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One of the Many: The one insertion of our 3 line advertisement was a record breaker as it brought us orders for 33 books.--Star Book Company, Zero Tenn THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL JUDICIAL LIBRARY ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 12. AT AN ACUTE STAGE AN EVIL PICTURE THAT HAS A SILVER LINING A CONSTIUTIONAL RIGHTS FIGHT Through Tact and Industry in the South and Ballot-box and Reciprocity in the North—The Issues Clearly Made up—Sharps and Flats. (By Our Special Staff Correpondent.) The lynching question in this country has reached the acute stage. The uneuually atrocious features of the stabbing and burning of two Negro men and an innocent woman of the race near Doddsville, Miss, the uncalled-for lynching and race riot at Springfield, O., and the desperate attempt to unlawfully put to death a black prisoner at Peoria, Ill.,—all happening within a fortnight—have wrought the nerves of the nation up to the highest tension, and the snapping point does not seem far off. These incidents, following the long line of similar outrages, have laid bare the savage tendencies of the unrestrained populace that threaten America's boasted civilization, and the wise ones of the whites are alternately alarmed, chagrined and ashamed of the awful exhibit, after one hundred and twenty-eight years of free Christian (?) institutions on this side of the Atlantic, besides centuries of religious development on the other. It is not strange that the Negres themselves are in a fever of anxiety over the repeated assaults that have been inflicted upon them North, East, West and South, not only at the hands of infuriated mobs, but by inquisitive legislation and humiliating discriminations. With suffrage depilation invading new territory, Jim crow car laws adopted by additional states, colors more tightly drawn in hotels, restaurants, the剧院 and all places of public accommodation—to say nothing of our exclusion from decent employment in business houses and denial of admission to the skilled branches of organized labor—the situation has grown almost intolerable. It is but natural that among the varied elements that comprise the Negro population there should be mutterings of discontent, loud complaint, vehement denunciations or a stolid, but ominous silence, according to the temperament of the individual. Were the colored people less docile, less patient, or less tactful, a storm would have broken out long ago, in consequence of these unspeakable outrages. Let it be said, nevertheless, to the credit of the whitepress, particularly of the South—where one might expect such crimes against humanity be excused or condoned—that its voice has gone up in earnest protests against the wanton murder of black men and women who are merely accused, not convicted, of offenses that can be adequately punished by the courts. In a few instances the Caucasian pulpit has "explored" these barricade episodes, but considering the weight of moral responsibility for the conservation of Christian civilization resting upon the preachers of the word, the ministry, neither North or South, has not spoken out with that fearlessness and vigor that inspire confidence or respect for its sincerity. The white pulpit, be it said in sorrow, throughout the last decade has been woefully remix in its duty toward the oppressed black brother, and has not shown one-half the courage that has characterized the press in moulding public sentiment in favor of equality of citizenship for all Americans. Henry Ward Beecher is sadly missed in this generation of ministerial cowardice. We have some brave friends, however, among the whites all over the country, whose voices and pens are buoy in our behalf, and it is to their saving influence that we look for the dawn of a brighter day. But the Negro pulpit is not silent in this crisis, and the race press is not losing a single point in the combat for right principles. Within the past few days our churches have echoed with supplication to the Almighty for a return of the spirit of Summer, Phillips and Lincoln, and our papers have teamed with editors calligraphy the nation back to its ancient moorings of protection to life, liberty and happiness of its people, regardless of race, color or previous condition. Despite the general eloquence towards well-tempered discussion and soberness of counsel, perhaps more strongly than at any period since the civil war, there is an impulse of reprisal in the air, and a dogged determination has been formed that a policy of aggressive resistance, if not revenge must take the place of submission and toleration. Rev. F. M. Jacobs, of the A. M. E. Zion Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., startled the country last Sunday with the sensational declaration that the Negro's proper recourse now was to the torch, the sword and the bayonet, averring that the race could come into its own through no other way than that by which other races and nations had acquired their rights—by fighting for them, by shedding their blood in defence of their God-given heritage. This radical utterance has had some effect among the rashly-belligerent, but the far-sighted and sagacious leaders of our people, like Booker T. Washington, whatever their grievances, cannot endorse a program of retaliation, which is not apt to lead to the permanent establishment of just principles, or inure to the advantage of stable government. For more significant and convincing is the sander utterance of Bishop William Benjamin Derrick, in an eloquent pronouncement of farewell to the New York A. M. E. Conference, over which he has presided for a number of years. For a quarter of a century Bishop Derrick has been a leavening force in the religious and political life of the United States, although born under the British flag, and his views on any subject are always entitled to careful consideration, if not to entire acceptance. Attacks of mobs, lynchings and burnings of Negroes, unchecked by a powerless national authority and unredressed by impotent officers of the law, have destroyed his usual hopefulness, and he confesses that America offers us nothing worth surviving for. He points to Africa or another land across the sea for the tortured and weary sons of Ham. With a pathos that was truly thrilling and most impressive Bishop Derrick said: "Forty-two years ago I stood ankle-deep in blood in the fight between the Merrimac and Monitor, and the blood of my comrades flowed upon me as they were slaughtered in the defense of this nation, and yet the nation, although we fought to save the American flag, declares that we are not citizens, and affords us no protection. We cannot but help feeling badly over the situation. This is no country for us. "I do not advocate retaliation, but we should stand up manfully and protest and appeal to the few friends that we have left to see to it that we get justice since we are here. "They tell me this is a land of Christianity and of civilization, when here those who are supposed to be the leaders of religion and civilization will take a woman and burn her at the stake and then murder her husband, and then murder preaching too much peace and brotherly love upon us as the Negro shows too much of this spirit the white man says he is a coward. The manly man strikes back. "We demand manhood rights—net black manhood rights nor white manhood rights. I do not ask for social equality or amalgamation, but for our own choice of selection as to taste and fitness. I want everything that any other man may have. But the man who cannot be just to us because he has in him none of the spirit of Christ." These are burning war and with the Mississippi and Ohio horrors fresh in memory and the disappointing evasion of the Negro suffrage issue by the United States Supreme Court ringing in our ears, linked with the scriptive laws and ante-bellum traditions that narrow our sphere of opportunity daily, the impassioned deliverance of the distinguished New York prelate cannot but strike a responsive chord in many Negro hearts. There are no two opinions as to the gravity of our situation. The way out, however, is the problem that presses for solution. To leave the country, as Bishop Derrick suggests, and as Bishop Turner has long advocated, is beside the question. There is no place for us to go where our trials would be less or our opportunities greater than they are on this soil—in this massive republic we have labored to build up and fought to maintain. We cannot leave, and we can gain nothing by resorting to a campaign of violence and vengeance. But, we can and must take a determined stand for our rights under the constitution, and appeal unceasingly to the courts and to an enlightened sense of justice everywhere for a man's chance in the battle of life. We can and must be more closely united than in the past, and we can develop for ourselves enterprises that will prove helpful in sustaining our physical existence and promoting both our material and spiritual happiness, Fight? Yes. We can and ought to fight to the last ditch—but our weapons should be those of the peace loving, law abiding industrious and public spirited citizen. Our sword should be the text book, our guns the INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1904. I MUST DO MY DUTY. NO MATTER WHAT THE "COST" MAY BE AW. GO HOW MEN. After taking "duty" pills. Before taking "duty" pills. trained mind and the skilled hand, and our fortress the school house, the church, the tidy farm and the counting room. In the Soutland, our speediest line to honorable recognition lies in cultivating friendly relations with the upper classes of our neighbors, and by continuing to impress upon them our moral and industrial worth, and to more and more demonstrate our indispenability to the economic uplift of that future great section. I am not willing to believe that the white people, as a whole, are our enemies, and we should take pains to discover our friends, and justify their confidence in us by co operating with them in all their efforts for civic betterment. It is safe to follow to the letter the philosophy and teachings of Booker T. Washington. In the North, in addition to intelligent industry and general usefulness in professional and religious avenues, our stronghold should be the ballot-box. There our wrongs can be made secure. Our alliance should invariably be with the champions of law and order and our lives should be typical of our conception of the dignity residing in true citizenship. Suffrage is not a boon to be used recklessly. From President of the United States down to constable the tickets in the field should be scanned with critical eye, and no man whose record is not clean upon the paramount question of human rights should be given our sanction to occupy the White House, to sit in congress, state legislature or a city council; nor should he be assisted by a single Negro vote to administer any function of government from signing a tariff bill to impounding a yellow dog. This is drastic, but it is essential. It is not playing politics in the ordinary understanding of the term. It is simply self-preservation, to which no sensible man can object. We have friends, and we perform only a bounded duty when we back them up solidly at the polls, and prevent them from being martyred for their liberality by the prejudice of the Negro hating horde, no matter they may be. Men can better afford to be honest when they can be so without heavy sacrifice. Yes, we can and ought to fight for our constitutional guarantees, but with the peaceful and lawful armament just describ. ed, handled with unfinchinching courage, diplomatic persistence, and an abiding faith in the innate love of justice that lies deep in the soul of every right thinking man. Let us trust in the Higher Pow.-r, believe in ourselves and resist at every turn the blandishments of the electoral corruption, and putaside the temptations that lower our value as desirable citizens. Here upon our own adopt-d Fatherland we must work out our salvation. Expatriaction, deportation and segregation are alike impossible. Today is dark, and even the morrow is threatening, but there is light ahead. My great and good friend of the Kentucky Standard, Lawyer Albert S. White-in contiuing an argument that my previous comment aimed to close, pays some more hand- some compliments to the life and work of Fredrikok Gouglass and Booker T. Washington. I am pleased beyond expression that Mr. White finds so much in the careers of both the dead and the living chieftains to inspire so sincere an admiration, and so move him to strong urgency that each be gixen his full measure of appreciation by the race they served so well. I would rather add praise to the fame of Doughlass than to take away one jot or title, and Washington needs no enology at the expense of any man of the past or present. I deprecate invidious comparisons, however, that might lead to confusion, and which serve no very useful purpose at any time. The relative greatness of Doughlass and Washington along technical lines is scarcely a fitting or pertinent theme for extended discussion. Let us land the one for the good he has done, and encourage the other for the good that he is doing. Historians may institute proper camarisons "when life's fifth fever is o'er." SHARPS AND FLATS: Booker T. Washington is in receipt of an invitation to address the next meeting to be held under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture of Nebraska in January 1905 Arrangements are already being perfected through the associated dean in charge of agricultural education at the Agricultural Experiment Station of the state of Nebraska. There is a steady growth of interest in this important branch of industry, and the Negro should not lose sight of his part therein "The Ship," Mrs. Maggie Whiteman. Steward's trim journalistic craft which was burned to the water's edge recently has risen Phoenix like from its ashes and denoted new rigging from bowspirit to rudder. It now hails from the Virginia end of the town of Bristol, where Mrs. Stewart says she feels more at home than in the Tennessee end of the harbor, where the vessel was formerly anchored. Here's to you for fair sailing in the future, Friend "Ship!" The recent Republican Congressional Convention in the fifth district of Alabama numbered fifty-two delegates, one-third of whom were Negroes. This is the district in which Tuskegee is located. J. O. Thompson and John W. Jones, two white men of the right stripe, go as delegates to the Chicago convention. Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Washington City's famous educator, was dined in state by representative citizens while in New York recently, attending an educational convention. The guests included Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop, Charles Moten, Frederick Johnson, Miss Eva Burleigh and others. The colored man abroad is coming into his own. M. Gerville Resche, a Negro, representing the Island of Guadeloupe, is one of the four vice-presidents of the French Chamber of Deputies. He has been prominent in journalistic and political life for a quarter of a century. Virginia is trying to exclue Negroes from the Pullman cars by an adroitly worded state law to give the railroad officials SINGLE COPY--SIX MONTHS, $56.01 ONE YEAR, $1.50 PRICE FIVE CENTS power to object persons who, in their judgment, should not be allowed to ride. This does seem to approach the limit, for fair. Our women in New York and other sections of the country are taking up the outgel against lynching. Their protest is earnest, and should be effective in wiping out this national disgrace. I am wondering if the United Supreme Court would be able to preceive any "federal aspect" in the dynamiting of the post office at Humphreys, Arkansas, where a Nacro postmaster held forth. Bethel Literary Society, of Washington, shows signs of returning to its erswell dignity and praise by reason of the vigorous castigation it has been receiving at the hands of the national press. The "degenerates" of the white race who refuse to rent or sell decent houses to worthy and palmstaking Negroes are due a round of exorcism at the hands of all lovers of fair play. Bishop Turner has just celebrated his seventieth anniversary. His giant mind is as vigorous as ever, and his faith in the possibilities of the Dark Continent is unimpaired. Does the North know that by its toleration of lynching and its silence in the face of the rape of the Negro's civil rights it is murturing the seeds of a possible revolution? In defeating the Northern Securities railroad Merger, President Roosevelt administers the trusts a stunning blow, and wins another decisive personal victory. Temperance has an economic as well as a moral value. No one wishes to employ a man who is not in a condition to do business soberly when he is needed. A few bottles of Harris' blood tonic might do Bishop Brown, of Arkansas, a mint of good. Negrophobia has disordered his liver and enlarged his spleen. If a Negro could have the choosing of a grandfather, he might stand some show for qualifying as a voter under Maryland's new constitution. Mr. Joseph H. Douglass, the eminent violinist, appears in Louisville, Ky., April 4, for the benefit of the Church of Our Merciful Saviour. The poor white man makes a big mistake in not making common cause with his oppressed brother in black. The gifted Negro correspondent is multiplying like the fabled leaves of Vallambrosa. Those "Equality" pictures should be taken off the market. Education that does not produce results is sadly misplaced. Don't forget the needs of the other man, R. W. THOMPSON. A Chance For All. For a short time only we will send to any address in the United States on Canada, postage prepaid, Booker T. Washington's great book "Up From Slavery," and The Freeman one year for $1.75 address The Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana. UPLIFTING THE RACE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON POINTS TO PATHWAY OF PROGRESS LEADERS MUST GET TOGETHER Following in the Pathway of Every Other People Who Have Overcome Apparently Insurmountable Obstacles in Working Upwards. Washington, D. C., March 20, 1904.