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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 43. A SNAKE IN THE GRASS Hidden Hand of Caucasion Coward Trying to Cripple Tuskegee Institute- Alabama Legislature to be Used as a Catspaw-Foul Trick Exposed. Editor The Freeman:--it has been sometime since you have had a communication from this city. Notwithstanding you have not heard from Montgomery the colored citizens read The Freeman and are constantly inspired and helped by its news and wise advice, and your paper always has a welcome and wide reading among the best class of our people. Just now the attention of a large number of our best colored citizens is being occupied with a question that has troubled us for some years, and that is the one of how to get the principal colored school in this city in the hands of the colored people themselves, so far as the principalship and the teaching force are concerned. We have in this city almost the only state school of any size in the South that is n t in the hands of colored people. Our citizens would not be so much exercised over this matter as they are just now, save for the fact that the head of this Negro school, as is well known, gives very little attention to the practical workings of the school but spends his time and strength mainly in the promotion of a private business that has no connection with the state school. All this the colored people of Montgomery and the state have endured patiently and quietly for a number of years. At the present time while there is no outward noise being made there is quiet indignation and quiet consultation among the people as to what ought to be done. Further than this it is constantly being said that this man serves as a kind of spy among the colored people and is constantly misrepresenting the motives and actions of the colored people to the white people. The object of the individual referred to when engaged in this kind of demoralizing work is to keep himself hidden in the dark and use other people as his agents while he pretends to be on the favorable side of the very cause that he is trying to kill. Of course the fact that this man is the principal of a colored school gives him access into colored circles that other white men would not have and he is constantly using this advantage to impress other white people that he can command knowledge of the feelings and doing of the colored people which no other white man can do. Your readers will have, perhaps, noticed that a number of telegrams have appeared dated from Montgomery in different daily papers of the country misrepresenting the work at the Taskegee Institute, and especially the attitude of Principal Washington. It is wellknown in Montgomery that the falsehoods contained in these dispatches and the dispatches themselves are inspired by and are the result of the efforts of the head of the school referred to. The white newspaper men with whom he thinks he is dealing in confidence and to whom he gives this information are themselves so disgusted with the motives and actions of this man that they themselves do not attempt to hide the fact that they get their information from the head of this colored school and that they have little respect for him because they know that while he professes to be working to upbuild the colored people he is working to tear down any colored man who gets any prominence or has any success. The true object however of the whole effort is brought out in the following quotations from one of these dispatches: "The two schools illustrate the argument as to management for sometime prominent, i.e., that the Negro cannot manage successfully where great executive ability is required." The object clearly sought is to show that no colored man can manage a school but all such schools should be headed by white people. The Tuskegee school has received for a number of year a small appropriation from the State of Alabama. It is an open secret among those who are in a position to know that this man is making a systematic effort to get the members of the legislature to agree to withdraw this money from the Tuskegee Institute so that it can be applied to his own school. Your correspondent will close this subject by adding that every action of this man is now being watched and a small group of colored people are constantly informed of every effort he is making to misrepresent the colored people in dispatches being sent out from Montgomery, and also every effort he makes to injure the Tuskegee school with T. E. H. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. the legislature and otherwise and everything he does is being reported to the colored people promptly and systematically. So long as this man will attend to his own business and let other people's alone the colored people are willing to bear with his shortcomings but when he puts aside his own business and attacks the character and work of other people then the race thinks it should no longer remain silent. Your correspondent would add that for a white man who has had years of opportunity of civilization and a contact that ought to give him an idea and desire for high living to descend to injure other people and institutions in the way that he has is disgraceful beyond our imagination, and this is the opinion among the colored people with whom your correspondent has talked. The Sojourner Truth club, which is headed by Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington, about whom your readers know, is doing excellent and far reaching work for the education of our young people. The colored churches in Montgomery were never so prosperous as they are today. The ministers who at their head represent the very best type of Negro preachers in the South and we feel proud of the record the churches are making. THE STANDARD THE STANDARD BEARERS. WHITE-NICHOLSON NUPTIALS Columbia, Tenn., Special.—The marriage of Miss Florence L. Nicholson and George S. White, Jr., which took place at the Gay Street Baptist Church Wednesday Nashville, Tenn., was an event of much interest to Nashville society. The reception was held at the residence of Rev. Spencer Jackson, 446 North Spruce street, where a delightful buffet menu was served from tables decorated with a tasteful arrangement of cakes, icees and fruits. The bride is an attractive young lady of this city. We wish them a long and happy life. The return of Rev. B. G. Gordon as pastor of St. Paul Church and Dr. G. A. Davis as presiding elder was welcomed by all—Mrs. J. H. Williams has returned to San Jose, Cal.—Misses Lust, Alexander, Carden and Martha Upshaw of Pulaski, Tenn., were the guests of Miss Ida Love during conference—Mrs. Lucile E. Nicholson attended the Nicholson-White marriage at Nashville Tenn.—The entertainment of the Y. M. C, A., will be given Wednesday, November 23—Mr. and Mrs. Doc Ceoll will leave for New York November 30—Mrs. Fanny McKray attended the wedding at Nashville Wednesday.—Miss Lela Merrill was in Nashville this week.—The Kellenan Literary Society will render a program during Thanksgiving --- ```markdown ``` STANDARD BEA 1 --- RD BEARERS. week.—Miss Ethel L. Porter is visiting in Alabama.—Miss Virginia Alexander was married to Mr. Orlando Gwyn Thursday night at the Dukk River Church.—Messdames Josephine Merrill, Eddie James and Magnolia Ewing were the guests of Mrs. Doda Merrill last week.—Mrs. Dora Bark spent a few days with Miss Lelia Merrill during conference.—Mrs. Mary Brown died recently with that fatal disease consumption. during her long illness she was patient until the last. Funeral services occurred Monday at St. Paul Church, Rev. B. G. Gordon officiating. T. A. Frierson, editor of the Twin City Record was in the city last week. CHATTANOOGA NEWS NOTES. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.—George L. Knox is the bravest, heroic and the most daring man in America today of the Negro race. He is a true American and possesses the grit and courage of the Roman. He should have the loyal support of the entire Negro race—Mr. and Mrs. George G. Lee, of Lookout street, entertained Mrs. L. E. Grainer, of Augusta, Ga., last Monday evening. The Freeman in Hot Springs, Ark. Copies of The Freeman can be found every Saturday at Robinson & Glover's barbershop 101 Malvern avenue. RERS. CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. --- INDIANAPOLIS NOV 12 1904 PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCAL AND PERSONAL BRIEFS Duluth, Minn., Special.—Rev. H. H. Thompson, presiding elder of this district, preached and administered sacrament at St Marks church Sunday evening. There was a large congregation as usual.—The Men's Sunday club was largely attended last Sunday, and the discussion of the "History Study of the Carthagenian" was well rendered by members of the club. The subject discussed "Founding of Carthage" was very busy and interestingly handled by Mr. H, J. Shelton. "Founding of Roam" will be discussed by H. L. Pittman next Sunday.—Rev. Thompson gave a short address to the men's meeting—A Halloween party was given by the young people Monday evening. They met at Mrs. Robert Johnson's residence, 222 East First street. Those present were: Mrs. Lula McCurdy, chaperon; Misses Elizabeth Johnson, Jesie Pope, Lloy Flemmings, Dee Austin, Lucretia Watts, Messers Elmer Johnson, Arthur Johnson and Andrew F. Mason.—The chair of St Mark's church has been reorganized and its new leader will be Miss Jessie Pope.—Mrs. Lulu McCurdy left the city for a pleasure trip over the Iron Range last Tuesday.—J. Madison Vance, of New Orleans, made some good political speeches in this section. THE "SMART SET" CULLINGS Season 1904-5 opened at Newburg on the Hudson to packed house as has been ever since and the show was extremely well received. S. H. Dudley, in the role of G. W. Bullion, suprised the most dubious and skeptical in the difficult character. John Bailey, as Grafter Smooth, was exceedingly "smooth" to say the least. Mrs. Hattie Hopkins Chenault, with her rich and flexible soprano voice was in evidence all through the performance. Lawrence Chenault portrayed Lieut. Wilder in an exceedingly creditable manner, as also did he render "Tell Me With Your eyes." Miss Marion Smart as Miss Dewar, J. Ed, Green as Planter Cain, and Jerry Mills as Detective Ketchem seemed to be at home in the respective parts. The rendition of "The Barbecue," by Mrs. Stella Johnson, ably assisted by the chorus, is a very decided feature of the show.—Billy Johnson, of Memphis, Tenn., a new acquisition to the Smart set roster, is rapidly perfecting the difficult part of Willie He, the simpleton—The Indian song "Birch Canoe," sung by Ed. Harris, Stella Johnson and chorus proves to be a fitting climax to the second act, heretofore being the only difficult spot in the show to arouse the enthusiast of the audience.—Sick list so far this season: Ed. Gaeen, John Bailey, Sadie Mears, Manager Moore, Etta Gross, Billy Mills. All are well at this writing.—Scenery costumes, everything new. Electricians are busy from beginning to end of show. Undoubtedly the best dressed show on the road. Such a well balanced singing chorus have seldom if ever been heard, and such a bevy of pretty girls have never been brought before together. Especial attention has never been given to expression in rendering the plaintive coon melodies. Too much paise cannot be given to Musical Director Leo Merrigan under whose tuteledge the entire chorus seems to be as one great organ and I may add that he is esteemed most highly by the entire company. The roster is as follows: S. H. Dudley, John Bailey, Jerry Mills, Lawrence Chenault, J. Ed. Green, Ed. Harris, Gus Hall, Jube Johnson, Walter Hilliard, William Pieros, Charles Foster, George McClain, Billy Moore, Hattie Hopkins Chenault, Marion Smart, Mamie Emerson, Daisy Butts, Ette Goss, Eva Swinton, Jeanette Foster, Florence Mitchell, Lizzie Wallace, Stella Johnson, Hilda Horris, Sadie Mears, Geo, Dobbs, Cecil Reese, Kittie Post, Jennie Hillman, Billy Mills and Pinkie Cooper.—Cole and Johnson visited some of their friends of this show while in Toronto, Canada.—The entire company enjoyed a fine observation tour while in this city of Quebec which was extremely instructive, despite the small snow fall.—Rehearsals are a rarity now in as much as the rough edges have been cut away under the direction of Ed. Green.—The unbounded hospitality of Detroit was more than represented by Babe Huston, who, by the way, is a relative of Walter Hilliard of this company, and in whose honor the whole company were so grandly entertained from Sunday until Saturday night and I take pleasure in stating that ev-ryone who was present will almost count the days when we will get a chance to repay the unlimited kindness. Ostracism should be an unwritten law dealt to self important members of all large shows as the indescribable silent sting is far more reaching than having words. While in Cincinnati John Stowers entertained Misses Florence Mitchell, Cecil Reese, Etta Gross, Georgia Dobbs, Eva Swinton, Will Pierce and Gus Hall in a most lavish manner. While in Toledo a general invitation was sent to the entire company by the most generous and popular comedian in the United States to assemble at Wood's hotel, there awaited us a banquet fit for kings. Toasts by both ladies and gentlemen were in order. Vintages galore; enjoyment supreme; ladies' farewell souvenirs, boxes of cream candies; gents, Havanas. It was the sweetest story ever told. Best love to all says Ernest Hogan. While in Cincinnati, the home of Lawrence Chenault, he was made an Elk after strenuous efforts on the part of Jerry Mills and also entertained in company with his wife and Jerry Mills by the Rev. Mrs. Parker of Walnut hills. Those present were his mother, Mrs. Saunders. Mrs. Carrie Lewis, of Chicago, his aunt and John D. Washington. -Miss Pinkie Cooper of the company was visited by her mother of Greenfield, Ohio, while in Cincinnati. -S. H. Dudley was visited by his wife and bouncing baby while at Heuches. We will be at the Fourth avenue theatre next week, Louisville, Ky. The STAGE Notes of the little Savoy theatre, Jacksonville, Fla.