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THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS Sounds a Note of Warning, Gives Sound Advice and Makes His Position Clear Upon a Number of Issues—The Afro-American Council to Meet. By Our Special Staff Correspondent. One of the race's ablest and most widely known leaders is Bishop Alexander Walters, of the Sixth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Zion connection. He has distinguished himself as an active churchman for more than twenty-five years, rising by dint of persistent and intelligent effort and unusual natural capacity for the direction of large affairs to the highest office within the gift of Protestant ecclesiasticism, enjoying the rare honor of being the youngest man ever placed upon the bench of bishops by any denomination. He was elected in 1892 at the age of 33 years. He rendered valuable service for four years as president of the National Afro-American Council and deserves the credit of reviving that very useful organization. He was the head and front of the Pan-African League movement, which has wielded an international influence, and has been for a long time an officer and the most conspicuous Negro worker in the World's Christian Endeavor Society. He was twice a delegate to the ecumenical conference, has visited the Holy Land and preached as Paul did on Mars hill, and is, perhaps, the most ardent advocate today of the organic union of the Negro Methodist churches of this country. In whatever undertaking he may be engaged, he is religious, social, commercial or political the Rt. Rev. Alexander Walters is always a potent factor, and his views upon public questions are always listened to with the greatest respect and the closest attention by the masses and classes of both races in every section of our land. Realizing that wise counsel is of the utmost value to the Negro at this time we have taken the pains to propound certain leading queries to the eminent prelate, for the purpose of shedding light into some of the dark places that we daily encounter in our struggle upward. His answers are frank, full and straightforward. He brings messages of encouragement, sounds a candid note of warning, gives sound advice and makes his own position clear upon a number of issues. "What is your opinion of the political outlook?" we asked Bishop Walters, as a "I believe," said he confidently, "that President Roosevelt will be elected to succeed himself, but not as easily as some Republicans think. His defeat would be a positive calamity to our people. The South would consider his defeat an endorsement by the East and West of their policy of dis ```markdown ``` [Name] BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS franchisement and withdrawal from the Negroes of all civil privileges. To that section, President Roosevelt stands for the equal rights of the black man. We go up or down with him. Hence it behooves every Negro who can vote and have his vote counted to cast it for Roosevelt and Fairbanks." "And what of the Democrats?" we inquired. "There is no wisdom in concealing im- VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 30. portant truths at this early period in the campaign. Now is the time to be thoroughly honest with ourselves, to the end that we may get at the root of things and map out a sagacious plan of action. The Democratic party has a strong candidate in the person of Mr. Parker. He is popular in New York, a man of unimpeachable character and a born politician. He is apt to prove a powerful antagonist among the conservative element. The same may be said of Mr. Davis. The Democrats have selected for the head of their national committee the most capable man for the position in the country. Mr. Taggart is broad and liberal on the race and is a better friend to the Negro than nine-tenths of so-called Republicans. In him Mr. Cortelyou has a dangerous foe. I hope our energetic young manager will not underestimate the strength and remarkable resourcefulness of the genial Indianian. Mr. Taggart is the best man the Democratic party could have selected to divide the Negro vote. He believes that the party ought to offer some inducements to the Negroes to unite with it. I verily believe that he will eventually revolutionize the Democratic party on the race question. Indifference to the interest of the Negroes on the part of the Republican party will be fatal to it in the future if Taggart remains at the head of the executive forces of the Democracy." "How do you stand with reference to the plan to reduce the representation of the South in congress if the suffrage of the states is materially restricted?" "I am heartily in favor of reduction of southern representation. First, because the constitution demands it in case of diffranchisement on account of color, race or previous condition of servitude. Second, because it will promote the re-enfranchisement of the Negroes in many of the southern states. I do not believe they are nearly so willing to have their representation reduced as they make out they are, and if they are willing to thus sacrifice their strength in the political affairs of the nation to get rid of the obnoxious Negro why such a howl about it when mentioned by Republicans? For one I am willing to try the experiment." "The Afro-American Council will have something to say on this matter at its forthcoming session, we presume," suggested your correspondent. "Why, certainly! The principle topic for discussion at the approaching gathering at St. Louis, September 6, 7, and 8, will be the suffrage question. We hope to have a large and successful meeting. I am afraid, however, we made a mistake in having the meeting at St. Louis, but it is too late now to think of transferring it elsewhere. We shall go ahead, according to schedule, hoping for the best. I am sure some good will come out of this conference of the race's picked men and women." "What do you regard as the Negro's paramount duty in the existing crisis?" ```markdown ``` "The Negro's paramount duty is to develop character, secure property, engage in business, stick to his church, acquire a practical education and a thorough fitness for useful service, and contend vigorously for all the rights guaranteed to him by the federal constitution. I think that is pretty explicit and ought to lead to a solution of our many sided problem." "In declaring for all of these fundamental principles you appear to be in perfect ac- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1904. EXCELSIOR ON TO HIGHER GROUND RAY WOOD 1914 "I am glad to seize this opportunity to set the people straight with regard to my attitude toward Dr. Washington and his admirable school of education. I fear that many of his friends and my own have labored under a misapprehension as to my true feeling toward him. I greatly admire the man and no one of his host of friends appreciate more than I the phenomenal work he is doing for the uplift of the race. Indeed, I have always applauded his splendid efforts for moral, mental and economic betterment, and felt proud to call myself an ally to his cause. I regard it as an fortunate, however, that some of Dr. Washington's best meant statements and necessary environment have made the impression with a number of whites and not a few Negroes throughout the land that he stands for a limited education and meager civil and political rights for the Negro. Thomas Nelson Page, who is, as you must know, no authority on southern ideas, does the Tuskegee educator rank injustice in his articles in McClures, wherein he praises Dr. Washington as the 'the sameest colored man in the country' and 'who has done more than any other (white or colored) man to carry out the idea that the southern well wishers of the race believ it to be the soundest and most productive of good results—that is, meanal positions for Negroes and no participation in politics. While we know that the notion of Dr. Washington's purpose as conceived by Mr. Page and numerous anti-Negro Newspapers, North and South, is absolutely false and misleading, at the same time the white people do not know it, and thus Dr. Washington's labors are not properly understood by a large class of whites who sympathize with the fullest citizenship for all Americans, regardless of color, and lays him open to a continuous fire of malevolent opposition from certain very active and irritating Negro journals whose editors ought not to have any excuse for their reprehensible conduct. I mention these things as unfortunate incidents, and as hurful conditions that Dr. Washington has been compelled to meet at great cost to the original force and in trinsic worth of his masterly work. All great movements, however, are fated to suffer somewhat from the injudicious utterances of fool supporters upon one hand and the shafts of jealousy and malice upon the othe other. Dr. Washington's speeches, books and article constantly aim to correct these misapprehensions and he is aided by 99.9 per cent of the strong men of the press, but the job is an herculean one, taxing the best resources of the thoughtful people of the country, for a lie has marvelous faculty for out traveling the truth in the early stages of a speed contest." Continuing, Bishop Walters said: Continuing, Bishop Walters said: "For my own part without criticizing Dr. Washington in the slightest measure—standing by him as loyalty as any man could—I have, for some time, thought that to assist in the counteracting the hurtful influences generated by the Pages and certain self-pointed guardians of the Negro's welfare (?) it was necessary for some of the prominent Negroes of the North to be equally pronounced and insistent upon the complete manhood rights of the black man I have noted, with no little claim, the too ready acquiescence of the heretofore aggresive North in the ideas of the Negro's place, as advanced by southern writers and statesmen, and I honestly feel that a healthy protest against these notions of natural race inferiority should be kept emphatically before the people. I rejoice, therefore, in the sturdy declarations on the suffrage question adopted by the Republican national convention at Chicago. It takes many minds and many methods to sustain this great cause of ours, and the labors of one should tend to supplement rather then hinder the labors of those in other fields. I hope I make my position clear. If I do not I am quite willing to be misunderstood by Dr. Washington and my own friends as well if in so doing I can best serve my own race. Believe me when I say that I am not in any sense opposed to Dr. Booker T. Washington. It must indeed be gratifying to the whole people to know that such capable and sturdy forces are working shoulder to shoulder in perfect alignment for a larger life for the PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR $1.50. Negro in all that goes to make a man. There is in this the presage of brighter days. SHARPS AND FLATS. The industrious Negro is seldom lynched. It is a safe and sane policy to stay "next" to the "nexters." Greenville, Alabama, has not become a southern Esopus because of Capt. Hobson's residence there. White supremacy is a poor stick if it can not maintain itself without resort to fraud and violence. President Roosevelt has cleared his skirts of all responsibility for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition "famdoolishness." The Negro press is not wearing any crape over the journalistic demise of D. R. Wilkins, ex-editor of the Chicago Conservator. No growl has been heard from the cage of John Temple Graves for some time, and Prof. William E. Burghardt DuBois is singularly quiet. The directors of the next World's Fair will profit by the blunder that St Louis has made on the race issue this year. The Negro press is a factor that must be reckoned with. Prof. Jesse Lawson's exceedingly well written book on "How to Solve the Race Problem" is having a large sale. Thoughtful men of both races are reading it and approving the sound philosophy advanced by Prof. Lawson. Chairman Cortelyou isn't hunting for Negroes who have no definite post office address. He knows that the "influence" of the gripsack leader is to be rated at about the par value of two cents in Chinese money. This is the inning in which only solid, substantial citizens go to bat. Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson is still silent and refuses to make amends for his St. Louis injustice to Dr. Washington. Had he maintained this admirable degree of taciturnity throughout the Democratic convention his excursion into the arena of greatness would not have been derailed by the open switch of indiscreet locuacity. A MODERN INSTANCE. Two Tales With a Single Moral—Truth is Oftimes Illumined by a Garb Sug-gestive Fiction—Plots in Fancy Frustrated Before Crystalizing Into Fact. (BY A WISE MAN FROM THE EAST.) There once lived a poor pigarick wretch, who was excessively ambitions of becoming distinguished. As his intellect was puny his friends insinuated to him that he could not hope to accomplish his ambition by the arduous means of honorable effort, therefore he resolved upon measures more answerable to his talents, for extorting notice from the great—for this was his notion of greatness. So, taking his stand where the greatest personage of the country was to pass our hero decomposed his countenance with the ugliest possible grimaces, but the great man, engrossed in his speculations, did not appear to observe him. On the second day, again waylaying the great man, our hero impudently plucked at his skirts to hinder him; but he passed on, abstracted and unmoved. Grown desperate on the third day the wretch cast himself bodily about the great man's feet, to make him stumble, and he, digusted at last by such despicable opportunities spat on the little nuisance and made him happy forever. There once lived in Boston an editor, who, like the subject of the story above, was engaged with a passion for fame. An academic education had familiarized him with Thersites, who, though handicapped with abilities as mean as those of our editor himself, had yet contrived by a licentious assault upon King Agamemnon, to become immortal, and our editor, inspired by this example, swore that the most consecrated characters should not awe his pen. At first he met with a few well deserved successes. At Louisville, after a three day's attempt to get the attention of the president of the Afro-American Council, he finally enjoyed the triumph of provoking that official into calling him a liar. At Boston, by dint of red pepper, hat puns and turbulence he induced a famous man to compare him publicly to a fly, whose foul virtue can corrupt a jar of sweetest cream Far beyond our hero's wildest hopes this same riot procured his incarceration for a month, and attracted to his career the opprobious notice of almost the entire American press. Did he regret that he was universally held up as a negative illustration of the benefits of that industrial education which he had affected to despair? Counting by the hundreds newspapers which mentioned his name (what if with derision and contempt?) he sat for thirty days in his cell infamous and happy. Upon his enfranchisement from prison our hero determined to clinch one and for all the attention of the public and fixed upon a scheme for which the boldest spirit need not have been ashamed to shrink, for it intended nothing less than conflagration and murder. Let us, with the history of Nero to assist us, attempt to picture ourselves the procession of his plots as they must have reeled in all their atrocity a dozen times through his distempered brain. In a beautiful little Cambridge church, erected by the severest sacrifices of its communicants, sit one night a crowded audience enaptured, for they are hanging upon the lips of one who seems to them a heavenly vistant; so loving and gentle is his aspect; so brave and patient his encouragement; so nobly bright his countenance. He is no other than Booker T. Washington. He, our editor has begun to regard with all the malevolence which a small and envious nature can feel toward its superior. The speaker, with infinite tenderness, stretches forth his hands above his audience and hundreds of streaming eyes are uplifted to receive his blessing. At this point, for such was the plan the church lights are instantaneously extinguished; as if this is not enough to initiate a panic the fire ala-m is rung in and wild clangor of fire bells beats upon every heart; as if this not enough to create a stampede the maddening cry of "fire" is simultaneously raised in the four corners of the church, and if this does not ensure a massacre brands are applied to heaps of combustibles and flames spring in through all the windows. At such a time woe to the weak, the young, the tender, for under the feet of brutalized, frenzied men their trail lives are crushed out. And, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) A. Mrs. Fairbanks tells how neglect of warning symptoms will soon prostrate a woman. She thinks woman's safeguard is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —Ignorance and neglect are the cause of untold female suffering, not only with the laws of health but with the chance of a cure. I did not heed the warnings of headaches, organic pains, and general weariness, until I was well nigh prostrated. I knew I had to do something. Happily I did the right thing. