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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 3 FORCES WORKING TO IMPEDE PROGRESS OF THE RACE The Scare Cry of "Social Equality."— A Miss Hale Perpetrates a Grievous Wrong.—A Handful of Loyal Spirits (8TAFF CORRESPONDENCE.) That there is a literary bureau at work to discredit the aspiring Negro has long been apparent to all who have followed the trend of many of the year's contributions to the various magazines. Whenever the Negro problem is to be discussed, be it from a scientific, sociological, industrial or political standpoint, the writer invariably manages to make out a case of inherent interiority against the race, and pelegates in a lump to the limbo of incompetence, failure and potential criminality. The few exceptions only serve to prove the rule, and those who find good in more than a limited number of our leaders of thought and morals, are denounced as rattle brained theorists, impractical doctrinaires or Negro philans, ignorant of the real character of the Negro as the South sees it. Nubody knows the black people—to let them tell it—as do the Vardamme, the Graveseer, the Dixons, the Smiths and others of that school of intellectual giants and ethnological experts. The South has on foot—through the Associated Press, which it has long controlled in justification of mob violence and disfranchisement, and by means of literary publications and dramatic productions—a carefully-planned propaganda against Negro equality anywhere in this country, and the particular work it has cut out for itself at this time, is a campsign of education to break down what is left of the Negro's open door to civil and social opportunity in the North. In connection with its crusade against the employment of the Negro in the more intelligent and consequently more lucrative and genteel industrial pursuits in the South, this breach is addressing itself to a deep laid scheme to cut off the Negro's opportunities in the North, by invoking the scarcity of "social equality," and that it is in a measure succeeding is daily apparent in the withdrawal from the Negro of equality of privileges in schools, theaters, churches, recreation parks, restaurants, and in political offices where heretofore the utmost liberality of treatment has been accorded him. Instances might be multiplied to prove the truth of our contention—although we are pleased to know that there are found in all localities a handful of loyal spirits who refuse to bow the knee to the Baal of race prejudice, and consistently adhere to the faith of their fathers in the brotherhood of man. In such specious publications as "The Clansman," "The Leopard's Spots," "The Color Line," and "The Sound Signal," the authors have habitually painted the Negro in the dark at hues, and endeavored to demonstrate that the venerating between the most polished of the race and the savage ancestor in the jungles of Africa, is very thin indeed, and that the Caucasians are living up to a divine junction when they resort to rapine and murder to preserve their racial integrity and social soidarity. The South has never forgiven the imortal Harriet Beesher Stowe for writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and through it administering a fatal blow to its "peculiar institutions;" and now that the descendants of those who followed the fortunes of the "lost cause" have learned now to wield the pen, their literary representatives are doing their level best to get even with the illustrious heroine of ablition days, who stirred the Northern heart by her vivid portrayal of the horrors of slavery in delineating the character and aspirations of the unspeakable "Simon Legree," master of Red River plantation. Our attention is drawn anew to the work of this borean of the anti-Negro cult of the South by a screed in the January number of the National Magazine, published in Boston by the Joe Mitchell Chapple firm, purporting to emanate from the pen of a Miss Annie Biley Hale, of Washington, D.C. under the caption of "The Mulatto Negro: The Yellow Peril of the North." It is incognito written, and an array of alleged facts is presented to back up an argument so plausible to the uninitiated. INDIANAPOLIS JAN 20 1906 PUBLIC LIBRARY Amb that the article in its capacity for harm has scarcely a parallel in contemporaneous literature. As everybody can plainly see, it is not difficult to incite the gullie le against the mulatto section of our race, whether the admixture of blood is the result of ancient slavery ideals in the South, or of legitimate matrimonial alliance in the North. Miss Hale makes a most adroit effort to do this by deliberately warning the friendly whites of the North that this ambitious progeny is aggressively knocking at their doors for complete social equality, and points to this fragment of her own fertile imagination as an urgent reason why the bars against intermarriage and contact of its敌est kind should be put up at once in every Northern home, school, church, factory, or shop, or some dusky Lochinvar will rise up at any moment to lay sledge to a fair daughter's hand, and win her trust heart by fair means or fool Such incendiary talk as this, unfounded as it is upon any tangible ground, opens the way to a revival of an old agitation that cannot but redound to the perious injury of both races, for only in peace and sympathetic cooperation can the best rewards of enlightenment and industry come to any community. To incite the fury of racial antagonism where it has long been buried, is to uncover a veritable Padora's box of ill consequences, the end of which no one can foresee. No phase of the Negro problem touches a spot more sensitive, nor is there any aspect more vexations or requiring more delicate treatment than the status of the mulatto Negro, especially if the individual possesses a high order of intelligence and is white enough to raise a reasonable doubt as to his racial classification where he might be known, as the entire social system of the whites, with the ```markdown ``` INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1906. THE DEVIL IN THE BAND BOY. Ambition for publicity cause some people to do many things. intricate subdivisions that appear in the countless relations of civil, political, industrial, religious and educational life are bound up in it. To thus provoke the latent walt of well-disposed whites in this wanton appeal to an instinctive race prejudice, is to play with dynamix, and in rendering more onerous, without jus cause, the cruel disc iminations under which we already labor, Miss Hale perrates a grievious wrong which cannot be adequately described in temperate language. Not long ago, an article appeared in the same magazine, coming from one John C. Heap, likewise of Washington, in which the author endeavored to prove that the Negro is a failure as an American citizen, and should be deported to Africa en masse. If such communications continue to appear in the National Magazine it will give added force to he already strong suspicion that it is an organic part of the Southern anti-Negro bureau, and that its special assignment is to further poison the vitilated atmosphere about the aristocratic "oradie of liberty," and to neutralize the wholesome influence that Garrison, Sumner, Phillips and Donglass generated years ago, and stored up for posterity, in the sacred precincts of Fanilu Hall. The Heaps and the Hales, like their more notoriety allies, the Dixons, Vardamans, Pages and the Watson s, are not the constructive agents of a progressive civilization. The South's literary bureau, with the tenacles of its "correspondence school" grasping the prerate form of the National and other purchasable magazines, attempt t to educate the North backward to ghostly visions of misseguration, social equality, Negro domination-mulatto invasion of the family heartstone, is causing a phantom. We hope the North, with its customary coolness and sagacity, will detect the sham, before it goes too far, and discover that it is being asked to pursue a will:o'the.wisp. Be it remembered that "The burdens that make us groan and sweat, The troubles that make us fume and fret, Are the things that haven't happened yet." Tuskegee Institute and its famous founder, always interesting and inspiring to the nation at large, are very much in the limelight this winter. On Thursday, of this week the Board of Bishops and General Officers of the A. M. E Zion Church are meeting in the town of Tuskegee, Ala. Rev P C Alexander, pastor of the local Zion church, has organized several committees to properly receive the visiting brethren, and Dr. Washington has named Rev E J Penney, Rev J W. Whittaker and Mr. Emmett J, Scott as his personal representatives to co-operate with Rev. Mr. Alexander in extend CONTINUE ON PAGE 4. WHITE WOMAN MAKES PLEA It is a deplorable thing that just at this time such a play as The Clansman should be brought before the people of the South. No good can come of opening the old wounds of our civil war. All thinking people realize how cruel it was to the slaves themselves, to free them as they were freed, setting them drift on an ocean of prejudice with no light to guide them, also that the carpet bag element was entirely to blame for their enormous ideas of equality. They have struggled great odds for forty years. There is scarcely a family in the South who is not attached to some member of the colored race, some faithful servant. This shows that ours is not an individual but a race prejudice and the question is shail we not try to overcome this feeling. We welcome to our land the lowest grade of foreign emigrants, many criminals among us. We send our money to foreign countries to show a Christian spirit to the benighted heathen while at our own fireside are a dependent race asking only justice. The whole world islooking on us as a nation which stands for equity. Among our states there is none more blessed than this grand state of Texas. Let it be first to show the world that its people are not only sincere and just but genous, and that their justice is "tempered with mercy" to a less fortunate people, and let us remember that the conditions of our birth are accidents and but for the grace of God we might be worse than they. The better class of colored people are discouraged. They say that no matter what they do there is no friendly hand held out to them. Let us try kindness and see if the race question cannot be settled amicably. The golden rule has worked wonders for over six thousand years, in every land on the earth, and if honestly practiced with the colored race will transform them for there are no people more appreciative of kindness than they. As a superior race we owe them our protection and we wouldn't fail them today if they were attacked by an outside foe there are good and bad among them as is the case with all people. They do not care for equality, all they ask is justice, as but we hope for mercy let us show ourselves merciful. A WOMAN OF THE SOUTH. MORE ABOUT THE CLANSMAN W. R. LAWTON THINKS BACE TOO IMPULSIVE A Stand Often Brings Best Results — A Siege of Steady Progress Along All Lines.—A Protest That Brought Opposite Results.] There are times when a quick movement, a dash, save the day and wins victory, but there are also times when it reveals weakness and helps the enemy. There is a greater assurance of success in a thorough investigation of all the conditions of one's surroundings and a careful consideration of every possible outme of an attack. The manhood of the Negro is sensitive and assertive, both of which have been developed to an acute stage by well-known conditions and circumstances. So, at times, when it is wise to make hastily slow, to be conservative, he is too quick and radical. Forts which have been considered impregnable have been taken by a well-planned and maintained siege. This method of taking a stronghold of the enemy often wins, and with less casualties, when tons of shot and shell fail to bring victory. A well-maintained siege was the entering wedge to Port Arthur, and not guns and canons. By shot and shell advantage of the enemy's weakness and help essence were taken and drove defeat to the heart of the brave Russian garrison. The Negro can't win in a pitched battle, nor can he gain much by conducting a garrilla war are. The method which would put the best hearts of the world in sympathy with his cause and would raise up strong friends in strong places for him, and would finally enable him to destroy the strongholds of his enemies, is the siege of steady progress along all lines, well planned and successfully maintained. The Negroes, any more than any other race, are not all expected, to be conservative and not buckle on their armor for battle when the warry of their foes sounds in their ears. But there is more salvation, nevertheless, in standing still at times, than marching to meet the enemy, as it was in Israel's case at the Red Sea. The impulsive and radical may deal with the impulse during the fighting, but their place is in the ranks; it should not be theirs to plan the battle nor to direct the fight. The attitude in which the colored citizens of Greater New York are regarded with reference to the war of Rev. Thomas Dixon's "Clansman," by a committee of representative colored men who waited on Mayor McCilean, protesting against it being produced in our city, did Rev. Dixon good in the way of advertisement than harm and what good has it done us? It seems to me that it questions the wisdom of our judgment. There is estimated to be about 65,000 white Southerners in New York City and about the same number of colored citizens. Then New York is full of Southern sympathizers and the play emphasizes the white man's superiority and the Negro's inferiority, "The Clansman" appeals to the pride and prejudices of the white race. What more could we expect but what has happened? The committee's request ignored, a crowded house and a rousing reception. A play demonstrating even Negro equality would have a crowded colored house and would receive a reception that would make the welkin ring. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." We have gotten afraid of a mouse, when we are moving courageously among larger and worse animals. The play has aroused us largely, I think, because we know the feeling of the author toward the race. We can afford to stand still and see the saxon of God, while the public press, the weekly magazines and pulpules are moulding public sentiment against his pernicious influence ce. W. B. LAWTON. HE IS NEEDED HERE. Hon. J. C Napier has not as yet signified his intentions regarding g the proffered Bahia consulship. He is needed in this country, and it is to be hoped he will decline the place. He should have amethi g commensurate with his splendid abilities, here at home. The Freeman can be found at Wallner's Drug Store, Tenth and Walnut Louisville KY., Will Owens, agent. Co) Ni E-< a Gi ay y Milf ny (Ay) Nh We | 1%) ee MN, AM ) ie ey te | eA iA WORLD.) AV Te} . < 4 pe oo Ca //) (Fe sa Taleot benefit can be lata down for Ne OCs women. Ifa club of colture and at JAR 7 does not sufficiently inflaence ite me 3)\> "GaN 4 > bers to be of some real benefit to: family; teaching a high regard for tt eee duties, making a better parent 1 “ w wife, by having a general knowle wane con ton A commmtatrations go tne of things; or if charity work, does Westary Bepartmens, Ge Frenmun, indl-| make one broader and Kinder to ' humanity, and instilling an appre: cee tion for your condition and thank! PERFECTION. Porfeotion consists not in doing extra-| 1% mt ao thera ee re ordinary thiage, bat in doing ordinary |... seopeclcreelopngentinr dope hinge extract diusry/wel pose of the betterment of woman; if wouea auannuse members individually do not eee: " ee en ‘The discussion for and against clube of women are varied and extensive, Generally men are against them, as the Women are against men’s organiza: tone, both sides claiming that they canze ead neglect of duty at home. The Three O'clock Club of Weet La fayette, Iod., a majority of members being wives of Purdue professors and instructors, has decided that club life is bermfal to thehom>. At a recent meeting the question under discussion was,‘ Resolved, That Glad Life Is Ben ficlal tothe Home” The disonssion de: veloped into a debate, and sides were taken, a -jadge being appointed to de cide the. result. ‘The speakers for the negative slde advanced the argument that club life was becoming more and more engross ing, that it kept the mind of the clat member on the subjects of papers and plans of entertainment, instead of witt the family and ite affairs. They argued that women were neglecting thelx homes for some fad that that originated et the clab meetings and that it was ‘more important that they bring ug their children properly than that thes educate themeelves in ent jects that o-1 best be left to the men or to upmarrie¢ women, The affirmative elde dwelt ot the educational phase of club, and in- sisted that there was {more gained in this evay than was lost by atsence from the family olrole a few noure each week. ‘The judges rendered a decision in fav. or of the negative. It does not seem that a few hours de voted to special study or work would disarran,e the homes of any woman ‘of common sense. 