—We are pleasing the people and crowded houses is the result. Billy Reeves, the South's premier comedian, comes in for a justly earned share of applause and apprehension. Carrie Hall, the queen of coon song singers, is singing with much success "Gone, Gone, Gone"" "Alexander" and "Money Was Made for Coons to Spend" Web Williams and V.da Devine are proving themselves to be one of the best skate teams in the business Pauline Crampton, the ever pleasing contralto, never fails to please. Billy Bradley, the fashion plate comedian, is HOWARD'S BRIGHTING SHOE POLISHES NEW YORK A.C. HOWARD CHICAGO. On sale in Indianapolis, at Geo. J. Marott 26-38 E Washington street; Nutz & Grosskoph, 24-26 W. Washington ton street; Hide, Leather & Belting Co. 227 S. Meridian street; H P. Wasson & Co.; New York Shoe Store. Agents wanted everywhre. SHE MADE THEDUMB BEAST OBEY. Mrs. Dr. H. W. Robertson, the Only Living Slate Writing medium Clairvoyant M. B. who can read from the say. During the great show of Bingling brothers in Videla, La. sampson, one of the largest and oldest elephants in the world, became unruly and killed the elephant for her safety. sent for; she is fluenced the be st by holding a charming seal bone in her hand and speaking nine holy words to the beast and he obeyed. Mrs. Robinson was born in Paris France, and when she was 14 she was born a fortune-teller. -o female on earth can do what she can do. She gives advice on law suits, divorces, marriages, love, notes, deeds, property sickness, female troubles, bounties pensions, trickery, evil spirits, cripple and murder, hidden treasures and lost and stolen articles. Address MRS. H. W. ROB RISON 840 Elm Street. Dallas, Texas THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER a big favorite. Clara Griffin is quite an addition to our already strong stock company. Our musical director, Prof. Wm. H. Dorsey, is playing music to suit all tastes, classes and fancy, and is conceded to be one of the race's leading musicians. Will Goff Kennedy, stage manager, is doing nicely. Our stock company, besides producing the regular vaudeville vaudeville, minstrelsy and musical comedy programs are putting on dramas, which are highly appreciated as the parts are always in capable hands. The management have decided to put on ten chorus girls The manager. W E. Gillick, a scenic artist of rare ability, was formerly with Weber & Field of New York City. The entire company send regards to friends in and out of the profession. Notes of P G. Lowery's Musical Enterprise with Fourpaugh and Sells Brothers Circus.—We are now on the verge of closing a very successful season, having been able to retain the majority of our company the entire season. We lost Mr. Hill, our claironetist, much to our regret on account of illness. Regardless of the hot weather and dust the remainder are still enjoying good health. John L. Jones send regards to J. Harry Jackson Samuel Elliott send regards to Charles B Foster and Amos Gillard. John W Carson send regards to Will A. and Etta Cook Master George McDade send best wishes to Sam Lucas. Prof. Lowery is well pleased with his company and also says it is one of the most agreeable company he has ever gotten together. Mr. Lowery send regards to James Lacy and all professional friends. Best wishes to The Freeman and Hon. George L Knox. Messrs. Carson and Elliott will soon be among Indianapolis friends. Notes of Billy Kersande' Minstrel Co—the manager has accepted quite a number of return engagements in Texas Chie Wright is on the slok list. Kid Langford, E. Sherman and Bunk Campbell are on the extreme ends, assisted by Dave D. Smith, Mauze Campbell, Rastus and Oscar Camron. H. S. Wooten is making a tremendous hit singing "Two Little Eyes of Brown," a very pleasing ballad. Jakle Smith is singing "Down in the Depths." Master Moore, the magician, is still a mystical wonder to all who chance to see him. The following strong numbers complete our ollo: The Campbell Brothers, Marsh Craig, the Alabama quartet, the Housebrothers and then the only Billy Kersands in an act of his own, called "A Little of Everything." The company send regards to the profession. Notes of the Quaker Doctor Co.—The show is still doing business up to its standard, and we are pleasing the audience nightly. Every member of the company have been mentioned through the press for their ability as performers and musicians. Everybody is in good health after being in the country for three weeks. All the spare time that we have is spent in improving ourselves and the show. Ray Trusty, Wm. Bostwick and Fount Wood are to be commended for their interest and zeal taken in the show. Mr. Copeland is making a big hit with his song "Coconut Maid." Everybody send regards to the Freeman and friends Notes of Oliver Scott's Minstrel. The company is now in rehearsal at Louisville, Ky., and will start out on the 12th, opening at New Albany, Ind. We have a company of 40 people this season and have a hot band and orchestra. They travel South. James Clark, Jr., has the management of the show and would like to hear from the Reeves and other good performers and musicians that are at leisure. Walter Tinsley has returned from Boston and will take part in the band and orchestra. He send regards to Tom Logan. Notes of Millican Plantation Co — We are still in the state of South Carolina and business is good. We met P. G. Lowery and his company recently and Billy Arute shook hands with some of his old friends. Charley Fleming joined us in Columbia, S. C. He send best regards to Jake Smith. Billy Arute send best regards to Ht Henry McCanon with A. G. Allen's N. O. Minstrels. Edwin D. Cook, with J. D. McCerary's Great Southern Comedy Co., is well and send regards to Tom and Cora Cross, Charles Beecham and sister and all friends. Cook is making good in the East as a female impersonator. His permanent address is 727 Eighth street, Philadelphia, Pa. La She's Coon Shouter, who are now doing the North, are composed of the following people: R. L. Crawford, Eva Nolan, Lyda Duncan, George Curtis, Chester Hughes, Jud Curtley. Clemo & Cassell closed with the Hottest Coon in Dixie Co, November 12 and joined the Famous Troubadors and are introducing their act: "They Can't Keep a Good Man Down." George C. Horace has joined hands with Nettie Nattiel, and will be known in the future as Horace & Nattiel, high class musical artists. They are with F. L. Mahara. Rufus Rutherford, now at the Richard's hotel, Menominee, Mich., send regards to Frank Haines, W. M. Fitzbutler, Skinner Harris and Count DeRoobid. The African Concert Co., played a return engagement in Augusta, Ga., recently to a large business. THE FREEMAN BY SYLVESTER RUSSELL. Who sends us all a Christmas cheer? Who wishes us a bright New Year? Who makes life sweet when all is dear? The Freeman. Whose print and paper leads them all? Who answers every beckon call? Who aids and pictures great and small? The Freeman. Who keeps its patrons up-to-date? Who handles great affairs of state? Who dares to be a potentate? The Freeman. Who tells about the waiter's trip? Who gives them all their hotel tips? Who gets the praises from all their lips? The Freeman. Who makes the student's heart feel glad? Who makes the college life a fad? Who strives to interest every lad? The Freeman. Who prints the greatest stage review? Who tells everything thats new? Who tells what all the actors do? The Freeman. Who gives the fighters equal rights? Who gives them courage in their fights? Who feeds their craving appetites? The Freeman. Who tells about the social swim? Who fills the wine glass to the brim? Who keeps her flash lights well in trim. The Freeman. WARNING. 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She attended the annual conference at Uniontown. —Mrs. Etta Anderson has moved to Bridge street, South Morgantown. —Rev. J. W. Brown has been sent back as pastor of the A M E church here. —Rev. J. W. Jeffries, who was pastor in charge at Cannonsburg, Pa., is now our presiding elder of the Wheeling District. —Rev. C. A. McGee goes to Uniontown, Pa., as pastor this year. —Rev. G. C. Sampson Clarksburg. W Va; Rev. E E Oblrent, Parkersburg, W Va; Rev F. S. Lee, Wheeling, W Va. Rev. Elijah Baizer is transferred from the Wheeling District to the Allegheny District and stationed at Erle, Pa. —Rev. J. C. Young is transferred from the Wheeling District to the Pittsburgh District and sent to Phillipsburg Circuit as pastor this year. —The next annual conference will be held at Wilkesbarre Pa., in the year 1905 —Mrs. Alice Redman went to Belle Vernon, Pa., to visit friends in that section on Thursday, Nov 3. 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Wilson, principal of the colored public school at Weston, W. Va. THE DOOR OF HOPE. THE DOOR OF HOPE. Editor Freeman—I leave immediately for Cuba with a view of personally ascertaining how wide the door of hope stands for my oppressed colored brother of the United States. I have visited many Spanish-American countries—Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Colombia (State of Panama)—in all of which the door of hope stands as wide open for Negroes as for whites. Brazil is the coming great country of the world, in which every Negro in the United States may have a home where he will never know hunger, cold, injustice or political oppression. Jim-Crow statesmanship is confined to the United States, where the contagion is spreading and where liberty has degenerated into license and the anarchy of mob law. Uphold Roosevelt; give the Republicans a majority in congress; then, if they do not enforce the law made to prevent jim-crow Democrats from casting in congress the votes of disfranchised Negroes in the South—then, I say, let the Negroes abandon the Republican party and emigrate to South American republics, where 'they can have land, liberty, justice and equality before the law. In South America the condition of the Negro is as far ahead of the status of the Negro in the jim-crow States as his present condition is ahead of legal slavery days. I speak from actual knowledge and observation. Once only have I seen the Negroes oppressed in a foreign country. They were held in actual slavery in Guatemala when some jim-crow Americans had a contract to build the Guatemala Northern Railroad from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala, the first section of which ran through the Mosquito Coast, rendered uninhabitable by millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions of the most vicious mosquitoes on earth. But those Negroes who reached the uplands of Guatemala are prosperous, free, happy and respectable. I, personally, appealed to Cleveland's minister in Guatemala, but he had no time to listen to a tale of woe concerning black American citizens. In the Catholic churches of Central and South America all people—white, black, brown or billious green of the jim-crow politician—all knelt around one common altar and prayed to one common Lord, who, the Bible says, "made of one blood all nations of men." I want to correspond with some intelligent and educated Negro students who will learn the Spanish language and lead colonies of American Negroes to South and Central America, where the door of hope is wide open to all honorable men. I want Negroes to form missionary societies to send the sons of lynched Negroes to a land of justice. Little children can learn Spanish in two years in Cuba, and can become interpreters for colonies of Negroes who wish to emigrate to a land of perpetual sunshine. Let Negro politicians keep their eyes on Congressman Robert Baker, a radical Democrat, whose motto is "Equal rights to all; special privileges to none." If Bryan had fought as hard for constitutional civil rights as he fought for constitutional money, he would have been president; the Negroes could have elected him. Cheer up, my colored brethren. The door of hope is wide open in Central and South America. There are free lands for homes, perpetual sunshine, fruits, flowers, vegetables, every day in the year in countries as healthful as California. I shall write again from Cuba, and shall answer correspondents briefly through the columns of The Freeman, which every pickaninny should be tangut to read Educate ! Educate !! Educate !!! Educate !!! Send every Negro child to school UNCLE DICK New York. Oct 25 1904 (Colored Newspapers please copy.) Pensaola Drug Company wants an experienced pharmaist, apply at once to Dr. H. G. Williams, Pensaola, Fla. 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Ladies that are heart-broken by family troubles, love affairs and bad luck until it seem that life is a hard write to this dear lady, she will do you cool well tell you to trust God and will do the balance, and she will. A LADY of Bristol, Ind. T. Dear Sisters and Brothers—Call on her when you can, she will be please to meet you and will when ever you want to. She devotes her entire time for the welfare of the people believing God will reward her. She will make your very soul glad to hear her talk of heaven for she writes such soul searching letters, tells you how to make home happy. Send date of the month and the year you was born in and receive a full character reading. Enclose $1. Clip this ad. 1527 English Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS IND., MADAME MONAIRDE-MOORE, Enclose stamp for reply. JAMES N. SHELTON LUCAS B. WILLIS Old 299 1 Red—Phones—New 9058 Shelton & Willis (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Best Service. 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Vermont Street. 233, 235, 237 Massachusetts Avenue. 15, 20, 24 N. New Jersey Street. 