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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW PRESIDENTS SOUTHERN TOUR PROMISES GOOD RESULTS THE OLD SOUTH AND THE NEW Southern Preacher Seeks Notoriety -Violates Precepts of the Master- -Value of Advertising in Race Papers- -The Negro a Consumer. (Staff Correspondence.) President Roosevelt will undertake a third tour of the South in the fall, visiting points not touched in previous itineraries. Mr. Roosevelt shows by this readiness to come into direct contact with a hostile political section a loftiness of soul and stately manlid of intellect that more than vindicate the wisdom of the American republic in choosing him to be a president of all the people beneath the flag. The South knows Mr. Roosevelt better now than it did when he took up the work from which the lamented McKinley was so summarily snatched by the hand of the assassin. He was suspect d misjudged and maligned Little Bedrouns were unable to grasp the true significance of the term "a square deal" and their eyes were too blinded by an unreasoning pice to see how a high-bred white man could sufficiently respect his oath of office and obey the diatoms of a christian conscience; fair enough to include the black man in the mantle of the citizens around him the mantle of constitutional protection must be thrown. But the Southerners have taken the Presidents measure now, and they have a pretty fair conception of the Rooseveltian code, even while they persist in their refusal to accept it as their rule of conduct. To Mr. Roosevelt the Negro is not a problem but an integral part of the people. He sets a standard of manhood, of character, of fitness and all are equally worthy who answer to its requirements, regardless of color. The South's demurer to this rigid adherence to civil equality is gently, but firmly ever-rules. It has been ascertained, however, that Mr. Roosevelt has no fell designs upon the fictitious known as "social equality," and the early'apprehensions of the Bourbons have now somewhat subsided. The tour will probably include Richmond, Baleigh, Attanta, Jacksonville, Montgomery, Mobile and other points in the states in which these stellar cities are located, probably closing at Helena or Little Rock in Arkansas. It is especially gratifying to our people that the President has consented to stop off a day at Tuskegee, and see for himself the wonderful achievements of the race at Booker Washington's great school. He is scheduled to reach there about the 20th of October. that is crushing it to perdition at "the pace that kills." The Presidents ought to lead to an abandonment of the us unspeakable "referee system which is choking the life out of useful Republicians who are opposed to "band-box methods" of party management and discouraging the colored voters who would, under a square deal, comprise 95 per cent, of the loyal republican organizations of the South. It ought to lead to a determinant stand for the rigid enforcement of the 15th amendment, and the condign punishment of those who spasmotically thwart the will of the people by the fraudulent manipulation of the ballot box and the unlawfully disfairishment of intelligent and property-owned citizens. We opine that when the President has given the situation the careful study that his tour is so admirably arranged to permit, his message to the 58th Congress will wake the entire country to a livelier sense of the national instinct and inspire a sterner demand for civil liberty that shall mean the same to citizen of Georgia and Mississippi that it means to a citizen of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The Negros best case is closer to the ground now than it ever was before. Our "Rev." J. W. Stagg, who for some unexplained reason is allowed to rattle around in the pulpit of the reputable *Priest's* yarian church of Birmingham, Ala., is making a desperate effort to escape from the dense obscurity of a life-time by out-Heroding Herod in casting aspersion upon the character and capacity of the Negro race, and incidentally, throwing mud at Dr. Booker T. Washington and his wonderfully uplifting work. No one with a spoonful of sense or an ounce of information is taking this fellow seriously. He is mentioned here solely for the purpose of emphasizing his idiocy and then having done with him forever. Stagg's assertion that the attempt to educate the Negro is a failure can have no standing in court when the roll is called of of the thousands of graduates from the country's foremost colleges is called and their triumphs in law, medicine, the ministry, arts and sciences, in business, politics and in the industries is recorded. The reduction of the race's illiteracy -ov 95 percent since emancipation -unprecedented in the history of any people, simply prove Stagg to be an infamous prevaricator, if not worse. Stagg's further declaration that the probable trend of foreign immigration southward will eliminate the Negro as a competitor in his accustomed labors is built upon nothing tangible; she sheer guess work, superinduced by a mad hopefulness that the predicted extermination will take place through some miraculous agency, unfathom at d present. The conclusion reached by Stagg that the solution of the Negro problem lies in the forcible deportation of the entire race to Africa is worthy of the craziest inmate of the Alabama hospital for the insane. Even if the imbecile is ignorant of the brilliant achievements of the black soldiers in all the wars to uphold the dignity of our common country, or if he is disposed to overlook the value of our immense contribution to the production of the land and the conspicuous part we are playing in every avenue of moral, mental and material endeavor—if all these evidences of intrinsic worth escape him does he not perceive the absolute physical impossibility of shipping from these shores, forcibly or otherwise, a population numbering not less than ten million? Stagg ought to either read up or take treatment, for he is in a dangerous way and is apt to injure himself. In fact we suspect that he has hurt himself already and that he is the only one who will feel any ill effects from his foolish deliverance. As for his vulgar asault upon Booker Washington, a man whose fame will live with that of the most illustrious names of the world's history when Stagg's will be in oblivion tomorrow; nothing need be sid by us. Dr Washington cannot be insulted nor can his sphere of influence be made less white by the ravings of an unbalanced blatherskite The white press of the "better South" can be relied upon to take care of her Stagg and the malodorous ilk in a manner befitting their offense when they sporadically array their shortsighted hatefulness against the economic welfare of the whole people, for skilled Negro labor, coupled with integrity, is the corner stone of southern prosperity. The decent whites are becoming very weary weary of having their pretensions to good sense discredited by tolerating such false prophets as Stagg their spokesman. His escape from obscurity is only temporary and is accomplished only by an unusually atrocious exhibition of assiminity. His "stunt" being over, his brief exploitation in the lime light is at CO-OPERATION. an end. We return him to his mismatic environs in the dismal swamp of besetten race prejudices from which he will never again emerge, unless it be to leave the e-ntry where Negroes will be found in multiplying numbers until the sound of Gabriel's trumpet on the last day. Dispire the ravings of all the Staggs under the sun the colored American is determined to go forward from industry to reward, clinging prayerfully to a faith that "Bevond the dim unknown God standeth in the shadow, Keeping watch over his own" There are ten millions of Negroes in this country. They are all consumers, all must in the course of their lives put many dollars in food, clothing, shelter, furniture, books, amusements, travel and, in fact, they will buy everything that any other people buy. They are liberal spenders and they like nice goods. When they have provided for their necessities and indulged in a few luxuries they have invested practically all they have earned for a given period. The amount of money handled by Negroes in a year easily runs up into hundreds of millions. Manufacturers and merchants who fail to place their wares before this vast army of buyers through the far reaching medium of the Negro newspaper are not alive to their best interests. Of the Negro population not less than 2,000,000 read the journals published by and for their race, and are influenced to purchase the goods that they are extolled in their columns and these in turn report to 2,000,000 others that the articles so advertised are or are not up to the standard claimed for them. In addition to these countless Negro stewards, butlers, headwaiters, porters, cooks and the like employed by white hotels, restaurants, saloons, dining cars or private families have absolute control of the table or household supplies ordered and they examine the papers critically, not only to see what cor- WE HELP OURSELVES BY HELPING OTHERS porations or dealers offer the best bargains, but to be sure that the recipient of their favor properly respects the Negro as a factor in the commercial world. The Negro business man in buying for himself naturally leans toward the wholesaler or jobber who places a card in a Negro paper as a testimonial that the custom of his race is worth while. It is a peculiar and unexplainable connubrum to us how any of the big manufacturing firms or retailers, large and small, can feel that they are exercising proper business sagacity in ignoring the rich market furnished by the Negroes of this country. We cannot see how any one of them can afford to refuse to ask for a share of this limitless volume of trade by advertising in our special organs which, in many instances, go into homes where no other kind of a papers enters or in centers where no other paper is read with the same degree of eagnerness and confidence. As we all know when a clever advertiser wishes to direct the attention of the Irish, Germans, Poles, Italians, Hebrews, Swedes or any of the distinctive elements which are found in our body politic he appeals to them through the columns of the papers conducted especially in their interest. Likewise, the patrons of labor unions, fraternal organizations, secret orders, followers of certain trades and professions, and of even theatre goers and base ball patrons is courteously invited through their class journals, programs, etc. This space designed to attract a special custom is in addition to the heavy outlay placed with the dalles of general circulation and the advertising managers are careful to see that his class of whites is catered to before his duty is accounted "done to a queen's taste." Why, of all America's host of consumers, the Negro alone passed over by the bulk of manufacturers and dealers? While many important concerns do "loosen up" to a commendable extent and advertise their products in our papers they are few as compared with the immense aggregate. That this predisposition on the part of the mercantile world to overlook the just claims of the Negro newspaper is notorious unfair, as well as a violation of the unwritten law of commercial etiquette, goes without the saying. A division of advertising among the various buying classes, the Negro included, is not only to secure a mutuality of benefits, but it has grown to be a bylaw in the wise boomer's code. It is our sincere hope that these few lines will meet the eyes of the gentlemen to whom they are respectfully addressed and prompt them to consider from now on the Negro's massive weight as a consumer of every line of merchandise from a clothes pin to a house and lot and go in for a share of his business in the usual way. They should finally recognize the first class, widely distributed Negro journal for what it really and truly is—the "open door" to a steady market, rivalling in value and prestige the radiant Kohinoor of India's mystic strand. R. W. THOMPSON. ROCKFORD, ILL. The A. M. E. church Sunday school gave their children's day rally last Sunday evening and a large attendance was at out to hear the well rendered program. -Misses S. Woods, M. P. Ouzts, M. Carter and Messrs J Robinson and I. W. Bess spent Sunday in Milwaukee, Wis. -Mrs. India Armstrong, of Detroit. Mich. , is in the city, attending her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Taylor, who has been very sick in St Joseph hospital. -Mrs. Emma Gilbert, Mrs. Charles Price and Miss Ids Waver, who have been on the sick list, are improving. -G. W. Vedder, proprietor of the Madison street tonsorial parlor, spent Thursday in Beloit, Wis. on business. WANDERER FLAYS DIXON. DOCTRINE OF HATE THE THEME OF THE AUTHOR OF LEOP- ARD'S SPOTS. THE CLOTH BADLY DISGRACED Many in Same Calling are Doing Great Good While Dixon Continues to Misrepresent Ignorant of the Better Class. The southern papers are having the time of their lives over the Dixon-Ogden controversy. Mr. Dixon's skillful expression of coarse, almost vulgar sentiment is about as attractive to the refind mind as a corpse done up in fine linen. He mourns with indignant sorrow because Mr. Ogden introduced Mr. Washington in a way befitting his worth. Don't Rey. Dixon know that thousands of his people are forcing the association of the races and leaving numbers of our girls unfit to appear even in our own impovished social ranks? Why not condemn that? He is vexed almost to insanity because a respectable colored shopper can buy a lunch in New York. Surely that is the end of folly. The more respectable South is anxious to know what white person has Mr. Ogden ever forced to sit down and eat with a Negro. Since Mr. Dixon never has and never will patronize the Ogden lunch counter and since he has gained nothing by fasting and Mr. Ogden's business has not suffered because he did not eat his lamentation becomes almost faecal. We almost imagine that we see him jansing in the vomiting of anathema at the North and winking the other eye at the South, where his books find ready sale. Admit that all that Rev. Dixon says of Mr. O_den is true, then imagine him possessed of every fault common to our imperfect nature, then might he not stand for comparison by the side of a presacher—a messenger, not of Peace and Goodwill, but of prejudice and hatred. The greatest compiliment ever paid Mr. Ogden, the very brightest evidence of his greatness, is that he is condemned by the Rev. Mr. Dixon. If Mr. Dixon would come South and study the Negro, learn the aspirations of the best class of our people, he might be less harsh in his criticism of the great philanthropists, even at the risk of suffering a small fall off in the sale of books. The actual lives and accomplishments of many Negroes in Anderson and Greenville, S. C., to go no further would knock Dixonism into flinters if they were known. Great leaders mean an aspiring people, for no other kind will have and sustain such leadership. The Negro bank at Greenville meets the charge that the Negro is a contented pauper. President Allen and Cashier Davis are both self made men in a large measure, but stand for everything that the term "man" implies in its highest sense. Drs. Maloy, Witherspoon, Mazoun and McDowell, with untitled men equally as ripe as Revs. Walker, Ransom and Pinton can do society more good with the clear cut, clean gospel of love which preach than Dixon's "Leeopard杖" will do in a hundred years. Henry McGowar, the black Rockfellow of Anderson: S. J. Jackson, of Unity Six, and the eminent Dr. Lykes, of Greenville, represent a degree of success not common to aty people. Dr. Robinson, the talented Anderson devine, tested for the power to lead and goodness of heart to lead rightly for that Christlike concern in the welfare of all the people, is to Mr. Dixon as the eagle to the owl. Rev Quick, the sage of his church, would, without any embarrassment, save that coming from unpleasant association, accept Mr. Dixon as a pupil. I wonder if Mr. Dixon knows the better life among my people. If he does not he is too ignorant to write upon the subject. If he knows and attempts to conceal the truth he is not a safe leader even for his own small following of scoffers and Negro haters. We Negroes down here believe that there are good white people and we continue to appeal to the good in them, at the same time developing and strengthening the good in ourselves, with the steadfast determination to win the respect and good will of our white neighbors, Mr. Dixon's efforts to the contrary notwithstanding. WANDERER. The Freeman in Hot Springs, Ark. Copies of the Freeman can be found every Saturday at Robinson & Glover's barbershop on Malvern avenue. 