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound faithfully, according to directions, and was rewarded in a few weeks to find that my aches and pains disappeared, and I again felt the glow of health through my body. Since I have been well I have been more careful, I have also advised a number of my sick friends to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and they have never had reason to be sorry. Yours very truly, Mrs. MAY FAIRBANKS, 216 South 7th St., Minneapolis, Minn." (Mrs. Fairbanks is one of the most successful and highest salaried travelling salesmen in the West.) —$5000 forfeit if original of above letter proving geniusness cannot be produced. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. A Supreme Need A Normal School devoted the ing of Teachers, furni academic and industr professional training will best fit them for The Institute for Colored Youth sixty-six years in Philadelphia, Pa., educators of the race as Charles L. Jackson Coppin has been reorganize meet what the late Dr. J. L. M. Cus the educational work among our peo "A professional school which industrial training, kindergarten woe life might be inculcated." The school will begin its open site at Cheyney, Pa., about nineteen P. W. and B. R. R. The grounds sings and the equipment will be up- The institute has at present an The proximity of Philadelphia vantages. The school is under the bers of the Society of Friends (Qu The corps of instructors will training and experience. The sch institutions, high schools and pers History, the Sciences, English and quired in the first three years of a In addition to the other industr course on the "Useful Applications Teachers may take either the For full information write at or B. P. AUSTIN, President. GEORGE F. N. Secretary a ...Offic Muskogee Oil (Encor ...To Stockhold A Supreme Educational Need Met. A Normal School devoted to the Professional Training of Teachers, furnishing that correlation of academic and industrial education, discipline, professional training and practical skill which will best fit them for teaching. The Institute for Colored Youth with a most valuable history of sixty-six years in Philadelphia, Pa., presided over by such distinguished educators of the race as Charles L. Reason, E. D. Bassett and Fanny Jackson Coppin has been reorganized under Prof. Hugh M. Browne to meet what the late Dr. J. L. M. Curry considered the supreme need in the educational work among our people, namely: "A professional school which should combine teacher training, industrial training, kindergarten work and where better ideas of home life might be inculcated." The school will begin its operations September 1904 at its new site at Cheyney, Pa., about nineteen miles from Philadelphia on the P. W. and B. R. R. The grounds cover 117 acres. The new buildings and the equipment will be up-to-date. The institute has at present an endowment fund of about $210,000. The proximity of Philadelphia will afford unusual educational advantages. The school is under the management of a Board of Members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and is undenominational. The corps of instructors will comprise only teachers of broad training and experience. The school is open to graduates of higher institutions, high schools and persons who have completed work in History, the Sciences, English and Mathematics equivalent to that required in the first three years of a high school course. In addition to the other industrial subjects there will be a practical course on the "Useful Applications of Electricity." Teachers may take either the full or an abridged course. For full information write at once to the principal: B. P. AUSTIN, President. GEORGE F. NAVE, Secretary and Gen'l M'n'gr. REV. DR. W. H. SIMS, Treasurer. ...Office of... Muskogee Oil and Gas Co. (Incorporated.) ...To Stockholders, Greeting... We take pleasure in extending to you our congratulations upon our success on well No. 2. At a depth of 1000 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil began to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oil and stopped work until arrangement could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER. At a depth of 1087 feet the oil began to flow over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the oil was turned into our receiving tank, which had been prepared. The Company expects an income of $2,000 per month from its two wells. The location of well No. 3 has been selected and work will begin upon it within a few days. We expect the dividends to each stockholder, in the first 12 months will equal his investment. The ders are protected by the law. United States, regardless of live, and the officers are under sufficient bonds. Until September 1, 1904, the directors has decided to set $5 00 per share, the par value is $25 00, after which date the be withdrawn from the market price per share increased. As ours is the only Negro in the world owning and a profitable oil well, we co-eyou again on having cast you us, and remind you that in Indian Territory Ethiopa has up her heart unto God and 'orth her hand into the c problems of the world. We our first car load of oil July. Muskogee Oil 208 1-2 Broadway. 208 1-2 Broadway. RACE CLEANINGS We have been blessed with a second Harriet Beecher Stowe in the person of Caroline Pemberton, whose timely article in the Philadelphia Ledger has set the intelligent world to thinking. Miss Pemberton has received numerous letters from colored citizens in Philadelphi thanking her for her kind and truthful expressions, and she appreciates very much their expressions of gratitude and good will. Our only regret is that we have not one thousand Caroline Pembertous. A number of American and Liberian Negroes have organized and incorporated a steamship company which will operate a line of steamships between Monrovia and New York. The purpose of the project is not to further the emigration but to cement a closer commercial relation between the two republics. Agencies will be maintained in the business centers to promote the sale of Liberica's vast wealth in natural resources, while those in the black republic will see to the systematic distribution manufactured American products. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The white people refused to work in the Chicago stock yards, and the companies are putting colored men The Educational Met. Related to the Professional Train-turnishing that correlation of industrial education, discipline, training and practical skill which is for teaching. Youth with a most valuable history of Pa., presided over by such distinguished men L. Reason, E. D. Bassett and Fanny organized under Prof. Hugh M. Browne to M. Curry considered the supreme need in our people, namely: which should combine teacher training, in work and where better ideas of home its operations September 1904 at its new nineteen miles from Philadelphia on the banks cover 117 acres. The new build-up-to-date. at an endowment fund of about $210,000. Philadelphia will afford unusual educational adder the management of a Board of Mem- (Quakers) and is undenominational. will comprise only teachers of broad school is open to graduates of higher persons who have completed work in and Mathematics equivalent to that reof a high school course. industrial subjects there will be a practical relations of Electricity." the full or an abridged course. at once to the principal: PROF. HUGH M. BROWNE, CHEYNEY, PA. E. F. NAVE, REV. DR. W. H. SIMS, Tertiary and Gen'l M'n'gr. Treasurer. Office of... Dil and Gas Co, Incorporated.) holders, Greeting.... equal his investment. The stockholders are protected by the law of the United States, regardless of where they live, and the officers are under good and sufficient bonds. Until September 1, 1904, the Board of Directors has decided to sell stock at $5.00 per share, the par value of which is $25.00, after which date the stock may be withdrawn from the market, or the price per share increased. As ours is the only Negro Company in the world owning and controlling profitable oil wells, we congratulate you again on having cast your lot with us, and remind you that in the great Indian Territory Ethiopa has stretched up her heart unto God and stretched 'orth her hand into the commercial problems of the world. We shipped our first car load of oil July 4, 1904. Oil and Gas Co. Muskogee, Ind. Ter. || THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Muskogee, Ind. Ter. to work. We hope the colored folks will stick to it. Bishop C. S. Smith, in a recent address concerning Africa said: "All of South Africa is now open to us—a stretch of territory greater in area than that of the United States east of the Mississippi river. The area of the territory now open to us is estimated to be 1,200,000 square miles." Frank Fowler Brown, of Indianapolis Ind, a young tenor of promise, will join hands with the premier violinist, Mr Brown is a recent graduate from the Schellschmidt school of music, and at his closing recital his rendition of German, Italian and Scotch compositions was highly complimented by exacting musical critics. The fifth annual convention of the National Negro Business league to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31, Sept. 1-2, 1904, promises to be the most successful session ever held by this very remarkable and helpful organization. The local committee having in charge the arrangement of the program for the convention is diligently working for success, and we are sanguine that there will be more enthusiasm in the league in the future than in the past. Hon. George L. 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The question is entirely proper for the agitation has reached the point where it becomes necessary for every tub to stand upon its own bottom. Mr. Washington needs neither champion nor defender. He is history on a big scale and success has made him eligible to the Academy of the immortals! No man like him on the American continent, living, he is minus rivals, and dead he will leave no successor. He represents ideas, he persists action, he breathes the breath of hopeful, holy, righteous living along the line of least resistance. Like or dislike it, as you may, its the philosophy of the Nazarene modified to harmony to the existing order. The factions that oppose him lose sight of this simple truth. Booker Washington succeeds because he opens to men and women accustomed to darkness the "Door of Hope." Into their dismal surroundings he sends a rift of sunlight. He bids them "seek," "strive," "endeavor," and by the magic of their faith and their works they lift themselves to the level of lofty living. There are discordant notes in his lute, the fifth string is not always in harmony, but above the din of discord and confusion the great musician is heard clear and distinct. Booker Washington rings true for the better part. He is the active, helpful, philosophic, hopeful, honorable, benefactor on a large scale. Unique, picturesque, dogmatic, yet altruistic, he instinctively understood and approved the average earnest American. His character is free of the ingredients of mysticism; his ideas are simple, clear — They are spiritually and worldly practical to the last degree. His way may be different from ours, but homely shines out in all that he does, in all that he thinks, in all that he says. That's why in this age of shuffling and ragtime morality he is misunderstood. Do not get confused. Don't reason that the writer is hunting a snipe. Nay! nay! Pauline. We are hunting for hustlers, and running away from regular pay. The writer has never been a devotee of the Wizard of the Lowlands. We never were quite able to comprehend him. The Lord Almighty had to neglect somebody. We've never kicked because our brain tank was the last thing tonched up. And because of this deficit we belong to that number that "don't underestate!" But that of itself gives us no warrant for maligning a man or an idea that is capable of helping humanity. We like to see people succeed at doing things. Just go "do something," "be something," and our pen is yours to command. We will never abuse you to our servant girl, because you succeeded in excelling us, or redeemed your brand of fellows from the level of mediocrity. Honor bright now; is there anything more substantial in the propaganda against the ideas that Booker Washington has fathered? If so, where can they or she or it be apprehended? That's all—Scranton (Pa.) Defender. 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Only place of its kind conducted by a colored man in the city. ER POET n Laundras THE WAITER. THE WAITERS' MANUAL (Copyrighted 1888 by W. Forrest Cozart.) I have endeavored to put my thoughts together upon the art of waiting and catering to individual peculiarities in a shape that may possibly be useful to the young aspiring waiter. I hope to convey to you some information not to be found in any existing publication—ideas learned from observations and years of personal experience. This experience teaches me that a young waiter should have some published instructions that will tell him what to do and how to do it. I have devoted much time and thought to the subject, and by observation, experience and reflection have obtained some practical knowle ge as to how the art of waiting may be practiced and studied, which, collected, arranged and set forth in plain words, may perhaps save you much of the time and labor that was lost to me for want of a published guide. PREFACE. According to custom a preface usually takes the form of an apology for adding to the multitude of books, and I shall also comply with this custom to explain my reason for making this publication. While pursuing my profession as headwaiter I found myself much in the condition of a traveler in a mountainous country without a guide. I experienced at every step the want of a written guide upon the proper way to promote good and valuable service without any extra expense to the hotel. As a general thing the hotels of this country have an unwritten law upon good service, and they usually serve accordingly, each hotel adding a few ideas of its own, thus making no two houses observe the same rule. It will be seen that to become a good side or headwaiter one must have years of practical experience in various hotels in the country. I felt that much time could have been saved if I had commenced my course as a waiter, and especially as a headwaiter, with a systematic outline treating upon good service. I find that to practice certain rules of one hotel in another would not be tolerated, and that I would be severely criticised for such an attempt, because the systems in these two hotels differ, as they do in all others, much more than they correspond. As I had no way of distinguishing between the applicable and the inapplicable, necessarily acquired many false impressions, the more difficult of subsequent corrections, because they were first impressions, I came to the conclusion that fewer facilities have been provided for studying the culinary art than any other profession, and my experience as a headwaiter has given me additional confirmation of this fact. I believe that these notes will be useful to two classes of persons, viz. : 1. To those who are beginning and require something in the nature of a guide so that they can obtain some knowledge of the future course that they will have to pursue. 2. To those who aspire to reach the head of the profession, as headwaiter, a conclusion reached through the favorable opinions almost unanimously expressed by those to whom I have made known my intentions. While this book is written for waiters in American plan hotels waiters in European plan hotels and restaurants will find it quite as valuable. I have written for beginners and have made no pretensions to publish a great book. I have made no attempt at fine writing, but have used as much simplicity as the subject would permit. That a book like this is needed all will agree. I can but wonder as well as regret that the task has not been long since performed by abler hands for it is worthy the best. Mackinac Island (Mich.) News Mackinaw Island (east). News. I am proud to say that The Freeman was greeted on its arrival with much pleasure by many of the hotel boys, and I am asked by them to extend their best wishes to The Freeman and its management. Our corps of officers are all proficient men. Their positions are as follows: R M. Rush headwaiter. Chicago Club—Frank Eppo, president Pheoux Club—Mr. Cook, president. Hiawatha or Merry Maker's Club— Hayes Smith better known as "King Do Do," president. Columbia Club—Mr. Abron Nell, president. Key Club—Morris Glenn, president. Navajo Club—Mr. Engene Barnett, president. A hay party was organized by Chas. CHAS.MAJOR SPECIAL TO THE WAITERS. Beginning in August Cozart's Watters' Manual will be published in serial form in The Freeman, also all of his writings which have been published by the various papers for the past ten years. Mr. Cozart is well known to our readers and the public at large. If you are not a reader of The Freeman send in your subscription during the Mid-Summer reduction, which will continue until Aug 15 '04. GEO. L. KNOX. Publisher. Frison last Thursday evening in which the boys had a pleasant outing. A game of baseball was played between the Grand Hotel walters and the Mackinac team, the Islanders winning from the roast beef handlers by a score of 12 to 7. Their will be a game between the same teams for the championship on Saturday with Vinegar in the box for the hotel aggregation and Daffs for the Island contingents. G. W. RUSSELL Colored waiters have lost both the Albany and Windsor Hotels in Denver. Col. In 1894 colored waiters succeeded girls at the Albany, and in 1895 W. F. Cozart was engaged as headwaiter at the Albany, and he soon established a reputation for the colored waiters and in that year a colored crew was put in the Windsor, succeeding white waiters. From that time on the colored waiters held sway at the above hotels until here recently girls has been reinstated. We are sorry to see the boys losing out, but we judge that there is a cause for all these changes. Roy Howard, who is well known in Roanoke, Va., where he lived before he went blind, is now living at 112 North Ohio street, Atlantic City, N. J., where he resides with his mother, Mrs. Eliza Howard He was born in Franklin county, Va., thirty-one years ago. Poor Roy has been blind fourteen years now. He would be pleased to have a letter from any of his old friends. Mr. W. S. Stafford has succeeded Mr. A. Laskins as headwaiter at the Hotel Perrepont, Atlantic City, N. J. IT STRAIGHTENED HER HAIR. Dear Sirs: I inclose fifty cents for one bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow. I have tried it and it is so wonderful for straightening kinky hair, I recommend it to all my friends.