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THERE ARE COUNTLESS OPPORTUNITIES LYING AROUND WITHIN THE REACH OF THE ENTERPRISING NEGRO, IF HE WILL ONLY STOP AND PICK THEM UP. INDIANAPOLI MAR 31 1906 PUBLIC LIBRARY Public Library 1 o5 AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 13 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW GEN. J. F. SMITH TO BE GOV. GEN. ERAL OF PHILIPPINES CIVIC REFORM IN THE OHIO STATE Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford Speaks In Boston-Writer Receives Proceedings Of Ohio Colored Women's Club Negro Soldiers Are Wanted. (Staff Correspondence.) The colored people all over the country are pleased to learn that it is definitely decided that the new Governor-General of the Philippines is is to be Gen. James F. Smith, who will assume the reins of office in June, succeeding Mr. Henry C. Ide, a member of the commission who is filling the position temporarily. Gen. Smith's work on the Philippine Commission has demonstrated his fitness for the larger duties soon to devolve upon him, and his habitat in "the glorious climate of California" is assuring to those who watched with dismay the unfortunate career of Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, as Governor-General of the archipelago, who was a rank failure as administrator of the affairs of the United States there, as all Southern men are bound to be who place their silly race prejudices and the flummeries of so cial intercourse above the fundamental principles of our republic and who disregard our constitutional obligations in order to uphold the peculiar traditions of the section from which he hails. If Governor-General Smith sustains the broad Americanism that characterized the tenure of Governor Taft, and lives up to the Rooseveltian guarantee of a square deal for all—as we have reason to believe he will—there is a bright future for the Filipinos under our flag. "Benevolent assimilation" can thrive only upon justice and humanity, and we can not expect our fellow-citizens of the next generation to accept a civilization that means anything less. Wright was not removed any too soon, for Tennessee methods did not impress the Filipinos as any improvement over the autocratic and tyrannical domination of Spain. President Roosevelt displays a remarkable degree of generosity in overlooking Wright's miserable failure in the Philippines in sending him to Japan as our first Ambassador. It remains to be seen whether he can endure "social equality" with the little yellow men of the Mikodo's realm with any more satisfaction than with the little brown men in and about the court of Manila. \* \* \* Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford has made an excellent impression in Boston and and the East as a platform speaker. As an orator or thinker, Cleveland's favorite representative, has few equals among her sex on the continent, and her friends and neighbors are justly proud of her success wherever she goes. Yielding to the urgent demands of numerous organizations of women in the South, she will extend her lecture tour through a large portion of that section, where a warm welcome awaits her. Mrs. Clifford speaks with a force and earnestness that carries conviction with it. What she says invariably strikes home. Her plea is for race unity, and a series of such preachments by so effective a pleader as Mrs. Clifford, is bound to be fruitful of good results to our people everywhere. Her prophetic warning to the South that "Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also over" uttered with dramatic intensity at the New York meeting of the National Negro Business League—all rings solemnly in the ears of all who heard her magnificent speech on that occasion. She sees far ahead, and is eminently correct in declaring that "Those who sow lynchings, jim crow cars, wholesale disfranchisement, denial of civic rights and debauchery of helpless women, are certain to reap the whirlwind of anarchy, mobocracy and social annihilation. Mrs. Clifford is going to a field where missionary effort is more sadly needed than in China or Timuboocto, and she can tell the bourbons of the South some salient things they ought to know. I am sure she has the moral courage to tell them the God's truth, plainly and fully, and yet with the tact and diplomatic grace that will arrest the attention of the best elements, and accomplish the desired purpose, without giving the slightest offense. Mrs. Clifford's tour is a part of the intelligently directed agitation that the Negroes of the country are finding necessary to awaken the race to a sense of its danger, and to point out to the American people how far they are straying from he ideals that have set this republic upon a hill as the exponent of liberty, equality and fraternity. The leaven of political independence is working among the thinking members of the Negro people, as it has been doing for lo these many years among the better classes of the whites. We are not denouncing any party or group of partisans as such, but we are following the example so significantly set by such eminent authorities on civic reform as President Roosevelt, Secretaries Root and Taft, and reserving the right to break away from old moorings when those moorings cease to stand for that which seems best for the whole people. We are cultivating a healthful independence of bosses and machines that bids fair to make us citizens rather than subjects, and by such a sturdy course, it is only a question of time when the critics who are charging we are but tools and puppets, and therefore incapable of properly exercising the right of suffrage, will be totally disarmed. Secretary Taft, speaking for President Roosevelt and himself, has just sent a letter to the Roosevelt Republican Club of Cincinnati, accepting honorary membership therein, uses some virile language, which we are taking greatly to heart. The club is a protest against the unwholesome leadership of George B. Cox, and if we are wise, we will be guided by the tenets he so emphatically espouses. Says Mr. Taft, in part: "The members of such a Club as the Roosevelt Club, although an orthodox Republican organization, may very well decline to support the candidates of its own party, if such candidates are plainly lacking in the qualifications, according to the standards which they may properly set for the selection of public officers. Still, it is well to use a wise discretion in bolting. The important question will always be, in what way you can secure and exercise the greatest influence for good. Translated to suit the purposes of our people, the most orthodox republicans among us may feel perfectly justified in "scratching" any nominee of the party who fails to properly respect our rights as citizens, whose record is not satisfactory on the problems that affect our well-being as a race, and who is in sympathy with those who would deny us the recognition that our party service and numbers entitle us to claim. We interpret Secretary Taft's letter and his attitude during the late campaign in Ohio to mean that no Negro can be expected to support a candidate who draws the color line in politics, and who is lacking in the patriotic elements that should characterize every public official. Let every black voter apply his standard, as Mr. Taft applies his own, in casting his ballot, and we shall find that we shall rise in the estimation of all parties and that their managers will treat with us as they treat with the Irish, the Germans or the labor vote, if they hope to win our support. Politics involves principles, but it also involves practical business sense. We may safely adopt the methods by which President Roosevelt and his trusted lieutenants purpose to promote the cause of civic righteousness. I wish to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the proceedings of the annual convention of the Ohio Fedération of Colored Women's Clubs which held a highly profitable session last July at Dayton, O. The minutes are gotten up in attractive style. Both the typographical finish and in the comprehensive preparation of its literary features, the report reflects great credit upon the publishing committee, made up of Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, Miss Selena C. Gaines and Mrs. Ella V. Clark. The helpful work of Ohio's public-spirited women, graphically described in the forty pages of the pamphlet, is having its effect all over the Buckeye State, and ought to be an inspiration to those who have not as yet identified themselves with one or more of the Improvement Clubs scattered broadcast from the lake to the river. These women are not dreamers nor idle gossipers—they are not pursuing phantoms or worshipping at the shrine of the impossible. They are earnest, constructive workers—they are "overcomers," heart culturists and beacon lights—every one of them, and deserve all the praise which a grateful community can bestow upon them. The men should hold up their hands by substantial co-operation and constant encouragement, for EUROPEAN NATION. FILMWOOD they are building up a civilization which we are to enjoy in common. Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, the distinguished electionist and missionary force, is the active president of the State Federation, and Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, to whose splendid labors I have already referred, is honorary president and editor of the Federation organ, "Queen's Gardens." Mrs. Sarah G. Jones, who contributes an instructive paper to the pamphlet on "Literature," is chairman of the executive board. The other officers are well-selected, and include some of Ohio's most influential and useful social factors. The Ohio Federation's motto is "Deeds, Not Words," and operates in harmony with the National Association of Colored Women. It is understood that, in accordance with the recommendation of the Post-master-General, the appropriation for the maintenance of the office of United States Stamp Agent was omitted from the Post-Office Appropriation Bill, and at the end of the present fiscal year, June 30, the place will stand abolished. This means the retirement of the Hon. John P. Green, of Ohio, who has held the position for eight years, giving satisfactory service. The office has been a sinecure since the government has been printing its own stamps, and passes out of existence because it is no longer regarded as necessary. In recognition of Mr. Green's valued political services, Senator Dick is endeavoring to have the gentleman transferred to some other suitable berth in the Executive Departments. Should the effort fail, the friends of Mr. Green state that he will return to his home in Cleveland and resume the practice of law in partnership with his sons, William R. and T. Bliss Green, both of whom are doing well at the bar. Another congress for the suppression of the divorce evil has met in national session, passed resolutions and adjourned—and the divorce mill grinds along as merrily as ever. The conviction is growing that difficult divorce, by which some of the reformers set such store, offers little relief from the perils that beset the marital relation. Until philosophers and sages can devise a training that will strengthen the individual character, ripen the judgment, restrain the unholy passions and instil a keener sense of the moral obligations entailed by matrimony, there is not likely to be any appreciable diminution in the output of the divorce court. If the local courts will not grant legal separations, unhappy couples will seek a jurisdiction where freedom can be had, or do worse. The theory that "single blessedness is better than "double cussedness" still has its advocates, and few of us would insist that men and women remain together, in open revolt, or under a shallow pretense of harmony, when cruelty, incompatibility and the thousand and one things which make for marital infelicity have to be endured day by day. The only way to cure a disease permanently is to remove the cause. But how? Aye, there's the rub! The prevention of helter-skelter marriages might help some. A campaign of education on the part of the mothers of both sexes might help more. The summary execution of gossippers and scandal-mongers might ease the situation a trifle—but the efficacy of congresses of much talk and many papers is to be doubted. From time immemorial, love has laughed at locksmiths, defied the dictum of parents, evaded restrictive canons, ignored traditions, shocked the sensational and astounded the sedate. In short. "Love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will," and the reflex action—divorce—is equally arbitrary in its sway. Tuskegee Institute is "in good" this month. By the will of the late Edwin Elbert, of Georgetown, Conn. $10,000 are bequeathed to the trustees of the school, and the William H Baldwin, Jr., Memorial Fund, amounting to about $152,000, is ready to be turned over to the endowment fund of the institute. The coming anniversary will be the occasion of some liberal giving on the part of students, faculty, graduates and friends. There is no doubt that the $3,000,000 mark will eventually be reached. apolis complains that many cmfwypyi A white stenographer of Indianapolis complains that many the Negro elevator conductors are unduly familiar with the young white women employed in the office-buildings of the city, and advises her sisters to refrain from speaking to the Negro employees with whom they come into contact in the course of a day, if they would avoid insult, etc. The pale face stenographer is needlessly alarmed. Let it be said right here that the most brazen rouge, be he white or black, is almost without exception, a keen observer, and invariably knows a genuine lady the moment he sees one—and a real lady, of modest appearance and dignified demeanor can speak to whomsoever she chooses and as often as she likes, without the slightest danger of being improperly approached. Such are immune from insult, whether they drive their carriage or operate a type-writer in an office. Would-be "mashers" can usually detect the "mashable," and they seldom run into a sure-enough "blucc," if they are "onto their job." There is something suspicious-looking about women who are always getting "insulted." * * * * Some one has asked by what warrant your correspondent wears the title of "Colonel," by which designation he has become known in some quarters through the courtesy of cer. (Continued in Fourth Page.) CHARGES YET UNANSWERED DR. GRAHAM REVIEWS THE CHURCH CONTROVERSY SOME FEW ENDORSEMENTS GIVEN A Failure To Answer The Three Principal Charges-Scores Of Letters Endorse His Position-Withold Names For Fear Of Disfavor. I have been waiting to see if some one would try to answer the charges which I have made against the general management of the A. M. E. Church. But few have had had the temerity to attempt any reply, much less denial of the charges. It is well for the public to be reminded of the charges which I have made, that they may judge wisely whether any reasonable answer is given by any one. There are three principal charges; 1. That drunkenness, imorality and dishonesty are freely indulged in by our ministers, and the bishops condone such things by appointing persons whom they know to be guilty, to good charges; and that often when a minister's conduct has become so public as to make him no longer acceptable where he is known, the bishop will transfer hi mto other fields where he continues in good standing. 2. That many of the bishops use the dollar money of the conference which should go to the widows, orphans and worn-out preachers according to law, for their own residences and traveling expenses, notwithstanding the fact that the financial secretary pays them out of the general funds five hundred dollars a year to meet these same expenses. 