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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS IND. SATURDAY JUNE 24, 1905 BEPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE SOUTH IN ATTENDANCE TRIBUTE TO WORTHY CITIZENS By Mayor Yearger and Charles Hafer—Meeting Without a Parallel in the History of the State—The Meeting Addressed by Well Known Men. Greenville, Miss., Special.—"Welcome! welcome!" came from the clarion voice of Hon. W. Yearger, mayor, and Charles Hafer, president of the Young Mens' Business League (white). In the course of their remarks they paid tribute to the law-abiding, intelligent and industrious Negroes of Greenville and the South, and among the things they said: "The progress of the Negro is challenging the admiration of the country." Their addresses were greatly appreciated. Responses by members of the League were interesting and appreciated. Hon. Charles Banks, the president of the League, delivered his address. Through the uniting efforts of Mr. Banks Mississippi scored a high mark of standing by being placed in the honor column of the State Business Mens' League. His address was warmly received and loudly applauded. He began by saying: "We are assembled today on a very significant occasion; one without a parallel in the history of the state. Negro business men and women are here from all sections of this great commonwealth to discuss the various kind of business in which they are engaged with a view of giving enlightenment, stimulation and encouragement to an interchange of ideas. I am pleased to congratulate us and meus us and far reaching movement. Your efforts, if properly and intelligently directed, can but result in much good to yourselves, your race, your state and your country." Closing, he said: "It is yours to determine whether the annual meetings shall be held as r-regular as the years o-me and go or jade into objection, and be numbered among the things that were, but now are not. The lack of business activity and enterprise, together with our limited knowledge of improved business methods, with no real and effective alliance among and between our business men, demonstrate quite clearly the necessity of an organization as we are here to perfect. The more Will you prove yourselves equal to the emergency? My hope, desire and prediction is=you will." Vital questions of the Negro were discussed, among which were: "How to become successful professional men; acquiring of property; education of the race; moral and intellectual development." Among the interesting speakers were: Mrs. E. P. Simmons, Hollandale; Mrs. K. B. Jamison, Yazoo City; Mrs. L. W. Coleman, Greenville; Dr. W. A. Attway, Moorehead; C. B. King, Little Rock, Ark.; Dr. B. F. Falten, Fulenville; W. T. Jones, Vicksburg; E. E. Perkins, Ward; W. D. Craig Greenville; I. T. Montgomery, Mound Bayon; C W Gilian, Okolonsa; S E. Henderson, Clarksdale, Mr. Gree, Holly Springs; W. E. Mollison, Vicksburg; E B. Topp, Jackson; C. W. Cates, Little Rock; Dr. Wilson, Nashville; Editor Jones, New Orleans; C. B. Lewis, Indianapolis, Freeman; J. H. E. Bush, Little Rock; J. Madison Vance, New Orleans; and Miss Florida Bastice Jones, Indianapolis, Hon. J. M. Vance delivered a splendid prepared address. It was conservative and at times grew eloquent. He said that the South was the Areadia of the Negro, and his best friends the southern white men. The speech of the session was that of Hon. J. E. Bash. It was one of the most practical, entertaining and well received addresses that has been heard here in years. He succeeded Mr. Vance, and with his wit and humor, together with his plain speaking of the Negro's remarkable progress, he cultivated the large audience. After his address many came forward and shock his hand. Over two hundred delegates and visitors were in attendance from all over the South, and with renewed vigor and inspiration they left saying that they would go forth to make greater progress along business lines. Tans closed the most successful session of the Negro Business League of the State of Mississippi. Telegrams were read from Booker T. Washington Judge Gibbs, of Little Book; Roscoe Conklin Simmons, of New York; Fred R. Moore, of New York; and from presidents of other State Leagues. NEGRO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION NEGRO DRESS ASSOCIATION The "knights of the night" assembled at A POSTAL CARD WILL DO! Boys and Girls you can make money during your summer vacation by representing The Freeman. Sample copies and instructions sent free on application. the Pythian half and discussed questions relatives to the Negro press. The meeting was largely attended and marked by the intelligence displayed by those who were on the program. Two of the most interesting papers discussed were read by young ladies. After they had finished every learned scribe gave the speakers literary bonquets. Avery Negro journal in the state was represented and played their part in making the meeting an epoch in the history of the Negroes of Mississippi. Much credit is due to Editors P. W. Davidson, J. C. Chapple, J. W. Scott, E. E. Carrington, C. O. L. Garrett, Meshes Helen Pickens and Ludella Puillan, E. B. Topp, R. A. Adams, R. M. Dixon, W. A. Scott, R. A. Simms and others for their very excellent addresses that were delivered before the public. The Negro press of Mississippi is now closely connected for the mutual helpfulness of the Negro than ever before. Among the visiting speakers were Charles Banks, Hon. I. T. Montgomery and C. B. Lewis, of the Indianapolis Freeman. BANQUET. One of the grandest banquet that Greenville has witnessed here in many years was given by the Greenville, Miss, Negro Business League. Promptly at ten o'clock the grand march was led by President Charles Banks and wife to the lower room of the Pythian hall were covers were laid for over two hundred. The hall was beautifully and artistically decorated by John Capshaw, caterer for the occasion. The colors were red, white and blue, and upon the stage rested an upright piano, which was incessantly played by Miss Willie Mollison and accompanied by Prof. Henry Williams, the leading violinist of the city. During the splendid serving of the menu there was a feast of reason and flow of soul. John W. Strauther, toastmaster, was replete with words of introduction of those who were upon the program. C. W. Wilson, of Greenville, led off with a toast to the Negro men and was followed by N. S. Taylor, Mr. Blackburn, of Virginia; W. G. Mayfield, of Greenville; Hon. J. Madison Vance, the Freeman representative, Horace D. Slatter of the Associated Press; M. R. Dixon, of West Point; M. W. Craidan, Hon. Charles Banks. Mr. Slatter, who furnished the daily papers with the news of the League, urged upon the business men the importance of supplying employment for the struggling boys and girls of the race who, through their own efforts, strive to place Negro intellect upon a higher plane. Mr. Slatter said further: That meetings of this kind all over the country should employ competent Negroes who could "boil" down news in an intelligent way and get it to the associated press, to let the world know what the Negro men and women are doing on such occasions. After toasts the handsomely gowned ladies met the distinguished guests, mingled for a few minutes and then began to trip the light fantastic tos. The affair was greatly enjoyed by all who attended, and much credit is due the reception committee. Miss G. A. Jones, one of the most competent teachers of Mound Bayon, is the guest of Miss M. M. Montgomery, in North Theobold street, this week in attendance to the League. Mr. C. B. King of Little Rock, gave a lawn party Monday night in honor of Miss Ruby Moyse and Miss Beatrics Lewis at the resident of Mrs. B. T. Lewis, in North Theobald street. There were quite a number of society debutances of the summer season out. The affair was a very enjoyable social function of the week. Miss Willie Mollison, the cultured and accomplished musician and teacher of this city, left this week for her home in Vicksburg. Mr. Ches Cates, of Little Rock, was in the city this week and a delegation waited upon him asking him asking him to be sure to come to the National Business Mens' League to tell an "Arkansaw story." The Knights of Honor, bank, doctors, lawyers, preachers, churches and business men along all lines are creditably pushing forward in the city of Greenville. The representative of the Freeman paid them all a special visit and inquired of their progress and received the verdict that they are all doing nicely and are reading the Freeman. C. B. Lewis HAMILTON $ \mathrm{O}^{1} $ Rev. Belle has resigned the pastorship here and accepted a charge at Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. John Coleman will take his place — a number of people spent Sunday at Elmwood Place at the last mass meeting of the season. Tae K of P. gave a picnic at Frecklings Grove Thursday. THE AMERICAN BRONCO. PREJUDGE C. TAYWOOD 05 The First Annual Meeting of the Stock Holders of the Savings Bank of Greenville, S. C. The Negro of South Carolina bids for front rank in the story of our people's worth. No project shows this more convincingly than the Negro bank at Greenville, S. C. The Mr. A. B Davis, treasurer, is a Greenville man and has always been in the closest possible touch with the better class of his people, and at the same time has been careful to make friends to himself among the business men who controls valuable real estate. He is three of the M. E. church. His home life is ideal. house stands a monument to the business aollity and race pride of a few Negroes whose names do your columns great honor, viz: Rev. J. O. Allen, Dr. B. F. Witherpoon, Dr. B. F. McDowell, T. J. Bryant, A. B. IF HIS REINS BREAK Davis, J. P. Chappell, B. H. Barbour, C. L. Logan and M. N. Monzon who are the leading spirits in the banking movement and are rapidly making sentiment favorable to the race. The Workingman's Savings and Loan Co., the name of the bank, began business April, 1901, capitalized at $20,000 The capital stock will soon be raised to $50,000, the business having outgrown the wildest dreams of its best friends. At the first annual meeting of the stock holders and directors a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. The growing influence of the movement may be learned from the fact that one fourth of the business of the year just ended was with people and firms outside of the city. Before this bank was established it was a very difficult matter for a Negro to borrow a dollar without a white friend on his note. The Negro as a banker has changed all that in demonstrating the worth of the race. Every Negro in Greenville feels its influence. An old brother, the worse for the wear and tear of time and a few other things, asked me if I had seen "our bank." It turned out, of course, that he did not have a cent in the bank but its very existence helped him. It is positively helping the Negro who hasn't a cent. Greenville has one of the best graded shools in the state. Owing to matter which I have failed to receive I cannot mention it at this time farther than to say that Prof. Martin and his able corps of teachers are doing all that the most exacting can demand in training the youths of the city. Judging from the great number of insurance companies we have here there is little danger of the sick suffering or the dead waiting long for burial. The Metropolitan, with Dr. W. D. Humbert superintendent, is doing a great work. The Eureka is a home company and it seams very much at home in its nice quarters, 111 E. Washington street. The South Mutual, Mr. Saxon president, is one of the concerns to be reckoned with. Mr. Saxon is also editor of the Record, a paper SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR $1.50. PRICE FIVE CENTS. printed for our people here. The Laborers Immediate Relief is managed by Mr. L. D. Bowman, a man whose only failure has been his failure to fall. The Metropolitan United is looked after by Mr. George P. Fitchett who, in a business transaction, will not take "no" for an answer. Now, all these companies are by Negroes for Negroes There Rev J. O. Allen, president of Greenville colored bank was born October 7, '58, was educated in the public schools and under private instructors, among them being the noted Dr. Brawley. Rev. Allen is treasurer of the Baptist State Convention of South Carolina. A very useful pastor and a gentleman of the highest qualities. are many other great things here in Greenville but I can't name them all. Mr. Thompson, the Main street butcher, is very successful indeed and is a great (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW COMMENCEMENT SERMON ATTUS KEGEE INSTITUTE "THE TOILER AND THE CITIZEN" A Scholarly Treatment of the Subject by Rabbi Messing During the Recent Commencement Exercises-The Value of Citizenship. (Staff Correspondence.) The commencement sermon: "The Toilter and the Citizen," delivered by Rabbi A. J. Messing, May 21, at Tuskegee Institute, has been printed in pamphlet form for the declaration of the country at large. In breadth of thought and scholarly treatment the production is far in advance of any similar effort that has come under our notice during the recent commencement season The sermon is eminently worthy of the distinction which Dr. Washington has accorded it. Rabbi Messing's text, found in Talmud, is described by him as a sententious maxim culled from rabbinical lore—"love work, hate dominion, and do not mix too much with the government." As the tenor of his deliverance has been so generally misunderstood by reason of garbled reports sent out in the dispatches, and the undue prominence given in misleading fashion to disconnected sentences to set him right before the public we are taking the liberty of quoting a few salient paragraphs from the sermon, indicative of its lofty moral tone and sincere moral approval of the progress the Negro is making in all that pertains to honorable citizenship. At the outset the Rabbi Deolares: "It was with no desire to debate vexed questions or to offer a new solution to old problems that I accepted the kind invitation to address you today. I have never been able to sympathize very deeply with my brother as a "problem" regarding my black brother as a "problem" of being always tried to think of him as a man, and it is as a man among men that I speak today." Continuing he asks: 'And is it not altogether fitting and proper that I should do this?' The charter under which I speak is unimpeachable. For I, too, am descended of a people who, more than any other, have been exposed to the allure of alienism, and yet who have given a moral code to the world and have fought and abled on every battlefield of human thought." In impressing the admonition: "love work," he showed that upon the very first page of the Bible God, Himself, was introduced as a "worker"—"in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth." A beautiful period, as eloquent and touching a tribute to the Negro genius as ever spoken in the English language, breathing a wholesome spirit of altruism was as follows: "Alas, that the puny prejudices of men should have hedged labor about all sorts of superstitions! No economic truth is more firmly grounded than this—that labor creates value, irrespective of legislature, attachment or personal sentiment. Yet for a long time, the labor of labor depended not upon the skill of one's hands or the texture of the brain but upon the color of the skin. And it is held by many today that the slightest infusion of African blood somehow vitilizes and nullifies the work. As if a beautiful poem by Jan Laurence Dunber is not to be recooled, epidermis; as if a beautiful poem by Henry O'Tanner is not truly the work of a genius though the hand that wielded the brush to the color of the clouds that cover the tomb of Lazarus in his majestic canvas. A great oration is a great oration whether pronounced by the white man Cicero pleadeth, by the red man, Wheat in the oman senate; by the red man, Wheat in the oman senate; by the Big Bend of the Taipoosa, or by the black man, Frederick Douglass, pleading for the right of "free speech" in the city of Boston. Heroism is the work of the hero, whether seen in the white man, Leonidas, defending the pass of Thermopylae against the yellow man, Nogl, as he hurls back the island upon the trenches of Port Arthur, or by the black man, Toussaint L'Ouverture, as almost single handed he breaks the power of England and France and gives the island of Haytii back unto freedom." Here the man, indeed, rose to the occasion. The passage quoted above should live in the memory of every colored American long after Rabbi Messing is gathered to his fathers. To "love work" when its results so arouse the human soul and break down the barriers of cast is a royal passion. Hasty or ill meaning critics who affected to see in Rabbi Messing's reference to the "government" and injunction against the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) WOMAN'S WORLD BY "DOROTHY." This column will be devoted to the interests of women. Questions will be cheerfully answered, in order to insure a reply it is necessary to give a pseudonym to which the quist may be answered. The full name and address must also be given. This will not, under any circumstances, be published. No answer will be sent by mail unless a stamped envelope is received at this office. Address all communicated to the appropriate person. And we stand from day to day, Like the dwarfs of times gone by, Who as Northern legends say, On their shoulders held the sky. —LONGFELLOW. An everyday religion—one that loves the duties of your common walk; one that makes an honest man; one that accomplishes an intellectual and moral growth on the subject; one that works in all weather and improves all opportunities—will best and most healthily promote the growth of a church and the power of the gospel. —Woman's Life. Howard University conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon Mrs. Josephine Turpin, of Montgomery, Ala., and Mrs. Mary Curtis, of Washington, D. C. received the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy. :0:0: Mrs. Sterling N. Brown, of Washington D. C. was chosen to represent the A. M. A. at the Congregational Association of New York Stats. Her paper on "The Home Life of Colored People" was well received. :0:0: The Rock Hill Messenger, a weekly at Rock Hill, S. C., will publish a Woman's issue in a few weeks. In Senator Beveridge's new book, "The Young Man and the World," he says that the qualities that make up character are: 1. Sincerity; fidelity to friends. 