The Freeman

THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 5. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1905 THE WEEKLY EVENTS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. A CONDENSED PUBLICATION OF Many Important Happenings of the Past Few Days--A Comprehensive Review Most Likely to Prove of In- terest to Our Many Readers. Columbia, Tenn., Special—A school that has been in progress for several weeks is the one that has been organized by the Duck River Association which is in session at the Band of Hope's hall. Rev. Balam Frierson, a prominent divine of this city, is the careful instructor. The school is free to all Baptist ministers. —Myrtle, the little daughter of Mrs. Ella Wells, died last Wednesday after a long illness. —Calvin Bridges, of High Point, N. C., who has been visiting friends in this city has returned home. Mr. Bridges has several nice houses to rent, any one wishing to rent either of them can apply to Isaac Love. —Mrs. George White, of Nashville spent a few days with her mother last week. —Miss' Cordealia Brown, of Nashville, was in the city last week. —Little Miss Castela Frierson, of New Decatur, Ala., is visiting her grandmother. —Miss Ida and Master Arthur Lee Love spent a few days in Cullocka last week. —Rev. C. A. Ward, pastor of the Mt. Lebanon Baptist church who has been attending Robert Williams University at Nashville, which burned last week, had the misfortune to lose nearly all of his clothing. —Miss Ida Crosby was married to Mr. James Powell last Wednesday. —Bishop Allen's day will be observed by St. Paul A. M. E. church. —Miss Kate McKreary is convicelent. —The Sunday school concert given at the Mt. Lebanon Baptist church last Friday night was a grand success. —Mr. Walter Prince, of Clarksville, was in the city last week. GEORGETOWN Georgetown, S. C., Special.—Friendly sentiments run high for the Freeman at this time. There is a contest on between a young woman and a young man soliciting subscribers for the Freeman. Capt. Frazier was confined to his bed a few days last week.—Rev. W. P. Carolina, South Carolina's gifted divine, filled the pulpit at St. Stephen last Sunday.—R.v. Sauter, the fearless quill-driver of the Chronicle, is rubbing the fur on the back of public opinion the wrong way.—I mean jim crow public opinion.—Georgetown's jail holds a white prisoner charged with assault on an eight year old colored girl. South Carolina may now show that her love of purity is not feigned.—Dr. Sterrett is working up a large party to visit Washington, D. C., March 4. He is a great admirer of the President. It is our prayer that the official bee will not sting the good Doctor while meeting old friends in the capitol city—Dr. Walton is taking deep hold upon the confidence of his people here. He is a gentleman of the highest type.—Dr. Golden is a great linquist and a busy man always.—Young Dr. Brewington is making his mark rapidly and making it high, too.—The contest is on in the Freeman's interest between Mr. James Rhue and Miss Jessie Jackson. The struggle waxes warm with interest about even at this writing.—Prof. Howard was in Columbia a few days ago at the call of a sister who was sick.—Prot. A. J. Baxter, one of South Carolina's most prominent citizens, is still in politics, but A. J., knows a few things now that he did not dream of when he smiled upon the ungodly. Four years is a long time to kneel at the mourner's bench, but when tour art converted stree ghtens the brethren. WANDERER. SELMA. Selma, Ala., Special.—Mr. D. T. West, one of Selma's leading merchants, has been given the contract for the erection of two three story brick buil dings.—Billy Kersands' aggregation played to a large and appreciative crowd last week. After the show Kersands and his company were entertained by the local talent of the Alabama Minstrel Co., lead by Messrs. F. H. Weaver and J. L. Garrett at the case of Mr. Alex Walker's In addition to Mr. Kersands and his company the following guests were present: Dr Reid, L. Jackson, Jeffrey Carter, the nu- BREWERS OF SOUTHERN CONTENTION. INDIANAPOLIS FEB 13 1905 PUBLIC LIBRARY DIS BRANCHISEMENT. GRAFT TROUBLE SOUTH POLITICIAN GRACE PREJUDICY THAYWOOD Political monoply in the South is a powerful impetus to perpetuate race prejudice by way of securing to incumbent office holders their positions. Political monoply in the South is a powerful impetus to perpetuate race prejudice by way of securing to incumbent office holders their positions. date mixer, H. C. Haynes, of Chicago. F. X Weaver acted as toastmaster.—Joseph H Douglass, of Washington, D. C., the noted volimist, is touring the state.—Mrs. M. A. Dillard, the patentee of an iceing, is meeting with much deserved success.—Henry Royal, for twenty one years an employee in the Mobile post office, died last Sunday evening. DECEPTION BY APPEARANCES. In a recent issue of the London Daily Mail an article was published in which a young man of Belfast being depressed by marriage life wrote in part as follows: "Four years have passed since I grasped her hands at the alter and it comes to life. species of hypocracy has been practiced with such skill as to deceive keen observers, but only for a time as the hope of the hypocrite must perisa and when the fast-tious beauty has laid by her smiles, when the luster of her eyes and the bloom of her cheeks have lost their i fluence with their novelty, when the ostentatious little gentew man is wary and fond of acquaintance." DAYTON. Dayton, O., Special.-The joint meeting held at "esley M. E church the past week will hold one week's meeting at Aver Street A. M. E. church.-Mrs. Mary Scott of Baxter street is still very sick-Joshua Temple, No. 22 S. M. T., will celebrate their anniversary February 23 at Odd Fellows.-Mrs. Mamie Fisher, 429 West Fifth street, and William Maze, of Columbus, fell heir to $1,900 left by Robert Green of Greenfield, O.-The Unique club was entertained at the residence of Mrs. Ed. Steward, 32 Eaker street, Wednesday afternoon, January 25 Longfellow's Evangeline was the subject for discussion by the members, this being the second time Longfellow's works were discussed. Those present were Mesdames Edward Stewart, Cooper, Dr. Simmons, George Eppa, George Hartsel, I. B. Stewart, E. D. Biggins and Washington of Xenia At the close of the study a delightful lunch-cheon was served by the hostess. HENDERSON. Henderson, Ky., Special—Dennis Bowers is on the sick list.—The Goosetown Coons will give an entertainment at the St. Paul church February 13 and at the Third Street hall February 20; John E. Butler, proprietor.—Messers. Davis Jackson, Craig, Louis Davis and John Tyler are pleasing the people with their music.—Henry Millim, Jake Wade and Thomas Tyler have engagements to play all through the week. They are making a hit.—The Freeman can be had at John Butler's, 1127 Elm street - Smith and Foster have opened a new barbershop.—Davis Jackson sends regards to Solomon Tibbs of Morgan City and every one in and out of the profession. Address 813 First street. The Freeman can be purchased every week at Thompson's restaurant, 132 North sixth floor. DECEPTION BY APPEARANCES In a recent issue of the London Daily Mail an article was published in which a young man of Belfast being depressed by marriage life wrote in part as follows: "Four years have passed since I grasped her hands at the altar and it seems a lifetime. Would anyone like to buy her? My sole desire for recording my married life is to remind reckless young men to retain from allowing dressy gowns and pleasing looks to fascinate them into a speedy marriage and a subsequent life of awful misery. Perhaps it will help those in quest of a partner in life to know that I picked up this lazy, expensive terror of humanity at a dance four years ago in the little town of Ulster." Deplorable as is the above it is not without its precedent, it presents competitors and future successors. The beautiful swan whose heart and soul is in gorgeous attire and like unto the daughters of Zion going with stretched forth necks, walking and mingling as they go tinkling with their feet; the dandy who trips along with a hypnotize air trying to look important with his reputation on his back, encircled with clouds of volatile matter from his cicada, often more odious than pleasant are to be admired only as peacocks of borrowed feathers. "all things," says the poet, "are not really what they seem," it follows then as a logical consequence that they who follow their noses are often led by their eyes. The mere regular features and external appearances, as was the case of this Belfast young man, ought not to be the criterion by which a life partner is to be chosen, the finest features arranged in the most exact form and highened by the most blooming complexion must be animated before they can strike, and when they are animated will generally excite the same passions which they express consequently the empty display of external beauty should be taken, if atlast as secondary stuff. Actions which do not correspond with the heart cannot be accomplished without labor nor continued w thout pain. The smiles and languishments of art must soon vanish and the gloom of discontent betrays the action. The charms which captivates must be the genuine effect of corresponding sentiments or it will impress upon the countenance a new and more disgusting deformity; the simpler the stare, the pout and innumerable other grievances will be detected. By some, however, this species of hypocracy has been practiced with such skill as to decieve keen observers, but only for a time as the hope of the hypocrite must perisa and when the fastidious beauty has laid by her smiles, when the luster of her eyes and the bloom of her cheeks have lost their i fience with their novelty, when the ostentatious little gentleman is w ighed and found wanting, when he is unmasked and found only to be an inhuman boa stolen into the garden of paradise what remains to be seen? nothing but a tyrant devested of power beheld only with a mixture of indignation and disdain. Let it, therefore, be understood that all who wish to be attractive must be early in the school of virtue and those who wish to be lovely also must learn early to be good With such it is, to use an eastern metaphor, "like the towers of a city, not only an ornament but a defence." JOSEPH SEAL. TERRE HAUTE. Terre Haute, Indiana, Special—Joe Tabernacle met last Wednesday night Tabernacle met last Wednesday night —The Eastern Stars met last Thursday night —William Curtis and family of Evansville have moved to the city —Mary Samuel, of Connerville, Ind., is making her home in the city —George Simmons is spending the winter month in Nashville, Ind —William Lindesey, of North Carolina, gave a grand concert at Second Baptist church last Monday night —The Ladies' Sewing Circle of Allen Chapel met at the home of Mrs. Manuel's Thursday afternoon —D B Thomas has accepted a position in Chicago —Edward E Cooper, founder of the Indianapolis Freeman, was in the city last week in the interest of his new paper. Colored Catholic Herald of Washington, D. C., of which he is manager —The revival has closed at Second A M E church with fifty seven accessions. Rev Patton is pastor —Mrs Louvine Cleman was called from Indianapolis last week by the illness of her mother, who is resting somewhat better at this writing —Miss Lulu Shafner, of Chicago, Ill., is helping R-v Statesman with his revival at Saulten's Chapel this week —Rev. Taylor, of Greencastle, who has been assisting Rev. Statesman in his revival, was call ed home to attend a funeral of a friend. —Rev. Ben Johnson, of Springfield. Ill., was in the city last week —The Sheltonts will give a concert at the Second Missionary Baptist church in the near future. —Miss Edna Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. D Harris, graduated from the high school last Friday night —Miss Florence, the daughter of Mr. and vrs. Oscar Roberts, was buried Thursday afternoon from the Second A. M. E church —Mr. Britton, a member of the Hod Carrier's Union, was buried Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at the Second Missionary Baptist church. The hod carriers attended in a body, headed by the Ringold band —Hattie Davis has returned from Ohio —R H. Joyner, manager Eclipse base boll team, would like to arrange games with any team for the coming season Address 1544 South Thirteen-and a half street —Mrs Vergla Forter has built a new house on South Thirteen-and a-half street. MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Wis., Special.—Hon. Gill Vandercook, the Sentinel's traveling correspondent, spoke before St Mark's literary society on the representative Negro people of the South as he saw them to a large and appreciative audience last week—The following new officers were installed last Thursday evening at St Mark literary society: President, B Wright; Vice President, Mrs E James; Secretary, J D Cook; Assistant Secretary, Miss Williams; Treasurer, Wm A. Morris; Critic, C M White Rev. Jameson, pastor St Marks church, acted as master of ceremonies. Committee on installation: Dr. S. S Furr, chairman, Messrs. Bugg and Scott. The affair was the greatest social event of the year.—The Freeman is for sale at the Afro-American's new store, 26 Juneau avenue.