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(None genuine without my siguature) | Cbs Ferd kh 76 Wabash Ave. Chicago, Ill. | ‘Agente wantod everywhere. Bangs and Wigs of Every Description. Mn Gale Hie of i Gene Se, Are Se sscluyge dag bidet ace nis as ees ‘Se buys a double braid made of Black puts sarees, suadtahd ese Bete nce ae neg ae st BbON EES Sec, nce per $1.75 buys a Creole Switch, 22 inches Jong, Black or Brown. sd Wh eta Sy, mene SaT SUI i Then tering ea see Send money with order and get ee aS pe . T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. Ria tesmererss ease ee Zs «THE EREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. rale'of beneSt can be laid down for all women. Ifa club of colture and study does not suftiolently inflaence ite mem- bers to be of some real benefit to the family; teaching a bigh rogard for their duties, making better parent and wife, bybaving @ general knowledge of things; or if charity work, does not make one broader and kinder to all humanity, end instilling an apprecis- tion for your condition and thankful nees that you are a usefal factor ip the feminine ‘ephere; if any organiza- tion of women falls short of the pur pose of the betterment of woman; If the members individually do not see end live up to the purpose of the organiza tion, then all isa failure. The object of most clabs, as Inid down in thelr laws, is alright, and women that truly live up to the law do not neglect thelr doty, but rather have a deeper insight and love of in er ests that are thelre as teacher and ex ample in the home, the fonudation of character, “For the hand that rooks the cradle iules the world.” — Would be benedicts oan gain an in- sight into the character of the girl of thelr hearts {f they study the following doctrine of an old astrologer, who pro- feased to give the character of a girl ac- cording to her birth month: The January girl 1s a sarefal house: wife, good tempered, but rather fond of finery ‘The February maiden will be an sffeo- tlonate wife aud mother, but, Ike her January sister, fond of dress. March girls are sald to be frivolons chatterboxes. April girls are incon tistant and not very intelligent. May maidens are handeome and omiable. June gives impetuous demeels who wil marry early. July 1s responsible for sulky characters allied to handsome faces. | August} makes girl practical and amiable, and quite likely to make a good marriage, Sweet September is disoreet, aifable and a general favorite. October has the effect of making those born ir it pretty and ecquettish. November girls are Uberal and kind, but the De cember girls, although well proportion- ed, are fond of novelty and extravagant Superintendent of the police of New York City has reyoked the !loense of venders selling mechanical toy, rep: resenting a man with an elaborate isg, who is emptying a bottle with rapidity. ‘Tne president of the W. CT U ts the instigator of the revoke, saying in her oetition that the toy bas ® degrading effect upon children. — At a meeting of the Bartholomew County Medtcal Soolety, at Colambns, 1od., this month, Dr E. W Wood read paper on “Grip” in which he sald shat nelther quinine nor whiskey was good medicine to be used elther before or during the attack of the grip, The pbysleians in attendance agreed with him. =s White gloves for day and evening are more than ever the rage, and there is a new shade of very palest lemon kid with black etitehing, which 1s very smart. ~ Some very attractive girdles to wea with dresey white walsts are made of white Dreeden ribbon patterned with pale pink or blue flowers. The girdles Yoor Woman Inherits Large Fortune ‘Brom Her Father. Palmyra, Va, Special —When Jobn Bowles Flanagan, an Afro-American aged 114 died recently in Omaba, Neb , he left an estate consisting of several olty blocks in that city and valued ell tae way up to $100Q000. Bis hetr turns ont to be Mre, Emily Scott, his daughter, an old and poverty-stricken woman of Palmyra. Flanagan had the reputaton of being the most Htigious man in Nebraska. ‘There was hardly a lawyer in the State who bad not hed a hand in some of his law suits. His property was given bim many years ago, when Omaba consisted of fourteen houses, by © woman for whom he had worked several years withont compensation To his efforts to defend his title of the property were due his incessant law suits, He bad just won a clear title to the estate when he died. Richmond, Va., Special.—Dr. Rich- ard B. Jackson, an eminent phystotan formerly of New {York City who has recently located in Bluefield has suc- ceeded in establishing a hospital. This institution is a long felt want, not only in Bluefield but the entire Southwest section of the State of West Virginia for the colored people. All patients will no doubt receive the est of care both sergically and medi- cally, according to modern selence governing thelr cases. Dr, Jackson has e most remarkable success in treating diseases He has the record of treating over 800 patients since May without single death. ——— FOHTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF FREADOM AT VALDOSTA, GA. GRANDEST EVENT IN ITS HISTORY Procession Headed by Band Forms at St. Paul’s A. M, B. Church —Eman- cipation Association Holds Their Bxorcises at Valdosta Acsdemy, Valdosta, Ga, Jan. 1—The Negroes of Valdosta, Ga., celebrated Emanotps- tion Day as never before celebrated tn the history of the town. Nature gave fan {deal day and every one seemed tc have been filled with the spirit of the aay. The proceseion was formed at St. Paul's A. M. E.Church on South Ashley street, headed by the Valdosta, band. ‘he firet carriage contained Mr W. L. Larkins and Prof, ©. @. Wiley, the president and secretary of the Emanc! pation Association of the city; immedi. ately behind them was the speakers’ carriage, followed by twenty twc carriages contaning the members and friends of the Association; behind them were eight floats represening the Negro business and industries ot the vity. The line of march was taken through the principal streets of the city, and ended at the Valdosta Academy where improvished stands were arrang ed for the speakers, the Academy being too small to accomodate the throng. PROGRAM, Maste—(Coronation)........6.26+++ Students Valdosta Academy Invocation.........-Blder Z A. Giffite Students Valdosta Academy Masto....... ..+++.++++-Valdosta Ban¢ Paper—‘Race Pride”. ...Mrs. O. Moore Reading of Emancipation Proclam- ation...........-..-Miss L. F. Dixon Mausio—(Be a Hero)........-.g-+-+ Stndenta Valdosta Academy First Speaker—Rev. G L. Wood, B. D,, O, M. E. Church: Suab- ject.......""The Old and New South” Music.........-+....-... Valdosta Band Second Speaker—Rev. D. A, Wil- Mameon, of Florida: . Sub- ject. .....""The Growth of the Negro” Maslo..........++++++++s Valdosta Band Third Sperker—Rev, R. H, Single- ton, D. D, Pp. E, A M.E. Church: Sabject.......+....+++- * Lessons of Emancipation Day” Maslc............--+++-.Valdosta Band Fourth Spesker—I. L. Stafford, M D.; Subject......‘*Race Interest” Masic......-.........--. Valdosta Band Mesors. W. L. Larkins and 0, @. Wiley were then re-elected President and Secretary of the Emancipation Association for another year. A colla- tion was served by a committee of ladies and all retired feeling the inspir- ation of a new resolution. Thus cloced the grandest event in the history of the town with not an accident or untoward ‘olrcumstance to mar ite pleasure. MRS. MINNIE B. WHITE. SEND PETITION 10 CONGRESS Federation of Civic Rights Demands Protection For Negroes. New Albany, Ind., Special —The Na. tional Federation of Civic Righte, an organization formed in this city several years ago for the prevention of mot violence against colored people and tc prooure the arrest, couviction and pun- tehment of perpetrators of such ortmee, has prepared petitions to Congress which have been forwarded to Oon- greceman Zenor and Senator Beveridge aeking that they present them to both Houses and have them referred to the Judiciary Committees with a view of procuring the enactment of laws that will check the alleged evil It is reclt- ed in the petition that during the iast fifteen years over 1,000 colored persons fave been brutally mardered by mob violence without any jadgment of ‘courts and in violation of the constitu- tlonsl rights of the accused, and it fs ‘asked that if necessary, the Constita- tion of the United States be amended 80 ‘as to effectually put an end to the prac- tloe, Judge John H. Stotsenburg of this city 1s president of the federation and Bishop George W. Clinton of North Carolina ts vice president. The mem- bership ex:ends into every State in the Union. including many of the most promineat colored men in the United S:ates. | as The Freeman | + Gor Re next Pwefvemonth. +. & S Ww @ are told that we havea better publication for clean, concise and complete news of the race than any other newspaper in the country; better serious articles than any all-serious publication, and better timely articles than any other newspaper. We have the brightest and newest publication now extant, devoted to the best interests of all the Neorg race. It contains the most important happenings concerning our people, Church Affairs, Woman’s World, Race Gleanings, The Stage, The Field of Sport and Social and Socicty Happenings from everywhere. The Editorial Page has been made the equal of any of the Mot. ropolitan papers of the country, if not better. au he liveliest topics of the day will be put before our readers by that very admirable cor. respondent, Mr. Richard W. Thompson, who is considered to be one of the leading journa’. ists of the day. Mr. Thompson is a staff writer of this paper, who writes on difficult sub, jects with such singular fairness that every one almost believes that his word “is law.” Dr. M. A. Majors, whose ‘‘Major Melange’’ has scored a world of success in the many past| years that it has appeared in this paper, will continue to brighten these columns witli his very interesting lines. Some of our columns will also be devoted to the best interests of the Head, Second andj Side Waiters. Thesecolumns will be purely an education to the up-to-date waiter of the day] (Phe Woman's World, which has been so well recieved by our readers, will bea splendid festure in 1906. ‘Dorothy’s’”? power asa writer of the womankind has become the equal cf Mars. «31'e Wheeler Wilcox in mark of beauty. A woman who read an article in the proofs for the Woman s World, said: “Until now I never had any but a confused idea of what our women are doing and of what they could do to better their condition.” Phe World of Sports will be well taken care of by Mr. John L. Footslug, who has beca] right in the midst of it for years. Every kind of sport known will appear in these columns. Pp he Stage will come in for a great share of praise in the next twelve months It will a2 prettily illustrated. Newsy letters of the stage from New York, Chicago and other citieg will appear each week. The Freeman’s Gallery, a newly added feature, will also appear. rie] reviews will be published from the pen of Messrs. Carle B. Cooke, Sylvester Russell and others ? he Art Department will be well cared for by our able cartoonist, Mr. Garfield T. Hay wood, who is at its head. Perhaps there are few young men who have gained more p:o minence than Mr. Haywood, through his remarkable taleut as acartoonist. This office ng been deluged with letters praising his work. It is the intention €f the manageme:t 1 steadily improve in the next twelve months, in our department of art. Ph @ “Top o’ the Week” column, conducted by Mr. Charles Marshall, will continue sparkle more than ever with bubbling wit and humor. He will constantly contribute fo the benefit of the wise andthe unwise Agents wanted everywhere. Men and women, boys and girls in every val of life who want to earn good incomes by securing subscriptions for The Freeman—th paper for wide-awake race lovers—now at $1.50 per year. The work is dignified. Th Freeman at any price would be value received. It requires nocapital or previous experienca Address all communications to The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. 10 DISCUSS RACE PROBLEM Many Prominent Men to Address Meet- ing at Oarnegie Hall. New York, NY, Speotal.—Joseyh BH Choate, Mark Twain, Robert O, Ogden and Booker T. Washington are to epeak from the seme platform at what promises to be a very notable meeting for the discussion f Southern problems, at Carnegie Hall, the evening of January 22, This {s an unusual year for Mr. Washington In April he will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee, at which time Seoretary Taft, Pres. Ellot, Mr arnegte and many other Northerners of note will join with representative Southern educators in a demonstration the Alabama school. In New York at the present time Mr. Washington confronts an attempt to set in motion reactionary theories as to the place of the Negro in the South The Armetrong Association 1s arrang- ing the Carnegie Hall meeting which will have the backing of a committee numbering many of the most influen tial people of the olty. Mr. Choate will preside Mr, Clemens, whose early life was spent in the lower Mississippi, will spesk as = Southerner, and Mr. Ogden who 1s chairman of the general board, through which Mr Rookefeller has just established his great fond of $10 000,000 for edacation, will tell of the particular needs of Tuskegee as an educational factor, The Hampton Inetitute of Virgtola will co-operate in sending @ chorus of students, who will sing Negro folk songs in the intervals of the program. ——— Says Funds Were to Be a Surprise to Wilberforce. | Flashing, L. £, Spectal—Pailip A. Hubert, a former minister of the A. M E, church, who was arrested in Buffalo on the charge of obtatning money under false pretences has been released at the instance of Bishop Derrick and is 2 guest at the bishop's home here. Hubert was eoliciting in Buffalo for a ssholarship of $50,000 for Wilberforce Valversity when De. J H Jones, pres: dent of that institution, hearing of Hubert’s (activities, declared that he had never heard of the proposed echo’ ership Hubert’s arrest followed, and he defended himself by asserting that he began to soilclt under authority from Bishop Derrick. The bishop cleared up the matter by explaining that he had designed the scholarship as a surprise for Wilberforce and had therefore let President Jones know nothing about it. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—An element of the Afro-Amerloans at A'lanta led by Mr. Heary L. Johnson and Mr. B. J, Davis, are making @ stubborn fight to bring about the displacement of Mr. A. H. Rucker as Colleotor of Internal Hevenue of this State, Mr. Jobnson and others have gone direct t the President with an earnest reques that Mr. Rucker be removed. Just what object these Afro-Americans have in trying to secure the removal of Mr. Rucker 1s best known to themselves; but the fact remains that the effort is constantly and vigorously being pushed, And they are not urging an Afro-Amer- fern to sueceed Collector Racker in the event that they succeed in having him removed. Believed J. 0. Napier Will Decline to Be Successor of H. W. Furniss. Nashville, Tean., Special.—Mr. J. C, Nepter has received a letter from Seoretary of State Elthu Root offering him the consulste at Babia, Brazil, recently vacated by Mr. H. W. Furniss upon his appointment to be Minister to ‘Hayti. 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One of the prettiest, as well as the quietest, marriages of the season was that of Mr. C. L. Fowler and Mrs Jessie Smith on Monday night, Jan 8, 1906. There were only relatives and a few intimate friends present, owing that it was the wish of both that the affair be quiet and unostentations. Both parties are popular, and their friends will be delighted to learn of their happy union. Mr Fowler is at present employed in the cafe of the Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Teen. He at one time lived in Portland, Oregon, and is well known in St Louis and other cities. The bride is one of Memphis' most charming and brilliant women and an accomplished pianist. She richly deserves all the good hat is in the power of man to bestow. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Porter of the A. M. E. Church. SHORT FLIGHTS. Sharp practice may thrive for a season. Only square dealing has an eternity. We have small faith in the sincerity of the reformer who parades his superlative goodness with a bra's band and who insists upon a season ticket for the grand stand. No man's neck is immune form an occasional "swat," and it behooves all of us to refrain from "getting gay" while the big stick is busy with the jugular of our neighbor. Dean Fairfield, acting president of Howard University, has a name that sounds well. A "fair field and no favors," will carry the students to the end of the term in great shape. "Paynter" is the rather suggestive name of the new Senator from the State where they make so much red stuff, and where "brushes" are as plentiful as files around a molasses barrel. The shores of time are strewn with the wrecks of promising young men who have failed because they were INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $4.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance,] HEADWATTERS. J. W. Redmond, Headwaiter of The Car- roll, Vicksburg, Miss. 10-06. C. W. 