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"THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER," A CHRISTMAS STORY BY AUGUSTUS M. HODGES WILL APPEAR IN AN EARLY ISSUE OF THE FREEMAN, SUBSCRIBE NOW! THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 48. PASSES AS A WHITE MAN HE LOOKS WHITE BUT DEATH EXPOSES HIS PRETENSIONS ENGAGED TO SOCIAL LEADER Society in New York Town Takes Him up-He Associates With the Best People and Makes Love to White Girl-White Escort. Burkville, Va., Special.—Death alone exposed Charles Flippen, a mulatto native of this place, who away from home has for years assumed the role of a white man. His body arrived here over the Southern raiway last week from Newburg, N. Y., accompanied by a white escort compus d of two committeemen of the street railway line of Newburg, of which he was an employee, and four members of a militia company of the First New York regiment, of which he was a member. The escort was much chagrined to find that their comrade and associate was a Negro, he having in all his associations at Newburg represented himself as a white man or as having a quarter blooded Indian mother and Col. Flippen, of Southside, Va., as father. Flippen was born near here about 1881, his mother being a mulatto of this violinity who gave the child to Dorella Flippen, also a mulatto, who lived with Col. Flippen. It is said that hundreds of persons attended the funeral in one of the white churches of Newburg on account of the high esteem in which he was held. The floral offerings were abundant. It is stated that he was an associate of white girls of good family and was engaged to a white girl of one of the best families of Newburg. His conduct in Newburg was commendable and his habits those of a gentleman. NASHVILLE Nashville, Tenn., Special—From the great appearance of overcoats in this city makes one think that we have settled down for winter.—Mr. Lusky, one of Nashville's most prominent business men, was tendered a pleasant surprise last Tuesday night at the hands of W. Crosthwait, who in company with W. M. Rouster, J. Vaughn, C. Ewing and George Hill, all musicians, wended their way to Mr. Lusky's home and entertained him and family by the rendering of several selections. The way Mr. Lusky entertained them showed he appreciated music in every phase.—Dock Liner's dancing school is becoming more popular every day, owing to the good order maintained and the best of music furnished. All those desiring an evening's enjoyment will find it there.—all the churches are making great preparations for Christmas and the entertainments they will produce will surpass anything heretofore that has been given St John's church, whose choir is under the direction of Charles Kelly and Miss Bruce Mae Ewing organist, bids fair to do anything they have ever put on in the past as the members of the choir are hand in hand with their director. They will also give a grand concert the first week in January.— The writer had the pleasure for the first time since his stay in Nashville of visiting the Bijon theatre where they make special provisions for their colored patrons. If he had went up the stairs a little further he would have bumped his head against the ceiling. If the colored men who have the enjoyment of their race at heart would establish some place of amusement for their people these conditions of seeking amusement seated next to the skies would not exist. This is foot for thought — The Freemance is on sale each week at Dock L ner's barter shop, 406 Cedar street. Subscriptions also received there on application. MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Wis., Special.—H. F. Still of Philadelphia, Pa., a well known headwaiter of the East, with an old friend, J.C. Branch, is visiting in the city, and they are delighted with the beautiful city.—Mrs. H. F. Still will soon join her husband here and before returning East they will visit St. Paul, Denver and Southern California. Returning East they will stop in Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Pittsburg. THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, TO VOTE. SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIEDGED BY THE "UNITED STATES." OR BY SOUTH OR PREVIOUS CONDITION OF SERVITUDE. UNITED-STATES CONSTITUTION. F. PAYWOOD THE A. M. E. CONFERENCE. South Carolina Special.—This is the season in which the thoughtful ones "most do congregate." The A. M. E. conference is now on here at Marion. Bishop Coppin is in the chair which he fills in the very highest sense. Promotion has not undone his mild and pleasant manners. His address to his conference was a well seasoned appeal for higher life. There is in attendance that polished gentleman and finished orator, Dr. Reynolds, of Norfolk, Va. I guess far amiss if Dr. Reynolds is not bishop timber. Let me mention the fearless, tireless Cappell, he is here; he to bears himself well and, doubless, hears the buzzing of the Episcopal bee about his ears. The conference shows a remarkably improved condition in the ministry. The race comedy, drama, tragedy or whatever you have a mind to call it cannot fall with these men for actors. I announce with pride becoming a true lover of my race that Tillmanism is on the wane. That great spokesman of the nonprogressive South sees his pet measures repudiated by the people today who yesterday were loudest in his praise. Those who are blessed with the spirit of prophecy already speak of a falling senatorial mantle but here the parallel ends for no one is hold INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1904. HIS MASTER'S VOICE (With apologies to a popular picture. enough to even hint that the livery of heaven or any other manifestation of divine approval will attend the exit of the great senator. The people of South Carolina are all right, and let us not forget that here in South Carolina may be found many of the purest blooded white people between the two oceans. If thrift on the one hand and inherited morality and thought-power on the other will not righten things up name the needed elements. Dr. Williams and wife entertained your humble servant at Hartsville a few days ago. Hartsville is too small for a minister of Brother Williams' open and progressive views, and he is now growing faster than his town. I now rise to motion his call to the first fine large church I find without a pastor. SELMA Selma, Ala., Special.-The C. M. E. Conference, after one of the most profitable sessions ever held, adjourned last Sunday night. The personal of the conference was above the average.-The rally of the Congregational church last Sunday was quite successful, although the day was a very disagreeable one.-About seventy men were thrown out of employment on account of a fire in the cotton seed mill last Sunday morning.—Several of the boys took the civil service examination last week and hope soon to enter the government service.—Bishop Cottrell was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Irby during his stay in the city.—Stanley Sullivan has removed into his new store opposite the market.—Mrs. M. E. Bryant of Nashville, Tenn., is visiting in the city.—Green Cornegee, ex-chairman of the county executive committee, died in Mobile last Monday.—The holiday trade is on and from appearances it will be immense. UNIONTOWN. Uniontown, Pa., Special.—The L. I. P. D. R. S., has purchased new uniforms for all of the waiters.—N. Shelton will spend the holidays at his home in Virginia.—Mrs. Ed. Sams has returned from Philadelphia.—I. I. P. D. R. S., will give a concert at the Grand opera house during Christmas week. George Brown is arranging the program.—The exercises of the seventeenth anniversary of Rev. P. H. Thompson was very grand. We hope that the Elder will stay seventeen years longer. Rev. Hosley's oration was worth hearing. The audience did not like Charley Crable's speech; there was too much truth in it.—Call for The Freeman at Butler's stry. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION Atlanta, Ga., special.—The Atlanta Historical society is making great preparations for the emancipation celebration which will be held at Turner's Tabernacle January 1. Quite an elaborate program is being prepared. Rev. Dr. W. H. Weaver, formally of Baltimore, now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will deliver the oration. Dr. W. M. F. Penn will read the proclamation; Mrs. Dr. H. R. Butler will read a very interesting paper.—The Masons of the city have purchased a centrally located site and will soon commence the erection of a four story temple.—The Rising Sun lodge A. F. and A. M., elected the following officers for the ensuing year last Thursday: E. C. Freeman, W. M; T. B. Kelley, S. W; M. McNair, J. W; Henry Branch, treasurer; W. A. Morgan, secretary.—Many of the Methodist conferences are being held in the state. The reports show improvement all along the line.—Dr. J. S. Flipser, president Morris Brown college, states that he is very well pleased at the record his college is making and hopes to see it out of debt in the near future. The Freeman can be secured each week in Macon, Mo., by calling on John W. Houston, 8 Vine street. NO CASTE IN SOUTH AMERICA NO BLOOD NOBLER THAN OTHER BLOOD, ALL THE SAME RIGHTS DOOR OF HOPE STANDS OPEN "Uncle Dick" Writes of the Opportunities of the American Negro in South America-All Men Created Equal-Mixing of the Bloeds. Washington, D. C., special.—The Negroes of the United States have never known freedom, they will probably never know it. True no master legally robs them of their daily earnings as was the case during slavery days, but the Negro is not at liberty to chose his companions nor even to enter some of the so-called Christian churches. No matter how sincerely he walks in the steps of Jesus; no matter how carefully he observes the conventionalities of good society; no matter if he attains the height of civilization and carefully respects the rights of others; under all circumstances his mind is clouded by the knowledge that he walks among enemies. In South and Central America this is not so, there his mind is as free as the body; the laws protect him as carefully as it protects the wealthiest man. This I know personally and my evidence is supported by historians and writers. Simon Bolivar, the Washington of South America, said, as recorded: "There must be no blood on this continent; there is no blood less noble than other blood, all is the same in the sight of God; all are heroes who enter the camps of the battalions of liberty and all are equally battled to the just recompense of valor, of honor, of intelligence, of sacrifice and virtue." This is not like the sounding the brass and tinkling symbol heard in the United States Declaration of Independence which says: "All men are created free and equal"—except the Negro. Ramon Paez, son of the President Paez, in his book "Wild Scenes in the Llanos of Venezuela" proudly quotes the noble Frenchman, Mona Lavasse, who asks: "Why is it that individuals proceed from a mixture of African and indigenous American blood have greater strength, finer forms more intellectual faculties and moral energy than the Negro or Indian? Why, although the white be, in general, power and in moral force to the aboriginal American and to the Negro, why, I ask are the individuals born of a union of a white man with an Indian woman (the mestizos for instance) inferior in mental and corporeal qualities to the Zambos? Why are the Mestizos generally distinguished by finer figures, agreeable countenances and in mildness and doolity of their dispositions? Why is the mulatto, son of a white man and Negro woman superior to the Zambo in intellectual facilities but is inferior in physique? Why is it that when those races are mixed their progeny is remarkable for a more healthy and vigorous constitution and for more vital energy than the individuals born in the same climate of indigenous European or African blood without mixture?" Wm Eclery Custis in his book "A Land Where it is Always Summer," says it is a common thing to see a white woman with a octoroon or even a mulatto for a husband and even more common to see a white man with a tinted Venus for a wife. At public balls, at the hotels and other places of resort in political, commercial and social gatherings the three races—Spanish, Indian and Negro—and the mixed bloods mingle without distinction. It is an ordinary sight to find black and white faces side by side at the dining tables of the hotels and restaurants, and in the schools and colleges the color of the child makes no difference in his standing or treatment. Some of the most eminent lawyers and jurists are of Negro blood, and in the clergy no race or distinction is recognized. I have seen a colored theological student—and one can always be detected by the long black frock and shovel hat he wears—walking arm in arm with a white comrade, and in the assignment of priests among parishes the bishop never thinks of race prejudices" The door of hope is wide open in the land where it is always summer, where there is no hunger, no cold, no slayery, no race prejudice. Lay up money, do some kind of business, be ready to go to the homestead that awaits you. Some Moses will arise and lead you out of the land of oppression to a land of perpetual crops of the good things of life. the STAGE the the JAYWOO ORANGE, N. J., 1904 FRANK CLERMONT, DEAR SIR: I have been pleased to note your progress. I like your offer of inducement to young musicians seen in this weeks issue of The Freeman. I wish for you much success. SYLVESTER RUSSELL NEW YORK CITY, N. 