I was engaged as the star of the show. We showed at Seattle and had the pleasure of meeting the No. 2 Georgia Minstrels. Well, as usual, the boys came down to see our show at the Seattle Theatre and with this gang of gentlemen came a Mr. "Shields." This little gentleman was not satisfied with stealing an imitation of Mr. La She's wire act, but he saw the show, saw the hoop-act and behold it had such take effect on him that he imagined he was a hoop-roller, and at the week I saw a "Freeman," and in the notes it said "Mr. Shields is now doing hoop-rolling." Don't get discouraged when you drop in a town where I have been, because there are white artists that are falling in the same "trap" down south here, that you have run into out there. Men of sense originate, monkeys imitate. Don't show your monkey instinct so much. I am now completing arrangements for an extended European tour. To follow in these foot-steps you will have to put a wiser head on your shoulders and for the people's sake cut "Master" off your name for that is a poor way for a great big awkward man to get the audience's sympathy. Yours hoopingly. HARRY KRATON. The Bronze Everhart. TAKE NOTICE that Seymour & Harris' Afro-American World's Fair Dramatic Stock Company, will be incorporated by the American Corporations & Securities Co., the stock of the company will be handled by them also, all investors absolutely guaranteed against loss. WANTED TWO 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 a special feature of the Negro exhibits. Showing the progress the race has made in legitimate drama. Presenting a $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. Full details on application, write for circulars, address 107 Cliff Street, Hot Springs, Ark. W. A. SEYMOUR, Manager. The Freeman in Hot Springs, Ark. Copies of the Freeman can be found every Saturday at Robinson & Glover's barbershop, 101 Malvern avenue. WANTED HELMS & YOUNG'S BIG COLORED CIRCUS, the Largest One Ring and Wagon Colored Circus in the world, Wants amateur ladies and gents that can play band and double in ring, contortionists, wristbands and so on, make your best terms and pay your fees and roadie we are Downie Start May 15. Write me in full to Downie City, Pawnee county, Neb. A. D. YOUNG, General Manager. 'AD' GOOD FOR $ .50c We will make to you your measure a genuine shoe with your $ 2.50 for $ 10.00 (or $ 9.50 and copy of this $ 2.50 for $ 10.00 you FREE a pair of shoes, hat, shirt, collar and cuffs, necklace, sox, suspenders, handkerchief. Send for free samples. MODEL OUTFITTING CO. 156 Monroe St., Chicago, IL DICE wood, Ill. DICE Expert work $1 per set. Cards $1 per deck. Send stamp for catalogue. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address BARR & CO., Highwood, Ill. WANTED--Young colored women to copy names at home. 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Everybody invited to sing them "IF TIME WAS MONEY UP BE A MILLIONAIRE" Irving Jones' famous success. "HOME AINT NOTHING LIKE THIS." "IN SUNNY AFRICA." "HAS YOUR MONEY ANY MORE LIKE YOU?" Professionals are respectfully requested to write the publisher, LEO FEIST, Feist Bldg, 134 W. 57th Street New York, and don't forget that "YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A 'FEIST' SONG." John W. Simmons, CLARIONETIST AND SOPRANO SAXOPHONE VIRTUOSO, U. S. Regiment Band 1893-98; Rusco & Holland's Minstrels, 898-1902; Hottest Coon In Dixie, 1903. Permanent address the Freeman. Oliver Scott's Big Minstrel Carnival For the Coming Season Best Colored Talent in the profession; if you are not then write. I want Comedians, Dancers, Acrobats, Jugglers, C Novelty Acts, Musicians and Singers State everything y EST SALARY in first letter For ten days address, DAVE COLLINS, Proprietor Hobert, Oklahoma Territory. profession; if you are not there with the best, don't Dancers, Acrobats, Jugglers, Contortionists, Buglers and Singers State everything you do and your LOW-For ten days address, THE COLLINS, Proprietor and Manager. Territory. Hotel Fidler Lodging for Men Only Lates more reasonable than any place in the city 310 W. North Street. Indianapolis, Ind. Best Colored Talent in the profession; if you are not there with the best, don't write. I want Comedians, Dancers, Acrobats, Jugglers, Contortionists, Buglers Novelty Acts, Musicians and Singers State everything you do and your LOWEST SALARY in first letter For ten days address, DAVE COLLINS, Proprietor and Manager. Hobert, Oklahoma Territory. Hotel Fidler Lodging for Men Only Rates more reasonable than 310 W. 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From this company, a Specialist, Chronic Blood Nervous Diseases, 78 State-et., Chicago HOLTON SPECIAL 'SLIDE-TROMBONE' and other High Grade Band Instruments. Send for new Catalogue 'containing valuable advice on catalogue monthly bargain list of second and hand drum instruments. MARCUS RUBEN MARCUS RUBEN MANUFACTURER OF ALSO Barbers' Coats Barkeepers' Coats,Vests and Aprons CHICAGO,ILL CATALOGUE. BUTCH BROWN. FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, Corner Prospect and Miami streets, NORWOOD, INDIANA. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN OF THE UNITED ORDER OF TRUE REFORMERS is the leading colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January $81 by William H. Browne and chartered in April 1883 under the laws of the State of Virginia with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female and consists of all persons of good health from fourteen to sixty years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week and pays death benefits from $2.10 to $1,000.00. BENEFITS PAID. Total benefits paid to date: Sick Dues, $1,500,000.00; Death Benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS. may be organised consisting of twenty or more persons not joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dents in rural districts and not less than fifty cents per semi-annual tax of forty cents paid in January and Jid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits Mountain may be organised in any locality on application Master, or to any of his authorised deputies. ROSEBUDS. For training of the young and their development in the there has been formed a Children's Department known children not less than three nor more than fourteen upon the payment of $1.00 each. This department quick benefits from $1.00 to twenty-five cents per week at $7.00. The monthly dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES. To leave their beneficiaries as death a larger amount treatment take out policies in one or more of the Classes of members of this degree are devided into Circles and pay to the following tables: A Fountain may be organized consisting of twenty or more persons not over fifty years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than thirty-five cents in rural districts and not less than fifty cents per month in towns and cities and a semi-annual tax of forty cents paid in January and July of each year. The maximum benefit range from $5.50 to $25.00. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorised deputies. ROSEBUDS. For the proper training of the young and their development in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children's Department known as the Rosebuds Twenty or more children not less than three nor more than fourteen years of age may from a Rosebud, upon the payment of $1.00 each. This department like the Senior Fountain pays sick benefits from $1.00 to twenty-five cents per week and death benefits from $24.50 to $32.00. The monthly does are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amount than is paid from Fountain department take out policies in one or more of the Classes of the Mutual benefit degree. The members of this degree are devided into Circles and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: CLASS "B" TABLE AGES. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate after 1 yr. Value of Certificate after 1 yr. Annual Dues. Q'arterly Dues 14 to 25 $ 2 50 $ 200 00 $ 100 00 $ 4 75 $ 1 20 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 85 8 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 38 to 40 8 25 200 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 40 to 45 8 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 45 to 50 8 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 65 50 to 55 4 60 90 00 45 00 6 65 1 67 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 83 00 7 60 1 90 AGES. Johning Fee. Value of Certificate after 1 yr Value of Certificate after 1 yr Annual Dues Q'erlyer Dues 14 to 25 $ 2 50 $ 200 00 $ 100 00 $ 4 75 $ 1 20 25 to 80 $ 2 75 $ 200 00 $ 100 00 $ 4 75 $ 1 20 80 to 85 $ 8 00 $ 200 00 $ 100 00 $ 4 75 $ 1 20 85 to 40 $ 8 25 $ 200 00 $ 100 00 $ 5 70 $ 1 43 40 to 45 $ 8 50 $ 140 00 $ 70 00 $ 5 79 $ 1 43 45 to 50 $ 8 75 $ 115 00 $ 58 00 $ 6 65 $ 1 65 50 to 55 $ 4 00 $ 90 00 $ 45 00 $ 6 65 $ 1 65 55 to 60 $ 4 25 $ 65 00 $ 88 00 $ 7 60 $ 1 90 CLASS "E" TABLE. 