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INVEST YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU KNOW YOU'LL GET IT BACK. The Freeman prints more advertising of every kind than any five other colored newspapers in the United States. THE REASON:—Because it always brings the best results. Ask those who use its columns—they know THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 1 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS ISITS THE HOME OF GENERAL SMALLS, THE GRAND OLD MAN. WHO RELATES TO HIM INTEREST- g Happenings in His Busy Life—Preacher's Paradise, a Good Name for Beaufort, S. C., He Says—Negro Postmasters in Evidence. Charleston, S. C., Special.—Since I wrote last Georgetown has suffered loss in the death of Mr. Howard, one of her most honored citizens. The funeral services were conducted by Drs. Cott, Bennett and Sterrett. The Howard family is one of the most prominent in the state. I was in Beaufort last week and I am sure that the mere mention arouses your interest. Yes, Beaufort is the home of Gen. Smalls, ex-representative, ex-congressman and a host of other things that tell how busy his life has been. I experienced more pleasure in shaking his hand and than usually comes to me on meeting men. There are Attorney Washington, the Hon. Reed, Prof. Peques, Fisher, the wide wake business man and all around success, and a great many others. "Preacher's Parable" is a good synonym for Beaufort among the ministers are to be found the scholarly Dr. Watson, Bythewood, Crum, collector of the port of another kingdom) Thomas, Lawrence, Rivers, Jefferson, Chavis, and a few odd dawn or more. The gentlemen above named are able leaders and keenly alive to the interest of the people. Dr. Kennedy has a fine practice and able in every sense to defend the dignity of his profession. Dr. Singleton is the "new vector," as our people would say, but a mighty young man. When I go to B-auffort I shall take sick just to see how I must take him to have me up. Five one that it will be a record breaker. The one life that our people in Beaufort is very high indeed. They have nice homes in which a crowned head might not blush to seek shelter and there are other homes in those keeping. I mention with pride W. Thomas, Izard's Glover's Wrights' DeVoes' Washington and could name many others, but for consideration of your space I will not mention. Negroes control the livery business of the town, it is in fact a livery trust. Miss Mack, the drugstreet, is an honor to the race and to the town. Competent, pretty, 'er, well, congratulations. In and around Beaufort the Negro postmaster is to be found in all his glory. The Old Roman has guarded the interest of his race well at this point. Edesta, St. Helena and Port Royal are places where the Negro is not swaiing the color of his skin, but on sale may be seen in town between the courthouse (where sales are made) and the bank where he has the "stuff to land the woods." WANDEER. HAMILTON. Hamilton, Ohio, Special.—Rev. Coles, Kansas, left Sunday after a week's work here. Rev. Jesse Smith will assist this week.—During the revival at the church church ten were converted and four were bathed Sunday. The remaining six will be baptized Monday evening. Rev. Peymour will conduct the service.—Rev. Levels, of Cincinnati, the evangelist, spoke at the A.M. e.church Sunday afternoon to arise audience. The meeting was full of seeing—Mrs. John Carenter will enter the Busy Bees at their next meeting.—Mrs. James Craig entertained Dr. Harper, of Dayton, last week.—Rev. I. N. Bass is expected here Wednesday.—Mrs. Alexander Chureman, Majory and Edna Logan spent Sunday in Oxford.—Mrs. Garland Dickerson is improving.—Charles Conroy is able to be cut out.—Harry Conway, of Cincinnati, spent Sunday with relatives.—Thomas Howard, Jr., and Miss Mary Horton spent Sunday in the city with relatives.—Mr. and Mrs James L. Hunter spent Sunday in College Hill.—Byron Anderson spent Sunday in Oxford.—Rev. Johnson, of Oxford, was in the city a few days last week.—Mrs. Thomas Howard is improving.—Mrs. John Collins is sick at her home in St. Joseph street.—Mrs Jerry Cummins has moved to Mrs. Julia Freeman is able to be put again.—Charles Mooreland has opened first class restaurant on Henry street.—Mrs. Sherman Long entertained a few friends in honor of Miss Grace Williams recently. THE ·JIM-CROW" SITUATION CONGRESS ENTF-JIM CROW BILL SOCIAL EQUALITY BOOH! DISFRANCHISMENT. WEGRO G. HAYWOOD 0.5. MA 18 1995 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE CONGRESS WILLIAMSPORT Williamsport, Pa., Special—Mr. Chastine Johnson has returned from Johnstown, Pa., and has taken his old position at the Hotel Undegraph—Glen Freeman and Charles Fortune, of Jersey Shore, spent Sunday in the city. The Freeman is on sale every Saturday at B. Y. Robert's studio, 433 Pine street.—Mr. Clemens, of Philadelphia, was in the city last week.—John Sherman has returned from an extended trip through Washington and Virginia—Miss Gant, of Milton, Pa., was the guest of the Misses Lizzie and Nancy Parker recently.—The Salem A. M. E. Zion church will hold a rally on the fourth Sunday in this month.—Rev. Mosses, of Lynchburg, Va., preached at Shiloh Baptist church Sunday—Bethel A. M. E. church held a special meeting Wednesday, March 8. The members decided to build an annex to their church. This is a much needed improvement. Quite a number of subscriptions were taken.—Rev. Askew, D. D., pastor of the Methodist church, filled Rev. West's pulpit at Wilkesbarre last Sunday and delivered the annual missionary sermon to the Mite Missionary society at that place.—The Music Committee held another of their delightful socials at the home of Frank Brewington last Tuesday evening—A social given by the Doll Committee was held at the residence of Mrs. C. Taylor on Thursday evening.—The annual sermon of the Women's Mite Missionary society of Bethel A. M. E. church was delivered by Rev. S. P. West, B D, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The discourse was an excellent one. DAYTON. Dayton, O., Special.—Mrs. Lydia Simmons of Schantzes Lane, Dayton View, is visiting her sister in Shelbyville, Ky.—Chas. Clark's Platium No. 3 elected the following officers March 3: P. P., Jacob L. Bradford; V. P., Hattie Snell; R. P., Laurence O. Coleman; A. P., Ora Coleman; P. B., Samuel W. Cole; P. N., Martha Young; P. C., Marian Thomas; P. R., Mary Hudgins; P. G., Simon H. Grant; P. F., Letta B. Smith; P. M., Harris G. Thomas. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1905. WILL CONGRESS APPLY OR REJECT THE KEY? MORGANTOWN. Morgantown, W. Va., Special.—Charles Robinson, of Cumberland, Md., has accepted a position at Hotel Madera.—H. C. Blue is preparing his ice cream factory and getting ready for the early spring trade.—B. W. E. Blue left the city Wednesday morning for Sewickley, Pa.—The Freeman will be sold here as long as you support it.—Dr. Allen N. Levey is meeting with success.—Mrs. R. W. E. Blue has returned to Uniontown.—The Columbia Maudolin and Guitar club will furnish music for the entertainment and drama to be given at Hunt's hall next Friday night.—Henry Jones has accepted a position at Jones' glass factory. The bateleur's social given last Friday night, under the auspices of the A. M. e. church, was a grand financial and social success. John Denson, of Fairmont, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Denson. J. H. Lewis has accepted the agency of the Freeman for this city. He will be pleased to supply one and all with the paper and also receive the news. YOUNGSTOWN Youngstown, O., Special.—The mask ball given by the Twentieth Century band on the 10th was a success.—Mrs. Punyard preached at the Baptist church last Sunday.—O. Smith has opened a restaurant on the corner of Colfax and Michigan streets.—J. Still and Master Willie Morgan have been seriously ill but are able to be out again.—Master Rudolph Ash and Miss Alice Hathcox are seriously ill.—Mrs. Newton Sanders left Saturday for Eaton Rapids, Mich.—Mrs. Clarence Claremont will move to 101 Jack-ons street in the near future.—Sam Outland has returned from Three Rivers, Mich.—Mr. Kinzey, of Cleverlaud, O., was in the city last week.—The dancing school at the Harrison club every Monday night is under the management of Profs. Compton and Hedgepeth.—Remember the ball at Nites, Mich. on March 24.—Call at C. A, Hedgepath's barbershop each week. 125 West Colfax avenue, and secure a copy of the Freeman, on sale there. DYERSBURG. Dyersburg, Tenn., Special.—Rev. M. T. Cooper, pastor A. M. E. church, Woodland, Tenn., preached very acceptably at three services Sunday, the 5th. A very successful entertainment was given by the members of Johnson Chapel C. M. E. church Monday night, the 6th. Proceeds $33.—Miss Annie Doyle visited the school recently and familiarized herself with the work of her former classmates.—Mrs. Ella Beaumont Smith is rapidly recovering from a severe illness. Her many friends have been very attentive and rejoice much to note her rapid improvement.—Miss L. J. Miller, principal of Sunset Academy, is laying plans for very elaborate closing exercises. Miss Miller is one of the best primary teachers in the state.—Miss Alberta Fort, the accomplished organist of the Tabernacle Baptist church, is getting her chair in shape for their spring concert.—The students of Bruce High School are now engaged in a spirited contest, hoping thereby to seat the auditorium by commencement. Five dollars in gold is to be given the room raising the largest amount of money. B. A. Atkins made a social visit to Ripley Friday, the 2nd.—Rev. J. H. Fowikes has taken up his work with the International Correspondence school. His first mark was 97 percent. Rev. A. A. Townsend is the latest addition to the I. C. S. club. Geo. Travis is able to at work again. EVANSVILLE Evansville, Ind., Special.—Among the visitors during the week were Miss Sammella Ganaway, of Henderson, Ky.; Rev. W. H. Beecher, of Hebbardsville, Ky.; Miss Louise Wyatt, of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Lillian Pope, Miss Pearl Gibson and Miss Shorter were on the sick list.—James Roberts has been appointed deputy sheriff of Vanderburg county.—An orchestra under the direction of Prof. C. C. Monroe would be quite an addition to our musical talent —We are anticipating a visit of Miss Hallie Q. Brown.—The Champaign club, under the direction of Theodore Pope, is progressing.—The Dunbar society of Clark high school have proven themselves entertainers. The female quartet of the class of '05 have gained by their sweet voices a place among the first—The grand literary and musical concert at McFarland Chapel on March 21 should be well attended. Among the numbers will be a duet by Miss G. P. Williams and W. F. Cooper. They need no introduction.—The Y. M. C. A., held an interesting meeting at Bland avenue church Sunday—Miss K. B. Porter entertained a few at cards recently.—The B. Y. P. U., of McFarland Chapel is proving to be quite a drawing card for the young people.—The Clark High School is preparing for basket ball. SELECTED CORRESPOND UNIONTOWN'S AMEUTRE PERMERS GIVE A MINSTRE PERFORMANCE WHICH WAS Success—The Lone Star State comes the Freeman-Locs Personal Happenings of Our COLUMBIA Columbia, Tenn., Special.—The Knights of Pythias will give a big minstrel show Tuesday, March 21, at their hall. The minstrel promises to be a grand affair. Clark and Watkins will be the principal funnakers. The first part will be entitled "A Knight with a Prowler." Many new features will be introduced. The afterpiece will be entitled "The Black Four Hundred."—Prof. Bostick, principal of the white public schools, made a trip to some of the large cities recently to investigate the public school system. In visiting some of the more advanced schools he found that they were operated very differently from the schools here. On his return he made some suggestions to the board of education as to laws governing the schools. The colored school has already received a book of rules which are very stringent.—"Lincoln's Proclamation," a drama in three acts, was rendered at Gholostein's hall Friday night. MAYFIELD Mayfield, Ky., Special., Dr. Nelson and wife, of Paduach, visited Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Green last week.—Rev. B. I. Porter, who has been pastor of the A. M. E. church of this city has been transferred to Murray, Ky., and Rev. G. H. Burks to Mayfield.—The preachers held a reunion at the residence of Dr. Porter's last Tuesday.—Miss Lulu Drawe, who has been sick several weeks, is able to be up again.—Get a copy of the Freeman from G. W. Tazler.—U. A Thomas visited Paduach last Sunday.—Rev. J. W. Simmons, P. E., passed through the city Thursday, en route to Clinton, Ky.—Rev. George Keys, of Paduach, visited his old home last Sunday.—W. M. Mack left for New Orleans Sunday night.—Miss Rosa Dismukes visited in Paduach last Sunday.—Sam Jones, Gentry Carson and Sam Anderson have gone to Charleston, Miss., to be gone several months. CINCINNATI Cincinnati, O., Special.-Mrs. Julia Daniels, of Indianapolis, mother of Major J. Daniels, who is in Cincinnati with the Nonparial Jubilee singers, lies quite ill at her home, 513 West Sixteenth street. We pray for her speedy recovery.-The revival services at Allen Temple were quite a success. Over sixty new members were added to the church. March 5th was the quarterly meeting service and several were baptized. —Miss E. Hamilton expects to go East to visit friends in the near future and also engage in concert work. Her ability for such work cannot be questioned as singing seems a natural part of her life. She is a cultured singer and her race may well be proud of her. ATLANTA. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Atlanta University won a decisive victory over Fisk University in their first debate last Friday night in Atlanta before a large audience. The subject was "Resolved that the United States Should Acquire no Territory Without the Intention of Eventually Giving it Statehood." Atlanta had the affirmative and was represented by T. K. Gibson and A. T. Walden, A. W. Ricks alternate; Fisk was represented by P. Thomas and L. M. Johnson, H. E. Macbeth, alternate. The debate was interesting throughout. MT, PLEASANT, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., Special.