3. That the Financial Board, which controls the general fund, has grossly misappropriated the same, and willfully violated the law to the great suffering of the departments of the church and the widows, orphans and worn-out preachers, who by law, are pensioners on this same fund. I have given abundant specifications to justify these charges and what answer is given? Bishop Smith takes issue with me and defends Louisiana. Well, it is not a strange thing for he and I to disagree. It has always been a hard thing for us to agree at every point, and I suppose we never will. But suffice it to say, that the most serious trouble which occurred in Louisiana during his charge of that State, was brought about by his removing of a drunken preacher from one of the best churches in the State, after failing by personal appeals to the man to reform his conduct. I make no reflection upon Louisiana in stating this well known fact. The large majority of Louisiana preachers are all right and they stood by his action like men. Then the brethren from Missouri rush to the defense of their bishop and try to explain why the minutes of their conference on page 52, state that they appropriated to Episcopal residence $140.00. They state that the money did not go to the bishop, but to pay for a house for the bishop to live in. They forgot to state further that the $25.00 appropriated to Bishop Turner's traveling expenses, was not received by the bishop, but was paid directly to the ticket agent who furnished the bishop with a jacket. It might have helped greatly to have given the public these explanations of how the law is violated to the suffering of the widows, orphans, and worn-out preachers, for the convenience of the bishops, and yet the bishops remain innocent. But I sympathize with those brethren. They must keep in favor with the bishop, or woe unto them and their families. That is the very reason why this corruption flourishes so, moral cowardice, in every rank. Now remember, I do not accuse every bishop of condoning these wrongs, much less do I charge all the preachers of wrong doing. Several of the bishops, so far as I know, are above charges, though I regret to have to admit that some of whom I though all right when I began to write, I find by the minutes of their conference, are the biggest grafters. The revelations make the heart sick and the head feint. I still believe, however, that the majority of the ministers are honest men of God, fighting against awful odds, where they see little reward for virtue, only in the Divine approval. [Continued on fourth page.] It takes grit as well as grace to make a good Christian. A doubt is the heaviest burden anybody ever tried to carry. Experience is a dear teacher, but her diplomas mean something. With all of his wisdom Solomon made a big mistake now and then. There is no getting to any kind of heaven on downy beds of ease. Confidence in God always gives hope a rock upon which to plant her feet. Gold in character is as certain to be sought and found as gold in the ground. Bad health is nature's way of standing us up in a corner for doing wrong. The man with an idea has done more for the world than the man with a gun. SHORT FLIGHTS. If I were you could I improve On all the things you do? Would I complete the irksome tasks You leave before you're through? Would I find words to express the thought That you cannot express? Would I redress the grievances That you pass unredressed? Would I omit the many acts Of wrong I've seen you do? And would I do the things you dream, If Fate had made me you? If I were you could I become The man you ought to be? And would I knock as much on you As you have knocked on me? The Lenten season is on. *** Temperance is a commercial asset. *** The work-house is a sure cure for the loafing habit. *** There are some things worse than a vain woman—but not many. *** "Reciprocity" is a gospel that should be preached from every pulpit. It spells "equity" both ways. *** Neither Nelson or Britt can lay just claim to the light-weight championship until they beat Gans. "That's the word with the bark on it." The Caucasian pugilists are painfully backward about knocking the chip off the shoulders of the colored brethren, despite flattering odds and all kinds of dares the latter are putting. We expect Joe Gans to offer to whip Jimmy Britt with his (Gans') hands tied behind his back. A Virginia woman, who came to Washington to take a clerkship in one of the departments, wanted to subscribe for a good Sunday paper. She was quite favorably disposed toward the Washington Post until she heard that it carried a "colored" supplement. *Sarah Bernhart was in our town not long ago. Several of our society folks were unable to witness any of her performances. Yet this seemingly wide gap between the usual 10, 20 and 30 and 1.00, 2.00 and 3.00 special scale charged by her was only a matter of clobbers. * * * Emotionalism in religion is good enough as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. Too often it is a stimulant, the effect of which dies out as soon as the personality of the preacher is removed. Ministerial effort which convinces the reason is apt to be more lasting than spasmodic evangelism that appeals only to the feelings. Dr. Kober, an eminent scientist, says that the habit of drinking alcoholic beverages is a potent cause of disease among the masses, but was kind enough to declare that ailments from this cause was not a prevalent among the colored as among the white people. It may be added, too, that what the Negro buys for alcohol is not always the real thing—and that may help some. R. W. THOMPSON. HE GAVE HIM A LIFT. The tramp sat on a back yard fence, On a farm that showed great thrift; And he said, in accents intensely intense, Would that some one would give me a lift. "To give me a lift in life," did he mutter, "Of some money to make me a gift; To give me some bread and give me some butter, Would that some one would give me a lift." But man was unkind and woman too utter A frisky young goat did drift; He gave that old tramp some species of butter, And he, also, gave him a lift. — J. H. Gray j. or stay. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. The man who knows that he is doing his best is being made better by doing it One man sees less poetry in the mountains than another can find in his own backyard The right kind of man doesn't have to fall into the fire more than once to find out that it is hot. When we have learned how to live one day well, we have learned how to make life worth living. The stars are always fighting for the man who is trying with all his might to do some good thing well. One reason why the people sometimes look bored in church is because the preacher didn't bore deep enough before he went into the pulpit. BAPTISTS IN LOUISVILLE TO BE "JIM CROWED" The Baptists of Louville, as well as those throughout the world, are irritated over the compromise of Dr. E. C. Morris, president of the National Baptist Convention, in consenting to have only thirty-five or forty delegates to the white National Baptist Convention which convenes here in May. It is further reported that Dr. Morris suggested that the Afro-Americans be restricted to certain sections of the church. The Daily Herald, in quoting Rev. L. G. Jordan says: "Quite a few are criticising Rev. Morris for having suggested the compromise, and question his right to make any such proposition. However, it is probable that our delegation will not succeed the number prescribed, since it is not the disposition of our leaders to thrust themselves where they are not wanted. When we were admitted into the National Convention, a few years ago, we were admitted as brothers and not as inferior. The Indian and Chinaman will not be limited as regards the number of delegates to the convention in May, and will take their place with white delegates. I see no reason why we should be delegated against. The Baptists are anxious enough to count us when they are taking the census, because we swell the number to enormous proportions. We have more than one-third in our ranks, and yet in the convention we will be given very, very small proportional representation." The above interview is being largely endorsed in this section. The Afro-American branch of the Carnegie library is becoming more popular and is being visited by many of the reading public. Mr. C. B. Lewis presented the libration, Mr. T. B. Blue, last week, a life size photo of Dr. Booker T. Washington. As a result there now hangs upon the walls of the library photos of Dr Booker T. Washigton, T. Thomas: Friune, Paul Lawrenc Dunbar, Prof. John Langston, ex-Gov P. B. S. Pinchback and Charles W Chesnutt. It is expected soon that other friends will present some of the race's great characters. "T. Thomas Fortune, the poet," by Roscoe Simmons in the April number of "The Colored American Magazine," is being constantly called for at the library. Bishop Evans Tyree of the Tenth Episcopal District A. M. E. connection was in the city recently and spoke to a large congregation at Quinn Chapel. "Roller skating" seems to be the fad among white and colored. The Afro-Americans here have caught the spirit, and a white man runs one and an Afro-American another. Miss Nannle H Burroughs, the well-known platform orator and prolific writer, is quite ill at Pewee Valley, Ky. The younger men of the city are trying to infuse some life into the local Business Men's League. Five young men and twelve young women are being employed at the Foreign Mission rooms in its various departments. MISSIONARY CONVENTION MISSIONARY CONVENTION BIG MEETING HELD.—DR. HARTZELL AND OTHERS PRESENT. New Orleans, Special.—The missionary convention which met here Tuesday March 6, was one of the largest and most successful missionary conventions ever held among colored citizens. The convention was called to order by Rev Griffin G. Logan, D. D., of Holly Springs, Muss., field secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church. An effort is being put forth by these people to awaken a missionary interest among the colored people in the United States and in Africa, China, Japan, and other places. Bishop J. C. Hartzell, D D., LL. D. he has spent ten years in Africa, pre sided and delivered two able addresses Dr. Logan also gave an address The sessions were held in Wesley Chapel, where the Mississippi Mission conference was organized in 1865. The anniversary of the conference was celebrated, and the progress made by the members of the church in the past forty years was clearly demonstrated. It was stated that when Bishop Thompson organized the conference in 1865 the question "Who shall we have for secretary?" met with the response, "Bishop you will have to get one of them white ministers to act for none of us can write." Now some of the most learned ministers in the Methodist Episcopal church are Negroes, and one of them is serving as secretary of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational Society in the United States, and Bishop I. B. Scott, who is now on route home. was at the last General Conference elected bishop for Africa. Many important positions are now held in the church by representatives of the race Among those who spoke were Revs. E. W. S. Hammond, dean of Braden School of Theology, Nashville, Tenn.; E. M. Taylor, D D, Boston, Mass.; Field Secretary of Missionary Society; J. M. humbert, D D, Jackson Miss.; R. S. Lovinggood, president Samuee Houston College, Austin, Tex.; Robert E. Jones, Editor of Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans; T. J. Johnson, New Orleans, La Misses Eliza Champ, of Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, and Estella Brazley, New Orleans were the solitaries. The muslo was directed by Prof. A. H. Colwell, A. of New Orleans. It was resolved to hold another convention in 1907. Time and place will be arranged later. The Little Skaters One Saturday afternoon two little boys concluded that they would go down to the river, which was frozen near the shores, to skate. They were Tommy and Willie Bickford, aged respectively eight and six years. Taking their skates—Willie had but one—they sallied forth, and, reaching the ice, Tommy put on his two skates, Willie put on his one, and they proceeded to have a good time. And they had a good time. The nipping air was full of ozone, and there was about an acre of ice that was as smooth as glass. Tommy could skate pretty well if he skated straight ahead, but he insisted on cutting "flubdubs," as he called them—Tommy's flubdubs were a figure eight and the Dutch roll—and he was continually sitting down and pointing his toes to the sky. As for his little brother, having only one skate and not knowing how to skate anyway, he bore the weight of his little body on the foot without the skate and hopped along, occasionally lifting the sole of his shoe from the ice and gliding half a dozen yards on his one skate. The boys were so happy that they took no note of time. Just before sunset Tommy noticed a large cake of floating ice lodge just above them. "Willie," he said, "you stay here. I'm going to have a skate on that big cake." And he started off, skating at his best speed. But Willie, ignoring his instructions, hopped along after him on his one skate, and after Tommy had skated to the farther side of the newly arrived cake he turned and saw his little brother just coming on to it. A few minutes later, looking toward the shore, he noticed that the ice was moving. Tommy was not very old, but he knew enough to understand the danger. He made his skates dry toward his NOTED VIOLIN SOLOIST NOTED VIOLIN SOLOIST COMES TO INDIANAPOLIS C. H. D. C. CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE. Clarence Cameron White, the well-known violin sololist, of Washington, D.C. will come to Indianapolis after an absence of five years. He will appear at Caleb Mills Hall in a recital on April 27, under the management of Frank Fowler [Original.] brother, motioning him to go back, but it was too late. The cake parted from the firm ice, and before Tommy reached his brother there was an impassable gap of water between the two edges. The boys were afloat on an ice cake on a broad river, darkness coming on and the cold increasing every minute. There were but few boats passing, and they met none of these till it was too dark for them to be discovered. Wille, becoming cold, began to cry, but Tommy, feeling the responsibility of having his little brother to care for, kept a sturdy heart and, going to the edge of the ice, endeavored to attract attention. When he found that his efforts were useless he went back to Willie and, folding him in his arms, tried to keep him warm. The moon came up slightly pass the full and lighted up the bay into which the river broadened. An incoming steamer was making its way inward when the officer on the bridge called for his night glass. "Holt, I see a dark spot on that ice cake," he said to the man who handed him the glass, and, leveling it, he brought it to bear on the center of the cake. Then, lowering it, with horror on his face, he added: "Great heavens! There are two children on that cake of ice." Holt seized the glass, put it to his eye for a moment, then dashed away, shouting, "Lower the cutter!" "Here, you, Simcox," he cried, when the boat was lowered, "take the tiller!" Simcox took the tiller as ordered, and Holt, a fine looking, muscular man, seized the stroke our. The crew pulled away, but they had all been overworked on a hard winter passage from Glibratar, and the tide was running out swiftly. They had pulled a few minutes when Holt noticed that they were making very poor headway. He had been away from his children for more than a year and connected them in his mind with the two on the ice cake either frozen or to be frozen if not rescued. "I'll give every man of you," he said, "a month's extra wages if we reach the little ones and get them dead or alive." Every oarsman bent to his work, and by dint of almost superhuman effort managed to pull the boat against the tide, which fortunately was slowly carrying the cake down stream, but unfortunately they were not in its line and were obliged to pull diagonally. This is why they must stem the tide. They had a hard tussle, but at last made the edge of the ice cake. Holt and Simcox both jumped from the boat and ran to the center, where the children were lying perfectly quiet, the older holding the younger in his arms. Both were asleep. "They're dead!" said Simcox. But Holt, taking them up, gave them a vigorous shake, and both opened their eyes. He told Simcox to alternately shake and rub them, while he took a flask of diluted liquor from his pocket that he had brought for the purpose and poured some of it down the boys' throats. Tommy revived quickly, but Willie, who had been asleep longer, was pretty far gone. Holt unbuttoned his own clothing and, holding the child near to his warm flesh, wrapped his clothes about him. It was 2 o'clock in the morning when Holt drove up in a carriage with the two boys to their home. The house was lighted, for there was no sleep for the inmates. All the parents knew was that their boys' skates were missing, and it was surmised that they had gone skating. The only further explanation was that they had beer drowned. The disconseal pair were sitting awaiting a report from the police when they heard wheels, followed by a sharp pull at the doorbell. The husband sprang up and, closely followed by his wife, darted to the door and threw it open. There stood a stalwart man with their Willie in his arms, while Tommy stood beside him. CHARLOTTE SHERWOOD. Pa r v ze our advertisers COMES TO INDIANAPOLIS and Ed. Gailliard. The program will be as follow:; 1. 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FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION OF HEAD, SECOND AND SIDE WAITERS. "For the man who works with brain or hand." AMERICAN BREWING CO., BREWERS & BOTTLERS OF HIGH GRADE BEER. —TELEPHONES 935 - HEADQUARTERS: Ii West 7th Street, New York. DON'TS FOR THE WAITER Don't shout out your orders. Don't fail to wear rubber heels on your shoes. Don't be forever picking trouble with fellow waiters. Don't fall to wear unsolled cuffs at all times. Don't fall to always have a cork-screw on your person. Don't forget to change your shirt as often as twice a week. Don't never be without a pencil. Don't forget that collars should be changed as often as four times a week. Don't forget to keep your teeth and finger nails clean. ____ Don't wear your pants until they turn a green color. THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING Of the National Benefit Association of Head, Second and Sidewaiters in New York City May, 1906. --- Only a few weeks now remain before the date set for the next annual meeting of the association will be upon us. The fourth Tuesday in May the convention will be called to order by Mr J M. Butler, first vice president and president pro tem, in New York City. Looking forward to the meeting we are justly proud of the place of meeting and anticipate one of the largest and most interesting and beneficial meetings in the history of the organization. We have every reason to be proud of the progress made in the year of 1905. It has been a record breaker for enrollments, the membership more than doubling any previous record. We have now more than a thousand members. The thing of importance is the place selected for the meeting. This of itself assures us of a very large attendance. But these features, while both important and complimentary to the board of management, they subserve the association in numbers and place only. The real interest will be proven in the aggregate of brain force brought together. Men who think and who have ideas they are not afraid to express, men who will journey a long distance to tell the convention of conditions and methods affecting the colored waiter that must be improved. INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY One address line $4.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance. | HEADWATTERS. J. W. Redmond, headwer of The Carroll, Vicksburg, Miss. 10-06. J. W. Dwyer, headwer Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. 8 105 C. H. Plummer, headwer Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. 