The Freeman

Lynchers are Treading on Thin ice When They Get Into the Habit of Murdering Prisoners Who are Under Federal Jurisdiction. A Pitcher can be Carried to the Well Once Too Often. THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 14 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S GOOD JUDGEMENT OF LABORS The Progress of a Georgia Town-Bishop Walters to Write a Book of His Life-Rev. J. F. Chesnut of the M. E. Church Criticised. Staff Correspondence. Staff Correspondence: President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon have shown themselves impervious to the wiles of the labor leaders who wish to own the earth and the fullness thereof, although both subscribe to every exaction that has any foundation in equity to all concerned. They very sensibly decline to forget that there are other interests to be subserved—that the man who works with capital and brains is as much a citizen and has a claim upon protection under the laws as well as the man who works with his hands. President Roosevelt deplores as every honest citizen does, the tendency to emphasize class lines based upon the nature of one's employment. Speaker Cannon, with characteristic bluntness, gave Mr. Gompers to understand that organized labor was a big thing, but that it was not by any means the "whole shooting match," and further pointed out the fallacy of conducting a labor propaganda from which any class of laborers are excluded by artificial discrimination. The palpable dig at the exclusion of the Negro from the unions must have struck home, for within a day or two afterward the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, to whose delegates the remarks of the President and the Speaker were directed, issued the following declaration: "We reaffirm as one of the cardinal principles of the trade union movement that the working people must unite and organize, irrespective of creed, color, sex, nationality or politics." Let us hope that the unions have seen the error of their ways in leaving the faithful black toiler out of their weapon for justice, and if the weapon to be used is to be politics, strike, boycott or lockout, let the Negro have a share in the fight and let him be rewarded his quota of the spoils after the war is over. The black man is determined to be reckoned with—as a friend, if possible—but as an enemy, if he must. Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, has immortalized himself in the eyes of the colored workingmen of the Windy City. He sanctions organization among the employees of the street-car system, even when the lines are taken over by the city, under the ordinance calling for municipal ownership, but he further insists that colored men must have an equal chance with the whites as motormen and conductors after the city takes hold. This departure is causing consternation among the anti-Negro element of the labor unions, but Mayor Dunne is firm, and municipal ownership, as interpreted by him, means the elimination of the color line among the future employees engaged in handling public utilities. If the Dunne idea prevails everywhere the street-car service will be revolutionized with municipalization and the doctrine of government and municipal ownership will get a big boost wherever the Negro has a ballot to cast. The significance of the fact that the warmest champions of these doctrines are this same Edward F. Dunne, William R. Hearst and William Jennings Bryan—all Democrats of the rankest kind—must not be overlooked. The colored business men of Brunswick, Ga. are among the best in the country in point of enterprise and thoroughgoing commercial acumen. Prominent among them is James G. Carter, a member of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League, who was largely instrumental in bringing the biggest delegation that appeared at the New York convention last year, and to whose influence Atlanta is deeply indebted for securing the convention for 1906. The latest indication of the heavening force exerted over the citizens of Brunswick by the National Negro Business League, supplemented by the local branch, is the formation of the Brunswick Mercan INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1906. tile and Realty Company, which was organized a few days ago under the most promising circumstances. A report from Brunswick says that before the organization was perfected nearly $3,000 was subscribed as a starter, and a very flattering increase is expected at the meeting that is being held this week, after which plans will be immediately gone into for incorporation and taking out a charter under the laws of the State of Georgia. The directors, whose names are familiar to most of our people in the South, are: J. M. Pitts, president of the board; C. A. Clark, vice president; E. H. Carry, secretary; H. S. Roberts, assistant secretary; B. L. Jordan, treasurer; Dr. George W. Smith, J. S. Peterson, A. C. Buggs, B. F. Seabrooks, A. L. Simmons, J. H. Powell and J. G. Carter. This incorporation is destined to be one of the strongest controlled by Negroes in the State of Georgia, and it will doubtless give a good account of itself at the Atlanta meeting in August. Bishop Alexander Walters, at the request of a host of friends and admirers, has begun the preparation of a volume bearing upon his life and work. Bishop Walters' rise in the ministerial world is almost unparalleled, and the story of how he toiled and struggled in order to reach his present exalted station reads more like a leaf torn from the "Arabian Nights" than a tale of contemporaneous history. He was elected to the bench of bishops of the A. M. E. Zion Church in 1892, the General Conference meeting that year in Pittsburg. At the time of his election he was in his thirty-third year, and was the youngest man ever chosen to the bishopric by any denation. Bishop Walters' book will contain, among other interesting matter, the full text of his perfected lecture on his travels in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land, to which will also be added his experiences in the German empire, Switzerland and the Vatican at Rome, with observations on the future of Africa and the results achieved in the Dark Continent by the Pan-African Congress, of which he is president. Last fall Bishop Walters delivered his famous lecture in my town, and this is a significant excerpt from a letter which he received later on from a prominent citizen, who had the pleasure of hearing his eloquent forensic effort. Says the correspondent: "I want to say again that your lecture on your travels in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land was the best exposition of "sights across the sea," religious and secular, that has ever come to my notice. I have listened to Burton Harrison, Henry M. Stanley, Burr McIntosh and all their tribe; I have read many stories of travel and adventure, written by globe-trotters and literateurs of renown, but never have I been so thoroughly enchanted by any of them as by the illuminating pictures, salient bits of history, amusing anecdotes of distinguished persons, the peculiar habits of the populations, vivid descriptions of the massive buildings encountered, the relation of the Negro to the vast empires traversed, together with well digested opinions upon all that was seen and heard throughout the long journey—all of which you presented with such rare skill and accuracy at Zion Church on the occasion of your recent visit here. Not only was the subject matter fascinating because of its novelty, but a volume of valuable instruction was set forth, relieved of all the dryness that one so frequently finds in the didactic treatise on mere persons, cathedrals, pyramids and countries. The engaging personality of Bishop Walters, the man, was present in every paragraph, and the oratorical delivery was at all times in sympathy with the spirit of the theme—inspiring by turns, rich humor, pathos, wonder, patriotism, pride of race and love of the ideal in life and character. In the natural climaxes there were flights that approached the sublime in their thrilling and dramatic effect. Alternately there were spiritual manifestations of the great preacher and artistic flashes that suggested the trained actor—both genuine and convincing, one quality nicely balancing the other. True eloquence, such as you certainly possess, is a gift from the gods, but by careful study of humannature, superb mastery of detail, a magnetic presence, strong physique and a voice of remarkable resonance and power, you have made it a hostage to science, and pointed the way to others who are willing to work out their destiny by their own might. I 33 The Late Dr. Henry C. Woode, of Vicksburg, Miss should be delighted to hear the delivery again." Bishop Walters is one of the hardest work prelates in the country, but he works with method and system; consequently he is seldom given the credit of being as busy as he really is. Besides his own diocese, which embraces the New Jersey, Virginia, South Florida, West Alabama, Porto Rico, Cuba and West African conferences, he has Bishop Hood's New York and New England conferences, and during the winter he has been assisting Bishop Harris in his Western New York conference. In the meantime, the interests of the National Afro-American Council, of which he is the official head, have not been neglected, and a voluminous correspondence has received prompt attention. It will thus be seen that Bishop Walters does his share in the world's work, and a book telling of the inner side of his life is certain to out of the realm of the ordinary biog- The Late Dr. Henry C. raphy. raphy It may not be generally known, but it is nevertheless a fact, that certain mail order firms doing business in various sections of the country make arbitrary distinctions between whites and blacks when an order is placed with them, if they are aware of the color of the intended customer, and they usually take pains to find out. A case in point is the "New Method Company," 5552 South Park avenue, Chicago, which makes a specialty of manufacturing illustrated pin and card trays, calendars and other souvenirs in aluminum, bearing pictures of churches and their pastors, to be retailed among their members and friends by the churches as a money-raising device. A club of church workers in southern Indiana, being attracted by an advertisement, corresponded with the firm, and finally sent on their photographs and placed an order for several hundred, accepting the conditions of purchase, as outlined in the advertisement. In a short time a letter came from the New Method Company, stating that the liberal terms offered in the circulars, etc., applied only to white churches, and that when colored churches desired their wares the full amount in cash must invariably accompany the order. Just why this undiscriminate discrimination the deponent sayeth not. The presumption is that some colored customer has at some time failed to remit as promised, and as a result the entire race has been put down as bad pay. --- That it is unfair to make a whole race suffer for the misdeeds of a few goes without the saying. Negroes, like whites, should be held responsible as individuals only. The man who pays, whatever his race, ought not be held responsible for the man who does not. There are white dead-beats and there are black dead-beats. It seems to be the man-up-a-tree that the classification should be based upon the character of the persons placing the order, and that the investigations made by the New Method people should tend to discover the credit of a presumptive customer, and not his color. No hard and fast line can be drawn between races that will leave all of the paying class upon one side and all of the delinquents on the other. * * * * There is such a thing as being "too reasonable," and the dividing line between sycophancy and assinity is very, very thin. At one of the recent Woode, of Vicksburg, Miss meetings in connection with the Golden Jubilee of the Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church in Washington, Rev. J. F. Chestnut, a minister of the M. E. Church, went far out of his way to cross the line, and has a job-lot of criticism coming to him because of the indiscreet and unnecessary declaration that the Negro members of the M. E. Church were satisfied with the selection of a missionary bishop to Africa at $3,000, and a high salaried secretary and editor—all chosen by white votes—saying further that the Negro membership would not ask for a colored bishop in this country, as they cannot and do not expect what they would not give themselves if they were placed in the same position as their white brethren. The utterance very naturally met with many evidences of disapproval at the hands of the audience, for it was wholly at variance with the truth, as the friends of Drs. J. W. E. Bowen, E. W. S. Hammond, M. C. B. Mason, R. E. Jones and others well known Dr. Scott accepted the African work because the conference at Los Angeles flatly refused to give the Negroes an American bishop, as did the Cleveland conference before it, and the compromise was the best that the colored delegates could get out of their white brethren. In addition to this, they secured an under secretary-ship for Dr. I. L. Thomas, and that was all that could be promised until 1908, when an effort will be made to pass an amendment that may open a door for a Negro Bishop in this country who will have charge of a --- diocese made up exclusively of Negro churches. So, then, for any speaker to tell a well-informed audience in the national capital, or anywhere else, that the Negro annex of the M. E. Church is not looking for the fullest and highest recognition the church has at its disposal is to "stretch the blanket" out of all semblance of truth, and to discredit the intelligence of those who are acquainted with the facts. Who is the Rev. Mr. Chestnut trying to curry favor with? Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, the race's best known and most popular elocutionist, has been spending a season on the Pacific coast. At every point touched she was the recipient of the most cordial hospitality, and her addresses, papers and recitations were listened to with many evidences of appreciation. Her itinerary included Los Angeles, San Jose, Sacramento and San Francisco, together with its sister cities, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. In a highly interesting letter to the Cleveland Journal Miss Brown tells of her travels, and gives a graphic account of the progress that is being made by the Negro. The advancement of the colored people along moral, material and intellectual lines is strongly marked in every section of California, and the organization spirit is very much alive, especially among the women. No city where the Negro abides in any considerable numbers is without its club of energetic and public-spirited Christian workers, and they have the hearty co-operation of the men, who are quite liberal in a financial way. At Sacramento Miss Brown had the pleasure of renewing her acquaintance with Mrs. Madah Hyer Stafford, who, as one of the famous Hyer sisters, charmed thousands with her marvelous voice, and who was rated by the best critics of her day as the equal, if not superior, of the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind, then in the zenith of her meteoric career. Miss Brown is back to her duties at Wilberforce, getting ready for the magnificent celebration of the Golden Jubilee in June. State business leagues, to promote the objects of the National Negro Business League, are being organized in many quarters. Arkansas and Mississippi, under the understory efforts of J. E. Bush and Charles Banks, have had powerful leagues for some time, and now Florida, under the magnetic leadership of M. M. Lewey, is preparing to hold a convention of her thrifty business men and women for the purpose of forming a State organization. A call is soon to be issued for the meeting, either at Jacksonville or Pensacola. In Indiana Dr. S. A. Furniss, another member of the executive committee, has the work well in hand, and is receiving much encouragement. In Kentucky C. B. Lewis, an enterprising newspaper man, who was associated last year with Messrs. Bush, Keatts, Banks and Judge Gibbs in the Southern field, is a arousing no small degree of enthusiasm among the business masses, reinforcing the efforts of Mr. J. C. Jackson, of Lexington, also a member of the executive committee, Dr. E. E. Underwood, Prof. W. H. Mayo and Prof. J. S. Hathaway, of Frankfort, A. H. Cabell, of Henderson, Dr. J. M. Peters, of Owensboro, besides the substantial whom Messrs. D. L. Knight, Thomas Cole, E. I. Masterson, J. S. Hopson, S. W. Jordan, Rochelle Smith, W. D. Johnson and W. H. Steward are active factors. The attendance this year at Atlanta bids fair to be the largest yet, as it is in the very heart of the Southland, and within easy access of the bulk of the Negro population of the country. The dates selected by the executive committee for the annual meeting are August 29, 30 and 31. The influence of the national league is daily in evidence in the launching of new enterprises by Negroes throughout the country, the enlargement of those already established, and in the general stimulation of the commercial instinct among our people everywhere. The increase in the number and volume of our banks, realty companies, insurance corporations and manufacturing plants is especially noticeable and very gratifying to all lovers of race progress. R. W. THOMPSON. The original production of Williams & Walker in Abyssinia is reviewed in Sylvester Russell's Review. Send one dollar for a subscription or ten cents to secure a copy to the Sylvester Russell Publishing Company, Orange, N. J. NOTED PHYSICIAN EXSPIRES DEATECLAIMS APROINENT AND WELL-KNOWM GITIZEN MISSISSIPPI MOURNS HER LOSS Dr. Henry Woode Was One the Best Informed Medical Men of His State Stood High as an Officer of Knights Templar Lodge. Charles Henri Woode was born at Rodney, Miss., in 1865. His mother died when he was four years of age, and he suffered greatly in consequence. He attended the public schools of his native home, after which he entered Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (then Alcorn University), graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1884, his being the second class to graduate from said school. After working at various things, among which were teaching and manual labor of various kinds, with the hope of acquiring money enough with which to begin a course in medicine, and, failing to accomplish his aim, entered Howard University at Washington, D. C., any way October, 1889. Finding such an undertaking to be a difficult one without funds, he entered the civil service examination, and being a successful applicant was appointed to a clerical position in the Interior Department, finishing in medicine during this clerical period under considerable strain, being at his desk from 9 a. m. till 4 p. m., and attending lectures at night (as all professional schools of that city had night sessions only.) He graduated with honors from Howard in 1892. He left Washington, after having passed the State Board examination of Mississippi, to locate in Vicksburg, where he lived and practiced his profession for the past thirteen years. He had met with great success as a physician, and enjoyed the highest respect and confidence of his own as well as the white people. "He was the flower of the Negro medical profession of the State." He had been for ten years a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons for the Pension Bureau, and was secretary to that body. He ranked high in the bureau as a painstaking and thorough official. While on a visit to the Pension Office in Washington he was introduced to the Commissioner of Pensions, who paid him the compliment of "sending the best report and medical papers of any medical examiner on the board in these United States." While he wrote many papers of interest which were read on various occasions, he had the distinction of being an ever ready temporaneous speaker. He is the author of a treatise on lockjaw with carbolic acid cure, which was read before the Medico-Chirugical Association at Jackson, Miss., in May, 1901, of which association he was two terms elected his president. As such Dr. Woode had the distinction of being the first Negro to preside in any deliberative body in Mississippi his new the founder of the Union Savings Bank of Vicksburg, and was its president from the date of its organization to the time of his death. He was one of the few thirty-third degree Masons of his race in the State; was a member of the Vicksburg Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar; Patriarch in Odd Fellowship; Supreme Treasurer of Knights of Canaan; Grand Medical Director, Knights of Pythias; Supreme Medical Director of Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World; State Medical Examiner of the Court of Calanthe; member of United Woodmen and other fraternities with which few stood higher. In the church as in temporal affairs he directed his energy to the pleasure of his God and the benefit of his fellowmen. For nine years he served as steward of Bethel A. M. E. Church, rendering invaluable services in that capacity. He gave not only the benefit of his sound judgment, which was always respected, but in many instances he relieved the steward's board by financial assistance when that body would be unable to meet its obligations, and his charity was at any and all times to be relied upon. During almost the entire period of his stewardship he was present at the official meetings, and took great interest in the affairs, and his advice. [Continued on fourth page.] IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. This column is devoted to the interests of woman. Address all communications to the Woman's Department, The Freeman, Indiaapolis, ind. THE WOMEN OF THE HOGAN AGGREGATION THE WOMEN OF THE HOGAN AGGREGATION It has often been said that to know a woman you must find her in her home, then the same thing must be true of an actress, to know her you must meet them off the stage, and the women of the Hogan aggregation are well worth meeting. The time spent with them behind the scenes is as fascinating as the view across the calcdum. Carita Day, the leading lady is just as sweet and lovable, with a mouth full of molasses kisses, baby like, waiting in the wings for her cue, as when she is Selina Giltedge, the ideal of Rufus Rastus. You fall in love with her straightway, not only the men but the women too. Alice Mackey is as interesting as she is good looking, In speaking of her life she said, "I at one time thought I would give it up and while I was off the stage for three years, the old longing would come back, and then I studied hard and improved myself and now I am back again. I am sorry that I do not have an opportunity to show my friends this season especially in Indianapolis what I have learned." Miss Mackey is a good conversationalist with a well modulated voice, a voice that simply captivates you. Mrs. Anna Cook Pankey, the possessor of the leading soprano is a pleasant little woman, who smilingly says she is "Mrs." in private life and with real appreciation that she is a native of Jacksonville, Fla. Muriel Ringold, the youngest offspring of Rev. and Mrs Newcombe, seems as free from seriousness as when 'she flops down on her mamma's foot,' but she is serious enough to talk ambitiously of her work. There is on irresistible attraction about her, so full of life and free from that practiced fascination, that your heart goes out to her just like it does to all mischievous children. Mamie Emerson who sung "Mobile Mandy" was seen here last season with the Smart Set and made a number of friends. She is quite as dashing off the stage as on. She is particularly happy this season. We will all know why before very long. Pearl Levan, the porter's sweetheart has the sweet "won't-come-off smile" and an abundance of beautiful black hair that is all her own. Sarah Green Byrd, the singer of "Old Kentucky Home" is Indiana's own daughter of whom she is very proud. When Mrs. Bryd was told that she was doing so wonderfully well and that her friends were so glad of her success, she modestly answered, "To know that my friends are proud of me, makes me work that much harder." There is something about her presence that bring to your mind the scene and feeling of "Old Kentucky Home." Nellie Danye and Mollie Sullivan, chambermaids, are good-looking noticeably pleasant and seem to be able to get the best out of everything. Then there are Georgia Mickey, Jennie Thompson, Maud and Mabel Turner, Pauline Hackey, Pinkey Cooper, Maria Thomas, Anita Wilkins, Maude Jones, Pearl Brown, Jeanette Foster, Madge Warren, Bertha Gillesple and Amy Leslie, who appear equally as well in every particular and as happy as 'Is Everybody Happy?' While the actresses of this company are giving to the public, the women's contribution to the success of Rufus Rastus on the stage, there is another woman whose part is as necessary as he leading lady and that is the wardrobe mistress, Madame Wilkes. She is a woman of pleasing personality, pretty white hair, and eyes that show that she has sufficient temper to take care of herself, and sufficiently well-bred to control it under the most trying circumstances, while she talks with a delightful French accent. Her duty is to keep all costumes in good order and you know how exceedingly well she does it. Madame Wilkes has had several years experience in this work and is a milliner by trade. This is her first season with a colored show. All these women who are essential to the progress of Mr. Hogan's company are hard workers and very busy. For the most part they are cultivated, refined and determined to do well. While hey are pleasant and even confident THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. after they find that you are in sympathy with their work, they have that half haughty coldness that in time comes to all women in public life. For the world finds pleasure in censuring a women anyway especially when her work brings her in constant contact with men. Every night and almost every day these women amuse the public, and who knows what good they are doing? At some performance to some low-spirited disconsolate soul, the evening's pleasure may be the turning point in that individual's life. The real reward for having done the best they can with the talent and opportunities given them, will come with that rest when He shall judge them and not the people. FACTS FROM THE FALLS CITY A NOTED DIVINE NOW WRITING A MUCH NEEDED BOOK Negro Supporters of Mayor Barth Clamoring for Recognition.—Ernest Hogan, Tom Logan and Rufus Rastus Coming.