—All those that want their pensions attended to call on Rev. M. J. Smith. Rev Smith is meeting with success with his church work. The church council will convene soon for the purpose of ordaining D. A. Smith. Revs. E. J. Frierson and Powell preached at Carpenter's mines recently. SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE UNIONTOWN'S AMEUTE PERFORMERS GIVE A MISTEEL PERFORMANCE WHICH WAS A BIG Success-The Lone Star State Welcomes The Freeman-Local and Personal Happenings of Our Many Different Correspondents. Uniontown, Pa., Special.-Green's Burnt Cork Minstrel Coterie, a local aggregation, assisted by Miss Nellie Grant and Clarence Baxter, Uniontown's baton wielder, and under the careful direction of George Brown gave a very pleasing performance in the Grand opera house Thursday, March 9th, before a large and attentive audience, among the strong features of the company were the "end gags" by Henry Johnson, Charles Bogus and George Green. Fred Baker, of Brownsville, in his singing and mimic sketch received great applause. The singing rendered by Wm. Speaks, Charles and Wm. Aldridge, Benjamin Smith, Chas Curry and Carroll Johns were very pleasing and received much applause. In the old Master Channey Lee, the twelve year old musical genius, received great applause, accompanied by money being thrown upon the stage. The sketches of Henry Johnson Elsie Callahan and Ben Smith were also good. George Brown rendered the following late songs, which pleased the audience very much: "Abraham, I'm Going to Leave," "Congo Love Song," "Big Chief," and "I Certainly Feeling Bad." As a whole the performance was very creditable. The executive staff was composed of Charles B. Green, late of the Hottest Coon in Dixie Company, who acted as interlocutor and sang a ba-s solo which received great applause; George M. Green, general manager; James Jackson, secretary and business manager; George Brown, stage manager; Daniel Walker and Wm. Reed, stage carpenters; Sam Holler, electrician.-Mr. and Mrs. Trent are visiting in Fairmount, W. Va.-William Plummer is meeting with success handling the Afro-American publications.-The series of meetings at Mt. Rose Baptist church is quite a success.-Mrs. N. Niggs is doing a fine business.-Dr. Whitson has a large practice.-It has been rumored that Miss Nora L. Carter has closed her night school; the report is without foundation.-Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lacy, of Washington, D. C., are in the city.-Mrs. Edward J. Sams will join her husband in Connerville soon.-Miss Lillie Smothers has postponed her trip indefinitely on the account of the illness of her mother.-Mrs. Philip Johnson reports a pleasant time in Washington, D. C. SAN ANTONIO. San Antonio, Texas, Special.—The Second Baptist church had a rally Sunday and raised $3225 towards the building of a new church.—Mrs. R. C. Tyree left Sunday for Dallas, she will spend several days there afterwhich she will join her husband, R. C. Tyree, in Peoria, I.—The contest at the St Paul M. E. church was postponed on account of the bad weather.—Some of the new readers to the Freeman: Ocar Lott, Gus Johnson, Walter Watkins, Will Powell, Sam Edmondson, Raleigh Freeman and W. W. Dixon.—William Mecsely and Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper left Monday night for Hot Springs.—Tom Cahoun has enlarged his cafe and wishes to see all of his old friends and patrons now as he is able to accommodate more guests.—M. L. Scott, of the Palace Buffet, has one of the finest places in the city; everything in first class style and up-to-date.—S. L. Lewis, one of our idle waiters, left Wednesday morning for City of Mexico, to accept a position as clerk.—Luther Green and G. J. Starnes are constant readers of the Freeman.—Bishop Lee's daughter died Wednesday night last.—Look out for the grand ball to be given by A. Nealy and S. Whitfield. MOBILE Mobile. Ala., special.—The full-dress ball given Friday night was well attended—John Alexander is on the sick list.—The infant baby girl of D W. 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AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE THE A. C. HOWARD MFG. CO 8544 State St., Chicago, Ill. M. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WOMAN'S WORLD This column will be devoted to the interests of women. Questions will be cheerfully in order. In order to insure a reply it is necessary to give a pseudonym under which the querist may be answered. The full name and address must also be given. Please, under any circumstances, no publication. No answer will be sent by mail unless a stamped envelope is received at this office. Address all communications to Woman's Corner, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. BEHIND THE SCENES. Through the courtesy and kindness of Mr. J. Ed. Green, the efficient stage manager of the Smart Set, it was my pleasure to spend one afternoon behind the scenes during a matinee performance last week. age woman experiences in arranging her parlor for an afternoon club meeting. The women of the Smart Set have the complaints that female humanity heir to, but still there is no giving to nervousness and hysteria. As lo About one hour before the time for the opening the members are all in their dressing rooms, each room being occupied by from three to four persons. They exchange their street clothes for their stage costumes and tone up their complexion for the first act. There is no particular rule to dress by, but the women have their own way as all other women. Some are ready long before their time, while others take up every minute of the time given. The last call was made and everybody went quickly upstairs. The stage manager standing before them while arranging his the said, "All to places," the curtain went up and you saw them in all their splendor. For their different turns each one goes directly, if it calls for a change in dress, to the dressing rooms. There is no wasting of time. Quickness is a very necessary qualification for the profession Misses Hattie Hopkins and Marlon Smart are as sweet and pretty as when you saw them as Lundina Johnson and Mrs. Demar. Mamie Emerson is in love with her work and is quite ambitious. Florence Mitchell, her chum, is a wide awake and energetic little soul, and both are very pleasant. Jeannette Foster is as much a child going from one room to the other, doing an errand for one of her friends, saving in a small voice, "Have you change for ten dollars?" as she seems when as "Moana" restored to the American millionaire. That day was pay day and everybody was happy, and all the feminine hearts were beating an accompaniment to some fond expectation. Estelle Johnson is very quick, she was "all Chiness" before any one else was ready, sitting on a big trunk. You hardly miss her before she is back for the next appearance. Mrs. Estelle Harris is a charming woman, the wife of the assistant stage manager, and devoted to her husband. Mr. Harris was ill, and Mr. Green took the role of "Big Indian Chief." Everybody was lending some assistance to make him the chief, and as Mrs. Harris put some fringe in place she said, "Oh, if anything should happen to my Harris, I couldn't bear to see any one in this costume," and the tears weren't very far away. Jeannette Brown, Florence Smiley, Ada Micken, Pinkle C.oper, Georgia Dobbs, Ev Swinton, Agnes Rillings, Sadie Mears, Cecil Reese, Lizzie Wallace, Kittle Post, Daisy Butts, Etta Gross are all hard workers. They are conscientious and interested in their work and have it well in hand. They are all good looking; in fact there isn't an ugly woman in the show. Their dispositions are about as good and even as the majority of self-supporting women. Madame Jennie Hillman is one of the Hula Hula girls and is wardrobe mistress. The fine appearance of the costumes is due to her careful attention The routine of the men are about the same. All men, I believe, can dress quickly. Mr. Jerry Mills, the detective, is an under study and knows everybody's part and his too, and can find what will interest you as easily as he found "Buster Blue" (Billy) Johnson with Mr. Bullion's lost papers. Mr. Green is just as highly cultured and attentive to his people as he is when he sings 'Good Night, Lucinda,' and as commanding as when he is Mr. Cain, the wealthy sugar planter. Mr. Chenault is as elegant, all dressed, looking over the paper as he is dashing as a British officer. John Bailey, Grafter Smooth, is really smooth and gracious in manner. Mr. Dudley, although at the top of ladder of success as a comedian, is a plain and unaffected gentleman. Messrs. Hall, Bates. Billy Johnson, Pierce, Jube Johnson, Hillard, McClain, Hale and Mr. Foster impress one with the same dignity as when they are acting their parts. Everybody knows what, when and how to do everything assigned them. The scenery is put in place with ease and with less excitement than the aver- age woman experiences in arranging her parlor for an afternoon club meeting. The women of the Smart Set have all the complaints that female humanity is heir to, but still there is no giving up to nervousness and hysterics. As long as they are able to stand they go on, for their success depends upon their faithfulness. Each one is a necessity. They have not chosen this profession because it is easy, they have chosen it because they think that this work of entertaining and amusing the public can best be done by them, and the public thinks so too. I was received graciously by all the members of the company and spent a delightful afternoon. Behind the scenes at the Smart Set was satisfaction to me. The deaconess of Bethel A. M. E. Church at Indianapolis, Ind., held their first public meeting Sunday, March 5th. Mrs. May Wright Sewall made an address on the "Power of Helpfulness." Wire hair-pins come from Palmswick, England. This is the greatest factory in the world. Machinery used is automatic and requires but little attention as it grinds miles of wire into tons of hair-pins. Only 800 persons are employed. Miss Estrella Jones, a young colored woman of Payton, Tex., has been appointed post-mistress at that place. IN THE REALM OF SPORT. BY JOHN L. FOOTSLUG. J. A. McFarland, the well-known barber of the Bell hotel of Dayton, O., has organized a crack base ball/club and is open for dates. All communications should be sent to J. A. McFarland, 318 S. Ludlow, Dayton, O. The Indianapolis base base club now has a roster of 23 of the best in the whole pile of professionals. On Thursday night, March 9, Tom Daly of Baldwins, Pa., who was signed up to meet Fred Blackburn in the Frankford A. C., Philadelphia, had a bad case of cold feet and failed to come to time. Starlight, of Baltimore, took his place and the bout was stopped in the first round. Starlight being no match for Blackburn. The fight that was to come off between Gans and Willie Lewis has been called off. Manager Maurice Hereford states that Lewis has always been a quitter and that not only he, but all of them are afraid of that time honored fisher boy. For those who never get to a ball game and who frequently attend vaudeville houses, there will be the pleasure of seeing some of the opening ball games of the clubs of the big cities in Moving Pictures. Word reaches us from Hot Springs Ark., that Battling Nelson and Adam Ryan will probably meet in a twenty round contest at Whittington Park Athletic Club in the next ten days. Connel Mulligan, under whose auspices the men will meet, says he has received word from Nelson announcing that he is willing to meet Ryan. The latter who has a fifteen round draw with Nelson to his credit. Among the colored ball clubs of the country, much is looked for from the Black Diamonds team of Cleveland, O., who did very creditable work last year. These boys lined up but a very few times last season, but what they didn't come out in a walk-away victory. Tommy Ryan has received articles to fight Philadelphia Jack O'Brien twenty rounds for the middleweight championship of the world. The date is still open, but Ryan favors April 20, although he waives a right to withhold his signature until the date is fixed. Pitcher McGee, who will join the Hoosters, officiated in about 20 games last season and finished with a percentage well over 600. It is rumored that Manager Barrow and "little Jonnie" Fisher have, at last, come to terms. We hope this to be true as Fisher can do much to strengthen the pitching force. W. F. BURNS Co. FURNITURE AND MANUFACTURER CHICAGO. The Richcreek Bank Derby days are fast approaching. This may sound good to many of the local sports who have been doing nothing but toasting their toes for the past two months. This will be a lively season for the derby in Louisville and equally as much in Chicago. Already the go-lucky bookman is full of smiles in his dreams of the many builing purses, and the ambitious owner to "get it on," that he is to nail without question. The American Turf Association met in Chicago last Tuesday to confirm dates, rules and assignments. Such prominent turfmen as Corrigan, Respes, McDowell, Brown, Dunne and Cooke were there. The Association ignored dates, rules and regulations made by the Western Jockey Club last Monday. One more week and then the small army of base ball players who will strive for positions on the Indianapolis team will begin to arrive here for spring training. They will come from all parts of the country and it is expected that a few will get here before regular reporting day, which has been set for March 26. Manager Barrow is kept busy these days reading letters from players who state that they will play ball as they never did before. President Ruschapt is busy looking after the completion of the new park and everything and everybody gives evidence that the time isn't long lads and its satisfaction to all. THE 20TH CENTURY WOMAN Mme. Dixson's Business is one That is Seldom Ventured Into by Women-Race Pride. The Freeman will introduce to you for the first time in history Mme. F. Dixson, of the firm of Dixson, Boyd & Co, the only woman base ball owner and manager in the world. Mme. Dixson's career as a base ball maginate began last season when the Misses Williams and Stooblefield had charge of the team and seeing that success was against them decided to sell the team to Silas Lott, who had been negotiating for A. it for sometime; after going into the business he found it more than he could undertake so he abandoned the project. The players called a meeting and appointed Mr. P. Head as chairman of a committee to wait upon Mme. Dixson to ask her to come to their assistance and as a lady of business, vim and fearlessness she put forth her hand and took charge of the team and immediately began business with a capital of no limit. Mme. Dixson and her manager, Mr. J. H. Penn, have made base ball a feature throughout the South among the Negroes and she is always welcome wherever her team appears for a series of games. She has the best material that can be had and all high salaried players. Mrs. Dixson is noted for her race pride and the upbringing of her people. She is a mother to the poor in Paducah, Ky, the little city in which she resides, and is the first to contribute to all charitable and religious its institutions. Mrs. Dixson will this spring erect a first class three story brick hotel for the theatrical and traveling public, and also a private headquarters for her base ball club with a complete gymnasium attached. 