1538 N. Illinois St. 1532 College Ave. Tomlinson Hall Market In a Box for 10 cents. Read the Ads and then patronize them From Distillery to Consumer SATISFACTION GUARANTEED WRITE FOR PRICES Distillery, Bonded Warehouse and Office, Story Avenue, Johnson to Buchanan Streets. STITZEL DISTILLING CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. JIM TAYLOR'S GARDEN EXCHANGE 1119 W. Walnut St., LOUISVILLE, KY. The Best That An Exacting PATRONAGE could demand is My Standard. Only place of its kind conducted by a colored man in the city. ER POET Im Laundras Cigar Consumer and pay all express charges. A TRYAL ORDER - Indianapolis, Ind. le's Favorite.... Cream Beer LOUISVILLE BREWING CO. FOODS. Every Saloon Keeper Should Write Best Business Proposition THE RETAIL TRADE. l, 5c Cigar & Son Makers, HE FREEMAN, Now THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE WAITER. Edited By W. FORREST COZART. WORLD'S FAIR CITY NOTES. "Old St. Louis" on the Pike changed waiters one day last month, reinstating white men. Colored men were employed on a percentage basis, which was so small that men could not be induced to go there to work. One week after the change from colored to white men they were again begging the colored waiters to return, which they did at the same percentage rate as before. One change follows another. The Monticello Hotel, corner Pine Boulevard and Kings Highway, changed crews, putting in white waiters instead of colored men. The main trouble at this hotel seems to come from the headwaiter. They pay such small salary that no good man has ever accepted the position, consequently many changes have followed, until recently they employed a white man. The management promised to advance the colored men's salary on the 1st of October to $35 per month. When the waiters reminded B. SQU BL B. SQUARE'S BLUSTER It may not be known to many or it may not go down in history but it is nevertheless a fact that the man who was the father of the bootblack parlor was a Brooklyn colored man—Joe Mann. In the long ago (I will not give date unless some one disputes Joe Mann's claim) the canopy over the bootblack chair of a colored man working in a barber shop as an all 'round man fell down one hot summer's morning and his patrons went to the next corner to get their shoes shined. "Joe" was born in Virginia where some of the best Negro thinkers and workers, or their parents were born, (my father was a Virginian) he did some thinking. He concluded that a certain class of Brooklynites would get their shoes polished every day, rain or shine, if they were not obliged to sit in the sun or rain so he opened the first bootshool shop in the United States INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DRECTOR [One address line $2 00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWITERS. 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, Chicago, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg, Pa. R. S. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa. C. W. Dyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. C. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings in 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. THE FRANK FEHR BREWING CO. F. F. X. L. Bottled Beer PERFECTION MARK Perfection is Reflected in every Bottle . . . Louisville, Kentucky --- him of his promise, through the headwaiter, he told the manager he could get good white waiters for that salary, consequently the change. The Hotel Grand View, after many experiments with colored headwaiters, finally changed to giris, put out colored waiters. The Union Station restaurant, the pride of the St Louis Negro waiter, put in white waiters too. About twenty-five colored men were employed at the station under a white headwaiter, and he persuaded the Hawery people to believe that colored waiters were "no good;" so, when the change was made, forty white waiters and ten bus boys took the places of the twenty five colored men. The days have come when white men are dangerous to the interest of col red waiters, especially on the ala carte system. The waiters of the hamilton Hotel gave a swell banquet on the 8th of October at the Oriental Club, corner of Sixteenth and Chestnut street. WARES USTER In was in the basement of the Jones building, a leading business house of the day. He called his shop a "boot black parlor," it took and for years he employed from five to ten uniformed men and sat in the office and took the cash. This was the birth of the bootblack parlor. The idea spread like "wild fire" Our alten friends from eunny Italy 'got next" and opened bootblack parrons. These parrons are now all over the United States and are a monument to Joe Mann, who is dead. "Do you know who that man is?" was asked a few days ago as an old white man in rags and rum passed us. "No," I replied "but I know what is coming, you are going to say that he is a good old has been," and I'm going to reply: "That its not what you were but what you are now." You are right! A CLEVER NEGRO Here is a letter from one of the very clever Negroes in New York, a good writer, a mathematician, a man of character, prepossessing in appearance, polite, humble, quick, active, enterprising and altogether much of a gentleman: Dear Mr. Tip—I would like to ask as a special favor—if you would not mind—if you will keep a watch-out and see if you can locate a position for me. I have special reasons for making a change which are perfectly honorable; still, I cannot mention them on paper. I wish you and all your family good health. Please do what you can. I beg to remain your very cedied servant. This boy is some 30 years old and about the color of Booker Washington. He would be just the handiest man about a house you ever saw, a treasure for a man of wealth. Besides his other accomplishments, he is an excellent musician. Befo' de wah he would have brought about $3,500 on the block. The above clipping was taken from the paragraphic column of Victor Smith who writes a column in the New York "Press," corresponding to "B Square's Blus er." He is a son of the South, sah! and this is the second time in eight years that I have seen anything in the "Tip of the Tongue" column of the New York Press favorable to colored people. There is hope for the New (?) South after that. B. SQUARE. To the Southeast via "Big Four Routes" on October 11th and November 15th, 1904. 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Special ratios on standing professional and business cards. enjoyable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 100 per line. Special rates on WR TE UPS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Indiana, as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1904. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SPLEN- DID TRIUMPH. The whole country was amazed at the tremendous political landslide of Tuesday. The best informed looked for a Republican victory, but no man in any party anticipated anything like results recorded by the ballots. The President's triumph surpasses anything in our history. Both in the popular vote and in the electoral college he has scored majorities far surpassing those received by any other presidential candidate. For the first time in our history there is a solid North, with every State in the Union north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers marching side by side in support of the same candidate. And even below this "dead line" our popular President secures votes, having carried both West Virginia and Missouri, as appears at this writing. Nothing remains for Judge Parker except the old slave States, where freedom of speech and political action are unknown, where votes are suppressed by the thousand by force and fraud, or miscounted when cast. None rejoice more sincerely than the Freeman in this glorious vindication of the President. It was largely his personal triumph, a tribute by the people to his honesty, his integrity and his fearlessness in the performance of public duty. He is a great man and a great President, and none have more reason for admiring and loving him than the Negro race of this country. Thousands of their votes went into the ballot box for him last Tuesday, and they did much to swell the mighty avalanche that surged over the ballot boxes in all the States of the free North. Mr. Roosevelt has proven himself to be the true friend of the lowly and oppressed, and these in turn show their gratitude by supporting him who opens "the door of hope" to the humble and friendless. The Freeman allows no one to surpass it in admiration for the President or in rejoicing over the unparalleled victory recently achieved at the hands of the American people. We wish him well and will heartily sustain his administration in all good works. REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY. Its recent great triumph places a heavy responsibility upon the Republican party. The people who so loyally sustained it and gave into its keeping not only the national government, but nearly three-fourths of the States, will look to it for a continuation of the good government of the past as well as the carrying out of other substantial reforms promised in its platform. Foremost amongst these, so far as the Negro race is concerned, is the remedying of the oppression of our people in the South. Something must be done to protect them in such rights as are left them, and every effort should be made to restore those taken away by unjust laws and unconstitutional constitutions. Among the great measures to come before the next Congress is the Crumpacker bill, and this or some equally drastic measure to check disfranchisement should be given early consideration by Congress. This is the vital issue for our people, the issue that transcends all other issues. The tariff is important, the Panama question of moment, and the government of the Philippines of absorbing interest. But these dwindle into insignificance compared to the burning question whether millions of people, endowed by the national constitution with certain inalienable rights, shall be deprived of these by rascally laws and outrageous oppression of all degrees of villainy. The Freeman will insist with all its power that something shall be done to help our unfortunate brethren wherever they are threatened by discriminating laws or other forms of mistreatment. It will demand justice for them in season and out of season, and never cease to protest against the effort to deprive our people of a man's chance to live in the world. Whether South or North, whether in Mississippi or Indiana, when our people are abused, unjustly treated or discriminated against, the Freeman may be depended on as their champion. The Republican party, intrenched in both houses of Congress, in the presidency, the Supreme Court and scores of legislatures, has ample power to rectify all wrongs while providing against their repetition, and this it is their sacred duty to do. There must be no hesitation, no evasion, but a firm determination to take such steps as are called for by a situation that has long since grown intolerable. Mr. Knox and the Machine. Every fair-minded man in this county knows and admits that the treatment given George L. Knox by the THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Marion county political machine involved an outrage of the largest proportions. He asked for the simple privilege of being allowed to run for office and was denied a place upon the ballot. This was done by outrageous manipulation and scheming in violation of the law. There was no reason for it and no justification for it, the instigators simply doing it because they had the power. This outrage on his individual and political rights being perpetrated, Mr. Knox had to do one of two things—tamely submit like a coward, or resent it as became a man. He chose the latter course, and has neither regrets nor apologies to offer. In doing as he did, he not only was standing up for his own manhood, but for the rights of all the members of his race, here and elsewhere. He made a protest and a fight to vindicate both himself and all others of his race, should they be accorded the same unjust treatment. But the battle is over now and he has no desire to follow it up farther. Being actuated by no mere desire for revenge, by a lofty principle, and having done his best to voice that sentiment, he is willing to rest his case where it is, with the warning that never, so long as he lives, will he stand silently by while mistreatment is being inflicted upon the humblest member of our race. OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOOLING. Evening schools are now open in several of the public school buildings, among which are the Sumner school No. 23 and the McCoy school No. 24. The elemental branches will be taught, also manual training. At the Manual Training High School classes will be formed for teaching higher branches. The opportunity for educational improvement is open to all who care to take advantage of it. There is no excuse for the people of this community not having some knowledge of books, except it be the remainder of that old class who spent their earlier days in the service of others. Every calling of life in these times demands some knowledge. It is not essential that one should be deeply learned, but he must have a passing acquaintance with letters. The cartman, the expressmsn, all deliverymen, must read the names of streets: must read addresses written or printed; must know residence and telephone numbers. The humble sodman, the man that digs the cellar and "the man with the hoe" must be able to do some reading, writing and calculating. If not they must be dependent on the reading, writing and calculation of others, which makes a poor stick to lean on. In the affairs of to-day there is not much mercy for him that hath not, nor the affairs of any time since the days of the biblical talents; and it may be in the interest of the economy of human affairs that half of the world is but oysters for the other half. But saner reason says that in the interest of the whole, the whole should be nearer equally prepared. Our country has magnificently provided for the education of the citizens. Some nations send their youths to the army as a means of defense; we