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The full names and addresses of the querist will not, under any circumstances, be published. No answer will be sent by this column, and any communications to Woman's Corner, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. JUST SO! When everything goes crooked, And seems inclined to rule, Don't kik nor nouse no ! gadget; Just—you—sm.1.! It's hard to learn the lesson, But learn it if you'd win, When people tease and pester, Just—you—grin! When some one tries to "do" you By taking more than half, Be patient, firm and pleasant; Just—you—laugh! But if you find you're stuffy (Sometimes, of course, you will!) And cannot smile nor grin nor laugh; Just—keep—still! —ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN. Mrs. J. L. Brodrick, the wife of the president of the defunct Indiana National Bank at Eikhart, Ind., now serving a term at Ft. Leavenworth is a saleswoman in Marshall Field's retail store in Chicago. She is also a doctor of Christian Science and earns considerable in that way. Several years before her trouble came she was a devoted member of Christian Science and was cured of a long illness. :——: Miss Li Bi Cu is said to be the first Chinese girl to take a degree in medicine in this country. She graduates this year from the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia with high honors. Miss Jane Nathan, the first South African-born girl licensed to practice as a dental surgeon, has returned from her successful studies in Europe to begin her profession at Hanover, Cape Colony. She is believed to be the first South African girl to take any medical degree. —:0:— At the annual meeting of the W. C. T. U. at Philadelphia last week, Dr. Harriet S. French ceased that no user of tobacco or intoxicants should be allowed to teach the young. A resolution to this effect was passed. —;0;— Mrs Frances C. Barton has arranged to endow twelve scholarships at Tuskegee Institute to be known as Col. Robert Gould Shaw Scholarships, in honor of her brother. The endowment amounts to fully $12000. :0: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is the first woman to be honored by Fisk University as its commencement orator. 一:0:一 The wife of a minister in an Indiana town has been awarded the first prize by an eastern publication for the best article on "The Ethilos of Prizes Giving." She took strong grounds against prizes giving, especially for parlor card contests. ---:--- A Canadian newspaper has prophesied that the city home of the future will contain no stoves. Cooking will be done by power, the building will be heated from a central plant, elevators will run from cellar to garret, and breakfast, lunch and dinner will be supplied from a co-operative center. Not only will the house of the future be cleaned by power, but the dust will be removed by a pneumatic exhaust system. For the poor tired out housekeeper may that day make haste. —:0:— A San Francisco woman who founded an institution in 1868 has lost her money and entered the home. ---:0--- Death from peritonitis, due to excessive taking of pills, was stated to be the cause of a woman's death at a Bristol (England) in quest. —:0— A London journal says that Americans are coming over in greater swarms than ever and soon the streets will be full of curiously quiet looking men in weird coats with padded shoulders. ending at the hips, long boots blobby at the tips and straw hats with no roofs and women with brown faces with very white, whites, green vells floating in the breeze and accents that set one's teeth on edge. :0:: A girl who can talk in a bright, entertaining and sensible manner is generally a favorite whether she has a pretty face or not. —:0— The fraud-order division of the post-office department is investigating whether a certain concern can bleach one's face and turn kinky hair to the straightness of an Indian. —:0— Hand-painted white taffeta, black taffeta with lace medallions, figured taffeta with heavy lace, insertion, dark blue taffeta appliqued with white leather are among the very latest designs in parasols. :0: To cleanse hair brushes, put three or four spoonfuls of borax in a quart of tepid water and dip the bristles in it, but not the back. Then rinse well in several waters, ending with quite cold water. —:0— The skin is an index to the condition of the system. A pimpled skin is oftimes caused from eating too hastily. :o:: It is seldom our duty to repeat true tales we hear against others. Before we speak, we ought to be quite sure that silence is failure in duty. —:0:— Count that day lost whose low descending sun, views from thy hand no worthy action done. DETROIT, MICH. Eureka Commandary, No 1, Knights Templar, lenten services at Ebenezer church June 1st. Rev. Allen preached; H. P. Thompson, prelate. They were headed by the Commandary band. The service was well attended. A. J. White, eminent commander.—A. A. Shelton's orchestra from Denver, Col., with a concert company is stopping at the Fredonia hotel.—Among the late arrivals at the Fredonia are Moses Garfield and James Heath, of Indianapolis, Ind., and James McLason, of Asheville, N. C.—An old time candy cup and spelling match will be given under the direction of the Faithful Few at Bethel A. M. E. church Thursday evening, June 8th, Mrs. M. A. Gainer, president; G. W. Lewis, secretary—Among those who read the Freeman every week are Dr. Ames. S. L Beldson, headwaiter at the American room at the Wayne; John Artis, headwaiter at the Ladies Cafe; and B. F. Richardson, formerly of Duluth, Minn., headwaiter in the gents cafe, also at the Wayne.—Any one wishing to secure a copy of the Freeman in Detroit can secure it every Saturday at 267 Gratif ave. or have it delivered to their address. JOLIET.ILL Rev. Atkinson, of Kansas City, Mo., is assisting Rev. Johnson of the Second Baptist church with a revival. They have had a large number of converts.—Mrs. I. Oren L. Andrews, G. W. C., of I. O. O. C., and M. N. C., of Household of Ruth, visited the several Courts of Jollet—Will Smith is visiting with friends in Morris.—A large number of Aurorates attended the dance given by Messrs Johnson, Davis and Granberry Friday evening.—Rev. C. W. Thompson and wife, with Miss Pearl Chapm n were delegates to the A. M. E. Sunday School Conference held in Chicago June 7 9—Sunday Mrs. King, an aged lady dropped dead while giving her testimony in covenant at the Second Baptist church. It was always her desire to die at prayer or while at her Master's work.—Mrs. Emma Williams, after spending the winter in Datonla, Fla., has returned much improved in health.—Mrs. Anna James is on the slick list—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mason, with Dick Thompson have gone to Battle Creek, Mich., to liv. Mr. Mason is one of Jollets old residents, having lived for over thirty years. Poor health is the cause for the change.—Mr and Mrs. J. M. Cardwell are visiting with her sister in Chicago ROCKFORD, ILL The Rockford Jubilee Singers furnished music for the Rockford Township Convention of Sunday School workers which coveted in the State Street Baptist church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. A feature of the service was a duet by Miss Descrett Rodges and I. W. Bees. The African Order of Foresters has been organized in Rockford with 115 members.—The funeral of Wm. Ousley, of Beloit, Wis., on last Wednesday had a large representation from Rockford—The A. M. E. church's quarterly conference was held on the 2nd. Rev. H. H. Payson, P. E., preached—Rockford Jubilee Singers appeared in Beloit, Wis., June 13th where a large crowd heard them at the rally of the M. E. church.—The stewardesses of the A. M. E. church appeared in their new regalia last Sunday, and they are to be highly complimented. DETROIT MICH A large and fashionable audience greeted Mr. Frank D. Glenn. of Oberlin O., at Bethel A. M. E church in a song recital Thursday evening, June 1. Mr. Glenn possesses an exceptionally fine musical tenor voice, supplemented by careful and conscientious study, under the best instructors. His selections were of the highest order and the interoperation of each was that of a real artist. Miss Bertta Hansbury, pianist of the Detroit Conservatory of Music and Mr Leroy Smith violinist acquitted themselves with credit and were enthusiastically received. From the excellent work of the chorus under the direction of Prof. J. W. Johnson it is safe to predict that Detroit will in the near future boast of a rival to Prof. Layton's far famed chorus of the Capital City. Unbounded credit is due to Mr. Johnson for his uniring effort. Financially and musically the concert was a splendid success, and many expressions of satisfaction from those fortunate enough to be present have been heard on all sides. It is to be hoped that this is but the beginning of a series of appearances here of artists of our own race. Miss Susie Eleanor Smith, the talented daughter of Bishop C. S. Smith is responsible for this entertainment. Miss Smith also has charge of Bethel choir, and we predict that she will put the choir at a standard that it has never been before.—Mr. Merriweather, formerly of Indianapolis is still with us. He made a trip to Chicago a few days ago. We are glad to have him as one of our tenor singers. We have in our midst Prof. William E. Roberts, one of our best young men of the state. We are proud of him and only hope that he may continue to be a light to the race which he represents. He is also one of our tenor singers in Bethel.—Don't fail to get your paper our agent. B. Allen Morris, 175 Wilkins street. MORGANTOWN, W. VA Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, who has been visiting her daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ellis, left Friday for her home, Belleveron, Pa.—Miss Mary and Blanche Smith, who were in Clarkesburg visiting and attended commencement a few days ago, returned homlast Friday afternoon and report a good time.—John Shorts, who has been away for some time has returned to our city and is making his headquarters at the the Delecatessen hotel—Misses Ollie, Eitha and Edith Gordon and several other friends from Untown, Pa., were in the city on Decoration day.—Miss lea Warrick and her sister from Bretz spent decoration day it the city.—The young ladies and gentlemen gave a fine dance in Hunt's hall on the evening of Decoration day.—The public school closed for the term last Friday evening. The school commencement was largely attended and the program exercises were excellent. The program consisted of recitations, songs, solos, dialques, duets, quartets and essays. Miss Mattie Prouty is a faithful teacher and true to her race and country.—Miss Eva M. Brown, who was attending the Institute of West Virginia, returned home Saturday, June 10.—Mrs. Brown gave a delightful party at the parsonage on Decoration day evening. CONSIDER THIS OUTING To Famous Seashore Resorts In Planning Your Vacation. By far the most attractive trip for health and pleasure the coming vacation season is that offered by the Seashore excursion Thursday, August 17th, over Pennsylvania Lines to Atlantic City, Cape May and seven other famous summer havens on the Atlantic Coast. The fast through trains over Pennsylvania Lines take passengers in a few hours out of the heat and humidity of this to the cool breezes of old ocean. This mid-August excursion occurs in the season for rest when it is most convenient to leave business. Excursionists have the added pleasure of seein Atlantic City when it is in full tide of the fashionable season. The greatest representative gatherings ever known at any resort are seen at Atlantic City. As many as 50,000 people at one time promenade the famous board walk. The fashionable bathing hours present an unparalleled scene—fully 100,000 bathers in the sea and on the beach. The healthful effect of the seashore trip is due to the salt and pine air. So bene ficial has this proved that physicians send their patients there to get the benefit of breathing the pure air air. Special low fares will be in effect for this Seashore excursion. Full information will be freely given by local ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines. MRS. WHITTEN Fine Millinery display of Patterns ready to wear Hats Will show also a fine line of Untrimmed Hats from 256 to $1.98. 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HEAD, SECOND AND SIDE WAITERS. “For the man who works with brain or hand, "" | HEADQUARTERS: ] i WESTERN BRANOM | 111 West 27th Street, K 325 Dearborn Street, New York. | Chicago, 11, In our last week's tesue by some over- (other Work, but a distinct pleasure fr sight we ot ‘ Colored” instead of “Co-| maintaining a clean and dignified ap lonial” Hotel in our report of George L | pearances while the work affords an ex Lang’s address to the Head, Second and| cellent opportunity to keep posted ot Sidewaiters’ Convention, which con-|all toples which might prove interest vened in Pittsburg. Pa. ing and Lenefistal. Some have stndlec oe law, others medicine, and still other: John J. Miles, the veteran headwait-|denlstry, architect, pharmacy, olvil en er at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee, | 8ineering, the ministry, and now mans Wis., came near choking to deatt, last | @r¢ found studying agrionitural-chem week, and his life was barely saved by|{stry. Many of these students hav. an operation performed by Dr. Lemon|paseed on down the channel into the fm that clty. The. accldent occurred in | 0P&0 88 of euocessfnl and professions Chicago, and Mr. Miles immediately | Competition where master minds strug took a train for Milwaukee, where the|S!¢ for supremacy. But what is the operation wes succeesfally performed. | Philosophy of this to the profession o; L, J. Rice, the popular proprietor of Rice's cafe, Dayton, O , has organized Rice's base ball team. The officers and stockholders of the company are as fol- lows: L Phillips, president; Willian Askins, vice-president; J. Hickerson, secretary; L. J. Rice, treasurer; Ber Thomas, James Carter and H. Jackson Mr. Kice is an ex headwaiter, and In vites all ylsitors to Dayton to look him up. Mr. Erwins, proprietor of Savoy Ho tel, Kansas City, Mo., was elected pres {dent of the H. M. M. B. A. at Atlantl City last week; 8. 