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WE WANT HUSTLING REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE FREEMAN EVERYWHERE. WRITE FOR TERMS. SAMPLE COPIES FREE. SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 A YEAR. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH AER HAND ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 45 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S POLICY SIMPLY AFFIRMATION OF TIME HONORED PRINCIPLES Dr. Washington's Leadership Irrevocably Established by Tested Sanity and Capacity—Fortune and Watterson—The Episcopal Convention. The President't so called "new southern policy" is no departure from the old. It is no southern policy at all in a distinctive sense—simply the local aspect of a broad, natural policy, covering every section and most happily expressed in his own sententious language—a square deal for all, no more, no less. Mr. Roosevelt realizes that the South has misunderstood his frank way of dealing with the race question, partially through sapersensitiveness touching that over used hobgoblin "social equality," and more so because of intentional misrepresentation or political ends by such professional mischief-makers as Ben Tillman, Henri Watterson and Jim Vardman. The President purposes to take the pains without surrendering his position one inch on the subject of equality of citizenship to assure the South that he is not its enemy—on the contrary that he is its best friend. He would lead it out of the darkness of partisan bigotry, antiquated traditions and lame superstitions into the light that makes for the progress of which it is so manifestly capable. Mr. Roosevelt holds that "a square deal" for the black man does not mean any less a square deal for the white man and that the door of hope is not any more difficult of access to the white man because of its being also open to the black man. He will insist upon a decent respect for the laws relating to suffrage, equal protection in the courts and upon a fatal trial of all persons accused of crime. The problem of federal supervision of elections or cutting down representation will take form after a thorough investigation has been made into the conditi ns which prevail at the South. What steps he may find it necessary to advise to secure a just participation in the government by every qualified citizen will depend upon the degree of honesty shown by the South itself in the premises. The South has its case in its own hands and will prove its right to be "let alone" if it will obey the laws of the land and desist from its threadbare and un-American practice of regarding liberty as a license to trample upon the liberties of a class of citizens who are struggling patiently and manfully to be full worthy of the trust that has come to them through the same constitution that was written for all, This practical system of southern regeneration—for that is what it really amounts to—following the trimpkin endorsement of human rights in the election of Theodore Roosevelt brings into cleaner view the personality of the innocent cause of much of this discussion on the race problem, Dr. Booker T. Washington. His splendid labors for his people as typified in the training of bread winners at Tuskegee and in his statesmanlike exhortations for good citizenship upon national rostrums have given him warrant to speak for his people and his sage counsel will prove of inestimable value to the President in reaching an adjustment of some difficulties honorable to both races. Upon measures affecting the common weal and upon educational and industrial systems looking to the economic and moral development of the races in the South the President and Dr. Washington are in hearty accord and in combination they will be invincible. A happy outcome for black and white is looked for hopefully by true Americans of every section. Throughout this campaign of personal vilification and abuse of the President on account of his civility to a colored gentleman of culture and character the perfect sanity of Booker T. Washington has been strikingly apparent. When men of less poise would have been provoked to intemperate and disastrous speech he maintained a dignified and levelheaded silence. When an incendiary utterance would have been a boon to his enemies and to those who would rend his generous patron Dr. Washington gave out sale, sane and fundamental principles for the guidance of his race toward patriotism, high thicking and righteous conduct. His balance could not INDIANAPOLIS NOV 26 1904 PUBLIC LIBRARY The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or partially obscured document. be disturbed under any circumstances. Particularly wise was his admonition immediately after the election that the Negroes avoid unseemly demonstrations and refrain from the offensive selfassertion that our enemies expected at our hands as a result of Roosevelt's victory. He pointed out the necessity of cultivating friendly relations with the southern people, among whom the bulk of us must continue to live, and of striving to represent in ourselves the best examples of sobriety, industry, intelligence and Christian character. These would go farther to sustain Roosevelt's regenerative policy than any amount of noisy acclaim or extravagant elation. The situation points to Washington as the logical and unquestioned leadership of the American Negro and the success of Roosevelt's campaign of education causes the Tuskegeean's figure to loom up on the horizon in greater proportions than ever before. Washington has honestly won his spurs by a sagacity, foresight, patience, perservance and watchfulness that mark him as the natural captain of men. It is an open secret that Henri Watterson, the fire eating editor of the bourbon Louisville Courier-Journal, does not like T. Thomas Fortune, the keen witted dean of the Negro journalistic faculty. It is no less an open secret that Fortune has no love for PROF. W. H. COUNCILL, President Normal Institute, Normal Ala.ama. the notorious Kentuckian. Watterson belongs to that type of white southerners who patronize the good, humble, old fashioned darkey who bows low "Marse" and "stays in his place." For this Negro to acknowledges the superiority of the Caucasian and worships the fair skin as the Hindoo loves his fetch the Wattersons, Tillmans and their lik exhibit a haughty outward toleration but inwardly they despise him. They do not dignify him sufficiently to "hate" him—they just feel a contempt for him and his possi liities as a man. But Negroes of brains, genuine talent, foemen worthy of their steel and who dare to measure arms with them in the arena of intellect, arouse the fire of the bourbons as nothing else on earth can do. To whip them in an argument, to thwart them in politics, to assué the right to enjoy public utilities as citizens or to walk in a manner suggestive of dignity and a sense of equality makes them furious. Fortune takes a savage delight in baiting these fellows and he never misses his mark. The lesry Louisianian who does the Negro problem editorial stunts on the Washington Post, Henri Watterson, Clark Howell and Tom Watson appear to be his "pets." He takes a vigorous fall out of them when he feels in a "rough house" mood, which is pretty often, and there is "something doing" when he touches their tender spots with ```markdown ``` the business end of his journalistic spur. They surely holler! Not long ago Fortune talked very sarcastically about the meager accomplishments as a society factor of presidential candidate Tom Watson. In discussing dinners and social equality Fortune intimated that while he did not know Judge Parker he was confident that as between dining on equal terms with Fortune or Watson the Sage of Esopus would infinitely prefer the former, color and all. Fortune described himself as a “metropolitan gentleman, familiar with the amenities of high society,” and handed it out in broad Anglo-Saxon that Watson was a southern bumpkin who if carried beyond the commonplace social atmosphere in which he had always moved he wuld not know the taste of champagne from bay rum and would mistake ice cream for frozen soup. This sparking bit of repartes stirred the animals up in fierce fashion, and Watterson, in defense of Watson, just simply broke loose. The Courier-Jurnal turned a battery of double lads upon Fortune's devoted head and all the dew from Kentucky's mint beds. embowered amid aromatic solutions of the choicest ‘Old Prenice’ to mellow the Colonel's wrath. “Metropolitan gentleman!” indeed! Wasn't the putting on of such airs enough to make southern angels shed tears --- of blood! And Fortune's revenge was too sweet for anything. It smacked of the wit and chivalry of the days when Byron wrote his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" and might be fully denominated "the retort courteous." It was an anti-climax in graphite that punched the doughy Watterson "down and out," and now the fiery finder of the "star eyed goddess" has gone to Europe to woof forrestfulness of Negro "port paragraphers" amid the ricous reveries of the Moulin Rouge. "Good-by, Henri! Take keer yourself!" Don't hurry back. DULUTH. Duluth, Minn., Special.—The Zenith Cooperative association held its annual meeting for election of officers last week and the following officers were elected: W. A. Porter, president; Charles Standsl, vice president; W. B. Richardson, secretary; W. H. Ray, treasurer; board of directors, W. A. Porter, Charles Standsl, W. B. Richardson, W. H. Ray and H. L. Merry.-J. O. Rodney, H. Starkes and H. C. Richardson left the city on a hunting trip last week.—The fair given at St. Marks church last week realized about $50.—The new choir is providing quite a success. The firm consists of ten men and a sales sale each week at the Manhattan barber shop and the First National bank building. A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW FITTINGLY EXPRESSSED OF THE REAL CONDITION HENDERSON ADVOCATES A POLICY Which if Fulfilled Would go far Toward Ameliorating Race Prejudice —Are Our Race Leaders Doing What They Should. The fatal error of many who sincerely seek to benefit the race is that they think that the thing to do is to oppose the white people. This course fosters and spreads the idea that the white people are maliciously against the colored people. There could be no more pernicious idea than that. It is not in accordance with the truth and to cherish such a thought is extremely hurtful. It is true that there are a great many white people who actually hate the Negro and it is also true that there is little about the Negro of this day that would cause many to love him, but it is also true that the vast majority of white people want to help the Negro to do well for himself and for the country. With one or two exceptions there are none of the colored men of today who have initiated anything of general scope that aims to uplift the race, most of the sincere workers for the race are simply working along lines that were marked out by the old men of the race or by white men. The most that many of our big men seem to be proud of is to be made the object of flattery, they rejoice to publish about the receptions tendered them and to tell of praise they have received. There are very few of the men now in high places who are willing to submit to unpopularity in order to force upon the minds of the people the many plain truths which they should be taught to understand. The South and the North are full of white people who have the best interests of the Negro at heart and who are making the most heroic sacrifices to help him, while we have hundreds of the race who have been exalted to high places who use their advantages simply as it seems at least to gratify their childish pride. Until the time comes when the country is full of audiences of colored people whom eloquent speakers cannot "sweep away" but who will sit still and listen critically and with intelligence and size up what they hear for what it is worth, we need not look for great things through the efforts of the race. A man of good voice and strong lungs could go through the country as the opponent of a calm and intelligent man who claims that water can be made from two gases and could contradict him so effectively as to make the people regard him as an heretic and rcbber. The race is full of big men who have reached and who hold their places by just such tactics. Are such men benefectors of the race? J. M. HENDERSON, M. D. Boston, Massachusetts. Selma, Ala., Special—Prof. Booker T. Washington delivered two notable addresses to our people this week. Quite a number of white people attended each address. The advice given to the untold benefit of all of our people acted upon, and assigned that the colored pulpit spread the advice to the end that all of the people might hear it be benefited. It is to be hoped that the preachers will do their whole duty. The white press of the state had nothing but praise for the addresses. It is believed that many dollars might be saved and put to some good purpose if the teachers and preachers will do their duty in instructing us, writing the people. It is thought by no few of our people that the colored pulpit does not do all that it ought to matters of this kind, and an improvement along these lines would be highly appreciated. CHATTANOOGA Chattanooga, Tenn., Special—Rev. I, L. Johnson preached an eloquent sermon to his congregation Sunday evening. —G. W. Turner, the energetic and enterprising merchant, has erected a two story brick business block —The Woman's Home Missionary Society held quite an enthusiastic meeting at Wiley Memorial church Monday evening. The financial report showed great success. Spouses Leonard and Santee delivered spouses Leonard and Santee Mercy of Warren church are doing much of the formally toward meeting the demands of the church debt. —Death registered for October-Whites. 23: blacks 22 The STAGE The S MATWOOD Notes of Lowery's Musical Enterprise with the Fourpangh & Sells Brothers' circus —This is our last week of the season and we are about to close a record breaker; not missing but one performance; having no wrecks and but little sickness. Some will spend their vacation at their homes and others have joined different companies. —I must add here that The Freeman has always been a welcome and interesting paper with us and hope after we get to our destination each one of us will continue to be just as eager to look over its columns as we were while touring with HOWARD'S EIGHTNINE SHOE POLISHES NEW YORK A.C.HOWARD,CHICAGO. On sale in Indianapolis, at Geo. J. Marott. 26-28 E Washington street; Nutz & Grosskoph, 24-26 W. Washington ton street; Hide, Leatner & Belting Co. 227 S. Meridian street; H P. Wasson & Co; New York Shoe Store. Agents wanted everywh.re. SHE MADE THEDUMB BEAST OBEY. Mrs. Dr. H. W. Robertson, the Only Living Slate Writing Medium Clairvoyant [Picture of a woman with a high hairstyle and a dark dress with buttons.] who can read from the sky. 