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INDIANA POLIS SEP 8-1905 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 36 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW PERSONS AND EVENTS AT GREAT COMMERCIAL GATHERING BUSINESS LEAGUE AFTERMATH Panoramic View of Social Side-Work of Local Committee-The Passing Show as Seen by The Freeman's Special Representative. In the scattering story of the proceedings of the National Negro Business League in New York, I promised to say something further of the persons who honored the gathering with their presence and to touch more definitely upon the events that contributed to make the affair the greatest of its kind ever gotten together by our people. In chronicling the doings of so vast a discourse of representative people, a correspondent is confronted by an embarkment of riches. The material at his finger's ends is so abundant that it is a puzzle how to evolve from the mass a resume that will do injustice to the occasion and satisfy the thousand and one individuals whose taste leads them to a specific phase of the variegated panorama of business, diversions and commercial connections that ramify throughout the length and breadth of the Republic. I can conscientiously say that I have enough data to write on this subject for the next six months. So, in this issue, I hope to be guided by the limited space at my command, and shall touch lightly upon as many topics as circumstances will permit. From time to time I shall be reminded of significant sayings and doings that transpired at this memorable meeting, but I hope to so apply it that the story will not be as tiresome as the recitals we hear so often from the greenhorn who for the first time sees the lights and shadows of a great city and dates all of the vital happenings in his career as 'before' or 'after' his trip to the spectacular metropolis. Readers of the current publications know of the general features of the comprehensive program, which touched every avenue of business controlled by the Negroes of the nation. The work of the public comfort committee has been placed in evidence, the enjoyable sail up the Hudson by the delegates on a day made to order for the occasion has been told. The grand picnic at Surr's Harlem River Park, with its dreamy waltz and pictures as from fairy land, is a part of history, and the magnificent closing banquet at Palm Garden, where more than 500 guests were treated to delights that gratified both the physical and the esthetico man, is recorded indibly upon the hearts of all fortunate enough to partake of such bountiful hospitality. The sweeches, the ovations to distinguished characters, the grand march, the merry dance and the tender farewell until 1906, sit before the memory and are recorded among the things that were. The after-peaces the barbecue at Glenwood Park, Blonfield, N J., awaken the travel-r from a reverie, and the practical address of Dr. Booker T. Washington—said to have been the crowning event of the week—seeds us all home convinced that the balance of useful results for the series is on the right side of the ledger. The week was most profitably sent—there is sufficient inspiration stored up to run the mental machine many months, and the delegates returned to their homes resolved that the coming year shall be better than the last in productive effort, and that at the next meeting there shall come from each a report worthy of the Lesguas and its basic principles and in more fully accord with the high purpose of the nub e man whose painstaking labor has given the body "a habitation and a name." Let us now turn our attention to some. Ehues From The Great New York Meeting of the National Negro Business League. Hon. J. C. Napie. was the Chesterfield of the convention. Teopka, Kanese, stands a good show for the co voition of 1867. The dignified John H. Smythe, ex-minis. ter to libreria, looked on. Dr. S. E. Courtney, as usual, carried off the lion's share of the social honors. The "Standing Room Only" sign was needed at an early hour every evening. The man who had not thrift enough to acquire a home wielded small influence. Daniel Freeman, the well known Washington photographer, got a snapshot of the convention. It was a bigger success in every way than the League's most sanguine supporters dared to predict. Rev. H. C. C. Astwood, editor of the Scranton, (Pa.) Defender, was the tallest delegate present. J. Douglass Wetmore was there, and had something to say about the knockout of the Jim-row cars in Florida. Roscoe Conkilling Bruce was quiet and obstructive but impressed all with his rare intellectual qualities. The spirit of "Go South young man and take advantage the immense unoccupied acreage" pervaded the body. Said the New York World: "The business Negro was earned his right to respectful attention." He is getting it. Dr. S. G. Elbert, of Willmington, Del., made a most favorable impression and was rated as one of the scholars of the convention. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, on "Foundation Building," easily distanced all compete itors in point of scholarship and solidity of argument. Giles B. Jackson of Richmond, Va., in a brand new suit and a pocker full of Jamestown Exposition circulars, looks as happy as a big sunflower. H. C. Haynes and his razor strops came all the way from Chicago. From a capacity of twelve strops a day, his output has increased to over 2,000 per day. From strict attentiveness of Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, it is reasonable to expect some spicy obligations from her versatile pen in the near future. The "pint of order," heretofore an unknown quantity at League meetings, was narrowly escaped during the discussion of the "Servant question" Mr. Jerome B. Peterson, counsel to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, did the honors graciously for friends who visited the office of the New York Age. The delegates who insisted upon discussing the race problem instead of telling what he had accomplished in a certain business were promptly "called down" Alfred C. Cowan, one of New York's most successful counselors at law, made his useful to the delegates and direct.d the ladies to the shopping districts. It is no small ting to be able to make New York know that anything out of the ordinary is going on. They knew the Business League was "in their midst." Editor Charles Perry of the Philadelphia Tribune, left his diamonds at home and gave a lucid presentation of the difficulties and successes of the Negro publisher. Nobody stumbled against the slightest semblance of race prejudice. New York's liberality to the stranger within her gates is being extolled from Maine to the Gulf. Everybody who had anything to say got it in somewhere, but the fellows who had nothing -o say- said it outside of the Garden. Oratory was not at a premium. Said the New York Evening Post: "The Negro is steadily moving onward and upward. A glance at the program of the National Negro Business League proves this." If there was any doubt as to Booker T. Washington's popularity with every va- uable element among his own people, this great convention dispelled it, with neatness and dispatch. B shop Alexander Walters was a popular member of the bod r, and his remarks placing him squarely in line with the constructive work of Dr. Washington "brought down the house." One of the southern delegates remarked that he was afraid to go to sleep in New York—so much was going on that he was afraid he would miss something good if he indulged in any old-fashioned slumber. Every daily paper gave creditable accounts of the proceedings, with complimentary editorial notice—the latter a courtesy which few conventions of whites are vouchafeaed in that busy community. There was an unusually large number of visiting ladies in attendance and they seemed to enjoy every moment of the proceedings. Mr Wanamaker's graceful tribute to them won for him a high degree of popularity. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1905. THE HORSE-SHOE MAGNET. SOCIAL EQUALITY It Attracts and Repels. Dr. W. T. Vernon, who is being groomed by his host of friends for Register of the resurv, in case the office ever becomes vacant won a warm place in the hearts of the crowd by his elquent speech and courtly manners. Palm Garden was not so large as Tomlinson Hall at Indianapolis, but no protest was made against the crowded condition of things, for all were too busy keeping track of the rapidly moving events to complain about trifas. Mrs Sallie A Brown, the Indianapolis hair goods manufacturer, was a visitor at several sessions, and won much favor by her enterprising manner. She was in the East on a purchasing tour and remained over for the League. Dr. L. H. Harris, the popular Washington pharmacist, delivered an excellent address on "The Negro Drugzis," and surprised everybody by his artist a handling of the Kiag's English. He incidentally got in a good word for Harris' Bloom Tonic. A point in President Washington's address that cannot be too frequently emphasized: "L-tus advertise to the world our strength, not our weakness; our success, not our failure; our achievements, not our hopes; our agreements, not our disagreements." A Negro opera house managers is a "new thing under the sun," and this rarity serv d to add interest to the remarks of Charles T. Bass of Sullivan, Ind. In addition to looking after his opera house, Mr Bass manufactures a hair lasse, raies hogs and runs a barbershop. A. C. Howard's story of how he "made good" in the hoopeolish business was retold with marked effect, and Dr W. F. Graham's familiar figures on the phenomeneal insurance operations of his company at Richmond were greeted with the o.d time enthusiasm. The magnetic personality of Mrs Booker T Washington gave the convention a dignity, charm and savor of ideality that was felt at every stage of the high-pitched discussions and recital of earnest endeavor. She had a smile and a warm pressure of the hand for all. Mesdames G. W. Clinton, Alexander Waiters, S A. Furniss, J C Napper, H T. Keating, Carrie W. Clifford P. A. Payton, D J. Scott, Phil Waters, J R Cox, Fannie Brier Williams, S Willie Layton and others were most pleasingly in evidence throughout the sessions. The Lesgue gave it out very plainly that it recognized that one organization cannot cover all the interests of the N-gro, and urged that the organization adhere strictly to its basic objects and refuse to become entangled in other organizations with purposes foreign to business affairs. Dr. M. C. B. Mason captivated the audience. Wednesday evening by a presentation of "The Business Development Among Negroes," and was compelled to go on at a much greater length than he had intended. A less effective speaker wud have finished t empty benches at the late hour that Dr. Mason's turn was reached. Dr. W. D. Crum was pointed out as the man who ga e President Roosevelt the opportunity to show his breadth as a stat sman ad typical American. Dr Crum is a fine specimen of manhood. His address at the Abyssinian Baptist Church tae night before the convention stamped him as a thinker of force and clearness. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR $1.50. Rev. Matthew Anderson's history of the Berean enterprise of Philadelphia, which has helped the Ngroes of that city to obtain 10 homes in respectab e localities, was an inspiring feature of the program. The prob em of the city N gro is an important one and can only be solved by sanitary homes amid moral surroundings. Bishops, merchants, lawyers, teachers, plain preachers, doctors, manufacturers, artisans, editors, capitalists, farmers and town builders, elbowed one another in the concourse of constructive factors of the race, and all were bent upon race advancement, each traveling his individual course, yet in perfect harmony and sympathy with his brother. Williams & Waaker's Glee Club, composed of sixteen trained musicians, under the direction of William C. Elkins, made a distinct hit. The audience could not get enough of them, and they were repeatedly er cored. The anthem by Cole & Johnson was well received. The country will hear them with pleasure during the Williams & Walker tour this season. Historian E. A Johnson was pointed out as one of the notable figures of the great gathering. He is solving the problem of how an educated gentleman can live and cherish high ideals in the vry heart of the Southland—Tom D xon to the art notwithstanding. Prof. Johnson is both a lawyer of renown and a writer who stands second to none in the country. The visitation of such forces in the world of finance and business as John Wana-maker, B rust C, Ogden, Oswald Garrison Villard and George Foster Peabody is something of which the most notable con- SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS FROM THE REQUEST SPEECH OF PROF. W. H. COUNCILL. WHERE IS ABEL, THY BROTHER? All Southerners Are Not Against the Negro—The Duty we Owe—Usefulness the Standard of Measurement. Will Rise by Righteous Industry. If men go round looking for bad Negroes they will find them; if they look for good Negroes they will find them. It depends upon what a man wants to see. At this point I wish to say that we must be as fair toward the white South as we want it to be toward us. We must not put all white men in the same class, for there are ministers of the Gospel, lawyers, farmers, doctors, merchants, bankers writers and even some politicians who advocate and maintain in private and public that friendship for the Negro, amicable relations between the races, and who have assisted in producing the material and spiritual prosperity, of which I have beasted. "This is an occasion of supreme importance and special privilege to the Negro of the South. There can be no bolder proof of your friendly feeling and interest in my race, than your cordial invitation to participate in the South since the war of 1861; and it is with deep and profound emotions that I make great acknowledgment of this recognition of "The Industrial Negro of the Industrial South." "Where is Able thy brother." In these words I voice the sentiments of 100 000 best citizens of the Negro race. But my purpose tonight is to speak through you to the other nine million nine hundred thousand of our race in this country. You cannot escape the responsibility for the betterment of the condition of the other nine million nine hu dred thousand. "Where is Able thy brother" never fell upon the ears and heart of guilty Cain, and had more meaning than should come home to every one of the 100,000 men and women from our institutions in reference to the nine million nine hundred thousand of our race; until every one of us cries out in the language of St. Paul, "Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death." A kind and a good Providence makes us responsible for our brother, in order that mankind shall be elevated. A bitter, blighting prejudice and hatred chains us to "the body of this death" for a different reason, but overuried by Providence to work out exceeding great good. All the influence of the yeast of civilization by hatred a burning curse is driven down to the bottom of the mass of Negro life, until in God's own time, the whole mass becomes permeated with righteous industry and frugality, and it all shall rise heavenward. Prejudice is but the cylinder or steam trunk which confines the expanding water, until the particles of steam have accumulated power to drive forward the mighty engine with its load to civilization and to God. Industrial intelligence plus intelligent industry must be the lever by which all of this shall be done; upon a fundation of racial respect, for no race can rise in this world which does not maintain its racial identity. The man who does not emphasize the importance of this soon becomes insane and recognizes himself as anybody else but hims if. Usefulness the Standard. As I have just said, usefulness is the standard of measurement. Men often measure by power, wealth, color, but the great God who sees the growth of the human family from Adam is the present, and on, shows that use alone is His criterion in the selection of material for the everlast-building of humanity Egypt, Nineveh, Babylon—all were rejected because of their materialism and blood; but the humble Jew rose, by the greatness of his humble usefulness to marking, to be the chief corner-stone or God's great building of humanity. Any one in Paducah, Kv., desiring The Freeman can secure same from Misses Lorena and Ruby Greenwell, 627 South Eighth street. STAGE. Stevens, staged by E. C. Harris. has two acts and has a plot from sta to finish. From press reports they a Hoosier Poet CLUB ROOM LONDRES 10c Cigar We deliver Goods direct to consumers and pay all express charges. Give Us A Tryal Order. John Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind. The Clermonts, Frank & Etta, are doing nicely and wish to be remsmbered to all friends. Notes from P. G. Lowery's Musical Enterprise.