8. Paoebus, proprie tor of the Wiltebire Hotel, Atlanti Clty, N.5:, vice-president, and J. K Blatchford of Chicago wae re elected secretary aud treasurer. The associa- tion meets in Portland, Oregon, nex‘ year. Among the prominent Westerr and Southern hotel proprietors whc were present are N. A. Court, Colum: bas, 0, W. B Akers, Cleveland, O., T. J. Cullen, Cinctnati, O , W. 4. Worth, Chicago, Ill., Dr. Marshall, Blooming: ton, Iil., LP. Parker, Memphis, Tenn., A. R Blekely, New Orleans, La., W. Black, Nashville, Tenn. 8. R. Read, Chattanooga, Tenn., and others, ‘The Gwendolen Pablishing Company, 180 Falton street, New York City, has issued ‘Commanders uf the Dining Room.” The book is neatly bound and contains blograpblo eketches and por- traits of successful colored head waiters. The book is compiled by E, A Maocan- non, who, in the introductory, amply justifies the alms of the publication. The history of the Headwalters’ Aseoct- ation, which {a given much prominence, well written by W. Alonzo Locke, the affable headwaiter at the Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Tenn., and ex-president of the assoclation. We know of no one more able to put forth the early history of the asscolation, and we congratulate him upon bis masterly effort. ‘Thecon- tents of the book are as follows : Introductory, history of the H. 8. & 8, W. Assoolstion, blographies of Frank P, Thompson, W. Alonzo Looke, Edwin W. Harper, E, ©. Holland, Thomas J. Simon, Robt. H Grant, Thos. A. Mor ri, ©. ©. Randolph, H. Pettigrew, A. E, Jenkins, Waiter ©. Oatlaw, W. P. Landon, Celvin M. Farrar, George A Curry, RJ. Wilder, John A Gloster W. B. Barris, James L. Dickinson, J T. Lee, Wm. 8. Foreman, J, H, Holmes, Geo. H Richardson, A L Walters, L D, Houston, Joho T, Gilbert, John © Logan, 8 R Wilson, Chas. T. Fargu son, Thos. A. Wood, B Coles, Har vey O. Green, Chas. C. Smith, W. E Tooker, Thos C. Smith, John T. Stan ton, H. ©. Pitts, James H. Whitehead Ni ©. Johns, W. A. Fisher, A. Nathan fel Dempsey, Jobn J. Miles, Thos. H Frezier, Samuel Thompson, George P Goode, E.'T. Mathews, A. H. Dally Frank C. Long, M. M. Martin, F. B Grifia, R. J. Patterson, EB W. Digg and W. Forrest Cozart, Never in the history of thre occupa ton ot a walter were better men en geged in the work than at the present ‘There is atsolately no relaciye compari- son eo far as intelligence and manhood of the man following the work and those of twenty-five years ago, when, 1n some parts of the South. such a per. son as is characteriz*4 as walters to-day were then called flankeys, The normal and high schools of every clime and village for the education of the solored youth have contributed their quota to the ranks of a waiter, and this aggrega- tion of trained minds from the different institutions have proven a great «timu- lus to the lees fortunate and uneducated till, at this time, it is very diffioalt to find » man among waiters of any hotel, no matter where located, who cannot read and write and entertain a crowd on current topics. It is true that many of thoe who have come among the waiters for the making of their daily bread have made this one of the means of accomplishlag other ends. Happily for them they not only find time and advantages to study not enjoyed in any WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111, other Work, but a distinct pleasure in maintaining @ clean and dignified ap- pearances while the work affords an ex- cellent opportunity to keep posted on all topics which might prove interest- ing and Lenefisial. Some have studied law, others medicine, and still others denistry, architect, pharmacy, olvil en- gineering, the ministry, and now many are found studying agricaltural-chem- istry. Many of these students have passed on down the channel into the open 628 of suocessful and professional competition where master minds strug- gle for supremacy, But what is the philosophy of this to the profession or to those who by sheer force of cireum- stances must continue in the harness? ‘True, indeed, it 18 comforting, inapiring, bat all men cannot advance through the same channel. Point out to-day the mea who have made & sucoess of walt- ing and still follow the work. ‘There is pleaty room and plenty waiting oppor. tunities for the young men with conr- age and ambition to force themselves forward into the ranks of leaders. ‘The duty devolves upon the older heads to polnt the way to succass to the thon- sand willing and anxious who have the intellect and manliness of character, but walt the direction of thove who would teach the sclence that underlies the artof doing any given taxk. We profit by experience and should teach the thousand and one pitfalis to the aspiring generation who long for advice to begia and how to begin right. The art of waiting is already developed to a marked degree in the “American Col ored Walter.” Read {t; you will never have cause to say otherwise ANNUAL SERMON, G. L. Lang’s Report—Preached by Rey. Ghee nine dase Services were opened by prayer by Bro. George Lang. The opaning address was delivered by Hon. H, T. Ebanks, ex-headwatter of the Weddell Hotel, Hollenden and Russell Hotel of Detroit, Mich., now State Representative from Onto, His Address to his comrades was very inter- esting. Nearly every hotel and restaur- ant was represented. Among thoss present were the headwatter of the Colontal Hotel supported by his staf, Glen Stringer, eecond walter, William Brewer, third walter, J. Carter, fi-st captain, and crew, Mr. Tharaton of the Forest City and crew, Mr. Young and crew of the Baldwin, also representa- tives from the Enolld Hotel, Kennard. Amerlcan, Amsterdam, Croxden, Tavis- tok, White Hall, Gridiron osfes and Colonial restanrant. Oar intention fs t> have an annual Sermon preached the first Sunday of every Jane. I think it 1s a good step for every head waiter to take. Any of the churenes would be glad to exten¢ you an Invitation and throw thelr door open: It ts not only a credit to oar oo. capation, but « oredit to each individual and brings eyer to the mind of evers hotel man that he should calebrate thi: day and turn thanks to God for his enc cess In lif, Geo L. Lanc, Cleveland, O. MOBILE. ala. Oo Thureday, Jane 1, 1905, our dis tingalshed leader, Prof. Booker T. Washington, was received by the color. ed business and professional men cf Mobile. After being driven ‘about the clty (ran hour or more the party re Paired to Frankita Street Baptist church ‘where he was tendered an ovation never before accorded any one by the colored people of Mobile, Prof. Washington spoke for an honr, giving some good adyice to our young men and women, which, We hope, they will {profit by — John Alexander, one of the Burrelle Hotel’s valued employes, has left for a visit to his parente in Greenville, Als. John has not seen his parents for sey- eral years, 60 he left with lots of good things to make them happy. —The past week has been given up entirely to the sweet girl gradaate. She has been holding full sway. We do hope she will begin life in the outside world with a fearless tread and euccess will crown her efforts —Mre. James Adams left on June 1st for herzhome in Atlanta, Ga Her many friends regret that she could not remain longer.--The colcred base ball team of Beaumont, Texas, played a series of thre. games with M. Herman's Mobile Sluggers, which resulted in each team Winning one game. They fonght until darkness prevented elther side galning any advantage over the other, ‘The Beaumonts left for Montgomery, but will return next week to play the | Hermans for s puree of $200, ————_ AN OLD-TIME. DISH, ——— Our Grandmothers Used the Whole of the Wheat and Hardly Knew What Indigestion Was, Tn these days of education to the use of the whole of the wheat {t is interest- {ng to turn back the pages of time and See what our ancestors did. One of the most nourishing dishes and one of the most common, perhaps, a century or g0 ‘go was known as “‘Frnmenty.” It is seldom, If ever, eeen now, but Hutchi- son, the great English food authority, states that it was very nourishing and wholesome. It was prepared by soak- ing the kernel of wheat in water until {t swelled up and burst and then boiled in milk with the addition of suzar and salt. That the whole of the wheat is of high value in producing bone, blood, muscle and nerve force 1s proven both by chemtcal analysis and actual phyel- ological experiment. Oaly a few ‘years go, fortified by exhaustive research and experiment by learned men of soi- ence, @ progressive Chicago man pub Ushed and clrenlated among the farmers of the country 8 book telling them of the great strength-producing qualities of wheat when fed to horses a.d ite economy as “feed,” a mere handfal be- ing sufficient to sustain a horse at hard work half a day, In training quarters for college ath: tetes whole wheat is recognized as of great value. Mr. Robert Utterbach, manager of the Drake University Ath Jetlo Assoclation, in speaking of this sald: “I take pleasure in endorsing Malta Vita, which we used with first class results at our foot ball training table. In nntrition and consistency we found Malta-Vita to be the best food for our use.’” That is because Malta-Vita 1s the whole of the wheat and rion in protelde, which Hutebison eays can alone balld up and repair tiesue, Maita-Vita ts ax extended and elaborated process ot the old way of making “Framenty.” The whole wheat grain is cleaned of its husk, then bolled in water, cooked in steam to gelatinizs the starob, then allowed to stand in coolers (where it 1s carefally watched by an expert) just long enough to allow the gelatinized starch ce ls to brenk down, then it is treated with bar- ley malt instead of sugar, as the barley malt and the gelatinized starch make “maltose” or malt sugar—highly nutri- tious and most easily digested. Thus Malta Vita 1e solentitically prepsred tc meet the reqalrements of the trained athlete and tne convalescent. To each it gives strength, blood, bone and mus. cle and in elther’s stomach it is ready to be taken up by the blood without taxing the digestive fermonts, Malta- Vita is now 10 cents per package, the same big package yon used to buy for 15 cents. MARION. IND. ‘Mrs. Z:no Jones and daughter, of Chicago, are visiting thelr aunt, Mre. F, Pettiford —Cnris Lott, of Matthews, was in the olty Thureday.—Mre, Datsy Chartheli and dangater, Aurelia, have returned to Chicago after a week’s visit with friends —William Kinney end wife le't Wednesday for thelr home in We- bash after a few day’s visit.—J. Eilis and daughter, Mrs. W. Webb, of An- derson, are here attending the bed elde of Mrs, W. W lson, who is eerlonsly ill, —The faneral of Rev Harry Morgan occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Fifth street chnreh QRev. T. Price preached a consoling and touching ser- mon. The floral offsringa were nomsr- ous and beantifal —Misses Fern Fargar. son and Esta Marshall were elected delegates to the Suaday S shoo! Convan: tion, whish will be held here soon.— Miss Leota Smith, an accomplished and talented young lady, was the only col ored graduate of the high eohool clas 05 out of a class of twenty-seven. Misi Blanohe Fergurson revelved a diploms in the grawmar grade and will enter high school in the fall —Thomas Harri son, of Hamilton, O, ie the guest of Morris Dyson. Mr, Harrison will move his family here in the near fature,— Word was recleved from Mre, Jennie Johnson, who is at the bed side of her slater, Carrie Holiday, of Colambus, O., that little hope for her recovery is en- tertained —Mr, andjMrs. Carl Winslow, of Frankfort, were the guests ot friends Sanday—James Wilson and Mrs. 8 Harris Spent Sanday in Cincinnat!.— Mrs, Mollie Harris, of Wabseh, was the guest of her daughter, Mra. H. Ponde, last week —The B. I B, club held very pleasant meeting at Heb-r Fergur- son’s reeldent Wednesday night—Mies Helen Peters, of Kokomo, was the gucet of her cousin, Miss Leona Milton, Sun- day.—Mr. and Mrs Dillard Artist en- tertained @ number of friends from Dackreel and Kokomo at 6 o’clock din- ner Sunday.—Miss Lulu Fergurson and mother and E Daniels, of Wabash, wore the guests of Mrs J. W. Burden Sunday.—The corner stone laying of the Second Baptist church was largely attended by K. of P.'s from Kokomo: Andersov, Wabash and Indianspolls. Rey Leonard, of Shelbyville, preached an able sermon, afterwhich George P. Stewart, of indianapolis, conducted the cermonies. A contribution of $5685 was taken up.—Rev. Rainey Bennet, pastor of the Christian Temple (white) will lecture at the Fifth street church for the benefit of the Thirty-fifth street church, PORTLAND. OREGON. The completed Lewis and Olark ex- Position and its surroundings will be» pleasant surprise to Easterners, and none may have fear in regard to extor- tlonate prices as to board and lodging if they only make application to one of the various information bureaus. —C. Watkins of Chisago arrived the past week to be employed in the Illinois State building —Will Keating of Little Rock, Ark., arrived a fow days ago, and is connected with the Model Club as mixologist extraordinary, The Model Club is to give adance every Monday night during the exposition at Jefferson Gardens —Al. Douglas and Bud Mur- ray of Spokane are extending the glad hand to thelr many friends —Mr. O. Whitman snd Mra. B, Waltman of Little Rock, Ark. are here to while away a summer of sight seeing —The Portland friends of @. A. Ward cf Oak- lend Cal., sincerely sympathize with him during bis present eerious illness, —The Freeman is on sale at ‘‘Frank’s” bath parlors on Sixth street —Mrs, Plerce of Vanconver, B, C,, is in Port- land visiting her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wateon —-One of the interesting events of next month will be the Juvenile entertainment at Bethel church MINEOLA, TEX. The farmers are busy plauting corn ‘and cotton —Ed. Oarter died May 27. His wife is in come part of Indian Ter- ritory.—George Levi, the gon of 8 An- derson is ill with fever—Bob Holt’s wife died last week and was buried at Smith County, Lindale.—Swan and Ty- ler are in the lad for fine fruit this year —Miss Barnie Jones has returned home from Praire View, where she has been attending school —Sandy Ander- son will pring The Frermen to your door one month for 20 cents. C B. 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Philadelphia is about the last place one would have expected to find such a product as its present mayor. The wonder of it all fs that such a man was nominated and elected. It must have been one of those cases of ‘didn't know it was loaded.” What was the gang doing that it allowed such aman to “get by?” It was the busl- ness of Rojestvinesky to know where Togo “twas at,"" and so it was of the fellows who have been running things in Philadelphia. But just how it came to pass that one who has turned out tobe the rank enemy of graft and boodle should have been elected to the highest place in the gift of the peo- ple of Philadelphia 1s one of those strange events that only time can explain. It {a barely possible that this was done on pur- Pose, and by the people themselves, yet we Insist that this 1s too much to be ex- pected from that erstwhile City of Brother- ly Love. But why may not these people have come to see, as others have, that the best interests of the whole people are not best subserved when government is sought for the purpose of plunder? There are evidences of an awakening in different Parts of the country, and it is to be hoped that the appearance of Mayor Weaver on the political rostrum is an effect of the peo- ple having grown tired of supporting a policy of public plunder. Mayor Weaver is one of that increasing number whose duty it is to save the Republican party from its own destruction. THE CONGO. Mrs. Sheldon, the American woman who went to the Congo, primarily to catch but terflies and incidentally to Investigate the charges of Belgian cruelty against the natives, has returned and is now busy syn- dicating her report through the press. When it is remembered that the King of Belgium paved the way for her going and provided every facility for her travel in that country, there need be no surprise that Mrs. Sheldon falled to find any proof of these charges of cruelty. The syndicated article says: “Of course there is no ques- tion that this distingulshed American wo- man explorer is absolutely unblased in what she has to say regarding matters in the Congo Free State." It closes with the very significant remark: ‘Some people may have a suspicion, however, that per- haps Mrs. Sheldon saw only as much as the Free State authorities thought well."” We have had some experience with that kind of investigating in this country, and we are pretty well prepared to weigh its value, In the light of this experience and what Christian men and women have been telling for the past fifteen years of cruelty to the natives, which cruelty, included the cutting off of hands and other mutilations for failure to bring in the required amount of rubber, we shall still believe the former reports and judge Mrs. Sheldon’s investt- gations and report as well nigh worthless. ‘The history of men and events cannot be correctly written until sometime after they have passed. We cannot be trusted in judging the things of our day for the reason that It fs difficult and almost impos- sible to free ourselves from our bias and Prejudice. We are finding this especially true as regards one of our race who has passed into the beyond. He was surround. ed bya large number of contemporaries, most of whom have disappeared beneath the horizon, but the memory of this one remains in full view and the fleeting years only add to the stature of his figure as it Hes against the background of the past. ‘When America fully recovers from its fool ish colorphodia it witl place a bust of Fred- erick Douglass in {ts Hall of Fame. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. If anything further is needed to show the total unfitness of the governing power of Russia It is this from a speech of General Trepoff to the principals of the Russian high schools, in which he urged that the price of tuition be increased to 500 rubles “if this 1s done it will close the means of securing an education to the poor people, who, alter receiving scholastic training, are the most ardent propagators of revolu- tionsry ideas. There is an over produc- tion of intellectual people in Russia and their increasing number is dangerous to the welfare of the empire."” James Dalrymple, manager of the trac- tlon Ines of Glasgow, Scotland, has in- formed the people of Chicago that success. ful municipal ownership can only be hat by keeping such management out of poll- tics. That is just what every one knows. It is quite probable that when the people of any muniolpality become sufficiently intel ligent to adept municipal ownership of pub- Hc utilities they will be too intelligent to mix it up with politics. Every State ought to have a work farm often thousand acres. All criminals, loat- ers and men who refuse te support thelr familles should be given an opportunity to make themselves useful, Then a prison cr workhouse sentence would not work a hard- ship on the wife or children, for, if such an Institution be properly managed, the pro- duet of their labor would be sufficient to support the dependent wife and children, Charles J. Bonaparte, the new Secretary of the Navy, has made a strong statement against Gorman’s Negro policy in Mary- land, We publish it on this page. I sounds very much as though Mr. Bone- parte may be another one of this new crop of politicians who know a few things and is not afraid to say them. Uncle Joe Cannon’s tariff speeches dur- ing the last campaign were of a kind that bore witness that he had not thought much on that question during the last twenty-five years or else he was playing politics of doubtful quality. He is said to be looking toward the presidential nomination. Where is that chloroform bottle? Japan gets its war taxes out of the profits of the dealer. We added the tax to the article where it was paid by the consumer. In the first instance the tax falls on those most able to pay, and in the other on those least able to pay. A heathen people have strange ways of doing things. ‘The kind of patriotism that counts the most is that which is available for use 365 days in the -year—the patriotism of peace. It is the kind that puts the love of country above the success of party. It is the kind that holds the well being all above that of the few. It is sald that John Shupe Williams is to lose the floor leadership on the Democratic side of the House of Representatives. That's good news. It would be hard for the Democrats to make achange in leader- ship without making a decided improve- aes On June 7th a man in the Southern part of this State found a pocket-book contain- ing $550. He left it at a benk in Crothers- ville, and it -has since found its way into the hands of the owner. There are only a very few of us people like that left. ‘The command to “honor thy father and thy mother’ was very touchiogly shown by aman in Nebraska, He bought him- self a fine automobile and the very first use he made of it was to take his aged father to the poor house. The Smithsonian Institute suffers a loss of $10,000 through embezzlement. Sup- pose it were possible to know all the public stealing that is going on. “Yankee pigs” isn't so far off after all. Thomas Dixon, author of the “Leopard's Spots,"" is out with a new book entitled “The Life Worth Living.”" The recollec- tion of his other books makes us ask—Is the book worth reading? Admiral Togo visited Rodjestvensky in ‘the hospital, took him some flowers and ‘expressed the wish for his speedy recovery, ‘What a curlous old heathen that Togo is. The affairs of the Equitable Life that have been brought to light has shown that Thos. W. Lawson came pretty nearly knowing what he was taliing about. Many people spend too much time trying to Improve the outside of the head and too little on the improvement of the inside of it. President Shea of the Teamsters Union finally succeeded in working himself into tall Last week the very welcome news came to us from across the water that Alfonso, King of Spain, visited the zoological gar- den and fed the monkeys. We had begun to entertain hopes for Pennsylvania, but !t has occurred to us that that State is to pay $25,000 for a mon- ument to Quay. | ——— “Why should the heathen rage and the ‘people imagine vain things?” [It isn’t the heathen who is raging and imagining—its the other fellows. It's about time for the Czar to have an- ether crying spell. That comes much easier than doing the right thing by his subjects. BONAPARTE VS. coRMsaN __ Charles J. Bonaparte, just appointed Secretary of the Navy, has become the leader of the Republican party in Maryland, and at a meeting of the State committee declared war on Senator Gorman and the Gorman constitutional amendment for the disfranchising of 50,COO Negroes by the grandfather's clause He said: “The Republican party has ever held, with Voltaire, that a good citizen needs no ‘grandfathers,’ and, like Abraham Lincoln, always believed in the common people, not In castes, or ollgarchies, or privileged Classes; like Theodore Roosevelt, it de- mands ‘a square deal’ at the polls, as else- where, for every man, whatever his ances- try. “Ifa citizen be shown by experience un- fit to vote wisely and righteous'y let the ‘suffrage be denied him, because of this individual unfitness. not because of his ‘race, or tongue, or birthplace, nor because ‘his grandfather was this or wasn’t that.” | Mr. Bonaparte appealed to the indepen: ‘dent Democrats, who have heretofore turn: ‘ed down the Gorman machine, to join the Republicans n opposing the amendment ‘The Negroes would not be the only ones to suffer by its enactment,” he said. “Doubtless it would place the right of su - frage of 52,000 colored men at tre mercy of our old ‘ring,’ but it wouid also leave at Teast 64,000 white citizens in precisely the ‘same position; in Baltimore city it would ‘affect 46,000 white men and only 18,00 blacks. “Since the spider asked the fly to wall into his parlor there has never been a pro: ‘Posai at once fo impudent and so guilefu as the request of this same old ‘ring’ tha we let them decide, through such officer: of election as they have given us in the ‘past and will give us in the future, how many of ourselves shall be allowed tu vote as to how long they shall continue to rule over us."" | Mr, Bonaparte declared that it was ¢ time for playing good politics and not petty or factional politics. If it Is necessary t unite with a Democratic governor or inde pendent Democrats to defeat the amend ‘teuasty bb eesceaty adiviadd Chak ti be daca. AND LITERARY FOLKS, BY KENNETH REID. A revival of the Chicago Conservator is threatened with the former pilot, Rev. D. R. Wilkins, at the helm. Mrs. Katharine D. Tillman is the race's best known and most versatile dramatist and poet among the fairer sex. Prof. C. C. Monroe, until lately, con- nected with the public schoo's of Evans- ville, Ind., has launched a teachers’ jour- nal at Lexington, Ky. “Bruce Grit" has discovered that Roscoe Conkling Simmons, associate editor of the Colored American Magazine, is a “dead ringer’ for ex-Governor Frank S, Black of New York, Paul Laurerce Dunbar's new volumn of poems is entitled “Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow."” It is Issued by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. Mr. Dunbar's health is greatly improved. The New York Age, now an eight-column follo clothed in a wonderfully becoming new dress of tasty nonpareil and minion, is having the boom of its life. And, when the Age speaks, it says something too. M. M, Lewey’s “National Negro Bus- ness League number of the Florida Sent nel, June 2, was well gotten up with new group portraits of the officers and execu- tive committee, and enjoyed a wide circu- lation, A new race journal is again talked of to cover that rich field around the Ohio Falls, comprising the’ cities of Loufsville, Ky., and New Albany and Jeffersonville, Ind. la these environs Is found a Negro popula- tlon of 75,0C0. The Washington Bee was twenty-five years old, last week, and the friends and admirers of Editor W. Calvin Chase ten- dered him a fine banquet in celebration of the quarter centennial anniversay of his “gingery’’ paper. Mrs. R. S. Rives, the talented wife of the excellent pastor of Broadway A, M. E. Zion church of Louisville, Ky., is a valued assistant to her husband in preparing the literary matter for and publishing the sprightly ‘Zion Methodist."” Rev. C. A, Buchanan, who formerly published the Preacher Safeguard at Kos- clusko, Miss, has located at Guthrie, Okla- homa, and Is fssuing his paper from that place. The Mississippians did not like the brand of free speech that Mr. Buchanan dispensed in their bailiwick. ‘The Colored American Magazine has be- gun the second year of its sojourn in New York, It has attained a wonderful decree of prosperity under the shrewd manage- ment of Fred R. Moore, and compares favorably in literary merit with McClure’s, Munsey’s and other popular monthlies. ‘The reorganized staff of the Washington Record Is as follows; Rev. E, W. Lamp- ton, general manager; Jay Wesley Crom- well, editor-in chief ; Thomas H.R. Clarke, assoolate editor; Albertus Brown, city editor; William H. Conn, circulation man- ager; Jesse H. Foster, advertising and job solicitor. “Tuskegee and Its People,” a new book, dealing intimately and informingly with the purposes, ideals and constructive forces of the race's greatest industrial center, wil be issued this month from the press of D. Appleton & Co., New York. The work is ‘carefully compiled by Secretary Enimett J. Scott and will contain a comprehensive introduction by Dr. Booker T. Washington. * Hopkinsville is not the biggest nor the ‘best looking city in the productive com- monwealth of Kentucky, but it is the only one that can boast of a full-fledged Negro daily. The presiding genius of this re- markable institution is Phil H. Brown, who everybody knows as “‘a hustler from ‘way back.” Brother Brown has broused over a goodly portion of the newspaper pasture of the country, but has now apparently struck the tall grass, W. S. Blackburn, formerly an efficlent clerk in the Census office at Washington, and more recently editor of The Mirror al Danville, Va., 1s a staff correspondent of the St. Luke Herald of Richmond with headquarters at Danville. Mr. Blackburn 1s secretary of the Negro Press Association of Virginia. Heis a forceful and fluent writer and will be heard from ere long un- der the banner of The Freeman's Defense League. “One Hundred Sermons” by Bishop Alexander Walters, “Life of Dr. J. C. Price by Hon. John C, Daney, and “Per- sonal Recollections of Reconstruction Days" by ex-Governcr P. B.S. Pinchback are among the new books promised at an early date. They will strike a popular chord, for each of the busy men mentioned are masters of the field they propose to cover, and there is a general eagerness on the part of the public to hear from them in a form that will be permanent and guaran- tee their best work, Rev. L. E, Christy, who founded the Indianapolis World in 1883, is successfully editing a high grade weekly at East St. Louts, Ill, called The Sentinel, and is also pastor of St. Luke's A. M. E. church at that point, Prof. B. F. Bowles Is business manager, and Mrs. B. F. Bowles conducts an entertaining woman's department. The premler correspondent and original feature writer, R. W. Thompson, has been special- ly engaged to furnish a monthly letter em- bracing national themes under the caption of “Topics of the Times.”” The Cleveland Journal, one of the very cleanest, most verlle and uplifting of the race papers that come to us, is showing what young men of push, earnestness and lofty journalistic instinct can do. Every individual in the combine seems to be bub- bling over with enthusiasm for the work in hand and possessed of an abiding faith ir the future of the Negro on a “get busy” platform. The only rivalry apparent is the commendable one of striving to see who o! the staff can contribute most to the success of the enterprise. Brothers Brascher, Blue and Fieming are certainly putting Cleveland's best foot foremost. The Chicago Leader, sponsored by those veteran journallsts, W. Allison Sweeney and Ben. D. Bagby, is a new candidate for popular favor. It fs edited with Mr. Swee- ney’s characteristic vigor, and the well: ordered opinion page Is full of ear-mark: indicating that the erstwhile Indianian has lost nothing of the refreshing originality, Polished diction and fearlessness of ‘utter: ance that distinguished him in other years. The typography and “make-up” are un- usually attractive, and the Leader seems to have come to permanently fill Chicago's long-felt want in the line of true-toned ractal mouthpiece. Mr. Bagby is a capable man on the ‘business end.” IMPORTANT NOTICE. Iam advertising for a husband, 1 want a husband with a fair education. 1 have some property. 1 want him to attend to my business. { am worth two thousand dollars. My color isa light brown; weight 194 pounds; age 39. 1am awidow Any gentleman wanting a wife please answer this, ESTER MONRAL, Brook Haven, Miss., June 9. WANTED. An intelligent colored man of 24 wishes acquaintance with a young widow; she must have money; be not over 35, or a maiden between 17 and 25, whose parents must be able and willing to give us a start. Wiil send my photograph. CAPTAIN POOLE, 1219 S. 16th street, Omaha, Neb. [_etMedo Your looking, <<a — ee 6) cat Why worry, watch and tret over 4 zi cas | stove when you can put you 3h ORE Vegetables, custards—in shor: tis sit 4 meal for the whole family = ron ee ||| ple shelves and cook it as focd sant Fuad | was or can be cooked th any ther a esa | over ONE BURNER cf sos 24 Ppreesees |) £85, gasoline or oll stove? a t= OK Jil I come in both round — ee and square shapes.. (¥ a) RJ a both kind have whis I ft tles. Price $2.00, fe PBN 82.60, 83, $4.50," Pa Ye No watching: no basting sae eee done nor underdone, . ie pe 2 IpEALCOMBINATION STEM eee § = 1 , Ec Cooker and ba, Made of heavy tin o- cooper, with ALL COPPER, seamless drawn {2 eam. less top. No sharp corners on me to catch the clothing or hands or rea grease and dirt, I sow uy wi'stLe 20 minutes herio. wakes mene se never go on a strike nor talk back, I cur tHe cost oF FUEL and w. save time and wear and tear on your temper and vocabulary. | s a quart cans in canning frult., Wine noe Pe FREE BOOK, 48 pages. \t tells you all about me. Gives full details: letters from people all over the land who would not do without me for ten times » hat cots J. A. ROSS, Canadian Rep., Winnipeg, Manitoba TOLEDO COOKER COMPANY, BOX 42, TOLEDO, OHIO, Liberal Terms to County and State Agents. WON cc didilis sae heal hohe iad WE BANISH ROACHES BY CONTRACT >>, Guaranteeing Extermination or No Pay, Cie ’ ODELL’S ROACH POWDER fas Non-Poisonous fee aces ‘ and Ke ce ODELL'S D SINFECTANT y Se are guaranteed AN -y and used by the Vee U. S. Government and all Public Buildings eo and Private Residences, in this asi oA Foreign Countries. PITTSBURG INSECT EXTERMINATING Co., 409 Grant Street, Phone P. & A. 860 Main- PITTSBURG, PA IMPORTANT NOTICE. AFRO Christian Wty" ame Advertising for a husband, 1 want a Arteteand Pian, i." Money preacher, and one with a good disposition | k, BAKER, Manager! Odeboit, Ia as Ihave one My occupation 1s dress-) <== v2 ota Silk making: my color is a light brown; my| LADIRS’ Flegant Black Tattete silk age is 34. Ihave been a widow two years. | Halu Dressiiuker dusbults las Any gentleman who wants this chance will | —=———————we— please address Mrs. Clara Lightfoot, Brook (OKLAHOMA CITY, 0.1 Eisverr: Miss. DIRECTORY. For first-class barber work, ho sais REGALIA FOR SECRET ORDERS, | datas ae cone en ORK, ot and a I make regalias for Masonic, Odd Fel- lows, Sir Knights and Daughters and all secret orders. Prices reasonable. Mrs. Samuel B. Elliott, 629 Blackford street, Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED MEN AND WOMEN tn this and adjoining counties for home or traveling work, rep- resenting and advertising the Wholesale and Educational Departments of an old es- tablished Manufacturing House. Salary $3.50 per day with expenses advanced. Rig furnished when necessary; position | permanent. Address Blew Brothers & Co., Dept. H., Chicago, Ill, COLORED PEOPLE WANTED. We furnish good positions everywhere, such as Butlers, Porters, Coachman, Jani- tors, Housemen, Watchmen, Walters, Ser- vants, Cooks, Railroad and Factory work. Write us. TIFFANY & SCHWAB, Employment Brokers, Indianapolis, Ind, COLUMBIA. TENN. The sixteenth annual commencement of the colored public schoola was held last Thursday morning at the school, and Friday night at the St. Paul A. M. E. oburoh. The literary exerclaee which were condnoted by the Kelle- nian Literary Soctety, Thorsday morn: ing were largely attended. F.J. Tyler delivered an addrcea on Man” which was well reosived. After the program the ipdustrial features were displayed which consisted of cakes, fine needle work, sult cases and numerous other things representing thes udente’ handi- craft. On Friday night at the St Paul A. M.E. eburob, the largest in the city the graduating exercises were held- Dr. C. V, Roman, a prominent epecial- ist of Nashville, Tenn. made an excell- ent address, The graduates were Bee- sle Grissom, Berea Miller, John W. Brown, Charles W, Kelly and Allen 0, Nicholson.—The K. of P. Grand’ Lodge which meets here July 11, 12 and 13 ‘promises to be a great affair. The com- ‘mittee on arrangements are making elaborate preparations for the occasion. The Riverside Park has been secured anda ptente will be given and exour- sions will come from all points in Ten- nessee.—The firm of White, Slaten & Gordon will add a grovery store to ‘thelr mammoth establishment.