The Freeman

The Leading Negro Journal--In a Class by Itself. VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 31. A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE IN NER WORKINGS OF THE NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE Which Will Convene in Nashville, Tenn., Commencing August 19th, 11:30 a. m.-A. Review of Past Sessions. Officers—President, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.; first vice president, Dr. R. H. Boyd, Nashville, Tenn.; second vice president, W. O. Murphy, Atlanta, Ga.; third vice president, Charles Banks, Clarksdale, Miss.; corresponding secretary, Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee, Ala.; recording secretary, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Gilbert C. Harris, Boston, Mass.; compiler, S. Laing Williams, Chicago, Ill.; registrar, Peter J. Smith, Boston, Mass. Executive committee, T. Thomas Fortune, chairman, Red Bank, N. J.; Dr. S. E. Courtney, Boston, Mass.; Theodore W. Jones, Chicago, Ill.; N. T. Veler, Brinton, Pa.; Giles B. Jackson, Richmond, Va.; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky. Life members, Cyrus Field Adams, D. C.; M. W. Gibbs, Little Rock, Ark.; J. E. Bush, Little Rock Ark.; Mine I. B. Beale, West Newton, Mass.; D. L. Knight, Louisville, Ky. Wednesday, August 19, 11:30 a.m. The league called to order. Invocation. Addressees of welcome: On behalf of the State, his excellence, Governor James B. Frazier; on behalf of the city, his honor, Mayor James M. Head; on behalf of the local league, Dr. R. H Boyd; on behalf of the clergy, Rev. S. E. Griggs; on behalf of the medical profession, Dr. R. F. Boyd; on behalf of the legal profession, J. W. Grant, Esq.; on behalf of the Negro business men, Mr. Richard Hill; on behalf of the Negro merchants, Mr. John L. Barbour; on behalf of the Nashville teachers Prof. F. G. Smith; on behalf of the Sunday School Union, Dr. W. D. Chapelle; on behalf of the mechanics, Mr. H. G Scales; on behalf of the Negro press, Mr. J. Thomas Turner; on behalf of Nashville's citizens, Mr. J. C. Napier. Responses: The president's annual address, corresponding secretary's annual report, treasurer's annual report. Appointment of committees: (a) Credentials, (b) resolutions. (c) auditing. Evening Session, 8 p. m. "The Insurance Business," E. J. Young, Charlotte N. C.; C. F. Johnson, Mobile, Ala. "The Negro Business Men of Philadelphia," G. E. Dickerson, Philadelphia, Pa. "White Coat Manufacturing." H. L. Sanders, Indianapolis, Ind. "Real Estate," Philip A. Payton, Jr. New York, N. Y.; R. D. Littlejohn, Columbus, Miss.; E. C. Brown, New port News, Va. Subject to be announced Oswald Garrison, Villard, New York, N. Y. Thursday, August 20, 10 a. m. "The Negro as a Factory Operative," J. E. Wiley, Dalas, Texas, "The Negro in Blacksmithing and Wagon Buildings," E. A. Clay, Henderson, Ky.; E. E. Gibson Nashville, Tenn.; "The Hotel Business," Edward Berry, Athens, O. Chipropo, Wm. Emmanuel, Chicago, Ill. "The Negro in Pharmacy, and as a Drugstaff," Thomas W. Patrick, M. D. Mass, Mass.; A. Dejoe, Sr., New Orleans, La.; E. L. Harris, St. Louis, Mo. "Statistical Report of Negro Drugists of America," Dr. Samuel A. Elk, Wilmington, Del. Evening Session, 8 p. m. "Opportunities Offered by Banking," J. N. Connor, Little Rock, Ark; J. N. Donoho, Pine Bolt, Ark. "Negro Business Enterprises of Owensboro" Dr. J. M. Peters, Owensboro, Ky. "The Negro as a Farmer," J. G. Groves, Tanen; J. H. Smythe, Hanover, Va. "The Dry Goods Business," T. J. Jackson, Anniston, Ala.; J. W. Adams, Montgomery, Ala. "The Negro as a News Dealer" James R. Hamm, Boston, Mass. "The Advantage of Building and Loan Associations," Fred R. Moore, Brooklyn, N Y. Friday, August 21, 10 a. m. "The Gorcery Business." L. H. Williams Marshall, Texas; D. J. Cunningham, Pensacola, Fla. "Timber Jobbing." W. H. Johnson, Bayville, Va. "Transfer and Storage." T. W. Jones, Chicago, Ill.; W. T. Garrett, Louisville, Ky. W. E. Cole, Detroit, Mich. "The Jewelry Business." J. E. Henderson Little Rock, Ark. "The Boot and Shoe Business," J. P. Seabrook, Charleston, S. C. "The Negro as a Promoter," Ralph W. Tyler, Columbus, O. "Laundering," G. W. Bragg, Richmond, Va.; J. W. Bostick, Nashville, Penn. "Loans and Investments," A. S. Beasley, Macon, Ga. "Cotton Merchandising," Felix Jackson, Savannah, Ga. "Founding a Negro Town," Byrli Grayson, Grayson, O. T. No night session. A banquet will be tendered the delegates of the National Negro Business League Friday evening, August 21, by the Nashville Negro Business League and citizens, at Jubilee Hall, Fisk University, at 8 o'clock. Rules and Regulations. The following rules and regulations were adopted at the session held at Boston for the government of the National Negro Business League: 1. The name of the organization shall be the National Negro Business League. 2. The object is to inform, as best we may, the world of the progress the Negro is making in business in every part of the country, and to stimulate local business enterprises through its annual meetings and in any other manner deemed wise; to encourage the organization of local business for the purpose of furthering commercial growth in all places where such organizations are deemed needful and wise. 3. Any person engaged in any commercial enterprise, or properly delegated to represent any individual or individuals engaged in commercial enterprise, is entitled to membership under such regulations as may be adopted. 4. The officers of the organisation shall be a president, vice president, secretary, compiler, treasurer and an executive committee composed of nine members, who shall be elected annually, and shall include the president, secretary and treasurer. 5. This organisation shall hold its meetings annually at such time and place as the executive committee may select. 6. All resolutions shall be referred to the executive committee before being debated in open session. The National Negro Business League, in session at Boston, recommends: 1. That our people form local business leagues in all the towns and cities of the country where the race is strong enough in number, and such organizations will best promote the interests of the race. 2. That these local leagues send delegates, as far as possible, to the national organization and keep in close touch during the year with the officers of the national organization. 3. That these local organisations hold meetings monthly as far as practicable. 4. That we strongly urge that everything possible be done in these local organizations to discourage complicated and useless parliamentary machinery, and that parliamentary and techinac discussions be avoided, as far as possible, with a view of concentrating time and strength on the real object of the organization. Amendments The following amendments were adopted at Chicago August 25, 1901: 1. Each delegate shall be asked to pay an annual fee of $2.00. 2. Life memeborship fee shall be $25 for an individual or organization. 3. The constitution shall be so amended as to allow a corresponding secretary, a third vice president and a national organizer. Resolution Granting Assembly Hall. It is with no small degree of pride that we announce that the following resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee Monday, March 23, and unanimously adopted the following day, Tuesday, March 24: "Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, That the use of the hall of the House of Representatives be, and the same is hereby, granted the colored citizens of Nashville for three days in the month of August, 1903, for the purpose of holding a meeting of the National Negro Business League, which has for its aim the commercial, agricultural, educational and industrial betterment of the colored race." Happenings of the Week. Jackson, Mich., Special.—Misses Sadie Hall and Flosse Johnson returned Sunday after making a visit at Ann Arbor and Ypsalanta. * * The Adrian Giants played ball here Saturday. * * Rev. and Mrs. Collins have started on their trip, where they will visit Detroit, Cleveland and Niagara Falls. * * Miss Cora McIntyre has returned from Ohio, where she has been INDIANAPOLIS IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1903. MISSING THEIR MARK. BURLESQUE SARCAS TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE AGRICULTURE DEPT. SEWING DEPT. HARNESS BUGGY DEPT. PRINT SHOP FOUNDRY TO BRICK DEPT. THE BOSTON CALAMITY GANG. CARNEGIE BOOKER T WASHINGTON. BISHOP GRANT. FROM CARNEGIE 60,000.00 visiting. She reports a fine time. * Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bend were in the city last week en route to New York. * Miss Elmer Brown, of Lansing, was in the city four days last week soliciting for the Baptist Church of that city. * Miss Laura Wesley and Mr. Ross Highwarden were married last Saturday night. * Miss Rosie Scott was in Detroit last week. * Messers. Chas Harrison and Frank Mitchell are in Cheslea. * Miss Jennie Moore left the city last week for Ohio. * Anyone wishing the Freeman will please call at 216 East Franklin street or Brown and Johnson's restaurant, 120 Michigan avenue. excursion from Asheville, N. C., was composed of twelve coaches well filled. Mr. Cash Mosley managed the affair. * Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Forner, of Asheville, N. C., were here for a short stay. * On the excursion from Asheville a young man was arrested for the theft of a satchel containing $75. Weekly Items. Jacksonville, Ill., Special—While asleep in a window Harry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, fell from the third story, striking the brick below. * The Mt. Emory Baptist Sunday school, had their election of officers long illness, died Saturday, the 1st. Call on Luther L. Miller for The F. man every Saturday. News Notes French Lick, Ind., special: We had quite a number of visitors a month. Among them were Mrs. C. Wedby, of Louisville, who was h for a few weeks. * Mrs. James ling and Miss Lillian Crutchfield turned to their home in Louisville the 24th, after a two weeks' visit. Mrs. Chas. Payton, of Louisville also spending a few weeks here. Mrs. Gaddy left on the 28th for News Note. Charleston. W. Va. Special—H. P. Day, of Winterfreed, has opened an ice cream parlor. Mr. Day was in the city last week. He is a reader of the Freeman. * * The K. of P. band, under the management of Ernest Mason, gave a moonlight excursion last week. It was a success. * * Mr. S. G. Paris is succeeding with his notion store. All are requested to call. Kanawha and Sumner street. * * Wilson Eppson is head hostler at Simpson and Steel's livery stable, while J. S. Mickey is stable boss for the Donley transfer line. Both are readers of the Freeman. Weekly Budget of News. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special—Impressive ceremonies were held at the laying of the corner-stone of the new Home Baptist Church July 26, at 2 p.m., Rev. Tolliver, pastor. The Masonic order attended and a large audience enjoyed the service. Rev. W. H. Selman, Ph.D., preached an excellent sermon. * **In the conference which convened at Tullahoma, Tenn., Mr. H. R. Stewart, Davidson A. M. E. Church, and Rev. T. W. Haigler, M. D., D. D. pastor, were elected delegates to the General Conference which convenes in Chicago, Ill., May 1904. * **G. G. Lee, Esa, leaves soon for points of interest in the Northwest. The trip will be one of pleasure combined with business.** * **At 8:20 p. m. Rev. S. R. Logan preached an excellent sermon at Warren A. M. E. Church to an attentive congregation.** * **Mr. M. C. Kay, of Emory, Tenn., was in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cox. Mr. Kay was en route to Chicago, ill., where he goes to enter the Chicago Medical University.** * **Mr. M. Flowers has greatly improved his business place.** * **The excursion from Asheville, N. C., was composed of twelve coaches well filled. Mr. Cash Mosley managed the affair. * **Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Forner, of Asheville, N. C., were here for a short stay. * **On the excursion from Asheville a young man was arrested for the theft of a satchel containing $75. Weekly Items. Jacksonville, Ill., Special.