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One-way second class colonist tickets to California, the North Pacific Coast, Montana and Idaho. will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from March 1st to May 15th, inclusive. For particulars apply to nearest ticket agent of those lines Edited By W. FORREST COZART. E M. Johnson of Dayton, Ohio, has been appointed headwaiter at the Emery-Holmes cafe in Sait Lake City, Utah. The colored waiters of Washington, D.C., reaped a harvest during the inauguration, and only wish the ceremonies would occur annually. The white waiters, and especially the girl waiters, are gradually pushing the colored waiters to the wall. It is high time that the colored boys should wake up or it will be too late. Wm. F. T. Chandler, headwaiter of the Merchants' Hotel, St. Paul, Minn., has been on the slok list for three weeks; is now improving rapidly and is expected to return to work in a few days. The colored Progressive Republican Club and colored citizens of Salt Lake City have sent in a strong petition for the appointment of W Forrest Cozart, editor of the Waiters' Department in The Freeman, headed by Thomas H. Frame, for a South American consul. Elsewhere will be seen an article clipped from the Philadelphia Hotel Reporter, which shows that all the hotel publications, like the daily press, are arrayed against the colored waiter. What shall we do to meet these baseless charges, who will become our Moses and in a plain practical way courteously answer the charges? Chiosgo, once the mecca of the colored waiter, is now as dead as a "cook robin." We told you so. We knew that one big strike, led by weak brained men, would settle it, and so it did. It is an evil wind that blows no good, however, and one consolation is the lunch counter evil, which did much to ruin the colored waiter, has been removed. The colored waiters' future is certainly cloudy. They are being supplanted on every hand by white waiters; baseless accusations are being made against them by the press and Negro haters in order to prejudice the hotel proprietors and the public at large against them. The charges should be answered and the same should be published in the papers which are publishing the charges. But who have we to put forward that is equal to the emergency? Do we, as a body of craftsmen, need a leader or spokesmen? Our past in activity indicates that we do not, as those who in the past have gone to the front have only received criticism for these efforts. Some day the colored waiter will cry out aloud for such men as T. H. Frazier, J. J. Miles, John B. Goins, Frank C. Long, E. T. Montgomery, W. A. Locke, your humble servant and a few others who, a few years ago, spied their castor in the arena and defended the colored waiters against all attacks. A few years more and the above warriors will be among the silent number, uncrowned kings of their profession. And then, though too late, in the words of Lord Tennyson, cry out, "But oh for the touch of the vanished hand and a sound of the voice that is still." Colored Waiters vs. White Waiters. The sudden popularity of the European plan in American hotels has caused more or less turmoil in the colored waiters' camp. They feel as if the advent of European manners and style is an enroachment on their prerogatives as the primal servitors of this continent, and consider waiting their natural and legitimate vocation. Ever since their delivery from bondage their aim and ambition has drifted into the dining hall, and while some people are of the opinion that they are fully the equal of their European craftsmen, the idea seems to be presumptuous. The art of Ask those who use its columns--they know. waiting is not encompassed in the mere serving people with the food ordered Far be it that the American plan of catering to the public is the essence of what the calling really implies. Waiting is a profession requiring the use of various intellectual functions. To attend to a person's culinary wants does not mean to merely be submissive and place before him the prepared victuals, but demands a certain amount of judgment as well as a knowledge of the prevailing ethics of the table service. In the latter two requirements is where most all colored waites lack. They have neither that conspicuous alertness and tact the well trained white waiter exhibits, nor do they know the polished accompaniments that belong to advanced table duties. The colored waiter need not look to his extinction, as the American plan will never entirely go out of existence, but he can bring his mind to the realization of the fact that he has misconstrued the meaning of waiting as applied to the European mode of serving the table. From a temperamental standpoint, the colored waiter is more easily governed than his supercilious confere, but his phlegmatic nature and lack of adaptation will ever be obstacles to his accession as an adept in the art of cultured and practical waiting —Philadelphia Hotel Reporter. Why Are Colored Waiters Supposed Not To Be Competent? A question worthy of consideration and of the best reply, is asked by the publisher of a leading hotel weekly. There are a thousand and one good writers who read this paper weekly, who are able to throw some light on the subject, and for which other readers would be thankful, and out of which there might come a great and beneficial lesson. The spirit of the hotel keeper to-day is for economy, progress and style. In all their business meetings they discuss these problems among themselves and return to their hotels to act accordingly, and invariably the question of help resolves itself into resolution to make a change in the dining room, and this change is from colored men to either girls or white men waiters. Why is this true? Style. There is not a colored man holding a position to-day north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi who feels perfectly safe, no annoyance from the perplexing problem of a possible change. Some may flatter themselves with the idea that "I am all right," but down in his heart he has a fear. Now the question of the colored waiter's competency seems to have been settled long ago. If this is true, then what is the trouble? Where, oh where, are we to place the burden of the complaints, and how are we to account for discrimination against the Negro waiter? When a new hotel is about to open its doors to the public there is never a question as to who will be the waiters; its a foregone conclusion that no colored help will be employed. What is the cause of this prejudice against the colored man? We have many intelligent young men among the ranks of the officers of the dining room, and would like to hear some expression from them on the subject. Headwaiters are, of course, expected to reply in defense of his men. It would be unmany for any thinking man to let slip an opportunity like this to say a word for the good of all concerned in a waiter's work. The question of economy is a simple problem to day compared to the "help" question to hotel keepers. And this question resolves into the question of "style," and which is the best for my business? Wherever you turn you note evidences of the decision of the hotel proprietor in the matter, and rarely you see a colored face. One of the arguments advanced for these changes is the colored waiter is not clean, is not quick of action unless a tip is in sight. Cleanline is not a virtue, but the background of manliness and an evidence of strong personality. Why then is the colored waiter said to be unclean? Is it true, and, if so, who is to blame? Now, we hope that the man who replies will not enter into personalities, but give sound and beneficial advice on the subject. It is said by a man high in the profession that the infliction of the colored waiter-to-day is the "dickey," and that these are worn long after they ought to have been in the trash barrel in the basement of the hotel. The man who cannot afford to wear a clean white shirt at this season of the year is a nuisance and should be forced to look for other kind of work. There is absolutely no argument to the contrary, when we consider that anything soiled is soiled, no matter what its color, it is soiled, and when worn simply because it does not show dirt, mean not only dirty, but unfit for the society of good people. Does the colored waiter wear "dickeys?" and, if so, what is the point of saving and profit? This is written to develop thought among men whom it will do much good. We wait now to hear from the waiter. SONGS OF HOPE. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING. What is the most beautiful thing? O, some heavenly muse and being, The world will listen while you sing, The thing unknown; The world has sought in vain to find The thing even among mankind. Perhaps its because it is blind And can't be shown. The world has sought it in the light, And in the day as it shone bright, And many songs it in the night, But all in vain; They looked for it in skies of blue, Where twinkling eyes look down on you, Along the path the moon passes too, But failed again. The world has sought it on the sea. Where waves and billows play in glee, And rolling tides under the lee, On ocean wide; Where laden ships amidst the gales, Plow through the deep with hoisted sails, Where tempest mourns and billows The world has sought it on the land, Where plateaus hills and mountains star'd. Enrolling the earth hand in hand, With uplifted heads; While rivers and rills play between, Their mossy banks all lined with green, Surely, fair beauty here is seen, And ever treads. The world has sought it in the cloud, In large cities amidst the crowd, In the battle where sound is loud, And brave men die; In the sweet home where all is joy, Where loved ones dwell without alloy, No evil thoughts their hearts decoy, It must be nigh! INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $3.00 per year; including subcription to The Freeman, in advance.] G. L. Lang, Colonial Hotel Cleveland, O. O. W. A. Locke, Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tennessee. F. C. Long, Windermere, Chicago, Ill. J. T. Gilbert, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg, Pa. John Page, headwaiter, Central Hotel, Uniontown, Pa. C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. C. H. Pimmer, hotel Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa 10-05 HOTEL DIRECTORY This column used exclusively for the ad- ditioning and booking of boarding and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the travel public--you business solicited. The Zanzibar-Elegant rooms, gas and steam heat. A, Rodgers, proprietor, Will hill, manager, 208 Independence avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Hotel Reformer—First class in all respects 900 N. 6th street, Richmond, Va. A. W. Holmes, manager. The world has sought for it in man, The masterpiece from God's right hand, The grandest form that He did plan, And made him king; Gave him dominion far and wide, Enthroned with reason to provide, And said, "In my likeness abide," Is man the thing? 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Reasonable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 100 per line. Special rates on WR TE UPS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Indiana, as second class matters. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1905. JAPAN TEACHING THE WORLD. The amazing victories of the Japanese armies in Manchuria have astonished the whole civilized world. The mighty armies of Russia, supposed to be the greatest fighting power of modern times, have been crushed like egg shells before the impetuous onset of the little brown men, guided by the ablest of generals and assisted by the very perfection of strategy and tactics. But it is not the great victories in battle that contribute the most interesting feature of the situation. It is the wonderful efficiency, nobility, intelligence and preparedness for every emergency, exhibited by the nation as a whole, that challenge the attention of all intelligent observers. This race of dark men, until recently regarded as heathens or only half civilized, are giving lessons to the most enlightened nations. They are showing them how to do things, how to make success practically sure by omitting nothing calculated to bring success. The Japanese are an educated people. Education is compulsory in their country and they have the finest school system on earth. No child is allowed to grow up without an education and every girl and boy is taught the value of labor from earliest infancy. They are trained to do useful things and are taught the value of system in all that they undertake. Skill, united with intelligence, habits of obedience, sobriety and tireless industry are the qualities of the men who compose the armies, whose deeds have set the whole world talking in admiration of their achievements. It is not simply as fighters and marchers that they beat the Russians, but they show superiority in many other ways. There are no stragglers or skulkers among the Japanese soldiers. Every man is in his place, well up to the front and prepared for every duty. The Japanese leave no gaps down, they trust nothing to blind chance and do not depend on mere luck to carry their points. The Japanese have the best hospital and medical departments that have ever been seen in war. Their arrangements for the comfort and health of the private soldier are well nigh perfection. They have the best guns yet devised by the wif of man and they are served with a precision that astonishes the military critics. Their commissary and quartermasters departments are on a par with the rest, and everything high and low work with the perfection of machinery. There is no grafting, no corruption, no wasting of money or provisions. Every Japanese dollar counts and is put where it will do the most good. There are no "embalmed beef" scandals, as in our Spanish war, no incompetent's loaded on the official staff by political "pulls," no dead-beats of any kind tolerated. These are the reasons that have enabled the Japanese to organize the most perfect military machine, the most invincible army that ever marched on this planet. Do we not see here the Booker T. Washington idea applied to war? Bravery, of course, is essential and the successful fighting is what counts for victory. But it is the previous training of the men, their schooling, the teaching and drill to which they were subjected that have brought all these marvelous results. It is a valuable lesson in war, but an infinitely more valuable one for peace. It ceases how a nation may get the best results for its people and from its people. They must be educated and taught how to make themselves useful in all the walks and occupations of life. They must love their country and their government, because it is a good country and a good government. Patriotism cannot be forced. A people kept down by bayonets, overtaxed, oppressed, given THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. a bad law and a worse religion, left in ignorance and treated as cattle, as the Russians long have been, will despise their government and make both bad citizens and bad soldiers. A discontented people will always be an unpatriotic people and a misgoverned people soon become fit only for "treasons, stratagems and spoils." NEGRO NOT A HINDRANCE Dr. William D. Crum, whose contest for the collectorship of the port of Charleston, S. C., and President Roosevelt's persistence in nominating and renaming him until the Senate was forced to confirm, has given him a national reputation, recently visited Washington and delivered a notable lecture at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. His subject was "Is the Negro a Hindrance to the Progress of the Nation?" Bishop Wesley J. Galnes presided and the speaker was introduced by Congressman Morrell of Pennsylvania. Dr. Crum declared that the Negro is not a hindrance or a menace to the country, but is an important factor in the development of the resources of the nation. Since citizenship had been conferred on him the Negro had advanced along all lines. Eighty-seven per cent of them are engaged in agricultural pursuits and thirteen per cent in learned professions. He believed that the course being pursued by Prof. Booker T. Washington is the best method of advancing the development of his people. He indorsed heartily industrial education, but was not opposed to the higher education of the Negro. Social equality, said Dr. Crum, is a humbug, and is only used as a scarecrow. Nobody is asking for social equality. That, he said, "is a matter which regulates itself, but we do ask for civil rights and a fair chance in the race of life." The collector called on the President during the day. Dr. Crum is evidently one of our ablest leaders and should be heard from offender. He has the mental poise and self-possession and ability for logical reasoning that marks the true leader. The stupid charge that the Negro is a hindrance cannot be too sharply refuted. He has done much and is still doing his full share towards the progress and development of the country. He has always proved a true patriot, both in war and peace, and surely no one can deny his mighty part in the industrial development of the South. It was his sturdy hands that rolled up last year's phenomenal cotton crop of 11,000,000 bales. It is his toll that plows the fields, plants the grain, digs the ditches, builds the bridges and makes the transportation wheels go around. What would the South have been, what could it do now without him? Meantime, he has been reducing illiteracy by patronage of the free schools until he has nearly caught up with the race that had all the advantage of centuries in this respect. Meantime he has been accumulating for himself millions of acres of land and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of other property. He has come to the front with educators, statesmen, lecturers and teachers that challenge comparison with all others. He has done well, remarkably well, and will do still better under half way fair treatment from the dominant race. Oh, no, the Negro is not a hindrance but a distinct factor in helping forward the country's development. Let the white race but do its duty to the Negro and, depend upon it, the Negro will do his full duty to the white race and the whole country. PROSPEROUS COLORED NORMAL SCHOOL. The Institute for Colored Youth, of Philadelphia, Pa., (founded 1837) has recently been reorganized to develop a normal school which will correlate academic and industrial education. One of the features of its work will be a summer school with graded courses for persons who are actually engaged in teaching. The first session of the summer school will begin, this year, July 1st and continue until August 1st. The new school is situated at Cheneyney, Pa., nineteen miles from Philadelphia. The location is admirably adapted in all its features to do summer school work. The grounds cover 117 acres. The management intends to offer up-to-date courses of instruction to be given by specialists of acknowledged merit and success. The work will be under the direction of the principal of the institute, Prof. Hugh M. Browne, who conducted the Hampton Summer Normal School for four years. Booker T. Washington highly approves of Prof. Browne's enterprise and thinks the opening of a summer school will greatly help our race. In writing to the principal he says that many teachers in the South would like to go North for the benefit of a cooler climate during the summer. Teachers in the city schools, both North and South, like to get into the country for a few weeks during the summer months. The Freeman agrees with all this and cordially recommends Cheyney to all our aspiring teachers who are desirous of pushing up their attailments by attendance at a well conducted summer school. As only a limited number can be accommodated this summer those desiring to attend should apply at once. Tuition, board and lodging for the season amounts to ten dollars. A second announcement, to be made later, will give the courses of study and the names of the instructors. Cheyney is near Philadelphia, with all its beauties and historic spots of interest and there are fourteen trains daily each way between the two places. Atlantic City, the famous summer resort, is less than two hours' ride, with cheap excursions daily. Negroes of New York and adjoining States have met and drafted a constitution and by-laws for a Negro political organization of national scope. It will be known as the National Colored Voters' League and will be a sort of annex to the Republican party, working independently, but always in the interest of Republicanism. The leaders intend to hold a national convention of colored voters and to have a thorough organization, including district, county and State associations. The delegates to the national convention will be chosen from the several State organizations, two from each congressional district and there will also be the regular delegates at large. This is said to be the first definite movement of the sort undertaken and those who are behind it say that they have every prospect of making it a success. There have been national Negro organizations, like the Afro-American Council, but they never amounted to much. The President's appointment of Mr. Anderson as revenue collector of New York was Rooseveltian all over. He knew this colored man well, knew him to be well qualified and deserving and of his own motive, without consulting the two New York senators, determined to give him an important office in the greatest of the States. He thus fity recognizes a large body of his supporters while keeping his promise not to shut the door of hope to the Negro race. It also refutes the southern sneer that Republican Presidents are eager to appoint Negroes to high places in the South, but never in the North. Mr. Roosevelt has the nerve to always do the right thing at the right time and is carrying out his pledge to give every man a "square deal." The recent legislature did some things which it ought not to have done, and left undone some things which it ought to have done, but, on the whole, it was a very creditable body and a big improvement over what Indiana has been having of late years. It is to be regretted that it did not pass the bill for the colored orphans' asylum, but perhaps that worthy measure may have better luck next time. But the track elevation bill for Indianapolis and the tightening up of the Nicholson law with a local option clause, were of themselves enough to make this legislature notable if it had done nothing else. Our friend, John Ward, seems to be the only colored man who got anything worth while out of the late legislature. The Senate voted him two dollars a day, or about one hundred and twenty-two dollars for his services as boot-black, and nobody who knows the genial John will begrudge him his good luck. Added to what he took in for "shines" and "sweeps" it netted him a neat little sum, all of which, no doubt, John can find a place for. War is a bad thing at best, but it seems that occasionally a nation has to fight for its rights as the only means of showing the metal it is made of. The world will know the Japanese great deal better from this on than it did a year ago, and it is safe to say that the greatest nations will treat the island kingdom with respect. Togo's navy and Oyama's army have done in a year what a hundred years of diplomacy would not accomplish. The Filipinos should not kick on a little manifestation of race prejudice, stirred up by jealousy at Bloomington, because they beat the white students to the favor of the town girls. After they have run full up against the Anglo-Sanon's ambitions and appetites for a few centuries and in millions, they will begin to realize what "race oestracism" means. Another grade crossing killing the other day. We can't have those elevated tracks any too soon. You Can Be Up to Date In Business Without It Costing You One Cent In Advance We want to run a News Stand in every leading business locality. Hotels, Restaurants, Drug Stores, Department Stores, Barbershops, Groceries and one Agent in every Town. 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Frank Mahara would like to hear from Pearl Moppin, Willie Shields and Herbert La She write as per route. Harry Fidler, this season with Georgia minstrels, was in Indianapolis the first of the week on business. He returned to the company to-day. Robert H. Gant will represent The Free man this season with the Selis and Downs circus. He sends regards to Elliott and Carson and says I will see you soon. W. A. Bruce has joined hands with Joseph Diamond and they are practising a new act with a song and dance specialty added They leave Chayenne, Wyo., the first of May to join Billy Helms minstrels. "When the Moon Shines" is the name of a song published by the Attuck music company in which the late Richard Connor achieved his last success. Mr. Russell contributes a poem using the song title in memory of the popular singer. Miss ≡abel G. Johnson, coon shouter and buck and wing dancer who has been in vaudeville for over a season in Key West, Fla., wishes to state to her friends that she is enjoying the delightful climate of Florida and will consider engagements after April 1. Ed. Simpson, the little fellow with the big feet, opened on the Lubelski circuit March 6 at Denver, Colo. While in Salt Lake City, Utah, he had a jolly time with the Black Pattl Troubadours. He would like to hear from Blondy Robinson, Howard McCarver and John Vaughner. Ciemo and Cassels are meeting with success in their new venture in vaudeville, their acting entirely different from others. THE FREEMAM |POST OFFICE. Allen, Miss I B Foster, Miss Agnes Gaines, Miss Irene Jones, Miss Kila Morton, Cara Moxley, Miss Nellie Morris, Mrs Emma Miller, Merda Miller, Miss Ginger Owens, Miss Annie Payne, Miss Rosie Scoot, Mrs Funnie A Scott, Mrs Funnie A Stone, Mrs Josephine Taylor, Miss Carrie Taylor, Miss Carrie Thompson Miss E. Wills, Mrs Bessie Willis, Mrs Bessie Wills, Mrs Bessie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Bebe, C W Baker, George Barr, J B Benn, Brigid J Benn, E A. Benn, Brigid J Brooks, G E Campbell, Bros Campbell, H Cooper, S Cissel and Mines 2 carter and Howell 2 Cook, Gee P Dixon, William Green, Clarence george, J E 2 Gideon, L E 2 Goodle, W T. Ginguese, Mr Hunt, H Henry Hughes, Ed Howard, E L Johnson, E D Ginguese Johnson, Chas P Johnson, Chas P Jackson, Bob (due 106) Jordan, J J Kelly, Bob Kane, J M Lucas, Sam Lucas, L H Lewis, B E Lashe, Herbert McCannon, Henry McKinzie, Chus H McKinzie, Henry McBordon, Alfred artin, Sr A McBonnell, J L McBonnell, J L Mobley, J W Mellon, Joe Quincy, Prentice 2 Prescott, C Parker, Chas R, 2 Qinine, G W Smith, D 2 Shields Smith, Jeff Shields, Willie sauters, Clifton H Hughes, Ed Simmons, J W Striplin, C W Saintphot, H 2 The Fosters 2 Wiltiams, H L Wisbests, The Waits J ROUTE. A Rabbit Foot Co.-Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 10 to March 28. Balloy and Smith's Comedy Co.—Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 20. Black Pattie Troubadours Vooleckel and Nolan— Lexington, Ky., March 21; Somerset, 21; Utahmanoga, Tenn., 22; Birthingham, Ala., 23; Meridian, Miss., 24; Selma, Ala., 25. 28. Mahara's Minstrels—Sh-boygan Falls, Wis. March 21; Plymouth, 21; Chilton, 23; Memonine, Mich., 21; Escanaab, 25; Anderson and Goin s—Proctor's, Fifth Ave, Ave. New York City, s- Iroctor's, Fifth Ave. New York City, week of March 29. Mallard, N. Hallory Bros., Brooks and Haliday—Orpheum Theater, San Francisco, CA, week of May 19 Wang douche Comedy 4, en route with Bob Manchester, Jack Co.; Julius Glenn, Jim Whit Jenkins, Harvey Gordill—New York City Erbans THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER They were a hit in Philadelphia last week, this week at the Unique theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., with other good booking to follow. Gus Stevens you owe me that hat. P. G. Lowery's Concert Band gave a concert February 27 at Pittsburg, Pa., which was a grand success, there being over one thousand people in attendance. A saxophone and cornet solo by Miss Bessie Davis and P. G. Lowery were special features, both receiving rounds of applause. Miss Ivy Jones, known as the dainty soubrette and Laura Logan, the sweet soprano, old lady soubrette and coon shouter entertained the members of the Georgia minstrels during their engagement at New Orleans, La. Miss Logan is singing "What the Band Played," "Oyster Man" and "Dan, Dan, Daniel." During the engagement of the "Smart Set" company last week The Freeman was favored by a call from the following: John Bailey, S. H. Dud ey, Lawrence Chsnault, Ed. Harris and wife, Jerry Mills, J. Ed. Green, William Johnson and wife, H. Gus Hall, Florence Smiley, Mamie Emerson and Florence Mitchell. The colored musical comedy entertained the Reeves, are meeting with success touring Iowa. They will close their season April 1 after which Madam Reeves will spend the summer vacation on their little farm in Ohio. Ed. Reeves would like to hear from the manager of the colored band of the Floto show. The special feature of Harry Bryants, Extravaganza, filling an engagement at the Empire this week is Coats and Grundy's "Original Watermion Trust" an act composed of three ladies and two gentlemen whose singing, dancing and funny sayings make them prime favorites with their audience, who insist on calling them back. Sherman Coates and wife, Grundy and wife, and Miss Tenia Russell comprise the company. Harry and Laura Gilliam, after a two week's rest in Chicago, opened February 20 at the Esplanade Vaudeville theatre and after the first performance were engaged for twenty-one weeks over the Tony Lubelski circuit, opening at Fisher's theatre San Francisco, Cal., March 13. After filing this engagement we have the Orpheum circuit to follow. Our ad. in The Freeman brought us thirty-eight replies from all over the globe. Miss Anneta Bordon writes from Key West Fla., that she is making a big hit singing "I Love My Jungle Baby." She sends regards to the Little Savoy Vaudeville company and the Exchange Garden Theatre at Jacksonville. Florida. The "ghost" walks every Monday morning. Prof. C. E. Hawk, with his moving pictures, was quiet a, success on the island. He had a packed house every night and left with a cordial invitation to return again. Notes from Hawk's Moving Pictures.—We filled a successful engagement of eight nights at Key West, Florida to packed houses and are booked for a return engagement next season. Our head liners were the "Fall of Port Arthur," "The Great Train Robbery," "The Damnation of Faust" and "The Midnight Alarm" all life size moving pictures. We were royally entertained while on the island by Miss Mabel G. Johnson, Fred D. Sults, Sarah Price, Tenia Gilliam, Anneta Bordon and others. Al. Anderson and I. H. Golnes, (colored kings of comedy) scored heavily at the Nelson theatre, Springfield, Mass., last week. They were the week previous at the Park theatre in Worcester, Mass., on the Keith circuit, and the hit of the bill. They are to play the F. F. Proctor circuit soon, opening at Proctor's Fifth avenue theatre, New York City. Mr. Golnes is singing a new ballad published by George Setchell publishing company, entitled "Remember" and its a hit. Mr. Anderson says he's a got new one up his sleeve so "on yo' way." Regards to Clarence Powell. Long live The Freeman. THE "SMART SET." The aggregation of colored players, known as the Smart Set, which has been known as the Smart Set, which has been touring the country with great success, entertained magnificent audiences in this city three evenings o' last week, also at the matinees. The audiences were fairly divided as to races. The generous applause given throughout the performances is taken as an indication of the high favor in which the company is held in this city. The daily press was no less generous in its criticism, insisting that to see the company was an opportunity. A few years ago the now well-known organization set out before the public under the guiding genius of Billy McClaim, the well-known player, who was fresh from his triumphs in Australia, and Ernest Hogan, the conceded premier comedian of the American stage. These two on their way home from the land of kangaroo came by the way of the Hawaiian islands, concluding them to be just the card as to the place to "pitch" the proposed play. The idea was carried out, and after much heralding the company set out with fear and trembling. The title was a happy thought, proving that sometimes there is more in a name than suspected. The first company was excellent, but large and somewhat unwieldy, and I may presume a burden to the door receipts; it was quite pretentious, ambitious, seemingly fearful that it would not weather the gale of criticism. The business was fairly overdone owing to the zeal to do well. There is no denying, however, but what the herculean effort put forth by the first managers created a sort of popular glamour in which the succeeding companies have lingered, making the name Smart Set somewhat synonymous with success. Much of the hurrah and ec at with which the company was launched have been cut out, and for the better—it is strengthened by the simplification. It is believed that the present company richly m rits its abundant success and that the success is not due to any legacy further than that of the happy naming. The changes in the presentation this year are so marked that the most casual observer noted them, and to the more careful observer appear no less than an index of [Image of a man with dark hair and a light-colored shirt, looking directly at the camera. The background is a plain, light-colored oval frame.]] W. A. H. MR. LAWRENCE CHENAULT, Leadening tenor with the Smart Set Company. the colored players' future, also their present status. Managers of colored companies have been often at their wits' end to know just what the public would "stand for" from colored shows. The statement will be understood by those who know the racial situation in America; for do what we will, or where we may, and that thin yet ramifies—the race question. In a conversation with Mr. J. Ed. Green, the very versatile and gentlemany stage manager, he spoke from experience on the point. The process of evolution is on, and by evolution I have in mind the reduction of an excessive amount of "Nigger" in the worst sense, taking on more of the Negro of "quality"—a little elimination and substitution as it were. It is taking; proving more acceptable to colored patrons, a treat to the whites who are learning to appreciate the Negro in the higher spheres—new roles. In fact, a faithful representation of colored society as it is understood is good to see—"ots" of truth mixed up with it, you know—that's where the laugh comes in. The colored players also prefer a little higher order of comedy or comic opera, so noted in the presentation last week; they are willing to do some coon songs, to do some buck and wing dancing, to do some low Negro stunts, but there are also artists among them that can shine and have a right through natural endowment and acquired to do so. The change for the better is coming slowly. It does not mean that a foot ball rush is expected for the high class, but it does mean an exit for some from the lowest variety. Judging by the applause given the comic opera hits, a first class comic opera company will be the first strictly legitimate to stand the test. The Smart Sat to-day is about one-fourth comic opera or may well be considered so. The btd ne anne the initiation into the Royal Rooster Lodge led by H. Gus Hall was choice and well done, also the preliminaries to the duel. In either case the singing might have continued to the finish the audience was prepared to stand for it. The play, as a whole, was clean cut, showing evidences of great preparation. The drills were precise, the chorus work so good that appeared easy to the audience, which, of course, is the best test of efficiency. ```markdown ``` There are very few special luminaries and the burden falls on the few, and who are being worked too hard for their physical good. They do splendid work, but they work everywhere which, of course, is in the sense of economy and may be necessary for the safe financial conduct of the show. S. H. Dudley, comedian, the George Washington Bullet, belongs to the Hogan class; not quite so natively funny, but with better judgment. Dudley knows where to ring off. Hogan is great, but apparently seeks to overshadow the rest of the business. Dudley aims to fit in—to fill his place well; he does it. He is a finished actor, funny without apparent effort and so natural that you would not be surprised to meet the same Mr. Bullet coming down the street. Miss Marion Smart is indeed the smart lady of the Smart Set. She is good where they put her, and they do not forget to put her. She has a beautiful voice, clear as an alto bell; blessed with a superb figure; her face appears handsome above the footlights in spite of the asseverations of her partner, Mr. Bailey. She sings sentimental songs fairly well, but coon songs are her "home." Miss Smart is an astress of ability and would fare well in light comedy. Bailey and Smart would be a hit anywhere. I think them more pleasing than Johnson and Dean. Bailey as Grafter Smooth was [Name] acceptable. His "Back, Back, Back to Baltimore" was one of the decided hits, Bailey is an actor. The genial stage manager J. Ef. Green is a man of parts and showed some very finished work. Not many knew that it was he that sang lead in the beautiful solo and chorus, Big Indian Chief, Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Green's ability is further marked by his clever staging and managing. Lawrence Chenault still holds the boards as a leading tenor who did his best word as Lieut. Mildew, a place to which his high range voice well adapted. However his quality of voice is easily shows over taxing, robbing it of sweetness at times; proving the need of rest. He appeared to advantage throughout the show Miss Hopkins looks a peach on the stage and sings very prettily, relying however on her beautiful stage presence to help her out. She has ability and ambition, and the chances are she will be heard from in a singing career. My Old Kentucky Home by Miss Hopkins and chorus was well received. The audience, if judged by applause, was largely made up of Kentuckians. Darktown Barbecue was an opportunity for some pretty steps by a number of misses. This rough and tumble dancing was cut out and supposedly in the interest of the play. Jerry Mills, as Didhe Ketchum, in the tramp phase of his work was especially good; opportunity was not otherwise presented. Billy Johnson, Mamie Emerson, Jeanette Foster, Estella Harris and Agnes Rilings the other members of the cast were appreciated in their turns. RICHARD CONNOR'S DEATH. Richard Connor of Williams and Walker's company according to report was shot in a dressing room of the Biju theatre Minneapolis, Minn., February 17 by a male member of the company, while they were alone, and died on February 22. The untimely affair was claimed to be an accident. Mr. Connor came prominently before the public more than ten years ago. He was an excellently cultivated tenor singer with a voice of medium power which carried sweetness. He was also a good actor. He had been identified with John W. Isham and the Black Patti forces before joining the Williams and walker company, which he has been identified with for many years. His chief delight was in playing boy characters. He was a light hearted boy by nature and possessed both temperament and magnetism, two rare qualities which made him a popular stage favorite. His greatest success was achieved in Europe last winter when he won first honors in a cake walk given before King Edwards of England. Washington's birthday was an unhappy day for Williams and Walker's company, and the relatives, when the news had come that young Connor's life had ebbed away. It has been the saddest news of an actors death that we have recorded. With the blessings of youth and an exceptional disposition that added happiness to all his surroundings it is hard to realize that this fortunate young man has gone from us forever. It was a generous blessing from above that gave his life string a lingering lease to meditate in prayer after the fatal shot had been administ-red. It was the new reward of favorable deportment in life that God was merciful to him in the threatening clutches of a tragic death; a death where memory, the tempest of the heart, must still linger with us till time, the great master of sorrow, can relieve us. With the many tears that flow, many years will go before we will ever see, and we may never again know, another excellent young performer and man like Richard Connor. The cowardly dangerous use of weapons which I have so often warned the actors of my race about has at last pointed out a moral mystery that no actor except the one living concerned in the case can ever explain. Whatever the real facts in such a case may be the world will never know. We remain only to reg et the incident and mourn the loss of one of the most beloved young actors of our time. HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of Every Description. Most Complete Line of Hair Goods in this Country for Colored People. 