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INDIANAPOLIS MAY 19 1906 PUBLIC LIBRARY Public Library 1-06 AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 20 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS. 85C: ONE YEAR $1 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW OLD PARTIES JOIN HANDS ON THE COLOR LINE THE RATE BILL AND THE NEGRO A Quarantine for McCauley.—Atlanta Makes Fleady for Business Men's League.—Object to Negroes Leaving South. (Staff Correspondence.) Is there any definite line of demarkation between the parties when the race question becomes an issue? If so, the Republicans in the United States Senate will have it to explain why they permitted the Foraker amendment to the rate bill to be done to death by the combined votes of Democrats and Republicans when it was up for discussion last week. Many amendments have been offered to the railroad measure, but the first opportunity to test the temper of the body on the subject of discriminations between passengers, as well as on freight, came when Senator Foraker offered the following amendment: "No carrier engaged in inter-state commencement shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person a greater or less compensation for interstate transportation of passengers than it charges * * * any other person for the same, or equally as good accommodations and a like and equally good service," and penalties are prescribed for violations of the law. Following this are provisions relating to passes, special rates for excepted classes, agents, clergymen, employees, etc., which, however, are not particularly relevant to the point that concerns us at this time. The Foraker insertion looked harmless enough upon the surface, but immediately upon its introduction, there started a storm which involved the entire Senate, and in the melee a very large colored individual was smoked out of the wood-pile. The sparring took wide range, with nobody anxious to take the bull by the horns, until Senator Bacon bluntly asked if it was not the intention of Senator Foraker to utilize the innocent-looking question of free passes, etc., as a rail upon which to ride another question of vital importance to the South—the matter of separate cars for Negroes. To this, Mr. Foraker replied that he had heard much complaint from the South that the Negroes do not have transportation equal to that given to the whites; he did not want to compel the carrying of Negroes in the same cars with whites, but would have them given the same accommodations for the same pay. Mr. Bacon did not attack Mr. Foraker's contention for equal accommodations in separate cars; he based his objection mainly to the plan of giving the interstate commission any jurisdiction in the handling of discriminations, should any be found to exist, claimed that the state law covered the ground. Mr. Foraker insisted that the interstate commission have jurisdiction, as the federal authority did not comprehend the enforcement of a state enactment on any point. And upon this rock—the old interference the Southern Senators saw in the Foraker proposition, so not much immediate danger, as far as any encroachment of Federal authority entering wedge of Federal authority into what they conceived to be a local matter, and they fought bitterly for the full recognition of the state law on the question of equal accommodations, for once the government got control, the entire fabric of separate cars for the interstate service might be swept away at one full swoop. The federal monster must be put to flight at any cost. Before the Negro shall have the potential support of a single clause of the rate bill the entire bill must be sacrificed. Flying this banner of defiance, the "gang" went to bat in a march in defense of their "sacred traditions" Bailey, Bacon, Tillman, Clay, Money and Culbertson all got on the fringe line, and went ta it, hammer and tongs. When the smoke of battle had cleared away, the South had pointed Foraker, the big Republican majority, and the amendment, horse, foot and dragon—they had been taken into camp most indilgoriously. Senator Culberson, of Texas, had offered at the psychological moment, an amendment as a substitute for the Foraker amendment, and after an intricate maze of filibustering, had succeeded in having his substitute adopted by a vote of 38 to 35. Party lines went beautifully to smash. Twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats for the Culberson substitute—twelve putative "friends" of the "man and brother" left Foraker and an administration measure in the lurch—all because somebody of the fascinating Southland alleged that there was presumably a "nigger in the wood-pile." The Washington Star was moved to remark editorially: "The way in which the Foraker amendment, which seemed to some Southern Senators to cover an attack on the "Jim-Crow" car system, was hustled out of the rate bill, is highly suggestive of combinations that throw down all party lines and threaten to put prophets out of business." Yea, verily! This rate bill has made some strange bed-fellows, and when it does become a law it can be truthfully described as a veritable "Joseph's coat" as to its variegated hues, and fearfully and wonderfully made as to its architecture. Some profess to think that in defeating the Foraker amendment the Democrats unwittingly rendered the black citizens a service—that the effect of the Foraker amendment would have been to have "jim-crowed" the Negro in all the states. That is a far-fetched construction of the matter. The jim crow car is a purely southern institution. Separate cars exist only where public sentiment demands them. There is no such sentiment in the North of sufficient weight to carry a legislature on the issue. The insistence upon equal accommodations would estop any railroad froma separating the races on its own motion, for the separate car is an expense to the corporations that give equal accommodations for the comparatively meager first-class Negro passenger patroner. The hidden benefit which Senator Foraker sought to invoke in behalf of the Negro, and which the South shrewdly saw through, was to bring the transportation lines of the South under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This federal arm can be trusted to do the right thing by all. The Negro has now been squeezed out of the bill—probably for all eternity. He has been sacrificed in the house of his putative friends as a vicarious offering to the fetch of states' rights to placate a Democratic minority. This is politics—God save the mark! Somebody will have some tall explaining to do if the Negro voters of the North have any sand in their craw. There is some more work cut out for the man with the muck rake. One Charles McCauley, a refugee from the South, who holds an office in Washington by virtue of the tolerance of northern loyalists, and who masquerades as president of the East Brookland Citizens' Association in the vicinity of the capital, has written a letter to Congressman Hefflin, of Alabama, indorsing, in the name of his alleged association, the Hefflin bill to compel the street railways of Washington to run jim-crow cars, expressing the hope that the bill will soon become a law. If the said McCauley is ignorant enough to believe that such a law could stand in the District of Columbia or that it stands a ghost of a show of passing the national legislature, he ought to be quantified in defense of the intellectual health of the community and made to ride in separate cars provided especially for pests of his class. The Hefflins and the McCauleys are the despair of our republican form of government, and their mouthings retard the growth of our free institutions. "Rause mit 'em!" "Georgia's business men to the front!" is the slogan sounded by the enterprising Brunswick Herald, which, under the painstaking management of A. Jasper Shootes and James G. Carter, has come to be regarded as the principal authority on Business League matters in "the State of Clark Howell." The Herald, speaking for First Vice-president G. M. Howell, says that the officers of the National Negro Business League, with the hearty co-operation of the business men and wide-awake citizens of Atlanta, are working zealously, with glowing prospects of making the coming League meeting the grandest in the history of the organization. With no less interest are the Georgia State League and its local branch- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1906. THROWING OFF SOME BALLAST. RATE BILL AMENDMENT AMENDMENT HOUSE SOUTHERN MINORITY ANTI-JIM GROW CLAUSE PLAYWOOD The clause prohibiting "discrimination on roads where an equal rate is charged" was stricken out because the minority objected to it. es laboring to make the Atlanta session a great success. Everybody who attends will be benefited and charmed with Atlanta's open-handed hospitality, which will be at the top notch Aug. 29, 30 and 31. National Organizer Moore, Corresponding Secretary Scott and Transportation Agent Adams, who are keeping in touch with the many local leagues, report very flattering announcements from every section of the country, and delegates who have never as yet been present at a national gathering will be at Atlanta, besides the regular contingent who have been on hand every year. Confident assurances are given that there will be nothing to complain of by visitors from the North, East or West in the way of discrimination on account of color. The South is entirely sympathetic with the Negro's ambition to be a commercial factor and will welcome the worthy members of the race to the best the city affords. At Richmond, in 1902, the "lid" was lifted most satisfactorily by the good white people of the Virginia metropolis, with no damaging results to the local feeling, and Atlanta purposes this year to outdo her sister city ten to one in suspending the objectionable customs heretorefore prevailing there, and binds itself to extend its gladdest of hands to the National Negro Business League and its host of friends who enter its gates next August. Among the multitude of telegrams received by Dr. W. P. Thirkeld congratulating him upon his election as president of Howard University was the following encouraging message from Dr. Booker T. Washington: "Dr. W. P. Thirkeld—I congratulate late you most heartily upon your election to the presidency of Howard University. The trustees have chosen wisely. Your previous record and experience will add much to your usefulness as president of the great school now in your charge. You will. I am sure, satisfy our race. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. * * * American folk music is enjoying a vogue—because it deserves it. Musicians of taste are tiring of manufactured admiration of incomprehensible "old masters," and they are finding that the themes of Wagner, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and the rest are all very well in their way, but they do not appeal to the American heart. They are grand, but they are foreign. A cultured few may go into raptures over the arias and sonatas, redolent with the atmosphere of the Rhine, but the masses will forever cling with increasing affection to Stephen Collins Foster and his "Suwanee River," "Old Kentucky Home," "Uncle Ned," "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Black Joe" and others, while "Dixie," "Steal Away," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and the melodies suggestive of cotton blossoms and sugar cane will never fail to inspire the true American, be he of the North or of the South. Dr. Dvorak and the modern masters were eminently correct when they said the typical American music is based upon the folk song, and when the great American opera is written the composer will go to it for his prevailing strain. Tom Watson, the Georgia radical, has been paying his "disrespects" PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 850; ONE YEAR $1.50. to Bishop Turner and inquiring why it is that the Negroes do not leave the State of Georgia and the South in general if they are dissatisfied. In reply to the query of the notorious fire-eating denizen of Crackerdom the Brunswick Herald says: "A partial answer might be given by the police authorities of Brunswick, as they saw fit to arrest a man who recently had a crowd of Negroes to leave here in search of work. These men had been employed to go to New York to work, but the police authorities here strenuously objected to them going, and when it was found that they could not prevent the men from going they arrested the agent, presumably for disturbing their peace. The truth of the whole thing is the Negro is doing good here, both for himself and for the white man, and both sides know it; hence the foolishness of either side trying to conceal the fact." This is reliable testimony. The South wants the Negro, but he wants him in the "place" it has carved out for him. The clash comes when the progressive black man runs counter to the repressive policies of the white man, or vice versa. It is plainly evident that the thirty Negro, who is willing to work, does not wish to leave the South to go to Africa, or anywhere else, if he can get decent treatment in his home community; and, furthermore, the white man of sense does not intend to let him go if he can find a way to prevent it. Let the thoughtful whites of the State of Georgia put a stopper on the mouths and paralyze the pens of her (Continued on page eight.) WASHINGTON IN THE WEST GREAT GATHERINGS IN THREE MISSOURI TOWNS A Southern Man Names the Three Great Americans.—$3,000 for Douglass Hospital and Training School. St. Joseph, Mo., May 10.—One of the most remarkable of a series of remarkable meetings was that which came about as a result of Booker T. Washington's visit to this place last Saturday, May 5. He came to the West at the special invitation of Bishop Abraham Grant, of the A. M. E. Church, Kansas City, Mo. Bishop Grant accompanied him the whole trip. The first of the meetings was at St. Louis, Mo. Fifteen hundred or more persons crowded the "Midway" of the Union Station with admirers of Mr. Washington, who lustily cheered him as he emerged from his car and proceeded to the waiting carriage. An entertainment committee of one hundred also met him and formally welcomed him to the city. He spoke at night at the Odeon Theater, one of the largest and the finest of the city's many playhouses. The meeting was in the interest of the Colored Charities of St. Louis, and was under the general management of the Colored Ministers' Association of the city. Not less than three hundred of the city's representative white men and women joined the twenty-five hundred Negro citizens who were present in warmly and cordially applauding the many telling points of the unusually eloquent and persuasive address. The meeting at Kansas City was the largest and most impressive of all. Convention Hall, the largest in the State, where the last national convention of the Democratic party was held, had been engaged. Ten thousand persons paid admissions for the privilege of hearing him here; five hundred of these were white citizens. No such gathering of Negroes has ever come together in this state. The demonstration when Mr. Washington arose to speak was without precedent. The applause uninterruptedly lasted for five minutes and was renewed again and again as he attempted to secure a silence that he might proceed. The newspapers devoted considerable space to full reports detailing the incidents of the occasion. An interesting feature of the address at Kansas City was the following tribute to Governor Folk, of Missouri: "I have but one object in coming to this State," he said," and that is to see for myself, as far as a short visit will permit, the condition and progress of my race, and to say a word that shall be designed to promote their interests. It is also most gratifying to note that for the most part there is here peace and good will among the races. I am glad to note that in the state of Missouri you have a Governor who is not afraid nor ashamed to enforce the law in connection with the crime of lynching, and the leaders of the colored race should constantly show to the world that they stand shoulder to shoulder with the best white people in the prevention of crime and in securing legal punishment of criminals." The address was supplemented by a musical programme in which two bands, an orchestra and the Choral Society of the Western University took part. The whole was given to raise funds for Douglass Hospital and Training School of the West End, established in 1898. Dr. T. C. Unthank, chairman of the committee which arranged the benefit, estimated the net receipts at $3,000. An informal reception was tendered Mr. Washington after the programme. "Oh, the joy of looking into so many bright and happy faces," he said during the handshaking. "I came to try to uplift and am myself uplifted. I am proud that I'm a black man. I congratulate Kansas City on the character of her colored population." The visit to St. Joseph was in fulfilment of a long-time promise made to Prof. N. C. Bruce, principal of the Bartlett High School. Eighteen hundred people greeted Dr. Washington at the Tootle Theater. A significant (Continued on page four.) IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. This column is devoted to the interests of woman. Address all communications to the Woman's Department, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY In speaking of a person's faults, Pray don't forget your own; Remember those with homes of glass Should seldom throw a stone. If we have nothing else to do Than talk of those who sin, 'Tis better to commence at home, And from that point begin. The old as well as the young, Perhaps we may, for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. I'll tell you of a better plan, And find it works well well— To try my own defects to cure Ere others' faults I tell; And though I sometimes hope to be No worse than some I know, My own shortcomings bid me let The faults of others go. Then let us all when we begin To slander friends or foe, Think of the harm one word may do To those we little know. Remember, curses sometimes, like Our chickens, "roost at home;" Don't speak of others' faults until We have none of our own. --Exchange. IN THE FIGHT OF A certain publication against the confirmation of Dr. Vernon as registrar of treasury, the editor constantly parades the scandal in which a young Kansas woman is concerned. Every week a reference is made and literature has been sent out all over the world consisting of letters and affidavits made by parties concerned. People who know nothing of the affair, and no doubt care less, read of the misfortune of the young woman. 