—George Ewing has resigned the presidency of the Calvary Baptist Literary society.—Miss Parker former teacher in Bayview Industrial school, has left for Cincinnati, Ohio.—Miss Queenie Goodman, after a long illness died January 21.—St Mark's Christian Endeavor society meets every Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. All are welcome. MORGANTOWN. Morgantown, W. Va. Special — A union revival meeting is going on at the A M. E. churon and much success is being accomplished. Rev F. H. G Jennings, pastor Jones Chapel; and Rev. Smith, the local evangelist are present and have preached several good sermons; Rev J. W. Brown is also assisting — Miss Cellistia Johnson, who has been in our midst for several weeks. left the city for larkeburg last Monday evening where she will remain for the winter. She will be greatly missed by her many friends here — Mrs Belle Ellis and Miss Mattle Pronty gave a surprise party for Mrs J W. Brown Tuesday evening, January 24. The occasion was the thirty-fourth anniversary of Mrs Brown's birthday. She was the recipient of several valuable presents — The K of P.'s annual banquet was an enjoyable affair and every one had a pleasant evening. A G Smith, C C, was hostmaster of the evening — Harry Miles is visiting in Unlontown and Mong-mahelia City this week — Dr. Allen Leavy, of Washington D C., will locate in our city — Rev J W Jeffries presiding elder of this district conducted quarterly meeting at the Methodist church recently. VICKSBURG Vick burg, Miss, Special—Arrival is in progress at Bethel A M E church You are cordially invited to attend the services—W H. Hall, with a crew of fifteen waiters is leaving the best of satisfaction at the Carroll hotel.—H F Foster, after an absence of nearly fifteen years, has returned to the city, visiting relatives — unbe the for the Freeman, a poplora. Negro journal, H. F Foster agent. 207 Cherry street THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW QUESTIONS OF INTEREST TO THE RAGE DISCUSSED BY OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT Prof. Du Bois Asked to Show His Hand —The Freeman's Columns are at His Disposal—Indiana the Political Battle Ground—Sharps and Flats. In charging an unknown five editors of the race with receiving $3,000 "hush money" from some unknown sources for some unk- nown purpose Prif. W. E. B. Du Bois administers the dirtiest blow to Negro journalism and in the meanest way that we have ever known. It is cowardly to strike below the belt in any kind of a contest and to fire at honest men from ambush is noth- ing short of attempted assassination. If Du Bois knows newspaper men who have re- ceived "hush money" for an immoral purp- pose he owes it to the public to name them, that they are not the entire craft shall bear the burden of dishonor. The Atlanta pro- fessor should speak or show cause why he should not be held up to the contempt of the race throughout the land. SHARPS AND FLATS The habit of industry is the "a b-ab" of success. Register Lyons and Recorder Dancy are "stand patters." We are pleased to know that the retention of Recorder Dancy is satisfactory to the Washington Bee. It looks as if Prof. Du Bois has gotten his foot into it. The press is a dangerous engine to monkey with. Jealousy is a confession of inferiority. Our public men should be above making humiliating admissions. Even if Indiana should fail to land the recordership of deeds she will have no reason to complain of her Lott. In inauguration day comes on apace. Now is the time to renew your acquaintance with your old friends in Washington. The punsters might let up on Dr. Crum's name now and turn to other unique cognomes as a vent for their dabbling humor. "To reduce or not to reduce?" that's the question. Don't jump at conclusions without weighing consequences. Study it out! The sun is too high in the heavens for the establishment in a progressive state of such a barbarous anachronism as the whipping post. It is very evident that both of the big Methodist general conferences in 1908 will be called upon to do some heavy work in the bi-hoporic making industry. When the South's outrages upon the suffrages work to the detriment of the northern white man we'll bet a dollar against a dime there will be "something doing." The country's rallying point in February 22 and 23 will be the Tuskegee Negro Farmer's Conference. There will be inspiration for the teacher, preacher, doctor, editor and business man as well as for the farmer. B there! The world isn't coming to an end right away but W. Calvin Chase has endorsed Booker Washington's Cleveland speech as the "real thing." The Guardian is now left to tread the wine press of indecency and narrow biotry alone. If Missouri's legislature cannot elect Niedrinhaus, Kerens or Walbidge to the United States Senate the grand old commonwealth need not despair. There's J. Mition Turner ready and willing to be sacrificed upon the official altar. In making an inventory of race organizations "lost, strayed or stolen" the stock taker should keep an eye out for the National Afro-American Council, the National Suffrage League, the Civil Liberty Party and the Pen and Pencil club. The opportunity of the Negro masses lies not in the congested cities but in the rural districts. There is no color prejudice in the soil and products supplied by a black hand command the same price in the markets as that brought up by white hands Dr. Washington's Cleveland speech was indeed "the effort of his life." It set each of his cardinal views upon a hill apart, illuminated by the side lights of sparkling wit and sage counsel to the race. The Cleveland J. urnall's report was supero. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.) os 2 —- The Richereek Bank = . - > , Sees Capital and Surplus = ee ny EO ae ee eae = CH SOONER hea % Yes 7 especluily invited, ai : UG eee Foreign Drafis Issued r ae | 2 eT <A ~—~Good Anywhere Se a Rees a ee ee ae Biss ‘GENT. f eas i Interest Pa | @ The Richcreek Bank @ ai ‘Quarterly wi: i ) i) On Savings Deposits ar Z pr ed | {i (o \ Pega He i Steel Savings Banks | sl mi Furnished to Those ee =o = ae Le ee been bh a Desiring Them ng ae “et Ve (ae. se i | IN ITS OWN BUILDING : - ie oo Fe 106-112 N.DELAWAREST, ° ‘ 7. ° mh e® =—- 8 M Rioboreek, President Sevola Richoreck, hier THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEM ‘The time has come when Indiana Ne- groes should stretch forth thelr united hand and insist upon proper recogat- tion at the federal patronage table Since 1876 Indiana has bad a political battle ground and in every field engage- ment or local skirmish che gallant ‘“plack reserves” have fought nobly. ‘They have been loyal to the leaders of SS » y — Parente (Gay THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. the party in season and ont of season! and however meager the rewards they have followed the flag without ioud complaints or material ioss of enthust- asm. They have ostracized, villified and abused the few of their bretbren who talked “independence” and seemed disposed to mutiny. In all the cam- palgns the Negro vote has marebed in step with the regulation music and through thelr compact organization many 8 victory has been pulled out of «hat would have otherwise been a Gisastrous rout. The writer will re- members when the Negro was a power politically ia Indiana's great centers | Tae names of Hinton, Bagby, Elbert, Broyles, Christy. Lewis, Evans, Town- send, Bassett and othera were potent to conjrre with. Later came other leaders lke Kaox, MoCoy, Jones, Brown, Far- niss, Paryear, Swectland and thelr fol lowers but few of these forces received more than the most meager local recog- nition, Without the conetant and aggressive support of the Negroes in those dark and bloody days between ‘76 and ’92, when such towering Demo- crate as Thomas A Hendricks, Joseph E, McDonald, David Tarple, Isaac P | Gray and W D. Bynum emote the Ra- pubilosns bip and thigh and drove them to thelr last resources to maintain toemeclves Berjimin Harrison wonld never have been president of the United Stator, the precent state leadership would never have been dsveloped and the monster m:jorlties piled ap iu re- cent years would not have been possi- ble bacanse under frequent defeat the admirable discipline and erprit de Corps necessary to enocers could not have been built up The Negro’ faithfal service daring the clearing season ought to entitle him to a goodly share of the crop now that the harvest days are on. — Looally, the Negro has had a few members of the state legisiature with a small slice of patronage on the side each session, sundry temporary places in tue capital and minor oleruebips in county and city cffive, spiced with an ‘occastonal councilman. Nationally, 1» thirty years we have had a minister to ‘Liverls, (W, D MoCoy) who lived bat few monthe; @ consul to Babla ard 6 recorder of the general last cfiize, two ‘men for single term. We are not count ing department clerks or postal em- ployees a8 they come under the clvil service law and are no. political. It ‘will be seen that this 1s an inelgn‘ficant showing for the Indiana Negro as com. pared with what has been given Ohto, Massachusetts, New York and states Jess pivotal in character than the Hocelerland. The southern question te entirely apart from this summary. Is the fault in ourselves, because of modest, disanion or incompetent man- agement? Or are the people deaf to our appeals for a chance? We do not ap- prove of resorting to any underband means to onst Negro incumbents who are doing well but men of welyht and substance whould offer themselves for positions of dignity and emoluments and insist upon being accorded serious consideration. Tne new Negro's intel- leotaal and political deserts in the northern atates is above that of hewer of wood and drawer of water. Ina manly way these facts should be brought to the attention of those who hold the key to the situation as it stands today, There ts.an old adage to the effect that “the time to kill & chicken is when tt is fat" ‘The Boston Guardian is off its base. in ite frantio desire to rend everything and everybody suggestive of Dr, Booker T. Washington tt goes to ex:remes that ridionlous—positively silly. Each week some frend of Tuskegee is ‘ told off” for assault. Ina recent issue the Free- man's steff correspondent was eelected to adorn the block. The ‘deadly paral lol was invoked to show that we had changed front—by order from Tuskegee —on the question of reduction of south- ern representation. We are also charg ISRO) oes OW mie eg ri oN) SY Pt Me Wey, Vee » Nesey I\\)\ VASP AAO, 3 a 7 ~A\ Y Ts, DAR epee af ) jo) e <3 Q eR nn aN . 6 We ior) ‘ EU WeMnETTDONN TOU UNUVUUDUUULU a BY “DOROTHY.” ‘Phis column wiil be devoted to the interests of women. Questions will be cheerfully. answered. In order to Insure @ reply It Is Necessary to give a pseudonym under whieh the querist may be answered, The fall name and address must also be given This will ng, under ung” clreumstances, be published. No answer will be sent by. Inuit unless @ stamped envelope Is received at this office, Address all cammunteat- ‘Yous to Woman's Corner, The Freeman, Indianapits, Ind, THE HOUSEWIFE. | So many women are cultivating & dislike for housework ; they cousider ft drudgery. 