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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 36 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW Lingering Echoes of the National Negro Business League - Reflections for Coming Year-Cosmopolitanism in Education. The Business League convention is over but its spirit abideth with us still. The bustle and hustle are gone but the echoes linger. The civic pride of Indianapolis is equal to the severe strain placed upon it. In a thriving community where so many factors are pushing forward and where strong ambitions are constantly clashing there is bound to be more or less friction. But, be it said to the credit of the big hearted public spirted men and women of the Hoosier capital that whatever differences may have existed as to methods or individual pre-eminence prior to the great gathering was studiously submerged for the general good, and all put their best foot foremost to insure a profitable and pleasing season for the stranger within the city's gates. That the affair was successful beyond description is due to the united effort of all elements of the varied population of Indianapolis and was a magnificent object lesson of the potent results that could scrue permanently in the "city of concentric circles" with cordial co-operation and unanimity of purpose. The National Negro Business League will long remember Indianapolis and her hospitable people. After all is said and done could the personnel of the local committees and their auxiliaries have been improved upon? As one who has known Indianapolis for a quarter of a century—known her metes and bounds from Broad Ripple to Pleasant run and from Pendleton pike to Esgle creek—we are frank to say we doubt it. There was in the entire movement from start to finish intelligence, energy, concentration, system, singleness of purpose and enthusiasm that never died out. In the vanguard were the courtly Knox, the tireless Furniss, the effervescent Cable, the painstaking Lott, the keen eyed Kersey, the thorough going Morgan, the resourceful Manning, the far seeing Sanders, the practical Brewer, the astute Stewart—no aggregation could have covered the situation more severely, or brought to bear a broader versatility of talents. Of the ladies prominently identified with the work we may speak of a few without drawing invidious comparisons. No city can present a coterie of the fair sex who combine more of the ideal feminine graces—beauty, culture, education, taste and social accomplishments than Mrs. Beulah Worter Porter, who very fittingly led the grand march at the banquet with Dr. Washington; Mrs. Sarah F. Hart, at whose handsome home Mrs. Washington was royally entertained; Mrs. Lillian Thomas Fox, whose facile pen on the Evening News aided materially in publicity and promotion, and Mesdames Knox, Brown, Hill, Moss, Webb, Bryant, Cox, Shelton, Jackson, Stewart, Lewis, Miner, Davis and a host of others of similar enterprise and zeal. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon these ladies and gentlemen for the unselfish labor which they performed through many weeks at great personal sacrifice in both time and money. When their epitaph comes to be written those of us who recall the glorious results growing out of the League's greatest year will inscribe thereon: "They did things!" The League was fortunate in its plenitude of distinguished visitors. There was ample food for reflection in the subjects scheduled on the printed program but some of the very best offerings were not down on the bill and Dr Washington was readily forgiven for delicately and adroitly cutting off the minutes of a few in order that as many as possible might be heard. Among the notables who delivered choice addresses addresses aside from those mentioned in our report of last week were Bishop B. W. Arnett, Dr. M. C. B. Mason, Dr. L. G. Jordan, Hon. J. Madison Vance, Rev. C. H. Parish, Editor M. M. Lewew and Dr. J. M. Townsend. The delegates, we are glad to say, listened to all that was said with an eagerness that bodes well for the future of the race—this child race of ours, if you please, that is going to school in commerce, business and concentration of capital. They are carrying home with them an inspiration that will crystalize into a more determined effort to make the coming year show to better advantage than the last in old enterprises strengthened and new ones inaugurated. It must not be imagined that the local WE HOLD THESE TRUES TO BE SELF- EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHT, AND THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LABER- TY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. LOOK AT THE SCARF CROW. THE NATIONAL CREED. And yet there are those who would trample under foot—repudiate the priceless heritage—the essence of the national creed—truth and right spoken by men when made mad by oppression and wrong. The immortal Lincoln, here, drank Leagues must wait until the time to elect delegates to get in action. The real work—the real benefit to the people—must come through the constant, steady and systematic campaign of education set on foot by the little local bodies scattered all over the country. The national organization inspires but it is merely if a "clearing house," representing the aggregated efforts of the Negro people's vast army of helpers. Don't neglect the local organizations and the New York meeting, next year, will show a still larger balance to our credit in the ledger of commercial and financial eminence. If that "typical young Georgian" at the Gainesville, Va., army maneuvers is satisfied with having made a "jass-ack" of himself by impatiently refusing to salute a superior officer, who happened to be colored, the sensible people of the country will have to stand it. A dose of guard-house would have been the best medicine in the world for this sprig's aggravated case of ingrowing "cad-ism." "The appointment of Prof. F. S. Delany to the principalship of one of the best school buildings in Indianapolis will be gratifying to his host of admirers who dislike the cavalier way in which he was treated in Louisville. He was summarily deposed INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1904. no would trample under foot— the essence of the national by men when made mad by immortal Lincoln, here, drank deep, dying for issued life for oppression's h from the office of principal of the Colored High School for no other reason than that his place was wanted for another man. Prof. Delany had served most capably, and there were no charges of any kind against him. He will be congenially situated in Indianapolis, and the already excellent schools of that city will receive a new impetus by reason of his presence. Education is a universal need and competent teachers should be welcomed no matter from where they hail. The world is growing too cosmopolitan to have any patience with the wails of narrow-minded, self-sufficient provincialists who are prone to denounce the infusion of rich, red life-giving blood as the "raid of the interloper" and "foreign invasion." Indianapolis should and will give Prof. Delany the "glad hand." The Collis P. Huntington memorial building at Tuskegee has been completed. It is to house the enlarged academic department and is admirably adapted to the purpose. The building is a brick structure of four stories, and the plans of the architect, the making and laying of the brick, the carpenter work and the installation of the lighting heating plants are the product of Tuskegee's teacher and student labor. The structure is almost wholly a home-grown affair. Every man, woman and child in Louis- deep, dying for his faith; but our issued life forever more, for oppression's hand is known. deep, dying for his faith; but out of his wounds, O, consolation issued life forever more, for millions and millions where'er oppression's hand is known. ville, Ky., knows Dr. James H Fitzbutler, the son of the late Dr. Henry Fitzbutler, the founder of the Louisville National Medical College, the only institution WAITERS GIVE GRAND BALL K. P. Hall Crowded to Its Capacity by Merry Dancers-Personal and Other Happenings. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Special.-The ball given by the Grand Hotel waiters proved to be a financial success. The K. of P. Hall was crowded to its full capacity. Messrs. T. S. Britt and A. C. Jeffries, floor managers, saw to it that good order prevailed. It is stated by people that have lived for many years that this ball "cleaned up" all previous to it. Mr. J. Givens looked after the door; Mr. J. Lewis the bar; T. S. Britt and A. C. Jeffries the floor. A grand entertainment was given at K. of P. Hall on the 15th for the benefit of the two young men that are confined in the county jail. The parents of the boys were on hand to receive the funds. This money is being raised to help pay the lawyers who --- PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY- SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR $1,50. are defending them. The grand jury indicted them for murder in the second degree. Mr. Ed. Burke met with a serious accident one night last week by being struck with a Northwestern car. Messrs J. Givens and G. Marks left last week for St. Louis. Mr. William Blackburn and two little children left last Sunday evening for Indianapolis, Ind., to attend the bedside of his sick mother. Mr. George Lovert has rented a beautiful cottage on West Broadway in which he expects to run a boarding house for colored people. The Freeman is for sale every Saturday by T. S. Britt at 1102 Avenue B. A PROMINENT MUSICIAN Trained in a Leading Conservatory of America. Mr. Brown comes to our city highly recommended as a teacher, pianist, organist and chorister. He has concerted and taught in new York, Chiesgo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and has an almost universal reputation. He was trained in the leading Cons-rvatory of America (New York). He is the owner of no small repute and a gentleman of high integrity. He is at 115 Emmett street. Phone 1612 main-ring 3. INDIANA'S WATERING PLACE. The Knights of Pythias Hold Grand Reception in Honor of Dr. S. A. Levels of Hot Springs. French Lick, Ind., Special.—Mr. and Mrs. George Hughes entertained Dr. S. A. Levels of Hot Springs, Ark., at dinner Sunday. Mr. Pony Moore of Chicago, Ill., spent several days here as the guest of Mr. Erbin Slye. Mr. Moore is the proprietor of the well known "Hotel D'Moore of Chicago. C. C. Seymour has gone to St. Louis. A large crowd attended the church sup- per at the residence of Mrs. James Forrest. Mrs. R. A. Schaefer is visiting in Chicago. George Waddy is seeing the World's Fair in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Schaefer served five o'clock dinner on Friday in honor of Dr. S. A. Levels of Hot Springs, Ark. Beck Davis and John Furman were in Indianapolis a few days. Will Watts and Rob Holden have returned from Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Williams are in St. Louis. Mr. John Eubanks was here a few days on pleasure. Mrs. Ed. Grant has moved to Louisville. Mrs. Carrie Pitman has returned after an extended trip through Ohio, Michigan and Canada. Henry Williams and Will Cannon are back from Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Payne served 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Dr. S. A. Levels of Hot Springs, Ark., on Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Williams of Louisville was the guest of Mrs. Virgie Grant a few days. Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Carrie Fields, Mrs. Watts McNairy, Misses Ida Holden and Mattie Williams, Messrs. Arthur Miller and Charles Morgan spent Sunday in Chicago. Master John Allen Babbage has gone to Louisville to enter school at the State University. George Price has gone to Chicago. E. I. Masterson and George Reeves were here a few days on business. French Lick and West Baden presented a full representation, Monday evening, at the social in Draburg Hall in honor of Dr. S. A. Levels of Hot Springs. Dr. Levels has been in the valley several weeks drinking the waters, and though here seeking health, he rendered valuable service to a young K. P. organization during his stay here, and it was because of this that the merry-making in his honor was held Monday evening. Music was furnished by Prof. Montan's orchestra. Admission and dancing was as free as the air. Everybody spent an evening of pleasure. The address of the evening was rendered by Dr. S. A. Levels and was replete with Pythianism, the fine points of which the knights had the pleasure of enjoying. Response by Chas. Morgan, C. C. of local K. of P.'s. The doctor left on Wednesday for St. Louis, thence to Hot Springs. Johnnie Mitchell is visiting Erbin Slye. Mrs Nannie Wilson is visiting Miss Nannie Procter. Mr. Erbin Slye, who has been confined to his room several days, is much improved. The cool weather affords fine walking for the water drinkers sojourning here, and at 5 a.m. the walks, groves, road and hillsides are covered. Miss Nannie Proctor has secured exclusive interest of the European Cate, and under her supervision the place has been elaborately improved. POET ON DEATH BED. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Can Not Live More Than a Month. Dayton, Ohio, Special.—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the well known colored poet, is in a critical condition from consumption, at the home of his mother in this city. It is said that Mr. Dunbar's doctors have given him only one month to live. On May 8th he contracted pneumonia, while in New York, and despite the most expert care it developed into tuberculor trouble. 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Election November 8 The demands in all parts of this country, and in several foreign countries, for well trained men of our race in the direction of scientific and practical agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer exceptional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to supply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agriculture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. We wish to get hold of men who have received, as far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Freeman's Arkansas Bureau. Commencing. The George Wither is secured every Saturday at George Wither's barber shop, East Barrique. Springs, Ark. Henry F. Fost- general agent THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. IN AND AROUND CHICAGO. Chicago, Ill., Special.—A few lines concerning personal and business from the Windy City. There are so many things that can be said about Chicago and her people we hardly know where to begin to speak of the race of which we are identified. In business they are making a rapid progress in the part of Chicago that we will now write of. Among the business people, in a space of three blocks wide and four blocks long we find nearly all the following people doing business Nearly all of them of whom we speak of are admirers of Booker T. Washington. Endeavoring to do what they can and do it well with dignity, and, strange to say, but few of them mix in politics. They are strictly of a moral character and a religious continent. Such will elevate the race. Mrs. Fanny Ralston, bakery, confectionery and staple groceries of long standing at 4837 State street. George Lipecomb, second-hand furniture and upholstering is meeting with ample success at 4915 State street. Modiste, Parisian Milliner, presided over by D. S. Ball and M. A. Walton at 4920 State street seems to meet the approval of the ladies. The Ideal Restaurant and Lunch Room, 135 W. Fifty-first street, managed by A. D. Brown, furnishes the boys of that part of the town with all of the good eatables. G. W. Hilton, the grocer, is meeting with ample success at 4942 State street. The Ladies' and Gent's Shining Parlor, 4902 State street, run by J. A. Gray, who gives general satisfaction. Mrs. S. Harvey, the Masseur and shampoor, has plenty to do, with offices at 4827 State street. W. S. Collins, express mover, coal and wood, meets the wants of all, 158 East Forty seventh street. R. Finn, tonsorial proprietor, 4942 State street, is a busy man during the business hours of each day. He gives electric and massage baths Tue Oayx Club, where the boys pass their leisure hours with Woodfork and Mitchell, 4902 State street. H. Battise, the artist, who parts his hair in the center, is the proprietor of a barber shop, billiard hall and pool room at 135 West Forty seventh street. The Goat Exchange is a handsome sample room, conducted by Carlmore and Carson at 120 W. Fifty-first street. C. E. Doswell, at 116 W. Fifty-first, is one among our first class barbers. Jones' Cosmopolitan barber shop, at 4838 State street, with laundry office and news stand attached is the place to get this paper with the latest Chicago news every week. Leave your orders in advance and bring your news. T. H. Kates has opened a first class tailoring shop at 4922 State street. He is up-to-date and will meet with success. The Cleaning and Dyeing establishment at 133 W. Fifty first street is meeting with success, conducted by Mme. Jessie and Motjoy. The ladies are all talking about it. Mrs. Toler, the eldest established milliner, is taking in her fall styles at 4656 State street. She is there with the goods. George Hutchins, tin worker at 4838 Dearborn street is a handy man with tools. He can plumber or fit gas. B. H. Johnson, the van man of Armour avenue, is continually busy at 4846 Armour avenue. L. T. Clark, at 5009 Dearborn street, continues to turn out the hair tonic which makes bald head men laugh. Rastus Burrows, the Forty-seventh street expressman, is meeting with a business success. F. A. Rollins, the well known undertaker and embalmer at 4834 State street, is meeting with ample success—on the dead. Dr. Wooldridge, formerly of the West side now at 4900 State street, is meeting with unexpected success. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE. for the study of medicine in the country completely owned and controlled by Negroes. The many friends of this brilliant young man will be glad to learn that he has just finished a postgraduate course in the Illinois Medical College at Chicago, coming out with an examination record that has not been surpassed many times in that great school. He also attended a course in surgical clinics with Dr. Daniel H. Williams at Provident and Cook County hospitals. But this is not all. Before quitting Chicago's hospitable shores Dr. Fitzbutler, bearing in mind the divine injunction that "it is not good for man to be alone" took unto himself a charming little wife, in the person of Miss Mae Agnes Hamilton of the St. Louis public schools, but who was spending her vacation in the city by the lake. She is proving to be a helpmeet, indeed, and a welcome addition to the social circles of the Kentucky metropolis. The alliance came as the olimax T. J. Rogers, Sixty-first and Throop streets, shoes horses as fast as they come to him. J. E. Shaw, veterinary, 6401 Madison avenue, has a fair practice. B. F. Sheridan, 1438 Sixty-first street, grocery and ice dealer, is supplying the wants of many. Harry McKim conducts a sample room at 1434 West Sixty-first street and meets the wants of the boys. Mrs. Bendelle Kliby, private nurse, has all she can do at 4900 State street. Dr. L. W. Lewis, 4711 State street, ranks high in that community. J. J. Banks, one of the oldest and best restaurants on the South Side at 4711 State street. Miss Mattle Pinn conducts an up-to-date restaurant and feeds the hungry at 4886 State street. Wm. Page, a pioneer barber, pool and billiard proprietor' has his share of the trade at 4920 State street. Mr. and Mrs. R. Lowery has opened a first class lunch at 4888 State street where she makes all comers welcome. Dunn & Hight conducts an antique sample room with a large patronage at 5050 State street. N. Burrell, the well known shoemaker and repairer on Forty-eighth street, near State, is a busy man every day. Mrs. Holdbrooke, the proprietor of a thriving restaurant and intelligent office at 4900 State street, is to be congratulated for her energy. M. Ross & Ralston, the famous chiropodist, manicurers, shampooers and Masseurs, are conducting a fine business with profit at 4827 State street. Joseph Plersaul is successfully conducting a pool and billiard hall at 5040 State street. The boys don't forget Joseph. Robert Farrow, 5003 State street, near police station, shaves the comers as fast as they come. "Bob" is one of the boys. T. N. Manly conducts a business like restaurant with much success at 110 W. Fifty-first street. J F. Williams is on hand with all the delicacies of the season in his restaurant at 114 W. Fifty-first street. George Glenwood has a handsome barbershop at 118 W. Fifty-first street Ladies and gents tailor shop with the latest styles, conducted by F. Abney at 116 W. Fifty-first street. J. W. Arms, Fifty-first street and Armour avenue, conveys coal and wood on short notices for all who need it J P. Parnell, Fifty-first and Dearborn streets, conducts a large grocery store with a number of clerks and does a thriving business. The colored Women's Twentieth Century Penny Club meets every Monday evening. None but ladies and active members. Gentlemen and active members Gentlemen can be honary members only. The object of this club is to purchase a lot and to build a business block, and they are meeting with the approval of the people Their money is being deposited in the bank for that purpose. Mrs. F. Ralston, president; Mrs. N. Hayes, vice-president; Mrs. Meeks, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Odom, trustees. Mrs. Theodore Hubbard and daughter, of Indiana, are receiving honors at 2729 Wabash avenue Mrs LeAlta has returned home with her children. Mrs. Sykman, of Louisville, Ky. is visiting her aunt's home at 4927 Armour avenue. Mrs. L. T. Clark, of 5009 Dearborn street, is having an enjoyable visit at Frankfort, Ky. she will visit Lexington on before returning home. Mrs. Taylor died of old age last week at 4847 Armour avenue. The triangle, an iner circle club, had a success at their entertainment. About 1,000 being present. The Freeman was greeted an called for by many on its arrival last Saturday noon, and before the day could turn into night they were all sold. Don't fall to leave your order at Jones' news stand. 