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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 THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. National Negro Business Men's League At Indianapolis last Week a Great Success From Every View-point— Dr. Washington the guiding Star. The fifth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League, which convened here this week, more than realized the most sanguine expectations of its promoters. It was far and away the biggest and best of the series. The delegates were more numerous than at Boston, Chicago, Richmond or Nashville and in personnel they were decidedly more representative. The visitors came more widely distributed areas and exhibited a larger degree of interest than EMMETT J. SCOTT. Private Secretary to Booker T. Washington. EMMETT J. SCOTT. Private Secretary to Booker T. Washington. heretofore. It was made up of men and women who "do things" rather than those who merely "say things." Altogether the sessions was a brilliant success and has certainly proven to be the record breaker that the local committee promised many months ago. From beginning to end the session was an ever changing panorama, in which enthusiastic gatherings, eloquent oratory, thoughtful papers, witty conversations, energetic men, beautiful women and superb social functions supplied the foreground of the pictures with the tangible substance, stern purpose and intelligently directed commercial activity of the Negro race as a solid, impregnable background. To do anything like justice to the story of the League's three banner days would require a volume of vast proportions, and even then much that is important would be left unsaid. The initial social function was a complimentary dinner tendered by Dr. Booker T. Washington Tuesday evening in the private dining room of English's hotel, in honor of the national officers and members of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League. The menu consisted of eight courses. Speeches forecasting the work of the convention were made by several of the gentlemen and the wheels were oiled in a most attractive fashion for the wear and tear that was to come. Dr. Washington's guests were T. Thomas Fortune, Red Bank, N. J.; S. E. Courtney, Boston; J. E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark.; G. L. Knox, Indianapolis; Charles Banks, Clarksdale, Miss.; Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee, Ala., Fred R. Moore, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Gilbert C. Harris, Boston; Cyrus Field Adams, Washington; Theodore W. Jones, Chicago; W. S. Beasley, Macon, G. S. A. Furnish, Indianapolis; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; M. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; and J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky. The scene of the convention was spacious and magnificent. Tomlinson hall, the largest auditorium in the state, seated fully 5,000. The proceedings opened on Wednesday morning when Attorney J. H. Lott, chairman of the Citizen's Committee on Arrangements, sounded the gavel for order. First Vice-president George L. Knox delivered a felicitous address of welcome to the League and turned the meeting over to Dr. Booker T. Washington amid an immense volume of cheers. Formal addresses of welcome were pronounced by distinguished public officials in which many encouraging words were said of the colored people's marvelous progress since emancipation. Gov. W. T. Durbin, who was unavoidably absent by reason of the Indiana festivities at the Worlds Fair, sent a cordial letter and was represented more specifically by Attorney General Charles W. Miller, who delivered one of the most classic orations ever heard upon an Indianapolis rostrum. Others who spoke words of welcome were Hon. John W. Holtman, Mayor of the city; Hon. John W. Kern, on behalf of the Commercial Club and Mr. A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, on behalf of the local Business League. All paid handsome tribute to the leadership of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Responses of an appropriate nature were made by President Washington, Mr. J. C. Napier, of Tennessee, and Mr. S. Laing Williams, of Illinois. Mayor Holtzman, in a practical talk, called attention to the dens of iniquity conducted by Negroes that existed in Indianapolis during the previous administration. He said that they had been cleared out and closed by the concerted action of the better class of colored people who had supported the present administration in its work along those lines. He also referred to the vicious assaults made by the "Bungaloo gang" previous to his election, "Personally," said he, "I don't believe in race prejudice. There is no intelligent prejudice or antagonism; if there is any it is born solely of dense ignorance." Mr. Kern, in the course of a most liberal and high pitched address, said: "As for changing the status of the colored man—his political status is fixed by law, I believe it will not be changed. I have in mind no man in this great state who would assist in turning back the hands on the clock of liberty. His social status will determine itself, by high moral principles and industriousness, and on are succeeding in life have shown yourselves that all will be worked out in time. When the colored man unfurls itself to put down vice and indolence, when the whites unify to put an end to murderous lynchings then will the race problem be speedily solved." The note that met with the greatest approval of the Negroes who were present was touched by Editor Manning, in a speech that scintillated with wit and sparkled with common sense; urging that the Negroes be impressed with the fact that only by industry, frugality and strong moral principles can they solve the Negro problem and demean the marrow of the lezership. He went to the Mayor Holtzman had told them, "he said when he took the reins of the administration in this city there were many dens of iniquity run by Negroes, and that by the co-operation of the respectable Negroes of this city they have all been wipped out. Delegates to this convention, we people of Indianapolis, white and black, welcome you and your children for our sake keep your bad Negroes at home. They have been giving us considerable trouble in city and we don't want any more of them. We don't need any more of them in our politics; we don't need any more cheap preachers. Any Negro who has some money in his pockets, who in his make up has industry, frugality and strong morality can there, and can stop with us, but for God's sake go home and tell the bad ones that Indianas have bad place for them." This brought down the house and is still a theme of discussion, both serious and humorous. Attention was called to the fact that the eminent Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, was present. He received an ovation. Almost all the delegates told him that they were readers of his books and proved their familiarity with his verse. He was called to the court, whose judges owed the ovation with bows but could not be prevailed upon to make a speech. The official program has been so extensively published in the papers and pamphlet copies have been so scanned that no detailed account of it need be supplied. Suffice it to say that the vivid description by men in every walk of life of how they had achieved success in business, from the most humble beginnings, were listened to with rapt attention and did not fail to leave an impression upon their hearers that will prove to be of the greatest moral value during the coming years. The papers and supplementary dissertations were simply worded, but they were colored because of their truth, and the dominating virtue of race pride and self-helpfulness that they sounded is bound to bring forth precious fruits in its season. The stellar event of the entire convention was, of course, the annual address of President Booker T. Washington on Wednesday evening. Before dusk every thoroughfare leading to Tomlinson hall was alive with hurrying people, fearful that they would be unable to secure admission if late. During the opening session of 5,000 exhausted at an early hour, and standing on lower floor, in boxes, galleries and stairs was at a premium. The fine architecture of the hall is very favorable to the striking display of an audience. The tasteful decorations and the elaborate arrangement of glowing electric lights abounding everywhere, together with the handsome evening toilets and the prosperous aspect of a multitude of men, combined to form a scene of beauty that has not been excelled upon any occasion among our people in this country. This grand audience was a credit to any nationality or community. The delightful view it presented, festooning, as it did, in radiant colors the enduring wisdom enunciated by the degree Ziad is the picture that will remain ever in the memory of Indianapolis and the strangers within her gates. Dr. Washington's last speech always [Portrait of a man in formal attire, facing forward, with a serious expression. The background is dark, emphasizing the subject's face.] seems to be his best, for he more and more happily combines the good things uttered before with the newer ideas that press for expression. So compactly is he reducing his philosophy that it seems that all can be said in education, industry, business, morality and the relation of man to man is brought out laminously in the period however brief that he occupies the rostrum Indeed, Booker Washington's speeches run the gamut of law, political economy, sociology and ethics and no paragraph can be justly so weak or irrelevant These addresses save a valuable text books of life and possess a great value that both races have come to know and recognize without a tenable division of opinion. Dr. Washington's deliverance on this occasion again gave evidence of his power to hold an audience fascinated by plain speech, mingled with humor, carrying conviction of the sanity of his ideas. As usual, the points which he repeatedly made were that the Negro must become a producer; a necessary factor in a community; that he must be a owner; that he must free himself of the need to be a suffrage seller; that he must build a moral foundation for himself, for his children and his race; that he must hold up his head, not to be discouraged by the kicks and the jabs he gets; that he must have confidence and reasonable pride in his race, and teach his children to have pride and sister, let him immerse in that we should bear in mind that success on success day by day will win the day for us. It does not take much brain nor statism ship for one man to curse another, one race to curse another. We should not complain, but under the injustices and against the great problems that confront us we must prove our worth with tangible, and let him immerse in these results have got to be more than mere whining or complaining. When our wrongness become almost greater than we can bear they have the condemnation of every loyal American citizen, but we should be sure to fortify ourselves before we complain with this tangible evidence of our progress. Keep cheerful; a race, like an individual, of life that it will show eyes to the opportunity for betterment of those that surround it. We have opportunity around us in these dark days. Just now New York papers are giving a new firm DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. I more lettered because colored people have organized a great realty company and moved into Broadway Everybody in New York knows that they are there, that they are honest, competent and able people. White people who do not have care for real estate investment for $10,000 Those people changed a great disadvantage into a positive and tremendous advantage. Stranger things than colored people organizing a great reality corporation and moving into Broadway are happening now. In our convention men who did not have care for real estate investment did not own the shirts on their backs have been discussing getting ratings in Dunna's and Bradstreet's" general strate write Mr. Craven Dr. Drace Red but st It form The scarcity The consip SNAP SHOTS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. As Seen by Our Argus-Eyed Staff Correspondent, R W. Thompson-An Aftermath That Sparkles With Wit, Wisdom and Watchfulness. The pace was terrific. On to New York! for 1905. Col. W. A. Pldger was missed. The ushers new their business. Louisville turned out in masse. No one "riz" to a "pint of order." Tomlinson hall wasn't too big after all. The Freeman kept "open house" all the week. The local press handled the situation nobly. Miss Hazel Hart was "the daughter of the regiment." Editor G. W. Cable wore a smile that never came off. If Indianapolis looks a bit "chesty" can you blame her? Roscoe Conkling Simmons, the South's brightest correspondent, made himself generally useful, and at the banquet demonstrated that he could talk as well as he could write. Mrs. Kittie Minter was in her element as cateress in chief. Dr. Washington's Wednesday night audience was a "peach." Recorder John C. Dancy couldn't come but sent a fine letter. It was "home coming week" for many former Indianapolisans. The 'doer' hold the call. The "talker" scarcely got a "look in." The knockers and windjammers were conspicuous by their absence. The papers abounded in common sense and were commendably brief. The trolly ride was a happy provision and the day was highly propitious. Advertising Manager J. D. Howard kept his weather eye open for points. Tuke-gesee graduates were as plentiful as the fabled leaves of Vallambrosa. West Virginia sent two solid men, Messrs J M Hzeeland and J. C. Gilmer. The Knights of Pythia band played well but we could have stood more of it. Someone dubbed James Whitcomb Riley as "the white Paul Laurence Dunbar." The ladies at home and abroad vied with one another in the art of looking pretty. No phase of business from house moving to composing "coon songs" were overlooked. Prof F. S Delaney, Louisville's most popular educator, was the guest of W. H. Fieling. Attorney J. T. V. Hill and his estimable "better ball" mingled ubiquitously among friends. Dr. S. E Courtney's handsome face and figure cultivated the ladies, but—well, never mind. Two bishopric quantities mingled with the throne—Drs J. M. Townsend and W. H. Chambers. The exhibit of hair goods by Mrs. Sally Brown on strrops by Haynes, china painting by Mrs. Estelle Johnson Perkins, millinery by Flaunner Guild, feather display by Mrs. Betta Moss and the church charts of R. L. Anthony were particularly noteworthy. Dr. J. M. Peters, of Kentucky, hits from the shoulder in debate, and is master of direct expression. T. Thomas Fortune denies that he was chirman on resolutions at the original convention in the Ark. The committees under chairman Gurley Brewer, A. Henderson and W. A. Kersey worked like Trojans. Editor F. H. M. Murray, of the hustling Alexandria, Va., Home News, was capably represented by his wife. Mr. George L. Knox, with his snowy hair and commanding figure, was the "Henry of Navarre" of the occasion. Phil A. Payton, the breezy New Yorker, and A. C. Howard, his Chicago other self, were "in it" every minute. The editorial utterances of the dailies were profuse in their praise of the League's platform of self-helpfulness. Attorney General Miller was an orator- A. R. W. THOMPSON, Staff Correspondent of The Freeman. as Brutus was. He got there with both feet and made the eagle sream. All agree that in toothsomeness of menu, promptness of service and genuine good fellowship was the "best ever." Managing Editor Elwood C. Knox and G. W. Chivis held the record as the "sweatless dressers" among the sterner sex. F. D. Patterson, of Ohio, made a most favorable impression by his readiness of speech and brisk air of business. Mrs. Lillian Thomas Fox, the versatile conductor of the colored department of the News, came in for a large share of attention. Undertaker L. L. Lee took a great fancy to the delegates who are likely to have a voice in the B. M. C., at Columbus, O., this fall. S. R. Scotton, New York's brainy scholar and manufacturer, made a fine speech, though handicapped somewhat by a weak voice. Chairman J. H. Lott looked after everybody's comfort, and his painstaking labors indicated executive ability of the highest order. Vice-President J. E. Bush and Charles Banks gave evidence of strong parliamentary unity while temporarily occupying the chair. Charles Alexander got in a word for the Boston Colored Citizen at every available opportunity. Alexander is a born newspaper man. The Caucasian candidates for state offices were all so affable that the Democrats could not have been distinguished from the Republicans. The delegates will not forget that local Leagues are essential to the promotion of the objects of the main body in the several communities. Dr. Washington's "unfortunate reputation of being an orator" did not appear to lessen his credibility. His annual address was a masterpiece. The "bad Negroes from the South" will not find A. E. Manning's latchstring hanging on the outside if they venture into Indianapolis. Farmer R. L. Smith came all the way from Texas to show the North that it has no monopoly of the push and hustle that make Negroes great. The Tuskegee delegation. Dr. Washington, E. J. Scott, S. Joseph Coonling Bruce, E. T. Attwell and Warren Logan was the cynosure of all eyes. Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams gave the men lots of pertinent facts to think about in her admirable brochure on "Woman's Part in Man's Bus'ness." 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Not that we favor a dirty Negro thrusting himself upon clean white people, but we hate to see this bitter feeling sustained and encouraged by law. Let the Negro of the South be true to the South; let him enter into her life as a necessary part of her being as far as he is wanted, and in the language of Abraham to Lot, let him say to the white race, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee." It is a hard matter to wage war upon a people sworn to peace. Let the Negro learn this. If the white man South is determined to heap insult and injury upon us, let us render his actions positively inexcusable by living a life far removed from vice and crime. O, I forgot. Dr. John Mask was in Durham last week. Miss Lettle Teachey is in Mt Olive. Mrs. M. A. Lane, the True Reformer wonder, is visiting Atlanta. St. Luke A. M. E. Zion church has received a new cost of paint and varnish and is now a beauty. The Bell in her pulpit rings with as true a note as the bell in her tower. My trip to South Carolina and Georgia will not be taken. PHELP'S HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL Connected with the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., offers exceptional opportunities to young men wishing to prepare for the Christian ministry. The chief aims of the Bible Training School are to give young colored men and women a comprehensive knowledge of the entire English Bible, and to implant in their hearts the noble ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. The students are required to do missionary work in the various churches and Sunday-schools near the institution, and in this way have been very helpful to the neighboring communities. The teaching of the Bible School is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work now being done, but rather to assist all denominations. Phelps Hall, the building in which the school is taught, was given by a generous New York friend. It is a frame structure three stories high, containing a chapel, library, reading room, and the office of the Dean, with three recitation rooms, besides forty rooms for dormitory purposes. Rev. Edgar J. Penney is the Dean. He is assisted by Rev. E. F. Johnson and Rev. J. H. Gadsen. Rt. Rev. George W. Clinton of Charlotte, N.C., and Dr. H. T. Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa., deliver a regular course of lectures during the term. Rev. Moses Jackson of the Presbyterian church, Chicago, delivered a special course of lectures during the past term. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, washing, etc., is $50 per month. Students will be given an opportunity to work out from $1.50 to $3.00 of this amount, thus leaving only $50 to $7.00 to be paid in cash. In some cases arrangements may be made so that students may work out the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Business Picking Up-Cotton Pickers in Demand-Personal. Dallas, Texas, Special.—Fall business is picking up.—Cotton plokers are in great demand.—Dallas is well represented at the Caricassina fair.—Mrs. Kate Garrett of Fort Worth, and others were here to the A. O. of Pilgrim plokio, which was largely attended at the fair grounds on Wednesday.—Mrs. Homer Holler and daughters of Galveston were the guests of honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McCain on Flora street.—Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Bliett are home from the East after several weeks visit to the World's Fair. Nashville and other points.—D. V. Hoofer has opened the doors of a new colored drug store at 595 Elm street, near Union depot, where a complete up-to-date stock of fresh drugs and sundries will be constantly kept.—Mrs. Richard Bolden and daughter is home from a short stay at Rockwall, Texas.Mrs. killa McHenry visited friends at Terrell last week.—Mrs. J. Star is visiting relatives in the Territory for a month.—Eugene Pitman of Stafford Bros'. minstrels was here to see friends and relatives last week.— C. C. Martin is visiting relatives and friends in New Orleans, La.—The colored stock show and carnival held at the fair grounds was largely attended and a success.—The Sunday-school fair held at the C. M. E church closed with financial success.—The widows, widowers and old maids are to have a social entertainment here soon.—D. R. Stokes and other Masons have returned from the conclave of the Scottish Rite Masons of the World, which was held in St. Louis, report the greatest business session ever held.—Revs. Smith, Boyd and Dr. Griggs with their "Gospel Wagon" have been visiting the various tough places in the city, holding meetings every night for the past three weeks. They have accomplished much needed good to our people who flock to these low dives and rowdy places.—See that your friends in the city and country get The Freeman, then they will know what is being done over the country. See Griffin at 180 Main or 105 Central avenue. MISS FLORENCE HINES. The "Vesta Tilly" Reminiscent-The Metropolitan Club-Elegantly Appointed Home of Swell set. Louisville, Ky., Special.—Miss Florence Hines, whom we have dubbed "The Vesta Tilly," has just closed a successful engagement at Nineweb park, where she appeared in her new whistling specialty under the aupipes of the well known actor playwright and manager, Mr. Tom Logan. Miss Hines is not in robust health and has changed a great deal since those early days of Negro musical comedy and vaudeville when she leaped into fame as a male impersonator with sam T. Jack's "Greeles," rousing the galleries of the country nightly with her bibulous song "Hi, Waiter! a Dozen More Bottles!" This turn of Miss Hines, with its elegant costuming, kalideoscopic display of silk handkerchiefs, natural monologue and original "business" electrified the Thespian world and has never been excelled by any rival on the stage. Miss Hines, before the advent of Black Patti and Belle Davis, commanded the largest salary paid to a colored female performer. She is still "t" the good in her quieter work, but expects to resume her popular impersonation role when her health justifies the extraordinary strain that it entails upon voice and constitution. Miss Hines has a host of friends who hope for her speedy recovery. She is one of the most observant and best posted artists of the race and a recent conversation touching the performers who have made history and stage traditions of these and other times was a treat which I relished beyond measure. The newly organized Metropolitan Club grows in favor. The elegantly furnished house at 1116; West Wall street, with its cosy pariors, attractive music, reading room, billiard hall, dining room and buffet, draws out the best young men of the city, and the perfect order maintained commends it to the good people of the neighborhood. The Metropolitan is equal in most respects to the much talked of "Metropole" at Washington, D. C, and films a long-felt want among the society men of Louisville. The president is William MoHinton, in charge. John P. Thomas is president of the board of directors. Visitors to Louisville should not fail to see the beautiful interior of the Metropolitan Club house. Fifth Street Baptist Church has been repainted lately. Rev John H. Frank has discontinued the publication of the "Moderator."—Miss Lillian Morris, a popular teacher, has resigned. Rev R. Rives has taken hold of the pastorate at Broadway A. M. E. Zion Church with a firm grasp. He was married a few days ago and is settled here for at least four years—Prof. S. O. Johnson has returned from St. Louis. A big delegation attended the National Negro Business League, headed by President S. W Jordan, D. L. Knight, William Watson, W. H. Steward and W. D. Johnson. A pretty bevy of Louisville's fair sex were in the party.—Miss Fitzbnbtler is spending the summer in Columbus, Ohio—Prof. J. Sotter has written several new poems, which will appear shortly in the local press.—Billy Carroll, one of the races' sterling comedians has been doing the Lexington fair. He made his usual hit—Lawyer W. Hilliard Wright, a recent graduate of the law department of Howard University, has opened an office at 406 Fifth street, and is starting off with flattering prospects. Prof. James B Tucker, leader of the orchestra at Tom Logan's Nineweb park theorist, is one of Louisville's best trained musicians—Miss Mary V. Hicks is visiting in Cinchnati.—Mrs and Mrs G. W. Murfure, of New York, are in the city for a while. They are "old residenters"—The Brotherhood of St. Andrew's new reading room at the Church of Our Merciful Savior is a commendable feature of the church's extension work and will prove highly beneficial. Messrs Harris and Blandford are to be praised for the fine ideas—Col. M. B. Belkapn advises Louisville's 50 000 Negroes to start a bank and handle their own money. Why not?—The help Mary Thompson is getting speaks well for the generosity and good judgment of our people. The attempt to lynch her and to deny her a fair hearing in the courts for what appears to have been a justifiable homicide should be rebuked by a rigid insistence upon fair play, no matter what it costs. R. W. THOMPSON. ONE FARE PLUS 25 CENTS. To Lafayette, Ind., and return via the Big Four Route account Reunion Wilder's Bridegale Dates of sale. September 20 21 and 22 1904 Return it, September 24 1904 Warren J. Lynch, G. P. P. & T. A. Cincinnati, O. or H. M. Bronson, A. 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In hotels where waiter's meals are served to them they should never carry any food from the kitchen to the dining hall as such actions will make it hard for others as well as themselves. In hotels where waiters are allowed to get their own meals from the kitchen they should not abuse this privilege by getting too much as such privileges are rare, and if this extravagance is continued the privilege will be denied them. Waiters should never examine their finger-nails in the dining room. Waiters should not mark on the bill-of-fare during meal hours. Under no circumstances should a waiter ask a guest for a tip or attempt to borrow money. Waiters should never ask guests to buy tickets of them. Waiters should never ask guest for a ticket to the opera or show. Waiters should never lean against the table-cloths as their jackets may soil them. When two or more waiters are serving a small party they should get up their order and come in the dining room together, and serve all the guests at the same time. No dishes should be removed until the guests have finished. Observe the same rules as for banquet. Waiters should never transfer an order without permission from their superior officers. Avoid dropping silverware in the dining room. Trays, properly, should be carried in both hands, but as all hotels do not enforce this rule it is well to carry a tray on one hand. The private waiter should serve all meals that are sent to rooms. In some hotels water-cress, lettuce and other green vegetables are kept to decorate hot and cold meat dishes, but the waiter should avoid using too much of these decorations. Iced tea should be served in a glass with a saucer or small plater under it and a piece of lemon on the side of the saucer, always giving the guest granulated or pulverized sugar. 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In spreading a cloth on the table care should be taken to have crease in the center of the table and the four corners of the cloth hang evenly toward the floor. Never allow the felt to be seen beneath the cloth. All tables should be set alike. No waiter should make a fancy fold, other than that upon his fellow waiter's table. Knives should be placed on the right-hand side with the blade turned toward the plate and handle coming to the edge of the table. Forks should be placed on the left side in the same position, with prongs turned upwards. Soup spoons should be placed to the right of the knife with bowl turned upward; teaspoons placed at the right of soup spoons in similar positions, or, if you wish, these may be prettily arranged on the table near the castor. Glasses should be turned upside down to prevent dust settling in them. Extra care should be taken to see all silverware on your table is sorpuniously clean. Should there be a large solled spot on the table-cloth spread a clean napkin over it. Should a guest order any article of food that is not on the bill of-fare report the same to the headwaiter, who will give you proper instructions. With broiled fish or raw oysters serve a small piece of lemon, also place a small piece of lemon in the finger-bowl to harden the water. Never butter hot cakes nor open and butter hot baked potatoes for a guest unless requested to do so. Never pour cream in a guest's tea or coffee as you may pour too much or too little. Never dictate to a guest as to what he should or should not eat. Should a guest ask you if this or that article is good to eat simply say, "I think so." Never say "I think not," but leave that for him to find out. If a guest says an article is spolled offer to change it at once and report same to headwaiter. Never smell or taste an article in the presence of guests, even if they ask you to do so. Never carry an insulting message from one guest to another, to the cooks, steward or any other officer of the hotel. Some guests may request you to do so, and, though you may receive the message, do not deliver it. Never carry an improper message from any of the male to any of the female guests or to any of the girls employed in the hotel. It very often occurs that a guest will order a glass of hot water or milk the first thing before ordering breakfast. If this is done, care should be taken to see that the articles ordered are hot To avoid breaking the glass place a teaspoon in it before the hot milk or water is poured into it. The style of folding napkins in the glass is an out-of-date one; in fact, folds are not used as much now as they were a few years ago. Plain and simple folds are the up-to-date style for a napkin to be placed on the table. In some hotels waiters are requested to use cloths in their trays, and in order to keep the wind from blowing them off as you pass in and out of the dining room pour about one tablespoonful of water on the center of the cloth, which will make the cloth adhere to the tray. A TIP ON TIPS. CLEVELAND, O., AUG, 9, 1904. MESSRS, H. J. BOHN & BRO. Gentleman:—Please note the enclosed clipping: "Chicago: Fight against tip system led management of Auditorium to discharge white waiters in grill room and replace them with colored" The writer, with many others of your readers, as well as those who patronize high class restaurants and "rathskelars" here, are watching this experiment closely. One cannot go into a restaurant or cafe, order a drink costing fifteen cents, without tipping the waiter five cents or 38% per cent of the purchase; failing to give a tip subjects the patron to a lot of "sotto voce" abuse—but you are aware of the system and its use and abuses. This much the writer can prophesy with some degree of certainty, namely: that if the experiment proves successful the day of reckoning has arrived for the white waiter, in so far as high class service is concerned, as other establishments will follow the Auditorium's lead. But, as an old waiter, I prefer to wait further developments; the tipping system is deeply rooted in America—even newspaper men take tips in dead head. ing at hotels, accepting passes over railroads, etc, and other forms of "tips" (you call it graft when it goes above mechanical service, but it is all one.) Hoping to read in your columns further anent this, I reman Yours fraternally, JOHN McFARLAND WOIE. Colored waiters have succeeded white waiters in the restaurant of one of the most fashionable hotels of the West. the first intimation that a turn in the tide in favor of the former is once more setting in. Years ago the colored waiter held the fort; the best American plan hotels, fast and West, employed him. Of late years he has been rapidly losing ground and white men and waitresses have