1t should not only be the ambition of every woman bat a part of her religion to conduct @ house in such @ manner that it will be a pleco of peace, rest and pleasure, The only snecesstul way to Keep house is by us- {og business prinolples in your work. Everytaing ehould be done systematl cally and thonghtfally. If directly after the breakfast is over you carry on a discussion over the fence with your next door nelghbor until about half past eleven and thea the dishes are to be washed, the house cleaned atd dinner ready vy'twelve o’elock {ts no wonder that yon are tired: ont and almeet sick when the family gets home. Yon are cross and com- plain and fret and wis you conld do comething else, Toere must ba a designated time to do everything. A day for washing, fronting, mending, cleaning and baking; an hour for the meals. Of course 1¢ will not take an entire day for any of theee duties; there will be plenty of time for self caltare, to atteud chareh, your lodge, a good play aod make an ocvasional call In the spare time you eould devote tosome particular occupation, making children’s clothes, dresemaking or giving muelo lessons. This would relieve the m mot: ony of honsework for it is very trae that all kinds of work may become monotonous. So much time is wasted, a friend perhaps will pay a prolonged visit at ycur baslest time in the morn- ing, a persistent peddler will take your time These and many other things will upset the most orderly of house- holds. ‘The only remedy 1s to dismiss the peddler in a courteous bat firm ed with other imaginary cffenses. The quotation used by the Guardian show the state of the Negro's mind on the question at lesne just after the adoption of the Chicago platform and the change of popular sentiment since the election Each {s an accurate analysis of the col- lective mind of the race rather than an expression of Indiyldual opinion and a careful reading of the articles will bear this ont. ‘The eteff correspondent 1s a reporter of facts and trend of racial feeling rather tnan & propogandist. ‘That the majority of the race has ex perlenced # change of heart with the sober examination of the suffrage ques- tlon {s convincingly by reading the representative Negro newepspers end ‘utterances of our mcs’ prominent men ‘The Guardian isn’t the ‘whole show” by any means and it should not delude itself Into thinking eo. Farther, Dr. ‘Washington has n-ver written & line to son the subj-ct of repreenta'ion nor eonght to infinence our attitude upon any public question He did not land ‘us in our present pesition ror were we employed at Tastezee In other *han & manner and tell your friend she must excuse you for you are very basy, Ar- range your affairs to the very best ad- vantage— adopt a system and follow it. Do away with all toe non essentials and ‘you will fiad your housework a pleasure Give your family the best you have and the best will come back to you. ee The school of agriculture for girls, instituted by Countess Warwick of London, at Studley Castle is attracting mach attention. Quite a number have graduated and are doing well. Two have control of poultry farms in Oxford and Bucks. Oae woman went to South Africa and has promoted a company for roopisiag Johannesburg with milk. Ee _ Flower collars are the newest thing to ba worn with the deoollete bodice They are made up of flowers and are a stock of sili petuled or chiffon flowers made on @ feather-bone, stiffened silix gauze foundation It 1s @ boon to the girl with a long elender neck. Sees Now fs a good time to replenish your wardrobe in summer underwear, Bar gains are offered in ready to wear gar- ments and for those who prefer to do their own sewing laces and materials can be obtained at reasonable prices, ‘The main object of going to church is to get help to be a better Christian, not to gossip about your neighbor's new hat. pele ies Alcohol poured on a shoe that hurts your foot will give rellef. Lemon jaice in black ccffee will cure sick headache. eee Soap and water are great beantifiers, Every woman should take a bath every day when she fs {a health. parely administrative capacity. So mach for that—for good and all. R.W THompson. THE WAITERS... Wm. 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(Continued ) When seating a party of two or more ladies and there is no assistant, press one or more of your waiters into service and have them assist in seating the party. Under no circumstances should a lady be allowed to seat herself. In seating a lady and gentleman, always seat the gentleman at the head of the table. There is quite an art in seating guests properly. In seating a couple at a six chair table, always give them corner seats; that is seat one at the head and the other at the right or left side. Never seat both parties on the same side of the table; if this is done there will be one or two seats at the table that no guest will care to occupy, as their backs will be turned toward the door and they will face the wall. In case of a great rush, such as a State fair, convolve or convention, it is very necessary that the guests be systematically seated, utilizing every available place. Should there be any eight-chair tables in the dining room, seat the guests so that the vacancy, if any, will come next to one end of the table. This rule may be applied to a six-chair table; for instance, a gentleman is seated at the head or foot of the table; when another gentleman is put at the same table he should be seated next to the first gentleman, either on the right or left side, in order to leave four remaining seats together, vacant, so that another party may be seated. This little technical point is especially valuable during a rush. Never give the seat of one guest to another if you can possibly avoid it. From practical experience I find that it is very much to a headwaiter's disadvantage to gain the displeasure of the lady guests, especially in a family hotel. A woman's tongue, you know, is always going, and if a lady guest once dislikes you she will soon poison the minds of all the other guests about you. Always see that there is nothing on the chair before seating the guest, as it may soil the garments. In talking to a guest never place your foot on the chair round, or your hands on the back of the chair or corner of the table, but stand perfectly erect. Under no circumstances should a headwaiter appear in the dining room with the odor of whisky or beer on his [N]DIVIDUAL HOTEL DRECTOR] [One address line $2 00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWAITERS F. P. Thompson, Hotel Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. F. H. Frame, Knutsford, Salt Lake City, Utah. G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. W. A. Locke, Hotel Gayos, Memphis, Tennessee. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg, Pa. R. S. Kittrell, Windsor Hotel, Denver Colorado. John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. C. H. 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Special attention must be paid to orders from managers and guests for extra chairs at tables and extra tables for parties. The arrangement must be properly made when you are requested by a guest, whether there be any tips in it or not. After seating a guest or a party of guest, the headwaiter should immediately give them a menu, if convenient. It is very bad policy to seat a transient guest in a regular guest's seat, even though the regular guest may have finished that meal because the transient will no doubt want the same seat when he is in again, and if the seat is vacant and you object to his sitting in it, he will become angry and sometimes report you at the office. Therefore, you should avoid using regular guests' seats and tables as much as possible. When a party of guests enter the room and you do not know of how many it consists, inquire of the one in advance and then you will know how and where to seat them, without changing from table to table, which is quite embarrassing to guests. The headwaiter should keep himself well posted as to the vacant chairs at every table so that, when there is a party of one or more to be seated, he will know where all the accessible chairs and tables are to be found. When a proprietor employs a headwaiter he first gives him general instructions as to how he desires his dining room conducted and how he would have the service rendered. These instructions, however, are limited to the proprietor's opinion of the headwaiter's ability. After accepting the position and receiving the instructions, the new headwaiter should exert every energy in his power to carry out the instructions given him, whether they meet his approval or not. Conduct the business economically, employing additior help only when it is absolutely necessary. Should a new proprietor take charge of the hotel, find out first what he would have you do, then execute every order promptly and correctly. Never say o him that Mr. — did this or that, or did not have you do certain things in this or that manner, but do whatever he commands you. As a general rule the new proprietor makes a change in headwalters simply because the old headwaiter persists in running the dining room just as he did under his former employer, regardless of remonstrances. It seems hard for some headwaiters to understand that evy proprietor has a right to govern his dining room as he pleases. When the above is fully realized and the prevailing mistakes rectified, then there will not be a change of headwaiters every time the hotel changes proprietors. Another great mistake some head waiters make is the treatment they give the officers of the hotel. They seem to think that because the officer is a clerk, book keeper, cashier, steward, etc, he should not receive any just consideration, and that it is immaterial whether he gets his order filled or not. The waiters are allowed to serve officers in any kind of style and there is complaint about the service rendered; they are then reminded that they are "help" and not guests. This is a common occurrence. My advice to the young headwaiter is—be gentlemany to employees as well as to guests, and see that bo h are served correctly and with dispatch I believe it is better to be over-obliging to said employees than it is to gain their displeasure. This is especially true with regard to the clerk, who can do you more harm in the course of time than a dozen guests. Another important fact is, that the clerks and stewards of to day are the proprietors and managers of to morrow I am reminded of several instances where this has occurred; several clerks that I had worked with became managers. In two instances I have been employed by such managers, owing to the fact that I had treated them with courtesy and had them properly cared for when they were clerks. I consider this suggestion worthy of very careful consideration Having briefly touched upon the duties of a headwaiter and his proper manner toward the guests, proprietor, steward, chef and other officers of the hotel, I will now make a few suggestions upon the relations that should exist between the head and sidewaiters. You will find it a very difficult task to select and manage a crew of waiters, maintaining good discipline over them in having them rendez. the service in a satisfactory manner to all guests and at all times. In employing a waiter or a crew of waiters, the very best of care should be exercised, in order that you may select the right material. Make it a rule to employ no waiter who you have the least suspicion will Read the neck band. 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Reading notices 100 per line. Special rates on WR TE URS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Indiana, as second chs matter. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOK, Publisher. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1905 WHITE IMMIGRATION FOR THE SOUTH. There has been a good deal of talk in Southern newspapers of importing Italians to take the place of the "unreliable." Negro labor of that section. We occasionally hear that the cotton planters and pickers and the corn raisers who have from time out of mind cultivated the Louisiana bottoms and the Yazoo delta were to be forced out to give place to Dagoes and other immigrants from southern Europe. The experiment has been tried on a small scale in certain sections, but with what results time alone can tell. It is already beginning to appear, however, that when seriously confronted with this new departure on a large scale, the Southern planters flinch from trying it. Read this, for instance, from the Washington (D. C.) Post of recent date: It does not seem to us that the white immigration scheme is meeting with very distinct encouragement at the South. Our friends down that way do not take kindly to the idea of having foreign populations injected by wholesale into their social system. They have great areas which can readily be converted to the uses of agriculture and other industries, and they will be glad to have those resources developed in the common interest. But it is very clear that they object to immigration by the cargo and in drives. They don't want vast multitudes of aliens and strangers driven in among them by agents working under contract on a per capita basis of profit. They prefer to know something about the people they are expected to harbor on sight and eventually to adopt as neighbors and fellow citizens. And this is precisely the emergency which the Post foresaw and discussed at the very outset. The Southerners may growl a little about their black help, find fault with him occasionally as "shiftless" or untrustworthy, but let any one propose to take away all these colored laborers, to be replaced by whites, and immediately there is loud objection by Southern employers. A story is told of a man who had a quarrelsome wife, who frequently made it hot for him around the house. Finally he asked the court for a divorce and married a younger and better looking woman. But it was not long until he was before the judge again asking to be allowed to "swap back," and gave as his reason that long habit and close intimacy had so cemented his union with the first wife that he "believed the old woman was best after all." The Negro laborers of the South are assuredly not perfect. Like all human beings, they have their faults. But taken all in all, long familiarity with that section and its customs, skill acquired during many generations in dealing with Southern crops and conditions, have made the old reliable "plantation darkies" the best and most desirable men that can be put into the cotton fields. If the Italians and others come in great hordes they will, of course, demand school privileges, the right to vote and hold office, just treatment in courts and before the law generally. This is all the present laborers ask, and in return they promise to give a faithful service, good citizenship and a patriotic devotion to the State's best interest. The South understands quite well, almost instinctively, that it can't improve its labor system by importing Europeans. They are used to their present labor, and the latter, in turn, is adapted to the environments, the climate, methods