—Tom Cole's Enterprise Louisville, Ky., Special—Rev. Ernest Hall, pastor of Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, Bloomington, Ill., vice-president of the National Baptist Convention for the State of Illinois, and Moderator of the Wood River Baptist Association, the oldest Association of that denomination among our people in the country, is in the city for a few days, the guest of Dr. L. G. Jordan. He is recuperating from an aggressive campaign through the South, in the interest of the work of the National Baptist Convention, and will visit Evansville, Indianapolis and other points before returning to his home. Dr. Hall is preparing a book on "Pastoral Theology," a guide for systematic service in the ministry for young ministers, which is to be published within the year. It is the first volume on this subject ever written by a colored devine, and is especially adopted to the peculiar needs of the clergy of the Negro race. For this reason, the book will be of vast benefit to our people, and theologians of both races who have been privileged to see the advance sheets of the more vital chapters, unite in praise of its practical value. Dr. Hall is a gentleman of pleasing personality, and has made an excellent impression upon the progressive people of the Falls City. The funeral of Prof. E. L. Jordan, late principal of the Bardstown public schools toook place at Cavalry Baptist church Tuesday afternoon of last week, Rev. C. H. Parrish officiating. He was past officer in the Olive Branch Lodge, Good Somaritans, and was thirty-two years of age. The funeral was largely attended by the citizens of Louisville and by friends from the surrounding country. Dr. R. S Rives, of Broadway, of Broadway Zion Church, preached an unusually able sermon Sunday at Jones Chapel, New Albany, the occasion being the third quarterly meeting of that church. Dr. Rives is being spoken of far and near as suitable material to be mounded into a bishop by the next General Conference of his connection, and it is practically conceded that he will be elected. He is editing a sprightly denominational sheet known as The Zion Methodist, and all things considered, is the most active pastor in the city in promoting enterprises looking to the uplift of the whole people. The skating rink fever is on here, with a vengeance, two rinks being open at present, each capturing a goodly share of the business. Odd Fellows' Hall at the corner of Walnut and 13th streets, known as the Douglass Rink, is owned by a white firm, with Leonard Haley, as floor manager. The I. S. H. Hall at the corner of 9th. and Broadway is occupied by the Palace Rink, owned by A. B. McAfee, of the United States Revenue Service, with Carey B. Lewis as floor manager. Mrs. Minnie McAfee is in immediate charge and, her genial hospitality has won for the institution widespread popularity, and in Mr. Lewis is an able assistant. The Henley ball-bearing skate is used here, and it has given the visitors eminent satisfaction. Both rinks will continue as long as the patronage seems to justify their existence. Miss Nannie H. Burronghs is quite ill, and has gone to Bead's station for treatment and rest. Miss Burrongs is a wonderfully energetic young woman, and her friends fear that in her zeal for her work, she has overtaxed her strength. She is missed at the Woman's Industrial Club and Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Miss Lena Richardson, David, of Clincinnati, a teacher in the school at Early Times, near Bardstown, came over to attend the funeral of Prof. Jordan. She was the guest of Mrs. Walker, in West Walmut street, and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, of New Albany. The Treble Cleft is announced to appear in a grand production of Gilbert & Sullivan's well-known comic opera "Pinafore," sometime in May. Frank B. Waring will close his theatrical season in the far West in time to come on to conduct the reheasasals. He is to assume his favorite role of "Sir Joseph Porter." Word comes from Tom Logan, Louisville's popular comedy star, that Ernest Hogan and the big "Rufus Rastus" company will put in the week of May 20, in this city at the Avenue Theatre. Mr. Logan has been confined in a New York hospital for several weeks, but was able to rejoin the party at Indianapolis and going on to Chicago. He has not forgotten his host of friends at Louisville, and asks your correspondent to remember him kindly to all who remember him. He bees to assure his well-wishers that "he's just as young as he used to be" The Avenue Theatre will do a record breaking business when Ernest Hogan, Tom Logan, Miss Mickie, Alice Mackey, J. Ed Green, Harry Fiddidr, Muriel Ringold, Anthony Byrd, Will Pierce and the rest come 'round. Thomas Cole is fitting up a bandoneon ladies and gent's cafe over his establishment at the corner of Tenth and Walnut streets, and he promises that it will be conducted in first-class style, equal in every way to the famous cafes of Gaskins & Gaines, Gray & Costley in Washington, which are patronized by the elite of that social center. Louisville has long been behind the times in high-grade restaurant accommodations for our people, and Mr. Cole deserves commendation for thus courageously investing his money in an effort to satisfy a long-felt want. Dr. J. E. Ford, the new president of the State University, now in Denver, Colo., winding up his affairs, will return to Louisville to be present at the commencement. May 14 to 17, after which he will assume full charge. He will have the cordial support of the Baptists of Kentucky in his new work, as well as the heartp good will of all denominations represented in the Commonwealth. The A. M. E.'s have purchased the old Lampton Street Baptist Church and Mrs. Lena Mason, the successful revivalist has been placed in charge temporarily. The church is being conducted as an east end mission of Quinn Chapel. Bishop Evans Tyree has been in town and lectured at Quinn Chapel, his "old stamming ground." The colored citizens who supported Mayor Paul C. Barth at the last city election are clamoring for recognition of some kind under the municipal government. They ought to have it, for without the Negro vote, Mayor Barth would today have been a private citizen, instead of the official head of the Gate City of the South. TOM RICHARDSON. The A. M. E. church have begun revival meetings and have seceded the services of Mrs. McDonald, of Chicago one of the most KEOKUK successful evangelists of the Middle-west of the A. M. E. church.—The funeral of Adam Weaver was largely attended at the Seventh Street Baptist church Sunday afternoon. The services were held by Rev. M. Smothers.—The Freeman can be secured at 922 Des Moines Robert Norwood, age 46 years, died at his late home, March 24, after a week's illness of pneumonia. He was born in Alabama and Meridian came to Meridian MISSISSIPPI. about five or six years ago and was married to Mrs. H. F. Sanders. He was a carpenter, and a member of the Masons Lodge No. 113. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L S. Lee and Rev. M. S. Joues at the New Hope Baptist church—Charles Lewis, engligner on the A. & V., one of the best on the road lost his life in an accident on engine 405. His fireman, Bud Glpson was badly scalded. Z O. Mitchell and J. W. Longworth, pasol clerks were badly bruised also.—The Knights of Pythias and Calanute Court held their annual services at St. Paul M. E. church.—Rev. H. L. Young who has been visiting his family has returned to Greenwood. TESTIMONIAL I have used two bottles of Ford's Hair Pomade, formerly known as "Ozonized 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. For further information see advertisement "Ford's Hair Pomade" on another page. I have seen the original of the above testimonial, and know it to be genuine.—Ed. The Freeman. A Napoleon of Finance [Original.] Wilfred Dealey was an original. He never did anything as any one else would do it, and it must be admitted that in nine out of ten cases he made lamentable failures. He was fortunate in the possession of a wife who had embounded confidence in him. Where others saw simply shiftlessness, a propensity for gambling or the attributes of a natural born fool, Mrs. Dealey saw the inspiration of genius. Instead of complaining when there was nothing to eat in the house that she had a good for nothing husband, she simply sighed and said that when the scheme Mr. Dealey was working turned out brilliantly there would be a-plenty. But between the present and the future reaping of such a reward of perseverance small debts accumulated. They were getting so oppressive that everybody was beginning to wonder how Mr. Dealey would support himself under their weight when he solved the problem by taking his departure for the Klondike. This was considered the only real bit of management that Mr. Dealey was entitled to feel proud of Mrs. Dealey declared that the debts had nothing to do with her husband's departure; that he had heard of a wonderful claim owned by a friend of his who needed money to push it, and Mr. Dealey had gone out to help him. This occasioned a smile on the face of the listener, who wondered where the impeculous Dealey was to get the necessary means. Indeed, it appeared to be a case of the blind leading the blind. But Marshal Ney did not cover the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow more successfully than did Mrs. Dealey cover her husband's flight to the Klondike. When the mortgage on the house was about to be foreclosed she showed the mortgager a clipping from a Klondike paper mentioning the immense returns of a mine in which Wilfred Dealey was part owner. When the grocer refused any further credit Mrs. Dealey showed a similar clipping from another paper, mentioning another mine in which her husband was part owner. The butcher and the baker were shown still other articles, and when they compared notes it appeared that Mr. Dealey must have an interest in the principal mines in the Klondike. Then they all let up on the plucky little woman and kept her supplied with what she needed. One day Mr. Dealey returned. He was well dressed and looked prosperous. He went about among his fellow townsmen borrowing on the next dividend on his different mines in the Klondike, paying a high rate of interest, which he said he could easily afford to do. He was raising funds for a new deal, out of which he expected to make a large profit. "Oh, that little matter," he would say to the collector contemptuously, when pressed for the amount of a bill, "I'll get around to that just as soon as I get settled. You see, I've been away a good while, and my dividends on my mines are only just commending. When they get up to $500 a day, as they certainly will within six months, I'll call in and pay the amount. And, say, tell your employer to charge up 10 per cent interest from date of purchase. Big interest? A mere bagatelle. I've paid 25 per cent a month for money in the Klondike, but I could afford to. With the money I secured a claim worth a million." Such lordly talk as this could not fail to inspire confidence, and while Mr. Dealey was strengthening his credit with the men Mrs. Dealey was chatting with the women about her husband's wonderful ability as a financier. And in this the good woman was not mistaken. Any man who can pay debts with promises and get loans on the creations of his brain is indeed a financial genius. It was plain that Mr. Dealey was in some big scheme, more remarkable even than his gold mines. This was evident from the large sums he had borrowed. Two different banks that had difficulty in loaning their money safely and at a good interest got into fierce competition for Mr. Dealey's loans, but he quieted their ardor by taking all they both had for him. I seemed that the more he borrowed the more he could borrow. When the quarterly interest on the first loans fell due he coolely wrote on the back of the notice "Charge it up." But suddenly there was a big scare among Mr. Dealey's creditors. A man from the Klondike came to town who claimed that there were no such mines there as those described in the newspaper clippings Mrs. Dealey had shown her neighbors. Another person from New Orleans claimed to have seen Mr. Dealey in that city when he was supposed to have been in the Klondike. The creditors all pounced upon Mr. Dealey at once. He restored confidence simply by a smile. Then he said: "Tomorrow I shall begin to pay off my debts." Cotton was soaring, and Mr. Dealey spent most of his time at a long distance telephone ordering sales on the exchange. One evening he went home to his wife, and, putting his arm about her, said: "My dear, I figure up a profit of $155,000." "Oh, Wilfred, what a bright man you are!" Mr. Dealey had made up his mind to go in for the next rise in cotton. While he was supposed to be in the Klondike gathering in gold mines he was in the south studying the cotton problem. With the credit manufactured in the former he reaped a harvest in the latter. 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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: Hl West 27th Street, New York. TO HAVE AND NOT TO HOLD Under the above headline I desire to make special mention of an avocation—one in which so many of the men of our race are engaged—that has served a two-fold, if not a many-fold purpose in California. Early in 1902 the Southern Pacific railroad concluded to better the dining conditions upon their system of roads, that they may meet in competition the lucrativeness of the Fred Harvey system installed on the Santa Fe. At that time wrote a personal letter to the management of that road in which I pointed out the advantages and value of employing colored help, naming in particular, the existence of an inexhaustible supply, obtainable as all times in the South. Let us forget of the possible influence of this letter and note the fact that when they (S. P. R. R) did open their eating houses at Humboldt and Battle Mountain, Nev., and dining cars were placed on their lines, colored help was used from chef down, waiters inclusive. The first fold purpose rendered by this act is found, in the fact that it opened to our men an old accustomed, yet remunerative job, so individually his of old, that only his inefficiency or his own badness alone could possibly oust him. Japanese and Chinese help were not, at that time, desirable, and the very fact that the dining car superintendent of that road was a well seasoned Southerner who knew the worth of our people as servants, put at rest any move to install the use of other help, and "thus we had." But the yelping voice of the coyotes in the desert near Humboldt and Battie Mountain, Nev., made a weird contrast to the remembered festive melodies of the once fair Southland, then to these colored waiters may have said "what's the use of money if you can't spend it." These discomforts of mind doubtless made it impossible to keep Negro help there and at other eating houses on the Southern Pacific railroad system. Japanese were hired for these places while recently they were placed on the buffet cars between Oakland, Cal., and Portland, Oregon, as an experiment with a promise that, if satisfactory, they would replace all the colored men who are employed as such west of the Sierra Nevada. White dining car crews were, some time ago, placed on several lines out of Oakland and San Francisco. It has been but a short while since colored help was moved from the overland limited trails on the Southern Pacific railroad and white used in their stead. I predict that within the course of a short time colored help will be entirely dispensed with on the line mentioned. I dare say that if the true deportment of each man that has been "let out" was known the report would show up bad service, to) free use of liquor and gen INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $4.