2. Courage 3. Reserve; the power to hold one's forces in check, 4. Intellect. :0:— Two young women in hoopskirts made their appearance in a downtown store at Pittsburgh last week. The sight of this fashion blockaded a street car line for half an hour, stopped business in the store and almost created a panic. So great a crowd gathered that the young women had to be escorted to For Twenty-Eight Years the name BISSELL has typified all that's best in Carpet Sweeper mechanism, has become a household word throughout the world, wherever carpets or rugs are used. It is the only Carpet Sweeper that has ever given complete and continuous salts fraction to the user, and its large sale fully supports this statement. Over 80 percent, of the world's output of Carpet Swee- Housewives everywhere attest their superiority. A BISSELL "Oyee" Bearing Sweeper makes sweeping a pleasure instead of a drudgery. Why deny your self this comfort when $2.50 to $4 00 will procure it? Buy a BISSELL now and send us the purchase slip, and receive a neat, useful gift. BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER 00. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Largest Sweeper Makers in the World Something Left Undone. Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone; Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. By the bedside, on the stair, At the threshold, near the gates, With its menace or its prayer, Like a mendicant it waits. Waits, and will not go away; Waits and will not be gainsaid, By the cares of yesterday Each to-day is heavier made. Till at length the burden seems Greater than our strength can bear- Heavy as the weight of dreams' Pressing on us everywhere. —:0— ---:0--- -:0:- —:0— —:0:— BISSELL'S their carriage by the police while several thousand people watched them drive away to their homes. Their hoops were not the modern three-coll feather bone skirts, but regulation orinolines. It is evident that Pittsburgh is not ready for hoopskirts. The girls were badly frightened and promised not to do it again. ---:0--- To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike —Bacon. ---:0--- Milord and milady have arrived home with their diplomas and pop can not escape rebuke when he eats with his knife. —Nashville (Tenn.) Amerloan. The Fountain Phamarcy will be opened shortly at Washington, D. C. by Arthur S and Dr. Amanda V. Gray, assisted by Dr. Spurgeon N. Gray. Dr. Amanda Gray has been for several years pharmacist to the Woman's Clinic in Howard University and has been quite successful. A woman has been elected as local magistrate in the community of Rink, Herlein, Hungary, because the whole adult male population of the place had emigrated to America and not a man was left to fill the position. A prominent writer says, "Never spend any time trying to convince people that you are as good as they are; put in all your spare time being as good, and saying nothing about it. The things which settle our place in the world are too subtle for speech." :0:— A lemon pie from one of the large bakeries in Chicago has been analyzed with the result that it was found to contain no lemon, butter or eggs. It was made of starch paste and various products of coal tar. :0:— Small things are so very essential to good looks in a woman. Have your fan, parasol, slippers and stockings all to match. The Board of Managers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society held their annual meeting at Denver, Col., recently and took action relative to its deaconess work. Five new deaconess bureaus and one standing committee were formed for the present work. Miss Henrietta A. Brancroft was made general superintendent of the entire work. -0-: The cake used at a Portland, (Me.) wedding last week was baked for a relative of the bridegroom on the occasion of his marriage forty years. -0-: Mme. Valthaire of Aabe. France, who, on her death bed, was sprinkled with a solution of nitric acid in mistake for holy water, was restored to normal health. SHORT FLIGHTS, BY R. W. THOMPSON. Common sense draws no color line. Who is this "Rev." J. W. Stagg anyhow? He who works like a Trojan, and bides his time, will win. Governor Pinchback continues to smile knowingly. By taking only "short flights" we never get far from the people's heart. The efflorescent, John Edward Bruce, shows signs of getting back into the game. You can trust the friend who has "saved" enough to defend you in your absence. Negro expositions are all right to a certain extent, but mere display can be overdone. The world soon forgets the man, good or bad, whose name ceases to appear in the newspapers. --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. 一：0：一 ---:0--- -:0:- —:0— :0:— - : 0 : ---:0--- —:0— The President doubtless knows Law' yer James H. Hayes, but apparently cannot "place him " "Resignations" from lucrative positions in the public schools, these days, have a suspicious flavor. The referee system in the South bodies no good to the Negro in the distribution of political patronage. Men engaged in a great work have no time to explain away the petty lies of jealous and envious critics. The Negro end of the Jamestown Exposition seems to need more ballast for the amount of sail that is being used. Harry S New and James H. Hayes have both refused federal office—and there the resemblance suddenly ceases. Higher wages, longer school terms and better churches will check the migration of the Southern Negroes from the farms to the cities. Mrs Ida D. Bailey, who lifted the lid at Howard University when no one else dared, stands triumphantly by the recent unsavory disclosures. Rev. Jay Albert Johnson is out of the running for the Bishoprio, but he declines to commit himself on the Wilberforce presidency proposition. --- Show us the livest man in a town and we will show you the man who is alternately the best praised and the worst cussed individual in that community. --- With the disgruntled and jealous crowd who predict that Collector H. A. Rucker of Georgia will not be reappointed, the wish is evidently father to the thought --- The institute for colored youth at Cheyney, Pa, bids fair to distance all competitors this year in point of attractions offered by its summer school for teachers --- For the sake of its political health the South sorely needs two strong, aggressive slaves and squarre dealing parties. Wholesome atmosphere is impossible in an oligarchy. --- Negro leaders who are called upon by President Roosevelt for advice should insist as strennously upon the passing over of bad men as upon the recognition of good ones --- Ben Tillman got severely hurt in a carriage accident, a few days ago, and narrowly escaped death. No Negro has yet found it convenient to wire his regrets or condolence. --- More colored men would go into business, and succeed, if they could only bring themselves to understand that the logical place of beginning is at the bottom instead of at the top. --- The ex slave pension phantasmagoria refuses to "down." Preachers, teachers and editors should puncture the bubble at every opportunity. It is the monumental swindle of the age. Rabbi Messing says a Negro had better be a first-class man than a fourth-class postmaster. Outside of a few plague spots in Mississippi it is possible for a black man to be both. --- Dr. W. T. Vernon, the Kansas "Big Chief," would ease the mind of the Washington Bee to a most gratifying degree by telling exactly what office he is after and who his backers are. --- Now that the political atmosphere is comparatively calm it might be well to call the President's attention to the claims of that worthy young North Carolinian, Dr James E Shepard. Editor Jay Wesley Cromwell is making rapid strides toward the hall of fame. He has reached the proud eminence of a vice-presidency in the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. There is no reason why a scholarly colored man should not be at the head of Howard University. If the color line is to be drawn in educational matters we should be able to turn it to account. Gambling is the Negroes besetting sin. Many of us have yet to learn that the only safe way to get money is to earn it by conscientious application of brain, muscle (or both) along legitimate lines. ... The whispers in A. M. E. church circles for retrenchment and economy is rising to a howl. Organic union is the surest road to a less expensive administration of Methodism's manifold interests. --- While the President had Maryland on his mind, as evidenced by the calling of Mr. Bonaparte to the cabinet, Harry Cummings wonders why the lightning did not strike just a step farther where his rod was higher. --- The white folks of Washington have a "Gridiron Club." Not to be outdone the colored "good timers" have organ- ized the "Andiron Club." South Washington's "whole doings" contingent is due next with the "Skillet Club." --- Genuine Negro melodies will live for the typical Negro music (or "folk song") has intrinsic merit. It comes as a balm to our much-abused ears to learn from the best orities that the day of the exeercable "rag-time" is on the wane. The Christian Recorder guesses New York as the seat of the next General Conference of the A M E. church. Washington is our choice, but we won't insist upon it against the united wisdom of the high priests, elders and deacons. Every moment of Dr. Booker T. Washington's noble life is an eloquent and convincing refutation of Stagg's infamous aspersions of the Negro's capacity for the highest usefulness as an American citizen and conserver of the moral law. ```markdown ``` Rudyard Kipling, the English writer, who is more wise than popular, says: "I am against slavery if only for the reason that the white man becomes demoralized by the ownership of slaves." Yes, verily, slavery has always been the white man's burden. --- The idiot who orders his paper stopped because it says something that he doesn't like would be willing to believe that the sun had ceased to shine because he had seen fit to close his eyes. Eternal truth is not silenced because some fool refuses to be pleased with it. --- Tabor College seems just about Dr. John Gordon's size and the salvation of souls at the church of the Covenant is all that Dr. Tennis S. Hamlin can attend to satisfactorily at this time. Therefore, they and Howard University could part company to mutual advantage. --- Dr. W. O. Thlakield is an earnest believer in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, but when he hears what the Bourbons think of him for advocating the amalgamation of the races he will feel that his brethren have cast him out of the family fold as a black sheep. --- Messrs. H. T. Eubanks and George W. Hays are running for the Legislature in Ohio, asking re-election respectively from the Cleveland and Cincinnati districts. Running for the Legislature seems to be a lost art in Indiana so far as the Afro-American is concerned. --- George Green, president of the Color- ed North American Oil Company, is convinced that "the prayers of righteous availeth much." His company had been having hard luck, but through perseverance and prayer the hoodoo was lifted and the well at Hartford City, Ind., began shooting up fifteen barrels of first-class oil daily. While the authors of "The Leopard's Spots," the "Clansman" and the "Color Line" are striving to intensify racial bitterness by cowardly misrepresentation of the Negro's character and capacity, a new Albion W. Tourgee is sorely needed to show up their villainy through a new set of "A Fool's Errand." "Bricks Without Staw" and "An Appeal to Caesar." --- Charles Stewart says the only entered contest for olympic honors in this country are the Negro and the Anglo-Saxon—"him and us." 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Porter, the efficient second waiter of the Plankinton House, Milwaukee, Wis., has resigned that position to accept a position as second waiter at the Hotel Ryan, St. Paul, Minn., under Mr. Silsbey. C. M. White, formerly third waiter at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee, Wis., has resigned said position and accepted a position as messenger for the Milwaukee and St. Paul ticket office and general ticket agent W. S. Boyle. Mr. Miles is certainly deserving of credit and the congratulations of the entire hotel public. He is the only headwaiter of whom we know that ever received such generous behests at the hands of a guest. All hail the chieftain! He is an inspiration to those less thoughtful and observing of the cares of those guests who remain so long in hotels. It seems almost f ollish to stop at this critical period in the history of the colored waiter to enumerate his virtues when the crying need for better men fills the air from coast to coast through the hotel press. It would be better to pick out his faults and try to improve them. Name the good qualities necessary to be possessed by the successful waiter to-day. The Metropole Hotel is the next hotel of any pretense to importance. It is fire-proof with a rooming capacity of 150 bed chambers. Sam A. Williams, for the last three seasons head waiter in the grill room of the Park Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., is the present head waiter with a crew of effloidently trained waiters. The Metropole is conducted on the European plan. The Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, recently put in a crew of white waiters in their grill room. This is the only place that was not tied up by the strike of two years ago. The colored men went to work only a few days before the great strike under Captain Adolph Thomas. But misgovernment and lack of careful supervision and strict discipline has finally accomplished a feat in favor of white waiters. There are many things printed in the columns of the "Walters' Department" that do no one good, unless those from whom they eminate. It would be decidedly better had some of the ideas died where they were born than to live to be aired to a disinterested public. What the readers of this department want is news of an important character. If not news then give something else that will add to the usefulness of the column. The Hotel Lincoln, Pltisburg, Pa., changed hands on the first of June and with the new manager came a crew of white waiters. The Lincoln was most successful under the old management, but he retired looking for larger fields to display his ability, and the new manager believes he can be equally successful in the management of the hotel with white help. The fact remains to be demonstrated, but to the sorrow of the colored man. W. J. Alden is superintendent of the Detroit Club. It will be remembered by many readers of this paper