send ours to school for the same purpose; it in the meanwhile brings greater cheer and intelligence to the general life. Our young men, colored young men and women, who have not had a chance in the past ought to view the opportunity as a blessing. They may not become what they may expect; but they can become more useful in supporting themselves and those dependent on them. But it is a fact that along the line of seeking opportunity to better the education there is almost criminal neglect. It seems a hard saying, but when we know the prize that has been set on education in the past it will not seem any too severe. The prize of education in many countries is past reaching; in some countries knowledge is studiously denied because it means liberty, and liberty is not what all rulers have in mind for the people. Then comes the idea of suffering to know the value of things, not that individuals should be made to suffer to feel the force of an ethical or moral law, but that he should know the cause; providing against the same causes in the future whether in the same or other individuals. The inconvenience through lack of education ought to teach its value. Again it may be necessary to say that it does not mean great learning. This is no age to be without at least a rudimentary education. Educated sufficiently to meet the requirements is absolutely essential. Then beyond all this is the joy that cometh from the ability to talk with the intellect of the ages when in its best mood. Those that cannot be actually associated with the truly good and beautiful will find such company in books if it is truly sought. The best manners, the best notions of men, of all, are set out as a feast perpetually spread; and as truly as association begets assimilation will the manners and notions of the individual be dominated and influenced by contact with the thoughts and characters in literature. Get the reading habit; it will help you to wear the Hats off to "the girl who works." Professional politicians go to work. W. D. Johnson's daily materialize. White men read Negro newspapers. Charles Warren Fairbanks there in 1908. People who have nothing to say keep still. Loafers stop wasting the time of busy men. Equal protection under the laws for all citizens. Paul Lawrence Dunbar on the road to recovery. Senseless attacks upon our female teachers cease. The "social equality" spook laid away for good. Albert S. White of Kentucky gets "his is" this time. A Negro contestant seated in the 59th congress. Stringent vagrancy laws enforced in the great cities. Mr. Overstreet make amends for past dellinquencies. An open door to the black workman in the labor unions. A race paper find its way regularly into every Negro home. Charles Warren Fairbanks nominated for President in 1908. More bank checks and fewer policy slips written by black hands. Young men beginning to buy homes or starting bank accounts. Tillman and his mouth kept south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Equality of citizenship a living reality as well as a statutory obligation. A thrifty season for the new Institute for colored youth at Cheyney, Pa. Graded fares substituted for Jim-Crow system on transportation lines. Negroes of means contribute to the support of our schools in the South. Anarchist Heflin turned out of the congressional seat that he disgraces. Better schools and longer school terms for our children in the rural districts. A higher respect for the law on the part of blacks and whites all over the land. The federal constitution follow the flag into Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. The race issue merged into the great issue of American honor and Christian duty. Every congressman elect unseated whose election can be shown to be tainted with fraud. Politics as politics given a rest and a resumption of business on the part of our people. Dr. W. D. Crum confirmed as the first act of the next season of the next session of the senate. Prof. W. H. Richards given an appropriate judicial assignment in Hawaii or the Phillippines. A representative Negro named as Minister to San Domingo at the earliest practicable moment. Emmett J. Scott have his pick of the honors when he gets ready to serve the government. The Alabama Legislature "put wise" as to the motives behind the enemies of Tuskegee Institute. The Crumpacker bill become a law to make a Northern vote as powerful as a Southern one. Negro banks as plentiful as Negro saloons and the library as popular as the crap games with young men. A scrap of evidence to sustain the pue- world as a loose garment. Get the habit of reading good books, since it cost as much effort to read poor ones, and life is too-full of business for the most of us to read for criticism merely. CAN'T FOOL ALABAMA LEGISLATURE In another column of The Freeman we Everybody planning to attend the next session of the Tuskegee Negro Farmers' Conference in February. Indiana's intelligent and progressive young colored men taken good care of at the federal patronage crib. Revised constitutions constitutionally administered, placing a real premium upon character, intelligence and thrift. Colonel Walter L. Cohen sustained as Louisiana's duly elected member of the Republican national committee. Negroes who rant in the North about the race's lack of manhood go South and help their brethren to bear the burden. Envious critics silenced when they essay to throw mud upon the work of our useful teachers, preachers and men of affairs. The books of Washington, Chestnut, Johnson, Griggs, Dunbar and other writers read by a larger number of our people. Our pulpits filled by ministers who do not believe in, long sermons or a lot of hollerin' at the expense of logic and pley. A newspaper that would adequately reflect the character, intellect, culture and capital of the 100,000 Negroes of Washington. The signal services of Dr. James E. Shepard during the recent campaign properly recognized by the national administration. William Jennings Bryan securing information on the status of Negro society before offering gratuitous advice on the subject. Local Negro Business Leagues organized in the centers where our people are numerous and commercial co-operation preached day by day. Negroes patronize those of the race who have had the courage and foresight to embark into business, follow a trade or adopt a profession. Silence and repentance in the cages occupied by Henry Watterson, Clark, Howell, Tom Heflin, Joe Bailey, Ed Carmack and Ben Tillman. Chief of the Negro Bureau, F. L. Barnett, hire a hall in Chicago and tell what he did to further the election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Competent teachers in the congested North go South and help to spread light throughout the Black Belt, where the rudiments of learning are so sorely needed. More Mary Church Terrells, Lillian Thomas Foxes, Lotte E. Wilsons, Fannie Barrler Williamsses, Rosetta Lawsons and Minnie H. Burroughs among our women. Bryan and Parker hand over to the out-ragged black men of the South some of that maudlin sympathy they have been expending upon the alien brown men of the Phillipines. Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback prepare his long-promised "Memoirs of Re-construction Days" and John C. Dancy get down to real work on his overdue "Life of Dr. J. C. Price." Jack-leg preachers cease the disreputable habit of condemning upright Negro solicitors for schools of their own race and passing over white men engaged in the same line of work. A United States Supreme Court that would decide that this republic is a homogenous, centralized nation rather than a loosely-jointed confederation of independent principalities. The Washington Bee, Record and Colored American consolidated with W. Calvin Chase as editor, E. E. Cooper business manager and W. P. Slaughter as treasurer of the new "holding company." The entire Zion publication department moved from obscured Charlotte, N.C., to that great commercial gateway between the North and the South and center of Zion's population—Louisville, Ky. Rev. Byron Gunner explain why it is humiliating to Boston Negroes to have Dr. Washington ask for aid for Tuskegee, and "perfectly lovely" when Dr. Bumstead begs for dollars for Atlanta University. Beneficiaries of harity money of the Byron Gunner order refrain from throwing mud at colored men who beg money of philanthropist of the North to help uplift the poor black children of the Southland. are publishing a letter from a special correspondent in Montgomery, Ala. Following the Associated Press report of a few days ago that an effort would be made to have the Alabama Legislature withdraw the State appropriation allotted to Tuskegee We guarantee a perfect fit. We make all of our Garments in our own shop. We give you one, two or three try us or just as many as necessary to insure a perfect fit. If a Garment doesn't fit exactly we do not try to fix it up but make you a new Garment. If anything should prove unsatisfactory you can return it so we can make it right. The only difference between our clothes and the high price Tailors is the price. You are invited to come in and look over our large stock. ENGLISH WOOLEN CO.,Inc. Tailors of Fashion. Suits & $15.00 Made to Order Overcoats Made to Fit Made to Satisfy 131 WEST WASHINGTON STREET. ENGLISH WOOLEN CO. Tailors of Fashion 131 W. WASH. ST Institute. The communication throws new light upon the situation, and will prove highly interesting reading. The writer is a citizen of standing, whose name for obvious reasons, withheld. He renders the country a timely service, however, in exposing the true inwardness of a most demoralizing condition of affairs, and places a well-known educator of the white race in a position that can only be regarded as discreditable to any individual who lays the slightest claim to honorable, dignified manhood. A resort to such underhand methods to cripple a school so useful and uplifting as Tuskegee is universally recognized to be, is too reprehensible to be characterized in temperate language. The silly insinuations touching Dr. Washington's public activities cannot be supported by a scrap of evidence, and coming from so doubtful a source, will not carry weight with intelligent, far-sighted and justice-loving men. We feel sure the members of the Alabama Legislature, remembering the great good that Booker Washington has wrought in the South's Black Belt and appreciative of the fame that Tuskegee has conferred upon the benevolent spirit of the State which has fostered it, will treat the enemies of the institution, seen and unseen, with the contempt they so ominently deserve. We do not believe these wise men will be influenced by lying tricksters and unscrupulous adventurers into taking away from Tuskegee a single penny of financial aid or withdrawing a jot or title of the moral support they have heretofore so cordially extended. Booker T. Washington has not attended any political convention as a delegate, has made no speeches on any political issue, nor espoused the cause of any party's candidate for any office by word, letter or deed. He has asked for no office for himself, and has dictated no appointment for friends. Thus it is clear that the charge that he has "gone into politics" falls of its own weight. The Freeman is glad to see that Mr. Crumpacker was elected in the Tenth District by an increased majority. This shows that he lost nothing in strength by his bold stand for the rights of the Negro and efforts to ameliorate his condition. In the long run, no man suffers for doing what is right and just. The result of the recent election will probably discourage the Tillmans, Balleys and other fire-eaters from importing their race issue into the North. It may be a great thing for them in their section, but the people of the free States have no use for it—or them. The Freeman made its fight open and above board, both before and during the election. It stood for a vital principle, one it could not ignore without a sacrifice of self-respect, and rests its vindication on the justice of its cause. The election is over and it would be unwise to perpetuate any of its bitterness by keeping up feuds or ill feeling. Let us live together as friends and not criticise each other for differences of opinion. The Freeman cherishes no ill feeling, even toward those who used its proprietor harshly, but wishes one and all a happy Thanksgiving and a still more cheerful Christmas. The Freeman proposes to fight the battles of its people and asks their assistance and patronage while engaged in the never-ending contest. Carry the news to Hefflin and Tillman. If they keep up their race crusade they won't have an electoral vote left in the Union. It was a great landslide—and "the colored troops fought bravely." Church and Personals. Uniontown, Pa., Special.-Miss Gertrude Butler is making fine success in school.-Charles Henson is on the sick list.-Fugate Page and John Page are meeting with success at the Central hotel; the former being headwater and the latter head cook.-Mrs. Jorden Hosley is improving.-The services at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Sunday were very impressive. Wanted--Colored Women To learn hair-dressing, manicuring, cutting, and hairstyling positions for you, or start you in business. We teach by mail. Send stamp for information. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. Every Lady Read This Years ago when I was a sufferer, an尔 nuree told me of a wonderful cure for Leucorrhea, Displacement, Painful Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple harmless procedure. I will not have to have the recipe. I will send it Free to every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping woman, I send it Free. Address M. A. B. Hudnut, South Bend, Ind. --- THE STAGE. By "WOODBINE." It is hinted around Indianapolis that Fred Lewis will take out a company. Harvey Goodall sends regards to Mr. and Mrs. Billy Kersands and all members of the B. O. C. P. are new and the chorus of twenty girls is said to sing and dance better than ever. "After Midnight," a melodrama dealing with the sinful side of New York life, is the Park's bill for the last half of the week. It follows the fortune of a young business Williams & Steven's Hottest Coon in Dixie Co., were royally entertained in Sharon, Pa., last Monday evening after the performance. Chas Beecham, Frank Crosby, Blanche Scott, Mattie Owens, Fred, George and Essie Lew members of the Georgia Plantation Company, have returned to Indianapolis. Walter G. Tinsley, the well known musician was in Indianapolis last week, en route to Louisville, Ky., where he is to join the Oliver Scott minstrels which are rehearsing in that city. Emanual Collins gave a dinner Saturday evening at his residence, 319 Ellsworth street, in honor of Julius Glenn and Erb Robinson of the "Wang Doodle Comedy No. 4." The others present were Sam Faison, Douglass Edwards, Scipo Williams and E.C. Knox. Edward C. Price writes.—The Hawk & Price Concert Co., are all well and the company is meeting with the best of success, packing them in every night.—Mr. and Mrs. Price closed with the company in Charleston, S.C., as they have vaudeville dates to make which will last until the first two weeks in 1905. They send regards to all friends. Notes of Georgia Minstrels.—Napoleon Johnson is suffering with a severe cold.—We are now in the state of Kansas for a brief tour and the boys are breathing freely with no fear of danger.—Nothing but good will, harmony and friendship exists between the members of our company and especially the manager.—Wm. Tell is still holding his own and send regards to all friends.—"Happy" Beaugard's "Its Cold, Cold," is still good.—Williams & Remaker, in their old man song and knocking team are meeting with success.—Harry Conway, of the Toney Trio of acrobats, is on the sick list. The Park will have a farce comedy of the genuine kind for its bill next Monday, it being "McFadden's Row of Flats," a piece which jingles with music and fun. This production is said to have stood the test longer than any of its kind. This is its seventh season and it keeps its youth by offering something new year after year. It has been several seasons since this piece was seen at the Park and it has undergone so many changes since then that one will find few of the original feature in it. The Speck brothers, who originally played the "Yellow Kids" continue to give their laughable burlesque on boxing. But otherwise theirs are the only familiar faces in the company. Gussie Nelson, one of the liveliest singers and dancers known to Park patrons, is in the company and Lizzie Conway is another who has a prominent place in the cast. The music and settings THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE. LADIES LIST. Allen, Miss India B Bacon, Robirda B Cottrell, Miss Pauline Jones, Mrs D B Johnson, Mrs E H Mitchell, Maudie 2 GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Alexander, C F Aumnong, Rong Bebes, B Black, Perry Clark, Quillie Croc, 10m Cooper, Frank Cissel and Mines 2 Carter and Howell 2 Cooper, J W Cooper, J E George, J E 2 Gideon, L E 2 Haghes, Ed Howard, E L Hullman, E L Johnson, Chas P Johnson, Bob(due 10e) Jonsson, The Jordan, J 2 Kaste, Bob Lucas, Sum Lucas, L H Langford, Kid Langford, W Jathin, S A A McCamon, J H McDon neel, J L McCameron, Prof Perry, Oliver Price, Pricer C Smith, Prof H Sauters, Fred H Shaw and Clifton 2 Smith, D 3 Stevens, J H Sugar, Chas S Tibus, Sol The Fosters 2 Tarner, Charley Johnson, Chas P Johnson, Bob(due 10e) Williams, H J Websters, the Williams, Geo Wise, J Wollscalls, James ROUTE A Rabbit, Foot Co. — Butaw, Ala., Nov. 15; Tuscaloosa, 16; Bessmere, 17; Ensley, 18; Pratt City, 19. Billy Kersans Minstreis. — Patterson, La., Nov. 15. Georgia Coon Shouters. — Yuma, Mich., Nov. 15; Messie, 16; Sherman, 17; Pomona, 16; Copemish, 19. Williams & Stevens Hottest Coon In Dixie.— Jacksville, O. Nov, 15; Garrett, 16; Angola, 14. The McCarrers—Billy and Sadie—Sacramento, Call, week of Nov, 14; San Francisco, week of Nov, 21, Fisher Theatre. P.G. Lowery & Paws and Sells' Brus.—Cress, 14; Newbern, 17; Gwenville, N, C. Goldsboro, 16; Newbern, 17; Gwenville, 18; Tarbore, 19. Home Sweet Home. Oliver Scott's Minstrels, J. M. Kane, Mngr. *Uwensboro* Ky., Nov. 14; Evansville, Ind. *J. Henderson* Ky., 16; Ekton, 18; Glasgow, 18 Frank Mahara's Big Minstrels Co. - Sioux City, Ia., Nov. 14; Schaller, 15; Carroll, 16; Harlan, 17; Shelby, 18; Walnut, 16 Wang Doodle Comedy 4, en route with Bob Wonmester's Cracker Jack Co. Julius Grothman's Milwaukee, Erie Robinson, Harvey Goodall, Milwaukee, Erie, week of Nov. 12. In bachmeny, Avery & Hart—Belfast, Ire land, week of Nov. 14; Peckham, London, week of Nov. 20. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER are new and the chorus of twenty girls is said to sing and dance better than ever. "After Midnight," a melodrama dealing with the sinful side of New York life, is the Park's bill for the last half of the week. It follows the fortune of a young business man whose sweetheart is stolen and consigned to the slums and the heroic efforts he makes before he finally rescues her. The plot also deals with crooks, pickpockets and sneak thieves and others who ply their callings between midnight and dawn. The piece is said to be rich in its mountings, there being seven scenes, in which there are numerous incidents of exiting order. Jack Webster, for whom the play was written heads a company of twenty-five capable players. Notice to Actors Horace Copeland, a minstrel star of a decade ago, but now helpless in an institution, used to get his Freeman subscription paid for by Tom McIntosh. Since Tom's death I paid for one year's subscription out of my own pocket. I would ask each minstrel company to contribute 25 cents each (one penny a piece) to the company's Freeman agent to be sent to Elwood C. Knox, to be publicly acknowledged in the Freeman. Mr. Copeland's account is a little behind and none of the money will be wasted. If actors only knew of all the tales of misery I continually receive they would not wonder at my occasional effort for actor charity. SYLVERST RUSSELL. THE STUDENT. Edited by Miss Paralee Lucas. There is a movement on foot at the university to organize a literary club among the colored students. Just whether the the Quill, the X. Y. Z., or some of the white literary organizations. Definite decisions will be made in the near future concerning the idea. Sam Grandy Toole, Law ('03), is practicing in Kansas City, Kas., at 644 Minnesota avenue. Mr. Toole has met with marked success. --- Miss Ernesine Copeland ('C4) is teaching school in Hot Springs, Ark. Miss Copeland has a graded school of sixty pupils. Ed. Harris, a former university student, has a position in the postoffice at St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Baxter of Atchison, Kas., is the guest of her niece, Miss Lillie Mitchun, ('07) at 1900 Tennessee street. Misses Chlora Polk, Davis, Anna Copeland, Cecil Carter and Lena Smith are enrolled in the domestic science class. Miss Camilla Wilson ('C4) of Atchison will visit here during the Thanksgiving High School. Ed. Stone ('00) has returned to Omaha after a visit with friends and relatives here. He was accompanied by Grattan Gregg. Mrs. Etta Hill-Sango of the class of '93 died at her home in Muscoogee, 1. T., Nov. 2. The remains were brought to Lawrence Nov. 5. Mrs. Sango is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hill of North Lawrence and had taught here a number of years. CLUB NOTES Edited by Parade Lucas The ladies of the Auxiliary Board gave a "Weighing Social" Halloween night at the Methodist Church. The plan of the entertainment was a unique one and was enjoyed by every one present. The Sierra Leone Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Sophia Snowden, 900 Penn street. After the opening song "Need Thee Every Hour" and prayer by Mrs. Mattie Bryant the regular routine business was transacted. The members who were on the program were absent but the club was fortunate in having Mrs. Scott as visitor and received a very interesting talk from her. After adjournment the club partook of the excellent luncheon prepared by the hostess. The Pallacean Girls League held its regular meeting November 5 with Miss Paralee Lucas. Plans were outlined for the student's reception. The program consisted of instrumental solos by Misses Miller and Dillard; a paper by Miss Lucas and a reading by Miss Winifred Morton. After the program Mrs. Lucas invited the ladies to partake of a four course luncheon in honor of the senior girls and the P. C. L.'s new pledge. Those present were Misses Sadie Stone, Ada Barnett, Florence Kiser, Winifred Morton, Mayme Dillard, Helen McClain, Mattie Miller, Paralee Lucas --- Four young ladies are planning to organize a dramatic club. The ladies will need some gentlemen to assist them and it would be well to suggest right here that those possessing ability in this line should make applications. Lawrence needs a dramatic club and has persons talented enough to do it. CIVIL RIGHTEOUSNESS. The United States grand jury has made a report to Judge Jones in the Huntsville, Ala., lynching cass covering the lynching of Horace Maples and expressed the opinion that had Maples not been a Negro he would not have been taken from jail and hanged. The grand jury indicted several alleged members of the mob. The report says that something must be done to put a stop to lynching in the South, and that all good citizens should welcome anything that may have that effect, whether from the state or federal court. Judge Jones thanked the jury and said he is willing to have 85,000,000 of people pass on the righteousness of the grand jury's action. Something like 10,000,000 people can have nothing but thanks and praise for judge and jury. The indictments may not result in conviction but something has been gained as it is. The South in the past has not been noted for looking into such cases with the view of punishing offenders; but the recent cases of mob rule wherein such great contempt of law and authority were shown have stirred up the South as, perhaps, nothing else could have done. It is evident that the section is passing through a change of heart as it concerns the treatment of the Negroes. Lynching is murder at last, and it stands to reason that murder will sooner or later become offensive in any civilized society. Judge Jones and the jury are to be congratulated for having the courage of their convictions. It is not enough to say they did only their duty. Duties cannot always be performed unless sentiment is strong enough to support the would be performers. The good in the matter will come from the court's intentions, regardless of the final outcome. HAS SAVED $800 [Picture of a young boy] The above is an excellent likeness of the bright little son of Mr. Thomas L. Pryor, the popular proprietor of the Kederkahn Exchange, Louisville, Ky., his name is Levi L. Pryor. Master Levi is 18 years of age and is a progressive student in the public schools of Louisville. When quite an infant his father erected a shoe shining establishment next to his own place of business and gave it to his son. Being too young to personally supervise it Mr. Pryor, Sr., looked after the business end of affairs for his son until he was old enough to care for it himself. This was several years ago; today Master Pryor has in the bank to his own credit $800. This event carries with it a substantial moral—if all parents, like Mr. Pryor, would instill commercial ideas during the infant period of their children' lives there would be more men of affairs among the race. The Freeman in New York. Chas H. Wilson 139 W. 30th, Street, Geo. H. Washington. 153 7th street, F. J. Brown, 225 W. 60th st. National News Bureau. 323 W. 37th W. C. Hundley 58 W. 135th. SONGS OF HOPE BY B. F. HARVEY, PERU, IND. THE NEGRO IN THE WAR. When truth gets a hearing, Writers become God fearing, Stop at right a sneering. Tell the whole truth. Then the whole world will know How the Negro hoed his row To make the nation grow; So fast forsooth. Whether in peace or war, Facing the cannon's roar, With courage always par With soldiers brave. Under the hottest fire, As if to their desire. Their courage all admire; Country to save. Black soldiers, brave and true, Praised for courage, not hue; The enemies pursue: They will shoot, sing and yell Just like demons from hell, Amidst the shot and shell, 'Til dead, alas! Always true to the flag, In broadcloth or in rag, Never in duty lag, At country's call. 