50c buys a single braid made of Black Kinky Hair, braids long. 75c buys a double braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. $1.00 buys a Creele Switch, 16 inches long, bracelet or Creele Switch, 20 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.75 buys a Creele Switch, 22 inches long, bracelet or Creele Switch. $3.50 buys a Natural, Wavy, Hand-made Switch like cut. Send sample of hair when ordering Creele Switches. Send money with order and get your goods by return mail. 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When a woman has once wed think you it matters whether her in a burly form of rage at his burgesses, had betaken await the gathering of troop northern counties for the against the restless Shawa on the Scioto river. They had met but few quality so far to the westw most part wandering petty perhaps a Palatina. tra from Pennsylvania. These teams of six or eight horn jingling bells, and their hu ga wagons were loaded wit and with salt load and w A man in a long coat stands in front of a table, holding a glass of wine. A man seated at the table reads a book. "Louis Armand is gone away, mon- sieur." he said. "Louis Armand is gone away, monsteur," he said. husband be a hero or a rogue? When the game is over the heifer is in the stall, and there's the commission to console her. Bethink, too, that the game is honored by the governor's approval. "Tis a crown service, done at the solicitation of the royal governor. We shall presently set out for Winchester, where he lies with the troops. He shall guarantee this betimes there. What say you?" Jarrat's voice was contemptuous. M. Armand turned from the darkness, his look suddenly changed. "Yes," he said slowly. "I will do it." His visitor rose with a covert twist to his lips. "You have decided well," he said. "You have the assurance to succeed too! To flutter the farthingales you will need money, of course." "Money?!" the other smiled. "And me the Marquis de la Trouerie? Talk of money between gentlemen? Plenty of time for that—afterward." "Better and better," said Jarrat, the old sneer returning now that the game was won. "It bespeaks good faith. I hope you shared your master's gold with our honest skipper, Elves. But you will need brave clothes. 'Tis not too much you look like a marquis at present." M. Armand laid his finger on his lip laughingly. "Ah, that is my secret. Clothes!" He crossed to the chest, unlocked it with a key from his pocket, threw it open and began with rapidity to take out coats, waistcoats, short clothes—all of beautiful texture and heavy with lace. "Clever robber!" said Jarrat admiringly under his breath. "A neat plucking of a useless cadaver!" The secretary laughed gayly as he took out these, with a ribbon of foreign orders and a sword. "Clothes!" said he again. "Let me see which I shall wear." He was lifting the exquisite garments. "I beg monsieur will turn his head away for one moment. Comme ca!" He called to imaginary body servants: "Alphonse! My waistcoat! The flowered one—that is right. Now my coat. Vla! My sword belt, Pierre. So! The fairest lady in the world would be pleased with that. Now M. le Capitaine!" Jarrat, looking around, could scarce repress a cry. The gray coated figure was no more. In its stead a vision invested in pale rose satin, with gold chain, jeweled and smiling, stood before him. The secretary raised the sword and gave Jarrat the fencer's salute. "Louis Armand is gone away, monsieur," he said, lifting eloquent shoulders. "Henceforth behold in me M. le Marquis de la Trourier, noble of France, messenger of Louis XVI." CHAPTER VI. On a hazy afternoon following Jarrat's stroke of diplomacy a Berlin chaise, in lieu of the ruined chariot, bearing Mrs. Tillotson and Mistress Anne on a visit to Berkeley, drew through Ashby's Gap, along slopes spotted with clumps of iliac and goldenrod. Francis Byrd rode beside the window, for he was to join Lord Dunnore at Winchester, whither the governor. in a burly fit of rage at his recalcitrant burgesses, had betaken himself to await the gathering of troops from the northern counties for the expedition against the restless Shawanee Indians on the Scioto river. They had met but few travelers of quality so far to the westward—for the most part wandering petchapen or perhaps a Palatina trader coming from Pennsylvania. These latter drove teams of six or eight horses wearing jingling bells, and their huge Conestoga wagons were loaded with plow irons and with salt, lead and gunpowder for the lower settlers. At the notched summit Byrd rose in his stirrups. "The Shennando, Anne" he cried. Below, where the unbroke sunshine spun its web, lay a gold valley clasped in hills. The near mountain walls stood all matted with burnished leaves of wild ivy and bloom of chamedaphne, its white cup shapes stained with purplish red. In the wooded bottom the river shivered with the tumbling foam of steep torrents and went slipping soapily over ledges and between wild acres of mottled sycamore, of drooped willow and of birch. The sun as they rode became dull saffron gold between the overlapped wedges of crimsoning hills. "Poor dear!" sighed Anne as an extra heavy jolt brought lamentation from her nerve racked companion. "We shall soon be there, Aunt Mildred. Winchester is just beyond the next forest." "It's been just beyond the next forest for three hours!" moaned the lady. "The colonel really must have new springs put to the chaise. This road is barbarous!" "There is Winchester!" Anne exclaimed joyfully. "I see the flag on the fort." This, a great square fortification with four bastions, the stockade built by Colonel Washington before the reduction of Duquesne, was gone much to ruin. It sat on the town's edge, with generous barracks rearing above the walls and soldiery grouped before the entrance. Here Byrd left them to report his arrival, and the two ladies rode to the town ordinary. They descended to find the long parlor thickly set with guests and passed quickly through the hall to the inn yard, waiting disposition of their luggage. "The place is overfull, it seems," Mrs. Tillotson said to the landlord. "Oons!" he answered. "There are a-plenty of beds, though all my tankards are kept well in use. 'Tis the soldiery at the fort draws them, a good thing for the King's Arus. The Indians may go a-scalping as oft as they will." "They are all king's men within?" asked Anne. "Aye, a proof of my loyalty. These be times," he added, scratching his grizzle head as he went in, "when 'tis hard to choose betwixt old and new things, with the Whigs so hot. As for me, though, methinks the old will outlast my time." "Aunt Mildred," called Anne delightedly, "look! There is my Lord Fairfax's chariot!" It stood under the wide shed, huge and ungainly. Anne went to it and patted the dark leather and laid her young cheek against the purple cushions. "He is here, then!" she cried. "I wonder if we could see him." Drawing Mrs. Tillotson after her, she passed to the wide low window and peered within. It was flung half open, and through it came glassy tinkles and a babble of talk. Colonial costumes were sown through the long room, and here and there were royal uniforms flagrantly crimson. Cocked hats and greatcoats lay about on the chairs, and riding whips were scattered on the tables. Opposite them, against the farther wall, Burnaby Rolph of Westham sat squat in his oak chair where the candles glinted on his gold lace, stirring with his dress sword a punch of Jamaica rum in a great bowl. Beside him, his arm flung carelessly back, lounged Captain Foy. Now the spirit was in his mottled, sensual face, and it seemed to cloak a devil in scarlet. The girl shrank back instinctively and hold her aunt's arm more closely. Then she turned her eyes over the assembly. "Mistress Anne!" exclaimed a voice behind her. "Oh," she cried, turning, "Mr. Henry! How good it is to see you!" He took her hand and bowed to Mrs. Tillotson. "It seems as if we had not seen you for a year," Anne continued, looking up into his sallow face and then, with a hint of approval, at his dark wig and suit of minister's gray. He saw her glance and smiled a little quizzically. "I am being fast spoiled," he said. "I have a plenty of coats good enough for me, yet I once go to the congress I must get a new one to please the eye of other folk. I am on my way back from Philadelphia now." "Are you lodged at the King's Arms?" asked the elder lady. "At the Three Rams, Methinks the royal tang hereabout is a bit strong for TALK IS CHEAP. And Actions Speaks Louder than Words In order to prove to the public that Glossine is the greatest and meritorious of all hairtonics we will give free to every reader of this paper (not a sample) but a full size b.x. If Glossine was not the best hair tonic in all the whole wide world this offer would bankrupt us. Glossine (Queen of all hair tonions, the most wonderful remedy for the human hair world) is very very good and has asurtounded the whole world's life. 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This period of unconsciousness relaxes the mental and physical strain, and allows nature to restore ex- button to high-gravity. The Clever 'do things.' Hoch says he has ried thirty of truth than poetry, the best way to go is to marry her. Ex Governor K. a striking resem-negie. We show haired Louisiana Carnegie's million. Nothing, escas in the great inn Ninth Cavalry p The legislature of Oklahoma made an appropriation of $20,000 to the Negro Agricultural school at Langston the past week. The Kansas legislature brought up the rear with an appropriation of $15,000 to the Western University at Quindaro, Kansas. Mr. Gus Shaw, of Almont, Texas, offers to give 200 acres of land for the establishment of an industrial school for colored youths, and his wife offers to give $5,000 in cash for its support. Mr. J. A. Harman, a colored teacher of that place, is pushing the project. It is indeed a pleasure to announce that Iowa honored a colored man at Muscatine last week by electing Mr. Lewis E Johnson, secretary of the Buxton Y. M. C. A., Assistant State Secretary; a compliment never before paid a colored man. Mr Johnson is one of the best type of an educated young race man in Iowa and a credit to our race, as well as to the Association. By a vote of thirty-one to nineteen, the Brooklyn Presbytery has gone on record in favor of allowing the organization to separate Presbyteries for Ne- THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION TRADES SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED In the Last Few Years Shows Washington's Industrialism on the Increase Among Leading Educators-Bruce and Henderson Talks. (Staff Correspondence.) Industrial education, comprehending the mechanical, agricultural and constructive arts has long ago ceased to need defensive exploitation as the prime ingredient for the economic development of our masses. The splendid results achieved by our schools in which emphasis is placed upon the training of the hand, supplemented by an adequate proportion of mental and moral culture have indisputably demonstrated its efficiency as a remedy for the idleness, poverty, lack of system, cross ignorance and unsanitary habits of life which threatened the very foundation of our racial structure Industrial education is no longer an experiment. It has justified its being. It has proven that it pays in the long run a most satisfactory dividend upon even the largest investments. As yet the system has centered its greatest energy upon the solution of the problems presented by the Negro in the rural communities of the South. Improved houses, better schools and more learned school teachers, better churches and more progressive preachers, more farms and better farmers, skillful artisans and more inexpensive wages have all come to the black belt of Dixie directly through the consecrated efforts of schools like Tukegee to reach the black boys and girls that might never be reached by institution carrying a curriculum in which the classes predominated. Success in this field of fundamentals has been so pronounced that the steps now being taken toward utilizing industrialism in a factor in the broader training is in accord with the inexorable logic of events. We are discovering with an increasing clearness that the cultivation of the mind to think, the training of the hand to do, and the uplifting of the soul to high ideals are natural and inseparable allies. To the three forces we must look for the ultimate solution of all human problems. Between them there can be no legitimate antagonism. All prosper as the individual elements of the magic triumvirate prosper. With the permanence of industrial education firmly established as an essential feature of the Negro's rural life our keen-sighted leaders are studying the condition of the city Negro and the opportunities of the college Negro with a view of bringing to their aid in the most effective way the vitalizing power of industrial training—to reform the evils of poverty on the one hand and to unify the prepared workers in manual and mental fields on the other. Concentration of energy and the shrewd adaptation of skilled labor to the economic development of both the rural and the urban Negro are the ends to which the newer education are turning their attention. groes within the bounds of Presbyteries established for white persons. The Rev. W. A. Alexander, pastor of the only Negro church in the Presbytery, opposed the plan vigorously, declaring it was unscriptural, un-American, contrary to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and adverse to the progressive sentiment of other denominations. Judge Thomas C. Humphrey, judge