that Mr. Alden was at one time a very successful hotel manager. He was for a long time manager of the Oriental Hotel at Dallas, Texas. Only very recently the colored headwaiter at this very swell club was displaced by a white man. This is a serious loss to the colored head men. If men were better associated through the National Association of Head, Second and Sidewaiters' organization there would be greater benefits mutually distributed and many a good position saved. Samuel Blodsoe is the veteran headwaiter at the Wayne Hotel. Few men in the West are better known to the waiters than this genial and polished gentleman. He has been at the Wayne for the past twelve years. Mr. Blodsoe was for several years headwaiter at that mammoth hotel at Macinac Island—the Grand. It was here he achieved an enviable reputation as a disciplinarian and manager of large crews of waiters. The Wayne has a large pavilion and summer garden out over the river, and it is one of the waiter's great prides to be booked for the opening of this great amusement place during the hot summer days. The Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich., is one of the finest and best kept hotels west of New York, barring none. This hotel is known far and wide for its excellent table and beautiful appointments. The cafe and buffet are dreams in decorations and furnishings. Colored waiters are employed in all departments and give the best of service to the satisfaction of one of the most fastidious hotel proprietors in the country. In fact the management of this hotel is what is commonly termed "a crank" but, notwithstanding this, he is a thorough hotel proprietor in every detail of its supervision. The most difficult position for him to fill is that of headwaiter. Any man with a good reference may apply and secure the position almost any day in the year. But this does not mean that he will stay any longer than the one he succeeds. The Russell House, Detroit, Mich, is to be replaced with a two million dollar hotel structure. This recalls the fact that the present site or ground occupied by that historic hotel has been a hotel site for over seventy years, the present building is the result of constant changes and improvements to keep pace with the commercial growth and general prosperity of that city. The new hotel will, in all probability, be operated by the Chittendens, the present successful managers. This new creation in hotel enterprise in the metropolis of Michigan savors of a reluctant apprehension. The new hotel may be the advent of white waiters in Detroit. For years colored waiters have enjoyed an uninterrupted peace and work in all the hotels of this great city, but the forecast now is that there is a possibility of colored waiters losing this hotel when complete and open to the public. BANQUET AND DANCE END CONVENTION. BANQUET AND DANCE END CONVENTION. Head, Second and Sidewaiters' National Benefit Association Closing Meeting-Officers Elected. A very handsomely appointed reception, dance and banquet, given at Turner Hall, Forbes street, formally ended the convention of the Head, Second and Sidewalters' National Benefit Association, held in Trinity African Methodist Episcopal church, Pittsburg; Pa. There was a large attendance. The ball room presented a gay sight with the brightly gowned women and their escorts, and the barquet room, where the supper was served, was beautifully decorated with flags and flowers. Covers were laid for two hundred. John T Gilbert, chairman of the local entertainment committee, was toastmaster and the responses were as follows: "Our Association"—Frank P. Thompson, national grand president "The Ladies"—Rev. Dr. Mason, principal of the college for colored men and women at Salisbury, N. C. "Our City," a Tribute to Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Hospitality—Howard D Miller, national grand secretary, of New York. The final executive session of the convention was held and the following officers were elected: National Grand President—Frank P. Thompson, Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Fla., and Hotel Champlain, Bluff Point, N. Y. Vice presidents—James M. Butler, Hotel Mariborough, Atlantic City, N. J.; John H. Riley, United States Hotel, Saratoga, N. Y., and William A. Gales, Pittsburg, Pa. Financial Secretary—Howard D. Miller, New York Recording Secretary and Auditor—Robert D. Brooks, San Rafael Hotel, New York. National Grand Treasurer—Cornellus Lamar, St. Marks Hotel, Brooklyn. Superintendent Bureau of Publicity—E. T. Montgomery, Chicago. Committee of Management—J. Hamilton Brooks, chairman, Hotel Summerset, New York; James C. Johnson, Hotel Ashton, New York; Chase. T. Ferguson, Hotel Strand, Atlantic City; Fred Allen, Hotel Royal, Pondiana, Palm Beach, Fla; Clement C. Randolph, Hotel Edgemore, Long Island; George W. Banks Royal Ponciana, Palm Beach, Fla.; Frank H. Griffith, Hampton Terrace, Augusta, Ga.; Henry Pettigrew, Monongahela House, Pittsburg, and William H. Evans, Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, Va. Banking Committee—John T. Gilbert, chairman, Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg; Levin D. Huston, St. James Hotel, New York, and Eiskiel E. Irving, New York. State Superintendents—Arkansas, L. A. Walker, Hot Springs; Alabama, P. M. Williams, Birmingham; Connecticut, Ebenezer J. Williams, New Haven; Delaware, John B Weston, Dover; District of Columbia. James M. Gray, Washington. D. C.; Georgia, W. E. Tucker, Augusta; Indiana, John B. Goins, Indianapolis; Illinois, James P Early, Chicago; Kentucky, Charles C. Lewis, Louisville; Minnesota, Frank S. Silaby, St. Paul; Massachusetts, Allen M. Thompson, Boston; Maryland, Calvin M. Farrar, Baltimore, and John B. Harvey, Annapolis; Michigan, J. W. Jackson, Detroit; New York, Eastern district, Wm. H. Marrow, New York; Western district, E. W. Harper, Niagara Falls; New Jersey, Andrew L. Woodlyn, Atlantic City; Florida, Charles E. Robinson, Jacksonville; Ohio, E. C. Holland, Zanesville; Louisiana, George A. Curry, New Orleans; North Carolina, Thomas A. Wood, Asheville; Pennsylvania, Eastern district, Nathaniel T. Burrell, Philadelphia; Western district, James L. Dlekinson and Charles P. Robinson, Pittsburg; South Carolina, Samuel A. Dawkins, Spartaburg; Tennessee, W. Alonzo Locke, Memphis; Texas, James Roberts, Dallas; Utah, Thomas H Frame, Salt Lake City; Virginia, Sam'l D. Pannell, Hot Springs; West Virginia, Robt. H. Grant, Wheeling. CINCINNATI O CINCINNATI, O. The picnic given by the Uniform Bank, K. of P. June S. at Woodside Island Park was a grand success. The picnic to be given by the G U O. O F. promises to be one of the finest of the season. The date will be published later.—A drama "A Court of Famous Women" will be given during the week at Zion Baptist church and Edward Goodloe, 2nd tenor of the American Jubilee Singers will appear in the chorus. Henry Grandison, a favorite in musical chorios will direct it, and Walter Gosset is pianist—Miss Lulu Riley of Hamilton, O. was the guest of Miss E. Hamilton—Misses Alexine Crawford and Shirley Evans spent Sunday with friends at Ripley, O.—The Ecuador Club will give their picnic at Manhattan Park, June 29. The Freeman can be purchased every week at The Carbon Hill Pressing Club Carbon Hill Ala. THE LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD Corrected time card L. E. & W. R. R., in effect Sunday, Nov. 27. Ly. Arr. Toledo, Chi. & Mich. ex. 7:15 a.m. 10:25 p.m. Toledo, Det. & Chi. ltd. 12:20 p.m. 3:25 p.m. M. Cy. Mun & Lafty sp. 6:40 p.m. 9:45 p.m. Peru & Det. sp. sun, only 2:35 p.m. 10:30 p.m. B. HERTERMANN, District Passenger Agent, 28 S. Illinois St, Indianapolis, Ind. H. J. 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Reansoatie discount Yor long tie and ae wooed Bon wieteeess we Pe sabeetar a Bosak emai ft Todtasapate All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher. ———____ BATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1905, MORE MEDDLESOMENESS. At the quarterly convocation of the Uni- versity of Chicago one of the students who received a degree was Alexander B. Terrell, colored. The convocation chaplain was the Rev. Beverly E. Warner of New Orleans, and aft:r the graduating exercises had con- cluded he declared himself, in a speech delivered before the university faculty and members of the graduating class against the higher education of the Negro, “The site of a college granting a degree to a Negro is a surprise to me” he said. “There is no place, at least in the South, for the colored college graduate, and we do not admit them to our universities for whites."” He declared further thet the South would Join hands with any section of the country ina settlement of the Negro question, but he delared, “with the undrstanding that the idea of social equality be left outside from the beginning.” This statement of the reverend gentle- man from the Southland is given in its en- tirety so that its complete nonsense may be seen. When will all of those whom this befogged and lopsided preacher repre- sents learn that there is the same variety of taste, temperament and capacity in the Negro as in other races, and hence the necessity for different lines of preparation to fit some for their choice of ‘the world’s work? Does not this preacher know tha noone gets an education who does not need it? The getting of an education re- quires work even when acquired by the rich, and how much more true is it when acquired by these who must provide for their own sustenance at the same time? As a matter of fact what business Is it of this preacher if Mr. Terrell wants a college education and is willing ‘to pay the price? And what business has he to ask that those who constitute the faculty and student bedy of this university share his bias and hate? The least that can be said of it is that It is meddlesomeness of the most med- diesome kind. The persistance with which these people propagate thelr doctrines of hate surpasses devildom. They act on the theory that God has called them to see to it that all who wear dark skips be forever kept in abject servitude. But Time, the leveler of all, will force these to give place to those who are more tolerant and who are willing to admit that each and all are alike entitled to life, lberty and the pursuit at hiaretcons. ROWDYISYW The white tough has dgain become ac- tive. At Riverside Park, last Sunday even- ing, Edward Brown and Brutus McWilliams were compelled to choose between leaving the park, killing one or two hoodlums or engaging in a fight thatcould have had but one outcome owing to the number of these toughs whose only possible claim they can ailege to superiority is in the compl: xion of their cowardly skins. In spite of the fact that the conduct of these two men was faultless, had they chosen the latter course {tis highly probable that the morning pé- pers would have contained a glaring ac- count of a riot created by two “burley Negroes.” The editor of this paper ac- companied one of these men to mayor's office, where the case was laid before him, and the matter is up to him for treatment, The absence of such disgraceful occur- rences during the present clty administra- tion and their revival during our present mayorallty contest contains a breath of suspicion, but be that as it may, the pres- ent responsibility is with the city adminis- tration to suppress them at any cost and thus show that It deserves the credit that ‘has already been given. There is a beautiful theory-extant in this Gountry that the rights of the humblest oit- izen cannot be invaded without endanger- ing the rights of all. citizens, How is it that such outrages-excite only a passing notice? Only.a few short steps and Indian- THE FREEMAM, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. apolis, in America, will be to the colored man what Kishineff, in Russia, 1s to the Jew. THE DEFENSE LEAGUE. ‘Two instances of Southern preachers of prominence recently misrepresenting and maligning the race is before us. If we had a Defense League, such as The Freeman is endeavoring to organize, effective work could now be done. But We are nct ready for action, One hundred well written let- ters,fcoming from different parts of the country, would effect the opinions of these men in a way that nothing else could. There are one hundred times one hundred who are fully equipped for this important work, One hundred good letter writers ‘acting as one person; directing their men- tal energies on one point at atime; picking off onejGollath after another will accom- plish more for the race than is being done by any other one hundred workers. If you will study this matter thoroughly we believe you will agree with this statement. Is not this enough both to deserve and inspire your efforts? This is a case where a very little Investment will bring enormous re- turns, We are not calling to those who aro! already overworked, nor to the pollti- clan who is trying to work others, but to the thousands of mentally equipped men and women to be found in the rank and file of ourrace. Beoneofus. Weare pleased to recelve the following letter, and hope to recelve many more of a similar tone : Moorea, Miss., June 14, 1905. Editor of The Freeman, Dear Sir—I have read your repeated calis in the colurnns of your valuable paper, and have hesitated to have my name placed fon your roll, thinking that perhaps others more competent would soon swell the list to the desired one hundred, but | see you are still calling, and feeling that | might possibly be able to do something along that line, I take pleasure in asking that you let me in for I want to miss no opportuni y to do all the good I can to help in the great a Joun G. Hopson. A CORRECTION. We regret very much that the able artt- cle clipped from the Indianapolis Freeman did not bear the name of the gentleman who wrcte it. Mr. R. W. Thompson, the able correspondent of Indiana, 1s the author of the communication to which we refer. Our printer omitted the name of Mr. R. W. Thompson, leaving the public to believe that we wrote it, The article is an able one. Mr. Thompson has won his spurs long since as a newspaper correspondent, We would not be guilty of the effort to plagiarize and thereby appropriate the property of another to ourselves.