—We are now in Indiana for about three weeks' stay. Miss Daley Lee has been very ill but is now convalescent. All others are well and send best wishes to all friends in and out of the profession. We have A. L. Prince to swell our number. The entire company sends best wishes to Sam Elliott and family. Notes from Van Amburg Show's Colored Band and Concert Company — We are now in old Virginia and making good with our part. We are playing all the up to date music there is out. Business is good and everybody is satisfied. The ghost walks regularly every Sunday night. The boys send regards to all friends L F. Hunter would like to hear from A. B Stokes and Joe Jordan, write in care of The Freeman. Notes from Fred S. Millican, s Original Old Plantation Company.—Business is still good and every member is doing fine. Fred Millican, our manager is going to put on a minstrel show this winter, carrying 34 people, two bands, one white, and a sleeping car, 60 feet long. Billy Arnte sends regards to Williams & Stevens and would like to hear from Pattie Robinson, write him at The Freeman. The company sends regards to all friends. LeRoy Bland's California Letter.—The Wells Cake Walkers opened at Sacramento last week and are now at Fisher's Theatre The Hatch's have closed a two weeks' engagement at the Oberom Clarence Estell, Sam King and Lew Purcell, business men are doing well regardless of the old hard times cry. Regards to both Mahara Shows. It is rumored that Baker & Carlisle are to open on the Orpheum Circuit in the near future. Williams & Stevens' Richest Coon in Georgia Company is one of the biggest hits that has ever played in Canada. We are packing their houses nightly. The play is a musical comedy, written by Charles H. Williams, assisted by For Twenty-Eight Years the name BISSELL has typified all the best in Carpet Sweeper mechanism, has become a household word throughout the world, where carpets or rugs are used. It is the only Carpet Sweeper that has ever given complete and continuous satis-faction to the user, and its large sale fully supposes this statement. Over 80 percent of the world's output of Carpet Swee- Housewives everywhere attest their superiority. A BISSELL "Gycoo" Bearing Sweeper will outlast fifty corn brooms, and makes sweeping a favorite. You can deny yourself this comfort when $2.50 to $4.00 will procure it. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Stevens, staged by E. C. Harris. It has two acts and has a plot from start to finish. From press reports they are making good. They would like to hear from friends, address The Freeman. Watkins sends regards to New York friends. Notes of Al. E. Holman's Serenaders. We have returned from a successful engagement of three weeks at the Grand Musical Hall, Liege. Belgium While three we had the pleasure of mee ing our old American friend, Joe Jalvon and wife. They had just concluded a seventeen weeks' engagement at the Extreme Orient Liege Exposition. They were such favorites that the entire Orient suspended business the night previous to their departure and visited our show in a body after which the company went to a cafe and partook of a special repast given for the Jalvons by the mayor of Liege. The Jalvons are now filling an engagement at Manchester. England. We are booked solid until May 1906 The Jalvons send regards to Marsh Oralg, Prof. Lacey and all friends. Al and Mamle Holman say, "hello to all." Notes from the Famous Billy Kersands Minstrels. We are now in the territories and doing an increased business in spite of the extreme hot weather which ranges from 104 to 108 degrees but our people complain less than the natives. Our first stand in the territories was Vinita. I. T. and were well received and cared for. The Kersands, Victor Thomas, W. A. Dixon, T. O Mills, Arthur Maxwell were royally entertained by the Riders, very wealthy citizens of Binita, Miss. Miss Georgia Rider did the honors for the family and won much praise from our company. The show is running smoothly and pleases easily all patrons. The Alabama Quartet has put on a new turn which is perfectly immense and is quite an improvement. Campbell Bros have an act on that bespeaks their industry and intellect as well. It is one of the most pleasing of its kind on the American stage, full of wit and humor. The next wonderful and mystifying act, the more you see the more you want to see, Master Alonzo Moore, the marvelous magician, is making a treemendous hit all along the line. Our company wishes to be remembered to John G. Canepa of 1814 Market street, St. Louis Mo, the old reliable spot for our professional people, and a man who only wears the one face on one head We wish him much success. We also send our best regards to our old friend Marsh Craig and family. James Lacey sends regards to P. G. Lowery. Notes from Little Savoy Theatre Jacksonville, Fla.—We are still doing a big business and have an exceptionally strong company. Billy Reeves, our principal comedian is in New York City undergoing an operation. We wish him a speedy recovery. Joe Locust, and Philip Giles closed last week to go trouping. Pauline (rampton, contralto, and one of our leading dramatic stars continues to be a favorite. Buddy Glenn, the father of Negro comedy, is still as lively as ever; Carrie Hall, coon song shouter, is scoring heavily with, "What You Going to do When the Rent Comes Due." Sarah Price, the petite and dainty sonnet is a reigning favorite; Webster Williams still stands second to none as an all around performer; Billy Bradley, the fashion plate comedian is doing well and sends regards to all friends. Mattie Floyd has fully demonstrated her ability as a first-class performer; Mabel Miles, with her sweet singing is a favorite with all. W. E. Gillick, our play wright and scenic artist produced an original melodrama entitled, "Kit Carson, the Female Detective," which was quite a hit and has another in rehearsal "The Orphan's Oath," which bids to be the stock company's greatest effort Anita Borden, the clever buck dancer and coon song singer, is one of the best performers we have. W. H. Dorsey is our musical director. Will Geff Kennedy, our good natured stage manager is trying by the application of in- GARRETT & MOSS JUL. 18, 1840 telligence, originality, energy, tact, common sense and the Golden Rule to make the show a success. Regards to all. HARRODSBURG KY. Hon. E. B. Cheatham, of Chicago, Ill., and Miss Katie B. Harris of this city, one of our most popular and accomplished young ladies, were quietly married at the home of the bride, August 12, at 5 p.m.—Miss Watts, of Pittsfield, Ill., is the guest of Mrs. C. L. Agner—Miss Elsie Uptergrove, of Jamestown, O., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Etta Knox. The Intellectual Benefit Club entertained in honor of Hon. and Mrs. E. B. Cheatham at the residence of Miss Amelia Sallee, president. Thursday evening from 8 to 12. Mrs. Agner entertained in honor of her guest Miss Watts, Monday evening from 8 to 12—Miss Mary Hines entertained a few friends at her home on College street, Wednesday evening. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Miss Lola Johnson left Saturday to join the Mahara Minstrels —The pipe organ recital at Zion Baptist church, August 25, by Prof. W. A. Calboun was well attended and a success financially. RT. REV. B. Who Recently Resigned the First Episod A lecture was given at Park street M, E church, August 25 by Mr. Wilson Prof. Brown and Mrs. Anna Acklen sang a duet "Prison Scene" from Il trivatore and Prof. Brown rendered a solo, "Queen of the Earth."-Rav. W. A. McWilliams has returned after six weeks' successful travel in Chauxtqua work—The Famous Tennessee Warblers were in the city Sunday and while doing work in this section of the states will make their headquarters at Mrs. Hattie Youman's in Broadway. While here Sunday they were the guests of Major W. Daniels. The members are as follows: R. C. Puggsley, manager; C. H. Puggsley, tenor; D. C. Puggsley, basso; Mrs. Gertrude Hays Puggsley pianist and soprano; Mrs. C. H. Puggsley, contralto, Master Leslie and Baby Theodore. All the singers possess fine voices. The Puggsleys and Prof. Daniels are negotiating for a company of eighteen artists for the season of 1906, and will give the puilio a mustal surprise—Rev. I. N. Rose is in Georgia on business.—Harry Killbrough the boy evangelist is in the city and preached to a large audience at Allen Temple Sunday.—Mrs. Minor's sister has returned to her home at Quincy, Ill, after a visit of four weeks. ONE BOTTLE DOES IT. If your hair is curly or kinky, one bottle of Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow will make it straight, soft and easy to comb so that you can put it up in any style. Read the following letter we received March 31, 1905, from Rhoda Edwards, Calvert, Texas: "I have used one bottle of Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow and my hair is perfectly straight, soft and black as silk. I will always use it." Ford's Ox Marrow also cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. C B. Lewis, the well-known newspaper correspondent of Little Rock, Ark., is now representing The Freeman in that section THE CHURCH OF THE LORD'S PRAYER A Beautiful A. M. E. Edifice of Cincinnati, O, of which much has been said. Great many complaints have reached your correspondent regarding discrimination said to exist on the grounds of the Lewls and Clark Exposition. That these reports are well founded seems to be verified upon examination. Your scribe has gone to the palms to make careful inquiry from those who have actually come in contact with that sort of thing, and gives it as his opinion that these reports are not idle rumors, but are facts, and more is the pity. Only last week, I am advised, a party of intelligent ladies and gentlemen visiting the fair from Spokane, Wash. were actually refused liquid refreshments (orangeade and lemonade) in the California building on the grounds Complaint, however, was made to the Governor of California at Sacramento by E. H. Holmes of Spokane, one of the party, and Governor Pardee immediately gave orders that that sort of thing must cease, and this particularly aggravating case resulted in the California building not showing any further discrimination whatever. A number of colored people throughout the Northwest have boycotted the fair on account of this detestable race feeling, and unless it ceases the prediction is freely W. ARNETT. Capital District of the A. M. E Connection. made that the management will lose many hundred dollars on that account. I certainly endorse the independent stand taken by our people in this connection, and it is doing more good than resoluting, threats and demonstrations that usually follow affairs of this kind.—Miss J. M Lee of Mattoon, Ill., now a St. Louis school teacher, Miss Tommetta Stokes of 'Chicago, head nurse at Provident Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stokes of Spokane, Wash., comprised a party of exposition visitors last week. Miss Belle Walker of New York City, formerly of Butte, Mont., is a recent arrival. Mrs B. A. Sykes and son of Spokane came over to meet Mrs. J. M. --- Bryant and daughters of Milwaukee, Wis., last week, and all seem to be having a delightful time. Mr. and Mrs Reynold Robinson of Spokane are among the late arrivals. Rev. J. A. Barr of Spokane has been attending the annual conference and incidentally taking in the fair. Mrs Robert Lusher of Spokane, also John Breckenridge, halling from the same "burg," are pleasing their friends visiting this week. Natt Stafford, an employee at the Portland Union Depot, is visiting his family in Spokane, at the same time taking a much needed recreation. Irvin Williams, Mr Chas. Clifton and bride of St. Paul are making a flying visit to the exposition. Kendall Cowes of San Francisco and F Jacobs of Oakland left Portland the 25 h on the private car "Sacramento" with a party. Bishop B. F. Lee closed the fourteenth annual meeting of the Puget Sound Conference with an able sermon on the 20th. The appointments announced were Rev. S. J. Collins of Tacoma, presiding elder; F. G. Barr, Spokane; W. J. Tolliver, Portland; G. A. Bailey, Everett, Wash., e ch for a term of one year. Charles Watkins, after a stay of several months, left for San Francisco o on the 12th. POST-GRADUATE NORMAL COURSE The Post-Graduate Normal Course of The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will be extended to two years beginning with the opening of the next school term, September 12. 1905, and will comprise a much broader scope of work than heretofore. Work will be offered for three classes of postgraduate students in this department; first, students whose interests are purely industrial; second, students whose interests are primarily in the academic work, and third, postgraduate normal students who wish to combine the industrial and academic work. Students of the second class will be required to devote five days of each week to normal work, and one day to industrial employment. The various courses will be taught by specialists thoroughly competent, and Tuskegee Institute with its complete material equipment in every department thus affords superior advantages for young men and women wishing to prepare themselves for literary and industrial teachers desiring to take advanced work. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. AGENTS WANTED to sell a new book written by a Negro. Our book is entitled: "Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro." A dialogue between Mr. Jones an ex-slave holder and Sambo ex-slave upon the problem of the two races. Address WELLS & CO., BOOK CONCERN, B. G. Wells, Mgr. Mt. Pleasant, Is. Indiana Baptist General Association. The annual session of the Indiana Baptist General Association, held at Olivet Baptist church, closed last Saturday. The officers elected were: W. Z. Thomas, Anderson, moderator; vicemoderator, B. R. Reed, Indianapolis; recording secretary, M. M. 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The new Russell House, Detroit is to cost two million dollars, and to be completed by the middle of June 1907, and will be managed by Mr. Holden, the present manager of the Hollenton Hotel Cleveland, O. He will be assisted by Mr. Chittenden, Jr. It is needless to make any suggestions along this line, but let us watch and prepare for whatever opportunity is offered. According to press dispatches, the Japanese and Russian pleuplotentiaries have entered bitter complaint against the hotels of Portsmouth, especially the foods and services. This is not to be understood that these hotels are not good American hotels, but they are not good Japanese and Russian style hotels. No doubt all the hotels at Portsmouth have white help. If any man profits by the mistakes he makes, the colored waiter certainly has many notable examples from which to take an object lesson. A position is more difficult to recover than to hold. Passession is characterized as ninetheats of the law. White waiters have nine-tenths of the places in their possession. Make your own deduction. Who is to biame? This question is open to all. "Success is the lamp of knowledge. The man who keeps it supplied with oil of wisdom fed by the fountain of truth will enter the banquet hall at the call of opportunity. Failure is the same lamp—the lamp of knowledge with the oil run out. This particular kind of oil cannot be bought—every man has it within himself and it will be found only by those who earnestly seek." There is no person about the hote who can better appreciate a good steward and buyer than a waiter. Many times the fruits at this season of the year reach the pantry in the very worse conditions and only one half or less is fit for the table. The buying is left to some inexperienced person, or some one who lets commission and graft get INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $2.00 per year; including subscription to the Freeman, in advance.] HEADWATTERS. C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 105 C. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. 10-05 C. H. Bradley, headwaiter Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 HOTEL DIRECTORY This column used exclusively for the adresses of hotels restaurants lodging and boarding houses and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the traveling public—you business solicited. Hotel Referee 90. 6th street, Richmond, Va. A. W. Homes, manager. Moore's Hotel—First-class roomsand board Rooms neatly furnished, 7.2 and 714 W. Plat Street Little Rock, Ark. Waldorf Astoria Hotel—327 Laurel street, Hot Springs, Ark. Cora's Lunch Room — 220 Fifth Street, Little Rock, Ark. A TASTY SE ROYAL THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. the best of the bargain, and the hotel paying the highest prices. No person sees and understands more of this than the waiter. During the recent convention of the American Municipal League at Toledo, Mayor Woodward of Atlanta, Ga., made some very uncompilimentary remarks about the Negro of the South. Some of the walters at the banquet where Mayor Woodward was a guest, filled his silk hat with chicken bones and reminants of lobster salad and mayonnaise. While on an excursion trip on Lake Erie the mayor was accosted by a waiter who wanted to thrash him, and it was only by the timely intervention of friends that the mayor was saved from a mixup Senator Martin Saxe's anti-tipping Bill went into effect on Friday, September 1st and if the law is lived up to by New Yorkers who have been in the habit of offering bribes, calling them tips as a slave to their conscience, it will save millions of dollars every year. The bill does not mean that one cannot fee a waiter in a restaurant for prompt attention, or that one cannot fee a cabman an extra coin for driving you fast, but it does mean that a man who acted as an agent for his employer and received money from the sellers of goods, which is to come out of the employer's pocket commits a misdemeanor and lays himself liable to prison. Here is what you can do and what you can't do, after the anti-tipping law goes into effect. You can tip anyone for good service. You can't tip anyone as a bribe. You can tip a waiter for bringing your dinner hot and without delay. You cannot tip him to serve you a dollar dinner for fifty cents. You can tip a coachman for driving you fast. You can't tip him for paying you one thousand and dollars of his employers money for a horse worth two hundred and fifty dollars. HOTEL NOTES Born to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Brown of Charleston, W. Va., August 9 1905, a twelve pound girl (Miss Vivian Marie Brown.) Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss A. Myrtle Wallace, and was at one time an employee of The Freeman and is well known in indianapolis. Mr. Brown has been employed as headwaiter at the Hotel Ruffner, Charleston, W. Va., for three years, and has a crew of thirty competent men in the dining room. Mr. Brown is held in the highest esteem by Manager Taylor, who considers the lecture given each day by Mr. Brown timely and full of wholesome advice. Mr. Clark now fills the position of headwaiter at the Hotel Knawha with a competent crew. It is rumored that W. N. Seals of the Ruffner force will soon lead a blushing bride to Hymen's alter. A number of hotel boys gave a concert at Knights of Pythias Hall, a few days ago, at which Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were impersonated by Mesers. Fox and Watson. About a year ago F. C. Brown purchased a valuable corner lot with a two story building thereon on Capitol and Donnally streets. He is making repairs and is in good condition now to accommodate the traveling public. When in Charleston drop in and see him. Mrs. Brown conducts a neat little milliner store and handles hair goods and novelties at 500 Capital street, Charleston, W. Va. Rev. Moses Lake preached the annual sermon to the hotel men and barbers recently. James Woods presides as head over the Hotel Elk dining room. The Hotel Ruffner force presented to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Brown complimentary tickets to the Black Pattl show. A FEW WORDS ABOUT MODERN HOTELS. The Ever Existence of the Amplian and Trials of its Headwaiters—Matters Sifted Down on the la Carte -Points on Kickers, &c. Retrospection of by gone years can bring to memory no possible comparison of hotel buildings, equipment and hotel keeping in this moving age. Unique strides have been made in the constructing of hotels—the cost reaching hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars in structure and equipment. The furniture and fixtures in the dining-rooms, as well as in other parts of such hostelries, are marvelous and seven amazing to the eyes. Such hotels are marked for infinite comfort and luxury, and the best known service. In the modernized dining-room of to-day—which place may well be the heart of the hotel—we find private coffee urns for the more perfect making and serving of the beverage at the table: The use of special chafing dishes is indulged in. We find many artistic designs of novelties in table linen—cloths, napkins, scarfs, center and side pieces in embroideries—silver and crockery ware, as well as various unique designs of costly wine glasses, and other articles too numerous to speak of; all of which have been introduced for attraction in table dress and service of the very highest class. The steward and chef de cuisine have made indisputable progress in the art cuisine. They have shown us many new, dainty and palatable dishes in entress, entremets, &c. The pastry cook, in his intricate place, is being tried by a crucial test, which forces him to demonstrate his highest fancy art in the preparation of his varieties. Hotels of today serve guests in various styles: table d'hote, club lunches, a la carte and Amplan. Beyond reasonable doubt the marked improvement in the culinary art, the novelties we see, the new development of system and discipline, demonstrate that the service in the dining room of this forward age has been completely revolutionized, making the task of the waiters and headwaiter, as well as those engaged in the culinary department, more trying than ever. Evidently this means that none will find and retain positions but those of capabilities. It is probably true that if the man of years back who so easily acquired reputation and fame as a headwaiter had to do it over again in the mingle of greater competition, (which really means that a headwaiter must be measured around the head for qualification, instead of the stomach for stature) a great many would give up the struggle in despair Table d'hote is a well selected meal with a fixed price, which is paid whether little or much is ordered Club lunches: A good selection of many light, dainty meals, with a fixed price, which is ordered and settled for by number. For example: No. 22 Baked apples and cream, rolls, butter and coffee, 35 cents. On the a la carte (European) as a familiar fact, an article of food by a fixed price when served, represents a certain amount of cash. To materialize the requirements of this system, the checks, report sheet and cash must all balance at the close of a day's business. In an effort to make these important ends meet (which is the fundamental principle of the a la carte plan, and which is pledged to place the business upon the best paying basis) practical men in the fraternity have sifted the matter down, joined their views, promulgated their opinions, introducing technical checking systems which now insure against waste and actual loss to an infinitesimal degree. The a la carte plan has grown prominent with many managers, as well as wealthy or liberal patrons, and is now considered by most managers as the only real profitable way of operating a hotel. This assertion is doubles true in the larger cities where such establishments are maintained by money-spending patrons. No doubt the managers of the European houses in the smaller cities, where the guests for some reason, greatly minimize their appetites, or take a $1.00 or $1.50 room and go around to a lunch counter or some cheap restaurant for their meals, will say "give me the old time plan for my business." Despite the favor and popularity of the a la carte plan, and the various leaks of the amiplan which seemingly cannot be checked, this old plan is not yet gone back and will ever exist with the a la carte, as in evidence today we find some of the new as well as old oaravansaries conducted on both plans, wherein people are invited to patronize the house at random. The finest winter and summer resorts of this land are operated on the old plan. while of course some have a grillroom or club house in connection. For many years the amplian hotel has been the happy home of thousands of patrons who live in hotels year in and year out, who today will not willingly give up their old satisfactory mode of living, for the new style. Referring to the vocation of headwaiting in the busy commercial amliplan house, I think I am justified in saying there is no hotel, regardless of its red-tape discipline, wherein the common but sound judgment and ex-cutive ability of a headwalter is more severely tested. True enough the a la carte hotel, with its special preparation of gorgeous articles of food, its new features and system of rigid technicality, places the head waiter in a very intricate predicament where, too a more mathematical judgment must be utilized. At that, the daily worry, tribulation and nulsance that overtakes the man of the city amliplan hotel reaches the a la carte headwaiter only in part. I will endeavor to point just a few of the numerous prevailing incidents of worry, and the necessary observations and things to do in the well conducted amliplan room. As a fact well known this dining-room offers unlimited opportunities for the "star boarder," the big eating visitors known as, "spongers," and the "kicker," whom I will say more about later, to take all unprofitable advantage when in the dining-room Such chances of favor to these known characters rarely slip by. This type of guest gives the waiters no small degree of expected trouble, and as for the headwaiter, who holds a position of greater responsibility, there is no end to his vexation and head-scratching. The "star boarder" must, of course, have an exclusive table and waiter. Fruits of season in different styles, relishes and shellfish must be lavishly laid upon their table before they enter for meals. It matters not how much the headwaiter needs the service of a waiter, he is forbidden moving the waiter from that table. Many times they go out for luncheon or dinner, leaving the headwaiter in ignorance of their absence, yet all these delicacies are spread and wasted, and the waiter stands lile in expectation. As a matter of fact, the commercial man's time for dining is generally limited. He enters the dining room thinking of his own business possibilities, giving recognition to the fact that he is hustling for self in a world of competition. The headwaiter must undoubtedly see that every single guest is rendered the best and quickest possible service. To do this requires the best judgment in seating and tactful observance, i. e., he must at all times keep in his mind the open seats where he can place a guest for prompt service. He should keep tab on the time that the waiters are out for orders. Serving one to four guests to boiled eggs, toast and coffee, or full breakfast orders, will consume five to eighteen minutes of a good waiter's time—in a well planned kitchen of good discipline. This time is reduced for luncheon and dinner. At all times, if possible, make it a point to seat guests where a waiter can catch him, or them, immediately or soon after unless it be a guest who has an exclusive table and waiter. By keeping tab on the waiters, as just explained, you keep in touch with their moves, and are thus enabled to seat guests for the promptest service. Never practice scattering your guests—a man here and there—sending waiters out with an order aplece. Now I do not mean to say crowd them to an uncomfortable extent, but send the waiters out with two or three orders aplece. Two orders for a waiter makeups service, and four ordinarily