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Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, the gifted writer and lecturer, is now on a lecture tour. Mrs. Pollie Johnson has opened a kindergarten school at her home in Hartford avenue, Muskogee, I. T. The State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Colorado will hold its third annual convention in Denver, June 12 to 14 inclusive. Mrs. C. D. Douglass, of Denver, held her millinery opening recently, which was a grand success. The exhibition of beautiful hats was exceptional. Miss Alice Andrews, a musical wonder of Chicago, is playing for a class of white girls at one of the largest dancing schools on the West Side at Chicago. Miss Alberta Badger, of Macon, Ga., has a class in Hardanger embroidery. The class is making great progress and hope to have an exhibition at the State Fair. The Mothers' Association, of Charleston, is making extensive preparations for the opening of their nursery in the latter part of this month. Bishop N. B. Salter will preside and deliver an address. Rev. John L. Scudder, of Jersey City, talking about the business women, and comparing the present condition of women in civilized countries with their conditions in the past, calls attention to the fact that even today in Tunis and Algiers a wife can be bought for the price of a mule. In a recent number of the Journal of Political Economy, two university women in Chicago publish a resume of that part of the report of the twelfth census which deals with women engaged in useful occupations. From these it appears that in 1890 there were more than 5,000,000 women engaged in earning their own living and that the rate of increase for ten years was greater than the rate of increase for men. Attorney William Herring, of Tucson, Ariz., made the motion for the admission of his daughter, Sarah Herring Sorin, to practice in the Supreme Court last month. Mrs. Sorin is the twenty-fifth woman admitted to practice in the court. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who was the first ever admitted to practice in the court, was present. Rose color, it is predicted, will be one of the most popular shades of the summer, and white is not to be as much worn as during the last two years. A gown of this shade, worn by Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, is described as having a pleated walking skirt of ankle length, with a double-breasted coat, which reaches to the knee and is without a vestige of trimming. Women who are going to buy a mohair skirt to wear with a lingerie waist must remember to buy one of a dead-white shade, as a cream-colored one will interfere with the artistic effect of the waist. This sort of skirt is most economical and can be cleaned most beautifully. There is nothing new about shoes except that a great many gray ties and pumps are being sold. Pumps for walking shoes are as stylish as ever. White shoes in castor and canvas are to be worn a great deal. Walking ties are very mannish in appearance, and many women, not content with appearances, are buying the walking shoes in the boys' department of the shoe store. They will be found heavier than the shoe usually worn, and it is advisable to wear them a few hours at a time until you are used to them. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO HORSE BY A COAST RESIDENT. THE ARM OF PITY AND GREED Grappling in Rivalry for Victims.-The Havoc of Fire More Destructive Than That of Earthquake.-Few Negroes Injured and Killed, When Nero sat placidly in his great palace and watched the palaces, walls and hanging garden of the City of Rome burn, crumbling beneath the raging flames, he saw no more spectacular sight than was furnished by the great conflagration that has just ceased in the great metropolis across the bay. Nero's heart was only inspired by the panorama produced by the leaping, gnawing flames, thinking not that every tongue of fire that shot heavenward left terrors, suffering, poverty and desolation in its wake. During the time the sweet strains of music floated on his ear, then the moans and shrieks of agonizing ones could have been heard while this went on. Seismic disturbances caused by the pressure on accumulated gases from the heated interior may be a sort of philosophical explanation of the cause of this destructive upheaval, but we live here and know the past and survey the present condition concerted, believe that God performed this wonder in his own way, while fulfilling, from a Christian standpoint, the inexorable law of sowing and reaping. Newspapers have exploited much since this calamity that befall our once boastful sister city, San Francisco, has occurred. The editor's brush has been used freely, but it may truthfully be said that agony and bereavement can only touch the soul of man through the eye and ear. If once you saw that city in her splendor, with towering buildings, magnificently residented streets, its mansion, and ever-verdure parks, and now would but behold it with fissures and upheavals in its streets, ghastly shattered walls, wreckage and the devastated condition of many square miles of this once proud city, you would better know how the hand of God, fate, or the Devil, has dealt with it. If once you saw the ill-belated who experienced the rocking in the arms of that mighty earthquake, with their all in their hand, and that sorrowful look on their brow, or heard the short story of their endurance through it all, you could the better condole with them. The destruction caused by the quake was nothing to compare with that caused by the fire. Thousands had ample time to save their household goods, and many did pile such in the streets as was most dear to them, only to see the fire slowly eat its way to them and consume them, for they could hire no one to move them to safety. The hand or pity and the hand of greed grappled in rivalry for their victims with pity predominating. Never in the history of America has small hearts bounded into large ones, and large ones filled to overflowing with sympathy and salvation toward an appalled-stricken people. It is safe to estimate that $12,000,000 will not encompass the philanthropy in dollars given to the suffering and distressed. Providentially, our people were very few who lived in San Francisco where the destruction visited. I have only the knowledge of three being killed, which was in a measure owing to so few living in the business, slum, and aristocratic parts of the city. Everything in these sections was destroyed. The spirit of the Good Samaritan went out from every Negro home in Oakland, especially to the needy unfortunate ones of his kin. These people suffered their greatest loss as a whole by the wiping out of every Colored Church in the city, the nicest of which was the Third Baptist (Rev. J. H. Kelly, pastor), which was estimated at about $90,000. Now that the tide of want and need is over, the Rev. A. J. Dennis, of North Oakland Baptist Church, has converted, in a measure, his church into a dormitory. Rev. J. W. Walker, of Oakland Beth Eden Baptist Church, uses his church as a boarding house. Rev. S. W. Mathew's church, (A. M. E. Zion), is headquarters of the Relief Aid Commissary, himself chairman and leader of his flock, while Dr. O. E. Jones, of A. M. E. Church, has established an Employment Aid Bureau in his church to aid the willing to find employment. The hand of greed has recently been cuffed by a decree of our Mayor to "confiscate the stock of any dealer or vendor who charges more than the usual price for food, drink, or raiment, until further orders." In other words, everything is to remain in prices as before. New San Francisco. Much will be said of a new San Francisco. History stands in favor of there being rebuilt a more prosperous and beautiful city than once crowned the Golden Gate heights, but years will be needed to dull memory of this appalling catastrophe before the new San Francisco will measure up to the heights of the mind builders of today. As a manufacturing city there has always been a financial obstacle to business men to overcome, viz., the tollage of both material and for labor, to and from the city. San Francisco lies on a peninsular between S. F. bay and the Pacific ocean, the bay being four miles wide, i.e., from Oakland, Calif. For many years one transportation company (S. P. R. R.) has had the sole transportation of everything in its grasp. Freightage costs an exorbitant price, and business men always had to hire help from across the bay, adding to their normal wages the ferryage which was $3.00 per month per head. These things were an annoyance and expense. The bay is navigable by vessels of all draughts and factories and business enterprises could be established on the mainland shore of the bay and this excess charge of freightage and tollage be saved to the employer. Again, the complete satisfied mind of woman alone is the power that builds up the resident portion of any city. Woman forgets, 'tis true, but not soon any harmful agency or direful calamity. Remembrance of the past constantly brought to mind by the frequent tremors in California will for a generation to come against the rehabilitation of this new Frisco. It should be remembered that many owned property in San Francisco and lived there because of their possession of it, yet they deplored the climate. This climate is ever susceptible to the action of a land or sea breeze, one of which is ever present, while just across the bay on the main land the climate is most uniform. Fogs are a menace to health and ferry traffic. In my judgment, if one is to establish and build up a new business and a fabric in which to carry it on, if they are to rear up new mansions and comfortable homes again, they will take into the strictest account their expense and gain and their health and safety first of all as a part of the law of self-duty. W. R. MOTEN. 860 Brush street, Oakland, Calif. DR. WASHINGTON MAKES AN ADDRESS AT ST JOSEPH. Dr. B. T. Washington, president and founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, put in a little more than twelve busy hours in this city today. He arrived here from Kansas City at 9:30 A. M. and left for Chicago at 9:50 P. M. Mr. Washington was met at the depot by a reception committee, composed of the leading professional and business men of the city. After a drive through the principal streets of the city, Mr. Washington was entertained at as elaborate luncheon at the Bartlett (colored) High School. A noteworthy feature of this luncheon was that the entire meal was prepared by pupils in the domestic science department of the school, under the direction of Miss Derrie. The great educator was then conducted through the various departments of the school, including the garden and farm. Mr. Washington was tendered a banquet by the colored citizens at the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, at 5:30 o'clock, at which he indulged in a heart-to-heart talk with his people, telling them how to improve the conditions of the race. The crowning feature of a rather strenuous day was his lecture, at the Tootle Theater, on "Economic Independence the Hope of the Race." Mr. Washington said, among other things: "Since Negroes are here, and are here to stay, the only logical course to pursue is to prepare to meet the conditions with which they are and will be confronted." The speaker urged upon his hearers the importance of cultivating friendliness between the two races. After giving a brief account of the founding and development of the great Tuskegee Institute he closed with an appeal to the Negro to build better homes, and get out of the one-room-shacks and alleys.—W. H. Hill, Freeman Correspondent. Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, of "Homewood Cottage," Wilberforce, is enjoying a season of unexamined success. Her repertoire of lectures and recitals is rich and varied, including "The Art of Reading," "London, Old and New," Switzerland and Her Alps," "Pisturesque Wales, Past and Present," "Paul Dunbar: His Humor and Pathos in Poetry and Prose." 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You must remember the several months before they are full the best quality for the money we fact in itself is a positive guaranteed Diamonds We are the lax With our enor Diamonds in aggregate sales for the past year ex MILLION DOLLARS—for DIAM prefer to buy for cash, we have a unique proposition to allow: Pay cash for any Diamond that you wish, and we can write a agreement to the effect that you can send back to us at any time during the ensuing year, and we will receipt, refund to you in spot cash all you paid for the cent. For instance, you might pay $50 for a Diamond for a year, then return it to us and get $45, making you for wearing a fine Diamond a whole year only $100 cents per week. No other house can afford to make us as this, for the simple reason that small concerns doing some of business cannot operate on so small a margin on per cent. Us About Our Business article sold by LORTIS BROS, & Co. is of the highest grade. We do not handle any cheap, shoddy goods. We care. You must remember that our customers have their goods before they are fully paid for and if they were not paid for the money we would certainly be the losers. This is a positive guarantee to every thoughtful person. We are the largest Diamond House in the world. With our enormous Mail Order Business, selling Diamonds in every State in the Union, our sales for the past year exceeded TWO AND ONE HALF DOLLARS—for DIAMONDS ALONE. If you prefer to buy for cash, we have a unique proposition make, as follows: Pay cash for any Diamond that you wish, and we will give you a written agreement to the effect that you can send the Diamond back to us at any time during the ensuing year, and we will, upon its receipt, refund to you in spot cash all you paid for less ten per cent. For instance, you might pay $50 for a Diamond and wear it for a year, then return it to us and get $45, making the expense to you for wearing a fine Diamond a whole year only $10 or less than ten cents per week. No other house can afford to make such an offer as this, for the simple reason that small concerns doing a small volume of business cannot operate on so small a margin of profit as ten per cent. Facts About Our Business Every article sold by LOFTIS BROS. & CO. is of the highest grade obtainable. We do not handle any cheap, shoddy goods. We can afford to. You must remember that our customers have their goods several months before they are fully paid for and if they were not the best quality for the money we would certainly be the losers. This fact in itself is a positive guarantee to every thoughtful person. Diamonds We are the largest Diamond House in the world. With our enormous Mail Order Business, selling Diamonds in every State in the Union, our aggregate sales for the past year exceeded TWO AND ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS—for DIAMONDS ALONE. Watches With no exception we are the largest Distributors of HIGH GRADE WATCHES in the world. 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John Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind. HEADQUARTERS III West 27th Street, New York. Mr. McClarke is head waiter at the Burnett Hotel, Houston, Tex. Wm. Brunington is in charge of the dining room at the Great Northern Hotel. George Brownton is again at Brazos Cafe, Houston, under headwaiter G. W. Harris. L. D. Montgomery, head waiter at the Park Hotel, which will remain open throughout the year. C. P. Thompson is again to the front as he is now in charge of the dining room at the Milwaukee Hotel. All the boys send regards. Officers appointed at the Hotel Bristol under head waiter J. P. Bradshaw are: E. O. Gilmore, captain; C. A. Linley, heutonant; James Young, linen; John Tanner, reporter. C. A. Mason succeeded Mr. A. Jackson as head waiter at the new Hotel Moody, Hot Springs, Ark., April 28, 1906, and is giving first-class satisfaction. His dining room force is as follows: C. A. Mason, head waiter; O. A. Morgan, captain; Walter Thompson, Septimus Matthews, Leonard Moore, W. H. Hall, O. T. Thompson, Will Haley, Robert Diffey, A. INDIVIDUAL HOTEL DIRECTORY [One address line $4.00 per year; including subscription to The Freeman, in advance.] HEADWAITERS. J. W. Redmond, headwaiter of The Car- roll Vickersburg, Miss. J. W. Dwyer, headwaiter Commercial Club Minneapolis, Minn. J. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Bruns- wick, Uniontown, Pa. J. H. Bradley, headwaiter Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. J. G. W. Bland, headwaiter of The Oliver, South Bend, Ind. 10-06. 6, C. 8, 105 C. H. Plummer, headwaiter Hotel Bruns- wick, Uniontown, Pa. 10-05 B. H. Bradley, headwaiter Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. 3-06 G. W. Bland, headwaiter 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 travelable person - your business solicited. Hotel Reformer - First class in all respects. Richmond, Va. A. W. Houses, manager. Moore's Hotel - First-class rooms and board Rooms neatly furnished, 7.2 and 7.14 W. 8th Street Little Rock, Ark. Waldorf Astoria Hotel-327 Laurel street, Hot Springs, Ark. Cora's Lunch Room - 220 Fifth Street, Little Rock, Ark. Black's Hotel - A modern first-class hotel for colored people. H. Black, Manager, Evansville, Ind. The Parker House-Rooms, bath. J. W. Holliman, proprietor. Indianapolis, Ind. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER WESTERN BRANCH 325 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. R. Bennett, Robert Buck, Geo. Cox, Will Dailey, C. W. McDonald, Wm. Donnelly, J. W. Greene. Charles M. Dockry is head waiter at the Southern Hotel, at Meridian, Miss., succeeding N. J. Durden, who has resigned. Mr. Dockry has been employed by the same company, of which Mr. Millspaugh is president, for a number of years. He has the following to assist him: Albert Graham, captain; Wm. Gibbs, A. Gibbs, Horace Jackson, Arthur Sellers, Alex Young, Sam Sanders, Percey Walden, Ed. Bowdery, Bennie Bones. They are strict to business and always on hand. They have for their mascot a ten-year-old boy, who serves as water boy. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HEAD, SECOND AND SIDE-WAITEA ASSOCIATION. Greeting—The time for our annual national convention is fast approaching, and the absorbing question of the hour is who shall we elect as president. At this critical moment, all agree that the association is in need of a good, strong man who will be equal to all emergencies. There are plenty of good men who are capable of filling the position, so it is up to the members. At each convention for the last past few years, I have been urged to allow my name to go before the convention for the presidency, this I refused to do because I was not at that time settled, but now I am permanently located in Atlantic City, at the Chalfonte Hotel, and at the renewal of the solicitations of my friends, I have decided to allow my name to go before the convention for the presidency. If honored with the office, I will adhere to my past record, and make the paramount issues the establishing of a closer relation between the hotel proprietors, managers and waiters, and thus open up new avenues for both the side and head waiters, and establish an employment bureau, and secure employment for the members free of charge. Those who will not attend the convention and wish to give me their support can vote by proxy. The proxies can be sent directly to me at the Chalfonte Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J. very respectfully yours, W. FORREST COZART. "When you've got a thing to say, Say it—don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it, Crowd the whole thing in a minute. Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers. When you've got a thing to say, * * * * Small men are not helped by prosperity. --- One worker in the field is worth a hundred critics by the fireside. Intelligent discontent is the foundation upon which all progress is built. Nothing comes to him who waits—except death and taxes—unless he hustles while he waits. Tom Lawson on "Frenzied Finance" isn't a "marker" to Rev. D. A. Graham on "Paralyzed Preachers." --- A pretty woman with a bitter tongue is as safe a companion as a beautiful snacks with death-dealing fangs. A pretty woman with a bitter tongue is as safe a companion as a beautiful snake with death-dealing fangs. The world readily forgives men and women who make mistakes, but it "double-crosses" those who fail to profit by their mistakes. Renting a house is not a social function—as some agents and owners seem to imagine when a Negro wants a respectable place to live in. --- It will be of incalculable benefit to the South to let it be known that conventions of every kind can be held within her domain, and that freedom of speech is denied no orderly person, white or black. --- The world is ceasing to ask, "Who are you?" It wants to know "What can you do?" It is not inquiring as anxiously as it once did, "What do you know?" It is asking, "What have you done?" --- Those who prefer their Negro exhibitions "straight," will attend the Ohio State Colored Industrial and Educational Exposition, of which Mr. P. W. Chavers is director-general. It comes off this fall at Dayton, Buckeyedom's prettiest city. --- When an employer finds that his clerk, stenographer or other helper is retailing the secrets of the office at home or on the streets, that employee can not be "fired" to quickly for the good of all concerned. Inside tattlers are the ruination of scores of colored business establishments. --- According to a Texas exchange, the saloon is not entirely without its redeeming features. The grateful editor is moved to remark: "One of our delinquent subscribers got drunk yesterday and paid us $4 on a subscription long overdue. A few orderly saloons are a good thing for a town." *** The race is keeping its best eye on Governor Folk, of Missouri. Justice loving people have unlimited faith in Folk's ability and disposition to put down lawlessness in every form, from lynching down to grafting. He will "show" those Springfield miscreants if anybody can. --- The United States Supreme Court and the Department of Justice ought to see to it that the history of the Chattanooga lynching does them no discredit. Anation that boasts of being a "world power," ought not to be outwitted by an irresponsible mob of low-class loafers. The President can find "the man with the muck rake" in a little dingy back room at 3 Tremont Row, Boston, if he cares to make any further investigations on the subject he has so luminously brought into the public eye. Other horrible examples can be furnished on short notice. ... The people's next emancipation should be two-fold. We need to free ourselves from political subserviency on the one hand, and from the ty- Mr. Wm. F. T. Chandler, head waiter at the Merchants' Hotel, St. Paul, Minn., has tendered his resignation, to take effect on May 10, 1906. Mr. Chandler is the first head waiter that has ever held the house as long as three years under the present manager, who has been manager for eleven years. J. H. Andrews has charge of the dining room of the Albert Hotel, at Selma. Ala, working a crew of twelve men, who are giving perfect satisfaction. Lewis Porter is secretary and ranny of denominationalism on the other. Rationalism in both politics and religion would redound everlastingly to our welfare as a race. ... The rasse is keeping its best eye on Governor Folk, of Missouri. Justice-loving people have unlimited faith in Folk's ability and disposition to put down lawlessness in every form, from lynching down to grafting. He will "show" those Spring field miscreants—if anybody can. ... When a Japanese marries a white girl, there may be a whisper of surprise, and all is over. When a Negro obeys the same call of Cupid, it is miscegenation, and society is up in arms thereat. Yet the Negro in the case may be whiter than the aforesaid Jap. Why the difference? --- According to a Texas exchange, the saloon is not entirely without its redeeming features. The grateful editor is moved to remark: "One of our delinquent subscribers got drunk yesterday and paid us $4 on a subscription long overdue. A few orderly saloons are a good thing for a town." --- As a reflex if the lynching of there Negroes at Springfield, Mo., a crowd of white boys at Kansas City, armed with clubs and stones, killed John Moore, a 15-year-old colored boy, breaking his neck with a club. Of course, the white boys escaped, and their identity is "not known." The shame of it! --- Perhaps it is stating the proposition too broadly to describe "the South" as the "Negro's friend," but it is a happy circumstance, that in the South there is an increasing number of upright, honorable and just men and women who are the strongest and most reliable friends the Negro has anywhere under the sun. ... Evidently the "staff correspondent" is having his innings. It's a mighty poor paper nowadays that can not boast of one or more "special" purveyors of "hot stuff." Maybe these humble chroniclers of the times will eventually be able to develop into a legitimate and lucrative profession, a calling that has heretofore been scarcely more than a polly-appreciated gratuity. --- Evidently the "staff correspondent" is having his innings. Its a mighty poor paper nowadays that can oot boast of one or more "special" purveyirs of "hot stuff." Maybe these humble chroniclers of the times will eventually be able to develop into a legitimate and lucrative profession a calling that has heretifore been scarcely more than a poorly appreciated gratuity. *** Mrs. E. C. Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of the novelist, Charles W. Chesnutt, has earned a literary reputation in her own right. She is the author of some very meritorious poems, which have been published here and there in a number of magazines and newspapers. Mrs. Williams is at present engaged in teaching at Normal, Ala., being the instructor in Latin and German at Prof. W. H. Councill's school. --- The Negries of the country have given liberally to the San Francisco sufferers. So have the Chinese. Both expressly stipulated that the money should go for the relief of all kinds and conditions if humanity. It is to be hoped that the committee disbursed the funds in the same impartial spirit that the donors gave it—allowing all races to share and share alike. --- Valley Junction, Iowa, has been rid of a gang of desperadoes by one lone woman, carrying a revolver in each hand. The gang had heard that Iowa women had a reputation of hitting what they aimed at, so decamped with a promptness that was delightful to behold. We nominate this woman at once for sheriff of Springfield, Mo., in place of the coward who holds forth there, and move suspension of the rules in order to make her eligible for appointment for life. Let us give the women a chance. J. J. Perry captain.Mr. Andrews is the agent for the Freeman. Life to women, especially to young women, means love, and little else but love. Man exists to be run after, or to be run away from; to be attracted, married, deceived, divorced. In the world he serves other purposes but in the ordinary woman's novel he lives for these alone.—Bookman. 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You understand, of course, that the thorough cooking and steaming of the wheat gelatinizes its starch, and the malt extract, apowerful digestive agent, quickly converts this into Maltose (malt sugar). Malt sugar is great food, and the weakest stomach digests and assimilates it without effort. That is why Malta-Vita is so good for sick folks or folks with weak stomachs. Malta-Vita melts in the mouth. It's always crisp, refreshing, satisfying. The perfect food for children and grown folks. All grocers, now 10 cents. NEW ALBANY. IND. A delegation of teachers, including Prof. R. A. Roberts, John A. Hodge, Dr. M. W. Sparks, Miss Marguerite B. Sterrett and Miss Lila B. Rickman, visited the Cincinnati schools this week to study methods and results...Mrs. M. E. Washington managed a successful testimonial Monday evening in Louisville for the benefit of Rev. C. C. Vaughn, Past Grand Chief of the Good Samaritans. The entertainment netted about $100...R. W. Thompson has been invited by Executive Committeeman M. M. Lewey to deliver an address on "The Commercial Aspect of Negro Journalism" at the convention of the Florida State Business League, in Jacksonville, May 30...An educational platform meeting, to discuss the conditions and needs of the local schools, is talked of...The address of Prof. R. A. Roberts oon "Tuskegee's Influence in the Social Uplift of the Negro," before the Social Science Section of the Floyd County Teachers' Institute, has been highly praised by all who heard it. The audience was 95 per. cent white, and the presentation of such a subject, showing what the Negro is doing for his own improvement, affording a happy opportunity to make a dignified appeal to the sympathy and sense of justice of the dominant race, never fails to benefit both whites and blacks. Prof. Roberts was at his best, in logic and delivery, and created a most favorable impression...Edward Richardson has purchased a nice piece of property on Ekin avenue...Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Johnson are adding a pretty porch to their Shelby street residence...Mr. and Mrs. George Hughes, from French Lick, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Gaddie...Mrs. Belle Woods is visiting her sister in Indianapolis...The death of Rev. J. W. Beckett, in Philadelphia, father of Mr. J. Campbell Beckett, principal of Division Street School, will make it necessary for him to resign at the end of the present term and return to Philadelphia for permanent residence. LOCAL TALENT PRESENTS "THE M'KADO." Gilbert & Sullivan's tuneful opera, "The Mikado," was capably presented recently at Columbus, Ohio, by local talent, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of St. Philip's Chapel, with Mrs. Nelsin C. Lee as business manager. The cast of characters was assigned as follows: The Mikado of Japan, Mr. Robert Allen. Nanki Poo, (his son, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and in love with Yum Yum), Mr. John P. Bowles. Ko Ko (Lord High Executiveiner of Titipu) Dr. L. L. Jones. Pioh Bah (Lord High Everything Else) Mr. Julius B. Tyler. Pish Tush (a Noble Lord), Mr. Fred Jones. Three Sisters (Wards of Ki Ko)—Yum Yum, Miss Adele Loudin; Pitti Sing, Mrs. Daisy Hall Shipp; Pee Bo, Mrs. Ida May Moss. Katisha (an elderly lady in love with Nanki Poo), Miss Ollie Garnes. A well-trained chorus of sixty voices, assisted by Miss Dazalia Underwood, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Venner Robbins, accompanist, was a splendid feature of the performance. CHEF Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving, full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 800 State St., CHICAGO IL. Want Position as Milliner; do first class work. Miss Anna Chappelle, 104 W. 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THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE is now offering extended courses in both theory and practice to young men anxious to secure advanced training in Architectural Drawing and Electrical Engineering. We encourage you to take advanced or elementary courses either of the subjects will find the opportunity to obtain instruction at Tuskegee Institute such as for instructors. There is a growing demand for young men who themselves, by completing the Architectural Drawing course, to make plans for houses and who can do this work required in Eiec. Technical Engineering. Every effort is being made to make these courses more helpful than ever before. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. BIG 4 ROUTE Excursion Bulletin Indianapolis, Ind. and return. Tick- ets sold May 7 and 8; also May 14 and 15, May 21 and 22, 1906. Crawfordsville, Ind. and return. May 18 and 19, 1906. Winona Lake, Ind. and return. May 10th to September 30th, 1906. Apply to nearest Big Four agent. H J. RHEIN. Gen'l Pass, Agt. O. 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Special rates on standing professional and business cards. Reasonable discount for long time and frequent use. Five cents per line. Special rates on WRITE UFS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1906. A DIGNIFIED CRITICISM. The Voice of the Negro for May is another one of the good numers being put out by that magazine. "Our Monthly Review," from the pen of J. Max Barber, is good reading, as are many other of its features. But the current number of the Voice of the Negro will be chiefly remembered because of Mr. Barber's dignified criticism of the Tuskegee Anniversary and Mr. Washington. We reveal no secret when we state that there has been a decided difference of opinion among prominent members of the race as to the effect of some of Mr. Washington's teachings. We have before stated that we believed this difference to have been greatly aggravated by the intemperate sayings of many who were unqualified to speak for either side. But Mr. Barber has placed before us the basic claims of the nonconformists in a manner free from screeching, hair-pulling and abuse—in such a manner and with such clearness that Mr. Washington's friends need feel no offense or hesitate to reply. Let him read it who may, and he will find it to contain thoughtful observations and keen discernment all expressed in a manner most entertaining. Much of its discernment was too keen for so dull a mind as ours, for we confess that the Anniversary did not appear to us "like a great fair," where "weeks were required in getting the show in order." We saw nothing, aside from a few strips of bunting in the chapel and a little reviewing stand but what might have been a part of the everyday condition of things. That there was some making ready for the big event is to be supposed, for we usually brush up a little and whitewash here and there when we expect company at our homes. Our dullness of mind again shows itself in our failure to see that "the spectacular side is overdone at Tuskegee." In fact, we thought we saw the very absence of this. But more important is the statement: "While it is true that he has advanced beyond the position he took up twenty years ago, still he insists that our problem is economic; that the Negro's chief need is wealth, and that for the present we do not need to concern ourselves about civic and political rights and duties." We think that the latter part of this statement is very much modified by the former, viz.: "He has advanced beyond the position he took up twenty years ago." It is unnecessary to quote from Mr. Washington's utterances of the past sixty days, which show that he is asking for every right of the colored man which goes to make him a full-fledged citizen and man. Whether he believed that these demands if made by him twenty years ago would have passed unheard, and has waited for a time when he could be heard, we do not know. At any rate he is saying the thing now, and certainly to better effect than would have been produced if said before the day of his tremendous success. We believe that he is constantly giving proofs that no members of the race need doubt but that he will use the eminence he has gained for the highest good. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "AN EMINENT DIPLOMAT." The above headline is the manner in which the daily press of this city speaks of Robert E. Mansfield, who is at his home in this city on a leave of absence from the post of consul at Valparaiso, Chili. Mr. Mansfield was formerly consul to Madagascar, and he never fails to relate some experiences of his during his stay there. The other day under the head of "Shoots a Queen," some of his friends related how he walked out into the woodland of that country and enjoyed himself winging the birds which flew up about him. Suddenly he heard a scream, and later learned that he had shot a "dusky queen who was basking in the shade of the trees with her maids." He then tells of how he soon after found it convenient to be away from his post of duty. He tells it all as though it were some little cute circumstance. We have a distinct recollection of reading some years ago in the Indianapolis Journal another of his thrilling experiences. With the same arrogance and cuteness he told of a hair-breadth escape. We give his own words as nearly as we can recall them. The substance was as follows: "I was walking along and came up to a native who sat directly in my path. I told him to move. He showed no disposition to do so, and I gave the impudent fellow a kick, so as to teach him to show the proper respect to a white man. At night he was seen skulking around with a murderous-looking knife. The fellow was caught, tied to a tree and given froty lashes on his bare back, and then I laid on a few myself." Such are some of the thrilling experiences of our "eminent diplomat." In spite of the fact that any foreign country has many things of interest that might be told to Americans, these things are the kind that appear especially interesting and cute to this "eminent diplomat," R. E. Mansfield. He is now expecting to be transferred to some European post, and, since he has recently become the son-in-law of the Hon. John K. Gowdy, it is quite probable that he will. Whether he has done something in Chill that makes that a desirable country for him to stay away from, we do not know. At any rate it is to be hoped that he will be sent to some country where his cute performances will bring him the results they deserve. MONINGER OUT UNDER BOND "The case of Albert Monninger, a drug clerk, charged with offenses by the parents of two young girls, was called before Judge Whallon yesterday morning in Police Court. Monninger pleaded not guilty. His trial was set for next Tuesday. Monninger is at liberty under a $5,000 bond, furnished by his father, Daniel Monninger. One of the children, Agnes Smith, 7 years old, was sent to the City Hospital yesterday for treatment. Her condition is said to be serious." The above item appeared in the This is all there was said on the esub. This is all ther was said on the subject. It is quite unnecessary to ask what would have been the result if this man had had a brown skin. We have no other purpose in printing this than to call attention to the fact criminal assault, if committed by a white man, is an entirely different thing than when committed by a Negro. Why such modest headlines? Why so slight a mention? Why is there no talk of lynching? Of course he denies it, but mere denials cut very little figure when the assailant has a brown skin. Only a few days ago two Negroes were burned at Springfield, Mo., for the alleged offense of insulting a white woman who was accompanied by a man. But here were two children, and the one 7 years of age is in the hospital as the result of the treatment she received, and yet one hears no mention of the matter, and the daily press is moved only to the extent of this little paragraph, and on the inside of the paper at that. No decent colored man or woman asks that crime go unpunished, nor do they apologize for it. What they ask is that the crime be punished. They have no sympathy for the Negro criminal, for they know that they are bearing his burdens in addition to their own. If crime, instead of color, were the thing punished, they would have only their own burdens to bear, and these they are willing to bear. But in spite of these proofs of a practical indifference shown where a white man is the criminal, you will soon see or read of some form of savage fury taking the lives of black suspects against whom no such crime is charged, or, if so charged, against whom there may not be the least tangible evidence. STRANGE THINGS IN DIXIE. Under this head we shall print from time to time some of the things which come to us from an authentic source which show the utter disregard in which the rights of the Negro is held in some parts of the country. Not far from Selma, Ala., a short time ago, some shots were fired from a revolver. Two colored men and a woman were walking down the street in the direction form which the reports came. The men were well known and were members of the Knights of Pythias. A policeman came running up behind them and demanded, "Who's doing that shooting down here" One of the men answered that he did not know, whereupon the policeman began to search all of them. He found no weapons on them and then said to the man who answered, "I'll take you, any way." He then added, as he drew his revolver, that he had a notion to "shoot his head off." When he drew the revolver the colored man garbed his wrist and begged him not to shoot him. He promised that he would not if he would let go of his arm. The colored man did let go, and was immediately shot in the abdomen. In such a manner was this man deliberately murdered. It is said that the colored Knights of Pythias are arranging to send a lawyer there to prosecute this murderer, who is only one of a million like him. PROMISE AND FULFILMENT PROMISE AND FULFILMENT. Shortly after the inauguration of the present mayor of this city, the boozy-woozy element complained that the new mayor had nailed down the lid in total disregard of the "rights" of this element of his supporters. But the wise ones were not deceived by this sudden show of virtue. They only said, "you just wait." And now what do we see? On any day and at almost any of the forbidden hours one can see patrons coming and going through side gates and back doors leading into barrel-houses and saloons. Where now is all that erstwhile show of virtue? Where the promise of the enforcement of the law? Can information as to the constant disregard for law be wanting? We would like to know what the supporters of the mayor think now of all his pre-election promises? Of course no one really expected that the law against saloons and barrel-houses would be enforced, but it is not too much to expect that some attempt would be made to have these places keep within the bounds of decency. GOOD MANNERS We offer the following from the sermon of Rev. Hurlstone, at Roberts Park Church, on Sunday last, as a thing of value to all. We believe that it surpasses the Southerner's idea of what constitutes a gentleman: "My plea is for a resurrection of that old-time, honored term, 'gentleman,' in every sense of the word," said Dr. Hurlstone. "Good manners, implying true courtesy, are the result of heart culture. Good manners spring from true kindness and consideration for others; not only for man, but for all of creation. "The man who goes out with a camera rather than a shotgun is at heart a truer gentleman than he who seeks to destroy God's creatures. Good manners, the result of true courtesy, show in the home, on the street car and in the church, and are apart of personality. "Good manners will not permit one on entering the church to leave an usher midway in a long aisle, while he walks farther, to find that those he led have dropped behind him. Good manners will not permit one to hold the end seat in the street car or the pew, when courtesy demands that it be vacated. "My plea is not for a faultless knowledge of the rules of etiquet. Fashionable society may make foolish laws, but I plead for true courtesy, such as is prompted by the self-denying Christian heart. It displays the gentleness of true greatness and strength. It is Christianity." In order to catch a train for Louisville, Ky., a man in southern Indiana ran a mile. He died shortly after getting aboard the train from excessive heart action. The average American is in too big a hurry. Besides, we can see no good reason why any one should be in a big hurry to get to Louisville. It would have been much better for the man to have arrived there alive several hours late than to have got there on time, dead, as he did. Neither money nor education is what the Negro most needs. His greatest need is of refinement. But you will say that this will come with money and education. Not necessarily so. We have seen many poor and uneducated people who possessed genuine refinement; and we have all seen many people with both money and education who were quite offensive because of their lack of refinement. The Cadet Camp School, located at Stony Hollow, N. Y., is the first thing of the kind we have heard of under the charge of colored men. It is a summer home and school for boys from twelve to twenty years of age, is beautifully situated and is under a military form of government. It is under the charge and instruction of such competent men as Lieut. George J. Austin and Prof. John Work, of Tuskegee, and a number of others for special work. Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, has arraigned President Roosevelt for attacking the Standard Oil Company. He says that anarchism in the White House is the most dangerous of any form of anarchy. When it is remembered that a million dollars of Standard Oil profits have been given to that school the wrath of Chancellor Day is accounted for. A jury at Bloomington, Ill., has decided that the Spiritualist church there is not entitled to the $250,000 left to it by the will of the late Mr. Crumbank. It is quite unsafe to leave money to something that happens to be unpopular. It is quite apt to be decided that either the testator or the beneficiary is crazy. Better give your money while living. The Russian parliament has been opened by a speech from the throne and "the booming bells of St. Isaac's Cathedral, striking bass to the tintimabulations of the other belfries." And all this is said to have produced a "savage splendor of wild clangor." With this sort of a beginning they ought to be able to get along all right over there now. For some cause or another the newspapers that have been busy in wrecking Zion City, deposing Dowie and having him die of dropsy, have not been saying much of late. It must be distressing for all those who have been wishing for Dowie's undoing to learn that he and Volvia have reached an agreement. This state is furnishing a number of startling bits of news. Th elatest is that of a wealthy farmer living fifteen miles south. He was recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, and took a sudden notion that he needed a piece of pie, nad stole out during the night and got it. He leaves a wife and four children. It is said that the foreign element in China will protest against the Chinese government managing its own affairs. If there is anything more monumental than Caucasian impertinence and impudence it is yet unheard of. When the human family recover from the dollar craze, and evolve the moral hardihood to fix another standard than that of the dollar, we may expect a revival along the lines of justice and equity for all men. We can not have it until then. Gather dollars until they are counted by the millions and make conquests of your fellowmen if you will, but he who dies without the love of those that know hi mdies the poorest of the poor. A woman of Indiana has sued her husband for divorce, and asked for the custody of her thirteen children. Where is there a man in the world who would do that? She must have been a badly-abused woman. This brave woman should be given a medal for heroism and ten thousand dollars in money. The executive committee of the State Business League of Mississippi will hold its annual meeting in Jackson, on June 13 and 14, in an opera house owned by the colored people of that city. Mr. Charles Banks is president of the State League. Indiana has had an earthquake of its own. Several of the "oldest inhabitants" testify to having felt a distinct shock on the morning of May 8. Whether this report be true or not, there will no doubt be a very severe political shock in this state about two years hence. The United Daughters of the Confederacy are to begin a move to decrease illiteracy among the Southern whites. The colored people can have no objection to this. It will help some, for it is becoming well known that illiterate whites are the cause of most of race hostility and trouble. Much dismay has been caused at the Protestant Home for the Aged at Milwaukee on learning that "several of the old women were falling in love, when they should have been thinking of the life beyond the grave." The little flame was burning low, but it was still there. A preacher of Anderson, Ind., has sued his wife for divorce, and alleges among other things that she sits in the congregation and makes faces at him while he is preaching, and thus spoils his sermons. Our sympathy is with the man while he is preaching and with the woman when he is not. Meredith Nicholson has been suggested as a "running mate" for Grover Cleveland in 1908. Mr. Nicholson is a prominent writer, possessing a good brand of Democracy. If he is to run for anything it is to be hoped that he will not be hitched up with a political corpse. No people can excel the Jews in dollar getting, but in spite of this they are the subjects of unjust race hatred. This ought to be sufficient proof that money is not the most needed thing for the elevation of the Negro. A separation has occurred between a Chicago man and his wife because the man was in love with his wife's mother. This is one instance where a man got along all right with his mother-in-law. If Rosewater, who is a candidate for the United States Senate from Nebraska, should succeed in being elected, he should be given a seat by the side of Senator Tillman. It would help the atmosphere of the senate. Whether Mr. Roosevelt is "a man of iron," or "only a man of clay, and common clay at that," it is now quite clear that he selected an untrustworthy partner when he joined hands with Tillman. When you dislike a person because of his rudeness it is because the evil is in him. When some one dislikes you because of no fault of yours, that is because the evil is in him. This is a day of enterprise. Moving pictures showing the San Francisco earthquake and slides for the white lights have been on sale for a number of days. There is no way for you to escape the consequences of your own misdeeds. You must pay the price. From this there is no escape, nor should there be. The "muck rake" will continue to work as long as men seek pious ways of getting what belongs to another without giving an honest exchange. A dollar is worth one hundred cents' worth of service, but its value does not equal ten cents' worth of self-respect. You must keep your word. You must be honest. You must pay your debts. All of these things are often said by men who do none of these things. From present indications the Smooth case will be decided about the time that senator's term expires. It will soon be time for politicians to begin naming "presidential possibilities" for the other party. And so the Chinese want to administer their own customs affairs. Well! Well! What impudence! (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE) thing in connection with the meeting at St. Joseph was the introductory speech of Hon. William E. Spratt, mayor of the city. Coming from a Southern man, it challenged attention. He introduced Mr. Washington as being not only "the greatest living Negro," but as "one of America's three greatest citizens—George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington." The proceeds of the meeting were given to purchase farm implements for the agricultural department of the Bartlett High School, a new work being introduced in connection with the course of study. The cooking class tendered Dr. Washington a luncheon at the High School building, and at 5 o'clock he was banqueted by the citizens of the city at St. Paul's Church. The citizens of Kansas City also tendered a banquet, which easily eclipsed any affair of similar kind in the history of our people hereabouts. The menu and decorations were elaborate, and the various addresses of exceptionally good quality. That Dr. Washington should have taken this time from the arduous and exacting duties that press upon him in connection with Tuskegee Institute to come out here to stimulate interest in the welfare of our people, and out of a spirit of pure generosity to contribute the full proceeds of the various meetings to various racial charities, has the warm appreciation and the unstinted praises of all classes of our citizens. Dr. Washington has had no warmer welcome anywhere, nor larger nor more enthusiastic and approving audiences than those which greeted him during his swing around the Missouri circle. Missouri certainly is in line for Tuskegee and the same ideas for Tuskegee and the same ideas championed by the great Tuskegeean. Our people are also appreciative of Bishop Grant's efforts to get Dr. Washington to make this visit and for the large-souled generosity which led him not to use the meetings for the benefit of his own church, but for other charities outside of his denomination. The time spent by him in working up these various meetings and in accompanying Dr. Washington was considerable, but was time well and nobly spent. 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Williams & Stevens are entering upon the third week on the O'Brian circuit, While in Racine, Wis., they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. Crowder, the brother of Ernest Hogan. Billy Arnite writes from the Millican Minstrel Company that everything is running smoothly and the boys are enjoying themselves. Best regards to P. G. Lowery and the profession. Jones & Strander have closed with Stetson's U. T. C. Company and are now located in Manchester N. H. Regards to Happy Beauregard. Robert Williams and all friends. Address 295 Lowell street The Georgia Minstrels are doing a good business in Canada, following Black Patti Troubadours, who left a good reputation making it easy for other colored shows. Fred Simpson's Big Band is dec ared the best The Oculumle Park is still in the lead. Theudeville house opened for the summer May 15 with a strong company including C. Adams LaRose, the coon shouting female impersonator. The management intends having one of the grandest pleasure resorts for colored people below the Mason and Dixon line. The company left Chicago May 1, and after three days in Buffalo, N. Y., we opened in Dunkirk, until the weather gets warmer then we go to Medicine Co. Albany, where we expect to stay four weeks Every one is in the best of health. We have the marvelous English with his hoops and Queen Dora, fire dancer as special features. A.A. Copeland is singing with much success Bryant & Carter's latest composition, "He's Been Here, But Gone." The company sends regards to H. O. Clark's Band with Forepaugh & Sells Show. James Rastus Johnson, basg, please write. PHOTO BY WILKYWOOD abstant director and 'tramp' caster with the Hogan aggregation. 