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 a man. She sent for; she influenced the be st by holding a charming seal bone in her hand and speaking nine holy words to the beast and be obeyed. Mrs. Robinson was born in Paris France, and she was born in Fortune-teller. No 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 hidden treasures and lost and stolen articles. Address MRS. H. W. ROB-RTSON. 202 Fairmount Street. Dallas, Texas. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the circus.—The Carter Trio will stop at the St. Louis Fair a few days before going home (Paris, Texas.)—Emma Thompson will go in vaudeville over the Hagen circuit to the coast. Regards to E. C. Knox.—Sallie Lee will visit Mme McClain in St. Louis and will spend the remainder of her vacation with her father in Columbus. O.—Geo. and Henry McCook will be at home with their parents in Knoxville, Tenn.—John L. Jones will visit his mother in Cincinnati. O.—Robert Gant will visit friends in Lexington, Ky—Thomas and Wm. May, James Hall and Sam Eillott send regards to Jeff Smith and Charles B. Foster. Notes of Oliver Scott's minstrel.—John Goodloe and Joseph Clark, Jr., our extreme end men, are the feature of the shop.—Elwood Johnson's band is O. K.—The company is carrying five ladies which add considerably to the show. Mollie Robinson and Jessie Scott are the leading soubrets.—The Falls City quartet, Ollie Powers, John Goodloe, Walter Tinsley and Keaton Irwin send regards to Tom Logan, Willis Dorsey, Ben Ball and his band.—Hi Henry Hunt send regards to Flozo Harris and the New Orleans minstrel.—L. B. Herndon send regards to Kersand's minstrel.—Wm Hood send regards to J. Ed. Green.—W. B Taylor sends regards to Pearl Moppins and other friends.—Miss Jessie Scott sends regards to Lawrence and Ed Green and all friends in the profession.—The Taylors are making a big hit with "When the Band was Flaying Dixie" and their buck and wing dancing.—The company would like to hear from Muriel Renzo, Joseph Clark, Jr., and all good performers and musicians who are at leisure and want a long season.—The company send regards to Louisville friends. Notes of the Quaker Doctor Co.—We are in our first week of our long engagement at Havanah, Ill. F. B. Wood, Kay Trusty and J. J. Smith have been carrying the day.—Trusty & Johnson's new act "The Blue and the Gray" is a big hit. They close the olo.—Earl Burton is singing his own balads arranged for his special use by J. J. Smith.—W. N. Wolfskiel is making hits nightly.—Jack Johnson is singling "Out Where the Breakers Koar."—The Quaker quartet, Earl Burton, W. N. Wolfskiel. J. L. Smith and J. R. Johnson send regards to friends—A. A. Copeland is always a favorite with his new songs. He send regards to Prof. French and wife and Mrs. Teeters—Tae company contemplates taking a whole page in the Xmas number of The Freeman. Arthur Prince, of Mahara's minstral, at Cherokee, la, November 6th assumed the role of a cowardly assassin and attempted to murder Robert Leach by firing a shot at Leach while he lay sleeping wholly unconceited of the diabolical crime that Prince was deliberately planning. Fortunately, the bullet missed its or just one inch, ploughing its way through the wall of the car. Prince escaped in the dark so and, not withstanding the fact that officers were put on his trail has eluded them up to present date. SYLVESTER RUSSELL'S NOTES George Primrose has returned to minstrelsy. Prof Wm. C Enty has retired from the stage and gone to housekeeping with his young wife and little son. This news was quite a shock to the writer and Mr Enty's friends. He was styled the perfect accompanist, so perfect was his reading and touch while playing the piano for a singer. John Larkins, whose starring tour started out so suspiciously in a "Trip to Africa," and those two horse shoes of flowers and a man in one of the boxes who wore a large diamond ring, who held out a bouquet to give to one of the singers but didn't have sense enough to throw it on the stage, attracted my attention so much that I forgot to record two criticisms in account of the play. One was: All the girls appeared bare headed on the stage before the trip to Africa, but Miss Patterson and her mother wore hats. The other was: The chorus sang "hurraw" instead of "hurray." Manager H. D. Collins writes from the South that he has deferred taking out a comedy company until next season. His association with Voelckel & Nolan's forces for the past four years enables him to know the requirements of modern, legitimate comedy, which is so important to his success. He would have commissioned me to write a comedy for next season but owing to my overflow of work I am compelled to lay playwriting aslide until a more convenient and profitable period. The Attucks Music Co., located at 1255 and 1257 Broadway, New York, is an all colored concern and proves my former assersion that such a company properly managed would be successful. It will not be wise for the backers of this concern to be too boastful about the proprietorship. Great popularity in one direction creates prejudice in another. At this juncture I am bound to advocate the same views of charity regarding a music publishing house that I did when I first suggested such a move. In view of an actors home it would be nice if this company would Sylvester Russell Eats Lobster Salud With Bob Colo and Co. By invitation from Bob Cole I was invited to run over from Orange, N J., to New York to witness Klaw & Earlangers first big American production of Humpty Dumpty at the New Amsterdam theatre. Broadway and Forty-second streets, Monday evening, November 14th. The music for this production, with few exceptions, being all by Bob Cole and the Johnson Brothers of Klaw & Earlanger's exclusive staff of composers. I was given a front $2 seat in the first balcony where people are very rich, in a split up party consisting of Charles W. Anderson, politician; Capt. Wm. Jackson, of military fame; Mr. Dixon, a Chicago song writer; John Nall, Jr., James W. Johnson, Rosmond Johnson and Bob Cole. In view of my mind being in my stomach I rise to a point of order and will ask my readers to lay the pantomime on the table for a while. I want to tell about the supper and will review the performance in the next issue. After the show was over Capt Jacksoo, Mr. Dixon and I journeyed off to the Marshall house where I was to meet the Johnson's and Mr. Cole for a little lunch. The hotel was ten blocks away and the good Captain who had set by my side all through the performance to keep me posted about "this that and the other' without even changing my opinion offered to have me driven to the hotel in an automobile hansom, but as I was anxious to get my legs stretched out I decided to walk and save that much money for Captain Jack as I might want him to feed me again at the Marshall home an other time Cole and Johnson had been detained at the theatre for general congratulations of the show's success. It had been two years since last we met so Cole and the Johnson boys who had already greeted me at the theatre again heartily shook my hand and set me down to supper—a nice little banquet for five, Bob and me, the Johnson boys and the war loving, entertaining Captain who once fought fought for our President's life. Just what to talk about I did not know. Actors are always hungry and I felt quite anxious to eat. Nothing had yet arrived so I slipped ice water quite often but longed for a cup of hot weak tea; at last the shore dinner feed came on; wet goods came in mugs and delicate thin cut glasses ahead of time and in such quick succession that I cried halt but drank everything in sight except a cocktail, which I left on the table for a waiter's tip—I needed my dough for care fare, besides I don't pretend to keep up with, we'll say, Mr. Jackson, for the Captain is a regular topper. Its a nice thing to dine with rich actor-song-writers especially if you knew them when they were poor and lucky enough to reach them when they grew richer. You love to throw them down occasionally, but not for mine—Not when they have qualities like these. We critics can say what we please even talk about ourselves just because the public will stand for it, the public likes humbug, but wouldn't have the nerve to remind Mr. Cole that he was once poor in "membrance" of my own poverty in climbing up the rocky mountain of fame. I can't say I have been lucky myself, it is only by having two talents that I have been able to keep in the swim enough to make a dead coal fire bluff in the Cole class. The thing which pleased me most during my large evening in the Marshall house was my crusade up stairs and what took place in the Johnson-Cole-Johnson studio. Cole was busy describing the pictures of actors and men of note on the wall with the gas turned formulate an incorporated paying system; say $5 per week or $25 per month to establish a home. All the colored singers and actors would then be duty bound to sing the firm's songs and swell the income equally as large in proportion as it would without building a home and without the support of all the singers. Our mission should be: The strong must help the weak. It this is right, brotherhood for the sake of charity, our duty to our weaker associates should build an institution. I am bound to advocate that rather than the trust system of enriching two or three prosperous Thesplans with no return and a V Will produce it for you. Makes the Hair Easy to Do Up and Lay Straight. down to save expenses. He next turned our attention to a case of books which he called "our library" "Do you read all night." I inquired? To which he smiled and replied: "No, we read as much as possible." While we were at luncheon Rossie Johnson asked me if I had seen in their bed rooms, when Bobble Cole intervened by giving me to understand that the bed rooms were up side down; although I longed for a peep into the rooms I was quite aware that they were in disorder as these three boys are still students and James W. is even now busy putting on his finishing touches of heavy coated literature at Columbia college. James W. by the way, has a striking resemblance of Theodore Drury, the opera singer; he is growing a delicate beard that runs down into a thin imperial, too short to twist handy. His half closed eyes, which are neither blue nor gray—I think they call them hazel—portray a depth of passion rarely unfolded except you read his literature. Rosamond's whiskers, unlike his brothers, were failures to he shaved them off. Bob Cole set on my left, I attracted his attention by requesting him to pass me some salad dressing to spread on my lobster. When I turned to talk colored actor talk to him he out me off by saying he thought it would be a nice thing if all of us professionals who are in the amusement business could keep in harmony and be sociable with one another. "Keep in touch." was the way he expressed it. I was delighted. I thought to myself how nice that was to have brotherhood begin at the head of the class. Now it can stand a better show to pass down the line through Williams & Walker clean down to the barnstormers until it reaches the bay and enters into an ocean of goodness. But even at that I gave poor good Cole a foul blow. It was not for his sake; he is strong in the philosophical class and can stand it. But for the sake of the weak and unfortunate I dug down into one of my past views on charity. It was I who first suggested having a music publishing house to support and actor's home, so I reminded him that $5 per week from a music publishing concern established to enrich the richest successful actors now in the trust, would in time build a good home. Since they took my tip to establish a music publishing house let them try to be brave enough to carry the tip as far as my views on charity had intended. How then can these richest actors look black at me when disgrace and the blackness of the future stares them in the face? Rosamond Johnson partly requested me to make a speech but, while I enjoyed his action the hour had past the mark for that and besides Mr. Cole looked disturbed. Mr. Cole is not a man who retaliates when things meet his disapproval. His patience is greatness in his precautions attitude toward the sign of disaster. On taking my departure I thanked them for their cordiality and was invited to come again while desending the stairs I remarked to Cole "I wonder what Williams & Walker will think of this?" Cole made no reply and did not even smile but I could se that his eyes had a delightful sparkle. My what a supper that was Suppers are costly. Table talk is sometimes worse than speeches, because when there is speeches everybody comes prepared. You can put it down we parted good friends and everybody was happy. I arrived home in Orange at 4 o'clock in the morning with an unusual headache. disposition to ignore rather than recognize. Notes of Stafford Brother's Georgia Minstrel—Evan White is home on a vacation—J. J. 