of cultivation and all the customs that are the growth of centuries. Better let well enough alone. The old laborer, like the "old woman," is the best companion after all. WHICH IS GUILTY? That Indianapolis is thief-ridden at this particular time cannot be denied. Women seem to be the preferred victims of a certain class of criminals who are making a specialty of "snatching pocket-books." THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER This class of theft, since it usually entails no bodily harm to the victim, enables the person robbed, except in rare cases, to observe the fleeing robber and give (sometimes) a fair description of him. We regret to observe a tendency on the part of most of the persons thus victimized to unerringly lay the crime on a "black man." Why not a "yellow" one sometimes? The point in this question is simply this—the oneness of color in the descriptions given in of these criminals leads us to either believe criminality has a higher average in the "black man" or the "yellow ones" and "WHITE ONES" are conveniently changing the color of their skins, thus throwing the burden of the offense on the men with dark skin. After all, what stronger protection and safety could be brought to bear by white and yellow criminals? If a victim positively asserts that her purse was snatched by a black Negro why that settles it so far as any blame being attached to any other color of man is concerned. By the number of innocent Negroes arrested almost every day and released later through the intervention of prominent white citizens who know them to be different from the suspicions upon which they are detained, is slowly but surely implanting in the hearts of the men who are guilty of these crimes (if they be white or yellow) a thorough sense of safety, which only tends to embolden the real thieves in their heinous work. The situation on is alarming and merits the strongest investigation of the Police Department. The probability of society being outraged by a disguised class of white criminals made reckless by the security of their "wring-up" is appalling. In time no woman will be safe to step out of doors. We recall a recent instance in which Emanuel Collins, a colored man of considerable reputation for honesty, sobriety, and good citizenship, was arrested on suspicion of having snatched a lady's pocket book. The description given in tallied with Collins and he was promptly arrested. His long service in the city's fire department was not recommendation sufficient to save him from the indignity of arrest on this disgraceful suspicion. Where will it all end? WHO IS MAKING THE SOUTH RICH Governor Frazler of Tennessee seems to have caught a glimpse of a mighty truth before penning his recent message to the legislature, Hear him: "The cotton crop of the South, last year, was worth nearly $600,000,000, and our grasses, grains and other farm products as much more. This could not have been produced by sullen or discontinued labor." Just so, and this fact is a sufficient answer to the constant cry that the South is threatened with ruin by the overshadowing numbers of the black race. Manifestly this race, which constitute practically nineteenths of all the labor, is not injuring, but enriching the South. All hands agree that the South is prospering phenomenally. Its agricultural wealth is increasing by leaps and bounds. Now, who is producing this agricultural wealth? Who is plowing the land, digging the ditches, planting the fields, picking the cotton, cutting and shucking the corn? The answer lies on the surface. The painstaking, patient, industrious Negroes by the hundreds of thousands are doing all this work, but the great bulk of the wealth thereby created goes not to them, but to the white owners of the land. Most of the Negroes get only their monthly wages, and these are generally very meager, only enough to enable them to live in the greatest economy. But the great point is that they constitute the laboring, the producing class and that from their work comes the wealth of the South No country prespers with a discontented, reluctant, sullen labor. No country prospers where its laboring class is constantly in strikes, in a revolutionary mood, ready at all times to drop the hoe for the bludgeon, and leave the plow to start an insurrection. Russia's labor is made up of white men. How would the Southern panters like to swap their contented and experienced colored farm laborers for an equal number of these Russian peasants? The latter have no schools, are uneducated, have no votes or voice in the government, and yet are ground down by taxes collected at the point of the bayonet. The result is revolution, and bloodshed, anarchy and desp ir. Would the South have similar conditions in its borders? If so, all that is necessary is to treat their laborers as the Russian government treats its peasants. Refuse them schools for their children, deprive them of all voice in the government, refuse them fair hearing in the courts, pass laws expressly to oppress them, persecute them with mobs and all sorts of discriminating duces, and in time the South will find itself Russianized. Nothing argues so strongly in favor of the Negro as a race as his fidelity to duty as a slave during the war and as a laborer since the war in spite of every provocation to become bad and unruly. In return for all he has done he asks 'or nothing unreasonable—simply that he be treated as a man and given equal rights before the law. In return for this he will keep on making the South rich and proving himself, after all deductions are made, the most cheerful and reliable labor that ever cultivated the fields of any nation on earth. The Washington Bee has temporarily dropped Booker Washington to train its guns on Roscoe Conklin Bruce, son of the old Mississippi Senator and famous Negro statesman. Young Bruce, it seems, who holds a professorship at Tuskegee, has been delivering a speech on characteristics tendencies and conditions of the Negro populations in Northern cities. The results announced are declared by the Bee to be of the "apologetic" kind that are gotten up by time-servers to flatter and ponder to the white people of the South. Is it not just possible, however, that Mr. Bruce, even though wrong in his deductions, may be entirely sincere and speaking with good motives. Let us not be so hasty to condemn and find fault. The Bee, like its namesake, seems unable to be busy without being stinging. It would be awful if the Hon. Archibald Archimedes Young, surveyor of customs for the mighty port of Indianapolis, should lose his position for the very work which he thought would commend him most highly to the apointing powers. It is said that the principal reasons for the falling of his weighty head are his "mismanagement of the fight on Gorge Knox, the colored aspirant for a seat in congress, and the muddle over the postmastership at Lawrence." These were the very things Archy plumed himself on to prove that he was a powerful poitician in fixing things for his master, and it is just too bad that his rich, aristocratic blood should have to flow in consequence thereof. Texas, so far, takes the cake for fool laws to restrict Negro privileges. Some long-horned member has introduced a bill in the legislature prohibiting the employment of Negroes in any position by corporations doing business in Texas. Railroads are included and heavy penalties are provided for those who violate the provisions of the act. Of course it is not probable that the Texas Legislature would enact such a silly measure, but, even if they did, it would not stand a minute in the courts. It is only mentioned here as evidence that the fool killer, on his annual rounds, has certainly neglected Texas. Napoleon Johnson writes from Georgia Minstrels. If "the play is the thing" then the Georgia Minstrels is the play. We catch the consciousness of the audience and keep them in an uproar of laughter from rise of curtain on the first part to the final fall on close of the after piece. It is common for a friend to compliment another on being successful, but when a manager makes an open demonstration of his feelings to us I can hardly pass over without mentioning it. Such was the case in Camron, Texas, on the 11th, Mr. Holland, one of our genial managers, joined us there on business with his partner, Mr. Rusco. He decided to stay over and witness the performance as he had not seen it since we finished our week's engagement in Kansas City, Mo., last August. During the action of play Mr. Holland applauded and was as much carried away as any one in the audience. Methinks I saw him use his handkerchief on several instances for, in the language of the street urchins, "the laughed till he cried." After the performance Mr. Holland complimented Clarence Powell, our star and stage manager, and said, "with due credit to others who have been here before, the company under Mr. Powell is staged better than any that has been his lot to manage." People, so great are the words in seeing the name, seems to know that "fun" is as much associated with Richard & Pringle's Georgia Minstrels as "chicken" is with "nigger." F. L. Denton, musician and stage carpenter, sends best regards to his sisters, Mrs. Laura Edwards of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Lucy Graham of Dalton, Ga., Lloyd Cooper, the Kersands Company, S. H. Dudley and wife and a1 friends, and says "I'm not broke yet." Write; permanent address The Freeman, Wm. Blue, band master, says, "Sweatman, claronet player, write me as per route." Notes from T. A. Baugh's Colored Plantation Show.—Everybody s well and doing nice y. Charles Stanton would like to know where Miss Maud Kimball is, and Dave Gaten would like to hear from Milton Vassell. Miss Maudie Allen would like to hear from Perry Seymour, Jennie Johnson and Emma Johnson. Oscar Gaten sends regards to Jim Crosby. Charles Stanton is making nightly hits singing "If You Don't Like the Way I'm Doing Pay Me Off." Miss Annie Barlow is pleasing with her sweet voice singing "Sing Me a Song of the South." Oscar Gaten is getting nightly encores singing "I Won't Tell You." Dave Gaten is pleasing the people singing "Coax Me." Miss Maudie Allen took the people singing "I Aint Got No Use For Money." The Gaten quartette are making a big hit nightly with the Royal Carnival company. We are packing the house nightly, and people are turned away from the door. Prof. T. A. Baugh would like to hear from all new comers. We are making a hit touring the South. The weather is warm and everything is nice, fresh and green in the South. A. SLOAN EDWARDS Sloan Edwards, the phenomenal bass soloist, at present is with Frank Maharas minstrels. Mr. Edwards was for fifteen years manager of jubilee and concert companies; was three seasons with W. A. Mahara where he was manager of Mahara's New Orleans Concert company. He is the author of quite a number of pretty songs. His best composition is, "He is My Father Just the Same," which he is singing now with great success. He extends regards to all friends. Any one wishing to write him may address 160 Clark street, Chicago, Ill., or The Freeman. Notes from the Famous Billy Kersands Minstrels.—We are now in Alabama doing a remarkable business, also making a very distinguished mark for the show and the Kersands all along our line. All the managers seem perfectly startled at the talent this show has with it, so they claim. Many places that claim they would not book colored shows are writing our managers, but we cannot do anything for them now as we have more than we can fill. We want a trip out West to the coast, but it seems we cannot get there without throwing up some certainties. Marsh Craig is at home in Chicago, Ill., called there by the illness of both his wife and mother, but they are improving and we expect Mr. Craig to rejoin us at Montgomery, Ala. Our bass solist, Jakle Smith, was the recipient of very sad news recently of the death of his father in New Albany, Ind. Mr. Smith carries the sympathy of the entire company as well as the rest of the professional people. The Kersands are leaving nothing for nobody after the rendition of the song "You Must Think 1 Am Santa Clause." Regards to all. Charlie Crusoe, or "The Judge," as he is professionally and socially known has been partially paralyzed in his lower extremities for a number of years. 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Thomas' barbershop, 242 East Second street, Los Angeles, 1141. W. JOHNSON, President t R. H. SMITH, Treasurer J. D. BARBER, Secretary 412 Cochran Street, DALLAS, TEX —THE STAGE.— | By “WOODBINE.” | { ——— eee Smith Joined Mahara's Minstrels at also the Smart Set company. She is clea Haonibal, Mo., Jan, 26th, ing up singing her favorite song “‘Alwa nee seers, Behind Like An Oid Cow's Tail.” ert H. Gant has signed with the Sells ee and Downs elreus for the coming season.’ Notes of Williams and Stevans Hette Rev.sds_ to Emma Thompson, His ad- Coon in Dixte company.