2 Joining Fee $ 5 00 $ 25 $ 5 50 $ 7 75 $ 6 00 $ 6 25 $ 6 50 Value of Certificate after 1 yr $ 500 00 500 00 500 00 500 00 450 00 400 00 350 00 Value of Certificate before 1 yr $ 250 00 250 00 250 00 250 00 235 00 200 00 175 00 Annual Dues $ 9 50 $ 9 50 w 5 14 40 10 40 11 40 11 40 AGES. Joining Fee Value of Certificate after 1 yr Value of Certificate before 1 yr Annual Dues Q'rterly Dues 14 to 25 $ 5 00 $ 500 00 $ 250 00 $ 9 50 $ 2 50 25 to 80 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 80 to 85 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 85 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 18 40 2 60 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 60 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 85 50 to 60 6 50 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 85 CLASS " M" TABLE. Joining Fee Value of Certificate Annual Dues $ 11 00 $ 1000 00 $ 21 00 12 00 1000 00 23 00 12 00 900 00 28 00 13 00 800 00 24 00 13 00 700 00 25 00 REGALIA. of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization with regalia of the organization is simple and its cost within tents to $350 the same is made by the organization in wi department. AGES. Johning Fee Value of Certificate Annual Dues Quarterly Dues 14 to 80 $ 11 00 $ 1000 00 $ 21 00 $ 5 25 80 to 35 12 00 1000 00 23 00 5 50 85 to 40 12 00 900 00 23 00 5 75 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 REGALIA. The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost within the reach of all costing from 10 cents to $50 the same is made by the organization in what is known as the Regalia Department. THE SAVINGS BANK there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia, a ob- servant of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformer bank commenced business April 3rd, 1889, and from the steadily increased in business in 1890, it was $0.00. From the humble sum of $1,268.69 deposite- d business in 1889, the deposits have grown to $350,888.00 as acted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial year the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of R cash on all checks presented while the majority of o- clearing-house checks. This bank had its origin in the x-slave of Habersham county, Ga. The banking house is Richmond, Ma., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. H. In March 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia, a charter to the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000.00. The bank commenced business April 3rd, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital of $100,000.00. The bank opened for business in 1889, the deposits have grown to $300,888.00, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented while the majority of other banks were still active. In 1894, the bank opened for business W. Browne an ex-slave of Habersham county, Ga. The banking house is located at 60 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Rey W. L. Taylor; President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT State Department has charge of all the real property in various States, consisting of 18 magnificent buildings, 5 stores and 3 farms. It also has under its control 1 attorney is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Roberts inorney for the organization, with offices at 604 N. Reynolds Street under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this wholesale and retail) buy and sell real property, manufacturing establishments, and general business. The Association former, 900 N. Sixth street, Richmond, Va. It is a room by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars or accommodation for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is man k. It has in operation a system of five stores, located at Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; a store, at Richmond, Va. was opened April 29, 1904 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first days. The other stores have been established since and have the General Manager of the system of stores is Mr. B. L. J. Second street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. The Real Estate Department has charged of all the real property to the amount of $225,211,655, situated in various States, consisting of 18 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel, 5 stores and 3 farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. The real estate department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, Chief of Real Estate and Attorney for the organization, with offices at 604 N. Second street, Richmond Va. * REFORMER'S MECANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December 1899 with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this Association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail) buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and general business. The Association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodation for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first stores were Richmond, Va., was opened April 3rd, 1900. It employs a total of 150 stores, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established as equally as prosperous. The General Manager of the system of stores is Mr. B. L. Jordan headquartered at 608 N. Second street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plains and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading ripping price is $1 per year, or 50 per single copy. The copy-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print a poster 12 by 62 inches. Fine job-work of every class at lowest prices, Mr. E. W. Brown is Editor and Brond street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 50 per single copy. The office is equipped with a computer, printer, and can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 12 by 62 inches. Fine job-work of every description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is Editor and Business Manager, office 608 N. Second street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents are OLD FOLKS' HOME 1838, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formative krs Homes for the benefit of the old and decrepid mem- ber the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 6348 Richmond, Va., on the historic "James" has been purcha- sesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm and one Adjoining this farm is Westampton Park, one of the rich in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Ri- clectrict Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of fully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in cha- offices at 608 N. Second street, Richmond, Va. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS TAYLOR, C. W. M. W. P. BURREN 604-6-8 N. 2nd St., RICHMOND, VA. the Advertisers of this Paper. Read In September 1838, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of the old and decrepid members of the race Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 634% acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James" has been purchased at a cost of $14,400. The Chessapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westhamton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton Electric Railway and the Chessapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of all charitable friends is prayfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Homes, offices at 608 N. Second street, Richmond, Va. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS REV, W. L. TAYLOR, G. W. M. W. P. BURRELL, G. W. S. 604-6-8 N. 2nd St., RICHMOND, VA. Remember the Advertisers of this Paper. Read the Ads. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ANNUAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MRS. GEO. A. SIS. SLE, OF THIS CITY. DURING CHICAGO CONFERENCE Before the Sixth Annual Session of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Lexington District-The Influence of Noble Women. In all ages of the world where women have stod out in defense of truth and love of Christ, she has reached a successful aim. While it was not the custom in ancient times for women to be prominent in public affairs, history tells us that a glance into the system of Egypt, Greece and Rome will suffice to show that they were based upon the superiority of the feminine. In the mythical age the best, the purest, the noblest, the tenderest principles were made personal in feminine deities. Plenty, peace, health, youth, are all represented by feminine characters. Day, with its life, energy, benign opportunities, is Aurora, a female character. Spring, summer, autumn, representatives of growth, beauty and abundance, are goddesses. All of the noblest virtues, innocence, honor, temperance, liberty, etc., are all females. It is evident from this brief and imperfect statement of the distribution to female myths of the pure, the beneficent, the pleasing and beautiful offices and powers of the high appreciation, honor and esteem in which they were held. And a study of their character and lives goes very far to show that it was a wise forecast. Viewing woman at the origin of our Christian system, the first thing we note, the declaration which places woman at the head of creation. She was the last created member of it. its MRS. GEO. A. SISSLE. crown and its perfection. We are told that she was doubly removed from crude nature in being made of matter already refined by its employment in the structure of man. The second noticeable point is that woman stands at the center of both dispensations, which introduces our Christian system. We find her at the origin of the Christian dispensation, no less prominently than at the origin of the Jewish dispensation. She seems to have been the only root of that higher system which the earth could afford. The record is clear of the deep, tender, lasting sympathy of the women of Judea with Christ. Their watchful, appreciative love was in their lingering latest at the tomb and being earliest to announce His resurrection. They had followed Him, ministered to Him. They had suffered with Him at the crucifixion. "She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave: Last at the cross, and earliest at the grave." The church in all of its phases of work at the dawn of the Christian era was in a chaotic state. Skepticism, actism and all forms of vice and superstition prevailed. While Jesus did not choose woman into the apostolate of the twelve and while we have no reason to believe that women were included in the seventy sent out by Him, yet they have more nobly exerted their influence in that their great works were accomplished by a voluntary will, prompted by the gift of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. Woman's influence in Christianity is so beautifully portrayed in the life and character of such women as Sarah, Rebecca, Hannah, Queen Esther, Naomi, Ruth and many others. We need no greater lessons of Christian devotion than those taught us in the characters of Naomi and Ruth. God grant that we women may possess, like Naomi, that faithfulness of a wife, the affections of a mother, the meekness, the everlasting spirit, the manifestation of a simple, guilleless piety in every relation and every circumstance of life. One has said not the most carefully studied oration could breathe more undying, changeless, self-submitting devotion; that the few simple words spoken by Ruth to Naomi on being requested to return to her own people. "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following thee. Whither thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people; and thy God my God. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if naught but death part me and thee." What record would the apostles have made without the hearty co-operation of such women as the Marys, Phoebe, Priscilla, Darcas and numerous others? During the ages of persecution through which the church has passed, woman has been ever loyal and true to her faith. Many have become martyrs for the cause. So far I have endeavored in a very brief way to impress upon your minds the appreciation and honor that has been shown the feminine characters. and to show woman's position to the world and humanity in the Christian system; also the Christ-like spirit she has manifested in the voluntary missionary work she has so successfully accomplished. To my mind these facts alone are sufficient evidence that the brethren of the Lexington Conference need an organization conducted and controlled exclusively by women. Passing to modern times we find woman still man's peer in influence for good. In all of the great moral and religious movements of the present age she is making her mark. It is very fresh to your minds the great work that was accomplished in England under the reign of the late Queen Victoria. That kingdom, exerting the greatest moral and religious influence in the world, was successfully ruled by a noble, philanthropic woman for more than sixty years. She enjoyed with her country a reign of peace and prosperity unexamplied in the annals of England. Her life was happier than usually falls the lot of those whose fate it is to wear a crown. Can we find any other reason for her happiness and prosperity than that she had a heart full of love and charity for her fellow men? Considering the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in our home land we have but to review the history of the life of Frances E Willard, and note the work of this great cause through her very valuable and untiring services. In brief, Miss Willard was to America what Lady Henry Somerset is to England. Among the many leading movements in the world to-day stands with credit the work of the Woman's Home Missionary Society. All of the notable work to which I have referred has been organized and controlled almost wholly by our Caucasian sisters. But we celebrate this afternoon an organization whose aim is far-reaching and whose cause appeals to the Negro women of America and especially to Negro women of the Methodist Episcopal Church for their united support. Our race has produced many women who have been working individually for the race and a few of us are beginning to work as societies. We commend individual effort, but we must unite our efforts for strength and greater achievements. Our own immortal Dr. Marshall W. Taylor said upon one occasion: "Of the Negro race since 1620 there have appeared but four' women whose careers stand out so far, so high and so clearly above all others of their sex that they can with strict propriety and upon well established grounds be denominated great. These are Phyllis Wheatley, So Journer Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Amanda Smith. History tells us that Phyllis Wheatley was the morning star of Negro genius; So Journer Truth, the revolutionist and reformer; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of our most energetic temperance workers, a great and profound writer in both prose and poetry, a lecturer of no ordinary tact and ability, a master hand at whatever she feels to accomplish; Amanda Smith's record as an earnest Christian worker and a lover of her race is known not only from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the great lakes to the Gulf coast, but her name and works are known equally as well across the great waters. As an enlightened, thoroughly consecrated Christian evangelist among Negro women, Mrs. Smith takes the first place in American history. Today should we mount a railway car in this great cosmopolitan city (Chicago) and direct our way to suburban Harvey, we would be convinced by her orphans' home that she still lives for the cause of Christ and her race. These women are not all of our heroines. Time will not permit my mentioning more of them. But we are convinced from their true type of womanhood and their great achievements for the Christian cause and the promotion of their race that greater work can and will be accomplished by the Negro women of this century in America if we will but unite our efforts. We should earnestly feel that the solution of the Negro problem lies very close to our hearts, and with our better opportunities for work and attainments we must help in a very large degree to solve the problem. To-day we celebrate the third annual session of the Woman's Home Missionary Society in the Lexington Conference, a conference whose history embraces the States of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and a portion of Illinois, States wherein our race may enjoy many rights and privileges not afforded to many conferences of our connection. Such rights and privileges should enable this conference to be the leading Negro conference in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This conference can not afford to be without every organization relating to its work, and especially should the Woman's Home Missionary Society be organized into every charge from the circuit to the great cities. Any brother of this conference would instantly resent the criticism of not being a loyal Methodist, but would not there be signs of disloyalty on your part should you be indifferent about the auxiliaries of your church which go to make the church great? The work of this society can only succeed through the willingness of the pastors of the conference, for it is not our duty nor desire to enter your fields of labor without your solicitation and welcome. But should you invite our work and after an organization has been perfected give it your best attention, we assure you we will only be too glad to do our duty as missionary workers. Being so fortunately situated as a conference, success is surely ours. For our women have a great advantage in being connected with this society. We are in touch with two book concerns, several national officers and general workers. In our various localities we have the opportunity of being able to exchange visits to the auxiliary meetings; also to some of the district and annual meetings, thus keeping us wide awake in the progress of the work. Our own conference—W. H. M. S.