—The Zion Methodist, Louisville, Ky. Mistakes will happen in the best regu- lated families and newspaper offices. Dr. Rives, the intel igent compositor, with the wisdom characteristic of his kind, probably regarded the thought as of inore importance than the {dentity of the thinker: The artl- cle by our Mr. Thompson, which the Zion Methodist reprinted, treated of the organic union being agitated amorg the Presbyte- rians and other white churches and poliited out the benefits that might accrue to the Negro as a self-governing factor under a leadership distinctively his own in church, school, business, politics and society. It has been quite favorably commented upon froma number of sources. ‘The St. Paul railroad has taken the firs step toward giving all of its employes one day out of seven in which to rest. In or. der to do this it will take off all trains no absolutely necessary as well as shutting down all shops and business places th work of which can be put off until the fol. lowing day. We do not belleve this wil result In any loss to the road, for it wil make the Isbor of its employes more eftt clent and productive as a result of this res day. All who do as much work as they should for six days of the week will neec and deserve one day for rest. Grover Cleveland recently gave expres sion to this wise statement: “The high pressure of speculation, the madness of inordinate business schemiag ‘and the chances taken In new and uncer. ‘tain enterprises, are constantly presen ‘temptations, too often successful in leading ‘managers and directors away from scrupu: lous loyaity and fidelity to the interests others confided to their care.’" The people could not put the'r feelings into fuch elegant form, but that is abou what they thought when Mr. Cleveland an¢ John G, Carlisle were selling those bond: to the Belmont syndicate. It Is reported that a searching investiga tion is to be made into all of the departments of the government to ascertain what, 1 any, unnecessary expense attends thei operations. When they get to the post office department it is to be hoped that the excessive” sums peld to the railroads, fo transporting the mails will not be over- looked. Do not make this investigation to resemble Debb's net. He once said that the meshes in the net’ of the law were so constructed that the minnows were caught while the whales slip through. Under the theory that an ounce of pre- vention is worth ot pound of cure the State Board of Health has ssued a pamphlet ‘which Is full of useful information, especial- ly at this time of the year. Besides seek- Ing-to prevent cholera in all its forms direc- tions in the same line are given concern- Ing diptherla, scarlet fever, ete. The cir- cular is sent free by asking for it. A olvil service examination will be held on July 12th for the position of assistant surgeon in the Freeman's Hospital, The place pays $1500 per annum. This fur- nishes an excellent opportunity for some one of our physicians, as a colored man will be chosen. Application should be made at once to your nearest clvil service secretary, Quite a number of Indiana's “best citi zens” are making an extended visit in the West. A largo per cent of them are bank; ers. They will spend all of their time while absent at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., as the guests of thelr Uncle Sam, They will return at different intervals, but we don’t care if they never come back. The war play, last week, about Fortress Monroe did not make very interesting read. ing for these days. It almost caused 2 ‘smile to read that “two ships were theoret- ically sunk." Port Arthur and the Sea ot Japan wll have to get much farther into the past before a report of these mimic battles become interesting. William Scott of this city is one of the Promising young artists of the time. He has been studying for some time in Chicago, |where he is making a reputation for him- self. He has won a scholarship and sev- eral honors in which there were severa competitors, he being the only colored one When he passes you on the street with out apparently knowing it—let him alone he's trying to think, When you fear t meet him because there is danger of yor not being able to “get loose'—overloo | that fault—he thinks he’s thinking. : ‘The speech of J. E. Bush delivered be- fore the Business Men’s League at Green- ville, Miss., was full of good points. It fvas an appeal to those who live on ‘the ground instead of those who spend fhelr time “‘up in the air.” { Madam Calve is to make an extensive tour in which she will sing folk songs in native costume. If her repertoire includes the songs of the Congo, and she dresses ac- ‘cordingly, large crowds will turn out to hear her. It is now being said that our navy is not going to have any more Japanese cooks. Just be patient and we will yet discover some way of claiming credit for that victory. Kuropatkin is again predicting a great vietory for the Russians, He did not say whether it was to be won in Manchura or Washington, It is quite probable that some who are reaching for a pen should be looking for a spade, but that is their business—not yours. ‘This {s the time of year when we envy those fellows who live in the Kiondik>, Blessed are the poor for they shall not be killed n automobile accidents, ‘The pen fs mightler than the tongue. “DEE-LIGHTED” TO SEE Lawyer James H. Hayes given a rest. Preparation for living that insures pre. aration for death. More Negro banks and more Negroes with bank accounts. Confederate reunions frowned upon by patriotic Americans, Equal public schoo! facilities everywhere for blacks and whites. Business Leagues organized in the North, East, South and West. Floridians rallying around the standard of J. Dougias Wetmore, Teachers and pupils spending their vaca- tion happily and profitably. Sanitary houses, available to colored tenants, erected in the cities. Negro exposition promoters be sure they are right before going ahead, Negroes giving hearty support to their professional and business men. Norway an honored member of the in- ternational family of republics. The “Better South” sending its Stages and other imbeciles to the rear. Our business men employing as many helpers as they can afford to pay. Birls accessible to every community. The promising Chicago Leader make its stay in the journalis fc field permanent. Indiana and Kentucky more strongly in evidence at the federal patronage trough. Five thousand Negro teachers and edu- ators at the Atlantic meeting next week. A sudden stoppage of the “yellowfperil”” nonsensé that the Japanese advance has superinduced, A forum for the discussion of public issues and the molding of sentiment thereon in every town. A second chance granted those who “missed it” at the first dash In the matri- monial handicap. More Caucasian journals as level-head- ed upon the race question as the Indlanap- olis Morning Star. A little more oll on the wheels of the ad- miristratign that control the dispensation of Negro patronage. Teachers and preachers constantly im- Pressing upon the young people that it is a disgrace not to work. Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback named as Minister to Hayt! if a change at Port-au- Prince ts decided upon. The white-winged messenger of peace hovering oftener over the turrets and towers of Freedmen’s Hospital. A broader spirit of co-operation between the advocates of the higher education and the forces of industrialism. Southern Negroes employed on the Pan- ama canal in the skilled construction work 4s well as at common labor. A more liberal form of government in Russia as a result of the awful chastise- ment administered by Japan. A chain of first-class theaters in the South in which Negro patrons may be allowed decent accommodations. The South taking the initiative once in a while In this ‘‘kiss-and-make-up" game that the North seems so fond of. The divorce between Norway and Swe den made effective without war or auy washing of dirty linen in public, Our people learn the lesson of “prepared. ness" that the tremendous victories of the Japanese so emphatically teach. Teachers fitted to the schools rather than schools adjusted primarily to supply places for so-called teachers to draw salaries. The establishment of an Independent Presbyterian church among the Negro ad- herents of the faith of Calvin and Knox. Andrew Carnegie endow a national Ne- gro journal to stand as a model of what a defender of oppressed humanity ought to be. Our religious publications’ more gener- ‘ously supported by the denominations whose welfare they are doing so much to promote. Colored teachers taking full advantage of the summer schools, institutes and other means of sel-improvement within thelr reach. Young married couples solve the parents- in-law problem by going into housekeeping for themselves, however humble the be- ginning. Correspondent Charles Stewart present his unique lecture on “Race Building” be- fore Washington's famous Bethel Literary next season. Colored men who helped to break the great Chicago strike given permanent em- ployment by the companies whose interests they protected. Organic union of the colored Methodist churches of America as a measure of stronger spiritual elevation and reduction of operating expenses, ‘The newest story of the struggles and trlumphs of earnest Negroes, ‘ Tuskegee and Its People,”’ in the library of every colored family in the land. The cold shoulder in readiness for the Negro with an eternal “tale of woe.” and the glad hand for him who endureth his trials cheerfully until patient industry dis- pels them. The number of churches Itmited to the necessities and means of the people in the smaller towns and a more adequate pres- sure brought to bear upon their material development The Zionites designate Dr. R. S, Rives as special agent, with episcopal powers, to take charge of the’church's African work until the next general conference can elect him to the bishopric. The South better learn the value of its ‘well-disciplined Negro labor by experiment. ing with the lazaroni of ‘italy, the specula- tive Jew and the dominating immigrant from Northern Europe. Negro theatrical performers give Sylves- ter Russell due credit for his conscientious [Let Me do Your GQooking. <a a ll 5 a Why worry, watch and tret over = hot Pp es | stove when you can put your imo a vegetables, custards—in short th, whole ii meal for the whole family into my ant Ceres ple shelves and cook it as food heim, Read am was or can be cooked in any other ct (casa | over ONE BURNER of stove, rang’ eae! 235, gasoline or oll stove? ci ee STE oR Ji 1 come in both round ee and square shapes... ft a J ry both kind have whis x tles. Price $2.00 ed My 82.60, $3, $4.50up! j Aw fa l) TW No watching; no basting; nothing over. Lee done nor underdone, | am the IDEAL COMBINATION STEAN a Cooker and Baker, Made of heavy tin or cooper, with ALL COPPER, seamless drawn tank: seam. less top. | No sharp corners on me to catch the clothing or hands or to rau grease and dirt. ‘I sow my wit ste 20 minutes befcre water needs replenis = ever go on a strike nor talk back, I cur tHe cost oF rust and work 408 save time and wear and tear on your temper and vocabulary. I hoid 12 sc quart cans in canning fruit. Write now for FREE BOOK, 48 pages. It telis you all about me. Gives full details; leers from people all over the land who would not do without me for ten times what | cece J. A, ROSS, Canadian Rep., Winnipeg, Manitoba TOLEDO COOKER COMPANY, BOX 42, TOLEDO, OHIo. Liberal Terms to County and State Agents, J fe eee him a few of the things Kentucky's loyal Negro Republicans want, Such able Negro educators and scholars as Kelly Miller, J. W. E. Bowen, LB. Moore, W. S. Scarborough, R. T. Greener, Sterling N. Brown, J. H. N. Waring and vobn S. Durham considered in connection with the presidency of Howard University. Negro field correspondents so substan- tally appreciated by our race papers that a rich crop of Walter Wellmans, William E. Curtises, Frank G. Carponters, Louis Lud- lows, O. O, Stealeys, “Saveyards and “‘Gaths" may be garnered from the present seedlings. DR. JAMES A. HERLIHY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY. During my senior year at college I became interested in original researoh, Among the many things I have exper!: mented on the subject of color plgment {s the most fascinating. Tnis led to the question of bleaching the shin of the Negro. Many solentific men have tried various methods such as xrays, radinm, electricity as well as various chemioals No blood of the Negro is chemtoally the same as that of the white man. The difference in color is due to a deposit of Pigment in the epidermis or true skin lying close beneath the outer skin. Texperimented with various chem!- cals until I found a combination that Positively bleaches the ekin ‘by acting on the celle of pigment. The prepara: tion was then registered in the Patent Offise at Washington before being put onthe market. No objection was raised against it at that time. Of all the bot- tles sold there has not been one objec: tion, only praise for the remedy. The Postal Department gave me to under- stand that there was no complaint filed. The department did not give me a fair hearing at all, I offered the depart- ment to make a practical test of my preparation elther in this city or in Washington in order to show that it does all that is claimed for tt I sub- mitted many testimonials which were reosived by me unsolicited. ‘Years of fair and honest dealing in this, my home olty, went for nothing. The verdict was given out to the news- papers before I was notified or had a chance to verify my claim by actual test. I refused an offer of $10,000 for the formula. I have eeveral offers from men with unlimited wealth to put {t on the market for me regardless of the vostcfive ban, The analysis of my formula published in the newspapers is not correct. If the government or any one else wants the real formula they an hava it for $25 000 Whether the post: file approves of it or not the colorless Negro te a reality, and the next five years will cee that it will bea common thing Becanse some one thinks it cannot be done will not prevent ite being done, Many things that were declared impossible in the beginning are now a part of our modern olvilization. The government may crush an individual, bat it cannot keep back progress. We have the seedless orange, the seedless apple and water- melon, the horeeless carriage, the horn- tees cattle, the wireless telegraph, why not the colorless Negro? ‘The oase will be referred to President Roosevelt, who declares that “every man should have a fair show.” PETERSBURG, VA. ‘Thomas (tarnes, one of the most high- ly respeoted citizens of this clty, died on Thursday at his residence on Perry street in bis elghty-third year of his age. The deceased was born near Clarksville, Meoklenbarg county, Va He came to this city about fifty years ago and has been continuously enguged a a con: tractor In bricklaying and plastering business. He was twice married and leaves four grand children. His wives and children preceded him to the grave. QVOMEN TO HAVE A Diy THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN JULY Will doubtless be the greatest day among Negro Christian women since the world began. ‘The Woman's Auxiliary to the National Baptis, Convention has selected that Sunday as“ Woman's Day’ and the Seeretary issending to all Women’s Missionary and Educational Societies, a beaut fully iustrated, and interesting pro gram. A FREE TRIP TO citIcAGo is offered the woman Who reports $75.00 on or before August. Let. the women of this State get, in line, PROGRAMS FREE. ORDER TO-DAY MISS N. H. BURROUGHS, Srcr'y 726 W. Walnut St., Louisville, Ky ILYou are Going to Louisville, ky. | You want to go in Good Com- pany and eat Clean, Well Pre- | pared Meals at Popular Prices | Woman's Industrial Club | mesw.wanxursn, noun e128 ’ ‘The best place in the City for sach Accommodation. If you have several hours to wait to make train connection go to the | Club, Women and Girls may | spend the day there without | any cost. ‘The Club ts not a “hang ouv” or “loafing place” thts a Home for Respectable | Women and Girls and a Board- ing place for Gentlemen, All Depot Cars pass the door, NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, President. —The Freeman can be had every Satur- day at 108 South avenue from E. 0. Mabry.—Charles Green was drowned on Monday while bathing in the Apo mattox river. The unfortunate man resided on Cross street.—Cornelins Har ris, @ well known and respected gentle: ‘man, dled Monday evening at his rei dence on E. Muroury street after an il: ness of several months, He levee & | wife and three brothers. —Mr. Emauul Bragg of Louisiana is in the city vist: Jing relatives and frlends. This 1s the first visit of Mr Brag to the old Vook- ade olty in forty years.—Misees lis Lanra and Mary Beil lett on Monday. avoompanied by Mrs Kate Jackson, for New York, where they will spend the summer.—Miss Matiids Coleman lett last Saturday for New Yori City. She will reside with her sistor, Mrs Char- lotte Brown, while there —Mr. David Relleigh of Richmond. Va , was in the elty on Wednesday —Don't fornet the Odd Fellows’ trolley excursion to Kich- mond. Va , Jane 26.—Lee Freeman bes been a Ilttie tndisposed —James Taylor, Who has been confined to hls bed. is sble to be about again.—Mre Clarence Wat- ‘klns left on Felday for Virginia Beaod. where she will spend the sammer. WANTED. MEN AND WOMEN tn this and adjoining counties for home or traveling wors, re? resenting and advertising the Whole: and Educational Departments of an old ¢ tablished Manufacturing House. Salary $3.50 per day with expenses advance’. Rig furnished when necessary; positon permanent. Address B'ew Brother: & 02+ Dept. H., Chicago, Ill. COLORED PEOPLE WANTED. We furnish good positions everywhere, such as Butlers, Porters, Coachman, Jani tors, Housemen, Watchmen, Waiters, Se vants, Cooks, Rallroad and Factory wort Write us.* 5 TIFFANY & SCHWAB. Employment Brokers, Indianapolls, !n’. + Every Lady Read This. Xearsago when 1 was. saterst, ss od nurse told me of a wonderful care for "00" Thea Displacement. Palnfat Peri s.('ri3e tnd Ovarian troubles “Tt cured mx» cot month, It is a simple haraless 10" ‘st can be prepared by any one having te teci0e Twill soudie Free to every suttering 1° =: Tercsat ‘wogua Neiptng worsts. 1204 Broo, Address, Mra, A. B."Hadnia:, °02 os Ae The St Miss Laura S. Logan writes from Macon, that she is making good at every performance. She sends, regards to all friends. Her address is Hotel Compart, 7 Poplar Street, Macon, Ga. Notes from Payton & Harris.—We are performing good success on the Bigow Amusement Circuit. At Oskosh, Wis., June 26. From circuit to follow, opening July 8 at subway, Mich., Unique Theatre. Best regards to friends and knockers also. The Two Jolly Prices have closed at amigee Park, Macon, Ga., after a successful run of four weeks. They are now in the road with moving pictures and illusor songs, and will fill a two weeks engagement at Atlanta. They send regards all friends and to C, E. Hawk, write 154 minutes avenue, or we will think that you may down there in Florida. Notes from P. G. Lowery's Musical Entrance.