been displacing him. The reason given for the change, in the hotel named above, is that colored waiters do not force tips from the guests to the same extent as did the white force, which has been trying to get rich through extortionate tips. If this is true let the colored waiter take the one. Let him not split on the same rock. Credit is certainly due the management for making a change under the circumstances — Hotel World. Mr. A. J. Carter, who has been in charge of the American Garden, at Atlantic City, N. J. during the summer, will be in charge of the American plan dining room of the Shoreham, Washington, D. C. this winter. Mr. Carter was formerly at the National Hotel, Washington, D. C. Mr. "Cal" Wilson, formerly at the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago and the Detroit (Mich) Club, is now in charge of the dining room at the Old St. Louis Hotel at the St. Louis World's Fair. Mr. E. H Foreman, formerly of the International Hotel at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Washington, D. C. hotels, is in charge of the dining room at the Eureka Springs (Ark) Hotel. Mr. John Hill is in charge of the dining room at the Napoleon Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Hill was formerly in charge of the Midland Hotel, Kansas City, Mo. If Alton B. Parker is elected, Ben (Pitchfork) Tillman and Gov Vardaman will be his right hand advisers. Enough said, ballots will do the rest. Now that the campaign has opened things will be lively from until Roosevelt is elected on the 8th of November. The editor henceforth shall endeavor to keep the readers of this department well informed as the campaign goes on in the meantime we call upon everyone to pull off his coat and go to work for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The Democrats in their pitiful effort for existence has adopted the gold standard and every other successful Republican policy, the only thing that stands between them, and the Republican, is Theodore Roosevelt. But the people know that the Democrats are liking in sincerity, honesty, staminar and ability therefore the whole machine will be carefully tucked in and laid aside for a peaceful repose for four years more. WORKS LIKE MAGIC. A little Ozonized Ox Marrow applied to kinky hair makes it straight, smooth and beautiful, just like magic. It is wonderful how quickly and easily it does the work. It gives the hair life and stops it from breaking off or falling out. Cures dandruff and feeds the roots of the hair making it grow long and silky. Read what Mr. Joseph J. Wheeler, 14 Simpson St, Dayton, Ohio, says about it in a letter January 13, 1904. "I am using your Original Ozonized Ox Marrow and find it is a superior pomade. 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A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ——————————eeee PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ‘At 809 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of the United States and Sie Moet ee eco oe i Regeln Gountria 0 Ahiextrn office order of registered letters) nw? ‘Agente wanted (a every town and city not now . scam fiven to the same, Send for ous exsreordinary ‘nducements. ADVERTISING RATES: Five conta per line, Paso of measure—solid gato, i ines to an inchs if0 nee in a Coleman. Spectitposition Sper cast ndational, Gari fvertisoment- inserted on asst page: , Special ated on, landing profesional aad buniuent spnce, Renting notices Iie tr Sine." Biscoat Fates on WHITE Upee | PO Be Bate Tndian Inane: an pocoul case setter’ Zndianspolis ‘All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1004, FLORIDA. There recently appeared in one of the widely read publications a symposium on the solution of the race question. One writer held the opinion that only a separa- tion of the races would be permanently effective. Whether he is or is not correct in his theory, why would not a move along that tine be of a decided advantage to the colored man. He has reached that stage of growth where he Is no longer a pauper. ‘Those who own homes and have acquired some degree of wealth are sufficiently humerous to constitute a multitude. Let us indulge in a little harmless speculation. Suppose five hundred such families buy property and homes in the State of Florida, and that these be followed by thousands of others until they become the possessors of the entire State. This could be done by concerted action. A good start in this direction “would constitute a nucleus for larger growth because it would offer oppor- tunities for all kinds of trades, professions and business. It would furnish opportunt- ties for development and growth that can not be found in our segregated condition. Once begun what could hinder its growth? It is our firm belief that every member of the race would feel an especial pride in stich a community and in everything that would contribute to its welfare. Such a community would have been the logical result of movements and conditions had not the impoverished condition of the Negro made it impossible. Things have so far changed that this has now become a posst- bility, ‘We have blasted out the stone for the foundation of the temple'’ and we see no reason why we should not begin its ‘Gunde - You do not need to wear the dust and staln of servility on your elbows and knees nor do the ko-tov: at the bidding of a few political bosses in order to be a Republican. The best Republican is one who, having reasons satisfactory to himself for voting the Republichn ticket is yet not afrald to criticize the party’s shortcomings. He is ‘one who has definite ideas of right and seeks 10 have the party follow the path of Unquestioned right. Such men are more than’ good Republicans; they are good citizens in the sense that the builders of the Republic contemplated they would be when the destiny of a country was given into thelr keeping. The unconditional surren- der of oneself to the service of a few bosses is peither good Republicanism, good citi- zenship nor good sense. we Eugene V. Debbs made one of his char- acteristic speeches at Masonic Hall last week. Mr. Debbs Is a remarkable man of much greater ability than is generally credited to him. He contends that the Face question is but a phase of the labor problem, and believes that the solution of the one will solve the other. He is @ man of forcible expression as shown by the fol- lowing, which contains more truth than we are willing to admit: “There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human’ society has always con- sisted of masters and siaves and the slaves havevalways been and are to-day the found- ation stones of the social fabric. Wage labor is but a name; wage slavery Is the fact. * * * The most barbarous fact in all Christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization," Whether you wish to say so or not it must be admitted that the recent meeting of the Business Men’s League was a suc- cess. To become acquainted with people worth knowing and establish fellowship among those who have common interests to serve is one of the many secondary benefits that result from such meetings. During the meeting of the Business Men's | League Tomlinson Hall contained but two portralts— those of Frederick Douglass and Bookeh T. Washington—the best two pro- ducts of the Negro in America. One paved the way for what the other accom- plished. James H. Lott, who was himself the cdmmittee of arrangements, showed good] judgment in the selection of these two, and good taste in not making the hall a picture gallery. In this we find both justice and modesty. It is just a little amusing to note how large gatherings are afflicted by men of very little or no principle; men who have no ideals; who have nothing in common with those who are trying to do something for the race, yet who seek to make them- selves appear indispensible to a thing that fnrnishes a chance to appear important and popular. When this kind of a Negro has been eliminated and the useful man in the background is substituted for him, then we shall be making progress indeed, SWe_do not know whether Indianapolis has _more bickering and illfeeling among US colored men than is to be found in other cities. However this may be it Is gratify- ing to know that these things were at least temporarily put aside in the effort to make the recent meeting a success. And it was ‘4 success in Its local management because all werelarge enough to lay aside petty differences. Hn the Labor Day parade a larger number of colored men were seen than heretofore, But as the doings of this day are in the hands of organized labor, and as organized labor is unwilling to give to colored men the same chance to earn a living it asks for itself;the number who are seen on such | ogeasions is far below what it should be, | ‘The Mobile Weekly Press contains | account of a crime committed there by two white men that far excells many ee have stirred whole communities to acts of vengeance. But there was no excitement whatever. In fact there was very little sald about it. The victim was a ee ial When you meet an adversory with the firm Intention of running in a certain direo- tion as soon as you become convinced that you are going to get whipped, remember, If you do run, you are not defeated—you are only “‘carrying outa well defined plan.” “I am not willing to shut the door of hope in the face of the colored man who shows himself worthy and deserving.” This one sentence will hold and secure Mr. Roosevelt more colored votes than all else he has done or said. It has been demonstrated that colored men may have a National meeting for a definite purpose without having that pur- Pose interfered with by the scheming and designing politician, ‘Now let us have a report of that finance committee. We are really anxious to have something tangible with which to refute the gossip of the gossipers. It should be remembered that the various establishments and business represented at the League meeting were but a fragment of those that are. ‘The conceited Caucasian is beginning to learn, but with some reluctance, that there are others. General Kuropatkin is still carrying out his well defined plans. ‘That “well defined plan" is fast becom- ing a joke. a DAY CELEBRATION, Emancipation {Day will be celebrated September 2ist at the State Fair Grounds under the auspices of Martin R. Delaney Post G. A. R. and the Sumner Republican League, Hon, Harry Cummins of Ballt- more, Md., who seconded the nomination of Roosevelt at Chicago, will be present and make a speech, Mr. Cummins is a great speaker; all should hear him. Com- rade Lucas, State Commander of the De- partment of Indiana G. A. R., will also make an address and other speakers of note will make remarks in keeping with the occasion. The management should be encouraged with a great attendance on the day it has chosen to commemorate the great act in Lincoln's life. Plenty of re- freshments and good music. Admission, adults, 25¢; children free. Dr. Joseph H. Ward, George P. Stewart and John Wil- ams, committee. MRL B, STEWART, B. F. Stewart of Norwalk, Ohio, may not be generally known, but he is worthy of a much wider acquaintance. He is State Royal Master of the Loyal Legion of Labor, a strong institution of Ohio, with headquarters at Revanna. Mr. Stewart has long been associated with industrial movements. In 1895 he organized an Afro-American League at Harrisburg, the purposes of, which were similar to those of the Negro Business Men's League. Mr. Stewart has proven a benefactor to his home city, Norwalk, where he has suc- ce ees eg a8 2 eS ae aa eS eS es < ecioae ae eet ces Las ee fe ean ets a pei ee I ee oe 4 Pe ae MR. B. F. STEWART, Business Man and Philanthropist, aan dete. ceeded in having Mr. Carnegie provide funds for a library building, the cost of which will be something like $22,000. He +had the honor of negotiating with Mr. Car- ‘negie and securing the gift, although the citizens in the main are white people; and still, more surprising is the fact that he ‘secured $15000 for Talladega, a colored Institution of Mississippi, for a library. Both of the buildings are now being erected, ‘Mr. Stewart serving on the building com- mittee in Norwalk. Hehas letters of thanks Es appreciation from the faculty, the students and trustees of Talladega. He Is ‘a public spirited man, helping where he ‘can regardless of race or creed. He has ‘secured much money for the churches of his community, He has the true philan- thYopical spirit. The race will never be burdened with men like Mr. Stewart. Personally Mr. Stewart conducts a Turk- ish path plant and is a junk dealer, He is Prominent in fraternal circles. MR. AE MARTIN, SR, A.E, Martin, Sr., of Cairo, Ill, is one of the substantial business men of the race. He is a man of prominence and influence at home, highly respected and of solid worth. He came to the League recom- mended as being in every way fitted to take part in its deliberations. Mr. Martin is associated with his son in the grocery business ; his business ideas have been put into practice, which have proven valuable in building up a large patronage. Mr. Mar- tin’s business tact will be-appreciated when It is known that he is chef and buyer for the well-known Halliday House of that city, a position he has enjoyed for years. Mr. Martin Is what might be termed an “ap-and-up" man; he believes in giving very man what is due. He says that if a Democrat says a good thing for the race “give it to “him.” He is not blind to the good wheresoever it may reside. He has an excellent opinion of the League's move- ment ;, he thinks it will do much good, act- ‘ing as an incentive, giving epportunity for the presentation of the best example of in- dustry and economy as well as an exhibi- tion of products wrought out by Negro skill. FILIPINO TOWN IN ST, LOUIS, | The exposition management at St. Louis has spared no expense in building a town for a numUer of natives from the Philip- Pines; it has seen to it that every feature of thelr customs and habits is represented ‘that the visitors may have complete know!- ‘edge of those people, many of whom are ‘denizens of the jungles. They are of our recently acquired possessions and well worthy of acquaintance as such. The members of the colony are seen in thelr ‘native simplicity, performing their rites and religious ceremonles, which are pecu- Mar and interesting. In fact the whole panorama of their life is set out faithfully and should prove highly instructyie to stu- dent or the merely curiosity seeker. The village is a show in itself and well worth a visit to St. Louis to see. We know the American Indian. We are to learn the meeker Filipinos. The St. Louis Exposi- tion fs an excellent place to study him. —___ No shaded characters, no ruled lines, no dots, few word signe, requires only afew houts study daliytor six weeks. "We se gare positions, Instruction by mails Send stamp for elreular. LEIGATON-MaURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Pn Pe eat Lua Aaa LEY rs na cs 23) Bie LUST SS | w MSL LEE Ls Young women may avoid much sickness and pain, says Miss Alma Pratt, if they will only have faith in the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Judging from the letters she is receiving from so many young girls, Mrs. Pinkham believes that our girls are often pushed altogether too near the limit of their endurance now- adays in our public schools and semin- aries. r Seitog is allowed to interfere with studies, the girl must be pushed to the front and graduated with honor ; often physical collapse follows, and it takes years to recover the lost vitality,— often it is never recovered, Miss Pratt says, — “Dear Mas. Prrguam:—lI feel it my duty to tell all young women how much bydia i. Pinkbam's won derful Vegetable Compound has done for me. I was completely run- down, unable to attend school, and did not care for any kind of society, but now I feel like 4 new person, and have gained seven pounds of flesh in three months. “I recommend it to all young women who suffer from female weak- ness.”—Miss ArmA Pratt, Holly, Mich. — $5000 forfeit if original of above letter precteguinenes et. 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'Mdianapolis, - - Indiana errr yncn THE STAGE. By "WOODBINE." Ask the Black Patti Co. about Lowery's band. The Carter Trio is fast becoming prime favorites with the public everywhere; they have good volces and sing well. The hoop rollers, Moppins and Jones, now with P. G. Lowery have added some very clever novelties to their act. Georgia Minstrel Notes, by Napoleon Johnson.