—the above letter was written by Mrs. Eunis Colbert, Vanderbilt, Pa. June 22nd. 1904—Ozonized Ox Marrow will straighten your hair too, no matter how kinky it is. It also oures dandruff, stops hair falling and makes the hair grow. Never falls Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address, Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ills. Joliet Pick-Ups—Personals. Joliet, Ill., Special.-Mrs. Haywood Patton is spending her vacation with friends in Tennessee. Joseph Ellison is home from Herodburg, Ky., where he was called by the sudden death of his mother. Mr. Joseph Jesup, former agent for The Freeman in Joliet, is taking a much needed vacation. Mrs. Edward Robert's adopted baby is very slick. Dallas Jones, formerly of Joliet, now of Monnessen, Pa., was in town calling on old friends. Fred Wise and Bob Ford of the Royal Entertainers attended the Eastern Star social Monday evening. E. C. Dishman has returned home well pleased with his visit in East INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman. in advance.] HEADWATTERS. F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. F. I. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City, Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Halliday House, Cairo, Ili. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburgh, Pa. R. S. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. W. H. Davis, Hotel Franklin, Deadwood South Dakota, Box 904. 3:95 John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa. 5:05 ED. AN Our Friend --- St. Louis. Master Percy Ragland is under treatment at St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Salle McIntosh of Chicago and Mrs. Lemon Johnson of Joliet are the guests of Mrs. Cross, Louisville, Ky. They intend to stop at St. Louis on their return home. Mrs. D. White and Miss Tinnie Middleton are home from Chicago The U. R. K. of P.'s of Chicago gave a picnic at Teeller's Park, August 1st Mrs. T. D. McDonald is taking her vacation in Wisconsin Mrs. Bradshaw and Mrs. Sam B own of the Second Baptist church choir are singing at the camp meeting near Plain field Harry Boysaw is visiting his grandfather, the Rev T. C Fleming of Bradland. The A. M. E church held their basket meeting in Henry's Grove the first Sunday in August. RECUCED RAILROAD RATES. To the National Business Men's League Meeting at Indianapolis, Ind. August 19, 1967 August 31, Sept. 1 and 2. The fifth annual meeting of the National Business League will take place at Indianapolis, Ind.. August 31, September 1 and 2, 1904. The Central Passenger Association has granted a rate of a fare and a third for the round trip on the certificate plan. Tickets at full fare for the going journey may be secured at any coupon ticket office in the territory of the Central Passenger Association, which includes Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, portions of western New York, western Pennsylvania within three days (exclusive of Sundays) prior to and during the first day of the meeting. Be sure when purchasing your ticket you request a certificate. If there are not less than one hundred persons holding certificates in attendance, and your certificate has been duly validated by the joint agent of the railroads and the transportation agent of the National Business League, you will be entitled up to September 6th, to a continuous passage ticket to your destination by the route over which you made the going journey, at one-third the limited fare. The joint agent will charge a fee of 25 cents for validating each ticket. An extension of the return limit of thirty days, for the purpose of visiting the World's Fair at St. Louis or any other point, may be obtained by depositing validated certificates with agents of Indianapolis terminal lines on or before September 6, 1904. Other Passenger Association have been requested to concur, and when definite information can be given it will be sent at once. TRUNK A rate of a fare and a LINE third for the round ASSOCIATION trip has been granted RATES. by the Trunk Line Association, which is composed of the following railroads: Grand Trunk Railway, New York Central & Hudson River R. R., West Shore Railroad, New York, Ontario & Western Railway, Erie Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R., Lehigh Valley R. R., Central Railroad of New Jersey, Philadelphia & Reading Ry., Pennsylvania Railroad, B. & O. R. 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Indications point to a large attendance at the meeting of the League, and the local committee are desirous of having satisfactory homes provided for each delegate as early as possible. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President. T. THOMAS FORTUNE, Chairman Executive Committee. EMMETT J. SCOTT, Corresponding Secretary. CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. Transportation Agent TAKEN FROM LIFE. This wonderful hair pomade is the only latex hair pomade curly hair straight as shown above. It is nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from fall and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over the counter. It is harmless. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Wear or OR Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. It is that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is not possible for anybody to produce a pomade equal to it. 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Mrs. Tucker, matron of Livingston College, was in the city on Sunday. She is putting in her vacation in Louisville. The remainder of the Lincoln Park Association stock is being disposed of rapidly. Work on the equipment of the Silver Hills track will be commenced as soon as possible. Mrs. Martha Taylor Gaddie entertained a party of friends Friday evening. The company included the three Misses Maxwell and Miss DuValle of Louisville, and Mrs. Grace Lucas Thompson of Jeffersonville Miss Mamie H. Burroughs is to address a joint meeting of the New Albany and Jeffersonville business leagues soon. A Medical and Surgical Institute Opened. Smithville, Tex., Special—inaugural exercises of the Smithville Medical and Surgical Institute and co-educational Nurse Training School was held in the First Baptist church July 25, under the chairmanship of Prof. Frank Scott. Interesting addresses were delivered by Revs Martin Kelly, Farley, Armstrong, Lavender and Prof. A. M. 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One has but to credit this element with having common sense to know that those who compose it are not hunting unnecessary troubles, but that they wish to avoid all such, and instead win all the support possible and alienate as little as possible. This idea was in control at St. Louis, and it must be admitted in candor that the thrust made from Chicago was parried most beautifully. But the crowd from the street is not a selected one and you may rest assured that there will always be present some fool who is not weighed down with the sense of propriety. It is then that a blurt from him may prove quite embarrassing. This is what happened to Mr. Davis at Parkersburg, W. Va., during the State Convention. We are perfectly willing to believe that he spoke his honest sentiments when he said, "I am certainly with you on that proposition." But he would rather, no doubt, have left it unsaid, if only for the sake of policy. But he must speak, and he was forced to speak by one of his indiscreet followers. This is what makes the matter ludicrous. He must choose between the effect on his followers, of a failure to make reply, and the effect of the reply on others. His reply will be quoted many times before November, and it ought to be. Mr. Davis is entitled to all the ill effect his statement will bring. Until the Democratic party is willing to stand for equal and exact justice to all men, let it take the consequences of withholding it. We see no reason why Democrats should hesitate to apply democratic principles to all questions, except it be from a lack of courage or honesty, or both. Do Democrats believe that justice to an individual is modified by the race, color or creed of those to whom it is to be administered? If so, Mr. Davis and his like are consistent, but they should make, for their own use, a new definition of Justice. We have never doubted the honesty or sincerity of Mr. Bryan, but on this point he wobbles. He does not meet the question of race with the same fearlessness that he does other questions—he does not apply his democratic principles to it. Unlike the other questions that he treats, his statements on the race question are common place and show an inclination to evade. Whether this is done through the fear of delaying the settlement of some questions which he believes nearer at hand, we do not know. Certain it is, all questions must be settled right, and they cannot be settled right until they are settled according to justice, and justice in some things cannot long be secure to a people who do not favor justice in all things. EMOTIONAL RELIGION The editorial which recently appeared in this paper under the head of "Our Preacher" has brought forth so much favorable comment that we venture another offer on the important subject of religion, for if religion is of any importance, it is all important. Its effect on the destiny of man makes it either a matter of the most vital concern or a matter of no concern. If it is not worthy of our best thought and our highest endeavor it is a matter of little consequence whether we give it any thought or consideration. That the vast majority believe it to be the highest call to mankind will pass without question. But we must grow in matters of religion just as truly as in other things. Our religious conception must change. Intelligent people no longer make burnt offerings, neither do they beat THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER and lacerate themselves to appease the supposed wrath of God. They are not much bothered about the Garden of Eden or the military genius displayed by Joshua. The 'walls of water in the Red Sea are no longer a mystery to them. They are forming the habit of letting such things alone. They are leaving such things and the devil to the people who think they need them; and people will need them just as long as they think they do—that is just as long as they believe in them. And along with this should go that super-abundance of the emotional in our religion. That the feelings and emotions must continue to play an important part in religious activity is quite true. From this it does not follow that the emotions must constitute the principal part of ones religion, as is usually the case with us. The emotional side of one is his [weakest side, and there is little of anything permanent that has to be reached through it. Emotions are the froth and foam that soon condense. The one who will shout the quickest is usually the one who will fight the quickest. Yet there are those who can only be reached through the emotions. They have no other side to which an appeal can be made. But such are comparatively few. We are growing faster[than the preachers, which is shown by the fact that those who do not appeal to the emotions of their hearers are few. They seem to feel that if they do not succeed in having some of their flock create a disturbance their sermon has been a failure, and it is in the endeavor to produce this effect that we have so many of the alleged powerful sermons. When we are so much in need of calm, sober teaching as we are at present, it is to be regretted that so many ministers cling to methods that should have been outgrown. The spellbinding evangelist belongs to this class, and we seriously question whether this class of the clergy accomplish results that are of permanent good. Give us less of the spasmodic religion and more of that teaching that leads to calm and sober Christian living. Since a number of Southern States have passed election laws which have been so constructed as to practically disfranchise the Negro in those States, the question has arisen as to what course, under the circumstances, is best to be pursued. With this end in view Prof. H. T. Kealing, editor of the A. M. E. Review, has gathered some valuable material. To a number of prominent men he addressed this question : "Since the recent adverse decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Alabama disfranchisement case, should the Negro still contend for the franchise, or demand reduction of representation in the South instead?" The replies include such men as Rev. Chas. H. Parkhurst, Hon. Chas. Emory Smith, Congressman Crumpacker, ex-Congressman George H. White, Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University and others. They form an excellent symposium which is well worth careful reading. The replies are mostly short and to the point, some of which will be reproduced at an early date in The Freeman. The following terse reply from Charles Emory Smith may be said to contain the consensus of opinion: "I think the Negro should still contend for franchise on the basis of equal qualifications and exact justice for all alike, and should at the same time insist that representation shall be proportioned to the vote." The Democrats do not have a monopoly of those who are ready to "Hurrah for Mr. White Man's party," but it does seem to have a monopoly of the fools who are likely to do so at a time and place that may make it quite embarrassing. There are thousands of Republicans who might feel like replying, "I am certainly with you on that proposition," but they have too much sense of the fitness of things or too much regard for the rights of others to do it. This is to their credit. And just so long as the dominant element in the opposition to republican rule proclaim or endorse a willingness to assail the constitutional rights of the colored people, just so long it will be before the desired disintegration of the black vote will take place. There may be some virtue in that disposition that can lick the hand that smites, but this is not the up-to-date way of treating it. We heartily endorse the refusal of President Roosevelt to interfere in the execution of the Negro who is under sentence of death for criminal assault. He was proven guilty. The punishment fixed by law for his crime is that of death. Let him die. He has shown himself unworthy of living, and his going will only rid the world of one who has shown himself to be possessed of too much animal to entitle him to a place in civilized society. It is not probable that the mission of Prof. La Fon to this city met with abundant success. To begin, we think the gentleman made a mistake by his readiness to, at all times, speak of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks as though he were a bosom friend and chum. When a man like Mr. La Fon assumes to be on such familiar terms as to speak of him as "Charley" he need not be surprised if he finds people somewhat suspicious. The fact that a man is from the East does not necessarily make Indianapolis good working ground unless he comes right and then acts right after he gets here. Strikes must continue to fail so long as there are more workers than jobs. The way to make strikes successful and unnecessary is to create an industrial condition in which there will be more work to be done than there are workers to do it. This can be done when we advance to the point where we think more of industrial liberty than we do of political names. Secretary Hay has notified Chekib Bey, the Turkish charge at Washington, that American patience is about exhausted. This will no doubt cause regret to Mr. Bey, but that is about all that it will cause. One thing that can be truthfully said about the Sultan of Turkey is that he is not easily frightened. We have read with much pleasure the criticism by Rev. John H. Frank, in The Moderator, of our recent editorial on "Our Preachers," This came to our notice after the present article—Emotional Religion—was in the printer's hands, else we should have made more specific reply to his numerous requests. We will see you later. Just plain, simple justice is all we deserve; it is all we ask; it is all that any have the right to expect; and no party, system or theory deserves success that does not offer this much. Less than this is too little to offer and too little to accept. Full justice is never too much to give. We congratulate the Star of this city on its report of a murder committed in Connecticut by a colored man. It treated the matter just as it would had the murder been committed by a man of any other race. We do not see how the Boston Guardian is going to stand another such convulsion as the one it had week before last. Booker T. Washington's popularity is going to be the death of that little thing yet. The screaming, headline newspaper is productive of more evil than any other one cause. The injury that it does remains even after the allegations are disproved by subsequent events. Well, unless we miss our guess, those little Washington haters "way down east" stand a mighty fine chance of having their skins stretched out on the lake front at Chicago. Colored men have too many universities. We need more schools. Dallas Doings. Dallas, Texas, Special.