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AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "jes smart." Character and effort are the virtues that make for success. Despite his infirmities and many ailments, Bishop Turner wields a pen that smacks the sword in its devastating vigor Read the 'Voice of the People,' or ask Dr. H. T Johnson, editor of the Christain Recorder. The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger will have its little joke or "bust" Editor Murphy now moves the election of Booker T. Washington as president of Howard University, and "rubs it in" by calling on the Boston Guardian to second the motion. Indiana's population was augmented during the current year by just one lone, lorn immigrant from the continent of Africa. If Hooslerdom is to be menaced by the specter of Negro domination, the blame is not likely to be laid at the door of the Fatherland. The Boston Guardian had a fit over the confirmation of Justice Robert H Terrell. Yet Mr. Terrell is a graduate of fair Harvard, and one of the race's most notable exemplars of the possibilities growing out of the proper use of the higher education. Brother Trotter is awful hard to please. February 14th, St. Valentine's day, is likewise the birthday of the immortal Frederick Donglass. The sacred occasion should be fittingly observed by our people throughout the land. Donglass did a grand work for the cause of liberty, and his memory should be kept green in the hearts of the race to which liberty means more than life itself. Mrs Carrie W. Clifford is a firm believer that patience, push and persistence will win, if one's cause is just. She is out in another stirring appeal in the current issue of the Cleveland Journal for the formation of a Supreme Federation of National Negro Organizations. What say the brethren and sisters at the head of these organizations? The Chicago correspondent of the Cleveland Journal is barking up the wrong tree in attacking Dr. E W. Lampton. The financial secretary of the A. M E. Church is an honorable and upright gentleman, a competent officer and a staunch defender of his race. There is not a more popular figure in the entire A. M E. Church as his triumphant election to the Bishopric on the first ballot at the next General Conference will attest. Correspondents of Mr. Robert A. Pelham, Michigan's talented contribution to the Census Bureau, will note that since the demise of his father, he drops the "Jr." and takes on the middle initial "A." not heretofore used. Mr. Pelham is now chief of a sub section in the Census division of manufacture, and has several clerks under him, engaged in preparing important duplicate his and in which work his own patented poster-invention is used to marked advantage. We are prepared to say, with authority, that there is absolutely no ground for the rumor emanating from the national capital that the relations existing between Register J W Lyons and Dr. Booker T Washington are strained. The gentlemen in question have not met for nearly a year on account of the necessity for frequent travelling on the part of both, but we are assured that they have for each other the highest respect and confidence, and that between them there is nothing but the most cordial feelings. George W. Cable is a poet of fine feeling and artistic expression, as well as an editor of police, force and originality. Not often does a country furnish two great writers, scholars and thinkers of the same name in two races, and we are not sure that impartial history will place the Caucasian George W. Cable, with his delicate shading of Louisiana and Creole life, in a loftier niche than that now being won by the Afro-American George W. Cable, who in the literature-laden atmosphere of Indiana, is combining rhyme and reason for the uplift of a people who are willing to follow light when clean hands carry the torch. The initial number of "Sylvester Russell's Review" has appeared, hailing from Orange, N J. It is a very creditable production, and will grow better as it grows older. The people of the stage have reached the degree of importance as a factor in our life that an organ devoted to their interests will not only enjoy a hearty support at the hands of the 'profession' itself, but the race at large will be glad to sustain a medium through which it may be kept in touch with the aims, progress and achievements of the artists who 'hold the mirror up to nature' as it were. Mr Russell is an experienced journalist and knows how to give his patrons what they want. B. W. THOMPSON CHURCHMAN DENIES RUMOR. At a meeting given at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Wednesday, Dec. 27th, James E. Churchman, local teacher and undertaker, the rumor that he was the instigator of the trouble in the East Orage schools. In spite of the fact that no one had accused him of being the cause of the East Orange trouble, his argument terminated to be a fued which is a personal one between himself and Dr. Stillwell. This fued dates back to the already published report of the beginning of the trouble six years ago. The rumors denied by Booker T. Washington and Mr. Churchman of the present school trouble is true. But the motive which prompted the present action of the board of East Orange dates back six years ago, according to the statement of Superintendent Davey, when Mr. Washington gave his consent in favor of colored schools. The secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A. of Orange, a staunch friend of Churchman's, openly admits that he is in favor of colored schools. He has been a school teacher, and whether he and Mr. Churchman are in favor of immigrating colored teachers from Tuskegee or not is unknown. The question of colored teachers in the public schools of the Oranges, which Mr. Churchman now brings up, is all a farce. It will be time enough when the colored girls graduate in the Oranges and the colored population grows larger. Then when they apply they will be received per ratio as they are in Brooklyn. Rev. D D, Tarpean spoke of the undertaker, and the doctor in ridicule and thought they might settle their differences on the street. He mentioned the fact that they both belonged in Orange and had nothing to do with the East Orange trouble except racial interest. There is no truth in the assertion that anybody is trying to pull Mr. Churchman down. He has announced that he has buried all differences, and his retirement from activity in the East Orange fight will be widely appreciated. The star figures in the East Orange fight are James N Vandervall, Rev Geo. W Krygar, Robert A. Travis of East Orange and Rev D D. D Tarpean of Orange. Mr. Vandervall and Rev Krygar were not present at this meeting. When the meeting was over Rev D J. Brown, pastor of the church, whose countenance bore the marks of disgust, announced that there would be no more meetings of the kind held in St. Paul's edifice. SYLVESTER RUSSELL. BEAUMONT, TEX The Alamo Social Club has elected the following officers: O. B. Barous, president; George Alexander, secretary; B. A. Sanders, vice-president; Henry Freeman, treasurer O. V. Miles, business manager - J B Patrick, whose tailor shop was damaged to the amount of $600 has moved to Orleans street. The origin of the fire is unknown. Albert Ziton, who has been working for J. B Patrick is visiting relatives at New Orleans — Mrs. Harmon Rippote died a week ago Sunday morning. She was a member of the S M. T. and Household of Ruth. Her remains were shipped to Lockhart for burial — Misses Ollie Belle Montgomery, of Vicksburg, Miss., and Eitel Jones, of Corsicana, Tex., are visiting in the city. The Alamo Social Club gave a banquet last Wednesday evening. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. The Home restaurant is the leading colored boarding house in our city. The Metropolitan Club's quarters are very nice. This club is a credit to the organizers and the members, and is destined to be one of the finest in the State —The political situation is very perplexing. Yates and Cullom are the candidates. The rank and file of the common people seem to be for Yates. The county politics are at a standstill. Childers rnd Black are out for sheriff The other candidates haven't been announced The churches are conducting revivals. The Freeman can be secured at 806 East Washington and 305, South Sixth street. TUSKEGEE TO GET $500,000 Will of A. J. Dotger Provides for Industrial Institute Bequest. New York, Special—By the will of Andrew J. Dotger, of South Orange, N. J., the Tuskegee Nosmal and Industrial Institute will eventually receive a bequest that promises to be the largest in its history. At the death of the testator's wife, Clara L. Dotger, the entire residuary estate, said to be about half a million dollars, will go to the endowment fund of Booker T. Washington's Negro school. The present endowment is a little over $1,000,000. The will containing the bequest has just been filed for probate at Newark, N. J. The will also contains a number of large bequests to Orange institutions in which Mr. Dotger took a great deal of interest. WOMAN DIES AT AGE OF 137 Philadelphia, Pa., Special.—Mary McDonald, the woman who professed to be 135 years of age, is dead at the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons in this city. According to Mrs McDonald and her surviving relatives she was born Nov. 14, 1770, in a settlement known as Frogtown, near Valley Forge, Pa. She often told of the scenes in and about the camp of Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777 78. Mrs McDonald was of robust physique and was an inveterate smoker up to a short time ago JIM CROW LAW HELD VALID Topeka, Kas., Special—The State Supreme Court has decided that the law passed by the last Legislature providing for separate high schools for the whites and blacks at Kansas City, Kas., is valid. The decision paves the way for the Legislature to pass an act separating the white children from the colored in all the schools of the State. ERIE. PA. John Powers, one of our oldest citizens who received a stroke of paralysis some time ago continues about the same. Bay City Lodge is in a very prosperous condition. The officers are: W. M., T. L. Dickinson; S, W., C. M. Fischner; J. W., C. E. Slow; Secretary, R. H. Baxter; Treasurer, J. S. Hicks; Chaplain, C. S. Franklin; Lecturer, T. L Brown; Guards, W. B. Franklin and Harris.—Richard Copper of the U. S. S Wolverine is slowly improving.—Mrs. Daniel White of West Second street continues in poor health.—Mrs Baker White, of Carlisle, Pa., who has been visiting her husband, has returned home.—Miss Effie Lawrence is visiting in Cleveland. The Freeman can be found at T. L. Brown's Barber Shop, No. 432, State street. BURLINGTON, IA G. H. Jones, the national representative of The Freeman, was in the city last week looking after the interest of the paper.—Roy Smith, formerly a Burlington resident, died in Oakland. California a few days ago.—Miss Bessie Early, of Quinoy Ill., visited her parents during the holidays.—Mrs. Emma Peters, of Haskell, I. T., is the guest of her brother Leonard Harrison.—Miss Myrtal Marshall has been pantry girl at the Delauis Hotel for four years.—Mr L. E. Harrison has bought Brown's Pantitonium, which is centrally located. where he expects great success. It is liberally patronized by the best colored and white citizens.—The St. John A. M. E. Church has started a series of revivals. NATCHEZ, MISS. The A. M. E conference of South Mississippi was in session in this city recently; Bishop Salter of the Eighty Episcopal District presiding.—The Teacher's Institute of Concordia parish La., met at Vidalin, January 8. Prof. J. W. Hunter, of the Winnsborro High School is the conductor. The following officers were appointed: Miss Finney, secretary, Miss Hunter, musician; Prof. W. B. Beasley, librarian and chaplain. About twenty teachers were in attendance —The Freeman joan, be secured at the Millinery Store of Misses Walker and Williams, 705 Franklin street. When in Louisville call at Mrs Jackson's restaurant, 408 West Green street and secure a copy of The Freeman. Persons in Birmingham, Ala. can secure copies of the Freeman each week from Mr. Jno. W. Coar at the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Bldg. Call and secure a copy of the paper, each week from him. The Freeman at Kansas City, Mo. The Freeman is on sale each week in Kansas City, Mo., at 108 East 18th street, J. Turner Wall, grocery and Meat Market, Confectionery, Fruits, Cigars and Tobaccoos. All friends are welcome. The Dean Stable Is Dangerous Prominent Illinois Trainer and Driver of Harness Racers Should Win Many Purses During the Coming Season---Broncho,2:031-4,and Others. Charlie Dean, like Ed Geers, is one of the few trainers and drivers of harness horses that make money in the winter as well as in the summer. He does it by looking after seventy trotters and pacers at his farm, which is in the thriving town of Palatine, twenty-six miles west of Chicago. Dean, who is now recognized as one of America's foremost reinsmen, was born and raised at Palatine. He comes of old New England stock, his father moving from Maine to Illinois, and all through the countryside for miles around Charlie Dean, as he invariably is called, is a name to conjure with. Of course The Broncho, 2:03¼ (pacling), is the star of the stable, winter or summer, and she has earned the title. To keep on edge as the little mare did for six weeks last summer, going in 2:06 or better about every time she turned around on a good track, was a great tribute to Dean's skill as a conditioner and also to the mare's soundness and disposition to race every week at top notch speed. It is a pity that owing to some of his other horses not being up to the mark at that time Dean did not take The Broncho to Lexington last October, as it would have been interesting to see what she would have done in the race won by Hazel Patch. Oregon Maid, 2:08, is another pacer Dean will campaign next season, and, although she has been a disappointment in the past, he hopes to make a fair showing with her. Dorcas H. started in last season without the hobbies, her record at that time CHARLIE DEAN. being $2:11\%$, but there were a number of things that told against her, hard racing and training luck being only a part of the story. After the straps were put on the mare she improved both in speed and steadiness, and her mark of $2:09\%$ will be no handicap to her if she has no mishaps. It is violating no stable secrets to tell that Dorcas H. has about as much speed as almost anybody's pacer, and with any sort of good fortune she should step a mile in 2:06 or better next season. Onward Star, 2:10%, is a pacer the rail birds give Dean a lot of credit for. In the line of young pacers Dean's hand next season promises to be a strong one. There will be a three-year-old filly by Harvest Prince, owned by George Castle of Chicago, who stepped an easy mile in 2:20 last summer as a two-year-old and was then turned out when Dean was at the races. This filly is a strongly made, extra good gaited pacer and from the way she showed last season is likely to approach the 2:10 mark at three years. Then there is on the farm a yearling pacing filly by Dan Patch, owned by Judge W. F. Cooper of Chicago, who also has another fine yearling by the former champion trotting stallion, Directum, and a third by Arion, 2:07%, the two-year-old champion trotter of his day. On their blood lines alone these three fillies should make wonderful brood mares after their racing days are over. A recent arrival at the Dean farm is the four-year-old pacer Star Patch, 2:07%. He was bought in Indiana recently by Ralph Cudney of Chicago and will be used for matinee racing next summer. A pacer that will be four years old next season and that Dean intends to race is Borrowwood, by Boreal. This fellow was extra good last summer as a three-year-old, and, although not booked for hard racing at that time, he stepped a mile in 2:12 and did it impressively. Borrowwood looks and acts more like a race horse than most of the Boreals, as they do not stand high in the estimation of the critics when it comes to taking down first money in real races. Then there is a two-year-old trotting filly by a son of Onward, owned by William Grace of Chicago. She could go well last summer, and Dean, who is not given to overrating his horses, especially the untried ones, thinks a lot of her 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.) 390 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. 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. 