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He was sent for; she influenced the beast by holding a charming seal bone in her hand and speaking nine hoys words to the beast and he obeyed. Mrs. Robinson was born in Paris, France, and she was born in France, and she born a 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 murder, the idle treasures and lost and stolen articles. Address MRS. H. W. ROB*RTSON. 202 Fairmount Street. Dallas, Texas THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Freeman. I find your book to the point in many instances. FRANK CLERMONT. New York City Notes—The watermelon trust is at Proctor's, Fifth ave. and are making good.—Slater & Williams are in Pittsbury, Pa.—Bailey & Fletcher are resting up—Cole & Johnson are at Keith's, Fourteenth street.—Wm. Nichols, the mimic, is negotiating with the Northwest circuit—Joe Moore and his quintette are doing nothing just now.—Bob Kelley's "Trip to the Jungle" failed to materialize.—Smith & Bowman's Troubadours tour was posed till December 26, the opening point will be Soranton, Pa.—Robert McPherson, John B. Nall, Jr., and C. M. Battey are the promoters of the assembly and high art in literature and music. Prof. Walter F. Craig and his famous orchestra furnishes music for their occasions. Their music is furnished by the Attuck Music Publishing Co.—Ernest Hogan is in the city—Sid Perrin, Emma De Costa a d Billy Yerger are doing nicely; the go over Poll's circuit as a trio of refined comedy actors and dancers.—Tony Lucas is to do his act of patrolman in plain clothing.—Johnny Mitchell is the proper card at the Douglass club.—Report reaches here that a "Trip to Africa" has stranded in Virginia.—A few big vandelle are being bunched together.—Harry Stout, one of Brooklyn's favorite violinist, was a visitor last week.—Black Carl is mystifying everybody.—Joe Britton will leave for a four weeks run over Keith's circuit soon.—The Golden Gate quintette are being featured at the Orpheum, Brooklyn.—Shepard N. Edmonds, manager of the Attuck Music Publishing Co., has just finished a new ditty, "Fanoy."—Will H. Tyer, composer of "Trocha," the popular Cuban dance, has placed on the market a catchy two step, "Squee Gee," published at the Attuck Publishing Co. Many thanks to the young musicians for the overflow of letters and telegrams I received in answer to my advertisement. I take this means to inform you that I received your letter, to answer them personally is too great a task. Kindly consider that I have all the musicians I want for the present, but will place your letters on file should any disappointment occur the lucky party will be notified. FRANK CLERMONT. Notes of Helms Minstrel Co —The show is doing fine this fall. We have just signed five more people and a joller crowd has never come together. —Mr. Helms is climbing the ladder of fame every day. In three years time he has accumulated more stock and p operty than any one man I know on his race. He intends to start a one ring circus next spring which will be the only show on the road owned and controlled by a colored man. He has a 90 and 140 foot tent, 26 horses, 2 bears, monkeys, trained dogs and will book nothing but colored people. He intends to put something on the road that has never been seen before. He would like to hear from all the amateur acrobatic colored people in the business also a band leader. We are now playing to standing room only and we are sending them away howling every night with our comic fares and grotesque dancing. Mr. Helms would like to hear from Skinner Harris, Dan McCabe and L. E. Gideon. Billy McClain writes from London, England.—It is very pleasant to receive the Freeman. I have accepted the general management of the John Tiller Training school of 300 and also producing a big pantomine for Robert Arthur, and playing the star comedy part. There are a good many colored people over here doing nothing because they are chorus people; good colored performers are all working and doing great others just the reverse, these people know show business backward and you must be it to get by. You can't bluff them by shouting coon songs, you must be artistic and dance, if you can't dance you don't work. So, for the benefit of some of the people that have cabled and wrote that they were coming over better either be booked are clever with your feet. After my pantomine engagement I will return to Yankee land and settle up my affairs and then sail back to the country where talent is appreciated regardless of nationality creed or color. Notes of Billy Kersand's Minstrel Co. —We are now playing a line of return dates which will continue until Xmas. —We were entertained in Belville, Texas, on the 30th of November by very dear friends of ours, W. W. Kerr and Mr. Perine at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perine. Mr. Kerr was once a memur of Oulligan and Morgan's Famous Alabama Minstrel.-Dave D. Smith is on the cripple list.-Regards to Harry Fiddler, F. L. Denton and J. W. Cooper THE WAITERS... J. H. Johnson Dead. Joseph H. Johnson, a leading colored undertaker of Savannah, Ga., died on Wednesday, December 7, 1904. Mr. Johnson leaves a wife and two sons to mourn their loss; also two sisters, Mrs. L. J. Foster, of New York City, Mrs. W. Forrest C. zart, Atlantic City, N. J., and two brothers, R. and A. L. Johnson of New York City. The Hotel Mens' Mutual Benefit Association of the United States and Canada have selected Atlantic City, N. J., for its next meeting place. The last two conventions have been held in hotels where white waiters were employed, so the colored waiters of Atlantic City must be on their mettle and make good. A Menu Served in a Southern City. The following menu was served in a Southern city by some of the "400": MENU. Blue Points, Ox-tail Soup, Qualit on Toast, Tenderloin of Beef, Mushroom Sauce, Green Peas, German Fried Potatoes, Tomato and Lettuce Salad, Asparagus Tips on Toast, Neopolitan Ice Cream, Assorted Cakes, Roquefort Cheese, Water Crackers, Assorted Nuts, It would pay the above "400" to get some hotel man to arrange their course dinner next time they give o e, for the form in which the above bill is gotten up is a very poor one. On a well regulated menu quail is never served before beef, but is usually served after punch. Asparagus tips on toast is never served after salad. There is an art in menu making as well as there is in the cooking and serving. Mr. W. Forrest Cozart, Atlantic City New Jersey: My Dear Friend—Now that the campaign is over and we are rejoicing while we contemplated the splendid result, I take pleasure in expressing to you my sincere appreciation of your efforts in support of the work outlined and prosecuted by the colored bureau of the national campaign committee. I am sure that you contributed to that work the very best effort of which you were capable, having in mind not only your party fealty, but your vital interest in the result as a member of the race whose welfare appeared to hang in the balance. The work done by you and all the active participants in your department have been highly commended by the members of the campaign committee, and I take pleasure in informing you of that fact and to add to it my appreciation. F. L. BARNET. Annual Banquet by Waiters. The waiters of the Oliver Hotel, South Bend, Ind., gave their first annual banquet November 28th, which was an exceedingly successful affair. Mr. Frank Wells, the promoter, displayed much ability and executive power in its management. Dr. J. H. Fears, the guest of honor, spoke at some length on the subject of "Producency in Hotel Work." G. W. Bland, headwaiter and honorary guest, gave some sound advice on the subject of waiters. Charles W. 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ER POET m Laundras Cigar consumer and pay all express charges. A TRYAL ORDER— al, 5c Cigar r & Son Makers, ille, Kentucky. ----HERMAM H. HAMMER---- DEALERS IN Fancy Groceries and Meats Flour and Feed Hardware, Granite. Tinware, China and Glassware. 1901 and 1903 Yandes, cor. 19th Street Phone, Main 3287. Use Hammerline for the Hair Persons desiring The Freeman in and about Chicago, Ill., can be accommodated by calling at Jones' News Stand, 4888 South State street. Live news of general interest for this paper is solicited at the above named news stand. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Indianapolis, Ind Edited By W. FORREST COZART. WAITERS' MANUAL. HOW TO SET A BANQUET TABLE. (Copyrighted 1888 by W. Forrest Cozart.) It requires an artist of no small merit to set a banquet table. As science in the culinary art changes as rapidly as all other science, a headwaiter should keep up with the times in order to be up-to-date in setting a banquet table and serving the banquet in the proper style. The decorations of the room and the appearance of the table are the two main features in a banquet hall. If the table and room be artistically decorated this will attract the eyes of the guests on entering and will fill their hearts with gladness If flowers, palms and other foliage are seen at every hand and sweet strains of music are heard, all worry and care will disappear, and joy will reign supreme. I shall endeavor to point out a few of the most important points to be considered in setting a banquet table. The first thing to consider is the dining hall in which the tables are to be arranged. Ascertain the exact size of the hall or room and then draw the design for the tables accordingly, allowing for the number of guests to be served. Reserve the design for future r.ference. In selecting the design for this occasion the greatest consideration should be given with regard to space, as it is absolutely necessary that the guests should be seated comfortably, and, in addition ample space should be reserved between the rows of tables and between the outside rows and the walls, for the waiters to pass. After having placed the tables according to the design, special care should be taken to see that they are perfectly straight, having the same height and width. If one or more tables are found to be slightly lower than others, they can be made the same height by placing small blocks under each leg. The next thing to do is to lay the felts and then put the cloths on the tables. The cloths should be put on so that the end of each cloth will overlap a few inches. The crease in the center of the cloth should be so arranged as to form one long line down the center of the table. This having been done, the table is now ready to be set. For comfortable dining each guest should be given a space of from two and a half to three feet; sometimes, however, when the room is small and a large number of guests are to be seated, it might be necessary to give a space of only two feet to a person. The space should be measured in order that each guest have justice. Having decided on the exact space that is to be allowed each guest, the plates should be placed on accordingly. On each plate is placed a napkin folded for the occasion. The shapes most commonly used are a plain square fold, a diamond-shaped fold, which sets up about six inches, and a cap, both of which are artistically folded so as to leave a little space in which a roll can be placed. A bouquet and guest-card can be placed in the crown of the cap or in the top of the diamond. No other fancy folds should be used for a banquet. Chairs should be placed in front of the plates, in a straight row, with a space between them and the table, sufficiently wide so as to allow the guest to pass down the aisles between them. The most important instructions are in connection with the relative positions that the plate, knives, forks, spoons, water and wine glasses occupy. The plates should be exactly in line, one inch from the edge of the table. On the right of each plate place one or two large service knives and one fish knife, services knives always taking first position next to the plate, and then the fish knife. The edge of the knife should be turned toward the plat and the end of the knife handles should come to the edge of the table. Next to the knives come the dessert and teas poons, the ice-cream fork, and the after dinner spoons, similarly placed, except that the bowls of the spoons should always be turned upward. At the left of the plates come the service forks and, next to them, the regular fish forks, with the ends of the handles coming to the edge of the table and placed with the times turned upward. Kulves and forks of the same size can be used if there are no smaller ones at hand. The tablespoons should be placed in front of each plate between the point of the knife and the fork, running parallel with the edge of the table, having the bowl of the spoon turned upward with handle pointing toward the right. The times of the oyster fork should rest on the edge of the oyster plate, at the right, its handle parallel with the edge of the table. The oyster fork may also be placed on the right side, cross- wise of the knives, with prongs or tines touching bowl of spoon. Soup spoons may also be placed on the right side of the fish knife. Fruit knives, when used, should be placed on the front of plate with handle turned toward the right. Individual butter pats should be placed on the right side, near the tip end of the knife, and should be placed so they will be in a direct line the entire length of the table. If wine is to be served, the glasses should be arranged as follows, provided a complete set is to be used: Seven glasses to each guest comprise a full set, viz, one sherry glass, two white wine glasses, two red wine glasses, one champagne glass and a water glass. Wine glasses are placed at the right