should be the limit; then the best results are achieved. Strange to say but true, the a la carte headwaiters have comparatively little judgment to exercise in the course of seating guests. He has plenty of two, four and six-seat tables, well located. Of course the smaller ones are more desirable and are in the majority. One practical waiter of this plan can handle from five to seven checks, serving from eight to twelve people here and there with far less ease and complaint. The headwaiter must see that the water boy, or waiter presents each guest with a glass of water. In case the regular waiter of a table is out for orders, or busy around his table when another guest is seated, an idle waiter should start him off, i.e. serve him to fruit and cereals, or appetizer—soup and fish, as the case may be. An order consisting of boiled eggs, toast and coffee must not be kept unil a waiter gets up two or more full breakfast orders, when it could be pleasingly served in five minutes. An order for cakes or waffles must not be delayed in a similar manner but served as soon as ready. Second orders of a like article of food, or an exchange of a disliked order, should be served or rectified immediately. Dessert orders should be timely served. While a headwaiter is taking a guest to a seat he is frequently told: "I have an appointment at——; or, I can't spend the day in here now. I am in a hurry to get unpacked; or, to catch a train." These and many other frequent demands for exceedingly quick service come quite natural to the guests; and are at times, very worrying to the head walter—ev. n. though expected. These individuals show by hard kloking, because they are on the amplain, that they really expect their meals well served in too short a time. Aside from keeping his mind intact, and an eagle eye both on the affairs and events of the dining room, the headwalter is often questioned, and is expected to give information as to the in and out time of trains, whereabouts of business houses and other environments of the city. During the busy meal hours, 'phone calls, telegrams and business call cards for certain guests are handed to the headwalter, who is expected to locate them. Speaking of kickers, a guest may be easy to please in the bar, the office or in his bedroom, but when he reaches the dining-room there is where he displays his whimsical ideas. I mean to say that every person of any degree of peculiarity will save most of it, if not all, for the dining-room. (To Be Continued.) HOW A WAITER SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF IN THE DINING ROOM DEPARTMENT In the small volume I have endeavored to point out what, in my mind, is the proper way for a waiter to conduct himself in order to make his services valuable to those who employ him and to pave the way to lasting success. It may seem presumptuous in me to offer advice to many of you who have grown gray catering to the taste of a very capricious public, and the emphatic statements herein contained may startle many Pittsburgh men who are clamorous for what they think are their rights. It would not surprise me if, after perusing this pamphlet, all the vials of their wrath were emptied on my unprotected head, but, be that as it may. "I am so armed with honesty that their threats will pass by me as the idle wind, which I respect not." No cause worthy the name, but has its martyrs, and I am impelled by my desire to improve the vocation I am following to speak out plainly. During the past few years there has been a great deal of talk about the so-called "Sildewater," and in the course of my experience as a headwaiter it has been my misfortune to run afoul of many of this class to my sorrow. I have seen his aping movements, fashion starts, and listened to his slang, which so occupied his mind that he frequently forgot the orders entrusted to him. I hate a manish waiter, one of those imperious creatures who demands what is not due. He makes hard work of the business for himself and for all who come after him. It is the friendly waiter who pleases the public and gives the best satisfaction to all concerned—one who satisfies what is right and goes ahead and performs his whole duty in a cheerful, quiet manner. THE DUTY OF A WAITER The question may be asked, "What is the duty of a waiter?" He must be neat in appearance, quiet in manner and accommodating with a keen sense of chivalry and a proper idea of manhood. The waiter who takes care of his business and is always at his post is well thought of. I believe the time is near at hand that the employment of waiters will cease to become a matter of color, but purely a matter of business. Fitness will be the test, and in that term is bound up everything that goes to make one man preferred to another. A man may be ever so clever and brainy, may be considered a shining light in the literary world, but if he has not mastered the necessary details of dining room service, if he has not made the most of his opportunities, if he abuses his privileges, his literary ability will count for but little in making him a desirable man in the dining room. For every man and woman there is a place in life, and having once found that place it is not a good policy to leave it. It is with a waiter as with other men, those who succeed are the ones who master all the details, strive to be always neat in appearance, gentlely in deportment and obliging in disposition who win their way in the world. Of course, through stress in circumstances, many a man is often compelled to follow a business which he does not like, but that business affords him a livelihood, it should claim from him the best service he is capable of giving. It is the man who is faithful in a few things that stands the best chance of some day being at the head of many things. In order to do good work you must keep your body in good condition, take care of your body and the brain will perform its work and never fall you in the hour of need. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. The A. B. C. of the waiter's perfection is founded on his knowledge of the new American and European plans. If a waiter is unsound regarding these fundamental principles he will have a world of trouble in trying to solve the many perplexing difficulties which he COOKS Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 300 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. is sure to meet with in well regulated hotels. If he keeps abreast of current events by reading "The Caterer," "The Waiters' Manual" and the "Hotel World" and applies the fund of information to be gained from them, he should never be at a loss what to do nor how to do it. There is no excuse for slip-shod work in any calling. There never was a time in the history of the world when information on any subject was easier to be had if a man would only make an effort to obtain it. The future of the colored waiter in this country depends largely on the kind of service he renders. The more painstaking and intelligent the service the greater he will be in demand, and vice versa. The fault is not in our color, but too often in ourselves that so many doors are shut against us. Merit counts for us as much in the dining room as it does in the counting room. A mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer is expected to be well informed in all the details of his calling or profession, and the greater his proficiency the more men seek his services. The same rule applies to the waiter. Be cleanly in habit, neat in appearance, well informed in the duties to be performed, genteel in deportment, obliging in disposition, prompt and patient, and, my word for it, the demand for your services will increase as these conditions are met and mastered by the rank and file following the waiters' profession. The above is offered for the benefit of the young men. H PETTIGREW, Headwalter Monongahela House. Pittsburg, Pa. EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK. Wille Wilkins, the efficient young headwaiter of the Crescent Hotel, left this week for Chicago on a vacation, which he very much needs and deserves. Mr. Wilkins has held the position as headwaiter of this large hotel since last April and is very much in need of rest. He has demonstrated such ability as a headwaiter that his services are almost indispensable. He will return in a few days and resume his duties as headwaiter. Mr. Wilkins has something up his sleeve and the boys will do well to keep in touch with him. The waiters of the Crescent Hotel gave a grand minstrel show and cake walk last Monday night at the Opera House here. The boys were full to the brim with jokes and late songs and held their audience spell-bound with laughter from beginning to end. Tom Lane, formerly of the great Williams and Walker company, was there and entertained the audience in such a manner as only a man of Mr. Lane's qualifications can do. The guests went away much pleased that night and the boys were all happy next morning when they received a share of the proceeds. Among those who took prominent parts were Wm. Edmonds, Robert Fox, L. Adams, B. Mosby, H. Bunch, F. G. Trapp, and others. The cake walk was participated in by Miss Laura Curtis and Miss Annie Lewis. Miss Curtis and partner, E. M. Henderson, won the greater amount of applause. The boys of the Crescent are always wide awake. H. Y. Pentacost is still at the Crescent. He is a steady and energetic young man who is well thought of by his employers and by all who know him. Such men as "Hamp" are what the colored waiters need to help them gain greater prestige in the profession of sidewaiters. The readers of The Freeman may expect to hear of us again soon DON'T FAIL TO VISIT THE Richmond Cafe and Ice Cream Parlor When in the City of Richmond. We serve the best meals of any place in the town. All Birds of soft drinks and fine cigars. Calm and peaceful. CHAS. M. PROFFIT, Manager. THE LAKE ERIE & WESTERN BAILROAD Subscribe for The Freeman THE: FREEMAN & NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 309 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sar Any pert ofthe Uli Staten ad Cant See Met renerncesoen ne ne Foren Soma A ee "Agents wanted ae mea gra and, city not age snag aad [era ndaanaaa ie given to the same. Send for our extraordinary Sleteente, AD“ERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Pase of measure—solid pants, i pes see Collard £08 coleme. Secummer arr eevee bras Soe Reseda es iat teat rates on Wit: TE UPS. Sees All matter should be addressed to . THE FREEMAN, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEORGE L. ENOX, Publisher. ees ma RCAN REET. Ore INGERSOLL, OR D!XON— WHICH? “| wouid rather be stolen from than be ¢ thief; I would rather be a slave than ¢ slaveholder.”” The above quotation 1s from the late Robert G. Ingersoll. Let us suggest tha you make a comparison between the hear of aman who made such dn utterance in undoubted sincerity and that of Thoma: Dixon. It is not necessary to quote from him as all are famil'ar with the heart of the man in spite of the fact that he always insists that he has only feelings of “'sym- pathy and pity.”” Ingersoll was an infidel—at least an un- bellever—and to such an extent that preach: ers like Thomas Dixon saw in him an evil that threatened the souls of men and begot for him an eternal misery in the life here- after, and yet no heart ever beat in greater sympathy for the wronged and despised than that of Ingersoll. Wherever there was suffering there was his heart also. He asked no right for himself that he did not cheerfully accord to others, and he recognized all men as his brothers. True, indeed, might it be said of him as he said at the grave of his brother—“‘there was no grander, manlier man, and if all to whom he did a kind act would place one blossom on his grave he would sleep to-night be neath a wilderness of flowers." One might go over the whole Sermon on the Mount and the Golden Rule (which constitute the very essence of the Christian religion) and it would be found that In the righteousness of these there was no firmer bellever than he. Yet this man Dixott, who “confesses Him with his mouth, but whose heart is far from Him," wears the garb of the Christian. Certainly the contrast between these two characters is sufficient to show how wide and far we are straying. There is something radically wrong either with the religious system that Contains within its folds preachers who do not come up to the moral status of infidels, or else there is something decidedly wrong with these preachers themselves. And who would class Rev. Dixon and Rev. Stagg, with thelr doctrines of caste and hate, with thal great humanitarian, Ingersoll? The great Christian church must beware lest in har- boring preachers whose hearts are at such variance with the teachings of Christ it bring disrepute and disrespect upon itself. SCHOOL TEACHERS. ‘The vacation period has come to a close ‘and the school teachers are with us again. They return from all points of the compass where they have been in search of recrea- tlon and Instruction, and come back re- freshed and invigorated and better prepared for the work of the coming year. As most of our newspaper men have been teachers who have fallen out of the ranks from various causes, principally to make room for better teachers, we can fully appreciate the interest which attends this reassem- bling. There is no class of public servants so poorly paid as the school teacher. But notwithstanding this there fs a large num- ber among theze poorly paid ones who get more than they really earn, for earning must be based on product rather than on effort expended. We have not yet learned that schoo! teachers, like poets, are born, not made. We mean by this, that the most essential qualification for school teaching 4s that which is born within and can only be developed, but no amount of training can put that essentlal there. This “‘essen- tlal’’ Is the abllity to make the chitd ‘‘see,”” ‘and, through this opened vision, to lead him/n the development of the best that is within; ever unfolding, growing and ex- panding until there shall be given to the THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. child an impetus that shall make for the highest ard best in the man or woman that shall be. Such is the good teacher. It would be difficult to over estimate the value of such @ teacher. The crop of good teachers, like that of good preachers, Is now and always has been far below the demand. Indian- apolis has some of these and the hope.ts that we may have more of them. We can say tothe new comers that they will not find this place an easy one for the school teacher. It is not a question of expending nerve force, but of results obtained. No better schools can be found for the child, but as for the teacher—it s a place where men and women are ground up to furnish packing for the heads of children. These schools are made for the children as should be. The harder your way the more certain It is that you do not fit the groove. TIT FOR TAT. Squire Letcher, a well-known colored man and a