—is ably represented with as good material among us as any conference W. H. M. S. can afford. When we consider the wide experience in Christian work and charitable organizations that our Deadly Nervous Prostration and Dyspepsia. My Friends Know Heart Cure Cured Me. Mrs. C. O. Hurd, 118 W. Third St., Muscatine, Ia., is well known throughout her section of Iowa as an ardent worker in the M. E. Church. She says: "LaGrippie left me with a severe case of nervous depression and nervous dyspepsia, which soon affected my heart. I suffered from sleeplessness, headache, uneasiness and twitching of the muscles. 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Do not get the impression, however, that we feel you are purposely neglectful of our work. We are sure that as we become more familiar with the work ourselves, we will be better able to impress it upon minds and heart. Once making the truthful and lasting impression, you can not but feel it your duty to aid us. Nothing is ever created without first having made an impression somewhere and somehow. Brethren of the Lexington Conference: We, the workers of the Missionary cause, are looking forward to the time (and I do not feel it far distant) when our representatives of the W. H. M. S., will be hailed with the same hearty welcome that you give to some of the most distinguished men of our Church, viz: Drs. M. C. B. Mason, I. B. Scott, R. E. Jones, G. G. Logan and Prof. I. Garland Penn. We mean to have it so. We can only have it so, by our earnest prayers and yours—by our following at all times and in all places the example of our dear Master. 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Persons whose hair is hair Grower No. 2. It will restore the color. Price $1.00. Face Bleach Mme. Turner's Mystic Face Exzema and all blemishes in 8 or 10 days. Wrinkles and by Mystic Face Bleach and the skin is made at least two clear, soft youthful tenderness which causes even the $1.00. Always use Mme. Turner's Complexion Sap. Oil Cream is a household blessing. It refines the skin and all skin eruptions. Chapped skin, Mystic Toilet Cream will heal cuts and sores. MME M. C. TURNER'S C. O. D. 1511 Dryades, NEW ORLEANS ANDY & SMITH ate, Fire Insurance, Loans and CHEVELINE. We use hot irons or pasting down with grease in this treatment, and the hair is not changed from dampness, but on the contrary is made more beautiful by washing, and the straightening appears as natural as if born with it. Send a piece of your hair and I will return it as a sample of my work. Cheveline is undoubtedly the greatest of all hair preparations. Price $3.00 per cutlift. The Mystic Pomade which will make the hair soft, straight and glossy and as beautiful as Cheveline, but not so lasting, at 50c per bottle. Use Mme Turner's Scalp Soap, a great remedy for scalp diseases, only 25c. Medicated Hair Grower For Family Use. Our Improved Medicated Hair Grower or Scalp Grower is an unexcelled article for promoting the growth of hair, even on the temple where the hair is often weighed. It removes the dandruff and impurities from the scalp. Persons whose hair is fading or turning gray should order Hair grower No.2. It will restore the color, Price $1.00 per bottle. Mystic Face Bleach Mme Turner's Mystic Face Bleach is the only bleach on the market that will positively remove Liver Spots, Blackheads, Freckles, Pimples, Exzema and all blemishes in 8 or 10 days. Wrinkles and small-pox Pits are greatly diminished by Mystic Face Blea and the skin is made at least two-shades fairer. It is soft and very gentle when causes even the aged to appear youthful. Price $1.00. Always use Mme, Turner's Complexion S.ap. Mystic Toilet Cream is a household blessing. It refines the skin, cures pimples and all skin eruptions. For chapped face and hands it has all burning and itching. Mystic Toilet Cream will heal cuts and sores. Price $7.50. Always use Mme, Turner's Complexion Soar. MME M. C. TURNER'S No Goods C. O. D. 1511 Dryades, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 513 and 514 Lemcke Building Indianapolis, Indiana. NOTICE —The Freeman Publishing Co. and honesty of this firm. Business placed as agreed, to the letter. Dete Skilled secret service by Indiana solicitors all classes of lef of blackmailing, anonymous and dence secured. All business st DETECTIVE FREED NEVI If So-Called Specialists Have Foo couraged, Consult Genuine Sp Past 35 Years. Consult Dr. The Freeman Publishing Co., heartily endorses the of this firm. Business placed with these men, to the letter. etect Skilled secret service by experienced operative, Indiana solicits all classes of legitimate investigations, blackmailing, anonymous and threatening letters, once secured. All business strictly confidential. Pe CTIVE FREEMAN, care Lo EVER Specialists Have Fooled You With Their d, Consult Genuine Specialists, Who Have Years. Consult Dr. W. H. Betts & Co., NOTICE—The Freeman Publishing Co., heartily endorses the integrity and honesty of this firm. Business placed with these men, will be carried out as agreed, to the letter. Detectives! Skilled secret service by experienced operatives at moderate rates. The oldest detective office in Indiana solicits all classes of legitimate investigations, civil and criminal. Shadowing done by expert; cases of blackmailing, anonymous and threatening letters, etc., investigated. Missing witnesses located, an every dence secured. All business strictly confidential. Personal interview can be arranged by addressing: DETECTIVE FREEMAN, care Lock Box 456, Indianapolis, Ind. NEVER MIND If So-Called Specialists Have Fooled You With Their Cure-All Nostrums, and You Aare Discouraged, Consult Genuine Specialists, Who Have Made Diseases of Men a Study for the Past 35 Years. Consult Dr. W. H. Betts & Co., the Leading Specialists. Who treat and cure all cases of Chronic Nervous and special Diseases of Men and Women and can accomplish the most satisfactory results in the shortest time possible and consistent with safe and scientific treatment. We offer nothing more than we can accomplish. We do not claim to perform miracles. We make no promises we cannot ful- Thousands of cures attest this. Thousands of testimonials is a matter of record. are permanent, and not simply stimulative and temporary. Original method of successful treatment are followed, and the use of well-tried remedies are hered to. Our treatment is exclusive and solely our own. We do not experiment. We cure all patients. No false promises. No deception. If we cannot cure you, we will frankly tell you so. Consultation free and sacredly confidential. Office hours, 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. and 6 p. m. 8 p. m. Sundays, 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Stripture, Varicocele, Nervous Compli- cations, Contracted Diseases, Specific Blood Poison, Diseases of the Bladder and Kidneys, Eczema, etc., successfully treated and cured as quickly as medicinal preparations and skillful administra- tion can bring about results which DRS. W. TREAT S.W.H.BE TREATMENT DRS. W. H. BETTS & CO. TREATMENT BY MAIL. 6 East Market Street. OZONO and CEDROLINE — The new combination Hair OZONO and CEDROLINE, used on the Hair length, lustre, life, and beauty. One of the BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., with the sole purpose an absolutely perfect and reliable treatment for a sum of $6,000 for this purpose alone. The services noted chemists were secured, who after twelve costly experiments, have successfully formulated powerful, yet so harmless and innocent, that its Hair doubles the miraculous® This treatment can damage than Hair It can result most to grow long and luxuriant, straight, and of a mature. It prevents the tendency of the Hair to damage than Hair It can result most to grow long on all bald spots, scant part temples. It is sure to prevent the Hair from falling at the ends. This great combined treatment is now for the Hair in the whole wide world. OZONO AND CEDROLINE. The new, non-falling and itifiable combined treatment for the Hair, OZONO and CEDROLINE, used conjointly, cannot fall to ten the Hair length, hairy, life and beauty. One year ago the directors of the BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., with the sole purpose and intention to produce an absolutely perfect and reliable treatment for the Hair, appropriated the sum of $6,000 for this purpose alone. The services of three of the world's most noted chemists are secured, who, after twelve months of investigation and costly experiments, have successfully formulated a treatment so potent and powerful, yet so harmless and innocent, that its immediate effects upon the Hair border upon the miraculous. This treatment can be used