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"Rearoabie ficount tor png Uno and Son wate ose, Poe ‘Ent the postoifics al ioinen sascconl daw metiers “~All matter should be addressed to The Freeman Publishing Company, INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA. oo SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1900, DEVIL WORSHIP. “They steal the livery of Heaven in which to worship the Devil.” ‘ We have heard the above expression many times, and a number of cases have come before us which we think clearly Illustrates its meaning. One Is tobe found in the criticisms against one Mrs. Crozier, who is engaged In “‘slum work’! in Phila- delphia. From choice she has devoted her energies to the needy poor, in the hope of making the miserable less so by giving them help and comfort. In a recent inte- view she is reported to have said: “‘I would rather personally administer chloro- form to the poor starving children than see them living as they must do in suffering ‘and misery."" This has been distorted by some of the worshippers of Mammon as a lack of sympathy or cruelty, whereas the saying was prompted by the deepest sym- pathy. Many of those who will criticise this saying of Mrs. Crozier will continue their worship at the shrine /of Mammon, doing all in thelr power to perpetuate a system which is directly responssible for these miserable, starving children. They favor the thing that is, regardless of whather the conditions that exist be productive of happiness or misery. If they had lived in 1775 they would have” been friends of George Ill; if they lived in Russia they would be “friends of the Czar ;"" but as they live here now, they are the friends of Plutocracy, and worship the god of Mam- mon, and it is this foolish worship that causes nine-terth of the present misery. And strange It is that a very large number of Mammon's, worshippers are also his victims. The great mass do not know the way, and-those who do know are not only unwil ing to lead them, but because of in- fluences now happily coming to light, they side with the strong as against the weak, and slay those who would deliver the toil- ing mass from its thraldom. Another instance in which these disguised devil worshippers are to be found isin the reasons given by strong nations for ex- ploiting weaker ones. ‘‘We cannot shirk our duty,” is a favorite saying of those who approve 0 a strong nation robbing a weaker one of its sovereignty. In this they put on the livory of sympathy and kindness and proceed to worship the Devil by criminal aggression. And all this ts done under the guise of benevolence! We may hear, before long, some congressman speaking for a trust that has fattened on some protected industry, exclaim: “The steel trust is unwilling to shirk its plain duty to the American workingman by hav- Ing the tariff reduced." To such a state- ‘ment the whole brood of monopoly buzzards would squawk approval. So, too, the ‘South knows best what the colored man needs, and it deprecates his recognition asa man and a citizen, and is fearful lest he be over educated. And this, too, because it does not want to see him harmed, as such things are sure to do. Why do not all these Devil worshippers come into the open and say what they really mean? Why not admit that we have become # nation of dollar hunters, and, as such, we are unwilling that that industry be interfered with, even though it may mean the rescue of a hundred thousand women and children from a living death? Why not say that we are willing to look after the interests of weaker nations, pro- vided there are enough dollars in the job to warrant it? Why not say that the colored man as a tolling serf makes it easy for others to live in comparative id!eness? When, to the sin of Devil worship we add that of hypocrisy—it is too much— too much. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. It is a little amusing to notice the crafti- ness offthe life insurance combine as shown by frequent news items, No week Is allowedjto pass without the appearance of these items in the daily press under the head off‘*just in, Time,” ‘He was Think- ing of Mother,"Zand such like. Under these arefthen printed an account of some man whofwas killed forty minutes before his insurance policy expired, and have the ‘mother or §wifelfreceive payment in ful within twenty-four hours thereafter. The§persistence of these items makes | clear that the] large insurance companies are beginning to feel the ill effects of thel recent exposures, and they are doing this advertising in thethobe of regaining some ca Ve leak confidence’ Prof. W. E. B, Dubois delivered his lec- ture on John Brown to a large audience in Bethel Church om January 11. Thelec- ture was [given under the auspices of the Woman's ZImprovement Club. The audi- ence was'of the kind best sulted to appre- clatefthe address, which was a scholarly one. Itf treated in a logical manner the causes and growth of slavery in America in which{John Brown appeared as an inci- dent, It was easily seen that the lecture was] but a fragment from Prof. Dubois’ store of information on the subject he treated, and was given ina plain and un- ostentious manner. ‘a We publish in this issue an article signed “A Woman of the South.” She is the wife of a retired army officer, and has spent many years in the South, her hus- band being stationed there, and is, there- fore, acquainted}iwith conditions as they exist. Read the article and you will agree that there are some white people in that section whe have not gone mad on the race question. It ts always noticed that when a polloe- man shoots at an escaping burglar he is sure to think that ‘‘one shot took effect." In this connection it might be observed that when a policeman shoots in the ait just to frighten a vagrant he usually hits him, but when he shoots directly at a bur glar he always misses him. The greatest problem of the world is wrapped up in what may be called the over- worked and the under-worked, and the under fed and the overfed. And, strange as it may seem, the over-worked and the under-fed are the necessary result of so many being under-worked and over-fed, If other publications are receiving as much matter on the subject of The Clans- man as The Freeman is receiving we are quite certain it is getting more attention than {t deserves. As for this paper we have enough matter on hand to put out a Clansman edition—but we won't. Its often wondered how some men find time to do as much as they do. They probably find it by using the time that most people waste. Many of us imagine we are very busy, whea, as a matter of fact, the amount of work we do is barely enough to keep us from being loafers. What we so much need in every com- munity is not “‘ieaders'’ who can work some sharp political game, but leaders whom the people can trust. A large number of colored delegates are In attendence at the National Convention of Miners now In session here. We wish them a pleasant stay in our city. On January 16th a barn was destroyed by lightninp at Flora, Ind. The most un- expected things happen in this State. You can protect a man from everything except himself. He must pay the penalty of his own folly. LOCAL BUSINESS LEAGUES. Through the medium of your paper I wish to impress upon the local Negro Business Leagues that are now existing and others that may be established the importance of having a regular ineeting place, and that the room or rooms selected for this pur- pose be as conveniently and confortably furnished as possible so that they may serve as a kind of headquarters for the business portion of the community. 2, With equal emphasis | want to urge that every Business League have a regular and stated time for meeting. These meet- ings should occur at least once a month or oftener if possible. 3. I wish to urge that too much atten- tlon not be given to numbers. It is more important for a few substantial, reliable, progressive persons interested in business and the establishment of business enter- prises in each locality '0 come together regularly than to have large and unwieldly numbers. 4, It 1s important that all bear in mind that the meeting in Atanta next August Is likely to be the largest and most important gathering of the kind that we have held. 5. I wish to suggest the following among THE SPECTATOR Things As He Sees Them. ‘Four modern Spectator proposes to di- rect his attention to everything of human Interest He will discuss the sins and folbles of the-times, popular superstitions, social manners, fashions, local happenings, the race problem and all other problems. Nothing will be too trivial, nothing will be too serious, if men and women find a healthy interest in it. The Spectator pro- Poses to give unto an indulgent public his observations. These observations shall take the form of notes, musings, medits- tions, reflections as it pleases the writer's fancy. They will be random thoughts more or less disconnected. As to the style and character of his English the writer makes no claim or predictions. So endeth the Spectator's salutatory. Recently a primary for the election ef Republican committeemen was held throughout Indiana. It was amusing to watch the efforts of the colored voter, in this city, to cast his ballot with a sense of the dignity and gravity of the event, Tell him not that it would be of no consequence to him whether the name of the man chosen be Smith, Jones or Brown. Perchance the fate of the nation rested on his ballot. Verily, your colored brother is great or voting in national crises, and on shout ing in revival times. eee It never costs anything to be polite, anc itmay enrich you a hundred fold. If « lady cannot find a seat in the street cat give her yours no matter whether her color be violet, indigo blue, green, yellow, red, orange, black or white. eee My brother, in these strenuous times o race leaders, be satisfied to be an ordinary man. If you feel an itching desire to be « leader apply the salve of common sense tc the spot at once. Do your humble work and be content. The ordinary man has tilled the fields, cleared the forests an¢ tunnelled the mountains, He it is who Is the salt of the earth. He it is whe is solving the race problem, even as he ha: solved all other problems. eee Indianapolis was honored, January 11, with a visit by Prof. W. E. B. Dubois. We are to be congratulated and the Woman's Improvement Club, which was instrumen- tal in bringing him here, is to be doubly congratulated. He was greeted by a very complimentary audience, whose close at- tention to the Speaker indicated a large degree of culture and Interest. May we not all rejoice that our fair city is at las coming into its own, It can be interested In something other than the “Smart Set,” a whist pa ty, a promenade or a Kentucky the subjects to be discussed in monthly meetings: (a) How to secure and hold country trade; (b) what new business could be started with advantage in the commu- nity; (c) wYat business should our women be encouraged to start; (d) if a bank ts not In existence, would It pay to organize one in the community; (e) the importance of ‘the real business; (f) wood and coal bust ‘ness in relation to the community; (g) the Importance of making places of business neat and comfortable. 6. Wherever possible I should like to see local Women’s Business Leagues es- tablished. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President. THROUGH 2a CO ezeRX <A wEGLIMMERS. The Iron Trade Review, tn discussing Its current issue of the new year's pros: Pects in the iron and steel Industry, ex- presses the belief that the greatest develop- ment will be in the southern field. With the ore fields of the Lake Superior region being mined to capacity and the demand for iron still inadequately met, attention ts naturally directed to the practically unde veloped resources of Alabama and Ter- nessee, where Improvements more exten sive than that section has ever before wit aessed are already planned. The amalgamation of the Republic Iron and Steel Company and the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company at ah early date will prove the leading factor in this devel- opment. The labor problem comes in as a very important factor in this case. The Negro labor, as investigated by the execu- tive bosrds of these companies, have proven so far exceedingly reliable, and white laborers imported there have been so poor- ly housed that they have not been perma- nent, industrious residents, or it might be sald that the white laborer is hardly fit for the iron foundry. The Negro should take the grand opportunity to have and to hold laboring work in the South more than ever before. For 1906 a great iron industry will be built up in the South for more than > oyster supper. Prof. Dubois is a scholar- jy and cultured gentleman. His Very words carried with thelr utterance a con viotlon of authority, and he is a recognized authority on the slavery question in Amer- ica, The lecture was misnamed. It did not deal largely with the life of John Brown ‘only as his life affected the slavery move- ‘ment. Itwas a calm and dispassionate discussion of the slavery question. The speaker's words were clear out, his diction chaste and his manner convincing. There was no bombast or pawing of the alr or any flaunting of the big I. The race or the nation which can produce a Professor Dubois is no mean face or mean nation. eee ; The candid mind must admit that the lecturer apparently made his point. The way to get a thing isto demand it. But the candid mind must also admit that it is well to be prepared for a thing when you get it. And as for the kind of education needed for the Negro, ts there not a ra. tional middle ground to take. Let him be persevering, patient, self-controlled, indus- trlous, capable, well-to-do and he will ac- quire the kind of education most needed | for himself, and the kind that fits best into | his particular case, whethér it be industria training or what Js termed higher educa tion or both. For the individual must decide for himself since no amount of theorizing can ever decide for him. eee Is it absolutely necessary that, whenever a distinguished speaker makes his appear- ance ona public platform, he be flanked or either side by a glittering array of lesser lights? These sub-luminarles make net ther valuable brio-a-brac or beautiful orna. ments. Really the only person needed tc accompany him is the one who is to make the introduction. The distinguished speaker is usually big enough to occupy the stage. The attendants, the gentlemen who are thus wont to sit in high places, are needec neither to protect him from the audience nor from himself. Itis he whom the au- dience wishes to see; it is he whom the audience wishes to hear. ‘The Spectator is grieved that the Wom- an’s Improvement Club chose to march Into the audience rooin, on the occasicn o! the Dubois’ lecture, in such an imposing and awe-inspiring manner. Headed by formidable array of ushers, to the strains of a stately march, their entrance was something akin to a Roman triumphal pro- cession, Would it not have been much better, ladies, if you had come quietly and modestly, for you are quiet and modest, into the room and had taken your place ir the audience unheralded? THE SPECTATOR. 39,500,000 tons of ore will be shipped there, and {f the Negro cannot be had to do the labor it is certain that the Italion will be more than glad to do so. These newly organized companies have appointed boards which will tour the South for the purpose of engaging the best of Negro labor. wee El Hadji Abdullah Ali Sadick is nothing more than the name of Menellk's repre- ‘sentative, who visited the United States last November to negotiate closer trade relations with Abyssinia, The story that led to El Hadji’s recent visit is an.interest™ Ing one, for an Afro-American by the name of Ellis, a resident of New York, formerly of Texas, a newspaper reporter in America. It was curious to observe the tone of the American press as his personality im- Pressed itself upon the papers. Before his arrival, and in the first interview after it, he was spoken of as Americans are accus- tomed to speak of colored men, even of distinction, in a humorous manner. But it was not long before this changed to the most profound respect as the reporters ‘soon found they had to deal with aman who did not nsider them his equals. ‘When one of & reporters sought to ques- tion him about his family affairs, the num- ber of his wives and children, etc., he quietly set the officious inquirer back by telling him that in Abyssinia it was a dis- grace to discuss such matters in a public pore eee The Freeman staff would like to have some good scribes know that they might some day find out that, though we make mistakes in life, we need not be discour- aged for sometimes they are of good to some one, Recently a misspelled word in ‘a leading publication gave a small strug- gling sheet a subject for an editorial. CHARLES MARSHALL, IT IS TOO TRUE, Preachers have a big advantage over other people. They can become famous simply by sneering at some good old hymn or by picking out achapter inthe Bible and calling it fiction.—Chicago Leader. MORE THAN LIKELY. Perhaps the fact that fourteen members of the Isthmian Canal Commission are Southerners, against twenty-four Northern members, a2counts partly for the springing up of race prejudice in the Canal Zone.— New York Age. g GETTING THE DEAL IS NEXT. ‘The Dailas Express does not favor the government at Washington reducing the representation of the South because of the disfranchisement of the Negro. In the first place) if the South should agree to this program, then the Negro would be permanently disfranchised in Southern ter- ritory; and in the next place, the question arises as to the right of a State to disfran- chise the colored man. If itis right all well; if itis wrong, then the government should put a stop to it. This ts our con- tention. Mr. Roosevelt's talk about a square deal is not enough, getting the deal is the thing.—Dallas (Tex.) Express. If it had been a Negro who so brutally murdered Mrs. Hollister in Chicago there would have been a ‘‘race war" and a loud outcry over the hopeless depravity of the black man, But it wasa white man who committed the deed.—Indianapolis Daily Star. A Negro student from the University of Wisconsin won the Hamilton birthday an- niversary oratorical contest before the Hamilton Club of Chicago. Governor Vardaman's views are awaited.