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$200 in CASH FREE to the Subscribers of The Freeman. Send for Our Liberal Inducements! THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 21. THAT THE COMING GENERAL CONFERENCE WILL BRING ABOUT GREAT AND MANY Changes in the A. M. E. Z. Connection—Louisiana Expresses a View-Men In and Out of Office Who Should and Should Not Be-Church Journals. (BY BISHOP GEORGE W. CLINTON.) The seventy-sixth session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church, assembled at Union Wesley Church, 23d St. N. W., Washington, D. C., at 10 a. m., Wednesday, with Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, D. D., of Charlotte, N. C., presiding. Besides Bishop Clinton, the following well-known prelates of the A. M. E. Zion Church were present: Bishops J. W. Wood, D. D., L. L. D., senior Bishop of the Church; Alexander Walters, D. D., and J. B. Small, D. D. The following general officers were present: Revs. Gee, L. Blackwell, D. D., general secretary; J. S. Caldwell, D. D., general treasurer; J. W. Smith, D. D., editor of the Star of Zion; Hon. John C. Dancy, editor of the Quarterly Review and Dr. W. H. Coffey, Church Extension secretary. The conference composed of about one hundred and twenty-five ministerial and lay delegates, and has among its members some of the ablest preachers and foremost laymen of the race. The session will be of more than ordinary interest, as delegates to the General Conference which will meet at St. Louis, Mo., May 1st, 1904, will be elected at this session, and matters which will be presented to that body for legislation will be discussed in the Bishop's address and considered by the members of the Conference. The question of organic union with the C. M. E. Church, will also come in for attention. The movement looking forward toward organization was begun in Washington during the A. M. E. Zion General Conference, held here in 1900, and the commissioners representing the two Churches, met and agreed upon the preliminary plan of organization at Israel C. M. E. Church in this city last October. The annual sermon by Elder L. W. Kyle, A. B., of Media, Pa., and the Lord's supper occupied the morning hours of the first day's session. In the afternoon, Bishop Clinton's Episcopal address was the chief feature. In his address he stated that general Church is in a very prosperous condition. He said: "At the last session of the Board of Bishops held at Greensboro, N. C., about two months ago the reports from Bishops and general officers showed that harmony prevailed throughout the Church, and that marked progress is manifest in almost every section of our Zion. "The Church as a factor for the religious training and elevation of the race, enjoys a prestige never before known since it started. The intelligence and usefulness of the laity, both in Church and in secular walks of life, add much to the influence and success of the Church. "If there ever was a time when any man or woman of the race needed to feel ashamed of his or her connection with the A. M. E. Zion Church, that time is past. I think that the reports at the ensuing General Conference, will show that the present quadrennium will be noted as the debt paying and Church building period. "While it is a matter of regret that the spiritual progress has not been as great as it might have been, we can rejoice in the fact that there is much of the old time fire, and that there have been encouraging revivals in some of our churches, the most noted being the one held at Galbraith, by Dr. Corrothers in this city. The fact that there is room for improvement in this essential and indispensable feature of our Church work, should bestir us to resolve here and now to launch into the deep along this important line. I have visited all the charges in this conference, except seven, and I find the work in splendid condition. At Philadelphia, Dr. G. L. Blackwell has sold off a $8,000 debt of long standing, and celebrated the event by a mortgage turning and grand jubilee, and the publication of a neat souvenir volume of 100 pages. Elder Kyle, at Media, Pa., paid off a mortgage and bought a lot and more favorably located lot. At Salisbury and St. Michael, Md., Elders Tolbert and Swan are erecting new churches. "In the City of Washington, Church debts aggregating $27,000, have been paid. The sale of old John Wesley and the building of a new John Wesley, practically out of debt, will distinguish the pastorate of Dr. B. J. Bolding. The remodelling and enlarging of Union Wesley, places this Church among the best of the city and its pastor among the leading preachers and financiers of the Church. "The work of Dr. Corrothers, at Galbraith, is the most phenomenal achievement in the history of that Church, and a new chapter to the splendid accomplishment of this brilliant young as a churchman. "The following pastors on the Harrishburg District, deserve special mention, viz: Drs. R. A. Fisher and F. Hill, and Revs. M. L. Blalock, R. F. Fisher, W. H. Marshall, M. L. Bellan, J. C. J. C. Johnson; Presiding Elders, S. F. Dickson, E. H. Curry and R. J. Daniels have proven themselves efficient and acceptable officers in their important stations. THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY AS IT AFFECTS THE NEGRO. "Hitherto it has been the custom to give a paragraph in the Episcopal address to the discussion of the state of the country in general. I n confining this paragraph to a consideration of the state of the country only as it affects the Negro, it must not be understood to indicate that I have less interest in the well being of the whole country. The fact, however, that this seems to be a matter of paramount interest among the whole people and the further fact that it affects us in such a vital way, makes it necessary that it be given special thought. "Recent developments in the way of constitutional amendments, special legislation, and the utterances of leading men, coupled with the action of a majority of the Supreme Court, would indicate that the race is making progress backward rather than forward, and that the future is not at all hopeful. "The terrorizing of many Negroes in several communities and states for the action of the few, and the organized effort to put the race in the worst possible light and thereby alienate our friends and stop their endeavor to help us in our struggle to become competent and worthy citizens, are matters that demand serious reflection. "This, however, is the darker side of the question. Thank God there is another and a brighter side to this question. "It is a fact that can be fully established, that the Negro has never made greater progress, or put forth more earnest efforts to lift himself along every worthy line, than he is doing today. Statistics concerning the decrease of ignorance and like evils, bequeathed and almost indelibly stamped in his character, by cruel slavery, and the increase of his intellect and property holdings are all in his favor, and aij noou joo ssuup nuu su oaiy 'oai while true men are made to suffer, fully demonstrate the fact that, if he can have but a man's chance and be permitted to continue his efforts along the upward tendency unhampered, he will win for himself a place in this country, as honorable as that held by any other citizen. "It is being argued by many that it was a mistake to give the Negro the ballot. Others are contending that the 15th amendment to the national constitution should be repealed. There are still others who seem unwilling to give the Negro any show at all. "Is it because he has been a failure as a freeman? Is it because he is a dangerous and unworthy member of the community where he lives? No one will dare answer that these charges can be proven against him. If it was a mistake to give him his freedom and citizenship, both of which he helped to gain; it is a greater mistake and a wholesale injustice to deprive him of these privileges, after he has proven himself worthy of them. It is equally as great a mistake to fix one standard for the ignorant and non-property holding Negro, and another standard for the white man of the same calibre. It is an injustice to the Negro and an injury to the white man. It is contrary to the theory and practice of a government of the people, for the people and by the people. And if this idea shall ever become the law of the land, the national fabric shall become endangered and the nation's future will be anything but secure. There need be no race problem. If the people of this country will once for all decide that the Negro shall be treated as a man, according to his merit and stop raising false cries and specializing for the Negro, the race question will ad- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1903. [Name] BISHOP GEORGE W. CLINTON, A. M. E. Zion Church. just itself to be as he has been in the past, one of the most helpful inoffensive factors of this great nation. "The bugbears of social equality, Negro domination and the like subterfuges raised by political demagogues and promoters of race strife, are too thread bare to need consideration. "The Negro only wants fairplay and equal chance in the race of life, whether in the field of education or elsewhere, and he will take care of himself. As a body of Christian ministers we must realize that ours is a foremost place in the great work of developing the race. "The Negro minister of to-day has the opportunity to do more toward improving the condition of the race, than any other single agency. Its ours to counsel wisely and lead the people along those lines of progress, that tell for good in time and in eternity. "We must urge them to improve all lines that tend to make a people strong in character and useful as citizens. Let us prove ourselves worthy of every right and privilege enjoyed by any other class of citizens. The opposition to our retaining and exercising full citizen privileges may cause delays, but can never stop the forward march of justice, and the final triumph of righteousness. "We have friends in the North and in the South, who believe in fair play; and while they may not be as numerous and as noisy as some of our friends in other days, they believe that in the fulness of time, justice will be our reward. Let us toll on patiently, hopefully and incessantly feeling that victory will surely come. For "Right is since God is God, And right the day shall win, To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin." JEFFERSONVILLE NOTES Jeffersonville. Ind.. Special.—Miss Carrie Davis has gone to Shepardsville, Ky., to visit. ...Mrs. Pearl Stevenson has gone to Wes Baden. ...The Odd Fellows listened to their annual sermon Sunday at Illinois avenue Baptist Church. ...Friday night was love feast at Wesley Chapel M. E. Church. The service was excellent, and a large audience was present. ...Elder Geo. A. Sissle held quarterly meeting Sunday last. Each service was impressive. ...Mrs. Katie Holton is in St. Louis, Mo. ...Elder Sissle was intertwined by Mrs. Susie Miller while in the city. ...Toorrow the S. M. T.'s will listen to their annual sermon at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. W. M. Langford officiating. ...Dr. O. W. Holloway has located at 614 West street, Louisville Ky.....Mr. and Mrs. Crums, of Louisville, visited Mrs. Abby Carrick Sunday.....Joe Franklin has gone to Chicago.....The annual commencement of the colored high school will take place at Spieth's Hall Friday afternoon, May 29. There will be nine graduates, six young ladies and three young men—Misses Mary Lasley, Anna Daniel, Emma Dupree, Ina Strange, Frances Turner, Anna Taylor, and Messrs. Clarence Spears, Van Richardson and Bert Lasley. This is the largest class graduated from our schools, and one of the strongest. The annual address will be delivered by Rev. C. L. Pierce, D. D. of Louisville, Ky.....M. Clemens Rogers, of Louisville; Mr. Henry Brown and Mr. Wm. Failey, of New Albany, were visiting Miss Anna T. Adams Sunday afternoon. Happenings of the Week. mencement exercises, under the direction of their talented musical instructor, Miss Bessie Jones.....Dr. J. H. Peters narrowly escaped serious injury in a runaway while out driving his full bloomed. News Gathered. Oakland, Cal., Special.—The 5th inst. was visitors' day of the Fannie J. Coppin Club. By permission Mrs. J. Ryan (white) addressed the club on the education of the Negro woman. Also, she recited a poem written by herself, which was an elegant appeal to her white sisters on behalf of the colored women. Editor R. F. Douglass, of the Independence, responded. Among the visitors were D. J. W. Dennis, Mr. Rivers, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Givens, Mrs. Grasses, Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Slater, Mrs. Sims, Mrs. Dennis and Mrs. Burns....Beth Eden Baptist Church has a new pastor in the person of Rev. J. W. Dennis, D. D. Waco, Tex....The Young Men's Literary Club meets a Monday evening at the A. M. E. Fifteenth street Church....The colored people were denied permission to march in the procession when Theodore Roosevelt was in San Francisco, since it shall be, not a civilian, but a military display....The Fannie J. Coppin Club will present to the President a code of resolution of thanks as to a keen appreciation of his ruling toward the Negro. Weekly Budget of News. Atlantic City, N. J., Special. Everyone here is delighted with the weather. The rolling billows are sending cordial invitations to the host of bathers. Many young men are seen plunging through the breakers along the beach. Soon the summer girl will come....The Churches are astir. Members and friends of St. James A. M. E. Church are proud of the return of their pastor, Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D. Rev, Cook was elected delegate to the General Conference....Visitors should not fail to attend the Lyceums at the different churches. They meet as follows: Monday night, St. James, Mr. Stewart, president; Tuesday night, Price's Memorial A. M. E. Church, Mr. Webster Davis, president, Rev Hazell, pastor; Wednesday, Second Baptist Church, Mr. Goldman, president, Rev Jenkins, pastor; Thursday night, Shilo Baptist Church, Mr. S. S. Lee, president, Rev Henderson, pastor; Friday night, Asbury M. E. Church, Mr. Lynch, president, Rev Jolly, pastor. Interesting Items. Selman, Ky., Special—The rally held at the A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday, the 17th, was a success. Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Weeden were with us at 3 p. m., at which time the Rev. Weeden preached an inspiring sermon. At 8 o'clock Rev. J. Lewis, of the M. E. Church, spoke. The members wish to thank their friends for their able support, and $34.56 was raised....The annual sermon of the U. P. F.'s was preached at the Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. A number of Springfield members were present....The excursion which went to Louisville last Sunday carried a goodly number of citizens from here. MUNCIE, IND., ITEMS. Muncie, Ind., Special—The Second Baptist Church has been moved to the rear of the church property, preparatory to erecting a new brick edifice. At the rally of last Sunday $125 was realized. Monday evening the official board of the A. M. E. Church met to consider bids for the painting of the church. A shoe social was given Monday evening by the ladies of the Mite Missionary Society. Mr. Henry Crowder, of Logansport, spent Sunday in this city, the guest of his sister, Mrs. Collins, of Industry. Mr. Paul S. Rhoads is ill with typhoid fever. Quite a number of Muncie Odd Fellows attended the annual services of the lodge at Alexandria Sunday. Mrs. Henry White returned from Indianapolis Monday evening, and reported a pleasant visit. Miss Venis Ware will leave this week for Delaware, O., to spend the summer with relatives. Important News. Niagara Falls., N. Y., Special—Mr. Holdt, formerly of Pittsburg, Pa., will spend a few months here... Mr. J. Smith, of New York, will spend two weeks in the city with his family.... A very pleasant dancing party was given at Crick's hall by the Ladies' Social Eight. The affair was highly enjoyed by all present. GATTERED FROM ALL PARTS BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. A CONDENSED PUBLICATION OF Many Important Happenings of the Past Few Days.-A Comprehensive Review Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. In Toledo it is on the boom. A class of twenty-five had the veil removed, and were brought to light by M. P. S. Grand Commander Milton F. Fields, 33 degree. St. Stephen's Consistory, of Ft. Wayne, Ind, joined in the pilgrimage to Toledo with twenty-eight members, with their fine robes and working costumes. It was a grand sight, indeed, seventy-five Scottish Rites in full working costume. Sir Charles W. Thompson, 33 degree, of St. Louis, acted as master of ceremonies, and the members of St. Matthew's Consistory, of Toledo, had quite a surprise in store for Commander Fields, as they had a fine working team, consisting of Chas. A. Cottrell, 33, commander-in-chief; A. M. Clemens, 33, first lieutenant; Sira Young, 33, second lieutenant; S. M. Raines, 33, T. P. G. M.; Sir Morgan, Grand Chancellor; Sir Henry, M. of S. Piswell, Sir Johnson did fine work. Music and singing was rendered by St. Matthew's Consistory Glee Club, all 32 degree Masons of Toledo. The Lodge. Rev. Wm. S. McCrutcher, of Nashville, Tenn., preached the annual sermon of the St. Louis Hope Lodge No. 2117, G. W. O. of O. F., in their hall at Pine and 12th streets, at 8 o'clock, Sunday evening the 17th. Rev McCrutcher is a member of eight different orders. His sermon was excellent. On the 10th, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows listened to their annual sermon at the First African Baptist Church, New Orleans, La. More than 300 brothers attended and fully 3,000 people attended. The sermon was excellent. The Church. The Rev. Wellington Paxton has been elected Rector of St. Philips Episcopal Church in Newark, N. J., to succeed the Rev. F. Hobbie (White). This Church is one of the largest colored churches in the North, and is completely furnished and free from debt. F. Paxton's address is 145 Seymour street, Newark, N. J. Personal and News Notes Jackson. Mich., Special.-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harrison are proud of a baby girl..Mr. John Jones, of Battle Creek, was in the city Sunday..Mr. Henry Goodall, Mrs. Garrett, Mrs. Geo. Powers and daughter Bessie, attended the wedding of their son and brother, Mr. James Goodall, and Miss Ora Chase..Mr. Henry Colbreth is convalescent..Mr. Frank Lett was married last week..The illustrated lecture given at the Second Baptist Church proved a success..Mr. Chas. Harrison is ill at his home, on Mason street..Mrs. Chandler, of Adrian, is visiting relatives in the city..Misses Nellie and Rosa Scott are in the city..Anyone wishing the Freeman will please call at 216 East Franklin St., or at Brown & Johnson's restaurant, 12 Michigan avenue. Weekly Items. Cairo, Ill. Special—All of the churches were largely attended last Sunday....Rev. W. B. Brown and members will soon begin their new church edifice....Mrs. Chas. Mitchell is recovering from a recent severe illness....Officers W. H. Watkins and J. Wade, colored, of the new police force, made an arrest last week that brought them note. The person arrested was Jim Crouse, of Paducah, Ky., who attempted to pass a raised money order....Mr. and Mrs. Charles Denwood are the parents of a baby boy....Richard Taylor has put in bath and lodging rooms over his saloon. The complete novel in Ainslee's for June is "Partners," by Ethel Watts Mumford. Other well-known contributors in the same issue are Richard Le Gallienne, Kathine C. Thurston, John D. Barry, Edgar Saltus, Douglas Story, Bliss Carman, Geraldine Bonner, Clinton Scollard, Harvey J. O'Higgins and Elia W. Peattie. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Exclusively by Colored Men The Mammoth Race Corporation THE WILGERA OIL & GAS GO.. OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, Controlling 500 ACRES of oil and gas lands in the richest oil and gas field of Ohio, and having, as it has, Two Gas Wells, one on its Hanna farm and the other on its Milligan farm. it is by far the greatest race enterprise ever projected to successful consumation. Starting Gnly With 75 Acres It continued to acquire approved oil and gas lands until it now has 500 Acres of Oil and Gas Lands Valued at $200,000. The gas well on the Milligan tract has pressure sufficiently strong to furnish gas to a city of 200,000. The gas supply is practically unlimited. 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It is carefully and conservatively managed, not an officer being on salary, all money going to develop the greatest corporation ever organized by American Negroes. Write at once for particulars. THE WILGERA OIL & GAS CO. Columbus, Ohio. --- THE HOMECOMING DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON RECEIVED AT HIS HOME. AN OVATION TO BE REMEMBERED Work Suspended and All Prepare to Take a Part in the Gala Event-- "A Feast of Music and a Flow of Love." Tuskegee, Ala., May 13.—The home- coming of Dr. Booker T. Washington to-day was made an occasion of great rejoicing. The principal has been ab- sent from the school for upwards of three months, and aside f from the pleasure of welcoming him to his own heath, there was a universal desire to record an especial mark of distinction because of the munificent gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, which was conferred during the recent tour of Dr. Washington, rendering the latter's itinerary the most successful yet undertaken, from a financial point of view. When it was announced positively that Dr. Washington would arrive on the 13th, the teachers, officers and students began at once to prepare to make the event a gala affair. Work was suspended at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 3 the entire population of the Institute was congregated at the Cassedy Hall "big gate" to greet the returning chieftain. While the band played "See the Conquering Hero Comes," Dr. Washington was driven into the grounds, between long lines of cheering men, women and children. He was escorted immediately to the Chapel, where the exercises of the day were held. The Chapel was profusely decorated with palms, verdant branches and wild flowers. Portraits of Principal Washington and Mr. Carnegie were conspicuously displayed, and the American flag and the school added the finishing touches to a most attractive picture. The audience which gathered to do honor to Principal Washington's remarkable achievement filled every nook and cranny of the great auditorium. The personnel of the company included many visitors, who had extended their trip from the convention of Charities and Corrections, which had just adjourned at Atlanta. The program embraced addresses, a choice collection of jubilee melodies by the choir and student body, interspired by original features prepared by the various classes. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, the principal's energetic private secretary, presided in his usual effective manner, and introduced the speakers, besides reading the letter of Mr. Carnegie and officially announcing the gift of $600,000. Mr. William Arthur MacIntyre, of Port-au-Prince, Spinidad, B. W. L., who is taking a special course in scientific agriculture, paid an eloquent tribute to the work of Dr. Washington, speaking for the post-graduates. Mr. Lewis Adams, the pioneer trustee of the school, and the man who has held up the hands of Dr. Washington from the first days of Tuskegee, spoke for the teachers. Mr. Sumner George, of Camden, S. C. testified in fitting terms to the gratitude and appreciation of the students. Mr. C. W. Hare, editor of the Tuskegee News and a leading attorney of Macon county, told of the pride he felt in Dr. Washington and his work, as a member of the Board of Trustees, and said that the confidence in the methods in vogue at the school, as evidenced by the cordial support of such thinkers, business men and leaders in government as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, the Huntingtons, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt weighed so heavily in the scale that the criticisms of mere theorists became infinitesimal atoms. The specially composed songs of the Cuban contingent, the interpolation of the Class of 1904 Glee Club and the improvised topical allusions in the choir's verses contributed in no small measure to the enjoyment of the hour. The floral offerings to Dr. Washington were beautiful and elaborate, the chair in which he sat being garlanded with roses, and about him were many very artistic pieces. The Chautauqua salute greeted the principal as he arose to speak. The address of Dr. Washington acknowledging his appreciation of the honors showered upon him by the departments of the school and the citizens generally was a masterpiece of modest statement, and his plea to the students for a continuance of orderly and unobtrusive conduct at home and abroad, notwithstanding the good fortune that had come to the institution, was timely and in splendid taste. His point that individuals, institutions and races often had more to fear from successes that bred arrogance than from failures that begat humility and conscientious effort was well made. Dr. Washington thanked his friends for the ovation tendered him, and found great satisfaction in the spirit that prompted them to so signalize his home-coming, but his keenest anxiety was that the true significance of the broad generosity of Mr. Carnegie be firmly grasped and that the multiplied opportunities it afforded should be fully appreciated. Dr. Washington is in perfect health, and looks as if the assurance of a "Greater Tuskegee" has given him a new lease on life and a sturdier determination to go on in the grand cause for which he seems divinely appointed. R. W. THOMPSON. CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARIES. Chattanooga, Tenn. Special—At 11 o'clock a.m. the third anniversary of the Leonard Street Presbyterian Church was celebrated. Rev. C. H. Trusty, B. D., is pastor. The ceremonies were most appropriate. Rev. D. E. Murray, A. M., Anniston, Ala., preached the annual sermon. 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The sixteenth anniversary of the Odd Fellows was celebrated at 3 p. m., at Warren A. M. E. Church. The G. U. O. of O. F. assembled for their Thanksgiving services. The large representation of its members and ladies' department gave great evidence of their devotion to this noble fraternity. Mr. J. L. Hodland, master of ceremonies, acquitted himself in the most proficient manner in the order of the services. Rev. J. M. Holt, D. D., pastor, preached the annual sermon of the G. U. O. of O. F. Subject, "Let us set up our banners." The officers of the day were: Charles Griggsby, N. G., P. N. F.; J. L. Holland, master of ceremonies, M. V. P.; J. F. Moss, master of reception, M. P. V. P.; R. J. Stanford, master, P. N. F.; James Moten, chaplain, P. N. F.; G. W. Sewell, chief usher, P. N. F. * * At the A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. A. J. Gorham, A. B., pastor, Two severe cases and two terrible open Emmons and Mrs. how they were saved Lydia E. Pinkham's "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I am from Lydia E. 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Your Vegetable Compound found the weak spot, however, within a few weeks—and saved me from an operation—all my troubles had disappeared, and I found myself once more healthy and well. Words fail to describe the real, true, grateful feeling that is in my heart, and I want to tell every sick and suffering sister. Don't dally with medicines you know nothing about, but take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and take my word for it, you will be a different woman in a short time."—Mrs. LAURA EMMONS, Walkerville, Ont. Another Case of Ovarian Trouble Cured Without an Operation. was and of t but who the took of t won "Dear Mrs. PINKHAM:—For several years I was troubled with ovarian trouble and a painful and inflamed condition, which kept me in bed part of the time. I did so dread a surgical operation. "I tried different remedies hoping to get better, but nothing seemed to bring relief until a friend who had been cured of ovarian trouble, through the use of your compound, induced me to try it. I took it faithfully for three months, and at the end of that time was glad to find that I was a well woman. Health is nature's best gift to woman, and if you lose it and can have it restored through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I feel that all suffering women should know of this"—Mrs. LAURA BELLE COLEMAN, Commercial Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. to remember such letters as above when some of you buy something which he says is "just as good." The other medicine has such a record of cures as Lydia E. Pinkham Compound; accept no other and you will hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is sickness you do not understand. She will stress and her advice is free. No woman ever and she has helped thousands. Address B. ORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters of love testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., N. per such letters as above when some druggist tries ing which he says is "just as good". That is impos- e has such a record of cures as Lydia E. Pink- ound; accept no other and you will be glad. write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything you do not understand. She will treat you advice is free. No woman ever regretted as helped thousands. Address Lynn, Mass. cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. It is well to remember such letters to get you to buy something which he is sible, as no other medicine has such a ham's Vegetable Compound; accept Don't hesitate to write to Mr. about your sickness you do not wish with kindness and her advice is writing her and she has helped to $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith above testimonials, which will provide Lydia It is well to remember such letters as above when some druggist tries to get you to buy something which he says is "just as good." That is impossible, as no other medicine has such a record of cures as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; accept no other and you will be glad. Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about your sickness you do not understand. She will treat you with kindness and her advice is free. No woman ever regretted writing her and she has helped thousands. Address Lynn, Mass. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. preached an able sermon to a large and appreciative audience, at 8 p. m. Sunday. * * Rev. J. W. Tate, D. D., pastor of Wiley Memorial M. E. Church, left this city for Huntsville, Ala., to attend the commencement exercises of the Central Alabama Academy. He delivered an able address to the graduating class. Subject, "Manhood and Womanhood." At 8 p. m. Sunday, at Lakeside M. E. Church, he preached an arousing and inspiring sermon to a very appreciative audience. * * Rev. W. H. Nelson, D. D., who delivered the annual address before the Alumni Association of Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., was in the city, the guest of Rev. Tate, D. D. The Freeman papers can be found every Saturday at Lou. 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C The MOWER that will cut your short grass, tall grass and weeds and do all the trimming along fence and walks. Send for cats"ogue and prices. CLIPPER Swellest Rings Ever, so much money. 50e buys two years warranted, so it's like gold rings, with handsome sheen. Everybody surprised. Sample fully paid postcard. Swellest Rings Ever for the money. 60 buys five years warranted, solid 14k shell gold rings set with handmade stones. Everybody loves You'll be pleased. Send for our free catalogue of Jewelry and Novelties AGENTS WANTEE EVERYWHERE The 'Big Lake' Specialty Co., Calumet, Mich. CLIIPPER LAWN MOWER CO., Norristown, Pa. THE LITTLE HOGAN Full staple line of goods. Smoked Meat Chickens, Butter, Eggs a speciality. 634 and 636 Indiana Ave. Phone 355. Ice Cream, Soda Water, Cigars, Full staple line of goods: Chickens, Butter, Eggs a specialty. MRS. J. L. LOVE, PROPRIETRESS. 634 and 636 Indiana Ave. Phone 1379. HOTEL de MOORE [Picture of a man in a bowler hat and suit]. [Name] [Name] THE BEST IN THE WORLD. TRY IT, Wiede Fine IN BO For Health, F Wiedemann's Fine Beers IN BOTTLE OR KEG A Trial Order Will Convince You. E. H. RENT Indianapolis Branch, We Wan Old Phone Main 2530. Write for E. H. RENTSCH, Manager Indianapolis Branch, 920 E. Washington street Old Phone Main 2530. Write for Prices. Delivered to Any Part of City GENTLEMEN ONLY. ELECTRIC LIGHT, STEAM HEAT, HOT AND COLD BATHS. CAFE and SAMPLE ROOM ATTACHED. 3022 State Street, Chicago, Ill S. R. SNOWDEN Proprietor. Getting Warm Isn't It? The shirt waist time has just about arrived, and it's here to stay for awhile too. We are making a special rate of 10c on shirt waists. We can convince you of on superiority if you will allow us to send for a trial package of your Laundry, IF WE DO NOT DO YOUR WORK WE BOTH LOOSE MONEY. Hotel Work Century Laundry Co., FRED B, COMSTOCK, Mgr. Specialty Phones: New, 282; Old Main, 1586 Downtown Agency RAWITCH & CLAYPOOL Hotel. Books by Colored Writers, Books on the Colored Race by ALYEHORS. Read up on the all-alsoabsorbed Race Question. Send for the book you want. Catalogue in press. Correspondence with publishers solicited; books re- viewed in The Freeman. WM. M. LEWIS. 309 Indiana ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Special'Attention Paid To Private Family Trade. TWENTY-FIRST ST. GO, 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. NOT10E Any enterprising colored man can make money in St. Louis during the great World Fair. The field is promising and offers wonderful in- ductions to men with money to invest. All inquiries along this line will receive immi- ate attention by sending your communications above address. JEFF, SM1TH, Prop, GEO, FOUNTAIN Mgr MIXERS TheGreeleySaloon Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Excursionists give us a call: Headquarters for sports. Ask for it, you'll get it. 1201 Morgan Street ST. LOUIS, MO emann's Beers OTTLE OR KEG flesh and Strength ITSCH, Manager 920 E. Washington street ant Your Order. for Prices. Delivered to Any Part of City KEYSTONE High Class Hotel for EMEN ONLY. HEM HEAT, HOT AND COLD BATHS. 2022 State Street THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER AND Turf Sample Room HOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS PONEY MOORE Proprietor Thirty Elegantly Furnished Rooms, Cafe in connection European Plan. Prices Reassemble. Steam Heat. Electric List Bells, Baths and Speakin- Tubes in connection with every room. BILLARID AND POOL IN ANNEX. Mr. Editor—Bring a subscriber to The Freeman and also a waiter, and having, from time to time, read the various lectures, I kindly ask you to publish the following: OUR FORT. We, as waiters on the side, have a fort defenseless and unprotected are the men garrisoned therein. We are weekly presented through this organ with various articles, addresses and lectures which portray to us our defects as clearly as the noon-day sun or slvery lamps which are hung up at night in their sockets by the hand that is divine. The work of which has been mainly from captains, lieutenants and head-waiters; but, if you please allow us space, we of the true side men, they who form the vanguard of this great army of caterers. Often, while in silence, we have read 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 4257 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. 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 7002 Black. 17 390 S. State St., SEND FOR Name. Location. Subscribers L. A. Walker Hot Springs, Ark 47 Henry Feltenburg Shreveport, La 29 J. C. Logan Portland, Oregon 21 Benjamin R. Carle Spokane, Wash 18 John A. Gloster Wilkesbarre, Pa 25 C. H. Plummer Unitown, Pa 20 N. H. Smiley West Superior, Wis 9 George R. Wilson DesMolines, Iowa 6 W. Alonzo Locke Cairo, Ill 4 Noah Chase Soranton, Pa 8 C. B. Coles New Haven, Conn 2 Robert Granger Zanesville, Ohio 7 C. Lamar Brooklyn, N Y 1 F. P. Thompson New York City, N. Y 1 Thos. H. Frame Salt Lake City, Utah 22 F. C. Brown Charleston, W. Va 7 C. C. Lewis Louisville, Ky 1 Donglas Miller DesMolines, Iowa 1 R. S. Kittrell Denver, Col 2 J. J. Miles Milwankee, Wis 2 C. Saunders St. Pani, Minn 1 Charles W. Dwyer Minneapolis, Minn 1 C. H. Barton Bloomington, Ill 4 John Venie Washington, D. C 1 J. Wesley Jones Denver, Col 1 NOTICE. Through the solidification of quite a number of head and second waiters the FREEMAN'S Head and Second Waiter's National Prize Contest has been extended to We believe this is better for all concerned, and will allow THE FREEMAN to better receive the appreciation of the Hotel fraternity. This contest will POSITIVELY close July 1st. soathing remarks and words which have tantalized our inmost feelings, we felt like retaliating, but sufficient solace was contained therein to appease our hotheadedness. The Lord loveth those whom He chasteneth. Being a waiter of a few years experience, and having worked under some two or three headwalters, some of whose lectures have, as we before stated, pointed out our deficiency, we long for some points on how we may become efficient. Some one will tell us to let down our buckets where we are, and, in other words, pay attention to what we hear in these discourses. We will say that these things and also literature that is available fail to give us the required results. We have from time to time read varl- Head and Second Waiters SUMMARY Name. L. L. A. Walker . Hot S. Henry Feltenburg . Shrew J. C. Logan . Portle Benjamin R. Carle . Spoke John A. Gloster . Wilke C. H. Plummer . Union N. H. Smiley . West T. George R. Wilson . DesM. W. Alonzo Locke . Calro Noah Chase . Scrane C. B. Coles . New Robert Granger . Zane C. Lamar . Brook F. P. Thompson . New Thos. H. Frame . Salt F. C. Brown . Char C. C. Lewis . Louis Donglas Miller . DesM R. S. Kittrell . Denve J. J. Miles . Milwu C. Saunders . St. Pa Charles W. Dwyer . Minne C. H. Barton . Bloom John Venie . Washu J. Wesley Jones . Denve ons literature on service, and, coupled with practical experience, we venture to place before the readers of The Freeman a few suggestions: The side man of to day is the "bullseye" of the target for the practice of hotel men in authority. It is they who bear the heat and burden of the day, they who reflect credit or discredit upon the service. There are those who say that deficiency in service is due to the fact that we graduate in three weeks for the vocation. BUTCH BROWN. FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, Corner Prospect and Miami streets, NORWOOD, INDIANA. THE PENCE 132 W. Washington Street, Near Park Theatre. Cool Beer Between Acts. Once a Sport. MARCUS RUBEN MANUFACTURER OF Waiters' and Cooks' Outfits OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ALSO Barbers' Coats Barkeepers' Coats, Vests and Aprons Now, my dear friends and co-workers, would you think that in this day of literature, science and art we should be so dumb and backward as not to learn the elementary principles of the craft in less than three years? The Indian and Chinese are still unenlightened because of the fact that they have continued only in the path of ancestral lore and developed in the surface matter-of-facts. Talk is cheap and truth is a rare jawel. We appreciate the talks and lectures of our honored and distinguished headwaiters, but we ask you in connection therewith to place us, or we, who are in the dark from week to week, we who are far from the eastern shores where the homes of first class waiters are, where the mecca of hostelery has its seat, we who are remote from you, place for our benefit, we kindly ask you, from week to week some diagram of service or some rules by which we may give better service. We are aware of the fact that many houses bar Negro help on account of color and various other causes, but why is it that we maintain our own in some eastern cities? Truly some one is working as well as talking, not working for the paltry pay that comes—duty, but for the uplift of the man morally and intellectually. We would ask those who are more experienced, those who have written through these columns and those who may write hereafter to give us some ideas of service rather than tell us how to equip ourselves. How can we equip ourselves by by profiting by the mistakes and losses of others? The addresses, from time to time, have been so complicated as to tend to lesson the influx of men to this vocation and also dishearten the infinite minds among us. We will kindly ask our contemporary who wrote an article in the issue of May 16, 1908, to give us some hints on the "service of wines," since he has hinted at our deficiency along that line as a beginning. We do not make this 's National Prize Contest. MARY. Location. Subscribers. Springs, Ark 47 Seport, La 29 Land, Oregon 21 ane, Wash 18 ssbarre, Pa 25 town, Pa 20 Superior, Wis 9 Poles, Iowa 6 Ill. 4 ton, Pa 3 Haven, Conn 2 ville, Ohio 7 lyn, N Y 1 York City, N. Y 1 Lake City, Utah 22 weston, W. Va 7 ville, Ky. 1 voles, Iowa 1 er, Col. 2 dukee, Wis. 2 ul, Minn. 1 apolis, Minn. 1 ington, Ill. 4 ington, D. C. 1 er, Col. 1 request from a spirit of retaliation, but in order that we may profit the more by said address. We are cognizant there are no schools from which we may learn that art; there is no master to give us the rule by which we may solve all culinary problems, so do contribute your talent for the good of others, for no greater work is there than doing good to others. We are reading all the literature that is available on this subject: would like to hear, along with your wholesome advice, some figures that may tend to better the service. The service of fifteen years ago is no more to be compared to the service of to-day than a courier of 1777 with the automobile, so far in advance is the service of to-day in the arts that we cannot keep abreast with the first class caterers unless, portraying our defects, you give us a treatise on how to remedy the same. The efforts of a side man may be ever so arduous in his prosecution of the work, but unless they are presented from time to time with cuts and diagrams of service, also rules by which we may be enabled to give better service better left unsaid are the suggestions we read. Then, brothers, help us to defend our fort and protect the men garrisoned therein. By help we profit; by precepts succeed; by defects we falter and others take lead. Very truly yours, a side man and anxious learner. Parkerburg, W. Va. The Colored Waiter's Mistake. In view of the fact of recent troubles among hotel men and their dining room help the following from Headwaiter Thomas Frame of the Knutsford, is apropos. Under the caption of "The Colored Waiter's Mistake" he says: Among the many problems that confront the hotel and restaurant proprietors none is more pregnant with difficulties than that of the dining room waiter, especially is this true where the white waiter is employed. Whenever a difference arises as to wages, hours, etc., and the differences cannot be adjusted, a strike is the natural outcome. As is well known, the colored waiter is not admitted into the union with the white waiters, or even allowed to affil- --- late with them, his color is the bar that keeps him out. Admitting this to be true, we can readily see where the colored waiter makes a mistake when he leaves a hotel where the management has treated him well and stood by him at all times. It is hardly fair to the management of a hotel that has treated the colored waiter fair and square, to leave him, the manager, in the lurch and go to another hotel that is on a strike, simply because the inducements are greater. It would seem that the colored waiter is used as a cat's paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for the other fellow; in other words, the colored waiter is only good enough to use in time of trouble and as soon as the storm is over he is set adrift. The Omaha strike is an example. We earnestly wish that the colored headwaiters would, in their lectures, lay great stress upon this