10-05 R. H. Bradley, headwer Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 G. W. Blair, headwer of The Oliver, South Bend, Ind. 12-06 HOTEL DIRECTORY This column uses exclusively for the addresses of hotels restaurants lodging and boarding houses and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the travelable public—you business solicited. hotel Reforme — First class in all respects — 81st street, Richmond, Va. A. W. B. manager Moore's Hotel — First-class rooms board Rooms neatly furnished, 7.2 and 714 W. Street, Little Rock, Ark. Walden's Hotel — 327 Laurel street, Hot Springs, Ark. Cora's Lunch Room — 230 Fifth Street, Little Rock, Ark. Black's Hotel — A modern first-class hotel for colored people, H. Black, Manager, Ark. The Parker House — Rooms, bath. J. W. Robinman pretor Indianapolis, Ind. AMERICAN B BREWERS & HIGH GRA —TELEPHO THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. Some of the most active men in the campaign of advanced and improved methods of a waiter's work will be in attendance to discuss and dissect the questions of greatest importance to the well-being of the Negro waiter. The sign of the times is "Progression" and this is the 'symbol of the association." One who does not keep in touch with the latest inventions and methods for doing any certain work is bound to become obsolete both in ideas and the application of the hand to work done Six years ago a paper read at the Buffalo Convention forewarned the members of the association of the approaching dangers to the colored waiter's positions. Girl waitresses were pointed out as flanking the positions from the country towns and small cities and white men in the centers of population. The best fortifications of the cities have since fallen into the white waiters' possession. The advance or success of this foe has not been arrested. Possessing all the most desirable positions they are still looking for new fields to conquer. In this they have turned their attention to the South, and are succeeding in driving the Negro from some of the best hotels there. What shall we do? How shall we begin? These important questions need no answer, but they need resolution. "Build upon resolve and not on regret, the structure of thy future." A dead fish will float down stream, but it takes a live one to go up stream. This is the trouble now with our waiters—too many floaters. Too many have their wishbone where their back bone should be. There are many reasons why the colored man has been displaced as a servant in the modern hotels, but the exorces for placing one class in preference to another will not help the Negro waiter in money matters. We need work, more work, a chance to work in more of the fashionable plaques. We are not content to have a good and new modern hotel here and there—five hundred or a thousand miles apart. Some good positions have recently come into the possession of the colored waiter, and in every case they have "made good," but to be satisfied in any position or in the attainment of any desire is dangerous. The man who is satisfied is a man of limited intelligence. We not only want the best hotels, but all the hotels we can handle. This is ambition. The association aims to secure for the waiter just and equal privileges; to meet the competition of any class of men, to excel them in all particulars. We shall fall far short of our aims if we fall to accomplish this design. (Continued next week) SHREVEPORT NOTES Shreveport, La., has twelve hotels open all working colored help. Ike Johnson has a first class barber shop and restaurant and is doing a good business Mrs. Jacla Williams has a first class lunch counter, in a good stand, to accommodate any one Mrs. E. D. Williams keeps a first class rooming house on Transi street. Mrs. Maria Brooks keeps a first class rooming house at 107 Transi street. Mrs. D. Chamis has a nice grocery store on Transi street. Mr. J E Allen beeps a first class rooming house at 1007 Transi street Mrs. Stafford has a nice sewing shop on Texas avenue. Rev. D. D. Doyles is now building a fine residence on Perrie avenue estimated to cost $5,500. Elder J. B Green is pastor of Autoch Baptist church, worth $30 000. We have one colored dentist, Dr W. E Wrainwater, and six colored doctors, Dr F T. Jones. Dr T. H. Wright, Dr Cain, Dr W. E Smith, Dr Brown and Dr Martin We have in our town three first class colored drug stores belonging to Dr Wright, Dr F T. Jones and Dr Brown The following is the crew of the New Pheonix Hotel: John Smith, head waiter. E. P Scott second waiter. William Robertson, captain. B. Lucas, heutenant. W. C. Crawford, linen man. G. H. Lane, silver man. L. W. Hamilton, buss man. Sidewalters—H. W. Hamilton, Jesse Jackson, Herman Shaw, J. W Young, Wm. Gaddis, Chas, Clay, Smith, Geo Armstrong and B. McCray. The following is the crew of the Hotel Caddo: H. S. Wilson, head waiter. Andrew Greenway, second waiter. J. D. McGraw, lieutenant. W. H. Butler, linen man. C. Murray, silver man. Clifton Marx, oastor man. W. P. Price, sugar man. Robert Fields, buss man. Sidewalters—James Kennedy, William Hodge, D. Williamson, Mac Raines, Ernest Watson and Walter Bedell. These hotels are patronized by the best white and colored people. HOUSTON HOTEL NOTES. The Bristol Hotel at Houston, Texas, under Headwalter Bradahaw is getting along nicely.—Mr. H. Pratt and his crew of twenty-seven waiters at the Rice are getting along nicely. He delivered a lecture to the waiters of Houston last week, and his remarks were considered for the betterment of hotel men — W. Dicker is now holding the doors at the Burnett Hotel. — George Brownlow is connected with the Logan crew again. Headwalter Harris says his boys are at the top. What Pure Food Laws Will Mean What Pure Food Laws Will Mean Substitution. Every sane, wholesome-minded person should welcome adequate, equitable pure food laws, and should lend his every effort to the passage and enforcement of such pure food laws as will make adulteration and injurious substitution impossible. In these days of adulterated foods and food products such a food as is known to be pure and wholesome is indeed welcome. Among all the breakfast and cereal foods offered the public to-day, we believe we are warranted in saying that Malta Vita is the only food that is simply and wholly pure grain product and nothing else, except a little salt. Malta-Vita as it comes to you from the factory is all of the wheat. It has been thoroughly cleaned, steamed to gelatinize the starch, then added to it is barley malt made from selected barley—this acting upon the starch turns it into maltose or malt sugar, pronounced by physiologists and food experts the finest, purest, most healthful sweetening agent known. Then the wheat is rolled out into a thin wafer flake and baked in the ovens. It comes to you fresh, crisp, pure and sweet—absolutely nothing but a grain product prepared in the cleanest and most wholesome way and turned into the most delicious whole wheat food that can be found. All grocers sell Malta-Vita. Now 10 cents. Mr. Charles Morton's little girl was badly burned on Sunday afternoon, March 18th.—Rev. A. WASHINGTON, Ela s, pastor of Lincoln PENN. Baptist Church, has returned from old Yoy returned from Old Virginia, where he was called, seven weeks ago, to the bedside of a slok mother over 80 years of age—The members of St Paul A. M. E Church are preparing to build a new church. Mrs. Blanche Holmes of Point Pleasant, W. Va., who has been visiting Mrs. Jackson, her sister, has returned. Mr. I. Asberry, our leading barber and proprietor of the finest barbershop in West Virginia, is now the district grand master of the Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania—Washington Lodge of Free Masons will have their annual sermon preached the 4th of April. Mr. Jackson, the news dealer, cafe, new and second hand clothing, cigars and tobacco store and poultry raiser, is a business man, doing business on business principles, organized the business men's club to advance more interest in Afro American enterprises. —Mrs. Eith M. Jackson will visit her mother at Point Pleasant, W. Va., in the near future. There are six banking houses in Washington, Pa, and every one has a colored porter; also three colored letter carriers—Jones, Johnson and Bolden; one colored policeman, Geo. Baker, one colored doctor, Dr. Honesty, and one colored lawyer, W. M. Butler. Wm. Mull, one of our leading citizens, is in easy circumstances. —Misses Julia Smith and Mary White spent Sunday in Pt tsburg. Our business men are Messrs. Tobias & Wilson, blacksmiths, Robert Green, real estate, Mark Willis, caterer, B W. H Jackson, new and second hand clothing store, cafe and news/dept, George Ware, tailor, George Wicks, caterer, Mr. Brook, fish market, Mr. Fields and Wm Allen, pool rooms. —William Hayes and P. A. Jackson have been made Free Masons. —Worshiptful Maser Green, who has just returned from the grand lodge, reports that there are 29,000 Free Masons in the State of Pennsylvania. Hoosier Poet CLUB ROOM LONDRES 10c Cigar We deliver Goods direct to consumers and pay all express charges. Give Us A Tryal Order. John Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind. MONEY; DO YOU WANT IT? If so, it will pay you to read this carefully and write us at once. We want reliable colored persons of either sex who have experience in invassing, and agency work to represent us. The work which we wish you to do is to manage branch offices, take orders, deliver, collect, appoint agents, post signs, distribute advertising matter, e.g. We contract to pay you a salary according to your worth in the business from $25 to $100 a month direct from headquarters. We offer this opportunity only to energetic people in every state in the union who are not expecting something without an effort, and wish to batter their conditions by honest means. We offer you a proposition that no man or woman who wants to make money can afford to let pass. It has been the means of giving a good steady income to others and will do the same for you. Now, in order to get you interested in this work we will distribute absolutely free among the first 100 engaging with us $369 IN CASH PRIZES. We guarantee that there is no fraud, or trinkery connected to this proposition and all will be treated fair. For contract and fall particulars, address at once Dept F, MoPHERSON SPECIALTY CO. Drosteh, Va W. F. Walker, of Chicago is in the city—James Peterson was mysteriously shot and died from the wound ed a republican marching club —Lawyer Houston has been made a member of the Republican Central Committee.—Nicholas Chiles, of Topeka was the guest of A. W. Harris and Fred L. Douglass last week. R. H. Todd, a recent arrival from Lawrence, Kans., is doing the pressing and cleaning stunt al the Black Diamond Tailor Shop.—The Black Diamond Messenger office is the professional headquarters. You can secure a copy of The Freeman each week. Mrs. Sarah Merrel of North Oak street has returned from a visit in Tennessee with her mother.—Arthur Allen and mother CHAMPAIGN of Springfield ill, ILLINOIS. were here with is very ill. in North Walnut street. Walter Davis spent Sunday in Homer, Ill., with his family.—Fred Whittaker spent Sunday in Bloomington, Ill., with friends —P. D. Lumsford is improving. —B. Nash is ill. The Pine Grove Baptist church at Abbeville, S. C. is doing excellently under the pastorate of Rev. H. C. Anderson. Interesting services are held every Sunday. The members of the Knights of Pythias Lodge were entertained on the evening of March 7, at the home of Mrs. H. Parker MORGANTOWN the mother of WEST VIRGINIA. William Parker. The evening was very enjoyably spent.—Miss Lulu Phillips who has been in our city for some time returned to her home at Charles town Monday of last week.—Miss Sallie Clements left our city a few days ago for Hot Springs for her health.—Mrs Helen Crable and Mrs. Ella Smith, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rhodes entertained in honor of the birthday of their parents. About 25 persons were present and toasts were given, led by Mrs A Belle Ellis. Mr. Rhodes' birthday is on March 15 and Mrs. Rhodes' on March 16—William Asbury has returned from New Haven, Pa.—The Bright Star Club entertained their friends on the evening of March 15, with graphaphone music.—The Freeman can be secured from J. H. Lewis, 205 E. Walnut. The ladies of the St. P. Ruffin and the ladies of the O. D. F. will entertain the State Federation April 24 and 25. The Knights of SOUTH BEND Templar of, this INDIANA city will give their fourth ar- nual ball and barquet, at Place Hall, April 16 — G. H. Smith, J. Pierce, J. Motan and R. Lehorn have opened a first-class club to entertain strangers. I. Motan will leave in a few days for the West — H. W. Russell of Logansport has moved to this city and opened a first-class restaurant. — Mrs. Ophelia Lamont, of Indianapolis is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. W Bland. — Joe Artis and V. Smith have organized an orchestra of six pieces. — The Masons and Eastern Star are meeting with great success. — Mrs. C. Matthews who has been ill about six weeks, is improving. Any one desiring The Freeman leave your order rt 120 1 2 S. Main avenue. or at the club. All persons in Latta, S. C., should call on P. E. Evans and secure a copy of the Freeman, for sale by him each week. 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Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1906. Whether or not the law is to be applied to the crime of those 'Southern gentlemen" who murdered the man Johnson pending a stay of execution granted by the Supreme Court, remains to be seen. The great mass of the American people do not look behind appearances, but take them on the face of the returns. They seem ever ready to believe all sorts of absurd stories concerning the cause of these illegal killings. But a case occasionally comes forward which shows that these crimes against the name of civilization are not prompted by any desire to protect "the honor of our women." The killing of Johnson was one of them. It was one for which there was absolutely no excuse for it clearly showed that it was prompted alone by that spirit of deviltry to the soil of the South. What the people of this co intry do not seem able to understand is that such crimes really injure those who commit them more than the race against which they are committed; that what they are really making a debt in the form of degradation which must be paid with usury if this country continues its march in the direction of a higher civilization. Such debts contracted by a people cannot be rei diudiated or "bluffed" out of the account of life. If not paid by the fathers it will have to be faced by their children. If history counts for anything it shows that none can escape the consequences of evil doing, violations of the known law of right and wrong are the unchained lions in the road of progress. That is cheering news which comes from Columbus, Ohio, to the effect that a law has been passed increasing the saloon license from $350 to $1,000 a year. It is a step in the right direction. It speaks more for the moral tone of Ohio than anything else we can recall in the doings of that State. The brewers assert that the law will drive six thousand saloons out of business. This, itself, is sufficient to justify its passage. Our editors appear to be side-stopping the railroad rate bill, which President Roosevelt regards as his pet measure. Well, it must be confessed that, aside from the bare possibility of an amendment bearing upon the rights of inter-state passengers to appeal to the federal power, under the law, there is very little gravity in the matter for the Negro, who likes 'his'n" highly seasoned. Wouldn't it be fine if the unwillingness of the mine owners to pay just prices for mining coal would result in a receivership by the government? Then we would get coal, the miners would get wages and the owners would get profits—but not so large as they have been accustomed to getting. Superintendent C. N. Kendall, in his address at Flanner Guild, gave what we regard as the best definition of the word education we have yet heard. It is this—"A man is educated when he has command of himself." Is there any sensible reason why the public should be denied one of its necessities just because the price to be paid for producing could not be agreed upon? These lords of earth should be made to get out of the manger. We do not see how the government of these United States can expect civilized people to have any respect for its authority unless it punishes those Chattanooga murderers. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "Learn to labor and to wait." —x— Industry breeds a life of contentment. —x— The spring weather may be just over the hill, but it is hard to tell how far. —x— Wouldn't it be strange news if we read of the Negro becoming money mad? —x— Do not let your coal get low for you know [not what to-morrow may bring for h. —x— There are many who are now preparing for a new Easter attire when they should be preparing for the "feeble age." —x— W. T. Vernon will have nothing in his way in becoming the Register of the Treasury as—well Roosevelt is President. It is no sign that our young men should rid themselves of their overcoats because they have heard a robbin chirp in some tree. - x - If Prof. William H. Richards isn't careful the "committee on search" will steal upon him and tag him for President of Howard University. - x - What is the good of a newspaper to its readers if it is everlastingly filled from page to page with a picture and a boost of some white candidate? - x - It may be all right for the young Negro to live a life of ease, but it always seems to make them too confining in their regular habits—eatin' and sleeping. -x- With the appointment of James W. Johnson as Consul at Puerto Cabello and J. W. Watson to the New York Legislature it looks as if Charlie Anderson might be "sole proprietor and manager" in New York. —x— Can any one answer the question, "Why so many members of our race are getting to be fiends on writing?" Many think they are fully qualified for writing for some newspaper even though they do not know their A.B.C's. -x- Hurray for the Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Sr. Just think, when he is released from the nerve-racking duties of the Register of the Treasury, he can return to "dear old Georgia" and greet a darling baby boy that we feel he will be more proud of than he highest and best office that could be given him in this fair land. SHORT FLIGHTS. Doers of the right have no fear of the law. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is a credit to her race and sex. She is brilliant, brave and beautiful. For downright devilty the record shows Springfield, Ohio, to be several laps ahead of Breathitt county, Ky. The ex-slave pension schemers have been driven to the wall. Score another tally for the power of the press, * * * There will be no more "Storms" in the office of the Secretary of State of Indiana after April 1. There will be a new deal, it "Sims." Is Rev. A. J. Carey the Adonis of the Chicago ministry, actually a candidate for Dr. W. D. Chappelle's job as secretary of the A. M. E. Sunday-school Union? * * * The Macon (Ga.) Conference at least demonstrated that Negroes can pull off an orderly equal rights convention in the heart of the South, without loss of life or limb. The attention of J. G. Groves, the potato king, is called to the vile attempt on the part of a member of Congress to limit the fortune a man may accumulate to a measly $10,000. A militia is bound to be weak and inefficient when the members thereof are in active sympathy with the mob, and that mob possibly including fathers and brothers of the members of the militia. In Louisville, Ky., recently, two Negroes committed suicide, two more were adjudged insane, and the rousetabouts on the river front went out on a strike for higher wages. Verily, we are getting more like white folks. It may surprise some people to hear that there is a new inning of trouble in the M Street High School at Washington. Most people are surprised, however, whenever there is a lull in this perennial storm-center. Without intending to indulge in levity, it may be said that in carrying the next meeting of the Afro-American Council to Charlotte, the ever alert and proverbially astute Bishop C. W. Clinton scored a "home run." John Mitchell, the president of the United Miners, is wise in declining political office. No office can make a big man any bigger. On the contrary, big men are invariably hampered in their efforts to serve the peo- --- Forty Years A Freeman For our article under this head to-day we have a complete directory of the colored business enterprises of Springfeld, Ill. This directory not only shows the progress the race has made during forty years of freedom, but it gives the reader an opportunity to learn for himself the kind of business the race is striving to build up. We want to introduce to our readers the firm of H. K. Wilson & Son, one of the most successful colored business enterprises in the city. Messrs. Wilson & Son are tinners; they make a speciality of roofing, guttering and repair work; in business fourteen years; employ from three to five men during the busy season; gross receipts for 1905 was about $10,000. This company is located at 318 N. Fifth street. W. L. Cosby, plumber, steam fitter and tinner; five years in business; makes a specialty in furnaces and repair work; employs one to two men during busy season; reports good success; located at 128 E. Jefferson street. The Bates, Lewis & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in bailed hay, straw, grain and feed, coal, wood and kindling. This company is located near the business part of the city, and at present are building a feed barn for the accommodation of farmers who do their trading in the city. They give regular employment to five or six men; own a number of teams. Their year's receipts for 1905 aggregated nearly $12,000. Office northwest corner Ninth and Jefferson streets. Yellow Reynolds, the very popular coal dealer at 714 E. Washington street, is a business man of national fame. George O'Banion, the coal man; orders promptly delivered by ton or bushel; located at 1705 E. Stewart. John Farmer & Sons the capital rug works and carpet cleaning company, is located at 1905 E. Adams street. This company owns an up-to-date steam plant; makes a specialty of rug weaving, carpet cleaning, sewing and laying; ten years in business; employs from four to ten men; gross receipts for 1905 about $10,000. Oscar W. Peandrews, carpet cleaning, sewing, also furniture cleaning; located at 522 N. Tenth street. A. Morris Williams, real estate, loan and contracting; ten years in business. Mr. Williams is one of Springfield's most successful colored business men. Office near corner of Eleventh and Washington streets. Chas. A. Ellis, real estate, loans and rental agent, room in Myer's building. C. H. Jones, real estate, loans, renting and contracting. Office 122 $ N. Fifth street. Henry Rhoden is the only colored funeral director and licensed embalmer in central Illinois; calls promptly attended to night or day; located at 119 N. Eighth street. Thompson Bros., grocers; five years in business; located at 806 E. Washington street. The Economy Grocery Store is located at 117 N. Eighth street. T. P. Coleman, proprietor; carries about $500 stock; two years in business. E. L. White's grocery is located at 1420 E. Adams street; carries about $800 stock; nine years in business. Mr. White is the oldest colored grocer in the city; his patrons are mostly white. Miss Addie L. Duncan, dealer in groceries; seven years in business; located at 812 E. Washington street. Henry Hill, grocer, 900 S. Eighteenth street; seven years in business; white patronage very poor. Lawrence Brandon, saloon and rooming; in business eighteen months; reports good trade; located at 1031 E. Mason streett George Richardson, saloon; located at 917 E. Madison. Wm. G. George, saloon, 712 E. Washington street. Kemp's saloon, 819 E. Washington. ple, because of the narrow limitations imposed by the demands of party expediency. * * * Rev. Tom Dixon has not evinced any overweening desire to join issue with Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. It is also noticeable that he is as wary of Prof. Kelly Miller, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Bishop Turner, Dr. L. G. Jordan and T. Thomas Fortune as Battling Nelson and Jimmy Britt are of one Joe Gans. A political party that punishes its own rascals can go into a campaign without apology or explanation. Likewise, a church that turns its own rascals out suffers no loss of prestige in the eyes of the people. One does not have to go far from home to find practical applications of these bits of old-fashioned philosophy. R. W. THOMPSON. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (Continued from First Page ) tain over-generous friends. To satisfy all who may be moved to inquire, let me hasten to explain that I was born in the grand old Commonwealth of Kentucky, where the rank of "Colonel" is the birthright of every citizen of the masculine persuasion. In addition to this credential, I am the holder of a specially-ordained commis- Prof. S. J Morton, saloon, 2205 E. Kansas. H. Tucker, barber shop; equal rights; first class; 107 S. Eighth street. L F. Osborne, O. K. barber shop, 716 E. Washington. C N. Hinton, barber, 628 E. Washington. W. J. Arbuckle, barber, 1802 E. Cook. Mark Anothony, barber, 821 E. Washington. D O. Yates, barber, 109 N. Fifth. Scott Burton, barber, 903 E. Jefferson. George Burnet, contractor, lath and plastering; no job too small or too large for him; employs from two to ten men during busy season; located at 829 E. Madison. Wm. Russell, plasterer and bricklayer, 1415 E. Capital avenue. M. T. Snowden & Son, plasters and brick-layers; first class workmen; takes small or large contracts; 1701 E. South Grand avenue. Mrs. Josie Jackson, dressmaking; makes speciality of first class ladies' tailor-made suits; employs a number of women during busy season; located at 217 E Union. Mrs. Anna Evans, dressmaking; six months in business at 929 S. Pasfield St. Mrs. J. B. Thomas, dressmaking and plain sewing, 814 E Washington. Harry Taylor, proprietor Capital City Pentitorium; 450 members; in business five years; located at 109 S. Fourth. J. W. McKinney, tailor, 314 N. Fifth. Dr. James E. Henderson, physician and surgeon; office 107 $ \frac{1}{2} $ west side square Dr. S. A. Ware, physician and surgeon; office 619 E. Monroe. W. M. Mitchel, expressman, 1605 East Reynolds. G. W. Wright, expressman, 1928 East Kansas. A. L. Wilson, expressman, stand east side square. A. S. Debose, carpenter and builder; takes small or large contracts; employs a number of men; office 919 E Case. Elmer Rhinehart, carpenter and builder, 214 N. Eleventh street. Lee's Hotel; seven years in business; forty-six rooms; European plan; 577 E. Jefferson Sarah Ferguson, rooming and boarding, 1027 E. Madison. H. Tucker, rooming, 728 E. Washington. H. Sallie, rooming, 726 E. Washington H. Tucker & Co., restaurant, European and American plan; home cooking and short order; soda and ice cream parlor in connection; everything clean and up-to-date; 728 E. Washington. Morris Wilson, restaurant, 1100 East Madison. The Keystone pool and billiards, fine cigars and tobacco; B. Jackson, proprietor, 121 S. Fourth Advance Citizen, colored weekly newspaper, H. T. Bowman, publisher; office 122² N. Fifth. The Forum, E. L. Rogers, manager; office 3054 S. Sixth. Illinois Record, H. Sallie, publisher, and bicycle repairer, 726 E. Washington. All items of local Interest pertaining to the race are generally worked over by one or the other of the colored papers printed here. We note, however, that only one of them seem to think it wise and prudent at this time to publish the presence of The Freeman's travelling representative in the city. The following is a clipping from the Advance Citizen: "The traveling representatives of the Indianapolis Freeman are in our city in the interest of that paper. Mr. George H. Jones and wife are wideawake hustlers, and are making friends for themselves and the enterprise they are so ably representing." The next article under this head will be a visit to the Lincoln colored home at Springfield, Ill. GEORGE H. JONES, 1123 E. Adams St., Springfield, Ill. sion from the military division of the Pen and Pencil Club of Washington, D. C., as a "Colonel" in "The Ancient. Honorable and Patriotic Army of Office-Holders and Office-Seekers," promoted because of distinguished service, both as a soldier of and seeker after the fruits of Uncle Sam's plum tree—particularly as a seeker thereof. There is nothing like understanding important matters of this kind. The rumor that Negro soldiers are not longer wanted in the United States Army is a mistake, growing out of the fact that at a number of recruiting stations in the South, none but white men were asked to enlist, to fill out a special regimental quota. Negroes are as welcome as ever when recruits are needed for the four regiments set apart for the race—the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry, together with a few assignments in the Philippine Scouts. As terms expire, new men are being enlisted in the usual fashion. Secretary Taft is not the man to "stand for" any color-line foolishness in the ranks of the nation's defenders, and any rumors of discrimination on account of race can be discredited in advance, as long as he is "sitting on the official lid." *** Dr. James E. Shepard, North Carolina's brilliant and popular young leader, now rendering highly efficient service as field secretary of the International Sunday School Union, is said to be booked for something good at the hands of the administration, which is always ready to recognize and encourage colored men of character and talent. Dr. Shepard has WOULD YOU PAY 20 CENTS For a whole year's subscription to the Voice of the Negro Write me at once and I will tell you how. Don't send any money. A.L.HOLSEY,ATHENS GA been of great value to the party in a section where loyalty and healthful activity is essential to the work of building up a genuine republican organization and putting it into fighting trim. He ought to have a reward of a most substantial kind. The President would gratify a very large contingent of influential colored and white republicans, North and South, by naming Dr. Shepard for a first-class berth in the diplomatic service, for which line of duty he possesses exceptional gifts. At one time it was rumored that the post of Minister to San Domingo would eventually be offered to a competent Negro. When the time is ripe for the proposed change, President Roosevelt need not go any further than Dr. Shepard's door to get just the material he is looking for. R. W. THOMPSON. CHARGES YET UNANSWERED. CHARGES YET UNANSWERED. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. Of the scores of letters received endorsing my course, I select a few of the most representative, from which to take brief extracts. The writers of most of them fear episcopay vengeance if their names are known, and I must regard their interests. A few, however, have given me the privilege of using their names. First, Dr. H. T. Johnson, editor of the Christian Recorder, in rejecting my first article, writes: "While what you say is largely true, it won't do to air it through our church organs to the public. It not only injures the church to do so, but I find that the editor's motives would be impugned, and more harm than good would result should such exposures and indictments be published." The Christian Recorder has never contradicted a single specification except that referring to the fifth district. A layman of great prominence in Missouri, writes: "Your remedy is very drastic, but then I recall what a monstrous disease you are treating. Like a powerful physic, it may terribly upset us, but they thought of the happiness to follow in its wake is enough to lull you on. You are saying what many intelligent men, laymen and ministers know to be true, but as yet haven't had the moral courage to express it publicly." A minister in the fourth district writes: "I want to commend you for the manly, Christian-like stand you have taken. It is a fact that many are slow to admit that for the past years the masses have been, and are being led by those who have no conception of right. It is self evident truth that they disregard God and man, and intemperance, immorality, politics and secret orders our people from the pulpit to the pew. God grant that you may write and speak until the voice of God becomes the voice of the people, that righteousness might preval." A member of the New York conference writes: "I wish to comend you for the stand taken. The strange thing to me is that those preaching editors, who should be both examples of good morals and reprovers of sin, should be against you. The A. M. E. Church is fast losing, if it has not already lost, the respect of the progressive, well-to-do, better element of the race for the following reasons: (1) The large abuse of the highest function in the gift of the church. (2) The cloaking of wrong-doing and the abuse of the transfer system. (3) Morality, education and youth see no near promise of reward." He makes serious charges against the episcopal heads of the first district. Mr. Stanley Ruffin, president of the Ruffin Stopper and Bung Manufacturing Company, Boston, writes: "I have read with delight your evidently not overdrawn exposures of the moral degradation of our colored ministers as published in the Indianapolis Freeman. May a divine power be yours to arouse the people that they may arise and cast off the incubus that is stranggling them." Another business man of Philadelphia writes: "It is with profound sympathy and respect for your views, that I write you a few lines endorsing your truthful charges, and especially your manly courage in attacking the rotten system into which the Negro clergy has drifted in the past twenty years; and the attempt to deny the facts set forth in your articles, is next to insanity. Our religious institutions, being in reality the only freedom allowed us, can we afford to play fast and loose with them at this stage of our struggle, by allowing the church to be ruled by scheming and unprincipled men?"