in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most gratifying, causing the Hair to grow long and luxuriant, straight, and of a most delicate and pliable texture. It prevents the tendency of the Hair to draw up, contract, curl, and tangle, making it easy to dress the Hair in any style desired. It causes the Hair to grow out on all bald spots, scant partings, thin places, and bare temples. It is sure to prevent the Hair from breaking, off, and splitting at the ends. This great combined treatment is now the most wonderful remedy for the Hair in the whole wide world. BUTORE USING use no hot irons or pasting down with grease in treatment, and the hair is not changed from damp-out on the contrary is made more beautiful by trial as it bown with it. Bends a piece of your hair work. Chevaine is undoubtedly the greatest of which will make the hair soft, straight and glossy and as beautiful as Chevaine, but not so lasting, at 50c per bottle, Use Mme diseases, only 25c. For Family Use. Our Improved Medicated Hair Grower or Scip Cleaner is an unexcelled article for temple where the hair is often very scant, it also so scap. Persons whose hair is fading or turning it restore the color, Price $1.60 per bottle. Mme. Turner's Mystic Face Bleach is the only bleach on the market that will positively remove Lives Spots, Blackheads in 8 or 10 days. Wrinkles and small-pox Pits are the skin is made at least two-shades fairer. It endures which causes even the aged to appear Turner's Complexion 8.ap. Hold blessing. It refines the skin, cures pimples in eruptions. For chapped face and hands it has or gentlemen's use after shaving, instantly curing in will heal cuts and sores Price 75c. Always TURNER'S 1511 Dryades, NEW ORLEANS, LA. & SMITH France, Loans and Rentals ing Co., heartily endorses the Integrity and placed with these men, will be carried ectiv by experienced operatives at moderate of legitimate investigations, civil and criminal and threatening letters, etc., investigated strictly confidential. Personal interview EMAN, care Lock Box 456, ER M Fooled You With Their Cure-All N Specialists, Who Have Made Dise Dr. W. H. Betts & Co., the Leading A. H. BETT TMENT BY et, INDI Opposite Monument. CEDROLINE — the new, non-failing and new CEDROLINE treatment for the Hair, life, and beauty. One year ago, the dical CO., with the sole purpose and intention to test and reliable treatment for the Hair, apprt to purpose alone. The services of three of the two deceased who, after twelve months of investing, have successfully formulated a treatment so permiss and innocent, that its immediate effects produce treatment can be certain, produce results most gratifying, causinguxient, straight, and of a most delicate and plea tendency of the Hair to draw up, contract, and at all bald spots, scant partings, thin places, to prevent the Hair from falling, breaking off, and eat combined treatment is now the most wonderful whole wide world. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS, IND. The most generous offer ever made by any firm on earth. Cut out this advertisement, and send to us, with only $1.50, and, immediately upon receipt of same, we will send to you a full and complete treatment, consisting of two extra large boxes of OZONO, king of all Hair Tonics, worth $2.00; also two large bottles of CEDROLONE, the lightning hair Grower, worth $2.00 also one large bag of the GAG (our one, the recovery), and OZONO, which is $2.00. $2.00 is also one bar of our celebrating and renowned PURITY SCALP SOAP, worth $25, and one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, the most wonderful toilet specialty of the day, worth $25. This grand collection, worth in all $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full, plain, and complete directions, together with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly called the "Ideal Education" the day. NOTE: — Will you have never bought OZONO we will send this great bargain offer for only $1.00. Your word will be sufficient. Simply tell us when and where you bought it. This liberal offer is made with the object of securing good Agents, who can simply coin money selling our preparations. No matter where you live, we can get our goods safely to you. Do not delay; order to-day, Address RSPON CHEMICAL CO 840 E Broad St Richmond Va. on our special ground glasses for headache, distress in eyes or head, etc. Relief guaranteed. Eyes examined free. DR. BOYER, 21 W. Ohio street, INDIANAPOLIS, one square n w of monument. 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. O. H. MORGAN JAMES N. SHELTON Old 612 Green—Phones—New 2058 Morgan & Shelton (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant Fair Prices. 417 Indiana Ave. Open all Night An Easy Way TO Borrow Money. TO 48c Weekly payment on a $20.00 loan for fifty weeks. 60c Weekly payment on a $25.00 loan for fifty weeks. 72c Weekly payment on a $30.00 loan for fifty weeks. Other amounts in the same proportion Other amounts in the same proportion. You can borrow money at the above rates on household goods, planes, teams, warehouse receipts, etc., without interest. You can borrow any amount from $5.00 up. Our business is strictly confidential. Our company is the oldest in the city. If ever in need of any money call and see us. INDIANA MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, (Established 1871.) Room 4, Lombard Building, 24½ East Washington Street. Both Phones, 3286. Dr.Joseph H. Ward OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 3 p. m., 6 to 8 p. m. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 4351 Indiana Ave., INDIANAPOLIS TELEPHONES: New, 1974 Old, 613 Black. ves! rates. The oldest detective office in inal. Shadowing done by expert; cases ed. Missing witnesses located, an every can be arranged by addressing: Indianapolis, Ind. MIND Nostrums, and You Aare Diseases of Men a Study for the Specialists. are permanent, and not simply stimulative and temporary. Original methods of successful treatment are followed and the use of well-tried remedies adhered to. Our treatment is exclusive and solely our own. We do not experiment. We cure all patients. No false promises. No deception. If we cannot cure you, we will frankly tell you so. Consultation free and sacredly confidential. Office hours, 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. and 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays, 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Our new system of mail treatment is perfectly satisfactory. If you cannot call, write for perfect question list. Thousands cured. A friendly letter or call may save you future suffering and shame and add golden years of life. Address or call on S & CO. MAIL. ANAPOLIS, IND. The most advertisement of same, we extra large bottles of C large package also on worth 25c. a specialty of the sent on receipt pleate recycle the toller en splitting remedy BISHOP OF S WILDER It causes and bare a splitting remedy NOTE.— gain offer for and where y good Agents, where you l to-day. Add David J. Gilmer has been commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Philippines. A permanent organization under the auspices of the Epworth League at New York, has been effected for the purpose of putting into operation plans formulated to improve the condition of young people generally. There is a strong movement at Chattanooga for the emigration of Negroes to Mexico. It is headed by J. P. Essley and S. L. Hutchins, the most prominent Negro lawyers of that city, and several hundred are taking advantage of the opportunity. John Dougherty, of Frankfort, Ky. appeared in the county court at Versailles, recently, in defense of Lucien Williams, charged with escaping from quarantine, exposing himself when affected with small pox. It was the first time that a Negro ever practiced in Woodford court, and his presence created quite a sensation. Rev. Robert C. Bryant, white, pastor of the Church of the Christian Union, Independent, Liberal, at Rockford, L. I., created a sensation recently in a sermon on the race problem by saying that the blending of races is the only way to place all on the same basis. He says: "The caste lines and the race lines must be swept away, and the future of the Negro, as well as all other races, must be the same. This is the ideal, therefore, let us welcome the signs of its coming, and let us not attempt the natural progress of life according to divine purpose." Senator Tillman has on his plantation in South Carolina, a Negro named Joe Gibson, who has lived with him for thirty years. Joe has charge of the premises, carries the keys and takes care of everything in Mr. Tillman's absence. In speaking of the man the other day the Senator said: "I don't know whether I belong to Joe, or Joe belongs to me. Anyhow, we have been together for thirty years, and we have agreed to live together until one or both die, and when I go away, if I go first, I know he will shed as sincere a tear as anybody. I would die to protect him from injustice or wrong." "Sport" Clay, for thirty-five years one of the most familiar figures in the levee district, Chicago, and for a dozen years in his prime the arbiter of dress among its colored residents, is dend. He met death in a poverty ward at the county hospital. "Sport" Clay's name was Henry. Among other things it is said of him that he never missed a dance in the First ward from which his color did not bar him; that he had the largest foot known in Chicago and the greatest "reach" ever in State street that he could fight as long and hard as any man ever registered at Harrison street police station; that he had the heaviest watch chain and largest cravat pin in the West, and that he never gambled. He was 60 years old. SCHOOLS 'AND COLLEGES The Morris Brown College of Atlanta, Ga., seems to be doing very effective work through its educational mass meetings. The last one was held March 22. Rev. Stinson is the prime mover in these great meetings which I enfeits the particular institution as well as the race generally. —000— The Tuskegee Institute savings banks reports a cash balance of over $11,000. Every teacher and student tries to have a bank account, no matter how small the beginning.