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REMEMBER THE ADVERTISERS OF THIS PAPER, THE LARGEST CIRCULATED NEGRO NATIONAL PAPER IN THE WORLD, READ IT AND SEE WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WORKSHOP FAILORS Workshop of G. M Howell, the tailor, Atlanta, Ga. VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 33. EVES ON AFRICA. Great Field for a New Tuskegee--Dr. L. G. Jordan Optimistic Concerning the Fatherland. Louisville, Ky., Special—The city of Louisville and the doings of her 50,000 colored people are always full of interest to the country at large. Standing as the natural gateway between the North and South, partaking of the hustle of the one and the lazish hospitality of the other, and forming a constantly traveled highway between the East and the West, Kentucky's metropolis occupies a position of vantage equaled by few cities on the American continent. Louisville's Negro population represents most strikingly both extremes of the social equation. She has excellent schools, a plenitude of churches, well ordered society, fine homes and a spirit of business enterprise and industry that promises fruitful results within the fewest of years. Per contra, she has a full quota of saloons, gambling hells, brothels, squalid neighborhoods, lottery fiends and shiftless characters generally, who will not work and who boldly proclaim that they are "going to live anyhow until they die." Louisville has a liberal share of the very best people on earth, in culture, wealth and morals—and she has a large consignment of the very worst, in all that makes for hopeless demoralization. Then, there is a strong middle class who are neither well bad nor very good, who perform that most valuable service of keeping the scales of civilization pretty fairly balanced between the extremes. In short, a wayfarer in search of the spice of life along with the staples of existence can find anything he is looking for in chameleon Louisville. Rev. L. G. Jordan is a man you cannot help meet here—he is so active, so energetic and so ubiquitous. He seems to possess the faculty of doing a dozen things at once, and doing them all well. A great talker is he, but so entertaining and instructive that one never tires of listening to him, whether he speaks from the platform or gives you a heart-to-heart seance on the side. Dr. Jordan's favorite theme is "Africa." So thoroughly has he become identified with the religious uplift of the "Dark Continent," that when you think of the Negro's "Fatherland," you instinctively think of Dr. Jordan. He is corresponding secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board and editor of the Mission Herald. His official headquarters are at 726 West Walnut street, but he is just as apt to be met with on the broad boulevard at Cape Town as in the streets of Louisville. Dr. Jordan is a born missionary, and he has made several trips to Africa studying the conditions there at such close range as to be an universally accepted authority upon all matters pertaining to that mysterious land, immortalized by Ham, Livingston, Stanley and Blyden. Dr. Jordan is enthusiastic over the prospects offered by Africa to American Negroes of brains, push and energy. He does not believe, perhaps, in wholesale deportation and colonization but he is of the opinion that the enterprising black man has a great future open to him in commerce, agriculture and mining in the British possessions in South Africa. The Negro minister, teacher, physician, farmer, mechanic and miner are sorely needed to uplift the race in the Dark Continent, and in serving this high moral purpose the educated men and women who come from America can materially serve themselves. He says there are 10,000,000 Negroes in the territory south of the Zambesi river and only 1,000,000 whites. All this vast population requires for development into a useful force for civilization is practical training in the industries and the preaching of the gospel by earnest, broad-guzzled Christian missionaries. The climate of South Africa is fine, and the mean temperature being about the same as that to which the bulk of our people here are accustomed, the conditions to be met are familiar and heathful. The land from the Cape for hundreds of miles into the interior is suitable for the normal pursuits of the American Negro, and is free from the malarial dangers found in the equatorial regions. This is the area exploited by the British South African Company, and which Earl Gray has been so anxious to have Booker T. Washington come over and give a personal inspection. English capitalists regard it as the El Dorado of the present century. Dr. Jordan tells of the wonderful success achieved around Cape Town by Dr. A. Henry Attaway, an American Negro, who entered the country a few years ago with Bishop Coppin. He had little capital, but possessed plenty of nerve. He now owes or controls an immense tract about forty miles from Cape Town, reached by railroad, which he is subdividing into good sized kraals and establishing thereon thirty colored families who will cultivate the land in a profitable fashion. Dr. Attaway has won the confidence of the business factors of Cape Town. He has a suit of offices in one of the finest buildings in the South African metropolis, and the $135 with which he began bids fair to expand into a cool million before long. He is developing a big industrial school on the lines of Tuskegee, and hopes to secure the aid of Dr. Washington in bringing to bear upon the work the skilled services of some of Tuskegee's graduates. The yearly output of trained minds and hands from such an institution would form the nucleus of a master industrial class that will in time completely regenerate the South of Africa. We shall hear more of Dr. Attaway, for he is the kind of a genius the world is looking for today. He is expected in America this fall to visit Tuskegee, Hampton and other model schools to gather ideas. Dr. Attaway is the son-in-law of Hon. Joseph E. Lee, collector of customs at the port of Jacksonville, Fla. A veritable bee-hive is the spacious 14 room house at 726 West Walnut street, occupied by the Women's Industrial Club, the most progressive, unique and wideawake business and charitable corporation among the colored women of Louisville. A visitor is first impressed with the business like air that pervades the entire premises and the marked cleaniness of every room. The leading spirit of this very helpful organization is Miss Nannie H. Burroughs who has no peer among her sex as a director of large affairs and for thoroughness in in handling the minutest details of the many departments entrusted to her care. Miss Burroughs has, indeed, a rare capacity for work. She is systematic and painstaking. She "does things" and "gets things done" Besides managing to a queen's taste this immense club house. She is corresponding secretary of the Woman's SLANDER ANTI-SUFFERAGE TILL-VARDT MANISM THER AINT NO WAY TO STOP HER NOW Just as Well Get Off the Track. Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, the duties of which carry her into many states as a lecturer and organizer, and is principal of the William J. Simmons' Business Institute, which is doing a world of good in fitting girls for the positions constantly been opened to them through C [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a mustache]. G. M. Howell, the tailor, Atlanta, Ga. the stimulating influence of such commercial promoters as the National Negro Business League. She is a speaker of force and pronounced ability. The Industrial Club is noted for its clean and well conducted restaurant, a soda water fountain, a reading room, a lecture course and an admirable plan for social diversion is in vogue during "the season." Miss Burroughs' latest triumph is the introduction of an up-to-date school of dress making and ladies' --- tailoring, in which classes in all kinds of needle work and sewing will be taught and all styles of robes in any and all occasions will be made. In an exceedingly well appointed suite on the first floor of the Club Home will be found one of the best equipped dress making emporiums in this country. The 19 management is fortunate in having been able to secure the services of Mme. Beulah T. Davis, a fashionable modiste and robe builder of Frankfort, Ky., as superinterdent and instructor. Mrs. Davis is an expert in her profession, and is a lady of culture and splendid intellectual attainments. For several years she was a teacher in the sewing division of Tuskegee Institute and comes highly recommended by Dr. Washington. The department was formerly STATION Sales Room of G. M. Howell. the tailor, Atlanta. Ga. launched last week with appropriate ceremonies and a special offer is being made to the initial class, of which the women of Louisville, young and old, should hasten to avail themselves. A potential figure in the legal, political and journalistic life of Louisville is Attorney Albert S. White. Like Miss Burroughs, he keeps busy and covers, in effective fashion, a wide range of useful endeavor. Mr. White is a learned lawyer, a convincing orator, a scholarly writer and a politician of statemanly quality. He is a graduate of the law department of Howard University and one of the few selected by the faculty of that famous institution for special mention in the annual catalogue. As dean of the Central Law school, as staff correspondent of the Kentucky Standard, as special agent in the internal revenue service, United States Treasury Department and as delegate to numerous political conventions he deeply impresses his worth and talents upon a most appreciative community. The Central Law school, under his supervision has turned out some able barristers, among whom is Mrs. Sallie J. S. White, the dean's estimable helpmeet, the only colored woman lawyer ever graduated in the state of Kentucky. In response to popular demand Mr. White is now engaged in compiling a miscellaneous lot of essays, magazine articles and newspaper contributions with a view of publishing them in book form. They contain much valuable historical data and present a highly interesting review of the men and measures that have moved the currents of public opinion in the last quarter of a century. Mr. White is still a young man, and the herculean support he is giving this year to Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Yerks and Bradly will be certain to place him far up in the eligible list for a good diplomatic post during our president's regular term. I hope he'll land anything he wants. NEGRO ETHNOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED AND OTHERWISE, As a rule a people are judged by the vices and the virtues of its leading characters, but America makes the Negro an exception and insists on taking the lowest and worst element of the race as the oriterion. The original features and physical aspect of the Negro present a radical contrast to the features and physical aspect of the white people, which, when associated with the degraded condition of slavery would naturally become the badge of shame and would place upon the emancipated Negro the great task of overcoming a strong prejudice against his very looks. No individual of any race can be expected to cordially accept as a social one who looks like a former slave. The individual who has the features of the race lately in slavery must also have won such great personal distinction and honors as will obscure all prejudice ere he can, even as an individual, gain the recognition due to his worth. Even then he will only be treated just by those who- know him and will, by others, be treated just as they treat any other Negro. The Negro must do all he can to make the world come to regard Negroes just as it does other people if he would win for him self just treatment on all hands. There are good Negroes and bad ones just as there are good white men and bad ones. The Negro makes a fatal mistake when he fails to do all within his power to force the world to respect his best representatives. The reason why the A. M.E. church so cheerfully encourages its bishops and other representative men to travel in first class and to just appreciates the value of having the best people of the country to become familiar with the best men of the race. Bishop Derrick and others of his type have done more good for the race by contact with white people in public places than can be computed. However the good which they have done has largely been undone by improper persons who have had money enough to enable them to intrude in places where they would be to be. There were some individuals who fit to St. Emmons Hotel, London, England, who had no fitness for such quarters. This thing happens constantly. There are many Negro barbers who are forced to refuse to shave any Negro simply because that is the only way to beep the bum from running trade by intruding. There are also barbers who are extended because willingly to fit Negroes that are refused because of the tendency of the worst element of the race to rush in the footsteps of any man who is black r gardless of his worth and indifferent to the lack of it in the intruder. The Negro must evolve a recognized aristocracy before he gets much further. J. M. HENDERSON, M. D. Own Your Own Home. Manufactured only by THE LAUNDRY BLUE COMPANY, Chicago MARIA MAYER The letter of Miss Merkley, whose picture is printed above, proves beyond question that thousands of cases of inflammation of the ovaries and womb are annually cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Gradual loss of strength and nerve force told me something was radically/ wrong with me. 