48 THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER J. Ed, Green, stage director of the Rufus Rastus Company has given out some rules for the chorus girls, one of which is that no girl in the chorus will be permitted to marry a millionaire without the written consent of the press agent. Another is that the chorus ladies will not be allowed to keep their automobiles in their dressing rooms. Ray Edwards is making a big hit with "Moving Day;" Josephine Smith is singing "My Name is Morgan, but It ain't J. P." THE NICHOLS AMUSEMENT idella Patterson, "Sym COMPANY. pathy: ' Nettie Timmons "My Red, Hot Baby." Simon Jones is sending them out screaming with "Who's There?" Hamp Harper leader of the orchestra is doing his part. Nichols Ragtime Ope a Band is furnishing the music and making a hit throughout the country. "A distinct novelty is furnished on the program at Poll's Theatre this week by Lasky and Roile's THE FOURTEEN "Black Hussars." BLACK HUSSARS. These fourteen colored entertainers play va- rious instruments, ranging all the way from a bugle to a drum, in very good style besides doing some clever marching and good singing. The element of fun that seems latent in all colored people is allowed full play in different scenes, showing to the best advantage when the members of the company perform on various sized drums. All the music is spirited and of the popular brand and, of couase it goes well with the audience."—The Hartford Daly Courant, May 7. Sam Lucas, the comedian has joined us as c. medy will be introduced in the act. Everybody is well. We played to S. R. O. at Columbia, Ga., and the boys were Regger, a comedian of high ability and a cake walker has joined our forces and is quite a drawing card. He takes three and four encores nightly singing "Every Little Bit Helps." Mabel Miles is still bringing the house down singing "I Am Crazy About." Prof. Williams, our band and orchestra leader has just received a supply of new music. The company sends regards to Robbit Foot Company. J. Wesley Jones sends regards to Alex. Hunt and Frank Wilson. James E. Chappelle wishes to hear from Pearl Woods and Ellse Harris. The May Klub of Kansas City, Mo., entertained the Rufus Rastus Company headed by our un- BANQUET AT bleached American and KANSAS CITY. Tom Logan at a grand ball and banquet May 7. The banquet was held in the afternoon from two to four. It was one of the most brilliant affairs ever given in the city and was largely attended by representative citizens. Mr. Hogan as toast master was the "hero" of the occasion while Hon W. C. Hueston responded in bishalf of the Klub. Music was furnished by the Imperial Trio, W. C. Quartet and Silver Leaf Quartet. A splendid lunch was served and at the departing time, "Everybody Was Happy" The officers are Fred Pope, president, Charles F. Blake, secretaap; Jack Fields, treasurer. We have just finished Georgia and Ala-bama after playing all the large cities and did a big business. We jump to Caro, m., following two stands in Tennessee. We had the pleasure of meeting at Birmingham, Ala., the Smith Amusement Company and exchanged greetings. C. Smith, the champion wing and buck dancer joined us at Pratt City, Ala. Our barytone Play S. Johnson returned to the show at Oakmon, Ala., after a short visit to his wife at Chattanooga. Dennis Mitchell is scoring every night singing "Give Me the Leavings." John Dennis, the comedy king, is cleaning up. A. R. Hutchens has returned and Prof. McCammon's Big 4 Quartet is creating quite a sensation. J. B. Norton is cleaning up a singing. "Is Everybody Happy?" Sims & De. nls, Chas. McKenzie, and J. Cox are doing well. Our show is having fine success so far and Mr. Chappelle is well pleased with his as leading lady and stage director Mr. Collins is making a hit as nephew to Charles Sandaman who is taking the part of uncle. Our band is small but is doing fine playing a star piece called "Poor Jim." Wm. Lewis, captain; cornets, John Gunley, William Lewis; alto, Ed. Collins; clarinet, Philip Williams; baritone, Joseph Gale; trombones, Pearl Moppin, C. T. Cherry; double bass, Benjamin F. Stevens, the only double instrument on the road with any colored show, and he is making a hit with an. Annie May Lee, Pauline Foster, Lucile Kenchlex. Bertha Newman and Lula Martin are our ladies. Stage manager, Ed. Collins; Happy Howard, Charles Lantana, William Clem, James Means as clowns, Henry Connling, Clarence Herrman, magicians: Pearl Moppin, hoop roller. --- THE SILENT CITY. Sweet City of the silent dead, Where souls rest ever and a day, The place where living mortals dread Before they pass away. Sweet City fair of calm and repose, Where neither song nor volces blend, Where from the grave the Christ arose His earthly toll to end. Sweet and serene in silence there, Where angel spirits guard each soul, They murmur softly nature's prayer, Its depths of love untold. JESSE A. SHIPP AS A PLAYWRIGHT. When Abyssinia first saw the light of day at the Majestic Theatre in New York last February, the critics commented on the idiosyncrasy of the play and its fitness to please or displease Americans who have white skin, (a caste of color which we hope will die) from a point of racial humor, rather than the true merits of the playwright and the performers, If we are to meet the New York critics on the same basis with their own cheap game, it would do honor to the cause of a suffering white public, if we must be driven to the question of color, to say that they have accepted the blaced up dilapidated soldiers and agonizing whiteimitators of darkey singers in the Clansman, a drama which is the grossest insult and caricature of the white races, if they only knew it, ever permitted to grate on the ears and bewilder the eyes of a nation of people, injured by the greed of a few managers, authors and critics, by force, against their will. If color is the ground upon which white critics build their nests, it is up to the black critic to throw rotten eggs at the scare-crow chorus of the Clansman so that the law, which does not take its course may see the Clansman and smell the rotten eggs. Let this be the last time that otherwise critics of New York will overlook art for the mere mortification of color. Art will ever be recognized regardless of the narrowness of critics, especially when it shines in literature. It is true that in the initiative production of Abyssinia, some bits of the dialogue were dul in action rather than in texture, but each ensuing scene was nevertheless expressed in language too perfect for criticism. If it had not been that a complete comedy presentation had been expected, nothing in point of merit, in dramatic act, by a colored playwright, could have equalled it. So in the production of Abyssinia, whether it be its original or changed condition, it is not the dramatist who failed. The mantle of success falls to Jesse Shipp and covers him with the infinite glory of being the most prolific dramatic playwright (not comedy, comedy belongs to Cole) his race has yet produced. Even in the transposition to comedy, Shipp has made good his threat "I can change it to comedy," he said and when too much drama would not do he changed it to comedy before the run at the Majestic was exhausted. Personally, Mr. Shipp's broad intellectual qualities compare favorably with his ability as a playwright; his wondrous ways, no comedy of errors cluster around the estimate he puts on his own valuation; he simply lives happy in striving as one whose work is never finished. His character is built upon love and union; he is beloved by all the Abyssinia company whose attention he cheerfully commands at a whisper, and in whom we observe the dersonality of the most eminent man of his race in melo-dramatic history. As anactor Mr. Shipp is very much at home in more than one line; he is unexcelled as a lover and equally so as a dramatic actor. He speaks his lines distinctly and his punctuation is so exacting that his voice is always audible without being forced. However welcome these last applaudits may be, it is only recognition that is due his attainments and the credit which justly goes with them. If we a e to dispel the illusion created by Mr. Shipp's splendid dramatic construction and return to comedy, much of the elchness of the production is lost. This has been done already. The prologue which opened the play was one dramatic picture of scene beauty unsurpassed. While I never place any importance or approval upon prologues, in this emission Mr. Shipp is the loser, not the play, not the stars, but Mr. Shipp and the banishment of important expensive unused scenery. I saw the play after the prologue had been cut out, which cut out the shooting of a lion on the mountain top and the dialogue which went with it, and must confess that its loss was no gain to the production even changed in favor of comedy. In the court scene the declaration of King Menelik, is the finest piece of dramat or reading ever presented from the pen of Jesse Shipp and his knowledge of the dynasty relationship so valuable to the play. Playwriting is an arduous task and few people who witness the work can realize what the mental requirements have been especially of the favored few who prosper. So Mr. Shipp is now quite a central figure on the literary and dramatic horizon. He is a bigger actor today than any stars of his race who shine in only one radiate of light, and what he deserves is a manager with plenty of money to star him in comedy-drama plays of his own. —SYLVESTER RUSSELL: Williams and Walker played a highly successful engagement last week in Washington, putting in three nights in Convetion Hall, as no theater was available. This hall is the largest auditorium in the nation's capital, easily seating 5,000 people. A "capacity audience," therefore, in Convention Hall, means something out of the ordinary. Carrying such an immense aggregation of stage folks to Washington, with everything guaranteed, would have been accents to have undertaken, but Will counted a big risk for even the Schu-Marion Cook knew the temper of his home people with reference to his stars, and he "sailed in" and "won out big," as the record-breaking box office receipts and makeup of the crowd amply demonstrated. The triumph of the Williams and Walker engagement, literally translated, means that another year will find 100,000 Negroes of Washington in possession of a theater of their own, where such desirable attractions can play as often and as long as the people want them, independent of the grudging condescension of white managers or the patronizing superciliousness of white audiences. The Washington Post—never partial to what the local papers choose to term "coon shows," gave Williams and Walker this surprisingly cordial "hand" on the morning of May 1: "Convention Hall was tested to its capacity last evening with an audience representing the better colored element of the capital attracted by the announcement of Williams & Walker's new burlesque extravaganza 'Abyssinia.' A large delegation from Baltimore helped swell the crowd, which was an appreciative, orderly, and well behaved gathering. Bert Williams gave a quiet but quaint portrayalof Jasmine Jenkins nad did not overplay the rule nor make it too much low comedy and buffoonery. On the contrary, it was decidedly artistic in conception and finish, and stamped Bert the leading colored comedian of this country. For the rest of the company supporting the stars, only good things can be said, the chorus being well trained, and their voices harmonized well, showing the ability with which they had been directed by their conductors. "'Abyssinia' is a melange of comic opera, burlesque, extravaganza, and the cake walk's eccentric movements, and while it is reminiscent in places it is a tuneful, attractive presentation and must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. "Next to Bert Williams should be mentioned Hattie McIntosh, in the role of Aunt Callie, in which character she makes a clever hit, and the only objection is that she does not have enough time on the stage to show how clever she can be. Anybody going to Convention Hall for the next two evenings will enjoy a good performance." Every Lady Read This. Years ago when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leucocorticine, Palmitin. Fear me in one month. It is a simple harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one having the recipe. I will send it Free to every suffering sister who needs it. It will help in a case of woman helping woman. I send it Free. Address Mrs. A. B. Hudnut, South Bend, Ind. The Freeman is on sale at Lewy's Love's Barber Shop, 2720 State street, Chicago, Ill. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE. Robinson, Muss Lydia Smith, Mrs Eliza Teinte, Mrs Bard Thimpson Miss L Yeres, Miss O Wilson, Mrs Margret Allen, Miss Maud Henderson, Miss V Johnson, Miss M E Moore, Miss Mottes Robeson, Miss Ada Robeson, Miss Ann GENTLEMEN'S LIST. # GENTLEMEN'S LIST Armstrong, Roy Armstrong, Thos Blind, Bill Beauregard, Jay Bundy, Geo Blumer, Robt Barnes, Amy Beauregard, Amy Dennis, John Davis, S Davis, Sam Davis, James P Dick-on, W Thomas Goodow, Will-2 Goodow, Will Helms, Billy Halsey Henderson, Chas Hatch, Joe Ister, Arthur Jones and Raymond Johnson, Sam Moore & Vaughn McCannon, J H McCannon, J H Moore & Vaughn Moor, Nathan, Humphrey Pampil, John Pavton, Harry Russell, J Reed, George Reed, Edward Swan, Geo A-2 Wrehn, Alex Watermeen on Quartet Wise, James Wise, James White, Capt B Y Williams and Devine Williams, Geo ROUTE. A Rabbit's Foot Co. Georgetown, S. C. May 21; Florence, 22; Marion, 23; Darlington, 24; Bennettsville, 25; Fayetteville, N. Gatton. Funny Folks Comedy: Rome, Ga., May 21; Dalton, 22; Chattanooga, Tenn., 23; Fort Payne, 24. Georgia Coon Shouters; Marshfield, Ill. 25; biphewa Faits, 28. 25; biphewa Faits, 28. P. G. Lowyer & Co., with the great Wallace Hussar, M. May, M. May, 21; Catthee, Joolin, 13; Uchervale, Kas, 24; Winn field, 25; Wichta, 26; "Fourteen Black Hussars." Colonial Theatre, New York City, May 21. Hilton and Parquette: Yonkers, N. Y., May 21. Williams and Stevens: Bjilon Theater, Appleton, Wis., week of May 21. WANTED AT ONCE for Brown's Tennessee Minstrels--Cornet and Clarionet Payer; also Lady Soprano with concert experience. No price too high to right people. Address W. A. BROWN. Permanent address Holden, Mo. WANTED FOR THE PICKANINNY BAND OF THE T. I. Cash Carnival company A Baritone and Trombone player. Opens it St. Paul May 28 until June 6. Long season state age and size. J, C. Brinker, band master, 130 E 1st Street, St. Paul Minn. MANAGERS AND ACTORS' —— DIRECTORY — The Two Jolly Prices. Ed and Ludelb now playing the Western Vaudeville circuit, permanent address Empire Theater San Fran cisco, Cal. Profession. Magician In a new big magic act. Both are musicians addresses on slide trombones. Forma- minal address 1000 E. Miller street, Springfield, Illinois. Tom Logan Rufus Rast- Season 1966, personal repres e in tative norestest Hogan WANTED --Cornet Player-- at once for a Eight Month's Old Band, playing 1, 2, 3 grade music. Will give employment to a good man of experience. Wm. Thomas, Manager. Ramsey Hotel, Crawfordsville, Ind --- THE TROMBONE THE TENOR GEORGE BA LEY. PETER H. The Budweiser Theater TAMPA, FLA. One of the finest theaters in the U. S. devoted exclusively to colored performers. WANTED at all times performers in all branches, Chorus girls with good voices and good appearance, also musi- clans who double B. and O. Explain all first letter. Tickets advanced. R. S. Donaldson, prop. Budweiser Theater - Tampa, Fla Coming Soon to Your City The greatest Negro enterprise trav- elling. Mv two shows, "A Rabbit's Foot Co. & Funny Folk Co., watch for the two big funny snows tour- ing the country in their own private cars, can always place good per formers and musicians Address Pat Chappelle as per route or home office 1054 W. Church St, Jacksonville, Fla. We want colored young men for all kinds of hotel, store, wholesale, railroad and general work. If you want a nice job write us. Tiffany-Sanborn 25½ N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. I. H. WHALEY, Monologuist and Comedian would like to hear from any good Co. for this or next season. Write 1529 Maudain St., Philadelphia. WANTED-YOUNG MEN WORRALLS EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. Inc. $28,000--Positions--A Square Deal Want. --Position Want. When Bide Ends When Bidg, indianaapolis, ind. MEMBERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Look ahead; get out of the old rut. Learn more, earn more, see more, be more life. If we find YOU employment, if we find YOU employment, if we find YOU advancement, better salary, independence. We place men, all ages, from farms, experienced, technical or junior experienced, serve YOU. Call, send stamp for terms, plans, references. 200 MENCLAPLAST WEEK Miss Hattie Lewis. Neatly furnished rooms, steam heat, gas and bath. SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION 2520 and 2522 Wabash Ave., Chicago. WANTED--MEN GENERAL NEWS, CLEANED FROM MANY POINTS. BY OUR UBIQUITOUS CORRESPONDENTS DRIFT OF SENTIMENT The People's Grocery Company has put in a soda fountain and doing a good business.—Sam LOUISIANA !Hedden has opened MISSOURI. another barber shop. B, R.Boone has opened up a summer skating rink, equipped with Richardson's ball bearing skates. Mrs. Eugene Thomas, of Urbana is quite ill.—Arthur Penny spent Sunday at Chicago—Miss CHAMPAIGN Allie Lightfoot has returned from her ILLINOIS. visit homb.—The rally at the! Methodist church May 6 was a grand success —Diogenes Lodge No. 7 K. of P. conducted a special interurban car to Danville, May, 6 with about 150 persons and Brewers Juvenile Band. The annual sermon of the K. of P. Lodges of Champaign, Paris and Lafeyette was delivered by S. B. Jones, of Paris. Frank Jones of this city spoke on the progress of the order. Queen Thelma, Western Beauty, Pride of Dallas and Leading Star Courts of Calanthe DALLAS were visited by the TEXAS. State Grand Worthy Counsellor last week at K. of P. Hall. A timely talk was made on the uplifting of womanhood. At night a banquet was given Mrs Key, the husbands, sons and visiting DRIFT OF It is time for our ministers and public speakers to stop harping on Dixon and his trashy books. The easiest and quickest way to kill a man is to treat him with silent contempt—The Eye, Birmingham, Ala. Wanted—to see the Negro's place of business so well kept that the passerby will not be able to determine the color of the proprietor by the general appearance of the surroundings.—The Dallas Express. 一 It is not the color of a man's skin that make the man, but his character. Let us as American citizens classify ourselves as the white race. There is no harm in having self-respect and associating with the better class of Negroes.