—Robert K. Wallace. Dr. George E. Stevens, pastor of what is perhaps the leading Baptist church of Boston, Mass., has consented to preach the Baccalaureate sermon at Tuskegee, Sunday, May 24th. The commencement address will be delivered by Bishop Evans Tyree of the A. M. E. church. -000- Mr. John D. Rookefeller, the great Baptist philanthropist, has recently donated ten thousand dollars each to Wiley University and Bishop College, to be used in adding an industrial department to these two schools, each of which is located at Marshall, Texas. -000- Benedict College, one among the best reputed and wealthiest Negro Institutions in the State of South Carolina. celebrated founders day, Monday, the 16th. Hon. George W. Murray addressed the school on the "Qualities necessary to the success of the colored student." 000- Principal William R. Carter of the Industrial Institute of Topeka, Kas., will leave next week for a ten days' trip in the interest of the institute in Colorado. Principal Carter's plans for "A Greater Industrial Institute" next year are most encouraging. The Young Men's Literary and Athletic Association of the institute gave their literary entertainment at the institute Friday evening. The spring athletic tournament given by the Institute Cadet Company was held at the State Fair grounds April 10th. The institute baseball team will play the Washington school team April 11th, and the contests in running jumping, pole vaulting, bicycle riding etc., came off. The city merchants donated several valuable prizes for this contest. The Booker Washington literary society of the Topeka Industrial Institute will hold a "Girls' Declaration" contest at the Industrial Institute April 24th for a gold medal. Girls under eighteen years only will be admitted to participate. Each colored public school and Sunday-school of Topeka have been invited to select one of its best talent to represent it in the contest. Prizes will also be given for second and third place. Mr. Albert Rose, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, intends to make this one of the most spirited contests yet held this year. A MILLION DOLLARS CAPITAL The Wilgera Oil and Gas Co. will Soon Have this Capital Stock. The Freqman has just learned that the Wilgera Oil and Gas company, of Columbus, O., which was incorporated for $50,000, is to increase its capital stock to one million dollars, and then the dream of a million dollar colored company will have been realized. It is said that the capital stock of $50,000 is too small to properly develop the company's immense holdings, and in addition to this their present charter does not permit of them mining coal, and it is the intention to put in coal mines, which will give employment to several hundred colored miners, clerks, etc. It is understood that the papers are now being prepared for filing that will give the race a million dollar company, the most stupendous, far-reaching Negro enterprise ever conceived. At Rest in the Tomb. Jacksonville, Ill., Special. — Little Rhoda, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Black, died at their residence after an illness of one year. Her funeral was held at the residence, conducted by Rev. H. H. Dewitt. The concert given by Mrs. A. A. Franklin for the benefit of Mt. Emory Sunday school, was largely attended and was a glowing success. An excellent program was rendered. Frank Roberts was shot and killed by Antonia Edwards on the 25th ult. The funeral was held on the 28th at the A. M E church, conducted by the pastor. The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the community. The Eastern Star Chapter No 6 gave their mask supper at their hall on the 1st Mrs E Naylor was called to this city by the death of her cousin. 12 CENTS For this elegant gold filled Ring; warranted to give satisfaction. Greatest value ever offered. Scholle & Young, Box 511, Columbus, O. Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED One-pound Box 25j cts, at Druggists and Dealers. One-pound Box 25j cts, at Druggists and Dealers. Gonorrhaea, Gleet, Running Range and all troubles caused from heavy lifting or staining. Sent by mail securely packed on receipt of price. AGENTS WANTED. 3 MONTHS USEI. Weak Men Cured Free Send Name and Address To-Day.- You Can Haye It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous for Life. INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, loss vitality, night losses, variocelle. A. H. etc, and enlarge small, weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. Knapp Medical Co., 753 Hull Building, Detroit, Mich., and they will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from their daily mail, show what men think of their generosity. Sir.-Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have give en your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy, and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sir:-Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir:-Yours was received and I had a trouble in making use of the receipt as directed. My father carefully felt it is on me to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and they want every man to have it. 10 CENTS (money or stamps) pays for your name in "Reader's Directive" to publishers and others ling all over the U. S. to publishers and others who will send you lots of sample copies of newspapers, magazines, catalogues, circulars, magazines, and other materials for charge. You will get lots of good reading free and be well pleased with the small investment. Three names inserted for 25 cents, or seven for 50 cents, silver in small piece of paper before printing, Address S. P. Seaul, Eagle Springs, N. G. PETER MBS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test MEDIUM, reveals everything. No imposition. Can be valuable and useful. Marriage is a specialty. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangements, challenges the medium who can exceed expectations, redesign reality for present and future event in one's life. Remember, she will not, for any price,atter you, your life, your future, your sense of nonsense. She can be consulted on all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friends, sto, with description of future companion. She will be consulted on all affairs of friends, enemies, sto. Her service upon less, less, change in business, journeys, waits, contested wills, divorce and speculation is valuable and useful. Your destiny, your life, with withholds not MRS. MARTH tells your entire life—past, present and future—in a DEAD TRANSE, has the power of any two mediums you ever meet, gives you the power of fore marriage, the names of all your family, their ages and description, the name and business of your future husband, the name of your next, if you are to have one, the name of the next, if you are to have one, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage—how many children you have or will have—whether you are married or single; whether your present sweetheart will have no sweetheart, she will tell you when you will have, and his name, business and date of acquaintance. ALL YOUR FUTURE will be told in an honest, clear, plain manner and in a simple, clear, plain manner of their husbands and children, young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or inended husbands. Do not keep company, marry or go into business until you have your consulting. All your religious seraphes present your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, tells you what you want. 