—While asleep in a window Harry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, fell from the third story, striking the brick below. ** * The Mt. Emory Baptist Sunday school had their election of officers Sunday evening. ** * * Elder Borden filled the pulpit of the Mt. Emory Baptist Church at morning and evening service ** * The Christian Church gave their picnic Thursday. It was well attended. ** * Mr. Wesley Greenup is visiting his relatives and friends from Pittsburg. ** * The Malory Lodge of K. of P. gave their first lawn social Wednesday, July 29. ** * The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows held their grand installation August 4, 1903. Interesting Items. Columbia, Tenn., special: Mr. W. H. Ogleton, after visiting friends and relatives in Detroit, Mich., and Canada, has returned home. * * Miss Artee Thompson, formerly of this city, but recently of Des Moines, Ia., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Myra Porter, in church avenue. * * Mr. Ed. Waddy has gone to St. Louis to stay. * * The Columbia Giants defeated the Rock City Bluts base ball team of Nashville, Thursday, 30th, 31st and Aug. 1, at Riverside Park; scores, 7 to 6, 19 to 16 and 6 to 0, respectively. The remarkable incident of Thursday's game was the home-run hit made by Will Clark of Columbia team. * * Mrs. Lena Goodlee and Miss Mariah Stephens visited Mr. and Mrs. Doc Clayborn at Cross Bridges recently. Mr. Thos, Birdsong went on a fishing trip in the same neighborhood. * * Mrs. John Louise Webster and son Cy visited friends in Theta. * * Mrs. Henry Johnson paid a visit to Williamsport relatives. She was accompanied home by Miss Della Crosby. * * Mrs. Moses Blickt is on the sick list. * * Miss Mary Gillam, of West End is ill at this writing. * * Rev. Jas. T. Gilmore is conducting a series of meetings at St. Paul, being assisted by Rev. Ell McKinney. * * Mr. Geo. Kizzie, after a long illness, died Saturday, the 1st. * * Call on Luther L. Miller for The Freeman every Saturday. News Notes French Lick, Ind., special: We have had quite a number of vistors this month. Among them were Mrs. Geo. Wedhy, of Louisville, who was here for a few weeks. * Mrs. James Loring and Miss Lillian Crutchfield returned to their home in Louisville on the 24th, after a two weeks' visit. * Mrs. Chas. Payton, of Louisville, is also spending a few weks here. * Mrs. Gaddy left on the 28th for her home in Louisville. * * The Baptists have completed their church in West Baden with the aid of the Rev. Parish, of Louisville. * * The dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Scott, July 22. Guests of honor, Miss Lillian Crutchfield, of Norton University, Cain Springs, Ky.; Mrs. Jas. Loring, of Louisville; Mrs. James M. Cook, of Indiarapolis; Mrs. Joe Williams, of this city. * * Last Thursday evening a surprise was given in honor of Mrs. Gaddy, of Louisville, at the residence of Mrs. McNary. Weekly Budget of Items. Lincoln, Mo. (Institute), Special.—The summer school of Lincoln Institute closed August 1 after a very successful session of seven weeks, and those receiving instruction went to their respective homes, or elsewhere, feeling that both time and money had been profitably spent, and that they would return next year, bringing others with them. * **The closing exercises of the B. F. Allen Literary Society, an important feature of this session, were held July 24, on which occasion strong resolutions prepared by a committee from the summer school indorsing in the highest terms the president, faculty and management of the same were read and adopted. President Allen delivered a brilliant address upon “The Man of Refinement.” Excellent addresses were also made by Professors Moten, Murray, Yates, heads of departments in the summer school. * * Out of several addresses given by President Allen during the session special mention should be made of these three: “The Cultivated Man.” “The Man of Refinement.” “A High Standard of Morals,” models off classic English in form and conveying to all lessons of the highest import. THE WEEKLY EVENTS GATHERED 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. Asheville, N. C., is a most charming place. Here the ends of society meet, the very rich and the very poor, the very good and the very bad. But I wish to speak of the good only. Many persons of distinction are spending the summer here. Well, Asheville is more than 1,900 feet above the level of the sea, and set about with mountains, the most beautiful in the world. Beautiful churches, able preachers, skillful doctors, fine drug store, well stocked groceries and good hotels. What more would you want? I am stopping at the Mountain House, kept by Dr. Watkins. The doctor knows how to make one feel at home. To all who would come this way we would say, see Watkins. There are others of whom we shall perhaps speak later. The Whitman sisters constituted a part of the attrac- public at the opera house Monday night. Armstrong Bros. are billed for Asheville next week. Funseekers will give them a hearty welcome. The Y. M. I. building (given by Mr. Vanderbilt) is a great center for our people. Prof. Trent is manager, and is in every respect fitted for the place. H. B. JORDAN. Important News. Dewmaine, Ill., Special.—Mr. E. T. Hicks and family have returned from a two weeks' visit in Indianapolis, Ind. * After the first of September Prof. Lott and family will reside in East St. Louis. * * The elite of the city will run an excursion to Paducah, Ky., the 8th prox., to the celebration of the twenty-first emancipation. * * Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshal are at home to friends at 25 New street. * * Rev. Coleman held a rally at his church the 26th ult. Collection, $11.75. * * The court gave a pink tea on the 11th ult. * * A recent party of berry pickers, champeroned by Mesdames Laura Lacy, Gus Jenkins and John Hall report an enjoyable time. Shakes omitted. * * Mrs. Emma Lott, worthy princess of the S. M. T., has returned from Alton, where she attended the grand lodge. * * Mrs. Ollie White has returned home after a long absence. News Gathered. Dawson, Ga., Special—Mrs. S. W. Escridge runs a first class restaurant here on Main street. She is pleased to serve you in her line. * * J. C. Casey, living just over the line from Terrell, in Calhoun county, owns 260 acres of excellent farm land, and also runs a large store, from which he supplies his many neighbors. * * For various crimes many Negroes are filling places on the chain gang. Weekly News Items French Lick, Ind., special: There have been a number of visitors here this month. * * Mrs. Gae, Wedby, of Louisville, Ky., is here for a few weeks. * * Mrs. Jas. Loving and Miss Lillian Crutchfield, of Louisville, have returned to their home after a few weeks' visit here. * * Mrs. Chas Payton, of Louisville, is here. * * Mrs. Gaddy returned home on the 28th. Church and Personal. Mound City, IIL, Special.-Mr. BenJ Rucker, who has been on crutches the past week, is out again. * * Mrs. Dora Boyd, who was accidentally shot by Samuel Taylor, is rapidly recovering. * * The delegates of the various lodges have returned from the annual meeting. * * Miss Josie Rucker is employed to teach in this county this term. * * Mrs. Carrie Fields made a brief trip here on the 23d. * * The infants of Messers; and Mesdames Chas. Penn, L. E. Joiner and John Nowlen were baptized Sunday. * * Burglaries are general around town. The home of Mrs. Helen Douglass was looted the 24th. ROOSEVELT FIRM LABOR UNIONS CANNOT USURP POWER OF GOVERNMENT Tyranny of the Tradesmen's Trust Fittingly Rebuked--Protection to the Masses of Wage-Earners Guaranteed--Second Baptist Lyceum Needs a Head--Industrial Education an Essential Factor in Popular Progress--Howard University Affairs-- "Chips Pick-up" in the Nation's Capital by Bertram Barton. Washington, D. C., July 27—(Special.)—President Roosevelt has fired a bomb into the ranks of the local Book Binders' Union. He has decided that the laws of the land are of higher import than the regulations or prejudices of the trades unions, which may try from time to time to dictate who shall or who shall not be employed by the United States government. Mr. W. A. Miller, an assistant in the book binders' division of the government printing office, was not long ago, for some reason or another, expelled from the union, whereupon the public printer dismissed Miller, as it is a rule of the unions that none but union men shall be appointed to trades places in this office. Miller appealed to the President, and that fearless exponent of governmental dignity and fair play ordered the reinstatement of Miller, on the ground that nothing in the civil service made membership in a union a prerequisite to appointment in any branch of the public service, although there was no objection to an employee affiliating with labor organizations, if he so desired. Of course, the local unions are up in arms, and all sorts of things are threatened, with even a general strike hinted at. As a matter of fact, there will be no strike, for such a policy could have but one ending—failure and loss of position to all who participate in such a foolish movement. The campaign is being made upon a representation of the unacceptability of Miller, and an attempt will be made to show that his removal should have been made for the good of the service—a back door method of getting rid of men whose places are wanted for some one else—and thus escape the technical violation of the law in putting Miller out because of his erasure from the union rolls. Whatever may become of Miller is of small importance per se, but the larger principle of the pre-eminence of the authority of the government in such cases is of the utmost moment. If unacceptability to a trades union is established as a just cause for refusing a man appointment or for securing his elimination from the public service, a dangerous club is placed in the hands of a group of persons, who may in this way down the whole fabric of the civil service regulations and the authority of appointing officers—as far as the industrial side of government employment is concerned at least. especially would such an idea be disastrous to colored book binders, printers, machinists, pressmen, etc., if such a policy could prevail. It is a well known fact that when E. L. Carter, a competent colored workman, was given a place as pressman by Public Printer Benedict some years ago, the Pressmen's Union made a "howl" and flatly refused him admission to their organization, on account of his race, with the hope that his failure to be admitted would result in the withdrawal of his appointment. But, contrary to their expectations, Benedict stood firmly by his man, and the union was forced to swallow Carter—or allow it to be understood that membership in the organization was not necessary to retain employment in the office. For prudential reasons, little was said about the matter, and the flurry blew over. Other Negroes have been thrown out, however, by the refusal of the Typographical Unions to "pass" them, and whenever a black printer is put in, it is a problem whether he will live out his term of probation. We now have the same question in another form, and it is pleasing to see that President Roosevelt, regardless of the danger of offending the labor army of the country, has firmly sustained the majesty of the law, and given the tyrannical ukase of the union a very black eye. He is to be applauded for his courage, and we are sure no thinking person can honestly go out and say that the President has declared himself an enemy of organized labor by insisting that the retention of an employee be determined by his fidelity to his sworn duty, rather than by his acceptability to a body of individuals who have no connection with the government or its administration. His action will not affect his popularity for it all the more plainly points out his devotion to the spirit of "a square deal" for all classes and conditions of men, and refuses to make any one's bread and butter dependent upon his yielding to demands of "walking delegates" who may subject persons to terms undesirable from many points of view. Labor organizations may take action to insure proper treatment as men and to raise the standard of efficiency and compensation, but to attempt to control in matters which belong entirely to the government, is going too far. President Roosevelt has administered a stern rebuke, and after the "tempest in a teapot" has subsided all right-minded citizens will thank him for thus upholding the dignity and AGENTS can now double their money selling the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow. It straightens Kinky or Curly hair Write for full particulars to O. M Co, Agent's dept., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Don't Buy Glasses of a Man if he does not agree to return your money if he does not give you a rect fit. You are a fool it Don't Buy Glasses of a Man if he does not agree if he does not give you a correct fit. You are a fool methods and prices before THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. constitutional prerogatives of the nation, in which we all have a common and equal interest. The Second Baptist Lyceum is without a President, we are informed by one of its leading members. President Scott has absolutely declined a re-election. This organization has for several years enjoyed a National reputation, and to be at its head has been regarded as an honor of no small proportions. While Bethel Literary admirably supplies the needs of an evening forum of debate, the Second Baptist Lyceum occupies a field of its own as the popular medium for Sunday expression, when many who can not attend during the week are afforded a place of instruction on current issues and given an opportunity to meet in a semi-social way, congenial friends from many sections of the city. The Second Baptist Lyceum is a necessity, and nothing