—Indian- apo lis: Daily Star. Happiness in a Grain of Wheat It Contains Every Food Element Necessary for Man’s Sus- tenance and Brings Perfect Health. All authorities agree that fourteen elements are needed in the human body to sustain perfect health and that these must be supplied in the food taken Into the system. Nature has provided us with one single article of food contain- ing all of these fourteen elements in the exact proportions necessary to suppl our bodies with vitality, strength and heat. This food, so wonderfal in ite composition, is wheat, and intelligent men and women are coming to reallze more and more that in the whole of the wheat is found tne secret of health and happiness. Rich in the nitrates, or muscle making elements, the carbo nates, or heat producing elements, and the phosphates, or brain and nerve: making elements, the whole grain of wheat supplies every necesatty for man’s body aud mind, This is how Malta-Vita came to be imown as ‘The Perfect Food,” for Malta Vita is simply the whole of the ‘wheat anda Iittte salt, thoroughly steamed and cooked in absolute clean: Mnese, then mixed with pure barley malt extract, which converts the starch of the wheat into maltose, or malt sugar, an active digestive agent and very nutritions as well. All g.ocers sell Malta-Vita, Large package, now 10 cents. iTHE DEFENSE LEAGUE. It is believed that one of the most prejudicial causes which operates against that higher race unity demand- ed in the interests of simple justice and a Chiristian civilization is, that aspersions and _misrepresentations coming from those of prominence have ‘been allowed to go practically unan- swered. We have witnessed the pois- oning of the public mind by writers and platform speakers of the South until its ill effect has become noticeable everywhere. The race has been ma- ligned time and again without bring- ing to the offenders either a protest or reply. Is there not, therefore, some ground for these charges of wholesale ignorance and incompetence when these charges are not met by us? Have not those who misrepresent us a right to construe our silence as pleading guilty, when neither reply nor protest comes to them? We are abundantly able to meet the arguments of these men on the ground of their own choos- ing, and the interests of the race de- mand that this be done. This is the purpose of the Defense League of let- ter writers. On and after Sept. 1st, any such case or cases coming to our notice will be called to the attention of the Defense League in these columns, and within thirty thereafter each mem ber will be expected to address a well written letter in answer thereto. It will cost only a postage stamp, and 2 little time. One hundred of thes let ters concentrated on a given point, and all coming within thirty days, cannot fail to produce and effect that will be helpful. The absence of ostentation and display does not mean that this movement will thereby be productive if any less of that which is good. Will you join us? Address G. W. Cable, Editor, Free man. a You can find The Freeman on sale every Sunday at the Palave Barber Shop i North Hnteom street, A. L. Farmer, Oklahoma City,O T. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW ing the proverbial hospitality of tne town and school to the distingnishea sons of Zion. On January 32, p,, Washington, Ex-Ambassador to Eng. land Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, the eminent hamorist, and Robert ¢. Ogden, the merchant prince, are to speak from the same platform at 9 great meeting for the discussion of Southern educational problems at Carnegie Hall, New York Olty ¥en. ruary 14sh—St. Valentine's Day—pr. Washington will be the principal speaker at a meeting in Washington, in the interest of the Manassas Indus. trial Institute of Virginia. Prestdent Roosevelt and his Cabinet and macy members of Congress are expected to be present, and Elltor Oswald Garrison Villard, of the New York Evening Post—the raos's staunchest champion of all the metropolitan j »nrnals of sae Iand—grandson of Willlam —Lioya Garrison and a sturdy believer in the ulllity of industrial education, will preside. Oa Febrnary 2st will come the annual Negro Farmers’ Conference at Taske;ce, which always attracts @ great crowd of farmers from Alabama and adjoloing states, totell the story of thelr strag. gles to get a start, and how they im. proved thelr opportunttles to acgairea nome and farm, Oa the next day, the Workers’ Conference will convene and the meeting will be attended by an un- usually large body of preatdente, oftivers and teachers of the enosesefal schools of the race, and notes will be compared as to what reforms and innovations are needed to more efficiently conduct the work of the ensuing year. It is expsct. ed that the attendance of the people of the country as a whole, will be the best that has yet been present at these highly e: joyable gatheringe. There will be an imposing barbecne—an annual feature to which the netghborhood al vays looks forward with eager expectancy. April 4ch, Sth and 6th are the dates selected for the grand observanca of the twenty- fitth anuiversary of the fonading of the Tustitute,and extenstve preparations are already underway to make the event the most notable in the history of the sohool. Dr. Washington has extended cordial invitations to all the former teachers and students to join in with the present faculty and etndent-body, and make the occasion a happy reanion. The celebration will take on a natlonsl significance by reason of the presence of Charles W. Ellot, prealdent cf Harvard College; William H. Taft, Seorstary of War in President Roosevelt's Uablast, and Andrew Carnegie, who avs the school ite $20,000 brary end sd inetion of $600,000. These are three of the ‘world’t most potent forces in the uplift of humanity. A few days ago, an asso- elated press dispatch imparted the cheering Intelligence that by tao will of Andrew J. Dotger of South Urange, N. J., jast filed for probate at Newark, Toskegee Institute will eventually come into s bequest amounting to fallys naif million dollars, second only to the Cermegte endowment With all thls news of Tuskegee “in a buavb,” It snot “atretohing the blanket,” to olatm the center of the stage for Booker Washing ton’s matonless bee-hive of indastry in the South’s Black Belr, R W. THOMPSON. NASHVILLE LAWYER DECLINES. Wasuington, January 16—J. ©. Napier. the Negro lawyer and banker of Nashville, who had the refasal of the position ot the United States con sul at Babia, Brazil, called on the Presedent today and thanked bim for the proposed appointment, bat d-olln ed it Every Lady Read This. Years ago when I was a sufferer. an old nurse told me of a wonderful eure for Lene! hea “Displacement Patutal Peride, Crore and Ovarian tronbles “It cured mein cat month. It is # simple harmless lotion tbst ‘gan be prepared by any one having the reclbt Twill sande Bree to every satforiag sist 920 ae me. 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Co. 107 S. Jackson St., JACKSON, MICHIGAN The St W. A. Baker, the versatile pla nist of San Francisco, who is now in Phoenix, Artz., for his health, is improving rapidly. Larry Cheatham, of the Cheatham Bros. died at the St. Vincent's Hospital, January 6 at Birmingham, Ala. Interment at Montgomery, Ala., his late home, January Bland & Frye are playing at Reno, Nevada this week, with colorado to follow. They are on the Loverlch, Lebelski and Rothchild circuit. Regards to Williams & Stevens and the Frank Mahara Minstrels. The members of the "Sunny South" Company, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Boun, Mr. and Mrs. White, Lange Sisters, Miss Ringgold, W. H. Burns, J. Ward and A. Smith, playing on the Keith Circuit, are guests at Hilton's Lafayette House, during their engagement at Providence, R. I. Robert C. White writes from Barkout Carnival Company at Greenwood, S. C. The show is still doing well. I spent the holidays at New Orleans and brought back some costumes for the new show which opens in Newberry, S. C., and also some THE FREEMAN GALLERY. HARRY FIDLER. America's greatest mimic, now with the "Ratus Kastus" Company, 0, who could forget your face once reviewed Good old boy from home. Be it the mirthful "Chinaman" as of old Or the "conductor" speeding his motor, There's many a laugh for our lips to unfold When we see "Hugo, the porter." —CHARLES MARSHALL. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE. LADIES' LIST LAUDIE LIST Benton, Miss Mrs. Bonnet, Miss Lyndie Bentwick, Miss Mrs. Mobeo, Miss Ada Crossey, Mrs Om¹ Mosley, Mrs Eliza Mosley, Mrs Susle, Steele, Mrs Alberta Mosley, Mrs M E Ogden, Helen Bae, Miss O¹ Yeres, Miss O O GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Armstrong, Roy Arnold, Thos Bassock, Wick Carter, Tom Tatum, Lea P Dwake, Isac P English, A J English, Hoop Rooler Elloy, Foy Gibert, R E Gibert, R E Gibert, R E Gant, R H Harris, J R Hump Gold Mining Company H rris, J Jordan, W Sam Johnson, J Louis La She, Herbert Means, J W Metameron, J H Moody and James McCann, Joel J C Poole, Jack Prince, Arthur L Payton, Harry Parker, Chas R Powell, Carence Powell, W K Smith and Bailey Toleto, Ben Wise, Jim White, Capt B Y Walridge, Arthur Johnson, J Sam ROUTE. A Rabbit's Foot Co.: Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 26 to April 12. Kersandis' Minstrels: Durham, N. C., Kersandis' Leighl, 23; Suffolk, Va., 24; Petersburg, 25; Garg, 28; Roanoke, 29. Back Patt Tait Team: Mo, Jan. 26; Quincy, Ill., 27; Jacksonville, 24; Saintonne, 23; Peoria, 26; Streator, 27. Bachelor Wand-Doode Comedy 4 - James Baldwin, Glenn, Erb Roberson, Harvey Gould, Ed Kirk, Fairy Farr, Ciceland, O. week of Jan. 27. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER new talent. Our new car recently purchased is 60 ft., and is the sweltest on the road. W. L. McMullen is playing tramp; Alex Wren is doing principal black-face; Miss Julia Holland, the Northern eccentric is receiving encores nightly; Will Wall is featuring Prince Duluth from South Africa. McMullen wishes to hear from Billy Arnte; write to Newberry, S. C. Notes from Billy Kersands Minstrels. Charlotte, N. C., January 14.—We are doing a fine business, having about finished our successful Southern tour, and are now en route East. Mr. and Mrs. Ker sands celebrated their tenth anniversary of their marriage at Charleston, and got their car well filled with tin ware. The company enjoyed themselves hugely, T. O. Mills, the renowned male soprano singer, and Will Dozier, of Wilmington had the pleasure of playing their home last Friday evening and were royally received. Alonzo Moore wants to hear from Mr. Baker, the colored magician, business of importance; write care of The Freeman. Lloyd Cooper wishes to hear from John W. Simmons. John E. Jackson and James R. Jones. IN THE REALM OF MUSIC Clarence Cameron White, the noted violinist, sometimes called the "Bronze Kubelik," is to start on a tour of Europe next month, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Blanche Warrick White. --- Madame E. Azalia Hackley, the Afro- American diva, will give her farewell concert in New York, February 1, prior to her departure for Europe. She will be supported by exceptionally fine talent. Samuel Coleridge Taylor has been selected to write the special music for Mr. Stephen Phillips' new dra na, "Nero." Mr Phillips is said to be the most serious and ambitious of the contemporary English dramatists. --- Frank Fowler Brown will give a recital at Louisville, February 15, and will extend his tour to points in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. He will appear at the Second Baptist church in New Albany, following his Louisville engagement. --- Miss Eva Virginia Johnson, directress of music in Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C., has won favor at the hands of the best critics by her latest composition, the 'Moravia Waltz,' which is said to be rich in me ody and denoting technique of a high order. --- The famous Amphion Glee Club, of Washington, D, C., now numbers sixteen "picked" vocalists, Under the painstaking direction of J. Henry Lewis, the Club has sung before presidents, cabinet ministers, foreign diplomats and members of congress, and scored triumphs on every occasion. --- Mrs. Lizzie B. Evans, Louisville's favorite prima donna, has received flattering overtures to join "The Smart Set" Company, but has been compelled to decline all offers on account of domestic duties. Mrs. Evans is easily the most accomplished soprano of the race in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. --- A new musical star who is winning laurels in the Middle West is Miss W. Willene Jackson, of Sedalia, Mo., daughter of Dr. J. William Jackson, a prominent physician. She has studied under the best instructors, and has appeared with marked success in Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida, besides captivating audiences in her immediate vicinity, touring Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. --- Miss Mayme B. Ashford, one of Louisville's most talented vocalists, will join hands with Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the famous lecturer, for an extended tour of the East next spring, their itinerary to include the cities of Washington Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Miss Ashford is young and wonderfully attractive, both in voice and in person, and has a brilliant future before her in the world of music. --- Theodore Drury has abandoned Terrace Garden, New York, as the scene of his operatic productions, and has contracted for the Fourteenth Street Theatre for the week beginning May 28, during which time he will put on "Carmen" and "Aida" in magnificent style. The change is made to get the benefit of the wealth of scenery and accessories needed to adequately present his operas. Madame Marion Adams Harris will appear in the title roles. Frank Fowler Brown, the accomplished soloist of Indianapolis, will appear in tenor roles. The Freeman in Hot Springs. Ark, can always be found on sale at the Afro-American News Co., on Gulpa and Elm streets, James Shirley's Shintung Parlor, the only first-class place in town. COLORED AMERICAN ARTISTS COLORED AMERICAN ARTISTS UNBOUNDED SUCCESS ASSTARS IN LONDON, ENG. PROOFS OF ARTISTIC ABILITY Ida Forcen Makes Big Hit With Abbie Mitchell's Tennessee Students.—The Brittons and Belle Davis' Pickaninies Great Favorites.—Other Notes. Among my recent correspondence, which I am pleased to relate was international in representation, was a great deal of real news. And it is a source of gratification to note the genuine interest displayed in forwarding it From the practical proofs of artistic ability shown to the theatre going people by such distinguished American actors and great musicians as Bert A. Williams, Robert Cole, S. Coleridge Taylor, Will Marton Cook and J. Rosamond Johnson, it seems to us that the unprecedented success of these gentlemen has eradicated the ill-digested idea of Thomas Dixon, Jr., that Afro-Americans are inferior to other races in the higher vocations of life. In this instance, all the artists mentioned have proven themselves peers in their creative ability, so far as the entertainment of society is concerned, and the current product of their energetic brains has from year to year, and season to season been the consoling balm to many a weary heart. Indeed music has been the handmaiden and professional specialty of Prof. Taylor and Prof. Cook for many years. While J. Rosamond Johnson is one of the most successful composers and truly the best Colored-American pianist now appearing in all star vaudeville. Bert Williams has been a student of harmony and bass CARLE B. COOKE. Quality comedian and Eastern Journalist of The Freeman. solo work for several years as well as being a good pianist. Several of his compositions of the past two seasons were of a semi-classical character, and like those of the other composers are to be heard most everywhere that good music's charms circulate, vibrate and inspire. If you are in doubt about Bert A. Williams' ability as a composer of Negro melodies and semi-classical selections, you have but to reflect and investigate to be truly converted. I have simply sketched these several gentlemen of fame and station because they have all been a success in their lofty professions on the two greatest continents of the world, so far as the white man's civilization is concerned. Cole & Johnson are known and conceded to be the most successful of America's popular songwriters and composers, while S. Coleridge Taylor has produced all the music of the score created for the productions of Her Majesty Theatre in London for five or six years past. Most everyone has heard Will Marlon Cook's charming music in the world famous musical comedy, "In Dahomey," written by Jesse A. Shipp for Williams & Walker. Then the music for George Lederer's "Study in Black and White," "The Southerners" as well as most of the score in Miss Abbie Mitchell's present vehicle, "The Tannessees Students" composed and arranged by Prof. Cook. The London Daily Telegraph says that Abbie Mitchell and her Tennessee Students will soon be the talk of the town especially the dancing of Miss Topsy (ida Forcen, late of Hogan's Company) the little lady MISS BELLE DAVIS. A favorite attraction now appearing at the Palace Theatre. "who was not born but just grew." During their appearance in Paris and London they have been taking audiences by storm. These popular performers only recently invaded London, and Managed Butt, of the Palace may feel justly proud of securing such a highly novel and entertaining act as these colored students as a special feature of his excellent program offered his patrons Christmas week. Mr. Henry Williams, late of Slater & Williams, and Billy Yeager as well as Miss Ida Forcene are being featured with Miss Mitchell and the Students. Among the other attractions of merit on the bill were Mile, De Dlo's Japanese pantomine transformation act and dances; Madame Juliette's Sea Lions, "Moonshine," a singing and dancing