—We are now among the Great Saxes and enjoying the cool breeze. L. Warren and J. Edward Hunn have closed it us. The former to join the Olio Quar and the latter to take a position at St. John's home. The Crosbys best wishes to William Hallback, Sam Lucas of Ullie Garry, Carson and Elliott send wishes to the K. P. Band and lee wishes to the K. P. Band and Daisy Lee are successful singing, "Won't You Fondle P and "My Honey Lou" respectively. We band is good as usual. Miss from Macon, Ga.—The Osmulgee has made a change in the management. E. C. Price is with us no longer. Mark Sims has been made manager, for Marks left Wednesday of last week forarta to the regret of their many admirers. A reception was given them just before they left. Mr. Sims comes highlycommended. The park is in full bloom have a first-class show. McNeil & Bell are cleaning up. Albert Freeman two and three encores nightly; Miss Gerris Ferris, the coon song shouter is well. Miss Laura Logan, coon shouted sweet soprano soubret, late of Hot-Ocun in Dixie Company to us,暑8, and sends regards to all friends. McNeil & McNeil send regards to the performers at Lincoln Park, New Orleans, and friends. The Ame Band is furnishing and concert every Sunday afternoon un- their leader, Charles J. Crenshaw. Joseph McMurray, of Lincoln Park Audium, New Orleans writes:—The park ding a big business every night. The performance given Sunday June 4, was appreciable. Lew Kenner, our comedian doing fine singing, "Certainly Am Singing" and "Dat Aln't Nothing But Talk" couple Pierle, the minstrel man is making good singing, "The Preacher and the Devil," William Cherl is successful with the band, "Mississippi Mamle," John Lewis, the great southern tenor, is doing singing, "Good-bye Little Girl" and THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE. ROUTE. Foot Foot-Greenville, N. C, June Kenton, N. New Berne, 27; Wilmington, Bettlett, 29; Bennettsville, 30; Dart- gorm, July. 1. Jeans Minstrels—Montgomery, W. June 26; Hinton, 27; Ronsenert, 28. Brown & Minter—Academy of Music, Hali- lona, Nova Scotia, June 26 to July 1. Brown and Brown (Singer and Cartoonist-- Benton Park, Ottawa, Canada, week of June 26). George H. Proctor's Original Arkansas Min- nesis Chippewa Falls, Wis., June 26 to July 1. Lowery & Co., write the Wallace Circus Shever Dam, Wis., June 26; Portage, 27; Wintertown, 26; Rockford, Ill., 29; Galena. Mendota, July 1. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "Blue Bells." Joseph McMurray is singing by request, "I May Be Crazy But I Ain't No Fool." The manager is very much pleased. The concert music rendered by Prof. Morett's band is meeting with great success. John and Rhoda McNell have joined a show at Atlanta. We wish them success. John E. Lewis says, hello to King & Bush. George Baquie sends regards to Roscoe & Holland Minstrels and Frank Clermont. Lincoln Park Stock Company sends regards to The Freeman. We have one of the best equipped parks for colored people, in the south. Lew Kenner says, hello to Sol Tibbs and regards to Allen's N. O. Minstrels. CHICAGO NOTES. I again see that "the think he knows it all" critic, of New York City, has shown himself to be an idiot, and a fit subject for any lunatic asylum. I am surprised to know a man of his supreme intelligence, would allow himself to be criticised by the public, as being non competes mentes, owing to the reply he made sometime ago, and his recent attack on a Chicago gentleman. Some one has has swelled your head by telling you, that you were Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the Second but you will have many miles and many years to travel before you can equal him in ability. You are not hardly known in your own city. If you were to come to Chicago you would be arrested for a vagabond. If you could be bought for what you think you are worth, and sold for what the public estimates you at, you would land in the home of the friendless. You had better do as the ground-hog, crawl in your hole, and lie down for you are having a pipe dream. Take another bill it will do you good. Next! --- The Pekin is still doing the business and last week the patrons were entertained to the treat of the season by the Female Minstrel Company. Every act was above the average. Every evening the Pekin Band gives an open air concert. George Henry is the hit of the bill. --- Charles Small and wife, Billy Kersands, Prof. Lacey and Mrs. J. L. Love send their regards to all friends. As Williams & Walker, Smart Set Company and the Trip to Africa Company have left such a wonderful impression upon the public, we anticipate a bright future for the Negro professionals. To see our old friend Sam Lucas upon our streets, looking so well, full of mirth and wit, stepping so light and graceful, makes one think he is growing younger. My kind regards to Williams & Stevens, Prof. and Mrs. Henderson Smith, and other professional friends. P, B. R. HENDRIX. STAGE NOTES AND GOSSIP. STAGE NOTES AND GOSSIP. Dorothy Dix has kindly omitted the word "nigger" in one or two of her last Negro dialect stories. Its nice to see intelligent people be good. We will wait though and see if she really means it. Miss Dix's stories are entertaining only to an ignorant element of people, a class who need teaching. Her narratives are never really comical. Her stories are simply a white woman's instinct written in Negro dialect, a cross between college arithmetic and Greek spelling. "Love in a cottage without ever thinking about twins" could just as well have been "Love in a log-cabin with a longing for children" as not, and a little more real. --- Wait for the Funny Folks. How is baby Loraine? Marsh Craig will please keep us posted about his famous Chicago child's health during the warm --- It's now about time for the theatrical men who reply to my sentiments to take a tumble. They would if they had sense enough to know that everybody laughs at them. The sheep are quietly separating from the goats. --- I am in receipt of "The Ogden Party" March and Two-Step, composed by Mr. Elibert Williams, formerly band-master of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and dedicated to Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, president of the board of southern education. Mr. Williams is quite a musician. The march is published by the Pioneer Music Company, 315 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. Popular music publishers must bear in mind that poor singers will soon protest, if they do not keep their latest popular song out of the phonographs until they (singers) can learn them and sing them six months or more in advance. "Oh, we heard that on a graphophone" is the common expression of cheap people. A comedy star's song is restricted for a year. If poor singers can't have theirs restricted from the graphophones six months, it is best for them to sing the songs of unknown publishe s. --- Black Pattit's Troubadours gave a good account of themselves at Philadelphia and Atlantic City last month. Sissierla Jones was very highly complimented for her excellent singing. It has been stated by a reporter at the seashore, that during her travels in Europe she was actually commanded to sing for royalty at the request of the Prince of Wales, now His Majesty, King Edward of England. Now we have it that Lizzie Borden, who figured in the Fall R for murder mystery, is to write a play for Nance O'Neill. Managers would have a nerve to accept a play from this woman after withdrawing great plays by Oscar Wilde. It does seem to me that purity ought to be the aim of managers instead of taking liberties with public opinion, expecting big pay for tainted toll adverse to respectability, Tom Carter has my sympathy because of his ignorance. I do not say this to make him look small. I say it because he had the weakness to reply to my stage matter. The phrase "written ignorance" means any performer who replies to my sentiments is simply a laughing stock for The Freeman readers. Mr. Carter did not know who I was when he met me in a restaurant in Boston two winters ago. It was amusing to me when he announced to us guests that he was "Tom Carter." If he had the instinct of a white actor or even of Cole or Hogan, the colored actors, he would have understood that it was a good advertisement for an unknown actor in the show business. I ascribe this to my students of the next generation. Hurtig and Seamon gave us all a mild surprise when the newspapers announced that the famous managers of Williams & Walker were to manage Nan Patterson. In reviewing the Hannah Eitas case I wrote as follows: "Murderesses and notorious women are no longer drawing-cards on the American stage etc." Like the prophet isiah, I will not be here when any prediction is repeated in the next century. --- Managers, like many other business men do not always take stock in everything they read by writers who are just as well satisfied as if they didn't see it at all. Others see it and somebody or other pays for it. From the Royal Comedians to a pitiful female jail bird is quite a contrast of management. We have hardly seen the like of it before. King Edward may have to cable his condolence. Many people do not seem to understand that Nan Patterson's case was far worse than that of Florence Burns and while people did not want her electrocuted they did not care to ever hear of her in public life again. If I had been the judge, she would have been one of a trio who would be serving ten years. While hers is a life of pity and sorrow, thanks to the superior eloquence of David Belasco, American justice with its cursed display of newspaper advertisements, is a common vaudeville show that bids fair to ruin the moral standing of the nation. It is sweet to say regardless of managers, we need no Patterson shows. THE GOOD SAMARITANS. Kentucky Grand Council to Meet at Bowling Green—Mrs. Washington a Model Grand Secretary. Louisville, Ky., Special.—A gathering of more than ordinary importance in promoting the fraternity spirit among the people of Kentucky is the twenty-fifth annual session of the Grand Council of the Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, which convenes at Bowling Green June 25. The body is strong, both as to members and influence, the membership embracing much of the best brain and talent of which the race can boast. Prominent among those who will shape the legislation at this meeting are such active and accomplished men and women as Rev. J. E. Wood, S. E. Smith, C. C. Vaughn, S. M. Watts, J. K. Allen-sworth and W. H. Waggard, Mesdames M. J. Mayo, C. R. Brent, Annie B. Boyd, Mary E. S. Washington, Phrosne Clement, E. A. Jackson, Gabriella Bell and others. The Order of Good Samaritans is one of Louisville's finest and most prosperous fraternal organization and for years its benefits have been distributed among us with a prodigal hand, for which the whole community is duly grateful. With full respect to the h lpul labors of the many it is not too much to say that the splendid condition of the order in this city is due in the largest measure to the painstaking care and uniting efforts of the Grand Secretary, Mrs. Mary E. S. Washington. Early and late, at the sacrifice of time, energy and personal comfort Mrs. Washington has given the best that is in her toward the ub-building and maintenance of her beloved order. That her loyal service is regarded as of especial value and that she enjoys the utmost confidence of her co-workers was convincingly proven by the grand testimonial given her last fall at the Green Street Christian church where the flower of Louisville's social and business life turned out en masse to express its heartfelt appreciation. In discharging the exacting duties of grand secretary Mrs. Washington has shown executive ability of the highest order and a proficiency for handling large affairs that deserve the most liberal rewards within the gift of the organization. Unquestionably, for the good of the order she should be reelected. She has no equal in the art of "doing things as well as getting things done" and her influence is not only all powerful in generating enthusiasm inside the ranks of Samaritanism but in increasing its prestige as one of the most potent material and spiritual agencies of the race. Her reports are models of neatness and accuracy. Her knowledge of the work and grasp of its vast possibilities are made manifest to all who come in contact with her. She is, without doubt, the best informed woman in the entire order. Through Mrs. Washington's intelligently directed efforts the last annual Thanksgiving service of the Samaritans was the most elaborate and successful that has been known in the history of the order under the thorough going plans devised by her. Only one order in this great city raised more money and had a larger turnout than the Samaritans. Because of such rare devotion to the work assigned to her, richness in resource in the most trying emergencies and the exquisite charms of a magnetic personality Mrs. Mary E. S. Washington has won a warm place in the hearts of the entire body of Good Samaritans and herre-election is urged everywhere, not only for the good of Louisville but for the advancement of Samaritanism all over the Commonwealth of Kentucky. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Negro's exercising the power of citizenship or office holding in the patriotic sense will find themselves confounded by this lofty concept of the civic duty of all mankind, regardless of color or creed: "Love work," says the Hebrew sage, "hate dominion, and do not mix too much with the government." Don't mix too much with the government! In this last injunction of the seer there is no disparagement of the sancitations of citizenship but rather a condemnation of corrupt citizenship which seits its birthright for money and estimates its public service by its gains. He would have us possess higher and broader conceptions of national honor and civic duty. If we serve the state for the state's sake citizenship becomes a holy and unsuilled trust, but he warms us less, patriotism degenerating in politics, citizenship ceases to be a prerogative and becomes a profession And what a profession is politic! Every honest man who runs for office is a candidate for trouble The fruits of political victory turn to ashes on his lips There is nothing in the world so pathetic as a candidate. He is a walking petition and living a prayer, and if he reaches the goal of his ambition he is never safe from the silings of unjust criticism and the slimy kiss of hypocrisy, the keen dagger of ingratiude "Do not mix too much with government, meaning to say in the race of life 'give your best.' Don't seek for 'snaps' or try to fill a position that any other man can fill as well as you. It is better to be a first class man than a fourth class postmaster.'" In giving to the world such a masterly sermon Rabbi Messing has most assuredly rendered a distinct and lasting service to his day and generation. Register Judson W. Lyons, one of the race's best informed men, goes on record in a recent interview as favoring "mixed" faculties—of black and white professors—for colleges in which Negroes are to be instructed, and cites the unqualified success of President W. H. Crogman, of Clark University, as an evidence that an institution of the highest type can be conducted by Negroes and whites in sympathetic cooperation. He thinks the association of colored instructors with able white instructors satisfies the former that they have the ability to cope with the most competent, and are thus inspired with a greater degree of confidence in themselves. He finds that the earnest discussion of the relative benefits of the higher and industrial education has proven helpful to both systems as during the year just closed the schools of both types have enjoyed the largest patronage and turned out more graduates than during any corresponding period since emancipation. He takes no stock in the oft-repeated theory that the higher education unifi's Negroes for the duties of life. The best educated men reader the best service wherever placed. He finds the black boys deriving splendid incomes from the training received at the industrial schools "Nearly all of the mechanical work of the South," said Mr. Lyons, "is now done by cored men, especially in my state of Georgia. It is a common sight there to see four and five story brick buildings going up with two-thirds of the masons employed on the building colored men, and the foreman directing them also a colored man. Colored architects and contractors are frequently awarded contracts for designing and erecting the largest kinds of structures." Speaking of Negroes and the production of cotton Mr. Lyons observed: "Colored farmers make the bulk of the cotton crop and it is a singular fact that the size of the cotton crop, until the last year or two, has grown space with the population of the colored race in this country. At the close of the civil war we were about 4 000,000. The production of cotton was then 4 000,000 bales. The colored population now is about 10,000,000. The production of cotton has increased to 13 000,000 bales, but I believe the 3,000,000 about represents the cotton that is made by others than colored laborers. The census bureau says the colored folks make on their own farms—farms owned or rented by them—over two-fifths of the entire cotton crop of the country." On the subject of disfranchisement Mr. Lyons was quite optimistic. He believes the worth of the Negro will be eventually appreciated, this grandfather clauses will be repealed and the franchise restored to useful and worthy colored citizens. Wanted for the New Orleans Minstrels A. G. ALLEN & GEO. W. QUINE, Owners A good rough knock-about Team; also some good End Men and Comedians. Can always make room for good Musicians. Address as per route. GEO W QUINE Manager. F. S. The show will visit your city this season if you live in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Maryland, Georgia. After July 17th for good Road Show. Would like to hear from managers of first class companies. Address, care THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED! WANTED!! WANTED!!! Colored performers male and female; those that double band and orchestra given preference. State all you do and lowest salary first letter. Will not send tickets to strangers. B. ESLEY, Lansing, Mich. Gus Goines write. 