should be permitted to get in the way of its continued usefulness. The broad spirit which has always characterized it should be maintained, and its work should take on a form even more practical than that of former years, when it stood ready, with its voice and purse to aid every movement of the race that tended to elevation, protection and encouragement. Its history is a record of substantial achievement. If no President has been found as yet, the lyceum could not do better than call Prof. Jesse Lawson back to the helm; or as an alternative, Lawyer Reuben S. Smith might be induced to lead the hots of earnest young people who look upon the lyceum as their natural field of labor. Prof. Lawson and Mr. Smith are both workers; they are sound upon the questions of the hour, and have nothing in common with the dress parade element who impose windy harangues upon the people, and represent nothing in the activities of this busy world of ours. ... The color line is being drawn in the New York theaters with increasing severity. The Negro performers, of the Williams and Walker, Johnson and Dean and Ernest Hogan type, are in no sense parties to it, as they have nothing to do with the rules of the houses in which they play, assuming responsibility only for what is done upon the stage. Theodore Drury has a project on foot to erect a theater for the use of colored traveling companies and for the production of his own operatic selections. The profession would hail such an innovation with joy, and from this nucleus there might be formed a chain of Negro play houses, extending from Boston to Kansas City, and through the South, from Galveston to Tampa, Florida. Washington would logically have a star place in this circuit. As the Empire Theater is now the only open door to the Negro actor in this city, why would it not be a paying investment for a colored syndicate to lease this cosy house and make it the home of refined comedy and drama, barring no reputable performer, be he Jew, Gentile, or Afro-American. What has Sylvester Russell, the official chamberlain of Negro Thespians, to say to this idea? *** The call of Dr. Wilson Bruce Evans to Indianapolis to confer with Prof. Kendall, superintendent of the public schools of that city, on methods and results of manual training, was highly significant of the growing recognition of industrial education as a potent and necessary factor in the systems of general instruction to be presented to pupils of the varied classes and grades of society. The adapting of curriculums to the needs of the environments, is the duty that is more and more making itself apparent to those who are called upon to study the problem of education in the light of modern demands. Dr. Evans is principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School of this city, and is confessedly one of the best-informed teachers in the country upon matters relating to the training of young men and women for the practical work of bread winning. Indianapolis might like to secure the services of Dr. Evans in her public schools, but it is scarcely probable that he would consider a proposition that would lead to his departure from his present large sphere of usefulness. Dr. L. B. Moore, who is conducting a summer course in pedagogy at Tuskegee, is to temporarily fill the pulpit at the People's Congregational Church. While the members of this organization deserve great credit for maintaining an independent status, there is a pretty general feeling that the best interest of all would be served if the People's Church were merged at once with Lincoln Temple. In fact, it would be "a consummation devoutly to be wished, if Plymouth should join the combine, and let a magnificent church edifice be erected on the present site of Lincoln Temple, large enough to accommodate all of the colored Congregationalists in the city. Under this arrangement, Rev. Sterling N. Brown's splendid institutional work would receive a new impetus, and treble itself in effectiveness among the people who sorely need the spiritual and material influence that he is generating. It has been suggested to President George W. Jackson, of Bethel Literary, that he set apart an evening early in the fall term as "Tuskegee Night," and ask four of its principal members who have recently visited the school to give their impressions of the Magic city and the influence of Dr. Washington's edu- cational system upon the boys and girls whom they met there. The speakers suggested are: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Prof. Kelly Miller and Prof. L. B. Moore. These keen-eyed observers and conservative thinkers would give symposium that would be worth travelling miles to hear. CHIPS PICKED UP. We hope the report is not true that Bethel Literary and Historical Association has not withdrawn from the president the absolute power to select his speakers, and vested this authority in the hands of a committee of Metropolitan Church. This not only ties the hands of Mr. Jackson, but is a clear reflection upon his capacity to judge the needs of the society—a reflection not at all sustained by his able administration of the past year. If Bethel to maintain is broad, catholic reputation and invite the continued support of all elements of our cosmopolitan life, it must not relapse into a mere denominational auxiliary, subject to the control, perhaps, or individuals not in touch with modern literary methods, and who seek to impress their own personality at the expense of the time-honored policy of the organization. President Jackson deserves better treatment than this, and it may be time for the element that elected Professors Richards, Miller and Cardozo, to come forward again with their "meat-axes." An attack on the Metropole Club serves no good purpose. This organization is a first class association of gentlemen, and is headed by Mr. Lewis H. Donglass, a leading business and professional character, of undisputed moral and personal worth. The patrons of the club represent the best brain and culture of the race in this country, and the quiet and wholesome amusement found under their own roof cannot be open to any well-sustained objection. It is true that in many such organizations, the atmosphere is not conducive to moral or mental health, but the high-grade Metropole is not one of them. We suggest that before further castigating this club, our ministerial brethren drop in and take a survey of the ground. Only upon actual knowledge can they speak advisedly. * * * The Order of Elk (white) deserve great credit for standing by their contract with the Marine Band and refusing to be stamped by the insolent demands of the musicians' union, who assume to dictate who the Elks should have do their playing at the grand reunion Memorandum—A labor trust that discriminates against efficient workmen on account of color, is no better than any other trust that seeks to take an unfair advantage of helpless people. The Standard Oil Company has as much right to seek money as the American Federation of Labor has to exploit a foolish and ridiculous race prejudice. * * * Mrs. Ida D. Bailey, one of our most energetic and useful women, treasurer of the Girls' Industrial Home on 8th street, is spending her vacation in Boston. Mrs. Bailey's activity in calling attention to certain shortcomings at Howard University, has brought about a degree of correction there, that has won for her the hearty commendation of the masses of our citizens. Mrs. Bailey is one of Washington's most fearless, aggressive and unselfish women, and she possesses a rare but inspiring knack of "getting things done." Dr. Robert B. Richardson, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, came up from Hampton last week where he has been since July 4, studying the educational system in vogue there. He is president of the Liberia College, Monrovia, West Africa. While here he was entertained by Mr. H. P. Slaughter, and conferred frequently with Recorder Dancy, Register Lyons, Judge Terrell, Prof. Richards and other prominent men of affairs. He goes on to New York and Boston to continue his research work in the development of Negro education in America. * * * An elaborate service of song was given Sunday at Israel C. M. E. Church in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Soldiers and Sailors' Union, the Spanish War Veterans and the ladies' auxiliary of these bodies. The program was in charge of Lieut. Lucian H. White, of the Charles Young Command, S. W. V. Recorder John C. Dancy and Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke spoke, and Lieut. R. E. Toomey read an original poem. Music was rendered by Prof. John T. Layton, Dr. J. E. Rattley and Mr. A. K. Brodie. Prof. W. H. H. Hart had an unpleasant altercation the other night with an officious policeman. The next day in court he served as his own lawyer and was acquitted of a charge of assault, thus furnishing a brilliant exception to the old adage that "a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client". Prof. Hart is superintendent of the Hart Farm School, which is doing such excellent work in the reformation of the juvenile colored criminals of the District. *** It is one of those peculiarities of southern "justice" that a man on trial for an offense against a Negro will be refused a conviction by a jury of his "peers," and then turn round and plead guilty upon a second arraignment before the court. This is what Fletcher Turner did, who was up on a charge of peonage in Alabama. He has been fined $1,000, and the outrages upon poor little Glennie Helms has been to that extent avenged in legal form. *** The selection of Miss L. M. Jacobs, as matron at Howard University is giving great satisfaction. The same is true of the appointment of Mrs. David Messer as her assistant. These selections may be regarded as a substantial victory for that element of able and fair-minded men and women, who insisted that the University should be run in the interest of the students and the people, and not to suit the whims and personal benefit of a faculty clique or clan. DuBois is clearly wrong when he insists that Dr. Washington's policy calls for the surrender of any political power that we have, or the surrender of civil rights, or that the Tuskegee educator is opposed to the higher education of the Negro youth. Dr. Washington is in favor of every civil privilege for the black man, and wants the Negro youth to obtain all the education possible, and more than that, to put it to good use *** The suggestion of Booker T Washington for Governor of the Philippines is a fitting compliment to the eminent Tukkegeean, but such a consummation would take Dr. Washington away from a work, which grand as it is, has only reached the formative stage as yet, and cannot be left to other hands. What is the matter with Mr. Fortune for Governor of our new possessions in the Orient? "Why not speak for yourself, Tom?" *** Now that Lawyer James H. Hayes has promised to be good, he deserves to be given a square deal as national organizer for the Afro-American Council. Like many other able men, he permitted a wild burst of applause to carry him off his feet last year in this city, and in the enthusiasm of the moment, never dreamed how bloodthirsty his remarks would look in cold type the next day. Give Hayes a chance. *** *** The people of Indiana have queer ideas about the color line. They strenuously objected to receiving their mail from the hands of a Negro postmistress, but since the office there has been abolished, they have employed a private mail carrier, who brings the letters, etc., from Heathman, and places them in their fair clutches. The private carrier is a Negro, and no complaint is uttered. Now that the Irish and Dutch are vigorously protesting against the silly caricatures of their races that find their field of exploitation on the vaudeville stage, will the Negro rise up and take arms against the traditional lazy, ignorant, razor-carrying, crap-shooting and policy-playing individual, labelled the typical representative of our race? Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke, says T. Thomas Fortune is not a Negro—that he is partly Anglo-Saxon, Seminole Indian, and with but a very faint and imperceptible trace of African blood in him. The Washington Post has the floor for a new solution of what to do with Mr. Fortune, in the light of this startling revelation. Dr. James E. Shepard, North Carolina's brilliant young leader, comes to Washington frequently to consult with the "powers that be." The Doctor is an ardent Roosevelt man, and will, in all probability, be chosen as a delegate from his State to the next republican national convention. ```markdown ``` Rumor has it that "Prof." W. H. Ferris, whose brief, but inglorious career in Washington, was sufficient to gain for him an extensive acquaintance, will accept a position with Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C. The "Professor" does well to "cut out" his Bostonian maladvisers. *** Mr. Carnegie is said to be paying fabulous prices for fossils. Here is a rare chance for certain newspapers to unload advantageously their antiquated editors—men who have neither learned anything new or forgotten anything old in the last forty years. *** The move of Ex-Congressman George H. White, Mr. John F. Cook and others to establish a brick yard in the vicinity, should prove eminently successful. Industrial opportunity is the crying need of the boys in and about Washington. *** What is the plain white American coming to in the great colleges of the land, when a Negro and a Chinaman carry off the honors at Yale, and a black baseball player wins the victory in the test game of the year for Harvard? ** ** The press dispatches did not see fit to give first page honors to the courageous feat of two Negroes at Roanoke, Virginia, who prevented a white man from committing an outrage upon the person of a young white woman. Quite a number of our statesmen have had their pictures in the papers because of the vast benefit they have derived from Peruna, but the breakfast food people have not rounded them up as yet. The city of Washington has been able to look upon the annotated person of the Hon. William Monroe Trotter without the use of smoked glasses. As Dr. Crum is drawing no salary, he cannot justly be charged with mercenary motives for holding on to that Charleston collectorship. ★ ★ ★ America is an industrial nation. Those who would keep in touch with her growth, must keep pace with her industrial progress. *** It's dollars to doughnuts that one, Charles W. Anderson has a finger in the Nerro headquarters's pie for the 1904 campaign. *** Evidence accumulates that the boy who would succeed today must not depend too much upon the prestige of his family name. *** Some of our men seem to be too heavily-laden with college degrees to to be able to do effective work for the race. Washington now has a lodge of colored Elks. John C. Stone is Exalted Ruler. *** Judge Jones has made peonage unfashionable in Alabama. BERTRAM BARTON. The Democrats have set out a most beautiful platform—too pretty; it was made to look at and admire; a political mosaic. No. 4 Piano Buggy. C. R. PATTERSON & SONS GREENFIELD, OHIO. 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Eugene Harding, who for the past two seasons was second waiter at the Eastman, Hot Springs, Ark., is now second waiter at The Inn. Miss Hattie Chisley of Warren'sburg, Mo., is in the city for the summer. Sam Hart of Chicago is with the star crew of waiters at The Inn. The waiters of The Inn will give their annual minstrel show and ball about August 10th. W. E. Lester of Indianapolis and W. King are here for the season at the Nurse's oot EUROPEAN WAITERS WANTED Would like to open correspondence with three, five or seven experienced European waiters who speak either German or French. Write at once. J. COCHRAN DONLEY, Headwalter, Boochy House, Toledo, O. 182 W. Washington Street, o Near Park Theatre. Cool Beer Between Acts. Once a Sport. RESTAURANT Good Meals at all Hours. Mrs. Smother's Old Stand, 515 Indiana Avenue. 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. Well Known Headwaiters tage. Read The Freeman and keep posted on what is going on in the busy world. How To Get Up An Order. It is very essential that a waiter know how to get up an order. If he has no previous knowledge of waiting it will take him some time to learn the routine method. Indeed, it seems that some waiters never learn how to get up an order properly and to advantage. This is, no doubt, due to the fact that there is no written or uniform rule on this subject, and every waiter is left to use his own discretion and get up his order after his own style. I shall endeavor to take the new waiter by the hand and lead him through the kitchen, bakeshop and pantry, and tell him how to get up an order. I will not tell him that he ought to know how to get it, but will show him where each and every article is to be found, and tell him what every article is used for. Some may say, "Every waiter ought to know how to get up an order." But do they know? My answer is, they do not. Again it may be said, "Every waiter should learn how to get up an order;" but this leaves the new would-be waiter in the dark and the problem still to be solved. It is one thing to say what a person ought to know and do, but another thing to tell what to do and how to do it. While the following rule may be mod- M. B. ified so as to agree with the rules of various hotels, yet, in general, it is a safe rule for young waiter to follow: After taking an order, leave the dining room through the door at your right. On entering the kitchen first go to the tray-rack or the table where trays are kept; select a tray, which should be clean and kept so in order to prevent soiling the bottoms of the dishes. (Do not use a limber or broken tray.) After selecting tray, then go to the dish-heater, where you will find all necessary dishes. (Avoid using chipped or cracked dishes.) Never get more dishes than you really need. Always know what every dish you put on your tray is to be used for. While getting dishes your tray should rest on a table that is usually conveniently located; this in order to keep you from blockading the dish-heater. On leaving the dish-heater rest your tray on another table in front of the meat-broiler (if it is supper or breakfast that you are serving), where you will first order all broiled meats, the fried dishes being ordered next. On the table in front of the range is situated the hot-water basin, in which is kept oatmeal, cracked wheat, cornmeal mush, hot milk, and, sometimes, chocolate. In most hotels waiters boil their own eggs. A special basin is usually arranged for this purpose, in which are several wire baskets to hold the eggs. With the water thoroughly boiling, it requires two minutes for a soft-boiled egg, three minutes for medium, and five minutes for a hard-boiled egg. If the baskets are all in use mark your eggs with a pencil, and while your meat order is being prepared, get your eggs ready in accordance with above directions, and both will be ready at the same time. After you have all your order on your tray, go to bakeshop and get hot rolls, toast and cakes. Leaving bakeshop, stop at pantry, where you will get such articles as cream, milk, butter, crackers, preserves, fruit and various other articles that are kept in different hotel pantries. The tea, coffee and hot water urns are generally located in or near the pantry and should be the last articles taken as you pass into the dining room. These obtained, you are now ready to go into the dining room. Always pass through the door at your right. On reaching your station, set your try on the rack or small table, being careful to avoid unnecessary noise. If you are serving dinner from the dish-heater you will first go to the steam-table, where will be found soup, fish, roast mests and vegetables. After soups and fish are served, order your roast dishes first, and then get your vegetables at the steam-table. At the pantry, in addition to the other articles mentioned, you will find lettuce, salted almonds, cheese, olives, celery, crackers and melons. Sherbert, punch, water-ices, ice cream and cake are served from the bakeshop. although in some hotles they are served from the pantry. Now, being ready, you will go into the dining room as previously directed. TALKING ABOUT INDIANAPOLIS. Among other things the Nashville Banner has this to say of Indianapolis: "The dispatches report that the Negroes of Indianapolis have organized an association to be known as 'the Colored Business Men's League.' That has a pleasing sound which would indicate a commendable purpose, but the intention of the league, so it is stated, is to prevent a race war, such as has occurred in Evansville, by getting rid of the 'Jim Crow Negroes,' as the lower class of their race are invidiously described. If the organization proposes to encourage industry among Indianapolis Negroes, that is entirely proper; but the movement is suggestive of a discrimination that it may be difficult to make on just lines and that would be productive [Name] JOHN BROOKS, Headwaiter, Somerset Hotel, New York City. of a harsh class distinction. The city of Indianapolis should, through its municipal regulations, be able to take care of vagrants and criminals without regard to color, and this proposal that the 'Colored Business Men's League' of that city set itself to work to run the 'Jim Crow Negroes' but of town would seem to be a rather indicous piece of snobbery with a kind of cakewalk suggestion, but the statement that it is to be done to prevent a race war puts the matter in another light. The 'Jim crow Negroes' are to be got out of Indianapolis to save the whole race there from the possible fury of the white population, as it has been manifested in Evansville and other Northern communities. We are very familiar with Negroes of all kinds in the South, but we have never learned down here to make this invidious distinction of classes, though we recognize marked difference in individuals. The illiterate Negro laborers constitute the very large majority of their race in the South but they are not despised here. Any effort by 'The Colored Business Men's League,' or any other organization, to drive out any class of Negroes from a community, is a high-handed proceeding not in accordance with human rights or the democratic principals of the United States Government. The Dallas Express has the following to say: "Last week Indiana tried to outdo Texas in the lynching business and as a result a few misguided, indiscrete Indianapolis Negroes held a meeting and resolved to run all 'de bad niggers' away. Now, let us be fair. The Negro who commits a nameless crime or ruthless murder is a bad citizen. If he were any other color he would be bad. The mob that undertakes to punish him for infraction of the law becomes a lawbreaker itself thereby and should be made to answer in the courts as any other criminal. The other Negroes in the community where an outrage or foul murder is committed, and who have no connection with the crime are no more to be blamed than are other [One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWITTERS. F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. T. H. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City, Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel, Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Halliday House, Cairo, Ill. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Ill. J. Cochran Donley, Boody House, Toledo, Ohio. good citizens, when these crimes are committed by low white men. We do not believe in innocent Negroes who are in no way connected with the constabulary pimping and smelling around and causing the arrest of Negroes who are known to the officers as suspicious characters. The eye of the law should select from among its good citizens men of both races whose duty it is to bring law breakers to justice, and good men once on guard will not wait for loafers and bums to walk about unmolested in ideliness and mischief hunting for crime." Personal and News Notes Wheeling, W. Va., Special.—Miss Ruby Jones of Detroit, Mich., has been for the past week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. Yates. Mrs. Boaz Clemans left this week for Washington, D. C., to visit friends. While away she will also spend some time in Baltimore and several other cities in Maryland. The entertainment entitled "The Queen's Jubilee" given at Simpson M. E. church under the direction of Prof. Walter Spriggs was quite a success. The entertainment certainly displayed the ability of the director, and he deserves credit for his earnest efforts. Mr. E. W. Woodson of Pittsburg, Pa., arrived in the city last week and will remain for some time. Mr. Charles Wells is spending a few moments at the McLure House in this city, from which place he expects to return to Parkersburg, W. Va., very soon. Mrs. Joseph Verse has spent several weeks out of the city visiting friends. Henry Mooney, after having a short vacation, has returned again. James Moore left for Pittsburg, Pa., last week where he will remain for the summer. Norman Tiptleff of Parkersburg, W. Va., has located in Wheeling. His friends wish him much success. The barbers of Wheeling gave their picnic at Mozart Park. Those who were so fortunate as to attend enjoyed themselves to the uttermost. Messrs. W. C. Gordon, William Burns and Thomas Branch are spending their vacation out of the city in parts unknown. On the evening of July 27th a very unique social affair was given by Miss Ethel McMechen at her residence. At 8 o'clock p. m. the parlor doors were thrown open and many friends were received. The Wheeling City Orchestra rendered music for the occasion, which was enjoyed by all, and most especially by those to whom the sweet strains of waltzs and schottisches appeal most touchingly. The Bodach and The Boy. So in the morning when Crohoore got his breakfast he went to the Bodach and asked what was for him to do that day. Says the Bodack, says he "On yesterday you let my five hundred head of cattle stray east and west over the face of the world, and what you have got to do the day is to go searching till you find them." "And where," says Crohoore, says he, "am I to look for them?" You are to look for them," says the Bodach, says he, "in every likely place and in every unlikely place." And Crohoore started out, and the Bodach went about his business. And when the Bodach come home in the evening he found his haystacks, and his corn-stacks, and his turf-stacks, every one of them pulled down and scattered to the winds of the world, and he found his flower garden all rooted up, and he found Crohoore on top of his house tearing the thatch and the straw off it, and he was just stripping the last of it off when the Bodach come tearing and roaring up to him, and, 'Oh, you rascal of the world!" says the Bodach, says he in a tearing rage, "what are you doing at all, at all?" "Looking for your cattle," says Crohoore, says he, "you told me to look for them in every likely place and in every unlikely place, and as the unlikely place and as the unlikely places are the fewest I thought I'd begin them first. I have looked," says he, "under all your flower beds and in the heart of your turf-stacks and corn-stacks, and haystacks, and now I have finished looking in the roof of your house; and would it surprise you," says he, "not one of the five hundred have I ever got yet?"