—Mre, Dora Miller Simmons of Chicago, Is visiting her mother.—Mrs, Doda and Misses Charity and Lelia Merrill at- tended the Fisk commencement’ exer- cises this week —Mies Eddie and Flor- ence Slaten have returned from Naeh- ville—Robert Nicholson, of Tuskegee, 4s in the olty.—Mrs. T, A, Frierson, of New Decatur, Ala {s visiting her moth- er.—Rey. Buck, of North Carolina fs in the city. Subseribe for The Freeman, Christian with" qutat8 Ardietennd Blan, hi Moneys iiened ainplesse " B, BAKBM, Mannan Obst, LADIES ee souene hart seu BRE Dee iee coe ee MINESRERUIEA WEE YT, VU, I, DIRECTORY. For firstelnos. barber’ work, ho gale baths ge to tne Gemn Barber shon dda proprietor, 9 Went Grand sie e “Say! Don't you know that tbe Urana Cafe's one of the best eating houses city? (Wh don't you give os cate thdomy pact for tesntoges tomtd Appetite. Te you dont see shat yon ca fore. Dinners sente, froma Tato yr ee ones Remember thepiace, the Brook's Gata conteetioners, then neat ta the iy hing served ‘uprtosnto. 9 We Goad phone 10 J. Brooks provricine “Listen? Is your health good? ifnolba waste’ your ime and menos with we drugs but write to Dr. U, Worthy, sia Bal Second. street, Gklana tity ukiay greatest Erb and Root Medicine hoctor apes tienes of tho Globe A’ cure seat Write for ree information, i “For your erogertea goto the J, F.Cagem eoty Can his Engh ween sitet fale dant phone 974," Werme'cash, : “Your old clothes olenned. prasel as paired at Hovers and Withite i. Bins ‘Matiatactiom guareneec ‘ | orvoar hauling see Edman busin Breadway it “Taenow you will bo patient wugn vata groceries ronn'te tf, Stawant 3s Pista Independent phone75), Ja “A rallnbie young man ia vanced ane town und terdiiors to take shnreest cao Indusirien: ood pays ‘Auidness Ac he Advertive of Coloved instr Olt Crt “When your clothes got dirty wud wind go running to the Donyar ssi Ghee Puttips, Prope, # W. Grn Benjamin F. Shaw, surgeon chin pol treatmentor the fest W ape tally, 13. brat ig Renee bales | Every Lady Read This. Years ago when I was a susforer, a2 a norse told mo of a wonderfal cure fr Lio The: Displacement. Patntat Per! is, Cui and Ovarian troubles It core me 10 Month, “Tt is w simple barale= tio ta ‘ean. be prepared by auy one ani the tbe Twill'sond it Pree to every suttering sist” te writes tome. Ihave nuthin: te sll. Ths Seascot women helping womss. 14h Pema od CINCINNATI, O. The ptonto given by the Unite Rank, K of P. June 8, at Woodeisl Island Park was grand eacosee 1 plenic to be given by the U 0 UF promises to be one of the finest of season, The date will be pubs later —A drama “A Court of Fano! Women” will be given daring the we! at Zion Baptist church and Bima Goodloe, 2nd tenor of the Ames Jubilee Singers will appesr 10% chorus. Henry Grandlson, » favotl in mustoal clroles will direct it, Walter Gossette is pianist —Mies Iai Riley of Hamilton, 0 was the gust! Miss E Hamilton —Mieses Ales Crawford and Shirley Evans «peut So” day with friends at Ripley, 0—™ Bonador Club will give thelr peal # Manbattan Park, June 2. ih aa, © E Duncan a former einploy? ‘The Froeman, hae parchased « patt terest in The Interview, 8 soetly P™ Hshed at Richmond, Ivd., and bse be elected manager Copies of The Freeman can be fou" at 1280 Wyllie Ave. Pittebarg, Pa The St Mrs. Samuel B. Elliott sends her best regards to her husband, Samuel B. Elliott. Pearl Moppin sends best wishes to Wallace Aggregation and Robinson Carnival Company. The Mallory Bros. are at Hot Springs, Ark., for a three weeks' stay. Their wives are at home. On July 10, they will open at Chicago at the Olympic Theatre for a short vaudeville engagement. Laurence Chenault, leading tenor with the Smart Set Company for the past two seasons was a welcomed visitor in Indianapolis Sunday. Mr. Chenault and wife will be seen with the Williams & Walker forces the coming season. The Hottest Coon in Dixie Company wishes to be remembered to all friends. Business has been phenomenal. The ghost walks regularly and sometimes head of his cue: The prospects are a long and prosperous season. Notes from Concert and Band with Van Amburg Shows:—We are still in old Kentucky. Business is good; everybody is well. Vaughn & Mosby are making a hit singing "How To Spell Opossum Pie" and "When the Band is Playing Dixie." Notes from the Sunny South, the colored attraction with the Monarch Amusement Company:—We are at Trinidad, Colo., this week. Everybody is in the best of health and all send best wishes to friends and the profession. Hello to Joe Ravisse, Joe Dokes and Nina Smith. Next week at Pueblo, Colo. Notes from Macon Ga. "The pass word is "Meet me at the Oomulgee Park." The Prices played Sunday night to standing room only with a sacred concert and moving pictures. Madam Pace sung some beautiful solos. C. J. Johnson, the wonder in his aerial acrobatic feats open at the Oomulgee Park. He is the only man of his race doing five novelty acts. He is setting a mighty pace. Notes from Dr. Ferdon's Quaker Medicine Company:—We are still in Kansas City and doing an excellent business. Dr. Ferdons has opened a large Quaker Home and Sanitorium at a very large cost where he will treat his many patients, J. R. Johnson and C. Dotson have been sent to Dr. Ferdon's No. 2 Company at Sioux City, Ia. Ray Trusty, who has been starring with frank Mahara's Show the past season has joined us. Dr. Ferdon was presented with a very handsome Elks' cane by the Elko Lodge, No. 26 of Kansas City. It is inlaid with twenty-seven diamonds, Regards to company No. 2. LeRoy Bland's California Notes:—The weather is fine in glorious California and everybody is happy, "the Gewalks" especially. Lonnie Hawkins is trying to get rid of that $1500. Clarence Estelle intends building a new colored vaudeville house at 'Frisco and the plans are in the hands of the architect. Lew Pursell will remodel his place. Sam King will build a new home this summer. Fred Vaughn sends regards to friends. Williams & Stevens are at Fisher's Theatre; Kemp THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE LIST. Areans, Miss Rosa Baxford, Miss Hattie Gilman, Miss Leona D Gilman, Miss Tena Galen, Miss Maude GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Collins, W. P Deskins, D. P Elko, E. J Grenz, G. W Galloway, W. B1 Galloway, C.amo Bann, Ben 2 Bann, Beverley Beverley, Beverley Miss Mabel Mincet, Miss Alberta Miss, Miss Laura 2 Reece, Miss Cecil Prince, Arthur L. Parker, F. H Reeves, Th. R Robinson, W. A Stevens, Augusta Sherman, J. W Williams, John Williams & Stevens ROUTE A Rabbit Foot Co—Raleigh, N, C, June 19; Baldsboro, S, 29; Wilson, I, Rocky Mount; ALE Housman's Band and Sorenaders—With J.K. MacCadden's Shows—Paris, France, Indonesia; Brown and Brown (Singer and Cartoonist— Beky Theater, Waltham, Mass., week of June 19. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Comedy Four at Oakland; Kelly & Davis at Portland, Ore. The Hatches are at the Novelty and LeRoy Bland at the Oberom. Brown & Brown, Harry and Frank have in the last eight weeks been the headline act on each bill they have played. They are booked for seven weeks ahead at first class vaudeville theaters. A Michigan paper says: "There are cartoonists and cartoonists, and a large number of persons who say they sing tenor on the vaudeville stage, but the best of both that has been on a Muskegon stage for a long time is the team of Brown & Brown, two Indian college boys from the Butler Indian school, who are part of the opening bill at the Lake Michigan park theatre this week. One of the boys sings sweetly in a rich full tenor voice, while his brother, with swift strokes of colored crayons draws pictures, many of which have real artistic merit." Notes from Wolfcales Vaudeville Company, en route with Sells & Downs Shows: We are in our eighth week and meeting with great success. George Beckom is making a hit singing, "Shame On You" and "Mormon Coon" while the Bruce's are successful in "Big Indian Chief" "Alexander," "Three Women to Every Man" and "Rambling Sam." Joe Jordan is singing "Make a Fuss" and "Baltimore" and Toney Brown is scoring a hit with "Hannah Lee" and "Dan Dan, Daniel" and John H. Jones is doing well with "Rag Time in the Moon." The company is well and sends regarps to all friends. Our orchestra is composed of Robert H. Gant, leader and violin; James Wolfscale, 2nd. violin; Will Lacey, cornet; Ben Everlitt, trombone; W. D. Hendrich, bass drum and Charles Holloway, trap. TAINTED TOIL. [Ascribed to American Managers.] When a manager is seeking his fortune, Society would like him to know That decent folk are not willing, To see a depraving show. When a murderess or notorious woman Calls, sure that all is serene— Will each manager send her word, "Impossible to be seen." When a manager is living in clover, Refusing "Oscar Wilde" plays What use has he for Lizzle Borden, Or women of low, rude ways? It would do them but very little credit, Not to be honest and loyal, Respecting good peoples' desires By not using Tainted Toil, THE ANONYMOUS CRITIC. DEAR EDITOR:—You will I trust, pardon me for troubling you with my opinion, which may not be of any interest, but as ridicule has been made of the colored profession in the name of criticism, I think it right that those who think differently should also express their views. The colored performers that have made good, stood the test and are continuing to do so, should not be menaced by a so-called critic's atrocious attack to satisfy his own desire to gain a little press notoriety. I have read his comments and doggerel, to the disgust of the learned public and the cry is down with this base falsifier, who is trying to attract public attention and gain notoriety at the expense of the world's greatest Negro artists, who have brought the standard of Negro Amusements in the theatrical field from the gutter minstrel to legitimate Negro comedy, namely, Sam Lucas, Billy Kersands, Charles and Ben Hunn, Bob Kelly, Tom Mcintosh, Jesse Shipp, Ernest Hogan, Williams & Walker, Bob Cole & Billy Johnson, Mallory Bros. and Billy McClain, who has the credit of promoting and exploiting more successes than any other Negro living and is still doing the same thing in England, only they are white and his work is appreciated to the highest by both press and public. Epps W. Sargnnt fared the death of a rodent and so will this Incipient parasite cut a gash in his own throat, if he doesn't change his views and use the public sentiment. He should not be encouraged by the colored press, to gull the public and turn them against a profession that is greatly encouraged and approved of the world over. This self-same would-be anonymous critic has tried every way, form and fashion to enter the profession and has been a failure, as Russia has with Japan. It has been such a severe blow to him, that he has taken this method to get what he terms as his own back, at the expense of people that are worthy of the r hire. He has written to every colored show in the world trying to secure a position, but his pussy-cat ways and mannerisms have been a barrier to his ambition. It is always the best to see that our own house doesn't leak before we tell others. So see that yon get a shingle on your roof, Mr. Sylvester Russell, alias Rojestervenk Johnson, the man that knows everything until it comes to a test then he takes to the woods Yours for success ZEEK BLOSSOM. The Freeman can be found each week at John Cameron's barber shop, Minden, Louisiana. ERNEST HOGAN. How He Will Shine As a Fulled-edged Star, During the Coming Season Do actors go by signs of the times, or is it the transporting scenes of rapturous astronomy that guides their destinies, in efforts to shine as stars, and do we behold in them the licentious lustre of exceeding greatness? Just what each new adventure is to be is always hard to determine. Much depends upon the management, and equally as much upon the actor who is to be the center of attraction. The dusky sky at night has given us the brilliant heavenly star, the shooting star, and the star that fades but never falls. But our main attention must here be called to the duplex star—"earthly and alive"—that, through its activity, manages to shine. Such a star is Ernest Hogan. Although "king of his race," the play bills will say, we have no monarchy so the bills must be wrong. If there are any kings among us "every darkey" is a king. But of Hogan, it may be said that as a comedian and star he can shine pre-eminent. He has already. And, so once again if time is kind to him, and our patience will not weary, we shall soon see the man of original ideas, dancing in the sunlight in the center of a new luxurious garden of damals, darkies, daises and dandelions. This new hot house sensation will be known as 'Ernest Hogan's Funny Folk Minstrels,' the largest and greatest you ever saw. In obedience to stage law, and in order to escape some of the didoes of the "legitimate standard," this show will produce a little of every branch of darkey life from minstrelsy and farce to high comedy, tragedy and even opera. More personal attention will be given to perfecting the musical department than ever before. Every member is to be a gem of art and every singer a picked celebrity of unquestioned ability. The careful training of all branches of the singing department as everybody knows has always been one of Hogan's "long suits" and great things can be expected. One of the most encouraging features of the coming travesty, is, that new stage conditions have now so well developed, Mr. Hogan will be able to employ respectable girls without the slightest fear of them being insulted or ill-used while in his company. He argues that most colored girls who have entered the profession have been slow to learn and lacked intelligence, while on the other hand, those who were intelligent and could soar above common grades of men, were quickly advanced to the foremost rank which they now hold as singers and in comedy. So the better class of colored girls who have formerly avoided the footlights can now be assured of a safe protected position. This same Ernest Hogan of whom we have been speaking, without surmise, is the greatest mechanical genius of any actor of his race, his original creations of negroism have been more numerona and life-like than any other bow-legged hero's of his kind. When we take into consideration his life's history, from the cradle, where he cried so loud, up to the present noise, it is no wonder that all eyes will be open to see him, all ears will be listening to hear him, and all the bald heads of the front row will be there on the opening night to honor him. Limit of time and space, only, will prevent me from giving my readers a more searching biography of the duplex role of comedy and sensationalism that Mr. Hogan has passed through. We briefly remember how he used to chime in quartet calliopes in minstrel shows out in the hidden west and how manager Voelckel of Black Patti's Troubadours discovered him and featured him with the show. We remember how the gallery boys at the new Metropolis Theatre in Harlem, New York screamed when they discovered that Hogan was colored instead of Irish. That day in New York was the establishment of his name. Today it is his fame that makes him the talk of Gotham the most noted city upon the globe. During one of the last New York race riots Hogan "mixed in" and was chased for his life, only to see himself in the newspapers next morning. Soon after this event he sailed for Honolulu where he had a disagreement with Prince Cupid who challenged him for a duel. When the date was set Mr. Hogan was back in New York rehearsing for a tour as leading featured star with the "Smart Set" company. After a season with this company in which he made a complete distinct comedy success, he produced a one act force in vaudeville entitled "Missionary Man." His latest escapade while appearing in this playlet in California was to be invited to retire from a race track one sunny afternoon because one of his sporting friends had laughed too loud and hearty. This was too much, so Hogan threatened suit on the strength of his five hundred dollars per week salary. But all the sensational features of Mr. Hogan's career are things of the past, now. He has cut them all out. He comes before the public this season happy and reformed as a gentleman of refinement and a finished actor. The company, which will number sixty people will be under the direction of W. Lykens, with B. Butler Boyle as business representative. The costumes will be magnificent and the scenery startling. I now com mend the public-at-large, the new stellar star, the unbleached American, the new Jupiter of a new jubilee, Mr. Ernest Hogan Cheers! SYLVESTER RUSSELL HAMILTON, O Rev. Belle spent a few days at the conference at Wilberforce University. 