act, Wilson Hallett, mimic of child characters Miss Belle Davis and her famous plackaniles and several others that make an admirable bill for the entertainment of the very young as well as the old. THE BRITTONS AT LORD SUFFOLK'S. On the evening of December, 18, at a high-class vaudieville and reception given for Lord Suffolk, at Burton Hill, Eng., the Brittons, Sadle and Joseph, were the only American artists engaged. They presented their new clever, mirth provoking and MRS. SADIE CHACON BRITTON. New York soubret, now appearing in vau deville with her husband abroad. MRS. SADIE CHACON BRITTON. New York soubret, now appearing in vau- deville with her husband abroad. original act, of refined burlesque, singing and comedy dancing. They were given an ovation and displayed themselves with the same undiminished success that has crowned their efforts at the Empire Theatre, where they have been playing as a feature all winter. "The Follies" Company closed the very exclusive program with an English comedy-burlesque and a German Wagnerian opera. Prof. C. A. JOSEPH. BRITTON. New York's noted vaudeville artist, now in Germany. JOSEPH BRITTON. New York's noted vaudeville artist, now in Germany. Bocchi's septet furnished excellent music during the evening and several other artists of note made up the program. Mr. and Mrs. Britton, who were married by Dr. Houston, pastor of the world-famous "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York City, celebrated their tenth anniversary in London, December 22, They opened this month at Dusseldorf, Germany as a feature. It is now announced that the rehearsals of the new comic- opera "Abyssinia" will be resumed about the middle of February and it is also stated that about two years' booking is open to the Company, if it comes up to anything near the what the companies of Williams & Walker have done in former years. Ernest Hogan's "Rufus Rastus" Company had a great holiday week at Buffalo, N. Y., which speaks well for chilly, stoical slow, big burgh, Buffalo. CARLE BROWNE COOKE. APHORISMS OF STAGE LIFE By Willy Lesch, the well-known Viennese Singer. An earnest actor never loses his humor. To become an actor is easy; to be one, difficult. The sweetest colleagues are those that make one's life sour. The only thing willing to come down in a theatre is the curtain. It is difficult to love one's neighbor of the stage—as they love themselves. Anything is possible in a theater—many a man has said this and gone on the stage. The greatness of an artist often appears in his being as ready to leave a theatre as to enter it. I like stupid people better than smar ment for the right par ie can do in first letter and le send photos. Can also pl lihegraher bill pos ers a ball players. The Funny March 12 at Jacksonville, A Rabbit's Foot Comedy opens about PAT CHAPPELLE, ov 1054 W. Church Street, Jacksonville, FL ment for the right parties. State all that you can do in first letter and lowest salary. Ladies send photos. Can also place advance agents, lithegraher bill pos ers and first class base ball players. The Funny Folks Comedy opens March 12 at Jacksonville, Fla. for the right parties. State all in first letter and lowest salary photos. Can also place advance other bill posters and first class owners. The Funny Folks Comedy 12 at Jacksonville, Fla. Foot Comedy opens about April 2 Address at CHAPPELLE, owner both Church Street, Jacksonville, Fla. PAT CHAPPEL, owner both shows 1054 W. Church Street, Jacksonville, Fl WANTED Colored Lady Singers and Show. State lowest salary photo, can use a good m team also male quartet on, guitar, banjo. No fa swer at once, make on Send photos--state your Adress Morrison Show Print, Lady Singers and Dancers State lowest salary first lea can use a good male song a no male quartette that play er, banjo. No fares advance once, make one letter kotos--state your line of work Adress DIOV in Show Print, Detroit Colored Lady Singers and Dancers for Tent Show. State lowest salary first leter with photo, can use a good male song and dance team also male quartette that play mandolin, guitar, banjo. No fares advanced, answer at once, make one letter business. Send photos--state your line of work. WANTED IMMEDIATELY A first-class company of colored performers can draw the people. The only place in city, if your company is right will give weather permits, Tomlinson's Dead Shot & Gun 1702 Olive Street. 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Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The I. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. STAGE. $600 or $700 which would have been necessary had the plans been realized. In the meantime friends of the au. Notes from Hot Time in Coontown Company.—We have been working all through the holiday season to good business in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Owing to unforeseen conditions our route has been changed and instead of our western tour we go east from Kansas City, Mo. We are still on the Woodward & Burgess and Chamberlain circuits. We have engaged three more performers Mr. Clark was presented with a $250 diamond pin for Christmas and Mrs. Clark a beautiful set of furs. Prof. George Bryant is meeting with great success with his band winning the plaudits of the people in his rendition of classical selections. He sends regards to Prof. Lowery and other Sylvester Russell ary will contain "Teachings" by R. Will be editorial comic page by Mr. The Payton Tri weeks in Chicago the "big city" to booking Address. The Two Price much success in they opened at the tre. Address 141. Harry Fidler. "A DIXON PRESS AGENT" PUZZLES PHIL, PAYTON There is a good deal of quiet laughter being indulged in by those of wisdom and understanding among theatrical folks over the latest press agent's exploit and the manner in which it was brought about. Doubtless a great many people viewed with some degree of aprehension the recent outburst of the local colored American against the presentation in this city of Thomas Dixon, Jr's play, "The Clansman," and read with a good deal of interest the plane that were being formed for the holding of a mass meeting, a protest to the Mayor and definite action being taken for the suppression of the play. They might also wonder why the whole thing was so suddenly dropped—and thereby hangs the tale of the press agent (who promised Payton fame). When a bright young newspaper man, who has had some experience in the theatrical world, was engaged to do the press work for "The Clansman," he immediately came to the conclusion that the mission of his calling was to have the play, the author and all those connected with it talked about as much as possible, and given the greatest possible publicity in the daily papers, no matter what the cause. He had a number of Mr Dixon's most violent lectures printed and put in pamphlet form, with many pictures from the play included, and early one Sunday morning, between one and two o'clock, gathered about him a force of messenger boys and sent one of these to every colored clergyman in the city as well as many prominent colored citizens. It was one of those cold, nasty, rainy nights, and as the boys had positive instructions not to surrender their pamphlets unless personally signed for by the addresses, every colored minister had to get out of bed, shivering with the cold, received the pamphlet only to find it was a gratuitous insult. Naturally, the next day, sermons were preached in all the churches denouncing the outrage, Mr Dixon, the play and a few other things. Mr. Press Agent was of course on hand; wrote the story, sent it to all the papers, and one of them printed a column about it. That was enough. Armed with this story he invaded the office of a prominent Afro American real estate dealer and represented himself to be a writer for newspapers and magazines and one who was thoroughly in sympathy with any movement aimed at the doctrines and theories of Mr Dixon. He told this gentleman that if he went into the movement to suppress the play, which included the calling of a mass meeting, it would advertise his company; he would become the leader of his race in New York, and it would be worth an untold amount of money to him. But all was not easy sailing. His intended victim balked out when, the following day, the press agent published this picture and a two column story in an afternoon paper that settled it, and the press agent's merrily of trying to suppress his employer's play began in earnest. A meeting was held on the following Tuesday at the office of the Afro-American Beauty Company, 49 Malden Lane, which was attended by Philip A Payton, Jr., Assistant Corporation Counsel Carr, the Rev. M. W Gilbert, Fred. R. Moore, Stewart and half a dozen other prominent business and professional men. The press agent was there and made a speech, demanding the suppression of the play, and drew the resolutions which called for action, asked for their adoption and put them through. After that he was the heart and soul of the movement. One evening paper became hysterical over the subject and printed columns and columns but some of the colored men became suspicious and, while they did not think the press agent was anything other than he pre-tended to be they were afraid that the realestate man's deep interest the scheme was to get his own name before his people in a manner that would help him from a business point of view. The movement grew and grew till a meeting was held for the purpose of discovering ways and means to hold a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall. The press agent had already offered to pay all the expenses in the beginning, and in the end he discovered that he had obtained all the free advertising he could get out of the agitation and voluntarily dropped it without paying the 200 of $100 which would have been necessary had the plans been realized. In the meantime friends of the author and the management were tremendously wrought up over the possibility of the play being stopped, suggesting race riots and all sorts of sinister possibilities. The press agent was asked by his employers if there was any way in which the movement could be stopped, and with a knowing grin he replied that he saw no escape from the mass meeting, but when he learned of their fears he quietly telephoned to the men with whom he had been associating as their chief adviser and promoter, informing them that he was employed by "The Clansman" Company, and thanking them for their efforts in behalf of the play's free advertising. There was a roar of rage from the other end of the phone, and now not only is Broadway laughing be because the representative men of one hundred thousand Negroes in New York were completely duped, but the great majority of the colored people are making fun of the members of the Colored Citizens' Protective League of New York for having been so completely and sadly fooled." And from the latest posters billed it appears that the notorious "Clansman" will be produced this week at the Liberty Theater, right here in the heart of the great American metropolis. But those who appreciate good morals, and especially those who generally list themselves with all first fighters will no doubt give this "product of a hypocrite" the most scorching indictment that any play (?) of this character (?) has or ever will receive, and at the hands of a clean, honest and justice dealing theater going public No doubt this hand-made, devil inspired, "white viper" will have died a sickly and self inflicted death long before we have time or space to devote to another such notorious and "murderous suggestion" of a romance as Tom Dixon has striven to gain fame in—in "The Clansman." He calls himself "Rev.", but we doubt whether he can ever secure such a distinguished degree from any of our colleges of theology, where they teach as a cardinal subject "The Fatherhood of God, and Peace on Earth, Good Will to Man." C B COOKE, Eastern Journalist of The Freeman. 42 W. 28th St., New York City. SMARTSET COMPANY BANQUET. After the Gus Hill's Smart set Company stormed Chicago as she had never been stormed before last Christmas week, with a first-class enjoyable show and in return banqueted, feted, individually dined, intermil led with theatre parties galore, the company opened in Lafayette, Ind., New Year's week to an immense house, after which a most sumptous Christmas dinner was given at Gilliam's Cafe by our kind and genial manager. Walter B Moore. A more ideal day for the occasion could not have been wished for, a fine drifting snow, with sharp and crisp winds, making the affair doubly auspicious and enjoyable. Two long tables fairly laden with choice vials, delicacies, snowy linen and glittering silver, was surrounded by the entire company and staff included. Speeches were made by all the members, but the remarks of the manager, after having been called upon by the effusive coast master, Edward Harris, was in itself a gem of logic and left a lasting impression. The regard for the manager can readily conceived when he received from the company a large gold-headed cane, with ebony stick, fancy silver cigarette case, with gold lining, diamond cuff buttons one half dozen ascots and one dozen Japanese silk handkerchiefs. S H. Dudley was also the recipient of a handsome umbrella solid silver strop, silver military brushes, presented by the ladies and gentlemen. Mrs Ella Anderson presented her famous male chorus with fine ascots and photos. S H. Dudley presented all the ladies with different designs of silver and all the me n swell four-in-hands. Many other presents were given in the company, including diamonds, furs, stationery, wearing apparel, eto Jerry Mills presented each lady with a hand some lace collar. When the last strains 'Auld Lang Syhe' had died away we were called to ourselves by the call of "half hour" by Jerry Mills, wnerenup we immediately made ready for our evening performance. Playing Marton, Ft. Wayne, Ind. and Piqua, O., S. R. O. greeted u at Dayton, O., breaking the record at the National theatre for a second time, and as the curtain fell on the last act the festivities of the gals week were further augmented by a large bowl of claret punch, another evidence of the manager. Notes from Hot Time in Coontown Company. We have been working all through the holiday season to good business in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Owing to unforeseen conditions our route has been changed and instead of our western tour we go east from Kansas City, Mo. We are still on the Woodward & Burgess and Chamberlain circuits. We have engaged three more performers Mr. Clark was presented with a $250 diamond pin for Christmas and Mrs. Clark a beautiful set of furs. Prof. George Bryant is meeting with great success with his band winning the plaudits of the people in his rendition of classical selections. He sends regards to Prof. Lowery and other friends. The Morton Brothers send regards to the K-rands show and other friends. The Princes, Eva and Arthur send regards to friends of the Mahara shows. Miss Carrie Sanderson is making good singing 'Dem Lowin' Eves' Miss Benulah De Shattio and Miss Frankie Barton are pleasing in a sister act. Prof. A. G. Frederick leader of orchestra sends regards to Prof. G, W Bostwick and wife and all friends. A. A. Copeland, the fashion plate of colored operadom, is taking encore after encore every night with his new songs and dancing. Mr. Copeland composes most of his songs and is the originator of many clever dancing steps. He would like to hear from Attick. Write in one of The Freeman J R Johnson is singing the latest Sterne successes, "The Toll of the Lighthouse Bell" and "The Mountain King." Notes from D. W. McCabe and W. A. Thomas' Georgia Troubadours — Business continues good through Illinois and Wisconsin. The company is out for a long trip by the way of California, into Old Mexico. The leading people of the company are D W. McCabe, W. A. Thomas, The Creole Nightingale, Miss Katie Marie Taylor, Louise Lewis, George White, Bertha Grey. Miss Taylor is making quite a hit in Von Tilzer's latest classical ballad, "The Eternal City." Thomas and Lewis in their sketch "Society" is the hit of the season McCabe's latest production, "The Devil Worshippers of the Bush," an oriental comic opera satire, taken from the life of David Flickenger Wilberforce will be staged in a few weeks. Regards to all friends. On Christmas night, after the performance, at the Teckafe, adjoining the Teck Theatre, Buffalo, a big banquet was tendered the members of the Hurtig & Seamon Ernest Hogan "Rufus Rastus" Company by Hu tig & Seamon and Ernest Hogan. Plates were laid for sixty-five people, and a good dinner was enjoyed. Invitations were extended and accepted by the various newspapers in Buffalo, and each had a representative present. During the dinner speeches were made by Manager George H Harris, Stage Manager J. Ed Green, Ernest Hogan and Business Manager Frank E Freeman and other members of the company. Toasts were drunk to Hurtig & Seamon. Many presents were exchanged by the company. Notes from the famous Billy Kersands Minstrels.—We continue to have a splendid season and enjoyed a lovely holiday. Mrs. Kersands, 'Kid' Laugford and William D zier prepared a flue Christmas dinner. Our show and band are yet commanding praise. Mr. Lacey has added two new members from Port Gibson, Miss, that have proven a wonderful help to the band and show. The Williams Bros., are a great adjunct also. The diamond ring rolled of by Manzie Campbell was received by Sherley Green, Dallas, Tex. Kelley & Davis write from Ogden, Utah.