The Freeman

RESULTS ARE WHAT ADVERTISERS PAY FOR, THAT IS WHY THE FREEMAN ADVERTISER CONTINUES. A FAMILY OF 100,000 READERS WHO HAVE MONEY TO SPEND, IS IT WORTH A TRIAL? THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 41 0CT 14 1905 CELEBRATE WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON'S BIRTHDAY New President for State University- Short Talks on Men and Things Generally-Fitness of Dr. Lampton for his Position-School of Music. Dr. Booker T. Washington does well to suggest that the 100th anniversary of the birth of that immortal son of liberty, William Lloyd Garrison, be fittingly commemorated throughout the country by the plea for whom he lived, suffered and served. The Negro is a gracious race, keenly appreciative of the labors of those who helped to take from our limbs the shackles of slavery, and we shall be eager to seize the proposed opportunity to sound the praises of one whose name is indelibly stamped upon the history of the movement to purge America of her foulest blot. Just as we tendly rever the natal days of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, we hold not less sacredly in memory the anniversary of William Lloyd Garrison, and the mere hint that the centennial year of his birth should call for more than ordinary notice, will meet with a ready and enthusiastic response from every section of our land. William Lloyd Garrison was a pioneer in the abolition cause, and as editor of "The Liberator," he reached the heart and mind of the people of the nation and moulded a sentiment for freedom that all the 100th anniversary of this great man's advent into a world he did so much to chasten, for the purpose of paying tribute to his monument, al character and priceless services to all humanity. The date is December 10th, and occurring on Sunday, it will find us free from our usual business obligations, and therefore able to join in such a uniform and general celebration in the churches and elsewhere as the ever thoughtful Tuskegee educator so vividly describes. Beyond indicating that the observance of the Garrison Memorial be general on the part of the colored people throughout the country and that an acceptable committee might be gotten together to formulate an appropriate program for the day, embracing sermons, addresses, etc., touching the life and character of the eminent abolitionist, Dr. Washington offers no definite plan. But the he hints out is sufficient to accuse the race to action, and the press and public will doubtless take the matter up where he leaves it and work out some systematic method of expressing the popular will. A massive national committee should be formed by agreement which shall have full power to draft a program, and through the local assistants or colleagues of these committeemen, the details could be carried out. The scope should be broad and comprehensive, and a committee numbering forty or more, representing the churches, national organizations, secret societies, professions and business, would give the movement the national character that its promoters desire. With Dr. Washington as the chairman or chair of a committee and the people at large working in harmony, there would be insured an observance on the 10th of December that would be a distinct honor to Mr. Garrison and a credit to the chivalry and deep sense of gratitude of the entire Negro race. Less than one month is left for the proposed arrangements to take shape, so it would be well for the press and public to put on their thinking caps and get into operation at once a feasible method of doing justice to an occasion that should by all means be made a memorable one. The trustees of the State University, Loniaville, Ky., have not as yet taken definite action looking to a successor to the late President, Dr. C. L. Purce, but the demand for a man of extraordinary capacity is leading to a number of suggestions to which the board is giving* attentive ear. Within the last few days quite a formidable "boom" has developed for Prof. W. H. Steward, the veteran editor of the American Baptist, and he may be selected. Prof. Steward is thoroughly competent, and is widely known throughout the ramifications of the Baptist denomination. I know of no man who would come nearer filling the shoes of the lamented Dr. Purce. If you want to see 'business' with a capital "B," just take a peep into the Financial Department of the A. M. E. Church at the corner of 14th and Q streets northeast, the next time you visit Washington. Go in and have a chat with the connection's afab o and energetic financial secretary, Dr. E. W. Lampton, and you will never again permit any pessimistic person of any reason to tell you that the Negro is not up to the best in the management of large affairs. The building occupied by the department is a commodious brick structure, admirably located at the intersection of two prominent thoroughfares, and is especially adapted to the purpose for which it is being used. It is a valuable piece of property—an excellent investment—and would sell today far in advance of its original purchase price. It is bound to increase in value with the rapid trend of business northward on 14th street. The department building is not o, a convenient rendezvous for the Bishops and general officers, but every member of the church is made equally welcome to its privileges by the hospitable Dr. Lampion. There isn't a more popular man in the entire connection than the genial and magnetic Master of Methodism's "strong-box." I spent a delightful forenoon at this place last month while en route from the New York meeting of the Business League and learned more in that brief period about the "money end" of the great A M, E, Church than I had been able to find out in the twenty-odd years that I have been associated with its expensive workings. I was amused at the thoroughness and comprehensive character of the book-keeping, the orderliness of the correspondence files, and the ease with which every voucher, receipt check and expense could be accounted for. The cash and liabilities could be ascertained in a moment, and they balanced to a penny. It was unusually significant that there were no "indicators," "sundries," and no "miscellaneous" entries. The smallest item of receipt or disbursement was called by name, and the exact source and destination of every cent collected or paid out was on record in plain figures. The system was so simple that a school boy could understand it, yet so complete that not a single item was missed in a volume of business averaging more than half a million dollars a quadrennium. The surplus is kept in a massive safe, with a time-lock attachment, and money and a duplicate set of book-are taus protected against any possible loss by fire or theft. Throughout the office is every device, contrivance and facility for the transaction of business with promptness and accuracy, including an adding machine, typewriter, neostyle, letter press, ledgers, day books, latest pattern of file cabinets, and an outfit of furniture in keeping with the high standing of a church of 800 000 communicants. The walls are beautifully decorated with the photographs of the bishops and general officers. There is an navigating atmosphere of up-to-dateness about everything and everybody connected with the place, and it is a positive pleasure to come in contact with an institution of the race, and by the race that reflects so happily the thrift and enterprise of our modern civilization. A word about Dr. Lampton himself. By his careful and conscientious handling of the people's money he has more than lived up to the expectations of the church and has usly vindicated the wisdom of those who insisted upon his election over a field of aspirants backed by the strongest of influences. His experience as chief financier of the largest secret order in Mississippi commended him to the favorable consideration of the entire church body, and it is not too much to say that none of the massive trust companies in New York is managed with more skill and business acumen than the department controlled by Dr. Lampton. He is collecting annually a much larger sum than did any of his predecessors, covering the wide territory under his jurisdiction by a method peculiarly his own. He reaches every member of the connection, from bishop down to the numbest Kayman, and 9 percent of the vast army of Allen Methodist are brought into direct communication with the Washington headquarters. A HINT TO THE WISE. RAGHILLE I AINT RODE IN ONE IN MY LIFE THE COMPANY and an alternating current of vitalizing personal interest is thus sent back and forth between the cash drawer and pew, supplementing with material results the spiritual and evangelizing force of the pulpit. Dr. Lampton's real career, though brilliant and extraordinarily successful, has just begun. At the General Conference of 1908, he is certain to be called to the Bench of Bishops, and that he will measure up to all of the exacting responsibilities of a chief pastor, goes without the saying. He is fitted for leadership both by nature and by trainning, and it is among the surest of coming events that the prelate's robe will be conferred upon him by the wise men who will rather two and a half years hence in the name of the church. The only embarrassment that may grow out of Dr. Lampton's promotion will be the difficult task of finding a successor who can, with equal ability, carry on the financial work that he must then lay down. Different people have different ways of doing things. It strikes me that there is a strange contrast between the actions of Dr. C. E. Bentley, of Chicago, a member of the new movement, who, when in St. Louis a year ago to attend the meeting of the National Dentists' Association, was afraid to go into the dining room and fled precipitately back to Chicago on the night of the Association's banquet, and that of Dr. Booker T. Washington, who went into the dining room in manly fashion and dined with John Wanamaker at Saratoga recently. In the one case, Dr. Bentley was not brave enough to live up to his teachings, and in the other case, Dr. Washington, while not talking so vociferously about "manhood rights," did what he thought was proper. The plain people who think with their minds applaud the consistent course of Dr. Washington. For the others—"it is so laugh." Rev. Allen Allensworth, who for two decades has served faithfully as a chaplain in the United States Army, resigned his post a short time ago, to return to minister ial labors in c. vil l lfe. He is a Baptist and stands high among the theologians and scholars among that denomination. His return will be a substantial gain to the city pulpit. The place he reinhispires, however, is quite a desirable one, and there will be a lively contest over the appointment of his successor. The Ohio Conference of the A. M. E. Church has proposed the name of Rev. George Bundy, and several candidates are appearing, representing the several denominations. Mrs Gabrielle Lewis Pelham, whose piano forte school at 2226 6th street, N. W., Wahington, D. C., opened its second course Sept. 11th with an increased enrollment, has been appointed musical director at Howard University and contemplates utilizing the musical talent of the student body to the best advantage. In addition to the choir, a chorus, a glee club and an orchestra will undoubtedly be formed and the band will be given added impetus: Mrs. Pelham has made a fine impression upon the music lovers of the national capital, and her many friends throughout the country will be delighted to learn of the success she is achieving. She is the wife of Robert Pelham, Jr., the whilom editor of the Detroit Plaindaler, one of the very best journalistic efforts the race has ever brought forth. Rev. J. Waters, a writer and orator of note, has been engaged by Dr. E. W. Lampon as editor of the Washin ton Record. He succeeds the deposed Jay Wesley Cromwell, whose bourbonic ideas of newspaper ethics did not suit the wide awake and up-to-date Dr. Lampton, who runs a paper on the same modern system that he finds so conductive to the prosperity, of the financial department of the A. M. E. Church. In the days of the Ark, Brother Cromwell passed for a "great editor." A MISREPRESENTATION. "It's all bobb about us barbers talking to customers and boring 'em." said a Twelfth street bar be to a man in his chair yesterday, as he began wielding the razor. "We don't often have nothing much to say. Of course, there's a me barber who overdoes the talk business, but they ain't in the majority by a darn sight. Now take the Britt-Nelson fight- I didn't have much to say about it to my customers an', being up on that kind of sport pretty well, I could a talked about it intelligent all day. I knew Nelson was going to win, but I wasn't loud about it to my customers. Then there's the Blues- I never have much to say about 'em, whether they win or lose, I could tell people a lot about what's wrong with 'em if I wanted to, but I ain't going to bore people, not me. And there was the races- I could a walked a plenty about 'em if I had a wanted to. But I didn't even though I picked wrenners every day. I knew that horse local Kangaroo was going to be a big new year, friend." The barber continued along that line for ten minutes more. As the customer left the chair the barber concluded: "No air, barbers, generally speaking, don't bore customers with too much talk. That's all bush. It's just a slam on us." Dear Sir,--You must excuse me by the way I am addressing you, as everything I was in such a rush and bustle Sunday to get to the train that I did not have an opportunity to even get a card or learn your first name, but your son every Sir Knight I guess in the United States knows him. But I feel it a great honor conferred upon me by having such a grand man as you to come up and lay his hand on me back and shake my hand and give me the encouragement which you did while I was a guest of your lovely, most beautiful, hospitable city of Indianapolis. I am so much in love with your city and dear Sir Knights that I expect to pay a visit to your city next Sunday, and I am coming to see you as soon as I step off the train. Best wishes to your esteemed son. JOHN W. SMITH Captain of Lanston Co. F. PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION MR. WASHIN@TON MAKES AN APPEAL FOR THE CHILDREN POOR PAY MEANS POOR TEACHER Ministers, Teachers, Leaders and Parents Should Act Quickly-Southern School Condition in Some Sections of South One of Gravity. To the Colored People in the Southern States, A great many questions relative to our progress as a race, it is important for us to consider and to keep clearly before us. One of the questions just now of fundamental importance is that of securing facilities for a sound common school education of the masses of our children, will never, have, perhaps, the opportunity to receive any school education except that they get between the ages of five and fourteen years and will never have opportunity to attend any other than common public schools. And yet here in our Southland hardly more than one-fifth of the Negro children five to nine years of age and hardly more than one-half from ten to fourteen years of age were reported by the United States Census to have attended school at all in 1900. Any of all our children who did attend school due during that school year, over three-fifths attended less than six months. In many cases while the schools are open, parents are careless about seeing that their children attend school each day. This fault should be remedied. I use these figures because they express compactly—though, of course, not exactly—a condition of utmost gravity. And remember that such figures give no hint of the squalor of so many of our schools and the incompetence of so many of our teachers! I wish, through this letter, to urge upon our ministers, teachers and leaders of what ver character, to put forta special and immediate effort to see to it that the school facilities in each community are improved and brought up to the high standard of efficiency. If this is not done, many thousands of our children will grow up in ignorance. Whatever the reason may be, the plain fact is that in may communities our people are not being provided with education in the public schools. I have recently heard of several communities where only $15 per month were appropriated from the public fund for the colored school, and this for only, a term of four months. We must face the fact that the public schools in many sections are not being improved, and, in some parts of the South, they have gone backward. It is probable that the children of the race have increased faster than the facilities for their education in some places. As the basis of our educational opportunities, I say, is the public school, and I think it wise to make that school, the center of our interests and activities. We should not fail to make prominent at all times and along to the fundamental idea of the American common school—that all of the property of the State should educate impartially all the children of all the people. It is not merely the men who enters the tax office who really pays the taxes; the laborer, who pays one mill more to the pound for a commodity because of a license tax, however indirect the payment. By close examination, I find that in many communities the small amount of money received for the public schools is in large degrees wasted and dissipated by reason of denominational differences and wrangles over the school. For example I know of one community that has three small schools of weak character, when there should be only one, and that one good. The Baptists have a school in another part, and the Zion Methodists a school in still another part, Denominationalism has no place in public school education, and our people should oui-h that tendency to let denominationalism divide and overcome the public school. We should concentrate our efforts wherever possible, preferring one good school to two or three poor ones. Our leaders should lay special emphasis upon the following points: 1st. See to it that a good and efficient teacher is pcyided. If any qualification is lacking, it should not be moral character. The teacher may be weak in other matters, but if he is morally wholesome, he may be good. A good teacher cannot be kept in a community 1om year to year without a reasonably good salary. A poor salary means poor teacher in most cases, one who (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.) IN WOMAN'S WORLD BY "DOROTHY." This column will be devoted to the interests of women. Questions will be cheerfully addressed to the author, and any questions under which the querist may be answered. The full name and address must also be given. This will not, under any circumstances, be published. No answer will be sent by mail unless a stamp is affixed. Address all communica-tions with the author. The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. When all the world goes wrong, my dear, When all the world goes wrong, And friend are fled, and hopes are dead, And foes are thou usand strong, Then lift thy aching above, And kiss the chast'ling rod For through the clouds surrounding thee Shines down the smile of God. When all the world goes right, my dear, When all the world goes right, And friends are near who make good cheer And nature's face is bright, Forget not that these gleams of light By the same power are given That through the night, as in the light Woul guide thee up to heaven. Butlet the world go wrong or right, Be this th' daily prayer— May I unroll my inmost soul, A flowering garden fair, Before God's face and in my place Perform my little part And one day offer at his feet A pure and constant heart, —HELEN HUGHES in the New World. Miss Susie M. Wilson, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Flanner Guild has been employed by the Dime Saving and Loan Association as collector. She will devote the afternoons to the collections and continue her work at the Guild in the mornings. Her territory includes the western part of the city, of both colored and white members. This association was organized March 27, 1887. Its object is to provide for its members an opportunity of saving small sums of money in weekly installments and to assist in the purchase of homes, and it is the first time in its history that a colored collector has ever been employed. The Association is in connection with the Charity Organization, and Miss Wilson's duties at the For Twenty-Eight Years the name BISSELL has typified all that's best in Carpet Sweeper mechanism, has become a household word throughout the world, wherever carpets or rugs are used. It is the only Carpet Sweeper that has ever given complete and continuous satisfaction to the user, and its large sale fully supports this statement. Over 80 percent of the world's output of Carpet Swee- Housewives everywhere trust their superiority. A BISSELL "Gycoo" coat, a pair of high-quality corn brooms, and makes sweeping a pleasure instead of a drudgery. Why deny yourself this comfort when $2.50 buys you a BI-SELL now and send us the purchase slip, and receive a neat, useful gift. 