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THE COLORED PEOPLE OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND. WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN A BUSINESS WAY AND IN THE PROFESSIONS. BY W. MILTON LEWIS. It is often said that Indianapolis is the colored man's paradise when contrasted with other cities of the country. The statement may need a grain of salt before taking, but at that Indianapolis is No Mean Anybody's City. In making the statement it is not meant to advertise that we catch the "strays, losts and stolen" of other cities to our own hurt, as has been said. It should be understood that if you scratch for trouble here it can be had with promptness and dispatch just the same as in Georgia, Texas or Alabama. While the mob may not assemble yet results will be seen in other directions; consequently it behoves us and those that cast their lots with us to be as circum- aspect as possible, because it is right and because it is best. Colored men in business and the professions are rapidly increasing; they will still more rapidly increase in the wake of the convention of the Negro Business Men's League, which holds forth in this city this week, the influence of whose frontal wave has long since been felt and for the good. Correct business principles are being instilled after more than a quarter of a century of attempt more or less abortive and dismal; but out of the experimental wreck is now issuing the business elixir that promises greatly. The Indianapolis colored business man is on the scene. The Webb-Smith Company. Of the number of business enterprises of this city by colored men the Webb-Smith Co., is among the most noted. This well known firm leads in the hons- THE WEL 506 S. MER PHONES 3 moving business and transferring heavy machinery. Mr. Charles A. Webb, the senior member of the Webb-Smith Co., has been a successful business man for years; dealing in wood and coal. 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Every indication points to abundant success for Mr Shelton in the future, who, by his own efforts, has succeeded in becoming one of the city's most substantial citizens He is loyal to his friends who are legions, thus assuring him continued prosperity. C. M. C. Willis, the first successful colored man in the undertaking business, still holds his own. Mr. Morgan, formerly of Morgan & Shelton, expects to go it alone; he has made many friends since coming to the city a few years ago. Indianapolis has several first class lodging places, a few of which reach the dignity of hotels. The Parker House is deserving of special mention. The Fiddler Brothers conduct a stag hotel on the European plan. Mrs. N. Smothers has grown rich in the restaurant business. Butler's restaurant on Indiana avenue deserves special attention; it is well conducted by a man who knows the business. It is easy in the lead. The saloon has been a successful in situation since from "away back" Greathouse, Archie, conducts the "Greathouse"; it lives up to its name. Mr. Greathouse has one of the finest places in the city. The Needmore, The Alright, Grave & Hendricks, Perry Porter's and L. W. Montgomery's are among the leading places. Some of the tailors are as follows: Nesbitt, James Miller and Ernest Scott. Colored men have for years done their share of the transfer business. Such men as John S Puryear, S Kimble, Ed. Harris, George Walker, Tom Walker, Jones, Davis, Sweetland and others have made considerable money in the business. The grocery business is represented by the Franklin Grocery Co., Mrs. Teeters, Alexander, Broyles, Neeley and others. John Smith owns and operates the only drug store; it is in a good location and does a good business. His son, a recent graduate in pharmacy, is clerk. Dealers in vegetables and fruit wagon routes: Clinton Nunn, Alexander and others. Market stands: Charles Nunn and Sweat. Mrs. Belle Davis, the caterer, is especially prepared to do the finest work in her line. Mrs Kittle Minuturn does a good catering business. Carter & Alonzo Smith run a first ERS ERY. WORK-STACKS RALSED RICK HOUSES:SPECIALTY. class confectionary. Mrs. A. R. Moss dresser of ostrich feathers Barber shops: Gray, Fielding, and Rickman. John Morris, Morris White, Malone, Rape and others. Among the leading carpenters are Baptist, Brewer, and Carter Temple, Jr. Hose-Date shiuping harry Dunlain, calls all Bobinson. John Conn, cabinet maker. 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. Ennis Colbert, Vanderbilt, Pa. June 22nd. 1904—Ozonized Ox Marrow will straighten your hair too, no matter how kinky it is. It also cures dandruff, stops hair falling and makes the hair hair. 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. RAILROAD for Toledo, Detroit, Ft. Wayne, Bloomington, Peoria and points 1st and West. A. H. SELLERS, District Passenger Agent 28 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. H. J. RHEIN, General Passenger Agent. New Phone 1416. Res. New Phone 110 LIVERY AND SALE STABLE All Kinds of Heavy Hauling. INDIANAPOLIS, IND which, through his ability and foresight, has taken rank with the best of the kind in the country. Mr Webb has amassed quite a fortune, being considered one of the wealthiest colored men in the state. He is president of the Fidelity Saving and Loan Association, a colored institution of long standing; he is honored and esteemed in this community. The Webb Smith Co., has done some work within the last few years that is worthy of note; raising brick houses is a specialty. Recently it raised a three story brick school house in the vicinity of Terre Haute, and has done much similar work in the city of Indianapolis and throughout the state. The placing of a 30 000 000 gallon pump for the Indianapolis Water Works Co., was a triumph in the transfer business. It required sixty cars to transport the machinery to this city. Between $1,000 and $1,200 worth of rigging had to be furnished by the movers. It is the third pump placed for the Water Works Co., which fact is no little testimony of the business ability of the Webb-Smith Co. According to the secretary, Mrs. Ida M. Bryant, who is a member of the firm, a business of about $80,000 yearly is done, Mrs. Huldah Webb, wife of Charles A. Webb, is also a member of the Webb-Smith Co. The office of the Webb Smith Co., is under the management of R. Reeze Larrie, of the Manual Training High School. His six years of experience has made him a very valuable aid to the company, which he also serves as assistant foreman. Mr. Larrie is popular in society. The Hoosier Transfer Co. The Hoosier Transfer Co., the members of which are alter Jameson and Willis Bryant, does a big business in house and safe moving; it transfers machinery, boilers, merchandise, raise stacks, etc. The firm is also engaged in the wholesale coal and coke business. Mr. Jameson was formerly associated with the Webb-Smith Co. Mr. Willis Bryant is a well known young business man, formerly a broker in the wholesale district. He is a graduate of Lincoln University. Mr. H. L. Sanders, Manufacturer Coats, Jackets, Etc. Mr. H. L. Sanders conducts a great and growing business. A few years ago he might have been seen with a basket on his arm delivering his goods manufactured by one foot power sewing machine. Today Mr. Sanders' business faces on two streets. He employs six or eight girls who operate as many electric machines. He does a manufacturing business annually, sending his goods everywhere, running into the thousands of dollars. His retail store is also successful and a credit. His son, Edward, is a valuable aid in the business. He employs, all told, a dozen or more people. Wagon Builders, Blacksmithing. Lewis & Donnell, general blacksmithing, build wagons, etc., and do expert horse shoeing. Mr. Anderson Lewis is one of the older citizens of Indianapolis; he has some valuable city property made out of his business. Mr. Donnell is an influential citizen. J. W. Crenshaw is a practical horse shoer in his own shop, where he pays special attention to roadsters and trotters. UNDERTAKERS. James N. Shelton, Funeral Director and Embalmer. James N. Shelton was born in Charleston, Ind., June 12, 1871; he came to Indianapolis at the age of one year where he has since resided. He was educated in the common and high schools afterwhich he attended the Harvey Medical College of Chicago and the Chicago College of Embalming, which latter institutions were attended preparatory to entering the undertaking business, receiving his diploma in 1900. In 1894 Mr. Shelton was appointed deputy assessor under Eugene Sauloy, reappointed by request in 1896 under M. L. Jefferson. He has been connected in various capacities with the Republican County and City Committees. In 1901 he was selected as chairman of the Negro Campaign Committee, which was known for its effective work in assisting the party. Mr. Shelton is a ready speaker, discussing issues with ability; a favorite among the politicians and with the people generally. owing to his genial disposition, quick wit and his general insight into affairs. Mr. Shelton has the good wishes and respect of all in this community. For sixteen years he has been a member of the Corinthian Baptist Church and lets his light shine. His home is managed by a soulful little woman whom he met several years ago, Miss Mamle Pettiford, of Franklin, Ind. They were married in 1894. Mr. Shelton is popular in fraternal organizations; he is an Odd Fellow, a 32 degree Mason, Grand Keeper of R and S. of K. of P.'s and a member of W. ISAAC JOHNSON, Undertaker, Richmond, Va. Samuel Welch Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MOREN PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES. COMBINED One-pound Box 26 cts, at Druggists and Dealers. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY O. H. MORGAN JAMES N. SHELTON Old 299 1 Red-Phones-New 3068 Morgan & Shelton (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant Fair Prices. 417 Indiana Ave. Open all Night GEO. G. HILL with E. Octavus Mack, Lawyer Bonds. & Collections Room 1, 12 N. Delaware St. Phone 2095 Main. 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Dear Sisters and Brothers—Call on her when you can, she will be please to meet you and will when ever you wish to. She devotes her entire time to the welfare of the mole believing God will reward her. She will make every soul glad to hear her talk of heaven for the most useful soul searching letters, tells you how to make home happy. Send date of the month and the year you was born in and receive a full character reading. Enclose $1. Clip this ad. 1527 English Avenue, INDIANAPOLL IND., MADAME MONAIRDE-MOORE, Enclose stamp copy. Fancy Groceries and Meats Flour and Feed Hardware, Granite, Tinware, China and Glassware. 1901 and 1903 Yandes, cor. 19th Street. Phone, Main 3287. Use Hammerine for the Hair Patronize Our Advertisers. Read them. THE WAITER. Edited By W. FORREST GOZART. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO WAITERS. (Copyrighted 1898 by W. Forrest Cozart.) CHAPTER III. When filling the water glasses always use the spoon for dipping ice. Never use the fingers. When using individual butter chips always carry them in the open palm of the hand. Walters should change the end of their side towels when it becomes necessary as there is nothing that will cause dissatisfaction quicker than an untidy wafer with a greasy towel that is already overdue at the laundry. Always turn the handle of the cup toward the guest for convenience. Should the guest unfortunately tip over or upset anything at the table the nearest waiter should immediately go to his assistance, wipe his clothes off with a clean napkin, if necessary, wipe up the article spilled from both table and floor, and spread a clean napkin over soiled spot on table, and with haste serve the guest with another of the article; exchange chairs, if necessary, and do whatever you can for his comfort. Watters very often tip over articles and spill sauces from their meats and other dishes on the guest, table-cloth or floor, which is quite embarrassing as well as quite damaging and should be avoided. In serving coffee or tea always ask the guest how many peices of sugar he will take, and then pass the cream unless requested to pour it in. Chewing of tobacco is a very filthy habit at its best, and a waiter that will go into a dining room with a "chew" of tobacco in his mouth is not fit to be employed. I have seen waiters with their shirt bosoms stained with tobacco juice and their mouths filled with tobacco, yet taking an order. There is another important fact I would like to impress upon your mind so that you may avoid it. For some reason or other two-thirds of the waiters of to-day have a habit of continually rubbing, scratching or picking at their faces and twisting their mustache during meals. These are vulgar and inexcessable habits. Great care should be exercised in order to avoid leaving imprints of the fingers on dishes while placing an order before a guest. Some waiters never examine their dishes to ascertain their cleanliness until about to serve their order, then, if they see a solled spot that does not rub out easily, they will stare at it as if they were trying to look it off, and in the meantime they will twist and turn and go from one side of the guest to the other as if they had the St. Vitus dance. The proper way is to see that your dishes are clean before placing them before the guest. In some hotels waiters get into the habit of claiming trays they use as their own individual property, and some go so far as to write their names or mark their trays in some way, and forbid any other waiter using them, and should any one attempt to use them there would be a great argument, and in the meantime the guest would have to wait until the difficulty was settled before the waiter would proceed to serve his order. Again, I have seen waiters mark their castors, salt and pepper shakers, and also forbid any other waiter from using them or any of the silverware on their table. If another waiter should need anything, even a teaspoon, he would have to go to the pantry to get it, notwithstanding there may be several dozen pieces of the silver desired in the room. To mutilate articles as described above is wrong, and no good waiter should allow himself to get into this habit. Of course, under the eye of an experienced headwaiter, such things will not occur, but it often occurs when a sidewaiter has been promoted to headwaiter, he being unable to control his men, the old axiom of the "tail wagging the dog" is repeated. Never carry the side towel in the pocket of your jacket, especially never in the pocket nearest the arm pit. Never carry teaspoons or any other silverware in the jacket pocket. Some waiters are in this habit, and when they see that a spoon is needed on their table will deliberately take it out in the presence of the guest and, without wiping it, will drop it into the guest's tea or coffee or some other article of food. This is wrong and should be avoided. Another great wrong done by some waiters is, when they serve regular guests, to ask them to not allow any other waiter to serve them. Now, whenever a waiter resorts to this kind of business, he gains the displeasure of the headwaiter, a thing to be avoided. In passing down an alse or around a THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER table always allow the guest to pass first, as guests are always entitled to the right of way. This is common politeness. It is very impolite for waiters to congregate in bodies of two or more and engage in a general conversation during meal hours. This often occurs during early and late meal hours. Never refuse to favor each other, remembering the old adage that "One act of kindness deserves another." Never refuse to go to a fellow waiter's assistance in the dining room, especially to remove soiled dishes from his table so he can readily serve his guest. Go to the kitchen and get forgotten articles, returning as quickly as possible. Always be willing to give and make room for a fellow waiter who has a loaded tray, by so doing you will expedite the service. When opening boiled eggs in the dining room do not smell the egg to ascertain its soundness. If there is any doubt of it do not serve it, but simply say to the guest, "I am very sorry, but I will have to boil you another order of eggs." Never tell your guest that eggs were spoiled as it may cause him to lose his appetite. Under no circumstances should the waiter let the guest, either at nis or any other table, see him do anything untidy as it will cause the guest to think the whole crew would do the same thing. There is nothing so displeasing to the guest as to have a waiter who continually forgets the order, act and speak as if he did not care. One waiter of this nature will ruin the reputation of the whole crew. Another waiter that is detrimental to the service is one who stuffs his orders, that is, who bring a guest more than he orders. When giving your order in the kitchen avoid loud speaking. If you are informed by any of the cooks that certain articles are out report same to the chef, and if he says that they are out and you cannot get no more, you will then report it to the headwaiter who will give you final instructions. Under no circumstances should a waiter tell a guest that an article is out before conforming with the above. If, for any reason, you fail to get your order report at once to the chef, and his answer must be accepted and his orders obeyed. Walters must avoid trouble with any of the help, especially the girls, as waiters often have difficulties with the girls employed in the hotel, and some waiters are cowards enough to attempt to strike them. Walters should avoid having too much talk with the employed girls. It is a well known fact that girls will at one time encourage these attempts and at others repulse them, especially if they fear discovery. In such an instance the waiter must bear all blame. The only remedy is to avoid all talk that is not absolutely necessary. Should a waiter drop a tray containing an order the waiter nearest to him should go to his assistance immediately, pick up the dishes and refill the portion that was lost. Watters should not get into the habit of leaning against the chairs or against the walls during meal hours, but should stand erect at their tables. Cream of Mackinac Society. The Tray of Hearts Socials gave a unique affair at the old Mackinac Island rink. The attendance was large to see what proved to be an interesting affair. The first prize was won by Mr. Eugene Flippen of Low, Ky., and Miss Geneva Thomas of Detroit, Mich. The next in order was awarded to Mr. Lavolta Phelps and Miss Cora Thompson of Xenia, O. The entertainment closed with a grand march, which was participated in by one and all, making an enjoyable affair for all. The participants were Mr. Hayes Smith of Maysville, Ky., Miss Edna Anderson, Howell, Miss., Chas, Bernam and Miss Mary Henderson of Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Haddox and Miss Gladys Jones of Indianapolis, Ind. Cole, Bates and Ford committee. Always give former address in case of removal where paper is to be changed from one place to another. INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTOR (One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to the library in advance.) **HAPPYWATER** G, L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. L. Locke, Hotel Gayoos, Memphis, Tennessee This is the Factory that makes the Best WILLIAMS & CO. CORDUROY ENTERPRISES MANUFACTURERS OF CLOTHING SHIRTS TRIPLE COAT JACKETS OVERALLS MISS MAYORAL MISS MAYORAL Ask your dealer for the "Auto Brand." If he has none write us. THE POSSIBILITIES AND IMPOSSIBILITIES. Vast Improvement Needed Among the Colored Waiters in Dallas, Tex., and Other Southern Cities. Editor Walters' Department—Having resided in the State from which I now address this letter for several years, and having made a very close study of the possibilities and impossibilities of the colored waiters in this section, and to give justice to all and favor none, I must say that there is room for great improvement among the ranks of the colored waiters in this weird territory. I could take up much space to note the difference of the waiters in this section and those I have been associated with in former years in the North and East; but, looking forward with the hope that time may bring about the much needed changes, I will not endeavor to be too severe in my attack upon their prospects of reaching the topmost round of the ladder of fame. When I arrived in this State, which is directly in the South, I was surprised to be confronted with the fact that white waiters were employed in all of the best European hotels and all of the restaurants in the large cities. But now, since I have been associated with my colored brethren in many different capacities in this section in the past few years, I have gleaned much evidence to explain what has impeded the progress of the colored waiter in this southland. The department, character and general manners of the majority falls under the ban for much needed improvement. I will recall a coincidence that happened a few days ago in the dining room where I am now installed, which may serve as a tendency to show what grave mistakes some waiters make around guests. There were seated in the dining room a very prominent hotel man from another city, who contemplated opening a new hotel soon. After seating the gentleman the officers at the door found it necessary to leave the door a few seconds, and during his absence the waiter that was waiting on this prominent guest engaged in conversation with another obnoxious waiter, remarking that he would not wait on no guest properly unless tipped. These were indeed very common remarks to be spoken in the presence of a man who, probably, contemplated giving employment to a large number of colored waiters; but, probably, after thinking over this abrupt coincidence he may have come to the conclusion that white waiters would be the best to use from an intellectual standpoint. BROADWAY DRESS and nine Millinery Emporium at the TEMPLE OF FASHION HAIR STORE. Call and see the great special values in trimmed hats, ready-made skirts, shirt waists and other fancy articles. Parisian designs a special. Lizzie BEACEMEN, firm prompt attendance. Baldwine, 401 8.8 Street, proprietress. Residence, 401 S. Preston St. 371 Jackson St, cor, Lane, Dallas, Texas. NOTICE: The colored watters must learn to follow the rules and discipline of their superior officers; be polite, conduct themselves like gentlemen and try to elevate themselves to a higher degree of intelligence CHAS BELMONT NEWTON, Criterion of Oriental Club. Dallas, Texas. Headwalter Wm. S. Foreman, formerly of the "International," Niagara Falls, N. Y., and the "Cairo," Washington, D. C., has changed his position from the "Kanawha Hotel," Charleston, W. Va. He is now doing the season in charge of the 'Hotel Cresent," Eureka Springs, Ark. ADVANCED NORMAL COURSE Introduced at Tuskegee Institute. An advance Normal course for teachers of the common branches and teachers of Manual Training, the Trades and Agriculture will be established at the Tuskegee Institute, September 13, 1904, the opening of the next school term. The course includes a review of all the elementary studies; the elements of psychology, the history of education, general and special methods of teaching and school management; observation of model teaching and practice teaching in an admirably equipped training school are required. Graduates of Tuskegee and persons of equivalent education are admitted without examination. Persons of some experience in teaching are accorded special advantages. In writing for further details, be sure to specify whether you wish training as a teacher (1) of a specific industry, like blacksmithing or agriculture, (2) of manual training, or (3) of academic branches. Address all correspondence to Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. The Freeman in Chicago. B. 