—We have now entered the state of Texas for a long run. Although the weather is very warm yet the people never fail to turn out and are well pleased with the performance. Clarence Powell is more than making good in the character of Jim Jackson at the World's Fair. He is a successful comedian. As Powell's motto is a little different from the rest, it demonstrates Sarn Elliott, the vaudeville director, with P. G. Lowery's Co., possesses the controlling power over the singers to gain a very pleasing result. Good judgement is his trade mark. Miss Sallie N. Lee, of P. G. Lowery's Vaudeville Co., was called to her home in Columbus, O. to the death bed of her sister Mary Lee, we all heartily share her sorrows, she will return to her work in a few days. Amos L. Gilliard has closed with A Rabbit Foot company. He would like to hear from all friends in and out of the profession. He now resides at 1C35 Highway Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. Best regards to all friends. Clarence Bush, the well known comedian, would like to hear from A Rabbit Foot Co., and wish them a long and successful season. He would like to hear from Happy, Bob Slater, Powell, Dudley, Hallback, Crosby and all friends in and out of the profession. Clarksville, Tenn., Professional Notes. The amusement season was opened by L. E. Gideon's camp-meeting, which gave creditable performances at Elder's Opera house. August 26-27. This company is the first of its kind to come South, and yet in its infancy, it bids fair to mature into the foremost organization, vaudeville and comedy combined, on the road. The show is now laying over in the city until it can get a band, which it is hastily doing. The members send regards to all. Sylvester Russell, who is giving song recitals in the most exclusive American colony of the Catskill mountains, appeared at Craigsmore Inn, Casino, Aug. 27. On August 25 Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who has just served fifteen years in an English prison, arrived at Craigsmoor as the guest of Dr. Densmore, in his private home. At the conclusion of the recital, Aug. 27, Mr. Russell announced that the would appropriately sing "Home Sweet Home." Although Prof. Wm. C. Enty lent much charm to the occasion by playing special variations, the song fell flat and the audience showed plainly that they were not in sympathy with the situation. Mrs. Maybrick was not present. The Black Patti Troubadours and the Big 4 Paw and Sells shows met and played same date at Oswego, N. Y., Aug. 24. The token of our happiness which was to follow was shown at 10:30 a. m. While the parade was moving down the principal streets as Lowery's band reached the main street in their military style of rendering marches they were heartily welcomed by the entire company of troubadours, who were located in a conspicuous place. Too much can not be said about the excellent appearance of the Patti company would fill their houses. Shortly after the parade reached the circus ground the troubadours were welcome visitors to all parts of the enormous shows. The manager threw the doors wide open to welcome the troubadours. They associated together while there. They meet again in Connelsville, Pa. Sept. 9th. THE FREEMAN POST OFFICE. LADIES LIST. Bacon, Robinda Cark, Mrs Lila Garry, Miss Lilliam Billiard, Mrs Susan Hoyt, Miss Grace Jones, Mrs D B Jones, Mrs Ivy A GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Armstrong, T L Bassam, Chas Beee, W Castor, Frank Cooper, S Cases and Mines Carter and Howell Carter, James Goode, W T Hant, W T Hughes, Ed Howard, E L Johnson & Johnson Johnson, Chas P Lashe, Herbert Logan, Miss Laura Curdary, Mrs Ger Mitchell, Mrs Maudie Morton, Clara Robinson, Pattie Taylor, Miss Carrie Wills, Mrs Bessie Lucas, [Sam Lucas, H L Martin, Sr., A A Quattroy McCamon, J H McDonnell, J L Pittman, James Smiths, J H Sutherland, Fred H Shaw and Clifton Tibbs, Sol The Fosters Walston, S J William, H L Waetherly, Joe Billy Kesands Minstrels.—Fine Bluff, Ark., Sept. 12; Eldorado, 13; Camden, 14; Gurdon, 14 Georgia Minstrels.—Austin, Tex., Sept. 12; San Antonio, 13; Beeville, 14; Victoria, 15; Maryton, 16; Yockum, 17. Operate Minstrels., Waterloo, Ia., Sept. 14, Fri. Fundy Center, 13, 14, 15, Nashua, 16, Charleston, 13, 14, 15, P.G. Lower, 4 Paws and Sells' Bros. Crosso., 1 New Castle, Pa., Sept. 12, East Liverpool, 13, Dover, 14, Coshocton, 15, Lancaster, 16, Wakefield, C., H. 17, Al E. Holman's Coatings - Coatings, Pa., Sept. 12, Ephrata, 13, Middletown, 14, Charleston, 15, Chamberbugs, 16, Briang, Bros., Carolinans - St. Ansgar, Ia., Sept. 14, Martins, U. T. C. Co.-Akron, O., Sept. 14, Youngstown, 15, Sherron, O., Meadville, 17. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Georgia Minstrel Notes, by Napoleon Johnson.—We have now entered the state of Texas for a long run. Although the weather is very warm yet the people never fail to turn out and are well pleased with the performance. Clarence Powell is more than making good in the character of Jim Jackson at the World's Fair. He is a successful comedian. As Powell's motto is a little different from the rest, it demonstrated nightly in his work on extreme end and monologue. It is shown in his stage management, as he works for the best end, the reason why the show is a success. Pete Woods, eccentric comedian working extreme end opposite Powell comes in for his share of praise. In the oilo Boomsky is still one of the features. Although this is his second season through this territory with this company, yet the people speak in praise of him and how wonderfully he improves with his tricks. In the absence of Ralph Nichols, George Rhone has charge of the orchestra, and from that department they are meeting with success. We spent Sunday in Hot Springs on 28, owing to our playing there on 29, and to say we had a fine time would be putting it mild, as Ashford's was our headquarters with Fred Ashford manager. Regards to Campbell brothers of Kersands, Minstrels. Bunk why don't you write? Notes from Billy Kersands Minstrels.—Our show is certainly pleasing to all concerned. The managers proprietor and public in Newport, Ark., where we have always done business, were surprised to see us do so well. We excelled the business that we had done here before. Something we have never before noticed in Newport happened on our date, we had colored people both up and down stairs. We have always heard that competition was the life of trade, our management is becoming convinced that this saying is true, as a repitation of Newport business occurs where our opposition is strongest. The noted circus band master, Lilly Jones has settled in Newport, Ark. and entertained Mr. and Mrs. Kersands while in their city. Miss Maggie Fernandez and as many others as could find time were entertained at the home of Mr. Jones. Our company spent Sunday in Mr. Jones' city and opened the banner week of our season there. We closed with Memphis, Tenn. and Mariana, Ark. We have also within the last week completed the organization of a good baseball club. We have excellent material and the non-playing members of the company are enthusiastic fans and back up their good opinion of the club with their money. We are carrying a special pitcher with the company, he is one of the best slab artists in the South. Both club and company sends regards to all professionals, wishing them success. Sam Burns write us. Greater New York Notes.—Grundy and Russell and Messrs. Grundy and Coates were big hits at Pasters week of 22 and are now at Hyde and Behmans, Brooklyn. Bob Cole and the Johnson brothers are writing the music and lyrics for Humpty Dumpty, a company of 250 people, management of Klaw and Erlanger. They are also engaged to write the Montire and Heath show, after which they go into vaudeville. Mattie Wilkes Hogan has contracted to appear in all the leading music halls of Germany and Paris, she will sail early in the spring. The colored contingent of the Southerners, under Charles Moore, left the city for Newport and opened with the big Lederer company of black and white. Will Marloh Cook who wrote the music for the piece arrived from London Saturday 26 and reports the Avery and Hart company in good running order. The Queen of the Jungles are in town reorganizing for their winter tour. Sidney Perrins' Bogus Prince company left town for Reading, Pa. to rehearse, they have a private car. Ernest Hogan is in town, he opens the 12th at the circle. The Britons Joe and Sadle, are at Henderson's, Coney Island. Katie Post arrived from Paris the 15 and joined the Smart Set forces, who are rehearsing; they open at Montreal Sep. 12. Williams and Walker are big hits in their new In Dahomey company at the Grand Opera House. J. Ed. Green is rehearsing the Smart Set Co. and a white opera company the Prince of Serline. Luke Pully's ragtime piano players and Ada Mickey were hits on the bill at Coney Island. George Williams, of Smart and Williams, is running a show at Inman's Coney Island. Smith and Bowman's creoles are at Albany. Ed. Harris will be assistant stage manager to the Smart Set Co. Johnny Hill's Dahomanian Queen is a big hit in the Williams and Walker Co. The Attucks Pub. Co. publishes all of the Williams and Walker hits. Murphy and Francis are at the circle this week. Leslie Triplet is stage manager for Perrins' Bogus Prince company. P. B. R. Hendrix's Chicago Notes.—S. H. Dudley, late of Ruscoe and Holland's Minstrel, late of the leading comedians of the present day, dropped off to join the Smart Set Co., and paid the headquarters a pleasant call. We can predict success for Gus Hill, in selecting Mr. Dudley as the star. Mr. Dudley is a deserving and ambitious young man, we wish him success. J. B. Tucker, who has been playing at one of the leading vaudeville houses of Louisville, Ky., who by illness was called home, is in the city still and reports Mrs. Tucker is improving: we extend to him our sincere sympathy. We have been waiting patiently for the production of Emancipation Day, to be given by thirty people, so that we could give them a space in our column of notes. Louis Love has organized a company of thirty people known as Louis Love's Carnival Co. for a few weeks stand, opening at Indianapolis last Monday. He has several good bookings on hand yet, which will be attended to as soon as he returns. He desires to hear from all professionals who have a good act. Regards to all my friends. Sam Lucas is in the city rehearsing the Moonshiner's Daughter Co. No. 2. He goes out with the company, having one of the leading parts of the cast. Sam looks younger than he did twenty years ago, so the public can expect to see some lively and artistic steps, catchey songs and laughing acts combined. The famous Eighth Regiment Infantry band under the direction of Prof. N. Clark Smith, has returned from Lexington, Ky., where they played for the midsummer fair. They won high honors as they usually do, had a good time in general, and brought back the money. The Pekin is still doing an overflow business. Everything is conducted properly and orderly. In fact your money is counterfeit if you act rowdy or disobey the rules as laid out by Manager Fred Carey and the proprietor, Robert Motts. Come and have a good time, but act respectable. To all who desire to have something in the Christmas issue this year, I would advise you to begin to make preparations for it at once, such as getting types and advertising matter, also a partial history of your advent into the professional world, for without a doubt there is going to be no pains spared in making this edition surpass any former attempts, and I know you will want a space. The rates are going to be reasonable and within the reach of all. My kind regards to all professionals. AT THE PARK. The Park has an extraordinary production for its State Fair bill, "In Old Kentucky." It is said to be extraordinary in the play itself, in the company which produces it, and it will be offered on a scale that is extraordinarily elaborate. A company of sixty people will present it, the plot itself being interpreted by a dozen gifted players who gave the play its fame. There will be a band of twenty pickinniennes, gathered up in the South, who will enlisten the production with their capers. There is a lynching scene which calls for a large force of men and women and another is at the Lexington race track, when five throughbred horses give an exciting contest at full speed. There is a barn burning, a mountain fued and similar melodramatic episodes to show the sterner side of life in Kentucky in the old days. The play contains a love story that is notable for its gentleness, which brings forcefully to view the devotion and courage of the women of the blue grass region and the chivalry and bravery of the men of that land. The production has been obtained by the Park management only after extended negotiation and unusual concessions. Owing to the magnitude of the show, the usual Monday matinee will next week be omitted. Because of the expense of obtaining it, there will be a slight increase of prices, but they will still be moderate. AT THE EMPIRE Good burlesque shows are numerous this season. The whole tone and quality of burlesque has been imeasurably advanced, in obedience to popular demand. Sensible, progressive and up-to-date managers have come to the conclusion that the old methods and the old styles of shows wouldn't do—that the public demanded a radical change, and the wise ones have made the change accordingly. The star burlesque entertainments of the current season are as good to see, as amusing to hear, and as throughly enjoyable as the high-toned musical comedies or the swell extravaganzas. Smut and coarseness, an unpleasant feature of the old time shows, have been eradicated, and the managers who persisted in sending out smutty shows, have been driven into oblivion. Newness and brightness in costume, brilliancy in stage equipment, more clever comedians, and more women, pretier women, who can sing, dance and look delightfully attractive—all these things were demanded by the public, and the managers who wished to prosper acceded to the demand. Foremost among the shows which flourish under the new order of things is "Rush's Bon Tons", which comes to the Empire theater the week of the State Fair, opening Sept. 12. This company, which is gaining fame as the season advances, and which, in every city it visits, makes a distinct hit of huge proportions. The Bon Tons have every requisite of a big and successful show. They have the music, the dresses, the scenery, the stagings, the comedians, and, above all, the pretty women. The entertainment they give is the best that time, money and laborious stage training could provide, and the most captious orbits cannot find anything wrong, or anything offensive, from one end to the other of their program. JOCKEY CLUB PARK. Band Master John Kurkamp, who is furnishing the attraction at the Jockey Club Park this week, is to be congratulated in securing the Clark Bros. Royal Comedy and Minstrel company, with his vaudeville entertainment Prof. Eugene Clark and his celebrated band of talented performers is a remnant of the once famous South Before the War company, and Clark comes from the old school of coonology entertainment in all of its interesting phases. His work at the Jockey Club In buck and wing dancing, the latest coon songs, farce comedy and minstrelsy, is indeed a unique and happy diversion from the ordinary vaudeville bill. Their turn has received most hearty applause at each performance. The Clark Bros. company is under the direction of McCrocklin and Kelley, booking agents. Clark Bros. are now with the Kurkamp 22, military enroute to Knoxville, Tenn. Everybody is well and all join in sending regards to all professionals. Gene Clark would like to hear from Billy McLowe, J. Ed. Green and all K. P. brothers in and out of the profession. BUSINESS MEN HOLD AN OPEN MEETING. BUSINESS MEN HOLD AN OPEN MEETING. Entertainment of Friends the Feature of the Week-Death of Infant. Jacksonville, Ill., Special.—The open meeting of the Negro Business Men's League of this city, held at Mt. Emory Baptist church last Monday evening, was a great success. The meeting was very spirited and resolutions were adopted which, if carried into effect, will greatly aid in the betterment of the condition of our people socially and financially. The league has the best wishes and most hearty co-operation of the thinking people of the community.—Thursday evening, August 25th, the Phyllis Wheaty Club held an open meeting at the residence of Mrs. Jacob Davis. A large crowd was present and a most interesting program was rendered. The club is doing well under the management of Mrs. Ida McRee, president.—Mesdames Katie Rhodes and Mattie Powers entertained a number of friends at dinner last Thursday evening in honor of the visitors in the city. It was a grand affair. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Davis, Rev. and Mrs. H. Lackey, Mr. and Mrs. John Haithman, M. and Mrs. James Brown, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Rodgers, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bolden, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Postley, Mr. and Mrs. E. Moore, Mrs. Ella Stanford of Peoria, Miss., Anna Marion of Keokuk, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rice, Mrs. Mary Hanners and daughter, Mrs. V. Wallace of Houston, Texas, Mrs. N. Blue and daughter, Miss M. Banks, Mrs. M. J. Bryant and daughter, Miss L. B. Strong and Rev. J. M. Harlis.—The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McRee died last Sunday afternoon at 1:30. The funeral occurred at the residence Monday afternoon.—Dr. A. H. Kennebrew, our esteemed colored physician, is a thoroughly energetic business man. He has been practicing in Jacksonville only about two years, and during that time has purchased two lovely pieces of property with a combined value of $6000. He is an excellent example of progressive manhood, and has the best wishes of a host of friends for his continued success. Well-Known Educator One of Alexander Sedgwick's Guests. Stockbridge, Mass., Special.—Alexander Sedgwick of New York entertained Booker T. Washington at dinner at his country home, Sept. 5. The other guests were Bishop McVicker of Rhode Island, the Rev. Dr. Arthur Lawrence of this town, Baron von Dembusche, secretary of the German Embassy, Dr. W. Gilman Thompson of Washington, and Richard B. Bowker of New York. The special guest was the center of an informal reception previous to and following the dinner, and at the conclusion of the party those present said they were agreeably impressed with Mr. Washington. Former Minister to Liberia Seriously Injured in Fight. St. Joseph, Mo., Special.—Dr. John R. A. Crossland, minister to Liberia under President McKinley, and who is a leading Negro politician, fought a pistol duel on a crowded street. Sept. 6, with Dr. W. S. Carrion, also a Negro. Each fired five shots. Carrion was un- Why drudge your life out in kitchen or overwash-tub when you can learn a paying profession by mail in eight to twelve weeks. Particulars for stamp. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. Direction GEO. W. HIGGINS 10 mulatto chorus girls, lead sopra good tenor and bass singers. 30 opens Sept. 18th. must be in Chies in first letter. Illinois Litho. Co., ELLIOTT & HIGGINS, 119 Dear Visit DAVISE atto chorus girls, lead soprano soubrette, men- sor and bass singers. 30 weeks weet, book. Sept. 18th. must be in Chicago, Sept. 14th. St. letter. Illinois Litho. Co., HIGGINS, 119 Dearborn St., Ch AVIS BUFF 10 mulatto chorus girls, lead soprano sonbrette, men that double brass, good tenor and bass singers. 30 weeks west, booked solid. Season opens Sept. 18th. must be in Chicago, Sept. 14th. State lowest salary in first letter. Illinois Litho. Co., ELLIOTT & HIGGINS, 119 Dearborn St. Chicago, IL ELLIOTT & HIGGINS, 119 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 213 E. Broadway Street, E. ST. LOUIS, ILL. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Furnished Rooms for ladies moderate cost. S. C. WHITFIELD at Bar. Barbershop in connection. Wanted, Colored Performers. MAL. E. E. six or eight pieces. Musicians that double. Band and orchestra give just what you do and lowest salary, first letter. Address. DR. B. ESLEY, Silver Creek, Harden County, Indiana State Liquors and Cigars. Furnished Rooms for ladies. C. WHITFIELD at Bar. Barbershop in connection. Colored Performers, MALI for E. The St. Musicians that double. Band and orchestra give and lowest salary, first letter. Address. S. ESLEY, Silver Creek, Harden County. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Furnished Rooms for ladies and gentlemen at moderate cost. S. C. WH1TFIELD at Bar. Barbershop in connection. Wanted, Colored Performers, MALE AND FEMALE, for Esley's Trip Through The South; also a band of six or eight pieces. Musicians that double. Band and orchestra given preference. State just what you do and lowest salary, first letter. Address. DR. B. ESLEY, Silver Creek, Harden County, Ohio. Indiana State Fair WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 12 $30,000 in Purse Racing Purses, $10,000. Prize Awa- cation Cattle Show, $6 200; Sheep Show, $6 Poultry Show, $1,800; Farm Produce OPEN AIR VAL Diving Horses, Slack Wire, Acrobat- formers, Bicycle High Diving, Com- Features Every Day. Concerts by I. 50 CENTS ADMIS- Send postal for premium l. JOHN C. HAINES, President. DR. W ROGER ..Dentu 10 in Purses and Purses, $10,000. Prize Awards: Horse Show, Show, $6,200; Sheep Show, $1,800; Swine Show, Show, $1,800; Farm Products, $2,500; Fine Art. IN AIR VAUDEVIL Horses, Slack Wire, Acrobatic and Daring Ae- dies, Bicycle High Diving, Comedy Wheel Riding, Every Day. Concerts by Indianapolis Military. ENTS ADMITS TO Send postal for premium list and program to AINES, president. R. W ROGER RUSSE ..Dentist.. Racing Purses, $1,100.00. Prize Awards: Horse Show, $2,500; Cattle Show, $6,300; Sheep Show, $1,800; Swine Show, $1,300; Poultry Show, $1,800; Farm Products, $2,500; Fine Arts, $1,800. Diving Horses, Slack Wire, Acrobatic and Daring Aerial Performers, Bicycle High Diving, Comedy Wheel Riding. Fresh Features Every Day. Concerts by Indianapolis Military Band. DR. W ROGER RUSSELL 317½ Indiana Avenue, injured, but Crossland was seriously hurt. Two bullets took effect, one tearing away a portion of Crossland's lower jaw and lodging in the base of the brain, the other infiltrating a flesh wound in the leg. The duel grew out of an alleged flirtation of Crossland with Carrion's wife. The men met in a barber-shop, and on the suggestion of Crossland withdrew to the street, where the battle ocurred. Hundreds of people witnessed the shooting. The official directory and program issued by W. H. Jackson and C. H. Stewart was the finest and most complete production of its kind that the country has seen outside of Washington's inaugural pamphlets. Bishops B. W, Arnett and I. B. Scott and Revs. M. B. C. B. Mason, C. H. Parrish and L. G. Jordan were the church's most distinguished representatives. HARRY W. DUNNINGTON. SHINING PARLOR, 520 Indiana Avenue. Indianapolis, Ind. JOHN CONN, Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Repairer, 118 E. Michigan Street. ERNEST SCOTT, TAILOR, LADIES' WORK A SPECIALTY. Repairing and Pressing neatly done. All Work Guaranteed 1020 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Refined Oils, Dustless Oils, Machine Oils and Gasoline. Better known as "The Funny Little Man." 602 Agnes Street. Indianapolis. JAMES M. MILLER, TAILOR, SUITS MADE TO ORDER. TAILOR, JITS MADE TO ORDER. Cleaning. Dyeing and R pairing. 1309 N. Senate Ave. Geo. W. Walker. Walker Trai Planos, Household Good for Shipping, Bagga toanyoga 216-WEST NEW YO Phone, Old, 812 Main. Factory Prices for Free RAZOR STEEL MAHER & GROSH we will send you one for 480; 5 for $2, Knife and Shear, $1. Bowl 'Buds, ground barber's Bazor and Strop to suit $1.3 page List and "How to Use a BAZOR." MAH Prices for Freeman Ready BAZOR STEEL MAHER & GROSH due for 480; 5 for 82, postpaid. Best 7-inch, 81. Royal 'black', 24x, ladies 2 blade, pe- nzor and Strop to suit $133. We pay postage how to Use a BAZOR." MAHER & GROSH 609 Adams S RAZOR STEEL MAHER & GROSH we will send you one for 480; 5 for $2, postpaid. Best 7-inch shears. Knife and Shears, $1. Boys' 2-blade, 250; ladies' 2-blade, pearl, 250; ground barber's Razor and Strop to suit $130. We pay postage. Send for free 80 page List and "How to Use a RAZOR." MAHER & GROSH CO. nished Rooms for ladies and gentlemen at carbersonhip in connection. formers, MALE AND FEMALE, for Esley's Trip Through The South; also a band of Band and orchestra given preference. State er. Address. ek, Harden County, Ohio. State Fair uses and Prizes Awards: Horse Show, $2,500; w, $1,800; Swine Show, $1,800; ducts, $2,500; Fine Arts, $1,800. AUDEVILLE Probatic and Daring Aerial Per- Comedy Wheel Riding. Fresh by Indianapolis Military Band. MITS TO ALL from list and program to CHARLES DOWNING, Secretary. ER RUSSELL tist.. Indianapolis, Ind. The 35th Annual FAIR OF THE OLD RELIABLE Colored & A. M. Association will be held at LEXINGTON, KY. Sept. 12 to 17, 1904 Many new and novel features have been add in the way of free attractions. The premium list the largest ever given by the Association. The People's Famous Band of Columbus, Ohio, has been engaged to furnish music. J. A. SCOTT, President, A. L. HARDEN, Secretary, 135 North Mill Street, Lexington, Ky. COMING SOON TO YOUR CITY A Rabbit's Foot Comedy The only genuine Negro show on the road owned and managed by Negroes exclusive. See the biggest free street parade traveling. P. K.-Can always place Good performers and musician both male and female PAT CHAPPELL, Owner and Mgr. as per route. Fishermen Send name and address and get a box of the Best Fish Bait you ever saw in your life Free to help introduce it to your town. Makes fish bite with much avidity when fishing with hook and line. Write to-day. Enclose stamp for postage. Address J. F. GREGORY, Anadarko, Okla. THE MARTS THEIR EBB and FLOW Breathe on speculation and investment. For speculation in investment read it. Price, 10c. G. D. Bone & Co., Brokers, Dept. K. 880 La Salle st., Chilgo BROADWAY DRESS and fine Millinery Emporium, New York TEMPER OF FASHION HAIR STORE Call and see the great special values in trims med hats, ready-made skirts, shirt waist and other fancy articles. Parisian designs a speciality. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. MAIL BEACHEM, Proprietress, Kaiser. Residence, 401 B. Preston St. 371 Jackson St, cor, Lane, Dallas, Texas. Dealer in new and second-hand furniture, carpets and stoves. Goods bought, sold and exchanged. 519 Indiana Avenue. Public Moving Wagon Geo. W. Walker. Will Walker- Walker Transfer Co. Planos, Household Goods moved or Packed for Shipping. Baggage and packages to any part of the city. 216-WEST NEW YORK STREET-216 Phone, Old, 812 Main. Phone, New 3789 eeman Readers. Every M. & G. blade is hand for from raz or steel file tested, warrant n. d. This cut is exact size of The Gentleman From Indiana By BOOTH TARKINGTON Copyright, 1899, by Doubleday @ McClare Co. Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips @ Co. There came from the crowd the sound of a sad, high keyed voice drawing, "That's a nice vest Jim's got on, but if it ain't hardly the feathers fitted for an ostrich, is it?" Harkless broke into a ringing laugh and turned to the shell men. "Give up the boy's money. Hurry." "Step down here and git it," said the one who had spoken. There was a turbulent motion in the crowd, and a cry arose: "Run 'em out! Ride 'em on a rail! Tar and feathers! Run 'em out o' town!" Bardlock hustled his prisoners through the doorway, and the crowd pushed up the steps, while Harkless struggled to keep the vestibule clear until Watts got the double doors closed. "Stand back, there!" he shouted. "It's all over. Don't be foolish. The law is good enough for us. Stand back, will you?" He was shoving vigorously with open hand and elbow, when a compact little group of men suddenly dashed up the steps together, and a heavy stick swung out over their heads. A straw hat with a gay ribbon sailed through the air. The editor's long arms went out swiftly from his body in several directions, the hands not open, but clinched and hard. The next instant he and Mr. Watts stood alone on the steps, and a man with a bleeding, blaspheming mouth dropped his stick and tried to lose himself in the crowd. Mr. Watts was returning something he had not used to his hip pocket. "Prophets of Israel!" exclaimed William Todd rudely. "It wasn't Eph Watts' pistol. Did you see Mr. Harkless? I was up on them steps when he began. I don't believe he needs as much takin' care of as we think." "Wasn't it one of them Crossroads devils that knocked his hat off?" asked Judd Bennett. "I thought I see Bob Skillett run up with a club." Harkless threw open the doors behind him. The hall was empty. "You may come in now," he said. "This isn't my courthouse." accusation and wrath in heaven and earth and wishing nothing more than to sink into the waters under the earth, but having no way of reaching them, and finding his troubles quite unbearable and himself unable to meet the manifold eye of man, he sought relief after the unsagacious fashion of a larger bird than he. His burly form underwent a series of convulsions not unlike sobs, and he shut his eyes tight and held them so, presenting a picture of misery unequaled in the memory of A "You, you, a man elected to"— any spectator. The editor's outstretched hand began to shake. "You," he tried to continue; "you, a man elected to"— "I wouldn't dillydally long if I were you," said Harkless. A roll of bills was sullenly placed in his hand, which he counted and turned over to the elder Bowlder. One of the shell men clutched the editor's sleeve with his dirty hand. "We hain't done wi' youse," he said loarsely. "Don't belief it, not for a minute, see?" The town marshal opened his eyes briskly and, placing a hand on each of the gamblers, said, "I do hereby arrest your said persons and declare you my prisoners." The cry arose again louder: "Run 'em out! String 'em up! Hang 'em! Hang them!" And a forward rush was made. "This way, Jim. Quick!" cried Harkless, bending down and jerking one of the gamblers half way up the steps. "Get through the hall to the other side and then run 'em to the lockup. No one will stop you that way. Watts and I will hold this door." CHAPTER VI. T THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER in its seeming to reflect the rich benediction of the noonday sun that blazed overhead. Once he had thought the way to the Briscoe homestead rather a long walk, but now the distance sped malignantly. Strolled they never so slow, it was less than a "young bird's flutter from a wood." With her acquiescence he rolled a cigarette, and she began to hum lightly the air of a song, a song of ineffably gentle, slow movement. That, and a reference of the morning and perhaps the smell of his tobacco mingling with the fragrance of her roses, awoke again the old reminiscence of the night before. A clearly outlined picture rose before him—the high green slopes and cool cliffs walls of the coast of Maine and the sharp little estuary waves he lazily watched through half closed lids while the pale smoke of his cigarette blew out under the rail of a waxen deck where he lay cushioned. And again a woman pelted his face with handfuls of rose petals and cried: "Up, lad, and at 'em! Yonder is Winter Harbor!" Again he sat in the oak raftered casino, breathless with pleasure, and heard a young girl sing the "Angel's Serenade," a young girl who looked so bravely unconscious of the big, hushed crowd that listened, looked so pure and bright and gentle and good, that he had spoken of her as "Sir Galahad's little sister." He had been much taken with this child, but he had not thought of her from that time to this, he supposed. He had almost forgotten her. No! Her face suddenly stood out to his view as though he saw her with his physical eye, a sweet and vivacious child's face, with light brown hair and gray eyes and a short upper lip like a curled rose leaf. And the voice— He stopped short. "You are Tom Meredith's little cousin." "The great Harkless," she answered and stretched out her hand to him. "I remember you." "Isn't it time?" "Ah, but I never forgot you!" he cried. "I thought I had. I didn't know who it was I was remembering. I thought it was fancy, and it was memory. I never forgot your voice, singing, and I remembered your face, too, though I thought I didn't." He drew a deep breath. "That was why"— "Tom has not forgotten you," she said as he paused. "Would you mind shaking hands once more?" he asked. She gave him her hand again. "With all my heart. Why?" "I'm making a record of it; that's all. Thank you." "They called me 'Sir Galahad's little sister' all one summer because the great John Harkless called me that. You danced with me in the evening." "Did I?" "Ah," she said, shaking her head, "you were too busy being in love with pretty Mrs. Van Skuyt to remember a waltz with only me! I was allowed to meet you as a reward for singing my very best, and you-you bowed with the indulgence of a grandfather and asked me to dance." "Like a grandfather! How young I was then! How time changes us!" "I'm afraid my conversation did not make a great impression upon you," she continued. "But it did. I am remembering very fast. If you will wait a moment I will tell you some of the things you said." The girl laughed merrily. Whenever she laughed he realized that it was becoming terribly difficult not to tell her how adorable she was. "I wouldn't risk it if I were you," she warned him, "because I didn't speak to you at all. I shut my lips tight and trembled all over every bit of the time I was dancing with you. I did not sleep that night, and I was unhappy, wondering what the great Harkless would think of me. I knew he