Union veteran soldier of Evans- ville, Ind., died Thursday, Aug. 31, and the Rev. W. H. Anderson, pastor of the colored Baptist church, was asked to con duct the funeral services. He refused on the ground that the family had secured the services of a white undertaker, in prefer- ence to a Negro undertaker.” Anderson says there is a scheme on foot in this city toruin any Negro financially who under- takes to embark in any legitimate business. The famntly called in another minister, who conducted the funeral with a white under taker, The feeling is running high among the Negroes here. Anderson ts one of the best known colored ministers in the State. We are so accustomed to seeing the one- sidedness of things in which the colored man figures that the above press dispatch is somewhat refreshing. While we cannot bring ourselves to the point of denying ‘ones right to make his own choice in such matters, we must confess this bold stand by Rev. Anderson is at least pleasing. Who dares predict that the time may not come when there will bea line drawn between those members of the race who will Insist on patronizing thelr own business men's business and those who do not? A BOY’S SOLILOQUY. “The melancholly days have come— The sadest of the year. The swimin’ hole is gettin’ cold, And school time's almost here.” The worst effect of race prejudice is that it keeps apart the better element in both races, and as a consequence there Is lost that mutual helpfulness and understanding that would result from closer contact. Most troubles are the resuit of misunder- standing and this is no exception to the rule, Besides, the world needs all the good that the human family can generate. Of this we shall never have too much. Race prejudice makes our product of this com- modity far below what It should be. We do not look aith disfavor on the pro- posed effort to import Italians into the South to be used instead of the Negro who now does most of the work. The determi- nation of the Southern white man to have some one else do his work has caused him much trouble, and the chances are it will yet cause him greater trouble when he has swapped the Negro for the Italian. He will not then find it easy to overcharge and und under pay, and keep them in perpetual aaa 7 Count Leo Tolsto!’s recent létter in the London Times, wherein he declares that land monopoly is at the root of Russia's misery, 1s creating much discussion among those interested in sociology. This is not only true of that country, but {s true of every country that has a large population. It is only a question of time when the doc- trines of Henry George must be applied to land tenure. A Negro in Texas charged with “attack- ing’ a young woman was recently burned atthe stake. At Monticello, Ind., on Aug, 28th a man fifty-five years old attempted criminal assault on a girl five years vld. He fled, but was captured and placed in jail. He was a man of bad reputation, but there are no threats of lynching. Yes, we are in favor of according every right to woman that man claims for him- self. We have never been able to under- stand the wisdom of putting the ballot into the hand of every depraved, whisky-soaked man, and denying our reficed and intelli- gent woman a part in making the laws which govern society in general. There has never yet been found a sub- stitute tor simple, plain honesty; and no man can be honest with others who is not honest to himself. It is an up-hill business to make others believe what you do not be- eve yourself, When we once realize that there is abso- lutely no escape from the evil consequences of wrong doing, and that by injuring an- other we injure ourselves, we shall be within the dawn of the millennium. Why 1s it that a colored woman carrying a white child in her arms ts accorded more respect than when carrying ker own child? The answer is easy. If you don’t know ask Thomas Dixon. Opportunities make men, but great men make opoortunities. A SUMMER DREAM. A dream of hours that are no more; A summer dream now passed away— Ah! memory, why ponder o'er ‘The wanton spirit of a day? O1 let me rest, nor call to mind A hope that only bloom’d to die; A love that only proved too kind— A love which passed unheeded by. ‘Ah, me! on such another day ‘We gazed upon the pleasant stream And mark'd It wind its gentle way, While I, in that sweet summer dream, Believed our lives would softly flow Together through the vale of life, Tn unison, come weal or woe, ‘As ever constant man and wife, A foolish dream, though passing sweet, Which bound my loving heart to thine, And bade me ev'ry whisper greet As faithful love's response to mine— Fond fool! 'Twere happier to have died Thus dreaming, than have lived to see Thy worthlessness—oh, I have tried To kill the memory of thee, But all in vain—I shade my eyes ‘And gaze across the pleasant land; But though, alone, I hear thy sighs And feel the pressure of thy hand, The old, old dream, that summer dream, To thee a leaf that floated by And perishes in life’s gay stream To me the love that cannot die? Philadelphia. —J. H. Gray. THE DEFENSE LEAGUE. It is believed that one of the most prejudicial causes which operates against that higher race unity demand- ed in the interests of simple justice and a Chiristian civilization is, that aspersions and —_misrepresentations coming from those of prominence have been allowed to go practically unan- swered. We have witnessed the pois- oning of the public mind by writers and platform speakers of the South until its ill effect has become noticeable everywhere. The race has been ma- ligned time and again without bring- ing to the offenders either a protest or reply. Is there not, therefore, some ground for these charges of wholesale ignorance and incompetence when these charges are not met by us? Have not those who misrepresent us a right to construe our silence as pleading guilty, when neither reply nor protest comes to them? We are abundantly able to meet the arguments of these men on the ground of their own choos- ing, and the interests of the race de- mand that this be done. This is the purpose of the Defense League of let- ter writers. On and after Sept. Ist, any such case or cases coming to our notice will be called to the attention of the Defense League in these columns, and within thirty thereafter each mem- ber will be expected to address a well written letter in answer thereto. It will cost only a postage stamp, and a little time. One hundred of thes let- ters concentrated on a given point, and all coming within thirty days, cannot fail to produce and effect that will be helpful. The absence of ostentation and display does not mean that this movement will thereby be productive if any less of that which is good. Will you join us? Address G. W. Cable, Editor, Free- man. Spinoza was denied social equality in Spain. His parents were social outcasts simply because they were Jews. Yet there was never a day that Spinoza was not the superior of those who scorned him. The Itallans and the yellow fever in Loulsiana is a foretaste of what the South will get when the Negro labor there has been supplanted by Italian labor, Remember this: Superiority is the rela- tive merit of Individuals or tnings. Merit is a fixed fact and does not depend on the judgment of any particular person. Our time is now and our place is here. We are therefore incre concerned about the Now and the HeRe than in theorles on what made the past what it was, The march of progress means man mak- ing and woman making; not merely male and female people, but MeN and women In the highest sense of the word. Social equality and merit are entirely different. You may have one without the other, but merit alone counts with people ol sabia, About the simplest way to have better children is for the men to make it possible for the women to stay at home with them. We continue to believe that the wisest thing for the colored man to do is to go to the Indian Territory and buy land> “Whatsoever thou doest do quickly.” You are only sure of the present. Do not miss this opportunity to sub- scribe for the races’ leading journal. BOOKER T, WASHINGTON AND THE NEGRO, SOME DANGEROUS ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF TUSKEGEE. BY THOMAS DIXON, JR.y AUTHOR OF THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS. (Contiinied ‘from leat weak.) ee Oke tap Oe eee ee Prof. Kelly Miller says: ‘‘It is a matter ‘of common observation that the races are growing further and further apart.” Mr, Washington says on this point: “For the sake of the Negro and the South- ern white man there are many things in the relations of the two races that must ‘soon be changed” (page 65). The point 1 raise is that education necessarily drives the races further and further apart, and Mr, Washington's brand of education makes the gulf between them if anything a little deeper. If there is one thing @ Southern white man cannot endure it is an educated Negro. What's to be the end of it if the two races are to live forever side by side in the South? Mr. Washington says: “‘Give the black man so much skill and brains that he can cut oats like the white man—then he can compete with him.” And then the real tragedy will begin. Does any sane man believe that when the Negro ceases to work under the direction of the Southern white man this “‘arrogant,”” “rapacious” and “intolerant” race will allew the Negro to master his industrial system, take the bread from his mouth, crowd him to the wall and place a mort- age on his house? Competition is war— the most fierce and brutal of all its forms. Could fatuity reach 2 sublimer height than the idea that the white man will stand idly by and see this performance? What will he do when put to the test? He will do ex- actly what his white neighber in the North does when the Negro threatens his bread— kill him ! Abraham Lincoln foresaw this tragedy when he wrote his Emancipation Procla- mation, and he asked Congress for an ap- propriation of a billion doliars to colonize the whole Negro race. He never believed It possible to assimilate the Negro into our natlonal life, This nation will yet come back to Lincoln’s. plan, still so eloquently advocated by the Negro bishop, Henry M. Turner. It is curious how the baldheaded asser- tion of a lie can be repeated and repeated until millions of sane people will accept the bare assertion as an established fact. At the close of the war, Mr. Lincoln, brooding over the insoluble problem of the Negro's future which his proclamation had created, asked General Benjamin F. Butler to devise and report to him immediately a plan to colonize the Negroes. General Butler, natura!ly hostile to the idea, made at once his famous, false and facetious report, “that ships could not be found to carry the Negro bables to Africa as fast as they are born!" The President was assassinated a few days later. This lle is now forty odd years old, and Mr. Booker T. Washington actually repeats it as a verbal inspiration though entirely unconscious of its historic origin. We have spent about $820,000,000 on Negro education since the war. O.e-half of this sum would have been sufficient to have made Liberia a rich and powerful Negro state. Liberia is capable of support- ing every Negro in America, Why not face this question squarely? We are tem- porizing and playing with it All our edu- cational schemes are compromises and | temporary makeshifts. Mr. Booker T.. Washington's work 1s one of noble aims. A branch of it should be immediately estab- lished at Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. A gift of ten millions would do this, and establish a colony of half amillion Negroes within two years. They could lay the foundations of a free black republic which within twenty-five years would solve our race problem on the only rational basis within human power. Colonization is not a failure. It has never been tried. We owe this tothe Negro, At present we are deceiving him and allowing him to deceive himself. He hopes and dreams of amalgamation, forgetting that self-preser- vation is the first law of Nature. Our present attitude of hypocrisy is inhuman toward a weaker race brought to our shores, by the sins of our fathers. We owe hima square deal, and we will never give it to Sk nu Wks Cheaeaaan- THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (CONTINUED FROM STRST PAGE.) venti ns of any description may wel be proad, The nation stands in aw: of a body qbich oan attract the serivus consideration of these captaius of commerce Although the meeting was the best yet, Gulbert Harris and Dr. Courtney of Boston; 8, Laing Williams and T. W. Jones of Chicago; Giles B Jackson and Rev, W. L Taylor of Richmond; J. C, Napier and Dr Boyd of Nasuville, and Or. Furniss and Editor Gurley Brewer of Indianspoiis, bad no reason to feel other then proud of what their respective cities had done for the Lesgue. Architect J. A. 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Tey are first class businers men and believe in the saving grace ot advertising. —* Editor Oswald Garrison Villard gave evidence of some deep thinking on “The Negro Servant Question,” and he was eminently oo rect in pronouncing the capable colored servant ae the best mission ary for peace between the races. for the educated classes never come into the clove contact with the better classes of the whites to bring about the uadersianding necessary for a proper appreciation of the mutual £ elings of tue white and black people. Ernest Hogan’s “Mmphis Students” who have been filling 100 nights’ engagement at Hammerstein's Roof Garden, paired with Williems & Waiker’s Glee Club in oarryi: g eff the musical honors, Tne convention went wild oyer them, and the Sousa like antics or “business” of Direotcr Wil, Dixon Was a treat in itself The interpolated *Susanee River” by Mrs, Abbie Mitchell Cook, was a gem of the purest ray serene Her voice is flexible and sweet, and is ‘erpesially adapted to the free range of music composed by her distinguished husband, Will Mation Cook, Sylvester Russell, who has made @ place for the Negro dramatic oritio in the ranks ‘o1 metropolitan journalism, mingled and ‘sparkled among the celebrities. All were avxious to see the fearless writer whose quips and dissertations on art have kept the profession guessing for the past two years. 