—The Evansville Transcript. Influence is a law of social life from which there is no escape and the fact comes to us day by day that we are casting either deep shadows or bright sunbeams into the lives of those who come in contact with the impressions we make. How sacredly then, should we guard these impressions so that sunshine and not shadow may be the result.—The Zion Methodist. 一 Sentiment or sense! that is the question. Whether your conduct shall be actuated by a high moral sense of duty and obligation, or will you be influenced by a sickly sentiment to walk the path of popular opinion and court the smiles of a fickled rabble is the question that comes to all men as they enter the arena of public life.—The Torch Light, Danville, Ky. We have a large number of people who do not enjoy any kind of work. A wise man who made for himself a private drawer under the cellar stairway, found the following things in it when he went to occupy it himself: Veils, pads, hairpins, feathers, ruching, red ribbons, blue ribbons, safety pins, petticoats, silk stockings, powder puffs, tufts of hair, corset cov- --- O THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Knights at Old Fellows.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newton are residing at 440 Young street.—Mrs. Anna Starr is visiting at St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit.—Thre will be 11 graduates from the High School—E. C. Pittman of Chickasaw, I. T. was in the city on account of the illness of his sister.—St. John's Day will be observed by the various Masonic Lodges of this city, June 24—A Negro Stock Company is handling roller skates, at the corner of Pacific and Olive. Zack Alexander, of Donglass visited in the city last week—George Williams of El Paso, Tex. EISBEE stopped over to visit ARIZONA. Miss Gracie Vaughn en route to Mexico The Cotton Seed ball given by the Cliff Dwellers Base Ball Team was a great success.—The literary clubs of the city rendered an excellent program to a large audience.—The young men of Bisbee are on the alert studying for future usefulness. Charles S. Warsham is preparing for the Railway Mall service; James W. Marshall for the Custom House service; R L Lawls is studying journalism and R. B Spikes is performing on the violin and also has one of the best equipped torsional parlors in this section.—The Cliff Dwellers defeated the Lowell Giants (white) Wednesday of last week at Don Lois Park. SENTIENT Who interpret freedom as exemption from toil. There is another large and growing class who favor only certain forms of labor. Both are a millstone around the Negro's neck and hinder his progress. Our people should be constantly taught the dignity of all honest labor. The indolent horde has placed the reputation of the race for industry below par.—The People's Observer. It is a hard matter for vain-souled man to do his duty to-day—to do the right, absolute right—if by so doing the future seems to make inevitable that which is to-day to him intolerable. It seems that most colored men have little faith in the final triumph of right. They believe that the gods help those who help themselves, but their self-help for the most part consists in saying and doing things that are neither warranted by good judgment nor by the Bible.—The Colorado Times. Much of what is called prejudice, is not so. In the matter of house renting, when white people object to colored tenants, such objection is based on the belief that the new tenant has no inherent qualities of goodness and desires to move in an atmosphere where such qualities may be borrowed and imitated. It is pointed out that colored people lack the real powers to improve themselves. Hence, every neighborhood already assigned to our people should be kept cleanly. Occupants should seek to have bar rooms and dance halls and brothels closed. In this way we can prove that we possess strength of character to keep neighborhoods in which we live as nice as those we desire to move into.—Philadelphia Tribune. ers, house slippers, trading stamps, chewing gum, shoe strings and other articles too numerous to mention. The wise man then carefully wrapped his shirt, underclothes and clean collar, and carried them to his room and put them under the bed. And then went outdoors and meditated. DANVILLE COLORED FAIR ASSOCIATION Will hold its IN THE ATHLETIC FIELD. :--: RAM'S HORN BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY :--: :--: RAM'S HORN BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY :--: JACK BLACKBURN ISSUES SWEEPING CHALLENGE JACK BLACKBURN ISSUES SWEEPING CHALLENGE INDIANAFOLIS BOXER ANXIOUS FOR A MATCH Philadelphia, Special.—Jack Blackburn, the great mulatto lightweight, who comes from Indianapolis demands recognition as an aspirant for championship honors. Failing to make any matches with the so-called lightweight he has been boxing welter and middleweights wheever he could get a chance, and has in many cases won in a most decisive fashion. Blackburn has boxed several contests in New York. The Gotham sports are quick to recognize merit. As a result he will now have no trouble to get substantial backing against any man in the world. His latest proposition is this: He will box any man in America six or twenty rounds at the lightweight limit 138 pounds, weigh in at 6 p m post $250 of his own money to guarantee weight, and if the match is made will post an additional $1,000 for appearance. This offer is open to Gans, Nelson, Britt, Hanlon, Fitzgerald, Gardner Herrera, Adam Ryan. Harry Lewis Young Erne, or any other aspirant for lightweight honors. Failing to induce any of the above to meet him in the squared circle, he will make the same offer to any welterweight in the world excepting that the weight be 145 pounds, ringside. Further to prove his earnestness to reached the top of the ladder, he makes an offer to Jack O'Brien to box the latter six or twenty rounds at 158 pounds weigh in at the ringside. He is confident that he can outbox ond outpunch O Brien, and will post a forfeit for weight and appearance. It seems that the time is now ripe for some one of the many boxers at whom Blackburn has been aiming his challenges to step forward and "call" the nervy mulatto. Like George Dixon, he has up to the present been a credit to the ring. He appreciates his position, minds his own business and is in boxing for the best he can get out of it. He has never faced a man in this vicinity who has made him extend himself. No one can ridicule his ability. He is a shitty, clever two handed boxer, and can punch hard with either hand. If his defi remains unnoticed it is a public confession on the part of O'Brien and all the rest that they do not want any of Blackburn's game. GANS MAY MEET O'BRIEN O'ROURKE PROJECTS ANOTHER MATCH FOR TUKEDO A. C. New York, Special.—If Joe Gans does not get a big match on in the East it will be no fault of Tom O'Rourke's. One of the matches O'Rourke has in view for the Tuxedo Athletic Club is a twenty-round battle between Jack O'Brien and Gans. Gans has received a good offer for such a match, and is willing to meet the Quaker* O'Rourke says that O'Brien can not draw the color line, and thinks there is a probability of the match being made. Gans and O'Brien are two of the best men in the game, and, although the Quaker would tower over the colored lad, there are many wise ring fans who believe Gans, in proper condition would defeat O'Brien. PROMINENT HORSE OWNER PROMINENT HORSE OWNER DEAD Louisville, Ky, Special - Edward D Brown, better known as 'Brown Dlok' the Negro owner, trainer and jockey, died here May 11. He at one time own ed among other horses, Ben Brush Plaudit and Proteston. DOWN'S PHILOSOPHY :- neighbors have a way of getting in our own pillows. When people have no interest in religion it is because they have no principle involved. That the Bible is inspired from Heaven is evidenced by the way it inspires humanity. I wonder what the Lord thinks when the woman with a $50 hat gives five cents to His glory. It's no mercy to try to make this world heavenly for those who are working to make it a hell. A good many are singing about lying at His feet in order to get out of walking in His footsteps. Many of our prayer-messages fail to reach Heaven because they are short-circled by selfishness A Can be consulted on all affairs of life. Her predictions are true and can be relied upon. You should know your future, and what you are best adapted for. Write for further information. Send stamp. MACON COUNTY A Glimpse of Opportune Macon County may be counted as Alabama, as to lands, churches, schools, organizations for the common good of the LA. The northeastern portion is rolling tions are comparatively level, consisting lands. Some of the finest pine and hard found in Macon County. In many se trees are ready to be converted into firs. The soil varies in richness, giving it is handled by the farmers. By caref and a half bales of cotton per acre can county. A good farmer can make fro low. From nearly any variety of can be found in the borders of this county. Ordinary lands range in prices for Many thousands of acres of good land them and put them into cultivation. PUBLIC Nearly every community in the coun house and an eight months' public sch runs the school four or five months a private subscription. One community fall to be applied to the erection and egal school. Some of the best teachers teaching public schools in this county. NIGHT In the town of Tuskegee there is a anybody can go. free of charge, for nu books, but carpentry, brickmasonry, cook. A. M. A. In the southern portion of the co w with five teachers is maintained by the New York. COUNTY, A Opportunities be counted as one of the buses, schools, medical at on good of the people MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA. A Glimpse of Opportunities There Offered. Macon County may be counted as one of the most favored in the State of Alabama, as to lands, churches, schools, medical attention, railroads and other organizations for the common good of the people LANDS. The northeastern portion is rolling land. The south and southeastern portions are comparatively level, consisting of a part of the celebrated "Black Belt" lands. Some of the finest pine and hardwood timber lands in the South can be found in Macon County. In many sections the large and stately pine and oak trees are ready to be converted into first-class timber by the manufacturer. The soil varies in richness, giving returns largely in proportion to the way it is handled by the farmers. By carefully handling the soil from a half to one and a half bales of cotton per acre can be obtained in most any section of the county. A good farmer can make from eight to fifteen bales of cotton to the plow. From nearly any variety of sandy soil to almost all kinds of clay may be found in the borders of this county. Ordinary lands range in prices from six dollars to ten dollars per acre. Many thousands of acres of good land lie waiting for some one to get hold of them and put them into cultivation. The northeastern portion is rolling land. The south and southeastern portions are comparatively level, consisting of a part of the celebrated "Black Bell" lands. Some of the finest pine and hardwood timber lands in the South can be found in Macon County. In many sections the large and stately pine and oak trees are ready to be converted into first-class timber by the manufacturer. The soil varies in richness, giving returns largely in proportion to the way it is handled by the farmers. By carefully handling the soil from a half to one and a half bales of cotton per acre can be obtained in most any section of the county. A good farmer can make from eight to fifteen bales of cotton to the plow. From nearly any variety of sandy soil to almost all kinds of clay may be found in the borders of this county. Ordinary lands range in prices from six dollars to ten dollars per acre. Many thousands of acres of good land lie waiting for some one to get hold of them and put them into cultivation. PUBLIC ECHOOLS. city in the county has or is to the public school term for college months and the other community raised aboction and equipment of a best teachers to be found in this county. Nearly every community in the county has or is trying to have a good school house and an eight months' public school term for colored children. The State runs the school four or five months and the other three months are added by private subscription. One community raised about $500 in three months last fall to be applied to the erection and equipment of a school house for their public school. Some of the best teachers to be found in the State are engaged in teaching public schools in this county. NIGHT SCHOOL. In the town of Tuskegee there is a night school for the colored people where anybody can go. free of charge, for nine months in the year. There, not only books, but carpentry, brickmasonry, cooking and sewing are taught. A. M. A. SCHOOL. In the southern portion of the county a well equipped school for Negroes with teachers is maintained by the American Missionary Association of New York. TESKEGER INSTITUTE It need not be repeated that Tuskegee only affords educational advantages for books or trade but the school offers to be eaten. CHURCH It is said that Macon County can handle if the colored minister is concerned. It becomes a leader in the practice, loyal to his or her church yet the denominate hatred or discord at times when a Baptist and Methodist are the preeminent community can be found a fairly good district. INSTITUTE An institute or a ministers' union must Normal and Industrial Institute. They and they spend the day discussing and nations, agreeing upon plans to make theance and poverty. The County Teachers' Institute assists Normal School free makes it easy for me to grow more and more proficient in the Farmers' Institutes, Local Conference for the farmers give the progressive, wide chance to better find the keys which unite The Negro Business League for the Building and Loan Association for the installment plan, and other private capped men to get hold of money and lea The Women's Club and Mothers' Community in the county give the women of woman's work. The Masons, the Odd Fellows, etc., offer opportunity to grow. RAILLE Three railroads cross the county tively easy to have a nearby shipping point. MEDICAL The Macon County colored and well State. NEGRO BUS Thirty Negro business men located the opportunity offered to men of that color. Not a lynching has occurred in two the races is cordial and friendly. I am in the real estate business not also for the good I can do, and I shall and if strangers want to be shows land I be glad to accompany them and help them they are looking for. that Tuskegee Normal school advantages for any boy or girl offers to buy any kind It need not be repeated that Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute not only affords educational advantages for any boy or girl who wishes to learn books or trade but the school offers to buy any kind of farm produce that can be eaten. CHURCHES. It is said that Macon County can hardly be equaled so far as the moral tone of the colored minister is concerned. He preaches pure living and at the same time becomes a leader in the practice of his doctrine. While each member is loyal to his or her church yet the denominational feeling is seldom allowed to create hatred or discord at times when Church Creed should be put aside. Baptist and Methodist are the prevailing denominations. In nearly every community can be found a fairly good church building. It is said that Macon County can hardly be equaled so far as the moral tone of the colored minister is concerned. He preaches pure living and at the same time becomes a leader in the practice of his doctrine. While each member is loyal to his or her church yet the denominational feeling is seldom allowed to create hatred or discord at times when Church Creed should be put aside. Baptist and Methodist are the prevailing denominations. In nearly every community can be found a fairly good church building. Mothers' union meets every the Institute. The ministers are causing and, although required to make their fight in the Institute as well as a leaf it easy for the public to incident in their work Local Conferences, Fairs, and aggressive, wide awake farms which unlock the hiddengage for the enterpriseation for the man who private capital make it money and land. Mothers' Meetings organe the women of the Negro mollows, etc., come in to offer An institute or a ministers' union meets every three months at the Tukeague Normal and Industrial Institute. The ministers are entertained by the school and they spend the day discussing and, although representing different denominations, agreeing upon plans to make their fight in common against sin, ignorance and poverty. The County Teachers' Institute as well as a lecture course offered by the Normal School free makes it easy for the public school teachers of the county to grow more and more proficient in their work. Farmers' institutes, Lal Conferences, Fairs, as well as a two weeks' school for the farmers give the progressive, wide-awake farmer in Mason County great chance to better find the keys which unlock the hidden treasures of the soil. The Negro Business League for the enterprising colored man. The Negro Building and Loan Association for the man who wants to buy a home on the installment plan, and other private capital make it comparatively easy for the colored men to get hold of money and land. The Women's Club and Mothers' Meetings organized in nearly every community in the county give the women of the Negro race a good chance to know woman's work. The Masons, the Odd Fellows, etc., come in to offer the secret-order man an opportunity to grow. Three railroads cross the county in as many sections,'making it'comparatively easy to have a nearby shipping point. MEDICAL SKILL. oired and white doctors NEGRO BUSINESS MEN. men ocated in different s men of that calbe. This curred in twenty-seven y idly. business not only for the e and I shall be very glad shown land in various pa and help them in every w tions to TON J. CALLE Real Estate Dealer, Tush The Macon County colored and white doctors are among the best in the State. Thirty Negro business men coated in different sections of the county show the opportunity offered to men of that caliber. Thirty more are needed. Not a lynching has occurred in twenty-seven years. The feeling between the races is cordial and friendly. I am in the real estate business not only for the money that I can make, but also for the good I can do, and I shall be very glad to answer correspondence, and if strangers want to be shown land in various parts of Macon County I shall be glad to accompany them and help them in every way possible to secure what they are looking for. Address all communications to CLINTON J. Real Estate CLINTON J. CALLOWAY. Real Estate Dealer, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. DRINK WIEDEMANN'S Fine Bottled BEERS JACOB METZGER CO., Wholesale Dealers SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Glee Gonorrhoe and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY WAIT AGENTS TO SELL GREAT SPEECH IN PAMILLET FORM Tribute to Dr. Booker T. Washington. A stature of this work and his worth. The greatest trump- ever paid to an anglo. By AHYP. A. H. Booker of Chang- special terms to Agents. Price 15 ck. Address Dr. M. A. Majors, 168 State St, Chicago, IL. CITY, ALABAMA. unities There Offered. one of the most favored in the State of medical attaition, railroads and other people. BANDS. Iland. The south and southeastern port of a part of the celebrated "Black Bell" wood timber lands in the South can be nations the large and stately pine and oak class timber by the manufacturer. Returns largely in proportion to the way fully handling the soil from a half to one be obtained in most any section of the eight to fifteen bales of cotton to the dry soil to almost all kinds of clay may from six dollars to ten dollars per acre while waiting for some one to get hold of ECHOOLS. city has or is trying to have a good school term for colored children. The State and the other three months are added by raised about $500 in three months last equipment of a school house for their pub to be found in the State are engaged in ECHOOL. light school for the colored people where the months in the year. There, not only taking and sewing are taught. ECHOOL. unty a well equipped school for Negroes the American Missionary Association of see Normal and Industrial Institute not or any boy or girl who wishes to learn buy any kind of farm produce that can CHES. earlyly be equaled so far as the moral tone he preaches pure living and at the same of his doctrine. While each member is minimalal feeling is eeldom allowed to church Creed should be put aside. falling denominations. In nearly every church building. CUTES. LANDS. CHURCHES. INSTITUTES. RAILROADS. 