—One of the most prominent ministers in Kentucky writes: "I have read with great delight your articles in which you expose the graft, embezzlements and other corruptions too shameful to mention. Please accept my congratulations for the bold and very honorable stand you have taken. I am ready to lend you all my moral, religious, literary or legal ability." Another minister of great prominence, writes: "Thirty years in the A. M] E. ministry has convinced me that some of the worst men in the country are in the pulpit of this church." A minister from Florida writes a lengthy communication in which he says: "Many will criticise your stand, but God be praised for such a man. You have not said a word amiss." In a very interesting letter from Texas, the writer says: "Dear Doctor—I only hope that you will continue to push for reform in our church. You shall have our prayers. You have no idea how many are with you in your noble efforts. And God will bless the labor of His servant." Here is one from the superintendent of one of the largest Sunday schools in connection with which he says: "I write to state that I am very much in sympathy with the effect you are making in behalf of reform in our church. Also say that I believe that you have the interest at heart of many of our honest people who have viewed with alarm the immoral condition into which our church is drifting on account of the risseness of some of its imoral leaders. They have flaunted their indecenty into our very faces and then climb into their pulpits and try to proach the gospel, as if they thought we could hear their words. And we are simply helpless, so far as any remedy is concerned, because of the sympathy and support given them by a certain class of members, and the absolute indifference of the bishops." I was about to conclude, but here comes a letter fro ma layman in one of the most representative churches for the connection, and situated in the Second Episcopal District, informing me that their pastor has been charged with criminal assault, and that the affidavit of his victim was presented to the bishop by a committee of the officers of the church. Notwithstanding this fact, no investigation was ordered, and the pastor was reappointed. It is further stated that this pastor gives the bishop $25.00 each visit he chooses to make to that church, and that his dollar money report is always great. This is but a sample of many cases, and bad as it is, I am not publishing the most charges I hold in my hands, for very shame for the race. The same mail brought a letter from a chaplain in the U. S. Army in which he says: "I know that you have told nothing but the truth and to many of your statements I am a witness. You have taken high ground, as only a Christian consecrated to the cause of Christ can take. Dr. Johnson's answer to you is a pitiful one to say the least. It would have been better for him to have kept silent. He has talked with me about the sap things you are telling and he knows that you are telling the truth, yet he cries to the mob, 'Crucify him, crucify him.'" The letters quoted have been selected from a great pile of similar ones; but they cover the entire field north, south, east and west; laymen and ministers—and yet I have not told the worst. Dr. Johnson raves and charges about my baptism, but fails to answer one of the fifteen questions which I asked him. Poor fellow, I am sorry to have to puncture his little bishopric boom, but such cowards as he are already cursing the church, and the people wnow it. The times calls for men. The great graft of the insurance companies is no worse than the graft in our church and several of the bishops are as guilty as any of the insurance presidents. Every dollar paid for episcopal residence, or for bishop's traveling expenses by an annual conference, graft, pure and simple. The financial secretary furnishes each bishop five hundred dollars per year to meet these very expenses, and hence no annual conference has the right to appropriate one cent of dollar money which belongs to the widows, orphans and superanated preachers, for bishops' residence, or travel, no matter how many residences the conference has bought. D. A. GRAHAM. Detroit, Mich. SOME OBSERVATIONS During the engagement of the "Rufus Rastus Company at the Park Theatre last week the absence of J. Ed. Green was much noted. Mr. Green has been heralded as the stage director and producer of the musical numbers, of this company, besides playing the principal lead to Mr. Hogan, but a severe attack of tonsilitis in connection with being threatened with pneumonia, has kept the gentleman in question off the stage since March 14. We are glad to note his rapid strides to good health. He hopes to be alight and able to appear very soon. J Leubie Hill, of Williams & Walker Company very able handled Mr. Green's part and since we haven't seen Mr. Green as "Mr Beasley" Mr. Hill looks good to us. Among the novelists the Rufus Rastra Company are the number of celebrities that the chorus contains. Among the nurse girls in the opening chorus and the minstrel maids in the Palmetta Bower scene and wearing a gaudy spangled dress in the ball room scene which Mr. Hogan mentions as the "fish lady," is a modest little lady by the name of Miss Madge Warren who on inquiry is the wife of the much talked of fighter Joe Gans. She, unwillingly has had her name dragged before the public in a divorce case, filed by the fighter, which was defeated by the plucky little woman. She is well satisfied as one of the "aisos" of the Rufus Rastra Company and though not a star but a celebri y. Every Lady Read This Years ago when I was a sufferer, and a nurse told me of a wonderful cure, called Ovarian and Ovarian troubles. I cured me in a month. It is a simple harm loss job, and I write to Free to every sufering state we write to me. I have not nothin' to sell. I a case of woman helping woman. I a case of woman Mrs. A. B. Hudunt, SooBend. Ind. The St There will be a colored theatre opened in Houston, Tex., early in the summer. You can always be found if your name appears in The Freeman's Manager's and Actor's Directory. The Clermonts, Frank and Etta are now at Denver, at the Novelty Theatre. Mr. Clermont has just buried his grandmother. The Two Jolly Prices will travel on the Novelty and Adams Circuit. Their latest addition to the act is Mr. Ernest Hogan's latest success, "Wouldn't It Be a Dream?" During the engagement of the Rufus Ratus Company in Indianapolis last week. Mr. Ernest Hogan and Mr. Tom Logan were the guests of Elwood C. Knox, manager of The Freeman, at his home in West Vermont street. After a seven week's stand tin Havana Cuba the Porter Howard and Watson Ragitta Opera Company with the Delgaram Carnival Company, are back on the main land. They played a ten days' stand at at Key West Fla. The company with the following members are doing fine: Peter Porter, James Crawford, Ed Howard, Kate Porter and Nettie Howard. Regards to friends. J. B. Norton writes from Blakely, Ga We are having some cool weater, a big difference from Florida. Our business is good. Smith & NEW ORLEANS Watts in their MINSTREL NOTES sketch act are Panegerium of Sun is opened up with H. S. Smith singing those, "Loving Words Sounds Mighty Good to Me," assisted by John Dennels, J. B. Norton, Moore, Watts, Sims J. Cox, Jr, and George Jackson, "I Wonder Will She Miss Me" sung by Thomas W. Downs is encored nightly, Charles E. Rice, the clever conversationalist and bass singer is making a clean hit nightly. Richard Burrows, the clever Southern lad closed at Albany, Ga., and went to his home at Houston, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Mitchell joined at Arlington, Ga. Mrs. Vaughn and Moore are the footlight favorites. J. B. Norton, the black mammy and H. S. Smith as Uncle Eph are a howling success. G. Dupree the country band is getting his daily. Prof. McSamon's band of sixteen pieces is setting them wild and is the talk of the town. B. A. Matthews wishes to hear from T. J. Dickson, clarionet player. PAUL HAYMEN If singing be glorifying, Let me ever hear thy song, Your singing instead of sighing For my whole life long: Just when you ussing "Dixie Land," Why then I feel so gay That there I want to take "my stand" And happily live alway. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER The Brewers, John and Maud opened Fuller's Opera House Christchurch, New Zealand, February 1, followed by Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland, all in New Zealand; then a four days' sail to the Fiji island and through Australia and China and back to Christchurch to the World's Fair. There is an opening for all good people, write John Fuller, in care of Fuller's Opera House, Auckland, N. Z. Douglass Griffin will join the Van Amburg circus this season. Frank Houten of the Honolulu Minstrel spent a few days in the city last week. KANSAS CITY STAGE NOTES. J. M. Layton, the slack-wire artist is the guest of F. P. KANSAS CITY J. M. Layton, the STAGE NOTES. slack-wire artist is the guest of F. P. Douglass. An Amusement Park controlled by colored people will be realized here. Harry Hall, the well-known tuba player and wife are going to Dos Moline, la Prof. Jessie Babonman, the well-known band master will go to Marshall, Mo., to rehearse a band fer a concert. The show is doing well; playing to S. R. O. at every performance. Henderson & Bruce are still cleaning up with their song and real BAUSCHER PLANTATION dance. Mrs. MINSTREL COMPANY. Rosa Scott is still tellg her encores singing "Sympathy." George Boutlie is still breaking the floor in with his buck and wing specially. Charles H. Hunter, Henry Bright and Charlie Chapman sends regards to all in the profession. Only a few weeks in Mississippi and then farewell to the Sunny South. Richard Scott sends regards to all of the old timers. We are still in Pennsylvania with unexpected success, notwithstanding that it is Lent and a great strike expected, we have not as yet thus far BILLY KERSANDS felt the effect. A good MINSTRELS colored minstrel is what NOTES, the east wants. There minstrel show up this way for nearly five years, and you can imagine the craze, as well as the immense business. We had the pleasure of showing at Orange, N. J., Sylvester Russell's home to overwhelming houses. Mr. Russell tendered two very high class ballads for us. He said that our show is perfectly astounding and that he did not have any idea of meeting such talent. Alonzo Moore, our magician has been visited by all the great magicians of the East, and his work was called the cleanest and best work seen around here in years. Black Carl gave him all kinds of praise and calls him "whirlwind Lonnie." The Campbell Bros. made a strenuous hit everywhere. John E Sherman's startling and artistic drill is commanding all the appreciation possible. Amos Giillard, the trombonist sends regards to all friends. The company sends regards to all friends. And still the good work goes on for we are met with crowded houses each night. Our new afterpiece, Jim Jackson at Union Station, at Cincinnati RICHARDS & PRINGLES nat, or on his way GEORGIA MINSTREL to Morrow, O, to IN THE WEST visit our office manager and star, is a winner. Powell appears in the title role must be highly complimented as the pieces depends upon what each one gets out of his past, experience has caused him to put the right man in the right place. Business through Arizona out of the ordinary and Texas seems to be repeating the dose for our opening night in El Paso. Standing room could not be bought at any price, even the stairs leading to the balcony were crowded. In Douglass, Arizona Kirk & Cooper, the musical photographers, by mutual agreement dissolved partnership and in the future Kirk will work alone as the musical tramp. In Tucson Arliz., where the Shriners were in session, after rendering one of his trombone solos, Fred Simpson the band leader had the dollars thrown at him. Ralph Nicolas, our orchestra leader is keeping that department up to the standard and is improving wonderfully on his saxophone. Regards to all friends. HENRY TROY WAS ANGRY. Made very angry because a new spring suit of clothes made by his New York tailor did not fit him snugly, Henry Troy, the famous tenor with Ernest Hogan's "Rufus Rastus" Company, severely scored a clerk who had come to collect collateral. His eyes were closed, but sparks of fire flashed on the lashes and his voice was pitched in a key beyond its compass. When we recall that Troy has been abroad and his clothes have been made in London it is no wonder that an American tailor is a very cheap "Charile." The scene mentioned occurred in Troy's dressing room during a Jersey City matinee, in the presence of the critic, who was of course, mildly, but not unusually surprised at the O declaration of a highly seasoned nervous singer's fury. It was when the now agitated clerk tried to sooth him by asking for a copy of the beautiful song "Just One Word of Consolation" that Troy's heart melted and his countenance once more lit np with the sunny smile of love sentiment that you feel, hear and see when he tells it in song. When the storm had past, the gifted tenor remembered that he is a man of culture. In an instant he arose and looking down upon the critic, for Troy, is tall, proud and stylish he appealingly said, "I'm sorry you caught me angry, Mr. Russell" but the critic smiled forgivingly and hurried out. PENCILINGS By W. Milton Lewis, Indianapolis, Ind. Ernest Hogan's "Rufus Rastus" Company will very pleasantly remember the greeting extended by the theatre-goers of this city, the latter half of last week at the Park Theatre. No show of the kind in recent years has been better patronized. Ernest Hogan had already made a reputation as a leading comedian, which with judicious advertisement and the lavish expenditure of money for stage necessities also the effort to secure the best talent regardless of expense were the charms that did the work. This show as the other recent productions was a study and worthy of more than passing note. It stood for the extreme possibility for performers and audience up-to-date. As intimated the show was made up of high-class people making it almost all stars aggregation. There was a noticeable increase in singing, the harmonizing was good to hear. The interweaving of high and low comedy was so nicely balanced that the whole was beautiful. Apparently nothing was left undone that could contribute to the success of the undertaking. The stage setting was elaborate evidently necessitating thousands of dollars of expense. In the language of Mr. Hogan, "Our contract calls for a clear stage." Two carloads of scenery in charge of the company's electrolian, carpenters and other necessary help took the place of the usual stage trappings. The electric mechanism was novel and wonderful, contributing greatly towards making the show at tractive and pleasing. Mr. Ernest Hogan. the inimitable, "Rufus Rastus" of the footlights is yet more in private life. Mr. Hogan is a cultivated gentleman of education, a reader, a musician, conversationalist of ability and pleasing, in short a delightful man to know personally. As a showman he is acquainted with every detail of his great company Nothing is too small for his observation. His support is loyal and recognize him as does the public, the premier comedian of his class of the American stage. Mr. Hogan is a comedian in the best sense. He expects to enter the more legitimate field at no distant day, supported by a company of good colored artists. He thinks the time is ripe for such an undertaking. As "Rufus Rastus," Hogan is simply great. The hurrah noted when he appeared in the Smart Set has been cut out. He does a clean, clear cut business that is not rivalled. He is inimitably funny; not because he is Hogan. Were he anybody else doing the same business as he does, is would be the same thing. There was no plot, however an almost imperceptible thread running turon h, culminating in the winning of Selina Glitged, a character assumed THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE. LADIES' LIST. Beecham, Mrs Biache Henderson, Miss V Henderson, Miss V Johnson, Miss M E Yeres, Miss O Ogden, Miss Helen—2 # PENTLEMEN'S LIST Armstrong, Thos Isser, Arthur Blumberg, Thos James Seeman Custy, Frank LaRose, C Adam Douglas, JR LaShe, Herbert Davs, EJ Looney, EJ Devine, Sam James Devine, Isaac P Payton, Harry Dickson, W Thomas Reed, Edward Elliott, EJ Smith, Jakie Elliott, Roy Thomas, Dick Glenn, Fred Tickle Goodlow, Will-2 Wise, James Goodlow, Will Wise, Jim Hill, Wesley White, Capt B Y Henderson, J Willem Devine Henderson, Chas Wood, F B-2 Hatch, Joe Williams, John-2 ROUTE. 1906. ROUTE. 1907. A Rabbit's Foot Co. Jacksonville, Fla., April 2, 3, 4. Greencove Springs, 5. Palatka, 6. Deland, 7. B April's Mindest' Minstrels: Manfield, O. B, April 2. Keeton, 8. Bucyrus, 4. Chicago Junction, 5. Finlay, 6. Lima, 7. Black Patti Troubadours: Detroit, Mich. April 1 to 7. Smart Set Company: Philadelphia, Pa. week of April 2. Harry A. 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S.-I also have room for a few n parties wanting 40 weeks' work with a ADDRESS PAT CHAPPEL WANTED to enlarge Frank Mahara's Minstrels, MUSICIAS for Band and Orchestra, Ballad and Chorus Singers and one High Soprano I prefer ladies who have Concert experience No salary too high for the right people. Show never closes. Address Frank Mahara, as per route in The Free an or 510 Cleveland Ave , Chicago, Ill. by Miss Carita Day. Miss Day is a tall, lovely woman somewhat on the order of Marlon Smart in winningsomeness, surpasses her in vivacity; her facial expression and eyes do the great part of her acting. Her movements are willowy, regal at times and always charming. All this she finally bestows on Rufus Rastus who she thought might be more than a boothlock Mamie Emerson as Mandy Jones led the "Mandy" girls and boys in a bit of good singing and very graceful dancing. Miss Emerson appears at home on the stage. Henry Troy, the sweet voiced tenor carried the audience off its feet when he sang "Consolation." Troy is simply great. He appears to an advantage as Lazarus Tuttle Harry Gilliam as Samson Strong did some very good acting in his "hallinolinations." He is also stage manager. Catastrophe, the mule by Thao Pankey was exceptionally good. He appears in two other roles: Enoch, the bellboy and Cousin Monk, Rev. Nightline, Slippback Newcomb was notable for his excellent make-up and his pantomine work. The character was by Robert A. Kelley, a well-known playwright. Miss Alice Mackey has been heard in this city before, where she is a favorite. She is known for her deep, rich contralto voice. She has just returned to stage after three years absence. Snowflake, by Muriel Ringold is a protege of Mr. Hogan's. She went with him to Australia where she was leased to an English Company for ten weeks to play Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was the original Moana in the Smart Set Company. It is thought she has no superior as a dancer. She hopes to become a celebrated comedienne. Billy B. Dam, a first-class sport. His success depended on his acting which he did very well. The character is by Will Wilkins. Mr. J. Lenbrie Hill took the part of Noah Beasley, head waiter, which requires considerable clever acting. Mr. Hill is versatile and meets the emergency. It is said that he is ready to assume any role. Mr. A D Byrd as Angelica Newcomb, the Neuro mammy impersonation was a great hit. Mr. Byrd's acting is clean and neat. Hugo the porter by J. Harry Fiddler, the Indianapolis boy was well received He had opportunity to do some mimicry which was one of the features of the show. Dr Fo-Jo by R. C. Baker was good especially in the mix up with Rufus Rastus. The operetta by Annie Cook Pankey and Sarah Green Byrd was high class. No better voices have been heard in recent years. "My Old Kentucky Home" by Sarah Green Byrd was an excellent rendition. Never in the history of colored shows has the song and scene been so felicitous. The singing was not particularly great, but it was right. The audience was with the scene, the song and the singer. She was simply glorious. The members of the company are as follows: Nurse Girls — Pearl Brown, Jeanneette Foster, Madge Warren, Beatha Gillespie MANAGERS AND ACTORS DIRECTORY Your name and address at ten cents a line, 3 lines for 25 cents for each insertion. The Burton's Comedy Sketch Artists permanent address care The Freeman. Al F. Watts, Stage Manager Black Patti Troubadours, Permanent address The Freeman. Harry Kraton, assisted by Ettel Kraton, Ettel Kraton, Patti, Troubadours, permanent address The Freeman. Marsh Oraig, Georgia Minslress, permanent address 3602 Forrest Ave., Chicago, Ill. Frank L. Mabara, owner and manager Frank Mahara Minslress, permanent address 510 Cleveland Ave., Chicago, Ill. W. Henry Bowman, the silver toned tenor and unique black wire art, enroute Hot Time in Coon Town Co. Arthur L. Prince, trombone sololistenroute Original Tennessee minstrels. Pat Chappelle, owner and mana Rabbit's Foot Company, permanent ager. A Jacksonville, Fla. address A. A. Copeland, en route "Hot Time in Coontown." Per A 648 South Western ave. Chicago, Ill. Tom Logan Rufus Reatus Company Season 1906 personal representative of Ernest Hogan. Tom Logan Rufus Rastaf Season 1906, personal represen eative Ernest Hogan the following states: Flor da, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Kansas Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina. P. S.