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I want nothing but that night at the King's Arms in Winchester to convince me of that. My God, you should have seen him fight Foy! Hang your marquises! Armand is a man, I tell you! What was there to gain by a vulgar masquerade?" Rashleigh at this juncture entered, bearing a salver. "Letter for Mars' Henry," said he, "Mars' Randolph's Eb'nezer fetch it ober arter him fum Williamsburg dis mawnin'." "Why," said Henry, breaking the seal, "tis from Dr. Franklin. Business of the colonies surely. Stay—you shall hear it: "London, Jan. 10, 1755 "Sir-Dr. Cralk, who needs no introduction to you, on his return to Virginia will see that this reaches your hand. It will inform you that M. de Penet is arrived much when he told me that it was too discreetly doubted in the colonies as to the disposition of the court of France with regard to us. The English court here has little of this doubt; indeed there has been actual trepidation. The good news I send by this letter will show you that there was abundant ground for such fears. Not only have King Louis and M. Turgot, by whom finance, consider the enemy by which means they might assist an unhappy and interesting a people, but I have just learned that a nobleman of great family connection and great wealth is lately sailed for your colony, an officer in the flower of his age, who has already proved his talents in Corsica. I am informed by our co-worker Beaumarchais, who is now here at the town house of Wilkes in Preston, where this gentleman's judgment is much valued at Marselles, and in case the state of the cause in Virginia (which the king deems most important of the southern colonies) seems to warrant he will doubtless be commissioned to make certain representations touching aid and comfort to come from France in the event of united hostilities. I am satisfied that any civilities and respect that may be shown M. the king would be able to our affairs. His mission is: of course, secret. I shall inform no one else of this, trusting the information to your whole discretion. I have the honor to be, sir, my most obedient servant, "B. FRANKLIN. "Patrick Henry, Esq., Willamsburg, Va." Henry read slowly, without a pause, while the other's eyes did not leave his face. When he had finished he looked up with an expression of mingled satisfaction and puzzlement. "Marquis de la Trouerie!" Colonel Tillotson exclaimed. "Armand's master, then, was the messenger of France! And he is doubtless in Virginia now. But how dares the secretary pose as his master?" "Because the marquis is dead!" fell a heavy voice behind them. The host got up frowning. "Captain Jarrat," said he brusquely, "I like not well these soft footed intrusions. Nor, if I may say it, do I like the dress you wear. Times are come when I no longer welcome a coat of that color in my house." A smoldering red rose to Jarrat's check, but he spoke evenly. "I should beg pardon, colonel, for an unceremonious intrusion into a conversation. Rashleigh let me in." "Curse Rashleigh!" said the colonel unmistakably. "I rode to inquire for Miss Tillotson," the visitor continued, "but since I am unwelcome, why, I will betake myself home again." "One moment, colonel," interposed Henry. "Captain, we spoke of a gentleman as you entered. May I ask what basis you have for your information?" Jarrat took out his pocketbook, drew forth a yellow paper and handed it to Henry. "The Marquis de la Trouerie died en route to these colonies and was buried at sea. There is the leaf from the logbook of the Two Sisters recounting the unhappy incident. The news of his death was suppressed in British interests." "And the secretary?" Henry's voice was calm. "The incident is now closed, gentlemen, and I violate no confidence. He was bought by the earl—for services." "My God!" ejaculated Colonel Tillotson. "Are we never to know truth in this world? He was not an impostor and a charlatan. No. He was a British spy." "Why, then," interrogated Henry, "did Dunmore expose him?" "You!" the colonel cried. "I had crossed on the same ship and recognized him at Williamsburg. Discovering the true state of affairs, can you wonder, Colonel Tillotson, at my concern for the intimacy which I saw growing between your niece and this person? I think," he said, masking a glowworm gleam in his eyes, "that my feeling for Mistress Tillotson is not misunderstood by you. I knew Lord Dun- THE FIRST CONFEDERATE CONFERENCE "Because the marquis is dead!" more's plan, and I could not openly tell you the truth. Is it a wonder I forgot that I was a king's man? I did the one thing left to me. I set afloat such suspicions that the governor, to save his own repute with Williamsburg, was compelled to sacrifice his minion, to himself expose the imposture and to cry himself also deceived. I tell you thus much in confidence. Believe me, sir, I steered the best I knew between the hurt of a lady whom I honor and the governor's displeasure. It was the Scylla of duty and the Charybdis of love. Colonel, I love your niece, and I would not see her suffer humiliation." Colonel Tillotson rose and paced up and down the floor, plucking at the side curls of his wig. "And if what you tell us is true," he said, meditating, "I have done you wrong. I am not overkind to your colors, but I have a respect for honest loyalty. God knows 'tis scarce enough. Mayhap I have been unjust. Will you be seated?" Jarrat sat down, his watchful eyes turning about the room, something strangely like expectancy in them. The colonel rang for his major domo. "Rashleigh," said he soberly, "ask your Mis' Anne to come to the library. And admit no one—no one. Do you hear?" "Yas, marsa; yas, suh! Nuttin' but er grabeyard ha'n gwineater git by dat do'!" "Poor child!" Henry's tone was pitiful. "You mean to tell her? At least wait till your wife is returned." "The sooner she hears some things the better for her. She has her share of pride; never fear." "The day I was last here, sir," observed Jarrat, "she boasted she would wed him an he were a labore in your fields." "Aye, maybe, but not if he were a conspirer against her country. My niece is a daughter of Virginia, sir." And the master of Gladden Hall notily took snuff to cover his feelings. Henry's face was like a sphinx. While they waited came a clatter of hoofs outside. A moment later the hall door was fuing open, and Rashleigh was heard in excited jabbering. The colonel repeated an objurgation. The next instant he jumped to his feet, and Jarrat started as if at an aparition. Armand stood on the threshold, mud splashed and pale. The newcomer's look ignored the captain. He bowed to Colonel Tillotson and addressed himself to Henry: "Monsieur, I come to warn you that a detachment of Dunmore's men is on its way hither from Yorktown to seize your person." "The deuce" shot out the colonel like a javelin. "I thought the price the earl put on you, Patrick, was but brag. He dares violate my house, then. Mount at once and away by the north road." Henry's gaze had seemed to dart and play about the young Frenchman's face like yellow summer lightning. "And what would the governor with me this time?" "To transport you to trial for high treason. It was plotted this day aboard the Fowley." "From which you are escaped?" Jarrat's voice entered: "To attack the residence of a Virginian gentleman without crown warrant is not so ready a thing even for a royal governor, but a man may disappear by night from a lonely road and who to blame? Our fleeing marquis, with his nose for delicate deceits, is a likely catsnaw. I swear such overt folly of Dunmore's will yet drive me into Whiggery!" Colonel Tillotson paused in perplexity, but Henry looked at the speaker with a gaze keen and inscrutable as an Indian's above that flickering half smile of his. "You have no time to spare, monsieur. They were to leave the Fowey at sundown. I implore you to haste." "As well," cautioned Jarrat, "to go by another way than the marquis anticipates." "You liar!" said Armand, flaming on him, "This man was in the plot. He waits the troops here at this moment. Monsieur, I beseech"— He did not finish, stricken dumb by the entrance of Anne. She had caught her breath at sight of him and stood, statue-like, in the candlelight. Then she held out both arms and ran toward him with a glad cry: "Louis! They have released you! Oh, thank God; thank God!" The young man did not speak; only a little spasm wrenched his features. But Jarrat did. "The jailbird was slippery, mistress," he sneered. The colonel, who had reached her in a stride and pulled her back, dropped her arm at the look of offense and scorn she cast upon the speaker. "Anne," he said, facing her rigidly, "listen to me! This man is not only no nobleman"— "I care naught!" she interrupted wildly. "I care not who he is! I only know what he is to me!" A light dawned on Armand's face with her words. He drew closer to her, as if wondering, afraid to trust his senses. She turned again to him. "I could not tell you—that night at the Raleigh. I had no time"— "But," cried Colonel Tillotson, "he is a spy—a hireling, child, bought to this deception to betray the colonials!" "Sooner than that," she declared, "would I believe Captain Jarrat capable of an honest love! This is a lie of your making, captain. He is no spy. Whatever he has done, 'twas not in dishonor." "Anne, Anne," urged her uncle, "we have seen the proofs!" "You do not believe them?" Armand whispered. "No, no! Nor ever will!" The young man laughed out triumphantly in sudden abandon. "You hear that, messieurs? There is one that believes in me!" "Believes, aye, and loves!" cried Anne and ran to him. He drew her close to his breast, murmuring soft words. Her face was pale, yet burning, her whole body thrilling with passion and defiance. "They cannot destroy my faith in you!" she breathed. "I shall love and trust you always, always, always!" "She is bewitched," Jarrat said, with dry lips. "You hated him!" she blazed at him. "Oh, I know how you would creep and creep! My friend," turning to Henry—"my friend, do you believe this?" Henry got up with a round oath. "No!" he swore, "By the great day, I do not believe it!" Her fluttering cry of delight was stilled by Colonel Tillotson's tense whisper, "Hark!" There was a dull drum of hoofs thudding over sod and with it Sweetlips' fierce challenge. Simultaneously came a wall of terror from the kitchens, and Rashleigh plunged in from the hall, his woolly head shaking with fear. "De sojers! De sojers! he screeched. "Mars' John, dee gwine kill y'all!" Jarrat rose to his feet. "You know how I can creep and creep, mistress?" he said. "Well, then, now you shall see how I can strike!" Anne had rushed instantly to the window and drawn the blind. "Troopers!" she cried. "The house is being surrounded! You have been pursued, Louis!" "Twas true then!" frothed Colonel Tillotson. "Jarrat, had I a weapon I would shoot you, I swear to God! There is one way, Patrick. Here, quick! Through this hall and to the buttery! There is a small window! Speed, and God send you get safe away!" As Henry disappeared Jarrat ran from the door, shouting directions to the soldiery. "Louis!" gasped Anne. "You must go! Take the same way, quick!" "Wait!" he said. "I must give something into your care—something important! Promise me you will do with it what I ask!" "Yes; yes; but haste, haste!" He had taken a packet from his breast. "This. Much depends upon it. It must be carried to Philadelphia and there given to Dr. Benjamin Franklin. You must tell him to hold it till called for." "I will carry it. He shall have it from my own hands. I hear them on the porch. For my own sake go!" "Swear to me!" "I swear by all I love—by my love for you." "And you will trust me?" "Always, always! Oh, can you wait while they take you?" He strained her to him once and sprang toward the door through which Henry had fled. But as he reached it Jarrat's form stood framed in the sash. His hand held a pistol. At the same moment the room overflowed with men. "So ho," he smiled redly over white teeth. "Not so sprightly, eh? Well, the other bird has flown—curse those horses' pounding!—and we must be content with you. I suppose. Lieutenant, I put this conger eel in your care. An he gets off as did Patrick Henry, some one shall suffer for it. Nay, mistress, run not to him. 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WESTERN UNIVERSITY Sub-Normal, and State Industrial, with courses in Drawing (fine art and mechanical Carpentry, Printing and Book-binding, Business Course, Photography and Typography, Fulfillment, Dreaming, Painting, Cooking, Lending, Furnishing and Gardening. Advantages: Splendid location, healthful climate, good influences and thorough teachers from the leading schools of America. For catalogue write WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., President, QUINDARO, KAN. Bell Phones: Office, White 4922; Residence, West 15. You ruffian!" raged Colonel Tilloton, beside himself with anger. "An you or your bloody-backs lay finger on my niece" "Heroes are misplaced, colonel," answered Jarrat curtly. "Wifi you give up that paper, mistress?" A quick light came to the girl's eyes, gazing past him. Fumbling in her dress, she drew forth the packet and held it out. 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The redemptioner woman swooped upon the packet and was away like a hare. "Clumsy fools!" foamed Jarrat as the soldiers bungled at the door catch. "After her and bring her here." Anne in the reaction felt her gaze upon Armand, erect between the soldiers, swim with tears. How could he stand so calm? And with the thought she felt a sudden shame for her weakness. "The wench has had her run," grumbled one of the soldiers as they returned with the redemptioner woman. "She hasn't it on her. She's tucked it away somewhere." "I'll soon know where she's hidden it," stormed Jarrat. He interrogated her savagely. "No," she said brokenly, "I not tell." "Get a rawhide from the stables and stretch her out there. She'll talk fast enough!" "You'll not lash her!" cried Anne, with trembling lips. Jarrat made no reply. When the soldier returned with the rawhide others dragged the woman into the center and stood waiting. The poor creature watched the preparations with her face ashen and her black eyes darting rapidly here and there. "Now," said Jarrat menacingly, "will you show where you hid that paper?" She was dumb. Once, twice, the heavy thong descended. At the first stroke she cowed and cried out with pain. At the second a line of red started through the coarse oznabrig. Jarrat leaned and looked into her face. "I not tell you!" she wavered. "I'll have the king's law on you for this," the colonel hurled between his teeth. Armand had remained quiet, but as the stroke fell twice again he trembled. THE FEDERAL MARSHALS WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE FURY, AND THEY WERE FURIOUS. THE FEDERAL MARSHALS WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE FURY, AND THEY WERE FURIOUS. THE FEDERAL MARSHALS WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE FURY, AND THEY WERE FURIOUS. Jarrat's form stood framed in the sash. The woman's lips were tight together. "No, no, no!" she said between them. "I not tell you! I not tell you—never!" 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Me LS unable to get any reliable accounte. || \ aS aN Fg ee = Be) We would be very glad to recelve any|| Qo SS ee pene Ss pe 5 Jesse Clark, the heavyweight pugilist PITT! Se f= Kee Fos has returned to the clty, after three CS oe: years of successful fighting, He has|! Phone P.& A. N ery DAD Ts S OAL Eaitea a f J. L. FOOTSLUG ars DER6D6D60 ~wh lead > .