4838 State street for this superior race journal and get a copy every Saturday while it is fresh from the press. Look out for next weeks Chicago news. Miss Maria Jones, of Troy, Ala. will arrive in Chicago soon to make it her home with her brother at 4838 State street. JONES. of a romance begun some years ago, but was a gratifying surprise to all who know the happy couple. Dr. Fitzbutler has resumed his practice in Louisville with offices at 945 W. Walnut street. With his added professional equipment and pleasing domestic partnership the future of Dr. Fitzbutler presents a most roate hue. SHARPS AND FLATS. Few weaknesses are so costly as stupidity. The National Negro Business League convention was a "corker." William Monroe Trotter had no business at the Business League's big meet. Southern whites incline to the opinion that the imitative Negro can become "too dog gored imitative," especially if the latter take a notion to organize a "Before Day Club" on the lines of the "Night Riders" and "Ku Klux Klan" of infamous memory. A. E. Manning is right, neither Indiana nor any other northeast state offers an "open door" to the "bad Negroes from the South." More schools, more teachers, more students, better buildings, more satisfactory equipment than ever before. With this hopeful outlook the Negro enters obserbly upon the work of a new educational year. The Star of Zion does well to cry "for shame" on the dirty tatties of the Boston Guardian in holding up as criminal the harmless prank of a boy to get back at a distinguished father, against whom it has a grudge. Only cowards make war upon women and children. A witty correspondent who claims to be on the inside terms the editorial page of the Washington Bee "a modern Mosate." Are Brother Chase's opinions constructed after the manner of a composite picture—or hash? The Business League is made up of free men who elect their officers without the aid or consent of a coterie of Boston meddlers and marplots. The selection of Rev. Julius R. Cox as traveling private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington is a wise one. Mr. Cox is one of our brightest and most reliable young man. He has had just the kind of experience to fill such a responsible and delicate position with satisfaction to the great educator, and he will be found a valuable addition to the Tuskegee staff. The Kentucky Standard calls him "Chump Clark" since the throat-cutting Missorian has shown himself up. It will be Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Did you start your boys and girls to school this week? If not, why not? The National Afro-American Council went off without a ripple. Notwithstanding the senseless slurs of the Boston Guardian everybody knows that the president of the National Negro Business League conducts the largest and most expensive colored business institution in this country. Roosevelt's letter of acceptance rings true. Prof. W. H. Steward was the logical choice for president of the National Afro-American Council. What is being done by the head of the Negro campaign bureau to get the race press into harmonious trim for the fight that ought to be waxing warm? Time to "smoke up," Brother Barnett! Opportunities for securing a home will never be better than now. Judging from the prosperous appearance of the southern delegates to the Business League the North doesn't need to feel so very sorry for the South. Fortune tellers, cheap jewelry fakirs, campaign demogogues, newspaper sharks, ex-slave pension schemers and jackagle preachers thrive best where ignorance abounds. The Negro is not necessarily a "strike breaker" because he accepts a chance to work in a place that another man voluntarily abandons. It is a divine right to accept employment where an opening can be found. It was ever thus! The strike of the packers has failed, as all strikes will fall in the long run. The unions must eventually come to the inevitable truth that strikes do not pay. Any question that can be settled at all can only be settled by arbitration. We are making progress when the condition of a house offers no index to the color of thereof. As long as labor unions decline to make common cause with their brother in black they are standing in their own light. T. Thomas Fortune may not have been chairman of the committee on resolutions in the Ark convention but Jay Wesley Cromwell must certainly have been corresponding secretary and compiler of the proceedings. Ask W. T. Menard. Lynch law must go! Where was Washington City's mercantile moguls during the Business League's big meet? We have concluded to pass Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson up for what he is. A true southern gentleman would have made amends for that uncalled for tride against the Tuskegee Wizard at St. Louis. The St. Louis fair and fuss will soon be over. The Negro press has gained its point early in the game. Things will be different when the next big fair comes around. Flight a man if you will but in the name of decency let his wife and children alone. There is no malice in riding a motorcycle a trifle beyond the speed limit. There are both malice and criminality in breaking up a church meeting and rioting with red-peper, hat-pins and red liquor as weapons. Rev. 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And gives him the one and only correct way of reaching THE NEGROES GREATEST THE NEGROES GREATEST WEAKNESS IN. HIS POLITICAL CONSERVATISM. Political vindictive measures are not always praiseworthy yet, however, it is absolutely necessary in a great many instances to resort to it to bring about the proper considerations whereby a constituency can open up the political stream of hope, love and inspection, and make the political fountain a stream at which all can drink in peace and happiness and the God of nature look on and smile because justice has spoken. We understand, through the press, that one Mr. Overstreet of the Seventh Congressional District of Indiana has not showed proper consideration to his colored constituency in the matter of appointments, who, by the way, hold the balance of power in his district; and to bring about a proper realization of the situation, hence it is needful to politically remind the gentleman of his --- INDIANAPOLIS your advice. 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Therefore it would be made a miss to apply the remedy to all political officials. Then the Negro could get proper recognition commensurate to his political bearing and influence. Hence, just as long as we remain passive in these matters we can never expect to gain any political recognition from the powers that be. A constituency carrying 6,000 votes with any other nationality other than ourselves, rest assured, would secure compensation or recognition befitting their political strength; and, therefore, these matters are generally covassed amply by the members of the "Upper House" and in their councils, and they are always looked after and placed in working order in the hope of retaining their influence at the next general or special election. Muncie, Ind. W H. STOKES. The Freeman will beon sale at Jim Jewel's Pool room and Cigar store. 105 S. 14th, street, Omaha, Neb Patronize Our Advertisers. Read them. Co. 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Step around to the left of your guest, with arms down by your side and body slightly inclined forward, and in a polite tone say: "Madam, what will you have?" Or, if a gentleman, say: "What will you have, sir?" After receiving the order give a polite bow and walk away quickly to the kitchen, where you will get up your order as heretofore instructed. Bear in mind you must never run in the dining room nor must you walk too slowly while serving an order, but cultivate a quick movement, which will show your readiness, at all times, both to the guest as well as the head waiter. If the guest orders fruit; oatmeal, cracked wheat or corn mush, you will find the fruit in the pantry and the oatmeal, etc., will be found in the hot water basin previously described. Serve oatmeal in a deep bowl of medium size, with a small plate under it. Carry in fruit at the same time, if not previously; also cream for oatmeal. Returning to the dining room, set your tray down carefully and serve fruit first (if not previously served). Always serve pulverized or granulated sugar and a finger-bowl with green fruit. In serving oatmeal, etc., set the bowl directly in front of the guest and the dish containing the oatmeal in front of that with a dessert or soup spoon beside the dish. Then pass the cream and sugar; give the guest a teaspoon. After having served your guest with the first course you will then take his order for breakfast, which should always be taken from the left side of the guest. After taking order give a polite bow, pass out to the kitchen, where you will proceed to get up your order according to directions. If the guest should ask for quick service you may expedite time by going directly to the broiler and fry, cook and INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTOR [One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWATTERS. F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. T. H. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City, Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tennessee. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chlooso, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg, Pa. R. S. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa. C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 105 DRINK A.B.C. BEER Best because Purest. Brewed from choicest Malt and Hops American Brewing Co. Telephones 935 MAJOR , MAKER SUPPORT IT. ```markdown ``` put in your order on entering the kitchen, even before you get tray or dishes, then by the time you have these your order will be about ready and you can return to the dining room at once. Should your guest order broiled fish, chops steak or bacon, egg omelet, satatoga chips, you will first order the fish, chops or steak and bacon, and then the omelet and satatoga chips. The fish should be served in a small dish or plate covered with the regular cover, sancer or dish. Chops, steak, etc., should be served on the regular roast beef platter and omelet on a dish a size smaller. Potatoes are served in a dish still one size smaller. All dishes should be covered with silver cover, but should there be none for this purpose a platter a size smaller may be used. Bolled eggs must be always served in the regular egg cupu or glasses, which must be always half filled with hot water before serving order. Always offer to open the eggs for the guest. Clear away fruit and oatmeal dishes as soon as guest finishes and serve breakfast at once, placing breakfast plate directly in front, with fish plate in it. The bread should be placed just a little to the left of the guest, say six inches from the guest's plate. The platter containing the meat should be placed directly in front of the guest's plate with egg and potato dishes at the left. The end of each dish should come within half an inch of the breakfast plate with sides close, but not touching each other. Each and every dish should be served and removed from the left side. Coffee, tea, milk, water, etc., should always be placed on and removed from the right side. Butter should also be placed on the right at the end of the knife blade. After the guest has finished fish remove fish plate, leaving breakfast plate and placing clean knife and fork. Should the guest order hot cakes and milk, go out to baker-shop, get cakes, cover them over, come in pantry, get milk, placing the glass in a saucer or small plate. Make it a point to get into the dining room just as the guests are finishing course they are eating, remove the dishes and serve hot cakes from the left side, giving the guest a clean knife and fork, and placing the milk on the right side of guest, exercising great care that none of the contents may not be spilled in the saucer. Never fill the glass more than three-fourths full. Serve maple syrup, honey or pulverized sugar with cakes, which ever is preferred. In many hotels luncheon is served at noon and the regular dinner at six. There is very little dif- LUNCHEON. ference in serving of luncheon and dinner. Luncheon usually consists of one soup one hot meat and all other dishes are supposed to be cold dishes, such as cold meats, salads, etc., served on cold plates. In fact a cold plate should be used for all orders when the articles ordered are cold. The Picnic That Made Memphis, Tenn., Famous. Everybody in the city of Memphis, Tenn., is talking about the picnic and ball that was given Monday night, Sept. 12th, at Church's Park and Auditorium by the young men of the Hotel Gayoso. When it was first rumored that such an event would take place it was looked forward to with the significance which characterizes festivals and amusements of much greater note. The fact that Wallace's great circus was in town cut no figure whatever, and at an early hour the magnificent auditorium was filled with gayly attired young people eager to participate in what seemed to them the greatest social affair of the season. Too much praise cannot be given Messrs. Walter Jones, Archie Jackson and Thomas Austin who soably conducted the affair and added new laurels to their already broad reputation for generous heartedness and love and respect for their fellow man. Turner and Bynum's orchestra furnished the music for the occasion and acquitted themselves with credit. Headwalter W. Alonzo Locke was the speaker of the evening and, as usual, gave his hearers some sound logical advice, urging the hotel employees to be frugal with their means and skillful in their field of work. At the conclusion of his address he was presented with a beautiful bequest by a committee of young men, to whom Mr. Locke expressed his sincere thanks. Other features of the entertainment were a dancing contest between Lafayette O'Donnell and Jas. Freeman. The decision was given Mr. O'Donnell. Sam Young of the Gayoso coat room proved to be much help to the young men in the general arrangement of affairs, and at night was assistant gate keeper. Just at present it is quite a distinction to say you are an employee of the Gayoso. W. Alonzo Locke, the affable headwaiter at the Gayoos Hotel, Memphis, Tenn., and ex-president of the Head and Sidewaiters National Association, is editor of the Waiters' and Railroad Potters' Department in the Gazetteer and Guide, published at Buffalo, N. Y. In the last issue appeared the following comment: The State Register of Atlantic City deserves much praise for the wholesome advice contained in an editorial of a few weeks ago concerning "a waiter and his money." Very few waiters seem to have learned what to do with a dollar except "contribute to the relief of some worthy saloon keeper or bookmaker at the race tracks." Remember, boys, good clothes and cigarettes will not carry you very far when it has been so often proven that they are your only tangible asset. Save your money and be men. Own a home, help make your community better—if not by actual work, by example. Thrift, economy and good morals will pay a large dividend in the end. Tips For Waiter Girls We are being assimilated to Old World ways far too rapidly. Here are the waiter girls who have always retained much of the character of ladies in this chivalrous land, throwing all that overboard and assisting on tips, their sisters in London and Berlin. You do not tip in a lady, she is above that venal possibility. The American man, in the good old days, treated the waitress at the hotel and restaurant as a social equal. The waiter girl stays her social position with a fee. She has hired a hall and a walking delegate, and demands tips. It's all over—N. Y. Mall and Express. ST. LOUIS NOTES. The Hamilton hotel is known as one of the finest hotels of the city. The management having spared nothing in pains or money to make it deserving of its place among the best. The Hamilton Social is an organization among the waiters of this fine hotel. Fifty-two paid up members at $2 each. They are now making great preparation to give a swell social among themselves next week. W. E Wilson, of New Orleans, La, is president and Frank Pelper secretary and treasurer. The recent election in Vermont and Maine has thrown a damper on the Democratic enthusiasm. Becoming alarmed Judge Parker rushed down to New York, where he took personal charge of the campaign while the erstwhile managers scattered in every direction before one could say "scat." The strong, comprehensive and "strenuous" letter of acceptance recently issued by President Roosevelt fell like a bomb in the Democratic ranks. The president has torn the mask from the face of his opponents and thereby exposed their insincerity. It has been definitely settled that, if Parker is elected, Ben. (Pitchfork) Tillman and John (would-be) Sharpe Williams will be tendered a cabinet position. Tillman wants to be secretary of war. Can any colored man afford to vote for Parker or refrain from voting for Roosevelt under the above circumstances? We think not. PENNSYLVANIA NOW HAS A BIG BLOCK SYSTEM. PENNSYLVANIA NOW HAS A BIG BLOCK SYSTEM. DIVISION BETWEEN INDIANAPOLIS AND COLUMBUS EQUIPPED. A Bar Against Collisions; in; Future. The Pennsylvania Lines have announced the completion of a block signal system ou the Indianapolis Divisio of the Pan-Handle, between Indianapolis and Columbus. With this system they are now completely furnished with either manual or automatic block signal systems between St. Louis and Jersey City. Within the last few months the Vandalia has completed and put in successful operation a complete manual block signal system between Indianapolis and St. Louis. The placing of the same system on the Indianapolis System of the Pan-Handle was the last step in the completion of the work on the main East and West Line of the Pennsylvania Lines. Between Indianapolis and Columbus the block stations. In each one of which is placed an operator. are about five miles apart. They "block" trains in both directions, being what is known as absolute for passenger trains and permissive for freight trails. No passenger train is permitted to enter a block A. the stretch of track between two block signal stations—while another is in it, although one freight is allowed to follow another into a block with the caution from the signal-man that it must run at a rate of speed that will allow it to stop short of any obstruction. A passenger train is also allowed to follow a freight into a block with the same understanding, but nothing is allowed to follow a passenger into a block. The block signal system approaches perfection so nearly that if the rules governing it are observed by trainmen, the possibility of collision is reduced to the minimum. Every mile of a train's run is under the eye of an employee, and its progress is more closely watched and its movements can be better directed by the dispatcher than was possible before the adoption of the system. The Pennsylvania Lines have made an especial effort to complete the block signal system at this time because of the heavy traffic to the St. Louis Exposition. On some of the Eastern sections of the Pennsylvania Lines the automatic block signal system is used, with automatic spacing signals, which aae supplemental to the blocks, between block towers at the more dangerous points on the road — Indianapolis News. NOTICE. Persons desiring The Freeman in and about Chicago, ill., can be accommodated by calling at Jones' News Stand, 4888 South State street. Live news of general interest for this paper is solicited at the above named news stand. BUSINESS MEDIUM MRS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test MEDIUM consultant, has been consulted on all affairs of Life, Business, Love and Marriage a specialty. 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The frequent references of the press to the doings of John Alexander Dowie shows that he is an interesting figure. It is safe to say that the vast majority of people entertain an unfavorable opinion of him. This opinion would be entirely justifiable if there was any way of knowing that the various press reports concerning him were true. Press reports are usually colored by the sentiment of the locality from whence they eminate, and we do know that there is often times very little of truth in them. Early in his career Dowie denounced the reporters and the press in the severest terms, and the reporters now miss no opportunity to make him appear ridiculous. This has been the policy of the press from the beginning and, therefore, those who have learned to salt the news they get from the press know little or nothing about Dowie except that he is a religious enthusiast; that he has founded a colony where he is attempting to carry out his principles of living, and that he has a large number of followers, many of whom give large sums of money to the cause. This is all that is known by those who have not a personal acquaintance with the affairs of Zion City. At one time we are told of his millions, and again we hear that he is a bankrupt. The latest effort to create a sensation about him is the news that he has appointed eleven apostles, and that he will hear confessions. Well, suppose he has appointed apostles and does hear confessions. We see nothing shocking in this. If he appoints apostles he does so because he thinks he needs them and will, no doubt, appoint those whom he regards as best fitted for the work. As to hearing confessions, that is nothing