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Rooms at moderate cost. 1235 Chestnut St., ST LOUIS, MO. when you visit the World's Fair at St. Louis The Douglass is the largest hotel in the West West for colored people. Plan European travel. Visit the day. Cor. Seamont and Lawton A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 300 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SUBSCRIPTION RATES : (Any part of the United States and are Beran a ne ee Three Montha’ TT 8 ge rac me ‘order, ‘pont office order or registered letter. Agents wanted in every town and a nan oecuged and hea inducements wie Green 6 same, Bend for our extraordinary cements ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Fase of measure—solid Sheetal Iposition 2s pr seas aacisoanl ‘ex fas on etandlng” profersorat and, pentose space. Rendle nosioes iis for ne." Biota Fates on Witte Gpse > Per Hue Bee "“atered at the postotion at Tndianapolie Tadlana, us second class aiattor, nusnapolle eee ae Zi matter should bo addressed to i THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS,AND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. ‘A LESSON. ‘The Business Men's League brings to us one lesson that is worth the learning. ‘That lesson is, that industrial pursuits, and not politics, offers the best and surest means for real advancement. In this commercial age people care very little about schemes and theories that are either uncertain or difficult to comprehend. They want re- sults, and the man who has’ a good healthy business has something to offer—some- thing that is wanted. And however hum- ble and unpretentious the endeavor it is within the possibility of all to do something useful. ‘Those who represent this organ- ization and its branches are men of this clase—men who have learned that success comes from doing. They know that by following various lines of business they are adding to the aggregate of those things that go to satisfy human desire, and that by s0 doing they are adding to their store of wealth and the country's progress. It was for the purpose of emphasizing the doing of things that brought this organiza- tion Into existence. Its soul and inspira- tion is Booker T. Washington, around whom it stands. He not only advocates that things be done, but that they be, well done. ‘Those who compose this organization bear astriking contrast to that large body of men who seem to act on the belief that conditions, favorable or otherwise, are the outgrowth of politics. Politics has gde- bauched the race for a quarter of a century. It does not produce leaders in whoM we can trust, Yet, within a few years there has grown up among us an advocate of industrial usefulness who has gained the respect and esteem of all the people except it be a few politicians who are yet per- plexed because they cannot see how it was, done, The Freeman wishes the organiza- tion most abundant success, and we trust that it may be an inspiration to the young: who may learn that the surest and best re- ‘wards come from useful doing. If we could only realize that the short time we have to spend here is given only as an opportunity for soul development, ‘and that this can only be accomplished by giving encouragement and growth to the good impulses that arise In us, the world would make more rapid progress toward a civilization worthy of the name, He myst be blind indeed who cannot see the wide gulf between that which is admitted to be right and that which is done. Even plain, common honesty is a little out of date. If you don’t think so, count those whom you ‘are not afraid to trust. But the form of dishdnesty which is the greatest hindrance to soul growth is the failure to be honest with ourselves. We fear the adverse opin: ions of others even when our Conscience approves. And so weact the coward an¢ try to please others, and they in turn dc the same. Thus conscience is silenced and the good we might do is unattained. The Governor of Gsorgia is to be com- mended for his vigorous investigation of the Statesboro disgrace. Some one should suffer for that criminal neglect of duty. ‘The thoughtfu! are not going to let the re- sult of this investigation pass unnoticed. ‘The only way that the people of Georgia can escape the just charge of being in sym- pathy with that cowardly mob is to punish those who were responsibie for it, It is something so unusual for a man to rise to his feet ahd brush the dust of politi- eal subserviency off his knees that it really surprises some people. Bill Eagleston used to say that there were people who would get mad if you put on a clean shirt, THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. | Ge ces ' MR. A. C. HOWARD, Shoe Polish, Leather Dressing and Dyes, 3544 State Street, Chicago, IIlinois. | The tales fof cruelty and injustice, that occasionally come to The Freeman from different pointsfin the South are such as to almost surpass belief. But these letters utter their complaints in such a simple and straightforward manner that one cannot doubt the truth of them, That the poor whitetpeople dislike to see the colored man prosper, there can be little reason for doubt, but that they should be guilty of petty meannesses because of this, such as have fond ito us from Mississippi, discloses 2 state of mind in these people that fs of th lovee kind. We are accumulating evi dence every day which shows that those men who are spending their time in abusing the Negro might better employ that time in uprooting the barbarism among thel ‘own people, It is barely possible that the professional politicians may sueceed in stiring the peo- ple to a frenzy later on, but it don't look sc now. The habit of going crazy every four Years just to please the political bosses is getting just a litte out of date to the think: Ing man. Just stay on the sidewalk, keer you hat on and don’t yell unless you really have something to yell for. pest p tS The attempt to belittle Senator Fairbanks because he did not volunteer his. services during the civil war Is another proof of the mendaclty of the average partisan news. Paper. Twelve-year-old boys | were no! eligible for military duty. Unless Mr. Falrbanks is Ao be blamed because he dic not get himself born sooner we fail to see wherein he was unpatriotic? There is an evident desire to stop lynch- Ings, and varlous are the suggestions made to that end. Civilizing those who engage in them does not seem to have been thought of. We believe this Is the only sure method. Because there is an occasional criminal ts no reason why a whole com- munity should become so. We hope that the Statesboro incident has not escaped the notice of Tillman, Varda- man, Graves & Co. If not, will they please acknowledge that a little missionary work is badly needed among their own people. Japan seems to have imbibed enough of Christian civilization to show that the peo- ple are up to date in the art of killing men, Stop paying rent. Only the rich can afford to do that. Rent in one form or an- other is what keeps the poor man poor. ‘Those who buy in the smallest amounts Pay most for what they get. The nickle habit is a very bad one, If Russia don't get whipped it won't be because she don't deserve it. The man who tries to please others rare= ly pleases anybody, AND . WHITE RIVER FUEL ‘CO. 8, West St. and Vandalia R R,, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 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Winter Term opens Jan. 2, 1905. aasvone REM satormaton ee We take pleasure In extending to you onr congratulations upon our snocess well No.2 At a depth of 1000 feet tile oll sand was reached and the oll be- gan to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oll and stopped work until arrangements could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER At a depth of 1027 feet the oll began to flaw over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the ofl was turned into our reoolving tank, whlch had been prepar- ‘The Company expects an income of $2,000 00 per month from its two wells. ‘The location of well No 8 has been se. lected and work will begin upon it within a few days. ‘We expect the dividends to each stockholder in the first 12 months will equal bis investment. The stockho). ders are protected by the lawe of thy United States, regardless of whers they live, aud the officers are under good any saffictent bonds, ‘Until September 1, 1904, the Board of Directors has decided to eell stock at $500 per share, the par value of which 1s $25 00, after which date the stock may be withdrawn from the market, or the price per share inoreased. As ours ts the only Negro Company 1n the world owning’ and controllling Profitable oll 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 strotched fosth her hand into the commercial problems of the world. We shipped our first cat load of oil July 4, 1904. THE STAGE. By "WOODBINE." Billy McClain is now in London, Eng. Harry A. Brown, singing cartoonist, is at Reeves Park, Fostoria, Ohio this week. Lew Payton and Richard Matthews of Al W. Martin's U. T. C. company were Freeman callers this week. just the same. During our recent visit to Jacksonville, Ill., it was our good fortune to be royally entertained by the well known team Mallory Bros. assisted by their estimable wives, who invited the company to their respective homes. The company was divided equally, one half occupying the festive board at Frank's and the other Harry A. Brown, the singing cartoonist, is a headliner at the Southern park, Pittsburg, Pa. this week with Idora park, Youngstown, Ohio to follow. Henry W. Link, general agent for Al W. Martin's Uncle Tom's Cabin company was a Freeman caller this week. Mr. Link states that the company is larger and better than ever, and that the management predicts a record breaking season. Billy Carroll writes.—Our Old Plantation Show played the mid-summer fair carnival. We played to top-money on the Mid-way and we drew a plenty of people. My people are mith and music. We send regards to the Pekins. Pap Adams at St. Louis, Mo. writes.—Billy Kersands minstrel passed through our city, all members looking well except Mat Houseley, who is just recovering from a severe attack of malarial fever. The company is meeting with great success. Regards to all. Messrs. Jackson and Craig, late of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Co., write.—We have just returned to Henderson, Ky., after playing several dates at the Fair, and are pretty well worn out. We would be pleased to hear from managers and friends in and out of the profession. Regards to all friends. Edward Price of the team of the Two Jolly Prices, writes.—We are no longer with A Rabbit Foot company but our address now is 140 Houston St., Atlanta, Ga. We are well and will leave Atlanta about Sept. 10, but not with A Rabbit Foot company. Would like to hear from Prof. Wm. E. Enty and all friends. We send regards to all. Napoleon Johnson writes.—The Georgia Minstrel is moving along smoothly. We carry our own special scenery and electrical effects. Kid Clark joined us in Memphis and is having success singing. As Clark is a young man, and has his life before him, we expect great things of him, may his name rank among the best of his race. Billy Arnle of the Millican Plantation Co. writes.—The boys are getting ready for Washington, D. C. to meet old friends. Last week we showed to S. R. O. in Alexandria, Va. The people were well pleased and say that it is the best plantation show on the road. Billy Arnle is mopping up with his monologue. He sends best regards to Maggie Faust with Sells and Downs show and would like to hear from old friends, also the team of Williams and Stevens. Notes from Billy Kersands Minstrel Co. —We are at last among our old home folks of the South, finding it much easier than last season, as in many places we have the house sold before we get in. Our ofay audiences are much larger than last season, thus furnishing conclusive evidence of their appreciation of our previous entertainments. Matt Houseley is with us at last, having fully recovered from his late illness his splendid blowing powers with his corner; is only exceeded by his magnificent appetite. His brother, Golddie, left Chicago recently for his home in Philadelphia, and we are all awaiting his early and very welcome return. The weather continues warm, but our business remains first class THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE. Armstrong, T L Beacham, Chas Bebee, C W Cauley, Frank Cooper, J W Cissel and Mines Carter and Howell Eolt, E J Goodpastor, H W Hunt, H W Hughes, Ed Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson Johnson, J L P Johnson, J C S Laube, Herbert Lucas, Sam Lines, L H Lacy, Will Lane, Heurey 2 Martin, Sr. A A McQuity, M J McMoon, M H McDougall, J L Pittman, James Prentice, Oliver Smith, Prof H Sutton, J 2 Sauters, Fred H Shaw and Clifton Tibbs, Sol Tibbs, Dr S J Waiston, Dr S J Williams, H L Weatherly, Joe ROUTE A Rabbit Foot Co. to Toxarkana, Ark, Sept. 5, Balloon Foot Co. to Toxarkana, 7, Dallas, S. Green- crest, S. Sherman, 10. Kings Ranchs Minstrels - Little Rock Ark City, Arkansas 714-522-3600; Forrest City, Carrollton, Texas 817-522-3600; Stugart, Arkansas 817-522-3600 Soverey A, Paws and Sells' Bros. Circus, Fittsburg, Pa, Sept. 5, Washington, 6; Fairmount, Pa, Sept. 7; Carkksburg, 8; Connec- ville, Pa, 9; Mekk Student Entrance A, E. Holmberg's Students Entrance, Pawnee Wild West, West- Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. Sington, 6; South Bettlehem, 7; Quakertown, Doylestown, 9; Norristown, 10. Brenx B, Carolinans, Winona, Minn, Sept. 10. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER just the same. During our recent visit to Jacksonville, ill., it was our good fortune to be royally entertained by the well known team Mallory Bros. assisted by their estimable wives, who invited the company to their respective homes. The company was divided equally, one half occupying the festive board at Frank's and the other were seated at the table of his brother Ed. While their respective wives graced the tables with their stately presence. The tables were loaded with an abundance of good things, and it was naturally expected that there would be some of the good things left, but the recuperative powers of Kid Langford and Jim Lacey dispelled all such illusions, and the Kid and Jim were unanimously declared by the host and hostess to be natural born cleaners in that line. Mr. and Mrs. Kersands occupied prominent places at the table, also Miss Maggie Fernandez, a graduate of New Orleans University and sister of Mrs. Kersands. The Mallory Bros. each have cosy homes side by side, besides owning five others and they are truly a credit to the race and profession in general. We wish them long life and continued happiness, with many thanks for their kind treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Kersands send regards to all friends and well wishers. AT THE PARK. "Too Proud to Beg," one of Lincoln J Carter's best melodramas, comes to the Park theater next Monday for three days. It is the only Carter play which does not depend upon mechanical devices to give it strength, its worth being left in the hands of the company. But it tells as forceful story of romance and intrigue. The only specially in the production is an acrobatic turn by the Boylan children. Jacob Simons impersonates a Hebrew, Barlow and Hoyt make up a team of Dutchmen, and others in the cast are Marie Nelson, A. B. Lynds and Fred Eckhart. For the last half of the week the Park's bill will be "On the Suwanee River," a production notable for its scenic vesture, its pleasing love story, and its general portrayal of life under the softening skies of the Southland. The play suggested itself from the famous old song and the scenery used was painted from views along the historic river. Laura Bennett heads the company and is supported by Ethel Dunbar, T. T. Rook, W. L. Clark and a number of others. What is expected to be the Park's most elaborate offering of the year will be "In Old Kentucky," which comes State Fair week, September 12, for twelve performances. It will be the first time this play has been seen in other than a high priced theater. It tells a story of love in the blue grass region and among the horsemen, mountainers and moonshiners of Kentucky. One of its features in a realistic running race between several Kenkucky throughbreds. The company will be an extra large one. Because of the magnitude of the production, the Park will advance prices slightly fair week, but they will still be moderate. Fishermen Send name and address and get a box of the Best Fish Bait you ever saw in your town. Make fish bite with much avidity when fishing with hook and line. Write to day. Enclose stamp for postage. Address J. F. GHEGORY, Anadarko, Okla. 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Harkless usually ate his breakfast alone, as he was the latest riser in Plattville. ‘There were days in the winter when he did not reach the hotel until 8 o'clock. ‘This morning he found a bunch of white roses, still wet with dew and so fragrant that the whole room Was fresh and sweet with their odor, prettily arranged in a bow! on the table, and at his plate the largest of all with a pin through the stem. He looked up smilingly and nodded at the Ted faced, red haired waitress who was waving a long fly brush over his head. “Thank you, Charmion,” he said. “That's very pretty.” “That old Mr. Wimby was here,” she answered, “and he left word for you to look out. The whole possetucky of Johnsons from the Crossroads passed his house this mornin’, comin’ this way, and he see Bob Skillet on the square when he got to town. He left them flowers, Mrs. Wimby sent 'em to ye, I didn’t bring ’em.” “Thank you for arranging them.” She turned even redder than she al Ways was and answered nothing, vig- orously darting her brush at an imag inary fly on the cloth. After several minutes she said abruptly, “You're wel- come.” There was a silence, finally broken by a long, gasping sigh. Astonished, he looked at the girl. Her eyes were set unfathomably upon his pink tie. ‘The wand had dropped from her nerve Jess hand, and she stood rapt and im- movable. She started violently from her trance. “Ain't ye goin’ to finish Yer cotfee?* she asked, plying her in strument again, and, bending slightly, whispered, “Say, Eph Watts is over there behind ye.” At a table in a far corner of the room a large gentleman in a brown frock coat was quietly eating his breakfast and reading the Herald. He was of an ornate presence, though entirely neat. A sumptuous expanse of linen exhibit: ed itself between the lapels of his tow cut waistcoat, and an inch of bedia monded breastpin glittered there like an ice ledge on a snowy mountain side. He had a steady blue eye and a dissi- pated iron gray mustache. This per- sonage was Mr. Ephraim Watts, who, following a calling more fashionable in the eighteenth century than in the lat- ter decades of the nineteenth, had shaken the dust of Carlow from his feet some three years previously at the strong request of the authorities, ‘The Herald had been particularly insisten upon his deportation. In the loca phrase, Harkless had “run him out 0 town.” Perhaps it was because the Herald's opposition, as the editor had explained at the time, had been “mere- ly moral and impersonal,” and the ed. itor had confessed to a liking for the unprofessional qualities of Mr. Watts that there was but & slight embarrass ment when the two gentlemen met to day. His breakfast finished, Harkless went over to the other and extended his hand. Cynthia, the waitress, helc her breath and clutched the back of a chair, However, Mr, Watts made no motion toward his well known hi pocket, Instead he rose, flushing slight- ly, and accepted the hand offered him. “I'm glad to see you, Mr. Watts,” said the journalist cordially. “And also, if you are running with the cir. cus and calculate on doing busines: here today, I'll have you fired out of town before noon. How are you! You're looking extremely well.” “Mr. Harkless,” answered Watts, “1 cherish no hard Yeelings, and I never said but what you done exactly right when I left, three years ago. No, sir I’m not here in a professional way at all, and I don’t want to be molested T've connected myself with an oil com pany, and I’m down here to look over the ground. It beats poker and fantar all hollow, though there ain't as many chances in favor of the dealer, and ir oil it’s the farmer that gets the rakeoff T’ve come back, but in an enterprising spirit this time, to open up a new field and sbed light and money in Carlow They told me never to show my fac here again, but if you say I stay | guess I can. I always was sure thers was oll in the county, and I want ti prove it for everybody's benefit. Is i all right?” “My dear fellow,” laughed the youn; man, shaking the gambler’s hand again “it is all right. I have always beer sorry I had to act against you. Every thing is all right. Stay and bore t Korea, if you like, Did ever you se such glorious weather?” “T'll let you in on some shares,” Watt called after him as he turned eway ‘The other nodded fh reply and wa Jeaving the room when Cynthia detain ed him by a flourish of her fly brust “Say,” she sald—she always called bin “gay”—"you've forgot yer flower.” He came back and thanked her. “Wil you pin it on for me, Charmion?” “{ don't know what call you got t a Won't you pin it on my coat?” Her face was lifted in grateful pleas- ure, and she began to pin the rose to his lapel. Her hands were large and red and trembled. She dropped the flower and, saying buskily, “I don’t know as I could do it right,” seized violently upon a pile of dishes and hurried from the room. Harkless rescued the rose, pinned it on bis coat himself. with the internal observation that the red haired wait- ress was the queerest creature in the village, and set forth upon his holiday. Mr. Lige Willetts, a stalwart bach- elor, the most eligible in Carlow, and a habitual devotee of Minnie Briscoe, was seated on the veranda when Hark- less turned in at,the gate of the brick house. “The ladies will be down right off,” he said, greeting the editor's cool finery with a perceptible agitation and the editor himself with a friendly shake of the hand. “Mildy says to wait out here.” ‘There was a faint rustling within the house, the swish of draperies on the stairs, a delicious whispering, when light feet descend, tapping, to hearts that beat an answer, the telegraphic message: “We come! We come! We are near! We are near!” Lige Wil- letts stared at Harkless. He had never thought the latter was good looking un- til he saw him step to the door to take Helen Sherwood’s hand and say, in a strange, low, tense voice, “Good morn- ing,” as if he were announcing, at the least: “Hvery one in the world, except us two, died last night. It is a solemn thing, but I am yery happy.” | ‘They walked, Minnie and Mr. Wil- letts, a little distance in front of the others. Harkless could not have told afterward whether they rode or walked or floated on an airship to the court- house. All he knew distinctly was that a divinity in a pink shirt waist and a hat that was woven of gauzy cloud by mocking fairies to make him stoop hideously to see under it dwelt for the time on earth and was at his side, dazzling him in the morning sun- shine. Last night the moon had lent her a silvery glamour. She had some- thing of the ethereal whiteness of night dews in that watery light, a nymph to laugh from a sparkling foun- tain at the moon, or, as he thought, re- membering her courtesy for his pretty Speech, perhaps a little Indy of King Louis’ court wandering down the years from Fontainebleau and appearing to clumsy mortals sometimes of a summer night when the moon was in their heads. But today she was of thé daintiest color, a pretty girl whose gray eyes twinkled to his in gay companionship. He marked how the sunshine danced across the shadows of her fair hair and seemed itself to catch a luster rather than impart it, and the light of the June day drifted through the gauzy hat to her face, touching it with a deli- cate and tender flush that came and went like the vibrating pink of early dawn. She had the divinest straight nose, tip tilted a faint, alluring trifle, and a dimple cleft her chin, “the dead- Hiest maelstrom in the world!” He thrilled through and through. He had been only vaguely conscious of the dimple in the night. It was not until he saw her by daylight that he really knew it was there. ‘The village hummed with life before them. They walked through shimmer- ing airs, sweeter to breathe than nectar fs to drink. She caught a butterfly basking on a jimson weed, and before she let it go held it out to him in her hand. It was a white butterly. He asked which was the butterfly. “Bravo!” she said, tossing the captive eraft above their heads and watching IP abEy rH ees Pug HY She fastened her rote in place of th the small sails catch the breeze. “And 80 you can make little flatteries in the morning too. It is another courtesy you should be having from me if it weren't for the dustiness of it. Wait till we come to the board walk.” She had some big pink roses at her waist. Indicating these, he answered, “In the meantime, I know very well a lad that would be blithe to accept a pretty token of any lady's bigh esteem.” THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. a Nag ee ey ee #0 quick he scarcely saw it, and he was glad he had resurrected the straw hat with the youthful ribbon and his other festal vestures. “And a very becoming flower a white rose is,” she continued, “though I am a bold girl to be blarney- ing with a young gentleman I met no longer ago than last night.” “But why shouldn't you blarney with a gentleman when you began by say- ing his life?” : “Especially when the gentleman had the politeness to gallop about the coun- ty with me tucked under bis arm.” She stood still and laughed softly, but consummately, an@ her eyes closed tight with the mirth of it. She had taken one of the roses from her waist, and as she stood holding it by the long stem its cool petals lightly pressed her lips. “You may have it—in exchange,” she ‘said. He bent down to her, and she fastened her rose in place of the white one in his coat. She did not ask him, directly or indirectly, who had put the white one there for him. She knew by the way it was pinned that he had done it himself. “Who is it that ev'ry morning brings me these lovely flow- ers?” she burlesqued as he bent over her, i | “Mr. Wimby,” he returned. “I will point him out to you. You must see him and Mr. Bodeffer, who is the old- ‘est inhabitant and the erossest of Car- low.” ; “Will you present them to me?" “No: they might talk ta you and take some of my"tini"WIth"you away from me.” | Her eyes sparkled, into his for the merest fraction of a second, and she laughed. Then she dropped his lapel, and they proceeded. She did not put | the white rose in her belt, but carried it. ‘The square was heaving with a Jos- tling, moving, good natured, happy and constantly increasing crowd that over- flowed on Main street in both direc- tions and whose good nature augment- ed in the ratio that its size increased. The streets were a kaleidoscope of many colors, and every window open- ing on Main street or the square was filled with eager faces. By 9 o'clock all the windows of the courthouse in the center of the square were occupied. Here most of the damsels congregated to enjoy the spectacle of the parade, and their swains attended, posted at coigns of less vantage behind the la- dies. Some of the faces that peeped from the windows of the dark, old, shady courthouse were pretty, and some of them were not pretty, but near- ly all of them were rosy cheeked, and all were pleasant to see because of the good cheer they kept. Here and there, along the sidewalk below, a father worked his way through the throng, a licortce bedaubed cherub on one arm, his coat (borne with long enough) on the other, followed by a mother, with the other children hang- ing to her skirts and tagging exasper- atingly behind, holding ,red and blue toy balloons and delectable candy batons of spiral striped peppermint in tightly closed, sadly sticky fingers. A thousand cries rent the air—the