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. A FAITH SONG. BISSELL'S Guild brought her in close touch with Mr. Gront, secretary of the Charity Organization, and seeing her proficiency, employed her, She has been at the Guild for about one year and has given general satisfaction. Miss Wilson is a Kentuckian by birth but was reared in Cincinnati, where she received her earliest education, afterward completing a course at Wallace's Business College, at Denver, Colo. About nine years ago she came to Indianapolis with her parents. For five years she was matron at the New Telephone Exchange. She is an earnest church worker, a faithful member and clerk of the Second Christian church. She is not only a church member but practices that Christianity that her faith teaches her. Miss Wilson is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Wilson. The State Convention of the Woman's Christian Union of Texas was held at Galveston October 13-15. Mrs. E. E. Peterson is president of the organization. Miss Eluora Hines, of Salina, Kans., has been appointed teacher of dressmaking in one of the Indian schools in South Dakota. This is the second appointment of young colored women of that state to positions in Indian schools. The first was Luoy Pulin Grinstead, of Topeka, as instructor in cooking. Mrs. Cary M. Gray, of Baltimore, Md., has filed a suit in the superior court against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company. She claims that she was humiliated and insulted to the extent of $5,000 damages, on account of the "jim crow" law. Warren T. McGuinn, colored is her attorney. Miss Helen Gould, the millionaire philantropist, was at Winona Lake Ind, last week and in a short address to the thirty young women who were to learn the scientific points in agriculture, urged all to have a definite purpose in life and work it out despite the obstacles that always present them selves. If Indiana women are willing to make their complexions out of boxes and bottles, marked poison with the usual skull and crossbones, there will be nothing to worry about. H. E. Barnard, State chemist, acting under the authority of the State Board of Health says, "The sale of many cosmetic preparations will be prohibited in Indiana unless the manufacturers put on them the sign indicating poison, the skull and crossbones. Practically all of these preparations contain a large percent of corrosive sublimate, a deadly poison, taken internally, and the law of the State says that no poison shall be sold unless it is designated as poison. It is improbable that the manufacturers will be willing to have the unpleasant looking poison emblem attach it to their goods, and that they will withdraw them from the market first. And if they do not, the number of women using them will be materially decreased." Ellen Terry, the famous actress save youth and beauty may be retained by the following simple recipe: Work tired, sleep till rested, have plenty of fresh air in cool rooms take THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. milion --- + + + THE FREEMAN WOULD LIKE TO KNOW Is your name on The Freeman's sub- scription list? If not, why not? For resolution purposes, who consti- tutes the "Bar of the District of Columbia?" If Negro soldiers are useful in time of war, why should they be rejected in time of peace? Why should a candidate expect a Negro's vote who is not willing to grant that Negro a square deal? Isn't independent town-building a long step toward proving the Negro's capacity for self-government? Will Governor Hanly take a glance at Indiana avenue, Indianspolls, when he finishes "house-cleaning" at French Luck? Does Secretary Taft know about the shameful discrimination about to be practiced against the gallant Negro soldier? Is Dr L H. Harris of Blood Tonic fame, concocting another eloquent speech for the Atlanta meeting of the Business League? How long would any race paper stay out of the hands of the sheriff if it de- sponge bath every day and eat the very simplest foods. With the passing of the summer days goes the wearing of white shoes on the streets. Perhaps ere the coming of another season of the same fashion, it will have dawned upon many that white footwear is only correct with white hoslery. Contentment is a virtue but too much of it is not so good. How can we advance up the ladder if we are perfectly satisfied with the lower or middle rounds. --- Do you know her? The constant gum chewer. Every day she chews all day until you are afraid that her jaws will be displaced. 一 An Atchison gossip received the following anonymous note: "Stand up stand up for Jesus, you never do for anyone else." CINCINNATI, O. Rev. I. N. Ross was in the city recently, after a few days' vacation and left for the South.—Miss Ida Belle Garret has gone to St. Louis to enter a manloure parlor.—Little Cella Knuckles departed this life two weeks ago.—The Puggleys Brothers sang a number at Zion Baptist church recently and also gave a recital at the same church—Prof D W. Brown was in Indianapolis to secure the service of Will Hunt as bass singer for the A. J. Selingers Company of which Mr. Brown is manager and leading tenor.—Mrs. Barnes of Walnut Hills is visiting her daughter in Kentucky. Mr. Jeff D. Hall at Greenville, Tex. has the Freeman on sale each week at 155 St. John's street. Be sure to call each week and secure a copy for five cents. Mr. Hall will also deliver copies to any person desiring same. Leave orders with him. Do not miss this opportunity to subscribe for the races' leading journal. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By ```markdown ``` This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling on the hair and the dazzling and makes the hair grow long and sky, sold by the best hair and the best husbands. Warranted harmless, it was the first preparation ever to be made in the new area of New York. Remember that Ford's "On a 100 cent size, made only in Chicago and as the same has the signature Uranites" Nond. Pressure is the same. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to be just as good—but always insist upon getting "Ford's" as it never fails to keep the hair�perpighted and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance and the goodness of a little. A lot of the goodness of a little is much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly please, you are the best and most beautiful of the world. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every little. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers, or $1.40 for three bottles, expiated, and paid. We pay all postage and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention the cost of the paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OONIZED OX MARROW CO., (None genuine without my signature) Charlo Ford Post 75 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. pended solely upon the revenues received from colored people? * * * How much does Ira T. Bryant owe that illustrious flaw-seeker, Jay Wesley Cromwell, for divers and sundry lessons in the history of the A. M. E. church? --- Which "Bar of the District of Columbia" will the President consult when he gets ready to name the Justices of the Peace for that important patch of ground? --- If the humorous J. E. Bush will not find it conducive to his personal welfare to explain what he means by 'little way stations' before venturing again into the sacred confines of Indianapolis? Will the Pen and Pencil Club rise to the needs of the situation bypromptly sending one of its valuable commissions as "Colonel" to Hon. J. H Deveaux, Savannah, Ga., to compensate for titular losses? --- Is the critical and censorious South aware of the fact that at a recent reception given at Springfield, Ill, by the Eight Regiment in honor of the Governor of Illinois, the wife of the colored Colonel, Marshall, was escorted into dinner by Governor Deneenj and Mrs. Deneen walked in on the arm of the gallant Colonel Marshall. Mrs. Della S. Vance Answered the Summons of the Master-Untimely End in the Bloom of a Splendid Womanhood-New Albany Loses an Illuminating Force. "O for the touch of a vanished hand, The sound of a voice that is still." All that was mortal of Mrs. Della Smith Vance was tenderly laid to rest in New Albany, Ind., Saturday, September 23. She was the wife of Dr. William Octah Vance, one of New Albany's leading practitioners, and had been for upward of fourteen years, assistant principal of Scribner High School of this city. She had been in poor health for several months, but with the courage of a heroin, she elonged to her post of duty, and on the day of her death, filled her place as usual in the class-room. The immediate cause of dissolution was the rupture of a blood vessel during a paroxysm of coughing. The best of medical aid had been brought to bear to restore Mrs. Vance to health, but it was of no avail, and in the bloom of young womanhood she past beyond, with the love and respect of a host of sincere friends sweet about her. As Bulwer pathetically sings: *For the dead there are many mourners, but one monument— A crowd of sorrowing friends, who taxed to its utmost the capacity of Bethel A. M. E Church, bore testimony to the esteem in which the deceased was held. Hundreds were unable to secure admission to witness the funeral services. Rector Tucker, of the Church of Our Meroful Savior, Loulaville, of which Mrs Vance had been a member for twelve years, read the impressive burial service of the Episcopal faith and delivered an address full of comfort for the living and paid a tribute to the exemplary character of the dead. He was assisted by a specially selected choir from his church. Miss Bertha Coakley sang feelingly, "Asleep in Jesus," after which Mrs. Grace Lucas Thompson read the obituary, treating of the splendid life and useful work of the deceased Bishop G. W. Clinton pronounced the funeral oration and spoke most eloquently of the beauty of character and intellectual attainments of Mrs. Vance. Rev. M. W. Sparks and Dr. S. C. Manual followed with brief eulogies and Rev. B. C. Shaw offered prayer. Mrs. Lzzle B Evans' touching solo, "In That City," brought tears to all eyes as she with dramatic fervor portrayed the meeting of loved ones beyond. A second choir composed of the pupils of Soribner High School, rendered appropriate hymns as the vast concourse passed for the last view of the departed Misses Grace and Louise Russell sang a duet Resolutions were presented by Dr. M. W. Sparks on behalf of the teachers of New Albany; by Miss Marguerite B. Sterrett, from the U. B F and S. M. T., of which Mrs. Vance was treasurer; and by Dr F. F. Fowler, of the Alumni of the Louisville National Medical College, of which institution Mrs. Vance was an honor graduate, class of 99. The exercises of the U. B F. were conducted by Miss M. V. Webster, W. P. Star of Easter Temple, Louisville, and Mrs. Eliza C. Yantis, W. P. Star of Indiana Temple, New Albany. The floral offerings were the finest and most profuse ever seen on a similar occasion in this city. Many of the designs were large and very elaborate. Some of the more notable pieces were: Gates. Ajar, from the family; an Everyone at Christmas time is anxious to give to their loved ones handmade Christmas cards. A convenient convenience is the Lotis System of Credits, means convenience. Diamonds and Frostings on convenience cards all kind for Chris with Frostings on convenience cards. You Are Welcome to Credit whether you are a model, salaryed employee or a new employer. The Lottie System makes an easy adjustment terms to meet their earnings or income. Do not think you are a model, salaryed employee or a new employer. With love, two ten dollars for a first payment, you can give heart or Mother a beautiful Diamond which will last forever, enchanted and continually bring pleasant thoughts of the river's gourmet cuisine. Our Lottie System makes an easy adjustment terms to meet their earnings or income. We have ever kept our jewelry illustrated on its many pages. Beautiful Christmas presents for at your leisure in the privacy of your home you can select the platter, napkin and applique. You are perfectly free to purchase or not just buy your jewelry. We invite you to open an account with us, become acquainted with System, remember it means convenience, transaction fee and delivery. We offer eight equal monthly amounts direct to us. Cash Buyers are welcome on us, and we have an equally attractive agreement to take ten per cent. You mourn, wear a fifty dollar Diamond for a year, then send it back if you are not satisfied. We offer eight equal monthly amounts less than ten cents weekly. No other house makes this of today for Christmas Catalogue. Do Your Christmas Shopping Now. Do it conveniently on your own. Don't wait until the Christmas rush is on. Now is the time to give your gift to the good. We for our Big Handsome Christmas Catalogue. A Test of Merit. In competition with the entire world at the same time, we are the highest award given. No stronger endorsement of the could be given. Write Today for our Big Handsome Christmas Catalege. Cash Buyers are welcome too, and we have an equally attractive offer for them, as follows: Pay cash for any Diamond, and we will give you a written offer. Pay cash for any Diamond, and give you a spot cash for all you paid -less ten per cent. You might for instance, wear a fifty dollar Diamond for a year, then send it to us and get forty-five dollars, making the cost of wearing the Diamond for the entire year equal to other house makes this offer. Write today for Christmas Catalogue. Our Reliability. We refer you to your local bank, and they and Bradstreet and tell you that your responsibility and promptness, are unquestioned. We give signed guarantee as to the quality and value of every Diamond sold. Every Diamond we sell may be changed its full price of any time for a larger stone. WRITE TODAY FOR OUR CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE LOFTIS BROS & CO. 6556 DIAMOND CUTTERS Watchmakers, Jewelers Dept. 102 92 to 88 State St. CHICAGO, ILIMIRO, U.S.A. JM aredian is a great and timely convenience to thousands. It enables persons in all circumstances to make beautiful and interesting gifts with a very small initial cash outflow. immense Lyre, from the pupils of Scribner High School; a broken wheel, from the Alumni of Louisville National Medical College; anchor, from Mr. M. E. Washington; circle, from Miss May Greenley; star, from the U. B. F. and S. M. T., heart, from Miss Nichols; and crescent, from Medical College Class 99 Other artistic offerings were sent by Prof. and Mrs. B. Frank Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, Mrs. Henry Sterrett, Mr. and Mrs. Barry LaForce, Mrs. Morgan and daughters, Mrs Lillian Sterrett Johnson, Mrs Coakley, Miss Mary Carpenter, Littel Mary Campbell Beckett, E. M. Blackburn, B. W. Smithers, and the clocal medical fraternity. The pall bearers, representing the Society, the teachers and she Medical College Alumni, were: Messrs. Lewis Warr, Wiley Perry; Prof. R. A. Roberts, D. S. Maxwell; Drs. G. W. Houser and F. F. Fowler. The school board was represented by Supt. C, A Prosser and Messrs. George Borgering and William Rady, trustees. The vass assembly was able handled by Drs E R Gaddle, S. C. Alexander and M. A. Blackburn, and Profs. J. Campbell Beckett and R. W. Thompson. Too much cannot be said in praise of Mrs Mary E. Washington for her flawless direction, arranging the superb program and looking after the smallest detail from beginning to end with such o n summa e ability, delicacy and tact that not a single untoward incident occurred to mar the smoothness of the ceremonies in which thousands of loving friends were so intensely interested. The services of the undertaking firm of Schrader Brothers were eminently sat isfactory. Mrs. Vance leaves to mourn her loss a most devoted husband, father, mother, brother, three nieces and an entire community of ardent admirers, to whom her passing is a veritable calamity. Her richest encomium is the pure, earnest, self-sacrificing and noble life she led. Over the present gulf of despair her beautiful character and courageous soul soar serene in the good-of God and the promise of blissful Eternity, chanting to us in musical cadence the sublime message: "Say not good-night; but in some brighter clime Bid me good-morning!" GRACE LUOAS THOMPSON. New Albany, Ind., September 29 ENSLEY ALA The little city is growing very rapidly. There are two drug stores, two saloons, and ten stores owned by colored people. There are five colored doctors.—School opened in September with 110 pupils and Prof. Knox as principal.—The following is said of The Freeman: "I am more than pleased with the paper. I hope the agent will bring me every issue." Mrs. Daisy Jackson, N. 24th ave.—"I have been taking several papers published in the South but have not enjoyed reading any like I do The Freeman" Emma Burke, Avenue K., 19th street.—"I think that The Freeman is more than grand." Jim Burglong, Avenue N 19th street. C B. Lewis, the well-known news paper correspondent of Little Rock Ark., is now representing The Freeman in that section LEARN U.S.M. TELECRAPHY OR BOOKKEEPING BY MAIL You can do it in a few weeks during your leisure hours at home while you continue your present work and be comfortable moment you graduate. We are successively fully fitting men and women by mail, bookkeepers, bookkeeper, cashiers, bankers, officees, business houses, law and booker’s offices, corporations, etc. can all put the office help they need and ask at right right people. You advance rapidly Salary is from $100 to $400 month. You next to nothing, and makes you in dependent for life. No charge for tuition until position is secured. You must be particularly free to all you are interested enough to write us. MICHIGAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE Institute: Joliet, Kalamazoo, Mich. PURE CHICLECHEWING GUM PEACHES AND CREAM NATIONAL PEPSIN, AND THE CELEBRATED Black Jap Delightful, Lasting, Flavors MANUFACTURED BY THE Buckeye Chewing Gum Co 1690 Broad way, TOLEDO, O. This firm respectfully solicits the colored trade., Druggets, Grocers, Confectioners and Restaurants PLEASE WAIT FOR TERMS. IT TAKES OUT THE CURL This is the renovated H rrs Hair Stratc ener that does such effective work and is demand from all parts of the country. Tr one-lits a good thing. This instrument surpasses everything else intent or purpose not before the public. Your hair will remain straight for no longer. Using this most valuable need for the beauti- fying of your appearance. The Hair Straightener Co. 606 N. California St. Indianapolis, Ind. AGENTS WANTED. When in Chicago one can secure a copy of The Freeman from Mrs. A. G. Marshall, 3604 State street. FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION OF HEAD, SECOND AND SIDE WAITERS. "For the man who works with brain or hand." A SUCCESSFUL WAITER of today knows that to be up to date in service he must keep abreast of the times, and try so doing he must read how others have attained success in managing dining rooms and cafes. He knows that a knowledge of these factors are essential to success. If you are a water, active or prospective, it will be worth your while to study the art of waiting. The Hotel Department of The Freeman is presenting a series of thorough practical lessons on the art of waiting. They give many practical experiences, illustrating how the successful waiter succeeds and why others. You can assist us. Appoint a representative to represent The Free man in you hotel. Sample copies sent free. Address THE FREEMAN Indianapolis, Ind. He who would teach servility and omit dignity and self respect teaches a false doctrine. All men who work for a salary are servants in some respect, but only in proportion to the spirit of the man as he himself feels and acts toward those served John Curtis, a popular hotel man, has added several improvements to his beautiful home at Rockville, Ind. Mr. Curtis is now living in Indianapolis, but contemplates moving to Rockville and operate a poultry farm. To his friends in Hot Springs, Ark., he sends regards. Fortunate for the young man entering the dining room to-day they find that the only real bar to success is their own lack of proficiency and preparation for the work, but the young man beginning in the work to day with the written order has many advantages over those of the old school who had to train their memory for the reception of five and six of the old fashion American plan orders, and this required the strength of two men to bring it in after getting it together. Cheerfulness, politeness and courtesies are the staple qualities in all line of business. These qualities are contagious and pay large dividends to the waiter, but their day of absolute supremacy is past unless supplemented with tact, intelligence, reason, purpose and a well developed intuition. These latter are the indispensable qualities of INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line £2.00 per year; including subscription to the Freeman, in advance.] HEADWATTERS. J. W. Redmond headwriter of The Carroll, Vickers b, Mis. 10 06. C. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 105 C. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Bruns wick, Uniontown, Pa 10-05 R. H. Bradley, Headwaiter Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 HOTEL DIRECTOR This column used exclusively for the ad dresses of hotels restaurants lodging and boarding houses and beaches and intended as a guide for the traveling public -you business solicited Beta Refo. me, manager, Richmond, a. W. Homes, manager, Richmond, a. W. Homes, manager, Richmond, a. W. Moore's Hotel. First-class rooms and board rooms, roomy furnished, 7 and 74 W. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel—327 Laurel street Hot Springs, Ark. Core's Lunch Room - 220 Fifth Street, Little Rock, Ark. Black's Hot-1 A modern first-class hotel for colored people, H. Black, Manager, Eransville, Ind. H. HENRY HARRIS—Architect, Wittmings ton, N. C. Write for terms. A TASTY SPREAD FOR THE DAILY BREAD. Royal Peanut Butter MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN MEAT MAKES DELICIOUS SANDWICHES Other Suggestions on Label PREPARED BY Cleveland Health Food Company CLEVELAND, OHIO. Pound, one-half pound and one-fourth pound Jar. EAT TAGGART'S HOME MADE BREAD The big 5c loaf You save over 10 Per Cent. on your bread bill! HEADQUARTERS : HI West 27th Street, New York. ```markdown ``` a waiter while those first mentioned are still very useful and important. The day for a cringing, scraping servility in the position of a waiter is past. Manliness and force of character in the eye of the man, backed with a knowledge of his duties and a competency in the art of catering, is what the public want. A virtue must be possessed; it cannot be assumed. Truth must unmask falsehood sooner or later. The true qualities that make success in our work are intellect, character and manhood. No man can over estimate the value of a well developed intellect. From this alone all powers of the mind spring, and the positive development of the various faculties of the mind; the concentration and application of their forces determines the usefulness or uselessness of the individual. In the fields of character and brain spring and grow all the seed of manliness and self-respect, without which man is but a beast, no more Genuine force of character produce high motives, courage, industry, persistence and other qualities that contribute to man's success. In making effort to obtain the positions of waiters in new hotels one of the first steps to be taken, possibly, would be to request your present headwaiter to make inquiry, that is, if you believe him a fit representative, if not it would be better to notify some well known man at some distant point of the building and opening of a fine hotel in your city. This might be the means of creating interest in the proprietors with respect to colored waiters, and might be the means of securing the positions. Another, and probably the best of the three suggestions, would be to notify the President of the National Association of the Head. Second and Sidewaiters and let this matter be handled through that office. This latter is no doubt the most powerful means of impressing the proprietors of the wisdom of such a choice. We are still hopeful that we shall yet have many replies to the subject. The following notice is copied from the breakfast bill of fare of the Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, Mich.: NOTICE—Guests will please report any mastention or discourtesy in this dining room on the part of head waiter, his assistant or any waiter; also any error made in filling order exactly as given by guest, or imperfection in the preparation of any dish ordered. Guests will kindly take the number of waiter's badge and make report to the propietor, either verbally or in writing. All complaints made will be considered confidential. Walters will not be infused of name of guest making complaint. The cardinal is a fine hotel of the in- order and class, and it gives employ- ment to forty waiters. This hotel has some of the most humiliating rules for the government of the help known in hotel business. It is surprising how easily they get all the help wanted con- during the manner of the treatment and the reward of their service. It is said to be an excellent hotel for extras. This alone may stone for insults and hard treatment with some men, but for-unately for all. The man who works alone for money and has no other plea- rea and satisfaction from work's of lw H. HENRY HARRIS—Architect, Wumington, N. G. Write for terms. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. morality and directed of ambition, that soul quality, which aspires for honors and place in the world of professions and competition. Take Care of Your Stomach and You [Will Escape No End of Trouble —One Perfect Food. Some people resort to drugs for every little ache or pain—drugs which may stimulate, but which cannot cure, if, indeed, there really anything to be cured. Many of the ills with which we are afflicted are due solely to eating tha wrong kind of food, or eating too much or not getting enough exercise to proper- ly digest what we do eat. We can't abuse the stomach without paying a penalty. This penalty is most frequently indigestion, with all its accompanying distress. Eat the right kind of food and you will not suffer. And the right kind of food can't medicine at all. It's a natural malted whole wheat food, Malta-Vita, the most delicious, the most satisfying food in the world, always fresh and crisp, containing every food element necessary for the sustenance and up-building of the body and the brain. A perfect breakfast is impossible without Malta Vita. Being a pure grain product it is rich in food element—all the food elements of the best white wheat grown and the finest barley malt extract—intensely vitalizing and easy for even the weakest stomach to digest, just the food to begin the day with, and it's good three times a day. "I had been a sufferer from nervous debility and indigestion for several years, without any benefit or relief from various tonics and other medical prescriptions. Imagine my surprise when, a short time after beginning the use of Malta Vita, I became aware of its beneficial effects by the gradual disappearance of my long-standing alliment. Malta-Vita is incomparable in its nourishing, digestive and strengthening qualities and is deserving of the greatest praise."—P. Gersper, Barnesville, Ohio. All grocers sell Malta-Vita at ten cents per package. Try some with cream or fruit. You never tasted anything so good, and you will be glad we told you about it. Ready to eat. LOUISVILLE, KY Joe Masterson departed this life a few days ago after returning home from Boston, Mass., where he had been for seven years as plasterer and calciminer. He is the oldest of five brothers, he being forty-nine years of age. He is survived by a father, three sisters and four brothers. It has, indeed, been a heavy blow, and I scarcely know how to talk of consolation under so bitter an infliction, but we thank the Almighty God "for He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." It is a comfort to me to know that the bright and never-ending future of Joe Masterson, whose spirit passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 27th, for a brief period to the Almighty God, from whence it came. The people of Louisville ought to be proud of their progressive young race of people. We have about 75 or 100 young men who attend the Y. M. C. A. regularly; we have, also, a free library which has recently opened up. It is conduced by Rev. Y. F. Bine; Mrs. Raenael Harris is assistant librarian. So far the patronage has been entirely satisfactory. This library is situated on Chestnut street between 11th and 12th. —Norman Mr. Bride of Nashville, Tenn., and Miss Decora Smith of Greensburg, Green county, Ky., were unaided in the holy bonds of matrimony at the Ninth street Baptist church, Sept 28th. Mrs. Vola Batchier was bridesmaid; Robert Taylor, bestman. —Robert F. Wilson of Nashville, Teen., and Miss Lillie Miller of Lebanon, Ky., were married at 1118 W. Walnut street, Oct. 5, 1905. Mrs. Sidney Williams, the grandmother of Bill Laddie, departed this life Sept. 30 at the age of 106. She was born a slave at Harrodsburg, Ky. She relates an interesting story about her slave days. She said she was thirteen years old w a her old master returned from the war of 1813. She moved to Louisville in 1863, when she secured a little hom in Parkland, a few miles out of the city limits The city campaign has reached the singing stage. The race for the mayor is nip and tuck between O'Neal, the fusion candidate and Barth, the straight democratic nominee.—Mesdames Benlah Wright Porter, Lillie Henderson and E E Cooper spent Sunday in the city the guests of Miss Summie B Murfree and Ms. William Watson.—Miss Katie A. Mann was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Meyzeek. Both par les were from India sap ils —Mrs. Nettle B. Barns, a leading modale of GRACIOUS A RAZZ. A.C. DE BALCAN. RT. REV. B. W ARNETT. Who is dangerously ill at his home in (incinnati O., was at one time a hotel man. It is said he was last headwaiter, prior to his ministry of one of the largest hotels in this country. Cincinnati, spent a portion of the week with Mrs E D. Walker. Mrs. Barnes had been visiting her daughter, Lena, who is teaching at Early Times, Nelson county—Dr. L. G. Jordan and Miss Nannie H. Burroughs have a large force of clerks at work at the Baptist Mission Headquarters, getting on the necessary literature, preliminary to the National Baptist Convention which assembles at Chicago on the 25th. Quite a number of improvements, have been made upon the building by Dr. Jordan and Miss Burroughs, who are certainly hustlers—W. P. Annis is now president of the Louisville Teachers' Institute. The regular meeting are held the first Saturday in each month.—The new colored library is being liberally patronized. Will Able, the well-known baritone singer, has joined Tom Logan's forces in Chicago.—Night schools are in progress at the east and west buildings 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. SOME PROMIN NT BUSINESS MEN Progressive Citizens of Madisonville Ky. in Successful Undertakings. A. Williams is the proprietor of a neat restaurant, where first-class meals are served with promptness. He treats his customers courteously and considers their slightest wish, which has been the foundation of his success. H E. Morton is proprietor of the leading torsorial parlor. He is a tax-payer on $24,000 worth of property. He has a prosperous business and is highly respected in the community. Mr Morton has six children, all of whom are in school. One son will graduate from Atkinson College next year. P. R. Cable, Jr. and Sons, are conducting a creditable grocery with a stock worth from $3,000 to $3,000. They are well patronized by both races. Mr Cable has an interesting family of seven children. One daughter, Miss Daisy, a graduate from the State University, is holding a position in the city schools. HOT SPRINGS, ARK. Crowds of visitors are now beginning to arrive in the Vapor city. The season promises to be good. J. R. Perry, the tailor, can be found at the same old stand with a full line of new samples. Mrs Susie Cole, a reader of The Freeman, conducts a first-class rooming and boarding house. J. W. Sherley's shining parlor is the best place to get shines. The Freeman can always be found at the Afro-American News Company on Gulpha street SMOKE DANIEL BOONE 5 CENT CIGAR C. C. BICKEL CO. LOUISVILLE, KY. SHORT FLIGHTS. Put down a "tally" for Ira T. Bryant in the A. M. E. Sunday-school Union race. Thomas Dixon, Jr., (never mind the "Rev.") owes Prof. Kelly Miller a nice, long letter. Now is a good time to talk the Negro leadership problem to a stand still. The dull season is on. Honest criticism is a spur to the thoughtful Negro, but no man is ever reformed by being constantly held in contempt and ridicule. Even if the divers and sundry observations of the writer of this column serve only to set the esteemed Alexandra Home News to thinking thing, a feat of no mean proportions has been accomplished. Robert C Ogden, the friend of all worthy people who are struggling upward, has a new business axiom—"The time to be careful is when you have a handful of trumps." In other words, the time to keep a sharp lookout is when you have something to lose. There are better men in the penitentiary than the Negro Pullman porter who refused to serve that party of the races' best men and women who went out of Chicago to the New York meeting of the Business League at a heavy personal expense to help him and his kind to rise in the social and commercial scale. Now that the brilliant W. T. Menard has been to Boston and "rubbed noses" with William Monroe Trotter, Charles Alexander, Granville Martin, Butler R Wilson, Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall and other dignitaries of "Beantown," the country may expect some racy pen pictures and scintillating funnygraphs in his Washington correspondence. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford points with pride to the fact that the women of the country are thoroughly united—that there is but one national body of women outside of the secret societies and churches—the National Association of Colored Women, of which Mrs. J Silone Yates is president. That simplifies the problem not a little bit, for when the women are all right the men are bound to get on the right side. Dr. Luov E Moten, the cultured principal of the Washington Colored Normal School, has just got through with her annual vindication, and Mrs Anna J. Cooper, the thorough-going principal of the M Street High School in the same city has given her usual knockout punch to the bumptious insubordinates with whom an all-too easy bard allows her to be afflicted. The return of the Washington public to sanity on the "servant problem" finds Justice Robert H. Terrell wearing the smile that never comes off. Archibald H. Grimke has given us a fine analysis of the kind of a leader the race needs. Will he now tell us how a few loyal followers may be created out of the remnants that may be left? The Freeman in Chicago. B. Williams 4864 State st. S. S. Ash, Cornell Ave. & 56th, st. E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State st A. F. Tervalon 2826 State st. Calvin B Brazand, 5506 Jeff Ave. J S. Love 2702 State st Isadore Jacobson 2970 State st. Patronize our advertisers. --- --- --- COOKS Waiters & 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.) 380 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. A PROPOSITION. The Freeman generously offers to the contributors to the subjects and questions put forth for the improvement and advancement of the waiters' interest and well-being a FREE yearly subscription for the best replies to the subjects presented for discusson through this department. These subjects are open only to waiters, second waiters and headwaiters. The subjects will be divided into three parts: FIRST. The Hotel and the Efforts Put Forth to Attain Them. SECOND. The Waiters and Their Qualifications. THIRD. Tipping and Its Evils or Benefits. In formulating these questions we must first secure the positions, and in this we study how we shall attain our object. Since possession is nine-tenths of law, we must put forth our best efforts. After securing the position, we next turn attention to the needs or qualification of the man. This we discuss under the head of Waiters and Their Qualifications. Next we will discuss the evils and benefits accruing from the acceptance of the graturities from the public, commonly called "Tips." In this issue is set forth a few ideas to give you proper conception of the subject: How shall we put forth our effort to secure the positions opening up to us through new hotel enterprise? These are vital questions to every colored waiter throughout the country. These are questions well worth the time and attention of all, especially the headwaiters. While we anticipate many replies, we will try in our weak judgment to award the "free subscription" to the deserving. Write plainly, in a graphic but concise manner. Write only on legal or fools-cap paper and on one side of the sheet. Send all replies and other contributions to The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. We shall award free subscription for the best reply to each of the three subjects, but remember we are now considering the hotel and how to secure it as waiters. 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 kinds of soft drinks and blue cigars. Call and see us. CHAS. M. PROFFIT, Manger A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 300 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Any part of the United States and Canada, one year, postage paid $1.50 Six Month 85 Three Months 60 Foreign Countries $1.00 extra Send money by express, money order, post office order or registered letter. Agents wanted i every town and city not now occupied, and liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary inducements. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line, case of measure—solid agate, 14 lines to an inch, 272 lines in a column. Advertisement inserted in a column. advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business cards. Reasonable discount for long time and special rates on 100 per line. Special rates on WR TER URs. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA. SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1905. THE LOST IS FOUND. Where was Editor Cable the night of the opening of the Republican campaign? Now is the time for him to write, write and write.—The World. We use the above as a text for some things we have to say about politics and the race, and will begin by answer ring the question asked. The answer is that on that night he was hard at work trying to make an honest living. But had he not been at work he would not have been at "the opening," neither will he be at the other one which will soon occur. He heard the music and saw the flare of the red light, but he can truthfully say: "None of these things move me." At the same time he recognizes the right of any who may like that sort of thing to be there in line with the boys. He sees or thinks he sees, that these things are engineered by men who are more anxious to get in office than they are to serve the common good, and that most of the boys in the ranks are not altogether unlike hired mourners—not that they are being paid to be there, but some one else is usually paid to see that they do get there. No, there is many a patriot in these ranks on large occasions who really believe that they are helping to save the country. For such we have only the highest respect regardless of the ranks in which they may be found. But for those who would mislead these to serve their petty schemes and make merchandise of their patriotism we have but feelings of contempt that are not always silent. Why is this "the time for him to write, write and write?" It is right here that the average editor of our papers goes wrong. With him an election is always a crisis—the culmination of human endeavor. It is the time when our editors usually lose their heads and ought to lose their pens. How much longer must we be inflicted with the disagreeable noise of the political tom-tom which is pounded for the purpose of rallying the faithful into helping some fellows get into office? How long before they will learn that you cannot fool all the people all the time? Any time is the time for an editor to write, provided he writes right, and that is just what we are trying to do. We are conscious of our many weaknesses, but we are sure that they are all of the head and not of the heart, and shall endeavor in what we do write to write right. IUSTICE IN KENTUCKY. Last week a Negro was arrested at Clinton, Ky., on the charge of attempted assault. He was put on board a train and started for Paducah for fear of mob violence. But efcre reaching that city those in charge of the prisoner became fearful that he would be mobbed there, and so the "Court" was notified to meet the train, which it did. The train then proceeded on its way, the baggage car was used for a courtroom, a "trial" was held, the prisoner convicted and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. The State prison is located at Eddyville, toward which the train was going. Well, this was certainly a remarkable performance. We wonder if the people of Kentucky think they have saved themselves from disgrace by it. The officials were no doubt prompted by good motives in doing as they did do, but what can be said of the moral status of a community where a trial must be held in a baggage car while in motion to prevent a number of "our best citizens" from murdering a man who had not been convicted? They must know that no good was accomplished by it except, possibly, the saving of a man's life. As for the people themselves, they THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. need missionaries and lots of them, and they need them bad. We are not familiar with the laws of that State, but for one guilty of that charge the sentence was a light one. The sentence was entirely too light for the charge or else the charge was too light for the sentence. With dus consideration of all the circumstances it is more than likely to have been the latter. --- WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. The suggestion of Mr. Washington that the birthday of William Lloyd Garrison, December 10, be made one of celebration seems to us a good one. He occupied the center in a constellation of great men, all of whom stood for human liberty for all mankind, and this day, as one of celebration, would furnish high ground for all who love the cause of humanity. There can be no question but that our emancipation day celebrations are becoming somewhat frayed out at the edges. They do not attract—they do not enthuse the people because they point to sadness. There is an increasing sentiment which feels neither joy nor pride in lifting the curtain which reveals past wrong and degradation, and looks with displeasure on any effort to keep alive memories that should bring shame to every American. Not so would it be with this day. It contains vastly more, for it appeals to all who know the sacredness of liberty, and it is therefore less seafish and personal. The word is indebted to this name, and we more than any other people. We hope our ministers will act on this suggestion, and by their action on the tenth of next December will lay the foundation for making an annual celebration that may soon be observed throughout the country. Yes, it is only too true that if our children be not educated we must have ignorant men and women. We have made too many sacrifices in the past to neglect the essentials now. We believe that Mr. Washington's appeal in behalf of the children of the Southland will not pass nno noticed. The articles on the front page of this issue should be thoughtfully read by our people everywhere. We cannot be indifferent to the educational needs of the children of to day if we are to expect good results of the race to-morrow. There is an old saying that if you see not the blossoms on the tree In the Spring you will look in vain for fruit in the Autumn. The city council of Montgomery, Ala., has withdrawn its appropriation for the entertainment of President Roosevelt because they have learned that he has planned a longer stop at Tuskegee than at Montgomery. But they should not be offended at this as Mr. Roosevelt is making this trip for his own pleasure and benefit rather than that of others. It is, therefore, only natural that he would stop longer at a point of much interest than at one of little or no interest. We hope this will set the matter entirely right. There is one important point that is constantly overlooked by most of those who cuss and discuss the race problem, and that is that we no longer consider the Negro's ability to fight, and work, and learn, open to discussion. He has proven his bravery in war; he has shown that he can do the work of the skilled artisan, and he has demonstrated that he has the capacity for all forms of education. Now, we move the Previous Question! George P. Stewart of the Recorder will some day be known as a diplomat. He said last week: "We need a healthy sentiment against the purchase of votes by designing politicians. If the Wide Awakes can awaken such a sentiment, will it not have been of real service?" Certainly. But who has accused the Wide Awakes of any such lofty intentions? Our St. Louis exchanges fairy teem with names and faces advertising facilities for giving a "good time." One might judge from appearances that every one there had both pockets filled with money and was anxious to find some way in which to spend it. When will all the citizen and manhood rights of the orderly, honest and industrious colored man be respected? Answer: Just as soon as the white people become thoroughly civilized. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett did us the honor to call on the Freeman during her recent visit to our city. The editor very much regrets that he was out on that occasion and so confesses himself the loser. The "kickers" have doubtless concluded to let Col Henry A. Rucker alone. The geopal Georgian is slated to succeed himself as collector of internal revenue for his great State An ingrate is worse than a thief. For the crime of stealing there may be mitigating circumstances. We believe that honesty is the best policy, but it is a hard lesson to learn. A switch in time saves nine. AUTUMN. The dying leaves fall fast; Chestnut, willow, oak and beech, All brown and withered lie, Now swirling in the cutting blast, Now sodden under foot—the teach That one and all must die. This autumn of the year Comes sadly home to my poor heart, Whose youthful hopes are fled, The darkening days are drear, Each love once mine I see depart As withered leaves and dead. A KNOCK AT LILLYWHITEISM. Editor Indianapolis Freeman: The colored people of Alabama have just succeeded in helping to win a great victory for decency and fair play. The Presidet has just removed from office practically the last two Lilly White office holders in Alabama. I refer to D. N. Cooper, the Marshal of the Northern District of Alabama, with headquarters at Birmingham, and Robert Barber, Register of the Land Office at Montgomery. Both these men joined the Lilly White movement that was so prominent in Alabama some years ago, and both have had their heads taken off and decent officials put in their place. The colored people are not only happy over this victory, but are also grateful to Hon. J. O. Thompson, the chairman of the Republican State Committee, for carrying out their wishes with the President in this regard. The President has greatly encouraged and helped forward the cause of decency in Alabama by making these two removals of men who betrayed their trust. For thirty years the colored people supported Mr. Barber and held him in office. When he thought the tide was turning a sinist the colored people and the Lily Whites were coming in power he turned and no one was more bitter against the colored people than Mr. Barber. Mr. P. M. Long, the newly appointed marshal, is a decent, high-toned gentleman, and not only that, but he believes in the rights of the Afro-American, and does not hesitate to say so. Lilywhiteism may bob up in other Southern States from time to time, but we think it will be a long while before this serpent shows its head in Alabama again. The Afro-Americans are most grateful not only to Mr. J. O. Thompson, but to President Roosevelt for this timely and good action. While they have been working quietly, they have been working persistently ever since the outbreak of the Lily White movement to get every man connected with this organization out of office and victory has crowned their efforts. **** Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 6, 1905. BIRTH OF WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. I think it fitting to remind your readers and our people throughout the country that December 10 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison, and it seems to me most proper that some form of celebration, as nearly uniform in character as possible, be decided upon in which our people shall take part throughout the United States. I confess, at the moment, I have nothing definite in mind, but I think a discussion of the subject through the press and other public ways will soon lead us to some form of definite opinion as to the proper method of having a fitting celebration of the birth of the man to whom our race and the world in general is so greatly indebted. If thought proper I believe some committee can be organized that will be very glad to plan a way through which some such celebration would be uniform and be made successful. Since the anniversary comes on Sunday, perhaps one method of celebration might be to have addresses and sermons delivered in all the colored churches throughout the country bearing upon the life and services of Mr. Garrison on that day. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee, Ala. Oct. 2 1905. BISHOP H. M. TURNER On the Wanamaker-Washington Dinner. We have read, with chagrin and disgust, the filmsy editorials of a number of little cymlin-head colored editors, who are trying to work themselves into notoriety and popularity among the prejudicial and Negro-hating sections of this country. Some are trying to berate Dr. Washington personally, and some are charging that he worked a great injury to his race, because he accepted of a respectful invitation to dine with John Wanamaker, the prince of American merchants. All this babble, too, is simply intended to ponder to a vitiated sentimentality, which has received no approval in heaven or hell, for the devil never has, and never will, stoop low enough to notice such an incident. But these Negro newspaper editors, and another class of notoriously seekers, know they will never be thus honored, and they are foolish enough to try to make people believe they are in danger of being invited, and will not accept. They attach no blame to Mr Wanamaker, who has been a cabinet officer, and one of the most influential men in the nation, but they jump on to Washington because they think he is nearer their equals. But what a mistake. Mr.Washington, so far as merit is concerned, excels them as far as the sun does the moon in light. They have the same comparison that a mole hill has with a mountain. FORTY YEARS A FREEMAN. Under this head the reader has an opportunity to learn more about the colored race generally than could be obtained in any other way. All the facts in these articles cost a great deal of time, money and labor. Every business man's name that appears in these columns has been personally interviewed by a Freeman reporter, his business carefully looked over and reported on its merit. You can rest assured, dear reader, that no "watered stock" has been reported for the purpose of giving the race a great "puff" among strangers or among our white friends. The colored business men of Keokuk, Iowa, merit much more than they are receiving in these short "write-ups," We first introduce Philip Reeves, a very popular shoemaker, located at 317 Johnson street. Mr. Reeves learned his t ade while a slave in Kentucky: makes a specialty of repair work; sells new and second hand shoes; he counts among his patrons the best class of both colored and white citizens; owns a home at 211 North Eighth street; he is a great church worker and is of Baptist faith Thomas Freeman's restaurant and lunch room is located at 1103 Main street. Mr. Freeman owns the finest business in his line of any colored man in the city of Keokuk. He caters to the best class of both colored and white; has been in business about a year; he is courteous and accommodating, and truly merits his fine trade which is steadily increasing. T. J. Walker, barber, located at 26'1 Water street, has been in business thirty-two years, eight years in present location; fifty three years in city; finds business good. Mr. Walker is a widower. Henry Wilkinson, dealer in coal, wood and feed, is located at 1228 Main street; has been in business three years; owns an 80-acre farm in Des Moines Township, which is rented; has three daughters and one son; is a widower. Frank Fields, barber, located at 1003 Main street. Mr. Fields is an ex-policeman; was two years on the force in this city. His shop is conducted on the 'equal rights' plan—first come first served; has been in business twenty years, two years at present location. He is ex-D strict Grand Treasurer of the G. U. O. of O. F., and is well known among the fraternity. Arthur E. Digg's rooming house is located at 23 N. Third street; has been in business six years; owns the building he occupies, which is a nice frame structure valued at $2,000; has a good trade in his line. Prof. W. H. Jones owns the finest torsional parlor in the city of Keokuk; it is located at 607 Main street; has an up-to-date bath room in connection; carries a complete line of the very best toilet articles and barber supplies; counts among his patrons the wealthiest citizens of Keokuk; he owns an elegant residence at 1123 Concert street valued at $5,000; is about fifty years old; has a wife and three sons. John W. Smith, dealer in ice, is located at 1413 Morgan street; in business about a year; has a mixed trade, both colored and white. Mr. Smith's home is valued at $1,200; has a family of three boys and two girls, all attending public schools. A. M. Morton, barber and musician, is located at 907 Main street; In business five years; reports a fairly good trade. Mr. Morton is a great race man and believes colonizing would solve the race problem; he opposes emigrating to Africa on the ground that the climatic conditions of that country are not suitable to the Afro-American; he is a widower forty-nine years old. Henry Brooks, shoemaker, located at 916½ Main street, does general repairing, sells new and second-hand clothing. Mr. Brooks had only forty cents when he started in business. His landlord rented the building with the understanding that he was to pay the rent as soon as he could. He owns a home at 1608 Banks street. Mr. Brooks is a first-class workman in his line. A. J Fields, grocer, is located at 1220 Morgan street; in business four years. Mr. Fields is the only colored grocer in the city; carries a full line of canned goods, home-grown vegetables, teas, coffees, oil, salt, flour, etc.; he owns the building he occupies and a very fine residence at 323 N Thirteenth street valued at $2,500. He is thirty-six years old; has a wife and one son. Present address: George H. Jones, 1407 Morgan street, Keokuk, Iowa. (To be continued.) SHORT FLIGHTS. SHORT FLIGHTS. Maryland's po' whites are a unit for the Poe amendment. The Republican platform in Maryland "flunked" on the Negro problem. Put our agreements in the foreground; our disagreements will advertise themselves without any assistance. Let us discern the merits of a black man before they are shown to us by some broad-minded and clear-sighted white man. "Concentration" is the watchword of the hour, whether we are establishing a railroad system or defending a civic right. Charles W. Anderson is simply "sawing HAVE YOU TRIED IT? Gas Coke A Hard, Smokeless Fuel at Soft Coal Prices . . . THE Indianapolis Gas Comp'y PHONES 82 wood," and leaving his disgruntled contemporaries right of way at "chewing the rag." If you have done nothing yourself to solve the race problem, it is your cue to be still when the work of others is under examination. Maryland's Republican magnates do not seem to be as proud of the possession of a star convention orator as Harry S. Cummings thinks they ought to be. While the ordinary white people of Nashville, Tenn., are riding in a peebelan trolley car the erstwhile "jim-crowed" Negro is whizzing by in his automobile. Oh, horrors! It is not difficult to compile reports, take censuses and draw analytical conclusions concerning the world's workers—but to actually do their work—that's another story. The Negro press is chanting "Ichabod" to the Republican leaders of Maryland who lacked the sand to meet as men the Gormanic hobgobin of "social equality" and "Negro domination." The Negro may not be as good a Christian as those of the "superior" race, but he never conducts a business that discriminates against a white man, no matter how humble the latter's condition. The United States arry ought to be able to find use at all stages of the game for the sons of a race that has never produced a Benedict Arnold, a John Wilkes Booth, a Guiteau, a Johan Most or a Czolgolz. When we are willing to render service to families of our own color as capably and as willingly as we serve those of the white race, we produce the most convincing proof that we do not regard our people as inherently inferior to those of a fairer hue. A "Negro neighborhood" is undesirable only when the term stands for tumble-down shacks, dilapidated fences and a famine in paint and whitewash. Well-kept premises, good order and careful sanitation never drive fastidious people away from any locality. We cannot afford to decry or minimize the importance of remedial laws, but it cannot be gainsaid that business success is often more potent than legislation in compelling honorable recognition at the hand of his white neighbors. The ability of a Negro to own the finest building in a given city block will command a respect that all the laws in fifty States could not confer upon the Negro of equal character and personal worth who merely serves as janitor therein. It may not be just—but it is the way of the world. Kentucky is justly celebrated for its good whisky. Read announcement on seventh page. PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION remains only a few months and then goes to some other community. It is cheaper in the long run to pay a large salary for a good teacher than to pay a small salary for a poor teacher. 3rd. If the public school authorities do not provide a decent and comfortable school house, and every effort of the people to stimulate them to do so has failed, the people in the community should tax themselves in order that a good, comfortable school house may be built. Some of the school houses in which our children are taught are fitter for cattle than for human beings. 4th. We should get the public officers for as long a school term as possible. But no people can be educated when the schools are in session only four or five months during the year. $269.00 FREE To quickly introduce our High Grade Hair Preparations, Soaps, Tollert Articles, Etc., into thousands of homes we are going to distribute absolutely free and easy hair products. We offer the High Grade Piano-Organ, or $9.00 in cash, 2nd prize $0.00 in cash, 3rd prize $2.00, 4th prize $2.00, Three $10.00 prizes; four $4.00 prizes; ten $2.50 prizes; five $1.00 prizes. We offer the opportunity to reliable and honest friends and neighbors, by selling for us a small co-signment of our best goods, which will take about one hour of your time for which we pay you $1.50, besides the money you earn. We offer your money, one or more of the prizes mentioned above. We trust you with the goods, and if you can't sell them, we will take them back. Write us to day for full particulars, as this ad may not appear again in this paper. ADDRESS McPHERSON SPECIALTY CO. ADVERTISING DEPT. DORCHESTER, VA. --- No community should be satisfied until its school is in session seven or eight months during each year. If our people will save some of the money that they now throw away, especially during the fall of the year, for whiskey, snuff and cheap jewelry, they can with little difficulty add two or three months to the public school term. 5th. Let us make up our minds that, despite difficulties and many disadvantages, our children in every section of the South shall have a decent education. We should never cease to agitate in every locality for proper school facilities. If our children are not educated now, they and their children, and their children's children, will grow up in ignorance. I repeat, the entire race shall suffer Now is the time for ministers, teachers and parents to act quickly and vigorously, and we shall not regret the result. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., October 7 Mrs. Martha Rankin of Old City, Pa., is visiting Miss Angie Davis, of 451 Third street.—John Purdy, of Buffalo is in the city visiting his mother and many friends.—Roye Brown was in the city a few days last week visiting Thomas Brown of Sixteenth street. James C. Moore, principal and founder of E T. School was in the city on business last week.—Rev Morley, pastor of the St. James A. M. church left for Wilkesbarre, Pa., last Monday to attend the annual conference. MINEOLA. TEX. W. M. Christian, the great evangelist of Texarkana, Ark., will preach in this city. Rev Christian was born in Mississippi in 1856 and has been preaching for thirty years—Isaac White, of Berwyn, I. T., lost his little daughter, September, 25.—There will be a show in Tyler October 19—Persons desiring The Freeman see Sandy Anderson. Send Ten Cents To-day For a sample copy of ALEXANDER'S MAGAZINE. This is the best of the kind published at the present time. Liberal commission to good Agents. Address CHARLES ALEXANDER, 714 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Mass. Every Lady Read This. Years ago when I was a sufferer, an old nurse bid me of a wonderful cure for Leura, a chronic bacterial Pellet Heart Disease and Ovarian troubles It cured me in one month. It is a simple harmless lotion that can be prepared by an anyone having the recipe I will send Free to every suffering gilter who wishes to treat a woman with a case of woman in helping woman. I need it Free. Address Mrs. A, B. Hudnut, South Bend. Ind. DR. M. A. MAJORS Specialist 20 years' experience; practiced limited to obesity, asthma, dropy, gout, rheumatism, diabetes, loss of blood and skin disures. Dispiseis, diseases of the liver, heart and lungs; colds, cocks, early consumption; office 163 State Street, Suite 57- hours 9 m to 6 m; call or call, Chicago. WANTED - A position to work in reference furnished. Address Charles Lee, Jr., 2457 Blind Street, Louisville, KY. WANTED - A graduated pharmacist colored). Good position for a reliable pharmacist of experience. In applying give experience and references. Address The Freeman. PROOF READER WANTED The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute desires to hear from any one who has had experience be accompanied by recommendations as to character, experience, etc. Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. WANTED BY CHICAGO MANUFACTURING House, person of trustworthiness and someone with experience in office. Squire. Permanent position. No investment required. Previous experience not essential to position. Manager Branches. Combo Block, Chicago. LOWRY INSTITUTE One of the best schools in Sumter county is the Lowry Institute Industrial School, opened Oct. 2 and close in May. Accountant Write for further information; the teachers are the best can be had. PROF. W. M. BALEY, President of Lowry Institute, Mayville, S.C. to earn not less than $3.00 and as high as capital required. Man or woman can work it. Full information for 2c. "Money back on capital required." M. "CAMBELLEL 5G" Street, Elm, IL. Fair Preparations, Soaps, Toilet Articles, taking to distribute absolutely free among following manner, viz: First-t prize a High and prize $20.00 in cash, 3rd prize $25.00 and $20.00 prizes, ten $2.50 prizes, five $0.00 the opportunity to reliable co-signed people in introducing our goods among their a small co-signment of our best goods, time for when we pay us $1.00, besides are from us without investing one of mentioned above. We trust you with the take them back. Write us to-day for ear again in this paper. IN SPECIALTY CO. DORCHESTER, VA. ERIE, PA. The St Band & Frye, LeRoy and Edwin opened at Fisher's Theatre, San Francisco, Cal., October 2. Instantaneous hit, closing the bill. Harry Waters (Rastus) was a caller at The Freeman Tuesday. He is a member of the "Little Red Riding School" Company, who are booked to appear at the Park Theatre soon. Walter Johnson, at one time a member of "Darkest America" and Oliver Scott's Minstrels, is playing parts with Charles T. Aldrich in "Secret Service Sam." He was a caller at The Freeman during their engagement at the Park Theatre. lowen M. Lawson, connected with the George B. Jennings Co., music publishers of Cincinnati, O., and a prominent writer of popular songs was a visitor in Indianapolis Sunday. His latest hits are "A Hot Tomale" and "A Receipt for Work." THE FREEMAN'S GALLERY. Gustav Arnaud Writer, actor and producer, now in England. We'd like to grasp your hand and say, That we hope friend Billy, that you'll live away If every lad could do as well as you We believe he'd have much to do. —CHARLES MARSHALL THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE: LADIES' LIST Brown, Mrs Xerxes Bufford, Mrs Miss Hattle Foster, Mrs Leo Leach Foster, Mrs Leo Leo Foster, Mrs Leo Leo Jesjune, Mrs Phylo Jesjune, Mrs Phylo Lessis, Mrs D C W Minet, Miss Alberta Mearin, Glenn E Scott, Mrs Emma Turner, Miss Agnes Georgia Tehle, Mrs Bai Worfun, Miss T P GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Armstrong, T.L. Alexander, Wm Armstrong, Thos Armstrong, Roy Bo-twick, W G Burton, Chas Beechum, Chas Bennett, P E Beebee, C W Bifan, O Y Bue, Prof W Barnes, H G Banch, J G Connecticut Minstrel Coleman, Henry Collins W E Desdune, D P Foster, Chas B Fleming, C R Fairbank Coon Comedy Company Gant, R H Gorland, Will Gold Dust Twins Goodwin, Freddie Looney, E J Lane, H S Lacey, W R Mutligan, J Merse, S H McCannon Prof H-3 McDade, Geo (2) McCutchen, Rev Wm Quine, Geo W Rohen, Miss Lissy Reeves, The Robinson, W A Stafford, Edward Shorts, Prof I B Shields, W Swan, Geo A Toliver, John The Prampins Wade, Kld Wilson, Chas ROUTE. A Rabbit Foot Co: San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 16. A) E. Holman's Serenaders—Folles, Manager Paris, France Aug. 1 to Sept. 30, Paris, Oct. 1 to 31, Nederhausch, Panoticum Amsterdam, Holland, Nov. 1 to 30. Boris Krug 16. Nassau's Minstrels - Bryan, Tex., Oct. 16. Nassau's Orsacana, 18; Mexia, 19. Ennis, 25; Waxham, 16. Dr. Ferdon's Quaker Medicine Co.: Fort Madison, Iowa, Sept 30 to Oct. 15. Proctor's Original "Arkansas" Minstrels. Cartonade, Ill., Oct. 16 to 21. Brown and Brown (Singer and Carbonist) Orpheum Theater, Denver, Col., week of June 18. Malaise Ross and Brooks, assisted by Miss. Grave Hidayat; Orpheum Theater, Reading, Pa., week of June 18. The Brewers (Johnson and Island and F. R. Mc Moado); Port Moren, Societie Islands, Sept. to 30; Ruruta, Societie Islands, October and November. Frank Mahara's Big Minstrel Carnival: Ramond, Mo., Oct. 16; Marceline, 17; La Fata, 18; Queen City, 19; La Beau '24; Canon THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Fred Lewis' Big Sensational Georgia Plantation, with the Smith Greater Amusement Company will open at Raleigh, N.C., today at the big State Fatr and Roosevelt celebration. Mr. Lewis was in Chicago this week, purchasing new costumes. Notes from A Rabbit's Foot Comedy Company.—We are taking Texas by storm; playing to packed houses every night, having to put out our S. R. O. sign at 8:40. Everybody is making good and in good health. Samuel Cohens, the fake Ebenezer, sends regards to Amos Gilliar and George Jones. Paul Carter, singing and dancing comedian, sends reagards to all friends. Our parade is the sensation of the day carrying a big band of eighteen pieces, headed by Mr. Chappelle. The company sends regards to all friends. Notes from William Benbow's Old Plantation Minstrel. —We are now in the cool fields and are playing to S. R. O. every night. We are using a 20x30 tent now, and if business continues like this we will have to get a 80x90. John Allen, Bud Maury and Tony Jones opened with the show at Columbus, Miss. Washington and wife are sending them away nightly holding their own. Alberta Benbow is clearing up with "Why Adam Sinned." Will Steward is still doing well. William Benbow sends regards to Williams & Stevens, the New Orleans Minstrels and Little Savoy Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla., and wishes to hear from H. Miles and Bessie Brothers, address in care of The Freeman. Notes from the Barkout Plantation Show.—The entire company are well and doing well. The ghost walks every Thursday. We are in Hagerstown for two weeks. We opened the new opera house here Monday night and played to S. R. O. We put on our new show, "Holiday in Coontown" and it is the talk of the town, Wren & White in their "Vest Pocket Edition" sketch made a great hit. We are still playing under canvas for three more weeks until our contract is out with the carnival. We have the greatest of all plantation shows on the road, with a minstrel first part that is elaborate The dainty comedienne, Mrs. Julia Stobla, singing "Every Little Bit Helps" with her gestures is a hit. Lee Henderson, the rag man, and featuring the song, "Any Rags," Miss Julia Holland, the nothern eccentric, with the silver voice, W. L. McMullen, the monologist, Albert Smith, the tumbler, Miss Martha Green, the topical vocalist are cleaning up. We have a mixed quartet, Julia Holland, 1st. tenor; W. L. McMullen, 2nd. tenor; Martha Green, 1st. bass; Joe Hagermon, 2nd. bass; singing "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree," and a male quartet singing southern airs of the cotton fields. Robert C. White, the manager and rag-time pianist is meeting all comers. PEKIN NOTES. The new quartet that has been organized to take the place of the Bobby Kemp Comedy Four, will be known as the Kent Comedy Quartet consisting of Tom Logan, manager, Charles Morris, Jack Marlon and Will Abel. They opened Monday and are booked sold to February 1906. The Willfrms & Walker have been under the management of Lew Dockstader. Complications have arisen among the managers of first-class houses to such an extent that they have refused to book Williams & Walker or any Negro show, so without such booking Dockstader could not put on such an expensive show. He was willing to take the best bob king possible and allow them sixty-six people and a managing staff of five, but they presented 118 people with a salary list of $3,000 per week but Dockstader would not accede to such conditions. He is already in $10 000. What the outcome will be I don't know. The Hogan show was supposed to go out on the ninth but advices from New York say they will be delayed. Hogan was so long in giving Bobby Kemp a definite answer that Kemp has signed with the Pekin for the season. Hogan was to have tickets here for him on the first and he did not get them until the fifth. In the meantime Hogan sent no information. Mr. Kemp will be ably assisted by Miss Jenet Pearl and it looks as if it will be as good a team as Johnson & Dean. The Pekin has made many improvements consisting of putting in opera chairs on the main floor and balcony and consignments of new costumes have been selected by Manager Smith. BERT A. LARIMER. SYLVESTER RUSSELL NOTES. SYLVESTER RUSSELL NOTES. New York Special. Williams & Walker's plans have suddenly terminated and all the news that has been ventilated concerning their new management and production is off. Whether "Abyssinia" will be produced in its entirely now or not, or in part, or laid upon the shelf, remains to be seen. The two famous comedians have signed with Oscar Hammerstein to open at the Victoria Theater for an indefinite New York run October. 30. Just what the nature of the perfor- AN ENTERPRISING PROFESSIONAL MAN. [Picture of a young man with his arms crossed, wearing a suit and tie.] WALTER JOHNSON. In the ambitions class of performers belongs Walter Johnson, an enterprising young man, at present the busy stage manager and interesting character comedian with Charles T. Aldrich's "Secret Service Sam," a successful company now filling engagements in the Middle West. He has been a useful member of J W. Vogel's 'Darkest America,' Oliver Scott's Minstrels, as interlocutor, Nashville Students and Gliden's Minstrels. He was also connected with Daniel Fawley's Stock Company, at San Francisco for one season, and for three years immediately previous to his present engagement, he mance will be and its futurity will depend upon the ghost whose pallid form appears in winding sheets to whimper in our ears and tell us things in whispers. While Messrs. Williams & Walker and their right hand man, Jesse A. Shipp, are deserving of great credit for what they have achieved in the past five years, we can only regret that they were weak-minded enough to relinquish the Hurtig & Seamon regime before they had firmly olinched a contract with management of greater possibilities. If the production of "Abyssinia" called for unlimited capital there should have been an exact figure stipulated in the contract that could have covered the cost of the production. This one mistake is a drawback of broad dimens ons that may jeopa-dize the best future interests of everybody concerned. But the mistake is not serious: there is no mistrust involved that could disgruntle managers. There is simply money lost and actors disappointed. It is our eager-most hope that they may be able to again effect a complete satisfactory reconciliation with the management of their choice. Ernest Hogan's rehearsals for his starring tour has received another setback. The costumes are not ready and the possibilities of withdrawing the Memphis Students from vaudeville and placing them in the Hogan Company to augment it is being discussed. They have also tried to borrow chorus people from Williams & Walker, But the most serious eruption that will interest the public is the dissatisfaction that has arisen concerning Sam Lucas since, the company has come under the control of Hurtig & Seamon. For some reason unexplicable Mr. Lucas has not given Mr. Green satisfaction at rehearsals. Mr. Green, who holds a position of more importance than ever this season may not be able to control its bearing philosophically. Mr. Lucas has been a star philosopher of recognized ability for years. Mr. Hogan signed him as his leading man with this knowledge in view. If Mr. Lucas can not play a character part to suit the public, no other actor can. Bob Kelly is the next man. Mr. Lucas once succeeded Kelly in "A Trip to Coontown" and out-classed him. Now it seems that Manager Hurtig comes in on the scene to dictate to the principal actors as he tried to do in the Williams & Walker Company, without avail, and Mr. Hogan who is said to be easily led, must maintain his own policy in this direction with mindful dignity and quiet repose. He is not altogether obligated. He must remember that he was offered a salary to continue in vaudeville with the Students, so large that it actually made him sick. Nel her the magnitude of this new management nor the partiality of his new stage manager should deter him one iota from his former disposition concerning Mr. Lucas. The contention of Manager Hurtig and Ed. Green, knowingly counts for nothing. In the meantime Mr. Lucas must keep his mouth closed if he hopes to retain public sympathy. If you drink good whisky, read announce ment on seventh page. Ask your news dealer for The Fre man. was with Walter Sanford's Stock Company, playing juvenile paris. He is much in love with his work and aspires to be a power in the stage world by hard and constant work. He takes the advantage of every opportunity that will assist him in the upward struggle. He is quite successful in his present part, and is making preparations for a large vaudeville act which plays the Keith circuit and then goes to England. This will be a splendid opportunity for both promoter and company to give real evidence of their ability as manager and performer in vaudeville. Mr. Johnson is a New York City product. MUSICAL AND STAGE NOTES MUSICAL AND STAGE NOTES MADAME HACKLEY'S FAREWELL. Eninently of the past when Madam Marie Selika, Miss Flora Batson and Nellie Brown Mitchell held sway when competition and tuition were limited to the few jucky competitive singers of that day, for the earlier day of Madame Greenfield, the Black Swan, who died in poverty, of which we reluctantly recall in praise of the hospitality of Philadelphia which has sheltered all the retiring female singers for the past fifty years, the cordiality of the good old city still continues to flow. The limited demonstration accorded S. Coleridge Taylor, due to bad management, was alone the only one instance of regret. The coming of Madame Sissleretta Jones, the Black Patti, who dethroned all other singers of her race, on her upward march, both of the concert and theatre platforms, where, in the latter she still reigns supreme, and the large number of other singers who later graduated from conservatories and bloomed in combination and musical comedy companies, we find ourselves in the narrow portal of a still higher musical gateway, the studio and stage combined as one grand example of exquisite culture and art. Madame E. Azalia Hackley, the distinguished prima donna soprano of the West will make her farewell appearance in Philadelphia, prior to her departure for Europe at the Academy of Music, Thursday evening, October 19. She has been teaching vocal culture in the Quaker City for the past two years and has lately gained worthy recognition in the East both as a singer and a teacher. When Madame Hackley visited Boston two winters ago her appearances there were veritable triumphs. While I was opposed to her concert room lectures, I was quite favorably impressed with what I heard of the last part of an evening's program. Now that she has divided her lecture recitals and star concerts into two different forms of entertainment much better results can be expected of her concerts and all the extra time will be devoted to the large galaxy of artists who will support her. The large list is as follows: Clarence C. White, violinist; Gerald Tyler, pianist; H. Leonard Jeter, cellist; Mrs. M. Saunders Patterson, soprano; Clara L. Soudder, pianist; Dasea Parker, reader; Charles Marshall, baritone; Edwin F. Hill, violinist; Lela C. Walker, reader and a large chorus under the direction of Stanley C. Gilbert, with R. Henri Robinson and Carl R. Diton as accompanists. When Madame Hackley who is a graduate of the Denver Conservatory of Music, makes her bow in the old historic academy, where grand opera once held sway in the days of Patti and Gerster I expect to be present to tell The Freeman readers what they should know about the occasion. Mr. Edwin H. Hackley has cordially invited me to attend and as my ticket has arrived I will now leave New York for Philadelphia, John Cooper, the ventriloquist is win- Vaudeville. I have a little too soon for his own good, he came to New York. Bob Cole having faith in his ability recommended him in high class vaudeville circles. But through his I ve for drink and a case of the 'big head' he has fallen. Back to the minstrels he goes; out in the thicket of a secluded sphere, there to shine among the lesser lights from whence he came. Perhaps some day if he reforms New York may take him up again, but hardly ever. James W. Johnson and Rosamond Johnson, brothers, Bob Cole's partners are looking very sleek in these days. When I interviewed James concerning my subscription history he said he was not an actor and referred me to Bob. James is a great literary scholar, he contributes to Lippincott's and other rich magazines. I have had the nerve to ask him to give me BY SYLVESTER RUSSELL. who can sing, dance and play instrument of some kind for large vaudeville act which plays the Kieth Circuit and then to England. One year's engagement and large salary to right parties and the very best of treatment. Harry Waters, Campbell Bros., and Frank Kirk write, ADRESS WALTER JOHNSON. Musicians: Trombone, cornet and bass violin, also a few actors for long season South. Address as per route in The Freeman--Carbondale, Ill., Oct. 16-20. If they are Dormant--Have them Developed. If it is Musical--We do It. N. B.--We teach all instruments by mail. We perfect your compositions and write sketches for short acts to order. Write us to day. (Mention this paper) GREAT SOUTHWESTERN MUSIC GO. 316 W. 59th St, New York City. Members: New Amsterdam Musical Association (Incorporated.) ning new laurels in the Mormon land. He is out in Utah. Here's a conundrum. If it takes brains and a natural gift to catch up with the critic as a writer how long will it take an ambitious young writer to become a musical and dramatic critic without experience? Why do Williams & Walker, Jesse Shipp and William Marlon Cook allow a certain writer to call their production a comic opera? It will be no extravaganza either as this heedless young writer tried to instruct me. The public will surely know what it is when I see it. COMING SOON TO YOUR CITY "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy The only combine Negro show on the road owned and managed by the Negro exclusive. See the biggest free street parade taking P.S. Can always piece good performers and musicians both male and female PATCHAPPELLE, Owner and Mgr. as per route. MUSIC for Piano or Organ March: "The Ogden Party," price 25c. Ryman "Let Not Your Heart be Troubled" and "Sailor Paul's Association," price 5c; dedicated to the Y. M. C. U. by Egert Williams, bandmaster, Normal & Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Orders by mail promptly filled. a little poem for The Freeman and I guess he will, we will wait a d see anyhow. All --- There is considerable rumor in New York concerning Madam Sissiteretta Jones, the black Pattli, and her managers. Voelckel & Nolan must both agree to agree or else all three must soon agree to disagree. Now what do you think of that? When Jesse A. Shipp first blossomed out as a playwright, he was a botchworker in "A Trip to Coontown." Later he collaborated in the construction of "Sons of Ham" and "In Dahomey." This time he has written the entire book of "Abyssinia." The success of the last will establish him as one playwright of his race who is unexcelled. --- Eddie Goggin was among the notable performers I saw who had arrived in New York with no plans for publication. He and Charles Davis have mutually dissolved partnership for all time. He was the guest of Billy Johnson. Mr. Johnson is busy pushing out his new song, "I'm Saving It All for You." --- March Craig has joined Rusco & Holland's Minstrels as the star olio attraction. His little daughter, Baby Loraine sends the critic her regards, sweet little thing, and J. Ed. Green's little baby boy, Ernest Green, named for Ernest Hogan, has had the great pleasure of being fondled and kissed by the critic. If these two should grow up and marry each other, say in the course of sixteen years, what a wonderful precedent that would be. --- William H. Nichols, the greatest colored natural mimic in America has allowed himself to be a failure. Manager Voelckel discovered this man and brought him East with Black Patti Troubadours. The moment I saw him I gave out the news that he was great and would be accepted in vaudeville. After leaving the Black Patti show a little too soon for his own good, he came to New York. Bob Cole having faith in his ability recommended him in high class vaudeville circles. But through his I ve for drink and a case of the 'big head' he has fallen. Back to the minstrels he goes; out in the thicket of a secluded sphere, there to shine among the lesser lights from whence he came. Perhaps some day if he reforms New York may take him up again, but hardly ever. --- James W. Johnson and Rosamond Johnson, brothers, Bob Cole's partners are looking very sleek in these days. When I interviewed James concerning my subscription history he said he was not an actor and referred me to Bob. James is a great literary scholar, he contributes to Lippincott's and other rich magazines. I had to ask him to give me COMING SOON TO YOUR CITY "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy The only genuine Negro show on the road owned and managed. Negroes exclusive. See the biggest free street performance travelling. P.S.-Can always place good performers and musicians both male and female PATCHAPPELLE, Owner and Mgr. as per route. MUSIC for Organ Bass or Organ March: "The Orchestra on Bass," price 25c. Hymns: "Let Not Your Heart be Drifted" and "Paul's Benediction," price 2c dedicated to Williams, band-master, Normal & Industrial Museum, Akela. Orders by mail promptly filled. a little poem for The Freeman and I guess he will, we will wait a d see anyhow. All this occurred at the Marshall House on my last run across the river to New York, When I notified Rosamond Johnson that I wanted to interview him also during the evening, he hid himself. Later, while seated with Cole and Green, I whispered close in Cole's ear concerning a big subscription. Ernest Hogan had told me one morning while at baeakfast in his house that Bob Cole is very liberal. J, Ed. Green who sat across the table at the Marshall House while I was whispering to Cole, looked on with bowed down head, dreaming of the future. FT. MADISON JA Rev. J. C. Reid made an address at the A. M. E. church Monday night. The other speakers were Rev. Peterson and G. W. Jenkins — Mrs. James Thomas is convalescent — Miss Lula Williams contemplates spending the winter in Kansas City. — Miss Bertha Williams has returned from Chicago — The Santa Fe shops are employing as many colored men as they can get. — Mesdames Ambrose and Green Jackson gave a fish and chicken social at the second Baptist church, for the benefit of the Sunday school — Rev. Peterson of the A. M. E. church gave a reception for Dr. Paul's musicians Monday evening. — Master Joseph Reid was minister, Irvin Mack, the groom, Marie Dunlap, the bride and Miss Alpha Jackson presided at the piano at the Lilliputian wedding. — Rev. O McCleland returned from New Boston, la., Monday. — Rev. F. L. Blackwell has left for St Joseph, Mo., to accept an lucrative position. — Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. R. H Higgentham, Mesdames Blade and Henry spent Saturday in Keokuk — Jesse Blade left for Chicago to spend the winter. — Miss Mattle Thomas, Irene Jackson, Mrs. Dunlap and Mrs. K. Jackson spent a day in Keokuk attending the street fair. — The Freeman is the best advertising race medium in America. We have already had a matrimonial offer to one of our wealthy widows since the first Ft. Madison "write up." — The Lilliputian wedding given for the benefit of the Second Baptist church Tuesday evening was a complete success socially and financially. Mrs Reid was an ideal hostess Mrs Lucille Holmes, chief State secretary of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, was in Keokuk Thursday of last week on official business. — Have you subscribed for The Freeman? If not, why not? The Freeman is on sale every Saturday in Memphis, Tenn., at G. J. Gary's news stand, 327 Beale street. FREE to MEN Man Medicine Receipt The Great Prescription for Man Medicine is Sent Absolutely Free---the Power Proof of Perfect Potency in Every Man Now within reach of all and the Prescription Free. Your youth can and will come back again. Prove in your own discusged body the potent power of the many-icious Man Medicine of the great interstate remedy Company We send the original prescription entirely at our cost and not at yours so you can get it filled most anywhere. There is no charge for this, not a dollar not a cent not a penny. Sent in a plain envelope, sealed, without any marks or writing on the cover to betray the contents. Man will inform the man of the contents and be given by all people and young. New young power and the lift and life of first manhood over again. Your whole body will mount again to the strength and vigor of the man and the fact that you are right-right-right. You know what that means--every man knows--it means full force and fire of vigorous manhood. The flash and dash of man-life the man who lives again in manhood. It means all that--does that. Do you want to be that way? Do you want to be a man-man-like man-right-and man-able? Do you want to be "game" again-up end coming? Man-made descriptions is yours, free for the asking absolutely free. Your name and where to send it--all you have to do to get it. Get it. rove it. Know it. We'll send it. Our word is your guarantee INTERSTATE REMEDY CO. 319 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich. Williams'Shaving Soap. No other so soothing, healing, refreshing. Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The J. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. DRINK WIEDEMANN'S Fine Bottled BEERS JACOB METZGER CO., Wholesale Dealers Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE EDITED BY MOREN PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED One-pound Box Inches at Druggists and Dealers THE LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD Lv. Arr. Toledo, Chi & Mich ex. 7:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Toledo, Det. & ht. iid. 12:30 p.m. 3:80 p.m. M. Oy. eun & Lafy sp. 6:00 p.m. 9:40 p.m. H. BERTERMANN, District Passenger Agent, 28 S Illinois St, Indianapolis Ind. H. J. RHEIN, General Passenger Agent The Freeman's Headquarters. Persons in Macon, Ga., should see our representative, O J. Cranshaw, corner Cherry street and C tion avenue, and secure a copy of the Freeman for sale by him each week Mr. Crenshaw is quite a bustling agent and deserves the support of all Macon citizens. Subscribe now. The Freeman, mon were delighted with the work. and Stage Director, J. Ed. Green and Mr. Hogan granted the whole company a two days' rest which came none too soon. Among the fine numbers written for the "Birth of the Minstrel" comedy by Thomas Lemonier and Frank Williams are four dialect songs, "The Opossum and the Coon," "Have a Little Pity," "The Turtle and the Alligator," and "Everybody's Happy," the march song feature, "Pullman Porters," two ballads. "Consolation" and "Cellina," "The Hornet and the Bee" and "Mobile Mandle" both features: Mr. Lemonier's other hits are "Song of the Hottentots." Theatre, where allowed and who are compelled to reach the gallery The American leaves them screaming. Alonzo Moore, In San Rafael on June 9, James Edward Hood, of Louisville, K., was married to Miss Ida M. Disard, of Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Hood is a native daughter, a member of one of the oldest and most respected families in California. She is one of the leading sopranos of the state and is known as the "California Nightingale." Notes from Allen's New Orleans Minstrels.—The show is still running along nicely; using the S. R. O sign. We had the pleasure of meeting old friends with the Van Amburg Circus recently. The company sends regards to the Kersands. Sol Tibbs would like to hear from Miss Pearl Woods; write Newbern, N. C., in care of A. G. Alen's New Orleans Minstrels. Thomas Dixson, clarionet player joined us at Ashville, N. C. Mrs. Bessie Rue has been ill for the last week. The Whitman Sisters Concert Company has just finished four weeks' engagement at all the leading churches in St Louis, singing to crowded houses nightly, after which a grand banquet concert was given at Donglass Hall to the largest audience that has ever been in that hall on such an occasion. The S. R. O. sign was seen long before the curtain went up. They are now singing in Chicago to packed houses at Oliver Baptist church, Quinn Chapel, Bethel and Ebernerzek Baptist church. All friends write 2726 Wabash avenue. A paper of Manson, Ia., says the following concerning Mahara's Minstrels: "Mahara's Minstrels played to the largest pay audience ever gathered under the roof of the Richards Opera House, last Thursday night. Every seat in the house was occupied, the gallery was jammed and standing room was hard to get. The show was the best of its kind that ever came to town and the way those thirty mokes made fun was simply 'scandulous' Skinner Harris was funnier even than when he was here with the Gideon show and his colleagues were masters in the art of blackface mirth-making. The band was a fine one and its music one grand burst of melody, while the elide trombone soloist was the equal of Pryor the man whom Sousa featured in his western tour, and their clarinet soloist produced tones from his instrument that were never heard before in this town. In fact he was a wonder: Mahara's Minstrels will always get the glad hand when they come to Manson." Napoleon Johnson sends the following from Richards & Pringles' Georgia Minstrels:—One great surprise seems to be an introduction to another, they follow so closely. The latest arrival is Fred Simpson, the great trombone soloist formerly of the team of Simpson & Pittman, who joined us in Canada Simpson is a first-class musician. Ralph Nichols, leader of the orchestra has purchased a fine $100 tenor saxophone and is very ambitions and putting his spare time in practicing LeDenton, altoist and stage carpenter wishes to be remembered by all friends. Clarence Powell is being worked very hard letting out some of the new surprises he has up his sleeve in getting the show in readiness for the coming season which will be a revelation in minstrelsy and so far above similar organizations. Best regards to L. E Gideon and Nashville Student boys. Since the arrival of Marsh Craig we have four representatives with us, Craig Nichols, Kirk and myself. We would be glad to hear from any of you at any time by letter as per route or through the columns of The Freeman, the old reliable. Notes from the Famous Billy Kersands Minstrel Company — We have succeeded in getting into Texas at last and we find them looking for us with an ever watchful eye. The last week in September was the banner week of the season Our date at Ft. Worth. Tex exceeded all the business we have ever done in that city, for both matines and night, in fact our route in Texas so far has been better than all preceding seasons Arthur Maxwell, the well known trick blovelist is simply the order for this section of the country The real Alabama Quartet is a living feature anywhere. They have one of the strongest acts this season they have ever put before the public They also have another for the closing that leaves them screaming. Alonzo Moore, the peerless magician is still mystifying his audiences with whirlwind like rapidity and dexterous feats. John E. Sherman has not only surprised the public but the entire company from the management on down is perfectly astounded over his success in putting on the Imperial drill. It is thrilling, catchy and enhancing in appearance. Prof. Lacy is daily receiving compliments on his band. It is a fine band and Prof. Lacy speaks of enlarging it. An addition would swell the receipts, creating a more gorgeous effect on the streets. The Kersands are fine and dandy and send regards to all friends. NEW YORK STAGE COMMENTS Yeager & Yeager and their Cotton Blossoms Company have arrived in the Metropolis after several weeks' success ful tour of the park vaudevilles on the Casey and Plimmer Park Circuit. They will take up the regular vaudeville date after a brief rest. They have a fine comedy singing act this season I see the Clermontes, Frank and Etta the popular Hawaiian team are in town again, the first time since last May. ERNEST ERNEST HOGAN. ERNEST HOGAN. They have just closed a good long engagement with the Park Theaters. They were however at the Lyceum in Brooklyn last week, and their new turn was bubbling with original humor and was well received. They have cancelled a western tour, on account of better inducements secured. They are using their own songs, which are tuneful and catcay in lyrics and melody The vaudeville team of Slater & Williams is having immense success in the high class houses and are deserving of all their advanced booking Cooper & Robinson, the song and dance artists, and Bob Cole were down to Odd Fellows Hall to the rehearsals of Mr Hogan's new comedy last week. They were highly pleased and surprised at what they saw and heard Mr Cole predicts a great success for the new Negro play, 'The Birth of the Minstrel.' Mr Hogan assumes the roll of Rufus Rastas Simpson the King of Unbleached Water-melon Vendors and heir to the Qiaker Oats Mrs. Marlon Adams, of Chicago, the clever society prima donna and pianist is making her debut as a professional artist with Mr Hogan's new comedy-Madam Adams who assumes the leading female role, is a graduate singer and mustlan and will lend good support to Mr Hogan as will also Anna Cook. Carita Day, Sallie Byrd and Madam Corinne Brown. Although the entire company is worked down and full of cold from such long and exceptionally hard rehearsing, they have so complished some great work. A full stage rehearsal was given at Harlem Opera House at one o'clock Sunday morning and listed until after four The new management Hurtig & Sea --- BY CARLE B COOKE mon were delighted with the work. and Stage Director, J. Ed. Green and Mr. Hogan granted the whole company a two days' rest which came none too soon. Among the fine numbers written for the "Birth of the Minstrel" comedy by Thomas Lemonier and Frank Williams are four dialect songs, "The Opossum and the Coon," "Have a Little Pity," "The Turtle and the Alligator," and "Everybody's Happy;" the march song feature, "Pullman Porters," two ballads "Consolation" and "Celtua." "The Hornet and the Bee" and "Mobile Mandie" both features: Mr. Lemonie's other hits are "Song of the Hottentots" and a march two-step overture, "Ethiopia" Messrs. Lemonier and Williams are two most successful, popular young composers and song writers. Their work is clean, original and full of good quality and abundant life. It is what the people want. At Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street Theater, this week Ephram Thompson, with his herd of trained elephants is the stellar attraction and headliner. Mr. Thompson's act has been seen the world over and is truly the best trained animal act ever produced in high-class vaudeville Brandow & Wiley are playing in vaudeville this week. They are signed with Mr. Hogan's company. Cole & Johnson are just "cleaning up" in their new turn here in the Metropolis. My friend Cole is busy writing a new play. I was glad to learn this. If it is half as good as "A Trip to Coontown" we will all be pleased. He was glad to hear of my work on my new book devoted to the colored American performers, actors and musicians and has become a subscriber for it. Mr. Cole has a beautiful new home in Harlem where his mother and sister reside. His library T HOGAN. is full of rare and choice works of various noted authors and is valued over $5,000. Bob's mother is extremely fond of her illustrious and devoted son. Edward Toliver, originally of Indianapolis, but lately of Chicago, a good tenor singer is signed with "The Birth of the Minstrel." A good many performers in Harlem complain of poor treatment accorded them in up town grocery stores. In such cases they should change to another store. There is a store managed by E P. Moeller, at Lennox Ave. and 134th street, where our people are all served with courtesy. Mr. Moeller keeps everything fresh and up-to-date, and never gives short weight. He studies to please, caters to our people, reads our papers and trades with us. LeRoy Bland's California Notes. Blondie and Emma Thompson are going South for twelve weeks. Rance Smith and the Hatones are at Stockton. Brand & Frye at the Midway individually; the Wells are south on the circuit the Troubadour Trio has dissolved partnership with James Grey, and joined Lomie, the Pacific coast belladist, William Baker has returned from Byron Springs much improved. He intends going to Los Angeles. Baker & Carlisle, colored aristocrats are south on the circuit. The American Theatre, owned and controlled by Negroes in the city of Jackson, Miss., was formerly opened on the 14th nit. by The Black Patti Troubadours, who played before a acked house. The opening of this theatre by Negro men was the outcome of the discrimination by the managers of the Century --- ```markdown ``` WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT: Theological, College, Academic, Musical, Normal. Sub-Normal, and State Industrial, with courses in Drawing (the art and mechanical carpentry, Printing and Book-binding, Sizing, Photography and Typography, Tailoring, Dressmaking, Sewing, Cooking, Laundressing, Farming and Gardening). 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, OUINDAIR. Theatre, where no Negro troupes are allowed and where the Negro patrons are compelled to use the fire escape to reach the gallery. The American Theatre will seat about 2,000 and is located in the American Theatre Building in which the American Trust and Savings Bank, a N gro institution, has its quarters. The building is owned jointly by C. C. Sims and L K. Atwood. NEWS OF THE METROPOLIS Williams and Walker's New "Comic Opera" Ready for Staging in New York-Hogan's "Birth of the Minstrel" a Good It appears that the Tenderloin Police are craving for notoriously. (Perhaps they have read about the recent exploits of their Chicago brothers in blue.) It seems they will go to any extreme here in New York City, especially when a colored man is to be victimized. We learn that many of our business men in the Tenderloin have had to pay a tribute "graft money" under cover to these leches to keep in business. Last Friday about 4 p. m. John Jones' place in West 31st street was the scene of a cruel and unjust raid. A score have stated that a door of Jones' place was broken in by a squad of Tenderloin patrolmen who were bent on making a clean up. It took an hour for these Amer canized, terrorized Irishmen in blue to effect an entrance. When they did they immediately began a wholesale beating, clubbing and thumping of the many patrons entrapped. Many were white patrons. The police found nothing illegally going on. A well known base ball promoter, bookmaker, etc., commonly dubbed "Lovle Joe," just barely escaped with his life. Another youth was pounded unmercifully on the lungs and chest by clubs of the police until he was rendered unconscious. Another fellow (white) had one of his eyes knocked out by a policeman's club. The action of the police was more comparable to an attack by Fiji cannibals than that of real officers of our majestic law. Jones place was badly damaged, and he and those imposed upon should file proceedings for a suit at once. When we are assaulted and beaten unjustly we must use the law's right arm and all our brains to strike back justly and secure the desired redress. No one in Jones' resort was incarcerated. Residents in Harlem were startled by pistol shot reports about 5:45 Sunday morning in the apartments at 192 W. 134th street. A man named Clayton killed his wife and her lover named Hammond or Hannon in his wife's bedroom. After the double murder Clayton escaped through a rear window, but gave himself up to the police at 135th street. The two dead bodies were removed to Epp's morgue. The good residents of Harlem predominate and they should organize themselves against imposition and contact with so many disreputable people who are gradually polluting the neighborhood. As all of our local papers failed to give any notice of the death of Mr. CURLI-CURE S. R. S. YOUR first impression is governed largely by his or her appearance. The same applies to you. Nothing adds to or detracts from a lady's or gentleman's appearance so much as the hair. Nothing adds to the gentility, gentility, good breeding, their taste, so much as the hair. We all know how much care in the hair by all the leading society ladies in all the large cities. We all know that a successful man takes in his personal appearance. If you have no individuality you enjoy no advance knowledge. There is one way and only one way in which you can learn to handle and make your hair as beautiful, rich and hardship and make the finest head of hair you have ever wished for. It is a cure for hair, will do it. It is difficult to find a cure for ever beard of or seen. It is new to you but old in itself. Curl Cure is but another name for one of the most important preparations which has ever been discovered. It has no doctor all over the world, every nation for many centuries. It has hair and scalp defects and always brings peril. DIRECTIONS FOR USING. Wash the hair with soap and water and let thoroughly dry. Do this only before the first application. Then apply Carl-i-Cure twice a day for a week or ten days, rubbing it into the hair and scalp. Then brush the hair for five or ten minutes with ordinary stiff hair brush. The more you brush the hair the quicker the desired result. After the hair is straightened slowly twice a week to keep in perfect condition. to yourself, as well as to others who are interested in you, to make yourself as attractive as possible. Attractiveness will contribute much to your Tadeus Rich, who died of Bright's disease two weeks' ago, I wish to say Mr. Rich died at the Lincoln hospital, New York City. He suffered many months. His case seemed to be an incurable one. He was fifty-five years of age, and an uncle of Joe and Saddle Button, who are now abroad playing at the Empire Theater, London, England. The funeral service was conducted by Rev H. C. Bishop of St. Phillip's Episcopal church in 25th street. The interment was at Maple Grove Cemetery, Mrs. Sarah Thomas, formerly of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs Christiana Chacon of 144 W. 26th street, New York City were his devoted sisters and chief mouners. The floral tributes were beautiful. Other race journals please copy. Craig Williams of Washington, D.C., is visiting friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs. He was formerly in charge of the department of music at Howard University. Craig Williams is a clever musician as well as a medical student, and he is booked to appear on a program at the Waldorf Astoria with some of our best white talent during the present season. Mr. Williams eyes are somewhat effected, but will devote most of his time to music while in New York. Oliver Matthews of Chicago, who is in the employ of R. S. McCormick, our new American Ambassador to France, was in New York recently with his people, and registered at the Waldoft, Young Matthews was raised in McCormick's family and is very devoted to his employers. They are very kind to him. Matthews is a bright youth, and will be supplied with a French teacher in Paris. He will act as Mr. McCormick's personal messenger, and will be located at the American Legation in Paris. The party sailed for Paris a few days ago on the floating palace "Dutchland." G. W. Elliott of New York has just returned from Monmouth Beach, where he spent the summer. He is now located at 109 W. 31st street, where he will be pleased to see and serve all his old friends with anything in the tonsorial catary or The Freeman at five cents per copy. James Priestly is the popular manager and Mr. Stewart is the artist in the message and shoe shining departments. The Freeman can be found at Ohsas. Devan's new 9-chair shop at 111 W. 30th street, New York City. All performers desiring good work go to Devan's or Jones' in 31st street. Among those who commute these shops are Meersa Gea. Walker, Booker T. Washington. Ebert A. Williams, Ernest Hogan, Harry Gilam, Slater and Williams, Cooper and Robinson. The baths are unexcelled and the manicure work is very good. Visit them when in New York. Miss Blanche Moore of Washington D.C., was in New York visiting last week. She is now with friends in Hackensack, N.J., and is enjoying her northern scionn immensely. TO FREEMAN SUBSCRIBERS. If The Freeman fails to reach you please let us know by phone or call We cannot know unless you tell us Phone—New, 2880. Curl-I-Cure is an ideal, safe preparation and makes kinky, curly hair straight. We guaranteed it also lutely. It is a scalp tonic, cleans and softens the many fibers of the hair, making them soft, still, plike and easily managed. Positively prevent the hot from becoming dry, harsh, brittle and keeps it from breaking off. No matter what you have tried, no matter what you want, you are doing yourself an injustice if you do not try Curl-I-Cure. We guarantee it positively to do the work better, quicker and with less effort (no stress, absolutely nothing else) than anything of the kind in the world. Lincoln Chemical Works, manufactured only by the Lincoln Chemical Works, Aurora, Illinois. Our reputation is a guarantee that our preparation is in compliance with the use of hot irons or hair paints and will not cause it to break off and become a price. 