thought me unutterably stupid because I couldn't talk to him. I wanted to send him word that I knew I had bored him. I couldn't endure that he shouldn't know that I knew I had. But he was not thinking of me in any way. He had gone to sea again in his white boat, the ungrateful pirate, cruising with Mrs. Van Skuvt." "How time does change us!" said John. "You are wrong, though. I did think of you. I have al"— "Yes," she interrupted, tossing her head in airy travesty of the stage coquette, "you think so—I mean, you say so—now. Away with you and your blarneving!" And so they went through the warm noontide, and little he cared for the heat that wilted the fat mullein leaves and made the barefoot boy who passed by skip gingerly through the burning dust with anguished mouth and watery eye. Little he knew of the katydid that suddenly whirred its mills of shrillness in the maple tree and sounded so hot, hot, hot; or that other that railed at the country quiet from the dim, cool shade around the brick house, or even the rain crow that sat on the fence and swore to them in the face of a sunny sky that they should see rain ere the day were done. Little the young man recked of what he ate at Judge Briscoe's good noon dinner—chicken wing and young roas'n ear, hot rolls as light as the fuff of a summer cloudlet, and honey and milk and apple_butter flavored like splices of Aramn and fragrant, laky cherry pie and cool, rich, yellow cream. Lige Willetts was a lover, yet he said he asked no better than to just go on eating that cherry pie till a sweet death overtook him; but railroad sand-wiches and restaurant chops might have been set before Harkell for all the difference it would have made to him. At no other time is a man's feeling of companionship with a woman so strong as when he sits at table with her, not at a "decorated" and beatered and be-watered table, but at a homely, appetizing, wholesome, home table like old Judge Briscoe's. The very essence of the thing is domesticity, and the implication is utter confidence and liking. There are fewer greater dangers for a bachelor. An insinuating imp perches on his shoulder and, softly tickling the bachelor's ear with the feathers of an arrow shaft, whispers: "Pretty gay, isn't it, eh? Rather pleasant to have that girl sitting there, don't you think Enjoy having her notice your butter plate was empty? Think it exhilarating to hand her those rolls? Looks nice, doesn't she? Says 'Thank you' rather prettily? Makes your lonely breakfast seem mighty dull, doesn't it? How would you like to have her pour your coffee for you tomorrow, my boy? How would it seem to have such pleasant company all the rest of your life? Pretty cheerful, eh? It's my conviction that your one need in life is to pick her up in your arms and run away with her, not anywhere in particular, but just run and run and run away." After dinner they went out to the veranda, and the gentlemen smoked. The judge set his chair down on the ground, tilted back in it with his feet on the steps and blew a wavery, domed city up in the air. He called it solid comfort. He liked to sit out from under the porch roof, he said. He wanted to see more of the sky. The others moved their chairs down to join in the celestial vision. A feathery thin cloud or two had been fanned across it, but save for these there was nothing but glorious and tender brilliant blue. It seemed so clear and close one marveled the little church spire in the distance did not pierce it. Yet at the same time the eye ascended miles and miles into warm, shimmering ether. Far away two buzzards swung slowly at anchor halfway to the sun. "O bright, translucent, cerulean hue, Let my wide wings drift on in you." Harkless quoted, pointing them out to Helen. "You seem to get a good deal of fun out of this kind of weather," observed Lige as he wiped his brow and shifted his chair into the shade. "I expect you don't get such skies as this up in Rouen," said the judge, looking at the girl from between his lazily half closed eyelids. "It's the same Indiana sky, I think," she answered. "I guess maybe in the city you don't see as much of it or think as much about it, then. Yes, they're the Indiana skies," the old man went on. "Skies as blue As the eyes of children when they smile at you." "There aren't any others anywhere that ever seemed much like them to me. They've been company for me all my life. I don't think there are any others half as beautiful, and I know there aren't any as sociable. They were always so." He sighed gently, and Miss Sherwood fancied his wife must have found the Indiana skies as lovely as he had in the days of long ago. "Seems to me they are the softest and blues and kindest in the world." "I think they are," said Helen, "and they are more beautiful than the Italian skies, though I doubt if many of us Hoosiers realize it, and certainly no one else does." The old man leaned over and patted her hand. Harkless gasped. "‘Us Hoosiers!’" chuckled the judge. "You're "AFRICA," THE TOPIO. Sheriffs Charged With Murder-Tax- payers Not Allowed to Vote payers Not Allowed to Vote. Selma, Ala., Special.—A mass meeting of the Woman's Federation was held at the Congregational Church Thursday evening, presided over by Mrs. M. A. Dillard. "Africa" was the topic of discussion, and many interesting points were brought out—Force against law is what the registrars in Alabama is said to be using in their refusal to register qualified voters of the colored race.—A grand rally and memorial exercises will be held at the A. M. E "Zion Church next Sunday.—A girl baby was born into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Morfit last week. Mr. Morfit is a popular barber and a regular reader of The Freeman.—H.C. Preston, the hustling grocer, has enlarged his storehouse.—Prof. Oliver Chatman is the leading violinist of the city and is frequently in demand.—Old politicians here think the effort to elect railroad commissioners in this state by the Republicans is time and money wasted.—The three deputy sheriffs who had in custody the colored man who was reported as being lynched by Negroes have been arrested, charged with murder. After an investigation by the court they were sent to jail without bond.—The following persons own business property on the most prominent street in the city: R. B. Hudson, L. L. Burweir and Jessie Reed.—T. L. O Sullivan has removed his family grocery store from Alabama to Franklin street. —The advice of Prof. B. T. Washington is not lost on our people, as the number engaging in business and purchasing homes will testify.—John Henry Williams, the undertaker, has purchased a new carriage.—Quite a number of Selmians passed the state examination and secured license to teach in the pu- ilc schools —Judged by the acts of Democratic registrars, rather than by the constitutional promise, it would seem af if the intelligent and tax paying Negroes are not to be allowed to vote. The strike of the miners in the coal regions of the state affect about eight or ten thousand Negroes —A union missionary meeting was held at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening.—Rev. W. F. Coleman, the new pastor of the First Baptist Church, is growing daily in the affections of his people. THE SALLEE-BARNES NUPTIALS. The Conspicuous Event of the Week. Harrodsburg, Ky., Special. — Miss Maggie Sallee and Mr. James Barnes, of North Carolina, were married at the First Baptist Church Wednesday evening, August 24th — Miss Emma Harris, of Jefferson, and Prof. Cook, of Frankfort, attended the Sallee-Barree nuptials last week — Miss Mayme Bird, of Lexington, was the guest of the Misses Harris, of North Main street, this week. — Richard Mitchell, of Washington county, spent Saturday in our city. — Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Compton, Mrs. Agnew and Miss Hines spent Sunday in Mackville — Mrs. Sarah E. Lawson, of Chicago, is the guest of her mother for a few weeks — Miss Katie B. Harris spent Sunday in Danville, Ky. — Miss Maggie Harris, of Richmond, Ind., is the guest of her parents on Danville avenue. — Mrs. George Calvin entertained a few friends at Finch Friday evening — Miss Alice Nugent, of Louisville, who has for several days been the guest of Mrs. Agnew, returned home Friday. — Mrs. C. L. Agnew entertained in honor of her guest, Miss Nugent, at 10 o'clock breakfast Tuesday — Mrs. Mary McCown Jones passed into the sweet beyond Wednesday. — Rev. Edwards, pastor of the A. M. E. Church, and a portion of his host spent Sunday with Rev. Parrish in his camp meeting at Mackville — Mrs. Fry Coleman, of Charleston, Ind., attended the funeral of her brother, S. Meaux, of this city last week — Miss Elizabeth Crutcher spent Sunday in the city. — Dr. and Mrs. Peters, Rev. and Mrs. Woods, Miss Bessie Jones, of Danville, attended the Sallee-Barnes nuptials the 24th. CLARKSDALE HAPPENINGS. Clarksdale, Miss, Special—A. G. Allen's minstrels opened the season with an enjoyable performance and a large audience that showed appreciation of the uproar work of Black & Wise by its unproarious laughter. The contortionist was a feature. The band reflects credit on its leader, Prof. J. H. McCameron. Prof. Vassar should feel equally proud of his orchestra. He sends special regards to Lowery, and says write. The Carksdale Military band and orchestra played for the installations of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor and the Elks. This organization will play one open air concert each week on the balcony of McCroy's new building—Mrs. E. A. Murphy and S. E. Henderson are convalescing. Mrs. Mallinda E. Justus has returned to Little Rock, after a visit to her son, Peek. Mrs. Bettie Price, of Henderson, Ky., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. L. V. Handy.—Mesdames Mattie I. Banks and Josie B. Craig report a most enjoyable time at the grand session of the Calantha Court, which convened at Jackson. They will go as honorary delegates to the Negro Congress to be held at Natchez.—Mrs. A. A. Cosey is visiting her parents and friends in Huntsville, Ala, and Chattanooga, Tenn.—Mrs. Raines is visiting her parents in Knoxville. She and Dr. Raines will visit the fair together.—Rev. Frazier and his congregation have built a beautiful church, which is a credit to this city and the A. M. E Zion denomination.—W. B. Lott left for St. Louis for pleasure and also to empower and enlarge his already profitable tailoring and pressing business.—J. W. Reeder has moved his meat market to more comfortable quarters. Half the markets of this place are operated by colored men—Wm. Rogers has enlarged his stock of groceries—The home of Prof. and Mrs. W. C. Hand was visited by a stork on the 15th. A boy. Business on the Pick-up—Republicans Lining up—Roosevelt and Fairbanks Omaha, Neb., Special.—James Jewel, one of our leading business men of the city, runs a first class pool room and oligar store, also laundry office in connection. Mr. Jewel's place is headquarters for home and visiting waiters. —Tibbs Stien is proprietor of the Port restaurant; open day and night; service first class. —R O Hutchson and Thomas Jackson have returned home from Boston this week —Mrs L. Smith is spending a few days at the Exposition City. We are making great preparations for the Republican campaign. Roosevelt and Fairbanks seem to be the choice of all Republicans and good many Democrats —The Freeman for sale every Saturday at "Jim" Jewel's pool room, 105 South Fourteenth street. Visitors in St. Paul Entertained in Minneapolis. St. Paul, Minn., Special—Thomas Kumes and Miss Lizzie Kumes and R F. Pendleton, of Duluth, Minn., have returned home after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. T. Chandler. While visit- NATURE'S SPEEDY CURE. PEERLESS MENTHOL INHALER PRICE 25 CENTS. LASTS FOR YEARS. 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Secretary and Gen'l M'n'gr. Treasurer. ...Office of... Muskogee Oil and Gas Co, ...To Stockholders, Greeting... We take pleasure in extending to you our congratulations upon our success on well No. 2. At a depth of 1000 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil began to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oil and stopped work until arrangements could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER. At a depth of 1027 feet the oil began to flow over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the oil was turned into our receiving tank, which had been prepared. The Company expects an income of $2,000 00 per month from its two wells. The location of well No. 3 has been selected and work will begin upon it within a few days. We expect the dividends to each stockholder in the first 12 months will equal his investment. The ders are protected by the lae on well No. 2. At a depth of 1000 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil began to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oil and stopped work until arrangements could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER. At a depth of 1027 feet the oil began to flow over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the oil was turned into our receiving tank, which had been prepared. The Company expects an income of $2,000 00 per month from its two wells. The location of well No. 3 has been selected and work will begin upon it within a few days. We expect the dividends to each stockholder in the first 12 months will equal his investment. The ders are protected by the lae on well No. 2. At a depth of 1000 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil began to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oil and stopped work until arrangements could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER. At a depth of 1027 feet the oil began to flow over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the oil was turned into our receiving tank, which had been prepared. The Company expects an income of $2,000 00 per month from its two wells. The location of well No. 3 has been selected and work will begin upon it within a few days. We expect the dividends to each stockholder in the first 12 months will equal his investment. The ders are protected by the lae on well No. 2. At a depth of 1000 feet the oil sand was reached and the oil began to rise so fast that the workmen feared an overflow of oil and stopped work until arrangements could be made to CONTROL THE GUSHER. At a depth of 1027 feet the oil began to flow over the top of the well, and it was with much difficulty that the gusher was checked and the oil was turned into our receiving tank, which had been prepared. As ours is the only Negro in the world owning and profitable oil wells, we co you again on having cast you us, and remind you that in Indian Territory Ethiopa has up her heart unto God and forth her hand into the problems of the world. We our first car load of oil July. Muskogee Oil Muskogee Oil and Gas Co. ing St. Paul they went to the state prison, being shown all through and given some fine souvenirs of the prison. They were also highly entertained at the grand Masonic ball given at Minneapolis—Charles H. Plackmon, of Oakland City, Ind., has just returned from the state of Mississippi, where he has spent several weeks visiting his father, mother and old friends—Rich Meek, of Valden, Miss, is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Plackmon. He will leave for home next Monday. He is a large cotton planter of Mississippi. Loser of Several Families. Munole, Ind., Special.—Munole is the loser of several families—Mr. and Mrs. William Rider, Mr. and Mrs. Nythgroves, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mr. and --- 208 1-2 Broadway. equal his investment. The stockholders are protected by the lawe of the United States, regardless of where they live, and the officers are under good and sufficient bonds. Until September 1, 1904, the Board of Directors has decided to sell stock at $50 per share, the par value of which is $25 00, after which date the stock may be withdrawn from the market, or the price per share increased. As ours is the only Negro Company in the world owning and controlling profitable oil wells, we congratulate you again on having cast your lot with us, and remind you that in the great Indian Territory Ethiopa has stretched up her heart unto God and stretched forth her hand into the commercial problems of the world. We shipped our first car load of oil July 4, 1904. Mrs. Henry Fletcher and John Curtis have returned from Oklahoma and other points in the West.—K W. Warren was sent to Shelbyville, Ind., as a delegate to the convention.—Wm. Mulline accompanied his wife to their home in Indianapolis for a short visit.—Miss Muessie McCrea has returned from a very pleasant visit to Montreal, Canada.—Miss Netty Purson is ill at her home.—Miss Myrtle Young is convalescing from a seige of typhorid fever.