new. We are of the opinion that any one is better for confessing what they believe to be a sin, whether the confession be made to Dowie or to some one else. Whatever else may be said of Dowie he has developed to the point where he is color blind in his practice of Christianity, and this is a long step in advance of his critics. THE ONLY WAY. From the New York Sun we get this remark: "If there exists anywhere, outside of the Sermon on the Mount, any remedy for industrial conflicts, it is yet to be discovered." This is saying only what every one knows who has given our various troubles anything like serious attention. But just why it should be so difficult for a people to see the rights of others and, when seeing them, still more difficult for them to be willing to put their beliefs into practice, is one of the things not easily understood. Injustice unrelieved suffering, and undeserved poverty, should be an impossibility in a prosperous Christian community. Yet they are all present in these United States. If the remedy for all this cannot be found in the Christian church, which has for its etchical basis the truths contained in the Sermon on the Mount, they where shall we look for it? There is not a wrong existing in our country to-day but what may be cured by applying these teachings to every-day life. If, at the rising of another sun those who profess to believe in Christianity would put their religious beliefs into actual practice, there would be neither race problem nor labor problem. And this will come just as soon as we cease to be hypocrites. It is the sure way—it is the only way. We cannot serve both God and Mammon. The statement which was published in these columns to the effect that Mr. Julius Cox of this city was to accept a position as private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington s.ems to have been erroneous. As THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER a matter of fact, and as our readers well know, Mr. Washington's private secretary is Mr. Emmett J. Scott, who is assisted in his work by a very capable helper, Mr. J. Frank Armstrong. The position Mr. Cox is to accept at Tuskegee is that of traveling stenographer. Mr. Washington always requires in his work, while traveling, the services of a stenographer to assist him in the numerous duties which he has to perform. We learn that he has no intention of disposing of the capable men who have been serving him at Tuskegee so acceptably. It is now stated that the failure of the Chicago strike was due to the fact that a sufficient number of colored men filled the places of the strikers to allow the various plants to operate without serious loss. That this would ultimately come to pass has long been foreseen. Proscription against the colored man by organized labor will leave an available supply to draw on in time of strikes. Just a little of the Golden Rule will remove this element. There would be little hope for the industrial world if it were not for the fact that political slaves are on the decrease. Yellow dog Republicans and yellow dog Democrats are not quite so numerous as they used to be. Never mind the rabble. Let them howl. The rabble is seldom right—even for an hour. The fact that one is with the rabble is proof that he follows the herd. The herd is used to serve the selfish purposes of others. The pupils of Longfellow school, in Chicago, went out on a strike because their teacher was transferred to another building. "And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children even unto the tenth generation." A citizen of Jeffersonville, Ind., has made the trip to the World's Fair and return, spending only ten dollars and ten cents on the round trip, including railroad fare. If you do not read Louis F. Post in The Public on the President's letter of acceptance you will miss something both entertaining and instructive. The man who is unable to give good reasons for his political faith is usually the man whose vote can be bought with a few dollars. About the only ones who have really entered into the campaign are the cartoonists. Political grievances are beginning to find their way to the surface. VOICE OF THE PRESS. VOICE OF THE PRESS. The Carlisle Mob. This assault upon all the Negroes of a community was incited by the shooting of a white man by one Negro. This illustrates the difference between the mobs of the South and the mobs of Indiana and Illinois. Not that the action of a mob in either section is to be taken as indicative of the sentiment of the "best people" of a community—a thing which some of the papers of Illinois and Indiana forget in their strictures anent Southern mobs. But the difference is this: In this section a guilty Negro is frequently—all too frequently—punished by mob law. Anarchy, if you please. But the racial feeling of the mob never extends to the guiltless and peaceful neighbors of the guilty Negro. They are safe. Indiana and Illinois are less discriminating. This Carlisle case is only one of many in which all the Negroes, good and bad, have been driven from a community because of the crime of one particular Negro. We cannot help but wonder what Indiana would do if there were as many Negroes there in proportion to the white population as there are in Georgia and Alabama. It would be easy to take these things as a text and construct a heated diatribe against the people of Indiana and Illinois, but we prefer to be more generous and more truthful than some of our contemporaries in that section, and recognize the fact that the best sentiment of the State is not for mob law, and that outbursts of the kind are as much of a grievous problem to them as to us.—Atlanta Journal. Race Problem Solved. A short time ago a gathering of Negro business men in Indianapolis taught the impressive lesson that the race question vanishes so far as the individual colored man is concerned when he becomes financially successful, even in a small way. When he goes into business for himself, when he is a farmer or merchant, or real estate dealer, or handles any public commodity he is treated as a business man on an equal footing with other business men. Another illustration of this fact has just been offered by a Negro banker of Richmond, Va., at the meeting of the National Bankers' Association in New York. In a speech which aroused much applase and enthusiasm he said his people had tried religion as a solution of their troubles and had then tried politics, but had found neither satisfactory, and it was only after they entered business that they found themselves treated without discrimination. The Star, Indianapolis. Mob Law. If the South will study the record of recent years it will see that the number of lynchings has increased, as has their scope also. In the beginning it was the case of colored men accused of atrocious assault. But in the last year less than 10 per cent. of the lynchings have been for this crime. And Statesboro showed us that the mob gloated in its fury for its own sake, for it was announced that before the trial of the men the mob had formed and determined to hang them, no matter what the verdict might be. So here it seems that we reach the last stage of the descent. In the case under consideration there was murder pure and simple but—was it lust for blood that mobocracy has fed?—there could be no waiting for the law even though the perpetrator was a white man. Now when the sway of the mob has reached the pass that it holds for any crime from murder to chicken stealing and does not confine itself to race or color, is not it time that the conservative elements of society got together and brought back the reign of law? It will have to be done some day. We may let liberty perish, but we are not going to let civilization perish. We should preserve both and we can but it has to be by an example of self-government. We do not seem to realize that lynching is worse than all murder for the latter is an individual outburst while the former is a community affair that is based essentially on acquiescence known in advance; hence it is essentially a denial of government, a cold-blooded agreement to commit murder — as at Statesboro whether the law acquit or condemn the accused.—Indianapolis News. THE STUDENT. Edited by Miss Paralee Lucas. To the Readers of The Freeman. In offering this department to the public it is the aim of the correspondent to keep the readers of The Freeman thoroughly informed as to the progress, both socially and intellectually, of the Negro student body in the United States and Africa. Our local institutions, obviously will furnish most of the news, but since so many of our young men and women have gone out from us to foreign fields it is not at all difficult to obtain authentic information regarding institutions in far-off Africa. The correspondent solicits the aid of the student body in general in making this an authentic column. The regular fall term session at Kansas University has begun, and both old and new students are engaged in arranging their courses. There have been many changes in the schedule of work which has raised the standard in curriculum considerably. The first long chapel of the year was held Friday, and the address was delivered by Chancellor Frank Strong, and was listened to by the entire student body. It is gratifying to see the number of our girls and boys who have finished the eighth grade and have passed into the high school. The list includes Misses Jeanette Henson, Melia Kansas University. Lawrence High School. Figgins, Criscila Gray, Bertha Byrd, Birdie Brown, Irene Anderson, Lucy Brown, Essie Anderson, May Watson, Maude Davis, Lara Hervey and Messrs. 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He looked timidly at her and took the hands she gave him; then he produced from his pocket a yellow telegraph envelope, watching her anxiously as she received it. However, she seemed to attach no particular importance to it, and instead of opening it leaned toward him, still holding one of his hands. "They're coming out to spend the evening, aren't they?" asked Briscoe, nodding to the young men as they set off down the road. "Lige has to come whether he wants to or not," Minnie laughed rather consolously. "It's his turn tonight to look after Mr. Harkless." "I guess he won't mind coming," said the judge. "Well," returned his daughter, glancing at Helen, who stood apart reading the telegram to Fisbee. "I know if he follows Mr. Harkless he'll get here pretty soon after supper—as soon as the moon comes up, anyway." The editor of the Herald was late to his evening meal that night. It was dusk when he reached the hotel, and for the first time in history a gentleman sat down to meat in that house of entertainment in evening dress. There was no one in the dining room when he went in—the other boarders had finished, and it was Cynthia's "evening out"—but the landlord, Columbus Landis, came and attended to his wants himself and chatted with him while he ate. "There's a picture of Henry Clay," remarked Landis in obvious relevancy to his companion's attire—"there's a picture of Henry Clay somewheres about the house in a swallow tail. Governor Ray spoke here in one, Bodeffer says; always wore one, except it was higher built up 'n yourn about the collar and had brass buttons, I think. Ole man Wimby was here again tonight," the landlord continued, changing the subject. "He waited around for ye a good while, but last he had to go. He's be'n mighty wrought up sence the trouble this morning an' wanted to see ye bad. I don't know if you seen it, but that feller 't knocked your hat off with a club got mighty near to pieces in the crowd before he got away. Seems some of the boys re-cog-nized him as one of the Crossroads Skilllets and sicked the dogs on him, and he had a pretty mean time of it. Wimby says the Crossroads folks 'll be worse 'n ever, and, says he, 'Tell him to stick close to town,' says he. 