—We are on our way east at last, after eighteen months of successful almost continuous work in vaudeville on the western coast. There is plenty of good work in the west for good colored acts. We have made the name of 'Kelley & Davis" famous through out the west and we are very proud of our work. All friends wishing to write Address Novelty Theatre, Denver, Colo Notes from Miltonan's Minstrels — We are now in Mississippipll and business is good. Billy Arate and Sam Davies are taking the house by storm. E B. Dudley has charge of the band and orchestra and is getting along nicely. Berry Boston and Effie Cunningham are making a big hit with their sketch. Grace Jones is still holding her own. Regards to the profession. Notes from F H Eberhart's Minstrels.—We are now in Hattesbury, Miss, and were special guests at the Black Patd Show, January 2. Beechum and Grover, extreme end men are making a great hit; Beechum cleaning up singing. "Nobody" Blanche Beechum would like to hear from Miss Susie Cooksey. "The Six Dixie Serenaders" colored exponents of high-class vaudeville have had phenominal success wherever they have played They were well received at the Orpheum, at Palladiumsiphia and at the Daric Yonkers, N. Y. Sylvester Russell's Review for February will contain "President Roosevelt's Teachings" by R. W. Thompson. There will be editorials, stage notes and a comic page by Mr. Russell. The Payton Rolo are spending a few weeks in Chicago and will then go to the "big city" to fill eight weeks good booking Address 2826 Dearborn street The Two Prices are meeting with much success in Chicago. Last week they opened at the Metropolitan Theatre. Address 141 W. 47th street. Harry Fidler sends regards to all friends and says every week seems like Christmas with the Ernest Hogan Company. W.A. Thomas, of the Georgia Troubadours has signed with the Great Sells & Downs Circus, to open in Ma ch. The Bruces are meeting with much success at Greenbay, Wis. Cohan's New Play Is a Success Fay Templeton and Victor Moore Score In the Leading Roles---"Julie Bon Bon," Written by Clara Lipman---Louis Mann's Hit. [From Our New York Dramatic Correspondent.] In "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway" Fay Templeton has opened at the New Amsterdam theater after a very profitable road career. The play was written by George Cohan, the "Yankee Doodle Comedian," as he likes to term himself, and in addition to displaying the always pleasing Miss Templeton in M. an advantageous role it serves to make the name and fortune, temporarily at least, of Victor Moore. Mr. Moore was formerly a well known vaudeville, and his success in "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway" is so striking as to cause managers to vie for his future services. The production is a merry combination of musical comedy and melodrama, with now and then a touch of pathos. The result produced by these varying elements is, oddly enough, attractive and interesting. The dearth of songs is in part atoned for by witty lines. Mr. Cohan has supplied Mr. Moore with a slangy role. He plays the part of Kid Burns, secretary to a young man who is supposed to inherit $1,000 or $2,000,000. The word "picturesque" is far too mild to describe the Kid's "line of talk." a LOUIS MANN The Templeman is seen as a house- mal, Mary Jane Jenkins, who finally receives a vast legacy and marries Kid Burns, and the Kid burns Mary's money, I suppose. In short, the play is a hit, and its only defect is lack of diversity and strength in the last act, which will probably be remedied. Members of the supporting com- You can now obtain the large, full size du- lar package of Man Medicine, sent free to your address for the asking. Man Medicine gives you once more the full sense of man life-being, it makes men right, regular and responsive. Man Medicine does what you want it to do. 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The production is a success, and in it Louis Mann (Miss Lipman's husband) has a splendid role, one pregnant with dramatic possibilities. As Jean Poujoul, a garrulous, tippling war veteran of the Franco-Prussian war, Mr. Mann exhibits the acme of effectiveness in character work. Miss Lipman's role, that of Julie Bon Bon, a fascinating French milliner, Jean Poujoul's daughter, is well adapted to her vivacious style of comedy. Julie falls in love with a young millionaire, and her father almost spoils the match by his bibulous habits and lax conduct generally. All ends happily, however, even for the old man, who as the curtain falls enters with a new cargo of exhilaration. ROBERT BUTLER. Tour of Richard Mansfield Greatest Living Actor Meets Critical and Public Favor In "Don Carlos" and In His Familiar Repertory---His Views on Acting. Richard Mansfield's tour this season is proving a repetition of his success in years past, as to be expected. In his new production, "Don Carlos" (Schiller's "Don Carlos"), he has won unstinted approval from critics and public alike, and discerning New Yorkers await eagerly his arrival. Mr. Mansfield is pre-eminently a student actor; hence the impressiveness of his character portrayals, and in direct consequence is his vogue among the thinking, reasoning theater votaries. Mr. Mansfield begins his New York season in March. His appearances during January are confined to Baltimore and Philadelphia. In February he visits Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto and Boston. Thence he comes to New York. The productions have divided favor equally, the most popular being "Don Carlos," Moller's comedy, "The Misanthropie," Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Richard III." and "A Parisian Romance," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Beau Brummel." In a recent anthroline Mr. Mansfield delivered in part the following interesting remarks on the actor's art: Because everybody is acting in private life every one thinks he can act upon the stage, and there is no profession that has so many critics. Every individual in the audience is a critic and knows all about the art of acting. But acting is a great skill to be taught. People who know to act acting, but you can't teach them "to act," Acting is as much and inspiration as the making of great poets and great pictures. What is common called acting is acting acting. This what is generally accepted as acting. A man speaks lines, moves his arms, his head and does various other things. He may even shout and rant. So you pull down their cuffs and inspect their forehead and their skin acts. 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Then— “Louls Armand,” said the stbilant, halting tongue, “I command you to ‘open thees door! You will not, eh? You know who I am?” ‘The sideboard fell with a crash, the splintered door tumbled upon it, and Armand stood to attention in the blaze of lantern light. At a glance Anne knew the officer who stood in the door- way, surrounded by a glittering staff. He was the major general commanding the division. “You surrendair, then? Good! An’ where, Major Woodson, is the infor- mair who has done such brilliant sairv- fee to denounce—eh? Come stan’ be- side me, M'sien Jarrat, an’ let us over- ‘whelm thes villain!” He advanced a step into the room, his bright eyes on the pair. “Ha! An’ you theenk I have never recognize you, Charles, all thees time— me who was your old brother in the College du Plessis? Me— Lafayette? Take off that wig! Take it off, I tell you!” } Mechanically, Armand put his hand to his head. He drew off the black peruke, and, all at once unconfined, hie brown, curling hair fell to his shoul- ders, the ends Just touching the yellow Cross of St. Louis which sparkled like a topaz on his breast. ‘The act trans- formed him, The set mouth was gone, the face all softened to youthfulness. “Louis Armand, the impostor, seized ‘at Williamsburg!” shouted Jarrat. “Ar- mand, who escaped the clutches of the congress! Armand, the traitor, gen- tlemen. Tear off his cross!” One of the circle about Lafayette turned facing him with an oath, but the general was before him, “No!” he cried. “No! Not Louis Armand the traitor, but Charles Louis ‘Armand, colonel of Armand’s legion and Marquis de la Trouerie!” ‘There was an instant of silence that turned a babel behind the speaker. “A lie!” shouted Jarrat. “A lie! ‘The Marquis de la Trouerie is dead!” Anne had risen, trembling, speechless, her eyes fixed and glittering. “aye,” said Armand sternly, streteh- ing his arm toward him. “He has 7 ame raf i been dead these five years. But he did not die when you supposed. That was but a play necessary to deceive a dog one would not wish barking at his heels. He called himself a secretary, and you—you jackal—you thought te buy him, a Frenchman, to betray his master, his king and these colonies!” Lafayette laughed like a child. “He bribe him to be—what you theenk, gentlemen?—to be himself! A rare pleasantree, eh? And the congress, they theenk he trick them in seventee- six. They would arres’ him yet, when he is denounce’—even my General Ha- zen!” Jarrat had fallen back, his face black, his fingers convulsively working, his teeth gritting one on another like peb- bles in the hand. Armand’s eyes were upon Anne, though he seemed to address all pres- ent: “The marquis had a mission, and he found it to his purpose to—to become himself. He found many thorns in his way. But he found one rose—one rose so pure and fragrant that he wished to gather it. He found a lady—a lady of Virginia, who loved him and be- Heved in him. The marquis was liv- ing then. He found himself in peril, ‘and he trusted her. And at last—be thought she had betrayed him.” “ah, my friend,” cried Lafayette wistfully, “these long months seeing you, and'I have never told you I knew you—never asked wherefore you hid Yourself from all. Was I not a friend, Charles?” “Then,” Armand continued, “God for- give his unbelief! Then was when he died!” A great lovely light had come to Anne's face and smiled from her color- fess lips—a light more lovely than the aurora over snows. “Is it true?” she faltered, looking at him in a sort of unbelieving wonder. “Is it true? And will he live again?” For answer he knelt down at her feet and put his lips to her hand. She felt tears upon it. ‘When they looked up they were alone fm the room. From the yard eame the rattle of bridle chains and the bustle of mounting. Lafayette met them on the threshold. “I have search’ all the place for a— what you call it?—sidesaddle,” he laughed, “an’ there ees one at las’, Colonel, ma’amselle, you shall ride to town wit’ me. We shall all be jus’ like big children tonight! Ab, I have for- get—you did not know that only two, tree hour ago, Cornwallis has surren- dair to the Americans!” Lively 3 Puck Pushers In Many Cities Hard at Work. One Reason W hy Rough- ness Prevails --- The Champion Crescent.A.C. Team of Brooklyn. ‘There never was a livelier hockey sea- son than the present one. Puck push- ers of all ages, sizes and degrees of amateurism and professionalism seem inspired with the idea that indolence is acrime. In Pittsburg. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Boston and across the Canadian Dé 2 aN ———————— ae pid ay O Y N a border the season's games, both indoor and outdoor, are fought with energy close akin to ferocity. At any rate, aot within the recollection of the old folks’ daily convention delegates at the village postoffice bas a hockey season been marked by such accentuated roughness as Is noticeable at present. In several cities the newspapers have censured offending players and dilatory officials seathingly. And, after all much of the roughness in football, hockey and basket ball can be traced to negligence or voluntary blindness on the part of officials who like to see the Holig “opens 46 sary a; bat Some enw | SI \ Kd ha pF | y & } SHIRREFF, ON OF THE CRESCENT ¥OR- ‘WARDS, and rootpall officials have been heard ta speak as follows when brought to task: “Well, I let Jones slug Brown be- cause Brown slugged Jones a few min- utes, before.” ‘That is a pretty defense! Why was not gay Mr. Brown ruled off at the time of his initial offense? ‘The Crescent Athletic club team of Brooklyn, present holders of the Hock- ey league championship, have begun thelr season auspiciously and look like the probable winners of the race. ‘The Crescent players are: Liffiton, Shirreff, Kennedy aad Dobby, for- wards; Captain Wall, cover point; ass SiANY an “Aiaskaagide acot The subsiifates are J. J. O'Rourke aha B, F. Nichois. In the Intercollegiate Hockey league Harvard holds the championship title and {s putting up a strong game again ‘this winter, The large army of skaters in and about Boston keeps Harvard’s dee sport squad well supplied with re- eruits. By the same token Columbia university, with all of New York to raw from, should be able to send out ‘& powerful aggregation, Princeton's lack of skating (and row- ing) facilities has long been a source of keen regret to the Jerseymen. Able Young Jockey. J. H. Schaffner, Who Landed Three Long Shots Win- ers In One Day. J. H. Schaffner, under contract to H. B. Baker of St. Louis, has burst on race goers in skyrocket style. Until late last fall Schaffner was re- garded as a handicap to a horse, though he kept on riding winners, and it was not until almost the end of the season, ‘when he rode three long priced winners jn a day, that race goers suddenly awoke to the fact that Schaffner was a boy of more than ordinary skill. He is now riding at the southern tracks in stellar fashion and is “touted” as a second Danny Maher. Schaffner has the peculiar and highly valuable faculty of “worming” his mount out of “pockets.” This process, as every turfman knows, requires the acme of nerve, daring'and judgment. ‘Mighty changes have occurred in the status of the horse pilots since the “Tod Sloane seat” set race riders the world over to unlearning their earliest lessons in their art, but no change in the condi- tion of the jockey stands out stronger than that evidenced by the state of af- fairs at the close of last season, when all the best of the riding was command- ed by the light boys, unheard of a year before, while most of the older and ex- perienced riders stood unemployed, ‘A part of the change which was not apparent to the general public was that the boys who did have employment re- ceived only a modest fraction of the pay that the crack riders of former sea- Sons enjoyed. Whether the time of big retaining fees for race riders has pass- ed remains for the future to determine, but it was a fact of last season that of the old popular favorite among the jockeys Jack Martin, under contract to the late Captain S. 8. Brown, was about the only one who had an old fashioned retaining agreement, and ‘that had been arranged before. By what seemed an understanding among the leading turfmen of the east the rivalry and high bidding for the first call on the successful riders ceas. ed, and the season of 1905 opened with the stars among the jockeys still wait ing for the remunerative contracts that never came. Under modified terms some of the big stables did engage jockeys as in former years, but even in the more not. able cases, Eugene Hildebrand, in his renewed contract to the stable of Har ty Payne Whitney; Frank ,O'Nelll, re- tained again by Newton Bennington, and William Shaw, employed by H, B. -~ . sek vd Fhe MM GE es e Li . Gy (igh ¢ KG: te. 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Sir Thomas Dewar is a member of the British parliament, and in view of the disturbed conditions he feels that he cannot take the time to leave his political duties. (CoNCLUDED FROM SIXTH PAGE.) 8 actually te emooaimen of ce char acter he Is creating will often be mis- understood, be disliked and fail to attract. Mediocrity arouses no opposition, but strong individualities and forcible opin- fons make enemies. It is here that dan- ger lies. Many an actor has set out with an ideal, but, failing to gain general fa- Vor, has’ abandoned It for the easter meth- od of winning popular acclaim. Inspira- tion only comes to those who permit themselves to be inspired. It 1s a form of hypnotism. Allow. yourseit to be con- vinced by the character you are portray- ing that you are the character. If you are to play Napoleon and you are sincere and determined to be Napoleon, Napoleon will not permit you to be any one but Napo: leon, nor will Richard IIL, permit you to be any one than Richard TI. 