—"If we are unworthy, no force can push us forward; if we are worthy, no power can stay our progress." With these words Dr. Booker T. Washington Thursday night put "the last analysis" of the race question in a nutshell, and, continuing, eloquently appealed to his audience of a hundred and sixty representative colored men to emphasize the bright side of the problem, to point out over the darkened way new gleams of light and truth, to strive to achieve success in every walk of life, and "in the end receive from the world the plaudits of success" The greeting given Dr. Washington, the leader and tribute of his people, at Odd Fellows' Hall, on M street Northwest, by Washington's most prominent and representative colored citizens must have gladdened his heart. The banquet was the largest and most important function of the kind ever given here in honor of a colored citizen, and was intended by the promoters to attest the esteem, confidence and loyalty of the Negro people of the District of Columbia. The hall was decorated with flags, palms, flowers and bunting in abundance. Sylvester Thomas' orchestra rendered a program during the evening. GUESTS FROM A DISTANCE. After a reception of one-half hour the party retired to the banquet room at 7:30 o'clock. Seated at the guest's table with Dr. Washington were the following prominent colored men, who came to Washington in compliment to the guest of the evening: T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age and president of the National Afro-American Council; J. Douglas Wetmore, member of the city council and attorney at law, Jacksonville, Fla.; Alderman J. B. Raymond, Altoona, Pa.; Charles W. Anderson, supervisor of racing accounts, New York, N.Y.; Philip Waters, assistant secretary of the State Supreme Court, Charles tion, W. Va.; Bishop B. W. Arnett, of Ohio; Attorney E. A. Johnson, Raleigh, N. C.; John E Taylor, Wilmington, N. C.; Emmet J. Scott, Dr. Washington's private secretary; H. S Cummings and Hiram Wattey, of Baltimore, while just 160 subscribers, representing the best brains and character, as well as all lines of business, educational and religious activity among the Negro people of the District, occupied other tables. Justice R. H. Terrell presided as toastmaster. His address in introducing Dr. Washington sounded the keynote of all of the responses. Justice Terrell said in part: ADDRESS OF INTRODUCTION. A little more than a quarter of a century ago our leader in thought and action believed that the way to the solution of our problem was so clear and so definite that it was not within the scope of probability that any serious obstacles would again obstruct it. The exercise of effective political rights by the Negro at that time made this belief not only reasonable, but seemed to lift the whole question of our future out of the realms of doubt, and to take it out of the field of speculative uncertainty. But time in its rapid flight tests and changes many things. We have moved forward to new issues and new duties. We are face to face with the greatest crisis of our history as a free people. Day by day, hour by hour, our burdens are increasing. The greater they become, the broader and deeper must be our responsibilities. Every one here tonight appreciates the fact that grave dangers are upon us; that this is no time for fighting each other, but it is the time for closing up our ranks and presenting a united front to those who would embarrass us and impede our progress. This splendid gathering of representative men is the best attestation of what the citizens of the District of Columbia think of Booker T. 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In part he said that waiters "should not remain in one place longer than from three to six months"; "he should be a globe trotter." He did not state to him how to have a bank account while trotting around the world, how to secure a home or how to invest in business enterprises of any kind. He should do nothing but learn the art of table service, and after so doing cease "trotting," as he terms it, and I add, to the poor farm. In my estimation, at the speed he has been going, he has not prepared himself for any other place. I did think I would answer Mr. Goins word for word, but am safe in saying it would be useless to do so. I would like for every reader of the hotel fraternity to read the advice of Mr. Goins in the issue of March 12th. I will challenge the gentleman for any amount from $100 to $5,000, providing he has picked up that much while trotting around the globe, as he says all should do, that every proprietor, manager, steward and headwaiter of ordinary intelligence will agree with me that Mr. Goins' advice to waiters and young headwaiters is a disgrace to the hotel fraternity, and he should change his name from Goins to Going. He should keep going until he goes out of the business, take in his shingle and say he has never been in the business and never wrote a book. Mr. Goins he did not have space to explain. I am very glad he did not have more. I hope what I have said will not offend any one. God knows I have said it in good faith, believing every brother of intelligence will agree with what I have said. For the first time since I have been in the hotel business I lectured my men thirty odd, advising them not to accept of such advice as it was of no benefit to them in any way that I could see. I am glad to state that there are two gentleman in the city of Pittsburg that did not get Mr. Goine's "trotting" fever in time to prevent them from capturing one of the best, if not the best, European hotels in the city on the first of March. You can rest assured they will hold their own and will not "trot" out in three or six months. Mr. A. Anderson and Mr. C. P. Robinson, assistant both know something about the ins and outs of the Anderson. The above named gentleman will be found in charge at Newell's Hotel in Fifth avenue. To West, Northwest, South and South West, Via Pennsylvania Lines For fall information about Home-Seekers excursion fares to points in the West, North west, South and South west apply to Ticket Agents Pennsylvania Lines. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Jake E. End. MR. EMMETT J. SCOTT, Private Secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington, and Corresponding Secretary National Negro Business League. Among the most conspicuous of the younger young men of the race is Emmet J. Scott, a native of Houston, Texas, who now fills with exceptional credit the important and delicate position of private secretary to the distinguished Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Institute-Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr. Scott was born in Houston, Texas, February 18, 1873, and after completing the course in the Houston public school's attended Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, for three years. It was in the year 1890 that Mr. Scott left Wiley University and returned to Houston, where he soon won the friendship of Mr. J. L. Watson, then business manager, afterwards president, of the Houston Post Printing Company. He worked as an attachment of the business department, besides doing a large amount of reportorial and other work of a literary character for The Post. In this capacity he remained for three years. He still retains in the largest possible measure the respect and good will of all the officers of the Post corporation, especially of the them, and as well as now editor-in-chief, Mr. R. M. Johnston, perhaps the most influential man in Texas, and Mr. G. J. Palmer, the present general manager of the paper. The training which he received while with the Post, which is the best known and most influential daily paper of Texas and the great Southwest, was of great value to him in the publication of the Texas Freeman, which he undertook in 1893, and enabled him to make that paper the best edited, most influential, all around, up-to-date race journal that has ever been published in the Lone Star State. While editor of the Freeman he became a recognized factor in all movements for the improvement and advancement of the race and its interests, to which latter the Texas Freeman was especially devoted He was associated while in Texas with such men as Dr. I. B. Scott, the present editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate; Hon. R. L. Smith, then the only Afro-American member of the Texas legislature, and at present president of the Farmer's Improvement Society, an organization which is doing much to help Afro-Americans in Texas, and the Hon. N. W. Cuney, for many years the most potent power in Texas politics. He was like a son to Mr. Cuney, and they always worked together, whether in politics or other movements for the benefit of the race. He was selected to reply to the welcome address to the National Afro-American Press Association, which met in Atlanta in November, in 1895, during the Cotton States' Exposition, because of his standing as a newspaper publisher. In the spring of 1897, principal Booker T. Washington delivered an address at the Prakritie View (Texas) State Normal School, and altogether through the efforts of Mr. Scott, he was induced to stop over in Houston and speak to the citizens there. M. Scott brought together on short notice such a large and representative gathering of Texas' best citizens, white and black, and as presiding officer handled the audience with such marked ability that he did not fall to attract the attention of the "Wizard of Tuskegee." Recognizing the worth of the man, as Mr. Washington never falls to do, he very shortly induced him to accept the very important position which he now holds. It is not easy for one who has not had opportunity to see for himself, to appreciate the importance, as well as the delicacy of some of the duties HOW TO INVEST. This heading by now should have the attention of many readers of this paper. It is the suggestive caption to be seen in display advertisement elsewhere in this paper of the International Loan & Trust Company, Louisville, Ky. All progressive colored persons desir- which he, in this capacity, is called upon to perform. When it is remembered that Mr. Washington is recognized as the leading Afro-American of this generation, and when it is also remembered that Mr. Washington's influence in many directions makes him one of the most sought-for men in the whole country, both by men who have "axes to grind" and by newspaper men trying to work up a sensation, and when it is further remembered that Mr. Washington takes his private secretary into his confidence and values his counsel in regard to all of these matters, the value of the man to Mr. Washington and through to the race can be somewhat estimated and appreciated. He has direct charge of Mr. Washington's large correspondence. Mr. Washington's own estimate of the value of Mr. Scott's services is found in his book, "The Story of My Life and Work," as follows: "Mr. Emmett J. Scott, for a number of years, has been in the closest and most helpful relations to me in all my work. Without his constant and painstaking care it would be impossible for me to perform even a small part of the labor I now do. Mr. Scott understands so thoroughly my motives, plans, and ambitions that he puts himself into my own position as nearly as it is possible for one individual to put himself into the place of another, and in this way makes himself invaluable not only to me personally but also the institution. Such men as Mr. Scott I have found exceedingly rare—only once or twice in a life-time are such people discovered." Such a tribute any man can well be proud of, and it is no less significant than it is merited. Mr. Scott is happily married to a lady of education and refinement and is the proud father of five interesting children. As corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business League Mr. Scott has done yeoman service. Few persons can realize the great amount of work that precedes one of the annual meetings of the League. The great success of these meetings has been in large measure due to Mr. Scott, and it was in appreciation of this fact that Dr. Washington wrote the following letter to him after the splendid meeting at Nashville last year: SOUTH WEYMOUTH, MASS., August 31, 1903. My Dear Mr. Scott.—I wish to thank you very much indeed for your kind letter from Nashville bearing upon the recent session of the National Negro Business League. It was indeed a great meeting, the most important and encouraging, I think, the race has ever held. I need not tell you that I appreciate, as do many others, the fact that the success of the meeting was almost entirely due to your own unselfish, persistent and wise work. It is the sign of a great man to be able to do such work, at the same time keeping one's personality hidden in the way you do. All such efforts will bring their reward. Very truly yours. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Mr. T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age, was led to make the following comment on the above letter: "Mr. Scott is the corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business League. He is more than that, he is one of the most capable executive forces in the Republic, among the few men in the great hive of American thought and industry who, possessing great abilities, shape the destinies of the Republic without obtruding in the least their own personality. Mr. Scott is a young but great man, whose faithful work at the Tuskegee Institute has been monumental." ous of depositing funds in a strictly reliable corporation on an exceptional basis of profit will do well to communicate with this house. Write them for terms and circulars. We heartily recommend it to all. THE FREEMAN PUBLISHING COL Business meetings 2nd and 4th Sunday afternoons at 2:30 o'clock and the first Wednesday evening in every month at 3 o'clock: OFFICERS: Augustus M. Hodges, President. Geo.W.A.Murray, Sr., 1st Vice President. 