'They'll do anything to git him now,' says he, 'and resk anything.' I told him you wouldn't take no stock in what any one says, and I knew well enough you'd laugh that a-way. But, see here, we don't put nothin' too mean for them folks. I tell ye, Mr. Harkless, all of us are scared for ye." The good fellow was so earnest that when the editor's supper was finished and he would have departed. Landis detained him almost by force until the arrival of Mr. Willetts, who, the landlord knew, was his allotted escort for the evening. When Lige came (wearing a new tie, a pink one he had hastened to buy as soon as his engagements had given opportunity) the landlord hissed a savage word of reproach for his tardiness in his ear and whisperingly bade him not let the other out of reach that night. Mr. Willetts replied with a nod implying his trustworthiness, and the young men went out into the darkness. CHAPTER VII THE moon had risen, and there was a lace of mist along the creek when John and Helen reached their bench. (Of course they went back there.) She turned to him with a little frown. "Why have you never let Tom Meredith know you were living so near him—less than a hundred miles—when he has always liked and admired you above all the rest of mankind? I know that he has tried time and again to hear of you, but the other men wrote that they knew nothing, that it was thought you had gone abroad. I had heard of you, and so has he seen your name in the Rouen papers—about the White Caps and in politics—but he would never dream of connecting the Plattville Mr. Harkless with his Mr. Harkless; though I did, just a little, in a vague way. I knew you, of course, when you came into Mr. Halloway's lecture the other evening. But why haven't you written to my cousin?" "Rouen seems rather far away to me," he answered quietly. "I've been there only once, half a day on business. Except that, I've never been much farther than Amo—and then for a convention or to make a speech—since I came here." "Wicked," she exclaimed. "to shut THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER yourself up like this! I said it was fine to drop out of the world, but why have you cut off your old friends from you? Why haven't you had a relapse now and then and come over to hear Ysaye play and Melba sing, or to see Mansfield or Henry Irving, when we have had them? And do you think you've been quite fair to Tom? What right had you to assume that he had forgotten you?” "Oh. I didn't exactly mean forgotten," he said, pulling a blade of grass to and fro between his fingers and staring at it absently. "It's only that I have dropped out of the world, you know. They rather expected me to do a lot of things, and I haven't done them. Possibly it is because I am sensitive that I never let Tom know. They expected me to amount to something, but I don't believe his welcome would be less hearty to a failure—he is a good heart." "Failure!" she cried and clapped her hands and laughed. "I'm really not very tragic about it, though I must seem consumed with self pity," he returned, smiling. "It is only that I have dropped out of the world while Tom is still in it." "Dropped out of the world!" she echoed impatiently. "Can't you see you've dropped into it? That you"— "Last night I was honored by your praise of my graceful mode of quitting it." "And so you wish me to be consistent," she retorted scornfully. "What becomes of your gallantry when we abide by reason?" "True enough; equality is a denial of privilege." "And privilege is a denial of equality? I don't like that at all." She turned a serious, suddenly illuminated face upon him and spoke earnestly: "It's my hobby, I should tell you, and I'm tired of that nonsense about 'women always sounding the personal note.' It should be sounded as we would sound it. And I think we could bear the loss of 'privilege'"—He laughed and raised a protesting hand. "But we couldn't." "No, you couldn't. It's the ribbon of superiority in your buttonhole. I know several women who manage to live without men to open doors for them, and I think I could bear to let a man pass before me now and then or wear his hat in an office where I happened to be, and I could get my own ice at a dance, I think, possibly with even less fuss and scramble than I've sometimes observed in the young men who have done it for me. But you know you would never let us do things for ourselves, no matter what legal equality might be declared, even when we get representation for our taxation. You will never be able to deny yourselves giving us our 'privilege!' I hate being waited on! I'd rather do things for myself." She was so earnest in her satire, so full of scorn and so serious in her meaning, and there was such a contrast between what she said and her person—she looked so pre-eminently the pretty marquise, the little exquisite, so essentially to be waited on and helped, to have cloaks thrown over the dampness for her to tread upon, to be run about for—he could see half a dozen youths rushing about for her icees, for her carriage, for her chaperon, for her wrap, at dances—that to save his life he could not repress a chuckle. He managed to make it inaudible, however, and it was as well that he did. "I understand your love of newspaper work," she went on less vehemently, but not less earnestly. "I have always wanted to do it myself, wanted to immensely. I can't think of a more fascinating way of earning one's living. And I know I could do it. Why don't you make the Herald a daily?" To hear her speak of "earning one's living" was too much for him. She gave the impression of riches, not only by the fine texture and fashioning of her garments, but one felt that luxuries had wrapped her from her birth. He had not had much time to wonder what she did in Plattyville. It had occurred to him that it was a little odd that she could plan to spend any extent of time there, even if she had liked Minnie Briscoe at school. He felt that she must have been sheltered and peted and waited on all her life. One could not help yearning to wait on her. He answered inarticulately, "Oh, some day," in reply to her question and then fell into outright laughter. "Listened to!" he said, and felt that he must throw himself at her feet. "You oughtn't to mind being Titania. She was listened to. 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"Don't say you didn't mean it, because you did! You can unsay it, you cannot alter it, and this is the way I must remember you! Ah!" She drew in her breath with a sharp sigh and, covering her face with her hands, sank back upon the bench. "I will not cry," she said, not so firmly as she thought she did. "My blessed child!" he cried in great distress and perturbation. "What have I done? I—I"— "Call me 'small' all you like," she answered. "I don't care. It isn't that. You mustn't think me such an imbecile." She dropped her hands from her face and shook the tears from her eyes with a mournful little laugh. He saw that her fingers were clinched tightly and her lip trembled. "I will not cry," she said again. "Somebody ought to murder me. I ought to have thought—personalities are hideous"— "Don't! It wasn't that." "I ought to be shot"— "Ah, please don't say that," she said, shuddering. "Please don't, not even as a joke, after last night!" "But I ought to be for hurting you. Indeed"— She laughed sadly again. "It wasn't that. I don't care what you call me. I am small. You'll try to forgive me for being such a baby? I didn't mean anything I said. I haven't acted so badly since I was a child." "It's my fault, all of it. I've tired you out, and I let you get crushed at the circus, and"— "That!" she said. "I don't think I would have missed the circus." He had a thrilling hope that she meant the tent pole. She looked as if she meant that, but he dared not let himself believe it. "No," he continued, "I have been so madly happy in being with you that I've fairly worn out your patience. I've haunted you all day, and I have"— "All that has nothing to do with it," she said, with a gentle motion of her hand to bid him listen. "Just after you left this afternoon I found that I could not stay here. My people are going abroad at once, and I must go with them. That's what is almost making me cry. I leave here tomorrow morning." He felt something strike at his heart. In the sudden sense of dearth he had no astonishment that she should betray such agitation over her departure from a place she had known so little and friends who certainly were not part of her life. He rose to his feet, and, resting his arm against a sycamore, stood staring away from her at nothing. She did not move. There was a long silence. He had wakened suddenly. The skies had been sapphire, the sward emerald, Plattyville a Camelot of romance, a city of enchantment, and now, like a meteor burned out in a breath, the necromancy fell away and he gazed into desolate years. The thought of the square, his dusty office, the bleak length of Main street, as they would appear tomorrow gave him a faint physical sickness. Today it had all been touched to beauty. He had felt fit to live and work here a thousand years—a fool's dream, and the waking was to arid emptiness. He should die now of hunger and thirst in this Sahara. He hoped the fates would let it be soon, but he knew they would not; knew that this was hysteria, that in his endurance he should plod on, plod, plod dustily on, through dingy, lonely years. There was a rumble of thunder far out on the western prairie. A cold breath stole through the hot stillness, and an arm of vapor reached out between the moon and the quiet earth. Darkness fell. The man and girl kept silence between them. They might have been two sad guardians of the black little stream that flashed up. seen at their feet. Now and then a reflection of faraway lightning faintly limmed them with a green light. Thunder rolled nearer, omniously. The gods were driving their charlots over the bridge. The chill breath passed, leaving the air again to its hot inertia. "I did not want to go," she said at last, with tears just below the surface of her voice. "I