—At this writti : #0 Carlisle avenue Cincinnatl, everybody's well. The show isin g0% 0 running order. We had a packed house ——__ Mexico, Mo., on the 26:h. In Fulton, M arvelous Shields is now en route we visited the Insane Asylum and the atte ‘ Mason-Dixon big show. He is dents took a great deal of paines in sho F clous hoop-rolier and siack-wire ing us everything about the place. a ¢ sends regards tothe Alabama seemed as though everypody was glad quartet” and says, “Kid, why don't you see us. They wanted to hear some singi write?” so Mr. Winton Williams played the pia ERIN Ritinear sere while Messrs Chas. H. Williams, Steven ‘The Rabbit Foot Comedy company play- | and G, W, Meyers, sang, which was w ed al the Opera House to big business. The | received by all the inmates of the Sylur owning feature of the entire performance |That night the S. R. O. sign was out w cop-rolling act of Pearl Moppin. ‘eight o'clock. We layed over in St. Lou 's first class and the best ever|Sunday and the boys met ah re.—Key West (Fla,) Inter-Ocean |arteiands thease A... ck... 3, he Mechanics Social Club have just nto thelr new quarters, 514 South \reet, Atlanta, Ga., where they will be pleased (0 meet all professional friends, LH. Reld, manager; Bob Brown, assist- ani manager. L.H, Reld sends regards to Batle and Stmmons, Inman and Davis and Bob Russell, Mr, Frank Miller has returned from the coast and is now spending his second season with Williams and Stevens Hottest Coon in Dixle company. Mr. Miller has charge of the orchestra and plays a clar- net and slide trombone. Best wishes to Sam Johnson, Henry McCameron and Rufus Haywood. Count De Robso wishes to annouse to his friends that he has returned to Frank Mahara’s Minstrels from Buxton, lowa, where he spent his honeymoon. He is now ready for a gocd long seige of work, and is working hard on a new and larger act for next season, in which he will intro- duce seven different kinds of unicycles. Prof. Geo. A. Williams, late bandmaster of the Sig Sautell’s circus, under direction of P. G, Lowery, Henderson Smith and H. G. Clark, is now doing duty as bandmaster of the Williams and Stevens Hottest Coon in Dixte company. Mr. Williams is a young cornetist and isa member of the fanous 0. N. G, Battalion band of Spring- field, O., lead by Frank Austin. He sends best wihesto P. G. Lowery, Henderson ‘Smith, H. G. Clark and Jeff Smith, Exchange Garden Theater, Jacksonville, Fia., Notes.—Buddie Glenn and Chink Floyd have joined hands as a team and are there with the goods. Mrs. Buddie Glenn sends regards to Payton and Harris, Sarah Price and Lillie Wheeler. Buddie Glenn sends regards to Tom Logan, Sonny Mar- shall, Mr. and Mrs, Kersands, James Lacy, S.H, Dudley, Clarence Powel, Geo. B. Rhone and all professional friends. He says he is cleaning up at Jacksonville, Fis, Miss Mattie Taylor, the charming soubrette of New York, has made ahit singing “Alexander.” Mrs. Birdie Williams sends regards to George Williams, her better half, THE FREEMAM POST OFFICE. saan Cottrell, Miss Pauling Roberson, Mrs Mary Foster, Miss Agnes Scott, Mrs Fannie A Garay, Miss Lilian Stone, Mrs Josephine Jones Mrs DB. ‘Taylor, Miss Catrie Morton, Clara ‘Thornton, Miss Clara Moxley, Miss Nellie Thompxoh Miss E. Morris,'Miss Emma Wills, Mra Bessie Payne, Miss Rosle WilllS, Mrs, Bessie OENTLEMEN’S Lier, Arte, Billy 2 Kane, JM Bebee, CW Lucas, Sam Bostwick, W @ Lucas, 1 Ht Baker, George Lane, Heniy Barrde Looney, dward Casto", Frank Tangwrd, Kid Cissol and Mines 2. wartin, Sry A A. Carterand Howell 2 MeDon'neli, + L Cambell, Fred Marshal, Sonny Cooper, D. He Mobley, | W. Cook, Geo. B Melton, Joe. Chirk, Mr, Jesse Mobley, J. @. 2 Cox. do Oliver, Prentice, 2 Dunston, W. A. Payton and Harris Buliott, EJ Ferry, Olwer George J 2 Perry, Oliver Gideon, LB” 2 Perry, Ollver Goodie, Jobm Parker, (has, R, Googe, WT. Reeves, The Howard, ie Ly Swulters, Fred H Hughes,’ Bd Shaw and Clifton 2 Howard, 16 Simmons, JW Harris, Clemo Stripiin, © W Wilhiard, Water Swulters, Fred H. 2 Hacris, Clemo. ‘The Foviers 2 Huraee, Geo ‘Tibs, Sol Helms, Bly Vaughner, Jobn Johnson, Chas P Wintams, HL Juckson,Bob(due de) Websters, The Sorina 2 Whillams, Jones, Leu! Wali, J Turner Kelly, Bob Wail; J. Turner 1904 ROUTE. 1905 194 1 ROUTE. 1905 A Habbit:Fogt Co,—Jacksonville, Fia., Jan, Maret 28, Uiock Paith Troubadours Voeleklee Nolan. — nGord, Cay Beb, 6 Dulare, 7 Eresno, & lor.’ 05" Stockton, 10; Sacrament. "12 (cons Valley) 18 Newidi Clty, Ha Vieeinin tv, Nev., Io; Carson City, 16; Reno, 17; ininemtigea, 1. Goorata Minstrels. New Iberia, La. Feb. 6. Swot Set Company.=St, Louls, Mo, Feb, s ory Brown, Singing Cartoontst.—Lveeum ter, Ogden, Utah, week of Feb. 6. Foo6 Maharw’g” Minstrels, —Citnton, Town, (s Hock Isiand, 1 Devenpor, &; Ble Viola, 10: Reinet, I “ver Colored Comedy Cu» Halley and ‘2, praprieiors.—D spiaings, In, Feb. 6 vs’ Like, 7; Buriington, Wis.,' 8 Me sha, 0 Nena, 10; Dale, 1, Wiis Yoo tle Comedy 4, en route, with ob ene fe Eee meee oe on, dim White, Bro Roblason, Harzey, “at Hostomy Maan ele Of Feb. ie Mu lory Bros, Brooks @nd Halliday.— Or. {ihn Theater, Kansas Cty, Mo,, Week of THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSspaprp also the Smart Set company. She is clean- ing up singing her favorite song ‘Always Behind Like An Oid Cow's Tail." Notes of Williams nd Stevans Hette t Coon in Dixle company.—At this writting everybody's well. The show isin gocd running order. We had a packed house in Mexico, Mo., on the 26:h. In Fulton, Mo., we visited the Insane Asylum and the atten- dents took a great deal of paines in show- Ing us everything about the place. It Seemed as though everyoody was glad to see us. They wanted to hear some singing so Mr, Winton Williams played the piano while Messrs Chas. H. Williams, Stevens, and G. W. Meyers, sang, which was well recelved by all the inmates of the Sylum. That night the S. R.O. sign was out at eight o'clock. We layed over In St. Louis Sunday and the boys met a host offriends there. Our regards to ali the Profession. Mr. S. T. Dunmore sends re- gards to Fritze Butler. Inman and Davis writes: We are still at the Aome Theater, Norfolk, Va. We played a special engagem=nt Monday night with Pool & Rook's minstrels in Newport News, Va., which was a big success. John Hopkins has accepted a very nice position here as bandmaster of the Norfolk Mission College brass and reed band of forty mem- bers. Mr. Hopkins sends regards to Dave Gaten, Charley Stevens, Prof. Baugh and his boys. Inman sends regards to Batle and Simmons, Would like to hear from Will Goff Kennedy. Address 698 Church street, Norfolk, Va George W. Lynnier, the famous basso of Norfolk, Va., is now with the Geguak Quartette. He would like to hear from J. Ed Green, Jube Johnson of the Smart S.t, Regards to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cook and James Crosby of the Black Patti company. He has signed a contract with Gorman's Alabama Troubadours of Boston, Mass., for the summer season. Notes from Hawk's Moving Pictures,— Hawk's moving pictures was quite a suc- cess at Mayport, Fla. We left them screaming with delight, and was booked for a return engagement. From Mayport Jam s E. Rodgers, the advance agent, put usin St. Augustine. We opened at the St. Luke A.M. E church in New Augustine toa crowded house. J. W. Hamilton left them very enthusiastic over his popular songs that were illustrated with the pictures. When the Japs began to charge at Nan- shan Hill, storming the Russians, the au- dience was spell bound. Then we brought the spectators back to Missour! with the great train robbery, which they were more than delighted to see. We played the town ‘one week and booked for a return engaze- ment. On Thursday night, Jan. 26:h, we met Kersands’ minstrels at St. Augustine, Florida, Notes from the Famous Billy Kersands’ Minstrel Company.—We opened, the past week at Demopolis, Ala., with swell busi- ness and a refined audience of both white and colored. The audience was deserving of agood show. We pulled into this city on Sunday evening prior to our show date, and A. L. Bryant and his orchestra met us at the depot and escorted our orchestra ard as many of the company as could attend to the home of Messrs. Bryant and R:dzers, where a grand and ever memorable spread awaited us. The tables fairly groaned be- neath one of the finest luncheons that has ever met our eyes, with ail the finest brands of foreign beverages imaginable. Many of the young ladies belong to the Smart Set of that city and were participants, and nothing remained undone that would tend to make life pleasant. Mrs, H.S. Wooten and Miss Anna May Wooten made a flying and pleasant visit to Mr. H. S. Wooten and our show at Montgomery, Ala, After spending three days with us and claiming our show to be much better than last season, she returned to her home in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor enter- tained Mr. and Mrs. Kersands, Miss Mag- gle Fernandez, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Wooten and Dave Swift at Montgomery, Ala., on their last evening in that city. ‘The Camp- bell brothers are fine and dandy, and say hello to all fetends, ; WENew York special—Cousin and Hum- phrey and Wiliams and Gillam, trio, are doing nicely, while the Golden Gate Quin tette are at Hurtic and Seamon (Har- lem). Marie Bolden, the sweet soprano, was a principal feature at the Ebenezer church concert. Joe Bowser has joined Joe Moore's quintette for an indefinite period. Ed Ray is now with the boys, he has been sick. The following persons were mads honorary members of Dude Foster's Club: Charles S. Hosier, M. J. Doepp, Geo. F. Bils. The thres Mitchells are at Kelths 14th street. Universal Wheelman Club, Brooklyn gave their monthiy recept- fon Thursday, Jan. 26th. James Walker has assumed charge of his old danc- ing pavillion H> has shut off the gas at his Myrt.e-avenue hotel and placed electric bulbs instead, nit: Kerosene lamps, C to save expenses. Kid Gri fin, a ragtime pi- anist, 1s somewhat of a local favorite in Brooklyn. ee L ge : | — WILLIA ya oe Tre above likeness is a correct representation of the two stars, WILLIAMS & STEVENS as they appear in the leading role of the “Hottest Coon in Dixie Company.” SFr a 7S EASON gg =——— 6 — 7) a ie i , Taare fal E ’ : 5 z y ap Fa % gs i AMUSIAL ae ie fe 5 a yy COMEDY = — Wg es } oe \\ SN k ° & Sais Saray eg") i i | STMT le cH Reras ie \ SS | = Vhs So Bee Ons a ae Bl ||| AN ae | Pea ||| We Bie ii iit SAATTVATTWU Des i ae Lee al eA aL Tere OE Bos MM || Reales omen NCP ay aN Og eae Ea ne ae ceo ae es ie ee DEAR 5 cee = (| BONN CECA A aig aba | Lit 2a ho Pa ns SND VOU | Cee SO a Be pe ES FA) AN ej REL PRU TASS eRe NaS BN SR wee NOVEL STREET PARADE = WE LEAD OTHERS FOLLOW. Rcatdttahiet drat GS Oo of 0 soto dara, of 40 weeks commencing March oma ect ome : ge ee ete tn co nan a Ro a “aooms’ ‘Pat Chappelle, ier varzen far Notes of Frank Maharas Minstrels.— Frank Mahara has completed arrangments with Prof. P. G, Lowery to direct his big concert band of 40 pleces which Mr. Ma- hara will place before the public early next seaon. It will be comprised of the best colored musicians in America. And the tour will be conducted on the same plan as similar organizations, playing only the larger cities. Mr. Mahara has been work- Ing on this {dea for a number of years and has the hearty co-operation of ths best col- ored musicians inthe United States A nurnber of dates have already been con- tracted for in the larger cities. Owing toa mistake of our correspondant Robert Leach, the manuscript that should have appeared with cut of Mrs, Harris was left out of the issue of last week, Mrs. Harris is at present with this company as a promi- nent feature. Harvey and Laura Gilliam leave them screaming nightly. Walter Lee will close in Rock Island. We regret his leaving he being our principal cornetist. Jeff Smith joined in Hannibal, Mo., and needless to say proved a valuable acqusi- tion. Jack Watkins is on the sick list. James Harris sends regards to Will Jones. Cooper and Robinson at the Grand.— Few colored acts come to the Grand Opera House in Indianap2lis and get away with as clean a record as tuat chalked upto the credit of Cooper and Robinson last week. The scythe of prejudice is ever on keen edge for the coon performer in this vaude- ville house, and the blacks must “come clean." Th> modest and yet catchy styie in which these two promising youngsters have put thelr “‘stuff" together appeals to and wins their audience at once. Cooper is a dignified but not an af ected “streight." His well modulated voice and language are pleasing and go a long ways toward toost- ing the act. Robinson ts very funny, and yet, though he leaves them screaming at most everything he does, maintains a dis- tiuct individuality from other comedians doing the same class of work. Ths act is clean and refined, and, perhaps, one of the best dressed of fis kind in the business. It Is indeed a compliment to these young per- formers to come to Indianapoiis, which is conceded by the theatrical profession in general t2 bea “tough” spot and make a singing and talking act go big over c ever competitors in the same line on ths same bill. The Indianapolis Star spoke of them as the real “‘Head Liners." The four songs Introduced were ‘When the Bands Playing Dixle,"" :"Possum Pie," “Hannah, Won't You Open that Door?" ¢nd “Oly, Oiy Yoi,” were all well received wih repeated en- cores. The last mentioned song, which, by the way, was rendered in Hebrew dia- lect, left the people in spasms. The team has been together but one year. They have lost in that time but one week, and is booked solidly up until August 26th. They open at the “Coliseum,” London, England, for four weeks, June 26, “Empire Palace," Liverpool, England, one week the “H!ppo- drome,”” Manchester, England, one week, “‘Molineu,” Paris, France, indefinitely. Notes.of Bailey and Smith's Southern, Colored Gomedy company.