—Seumas MacManus, in the July Pearson's Mobs are not always due to an immediate offense as so many think; they are due to sentiment that has been growing. AGENTS WANTED. Send 10 cents to Charles Alexander, Wil伯force University, Wil伯force, O., and receive a copy of "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a little book containing pictures and stories of 100 prominent figures and Good amateurs. Good amateurs. Write today. Stamps or silver accepted. CHARLES ALEXANDER, Wil伯force, Ohio. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 309 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 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Has much learning made them mad? If so they'd better cut out some and apply the tenets of Mr. Washington's industrial philosophy and become men with occupations. Prof. Booker T. Washington when in that city last week addressing a meeting—a privilege accorded any man on a topic not treasonable to the government—was hissed by a set of men, Negro men, men of his suffering kind. Booker T. Washington, a name being sung in every clime, honored at home and abroad, yet when the man rises in a Boston meeting he is hissed; disturbed because he dares to have convictions and to express them. It is insisted by those trying to defend the course of men who would interdict free speech, one of the cardinal principles of the country, that Mr. Washington was called to Boston to further the plans of the Republican party. It is a lame excuse. Admitting such to be the case, it is no crime to speak for or against any party. Mr. Washington has been denied what has been accorded the humblest citizen of Boston, and, at that, by men who stand for enlightenment, which ought to stand for liberalism. Whatever his mission, was it stands to reason that he has too much at stake to jeopardize it by uncareful utterances. He is a gentleman and a man, and such qualities call for their likes in alike individuals; but Mr. Washington was spiritually mobbed at Boston, just as truly mobbed as that culprit whose none too cooled ashes tell a tale of the culmination of tyranny and hate of the lawless white man who would also buck and gag. Messers Trotter, et al, are not such guardians of the public weal as they claim to be. At Louisville in the Afro-American Council this same coterie felt it their duty to attack Mr. Washington's picture as unfit for the stage etc., and now it's something else of an audacious nature. It begins to look very gauzzy indeed. If these men are making a grand-stand play, a sort of serio-comedy in order to jump into prominence at Mr. Washington's expense they should at once feel the heavy hand of public condemnation. The Negroes over the country are justly indignant at the high-handed proceedings of the Boston coterie, and are, as they should be, passing resolutions of condemnation against the smart set, who, like Lucifer, would break up heaven to carry out their designs. They are chagrinned to know that "sensible" men could be so impolitic in the face of things known as to offer insult after insult to a man like Washington. They feel that the thinking whites are puzzled over the unheard of event, giving trouble and irresolution to the friends of the race and strength to the contention of Tillman and the south. There was absolutely no excuse for the outrageous Boston scene. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPEAKS UNDER A CORDON OF POLICE says the scare headlines of a Boston paper as if it were not ashamed. We are ashamed for these Boston Bungaloes who invite contempt and contumely on all by attacking the very head and front of the race so to speak. The Negro press and pulpit, regardless of individual views of Mr. Washington's theories, will do what's proper THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER if they severely condemn those Boston individuals. THE DEMOCRATS AND THE NEGRO. "We make war on no race"—the Indianapolis Democrats in convention. We sincerely trust that the time may never come when that party will feel to repudiate the very just proposition which has such an important bearing on the racial situation of to-day. We trust that it was not inserted simply as a vote catcher, a temporary expedient; nor do we feel to impugn the motives of the party, for, after all, it has only done what upright men should have done, men who put the peace and general prosperity of the country far above the sometimes groveling politics. We feel, not to impugn, yet practical politics has its plays and sharp practices very often, which, considers the ends, insisting that they justify the means. In view of the race differences, more apparent now than ever since the war, it is to be hoped that the proposition "we make war on no race" stands plighted as a Democratic guarantee to the Negroes that they may expect the same general or special treatment as accorded by other parties or other men with the good of the country uppermost in their minds. The Democrats may have considerable trouble as heretofore in rounding up Negro voters for their party, but the reasons are plain enough, and which are not what they were years ago when Republicanism and fanaticism were synonymous. They have learned that, personally, one white man is quite like the other and that it is orders of men or individuals of a class rather than individuals of another that oppose. Bungalooism amounts to an issue now and the Negroes, by instinct, intuition or some other of the hidden springs of man's spiritual mechanism feel that a Bungaloo is a Democrat; they have felt that behind Bungalooism stood Democracy. True enough there has been no proof, no demonstration. It must be admitted that the great bulk of the Negro voters are Republican and will continue so since there are no reasons to be otherwise from principles. But it will be believed that if the Democrats, as a party, show a kindlier disposition as noted it will bring them many unsolicited and unexpected votes. The foregoing is not in the interest of the throw down of Republicanism. Colored men are Republican, but the leaders have a greater game than politics to play—a game of racial life and racial respectability, and racial peace, and racial prosperity. Their business is to win for their party, when politicians, by decent methods, and not by brow-beating, egg throwing or other riotous demonstrations that this community has witnessed in the past. Colored politicians who thus insist should be put very early out of the game. The deep, bay-mouthed Negro, the lord of election days, should take a seat away back, for he does not know the trouble he breeds. We apprehend no stampede to Democracy, but no impediment is desired beyond that of reasonable argument, such as is used on other men anywhere for the same cause. A $60,000 BUILDING A building, to be known as Washington Hall, has recently been completed and dedicated by the True Reformers at Washington, D. C., which cost the princely sum of $60,000. The dedicating ceremonies took place under the president of the order, Rev. W. L. Taylor, who was assisted by Hon. J. C. Dancy and other men of note. President Roosevelt was unable to be president at the dedication, but forwarded his greetings and commendation of the order, its purposes and the enterprise. His letter was as follows: "My Dear Sir: I wish I could be present at the dedication of the hall. I most earnestly believe in all industrial and beneficial organizations of this character, whose purpose is to teach the lessons of thrift economy, industry, self-dependence and self-reliance. I am particular pleased to learn that your institution is entirely out of debt. No one can watch with more zealous interest than I do of the progress of the colored race; and with the colored man, as with the white man, the first step must be for him to show his ability to take care of himself and those dependent upon him. With all good wishes sincerely yours. THEODORE ROSEVELT Washington Hall, while the direct product of the noted order of True Reformers is a monument to the ingenuity and enterprise of the Negro race. It is built of gray-pressed brick, and trimmed with the world-famed Indiana limestone. It was conceived by a Negro architect and built by Negro workmen, making it a grand object lesson and an incentive for the industrial and business phases of Negro life. "By your works ye shall be known," is a Biblical proposition which fits all time and conditions. The True Reformers are carrying out its implied injunction, and are becoming known and honored for the great good they are doing—they are doers of things. PROPRIETOR OF THE FREEMAN. The home of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Knox, 220 West Vermont street, last Tuesday evening was the scene of a delightful reception tendered Mr. and Mrs. A D Griffin, of Portland, Oregon, who are visiting friends in this city. Mr. Griffin is prominent in affairs at home and also is the proprietor and editor of the Portland Age, one of the very successful journals conducted by colored men. Quatre a number of prominent citizens, including newspaper men, business men and pastors of churches met gentleman from Oregon The reception wound up with a repast and speeches. The host, Mr Knox, was toastmaster — Freeman. We had occasion to meet Mr. and Mrs. A D Griffin, of Portland, Oregon, at the recent meeting of the National Afro-American Council in Louisville, Ky. Their western manners and affability were all that a southernor could hope to find in a week's travel, and the proprietor of The Freeman knew that, which accounts for the wide open doors of the home of the jovial Knox.—The Florida Sentinel. Mr. Knox appreciates the kindly reference to his distinguished guests and himself. One of the questions put to Booker T. Washington at Boston last week was: "Is the rope and the torch all the race is to get under your leadership?" Is that a fair question? Is it one to which an answer was anticipated? Was it not clearly a mischief breeder? Is it not an accusation, indirect, the intent, the spirit, regardless of the arrangement of words? Finally, was it not grossly insulting? And again: "Can a man make a successful educator and politician at the same time?" Will it be understood that that question was to be answered? Is it not accusation? Is it not an arraignment? Is it not an insult? Here follows more of the indicting questions: "In view of the fact that you are understood to be unwilling to insist upon the Negro having his every right (both civic and political) would it not be a calamity at this juncture to make you our leader?" "Don't you know you would help the race more by exposing the new form of slavery just outside the gates of Tuskegee than by preaching submission?" The upstartishness of it all! Insult upon insult! Well, if its in them its better that it come out at once rather than to smoulder on and on. Here is noted that lack of civility due one member of the race from another. When Hogan wrote: "All Coons Look Like to Me" he knew very well what he was doing. It is a fact that one Negro has but little regard for the other. At the risk of being sacrilegious: "If Christ had been a Negro, then what?" Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, has been chosen as the successor of Leo XIII, as Pope in the Catholic church and will be known as Plus X. His qualities of head and heart are such as to augur great popularity, reverence and esteem in and beyond his church. From all accounts the life of the new Pope has been beautiful and exemplary, and it is evident that his selection was not the result of chance or compromise. He possesses the virtues and qualities that will forward the movement of the Catholic church, rendering less the obstacles which have the tendency to impede. From the stand-point of the that church his selection is eminently fitting. It is said that the hissing in Boston was due to a complimentary reference to Mr. Washington by one of the speakers preceding him, the ugly row following the effort to put the individual out of the house. The fact that Mr. Washington spoke under police protection certainly shows the frame of mind of the leaders in the disturbance and in no sense lessens the cause for denouncing them. Chairman Edwin D. Logsdon has set at rest all speculations as to the nominee for city clerk, by naming Thomas J. Yount for the place made vacant by the resignation of Charles N. Elliott. Mr. Yount has been book-keeper for the Columbia club for about two year. He has been an active Republican for INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SYSTEM OF LEGAL ADVICE COLLECTIONS & PATENTS Have you a cause of action or legal question concerning which you desire legal advice? We furnish written, guaranteed opinions upon any legal question submitted to us; send statement of the facts of your case or proposition, together with five dollars and we will deliver to you a correct written statement of the law, and advise you what to do. Every case or question solicited is referred to a specialist. We solicit bribes from the courts from attorneys having cases involving the law of other States and Countries, either adjective or substantive, concerning which they are in doubt. Will take your case and conduct it through the courts, upon such terms as shall be agreed upon. We have a representative in every county seat in the Union. Address all Correspondence DELOS A. ALIG BUSINESS MANAGER 1121-1127 Law Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. YOU should read the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL It is the best Republican paper in Indiana. It has always been The Colored Man's Friend In Indianapolis and suburbs the Daily is 40c a month—that's less than 10c a week. Dally and Sunday 50c a month. Elsewhere, Dally 10c a week; Sunday 5c extra. years, is popular and it is thought that he will add strength to the ticket. The Florida Sentinel is putting in a complete outfit, cylinder and job presses, outter, body type, wood furniture, gasoline power engine and all the material necessary to do first class paper and other work. Mr. M M. Lewey is to be congratulated on his business ability. Cylinder presses etc. are, as yet, rare "institutions" to the 'frat' Much interest is being manifested in the forthcoming National Negro Business Men's League meeting to be held in Nashville, Tenn, August 19-21. It is a vigorous movement in the right direction. Business incentives, industrial incentives are the saving conditions. All roads should lead to Nashville. Judge Whallon will. doubtless, be upheld in his effort to surpress lawlessness in this community at any price. Those who are disposed to complain because he is zealous in his duties are making a mistake. What he may assess in fines by days are within the laws, and he is there for the purpose of observing them. Investigation is disclosing the fact that the immigration laws are shamefully imposed on. Notwithstanding the fact that 8,000 paupers were turned back during the past year, it is said that there are no less than 600 in the charitable and penal institutions of New York City In saying that John Edward Bruce editor of the "Impending Comflict," the new magazine, was a relative to the late Senator Bruce. The Freeman erred. We correct the same, hoping the distinguished writer has 'suffered' no inconvenience in the 'interregnum." Dr. Henry W. Furniss, consul to Bahia, Brazil, S. A., is expected in the city, his home, this week for his usual annual vacation. He is the brother of Dr. Sumner Furniss, the well known physician of this city. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted Negro poet is very ill. 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NOTICE--Advertised letters will be held in the Freeman Post Office for FOUR WEEKS ONLY hereafter. LADIES LIST Allen, Miss Maud Morton, Clara Allen, Miss Grace Marion, Glenn Curchill, Miss Min'le Mitchell, Miss Maud Carter, Ethel Mrs Moss, Miss Lana Delco Miss Annie Moss, Miss Lana Delco Miss Elisa Perry, Mrs Eda M Jarris, Miss Eliza Robinson, Madam E Jarris, Miss Mecola Robinson, Bobbie Loua, Laura Roberts, Miss Izale 2 Logan, Miss Maura 1 Moss, Miss Clara Estelle Sullivan, Miss Mollie Morris, Miss Emma 2 # GENTENLEM'S LIST Alexander, Chas F Mopin, Pearl Bostick, W. G. McCabe, W Boneck, W. Cone Moore, John P Boneck, S. E. McCoy, W T Burton, S. E. Olivers Big Min. Show Britton, Joe Perrin, Joe Chaen and Petitt Cartes, W S Perry, Oliver D Cary, W T Pittman, James Chabrooks, undy Primrose, Mr Campbell, J. Price, Clay Dawley, F B Pramplin, Harry Davidson, Joe Rawley, Henry De Leo, Bert Ray, Chip Dixon, W. Harry Davidson, Guy Robert, John English, J A Rice, Eli Freeman, Will Steward, Wm. 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A special actors' fund interview will be given out by Mr. Russell in these columns shortly. The Petitts, Henry and Mattie, magicians, will not go out this season. Many thanks to managers for offers. Clemo Haris, the Cubor back and forward contortionist, has signed with Dale's Trobadours for coming season. Regards to all friends. Every scene used in the rural play, "For Mother's Sake," is carried intact in a specially constructed scenery car, built especially for the company. "For Mother's Sake," in which little Marie Heath will be featured the coming season, is a rural play of "Shore Acres" order, and is said to be one of the New England plays. Harry Royston, with the Hatch and Adams Carnival Company, writes that the company is doing fairly well, considering the rainy weather that they have been having for the past seven weeks. He sends best regards to Marvin Wallace, E. J. Luney and Willie Jones, of the Nashville Students, also members of the Old Plantation Company with the Orinetal Cranial Company. Mallory Bros. & Brooks opened their season at Sans Souci Park, Chicago on Aug. 2, and made a big hit. This is their third season of playing at Sans Souci Park (the finest park in the West), and they have grown to be popular favorites with the patrons. They will play a few vaudeville dates before opening with "The Fenberg Stock Co." in the East. This will be the second season of Malory Bros. & Brooks and Gracie eHalliday with "The Fenberg Co." T. J. Culligan writes: We are twenty-six strong with the best minstrel band in the business. New and elegant first part with silk and satin suits and dresses. The ladies are a great help in our chorus, and they lend novelty and refinement to the whole show. We are featuring the Simon Bonomore acrobatic Arabians, five in number. J. Edward George, general manager; T. J. Culligan, manager. Notes from Cissel-Mines Black Sensation Co. All's well and this week THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER finds us up in the Santa Cruz mountains and enjoying the summer resorts of the Pacific Coast, such as Capitola, Fen Lomand and Santa Cruz. We all had a fine time in the surf at Capitola Beach. All send regards to all friends in and out. Permanent address remains. No. 747 Market street, Cineograph Theater, care Black Sensation Co., San Francisco, Cal. Notes from St. Louis: J. E. Adams and son Steve, Al Hutt, Sallie Lee, Essie Williams and Daisy Lee, all of the P. G. Lowrey No. 2 Concert Company, of the Luella Forepauch Fish Wild West Show, can be reached at J. E. Adams, 105 North Thirteenth street, St. Louis. We closed in Janesville, Wis., July 27th. Notes from the P. C. R. Club, Chil- chaico: Mr. Augustus Stevens was enre- tained at the Eureka Club Tuesday evening, July 28th, the members being as follows: Alphonse Clay- brooks, Arthur Wilson, Chas. S. Cross- er, L. Scott, Jerry Barnes, Sol Tibbs, Mat Turner, Sam Cook, Bennie Jones, J. L. Johnson. Others were present, and all enjoyed a very pleasant even- ing. Notes from A Rabbit Foot Company: Business continues to get bigger than ever. At Birmingham, Ala., we were unable to accommodate the large crowds both matinee and night. Judging from the applause the show well pleased our patrons. Our new Pullman sleeping car is certainly a comfort to us and is the cause of considerable comment everywhere. This is really an all Negro show, and we are making money. The ghost walks every Sunday and our show is well patronized by the best of white and colored ladies and gentlemen. Our success is nothing short of phenomenal, especially when you consider that we are all Negroes and are here in the heart of the South. Not one pale face among us—even our advance agents are colored—but they are it, just the same. Regards to all. The Black Patti Co. opened their eighth season at Elizabeth, N. J., preparatory to their opening at Star Theater, New York, on the 8th. The company includes many new features this season, comprising novelty, musical and travesty acts, Black Patti, of course, being the star feature. The cast includes Robt. A. Kelley, Billy Ward, Wm. Halback, A. D. Byrd, Will A. Cookee, Ida Forcen and J. E. Green. The vehicle of comedy this season is a second edition of Bob Cole's funny farce, "A Darktown Circus" elaborated by J. E. Green this year. Robt. A. Kelley, A. D. Byrd, Allie Gillam and Billy Ward keep the in this sketch going fast and furious. New songs, funny sayings and fascinating stage pictures all go to make up an entire new show. The company includes twelve pretty girls with par-excellent voices. The ollo includes Mack Allen on the slap wire, with ten new tricks; Billy Nichols, mimic; Mme. Jones (the Black Patti), Billy Ward and Georgia Dobbs, in a new sketch, "Life in the Philippines," a realistic tenting scene, embellished by a ladies quartet of Red Cross nuns; Nettie Goff, lady trombonist, and Rob Kelley, the hen roost inspector. The entire performance with selections from grand and comic opera by the Black Patti; Sarah Green, contralto; Ada Robinson, alto; James E. Worles, tenor; A. D. Bury, baritone, and J. P. Reed, basso. Special scenery and costumes for this act. John Nolan precedes the company as executive, R. Voelekle, as executive with company, H. D. Collins, assistant manager, J. A. Haynes, musical director, Sarah Green, wardrobe mistress, and the entire performance staged and directed by J. Ed. Green. The company starts on its regular tour, opening at Star Theater, 8th to 15th. J. Harry Jackson sends the following from New York city: Grant and Grant continues big favorites at the Paradise Gardens. Will Marion Cook, the well known composer of the music used in Williams and Walker's "In Dahomy" Company, accompanied by his accomplished wife, Abbie Mitchell-Cook, returned from Europe last week. Mr. Jules Hurtig, of the firm of Hurtig and Seamon, returned from London last Saturday. He reports that Williams and Walker and their big company have made an enormous hit, hence the company has been booked for a year at the Shaftesbury Theater. Mr. Hurtig states that his firm is thinking very seriously of organizing two more companies, one for Germany and the other for France. Theodore Pankey and Miss Anna Cook, soprano, both members of the Williams and Walker company, were recently married in London, England. Harry P. Brown, the clever eccentric singing comedian, and Tom Lemonier have just finished a sure hit entitled, "Just Parely, Dat's Just All." Mr. Brown announces the following bookings: Week of September 7, Columbus, O.; week of 14th, Empire Theater, Cleveland, O.; week of 21st, Olympic, Chicago; week of 28th, Chicago Opera House; week of October 5, Columbia Theater. St. Louis, Mo. Tommy Carter returned from London, England, last week. Mr. Carter reports a very pleasant trip abroad, also that he will be seen again this season as a member of the Taylor-Farrell trio, with Hurtig & Seamon's Transatlantics. The Golden Gate Quartet, Chas. B. Foster, Emma Thompson, Copes and Clark, the "Watermelon Trust," Jennie Hillman, Mollie Sullivan and Arthur Rhodes constitutes the big colored show at the Electric Park, near Albany, N. Y., this week. "The Smart Set" began rehearsals at Central Hall last Monday morning. Manager Billy McClain promises to outdo the production of last season. A complete roster of the company will appear later. The Clover Leaf Quartet, Messrs. H. L. Frazier, M. T. Hallago, G. Reese. S. G. Baker, are in the city. They have received several offers for the coming season. Clarence W. Logan, the hustling little manager of "Logan's Policy Players," was in the city Sunday. Mr. Logan states that his company has been pleasing large audiences down East. They are at the Electric Park, Newark, N. J., this week. The famous Black Patti Troubadours begin their engagement at the New Star Theater, this city, this afternoon. Besides Mme. Jones (Black Patti), Leslie Triplett, Will Cook and J. Ed Green, Bob A. Kelley, and Billy Ward, will make their debut here with this aggregation. J. Ed Green, the efficient