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Mr. Thompson is a young headwaiter, but nevertheless has had charge of some of the best dining rooms in New York, North Carolina and West Virginia. Place A Bottle OF 1877 IN Your Room IT WILL TICKLE Your FRIENDS For Sale at all Bars J. METZGER & CO. DISTRIBUTORS. DIE BOLIVIAN BURR CINEMA BURR CINEMA CARL ANTONSON Respectfully Presen t TO THE Railroad Porters entering Peoria, Ill. THE CELEBRATED Bottle Beer Guaranteed Perfect I Want Your Trade. ention this Paper THE WAITER for THE W Edited By W. FORREST COZART. The Democratic National Convention ROSENBAUMBROS LOUISVILLE, KY. which meets in St. Louis, July 6th, will have its headquarters at the new Hotel Jefferson, where white waiters will be employed. This is a serious blow to the colored waiters as they usually get a good rakeoff at the Democratic National Convention The Republican National Convention never amount to much for the colored waiter. Under the new food regulation by which the government now inspects imported foods, twenty samples of Rhine wine were found to contain salicylic acid, two Sauterne wines contained sulphurous acid, four olive oils contained cotton seed oil. Frankfurter sausages contained dangerous preservatives. Ten per cent of all the food examined is prohibited under the law. Under the new system of inspection, begun only three months ago, enough has been learned to show that the conscientious (?) European manufacturers are not specially interested in preserving the health of the American citizen as much as they are in preserving their foods with poisonous acids. Some of them should be prosecuted for manslaughter. Mr. W. E. Tucker, headwaiter at the Albion Hotel, Augusta, Ga., contributed a very interesting article in the Hotel World recently on serving wines, ale and beer. The article reads, in part, as follows: Most of the champagnes and other wines are characterized by their vintage owners' names, or initials, on the labels—as much so as other terms. Some champagne labels: Paul Ruinart, Pol Roger, Watchter's Royal Charter, Bouchee Fils & Co., Cha's Heidsieck, and many other familiar names. Definition of labels: Bouchee Vin Brut (Bouchee's wine dry); Pommery Sec. (Pommery sweet); Piper Heidsieck Sec. Thus Sec Extra Sec. and Grand Sec. means sweet, extra sweet, grand and sweet. Brut and extra brut, dry and extra dry wines of their natural flavor. Pommery vin nature, wine natural-dry. Some specials. Pol Roger Cuvee Reserve —'89; Moet et Chandon Coranation Cuvee —'93; Cazanove Vin Monarque Brut —'93's. Cuvee means the mixing and bottling of reserve and fine qualities of wine. After bottling it is crowned as a superior wine and labeled "Coronation Cuvee," "Vin Monarque Brut," wine superior—the ruler; dry. As is a well known fact, champagne is a very expensive wine. None of the imported productions can be drunk under $4.00 per quart and upwards, viz. Piper Heldsleck Brut Extra —$5.00 per quart; Pol Roger Brut special '93 —$5.00 per quart; Pol Roger Cuvee Reserve, Ex dry '89 —$7.00 per quart; Pommery Ex. Sec. '79 —$10 per quart; Cazanove Vin Monarque Brut '93 —$9.00 per quart; '84's —$10.00 per quart; Moet et Chandon Imp Brut '84 —$12.00 per quart; Moet et Chandon (White Seal). We notice the word "Haut" is prominent on the label of different saturines (white wines), and some clarets, viz., "Chateau Haut Brion", "96; Chateau Smith Haut LaFitte", "90; "Haut Barasc", "Haut Sauterne", "haut" (high) wines of a higher quality representing a higher price than the average. Consult your wine list for proof. "Chablis Superleur" (White Burgundy of superior quality). Words as a suffix to names of saturines: "Vin Blanche", or "Blanche" (white wine). Half-pint bottles of ales and stouts are known by the word "Nip", which we see on the "Dog Head Label". Apellinaris, White Rock, etc., now come in half-pint bottles, known as "splits." From St. Louis, Mo. Mr. W. Forrest Coart, Editor Walters' Department—Dear Sir: I received your letter several days ago requesting me to give you information regarding the World's Fair and a general character sketch of the true conditions and prospects for colored waiters in this city. Your letters are always a source of pleasure, and I am gratified beyond expression with your compliments and confidence of my ability to interest and enlighten the waiter readers of The Freeman in regard to the local conditions. No doubt the waiters of every section of the country are now studying the advisability of visiting this city in the near future, and probably as early as the middle of April, with the aim and hope of securing employment in some of the new hotels, which are not yet completed, and may not open for two months or about the 15th of May and after that date. I have read with interest many letters sent from this city touching upon the subject, and am of the opinion that no mistake has been made in the advice given to waiters. For the present there are more men here seeking work in hotels and restaurant than present time justifies as there is no advance in the volume of business in hotels, and most every case where a small restaurant or cafe opens the white waiters secure the place. I wish to state right here that there is an army of white waiters in this city, so many that the local union has sent out warning circulars to all parts of the United States advising waiters not to come here as there are more men here now than can find work. Of course there is no such interest manifested on the part of the local colored union, and consequently a great many would-be waiters are on the scene doing scout duty. Not long since a prominent saloon-keeper on Market street, near the Union station, called together a large number of the unemployed colored waiters who make his place their headquarters and formed themselves into an Anti-Strike Association with headquarters some place in the vicinity, and this organization is said to number some eighty or more members who pay into the treasury twenty-five cents monthly for operating expenses and stationery. They are said to have very comfortable quarters and have become a medium of much fear to the local organization whose places they are sworn to take in the event of a strike. They are always available for party and banquet service at short notice. There are six or eight new hotels building and open at this writing. The Jefferson Hotel, Lyman H. T of Hot Springs, Ark., manager, will probably open to the entertainment of guests May 1st and perhaps before. A letter before me says, "We have positively decided to use only white help in our dining rooms," and so this closes the question as far as colored waiters are concerned. It is one of the largest down town hotel, situated at the corner of 12th and Locust streets, five hundred rooms, and is twelve stories. It will be the headquarters of the National Democratic Convention, which meets in July. The Washington Hotel, another new and very pretty structure in the suburbs is already open; white help is employed at this hotel exclusively. The Hamilton Hotel, another very attractive hotel near the exposition grounds, was opened in November, and is doing an excellent business, both in transient trade, parties and banquets. This hotel employ colored waiters at $30 per month, and it is a pleasure to say the colored waiters are considered the proper ones for the service. The hotel is on the European plan. The next hotel of importance, not yet complete, but promises to cut a big swarth in hoteldom, is the Buckingham Club Hotel on Kings Highway and West Pine street. It is a beautiful brick and stone building with over three hundred rooms, and dame humor has it that colored waiters and bell-boys will be employed. In fact I have talked with the man who said he was engaged for head bellman. A well-known colored man is spoken of as headwaiter, but there is nothing to justify or verify this report. The Napoleon Bonaparte Hotel, a large temporary frame hotel by Cook's Tourist Company, is another of the hotels attracting local attention, and a letter before me states that "We have already perfected our staff organization and each department head has been engaged." From this nothing definite can be learned as nothing is disclosed to show that colored waiters will be employed. I personally heard Mr. C. M. Hill, the manager, say to a waiter serving him, "We expect to have colored waiters when we open," but this was some time ago, and as I have not heard who the headwaiter will be I come to the conclusion that a white headwaiter with colored waiters will be the order of things at this hotel. If a colored man has the position he certainly has kept very quiet about it. The American Hotel, with five hundred rooms, is another new frame building now building in the next block to the Bonaparte Hotel, advertists to be open for the exposition May 1st. This hotel, while nearer to the entrance than any other, does not promise to be much, but it is quite certain that colored waiters will get this hotel as I was talking with the assistant manager not long since, and he said in reply to my question as to what kind of waiters will you have? "Niggers" was his reply. I have a letter from the Inside Inn Hotel Company, which says: "May decide to work colored waiters in one of our dining rooms." You remember that Mr. Statler, the proprietor, employed two hundred girls at Buffalo. The Administration restaurant at the Fair grounds, which once changed colored waiters for girls, has just discharged eight colored waiters and retained fifteen white girls. The Model restaurant, one thousand seating capacity, managed by Mr. McCready of Buffalo, N. Y., will have girls. There are a number of places here employing colored waiters, but at this writing I will npt attempt to mention them. Most of the hotels here pay $30 per month, and many furnish room too. There is a great many strange young men in the city from the Sunny South who have been attracted to the city by the fair, and who are without knowledge how to make a living in any other way but by following a cultivator or some other implement not used in the city. E. T. MONTGOMERY. From Beaumont, the Oil City of Texas- Mr. E. W. Goodman, captain_of Watch No. 1 at the Beaumont Cafe, led Miss Virginia L Brown to the altar Thursday evening, March 10, 1904, and was united in the holy bonds of wedlock, Rev. McKenna, pastor of the A. M. E. church, officiating. Miss Brown is one of Beaumont's most charming young INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to Thesman. in advance.] G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Halliday House, Cairo, I. P. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, I. L. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburgh, R. R. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. ladies, and stood high in society circles, being a member of the Household of Ruth. Mr. Goodman is one of Beaumont's most promising young men. The Merry Twelve Social Club gave the bride and groom a swell banquet and reception at Whiting's Hall on Friday night, March 11th, and it was one of the most pleasant and brilliant affairs ever held in Beaumont. Mr. Charle H. D. Fleming, headwaiter at the Beaumont Cafe, and business manager of the club for four years, deserves great credit for the way he conducted the program. The hall was tastefully decorated with flags and bunting. On the arrival of the couple to the reception a beautiful march was played. After the bride and groom had been seated Mr. C. H. D. Fleming and Miss Gertrude Geten led the grand march. The bride and groom led Saturday morning, March 12th, for a bridal tour in the interior of the State. The friends wish them success. The Freeman is a great favorite in Beaumont, not only among the hotel fraternity, but the colored people in general. A great many copies are sold to the whites. The hotels of Beaumont are still doing a good business and believe in the service rendered by the colored waiters as there is not a hotel in Beaumont that employ white waiters. The Crosby House with its crew of eighteen waiters and H J. Mitchell as headwaiter is doing first class service. While Mr. Mitchell is a young headwaiter he is among the many who have made their way from the bottom of the ladder. B. G. Grandberry of the Oaks Hotel is holding his own, assisted by an able crew of twelve waiters. Chas. H. D. Fleming, who was so long identified with the Phoenix Hotel at Shreveport, La., is giving glitte service at the Beaumont Cafe, assisted by an efficient crew of waiters who stand second to none in their profession. You can always find The Freeman at 953 Trinity street. H. J. M. M. BUSINESS MEDIUM MRS. 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All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ORGRE L. NOX, Publisher. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1904. NOTICE. We desire to say that Grant S. Neal formerly connected with The Freeman as solicitor, is no longer serving in that capacity. Obligations contracted by him will not be honored by us. IN MARYLAND. So the Governor of Maryland has signed the "jim crow" inquity passed by the legislature of that State. All trains except the Pullman and fast expresses must be provided with separate compartments for Negro passengers. The exceptions made will be considered concessions to a class of colored people that are prepared to pay the rate for superior accommodations and to the long distance travelers who are not numerous. The concessions will be regarded and appreciated in the light that is intended, and which, without doubt, will be the means of saving the better class against humiliation and actual suffering. Bishop Arnett of the A. M. E. church was compelled to charter an entire "sleeper," a few weeks ago, when he desired to go South from the State of Ohio; it was an outrage; a disgrace to our boasted civilization. However, concessions of the kind will be received with thanks only to the extent of real suffering and humiliation relieved. We are not especially thankful for discriminating laws all albeit it in our favor as they concern particular individuals or a class. It cannot be readily seen how a part can save the whole even if that be the theory, and it is not bad if the practice were general. The dirty, ill-bred white man can stand a little reformation also. The foreign hordes dumped at Castle Garden are treated with respect and consideration, and it is known that they all do not toe the line. Refined, cleanly appearing colored people are stuck away in little choky holes under compulsion while dirty white men may have the freedom of the cars. The color line must be whipped out; it is contrary to the spirit of our general laws which the States are defying by setting up laws to suit their whims. These discriminating conditions must go. TAYLOR WINS. Samuel Taylor, a colored student of the Shortridge High School of this city, won in a primary oratorical test much to the surprise and chagrin of a number of white students who had picked out a white lad for the winner. The judges were white men, men of ability and honor; Taylor was shown no favor; he got there on his merit. The white lads were all torn up over the result, giving Taylor a very cool reception and promising him a much cooler one if he did not step down and out. Taylor has won; he cannot step down and out if he chose to do so. Nor is it expected that he will. The young men should be made to understand that there can be no color line in merit; the meritorious are worthy and over whom presides she of the scales and blinked eyes. This is not a social question; not a question of seats, but one where worth and ability particularize an individual. May the best always win. Shortridge wanted its best talent; it was discovered under a black skin, nor can all of the resolutions in the world dislodge it. The authorities, we have ever reason to believe, will suppress the growing feeling noted in the schools and which is clearly unreasonable as this case shows. It is to be hoped that this will be the last of these exhibitions of prejudice, which are doing so much to keep alive race feeling and which promises no good. The colored man in the Indiana Legislature seems to be a lost art, and yet they boost others to fame. Why don't that shall be in the highest interests of the county or State in which he lives. In the commercial and business STUCKY'S YOUR PRESCRIPT Roosevelt and Fairbanks will be the Republican ticket, judging by the trend of rapidly transpiring events, all of which are in one direction. The theory that vice-presidents fail to secure nominations when they become chief executives by reason of the death of Presidents has fallen to pieces; President Roosevelt in the course of ordinary events cannot be defeated for the presidential nomination, and which, of course, is pleasing to Senator Fairbanks' friends who do not care to impede his route to the presidency by him becoming vice-president. For some unaccountable reason vicepresidents have not in the past been selected with the view of becoming Presidente, and here is plainly evidenced that disregard for the possibilities or perhaps the lack of foresight, where is concerned the two highest officers in the land, and where the possibility of either being President always exists. The second place heretofore has been a matter of compromise to section or faction. The drafting of Roosevelt was the decided break from the old order of things, who was presidential in quality and quantity, and considered as such by the people. It is understood that Indiana's senior senator, Charles W. Fairbanks, will not seek the position as candidate for vice-president on the Republican ticket, but in event he is drafted into service he will stand up when the times comes in answer to the party's demand. His many friends feel that nothing will be sacrificed and that 1968 the eyes of the Union will center on Indiana and Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks John Maynard, a Negro, was found hanging to a pole at Montgomery Station, one hundred miles from Houston, Tex., was the news last Monday. Lynching news are now the expected in daily papers. It was thought, a short time since, that the evil was dying out, but we are sorry to confess that it is holding its own with a regularity that is exasperating. What are we coming to? Is mob violence to be recognized as one of the chief industries of the country? It certainly appears that way. It is time for some serious thinking. Officers of the law sworn to do their duty are actually winking at crime. Two-thirds of the mobbing could be arrested if the sheriffs felt that it was worth while to do what they are elected for and paid for. If these spineless officials were relieved from duty and men with spines put in their places the daily intelligences would be telling different stories. The Negro, like the worm, will