'Raw, black Yankees in blue, Always loyal and true, Three hearty cheers to you In life or grave. For your country's name Fearlessly you came, Wrote your name in fame; Country to save. THE DESTINY OF RACES. In early times, when man began his course, Down through the ages to eternity bound, God deed his limit, and he cannot pass, Search how he will there is no way to be found. Ham, Shem and Jephthea, the ancestors of us all, Were assigned by God to their future state; According to his will he sent them forth, Inspired by God, according to their fate. Ham, He decreed to be the slave of all, And promised Shem to dwell within his tent. Jephthea He enlarged above his brothers And inspired them to do as they were sent. Trace these races and their seed through the ages, They will be marked by the decree of God, And where there is a varrying of the rule It is God's way to use his chasening rod, The Christian feast the Shemite race has set, All other races are but its honored guest; When the fullness of the Gentiles is come The Jews will be restored, though now at rest. Jephthea, with civilization's light, Leading all races with the larger life, is marching by the decree of his God. And wins his way through darkness and through strife. The race of Ham will eat at Shemite's feast, And in his march shall walk by Jephthee's light, And this has been his fate for all these years; Being God's decree lets do it with our might. Has not the potter power over the clay? To give form and strength to it by his choice; He assigns to ach vessel its destiny And no vessel lifts a dissenting voice FOR THE CHILDREN A Kind Hearted Street Boy. Sometimes people imagine that boys who live all their lives on the city's streets struggling for a livelihood are not tender hearted and kind. But the story of a New York newsboy shows that this is not always so. A little girl about six years old was playing with some children dangerously near the edge of the sea wall down at the Battery. Every once in awhile she would stop playing to cuddle a little kitten that was with her. While she was holding the kitten in her arms somebody proposed a game of tug and chased the little girl. She ran straight toward the sea wall, where she suddenly slipped and would have fallen into the water if she had not thrown her hands out and thus saved herself. But the poor kitten fell into the water, and there it floundered about, pitiously mewing, while a crowd of children and grown folks gathered on the wall above, gazing down at it, some of them even laughing. At this point along came Maurice, the newsboy. One glance was enough to show him what was doing. "Aw" exclaimed he. "What are you's guys rubbernecking at de kid's pet fur? Why don't you's do sumthin'? Don't you's see the little kid's a-cryin'?" The next minute, seizing the chain that guards the edge of the Battery walk, Maurice swung himself down and reached out as far as he could in the effort to reach the kitten. Then, to the dismay of the onlookers, just as he caught the kitten he somehow lost his grip on the chain, and down he fell into the water. The tide was going out, and try as he could he could not get a footing on the rocks. But a workman, who was passing by, hurried to the rescue. Hanging over the wall, while a couple of men held his legs, he caught the boy's hand and pulled him out of the water. Two Winter Games. Have you ever played "stir the mush?" Have one chair too few. Some one stands in the middle of the room, Words by E. P. Waller, Music by H. A. Southard. Song 10c in the troduction and Professional Copy. Waller & Southard, Terre Haute, Ind. folding a stout stick, and the others walk around her saying, "Stir the mush, stir the mush," and she pretends to stir very hard with the stick, continuing to do so for some time. After awhile, when no one is expecting it, she knocks three times on the floor with the stick and then drops it and joins her companions, who at this signal run for a seat. Whoever is left without a chair is the next to stir the mush. "King and queen" is the name of another game. Have two rows of chairs, the boys sitting in one row with a king at their head and the girls facing them with a queen at the end. The boys are given even numbers and the girls odd ones. When all are ready the king calls a number, the boy who bears that number starts up, the queen immediately calls one of her numbers, and the girl then chases the boy around the company. If she succeeds in catching him before he gets to the king he pays a forfeit; if not they take their seats and the queen calls for a number. AGENTS WANTED--to sell our Both sexes Hair Straightener and Grower, and Scott's Face Blesh, and Beautifier. Beats anything of their kind. Sells for 30 cents each. Every woman and man will buy when shown a package. Over 100 per cent profit for agents. You can easily make clear $50 a day. We also furnish and beautify your home without any cost to you. Write to dav for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY CO, box 570, Louisville, Ky. Notes of Millican Plantation Co—We are still in the state of South Carolina and business is good. We met P. G. Lowery and his company recently and Billy Arnte shook hands with some of his old friends. Charley Fleming joined us in Columbia, S. C. He send best regards to Jake Smith. Billy Arnte send best regards to Hi Henry McCanon with A. G. Allen's N. O. Minstrels. Edwin D. Cook, with J. D. McCerraury's Great Southern Comedy Co , is well and send regards to Tom and Cora Cross, Charles Beeoham and sister and all friends. Cook is making good in the East as a female impersonator. His permanent address is 727 Eighth street, Philadelphia, Pa. Of Interest to Advertisers. Messrs. Nelson Cheman & Co., Advertising agents, St. Louis, Mo, Chicago, Ill, and New York, N Y, have just issued their Newspaper Rate Book for the current year. It contains a complete list of the newspapers and periodicals throughout the United States and Canada with a circulation of 5,000 copies and over. It gives detailed advertising rates of each, character of the newspaper, and the number of columns and in fact every feature pertaining to the publication which is likely to prove of interest to an advertiser. It represents a very heavy expenditure on the parts of the publishers who have had for months a corps of trained experts collecting this information and compiling it in a manner to make it thoroughly intelligible to all readers. The work is done in the season as very many a vertisers select the fall of the year as the most suitable time for making their annual advertising appropriations. The work will unquestionably prove a desirable addition to the library of any advertiser—large, or small—who is not a large or small conversant, and the value of different publications and all audits should avail themselves of the opportunity to secure a copy. DIAMOND ON EAR Copyright 1904, Franklin Advertising Agency, Chicago J. M. J. KANE, Owner and Manager, OLIVER SCOTT'S BIG MINSTREL CARNIVAL, Address as per Route in THE FREEMAN THE LITTLE SAVOY THEATRE Jacksonville, Fla. Just Built—Newly Equipped WANTED AT ONCE 10 Chorus Girls for Stock Company Those who have never worked in Jacksonville and who can sing as high as "F," given the preference. Good people wanted at all times. Tickets advanced to right people. W. Goff Kennedy. Wm. H. Dorsay. Stage Manager. Musical Dialector. W. E. Gillie Manager. Walter O'Boele. Manager. Proventor. Address all communications to W. G. Kennedy. Little Savoy Theatre, cor. Bridge and Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, fl. O Queen of Nelson! O Queen of Nelson! THOU ART SOLE BRAND OF BRANDS !! A stranger to those doubtful "curious" blends, Which Confound the brain, and Ruin all digestion; But thon, matchless whisky queen—Queen of Nelson—Art the Purest Sour Mash without contradiction. of Products of the Limestone Region, of the beautiful and fertile Nelson County. Distillers— HILMAR EHRMANN & CO. Whom all Patrons write to LOUISVILLE, - - KENTUCKY. LEARN DRESSMAKING. Why drudge your life out in kitchen or over wash-tub when you can learn a paying pro- fession by mail in eight to twelve weeks. Particulars for stamp. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE, Madison, Wisconsin. IDS AND WATCHES EASY PAYMENTS YOU Know That Christmas makes a big demand for Watches. Mothers buy them for sons and daughters; mothers buy them for sisters; mothers buy them for each other; lovers buy them for each other; mothers take of buying a cheap watch, because just at Christmas time the demands upon their sons and daughters do not make this mistake - read on. Mothers buy them for a cheap watch. The $4.05 that you would pay for a worth Swiss or American watch in a worthless case, or a watch with a broken crown. LOFTIS BROS. & CO. Diamond Cutters and Watch Merchants Dept. M 305 92 to 98 State Street. CHICAGO, ILL. Note—It costs you nothing to see our goods, for we pay all Express charges. 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Colored Man Civilized Coal and Lime Set Place for You Inner Ray Street and Madison Fifteenth Street and Senate MAIN OFFICE! Phones 273. AUGUST KUHN, Wanted $20.00 FOR SELLING Ahead For The N AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF Soldiers in the Spanish American Almanac and Statistics. Being story yet published on the Negro p nch lady who espoused the Negro can ows how this problem can be settled by present and future is vividly presented, home awards to vehicles created by the tyranny of Prejudiced Newspapers sites in the South; labor unions and Col southern Plantations in the Bands of H res, Vardaman and Tillman answered su THE GRAFTO New York, N. Y. The Consolidated Coal and Lime Company, The Best Place for Your Coal. Yards Corner Ray Street and Madison Avenue, And Fourteenth Street and Senate Avenue, 13 Virgina Ave. MAIN OFFICE 13 Virginia Ave. Both Telephones 273. AUGUST KUHN, President. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, set against an ornate decorative background with swirling patterns]. 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Colored Man's Paradise Caddo County, Okla. For climate, good water, variety of good c ucts raised: Wheat, oats, corn, cotton, Kaffee, sweet potatoes, water meions, musk meions, dance. Price of land $7.00 to $15.00 per acre. O. H GEAGAN & CO. KNOXVILLE "Knoxville College offers the following cour Music, Common School, Mechanical, Agric Farmite, forenmen and officers number thirty. 67, counting from 24 state and Central Ameri in the south,- healthful, convenient of access and electric lighted. Self help offered through Sept. 27, 1944. Expenses for Board, fuel, light the information, catalogue, etc., write the ville, Term. Morristown Norma variety of good crops. Caddo County corn, cotton, Kahl corn, broom corn, s ins, musk meions, cantaloupe and aik ins $15.00 per acre. For information write MEAGAN & CO., ANADARKO, CA. KNOXVILLE COLLEGE. The following courses:—Classical, Sclen 械, Mechanical, Agricultural, and various ors number thirty. Enrollment of stud Central America. The location is invented access and beautiful. Bus hip offered through industrial depart Board, fuel, light, furnished room on ue, etc., write the president, R. W. M. Normal Industu For climate, good water, variety of good crops. Caddo County excels all others. Products raised: Wheat, oats, corn, cotton, Kafi corn, broom corn, sugar cane, Irish potato-ess sweet potatoes, water melons, musk melons, canaloupe and all kinds of vegetables in abundance. Price of land $7.00 to $15.00 per acre. For information write to O. H GEAGAN & CO, ANADARKO, CADDO COUNTY OKLA. Knoxville College offers the following courses:—Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, Music, Common School, Mechanical, Agricultural, and various industrial departments. Faculty, foremen and officers number thirty. Enrollment of students for the last year was 67. Coming from 22 states and Central America. The location is one of the most desirable in the south, healthful, convenient of access and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated and lighted. Self help offered through industrial departments. Fall term opens Sept. 27, 1994. Expenses for Board, fuel, light, furnished rooms $6.54 month. For further information, catalogue, etc., write the president, R. W. McGranahan, m.D. Knoxville, Tenn. MORRISTOWN, TENN. Beautiful for situation, climate unequile, hardcore building well furnished. Every modern convenience available and experienced faculty. Thorough and efficient work done in all department ts. Good positions guaranteed to those taking the son se in Domestic economy. Board, $6 00 per month. Fall Term'opens Sept. 15, 1904. For further Address the Fresh 60 per month. Tuition $60 per 15, 1904. Winter Term For further information press the President, JUDSON Rawitsche Co. MESS FURNISHERS CLXFPOOL HOTEL INDIANAPOLIS 16 North Illinois Street. No shaded characters, no ruled lines,no hours sign, requires only a few hours study day records. We secure positions. Instruction by mail. *Send stamp for circular. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE Madison, Wisconsin. Phons New:—Office 3458. Residence 2066. Nathan T. Ward BONDS AND COLLECTIONS Office room 1. Wilson Building 124 N. Delaware Street Madam Cozart's Spanish Hair Grower and Straightener Makes the Hair Grow Soft and Silky Cures Dandruff and prevents the hair from falling out. Regular 500 Cans sent for trial by mail for 250 Address 17 N. Kentucky Ave. ATLANTA CITY, N. J. I and Lime Company, Use for Your Coal, Set and Madison Avenue, Set and Senate Avenue, OFFICE 13 Virginia Ave. AUGUST KUHN, President. $20.00 A Week WELLING For The Negro THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE Spanish-American War, The Negro and Statistics. Published on the Negro problem pictures the career as the Negro's cause, creates a revolution in the can be settled by just and human treat- tures twinly presented, latest vow with romance, objects treated are: A Trip in an Air Ship; The judiced Newspapers; The Success of Govern- abor Ubions and Color Line; The Kind of Edu- in the bands of Negroes and Negroes in the illman answered successfully. PR CE $1.00 GRAFTON PRESS n's Paradise Coors, Caddo County excels all others. Prod-corn, broom corn, sugar cane, Irish potatoes, cantaloupe and all kinds of vegetables in abun- for information write to NADARKO, CADDO COUNTY OKLA. C COLLEGE. Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, national, and various industrial departments. Enrollment of students for the last year was a. The location in one of the most des- tracts and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated in industrial departments. Fall term opens furnished room only $6.85 a month. For fur- president, R W, McGranahan, L D., Knox- College Preparatory, Normal, English, Commercial, Music, Industrial, Carpentry, Iron and Wood Working, Moulding, Blacksmithing, Room-making, Leather Work, Sewing, Dressmaking, Millinery, Cooking, Stenography Tuition $3 00 per term. Winter Term opens Jan. 2, 1905. Information Cent, JUDSON S. HILL, D. D. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER No One But Yourself if You Don't Get Well When Sick. All we can do is give advice. Of course that's easy. But our advice is really worth a little more to you than most people's, for we offer to give you the first bottle of our medicine free, if it fails to help you We could not afford to do this unless our medicine was good. Such an offer, on the wrong kind of medicine, would put a merchant prince in the poor house. Dr. Miles' Nervine, however, as years of experience have proved, is a medicine that cures the sick. Those whom it cannot benefit—less than one in ten thousand—we prefer to refund their money. All we ask of you is to try Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine for your complaint. If you suffer from sleeplessness, nervous exhaustion, dizziness, headache, muscular twitchings, melancholy, loss of memory, weak stomach, poor blood, billious troubles, St. Vitus' Dance, etc., we will guarantee to benefit you or refund your money. "My son Bert, when in his 17th year, became subject to attacks of epilepsy, so serious that we were compelled to take him out of school. After several months, he was admitted to gave Dr. Miles' Nervine a trial. Ten months treatment with Nervine and Liver Pills restored our boy to perfect health —MR. JOHN S. WILSON, Deputy Co. Clerk, Dallas Co., Mo. FREE Write us and we will mail you a Free Trial Package of Dr. Miles' Scientific Remedy for Pain. Also Symptom Blank for our Specialist to diagnose your case and tell you what is wrong with your condition. Address: DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., LABORATRIES, ELKHART, IND. EDUCATIONAL NOTES Regent J. Silas Harris was the welcome guest of the institute for a few hours last week. He expressed himself He expresses himself as being well pleased with the various improvements, the large attendance and with many things that go Lincoln with the various improvements, the large Institute notes. attendance and with many things that go to prove the phenomenal success of the administration. Mr Ossian Lang of the "Forum" has solicited from President Allen a series of articles relative to Lincoln Institute. The columns of such well known educational papers as the "Misouri School Journal," "New England Journal of Education," "New York School Journal," etc., are always open for important news items from the institutions, and these facts also help to demonstrate that the school is rapidly taking front rank among the best schools of the country. Prof. Garnett, on his return from a business trip to Texas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories, gave a very interesting and instructive address relative to the conditions of the Negro citizens of that section from financial, educational and other standpoints. The entire address was one of the strongest pleas that could be produced for the necessity of such a conference as the Farmers' Convention in order that Necesses of this and other sections may learn how to acquire and how to retain land; how to adopt improved methods of agriculture; how to become part and parcel of the communities in which they dwell, whether farmers, tradesmen, or in professional lines. "How to retain hold upon the gainful occupations" is a serious question, and one that should easily force its way home to every Negro in this Republic. Editor Logan of the Professional World visited his Alma Mater this week. The institution is always pleased to welcome its graduates and all who are interested in the cause of education. The Institute foot-ball team will play the teams of St. Joseph and Quindaro this week. We clip the following from the Okolona, Miss., Messenger: "Prof. Wallace A. Battle, who has been making a tour of the New England Okolona Industrial College. Industrial College for colored youth return- Okolona land States in the interest of his Okolona Industrial College. Industrial College for colored youth.returned last week well pleased with the hearty response he found everywhere. Among other donations to his excellent college he reports that one gentleman has promised to ship him, as soon as a building can be erected to house it, a fine, up to-date steam laundry outfit, which costs at the factory $3,000. This handsome gift will go a long ways toward making the college self-supporting, since it will be able to do all this line of work for this city, making it a handsome revenue earner, and affording at the same time a good many Negro girls who would be otherwise unable to enter the school, an opportunity to work their way through. In the November number of the Southern Workman, published by the Hampton Institute Press, Hampton, Va. appear some of the unique pictures of primitive peoples frequently published by this magazine. It is difficult to believe that Indians in the barbarau stage, like the Tarabumares of Chinahua, are living so near our border: The article describing them is of special interest. Other illustrated articles relate to new features in vacant lot gardening in Philadelphia and to the Negro Reform school at Hanover, Va.—an institution which should be duplicated in every southern state. "Some Effects of the Negro's Poverty" is a sociological paper by Roscoe Conkling Bruce and in lighter vein are an Indian story and a sketch of a plantation "Mammy" named Aunt Kitty. A comprehensive report of the late Mohonk conference and thoughtful editorials on conditions in Japan, Jamaica and the Congo Free State complete an interesting number PHELP'S HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL. 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. Phelp's 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. R. Rev. George W. Clinton of Charlotte N. C., and Dr. tt. T Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa., deliver a regular course of lectures during the term. Rev. Moses Jackson of the Presbyterian church, M. B. BUSINESS MEDIUM MRS. MARTH, the world renowned a highly celebrated business and test MEDIUM person, will be consulted on all affairs of Life, Business, Law and Marriage a speciality. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends, combines and estranges challenges many Mary Marian in her startling revelation of the past present and future event in one's life. Remember, she will not for any price flatter you; yet she will not be a burden to anyone's sense. She can be consulted on all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friends etc. with description of future compaion. She will be consulted on all affairs of friends, enemies, etc. Her advice upon sickness, change in business, journeys, lawsuits contested wills, divorce and speculation is valuable good or bad; she withholds nothing. MRS. 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Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a medium but such a conclusion is contrary to the truth, it is from the lack of knowledge that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not everyone who placards himself or her self as a Medium that can stand a t of what a medium may ask the reason why. It is simply that these advisers do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment acquiring knowledge that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of obstacles. It is an unifiable fact that persons will comfort in-service in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they want to know. To get the secret out of a medium, To get the secret out of a person by "pumping" in no few cases, is the art used by many unpricipious Mediums, but to take hold of the hand and gain control of the mind by dispelling the illusions of them and yet this can be done, and by so solving MRS. MARTH this seeming mystery becomes a realization. You have no little attribution by eminent man and even college professor so it proves conclusively that although they are infringing in our midst with "dily tongues perhaps, the gates of wisdom have not been opened." It takes a great deal of study to become a accomplished shed Medium, and by a continuo and lasting relationship of a parity unmatthonable mystery, have beo procured by MRS. MARTH for the benefit of humanity. By letter advice $1.00 from 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. All letters must con tain stamps for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH Removed CHICKASHA, Indian Territory. Box 955. You can't earn money more honestly than to take it from the ground where nature placed it. This is what you do when you help to develop the mining industry of our country. The companies we represent produce: Don't you want an interest in these properties? Don't you want to take part in this profitable enterprise? Don't you think you ought to help to develop these properties? Shampoo Drier. This necessary toilet article will accomplish two results in one operation. It will straighten and dry the hair quickly, effectively and satisfactorily. Its use will give the hair its natural appearance. It is positively the only device upon the market that will accomplish such results. The purchase price will be refunded if it does not accomplish all we claim for it, by returning it to our office. Stop and think how the public is being deceived by extravagant advertisements of various pomades and many impractical straighteners that are foisted upon the market, which are injurious to the growth of the hair, and after their use leaves such an unsightly appearance. We will forfeit $100 for any so called hair tonic or preparation that will make the hair straight and soft by applying it without leaving the hair with a greasy, pasty appearance, thereby retarding the growth of the hair and softening the hair follicles, causing it to collect dandruff and dust which is a great cause of so many bald heads; and the promoter of the wig industry. We ask you to name us a hair straightener, of any drug composition, that does not produce these effects. Now in comparison, The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier, which is a straightener consisting of a steel bar and an aluminum head attached, six inches long, with an ordinary amount of heat, dries a head of hair after a shampoo and straightens it as fast as it is combed. Its mode of operation is easy upon the hair, thereby eliminating the pincher method, which almost pulls the hair out from the roots. The comb separates the strands leaving a beautiful and natural appearance. A heavy head of hair can be straightened in less than thirty minutes. Its use a few minutes daily following instructions will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces, and we guarantee that it is the only device that will accomplish such results. It has been carefully and skillfully examined by the chief examiner of the United States and other countries and has been granted a patent as the latest and most practical appliance of its kind on the market to day. It will be found an indispensable article of the toilet by all who take pride in their personal appearance. It has the endorsements of physicians. Price $1. Address MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER MFG. CO., Agents Wanted. 405 Century Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, delivered a special course of lectures during the past term. The teaching is tree. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel washing, etc., is $8.50 per month. Students will be given an opportunity to work out from $1.50 to $6.00 of this amount, thus leaving only $5.50 to $7.00 to be paid in cash. In some cases arrangements may be made so that students may work cut the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. 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 ag- riculture 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. The Freeman in New York. Chas. H. Wilson 129 W. 30th, Street, Geo. H. Washington, 153 7th street, F. J. Brown, 225 W. 60th st. National News Bureau 823 W. 87th W. C. Hundley 58 W 135th. Patronize our advertisers are in the Mineral Great West? only than to take it from the ground at you do when you help to develop produce: Copper Timber these properties? Don't you want to use? Don't you think you ought to tulars about them, or call at our office NY, Fiscal Agents, Indianapolis, Ind. STRAIGHTENER AND SHHMPOO DRIER. LOOK The above cut represents the Magic Hair Straightener and article will accomplish two results in by the hair quickly, effectively and satis-tural appearance. It is positively the all accomplish such results. The purr-not accomplish all we claim for it, by ret- being deceived by extravagant advert-impractical straighteners that are foisted the growth of the hair, and after their all hair tonic or preparation that will SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Safe and Reasona-ways. We make loans on FURNITURE, ORGANS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without remova-力. Our rates are positively the lowest the loans and payments within reach of all. $25.00 loan payments are only 600 per week. This pays in full in fifty weeks. 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. Is cost nothing to investigate. Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, Old Phone Main 8182 (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E. Washington Street) New Phone..... 4270 Handsome New Silks Underprice Here is a group of specials selected from regular fall stock. Every item stands for silks in demand that are held up at higher prices; at these special quotations any surplus should be wiped out before today's sunset. Black Taffetta 27 inches wide, soft material. It will be soft, that will give you good service, a yard 69c wide white black Taffeta, hotovete selling at $1 50 a yard, rich heavy, guaranteed quality... $1.25 Plaid Silks handsome new w designs, heavy texture, fashionable colors; a regular $1.25 quality , at, $1.00 Printed Nets These Fancy Nets for evening wear, have cream and white grounds, with rosebud printi ings and black spots, am with beltloopes, too; until now, 76 a yard; to be closed out at... $59 One of the every day bargains is a 36 coat linings and guaranteed as to wear. You may choose from tan, mode, brown, or ocream any color, at... $1.00 The Wear Clifford Clifford be in nl n favor. This material is particularly popular in brown, blue and green, although it may be had in al- most any color in two qualities, priced... $1.35 and $1.00 L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods OITY AND SOCIETY BRIEF'S Mrs. A. E. Manning has sailed for Europe. Ross Jones is visiting his parents in Brazil, Ind. Guy Weaver spent Tuesday with his parents in Marion. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. Uneeda good photo go to Bennet's, 36 E. Washington street. Mrs. Jane Davis of Superior street is recovering from a recent illness. Mrs. Katharine Griggsby is somewhat indisposed at her home in Shelby street. Albert Farley and Mr. Freeman of Washington, D. C., came home to vote. The Woman's improvement club met with Mrs. Dr. H. L. Hummons Thursday night. Mrs. Suzie Davis, in Fayette street, and Mrs. Luoy Jefferson, in Booker street, are ill. Mrs China Collins of 319 Ellsworth street leaves shortly for Glasgow, Ky., to settle an estate. Eugene Armstrong of St. Louis was in the city a few days this week. He came home to vote. Richard Jackson, Harry Taylor and Roscoe Walden, came home Tuesday from Chicago to vote. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. meets Monday afternoon for the purpose of reorganizing. Rev. H. Franklin Bray, formerly of Louisville, Ky., has moved to 1226 Orman avenue, Pueblo, Col. Rev. B. F Lowe, of Peru, and Rev. Herbert Brewer, of Crawfordsville, were in the city Tuesday. Mr. Cobb of Washington, D. C., and Mr. Harris of Chicago, Ill., attorneys at law, were visitors in the city last week. Mr. and Mrs. Emserdell Stone entertained a few friends at a supper Monday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scott. Miss Frances Baird and friend were molested one evening last week by two colored men who ran from an alley and attacked Miss Baird. The Christian Endeavor of Bethel Church is rapidly improving in attendance. Come out to its next meeting; your presence is needed. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown entertained a few friends at whist. last Sat- I Have the Right Combination To save you 10 per cent. on diamonds, namely, by getting my diamonds direct, and very small expenses. Ladies' Diamond Rings, $10 and upward. Gents' Diamond Rings, $15 and upward. I also keep a general line of first-class Jewelry. J. P. MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place A THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER urday evening, complimentary to Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furiss. Ex Senator T. T. Allain, of the Louisiana State General Assembly, who has been in the city for the past two weeks, left Monday for Chicago. George W. Blackwell, of Chicago, was in the city last Sunday. Mr. Blackwell has been connected with the Pullman Co., for the past 30 years. Mr. Joseph Scale of Montpeller, O., a correspondent for The Leader, a leading white paper there, has come to this city to finish his course in stenography. Leroy Morris, an attache of the pension bureau, Washington, D. C., was in the city this week; he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Porter, 431 Hiawatha street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scott, formerly of this city, now of Sandusky, O., were visiting here this week. Mr. Scott returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Scott will remain for a few weeks. The Novelty Club has issued invitations to a series of dances, the first dance of which will be in the nature of a "Country Dances" to be given at Odd Fellows' Hall, Friday evening, Nov. 18. The death of Miss Goldie Hortense Richardson occurred last Saturday, after and illness of four months. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at Bethel A. M. E Church. Rev. Schaffer conducted the services. We learn with regret of the death of Mrs Dora B Frestwell, wife of John C. Fretwell, at her home in Yandes street. She leaves besides her husband a little daughter. \*rs. Fretwell was a very lovable character and her untimely death is much regretted by her many friends. Invitations are out announcing the marriage of Dr. Joseph H. Ward to Miss Zella Louise Locklear, same to take place Wednesday evening, November 23. The couple will be quietly married at the home of the bride followed by a brilliant reception at their future home. During Dr. J. M. Townsend's administration at Bethel A M. E. church, last year, Mother Hall sold 350 copies of the Christian Recorder. May God bless her success in the past and uphold her in the future. May Mother Hall, who is 78 years old, and one of the greatest churchworkers of her day, be crowned with many blessings in the future. May the church encourage her effort.—An Interested Person. There will be Bible reading to-morrow (Sunday) at 11 o'clock a. m; Sunday-schooi at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Dr. Ballard, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church, will preach at 3:30 p. m. He requests all members to be present, its being rally day. The Christian Endeavor will have a sacred song service at 8 p. m. W. O. Anderson and elder of the First Presbyterian church, will address the Endeavor in the evening. The public is cordially vited. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneaed good Photo, go to Bennett's 36, E. Washington. Parker will find you a job Employment Agency, 315 Indiana avenue. Parker's Hand Laundry. Office 315 Indiana avenue. 5 cents per pound. Edward Pickens, boarding and furnished rooms, 428 Muskingum street. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged Naumann, 333 Indiana Ave. If it is in season you can get it at the Parker House, 317 321 W. Michigan st. Phones: New 4972; oid red 6512. 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. WHY CAUSE ANY COMMENT. At a recent society event in Chicago there were eighteen ladies present, of which eleven were colored. This was so much out of the ordinary that the event was sent broadcast over the country by the Associated Press and caused much comment. Had those eleven colored ladies used Black-No-More there would have been no need of comment. Their faces would have been as fair as the faces of their white sisters. No one need have a dark skin when they can obtain a preparation like Black-No-More. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address Black-No-More Chemical Company, Chillicothe, Ohio. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Y. M. C. A. HEARS LECTURE K. V. Miller gave an interesting lecture on Africa at the association rooms last Thursday evening under the auspices of the Literary society. Mr. Miller spent ten years in the interior of Africa and his talk, illustrated with moving pictures, showed an intimate acquaintance with African life. A paper by Thaddeus Jones and a plane solo completed the program. Next Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. the Literary society will present the following: Walter Chenault, in a reading from Tennyson; Mr. Harry Jackson, "Kentucky Belle;" M. F. Churchill, reading. Bishop Abraham Grant addressed an audience of more than one hundred men at the meeting conducted by the Y. M. C. A., at the Ninth Presbyterian Church last Sunday afternoon. Dr. B. F. Watson directed the singing. Prof. Ezra Roberts will address the Y. M. C. A., at 3:30 p. m., tomorrow in the association rooms. All men welcome. PUGHSLEY'S CIGAR, TOBACCO AND NEWS DEPOT. Refreshing soft drinks. Headquarters or The Freeman. Polite attention to all. E. L. Lesley, salesman. T. P. Pughsley, proprietor, 4 Central avenue, Atlanta, Ga. CHURCH. Hours of service:--Sunday, 10:45 a. m. preaching; 12 m. class, 2 p. m. Sunday School; 7:30 p. m. preaching; class Tues- day night; prayer meeting Thursday night; teacher's meeting Friday night. Rev. H. E. Stewart, pastor, residence 1501 Cornell ave. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner West and Walnut streets. Hours of service: Sunday 9:30 a. m.; Sabbath School; preaching 10:45 a. m.; and 7:30 p. M. Prayer aesthetic; Sunday night; preaching Thursday night. Rev. J. O. Fatton; pastor; residence 2226 Greenbriar avenue. MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Corner Eleventh and Lafayette sts. Hours of service: Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sabbath School; preaching 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Tuesday night; preaching Thursday night. Rev. B. F. Farel, pastor; residence 1103 North West street. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST NOTES 422 North Senate avenue, Rev. T. W. Lott, pastor; Sunday School 10 a.m; Bible class 7 to 8 p.m.; preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; prayer meeting Thursday evening 7:30 to 6 p.m. CORINTHAN BAPTIST NOTES. Rev. J. Franklin Walker pastor. Sunday school 9 a.m.; preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; communion first Sunday each month. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Rev. C. H. Johnson, pastor; preaching 11 a.m., and 8 p.m.; prayer meeting Tuesday evening; Sunday School 9:30 a.m. THE INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN PATTERNS GIRL'S APRON. 1 Pattern Department, The Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind: Gentlemen—Inclosed find 10 cents, f turn mail Pattern No. ..... Size. Name ... Street Address ... City ... State .. 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This will make a charming little apron for school wear and then, too, it isn't just like every other girl's. Cross barred muslin, lawn, gingham, dimity, percale or callco are excellent apron materials. MASSACHUSETTS AVE. Street: Indianapolis, Ind E.C. BROWN, 2123 Newp Sporting Go Revolvers, Ammunition, B ball, Basket-ball, Polo, Rol tes; Sweaters, Jerseys and Cutlery, Etc. FOR 184 PAGE ILLUSTRATED GATE FEDERAL ARMS CO. Ann. St. Indianap Fall Sporting Goods Guns, Revolvers, Ammunition, Bicycles; Foot-ball, Basket-ball, Polo, Roller and Ice Skates; Sweaters, Jersey's and Athletic Goods. Cutlery, Etc. SEND FOR 184 PAGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FEDERAL ARMS CO. 116 N. Penn. St. Indianapolis, Ind CUT RATE PRICES Choice boiling beef.....50 Choice roast beef.....80 Chuck steak, 8 for.....250 Round steak.....12¼ o Loin steak.....12¼ o Porter house steak.....150 Best kettle rendered lard.....90 Good lard.....80 A. R. 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K'S CUT RATE PHARMA r West Street. 550 India 1202 Residence .ROBT.F.HARF VETERINARY SURGEON Office 124 West Maryland Street. Hazel Tailoring Co. 327 Indiana Ave See our new English effects in brown with 500 other patterns. You pay $500 more down town for the same. Why should you pay their high rent? Perfect fit guaranteed. Ask others about our work. AGENTS Your harvest is at hand; $10.00 a week handling our latest specials, the Menthol inhalers, the imperial Sach ts, 'powers, Silk Mending Flower, all will be delivered to any address upon receipt of 25 cents and agents' terms. Address all orders to LOWE'S PEERLESS MFG. CO. 1238 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, ill. The Freeman is for sale each week by John H. Johnson, 206 Bridge street. Jacksonville, Fla. Call and secure a copy each Saturday. ```markdown ``` Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 Phone, New 4135 New Phone 1202 no matter where it is located. Sand me description of your property, state its price and I will tell you what I can do for you. If you want to buy property 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 mmunition, Bicycles: ll, Polo, Roller and Jerseys and Athletic ILLUSTRATED GATALOGUE ARMS CO. Indianapolis, Ind. California hams 11c Bacon, 12¼c pound 15c Ham 14c Pork chops 12c Fresh pork sausage 10c Lamb chops 10c Veal chops 10c and 12c Ave.:Cut Rate Meat Market. BROS. Retail Meats of a specialty. 407 W. Michigan St ACHE CAPSULES 10c and 25c a box 25c a quart bottle RUG STORE & OHIO STREET for it Phone, New 4135 550 Indiana Avenue. Residence Phone 2172 DIVORCE LEGAL Juna Birch State of Indiana, Marion Co.ass. vs Circuit Court of Marion Co. In the State of Indiana. Jasper E. Birch 1932, 1958 Beirat 1932, 1958 BE IT KNOWN. That on the 9th day of Nov. 1904, the above named plaintiff, by her attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the circuit court of Marion county, in the state of Indiana, the above named defendant Jasper, on the above named plaintiff having also filed in Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, shwing said defendant, Jasper E. Jasper is not a residence, whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or summon NOW, THEREFORE. By order of said Court said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against h m and that unless he appear in said court, the matters of said cause on the 5th day of January, 1906, the same being the 4th judicial day of a term of Court, to be begun and held at the court house in the city of Indianapolis, on the 1st day of January, 1906, the matters and things the rein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. W.M. E. Davis Clerk BELL L. WISMAN, Attorney for Plaintiff. FALLING HAIR AND BALDNESS ABSOLUTELY CURED There is but one way to tell the reason of baldness and fading hair, and that is by a microscopic examination. The hair, which must be known before it can be gently treated, must be found off-camera without knowing the specific cause of your disease, it being the condition of the scalp and three fallen hairs from your eyelids. Prof. J. H. Anstin, the celebrated Bacteriologist will give you a demonstration of how a booklet on cave of the hair and scalp, and a sample bottle the remedy which he will prepare specially for you. Enter PROF.J. H. AUSTIN, 332 McVicker's Bldg., Chicago, IL STEM WIND AND SET LADIES PRESENTS SAFE JEWELRY CO., Dept. 100 CHICAGO $395 DIAMOND STUDED CASE Sold in Kilo Bale in 4 Kilo Per Diamond Hole in 4 Kilo Warranty for 5 yrs. Bed for 5 yrs. $3.95 ea. charges to examine. If it inappropriate do $9.00 ea. in appropriate do $9.00 ea. Always give former address in case of removal where paper is to be changed from one place to another. Remember the advertisers INDIANAPOLIS, IND