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Free trial sample for s-cent stamp to pay postage. 3 Write for booklet «« How to Shave,” | Tic], B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Cts | BGAK.TS 4 WANS Baye, rt May 70 MAKE-U-MAN MAKE, GOOD MAN. Ha veer eee, AN: Snips RESIN? Teenie one mh hee ge Sead cA POW He UemaN Ss oo ineenanend a Bieng Ronestana Bells 1S NOT FREE costs tse math EO Pos Siete saa ak os Becatniney du nee emepiancertonet Hioe no "Acenvge anes ea GPa sulhM. AL MAJORS, 163. State Street? ie Aran neste a ee Pans, on ax VABNISHRS, TIN axp GaLyanizep IRox Work 7 FRANK H. PRUNK Hardware Pampe, Pipes, Kite 522 INDIANA AVENUE, Telephone 1188 INDIANAPOLIS, prays ITE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED CG~LORED NEWSPAPER, PE ———_———— ry The National Baptist Publishing 5 ; i Board, by virtue of the authority vest. OME PROGRE a n ed in it by the National Baptist Con- \ vention to publish Sunday school liter- SPE — > y ature, operate Bible work, employ|SPRINGFIEED, 3 7 iz (nat Sunday school workers for the promo-| SUBSTANIAT, a Me ACRE Gyn Aa | iT Tv) tion of schools, ete, has issued a BY etd a =9 0 I | € [cat for a National meeting of all Sun. ? SS eee i a Gay school workers to be held at| MEN OF WEALTH * Se DG Nashville, June 13 to 18. ge A ee na é Ef cae sens ice cay ‘The St. Peter Clavier school is be-| Vie with Rath oth RHP CNG ws ing erected at Philadelphia for the ed-| Representat CS Ror ore ueation of colored youth by the Cath- ‘Women with Bu OCR So cites. “When completed it willbe ened ite tad of the most beautiful structures on| wy the Rue de Lombard. The corner. a Jae. Two-Priceo@roraier. ae THE ONLY [—_ a oth A fe aa A | Aa ON al MEN'S SUIT STORE / | ‘h Wy) ev ¥ 7 In Indiana. nh RY : aE if Every Garment A a Co . Guaranteed ] TY: ly ay | to be as i \ a Mi , i Represented. : \ ; a i i y. We Save You Xt Ae Oo Naw) MONEY! Pea NS HEDRI CK, gy 7 South Illinois Street. There are thirty-two colored enter- prises in Galveston, Texas, Dr. Harper, of Denver, is the only Negro dentist in the State of Colo- ado, Prof. Lucius Harper, a photographer at Houston, Tex. has been awarded eleven gold medals for fine work. | The colored people in and around Shreveport, La. have raised $118.60 for the San Francisco sufferers, The National Grand Lodge of U. B. F. and S. M. . will convene in Lexing- ton, Ky., July 30 and ‘31, August 1, 2 and 3. Walter J. Johns, editor of the a ansville Transcript, has been elected, Presiding Prine of H. A. Rouse Pala- tum No. 777. The York County, South stole Teachers’ Association met at Rock. Hill at the Chapel of Friendship In- stitute last month, B. J. Jordan and Mrs. F, L, West, of Macon, Ga., have made arrange. ments to open a shoe store, The stock has been purchased at Atlanta, The Colored Homeseekers’ Associa: tion is incorporated in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of securing homes for the unemployed of the race. Dr. George Brewer passed the best examination of all the colored appli cants at the Gainesville (Fla.) exami- nation of the State Medical Board held last month, Sergeant Horatio J. Homer is the only colored man in the Boston police department, where he has been since 1878. He is proficient on eleven dif- ferent musical instruments. Robert Taylor, the fish merchant at Birmingham, Ala, has enlarged his already prosperous business. He is an enterprising business man and also ‘a prominent K. of P. of that city. Andrew Carnegie has written to the! Ry. BD. iar, vie presannt of the Morris-Brown College in Atlanta, Ga. that Ne wil give $12500 to erect an industrial building when an equal amount has been raised by the school, A mass meeting was held at Macon, Ga., recenily for the Georgia State Industrial and Agricultural Fair As sociation. The object of the meeting a HE TK’wo was to raise the required 2,000 shares cnr to bring the fair to Ma- con, George Fletcher, a youth at Pine Bluff, Ark., is developing some talent for drawing. He is very anxious to attend some art school and is working to that end, although it is a little slow as he contributes to the support of his mother and grandmother, his fath- er being dead. A. J. Wood is the prosperous mer- chant at Benton, Ala. He graduated at Tuskegee Institute twelve years ago and returned to his home town and entered into the grocery business. He is gradually building up a depart- ment store and receives the patron- age of both races. Hal Short, a porter in a barber shop in Iowa City, Ia., will be the first colored boy in the history of the Iowa City High School to speak on com- mencement day. He is one of the leading orators, debaters and athletes Of tho high ‘achacl. | The Baptist Missionary Society, through its executive comittee, com- prising F. L. Lights and J. M. Codwell, of Houston, and A. Borbour, of Gal- -vestion, met last week and adopted resolutions relative to the San Fran- ‘cisco sufferers and made a donation of $25.00. | The board of managers of the St. Louis Colored Orphans’ Home will cel- ebrate their fifth anniversary of Or- phans' day, Sunday, May 20, The free- will offering on that day from the churehes, Sunday schools and all be- nevolent orders has been the method of raising money to reduce the indebt- edness on the home. | J. W. Pollard is secretary of the National Merchandise Company at Philadelphia and T. J. Minton is the attorney. It is a department store established for the purpose of giving employment to young men and wom- Jen of the race. ‘The shares of stock are being sold for a reasonable sum and good dividends are being paid. The appropriation of $100,000 to the Negro Development Company which has been organized at Richmond, Va., to develop the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown, Va., Exhibition in 1907, has been recommended by the commit. tee on Industrial Arts and Expositions in Congress. Giles B. Jackson is at the head of the company having the matter in hand. The National Baptist Publishing Board, by virtue of the authority vest. ed in it by the National Baptist Con- vention to publish Sunday school liter. ature, operate Bible work, employ Sunday school workers for the promo- tion of schools, ete, has issued a call for a National meeting of all Sun- day school workers to be held at Nashville, June 13 to 18, ‘The St. Peter Clavier school is be- ing erected at Philadelphia for the ed- ueation of colored youth by the Cath- olies. When completed it will be one of the most beautiful structures on the Rue de Lombard. The corner- stone will be laid Sunday, June 3, Archbishop Ryan will officiate and the exercises will be preceded by confir- mation services, ‘The Past Chancellors of the K. of P., at a meeting at Macon, Ga,, re cently for the purpose of making: ar- rangements for the Grand session to be held in that city in July, con- demned Sunday meetings, and the time of meeting was changed from Sunday to Friday. Grand Deputy Reid, in a speech relative to the same, said that it was his idea that the great catastrophe that had visited California was due to the worldiness there manifested. ‘The Negro population of Missouri fs decreasing. It is less in proportion to the white population than it has been at any previous time in the history of the State, Less than 5 per cont. of the total population of Mis- souri is of Negro blood. ‘There are more Negroes to the total population in the capital city of every State from Missouri to the Atlantic than are to be found in any Missouri city with the single exception of Kansas City. In many sections of Missouri the Negro population is very small, In two coun- ties, Schuyler and Reynolds, there are no Negroes. ‘The thirty-eighth anniversary of the founding of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was cele- brated May 6, 7 and 8. It has an en- rollment of 1383 Negro and Indian students, representing __ thirty-six States, Canada and the British West Indies, over 900 students being from Virginia. Courses are given in the trades, agriculture, business, normal training, and domestic science and art and the graduates are able to earn a living wherever they may go. The great majority return to their own homes and give to their own people and community the benefit of their training. At the anniversary about 50 students were presented to the trustees as candidates for academic diplomas and 60 for trade certificates. ‘The Freeman in Chicago. Hd. Felix, 368 Thirtleth etzeet, Lonts Love, 2720 State street, E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State street H. 8. Winston, 280 Tweney-nintb, Richerd Webb, 2640 1.2 State street. J. P. Winstead. 391 Thirty-first street 3° P. Winsteed, Shining Parlor, 391 Thirty first street. Do not miss this opportunity te sub- cribe for the races’ leading journal. Se cce SPRINGFIELD, ILL., 18 LENDING SUBSTANIAL AID TO PROGRESS Paoli MEN OF WEALTH AND INTEGRITY Vie with Rath Other in Fromoting & Representative Citizenship.— Women with Business Sagacity and Acumen. The people of this thriving city (col- ored) are springing forth as never be- fore in the line of commercial pur- suits. Our city is growing at a phe uomenal rate. We have a population of about 50,000 inhabitants, 5,000 of whom are colored people. The young men are learning that there are other ways for them to make a livelihood than portering and shining shoes, al- though these occupations are honor- able, and those who engage in them are not to be ridiculed nor belittled for so doing, ~ The “Keystone” is a financial suc- cess, recently opened by a young man, Mr. Benj. Jackson. The Leland Ho- tel Pantatorium is doing well, recent- ly opened by Mr. J. L. Morgan. Mr. Morris Wilson conducts a nice grocery and restaurant. Mr. Hill has a first- class store in the suburb of East Springfield. The Economy Grocery Company is a new enterprise, ne well, We bave one undertaker in our city, who, through frugality and pa- tience, is doing finely, and will do well. The Peerless Boarding House is run by a lady in first-class style at 80714 East Washington street. Miss Addie Duncan also has a_ store, Thompson Brothers conduct the larg- est enterprise in the city. Thompson & Tucker are proprietors of a restau- rant, soda fountain in connection, Tucker & Webster have a nice tonso- rial shop. L. F. Osborne's barber shop is one of the nicest in the city, white or colored. ©. C. Lee is proprietor of Lee’s Hotel, and runs a good house. ‘There are three colored papers—the Forum, a magazine paper, weekly, having a good circulation among the society and church people and busi- ness people. HE, L, Rogers is the agent for the Freeman here, and has many good regular customers. Geo. H. Jones, the general traveling repre- sentative of the Freeman, has done a telling work here in the last three months. He deserves credit. H. Sal- lie runs a bicycle repair shop and is improving. Mr. Williams, a young man, has opened a pantatorium at 726 East Washington. We have only three or four colored saloons here. Harry Taylor runs a tailoring establishment, one of the largest in the city. He em- ploys over ten hands regularly. We have on the police force: Secret, Geo. J. Beard, Harry Taylor; regular, Mor- rison, McCollough; sheriffs, Nelson, Joe Richardson. Studying law, Jno. Brown, C. A. Brown, C. S. Gibbs, A. ‘M. Williams, E. L. Rogers. Physi- cians, Drs. L. A. Ware, Jas, B. Hender- son. B. B, Smith and Thos. W. Waiker ‘are head waiters at the Leland Hotel. ‘The entire force of waiters are colored men. The Leland is making improve- ments. The hotel is reliable. It needs a little more training, though, along the lines of efficiency and neat- ness. We have elght churches—about three too many. A large colored force is on at the State House, though few of them have clerical jobs. They do not aspire high enough, L. H. Green, hair dresser, conducts a fine business, with financial success, He employs four ladies. Miss Myrtle Clem is the only colored lady employed in the of- fice of a white physician, The Metro- politan Club, organized by the young men, is one of the most needed social functionaries of the city, Our people but need to push onward and upward. Go into business. Make work for yourself and children. Real estate men: A. M. Williams, J. B. Osby, C. H, Jones & Son, C. A. Ellis. Mr. R. Douglass has a clerical position in the county courthouse. Polities: BE. L. Rogers, C. H. Jones and Otis Duncan; were candidates this spring for office; all defeated. E. L. Rogers is now a candidate, the first colored man to run for probate clerk of Sangamon County. We have mixed schools here—no col- ored teachers, though we should have them. 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B. orawd ¥, General Passenger Agent, CINCINNATI, 0. The Indianapolis Freeman can be found on Benny 053 Woot Thittyrrertsat nth ore areas, rty-aoven mlolosdle agente, and ite Fotall news laude te the following first class places: pee Sra pees ia ag W. 21th street. F he wee Pe, saw, ae Poe cee saa beet Newark aves Sorsey fete Ray Gree ne aE Bom ee eee pene val woh w. Wiis, 0 'W. M. Dotson, 342, West it Dot JZ. nee 100 Wr. sara mice SI Bere ee fe a ta see ‘ye ool ta EE Rebenson, 24 8 Fiche = W, loth street fen, wide eae im wierd SLES, sae ore cc ea ey Ror, Spring Jackets Loose and half-fitted coats of light grays in plaids and mixed cloths, plain and strap trimmed; also a line of covert coats in jaunty fitted styles, velvet and self-trimmed. Prices earlier up to $10 00, now ... $5.75 Quite a number of misses' coats in this lot, sizes 14 and 16 years. Traveling Coats. Coats of fancy novelty mixtures in brown or gray, and plain cloths in tan, loose and fitted styles, coats worth up to $25 00, special.. $11.50 Steamer Rugs Regulation size, of finest wools, a special importation from Scotland's best shawl weavers, at upward from... $10.00 —Third Floor. Silk Specials Yard-wide changeable tafetas in a bright, rustling finish, regularly $1 a yard, specially offered at. . . . 750 Black tafetta, the chiffon finished dollar kind, a yard. . . . 750 High-grade Japanese wash silks, in novelty effects, a yard. . . . 