—Rehearsals are about finished and Mr. Smith has left Chicago twadvance of the company. Our genial stage manager, Mr. Lew Payton, has worked hard and all have fell in love with him asa stage manager. Mr. John W. Bailey, who is with the Smart Set com- pany, will remain with them until the open- ing of our tent season which will bs in May Our paper is from the Donaldson Littrograph company. (Enough said). Mrs, Smith will look after the interest of Messrs Bailey andSmith, Mrs. Adi Wilson, of Manning, S. C., and the Wilsons of Syracuse, N. Y.. are on the way to jain the company. Ou: show opens with the;""Bogus Afr can King," a'ter which follows the “‘cat” on ths wire, Qille Young; Mr. and Mrs, Watts, the Sheltons in a twelve minute sketch; the Crosses, Tom and Clara; Master Willie Brown, the big 6 song and dance team and Lew and Hattie Payton, Closi _g our show with the cake wak andbuck dancing, The management, Mr. Joha W. Bailey and Henderson Smith, wishes to thank Rober Motts, proprietor of the Pekin for his kinc favors shown them. With regards an friendship to all professional friends. | YOU OAN MAKE mMonRY. Twenty four Dollars Profits on an In- ‘vostment of $1.00. We take this: ‘opportunity of calling to the attention of our readers the special offer that the Acme Chemical Co. at 108 East Second street. Los Angeles, Cal , 1s « ffering to the pubito at large. 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July 24th Hippodrome, Man™ chester, Eng.; July 31st Empire Palace, Liverpool, Eng August 14th, they open at the Moule-Rough, Paris, France, indefinite. Thanks to managers for past offers, and regards to all friends’ week o; Feb. 13th Music Hall, Boston, Mass. [ “ae ee ne yer re a STG kee te tnt Eee yee ar Le = WANTED FoR W D | (i | Y Company p Musicians for Band and Orchestra. Buck and wing dancers. State lowest salary In first letter. Adaress alt communteations to A r¢hur I, Prince Care of The Opera House Reporter, HSTHERVILLE, 1 4. FOR SEASON 1905-6 A Vaudeville Feature Unicyclist Supreme ‘The only striotly untoyole act in the biz Address care of The Freeman, or as per route Frank Mahara’s Minstrels. ROBERT LEACH —Orchestra Leader— Clarionet Soloist and Arranger of Mustc The most versattic musician in the profession at liberty for season 1905. 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Armand leaned upon the rail and looked out across the shadowless waste where the track of the blazing sun stretched in a molten dazzle like a quivering spear of God's. Presently he felt a light touch on his arm and, turning, saw the Virginian. "Dreaming?" asked Cary. "Of what?" "Of your golden land, monsieur." The other smiled, then sighed and leaned beside him. "A golden land, in sooth. I would it had no storms, but a sweet sun dawning ever for it. Troubled, indeed, it was when I left it—more troubled now as I return." He paused awhile. "I love the land," he said. "I know not if even France can be so lovely. Is it so? And do you love it?" The young Frenchman's face grew earnest. "When I was born," he replied, "France was good, monsieur—I think it was the best land in the world, as today it is the most beautiful. But Louis XV. was young then. Since have come a Pompadour and a Du Barry. So it is that the good in France has been hid den underneath many other things. It is true that the ministers of the crown have sold titles of honor—places in the courts. Justice, the thing for which your colony is now crying to England—this has been impossible to the poor, the low. The rich buy it. Paris laughs and does not care! There the wits lampon the dignitaries, the young bishops sneer at God and the abbes are become elegant to kiss the hands of painted countesses. But the poor, the oppressed, the people, monsieur, what of them?" He let his gaze wander. A dreamy light was in his eyes. “啊, monsieur, they have watched. They have been waiting. They are ignorant. They were never taught. But all this time one man—the exiled, the glorious — he has been writing. He has taught that the unnoble are not field beasts, that they are men; that the noble and the peasant are all one; that the poor must not be trodden on." “Voltaire,” Cary said in a low voice. “France,” Armand went on, “has been reading this one. The smith and the plowman talk of what he has said in the rows and at the forge. It is not only the poor, the low, monsieur. Nobles who wear coroneted swords also think these things. They, loving liberty, would give their lives for their king. There is in Paris a club”— He paused abruptly. When he began again it was in a voice tinged with sadness. “Louis XV. is dead. Louis XVI. reigns.” Cary’s glance flashed into his. "Louis XVI. is young and ambitions. He hates England. An there were war here 'twould advantage him to aid the colonies." "Monsieur," declared the other, "it might ruin him. Listen! His own people are worse foes to the king of France than England, monsieur. And aiding the colonies here is putting a two edged sword into their hands! Even now they have the wish to redeem France. But they know not how. They have never seen such a thing. Power is all around them, and it seems as if it must last forever. So it is, monsieur, that these nobles—these of better blood—who love first of all their France—I could tell names—a Mirabeau, a Lafayette—they would have their king al America. They have joined hands with men of lower birth like Beau-marchais and made courtiers of them to the same end." "But," reflected Cary, puzzled, "you say to help our colonies might ruin Louis. Why, then, would these nobles push the plan? Have they such hate of England?" "No, no. Not because they hate England as Louis does, but because they love France better than Louis, and to save her they must even risk to ruin him. There is more than one French king at stake—there is a dynasty! These are not the middle ages, monsieur. In these days the peoples are awaking, France, if she lives, must open her eyes. These men I tell you of woll jolt her wide awake. They would have her smiths and her plowmen stop their toll to listen across the seas—to hear the guns of a people who would not be oppressed, to see royal mercenaries driven into the sea just by people like them. Then their murmur would be a roar. They would say, 'So can we do also!' Then the corrupt court would stand terror stricken. And then at last there would be an end of the selling of titles, of the elegant bishops and the painted countesses. France would put on purity again, and her king and her nobles would rule justly, and poverty would not stalk everywhere. These nobles of which I speak are loyal, monsieur. They love first France and then their king." "Gentlemen," rose Jarrat's voice, "the hogpen is just below. Will you come aft where the lookout is more agree able and join me in a game of loon?" On a morning when land had long been promised and was eagerly looked for the young Frenchman, M. Armand, mounted to the deck. His face was weather burned, and the salt breath of the spume fell damp on his hair. The Virginian came and stood beside him, and both looked down upon the wretched leg of redemptioners crowding the lower deck, gazing dumbly up like cattle. "A brave sight," submitted Cary, "I show the riches of the colonies." His tone was not without bitterness, as the Frenchman perceived. "You would not have it so?" "I? No. We have no need of some of the offscouring you see there. It will breed us the curse of crime. But what care the factors? 'Tis profit to them. And what cares the king? It means "Dreaming?" asked Caru. more tobacco, and tobacco stuffs his coffers." "Yet some of these may be lifted by opportunity." "Aye," answered Cary. "Bad as they are. Wooden hogs, fair sick for the lash, lumps from Cork or lack Latin sots shipped for schoolmasters. Their sons may be good citizens. New lands, new conditions. If this land be not saddled with another's ills, here these shall at least have hope. By their faces they leave not much to love behind them." Before either spoke again a cry came up from where a knot of sloven redemptioners were gathered—a cry and a hoarse word in one. Down below, at one side, a woman leaned, hugging a shawl wrapped bundle to her breast. She was a drab, but with a certain sullen beauty that is bred of Latin blood. Armand had seen her face more than once transfigured by that wondrous glory of mother love. He had that very day heard her crooning softly as she walked, noted the strange furtiveness with which she avoided the too curious gaze of her fellows, wondered what subtle grace nature had lent for mother eyes to those infant features. Now one of the crew stood over her, plucking at the shawl. She was weeping passionately, loudly, without pretense of concealment. "What a devil's that?" bawled the mate's voice from a rone ladder. "The brat's dead," said the sailor. "Blow me tight, I've been watching her for two days. The lailop's been singing to it to pull the wool over our eyes." "Dead, is it? Pitch it overboard, then." He kicked down a greasy rag of canvas. As the man he commanded approached the woman she fell on her knees, shrinking in close against the bulwarks and speaking rapidly in some foreign tongue. "What's that loblolly?" asked the mate. "She says," translated one of the pitiful group around her, "that the land is so near and the water is cold. She wants to bury it in the ground." "Split me," oathed the mate, "is that all? Over with it, Jerry!" Again she spoke, volubly and with many groveling sobs. "She says," said the redemptioner, "that if it could only be blessed. There is no priest aboard." The mate, with his hands on the rail, laughter at this. "Do what I say, you down there?" he cried. "Will ye stand making mouths all day? Tie it in that canvas." The man he had bidden approached the woman to take the cold little body from her, but she turned suddenly a fury and, holding it to her breast with one arm, fought him off, screaming. He jumped back, with his hand clapped to his armpit. "The Jezebel's bit me!" he yelled. There was a great laugh from the sailors, and the mate cursed hurlydly from above. "Are ye mollycoddles, then?" he shouted. As they hesitated he scrambled down hand over hand. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ELLIE MINIE WES us Damning them for landlubbers and clearly minded to do it himself. The Frenchman's fingers, as he stood beside the Virginian, gripped the rail. "Swine!" he said under his breath. Then he leaned over and called clearly. "Keep your hand from that woman!" The mate looked up, astonished, at the group, for the other passengers had gathered to witness what was going on. "What's that?" he asked. Armand repeated his words. The mate's face turned a spongy purple, and he laughed in a way that was not good to hear. For answer he reached out a hand to the shawl and literally tore it away from the poor clay it covered. At the instant he did so Armand vaulted the rail where he stood, caught a rope, swung to a stanchion and landed as lightly as a cat at the side of the burly ruffian. The act was so clean, so graceful and so quick that none of the passengers could have told exactly how it was done. The mate turned and, seeing him at his elbow, struck with all his strength at the other's head. An Unprecedented For Six Miles ...Typewriter FOR ON We have completed arrangements where Freeman with a good, practical typewriter for The stroke was one to stun, but it never reached home. The young forigner bent one side, not moving his feet, with a motion that would have spoken volumes to an athlete, and the mate's fist banged against the bulwark. While he staggered from this Armand, seizing a rope's end as he circled, cut him across the face with such a slash that the blood ran from the gash. Now ensued a strange combat. The mate, heavy and cumbrous, tried to reach the other with sledge hammer blows. The Frenchman, slight, wary circling, retreating, slipped hither and thither. Three times in as many seconds that sibilant "swish" sang, and a red mark sprang out on the brutal face. At each swing of the fist a sort of groan went up from the huddled redemptioners, and at each cut they sucked in their breath with delight. It was a new, strange entertainment for them—to have a brain sick passenger descend from his clean deck to champion the cause of a scure. The Virginian, looking down, was quivering visibly. As the passenger evaded a blow that would have crushed his ribs he could not forbear a shout "Well done, by the Lord! But 'ware the clinch! 