important fact that the colored waiter should at all times be loyal to the management who has treated him with due consideration, and when the white waiter strikes the colored waiter, by all means, should refrain from going to the rescue of those who never gave the Negro a consideration, and I trust that the colored headwaiters will instruct their crews that never under any circumstances should they leave a hotel where they have been fairly treated and, above all, learn to appreciate those who have stood by them. Believing it is to the interest of the colored waiter to remember these things and act accordingly. I am yours for the service, THOS. H. FRAME. "Headwalter" The Knutsford. Salt Lake City, Utah. The Denver Strike Doubtless many readers of your valuable paper would like to know something about the great labor strike at Denver, Col., especially as relates to the waiters, etc. Denver is in a firm grasp of organized labor unions, and the force and power of those organizations or labor is being severely contested by the Citizens Alliance composed of the best citizens and business men of the city. In the contest, as it is now carried on between the two opposing forces of organized labor and organized capital—for such they are—it is obvious that there is only one object, and that is to defeat and crush the other, and it is now plainly noticeable that the two parties of the contest have become so nearly equal in their real and opponent power that each have come to the point of respect for the other, but owing to failure of the alliance and the unions to come to an agreement the Negro waiter has crept in between the white waiter and his position in all the principal down town restaurants. The Home Dalry, which employs the largest number of waiters, had twenty five experienced colored waiters at work on the 15th at $10 per week, and the manager announces in the papers that "We are through with girls for good." The Chessapeake, on Cam街 street, has at present a crew of twenty colored men, and Mrs. Marshall's cafe is divided up between girls and colored waiters. Several other small places have colored waiters where only five and six men are employed. Non-union waiters are employed in the best hotels. They are afraid to join the union for fear of losing such houses as the Brown Palace, Metropole and other large hotels of the city. The colored waiters certainly done a very wise thing in not letting themselves be drawn into any union out here for there is really more prejudice here than there is down in Texas, and the white waiters only mean to defeat and crush them, if they ever have a chance. Waiters are now receiving two dollars per day for their work out here. It is a great city that some of the good, cracker-jack headwaiters do not come here at once. A.B. CARTER. Several promotions have been made among the crew at the Windermere, Chicago, Ill., since the return of Mr. F. C. Long. Beginning with May 1st walters are now being paid from $22 to $25 per month, according to worth and deportment. Mr. Perkins has been promoted to assistant steward. This promotion is a deserved one as Mr. Perkins has been one of the main supports of the culinary department. The bartender and night clerk are both colored men, and W. A. Hill, who was first assistant at the Gayosho Hotel, Memphis, Tenn., fills the same position at the Windermere. The following are some new appointments as headwalters: W. A. Stuart, Chancellor Hotel, Parkersburg, W. Va. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Illinois. The strike of the unions at Denver, Col., has proven beneficial to the colored waiters who are receiving $10 and $12 a week in restaurants and $30 per month in all hotels. The St. James hotel, which opened May 1st, pays $8 a week. Copies of The Freeman are on sale at Fred D. Thomas' barbershop, 242 East Second street, Los Angeles, Cal. A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED ” @ SOLOKED NEWSPAPER. 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It is eald that in a town near St Lonis, Mo., @ colored man, Rev. Charles ‘Thomas, pastor of Wilkergon Chapel A.M, E. churoh, was “turned down” ‘by @ white shoe shiner. Rev. Thomas inelated on being served inthe “‘parlor ” but was informed by the proprietor that he did not serve colored people, and that he could be served around the corner by his own people. : The story sounds jaet a trifle fakish, but at that it will serve to point a moral and adorn a tale | Owing to the refnsal on the part of the proprietor, so the story goes, Rev. Thomas carried the matter into court under the act of 1897, which gives the ‘Negroes the same rights in barber-shops ‘and other places and which fixes the penalty at from $25 to $500 for its viola- tion. The jury to which it was sub- mitted made up its mind in the remark- ably short period of ten minutes, find- ing agatnst Rev. Thomas, the plaintiff. ‘The pastor says that he was contend- ing simply for principle and that he will carry the matter to the supreme court. Just on what grounds the rev- erend gentleman was non-suited fs not stated; but it isa question of consider- able more importance than other facts given, and it may be presumed that it was simply the shortest way out of one of those complex racial situations that serves to vex the people; one for which the general laws nominally stand, out whose application would be more pro- vocative of evil than productive of good in many cases. ‘The case is fortunate at this time be- cause of the needy exposition on such questions by thonghtfal colored men, many of whom we believe have seen cause to shift their positions on some phases of the race question in the past few years. We believe that there should be some plain talking on the question. ‘The situation, whatever it may be, should be acknowledged, and without such acknowledgement there can be no cure, Rev. Thomas acted totally with- in his rights as guaranteed by the laws when he insisted on belug served in the white man’s place and when he brought the suit. He has performed his part; he fs no less a man because he could not compel the court to respect his claim. Bat, on the other hand, the reverend gentleman evidently knew he was at- tacking a tartar and perhaps went out of his way to hunt it. He knows that race feelings ran high in come commu- nitiese—in Bellville, perhaps, and most especially does it prove serious in'some ‘business places to invite indiscriminate- ly, colored people, ‘That isan acknowl- edgement that acknowledges. The North is not so severe in drawing race lines, but you can find them in indie apolis with your eyes shut. Let us ac- knowledge a little further and to this extent, that the better classes, and we have those who will not hurt any man’s place, among the colored folk them- selves, are opposed to much more asso- elation than the whites and on good and ample grounds. It does not stand to reason that the whole race is wholly prepared to enter the places patronized ‘and supported by the rich and refined asaclass. The poor among the whites. asarale, do not claim many privileges that are due them. Propriety and poverty suggest otherwise. In the minds of the whites the race is not prepared to go on equal terms in many places, Outside of purely clvil rights and enfranchisements it does not matter very much under the ciroum- stances, What they think may be all wrong in the eyes of abstract right and humanity, bat politics and race pro: gression has never stopped to parley over rights and wrongs; theend slwaye, never the means They can be made to “‘anthink” their notions only by do- ing worthy things and not by talking and agitating. Given a free condition, | may it not be a proposition (1) that rights for which we must constantly agitate are sometimes not due owing to come delinquency one way or the other and which the race does not think worth ing up. wives hove learned to belleve that the THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED:COLORED NEWSPAPER. TEE EE Eee white man is not such a bad creature ‘Will be the largest class ever graduated pec er cary regu THE NEGRO A PERMANENT FACTOR trom the college, having twenty-one/ THE CAPITA] safe tosay that one-half the race trouble members, The Senfor Normal Class) With Capital, Surplus and Profits IN THE AMERICAN FEDERATION | has ten members.—Fisk Herald. fully solicits the business of banks, is due to the colored people, many of OF MUSICIANS eee dividuals, to whom every acoomm fein aa toes tal po ence rd ‘Tho ory this season fa more room for | "Mt 'B, Wilson, prealdoat infor: C 4 sikeai Coates tablet eee His Views Respectfully Heara ana |*h® Curry school The work ts {ncreas-| _ 0+ M- Packard, vice-presidents, “guns” on the enemy. Consideration Given—Most of the|!08 to such an extent that we will be| Direct banking connections in eve ‘We have arrived at that very acute| esolutions Offered by Colorea gon-|OmPelled to have 6 dormitory and | seme stage of racial life where advice for} tinsency, ages Palen a fatnre action is difficult to give by any| The elghth annual A. F of M., con- one. In the case in hand, perhaps, it|Vention was held in Indianapolis last | , TH@ Baptist University at Indianapo- ced re yn tondwooste the eocaa:| Week at Tomlinson Hall. Fonr oities| Ind. had its frst annual commence- tlon of contesting cases since that would| Were represented by colored men, st |™&Bt exercises this week. ‘The program peradventure mean the crystalization | Louis by Charies A Scott; Chicago by | WM! ‘ateresting and varied. Dr. Patton of sentiment in thé interest of class. It|Moj R. R. Jackson; Savannah, Ga., by |°D*ettaine great hopes for the school Gas Stoves and Ranges may be considered quite as foolish to| W- 8. Smith, and New Orleans, La., by | D4 o the year's work. Rubber Hose, Screens an aggravate a situation which only prom-|T- L. Baquet. Maj Jackson distin- pecan ney Store: {se golntion in the proper time. Its up| ulshed himeelf early in the delibera-| , TH° “losing exercises of Morris Brown . to every community to do the best. that | tions of the assembly as an orator of | °HeS® Atlanta, Ga, will be as follows: it gets the best results.. It can come| exceptional ability and convincing log- | Wt7es49y: May 27, class day exercises, l only by calm consideration, cool judg- |i. Two important resolutions were|® P: ™» Undergraduates; 8 p. m., grad ment, and {t will be jeopardized if every | adopted by the body put forth by this|TSes: Thureday, May 28, 8:45 a. m. 114-116-1 rman fools that it fs business to compel|{ntrepld defender of the Negro mnei-/(05.P. m2 oral examinations: S D. 2. | seers re cians’ interests. The m st important |*!Vereary alumni association. Fri-' 9) 2 Dr. E.J. Carey, of Quinn Chapel A. M, E, chureb, Chicago, was in the city last Sunday aselsting Dr. Townsend in his effort to raise money for discharg- ing the indebtedness of the church, which was a great success, upwards uf #2000 being realized Dr. Carey has one of the best churches in the connec tion. A few weeks ago they succeeded in raising $4,200. ‘The General Confer- ence will meet in his church in 1904. He has great faith in Dr. Townsend's elevation to the bishopric at that time. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of New York, president of the Foreign Mission- ‘ary Soolety of the Congregational ‘church, says he would make up Wasb- ington’s bed in the event that any one in his home should shrink from thet duty. Mr. Washington has been invited to speak in the reverend gentleman’s church, He says if Mr. Washingtor does not care to stop at a hotel he wil! be asked to stop at bis home, Dr. John H. Frank of Louisville, Ky., and Moderator of the Baptist churches of that State, may well be dubbed the Evclesiastica: Aarchaeologist; he has dug up somewhere between Genesis and Revelation authority for calling every Baptist preacher a bishop. Is it becanse each one is soverelgn in his own little diocese? Dr. Frank is ingenious, if anything; Bishop Frank, we mean; it 1s & great title. In the early history of the church, when the religion of Christ was not so clearly understood as to dey, massacres such as has taken place in Russia might have been expected. The breaking up of old and established ideas and ideals is attended with more or less cost. But to day there is no reason for such sacri- fice of human life. Christianity has no place on its program for murderers, At the recent commencement of Wiley University, Marshall, Tex., the degree of Master of Arts (A. M ) was conferred upon Kmmett J. Scott, private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington. This is Mr. Scott’s old school and those who know him are proud of the record he has made in the important and delicate position he holds Cards are out announcing the coming marriage of Mr Roscoe Conkling Brace to Mise Clara Waehington of Washing- ton, D ©., June 81 Mr Brnoe is a recent graduate of Harvard University and 1s now at the head of the Normal department at Tuskegee. Tae colored people of Hopkinevilie, Ky,, are making great preparations to entertain Prof. W. H. Conncill, one of the great leaders of industrial educa- ticn, He will appear under the auspices of the M. and F. College. Chairman Keach is a confirmed “nig- ger hater’” in politics, and never lets the opportunity slip by to emphasize the fact The Democrats, therefore, will do little campaiguing in Bucktown this year —The Independent. ‘Oh, Mr. Keach, tell us troly is that a libel? It is said that » university man has discovered 8 cure for lockjaw. Now lec him find a care for unlccked jaws and the generation will write nim down blessed. ‘The latest fad is beautifying the face through the culture of the mind It goes without saying that the scheme will be welcomed. Bishops H. M. Tarner, Evans Tyree and B W. Arnett will be the great trinmvirate at Bethel church the week of June 10th In the coming maniocipal campaign Chairman Keach says he will taboo beer; but what will the other fellow do to itt “All men up’’—Roosevelt, is the way the flyer at the mast of the Major of Hopkinsville, Ky., reads, Halt Rates. To Indianapolis, And Return Vis Big Four Route Annual Meeting of Travelers’ Protective Association of America, Tickets to Indianapolis and return will be on sale on June 8, 9 and 10, 1903, from all poiats on the “Big Four,” Cincinnati Northern R. R, and D. & U. B. R. at half rates. Final Retarn Limit to leave Indianapolis to and including June 18, 1903. Fancy Groceries and Meats OHIO and ILLINOIS STREETS THE N. A. MOORE CO. THE NEGRO A PERMANENT FACTOR IN THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS His Views Respectfully Heard and Consideration Given—Most of the Resolutions Offered by Colored Gon- tingency. | ‘The elghth annual A.F of M, con- vention was held in Indianapolis laet week at Tomlinson Hall. Four cities were represented by colored men. St Lonis