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Gentlemen== We consider THE FREEMAN the Best Paper for Business published by our race and are getting many replies in answer to our Advertisement. -The McPherson Specialty Company, Dorchester, Virginia THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XX NUMBER 2 W. T. VERNON IN KENTUCKY ELOQUENT ORATOR TAKES THE STATE BY STORM. POSSIBILITIES CF THE RACE Recipient of Many Social Courtesies--Race Organizations in Evidence--Emancipation Day Echoes--Personnal Points. Louisville, Ky., Special. — The Emancipation celebration, under the auspices of the National Afro-American Council and Cave-Dwellers' Life Association, with the eloquent and magnetic Dr. w. T. Vernon. Register of the Treasury, as orator of the day, was the most successful ever witnessed in the Kentucky metropolis. Spacious Fifth Street Baptist church was crowded to the doors, and so insistent was the demand to hear the distinguished visitor, an overflow meeting was arranged for in the lecture room, where Dr. M. A. Majors, of Chicago, presided until the speaker could finish his address in the main auditorium. Many persons were turned away, unable to secure admission. In both addresses Dr. Vernon gave a striking resume of history illustrative of the vast possibilities that lie in the wake of the race, if it take industry, right living, high thinking, unity of purpose and continuity of effort as its watchwords. He emphasized the idea that the Negro is here to stay; this is his country, as well as that of the white man, for he has defended it valorously in every conflict from Bunker Hill to Manila, and his impress is seen in the warp and woof of every institution beneath its flag. He cited the Jews as an example of what might be done by a people despised and rejected, telling how their race identity has been preserved and how their thrift and intelligence have made them—a people without a country, a people to be reckoned with in the affairs of the world. By observing the same principles which have made the Jewish race what it is today, he said, the colored man can solve his own problem and the race question will eventually disappear under the melting rays of material acquisition, solid achievement, financial strength, economic soundness and industrial efficiency. At the banquet tendered in honor of the distinguished visitor at the Women's Industrial Club covers were laid for one hundred and an elaborate menu was served. Dr. L. C. Jordan acted as toastmaster and the DAVID L. KNIGHT. President of Board of Colored Probation Officers, Louisville, Ky. following toasts were responded to in pleasing and happy addresses: "Our Schools," Prof. A. E. Meyzeek. "Our Business Man," D. L. Knight. "Our Men," Mrs. W. D. Thomas. "Our Women," C. B. Preson. "Our Doctors," Dr. N. S. Fuller. "The Press," R. W. Thompson; "Our Lawyers," A. B. McAfee; "Our Churches," Rector Leroy Ferguson; "Better Times," Rev. E. T. Fishback; "What Next?" Rev. J. G. Robinson; "My Impressions," Attorney C. J. Waring, of Chicago; "Work of the Women," Mrs. C. H. Parrish; "Message to Washington," Miss Nantle H. Burroughs; "A Parting Word," Dr. W. T. Vernon. The last speech, a candid, heart-to-heart talk on the many important issues of the day. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907. was one of the most delightful features of the entire occasion. After filling an engagement Wednesday evening at Lexington, where he repeated the triumph of the previous night, Dr. Vernon returned to Louisville, where he was entertained at a sumptuous dinner given in his honor by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson at their home in East Jacob street. In addition to the eminent guest and the hospitable host, Dr. L. G. Jordan, Prof. W. H. Steward, Dr. J. G. Robinson and Cary B. Lewis shared the repast. Upon the invitation of the local branch of the National Negro Business League and the Y. M. C. A., carriages were provided and the entire party, augmented by D. L. Knight, president of the Business League, Secretary Bullock of the Y. M. C. A. and Rev. R. S. Rives, escorted Dr. Vernon through the principal thoroughfares of the city, pointing out the notable sights and visiting the business establishments conducted by representative colored business men, including finally the Y. M. C. A., which the Register pronounced the finest institution of the kind owned by the race in America. The distinguished guest left late in the afternoon for Indianapolis, where he paid a visit to his old friend and patron, Bishop Abraham Grant, returning with the latter to Washington. The appreciative sons and daughters of Kentucky have another hearty welcome awaiting the eloquent Register of the Treasury when he comes their way again. The cause of the Afro-American Council was greatly benefited by this timely visit of the eloquent Dr. Vernon. * * * Emancipation Day Echoes. It was the forty-fourth anniversary. The "Thompson dinner" was voted a brilliant success. There was no factional spirit exhibited at any point. Cary B. Lewis did some effective reportorial work for the newspapers, local and foreign. Misses N. H. Burroughs and Lucy Flint were "largely responsible" for the success of the banquet. There was no reference made to the administration or the troubles it is having over the color question. T. F. Parks made an excellent showing for the Cave-Dwellers and wasably supplemented by Dr. C. H. Parrish. The speaker's tribute to Dr. Booker T. Washington got a "hand" that indicated that "The Wizard" had a host of friends in the Falls City. D. L. Knight saw to it that the Business League did its full duty, and Secretary C. H. Bullock dispensed the hospitality of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Burroughs read the proclamation with dramatic fervor and won applause as she brought out the grand spirit of the Lincolnian edict. Dr. Jordan "got there" in his old-time form as a collector of the coin of the realm and made a telling speech introducing the orator of the evening. Dr. M. A. Majors delivered a scathing arrangement of Ben Tillman in the lecture room while the exercises in the main auditorium were in progress. Dr. Vernon made touching references to the fact that a former pastor of Fifth Street church was the father of his courteous and capable assistant, Mr. Cyrus Field Adams. Miss Georgia G. Moore's original poem, "The Rise of the Negro," was rich in substance and was read with an enthusiasm and feeling that "brought down the house." She is now known as "the Phyllis Wheatly of Kentucky." The Register of the Treasury brought fifty of the first issue of the crisp one-dollar bills bearing his signature and distributed them among his friends, as far as they would go. Your correspondent has No. 21, and is saving it as a souvenir—until times get so hard that he may have to buy pork chops with it. By the Way. Mrs. Annie B. Reddick returned to her home in Harrodsburg last week. * * * * Miss Daisy Conrad is among the most conscientious of the probation officers in the Juvenile Court. * * * * Miss Ida Nugent, of the South Louisville school, has tendered her resignation to accept a position in the Cincinnati schools as kindergarten teacher. Misses Hazel Richardson and Ruth Thomas, of St. Louis, left Sunday night for their homes after a very pleasant visit with Miss Jeannette L. Steward. Dr. J. G. Robinson, pastor of (Continued on Page Five.) HANGING ON. THE 25 REGIMENT AFFAIR TEDDY PRESTIGE SHAY WOOD I'd let go of this Blamed thing, but I might break my "Big Stick." DR. WASHINGTON'S VISIT THE COLORED CITIZEN'S CLUB HOLD BIG MEETING Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 2.