'Ware the clinch, mon sieur!" For the mate, though maddened out of himself, had shown a sudden gleam of purpose. He was forcing the secretary back into a corner between bulwark and stanchion, not striking, but his burly arms now stretched out widely. Even as Cary shouted the arms gripped Armand like a vise, and the stinging rope's end, useless now, fell to the deck. Over the upper rail the passengers baned, watching. "A shame!" cried one. "That bloody brute will kill him out of hand." "Tis the clerk! Pshaw!" said the quartermaster. "He sides with the rabble. Let the rabble care for him!" The woman who had been the unwitting cause of this struggle crouched back of the first sullyly intent rows, waiting, hugging her bundle. The others watched, guessing well what the issue would be, most of them accepting it as they had accepted the unspeakable fare, the cursings and revilings of the crew, with that stolid acceptance which, multiplied by centuries of heredity, had brought them at last to this same condition. The Virginian leaned down with vibrant hopelessness. He looked to see the secretary, vised and cracked in those arms, drop limp and senseless. As he looked he saw Armand's face, very white, turn up to him. Then, like lightning, a wonderful thing happened. The young man's chin sank deep into the hollow of the other's shoulder; his arms went up about the muscles of the bulky back; his legs like wire went suddenly curling and twisting about the stocky ones. A moment of strained silence and a glaze of shocked surprise on the mate's slashed face, then— Crack! The coll untwisted; the mate relaxed, tottered and fell to the deck. There was at this time in France a curious science known as "La Savate" A glaze of shocked surprise on the mate's slashed face. A glaze of shocked surprise on the mate's slashed face. The Japanese have it under another name. 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Butler, instructor of domestic economy and assistant traveling agent. THERE is worry, sleep, cause of some that must be note or the pa-surance, the would mean a family. Worl- can be avoid, expedient is a one-twelfth of paid on den- SPORT Edited By TIME There are 164 clergy women, 262 black actresses and 10 Afro-American female lawyers. Mr. George White has been re-elected chief of the fire department of Pensacola, Fla. --- In an area of 40 000 square miles of cotton acreage 32,000 square miles are cultivated by Negro labor. *** The last census shows that in sixteen Southern States there are 175,883 more white illiterates than in 1870. *** A big gathering of citizens of Atlanta, Ga, took place recently in the People's Tabernacle on Yonge street. Interesting speeches were made by a number of well-known citizens and ministers, and a collection amounting to $1 000 was taken up for the Morris Brown college. --- The general committee which is to have charge of the proposed W. H Baldwin memorial fund was announced in New York a few days ago as follows: President Roosevelt, Jacob H. Sobiff Alfred T. White, Oswald Garrison Villard, Felix Adler, V. Everit Macy, Cleveland H Dodge, A. S Ochs of New York; President Ellot of Harvard; Charles Francis Adams of Boston; H. M. Atkinson of Atlanta; Grover Cleveland, H. H. Hanna, Indianapolis; J. Stanley Brown, secretary, New York. The fund is to be an addition to the endowment of the Tuskegee Institute, and, although no fixed sum has been set by the committee, they hope to make it as large as possible. SPO Edited By Word has been received that Jimmy Watts is in Columbus, O., getting on a series of bouts. Jimmy Fields, who is called the Black Pug has a sparring partner named Buldozing Bloodhound. The Freeman would like to hear from all athletics and especially from William H. Creighead, "Kid" Blackburn, Joe Gans, Jack Johnson and Joe Walcot. A colored womans club in Baltimore has organized a Basket Ball team They will line up for a game with a high school girl squad, of that city, in February. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Marvin Hart have decided to appear before any club offering the most goods. It seems that it is about as hard for Jack (Johnson to get on a fight as it would be for a man to try to find needle in a hay stack. The Y. M. C. A. of Indianapolis will organize a all-round Athletic team to take in all sports. The recent election of William H. Creighead, of Boston, as Captain of the Amherst (Mass.) Agricultural College football team, shows how well that ability is appreciated among the colleges of the country. Mr. Creighead is six feet tall and weighs 190 pounds. The Pocket Sporting Compendium, a neat and concised little book of the championship records of the world, has been published and sent to us as a compliment by Mr. Poney Moore propitor of the hotel de Moore and the Turf Sample Room in Chicago. The book contains a reliable account of every heard of event in the sporting world. It is profusely illustrated and is just the thing to refer to, to stop arguments and settle bets. Lighting Murry of troop L. 10th U S. Calvery, got the decision over Sergt. Beattie of troop C, U. S Calvery in a 10 round go before the Y M C.A of Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The bout was pulled off under the Marqus of Queensbury rules. From the beginning to the end Lighting Murry had the better of his opponent. In the pre- --- Over $200,000 will be spent by the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education 1 Society, which is an auxiliary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the erection at Spalding, Ala., five miles from Birmingham, of a great college for the education of the Negro. The first building was commenced about two weeks ago, and will cost $80,000. Others will be erected. Among those taking part in the ceremonies were Bishop J. M. Walden of Cincinnati, Bishop D A. Goodsall of Boston, President F. M. Jackson of Birmingham Commercial Club and Mayor Drennen of Birmingham. This institution, when c mpleted, will be one of the largest colleges of the kind for colored people in the Southern States. A Washington dispatch says: Wm H. Sheppard, whose home city is Staunton, Va., and who for the past fourteen years has been a Presbyterian missionary in the Congo Free State, presented to the President a handsome rug, a coverlet of palm fiber linen and a unique pipe, all of the articles being manufactured and used by the natives of Central Africa Mr. Sheppard told the President that since he went to Africa the natives have introduced printing presses and now print the Bible in their native language, although prior to fourteen years ago the language had not been reduced to reading characters and the natives never even had heard of a book. Mr. Sheppard is in this country on a year's leave of absence and expects to return to Africa at the expiration of his leave. ORT TIME liminary Mack of troop I and Session of troop A, went on. The latter was out classed and the referee stoped the fight in the 3rd round. Mack was declared the winner. Chicago fighters, of class, will have a new field on and after February 10, as the Oshkosh Athletic Club, under the management of J. Larle will give monthly contests. These contest are to take place, in turn each month, at St. Louis, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, South Bend and other small towns with in few hours ride of Chicago. The first of these contests will come off on the 10th of next month between Tommy Mowatt and Abe Attwell. COMING BATTLES Tommy Mowatt and Abe Attell will meet in Chicago on the 10th of February. Eugene Bezenah and John Dancer will meet in California the first of next next month. Dan Fields, the 150 pound champion, better known as Oak Knot of North Carolina, is now open to meet all comers at his weight. The Oak Knot Kid has been in training here for the past month and now feels that he can clean any one at any time at the weight mentioned before any club. Managers wishing to get on a lively contest will write the sporting editor of The Freeman The Columbia Club 'Pet' has not been heard from in the sporting world for many a long day. Jimmy Fields wired us from Chicago that he would like to locate him right away. EDUCATIONAL NOTES CAMPBELL COLLEGE, JACKSON, MSS. The present actual enrollment is more than 180 of which number 75 are boarding students, more than 35 beyond any previous record. The outlook, in spite of the crippled condition which the fire of 1908 caused and the many other drawbacks is that the institution is not only destined to eclipse all previous records but will compare favorably with any in the connection as well as any of Its kind in the southland —The ll'e size portraitals of Drs. E. W. Lumpton and J. H. Collect grace the chapel.—A strong class in the theology is progressing under the instruction and management of Rev D H Butler —All of the state of Mississippi and many of the other states are represented —D H. Butler, A. M., D D., is president; Rev. A. H. Meves B. D., principal; Mrs. Katie Allen John son and Mrs. 1da Adwood, teachers; Miss Ella M. Wilson, instructor of music; Mrs S. E. Disney, matron; Mrs Mamie J. Butler, instructor of domestic economy and assistant traveling agent. -c0o- MORRISTOWN COLLEGE NOTES. The international secretary of the Y. M. C. A, Mr. Hunton, paid the institution a visit recently. Several meetings were held. He addressed the young men relative to their work, commended them for their success and laid plans for their future work. The message of three 'b's' Be Courageous, Be Faithful, Be Sweet" was the subject of one address which was both interesting and instructive. Four young men were converted at the last meeting. Mr Hunton has been with the young men many times but this visit was the most impressive. A reception was given in his honor and the teachers and young women students we present. Mr Hunton made an interesting talk. W. L. Wilkerson of Moorehead Miss., Learned to Be a Tailor at Tuskegee. W. L. Wilkerson, a tailor in Moorehead. Miss, serves as a striking example of the progressive and active young men and women the Tuskegee Institute, through a good, thorough system of industrial training—training of the head, the heart and the hand—is sending out from year 10 year. Some years ago Wilkerson was a student of one of the schools of Atlanta, Ga., where he had hoped to get an education. After attending this school one year, however, his funds gave out, and it seemed to him that he must leave the class room and seek employment of some kind to make a livelihood. He told his teacher of his condition, and one day, as he was on the eve of stopping his education, she called him to her office and told him about the Tuskegee Institute. She told him that the Tuskegee Institute was a school where Negro boys and girls who, like himself, were anxious to get an education, but were unable to pay for it, could work their way through school; that they could learn a trade and at the same time have an opportunity to study the academic branches. This was the opportunity he was looking for and so Wilkerson soon found himself on the way to Tuskegee almost peniless to get an education. In the fall of 1897 Wilkerson was admitted as a night student where he was to work at his trade or some industry during the day and recite in the academic branches at night. In this way he was able to earn a sufficient amount of money each month to pay his board and some over this, which was placed to his credit in the school's treasury to be used later on to help pay his board when he entered the day school'. He was assigned to the trade of brickmaking. After one year in the night school he was transferred to the day school, where he studied the academic branches the whole of each school day and worked at his trade each alternate Saturday and one day during each week. By way of parenthesis, it might be well to state here that the school has now perfected a plan and has it in successful operation by which students in the day school are enabled to work at their trades each alternate day. This gives the day school students an opportunity to master a trade as well as the night school students, and at the same time study the literary branches. Wilkerson spent two years in the day school. He took advantage of another unique feature of Tuskegee's work during the summer vacations he was permitted to remain at the school and was given work at his trade. In this way, by working the whole of each day, he was able to accumulate enough money to his credit in the school's treasury to pay almost the whole of his expenses during the next year. At the same time, in addition to this pecuniary gain, he was perfecting himself in his trade. A large number of students remain at Tuskegee the year around, and during the vacation period are given work to do which enables them to make money with which to pay for the next year's schooling. This arrangement makes it possible for any Negro boy or girl who is earnest, who means business and is not afraid to work, to get an education including a trade at Tuskegee. Wilkerson not only mastered the trade of brickmaking; but was admitted to the tailorshop, and by the time he had finished the academic department in the year 1901, had also mastered the trade of tailoring. He was employed by the school to take charge of one of its brickyards during the summer and to work at his trade, tailoring, in the school's tailorshop during the winter months. His work was highly satisfactory. In March of last year a call came to the school for a young man to go to Moorehead, Miss, to take charge of a tailor shop owned by a company of white men at that place; Wilkerson was re- AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER After a bath or shampoo the hair can be dried in fifteen (15) minutes with the Magic Shampoo Drier, and at the same time thoroughly, without injury to the hair or scalp. The operation leaves the hair soft, fluffy and beautiful. 