of the United States court, which convened at Duraat, I. T, last week, created a stampede when he announced that if some arrangements were not made by 6 o'clock to feed and sleep the Negroes attending the court as witnesses he would adjourn court and move it to Caddo and complete the term there. It took the interested citizens just two hours to establish a temporary hotel for the Negroes. There are no Negroes living in Durant and have not been for years, hence it is necessary for special arrangements to be made for their care at every term of court. This matter has come up at every session of the court and the climax was reached when Judge Humphrey demanded that they be cared for or that the court would be moved. speediest ores for the diseases growing out of the slums in cities where Negroes are numerous lies in the planting of the industrial system as a correlated division of the public schools. This plan is meeting with gratifying encouragement in Louisville where the good Negro is very good and the bad Negro is very bad, with an overbalance of the latter that suggests the need of an immediate remedy. C. C Stall, a prominent business man, has offered to donate $2,000 for the establishment of a manual training school for Negroes, provided the citizens raise this amount to $10,000 and further that the school board appropriate an additional $10,000 making $20,000 in all. Three other gentlemen have subscribed $1,000 each and the colored teachers and citizens at large have pledged nearly $1,000 more, leaving something over $4,000 yet to be raised by the people. The school board is deeply impressed with this show of earnestness in a cause so plainly beneficial and there is little doubt out that the $10,000 will be forthcoming when the general public shall have done its part. The local papers favor the idea and are confident that the training of Negro boys and girls to perform expert service in branches that offer a steady demand time will show a marked decrease in the distress and crime which are day by day dragging the Negro lower in the social and economic scale. Papers and people, white and black perceive the value of an industrial opportunity and recognize in manual efficiency the only avenue of escape from the degradation that follows the absorption of the stream of poverty-striken blacks showing year by year an increasing volume from the easy-going life of the southern plantation to the mercelless vigors of a city competition too exacting for their moral or physical strength. The labor unions may not take kindly to this proposed development of Negroes for the trades and skilled service but their narrow selfishness should not be allowed to stand in the way of a policy of undoubted helpfulness to the whole people. The effort in any event is convincing proof of the phenomenal growth of the industrial spirit as the hand-maiden of the prosperity that makes for advancement in art, science, literature and polite society. Truthfully the great Frederiks said: "Without wealth there can be no leisure; without leisure, no thought, no invention; and without invention, no progress." The philosophy of Douglass is given vital action by the Booker Washington system in vogue at Tuskegee. A further illustration, pointing to the alliance of industrialism with the college life of the Negro, is found in the recent report that the Fisk University people have made application to the general education board for funds with which to establish what is to be known as a school of applied science. An editorial which appeared not long ago in the Boston Transcript is to the effect that cooking is to be taught, also farming. This is coming to the Tuskegee idea with a vengeance. Howard, Livingston, Wilberforce, Shaw and other schools originally designed for the higher training have had industrial features for quite a while and we look for most of the others to fall in line soon. No matter what fantastic names they use—"applied science" or what You Must Sleep. If you cannot, it is due to an irritated or congested state of the brain, which will soon develop into nervous prostration. Nature demands sleep, and it is as important as food; it is a part of her building and sustaining process. This period of unconsciousness relaxes the mental and physical strain, and allows nature to restore exhausted vitality. Dr. Miles' Nervine brings refreshing sleep, because it soothes the irritation and removes the congestion. It is also a nerve builder; it nourishes and strengthens every nerve in your body, and creates energy in all the organs. Nothing will give strength and vitality as surely and quickly as Dr. Miles' Nervine. "During the past winter I had two cared for tripei which left me very weak, and had a brain so was nervous I could not sleep. My wife, after trying different remedies, once at a doctor. The doctor was over a bottle of Nervine. Miles' Nervine, and she brought a bottle, I had not slept for some time, and had terrible pains in my head, and having a few doses of Nervine the pain remained so severe that I now am taking the second bottle, and am very much improved." HENRY M. M. SMITH, Underhill, Vt. Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold by your drucker and that guarantees that the first bottle will benefit. If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co. Elkhart. not—the central purpose is to engraft some part of the industrial system along with their academic work. This is what Tuskegee has already been doing for many years. Dr. J. M. Henderson's practical talks at Charles street A. M. E. church, Boston, stamps him as a minister who believes that living right is the best guarantee of dying right and reaping promised rewards. We are pleased that these helpful and concisely put bits of philosophy are to be published in book form after their run in the newsy and scholarly Boston Colored Citizen. We wish more of our preachers would strive to have the people see and apply to everyday life the beautiful truths of history, philosophy and concentrated common sense. Roscoe Conking Bruce more than held his own in Boston and New York, in the lair of a set of critics which for ferosity and downright venom would make the tigers of the jungle appear as gentle as Mary's famous lamb. The anti-Washington cult was especially rabid in their attempt to belittle Mr. Bruce's logical and convincing argument that the Negro's deplorable poverty, criminality and death rate in the otties is best remedied by industrial education and industrial opportunity, but they voicferated without avail, other than to betray the guaziness of their plau of campaign. It developed at Washington that the friends of Mr. Bruce, led by the courageous Prof. Lawson, were not afraid to come out into the open and defend the right against the packed oligarchy that for a long time has labored desperately to squelch honest discussion in Bethel Literary and reduce it to the undignified position of tail to the Boston Guardian and Washington Bee kite. The effort of the fool friends of the higher education—if friends they really are—to castigate the Wizard of Tuskegee over the shoulders of Mr. Bruce is so clumsily disguised as to render the parties to the scheme positive ridiculous. The good people of the nation's capitol handed in their final verdict on Dr. Washington and his constructive work last spring when they turned out en masse and gave him an ovation that can never be forgotten. SHARPS AND FLATS. To be a thinking class we must first become a reading class. The world admires men of positive views and the spirit to fight for those views. Maybe it will "Judge" John W. Yerkes if the present cabinet is to be undisturbed. American justice should not be dispensed or dispensed with according to local whimsicalities. A chain of legitimate theaters in the South, controlled by Negroes, would solve a most exasperating problem. The Filipino students are giving evidence of a phenominal amount of grit and independence for an oppressed people. There will be at least one new A. M. E. Bishop in 1908 and his name will be Johnson—Henry F., not Jay Albert, however. Money may not make the man but the man will find it highly convenient to make the money if he wishes to be regarded as a man. Indiansians are pardonably proud of the continued success achieved by her beautiful and accomplished harpist, Miss Myrtle Hart. The Cleveland Journal's special woman's edition was the year's best control. bution to high-grade newspaper production. The Clevelandites know how to 'do things." Hoch says he hated women yet married thirty of them. There is more truth than poetry in the suggestion that the best way to get even with a woman is to marry her. Ex Governor P. B. S Pinchback bears a striking resemblance to Andrew Carnegie. We should like to see the silver-haired Louisianian placed in charge of Carnegie's millions. Nothing, escaped the President's eye in the great inangulage pageant. As the Ninth Cavalry passed he cried out with enthusiastic admiration: "These boys were with me at Santiago." If George H. White were placed upon the Inter State Commerce Commission unfair discriminations either as to color of passengers or personality of shippers would fade into the hazy past. We have no patience with weak-kneed friends who fall to rally to the defense when our enemy is smiting us hip and thigh. Silence is sometimes an effective rebuke but the "big stick" always is. Daniel Murray, Prof. Jesse Lawson, Hon. George H. White, Samuel E. Lacy and other active forces upon the auxiliary committee on public comfort for the inhalation covered themselves all over with glory. The Shortridge High school senate at Indianapolis has elected Samuel Taylor, a colored boy, as secretary. In Chicago soon a thing would be regarded as evolution, in Louisville revolution and in Atlanta devolution. The President's Lincoln day address and the current utterances of Dr. Booker T. Washington denote a harmony between the two races' most distinguished representatives that bodies nothing but good to the American body politic. Booker T. Washington reasoneth well when he warns the white South that oppression of the Negro is certain to recoil upon his own head. Race hatred is the costliest luxury the land of Dixie can indulge in—radium not expected. With all due respects to the claims of other distinguished sons of Indiana the niche beside Oliver P. Morton in Statuary hall at the nation's capitol rightfully belongs to the soldier-statesman, literature and president, Benjamin Harrison. When the New England gang gets worst of a lying assault they quietly drop the subject for a new plan of attack. Notice the death-like stillness in Tremont street when that $3,000 subsidy or the Du Bois statistics on the Philadelphia Negro is mentioned. Editor F. H. M. Murray frankly admits that he was duped by the Washington Post's woeful misinterpretation of Roscoe Conkling Bruce's articles on the Negro and makes the amends honorable. Will others who were "buncoed" by the Post be equally gracious? Recorder John C. Dancy richly deserved the great banquet tendered in his honor a few evenings ago at Washington. All classes of citizens came to sing his praises. The future of any race is safe when it can lay aside petty differences and take a united stand in support of a faithful steward. To let the Boston Guardian tell it Frederick Douglass, John M Langston, B. K. Bruce, John R. Lynch, Robert Brown Elliott, Alexander Waiters and Booker T. Washington were or are mere pigmies. There never was a real Simon-pure Negro leader until William Egotist Burghardt Du Bois appeared upon the scene. The insultation gratuitously thrown out in certain quarters that Prof. Jesse Lawson has been sneerling at the leadership of Booker T. Washington has no foundation, in fact Prof. Lawson is one of the Tuskegeeans most loyal adherents and has the courage of his convictions no matter what the occasion or how vindictive the opposition. We beg to acknowledge receipt of invitation to be present at the second conference at Washington of the National Sociological society, the commedable object of which is to solve the race problem along scientific lines; to find a common ground upon which the race may dwell together in this country harmoniously and on an equitable basis. The disaster at Fleet Street Zion church in Brooklyn shows how building inspectors fail to inspect and how false economy on the part of church trustees is invariably productive of fatal results. Every congregation now occupying ramshackle structures will suffer from the Fleet street collapse. Build or buy substantial houses of worship. R. W. THOMPSON INFORMATION To the lady living in Indianapolis who wrote to Sergeant Major J. Clay Smith Twenty-fourth infantry, relative to her son, who says is supposed to be at this post serving as a soldier under the name of "Rich Shelton." Dear madam I have tried to locate your son, but to no avail, there are two men serving as soldiers at this post whose sir-name is Shelton, neither of whom is the man wanted. Had you gave your name or address in your letter instead of using the term "your mother and father," I would have wrl tendirectly. J. Clay Smith, battalion sergeant-major Twenty-fourth infantry. Have You Tried it? 