290 — Second Floor, East Aisle. L.S.Ayres&Co. CITY AND SOCIETY. Rev. G. A. Sissle and family have moved to Cleveland, O. Woodbine Perfume has magic powers. On sale at Blodau's Drug Store. Sunday was dollar pay at Simpson Chapel. The collection was $60.00. William Walden is no longer employed in the county treasurer's office. J. R. Moore, M. D., of Cincinnati is in the city with a view to locating permanently. The annual Negro Folk Lore concert will take place May 25, at Tomilinson Hall. Miss Elizabeth B. Waters and Miss Helena J. Sharpe visited friends at Shelbyville Sunday. Mrs. Jeanette Paul, of Chicago is the guest of her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Eil B. Paul. Miss Madeline Thompson, of Dan ville, Ill., returned home Tuesday after a few days' visit with Mrs. Sissle. W. C. Thompson, general organizer of the International Laborers' Union is in the city in the interests of the organization. At Union Tabernacle Baptist and Second Baptist churches, May Fairs are being held. The Y. M. C. A. furnished the program for the former last Wednesday night. Music was furnished ed by the orchestra of the association. Prof. Brown director. The Rev. J. C. Patton, pastor of the Second Baptist church and a member of Friendship Lodge will preach the Thanksgiving sermon of the U. B. F. and S M. T.'s at Tomlinson Hall Sunday May 27 at 3 p.m. All brothers of the order will meet Summer Lodge Hall corner North and Blake streets at 12 o'clock sharp. DEATHS George Wilson, suffered from an attack of heart disease while working in a school Monday. He was taken to the City Hospital where he died soon after. Mrs. Bessie Boone wife of McDonald Banks died Sunday evening after an illness of eight weeks. The funeral services were held at the Second Baptist church Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Banks was only 18 years old and had been married thirteen months. She had a large number of friends owing to her exceptionally sweet disposition. Mrs. Emma Collins died at her home Monday evening after a short illness of typhoid fever. She was an active member of Bethel A. M E. church, a member of the choir, a deaconess and a worker in one or more church clubs. She was also identified with several lodges. Her husband, mother and five children survive her. The funeral services were held at Bethel church Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Collins' maiden name was Miss Emma Buckner, and before her marriage to W. D. Collins, she was a clerk in the circulation department of The Freeman. "A When our was Reason We are PERSON moving the loan in full portio sired. MON treatin CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 203. State L. (Formerly Stevens Front Room 15 E. Wa-hing --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (Continued from First Page.) Tom Watsons, and Bishop Turner will have less room to agitate his favorite exodus propaganda. Fair play all around will solve the toughest problem that the races of the South have to meet. Charles Francis Adams (see May Century Magazine) is the latest descendant of a noble line of New Englanders to go astray on the problems created in social economics by the presence of the so-called "inferior races." Evidently the rich, red corpuscles of John Quincy Adams' blood have all been thinned out in the process of evolution from the author of the Monroe doctrine down to the scribbler of ethnological trash who now betrays his lack of knowledge of the African and closes his eyes to his possibilities under favorable environment. Adams, the younger, is a victim of the dogmas of latter-day mythology. Replying to an inquiry on the subject, we would say that whether a correspondent uses the "I" or "we" is purely a matter of taste—or circumstance. If you are writing for a paper that has a linotype at its command it is safe to refer to yourself as "I" as frequently as you please, but if your organ sets its type by hand it will be well to bear in mind that the number of letters in the upper case is limited, and the "I's" are apt to give out before you have had half your say—about yourself. It is embarrassing to be interrupted in the midst of a climax. As a general policy, however, it is better that a writer use neither "I" nor "we" any offender than necessary; just give the facts from an impersonal standpoint, be fair to all concerned—and let it go at that. *** The festive space writer is having a hard time stirring up things in the Presidential "free-for-all." The candidates show a disposition to stand pat and let the prognosticators do the worrying. Vice-President Fairbanks, who is confessedly in the lead, as the matter looks to-day, is attending strictly to his knitting in the Senate chamber during the working hours, and smiling blandly and giving dinners after sundown. Secretary Taft jollies everybody along and pushes the Panama canal and the Philippine tariff an inch or two, to let them know that something ought to be doing. Speaker Cannon exhibits how lusty a man can be who is seventy years young, and wields the gavel with renewed vigor. Shaw, Root, Foraker and Knox are examining their hands to see whether to "play" or "beg." Dickinson, an able writer in the Washington Post, is out with an interesting theory touching the political situation. Whether it is true or not no one can say, but, nevertheless, it makes good reading these dull days. Dickinson is of the opinion that Roosevelt is sincere in his declaration that he will not run again under any circumstances—at least not in 1908. He thinks the President has concluded that Root has no chance, and that he will throw the weight of the administration's influence for Taft. Further, Taft is feeling the popular pulse before accepting or declining the place on the Supreme Bench. If the situation doesn't break right for Taft for the presidency the genial Secretary will go on the bench, and Roosevelt will come to Congress in 1909 as the Senator from New York, succeeding Thomas C. Platt. If Taft passes up the Supreme Court it is a signal that he is in the race for blood. If he wins and is elected Roosevelt is to enter his Cabinet as Secretary of State and will take personal charge of the Panama canal and our colonial possessions. The story is a pretty one and leads charmingly to speculation akin to the phantasies of Aladdin's lamp. We shall see what we shall see—later on. R. W. THOMPSON. Do not miss this opportunity to sub scribe for the races' leading journal SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Sate and Reasonable always FURNITURE, ORGANS and PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removing. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, £250 loan payment, £500 monthly fees, fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES and DIA-ROMES. We also offer treatment to all. If it doesn't investigate. Old Phone Main 3182 New Phone 4270 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. A concert announcing the opening of Duncan's Pharmacy will be held at the Ninth street COVINGTON the evening of May KENTUCKY. 24. Dr. Koolah Voo Mah is master of ceremonies.—William DeClayton Stone of Washington, D. O. was in the city lost week.—Rev. DeVougnn has returned from Chicago where he was taken ill and is convalescing.—B. F. Howard, the founder and Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order of Negro Elks was among the distinguished callers at Duncan's Pharmacy last week. Miss Moore, of Loralne, O., is the guest of Miss Jennie Burke.—Mr. and Mr. William Nielsen Anderson, of Loraine is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnson of Spruce street.—Misses Rosa Keyes and Nettle Bibbs attended a musical entertainment at Finley, O., given by the Masons.—Mrs F. P. Carter and daughter are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Marshall.—The Men's Saving Investment Association met at their hall Friday night.—Mrs. Nettle Wilder entertained the Ladles Sewing Circle Thursday of last week.—Mrs. E. L. Marshall. 841 Summit street is The Freeman representative. The annual sermon of the Gem City Lodge No. 2877 and Household of Ruth No. 947 was preached FT MADISON by Rev. J. C. Reid. IOWA. Visiting brothers of Keokuk were pres- ent.—Ularence C. Kittrell, of Erie, Pa. and who recently wedded one of our well-to-do widows, Mrs. Malinda Thomas, has gone to Centralia, Ill., to accept a lucrative position as boss blacksmith—Delegates elected for the Sundayschool convention next week are Rev. J. C. Kisid, R. H. Higgenbotham, Madame Mattle Thomas and Miss Alpha Jackson—Miss Annie Harper is expected to return from Jefferson City where she has been attending school—Baptizing Sunday morning at 7 o'clock by Rev. Reid of the Second Baptist church. Our busy undertaker, R. C. Houston, Jr., is arousing our folks to their duty appealing to all colored men and women TEXAS. to meet at the colored Day to clean and refill the graves of their beloved who have been interred there. Mr. Houston has aroused no little interest in this connection for the past three years.—The Negro Business League of the city, No. 3 is pushing things along. They are going to Mosier Valley Sunday in a body—Douglass-Park Skating Rink is affording great amusement for the young folks.—The K of P. Grand Lodge convenes in this city the second week in June. A large attendance is expected.—The committee of the Grand Lodge of Masonics are preparing to entertain the Grand Lodge here the third week in July. The Grand Chapter of O. E. S., the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Masons and Grand Commandry of Knight Templars convene the same week.—The I. B. P. O E. gave their annual outing at the Douglas Park May 7.—The Capital Bar has made an addition of 40x60 ft. Patterson, McGill & Co proprietors. Charles Colby entertained twenty-five guests at a steg party in honor of Mrs Green, of St. Paul is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe Combs.—Rev. Moore of the first A. M. e church has returned from a visit at Milwaukee. Mrs. Ella Sysma, who has been visiting her mother at Chicago has returned. Prof Chase has just given his second musical recital at the residence of Mrs. Sleet.—Frank Henery is ill.—Miss Alberta Robson, who has been making Minneapolis her home, is visiting her mother who is quite ill.—Mrs Hazel O'Nell has returned from St Paul. Napoleon Wright, who has been visiting in St. Paul has returned home slick—The Maasons gave their twelfth annual ball May 8. A large crowd was in attendance and Prof. Henry Williams, of St. Louis furnished the music—Charles O'Nell, owner of the Douglass Club has made extensive improvements in the rooms—William Coleman and wife have returned from a visit at St. Paul. Mr. Coleman is headwatter at Boyles Cafe.—The people of Duluth regret the death of Billie Nichols and Mr. Harris who were buried here Friday of last week and last Sunday. Mr. Nichols was one of the oldest boys at the head of the lakes. His funeral was preached at Bethel by Rev. Moore. Mr. Harris was also well known. Ha had worked at the Spaulding Hotel for years and was better known as "Handsome Harry." The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Moore. One of the largest contractors in the city with possibly one exception is quite young, working as a day laborer. But with a tenacity of purpose and untiring persistence, he gradually worked himself up to the required standing and today he ranks foremost in his profession. Mr. Merrill is a member of nearly secret order in the city, and his honest dealings coupled with his business acumen has won him many friends among both races. He left Monday of last week for Nashville where he has the contract for erecting a $10,000 building on the Vanderbilt campus. B. J. Merritt, of Nashville was in the city recently establishing a new Immaculate Lodge. Rev. B. G Gordon will attend the dummemement exercises of Shelbyville High School at Shelbyville, Tenn., June 1—James W. Goodloe, president of the Y. M. C. A. spent a few days in Nashville on business last week.—The Maury County teachers met at the C. P. School last Saturday to prepare for the Teachers Institute June 18 23.—Abraham and Moses McKusick have gone to Nashville.—Mr. Moore of Nashville was the recent guest of Miss Maggie Kelly.—Mrs. Mollie Merritt has returned to Nashville.—Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hunter are the parents of a boy.—Mrs. Albert Goodloe has returned from a visit to Nashville. The Advertiser's Handy Guide, Volume XVII, has just been issued by the Morse International Agency, whose reputation in the advertising field is world wide. It is a standard work of reference, indispensible to advertisers large and small, and as important to the buyer of space as a "price currency" is to a buyer of goods. If any evidence were needed that this work has permanently taken the lead in its class, it will be found in the fact that the Morse International Agency has received a very large number of commendatory letters from the leading advertisers in both the United States and Europe. Not the least of its important features is its condensed form. It may be carried with ease in the pocket, and as such commends itself to every traveling salesman, who contracts for advertising in the towns along his route. It is thoroughly up-to-date and in addition to the general list of Daily and Weekly newspapers, are special lists of class publications grouped under the following heads: Magazines, Medical Journals, Agricultural and Religious papers and those in foreign languages. It may be obtained from the publishers—Morse International Agenoy, 88 Park Row, New York, on receipt of the price, $3 00. THE PARKER HOUSE We have just had with us Supreme Chancellor Starks of the K. of P. who has been attending some high functions of that order. Capt. Buckner and other big Knights saw to it that he was not lonely. Mr. Holliman, the genial proprietor was simply beside himself in doing honor to the distinguished set. But that's his way, nothing too good for the Parker House guests. Indeed, we find him a delightful host even when the big people are gone. The unwritten motto is, "Once its guest; always its guest." Everything in season at the Parker House. Good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holliman, Prop, 317-321 W·Michigan street. Phones New 4972: Old 651. ON SALE Sylvester Russell's Review is on sale at the Parker House, Indianapolis. At Faulkner's 3104 State street, Chicago; East End Music Store. 2129 Market street, St. Louis. NOTICE! Good barbers can find employment in Indianapolis by addressing The Freeman. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Full line at Bennett Bros'. feed store 321 Indiana avenue. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms with bath and illuminating gas 412 Muskingum street. Big shoe stock now on sale, 50 cents on the dollar; fit and style guaranteed for men, women and children. Sample Shoe Store, 236 Massachusetts avenue, Charles E. Wilson proprietor. Where you will save money THE NEW 1004 N. West Street, J. C. WOESSNER, Prop. INDIANAPOLIS MRS. WHITTEN, Special all this week. We are closing out 00 patterns that are slightly solled, expensive patterns, for 500 and up. Come and see them. 387 Indiana Ave -An Important Change Chas. Norton an up-to-date practical druggist of long experience having bought the old and popular store of Mrs. L. C. Hays corner Indiana Ave. and Michigan St. is now in a position to furnish all old patrons, and all new ones who come, anything and everything usually kept in a first class Drug Store at prices which prevail in all Cut Rate Drug Stores. We have added a great deal new strength to the Well Equipped store as it was before. We have a fine line of cigars, candy, toilet articles, soaps, perfumes and soda water that can't be beat anywhere. We guarantee the most courteous treatment to all Come and see me once at least. ...DO IT NOW..... Call 5407 and Send Your Wheel to ==== BARON ==== THE BICYCLE MAN. Bicycle Repairing and Hardware. 329 Indiana Avenue. Fifteen Years Experience. All work guaranteed. 25c=PHOTOS=25c Colored People =A Specialty= New York Studio. 147 N. Illinois St. CHAS. W. MOSBY Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public. UNITY BUILDING 142 E. Market St., Room 209. Indianapolis, Ind. MRS. IDA YOUNG, Restaurant and Rooming House Old Phone 657 Main Boarding by Day, Week or Meal, Everything First-class. 885 837 Ft. Wayne Ave., Indianapolis Patronize our advertisers. Garden $4.00 for 10 Fifty feet of Garden Hose, with "Competition" brand. Another $6.00 for 50 feet. "High Grad at the price it sells for, and the v sold here only, is the best hose VONNEGUT HARDY 120-124 East Wa KITCHEN DRUDGER OR KITCHEN PLEASURE The "PERFECT" Gas Ran convenience, besides helping trouble and expense. $3 00 DOWN. $2 INDIANAPOLIS STUCKY'S D FOR LOW PRICES ON D Prescriptions given p ILLINOIS and OHIO STREETS. JUST A MINUTE! Eureka S Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh prices. Prompt delivery of all orders. 1202 N. W Old Phone Main 5474 W M. F. KUHN KUHN Wholesale M'E A Fine Cuts of Beef, Fri Old Phona Main 3303, New Phone 860. Garden Hose $4.00 for Fifty Feet. Of Garden Hose, with all attachments, a nin" brand. Another make, the "Buckeye 10 feet. "High Grade" is a make that ha it sells for, and the well-known "Chicago only, is the best hose in the market. BENEGUT HARDWARE COMPANY 120-124 East Washington Street. HEN DRUDGERY OR HEN PLEASURE, PERFECT" Gas Range gives all the com- mence, besides helping the housewife to sa- and expense. $3.00 DOWN. $2.00 PER MONTH. INDIANAPOLIS GAS COMPANY. TUCKY'S DRUG STORE LOW PRICES ON DRUGS AND MEDICINE descriptions given particular attenti- dion and OHIO STREETS. PHONE 722, MINUTE! Have You Heard reka Supply Bros, Smoked and Fresh Meats. Butter, Eggs at the impt delivery of all orders guaranteed. Don't forget 1202 N. West Street, Main 5474 INDIANAPOLIS JUHN JOHN KUHN BROS Wholesale and Retail MEATS Fine Cuts of Beef, Fresh Dressed Poultry. Main 3803. 800. 407 W. Mich INDIANAPOLIS Garden Hose Fifty feet of Garden Hose, with all attachments, at $4.00- "Competition" brand. Another make, the "Buckeye," sells at $6.00 for 50 feet. "High Grade" is a make that has no equal at the price it sells for, and the well-known "Chicago Electric," sold here only, is the best hose in the market. VONNEGUT HARDWARE COMPANY, 120-124 East Washington Street. KITCHEN PLEASURE, The "PERFECT" Gas Range gives all the comfort and convenience, besides helping the housewife to save time, trouble and expense. $3.00 DOWN. $2.00 PER MONTH. INDIANAPOLIS GAS COMPANY. Fancy Groceries, Smoked and Fresh Meats, Butter, Eggs at the bottom risk prices. Prompt delivery of all orders guaranteed. Don't forget the number. 1202 N. West Street. W. M. F. KUHN JOHN A. KU H Fine Cuts of Beef, Fresh Dressed Poultry. Old Phone Main 3803. 407 W, Michigan St. New Phone 860. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GEM LAUNDRY Rough dry family washing 5 cents per pound. family washing 5 cents per pound. Ph Rough dry family washing 5 cents per pound. Phones 1671 W When you buy clothes you want good service and good style—our talloring aids both. Good dressers are all wrapped up in our tailoring because it's out-of-the ordinary. Our styles are becoming, our fabrics first class, our workmanship the best. Trimmings, linings and interlinings receive the consideration they deserve. Nothing is left undone and everything is done right. One of the popular novelty weaves this year is "the gray wale"—it's hard to get—but the mills keep us supplied, and we're favored customers. SUITS Tailored to Taste $18 to $50 Deutsch Tailoring Co. (Incorporated) 41 South Illinois St. INDIANAPOLIS - INDIANA The Old and Original Cut Rate Market is still at 238 Indiana Ave., Retail Meats at wholesale prices. Give him a call. . . W. E. SAYER New Phone 1839. The Squires Shoe Co., Complete Line of Shoes AT Reduced Prices. G. W. Squires, Mgr. 301 Indiana Ave. In Hose Fifty Feet. With all attachments, at $4.00— make, the "Buckeye," sells at e" is a make that has no equal well-known "Chicago Electric," in the market. WARE COMPANY, Washington Street. RY Which? ORE, age gives all the comfort and the housewife to save time, .00 PER MONTH. GAS COMPANY. RUG STORE, DRUGS AND MEDICINES. particular attention. PHONE 722, MAIN 1329 Have You Heard of The supply Co. Meats, Butter, Eggs at the bottom rock guaranteed. Don't forget the number west Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IN JOHN A. KU H BROS. and Retail ATS Fresh Dressed Poultry. 407 W. Michigan St. INDIANAPOLIS, IN. ents per pound. Phones 167