stage director, states that the Troubadours are better than ever. P. P. R. Hendrix's Chicago Notes: I had occasion to attend one of the rehearsals of the Hottest Coon in Dixie Company, and I want to congratulate Mr. Al Hohman for collecting together such a ray of talent. Each performer is an artist. He has a company he can feel proud of, for they sing beautiful, dance with grave and neatness, and the play is beautifully staged. The intention is to surpass any efforts made in the past. Mr. and Mrs. Al Holman send regards to all. ** The Aeolian Quartet are playing Missouri this week, and are meeting with great success. ** The many friends of Pearl Brewer will regret to learn of her illness. ** The Ourslesy open the season with Gideon's Minstrels. ** The Oliver Scott Minstrels is a thing of the past, and is like the old story. He's coming, he's here and he's gone. ** Sol Gibbs will be seen South with some aggregation this season. He is happy and willing. ** Lew Jones and Rance Smith, one of the clearest team teams in the field, are playing return engagements through California. Regards to friends and to Mr. and Mrs. McKissick * and Reese Bros, took out a little vaudeville company for one week or show. We hope the boys will not forget the Chicago representative. ** Mrs. Charles H. Williams, of Kansas City, joined her husband, Charles Williams, of the greatest sketch team, Williams and Stevens, and will be one of the features of the "Hottest Coon in Dixie" Company. Williams and Stevens have just closed with the New Orleans Minstrels, and send regards to Geo. W. Quince and others. ** Owing to lateness our Chicago notes are limited this week. My regards to all. ** Don't forget to subscribe for the Freeman. ** Daddy Love is featuring this week "At the Sound of the Bugle Call," and many other beautiful songs, compositions of the best authors in the country. He can get anything you desire. Write him. He is still booking. Notes of the Pawnee Bill's Wild West Concert, managed by Williams & Jackson, comedians: Williams is making a success singing "Old Black Joe." Jackson is a monologuist. The tramps relate the great success to the country getting an official applause by singing, "I Was There and Had No Business to Be There." Dave Jackson, Hillard Craig is making a tremendous success singing, "I Am Getting More Like the White Folks Every Day." Thomas Gibson, our solo singer, is singing, "Daddy When a Boy." Elijah Jones, old man impersonator, is singing, "I Am Wandering Away from Home." Mr. Harry Thompson, our female impersonator, is singing, "In the Golden Summer Time." The show has made a great success al lover the country under the management of G. W. Sillie, better known as Pawnee Bill. Mr. Richard Barnett, of Orange, N. J., spent Sunday with the show. G. B. Brooks writes from New Orleans Minstrels: We are putting the finishing touches to Arkansas, and for "full houses" she has been a record-breaker this season. All are well with the exception of Mr. Allen, who is very ill at Hot Springs, Ark., and Mr. Oakls, our over-worked treasurer, is in Decatur, Ill., sick, the result of over-work counting the receipts of too many S. R. o houses. But Mr. Quinn, our able manager, with his ever smiling and sunny countenance, dispels the gloom which otherwise would exist. Mrs. Jas. T. Fernando, wife of the late Jas. Fernando, hypnotist, left the show and returned to her home at Atlanta, Ga. a few days ago. Our large concert band, under the direction of Prof. McCammon, is receiving its share of credit from our large audiences nightly. Perry Bradford sends regards to Sank Sims, "Kid" Grant and Frank Inman. The Watts, Lannie and Billy, are still getting theirs in their original act, "The Rednose Coon and His Octo-oon." Sam Johnson sends, regards to Engenia Johnson and says he'll write soon. Grant and Brooks sends regards to Williams and Steveas. Chas. Rue sends regards to Geo. Horas. Ross, our stage carpenter, is coming rapidly to the front. Prof. J. H. McCammon sends regards to Frank Castry and R. O. Henderson and says write. Mrs. Hattie Garland is singing "The Banquet in Misery Hall." It's a screaming success. Napoleon Johnson sends the following from the Richard & Pringle's Georgia Minstrels: We are now on our twenty-eighth annual tour, and judging from the business and comments of the past week the show is a winner. Our company for season of 1903 and 1904 has for its star and principal comedian, S. H. Dudley, who is 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 MONEY YOU'D BE A MILLIONAIRE" Irvise Jones' famous success. "HOME AINT NOTHING LIKE THIS." "IN SUNNY AFRICA" "HAS YOUR MOTHER ANY MORE LIKE YOU?" Professionals are respectfully requested to write to the publisher, LEO FEIST, Feist Bldg., 134 W. 37th Street New York, and don't forget that "YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A 'FEIST' SONG." WE MAKE ENGRAVINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR PRINTING PURPOSES. SEND US YOUR PHOTO AND $1.25 AND WE'LL SEND YOU A HALF-TONE LIKE THE ONE OPPOSITE. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. 23-25 W. PEARL ST. INDIANAPOLIS. Twenty Musicians, Two Strong Teams (Men) One Sketch Team, Six End Men. Name lowest salary. Tickets advanced to responsible parties to any part of the United States. GEO. W. QUINE, Manager. Arthur I Juggler and Introducing seemingly impossible feature Mahara's North WAN For Terry's Uncle Colored people who can sing and dance Long engagement. Terry's Uncle T Juggler and Hoop Roller Introducing seemingly impossible feats of ambidexterity. Now en route with Mahara's Northern Minstrels. Colored people who can sing and dance cake walk. Must be sober and reliable. Long engagement. Address J. D. CHUNN, Mgr. Terry's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company, CONCORDIA, KAN. Coming Soon, "A Rabbit's Foot Co" The Funniest Colored Show on Earth, See it and be convinced. A. B. Can use good performers and musicians, male and female, at all times. 38 foot com- bination car for cheap for cash -will eat and sleep 26 people. Will buy baggage car. P. s. -Can place good stenographer quick. Address PAT CHAPPELLE, The freeman, as admitted by all Negro newspapers, is the peer of weekly journals. Are you a subscriber? If not, why not? ORIGINAL, Only FOR ALL BLOOD PURELY VEGETONIC ONCE. ce. January 20, 1901. Cures Rheumatic Cancer. E H. H. H. ORIGINAL, Only Sure Cure FOR ALL BLOOD POISONS PURELY VEGETABLE GREATEST TONIC ON EARTH H. H. H. Co. He can truthfully testify to the merits of H. H. H. as a cure for Rheumatism. I suffered severely and was unable to work, being compelled to quit my position as switchman for the Chicago Junction Railway at the stock yards. H. H. H. has cured me. Having been again strong and active, Your truly 105.0 E. E.孝堡. LOUIS RHODE. --- also our stage manager and amusement director, with Clarence Powell, the big mouth comedian, as assistant. Mr. Rusco, who has personally handled the show for the past season in the managerial capacity, will leave in a few days to be with his new company, "For Mother's Sake," with Marie Heath in title roll. This season nothing has been left undone to keep up the high standing of this company in presenting to the public everything that is neat and clean in minstrelsy, and much credit is due Mr. Dudley for his unique and original ideas as shown in the first part setting, and his laughing after-piece, "Jim Jackson in the Policy Shop." First part—synopsis: Reception is: The Royal Poincaré, showing the Hotel Royal Poincaré, Palm Beach, Florida, the largest hotel in the world. Reception given in honor of noted guests sitting upon the lawn facing the grand entrance. Original music and opening chorus by S. H. Dudley. Menu: Bones, Clarence Powell, Bunk Campbell, P. Bartlett, J. Means, conversationalist, Wm. Garland; tambos, S. H. Dudley, Dude Kellou, first edition, Kelley and Campbell; second edition, Kelley and Campbell; during the reception the following songs are introduced: Grand opening chorus by company; "On Emancipation Day," Dude Kelley; "Alar of Friendship," Thomas Jones; "My Jungle Queen," Bunk Campbell, "Down on the Farm," Wm. Garland. Arrival of the head waiters, S. H. Dudley and C. Powell. "Seeing Is Believing," and "Oh My," by Clarence Powell; "Chink of the Miser's Gold," Wm. Goode; "Eat, Drink and Be Merry," and "Run, Chicken, Run," S. H. Dudley. Intermission five minutes. Overture medley, by Prof. Ralph Nichols's orchestra. Part second—the vaudeville: The Great Boomsky—pulit of Herman the Great. The Campbell Brothers, the black aristocrats, Simpson & Pittman, the musical cadets, introducing Fred Simpson, the great trombone soloist. Dudley and Kelley, in their new kit entitled "I'm Hungry" assisted by Miss Ormes. John W. Cooper and his wooden-head company, the triplevoiced fellow. Clarence Powell, with a new budget. Harry Kraton, the hoop collector, assisted by J. Johnson. The whole to conclude with S. H. Dudley's side splitting and revised version of playing policy, entitled "Jim Jackson in the Policy Shop." The staff for Rusco & Holland is as follows: O. F. Gould, manager; Rube Blumberg, treasurer; W. H. Bullen, agent; Chas. Davis, assistant agent; Frank Clermont, leader of band; C. Powell, master of transportation; Ralph Nichols, leader of orchestra; Napoleon Johnson, mail man and Freeman correspondent; S. H. Dudley, stage manager and amusement director. The band is as follows: Director, Frank Clermont; cornets, J. F. Anderson, Rich E. H. Hays, Chas. Scott, Tommy Lewis, saxaphones, Chas. Parker, Alphos, Guiguesetse; trombones, Fred Johnson, John Pittman, Geo. Israel; snare drum, Manzie Campbell; bas drum, Pete Stanley; cymbals, S. H. Sooten; baritone, Fred Campbell; tubas, Wm. Garland, Frank Castery; altos, Patrick Bartlett, Ralph Nichols, F. L. Denton, N. Johnson; clarionets, GEO. Horace, Geo. Baquet, Wall Williams. Orchestra: Director, Ralph Nichols; second violin, Tommy Lewis, violin, John Pittman; cello, A. Guluessee; double bass, Frank Castery; saxaphone, Chas. Parker; trombone, Fred Simpson; cornets, Frank Clermont, Rich Hays; trap drum, Pete Stanley; clarionets, Geo. Horace, Geo. Baquet. All are well and as we have a number of friends in K. C., it is to be seen what a time we will have there. Hello, Williams and Stevens, I failed to get an answer. Notes from Sig. Sautelle's New Big Railroad Shows, Dept. of Annex: Manager Jas. A. Morrow claims that the big colored first part under the direction of Lumford Davis, is the best and most successful he has ever had. It is clean, up-to-date and interesting, and never falls to make good. Three and four encores occur at each performance. We use two big stages for the first part. The settings are beautiful. The side show tent is 60x120—16 banner front; four ticket sellers and 27 people furnish the program. The roster is as follows: Jas. A. Morrow, manager; Goat Smith, John McBride, Lew J. Wack and Ralph Lane, ticket sellers; Art Millard, ticket collector; Chas. Hillert, magic; Joe Craner, rubber man; Harry Moulton, ventilolquist; Bessie Bailey, snake charmer; Mile. Eolis, pin bag) pincher; Geo. Mellivan, tattooed man, sabre and sword swallower; May Ellis and Gertie Sands, dancers; Luw Davis and his colored band orchestra singers, dancers and coon shouters. Lumford Davis would like to hear from Jas. H. Harris, of Cincinnati, O. FRANK HOLTON HOLTON SPECIAL SLIDE TROMBON and other High Grade Band Instruments. Send for new Catalogue containing valuable advice for musicians and monthly bargain list of second hand instruments. WILEY G. ALEXANDER Arranger and Copyist of Music :: :: :: 306 29th Street. CHICAGO, ILL Records Broken Everywhere are making the people talk everywhere, We are fooling them. 'I told you so,' wise ones (?) The press everywhere say it is the best colored minstrel show in the wide wide world. Lookout for RUSCO & HOLLAND'S big surprise, due shortly. Arthur L. Prince For Terry's Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., Cures Rheumatism, Catarrh, Erysipelas, Cancer, Eczema, Syphilis, Ringworm, Scrofula. FEMALE IRREGULARITIES Weakness and Debility. Price $1 00 bottle 6 for $5 00. If Drugist does not have it order at once from H. H. H. CO, Lock P. O Box 732 ATLANTA, GA. Write for Free Books and Facts. Camden, Ark., August 3d. Stamps, Ark., August 4th. Texarkana, Ark., August 5th. Mt. Pleasant, Texas, August 6th. Mt. Vernon, Texas August 7th. Sulphur Springs, Texas, August 8th. Sherman, Texas, August 10th. White Wright, Texas, August 11th. Wolf City, Texas, August 12th. Commera, Texas, August 13th. Granville, Texas, August 14th. Plano, Texas, August 15th. L. Prince Hoop Roller of ambidexterity. Now en route with Nern Minstrels. UNITED Tom's Cabin Co., take walk. Must be sober and reliable. Address J. D. CHUNN, Mgr.. Tom's Cabin Company, CONCORDIA, KAN. THE ORIGINAL Alabama Blossom JOHN RUCKER will appear this season in the big production, "STAIN OF GUILT" under the management of Mr. John H. Havlin and Mr. Wm. Garen. WELLS' EBONY BELLES' COMPANY Now Booking for Season —1903-1904— Write immediately, MIKE WELLS, care of The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. PLAY TO WIN Everting guide of our brave, "Paper" One per pair. Dear Mrs. J. A. P. L. Lester, Surgeon-in-chief, Counselor, Jail, Jail, 40220000, N.Y.C. Mail No. 500 Sure Cure POISONS GETABLE EARTH FARM&HOME. SEED CORN. Home Grown Seed—How to Select It. Typical Ears. From experiment and careful study the Iowa experiment station finds: First.