20 cents. We all pay an extra charge for the use of hot irons or hair paints as we do not ship goods C. O. D. Write name and address please. LINCOLN CHEMICAL WORKS, Aurora, IL --- --- --- CARLE B. COOKE. Tired Nervous When you feel languid, tired, nervous and irritable, your vitality is low—your supply of nerve energy exhausted, and your system running down for lack of power, The organs of the body are working poorly, or not at all, and you are not getting the nourishment needed. This soon impoverishes the blood and instead of throwing off the impurities, distributes it all through the body. This brings disease and misery. Feed the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine, a nerve food, a nerve medicine, that nourishes and strengthens the nerves, and see how quickly you will get strong and vigorous. My wife suffered with nervousness previous to a recent attack of typhoid fever, but after her recovery from the fever, she was much worse, and could hardly control herself being exceedingly nervous when the least excited. She was very restless at night, and never had a good night's rest. She also suffered much from nervous headache, Dr. Miles' Nervine was recommended by a friend. After the first three doses she had a good night's rest, and at the end of the first week's treatment she was wonderfully improved. Continued use of Nervine has completed her entire cure. 1021 Cherry St., Evansville, Ind. Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If it fails, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind To Freeman Subscribers. Always give former address in case of removal where paper is to be changed from one place to another. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet. Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 BUSINESS MEDIUM MRS. MARTH, the world renowned a celebrity celebrated business and test *MEDIUM* reviews to all airlines of the business, Love and marriage a specia *etc.*. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living matters, challenges any Medium who can exceed her in her startling revelation of the past present and future event in one's life. Remembrance of any prose you yet; you may beseech your love in effect, no nonsense. She can be consulted on all affairs of Life, Love, Courthship, Marriage, Friends and family. She is very accurate in describing missing friends, etc. Her advice upon sickness, change in business, journeys, lawsuits contested wills, divorce and speculation is valiant, useful and your destiny good or bad; she withholds nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life—past, present and future—in a D AD TRANSE has the power of any two medium you ever see, and you can tell them about your family before marriage, the name of your family their ages and description, the name and busness of your future husband, the name of your next, if you are to have one, the name of the man who now calls on you, the name of your future wife, the name of your marriage—how many children you have or will have—whether you are married or single; whether your present sweetheart you have no sweetheart, she will tell you when you will have, and his name but-names and date of acquaintance. ALL YOUR FUTURE will be told in an honest clear, plain manner about your future husband, the success of their husbands and children, young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husbands. Do not keep company, marry or go into business unless you are religiously prepared prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, you whether the one you owe is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the fact that they are not the fact of dissimulation. It is only from the lack of dissimulation that they are not the fact of attached. It is not everyone who placards himself. It is not a Medium that can stand a test of what he or she claims. And a person of any� inquiring mind may ask the reason why. It is simply to know that he is not the problem to study the thoughts for a moment with a quirky heart of phrenology and kindred branches that will have a t-endency to make the path way to the road of the business clear and devoid. It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice—in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavours to dispel from their minds—what they know to do? If it is ill be rehearsed by the Medium. To say this is the same as a fact that by "pumping" it no few cases is the yet needed many unprin�iced Mediums, but "to take old of the land and gain control of the mind." It is a matter of impossibility to meet of them. All can be done, and by "son of the MRS" (MART) this seeming mystic would be a real question. This subject has received no little attention to the problem men and even college professor. So it involves conclusively that although the are the same point, our midst with "only tongues perhaps," the greats of the world have not been closed. In the profession has a great deal of study to become a accomplished医医, and by a continu- nity and uniting of the key to the wall of ap parently unfathomable mysteries have been proven by MRS. MARTH for the benifit humanity. By letter advice $1.00 Hour from 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. All letters must con- tain stamps for answers. MRS. M. B. MARTH Removed CHIKOKASHA, Indian Territory, Box 958. The Freeman will be on sale at Jim Jewel Pool room and Oligar store, 105 S. 14th street, Omaha Neb. The Freeman can be secured each week from Mr. M. D. Ferguson at the Capital Pharmacy, 929 Kansas avenue. Topeka, Ks. the lines of music, but intellect, business and morals as well. The Donor Club of Allen Chapel, under the expert management of W. C. Houston, is to be congratulated for this unbounded success, and we are satisfied—pardon the common expression—that way down in their heart there is a feeling for (Western) University. The school Glee song has been composed, and will be set to music by Prof. R. G. Jackson, and later published in sheet music form. It follows thus: O WESTERN U. Missouri's shores and mudy waves In fairest landscape view, On bleeding Kansas soil Miss Cora J. Hawkins of Chicago, who is one of the best stenographers of the race, after passing the civil service examination, has received an appointment in the civil service commissioners' office at Washington, D. C., as stenographer. The Hon. Daniel Jackson of Chicago, for years a very prominent business man, has been appointed minister to Mexico. The people of Chicago are uniting to do him honor in the way of a public reception ere he leaves for his new post of duty. During the recent sessions of the Great Council of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men in Nashville, Tenn., the West Virginia delegation protested against the organization of Negro tribes of Red Men and requesting that the ritual of the order be copywrited. Miss Edna Gray, of St. Paul, a $900 clerk and stenographer in the Patent Office at Washington was recently promoted as a recognition of her faithful and efficient service. There are two other Afro-American copyist in the department, eight messengers and twenty laborers. A call has been issued for all of the colored ministers of the United States and Canada to meet in a United Christian Congress, January 25, 1906, the purpose being, as stated in the call, to put before the world the necessity of increased interest in those things which so deeply concern the welfare of the Negro people. A few colored citizens of Houston, Texas, have organized a carousel company, and already they have booked a few first class Negro attractions. The promoters have secured suitable grounds and will hold their carnival during the F. F. Carnival. Good! Numerous Negroes visit the Bayon City during December and the centerprise will be made a success. In a few [days Louisville, Ky., will boast of a Trust Company, with a paid up capital stock of $500,000, for the purpose of doing a general banking business and to establish and maintain a chain of banks in the large cities of the South. Many of the most prominent Negroes of the South are instrumental in organizing this Trust Company. Last Monday morning Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue, appointed Mr. J. A Anderson to be United States ganger at a salary of $1,500. Mr. J. A. Anderson is a bright, quiet, reliable young man, has been for some time a member of the Colored Republican Club of New York City, and is not, as the coincident of names might suggest, a relative of the Collector. He is a native of Canton, Miss. The Eleventh District Colored Political Club, of Marlon, Ind., has been organized with a membership of 185. The purpose of the club is to advice the political interests of the Eleventh Congressional District. Colored voters of Wabash, Marlon, Peru and Logansport are so far included in the membership. The officers were elected as follows: William O. Pettiford, president; Charles Spires, secretary and Robert Julius, treasurer. The club will establish headquarters at Marlon and the first meeting was held October 10th. The club proposes to take an active part in the fall election campaign. At Washington, D. C. and other cities that have a large Negro population a recent decision of Charles E Shiveley of Richmond, Ind. supreme chancelor of the Knights of Pythias, is causing much comment. Leander S STANDARD ELECTROTYPE BARKER PLACE PITTSBURG, PA. ELECTROTYPERS STEREOTYPERS Gilliam, a Negro, who is so light of complexion that few people are able to detect his African blood, joined Freedom Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Worcester, Mass Gilliam was such a good fellow that Freedom Lodge refused to drop him from its rolls, even after the facts of his surreptitious advent into the lodge were known. Charges against the lodge were preferred by K Warner Kelso, and now, under a decision of Mr. Shiveley, unless the lodge drops Gilliam, it may lose its charter The Nashville Clarion, a Negro Journal of Tennessee, has caused consternation in the bloody camp of post office Jim Crow advocates of Nashville. The Clarion attacked the placards which read "this window for colored people," "this basement for white people only," etc. The whole fire of protest burnt its way to Washington, causing Postmaster General Cortelyou to write a letter promising investigation and speaking out against Jim Crow signs in the United States post office. The "lily" white post office clerks became frightened, held a meeting and denied not only their intentions to Jim Crow the government service, but denounced the statement of the Clarion relative to the friction that happened between several white clerks and a colored employee of the post office by the name of Erwin. The Tushegee Institute Savings Bank has a deposit in cash of $17,000 October 1, 1905. Sole heir of the richest Negro south of the Mason and Dixon line, Edward T. Cobbs, a Negro living in Germantown, a suburb of Philader, Ohio, has suddenly come into a fortune, said to be $500,000. Warren C. Coleman died in Concord, N. C., a few weeks ago, leaving an estate which included 400 houses of various sizes and a strong box full of railroad shares and industrial securities. He was known throughout the South as the richest Negro in that section. When his executors opened the will it was found that Cobbs, his nephew was the sole heir to the fortune. The latter, who is 30 years old has been a day laborer. He did not have time to investigate the report, so he sent his wife. As he received a letter from her telling him that he is surely the man, he will leave immediately for Concord to prove his identity. Coleman was born a slave and after the Civil war started in business. WESTERN UNIVERSITY. Mrs Moten, wife of Prof. Moten, Lincoln Institute, visited Western University Sept. 29th. The James A. Handy Literary Society met and organized the evening of Sept. 29th for this year's work. The Christian Endeavor Society was organized Sunday evening for the work of winning students to adopt Christianity. These organizations are officered by zealous students and bid fair to do some very effective work this year—Bishop and Mrs Abraham Grant visited Western University last week. Mrs. Grant seems to be on the upward trend in regaining her health. The Western University Foot ball team has received a challenge to play a game with the colored foot ball team of Kansas University, at Lawrence. A great appreciative audience crowded Allen Chapel, Kansas City, Mo, Friday evening, Sept. 29th to see the rustic garb and antique costumes of the Haymakers, and to listen to their melodious voices in operatic cantata. Nor were they disappointed. For two long hours they held the great audience spell bound by clever acting and beauty ifful song. The Prima dona, Miss Edmonia Hubble, was faultless and possesses a sweet entrancing voice. Misses Emma Collins and Emma Thomas and Mr. Al Phillips displayed their talents in exceptional style. Misses Daisy D. Foster, Sarah Hammet and Nettie Phenix (plano accompanist), and Messrs. T. L. Walker, J. D. Roberts and A. W Fox deserve special mention for their prominent parts well executed, as well as the other twenty or thirty voices in the chorus. Prof. R. G. Jackson of Western University, director, has been buried under a shower of praises and congratulations for his indefatigable energy and skill in working out such a splendid success. He has brought additional laurels to his credit and great honor to the institution of which he is a part. The people of growing Kansas City are awakening more and more to the great progress and upfift that Western University is destined to lead them to attain, not only along the lines of music, but intellect, business and morals as well The Donor Club of Allen Chapel, under the expert management of W. C. Houston, is to be congratulated for this unbounded success, and we are satisfied—pardon the common expression—that way down in their heart there is a feeling for (Western) University. The school Glee song has been composed, and will be set to music by Prof. R. G. Jackson, and later published in sheet music form. It follows thus: Missouri's shores and mudy waves In fairest landse view, On bleeding Kansas soil Stauds dear old Western U. Young men and maidens happy, come To learn to thi k and do And train their hearts and vices right At dear old Western U. Chorus O Western U. Old God and Blue. We love you true, indeed we do. Our hearts to thee We wledge anew. We honor thee, our Alma Mater, Western U. On farm, in mine and mountain far, In city homes, wegrew. Yet all as one in unison We honor Western U. Brave hearts, quick minds and ready hands, With teachers kind and true. Hold high the name and growing fame Of dear old Western U. As years roll on in life's keen strife When friends grow false and few. Sweet mum rises will recall our days With dear old Western U. And when our stay on earth is done, And past life we review. The days sublime in all our time Were spent at Western U. Chorus Albert Ross. Baltimore's Hair Straightener the wonder of the 20th century. No wigs worn after first treatment. No irons used. Contains no grease or poisonous matter. I have made the Negro's hair a study. At last the difficult problem has been solved. No matter how harsh short or stubborn the hair may be, after using Baltimore's Hair Straightener the hair becomes soft and pliable. Send 10 cents for sample also self- addressed and stamped envelope for reply. 50 cents worth lasts two months. All business confidential. BALTIMORE'S HAIR CO., 14 Berry Place, San Francisco, California. Copies of The Freeman can be found at 1230 Wylie Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. PHENOLOGIST, PALMIST AND CLAIRVOYANT MADAM McNAIRDEE-MOORE Permanently Located at 1527 English Ave.. Indianapolis. English Ave., Indianapolis. Can be consulted on all affairs of life. Her predictions are true and can be relied upon. THE MUSICAL THEATRE OF NEW YORK Enclose one dollar and stamp and know your future, and what you are best adapted for to make success in life BLESSINGS TO ALL GREATEST SECRETS EVER REVEALED FREE FREE FREE I WILL SEND you this wonderful Book also freely Free. It will help you to raise from Sadness, Disappointments, Wearness, Diseases, Poverty and Druggery, to Health, Wealth, and am helping thousands of am helping thousands of others. I want to help you. Countless numbers who were crushed in life by all manner of sorrows are now becoming powerful and supervised and the mindful and powerful. This is the latest and most powerful book of its kind ever published. It is full of valuable Secret Information, and handsomely illustrated. It tells you how to heal yourself and others by reanimate the separated, wainying love; how to sway the minds of people, cause man and woman to dearly love and serve you. Tells you how to develop the power of empathy, Sufficiency, Sufficiency and Magnetic Healing; how to read the life and character of persons; how to locate buried treasures. Tells you of that wonderful power of all powers, White and Black Art. Any one can learn to be a wonderful book will tell you how you can gain your heart's desire. It is written by the most powerful woman in the world, with years of practical experience, a very successful and very well-known women. It is the key of everlasting life, a good send to suffering humanity. Remember, this Book is absolutely Free. Write for it to-day. Send your WRITEHIS COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, 1917 E. Pratt St. Baltimore, Md. Dept. 1 "OLD TERRELL WHISKEY IS ALL RIGHT Because His Officials are at the Distillery from the Time the Grain is Bought Until the Distillery is Open. The sure way to get pure whiskey is from the "Old Terrell Distillery," the United States government allows no distiller to sell whiskey to the government without informing the drinkers the government does not sell dealers as they do distillers. When whiskey passes to the dealer, then the government "commends" the cheaper they sell, the more poisonous adulterants in the whiskey. You do not have to get you it from first hands and save dealers' profits and you get it from the pure article. You do not have to be a judge of whiskey because the government judges it for you. The government officials are very sure that the Old Terrell Distillery, Get the genuine Old Terrell HOUSE, article direct from KENTUCKY. To Warn It May Concern: This is to certify that Aid Terrrell is the proprietor of the "Old Terrell" distillery and the United States bonded distiller, the Mah, Ky, and is an actual distiller, and as Clerk of the State of Kentucky, I have issued him State License as a distiller in good faith, as the law requires. GHAZ, E. GHAZHAM, Clerk McCracken Co. Court. **FULL QUARTS of "OLD TERRELL"** Made Sour Mash, all express orders prepaid, by "OLD TERRELL" DISTILLERY Shipments Made in Sealed Case. No Marks or Brands. 5 PER CENT, DISCOUNT allowed on all shipments of 12 quart- s, the same address. No discount allowed on orders for less If you are not satisfied after you receive the goods, return them fair proposition. EXCEPTIONS--READ CAREFUL Orders for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, N Utah, Washington, or yoming must call for 20 quarts or m desired at prices named above. Express rates to these states elsewhere that orders by express prepaid must call for 4 qu per quart additional. Mail Orders to A. SID TERRELL Box Referre NOTE--All Whiskey is put up and sealed on the distillery pre- Guarantee that it is Pure. No marks on package to indicate content The leading physicians recommend "Old Terrell" for high grade quality AMERICAN BREWER BREWERS & BOTT OF HIGH GRADE —TELEPHONES 935— The Buckeye Paint and Varnish MANUFACTURERS OF PREPAIRED PAINT Varnishes and Hard C FINISHES— Marks or Brands to Show What's Inside. Elements of 12 quarts or more when made at one time to ed on orders for less than 12 quarts. goods, return them at my expense. Isn't this a position. HEAD CAREFULLY Micho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, 20 quarts or more by freight prepaid if needs to luse stater are so much higher than must call for 4 quarts or more at 20 cents EELL Box 77, PADUCAH, KY. Reference: Any Bank in Paducah in the distillery premises, which is an Absolute to indicate contents. All business confidential. BREWING CO., BOTTLERS OF DE BEER. NES 935— Grand Varnish Company TURERS OF ED PAINTS Hard Hard Oil SHES— Shipments Made in Sealed Case. No Marks or Brands to Show What's Inside. 5 PER CENT. DISCOUNT allowed on all shipments of 12 quarts or more when made at one time to the same address. No discount allowed on orders for less than 12 quarts. Orders for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington or Wyoming must call for 20 quarts or more by freight prepaid if desired at prices named above. Express rates to these states are so much higher than elsewhere that orders by express prepaid must call for 4 quarts or more at 20 cents $ \mathcal{P} $ The leading physicists recommend "Old Terrell" for its absolute purity and high grade quality $ \mathcal{Q} $ AMERICAN BREWING CO., BREWERS & BOTTLERS OF HIGH GRADE BEER. —TELEPHONES 935— H. & H. PNEUMATIC BUST FORMS H. & H. PNEUMATIC BUST FORMS everywhere welcometh me as a relief from the old unightly and unhealthy trivances. Worn with or without corpse, fit any flame, adapt themed ves to every movement "as a part of oneself" "grateful support to mothers. In bidding they cannot be detected buoy the wearer and make swimming Write for photo-illustrated circulars and convincing testimonials. All correspondence and goods mailed under plain mail without markings. Address Henderson & Henderson Inc., (Dealers and agents should write for terms*) A Hughes & Hardy UNDERTAKERS & EMBALMERS FINE FUNERAL GOODS 914 Poplar St., CAIKO, ILL Phone, Gan 571 --- GORD TERRILL President OLD TERRILL 100 S. REGISTERED 1034 INDIGENAL KY. MISSISSippi Office and Factory Cor 15th and Lucas Streets HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of Every Description Most Complete Line of Hair Good in this country for Colored People. 