-I also have room for a few more performers and musicians; parties wanting 40 weeks' work with a reliable show must write quick. ADDRESS PAT CHAPPELLE. 1054 W. Church Street, Jacksonville, Fla. --- for a short time. 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Funny Folks under canvass, the grandest Negro enterprise ever put before the public. 40 people, brass band under Prof. Henderson Smith. Traveling in their own private car, street parade daily. This company will travel through for da, Georgia, Alabah appi, Arkansas, Missouri indian Territory, Kansas Pennsylvania, West h and South Carolina. new more performers and musicians; a reliable show must write quick. PELLE, 1054 W. Church Street, Jack sonville, Fla. LITERARY RESEARCHES AND COMMENTS. IN THE ATHLETIC FIELD.. John L. Footslug. The March number of Alexander's Magazine is exceedingly a clever one. The mechanical work improves with each issue. Every article it contains is up to the standard of the best magazine in the market. What we think is the strongest feature of this publication is is splendid editorials. They are appealing to the thoughtful reader and are alone worthy of the price of the book. * * * * The Colored American comes out this month filled from cover to cover with very good reading matter. This issue is profusely illustrated and contains articles on the most timely topics of the day. There is an explicit criticism on Thomas Fortune's first book of poems called "Dream of Life," that is well written. The Voice of the Negro came to this office in splendid array from covver to back this month. There are pages and pages of articles that read well and are fittingly placed and illustrated. Mr. Silas X. Floyd's "Waysides" appear and are as ever splendidly replete with humor and witt. Some very strong editorial lines appear in this number. IN THE ATHLET The days of the high-class Negro pilgilist, like those of the first-class Colored jockey, have gone a glimmering. There was a time, and not very long ago, when good, dark-skinned fighters were a-plenty. Today only Joe Gans, of the first-division men, is left. There were Peter Jackson, George Godfrey, Bob Armstrong, Frank Childs, "Denver" Ed. Martin, Hank Griffin, the dusky Callifornian; McVey and a few other as heavy-weights. Of the middle-weightes Frank Craig, "the Harlem Coffee Cooler," probably was the best; Joe Walcott, to tough a welter as ever shel a sweater; Bobby Dobbs, a good lightweight, and Geo Dixon, undoubtedly the best simon-pure feather-weight that ever answered the call of time, and quite a horde of good, bad and indifferent fighters, in the various divisions. The best Negro fighters to-day outside of Gans are Sam Langford, Jack Johnson, Dave Holly, Jack Blackburn and "Buffa" Turner. Of the heavy-weight Jackson was by long odds the best that ever put up his hands in this or any other country. It was Peter's known skill as a high-class fighter that caused John L. Sullivan to draw the color line and to remark, "White men, $10,000; Colored men, double that amount." When Sullivan drew the color line on Jackson he overlooked the fact that he had, some years before practically agreed to fight George Godfrey. The latter, while not as scientific as Jackson, was a good second-rate fighter. When Jackson went FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" SO The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Press 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Sylvester Russell's Review for March is out and shows a decided improvement from all previous issues. There is a good article by the publisher on the "Colored Actors' Club" proposition. Their are some good short stories and poems of merit. We have received a new book entitled "Russian Life and Society," written by Nathan Appleton. There is a sketch of Abraham Lincoln that appears in the second chapter of this book which should be read by every Afro-American. The writer brings to light many important details concerning the emancipation ploclamation that are probably not to be found in many of our best histories or autobiographies. Their are personal recollections that are teeming over with interest to the reader. In fact, this chapter itself is worth the price of the book. The other chapters are very entertaining, dealing not only with life in Russia, but other countries in Europe. Many beautiful illustrations are found throughout the book. The Wood Company of 287 Atlantic avenue, Boston, Mass., are the publishers' agents. TIC FIELD. - Footslug. to the bad and Godfrey had seen his best days, Frank Childs bounded into fame by defeating Bob Armstrong. To see Frank and Bob fighting different opponents it was any kind of odds Armstrong could make Frank appear like a novice, but when put into a ring together, Frank with his awkward style of milling would easl ywhip Bob. This could never be accounted for, as Armstrong was very clever. The best of the old Colored fighters, considering his weight and inches, was Joe Walcott. The "sawed-off black demon" was a fighter from his heels to the top of his oddly shaped head, and as good a fakir as ever entered a ring. Big, lanky fellows were pie for him, and when in fighting humor they could not trot them out too big, too tough or too fast for him. Joe got tangled up a shooting scrape several years ago and practically lost the use of one of his hands, since which he has not been much of a factor in the game. There is no doubt that George Dixon's success as a fighter was the direct cause of the game being overrun with Colored fighters. "Little Chocolate," as he was known, worked for a photographer in Boston before he donned the mitts in public, but he was not long in the game before Tom O'Rourke took him under his managerial wing and by the most astute management made him the greatest success in the history of the prize ring. The little coffee-colored boy was unbeatable for years, and earned a world of money for his manager and for himself. He did not, however, take the best of care of himself, and when "Terrible Terry" McGovern came along, the grandest little fighter of the age was forced to acknowledge defeat. After he went down before Terry, he battled along as best he could and earned much money, but he had shot his pugilistic bolt, and to-day he is scratching out his living on his past reputation. The only one of the old high-class Colored fighters left is Joe Gans, at present holder of the light and welter-weight championships: Joe undoubtedly is the best light-weight known in years. He has been in the game twelve years, during which he has lost but five decisions. Like Walcott, he has not always fought to win, but this he attributes to his late manager, Al Herford. Of the later Colored scrappers, Sam Langford appears the best in the welter-weight division, and Joe Blackburn and Dave Holly in the light-weight class. Neither of them, however, will attain a championship, as the white fighters are drawing the line tauter than ever. Promoters of fighting clubs do not care to match whites against blacks. Mr. William E. Brock, who has made such a splendid captain for the Herculean Football squad of Indianapolis, Ind., will manage the Herculean base ball club this reason. He asks that all ball players who have not signed for the season to call and see him at Steward & Galliard's Tailoring establishment in Indiana avenue. *** The Washington (D. C.) Record says: PASSING OF JOE GANS; As the heathen of old viewed their broken Dagon with terror, so we heathen of to-day view our broken idols with dismay. The fact that we quickly create new idols to take the places of those cast down, makes no difference at all—we are dismayed just the same. Dwey, the volicent; Hobson, the kissing bug; Depew, the man who was, each, all, have been placed upon the pedestal and in his --- turn reduced to the state of the founder. Now cometh Joseph Gans, "campeen" tin soldier and manly man, confessing to a deal of zigzags, to no end whatever save his own discredit. If his fight with Britt was "framed up," wny on earth couldn't Gans keep it quiet, seeing that no one was wise and all had been satisfied. From the time to which the memory of man runneth back, this much has bee ntrue: that "all is well that ends well." Puglistically, Gans has committed suicide, and the cause of his rash act is as vague as in any case of self-destruction. Turn we now unto the fledglings to look for a new hero to run his brief course. If you could get beneath Gans' misconceived ideas as to the soundness of his recent policy and get him to admit why he really did it; if you could get beneath our persistence in worshipping heroes, despite their frequent failures and get ourselves to admit why we really do it, I daresay the answer in each case would be, "you never can tell, sir, you never can tell." HOMESPUN HEROICS By Claude Pamares Copyright, 1905, by E. C. Parcells One of the habitues of Skinner's grocery, at the village of Skinnersville, was Abe Langford. He became a "sitter" when he was twenty years old, and for twelve years he never missed but one night. That was the night of his marriage to the Widow Durham. She was his senior by ten years, and she married him mostly that he might have a mother. Every night, rain or shine, summer or winter, Abe was there. During the first year the old veterans crowded him around somewhat, but after that one of the cracker barrels was marked with his initials and duly recognized as his throne. As for occupation, Abe was most anything. He did a day's work here and there, but the wife mainly supported the two of them by sewing for the neighbors. Abe was mild mannered and easy going, and he was not much of a talker. But Abe Langford's wife knew him better than his fellow sitters. They had often remarked among themselves that he had no ambition. She knew better. Under that quiet and humble demeanor was hidden away an ambition that longed to soar and impatiently waited its opportunity. Almost every night when Abe reached home he said: "Doggone it, I don't amount to shucks and never will. Why hain't I as big a man as Deacon White?" "What's the deacon been doin'?" "A horse thief tried to git into his barn last night, and the dog woke the deacon up, and he went out and yelled at the fellow that if he didn't git out J. M. HE HUNG ON TO THE STERN AND GOT THE BOW POINTED STRAIGHT. mighty sudden he'd let go a hull bushel of buckshot at him. He's a hero, the deacon is. When he got through tellin' the story Skinner offered to trust him for ten pounds of sugar all to once." "Everybody can't be a hero," answered the wife, with a sigh. "What do you s'pose happened to Elijah Smallman two or three years ago?" "I can't say. I don't remember of his telling that anything did." "No, he never told a human being about it till tonight, and then he made us all promise never to breathe a word to a soul. Lordy, but the chills went up and down my back while he was tellin' it." "What was it?" "He saw a murderer. His dog barked about midnight, and he got up and looked out of the winder and saw a murderer snoopin' around. The feller even came up and rattled on the kitchen door. The dog put his tail down and made a sneak and didn't come home for two days. Lijah said he got so weak in the knees that he could hardly get back to bed, and he covered up his head for more'n an nour afterwards." "How did he know it was a murderer?" "Because the feller had on a slouch hat pulled down over his eyes and was crouched over. That's the way they allus do. Yes, he was a regular murderer. A week later a tin peddler come along and told Lijah that a hull family had been murdered about fifty miles away the very next night. If the dog hadn't barked the Smallman family would have been wiped out. Do I ever see a murderer snoopin' around?" "Land o' massy, but I hope not!" "But I orter see one, same as other folks. If I ever do see one I won't stand and tremble and shake. No, sir, I won't. I'll just go right out to him and tell him to hump himself out of that or he'll have me in his hair, but I shan't never see one. There's no such good luck for me." "But you hain't done so bad," observed the wife in soothing tones. "You fell in the river once, didn't you?" "Yes." "And you had a fight with a lightnin' rod man?" "Yes." "And a mad dog chased you up a ladder?" "But what does all them things amount to agin Injuns and murderers? I want to be a hero, same as other folks. If I'd ask Skinner to trust me for ten pounds of sugar all to once he'd drop dead." "Waal," said the wife as she rose up to prepare for bed, "you are doin' all you can, and nobody can't do any better. If you live long 'nuff mebl your chance will come." It was on the road and only two weeks away. A millionaire had his summer home on the bank of the river running through the village. His eighteen-year-old daughter was fond of rowing, and it was an almost everyday sight to see her skimming along in her boat. There had been heavy midsummer rains, and the river had gradually risen until the water poured over the dam like a Niagara. There was a drop of twelve feet, with three or four waves at the bottom rising up and curling over in a menacing way. One day, at the highest stage of the water, three young ladies appeared on the pond in a boat. The rich man's daughter was taking company out for a row. Two hundred feet above the dam, as she attempted to turn and go back, one of the oars snapped, and in her sudden panic she lost the other, while the boat turned broadside to the stream. To go over the dam in that fashion meant death to all. Abe Langford had been salvaging sawlogs and boards from the river with rope and hook and stood on the bank when the disaster to the boat occurred. There were others higher up and lower down who were startled by the screams of the girls, but not one of them grasped the situation. It was left for Abe. Off came his coat, vest and shoes, and in he plunged. A score of men called to him that he could never hope to tow the boat ashore, but that wasn't his plan. There was just a chance that if the girls kept quiet and the boat was guided over the dam bow first she wouldn't fill or be upset. Abe caught it when it was yet fifty feet from the plunge, and whirling it about, he hung on to the stern and got the bow pointed straight. Then he said to the girls: "We have got to go over the dam. All of you crouch down and hang on for your lives. If you make one move we shall all be drowned." There was screaming and yelling and shouting all along the banks, but Abe Langford was not rattled. Two of the girls had fainted away, and the other was dumb with fright. The boat half filled, but floated through to safety, and, guiding and swimming, Abe brought her to the bank. He had done a brave deed, and his fellow townsmen were unstinted in their praise. He took it all in his humble way, and as soon as he could escape them he went shivering home. "Good lands, Abe Langford, but what's the matter?" exclaimed the wife on beholding his saturated condition. "Just saved three gals from drowndin'," he replied. "Then you are a hero at last?" "Durn the luck, no! In all the stories I've ever read the hero marries the gal whose life he saves. There was three of 'em, and what am I goin' to do about it? Besides, if there wasn't but one I'd be married to you just the same, wouldn't I? I tell you luck is agin me, and I shall never have a fair show." "Waal, git off your wet clothes and mebble you'll be chased by a mad bull tomorrow," said the motherly wife as she began drying his wet hair with a towel. The case with which a fire may be started and the apparently inexplicable causes which may produce one are both emphasized by a happening in an upstown house last week. The mistress of the house was seated in the extension parlor in the afternoon alone and perfectly quiet, when without warning a hanging bookshelf broke from its fastenings and slipped to the floor. On its way it struck a small table standing beneath it and knocked over a box of matches, igniting two or three of them. These flew off, one touching the light gauze scarf which had hung from the table, which fell blazing against the lace curtain near by. The frightened screams of the mistress brought a servant, and it took energetic measures on the part of the two women to extinguish the rapidly spreading fire. Had the room been untenanted, as it had been all the morning and would have been again fifteen minutes later, it would have been a case of fire department succor to have saved the house. New York Post. [Picture of a woman in a long dress with floral patterns.] Out of the Depths [Original.] A boy twelve years of age is being carried from a mine. On his face is that blight we see on a plant that has grown in the dark. He is thin and pale and languid, but out of two large black eyes looks a soul which, though nourished in the depths of the earth, burns with unusual luster. The boy's health has at last given way suddenly under a prolonged strain. He is taken to his father's cabin and a doctor summoned. The physician examines the invalid and looks grave. He sees evidence of curvature of the spine. The boy will be a hunchback. Hard, isn't it, that this child's share of labor should have ruined his life? Weights are attached to the frail extremities in the hope of pulling the frame out to its normal length. This the boy is obliged to endure a number of hours during each day. For months the doctor comes and goes at intervals, but there is no change; the suffering from the weights has all been endured for nothing. One day the doctor approaches the little bed, and on the wall against which it stands he sees a pencil sketch of himself. He recognizes it as his own likeness, not only by the likeness, but by a certain posture of the body that is natural to him. He inquires who made the drawing, and his little patient confesses that he is the artist. Then the child brings forth other drawings concealed under his pillow. There are people in all variety of attitudes, sketched as they have passed through the room on various errands. On his next visit the doctor brings a man with him. The stranger looks at the drawings and goes away. A few days later the postman brings a letter stating that the boy is to be admitted free to the art school. Meanwhile his health has been so far improved that he is able to take advantage of the opportunity. The gift Providence has bestowed upon him grows under the culture he receives. And now a new element comes into his life. A girl about his own age comes to the school. She sees his creations with pencil and brush, she looks at his shriveled form, his wan cheek and into his dark eyes, from which comes an expression of suffering mingled, with the light of genius. PHRENOLOGIST PHRENOLOGIST AND PALMIST MADAM McNAIRDEE MOORE, the world's greatest clairvoyant. 