turn some day; it is against nature, and especially man, not to resent insult ever. Rev. Ralph Amos of Montrose, Ark., another great educator of his race, has a school situated in the black belt of Arkansas, where there is said to be ten Negroes to one white person. Rev. Amos puts in a good share of his time lecturing on the race question. He has chosen this very significant subject: "Why this Unrest. Why this Discrimination." It will not matter so much if Rev. Amos does not succeed in answering his own questions; the object is to get the people to thinking—thought, the great preliminary to any kind of campaign A mob lynched two Negroes in Cleveland, Miss., the 19th. The Negroes were charged with killing Sid Killum, a Negro porter on a passenger train. The mob stormed the jail and secured the two men and meted out its species of 'justice.' A march was stolen on the vigilant Vardaman. "The sun do move;" a mob in Mississippi hung two Negroes for killing a Negro. It is a better report than usually comes in from that section, but the court could, have killed them just as well—all would have been regular, you know. Congressman Spight of Mississippi in contrasting the treatment of the Negro by the North and by the South was interesting because of the truth set forth. Samuel Taylor won on merit in the recent octatorical primary; may the best always win. Willie Hearst is setting up camp right among us, the audacious man. The colored man in the Indiana Legislature seems to be a lost art, and yet they boost others to fame. Why don't they ask for themselves? Guess there's no truth in the report that the colored people will only be permitted to visit the St. Louis Exposition but one day in the week. UPLIFTING THE RACE dinary powers; a man endowed by nature with a deep substratum of solid, common sense and sound judgment; a man with intuitive perception of the things best for those to whose interests he has devoted all of his thoughts and all of his words; a man whom no ambition has affected and no personal interest tempted, a man whose very soul is consecrated to the highest and best development of his race. Dr. Washington was very warmly greeted, the whole party coming to its feet when he was introduced and tendering an ovation which greatly pleased him. Dr. Washington said: MR. WASHINGTON ON PROBLEM I wish to thank you most earnestly for the kindness, the generosity of word and of action, that have been so much in evidence to night. No one could witness and hear what it has been my pleasure to enjoy this evening without having his heart deeply touched, and again I thank you for this evidence of confidence and encouragement. The real problem that confronts our race centers in the Southern part of the United States. I speak of the larger problem being there because our people dwell there in larger numbers. In proportion to the population, I think I would be safe in saying that in the Northern and Western States a problem as interesting and as serious as that at the South exists, or will, I fear, soon exist. But no strong, self confident, progressive race of people ever becomes discouraged because of serious problems. It is only the weak, the inefficient, the dwarfs of humanity who yield in the presence of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It is only by facing difficulties and overcoming them that a race, like an individual, gets strength, experience and courage which will carry it safely through all the difficult battles of life. Every group of people that has risen has done so by mastering one difficulty at a time. We cannot achieve at one bound that which it has required other races centuries to accomplish, but we can rise by patiently and doggedly working upward through all the logical and natural steps of civilization which Providence demands of every people who would be saved. We have got to pay the price for everything we get, beginning at the bottom and working gradually upward to the very highest achievements. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES As to the relative importance of some of the elements that constitute our progress as a race, we are not agreed, and perhaps lever will be. But we are agreed on certain fundamental principles. First is the matter of education. I think all of us will subscribe to the proposition that in a republican form of government, education of the masses is fundamental, and when I say education I mean the most thorough education of the hand, head and heart. I mean further, education that shall fit us to perform the very best service in the communities where we live; to do the thing the, community wishes to have done, whether it be an effort of the hand, head or heart. We cannot expect to accomplish much in what is called the higher and more important walks of life until the masses of our people become generally intelligent. The leaders of our people in the pulpit, in the press, on the platform and in the school room should see to it that their influence is exerted in no uncertain manner to spread intelligence among our people in the remotest corner of the country. While many opportunities are denied us, in matters of education, there is no limit placed upon the progress which we may make. Another fundamental is the matter of property and the ownership of land. The people who own the land are the people who exert the greatest influence, and are the ones who, in the end, are most highly respected. There is an opportunity for us in practically every section of the South to become, in a measure, owners of the soil. The influence of our leaders should be exerted in this direction. It is hardly possible for any individual to express, through the ballot, an intelligent interest in the government of his country unless that individual has some property or financial interest at stake. The man who owns land, who has a business, or a bank account—the man who has personal interest in the welfare of the community—s the one who, in nine cases out of ten, will cast a conservative ballot. When an individual is dependent upon one one else for his land, for his house, for the clothes he wears and the 'ood he eats, it is hardly possible for him to be in a position to cast a ballot that shall be in the highest interests of the county or State in which he lives. In the commercial and business world we should see to it that the negro is constantly reminded of the opportunity which are now before him in the South. If we do not become land owners and do not enter into every line of trade it will not be very long before a host of foreigners from european countries will invade the South and we will be deprived of this opportunity for growth. Another fundamental is broad charity. The influence of our leading men should be exerted in no uncertain manner in the cultivation of the friendship of the leading and best white men of the South. We must not suffer ourselves to be deceived by the loud clamor of those who seek to restrict our growth. In every section of the South there are brave, quiet, strong white men who have faith in us and mean to see that every opportunity possible is given us for making strong, helpful American citizens. We should see to it that these men are not embarrassed because of any unpraleasworthy conduct on our part. Nothing is to be gained by one race cursing the other; but much can be gained by the intelligent and pure mined men of each race coming together for consultation in the directions that should lead to our mutual growth and usefulness. The strong men of our own race should more and more make an effort to get together, to stand by each other in word an act, to help lift each other up instead of trying to pull each other down. We should forego our personal differences and selfish ambitions in a strong and persistent effort to build up the best interests of the race. LOOKING ON BRIGHT SIDE. Finally, we owe it not only to ourselves but to our children to look always upon the bright side of life. I fully understand the discouragement, the injustice, with which my race has to contend, and I would that some power existed with the authority to remove many of the obstacles that now obstruct our pathway. But, in the last analysis, it must be said of us as of all races, that we ourselves are the only people who can most effectually help ourselves. Others can encourage, others can assist by advice, but in the last analysis, I repeat, we are the determining factors in our future. If we are unworthy no force can push us forward. If we are worthy, no power can stay our progress. A race that is determined to go forward to success in every department of life, emphasizing the bright side, pointing out over the darkened way new gleams of light and truth, is the race that will win, and in the end receive from the world the plaudits of success. Others who spoke were: Justice E. M. Hewlett, Dr. L. B. Moore dean of Teachers' College, Howard University; Dr. W. S. Mortgomery, assistant superintendent of schools, District of Columbia; Rev. William James Howard, Zion Baptist church, city; Rev. Oscar J. W. Scott, Metropolitan A. M. E. Echnch, city; Dr. Sterling N. Brown, Lincoln Memorial Congregational Temple, city. T. Thomas Fortune, editor New York Age; Professor Kelly Miller, Howard University, city; Charles W. Anderson, supervisor of racing accounts. New York; J. Douglas Wetmore, attorney-at-law, Jacksonville, Fla., and a number of others. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the banquet was made up of Hon John C. Dancy, Justice Robert H. Terrell, Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, Dr. F. J. Shadd, Mr. Whitefield Mokinlay, Major. Charles R. Donglass and Rev. O. J. W. Scott, they are to be congratulated upon the magnificent success which attended their efforts ADDRESS AND LECTURE Mr. Washington spoke Friday morning in the interest of the industrial class work of Mrs. Elizabeth Hobson, being carried on at Norfolk, Va., at the residence of Congressman H. Kirke Porter, of Pennsylvania. Among those present were Morris K. Jesup, president of the New York Chamber of Commerce; William Slater, son of the philanthropist, and others interested in educational work. Dr. Wallace Buttrick, executive secretary of the General Educational Board, was also present and delivered an address. Admission was by ticket only. Mr. Washington was tendered a rousing reception by 4000 people of the District to-night. Representatives from both Houses of Congress, the United States Supreme Court, D. Edward Eyertell Hale, and many others of distinction shared the platform with Dr. Washington at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, where the Taskegee educator delivered a most inspiring lecture. Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, presided. The entire seating capacity of the church was disposed of at standard price. The entire proceeds went for the benefit of the church. Dr. Washington donating his usual lecture fee. If any doubt of the "Tuskeges Wizard's" popularity in Washington has ever existed that doubt has been forever dispersed by these magnificent ovations and spontaneous outburts of approval of the man and his work. YOUR PRESCRIPTION BUSINESS SOLICITED We use the purest drugs and medicines of the most reliable manufacturers, and have thoroughly competent pharmacists (registered) to fill them. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal use, corner Ohio and N. Illinois Streets. They don't belong to "Shortweight Trust." 4 Big Yards. Main Office 162 E. Market St. Phones: New 2364 Old Private Exchange 80 Order your suit now for Easter. Our new spring line consists of many beautiful patterns. To appreciate these patterns is to see them. Try us and be pleased. Turner Third Vein Domestic Lump, Seeleyville Lump, Mine Run and Screen nags containing Nut, Cyclone Lump and Nut, Indiana Jackson, Pocahontas, Kenawha. Jackson County Ohio Lump, Lump and Crushed Coke, Bloosburg Coal, Lower Vein Brazil Block, Luhrig Ohio Lump, Smokeless, Antigraffta. J. B. McCULLOCH, Pres.: GEO. F. NAVE, Sec. and Gen. Mgr. DR. W. H. SIMS, Treasurer. Muskogee Oil and Gas Company Black Beaumont A few days ago there was put down a well in the southeast part of this city which produced a flow of oil that discharged at the rate of 85 barrels in 15 minutes. This oil has been tested and proven to be among the finest oil in the world. For superior to the Famous Beaumont oil and equal the Pennsylvania product, and valued at $200 per barrel. The colored people own nearly all the lands adjoining this well and all the lands 40 miles, north, south and west. A company has been formed by these people and incorporated under the laws of the United States to develop this oil belt. For a few weeks we will sell stock in this company at the low rate of 10 cents on the dollar, in order to raise funds for developing this property by sinking a half dozen wells at once. Now is the time for the colored people everywhere to get into a "Boas Fide" Oil Company, with their own people managers. This is no "Wild Cat" concern and your investments are absolutely safe. We have 30 acres in the oil field as now discovered, worth, at least $10,000.00 per acre. Buy oil stock in this Company. It will double in value every 6 months. Secretary and General Manager. We are now drilling well No.1 near the present gusher. Subject to the Republican nominating Convention April 6. AGENTS Here is money maker and a NEW ONE at that. No matter how poor the territory, if an agent will work he should make $5 to $10 per day. The Process is needed by every family. As soon as you show how quick the work can be done, you will have no trouble in making a sale of this WONDERFUL Process. Send 50 cents to day. You will never regret it. Address MILLINERY OPENING MARCH 18TH AND 19TH Trimmers just arrived from the East with all the latest ideas and patterns. A complete line from our own work room will be or display. - Cordial invitation to all MR3. C. WHITTEN, 337 Indiana Avenue. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. ED BREWER Contractor and Builder Estimates given on all kinds of Carpenter Work. 724 N. West St. THE STATE EDITED BY "Woodbine" THE FREEMAN POST OFFICE. A stamped enveloped, plainly addressed, must be enclosed for each letter, and the line of business must be printed in, in order to prevent mistaken Nora-Professionals and others should bear in mind that all letters, etc., in transit between the United States and Canada, must be prepaid, otherwise they are not forwarded. **NOTICE.** - Advertised letters will be FOR WEEKS ONLY hereafter. LADIES LIST. Morris, Miss Emma 2 Morton, Clara Llava Proctor, Miss Jesia Stone, Mrs Josephine Thomas, Miss Jesie Jacob Woods, Mrs Woods, Mrs Pearl Biford. Miss Hattie Bacon. Robrida Bass, Miss Ida 2 Carchull. Miss Min'le Gillam. Miss Wille M Gillam. Miss Tuna L LaRue. Mrs D B LaRue, Eva C Alexander Broes Brown, E.L Armstrong, T.L Brown, Richard Brewers The Bamboo, The Banks, G.B Chesel & Mines Clark, The Thomas Cool, Prof Kid Campbell, Fred Castry, Frank Dawson, Dowell Clark, Quall Cox, J.T Desmonds, Dan Gordon, J. A Diddyville Quartette, J Elliot, E.J English, J. A Flower, W. H Fox, Roland Gillard, Amos Gerland, M. Z Goods, W.T Hugges, Ed Bouett, Willie Hallig, M.T Budson J.L Hammond, W. de Barris, E.C Hunt, H. Henry 2 Jordan, J. W Jones, W H Jones Lew Jones, F.B Johnson, Kirkbrick, Frank Lyons, W S Le Bosky, Frank Morton, D. Ala Morgan, Wm Oliver, J.M Oliver, Charley Palmer, James Pittman, James Prentice, Oliver Pamplin, John Roes, Andrew Richardson, Fred Robinson, Chas Koelman, W. E Sherman, James E, Smith, N Clark Smith, Sheadman Shille, W. I Smith, J. J Stevens, August 2 The Fosters Walter, W. I Willis, Isaac Watts Chas T Wood, F.B Young, Billy Watts, J A BILLY KERBANS' Big Colored Mit streaks.—St. Louis, Mo, March 27 to April 19. BACK PATT TROUBAUDES. (Voeckel & Nolan) Thomasville, Ga, March 28; Macon, 29; Athens, 30; Atlanta, 31. A RABBET'S Foot Co.—Jacksonville Fla., March 28; Waycross, Ga., 29; Valdosta, 30; Tifton, 31; Vernon, April 1, March 2. THOMPSON'S JUBILEE SINGERS—Spirit Lake, Ga., March 28; Milford 29. MALLOY BROS. & Brooks (Fenberg Stock, Co.)