by Charles A Scott; Chicago by Maj R. R. Jackson ; Savannah, Ga., by W. 8. Smith, and New Orleans, La, by T. L, Baquet. Maj Jackson distin- guished himself early in the delibera- tions of the assembly as an orator of exceptional ability and convincing log: fe, Two important resolutions were adopted by the body put forth by this intrepid defender of the Negro mus clans’ interests. The m st important of these was the one he got through prohibiting the further use of the word eS ee, le is iB. > : p F ey a se sail? i al Boe mnie in wat Ae Th i re eh Il, Ye Gxaiioa Ae cGote “Negro” or “Colored” on all stationary, literature, emblems and charters of lo- cal organizations composed of colored men. ‘This measure met with strennous opposition by the Southern men but was finally adopted by the convention as jast and right to the colored brother. We learned that an attempt was made made at the very last hours of the con- vention, by s “bunch of Southern knockers" efter they nad learned that urging basiaess nad cailed Mr Jackson back to Chicago, to modify the resola- tion adopted and co amend it as to prac: tically destroy the good, Jackson had ac- complished for the race. But not ao. Mr. Charles A Scott whose photograph appears herewith, proved the Sheridan of the situation and when he got through bombarding the enemy’s camp the smoke cleared away developing the fact that the black man was not repre- sented by ONE but by TWO clever speak: ers and shrewd parliamentarians Let it be said, that the resolution spoken of stands just where it was when Jackson pushed it thronga ‘The four colored delegates expressed themselves highly pleased with the beanty of Indianapolis as a city and the hospitality of its people ‘The writer and E, © Knox had the pleasure of en- tertaining Messrs Jackson and Scott with an extened drive through thecity and prinetpal places of interest. We wish them all succees snd extend an esrnest invitation to have them with us again. J.D. Howarp. SCHOOLS AND COLLECES Sen advertisement of Knoxville, Tenn, Summer Schoo! on another page. eee _ The Freeman appreciates invitation to attend commencement exercises of School No. 2, Greenville, Miss., Mrs L. W. Coleman, prinetpal. eee ‘The twenty first annual commence- ment of Livingstone College and E T. Industrial Sohool was held thie week. The annual oration was delivered by Ezra Squire Tripple, Ph. D D , of New ‘York City, the baccalaureate sermon by Rey P. A. Wallace, A. B, 8. T. B, Louteville, Ky. | | | ‘Forrest M. Mitchell of Frankfort, Ind. graduates with this year's clase ot the ‘Frankfort high echool Mr. Mitchell hhas been an active agent for The Free- man. eRe The Freeman appreciates the invite- tion to attend the exercises of the grad- uating class in law of Harvard Univer- sity, Washington, D O. The twenty: three graduates represent elghteen dif- ferent States. eee ‘This year's clase was the Iset to enter college under President Cravath. It | With De the largest class ever graduated from the college, having twenty-one members. The Senlor Normal Class has ten members.—Fisk Herald. eee ‘The cry this season is more room for the Curry school. The work is fncreas- jog to such an extent that we will be compelled to have a dormitory and indystrial building. eee The Baptist University at Indianapo- Us, Ind., had its first annual commence- ment exeroises this week. The program was interesting and varied. Dr. Patton entertains great hopes for the school based on the year’s work. eee The closing exercises of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga, will be as follows: ‘Wednesday, May 27, class day exercises, 8 p.m, undergraduates; 8 p. m., grad- nates. Thursday, May 28, 8:45 a. m. to 8p. m, oral examinations; 8 p. m., aniversary alumni association. Fr'- day, May 29, 8:45 a. m. to 8 p. m., ors! examinations; 8 p. m., address befor: literary societies by Rev. William D Johnson, D. D. Saturday, May 30th. 8 p. m.. president's reception, Sunday, May Sith, 11 8. m., baccalaureate ser- mon by Bishop W. B. Derrick, D, D. Monday, June Ist, 3 p. m., laying corner stone of industrial building; 8 p. m, annual lecture by Bishop J. A. 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Mahara came in again and paid my lawyer $200 and gained for me a new trial, and now I am FREE again, kind friends, and may God bless you all. (Signed.) LERO YBLAND. It seems a strange thing that some of the best singers show so little discretion in choosing their songs for concert use. The vast majority of a mixed audience does not care for a protechic display of vocal gymnastics from which they can extract no words or meaning. Singers should remember that although most persons care ears, everyone has a heart, and that a man, or woman, is impressed far more through being made to experience an emotion, than he, or she, would be through hearing the most perfect of sounds without sense. Singers, in order to be successful should acquire the dramatic faculty and should select songs in which it can be best employed. For instance, for a baratone solo what song could be more effective than "The Knight of the Moon" by Sager Midgley and Max Knauer? This song is not a mere collection of melodious sounds; it has a meaning, it gives one a thrill. It breathes the wild free spirit of the outlaw. It carries the hearer with a swing and a dash, galloping—galloping—along the highway with the cold wind in his face, and the exhilaration of danger throbbing in his pulses. Then there is "Carmena," a Spanish waltz song, which offers opportunity, not only for a fine vocal display, which is fairly brilliant with the color and glow of Spain. On hearing it, one sees that picturesque country with its red-lipped Senoritas, coquetries, its violent passions, and almost as fierce pleasures. them composers are writing more better dramatic compositions for others to-day than has been the case THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER for some years past, consequently, the singer of discretion is fortunate in being able to suit any compass of voice with effective solos of new, unhackneyed music. What could be more effective for a soprano than the brilliant "Schumann Heink Waltz Song," by Herman Devries, or F. W. Vanderpool's exalted love song, "Rejoice, My Love?" These are only a few of the many fine songs at the command of concert singers, and yet hundreds go on, day after day, wasting their opportunities on numbers in which there is no color, no life, no inspiration, simply a jumble of sounds uttered in measured tone. W. A. Seymour "Blacek Booth," America's greatest Negro exponent of the drama, is our leading colored theatrical manager and legitimate actor. He has had a vast experience in the world theatric, he has given many noted dramatic exhibitions with great success. He is the promoter and manager of the Seymour & Harris Afro-American World's Fair Dramatic Stocy Company, and at the St. Louis World's Fair, with a well selected company will represent the Negro race, and show the advancement the race has made in legitimate drama. He has selected for this event a play from a colored playwrite. And will present a $10,000 production of Mr. A. L. Harris' "Great Negro drama, The Prince of Hayti." The stage mounting of the play will be perfect, leaving absolutely nothing which the theatre goers may wish for. This will doubtless be the greatest effort at colored theatricals ever attempted in the world. The public is calling for the Negro in legitimate drama. We have had our great minstrels, and our great vocal stars. It is generally supposed that the Negro has no historic ability, beyond his great fun making and vocal possibilities, and now is the time for the Negro to make the initial step in the proficiency of the higher art. It should give to Afro-Americans everywhere much pleasure to know that they have first class and talented dramatic performers, who will be seen in legitimate drama. This company will be second to none on the American stage. Every performer being selected by Mr. Seymour himself, for their fitness in the various roles assigned. The Negro in the last thirty years has mastered every art that his white brother has, save the drama the World's greatest school. The drama in which this matchless company will be seen, is written exclusively for Negro performers, and by a Negro author, Mr. Seymour will essay the role of the hunch-back, which is doubtless one of the strongest villain parts ever written. In this role Mr. Seymour will make the effort of his life, and his impersonation of the great part will lend a grace and dignity to the performance which few performers possess. Seymour & Harris have formed a stock company of this great enterprise, thus making the public a partner in the greatest colored theatrical organization in the world. At the St. Louis World's fair the eyes of the World will be turned on the Negro. Every loyal Negro in America should at heart, and look to see the Negro placed on a platform never before reached in the legitimate art. It takes money to make money. To make a thousand in a single deal, you must have thousands to go on. The little investor has no chance with the big investor. This is true of any business. The millions that have been made by the steel trust or the oil trust are due to the principles of combination. The man with a moderate capital must combine with other capital and make the aggregation stronger than the resources of any individual. To succeed the investor who combines with other investors increases his chances of success in direct ratio to the bigness of the combination. Any place where money can be legitimately earned is a legitimate field for investment. So brace up and be a man and invest your money in the Seymour & Harris Afro-American World's Fair Dramatic Stock Company. COSMOPOLITAN CARNIVAL NOTES We have a grand combination of shows and a great manager in the person of Mr. H. Snyder, he having led us on our winter tour in the South, safely through Mississippi and Louisiana. * * Mr. Harry Wright, our champion high diver of the world, who was hurt in Gretna, La., is well and makes those great plunges again. * * While en route from Cairo to Jonesboro, Ill., little Vern Anderson, son of Mr. J. R. Anderson, fell from the train and was badly bruised. * * Big Willie, our 740-pound fat boy, is back with us again. HANNIBAL, MO., NOTES. Hannibal, Mo. Special—The Annual Sermon of Marion Lodge No. 1649, G. U. O. of O. F. and the Household of Ruth N. 101 of the G. U. O. of O. F. were preached at the A. M. E. church last Sunday, May 10th, by Rev. J. W. Sexton. * **The Concert and Delsarte Drill, which was given on April 30th in the Odd Fellows' Hall on Broadway, under the management of Miss Gertrude Booker, was repeated on May 14th. All who attended either time were much pleased. * **Mr. Dock Nelson is reported on the sick list. * **Mr. Edward Braxton is critically ill at his home on Broadway. * **There was a "Milk Maids' Convention" given by the ladies of the A. M. E. Church on Monday evening, May 11th. * **Miss Minnie Allen has returned home from Quincy. * **Mrs. Dorcas Watson, of Denver, Colo., is in the city. * * Mr. L. A. Booker is on the sick list. * * Get The Freeman every Saturday from the agent—W. W. B. A Budget of Interesting Items. Steubenville, O., Special.—Mr. Lewis S. Murray, who has an equal rights shop here, has a shop that is as nice for cleanliness and neatness as any in the city. He has two chairs and everything that goes with a first-class shop. He has lately added a bathtub at considerable expense. Mr. Walter Allen, of Louisville, Ky, will arrive in a few days to assist him. * * The Women's Lodge, Court of Colanthe, will have their sermon preached on next Sunday morning, at Simpson M. E. Church. * * Quite a number of our people went to Mt. Pleasant to baptize. * * Mr. Steen, son-in-law of Rev. S. H. Ferguson, was here last week visiting. He will soon take up his residence here. * * The Odd Fellows' sermon on the next Sabbath will be at Quinn A. M. E. Church. The Odd Fellows' will go to Wheeling on the 31st. * * A swell surprise party was given Mr. Clarence Munay by his wife last week, it being his thirty-fourth birthday anniversary. Many friends gathered to wish him many happy returns of the day. Music and dancing were the amusements. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Murry, Mr. and Mrs. James Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Chaucey Viney, Mr. and Mrs. Westley Tuck, L. Mercer, Charles Foreman, H. Curtis, Zen Walker, C. Smith, Col. Clemens, R. Tibbs, I. McCullen, A. Johnson, S. Christian, J. Matthews, O. Dunnings and Misses Jessie Braxton, Maggie Guy and Addie Jones. The out-of-town visitors were Miss Lucy Banks, Burgstown, Pa.; Stella Pattison, Pittsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Maude Fletcher and Edw. Grisly, Wellsburg, W. Va. Pick-Up Items. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special—At 11 a. m. at the First Baptist Church Rev. W. G. Parks, D. D., pastor, preached the Baccaulaurate sermon to the graduates of the class of 1903. It was an able effort, full of spiritual and practical thought, and no doubt the many hearers will cull from it many true sayings that will follow them through life. The graduating exercises at the auditorium Hall, May 21 and 22, were extremely interesting. The selections on the program were carefully chosen from Negro authors. All of the participants done well and showed that great pains had been staken by the teachers. The star orator was William Pitts. His oration was an extract from a speech of the late Hon. Frederick Douglass. A chorus of 150 voices rendered music. Prof. C. Wallace was musical director, and deserves great credit. Miss G. N. Jackson was pianist. ..Get the Freeman from the agent, William Brooks. Weekly News Items Jacksonville, Ill., Special. — The Woman's Club met at Mrs. Davis' residence Friday evening, May 15. The attendance was large. The M. T. T.'s listened to their annual sermon Sunday evening, the 17th. Elder Dewitt, of Mt. Emory, presided. ...Mrs. A. A. Franklin has removed to Peoria. ...R. Vires, of Springfield, spent Sunday with his folks. ...Mrs. Mary Hollie is in St. Louis. ...William Vance and family now reside in St. Louis. ...The U. P. F. banquet was a success. ...The Mallory brothers and their wives have returned home for the summer. They are comfortably loved at their home, in Ashland avenue. News of the Past Week. Jeffersonville, Ind., Special.