—Birmingham, the richest and, in some respects, one of the most conservative of Southern cities, was treated to an interesting an epoch-making event this week. The Colored Citizens' Club, of which Dr. U. G. Mason is president, composed of enterprising young colored men who are interested in the civic, moral and intellectual uplift of the colored people of the Birmingham district, with a view of helping their people, invited Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute to come here and spend a little season in an attempt to reach the large class of highly paid wage earners who are resident about here. So many white people were anxious to be present that the Jefferson opera house, the leading theater of the town, was seceured for Monday evening, December 31st. Every seat in the theater was taken and the Age-Herald, the morning newspaper of the city, reports that no less than two thousand persons, white and black, were turned away. About three thousand persons gained admittance. Among the more than one thousand white persons present, the business, commercial and educational life of the city was represented by bankers, teachers, tradesmen, mine owners, etc. The boxes reserved for whites, and those for colored people were all filled, and in the audience were two supreme court judges, Governor-elect Comer, and many others representing all that is best in the higher life of the city of Birmingham. Col. T. G. Bush, president of the Consolidated Steel and Iron Works, the most representative citizen of the community, introduced Dr. Washington. His address was a brave and courageous one and calculated to do great good. He pleaded for fairer treatment of the Negro on railroad trains, for a higher respect for Negro womanhood on the part of whites and blacks, for absolute and complete justice in all the courts of the State and especially for his own section, and deprecated the wave of race prejudice which, in recent years, seems to be sweeping over some portions of the country. Dr. Washington has seldom spoken more forcefully and eloquently than he did upon this occasion. He rose to the high expectation of his audience. His plea for his people and his searching analysis of the underlying causes of unrest on the part of the colored people was listened to with marked attention. All of the newspapers published his address in full with approving comment. The occasion may be considered the most significant and recent event among the white and colored people of this community. The whole trend of Dr. Washington's address was to bring the two races into closer contact and to more firmly cement friendly relations between them. On the next day, January 1st, a spe- cial car was chartered and, accompanied by thirty of the representative colored men of the city, members of the Colored Citizens' Club, Dr. Washington visited Bessemer and Enaley, the largest of the mining settlements about Birmingham. He spoke in the City Hall and the Opera House, respectively, and was greeted by large audiences, which overflowed all the available space at both places. His appeal to the colored men that they make use of the valuable opportunity which is before them, which is calculated to advance the cause of the Negro in the whole Birmingham district in a way that it has not been for many years. He wound up the strenuous day's work by speaking with Dr. J. W. E. Bowen at the Emancipation celebration exercise held at Central Alabama College, Mason City, near Birmingham. The hold this strong man has upon the colored people in this community has been demonstrated before, but never more forcibly than during his visit this week. Our people followed his carriage wherever it went and greeted him whenever he appeared in the most enthusiastic and hearty way. Ministers, teachers and business men alike of the colored population regard Dr. Washington's visit as an epoch in the industrial life of the district. He has the cordial thanks of all classes of the citizenship of Birmingham for his disinterested labors in behalf of a better understanding between the races, and especially at this time when there is so much of discouragement and unrest. CLUMSY ATTEMPT TO STIR UP STRIFE AMONG ARCHITECTS PITTMAN AND LANGFORD FRIENDS Scheme to Embarrass Dr. Washington Meers With Ignomnious Failure-Cardoso Wins His Case -Register Vernon a Leader. Washington, D. C., (Special.)—The cock-and-bull story given out from this place by the ecorrespondent of the Boston Guardian, framing up an imaginary controversy between Architects W. Sidney Pittman and John A. Lankford, over the plans for the Negro building at the Jamestown Exposition, has no foundation in fact. It is a lie made out of whole cloth, and is of a piece with the usual output of malicious misrepresentations written to that paper, with a view of annoying Dr. Booker T. Washington and to provoke divisions among his friends. The plans of the Mr. Pittman were accepted by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, solely upon their merits. Dr. Washington had no hand in the matter, either directly or indirectly, and did not make the selection of the Pittman plans the price of the support of the Exposition or a condition touching the exhibit of Tuskegee Institute. The designs submitted by Messrs. Lankford, Reyfield, and one of two others were highly praised by the board, but all things considered, the plans of Mr. Pittman seemed to combine the largest measure of beauty, utility and economy, and they were therefore chosen. There is no truth in the statement that Mr. Lankford is disgruntled, or that there is any dissatisfaction between him and Dr. Washington over the victory of Mr. Pittman. Naturally, he would feel some disappointment, after having worked so hard to win, but he is man enough to realize that but one could be selected, and that he took his chances in the "bunch." What Mr. Lankford has done for the success of the Business League in Washington, he has done because he believed that such an organization would insure to the benefit of the race in this community, and while Dr. Washington is duly appreciative of his valuable services in this connection, Mr. Lankford has never tried to make capital out of his labors, or assumed that the Tuskegee was under any particular obligations to him for doing that which he conceived to be his duty. The entire story, as published in the Guardian, was plainly for the purpose of stirring up jealousies between Pittman and Lankford, and to embarrass Dr. Washington. Needless to say, the scheme has failed of accomplish any of these objects, as it was too thin to hold water long enough to make any impression in the quarters where the sinister effect was desired. As everybody knows, Messrs. Pittman and Lankford were both students of Tuskegee Institute and are fast friends. They understand each other and work together frequently on building projects, perfect harmony prevailing. The further rumor that Mr. Pittman is to marry Miss Portia Washington is too silly to require comment or denial. If the Washington correspondent of the Boston Guardian must deal in prevarications, it is up to a gentleman of his alleged scholarship and legal learning, to cook up some tales that possess at least a few elements of plausibility. A skilful liar evokes a certain degree of admiration among professional