—That it is very important that we should depend upon home grown seed for the main part of the crop and not upon imported seed. Second.—That we should select ears of corn for seed which have kernels of 1 2 KERNELS OF UNIFORM SHAPE AND SIZE. [Ears Nos. 1 and 2 have kernels of uniform size and shape, and when the butts and tips were shelled off the planter dropped three kernels to a hill ninety-three to ninety-five times out of every hundred tests.] as nearly uniform size and shape as possible; otherwise it will be impossible to secure an even stand with any planter. Third.—Do not fail to test the planter thoroughly with the seed you intend 3 2 1 DEPTH OF KERNELS. [The kernels on ear No. 1 are nearly the same depth from tip to butt, while the kernels on ear No. 2 grow rapidly shorter toward the tip. The kernels on ear No. 3 are small, shallow and flinty, little larger than grains of popcorn, and will run through the planter about like wheat. When these three ears were shelled together and tested in the planter, there was a range of all the way from two to seven kernels per hill.] to use and stay with it until it drops regularly the number of kernels required in each hill. Fourth.—Test the vitality or germinating power of all corn intended for seed. This is especially important this year. Fifth.—In case any seed corn is purchased from seedsmen insist on having it shipped to you in the ear, either in crates or in barrels. Why Ben Davis Still Flourishes. While people are condemning the Ben Davis and wondering why it is still planted in this country to the exclusion of other and better apples, we always remember what David Brothers said of it: "it is red and no apple, although it may combine all the good qualities of a dozen of the best varieties, can hope to be popular if it is not red—the public will have none of it. It is large, fine looking and if bruised the spot turns corky instead of decaying. The tree comes into bearing early, is hardy and rarely yields to yield a good crop. A given number of Ben Davis trees in a certain period will give a much larger money return than any other variety. True, it sells for only about half what that queen of beauty, the Jonathan, brings, but then we have the Ben Davis to sell nearly every year, while the others are uncertain quantities. So long as the public demands it and ignores quality why should the fruit grower try to cultivate its taste at his own expense?"—Field and Farm. When rape is grown as a secondary or catch crop, it will not often be possible to pay much attention to the preparation of the soil and the time and THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. method of seeding, and the quantity of seed used may be varied to suit the circumstances. Often fine rape may be grown on land that has already produced a crop of some of the early maturing cereals, such as rye, oats or barley. As soon as the crop of grain is removed the land is plowed or disked and at once seeded to rape. Field peas and other early maturing forage crops or rye or winter oats that have been pastured off in spring may also be followed by rape with profitable results. Each year finds the area in which rape is grown extended until now it includes much of the spring wheat region of the northwest, where it is grown chiefly as a catch crop after spring grain. THE ORIGINAL HORSE Five Toed, Monkey Toothed and Ashley Simons, Ph.D. About the Size of a House Cat. In a paper prepared by W. D. Matthews, associate curator of paleontology in the American Museum of Natural History at New York, an interesting account is given of the origin of the horse. Mr. Matthews says that the earliest known ancestors of the horse were small animals not larger than the domestic cat, with four complete toes on each forefoot and three on each hind foot. There is reason to believe that the still more ancient ancestors of this and all other mammals had five toes on each foot. The teeth were short crowned and covered with low, rounded knobs of enamel, suggesting those of monkeys and of pigs or other omnivorous animals. The horse is distinguished from all other animals now living by the fact that it has but one toe on each foot. Comparison with other animals shows that this toe is the third or middle digit on the foot. The hoof corresponds to the nail of a man or the claw of a dog or cat and is broadened out to afford a strong support on which the whole weight of the animal rests. "In the series of ancestors of the horse," writes Mr. Matthews, "we can trace every step in the evolution of those marked peculiarities of teeth and feet which distinguish the modern horse from an ancestor which so little suggests a horse that when its remains were first found forty years ago the animal was named by the great paleontologist Richard Owen the hyracotherium, or 'conevlike beast.'" A picture shows a restoration of the oldest known ancestor of the modern horse. It was only sixteen inches high and had four toes on each foot. The skeleton is mounted in the American museum. All the remains of native horses that have been found in America have been petrified, showing that they had been buried for many thousands of years. Mr. Matthews states that all "these horses became extinct both in North and South America. Why we do not know. The competition with the bison and the antelope, which had recently migrated to America, may have made it more difficult than formerly for the American horse to get a living." The wild horse at present is found only on the desert plains of central Asia and Africa. There are no true wild horses in America or Australia. Mr. Matthews points out, because the mustangs and bronchos are domesticated animals run wild and are descended from the horses brought over from Europe by the early white setters. The great increase in the size of the horse, Mr. Matthews argues, went hand in hand with the evolution of the plains themselves. At the commencement of the age of mammals the western part of the North American continent was by no means as high above sea level as now. The climate at that time was probably very moist, warm and tropical, there was a dense forest growth, and to these conditions the animals of the beginning of the mammalian period must have been adapted. During the tertiary the continent was steadily rising above the ocean RESTORATION OF FOUR TOED HORSE. level, and at the same time other influences were at work to make the climate continually colder and drier. The coming on of a cold, dry climate restricted and thinned the forests and caused the appearance and extension of open, grassy plains. The ancient forest inhabitants were forced either to retreat and disappear with the forests or to adapt themselves to the new conditions of life. The ancestors of the horse, following the latter course, changed with the changing conditions. At the end of the age of mammals the continents stood at a higher elevation than at present, and there was a broad land connection between Asia and North America, as well as those now existing. At this time the horse became cosmopolitan and inhabited the plains of all the great continents excepting Australia. FARM CONVENIENCES. A Two Wheeled Barrow or Cart—A Handy Hauling Crate. The wheelbarrow is one of the things no farmer who has much feeding or other heavy carrying to do can be without unless, of course, he has something better. For nearly everything a two wheeled cart is handier and easier to handle than a barrow, according to an Ohio Farmer correspondent, and he tells how to make this (and also a handy hauling crate) as follows: There is the material for the construction of FARM HAND CART. one on nearly every farm, and the farmer himself can construct it on some rainy day or idle spell. For running gears a broken down or disused cultivator—most farmyards have two or three—furnishes the best of wheels. A handy width is from three to four feet, varying of course with the use the cart is to be put to. If to be used by the boys of the farm, it should not be large. The handles are bolted to the axle and a frame made of 2 by 4's bolted to the axle and handles. This frame should set so that about a third of its length will reach in front of the axle. This will give the proper balance when pushing a load. A platform of inch boards is nailed to the frame and an end put on by means of straps of iron to insure strength. Removable side boards are made of wide boards. Holes are bored, three along each side of the platform. Pins are driven into the bottom of the side boards to correspond and fit into the holes in the bottom of the platform. At the upper side, on the front end of the board, is a staple into which a hook, fastened to the front end of the box, slips when in place and holds it firm. There are many places about a farm where this cart will be found convenient. The figure shows the cart complete and one of the side boards. It is often convenient to have a crate in which to haul a single hog, sheep or calf. It is not necessary to have it so large or so heavy but that it can be easily lifted into the wagon or even taken in the light wagon where the animal to be hauled is not too large and heavy. The frame should be made of 2 by 4, strengthened by rods and bolts. Four inch slats are nailed horizontal on the inside of the sides and perpendicular on the end. Three slats dropped from above and retained in position by the mortised end will retain the animal when inside. The crate is about three feet wide, four and a half feet high and five feet long. The three frames are mortised at top and bottom and have a rod (A) at top, and at the bottom two 2 by 4's are bolted at B. The floor is spiked down to these. The slats are nailed on from the inside to prevent crowding LIGHT STOCK CRATE. off. To give strength substitute a 2 by 4 in place of slat (D), which should be bolted to the frames. The slats for retaining the animal are made of 2 by 4$. They are made to slip down between the rod and outside 2 by 4 brace across the top of the rear frame, the bottom of the slat (C) mortised to fit a square hole cut on the floor and the top held in position by a pin fitting into holes bored through the top of slat and braces of frame. The figure shows the crate complete. It Pays to Raise Pig Pork. Those who have made a speciality of pig pork have done well at it. "Killing twice a year" is the way for us to do now. The way some of the old farmers who fatted pork ran out their business was putting the last pound of fat on a 400 pound hog that was a year or more old. Many years ago a little girl who was quite observing said about hogs, "They are funny animals, for they have to be killed every year." It must be twice a year that hogs should be killed now. Pig pork is the thing, and it will pay to raise it.—New England Farmer. Winter Wheat and Rye. 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I have been troubled very much with insomnia since I made the change to the new paper and on account of this have tried various remedies without relief. I was finally induced by a doctor who had a special kind of mine, to try Nervine. I can assure you it has done me a lot of good. I do not find it necessary to use it regularly now but occasionally when I find that I am excessively nervous and restless I again take it up as I always keep a supply on hand. It has never failed to give me the desired relief."—A. Huegin, Wise publisher "Daily Free-Press" Milwaukee. All drugstores sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhar, Ind. wheat on April 1 to have been 97.3 against 78.7 on April 1, 1902, 91.7 at the corresponding date in 1901 and 82.1 the mean of the April averages of the last ten years. The average condition of winter rye on April 1 was 97.9 against 85.4 on April 1, 1902, 93.1 at the corresponding date in 1901 and 87.9 the mean of the April averages of the last ten years. News of the Week. Ft. Reno, O. T., special: The B. M. Club gave a fishing party July 15. Very few fish were caught, but every one had a good time. The party was made up by Sergeant L. S. King and wife, Sergeant J. S. Anderson and lady, Corp'l C. W. Owens and wife, Sergeants Reynolds, Lewis and Catching, Corp'l Summerfield and wife, and Private Van Buren and wife. * * A grand military ball was given at the post hall July 18, in honor of the return of Corp'l C. W. Owens and bride from South America. The bride was Miss Bertha Harris, of Trenton, N. J. * * Sergeant E. Reynolds and Corporal D. German, of Company F, are on the sick report. * * Company F's baseball team is still in the field. * * Gen. Nelson A. Miles paid Ft. Reno a visit the 14th inst. 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