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWAIRES. J. W. Redmond, Headwater of The Carroll, Vicksburg, Miss. 10-06. C. W. Dewer, headwater Commercial Club Newapolis, Minn. 8 105 C. H. Plummer, headwater Hotel Brunswick, Uniontown, Pa. 10-05 R. H. Bradley, Headwater Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 G. W. Blair, Headwater of The Oliver, South Bend, Ind. 12-06 HOTEL DIRECTORY This column used exclusively for the ad dresses of hotels restaurants lodging and boarding houses and club rooms throughout the country, and intended as a guide for the traveling public—you business solicited. Bald Reformer--First class in all respects Bald Reformer, Chondra, V. A. W. Holmes, manager. Black's Hotel- A modern first-class hotel rudely reped, H. Black, Manager, Brendan Wynne The Parker House- Rooms, bath. J. W. Hollman, proprietor, Indianapolis, Ind. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. veral deficiencies to be a part of the rightful cause. At the "Denver and Rio Grande" depot in Salt Lake City, Utah, the other day I saw four dining car waiters (colored) shooting craps on a table by an open window of a car directly opposite the depot while scores of people stood waiting for their trains. This happened not to be on the Southern Pacific, but that which has caused one road to discard the colored help from the service of that road is always sufficient and a precedence for other roads upon which to act. Several roads in the East do not use Negro help. How impressive ought it to be imprinted upon our minds that it is the bad little things done by the few of us that cause the race to wear its yoke of oppression. If each one could be made to understand that every act he may do goes to help make a grand total either for or against us as a race, and that if they would refrain from petty self-degrading acts our universal estimate would be raised, and our rating change on the gamut of progress of races. The second-fold purpose wrought in the act under consideration has manifested itself in the quality of those who have come to our shores (California, etc.) Whatever may have been the prime inducement to migrate, the act of itself shows enery and a discontent with present conditions, or a progressiveness so prevalent in our moving people from the South. By this the standard of the colored people on the Pacific shores have been greatly enhanced. Business avocations have increased among us, and the churches seem to be prospering, at least, numerically and financially. Frankly admitting that in some States there are those of us who do not merit every privilege granted in equal social laws, yet, when you survey our street corners for the lazy loafer, search California cities in vain for Negro dives and hoodium districts your search will have you know that they do not exist among us. A visit on Monday morning to the police courts will give evidence of the law-abiding citizenship reigning here. Furthermore, no other evidence save the face that greets you at a door will aid you in guessing the nationality of the king of that palace. The accumulation of worthless, yet time honored junk in the front and back yard of a house in California is a sight seldom or never seen among our people of the Golden West. Statistics show that in Oakland, Red Bluff and Frisco, Cal, seventy per cent of the Negro population own their homes or are paying for them. Although several avenues that once were open to them, they did not hold, their present status does not prove that a future will not present a deep regret, for opportunity and time are akin. They either are now or was then. We who have realty ownership here, if we will but hold even that, the progressive stride of the other race will surely enhance its value and the Negro of the West will be beyond all other Negroes of the world, demonstrate the feasibility and value of "home ownership," the invincible doctrine of Dr. Booker T. Washington W. R. MOTEN, 860 Brush. Oakland, California. HILL CITY HOTEL NEWS On March 19, 1908, the Vicksburg Walters' Local No. 1, under the jurisdiction of the Head, Second and Side waiters National Benefit Association of America, was established with the following officers and members: J. W. Redmond, headwaiter at the Carroll, president. Henry Williams, vice-president H F Foster, secretary. Members—Thomas Smith, Lucious Jones, Frank Jones, Frank P. Plump, Geo. S. Melkins, Thomas Swan, Owen Hunter, Owen Smith, John Molintyre J. W. Bell, James Coleman, George McDotson, Will Joiner, James Carrel and Jesse Ford. We have our meeting every Monday night and is largely attended. The Local is progressing nicely. We are continually adding members to our local. We are proud to say that every member of our local is financial with the National Benefit Association. J. W. REDMOND, President. MINNEAPOLIS NOTES. MINNEAPOLIS NOTES. Alas! the long felt need of a "Hotel" up to date in every particular has been supplied by our kind and most congenial head waiter of the Commercial Club, Mr. C. W. Dwyer. Mr. Dwyer has been a resident of Minneapolis, Minn., for only a short while, having come here from St. Paul about four years ago to fill the position as now holds. He being a deep thinker and a quick observer viewed the situation and considered it his duty to do something to provide a place where our many theatrical friends as well as many others could enjoy the benefit of their money in nice quarters. The whole of Minneapolis will join and say hall, all hall, to C. W. Dwyer for the grand and most noble effort to uplift and elevate the race. Mr. Dwyer has a crew of about twenty-three waiters, including the dinner men, being assisted by H. Harris, who succeeded N. Elley as second waiter, and F. Baxter as first captain, C. Pemberton, second captain, and R. B. Johnson, first lieutenant, R. E. Manly, second lieutenant. Mr. J. A. Lee, one of the Commercial Club crew, has resigned to accept a position at the National Hotel. R. L. Buttner has been on the slok list, but he is up and able to be working again. Mr. Sanders still holds his own as headwaiter at the Nicolet Hotel. Sam Crawford is still headwaiter at the West Hotel, assisted by Mr. Scott. The boys feel that there is some one missing out of their crew when they do not get the Freeman regularly. J. A. Boykin, who has charge of the private dining rooms at the Nicolet, has been confined to his home with rheumatism for about six weeks, but we are proud to say that he is now able to be at his post of duty. The boys have succeeded in going into "Cromble Cafe," succeeding a white crew, with Mr. A. Caldwell, formerly third waiter at the West Hotel, as head-waiter. This is the third time the boys have had a trial at this place within eighteen months, but they claim things are more favorable than ever. Among the new arrivals at the Dwyer Hotel last week were the well-known Bert and Bertha Grant of the Orpheum Circuit, who are making a hit, and Mr. Field, secretary of Griffin G Logan of Holly Springs, Miss. They were well pleased and say that the Dwyer Hotel is second to noose. A reception was tendered Mrs. Preston of Detroit Mich., at the residence of Mrs. Neal, 1833 Fifth avenue S., on March 12th, by the ladies of the different clubs, entertaining from 2 to 5 p. m. It was a very nice affair. Bert B. Luckett and Matt Neal, formerly of Oklahoma City, O. T., are now with W. Alonzo Locke at the Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tenn. Prosperity commands respect. Look prosperous, wear "Perfecto Diamond". 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 satisfaction. $1 00 J. L Edghill, 642 E. 141t St., N. Y. THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING Of the National Benefit Association of Head, Second and Sidewaiters in New York City May, 1906. (Continued.) Looking forward to the next annual convention, which will be held in the great metropolis, we have reason to expect not only a very large attendance of the best brain of the profession, but many needed changes and improvements in the working order of the association. Some plan must be drawn whereby the statistics of colored waiters can be correctly learned and kept by the organization. It is aburd to have a national organization of this character that keep no correct record of the men who follow the occupation. This is easily ascertainable from the local organizations and members scattered throughout the States. There is no city or locality where we have not a member, and in many of the cities we have local organizations which should keep posted on the success and failure of the colored waiters in that State and also keep the national association informed on such changes and likewise on the success and improvments of waiters in that particular State and locality. It is no great task to any member of the organization to write an occasional letter to the national grand secretary, giving him information of the changes both for and against the best interest of the colored waiter. This news could be then communicated to the members 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 cuvassing, and agency work to represent us. The work which we wish you to do is to manage branch office, take orders, deliver, collect, appoint agents, post signs, distribute advertising matter, etc. 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 better 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 $269 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 full partisans, address at once Dapt F. McPHerson SONSALTY CO. Dorchester, Va hrough the press and such publications as we have selected for the dissemination of the news. The main fault of the members is that they hesitate to discharge these little duties they owe to the progress and well-being of the association. They think it the duty of some one else and likewise the other fellow believes it will be done by another and so it goes without attention. The association is in need of wide-awake, thinking men, those who have ideas and are not afraid to express them. Men who not only have a personal interest in the association, but an enthusiasm that follows every change that will tend to improve the business of the organization. We have a roll call that exceed a thousand, but unfortunate only a very small percentage of this thousand are thinking men. They all think in their own way, but only a small percentage express their thoughts so that they benefit their fellow workman. It is not the man who talk the most that does the most good; some men have a faculty of doing great good by action, by the cleanly life they live; by the honest and fearless manner of their speech; by the cleanliness and warmth of their personality. These men accomplish as much as those who have ideas we approve. There is an honesty of expression in the eyes of some who influence the confidence and respect of their friends; men whose word is sufficient endorsement to make friends pursue any course with zeal. This is the class of men the association appeals to, they are the spirit of the profession. SHORT FLIGHTS. Back to the farm for Marvin Hart. Nature lays her richest treasures a the door of brains. This is the era of the young man in politics and in business. The heroism of Robert E. Lee and Joe Wheeler are a white man's assets, pure and simple. Certain A. M. E. churchmen are quite fond of "Forces" as a breakfast food, but draw the line at "Graham crackers." In response to the inquiry, of the Washington Bee touching our welfare, we beg to assure our esteemed contem- porary that we are doing pretty well, thank you. Editor Harry C. Smith of the Cleveland Gazette trots out Senator Joseph Benson Forsaker as his entry in the presidential free-for-all in 1908 and is playing him for a place. 