§ ‘There are 150 colored men on the police force in Chicago. The new city Girectory pnts the pupnlation of bt. cago at 2 500,000, and the colored popu- lation now in Chicago at 72.000. Hon, J.D Sommerville, vice prestdent of the Repubito of Liberis, and Lawyer P. O Grey, a prominent colored lawyer at Monrovia, Liberia, west ooast of Africa, have deen appointed commis sloners for the Frederick Douglass Me- morial Exposition of North Americ, that will be held at Wastington, D. C , May 1, 1906 It ts expected that the Republto of Liberia will make a splen ‘aid exhibit at the exposition. Thet village of Brooklyn, Ill, a town ‘of some 4,600 inhabitants, is cficered entirely by Negroes, and is one of the best regulated comm uni tes in the State. It has ® board of trustees, street com misetoners, fire and police departments, Health cfficers, and, in fact, all that be- longs to @ town of its charter class ‘The people appear prosperous and are @ standing refatation of that oft-car- rent libel that the Negro is incapable of self-government. Brooklyn fers exceptional inducements to colored businees men. A delegate convention of colored me- chantce, representing Miseourl, {l}inote and several of the Southern States, con- vened at St. Lonis, Mo , Angust 24 to organize a colored mechanical associs- tion, with local branches in all cltles This body is not identified or affiliated with any other Iabor organization. Ite object is co-operation for mutaal ben- efits and opportunity for employment. H. W. Fearaon of St. Louls was choze:. temporary chairman and W. D Hen. nington, Jr. of Springfield, Ill , secreta- ry. There were thirty delegates pres ent, representing six States. ‘The Negro companies of the Georgia State militia were abolished by legtela- tive enactment at Atlanta, Ga., last week. Governor Terrell announced that the measore meets with his ap- proval, and the Negro troops under arms in Georgia will be mustered out of the service before the end of the week. There are five Negro companies in the State. three at Savannah, one at Augusta and one at Macon They vary in strength from fifty to sixty men The reasons for the bill involved both the ¢fliclency of the serviceand the mat- ter of precedence. Under the terms of the Dick bill some of the Negro compa- nies would take precedence over some lof the white ccmpantes, This was deemed euffictently objectionable for the senate to paces the meseure by a vote of 38 to 0. The rescue of @ 3 months-old baby from a fire at 704 South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, Pa., July 24,veill probably ‘win a Carnegie hero medal for Clarence ‘Thecphilus Nugent 14-year old Negro A batting rally in the ninth inning, which produced three runs gave Lloyd's Giants of Si. Louis, a victory over the Leland Giants last week at Auburn Park, of 6 to 4. . eee ‘The base ball game tetween the Ma- bleand Beaumont, (Tex.) Tip Top re- snited in a soore of 7 to 8 in favor of. Mable. Battery for Tip Tov, Trallor; for Mable, Marsball and Duitey. eee After winning twenty-five consecu- tive games the Waldorf Champions fell viotims to Pitcher’Daughtsrey and the Champaign Welvete, of Indianap- olfs, Ind., ist Sunday a week ago, at Cumminsville, Ind. The ecore was 5 to 8. eee * The Leland Giants defeated the Padu- cah Nationals before the largest audi- a ie Tt boy, of 1215 Fitzwaterstreet. The fire, caused by the explosion of a lamp in a third-story back room, had worked its way to the front room, where the obild of Andrew Walker lay sleeping. Walker ‘Was standing on the street corner when the alarm was given and tried to rush Upstairs to reccae his babe, but the dense smoke and flames drove him back Young Nugent, who was in the crowd that gathered, upon learning where the child was, climbed up a water spout and then entered tneroom He rolied the infant ina shawl, which he held in his teeth while he worked his way down the outside of the building until firemen came to his aid. Tho white letter carriers in Louisville are displeased at the numb-r of Negroes recently sppointed to work’ at thelr sides In the last month »ight appoint- ments have been made and six of the positions have been filled py Negroes Dr. Baker aid, in regard to the matter, that he conld do nothing bat pick those holding the highest averages on the list a8 posted by the civil service commis sion in the lobby of ihe postcfive. He sald: “This thing is annoying ‘to me. When I go to recommend the appoint- ment of » substitute Ihave no way of knowing his color. The civil service rales forbid the des'gnation of eligibles for Federal positions as white or color- ed. When a,vacancy {s open for a suv- stitute I go to the Ist and mark off the eligible with the highest average. 1 don't know whether he is white or black, and I don’t care, 80 the appointment 1s made according to law.’” ‘The Harriet Beechsr Stowe Institate, home for colored waifs, at Blooming- ton, Ill., conducted by the Rey. George A. Brown and wife, is doing a great work. In the face of many discourage- ments these two people have founded and are conducting this institution, which means for many a friendicss colored child a comfortable home and inetruction in different industrial branches, which will fit them for useful work inthe after years. There are at this ume eixty five inmatesat the home. The Rev. Brown, who was the origina- tor of the idea of caring for colored children in this manner, first founded hie institation at Danville, Iii , in 1897 He is a son of the late Bishop John M. Brown, one of the noted bishops of the A.M E charch. Heit was who found- ed Wilberforce Academy, and he was also one of the founders of Provident Hospital at Chicago for colored people. Now this hospital has as many white patients as it has colored. Bishop Brown had long had eome {dees sbont the education of colored children which he much wished to put in «fect, put he died before be could realize his ambi- tlon. His son, Rev. George A. Brown, Inherited some $5,000 from his father, and this he at once put into the work of educating colored children in industrial ways. ence ever seen in Auburn Park last week. Horn was knocked ont of the box, J. Davis replacing him. H. Davis, Paducah’s great twirler, pitched grand ball, fielding bis position well also. Wallace and Binga were the stars, The score was 5 to 8. eee * George Siler, in writing of Jeffries opinion on the present heavyweight says that Jeffries thinks that John- son, Hart, McCormick and Rublin are all big chumpsand that he couid trim them, one after another as fast as they could be trotted ont. But did you notice how quiokly Jeffries drew the color line when it becrme the talk that Jack Johnson was abont to fesne him a challenge. Tomy mind Jeffries is to day really more afraid of Johnson than any other man in the ring, eee Word reaches us that some of the ee most interesting games of the season are now being played by such great teams 86 the Philadelphia Glants, Cu- ban Glante, Paduoah Nationale, Lloyd's Giants @nd the Champaign Velyeta, Some base ball enthuelast has written me from Cincinnati that he is surpris- ed that these columns contain so little about base ball. I would have him know that our shortcomings in this Une of sport, are because we havebeen unable to get any reliable accounts, We would be very glad to receive any information possible, eee Jesse Clark, the heavyweight pugilist has returned to the olty, after three years of successfal fighting, He has done splendid fighting in the East and 1s credited with having won thirty-six battles out of forty. He ts spending » fow warm days here with his family butcan be called for @ contest at any time. Clark is looked upon py promo- ters in the East aa @ coming light and jadging from his wonderful past record the ia sure to move upamong the Jobn- son, Hart Roblin and McCormack clase, if he has not already. For thoze who admire well-built men look upon Clark, almost an ideal figare that he 1a eee George Dixo, tte once great bull- dog of pagdom, has returned to Ameri- oa, after an absence of five years in Ireland, Sovtland and Great Britain, Dixson has come back inthe same old fix that left purly flat broke. “‘In Eog land,” George is sald tohave stated, “one bas to fight for the mere sum of $25 to $50 8 bout.” No wonder that George ts broke for we fall to see how George conld commit the same old capers that he did when champion Yet many of the Iccal “pug” lovers ave openly said that he had made good money while there but had given iteway. But how could he when he made only enough tokeep ‘him living. ‘They must investigate farther. WALCOTT HAS NOT RETIRED, Joe Walcott has nov retired from the ring. He made that statement, the other day, at Boston, and then he went on to tell why he was entitled to the same consideration, “My hand is all right,” he said “I went down to Jeckeonville, where couple of colored boxers had visions of becoming champions, A friend of mine asked me if I would try them ont andIdid The pair of them did not last six rounds all told, and it was a good test of my injared hand, 1 knock- ed them both out, and the hardest punches were handed out by the hand that had been shot, Idld not jar it a bit. “SoTam back in the game again. Tam ready to fight anyone who claims fo be the welterwelght champion, No one jes defeated me at that welght since I best Rufe Ferns for the title at Boffalo. 1 don’t care who comes along looking for @ bout. ‘Honey’ Melody might be anxlons to meet me, and 1 am ready. 1 have been aeked to box at the new club in Chelsea, and if they can find someone who will meet me, of course I shall be only too glad to go on. I have had a good rest and now I am in fine shape. Iehall not be particn- lar about the weight unless the man who fights me claims tobe a welter weight and is looking for the title. Then he will have to make the weight for me.” HOUSTON, TEXAS. ‘The’Autum Leaf Social Club tendered its members and friends a banquet last Friday night. It was @ delighifal affair and largely aitended.—Last week was a busy one for Capid in the Magnolia City, The little nagle shot his arrow straight to the mark. Mr, Green Alexander and Miss Lizzie Burney were happily joined in the h ly bonds of wedlock, The contracting parties were both prominent in Houston society circles, Rey: Dr D. Blackshear performed the ceremony.—Mr, James Green hasstaged his new play for the season —Mr. Frank English is doing stunts at the Rice.—Mr Rob Howth returned home last Monday from Matorgordia Bay where he went on the excursion boat, Lawarace, in seaich of the Finy tribe, He reports having had a delightful time. He will go again soon — Jnel Lewis arrived in the city after a few month's absenoe.—Don’t forget the Free man at 509 San Filepe street, A. Edwards roporter.—Mr. and Mra, J. W. Beverly of 1913 Ja.keon s reet, gave their danghter, Miss Lula Arnett in marriage to Mr, Willian: H. Carson of Tuscaloosa, Ala, Wednesday night, Aug. 23.—Mr. 0. K. 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Payments Sas eg Sa ee a srivate, ou RP See ccmaat ts ails Incas nomsien bs tavenhiones CENTRAL LOAN CO; Se-ond Bloor, Room $08 State Lite Building, Old "Phoue Main 8189 (Formerly Stovenscn Bids.) Front Room «15 E. Washington Street) | New Phons.... 4370 ——— ‘The better sort of | than 7.50, cholce............ 922,965. $8.75, cholee ............. 2.0 it ists Fisk, Clark and Elaid Watete Mige Uaitored Sie oe cee ewes Wash Coats The last rackful— Wash Suits of linen, pique,serim Lia toe oes pete ee ee L. &. Ayres & Co. Hes Berets sles ci cee eer ree oe OITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS, Mrs. Ora Danlap is visiting in Chicago. All society uses Woodbine Perfumes Blodau’s drug store. Mics Kate Mann and mother have returned froma pleasant visit at De- trott and Niagara Falls, James Edward Hall and wife of Loutsville epent Sanday in the city. J, C Dawson is seeing sights at Niagara Falls and Toronto, Canada. A. H. Onase, M. D., of Gloson City, IU. was a Freeman visitor this week. B. Sranklin Stowers of Cincinnati, O was in the olty this week on business, W. O. Clayton, of Copper Hill, Va, te one of the new teachers in our midst. Mr. Bonapart Beatty has returned to the city after an extended stay in Mich igan. Meedames A. Tribble and J. T. Cole man went to Chicago last Saturday night Mrz. Clara Harvey has returned from @ pleasant visit to relatives in Chilli- cothe. Miss Mattie Brown, of Washington, D. ©. has come to resume her work in the olty schools. William Wilson and A. L. Davis will leave Tuesday for Lexington, Ky., to attend the fair. Mis Carrle Black left last Sunday for Chicago Ill. She will be the guest of ‘Mrs, Mazoppa Clay Henry. Miss Maud Wright, of New Haven will take her position as teacher in our city schools next Wednesday. Mics Mary Willisme of E 16+h street will retarn home Sunday from Michi- gau where she has been all summer. Mr. and Mrs. John Ourtis have re- turned from Lake Maxinkuckee, Iad., where they have been spending the summer. Miss Bertha Williams spent this week in Chicago. She will retarn tomorrow accompanied by Mies Ids Groves who has been there several weeks. Mrs. 8. I Jones has returned to her home at Keokuk, Is, after a visit of two weeks with her daughter Mrs. Harry Bailey, at the Parker House. The Twontleth Century Club will give their grand aatamn ball in hono: of the B. 8. G. Girls, Tuesday Sept 12th. Their mafiy friends are invited to attend Miss Eva Brown, a teacher of Wasb- ington, D.C came Tuesday to spend a few days with her sister Mattie Brown, after which she wili leave for her field of duty. Mics Helen Collins has gone to Chi- cago for an indefinttestay. She was ‘sc ompanied by her grand-mother, Mre. Sophia Fleming. who will remain two weeks.. Mrs. Charles W. Brown has returned from a month’s stay at New York City Atlantic Otty and other eastera p tats, acsompanted by Miss Hortense Parker, THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. who will resume her position in the clty schools. Mre' L W. Allen, after a seven wooks’ pleasant stay with her sister at Rochester, N. Y.; and Niagara Falls, Oanads and Cleveland, O, returned home the first, much improved. Presiding Elder George A. Slesle was brought home Monday morning from one of the stations in his district seri- ously ill and is still in a critical oondt- tion at his home in Columbia avenue. The son of Mrs Lucy Caldwell 1810 N. Missouri street was strack by a street car on Senate Ave. Tassday evening ‘aud was painfally braised about the handsand face, One finger was broken. ‘The services were largely attended at Simpson Chapel M. E. Charch last Sunday. The occasion being a special sermon to the inmates of the Alphe Home, who were guests of the churoh during the day. Qalte a number of Iodtanapolitans visited in ChicsgoSunday. Among the number were Mrs, Eisie Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Porter, Misses Oazrie Lewis and Ladeska Tyler, Mrs. Mary Scott and daughter and Mr. Barton Cummings, Mrs, Lucy Elliot in North West 8t., mother of Mes, Lavina Sneed, who has been very ill for the past two week: with pneumonia, is a great deal better at this time. If she continues to im- Prove Mrs. Sneed will leave for her home in a few days. ALLEN OHAPEL A. M. E. OHURCH The olosing service of this conference Year will take place to-morrow and Monday night. The program for to- morrow (3unday) is as follows: Organ Voluntary. Song—Cholr and Congre- gation; First Soriptare Lesson, Pealm xxiii; Hymn. and Prayer; Song by the Choir; Order of Service; Song by Chotr; Sermon by the'Pastor. The pastor will proach at the evening service which will close the conference year. Monday night an excellent program will be rendered and a report for the year will be made—olosing with reception in the lecture rooms. | BUSINESS INTERESTS | Ask for Taggart’s big loaf, 5 cents: Ifyou want a job, osll at Parker's Employment Agency, 315 Indiana Ave Honsehold goods bought, sold and ex: changed. W. H. Baron, 883 Indiana Avenue. TO LET—Farnished rooms for gentle. men or ladies. 