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When those that wasted them required of them mirth, they hung their harps upon the willows and by the rivers of Babylon, there they sat down and wept; they cried vengeance, death and destruction upon their oppressors. The children of Ethiopia, bowed by the weight of centuries of toll and contumely, of wrongs and woes, of hopelessness and despair bent to their tasks and with the rise and stoop of their bodies poured out their rhythmic odences of faith, hope and charity throughout all. And, it is from these songs of our fathers that their children of the past generation, the children of Fisk and her children's children have received the inspiration that has imbued them with courage to have faith that right may win, hope that right will prevail and charity for all those deed rooted impediments that divide man from man and make him unmerciful to his brother. These are critical days in the history of the Negro race in America. We seem to have come to the parting of the ways and a crucial test is imminent. The question is: what shall the end be for a race that within a year has been called "a menace to the republic," "a race with a minimum progress and a maximum regress," and "a cancerous blot in a fair land." So persistent is the onslaught that history seems repeating itself and the weary days of the reconstruction and anti-slavery period revive when the discouraged workers faltered in their attempts to pave the way for the helpless freedman. Well nigh hopeless they bitterly voiced the despair that momentarily seemed to be crushing their hope for the future. Frederick Douglass, "the noblest Roman of them all," wavered in his purpose and was only spurred to renewed effort and reawakened hope by the ringing voice of the sainted Quakeress when she asked, "Frederick, is God dead?" Awed by the implied reproof for his lack of faith, Mr. Douglass' mind reverted to youthful days - back over the full days of freedom, over the days of escape, the days of enslavement, the days of faint light and despair, when an unlettered boy hope first dawned at the singing of the slave song, "Run to Jesus." Like a flash came the recoiling song with its old inspiriting influence: "Run to Jesus." The song that was destined to wield so much encouragement to the pioneers who labored so devotedly to lay the foundations of the oldest institution of learning for the sons and daughters of freedman in America. Third-eight years ago, in the abandoned hospital barracks of the Union army on the outskirts of the city of Nashville, Tenn., a university was opened for the emancipated slaves who had been forbidden to learn how to read or write. A university for newly freed slaves! Ah, ye do well to pause, stop, ye sons and daughters of freedmen and in awed gratitude, in hushed and bowed slemnity think deeply of those four men of sainted memory: Rev. E. P. Smith, John Ogden, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk and our own beloved President Cravath, who had the courage to project such an enterprise, meet so many formidable difficulties and then in the face of all, give this silent, cheering, soulifting prophecy of the possibilities of the newly unshachled slave by founding a university. And there in the old hospital barracks where many of the brave soldiers had passed on to reward began the light and life of thousands. As has been said "the officers' quarters became the home of an earnest band of teachers; the slok wards were filled with hundreds of eager children; the dead house was turned into a store room of supplies for the naked and hungry. And there was almost pathetic romance in the work, when a pile of rusty handcuffs and fetters from the abondoned slave pen of the city came into the possession of the school and was sold as old iron and the money invested in the purchase of Testaments and spelling books." The number of pupils in daily attendance the first year averaged over one thusand. Some who began the first term never ceased attendance until they were graduated ten years afterwards from a fall collegiate course. The time came when the buildings constructed for temporary uses began to decay and the imperative necessity of obtaining funds for the purchase of a new site and new buildings was a perplexing problem. In this hour of de- pression Mr. George L. White, treasurer of the university, organized a band of ex-slave students and trained them to sing with all the ardor of their souls the old songs of the plantation. The broken plair tiff minor strains that had been poured out with pleas for strength, courage for better days, for mother, home and heaven received added sweetness and pathos when strengthened by the harmonious blending of the rich voices under the training of their teacher, and it was supremely fitting that these songs of our fathers should be the means of bringing to Fisk University the aid so fervently prayed for. The freed slave-singers faced hunger, want, suspidon, prejudice, discouragements with their faithful leader during the first dark months of 1871, when they sang to incredulous audiences But the time came when they won. They had been witnesses of the "year of jubilee" long hoped and prayed for. "The year of jubilee had come" and, undaunted, what wonder that the songs they sang reached the hearts of their hearers in this and other lands? What wonder that the fountain of tears long ice-bound became unfettered or that strong men, statesmen and crowned heads listened entranced? How much to the dusky-hued singers had these songs meant in the old days! How much did these songs still mean when they sang them and were carried back to the old life! The days of wretched misery were lived over again, as they sang for your sake and mine, the songs of tribulation with the long-drawn chords of plaintive woe. With every note came the remembrance of the bitter cup that one had drunk to the dregs: "I'm troubled, I'm troubled, I'm troubled in If Jesus don't help me I surely will die." And again with the song that melted the stonest heart: "Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord, Nobody knows like Jesus" When the last note of these songs of tribulation was borne away, the voices of the singers told the hearers that faith deeply rooted had vanished the despair of the first refrain. When the song "I've Just Come From the Fountain," sung in quicker, lighter note lifted the singers out into the radiant light of hope renewed, hope strengthened, hope realized, hope borne into glad frutition rang out with victorious note in "Children, We All Shall be Free." "Wait a Little While. Then We'll Sing the New Song," and "Walk Together, Children, Don't You Get Weary." Then the hushed song of whispering comfort, advice, succor under illification—one that seemed to breathe the spirit of a time of distress and woe: "Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus." The deeper prayers for aid seemed to spur each hearer to unite with the sufferer's plea for help under the burden, when they sang with touching melody: "Save Me, Lord, Save Me," "Show Me the Way," and "Keep Me From Sinking Down." Never was more doleful cry, more pathetic wall or sadder entreaty made of a despairing soul in its plea for help than in the opening line of the last named song, "Oh Lord," the heart rendering appeal to a higher power, then—"Oh, My Lord"—that emphasizes the almost despairing belief in a personal Saviour and "Oh, my good Lord," showing the Father in his righteous justice—then the outburst of the pent up soul in the cry, "Keep me from sinking down." What encouragement to the patiently waiting slaves had been the faith songs that had banished the sight of the auction block, the separation of mother and child, father and mother, sister and brother as they toiled and chanted of the old deliverance of the Jewish children: "Isaac a ransom while he lay Upon the altar bou. d. Moses, an infant cast away. By Pharaoh's daughter found. Didn't old Pharaoh get lost, get lost? Didn't old Pharaoh get lost in the Red sea?" Then listen to the answer given to the caviling soul: And why not every man He delivered Daniel from the lion's den, Jonah from the body of the whale And the Beeowhens children from the fiery fur ace, And why not every man." How I wish it were possible to give the peculiar musical annotation that accompanied the expressive words of the song that seemed to consider the long years of waiting and toiling before the promised year of jubilee, but to hold out the hope of the promise of relief. "Keep a inching along. Jesus will come by b'ye- Keep a inching along. a poor inch worm, Jesus will come by b'ye. We'll inch and inch and inch along Jesus will come by b'ye. And inch and inch we get home, Jesus will come by b'ye. One song of victory told of the passing out from the wanderings in the wilderness into the land of freedom. It had long been sung by the slave fathers and mothers who gave God the glory for the day they believe would dawn—their sons and daughters on their mission of love that made possible the education of others of the race, sang the song of victory to the people of America and Europe in full realization: "Oh brothers, please "Oh, brethren, hase and shine and give God the glory, glory; Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory; Rise and shine and give God the glory, for the joy of jubilee. The Fisk Jubilee singers gave to the world the songs of our fathers and for seven years interpreted these soul melodies that had been pent up and had burst forth during two hundred and forty years of captivity. There were few songs of despair that awakened the smoldering sympathy of the world but the larger number were the songs of hope and faith that reached the heart of two continents and poured into the treasury of Fisk University $150,000 that erected Jubilee hall, the largest monument of brick and mortar that has been raised in honor of those pioneer sons and daughters of freedmen. Up in Connecticut on the banks of Long Island Sound stands a magnificent country home. Every morning, noon and sunset from a tower near by you may hear clear, sweet notes of chimes ringing one after another the Scottish alps that come rapturously to the ears of the gray-haired man who deeply cherished in his memory the songs of the blue bells and heather of old Scotland, his native home. Many years ago he came to America penniless, friendless and homeless. By thrift and economy he is today one of the multi-millionaires of our country but the songs of his fatherland that rang in his youthful memory and inspired him to success, those he has perpetuated in the silver chimes that ring out over the green-sward of his adopted country. The Italian or Swede, the German or irish allen receives a sweet solace for the rebuff that he meets in the hurry and bustle of his new beginning in America if he perchance hears on the street a song of his native land. Among the sacred records of the world are the treasured songs of faith, songs of deliverance, songs of victory, songs of thanksgiving of the chosen people of God, who not alone were captives but as cattered race. "A hissing and a by-word among nations" If, in the wisdom of the Most High, nature has so constituted the civilized races of the world that the music of the fatherland moves many to their best effort in the land of their adoption, that the strains of their nativity inspires resolution, fortitude, courage under difficulties, what to the sons and daughters of freedmen should be the songs of our fathers? To them they sustained trust, confidence, hope—life itself When they were sung in those weary days, every note gave utterance to unborn thought. It was nature's expression. Majors and minors came as despair and hope rose or fall in the singer's mind. The peculiar reversion of accent in the measures came simply. Words and music volced together the deepest feeling. That was soul music. It lives today remodeled to suit the popular airs, the success of which lies possibly in the fact that the singular turns of the beautiful, catching melodies had their origin in close touch with nature's heart. Some of these ex-slaves, repeating these songs to the world, lived over again the old life and its association; but coupled with the thanksgiving for freedom was the purpose of obtaining means for educating thousands of their fellows, and there was a hallowed power in the songs. To those who sat under the spell of the songs within the walls of Fisk University and who sang them under new influences and new impulses, amid new surroundings, they told a wondrous story, not only of past adversities, but of new-born opportunities made possible through the efforts of the Jubilee Singles out among strangers. In later years, the young recruits entered upon their life work bearing the standard of a better life among the waiting millions. The seed had been sown that perpetuated the spirit of the songs in their labors as they faced ignorance and superstition, so closely allied to the enslaved bodies and minds of former years, and the songs of our fathers had still a message of hope to bring for final deliverance. Year after year Flisk University has sent out her messengers inspired by the spirit songs, rich with added significance, that has entered into the varying conditions attendant upon the status of the race in this country. Four hundred and eighty-one young men and women have entered the ranks of workers under the profound conviction that, "He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat." Some have taken the message as ministers of the gospel, two hundred and seventy teachers are settled over the South; doctors, lawyers, farmers, business men are measuring up to their opportunities of educating, helping others wherever their lot is cast, believing the old song that they must "Rise and shine for Thy light is a' comin'." Fisk University, standing to day the oldest school in America for the education of the Negro, is still pleading for means to meet her expenses in affording greater advantages to young men and women, so much needed all over the Southland, to respond to the cry of the helpless ones still asking: "Brother, have you come to show us the way?" Many of the first band of singers who put into the brick and mortar of Fisk one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, have long ago joined the heavenly choir but the four hundred and eighty-one graduates of the University who have entered the warfare are perpetuating the old songs in their lives, and in the Great Beyond will bring home the priceless soul, trophies won from the bondage of sin and ignorance. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER It is the only device extant, by which a woman can dry her hair quickly, and at the same time thoroughly, without injury to the hair or scalp. The operation leaves the hair soft, fluffy and beautiful. By the old process it takes hours to dry the hair after washing and the risk of catching cold is ever present; by the new process, the Magic Shampoo Drier, a few minutes will suffice, and all risk of catching cold is eliminated. EVERY DRIER GUARANTEED The Magic Shampoo Drier is a steel bar six inches long, with attachments for an aluminum comb as per above cut. 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To day fifteen million inhabit the valleys and mountains, and fourteen states and territories have part in the National Government where France gave over to the United States herds of buffaloes and cities of praie dogs for fifteen million dollars. This St. Louis Exposition this World's Fair, commemorates Thomas Jefferson's purchase one hundred years ago, and all the nations of the earth have come to celebrate the creation of fourteen commonwealths Says Mr. Stedman, in his "Hymn of the West," "Thon whose high archways shine most clear, Above the plenteous Western plain. miles from round the sphere To breathe their quickening air are fain; And smiles the sun To see made one Their brood throughout earth's greenest space, Land of the new and lovelier race." One hundred years ago Tennessee was wrapped in the hazy mists of the Southwest Territory. The] founders of Fisk University were unborn, but the mothers and fatners of the sons and daughters of Fisk were toiling, patiently toiling and enduring; hoping and praying for the year of Jubilee. Fisk Univerasity Day! Looking back thirty years, what does it commemorate? The sacrifices, loving devotion and belief in the possibilities of a despised people of four sons of the West. Then the perpetuation of the work through the songs created from the life's blood of our forefathers. How have they helped us to interpret the soul stirring strains of the masters? What to us would mean these grand, sweet songs, if nature's simpler strains had been unsung? Singing out of the past, what a helpful message the songs have brought us when we have been ready to faiter and shrink from the conflict! What inspiration have they been to us in directing others to a better way! In recent days, when pulpit and press seem to be vleiling with each other in depicting the darker side of the shield in the progress of the race, to those of us who have been working and trusting for a widespread dissemination of the principles of right living, the old songs still ring true— "Flight on and you shall gain the victory, Flight and you shall win the day." When Fisk University commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of her founding, the voices of the passing thousands will be hushed. Ladies Look Here. I am a North Dakota farmer, and would like to get a wife to keep house. I have a good home for the right lady; I am worth $3,200 in real estate and personal property; have some money in the bank. I am a colored boy; twenty-five years old, light complexion, temperate habits. No objection to poor ladies. Will exchange photos and can give the best of references. 