of the plate and in the following manner: First, the sherry glass, which is placed about five inches from the edge of the table and about four inches from the plate; next to the sherry glass comes the Rhine wine glass, and then the water glass. These glasses are placed about four inches apart. Another perpendicular row of three glasses is made parallel to the first row. The first glass in the second row is for any kind of white wine, the second for claret and the third is a Burgundy glass. The champagne glass is placed to the right of the claret glass. If a complete set of glasses is not to be used, the glasses may be arranged according to the wine that is to be served; for instance, if sauterie, claret and champagne are to be served place the sauterne glass first, claret next, and then the champagne glass, all being placed in a straight or curved row. A sufficient number of salt and pepper shakers should be placed at intervals along the table in a straight line and should be a little to the right in front of the plate, within reach of the guest. If individual salts are used, of course one should be at every plate. Casters should not be used on a banquet table, but vinegar orusts should be distributed down the center of the table. Flowers may be arranged along the center of the table in vases, with a few ferns artistically scattered at the base of the vases or pots. Pot-plants can be placed in the center of the table (when there are no flowers) with the pot wrapped in fancy tissue paper or a napkin. Bread, salted almonds, olives, radishes and celery should be tastefully arranged along the table on both sides of the center line. Compotes of fruit should be placed at a reasonable distance along the center of the table. Fill water glasses and place butter on table about fifteen minutes before the guests come in. Oysters should be on table about five minutes before the guests come. Special attention should be paid to the temperature of the room, which should never be more than sixty-five degrees. The room should be well aired before the guests enter and good ventilation maintained while they are dining. There are several different designs that can be used for large and small banquets. The following are commonly used, viz; the "U," the "T," and the "L" shapes; also the "oross," the "orescent," the "horse-shoe" and the "diamond" shapes. For very large banquets I would recommend that the tables be arranged as follows: Have a row of tables across the head, reashing from one side of the room to the other, leaving space enough to run long lines of tables down the sides of the wall, with room enough for waiters to pass between table and wall. This will form a large "U." Then place as many long rows of tables in the "U" as you can, leaving sufficient space between each row for the guests and waiters to pass. Each row must be joined to the row which forms the head. There should be no table across the foot of the long rows, as this is the way the guests and waiters will have to pass in and out, nor should there be any chairs on the inside of the head table. Do not place the chairs at the head as close together as at the other tables, as they will be occupied by guests of honor, and there should be plenty of room. A large arm chair should be placed in the center of the row of chairs at the head of the table for the presiding officer. A sufficient number of tray-recks should be conveniently located in the aisles. The tables should be beautifully decorated with flowers, ferns, smilax, fruits, etc. Ferns should be placed in hollow square or diamond shapes around the base of flower vases. Bouquets can be placed in napkins, as previously described, or on the table in front of the plates. A long string of smilax can be artistically arranged along the inside of the head table. The banquet hall should be profusely decorated, the walls gracefully covered with festoons of smilax. Along each side of the room should be placed enormous palms. 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 Care for the KIDNEY'S Bladder and all Urinary Affection AND BUCHU THE DR. 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Large flags may be suspended from the ceiling, and the portraits of one or more patricios may be hung on the walls. The band of music should be partly hidden behind palms and other decorations Each waiter, thoroughly drilled, should be assigned a certain number of chairs, and all should be marched out to the kitchen and back into the dining room several times in line that they may familiarize themselves with the line of march and their position in the same. The waiters should wear full dress suits, standing collars and white bow ties, and should not display jewelry nor handkerchiefs. The headwaiter should wear a full dress suit and black bow tie. If it is not convenient for all the waiters to wear full dress suits they may wear black jackets, but no aprons. The oysters may be put on before or after the guests come in. Everything now being in readiness. [One address line £2 00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWITERS. F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. T. H. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City, Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Looke, Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tennessee. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburgh, Pa. R. S. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa. 5 05 C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 05 C. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. 10 05 HOTEL DIRECTORY This column used exclusively for the ad dresses of hotels restaurants lodging and boarding houses and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the hotel—you business solicited. The Zanzibar the waiters will stand erect at their given places, with their arms at their sides. The doors will then open, and while the band plays the march, the guests will file in and seat themselves. After the guests are all seated the headwaiter will give the signal and all the waiters will file out. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 309 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. an officer or register officer. If you have been in town and city not now occupied, and liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary inducements. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Fase of measure-solid agate, 14 lines to an inc. 276 lines in a column Special solicitation per line of national. No advertisement inserted on first page. Specials rates on standing professional and business cards. "reasonable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 10 per line. Specials rates on WR TE UF8. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Indiana, as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1904. THE NEGRO AS A WORKMAN. The New York Sun, discussing at length the change supposed to be taking place in the industrial system of the South, has this to say in the way of warning or advice: "Unquestionably, during the last decade the Negro in the Southern States has lost ground, not only in every field of skilled labor, but even, as a farm hand. His place in the South's industrial system can no longer be regarded as secure. Nothing, however, is more certain than that, in our commercial industrial democracy, the ability to hold his own as a worker is the supreme test by which the Negro's future on this continent will be determined. * * * It follows that the Negro's hope, we will not say of rising, but even of retaining his present industrial position, depends on his ability to live up to the new standards of industry, skill and thrift. The white man whom the Negro now has to fear is he who, by conforming more closely to those standards than he himself f can do, is likely to take his work away from him. His immediate danger is, not from oppression, but from rivalry." This, though perhaps somewhat overdrawn, nevertheless contains a germ of truth worth considering. It would be strange indeed if the Negro had not "lost ground," considering the difficulties he has had to confront and the burdens he has had to bear during the last forty years. His work has been hard at best; his tasks bitter and often poorly required. But this was not all. In addition to the hard work called for by the necessities of his position, he has had to carry extra loads that were enough to crush a race of elephants. He had to "tote," as they say in the South, not only his own burden, but a lot of other burdens piled on top of him by unjust laws, unfair discrimination and hateful class prejudice. He has had to do his work under unsanitary conditions, amid uncomfortable surroundings, ill-housed, ill-fed and protected. Opportunities of all kinds to improve himself have either been denied entirely or grudingly allowed. When having an equal chance, the Negro has always shown himself, man for man, the equal as a workman to any other race. In several lines he is unequaled as a laborer, nor has the race shown inferiority in ability to acquire knowledge of the mechanic arts. Tuskegee has amply proved what Negro men and women can do when properly taught under favorable surroundings. Its students rank among the best in various lines of high employment, such as dairying, bridge-building, architecture and every calling embraced in the industries learned at technical schools. The Sun may rest assured that the Negro will not lose ground, but hold his own, if given an equal chance. He must not be expected, however, to carry the white man's burden as well as his own, and be kicked and cuffed while doing it. In conclusion we will make this remark for the benefit of all concerned: If the time ever should come when the Negroes of the South should be crowded out, unable to hold their own, it will be the white people of that section and not the Negroes who will be the chief sufferers. The Indianapolis World is shocked at the discovery of a "leg-pulling" preacher "in aur midit. It was some time before the World heard about it, but after it caught on it administered a caustic but deserved rebuke. The World states the case thus: "We are going to tell you what we hear about a preacher who pastors a church no fifty miles from the yellow bridge. "Once upon a time a colored man conceived the idea of running for congress. It was necessary for this candidate to get two hundred signatures to a petition to have his name placed upon the ballot. This innocent preacher, herein referred to, signed the petition, but after reflecting for twenty-four hours, his fertile brain suggested that he might speculate upon his innocence, and he accordingly went to the managers of another candidate's interest and demanded $35 to withdraw his name from said petition. Not content with this break, he wrote the candidate a personal letter, asking for $25 more. With the greed for gold still lingering in his breast, he wrote another letter stating that "he was willing to THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. do all he could for the party," but unless there was something "in it" he desired to have his name "expunged from the speakers' bureau." He was promptly told that the committee had placed him on the list of "Ewangelistic Leg Pullers." One is justified in asking how many congregations are "sold out" every election by unscrupulous preachers, who beg money from campaign committees for the church, get it, and the church never hears of the transaction? Perhaps the World would be even worse disgusted if it learned that its special "find" was not the only "leg-pulling" preacher in this community. It does not seem to have heard of that "meek and lowly" crowd who were invited to the office of the regular candidate's manager and sent away happy with a five dollar bill in the clutches of each pious soul. Some of t'em, or all of them, had been for the independent candidate up to that time, but the temptation to "make a little on the side" was too great for their virtue and they yielded. They took the money, they said, "for the church." but it would be well if the trustees in charge of the church's funds should look to see if these five dollar bills found the way into the treasury or into the pastor's pocket. The World is none too severe in its excoration of the "leg-pulling" preacher. The ordinary grater and boodler is bad enough, but "leg-pulling" in the name of the Lord would seem to cap the climax. Are our churches, through palm-itching pastors, to be made levers for prizing money out of candidates and committees during campaigns? If so, ought not the proceeds of the hold-ups to go into the church treasuries instead of the greedy pans of the boodling preacher? These fellows alluded to are setting us all a fine sample of how to "elevate the race." In the first place they sold out Mr. Knox by wholesale and then sold themselves by retail. But for the courage of Mr. Knox in making the independent race, these fellows would not have had the chance to money by selling out first him and then themselves. Such being the case, they ought to be willing to divide the blood money which they earned at his expense, or, still better, perhaps, they might do as Judas Iscariot did with the thirty pieces of silver obtained from selling out Jesus Christ; they might buy a Potters' Field in which to bury themselves and the whole race of treacherous grafters and boodlers of the "revered" persuasion. The Republicans must understand that they are not in charge of the government permanently, regardless of the manner in which they conduct things. Landslides have a way of repeating