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All matter should be addressed to The Freeman Publishing Company, INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA. TUSKEEGE INSTITUTE'S SILVER JUBILEE. Twenty-five years ago little was known of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, but to-day wherever you may go you will, doubtless, find some one who has he rd or read something of the mighty efforts it has and is putting forth toward lifting a people. Men and women in the highest walks of life on both sides of the Atantic, hearing of its wonderful work, have gone miles this week in order that they may see exactly what this institution is like. From the many words of praise that have been spoken by many of these distinguished persons we feel sure that they find Tuskegee far beyond their expectations. The thought of such men as Robert C. Ogden, of New York, Secretary of War Taft, Andrew Carnegie, President Charles W. Eilot of Harvard University, Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, Isaac N. Seligman of New York, A.S. Frissell, president of the Fifth Avenue Bank, New York, Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York "Evening Post," and Dr. Edward Knox Mitchell of the Hartford Theological Seminary, turning themselves away from their very important duties for the special purpose of taking part in Tuskegee's Silver Jubilee shows very strongly how little attention has been given those who sought to condemn Tuskegee and its very able principal, Booker T. Washington. These men have seen that Mr. Washington had executed a fundamental plan by which a redemption of a people was being made, and so they "chose the better part." Mr. Andrew Carnegie made an address on the third day of the celebration to this end, when he said in part: "If these still be doubters they must soon be convinced, for those who like us to-day have opportunities for seeing what is transpiring have all doubts dispelled. We are on the right path, therefore, ladies and gentlemen, when we ask the educated and public spirted members of Southern society to permit us to co-operate with them in extending the influence of Tuskegee and her sister institutions and in elevating the colored race in every way, and we are also right in asking them to co-operate with us as citizens of the great Republic now more closely united into one harmonious whole than was ever possible before when the two antagonistic systems of freedom and slavery prevailed. There does not exist to-day a great nation so completely one in thought and feeling throughout all its wide domain as our own race. May it ever so remain! Let us do what we can to increase the sense of brotherhood." Brother Johnson, we feel that logic is good for all of us and facts are able to stand alone. It is just as easy to think your friends have special interests to be served as the other fellow until you have proofs, and then proofs talk much leader than abuse. But when you are in danger it is no defense to make faces at the man that is firing hot shot into your last ditch. A Philadelphia paper has discovered that the loose change in this country is now being put into real estate. Well, better in land than gambling stock. If the country would be saved put it in land rather than let insurance grafters do the saving. We often read of a man who killed some one and then himself, and we wonder why it did not occur to him to first kill himself. Mrs George C. Hall is a leading member of the Frederick Douglass Center composed of the flower of the literary life of Chicago. Not long ago Mrs. Hall was chief promoter of a charity ball, which was voted the most imposing social function held in Chicago for many years. She is the wife and true help-meet of Mr. Geo. C. Hall, whose practical labors in behalf of Provident Hospital, together with its helpful propaganda against tuberculosis, has attracted to him the attention of the scientists of the naion. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. That Charles Alexander has a different brand of stationery for every day of the week. That the ladies of the various sewing circles have ceased to indulge in racy gossip. That the depositors of the luckless Capital Savings Bank at Washington will be paid in full. That Recorder J. C. Dancy has actually began work upon his long-promised "Life of Dr. J. C. Price." That Jay Wesley Cromwell of antediluvian fame has been discovered with a new idea upon his person. That ex-Congressman George H. White will be one of the new members of the Interstate Commerce Commission. That L. M. Hershaw is considering an invitation to deliver the commencement address this year at Tuskegee Institute. That the editors of the church organs earn every dollar of their salary as the receiving end of the kickers' weekly fusilade. That the private lives of Dr. W. T. Vernon's detractors will show unprintable revelations were the searchlight turned on at power. That Editor W. Calvin Chase has been seen coming out of the white house with a EDITORIAL SQUIBS. On to Tuskegee. Ah! thank you, April. Good weather is a future pleasantry just now. The last call for the Easter bonnet is at hand. How glorious ye editors spend thy spring days in the South. If they got you last Sunday, do not let them continue to do so the rest of the year. It is not the birds of spring that the poet should sing of, for awhile yet it is the birds on the hat. Alas! New York is to fall in line with the rest of the progressive cities by doing away with all horse cars. Three cheers for Indianapolis! It can now boast of publishing five Negro weekly papers and one monthly periodical. Have you thought of the many happy hours the future holds for you—especially the hours to be spent in spring house cleaning? —x— The young Negro should remember that the man who carries a cane indicates two things—that the bearer either has a weak head or a weak back. —x— Just now the young wife may show a great amount of love and devotion, but do not think it is because of her wanting a new gown and bonnet, young husband. President Roosevelt has received a letter of twenty closely written pages from an Ohio citizen in which he threatens to sue the government for $5,000,000 as damages for blighting the writer's literary prospects through various prosecutions. It may surprise the President to learn that the writer's literary prospects should be so costly. -x- Some of 'the petitions from amateur detectives, anxious to serve the nation as members of the secret service, are fearfully and wonderfully constructed. One reached the service headquarters, last week, from a little town in the interior of Kentucky which is in a class by itself. The writer says: "I am a traveling Man handlin Patent medclin and I Can Gave yow names as Goods mens as this Country Can aford' and for Secret Service they is no man I cannt Lokite from a picture A person Can Comit a Criminal 20 years and on leave that place and Be 50 or 65 years of age I no Him Just the Same for there is a mark that Gownt be Change I Dont think them is nothing in Detective Work I Gownt Do I have a remedy to Cure Eating Cancer and I am en Every Body Howe an Diffen town and State and all Class of People I remane yowrs truely." Could there be a better demonstration of the fact that ignorance of "the best citizens" is very great and therefore, there can be but little wonder at the cannibalism that is frequently practiced in the South. mysterious smile suffusing his capacious countenance. That the Fates have picked out Charles W. Anderson as the logical—if not literal—successor to Thomas C. Platt in the United States Senate. That 10,000 Negroes have placed one or more of Paul Lawrence Dunbar.s work in their libraries since the demise of the Afro-American poet-laureate. That contestant A. P. Prioleau will be given the seat in Congress to which he was legally elected by the sovereign voters of the first district of South Carolina. That T. Thomas Fortune, William Monroe Trotter W. Calvin Chase and W. E. B. Dubois have organized a mutual admiration society with themselves as charter members. *** That Prof. Jesse Lawson has joined the Catholic church, and will also accept the commissionership of the Jamestown Exposition for the District of Columbia and New Jersey. *** That Giles B. Jackson, Director-General of the Negro Annex of the Jamestown Exposition, has signed Editor F. H. M. Murray as chief assistant at the munificent salary of $5.00 per minute. That there will be a new deal in the principalship of the M Street High School, Washington, D. C., concerning which Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce is saying nothing, but looking "dreadful wise." * * * That Zion's long list of alleged laymen holding general offices turned out to be made up of women, occupying minor and non-salaried positions in the woman's department. --- That the close communion labor unions, in recognition of the common brotherhood of man, have opened their doors and thrown out a protecting arm to cover every member of the toiling millions irrespective of race or color. SCRIBES & SCRIBBLERS. --- "Ebony" is the peculiar title of a new race magazine soon to be issued at Philadelphia by T. Wallace Swann. --- Miss Athaline Peyton of Louisville, Ky., is to bring forth her highly praised cook book, "Peytonla," at an early date. --- The Colored American Mažazine for April contains a well written article on "Louisville and Its Negro People" from the pen of Carey B. Lewis. J. C. Waters, Jr., is contributing some interesting comments on current events to the Washington Record, of which his father, Rev. J. C. Waters, is managing editor. --- Dr. J. H. Manley and R. W. Thompson have been notified by Editor R. S. Rives that they have been added to the editorial staff of the sprightly Zion Methodist, published in the interest of the A. M. E. Zion connection at Louisville, Ky. --- There is talk of launching a journal at Louisville, Ky., as the organ of the National Afro-American Council, under the direction of the general officers located there—five in number—headed by Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary. --- L. G. Gregory of South Carolina, one of the brightest young men in the Treasury Department, has been promoted. Mr. Gregory is also a practitoner of law, being a graduate of Howard's law department, and severed a term very satisfactorily as president of Bethel Literary at Washington, D. C. M. M. Lewey, the enterprising editor of the Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla., will issue a mammoth trade edition in May. Mr. Lewey is the owner of the largest printing plant controlled by Negro capital in the South. He is now busily engaged in organizing the Florida State Business League as an adjunct to the National Negro Business League. NOTED PHYSICIAN EXPIRES. (Continued from First Page.) when followed, proved invariably the best course to pursue in conducting the business of the church. He always attended the services of his church unless prevented by causes over which he had no control. He lived that life which awaits its reward in the world above. The life of this prominent citizen constitutes an eloquent sermon on the various problems that are vexing the souls of thinkers of both the white and black races. One question clearly and plainly answered by the life of this man is that the reward that awaits uprightness, industry, self-respect and respect for the law is the same for one race as for the other. He was a type of the Negro in the highest and best development --- of the race. Let one live honestly and soberly, save money, gain the confidence of his fellows, lead an honorable life, and success and popular esteem are his reward. Dr. C. Henri Woode died at his home on Magnolia street Feb. 26, 1906. He had been ill several weeks and suffered with a complication of diseases. Although he had every attention that money and medical skill could provide, it was soon known that he could not recover. A few days before his death he told many around him that the pearly gates were standing ajar, and that he would soon be where there was no more sorrow. "I see my way clear," said he. "There is not a shadow of doubt." His last words were: "It is all over but the shouting." The funeral was an event which will not be forgotten by the people now living in this city and many other sections of this State and country. The sermon was delivered by Rev. John J. Morant, the eloquent and scholarly pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, who, as prelate of the Knights Templars in full regalia of the order, made it both powerful and impressive. Rev. Morant is comparatively a young man, but his place in the community has been fixed by the powerful discourse in which he told of the deceased and the many good qualities and lessons of his life. Rev. E. W. Benjamin, for several years pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city, delivered the eulogy, which was beautiful, presenting to the audience the thought that Dr. Woode's death was a likeness of the blessed Savior's when He said, "Not my will, but thine be done." Luke xxii, 40. The solo, "Beyond the Gates of Paradise", by Rev. R. T. Middleton, the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, created a profound impression on the vast audience, which struggled for a glimpse of the inside of the church and the mass of humanity packed to the very doors. A solo, "Face to Face", by Mr. Peter R. Saunders, melted the vast congregation to tears and touched the hearts of many. The choir sang softly, "There's Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus," which was the last hymn Dr. Woode sang on the morning before he died. The march to the cemetery was headed by the Knights Templars, mounted in full regalia, under the guidance of Eminent Commander Jere M. Blowe, the most conspicuous in the arrangement and conduct of the obsequies. The Knights of Canaan, led by the venerable Supreme president, W. H. Spriggs, was next in importance. The Board of Directors from the Union Savings Bank, the Odd Fellows and many other fraternities fell in line to show in what high esteem the deceased was held. Two bands led all the procession and played alternately the most solemn marches. The fraternal organizations, the procession of carriages, horsemen and footmen reached from Belmont street on Washington to a point on Cherry, north of the Court House, nearly a mile in length. Hundreds of people representing all walks of life and all races and colors thronged the streets and attended the funeral. Among the prominent fraternal people present and those engaged in professional and educational work in the State and other parts of the country were Drs. H. E. Connor, Brookhaven, Miss.; L. H. Harris, D. W. Dumas, Natchez; S. D. Redmond and E. W. Moore; S. D. A Miller and L. F. Miller, Canton; J. A. Miller, H. H. Proctor and Georgia Proctor, Vicksburg; Mr. Thomas F. Simms, Chicago, Ill.; President L. J. Rowan, Profs. Carrell and Craig; of Alcorn A. and M. College, Loman; Prof. and Mrs. J. A. Martin, Prof. W. H. Lanier, Mrs. S. D. Redmond, Misses Linnie Redmond, Josie Washington, Maud Goodson, Mr. and Mrs. Rischer, Lawyers Beadle and Howard, Mr. R. D. Picket, all of Jackson, Miss.; Prof. W. H. Brumfield, Natchez; Mr. James Hill, Valley Park; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wallace, Greenville; Mrs. Udoxe McAllen, Foreman, Ala.; Mr. R. H. Smith, Mrs. Ellen White, Mr. Wm. Demby, Rodney, Miss.; Messrs. Dennis and Joseph Hennessy, Rolling Fork; Rev. A. D. Snodgress, Port Gibbon; Mrs. Annie Turner Jones and mother, Tallula, La.; Rev. I. A. Dunham, St. Joseph, La.; Mr. and Mrs. Bracy, Mr. Cade, Mr. Albert Parker, E. W. Jones, G. Wilson, Green Joice, Jackson, and many others. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful in the extreme. They were as follows: Cross, by the Knights Templars. Pillow, "At Rest," Drs. Leroy H. Harris, Washington, D. C., and H. E. Connor, Brookhaven, Miss. Pillow, "Supreme Treasurer," Knights of Canaan. Anchor, Mrs. John W. Strother, Greenville, Miss. Star, Union Savings Bank, Vicksburg. 