stroll- ing mountebanks and gypsying booth merchants, the peanut venders, the boys with palm leaf fans for sale, the candy sellers, the popcorn peddlers, the Italian with the toy balloons that float like a cluster of colored bubbles above the heads of the crowd and the bal- loons that wail like a baby; the red lemonade man, shouting in the shrill voice that reaches everywhere and en- dures forever: “Lemo'! Lemo’! Five a glass! Ice cole lemo'! Five cents, a nickel, a half a dime, the twentieth- potofadollah! Lemo’! Ice cole lemo’!" —all the vociferating harbingers of the cireus crying their wares. Timid youths in shoes covered with dust through which the morning polish but imly shone and unalterably hooked by the arth to blushing maidens bought recklessly of peanuts, of candy, of pop- corn, of all known sweetmeats, per- chance, and forced thef? way to the lemonade stands, and there, all shyly, silently sipped the crimson stained am- brosia. Everywhere the hawkers din- ned, and everywhere was heard the plaintive squawk of the toy balloon. In the courthouse yard, and so sin- ning in the very eye of the law, two swarthy, shifty looking gentlemen were operating with some greasy walnut shells and a pea what the fanciful or ‘unsophisticated might have been pleas- ed to call a game of chance, and the most intent spectator of the group around them was Mr. James Bardlock, the town marshal. He was simply and unofficially and earnestly interested. ‘Thus the eye of the law may not be said to have winked upon the nefari- ousness now under its vision. It gazed with strong curiosity, an itch to dab- ble and, it must be admitted, a grow- ing hope of profit, the game was so dl- re@t and the player so sure. Several countrymen had won small sums, and Da seg spiracles adele gyre art ncam Bmp) er. => i es AS45 WATCH FOR Dus Lae | CGA LADIES’ OR GENTS’ SIZE Ee i the faotory and guaranteod Bach and every watoh we send out is ‘lmed, tested nd segslated Dofore leaving ry and gu rer of OUR PROPOSITION fishes wip ragoudly iene dt moter “Hetil | pgp MEADOUR PROPOSITION riplches who was badly in need of money. | fo had tere ocd wn tate ATE with) ney 10 yo POST tds We took bis waiches arose oe ene Bee te OFPIOE ond NEAREST EXPRESS OFFIUR eae Gur monoy. “Wegot about twice'as many” wateok i yeu desis LADIES! 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W,tovmond, Waltham WHAT WE GIVE FOR $6.45 Ei sheet jertn fa ls tat bana gua aane, | WHAT WE Gt SERS sei, tf Non ever escapement Jeweled ‘pallets, ‘patent reruinior, novement fitted In gold tata double hunt. BE ee M lover escapement Jeweled ‘pallets, SNe ieeces fetta ea at dot in FREER D cess migut aw enenpannietisiinae wack | auch tats! gt Gen GUARANTEE ‘Acco Oe eae EI cae ctnay ee snempeent he Fasig | easies each 'warcH ANS S'rGr Ast RD ficen teenie PHONE CAE Or RAMS Ao eit \ ees falteue ata ean cae ee eS ae Cuiede Apt or sey Leith cry \ Saas GUARANTEED FOR %5 YEARS. 1 cHlcago Il 7 DEARBORN STREE NATIONAL CONSOLIDATED WATCH C0, 6 j a ———— bade her“témain tnere “until “ie réturn- ed. He had to speak to Hartley Bowl- der, he explained. ‘Then he plunged, red faced and ex- | elted, into the circle about the shell manipulators and offered to lay a wa- ger. Hol’ on there, Hen Fentriss,” thickly : objected a flushed young man beside him. “Iss my turn.” “I’m first, Hartley,” returned the oth- er. “You can hold yer hosses, I reckon,’” “Plenty fer each and all, gents,” in- | terrupted one of the shell men. “Place yer spondulics on de little ball. Wich | is de nex’ Incky gent to win our mon-, ey? Gent bets four sixty-five he seen de | little ball go under de middle shell. Up. she comes! Dis time we wins. Platt- ville can’t win every time. Who's de nex’ lucky gent?” / Fentriss edged slowly out of the cir- cle, abashed and with rapidly whiten- ing cheeks. He paused for a moment | outside, slowly realizing that all his money had gone in one wild, blind whirl—the money he had earned so hard and saved so hard to make a holi- day for his sweetheart and himself. He, stole one glance around the building to where a patient figure waited for him. ‘Then he fled down a side alley and soon ‘was out upon the country road, tramp- ng soddenly homeward through the dust, his chin sunk in his breast and his hands clinched tight at bis sides. Now and then he stopped and bitterly hurl- ed a stone at a piping bird on the fence or gay bobwhite inthe fields, At noon the patient figure was still waiting in ‘the corner of the courthouse yard, meek- ly twisting a coral ring upon her finger. ‘But the flushed young man who had ‘spoken Tmesiy to wer aeserter arew aa envied roll of bank bills from bis pock- et and began to bet with tipsy caution, while the circle about the gamblers watched with fervid interest, especially Mr. Bardlock, town marshal. From far up Main street came the ery “She’s a-comin'! She's a-comin!” and this announcement of the parade proving only one of a dozen false alarms a thousand discussions took place over old fashioned silver time- pieces as to when “she” was really due. Schofields’ Henry was much appealed to as an arbiter in these discussions, from a sense of his having a good deal | to do with time in a general sort of way, and thus Schofields’ came to be reminded that it was getting on toward 10 o'clock, whereas, in the excitement of festival, he had not yet struck 9, ‘This, rushing forthwith to do, he did, and, in the elation of the moment, seven or eight besides. Miss Helen Sherwood was looking down on the mass of shift- ing color from a second story window of the courthouse, and she had the Pleasure of seeing Schofields’ emerge on the steps beneath her when the bells had done «nd heard the cheers (led by Mr. Martin) with which the crowd greeted his appearance after the per- formance of his feat. i She turned beamingly to Harkless, “What a family it is!” she laughed. “Just one big, jolly family! I didn’t fnow people could be like this until 1 tame to Plattville.” “That is the word for it,” he said, resting his hand on the casement be- side her. “I used to think it was deso- late, but that was long ago.” He lean- ed from the window to look down. In his dark cheek was a glow the Carlow folks had never seen there, and some- how he seemed less thin and tired than usual; Indeed, he did not seem tired at all, by far the contrary, and he carried himself upright, when he was not stooping to see under the hat, though not as if he thought about it, “I be- lieve they are the best people I know,” he went on, “Perhaps it is because they have been so kind to me; but they are kind to each other, too—kind, good people.” | “I know,” she said, nodding, “I know. There are fat women, women who rock and rock on piazzas by the sea, and they speak of country people as the ‘lower classes.’ How happy this big family fs in not knowing it is the lower classes!” : | “We haven't read Nordau down here,” said Jahn “Old Tom Martin's, Pore tne ene nee favorite Work Is ‘The Descent of Man," and Miss Tibbs cares most for ‘Lalla Rookh’ and ‘Beulah.’ And why not?” “It was a girl from Southeast Cotton- bridge, Mass.,” said Helen, “who heard I was from Indiana and asked me if I didn’t ‘hate to live so far away from things.’” There was a pause while she leaned out of the window with her face aside from him. Then she remarked carelessly, “I met her at Winter Har- tee? } “Do you go to Winter Harbor?” ‘he asked. “We have gone there every summer until this one for years, Have you friends who go there?” “I had once. ‘There was a classmate of mine from Rouen”— “What was his name? Perhaps I know him.” She stole a glance at him and saw that his face had fallen into sad lines. “He's forgotten me, I dare say. I haven't seen him for seven years, and that’s a long time, you know, and he's ‘out in the world,’ where, ee is harder, Here in Plattville we don’t forget.” “Were you ever at Winter Harbor?” “I was once. I spent a very happy Gay there long ago, when you must have been a little girl. Were you there in’— “Listen!” she ered. “The procession is coming. Look at the people!” ‘The parade had seized a psychologic- al moment. There was a fanfare of trumpets in the east. Lines of people rushed for the streets, and as one look- ed down on the big straw hats and sunbonnets and many kinds of finer Read apputet “tossing rorwara ter seemed like surt sweeping up tne iors beaches. She was coming at last. The boys whooped in the middle of the street. Some tossed their arms to heaven, others expressed thelr emotion by somersaults; those most deeply moved walked on their hands. In the distance one saw over the heads of the multitude tossing banners and the moving crests of triumphal cars, where “cohorts were shining in purple and gold.” There was another flourish of music. ‘Then all the band gave sound, and, with the blare of brass and the crash of drums, the glory of the parade burst upon Plattville. Glory in the utmost! ‘The impetus of the march time music, the flare of royal banners, the smiling of beautiful court ladies and great silk- en nobles, ‘the swaying of howdahs on camel and elephant and the awesome shaking of the earth beneath the ele- phant’s feet and his devastating eye (every one declared he looked the alarmed Mr. Bill Snoddy, stoutest citi- zen of the county, full in the face as he passed him, and Mr. Snoddy felt not at all reassured when Tom Martin severe- ly hinted that it was with the threaten- ing glance of a rival); then the badi- nage of the clown, creaking by in his donkey cart; the terrific recklessness of the spangled hero who was drawn along in a cage with two striped tigers —the delight of all this glittering pomp and pageantry needed even more than walking on your hands to express. Last of all came the tooting calliope, followed by swarms of boys as it exe- euted “Wait Till the Clouds Roll By, Jennie,” with infinite gusto. When it had gone Miss Sherwood's gaze relaxed—she had been looking on as eagerly as any child—and she turned to speak to Harkless and discovered that he was no longer in the room. In- stead she found Minnie and Mr. Wil- letts, whom be had summoned from another window. “He was called away,” explained Lige. “He thought he'd be back before the parade was over and said you were enjoying it so much he didn’t want to speak to you.” “Called away?” Minnie laughed. “Oh, everybody sends for Mr. Harkless.” “It was a farmer name of Bowlder,” added Mr. Willetts. “His son Hartley 's Grinking again, and there ain't any one but Harkless can do anything with him. You let him tackle a sick man to nurse or a tipsy feller to handle, and I tell you,” Mr. Willetts went on, with enthusiasm, “he is at home. It beats ee aa gg eee nr ee Oe —————$—$—$—$—$—$————————— Me, ATA lots of people don’t™thifik cok lege does a man any good. Wiy, the way he cured old Fis”— Miss Brisooe interrupted him, “See!” she cried, pointing out of the window. “Look out there! Something's happened!” There was a swirl in the crowd be low. Men were running around a cor ner of the courthouse, and the women and children were harking after. They went so fast and there were so many of them that immediately that whole Portion of the yard became a pushing, tugging, squirming Jam of people, “It’s on the other side,” said Tiss “We can see from the hall window, Come quick before these other folks fil it up.” They followed him across the build: ing and looked down on. an agitated swarm of faces. Five men were stand: ing on the entrance steps to the doot below them, and the crowd was thick: ly massed beyond, leaving a little sem- circle clear about the steps. ‘Those be hind struggled to get closer and leaped in the air to catch a glimpse of what was going on, Harkless stood alone on the top step, his hand resting on the shoulder of the pale and contrite and sobered Hartley. On the lowest step Jim Bardlock was standing with sheop isbly hanging head and between him and Harkless the two gamblers of the walnut shells, The journalist held in his hand the implements of thelr pro: fession. “Yes; give up every cent,” he sali quietly. “You've taken $86' from this boy. Hand it over.” ‘The men began to edge down closer to the crowd, giving little, swift, des perate, searching looks from left to right and right to left and moving nerv- ously about like weasels in a trap. “Close up, there,” said Harkless “Don’t let them out.” “W'y can’t we git no square treat ment here?” one of the gamblers wilt ed, But his eyes blazed with a raze that belied the plaintive passivity of his tone. “We ain't been runnin’ no skin. W'y d'ye say we gotter give up our own money? You gotter prove it was a skin. We risked our money fair.” “Prove it! Come up here, Eph Watts Friends” —the editor turned to. the crowd, smiling—“friends, here's » man we ran out of town once because he knew too much about things of this sort. He's come back to us again, anl he's here to stay. He'll give us an ob Sect lesson on the shell game.” “It’s pretty simple,” remarked Mr Watts, “The best way is to pick wp the ball with your second finger and the back part of your thumb, as you pretend to lay the shell down over it~ this way.” He illustrated and shovel several methods of manipulation with professional sang froid, and as le made plan the