—Wm. Kemper Harreld, as manager and director of an orchestra, left on Tuesday for a ten days' stay in Rome City, Ind. Bishop A. Mack at New London, Mo. Edgewood, Mo., Special—Bishop A. Mack, D. D., of Kansas City, Mo., a noted evangelical worker of the United States, conducted a basket meeting for the Trinity Baptist Church of New London, Mo., August 28th. --- Muskogee, Ind. Ter. TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. For the sake of your face, use only Williams' Shaving Soap. Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The J. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. Campbell College. Campbell College stands pre-eminently for higher Christian Education. Opens October 3, 1904. COURSES: Primary, Normal Preparatory, Normal, Scientific, Classical, Theological, Industrial, Sewing, Music, Photographing, Typewriting, and Writing. Wages. For Catalogues or information call on or write D. H. RUTLER President. DRAW BOTELN, KNOXVILLE COLLEGE. Knoxville College offers the following course Music, Common School, Mech-nical, Agric Faculty, foremen and officers number thirty, from 29 states and Central America in the South, beautiful, convenient of access and electric ligated. Self help offered through Sept. 27, 1904. Expenses for Board, fuel, lighter information, catalogue, etc., write the ville, Teunn. Morristown Normal MORRISTO Knoxville College offers the following courses:—Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, Music, Common School, Mech-nical, Agricultural, and various industrial departments, Faculty, foremen and officers number thirty. Enrollment of students for the last year was 47, coming from 22 states and Central America. The location is one of the most desirable in the South—heathful, convenient of access and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated and have a large central office, with term openings Sept. 17, 1994. Expenses for Board, fuel, light, furnished room only $8.85 a month. For further information, catalogue, etc., write the president, R. W. McGranahan, D. K. Knoxville, Penn. Morristown Normal Industrial College MORRISTOWN, TENN: Beautiful for situation, climate unequaled, handome building well furnished. Every modern convenience *in a safe and experienced and efficient work done in all department. ta* Good positions guaranteed to those taking the con se in Domestic Economy. Board, $6 00 per month. Fall Term opens Sept. 15, 1904 For further Address the Fresh LINCOLN INS LINCOLN INSTITUTE, JEFFERSON CITY, MO. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MENTIONS.—College, Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, Domestic. COURSES—Classical, Colleague Preparatory, Normal, Sun Normal, Model Training School, Musio (instrumental, vocal) Drawing (fine arts and mechanical) Carpentry, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoemaking; Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking, Laundering. ADVANTAGES — Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories with Modern Improvements. Buildings Heated by Steam Diplomas are licensees to teach in any public school in the State. A few worthy students will be assisted. SUMMER SESSION —The second annual session of the Summer School at Lincoln Institute will begin on Monday, June 20th, and continue seven weeks. JACKSON, MISS. "PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD" Sermon Delivered Sunday Afternoon, August 21, at Seattle, Washington, by Elder J. M. Webb, Evangelist of the Church of God. "This warning was written in a letter by the Apostle Paul to the disciples of the church of God at Ephesus. It seems that Paul was warning them to put on all the Christian armor of God, and not a part of it. I will endeavor to say if a Christian only has a part of the armor on while fighting against the carnal things of this dark and wicked world he or she will certainly meet with defeat, because it will take all the armor of God to gain a Christian victory in these modern days, more so than it did in the days of Paul. I will admit that the devil, which is Satan, was very devouring toward the Christian workers in ancient times. He made men and women do and commit evil more openly and boldly then, but he has now changed from his ancient system and adopted a system so as to deceive these modern workers of humanity, and his system is this: 'He calls men and women to do evil secretly as possible and, also, as scientifically as possible.' So, this modern system of the devil will deceive the most devoted Christian and cause them to meet with defeat while fighting and contending for an eternal Christian home unless they have on the whole armor of God. Because of the manner in which the devil is harvesting in the human family through his secret and scientific system, men and women should use more precaution in putting on the Christian uniform and also put on all the armor of God with it. Look how much precaution the female sex use in dressing the hair and also adorning themselves with stylish wearing apparel. I have been told when they expect to attend the theater to see a great show they will begin the morning preceding the show night to dress hair from breakfast till lunch and from lunch to dinner. They will consume the latter part of the time in adorning themselves with their stylish wearing apparel, and the hours they spend in preparing themselves are the most painstaking hours in their lives. The Christian should use the same precaution in putting on the Christian uniform and also put on the whole armor of God with it. It THE MILK MACHINE COMPANY less-, Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, cultural, and various industrial departments. Enrollment of students for the last year was. The location is one of the most desirable and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated industrial departments. Fail term opens, furnished room only $6.85 a month. For fur-president, R. W. McGranahan, d. D., Knox- and Industrial College DOWN, TENN. 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Our Specialist will diagnose your case, tell you what is wrong, and free Dr. MILES MEDICAL CO., LAEORATORIES, ELKHART, IND.** don't require the time from breakfast till lunch to dress in the Christian uniform, nor neither will it take from lunch till dinner to put on the whole armor of God. As quick as he or she accepts the word of God they have dressed in the Christian uniform, and also as quick as they execute its ingredients they will have on the whole armor of God, which is able to quench the fiery darts of the wickedness of this world. ANDREW CARNEGE. BY Sylvester RUSSELL. Millions of people read of thee— Andrew Carnegie. We hope you'll live for many years, Taun monarch of millionaire. Rooksfeller's but a fee, Comparing him with thee. Ten million books paid for by thee— Andrew Carnegie— Libraries in every land; I think you'll hold the winning hand. When rich men come to 'dee," Dear Andrew Carnegie! Six hundred thousand dollars, whee! Audrew Carnegie, To help poor Tuskegee through. Good luck to them, good luck to you. Blessings from Booker T. All, Carnegie, for thee! Although you're rich as rich can be, Andrew Carnegie, and hope some day to die real poor; You'll have a decent grave, I'm sure; Inscription there should be: "Our Andrew Carnegie!" TALLAHASSE, FLA., ITEMS. Tallahassee, Fla., Special.—The Afro-American Industrial and Benefit Association is moving along in the right road.—Jim Mosely, the paralytic, is progressing slowly. Drs. Gunn, Jerry and Palmer agreed that "Jim's" sickness will be protracted. Scrittillations. BY O. E. DUNCAN Good morning. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." Of the numerous presidential nominees, Tom Watson, of the People's party, is the most firey. The greatest power one can possess, is the power of making friends. After a silence of several years, what a pleasant surprise it is to meet old classmates. The United States Steel Corporation is the greatest and richest institution in America. It pays its president a salary double that of the president of the United States and its three directors are John D Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. If Judge Parker is elected the eligible candidates for the respective cabinet positions will be as follows: A. P. Gorman, secretary of state; James K. Vardeman, secretary of war; Ben Tillman, secretary of the treasury; John Temple Grave, secretary of the navy and John Sharp Williams, postmaster general. The other positions will be filled handily. When one looks at the possible triumph of the democrats in November and the attitude in which these leaders of the democracy hold the Negro, he can only hope for a reverse. SONGS OF HOPE. BY B. T. HARVEY, PERU, IND. BOOKER WASHINGTON'S PLEADING S Than dress thyself in clothes that's fine, And live and die debauched with wine. Better, my boy, to think and know, Passing through life, your boat to row. Than drift with the tide down life's stream, And spend your life in idle dream. Better, my boy, with honest heart, While living this wicked mart, Than a heart of deceit and gulle, With manners bad and language vile. Better, my boy, to be alone, With parents, brothers, sisters gone, Than in a crowd of dissipates Who lotter 'round the devil's gates. Better, my boy, and humble saint Wearing none of the devil's paint, Than be a white washed hypocrite, Who charges garb evry forright. Better, my boy, to love thy God, Even under His chas'ing rod, Than to serve the devil in sin, Who, at the last, your soul will win. MOVE ON, WHITE MAN; MOVE ON, WHITE MAN. The black man is coming, Move on; He's forging straight ahead, Move on; He's in the fight to stay, Upwards he makes his way, Tolling on night and day, Move on; The black man is learning, Move on; How to row his own boat, Move on; With strong and brawny arms With city homes and farms, Its these which give alarms, Move on; The black man is gaining, Move on; Don't try to keep him back, Move on; When you stop by the way, With him to fight or play, You're making both delay, Move on; The black man is climbing, Move on; His grip is firm and strong, Move on; Needn't try to keep him back, Nor make him leave the track, His speed he will not slack, Move on. Joliet Pick-Ups-Personals. Jolist, Ill., Special.—Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brown are in Hudson, Mich. visiting Mrs. Brown's mother. Messers Frank Wilson and Emmet Carter, of Kenwood, Chicago, Ill., are calling on Joliet friends. Mr. F. Howard is home from a visit with old friends in Morris. Meadows E. C. Dishman, S. Ragland and S. White were called to Morris by the death of their uncle, William Floyd. Rev. J. H Fisher held bush meeting at Henry's Grove Sunday. The evening services were interrupted by a heavy rain storm. Rev. Register brought his two weeks' camp-meeting to a successful close, with the parable of the Prodigial son. Mrs. Robert Jasper has recovered from a severe illness. Mr. John Tice and sister, Minerva of Austin, Chicago, are visiting Mrs. Wm. Junions and Mrs. Cown Jesnp. A pleasant surprise was given by Miss Eileen Johnson on Mr. John Trice, Saturday evening. Miss Ida Barton of Denets shoe store is spending her vacation with her grand- --- IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS.... Edited by O. E. DUNCAN. GOT $25,000 BY TAKING Dr Henrygoldsea w. Robertson's 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 haside. He kept drunk for years, but after a friend of mine advised me to see Doctor R bertson I took her and 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. This is to certify that Dr. Robertson is great. I had been fighting for my bounties so long until I met him and after 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. ARTFUL TAKES RICH FUTURITY IN A ROMP. Artful won the Futurity on the opening day at Sheepshead Bay fall meeting Tradition was second and Sysonby third. Sysonby was the favorite, but could do no better than get third money. The start was a good one, with Sysonby breaking in front. Artful second and Tradition third. The race was practically between these three, Sysonby leading to the bend, then the light weighted Artful took command and held it to the end, winning easily by five lengths. Tradition and Sysonby had a hot fight for second money, the Pagent colt winning by a head. The race was worth $55,000. To say that Munroe is an accident, is only putting it in the mildest tone possible, as he plainly demonstrated to the sporting world in his "fight" with Jefries on Friday night of last week. It is simply horrible to entertain the thought that a man will carry a bounty mother, Mrs. Harris, at Peoria, Ill. Miss Florence Morris was surprised on her birthday by a luncheon. Mr. Wm. Stevens of Beuro Junction, Mr. & Mrs. George Lambert, Mrs. Maggie Taylor, P. G. W. C. of I. O. O. C., Mrs. Bass and Mrs. Greenlee, all of Chicago, were recent visitors in Joliet. Miss Florence Stevenson and Miss Myrtle Dishman are in Englewood with relatives and friends. A Prize Cake Walk. Mackinac Island, Mich, Special.—A grand prize cake walk was given by Madam Thomas at the Dewey Hall on the 17th of August. The contestants were John Parker and Mrs. Burnam, Eugene Palmer and Mrs. Jones and Edward Thomas and Mrs. Warfield. The affair was attended by quite a large audience. The prize of $10 00 in gold and cake was won by Mr. Palmer and Mrs. Jones. This couple has entered into several contests and each time succeeded in winning the prize. The successful pair are waiters of the Grand Hotel, Messrs. Tass Fowler, Edward Jones and H. Warfield will soon return to their homes from the Grand Hotel, where they are reported as having enjoyed quite a successful season. Colored Exposition at Ft. Smith—The Famous Kloeht Brass Band. Ft. Smith, Ark, Special.—The third annual celebration of the Ft. Smith Colored Agricultural Industrial Expo TESTIMONIAL8. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that D afflicted for months; could not raise up my hand until I immediately. He came to my home and told me what I withdrew. To the public in general: Allow me to express w me. I was sick for five pears and my husband was near fifteen years and we could not succeed in anything until moved the spells and sickness entirely; now we are happy to visit our city. Very respectfully, Mrs. I. V. Norman Orleans, La. Dear Friends: This is to certify that Dr. Henrygo My husband was so cross when he would come to the ho drunk for years, but after a friend of mine advised me to have we our own home and a large farm, Vickburg, Miss. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Dear Friend—I received the堤 it three days I left a new woman; all swellin I am, yours truly, J. J. Holland, Mobile, Ala. I have until I thought there was no hope, but after reading of it my money and have settled up all debts and are in a pre him forever. D. H. Hunt, Chicago, Ill. Dr. H. W. Robertson: Lear Sir—Allow me to thank my wife for her kindness. The town and the town and he is now better than ever. You will always two full rounds without even getting in a chance slap, but that is just what Jack did. In the second round of what promised to be a twenty round go, Jim Jeffries, with a cruel left hook and a savage right swing, placed Jack Munroe safe in the folds of the forgotten. Young Bob Fitzsimmons, of 502 E Walnut St., Bloomington, Ill., says that he would like to meet any fighter who can make 148 pounds at 9 a. m., before the club offering the best purse. Freddie Cole olinched the fact that he was Ted Henderson's superior by forcing him to quit in the fifth round of their fight Friday night. Bullock is the star member of the Dartmouth College foot ball team, and is the only Negro playing with the big colleges this year. The news of school athletics will be published in The Freeman beginning with the issue of Sept. 17. Munpoe is off the map. sition opened its gates to the public September 6-10 inclusive. No pains were spared in making the exposition the greatest of its kind ever held in this state. The famous Kloeth brass band, of Hot Springs, has been engaged for the occasion. ONE FARE PLUS SI To Baltimore, Md., and return via Big Four Route account National Convention Eagles. Tickets sold September 10 and 11, 1904. Good returning until September 19 with privilege of extension to September 25, 1904, under certain conditions. Warren J. Lynch, G. P. & T. A., Cluctnatti, O., or H. M. Bronson, A. G. P. A., Indianapolis. 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 25 cts. at Druggists and Deslers. One-pound Box 25 cts, at Drungists and Dealers. SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Safe and Reasonable always. We make loans on FURNITURE, ORGANS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removal. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, $25.00 loan, payments are only 60c per week. This pays in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan, WAONIES and DIAMONDS. All business strictly private, courteous treatment to all. It cost nothing to investigate. CENTRAL LOAN CO. Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E Washington Street) New Phone... 4270 The Augres Bulletin This store closes daily at 5 P. M. Saturdays at 12:30 noon. Four New "Tourist COATS" So far as styles are concerned, every one is a "tourist" this fall; at least that seems to be the assumption of the coat-makers. Three quarter to full length "tourist coats" of cloth and covert are practically the only styles which are at all in evidence. But they're pretty coats, and not at all severe in either outline or embellishment. Here are four that should interest you, all within a week. Will Johns is back from Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Geo. W. Hilliard visited the gas belt last week. Miss Ambia Keene returned Monday to resume work. All society uses Woodbine Perfume, Blodau's drug store. Miss Carrie Boyer will entertain the City Normal School, Monday. Luvinla Jackson of Terre Haute spent a few days in the city last week. Benjamin F. Chinn, of Springfield, O., was visiting his sister Sunday. Mrs. Marla Spears will spend a few weeks in Toledo, Ohio and Paris, Ky. Meet your friends at the Taylor-Birch dance Tuesday night at Odd Fellows Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Turner, of Anderson, attended the Business League last week. Two new supervisors have arrived to take up work in the Indianapolis schools. Miss Clara Coley has returned to Chicago after spending a few weeks with her parents. The Blus and White Club will have their second dance next Tuesday evening. Sept. 13. Miss Clara Tolbert of West 11th left Monday to take charge of her school in Maysville, Ky. The home of Rev. N. A. Seymour and wife was nearly destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Mrs. Hardin has returned to her home in Chicago, after spending a week with Bishop and Mrs. Grant. Mrs. Carrie Ross, of Simpson chapel, gave an entertainment at the home of Mrs. Modade on last Tuesday. Mrs. J. Johnson, of Chicago, and Miss Braby, of Kokomo, Ind., are visiting Mrs. R. Moss in Mo street. Sam Sooggins and Sam Fleminga spent last Sunday in Anderson the of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Turner. Mrs. Gabriel Jones has returned from a pleasant trip in Michigan. Mrs Jones is much improved in health. Messers A. E. Manning and George L Knok attended the Afro-American Council at St. Louis, Mo. this week. Mrs. Susie Rounds left for Chicago to visit friends from there, she will join her husband in Seattle, Wash. the last of September. Mrs. Ida Freeman, who has been visiting Mrs. Ella Bowman in this city, returned to her home in Chicago last Sunday night. Misses Cora and Emma Carter have returned home after a two weeks visit with friends and relatives in Lexington and Paris, Ky. Uneeda good photo. Go to Bennett's, 86 E Washington street. WATCHES JEWELRY At Prices Beyond Compare J.P. MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place "A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Lil (Formerly Stevens Front Room. (15 E. Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Miss Carrie Anderson has returned to her home in Louisville, after spending a week with Miss Hattye Taylor in Vermont street. Rev. Woods, the pastor of Jones Tabernacle church, who has been quite ill for the past few weeks, is much improved at this writing. Mrs. Stewart and daughter, Miss Nettle left Monday for their home in Louisville. Miss Stewart is a teacher in the Louisville schools. The Flora Grant Missionary society met with much success in their plonic given at the home of Shepherd Hardricks last Monday in Norwood. The reception given on last Monday evening in honor of Bishop Caldwell, at Jones' Tabernacle church, was well attended, everyone seemed to enjoy himself. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, the versatile correspondent, went South by way of Louisville, stopping off to visit Prof W. H. Steward, R. W. Thompson and others. During the absence of Mrs. Sallie Brown in the East, her large hair manufacturing establishment was capably conducted by her daughter, Miss Julia B. Brown. The Rev. Mrs. Lena Mason will preach for the Union Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, on the second floor of Odd Fellows hall. The public is invited. The condition of Mrs. Annie Brown Lucas of 832 N. West street, remains practically unchanged. She has been quite ill for several months from a complication of diseases. Mr. and Mrs. Bass and son Paul, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Curry in California St., left for Kokomo Sunday to attend conference. They will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Pettiford. Miss Lanna Marshall gave a successful lawn fete, for the benefit of the Presbyterian church, at her home 4010 N. Senate avenue, on Tuesday evening Quite a number of people were present Mr. Wm. Bangh has returned from a pleasant vacation, Mr. Bangh visited his parents, whom he had not seen for nine years. The greater part of his vacation was spent in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Prof. F. S. Dalaney, until recently principal of the Colored High School of Louisville, Mr. R. W. Thompson, of New Albany and Mr. Warren King, of Cincinnati, were guests of Mr. W. H. Fielding last week. The Slayton Jubilee singers opened their season with an enjoyable performance and a large audience in Col. While passing through the city this week, they were pleasant callers to The Freeman office. Medames Susan Boyer and Lawyer Daugherty, 519 Ogden street, were agreeably surprised last week in having their mother, Mrs. Ed. Berry, of Cynthiana, Ky., to visit them and attend the league session. She returned home much delighted. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Brown have returned from an extended trip to New York, Boston and other Eastern points. They report a most enjoyable time. While in Boston Mr. Brown was a conspicuous participant in the proceedings of the G. A. R. encampment. Miss Emilie B. Wood, of Chicago, spent Business League week there, enroute from her old home in Springfield, O. She was the guest of her sister, Mrs Brummel of W. North street, and Mrs Lillian Brown of Bowman street During her stay, Miss Wood was the recipient of much social attention. Mrs Carrie Miller, of Simpson chapel gave a concert at that church on last Wednesday. The program consisted of several musical and literary numbers, and a colonial wedding which was the main feature of the evening. All participants in the wedding were dressed after the fashion of the colonial times and the concert was quite a success. One of the most deeply interested delegates to the Business League convention was Mr. Joseph Welch, a prosperous junk dealer of Jeffersonville, Ind. president of the local league of his city. He says he will double his business this year by virtue of the inspiration received at the great convention. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Unseeda 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. 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, 317 321 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. Our selection of DIAMONDS compriSES everything in Rugs from $5.00 to $850.00 each. Prices below all competition. Selection the finest in Indiana. Let me show you the line. CARLL. ROST DIAMOND MERCHANT 15 North Illinois Street. The Claypool Hotel is Opposite Me. Wholesale and Retail Paints, Oil and Glass 16 W. Market Street INDIANAPOLIS, . INDIANA Both Phones 388 H H. Hammer & Co. DEALERS IN Fancy Groceries and Meats Flour and Feed Hardware, Granite, Tinware, China and Glassware. 1901 and 1908 Yandes, cor. 19th Street. Phone, Main 3287. Use Hammerine for the Hair New Phone 1416, Res. New Phone 1107 Samuel Welch LIVERY AND SALE STABLE INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Taggarts Bakery 234 W. Vermont Street. 233, 235, 237 Massachusetts Avenue. 18, 20, 24 N. New Jersey Street. 1538 N. Illinois St. 1532 College Ave. Tomlinsou Hall Market HAVALUNCH In a Box for 10 cents. Read the Ads and then patronize them. T. W. Walker, TRANSFER AND STORAGE, COAL AND WOOD. 801 N. Capitol Avenue. New Phone 1306 Mrs. A. R. Moss, DRESSER OF Ostrich Feathers, FEATHERS CLEANED and DYED. 404 Indiana Avenue. 20 years Experience Franklin's Grocery, Full line of staple goods, Chickens, Eggs, Butter, Smoked Meats, Fruits and Vegetables. 427 W. Twelfth St. J. Q. Brookins, With H. T. Hearsey, 113, 115, 117 W. Market st. The only Colored Chaffeur in City. Restaurant. Mrs. N. Smothers. 515 Indiana Ave Sults made to order. Cleaning, dyeing and repairing 342 Indiana Avenue. New Phone 2666 Res. 507 Hiawatha St. Nathan T. Ward BONDS AND COLLECTIONS Office room 1. Wilson Building 12¾ N. Delaware Street The Freeman can be purchased every week at the fourth-fifth sixth street, a pawn, co. Texas, W. H. Lowry. Coca-Cola At all Saloons, Groceries. Cafes and Stands. 5c. a Bottle. C. O. DODSON DEALER IN Staple and Fancy GROCERIES REQUESTS YOUR PATRONAGE Good corn per can.....100 Union label tomatoes, 3 cans.....250 Best ple peaches per can.....100 Best ple apples per can.....50 Pure food succatasch 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 creamy butter @ .250 545 Indiana Avenue NEW PHONE 2471 PRICES TALK GEO. G. HILL with E. Octavus Mack, Lawyer Bonds & Collections Room 1, 12 N. Delaware St. Phone 2095 Mainapolis, Indiana. O. H. MORGAN JAMES N. SHELTON Old 299 1 Red-Phones-New 3058 Morgan & Shelton (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Best Service. Lady Attendant Fair Prices. 417 Indiana Ave. Open all Night PAINTS, OIL AND VARNISHES. TIN AND GALVANIZED IRON WORK FRANK H. PRUNK Hardware, Pumps, Pipes, Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE. Telphone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA Household Goods New and Second-Hand Strictly First-class Highest price paid for Second-Hand Goods. Repairing Of All Kinds J L. BEATTEY N. E. cor. Senate and Indiana Avenues NEEDMORE EXCHANGE Charles E. Lewis, Manager. Brutus Owens at the Bar. ana Avenue. Phone, Main 4277 Wanted--Colored Women To learn hair-dressing, manicuring, chiropy and dermatology. We secure positions for you, or start you in business. We teach by mail. Send stamp for information. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. DIVORCEN LEGAL State of Indiana, Marion Co.ors: in the Circuit Court of Marion Co. in the State of Indiana. No.18492 Oscar Gray Complaint for Divorce, BE IT KNOWN That on the 6th day of Sept. 1904, the above named plaintiff, yiled in the office of the Clerk of the circuit court of Marion county, in the state of Indiana, her complaint against the above named Gray and the said plaintiff having also in said Clerk of the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant, Oscar Gray is not a resident of the state of Indiana; that said defendant is the above named defendant is a necessary person, whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or demand their answer, by endorsement of said cause on the 6th day of November, 1904, the same being the 80th judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begin and held at the court in Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in October, the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. W.M. E. DAVIS, Clerk. C. O'Keeff T. V. HILL, Attorney for Plaintiff 2003 E. Washington Street, Suite 8 and 8. Bottling Works 742 E. Washington Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. THE CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK With Capital, Surplus and Profits of $40,000, and total resources of $5,000,000, respectfully solicits the business of banks, bankers, firms, corporations, manufacturers and individuals, to whom every accommodation consistent with correct banking will be extended. Frand Powell, president: OFFICERS—— Hiram W. Moore, cashier; Wm. F. Churchman, vice-president; Gwynn F. Patterson, ass't cashier. REGULAR GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY. Direct banking connections in every county in the State of Indiana. RELIANCE ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE 209 Massachusetts Ave Private Entrance: 108 East Ohio Street. Indianapolis, Ind Ohio Farmers' Fire INSURANCE CO. Geo. M. Cobb Co. Agts 239 Newton Claypool Bldg. Indianapolis WILLIAM BOSSON, President LAWRENCE W. GEORGE, Sec'y New Phone 3341 Children's Certificates (educational life starting) Five per cent. Annuity certificates Deposit for Savings Four per cent. Real Estate and Rental Agents Fire and Tornado Insurance Property bought and sold CASH FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE OR BUSINESS SECOND-HAND GOODS Bought and Sold. All kinds of Stove and Furniture Repairing. 25 and 427 Indiana Ave The City's Best Cloth Sale of 1,000 [Boys' CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SUITS, two-piece, Norfolk styles, pretty checks and plain bargain suits at..... BOYS' STRONG SUITS, double-breasted, three-piece Vest Suits, all the new fall cashimeres and fine cheviots, sizes 4 to STRONG SCHOOL SUITS, heavy wool Sco- rials; will wear like leather, fancy mix winter styles, all sizes 4 to 15 years; gra STYLISH SCHOOL SUITS, $30 fine sam- ple, double-breasted and sailor styles, sti- plain colors; $6.00 grades are $3.98, and STUCKY'S HEAD for immediate relief of headache ... Fine California Wines STUCKY'S D COR. ILLINOIS KUHN Wholesale & Fine Cutsof B StarStore 360-370 W. WASHINGTON ST Best Clothing Store Offers a Boys' Sample School Suits FTS, two-piece double-breasted and fancy checks and plaids, sizes 4 to 14 years, 500 $1.00 double-breasted and Norfolk styles, also the new fall checks and plaids, in wool lots, sizes 4 to 14 years, $2.25 and $2.50 values $1.50 heavy wool Scotch mixtures, tough mate- er, fancy mixtures in prevailing fall and to 15 years, grand values at $2.48 and... $1.98 300 fine sample school suits, Norfolk, nor styles, sizes 3 to 16 years, fancy and rare $3.98, and $4.00 to $5.00 grades at... $2.98 HEADACHE CAPSULES headache ... 10c and 25c a box 25c a quart bottle 'S DRUG STORE ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET IN BROS. sale & Retail Meats the Cutsof Beef a specialty. The StarStore 360-370 W.WASHINGTON ST CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SUITS, two-piece double-breasted and fancy Nortfolk styles, pretty checks and plaids, sizes 4 to 14 years, 500 bargain suits at..... $1.00 BOYS' STRONG SUITS, double-breasted and Norfolk styles, also three-piece Vest Suits, all the new fall checks and plaids. in wool cashmere and fine cheviot, sizes 4 to 15 years, $2.25 and $2.50 values..... $1.50 STRONG SCHOOL SUITS, heavy wool Scotch mixtures, tough materials; will wear like leather; fancy mixtures in prevailing fall and winter styles, all sizes 4 to 15 years; grand values at $2.48 and ..... $1.98 STYLISH SCHOOL SUITS, 300 fine sample school suits, Norfolk, double-breasted and sailor styles, sizes 3 to 16 years, fancy and plain colors; $6.00 grades are $3.98, and $4.00 to $5.00 grades at..... $2.98 STUCKY'S HEADACHE CAPSULES STUCKY'S DRUG STORE COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET THERE IS NO EX for having that co Pink's White SPE will cure it. Price 25 PINK'S Cut R £50 Indiana Avenue NO EXCUSE ing that cough when a bottle of White Pine Expectorant SPECIAL It. Price 250 a bottle, for sale only at Rate PHARMACY Indiana Avenue, cor. West Street. R HATS AT n's Hat Store THERE IS NO EXCUSE will cure it. Price 250 a bottle, for sale only at PINK'S Cut Rate PHARMACY 630 Indiana Avenue, cor. West Street. BUY YOUR HATS AT 29 N. Pennsylvania Street Will do more cooking with less gas than any other make. VONNEGUT HARDWARE CO. 120-124 E. Washington St. Both Phones, 589. Coal AND Coke WHITE RIVER FUEL CO. S. West St. and Vandalia R., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. New Phone 1700. Old Phone 1700 Main Substantial friend of The Freeman. Peters & Burdge Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 FINANCIAL. Inspect our unredeemed pledges, where everything in Jewelry can beOUND. We can save you money. Money.Advanced on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry or any Article of Value Capital Stock, $190,000 The Annuity and Savings Fund Co. of Indianapolis, Ind. Offices 29, 30 and 31 Fitzgerald Building Northeast corner Market and Circle Manager Real Estate, Insurance and Rental Department Real Estate Mortgage and Collateral Loans no matter where it is located. Send me description of your property, state its price and I will tell you what I can do for you. If you want to buy prop- erty or a business of any kind, tell me what you want. I can suit you. E.C. BROWN, 2123 Madison Ave., Newport-News. Va. 407 W. Michigan St.