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 facts. There is no truth to the conclusion that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not everyone who places himself or herself as a Medium that can stand a test of what is true. It is not everyone who minds may ask the reason why. It is simply that these advisers do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend time with people who are art of phenology and know branches that will have a tendency to n. the pathway to the road of the business c. and devoid of objects. It is an undeniable fact that persons will some for advice—in full kno. ge of what they want to know, and yet as they want to know, they do not want to dispel from their mind, what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out of a person by "pumping," in no less cases, is to be able to take hold of the hand and gain control of the mind thereby, is a matter of impossibility to most of them. And yet this can be done, and by consulting this seemingly mystery becomes realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conclusive that the gates of wisdom with "oily tongues" perhaps, the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. This is why it has to become an acclaimed Medium, and by a continuous and uniting effort, the key to the well of apparently unfathomable mysteries have been procured by Ms. M. B. MARTH. By letter, advice $1.00. Hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. All letters must contain staples for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH 246 W. 31st St. New York City. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. If so, we'will loan you money on Furniture, Planos, Horses, Wagons, etc., leaving them in your possession. This is the company that was organized for the express purpose of supplying the peo ple of Indianapolis with money at the very lowest possible rates and making payments within reach o all. Try our new Building Association Plan arranged in fifty weekly payments. $25.00—Weekly Payments Only 80c. $50.00—Weekly Payments Only $1.20. Other amounts in same proportion. We also make loans Wathes and Diamonds, al owing partial payments to reduce the cost, and to salaried people on their individual ote. Most reliable place in the city. CENTRAL LOAN CO. Room 203 Stevenson B'd'lg, Second Floor—front room. 15 E. Washington St Real Japanese KIMONOS IT IS OTEN well worth while to get at the fountain head of things. We felt that way about Japanese Kimonos, and for that reason have imported a number of these handsome negligees from their native home. A number are shown in a side window—a white silk one. embroidered in gold, at $18.75; a very elaborately embroidered one at $65, and a few not so expensive. We believe you'll enjoy seeing them. Japanese Kimonos of wool crepe may be had for as little as $8.75. American copies and modifications of the Oriental garment at upward from $1 98. L.S.AYRES & Co Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. William Pollard continues very ill Don't miss the Ben Trovato ball on April 18th. Miss Maude Simpson, after several weeks' illness, is out again. Carter Smith's dancing class was well attended Thursday evening. Miss Minnie Hale of Crawfordsville, Ind., was in the city last week. Sydney Kirk has joined Rusco & Holland's Big Minstrel Festival No.1. Little Blanche Stewart is ill at the home of her parents in North West street. There will be special services at St. Phillips Mission to morrow afternoon at 4:30. The choral society of Simpson Chapel have prepared an excellent program for Easter. Will Hill, after spending a few days with his parents, has returned to the State University. Mrs. George L. Knox, who has been spending the winter in Oakland, Cal, arrived home Thursday. Mrs. Beatrice Bybee entertained the Woman's Club Monday afternoon at her home, 365 W. Twelfth street. The Young Ladies' Business Club of Allen Chapel will give a drama, "The Milk Maid's Convention," at the above churon, April 29th. Mr. Elwood C. Knox, manager of the Freeman, is seriously ill with typhoid fever at the home of his parents, 220 West Vermont street. Miss Ida Mae Miller and Mr. William Hampton Blake were quietly married Wednesday evening, April 1, by Bishop A. Grant at his residence, 3849 North Pennsylvania street. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are at home to friends after the 12th, 714 Torbet street. The annual election of the Board of Directors of the Colored Young Men's Christian Association was held in the association rooms Monday evening. A large number of members were present. The following Board of Directors was elected: Messrs. George L Knox, H. L. Sanders, S.A. Furniss, W. A. Kersley, J. N. Shelton, H. L. Hummons, William Harvey, W. J. Harris, Douglass Carter, M. J. Gilliam, Charles F. Sneed, George W. Beady, Robert Gilliam, James T. V. Hill and H. L. Herod. All the members of the old board were re ected except two. The election of officers will be held Thursday evening. Mr. Moreland is expected here as soon as he recovers sufficiently. The meeting Sunday will be held in the association rooms. The annual report of the year's work will be published shortly. INFORMATION WAMTED of Edmund William Thrift, son of Jesse and Delila Thrift, born at North Madison, Ind, 1850. When last heard from he was in New Orleans, La., in 1877 or 1878. Anv information as to his whereabouts will be thankfully received by his aged mother whose health is falling fast. Address his sister. Mrs MARY E SCOTT, care of The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. S. This is the company that was organized for ple of Indianapolis with money at the very low within reach o all. Try our new Building payments. $25.00—Weekly Payments Only. Other amounts in same proportion. We owing partial payments to reduce the cost, and ote. Most reliable place in the city. CENTRAL Room 203 Stevenson B'ld'g, Second Floor Hot Springs News Notes. Hot Springs, Ark., Special.—Rev. Jackson, president of Shorter University of Little Rock, Ark., was here Sunday, March 29, in the interest of his school. He preached two able sermons at Visitor's A. M E church, one in the morning and the other at night. He realized quite a nice sum for his school. The annual sermon of Rising Sun Lodge No. 2 and Damon Lodge No. 8. K. of P., was preached Sunday, March 29, at Visitor's Chapel A M E church. Revs. P. W. Wall and A. E Torrence officiated. The church was crowded to its utmost capacity, there being about 300 Knights of Pythias present. George Rodges of South Water street died on morning and was buried Tuesday, the 31st, from Eureka Baptist church under the angesicles of Damon Lodge No. 8. K. of P. He leaves a wife and children. Eugene Bcoz, after two weeks' treatment in the Vapor City under Dr. Wade, left for his home, Clarksdale, Miss, a well man. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Ladies wanted at the Atlas Closk House, 211 Indiana avenue, four doors from Illinois street. Call on Emanuel Williams for coal, ooke, wood and kindling. 402 W. North street. Phone 1884 main, old. tf Trousers $5 00 up; suits. $20 00 up. Charles A. Parker & Co., 46½ 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. WANTED—a good first-class barber. Steady employment, good wares, trade mixed Call or address the Elite Barbershop. 344 Indiana avenue. An Easy Way to Make Money. I have made $560 00 in 80 days selling Dish-washers. I did my housework at the same time. I don't canvass. People come or send for the Dish-washers. I handle the Mound City Dish-washer. It is the sheet on the market. It is lovely to sell washes and dries the dishes perfectly in two minutes. Every lady who sees it wants one. I will devote all my future time to the business and expect to clear $4000 00 this year. Any intelligent person can do as well as I have done. Write for particulars to the Mound City Dish-washer Co. St. Louis, Mo A Good Advice. If you are troubled with kinky or ouly hair use Ozonized Ox Marrow, it will make your hair straight, soft and beautiful. If your hair is falling out, Ozonized Ox Marrow 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 harmless. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 7 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. A CURE FOR HOGS. Camp Knox, K — Wilson Grove has cured eight hogs for me, which were stok with the cholers and fever, and I will say that he is a sure cure. Mr. Wilson Grove has cured six hogs for me with cholera and fever, and I will say that he is a sure cure, and I think his remedy is a sure cure AGENTS WANTED. Send 10 cents to Charles Alexander, Wilbortes University, Wilbortes O, and receive a copy of "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a little book containing pictures and sketches of 100 prominent colored men. Good agents wanted at once, Write to-day, Stamps or silver accepted, Subscribe for The Freeman, the greatest Negro publication in the world. 