romancists, but the clumsy tale-bearer inspires nothing but laughter, if the matter is too flimsy to excite disgust. The Washington Branch of the Negro Development and Exposition Company of the Jamestown Exposition is now in operation, the board of managers being: F. D. Lee, supervisor, Washington office; Daniel Murray, fiscal agent; Mrs. R. P. Hughes, secret officer; Jesse Lawson, J. E. Johnson, Prof. J. D. Baltimore, Dr. W. Bruce Evans, Mrs. J. M. Layton, Mrs. Anna Evans Murray, M. W. S. Pittman, Daniel Freeman, Dr. W. H. Conner, Prof. T. W. Hunster, Dr. C. H. Marshall, Rev. G. W. Lee, Rev. W. M. D. Norman, John C. Dancy, and J. A. Lankford. Fine arts, liberal arts, industrial arts, agricultural arts, professional, medical science and educational branches will be included in the (Continued on Page Four.) Headache Sufferers Do you want relief—in just a few moments and no bad after-effects. If so, you have only to take, Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. If subject to headache, have them with you always. No harm can come from their use, if taken as directed, as they contain no opium, chloral, morphine, cocaine, chloroform, heroin, alpha and beta eucaine, cannabis indica or chloral hydrate, or their derivatives. Ask your druggist about them. "It gives me great pleasure to be able to refer to the Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills as the best remedy we have ever had in our house for the prevention and cure of headache. 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Is it strange that the attitude of an unperverted child should be the Christian ideal? The great merit of children as companions lies in the breadth of their tolerations. They are easy to please, agreeable to most propositions and not very critical. They do not "know better." That is one of their delightfulest traits. Children will trust you, and that is one of the most gratifying compliments possible. In the company of children you have relief in considering what will pay. The things that they do and prefer to do, do not pay, as a rule, except in the doing of them. Wise elders who are qualified to train the mind of a child are pretty scarcity. The next best thing is the elder who is wise enough to respect the child's mind and give it a chance to develop in a sympathetic atmosphere by its own natural processes.—E S. Martin in Harper's Magazine. AN OLD GERMAN LEGEND. The Skull With the Nail Driven Through Its Temple. At Freiburg, Baden, in front of an old chapel rich in mediaeval painting depicting the rewards of virtue and the wages of sin, stands a great cross, at its foot a skull with a nail driven into the temple. A shoemaker of Freiburg, according to tradition, died suddenly in the good old days before coroners and juries were too inquisitive and was buried near where the cross stands. Scarcely had the earth upon his grave been wet by the rains before his wife took a second husband. Neighbors talked, but that was all. One night the priest of the parish awoke to find standing at the foot of his bed the ghost of the dead shoemaker. The ghastly figure raised a gory lock from its forehead and pointed to a nail driven in the temple. The body was exhumed, and there was the evidence of the crime just as the specter had indicated. The wife confessed the murder and was executed. But the skull was placed at the foot of the cross as a warning. "The effect was most wholesome," relates the truthful chronicle, "for since then not a wife of Freiburg has murdered her husband." A Contrary Flag. If ever there was anything in the world that went by contraries, it is the Chinese flag. It will be recalled that it is one of the gayest of national standards. The body of the banner is of a pale yellow. In the upper left hand corner is a small red sun, and looking at it is a fierce Chinese dragon. About 1,000 years ago, so the story runs, the Chinese made war upon the Japanese. They prepared for a great invasion. As a prophecy of victory they adopted a standard which is that of the present time. They took the sun of Japan and made it very small. This they put in front of the dragon's mouth to express the idea that the Chinese dragon would devour the Japanese. It happened, however, that the Chinese fleet, conveying an army of 100,000 men, was wrecked on its way to Japan by a great storm, and all but three of the 100,000 perished. The result of recent events has not been any more convincing than the first affair that the Chinese flag has been correctly conceived. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER How They Got Their Rank "Sergeant Millikin, I wish you to take thirty men, strike the Tennessee river at Brown's ferry and look out for a Confederate force said to be making for that crossing. The distance is about forty miles, and you should reach the ferry before dark tonight." Sergeant Millikin and his thirty men were soon in the saddle briskly cantering westward. Reaching the ferry at sunset and finding no enemy, they crossed the river and rode on for a few miles. By this time the twilight had faded and it was nearly dark. Hearing something ahead, Millikin halted his command and listened. Presently not eighty yards distant he heard a voice: "Lieutenant, go back and tell Colonel Williams to halt his regiment and go into bivouac. Then go on and order the other regiments to bivouac, the Sixteenth Alabama on the left of the road, the Fifty-second and Eighteenth Tennessee on the right. Let the artillery remain in the rear." Millinik heard horses' hoofs receding, but before they were out of hearing the same voice said: "Captain Carter, I wish you would ride off into the woods there where the cavalry are and tell Colonel Hunt that we're going to halt here till daylight, when we'll cross the ferry and I shall expect him to be on the other side to cover our crossing before day." Bushes beside the road were breaking before a horse, and Millikin, who had heard all he wanted to know, whispered an order to his men to walk their horses as silently as possible to the rear, and after he felt that they were out of hearing the command broke into a trot, then a gallop, till they reached the ferry. Having crossed they rode on to headquarters, pressing fresh horses by the way, and Millikin rode up to the general's tent long before noon. "General," said the sergeant, "we struck a force of infantry, artillery and cavalry about six miles beyond Brown's ferry. They were to cross at daylight this morning." The sergeant was commended for his effective scouting, and preparations were made to receive the enemy. A vedette line of cavalry was sent out, back of which skirmishers were deployed, and the main force of infantry and artillery was posted on choice ground for defense. For two days the Union troops waited under arms, then a scout came in from the commander of the cavalry, who said that the Confederates must have retreated, for every avenue of approach had been scouted and no enemy found. Then the troops were marched back to their camps. Sergeant Millikin for having given timely warning—though the enemy had changed his plans and thus rendered the information unnecessary—was made a lieutenant at the first vacancy. One night recently at one of the banquets of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion two graybeards sat side by side, and, though not acquainted, fell into conversation. One was an invited guest, who had served in the Confederate army, and both held the rank of major. "I sometimes