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By making useful men and women of the more than 6,000 young people who have completed one or more of its courses of training or who have remained at the school long enough to get the spirit of the institution it has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that such training as it affords builds character, produces thrifty, economizing and property-owning young men and women—is effectual. Straightner and Grower, which grows long, beautiful. straight hair, and Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier, which gives dazzling beauty and clear, velvety skin. Sells for 30 cents each. Every woman and man will buy when shown a package. Over 100 per cent profit for agents. You can easily clear $5 per day. We also furnish and beautify your homes without any cost to you. Write today for particulars. ADDRESS S'OTT'SREMEDYCO, box 570 Louisville Ky. The Freeman can be found every week in Yezzo City Mo, at Parker's Arlstoracaw Barber Shop—a peer of all colored shops Headquarters for all professional men. 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The fact that these two dozoon or so of beautifully decorative bronze and brass lamps did not sell during the holiday season, they sold than ever before, demonstrates one of two things: Either that there were on the floor cheaper lamps, or they were approached them in beauty or that there were others which you thought prettier at the same price. In other words, you could be tempted to the policy of the Ayres store, imperative. And it's a deep one. If "Uncle Sam" should suspend en-tomorrow's lamps, some of these lamps for as little as they will now be sold. The proof: A Japanese bronze lamp with a ten- inch bowl and standing 15 inches high, elaborately decorated in designs charm- ous and beautiful. The bronze lamp has been held at $25.90 now offered at..... $12.50 A Japanese bronze lamp, standing 15 inches high on a bronze base of 12 inches. The bronze lamp is beautifully decorated, instead of $17.50, now repriced.....$9.75 A lamp 30 inches high, fancy decorated bowl, slender, plain stem, round flaring design, decoration of carved flowers, was $35, now.....$20.00 L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. Al Harvey is in Minneapolis. Miss Zola Black continues very ill. Mrs. David C Gee is on the slick list at this writing. Charles Clinton is holding his own at the Union station. Jesse Moore is now with the Ceder wood Distilling Co. All society uses Woodbine Perfume Blodau's drug store. Harry Estes, of the Grand hotel, has been on the slick list. Mrs Cora B Jackson has recovered from a recent illness. Uneeda a good photo, go to Bennet's, 36 E Washington street. Miss Ela Faison is quite ill at her home in Minervia street. Mrs. Zella Locklear Ward is ill at her home in Indiana avenue. The Royal Boosters will give a masqurade ball February 14. "Gen." Payne is very ill at his home in North Missouri street. Mrs John Carter had a difficult operation performed this week. The Kenmore club will meet every Tuesday night in each month. Nathan Payne died at his home in North Missouri street last Thursday. Mrs Virgina Emory, who has been on the slot list, is able to be about again. Harry Morgan entertained a number of friends last Thursday evening at his home. Mrs. Mamie Gibson, of Rhode Island street, met with a serious accident last week. Mr. Mack Proffitt, a young business man of Richmond, Ind., is in the city visiting. Joseph Letcher, late with the Dennison hotel, left for Springfield, Illinois, Thursday. Miss Ambie Keen has removed from Dr. Wattsons to Mrs. Looklears in Douglas street. W. D. Gibbs, late with the Dennison culinary department, is now chef at the Imperial ho el. Wm. Brown is seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Smith, in Muskingum street. Arthur Thurman, who has been on the slick list for the past two weeks, is able to be out again. James Wells, of the Union station barbershop, will visit his mother in North Carolina shortly. Mr O E Duncan is touring the East during the month of February in the interest of the Freeman. You Save on a Diamond You Save on a Diamond what I save in rent by being two minutes from Washington street. Prices are my proof. Diamond Importer J.P.MULLALLY and Jeweler 28 MONUMENT PLACE ASI When way of do always We m PERSON a Our payment are only Other an made me and DIAS ous tree THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER There will be song service Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock at Bethel A. M. E. church. All are invited. Messrs James Nicholson, C. Dunlap and D L. Moss attended the funeral of Alexander Moss, at Peru, Ind. R T. Williams has organized a new lodge of Knights of Pythias, which will be known as "Columbia" lodge. George Williams, Jr., of Lynchburg Va., representing the National Industrial Endowment Co., is in the city. The Lidies' Guild of St. Phillips Mission will give a Martha Washington masquerade tea party at Odd Fellows hall Tuesday evening, February 21. David Turner has been connected with the Schnull wholesale grocery company for the past twenty three years. The Magnolia quartet rendered some fine selections at the Royal Rooster's entertainment in Odd Fellows hall Fuesd day evening. Mrs. Hannah Jameson, of Plainfield, was in the city Saturday, visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sadie Burnett, 424 West North street. George W. Woods, late of the Big Four parlor car service, is now running between Chicago and San Francisco in the Pullman service. Mr. James Thomas has returned from Hot Springs, Ark., where he went for the benefit of his health. Mr. Thomas is somewhat improved. Mesdames E. Stone, H. Fleming, H. D. Jones, L. Philips, Misses M. Miller and B Scott will entertain a number of friends at Odd Fellows hall on February 15. The Progressive Social club was entertained by Mrs. Angie Elkins Thursday of this week. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Sarah Howard, 1012 East Nineteenth street, next Thursday afternoon. The Flanner Guild has organized a symphony orchestra, under the direction of Edward Brown, and request all persons interested to meet Wednesday evening at 8 p. m. Bring your instruments. Instruction free. Leonard Haley, of the tailoring firm of Hobson & Haley, Louisville, Ky. was in the city this week on a short pleasure trip. Mr. Haley has a host of warm friends in Indianapolis who visit with each other in making his visit a pleasant one. Mr. Haley is one of the promising young business men of the Falls City who are "making good." The Pythian lodges of the state will hold their jubilee at Tomlinson hall Thursday evening, February 16, by way of celebrating the forty-first anniver sary of the existence of the order. Addresses will be made by the officers of various co-ordinate lodges and by members. Among the special features will be an exhibition drilling by the famous Lousville Grenadiers, under Captain Perry Ashworth Good music by a good orchestra. Admission 50 cents. Will Linday, that great musical prodigy of Greensboro, N C, who plays music with hands, feet, nose and mouth and whistles the birds to shame, has been delighting the people of Indianapolis this week. He will continue to entertain at the following churches: Tuesday night, February 7, Antoioch Baptist church, Thirteenth and Missouri streets; Wednesday night, February 8, Allen Chapel, Rev. Stewart, pastor; Thursday night, February 9. Second Baptist church. For engagements for all churches while he is here address 526 California street; phone 4434. He is known by a little gray spot in his mustache. BUSINESS INTERESTS Uneeda good Photo, go to Bennett's 36. E Washington If you want a job call at Parker's Employment Agency, 315 Indiana ave. Household goods bought, sold and ex- changed Naumann, 383 Indiana Ave Electric massage, hot and old baths at the Czar barbershop, 226 Indiana avenue. Samuel E Gray proprietor 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 Y, M, C, A, NOTES. Great spirit is shown by the young fellows now The special program by the literary society was a grand success. Lawyer Loop will talk for us Sunda week. Lookout for a grand public meeting. There will be a mass meeting tomorrow for the young men at the association's hall, from 8:30 to 4:30 Address by James M Shelton, subject "The Man of the Hour." All men are invited. Have You Tried it? 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BCKY'S DRUG ST COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET C. HAYES, THE DRUGGER drugs, toilet articles, perfumes and sundry articles secure to please every one Your Perscription and Other Medicine T going to get it. Come and see L. C. HAYES, THEN now where it is 502 Indiana INDIAN PARKER HOUSE will S WELL KNOWN FOR ITS EXCELLENT SERVICE The best of everything in season WELL APPOINTED ROOMS, BATHS, ETC. public will find superior accommodations at this nota Michigan St. New 4972—PHONES—Old, Red 6512 J. W. HOLL STUCKY'S HEADACHE CAPSULES for immediate relief of headache ..... 10a and 25c a box Fine California Wines ..... 25c a box MRS. L. C. HAYES, THE DRUGGIST For pure drugs, toilet articles, perfumes and sundry articles call on me. I want your Person and Other Medicines (Trade) I Want Your Perscription and Other Medicine Trade, and am going to get it. Come and see L. C. HAYES, THE DRUGGIST, You know where it is 502 Indians Av-nue INDIANAPOLIS, IND. WELL KNOWN FORITS EXCELLENT SERVICE the best of everything in season WELL APPOINTED ROOMS, BATHS, ETC. The traveling public will find superior accommodations at this notable hotel. 317-321 W. Michigan St. J. W. HOLIMAN, Prop New 4972-PHONES-Old. Red 6112 Plenty of COAL and plenty of Teams to deliver it. Sold in any quantity from 2 bushels up. CALL AND SEE US INDIANAPOLIS WRECKING CO. 523 Indiana Ave. New Phone 8598 Consolidated Coal and Lime Comp Best Place for Your lands Corner Ray Street and Madison Ave. and Fourteenth Street and Senate Avenu Ave. MAIN OFFICE 13 Viru th Telephones 273. AUGUST KUHN, Preside WE'LL MEET Y at the State PYTHIAN UBILE At LINSON HALL, - INDIANAP Thursday Eve., Feb. 16, 1905 The Consolidated Coal The Best Place Yards Corner Ray Street And Fourteenth Street 13 Virgina Ave. MAIN O Both Telephones 273. AUG WE'LL ME at the State JUB At TOMLINSON HALL, Thursday Eve., The Consolidated Coal and Lime Company. The Best Place for Your Coal, Yards Corner Ray Street and Madison Avenue. And Fourteenth Street and Senate Avenue. Both Telephones 273. AUGUST KUHN, President WE'LL MEET YOU at the State PYTHIAN JUBILEE Thursday Eve., Feb. 16, 1905 Under the auspices of all the Knights of Pythias Lodges of India The Forty-first Anniversary of the Order will be appropriately with addresses by Supreme Lodge, Grand Lodge, Calantha a Uniform Rank Officers and Members. Exhibition Drilling by the Louisville Grenadiers under Capt. Perry Ashford and other company GOOD MUSIC by a good orchestra. Have You a Button? The Public is W nights of Pythias Lodges of India. y-first Anniversary of the Order will be appropriately issued by Supreme Lodge, Grand Lodge, Calantha a rank Officers and Members, Exhibition Drilling to the Grenadiers under Capt. Perry Ashford and other compa- MUSIC by a good orchestra. Knights of Pythias Lodges of Indiana The Forty-first Anniversary of the Order will be appropriately celebrated with addresses by Supreme Lodge, Grand Lodge, Calantha Court and Uniform Rank Officers and Members. Exhibition Drilling by the famous Lourdes Grecians under Capt. Perry Ashford and other companies. GOOD SERVICE Admission, Only 50 Cents --- PHONE, NEW 432. Phone, New 4135 COAL The largest loaf in town The quality is finest Insist on having it from your grocer. PHONE, OLD, MAIN 2983 Wanted? Our little easy payment plan recom- mends itself to every judicious borrower. [You will find our rates the very lowest. No advance charges or compound interest. Special rebate if paid before due. In case of sickness or misfortune we will extend the time. The most courteous treatment alawys. Come to us for cash 134 E. Market St. STATE PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Avenue. RACHE CAPSULES 100 and 250 a box 250 a quart bottle RUG STORE & OHIO STREET THE DRUGGIST fragrumes and sundry articles call on me, and Other Medicine Trade, and see L. C. HAYES, THE DRUGGIST, 502 Indiana Avenue INDIANAPOLIS, IND. HOUSE will suit you! US EXCELLENT SERVICE anything in season ROOMS, BATHS, ETC. for accommodations at this notable hotel. J. W. HOLIMAN, Prop NES—Old, Red 6512 Ral and Lime Company, Use for Your Coal, Set and Madison Avenue, Set and Senate Avenue, OFFICE 13 Virginia Ave. AUGUST KUHN, President. MEET YOU the PYTHIAN ILEE At - INDIANAPOLIS, e., Feb. 16, 1905 s Lodges of Indiana Order will be appropriately celebrated Grand Lodge, Calantha Court and Exhibition Drilling by the famous ry Ashford and other companies. The Public is Welcome --- Phone, New 4135 COAL