wanted to stay here, but he—they wouldn't—I can't"— "Wanted to stay here?" he said huskily, not turning. "Here? In Indiana?" "In Plattville!" He turned now, astounded. "Yes. Wouldn't you have taken me on the Herald?" She rose and came toward him. "I could have supported myself here if you would, and I've studied how newspapers are made. I know I could have earned a wage. I could have helped you make it a daily." He searched in vain for a trace of railery in her voice. There was none. She seemed to intend her words to be taken literally. "I don't understand," he said. "I don't know what you mean." "I mean that I want to stay here; that I ought to stay here; that my A MAN AND A WOMAN IN A TREE She sprang to her feet, and her eyes flashed. She sprang to her feet, and her eyes flashed. conscience tells me I should; but I can't, and it makes me very unhappy. That was why I acted so badly." "Your conscience!" he cried. "Oh, I know what a jumble and puzzle it must seem to you" "I only know one thing—that you are going away tomorrow morning and that I shall never see you again." The darkness had grown intense. They could not see each other, but a wan glimmer gave him a fleeting, misty view of her. She stood half turned from him, her hand to her cheek in the uncertain fashion, of his great moment in the afternoon. Her eyes, he saw in the 3ying picture that he caught, were troubled, and her hand trembled. She had been irresistible in her gayety, but now that a mysterious distress assailed her, of the reason for which he had no guess, she was so FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE U.B.F. OF TEXAS. For Two Years Ending August 31st, 1904. Wildows and orphans,.....$32,914.45 Grand Lodge Taxes,.....5297.19 Home and Business Fund,.....3115 26 Sale of Supplies,.....1402 95 National Grand Lodge Taxes,.....468 78 Interest on Unl ed States Bonds,.....220 00 Total.....$43418 63 Wildows and Orphans,.....$26,750 00 United States Bonds,.....5448 83 Printing and Supply Accts,.....1728 45 Miscellaneous Accts,.....1119 49 Grand Master's office,.....707 89 Grand Secretary's salary,.....400.00 Grand Lodge Coningent,.....685 47 Grand Treasurer's office,.....171 54 Mutual Aid Expenses,.....582 75 Total.....$37,544 42 Amount on hand with balance B. F.,.....$9874 21 Amount invested in U. S. bonds, $6000 Total resourses above expenditures, $15,874 21 Respectfully submitted, F. W. Gross, grand secretary. COLUMBIA NICK-NACKS. Columbia, Tenn., Special.—Prof. C. W. H. Jordan of Calcutta, India, is certianly a human wonder, large crowds attend his entertainments that were given at the various churches, and went home wondering about his great magical feats. Prof. Gordon has shown in some of the largest cities in the United States, and is pronounced by the different newspapers as being the cleverest magician traveling. Dr. Sevier was in the city last week. The office of Dr. T. W. Steven is nearing completion. It will be handsomly fitted with the latest improvements. Masters Peter Nelson and John H. Kelly, left last Monday URE'S SPEEDY CURE. PEERLESS MENTHOL INHALER PRICE 25 CENTS. LASTS FOR YEARS. CURES CATARRH STOPS HEADACHE CURES SORE THROAT CONQUERS COLDS Colored Agents your harvest is at hand to increase your income $18.00 a week clear profit only a few hours' work daily. To any person who will follow our instruction and introducing our latest specials. THE PEERLESS INHALERS They actually sells themselves. THE ROYAL PURPLE SACHETS The smartest, sweetest and swettest sachets that is on the market. THE SILK MENDING TISSUE the greatest and most useful labor-saving invention of the age. Three articles that sells for 25c each will be sent to any address upon receipt of 25c. Write for agent's terms. ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO LOWE'S PEERLESS MFG. & CO. Office 1238 Indiana Avenue CHICAGO, ILL. These Goods here Stood the Test When all others Failed BEFORE. AFTER. CHEVELINE. We use no hot irons or pasting with grease in this treatment, and the hair is not changed from dampness, but on the contrary is made more with it. Send a piece of your hair and the treatment that appears as natural if it comes with it. Work. Cheveline is undoubtedly the greatest of all hair preparations. Price $3.00 per outfit. No Goods C. O. D. 1513 Canal St., NEW ORLEANS, LA TWO BOOKS IN ONE History of the Negro Race and History of the Negro Soldiers in the Send for Terms. Large Commission to Agents. CONTENTS OF THE HISTORY OF NEGRO RACE. Introduction: Begin- ning of slavery in the colonies. The New York colonies; Massachusetts Races; New Connecticut; New Hampshire and Maryland; Delaware and Pennsylvania; North daughters in Revolutionary America; Negroes and customs of Southern colonies. Negroes in Revolutionary America; Negroes and the Revolution. The War of 1822. Efforts for Freedom. Liberia. Frederick Douglass. Natchez who struck for free dom. Anti-slavery agitation. Examples of Underground Railroad workers. The War of the Rebellion. Employment of Negro soldiers. Fort Plum- Around Paris. Incidents of the war. The end of the war. Reconstruction, 1865-08. Progress since reeducation. Negroes. Educational progress. Finan- cial progress. Some noted Negroes. Free people of Negroes. CONTENTS OF THE HISTORY OF NEGRO SOLDIERS: First Heal- dge. Ten pictures of the daring charges made by Negro soldiers at San Juan, El Caney and other places. Corporal Brown killed at his post while flirts cannot which knocked over the block house. Rough Lords. Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag. The glowing tributes of McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt and many others on the bravery of Negroes. Negroes and the Cuban women cavalry. The Negro paymaster in the army. The Negro poet, Paul Law rence Dunbar. "Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwited the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington, etc. **ELEVEN PAGE BRIMMING FULL OF NEW AND interesting reading, with about 48 hours of narrative, the officers and scenes of the Spanish-American war, with a fine picture of Aguinaldo, the Filipino lady of Manila and a bird sketch of the Filipinos and their civilization.** The picture of General Nelson A. Miles, major general in command of all the American army. for Tuskegee Institute. The Missionary Baptist convention was held at Friendship last Sunday. Educational Day will be observed by St. Paul A. M. E. Sunday school to-morrow. Misses Halie Dickerson and Lula Amos have returned from Tuskegee. The Star Musicale made its appearance last Thursday night at the First Baptist church. A protracted meeting is being held at the Mt. Lebanon Baptist church. Joliet Happenings of the Past Week. Joliet, Ill , Special. - Rev. J. H. Fisher and the stewards of the A. M. E. church gave a picnic at Electric Park, Plainfield, on Monday, Sept. 5th. All report a pleasant time.—Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Dishman of Morris called on Jolie friends and attended the Will county fair.—Rev. Johnson has accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist church. —Mrs. Luoy Howard of Englewood is Raleigh, North Carolina. visiting her brother G. W. Blanam—Alex. Newman is here from Jackson, Tenn.—Mrs Mary Twine and children of Englewood and Mrs. Cole of Morris are visiting at Mrs. E. C. Dishman's. Rev. J. H. Fisher has gone to the annual conference at Galesburg, Ill.—Mrs Mary Donolly of Rockford has returned home after a two week's visit with her brother, Wm. Foster. BROADWAY DRESS and fine Millinery at the TEMPEL OF FASHION HAIR STORE. Call and see the great special values in trimmed hats, ready-made skirts, shirt waist and other fancy articles. Parisian design is a specialty. Mail order will receive prompt assistance. MAILZZER BREACHER. PROPERTY Residence 411 W. 5th St. to 10 a.m. 1 to p. 10. 2 to p. 10. 3 to p. 10. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 4851 Indiana Ave. INDIANAPOLIS TELPHONES: (800) 254-8000 QWK: 800-254-8000 SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Safe and Reasonable aways. 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 are only $25.00 per payment, only 40% per week. This payment is higher. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES 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, Old Phone Main 3182 (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E. Washington Street) New Phone.....4270 DO YOU want something out of the ordinary—something novel—something a bit more dressy than a cloth coat? See these of silk. Four are described, but there are numerous other styles, most of them limited to one or two coats of a design. A Taffeta trimmed Silk-lined Coat of black Panama, made with half fitted back.....$14 75 A braided Coat of black taffeta, elaborate and elegant in every detail.....$34.50 A full length Coat of black taffeta, long shoulders, loose style, a touch of red in embroidery trimming.....$25 00 A Taffeta Blouse Coat, shirred at yoke and finished with black silk braid.....$13 75 Numerous other styles at prices ranging up to $45.00. L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Biodau's drug store. Mrs. Francis King is convalescent. Rev. Sissel will leave for North Vernon this week. Miss Etta Evans is visiting relatives in Keokuk, Iowa. M. N. Vancy, of Louisville, Ky., was a visitor Sunday. Charles Cox, of Lebanon, spent a few days in the city this week. Rev. Stewart, of Allen Chapel, is visiting in Wilberforce, O. Uncle Sam Taylor and wife will leave tomorrow for Kansas City. Major Kalton, well known in Cincinnati, was in the city this week. Mrs. Lottie Wilson, of Washington, D. C., is visiting Mrs. White in Fayette street. Joseph and Benjamin Bailey, of New Castle, was in the city last week visiting the fair. The Enterprise club met at the home of Mrs. Ellington's on last Wednesday evening. Harry Wyatt returned from the Lexington, Ky., fair Monday, reporting a large time. It is rumored that a certain young physician will take to the altar a young Louisville lady. Mr and Mrs. R. B. Shelton have returned home after spending a week at the Lexington Fair. John H. Lester has returned from Charlevoix, Mich, where he has been spending the summer. Miss May Hansard, of New Castle, and Miss Lola Kelley, of Plainfield, Ind. were in the city this week. The Japanesse Social at Simpson Chapel, under the management of Mrs. Hagood, was quite a success. William Tyler happened to meet with an accident on Wednesday morning by falling down the steps at Saks & Co. Mrs. N. H. Talbott and son are visiting in Jeffersonville. Mrs. Talbott will leave her son there to attend the Jeff school. C. A. Webb met with a very painful accident last week, which resulted in the loss of one fingure and two others badly mashed. Mrs. Salle Dawson, who recently returned from Chicago, is confined to her bed at the home of Mrs. Broown's in W. Thirteenth street. Shelton & Willis, the undertakers, have just purchased a beautiful new call wagon which is in keeping with the up-to-date notions