50cw Hair with black and black Kinks Hair 16 inches long. 75cus a double braid made of black hair 16 inches long. $1.00 buys a Creole Switch, 16 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.25 buys a Creole Switch, 20 inches long, Brown or Black. $1.75 buys a Creole Switch, 22 inches long, Black or Brown. $3.50 buys a Havy, Hand made Switch like cut. Send sample of hair when ordering Creole Switches. Send sample with order and get your goods by return mail. Send stamp for catalogue. ```markdown ``` T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. When writing please mention this page LEARNJORESSMAKING at HOME BY MAL You can easily learn to design, cut and fit the plainest dress or the most elegant gown, by taking our correspondence course in dressmaking. Learn how to make your own dresses. You can spend $10,400 a week, or conduct an establishment of your own and make big money. If you are a dressmaker, you can greatly increase your efficiency. Our course is thoroughly practical, simple and scientific. Send for catalogue. CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 200 5th St., Des Moines, Ia. BRIGHT colored Boy or Girl, man or woman can make good money in leisure hours acting as agents for our "Macassor" Cream, a new preparation to whiten the skin and make it smooth and soft. Write for particulars to REED & CO. LINCOLN, ILLINOIS. **IMPORTANT** Don't buy a Whisker which is known to drink water. You can eat it and drink it. The Drink is a Whisker for less money than you pay for it for more money than you pay for it. UNION Twenty-six (26) government locks on the "OLD TERRELL" distillery. Get your whiskey from the distillery. "Uncle Sam" watches the distillery all the time for your business. Now appreciate it by sending in an order. L' ndy by $3,000 Toledo, 0. "Light as air," cool, heathful, durable; give unequalled stove grace, comfort, and the administrative and sucrb proportions of the ideal figure. So perfect and natural are they that dressmakers fit gowns over them and never know by sight or touch that they are artificial. Women of refinement After a Bath or Shampoo the hair can be dried in the Shampoo Drier. It is the only device with which a woman can dry her hair before leapring to the hair or scalp. It leaves the hair soft, duffy and beautiful with no risk of catching cold. The Magic Shampoo Drier is a steel bar with a receptacle containing a Full Six-inch Aluminum Comb. It is also an invaluable appliance for straightening refractory hair or beard, leaving a beautiful shine. For sale by all hotel article dealers. For sale by $1,000.10 article dealers Price: $1,000.10 "Dear Sir: The Magic Shampoo Drier is used in my pariors with perfect satis satisfaction. 14 N. H. IL. Atlantic City, N. J." MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER MFG. CO. 90 Century SHAMPOO DRIER MFG. CO. 80 Century SHAMPOO DRIER MFG. CO. CENTRAL LOAN CO; The Aqyres Bulletin For a style show of Women's fall footwear you could not hope for a truer representation of what is right than the display of Queen Shoes Quality in the Meridian Street show window, first south of the carriage entrance. Every accepted design, every fad of toe, heel or less important feature is shown, and in shoes you may depend upon to fit and give the best of service. Queen Quality shoes sell at $3.00 and $3.50 a pair. You might pay much more for much less. L. S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods CITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. W. E. Viney spent Sunday in Dayton. O. Joshua Spears spent last week with friends in Chicago. Dr. W. C. Metz, an optician from Chicago is in the city. Mrs. Angle Covington has gone to Louisville for a month's visit. Mrs. Lizzie Johnston, of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. W. P. Q. Bell. Teddy Robbs and J. S. Crabbe, of Chicago are visiting in the city. Woodbine Perfume has magic powers. On sale at Blodau's Drug Store. A. P. Stumm, a prominent tailor of Louisville, was in the city Sunday. Mrs. Edmonia Robinson is very ill at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs Gertie Adams, in West Eleventh street. John S Fielding, of Cincinnati was the guest of his brother, W. H. Fielding, Sunday. John Stowers, prominent in K. of P. circles, of Cincinnati was among the Sunday visitors Miss Addie Moore, of Franklin, was the guest of Mies Bertha Williams, a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Monroe, of Cincinnati spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Pierce. Misses Mary Thomas and Annie Humphreys from Cincinnati were Sunday visitors in the city. Mrs Jennie Martin, of Paris, Ky. came Sunday for a two weeks' visit with the family of J. M. Porter. Mrs. Nancy Stewart and daughter, Eilth, have returned to the city from Chicago for permanent residence. Mr. and Mrs R W. Thompson, of New Albany, Ind., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs Charles W. Brown last Sunday. Mrs J. W. Carr and little, daughter, Zambia Eutropous of Savannah, are the guests of Mrs. T. V. Johnson in Minerva street. J. J. Woodson, editor and manager of the Pythian Chronicle, of Cincinnati O., a new publication to be issued about November 1, was in the city last Sunday. On page 7 of this issue of The Freeman, The "Old Terrell" distillery of Paducah, Ky., has a very attractive and instructive advertisement relative to pure whiskey. John W. Lewis and Miss Clara G. Watts, of St. Louis were quietly married Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Poorch in California street. Rev. Charles Johnson pronounced the ceremony. Among the visitors from Louisville Sunday were Mrs. Ella Graham, Misses Frankle L. Wallace, Matel W. Evans, Ida Nugent and Frank Hughes; Miss Ida Midgen, the guest of S. S. A. Furniss; Miss Mattle Estell and Mr. and Mrs. Rochell Smith, the guests of Mary Lawson; in Laurel street. A THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Ask for Taggart's big loaf, 5 cents. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room with bath; 412 Muskingum street. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged. W. H. Baron, 383 Indiana Avenue. The Turf Exchange and Cafe. Light lunches all day and night. 320 W. 10th street. Gardon Donaldson and Billie Wilson, Proprietors. WANTED—Men; We want colored young man for all kinds of hotel, store, wholesale, railroad and general work. If you want a nice job write us Tiffany-Sanborn, 25½ N. Illinois street, Indianapolis, Ind. The Indiana State Packing Co., at 23 North Alabama street handles the best of government inspected meats and maintains the neatest and clearest packing house in the city. Call and see them on your way to market. Courteous treatment to all. With every prescription filled a human life hangs in the balance. Correct reading of the prescription, accuracy in weight or measure, purity of the ingredients, skill in the proper compounding are absolutely necessary that the object of the physicians may be obtained and the patient benefitted. All of these requisites may be obtained of Gauld, the druggist, 601 Indiana ave. EXHIBITION DRILL BY UNIFORM BANK OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAIS. Sunday was a gala day for Knights of Pythias. The day was an ideal one; the sun shone out in all his glory and Indianapolis and many visitors from surrounding towns were assembled on Michigan street in front of the Sumner League Headquarters. The occasion was an exhibition drill by the Uniform Bank. The Langston Company F. First Battalion, First Regiment of Ohio, of Cincinnati, Capt J. W. Smith commanding was the guest of the Uniform Bank, of this city, Col, Jesse Ringgold, officer in command. About 4 o'clock, the several companies took their places, and made a dress parade, after which a welcome address was made by Dr. J. H. Ward. The Langston Company, named in honor of John M. Langston, the faithful Ohloan, drilled first. It was indeed a pretty picture; so many stalwart men, stepping as one man, to the orders given by their stately, gallant officer, Capt. J. W. Smith. The fancy figures were executed with ease and grace that charmed the eight hundred spectators. Each man seemed to have a personal interest in the accomplishment, and a high degree of respect for their superior officer. Each command was given by Capt. Smith with the earnestness and determination of a Napoleon, taking the one chance in a thousand, and with the confidence that his men would not fail him. This company under his command took taird prize at the Pittsburgh meeting last August. The Icdianapolis company under Capt. J. M. Porter, Indiana's own commander made a fine display of strictly military tactics. Each man looking every a soldier, every inch a Pythian. Every movement with quickness and perfection answered the orders given by the splendid officer. About 5:30 the exhilation was over, the admirers complimented companies and officers, and host and friends accompanied the visiting company to Union Station. The Langson Company was delighted with their visit, and Indianapolis Uniform Rank were pleased also. It was an entertaining and creditable affair. Simpson's Military Band furnished the music. JEPHTHAH AND HIS DAUGHTER. One of the greatest religious chatocters written in song is "Jepthah and His Daughter" will be produced at Allen Chapel, Wednesday evening, Oct 25, by the Junior Choir under the direction of Mr. John Wesley Jones. It is a most excellent piece of work for the price of admission, only 20 cents. Children under 12 years 10 cents. But the price is put in reach of all. Go and see and hear it. THE PARKER HOUSE The Wide Awakes are now the very much discussed. The Parker House has always been wide awake and discussed The excellent menu has always been a subject of discussion. Good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holman, Prop, 317-321 Michigan street. Phones New 4972; Old 651 Phones New 4972; Old 651. SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Safe and Reasonable. We make loans on FURNITURE, ORGANS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removals. Our rates are actively the lowest in the city and payments are only 600 per week. This pay is in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES and DIAMONDS. All business strictly private, courteous treatment to all. Is cost nothing to investigate. DEATHS. Seneca Wade, aged 66 years, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, who came to visit his brother, B. F. Wade, died Monday night from kidney trouble. Benjamin F. Jackson died Monday at the home of his son, William Jackson in Douglass street. His wife and daughter came to the city to attend the funeral. Charles Wright, of Agnes street died Monday after a long illness of tuberculosis. Mrs. Morgan Hughes died Monday at her home in Fayette street after an illness of a few weeks. THE DOLLAR HAT STORE. We take pleasure in announcing to our readers the opening of the American Hat Company's new Dollar Hat Store at 81 South Illinois street (Sentinel Building). Dr. W. N. Short, the president and treasurer of the company, will be pleased to see his many friends at their grand opening to-day. WASHINGTON·D. C. The members and friends of the Fifteenth street Presbyterian Church listened to a most impressive sermon last Sunday morning by the pastor Rev. Grimkle. His theme was, "The Christian Endeavor Society, its mission and influence."—Mrs. Arabella Chase, one of Washington's most accomplished pianists, entertained a large and refined audience at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church last Thursday evening with a star musicle. Mrs. Chase was supported by the best musical talent of Washington.—There were many new faes at the meeting of the Negro Business League on last Monday evening at the True Reformers Hall. Several addresses were delivered by men prominent in business circles. Both the musical and literary features were quite an cess.—Great enthusiasm is being displayed in the practice work of the Howard University foot ball team. With the acquiring of better material great things are expected from the heroes of the gridiron this year. All the Smart Sat were present at the annual dance and reception of the Mandolin and Guitar Club on last Wednesday evening, Oct. 11th, at the True Reformers Hall.—Mr. David Lowe, one of Atlantic City's prominent business men, is spending a few days here with friends.—The Literary Society of Howard University held the first meeting last Friday evening. Plans were discussed for having an inter college debate this year. Howard doats on its valors.—Mr. Walter Robinson of New York arrived here last Monday. He has entered the college department of Howard University.—The Bethel Literary and Historical Society was addressed on last Tuesday evening. Oct. 10th by Mrs. C. F. Cooper on "Some Colored Authors and their Works." Mrs. Cooper is indeed an elquent and impressive speaker.—Mr. Frank Peterson, one of Atlantic City's prominent hotel men, is spending a few days in Washington.—Our illustrious neighbor, Len. Gorman, of Maryland is leading quite a strenuous life these days. Late reports have it that many of his ward executives have flatly refused to support the Poe Amendment and constrain reigns in the camps of his chief—Even Maryland can be driven to oppose a tyrant.—Washington with its ninety thousand colored citizens is looking forward with great interest to the President's message to Congress. It is hoped, and we have every reason to be believe that the President will recommend Reduction and National Aid to Education in his coming message Mr. Roosevelt's whole-hearted interest in the nations welfare, his sense of justice is too great to allow him to ignore issues that are so vital. The timid need no longer entertain their feavors for the nation seems safe when a man with the virtues of Roosevelt stands at the helm of our ship of state. COLUMBIA TENN. The People's Drug Store is one of the flourishing Negro enterprises on this city that enjoys the patronages and confidence of the colored people. It has at its head two men, well-known in the business and social choles of this city. Not long since they began business in a small store on South Main street next to Bates' blacksmith shop, and by close application to business and honest dealings, their business began to increase rapidly and now they are situated in larger and commodious quarters, doing a lucrative business. Honesty has been their flexible policy and they have succeeded. Dr. A. T. Braxton the capable manager has a national reputation. He is president of the Tennessee State Medical Association. Their motto is, "To lead let others follow" Miss Hattie Dickerson and mother have returned from Monteagle, Tenn. William Davis has returned from a week's visit at Lewisburg.—Miss Irene Bangus has been ill —Tillman Bailey is up after several weeks' illness.—Abraham McKissick spent last Sunday at Pulsak. CHAS. W. MOSBY Attorney and Counselor-at-Law Notary Public,managing Estates,Collections and drawing Legal Papers especially. Business in all the Courts promptly attended to A Critical Inspection Our garments are put together with the view of having them stand the final inspection. Of course, the materials look good or you wouldn't buy them. The garments must fit, or you will not be allowed to accept them—and after you have worn them a reasonable time, they must still pass examination or you will not call again. We need your continued patronage and invite critical inspection throughout. Fall stock complete. SUITS and TOP COATS $18.00 to $50.00 DEUTSCH TAILORING CO. (Incorporated) 41 South Illinois St. INDIANAPOLIS - INDIANA Household Goods Bought, Sold or Exchanged Everything for the home at the lowest prices. S. R. Henderson, 634 Indiana Avenue PAINTS, OIL AND VARNISHES. TIN AND GALVANIZED IRON WORK FRANK H. PRUNK Hardware, Pumps, Pipes, Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE, Telephone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA DOLLAR HAT STORE AMERICAN HAT CO. Incorporated MAMUFACTURERS & RETAILERS New York, Indianapolis, All the latest styles all the time from factory to you. Any Hat in the House $1.00 Union Made 31 South Illinois Street, Sentinel Building INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. OYSTER SEASON A fresh supply always on hand. FISH of all kinds at the Old Reliable Fish Stand. Prices Right. C. A. DUNCAN PHONES: Old 4091 main. New 5104 626 Indiana Ave MRS. WHITTEN Fine Millinery display of Patterns ready to wear Hatf Will show also a fine line of Untrimmed Hats from 25c to $1.98. Everybody welcome. 337 Indiana Avenue. PINK'S CUT-RATE PHARMACY, 550 Ind. Ave. S. E. Cor. West St. Always Reliable, Our Prescription Department. WE USE the purest and freshest drugs only; not in any circumstances allowing poor stock to remain about the store. Our Prescriptions are exactly what the physician orders. We run no chances. Our Customers' health is important to us. Send your prescriptions to us and be safe. Always Remember if you get it AT PINK'S, ITS RIGHT. Do not miss this opportunity to subscribe for the races' leading journal. Packing House Market Down Town The Indiana State Packing Co. 23 N. Alabama Street. H. L. SANDERS', Established 1889 Indianapolis. MANUFACTURER OF Waiters' and Butlers' Batteries, Butlers' Coats, Butlers and Butchers' Coats. We give a few quotations. Boiled Beef Chuck Roast 4 lb Chuck Steak Round Steak Loon Steak Porter House Steak Hamberg Own make Sausage Pork Chops Fresh Shoulders Fresh Hams Bar Vests with Sleeves, Butchers' Cups, Frocks, Physicians' and Dentists' Operating Coats; Aprons for all trades, Oversleeves, Dress Suits to let; White Duck Pants. 206 Indiana Ave. Factory 108, 110, 112 W. Ohio St. Send for our new 1905 catalogue and price NEW PHONE 2561 We are Sit- ting up nights now--been doing it for weeks to make The Sentinel HAVE YOU Gas A Hard, Sm at Soft Coal Indianapolis PHON W. C. HAZE DON'T fail to see our beau most exquisite Pattern ularly manufactured for mention the fact that our O own back shop. You don here, but strictly Custom-m E. W. STUCK Your prescriptions receive the m west Drugs and Pharmaceuticals 161 N. Illinois St. Telep Old 1329. The R. H. Smil AVE YOU TRIED IT? s Coke Hard, Smokeless Fuel Soft Coal Prices . . . THE Napolis Gas Comp'y PHONES 82 HAZEL, TAILOR, 327 Indiana Avenue see our beautiful Fall Line. Some of the site Patterns ever on exhibition---partic- ufactured for us only. We also wish to that our Clothes are all made in our You don't get manufactured clothes by Custom-made Garments. TUCKY, DRUGGIST is receive the most careful attention. We use the pharmaceuticals obtainable. Telephones Old1329. New722 Indianapolis, India 1. Smith Coal Comp' HAVE YOU TRIED IT? Gas Coke A Hard, Smokeless Fuel at Soft Coal Prices . . . THE Indianapolis Gas Comp'y PHONES 82 DON'T fail to see our beautiful Fall Line. Some of the most exquisite Patterns ever on exhibition---particularly manufactured for us only. We also wish to mention the fact that our Clothes are all made in our own back shop. You don't get manufactured clothes here, but strictly Custom-made Garments. E. W. STUCKY. DRUGGIST Your prescriptions receive the most careful attention. We use the best Drugs and Pharmaceuticals obtainable. 161 N. Illinois St. Telephones Old1329, New722 Indianapolis, Indiana The R. H. Smith Coal Comp'y 1012 Bismark Avenue Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery Ice Cream in large and small quiz Phone 5136-3 Ring Prompt delivery. Candies, Cigars and Tobacco and small quantities. Ring Indianapolis, I The Smith Premier Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery Candles, Cigars and Tobacco Ice Cream in large and small quantities. Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, Ind is the simplest and strongest of all writing machines. It does better work, does it quicker, lasts longer, and costs less in the long run than any other typewriting machine. It is The World's Let us send you our little book Typewriter Supplies. The Smith Premi 116 Monument P World's Best Typewriter and you our little book telling all about it. Typewriter Supplies. Machines rented. Stenographers furnished. With Premier Typewriter Company Monument Place Indianapolis, Ind. the Leading Daily and Sunday Newspaper in Indiana Smith Preacher SW 2 A Long-Felt Want Has Been Supplied. WE HANDLE only Government inspected Meats and the best of those not a cut-rate meat market—but a market where the prices are so low that a frugal housewife, Low Price combined with high quality is not often met, but our House Connections enable us to leads to the public who have waited and see us and we claim be convinced that the best we claim—High Quality, Low Price, the neatest, cleanest Packing House Market in Indianapolis. Stop to See Us on Your Way to Market Indiana State Packing Company, 23 North Alabama St, Opposite Court House, Half Square South of City Market House. They Certainly Do Cut the Prices At the Sample Shoe Store 236 Massachusetts Avenue. Don't fail to see their shoes before buying. Half Block from New Postoffi... CHAS. E. WILSON, Mgr Subscribe for Tb Freemen