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There they work on, making trips into the country to sketch from nature and seize upon unique types. On one of these trips they discover that this sympathy, friendship, companionship, is more than these. It is love. Then comes the first shock. The natural sequence of love is marriage, and what has a hunchback to do with wedlock? One morning it is announced that a picture painted by the young man has been admitted to the salon. This means that he has arrested the attention of the critics. His work is taken from among the thousands that grow dim in artists' studios and hung where picture lovers will see it. He is successful in art; he all has he can desire in love. But the days spent down away from the sunlight have unfitted him for marriage. Thus he considers it, and his resolution is immovable. Not so the girl. With woman's devotion, she is ready to spend her life in comforting him. Then comes a surgeon who tells him that there is one chance in a hundred that his bent figure may be straightened. He submits to a difficult and dangerous operation. A plaster cast is put about him, and he endures the agony of remaining motionless. The nerves cry out against this enforced immobility, but he grinds his teeth together and bears it. Could he be sure the deformity would be cured and he would stand before the girl he loves as nature intended, he would welcome the sufferer that would produce such a result, but there is only a chance. TESTIMONIAL I have used two bottles of Ford's Hair Pomade, formerly known as "Ozunized Ox Marrow," and my hair is black and long and straight. I will not be without it. Everybody that sees my hair wants to try "Ford's Hair Pomade." -Eliza J. Johnson, Sessumville, Miss, March 6 1906. 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P AN BLE CY Of WRAL ATE ies plicLe ae io VaR : Tal i\ EN | AW ee (On =a imams penton am comp x: | “ne ti Den a cts, at Druggiets and —_—_—__—— YaMes aELTON LUCAS B. WILLI Mala roun epee Shelton & Willis coos bata TUXERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS tee tare Uap anect P Price 417 Indiana Ave, Openali}Night THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED CULORED NEWSPAPER, ie Ag) cord go te tims she was sure, ir JOE’S It was a sore he a & gry Joe who found MISSIONA RY §, tte peeaye z E. ; the snow creaking 5 j malta wh his feet. g AESOP A eas oh A i — a i SN oat | _ ba NN I { S' Bari, Ti Phitiipg S| 8. Ye BO See te 55) ct eg RAAT. = the water agoa ES; ee [ROD Copstight, 1905, by Ruby Dongias § just been baiting Ke Hy ae PY care for me”—and 1 iS Ga ORI rms re Little Mary Anderson was undoubt- | "8S Wutrue while ORS OR op pS edly pretty. She was brown and lithe. | 5 ON Te TT gto s Her crinkly hair was a jumbled poem, | J°¢ Byers’ and ge Z sey | x big brown eyes were alight with! Ying to do the rig aa) Her Dig brownies nd nischteg it M'm, but a dri be | surtng tres. mereiment and mischiet Mm, but a dr Porn } predominating. Joe ‘Temple thought, | M occurred to 1 = once oF twies, that he had surprised a) Sever taste, ©. tenderer light’ in tlieir depths, but| FED ie Houston, Texas basa colored bakery tional Negro Business League has set Mary's pert little tongue and ringing! , J's usly refecti tat ie doing a good bueiners, the date of the League's next meeting} jaugh promptly drove such ideas hel-| BIS Path, and a r= in Atlanta to be August 29, 80 and 81) ter skelter, eae Prof. Charles Lee, of Kenese City, |The officers and theexecutive commit-| Joe was a light haired viking of a Roenaea te ike Kans bas Invented a cushion tire for| tee will meet in Atlantaon August 28] fellow, with muscles like a wrestler, | quaint little brick : ent notiles to devote the day to the interests of} shoulders almost the width of the door; 20 ISS | The Edwaids Real Estate Company is a recent enterprise at Boston, The legal bueinees 1s condueted Lucius 8, ‘Hicks of te Boston University Law ‘School. a __ Acolored ekating rink at Houston, ie hase maple wood floor recently put in, costing $600 The lumber was ‘ebipped from Chicago, and cost $75 per thousand. Corneline J. Jones, a prominent bus!- ness clroles In Muskogee, has bought ‘tho town site of Chase. eight miles west of Muskogee, for $1,000. It is bis In- tention to makeit an exclusive Negro ‘town and an ednostioval and industrial contre. The everntive committee of the Nu- Misses Janie and Annie Burke and Mrs S Alexander are ill—The stork has presented Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson a boy.— Fostoria ‘The Ladies South Ouio. End Sewing Circle gave a bazaar on the 22nd. A program was rendered and refreshments were served —Mre. Green Burk has returned from Forest, © —Sam Bunch has returned to the city —Mrs, EL Marshall, 341 Summit street is The Freeman representative. Richard Butler bas the contract to build the five room cottage of R. L 3oott, the letter carrier —Mr. Sutton won ficst prize Houston at LeonfJones’ Texas. riok Saturday night of last week and Mr. Pitkin won the second. Thhre were eight contest- snts,—Mrs. Jecsle Harrisand Miss Fo- ley of Victoria are the gaests of Mrs. J. Reles.—Charles Hudson, the tenor soloist has gone to Datlas —Watte Chapel raised $1 46 at a rally and have already commenced to build their aew church,—Edward Johnson and L J Roe are ill —Robert Peachey aud his orceestra are doing well in North- orn Texas. Prof, W. Delston, the vio- linist and the tenor of Galveston have jolned them.—Tne letter csrrters Ba dall Team are making preparations for che coming season.—The recital Friday aight of last week was appreciated by s large attendance. con and D. I L of Moberly wasa live one. Honors were won MopERLY by Moberly. Both std « MissourI, ehowed in erect. Mcsee Grimes died Tur ay. was a K, of P. was buried at Rockn rt Thureday. Six members of his order went with remains. H. Timney, J. Alexandria, G. Timney, R. Gaye, J. H. Burrjs, Charles Garritt and Rev. 8. D. Lovell. Rov. 8. P, West, of Scranton deliver- edalecture at the Bethel A M. E. church recently.—Mre, Willlam Brown fs ill, ‘The recent WiuuiaMsPorr — arrivals at the PENNSYLVANIA. Chautauqua are H, Augusta, W F. Potts, Frank Haywood, S. Williams, , Henson, J. MoDonnell, W. Payne, James Moore, and W, Harris, of Phila. delphis, and B Y. Roberts, and 8. J. M > Haley of Williamsport.—William Payne has gone to Richmond, Va., for a few weeks.—Mies Harriet Allen has gone to Reading to vislt for two months.—The Ebenezer Baptist Choir rendered some excellent music at the Bethel A. M. E, church last Sunday. The Exceletor Ulnb of the Sbiloh Bap: tlet charch will give a social at the residence of Mrs. Puller Thursday even (ng.—Mise Viola Terrisle. of Carlisle, who has beea very ill, is much tmprov- ed —Miss Polly Anderson and Mr. Da. vid Bear were married Monday even- {og —Mrs. Dilly Smith gave a sleighing party Saturday evening —Miss Estelle snd May Stonther will give @ party ir honor of Miss May Randolph of Chi- cago, Ill —Mrs. W. S. Lowy has return: ed froma pleasant visit to her neice at Pittebarg —The Young Men’s Catego- rleal Club gave a bangnet, John W. Fairfax, Jr., was to stmaster and’ the following toasts were given: “The Olab,” Charles O'Brien, “What the Fatare Holds.” Edward Zelle; ‘Men's Lives Worthy of Emalation,” Mise Blanche Tillman; ‘“The Poselbilities of tional Negro Business League has set the date of the League's next meeting in Atlanta to be August 29, 30 and 31 The officers and the executive commit- tee will meet in Atlantaon Angast 25 to devote the day to the interests of the League. Among his obaritable gifts, which amonnted to $50,000, Thomas J. Emery gave to the Cincinnati Fresh A'r Fund #4,000, to the colored orphans of Vor- dale and to the archbishop of Ohio, $5 000 tn ald of any Catholic institution for the oare of the aged and children, Provided none are exeluded on account of creed or color The House Committee on claim at Washington, D. ©., decided to report feuorably ona claim of the family of Samuel Lee for $10,000, Lee was elect: edto tho Forty-sixth Congress from North Carolina, but was prevented from betng sworn in by filibustering: He ts now dead, and his heira will be paid the two years’ salary if the biil oasean:. the Race,” Calvin W. Anderson; ' Oar Wives and Sweethearts,” Frank B. Brenington; response, Mrs Isabelle Fairfax, ‘‘Clab Alphabet,” B. E. Bar- ris, Mrs. Fairfax presented to the president in bi half cf the Jaaies a bean- vital gold mounted ebony gavel with the inscription: ‘Young Men‘s Cate- gorteal Cinb.” Charles O'Brien {8 president wnd the committee on ar- cangements was F. B, Brenington, Jno. W. Fairfax aud 0. W. Anderson, ‘Shines Bi eebeanai nie Saal A foreign medical journal has been publishing facts about the dissemina- tion of disease through books from Public libraries. It 1s, of course, impos- sible for librarians to ascertain where books have been or to know the condi- tions of families into which they go. A large number of books were examined and were found to contain the bacilli of pneumonia, diphtheria and many other sorts, some of which were harm less. Even new books fresh from the publisher's hands were found to con- tain germs, There are very many per- sous who practice wetting the fingers with the lips or tongue when turning the pages of books. ‘This is an exceed- ingly dangerous thing to do, not only to the person who does it, but to all others who may use the book after: ward, especially if the person so doing has any form of disease in the system Invalids of all kinds are likely to be great readers, and the consumptive or those suffering with cancer may un- wittingly deposit on the pages of the yolutes they peruse the deadly germs of their own malady. 70s Chinmecs Chat Was Weesekt. The little man was explaining to his audience the benefits of physical cul- ture, “Three years ago,” he said, “I was a miserable wreck. Now, whit do you suppose brought about this great ehange in me?” “What change?” said a voice from the audience. There was @ succession of loud smiles, and some persons thought to see him collapse. But the little man was uot to be put out. “Will the gentleman who asked ‘What change? kindly step up here?” he asked suayely. “I shall then be bet- ter able to explain. That's right!” ‘Then, grabbing the witty gentleman by the neck: “When I first took up physical culture I could not even lift a little man. Now (suiting action to word) [ can throw one about like a bundje of rags.” And finally he flung the interrupter half a dozen yards along the floor. “I trust, gentlemen, that you will see the force of my argu- ment, and that I have not hurt this gentleman's feelings by my explana- tjon.” There were no more interrup- tions. cedar Uasdowedde No man who is seeking political hon- ors in these days is a “candidate,” ac- cording to the true etymological siz- nificance of the word. ‘Those who Stood for office in ancient Rome were known as “candidati” because it was customary for them to wear a white toga (“candidus,” white) as soon as their canvass had begun. The Latin for “canvassing,” too, was either “am- bitus” or “ambitio,” according to its association with or freedom from brib- ery and corrupt practices. Both meant “going round.” “Ambitio” was the good kind as opposed ‘to “ambitus,” which always Implied dishonesty and unfairness, “Shopping” was certainly a slang word until past the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Bee's Dictionary of Sports and Slang, published in 1826, defines the word as follows: “Shop- ping—Among women going about from shop to shop, buying little articles per- haps, perhaps not, but always pulling about great quantities of goods,” JOE’S By M. J. Phillips ~ Copyright, 1905, by Ruby Donglas Little Mary Anderson was undoubt- edly pretty. “She was brown and lithe, Her crinkly hair was a jumbled poem. Her big brown eyes were alight with shifting fires, merriment and mischiet predominating. Joe Temple thought, once or twice, that he had surprised tenderer light’ in their depths, but Mary's pert little tongue and ringing laugh promptly drove such ideas hel- ter skelter. Joe was a light haired viking of a fellow, with muscles like a wrestler, shoulders almost the width of the door and the best temper in the world. He was teamster at the cereal food factory where Mary worked, ‘The little brown maid attracted him. Her duty was to pack the paper cartons in cases for shipment aud nail on the light covers of the boxes. Almost every load some- bow lacked one box and that the one r ss ( ‘ am) (eo iy A) hy _ Mh a ( a AN SS H lt i i cu i Mary was nailing, so it was natural Joe Should wait for It by Mary's bench and talk while he waited. ‘The other girls were not slow to no- tice, and there were many sly little daris aimed at Joe in his absence. Mary soon learned that his besetting sin was drink, The conviviality of the cup that cheers had no fascinations for him, He abstained totally for months, only to fall grievously when the innate and agonizing thirst for lquor over- came him, ‘Then he drank hard and long, suffering untold remorse after his appetite had been satiated. When bashful Joe, his acquaintance with Mary a week old, asked if he might call on the girl in ‘her home, the clear brown eyes met his gaze frankly. “You may, Mr. Temple,” she replied, “put there is one condition. If I smell Hquor on your breath, it's all of.” Poor Joe blushed. “And don’t use cloves fo cover it up!” she added em- phatically. “That's so cheap a trick in a man. Besides, I'd know it just as quick.” Every Wednesday and Sunday even- ing thereafter found Joe at Mary’s home, for he was soon very much in love. ‘The family liked the big fellow and made more of him than the friend- ly but outwardly indifferent Mary. He talked polities with her father, helped her mother wind endless skeins of yarn and eased her small brother over rough places in the “three r's.” Fortnightly Joe and his sweetheart attended the dances of the Pastime Pleasure club at Hibernia hall, the teamster scrupulously sober and fairly exuding pride and happiness, while Mary's demureness was belied by the sparkle of her eyes. ‘Twice the old insidious longing for Mquor fought with Joe’s love, but was worsted. For days during these pe- riods he trembled with the manfully suppressed longing when he passed a saloon. In the past he had fallen an easy victim; it was different now. For a dazzling plan was taking form in Joe's honest brain, He bad the home where he lived with his aged parents repainted and papered; during the long summer evenings he shingled the Kitchen and built a back porch, for he: was handy with tools, and several arti- cles of furniture had been added to the living room out of his wages or savings. Winter had come before he finally mustered up courage to ask the ques- tion which such preparations fore- fended. And the “answer he received was not what he had hoped. “Ob, I daren’t, Joe; I daren't!” little Mary had said, the merry eyes sober| for once. “I like you, but”—her voice sank to a whisper—“suppose you got drinking again! I couldn’t stand that, Toe.” “Oh, but Mary, I haven't touched a drop in six months!” he responded ear- uestly. “And please God, if you'll mar- ry me I'll never take another drink.” But she still shook her head. “That isn't long enough, Joe; wait six months more.” ‘And to all bis pleading this was ber answer until Joe, in a burst of disap- pointment and wounded pride, declared the time too long to wait for any one; there were others; now— Mary was a girl of spirit. She tossed her brown head and commended the sulky Joseph to those “others.” He could go te them; she didn't want him, she was sure. It was a sore hearted and yery an- gry Joe who found himself alone soon after beneath the frosty winter stars, the snow creaking in discords beneath his feet. “It's no use,” he said to himself bit- terly. “No one cares whether I'm on the water wagon or not. That girl's Just been baiting me on; she doesn't care for me”’—and he knew the thought was untrue while he formulated it. “I know what I'll do. I'll go down to Joe Byers’ and get sloughed. No use trying to do the right thing; nothing in it. M'm, but a drink will taste good!” It occurred to him that a drink would never taste as it did before he jet Mary, though. Joe's ugly reflections kept his eyes off his path, and a jolt to his shoulder brought him up standing. He had walked under an iron stairway which ascended to the second story of a quaint little brick store, an obstructior. which the stream of progress had not washed away. An are light near by shone brigntir on the seamed and grizzled wall. Ab- sentmindedly rubbing his shoulder, he was stepping back from beneath the stairway when his eyes sensed some- thing unusual on the wall, and he stooped to examine it. ‘There, sheltered by the steps above from the snow and the worst of the frost, a little clump of grass, a bare four spears, clung undauntedly. The cold had withered the tips, but the heart of the plant was vigorous. Ne earth was visible; it flourished, appar- ently, on bare brick and mortar, Tem- ple peered at the grass, which stood out in minutest detail beneath the strong electric light, until a suspicious policeman gruflly ordered him to move on, When Joe had walked half a dozen blocks, pondering the phenomenon, he began to find a lesson in it for himself. “Why,” his thoughts ran, “that little bunch of grass has got more grit than T have! It's shy a thinker to help it out even. The Lord put that seed on earth to grow. He didn’t say, ‘Find a nice rich soll somewhere, grow if you feel like it and quit when you get dis- couraged.’ No, sir. He just command- ed It to be what it’s made to be, and, by thunder, that seed didn’t ask any questions! “And here I am,” he went on in wholesome self scorn, “a great big hulking guy with brains—leastways I'm supposed to have 'em—laying down like a hound pup when things don’t go to sult me. Mary, little sweetheart, that bunch o’ grass was a missionary | set to growing out of a brick wall just to show me what a chump Iam, Well, T've found out in time. No booze for me! And if you say six years instead | of six months I'll wait for you and be proud to do it” With a light heart he | turned homeward. | Joe met a diminutive messenger boy at his own front gate. “Yer name Temple?” queried the youngster. “This is fer you then.” | By the light of a single match he read the brief message: | Can't you come over, Joe? Maybe we can compromise. MARY. | “Hey, you!” shouted the boy in amazement as Joe, after rapturously pressing the note to his lips, rushed down the street. “Any answer?” | “Yes, but I'll deliver it myself,” came back to him. | Cautiously the youth tested with strong teeth the dollar Temple had given him; then a grin overspread his | wizened face, and he reached up into “the frosty atmosphere as if to pull on a rope, “Weddin’ bells!” he comment. ed laconteally. ‘The Barometer. ‘That the barometer should be so im: portant a factor in Indicating meteoro- logical conditions is to many an un- solvable mystery. ‘There should, how- ever, be no difficulty in understanding that the simple principle underlying the construction is that the free and ‘unfettered air balances a column of mereury varying in height, according to the circumstances of the moment, “whose average elevation at the level of the sea is thirty inches, It Is known, because directiy ascertainable, that thirty cubic inches of mercury weigh close upon fifteen pounds avoirdupois, ‘and therefore, as commonly expressed, the pressure of the atmosphere fs, un- der normal conditions, fifteen pounds on every square inch—eguivalent to nearly a ton on a square foot, more than eight and a half tons on a square yard and of 100 tons on a square of ten and a quarter feet side. 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Sissle are attending conference at Columbus, O. Dr. and Mrs S. A. Furniss entertained at six o'clock dinner Tuesday in honor of Bishop A. Grant. The Companion Club invite their many friends to their Mid-winter Plouic. Thursday, April 5. at the North Senate Hall. Samuel P. Johnson, Exalted Ruler of Anthracite Lodge of Elks, No. 57, of Soranton, Pa., was a caller at The Freeman office last week. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Call up Kimble for transfer, 311 Indiana avenue; Phone 1906. Money Lost—If you don't trade at Truelock's Pharmacy. Hayes, sole agents for Ozonized Ox Marrow. Try Mack Bartley, the tailor for satisfaction, 425 Indiana avenue. Found—The best way to save money. Have your prescription filled at Truelock's Pharmacy. Just received a new shipment; 4000 pairs of shoes for men, women and children, at Wilson's Sample, Shoe Store, 236 Massachusetts avenue. Stop at Hayes' Drug Store 502 Indiana Ave. Hayes' White Line and Menthol will fix your cough. Full line at Bennett Bros'. feed store: 231 Indiana avenue. Good Big Lunches 10a and 15c, J. F. Love, 325 Indiana avenue. Household goods bought, sold and exchange. W. H. Baron, 333 Indiana Avenue. We want you to carefully compare "Perfecto Diamonds" with genuine diamonds of the same size and care. Satisfaction guaranteed. $100. J. L. Edghill, 642 E 141st St. New York. Y. M. C. A. Notes. W. J. Campbell of Central City, Ky. will make an address at the rooms Sunday, subject, "The Negro and Labor." The cantata "The Feast of Belshazar" will be given at Realty Hall, April 11. It will be a grand affair. A GREAT RHEUMATIC REMEDY DISCOVERED. Why suffer longer with bad health when for $1.00, you can get a full size bottle of Newton's Blood Renovator, which is a sure and positive cure for rhamnism, catarrh, syphilis, eczema and all forms of stomach trouble. If you suffer from any of the above troubles, call or phone, 604 N, Senate ave. Old phone, Main 1048. Dr. William Newton: "A Second Floor, Room 208, State Life Building (Formerly Stevenson Building) Front Room 15 E. Washington St. Front Room SUMNER LEAGUE MINSTREL SUMNER LEAGUE MINSTREL LOCAL TALENT WELL RECEIVED LAST MONDAY NIGHT. One of the best entertainments given by local talent in this city for years was that of the Sumner League Minstrel and Promenade at Tomilson Hall last Monday night. A large audience greeted them and was very appreciative. Those prominent in the first part were: Dr. J. H. Ward. interloucor, J. N. Shelton, Charles Mosby, William Wilson and Irving Hardy, bones; W. H. Jackson, N. P. Gardner, William Wal- MASTER PAUL BASG PHENOMINAL BOY SOPRANO. den and E1. Finley, tambourines. In the olio Frank Fowler Brown, Madam Lucretia Knox, George Temple and Master Paul Bass. The singing of Master Paul was very loudly applauded and the audience pronounced him a wonderful child. He has a powerful voice for one so young and is as commanding in his stage appearance as an old time professional. His rendition of "Hosanna" was extraordinary and the audience told him so COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF SCOTT'S SHORTHAND SCHOOL. Dallas, Tex, Special.—The commencement exercises of Scott's School of Shorthand was the feature of the evening at St. Paul M E church, Tuesday, Maech 20 and diplomas were granted to seven as follows: Misses A. Mae Cotes, L A. Shaw, Mary E Shirley, Edna E Ezall, Georgia E. White, Mrs. Mary F. Crain and Mr. T. D Marshall; Essay by the class touching the art of shorthand and type writing were an educative force of the highest character. Miss Lincolnola C. Haynes graced the program with a solo which brought great applause from the audience, which consisted of black and white. Cavaliere Rusticana was rendered by the Black and Tan Orchestra. The diplomas that were issued were made by instructor H. W. Scott, who is a pen man of rare ability. The work has the appearance of lithography. We predict for Mr. Scott's success for he possesses tact, push and i-sok-to-it-tiveness. SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Sate and Reasonable always. PERSONAL PROPERTY OF FURNITURE ORGANS and PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removing. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, £2500 in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES andOUR FURNITURE. We can provide a treatment to all. It cost nothing to investigate. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. A POPULAR CANDIDATE FOR CORONER. Prosperity commands respect. Look Mice [Picture of a young man in a suit with a tie and a badge on his lapel. He has straight hair and is looking directly at the camera. The background is plain black.]] DR. G. A. PETERSDORF. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. "David, the Shepherd Boy" was given at St. Paul, A. M. E. church last week for the benefit of Bishop Grant's camp.—Work will begin COLUMBIA at once on the Presbyterian TENN. an church There was a big rally, at the St. Paul church last Sunday.—The K. of P. sermon was preached March 19 by Dr. T. W. Stephens at St. Paul.—Dr. J. Q. Johnson, P. E. was in the city last week—Mrs. Robert Goodce is visiting at Nashville.—The Y. M. C. A. will give a debate at an early date subject, Resolved, That the tongue is more debasing then the temper.—"Forty Years of Freedom" was given at St. Paul church Monday night of last week A union meeting was held at the K. of P. and Immaculate Halls Friday of last week and the K. of P, gave an entertainment at Gholston's Hall Monday digit The big spectacular comedy. "A Face at the Window" was given by the local Knights last week. Sam Arthur spent several days in the city with friends.—Many Shermanites attended the Sam Smith trial.—The last week. Many touching orations were made during the evening on the life of the late poet. After the program the Black & Tan orchestra furnished music for the dance. A elegant banquet supper was served and toasts were given by guests from Terrell, Ft. Worth, Waco, San Antonio and Honston. Tte hall was beautifully decorated.—Mrs P. Lowery was called to the bedside of her daughter, Miss M. E. Gardon, who is ill. Miss Gardon will soon graduate from the Mercer College Hospital as a scientific nurse. The waiters of the Oriental Hotel are now planning something new in the way of enterprise for their many friends over the State—The Elite Dramatic Club presented "The Last Loaf" under the direction of Mrs. M. J. Ray with the following participants: W. A. Boswell A. Johnson, L. McMahon, J. Becker, H. Dickson, Mrs A. G. Andrews, Miss B. Frye, and Miss E. M. Weehms. All were well received and curtain calls were numerous. The Minstrel given by some of the talented young men of the city at Odd Fellows Hall March 20, was quite a Wallace, "Baby Don't"; Joke. Will Ramsey; Song, William Stewart, the silver tenor, "My Silver Babe"; Song, Mr. Chism, "Bill Bailey Has Come Back Home"; Song Mr. Hemphill, "You Will Do Little Girl." One of the biggest hits of the evening was the solo by Mr. Prosser, "Silver Moon, Come Out and Shine." He was also the comedian. A cornet solo by Mr. McDade was highly appreciated. A county court scene was given and the program was concluded with a quartet selection by Messrs. Chism, Ramsey, Hemphill and Prosser. A packed house was present The Whist Club of West Knoxville gave their first entertainment Friday night of last week, at the residence of Mrs. Smith. Those present were Misses Mamie Williams, Ruth Paxter, Carrie Coles, Anna Manson, Mabel Smith, Ida and Dolly Warren, Willie Poter, Mrs. Blanche Gardclay, George Henderson, James Prosser, Jacob Dodson, F. Causler, Ed. Smith, Frosty Smith, Anderson Smith, Will and Alexander Laine, A. S. Smith, and Walter Farnay. Games were played and a splendid super was served.—Dr. E. S. Watkine has gone to Chicago to take a postgraduate course in medicine. Old Phone Main 3182 New Phone 4270 DALLAS tained with a literary TEXAS program at Odd Fel- lows Hall, Friday of Prosperity commands respect. Look prosperous, wear "Perfecto Diamonds" They add dignity and self respect. $1 J. L. Edghill, 642 E, 141st St., N. Y. Money Back on every "Perfecto Diamond" that fails to give absolute satisfa- tion. $1 00 J. L. Edghill, 642 E, 141t St., N. Y. Have you seen "Perfecto Diamonds" Dazzling brilliancy, beautiful color, & perfect cut $1 00. J. L Eighill, N.Y Surprise your friends by wearing "Perfecto Diamonds", they defy detection. $1 00. J. L. Edghill, 642 E, 141st St. N. Y. "Perfecto Diamonds" equal genuine diamonds in beauty and never fade. Let us prove it. $1. J. L. Edghill, N.Y. "Perfecto Diamonds" are mounted in heavy gold filled settings. Not plated, guaranteed. $100. J. L Edghill. Perfecto Diamonds will stand Acid, Heat, Alkali, etc., will cut glass, and are washed and cleaned exactly like Genuine Diamonds. Remember we protect each and every sale by guarantee. $100. J. L Edghill, 642 E. 141st Street, New York. THE PARKER HOUSE We've just had a generous offering of snow, but we didn't mind it a bit, since we are so nicely situated at The Parker House. Just the most delightful rooms and bath. As to the meals, you will just have to come yourself and see. Phones New 4972; Otd 651. Don't waste money on poor imitations. "Perfetto Diamondo" look like genuine diamonds, and their extreme hardness insures their wonderful brilliancy and beautiful color forever $1.00 J·L Eighill, 642 E 141st St. N. Y. A Grand and Wonderful Book. Title, "Jesus Christ was a Part Negro." This great and noble book shows that Jesus had Negro blood in his veins. It shows that the Negro and Christ are kinsmen. This great and wonderful book should be in the hands of every Negro person in America. It will lead you into wonderful peace and happiness Price 650s postpaid N. W. T's Goodbook Assoc, Look Box 25, Finley, Tenn. M It Draws Fine Our assortments always command attention. They offer latitude for careful choosing and always foretell correctly the season's tendencies as to shade, style, weight and texture. Grays hold an important place this season and our showing is second to none. IT DRAWS FINE—every one that inspects, wonders at and admires it. Those who prefer plain shades can have them. Neat·check and plaid effects are provided for others. That's the spirit of the season's styling. No matter what your taste is, if it's good, it's in our stock. SUITS Tailored to Taste $18 to $50 Deutsch Tailoring Co. (Incorporated) 41 South Illinois St. INDIANAPOLIS - INDIANA PAINTS, OIL AND VARNISHES. TIN AND GALVANIZED IRON WORK FRANK H. PRUNK Hardwaze, Pumps, Pipes, Etc. 522 INDIANA AVENUE. Telephone 1188. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA WM. JONES H. H. ABEL FUNERAL DIRECTORS Calls Promptly Answered. Best Attention Bessie Walker, Lady Assistant 1029 Virginia Ave. Old Phone, Main 557 Where you will save money THE NEW 1004 N. West Street. J. C. WOESSNER, Prop. INDIANAPOLIS Everything in the grocery line at J. E. BENJAMIN'S GROCERY 1601 NORTHWESTERN AVENUE GIVE HIM A CALL Miss M. Deery, Exclusive styles in MILLINERY, NOTION 3 & HAIR GOODS. Pric ess reasonable. 1214 North Senate Ave. MRS. WHITTEN, Millinery Will make a special display every Saturday with special prices. Easter display April 14. See her for your Easter hats. Indiana Ave. Everybody welcome THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHOP 347 Indiana Avenue, Where you meet the only lady shoe- maker in the country. Best leather and perfect work in the manufacture of our goods. All kinds of artistic shoe repairing promptly done. Order work is our special ty. J. A. Mallory, the reliable, is an able assistant. C. J. LEONARD, Manager. GIVE US A TRIAL. Free 50 cents in Cash. To Boys and Girls for selling 15 p miles this opportunity for making soma s THATCHER SUPP 3783 N. Illinois Street. BICKMAN'S NEW STORE Big Millinery Op- tions OF HANDSOME FLOWER HATS allowing the most beautiful line prices $2.98, 3.48, 4.00, 4.50 hats are being sold down town have also layed away OUR PATTERN HATS FOR SALE TO come Early and Get Your Pick man's New Ave., Shiel Pt. 1 Door N EDRICK 0 and $ Suits & Top Grays, Blue Serges and N wles. It will pay you to see t n save $5 to Why pay more? Price Clothier, 7 S HAZEL, TAILOR, 327 India new style Riverside Coat. own. No one has it but the extreme style. To Boys and Girls for selling 15 pieces of jewelry at 10 cents each. Do miss this opportunity for making some spend money. We are showing the most beautiful line of fine dress hats in town, prices $2.98, 3.48, 4.00, 4.50 up to 10. These same hats are being sold down town for almost double. We have also layed away 50 OF OUR PATTERN HATS FOR SALE TOMORROW Come Early and Get Your Pick 205 Indiana Ave., Shiel Pt. 1 Door N of Illinois All the new Grays, Blue Serges and Novelties, cut in the latest styles. It will pay you to see them. W.C. HAZEL, TAILOR, 327 Indiana Avenue Ask to see the new style Riverside Coat. A personal design of my own. No one has it but me. It is a beauty and on the extreme style. Kaka Supply Packed and Fresh Meats, Butter, Eggs every of all orders guaranteed. Don't 002 N. West Street in 5474 INDIAN KUHN BROS Wholesale and Retail MEATS Nuts of Beef, Fresh Dressed Pot Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh Meats, Butter, Eggs at the bottom rock prices. Prompt delivery of all orders guaranteed. Don't forget the number. 1202 N. West Street. W.M. F. KUHN JOHN A. KUHN THE ARCADIAN HOME BAKING HOMEMADE PIES AND CAKES Made to order. Confectioneries and cigars. We strive to please everybody. Ice Cream. JAS. H. GRUBBS, President and Manager 1204 N. West St Best facilities for moving, packing, storing and shipping Furniture and Household effects. Phone 2028 Phone 2028 New Phone 1846 Res.: New Phone 9894 The Banner Storage Co. Everybody stores with Miss Youssey, sepa- rate apartments, no other business in the same building 360 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. High Class Stationery and Perfumes, Week's Cold Tablets a special. 12th and N. Senate Ave. Indianapolis For a fine line of SHOEES and RUBBERS call and see Jacob Mueller 1109 N. West St. REPAIRING NEATLY DONE NEW STORE meryOpening FLOWER HATS beautiful line of fine dress 3.48, 4.00, 4.50 up to 10. cold down town for almost away S FOR SALE TOMORROW Get Your Pick New Store Pt. 1 Door N of Illinois ICK'S d $15 & Top Coats erges and Novelties, cut y you to see them. e $5 to $10 more? hier, 7 S. Illinois TAILOR, 327 Indiana Avenue erside Coat. A personal e has it but me. It is a yle. Have You Heard of The Supply Co. Meats, Butter, Eggs at the bottom rock guaranteed. Don't forget the number. West Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND JOHN A. KUHN BROS and Retail ATS Indianapolis, Ind, U. S. A. No More