—Danbury, Conn., week of March 2. The Reeves spent a happy winter on their farm in Vanwert county, O., and will tour the South this season with The 'Rabbits Foot Co.' Regards to all. Springfield, Ill., special—The Petitts, Henry and Mattle, magicians, send regards to the Walls, the Clemens, and Onsley, and say write in care of the Freeman. The Lane Auditorium at Birmingham, Ala., is now open for the summer and will book good attractions of all kinds. This house is under white management, but will play colored attractions only. C. W. BeBee, the coon-shouter, writes that he is well and got out of his troubles alright and is now at liberty. He sends regards to Jesse Thompson and E. Davls and asks that they write him in care of the Freeman. W. T. Jackson with Thompson's Jubilee Singers writes:—We played at Armstrong, Ia, and turned people away. We also made quite a hit there as it was a New Opera house and we put on the 3rd, engagement that has been in it since it opened. Carl Beasley advance man, is booking some very good dates. He is O. K. J. Hartford Armstrong writes: The Armstrong Brothers have done the biggest business of any Negro Magicians that have ever toured the South this season. We have played with three exceptions every theatre in the State of Florida to packed business and are booked for return engagements next season in every hue e that we care to play which shows good for a Negro attraction of two performers being under their own management. We send regards to Bob Kemp, Will Goff Kennedy and the profession. "The Katzen jammer Kids," produced by a band of old favorites, will be the Park's bill for the last half of the week. The pranks of the mischievous youngsters are familiar to the regular patrons of this theatre. Meijer Crivil and Gus THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Alexander, who have impersonated the "kids" for years, continue in the parts. Alonzo Lang, Wally Clark, May Joyce and a dozen other principals develop the fun. The music is of the bright and refreshing order. The production, always marked by extravagant scenery and electric effects, has been rejunivated all along the line since it was last given here. Notes from Fernandina, Fla.—Dennis and Jones are busy shaking hands with friends in Fernandina, Fla. Miss Jones is just getting over a severe spell of pneumonia, after being given up to die. Dr. J. B. Roberts of St. Augustine, Fla., with the help of the Lord has placed her in the rank and file of those boasting of good health. Mr. Richard Cross, stage manager of the Gem Theater, sends regards to the profession. John Dennis and Dennis Mitchell made a flying trip to Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday, the 19th. Mr. Dennis Mitchell expects to work Mason Park Sunday evening managed by Bob Russell. The roster of the Gem Theater contains Mr. Richard Cross, Dennis Mitchell, Father Kinnie, Miss Tena Smith, Miss Neta Borden and John Denris. Mr. Henry Mack is planist. Regards to the profession. Notes from A. G. Allen's Minstrel.—Clemo Harris, contortionist, while playing at Shreveport, La., was standing by the bridge that crosses Red River and got in an argument about doing dangerous feats. One of the boys bet him $50.00 that he couldn't cross the top of the bridge on his hands a distance of $\frac{2}{3}$ of a mile, and return without resting, then do a back somersault off the bridge to the water, a distance of 700 feet. So Mr. Harris took him up and made the walk alright, but being so exhausted, when he did the somersault, after striking the water he struck a rock and injured his arm very badly. We fished him out and put him under the care of the doctor for a day or so. He is with us again now doing his act and giving the loser the laugh. All of the cast of the company are doing nicely and always glad when The Freemam arrives. "East Lynn," that sterling old drama of heart aces, comes to the Park next Monday for three days, in the hands of practically the same company which offered it early in the season. It has been coming to the Park for many years, making its welcome more cordial each time, and when Izen Foreman revived the play which made Ada Gray famous, she did it on a pretentious scale and has not permitted it to retrogade. Miss Foreman produced this play at the Park last August when she proved her worth as an impersonator of emotional roles, and she comes again supported by a good company. J. Frazier Crosby continued in the part of Sir Francis Levison, the polished villian, and the stage settings and handsome gowns of the women are on the elaborate order of old. Notes from a Rabbit's Foot Comedy.—We commence our season March 28th, which will last until March 1st, 1905. The roster will be as follows: Pat Chappell, owner and general manager; L. W. Chappell, assistant general manager; J. E. Chappell, ticket agent; T. L. McOyen stenographer and secretary; Georges L. Moxley, stage manager; John Hampton, boss canvass man; Lewis Chappell Sr, boss hostler; George Jones band master; T. C. Williams advance agent; Jule Railford, program; Rigdom Horton, Bill Poster; Happy Howe, leading comedian; others are as follows: Amos Gillard, Wm. Thomas Lewis Williams, J. M. Gayles, Frank Hopkins, E. N. Collins, Oscar Hitske, Freddie Goodwin, Willie Goodwin, Priace Oksasu, Inman and Davis. Bose Reese. The Reeves, Wm. H. Nichols and wife, J. D. Rainey, Jose Miller, Laura Logan, Ada Harris, Mattie Harris, Kamp and Hick's W. G. Pinokney, David Johnson John Hopkins. J. D. Kelley we are rehearsing very hard daily, and this season our show will be first class in every respect in fact we will have a far better show than we ever did, as Mr. Chappell has added some new people in the show which makes a great improvement in his great and only Negro company. Contracts have been closed this week with Messrs Stair and Havlin, of New York City for one week commencing May 9th in their Empire Theatre in Washington, D. C. with Baltimore and Philadelphia, to follow. The Sig Sautelle Circus will open the season of 1904 April 29th at Homer, N.Y., and it is needless to say that it will be bigger and better than ever. The many good colored performers will be pleased to learn that James A Morrow will again handle the managerial end of the side show, uptown show, Oriental Theater and concert for Mr. Sautelle, this making his third season in that capacity with the above amusement enterprise, which is a guarantee that it will be a grand success. As usual Manager Morrow will feature the colored talent in both the side show and concert, which will be furnished by Mr. W. H. Reid of 1060 Kossuth street, Cincinnati, O. Mr. Reid has long been considered a leading factor in the colored amusement world, and is satisfied that his latest attempt will outshine his former achievements. He will select a band and company of three people, male and female, for Manager Morrow. They will leave Cincinnati for Homer, N.Y., April 24th. Manager Morrow has already received the wardrobe and band uniforms from Lilley & Co., of Columbus, O., and they are the best that money can buy, and will present a beautiful sight in parade. Mr. Morrow is already making preparations for a big colored show of thirty-six people to play the leading theaters at the conclusion of the summer season. The following colored musicians, singers and dancers have already been assigned to the Sautelle shows by Mr. W. H. Reid, and commenced rehearsals at Cincinnati, O., March 20th: P. Jones, C. Alexander, C. Smith, W. Reid, A. Bulger, T. Scott, B. Young, G. A. Williams, Mr. King, Mr. Boone and four ladies. No doubt The Freeman will be a much sought for and welcome paper with the Sig Sautelle shows this season. Columbia Notes. Columbia, Tenn., Special — The following meetings and organizations will be held in Columbia, during the ensuing year. The C. P Presbytery 31st of March. The Baptist Young People's Union in June. The I. O. I. Second Sunday in August. The A. M. E. conference meets the last of October, or the first of Nov. Miss Q. V. Moore has returned from Mackenzie, Tenn. Mr. Gilbert Ferguson died last week in Macedonia. Rev. B. G. Gordon was in Nashville, last week. Mrs. Narcissus Brown died last week of consumption. Funeral services were held at St. Paul A. M. E. church Rev. B. G. Gordon officiating. A novel leap year entertainment was given at Golston's hall Friday night March 11th for the benefit of Glade Street Chapel. Rev. J. T. Gillmore, former pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church, of Shelbyville, was in the city last week. The Kellenian Literary Society will render a program in connection with a debate. April 8th for the benefit of the school. Mrs. Mariah Dorley has been on the sick list. Mr. Grissom is running an up to date lunch room, and desires the patronage of all colored friends. The Star Grocery Co., has put in a handsome soda fountain. Last Tuesday was prayer meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Keep posted on the latest items of the city by taking the Freeman. The Dramatic Club will make its next appearance at Mt. Pleasant April 4th. The attendance of the Y. M. C. A., continues to increase each week. The members of St Paul A. M. E. Sunday School are preparing to celebrate Easter. Mr. Duncan Wingfield will move you to any part of the city very cheap. Dallas News. Dallas, Texas, Special.—The K. of P. Lodges of the city and Courts of Calan-the will hold their annual anniversary at the city hall auditorium on the 27th.—N. G Whitehead, the saloon man, sold his stock and fixtures and has gone to Hot Springs to recuperate.—David Low and James Benson spent a few days at the Springs recently.—Gideon's Georgia Camp Meeting Co., played to fair business here/Monday.—Mr. Bob Stokes asks that you stop in at the "Wabash" for all the late drinks and ice—Effie Smith, of Stafford Brothers' Minstrel Co., dropped in on her friends last week.—The churches and Sunday schools of the city are looking forward to Easter as a great financial day.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Nance, 211 Crowder street, a ten pound girl, and at the residence of Mr. Joe Lundy, on Watkin street, a big boy has full charge.—Dr. H. W. Robertson bought a $3 000 resident on Washington avenue last week. Hannibal Personals: Hannibal, Mo, Special—On Friday evening March 11th 1904 at 7:05 o'clock, the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. David N. Booker of 109 Washington ave. and claimed as his own their eldest son Louis A. Booker, are 27 years and 4 months. He leaves to mourn his death, his father, mother, one brother Walter W., one sister Gertrude, all who were at his bedside when the end came, besides relatives and a host of sor- rowing friends. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Sexton, at the A. M. E. church of which he was a member. He was highly respected by all who knew him. Hannibal loses one of its most respected young colored Men. Rome Items. Rome, N. Y., Special — Mr. Walter Pell, headwaiter at the Stanwick Hall is meeting with much success. He has under his direction an excellent crew. Mr. Dale has gone to Erie, Pa Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. White, entertained a number of their friends, the chief enjoyment of which was driving. All who attended report an excellent time. The Freeman can be bought at 216 Spring st. Robert E Payne, agent. Furnished rooms for 20 gentlemen first class neigh borhood, $1 50 per week 807] N. 20th, street, St. Louis, Mo H. DEMERY. Every Lady Read This. 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TUFIL WAVY TACK BLACK GLOSSY HAIR, so plant and abundant that it can be easily dressed in any prevailing texture. It can be applied to temples and all bald spots. Ozono is a positive cure for flat, fried hair. It is truely gray, faded and discolored hair to a gray GLOSSY BLACK. It cannot fail to lengthen. STRAIGHTENED HAIR it can give perfect satisfaction to all who use it. It cannot fall. Thousands of delighted customers scattered all over the world claim that it is claimed for you. Ozono is a gift of all hair colors. FREE Send your name and address, with the names and addresses of three friends interested in hair tonics, and we will send to you free of charge a large sample of Instantona Massage oil. We will send an application for the improvement we will be seen five minutes after it has been applied. Be not surprised. No prerequisite for a person into a white person, but Instantona Massage Cream will make the darkest skin several shades darker, smoother, softer, purer, lighter, lustrous, whiter, brighter, tan, discolorations, smoothies, blushies, luvities, smallpox kits and all facial imperfections, and brings back to the most faded complexion the satiny texture of the twentyth century. It is the grandest discovery of the twentyth century. In order to prove its power, we will send a large sample by mail, postage paid, absolutely free. Write to-day to BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. BEFORE AFTER Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop forever, are only a few of the symptoms of dangerous nervous trouble. The nerves are crying out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life, and all women who use it pass through this trying period with comfort and safety. READ THESE CONVINCING LETTERS: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I feel it my duty to write you about the wonderful cure your medicine has brought about. "I suffered for years with change of life. I would have fainting spells, either before or after my monthly periods. They would come on me suddenly. Sometimes I would be on the street. "I had pains all over me. My head ached all the time, could take no walks or go up stairs without becoming completely exhausted. I suffered untold misery. I tried doctor's medicines for a long time, but derived no benefit. "I cannot say too much in praise of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and would advise all sufferers of female trouble to use it, for it will certainly cure them."—MRS. LIZZIE C. REYNOLDS, Buchanan, Va. When one stops to think about the good these women derived belief; yet it is all true as stated in their letters published above at their own request. For these ills no other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. Refuse all substitutes. No such helpful advice to women who are sick can be had elsewhere as will be received free by addressing Mrs. Pinkham at As a positive fact the private files at Lydia E. Pinkham's laboratory contain thousands of letters from women who have been safely carried through that danger period "Change of Life." The cures of Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Blake are not unusual ones for this medicine to accomplish. B. SQUARE'S BLUSTER A Systematic Course in Letter Writing Conducted by W Forrest Cozart. Gen Col. Maj. Lieut. Capt. Pres Mgr. Bldg. St. Ave. Respectfully yours John Doe Gov. Durbin of Indiana. Prof. J. W. E. Duboise, Atlanta, Ga. Gen. W. T. Sherman was in command. President Roosevelt's strenuous policy. Mr. T Thomas Fortune made a few appropriate remarks The Rev. J. M. Henderson, D. D. M. D. preached a sermon. When he last wrote me in Jan. or Feb., I have forgotten which, he mentioned the fact. He will, no doubt, see you again Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the boys are marching I will support the measure, if I am elected Yours truly, Freeman Pub. Co. You should read both the Old and New Testament On condition that he remained three months he was to receive his board and sixty dollars a month. Suppose you could not raise the amount, what would you do? His stories, or yarns, made him famous I saw him at his home and informed him in regard to the matter. He took occasion during his official visit to the Philippines to study the social condition Hourglass was prepared to me with comfort and a "DEAR MRS. P. wonderful cure you "I suffered for spells, either before me suddenly. Some "I had pains all no walks or go up suffered untold misc derived no benefit. "I cannot say to table Compound to use it, for it will Buchanan, Va. When one stop belief; yet it is all For these ills such widespread substitutes. As a positive fact tory contain those safely carried three cures of Mrs. Rey this medicine to a I am nothing unless original in my pennings. The below copy of a wedding (or at least a marriage) to which every one of the readers of B. Square's Bluster are hereby invited, (providing this appears in print before the below date) was received by about thirty personal friends of the contracting parties. MISS SADIE J HODGES Request Your Company at the Marriage of their Parents, MRS CARRIE RAY TO MR. AUGUSTUS M. HODGES, at the parsonage of the Concord Church of Christ, 106 Adelphi st. Brooklyn N. Y. (Tev. W. T. Dixson pastor), on the evening of March 18, 1904 (the fiftht birthday of the bridegroom). MISS GRACE RAY If this does not appear in print before the "happy union" (?) you can send your presents to Mrs. Carrie Hodges, 2016 Fulton street, Brooklyn, or to the Freeman, care of "B. Square." I will look for a present from every reader of this column, (especially Miss Carrie S. C. Hodges, of Hamlin, Ky ) Speaking of second marriages, my wife has been dead seven and a half years. I know a man in Brooklyn whose wife died eight years ago, inside of a year he married again. The sec- WAITER'S A Systematic Course in Let Forrest Lesson 4 Concluded and Correoted. Gen. Col. Maj. Lieut. Capt. Pres John Doe Gov. Durbin of Indiana. Prof. THE FREEMAN: AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. CHANGE of LIFE ond wife died two years ago and one year later he married his third wife. He is a man to day only forty-two. They say he is not the best of husbands. * * * * A widower with three small children should, by all means, get married again, after the customary one year's morning for his late wife. It was a mistake of mine that I did not do so. If it ever happens again I will—but we never walk backwards upon life's road. * * * * THINGS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED. Why the state of New York and the city of New York have not a Negro member of the assembly? Why women will get off a car back- wards? Why you do not join the Invincible Sons and Daughters of Commerce? When you reach the degree of "old man" you are distinguished. An "old man" is either a sea captain, a head of a firm, a "boes" of a factory or store, a police captain or the father or a boy between the ages of twelve and twenty. I have long since taken my degree as an "old man." Eight years ago, when my son was twelve years old, he was playing ball in the streets when one of his companions yelled: "Cheese it, Hodges! Here comes your old man." My son is now twenty and taller than I, the other day I overheard him say: "Here comes my old man B. FQUARE SCHOOL. "Dear Mrs. PINKHAM: — My trouble was change of life and cramping. No human tongue can describe what I suffered with the cramp. I dreaded from one time to another so much that I almost wanted to die. "Our family physician did everything he could for me, but I got no relief. He said if I lived to get through with the other trouble, it would wear after a time, but I had it six years and could not walk or exercise in any way without bringing on an attack of the cramp, and I would suffer untold misery until I would be perfectly exhausted and helpless." "I read in one of your little books about your medicine being good for female trouble and change of life, and thought there was no harm in trying it, so I did, and it helped me and I was able to take walks and work some. "I am very thankful for the relief your medicine has been to me."