feel," said the Confederate, "that I never performed but one service to entitle me to the rank I held, and that was a mere matter of presence of mind. In the summer of 1862 I was a sergeant in the Sixteenth Alabama infantry. I was sent out from Corinth to discover if the force holding north Alabama was pushing across country to attack us in flank. One evening when I was many miles from Corinth, and becoming fearful of running into a trap, I took two men of the thirty I commanded and rode ahead to search for a place of concealment in which to spend the night. Hearing the sound of horses' hoofs ahead we hid among the trees beside the road. A party of cavalry came along and stopped not far from me. I knew that if we three men were to take to our heels we'd be overhauled. So I ordered my men in a loud voice to tell imaginary infantry and artillery to go into camp and the cavalry to be ready to cover our"— The Confederate stopped short. His hearer was staring at him as at a ghost. "Do you mean to tell me that you were the man that gave those orders?" "I do." "And there were only three of you?" "I had but two men with me in that spot. There were twenty-eight more half a mile back of me." The Union ex-officer gulped down a glass of wine, then turned to the other and said: "You mentioned, I believe, that you were promoted for that service. May I ask why?" "Well, my general considered my performance a cool one, and the negroes told me that you Yanks were pushing forward on the other side of the river 10,000 strong and nearing Tuscumbia. I never stopped till I had carried this news to my general." "Major," said the Union officer, and paused. "Major," repeated the Confederate expectantly. "You and I both reached the same rank through a mistake. I was a sergeant commanding the troop you met, and I went back and reported that you were coming in force. Our men stood under arms waiting for you. You reported 10,000 of us nearing Tuscumbia. We hadn't half that number, all told, in north Alabama." "I reckon," said the Confederate in a lowered voice, looking about furtively to see if they had been overheard, "that we'd better not say anything about how we got our start in rank." EDWARD C. IRVING. RACE CLEANINGS R Miss Edna Spears is now a member of the faculty of Howard Academy, Ocala, Florida. Rev. E. L. Scruggs, of Macon, Mo., late president of the Western College, has accepted the pastate of the Second Baptist church at Monmouth, Ill. * * * Assistant States Attorney F. L. Barnett, who was counted out by the canvassing Board at Chicago, as one of the Municipal Judges, will fight for his rights, claiming to have been honestly elected. * * * From 130 to 150 Railway firemen went out on a strike on the San Antonio division of the Southern Pacific Railway last Saturday and their places were filled by colored firemen as fast as they could be secured. Dr. J. A. D. Biolce, formerly of the Western New York Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church, has been elected Dean of Hood Theological Seminary, a department of Livingstone College at Salisbury, N. C. --- Equire Joseph Wilson is the only Color ed Magistrate in Clark Co., Indiana. He resides in Charlestown and though nominated by the Republican it is claimed was elected by Democratic votes. He is the only justice of the Peace in the township, * * * During the first week in December, Mr. Seth Low, Ex Mayor of Yew York City and Dr. Wm. E. Chancelor, Superintendent of the schools of Washington, D. C., attended Tuskegee and secured ideas that will be of much assistance to them in the school work. SERGEANT MINES Sergeant Mingo Sanders Thirty years in service, he Fought the feathered Inca Down at Santiago and at Fought the Filipino—roof Sergeant Mingo Sanders Somewhere Tr Bullets whis Sergeant Mingo Climbed Ca Colonel Teddy Roosevelt Thirty days in service, she Home he came in glory, she As the battle's hero—story Told us an about it, never Book and speech and so Nearing San Fighting with Colonel Teddy Also climbed Sergeant Mingo Sanders Growing old in service, he Battle for his people, he Fora hunk of bacon and Hoping still for service he Honored in his people— Sergeant Mingo Thirty years "Thirty years" "For the good Gets it in the Colonel Teddy Roosevelt All the nation's armies s Honored by his people. As the great and mighty Sarely paid for service, he Colonel Teddy Roosevelt Poor old Sergeant I am one to The remark, be That it's hard DORMOUSE DELICACIES. Titbicei That Were Rellished In Ancient Roman Times. Brawn was originally a Roman dish and was eaten with garum, and cow's and calf's foot jellies were likewise dainties with Rome's upper ten in the time of the Caesars. One would hardly suppose that black puddings were so old as the reign of Tiberius, but this is the fact. They were made of pig's blood, with little cubes of fat interspersed in the compound, and were the invention of a gentleman who rejoiced in the name of Bambonselvergius. It was he who invented all kinds of sausages—that is, meat stuffed into skins, which, we take it, is the ground plan, so to speak, of a sausage. This gentleman also wrote a learned treatise on the fattening of dormice for the table, for at one period dormice were a craze. There were dormouse soup, dormouse sausage, dormouse brawn, dormouse cooked in every conceivable way, and the demand for this delicacy in prize sizes was so great that there was room for a book on the subject, though unfortunately this book is lost to posterior, and the only knowledge which we have of the fattening of dormice in Rome is from Petronius Arbiter, who tells us that they became fat by sleeping. He also tells us that the best sauce to eat with dormouse is a mixture of poppy seed and honey, a mixture which probably had the merit of inducing sleep after a meal. --- Rev. Chauncey I. Withrow has been deposed from the presidency of the Athens Collegiate an Industrial Institute, Athens, Tenn. The new president is Prof. W. R. Stephens, and Arthur H. Ferguson is secretary, * * * The Masonic Order of North Carolina has contributed $500 toward the support of the Colored Orphanage at Oxford, in that state. This institution is not under Masonic auspices, but is helped by them as a worthy charity. Col. James H. Young is secretary of this department, and his able management is unanimously endorsed by the Masons all over the State. *** The newest thing under the sun is the Economy Fire Insurance Company which has recently been organized at Washington, by Major C. W. Fillmore. It will make a specialty of underwriting property of the Negro race, including the churches, lodge buildings and schools owned by colored people. This is an entirely new field for colored men, but it ought to prove successful to the last degree, if given any part of the support it deserves. --- The will of the late I. J. Beresford who was killed in the Sso wreck at Enderland, N. D., last Sunday was found at the First National Bank of this city. It was made in 1896 and after devising $ 10,000 to the colored woman who nursed through an attack of yellow fever in New Orleans some years ago the rest of his estate is left to his three brothers. Lord Chas. Beresford, Marquis Beresford and a brother who had died since. The value of the estate is estimate at a million or more. INGO SANDERS. a black as ace o' apades, seen on many raids; dian, fought the Spanish don Sanny Wann; or brown or white, never flunked a fight. bound Munilia ling shrill, to Sanders mansti Hill. a sword and soldier