4% On Time Deposits NO CHARGE FOR STEEL BANKS 3 1/2 % ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS COMMERCIAL TRUST CO. Are You short? Grant H. Clay, M.D. DENTIST 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-DuganCo MANUFACTURERS SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS Hospital Supplies, Trusses, Supporters Elastic Stockings. 133 S. Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND Playing Cards, POKER CHIPS. All Kinds All Prices KIPPBROS, CO, 387 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Mail orders receive prompt attention. BARON Andries, Enameling, Brazing and Nickel- We call for and deliver work promptly. BOND-HAND WHEELS. Street. Phone 7186 Black. BICYCLE AND REPAIRING Sundries, Enameling, Brazing and Nickel- ing. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. We call for and deliver work promptly. BARGAINS IN SECOND-HAND WHEELS. 829 Indians Avenue, near New York Street. Phone 7186 Black. THE NEW STORE IERY COMPANY dollars in our pocket. We have ces range from 48c up. We can nes for your money than can be A visit to our store means several dollars in our pocket. We have a splendid selection, and our prices range from 480 up. We can undoubtedly give you better values for your money than can be gotten anywhere in the city. 331 Indiana Avenue. Illinery Co. RATE PHARMACY Corner West Street, ARTERS to be found in a first-class drug store. Bell's Pine Tar Honey, 15c, 35c.....65 Laxative Bromo Quinine 13c 2 for.....25 Petrolina, pomade.....25c per lb Palmer's Success Remedies, each.....16 Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.....39 ODA—— Ice Cream Soda. Vines, 25c Bottle. Phones, New 4125. Old, Red 5781. Only Delivered. Compounded at the lowest, possible ABLE. Capital Millinery Co. for everything pure, fresh and up-to-date to be found in a first-class drug store. for everything pure, fresh and up-to-date to be found in a first-class drug store. Peruna.....60c | Bell's Pine Tar Honey, 15c, 35c.....65 S. S. S. 69c and.....$1.25 | Laxative Bromo Quinine 13c 2 for.....25 Syrup of Figs, genuine.....35c | Petrolina, pomade.....25c per lb Kilmer's Swamp Root 35c and.....67 | Palmer's Success Remedies, each.....16 Duffy's Malt Whisky.....79 | Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.....39 Ice Cream.....ROT SODA—— Ice Cream Soda. Goods Promptly Delivered. Prescriptions accurately and carefully compounded at the lowest, possible prices. AL WAYS RELI A BLE. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE DEPARTMENT The company takes charge of real estate. It makes repairs, draws leases and mortgages and collects rents, making monthly remittances with an itemized statement. It attends to the payment of all taxes, street improvement and sewer assessments on property of residents and non-residents, for the small sum of $2 per year. Storerooms, offices, houses, apartment suites and lodging rooms for rent. Agent of some of the largest and strongest fire insurance companies in the world. We insure dwellings, business blocks, stock of merchandise, household goods, factories, etc., at the lowest rates. Insurers of property should be careful to select companies that are unquestionably responsible and whose methods of business are fair in case of loses. NOTIFY US BY MAIL OR TELEPHONE and our representative will call on you immediately. Telephone No 1456. Cor. Washington St. and Virginia Ave. OLD RELIABLE RESTAURANT 515 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis, Ind, Open all night. Mrs. Whitten MILLINERY Spring goods now ready. The latest styles at down town prices. 337 Indiana Avenue. YOU ARE WANTED at 17 Virginia Avenue any time between now and JUNE 1, 1903 by S L. TAYLOR & 00. to select Your Spring Suits. The goods are now ready for your inspection. Get samples and make your selection early. Price suits $15.00 to $3.00; trousers $4.00 to $8.00. Patronize our Advertisers. --- If so, we will advance it to you on your furniture, piano, horse, wagons, warehouse receipts etc., and allow you to pay it back in small weekly or monthly payments. We give you plenty of time, from one month to one year. You have the use of both the property and the rates are reasonable, terms easy and we make no inquiries among your friends or neighbors. We also loan money to salaried people holding permanent positions with responsible concerns on their own note without endorsement. Our having been in business so long and our larger business interests require our and courteous treatment. Call and get our plans. All information cheerfully given. 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. D. P. Stirk & Co. 205 N. East St. INDIANAPOLIS IND. We make a speciality of Artificial Limbs and Braces. Shoe Extensions and Crutches. Trusses made and adjusted in all bad cases. Lady attendance Discount to physician guaranteed. Send for circular. One Dollar buys any Hat in the House. The $1 Hat Store 31 South Illinois Street. Beasley & Green, Full staple line of goods. Smoked Meats Chickens, Butter, Eggs a speciality. 634 and 636 Indiana Ave. Phone 1376. Old Telephone, 1 ring on Black 6511. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing. 405 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. H. C. Krentler & Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Artificial Limbs, Deformity Braces, Trusses, Elastic Stockings, Grutches, hoe Extensions, Arch Plates, Inc. Surgical Instrument Repairing Discount to Physicians Write for terms. 303 Massachusetts Ave. 208 Estat New York St. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. New Phone 1889 MANUFACTURERS OF Artificial Lilium, Deform- mentary Stocks, Stockings, Gratules, Hox extensions, Arch Instrument Repairing, Instrument Repairing, Discount to Physicians for terms 303 Matee Ave. Ave. East New York St. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. New Phone 1289. Mrs E A Webb Has moved her Millinery and Heir Departments to Shiel Block, Indiana Avenue, near the corner of the street opened a full line of Easter novelties, and would be glad to see all her friends and customers. Flanner & Buchanan. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 320 N: Illinois St., bet. New York and Vermont St BEST SERVICE FAIR PRICES Easter Specials We will have your trade if prices will do it. $2.0 Men and Women's most Foot wear in guaranteed skins, Viol Kid, Box Calf Low Shoes, a swell $3.00 sh EASTER SPECIAL Men and Women's most fashionable Foot wear in guaranteed Patent Coltskins, Viol Kid, Box Calf in High and Low Shoes, a swell $3.00 shoe. $1.69 Ladies' Patent Coltskin Oxford in French, Military or Spring Heel, a $3 50 shoe Special $1.69 $2.50 Buys striotly Hand Sewed Shoes for Men, as others sell for $3.50 and $4 00, in Vici Kid, Velour, Box Calf; guaranteed Coltskin and Ideal Kid. EASTER SPECIAL $2.50. FOR SATURDAY ONLY. Men's Box Calf; 48 pair of Vici Kid shoes, Patent Leather congress, equal to any $2.00 to $2.50. SATURDAY SPECIAL $1.50. MON PINK 126 EAST WASH. ST. See Our Line For Bargains in Gasoline Stoves and Refrigerators 58 pair of Men's Box Calf: 48 pair of Viol Kid shoes, Patent Leather Tip, Lace or Congress, equal to any $2 00 to $2 50. SATURDAY SPECIAL $1.50. SIMON PINK 126 EAST WASH. ST. a large and complete line of the goods to select from. We have with no exception the largest line of carts in the city. Call and see our line and be convinced. W. Washington Street. 16 and 18 Kentucky Avenue. Member Merchant's Association. Garden Tools gavorating the soil and bringing color to the cheeks of mother earth. Vounegut Hardware Company, 123 and 125 W. Washington Street. 16 and 18 Kentucky Avenue. Member Merchant's Association. Garden Tools Of all kinds for invigorating the soil and bringing color to the cheeks of mother earth. See our show windows. Vounegut Hardware Company, 120 122, 124 E. Washington Street. Both Phones 589. HAMBURGERS Easter Sale of Suits, Skirts. Coats and Waists SUITS— of all-wool Broadcloth, Venetian cloth and cheviot, jackets all silk lined, suits handsome- ly trimmed—worth up to $18.50, sale price..... SILK COATS— Monte Carlo and full Box back Taffeta and Peau de Nole Coats—Recently priced at $12.50 sale price..... SKIRTS— strictly all-wool mate- risals, all colors, regular $5.00 skirts..... SILK WAISTS— Peau de Sole and Taffeta Waists in a full line of shades and all sizes formerly $6.50 and $7.50 your choice. Buy direct from The Manufacturer AT THE POINT Massachusetts Avenue and Pennsylvania Street. Books by Colored Writers Books on the Colored Race by white AUFORS. Read up on the alliaboring Race Question. Send for the book yearly. Catalogue is open. Correspondence with publishers solicited: books re- varied in The Freeman, W.M. M. L. W. 200 Indiana ave., Indianapolis, Ind. $1.25 for Women's Victim Kid. Lace Shoes, same style as $2.00 shoe. Easter Special 99cts for Men's Work Shoes, salt calf, Lace, Buckle and congress. 49cts for Children's Spring Heel, Vici Kid, all solid, a 75cts shoe for FELLOW EASTER SPECIAL $2 00. Ladies' Patent Coltskin Oxford in French, Military or Spring Heel, a $3 50 shoe Special $1.69 BABY CARRIAGE