—The busy metropolis is on top. Negro enterprise is growing. Church circles are rounding up evil doers. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Master Masons met at Houston, and a harmonious session was held. The growth of masonry is spreading in the Lone Star State. Hon. J. W. McKinney was reelected as grand master. Mrs. H. W. Scott and sons visited relatives in Waxahachie last week. P. Lowery and Prof. J. P. Starks are visiting the World's Fair and friends in St. Louis. William Banks is at Marlin Hot Wells for his health. Collins & Ashton run an up-to-date cafe in connection with their saloon on Jefferson street. Mrs. Maggie Morris left this week on a tour to the World's Fair, Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga. The Freeman is finding its way into the many homes and business places these days. H. W. Scott attended the grand lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows as the representative of Dallas Union No. 1940. He reported that much improvement over previous years of the organization in the State. Crystal Palace is the name of the Masonic lodge recently organized here. Eastern Star chapter of the ladies' department had a banquet at their hall last Thursday evening. Dan James, the minstrel king, brought together one of the greatest musical treats ever held in Dallas, Aug. 1st, at the fair ground auditorium. Mrs. Charlotte Davenport is up after a six months' serious illness to the delight of her many friends. Ezell and Feurye want your old furniture to repair, corner Ball and Juliett streets. Mr. Sanders has opened an up-to-date tonsorial parlor and reading room on Jackson street. Three good artists to serve you when you call and The Freeman to make you happy. The Del Monte cafe and bar employs ten colored porters and cooks. They all read The Freeman every week. H. Clay Willis is here. Mrs. Ellen Jones of Paris spent several weeks here visiting Leut. William Britton and wife. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The Atlanta Business League met last Friday night and elected twenty-five of its leading business men as delegates to attend the National Negro Business League which meets in Indianapolis, Ind., August 31. Mr. G. M. 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Manager Real Estate, Insurance and Rental Department Real Estate Mortgage and Collateral Loans Children's Certificates (educational life starting) Five per cent. Annuity certificates Deposit for Savings Four per cent. Real Estate and Rental Agents Fire and Tornado Insurance Property bought and sold Gas Range Irene Gaines sends regards to Oma and Harry Crosby. Sherman Boone is principal comedian and stage manager with the Cooper Medicine Co. Edna Anderson, of New York, formerly of Atlantic City, will travel with the Smart Set company in September. Dan Avery and Charley Hart with a company of twenty-five people are presenting "In Dahomy" in England. Irene Tasker is spending the summer at Atlantic City, N. J. In the Fall she will travel with the Williams and Walker Co. The Brown brothers at the Sagamore Hotel, Lake George, N. Y. would like to hear from Prof. Wm. H. Dorsey at once. Henderson Smith and his big concert band, with The Hottest Coon In Dixie company, gets theirs every day before the show. Harry Brown, singing cartoonist, is at Oakford Park, Jeannette, Pa. this week with the Cascade Park, New Castle, Pa. to follow. Will Goff Kennedy has resigned the management of the Red Fox Theater, Tampa, Fla. He will be seen with one of the prominent road shows the coming season. Clemo Harris, the contortio nist, will join hands with Griffith A. Wilson for the coming season making the Clemo-Wilson trio. Clemo-Cassell and Wilson send regards to all friends. Clarence Bush, the well known comedian, sends regards to Billy King, J. Ed Green, James Crosby, Happy Howe and D. Ireland Thomas and all other friends in and out of the profession. Ritchie and Francis are doing a new singing and dancing act, in which it gives Billy Ritchie a chance to do his comedy and buck dancing, and Carrie Francis to display her talent as a coon shouter. Irene Gaines, formerly of the Black Patti company, is making a hit singing on Young's Ocean pier, Atlantic City, N. J. She would like to hear from J. Ed Green of the Smart Set Co. and Weber and Collins of "Queen of the Jungles." Billy Arnale, with the Millican Plantation company, writes.—The show is running smoothly, he sends best regards to Wm. Halhack and all of the New Orleans Minitrels. Maggie Foust closed and went to join Sells and Downs. The company sends regards to all friends. Williams and Devine have opened in Harrodsburg, Ky., with the Elk's county fair and Bicker and Grimes were delighted with the show staged by Webster Williams. Business was grand the first day showing to over 9,000 people. Regards to John Devine, Harvie Goodall and Bob Clark. Williams and Stevens in the Hottest Coon in Dixie company has since their opening of the season played to good business. In Danville, Ill. we had a packed house. The Danville paper spoke of the show being good, refined, moral and up to date, nothing old, all new, most original. Notes from the Millican Plantation Co. - This is our last week in Pennsylvania. Business has been good and everybody is well. We played Washington, D. C. the week of the 21st. Mrs. Gertrude McDon- THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE. LADIES LIST. Bacon, Robinsley Jones, Mrs D R Clark, Mrs Leah Lasson, Miss Laura Hopkins, Miss Hattie Morton, Clara Robinson, Pattie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Anderson, Henry Lucas, I H Armstrong, T L Lacy, Will Bebek, Wesley Leach, Robb Caster, Frank Lance, Heine 2 Coper, S McQuilty, M Cissel and Mines McCamon, J H Carter and Howell McDonnell, J L Carter, Killip Nichols, Halph Ellott, E J Pilman, James Fitzbuller, William Gamesson, Frank Gamesson, Frank Gwet, W T Shaw and Clifton Gilligan, Almos Tibbs, Sol Hughes, Ed The Fosters Johnson, J L Waiston, Dr S J Johnson, Chas P ROUTE. A Rabbit Foot Co., Decatur, Ala., Aug. 15, Tuscumbia, 16; Sheffield, 17; Florence, 18; Mt. Treasure, 19; Columbia, Tenn., 20. Bikers Kersans Minstrels.-Jacksonville, Ill. Aug. 15; Hannibal, Mo., 16; Burlington, Ia., Koekul, 18. georgia Minstrels.-Ft. Smith, Ark., Aug. 15. Brickell, Houston, 16. Brinkley, Memphis, 17. Bottest Coon In Dixie,-Pern. Ind., Aug. 15. Bottest Coon In Fort, 17. A. Lowey 4 Paws and Sells' Bros. Circus.—Nrucneu, N. Y., Aug. 15; Auburn, 16; Rochester, F. Niagara Falls, 18; Buffalo, 19; Ratavia, 20. A. E. Holman's Students Enroute, Pawnee Bill's Wild West—Saranac Lake, N. Y., Aug. 15; Tupper Lake, 16; Malone, 17; Potsdam, 18; Ogdensburg, 19; Gouvenur, 20. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER nell sends best regards to Bob Bailley and all friends. She is making a great hit singing. Ike Williams, the phenominal tenor songster, is taking three to four encores nightly at the Domino Theater singing. He sends regards to Pat Chappelle and all members of the Rabbit Foot company. He would like to hear from Chappelle and "Happy." Latimore Robinson is still receiving three or four encores nightly. The team of Williams and Latimore is the drawing card at the Domino this season, they would like to hear from friends in Cuba, and send regards to members of the Rabbit Foot Co. J. L. Johnson, manager of the Nightingale Quartet writes. We were at Princeton, Ill. the week of the 1st. We opened on the preceding Friday and closed Aug. 5th. We are still meeting with our usual success. We had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Gen. John A. Logan for the third time this season, and she received us very royally. It was quite a boost for us as this was our first time here. We rendered her favorite song, by request, "In Dear Old Illinois." She calls the Nightingale Quartet, "her band." We send regards to all friends in and out of the profession. J. E. Burton and wife, comedy sketch artists, T. F. Hunter, slide trombonist, Elmer Moore and Scott Williams, cornetists, are at leisure, enjoying life in the mountains of Colorado. They will give a big minstrel and vaudeville show at the Temple Theater, Colorado Springs, Col., under the management of J. E. Burton and wife, assisted by 15 of the best local talent of that city, including band and orchestra. Regards to all friends in and out of the profession. L. T. Hunter sends regards to W. L. Lacy. They say let us have The Freeman as we are all hard workers for The Freeman. Notes from the Billy Keraands Minstrels. —We are trooping again with a bigger and better show than last season. All of our people are looking fine over their rest, and go at their work with renewed vigor. We have a first part setting our scenery that exceeds by far anything ever seen in a colored minstrel. The Housely boys are improving now and will soon resume their places again, we hope. Alonzo Moore, in his line and color, is with us creating much excitement with his tricks. Oscar Cameron received the sad news of the death of his father in Sparta, Wis. Mr. Cameron is one of the founders of the Alabama Quartet, and has been with it since its organization. He has been known as a gentleman, and he certainly carries the sympathy of the entire company. Notes from the Hot Springs Grand Opera House.—Billy King was called on by an all star white vaudeville company which played here July 28. The masterly style in which King held his audience, was a credit to his race. Never was a colored man placed on a bill of this kind in the South before. Many of the white performers of the company took offense at working with a colored man, but his work was so well appreciated, that he won his brother workers as he did the audience. The entire company shook hands with him after the performance, and served luncheon in honor of King. They tried to engage him to go with the company. It is a striking wonder that some colored company who is in need of comedy does not secure him. He is the most able man, in his line, the monolog, in the profession. Napoleon Johnson sends the following from the Richard and Pringles Georgia Minstrels. Before these notes go to press our Kansas City engagement will come to a close. S. H. Dudley joined us in Ottumna, la, and can be seen in his old character as Jim Jackson. Dudley works as an extra attraction aud is forced to take three and four encores at each performance. Clarence Powell has not lost any of his popularity. The sayings of Dudley and Powell are the town talk. Billy Young, as interlocutor and straight man, comes in for his share of applause. The new figures for Cooper, the wizards new act is working fine. The Von Tilzer Quartet is somewhat handicapped, as two of the members have been suffering with a cold the past week. Pete Woods made a flying trip home Thursday to spend the day with his grandmother and friends. He reports all well and a good time. Joseph A. McMurray writes from A Rabbit Foot Co.—Business continues good and the weather is fine. We played Atlanta Friday, Saturday July 29 and 30 to over 8,000 at Bishop Turner's Tabernacle where Miss Grace Williams joined us in time to hear the wedding bells sounding over the heads of our leading lady Miss Ivy A. Harris and Mr. A. G. Jones, our band master. The wedding was the grandest that eyes ever witnessed upon a stage. After the wedding came the bauquet in which all the company participated until St. Peter's rooster warned us of the late hour, then we wished the young couple success and happiness and left for dreamland. The young bride left for New Orleans, Sunday July 31, to visit her people. Happy Howe would like to hear from Hattie Bluford. Murray says, "Hello Thomas Calloux, what's the matter?" A. G. Jones says, "Hello Wm. Thomas and Laura Logan, write." Best regards to all in and out. Greater New York Notes.—Rehearsals after rehearsals are in progress, and opening after opening in and around New York are occurring daily among the colored shows. Following close in the wake of the Black Patti company the "Queen of the Jungles" show had its initial performance at New Rochelle, N. Y., Monday, Aug. 1, thence to Asbury for three nights. The Asbury Park Journal had the following to say about the show: "Weber and Collins' new musical comedy, 'Queen of the Jungle,' opened a short engagement last night at the Asbury Park opera house to a large audience. The stars are Mme. Flower, better known to the theater-goers as the 'Bronze Meiba,' and Robert A. Kelly, an eccentric colored artist, popularly known as the 'Original Coon.' "'The Queen of the Jungle' is an original musical comedy in three acts, filled with bright dialogue and tuneful musical numbers. The company did credit to the book and the lyrics. Mme. Flower's musical selections were roundly applauded. 'Robert A. Kelly proved to be all that his sub-title indicates, 'An Original Coon,' whose methods were well liked. Ed. Johnson proved himself to be an adept at the black art.' Bob Kelly will be remembered as the stellar fun maker in the Black Pattl company last season, and his departure into the musical farce line seems well adapted to his droll nature. The march of the Zulus and Mme. Flower's rendition of the Zulu Caviliers are hits of the piece. Mr. and Mrs. Sam King are well received in their act, "The Returning of the Colored Volunteers." Allie Gilliam has found a fountain of fun that he keeps flowing in the part of "J. Chancy Weary." The musical numbers and drills are all very pretty, and receives encore after encore. The staging of this entire production as well as co-author of same places J. Ed. Green on the top round of producers, making his motto, "ability means success" well deserved. Ernest Hogan is in vaudeville out West. Mamie Holman is a feature with the Queen of the Jungles. Gee. Walker, of Williams and Walker, is expected in town this week as the company is in the midst of busy rehearsals under the direction of Jessie Shipp. The Attucks Music Pub. Company "colored", opened their doors last week for business at 1255 Broadway, with Shepard N. Edmonds as manager. Their staff of writers include Tom Lemonier, Alex Rogers, J. T. Brym, Williams and Walker R. C. McFhearson and J. A. Shipp. This is a notable move in New York and success seems inevitable. Other good writers will fall in line later. FROM HEADQUARTERS P. B. R. Hendrix's Chicago Notes.—The Georgia Camp-meeting Co., the greatest of all colored attractions this season, will be the company headed by Chas. Pass Arnold. There will be forty-five artists in the company. Mr Arnold is a comedian of high classss. He is naturally witty, a good singer, and an entertainer in general. We wish the entire company success. The Black Herron's filled a successful engagement at the Chicago last week. Ernest Hogan and Matte Wilkes Co. who played at the Cleveland Theater last week, and won high esteem of the patrons during the week. One of our leading quartets, composed of Messrs. Turner, Kirkpatrick, Johnson and Mars, sang at the Chautaqua at Princeton, ill., last week. They have several engagements to follow. S. H. Dudley left the city to meet the Ruscoe and Holland Minstrel Co. in order to make a few arrangements and assignments for the coming season. The Headquarters is constantly filled with professional men in the city. The Blackstone Quartet is rehearsing a lot of pieces, and expects to come before the public for a short duration. George H. Watkins, their manager, says that the boys voices are in great shape. You can reach them by addressing them at Headquarters, or to Mr. Watkins, 4813 Dearborn St. Regards to all friends. Louis Love has several good bookings on hands, and can give several good people employment. Address him at Headquarters as usual. Look at this. Do you know of this team? Dudley and Harris. This is S. H. Dudley and Skinner Harris. Well look out 1905. Regards to all friends also. Skinner Harris and wife who were with Gideon's Georgia Camp-meeting Co. and also stage manager of that company, is now in Chicago. They have just closed a very successful summer season with F. L. Mahara. He will take out a better show than Mahara has had for some time. He will lose no time in making this show a success. We hope that the colored profession in all branches will be successful from every standpoint, that their acts and actions will meet the approval of all the people wherever they may be. Don't forget to take The Freeman, for it is an advocate of your interest, and will devote its time and paper, and requests that you speak of it wherever you may be. Advertising matter will be given prompt attention and as reasonable a note will be given you, as possibly can be. Of course it is, "L ve and let live." The Headquarters Trio joins me in extending regards to all professionals and friends. Mrs. James Love, wife of our deceased friend James L. Love, whose memory will never die, desires to be remembered to the profession, and extends you a hearty welcome to the Headquarters, wishing you the best success both physically and financially. Don't forget her when you are in the city to drop in, and leave a word of consolation, showing the high esteem you claim you held for dear Daddy. Don't forget to subscribe for The Frseman, the leading Negro journal of the age. Get in on the reduced rates, only a few more leaves left in the subscription book of reduced rates. Hurry and give in your order before it closes. A MONEY DEAL BY SYLVESTER RUSSELL. I've given you all my money, dear; All for the love of thee. You've spent the money fast and free, And now you disagree. Now if you leave, my heart will break, My head doth ache with pain! I know, my dear, I'll go insane If your love is in vain. So when there's money in the deal "Young man" you'd best look out— Unless your pocket-book is stont, You'll find you're "up the spout." CAME FROM AFRICA TO STUDY COOKERY Three Young Women Arrive in Allegheny from Port Elizabeth-Will Take a Course in the Domestic Science Department of Avery Trades School and College Three colored girls arrived in Allegheny, Pa. last week from the extreme southern part of South Africa to study culinary art and domestic science. The girls expect to acquire knowledge in the modern methods of house-keeping and cooking which will apply at their homes. The girls have arranged to take a complete course in the domestic science of the Avery Trades School and College, Nelson and Avery streets, Allegheny. Their names are L. Rocco, Alfreda Glucklick and Amy Onetti. They are each about 20 years old and are typical South Africans. The new arrivals, who are eager to obtain the secrets of the American women in cooking, are natives of Port Elizabeth, on Algaea bay Cape, Town. They are possessed of an elementary education, but beyond the crude methods taught them by their countrymen they have no knowledge of the modern methods of cooking and keeping house. In South Africa the colored housewife who is successful in tickling the palate of her husband or guests with her cooking is looked upon as something more than a queen in her province. They will be taught cooking in all its branches at the Avery college. The girls are the first natives of Africa to be enrolled at the Avery Trades School and College. They will finish their studies at the end of next June, after which they will return to Port Elizabeth. News Items. Columbia, Tenn., Special.