strap, saw a Cuban scrap; heralded afar sk exc eed par; seemed to balk; ponon—never flunked a talk. ago, ha will, Roosevelt a hill. fifty years of age, aster still to wage landage by his flag a khaki tag; he might retire couldn't hope for higher to Sanders, now deck, of service" neck! he chosen to command to run the land; and the world proclaimed fated, flunted, famed; not at least his rights; still climbing heights. ann Mingo, fare Jingo only fair. [R. L. in New] York Snu. Although he was not the first to devise a machine for typewriting, John Pratt won the distinction of inventing the first working typewriter that secured a sale. He was born in Unionville, S. C., on April 14, 1831, and in 1864, with his wife, he went to England. Pratt devoting his time to the invention of a mechanism which he designated the "pterotype," the first practical typewriter. Provisional protection to the invention was granted by the British government in February, 1864, and on Dec. 1, 1866, letters patent No. 3163 were granted to Pratt. On returning to the United States, in 1868, he secured letters patent in this country. Mr. Pratt was the first inventor of a machine in which a type wheel was moved by key levers, and he was the first man to make and sell typewriters, having sold several in London in 1867. Mexican Musicians. We were listening to the playing of a military band the other night when my friend said: "Do you know that, although I have heard just about all of the best orchestras and bands in this country at different times, I have not discovered a single one that can hold a candle to Mexican musicians? Those fellows are something wonderful, all full of music, and, although half of them cannot read the language of their country, they read the music and get notes from their instruments that would really astonish you"—Columbus Dispatch. Establishing Innocence There was no more popular young fellow in County Kilkenny, Ireland, a couple of hundred years ago than Lawrence Nevin. Larry was a bit wild and was Famed, like Mister O'Donis, wid his head full of nothing but curls. **For** breaking the heads of the boys and breaking the hearts of the girls. But there was only one heart he cared to influence, and that belonged to Kathleen O'Grady, the youngest daughter of The O'Grady, who lived in the big castle shaped house on the hill. Though Larry came of one of the oldest families in Ireland, he was not thought a desirable suitor. There were stories—most of which could be traced to a rival, Terence O'Toole—that Larry made his living on the highway, a fashionable method among gentlemen beggars of that day. O'Toole was the owner of a fine estate adjoining The O'Grady's property, and he desired to unite the two by a marriage with Kathleen. Unfortunately for Larry, her father was in favor of the project. There was only one thing in the way of its consummation, and that was the reckless Nevin, whom the girl loved, but who, passing from one scrape to another, was constantly trampling on what few chances he had. True, they consisted in the love of the girl, but a daughter of The O'Grady must make a proper match. The truth is Larry was not so bad as he was painted. A breakneck rider, somewhat given to gaming, ever ready, like all true Irishmen, for a fight, there was quite enough truth in his escapades for an enemy to build on and erect a fine structure of wickedness. The only article of value Larry possessed was a blooded mare—Kit, he called her—that he had won at a raffle and that no money could buy from him. One evening shortly after dark he was riding Kit on the highway and suddenly remembered an engagement. He thrust his hand in his fob for his watch and, not finding it, remembered that it was in pawn for money that he had needed to help a poor beggar in distress. Just then a horse's hoofs sounded on the road ahead, and in a few minutes a mounted figure appeared. "Could you oblige me with the time, sir?" asked Larry. The horseman drew a pistol from his holster and, letting drive at Larry, dashed past him, calling back: "I know you, Lawrence Nevin. You may take purses on the highway, but you can't take mine." Larry, who was untouched by the bullet, sat on his horse looking after the man in astonishment. "And I know you, Terence O'Toole, and if I don't keep me wits I'll be hanged for highway robbery and no thanks to any one but you." Now, O'Toole was a magistrate and would preside at the trial at which he would be the only witness. Larry took in the situation and with Irish quickness for decision made up his mind to try for an alibl. Putting spurs to Kit, he rode briskly on for a mile, took a road to his left, struck into fields over which he had often followed the fox and, lighted only by the stars, kept his mare on the run till midnight, when he reached Maryborough, which he skirted, and, stopping at a farmer's house beyond, rubbed down Kit while she was taking a small feed. From Maryborough Larry continued northward, now beginning to push the mare for a better pace. Taking an early breakfast at Tullamore, he shot across country to Kilbeggan, where he found a road to Mullingar. Thence the country was level—at least, not mountainous—and he pushed his jaded mare on, breathing her every hour, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon rode up to Carrick—on-Shannon, having done a hundred miles since startling. Leaving his horse in a stable on the south side of the river—the animal sank down at once in her stall—he entered a wood, threw off a buff coat and breeches and donned a green velvet suit he had picked up on the way. This done, he crossed the river on foot and entered the town. The people were all out on the green, and Larry, stepping up to the mayor, asked him the time. The mayor, drawing his watch, gave the hour and complimented Larry on his beautiful green and gold lace suit with silk waistcoat. Then Larry proceeded to make himself popular with the company. When a few days later Larry Nevin returned to Kilkenny a bailiff clapped a hand on his shoulder, and he was taken before Magistrate O'Toole on a charge of highway robbery. He pleaded not guilty, and on his trial the mayor of Carrick swore that twenty hours after the robbery Larry had been in that town. He could swear to the hour, for, being asked the time, he had looked at his watch. He had worn a green velvet and gold suit, instead of a buff one worn by the highwayman. O'Toole at the beginning of the trial had taken the witness stand and identified Larry as the man who had asked for the time after nightfall on the highway with intent to rob, but when Larry proved his alibi O'Toole weakened and owned that he might have been mistaken. Larry was acquitted with great rejoicings. The charge made by O'Toole, rendered groundless by the alibi, was a great injury to him. Larry was invited by The O'Grady to dine, and he told the whole story at the table. 