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Mr. Burnett was taken to the hospital while his assailant was sent to jail. It is strange how these bullies never fight a white headwaiter even though he kick them around. The carriage manufacturers held their annual convention in Milwaukee, Wis, recently and made the Plankinton House their headquarters. Mr. J. J. Miles had imported about thirty-five waiters from Chicago for the occasion. The men were given $2 per day and transportation both ways. They also agreed to serve the banquet for like amount, but after the banquet table had been set and the guests, 525 in number, had been seated the Chicago waiters, taking advantage of the occasion, struck for more money. Mr. Miles finally compromised with the strikers and the banquet was served. The next morning bright and early before break- SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY DRINK Mellwood Bottled in Bond. Whiskey MELLWOOD DISTILLED IN BOND AND WHISKY Whisky Distilled in Bond. If your dealer cannot furnish you with Mellwood write us and we will give you the name of our nearest distributors. LOUISVILLE, KY. In writing, please mention this paper. PAUL JONES * * * * PURE RYE Bottled Rich Ripe Pure Satisfaction Paul Jones Pure Rye Enjoys the Largest Sale of any Brand of Whiskey in the United States THE FRANK FEHR BREWING CO. F. F. X. L. Bottled Beer TRADE MARK Perfection is Reflected in every Bottle . . . Louisville, Kentucky fast Mr. Miles "fired" thirty-three of the strikers. Thus they lost one day's work and was compelled to remain in Milwaukee all day at their own expense. The editor was touring Wisconsin in the interest of the Republicans and was in Milwaukee when the above incident occurred. There can be but little wonder that colored waiters are losing out all over the country when they resort to the above tactics—that is agree to do a piece of work for a certain price and then strike for more pay without first asking for an increase. It is high time that men of the profession should learn to transact business like men and let their conduct be gentlemanly, their word, their bond and become reliable men instead of fickle-minded babes. The editor congratulates Mr. Miles upon his prompt action in the above case, and we are sure that the Chicago (would be) waiters have been taught a good lesson. The editor had the pleasure while in Milwaukee to serve a banquet of about 100 guest for Miles at the Plankinton-Mr. Miles had four banquets and a regular dinner of 350 to serve at the same time. All of them were served with skill and ease due of course to Mr. Miles' strenuousity. The following from a Milwaukee daily paper is self-explanatory. "Several hundred thousand dollars worth of contracts were signed at the carriage builders' convention," said R. C. Ware, president of the well known Carriage Monthly Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Pa., as he stood in the lobby of the Planktonn house. "There is no way of learning the number or amount of orders written here, but undoubtedly they were large. I heard of one order for $3,0000. There were more supply men there than builders. The business part of this convention is one of the largest parts of it. "The conneau car is the newest style in carriages. It is the body of an automobile set on carriage wheels and built to be drawn by two horses. It will hold seven people. Several are on exhibition at the world's fair. As yet it is too early to determine whether the will become a fad. It was originated by the Columbus Buggy company. Every manufacturer has from twelve to forty new styles each year but they are not usually radical departures from the old models. "Of the ninety-five exhibitors or carriage parts on the floor of the exposition hardly one showed anything that was commonplace. Every exhibit had its special feature. Makers of regulation parts of vehicles were not represented. I have not heard one objection to the service at the Plankinton house and that is saying a great deal. The house has been full all the week. In thirty-two years the association never had a better barquet. The interest in the convention and the results of the business sessions were good." A Correction. I wish to call your attention to an article published on page three of The Freeman of November 5, 1904, under the head of "The Waiter," second paragraph, referring to Mrs. Rose Ewing, in which it goes on to say that her love for one Lem Thompson was better evidenced by her walking from St. Paul to Minneapolis, a distance of twelve miles, for the purpose of seeing him. Mrs. Ewing is one of our honest and highly respectable women. I know of no woman that stands better in the community than she. She is a woman of good common sense, of sound judgment and not at all given to fickleness. The story is false and slanderous. The fact is Mrs. Ewing worked part of the day that she is claimed to have walked to Minneapolis (in Merrlaum Park) and that after finishing she walked to the residence of Mrs. Dwyer in Minneapolis to perform some service for her. It is not unusual for members of our best families to walk between the Twin Cities as Mrs. Ewing did. As for Mr. Thompson he happened, at that time, to room at Mrs. Dwyer's, and her walking had absolutely no connection with him nor was he concerned therein. Messrs Osoar De Priest and Ed D. Green were the successful colored men elected to office in Chicago recent y. Mr. De Priest is a young man and progressive in all the word impiles He received a plurality 177,000 as county commissioner, and will receive a salary of $4 000. Edward D. Green was elected to the State Legislature by a surprising plurality, succeeding E. H. Morris, who has been dethroned as a politician. Mr. Morris lost his popularity by opposing Dr. Booker T. Washington and denouncing him as a "sham." The Chicago politicians, however, soon discovered' who the real "sham" was and acted accordingly. F. L. MCGLEE. Good for Bad Kidneys-Not Bad for Good Kidneys The Great Kidney Gin Dr.' Russell's Kidney Gin with Juniper Berries and Buchu.... DR. RUSSELL'S KIDNEY GIN WITH Juniper Berrips Positive Cure for the KIDNEY'S Bladder and all Urinary Affections AND BUCHU THE DR. RUSSELL KIDNEY GIN CO SOLE OWNER LOUISVILLE, KY. U.S.A. This Gin is positively the greatest remedy ever discovered for the Kidneys, Bladder and all Urinary affection. Dr. Russell has made these diseases a life study, and this Gin is the result of his years of labor. This is not a patent remedy, as the formula is a secret, being known only to Dr. Russell. A trial of this Gin will convince you of its merits and that all diseases of this nature can be cured by properly following the instructions laid down to you by Dr. Russell. If there is any doubt that the verdict of the recent election had any effect upon the more thoughtful Democrats of the country in regards to the race question the following editorial from the New York World (Dem.,) will settle all doubt. "Many and various were the influences that contributed to the unprecedented personal victory gained by Mr. Roosevelt. But none of the minor influences helped him more than did the abuse which the southern politicians and newspapers heaped upon him for entertaining Booker T. Washington at the White House. The american people will never accept the dictum that a Negro scholar is the inferior of a white ignorantism, that a Negro gentleman is the inferior of a white black guard, that a man's title to consideration rests on the color of his skin and not on his character and his achievements. The World hopes that this little lesson has finally been thoroughly learned." Mr. Cozart Honored The head and side waiters of St Paul gave a reception at Odd Fellow's hall last night in honor of W. Forrest Cozart, one of the leading colored head waiters of the country. Mr. Cozart is a former president of the Head and Side Waiters' National Benefit association and author of the "Walter" Manual," the first book of its kind ever written. He was formerly head waiter at the Merchant's hotel, and wrote the Waiters' Manual." while there. He now lives at Atlantic City, N. J. Charles Saunders presided at the meeting last night.—The Pioneer Press. The recent election greatly disappointed two men, Alton B. Parker and L. W. Washington. The latter lives in Chicago, and, I am sorry to say, is a waiter. In his blind rush to be a leader M.. Washington has always showed up on the wrong side. This will be easily understood when it is known that he is connected with the Broad Ax. Anon. Frank Silby is making quite a success at the Ryan Hotel, St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Silby is a competent and pains-taking head waiter with a national reputation. M. Kenedy is the acting headwaiter at the Lexington Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Kenedy was promoted from the side. Thanksgiving Entertainment. The Jefferson Club of Macon, Mo., which has been organized for the up-building of the Negro boys, will give a grand entertainment Thanksgiving night Music to be furnished by the Macon Mandolin Club. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 300 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 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The Roosevelt-Booker Washington incident finds a parallel in an unexpected quarter. At the convention of the American Federation of Labor in San Francisco, the Socialists members attacked Presidents Gompers and Mitchell as "traitors to labor" for the heinous offense of dining with President Elliott of Harvard University. It was purely a social courtesy extended to Messrs. Gompers and Mitchell and accepted by them as such, but in the eyes of the suspicious Socialists it is a capital crime against organized labor. Just why three prominent men may not meet each other in friendly intercourse to discuss in dispassionate tones questions of interest to all is not apparent except to the green eyes of that element who make a business of impugning the motives of all who differ with them in opinion. But the Socialists, who are professional fault-finders, are not the only ones who measure everybody else in their own narrow half bushel. The whole South went into a hysterical rage because the President of the United States extended an ordinary courtesy to a distinguished educator who is doing a great work in a great way for the uplifting and well-being of his people. In no other country of the world would this simple incident have attracted more than a passing notice, or, if mentioned at all, would have received universal approval. Here, however, it threw sixteen States into spasms and evoked from their press and speakers a long continued trade of abuse, which could only have been justified if bestowed upon the greatest of malefactors instead of the President of the United States. Now, what harm was done to any human being, or to any cause, by this simple courtesy extended to a prominent public man of Alabama? None, whatever, but it afforded a text for the negrophobists and featherhead fire-eaters from which to hurl their slink pots and rotten eggs at a man whom they were desirous of injuring, but of whom they could find no just ground for criticism. In the same spirit we may ask how could the cause of labor be injured by a friendly meeting at the social board between the president of a great university and two presidents of great labor organizations? Such meetings are desirable and commendable as productive of good feeling and better understanding between those who represent different interests and take antagonistic views of public questions. In this country there should be no such thing as class distinctions. The very term is hateful and un-American. Men should be considered according to their deserts and judged according to their conduct and achievements. When John Mitchell is invited to the White House to confer on terms of absolute equality with the President and many of the great capitalists, it is a happy omen and cause for congratulation to all patriotic citizens. But the Socialists, who thrive by exciting class distinctions, are infilmed with rage at any coming together between capital and labor. The Southerners, whose whole stock in trade is race prejudice, find it necessary to go into mock convulsions when one public man extends an ordinary courtesy to another, who happens to be of a different race and color, though in every way worthy of the highest consideration. Fortunately for this country the disseminators of class hatred and race prejudice are merely a snarling minority whose venom is chiefly injurious to themselves. The men and women who made this country great, and intend to keep it so, will proceed with their business undettered by the snapping vipers of socialism or the narrow prejudices of Southern reactionaries. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE PRESIDENT'S SOUTHERN POLICY. POLICY. There is a great deal of conflicting hubbub in the press as to Roosevelt's forthcoming policy toward the South. Some insist that his chief aim will be to overcome the prejudice against him in that section. Alleged expressions of opinion on "social equality" and his future intentions are published, no two accounts agreeing. It is strange that, after so many manifestations of his character and methods, any one should misunderstand Theodore Roosevelt. He will, of course, have no especial policy with reference to the South. What he does there in the next four years will not differ from what he has done in the last three years. His policy toward the South will be precisely the same as his policy toward all the rest of the country. Otherwise it would be sectional, and to have one policy for one section and one for another would be intolerable. Neither will President Roosevelt "curry favor" with the South by any apology for his past acts or promise of special favors in the future. All that would be contrary to the character of the man. He will be President of the whole country, and his main effort will be to give everybody a "square deal." He will enforce the laws everywhere against high and low, rich and poor, just as he has been doing heretofore. He will aim to have an honest and efficient civil service by appointing the best material to office. In other words, he will be a good and patriotic president, just as he has been since entering office, and by being which he has been so triumphantly elected. Nobody need worry lest Roosevelt does the unworthy of unmanly thing. He will be the same Theodore Roosevelt as of yore, not shutting the "dor of hope" on the humblest black man nor going out of his way to flatter the mightiest magnates. Just wait and see and you will find the people have made no mistake. He has no hostility to the South and never had. He cherishes hatred to no man and never in all his life wronged any human being. The South has misjudged and shamefully abused him, but this only saddened while not making him resentful. He has no revenge to gratify, and no one in the South need fear mistreatment at his hands. But neither will he knuckle or toady to anybody. He is too brave and independent for that. ENDORSEST THE FREEMAN'S COURSE. The Washington (D. C.) Bee, an uncompromising Republican paper, had the following editorial In its issue of Nov. 19: The manner in which Editor George L. Knox of the Indianapolis Freeman was treated may be endorsed by certain members of the press edited by Negroes. The Bee is of the opinion that he was shamefully treated, and those Negroes who allowed themselves to be bought off have not the respect and confidence of the respectable and honest voters of Indiana. Editor Knox was not against the Republican ticket. He was one of the strongest, and indeed the first advocate of the nomination and election of President Roosevelt. Editor Knox became a candidate for congress against Mr. Overstreet. He had a right to become a candidate. He had a right to ask the voters of his district to vote for him. He had the same right, as a Republ can, to run for congress against Mr. Overstreet as the Republicans of Massachusetts had to defeat the Republican candidate for governor who failed to do his duty to his constituents. Every Republican elector and other Republican candidates were elected except the governor. Why? Because Governor Bates refused to obey the will of the people. Because he was against the interest of the people. The people became tired of his tyranny and imposition and had concluded to defeat him. Of course the defeat of Governor Bates was a surprise. Are the Republicans of Massachusetts being condemned because they exercised their political rights? They are applauded by the entire country because the people irrespective of party declared that Governor Bates should not be elected. Why should Negro Republicans condemn Editor Knox? The time will come when the Negro must show that he has manhood and independence and is able to discriminate between right and wrong. Editor Knox has been shamefully treated, and it is the duty of the Negro press to say so or forever be the tools and toadies for men. Why should the Negroes in the North be the slaves for selfish men? Will they never show their manhood? Must a man be sacrificed for another man when that man is against our interest simply because that man is a Republican? Let the Negroes of the North look to their interest. Editor Knox was unfairly treated. If the South wishes to take the negro question out of national politics the quickest way is to stop hurting negroes at the stake and to abandon the un-American notion that the meanest of white soundrels is better than the most industrious, intelligent, honorable negro.