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Mrs. George Ashworth is able to be out again, after a slight illness. Mr. William Jackson left Thursday to accept a position at French Lick Springs. Mrs. H M Cooper, of Chicago, will be in the city next week, the guest of Mrs. Worthington. The U. S. A. W. V. met at the Y. M. C A. Thursday evening, many of the boys were out. The Novalty Club gave a Shamrock dance on Friday evening which was well attended. Rev. R. G. Langford of the A. M E. church at Oxford, O., was in the city one day last week. Miss Lillie When of Irvington died on Monday, March 12th, at 8 o'clock a.m. of tuberculosis. Joseph Delaney, who has been very ill at his home in Heena street, is now much improved Mr. Clarence Grubb3 left Wednesday evening for French Lick, ind., for an indefinite stay. Dr. Simmons, the new pastor of Simpson Chapel, will preach Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. Annie Duncan of Muncie is visiting her sister, Miss Annie E. Schafer, in Harlan street. Rev. Gilliam was reappointed at Columbus. O He stopped over in the city on his way home. Mrs Terrell has returned home, after spending a few months with her parents at Princeton, Ind. Miss Helen Davis of Louisville, Ky., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Lewis at 329 Ellsworth street. Mrs. Harry Wyatt returned home Monday after spending a few days at Washington, D.C. Miss Florence Chapman of Kansas City. Mo. is the guest of Mrs. W. L. Miller in Sheepard street. Mrs. Ada Timberlake has returned home aster spending a few weeks with her parents in Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coley announces tee marriage of their daughter, Miss Dollie, to Mr. R K Battles. Rev H. Parker will preach the Woman's Home Missionary Society sermon You Save on a Diamond what I save in rent by being two minutes from Washington street. Prices are my proof. 28 MONUMENT PLACE "AS way PEA a pay are Ot ma and eop CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Ln (Formerly Stevens Front Room. (15 E Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Sunday morning at his church in Irvington Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jones gave a reception at their pretty home in Sheppard street in honor of Rev. Beecham and wife. Miss Eula Adams continues to be dangerously ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ash, 655 Muskingum street. Miss Vernie E Price of Mound City, Ill, left for home last Saturday after a delightful stay with relatives and friends. Miss Bertha Blackwell entertained a few friends at her home Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Daisy Powell of Wilson, N.C. Mr. J. E. Moreland, International Secretary of Y. M. C. A. was in the city the past week in the interest of the Association here. Mr. J. H. Byron, a prominent man of St. Louis, spent several days in the city last week. Mr. Byron was at one time a resident of this city. The Western States and Territories Convention was in session at the Second Baptist church this week. Rev. J. F. Walker, presiding. Simpson's Military Band will give their second concert Wednesday evening the twenty-second at Allen Chapel, F W. Simpson, solist. The production of Hiawatha, April 6 at Simpson Chapel under the auspices of the lailies of the Christian church, will be worth your money. Rev C. M Thomas, of Cindlunati, O. gave a lecture in Bloomington, Ind. one evening last week on "The Negro of the present age." Rev Thomas passed through the city on his way home. The George Downing Woman's Home Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. Haywood 1422 N. Senate avenue. Friday afternoon, March twenty fourth. Rev B. J. Bolding, pastor of Zion church Baltimore, Md., was in the city a few days this week. While here he was a pleasant caller to The Freeman office. Miss S indey J Davis, of Keokuk Iowa, a former resident of this city, was a delegate to the Western States and Territories Convention at the Second Baptist church this week. J T. V. Hill, attorney, has had the following divorce cases recently: Hattie Bunch vs. Frank Bunub; Minnie Jackson vs. James Jackson; Leroy Patterson vs. Luccy Patterson The Ideal Service Club played whist on last Saturday afternoon at Miss M. Miller. Mrs. Edna Fleming won first prize and Mrs. H D Jones the booby prize. The club will meet with Miss Blanche Scott, Saturday afternoon. The Arel Club met with Mr and Mrs Emsemdel Stone on last Thursday evening. The club was organized a few weeks ago with twenty couples. They will dance once a month their first dance being the twenty-fourth of March at Odd Fellows Hall Mr. Gaines King, an old resident of this city, who left last November for Los Angeles. Cat, for the improvement of his health, died in that city a few days ago. His remains will be brought to his old home in Kentucky where his mother and other relatives now are. In order to meet the wishes of their friends and patrons the Kenmend Club has decided to dance twice a month from now on. The young man of this city are taking quite an interest in the club. An invitation is extended to all desirable young men to become members. All persons interested in industrial training are cordially invited to be present at an exhibit of wood work done by the number Twenty-three night school during the past winter. The exhibit will be at the Charles Summer School on the evenings of March twenty fourth and twenty fifth from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Admission free. Miss Zola Black only daughter of Mrs. Morris Lee is died Saturday afternoon after a number of weeks of painful illness. Miss Black was only in her seventeenth year and gave every promise of being a highly creditable young lady. Her death seemed indeed untimely. She was buried Tuesday afternoon from her home in North California street 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. 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The feature of Flanner Guild's Current Topic Literary society for Friday evening March 24, will be a mock trial conducted by Mr Drye and others. Miss Lydia Robinson, the millinery teacher, has returned to the city to teach at Flanner Guild in the afternoon of each day. Persons wishing instructions under Miss Robinson should avail themselves of this opportunity as Miss Robinson does not expect to return after going South. SIMPSON CHAPEL NOTES Corner Eleventh and Missouri streets; Sunday school 9:30 a.m.; preaching, 11 a.m.; morning class, 12 m.; Epworth League, 7 p.m.; preaching, 8 p.m.; weekly meetings, Official Board meeting every Monday evening at 8 o'clock; class meeting Tuesday evening, 9 o'clock; chair practice Wednesday evening; Epworth League Thursday evening; Queen Esther Circle Friday evening. Rev. H. W. Simmons, pastor. The Peak Sisters' entertainment will be given at Simpson Chapel Thursday evening, Mach 23. The entertainment will prove amusing and interesting to all who may attend. Some of the city's beet talent will take part in the program Thomas Register, trustee; Dr. H. W. Simmons, pastor "Back to Dear Old Indianapolis." By Charles Marine. The most to tehy waltz song and chorus published (Can be applied to your own town) If you are not pleased send it back and I will return stamps. Mailed to any address on receipt of 100 in stamps. You will like this song. Address all orders to Issa Doles (Pub) indisponiplos. Ied List price is 50s. introduction price 10s. LOST RELATIVE I wish to know the whereabouts of Lee Woods. There were two brothers. John and Lee. Lee ran away from the home of his uncle George Garnett, and their brother, Henry, came and took John home with him to Medcalf county. Ky. Any information of either will be thankfully received by Robert Sublet, Malneville, O THE PARKER HOUSE. A rose will smell as sweet if called by any other name. 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NOTICE.—No presents will be given unless this advertisement is presented at time of purchase. --- The only credit house in the State that carries you over periods of misfortune without humiliation or extra charge such as out of work, sickness or death—come to us and buy what you need and all you want and get credit without additional charge. THE RELIABLE FURNITURE & CARPET CO. SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET. Notice Go to Stone Front Barbershop For First-class Hair Cut and easy Shave. All latest improvements. Artists—L. H. Bradley, Chas. Love, David Ferguson. C. B. RAPE, Prop. 216 Indiana Ave. New Phone 4320 Baths. The Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator Genuine Porcelian Enamel fired on sheet steel. You can not break, scratch or corrode this wonderful lining. It will last forever, sweet and clean. Siding adjustable shelves, of same material, case of oak with quarter sawed panels. Trunk ished golden finish, nickel trim, to up and eight walls with mineral wool paint. This style 55x22x46 in. $27.50 freight paid as far as the Mississippi pl and the rivers. We sell direct where we have no agent, Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for booklet showing other styles from $2.90 and free sample of our wonder- ful lining. THE GRAND RAPIDS REFERENCE 2014 YEARLY GROUP REPORT MEN WANTED We offer to you the opportunity of a lifetime. We want good honest men in every State to clean wall throughout the United States to clean wall and pleasant, can be done with perfect satisfaction by any man. Pays from $3.00 to $7.00 per day. Full particulars. Write today. RUFUS S. JUSTICE CO. 578 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. Wanted Immediately, two or three educated young ladies to enter the Training School for Nurses. Epworth Hospital and Training School, South Bend, Ind. A 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 3598 KY'S HEADACHE CALL the relief of headache 100c Mala Wines 250c KY'S DRUG S COR. ILLINOIS & OHIO STREET H. Smith Coal Co. 1012 Bismark Avenue Wood. Prompt delivery. Candles, Cigars are in large and small quantities. -3 Ring India C. HAYES, THE DRUG rugs, toilet articles, perfumes and sundry art are to please every one Perscription and Other Medicines going to get it Come and see L. C. HAYES, T. where it is 502 India OBERT R. BAR and Hardware, Bicycle of Bicycle Tires, Enamelling, Brazing and N WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER WORK phone 5407 329 Indiana Ave Agent of Civilization STUCKY'S HEADA for immediate relief of headache Fine California Wines STUCKY'S D COR. ILLINOIS The R. H. Smith 1012 Bismar Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Ice Cream in large and small quan Phone 5136-3 Ring MRS. L. C. HAYES, T. For pure drugs, toilet articles, per I will be sure to please every one I Want Your Perscription and and am going to get it. Come and You know where it is ROBERT I Bicycles and Hardware, Leader of Bicycle Tires, Enam WE CALL FOR AN New Phone 5407 32 "An Agent of The R. H. Smith Coal Comp'y Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Candles, Cigars and Tobacco Ice Cream in large and small quantities. Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, Ind ROBERT R. BARON Bicycles and Hardware, Bicycle Repairing Leader of Bicycle Tires, Enamelling, Brazing and Nickelling WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER WORK New Phone 5407 329 Indiana Ave., Near New York St. HILLED TRADE OLIVER MARK The Largest Distin IN THE Oliver Chilled largest Distinctive Plow IN THE WORLD r Chilled Plow V The Largest Distinctive Plow Factory SOUTH BEND, IND., U. S. A. Special This Week B. E. S. Attorney and Co. NOTARY All West Short St. Managing estates, Sol- legal papers a subsidiary, attended to. Phone 643 This Work B. E. SM Attorney and Counsel NOTARY Hair Brushes Worth 35, 45 and 50' Cents THIS WEEK For 18 Cents. At Pinks' Cut Rate Pharmacy The leading Drug Store in the city 550 Indiana Ave., Southeast corner West St. Established 1898 New Phone 433 INTERNATIONAL The Rogers Labor Agency Rogers & Shute, Proprietors Successors to Tiffany-Rogers Oldest established, best known & most reliable Employment Agency in the Central States 32 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. Upstairs. ```markdown ``` COAL The largest loaf in town The quality is finest Insist on having it from your grocer. AND SEE US WRECKING CO. New Phone 3598 RACHE CAPSULES 10c and 250 a box 250 a quart bottle RUG STORE & OHIO STREET th Coal Comp'y Park Avenue C. Candles, Cigars and Tobacco unities. Indianapolis, Ind THE DRUGGIST perfumes and sundry articles call on me, and Other Medicine Trade, and see L. C. HAYES, THE DRUGGIST, 502 Indiana Avenue. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. R. BARON Bicycle Repairing smelling, Brazing and Nickeling D DELIVER WORK 29 Indiana Ave., Near New York St. Civilization" A distinguished U.S. Senator in an address to his constituents termed the Olive Plow Plant "A great achievement of Civilization." This we accept not only as a compliment but as a broad statement of fact. The world is our field and wherever plowing is done the Oliver must be found. North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the islands of the Sea are members of the Olive Plow Plant "THERWOOD," and each can testify that the Oliver is doing its share in the great work of civilization and prosperity. Active Plow Factory WORLD Plow Works B. E. SMITH Attorney and Counselor-at-Law NOTARY PUBLIC LEXINGTON, KY 314 West Short St. Managing essex, collections and drawing legal papers a specialty. Business promptly attended to. Phone 613 new. CHAS. W. MOSBY Attorney and Counselor-at-Law Notary Public, managing Estates, Collections and drawing Legal Papers especially. Business in all the courts promptly Toothache Wax Stops pain Instantly Sent postpaid for 100 Material and instruction for filling your own $5.00 worth sent postpaid for $25.10. Make gold teeth and tell you how to put them on. Write for particulars, free. Dr. C. E. WELLS, Chicago, ill. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH! ...AND HAIR TONIC... both is in box for $40, three boxes for $60. Guaranteed to do what we ask you did it for $20. One box all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A FRACH-Like completion obtained if used as desired. Will turn the skin of a blakek or brown person into a five shaded skin in a mattote person perfectly white. In forty-five shades a shade or two lighter will not succeed, but the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles from the skin remaining very soft and smooth. Smallpox pox, tan, liver spots removed when you face the WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. When you get the color you wish stop using the preparation. |CRANE'S|HAIR TONIC that goes in every one-dollar box is enough to make anyone hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage payable or if you send it on C.O.D., it will come by express 35 cents extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will incur the money or send a book fee of charge. Postcard so that one will know the contents except cover. CRANE & CO., 11 W. Jackson S., Richmond, Va.