607 W. 11 street. First Annual Cyclorama Cyclone Sale isnow raging at the Sample Shoe Store,on -half block from new post office, 286 Massachnsetts avenue. Chas. E. Wilson, manager. An error on the part of your pharma: clst may have the most disastrous re sults. May even cost you your life Hie professional ability {s of equal im portance with that of your physician Yon will not make a mistake in patro: nizing J.D Gauld, 601 Indiana ave, ¥. M. 0. A. NOTES. Sunday service 8:30p m. All wel- come meeting will be held in the assem bly room. Big meeting for boye frou 12 to 16 vears old at the rooms 7:30 p. m , the 11th; all the boys in town are welcome. Bibleciass for men will meet for organization Wednesday at 8:30 p, m, The ball team will play the 1. C.’¢ end Blanner Galld, Monday; only one admission fee wil! bs charged Come. EMANCIPATION OBLEBRATION. ‘The 42ad anniversary of the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation wil be fittingly celebrated at the State Falr Grounds Sept. 220d under the auspices of theMartinR Delaney Post and the Sumner Republican League. Tne vom- mittee composed of prominent citizens is exerting iteeif to make the ccossion worthy of the immortal event it seeks to commemorate September the 220d 1868 was a red letter day in the history of the colored people and as such its anniversary should bea matter of deep coacern to all. The committee hopes a generon- patronage and jadging from the Interest manifested it will get it Remember the date—Sept 22 d. INFORMATION WANTED. ‘Would lite to know the whereabou's of Joe Dew. He was dast heard from In 1890 in North Oarolias. Address: Mrs. Margaret Artis, 2419 Oxford stree, Brightwood. Ind DANVILLE TLL Miss Maggie Avery is going on an extended visit through Massachusetts. Mrs. Pat Phelps is {mproving after 8 serious {lines —Colored Women's Aid ‘Clab met last week with Mrs. M: Col- Mos, Mre, J. Cousin, president; Mrs. F. Rhodes, secretary.—Miss Josie Richie fs visiting in Chicago this week. B, Parker and Archie Peterson, of Chempaign spent Sunday in the city. ‘Mise*Cora Tapp was the guest of Lore- na Giliock Sunday.— Mrs. Maultie Reed is very ill this week —Miss Ella Alex- ander bes returned from Erollington Ky —Mr. and Mrs Thomas Massy were {in the city Sunday.—Theodore Espy has returned from Peoria —Florence Ernest and Lulu Tapp, of Homer are visiting Miss Hattie Gillook,—Quarterly meet- ing was held Sunday at Allen Chapel. Rey. Bundy delivered an excellent ser- mon. Collection for the day $50 and for the rallyin August $127 —Quite a number of ladies brought their hatchets and cleaned brick for the foundation of the chrach, Thursdey of Isst week. Among those present were Mesdames J. Robinson, M L Bass, R. Taylor, Carrie Vance, M. Batchman, Sarah Thomas, F. Colly, J. Lee, B. Gates, Clara MoNell, Minnie Reeves, Lucy Robertson. R. H. Robinson, M. Thomas M. Thomas, M Boyd, Wick Smith, C. CO: Wilkinson, Miss Anna Jones, Osele Taylor, Lorena Gillock’ Lodene Irvin and others whose names we failed to secure.—Mr. and Mrs. Wick Smith are entertaining Rev Bandy.—Mrs Fannie Oolley spent Sunday at Terre Haute, Mr, Geo of Covington, Iad., was in the olty Monday.—Mrs. Jeasle Tiller, of Terre Haute, who has been visiting her eister Mrs. James Johnson, has gone home —Irwin Jackson of India. napolis is visitiag in the city —Mr. and Mra. N. Bolin, of Champaign spent Sunday in the clty.—The Colored Wo- man’s Clab met last week with Mre. R D. Houston. The board of directors will met September 13. with Mre. Waldon. Mrs. Mason is chairman — Mrs Richard Robinson and slater Mrs. Mary Russell spent Sunday at Brazii Ind —Mr. and Mrs: Charles Hoffman are visiting in Ma‘toon —Charles Allen has gone to lowa —The Carolina Sing- era drew quite a crowd at the Chantau- qus.—Jonn Tilford is in Chica zo,—Mrs. Lizzie Berry is very ill. ERIE po Mrs, P W. Uouuer tet September 1, for Trinidad, Colo., to jain her bnsbard who left several months ago for the West. Mrs. Conner is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Alex Scott an accomplieh- ed musician and of a very pleasant Gtsposttion. She has a wide cirole of friends who regret ber depatare and ‘were preseat to bid her farewell and ‘wish her 9 eafe journey. She regeived some nice and very useful presenta ‘The famous Lone Star Qaurtet and Sextot will fill a two weeks engage ment at the Waldameer. Henry Gant leader. G H. Williams, tenor; Fred Van Danson, baritone; Abe 8. Gant, base, of Pittsburg, Pa.—A grand recep tion was given at the home of Mre Josephiue Fisher, assisted by Mr. end Mrs James L Harrie, of Tolede, for Mrs.'T 8. Dixon, of Philadelphia, Mrs ‘Thomas, of Youngstown, O., and M:s P. W. Conner. Ccvers were laid for twenty and an elaborate Inncheon was served. The decorations were quite extensive. A roof garden was taste folly arranged with palms and Japa nese lanterns Musto and dancing were the featares of the evening. Among those present were: Mr, and Mrs T. W. Coop r, Mr and Mrs J. W. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Willem», J. Lloyd, Steven Connors, Mr and Mrs. Alexander Scott and William Scott. If you destre The Freeman, you oan get it at 432 State Street at any time. FERGUSON DIXIE JUBILEE CONCERT COMPANY The Fr-eman, ‘Mr. Editor.—I have been asked by ore of your correspondents to contrib- ute an article to your splendid paper ‘upon the work and success of the Fer- guson D xle Jubilee Concert Company. As the manager of sald company, I am glad of the opportunity. The snbjaot ofthe Jubilee work and the Jubilee field has long been upon my mind First let me say the work of the above company for the winter season is in lecture course, appearing in the best ¢ urces in the coontry. In the summer time we do Chautauqua work. This af. fords 8 grand opportunite, as the Cuan tangas platform is a University from which one oan receive @ Itberal edaca tion Here our company meets and shakes hands with the greatest mind: from every walkin life Besides, they hear discussed the greatest and most vital t»plos of the day, affecting the whole world. In our lecture course we come in contact with the best peopl” of each commanity, avd the D'x'e Con- cert Company have learned the valaable leeson that to come {a touch with good souls has a tendency to detract from thelr Imperf-otions and add to thelr vir tues. So they are bedefited much thereby. Second the Dixle Concert Company feels that there is a great responstbility resting upon them with reference to the race. They always hold themselves ready to defend the racs and show in H.L. SANDERS, ‘supine 1% MANUFACTURER OF Waiters’ and Gooks' Jackets, Bar. Barbers Butler and Butchers Coats. | Bar Verte with Sleeves, Butchers’ Capes Frocks, Physicians and Dentists vperstiog Coatay aptoan for all traes Overalceves Dress Salts tolety Wale Duck Pants, 206 Indiana Ave. Factory 108, 110, 112 W. Ohio St. }” Bend for ournew 1905 catalogue and price NEW SHORE oe tangible way, their virtues. ‘Lbey fee that they can best do this by living « pure, clean and temoverate life. They are readers of good books and maga: zines, and are able to converse intellt gently upon any living topic of the day. Ispeakof this because in onr travel wecome in contact with the white race almost exclustyely, and naturals enough they think the Negro is on'y capable of making one langh by acting the fool. But we try to convince them that we have the power to think a well as they. We sometimes find i necessary to speak or write, since Thomas Dixon, Jr. ts so bitter in hic arraignment of cur great and grand leader, Booker T- Washington, and also of our race. But we are not dlecour- aged. for I am frank to say that in spite of such men as Dixon, Varderman, Graves and Tillman, we have many friends among the white race. We travel about ten months in the year, covering a larze portion of the country. Oar position iss peculiar one, we are always before ths people, they are al- ways looking at us and i wish 1 could get every col- ored company on the rosa w realize — that avery misstep hey take is re- corded against ont race, for our white ene mies are ever ready to say, ‘That is bad, but itis caar- acteristic of W C puck sER. the Negr> racs.”’ 1 wish to eay that the Jubilee Singers haye a great field, they are constantly in demand axd many lecture courses and Chatanquas are not expected to be a success unless they have a colored company. Bat I want to say that the day is fast coming when the immoral company, and the company that frequents saloone or drinks at all, will have no place up- onthe lyceum platform. God hasten the day. for there has been altogether too much drinking ayd immorality in many of the companies. I have had young ladies of my own race to tell me that they have never met a young man with a company that did not use strong drink, Shame on our young men in the profesional field. I trast the per sonal refereuce will bs pardoned, About nine years ago my good wife, then my eweetheurt (and she is still my sweet- heart) joined nands to fight the drink evil aud under Gud we will fight it an- relentingly till we die. At this time there ‘snot person in our company who drinks a drop of intcxicants. We have had a large Chantanqas season we have every night sold from September 20 to June 1906, in lecture course. Onr work embraces the following states: Illinois, atichigan, Indiana, Onto, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Hamp- shire, West Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Wieconsin, North Dakota, South Dako- ta Kanves, Missouri, Colorado, Call fornia, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Again let me say tnere is plenty of room for good, clean moral companies. Dae of the best and most wholesome and the most edifymg entertalaments on the lyceum platorm 1s the Jubilee concert. Tnere is no music Ike the Jubilee musi, and the company that sings itt om the heart touches many hearts, enriches the svn, inspires youtt and brightens old age Bat I want the Sabiles songs sung with adignity that will eleva.e, omitting that emotional ecomething that becomes a burleeque on the old slave and his melodies. And here I wish to enter my protest against ‘coon songs that are being {atroduced into the Jubilee program. A coon eong is nothing bat a burleque on the Negcoand we donot need such songe {want the dear old songs, “‘Swannes River,” * bwing Low Sweet Uhartor,” Roll, Jordea Roll,” “steal Away tc Jesus,” and handreds of others to ilve for ever, fur tne cnly American music 8 the fol lors song of the Negro. W. ©. BUCKNER. THE PARKER HOUSE Antama is no¢ on, tae perple are home from the lakes acd other watering places. It means busy times for the Parker House. M: Holman the general dispenser of good things is as asnal on the look ut for tae welfare o! his guests The best thiags to eat a: the Parker House. Good sleeping rooms, baths, ete. J. W. Holman, Prop, 817 $21 Miobigan street. Paones New 4972; O Id 651. REMOVAL SALE OF Oar entire stock included in this sale | New Upright Pianos at Factory Pr‘ces, Second Hand Uprights $85 to $140, Square Pianos $20 to $60. This sale will end as soon as our new store is COMPLETED. New Location will be 18 and 20 N. Penn., sj, GASH OR PAYMENTS. D.H. BALDWIN &Co, Temporary Location 137 N. Penn, Three Doors South of Old Stand. ——— —— E. W. STUCKY, DRUGGIST beet Drugs ced Puacmaccuticalssetatnabio, ems We nw tte 161 N. Illinois St. og TS8°'NES%22 Indianapolis, Indiang ————— The R. H. Smith Coal Comp 1012 Bismark Avenue Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Gandies, Cigars and Tobsce0, Toe Cream in larze and small quentities. Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, Ing The dndianaposlia under new ownershipand with athor- oughly! To-oninized and gis ee cleat Stat, offers a NEWS Paper of the one hundred cents on the Gotlar value, Teucltter Deopoges nor cares to be- cone. a. mugnaine, “but insistently urges thatit lS A NEWS Paper. ‘The trath 1s a good busiuess favest- ment ada fine wewspaperusset and THE SENTINEL PROPOSES TO TELLIT asa matter of duty as well as for Selilsh business reasons, THER< 16 =e ‘iw THE NEW SENTIN=L The Sentinel as ue only Night Hextra ia Indianapolis containing the fail New York stock Market wel Ings?” and the New. York: Evening Poste review of THAT D VY, Tt would be idie to ask the public to Duy! for eomparison with otlier news: papers if-it were not easly demon sirable that One Cent Buys the Best THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTI- NEL---a newspaper with the disposition to dare and thefirm resolution to accomplish. 235 Indiana Ave. Collars 2a Cuifs: G Phones 1671 EO ——— PHEAOLOGIST, PALMIST AND CLAIRVOYANT MADAM McNAIRDEE-MOORE Permanently Located at 1527 English Ave., Indianapolis. Can bs consulted on all affairs of life fer predictions are true and can be relied upon. BE ay Euolvee one dollar and stemp avd know your fnture, and wha you se est adapted for to make success in life ee —_——_——— C. &. Hawk, now in Atlanta. Ga., ie still representing The Freeman in the Southern States A/F \ es 1 4 \ al } j > & ‘The styles for the fall are uw pretty well established, and uales you wish to carry about with you the evidence of the wearing qusll- ties of last year's togs you mu: add an tach or two to ths length of your coat. And a vent goes with it. The longer the ooat—the deep: er the vent, and when the veat reaches six inches, @ oruple of bat: tonsorso. We kaow j 1st exsctly how far to bring your coat dim and how far to send the vent op. Don’t wait longer to order along: er coat Fall stooks on display. Suits and Top Coils ATL ‘RED TO TASTE $29.00 to $50.00 — Deutsch Ta loringCo. (Ceoorporated) ‘41 South IIlinois St. INDIANAPOLIS - INDIANA MRS. WHITTEN ~ Fine Millinery 1133)". 'yes'ite Will show also a ding fine nf Untrmd Hats from so to $18. Every nly weleome 337 Indiana Avenue. PIS CUT-RATE PHARMAC! 550 Ind. Ave. S. E, Cor. West St ———E—EEE Always Reliable, Our Prescription Department. WE USE the purest and freshest drugs only; ot 'n any circumstances allowing poor stock to remain about the store. Our Prescriptions # exactly what the physician orders, We run no chances. Our Customers’ health |s Important to us. Send your prescriptions to us and be safe. ele ae 2 Always Remember if you aét It cH AT PINK'S, ITS fli ‘WE MOST REFRESHING DRINK IN THE wort ( MG lh ‘Mall Saloons, Groceries. tes and SM ‘Bc. a Bottle.