—New York World (Dem.) This is the whole question in a nutshell and it has added significant cause as coming from the leading Democratic newspaper of the Union. Treat the Negro on his merits and accord to him all that his just due, neither condemning him because he is black or discriminating against him because he is not white. That is the golden rule, the law and the prophets which, if steadily applied, will speedily settle the race question and settle it right. Julious Brown, son of the late Governor and Senator of Georgia, and one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Atlanta, is out with a somewhat sensational proposition. He suggests that all the Presidential electors recently chosen in the South vote for Roosevelt and make his election unanimous. "Everybody now," says Mr. Brown, concedes President Roosevelt to be a good, strong man of right intentions." This radical suggestion will hardly be adopted but it could do no harm and might do some good. Some day, surely, the South will tire of being out of the Union politically, and of playing the chronic sorehead with an imaginary grievance. Quit making yourselves miserable about what never has happened and never will happen and join in the great movement to bring about, not sectional but national solidarity, in all that makes for the triumphant progress of our great and glorious Republic. A Southern Senator proposes a new plan to get the South out of the rut it has had for itself and enable it to check the political petrification which is the meritable result of its solidity. His suggestion is to send no delegate to either of the national conventions but select electors and instruct them to vote at the right time for the best candidates for President, offered by any of the various political parties. This eventually, would cultivate a feeling of independence, would teach more liberality towards opponents and finally bring about a division of sentiment in question of principle and policies, rather than the Irish plan of fighting over every year the battle of the Boyne which occurred centuries ago. Peop.e, if they would progress, must live and act in the present and not in the dead past Booker T. Washington has contributed $25 to a fund which is being raised for the purpose of erecting a statute of John B. Gordon, the late illustrious Confederate general and distinguished citizen of Georgia. This was an entirely appropriate thing to do. While living General Gordon was a friend of the Tuskegee Institution and aided Mr. Washington in his efforts to establish this great educational institution. Anything which tends to bring about a kindlier feeling between races and classes in the South is of course to be commended, and all incidents recording mutual courtesies between them are heard with pleasure by the real friends of national progress and fraternization. "This government is based upon the fundamental idea that each man, no matter what his race or religious belief, is entitled to be treated as a man and neither favored nor discriminated against because of an accident in his position" This utterance of President Roosevelt will do to keep standing as it is a terse summing up of the principle on which alone this or any other Republic can be safely conducted. There should be no classes in a democracy and no toleration of any effort to give one man an unjust advantage over another. To defend and help the weak against the strong should be the ambition of every man calling himself a patriot. The Atlanta Constitution advocates the nomination of a Southern man for President next time. By all means this should be done. He could not make any worse showing than Parker, who carried only Southern states and, besides, the South could be acting logically if it supported a man who agreed with it in its only issue—suppression of the Negro rights. Score one for Texas. A white man convicted of terrorizing Negroes by the old Ku-Klux plan, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Waco. If the Southerners will only convict their white rascales they will hear no complaint from Negroes, because the bad of their race are punished. It is the one-sidedness that hurts. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad has appointed John Jones (colored) as conductor of one of their dining cars, a position of honor and importance, for the first time filled by one of our race. Mr. Jones has risen on his merits; his services are eminently satisfactory and his successes is an encouragement for others. If the "Before Day Club" nonsense can be laid away with the rest of the Democratic trappings used in the South's Chamber of Horrors for campaign purposes only. If Henry P. Slaughter, now of Washington, could be transferred to a snug berth in Kentucky, which would enable him to assume the place among the leaders of that commonwealth to which his merits and popularity justly entitle him. THANKSGIVING WOULD BRING A SWEETER JOY if turkeys were only ten cents a pound. If the South's fraudulent representation is cut down. If Negro womanhood was more earnestly protected. If the race loved religion as ardently as it loves regalia. If the late landslide had swept a brave Negro into congress. If W. Calvin Chase and Perry Carson would bury the hatchet. If Negro soldiers are to be assigned to service in the artillery. If the race would get the habit of looking forward instead of backward. If people who will drink whisky could be sure of getting hold of real whisky. If Negro actors would give us more art and less noise in their stage work. If the numerous religious denominations could be brought into closer sympathy. If fifty thousand Negroes of the South could be put to work on the Panama canal. If the next congress proves as strenuous as the President in insisting upon a "square deal." If violators of the law receive frequent and strenuous applications of the "big stick." If the South could throw off the chains of prejudice and rise to the "square deal" standard. If Kentucky's anti-race co-education day law should be declared unconstitutional, as it actually is. If John W. Yerkes of Kentucky should be chosen to represent the South in the new cabinet. If the Indiana Negro would make up his mind that the federal pie is "up to him" for the first cut. If the "war amendments" could be enforced on every foot of soil beneath the American flag. If Gurley Brewer was made Minister to Liberia with Charles H. Stewart as secretary of legation. If the gossipers would give our two-time matrimonial experiments a fair show and a season of peace. If Prof. W. E. B. DuBois would kindly inform his Northern friends how he voted on November 8th. If Congressman Overstreet puts his shoulder to the wheel for the vital Crumpacker resolution. If our business (?) men would live up to their obligations and have a greater regard for their promises. If our young men and women would start out in life with a definite purpose and work steadily toward it. If Samuel Coleridge-Taylor would include the artistic and appreciative Middle West in his American itinerary. If Prof. G. W. Cable could persuade the Democrats that they could make a winning campaign on his single-tax issue. If Congressman (?) J. Thomas Heflin could be impached or gotten rid of some how—for the good of the service. If that gallant old war-horse, Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback were named as pension commissioner to succeed Mr. Ware. If a few of our skilled Indiana compositors were given a try-out at the government printing office in Washington. If the President would conclude to make Dr. J. E. Shepard minister to San Domingo or provide "something equally as good." If T. T. Allain and Governor Vardaman should eat turkey at the same table as an object lesson for all true Mississippians. If a drama could be produced throughout the country treating in strong, serious and realistic vein the many sided race problem. If the West Virginia leaders see to it that the admirable labors of Hon. S. W. Starks are fittingly recognized by the administration. If Southern lawyers could be-induced, like John G. Carlisle, to contend for the 14th amendment, even from a professional standpoint. If correspondents who circulate bare-faced lies to embarrass useful public servants were given the "double cross" by reputable publishers. If the good citizens of Alabama will just hint to the legislature who is at the bottom of the attempt to stir up opposition to Tuskegee appropriation. If the civil service regulations could be construed in a way that would tend to develop hundreds of our able young men into effective race leaders. If Indiana's Negro leaders, young and old, will keep their heads level and refrain from undue excitement over the feast that seems to be ahead. If T. Thomas Fortune would arrange to welcome Henry Watterson at the New York dock when the Kentucky fire-eater returns from Europe. If social functions were given primarily to "honor" the guest rather than to afford the hostess an opportunity to outshine some rival society leader. If the ambitious Negro would bear in mind that the door of hope leads to the shop, the store, the forge and to the farm as well as to the postoffice. If every colored man would give just one dollar of his means for the support of Negro schools in the South as an example of a spirit of racial self-helpfulness. If our teachers would hold up the success of George B. Cortelyou as an example of what patient merit can accomplish with character and loyalty behind it. If Tillman, Heflin, Glenn, Vardaman, Carmack, Morgan and the rest of the insavory gang would join Henri Watterson for an indefinite stay in Europe. If a really representative, heart-to heart conference could be held by the Negroes in the several States to outline a plan for concerted action on existing problems. If the police would suppress the bore who takes up your valuable time with long dissertations on his private affairs and asks you impertinent questions about yours. If the sensible Negro will resolve to support Roosevelt by disappointing the enemies who have predicted that the result of the campaign would dethrone our reason. If that otherwise very worthy opponent, William Jennings Bryan, would set himself right on the race question by cutting loose from the tail of the Tillman and Watterson kite. If the missionaries who go to China, Africa and elsewhere would first take a look in upon the heathen in the slums of our great cities and try a civilization process upon the savages who burn human beings in the South. If the race will sustain the President's effort to reconcile the South to his square deal policy by living up to the principles of orderly restraint and civic duty urged by Booker T, Washington. If the Negro people of the nation would fully realize the safe and same course of their greatest leader, Bocker T. Washington, before, during and since the campaign, means for the uplift of the race. If Rev. Jay Albert Johnson's new boom for the presidency of Wilberforce University would, in the lines of the popular songs, go "Back, back, back to Baltimore" and quit "Teasing" Dr. Joshua Jones. If the army officials would take a stand that the right to marry according to one's own notion is a high personal privilege, to be interfered with by no one whether the parties take their matrimony straight or mixed. If Byron Gunner, the beneficiary of Northern Interest in the education of Southern Negroes, will explain why the begging of money by Dr. Bumstead, Messrs. Frost and Thirkield does not "humiliate" the colored citizens of Boston. If Editor W. D. Johnson of the Kentucky Standard would continue mailing to the cross editor, R. W. Knott of the Louisville Evening Post and all other hybrid scamps who accuse respectable colored citizens with being renegades, crap-shooters and convicts every time they see fit to exercise the white man's privilege of indepence on local questions. SIX HEALTH AND BEAUTY HINTS for 250; 3 for 150 including Hair Tonic and Blood Purifier all harmless LOTTIE M CARTER, Montrose, Ia. R F D. No 4. AGENTS WANTED Both sexes —'o sell our Scott's Magic Hair Straightener and Grower, and Scott's Face Bleach 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 von. Write to dav for particulars. Address SCOTTREMEDY CO, box 570 Louisville, Ky Wanted--Colored Women To learn hair-dressing, manicuring, cropology and dermatology. We se- curate our office, or start you in business. We teach you mail. Send stamp for information. LEIGHTON-MAURICE INSTITUTE Madison, Wisconsin. Reward will be paid to any person who can find one atom of opium, chloral, morphine, cocaine, ether or chloroform in any form in any of Dr. Miles' Remedies. This reward is offered because certain unscrupulous persons make false statements about these remedies. It is understood that this reward applies only to goods purchased in the open market, which have not been tampered with in any way. Dr. Miles' remedies cure by their soothing, nourishing, strengthening and invigorating effects upon the nervous system, and not by paralyzing and weakening the nerves as would be the case if these drugs were used. For this reason Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are universally considered the best pain remedy I have suffered for 25 years with savage heart and back, and have tried even more could get and could not find any relief until I got a box of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. I took as long as 12 hours at a time with six pains that I feared I would lose my mind. The Anti-Pain Pills gave me no relief. I do not have to use Morphine as more I wish you would publish this so that other sufferers may find relief." R. F. D. No. 6. WALKER. R. F. D. No. 6. Salem, Ind. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that you will benefit. If it fails he will return your money to 25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Ind. THERE are many people worrying and spending sleepless nights because of some yearly obligation that must be met, such as a note or the payment of life insurance, the default of which would mean disaster to the family. Worries of this kind can be avoided if the simple expedient is adopted of placing one-twelfth of the amount to be paid on deposit each month with THE INDIANA TRUST CO. where it will earn 3 per cent. interest and aid materially in meeting the obligation. Try it; start an account to-day. GOING SLOW ON BROWNS are the careful dressers of all fashion centers. That doesn't mean that browns are not going fast. They are. We are cutting bolts of them and have tables full yet to cut. If you insist on BROWN, call early get your suit quick, and be roady to lay aside waven OTHER people are BEGINNING to grow tired of them. We show browns in all shades, both plain and fancy, and anything else you may have a fancy for IF it is good. Suits & Overcoats Tailored to Taste $18.00 to $50.00 DEUTSCH TAILORING CO. INCORPORATED 41 South Illinois St. Indianapolis. Indiana Every Lady Read This Years ago when I was a sufferer an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leucorrhea, Displacement, Paintint Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one having a suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping woman, I send it Free. Address Mrs. A. B Hudnt, South Bend, Ind. HAIR SWITCH Samp Country for Colored People. 30c buys a single braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. 60c buys a double braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. 75c buys a Creole Switch, 16 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.00 buys a Creole Switch, 20 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.40 buys a Creole Switch, 22 inches long, Black or Brown. $3.00 buys a Natural, Wavy, Hand-made Switch like cut. Sample of sample of hair when ordering Creole Switch. Send money with order and get your goods by return mail. Send Stamp to catalogue. T. W. TAYLOR, HOWELL, MICH. When writing mention this paper THE STAGE. By "WOODBINE." P. G. Lowrey and his band made a great reputation that will be long remembered in Norfolk, Va., especially when a duet was played by Prof. Lowrey and McDade. The orchestra and concert company were up to the standard. While in Norfolk Mr. J. Bailey, clarionetist and pianist, took part in the evening concert as clarionetist, the clarionetist with the company being sick. Mr. Bailey sends regards to all friends. Ed. C. Price writes.—We are still meeting with the best of success and are at the ending of our season with our little company. We have been endorsed by both public and press as having the only successful company of this kind ever brought in the South by the Negro race, and we are re-booking the same route for next season as we go along, as that is the request of all who see our show. Wm. C.E. Hawk sends regards to all friends, and says he is on his way to Cuba once again and hopes to meet all his old friends when he arrives. He sends regards to Bob Kemp and May and all Florida friends. We must say, also, that the two jolly Prices are leaving them screaming every night with their new act, "The Swell Lady and Love Struck Coon." Ed. C. is singing "It's Got a Feeling For You" with big success as is Mrs. Price with her "Rosie." We are working a week in some towns. The Prices send regards to all knockers and friends. You will know who is meant by the knockers if you are one. We will be glad to hear from all friends. Address The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., and it will reach us as we get it each week with all the good news. Notes from Billy Kersands' Minstrel Company. We have in few places cut out our great street parade and could not observe any great difference. yet we do not claim that a good street parade is a menace to business, but we depend greatly on the press for our success because in most every burg we exhibit, where we think the people know nothing of show business at all, we are liable to meet some oofy who tell us you people are going do well here; your house veritably so'd now; it will not be able to hold them. Through an exchange of questions we will often ask what caused the immense sale and an immediate answer always greets us. The press notice of your show is great. Your show has the best press notices of anything in your line. Both the Bill Board and Mirror claim you to be the cleanest, neatest and most complete company in the minstrel line. We also see lots of horrifying things almost weekly that is also caused by the press. Mr. and Mrs. Kersands is going to banquet the entire company in New Orleans. In Donaldsonville our money seemed counterfeit; Mr. and Mrs. Kersands could not buy anything, hence they deferred their banquet until our next stand, New Orleans. Regards to all. Napoleon Johnson writes from the Georgia Minstrels: Mrs. Bell Rusco, wife of our genial manager, joined us in St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 14, to spend a few days with her husband. She, like all others after witnessing the performance, voices it the best company that has been Mr. Rusco's lot to manage. In one of my notes, some time ago, I mentioned that Kansas was always considered as a poor show State. So, again, allow me to say that, judging from the excellent business we are doing since the election, it seems as if the people are aware of the good time during the four more years of Roosevelt and Republicanism that they are turning loose their money in a sociable as well as business way. After the performance in Wichita, Kas., Nov. 17, the THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE. LADIES LIST. Allen, Miss India B Allen, Miss India C Carmont, Mamie Dabis, Miss Georgia Fermidou, Miss Mg Miss, Mrs D B Miss, Mrs D 2 Morton, Carla Motley, Miss Nellie Payne, Miss Rosie Roberson, Mrs Mary Carmont, Mamie Taylor, Miss Carrie Fermidou, Miss Mg Wills, Mrs Bessie Watts, Mrs Al (du 10c) Williams, Mrs Al (du 10c) Motley, Miss Nellie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Alexander, C F Kelley, Dude Avery, Rong, Roy Lucas, Sam Berk, Quillite Lucas, L H Berk, Quillite Javid, S A Caste, Frank McCamon, J H Coper, S McDonnell, J L Mines and Hines 2 McCameron, Prof Carter and Howell 2 McMarshall, Sunny Carter and Howell 2 McMarshall, J W Cauche, Fred Perry, Oliver Cauche, Fred Prof, Smith, F H Cauche, Fred Prof, Smith, F H English, H J Saulters, Fred H George, J E Law and Clifton 2 George, J E Smith, D 3 Hibb, J E Stevens, J H Hibb, J E Sibos, S O Howard, F L Saulters, The Harris, Clemon The Times, 2 Waler, Waler Wills, H L Chapson, C S Websters, Wol scals, James Jabson, lob(ine 10e) Williams, J H Jodh, J E White, Arthur Johnson, Sam ROUTE. A Rabbit Foot Co.—Covington, Ga., Nov. 28, Madison, N.J.; Greenbore, 3; Washington, E. D. Sparta, Milledaeville, 3; Anderson and Brigger—Poston, Mass. Nov. 14 Dalhamey, Avery & Hart - Birmingham, week of Nov. 19. 25. Bradford, week of Dec. 15 Wang Boodle Comedy 4, en route with Bob Manchester's comedy show, Giann Gienn, Jim White, Erb Robinson, Harzey Goodall-S. Paul, St. Paul, week of Nov. 27. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER following members were initiated in the Order of Knights of Pythias: Clarance Powell, Clarence Johnson, Robt. Williams, Fred Harper and John Cooper, and from the looks of them when they reached the car they would have been stars with Col. Roosevelt in Cuba as they certainly learnt the art of rough riding. Billy Duck Boomsky sends regards to John Pittman, and says "Pit," they are got me going from one dressing room to another nightly, Campbell Bros., John Mobley and friends, why don't you drop us a word or two through The Freeman sometime? The following is an article by our bandmaster, William Blue: Our Future in Music. We must first bring the subject to one-self in order to solve the true meaning. If all depends upon the person. Every human life is a symphony with its allegros, largos, adagios and prestos, still there is a pr neople theme that opens proudly or sadly with our first ambition or disappointments and closes with the fulfillment of them, "too, there are stringendes, rubatos, and all the complex schemes of expression and templ yet the one thought underlies all and that thought was I'm going to be a musician. So far success has been lavishy administered unto you. Now what is your future? Has the dreary hours that makes the days pinched you too hard or the salary too small for the service you have rendered or has the austere leader pointedly claimed you couldn't play a certain composition, thereby caused you to abdicate all interest, if so your farm of good judgment was never an interest value to begin with. These things we must consider as rebuffs that really belong to life and lends to our future itself. Not only should we crave for our future in music at this period, but we should display a robust eagerness to obtain a clear cognizance in other branches in life which music chastises. As music's greatness cannot be described nor its sweetness obviously denied, we must work in future hopes to thoroughly solve that which we have deigned to accept. WILLIAM BLUE, Bandmaster Georgia Minstrels 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. SYLVERE RUSSELL. 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 alms 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. Rt. Rev. George W. Clinton of Charlotte, N. C., and Dr. H. T. Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa., delivered a regular course of lectures during the term. Rev. Moses Jackson of the Presbyterian church, Chicago, delivered a special course of lectures during the past term. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, washing, etc., is $50 per month. Student 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 out the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. "A Trip to Honolulu," a three act force comedy company by J. Turrell Wall will be produced next season in grand style. 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 agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer exceptional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to supply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agriculture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. We wish to get hold of men who have received, as far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information address Booker T. Washington, Principal Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. A Card to Young Musicians. To young musicians who have never traveled and have a desire to do so have a fine opportunity to do so. Mr. Clermont, the popular bandmaster, has resolved to try and get young musicians for his band. Young men who have had a geographical study of the countries, now is your chance to take a practical course and see for yourselves, be sides you can draw a reasonable salary for a beginner. Mr. Clermont has booked his band for ten weeks in Greater New York and its surrounding cities to break in the band. Answer quick; state how long you have been playing and your age. I don't want any babies, none under 18 years. Bear in mind, each and every one engaged by me, their contract will assure them transportation from New York City to Paris, France and return free at expiration of your contract. State salary expected. All letters answered. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. Address Frank Clermont, 129 W. 27th street, New York City, N. Y. COLUMBIA Columbia, Tenn., Special—Rev. B. G. Gordon, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church, has organized the Allen Endeavor society which will meet every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock at St. Paul church.—Thanksgiving services were conducted at the various churches in the city.—The Y. M. C. A., entertainment was a financial success.—Do not fail to get the Xmas issue of The Freeman; put in your order now.—Rev. B. G. Gordon was in Nashville last week—A concert was given at the First Baptist church last Thursday night.—St. Paul A. M. E. Sunday school elected its officers last Sunday for the ensuing year.—Mrs. William Zilner has returned from a visit to the World's fair.—Miss D'Andre White, scalp specialist and dermatologist, is the manufacturer of several high grade soaps and hair preparation. Miss White is one of the leading ladies of the race and a poetess of rare ability. WARNING. When you go to the drug store to buy a bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow be sure that you get the "Ozonized" See that "Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., Chicago, U. S. A." is printed on the package. Remember that the "Ozonized" is put up only in fifty cent size and is made only in Chicago and by us Refuse all substitutes. We have no branch offices. The Ozonized Ox Marrow never fails to straighten kinky hair, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. Warranted harmless. If your druggist cannot supply you send us 50 cents and your druggist's name and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. Y. M. C. A.'S CONVENTION. The thirty-fifth annual state convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Indiana, which took place at Marton, Ind., November 17-20 inclusive was, in many respects, the most interesting and instructive ever held. Many prominent Y. M. C. A., men from out of the state were present and participated in the deliberations. The local colored association was represented by a delegation of six persons who arrived Friday evening, November 18. in ample time to take part in all the important proceedings; they were Dr. Wm. Russell, Prof. John W. Evans, Dr. O. W. Langston, W. J. Harris, Douglass Carter and Mies Ambia Keene, of the ladies' auxiliary. Dr. Russell was appointed a member of the state auditing committee in his capacity of acting secretary for the colored association. Prof. Evans, his assistant, participated in the musical program of the convention, rendering a vocal solo, 'Face to Face,' which was deeply apreciated. Dr. Russell who was empowered to assign his associates to conduct services at the various churches assigned them as follows: Sunday 11 a.m, at the Second Baptist church, Dr. O. W. Langston, Douglass Carter, W. J. Harris; Thirty-fifth Street A. M. E. church, Dr. Russell, Prof. Evans; Fifth Street A. M. E. church, Miss Ambia Keene. The delegates attended the Christian Endeavor at the Fifth Street A. M. E. church and remained for evening services of which Dr. Russell took entire charge, the others also participating. Too much cannot be said in praise of the hospitality of the good people of Marion. Mrs. Dilliard Artist entertained at luncheon and dinner the colored delegates and some Marion friends on Sunday evening. CHURCH SIMPSON CHAPEL NOTES. Corner Eleventh and Missouri streets; Sunday school 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; morning class, 12 m.; Epworth League, 7 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m.; weekly meetings, Official Board meeting every Monday evening at 8 o'clock; class meeting Tuesday evening, 7:30; choir practice Wednesday evenings; Epworth League Thursday evening; Queen Esther Circle, Friday evening Rev. N. H. Talbott pastor, residence 624 W. Eleventh street, new phone 2855. The Thanksgiving sermon was prescheduled by the pastor at 11 a.m. The "Nazarine," a sacred cantata, will be rendered by the choir Sunday evening, December 4. The Thanksgiving dinner given by the ladies of the church, Mrs. J. T. V. Hill chairman, was a great success. The ten days meeting will begin next monday, November 28; they will be conducted by Rev. J. L. Wilson, of Princeton, Ind. Tomorrow is Quarterly meeting; Rev. G. A. Sissle, P. E., will conduct the services. Rev. Wood, of Jones' Tabernacle, will preach at 3 p.m. Services last Sunday were well attended. Rev. N. H. Talbott preached two very excellent sermons. The collection for the day was $28 SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH Corner West and Walnut streets. Hours of service: 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., bath School; preaching 10:45 a.m., and 7:30 a.m. meeting Tuesday night; preaching Thursday at 10:45 a.m., pastor, pastor; residence 2226 Greenbriar avenue MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Ocorner Eleventh and Lafayette sts. Hours. Ocorner Eleventh: 30 a.m. Sabbath School; preaching 10:45 a.m. meeting Tuesday night: preaching Thursday meeting Wednesday: 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 8 p. m.; preaching 11 a. m.; 8 p. m. meeting Thursday evening 7:30 to 6 p. m. CORINTHIAN 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. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES. Vermont street, between Missouri and Toledo streets. Rev. J. M. Townsend, pastor. Services 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES Hours of service:--Sunday, 10:45 a. m. preaching; 12 m. , class; 2 p. m. , Sunday School; 7:30 p. m. , preaching; class Tuesday night; prayer meeting Thursday night; teacher's meeting Friday night. Rev H. E. Stewart, pastor, residence 1501 Cornell ave. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Rev, C H. Johnson, pastor; preaching 11 a. m., and 2 p. m.; prayer meeting Tuesday evening; Sunday School 9:30 a. m. INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line £2 00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman. in advance.] HEADWATTERS, F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. T. H. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City. Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tennessee. F. C. 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Unique in Feature, Distinct in Character Headquarters for Watters and Railroad Men The Best the Market Affords is my standard Pool & Billiard in connection DIAMOND ON E Copyright 1904, Franklin Advertising Agency, Cottage. PHONE M 2020 THE GERKE BREWING CO. AGE SINNIGH THE PURITY CINCINNATI, O. U. S.A. Brewers and Bottlers of the Celebrated "Social Session" Plum and Canal Streets FERN HILL RYE FERN HILL WHISKEY That Good Whiskey T y It You'll Like It H. Rosenthal & Sons CINCINNATI, O IDS AND WATCHES EASY PAYMENTS YOU Know That Christmas Mothers buy them for sons and daughters; husbands buy them for wives; brothers and sisters buy them for each other; lovers buy them for sweethearts. Many make the mistake of buying a cheap watch, because just at Christmas time the demands upon their fund of ready money is very heavy. You need not make this mistake—read on. The 84.55 that you would pay for a cheap Swiss or American watch in a worthless case. Diamond Cutters and Watch Merchants Dept. M 303 92 to 98 State Street. CHICAGO, ILL. Note-It costs you nothing to see our goods, for we pro- fess express charges. The Gentleman From Indiana By BOOTH TARKINGTON Copyright, 1899, by Doubleday @ McClare Co. Copyright, 1902, by McClare, Phillips @ Co. It's treachery, and the worst I over knew. Not a word of the accusation I demanded—lying praises instead! Read that editorial—there, there! He struck the page with the back of his hand and threw the paper to Meredith. "Read that miserable lie! 'One who has won the love and respect of every person in the district!' 'One who has suffered for his championship of righteousness! Righteousness! Save the mark!' "What does it mean? "Mean! It means McCune, Rod McCune, 'who has lived under a threft for years'—my threat. I swore to "Lunatic! Lunatic!" "Don't stop me one instant!" Meredith tried to force him toward the bed. "No; get back to bed. You're delirious, boy!" "Delirious nothing! I'm a well man." "Go to bed! Go to bed!" Harkless, set him out of the way with one arm. "To bed!" he cried "I'm going to Plattville!" Meredith wrung his hands. "The doctor." "Doctor be hanged!" "What in the name of all that's ter THE NEW YORK TIMES. "What is it?" he cried. print him out of Indiana if he ever raised his head again, and he knew I could. 'Almost overborne in the fulfillment of that threat'—almost! It's a black scheme, and I see it now. This man came to Plattville and went on the Herald for nothing in the world but this. It's McCune's hand all along. He don't name him eve now, the coward! The trick lies between McCune and young Fisbee—the old man is innocent. Give me the pad. Not almost overborne. There are three good days to work in, and if Rod McCune sees congress it will be in his next incarnation." He rapidly scribbled a few lines on the pad and threw the sheets to Meredith. "Get those telegrams to the Western Union office in a rush, please. Read them first." With wide eyes Tom read them. One was to Warren Smith: The second was addressed to H. Fisbee: You are relieved from the cares of editorship. You will turn over the management of the Ferald to Warren Smith. You will give him the McCune papers. If you do not or if you destroy them you cannot hide where I shall not find you. CHAPTER XIII. ERY early in the morning a messenger boy stumbled up the front steps of Meredith's house and handed the colored servant four yellow envelopes, night messages. The man carried them upstairs, left three with his master's guest, then knocked on Meredith's door till a response assured him that the occupant was awake and slid the fourth envelope under the door. Meredith lay quite without motion for several minutes, sleepily watching the yellow rhomboid in the crevice. It was a hateful looking thing to mix itself in with a pleasant dream and insist on being read, but after a while he climbed groaningly out of bed and perused the message with heavy eyes, still half asleep. He read it twice before it penetrated. Suppress all newspapers today. Convention meets at 11. If we succeed, a delegation will come to Rouen this afternoon. They will come. HELEN. Tom rubbed his sticky eyelids and shook his head violently in a Spartan effort to rouse himself, but what more effectively performed the task for him were certain sounds that issued from Harkless' room across the hall. For some minutes Meredith had been dully conscious of a rustle and stir in the invalid's chamber, and he began to realize that no mere tossing upon a bed would account for a noise that reached him across a wide hall and through two closed doors of thick walnut. Suddenly he heard a quick, heavy tread, shod, in Harkless' room, and a resounding bang as some heavy object struck the floor. The doctor was not to come till evening. The servant had gone downstairs. Who in the sick man's room wore shoes? 'He rushed across the hall in his pajamas and threw open the unlocked door. The bed was disarranged and vacant. Harkless, fully dressed, was standing in the middle of the floor hurling garments at a small trunk. The horrified Meredith stood for a second bleached and speechless; then he rushed upon his friend and seized him with both hands. "Mad, by heaven! Mad!" "Let go of me, Tom!" THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "Lunatic! Lunatic!" "Don't stop me one instant!" Meredith tried to force him toward the bed. "No; get back to bed. You're delirious, boy!" "Dellious nothing! I'm a well man." "Go to bed! Go to bed!" Harkless, set him out of the way with one arm. "To bed!" he cried. "I'm going to Plattville!" Meredith wrung his hands. "The doctor"— "Doctor be hanged!" "What in the name of all that's terrible is the matter, John?" His companion slung a light overcoat, unfolded, on the overflowing, misshapen bundle of clothes that lay in the trunk, then he jumped on the lid with both feet and kicked the hasp into the lock, while a very elegantly laundered cuff and shirt sleeve dangled out from under the fastened lid. "I haven't one second to talk, Tom; I have eighteen minutes to catch the express. It's more than a mile to the station, and the train leaves here at 9:02. I get there at 10:47. Telephone a cab for me, please, or tell me the number. I don't want to stop to hunt it up." Meredith looked him in the eyes. In the pupils of Harkless flared a fierce light. His cheeks were reddened with an angry, healthy glow, and his teeth were clinched till the line of his jaw stood out like that of an embattied athlete. His brow was dark, his chest was thrown out, and he took deep, quick breaths. His shoulders were squared, and in spite of his thinness they looked massy. Lethargy or malaria, or both—whatever his aliment—it was gone. He was six feet of hot wrath and cold resolution. Tom said, "You are going?" "Yes," he answered quietly, "I am going." "Then I will go with you." "Thank you, Tom," said Harkless simply. Meredith ran into his room, pressed an electric button and began to dive into his clothes with a panting rapidity astonishingly foreign to his desire. The colored man appeared in the doorway. "The cart, Jim!" shouted his master. "We want it like lightning. Tell the cook to give Mr. Harkless his breakfast in a hurry. Set a cup of coffee on the table by the front door for me. Run! We've got to catch a train. That will be quicker than any cab," he explained to Harkless. "We'll break the ordinance against fast driving getting down there." Ten minutes later the cart swept away from the house at a gait that pained the respectable neighborhood. The big horse plunged through the air, his ears laid flat toward his tail. The cart careened sickeningly, and the face of the servant clutching at the rail in the rear was smeared with pallor as they pirouetted around curves on one wheel. To him it seemed they skirted the corners and death simultaneously, and the speed of their going made a strong wind in their faces. Harkless leaned forward. "Can you make it a little faster, Tom?" he said. They dashed up to the station amid the cries of people flying to the walls for safety. The two gentlemen leaped from the cart, bore down upon the ticket office, stormed at the agent and ran madly at the gates, flourishing their passports. The official on duty eyed them wearily. "Been gone two minutes," he remarked with a peaceable yawn. Harkless stamped his foot on the cement flags; then he stood stock still, gazing at the empty tracks, but Meredith turned to him, smiling. "Won't it keep?" he asked. "Yes, it will keep," John answered. "Part of it may have to keep till election day, but some of it I will settle before night. And that," he cried between his teeth, "and that is the part of it in regard to young Fisbee!" "Oh, it's about H. Fisbee, is it?" "Yes, it's H. Fisbee." "Well, we might as well go up and see what the doctor thinks of you; there's no train." "I don't want to see a doctor again ever—as long as I live. I'm as well as anybody." Tom burst out laughing and clapped his companion lightly on the shoulder, his eyes dancing with pleasure. "Upon my soul," he cried, "I believe you are. A miracle wrought by the witch wand of indignation! That's rather against tradition, isn't it? Well, let's take a drive." "Meredith," said the other, turning to him gravely, "you may think me a fool if you will, and it's likely I am, but I don't leave this station except by train. I've only two days to work in, and every minute lessens our chances to beat McCune, and I have to begin by wasting time on a tussle with a traitor. There's another train at 11:53; I don't take any chances on missing that one." "Well, well," laughed his friend, pushing him good humoredly toward a door by a red and white striped pillar, "we'll wait here if you like. But at least go in there and get a shave; it's a clean shop. You want to look your best if you are going down to fight H. Fisbee." "Take these, then, and you will understand," said Harkless, and he thrust his three telegrams of the morning into Tom's hand and disappeared into the barber shop. When he was gone Meredith went to the telegraph office in the station and sent a line over the wires to Helen: "Keep your delegation at home. He's coming on the 11:55." Then he read the three telegrams Harkless had given him. They were all from Plattville. Sorry cannot oblige. Present incumbent tenacious. Delicate matter. No hope for K. H. But don't worry. Everything all right. WARREN SMITH. Harkless, if you have the strength to walk, come down before the convention. Get here by 10:47. Looks bad. Come if it kills you. K. H. You intrusted me with sole responsibility for all matters pertaining to Herald. Declared yourself mere spectator. Does this permit your interfering with my policy for the paper? Decline to consider any proposition to relieve me of my duties without proper warning and allow me to disregard all suggestions as to policy, which your own instructions, is entirely my affair and must be carried out as I direct. CHAPTER XIV. THE accommodation train wandered down through the afternoon sunshine, stopping at every village and every country postoffice on the line. There was a passenger in the smoker who found the stops at these wayside hamlets interminable. He got up and paced the aisle now and then, and his companion reminded him that this was not certain to hasten the hour of their arrival at their destination. "I know that," answered he, "but I've got to beat McCune." "By the way," observed Meredith, "you left your stick behind." "You don't think I need a club to face"— Tom choked. "Oh, no; I wasn't thinking of your giving H. Fisbee a beating. I meant to lean on." "I don't want it. I've got to walk lame all my life, but I/m not going to hobble on a stick." Tom looked at him sadly for a moment. It was true, and the Crossroaders might hug themselves in their cells over the thought. For the rest of his life John Harkless was to walk with just the limp they themselves would have had if, as in