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Now, in addition, you are furnished a pat- tern by which to cut the garment— any size—and, not most desirable of all, the choice of more thana dozen different styles of embroidery. All f08....00 seceerceese 26, OOO —Second Floor, Linen Section. Rasement Store's Rest Bargains | Hosiery “peciats | Tustten dozen pairs of men’s seam- Tess wool noc, In heavy blue mixed colors, which rogalarly sell for Soom pal at ec LO “fart black cotton, due gauge, Tegular price ids a pair, Feduced Se 500 Corsets 390 H. and H, corsets, medinm tength, irith hose supporters, reduced from Bie totes BOO ———E L.S.Ayres&Co. | OITY AND SOOIBTY BRIEFS. Calvin Brooks is very ill at his home in Martindale avenue. : ‘Woodbine Perfanie has magic pow- ers, Onsale at Blodau’s Drag Store. Edward D. Sanders, of the H. L, Sanders Establishment, who has been very ill, the past two weeke, is able to be ont. ‘The True Reformers held their pub- Ho installation in thelr new hall, corner of Twelfth street and Northwestern avenue, last Fridey night. The exer- olses were good and they were greeted by a large audience ‘Mrs. Carrie Taylor, of Lafayette, Ind, Dist,ict Superintendent of the Indiana Conference of the A. ME. church Sun- dsy Schvoi Convention, and a former resident of this city, is spending the winter at Pasadena, Cal. While the meetings in progress at Allen Chapel are not as productive a: they should be Dr. George Sampson, @ most able pastor, is striving very hard to make them a success There have been a goodly number added, and he te getting the members somewhat warmed up. We hope for the doctor's success both epiritually and finanlally, Hayes, sole agents for Ozonized Ox Marrow. Hayes’ White Line and Menthol will fix your cough. Seaton, the Hatter, 29 North Penn- sylvania street, sells the Stetson hats, Household goods bought, sold and ex. changeu. W. H. Baron, 833 Indians Avenue, ‘Wilson's Sample Shoe Store. Shoes for the most fastidious. Fit guaran- teed; prompt and courteous attention. Chas. E. Wilson, 236 Mass. Ave. Stop at Hayes’ Drag Store 502 Indiana Ave. If sick you cannot afford to run any sisk as to the quality of the. drugs used or as to care exercised in compounding. Bring your prescription to Gauld, the Droggist, 601 Indiana avenue and be assured you have the best. BUSINESS MEN MEET. Dr. Furniss called together the busi- ness men of the city last Thursday night at his residence to exchange views on the business progress of our people in the city. After a luncheon was served the time was devoted to a general Remember that Diamonds Win Hearts ‘They are also the emblem of _prosperity ‘Their bright and vivid rays of liquia fire are fan everlasting delight, We have made a specialty of diamonds for ten years. Every fale isfust as represented. J.P. MULLALLY, #23" porter one Jeweler. 3 98 Monument Place. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. talk. Then they agreed upon issuing 2 call to all’ business men of the alty tc mest-at the Young Men's Onristiar Association next Wednesday, Jan. 2% ‘at the corner of North and Californie streets, to effect a permanent organiza tion. Men of all branches of business are requested to come without fall. THE PARKER HOUSE ‘The Parker House recommends itsel to the traveling public owing to supe rior facilities for accommodation. 1t {1 noted for its cxcellent tables—the bes! Always served when in season. Good sleeping rooms, bath, ete. J. W. Holliman, Prop, 817-881 W: Michigan street. Phones New 4972; Old 651. pea ticieiaiit an “pee || Rev. Pious, pastor of the Metropolitar | Baptist Charch, will address the Men’ meeting nextSunday. G. H. Jones anc | Master Gue Moody will sing. Song service commences a¢ 8:15 p m. Lyceum every Tuesday at 8:15, tc which all men are invited. Bible class every Monday at 8 :45 led by the general secretary. ‘The Woman's Club served hot soup from 11. m. to 5p. m. last Tuesday, and will continue every Tuesday until farther notice. It is served free in the Jarge room down stairs. Are you a member of the Y. M. O. A.? If not, why not? Come join with us now. SAMUEL TAYLOR TO REPRESENT DEPAUW FRESHMAN CLASS. Samnel Taylor, who was graduated last June at the Shortridge high school, has won first place over sixteen contestants in the freshman debate at the DePanw University and will rep- resent the freshman class in the inter state debate. Taylor while at Short ridge made record in his school work and in the echool organizations. He developed his oratorical and debating powers inthe Shortridge Senate, the Oratoriesi Club and in the Indiana High Sehool Oratorteal Aesoolation In the spriag of 1904 he represented Shortridge in the State oratorical con test at Crawfordaville recelving second place. He has the honor of being the first colored student to represent the bigh school in that line. He was an assist- ant on the Monday edition of the Daily Echo, the high echool paper, Young Taylor is working bis way through college and stands high in his studies He is the son of Mrs. M. W. Taylor, of West Fifteenth street. MI(NE WORKESS. About 2,000 miners are attending the International Convention of Mine Workers at Tomlingon Hall this week. According to report the sessions will continue not less than three weeke, owing to the great amount of pusiness. Qaite s number of colored representa. tives from every section of the country are seeidtamong the delegates, afew of whom are high up in the Connells of the Union. Campbell, of Kentucky, who is an advisor of the Mitchell Oabl- net, 1s among those present. ‘The Freeman will give a complete list of colored delegates next week with notes of personality, ete. ERIE. PA. Rev. W. H, Browa, of New Brighton presiding elder of the Alleghany Dis. trict held quarterly meeting services at the A. M E ohurch Sunday.—The young son of Rey. J. O. Morley, former pastor here, is reported quit ill in New 'Brighton.—The social given at the home of Mrs George Biackbarn_ by the Church Atd Scclety was a decided suo- ores, This 1s a worthy organization and deserves the enconrogement of all. Daniel White, an employe of the P. & E.R. K., has returned to work.—Song Service was held at the A. M.E charob last Sunday. The singing was of high order, showing the excellent progress of the choirs —William Logan, Youngs town, O, tne husband of Minnte Fraknllin, is slowly improving from « five weeks’ attack of rheamatism,— Rev J. E Morris will hold services al theS.and 8. Home Sunday. —R, Cop per, who has been very tll, is able to be ont again—C. 8. Franklin was in Edin. boro and Cambridge Springs on basi ness.—Mrs, Emma Lawrence, of Weet Third street, and Clarence Johngon are ill—Mr Rhodee, who recently had charge of the Metropolitan Cafe ha taken charge of the Moon Cafe — alfred Bladen ie visiting bis danchver aad grand-daughter in Franblin, Pa —Mrs. Emma Conners, who now resides in Trinidad, Colo., {s much improved in health, and- much in love with her Weatern home, ‘ FORT MADISON 14. ‘The Men's Sanday Clab entertained ‘the ladies last Sunday, Rev. | J. D Peterson was the epeaker of the hour, sutject, “Race Unity” and Mrs. Lucy Wood spoke on “Great Men.”—Henry Blade will read a paper Sunday on “The Political Status of the Negro.” Jessie Blade, formerly of this city, dled Surday of tuberculosl.—Mrs. Henry ‘Thomas, Rev, Goodman and others at- tended the faxeral of C. M. MoCane, at Denwark, Tuesday. Rev. Goodman held the servicee.—Charles Eubanks in- stalled the newly electe i cfiivers of the Odd Fellows last week—Rev. J. C. Reid has been selected to preach a ser- mon to the Men’s Viub on next Ladies Day.—Everett Oain and Charles Ander. son will render solos at the meeting of the Sunday Club —Mrs. Eliza Jackson tg il.— harles Foster is not expected to live.—Rev. Chambers preached three nights at the revival of the Second Baptist church—Rev. Oxar MoOlel land preached to large congregation iast Tuesday evening—Mzs, Lucile Holmes is selecting talent for a play to be given for the benefit of the Urder of Tabor.—Edgar Dunlap will spend the remaluder of the winter with his family. A number of Httle children surprised Rev. aud Mrs. J. O. RetdSatarday with a large basket of eatables. SUPERIOR, WIS. The Snpertor Wilberforce Literary Sootety met January 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Willis to tender farewell reception to Mack ‘Tnomas, thelr vios-prestdent, who left January 11, for Detroit, Mich. Addresses were made by the president, A. 0. Oglesby. E M. Ewing and James Willis. Maste was rendered by the Hotel Superior Trio, Robert Brooks, guitar; J. Hudson, violin; Mack Thomas, mandolin. Mra Shavers, Mr. and Mrs. Cole, Miss Min- nie Ritohle, Mrs, Smith and son, Mre ‘Williams and daughter, Joseph Tants. tall and Charles MoDonald were guests from Dalath, Mian—Tae A M. E charoh holds prayer and class-meeting every Friday night and regalar ser- vioes three Sunday afternoons eact month at 2:30 and the second Sunday ‘evening.—Mr: and Mra. A, O. Oglesby entertained a party of young people ai ‘sae Country Club Thursday evening o! nat week, New ORLEANS LA. On January 8 @ surprise party was tendered Prof, Topy Jackson, a noted planist ef this olty, by a number of ad- mirers and friends. Prof. Jackson ts also known as one of the best colored male sopranos in the South, He has a wonderful range of volce which he masters with ease. Thomas L Mason made an interesting tals on ‘ The Ad- vance of. Colored Talent in Amerlos,” and presented Prof. Jackson a gold med, fa tae form of a harp, a present from James H Piraino, The Famous Sunny South Qaartet, Uiysses Green, George Allen, Perey Wasaington and Ed Crump, rendered some selections and Prof. Jackson entertained the guests with a besutifal rendition of “The Holy Otty.” coLUMBIA. TENN. ‘The Calantne Usuce will give a musi- oale next month —Mr and’ Mrs. George Browa, of hlvago, who havo been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown have returned home—Mrs. Ora Cross ig ill —Irvine’s tailor shop is the mos: complete establishment in the cliy, Miss Maggie L Green attended ‘‘The Shepherd King” at Nashville —Floyd Conor has retarned from St Louis ‘Mrs, Dora Perkins was summoned to Normal, Ala, last week to attend the bedside of her son, who is {ll with the typhoid fever. BRAIDWOOD, ILL. Mrs. Joe Jesup, assisted py Mrs. J. W. Carrenton gave 8 birthday sur prise party in honor of Mr Jesup, A number of'frieads of Joliet were emong the guests —J. W. Carrenton has about recovered from injaries received in 6 ranaway recently —Mesdames Mildred Juatue, Silas Myers, G. W. Jeenp, Jes: se Lindsay, O. H., O. R, Arthor M, aad C. W. Jecup, of Joliet, vieltec friends and reletives here this week. James Carrenton’s hand !s much im. proved. JACKSON TENN. ‘Willfe Atias, iofant eon of Mr. and Mrs Nolan Samuels, died January 13, at Setma, Tena. The funers! servic~ were conducted at the C. M. E. church by the Rev J, E. Bradford in thie city. Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Miss Goldie Hill, the masle teacher at the Lynk University was painfally barned abont the face at tne Bearon Baptist charch a few weeks ago She is now improving. TO FREEMAN SUBSORIBERS, If The Freeman fails to reach you please let us taow by phone or call. ‘We cannot kno ¢ unless yon tell us. Phone—New, 2880. SUBSCRIBER WELL PLEASED. Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 8, -06. The Freeman, Indianapolis: Dear Sirs:—aolosed you will find money order for One Dollar and Fifty Cente, for which you will please re- celpt me for, another year’s subscrip tion in advance for The Freeman. We coulda’t well do without Thomr- eon’s Weekly Review, as well as hie “Short Fitghts,” And the editorial are up tothestandard Mast congratu- late your paper in every particular and as long as it malntains its present make-up, the people will not do with. out it. Several of your good subscribers and friends are not at all pleased with the disappearance of your “Race Glean- ings,” which appeared regularly until recently. Let us have them again as this was one of the things admired and enjoyed by your many readers. Let's have “Race Gleanings” regularly again ‘Yours Respecifully, A.D Prrson, ; PALESTINE. TEX. ‘The Presiding Elders’ Conference wat held at Mt, Vernon, January 10 and 11. Mrs. Bettie Lee died and was buried January 12 —Rev. and Mrs. K. Deal's 8 Ib. boy visited them January, 10. Mrs, Olarence Powell has been ill for some time'—The Teacher's Institute will convene, January 28:29—Pay your poll tax before Febroury 1. DALLAS. TEX. ‘The Jolly Pathfinders eurprieed Mr and Mrs. 8.B Muller aod family Tues- ay evening. An enjoyable evening was spent —William Gr.ffia, proprie: tor of Griffin's Shining Parlor gave a dinner to his employes January 10. ‘The menu consisted of baked turkey, with oyster dreselng, cranberry sauce, Potato salad, celery, radishes, cherry punch, cake, wine, fraits and nuts. ‘Those present were Cornelins Walker Pinkney Briscoe, Robert McDoff, Ell- ba Derritt, Willie Grice Claude Fullil one, Hamilton Oles, Elmore Smith, Jim MeClain, John Henderson, Elijah Griffia, Miss Charles Etta Emory, Mes- dames Annie Luck. Mittle Walker, Charlotte Dayenport, M C. Griffia Karle Emory, and E M. Hedge. The evening was erjoyably spent.—Mre. Charlotte Davenport has recelved pay- ment in fall of $125 from Angelins Tabernacle, No 76 on the policy of Mrs, Georgia Black —A few jim crow colored people continne to patroniz the street cars since the pasaing of the ordinance separating the white en¢ colored people —The coming city elec tion promises to be an interesting one Only @ few days in which to pay yout poll taxes. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. The forty-second anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves In America was appropristely celebrated. Hon, George L. Knox, publisher of The Freeman, of India- napolls made an excellent speech very suitable to the occasionand was mucn ap- plauded. Hon, Gurley Brower, editor The World, Indianapolis made an address also, Eugene Jackson rendered excellent music; Prof. Telster was master of ceremonies. A reception followed the program. THE WAY TO LOOK NEAT And comfortable is to have your hair nice- ly combed and put up in the latest style. If your hair is kinky and harsh {t looks un- tidy and hurts when you try to comb it. You can easily change all that and make your halr pitable, s ft and easy to comb by using Ford's Hatr Pomade, formerly known as “Ozonized Ox Marrow." It also pre- vents dandruff and makes the hair grow.t For over forty years ladles of refinemen have been using it with great success Warranted harmless. Only 50c a bottle Sold by druggists, or send us 50c for a bot- tle. We pay the postage. Address Ozon- ized Ox Marrow Co., Charles Ford, Pres't, 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Illinois, cS rey rey cA) ENNIS or gir SPAM ast s. wei 2 Sore re Srp a — ee eee Se Sa Seok kes tag Pk Si SEOOND BAPTIST CHUROH NOTES Rev. C _H, Johnson, pastor; preaching 11 a m, end ce ‘m.; prayer meeting Tues. day evening; Sunday School 9:30 a, m. SHILOH BAPTIST OHUROH. Corner West and: Walnut streets. Yours of eet oe Greeting Tuceday night: preaching Thucedsy eri ace ee eee po Goole ra METROPOLITAN BAPTIST NOTES 422 North Senate avenue, Rev N. A. Pins, pastor; Sunday School 10 a m; Bible class 7 to8p w.; preaching il m, and 8 p, m.; prayer meeting Thureday evening 7:50 to roa BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES, ‘Vermont street, between Missouri and Toledo streets. Rey. George Shaffer, pas- tor. Services 11a, m.and 8 p.m. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. SIMPSON OHAPEL NOTES. Corner Eleventh and Misscuri strects; tiny e It's the Unexpected that Happens” You will feel more comfortable if your life and in- come are protected by carrying a policy with the CONTINENTAL CasuALTy Co. Accident and Health Insurance on. small monthly payments. ~ Promptand liberal in payment of claims. GREGORY & APPEL, W. B. ALLEN, RESILENT AGENTS SPECIAL AGENT 131 E. Market Street. a | Te a REDE E; WM. F. KUHN JOHN A. KUHN i KUHN BROS. i Wholesale and Fetail MEATS i Fine Cuts of Beef, Fresh Dressed Poultry. Saas Sal INDIANA ELIS i i Reet CRCRCRCHRN BRIE ECECB A ORATOR OREO ON ne ee = ‘New Phone 2160, Old Phone Main 315 gee The Lambert ROM Coal aud Coke Cy ceed THREE BIG YARDs: ed Leota St., & Southeastern Aye, " Georgia and West Streets. fa 24th StreetandCornell Avenue, . The R. H. Smith Coal Conip’y 1012 Bismark Avenue Coal and Wood. Prompt delivery. Candles, Cigars and Tobacco, Tce Cream in large and small quantities, Phone 5136-3 Ring Indianapolis, Ind =—_—_————————————— ¢ , = jVowegut&Gu.j) Sey Hi a) LS | Ll) | HEADQUARTERS FOR (Gr <2 } i Skates, Snow Shovels, oe ya Ice Creepers, cp Carriage Heaters, . i Foot Warmers, A Stitch In Time Weather Strip... . il) otrrsarsttacsitirnders. can’t say. But certainiy, you'll save 120-124 E, Washington Street, —— os Telephone 5%, OOATINGE of aloha Ovi Shank Forniture & Storage Co. 339 E, Washington St, Best fecilities for movirg, packing, storing and alpoing Farniture end lousehold effects, Phone 2028 4 Phone 2028 a OE_ ST, CLAIR BAR AND POOLROOM 776 778 INDIANA AVENUE G. H. TAYLOR, Prop. Bine Liquers avd Cigars a specialty. oo Sanday school 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; morning class, 12 m ; Epworth League, 7pm; preaching.8 p m ; weekly meetings, Official Board meeting every Monday even- ing at 8 o’clook; class meetiog Tuesday evening, 7:30; oholr practios Wednesday evenings; Epworth League Thursday even- ing; Queen’ freee Circle, Friday evening Bev. H. W. Simmons, pastor. MT. ZION BAPTIST OHUROE. Corner Eleventh and Lafayette sts. | Hours Sroaching 0:3 am and Tar pea Sakae Boating Cueeday nigtt preachlag 'tnureday Hane Bava By &. Parva), pastors residue 1108 North West street. JONES TABERNACLE. Corner North and Blackford atresta, Rev, J _W. Woods. pastor, residence 606 Biaok- ford street. Sunday services, preaching 11 & m,and8 p,m, Sunday-school 2 p m ; Varrick C. E., 6 to 7 p, m., Holly Commun- ion every first Sunday. NINTH PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. G .B. Brabham pastor; services 11 a, m. and 8 p. ni.; Sunday School 2:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday evening, 8 p. m Christisn Endeavor at 7 p m, Come out and hear the new pastor. CORINTHIAN OBUROE. Corner North and Spring streets. Every» body welcome to all services. Sunday school 9:30 a. m, Brevghing il a m., and 8 p.m; BY. P. U, Sunday 7 p.m’; com munion, firss Sunday in each month, 8 p. 1m ; prayer meeting Friday evenings; month- ly meeting, last Friday in the month; Rev. ‘Martin, pastor. 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