themselves, and a repetition of 1872 is not impossible. It is certain that the people will not stand for a electrotyped tariff system for whose altitudinous schedules there is no justification in reason or justice. Another danger lies in chronic deficits. Right now the government is spending millions more than it is taking in. In other words, the expenditures greatly exceed the receipts. Manifestly, therefore, either the receipts must be increased or the expendiures diminished. The man who spends more than he makes is sure to go broke in the long run. Same with governments. And if the powers that be can't find some way to head off the Squanderfields in charge of the disbursements, the balance on the wrong side of the ledger will soon bring on the same conditions that wrought ruin to Cleveland's second administration and, incidentally, to his party. Before another election there should be a voting machine in every Indiana precinct. The Australian ballot, though a great improvement over its predecessor, is already out of date. The voting machine has everything to recommend, it being absolutely accurate, a preventor of blunders and spoiled ballots, speedy in announcing the result, and a bar to vote buying that will practically eliminate that vile practice. It is also economical, its use saving more than half the expenses of the present method. The incoming legislature should pass a law making it mandatory on all the counties to purchase and install voting machines. Their use will be a great step forward in that most important of all reforms, an honest, clean and unpurchased ballot. A hundred of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Miss., telegraphed President Francis a hot repudiation of the sentiments expressed by Governor Vardaman in his ill-mannered dispatch concerning the President and the Mississippi building. "A prophet." we are told in Holy Writ, "is not without honor save in his own country." Evidently Vardaman is one of the prophets who is not honored either at home or abroad. The encouragement that honest and intelligent young Negro men get in the South from certain employers is well illustrated in a story told by Broker Washington. A certain white farmer asked him to secure for him a young colored man to work about the house and in the field. The young man was secured, a bargain entered into to the effect that he was to be paid a certain sum monthly, his board and lodging to be furnished as well. After working all the first afternoon he was handed a buttered biscuit for his supper and told he could find a place to sleep in the fodder loft. Yet some white landowners down South complain of the "shiftlessness" and unreasonableness of their colored help! A Texas man, writing to the Indianapolis News last week, notified the North that the South wouldn't "make up" with President Roosevelt unless he agreed to quit appointing Negroes to office, quit "interfering" with Southern affairs generally, and express regrets and apologies for what he had done in the past. This Texan is probably a son of some man who, fifty years ago, would not be on friendly terms with any man who did not approve of the institution of slavery and refrain from criticising slaveholders. Perhaps the only way the President can satisfy this six-footer is to join the Democratic party and resign in favor of Parker. Nearly $42,000,000 is to be spent next year in building battleships. Would not this money be better spent in providing additional schools in the South and teaching the young men of that section practical agricultural methods? We can get along quite well with the warships we already have, but more and better education is a practical need all the time. Until we can have a better class of teachers than those drawing eleven dollars a month and longer than three month terms we might quite profitably direct some of our naval appropriation in that direction. Track elevation is one of the most urgent of all needed reforms in Indianapolis. The city has supplied full of the grade crossing horrors, the gha tly record of preventable deaths due to corporate greed, carelessness and persistent violation of the speed ordinances. By not exercising its right to force a stoppage of these outrages, the city makes itself a participant in the crime. Let the tracks be elevated no matter what the cost. If there is not enough law to do this let the leg slature be bombarded for more. No railroad should be allowed to cross any street at grade. Heflinin, the newly elected congressman from Alabama, is reported to be trembling in his number-11-boots over the move to expel him from congress. He is the chap who, in a public speech last fall, advised the assassination of the President. When they get through with Heflinin the Senate might try its boots on Tillman. If a few of these fire-eaters were given to understand that they will not be allowed to preach murder and make laws at the same time; this pestiferous class of politicians would grow less. We regret to see that the editor of the Washington Bee, who is an able man, can't get the right focus on Booker T. Washington. For some reason the Bee man always sees Mr. Washington's doings from the wrong point of view, and thus indulges in sneers and criticism which, to most of the rest of us, seem not only unjust, but highly unwise. We must not expect perfection of any man; but the whole world is practically agreed that the Tuskegee educator is one of the wisest leaders and greatest man of this age. The last of the old Hebrew prophets gave utterance three thousand years ago to this sentiment. Do justice, love mercy and walk in the fear of the Lord." That has not been improved on since as a rule of action, and if men would only act on it in all affairs concerning each other, there would be no race problem, war problem or social problem which could not be easily settled. Indiana teachers complain that they are underpaid, yet none of them get less than two dollars a day. How would they like a job in the rural regions of the South where the teacher is often thought to be magnificently remunerated at eleven dollars a month? The world's fair management made a mistake in not securing Governor Vardaman of Mississippi for exhibition in their collection of strange races. He would have been decidedly at home among the Pygmies. Sick Headache When your head aches, there is a storm in the nervous system, centering in the brain. This irritation produces pain in the head, and the turbulent nerve current sent to the stomach causes nausea, vomiting anch causes hause, vomiting. This is sick headache, and is dangerous, as frequent and prolonged attacks weaken the brain, resulting in loss of memory, inflammation, epilepsy, fits, dizziness, etc. Allay this stormy, irritated, aching condition by taking Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They stop the pain by soothing, strengthening and relieving the tension upon the nerves—not by paralyzing them, as do most headache remedies. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills do not contain opium, morphine, chloral, cocaine or similar drugs. "Sick headache is hereditary in my family. My father suffered a great deal, and for many years I have had spells that were so severe that I was unable to attend to my business affairs and I was sick during a long, very severe attack of headache," Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and they relieved me almost immediately. Since then I take them when I feel the spell coming on and it stops it at once. Pres. S. B. Eng. Co., South Bend, Ind. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that you will not benefit. If it fails he will return your money. 25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind President Roosevelt is being invited to stop in many Southern cities on his way to Texas next spring. He is promised royal treatment, and it is hoped his talks may expedite the "era of good feeling." Revising of the tariff and those "grandfather clause" constitutions in the South will constitute the main issue of the next congress. John Sharp Willi·ms will be leader of the Democratic minority in the next Congress if he can find anything to lead. THAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Have You Bought It? We Have a Suggestion that May Help You. We are all confronted with the question of purchasing Christmas presents. In this connection we have a suggestion to offer that may interest you. We are now offering a fountain pen as a premium in connection with our circulation. This pen is "The Celtic Model 1" manufactured by The Selden Pen Manufacturing Co., 140 Nassau street, New York. This pen is a beetle, and guaranteed to equal any pen that retails for $2.00. The pen is 14kt, solid gold and warranted by the manufacturers to be perfect in every particular. The pen will make a most excellent Christmas present that any of our friends would be delighted to receive. This is the most liberal offer our paper has ever had an opportunity to make our subscribers, and the great number of orders we are receiving daily bears evidence of he fact that it is appreciated. Pick-Up Items Columbia, Tenn., Special.—Dock Cloe and Miss Lula McKnight will be united in marriage Dec. 15th at Gordon Lot Hall.—Mr. Zion and Mrs. Sadie Moss of Millerton leave for Chicago on Dec. 25th.—Larkin, Simpson and Brown bought Tom Simpson's brick yard and brick house valued at $20,000. MINEOLA Mineola, Texas, Special.—The Colored Cemetery club met last week and transacted business of importance.—The enterprising citizens of this city "clubbed together" and purchased a site for a school building last week. 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Tom Briggs, the Mississippi favorite, is making a success as singing comedian with A Rabbit's Foot comedy company, and regards to Tom Parker and Mrs. Joelibbs and Dr. L. T. Miller. Notes from Stetson's Uncle Tom's Cabin Grant Luce, Manager.—We were royally entertained while in Lancaster, Pa., the Jonah social club. All colored professional people when in Lancaster should up this club: S. J. Ferguson, the genius president, will be pleased to meet you and make it pleasant during your stay. A Merry Christmas to all. Hello, Kelley. "A Trip to Honolulu," will be a winner for 1905-06 if money and experience can make it so. The uniforms for the band and also the orchestra are certainly something novel. They are booking the Klaw and Erlanger circuit, and will play Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington with fifty people, then finish the season with thirty people. The title is fully copyrighted by J. Turner Wall, copyright number 100457—Library of Congress,—lookout infringers. After touring America the company will sail for Honolulu and Australia, under directions of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee. A guarantee for ten weeks. Notes from Williams and Stevens in Hottest Coon in Dixie.—We played Peoria, Ill., Dec. 8 to a packed house. After the night's performance, Mr. Williams was the guest of Jule Jordan, proprietor of the Haymarket buffet and cafe one of Peoria's wealthiest colored men. In Bushnell, Prof. Henderson Smith met William Tichner, a brother of George Tichner, who showed him a good time while we were there. Mrs. Smith has returned home from the show; we all send our best regards to her and the profession. Prof. Smith would like to hear from Horace Copeland, have lost the address. Charles B. Jefferson's big scenic melodrama, "Shadows of a Great City," comes to the Park theatre next Monday, where it has been seen a number of times, always by large audiences. This is the oldest melodrama now on the road and time does not wear out its good qualities. The play was written twenty years ago and it portrays life in New York. It goes in particularly for scenic effects. In one act a river of real water is shown on which boats carrying real passengers are numerous. Forty thousand gallons of water are utilized in this scene, it being handled in canwass. The plot is a lively one, abounds in comedy and tragedy, all leading to many exciting situations. The story deals with the wickedness of city life, tempered by many heroic characters of manly and womanly type. The company is a large one and includes a number of specialty performers. The only light opera coming to the Park this year is "El Capitan," the bill beginning next Thursday and continuing for three days. This opera was written by John Phillip Sousa, the famous bandmaster and marsh king, and it is made up of his best music. The airs are all tuneful, without being trashy. There is a definite plot developed, it containing a sensible story interspersed with much comedy. The story is that of a captain in the Peruvian army. THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE Payne, Miss Rosie Roberson, Mrs Mary Stone, Mrs Josephine Taylor, Miss Carrie Wills, Miss Clara Wilson, Miss Dora Wilson, Miss Dora Armstrong, Roy Beech, B E Castor, Frank Bush, Clarence Cissel and Mines 2 Carter and Howell 2 Cooper, J W Cambell, Fred Cressar, J A English, J A Fitzbush, W R George, J E 2 Glover, L E 2 Goodle, John Hughes, Ed Howard, E L Hillard, Memo Hillard, Writer Hurt, James Harris, Clemo Hutchins, A K Hutchins, Clas P Jackson, Bue(10c) Jordan, J J 2 Kelly, Bob Kane, M Kelley, Dude Lucas, Sam Lucas, L H Martin, Sr., A A Mcdonnell, J L McCameron, Prof Marson, Shannon Perry, Oliver Petets, The Reeves, The Smith, Prof H Smith, Tutor Show and Cliffon 2 Smith, D D 3 Sibs, Sol Sager, S Ch The Buffers, T Tibs, Sol Williams, H L Websters, The Webscals, James William, H J White, Arthur Wade, Kid ROUTE. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER This is the opera which Dewolf Hopper formerly gave. It has been played 2,000 times in the United States and Canada, had a run of 360 nights in New York and 200 in London. This is its first season at popular prices. The opera has been equipped with fresh costumes and scenery and the company is made up of forty singers and comedians. It will be one of the best productions seen at the Park this season. Clemo Harris and Salem Whitney in the leading role of "The ex-President from Liberia," reports success. This show is carrying a company of 30 artists with Aline Cassell, prima donna, Enma Baynard, prima donna soubrette; Nettie Taylor, queen of instruments; Charles Taylor and W. M. Baynard, musical directors; James Boiden, Montrose Douglass, John Wright, Harry Buckner, William White, Walter G.arden, Douglass Marshall, Misses Golden, Reeves, Carrie Smith and a chorus of 10 more. The public says Harris and Whitney are above the average and our press notices are always headed "The Second Williams and Walker." Miss Aline Cassell met with an accident by making a mistake in her make-up putting carbolic acid on her face instead of glycerine. She is, however, improving nicely. She is receiving four and five encores nightly with the song, "Billy." We are playing some of the large cities now. Will be in Philadelphia Christmas week. Napoleon Johnson writes from Georgia Minstrels.—In Bisbee, Ariz., on the 6th as one of the miner basses took unto himself a helpmate through life; after the performance the band was invited to serenade them after which we partook of a delightful luncheon. Also in Nazoo, N. M., a few of us were royally entertained. In the afternoon we went across the line in the Republic of Mexico and witnessed a real bulring and as a fight had taken place on the Sunday before, blood stains were all aound the ring as the materdor was successful in killing four buils. The show is and has been running smoothly for sometime and Clarence Powell our stage manager and star is all smiles. Even all the boys, when leaving the theatre at night, chests begins to swell and they go about as proud as peacocks for on all sides you can hear nothing but praises for company in appearance, deportment and ability. Now, that we have been up in the high attitudes for the past two or three weeks the light air is not so noticeable. In Deming, N. M., the evening of the 4th, a number of boys shook hands with Al Stokes, Sonny Marshall and friends with Stafford Bros, minstres as they were on their way from El Passo. With the approach of Christmas, many nice presents are to be received and given and as a number of us have been fattening them for the occasion as a lady would a turkey for Thanksgiving, a number of costly ones will be make. A Merry Greeting to All—. CLUB NOTES Edited by Paratee Lucas. Dramatric Club The young ladies of the Dramatic Club met for a few minutes Monday afternoon, Nov. 28, for the purpose of voting in new members, especially the masculean portion. The play to be presented is a tragedy and will be staged in January, probably at new Eldridge Hall. The Stewardess Board. The ladies of the Stewardess Board met at the residence of Mrs. M. J. Reed, 731 New York street. The concert to be given Dec. 8th was the topic of discussion, and donations for the same was solicited. Those present were Mrs. L. Gleed, Mrs. Nell Hawkins, Mrs. Callie Thomas, Mrs. M. E. Lucas, Mrs. P. Henderson, Mrs. M. Fishback, Mrs. M. J. Reed and Miss Mabelle Gleed. Luncheon was served Eureka Club. There was a fair attendance at the Eureka Club Monday evening, Nov. 28, at the residence of Mrs. M. J. Reed, the president, Mrs. Maggie King, presiding. The secretary was absent, and the program on that account had to be omitted. Delegate election was deferred until the next meeting. The present officers were voted to hold their offices until the expiration of another six months. The following members were present: Mesdames Maggie King, Clara Copeland, Libbie Copeland, Maggie Fishback, Mayhue, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Coleman, Mrs. P. Henderson, Mrs. M. J. Reed and Mr. Lemuel King. Sierra Leone Club. The ladies of the S. L. D. T. met Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 29, with Mrs. P. Cloud, Owing to the fact that the anniversary was to take place that evening there was only a short business meeting. Delegates were elected to the Interstate Literary Association which convenes in Topeka, Kas., during holidays. The following ladies were chosen: Mesdames May Young, Lucy Gleed and Ophelia Hawkins. After ad journment the ladies were served lunch Society Event. All Lawrence society turned out en masse to the celebration of the 12th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George Snowden at their residence, 900 Pennsylvania street. The affair was one of the prettiest society events of the winter season. As the guests entered they were received by Miss Mabelle Gieed and Mrs. Nellie Hawkins. The reception matrons were Mesdames Lillie Garter, Addie White, Lula Verder and P. Cloud. The front porlar was tastefully decorated with pink and white crepe streamers draped from the four corners of the room. Plants were banked about in profusion. In the dining room the same pink and white streamer effect was carried out. Music was furnished throughout the evening by Messrs. Theodore Copsland (planist) and F. Richardson and George King (clarionists). At 9:50 p.m. Rev. J. F. Sage stood before the happy couple and performed the ring ceremony, after which congratulations were extended. During the receiving hours over one hundred guests partook of the elaborate five course luncheon. Those who assisted in the dining room were Misses Ora Carter, Agnes Gray, Mattie Miller and Pearl Price. Misses Smith and Alice Miller presided at the punch bowl. A large number of valuable presents were showered. The list of names giving presents will be omitted as space does not permit only the mention of club leaders. Mrs. Brynt's club, table linen; Mrs. Hawkins and Sierra Leone club, lamp; Mrs. Hayter and club, divan; Miss J. Alexander's club, kitchen cabinet and rocking chair; Mrs. Yeager's club, silver tea spoons; Mrs. Price's club, rocking chair. The other articles are china chocolate set, after dinner set, bed spread, linen towels, dresser scarfs, hemstitched linen napkins, jardiner and stand, Indian statuette, cut flower bowl, set of dinner plates, cake plates. The favors were wedding bells tied with pink and white ribbon. Pallacean League The Pallacean Girls' League met at the residence of Miss Dillard on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 26, at 4 o'clock. Miss Miller, the leader, being 'absent, the ladies spent the hour in discussing current events. It was decided to send a box of books to Tuskegee Institute for a Christmas present. The Auxiliary Board. The ladies of the Auxiliary Board met at the residence of Mrs. Jack Johnson, 819 New Jersey street, the president in the chair. There was quite a large attendance and the time was occupied with routine business. After adjournment the ladies were served a most appetizing lunch. THE GREAT TAYLOR RECITAL. BY SYLVESTER RUSSELL. [Syndicated in The Freeman and Tribune, exclusive]. S. Coleridge Taylor, the world's greatest Negro composer of England, made his first bow to a Philadelphia audience at Witherspoon hall. Thursday evening, December 8 The atmosphere was the very cream of culture. It was an evening of rare art and one long to be remembered by those present who appreciated the very highest aim in classical music. After Mr. Taylor had been introduced by P. H Goepp, a city composer, Frederick Hahn, a white violin virtuoso and Mr. Taylor himself opened the recital with two numbers: a "Gypsy song" and "Gypsy dance" for violin and piano. These numbers did not impress above the ordinary in the higher Gypsy music class and were followed by three songs from "African Romances" with words by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and music by Mr. Taylor, they were entitled "Over the Hills," "A Starry Night," and "Dawn," the latter number being very short and pretty. These songs were rendered by Miss Marie Louise Githens, a white soprano singer. Then three more songs: "Unmindful of the Roses," "Substitution" and "The Shoshone's Adieu" (sorow songs) were rendered by Edwin Evans, a white barnone. Next Mr. Taylor played four Negro melodies on the piano, entitled "I'm Troubled in Mind," "Sometimes 1 Feel Like a Motherless Child," "Many Thousands Gone" and "Zaldelek" (from No. 2 of his Oriental waltz) the latter being the most impressive of the four, imbued with some little variety. Two songs from "Hiawatha," "Sweet Evenings Come and Go" and "Spring had Come," sung by Miss Githens, at once aroused the audience to great enthusiasm. They were not only of a lively nature but full of melody and richness "Hiawatha's Vision," sung by Mr. Evans, and "African Dances," four in number, "Allegro Moderato." "Andantino," "Allegro Con Brilo" and "Allegro Energico" concluded the program. As a composer Mr. Taylor can easily claim to be the very greatest one of his race in the world. The Hiawata music is his master work and it was the only music on the program that could claim for him the superior distinction which he already enjoys. Indeed, no word-picture can well describe the brilliance and flow of tone and semitone that floats upon the air and hovers in regions of sweet repose which echoes far and near that one hears in his music. Like an angel-dove that lingers in waiting for the contrite spirit to waft it safely home so does the solo's of his sweet Hiawata music steal your soul away and lend your very thoughts into a plethora of eostasy. His "sorrow" songs are gems of music diction that never inspire or even impress—an artistic bore of diminundoes that only appeal to mourners. His Negroes melodies were not reminiscent of Amrican slavery but simply the music or England. His instrumental music and even Hiawatha unsurpassed anything in its class, is all the music of Europe. Of his four African dances only two of them attracted. "Allegro Moderato" was a most tuneful number and "Andantino" (based on real Negro melodies) can be claimed to be the richest thing we ever heard of African treatment but is theme is not destined to be what the American Negro original slave music will be when it has received the same advanced development by opportunity. The music of the real native African is therefore inferior. Hiawatha is great, very great, but only as European music. If Mr. Taylor has based it upon Indian tonation its claim to greatness is lost. One has only to hear Cole and Johnson's "Big Indian Chief" to mark the actual extent of Indian tone and movement that will never rank in the classics—that is if Indians act and sing alike the world over. So, it may be that Mr. Taylor's plea of African and Indian treatment can be found in name only, as his works are purely of the European school followed by the old masters. It was as a composer and not a pianist that Mr. Taylor came before us. As a pianist he is roving in temperament with a heavy touch. In giving color to his passages in the cantibles, changing to pianissimo, was met with a tone too soft to impress from the contrast of a heavy touch. It is in his romances of soft, even, tender melodies that his work is most convincing. But his methods are all of the same artistic bearing that goes with a mus cal genius. And, again his punctuation was too exacting and often retarded the singer and player even in the most difficult points of prestissimo, but his reading was thereby always perfect. Miss Githens sang the two Hiawatha songs charmingly. She proved to be a well trained soprano of good quality, and while her voice lacked technical purity and range it was equal to the emergencies of the music. Her sweetest notes were made in the coloratura and lighter passages. There is but little difference between this woman's voice and Mme. Hackley's. I am willing to give the preference to Mme. Hackley where neither of them could ever compare with Selika in her day or Slisseretta Jones (Black Patti) of today. Edwin Evans was the male soloist; his burtone voice made available only by training was unequal to the demands of the Hiawatha music. He deviated from the key more than once in forcing his upper tones, his lower tones were reedy in quality and his falsetto was of a muilted timbre that hardly pleased. This was a disappointment as Harry Burleigh, who was Mr. Taylor's guest, had been seen parading around the auditorium in full dress suit before the recital had begun. Frederick E Hahn, the violinist, was quite a feature of the program. He is a young man whose talent gives great promise. His execution was remarkable and his style better than many older musicians. He yet likes artistry power and force in heavy work, and I did not think his violin was of the best by any means. There seems to have been a difference of opinion regarding Mr. Taylor being supported by white talent. The opinion of many that colored talent was not good enough should not be entertained. Colored people should not under-rate themselves in this manner. The attendance should have been larger, regardless of racial difference. The charity fund and the eminence of Mr. Taylor was the first and only things to be considered so long as Mr. Taylor himself did no select his support, and, besides, his greater musical work has already been produced in this country by superior colored talent, if not in Philadelphia. Dr. N. F. Mossell, who managed the affair, has probably been taught a new lesson about show business, if he has not let me give him a few tips. When a colored star comes under colored management it is always best to have colored talent, as white people will not turn out unless the management (not patronage) is white. White talent will not draw and colored people will not turn out to support white talent and the star goes begging as it were in the fraacas. On the other hand colored singers must not expect to be engaged if they stand out for a salary beyond reason simply because the affair is prominent. After the performance was over there was the usual rush to meet the great composer. Mr. Taylor is of light brown complexion, very young, with long bushy hair. His attitude is cordial and pleasing with an air of modesty and less conceit than you will find in most musical geniuses. After the rush was over I personally congratulated him in half of the Freeman and Tribune reaers from Maine to california. He had to hurry away to a reception given in his honor by leading white musicians. Before I left the dressing room I whispered to Harry Burleigh: "Sorry you didn't sing the Hiawatha music." To A Sweet True Story, Touching in Pathos, Lasting in Effect, "YOU'LL EVER LOOK THE SAME," A BALLAD THAT WINS. Words by E. P. Waller, Music by H. A. Southard. Send 10c in Stamps for full Orchestration and Professional Copy. Waller & Southard, Terre Haute, Ind. Ice for Sale. All orders promptly attended to 810, 812 & 814 CLAY ST., LOUISVILLE, KY. which he replied innocently: "I did, do you mean in Washington?" and, of course I could not reply to that in Philadelphia. Among the notable people present were Mma. Marie S-rika and Signor Velosko, otherwise Sampson W. Williams, Mme. Hackley was also present She is really pleasant and shook my hard heartily. Robbie Robinson, the pianist, was also on hand. Miss Flora Batson was prevented from being present on account of a concert engagement on that evening. The recital was given for the benefit of the building fund of Douglass Memorial hospital. 