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(None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Break 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER [Name not visible in the image] It only takes a few notes to make a melody, and yet so many of us never sing the little song we could. What a world this would be if we only had eyes to see all the good God has put in it. Showers of blessing are sure to fall on the pews when the man in the pulpit has an overflowing cup. The man who alms at nothing generally hits it. When we do everything the Lord wants us to do, He will do everything we want Him to do. An electric motor not much bigger than your first can do more work than a windmill that can be seen two miles The Way of Escape By JOANNA SINGLE Copyright, 1906, by P. C. Eastment John Kingdon was thoroughly angry. He pulled his cap over his eyes and rushed down a side street to escape Bradford, whose cheerful whistle seemed to be just behind him. He did not want to be pestered to play cards or golf or be pulled to the country club dance. He wanted solitude and his pipe and a chance to wonder why on earth Elizabeth Treynor should suddenly refuse to have anything to do with him after she had golfed and pincked and sang with him all summer and after she had succeeded in getting him thoroughly in love with her. He felt ill treated. He did not fall in love easily and in general he did not care for western girls, being a Connecticut man, Yale trained and Europe finished, before settling to practice medicine in the mid-west. Elizabeth was different, and as he reflected on the difference between her and all other girls in the world he heard Bradford whistling at the Treynor side gate for Jack and then asking if Kingdon were there. Kingdon slipped over the fence in the twilight and clambered up the first conveniently low branched tree. Panting but triumphant he heard Bradford's account of how he had chased Kingdon and lost him somewhere, and that he wanted him to take Nell Somers to the dance they had just got up on the spur of the moment. And where was Jack's sister? Bradford wanted wo ask ner to go wren kilg. Startled by the sound curiously him a suppressed snicker Kinguon decided to climb higher. He reached up for a branch above him and seized a small, warm slipper that gave his hand a little kick. "Keep still, can't you, and let go my foot?" a whisper admonished him. He looked up and saw Elizabeth sitting high and dry on a horizontal branch, swinging her feet and peering toward the house. "S-shi!" she warned again, for her brother Jack and Bradford came into the garden. "Elizabeth!" Jack called. Then: "Confound girls anyhow! She was here five minutes ago, and her wraps are in the hall. She must be near." On the strength of Elizabeth's chuckle Dr. John Kingdon climbed up and sat beside her. Her gray suit made her almost invisible in the growing dark, but he knew by heart the blue of her eyes, the rich browness of her hair and the coldness of her manner to him of late. "What are you doing here?" She tried to get hauteur into a whisper and failed. "What you are—escaping Bradford evidently. I wouldn't go to the dance because you were to be there." "Thanks," she replied. "Neither would I because you were to be there. That's why I'm here. One has to explain to Richard Bradford, and he always wants to know why." "I'd like to know why myself." "Oh, be still. Why doesn't he go?" whispered the girl, for the eternal Bradford sauntered under their tree and lighted his pipe. "Don't wait for me, Jack, old man. I will wait around a bit, and if she doesn't show up I'll come out alone." "The confounded idiot!" Kingdon whispered and put out a protecting hand when she seemed to sway a bit. She froze instantly, and he dared not venture excuse or protest. The darkness had increased, and when the moon came sailing up Bradford swore at his luck and departed, clicking the gate behind him. "Now, Dr. Kingdon, I think you can make your escape." "But I don't want to—now! May I not stay long enough to apologize for intruding on your tree solitude?" He spoke softly, with a delicate clipping of the r's. His fine, dark face bent toward her. "I have not meant to persecute you, but you did not answer my letter. I will never trouble you again, but will you not be fair enough to tell me just what I have done? You could do an enemy that justice!" To his surprise she grasped his arm. "Father and mother!" she murmured. "You'll have to stay. I couldn't explain to them why I am here!" Kingdon hardly breathed, for she forgot to loosen the blessed hold on his sleeve. Mr. Treynor walked in portly pompousness beside his anxious little wife. "Elizabeth worries me so," she complained, and they seated themselves on a rustic bench. "She's so difficult! I can't lay it to college and her trip to Europe, for she was lively till just of late. Now she doesn't enjoy society and is getting interested in the poor. And what do you suppose is her role? DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, son for reasoning to have anything to do with that nice Dr. Kingdon and—" "Some fool notion," her father grunted. "And taking up with that Bradford? I hope she won't marry him. I don't care if we have always known him—he doesn't seem quite nice. Well, he told Elizabeth that Dr. Kingdon said at the club that western girls hadn't reserve enough—that he disapproved of co-education because it made girls too free and easy with men and a lot of stuff like that." "She needn't be a fool if he did. He never meant it for her." "No. I'm from New Hampshire, and she has lived there half her time during the last six years. I wonder where she is now? Probably at Anne's. She's safe enough. Jo, if you're going to sleep we might's well go in. I don't like talking to the air, and I don't like Dick Bradford, and I wish the children were home. Listen to that, now!" Two men, laughing and yelling, drove past in a cart at a furious pace. "It's Sam Brown," continued Mrs. Treynor. "I wish they didn't live next door. He's sure to kill some one sooner or later. He'll come back drunk about midnight and chase the family outdoors. I think the public ought-" Her voice died away as she entered the house with her husband. Then Kingdon turned and faced the still, proud girl beside him. She held her head high, her beautiful face full in the moonlight. "Is that true—what your mother said? Is that why you treat me so? Won't you be fair enough to tell me?" "Well, yes," she admitted. "I don't like being called underbred. It's not true, and you wouldn't like it yourself." "It was a careless statement, exaggerated by Bradford, and made when I had met only a few girls of the Molly Racer type. You know perfectly well that it never applied to you in my mind or anybody's. I saw at a glance that you were thoroughbred—that you added to the older culture of the east the frank courage and honesty of the west; that you had the poise to be a law unto yourself—and unto me. Oh, I shall finish now, for I shall never speak to you again till you say you wish me to. You are a girl I could adore and be proud of, east or west. I would bear anything for one willing word of love from you. You know me—my pedigree, education and behavior—the best of their kind. I haven't much money, though I shall have, but I have pride—as much as you." He paused. Elizabeth looked straight at him. "I was unfair, and I am sorry. I want you to"—A furious rattle of wheels, a sound of cursing and yelling, and Sam Brown's cart careened dangerously as the terrified horse crashed into the fence just beneath. Kingdon started to leap down, then caught the girl's face to his breast and covered her ears with his hands to spare her the sight and sound of the drunken brute being dragged to death. The horse broke loose and dashed...A crowd gathered, and King- 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 THE WOMEN'S HISTORY OF AMERICA was whispered, " stay here—I'll be back in a moment and get you down." He slipped down into the alley and out into the crowd. In about twenty minutes—ages to the girl—he again scrambled up beside her. "I did what there was to do—told them the life had gone out. He never knew what struck him. It's undertaker's work now. This has been miserable enough for you. Let me help you down and to the house." As she did not speak he looked at her. She laughed and held out her hand. "Will you speak to me—now that I ask you to? You are—the nicest man—I know." She took his hand and climbed down, he after her. "Walt," he commanded, swinging down before her. "I shall lift you down." She was just in easy reach of his arms. "And—another thing—I want you to—kiss me!" His masterful took her breath. "Why should I?" she laughed at last. "It's improper—reason enough for a western girl!" he teased. "Impertinent and won't stand," she decided. "Another reason." "Well, Elizabeth—do it—because you want to." He held out his arms, and she could not find it in her heart to deny him. Jean Ingelow and the Nightingales. One evening at dinner Jean Ingelow confessed that though she had often written poems about nightingales, she had never heard one sing. Every one commented on this as extraordinary, and we agreed that a poetess' imagination was a marvelous gift, but we determined that not another night should pass without remedying this grievous omission. 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While the gulls are freebooters and robbers on the island, it is only when other birds are frightened from their nests that they have a chance to carry on their nefarious trade. Eternal vigilance is the price the latter pay for their eggs and young. Except when they are frightened by the approach of some person, their possessions are never left for an instant without a guard. But the fittest manage to survive on the rocks, and these gulls are the most useful birds in the bays and rivers about the waterfronts of our cities. They are valuable as scavengers and should be protected in every way. Three of them are equal to a buzzard. Ten of these gulls are equal to a pig.—The World Today. engaged you will have a score of opportunities to become so. You will receive letters from all over the state. 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I was an old rug, worn smooth by the bare feet of the faithful, even before I was taken from the temple and brought to this strange country across the seas. For months I lay in dark, evil smelling places, before that day when I found myself once more in the blessed sunlight amid a babel of strange sights and sounds. The worshipers in this new temple swayed and jostled each other noisily; the priest waved his arms madly. "Going, going, gone!" he cried. "Going, going, gone!" Aside from the crowd, in the corner where I lay, two men were standing. One talked earnestly to the other, who listened with a certain embarrassment. "Tell her what you have told me," said the first. "Go home to her now. Get down on your knees and tell her that you've made all kinds of an ass of yourself and you know it. Beg for her forgiveness. Beg for one more chance. Beg, for the boy's sake, to be allowed to try again." The other man flushed dully. "I have not been home for weeks," he said huskily. "I couldn't. I've done about all the evil a man can do—except that. I couldn't go from that other crowd to her and the boy." "But you are done with all that now," protested the first eagerly. "You have had your fling, and you've found it J. "ELIZABETH," HE SAID ALMOST FIERCELY, "I LOVE YOU!" yields nothing but Dead sea fruit in the end. It isn't too late to go back. She will forgive you." "How can I ask her to?" said the other wearily. "Think of the grievous wrong"— Just here I was taken up and carried over to the priest, who held me aloft in his arms, while all the people craned their necks and jostled each other in their effort to get a better view. "An antique Gheordez prayer rug," chanted the priest. "A sapphire on an opal ground. A rug that is to other rugs what rubies are to other precious stones—rarer, more brilliant, more costly. Notice the harmony of the contrasting colors—the mosaics of the borders—the splendor of the design. How much am I offered for this superb antique prayer rug?" Then the tide of the shouts of the devout broke against the priest's chant, and in its midst I found myself carried once more to the corner where the two men stood. They examined me carefully. The face of the one who had held back was flushed and eager. "This is the anniversary of our wedding day," he said to the other, "and I will do it. I will go now. I will take her this rug as a thought of the anniversary and on it, where so many prayers for forgiveness have been offered, I will offer mine." "Oh, Allah, be merciful!" he added under his breath. So I went with him to his home, and he let himself in gently with his latch-key and tiptoed softly to the library and laid me before the fire. Then he touched a bell. "Is Mrs. Wharton at home?" he asked the man who answered his ring, and his voice trembled in spite of his efforts to stendy it. The man eyed him curiously. "No, sir," he said respectfully. "Mrs. Wharton and Master Edward 'as been gone, sir, some days." "Mrs. Wharton left a note, and there is other mail," he added, placing a sheaf of letters on the table and retiring with a bow. My master tore open the small square envelope on top, and his face went ashen gray. "I have warned and pray- ed and entreated," he read dully, "and now I have gone where I shall at least be spared the insult of your presence. You have ruined my life and your own, but the boy shall be saved." Under the small square envelope was a long white one. "Her lawyers," he repeated monotonously, opening it and stumbling mechanically through its legal phrasing. Then he threw himself in a chair and buried his face in his arms on the table. "Oh, my God!" he sobbed brokenly. "Oh, my God!" After that night I did not see the master for many months; then one evening he came into the library, looking older and sterner, with