—Mrs. J. H. Williams of San Jose, Cal., who was summoned home several weeks ago on account of the illness of her aunt, has returned home. Mrs. Williams was an earnest worker in social and religious circles during her brief stay in the city. While here she gave an interesting lecture to the ladies. She was profuse in her praise of Columbia's hospitality toward her. During her aunt's severe illness she patiently attended her bedside until her death. Mrs. Williams will make a southern tour, visiting Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala., Little Rock, Ark., New Orleans, La., and Birmingham, Ala. The Duck River Convention convened here last week at the First Baptist church. Much official business was transacted. James Waters and wife of Nashville were in the city Sunday, Aug. 7th. Prof. J. H. Kelly attended the Educational Association at Nashville on Tuesday. From there he goes to St. Louis. Miss Florence Monigue of Nashville is the guest of Mrs. Russell Flemming. Mr. Sol Den, aged 70, died Sunday, July 31st. Misses Ruby and George Anna Pillow are ED. F. DAVIS' Uncle Tom's Cabin Wants Colored Performers in all lines, Male and Female. State all you do and salary. We pay board. Address F. C. COOPER, Gen. Mgr. 127 W. 20th Street, NEW YORK WANTED FOR MY FOUR Stetson Uncle Tub 4--Colored Brass Band Actors, Quartettes who can play Ophelia who has little girl for parade. Address LEON WASH 214 W For Western Co., address LEXINGTON'S COLORED The Lexington Mid-Sun To Be Held at H August 16, 17, Over $8,000 offers Exciting Running, Trotting 12—BIG CARNIV 11—BIG FREE AT This is your Fair as well as everybody's, so con- See SCHREGER, the dare devil chute ride down the highest, longest, steepest and na- Hear N. CLARK SMITH'S Famous B gro musical organization in the world. BIG OPENING INDUSTRIAL PARAID Special Low Rates 4--Colored Brass Bands, 4 White Bands--4 Actors, Quartettes who can play brass or trap drums. Lady for Ophelia who has little girl for Eva. Any good feature for street parade. Address For Western Co., address Al. Gould, Duluth, Minn. LEXINGTON'S GREATER COLORED FAIR The Lexington Mid=Summer Fair and Carnival Tc Be Held at Lexington, Ky., August 16,17,18,19 and 20 Over $8,000 offered in Premiums. Exciting Running, Trotting and other Races every day 12—BIG CARNIVAL SHOWS—12 This is your Fair as well as everybody, so come and mingle with the good natured crowd. See SCHREGER, the dare devil cute rider and human meteor in his death defying ride down the highest, longest, steepest and narrowest upcurved chute ever constructed. Hear N. LARK SMITH's Famous Eighth Regiment Military Band, the finest Negro musical organization in the world. BIG OPENING INDUSTRIAL PARADE TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, AT NOON Special Low Rates on All Railroads W. T. DINWIDDIE, Pres. visiting Mrs. Mary Harris of this city. Dr. James A. Davis, P. E., was summoned to Franklin, Ind., last week by the death of his father. A MODERN INSTANCE, CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE. what of him whom they have gathered this night to honor? Perhaps he also has been trampled underfoot, if not might not our editor, creeping stealthily upon him in the confusion, pistol in hand—but let us no longer torture our senses with the horrors of this scene. Suffice it to say that had not the scrapies of one our editor's nearest accomplices driven him to reveal the plot the event would have as far surpassed this feeble picture of it, as reality always surpasses its counterfeit. And yet, most unparalleled effrontery, this man, who wished to slay a hundred of his people to gratify a private pque or to gain an awful fame, now boast himself the bravest and truest man of his race and the guardian of the destinies of his people! Who but a madman could have conceived such a carnage, and who but a villain would not have pushed it from him with loathing? I do not doubt that he saw in his mind's eye the sombre story of the tragedy in the morning papers, that he perceived his evil plot brought to light and himself accused and convicted, and that he even beheld himself upon the gallows compelling to himself the execration of a nation. Perhaps, abandoning himself to these ghastly and intoxicating dreams, he already saw his name placed above those of Guiteau and Czolgolz, perpetuated with theirs throughout unnumbered ages! Is it not yet possible for him to win the notorious doom he desires and gratify at once himself and those who despise him? But whatever his future fate may be our hero found himself, after this bafflement, rapidly lapsing into that oblivion which he hated worse than dishonor. He resolved upon yet another scheme for placing himself before the public. A providential conference of leaders in New York seemed to offer him the opportunity he desired. He was doomed, however, to most oulol disappointment. In the first place he found himself unable, by hook or crook, to gain admission to the conference and harrass its sessions with violence. Then, (a biting surprise) he failed to corrupt those delegates whom he considered his factionaries and seduce them to disrupt the meeting. As a last resource he concocted for publication in the New York Sun an enormous falsehood. With all the exuberant powers of fatrication that characterize him he reported in detail the entire proceedings of the conference (of which he did not know a single motion), and pouring out all the length of the rems upon his imagination related an oratorical combat between himself and Booker T. Washington, in which the latter was described as shamed, worsted and routed. Imagine now, if you have the heart, the imagin of our hero when his audacious prevarication was detected and intercepted, and he missed the disgrace, which he seemed to crave. of having the gentlemen responsible for the meeting give him the lie in print. 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Rose & Co., Brokers KD, 2,80 La Salle st., Ch'i'go Boston where his brawls and outrages have since been confined to the columns of his own newspaper. Boston does imagine that because he seems this harmless and obscures that his ambitions are dead. Can we not, like back upon the evils in which he has so far been providentially foiled, imagine the dreams of assassinations, revenges and butcheries that teem in his brain and make hideous his days and nights? We prophesy that if he is not in time pent up in a mad house he will yet remind us that he still lives and is still ambitions. MORAL: Let no man, however a public character, despair of becoming a public character. ```markdown ``` re. # Ghe Gentl : e entieman 2 a OF Indi 5 rom indiana 5 a By BoorH TARKINGTON 5 ; Se ee aa 3 Copyright, 1899, by Doubleday @ McClure Co. 5 Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillies 2 Con Siitttrrsrirsrerirrtrtrerttitittetiteretitititetts PEEL SLT LETTE TLE TELE ESET TEES eas since Ht weO for them, “‘They'te JHE Briscoe buckboard rattled DE Ae” Haass pene eee ese TJ stone the elastic country road, Partly Because they a AH) the roans setting a sharp pace ‘ns until ho's out of the way. amg) ce ans Settiniy @SDSIp PACe inne gt euve allow chy ttn a at three-quarters of an hour,” said Judge Briscoe proudly. He turned from his daughter at his side to Miss Sherwood, who sat with Mr, Fisbee behind them, and pointed ahead with his whip. “Just beyond that bend we pass through Six Crossroads.” Miss Sherwood leaned forward eager- jy. “What did you mean last night after the lecture,” she said to Fisbee, “when you asked Mr. Martin who was to be with Mr. Harkless?” “Who was watching him,” he an- swered. “Watching him? I don't under- stand.” “Yes; they have shot at him from the woods at night, and”— “But who watches him?” “The young men of the town, He has a habit of taking long walks after dark, and he is heediess of all remon- strance, so the young men have organ- 4zed a guard for him, and every even- ing one of them follows him until be ‘Goes to the oflice to work for the night. It is a different young man each night, and the watcher follows at a distance, 60 that he does not suspect.” “But how many people know of this arrangement?" “Nearly every one in the county ex- cept the Crossroads people, though it is not improbable that they have diseov- ered it.” “And has no one told him?* “No; he would not allow it to con- tinue. He will not even arm himself.” “They follow and watch him night after night, and every one knows and Ro one tells him? Oh, 1 must say,” erled the girl, “I think these are good people!” ‘The buekboard turned the bend in the Toad, and they entered a squalid settle- ment built raggediy about a black- smith shop and a saloon. “I'd hate to have a breakdown here,” Briscoe re- marked quietly. Half a dozen shanties clustered near the forge, a few roofs scattered through the shiftlessly cultivated fields, four or five barns propped by fence rails, some sheds with gaping apertures through which the light glanced from side to side, a squad of thin razorback hogs, now and then worried by gaunt hounds, and some abused looking hens groping about disconsolately in the mire, a broken topped buggy with a twisted ‘Wheel, settling into the mud of the middle of the road (there was always abundant mud here in the driest sunt mer); a dim face sneering from a bro ken window—Six Crossroads was for. bidding and forlorn enough by day ‘The thought of what might issue from it by night was unpleasant, and the legends of the Crossroads, together with an unshapen threat easily fancied in the atmosphere of the place, made Miss Sherwood shiver as though a cold draft had crossed her. “It is so sinister!” she exclaimed. “And so unspeakably mean! This is where they live, the people that hate him, is it? ‘The White Caps?” “They call themselves that,” replied Briscoe. “Usually White Caps are a vigilance committee in a region where the law isn’t enforced. These fellows aren't that kind. ‘They got together to wipe out grudges, and sometimes didn’t need any grudge—just made thelr raids for pure devilinent, ‘There's a feud be- tween us and them that goes back into pioneer days, and only a few of us old folks know much about it.” “And he was the first to try to stop them?’ “Well, you see, our folks are pretty long suffering,” said Briscoe apolozet- feally. “We'd sort of got used to the meanness of the Crossroads. It took @ stranger to stir things up, and he did. He sent eight of them to the peni- tentiary, some for twenty years.” As they passed the saloon a man stepped into the doorway and looked at them. He was coatless and clad in garments worn to the color of dust. His bare head was curiously malform- ed, higher on one side than on the oth- er, and though the buckboard passed rapidly and at a distance this singular lopsidedness was plainly visible to the occupants, lending an ugly significance to his meager, yellow face. He was tall, lean, hard, powerfully bullt. He eyed the strangers with affected lan- guor and then, when they had gone by, broke into sudden loud laughter, “That was Bob Skillett, the worst of the lot,” said the judge. “Harkless sent his son and one brother to prison, and it nearly broke his heart that he couldn't swear to Bob.” When they were beyond the village and in the open road again Miss Sher- wood took a deep breath. “I think I breathe more freely. That was a hid- eous laugh he sent after us.” ‘The judge glanced at his guest's face and chuckled. “I guess we won't frighten you much,” he said. “Young lady, 1 don't believe you'd be afraid of many things, would you? You don’t look like it. Besides, the Crossroads isn’t Plattville, and the White Caps have been too scared to do anything Be a on ae cae moa THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Pa Re Pema a Uae ne nea Tn eS eee RT thing until he’s out of the way.” The girl gave a low ery with a sharp intake of breath. “Ah, one grows tired of this everlasting American patience! Why don't the Plattville people do something before they”— “It’s just as I say,” Briscoe answer- ed, “Our folks are sort of used to them. I expect we do about all we can. The boys look after him nights, but the main trouble is that we can't make him understand he ought to be more afraid of them. If he'd lived here all his life he would be. If they get him there'll be trouble of an illegal na- ture.” He broke off suddenly and nod- ded to a little old man in a buck- board turning off from the road into a farm lane which led up to a trim cot- tage with a honeysuckle vine by the door. “That's Mrs. Wimby's husband,” said the Judge in an undertone, Miss Sherwood observed that Mrs. Wimby’s husband was remarkable for the exceeding plaintiveness of his ex- ‘pression. He was a weazened, blank, Dale eyed little man, with a thin white ‘mist of neck whisker, and he was ‘dressed in clothes much too large for him. No more inoffensive figure than this feeble little old man could be im- agined, yet his was the distinction of having received a hostile visit from his neighbors of the Crossroads. A vaga- bonding tinker, he had married the one Tespectable person of the section, a widow, who had refused several gen- tlemen at the Crossroads, and so com- plete was the bridegroom’s insignifi- cance that to all the world his own name was lost. ‘The bride continued to be known by her former name as “Mrs. Wimby,” -and her spouse was usually called “Widder Woman Wimby's hus- band” or “Mr. Wimby.” ‘The bride sup- plied his wardrobe with the garments of her former husband, and, alleging this proceeding as the cause of their anger, the White Caps broke into the farmhouse one night, tore the old man from his bed and before his wife's eyes lashed him with sapling shoots till he was near to death. A little yellow cur that bad followed his master on his wanderings was found licking the old man's wounds, and they deluged the dog with kerosene and then threw the Poor animal upon a bonfire they had made and danced around in heartiest enjoyment. ‘The man recovered, but that was no palliation of the offense to the mind of a hot eyed young man from the east who was besieging the county authori- tles for redress and writing brimstone and saltpeter for bis paper. ‘The pow- ers of the county proving either lack- adaisieal or timorous, he appealed to those of the state, and he went every night to sleep at a farmhouse the own- er of which had received a warning from the White Caps, and one night it befell that he was rewarded, for the taiders attempted an entrance. He and the farmer and the farmer's sons beat ‘off the marauders and did a satistaeto: Ty amount of damage in return, ‘Two of the White Caps they captured and bond, and others they recognized. ‘Then the state authorities hearkened to the voice of the Herald and its owner, ‘There were arrests, and in the course [of time there was a trial. Every pris -oner proved an alibi—could have proved a dozen—but the editor of the Herald, ‘after virtually conducting the prosecu- tion, went upon the stand and swore to man after man. Eight men went to the penitentiary on his evidence, five of them for twenty years. The Platt- ville brass band serenaded the editor of the Herald again, ‘There were no more raids, and the Six Crossroads men who were left kept to their hovels, appalled and shaken, = as time went by and left them tn molested they recovered a measure of their hardiness and began to think on what they should do to the man who had brought misfortune and tertor up- on them. Vor a long time he bad been publishing their threatening letters and warnings in a column which he headed “Humor of the Day.” | “When the Briscoe buckboard had lett [the Crossroads far behind and had ‘come in sight of Plattville Mr. Bris- ‘coe’s visitor turned to Fisbee with a ‘repetition of the shiver that the laugh- ter of Mr. Skillet had caused her and said half under her breath, “I wish—I half wish—that we had not driven through there.” She clasped Mr. Fis- ‘bee's hand gently. His eyes shone, He touched her fingers with a strange, shy reverence. | “You will meet him tomorrow,” he said softly. | She laughed and pressed his hand. “I'm afraid not. I was almost at his side last night when Minnie asked him to call on me. He wasn't even inter- ested enough to look at me.” oo mente Set aaa ge aw Something over two hours later, as Mr. Tom Martin was putting things to rights In his domain, the Dry Goods Emporium, previous to his departure for the evening’s gossip and checkers at the drug store, he stumbled over ‘The capture shrieket ana” squirmed and fought earnestly. Grasped by the shoulder, he held a lean, fierce eyed, ‘undersized girl of fourteen clad in one Tagged cotton garment, unless the coat of dust she wore over all might be es- teemed another. Her cheeks were sal- low, and her brow was already shrewd- ly lined, and her eyes were as hypo- critical as they were savage. She yas very thin and little, but old Tom’s brown face grew a shade nearer white when the light fell upon her, “You're no Plattville girl,” he said sharply. “You lie!” cried the child. “You lie! Tam! You leave me go, will you? I'm lookin’ fer pap, and you're a liar!” “You crawled in here to sleep after your seven mile walk, didn’t you?” Martin went on. “You're a liar!” she screamed. “Look here,” said Martin slowly, “sou go back to Six Crossroads and tell your follss that if anything happens toa hair of Mr. Harkless’ head every shanty in your town will burn, and your grandfather, and your father, and your uncles, and your brothers, and your cousins. and your second cousins, and your third cousins will never have the good luck to see the penitentiary. Reckon you can remember that mes- sage? But before I let you go to carry it I guess you might as well hand out the paper they sent you over here with.” His prisoner fell into a paroxysm of rage. “I'll git pap to kill ye!” she shrieked, striking at him. “I don’t know nothin’ "bout yer Six Crossroads, ner no pa- pers, ner yer Mr, Harkels neither, ne: you, ye razorbacked ole devil. Pap ‘Ul kill ye! Leave me go! Leave me go! Pap ’l! kill ye! I'll git him to kill ye!” Suddenly her struggles ceas- ed, her eyes closed, her tense little mus- eles relaxed, and she drooped toward the floor. ‘The old man shifted his grip to support her, and in an instant she twisted out of his hands and sprang out of reach, her eyes shining with tri- umph and venom, “Yahay, Mr. Razorback!” she shrill- ed, “How's that fer high? Pap ‘Il kill ye Sunday! Ye'll be sereechin’ in hell in a week, an’ we ‘ull set up an’ drink our applejack an’ laff!” Martin pursued her lumberingly, but she was agile as a monkey and ran dodging up and down the counters and mocked him, singing, “Gran'mammy, Tipsy Toe.” At last she tired of the game and darted out of the door, fling- ing back a hoarse laugh at him as she went. He followed, but when he reach- ed the street she was a mere shadow flitting under the courthouse trees, He looked after her forebodingly, then turned his eyes toward the Palace ho- tel on the corner. The editor of the eee 2 Ee BRD ees 7b Coy VA fe Lp) AI LN Herald was seated under the wooden awning, with his chair tilted back against a post, gazing dreamily at the murky red afterglow in the west. “What's the use of tryin’ to bother him with it?’ old Tom asked himself. “He'd only laugh.” He noted that young William Todd, the drug, book and wall paper clerk, sat near the ed- itor, whittling absently. Martin chuc- kled. “William’s turn tonight,” he murmured. “Well, the boys ‘Il take care of him.” He locked the doors of the Emporium, tried them and dropped the keys in his pocket. | As he crossed the square to the drug store, where his cronies awaited him. he turned again to look at the figure of the musing journalist. “He ought to go out there,” he said and shook his head sadly. “I don’t reckon Plattville’s any too spry for that young man. Five years he's be'n here. Well, it's a good thing for us, but I guess it ain't exact- ly high life for him.” He kicked a stick out of his way impatiently. “Now, where'd that imp run to?” he grum- bled. ‘The imp was lying under the court- Louse steps. When the sound of Mar- ‘in's footsteps had passed away she erept cautiously from her hiding place and stole through the ungroomed grass to the fence opposite the hotel. Here she stretched herself flat in the weeds and took from the tangled masses of her hair, where it was tied with a string, a rolled up, crumpled slip of greasy paper. With this in her fingers she lay peering under the fence, her fierce eyes fixed unwinkingly on the editor of the Herald. The street ran flat and gray in the slowly gathering dusk straight to the western horizon, where the sunset em- bers were strewn in long, glowing, dark red streaks. The maple trees were clean cut silhouettes against the pale Tose and pearl tints of the sky above, and a tenderness seemed to shimmer in the air. The editor often vowed to him- self he would watch no more sunsets in Plattville. He thought they were Making .him moshid. Canld be have De ee ee cere eee en mene nares ger and more melancholy in the twi ght, while William Todd patiently | whittled near by. Plattville had often ‘@iscussed the editor's habit of silence, and possibly the reason Mr. Harkless was such a quiet man was that there | Was nobody for him to talk to; but bis hearers did not agree, for the popula. tion of Carlow county was a thing of pride, being greater than that of sev- eral bordering counties, A bent figure came slowly down the street, and William Todd hailed it cheerfully. “Evening, Mr. Fisbee.” pA good evenlugs alt ood.” an 'swered the old man, pausing. “Ab, Mr. Harkless, 1 was looking for you.” He had not seemed to be looking for any- thing beyond the boundaries of his own fdreams, but he approached Harkless, tugging nervously at some papers in his pocket. “I have completed my notes for our Saturday edition, It was quite easy, sir. ‘There is much doing.” | “Thank you, Mr. Fisbee.” said Hark. less as he took the manuscript. “Have you finished your paper on the earlier [Christian symbolisin? I hope the Her jald may have the honor of printing it.” ‘This was a form they used. "L shall be the recipient of honor, ‘sir,” returned Fisbee. “Your kind offer will speed my work; but 1 fear, Mr. ‘Harkless, I very much fear, that your kindness alone prompts it, for, deeply ‘as I desire it, I cannot truthfully say that my essays appear to Increase our circulation.” He made an odd, trou- bled gesture as he went on: “They do ‘not seem to read them here, although ‘Mr. Martin assures me that he care- | fully reperuses my article on Chaldean decoration whenever he rearranges his ‘exhibition windows.” He plodded on a | few paces, then turned irresolutely. “What is ft. Fisbee?” asked Harkless. Fisbee stood for a moment as though about to speak; then he smiled faintly, shook his head and went his way. Harkless waved his hand to him in farewell and, drawing a pencil and a pad from his pocket, proceeded to in- jure his eyes in the waning twilight by the editorial perusal of the items his staf had just left in his hands. He glanced over them meditatively, mak- ing alterations here and there. ‘The last one Fisbee had written as follows: Miss Sherwood of Rouen, whom Miss Briscoe knew at the Misses Jenfiings’ fin- ishing school in New York, is a guest of Judge Briscoe's household. Visbee’s items were written in ink. ‘There was a blank space beneath the last. At the bottom of the page some- thing had been seribbled in pencil. Harkless vainly tried to decipher it; but the twilight had fallen too deep, and the writing was too faint, so he struck a match and held it close to the paper. ‘The action betokened only a languid interest. But when he caught sight of the first of the four subserib- ed lines he sat up straight in his chair, with a sharp ejaculution, At the bot- tom of Pisbee’s page was written in a dainty feminine hand of a type he had not seen for years: “The time has come,” the walrus sald, “To talk of many things— Of shoes and ships and sealing wax ‘And eabbages and kings.” He put the paper in his pocket and set of rapidly down the village street. At his departure William Todd looked up quickly, Then he got upon his feet, with a yawn, and quietly followed the editor. In the dusk a tattered little figure rose up from the weeds across the way and stole noiselessly after William. He was in his shirt sleeves, his waisteoat unbuttoned and loose. On the nearest corner Mr. Todd encounter- ed a fellow townsman who bad been pacing up and down in front of a cot- tage crooning to a protestive baby held in his arms. He had paused in his vigil to stare after Harkless. “Where's he bound fer, William?’ inquired the man with the baby. “Briscoes',” answered William, pur- suing his way. “I reckoned he would be,” observed the other, turning to his wife, who sat ‘on the doorstep. “I reckoned so when I see that lady at the lecture last night.” The woman rose to her fect. “El, Bill Todd!” she said. “What ye got on to the back of yer vest?” William paused, put his hand bebind bim and encountered a paper pinned to the dan- gling strap of his waistcoat. The wom- an ran to him and unpinned the paper. It bore a writing, They took it to where the yellow lamplight shone out through the oner door and read: er Sir—FoLer harkls aL yo ples an gaRa him yoR best venazens is closteR harkls not Got 3 das to live we come in wite, “What ye think, William?” asked the man with the baby anxiously, But the woman gave the youth a sharp push with her hand. “They never dast to do it!” she cried; “never in the world! You hurry, Bill Todd. Don't leave him out of your sight one sec- ond.” CHAPTER TIT. ee eee ae er eee WY ran west to the edge of the town, where it turned to the south for @ quarter of a mile or more, then bent to the west again, Some distance from this second turn there stood, fronting close on the road, a large brick house, the most pretentious man- sion in Carlow county. And yet it was a homelike place, with its red brick walls embowered in masses of cool Virginia creeper and a comfortable ‘veranda crossing the broad front, while half a hundred stalwart sentinels of elm and beech and poplar stood guard around it, The front walk was bor- dered by geraniums and_hollyhocks, and honeysuckle climbed the pillars of the porch. Behind the house there was a shady little orchard, and back of the orcharrLanold fashiased, very fragrant Tose garden. «. vided by a long grape arbor, extended to the shallow waters of a wandering creek, and on the bank a rustic seat was placed beneath the Sycamores, From the first bend of the road. where it left the town and became ie oe yw Se) a eee 7 d eer fy b we fj E a SF ja al bree YY i Piy/ aon l _ St A 7 a. LIM i . yy ~ ea bh ~ 2s (4 ZEAE ZS A woman's voice singing Schubert's “Serenade” came to him, (after some indecision) a country high- way, called the pike, rather than a proud city boulevard, a pathway led through the fields to end at some pas- ture bars opposite the brick house, John Harkless was leaning on the pasture bars. The stars were wan and the full moon shone over the fields. Meadows and woodlands lay quiet and motionless under the old, sweet mar- vel of a June night. In the wide Mmonotony of the flat lands there some- times comes a feeling that the whole earth is stretched out before one. To- night it seemed to lie so, in the pathos of silent beauty, passive and still, yet breathing an antique message, sad, mysterious, reassuring. But there had come a divine melody adrift on the air. Through the open windows it floated. Indoors some one struck a peal of sil- ver chords, like a harp touched by a lover, and a woman's voice was lifted. John Harkless leaned on the pasture bars and listened with upraised head and parted lips. “To thy chamber window roving, love hath led my feet.” ‘The Lord sent manna to the children of Israel in the wilderness, Harkless had been five years in Plattville, and a Woman's voice singing Schubert's “Ser- enade” came to him at last as he stood by the pasture bars of Jones’ fleld and Ustened and rested his dazzled eyes on the big white face of the moon, How long had it been since he had heard a song or any discourse of music other than that furnished by the Platt- ville band? Not that he had no taste for a brass band. But music that he Joved always gave him an ache or de- light and the twinge of reminiscences of old gay days gone forever. Tonight his memory leaped to the last day of Ja June gone seven years to a morn- ing when the little estuary waves twinkied in the bright sun about the boat in which he sat, the trim launch that brought a cheery party ashore from their schooner to the casino land- ing at Winter Harbor, far up on the Maine const. Tonight he saw the picture as plainly as if it were yesterday. No reminis- cences had risen so keenly before his eyes for years. Pretty Mrs. Van Skuyt sitting beside him—pretty Mrs. Van Skuyt and her roses—what had be- come of her? He saw the crowd of friends waiting on the pier for their ar- rival, the dozen or so emblazoned class- mates (it was in the time of brilliant flannels) who sent up a volley of col- lege cheers in his honor. How plainly the dear old, young faces rose up before him tonight, the men from whose lives he had slipped! Dearest and jolliest of the faces was that of Tom Meredith, clubmate, classmate, his closest friend, the thin, redheaded third baseman. He could see Tom’s mouth opened at least a yard, it seemed, such was his frantic voeiferousness. Again and again the cheers rang out, “Harkless! Hark- less!” on the end of them. In those days everybody, particularly his elass- mates, thought he would be minister to England in a few years, and the or- chestra on the casino porch was play: ing “The Conquering Hero Comes” in his honor and at the behest of Tom “Meredith, he knew. There were other pretty ladies be- sides Mrs, Van Skuyt in the launch load from the yacht, but as they touch- ed the pier, pretty girls-or pretty wom- e or jovial gentlemen, all were over- looked in the wild scramble the college men made for their hero, They baled him forth, set him on high, bore him on their shoulders, shouting “Skal to the Viking!” and carried him up the wood- ed bluff to the casino. He heard Mrs. Van Skuyt say: “Oh, we're used to it. We've put in at several other places ‘where he had friends!" He remember- ed the wild progress they made for him up the slope that morning at Win- ter Harbor—how the people looked on and laughed and clapped their hands. But at the veranda edge be had no- ticed a little form disappearing around @ corner of the building, a young girl running away as fast as she could. “See there,” he said as the tribe set him dewn; “you have frightened the Populace.” And Tom Meredith had stopped shouting long enough to an- swer: “It's my little cousin, overcome with emotion. She’s been counting the hours till you came—been bearing about you for a good while. She hasn't been able to talk or think of anything else, She's only fifteen, and the crucial Moment is too much for her. The great Harkless has arrived, and she has fled.” But the present hour grew on him as he leaned on the pasture bars. It Ne aa rg Ceo ee oe | | | ge cuocenly his thenfories sped, ang the voice that was singing Scluberi's “Serenade” across the way touched him with the urgent personal appoa ‘that a present beauty had always held for him. It was a soprano and without ‘tremolo, yet came to his ear with « certain tremulous sweetness. It \ras ‘Soft and slender, but the listener kno ‘At could be lifted with fullness anq Power if the singer would. It spike only of the ‘song, yet the listener thought of the singer. Under «i. Moon thoughts run into dreams, nq he dreamed that the owner of the Yoiee, she who quoted “The Walrus and the Carpenter” on Fisbeo's notes Was one to laugh with you and yeep with you, yet her laughter would be tempered with sorrow and her tears with laughter, ‘When the song was ended he struc the rail he leaned upon a sharp blow with his open hand. ‘There swept over him a feeling that he had stood Precise. ly where he stood now on suc 1 nist a thousand years ago; had heard that yoice and that song and been moved by. the voice and the song and the nigit Just as he was moved now. He bad long known himself for a sentiments}. ist. He had almost given up trying to cure himself. And be knew hinlt for a born lover. He had always boon in love with some one. In his earlier Youth his affections had been so cons stantly inconstant that he finally came to settle with his self respect by ree. ognizing in himself a fine constancy that worshiped one woman always, [t was only the shifting image of her thot changed. Somewhere (he dreamed, whimsically indulgent of the fancy, Yet mocking himself for it) there was 4 girl whom he had never seen who wait. ed till he should come. She was every. thing. Until he found her he could not help adoring others who possessed |it- tle pieces and suggestions of her—tor brilliancy, her courage, her short upper lip, “like a curled rose leaf,” or her dear voice or her pure profile. He had no recollection of any lady who had quite her eyes. He had never passed a lovely stranger on the street in the old days without a thrill of delight and warmth. If he never saw ler again and the vision had only lasted for the time it takes a lady to cross the side. walk from a shop door to a carriage ho was always a little in love with her decause she bore about her somewhere, as did every pretty girl he ever saw, @ suggestion of the faraway divinity, One does not pass lovely strangers in the streets of Plattville. Miss Briscoe was pretty, but not at all in the way that Harkless dreamed. For tive years the lover in him that had loved go of- ten had been starved of all but dreams, Only at twilight and dusk in the sum- mer, when strolling he caught sisht of a woman's skirt far up the village street, balf outlined in the darkness under the cathedral arch of meeting branches, this romancer of petticoats could sigh a true lover's sigh and, it he kept enough distance between, fly a Yearning fancy that his lady wandered there. Ever since his university days the image of her had been growing more and more distinct. He bad completely settled his mind as to her appearance and her voice. She was tall, almost too tall, he was sure of that; and out of his consciousness there had grown a sweet and vivacious young face that he knew was hers. Her hair was light brown, with gold Iusters (he reveled in the gold lusters on the proper theory that when your fancy is painting a picture you may as well go in for the whole thing and make it sumptuous), and her eyes were gray. They were very earnest, and yet they sparkled and laughed to him companionably. and sometimes he smiled back upon her. The Undine danced before him through the lonely years, on fair nights in his walks and came to sit by his tire on winter evenings when he stared alone at the embers, And tonight, here fn Plattville, he heard a voice he had waited for long, one that his fickle memory told him le had never heard before. But, listening. he knew better—he had heard it long ago, though when and how be did not know, as rich and true and inetfably tender as now. He threw a sop to bis common sense. “Miss Sherwood Is 4 little thing” (the image was so surly tall), “with a bumpy forehead and spec tacles,” he said to himself, “or else 4 Provinelal young lady with big eyes to Pose at you.” Then he felt the ridict: lousness of looking after his common sense on a moonlight night In June also, he knew that he lied. (To be Continued.) —— YF atin, Se a ate Oy) Det Set Bie? > La i -// Yi seo g| If : | yelouer | = PowbeEr.