—Mrs. Pearl Stevenson has returned home from West Baden. . . The city schools closed Wednesday. . . Miss Carry Davis returned home Wednesday night from Shepherdsville, Ky., where she has been visiting friends. . . Mrs. Holton has gone to St. Louis to attend the world's fair. . . The Good Samaria will have their annual sermon preached at Wesley Chapel M. E. Church Sunday May 31, at 2:30 p. m. Rev, Dr. Tivis will officiate. . . The sermon of the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten was postponed until June 7. . . Rally at Wesley Chapel M. E. Church June 14. All invited. . . (N. B. Write on but one side of paper.) Weekly Budget of Items. Danville, Va., Special—The National Baptist Sunday School Union meets with the High street Sunday school June 21. A large delegation is expected. Prof. George W. Woody is president and Miss B. E. Ramey secretary.... Miss Susie Scalet, of Madison, N. C., is the guest of Mrs. James Stokes, in Doe street....Mr. and Mrs. Ed Henderson are at home again from Richmond, Va. They will rebuild their home, in Ross street....A grand entertainment will be given at the High Industrial hall June 1. "Aunt Jerusha's Quitting Party" will be the title of the play. Mrs. Lucy West and Mrs. Jennie G. Jamerson are managers. Interesting News Items. Madison, Ind., Special—The remains of Richard M. Johnson, of Madison, Ind., were interred in Springdale Cemetery, of Madison, Sunday, May 17, 1903. In the death of Mr. Johnson Madison has lost one of its most respected and beloved citizens, and his family a loving husband and father. He was a man of genius, being a skilled engineer and an expert dyer, and at one time invented an egg carrier. He leaves a widow, a son, Richard Johnson, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Alexander, of this city. News Notes Jackson, Miss., Special—Mrs. Julia Jefferson has gone on a visit to Coffeeville. Before returning she will visit Grenada friends. . . Mrs. I Smith was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. Brown, recently—The Jackson Baptist College closed May 13. The students acquitted themselves well. The new building will be completed by next session—The Campbell College closes in June. A big time expected. ... Rev. M. M. Mayo went to Jackson to assist in quarterly meeting. The Troupers Delight. Robinson Cruso and his company "Friday" never felt the craving for good, stimulating and refreshing beverage as your company will after once tasting the famous "PROGRESS BRAND" DUESSELDORFER Beer. This pure product stands like a star before the glittering footlights--flinging its heavenly sprays from coast to coast, dotted with the spangles of virtue. Duesseldorfer INDIANAPOLIS BREWING COMPANY. JACKSON NEWS SUMMARY. Jackson, Miss, Special.—Rev. M. M Mayo, ex-presiding elder, held the Pickens Circuit second quarterly conference May 16 h and 17th as Rev. William Singleton, presiding elder, was sick. The conference convened in St. Peter's A. M. E. church at 2 p. m. Reports good. Collection $36 50. Rev. H. D. Handy is beloved by his members. The M. E. church is having a successful revival and a good many souls are being added to the church. Rev. W. T. Strong's grand rally comes off on the fifth Sunday in May at Whinna Grove A. M. E. church, and a good time is expected. Rev. J. G. Robinson is a hard hitter and has revealed some startling news. Robinson Chapel A. M. E. church annual grand rally will come off on the fourth Sunday in June, and a grand time is expected. Robinson Cruso and I ulating and refreshing beverage GRESS BRAND" DUESSE This pure product heavenly sprays from coast to Sing to it. ' One Good Dues INDIANAPH COULD I GO BACK. Could I go back again the selfsame way Where Love and I that wondrous yesterday Walked hand in hand, with tender lips, and eyes, I think, perhaps, now grief hath made me wise. I would not blunder where the pitfalls lay. I would not be so sure, so quick to stray, So certain of the sun-filled, cloudless skies, But overcareful of what storm might rise, Could I go back. Oh, useless words, too impotent to say! Who seeks in Winter for the suns of May, Or stands again where last night's moonlight lies? Oh, heart, our folly lost us Paradise— Poor prodigal, too late I turn to pray, Could I go back. —Theodosia Garrison, in Collier's Weekly. PENNSYLVANIA LINES. Important Change of Time The New York Limited, a strictly first class and entirely independent train Indianapolis to Philadelphia and New York, on and after Sunday, May 24th, will leave Indianapolis 6:50 p.m. (instead of 7:15 p.m.); arrive Philadelphia 3:47 p.m.; New York 6:00 p.m. Equipment consists of Library smoking car, dining car, observation car of No. 20. The Keystone Express, with through coaches dining car and sleeping cars, which leaves Indianapolis daily 3:05 p.m.; arrives New York 3:00 p.m.; and No. 14. The New York Express, which leaves Indianapolis daily 8:10 a.m.; arrives New York 7:30 a.m. Half Rates Plus $2,00 To Boston, Mass. And Return Via Big Four Route Account *Annual Meeting National Educational Association*. Tickets to Boston, Mass, and return will be on sale July 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1903, inclusive, from all "Big Four" points, and points on Cincinnati Northern R. R., D. & U. R. R., also on July 1, from Cincinnati, Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and all points intermediate at rate of one $20 for each point. The will be good going on date of sale, and good for return leaving Boston not earlier than July 8, 1903, nor later than July 12, 1903, and only when executed by joint agent for which a fee of 25 cents will be charge d. By depositing ticket with joint agent at Boston not earlier than July 7, nor later than July 11, and on payment of fee of 50 cents at time of Boston an extra fee of $10, for time of Boston including, but not later than September 1, 1903, may be obtained. Tickets going via one direct route, returning via another direct route, at somewhat higher rates. Lake trips—between Cleveland and Buffalo in either direction on no increased expense. 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CINCINNATI, OHIO. --- A GREAT MANY LIKE THE FOLLOWING IS THE REASON. Georgia Minstrels "Memphis Morning News," Tuesday, March 24, 1903, says: "Fully 4,000 people were packed into the Auditorium Theatre, last night to greet Richards & Prinkle's Georgia Minstrels upon their return to Memphis. Darktown, Pinch and Chelsea were well represented, and five were away from the uptown districts who were present to see the genuine black faces in black-face work. As for the performance, it was practically the same as that given at the opening of the Auditorium in August last. There were the usual songs and dances, the same jokes and the same old Bill Minstrels was present at the headof the troupe. One number of years Kersands has been the star of the Georgia Minstrels, but his age is showing upon him, and it is becoming evident that he has done enough. that his thirty years of minstrelsy has gotten the meter of him, and that he should retire. The management should have the foresight to see that his days are over." ers Delig COPYRIGHT this company "Friday" never need be as your company will after or ELDORFER Beer. It stands like a star before the g coast, dotted with the spangles. Dance to it! Beer With One "PROGRESS BRAND" BREWED BY POLIS BREWING FOUR BIG which are the rage all through the country! invited to "IF TIME WAS MONEY" living, loved! "HOME AINT NOTHING" in SUNNY AFRICA." "HAS YOUR MOTHER A Professional are respectfully requested Bldg., 134 W. 37th Street. New York, and don't "YOU CAN'T GO WRONG" WANTED For the HALF-HUNDRED PEOPLE FOR THE "DARKEST (Under the Direction of Singers, Dancers, Comedians, Musicians sing or dance. Woman to play Old Lady rector, in fact people for any line in the of that talented young Bandmaster, Mr. el in two cars carrying all special scenes be bought. Show will open in Columbus you can and will do and very lowest sale Mr. AL. G. F. or L. E. GIDEC Week May 17th, after that Columbus, O. P. S—Look at this space now, never JOHN RUCKER has been to Star the Show.—[Clip this and kee "Friday" never felt the craving for company will after once tasting the fam. R Beer. A star before the glittering footlights held with the spangles of virtue. Once to it: Get to it. With One Big Name PRESS BRAND" BREWING COMPANY FOUR BIG SONG HITS all through the country! Made so by our colored fried invited to sing them! FETIME WAS MONEY FD BE A MILLIONAIRE. Riving honest famous success. HOME AINT NOTHING LIKE THIS. IN SUNNY AFRICA." AS YOUR MOTHER ANY MORE LIKE YOU are respectfully requested to write to the publisher, street. New York, and don't forget that YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A 'FEIST' SONG. UNTED For Season 19033 UNTED PEOPLE FOR THE BIG SPECTACULA ARKEST AMERICAN Under the Direction of Mr. AL. G. FIELD, Comedians, Musicians. Women for Drum and Woman to play Old Lady character. Novelty A people for any line in the Biz. Band will be united young Bandmaster, Mr. GEORGE BRYANT. Thisarrying all special scenery and using the finest of new will open in Columbus, O., in or about August do and very lowest salary in first letter. Address: Mr. AL. G. FIELD, Columbus, O. or L. E. GIDEON, Gen'l Mgr. Sou after that Columbus, O. at this space now, never mind watching for it. BUOKER has been engaged by AL. w. — [Clip this and keep it before you.] FOUR BIG SONG HITS which are the rage all through the country! Made so by our colored friends! Everybody invited to sing them! “IF TIME WAS BONE TID DE A MILLIONAIRE” Irving Jones' famous success. “HOME AINT NOTHING LIKE THIS.” “IN SUNNY AFRICA.” “HAS YOUR MOTHER ANY MORE LIKE YOU?” Professionalists are respectfully requested to write to the publisher, LEO FEIST, Feist Bldg., 184 W. 37th Street, New York, and don't forget that “YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A 'FEIST' SONG.” WANTED For Season 1903-1904 HALF-HUNDRED PEOPLE FOR THE BIG SPECTACULAR SENSATION (Under the Direction of Mr. AL. G. FIELD) Singers, Dancers, Comedians, Musicians. Women for Drum Corps (that can sing or dance. Woman to play Old Lady character. Novelty Acts, Musical Director, in fact people for any line in the Biz. Band will be under the direction of that talented young Bandmaster, Mr. GEORGE BRYANT. This show will travel in two cars carrying all special scenery and using the finest of paper that can be bought. Show will open in Columbus, O., in or about August. Mention all you can and will do and very lowest salary in first letter. Address all mail to Mr. AL. G. FIELD, Columbus, O., or L. E. GIDEON, Gen'l Mgr. South Bend, Ind. Week May 17th, after that Columbus, O. P. S—Look at this space now, never mind watching for it in the future. JOHN RUCKER has been engaged by AL. G. FIELD to Star the Show. —[Clip this and keep it before you.] WANTED TO COMPLETE THOMAS & BIG CO Six more Ladies and a Good Plano W State all in first THOMAS & Ironwood, Michi WAN For OLIVER SCOTT'S Big Colored MU Those who double preferred. Would like saxophone, drummer, buglers, etc. State loc communications to PROF. HENDERSON S Chicago. P. S.—Wm. Porter, Ed Tolliver, once. THOMAS & BROWN BIG COMPANY is and a Good Plano Player that reads. Sho- State all in first letter. Address THOMAS & BROWN Good, Michigan. Bo WANTED COTT'S Big Colored Minstrels first class mustole he preferred. Would like to hear from some good m mer, buglers, etc. State lowest salary in first letter D PROF. HENDERSON SMITH, Bandmaster, 2007 Wm. Porter, Ed Tolliver, Willie Shields, Harry Wat THOMAS&BROWN'S BIG COMPANY Six more Ladies and a Good Piano Player that reads. Show opens soon. State all in first letter. Address FOR OLIVER SCOTT'S Big Colored *Minstrels* first class musicians of all kind Those who double preffered. Would like to hear from some good novelty acts. Als saxophone, drummer, buglers, etc. State lowest salary in first letter and address all communications to PROF. HENDERSON SMITH, Bandmaster, 2007 Dearborn Street, Chicago. P. S.-Wm. Porter, Ed Tolliver, Willie Shields, Harry Waters, write me at once. FRANKHOLTON HOLTON SPECIAL SLIDE TROMBONE and other High Grade Band Instruments. Send for new Catalogue containing valuable advice for musicians and monthly bargain list of second hand instruments. "The Negro not a Beast." A 30 page book for 10c. It is a treasure to the Negro! Send at once. Star Book Co, Zero, Tenn; --- the same jokes and the same old Billy Kersands was present at the years Kersands has been the star of the Georgia Minstrels, but his age is showing upon him, and it has done enough, that his thirty years of minstrelsy has gotten the better of him, and that he should have the foreground management should have the foreground to see that his days are over." Delight. Felt the craving for good, stim- ance tasting the famous "PRO- littering footlights--flinging its s of virtue. Get to it. Big Name" orfer COMPANY. BONG HITS Made so by our colored friends! Everybody using them! "D BE A MILLIONAIRE" famous success. "LIKE THIS." NY MORE LIKE YOU?" to write to the publisher, LEO FEIST, Feist orget that WITH A 'FEIST' SONG." Season 1903-1904 THE BIG SPECTACULAR SENSATION AMERICA" (Mr. AL. G. FIELD) Women for Drum Corps (that can be character, Novelty Aces, Musical Di- biz. Band will be under the direction GEORGE BRYANT. This show will trav- y and using the finest of paper that can is, O, in or about August. Mention all ary in first letter. Address all mail to FIELD, Columbus, O... ON, Gen'l Mgr. South Bend, Ind. Or mind watching for it in the future. Men engaged by AL. G. FIELD up it before you.] & BROWN'S COMPANY Player that reads. Show opens soon. letter. Address & BROWN agan. Box 486 NTED Australis first class musicians of all kind no hear from some good novelty acts. Als sweet salary in first letter and address all MITH, Bandmaster, 2007 Dearborn Street, Willie Shields, Harry Waters, write me at FREE CATALOGUES Band and Orchestra Instruments, Music Boxes, Victor Talking Machines, Sheet music, &c. Write at once CARLIN & LENNOX, 59 East Market Street, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Copies of The Freeman are on sale at Fred D. Thomas' barbershop, 242 E. Second street, Los Angeles, Cal. Three Men and a Woman . . . AN UP-TO-DATE CHRISTMAS STORY; BUILT UPON THE ROCK OF FACT. By Augustus M. Hodges (B. Square) Author of "Fred Jackson Vow," "Maid and Mistress," "Twos Not To Be," "A Step Mother's Story," "What Happened to Scott," Etc. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Ella Forrester, a beautiful blonde of South Carolina, the granddaughter of the "hero" of Fort Fisher, is twenty-three years old on Christmas eve, 1890. She has been taught to look upon Negro Americans as inferiors—a little above beasts of burden. She goes to a Virginia high school, where the careful attendance of a male Negro servant convinces her that black people are human beings, and resolves to treat them in the future as she would treat other people in the same walks of life. She goes to Boston to visit an aunt, where she sees the marked difference between the old North and the "New South," and resolves to make the progressive "Old North" her home. She returns to C——, South Carolina, is disgusted with the treatment of the Negroes there and returns North—to New York City, where she finds employment as bookkeeper in a leading dry goods house. One year afterwards the firm fails. She is thrown out of employment, and finds herself in a great city without a cent. She has been living a fashionable, dressy life, and has also learned that (in New York City at least) a married woman's certificate covers a multitude of sins. She takes unto herself a husband in the person of Clarence Watson, a native of New York City. She frequents the "Admiral Hotel," a ladies (?) drinking place, where she meets Capt. Harry Seabury, a civil war veteran of sixty-four summers, a German by birth—a man who has daughters her wife and married. He is an old rounder, a widower. He "in love" with her and wants her to live with him. She falls in love with him and wants her to live with him. Captain Seabury wants her to elope with him to Oakland. Cal. she consults her colored lover, who tells her to get a few thousand dollars from the old man, go as far as Chicago with Captain Seabury and return to him by the next train. She does so, and they live in the bliss of New York fast life for some time. Ella, knowing that her lover would some day cast her off as a broken toy, unless she has some legal hold upon him, gets a divorce from her white husband and marries her colored lover. One night at the theater the song, "The Old Oaken Bucket," was sung, which aroused in her a desire to visit the home of her childhood, and asked her Negro husband to go with her. He, fool like, wont, and the "best white citizens in the community" were aroused by the "disgrace," and resolved to lynch the nigger and put her in the "crazy house." They resided at the log cabin of one "Old Uncle Tom" Tatum, who, upon hearing the rumor of a lynching bee, fled, and Stratton prepared to defend himself. It was decided to lynch "Uncle Tom," who had heretofore been "a good nigger" and Jerry Stratton the night after Christmas, but one Martin W. Sykes, Esq., a theological student, who was the correspondent of a New York "yellow" journal, pointed to the danger of delay, so they concluded to lynch the "niggers" Christmas night. The Lynching Bee Dr. Baxter went to his store, where he informed the poor whites he found assembled there, drinking his corn whiskey, that a "nigger" was to be lynched—burned at the stake—down at the crossroads at midnight. He wanted them all to be there, without fall, and, of course, bring their "shooting irons." He did not tell them what crime the "nigger" had committed, and they dare not ask. To hear Dr. Tom Baxter was to obey him. Then it was of little concern to them whether the "nigger" had failed to lift his hat to Dr. Tom Baxter or had outraged a thousand of the fair daughters of the Palmetto State." Newton Capps and Dr. Bell went to the other store and informed the crackers that there would be a lynching that night, just before midnight. They were more considerate than Dr. Baxter, for they told their "poor white" friend that two "niggers" were to be lynched (one burned to the ```markdown ``` This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair fall out or break off, cures dandruff and it lasts for forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials on free request. It is straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ogranted Ox hair the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. This wonderful pomade is that by which this wonderful pomade is that by which can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to best and most economical, it is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to this pomade. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. Mail postal c or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. stake) for kidnapping a young white lady and keeping her for weeks in a log cabin, where they had subjected her to all kinds of insults and outrages the human brain could conceive. They were to meet at the old cotton warehouse at 9 o'clock for "instruction," and all promised to be there. The joyful news spread like wildfire. Some ran home to get their guns, others jumped up on the backs of mules and horses and rode out into the interior for ten miles to inform the poor whites that there was to be a "nigger" lynching. Three "Crackers" rode to the neighboring hamlet, London Bridge, seven miles away. About fifty white males averaging in age twelve to sixty were informed that "the pleasure of their company was earnestly requested" at a "nigger" lynching, and every man and boy (after going home and getting their guns and revolvers) started on a dead run for the hamlet in which the lynching was to take place. Eight o'clock found every white male over twelve years old residing in two counties standing before the old cotton storehouse. The Negro Americans, who numbered ten to one of the white, were conspicuous by their absence. It had been an open secret for over a week that there was going to be what the whites who had been indirectly informed called fun, and what the Negro Americans called trouble. Neither party knew the exact time the "fun" or trouble would take place, but both blacks and whites had been informed in the usual mysterious way that it would be some time after "Christmas candle light." The wise Negro Americans knew that after "candle light" meant any time after dark, and told the unwise ones so. The result was that every Negro American who was not looking for trouble (and none were) came out to the crossroad stores before noon and exchanged their eggs for "toddy" and whiskey and sugar and went home. The more frightened ones had started for Charleston. The Negro Americans of this section were not cowards, neither were they fools. In the county every male citizen over ten had been restricted from having in his house guns, pistols or other firearms when the local inspector called (after he had informed the whites a la New York city police not on dens of vice). In the next county a Negro American could not buy firearms "for love or money." These people knew that "discretion was the better part of valor," and that ten poor white men with repeating guns were brave men when they went to kill one unarmed "nigger." Facts are facts, and this is simply (from A to Z) a romantic record of facts—a few unwritten pages in the history of "the land of the free and the home of the brave"—God's country, these United States of America. Ten o'clock found every white male over twelve years old, residing within ten square miles of the old cotton warehouse, standing "armed to the teeth" before the warehouse. Dr. Baxter sent down to his store for twenty-five candles and as many potatoes. When he got the same he and Dr. Bell entered the old ghostly warehouse, and while Dr. Bell held one lighted candle the older doctor cut a hole in the potatoes and then cut off the ends so that they would stand upon the window sills of the large gloomy interior of the old warehouse. The number of candles were not sufficient to light up the place properly and gave it a weird light. The place was soon filled to the door with Negro blood-thirsty white men of all ages and classes, impatient and anxious to receive their last instructions from their leader, Dr. Baxter, before they rushed down the road to perform the pleasant task of lynching a "nigger" or two. Dr. Baxter stood in the middle of the room upon a dry goods box, and several times stamped his feet and yelled "silence." At last all was still. The pencil of no artist skilled in the drawing of Satan, his imps and their infernal abode could do justice to the scene. Dr. Baxter was short and pointed. He told his followers that a "foreign nigger" had kindnaped a young white woman and had her confined in a log cabon about half a mile below the village at the crosscracks. They were going to burn him at the stake, rescue the girl and put her in an asylum (as she had doubtless lost her reason since her forced confinement). The old "local nigger," old Uncle Tom, had been in the past a good, quiet, harmless darkey, was perhaps forced to harbor the "foreign nigger" against his will or by a big offer of money. In view of his past good record the vigilance committee had decided not to burn him at the stake, but simply hang him as a warning to other weak-minded local darkies. Dr. Baxter concluded by telling them to see that their guns were loaded, but not to shoot unless so instructed by him. There was a lot of old lumber in the corner of the warehouse from which was selected several pieces of chain and rope, after which Dr. Baxter gave the word, "forward march," and the mob, now nearly three hundred strong, made a mad rush down the road towards "Uncle Tom's cabin," where we left Jerry Stratton cleaning and loading his rifles and Ella cooking the supper. Mr. Martin W. Sykes was at that time just entering Charleston with the forewritten account of the lynching, which he at once telegraphed in full to the New York Morning Sensation, which also printed an evening edition, or, more properly speaking, an edition every two or three hours from daybreak to midnight. It was just half-past 10 that night (New York city time) when the newsboys of New York rushed out of the publication office of the New York Sensation with copies of that paper hot from the pressroom. The streets were full of people. One bright businesslike lad, with two perfect lungs, started the cry which his companions took up) several of whom were Negro boys), and soon the air was filled with yells of "Extray! Extre-e-e! Git her extray. Full account of the lynching and race riot down South. Great excitement in Charleston. Onemanshorterkillsoldierscallout. Oh! get her extray." It is the custom of New York city newsboys to run four or five words to excite the curiosity of the passerby and make him buy a paper. The papers on the evening mentioned "sold like hot cakes." Those who bought copies read the following with large full page headlines printed in red rink: EXTRA!!! RACE RIOT Is Feared IN SOUTH CAROLINA! Because Two NEGROES WERE LYNCHED Is Feared That THE STATE TROOPS Will Be CALLED OUT. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Charleston, S. C., Dec. 25. The beautiful little village of C—— twenty miles south of this city, is in the hands of a mob of wild and excited Negroes, who threaten to murder every white person from the cradle up. As the Negroes in this section number nine to one white person, the citizens have grave fears as to the results. Dr. Thomas Faxter, the leading citizen of the community, has wired the Governor for troops, as more than five hundred armed Negroes are camped just outside of the village. The cause of this Negro uprising was the justifiable lynching of two Negroes late this afternoon for committing an outrage upon a white girl. The facts in the case are that a strange Negro, claiming to be a Pullman car porter, residing in New York city, came to C—a few days ago and took up his abode at the log nut of an old Negro, "Uncle Tom," who had hereofore borne a good name in the community with the best white citizen. The Northern Negro, Jerry Stratton, spent money freely with the local Negroes at the village stores, hunted on posted stairs, stared at white ladies, talked impudent to the leading white men of the community, and in several other minor ways made himself obnoxious to the white people. His influence over the local Negroes was soon noticed by their impudence to whites. The elimax was reached a few days ago when a young white lady, the granddaughter of a distinguished Confederate general—the hero of the battle of Fort Pillow—was returning home at night fall. She was struck on the back of the sand by this Northern back of the sand and dragged for half a mile to the log hut of the old Negro "Uncle Tom," where she was kept for several days beaten, starved and outraged before the facts were known to the white citizens. The old Negro, either from fear or a large bride of money, failed to report the outrage. The fifth day as he was going to the village store she managed to pin unseen to the back of his coat a note containing the startling facts inclosed in an envelope marked: Help! Read this note! When the old Negro reached the store one of the best citizens in the community saw it, took it off and read its contents. The news spread like wildfire, and this afternoon about fifty of the best citizens in the community surrounded the Negro hut, rescued the girl and burned the Negro "Jerry" at the stake. The young lady struck the match herself, and set fire to the light wood which slowly consumed the black wretch. 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Womans World One of the highest honors that can be conferred upon a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Girls has this year been bestowed upon a young Negro girl. Out of 196 pupils Susan E. Masseaux has been selected as the salutatorian of the class of 1903, which will hold its commencement in June at the Academy of Music. Miss Lottie Smith, teacher of elocution, made the selection. The valedictorian is Carolyn Croosadale, white. —000— Mrs. Nellie Benson, wife of a colored druggist of Richmond, Va., who passed the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy examination, last week, is the first Negro woman to receive a certificate from the board, and the third one to make the attempt. 000 One of the newest trades for women is blacksmithing, and Miss Esther Searie of Cawwer City, Kan., is the pioneer. She adopted it in way in which unusual occupations generally are taken up—by chance. 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In the summer, performing this service on her wheel; in the winter she goes on foot HON. NICK MOORE. The above name needs no introduction to the citizens of Mahaska county, Iowa. He was chief of police of Oskaloosa for four years, during which time he gave entire satisfaction. In politics he is a staunch Republican. While he is a Republican he is liberal, which fact makes him all the more popular with his constituents and opponents. He is aspiring to be chief magistrate of Mahaska county, and there is no doubt if nominated he will make a good sheriff. He has thousands of friends among both colored and whites and is very popular. IMPORTANT NEWS. Topeka, Kans., Special.