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It takes a man to become a completed Medium, and by a continuous effort, the key to the well of ap- parently the most valuable mysteries have been presented by MRA's benefit community. Fy letter advice $1.40 a month, m. to 9 p.m. All letters must con- tain stamps for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH Removed CHUCKASHA, Indian Territory, Box 958, The Freeman will be on sale at Jim Jewel's Pool room and Cigar store, 105 S. 14th street, Omaha, Neb. The Freeman can be secured each week from Mr. M. D. Ferguson at the Capital Pharmacy, 929 Kansas avenue, Toronto, KA. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON. Dr. R. S. Rives, editor of the Zion Methodist, estimates that the colored people of Louisville, Ky., spend $860,000 a year for strong drink. Whew! It is evident that there is work for a reformer when statistics show that the death rate from consumption among American Negroes between the ages of 15 and 44 is 584 per 100,000, while the rate for native whites between the same Howard University has graduated over 400 Negro lawyers. The Connecticut legislature has finally passed a civil rights bill and discrimination against persons on account of color is now a felony. The Negro Baptists of this country have 16,996 organized churches. 16,554 ordained ministers, 2,110,547 members and $14,376,372 worth of church and school property. John S. Durham, assistant attorney to the Spanish Claims Commission with headquarters at Havana, Cuba, is spending his vacation with friends in New York and Philadelphia. Among the hospitalities planned for the National Business League at New York in August is an outing and old-fashioned barbecue at Glenwood Park, by special invitation of the park association. With the appointment of W. H. Anderson and Conrad Bacon as balliffs of the United States Court at Richmond, Va., to succeed two white m n, (removed) the entire roster of balliffs there is made up of Negroes. 一 Hillsboro, Ohio, colored men have organized the Afro-American Enterprise Stock Company with the following officers: J. M. Atchison, president; James Clark, vice-president; D. H. Young, secretary; S. Bolden, assistant secretary; Prof. Green, treasurer. The A. and M. College at Greenboro, N.C is erecting a new dormitory from plains drawn by Adam Watsor, director of the mechanical department, who is a graduate of the s. hool. The building is to be three stories high and will have forty-eight rooms, with steam heat and electric lights. EDUCATIONAL NOTES The Clay! Street Public Schools at Thomasville, Ga. held their closing exercises, June 4. The baccalaureate sermon was delivered by Rev. P. F. Curry, D. D. who impressed upon the minds of his audience the necessity of "making their own chair in life, if they wished to sit comfortably." On Tuesday night, Miss K. L. Hamilton, the primary teacher and her pupils gave a very creditable concert, and on Wednesday night, Miss E L Robinson of the same department presented a program. The grammar and high school department, conducted by Rev. S. S. Broadnex and Principal H. H. Thwentt, gave a fine class exhibition Friday night at the First African Baptist church the graduating exercises were held. The orations by the two young men were somewhat above the average high school oration. The special feature of the occasion was an address by Prof J. C. Calloway, an instructor at Tuskegee. IS BACK FROM WACO, Rev. D. S. Moten Tells of Work Acc complised at Recent Meeting. The pastor of Allen Chapel, A. M E church, corner First and Elm streets, Rev. D. S. Moten, B. D, Ph D, has returned to the city from Waco, where he attended the trustee board, educational congress and the various closing exercises of the commencement week at Paul Quinn College. Rev. Moten is one of the active trustees of Paul Quinn College, Waco, as well as of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, his alma mater for which place he will soon leave to attend a trustee board meeting. He states the commencement was the foremost in all the previous history of the college. Ten strong young people graduated representing various departments, the scientific department having the larger representation. Certificates etc., were given to many. The educational congress was a success intellectually and financially. The college treasurer, Rev T. C. Denham, reported that for the year $12,384 had been raised for educational purposes by the conferences for education of the A. M. E church in Texas, which is doing such a noble work for the public schools of the State. John G. Jones, president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Exposition of North America, has written Governor Hanly of Indiana, asking him to appoint a prominent colored man of the state to attend the exposition, that is to be held in Washington, D. C. from May 1 to July 2, 1906. Dr. M. A. Majors, of Chicago has founded a system of reducing flesh, curing obesity, dropsy and all forms of stomach and liver complaints. He recently opened a fine office with modern appliances, in the down town district. Dr. Majors has patients in Illinois, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, California and Texas. The Second Baptist Lyceum at Washington, D.C., a literary organization and debating forum of national proportions, easily ranking with the famous Bethel Literary and Historical Association, has elected John P. Green, of Ohio, as its president for the ensuing year. Some of his most successful predecessors in the chair have been Prof. Jesse Lawson, of New Jersey, R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, A. W. Scott, of North Carolina, and Lient. R. E, S. Toomey, of Tennessee. Booker T. Washington's autobiography "Up from Slavery" is to be published in Chinese this year. Doubleday, Page & Co., the publishers, have just received a letter from Cheng Han the Chinese translator, stating that he had managed to get the illustrations to be used in the Russian edition, which is ready to be brought out. The Chinese edition is to be printed at Shanghai. It is interesting to note in this connection that from "Up from Slavery" has already been published in German, East India, Holland, Spain, Poland, England Norway and France. The following delayed message speaks for itself: PAUL QUINN COLLEGE WACO TEXAS, May 31, 1905 To the Graduate Class of the High School Department of Mathematics, Alpati M. Terrell, A. M. Fort Worth, Tex. Most cordial congratulations to you all, and all concerned, including the twentieth century legislature of grand old Texas, upon your graduation this evening. According to motto, you will do your work surely Sempiternus Deus vobiscum oumnibus semper. D. S. MOTEN. The Dallas district of which Allen Chapel, Fort Worth, is a part, leads the State in education money, which is $12,384 from the nineteen districts of the four conferences in the State, Allen Chapel, Fort Worth, leads the Dallas district churches and the State in conversions, educational and missionary money. The college well honored itself when it conferred the degree of Ph.D. upon Rev Dr. Moten at the recent college commencement.—Ft. Wor.h Evening Telegram. ONE BOTTLE DOES IT. If your hair is curly or kinky, one bottle of Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow will make it straight, soft and easy to comb so that you can put it up in any style. Read the following letter we received March 31, 1905, from Rhoda Edwards, Calvert, Texas: "I have used one bottle of Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow and my hair is perfectly straight, soft and black as silk. I will always use it." Ford's Ox Marrow also cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. VICKSBURG, MISS Bishop Salters, of the A. M. E. church spoke to a large and appreciative audience Monday night, June 5th, at Bethel A. M. E. church. The several solos that were rendered on the occasion were excellent—The Carroll hotel waiters met last week and organized what is to be known as the "Carroll Walters Pleasure club" Following are the names of the officers: Frank Plump, president; Will Young, vice president; H F. Foster, secretary; D. C. Friasy, assistant secretary; Will Griffin, treasurer; Joe Goss Gilbert, sergeant-at-arms. J. W. Redmond, the headwaiter of the Carroll hotel, was made honorary member of the club. They will give their first entertainment soon. NOTICE. A refined, educated young colored lady wishes a position either as a clerk, nurse or traveling companion. Address M. Smith, P. O Box 297, Oswego, IL. SHORT FLIGHTS SHORT FLIGHTS Dr. R. S. Rives, editor of the Zion Methodist, estimates that the colored people of Louisville, Ky., spend $360,000 a year for strong drink. Whew! It is evident that there is work for a reformer when statistics show that the death rate from consumption among American Negroes between the ages of 15 and 44 is 584 per 100,000, while the rate for native whites between the s meages is only 163 per 100,000. The problems of sanitary housing, temperance and pure food are the burden of the century and press insistently for solution. Before finding fault with those who are holding the reins of leadership ask yourself the question, "What am I doing to remedy the ills that confront us?" The attempt of the assinine New York Telegraph to poke fun at the Drury Opera Company's artistic performance of "Carmen" was a most lugubrious imitation of real humor, and was qualled in silliness only by its fool report of Congressman White's barqu t to the Pen and Pencil club in Washington some three years ago. It is no more than right that the Boston Guardian should give Prof. W. H Ferris a "hand" once in a while. Those on the inside understand why. The Negro would be better off spiritually if his churches were more judiciously distributed. They are much too thick in some places and painfully thin in others. Instead of multiplying churches where there is more than enough already, the race should establish business houses and labor for a firmer material standing, which is really Christianity's most faithful ally. Portland, Oregon, is lucky in escaping undesirable Negro immigration. With a colored population of 1,500 not a single member of our race is seen upon the well-crowded city rock pil. COLUMBIA, TENN. A unique wedding tock place at an early hour last Saturday morning which was of much social interest. Louise Godon, a girl of 14 years, was married to Lawrence Washing. Both are well known in the city.—Rev. C. A. Ward, who has been pastor of Mt. Lebanon Baptist church for a number of years, preached his farewell sermon last Sunday night to a large audience.—Miss Hallie Dickerson will leave in a few weeks for Monteagle Springs for her health.—Miss Ida Halifare and Odis Buford have returned from the Normal Institute.—Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Purdy have returned to their home in Shelbyville, Tenn.—Prof. Mack Webster's school came to a close last week. Appropriate exercises were held Wednesday and Thursday nights at the First Baptist church.—Prof. A. T. Morrell has been elected principal of the Macedonia public school for the next term.—Rev. Dr. J. A. Davis, P. E., delivered a fine lecture on the subject "Who and What" last Thursday night at the Glade Street Chapel.—The Columbia Giants played a series of games with the Dayteville Sluggers this week.—Children's Day will be observed tomorrow at the St. Paul church.—Mrs. Louise Stockard gave a concert last Tuesday night at Spring Hill and Thursday night at Mt. Pleasant.—Ed. F. Davis, headwaiter at the Bethel House, is an ardent admirer of the Fraseman, especially the waiter's department.—John Webster has gone to the springs. CAIRO, ILL. The A. M. E. church held its 32d anniversary festivities the last week in May. Able speakers from all over the State were present, including presiding elders of each district — The Yates Woman's Club celebrated its national anniversary last Sunday at the A. M. E. church with an appropriate program — Miss Fannie C. Jones of 1100 Washington avenue and Mr. Lester Perkins of 17th street were married May 29th. UNIONTOWN, PA. George Ditcher, an old soldier and a muber of the G. U. O. O. F., died May 28 and was buried the following Tuesday from the St. Paul A. M. E. church.—Mrs. Clarence Hardord has returned to her home in Virginia—It has been reported that Florence Allen, the mail carrier will go to Washington in September.—Levy Smith is able to be out after a few days' illness. HAMILTON, O Mrs M. J. Alexander attended the Woman's Day meeting at Troy, O. At the afternoon session she read a paper "Woman's Calling" and at night "How Shall We Improve the W. M. M. S." Mrs C F Hogans was elected delegate to the Sunday School conference at Oxford, O—Mr. and Mrs. Poston and family attended the funeral of his father—Mrs. Amanda Jefferson of Cincinnati will spend a few days with friends in the city. CARBON HILL ALA The Woman's Home Mission had their annual sermon Sunday, June 4, which was quite a financial success. The K. of P. 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S@E3.<5O | Nottingham ince curtains. choles of five different kinds, regula'ly SL1Da pair, Nowe EOS ————— L. & Ayres & Go. Bie Og Bistributors or Dry Goods OITY ANE sOOIETY BRIEFS, Clarence Johnson, of Cincinnati, was in the clty Sunday. All soolety uses Woodbine Perfumes Blodan’s drug store, ‘Mrs. Josephine Frazier is ill at ber home in Center street. The second annual reception at the Ladies Exchange, Thureday evening of last week was well attended. ‘Mr. and Mre, Edward Scott are in the city for permanent residence. R, M. Brewer and wife left Thursday for a two weeks’ stay in Missouri, Clarence Grubbs left for Hamilton, Neb., Wednesday for an indefinite stay. O. H. Rowlett of Louisville. Ky. is visiting his mother in Tremont avenue, ‘Mise Mamie Page, of Cleveland, 0, 1s visiting her brother in Linden street. James Adams s employed in the Pullman car service, running out of Chicago. ‘Mrs. Mary Jackson and daughter will spend the summer with Mr. Jackson at Frenen Lick. St. Phillips Mission will hold services At the usual hour Sanday, A ciass of fourteen will bs confirmed. Mrs. W. Morris of Louisville spent the week in thecity, the guest of her anghter, Mrs. 8. A. Farniss, Dr. Shatter, pastor of Bethel church has retarned from his western trip and reports excellent conditions in that sec- ton. WANTED.