of that firm. A. L. Wilson, of Princeton, Ind., will lecture on the 28th of September at 8 WATCHES AND JEWELRY At Prices Beyond Compare J.P. MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place "A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Life (Formerly Stevens) Front Room. (15 E. Washington) THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER o'clock at Simpson Chapel Church. The subject of his lecture is: "Is He a Monkey or a Man?" Miss Emina Parker, formerly of Indianapolis, now of New York, visited friends in the city this week; while here she was a pleasant caller to The Freeman office. Rev. Wood and Rev. Chambers have just returned from the annual conference. Rev. Wood will resume his charge at Jones' Tabernacle and Rev Chambers is presiding elder over this district. Homer Johnson, who graduated with the January class of the Manual Training high school left last week to attend the State University at Bloomington, ind. Mrs. C. A. Webb and Mrs. Willis Bryant entertained at cards last Wednesday for Mrs. V. G. Henley, of St Paul, and Mrs. Dr. Armstead of Henderson, Ky. Miss Laura Ellington entertained at her home on last Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Brown and Mrs Snowden, of Chicago, and Miss Lulu Goens of Seymour, Ind. Mr. H. E. Hedgepath, of Kalamazoo Mich., was in the city this week. Mr. Hedgepath is one of the shipping clerks in the Henderson, Alms Kegula Co. He is one of the oldest employees in the company. The American Union Worker's Penny Sayings club is a new institution that has been launched recently with offices at 129 East Ohio street with James C. Miller and J. Walker president and vice president respectively. T. W. Hughes, Miss Esther Fisher, Arthur Davis, Miss Hattie Turner were united in holy bonds of wedlock by Rev. N. H. Talbott September 21 at 8 p. m. at the residence of Mr. Wilson's 724 W Eleventh street. The pastor of Allen Chapel, Rev H. E. Stewart, will preach at morning and evening services, 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. All invited. John Ray of Cincinnati stopped over in this city for a week on his way for a trip through the South, and while here was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Mr. Ray is the uncle of Ed Gailther of Cincinnati. Charles Crockett and wife of Cincinnati have returned home after a week's visit in Lebanon, Ind, the guest of their sister, Mrs. Allen Scott. On their way home they spent a few hours in this city. Among the guests at a 7 o'clock dinner given at the residence of Mrs. Frank Ball, 1121 Harlan street, Tuesday evening, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Church of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery of Irvington, Ind., were Mrs. Willis of Texas, Mrs. Beasley of Hartville, Tenn., Mr. Sam Bacon of Anderson, Ind., and Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Patton of this city. There will be a grand missionary rally at Simpson Chapel on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 27-28, 1904, Field secretary, Dr. Griffin G. Logan, of Holly Springs, Miss.. will be present and deliver an address on Tuesday night. Wednesday night Dr. J. L. Wilson, former principal of Meridian Academy, Meridian, Miss, will deliver his famous address, "That Animal, a Monkey or a Man." Every one is invited to be present, especially those deeply interested in missionary work. The forty-first anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation was most fittingly celebrated here last Wednes day at the State Fair grounds. A parade of no mean proportions, headed by the K of P. band, with Martin R. Delaney Post, G A. R., the Summer League and a young Republican marching club, with floats and other representations of race industry preceded the day's events. Among the speakers was Harry S Cummings of Baltimore Md., who seconded the nomination of Roosevelt. A choir of one hundred voices, under Prof. Collins, sang National airs. The whole affair was a most successful observation of the day. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneeda good Photo, go to Bennett's 36, E. Washington. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. Parker will find you a job. Employment Agency, 315 Indiana avenue. Parker's Hand Laundry. Office 315 Indiana avenue. 5 cents per pound. Call on Dr. Clay for dental work Carl or Dr. Clay for dental work He is located at 108 N. Delaware street Household goods bought, sold and ex- Household goods bought, sold and exchanged Naumann, 383 Indiana Ave. Buy your coal, wood and kindling of Jackson Brothers, 1613 Martindale-ave. Phone, old 996 main. If it is in season you can get it at the Parker House, 317 321 W Michigan st. Phones: New 4973; old red 6512. FOR RENT—Part of house for the fall to nice couple in three squares of Circle J. N Sharpe. 310 Muskingum street. Telephone 1198. The very latest is the beautiful Folder Photo. Have you seen them? There is special run being made on them for a few days at just half the regular price. See them at Bennett's, 36 East Washington street. A good sober steady colored barber, pay 65 per cent on a dollar. Charles W. Bass, P. O. Box 203. TO THE FRONT STAR STORE MANAGEMENT TO BE CONGRATULATED. James Grigisby, the subject of this sketch enjoys the responsible position of shipping clerk for the Star Store. Mr. Grigisby has been in the employ of the Star Store for twelve years. The management deserves much consideration at the hands of the colored people, for it is indeed few concerns of this magnitude that grant our race anything above the drudgery of a men- J. E. H. ial. Mr. Grigaby is a well known young man about town and will be pleased to see his friends at the store any time, assuring them that the prices quoted at the StarStore cannot be duplicated elsewhere in the city. This house advertises in The Freeman and let all race lovers bear in mind that they cannot and will not support a Negro enterprise unless the results accruing warrant it. Advertising is purely a business proposition free from any sentiment whatever. They have made one step to us let us make the proverbal "two" to them. 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. Tomlinsoe Hall Market Read the Ads and then patronize them H. H. Hammer & Co. DEALERS IN Fancy Groceries and Meats Flour and Feed Hardware, Granite. Tinware, China and Glassware. 1901 and 1903 Yandes, cor. 19th Street Phone, Main 3287. Use Hammerine for the Hair C.C.&L.Co. the best place for your COAL YARDS: Cor. Ray Street and Madison Avenue. Cor. 14th Street and Senate Avenue. MAIN OFFICE 13 Virginia Avenue BOTH PHONES 273 Hazel Tailoring Co. 327 Indiana Ave See our new English effects in brown with 500 other patterns. You pay $5.00 more down town for the same. Why should you pay their high rent? Perfect fit guaranteed. Ask others about our work. POLISHES SOLD EVERYWHERE ONLY COLORED MANUFACTURER OF SHOE POLISHES IN THE WORLD Agents Wanted. Write for Terms. Address A. C. HOWARD 3544 S. State Street, CHICAGO, ILL. C. O. DODSON Staple and Fancy GROCERIES REQUESTS YOUR PATRONAGE Good corn per can.....100 Union label tomatoes, 3 cans.....250 Best pie peaches per can.....100 Best pie apples per can.....50 Pure food snacksach 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 @.....12¼ Best breakfast bacon @.....180 Best Elgin creamery butter @.250 545 Indiana Avenue NEW PHONE 2471 PRICES TALK Vonnegut Hardware Co. Household Goods on 2nd Floor, Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators, Etc. Builders' and Cabinet Hardware, Meat Market Outfits, Machinery and Mill Supplies, Shafting, Pullies, Hangers, Belting. Tools for all Trades. Both Phones 589. Wanted--Colored Women To learn hair-dressing, manicuring, chiropty and dermatology. We se- cure hair and dermatology in business. We teach by mail. Send stamp for information. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. ED W. DOSER Wholesale and Retail Paints, Oil and Glass 16 W. Market Street INDIANAPOLIS, . INDIANA Both Phones 388 Household Goods Highest price paid for Second-Hand Goods. Repairing Of All Kinds J L. BEATTEY N. E. cor. Senate and Indiana Avenues T. V. HILL, Attorney for Plaintiff, 203½ E. Washington Street, Suite 5 and 6. THE CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK With Capital, Surplus and Profits of $460,000, and total resources of $5,000,000, respect fully 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 ERTE LOAN CASH FOR YOUR ESTATE O Sporting Go Revolvers, Ammunition, B ball, Basket-ball, Polo, Rol es; Sweaters, Jerseys and Cutlery, Etc. R 184 PAGE ILLUSTRATED CAT FEDERAL ARMS CO. ann. St. Indianap Star Store 36 W. WASHINGT the Best Calicoes the Star Store is the lowest. 10,00 d winter styles in Dress Calicoes from the country are here. Simpson's, Am s Indigo blues, blacks, grays, garnets designs, none better at any price, Fall Sporting Goods Fall Sporting Goods Guns, Revolvers, Ammunition, Bicycles Foot-ball, Basket-ball, Polo, Roller and Ice Skates; Sweaters, Jerseys and Athletic Goods. Cutlery, Etc. The StarStore 360-370 W.WASHINGTON ST All the Best Calicoes 5 Cyd As usual, the Star Store is the lowest. 10,000 yards new fall and winter styles in Dress Calicoes from the best mills of the country are here. Simpson's, America's and Hamilton's Indigo blues, blacks, grays, garnets and fancy designs, none better at any price here always 5c CUT RATE PRICES Choice bolling beef 5 Choice roast beef 8 Chuck steak, 3 for 28 Round steak 12 Loin steak 12 Porter house steak 10 Best kettle rendered lard 9 Good lard 8 A.R. HAINES, 238 Indiana Don't Be Bluffed PINK, 'the Cutter,' is not a puppet of His Prices are not made temporarily but are PERMANENT. PINK is the O' goods are Fresh and Up to-date. No Old Don't be bluffed by some special arrays protect yourselves and fight the trust by PINK'S Cut Rake 550 Indiana Ave. ALWAYS I KUHN Wholesale & Fine Cutsof Be IT Be Bluffed by a Bubbler butter, is not a puppet of the Drug Trust. It not made temporarily by special arrangement of MENT. 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Fine California Wines STUCKY'S D COR. ILLINOIS New Phone 2666 Res. 507 Hiawatha St. Nathan T. Ward BONDS AND COLLECTIONS Office room 1. Wilson Building 12' N Delaware Street Subscribe for The Freeman. --- --- Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 Inspect our unredeemed pledges, where everything in Jewelry can be found. We can save you money. Money: Advanced on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry or any Article of Value ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE 209 Massachusetts Ave. Private Entrance: Indianapolis, Ind 108 East Ohio Street. CASH FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE OR BUSINESS no matter where it is located. Send me description of your property, state its prices 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. ing Goods immunition, Bicycles' ll, Polo, Roller and Jerseys and Athletic USTRATED CATALOGUE ARMS CO. 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