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Chappell, the West End merchant, is one of the truest race men in the South and a very successful business man. Dr. Boyd is a gentleman of ability that claims recognition among his white brethren. Dr. Lykes, of the A. M. E. church, is the best combination of property and prayer I ever saw. Dr. Maloy, the talented divine, makes room for one lecture at his church Tuesday night. There are other men and things of which I shall speak later. I stop here through respect to space, but I wish to say that Greenville, S. C., is a good place to send your pessimists. Sterling College, of this place, and Prof. Gazaway's great work at Anderson come in for mention next week. WANDERBEE. H. & H. 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Send for catalogue. 210 Chicago Opera House, Chicago, ill. F. M. BUTEN, Manager, AND 124 W. 36th Sreet, New York I MONTT Young Colored Men WANTED o study Cartoon and Comic Art Encourage 20 stamp for particulars to G.T.Haywood, care The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. IS THE GREATEST THEATRICAL SHOW PAPER IN THE WORLD. $4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts. ISSUED WEEKLY. SAMPLE COPY FREE. FRANK QUEEN PUB. CO. (L1M). ALBERT J. BORIE. PUBLISHERS. MANAGER. 47 W. 25TH ST., NEW YORK. MINEOLA, TEX. There are quite a number of marri ringers—Mrs. Salite Gunter died June 16.—Sandy Curtis was ill last week. Subscribe for The Freeman now. The STAGE Easley, Moody & James will fill a two weeks' engagement at a Pittsburg park, commencing June 22. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Blackwell, of Vicksburg, Miss, are the guest of Miss Pearl Robertson, in Wabash avenue, Calcago, Ill. Harry and Laura Gillam have just finished a most successful engagement of twelve weeks in the leading houses of the west, and are at home taking a much needed rest. Andersan & Gotnes are booked solid for twelve weeks on the Gorman Circuit of Parks, commencing June 19 at Merrymeeting Park, Brunswick, Me. They send regards to Kemp Comedy Four and Brown Brothers. Notes from P. G. Lowery's Musical Enterprise. —Everybody is well. John Carson made a trip to Flint, Mich., in Are you fond of your face? If so, use Williams' Shaving Soap. Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The J. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. DRINK WIEDEMANN'S. Fine Bottled BEERS JACOB METZGER CO., Wholesale Dealers WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By ```markdown ``` THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the interest of The Freeman. The show is still making good; each member make a hit as usual. Harry Crosby met friends and relatives in Detroit. Miss Sallie and Daisy Lee entertained their father from Columbus, O. The entire company sends best wishes to all friends in and out of the profession. Prof. Curry and Major W. Daniels were in Washington, D. C. June 10 and 11, afterward filling engagements in Virginia and Ohio. They will fill a second engagement at Rionmond, Ind. Prof. Daniels will start with the American Jubilee Slugers, for a two weeks' engagement commencing July 13 at Des Moines, Ia. Notes from Terry's U. T. C. Concert Company.—Miss Emma Russell sends regards to Pearl Moppins and says write. The Burtons send regards to F. L. Hunter. Miss Nettle Barnet sends regards to Mr. Masengal and wife. Charles Mimms, the tenor singer joined us at Downs, Kans, and is quite an addition to the company. Joe Galloway is making good singing "Me and the Minstrel Band." The company sends regards to The Freeman. Notes from the Rabbit's Foot Comedy Company.—We are touring the country playing to packed houses every night. Thomas Briggs is making a hit singing "I've Seen Everybody But the President" one of his own compositions, set to music by our cornet player, John Anderson. A. B. Dudley sends regards to George Jones and Amos Gilliards. Our base ball team is still winning. Mr. Chappelle, manager of the team has spared no pains one of the best colored professional teams on the road. Logan Little, John, our left fielder keeps the grand stand roaring. Gold Dust, 2nd. base sends regards to George Jones. Notes from Mahara's Minstrels.—During our stay in Winnipeg, we were entertained at the palatial home of Dick Weston. We met our old friend Dirk Thomas, who is looking fine and yet dealing in precious stones. Our skil list has been quite large since coming south, but all are convalescent now. Allie Brown, John Hill and William Lee joined us at Sloux Falls, S. D. The Mahara Base Ball team are doing some fine work, having lost only one game this season. Badsock Ali, the Arabian catcher is a marvel. Business continues good in spite of the hot weather. Mrs. Mahara, wife of our genial manager is again with the company. Arthur Moss of Menneapolis joined recently. Regards to all friends. Notes from Al. E. Holman's Band and Serenaders, with J. T. McCaddon's Shows.—We are now touring France and Prof. Walter Brister's Band is still the hit. In Paris, the Spellman family especially Little Edna are going big at each performance. Frank F. Morton, our bass drummer has rejoined us having been ill for ten days in the hospital at Fournires, France. Princess Sotanki the Hindoo magician and snake charmer, a side-show feature is doing fine. Mamie Holman and T. Peterson are suffering from sprained ankles sustained while dancing, but they are able to work. The entire company sends regards to friends. Address at our foreign headquarters, 388 Rue St. Honore in care of J. T. McCaddon's Co., Paris France. Notes from the Barkout Carnival Company, Robert G. White, Mgr. — We made a flying trip to Washington, D.C. and got two good girls, Mamie and Martha Green, the greatest buck dancing female team on the road. They are making good everywhere. Gertrude McDaniel is in Cumberland, Md. on a vacation. The company has had great patronage all the season. Albert Smith comedian and tumbler is cleaning up. Will Walls joined us from Nashville, Tenn. Mance McDaniel is bringing the house down singing, "Gone, Gone, Gone." Alex. Wren is still making good. Robert White sends regards to Billy Calliox. A. Brooks, McMurray, Luca Logan, and the whole bunch at New Orleans, La. Alex. Wren sends best regards to McMurray. Direct all letters in care of the Freeman. Billy Arnte writes from Millioan Plantation Company:—We have one more week in Kentucky and then we will play the state of Indiana. W. L. McMillen, Tom Simpson and little Mose Harris joined us at Nashville, Tenn. We have the best plantation show on the road. Miss Grace Jones of Pat Chappel's Rabbit Foot Company and Andrew Smith, better known as "Speedy" are killing them with those sketches. Billy Arnte is doing well with his monologue. The company sends regards to all friends and says to Mance McDaniel they wish you could see the show now. Miss Effie Cunningham is taking them off their feet singing, "You Can't Fool All the People All the Time." Willie Moore, our side trombone player is still holding the crowd. Will Jackson is making a great success playing "Aunt Dinah." Berry Burton is still holding his own. Billy Arnte wishes to hear from "Kid" Wade and Charles Fleming. E1. Simpson, the monologuist written from Cripple Creek, Colo. - I just closed forty-two successful weeks on the Golden West Amusement, Julian Young and Novelty Circuits, and I am now resting up here in the mountains, doing nothing but fishing every day and having a good time. I expect to make connections with the Georgia Minstrels soon. The McCarvers were at the Palm Theatre the week of June 5 Billy Miller is in Denver, all broken down with consumption. This little town can boast of three colored clubs and they all do a thriving business: Jim Troutman and Lynwood Troutman are the proprietors of the Independent Social Club and it is a professional headquarters. The boys here are showing me a good time, and not only me but all performers that come here. I have been showing the boys The Freeman and they are very enthusiastic over it. I think they will establish an agency. John Vaughner, Harry Bradford and Mamie Robinson, why don't you write? Regards to all friends. I hope to be in Chicago soon. Napoleon Johnson sends the following from Richards & Pringle's Georgia Minstrels:—We did a banner business at Montreal at each performance. Our stage manager and star, Clarence Powell well deserves all the praise for the great hit he is making. Two of his greatest sayings, that please the public so well are, "When I get started I won't know you from anybody else," and "Please srl, give me my money." Kirk & Cooper, as the photographer and tramp are still adding new laurels to their crown of success. The diamond syndicate has started again and Harry Fidler and Clarence Powell are the first lucky ones to flash them. To best judge the quality of them, allow me to say it took in the three figure mark to purchase them. Clarence Johnson, of Hoopston fame is still closing the ollo with much credit. A. G. Jones, cornetist sends regards to John Hopkins, the Wheatly Sisters and says, "Goff Kennedy and Prof. Dorsey, why don't you write, are stamps scarce in Florida?" Happy Beaungard wishes to be remembered by Ollie and Tillie Shelton. He met Fred Gray in Toronto Walter Taylor and Simon Moore in Montreal. All are doing well. The concert band, under the direction of William Blue and the orchestra under Ralph Nicholas are doing fine and we are still voted the best ever. Notes from A. G. Allen's New Orleans Minstrels, George W. Quine, Manager.—The good people in the land of Dixie continue to pack the tent once in awhile at Birmingham, Bessemer, Pratt City, Easly, Anniston, Attalla, Chattanooga and Knoxville to standing room and turn away business Charles Rue, our handsome middleman and Miss Ella Harris, a pretty young lady of Birmingham, Ala. were married June 1. Perry Black receives from three to four encores every night singing and dancing. Jimmy Wise gets encore after encore. The Watts, Billy and Landonia keep them laughing for the whole twelve minutes. C. W. Smith is hitting them hard singing, "Shame On You;" Lew Jones is doing well singing, "I May Be Crazy, But I Ain't No Fool." Williams, the frogman and Bill Winn in his fire act are doing nicely. Bill Nunan is singing "Dalsy" successfully. E. J. Looney and Henry McCannon, our popular band master played Knoxville, their home two nights, while the show played one to turn away business. Sol Gibbs, the stage manager is arranging a new electrical flast part, entitled "Luna Park." Jim Wise is painting the scenery. Butler Webster closed at Anniston and has gone to Mineola, Tex. to open a plumbing shop. The Lynchburg Organizer of recent date pays the eminent tragedienne, Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the following handsome tribute: "Lynchburg had an opportunity last week to listen to Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis at her very best. Her company consisted of three persons. Indeed, she has three separate and distinct entertainments in one. 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Mrs MARSH this seeming mystery was a realization. that has received no little attentive comment. I am not sure how the prose conclusively that although the other cases, the cases in the mists with "olly tongues cause, the cases in the mists with "not bee cause to the entire profession. deal of study to become a complained MARTH and by a continual milestone effort, and by a continual milestone effort. We will help a unfamiliar MARTH's mysteries have best fit for MRS. M. B. MARTH for the bene- fit of letter advice $1.00. Hour min. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All letters must con- tain theamps for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH Removed CHIOKASHA, Indian Territory, Box 958. The Freeman will be on sale at Jim saw's Pool room and Cigar store, 105 10th street, Omaha, Neb. The Freeman can be secured each each from Mr. M. D. Ferguson at the Digital Pharmacy, 929 Kansas avenue, Kansas, Kas. Little Rock, Ark., own $1 600,000 in real and personal property. In this connection I am pleased to state that Little Rock does not stand alone in this respect, there are others and I hope that this city is among the number. With the same ratio of increase in getting farms within 120 years the Negroes will own and operate every farm in the southern states. This is no wild speculation but a cold mathematical fact, receiving its answer from a careful examination of what has already been done. The Negro business man is yet a youth and every phase of his future can only be considered problematically. It is true, however, that we have many scattered orders. Henry Leon Smith of Lockport, N. Y., is the only colored licensed pharmacist in the state of New York. Several young colored men are employed as motormen by the street railway company in Cleveland, O. Wright M. Campbell, youngest son of the late George W. Campbell, succeeds his father as a member of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Campbell is one of Tuskegee's most honored citizens, and he is as deeply interested in the advancement of the Negro as his big-hearted father was. George Kelly was the only person who reported to take the Civil Service examination for the position of tariff expert, which pays $3,100. ADDRESS OF J. E. BUSH SPEECH DELIVERED TO BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE AT GREENVILLE, MISS., JUNE 14 Statistics Show Rapid Growth-The Business Man is the Foundation on Which the Well-being of a Country Must Depend. Mr. president, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I deem this an interesting occasion and an honor to have been invited to address you. The assembling of delegates and visitors to the Negro Business Mens' League here is a compliment that this city should be proud of. The history of this organization in your state is yet unknown, but its splendid membership should be a full guarantee of its future good to all the people of your state. It derived its name from a similar organization of national reputation and if the child shall be likened unto its father you have need to reboice. Of all organizations, secret or otherwise, none has had such stimulating effect with greater or actual results than the National Negro Business Mens' League, of which Booker T. Washington is president, and I take it for granted that this organization, the Negro Business Mens' League, of Mississippi, will follow in the path already marked out by its sire. If this shall be done we will say: "Well done then good and faithful servant of a most grateful people." As business men your motto should be "industry." It is the brightest beacon-light of mankind; it should