—MRS. V. M. BLAKE, Deep Water, W. Va. from this great medicine, it seems almost beyond their own request. No such helpful advice to women who are sick can be bead elsewhere as will be received free by addressing Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.—if you are sick write her—you are foolish if you don't. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures, do the work that will prove their robust geniusness. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. church composed entirely of young ladies, of the church gave this first pub lic entertainment in the form of a "musical" Monday evening, proceeds to go on the church debt. A "Rubber" social was given at the Second Baptist church on East Jackson street, Thursday evening. The S. S., of both the A. M. E. and Second Baptist churches are showing a marked improvement in attendance Mrs. Rollins is able to be out again, after a severe illness. The Progress Club entertained a number of their friends at the home of Mrs. James Lee on S. Beacon St., all present had an enjoyable time. A W. C. L. U. was organized at Second Baptist church Sunday afternoon. The Negro Press on Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi. Hoo ray! for Governor Varnaman of Mississippi. A mob of savages of that State had the human barbecue pit in readiness to indulge the favorite pastime of the "superior" race—roasting Negroes alive, when the much abused, anti-Negro education governor of Mississippi chartered a special train and went in his own proper person with the militia to save and did save this wretched Negro from the Indescribable torture of death by fire. Remembering that Governor Vardaman is a Texan by birth it occasions no surprise that he took the prompt and vigorous course he did in this instance, and we venture to predict that in time this man will come around right side up within his present erratic notions on the Negro question Let no Negro withhold this mead of praise—The Metropolitan, Dallas, Tex. Our people were perplexed on reading the press dispatches which conveyed the news of Governor Vardaman's action to prevent the proposed burning at the stake of one Albert Baldwin, charged with the murder of a railroad engineer. The facts in the case have already been made plain and it is needless for us to reiterate. However, the highest words of commendation are spoken of on all sides for the chief executive of the State, in upholding the majesty of the law and protecting human life. When one goes this far we can but say well done. One can but do their duty; angels can do no more. As long as there is a spark of Christianity it will actuate for good. Our mind revert to the poet Cowper, when he wrote: "God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform."—The New Light, Columbus, Miss. Grows Hair on Bald Spot. Joseph J. Wheeler, 14 Simpson Street Dayton, O., writes January 18th, 1904 the following: I am using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow and find it is a superior pomade. It started a new growth of hair on a bald spot and I am sure it will do all that is claimed for it. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow also straightens kinky hair, cures dandruff, and imparts to the hair a healthy life like appearance so much desired. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you one bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co, 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. For a short time only we will send to any address in the United States or Canada, postage prepaid, Booker T. Washington's great book "Up From Slavery," and The Freeman one year for $1.75, address The Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana. The Freeman, as admitted by all Negro newspapers, is the peer of weekly journals. Are you a subscriber? If not, why not? SONGS OF HOPE. THEY HAD NO CHANCE. My father and mother had no chance In other days of yore. Under the new life they had no chance To go to school and learn. Yes, let us provide the "Old Folks Homes" All their comforts advance. It is the duty of all mankind. Because they had no chance. After all we sometime fear that through ignorance and poverty that the Negro race is its worst enemy. RUMMAGE Gather up the rummage, All things in life are useful, Nature keeps all it has; This you will find is truthful. Nothing is lost in nature, However varied the changes, Whatever it seems to loose It only rearranges. Let mankind learn its lesson, Make use of all odds and ends; For what one man throws away On it another depends. They gather up the rummage, You will need them by and by, Traveling the road of life, When no other help is nigh. Progressive Negroes all over the country are venturing into some kind of business. That is right. Money getting and money saving are among the keenest needs of the race. GO UP HIGHER "Watchman, what of the night?" The signs of the times for the future of the Negro race are bright. GOD'S WAY. God's way is hard for man, it seems, He spends his time in idle dreams, Chooses his way and drives his teams, At a rapid rate. And, led by lust and greed for gain, Down the rough road of grief and pain, 'Till at the last his life is sain, Then it is too late. There is much talk about Negro rights. These precious jewels must be bought. Have you the money to pay for them? Pern, Ind. B. T. HARVEY. Church and Personals. Muncle, Ind., Special—"The Kings Daughter," an auxiliary to the A. M. E. A Chance For All. C. R. PATTERSON & SONS CARRIAGE BUILDERS GREENFIELD, OH10 If this does not interest you write for our cles of all descriptions. This firm is the on WORLD. (Please mention The Freeman.) These cuts were takeu from one of my co our treatment. STRAIGHT, SOR PRODUCED BY CHEVELINE. We use no hot irons or the hair is not changed f beautiful by washing, and with it. Send a piece of your hair and 10c and veline is undoubtedly the greatest of all hair p Mystic Face Bleach Medicated Hair MME M C Fine Wigs No Goods C. O. D. WILLIAM "The only Soap Some men are willing to s a toilet or common laundry s it's unsatisfactory and danger safety in shaving, are only f of Williams' Shaving Soaps. Williams' Soaps sold everywhere, but s Williams' Shaving Stick, 25c Genuine Yankee Shaving Soap (Rd. or Sq. Williams' Shaving Soap (Barbers), 6 round THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO AMUSING "CHANGING FACE" interest you write for our catalogue and get prizes. This firm is the only NEGRO CARRIAGE mention The Freeman.) here Stood the Fest When al If this does not interest you write for our catalogue and get prices on pleasure vehicles of all descriptions. This firm is the only NEGRO CARRIAGE FACTORY IN THE WORLD. (Please mention The Freeman.) These Goods here Stood the Test When all others Failed taken from one of my customers, whose hair was LIGHT, SOFT AND GLUE PRODUCED BY THE USE OF We use no hot irons or pasting down with great the hair is not changed from darkness, but on the beautiful by washing, and the straightening aspect of your hair and 10c and I will return it as much the greatest of all hair preparations. Price $3.00 Face Bleach, destroys the coloring the blackest skin and lighter. Price $1.00 Luted Hair Grower JAMME M C TURNER Fine Wigs made to order O. D. 1513J Canal St, NE We only Soap fit for the n are willing to shave with most a common laundry soap. This is not factory and dangerous. Perfect ea shaving, are only found in the rich Shaving Soaps. Soaps sold everywhere, but sent by mail if your dealer a g Stick, 25c. Williams' Glycerated Shaving Soap (Rd. or Sq.), 10c. Luxur Soap (Barbers), 6 round cakes, 1 lb. 40c. Exqui B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Con- CHANGING FACE" PUZZLE SENT H These cuts were taken from one of my customers, whose hair was changed as you see of our treatment. STRAIGHT, SOFT AND GLOSSY — PRODUCED BY THE USE OF — We use no hot irons or pasting down with grease in this treatment, and the hair is not changed from dampness, but on the contrary is made more beautiful by washing, and the straightening appears as natural if born with it. Send a piece of your hair and life and I will return it as a sample of my work. Cheveline is undoubtedly the greatest of all hair preparations. Price $3.00 per unit. WILLIAMS' SHAVING SOAP "The only Soap fit for the Face" Some men are willing to shave with most any soap — even a toilet or common laundry soap. This is not only not nice, it's unsatisfactory and dangerous. Perfect ease, comfort and safety in shaving, are only found in the rich, healing lather of Williams' Shaving Soaps. Williams' Soaps sold everywhere, but sent by mail if your dealer does not supply you. Williams' Shaving Stick, 25c. Williams' Glycerated Tar (Toilet Soap, 10c. Genuine Vanilla Shaving Soap (Rd. or Sq.), 10c. Luxury Shaving Tablet, 25c. Williams' Shaving Soap (Barbers), 6 ground cakes, 1 lb. 40c. Exquisite also for toilet. THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn., U. S. A. AMUSING "CHANGING FACE" PUZZLE SENT FOR 2c. STAMP. $5 to $12 PER DAY WORKING FOR US. Particulars, 2c stamp. W. S. & D. Co., Box 883, Denver, Odl. "The Negro not a Beast." A 30 page book for 10c. It is a treasure to the Negro! Send at once. Star Book Co., Zero, Tenn. "Up From Slavery." Booker T. Washington's interesting book, sent postage prepaid and The Freeman one year for $1.75. Send your order at once. --- --- catalogue and get prices on pleasure vehi NEGRO CARRIAGE FACTORY IN THE Fest When all others Failed [Illustration of a woman with long hair, wearing a lace collar. The image is likely a historical or artistic representation of a woman from a past era.] AFTER customers, whose hair was changed as you see by IT AND GLOSSY BY THE USE OF— inasting down with grease in this treatment, and from dampness, but on the contrary is made more of the straightening appear as natural as if born will return it as a sample of my work. One separations. Price $3.00 per outfit. destroys the coloring matter and makes the blackest skin at least three shades lighter. Price $1.00. Soap free. Grower. for growing the hair. Price $1.00. TURNER'S made to order 1513 Canal St., NEW ORLEANS, LA MS' SHAVING SOAP fit for the Face" have with most any soap—even soap. This is not only not nice— ous. Perfect ease, comfort and sound in the rich, healing lather not by mail if your dealer does not supply you. Williams' Glycerated Tar (Toilet Soap, 10c, 10c. Luxury Shaving Tablet, 25c. cakes, 1 lb. 40c. Exquisite also for toilet. Glastonbury, Conn., U. S. A. PUZZLE SENT FOR 2c. STAMP. "Up From Slavery." Booker T. Washington's interesting book, sent postage prepaid and The Freeman one year for $1.75. Send your order at once. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation for hair extensions as shown above. It may just be scalp, prevents the hair from fall-out, prevents the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years it is the first preparation ever used for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. It is healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A bolts necessity for ladies, it is its superior and lasting qualities it is the best preparation for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every product and send us $ 60 cents for one bolts and send us $ 60 cents for one bolts and charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper in writing. Write your name and plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 65 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY DR. W. B. JONES' CELEBRATED AMERICAN CATARRH CURE ONE BOTTLE CONVINCES THE SUFFERER, THAT THERE IS RELIEF FOR HIM. It quickly cures the CONSTANT HAWKING, COUGHING AND EXPECTORATION. It restores the HEARING, and removes the HEADACHIE & NOSE BLEEDING. SOUND SLEEP follows its use, with INCREASED VIGOR AND VITALITY of the whole body. De-ployed by U. S. Mail on receipt of $1.00 by W.B. JONES, 400 N.3rd St. Philadelphia, Pa. Samples free. Sold by Druggists generally. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOLLOW THE USE OF THE GREAT INDUSTRIES RD. SANDERSON'S HERBS OF JOY. Past basil LIVER COMPLIANT, RHEUUMATISM, PERSPISIA, MALARIA, ASTIMA, KIDNEY COM-PRODUCTION. Box makes one quart of medicine. Delivered by mail for 25 cents each. Agents Wanted. DR. P. C. SANDERSON, 400 North Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Cincinnati; Artificial Limb Co WM. L. RICHARD, Prop. James A. Foster's Union Artificial Limbs The Harrison Mutual Aid Association It cares for the dead. Join at any age, cheaper than lodges or insurance. BEULAH WILLIS. Secy U. D. Davidson & L. E. Jackson Manufacturers of fine hair goods: Wigs, Pom-palms, Switches, etc., made to order. We make wigs over net foundations for $3.75 that stand combing. Ladies in hair business wigs for wholesale price lists; all orders will receive prompt attention at 311 hackensack. Street, DALLAS, 308 E 12th Street, FT. WORTH, Texas Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN MUCH OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED One-pound Box 25 cts. at Druggists and Dealers. Taggarts Bakery 234 W. Vermont Street. 233, 235, 237 Massachusetts Avenue. 18, 20, 24 N. New Jersey Street. 1538 N. Illinois St. 1532 College Ave. Tomlinson Hall Market HAVALUNCH In a Box for 10 cents. BIRD MANNA is the secret preparation used by the Canary Breeder of the Harts Mountains in Germany, for curing all diseases of Cage Birds, and restoring them to health at drummers, or by mail, PHILAID A BIRD FOOD CO. 400 N. 3rd S. Philadelphia, PHILAID The Freeman in Hot Springs, Ark. Copies of the Freeman can be found every night at Robinson & Glover's barbershop 111 Walmor avenue. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. With all the latest known improvements at greatly reduced prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for circular. B. MATTHEWS, 20 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Ky. permanent endowment of the Institution which now reaches the sum of $50,000. The bill before the legislature in the Barea Collage Case is a drastic one, imposing a fine of $1,000 on any institution where pupils of both races are educated together, and $100 a day for the continuance of such co-education after a conviction. The same penalties are imposed on instructors, and a penalty of $50 a day is imposed on a pupil of either race who attends a school where pupils of the other race are also receiv-ed. A Native South African Chieftain at the instance of Dr. T. M. himself a native South African chieftain, a choir of his own kinfomen and two women—have been taining Indianapolis and Indian lovers for the past week. At church, last Thursday night, the acting as master of ceremonies concert given under his auspice quite a descriptive talk concern customs of the natives. Miss J. Gow, a Cape Town, Cape Colom is pianist for the choir. She discovers wonderful talent, playing vary- MEDITATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP. Where does ideal friendship lie, In the soil or in the plough? Friendship lives up in the sky, Also in your vow. Why is friendship bound in love, From a soul as pure as gold? Its a gift from heaven above Seldom ever told. What is friendship if not true? Do you think that you can tell? Take it as a golden rule— "All that's true is well." When is friendship's vow complete, While you live or when you die? Living—with its virtues sweet Shining in your eye. Baltimore,'Md., has a colored Young Woman's Christian Association. At this home, homesare secured for girls and protection'given. Thomas Emerson, a colored man of Philadelphia, Pa., who was stadded in the heart February 29, by his sweetheart, has been the subject of an unusual operation. His heart was lifted out of the body and six stitches were taken to close the big gash made by the negress's knife. The organ was replaced and surgeons believe he will recover. It seems to be the policy of the Western Union Telegraph Company to replace the white messenger boys by colored Colored boys are being extensively employed in different sections of the country. In Chicago colored boys are being employed. At Macon, Ga., and at Savannah, colored boys an men are being employed instead of the white boys. Negro education bill is dead says a Jackson, Miss, special, March 15. The lower House indulged to-day in a spirited debate on the veto of Governor Vardaman of the bill for an appropriation for the benefit of negro education. "BUILDING UP THE TEMPLE." The Good Work Done by the Members—Local and Personal Mention. Mobile, Al., Special. The Franklin Street Baptist Church, Rev. A. N. McEwen pastor, has been remodled. A new steeple and a new bell added to the church at a cost of $650. The above named church was first owned by the white Methodist of this city. It is located in the central part of the city; with a seating capacity of 1,500. At the expiration of ten years the congregation of this church has paid off the mortgage and the mortgage notes sold at auction for souvenirs. We present the cuts of Rev. McEwen and Miss M. G. Gibbs, a member of the church, who, by her uniting efforts, materially assisted the pastor in bringing the church up to its present standard. Miss Gibbs was born and reared in this city, and is one of Mobile's leading young women. After "going through" the public school and the Emerson Institute she attended the Selma, (Ala) University, the leading Baptist college in the South, where she THE EIGHTH OF JULY COLUMBIA REV A N MCEWEN graduated with high honors. After- which she returned to Mobile and ac- cepted a position as teacher in the public and private schools of the city. Recently the secretaryship in the branch office of the great Southern Home Industrial Association was tendered her, which she accepted and is now holding to the satisfaction of the association. "Big Zion" A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. R. A. Morrisley pastor, is carrying on a successful revival—The Aravon Knights, one of the eldest social clubs in the city, elected the following officers recently: J. Ira Turner, president; A. The motion to pass the bill over the Governor's veto was lost by a vote of 64 to 48, seventy-two votes being required. The bill, therefore, is dead. Representative Lamb, of Virginia, has introduced a bill in congress appropriating $1,200,000 to the Negro Development and Exposition Company of the United States of America, incorporated under the laws of Virginia. One millions dollars is to enable a creditable exposition to be made by the company at the Jamestown exposition to be held in 1907, and $200,000 is to pay bounties and areaws of pay due estates of deceased Negro soldiers of the civil war A varied programme of athletic events made up the indoor carnival of sports, which was held in the Madison Square Garden at New York recently. The intercollegiate contests were chief features of the occasion. Some very close finishes resulted in these relays, the last being of a sensational character when the completing teams represented the University of Pennsylvania and Amherst. There were two men bore the same name, Taylor. The Pennsylvania was a Negro. When the Negro won, by barely 6 inches againting the honors for Pennsylvania, the applause which greeted him was voicerous. Alpha Home Flection. The annual election of officers of the Alpha Home Association took place last Thursday week in the afternoon, Susie Williams was elected president, Amanda Breckenridge, vice-president; Roxie Bell, recording secretary; Ella William's financial secretary; Hulda Webb, treasurer. Board of trustees, Kenzahl Butler, chairman; Mary Johnson, Mrs. D Slaughter, Ellen Lewis, Minerva Grundy and Beatrice James. M. Williams, vice president; J. W. Turner, secretary; A. B. Spencer, treasurer. The club is preparing to give their annual banquet in April.—The mother of Mr. S. L. Gibbs, the noted A. E. MISS M. G GIBBS hotel waiter, would like to hear from him -Our agent, Mr. J. S. Davis has resigned hotel work and accepted the assistant management of the Mobile Weekly Press. Educational Notes. Educational Notes. The enrollment of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo , is something over 300. Lincoln Institute is preparing for what it hopes to make the best Summer School of its existence. We congratulate Wilberforce University, the chief college of the A. M. E. Church, on receiving from Mr. Carnegie fifteen thousand dollars for the erection of a library. Cannot some influential friend of our Church reach Mr. Carnegie in the interest of a library for Livingstone College?—The Star of Zion, Wilmington, N. C. The trustees of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, have formally accepted from Mr. Thomas Minns, surviving executor of the estate of the late Robert C. Billings of Boston, the sum of $3,000 appropriated from the residuary estate of Mr. Billings towards the permanent endowment of the Institution which now reaches the sum of $50, 000. The bill before the legislature in the Berea Colledge Case is a drastic one, imposing a fine of $1,000 on any institu- tion where pupils of both races are educated together, and $100 a day for the continuance of such co-education after a conviction. The same penalties are imposed on instructors, and a penalty at $50 a day is imposed on a pupil of either race who attends a school where pupils of the other race are also receiv- ed. If the lower house of the Kentucky legislature is sustained Berea College of that State will be lost to the colored people. The institution was founded by Cassius M Clay and others before the war, and for co-education purposes as it concerns the races. It has always been attended by white and colored people since the Civil War. Those who are for maintaining the institution as it has been conducted hope to defeat the legislative enactment by veto, relying on their influence with Governor Beckham. Atlanta University is immediately to erect a new building for a practice school in connection with its normal department, to facilitate its work of training Negro teachers for the Negro public schools. A specialty will be made of the training of kindergarten teachers. The building and its equipment are to cost $15,000, the funds having been provided by the General Education Board of New York, Mr. George Foster Peabody, and other friends of the University. The contracts have been signed, and on March fourth formal exercises in connection with "breaking the ground" were held, addresses being made by several members of the Faculty, after which President Bumetad spaded up the first shovelful of dirt. The building is to be completed and ready for occupancy at the opening of the term next fall. LOW RATES To California and return via Big Four Route general conference Methodist Episcopal pal Church, Los Angeles, commencing May 3rd, national association of retail grocers of the United States, San Francisco, May 3rd to 8th, Tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal., and return will be April 22nd to May 30th, 1904, inclus; we also on May 1st tor such trains as will deliver passengers at Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis or Cairo on same date, from all points on the tour," Cincinnati Northern and D. & U.R. B. States. Final return limit, June 30th, 1904, top-over privileges. The Western Christian cate's Special Train for Los Angeles for the accommodation of delegates and others who wish to visit the Pacific Coast, leaves via the Big Four Route. WARREN J. LYCHN, Gen'l Pass, & Ticket Agt., CINCINNATI, OHIO. Patronize our advertisers. A Free Ticket To The World's Fair, Or to Any Public Meeting. For obtaining 50 one year subscribers to TRUTH, a religious, 12 to 20 page weekly. Valuable premiums for less than fifty. Full information for a two cent stamp. Address, D. G. SPEARMAN, LODESTONE If you want to know all about it; its properties to give power, good luck, etc. Success inspire of opposition, and other things wonderful about it; send 2 cent stamp for circular to Indian Occult Scientist, 415 E. 6th Street, Wilmington, Del Howard University WASHINGTON, D.C. Gives opportunity of Higher Education to all without regard to creed, race or sex. Ten departments—Theological, Medical, Dental, Design, Engineering, Teachers, Commercial, Preparatory, industrial—conducted by one hundred competent Professors and instructors. For further information, address: Rev. JOHN GORDON, D.A. Secretary, Department of --- A Native South African Choir. At the instance of Dr. T. M. Kakaza, himself a native South African of whom we have with pleasure spoken heretofore, a choir of his own kinfolk—five men and two women—have been entertaining Indianapolis and Indiana music lovers for the past week. At Bethel church, last Thursday night, the doctor, acting as master of ceremonies in the concert given under his auspices, gave quite a descriptive talk concerning the customs of the natives. Miss Johanna Gow, a Cape Town, Cola County, lady, is pianist for the choir. She displays a wonderful talent, playing very difficult music with ease. In appearance and speech she seems quite Americanized and is very comely. The men are all fine physiques, which give them an advantage on the stage. Besides singing some native songs that sound strange because of their peculiar enunciations that were descriptive of native life, as explained by Dr. Kakaza, they sang some very beautiful selections, both in their own tongue and in English. Miss Adelalde Tantal is the lady singer of the choir. She has a good voice and evidences much intelligence. A quartette, a tenor and a bass solo, all good, were the diversions furnished by the men. The fact that honor was a premium over beauty, and that even the uncivilized native believes in the immortality of the soul, were emphasized. All are students of Wilberforce, Dr. Kakaza being an alumni of the "force." They return to school next week. Messrs. James Yapi Tantal, Jare Menze, Inbulalen Kuzway, Mayila Manye, Theodore Masiza Kakaza, Misses Johanna Gow and Adelalde Tantal is the personnel of the choir. Several white and colored audiences in Indianapolis and nearby towns were highly entertained by their singing. THE LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD for Toledo, Detroit, Ft. Wayne, Bloomin ton, Peoria and points Fast and West. A, H. SELLERS, District Passenger Agent 28 S. Illinois St. Indanapolis, Ind. H, J, RHEIN, General Passenger Agent. Patronize Our Advertisers. Read them. GOT $25.00 GOT $25,000 BY TAKING Saint Joseph Dr Henrygoldsea w. Robertson's Advice. The great Medium and Fortune called to Dallas, Texas, by special request to see days' time. The parties who sought him go to Dallas, where he is the gist cestman of his states. He gives advice on Bounties, Pensions, Gain and Loss. He gives parations, etc. advice in business. His mother born with a gift that no one can equal. He has dead trance at the graveyard for three days. He has a gift that he can give your lucky days for work and colours he took a ship and sailed from the Northern to the son college, in Natchite, Miss. On his return from college, he was always crowded. He has caused the cripple flicted and blind for years. He is the star of the poor. Many convicted to be hanged and to the this gifted Medium. Many women and men who disagreeable husbands and wives have returne Advice. The great Medium and Fortune Teller, who was born in Richmond, Va., was called to Dallas, Texas, by special request to settle a law suit. The matter was settled in three months. He was a man of great Thousand Dollars; now the whole town sings his praise. Everybody is wondering at such a man breaks up conjunction as he goes; he is the gatest man of his profession that ever traveled to southern states. He gives advice on Bounties, Pensions, Law Suits, Marriages, Speculation, Low Gambling, hidden Treasures, S parations, etc. Dr. Robertson has had twenty years of experience in the business. He is his seventh son, born with a gift that no one can equal. He has given thouands to thousands, he laid in a dead trance at the graveyard for three days. He tells things that happened seventy years before his birth he gives you a Lucky Charm to last you forever; he gives you the number of years and ten months old he took a ship and sailed from the Northern to the Southern states; he goes to school at Jefferson college, in Natchez, Miss. On his return from school he performed in a medium for three years; now he is the king of spiritualists. He is assisted by four other mediums, and his friends are always crowded. He has caused the crippled to throw their crushes away after being afflicted for years. He is the star of the whipping post. He does not believe in robbing the poor. W. Robertson has done for me. I was sick for five pears and my husband was nearly crazy from what he had for fifteen years and we could not succeed in anything until I tried this gift mediation moved the spells and sickness entirely; now we are happy indeed. We would like to have him in the city. Very respectful Mrs. I. V. Normau, No. 1123 Choupitoulas street, New Orleans, La. Dear Friends: This is to certify that Dr. Henrygoldsew W. Robertson can help the needy. My husband was so cross when he would come to the house I could not stay inside. He kept frunk for years but after a friend of mine advised me to see Doctor Robertson. I took her ad-hoc years and have our own homes and a large farm. He is a powerful man. Levy Myles, Vickram Miss. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Dear Friend—I received the last medicine that you sent me and after us used it. I will tell you: all swelling left and the other matter is settled. I am, truly, J. J. Holland Moble, Ala. This is to certify that Dr. Robertson is great. I had been fighting for my bounties so long until I thought there was no hope, but after reading of his wonders, I gave him a trial and a reward for my bravery. He is a man of great kindness and are in a pretty cottage of my own. May God bless him forever. D. H. Hunt, Chicago, Ill. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Dear Sir—Allow me to thank you for your kindness. I have gained my property back and the woman who caused the trouble between my husband and I have left her. I will always have my best wishes for success. Mrs. I, E. Jackson, Beaumont, Texas. Dear Dr. Robertson: O. Jy a few words to thank you kindly for what you did for me. The p rules who stole my clothes and jewelry brought them back and put them at my gate. It for the town. You are true in your works. Respectfully, G. Cinclare, Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. Robertson: Dear Shr-After you removed the evil spirits from our home and gave us the lucky charm, we succeeded in getting the hidden treasure. Now we are leaving to live in the estate and will always picture you in our memory. From R. A. and H. Penn, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Friends: This is to certify that Dr. Robertson is true in what he says. I have lost my job for three months, did not have money to support my wife and family after committal Dr. Robertson and he told me that he was the cause and worked his spiritual power for me. He has given me love and have given me my friends have got him to decide to live in our city. I am yours respectfully. M. R. Hills, Dallas, Texas. Call on or write him: address DR. HENRYGOLDSEA W. ROBERTSON. write him: address DR. HENRYGOLDSEA W. ROBERTSON. Headache Can be Cured with Dr. Miles' Anti- Pain Pills. If your nerves are subject to disturbances, such as Headaches, Neuralgia, Backache, Rheumatism, Measured Palns, Sleeplessness, etc., their jarring and jangling can be quickly ended with a Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pill. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are pleasant little pink tablets, which do not act on the bowels, nor do they have any disagreeable weakening or habit-forming effect on the system: They are the result of the latest scientific knowledge on the subject of Pain, and bring relief safely and quickly to the greatest sufferer. You should always keep a box of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills in the house, since you never know when pain may attack you, and it is wrong to suffer when your suffering can be so quickly relieved. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills contain no opium, chloral, cocaine, morphine, or similar drugs, and are sold by druggists under a guarantee to relieve you, or pay your money back. By relieving Pain, Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills shorten suffering, and lengthen life. 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. "I have used Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills when troubled with headache, and find that they do all the relief of cushioning in a very short time. I also use Nerve and Liver Pills when necessary. Nerve and Liver Pills are afflicted with neuralgia of the head and can much benefit to me. They are all that much benefit to them."—GEORGE COLGATE, 219 Oakland St. San Antonio, Tex **FREE** Write to us for Free Trial Package of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pills. Also the Scientific Remedy for Pain. The Sympals Specialist will diagnose your case, tell what is wrong, and how to right it. FREE LABORATORIES. ELKHART IND. The Freeman in Chicago. B. Williams 4864 State st S. S Ash, Cornell Ave. & 56th. st. E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State st. A. F. Tervalon 2826 State st. Calvin B. Brazaud, 5506 Jeff Ave. J. S. Love 2702 State st. Isadore Jacobson 2970 State st. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wville Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. OBY TAKING Teller, who was born in Richmond, Va., was a testament a law suit. The matter was settled at twenty-five Thousand Dollars; now the whence he marveled in marvelous man. He breaks up conspicuous cases in the Southern Lawsuits, Marriages, Speculation, the affairs. Dr. Robertson has had twenty years of law experience to then and he is their seventh son, given light to them and he is their seventh son. He told in a tells things that happened secondly last you forever; he gives you the number of years and ten months old he Southern states, the school at Jefferson school he performed in a dark room, assisted by four other Medians, and his parliors assisted by their crutches away after being at whipping-post. He does not believe in robbing in for life have been pardoned in a short time by his homes on account of their and now are doing away. TESTIMONIAL8. J gle » HAVES Wh 20d 2 ith , way of dealing with yous Prompt, Bate and, Hotoons SY ble always, f ‘We make loanson FURNITURE, ORGANS anp y/ y PERSONAL PROPERTY of See without remoy- al. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and / payments within reach ot all, $25.00 loan, ents are only 60c per week. ‘This pays im fall im hity woekn we Other amounts in ‘same proportion, ‘Payments can be get made rently, if desired. We also loan on WATOHES Aes and DIAMONDS, ~All business strictly private, court- 5 cous treatment to all, It cost nothing to investigate, ° CENTRAL LOAN CO, Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, Old Phone Main 9182 (Formerly Stevenson Tice Froat Room. (45 E. Washimgton street) New Phone... 4270 —_—_——————— Anyone doubtfol of the early Popularity of Challis is referred _ to her favorite fashion magazine for a view of the full skirt now 89 universally approved. Styles like this demand soft hanging, thin material; Challis fs jast this while its pretty printings assure {te beauty and appropriateness for a summer frock. In American Challis, with satin stripes, on both light and dark grounds, with designs and in colorings. which yon cannot but admize, the price.....35¢ French Challis is even more com- prebensive in its range of pat terns. ‘This goods is. all wool aud fs available in every want- ed color and style of printing, prices according to designs. ..500, 59c and 65e SS Eee L.S.AYRES &Co Indlana’s Greatest Distributors of A Dry Goods. TO FREEMAN{SUBSORIBERS, It The Freeman fails to reach you, lease let us know by phone or card fe cannot know unless you tell us. Phones—New, 2880; old, 7187, black. OITY AND SOOIETY BRIEFS, he aR ee Oe ee Uneeda good Photos, goto Bennett's 86 E. Washington street. Miss Mamie Southern has returned from a trip to Palm Beach, Fis. Mr. Bonjimin Baldwin is ill at. bis residence, 2342 Indianapolis ave. ‘Mrs. Pinckey Robinson has removed feom 905 E, 11 et, to 648 Arch et. Charles Spires of Marion Ind; was in the olty Sunday on K. of P, Business, Mrs. Daersonof the Planet Hotel is slowly recovering from a severe illness. Mme. Jordan will have a millinery opening Monday night at Wayman Ohapel. Rev. George L. Siasle has been re- turned ae presiding elder of Indiana austrict. Charles Love's friends may find him at C. B Rape's stone front barber shop, chair No. 3. Thomas Rogister reports a pleasant trip to Lexington, Ky., where heat- tended conference. ‘Mrs. Hanover Williams who has been {ll many\months at her home in Dong- aes ot., died Tuesday, Dr. Joseph H. Ward was in Kokomo some time this week, where he set“up a Kalghte of Pythias lodge. We are pleased to note that Charlee Baughman, weighmaster at the post: offica, is rapidly recovéring. Attorney J. B. Rush, after an absenos of twelve years in the Northwest, has returned to the clty to reside. : Mrs. R, 8, Olay of Nashville, Tenn., came last Tuesday to visit her husband who is city collector for the Recorder. Mme. Cordelia MoUlain left for St. Louts, Wednesday night, where she joins her husband for an indefinite stay. Messrs J. HE. and and W. H Gaddle, Were called to St. Louis, recently to at- tend the funeral of thelr brother, E. Manuel Gaddie. ‘Mr. Mack Mendenhall to Miss Alberta Peyton, April 7, 1904, s the announoe- meat of Mr. and Mrs. George Peyton, 630 Agnes street. . Mre, H. Williams, 532 Douglass street, dled Tnesday morning after @ long ill- ness. She leaves a husband and son to moura thelr loss. Ths marriage of Miss Jessle May Halland Mr. Samuel ©. Cook took place at the home of Rev. ©. Johnson, ‘Thureday evening March 17th. I Have The Right Combination Tosave you 10 per cent. on Diamonds, Sey ee my diamonds direct, and Sey teal croc flier oe ea Sings oe Serer “Gente’ Diamond Rings, $15 and upward Kalo keep a tgeneralstine (ot fret-cla ns : DIAMOND 2: P MULALLY, peters 28 Monument Place. 4 parlor musicale was given bined day evening at the residences of Rev. H. E. Stewart in Cornell avenue by the Flora Grant Missionary Soolety. Simpeoa Chapel was crowded at two services last Sunday to listen to two interesting and instractive sermons by the new pastor, Rev. N. H. Talbott. Pupils of the Frederick Douglass ‘school in Shelby St., will give'an eater: tainment Friday April ist, at their building. The program will consist of music and drills, Rev. C.B. Allen, of Louisville, Ky., who has been assisting Rev. H. “A. Gibson, at the Ninth Presbyterian obureh, in a revival meeting returned home yesterday. Dr. 8. A. Farniss, went to Muncie last Wednesday to attend the Masonic and X. of P. banqust, at which time he will give a toast'on the enbject of ‘Our Soclety.” Lawyer J. H. Lots also was ‘& guest. = We are pleased to note the ‘Research Club,” holding weekly meetings with Mrs. Gabriel L Jones, in Fayette St., ‘and hopé that a good litezary organiza- tion may be perfected. Mrs Gertrade Hill is president and Mrs. Viola Jack- son literature chairman. Willis BR. Miner, the well-known deputy in the office of the Trustee of Center Township, fs @ candidate for ‘that office. Mr. Miner is a man of in- fluence @nd prominence, being at one time a member of the State Legisiature; he is @ party worker. and would add strength tothe ticket. The chances ‘are that he will be nominated at the Republican nominating e2nvention April 6th, ‘The Freeman made a mistake in ite last issue by stating that Mrs Eliza Carter of Chicago, who came here to attend the funeral of ‘her cousin, Geo, H. Berre, stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Goins, 507. N. West street, while here. Mrs. Carter was accompanied by Mr F. Berry and Mrs. Mattie Fulton, broth- erand sister of deceased, also of Chi- cago, and the trio stopped with Mrs. Geo H. Berry, the bereaved wife, 1012 Hosbrook street. ‘The Woman's Club was entertained by Mrs. Blanche Cook at the home of Mrs Lizzle Dixon on Monday after- noon. The cflivers elected for the en- suing year are Mrs. Minnie Scott, presi- dent; Mesdames Tillie Richardson, Ger- trade Gatherle and Fannie Smith, vice- Presidentas Mrs. Florence Bennett, financial secretary; Mre. W. 8S. Boyd, recording secretary; Mrs. Lizz\e Dixon, treasurer; Mre. Roxie Dixon, charity Organization representative; Mre. Dora Payne and Mrs. Roxie Dixon, delegates to the federation of woman’sclubs. The Glub will meet next Monday afternoon with Mrs. Nannie Wright, 1717 Alvord street. At the High School primaries, last Friday night, Samuel Taylor won firet place and holds the right to represent Shortridge in the State contest in May. James Meyers received the highest honors on manuscript of all the contest- ants. Owing to the recent ‘‘Merrill episode” the decision of the jadges was not received with cheers. Rumor says that Mr. Taylor will be asked by the students to resign in favor of Sumner Clancy, the winner of the second place, Taylor won on his merits, and wevhope that the feeling will not grow thats Negro boy in a fair contest must lose even if he wins, because of his color. |__20smxssinrzexsts, | _ ees Uneeda good Photo, goto Bennett's 36, E, Washington, Calon J.A. Robinson, the grocer, 485 Indiana avenue, New phone 807. Household goods bought, sold and ex- changed. Naumann, 333 Indiana Ave, ‘The Boston Market, 339 Indiana ave., for choice meats and poultry. New phone 8555, Wm. J. Reed, dealer in oils and garo- ne. Phone new 4051. Residence 749 W. Walnut Street. Buy your cal, wood and kindling of Jaokwon Brothers, 1613 Martindale-ave. Phone, old 996 main. Buck's Candy Kitchen 236 Indiana ave., for candies, and Ics Cream sodas of all kinds. New phone 2352. seater coe ym . . North street Phone 1884 mala, old, tf For fine service and the best in the market in season, go to the Parker House: The special Sunday dinners from ieee wre ta oe ging rooms, . street Holliman & Reese. ‘The treeman, as admitted by all Negro is th ft journals, erepapers ise pear of weekly jour REEMAN; .AN ILLUSTRATED. COLORED NEWSPAPER. | Wi = | f P He 1 V Cc n () 9 () () ‘i A \ \ A Y eco ‘The Board of Directors of the Louisiana | Admission to the World’s Fair. These number of paid admissions to the Fair. No | GREAT BAG OF GOLD as soon 8 you esrret ct ismirrtee traces | Aaeiccicnte se mite merece | ae east aetieetaeriy Gas Ne | SEBAT AAS OR Soup 4 wen nrs aside an appropriation of 830,000, whict | aat appropriate desiga, are iovaluab eas | YOO ate just as likely to get the $5000 in | to Ohicago World's rair ware, 2 sil. © sitar isimeiiares | Cacmemts eearanitumen |/adieneae Pruemmntiien |Scnptengeen messi s the person who sends us a correct | andarosimilar totue Joumbian dalt ol | thera be more thay one correct estimate, | Pan-American Expositions 5,50 Hageae cee meteeteceers | Leradstecitcfemas atte | Beate peat in ts eet emt secre cere caeee teen | ee ee etna cet ale es eee chase Exposition, which opeas at 3t. tickets of adarasion tothe World's Pair and correct estimates, There may be no ties or Louis April 30ch and closes Deo. Ist.19. | for this purpose will maintain a ticket dividing of this money, the enormous sum DOW’T DELAY! Write immedistely assasorerere se menpses | asic eater tom | em Race ad cee ey ce new Suvsogeisiuacheaeamarese | SachraunPheamen™eaanlay | Sie Stat Qe lant iegaia: | emt remember tate you net Pacis mpeacuuencBarrameras | Gatesans te, weno rage | Reta ait, eee ta Bl | ent you tomate intl NOTHING. Onr obj-ct in ae ‘thie Price, 50 cents. With every Souvenir chase Exposition: mpany’ We will also | ual and profitable contest is to enciwe ¥ ‘Unprecedented offer is toadvertissanipro- | Cola of Admission purchased we allow one pay all of your expensés to St. Louis mote the sale of our Souvenir Goins of | estimates to be maie and filed, of the total and will deliver the $50,000 IN ONE | cents for a beautiful, rare and artistic ca WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS, MO. > | See <ctps | RRS OS. Sovrormw are. 721 - OeaR ig (> GRA | oensitseteraeee [CO Soivene, com co. | Ga) Hee ir} Soa) hase Souvenir Goin Go, St Louis, Mo. i pee (3 ae a: | eee 3 Wiis gee eda! tte AINT LOUIS, U. 8. A. \ Boe 1) | \. 7 S555 ze Peed 3 oe aN DRED ee Seed EAL OI ROE Tract en Snvbnnseces My -y; Sehr Seas OO Segoe uae ° Eee / sunsets | | | TT | 1 2 IN LOVING REMEMBERANOE. ‘From the earth, where he was loved, ‘Tos home beyond the skies. He has gone to dwell above ‘With the Saints in Paradise. —Luella E. Hipbites, To the devoted and loyal Odd Fellow brothers of Lincoln Union Lodge, and the many kind friends who so willingly Proffered thelr services during the long illness of our husband, son avd brother, Mr. Samuel Hibbitts, who departed this life March 20, 1904, do we extend our stucere gratitude. For the beantifal floral designs we hardly have words with which to express our deep, heart- felt appreciation. Mrs Carrie Bippirts, Mrs. M. L. SyKEs. Mr, F. 0. Bispirrs SPLENDID NEW BATH ROows Samuel Gray, the popular and well- known bayber who conduots the Czar Shaving Parlor, has always enj>yed 8 large shire of the better class of busi- ness, bat he 1s now prepared to give more satisfaction to his patrons and aleo to increase bis business. He has just added three well appointed bath roome with fine poreelain tubs. The rooms are light, well ventilated and fresh froni the carpenters and painters. Hot and cold water in abundance. Mr. Gray invites the public to visit the rooms, where he will give the best of service, as he does in his shaving parlor. He is located at 226 Indiana avenue, PRIVATE SALE. Three bed room enites, consisting of bed stead, springs, mattresses, dressers, washstand, bowls and pitcher, two cen: ter table's, three pictures, three lamps, one heating stove, one pair of curtain stretchers, one cook stove, and other kitchen ntenslls, Three wash tubs, one kitchen sate, one Brussel and one In- grain carpets, slx Rags, one vlock, elev- en jare of frait. Personal propsrty of Mrs. Mattle Lewis, (Insane) at Blackford street, tc be sold at Private sale March 30, Any perton wishing to ees the above article: can do £0 by calling on, Jas, H. Lorn, Atty, 48 BALDWIN, BLOCK, oF 726, N. CAL: IPORNIA Si, ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES. Hours of service:—Sunday, 10:45 a. m,, preaching; 12 m., class; 2 p m., Sunday School; 7:30 p.m, preaching; class Tues day night; prayer meeting Thursday night; teacher's meeting Friday nignt, Rev. H, E. Stewart, pastor, residence 1501 Cornell ave. Sunday morning at 10:45 a Bottle ser- mon will be preached by the pastor. This is @ sermon with ten or twelve small bottles representing character, showing the inflaence of one character upon another. Palm branches will be distributed to the congregation as they enter the church. At 7:30 p. m. the pastor will preach another illustrated sermon, “Paradise Regained.” An il- lustrated song and solo will be enjoyed by all. ee Mr. John Stephen Agenor is now agent for The Freeman in New Orleane, La. Copies can be had of “him each week at 1820 Danphine St COLORED MAN WANTED Who is intelligent ond reliable for respons, ible position in New York Oifice of Corpor. tion. Ashe will handle faads, mure be able to give best references and furnieh $300. Cash as security, which will be secured To the right man liberal salary willbe given, with chance for advancement as ability is demonstrated. Don't answer unless you ¢an furnish the security stated. Address G, 9) Pine St, (Room 517) New York Clty. 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Minnte,___ State of Indiana, Marion Co, s: u800 nee vs. 7 Fotreutt Gonrt of Marion county Michael 3. {7 "°"In the State of tndiana. Hussey | No, 19112 Complaint Divorce. BEITENOWN, ‘That on the? dav of Merch 100" the above’ ‘amed’ ‘plaintiz, by. ber att neys, fied in the office af the clerk of the cirontt court of Marion county. in the state of indiana, ber com inlnt against. the ‘above hnmed defendaut Michael". Gussey and. the sald plaintiff baving aleo fled tn ld cleri's office the affidavit of a.competent pe son,show- fog’ Saat Said dofendant ohne! Busey i Not a Fesident of the state of Tndiana snd said ‘rause is for divoree. and that the above named defendant is x neceswary party thereto und wherone said plain having by endorsement on said complaint required eald defendant to Sppear in raid court, and anewer or demu thereto on the tt day of May, 190 NOW, "THEREFORE, By’ order of sala court, suid defendant inst above named tshere: by notf ied of the fling and pendency of said o mplaint against ben and, That unites he ap pear and answer or demur thereto, at_ the cal: {or ot said cause on the Gch day of May 00. the same being the Sth jadielal day. of & ter of sald Gonet, to be begin and held at the court ouse in the elty of Feanapoti, onthe Ist Monday, in ‘May 300 cald complaint. an the matters and things therein: contained and flloged ‘will be heard and ‘determined. tb bi absences ‘Wa. B. Davin, Clerk. ‘4.H. 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