deep lines in his face. After that he spent nearly all his evenings in the library, sometimes with friends, but oftener alone, reading or just staring straight ahead into the fire. So the days rolled into weeks and the weeks into months and years until one evening the master came and stood for a long time looking at the picture of a woman and a boy on the mantel. "Three years tonight," he said slowly; "three long years." The curtains of the doorway parted, and a woman came forward part way into the room, a slender, graceful woman who carried her head haughtily, although her lips quivered with nervousness. The master turned abruptly. "Elizabeth!" he cried. "You are surprised to see me here?" "Elizabeth!" he said again in dazed astonishment, then: "The boy? What is wrong with the boy?" he cried sharply. She flushed painfully. "It is because of him I am here. He has some claim on you still, even though I—have none." She stopped abruptly and walked over to the fireplace, then turned and looked at him with proud, appealing eyes. "I have not money enough to educate the boy properly," she said simply, "and there is no one I could come to but you—his father." He did not answer her, but with one quick step forward took her hands in his. "Elizabeth," he said almost fiercely, "I love you! I want you!" Trembling, she leaned against the table. "Love me? After all I did—the divorce—the boy"— "The fault was mine. I loved you through it all. I have always loved you. I love you now"— He looked searchingly at the sweet, averted face, then, with a quick, happy movement, drew her close. "It was not until afterward that I knew how dearly I loved you," she said, with a little catch like a sob in her voice. That was the dawn of a new era. The old silence is gone, and laughter and the soft sound of happy voices echo through the house. I am fond of them all, the master with his merry laugh, the mistress with her soft dark eyes and gracious ways, the boy who brings in troops of his admiring friends to see me. If I sometimes long for the days of my youth—for the silence of the temple and the prayers of the faithful—what would you? Allah alone is perfect. And now, time having been given for the parts to grow with the new relative position, preparations are made to learn the result. Would the figure still be bent or stand erect? A great deal more than a symmetrical person hangs on the result. If he is cured nothing stands between him and his love. The day the plaster is to be removed and the result known the girl goes to the hospital where he lies and is admitted to a waiting room. She paces to and fro in suspense. If an attendant comes in she looks anxiously for a message, but they come and go, and she is not informed. In that delay is the concentrated agony of years. Suddenly a door communicating with the patient's room is thrown open and there, a smile lighting his pale face, nearly a head taller than before, straight as an arrow, stands her lover. Weak from confinement, he supports himself by resting a hand on the shoulder of a nurse, but the girl, springing forward, throws her arms about him. This is a development of a child far down in the depths of the earth, his physical part broken by his confinement, to a man possessing normal condition of body and an expansion of soul. The miner boy has not only become a famous artist, but has become a healthy husband and father. FLORA MILLIGAN. In the notions of the Greeks, Egyptians and others perfume was largely used. Herodotus mentions the incident of the twelve kings of Egypt who were offering sacrifice in the temple of Vulcan. At the door of the temple on the great altar were laid bundles of sandalwood and cinnamon. Upon these the sacrificial boar was stretched, the fire lighted, pastils of incense thrown in and the smoke and "nidrous smells" rose high to heaven. Then into the inner courts marched the royal procession, preceded by incense burners, who bore golden salvers, and by the smaller altar the kings knelt in prayer. The priest, rising, sprinkled consecrated perfume over them and brought forth the golden beakers for libation. But the old man, a little muddle headed, counted eleven cups as twelve. Psammetichus, who was left without, took off his brass helmet and in that offered the perfumed wine to Vulcan, the fire god. Previous to this the oracle had declared that he who offered a libation in a cup of brass should be sole king of Egypt. Unconsciously Psammetichus had fulfilled the condition, and he was therewith proclaimed king. --- Bings' Bargain By LAURA ALTON PAYNE Copyright, 1905, by McClure, Phillips & Co. "What dat, Bings?" cooed the dimpled cherub, patting the bald spot that spread like a small shining desert in an oasis of thick blond hair on Bings' well shaped head. Whitlock grinned. "Mamma's pet mustn't be naughty," said the pretty widow, turning her brown eyes apologetically on Bings. "Come to mamma, dearie. Mr. Bings isn't used to babies." But the dimpled cherub, otherwise Baby Moffatt, who had purposely and after many backsliding climbed upon the rustic seat occupied by Bings, for whom she had evinced a decided partiality from the start, only snuggled the closer to the secretly delighted Bings and cooed, "Baby 'ove Bings," then as a happy afterthought, "Mamma 'ove Bings," at which frank and wholly unexpected revelation of her small daughter the pretty widow's face rivaled Bings'. Whitlock guffawed. "Now's your chance, Bings," he urged, with malicious levity at his rival's discomfiture. But Bings, with a hasty adieu, fed, leaving the cherub disconsolate. Bings metaphorically kicked himself all the way home for not taking advantage of the best opportunity he had ever had, even if it was before the sneering Whitlock, and for his cowardly desertion of the pretty widow to Whitlock's caustic raillery. Bings paused at his own gate and gazed miserably at the big silent house. He shut his eyes a moment and imagined he saw the pretty widow and the cherub sitting on the front porch. It was a blissful vision, but Bings felt that it would never become a blissful reality unless a miracle happened. Bings was a bachelor, Bings was big and blond and bald. Bings was bashful—in fact, Bings was a whole swarm of "B's." He narrowly escaped being a beauty, with his baby complexion and innocent blue eyes. His size was the only thing that saved him from this terrible fate. Moreover, Bings was a bargain fiend. No woman could scent a bargain sale farther off than could Billy Bings. Incidentally Billy was the climax to Bings' woes. But no persuasion on his part could convince his friends of the absurdity of calling a slx footer Billy. Bings' bachelorhood was a condition of neither birth nor achievement—it was thrust upon him. During his evolution into that state there had been any one of a dozen maids and widows that Bings would have been only too happy to have endowed with half his worldly goods but for his excessive bashfulness. Never yet had he been able to screw his courage up to the point of proposal, though he had made almost superhuman efforts in that direction. This seemed a pity, for Bings was undeniably cut out for a Benedict. He thought all women angels and all babies cherubs. As he started uptown on the momentous morning after his precipitate flight Bings had a particular cherub in mind—a pretty, brown eyed, dimpled cherub that he would have given half he was worth to possess and the other half to possess the cherub's pretty, brown eyed mother. But so far every glance from Mrs. Jessie Moffatt's roguish eyes had produced the unfortunate effect of instantaneous paralysis of poor Bings' tongue, so that he could only stand dumb or blush and stammer like any silly schoolboy. This was not the first time by any means that Bings had performed that metaphorical feat. It had been at least a semiweekly occurrence for several months past. Each time Bings vowed that the next time he would not act the fool. But he did. He had reached the point where the inevitable mental feat was copiously punctuated with a vigorous ejaculation that would have shocked the pretty widow had she heard it. Bings felt his helplessness bitterly. So absorbed was he in this thought as he picked his way along the shady street that he failed to observe the widow a block or so ahead of him. A deep gloom enveloped Bings' soul that bright June morning. "Confound it!" he muttered. "If something doesn't happen soon I'll"—"Going... gone." Bings pricked up his ears and hastened his steps. An auction, and he not to know it? Turning a corner, he came full upon a familiar scene just as a table was knocked down to the highest bidder. Bings' eyes glanced over the unusual display of household goods spread before him. "Fifty cents!" bid a voice in the crowd as the auctioneer held up an article. It was Whitlock's voice. Bings' wrath fumed up, and before he had time to think he was bidding furiously against his rival. Fast in the grip of "bargain fever" and whetted on by Whitlock, Bings rapidly became possessor of various articles that were of as much use to him at that period of his existence as a celestial harp and a pair of wings. Had Bings intercepted the exchange of winks between Whitlock and the auctioneer he might have been more cautious. As it was, the barricade around Bings grew and grew. "Going, going—gone!" shouted the auctioneer. "Dirt cheap at that, Mr. Bings. Here, Sam, wheel this perambulator around to Mr. Bings." Perambulator! Heavens! Had he bought a perambulator? Bings wiped his perspiring brow and glared defiantly around. "Why, Billy Bings!" cried a laughing feminine voice at his elbow. "What do you want with a perambulator?" Bings' exasperated gaze encountered that of Mrs. Marston, a merry faced woman. By her side stood the pretty widow with the coveted cherub clinging to her hand. Bings turned fiery red and caught wildly at his hat, or where he supposed it to be, only to find that he was fanning himself with it. Making an embarrassed bow, he began to mop his perspiring face violently. "Here's yer p'ramblat'r," said Sam laconically, pausing in front of Bings. Bings turned fascinated eyes on the thing, which seemed to him to have greatly increased in size during its progress from the auctioneer's stand. "And a baby's high chair," announced another laughing voice as the speaker craned forward and inspected Bings' barricade. There was a general craning of necks. "And a little red rocker," exclaimed another. "A doll—and a doll carriage." "A child's got." "A child's cot." "Footstool, workbasket, sewing chair and sewing machine," enumerated Whitlock, pushing nearer. "Great Jupiter, Bings! What does this mean?" with mock severity. Poor Bings thanked his stars that none of them knew of that cradle in the attic, the result of a former aberration. He gazed helplessly around at his tormentors, then at his barricade. What on earth had induced him to bid in all that stuff? He had made himself so ridiculous in her eyes he'd not stand a ghost of a show now. The only thing left for him to do was to make his escape as best he could. Bings glanced furtively around, but all avenues were closed by laughing faces. He grew desperate. Just as he was contemplating a dash for liberty along the line of the least resistance the miracle that he had been so skeptical about happened. A fraction horse, a woman's scream, a scene of confusion, and when Bings came to he found his arms around the pretty widow, who was clasping the pretty cherub to her breast and sobbing hysterically on his shoulder: "Oh, Billy—dear, dear Billy! Save me, save me!" "There, there, sweetheart," he said soothingly, "the danger is past." Then, turning to the gaping crowd, Bings lied magnificently. "I was just going to explain," said he, "when that confounded horse interfered, that I bought these things for my wife and child. The fact is"—"Mr. Bings!" protested a shocked but smothered voice. "Mrs. Moffatt and I expect to be married just a week from today, and I take this occasion to invite"— "Billy Bings! How dare you?" Baby Bings. Trow date your: —“the whole crowd to attend. The fact is”—the sight of Whitlock's amazed and wholly skeptical countenance stimulated Bings to greater invention —“we would have announced our engagement sooner but for certain unforeseen circumstances that—er-caused us to—er-await a more propitious time. But”— “Oh, Billy, hush!” —after next Thursday we'll be at home to our friends. You all know the way to The Elms, where you'll always find” “Oh, Billy, dear! —a welcome.” A Gentlemanly Robber By C. B. LEWIS Copyright, 1905, by K. A. Whitehead Miss Lucy Davis, twenty years old and the daughter of a widow, was assistant bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the Flint woolen mills in the suburbs of a certain western city. It was one of the duties of the cashier to go to the bank in the city every Saturday forenoon and draw an amount sufficient to pay the wages of the employees, and he had never met with any adventure in so doing. One was coming, however. There came a day when a stranger recognized him and tried to possess himself of the $2,500. He went over the ground from the bank to the mills and laid his plans, and a week before the event he felt certain that the boodle was his. "Look here, Miss Davis," said the mill manager one Saturday foreonow, "I have word that Mr. Samson is sick and won't be down this morning. At 10 o'clock you will have to go to the bank in his place. You can go down on a street car and come back in a hansom." The young lady was rather pleased and proud over the errand, and when the hour arrived she set out with never a thought that it was to be an eventful day in her life. As she boarded a car in front of the mill a good looking stranger about thirty years old got in and sat opposite her. Although she could not say that he ever glanced at her, she had several sly peeps at him and was quite favorably impressed with his appearance. The check was promptly cashed at the bank, and with the money in her reticule the girl reached the door to find an empty carriage drawn up as if awaiting her. "Keb, ma'am?" queried the driver, and next moment she was inside and being whirled away. Miss Davis was so occupied with thoughts or something else that she did not notice the landmarks along the way. When the hack suddenly stopped she looked out and saw that she had not arrived at the mill. Instead of that she had arrived at a lone old house standing alone on the block, and the neighborhood was one she had never seen before. She sprang to the ground and began to question the driver, but he wheeled and drove off without a reply, and out of the house stepped the man of the street car and raised his hat and bowed and smiled. "Where am I? What does this mean?" asked the girl. "If you will step inside I will explain," replied the man. "But I shall not step inside. Why did the carriage bring me here? I shall not stay a minute." But she did. The man stepped forward and passed an arm around her and carried her within in spite of her struggles. He seated her on a box in a bare room and smilingly said: "Excuse me, please, but you were acting a bit foolish. You have asked several questions, and I will now proceed to answer them. "You are in the suburbs. You were brought here to be robbed. You will be detained a few hours and then set at liberty. Had the cashier gone to the bank for the money he would now have been in your place. You will be held blameless in this matter, and you must see that you are also perfectly helpless. I can take the money from you. Better take a sensible view of things. How much money did you draw?" "About $2,000," she replied as she handed over the reticule. "Not a fortune, but fair pay for a day's work. Now, then you have got to endure my society for an hour or two, and I hope you will try to make the best of it." The door had been locked. 