\ x price BB cents \\ D) a cearece Becton N THE HEATHER - BLOOM LAB, i - CHICAGO.US.A —s If you are healthy you perspire. I a area eres pert Pata cren y a eae Sones nae ROERTS WANED THE HEATHER-BLOOM LABORATORY i Basan OnoAG0 Lt —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_— aemern atiensrseeen ore roonerrant Cia mnateied dacdey Sesser ie ttre bat rd SSE BOC Seape ate Bests fe Fo street, Bot 8 IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS.... Edited by O. E. DUNCAN. Dan Patch, 1:56½ stepped a work out mile in 2:01½ last Friday. The fight that was scheduled between Mike Schreck and Joe Walcott has been called off. writing, are heading the big league. Last Friday the Highlanders nosed the world's champions out of first place by one point. Major Delmar broke the half-mile The richest stake of the year, the Great Republic, which was worth about $50 000 was run last Saturday. On account of petty injuries, Hermis was not allowed to start in the Grand American that was run at Saratoga, N. Y. on last Saturday. Out of five times up last Saturday, Dan Austin rode three winners, one second and one unplaced. He simply makes a horse win, that's all. And still the unexpected happens. Both of the New York teams, at this Williams'Shaving Soap. No other so soothing, healing, refreshing. Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The J. B. 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When writing mention this page. the g insertion (this paper) THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER writing, are heading the big leagues Last Friday the Highlanders nosed the world's champions out of first place by one point. ... Major Delmar broke the half mile record at Hudson River Driving Park, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 5, going the distance in 59⁵ seconds. He broke his world's record of 1.01, made at Memphis, Tenn. on Oct. 28, 1902. "Red" Adams, of New Orleans, La., is supposed to be the greatest Negro pitcher in America. In a recent game played between New Orleans and Atlanta, of the "Negro League", it is said that he administered a shut out to Atlanta, by pitching a no-run, no-hit game, thus equaling the record of the veteran "Cy" Young. --- It can be safely said that, despite the handicaps, Pittsburg has the greatest aggregation of ball players that this country has ever seen. In Bransfield, Ritchey, Wagner and Leach, she furnishes an inpenetrable infield; and that her outfield comprises the peers of their respective positions, one needs only to name Clarke, Sebring and Beaumont. A SONG OF THE LIVING Come out of the dim, dark ways That lead in the trail of night. Come out of the miry, slippery rut, And mould your character right. Come out of the liquor and dance hall And lay your follies down. Shun the foolish, light-hearted ones And things of empty sound. Live for the sake of your fellow man; Pray for his dying soul. Remember kind words of cheer to speak Before he's dead and cold. Endearing words are wanted now, While the blood is flowing warm. Too late to help when the death-knell falls Too late to stay the storm. —EARLY HICKS, Co B, 25th Infantry, Ft. Niobara, Nebraska Sensitillations. Is it wise to be eccentric? Carl Schurz thinks the South can solve the Negro Problem. Have monkeys reason? If not how can they be made to speak? The world continues to wonder how many Port Arthur's there are. It seems now certain that France and the Vatican will sever relations. Who discovered Judge Parker, and who thought of his running mate? Don't be afraid of sunshine and fresh air. They give you bloom and health. The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.—Cham- fort. Halti has a great wealth. There are in this little island gold, silver and coal mines, all uncultivated. The Negroes of America have seven national leagues, councils and associations, whose one object is to "encourage business enterprises of the race." "After every action there is a positive and immediate reaction;" and to make this law true, we notice that on account of the constant lynchings in the Southland, field-hands are now scarce, thus endangering the cotton crops this Fall. Chattanooga Items. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.—Bishop Lee, D. D., preached able sermons during his brief visit here on official visit here on official business at Davidson, Warren and Bethel A. M. E. Churches.—The gospel and educational camp meeting, under the leadership of Revs C H. Trusty, D. D. and W. J. Tate, A. M., was a success.—Miss Emma J. Cookrill, the proficient public school teacher, of Nashville, Tenn., is spending her vacation visiting her sister. Mrs. Mary Freeman.—Mr U. W. Richardson, in the United States service, and wife, have returned to the city; giving a glowing account of their delightful sight seeing at the World's Fair.—The draymen of Knoxville plenicked in our city last week. 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 Brazand, 5506 Jeff Ave. J S. Love 2702 State st. Isadore Jacobson 2970 State st. Your Heart. When Your Heart Fails to Pump Your Blood, Trouble Results. Have you heart trouble? 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From the long captivity of slavery in America to the Declaration of Independence, and from there to a period of only thirty-six years of freedom the colored race of America is enjoying conditions sixty per cent better than the Canadian Indians and black people of Nova Scotia—under the rule of an English King. If King Edward could see the prejudice against black people in Nova Scotia and then cross the Bay of Fundy to America and see the superior conditions accorded the colored race of America his son would fill with irie and his finger tips would snap with anger. King Edward is not a prejudice man, as every nation knows, and his ordinality to the two distinguished colored actors, Williams and Walker, in the Royal Palace at Buckingham last winter alone proves that. But nobody in Nova Scotia knew a thing about it. Nobody there knows anything about what their beloved king is doing, except to know he reigns and his picture is conned on silver. So, King Edward is doing pretty well toward setting a good example to the ignorant, prejudices natives of Nova Scotia, only they never hear of it. New Brunswick also has its share of prejudice, but it is nothing great and is only apparent along the border lines of Nova Scotia and its largest cities. The city of St John, the most uncommon city of inconvenience on record Nova Scotia is one peculiar province by itself. The people have a way of their own, Halifax, the large capital city, is the only one exception. This city is quite like American cities, and far superior to St John. One of the main reasons why Nova Scotia is such a dark, quiet, illiterate land is because the New York and Boston newspapers are out off entirely, in favor of St. John and Halifax—two cities which supplies the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with papers and very little news. table to serve those who have money to pay him and sustain his livelihood. If all his patrons had enmity against him and would not patronize him how great would be his poverty and need. A hotel, above all men, should be despised by his patrons if he is so far from human as to see his brother perish with his money in his hand because God made him black. His dogs sheep and horses, white or black, all fare alike. His human guest, then should revolt if all his patrons are not treated alike. The reflection on one guest should be an insult to all and would be if the souls of men were not lost to the false teachings of satin. The natives of Nova Scotia do not say "nigger" like American degenerates do, they say "black people" and "darkey", and speak of Americans as "Yankee" and "Black Yankees". You are not molested in the streets by vile names but you are often approached by some sharper who will inquisitively ask you all of your business. This would be sharper is an illiterate subject who does not know that an educated black man exists. The black natives of Nova Scotia, with but few exceptions, are all ignorant like himself and proves that a white skin is no indication of being wise. But the black people in Hallifax and a few of the larger towns are several grades more enlightened than the country white people and the Indians. The Indian reservations are hamlets in the woods, they live in sheds and old dilapidated houses that have stood there for centuries. I stood and conversed with Indians, their squaws and and the pretty little puppy children with a sad heart. They have no means of livelihood that would compare with a well fed dog. They suffer more for the want of food than because of laziness. They are skeletons of skin and bones, and look, oh so much different from the fet faced Indians you see in Maine. They tell their grievances to each other in their own language and never openly complain. Their voices seem hushed when approached on potent questions as though in fear of being chastised. To add to the misery of their care worm faces they have not hardly enough clothes to cover their nakedness. The black people, as they call the Negroes, do not live in the towns amongst the white people hardly at all, in numbers. They live in hamlets ranging from two to four miles away from the larger towns, and have to walk in and ont as necessity requires. They live in huts and small cottages. Most of the cottagers own their own homes and some of the huts. Colored boys are hired on many of the farms at points south of the Windsor Junction, and occasionally a colored man has a little home and farm of his own. The greatest thing I ever saw is the M. BUSINESS MEDIUM There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a psychologist. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not everyone who placards himself or her in front of the psychologist or her or she claims. 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As soon as the witty Nova Scotian irish and the New Foundlanders get money enough together, they cross over to America and bid the dull provinces of the United Kingdom goodbye. This is the condition of a country where all the railway stations need repairing and new improved accommodations for the necessities of life. "THE CITY OF SIN." Shutt Improvement Camp Furnishes a Sensational Murder. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Special.—John Masterson, colored, in a fit of jealousy, shot and fatally wounded his sweetheart, Laura Click, a colored girl, last week, at the Shutt Improvement camp. The woman received the attentions of Henry Banks, also colored, and this aroused Masterson's jealousy. In the fight that followed the woman was shot through the neck and Banks sustained a broken arm. Masterson escaped on a freight train bound for Indianapolis. The camp at which the trouble occurred is called "The City of Sho" in view of the numerous orms committed there. Muncie Happenings. Munche, Ind., Special—The Second Baptist Church had a rally on last Sunday, and almost $100 was realized for the new church funds—The Silver Leaf Club served 6 o'clock dinner at the A.M.E Church on last Monday evening—Miss Ada Stillguess, of Ft. Wayne, is vising her sister, Mrs. Guy Peters—On last Thursday the ladies of the Progress Club gave a moonlight plonk at the Westside park—Miss Mae Mack has returned from a pleasant visit in Richmond Ind., with her sister.—Mrs. Eva Taylor, who has been taking millinerv under Madame Jordan, has returned to the city. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Says: "I have used Paracamph in my training and find it to be highly satisfactory. It prevents all inflammation by inducing perspiration, and for sore and stiff joints, there is nothing better. I highly recommend it to my friends, and will use it myself constantly." C. J. 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Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods TO FREEMAN SUBSCRIBERS. If The Freeman fails to reach you, please let us know by phone or card. We cannot know unless you tell us. Phones—New, 2880; old, 7187, black. CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFSE Unedea photo. Go to Bennett's, 86 W. Washington street. Mr. Lon Cox of Lebanon was in the city a day or two the past week. Mr. Columbus McMurray has gone to Chicago to spend his vacation. The only genuine Woodbine perfume made and sold at Bledau's drug store. Mrs. Harris of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bryant, in North Missouri street. Mr. Newton Slye of New Albany, Ind., visited friends in the city last Sunday. Communion services will be held Sunday day evening at four o'clock at the Epis copal church. The Fathion smoker, Sunday evening, afforded much amusement for the members and guests. Mrs. E Stone has returned home after spending a few weeks at Chicago, the guest of relatives. It is rumored that we are to have a colored street fair under the auspices of the local Odd Fellows. Rev. Mrs Lena Mason, the evangelist, will be at Simpson Chapel next week, commencing Monday night. Rev. Lena Mason will lecture at Rev. Farrell's church next Monday evening, Aug. 18th. Admission 15c. Mrs. Mary Bell Allen, who has been spending a few weeks with Mrs. Southall, has returned to Chicago. The Fashion Ball for Thursday, Aug. 18, 1904, will be the affair that should receive the patronage of the best people Mrs. Sarah F. Thomas and son of Louisville, Ky., are visiting their relatives. Mrs. James A. Dickerson, and others Mrs. Katie Countee and Mrs. Mattle Zimmerman of Covington, Ky., are the guests of Mrs. James Stafford, 825 Blake street. Mrs. Eliza Hill of Bloomington and neice, who has been visiting her mother and friends, left one day this week for home. Mrs. Lizzie Evans and Miss Mattle Estel of Louisville, Ky., were the guests of Mrs. Henderson in California street last Sunday. William S. Baldwin of Chicago spent a few hours, last Sunday, with friends while passing through the city for his home in Ohio. The Imperial Club will give a prize waltz at their Wednesday night dancing class, Monroe Hall North Indianapolis, Aug. 17, 1904. Miss Minnie Miller and Mrs. M. Marinia White, after spending a few weeks with Mrs. Edward Scott, have returned home. Mr. A. H. Huff, of Cincinnati, was a caller at The Freeman office Sunday. JEWELRY At Prices Beyond Compare J.P MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place "A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 203 State L (Formerly Steven Front Room. (15 E. Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Mr. Huff is a student of pharmacy in the Queen City. Mrs. Jackson and Miss Dennam, of Texas, who have been spending a while with Mrs. Bishop Grant, leave for their home next week. After a short illness, Mrs. N. Glenn of Simpson Chapel, died. Her funeral took place on Monday evening at the church, Rev. Talbott officiated. Donfardella Club gave their annual outing Friday, August 5 at Armstrong park, members present twenty, invited guests one, Miss Mai Young of New York. Mrs. Nellie J. Hunter leaves to-morrow morning for Frankfort, Ky., where she goes to visit her parents, other relatives and friends. She will be gone several weeks. Dr. Crum entertained at dinner Dr. S. A. Furniss and Hon. Geo. L. Knox, last Thursday, at the Hotel English. After dinner Dr. Furniss took Dr. Crum out sight seeing. Mrs. Ivy-Hayden Hubbard Dozal and little son of Chicago were called to the city, last week, to be in attendance at the bedside of a very sick stepfather, Mr. Hawkins, in Martindale avenue. Mr. Robt. W. Boulware, instructor in Harbison College, Abbeville. S. C., was in the city in the interest of the new colored magazine, "The Voice of the Negro," and spent a few moments in the office of The Freeman. Miss Addee Bell of Nashville, and Mrs. B. T. Booth of Memphis, Tenn., are spending a few days in the city with Mrs. Jones, 1241 Lafayette street They were pleasant callers at The Freeman office one day this week. Mr. W. F. Roberts, senior medical student of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in company with Mr. M. C. Lewis of Chicago, Ill. passed through the city Wednesday, en route to Terre Haute, and spent a few moments in the office of The Freeman. J. W. Napier, who has been in the city for the past three weeks engaging a crew of waiters for the Gault House, Louisville, Ky., for the biennial conclave of white Knights of Pythias of the world, which convenes August 15, will leave Saturday morning, Aug. 13. Dr. J. K. Nickens of Nickens' Medicine Company of Fort Smith, Texas, has been visiting his father who is ill in Selma, Ohio. Dr. Nickens formerly lived in this city. While North he will give some exhibitions in the churches, showing conditions in the South, progressive and otherwise. He has travelled extensively for educational and other institutions. The services at Allen Chapel, last Sunday, were of an interesting character. Rev. M. Lewis preached at 11 a.m. The communion service at 3 p.m. was largely attended. Rev. Lena Mason preached to a large congregation at 7:45 p.m. The pastor will preach Sunday morning. At night Rev. Lena Mason will preach. The services will begin at 7:30 p.m. This will enable all to be at home by 9:30. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneeda good Photo, go to Bennett's 36. E. Washington. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. Call on Dr. Clay for dental work. He is located at 108 N. Delaware street. Household goods bought, sold and ex- changed. Naumann, 333 Indiana Ave. Buy your coal, wood and kindling of Jackson Brothers, 1613 Martindale-ave. Phone, old 996 main. For fine service, and the best in the market in season, go to the Parker House. Meals 20 cents Good lodging rooms. 821 W. Michigan street. Holliman & Reese. Call on Emanuel Williams for coal, coke, wood and kindling. 402 W. North street. Phone 1884 main, old. tf Dr. Grant S. Clay, dentist, has removed from 111 N. Illinois to 108 N. Delaware street, where he will be pleased to meet old and new customers. Dr. J. K. Nickens will entertain Bethel A. M. E church audience with a fine selection of scenery representing the race's progress and other views Thursday evening, August 25th. The very latest is the beautiful Folder Photo. Have you seen them? There is a special run being made on them for a few days at just half the regular price. See them at Bennett's, 36 East Washington street. A new stock of staple goods, smoked meats, chickens, butter, eggs, fruits and vegetables, 688 Indiana avenue. DRESS CUTTING AND FITTING. Mrs Mary M. Lindsay is teaching a class in dress cutting and fitting on the North Side. Consult her at her residence or by mail, 3281 London Ave. DR. CRUM ENTERTAINED. On last Friday morning Dr. S. A. Furniss entertained at nine o'clock breakfast in honor of Dr. Crum at the residence of Mrs. Clark in Bright street. The other guests were Mr A E. Manning, Dr. Ballard, Attorney Lott and Hon Geo L Knox. THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS MENS' LEAGUE. The arrangements for the entertainment of the National Negro Business League are being consumed. Indications point to the largest attendance of any previous meeting. The local committee is desirous of getting delegates located in homes as early as possible. Delegates desiring homes will please communicate with Willis Kersey, chairman of reception committee, 309 Indiana avenue, who has the assignment of homes in charge. The following letter, being circulated from Little Rock, Ark., will give some indication as to the interest being man ifested generally in the Business Men's League: LITTLE ROCK, ARK., Aug. 1, '04. GREETING. Dear Sir—You are cordially invited to accompany the Negro State Business Men's League and special party to St. Louis, Mo., on August 29, 1904. There you will have an opportunity to see the World's Fair. We will have a first-class, up-to-date special train, consisting of first-class coaches, reolining chair cars, and sleeping cars. The rate from Little Rock to St. Louis and return on this special train will be only $50. If you are a stranger in St. Louis the League will look after your stopping place. For further particulars and tickets address the undersigned at Little Rock. Will leave St. Louis the evening of August 30 for Indianapolis. J. M. CONNER, President. DR G W. HAYMAN, Sec'y. J. E BUSH, Vice-President, National League. WHY NOT GET RICH? Colored Men Why Do You Work For Small Wages When You Can Make From $25 to $50 A Day Selling OUR WATCHES AND JEWELRY. We start any man or woman with good references in this agency, that will pay them over $1,000 a month. It is the chance of your life. Any bright woman can make from $50 to $250 a week. Address, Dept. 519. [UNIVERSAL SUPPLY CO., Indianapolis, Ind] LEXINGTON'S MIDSUMMER FAIR AND CARNIVAL Beginning Tuesday, August 16th and continuing through the 20th there will be held at Lexington, Ky., a Mid-summer Fair and Carnival on the beautiful grounds of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association. This is the company's first fair, and it promises to be a record-breaker in the way of attractions and amusement. They expect to distribute $4 000 in premiums besides having for the entertainment and pleasure of all who attend a large Carnival and Mid way shows. There will be reduced rates on all roads leading into Lexington during the week of the fair, and no doubt many will take this opportunity of visiting friends and relatives living in and near the capital of the Blue Grass region. Those managing this fair are citizens of Lexington yet there are stockholders in all parts of the State of Kentucky and surrounding States. STATEMENT OF H. L. SANDERS STATEMENT OF H. L. SANDERS Second Annual Benefit Sale for Alpha Home Last Saturday, August 6. day..... 427 Total day's receipts..... $ 104 97 Amount given to Alpha Home Board..... 5 25 Amount of stock carried..... 3,000 00 My next annual sale will be held the first Saturday in August, 1905 Will be glad to see you at any time. Store 206 Indiana avenue. INHERITS MONEY Gordon Donaldson Gets $2,060 from His Uncle's Estate. Gordon Donaldson, living at 383 W. 11th street, has been made happy by inheriting a small fortune. His uncle, Sanford Donaldson, who died in George town, O., left him an estate of some $2 000. COLORED CHURCH DIVIDED COLORED CHURCH DIVIDED Corinthian Baptists Differ on Proposition of New Location. At a meeting of about eighty members of Corinthian Baptist church, colored, Fulton and North streets, it was voted to sell the church property, with a view to rebuilding farther west, possibly on Capitol Ave. Probably a fourth of those present were opposed to moving and they voiced their opposition in no uncertain manner. The minority claims that the vote of last night does not represent the sentiment of the entire congregation, numbering 300 members, many of whom, it is said were not informed of the meeting. Those opposed to moving will take all possible steps to set aside the action of that meeting. The Rev. John Walker, pastor of the church, favors a new location. Household Goods New and Second-Hand Highest price paid for Second-Hand Goods. Repairing Of All Kinds Peters & Burdge SECOND HAND GOODS Bought and Sold. All kinds of Stove and Furniture Repairing. 25 and 427 Indiana Ave C. O. DODSON DEALER IN Staple and Fancy GROCERIES REQUESTS YOUR PATRONAGE Good corn per can.....10o Union label tomatoes, 3 cans.....25o Best pie peaches per can.....10o Best pie apples per can.....5o Pure food sucoatash per can.....10o Columbia best flour 12 lb sack 40o Columbia best flour 25 lb sack. 75o Best granulated sugar 19 lbs $1 00 Pure leaf lard per lb.....10o Good country bacon @.....12o Best breakfast bacon @.....18o Best Elgin creamery butter @.....25o 545 Indiana Avenue NEW PHONE 2471 RELIABLE Gas Ranges Will do more cooking with less gas than any other make. VONNEGUT HARDWARE CO. 120-124 E. Washington St. Both Phones, 589. Coal AND Coke WHITE RIVER FUEL CO. New Phone 1700. Old Phone 1700 Main substantial friend of the Freeman. PRESENTED BY BESTIOT AFTERNOON BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ...AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $40, or three boxes for $400. Guaranteed to do what waiy and to be "the best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. **UNDERWATER FACE BLACK** A PRACTICAL LINE of blazers if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four a five-shadedighter, and a multistrip person perfectly white. In forty-eight shades the skin in spots, but blazes out white, the skin remainingbeautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, frecklesand blemishes, making the skinvery soft and smooth. Smaller pits, too, without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish,stop using the preparation. **CRANE'S'HAIR TONIC** that goes in one one-dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keep it from falling过高ly brittle and make the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-office money order, express money order or e-gifted letter, we will send it through the mail postage or if you want it sent C.O.D., it will come by express, 9g cents extra. we will return the money or send a book free of charge. Packed so that n uance the contents except moreive. RAE & CO., 11 W. Jackson St., Rich- mond, Va. PURCHASE A HOME.. Only $3.00 per month for a short time and you can be the ower of property worth $1000.00 in any location you desire. NO INTEREST. The MUTUAL BUILDING COMPANY by co-operation is offering a grand opportunity for every man or woman who is desirous of securing a home on easy monthly payments with out interest, and no payment down. We will buy you a lot, house and lot, farm, or truck patch or in fact any thing in the way of real estate. We will loan the full amount of the purchase price, which makes it possible for even the poorest class to secure a home. Feel at liberty to write to us for full particulars, by enclosing a stamp for reply, or call in person at the home office. for even the poorest class to secure a home particulars, by enclosing a stamp for reply, MUTUAL BUILD Suite 1019-1020 Law B J. A. T DEALER Fresh Meats, Groceries, Table Luxuries. We sell the 250-252 INDIANA AVENUE A NEW PHOTO STUCKY'S HEADA for immediate relief of headache ... Fine California Wines STUCKY'S D COR ILLINOIS & BUY YOUR HAT Seaton's L BUILDING CO. -1020 Law Bldg. Indiana A. TRIBE DEALER IN Groceries, Fruits, W exuries. We sell the best Goods for C VA AVENUE AND 223 N. CAL NEW PHONE 1737 S HEADACHE CA Ref of headache Vines KY'S DRUG S COR ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET UR HATS AT ton's Hat S BUILDING COMPANY 20 Law Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind. . TRIBBY DEALER IN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and We sell the best Goods for Cash only. AVENUE AND 223 N. CAPITAL AVENUE NEW PHONE 1737 HEADACHE CAPSULES headache ..... 100 and 250 a box ..... 250 a quart bottle 'S DRUG STORE ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET R HATS AT n's Hat Store MUTUAL BUILDING COMPANY Suite 1019-1020 Law Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind. Fresh Meats, Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Table Luxuries. We sell the best Goods for Cause only. 250-252 INDIANA AVENUE AND 223 N. CAPITAL AVENUE NEW PHONE 1737 Seaton's Hat Store 29 N. Pennsvlvania Street FROM New Phone 2561. H L SANDERS. Send for Catalogue. Established 1889. MANUFACTURER OF FROM New Phone 2561. H L SANDERS. Send for Catalogue. Established 1889. MANUFACTURER OF ```markdown ``` Waiters, Cooks' Outfits, Barber Coats, Butchers' Aprons, Jackets and Bar Coats. Frocks and Aprons, Physicians' and Dentists Operating Coats, Duck Pants and Over-Sleeves. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. Dress Suits TO LET. 206 Indiana Ave, Indianapolis, Ind. DR. GRANTH.C DENTIST BEST WORK AND LOWEST PRICES, OFFICE 108 N. Best Work W. G SCHNEID Merchant Tailor G SCHNEID Merchant Tailor INDI RENT DAY COM pay out good money for the privil lous house. When you have paid a y at and nothing to show for it. dependent, sleep under your own roof, ha your own name on the title deed. W u can pay for it little by little, the p an your present rent. and of the year, instead of being out have an equity with its real cash v before the contract matures your h with 5 per cent. interest. no excuse for any man not to own a buy it easier than paying rent. The treat with and payments need not be ove u are fully protected, as the home ed by yourself and other contract operative method used in England, 100 years. For booklet for full inform son. Home Buying C Lombard Building, INDIANAPOLIS Rate MAI 238 INDIANA AVENUE s. Kettle=Rendered Lard. Creamery B A. R. HAINES, Proprietor, HN BR Salesale & Retail M Fine Cutsof Beef a specialty. 407 V OFFICE 108 N. DELAWARE STREET Lowest Prices SCHNEIDER Merchant Tailor BEST WORK AND LOWEST PRICES. OFFICE 108 N. DELAWARE STREET WHEN RENT DOES You have to pay out good money another man's house. When you that much out and nothing to sho Be independent, sleep undererty with your own name on the home and you can pay for it littleing to less than your present rent At the end of the year, instead paid, you'll have an equity with should die before the contract money back with 5 per cent. interest There's no excuse for any man when he can buy it easier than youquired to start with and paymentthousand, you are fully protectedtrustee elected by yours-if and successful co operative method to many for the 100 years For book or call in person. American Home I 8-9-10 Lombard Building, CUT - RATE 238 INDIANA. Fresh and Smoked Meats. Kettle-Rendered A. R. HAINES. KUHN Wholesale & Fine Cutsof Beer. RENT DAY COMES about good money for the privilege of staying in use. When you have paid a year's rent you are nothing to show for it. It, sleep under your own roof, have a piece of prop-name on the title deed. We will buy you a pay for it little by little, the payments amount-present rent. The year, instead of being out the rent you have in equity with its real cash value in case you the contract matures your heirs would get the per cent. Interest. Use for any man not to own a piece of property easier than paying rent. There is no cash re- and payments need not be over $50 on the fully protected, as the home is bought by the yourself and other contract holders, ours is the active method used in England, France and Ger-ears. For booklet for full information send stamp Home Buying Company Hard Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND Rate MARKET 8 INDIANA AVENUE Little-Rendered Lard. Creamery Butter. Cut Rate Prices R. HAINES, Proprietor, N BROS. Sale & Retail Meats Cutsof Beef a specialty. WHEN RENT DAY COMES You have to pay out good money for the privilege of staying in another man's house. When you have paid a year's rent you are that much out and nothing to show for it. Be independent, sleep under your own roof, have a piece of property with your own name on the title deed. We will buy you a home and you can pay for it little by little, the payments amounting to less than your present rent. At the end of the year, instead of being out the rent you have paid, you'll have an equity with its real cash value in case you should die before the contract matures your heirs would get the money back with 5 per cent. interest. There's no excuse for any man not to own a piece of property when he can buy it easier than paying rent. There is no cash required to start with and payments need not be over $8 50 on the thousand, you are fully protected, as the home is bought by the trustee elected by yourself and other contract holders, ours is the successful co operative method used in England, France and Germany for the 100 years. For booklet for full information send stamp or call in person. American Home Buying Company 8-9-10 Lombard Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND CUT-Rate MARKET 238 INDIANA AVENUE Fresh and Smoked Meats. Kettle-Rendered Lard. Creamery Butter. Cut Rate Prices A. R. HAINES, Proprietor. Wholesale & Retail Meats Nathan T. Ward BONDS AND COLLECTIONS Office room 1. Wilson Building 12 1/2 N. Delaware Street Copies of The Freeman are on sale at Fred D. Thomas' barbershop, 242 East Second street, Los Angeles, Cal. ```markdown ``` --- 38 Monument Place Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 Only $3.00 per month for a short time and you can be the ower of property worth $100.00 in any location you desire. NO INTEREST. The MUTUAL BUILDING COMPANY by co-operation is offering grand opportunity for every man or woman who is desirous of securing a home on easy monthly payments with interest, and no payment down. We will buy a house and lot, farm, or truck patch on the fact any thing in the way of real estate you will loan the full amount of the purchase price, which makes it possible INDIANAPOLIS, IND 407 W. Michigan St. Beasley, Grocer A fresh line of staple goods Fresh and Smoked Meats BUTTER AND EGGS The Freeman is on sale each week at Mr John Emery's, 821 East Market st. (rear) Lonkville, Ky.