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The War Department disavows the inference there might be a connection between the order banishing the colored troops and the trouble growing out of the Brownsville affray, blandly assuring the country that the Negro troops have been on home duty beyond the usual allotment, and that it is their regular turn to go abroad—that the assignment to the Philippine service is in the nature of a promotion, as the men will receive larger pay and have little to do. For the present, we shall not attempt to argue that point—except to observe that sending the troops across the water, either as a reward or as a means of getting rid of of them during this storm of racial hatred now sweeping over the country, does not touch the marrow of the situation in which the discharged men of the 25th find themselves. They have been punished severely for a crime of which they say they are not guilty, and the diversion of the public mind to a phase foreign to the main contention, settles nothing as far as they are concerned. The wayfaring man, though a fool, can see with half an eye, that the banishment of the colored troops is but another sop to the Southern Cerberus, and a move on the part of the administration to get rid of the whole matter in bulk. No one will pretend that the colored troops would have been shipped away in such summary fashion if the Brownsville embroglio had not occurred. The Negro soldier, through some impatience on his own part, and systematic misrepresentation on the part of the Southerners who want them kicked out of the army, neck and crop, is in bad odor, and to soften the existing asperities, it has been deemed wise to send the Negro contingent to conventry, for a season, at least. It is too soon to determine the extent of the additional dissatisfaction that this policy will breed among the already disgruntled colored citizens of the nation, but the indications are that the administration has simply jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire, and made a deplorable condition worse by subterfuge and evasion. The only satisfactory solution of the problem will be an honest investigation that will establish the gilt of those who "shot up" the Texas town, and restore the faithful to their rightful status in the army. The issue is too plainly drawn to admit of any misunderstanding, and the just course is marked out in letters so vividly displayed that he who runs may read. "Keep Stepping, Joe!" Joe Gans did the wise thing when he took half of the package handed him by the management of the Tonopah contest and presented it to his good old mother. The amount was $6,000, and it will insure her the comforts of life as long as she is spared to this earth. Her comment, though THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER brief, was unique. It is an epigram in its way, fully worthy of preservation as a guide for young men in every arena of human endeavor. She accepted the gift with beaming countenance and said: "Keep stepping, Joe!" Joe has already "stepped some" and has pocketed many thousands of dollars, but it is likely that until the realization crept upon him that he was not growing any younger did he recognize the need of putting something by for the "rainy day," the day when his joints would be stiff, his muscles flabby and when the steam would vanish from his famous "punch." He is now preparing for retirement and had tentatively promised to quit the game after the battle with Kid Herman. But human nature is human nature, and Gans finds it difficult to throw to the winds the big money hung up as purses for the sake of sentiment, and when he is still in the hey-dey of his marvelous powers. He owes Battling Nelson a "come back" and could not decently overlook the Dane as long as the latter is willing to sign for a contest. Jimmy Britt has been tossing lemons at Gans so long that he deserves a trimming at the hands of the Baltimorean, and Gans can scarcely refuse to take him on, if he can be persuaded into the ring. To satisfy these interests Joe must "keen stepping." A rumor has been set afloat which credits Gans with an ambition to wear "a triple crown" as the champion of three weights—light, welter and middle-heavy—to accomplish which it will be necessary for him to defeat Tommy Burns, Honey Mellody and to get Nelson out of the running. We are inclined to say "Keep stepping, Joe," and secure a prize hitherto unheard of in the annals of the sporting world, but caution impels us to suggest that he weigh the matter well before launching upon a program that calls for so much, risks so much and may not gain a great deal of the really substantial sort. If, after taking stock as to his physical resources, Gans finds that the venture is a safe one, The Freeman and his host of admirers the country over will join in the chorus of the injunction made famous by Mother Gans—"Keep stepping, Joe!" Gans is a credit to the race and is doing his full share to solve this much-mooted "problem" of ours. Something Rotten In Denmark. Inquisitive persons are asking five pertinent questions, relative to the alleged "shooting" of Capt. Macklin, of the 25th Infantry. First, where was Capt. Macklin at the time the alleged rioting at Brownsville took place? Second, was the gallant Captain sober on that eventful evening? Third, was the said Captain really shot, as reported, or is he simulating illness, in order to postpone the court-martial to which he is to be subjected by order of the War Department? rth, f he was really sh, as;i-toerouh Fourth, if he was really shot, as reported, was a Negro the perpetrator of the deed? Fifth, if so, why has every opportunity been given for this Negro or his accomplice to escape the officers of the law? In short, does not he whole proceeding at Fort Reno give out an odor decidedly fishy? In the language of Prince Hamlet, "There's something rotten in Denmark." Don't ask a newspaper man what he thinks of the situation. Read his paper. Will it be J. G. Robinson or A. L. Gaines for editor of the Christian Recorder? Maybe the South's next task in the kidnapping line will be to bring the fiery, untamed Foraker into camp. The administration is finding Senator Foraker a pretty warm proposition. In fact, "too hot to handle." Mind your own business and there will be no danger that time will hang heavily upon your hands. The South's conception of "states' rights" is that they are a big stick, provided especially to keep the Negro "in his place." The "Better South" may have a good heart, but its voice is distress- ingly weak when the Negro question is to the fore. The happy husband is now paying for the "present" his loving wifey gave him for Christmas. It's great to be married! From the number of lemons that we have seen handed out this season we are not at all surprised, to hear that the crop is running far short of the demand. We are told that the soldiers of the 25th might have been dealt with even more summarily had they been white. Maybe so, but somebody will have to "show us." Somebody has invented "hugless dancing," but we have a sneaking notion that it will never be as popular an institution as the old-fashioned half-nelson variety. Despite his promise to quit the ring after putting Herman to sleep, Joe Gans can not well retire until he has given Battling Nelson the licking the latter so eminently deserves. The white man is free to wrestle with the tariff, money standards and trusts, but with the Negro, the primary issue is his status as a citizen and the protection of his life, liberty and property. Twin agents of the devil—A middlesome man and a gossiping woman. Society is justified in using Draconian methods to rid itself of these pests, who poison the stream of life wherever they touch it. The damage resulting from the recent fire at the Baptist publication house at Nashville, has been repaired, and business is running smoothly again. Dr. R. H. Boyd is a "hustler," and obstacles only strengthen him for the fight. Mobs execute suspected men, and the law investigates afterwards, if compelled to do so