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HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of Every Description. Most Complete Lines of Hair goods in foods 50c buys a single braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. 75c buys a double braid made of Black Kinky Hair 16 inches long. $1.00 buys a single braid, 16 inches long. Brown or Black. $1.25 buys a Creole Switch, 20 inches long. $1.75 buys a Creole Switch, 22 inches long. Black or Brown. $3.50 buys a Natural, Wavy, Hand- Send sample of hair when ordering Creole Switches. Send sample of hair with order and get your goods by return mail. Send stamp for catalogue. ```markdown ``` T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. When writing please mention this paper. DRESS GOODS SECTIONS Are taking on a bustling activity that makes necessary the time worn admonition to "come early and avoid the rush." Morning shopping has many advantages SILKS ARE SELLING With a vim that presages more than their usual prominence in "the Easter parade." Beauty is powerfully alluring, and surely silks were never handsomer than this season. MILLINERY CASES Are never deserted. From morning till night there is an interesting throng of womankind gathered in front of them or busled in finding fitting adornment for feminine charms. It's high time to be choosing. L.S.Ayres&Co. OITY AND SOCIETY BRIEFS. Woodbine Perfume has magic powers. On sale at Bledan's Drug Store. Mrs. D. Morton of Evansville, Ind., was in the city this week. B. F. Lee, Jr., son of Bishop Lee, was in the city Monday en route to Bloomington, Ind. Mrs. A. Tribble, Miss Mayme Hawkins, Rev. Moses Franklin and George L Knox attended the M E. Conference at Columbus, O, last week. Miss Olive Dickerson died Monday morning after a short illness. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Corinthian Baptist church. Rev. J. S. Bailey, the new pastor of Simpson Chapel will preach tomorrow morning. Rev. Simmons is stationed at Lexington, KY., Rev. Sissle at Cleveland O., and Rev T. R. Prentiss at North Indianapolis. Rev. M. S. Johnson was re-appointed to Muniee. The following people composed a party attending the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tuskegee Institute this week: Mesdames Mary E. Cable, Harriet Clark Kelly, Nellie Gilliam, Louise Royal, J. B. Morgan, George L. Knox, Charles A. Webb, Jennie V. Taylor, Lavinia B. Sneed. Misses Kate A Mann, Nora A. Roberts, Clara D. Watkihs, Ella Croker, Etta Lewis, Ophelia Harris, George Cable, Ezra Roberts, William Baugh, Edwin Stokes, William Thomas and Mr. Valentine. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Money Lost—If you don't trade at Truelock's Pharmacy. Call up Kimble for transfer, 311 Indiana avenue; Phone 1906. Full line at Bennett Bros'. feed store 321 Indiana avenue. Try Mack Bartley, the tailor for satisfaction, 425 Indiana avenue. Household goods bought, sold and exchanged. W. H. Baron, 888 Indiana Avenue. Found—The best way to save money. Have your prescription filled at Truelock's Pharmacy. Just received a new shipment; 4000 palrs of shoes for men. women and children, at Wilson's Sample Shoe Store, 236 Massachusetts avenue. We want you to carefully compare "Perfecto Dlamonde" with genuine diamonds of the same size and caret Satisfaction guaranteed. $100. J. L. Edghill, 642 E. 141st St. New York V. M. G. A. Notes. Next Sunday's mouser meeting promises to be the biggest ever held by the colored Y. M. C. A. The different fountains of the True Reformers will be out, and ladies are especially invited to be present. A good program has been arranged, including solos by Mrs E Viola Winston and A. C. Bybee; selections by the chorus who will give Bel- "A Second Floor, Room 208, State Life Building (Formerly Stevenson Building) Front Room 15 E. Washington St. Front Room shazzar's Feast; trombone solo and selections by the Y. M. C. A. orchestra; addresses by Chief W. S. Henry and several of the city pastors. Come early if you want a seat. Over 700 are expected. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Easter Sunday a special musical program will be given. Wednesday, April 18, the grandest musical event of the season will be given in Realty Hall, when the Cantata of Belsazzar's Feast will be rendered in costume. A chorus of fifty voices will be one of the many features. The Lyceum continues to draw and interest the men. Mr. A. H. Godard, general secretary of the Central Y M C. A., will address the "Monster Meeting" in the near future. Base ball meeting April 25. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. E Pace and C. Colley have gone to Danville to spend a few days with the latter's brother.—Prof. J. A. Sterrett has opened a new SOUTH FEND dancing school at INDIANA. the Harrison Club rooms in Colfax avenue.—The Women's Federation will convene in the city April 25 and 26. Mrs. Nora Hubbard attended the opening of the Palace Theatre. The funeral of Mrs Walter C, Carsey took place a few days ago at St. Paul A. M. E. church.—Bishop Mack, the successful series of meetings at Zion Baptist church during the past three weeks—The Ladies Sewing Circle of New Hope Baptist church are making preparations to give a grand benefit entertainment at Masonic Hall Thursday evening April 19. The Rev. W. E. Goens, D. D., of Baltimore, Md., is touring the West on an evangelist tour and his efforts have been crowned with success. He is now in this city and his help has been wonderful Rev Goens is an exceptional speaker and his methods are up-to-date in every respect. His separate meetings for men only and women only are most helpful, as his point is to present the practical side of the Christian life. He is holding services for Rev. J. C. Bell, pastor of the A M E. church. On last Friday evening, T. Austin Buckner entertained in honor of his twentysfirst birthday. Those present VICKSBURG White, J. C. MISSISSIPPI. Kilens, R. A. Lewis, L. C. Bruckner, H. W Toote. James Toote, W. A. Kilnes, J. C. Redeemer, S. Covington, H. Maddix, F. Goins, J. W. Bell of Natchez, A. G. Hinton, Louis Davis and wife of Kansas City, Mo, W. B. Jones, H. MoFarland and O. Banks, of Natchez; W. P. Miller, of Chicago, Ill., Mary Miller Clara Tyre, Misses Willie McFarland, Pearlie Blas and Lula Buck served as tea girls.—Among the visitors to our city are J. W. Bell, Joseph H. and George S. Meekins, Yunk Bryant, Owen Smith, Jessie Ford and James Carroll of Natchez. The Dunbar Club banquet at Odd Fellows Hall, March 28, was one of the most brilliant in the history of DALLAS beautifully decorated TEXAS. with palms, ferns, hyacinths and smilax blended with designs of the club colors, white and purple, with variegated electric lights. The famous Black and Tan orchestra of twelve musicians were almost hidden from view by various plants in the center of the hall, which represented Paul Laurence Dunbar. the poet reader and contributor, who will live in the hearts of the people forever, and in honor of whom the club is named. The special numbers for this occasion were arranged by Prof. J. S. Smith. and were as follows: Music, Black and Tan orchestra; Wel- SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Sate and Reasonable always. We can make loans to FURNITURE, ORGANS and PERSONAL property. OF all kinds we can moving. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, £250 loan payments are only 0.06 per week. This pays off in a short period. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES and DIA-ROMES. We can provide a treatment to all costs, nothing to investigate. --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Old Phone Main 3182 come address, John H. Carlis, president, Response, E. Cooper, of Terrell; Instrumental solo, Miss H. A. Shaw; Solo, J. H. Carlis; solo, Lester McMahorn: The master of ceremonies Prince Johnson opened the exercises with an address on the life of Dunbar and paid a beautiful tribute to the late post. After the program followed the grand marche, led by Hubert Thomas and Miss Minnie Mae Bally and participated in by the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. E. Cooper, Misses Lillian and Elith Cooper, Luille Loewery, Rodena Cooper, Dora Burton, G. and Pearl Franklin, Willie Beal, Saddle Nickens, Hattie A. Shaw, Eva Howard, Beulah McNell, Mr. and Mrs, A. G. Andrews, David Andrews, Miss Willie Crawford, William Tipps, Miss Marguerite Odelett, B. Hyson, Thomas Scott, George Williams, J. H. Carlis, Miss Sarah Deadrick, C. Dewear, Charles W. Greed Chas. Ralley, Estella Orman, Miss Lillian Shaw, James Becker, Miss Bertha Wheeler, Prince Johnson, Miss Adeline Rochon, Lester McMahorn, Mammie McLain, Hunter Pheonix, and Miss Ola Howlett, and marched down stairs to the splendid banquet. The affair was beautiful. The decorations together with the gorgeous gowns of the ladies and the evening attire of the men presented a pleasing picture.—Mr. and Mrs, Jake Ward gave a reception Friday evening of last week in honor of Miss Beulah McNeil of Waco. Members of the Jolly Pathfinders Club attended in a body. Mrs. Walter Word has gone to Chicago on business.—Mr. and Mrs. Holley were in Kentucky last week to bury a relative there. DANVILLE Mrs. Marla Ton- ILLINOIS ey, one of our oldest citizens died March 25. She was a faithful member of the Missionary Baptist church for thirty-three years. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev. B. Shipp A husband, and five sons survive her — Mrs. Wm G Noel was called to Chicago last week on account of the death of her sister's two-year old daughter. — Walter Brown and Mr. Gordon are recovering. — Charlie Gray, another one of the old citizens died last week. — Miss Madline Thompson, passed through the city en route to Champaign, Ill., from Rockville Ind. — The literary debating society of the First Baptist church is progressing nicely and well attended every Tuesday evening. — Mrs Pearle Ayers and Mrs. Elisha Plumber of Kellyville, Ill., attended the funeral of Mrs Maria Toney. — The carnival at the Second Baptist church last week was well attended. Richard Porter, familiarly known as "Uncle Dick" died Maron 25, at his home in Church avenue at the age of 138 years. He was COLUMBIA probably the oldest TENNESSEE. man in the South and was held in high esteem by both black and white. He had been the servant of three presidents, Polk, Johnson and Jackson. The deceased was a consistent Christian and a devout member of St. Paul A. M. E. church, although during his later years he was unable to attend on account of his physical debility. His life was a model one and worthy of emulation.—Miss Emma Webster and William Evans have announced their marriage which took place in November.—Miss Mamie Sanders has returned to Houston, Tex. Dr. J. W Pickett, of Memphis was in the city last week.—The funeral of John Cain was held at Mt. Lebanon Baptist church Wednesday of last week. "The Fatal Temptation" was postponed on account of the rain, Thursday of last week.—The marriage of Miss Matte Edmondson and Eugene William$^8$ was solemnized March 18. SCRANTON, PA Scranton, Pa., Special—Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist, is visiting Mr. C. Battles—Mr. S. P. Johnson has arrived home after an extensive Western trip—The conditions of the anthracite miners is very critical. The final disposition will be known after the conference between the operators and the officials of the miners union. Mrs. Gibbs, president of the State Federation of Wisconsin visited the local club at Superior and delivered a lecture. She was entertained at the home of Mrs. Willis in Banks avenue. LOST RELATIVES. Richard Bowman, 1318 Twelfth street Superior, Wis., wishes to know the whereabouts of his two brothers John who was in St. Louis and Jim, who was in Cigro. ;THE PARKER HOUSE The weather is improving vastly now. Everybody talking Easter and good clothes. Good things to eat are coming in market right along Mr. J. W. Holliman, the proprietor says that nothing is too good for his people, he means his guests, so we get the first and best. Good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holliman, Prop. 317-821 W. Michigan street. Phones New 4972: Old 651 Surprise your friends by wearing "Perfecto Diamonds", they defy detection. $1.00. J. L. Edghill, 643 E. 141st St. N. Y. 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