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Pope preached an eloquent sermon last Sunday. —Henry C. Richardson sued B, J. Cook, proprietor of a restaurant, to test the civil rights law. He claims that one of the wattresses refused to serve him. —Miss Mary Brown died at St. Mary's hospital of pneumonia. Funeral services were held Tuesday from St. Mark's church. Rev G. B. Pope officiating —William Montgomery died Friday morning at the Red Cross hospital The funeral was officiated by Rev. G. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER A Premium Offer For Ninety Days Only The Freeman will give its Subscribers a Fountain Pen ABSOLUTELY FREE. The "Celtric Model 1" Fountain Pen is made of the best quality of hard rubber in four parts and fitted with a guaranteed 41k. Gold Pen. These are of the simplest construction and cannot get out of order,overflow or fail to write. It is equal to any $2.00 pen on the market to-day. This "CELTRIC MODEL 1" Fountain Pen is manufactured by the Selden Pen Mfg. Co., 140 Nassau St., New York, and bears the manufacturers' guarantee that the Pen is Solid Gold and will give absolute satisfaction. For the next ninety days The Freeman will give to each of its subscribers who pays up their back subscription at the rate of $1.50 a year or to each new subscriber who pays $1.50 for one year in advance, a "Celtric Model 1" Fountain Pen Send us your subscription, we will forward your name to This is the most liberal offer we have ever had an opportunity to make to our subscribers. The pen itself is worth the price of the subscription. Remember that the offer is for NINETY DAYS ONLY. THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. DAYTONA PERSONAL BRIEFS. Daytona, Fla., Special.—The St. Jepta society, now one year old, has a membership of fifty-seven all in good standing. They meet twice a week and are doing excellent work. President, L McClain; Worthy Prelate. R V. Washington; Treasurer, Mrs. Ella McCoy; Financial Secretary, Mrs. Mamle Mittan; Recording Secretary; L Hoad. The marshal, L. W. Williams, is one of the best men in the state.—Mrs. W. J. James runs a first class laundry at her B. Pope Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ruth Lodge, No. 3586, G. U O of O F., took in three new new members: H. H. Starkes, Cornelius Benner and Andrew F. Mason.—Mrs. Harris, of Omaha, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Porter, returned home last week. Mrs. Porter accompanied her as far as St. Paul, Minn — The ladies are going to give a charity ball soon. THIS IS THE PEN. CELTRIC MODEL I. EVERY PEN WARRANTED. Fountain Pen is made of the b anteed 41k. Gold Pen. These overflow or fail to write. It is Fountain Pen is made of the best quality guaranteed 41k, Gold Pen. These are of overflow or fail to write. It is equal to The Manufacturer's Guarantee. "1" Fountain Pen is manufactured by, and bears the manufacturers' guarantee satisfaction. 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THE FIRST SOLD IN MINEOLA The colored people of Wood county should patronize the men in business and pay them as they buy.—The first colored newspaper sold on the streets here was The Freeman; it was sold by Sandy Anderson when E. E. Cooper, of Washington. D. C., was editor.—A. G. Allen's minstrels played to good business here recently.—The Mineola Monitor has 1,500 readers, mostly whites.—The city has a new national bank.—Jim Moore has erected a new residence —Henry Anderson is up again after being sick for sometime —Mrs. Julia Martin died in Tyler recently. —Miss Anna Brown has recovered —Darris Holt's wife died in Indian Ter —A number of our business men will contribute to the Freeman's holiday number. HELENA PERSONAL CULLINGS. --- Baker, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Banks.—Mrs. Sadie Smith, who has been the guest of Mrs. Albert Marshall, left for her home in Butte Monday after a very pleasant stay HENDERSON NEWS INKLINGS Henderson, Ky, Special -Clarence Gilbert, Charley Kinney and John But- Each and every watch we send out is timed, tested and regulated before leaving the factory and guaranteed accurate timekeeper. It was our good luck to find a manufacturer of watches that was badly in need of money. He had a large stock on hand. We had the money he needed. We took it and we gave him our money. We got about twice the money for our money as we could get today, and we are going to give shrewd people the benefit of the low prices at which we bought them. It was our intention to buy them at $10.00 and give every person who bought one at this time. ONE WATCH FREE But, on figuring out the the exact cost of these watches we find we can do even better than we at first counted on, and consequently, cut the price till we now cannot buy this watch from any other firm for less than twice the price we ask. Our price for this watch is $5.40 and express charges. This watch is the favorite with railroad men and that they cannot carry anything but the finest of watchkeepers. In appearance it equals a watch that READ OUR PROPOSITION 12 100 YEARS OLD MUSEUM OF ART MUSEUM OF ART ler's ball was a success.—Elmwood Johnson, bandmaster Oliver Scott's show, are making a big hit.—The Maryland club will give a entertainment at the Third street hall Christmas eve night.—Herman Caldwell is taking vocal instructions under Charly Dunn.—John Butler has accepted a position with the Y. M. C. A.—The Freeman can be found at John E. Butler's, 1127 North Elm street. -LADIES' OR GENTS' SIZE MEMBER, THIS IS A DOUBLE HUNTING CASE WATCH WHILE I HAVE BEEN HUNTING CASE WATCHES, ordinary care it will last a lifetime. Don't throw this paper aside and say, "Well, I will send for that next week." It will pay you to write at once. WE HAVE A CHAIN AND CHARM WITH EACH WATCH. We have a number of watch chains and charms that we are going to sell at $1.49 each, and in order to get some of them out in the hands of our customers so they can show them to their friends and tell them about them, we have an ABSOLUTELY FREE to the first, 1,000 people who buy one of these watches, a Gent's chain and charm or a Lady's 50-inch lorgnette chain fitted with a stone, and a present to those who order one of these watches. WHAT WE GIVE FOR $5.45 We send a LA IES' OR GENT' IM 21 J WELED railroad movement fitted in gold贴双 double hunting case or open face if you desire and with each watch a Ladies' or Gents' watch chain and charm. LUR BINDING WRITTEN GU-RANEET ACCOMMUNITION WATCH AND IS PUT N THE FRONT CASE OF SAWING our reliability we refer you to the First National Bank of Chicago or Chicago Agent of any Express Company A. BUSINESS MEDIUM MRS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test MEDICINE consultant, can be consulted on all affairs of Life, business, medicine and Marriage a speciality. Every mystery is revealed, also of absent, deceased and living and estranged challenges, challenges any Medium who may her in her startling revelation of the present and future event in one's life. Remembrance and future companion you set your may rest assured you will gain for nonsense. She can be consulted on all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage. Friends of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage. Friends of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage. She is very accustomed in despair of friends, enemies, etc. Her advice upon an illness, change in business, journeys, insults contested, divorce and speculation you do your own good or bad, she sheds nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life: "ent and future—in a D AD TRANSE. you meet and medums you ever met. In tests she tells you your name before marriage, the name of all your fathers their ages and description, the name and business of your future husband, the name of your young man who has one, the name of the young man who has two, the name of your future husband, and the day, month, year of your marriage—how many children you have or will have—whether you are married will be true to you and if he will sweetheart you will be true to you and if he will sweetheart you have no sweetheart, she will tell you when you will have, and his name business and date of acquaintance. ALL YOUR FUTURE mother and in a dead trance. Mother's should be the success of their husbands and children young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husbands. Do not let a business until you know all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who your future husband, with age and date of birth, tells you whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consult a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discriminative knowledge that everyone who placards himself as a self as a Medium that can stand a te of what he or she claims. And a person of any enquiry that these advisers do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring knowledge that will have a tendency to make the way to the road of the business clear and devoid of obstacles. An amiable fact that persons will comfort service—in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavour to know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out of a person by "pumping" in no few cases, is the ut used to convey the truth. The truth holds of the hand and gain control of the mind, there by, is a matter of impossibility to most eniting MRS MARTH this seeming mystery becomes a realization. This subject has received no little attention in the classroom. So it proves conclusively that although a few inringers in our midst with 'oily tongues or perhaps, the gates of wisdom have not been opened, it takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished Medium, and by a continuous and apparently unmattable skill the well of apparently unmattable books is procured by MRS. MARTH for the benefit of humanity. By letter advice $1.00 Hour for a classroom. All letters must contain stamper for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH Removed CHIUKASHA, Indian Territory, Box 958. Porters and Travelers. Danlson, Texas, Special.—All porters and any of the public can find The Freeman for sale at the boot black stand at the Union depot. The Gates' special (white) composed of two trains of capitalist and railroad officials of the North stopped here for dinner the other day. The special was bound for Mexico. Several of the Pullman porters bought The Freeman, and through the kindness of Mr. G. L. Cone of Binghamton, N Y., the agent received a couple of nice books description Mexico and the trip The Hopewell Baptist church has called Rev. Jones of Corsicana. The McDaniel boarding house was burned the other night with three boarders. The Freeman can be found every week in Yazoo City, Mo., at Parker's Aristocracy Barber Shop—a peer of all colored shops Headquarters for all professional men. Patronize Our Advertisers. Read them. The Consolidated Coal and Lime Company, Yards Corner Ray Street and Madison Avenue, And Fourteenth Street and Senate Avenue, 13 Virgina Ave. MAIN OFFICE 13 Virginia Ave. Both Telephones 273. AUGUST KUHN, President. Knoxville College offers the following courses: Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, Music, Common School, Mech-nical, Agricultural, and various industrial departments, Faculty, foremen and officers number thirty. Enrollment of students for the last year was 477, coming from 22 states and Central America. The location is one of the most desirable locations for the placement of access and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated and electric lighted. Self help equipment is furnished. Fall term opens Sept. 27, 1904. Expenses for Board, fuel, light, furnished room only $68.54 a month. For further information, catalogue, etc., write the president, R. W. McGrannan, d. D., Knoxville, Tenn. FRENCH LICK HOTEL is now modern, delightful, affording city comforts, cuisine and service. In a setting of woods, hills and ravines. Here is rest for the weary, cure for the ill, pleasure for all. Pluto Spring Water, the marvelous natural diuretic and curative water for chronic ailments of stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, is one of three neighboring springs, each possessed of varying strength and powers. This is the only Spa in the world possessing three springs so widely varying in quality, yet each the best for a prescribed list of diseases. Send for booklet and full information as to hotel rates, railroad fare, through routes, and everything else you should know before taking the trip. On the Monon Route) THOS. TAGGART, Pres. French Lick Springs Hotel Co. Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED Coal AND Coke WHITE RIVER FUEL CO. S. West St. and Vandalia R. R., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. New Phone 1700, Old Phone 1700 Main Substantial friend of The Freeman. The Consolidated Coat The Best Place Yards Corner Ray Street And Fourteenth Street 13 Virgina Ave. MAIN O Both Telephones 273. AU KNOXVILLE Knoxville College offers the following courses: Music, Common School, Mech-nical, Agricultural Faculty, govern and office number thirty. 477, coming from 22 states and Central America. In the South, healthful, convenient of access, and electric lighted. Self help offered through Sept. 27, 1994. Expenses for board, fuel, light, their information, catalogue, etc., write the ville, Tenn. FRENCH LICK SPIRIT The Popular Indiana He FRENCH LICK HOTEL is now modern, deli- In a setting of woods, hills and ravines. Here is real Pluto Spring Water, the marvelous natural diuretic liver, kidneys and bowels, is one of three neighbor- powers. This is the only Spa in the world possesses each the best for a prescribed list of diseases. 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I and Lime Company, for Your Coal, set and Madison Avenue, set and Senate Avenue, OFFICE 13 Virginia Ave. UGUST KUHN, President. COLLEGE. Classes—Classical, Scientific, Normal, Theological, Cultural, and various industrial departments. Enrollment of students for the next year was a. The location is one of the most desirable and beautiful. Buildings are steam heated in industrial departments. Fall term opens for furnished room only $6.85 a month. For fur- president, R. W. McGranahan, D. D., Knox- RINGS, INDIANA. Health and Pleasure Resort. Lightful, affording city comforts, cuisine and service, just for the weary, cure for the ill, pleasure for all, and curative water for chronic ailments of stomach, springs, each possessed of varying strength and three springs so widely varying in quality, yet booklet and full information as to hotel rates, raff- id know before taking the trip. TAGGART, Pres. French Lick Springs Hotel Co. THE FRANK FEHR BREWING CO. Incorporated Presents the Celebrated F. F. X. L. Bottled'Beer TRADE MARK Perfection is Reflected in every Bottle ... Louisville, Kentucky --- GULINARY CLIPPINGS NEWS. Lizzle Evans, Mrs. Edna Hagans and O reception was the s season and Mrs. W ful hospitality will by the newcomers s A Great University of New York A Great University of Nashville, Tenn., The Fisk. A BRILLIANT FESTAL BOARD. New Albany, Ind., Special.—The largest and most elaborate social function held here in many years was the complimentary reception given on Saturday evening last by Mrs. Mary E Washington at her handsome residence on Hildreth street. The special guest of honor were the three newly appointed pastors of the Zion churches in the Falls cities—Rev R. S. Rives, Broadway church, Louisville; Rev Adam Wakefield, Jacob Street Tabernacle, Lovisville; and Rev R. A. Fisher, Jones Chapel, New Albany, together with their wives. The company numbered more than fifty and was typical of the race's culture, beauty and intellect, embracing the flower of the social, literary and professional life of these shores. Mrs. Washington, in regal costume, was a charming hostess, assisted by Mrs R. W. Thompson. In the receiving line were Mrs Clara Woods, Mrs J. C. Long and Mrs, J. R. Irvin. Prominent among the out of town visitors present were Miss Julia Brown and Mrs. Anna Stevenso, Indianapolis; Mrs. Alice Hughes, French Lok; Mr. Leonard Harris, Indianapolis; Rev A. Nichols, presiding elder; Rev W. M Langford, of M. E. conference; besides a host from Louisville. The parlers were tastefully decorated with palms and oriental effects and the A Great dining room was a bower of beauty. The tables were loaded down with a menu that would have done credit to Delmonico and were embellished with cut flowers, baby palms and garlands of sillax. After coffee the "feast of reason and flow of soul" began with Rev. W. H. Snowden of the Fifteenth Street Zion church, Louisville, as toast-master. Miss Eva J. Bullitt spoke in glowing terms of the ability and character of Dr. Wakefield; Miss Frankie L. Wallace eulogized Dr. Rives and Miss Grace Russell paid a beautiful tribute to Dr. Fisher. R. W. Thompson utilized the legend of Prince Arthur and his 'table round' to extend Mrs. Washington's welcome greeting to the distinguished assembly. To these toasts the reverend gentlemen and Mrs. J. S. Balley responded in most felicitous terms. Supplementary to the literary program was a number of musical selections by Mrs. Foss Schneider Brewing Co. SUNDAY, JULY 11TH AT 10:00 AM MIDWEST BREWING CO. 3 TREES CINCINNATI, OH The Foss-Schneider Brewing Co. B.ewers and Bottlers of THE FAMOUS BRANDS Nonpareil, Congress Club, Extra Pale, Capital. Noe. 943 to 1005 Freemau Ave.' CINCINNATI, O. U.S.A. --- Lizzle Evans, Mrs. Woods and Misses Edna Hagans and Grace Russell. The reception was the social triumph of the season and Mrs. Washington's bountiful hospitality will be long remembered by the newcomers around the Falls and bind her even more closely to her countless friends, neighbors and co-workers in the field of charity and fraternity. Mrs. Washington is first vice president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society of the A. M. E Zion connection, grand secretary of the Kentucky lodge of Good Samaritans and the prime mover in all the religious and philanthropic labors of this community. FT, HARRISON LOCAL NOTES Ft. Harrison, Mont., Special. — A company gave minstrel show recently. After the show every one enjoyed themselves dancing. — Corporal Dickerson and wife entertained Mr. and Mrs. Robbers, Miss Wright and John Wright at dinner several days ago — The Christian Endeavor association rendered the following program in the post's chapel last week: Recitation, "Black Irishman," Sam Cooper; solo, 'Estella,' Miss Nella Allensworth; select reading, Mrs. Jones; solo, "Dream Faces," Miss Louise Wright; ecitation, "Thankgiving," Emma Bridgewater; select readlog, Mrs. Miller; solo, "Asleep in the Deep," Corporal Dickerson; recitation, "Be Pleasant," Sophia Bridgewater; instrumental duet, "Belle of Killarney," Mrs. Roberts and Mr. Wright; reading, Chaplin Allensworth; Alonzo Irvin was chairman musical committee — Thankgiving was observed by all the floor. University of Nashville, Tenn., panies.—Sergt Roberts has been in tharmy for thirty years; he was promoted to color sergeant recently and is now retired from duty as a soldier. Sergt Roberts and family will make their home in the East in the near future. He is greatly missed by his company and all wish him a bright future—Chaplain and Mrs Allensworth entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of Releca, at dinner recently—Chaplain Allensworth is in the East on business Have You Tried it? I used only one bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and my hair has stopped breaking off and has greatly improved. When I started using this wonderful preparation my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten inches or more. I beg to remain yours truly, MINNIE FOASTER 314 Southard street, Key West, Florida, August 28, 1904.—One bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow will do as much for you and it also makes kinky hair straight and soft, it also cures daurdroff Warranted harmless. Send us fifty sents and we will mall you a bottle postpaid Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co, 76 Wabash ave, Chicago, Illinois. IN COLUMBIA SOCIAL CIRCLES Columbia, Tenn.. Special —The Kellenian Literary Society rendered a very creditable program last Thursday night at the Mt. Lebanon Baptist church to a fair sized audience. —Dr. C. V. Roman, a prominent physician of Nashville Tenn., will lecture in the city soon. some needed improvements are being made at the colored public school which will add very much to its appearance. —An entertainment was given by the Willing Workers at Ghelston's hall last Thursday night. —Several cases of small pox is reported in the city and the people are being vaccinated. —Miss Charity Merrill has returned from a visit to Spring Hill —The K of P's and Court of Calantha will read a drama soon. —Mrs. Annie Cain has gone to st Louis. —Miss Ethel Porter has returned from Aniston, Ala. —W. 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Don't you think you ought to help to develop these properties? If you do, write us for particulars about them, or call at our office and see us; we want to talk to you. Inspect our unreseemed pledges, where everything in Jewelry can beOUND. We can save you money. Money Advanced on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry or any Article of Value ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE 209 Massachusetts Ave Private Entrance: 108 East Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Ind Patronize the Advertisers of Do You Want to Share Wealth of the G You can't earn money more honestly where nature placed it. This is what the mining industry of our country. The companies we represent pro Gold Silver Lead Coal Don't you want an interest in the take part in this profitable enterprise help to develop these properties? If you do, write us for partion and see us; we want to talk to you. KREIS & COMPANY 63-70 Baldwin Blk., Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wyle Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. The Fisk. Patronize our ad' is rs. 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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA JAMES N. SHELTON LUCAS B. WILLIS Old 299 1 Red—Phones—New 3068 Shelton & Willis (Licensed Embalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMEERS Best Service. Lady Attendant Fair Prices. 417 Indiana Ave. Open all Nigh WESTERN RING SET LAGER DRIED GENTS SIZE SAFE JEWELRY CO., Dept. I, 105. CHICAGO $395 DIAMOND STUDER CASE Sold 18 X 8. Gold 垫 18 X 8. Peru Diamonds & Rubies. Am. works, warranted for 25 years. Sent C.O.D. $3.086 extra charges to examine. If his ord equal in appearance to $50.09 watch, do not take. WDS AND WATCHES EASY PAYMENTS YOU Know That Christmas The #4.55 that you would pay for a cheap Swiss or American watch in a worthless case. Diamond Cutters and Watch Merchants Dept. P 30. 92 to 98 State Street. CHICAGO, ILL. Note—It costs you nothing to see our goods, for we press charges. SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you, Prompt, Safe and Reasonal always. We make loans on FURNITURE, ORGANS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removal. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all. $25.00 loan, payments are only 60% 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, courtesies treatment to all. It cost nothing to investigate. Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, Old Phone Main 3182 (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room. (15 E. Washington Street) New Phone.... 4270 As to the Sofa Pillow The drapery people promise to save you money at every stage of your purchasing. These prices in demonstration of that fact. Plain Uncovered Pillows Of Best Down. Size 18x18 inches..... 58c Size 20x20 inches..... 88c Size 22x22 inches..... $1.18 Size 24x24 inches..... $1.43 Size 26x26 inches..... -1.75 Of Real Floss. Size 18x18 inches..... 28c Size 20x20 inches..... 39c Size 22x22 inches..... 45c Size 24x24 inches..... 58c Size 26x26 inches..... 69c Tapestry Squares for Pillow Tops These pieces of tapestry are cuttings from the upholstered shop and average 24 inches square. Not any of them could be bought from stock bolts at less than double the remnant prices ... 25c, 35c, 45c and 75c each Some $1.00 Oriental Silks at 75c and 85c qualities at 69c should also interest you in this connection. L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. Miss Buelah Willis is improving. Henry Bracken left for Chicago last week. See Cragun for pure candles at 212 Indiana avenue. All society uses Woodbine Perfume. Blodau's drug store. If you want fresh candy see Cragun, 212 Indiana avenue. Matthew Johnson of Chicago will spend Xmas in the city. Uneeda a good photo, go to Bennet's, 36 E. Washington street. John Freeman of Paca street, after a short illness died this week. Mrs. Fannie O. Morgan has gone to Ohio to take a two week's rest. Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Hodge are proud parents of a baby girl. Wm. E. Scott will spend Xmas with his parents in North Senate avenue. Mrs. Robert Lockler, in Agnest street, is able to be out again after a short illness. Miss Hallie Todd of Orleans, Ind., is visiting Mrs. Tosa Finley in Athon street. Miss Zola Black and Morris Lewis, Jr., continue ill at their home in California street. Miss Lottie Lezere, of New York, is spending a few days with Mrs. George Worthington. Miss Bertha Hudson, of this city, is progressing nicely in her studies at Tuskegee Institute. Mrs. Frank Thornton was buried from Simpson Chapel church on last Monday evening after a long illness Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Strong entertained the Coney Island club at their home in Douglass staeet on last Monday evening. Coel Saunders, headwaiter at the Exchange hotel at the stockyards, who has been suffering with rheumatism is somewhat better. The Woman's Home Missionary society met at Barnes' Chapel on last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Carrie Ross is president of the society. Presiding Elder Hagood preached a very able sermon on last Sunday evening at Simpson Chapel. His subject was "Move Away the Stone." Wm. Jackson was called home last week from French Lick, Ind., on the DIAMONDS and JEWELRY Make the Best Christmas Gifts For they are a low forever and a lifetime membrance of the giver, I keep a first-class stock of Jewelry, and can Save You at Least 10 Per Cent. as I am out of the high-rent district J. P. MULLALLY Diamond Importer and Jewelry 28 Monument Place "ASI When way of do alway We n PERSON Our payment are only Other am made me end DIAMOND ous tre CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Lif (Formerly Stevens Front Room. (15 E. Washington THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER account of illness of his wife. Mrs. Jackson is much improved at this writing. Mrs. George F. Dungey gave a benefit at her home in West Eleventh street last Monday night for her brother, Horace Brown, who lost one leg, an arm and two fingers last July. There will be a grand gospel feast at Shiloh Baptist church next week, Rev. T. Timberlake of Springfield, C., will preach. Special music for the occasion by the different choirs of the city. Misses Joyce C. Stewart and Blanche B. Stewart will entertain in honor of their fifth and fourth birthdays respectively at the home of the latter in North West street Monday, December 19, from 2 to 5 p. m. The George Downing Woman's Home Missionary society will be entertained by Mrs. Hattie Sissle, Mollie Motley and Hattie Scott at the home of Mrs. Sissle's, 170s Columbia avenue, Friday December 23 at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. George Brabham of Carlyle, Pa., is in the city at the instance of the official board of the Ninth Presbyterian church. Rev. Brabham is a graduate of Lincoln University. He has a charge at Carlyle but may accept the pastorate of the Ninth Presbyterian church. Misses Belle Plits Coleman and Edith Irene Collins, of Detroit, Mich., students of the Detroit School of Elocution were guests of Thaddess Jones this week. A "storm party" of young men, led by Mr. Jone., was held Monday evening in their honor at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson in East Sixteenth street. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneeda good Photo, go to Bennett's 36, E. Washington. Christmas hats, the best at Seaton's Hat Store, 29 N. Pennsylvania st. 3f Household goods bought, sold and exchanged Naumann, 333 Indiana Ave. Go to McCloskey's new studio 160 N. N Illinois Those Oval Photos $1 00 per dozen are beauties. tf Nothing like it in the city of Oval Photos $1 00 per dozen. McCloskey's New Studio 160 N. Illinois street. tf If it is in season you can get it at the Parker House, 317 321 W. Michigan st. Phones: New 4972; old red 6512. I would like to hear from John W. Mosely of Deersburg, Tenn. Please address Sandy Anderson, Mineola, Wood county, Texas. FOR RENT:—Apartments in Broadview Terrace, Eighteenth street and Norwestern avenue, at $5 to $50 per month. The best apartment in the city for the money. 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. MASONS ELECT OFFICERS. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year at a regular meeting of Waterford lodge No. 13 F. and A. M. Wednesday evening, December 14: Randall Hodges, W. M.; Charles Epps, S. W.; Timothy Butler, J. W.; Delosse Senton, treasurer; Charles Goens, secretary; Wm Nell Wm. Thomas, trustees; J. D Barber, S. D.; Henry Phillips, J. D.; Wm Finley, Wm Burch, stewards; Wm. Johnson, chaplain; Wm Winlock, tyler. An Electric Massager. The Oar barbershop, known for its progressiveness has recently introduced an electric massage machine for the benefit of its patrons and the public generally. It was purchased at quite an expense by Mr. Gray who finds nothing too good for his patrons; he is justly proud of the fact that his place is in the lead. The electric massager will be used for treating the face also the body. Headaches and kindred nervous troubles will be treated by skillful operators. The invited to come in and see the wond- little instrument. Treatment at the popular price, 25 cents. The massager is at the C23r barbershop where prompt attention is given by the best workmen. Excellent bath rooms n connection with hot and cold water. Good, clean service, is our motto Samuel E. Gray is proprietor, 226 Indiana avenue. The Freeman at Corydon, Ky., is for sale at Simpson Garland's grocery, corner of Second and Hancock streets, U. B F. building. Come and secure a copy each week. 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. PURITY GUARANTEED FATURE LEGAL SERVICE Royal Family Bourbon OLD MONTANA THE CONSUMERS DISTILLING CO. BROOKLYN LOUISVILLE, KY. Leah Chapter's Christmas Exercises Leah Chapter No. 2 will hold their Christmas exercises at their hall, corner of Court and Delaware streets, Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. All members are requested to turn out. Friends invited. The Chapter held their election Monday night and elected the following officers: Margie Murray, W. M.; Walter Jameson, W. P.; Jennie L. Lewis, secretary; Mary Jameson, treasurer; Cassie Seaton, conductor; Edna Thompson, Assistant Conductor. CHURCH. ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES: Hours of service: -Sunday, 10:45 a.m. preaching; 12 m., class; 2 p., Monday, 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. 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; practice Wednesday evening; Epworth Library practice Wednesday evening; Queen Ethel Circle, Friday Rev. N. H. Talbott pastor, residence 624 W. Eleventh street, new phone 2855. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner West and Walnut streets. Hours of meeting: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sabath School; preaching 10:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. meeting Tuesday night; preaching Thursday at 11:00 a.m.; pastor, residence 2226 Greenbriar avenue MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Corner Eleventh and Lafayette sts. hours of service: Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sabbath School: preaching 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Tuesday night; preaching Thursday night. Rev. B F. Farrel, pastor; residence 1103 North West street. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST NOTES 422 North Senate avenue, Rev. T W. Lott, pastor; Sunday School 10 a.m; Bible class 7 to 8 p.m.; preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; prayer meeting Thursday evening 7:30 to 6 p.m. 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. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Rev. C. H. Johnson, pastor; preaching 11 a. m., and 8 p. m.; prayer meeting Tuesday evening; Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Watch Free! LINCOLN CALIFORNIA are our 14-year-old Re 14 Full Quarts packe 8 and will give you utch (like cut). Sen $3.98- FOUR (1.25) Royal Society I ...Expres Special Anti- year-old Royal Society Rye and Bourbon parts packed in a plain box express pr will give you absolutely FREE one Am cut). Send currency, money order or po 8- FOUR FULL CLIPS -$3.98 Royal Society Rye or Bourbon ...Express paid... Real 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 Phone, New 4135 Phone for it 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 A man with an umbrella running with three men in uniforms. PINK'S CUT RATE PHARM S. E. Corner West Street. 550 In KUHN BRI Wholesale & Retail M Fine Cutsof Beef a specialty. Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 407 W STUCKY'S HEADACHE CAL for immediate relief of headache ... 10 Fine California Wines ... 25 STUCKY'S DRUG S COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET NEW STORE NOW OPEN Our immense Christmas Stock on display. Everythi gents' furnishings. In making your Christmas purcha to come in and look over our stock. H. L. SANDERS, 206 Indiana THE PALACE CUT RATE We are sending out three special samples: A BLACK THIBET at $25.00 for Suit which will render excellent service for business w. ar. Good weight and strictly all-wool. A BLACK UNFINISHED WORSTED with cloth back, at $25.00 for suit which is special by reason of its exceedingly soft texture. A BLACK UNFINISHED WORSTED with serge back, at $28.00 per suit which is special by reason of its unusual weave. Would be WORTH any price we'd ask. We have all of them in BLUE. Call and see them in the piece. Also the other 497 specials. Suits Tailored $18 to $50 to Taste DEUTSCH TAILORING CO. 41 South Illinois St. Indianapolis, - Indiana. MRS. WHITTEN THE MILLINERY Buy your Christmas Hats now at Cost. 337 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS. B. Williams 4864 State st. S. S. Ash, Cornell Ave. & 56th, st. E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State st. A. F. Tervalon 3262 State st. Calvin B. Brazand, 5506 Jeff Ave. J. S. Love 2702 State st. Isadore Jacobson 2970 State st. Always give former address in cases of removal where paper is to be changed from one place to another. mond, Va. Don't pay $100 for a Watch when you can get one equally good for time, absolutely FREE INCORPORATED MRS. WHITTEN 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. Loss of people order Candy, drugs, toilet articles, perfumes, medicines, etc., of us by phone. ITS A GOOD WAY, TRY IT. ATE PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Avenue. BROS. Retail Meats of a specialty. 407 W. Michigan St. ACHE CAPSULES 100 and 250 a box 250 a quart bottle RUG STORE at OHIO STREET W OPEN on display. Everything in ladies' and our Christmas purchases, it will pay you 206 Indiana Ave. PINK'S CUT RATE PHARMACY, S. E. Corner West Street. 550 Indiana Avenue STUCKY'S HEADACHE CAPSULES for immediate relief of headache 10s and 95s a box Fine California Wines 25s a guest bottle NEW STORE NOW OPEN Our immense Christmas Stock on display. Everything in ladies' and gents' furnishings. In making your Christmas purchases, it will pay you to come in and look over our stock. H. L. SANDERS, 206 Indiana Ave. EYES BOTHER YOU? Do not take with so serious a matter. With our improved $5.00 sent FREE upon request, You can easily take your own eyes. If they re-verify them, you will be assured to meet your INDIVIDUAL NEEDS by the latest scientific method known to treat opticitis. Our practice requires you the services of Chicago's most skilled opticians at less than one-fourth the usual charge. Thousands offer from headache, derangements of the stomach and many other ailments caused by impaired U. S. Optical Co., Dept. 3, Chicago A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ... AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $5.00, or three boxes for $2.00. Guarantee 100% satisfaction and be "the best in the world." Only all that is required is face washing. A PEACH-LINE-like completion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four a five-shift better, and a miluato person perfectly white. In forty-five minutes, the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin remains dark spots, pimples or bumps or pimples. Will remove wrinkles, fine soft and smooth, small pixellos, tan, liver spots remove without harm to the skin. When you get the color you will stop using the CRANE'S HAIR TONIC that goes in every one cedelloid box is enough to make anyone hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out Highly perfused and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send through the mail postage request; or if you want it very O-V-O, in any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will retur the money or send a book free of charge. Picked so that it can will know the content. CRANE & CO., 11 W. Jackson St., Rich- mond, Va. Don't pay $100 for a Watch when you can get one equally good for time, absolutely FREE Phone, New 4135 Telephones NEW 860 OLD 3803 MEAT MARKET WE DEFY COMPETITION Pork Chops - - - at 10¢ per lb. Pork Roast - - - 9¢ Lamb Chops - - - 8¢¢ Leg of Lamb - - - 4¢ Lamb Stew - - - 4¢ Veal Chops - - - 10¢ Veal Roast - - - 8¢ Veal Stew - - - 6¢ Bolling stew - - - 10¢ Chuck Steak - - - 8¢¢ Round or Loin Steak - - - 10¢ Porterhouse Steak - - - 15¢ Rib Roast - - - 8¢ Shout der Clod - - - 8¢ Chuck Roast - - - 7¢ Corn Beef - - - 5¢ Hamburg - - - 8¢¢ Bacon - - - 8¢¢ Hams, best in market - - - 13¢¢ California Hams - - - 10¢ Bologna - - - 6¢ Welwuerstwur - - - 8¢ Pork sausage - - - 9¢ Lard, Kettle Rendered, (our own make) - - - 8¢¢ Call and be convinced for yourself. Remem ber the Place 418 W. Washington Street, JOHN F. CONCANNON, Frop New Phone 3731 The only colored cab owner at the station. Special attention to theater and party orders. CURLEY'S Oyster Parlor 313 INDIANA AVE. Serve one and all. 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