—Girl for general house- work; family of two. No washing. Must farnish references Apply 2228) N. Delaware street. New phone 7775. “David, The Snepherd Boy’? will be presented at Tomlinson Hall, June 19, by Mrs G. A. Ratliffe and son, of An. derson, Ind., assisted by a chorus of sixty voices. The George Downing Woman's Home Missionary Soclety of Simpson Chapel will meet with Miss Arnita Bolden, 1420 North Missouri street, Friday afternoon, June 28 Golden Crown Lodge, No. 34, F. & A.M. of Shelbyville, Ind, will cele: brate St. John’s day tomorrow. Vist- tora from tha sarronuding towns are expected to be present. A delightfal plonfo was given by The Bachelors at Broad Ripple Park last Monday night. Two chartered cars transfered the party from the Terml- nal Station at 6:30 p: m. Miss Besste Coleman, a teacher of Hardinsville, Ky., 1s seriously ill at St. Paul, Minn, Miss Coleman is a sister of Mre, Hattle McMurray of this olty and is qalte a favorite visitor here. Mrs. Emma Woods Boger, of Chicago through her attorneys, T. Webster Brown, of Chicago, and James H Lott, of this clty, has brought sult against the estate of @. W. Payne for $900 for services. The Haughville Methodist charct will bold a rally June 25, Rey. Sidney Pentck is pastor. ‘The public is invited ES THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. to be present. On June 21, Rev. Wood ‘will present his scenery of ‘The Pillow of Light.” “The Glory of the Latter House Will Be Greater Than the Former” is the subject of Rev. H, E.Stewarts sermcn tomorrow morning at Allen Ubapel. At 8p m he will deliver a sermon on a popular theme, with illustrations. The Foram and The Pinto Clubs will celebrate thelr first anniversary with three days’ recreation among the hills Ocange County, Ind-, commencing June 19 Masto will be farnished by Prof ‘Tob. Brown's fall orchestra of Loutc- yille, Ky. ‘The marriage of Miss Ella Fleming of thie city and Mr. John Todd, of Cleveland, ©, took place Sunday morning a: 9:30, at the Second Ohris- tian church. Rev. H. L Herod pro- nounced the ceremony in the presenc3 of relatives anda few friends, The Kenmore Club «ls0ted the fol- lowing cffivers Tuesday event: g: Ea- gene Williams, president; ‘Thomas Genius, vice-president, Mr Clemons, secretary; Elward Pickens, treasurer. Tre cffisers will give 9 emoker next Tuesday svening at O a Fellows Hal’, for the members and friends. Mrs. Mary Patterson, mother of © ptain Patterson and Ermine English, died recently at Minneapolis where she went about a year ago for the better. ment ot her health. She was brought home for burial which took place Thursday of Isst week, Mrs, Eoglich who lives in Minneapolis is stopping with Mrs, Finn in Paca street | The commencement of the Manual Training school was held Monday even: ing at Tomlineon hall, among the graduating olas were the following colored students: Sterling R. McEl- waine, James H. Wileon, Wendell J. Smith avd Ella R. Miller, Shorirldge High school’s graduating exercises were held Wednesday evening at Eoglish Opera honse. Of the four graduates Samuel Taylor was the only colored boy in the class. Misses Nettie Walker, Della Broyles and Irene Thurmen also gradnated ‘The reception tendered the Topaz Oluster by twenty-two ladies, who at different times had enjoyed the hospi- tality of that organization, was a very pleacant sffatr, last Friday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. J. H. Wells, in West Twelfth street. Whict was the feature. Prizes of cut glass and havi- land china were given by the hostesses and guests. ‘The hours were from 3 to 8p. m. and the rooms were profusely decorated with ont flowers. The guest prizes were won by Mesdames Walker rown, Bertha Tarner and Roxi; Bell. the hostesses prizes by Meademes Will Brown, Lucas Willisaud Edwin Stokes |__*08rwassinreexsts I you want a job call at Parker's Employment Agensy, 815 Indiana ave. Household goods bought, sold and ex. changed. Naumann, 383 Indiana Ave. Furnished rooms; suitable for light aonse-keeping, including bath. 524 North West street Mrs. Anna Welle Wanted—A settled woman for honse- work; three in family. T. C. Whallon, 1544 Hast Tentn street; New ‘Puono 7, Get ready for South Bend Angust 1 Great emancipation praclamation cele bration, Excursion from Indianapolte given by the Colored Mercantile Asso- elation. We desire to inform our enbeoribers tngt the “Shampo Drier” company who advertises with us, is a reponeiblecom pany, and their tollet article Is one of trae merit, Ladies should investigate “Ford’s Ox Marrow Pomade, for sale in Indianapolis at Mrs L. C Hay- es’ Drag Store 505 Indiana Avenue. atraightens kinky hatr, cnres dandraft and makes the hair grow; never fails Buy a bottle from her and be con vinced.” The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co tg in be Dawes peniey The Negro Folk-Lore Concsrt and May Festival will be an annual affair for the benefit of the institutional work of the Second Christian church. Look- ing toward this end, a concert company composed of the best aingers in the city is betng formed This company be- sides giving recitals for the above stated interest will fozm the neucleus for the annual May Festival. Bishop Grant in the City. ‘The many friends of Bishop Grant will be glad to learn of his almost en- tire recovery from his recent {llnees. He attended the commencement exer olses at Wilberforoe this week. He will come to theclty today to be the quest of Dr. Shaffer for fewdays and will preach at Bethel ehuron Sunday morn 2. Lecture At Bethel Ohurch, June 22. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Wash- ington, D, C,one of the leading wo- men of the race will lecture at Bethel chureb, Toursdav evening, June 22 Mre, Teriell bss appeared before highly ya 4 MRS MARY CHURCH TERRELL educated women of the white race and ‘has recelved commendation cf the high- est character. This leoture is under the auspices of the Woman's Improvement Club of this city and indications point to a large attendance. Mrs. Terrell never falls to please as the comments of those who have heard her will prove Do not fail to hear her. Sead And Bind Matinde ee ke Sa re NG Re PATE eg Re ee Tne head and second waiters of this elty were splendidly entertained at thelr second annual parquet given at Batler’s Cafe, Inst Monday evening. Covers were Isld for twenty. George L Knox, of The Freeman, who is an honorary member of the National Benet Assoolation of Head and Seo. ond and Side Waiters of America, made an address. Toasts were given bby the following head watters: J. Globs, Grand Hotel; J. B. Goins, Columbia lab; E. Bybes, Walte’s Oste; JC Knox, Eagiish Hotel; Ed Smith, ‘The Linden, and the following second walt- ers: FF. Johneon, Claypool; Joha Proo- tor, Denison Ho‘el. In behalf of the merchant, H L Sanders, maautactarer of walter’s jokete, and Elwood U. Knox, business manager of The Free- man for the Press, responded. K. B. Black, headwatter at The Denison was toast master. FOR MAYOR.* _ For Mayor of the city, Frank D. Stal- naker, subject to the deotsion' of the Republican primary, June 80, "05, Mr. Stalnaker is a well known business man here, He is 8 member of the firm of Lilly & Stalnaker, on Washington. the hardware people, He is a good business man and if nominated will make us one of the best mayors that we ever had and will be mayor for all people alike, _ Remember voters this is a fonr years term this time for mayor. Let us be careful then and nominate a man that Will make {t poselble for us to go to the city parks without being molested. Let us stand up and strongly advocate the nomination of Mr. #. D. Stalnaker, for he is sure to be elected if nominated. CA PaRKER THE PARKER HOUSE. When you are in doubt go to the Parker Honse, talk it over with Mr Hollman who fs an adept in minister- ing to sour gastronomic troubles In short, always something good to eat at The Parker House, Good sleeping rooms, bath, ato. eo 3. W. Hollman, proprietor, 17-831 W. Michigan Street "Phones: ‘New 4972; Old—red, 651, J, M, VANCE'S ADDRESS Pine Binff, Ark., Spectal.—Hon. J. Madison Vance, the distinguished citt- gen and lawyer of New Orleans, who has Won @ name in the South as an ora tor. lawyer and leader delivered the commencement address to the Branch ‘Normal College class on Jane 6th. ‘The college was crowded and the heat in. tense but the epeaker held his andienoe in perfect command and his address was frequently applauded. The exer- olses were the best ever ‘held under Prof. Fisher, and creditably did the speakers impress the large audience Promptly at 8 o'clock prayer was offer ed and Miss Barnett, directress of the cholr, motioned her baton and the chotr began to beautifally sing “Glory to Israel's God.” The singing shroagh- out the exerolses was plessing. Miss Mattie Benson presided at the piano. The six speskers of the gradua‘ing class deserve comment for their orlgian- ality, thought and preparation. ‘The “Ideals of Our Nation,” by Miss Irene Chatman was not only elocationary but delivered excently, The orator of the clase, Franck C. A. MoMarray, merited praise above them all, and the audieiice testified this by thelr applause, His valedictory address was fall of generous thanks to the state tristees and faculty; turning to-the class he bid them score a record in the world for thelr dear alma mater. The audisnce roi sang a familiar song, after which Prof. Fisher introduced the speaker of the evening. When he arose he was greeted with lond applause, and the coming of Mr ‘Vanoe proved to be a big drawing card, 4s quite a number came f.om nelghbor ing towns to hear him. His address was brillisnt, foroefal and above all— practical. His oration on Dr Booker T. Washington was masterly delivered nd warmly received. ‘The speaker, in graceful words, paid a compliment to the graduating class and then took up the history of Arkansas and its great men, Let the class point to an object and work up to that point~ beyond the Alps Iles Italy. ‘This means tothe class determination, perseverance, courage and the power to enrmonnt obstacles. The speaker here drew a beautifal plo tare of the great Napoleon crossing the Alps, and vividly did he portray the great military epectalist, which brought out the traits of character he wished to emphasize—fixedness of purpose, cour- age and perseverance, You must baild on safe lines, foundation solid; build from the bottom and go up. Cultivate the power to study and think; give more time to special training in the in- dustrial department, and be dead earnest in whatever avooation you pur- sue. Imposstbllity 1s the adjective ot fools, There is no aristocracy of brain Start out to master the eltuation; pitch your your tent right here, here in the southiand. Southern gentlemen are our best friends to the race | Look ye here to these walls, these grand men and women, this magnifi- cent graduating class, I tell you this is @ great land. Let us be self-reliant, baild up character, thrift, pride, get a bank aovonnt, be true to your nelghbor be he white or black, take him into your confidence. We have had many great men and the older ones are paes ing away. The grandest of our race le Booker T. Washington. He lives in an atmosphere of constant hustle, in the largest of his powers; his addresees are noteable and possesses clearness and force of thought, actractiveness of style and appropriatness of illustration. His discourses have become phrases of liter- ature; they are intrepid and expository. They are utterances of plercing wit aud pregnant thonght; burning words appealing to the emotion as well as to the tnteliigence; simple in conception, plain words, but they adr the soul and touch the heart. He makes history with the world bailders and great thinkers. He 1s now in the meridian of his power and the hopefuiness of his mission. God grant him many years of usefulness aud a golden jabllee at the end. He possesses conservatism of com- mon seuss and he liveth in the white sunlight of potent words. Judge Gibbs, who had come from Little Rock to hear the orator, alco spokes few encouraging words to the class. After the awarding of diplomas many came to the platform and warmiy shook the band of the speaker Prof. Fisher delivered @ short address to the Sraduating class atter which closed the thirtieth annual commencement 0: Branch Normal College, THE BANQUET. The citizens of Pine Bluff gave Mr. Vance a reception that has surpassed all occasions of the kind in the State, In point of attendance, culture and re fiuement 1 was equal to any banquet we have seen in the Southern States. It was given in the Masonic Temple owned by Negross, ocsting $70 000. The affair was delightful in every respect Tne mingling of the young soclety peo- ple with the older oltizans, meeting the distinguished guest, promenading amid che sweet strains of the grand orchestra, feasting at the festal board, hearing the charming toasts, conversing with the lovely and attractive women made the oovasion @ grand affair. About 11:30 P. m. @ grand march, headed by Lawyer Vance and Mre. Isaac Fisher, Judge Gibbs and Mrs Ferd Havis, they w.re led to the long T shape table up on the next floor, where Mr. T. Skidmore had the long table beautifally decorated with flowers and served an elegant sup: Per in pomp and etyle. Prof. Fisher, the toastmaster, was replete with words of Introduction of each speaker Drs, Rowland, Flippen, Col. Hayis and Rev. a ee ee 2 mE © CEEEEED © CEEE=D mm, § ICE CREAM FREEZERs| a ——_—— AND WATER-COOLERs| aaa No Better Place to Buy i Either Than at VONNEGUT HARDWARE CO, 8 oth Phones ps, 1207124 East Washington BE rs pours | OG CLEARED © CERETERO GEEEEIED a4 aaEaEIaIaU™h_————_____—_ BARON, ™®,,81C¥cte us Bicycle Supplies, Tires cRasRepenne ae Enameling, Brazing and Nickeling. We Call for and deliver Goods, New Phone 5407 ee ae. SPECIAL ON TALCUM Tetlow’s Highiy Perfumed Talcums, = - 5¢ a Cag Mrs. Hayes’ Cut Rate Drug Store Indiana Avenue and Michigan Street A registered gradute of Pharmacy always in charge of prescription depanany —_iiEiEi_i__—_—_—_—_—_—_———— Your preseriptions recelve the most careful attention. We use the best Drags aud Pharmacentioals obtainable. 161 N. Illinois St. gia fS48PNES%22 Indianapolis, Inclang ——————_—_—_ The R. H. Smith Coal Comp’ 1012 Bismark Avenue Coal and Wood, Prompt delivery. Candies, Cigars and Tobass Toe Cream in large and small quentities. Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, Ing DERBY CAFE & LUNCH -o —_——— Ee ae eee aes | Cut out this advertisement ax A. ROBINSON, Prop. URNS trllc een ako a FOR CITY CLERK James McNulty Candidate subject to the Republican nominating primaries, Jane 30, 1905, Polis open from 11a m_ te 8pm were pleasant to The Freeman corres- pondent. Business quiet, town dusty, sun hot and still heating. Miss Gertrode Donahoo will visit Little Rook soon. Attorney J. Madison Vance was the guest of Prof. Isaac Fisher. ‘Miss Christine Allen, the popular teacher, is in Montecello visiting The County Teachers’ Institute was in session for two weeks under Prof. Johnson. The new drug store of Dr. Miller, the Pool-room, hotel and restuarant are the pride of the city. / Dave Duke, olerk in the postoffice, it ras told us by the postmaster, is one of the fastest in the office. | George Black of 106 Barraque street, is doing 9 splendid business. Give him ‘call when you are in Pine Bluff. Misses Peoples and Benson have gone to their homes after a successful school year at the Branch Normal College. Jake Moseby, who is one of the most Uberal hearted citizens of the town, is doing a good business at 304 Main St. Dave Coleman, the wide awake res taurant man on Third avenue, does good business. He serves meals at all hoare. ‘The Southern Mercantile Company's new building and the Masonic Temple number among the costly buildings of the county. James Jones, who has for a number of years managed the Wiley Jones saloon, is doing a big business at 233 Main street. Tne Christian Home, which was built by R. Y. Longley several years ago, stands as @ monument to his benevo- lence and charity to wayward girls RY. Longley is now the only pro- prietor of @ colored park in the town. Tt has @ grand stand for base ball, 8 quarter-mile track and a dance ball. Wilson Brothers, draggiste, Masonic Temple, have the fisest drug store In the South. They do an excellent busi- ness and have a soda fountain costing $1500, Andy Jones ts running the old Wiley Jones places. He handles the sams reputable wines and whiskles ee did Wiley Jones, and, from all adicatione, the business is still at ite prime. PUBLIC NOTICE, To Wxom Ir May Concern: You are hereby notified that at 10 O'olock, a. m,on Jaly 15 3905, I wilt sell at public auction at 122 East Ohio st eet, Indianapolis, Iad , to psy charges thereon, the following pieces of furni- ture to wit: One oak mantel mirror, one oak chiffonter with mirror. Said articles are marked “Amanda Wil- Hams” and have been st red at above number and unciatmed for more than three months and the proper charges on the same are unpald SHERMAN T, Davis, 122 East Ohio St. Patronize our advertisers: fo | Cut out this advertisement ad bring it with you to our Store when you buy and it will entitle you tos pretty present. BGF-NOTICE.—No presents will be given unless this advertise- ment is presented at time of purchase, Ses ‘The only credit house in the State that carries you over periods of mis fortune without humiliation or extra charge such as out of work, sickness or death-come to us and buy whet you need and all you want and get credit without additional charge, FURNITURE & CARPET CO 32-34-36-38-40-42 | SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET, HATS ana SHOES Best Values and Reasonable Priest Call and See. Courtesy to All. S. A. HINSHAW 529 Massachusetts Avena =PIMS= CUT-RATE PHARMACY, 550 Ind. Ave. S, E. Cor. 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