-The May Festival of the Topeka Choral Society, brought to the city Nordia and a score of the finest singers and musicians in America. The Odd Fellow's excursion to Kansas City, Sunday, consisted of nine coaches, which was joined by eight more from Lawrence. Commencement exercises at the Industrial Institute begins Sunday, May 17th. Rev. F. G. Snelson will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon and Governor Bailey will make an addresss. Monday evening, the musical department under the direction of the instructors, Miss Pearl McNeal and Mrs. John M. Wright, will render an excellent program. Tuesday evening, the business course and literary departments will have charge, and Wednesday afternoon occurs the commencement proper. The commencement ad- ARE'S USTER with great spikes. She had been held down while the spikes were driven through her head into the floor. A Jew carpenter was held both hands were sawed off with his own saw. Then he was left to die. Many bodies were found which had been ripped open. Many women had their eyes gouged out. Others had their arms torn from their bodies. Children were flung from second and third story windows into the streets to be trampled to death. As a result of the terrible massacre it is admitted in St. Petersburg that 4,000 Jewish families are in absolute want. The hospitals in Bessarabia are filled with wounded and dying Jews." --- In the lawless massacre of this enlightened, progressive and civilized (?) era there are three classes of "best citizens" who are neck and neck in the murderous race, to-wit: "The barberous Turks who are murdering the Christians; the semi-civilized Russians who are killing the Jews and the civilized and enlightened white citizens of the Southern States of the United States who are lynching Negroes, if the South wants to keep in the lead or make it "a dead heat" we must have a few more burnings at the stake. Look out for your laurels, "first citizens of the communities" of the South land. --- QUESTIONS: CAN YOU ANSWER THEM?—When you die, will the world have been better or worse by you having lived in it? Are you putting away a penny for a rainy day? Is married life a failure? Does it pay to toll for years to raise a family and have them grow up and leave you in your old age to go to the poor house? Do you practice what you preach? Is your subscription to The Freeman paid? Do you live within your income. Do you do as you wish to be done by? B. SQUARE. --- dress will be delivered by Hon. I. L. Dayoff, State superintendent of Public Instruction, and the following graduates of the business course will receive certificates: Miss Evalyn Hickman, of Frankfort, Kan., shorthand and typewriting; Mr. H. I. Monroe, of Topeka, shorthand; Miss Dollie Russell, of Atchison, bookkeeping and business practice. An exhibit of the handiwork of the students of the industrial departments will be in place Sunday and Wednesday afternoons. The enrollment of the industrial Institute this year, its effective work and scope of usefulness, and the number of former students following their trades has surpassed that of any previous year in the history of the school. The outlook in every way for next year is most excellent. News Note Danville, Va., Special—The High Street Baptist Church rally was a success. The sum of $482.50 was raised. * * A Queen of May entertainment was given at the Loyal Street Baptist Church May 11. Proceeds were for the benefit of the State convention. The sum of $37.45 was raised. * * Luke Hunt has opened an ice cream parlor and soda fountain at 510 Gray street. Miss Hattie Peterson, clerk. * * Messrs. Breedlove, Bruce and Coopee have opened an ice cream parlor at the Reservoir Park for colored people only. * * Miss Maggie L. Milner, daughter of Capt. W. A. Milner, has returned from Spellman Seminary. 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James Mason of Plainfield was in the city this week on business. Louis Fields of Shelbyville, Ky., spent a part of last week in the city. Mme. E. L. Martin returned to her home in Chicago after a stay here. Dr. P. G. Walker of Owensboro, Ky, was in the city a few days last week. was in the City a few days last week. James Green of Cincinnati, O, will spend to-morrow with W. H. Fielding. Mrs. Nora Knox of Marion, Ind., is the guest of Mrs. Daisy Smith this week. Rev. B. R. Reed of Bloomington, Ind., was the guest of Rev. B. Farrell this week. Bring your news to The Freeman. Phones—2880 new; 7187, black, old. James C. Watts of Terre Haute spent Sunday in the city, the guest of Miss Ida Groves. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson will spend the season at Ypsilanta, Mich. and other points north. Mrs. Frank Hughes and Miss Amanda of Louisville, Ky., visited their aunt, Mrs. Sallie Brown, Sunday. Rev. Henry Griffin of Muncie, Ind., pastor of First-street M. E. church, was in the city on business last week. Prof. J. O. Corley's Electro Magnetic Institute is all right says Judge Clay Allen of Marion County Chronit Court. Miss Lavatta Cain of Columbus, O., will arrive to-morrow and be the guest of Miss Tennie Robinson, 1807 N. Sheffield avenue. Miss Daisy Jones, who was seriously injured by an automobile in Chicago, will be brought to the residence of her sister in this city. Mrs. Stims, after a pleasant stay of two weeks in the city visiting her children and friends, returned to her home in Edinburg, Ind. Lieut. John Edlin died at his home in West Vermont street after a long and painful illness. He was a prominent K. P. member. He leaves a wife. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Crosson announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Alethea B Crossen, and Mr. Charles A. Byrd. The wedding will take place June 17, 1903. Mr. Robert Rhodes, the brick mason who was the cause of a strike among the workmen at the Federal building some months ago, has filed suit against local union No. 8 to obtain recognition as a member of the union. Mrs. Anna Miller, wife of Mr. William Miller, died at their residence in North Senate avenue after a long and painful illness. The funeral service was held at Simpson Chapel M. E. $3.00 FREE To EVERY PERSON sending their address. Write at once enclosing stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY CO., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. M. church last Saturday. Nine children are left with many other relatives to mourn her demise. Mrs. Bettie Bradshaw of 428 W. 12th street entertained Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John B Golns. Among the guests present were Mr. and Mrs. George W. David, Misses Julia Shawler and Minnie Board, Messrs Knightler and Furgerson. Mr. Golns is the new headwaiter at the Columbia Club. Miss Ethel French and Mr. James Primus were married Thursday evening, the 21st, at the residence of Mrs. Emma Randolph, the bride's mother. Rev. W. H. Chambers officiated. The bride was given away by her uncle, A. J. Bybee. Among the guests were Messrs. Henry Bennett, Danville, and Dr. W. Bennett, Rockville. The Money Saving Store Standard makes in Overalls 45c all the Time. $1 50 Pants values here at.....$1.00 $1 75 Pants values here at.....$1.25 $2 00 Pants values here at.....$1.69 Heavy Gray Sox 8 pairs for 10c. Fancy Shirts 75c values, 45c to those mentioning this paper only. 50c Work Shirts for 33c Sir Knight D S Slaughter preached an able sermon to Zerrubabel Commandry, K. T., last Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Ninth Presbyterian church. Those present expressed themselves as being highly pleased. The occasion was Assention Day and the text was 1 Tim., verses 3-16. Sir Knight Slaughter has been requested to deliver a discourse at Haughville at an early date. The banquet given under the auspices of the Past Chancellors, K. of P of Indian on the 19th, at which Major-General R. R. Jackson of Chicago was the guest of honor, was a splendid affair. The menn was the choice of the season's productions. William H. Porter was tostmaster and Grand Chancellor Remus Moore, J. H. Ringgold. General Jackson, James N. Shelton and Dr. J. H Ward each responded interestingly to topics. The Planet Hotel was the scene of this gala entertainment. The Clavsonian. Flowers were collected at the Claytonian last night for the soldiers and promoters. Mr. Clay delivered his first Friday night's lecture, his subject being "How the Youth May be Flowers Upon the Soldier's Grave." Marriage. Mr. and Mrs William H. Ellington have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Allie May Morgan, to Allison Christopher Moss to take place June 3d, 1903, at 7:30 p.m. at the family residence, 1932 Alvord street. The reception will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. After June 15th they will be at home, 1914 Alvord street. Allen Chapel Notes Rev. Coleman baptized twenty-two persons at Vermont-street bridge Sunday at 6 a.m. Four candidates were sprinkled at the morning service. Allen Chapel choir rendered music at Bethel Sunday afternoon. The children of Allen Chapel are preparing to celebrate Children's Day, which is June 14th. Allen Chapel Sunday-school is organizzimg a coral choir. Mr. Charles Samuels is the instructor and Mrs. Sallie Dudley directress of the school. Blackford-Street Church Notes. Mrs. Chambers has returned from Madisonville, Ky., where she was called by the death of her mother, Mrs. Maria Robertson. Four candidates were immersed in the canal Sunday morning at North street. Rev. Luckett preached at 11 a. m. and Rev. Gibson of the Presbyterian church at 3 p. m. The occasion was quarterly meeting. The ten days' meeting with Rev Luckett to assist has been a success both spiritually and financially. Rev. Luckett is an able speaker and has won the respect and admiration of people here. Bethel Church Notes The rally was a decided success When all reports are in the $2 000 mark will have been reached. Dr. A. J. Carey of Quinn Chapel, Chicago, Ill., preached at 11 a. m., his theme being "The Church Treasury and the People Who Support It." Rev. Carey also filled the pulpit at night. Dr. Stanfield of Roberts Park spoke in the afternoon. The lecture Monday evening by Dr. Carey was interesting and instructive. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the Church Extension Board, will preach to-morrow evening. Baptizing by im- mersion to-morrow morning at 5:30 o'clock. Sprinkling at evening service. The Busy Bee Club gave a pretty drill Tuesday evening. The May Fair was a success. About $100 was cleared. Ninth Presbyterian Church Preaching on the Sabbath at 11 a.m. and at 8 p.m. Sabbath-school at 9:45 a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8:30 Official council 10:50 a.m. The Young Ladies' Auxiliary Society has just been organized with Mrs. H. A. Gibson as president. They are at work to raise $25 for the first Sunday rally when $25 will be made to raise $50. The young ladies' auxiliary will serve refreshments at Mrs. H. A. Gibson's, 629 W. St. Clair street, Monday evening, 1st June. A strawberry festival and garden party will be given at the residence of Mrs. W. E. Henderson, 2824 N. Senate ave. Saturday, May 30, 1903, from 2 to 11 p.m. Rev. H. A. Gibson, the pastor, will deliver the annual address for the Y. M. C. A. of Lincoln Institute at Jef. Money Saving Store Money Saving Store Standard makes in Overalls 45c all the Time. $1 50 Pants values here at..... $1.00 $1 75 Pants values here at..... $1.25 $2 00 Pants values here at..... $1.69 Heavy Gray Sox 8 pairs for 100. Fancy Shirts 75c values, 45c to those mentioning this paper only. 50c Work Shirts for 33c We want your trade and will get it if Low prices are any object to you. Street car fares paid on $1.00 or above purchases. BertM.Houchin ( THE GUARANTEE ) Means prices are Guaranteed the lowest and all goods sold as represented. No misrepresentations. SHOES, GENTS' FURNISHING AND CLOTHING, 318 E. Washington Street. NOTICE.—All well wishers of The Freeman cannot render it better support than by supporting its advertisers. Always mention this paper when making purchases. 1-2 PRICE Capitol Mi The Most Reasonable Every Hat in the Store n Come first before they are 1-2 F 331 Indian STRAW & PANAMA HAT8 CLEANED HAND THE HATTER 21 Virginia Avenue. Millinery Co Most Reasonable Place on the Avenue flat in the Store marked down to 1 PRICE. Just before they are picked over. 1-2 PRICE diana Avenue Capitol Millinery Co WM. R. RUSSELL DENTIST 317† INDIANA AVE., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ferson City, Mo., June 8th. Little Master Harry B. Gibson will accompany him. They will spend a few days in Sedalla, Mo., and the second Sabbath in Springfield, Mo., where he pastored nine years. Mr. O. U. Brown, brother of Mrs. H. A. Gibson, of Sedalla, Mo., is here on a few weeks visit accompanied by Mr. Guyo Hawkins of Kansas City, Missouri. here he pastored Brown, brother of Sedella, Mo. list accompanied of Kansas City. IS GETTING BUSY We Fool him with the finest line of the Latest Stripes for AWNINGS. Indianapolis Tent & Awning Co. 447-9 E. Washington Street. day as Simpson various organiza- George L. Knox as follows: Leon Davidson, 000; Lee Patter- Last Sunday was raily at Simpson Chapel. Among the various organizations the club of which George L. Knox is captain raised money as follows: Louis Brown, $1.10; Leon Davidson, $1.10; Ruth Higgs, $1.10; Lee Patterson, $1.10; Carrie Miller, $1.10; James Sharp, $1.00; James Alexander, $1.10; Fred Patridge, $1.00; R S Helms, $1.00; Peter Rihardson, $2.00; Stanford Manning, $250; Meredith Meadows, $1.50; Dave Haben, $250; Thomas Darden, $1.50; Blalo Scott, $250; Nellie B. Knox, $250; George Knox, $20; J. Prentice, $50; Joseph Keallier, $10; Mrs Ash, $250; E. Scott, $250; Mrs. Browder, $25; Dan'l Browder, $1.10; Mrs. Johnson, $10; Mrs S Prentice, $50; G Taylor, $1.10; Mrs. Malone, $50; Mc. Heyer, $1.00; H S Walker, $250; Charles Martin, $250; D. Scott, $250; David Cooper, $25; James Manning, $250; Miscellaneous, $50. Total, $21.60 The other clubs under their captains raised the following amounts: Thomas Daniels, $16.10; Thomas Rogesters, $20.00; James Glenn, $14.25; Bro. Coleman, $10.50; Earnest Stevenson, $12.00; Henry Wadkins $14.78; A. Trible, $15.30. Sum realized, $124.58. Rev J. Franklin Walker pastor. The Sunday school is prospering under the leadership of George W. Prince. Class No. 5 still holds the banner, Mrs. Julia Reed teacher. The Aid Society is preparing to give a grand entertainment on the 24th of June. The person who sells the largest number of tickets will receive a silk quilt Mrs M Thomas is president. The pastor will preach at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Theme "The Four Classes of Church Members" To-morrow at 2:30 p.m. the pastor will preach to the Martin R. Delaney Post G. A. R All invited Persons desiring to join the church are requested to meet the pastor and officers Monday evening. The fourth Sunday in June will be baptizing Sunday. Ceremony at 10:45 at church. Bucks For HOME MADE CANDIES. Call on Emanuel Williams for coal, coke, wood and kindling. 402 W. North street. Phone 1884 main, old. tf Try the Blue Front restaurant for first class meals. Lunches 10c up. Open day and night. L. Simm proprietor, 312 Indiana avenue. suits. $20 00 up. Co. 464 N. 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