be the foundation rock of each individual member of your organization. The All-wise Being has seen proper to create no two persons exactly alike, no two leaves in the forest similar in all their parts, no two things in nature the precise counterpart of the other, as our physical forms are different so are our mental attributes, personal character, ambition and business tact. Every man or woman that may start in business will not succeed just like his brother, but if you are imbued with the true spirit of industry, morality and fair dealing your success is assured, if not you might as well write your prospects of success upon the running waters. Forget not this rule: "Take care of the moments and the hours will take care of themselves." Multiply and save your dimes and your dollars are made. Remember this above all: "To thine own self be true and it will follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." We have much to be proud of as ex-slaves and their descendants, and much more should we rejoice as being American citizens. As ex-slaves we were honest, trustworthy and hard workers—our chief aim being to please our owners and give general satisfaction at whatever our hands found to do. No claim of false pride or betrayal of trust was ever charged to our account, but we were always delighted when the sun shone the brightest, and when peace and contentment reigned supreme around the capital of our old plantation home. Our owner's sorrows were our sorrows, when they wept we wept with them and their happiness was our greatest joy. As citizens we should practice both by precept and example the same principle now. We have made rapid strides as home-getters and money-savers since our emancipation, and we have also greatly reduced our illiteracy. As home getters we have startled the world and excited most favorable comment from the unbiased thinker and writer of today. Ex Mayor Seth Low, of New York City, Ex Mayor W. M. Drennan, of Birmingham, Ala., and A. J. Wilborn, of Tuskegee have been chosen as members of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute to fill vacancies. There are twenty colored compositors at the Government Printing Office in Washington, all of whom learned their trade in Negro printing offices. The school enumeration of colored school children in Indiana for 1905 gives 15,563 against 15,408 in 1904, an increase of 54. Out of the seven mail-carriers, at Muskegoe, I. T., six are colored. The oe substitute is also colored. HON J E BUSH. 115,969, operated by Negroes, 18,096 per cent. 50 1; Texas, whole number, 352,190, operated by Negroes, 65,462 per cent. 18 5; Arkansas, whole number, 178,966, operated by Negroes, 46,978 per cent. 26.3. Thus, it is seen that in these ten southern states the per cent of Negro farmers and farms in 1900 was 37 per cent. of the whole and that in three of them the Negro farmers actually constituted more than one-half of them. In these ten southern states the total farm values are $716 000,000, and the Negro farm values are $413 000,000. In other words the value of the Negro farm products in these ten states is about 15 per cent. with Texas eliminated about 20 per cent. The total farm products are $895 000,000 the Negro farm products, $206 000,000, here the proportion of the Negro farm products is about 25 per cent. with Texas eliminated nearly 30 per cent. In considering these figures you should bear in mind that at the close of the war, about forty years ago, the Negro just started out as wage-earners. They had no land or experience as farm owners or tenants and that none of them became farm owners by inheritance or inherited the money to purchase farms but that they have come in possession of this vast amount of wealth by industry, economy and hard work. The figures here given apply only to farms but it goes without saying that his personal and reality values in the town and cities are even more startling. In the city of Little Rock, Ark., he pays taxes on $1,000,000 worth of real and personal property and when you are told that all pr perty in Arkansas is assessed at 60 per cent: of its real value you will then see that the Negroes of Little Rock, Ark., own $1 600,000 in real and personal property. In this connection I am pleased to state that Little Rock does not stand alone in this respect, there are others and I hope that this city is among the number. With the same ratio of increase in getting farms within 120 years the Negroes will own and operate every farm in the southern states. This is no wild speculation but a cold mathematical fact, receiving its answer from a careful examination of what has already been done. The Negro business man is yet a youth and every phase of his future can only be considered problematically. It is true, however, that we have many scattered evidences here and there of his ability to achieve success. In business, as in everything else, he must take his lessons from those around him. You must know that from every calling, from all the ranks of business and labor, mercantile, professional and mechanical that yearning ory is heard, marking steady diffusion of intelligence, enlarged appreciation of the power of knowledge, increased numbers set free in intellect by their free equality in law. The lamp of science now bestows its rays on every scene of human efforts and the quickening power of its light stimulates inquiry and growth, and everywhere industry adds some product for the comfort and joy of man. The teeming mouth of the mine is vocal with the sound of inventive science, the forest in rapid fall reverberates its mighty stroke, the farm side mingles the melody of civilization's machinery with nature's voices and in various forms the manufactory huns the note of enlightened progress. New methods constantly grant greater forces to man, multiply the old and develop new products to enter the marts of trade. The business man is the agent and factor of all the ranks of industry and life, gathering from every class, distributing to every class. He must be quick to know the wants of all, the availibility of the products of all. As his highest value he must advantageously partake the knowledge of all. His intelligence must comprehend not only the necessities but the luxuries, delicate tastes and gratification of all. He must teach the producer the demands of society, the consumer the richest fruits of labor. So great are the demands on the business men that the American people will not allow him to limit his efforts to his own country. He has ever been and forever will be the adventurous traveler of the globe and now more than ever for thousands of avenues are opening every day and new fields are inviting his attention where, but a few years ago only a small field challenged his attempts. The railroads and steamboats have made all the produce of earth his commodities, every olive his garden, every people his customer. His eyes must be ever open and his ear must catch the notes of daily traffic. His factors are in Europe, Asia, Africa and the far isles of the sea and his competition outstrips his rivals in every land and every olive. He must be alert, enterprising and bold, such is the character and mission of a successful business man. Whoseever is unwilling to undergo the conditions here outlined must take in contentment his lesser place. The highest rank in any calling can be reached only by possession of the gifts and requirements requisite to perform its function, and the noblest aim and effort lead honorably to the foremost place. Those of you who would look to be leaders in your business must hold out the greatest inducement to your customers. You must buy the best at the least reasonable cost, let your selling price at all times be measured by the cost, thus giving your customers the advantage of your business tact doth in cost and profits. Business men sometimes mistake wild speculation as the nearest cut to riches, they undertake to make short cuts across, lose their better judgment and the result is bankruptcy, disgrace and ruin. I would advise against get rich-quick schemes, futures and the like. Much of the future advancement of the race depends upon your untiring efforts to succeed. Our schools, colleges and academies are turning out about 5,000 graduates each year and these graduates must find a field of labor, our professors and teachers find their source of livelihood already over-crowded, our pulpits are much in the same fix. Supply and demand are the regulators in prices and salaries, hence we often hear the remark: "Poor pay, poor preach." Our business men must be depended upon to relieve this congestion or condition of affairs. We must have banks, factories, grocery stores, both wholesale and retail, shoe stores and in the near future operate railroadads, steamboats and telegraph and telephone lines, thus opening up new avenues for the employment of this intelligent surplus. This can only be successfully done by a united effort of all concerned. This is the lesson aimed to be taught by the National Negro Business Mens' League and the cardinal principles that actuated your meeting in this tate. It was the business men who discovered the brotherhood of man and pioneered the civilization which Christianity purified. It was the business man who caused the ships to plough the mighty ocean and make the whole world akin. It was the business man who uilt the [Portrait of a man in formal attire, set against an ornate decorative border with swirling patterns]. Agents Wanted, $20 a Week for Selling LIGHT AHEAD FOR HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE - by E. A. JOHNSON, Author & Publisher The latest and most interesting story yet published on the Negro problem pictures the career of brilliant young Southern lady who esponses shows how this problem can be settled by just a revolution in Southern culture. The Negro's passions show how this problem can be settled by just a revolution in Southern culture. Love and marriage Some favor to subject vividly presented, interwoven with romance, love and marriage The Tyranny of Prejudiced Newspapers Trip in an Airship: The menages Created by Negroes: Fashion Ubors and Color Line The Kind of Education the Negroes: Southern Plantation Negroes and Negroes in the courts; John Temple Graves: Vardaman and Tillman answers successfully. PR CE $1.00 ADDRESS E. A. JOHNSON, Raleigh N.C. The Burial League of the United States WITH CAPITAL STOCK The absolute guarantee of a Hundred Dollar Funeral by draft attachment is a fixed payment per year. No more no less. The guarantee of form of liability by an example capital stock of $100,000. The cash in you quit paying after five (5) years, instead of a slip of paper individual. railroad, tunnelled the mountain and tled our cities with brotherly love. It was the business man who chained the lightning, built telegraph and telephone lines and made the "hello girl" and as we stand here tonight in the mere youth-time of our existence may we not strain a prophetic eye to a future day when the American Negro business men may cause the great arteries of trade to burst forth with such splendor as to afford employment to the 5000 boys and girls that our schools and colleges are giving us annually. The class day exercises of the Scribner High school were of a high grade and unusually interesting. The principal speaker was R. W. Thompson, who, in an address abounding in much excellent advice, urged the young people to be prepared for opportunities if they come—Prof. R. L. Anthony, of Vincennes, Ind., E. A. Green, of Wilberforce, and F. S. Delaney, of Indianapolis, are additional names under consideration as the successor to Dr. W. O. Vance as principal of Scribner High school—The new pastor of Jones' Chapel is Rev. B G. Shaw, transferred from the Arkansas Zion conference. He is taking hold of the work with energy and bids fair to bring the church up to the desired standard—Rev. W. H. Snowden preached the Thanksgiving sermon for the G. U. O. of O. F., at the Second Baptist church, and Dr. E R Gaddle spoke instructively on the benefit of Odd Fellowship—Bishep G. W. Clinton paid us a flying visit this week—Miss Vivian Luille Thompson led the eight grade in the public schools by a handsome margin.—The Sylvan club, a select social organization will picnic at Sugar Grove on the 26th.—Miss May Grundy, adopted daughter of Mrs. M. E. Washington, is at home from Livingstone—New Albany has 768 colored children of school attending age—Miss Jessie D. Clay has closed her school at Corydon, Ind.—Quite a delegation of our society folk attended the artistic performance of "The Pirates of Penzance" in Louisville.—Mrs. Dr. C. W. Snyder, who has been teaching in Kentucky, joins her husband here this week.—Bethel church is to undergo extensive repairs. Rev. M. W. Sparks is a brilliant success as pastor of this congregation. Persons in Macon, Ga, should see our representative, C. J. Cremshaw, corner Cherry street and Cotton avenue, and secure a copy of the Freeman for sale by him each week. Mr. Cremshaw is quite a hustling agent and deserves the support of all Macon citizens. 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 summer 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 seeing 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 beneficial 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. 418-420 Indiana Avenue. NEW ALBANY, IND. The Freeman's Headquarters. CONSIDER THIS OUTING Pipe Tone Folding Organ. In presently to the public the new A. L. 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This pays in full in lieu of other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES and DIAMONDS. All business strictly private, courteous treatment to all. Is cost nothing to investigate. CENTRAL LOAN CO. Second Floor, Room 208 State Life Building, Old Phone Main 8193 (Formerly Stevenson Bldg.) Front Room ( 15 E. Washington Street ) New Phone ... 4870 The Argos Bulletin Little White Frocks Don't worry over the sew- values like this: Children's frocks of fine white India linen, yokes tucked in groups with hemstitched ruffle finish, 8 to 12-year sizes. $2.50 values. $1.48 Another style regularly $4.00, these dresses with entire yokes of Val. lace with additional lace trimming on sleeves and skirt, now... $2.70 And this one of fine Persian lawn, made with deep yoke of Point de Paris lace and further elaborate with matched insertion and tucks; $6.50 is its value, the Removal Sale price ..... $3.60 L. S. Ayres & Co. Indian's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. Master Robert Williams is visiting at Bridgeport, Ind. Miss Cora Lindsay is ill at her home in Ogden street. All society uses Woodbine Perfumes Blodau's drug store. At the Simpson Chapel rally last Sunday, $300 was raised. Mrs. Lavinia Sneed was in the city this week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Warner have returned from Detroit, Mich. Mrs. R. Evans left Thursday for Lexington, Ky., and other points south. Mr. and Mrs. John Puryear are visiting friends and relatives at Chicago. Miss Blanche Scott, who has been ill for the past few weeks, is much improved. Mrs. Lula C Lee and Mr. James Grubbs were quietly married Monday evening. Harry Hill left Wednesday to spend the summer with his mother at Memphis, Tenn. Rev. Levi Christy, of East St. Louis, was in the city last week en route from Wilberforce. Thaddeus Jones and Harry Goines have gone to Detroit, Mich. for an indefinite stay. Harry Radoliffe attended the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Clark at Frankfort, Ind., Saturday. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was the guest of Mrs A C. Simms, during her stay in the city. Mrs. David Gee, accompanied by her parents, Mr and Mrs. Pierce went to French Lick last week. The marriage of Miss Pearl Elizabeth Hill and Mr. Edward Dupont Sanders will take place, July 12. Miss Lizzie Alexander, of this city was married to Mr. Robert Johnson, at St. Louis, last Saturday. Prof. W. E. Grubbs is spending his vacation at Tuskegee, Ala. and other southern places of interest. At the Kenmore Club smoker last week, Gurley Brewer gave a talk on "The Advancement of the Club." Mrs. W. H. Jackson, who has been the guest of Mrs. R. B. Shelton, left Friday of last week for Chicago. The rally of the Second Christian church, Rev. Herod pastor closed last Sunday. The amount raised was 1,160. Mrs. Ed. Wisdom, Dr. and Mrs. Brown attended the funeral of Dr. Brown's father at Madison, Ind., Sunday. W. E. Scott is visiting his parents in North Senate avenue. Mr. Scott is a successful student at the Art Institute at Chicago. Miss Ida, Groves spent Sunday at Alexandra, Ind., Miss Bertha Williams at Franklin, Ind., and Miss Dellah Scott at Xenia, O. Quarterly meeting services were conducted by Presid nz Elder Sissle Thurs- A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208 State Ll (Formerly Steven Front Room (15 E. Washing THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER day evening of last week at Rev. Prentise' church. Miss Ambla Keene will represent Bethel A. M. E Christian Endeavor at the convention to be held at Baltimore, July 5, 6 and 7. Miss Nannie B. Bridges, a teacher of Harrodsburg, Ky., was the guest of Miss Bessie E. Kennedy, in Tremont avenue last week. A lawn social will be given Monday night at the home of "Mother" Hall, 521 Bright street. for the benefit of Bethel Christian Endeavor. Presiding Elder Hagood of the Lexington District will preach at Simpson Chapel Sunday evening. Dr. Simmons will preach Sunday morning. Miss Heien Ogden, a soprano singer in vaudeville, formerly a resident of this city, was the guest of Mrs. Susan Hilliard in California street, Sunday. James J. Turner, of Providence, R. I., accompanied by B. C. Thompson of Boston, Mass., were in this city and Cincinnati, O., this week on business. Mrs. J. C. Knox entertained at her resident, 513 N. West street, Thursday of last week in honor of Miss Agnes Booth, who has just arrived from Hampton Institute. Mrs. Hannah Jamison of Plainfield, and her daughter, Mrs. Sadie Burnett of this city, attended the funeral of tae former's sister, Mrs. Clark at Frankfort, Ind., last Saturday. George C. Hurst, Frank Woodson, Sylvester Jones of St. Louis were pleasant callers at The Freeman office this week, en route east on business. They are old friends of J. D. Howard. The marriage of Miss Velma Hinton and Mr. Jerry Beasley was solemnized Wednesday evening at their new home in Smith street. Mr. and Mrs. Beasley will be at home to their friends June 25. Rev. Savage of Florida will deliver an oration at Allen Chapel, Sunday at the evening service. This oration won for him the Rusk prize at the last commencement. The pastor will preach in the morning. Miss Lizzle Hudson and Mr. George Murray were married last Wednesday evening at the home of the groom. Rector Brown pronounced the ceremony. Miss Ella Black was maid of honor and Mr. Maxwell Birch was best man. The Y. M. C. A. tendered Thomas E Taylor, the new secretary a reception at their rooms Monday evening. Addresses were made by J. T. V. Hill, G. L. Knox, Rev. Shaffer, Douglass Carter, Rev. Sissle, Rev. Herod and Mr. Taylor. W. A. Kersey was master of ceremonies. BUSINESS INTERESTS If you want a job call at Parker's Employment Agency, 815 Indiana ave. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged. Naumann, 838 Indiana Ave. Get ready for South Bend August 1 Great emancipation praclamation celebration. Excursion from Indianapolis given by the Colored Mercantile Association. We desire to inform our subscribers that the "Shampo Drier" company who advertises with us, is a responsible company, and their toilet article is one of true merit. Ladies should investigate. "Ford's Ox Marrow Pomade, for sale in Indianapolis at Mrs L C. Hayes' Drug Store. 50% Indiana Avenue, straighten kinky hair, curse dandruff and makes the hair grow; never falls. Buy a bottle from her and be convinced." The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. Mustered Into Service. Chancellor Company, No. 3 Uniform Rank, K. of P., was mustered into service by Col. J. H. Ringold Friday night of last week, with a membership of twenty-five. W. P. Gardner was elected captain. Uniforms have been ordered for the Pittsburg meeting ON TO PITTSBURG Uniform Rank K of P. Outing at the State Fair Grounds, Tuesday July 11. 1905, given by Damon Company No. 1, Captain Wilkes; Marton Company No. 2, Capt. Porter and Chancellor Company No. 3, Capt. Gardner. Exhibition drills afternoon and evening by Uniform Bank, K. of P., Patrilarchile G. U O O, F, and Old Soldiers of the Civil War, Deloss Seaton, Commander. Fat men's, sack, wheelbarrow and barrel races, catching greased pig, etc. Base ball game by the famous A. B. C and Eik teams for a purse Game will be called at 3 p.m. There will be a street parade of Uniform Rank, K. of P., headed by the K. of P. band, at 12:30, forming at Marlion Hall in Indiana avenue, marching southeast on Indiana avenue to Ohio, east to Meridian, south to Monument Place, around the west side, south on Meridian to Georgia, and take special cars to Fair Grounds. Dancing afternoon and evening. Music by Starlight orchestra. Chartered cars leave grounds at 12 p. m., 12:30 and 1 a m. Visiting K. of P. from all over the state will be present. Bring your wives and families and spend an afternoon and evening. Stand privileges for sale by A. L. Burley, chairman of committee. 422 Muskingum Street. FOR MAYOR For Mayor of the city, Frank D. Stallaker, subject to the decision of the Republican primary, June 30, 05. Mr. Stallaker is a well-known business man here. He is a member of the firm of Lilly & Stallaker, on Washington-st., 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 four years' term this time for mayor. Let us be careful then and nominate a man that will make it possible for us to go to the city parks without being molested. Let us stand up and strongly advocate the nomination of Mr. F D. Stallaker, for he is sure to be elected if nominated. MASONIC CELEBRATION. The Central, Trinity, Waterfox, Meridian and Southern Cross Lodges will celebrate St. John's Day, at Bethel church Sunday at 8:30 p.m. The lesson for the day will be read by Rev. Dr. J. W. Woods, of Jones Tabernacle, the oration will be delivered by D. W. Caine, M W. G M. of Masons and the Rev. Dr. George H. Shaffer will preach the sermon. THE PARKER HOUSE When you are in doubt go to the Parker House, talk it over with Mr. Hollman who is an adept in ministering to your gastronomic troubles. In short, always something good to eat at The Parker House. Good sleeping rooms, bath, etc., etc. J. W. Hollman, proprietor, 817-821 W. Michigan Street 'Phones: New 4972; Old—red. 651. PUBLIC NOTICE. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN? You are hereby notified that at 10 o'clock, a m, on July 15 205, I will sell at public auction at 123 East Ohio st. street, Indianapolis, Ind., to pay charges thereon, the following pieces of furniture to wilt: One oak mantel mirror, one oak chiffonier with mirror. Said articles are marked "Amanda Williams" and have been stored at above number and unclaimed for more than three months and the proper charges on the same are unpaid. SHERMAN T. DAVIS. 123 East Ohio St. PROVIDENCE, B. I. D. B. Allen, D. G. M. of G. U. O. O. of Newport, R. I. and Attorney Julius Mitchell passed through the city recently en route home from Worcester, Mass. Miss Alice Cox, a teacher at Lynchburg, Va. is home for the summer—Mrs Elizabeth Daggett, of Augusta, Ga., died at the State Alms House, of consumption, June 2—The Men's Club of Bethel A. M. E. church gave a fair at the church, June 7, 8 and 9. It was largely attended and was quite a success.—Mrs Katherine Berry, age 67, widow of Abram Berry, died June 5. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. William Thomas, at the home of her daughter, Mrs William Walker in John steart. Jackson's Female Band gave a concert June 9, at Liberty Hall, under the auspices of the Eureka Club. This is their third concert—Attorney Heatherman's case against the Rhode Island Company has been settled by mutual consent. John Harris had a visit from his brother, J. H. Whye, of Pineville, La., whom he had not seen for forty-seven years—Rev. William H. Eley, D. D. who was transferred from the New York to the New England conference has been stationed at Wadsworth Street church—Mrs Flora B. Smith, of Alken S. C., president of the Working Home addressed a large audience at the Ebenezer Church Sunday evening, in behalf of her work—The West Elmwood Club composed of young ladies gave an entertainment for the benefit of the Old Ladies Home—Mrs Maria Nellis has removed to Worcester, Mass. Alexander Jones will visit Norfolk, Va. next month.—Mrs Annie Walker has gone to New York to visit her daughter Jennie, who is ill.—William Harrison, Moses Timberlake George Washington, and Harry Harris of the Irreproachale Ben Association spent a few days in New York the past week—The Cook and Walter's Local, 583, will give a ball June 26 for the benefit of the sick fund. DAYTON, O. William C16wford, the undertaker of Paris, Ky., is the guest of William Wilson—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hart have returned from a week's visit with his mother, Mrs. Anna Hart, at Wilmington, O. For $20 We are showing a special group of suitings for business wear which includes plain and fancy worsted and wool cheviots. They are a lot we gathered at a special purchase, and to which we have added a few of our own excellent patterns. These fabrics would be cheap enough at $30.00 and we recommend that you order early. Suits or Top Coats Suits or Top Coats Tailored to Taste DEUTSCH TAILORING CO. INCORPORATED TAILORS 41 South Illinois St. Indianapolis, Indiana THE PALACE OUT RATE MEAT MARKET WE DEFY COMPETITION Pork Chops - - - at 10c per lb Pork Roast - - - 9c " " Pork Chops - - - 8½c " " Lamb Chops - - - 4c " " Lamb Lamb - - - 8c " " Lamb Stew - - - 10c " " Veal Roast - - - 8c " " Veal Stew - - - 8c " " Bolling stew - - - 5c " " Chuck Steak - - - 8½c " " Ranch Chicken Steak - - - 10c " " Porterhouse Steak - - - 15c " " Rib Roast - - - 8c " " Shot der Clod - - - 8c " " Grilled Roast - - - 5c " " Corn Stew - - - 7c " " Hamburg - - - 8½c " " Bacon - - - 10c " " Hams, best in market - - - 11c " " Corned Beef Hams - - - 7½c " " Bologna - - - 8c " " Weinerwurst - - - 8c " " Pork sausage - - - 9c " " Lard Stuffed Rendered (our own make) - - - 8½c " (our own make) " 83% " " Call and be convinced for yourself. Remem ber the Place. Prices talk. 418 W. Washington Street. JOEH F. CONCANNON. Frop New Phone 3731. "THE GREAT GAS SAVER" Guaranteed to use 40 per cent less gas than any other range made. Call and have this Gas Saver Shown you. Ranges set up complete with stove board, flue pipe and gas connections, from $12.50 up. Come in and get a pin tray free. LILLY & STALNAKER, 114 116 118 E. Washington Street GEM LAUNDRY 235 Indiana Ave. Collars Cuffs -20 Phones 1671 Spring fishing has now commenced. Don forget to stop at the old reliable fish stand. C. A. DUNCAN PHONES: Old 4091 main. New 5104 Indiana Ave PAINTS, OIL AND VARNISHES. TIN AND GALVANIZED IRON WORK FRANK H. PRUNK Hardware. Pumps Pipe. Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE. Telephone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, DERBY CAFE & LUNCH ROOM 214 Indiana Avenue Services to all. Wines, Liquors, Cigars A. ROBINSON, Prop. WANTED - Position as stenographer by young (colored hair). Bright, accurate beginner. Terms reasonable. I can give reference. Address care The Freeman. SIMPSON CHAPEL NOTES. Corner Eleventh and Missouri streets; Sunday school 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m; morning class, 12 m.; Epworth League, 7 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m.; weekly meetings, Official Board meeting every Monday evening at 8 o'clock; class meeting Tuesday evening, 7:30; choir practice Wednesday evenings; Epworth League Thursday evening; Queen Esther Circle, Friday evening Rev. H, V. Simmons, pastor. JONES TABERNACLE. Corner North and Blackford streets, Rev. J. W. Woods, pastor, residence 606 Blackford street. Sunday services, preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday-school 2 p.m. Varrick C. E., 6 to 7 p.m., Holly Communion every first Sunday. ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES Hours of service.--Sunday, 10:45 a. m., preaching; 12 m., class; 2 p. m., Sunday School; 7:30 p. m., preaching; class Tuesday night; prayer meeting Thursday night; teacher's meeting friday night. Rev. H. E. Stewart, pastor, residence 1501 Cornell ave. OPAL REFRIGERATORS SAVE ICE Acid-Proof Walls, Perfect Insulation VONNEGUT HARDWARE CO FINANCIAL THE CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK With Capital, Surplus and Profits of $460,000, and total resources of $5,000,000, respec- fully solicits the business of banks, bankers, firms, corporations, manufacturers and dividuals, to whom every accommodation consistent with correct banking will be tended. Frand Powell, president: — OFFICERS — Hiram W. Moore, cashier; Andrew Smith, vice-president; Gwynn F. Patterson, can't cashier; REGULAR GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY. Direct banking connections in every county in the State of Indians. SPECIAL ON TALCUM Tetlow's Highly Perfumed Talcum Mrs. Hayes' Cut Rate Indiana Avenue and Michigan A registered graduate of Pharmacy always in charge E. W. STUCKY, D. Your prescriptions receive the most careful best Drugs and Pharmaceuticals obtainable. 161 N. Illinois St. Old 1329, New 722 The R. H. Smith Co Byly Perfumed Talcums, - - 5c a Can yes' Cut Rate Drug Store Indiana Avenue and Michigan Street. of Pharmacy always in charge of prescription department. TUCKY. DRUGGIST ons receive the most careful attention. We use the Pharmaceuticals obtainable. St. Telephones Old 1329, New 722 Indianapolis, Indiana H. Smith Coal Comp'y Mrs. Hayes' Cut Rate Drug Store Indiana Avenue and Michigan Street A registered graduate of Pharmacy always in charge of prescription dosage Your prescriptions receive the most careful attention. We use the best Drugs and Pharmaceuticals obtainable. 161 N. Illinois St. Telephones Old 1329, New 722 Indianapolis, India The R. H, Smith Coal Comp'y 1012 Bismark Avenue Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Candles, Cigar Ice Cream in large and small quantities. Phone 5136-3 Ring In Prompt delivery. Candies, Cigars and Tobacco. age and small quantities. Ring Indianapolis, Ind Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Candles, Cigars and Tobacco. Ice Cream in large and small quantities. Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, In Calvin F. Childers Resident of 15th Ward For Councilman-at-Large, subject to the dee publican primary, June 30th, 1905, at the bo at-Large, subject to the decision of the Re June 30th, 1905, at the bottom of the ticket For Councilman-at-Large, subject to the decision of the Republican primary, June 30th, 1905, at the bottom of the ticket Gustave Joseph Resident of l2th Ward For Councilman-at-Large, subject to Republican primary, June 30, 1905. PINK'S For Councilman-at-Large, subject to the decision of the Republican primary, June 30, 1905. FOR CITY CLERK Candidate subject to the Republic nominating primaries, June 30 10:00 Polls open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. CUT-RATE PHARMACY. ANNUAL PERSONALLY CONDUCTED NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION VIA LAKE ERIE & WESTERN R. R. 550 Ind. Ave. S. E. Cor. West St. Prescription Department. The Pioneer Niagara Falls EXCUSION LINE IN CONNECTION WITH THE Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Always Remember if you get it Leaves Indianapolis, Ind. at 4:39 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, 1905 AT PINK'S, ITS RIGHT. H. L. SANDERS, Established 1889 Indianapolis. MANUFACTURER OF Waiters' and Cooks' Jackets, Bar Barbers' Butler and Butchers' Coats. Sandusky and Put-in-Bay Arrange your summer outing for the Fim of August and come with us. For pamphlet containing general informa tion as to rate, time, et., call on any taker agent of the above route, or address H. BERTERMANN, H. J. RHEIN, ```markdown ``` Attorney and Counselor-at-Law Non-Commissioner managing Estates, collections and drawing fees Bar Bests with Sleeves, Butchers' Capes, Frocks, Physicians' and Dentists' operating Coats, Aprons for all trades, Oversleeves, Dress Suits to let; White Duck Pants. 206 Indiana Ave. Factory 108, 110, 112 W. Ohio St. Send for our new 1905 catalogue and price NEW PHONE 2561 BICYCLES... Expert repair give me call. A. T. THOMAS, 323 Indiana ave; Telephone New 1906. Fine Millinery display of Patterns ready to wear Hair Will show also a fine line of Untrimmed Hats from 25c to $1.98. Everybody welcome. 337 Indiana Avenue. --- --- Always Reliable, Our WE USE the purest and freshest drugs only; not in any circumstances allowing poor stock to remain about the store. Our Prescriptions are exactly what the physician orders. We run no chances. Our Customers' health is important to us. Send your prescriptions to us and be safe. MRS. WHITTEN Patronize our advertisers New Phone 540 CHAS. W. MOSBY Coca-Cola At all Salgons, Groceries, Cafes and Stands, Bc., a Bottle.