former days, their sentence had been to the ball and chain. "Sit down, boy, sit down," said Meredith, and his friend obeyed. The window was open beside the two young men, and the breeze that blew in soothed like a balm, yet held a tang and spice in it, a hint of walnuts and of coming frost. There was a newness in the atmosphere that day, a bright THE MAN IN THE DOOR Harkless, fully dressed,'was standing in the middle of the floor. invigoration, that set the blood tingling. The hot months were done with; languor was routed. Autumn spoke to industry, told of the sowing of another harvest, of the tawny shock, of the purple grape, of the red apple, and called, upon muscle and laughter, breathing gayety into men's hearts. The little stations hummed with bustle and noise, big farm wagons rattled off up the village streets and raced with "out under" or omnibus; people walked with quick steps; the baggagemasters called cheerily to the trainmen, and the brakemen laughed goodbys to rolling girls. At times the train ran between shadowy groves, and delicate landscape vistas, framed in branches, opened, closed and succeeded each other, and then the travelers were carried beyond into the level open again and looked out to where the intensely blue September skies ran down to the low horizon, meeting the boundless aisles of corn. It takes a long time for the full beauty of the flat lands to reach a man's soul. Once there, nor hills, nor sea, nor growing fan leaves of palm shall suffice him. It is like the beauty in the word Indiana. It may be that there are people who do not consider Indiana a beautiful word, but let it ring true in your errs, and it has a richer sound than Vallombrosa. All at once the anger ran out of John Harkwell. He was a hard man for anger to tarry with. And in place of it a strong sense of home coming began to take possession of him. He was going home. "Back to Plattville, where I belong," he said to himself without bitterness, and it was the truth. "Every man cometh to his own place in the end." Yes, as one leaves a gay acquaintance of the playhouse lobby for some hard handed, tried old friend, so he would wave the outer world godspeed and come back to the old ways of Carlow. What though the years were dusty, he had his friends and his memories and his old black brief pipe. He had a girl's picture that he should carry in his heart till his last day, and if his life was sadder it was infinitely richer for it. 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At Mullins, S. C., I noted, with no little pride, that the tendency is to read Negro literature. There I met the great Fee Dee Association. Dr. I. P. Brockington, its moderator, is one of the most noted ministers of the State. Rev. Reese and his good people made hospitality out-do itself in caring for the many who attended the Mullins meeting. More of this meeting 'ere long. At Marlon I met Rev. Montry, Dandy, Jordan, Flagler and a large number of gentlemen worthy of note. Prof. McCall is an optician and a general business man. The Johnson Bros. do nicely in gent's furnishing and notions. There is Williams, the jeweler, formerly of New York, and young Frierson, the fruit dealer, and two or three others. Dr Flagler is a principally gentleman of scholarly turn of mind, whose home and family are both ideal. Bro. Dendy was more than kind and attentive to me, but I have not the term at hand to express it. Rev. Montry is a gentleman of unusual polish and impresses one without effort. These mentions will, I hope, lead you to conclude that the Negro of this State, or this part of the State at least, are not the unfortunate creatures that many paint them. There can be no reason to indulge in pessimity here. I was pleased with North Carolina, but I am more highly pleased with the Palmetto State. Politics has been the curse of the Negro in this section. I met men on the streets who were introduced to me as "Hon." so-and-so, who are still alarmingly ignorant and as poor as Job's proverbial turkey. One case is worthy of mention in which an ancient law maker, who was as drunk as a lord, lamented the passing of the good old times, and punctuated his discourse with choice bits of vulgarity and be of special interest to our people to know that a Boston publishing firm has in press a unique book composed of the old Southern plantation songs set to instrumental music by Mr. Taylor. The introduction to this book has been written by Booker T. Washington. Money for Colored Schools — The Freedman's Aid and Education Society, in session at Manchester, N. H., Nov. 7, discussed industrial work in the South, and voted appropriations to colored schools of collegiate grades. Fourteen appropriations, aggregating $66 000, were made, those exceeding $2 000 being as follows: Gammon Theological Seminary, $12 000; Olsfön University, Orangeburg, S. C., $8 500; Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., $7.200; Walden University, Nashville, Tenn., $7 000; Morgan College, Baltimore, $5.900; Rusk University, Holly Springs, Mies, $5.400; New Orleans University, $5 000; Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, $3 500; Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark., $8 000; George R. Smith College, Sedalia, Mo., $2.900, and Beunett College, Greensboro, N. C., $2.000 Roosevelt Sends Book to Dunbar.—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the colored poet, who has been ill at his home in Dayton, O, has received from President Roosevelt two volumes of his addresses with his autograph accompanying a letter in appreciation of a campaign poem which Mr. Dunbar wrote and forwarded to the President. The letter reads: "My Dear Mr. Dunbar—I am touched that you should have written me from your sickroom. I appreciate the poem. As a token of my regard will you accept the accompanying two volumes of my speeches. With best wishes, believe me, sincerely yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. smatches of profanity that bore evidences of originality. But see the progressive Negro in the South so far as I have seen him does not shrink from comparison with any Negro in the country nor from any white man either for that matter, environments being the same. If you should ask me for a fairer field for Negro effort than Indiana I should answer unhesitatingly South Carolina. In recognition of the merits of the Dr. Miles' Anti Pain Pills for the relief of headache and pain, to which nearly every one is subject more or less, arrangements have been made whereby the Dr. Miles Medical Co. will furnish a trial package of these wonderful little tablets free to the subscribers of this paper. Any reader of this paper who is subject to aches and pains of any kind may avail themselves of this free sample by sending a postal card, giving their full address, and mentioning the name of this paper, to the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Some Leading Citizens Aurora, Ill, Special — Among our leading citizens are Rev. Shaw, pastor A. M. E church, M. C Bogor, contractor and bricklayer, Mr. Russell, the well-known colored barber. Mr. Johnson, president of the Colored Union, H. C. Adams Bros., tar roofing, Sara Long, proprietor of the Eagle Rug Factory, John Morton and Arthur McCann, stewards of the Elk club room, M. Williams, confectioner. The Freeman can be secured each week from Eugene Lucas, 23 Clark street. Second Wife Died Hot Springs, Ark., Special. — Mrs. Minnie House, the second wife of Mr. F. M. House, died Nov. 6, 1904 His first wife, Sarah, died two years previous, leaving five children. Mr. House is well known in West Point, Miss. WANTED—A good, sober colored barber Will pay 75 per cent. Jones & Artist, box 440 Rockville, Ind. The Freeman can be secured each week in Macon Mo., by calling on John W Houston, 8 Vine street Fancy Groceries and Meats Flour and Feed Hardware, Granite, Tinware, China and Glassware. 1901 and 1903 Yandee, cor. 19th Street. Phone, Main 3287. Use Hammerine for the Hair Do You Want to Share in the Mineral 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? If you do, write us for partilionars about them, or call at our office and see us; we want to talk to you. KREIS & COMPANY, Fiscal Agents, 63-70 Baldwin Blk., Indianapolis, Ind. Shampoo Drier. This necessary toen article will accomplish two results in one operation. It will straighten and dry the hair quickly, effectively 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 com 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 a'l who take pride in their personal appearance. It has the indorsements of physicians. Price $1. Address MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER MFG. CO., Agents Wanted. 405 Century Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Our Great Special——Complete WORTH FIVE DOLLARS. ONLY $100 BUT OUTFIT $100 "Ozono" THE SWEET-SCENTED KING OF HAIR TONICS MOST RAPID HAIR-GROWER IN EXISTENCE HARMLESS-RELIABLE-SUPREME READ! READ! TO THE Ooredo People OF THE WORLD POISITIVELY straightness, longthens and beautsfree the most obstinate, troublesome, refractory, curly, nappy hair. It never fails to straighten and can be absolutely relied upon to produce an abundant and furious growth of soft, fine, pliant, silky, long, flowing hair. Every person who uses OZONO is certain to have BEAT-TIGHT WAY THICK BLACK GLOSE HAIR, so pliant and abundant that it can be easily dressed in any prevailing style. It causes the hair to grow quickly on thin temples and all bald spots. Ozone is a post-care curly for dandruff, scurf, inch, tetter and all diseases of the easel. It turns grey, faced and disclosed hair to an, flat, GLOSSY BLACK. It cannot fall to lengthen, STRAIGHTEN and beautify the hair. Ozone is positively guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to all who use it. It cannot fall. Thousands of delighted customers scattered all over the world unite in saying that Ozone is true to all that is claimed for it. Ozone is king of all hair tones. The price of Ozone is 500 a box. It takes four boxes to complete the treatment. No hot irons are used. No plastering down with grease. Ozone alone and unaided absolutely perfects the hair, making it as Nature intended it to be long, soft, straight and beautiful. Ozone prevents falling, breaking and splitting, brittle hair. CUT OUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT and mail some to us with us, conditionally given to the best place to accept. We will send you large boxes of Ozone, worth 500 each, or $2.00. We will also include a cake of Purity Scalp Soap, worth 500. This soap is absolutely pure and undamaged and is made especially for use on the human hair and scalp. It is the finest scalp soap in existence. In addition to the above great offer we will send to you our COPLETE SKIN-BEAUTY TING OUTFIT, consisting of one large jar of Intactions. Massage Cream, actually worth $1. This exquisite preparation WHITENS THE DARKEST SKIN immediately upon application. It is simply rubbed well into the skin allowed to remain a few moments and then rubbed off. It comes off in rulles, bringing with it all the dead, dark skin and callous substances, removing the dark pigment and positively making the skin much brighter in a few minutes. Used according to directions, if I will be satisfied with the best处理, we will also include a large-size jar of our Electrical Skin Food, worth 500, which cures all skin diseases, removes wrinkles, scars, plipsies, tan, freckles and all facial imperfections. It makes the old look young and the young look younger, and hasty to prove our liberality. We will include a package (one plenty of Anti-Odor, worth 500, which removes all smells and odors from the human body, such as feet, arm-pits, etc. Also cures sores throats, sore mouth, frosted feet, childblains, and is a certain cure for all womb troubles. REMEMBER, ALL OF THE AROPEST THIRD THEFARATIONS (packages in all, actually worth $5, will be sent TO YOU ON RECEIPT OF ONLY $1. This great offer made to introduce HONEST GOODS. Send money by registered letter or by money order obtainable at any postoffice or express office. Write YOUR name and address plainly and address. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. 310 E BROAD ST. RICHMOND, VA. Persons desiring The Freeman in and about Chicago, Ill., can be accommo dated by calling at Jones' News Stand, 4888 South State Street. Live news of general interest for this paper is solicited at the above named news stand. Patronize our advertisers. no matter where it is located. Send me description of your property, state its price and I will tell you what I can do for you. If you want to buy 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. The Freeman Read the Ad Are in the Mineral Great West? y than to take it from the ground you do when you help to develop produce: Copper Timber these properties? Don't you want to see? Don't you think you ought to carry about them, or call at our office NY, Fiscal Agents, Indianapolis, Ind. STRAIGHTENER AND SHAMPOO DRIER. LOOK The above cut represents the Magic Hair Straightener and Dr.Joseph H. Ward OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 a.m., 1 to 8 p.m., 6 to 8 p.m. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 485 Indiana Ave., INDIANAPOLIS TELEPHONES: New, 1974. Old 6512Black. 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- Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all $250 or more are only 60c per week. This pays in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES and DIAMONDS. All business strictly private, courte- ture treatment to all. Is cost nothing to investigate. Second Floor, Room 203 State Life Building, Old Phone Main 3182 Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E. Washington street) New Phone .... 4270 The Ayrres Bulletin What to Wear The tourist coat still stands highest in the estimation of fashionable folk, but those who object to its length may have equally stylish coats in jacket length, a number of pretty styles just having been received. Cotton cravenette coats have recently appeared to check the ardor of those who have affected the showerproof garment because of a fancied exclusiveness which its price seemed to insure. Cravenette coats may now be had for as little or less than ten dollars. A tourist coat especially pretty for young women will be sold Sat urda at $8 75. It is of dark mix d gray herringbone oneiior. Fancy velour wraps, hip length, and longer, were among special Thanksgiving week arrivals. All are beautifully lined and are ornate with silk braids and Persian bands. L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEF'S. Mrs. Sarah Wilson is visiting in Xenia, O. Mrs. Ollie Turner, of Anderson, has returned home Harry Radeliffe was a guest at Louisville this week. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodan's drug store. Uneeda good photo go to Bennet's, 36 E. Washington street. Mrs. Lucas Willis is improving after an illness of several weeks. Dr. B. F. Watson spent Thanksgiving in the city with his family. Mrs. Effie White Scott has returned to her home in Sandusky, O. John L. Goodall, who has been in the East's timetable is back home. James U Shelton is able to be out after an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Claude Dean, who has been on the sick list is somewhat better. Bruce Williams is again in the city after a week's stay in Cincinnati. The Thanksgiving dance given by the Antique club was quite a social success. Miss Eunice Cross Hampton is ill with tonsilitis at her home in N. West street. Billy McClure, who has been in Chicago for the past year, is back home again. Robert Larrie has returned from Detroit, Mich., and will remain here indefinitely. Charles Marshall, formerly of this city but now of Cleveland, O., is visiting his mother. Rev. and Mrs. Sissle spent Thanksgiving with friends and relatives in Springfield, O. Mrs. Josie Phillips, 2026 Martindale avenue, is quite ill with pleurisy, but is slowly improving. Scipio Williams will be pleased to meet his many stanch friendships at the Alright Bufet Thanksgiving. Mr. James King left Sunday for Los Angeles, Cal., to spend the winter for the improvement of his health. Mrs. Julia Brown Hillman was the guest of friends and relatives at Louisville and New Albany Thanksgiving. Mrs. Alma Taylor, who has been quite ill for several weeks at her residence, 1125 Nelson street, is improving nicely. Ed Turner and Orvile Turner of Anderson spent Wednesday in the city 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. 28 Monument Place A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Ln (Formerly Stevens) Front Room. (15 E. Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER while en route to Franklin on a hunting trip. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Davis are happily reconciled in their recently purchased five room home at 839 West Pratt street. The funeral of Mrs. Jackson, of North Senate avenue, was conducted from Simpson Chapel Monday afternoon, Kev. N. H. Talbott officiating. Charles Baker has gone to Chicago for permanent residence. Mr. Baker is from Dayton, O., and spent a few days in this city while en route to his future home. Oney Willis died last Thursday and was buried Saturday afternoon from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Collins' 544 Drake street; Rev. N. H. Talbott afflicated. Mrs. Rev. N. H. Talbott has returned from an extended visit to her brother, Prof. R. Frank Taylor and family of Jeffersonville, Ind., and is greatly improved in health Miss May Lilly, who has been the guest of Mrs. Laura, Dean the past three weeks, will leave for her home in Lexington, Ky., next Thursday, Mrs. Dean will accompany her home. Miss Bertha Williams spent Thanks giving in Springfield, O., the guest of Mrs. Epison and Mrs. Guy. Miss Williams was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Anna Williams. She will return Monday. Mrs. Mary Spears, wife of Mr. John Spears, a merchant policeman, was buried Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Spears had been ill for about eight months. She leaves three children and her husband. Rev. Herod conducted the funeral services. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneeda 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. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged Naumann, 383 Indiana Ave If it is in season you can get it at the Parker House, 317 321 W. Michigan st. Phones: 4972; old 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. WARD-LOCKLEAR NUPTIALS. The marriage of Dr. Joseph Henry Ward and Zella Louise, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Mary Locklear, took place Wednesday, November 23 at 6 p.m., at the home of the bride's mother, in Douglass street. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George Schaffer, pastor Bethel A M E Church, beneath a canopy of palms and flowers. The bride's gown was a shirred creation of white silk mull over white silk with the bodice fashioned of a fohu of white liberty satin and pointed lace. The trimmings were of lace and satin ribbons. She wore white roses in her hair and carried a bouquet of bride's roses. Mrs. Margaret Worthington, in a gown of blue organdy, was the matron of honor. Miss Myme Locklear, sister of the bride, in a gown of e corn volle; Miss Kate Mann, in white swiss; Miss Nora Roberts, in blue mull, were the attendants. Mr. Charles Baughman was best man Prof. Fred Auderson played the wedding march and bridal music. Only the immediate family and a few intimate friends witnessed the ceremony. At 6 30 the wedding supper was served at their future home. The bride's table was appointed in pink and white. Above the table was a basket of white and pink roses, from the basket to the four corners of the dining room were streamers of pink satin ribbons and at the ends bridal knots were tied. From 7 to 11 a large reception was held. The rooms were decorated throughout with TO LET 461 to 479 18th street, new flat for colored tenants Apartments of th e rooms each having well, cistern, good coal shed, large closet, kitchen, laundry and back porches $1,700.00 or 80.00 per room. The Marion Trust Co. 2 E Market Street. To introduce our 14-year-old Royal Society Rye and Bourbon, we will ship you 4 Full Quarts packed in a plain box express prepaid for only $3.98 and will give you absolutely FREE one American movement watch (like cut). Send currency, money order or postage stamps. 1 To introduce will ship you 4 for only $3.98 movement wat stamps. PURITY GUARANTEED BY FRANCE MERCHANTS AND MOTORS Royal Family Bourbon THE OLD KENTUCKY THE CONSUMERS DISTILLING CO. BROOKLYN LOUISVILLE, KY. GUARANTEED palms, pink and white roses. The ladies assisting the bridal party in receiving were Mesdames Laura Galnes, Betta Moss, Lavinta Sneed, Betulah Porter, Susie Williams and Eisle Thornton, Misses Isora Brooks, Katie Pritchard, Dellah Scott and Alberta Mendenhall. Misses Mildred Jackson and Theresa Lewis were at the punch bowl. Among the out of town guests were Tilie Larter, aunt of the bride, of Bedford, Ind., Mrs. Mack Larter of French Lick, Ind., Dr. Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Anderson, Ind., and Ernest Tidrington, of Evansville Dr. and Mrs. Ward will be at home after December 1 at 4835 Indiana ave. Patronize our advertisers. DIVORCE LEGAL complaint for Divorce. BE IT KNOWN that he married 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, her complaint against the above named plaintiff having also filed in the plaintiff having also filed in the plaintiff's office the affidavit of a competent person, shwing that said defendant, Jasper E. Birch is not the plaintiff having also filed in the plaintiff having by endorsement on complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or demurrage the complaint in January, 1905. NOW, THEREFORE, the 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 plaintiff will be the case of said cause on the 5th day of January, the same being the 4th judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begun and held at the court house in the city of Indianapolis, on the list of matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. Wm. E. Davis Clerk ISAAC L. WISEMAN, Attorney for Plaintiff. Pork Chops - - - - at 10c per lb. Pork Roast - - - - " 9c " " " Lamb Chops - - - " 8%c " " " Leg of Lamb - - - " 8%c " " " Lamb Chow - - - " 4c " " " Veal Chops - - - " 10c " " " Veal Roast - - - " 8c " " " Veal Stew - - - " 8c " " " rolling steef - - - " 8c " " " Chuck Steak - - - " 8%c " " " Round or Loin Steak - - - " 10c " " " Porterhouse Steak - - - " 16c " " " Kielbaw - - - " 8c " " " Shon der Clod - - - " 8c " " " Chuck Roast - - - " 7c " " " Gravy Beef - - - " 8%c " " " Hamburg - - - " 8%c " " " Bacon - - - " 10c " " " Hams, best in market - - - " 12%c " " " Cabbage Hams - - - " 10c " " " Bologne - - - " 8c " " " Weinerwurst - - - " 8c " " " Pork Sausage - - - " 9c " " " Lard (Kette Rondered, (our own make)) - - - " 8%c " " " Call and be convinced for yourself. Remember the Place. 418 W. Washington Street, JOHN F. CONCANNON, FRO New Phone 3731 $2.00 for $1.00 We want 50 more good persons (men or women) to be our sales of our great hair preparation d' John F. McGraw. It is used by people in every state of the union to buy $300 or $400 we will send by express to any address which sells for $300 and ta. e back all you can get in our work. Address JOHNSON MFG. CO., 898 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. Watch Free! LUNETTE BAL are our 14-year-old Ro- 14 Full Quarts packed and will give you atch (like cut). Send $3.98- FOUR QUARTS Royal Society R ...Express Special Anti- year-old Royal Society Rye and Bourbon parts packed in a plain box express prep will give you absolutely FREE one Ameri cut). Send currency, money order or post 8- FOUR FULL QUAR1S -$3.98 Royal Society Rye or Bourbon ...Express paid... al Anti-Trust Prices Royal Society Rye or Bourbon ....Express paid.... Special Anti=Trust Prices plain boxes express paid to your door. Guaranteed to please or your permission we refer you to the Editor of The Freeman as manner of doing business. INSUMERS DISTILLING COMPANY (INCORPORATED) ice: 142 to 152 Seventh St., LOUISVILLE, KY All goods packed in plain boxes express paid to your door. Guaranteed to please or your money refunded. By permission we refer you to the Editor of The Freeman as to our honesty and manner of doing business. THE CONSUMERS DISTILLING COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Whloesale Office: 142 to 152 Seventh St., LOUISVILLE, KY PRICES TALK Peruns.....500 Swamp Root.....27c and 54c Pinkham's Compound.....59c Pierce's Favorite Prescription.....54c Pierce's G M D.....55c Lax Bromo Quinine.....8c Palmer's Skiu Success Remedies.....16c Hays Hair Health.....38c Capillaris.....39c Syrup Figs (genuine).....35c Perfumes at bottom over the place. ULD Druggist iana Avenue KUHN BRO Wholesale & Retail Me Fine Cutsof Beef a specialty. Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 407 W. STUCKY'S HEADACHE CAR for immediate relief of headache ..... 100 a Fine California Wines ..... 250 a STUCKY'S DRUG S Fine line of Perfumes at bottom prices. Remember the place. Vonnegut Hardware Co. Household Goods on 2nd Floor, Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators, Etc. Builders' and Cabinet Hardware, Meat Market Outfits, Machinery and Mill Supplies, Shafting, Pullies, Hangers, Belting. WILSON'S GOOD MEAL LUNCH. Oysters in Tools for all Trades. GREAT REMODELING S Closing out $8000 stock of ladies' and gents' Furnishing the $1 00. Making room for factory building. Come in yourself. GREAT BARGAINS. H. L. SANDERS, 206 India AGENTS A WONDERFUL FACE BEACH ...AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $1.00, or three boxes for $1.00. Guaranteed to be what we will do with a new box on the world. One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL FACE BEACH. A PRACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. With turn the skin of a black or brown person four a five shades higher and a multiple person perfectly white. In forty eight hours a shade or two lighter will be not possible. It does not turn the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful while the skin does so. With no more wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, simpley or burning or blackish red wrinkles, very soft and smooth. Smallpox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. ICHANTEBEAR TONTO that goes in every one-dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us a dollar in better or post-Oiler money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it to send it to us, we will send it to you. If you want to send it to us, you can send it to us. We will return the money or send a book free of charge. Packed so that the money is a book. ORANE & O., 11 W. Jackson St., Richmond, Va. --- Serves One and All. Don'tpay$100 for a Watch when you can get one equally good for time, absolutely FREE 601 Indiana Avenue Both Phones 589. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH CRANE'S HAIR TONIC GUARANTEED Phone for it That's Quickest When you're busy and want anything from a drug store Phone New 4135 and you'll get it in a hurry—and it will be satisfactory, or we'll make it so. Lots of people order Candy, drugs, toilet articles, perfumes, medicines, etc., of us by phone. ITS A GOOD WAY, TRY IT. PINK'S CUT RATE PHARMACY, S. E. Corner West Street. 550 Indiana Avenue. KUHN BROS. Wholesale & Retail Meats Fine Cutsof Beef a specialty. ACHE CAPSULES 10c and 25c a box 25c a quart bottle RUG STORE COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET CUT RATE PRICES California hams.....11c Bacon, 12½ pound.....15c Ham.....14c Pork chops.....12c Fresh pork sausage.....10c Lamb chops.....10c Veal chops 10c and.....12c Ave.; Cut Rate Meat Market. GOOD MEALS AND LUNCH. Lowest Prices. Oysters in Season Open Day and Night INDIANAPOLIS, IND ELING SALE and gents' Furnishings. 50c on city building. Come in and see for GREAT REMODELING SALE Closing out $8000 stock of ladies' and gents' Furnishings. 50c on the $1 00. Making room for factory building. Come in and see for yourself. GREAT BARGAINS. Hazel Tailoring Co. 327 Indiana Ave See our new English effects in brown with 500 other patterns You pay $5.00 more down town for the same. Why should you pay their high rent? Perfect fit guaranteed Ask others about our work. Frank's Oyster Parlor, 612 Indiana Avenue. Serves One and All. Give Us a Call Don't pay $100 for a Watch when you can get one equally good for time, absolutely FREE Phone, New 4135 S. E. Corner West Street Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 Choice boiling beef.....50 Choice roast beef.....80 Chuck steak, 8 for.....250 Round steak.....12½ Loin steak.....12½ Porter house steak.....150 Best kettle rendered lard.....90 Good lard.....8 509 Indiana Avenue, H. L. SANDERS, AGENTS Your harvest is t: hand; $10.00 a week hand- ing our newest special, the Menthol Inhalers, the Menthol Mending, issue, all will be delivered to any adven- ture upon receipt, of 15 cuffs and agents' terms. LOWE'S PERLESS MFG.CO. 1238 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, ll THANKSGIVING FARES. Excursions from all Ticket Stations o Pennsylvania Lines. Excursion tickets will be sold at all ticket stations on Pennsylvania Lines November 231 and 24:h to any station not more than 150 miles from sellin- point Tickets good returning until November 28:h For particulars, consult Local Ticket Agent of Pennsylvania Lines. PURITY GUARANTEED PURE PENSULVANIA RYE Royal Society Rye PURE PENSULVANIA THE LONSUMERS DISTILLING CO. LOUISVILLE, KY. Phone, New 4135 407 W. Michigan St. 206 Indiana Avenue