vulgar swindle by whiel many had been duped that morving there arose an angry and threateving murmar, “You all see,” said Harkless, raising his voice, “what a simple cheat it is an old, wornout one, Yet a lot of you lost your own money on it and thet stood by, staring like idiots, and +t Hartley Bowlder lose $86, and vot on’ of you lifted a hand. How hard did you work for what these two ciet? erooks took from you? Ab,” he cried “it is because you were greedy thst they robbed you so easily! You so0¥ it’s true. It’s when you want 10 s# Something for nothing that tle ‘vt fidence men’ steal the money you sweat for and make you the laughine of the country. And you, Jim Uarh lock, town marshal; you, wlio © fess that you ‘went in the sume cents’ worth’ yourself”— His face wrathful and stern as he raised lis eusing hand and leveled it at ti 0 Lappy municipal. The town marshal smiled vneasll? and deprecatingly about him an, Ing only angry, frowning brows, Nas ing only words of condemnation, po his hand unsteadily over his fat mos tache, shifted from one leg to the ott and back again, looked up, Tooke down, and then, an amiable and ples ure loving man, beholding wthine but Colored Woman Wo Served in the Union Army Draws a Pension at New Albany. W. H. "AUNT LUCY" NICHBOLS. Louisville, Ky., Special—"Aunt Luco" Nichols, of New Albany, Ind., is said to be the only negress in the country who is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. gratitude to the Federal troops for affording her refuge was unbounded and she proved it by waiting on them with rarely equaled devotion. She was at the siege of Vicksburg and on the march to the sea. A few years after the war she was elected an honorary member of Sanderson Post and six years ago a special act of Congress granted her a pension. She has attended all state department encampments and several national encampments and has never missed a reunion of the twenty-third. In marches on Memorial day she always takes her place in the ranks. Whenever any member of the post is ill she insists on nursing him as she did in war times. This affection is returned by the post and when the old woman suffered a slight stroke of paralysis last week she was visited by Sanderson Post in a body. 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Roosevelt is referred to as a red hot, bustling cowboy; Parker as the Spinx; Fairbanks a "cold" icicle and Davis as the money king. Neither looks good to us. What a wonderful piece of mechanism is man. Not long since out in the Rockies an automobile touring party of twelve thought they would enjoy the novelty of taking a wild dash down the sides of a steep mountian, thence through a deep Colorado canyon. They mounted one of the most dangerous peaks in that section, and when everything was ready, started on their perilous journey. They rapidly decended nine hundred feet in a meandering manner, when suddenly they came to a dangerous precipice with this inscription "turn here", the machine was almost beyond control, when all at once the chauffeur attached an electric battery to the cogs which sent the motor whirling in another directon. THE METRIC SYSTEM Great Britain has made greater visible progress than the States toward the metric system dur ing the past year, owing to the official actions of her colonies. Most of these have either singly or jointly petitioned the British government to adopt the metric system throughout the empire. I have learned through reading British periodicals, that Lord Belhaven has given notice of introducing into the House of Lords early next session a bill for the compulsory adoption of the metric weights and measures throughout the United Kingdom, and that Lord Kelvin will second the motion. I wish the bill every success, and feel sure that any branch of the English speaking people, whether British or American, adopting this system of measures and weights, will give the signal for all branches to follow forthwith. G, M, HOWELL "Among the first class tailoring establishments of Atlanta, Ga. is that of G.M. Howell with his sales room in the Kimball House, the leading hotel of the city. 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THE AMANDA SMITH ORPHAN HOME, HARVEY, ILLINOIS The Amanda Smith orphanage was opened June 28, 1899, by the founder and president, Mrs. Amanda Smith; its purposes are to care for and find suitable homes for dependent colored children, of which there are thirty-five in the home. The property of the home is worth something like $18,000, all being paid for within five years; it consists of one 2 story brick building 50x75 feet and two 9-room cottages. The main build- A. H. ing is located on a ten lot plat and the two cottages have two lots each. The main building has a frontage of one block. The running expenses have always been met promptly, notwithstanding the many improvements made, such as wells, barns, etc., also the installation of a heating system and plumbing. The home is supported by voluntary contributions and from the evangelistic efforts of Mrs. Smith, who retains nothing for her personal use. "The Amanda Smith Orphan Home Helper" is a publication for the purpose about 250 children cared for only one has died. The work, at present, is getting along nicely. The management desires to thank all of its kind friends the work over who have so nobly assisted it. In order to perpetuate the institution which is a credit to the race, an endowment fund of $30,000 is needed, of which 8,000 is on hand. The race is appealed to to raise the balance; it would be credit to it to take on this responsibility. The earnest co-operation of all enterprising, race loving colored people is solicited. The work is one of faith. God's promise to those who trust in Him cannot fall. B. SQU BL B. SQUARE'S BLUSTER "When politics is getting hot And ripe, are campaign lies, Regarding plot and counter plot Of most gigantic size, The papers sell like hot cakes then And all farseeing business men resolve to advertise." I am not author of the above lines, some other "curb-stone" poet did it. It was clipped from a western exchange in the office of "my" paper, the Brooklyn Sentinel, some 16 or 17 years ago. I think it was from the Detroit Free Press, anyhow, it is worth repeating. There is as much truth as there is poetry in the lines, and we hope the advertisers and merchants who read The Freeman will get wise. Are you next? The most woe-begone, God-forsaken political objects today are the silver Democrat and the Negro Democrat. While most of us suffer From rain day and night The sun, it is shining For "Teddy" alright. It is a little early to talk much about the coming election, the other side have not prepared their campaign lies, but we are on the lookout for them. The result of the election is a foregone conclusion. The famous artist, Davenport, tells the story in a recent cartoon in a New York evening paper. He pictures Uncle Sam, hat in his hand standing behind the president with a peaceful smile, Uncle Sam says: "He's good enough for me." So say we all. The Negro lynchings at Statesbore of keeping the work before the public; a small subscription price is charged just enough to defray expenses. Gifts of money, food and clothing are apreciated. The home is located at Harvey, Ill., on the illinois Central Railway, 22 miles south from the court house in Chicago, but only three miles outside the Chicago city limits. The health of the home for the past five years has been remarkable; out of about 250 children cared for only one has died. The work, at present, is getting along nicely. The management desires to thank all of its kind friends the world over who have so nobly assisted it. In order to perpetuate the institution, which is a credit to the race, an endowment fund of $20,000 is needed, of which $3,000 is on hand. The race is appealed to to raise the balance; it would be a credit to it to take on this responsibility. The earnest co-operation of all enterprising, race loving colored people is solicited. The work is one of faith; God's promise to those who trust in Him cannot fall. ARE'S USTER Ga., is a pill for Negro Democrats to swallow. A good reason why every Negro should vote for the constitution. MY CHOICE. The bathing girl is verymuch In evidence this summer; I hear it said "She beats the Dutch," That "she is a peach," "a hummer," And though, with all this fulsome praise I'm willing to agree. In these bewitching summer days. The tennis girl for me. The golfing girl's an athlete, A maid of tan and muscle, Running, perhaps, too much to feet, And ever on the hustle. I like to see her make a put, Or watch her build a tee, I own she's all that's charming, but The tennis girl for me. The dancing girl is sweetly coy, A thing of frills and laces, I'm certain that I should enjoy A share of her embraces. To guide her through the mazy waltz, Is bliss and ecstacy; And yet, I know she has her faults, The tennis girl for me. The croquet girl moves o'er the lawn, With slow and easy grace; The finest home she would adorn, So fair of form and face. But none of these can be my fate, For I'm no longer free. I've lost my heart, but found its mate, The tennis girl for me. — Willis Brooks, in the Brooklyn Eagle. The girl that I love best, She's twelve and wild and witty, Dearer to me than all the rest Is my little daughter "Kitty." B. SQUARE. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. One of the surest signs of a weak heart is shortness of breath after exercise. Your heart is not able to pump the blood fast enough to your lungs. Some of the other symptoms of Heart Trouble are: Pains in the Side, Back and Shoulder; Fainting or Weak Spells; Dry Cough; Swelling of Feet and Ankles; Cold Feet or Hands. 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She can be consulted on all friends, enemies, etc. Her advice upon sickness, change in business, journeys, lawsuits contested, wills, divorce and speculation is valuable or good or bad; she withholds nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life—past present and future—in a DEAD TRANCE, has the power of any two medums you ever love, your mother, your mother before a marriage, the same power your family their ages and description, the name and business of your future husband, the name of your next, if you are to have one, the name of the other, on you, the name of your future husband, and the name of your year of marriage—how many children you have or will have—how you are married or single; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and will marry you; if you will have, and his name, business and date of acquaintance. ALL YOUR FUTURE will be told in an honest, clear, plain manner and a dead trance. Mother's should know how young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husbands. Do not keep company, marry or go into business young ladies should know religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, on whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a medium, and that it is the truth. It is only from the lack of discussion that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not everyone who placards himself or herself as a Medium that can stand a test of what they know. It is not everyone who acquires the mind may ask the reason why. It is simply that these advisers do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend time with the medium, and acquiring the art of phrenology and kindred things that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of obstacles. Demonstrable fact that persons will come for advice—in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavors to know so as to hear if it will be released by the Medium. To get the secret out of a person by "pumping," in no few cases, is the art used by many unpleasant mediums, but to take advantage of them, it is necessary thereby, is a matter of impossibility to most of them And yet this can be done, and by consulting MRS MARTH this seeming mystery*. This has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conclusively that although their minds are "oily tongues perhaps," the gates of wisdom not been closed to the entire profession. 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Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E Washington Street) Old Phone Malu 3182 New Phone... 4270 This store closes daily at 5 P. M. Saturdays at 12 noon. PICTURES Several bargain tables are filled with small-framed pictures, all remarkably cheap. At $1.00 Your pick of a tableful of pictures whose recent prices ranged upward from $1 75 to $3 50 each. At 50c A tableful of pictures, very few of which were ever sold under $1 00. Some values as great as $1 75 and $3 00. At 25c Many choice framed pictures of small size, values up to 755 and $1.00. At 15c A tableful of small framed pictures which have been selling regularly at 350 and 500 each. L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest of Distributors Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFs. Mrs. Catherine Armistead is much improved. Miss Clara Tolbert has company from Maysville, Ky. Mrs. Curry was slightly ill the first part of the week. Miss Hazel Hart has returned home from Cincinnati. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. Prof. Delaney of Louisville, Ky. is visiting Mrs. Sneed. Uneeda good photo. Go to Bennett's, 36 E. Washington street. Miss Verna Parks continues quite ill at har home in Twelfth street. Mr. Briscoe Morris of Louisville, Ky. is visiting his brother in Cal St. Mrs. Nengan, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting Mrs. Sneed in Senate Ave. Prof. Henry Hart is somewhat indisposed at his home in North Capitol Ave. Mrs. Jennie Dickerson of 1209 Senate avenue has been somewhat indisposed. Misses Emma and Lucie DuValle of Louisville are visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., is visiting Mrs. Henderson in California street. Misses Myrtle and Willie Hart, who are in the East, will return home in October. Miss Pauline Battus of Madison was the guest of the Misses Carter Sunday, August 21st. Furnished front room for rent for two gentlemen at 307 Ellsworth street. Mrs. J. E. O'Bryan. Miss Jackson, of Washington, D. C., is spending a few weeks with Mrs. Florence Bennett. Mr. Fred Williamson, a student of Bloomington University, spent Sunday, Aug. 21, in the city. Mr. Finch Sharp has returned to the city after spending a few days visiting friends in Seymour, Ind. Robert Connor, representing The Freeman at Springfield, Ohio, was a visitor in the city Sunday. Miss Ada Hicouls was struck by a Central avenue street car, last Thursday evening, and seriously injured. Mr. Duncan of the Louisville Univer-sity will be the guest of Miss Wyetta Williams in Fayette street, Sunday. Quite a number of our people took advantage of the cheap sales at the Star Store last Saturday and Monday. Quite a party of friends took a trolley ride to Muncie last Tuesday night. They did not return until the wee hours of the morning. Mrs. Emma Brown accompanied by Miss Ada B. Harris have returned from WATCHES JEWELRY At Prices Beyond Compare J.P. MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place "A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Ll (Formerly Stevens Front Room. (15 E. Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER a trip in Southern Indiana, and report a pleasant time. Miss Wyetta Williams will soon leave for Lontaville, Ky., where she is attending the University. Miss Williams will graduate in June. Mrs. Peter Dent of Frankfort, Ky., and Miss Bessie Jones of Danville, Ky., are visiting Mrs. James Shelton and Daisy Smith in Douglas street. Miss Strickland and Mrs. Bonhannan of Louisville, Ky., who have been visiting relatives and friends in the city for a few weeks, returned home Sunday. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Uneeda good Photo, go to Bennett's 36, E. Washington. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. Parker will find you a job. Employment Agency, 315 Indiana avenue. Call on Dr. Clay for dental work. He is located at 108 N. Delaware street. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged. Naumann, 833 Indiana Ave. Buy your coal, wood and kindling of Jackson Brothers, 1613 Martindale-ave. Phone, old 996 main. If it is in season you can get it at the Parker House, 817 321 W. Michigan st. Phones: New 4972; old red 6512. 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. 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. $250 invested now will make you $250. An opportunity you shouldn't miss. Full particulars for two cent stamp. Curtis Kelley Co., 467 E. 7th street, St. Paul, Minn. G, W, CHIVIS, PUBLISHER Mr. G. W. Chivls, of Detroit, Mich., president of R. R. Porters and Walters Association of the United States and Canada, was among those attending the convention. He is the well known publisher of the Railroad Porters and Walters magazine, one of the leading publications. It has a good circulation. Mr Chivls is a man of ability, with force and push. He is a candidate for appointment as a Panama Canal Commissioner; he states that his chances are good and that congressmen in various districts are favorable to him. PEACE AND HAPPINESS. Peace and happiness comes to colored people who use Black-No-More, the only reliable black skin whitener. One bottle will convince the most skeptical that the dark skin can be removed and the skin once whitened will take care of itself. It has been tried by thousands of refined colored people and has never failed. It cannot fall. One lady writing from New Orleans says: "I feel like I am walking on air since I have become white by the use of Black-No-More. Peace has settled down upon me and I can go anywhere with white people without being molested." There are no bad after effects following the use of Black-No-More. From the first application the whitening process is carried on evenly without spots. It clears a muddy complexion, removes blotches, is harmless and oderless. It not only whitens but makes the skin smooth and velvety, brings a delicate healthful bloom to the cheeks and fairness to the neck and arms. Black-No-More will be sent anywhere in plain wrapper by express, prepaid on receipt of price $2. No free samples. Address Black-No-More Chemical Co. Chillicothe, Ohio. PRICES TALK PRICES TALK 601 Indiana Avenue WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. KUHN Wholesale & Fine Cutsof B JHN BRO Wholesale & Retail Me Fine Cutsof Beef a specialty. 860 3803 407 W. L. E IS NO EXCUSE for having that cough when a bottle of White Pine Exper SPECIAL will cure it. Price 250 a bottle, for sale only a Cut Rate PHAL 550 Indiana Avenue, cor. West Street. KY'S HEADACHE CARE life relief of headache ... 100 a nia Wines ... 250 a KY'S DRUG ST COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET J. A. Puryear, Gold Goods and Pianos Packed for Sh 23 West Ohio Street. Barbershop and Bath Lions are served by polite and experienc BERSHOP and Bath Rooms. Cigars THERE IS NO EX for having that co Pink's White SPE will cure it. Price 25 PINK'S Cut R 550 Indiana Avenue STUCKY'S HEAD for immediate relief of headache ... Fine California Wines ... STUCKY'S D COR. ILLINOIS Tranfer. J. A. P Household Goods and P 23 West Czar Barbershop All patrons are served by the Czar Barbershop and Bath THERE IS NO EXCUSE PINK'S Cut Rate PHARMACY 550 Indiana Avenue, cor. West Street. Household Goods and Pianos Packed for Shipment. 23 West Ohio Street. Czar Barbershop and Bath Rooms All patrons are served by polite and experience artists at the CZAR BARBERSHOP and Bath Rooms. Cigars and Tobacco. Carter F. P. Temple. CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER, JOB WORK A SPECIALTY. 532 Minerva Street. New Phone 3627 CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER 532 Minerva Street. Lewis & Donnell, G BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF Corner North and The Indianapolis (Incor "WHITE CROW" AND OTHER For Smoking and Chewl THE INDIANAPOLIS TOBACCO WOR ATOR, CARPENTER, JOB WORK A S Street. New & Donnell, General Blacksmith OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES, HORSE Corner North and Fayette Street The Indianapolis Tobacco Works. (Incorporated.) "W" AND OTHER BRANDS OF TWIST For Smoking and Chewing. Send for Price List. INDIANAPOLIS TOBACCO WORKS. 374. Mrs. Belle Davis, Lewis & Donnell, General Blacksmithing BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES, HORSE SHOERS Corner North and Fayette Streets. The Indianapolis Tobacco Works. (Incorporated) THE INDIANAPOLIS TOBACCO WORKS. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA .....CATERER..... Parties, Reception and Weddings Served on Short Notice. Soups and Salads Specialties. Lunch Tables, Linen, Silverware and Dishes for Rent. Charles S. Nunn, Residence Haughville R. R., No. 18. Coca-Cola At all Saloons, Groceries, Cafes and Stands. 5c. a Bottle. BUY YOUR HAIR Seaton's 29 N YOUR HATS AT aton's Hat St 29 N. Pennsylvan BUY YOUR HATS AT Seaton's Hat Store 29 N. Pennsylvania Street Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 Both Phones 1374. REQUESTS YOUR PATRONAGE Good corn per can. 100 Union label tomatoes, 3 cans. 350 Best pie peaches per can. 100 Best pie apples per can. 50 Pure food succasach per can. 100 Columbia best flour 12 lb sack 400 Columbia best flour 25 lb sack 750 Best granulated sugar 19 lbs $1.00 Pure leaf lard per lb. 100 Good country bacon @. 1240 Best breakfast bacon @. 180 Best Elgin cream butter @. 250 545 Indiana Avenue NEW PHONE 247J Clinton Nunn, -DEALER IN- Vegetables and Fruits Wagou Route BROS. & Retail Meats of Beef a specialty. 407 W. Michigan St. EXCUSE at cough when a bottle of Pine Expectorant SPECIAL Since 250 a bottle, for sale only at Rate PHARMACY Avenue, cor. West Street. ADACHE CAPSULES One ..... 100 and 250 a box One ..... 250 a quart bottle DRUG STORE MOIS & OHIO STREET Storage. Puryear, Pianos Packed for Shipment. West Ohio Street. Top and Bath Rooms by polite and experience artists at Bath Rooms. Cigars and Tobacco Samuel E. Gray, Prop. TER, JOB WORK A SPECIALTY. New Phone 3627. General Blacksmithing, OF VEHICLES, HORSE SHOERS, and Fayette Streets. Polis Tobacco Works. incorporated. ER BRANDS OF TWIST TOBACCO, shwing. Send for Price List. WORKS. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Belle Davis, COCA COLA Bottling Works 742 E. Washington Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. NATS AT s Hat Store N. Pennsylvania Street Storage. ABIG THREE DAYS'SALE at The StarStore 360-370 W.WASHINGTON ST Saturday, Monday and Tuesday are bargain days at the popular westend store. Either bring this paper or cut out this ad, show it to the clerk and you can buy: Ladies' Shirt at Waists 39c They are very fine waistls, come in white and colors and sold regularly at 75c and $100 cleaning up sale price. 39c Ladies' all-wool Blue Serge Skirts, trimmed in Satin bands and well lined—these skirts sell at $3 98 and are well worth it, we offer these fine wool skirts to the readers of The Freeman at the very low price of. $1.50 Ladies' flannelette underskirts, made up and all ready to put on—made with wide cambric band and has neat border—regular 39c skirts 19c Ladies' fine Kid Gloves—made with newest clasps—black, white and colors—all sizes—here's a chance to get a regular dollar kid glove right at the beginning of the fall, at a pair. 58c Men's Ingersoll Watches, the watch that has made the dollar watch famous—they are guaranteed by the makers—we offer them for these 3 days at only. 69c GOT $25,000 BY TAKING Dr Henrygoldsea w. Robertson's Dear Friends: This is to certify that Dr. Henrygoldsew W. Robertson can help the needy My husband was so cross when he would come to the house I could not stay inside. He kept me busy and cut after a friend of mine advised me to see Doctor Robertson. I took her advice and to-day we have our own home and a large farm. He is a powerful man. Levy Myle, Vickburg, Miss. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Dear Friend—I received the last medicine that you sent me and after using it three days I felt as a new woman; all swelling left and the other matter is settled I am, yours truly, J. J. Holland, Mobile, Ala. I am, yours truly, J. W. Robertson is great. I had been fighting for my bounties so long until I thought there was no hope, but now reading of his wonders, I gave him a trial and I got my money and have settled up all debts and are in a pretty cottage of my own. May God bless him forever. D. H. Hunt, Chicago, Ill. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Dear Sir--Allow me to thank you for your kindness. I have gained my purpose, who caused the trouble between my husband and I have left the town and he is now better than you. You will always have my best wishes for success. Mrs. L. E. Jackson, Beaumont, Texas. Dear Dr. Robertson: Only a few words to thank you kindly for what you did for me. The woman who stole my clothes and jewelry brought them back and put them at my gate. It is a talk for the town. You are true in your works. Respectfully, G. Cincare, Laughorth, North Carolina. Dr. Robertson: Dear Sir--After you removed the evil spirits from our home and gave us the lucky cash, we succeeded in setting the hidden treasure. Now we are leaving to live in another state and will always picture you in our memory. From R. A. and H. Penn, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Friends: This is to certify that Dr Robertson is true in what he says. I have lost my job for three months, did not have money to support my wife and family after consulting Dr. Robertson and he told me that witchcraft was the cause and worked his spiritual power for me. I did not have money to support my wife and have more work than I can really do. Also I and my friends have got him to work and have my sons respectfully, M. R. Hills, Dallas, Texas. Call, on or write him; price for fortune $115. For other participants write him. Address DR. HENRYGOLDSEA W.ROBERTSON. 1 840 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas. send stamps for reply. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The above represents the Polishes for which the A. C. Howard Manufacturing Company received Grand Prix at Paris Exposition in 1900. CUT-Rate MARKET 238 INDIANA AVENUE Fresh and Smoked Meats. Kettle*Rendered Lard, Creamery Butter, Cut Rate Price A. R. HAINES, Proprietor,