to satisfy public sentiment. Orderly governments, however, are supposed to investigate first, and punish afterwards, if the guilt of the accused can be established beyond a reasonable doubt. "Open Letter Sutton," the candidate of the retrenchment and reform elec of the retrenchment and reform element of the A. M. E. Zion church, is making a noise like a man who purposes to see to it that there will be "something doing" at the general conference in Philadelphia. We did not purposely ignore the comments of the esteemed Star of Zion, touching The Freeman, but so many things of importance have occupied our time of late that we have been compelled to forego a response We shall take up the matter in our next. No one evinces any surprise that Assistant Attorney General Purdy has returned to Washington with additional evidence of the most damaging character to the Negro soldiers who were stationed at Brownsville on the night of August 13. Mr. Purdy brought back what he was sent to get. Perhaps that colored civil service eligible who was bluffed out of accepting a clerkship in the Hattiesburg, Miss., postoffice might have been granted adequate protection by the federal government if he had had some "treaty rights" instead of an outfit of old-fashioned, obsolete "constitutional rights." Negro labor is pronounced an ignominous failure by the average contractor or employer, when it falls to be efficient under the most distressing circumstances that humanity could be called upon to endure. The black workman "makes good" when offered the same compensation, treatment and opportunities for advancement accorded to the whites. Col. Harry S. New is now acting chairman of the Republican National Committee, to serve until the election of a successor at the next national convention of the patry. Mr. Cortelyou's retirement had been foreshadowed for many months, and it is already known that the accession of Col. New is entirely satisfactory to the rank and file of the Republicans of the country. It looks queer to see a Republican administration reduced to such an extremity that it must look to an unreconstructed Southern Democrat of the Culberson type to uphold its policies—and, least of all, t oserve as its mouthpiece on an issue involving the race question. Wouldn't a day—an hour—of the stalwart Republicanism of Chandler, Morton, Conkling and Grant "look good" to us! Are we falling upon evil days, in more senses than one? Tillman just couldn't hold in any longer. When the Negro problem is up, he sniffs the battle from afar and, like the ancient warhorse, thirsts for fields of gore. He broke loose the other day in the Senate and shook his mighty pitchfork by turns into the faces of both the President and the Negro soldiers. Tillman's abnormal capacity for making trouble enables him to oppose three or four things at one and the same time, and he is working his forces to the limit. QH. HAPPY YOUTH. Oh! happy youth, before whose feet The pathway lies both straight and fair, How little dost thou really know Of days and nights o'er rough with care? Thy dreams are sweet, thy thought doth make A picture of those coming years, Where joys and smiles forever dwell, And thy young eyes condemned with tears. The ceaseless flow of time goes on— For young and old alike, I mean— And life is heavy with its load, Years have held, the eyes have not seen. The brow is furrowed with many a line, The heart grows dull with pain and grief, And death at last with kindly hand Draws the curtain and brings relief. —T. H. PETERSON. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. exhibit from the District. A ladies' auxiliary club has been organized, with Mrs. Julia Mason Layton as president, which will have charge of the domestic science classification and secure the inventions and work of women. A thorough canvass is to be made and the very best products of the race will be placed on exhibition. The reinstatement of F. L. Cardozo as supervising principal, by virtue of decision of Judge Anderson, is a victory for fair play, and a direct rebuke to hat species of personal antipathy that tended to make the new shool regime unpopular and therefore ineffective as an instrument for the improvement of educational conditions in the District of Columbia. It was understood that all of the old teachers held over automatically, and could not be displaced without the preferment of formal charges and a conviction of some specific offense prejudicial to the welfare of the schools. Cardozo having been removed without trial, was removed illegally, and he is to be returned to duty. As the same situation is largely true of the dismissal of Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, John L. Love, and J. Birney Clarke, steps are being taken to have them restored to their places on the same plea that so successfully obtained in the Cardozo controversy. Supt. Chancellor is greatly—and some think unwarrantably—exercised over what he terms "judicial interference" with the functions of the board and complains that the central authority heretofore existing has superseded, and in the Washington Star, does some intemperate talking that will not help him with the right-choice of the community. One doubts that there ought to be some changes in the personnel of the schools, for the good of the elements insist that such removals be made in that the changes not to be made because of any personal malice or with any desire to wreak vengeance upon an individual in satisfaction of some ancient feud. Mr. Cardozo is popular with the patrons of the school, and has a clean record. Had his services not been of a most acceptable character, he could not have sustained himself against the combined opposition of the Superintendent and a dominating section of the Board of Education. The colored members of the Board, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, John F. Cook and Dr. O. M. Atwood, are painstaking and conscientious in the discharge of their duties, and they enjoy the confidence of the masses. It is hoped that they will continue to hold up the hands of Supt. Chancellor where it is possible to do so, but at the same time see to it that no injustice is worked where the natural rights of any taecacher are involved. With the status of Mr. Cardozo adjusted, and the cases of Mrs. Cooper and Messrs. Love and Clarke equitably disposed of the white-winged messenger of peace, ought to perch in our educational world for a long session. Several promotions have been made among the colored employees of the office of the Register of the Treasury since the advent of the Hon. W. T. Vernon. Thomas H. R. Clarke, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, a shoal of acknowledged brilliance, has been promoted to a high-grade Forming a Capital of $7,000,000—Is the Greatest of all Negro Movements—Every Negro In America Ought to Take at Least One Dollar's Worth of Stock In It At Once Without Delay. clerkship; Woodie Over has been changed from the labor roll to that of messenger, and Robert P. Rhea, of Tennessee, another veteran of the Spanish-American War, has been made chief messenger in the office. Dr. Vernon, in addition to helping these men, secured desirable transfers for other colored men from the different offices in the departmental service. Dr. Vernon is quietly establishing himself as a leader of national proportions. He is not a leader of the self-constituted variety, but one who leads because he has shown himself to be honorable, trustworthy and earnest in all that he undertakes for the uplift of his people. After getting his own plum, he has not sat down in selfish contentment, but has been constantly on the move to help others to a place at the federal table. The Register delivered an able address on "The Negro's Place in History," Tuesday evening before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. The great auditorium was crowded to the doors, and the people were treated to the finest oratorical effort of the season, as well as to a most scholarly and instructive resume of the trials and achievements of the Negro race. *** The tenth annual session of the American Negro Academy was held in the small chapel of Howard University during the holidays, Archibald H. Grimke, presiding. The general subject was "The Economic Condition of the Negro." Prof. Kelly Miller read a paper on "Labor Conditions in the North." The program also included a paper on "Negro Labor vs. Foreign Immigrant Labor in the South," by Mr. William H. Ferris, and "The Legal Disabilities of the Negro Laborer," by Mr. John R. Clifford. Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce read a paper on "The Negro as a Cotton Planter," and Prof. W. E. B. DuBois presented the subject, "Immigration as a Remedy for the Southern Negro's Economic and Industrial Status." A. H. Grimke was re-elected president for the ensuing year; Kelly Miller, W. H. Crogman and Rev. Matthew Anderson, vice-presidents; secretary, G. W. Lightfoot, treasurer, Rev. F. J. Grimke; executive committee, Kelly Miller, John L. Love, Charles C. Cook, G. W. Lightfoot and Arthur U. Craig. Dr. and Mrs. John R. Francis celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage a few evenings ago, fully four hundred guests honoring the occasion with their presence. Mrs. Henrietta Lee, wife of Rev. G. W. Lee, pastor of the Vermont Ave. Baptist Church, dies suddenly after a hemorrhage of the lungs. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. M. W. D. Norman, of the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Revs. J. A. Taylor, James H. Lee, W. Bishop Johnson, D. E. Wiseman, W. J. Howard, S. L. Corrothers, S. J. R. Nelson and J. M. Waldron assisted. The character of the deceased was a beautiful one, and the life she led was full of usefulness. *** A reception to the discharged men of the 25th Infantry, now in the city, was held on the evening of January 3rd, at which time there was a full discussion of the colored soldier in war and peace from the first enlistment of colored men in the military and naval service. The discharge of the companies of the 25th Infantry was fully discussed. The committee on arrangements consisted of James W. Poe, chairman, W. H. Minor, S. B. Thompson, P. M. Smith, R. L. Briscoe, W. J. Davis and George Washington. *** The executive committee of the National Afro-American Council has been in session here this week, under call of Bishop Alexander waiters. The meetings were held at Galbraith Chapel, Rev. S. L. Corrothers, pastor. The objects in view: The consideration of a plan whereby the several protective organizations of the race may be brought into co-operation on a com The Royal Trust Company, with its headquarters at 2111 Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. is the greatest Negro Syndicate ever formed in the history of the world for the uniting and uplifting of the poor classes of members of the whole Negro race of America. It, without question, is the fairest of all the devices ever created for the deliverance of any and all the dependent and helpless members of the Negro race. The founders of the great company has made room for over seven hundred thousand (700,000) of the worthy young men and young women of the Negro race to be united together in the management and the business of the company, and the company has made it possible for the very poorest and weakest members of the race everywhere to take stock in the company. Just think of it! Stock is being sold now in bonds all over America at twenty-five (25) cents for each bond or share. Bonds containing four shares are now sold for only one dollar ($1.00) and the company, in order to keep from having to write and explain the particulars in writing, has published a book it sells for 25 cents per copy. These books make known all particulars and qualifies the readers of it for representing the company. Any one who buys one bond or one book are at liberty to sell stock or bonds, or act as a solicitor for the total fund for the company for a term of five or ten years. The company offers great rewards for trustworthy agents, and it guarantees satisfaction to every member of the race that mon ground, and to discover what steps had best be taken to secure the needed legislation at the hands of Congress, and to call the suffrage and jim-crow discriminations to the attention of the Supreme Court of the United States. The meeting was well- attended, seventeen States being per- sonally represented. * * * * Miss Nannie H. Burroughs is here from Louisville, looking after the interests of the National Training School for Domestics. She is in quest of a desirable tract of land upon which to erect a building for the school. * * * * Bishop Grant is in town. AR-TEE. PREACHER ALLEGES LIBEL Editor Phil. H. Brown Makes Grave Charges Against Well-Known Divine. Hopkinsville, Ky., Special.—In the case of Rev. G. Cornelius Parker, pastor of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, against Phil. H. Brown, editor of the Daily News, a Negro newspaper published in this city, County Judge Breathitt has held Editor Brown in the sum of $1,000 to answer any indictment the grand jury may return against him for criminal libel. The editor had charged the preacher with drunkenness, lying, immorality and accepting money from both sides in a Prohibition election in Hopkins county. Mr. Parker is pastor of an Earlington congregation. Editor Brown claims that he will be able to sustain the charges he has made, and is giving himself no uneasiness about the outcome of the trial. Horace D. Slatter, traveling writer for the Associated Press, specializing news relative to colored people of the South, spent the week here. He has now gone on to Holly Springs, Miss. Mr. Slatter is a member of the Newspaper Bureau of the National Afro-American Council of which R. W. Thompson is director. The holidays passed of quietly.—Mr. Olivet Baptist Church Christmas tree and concert was a success. CLARKSVILLE, The Masonic sermon TENN. on St. John's Day was carried out recurrently. of the Inclement weather, at Wesley's Chapel. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Gardner of St. Peters A. M. E. Church. It was the most excellent ever heard in this city. The banquet was a success on the night of the 27th.—The P. B. Association highly entertained Billy Kersands and Company on the 26th at their banquet. The banquet was a record breaker. Mr. Kersands and company will always live in the hearts of the association, His show was up-to-date. Prof. Lacy's band is the finest colored band that ever visited Clarksville. Prof. Lacy's orchestra was the same as a band.—Prof. D B. Rice and daughter. Miss Ruble were in the city and attended the show with pleasure.—The visitors during the holidays were: Peter Barksdale of Louisville, Ky., Bud Ballard, Dillard Ballard, gessle First and Baron First of Chicago, Mrs. C. T. Radford of Luisville, Ky., and others.—T. H. Rogers of Louisville, Ky., visited his aunt, Fannie Rogers during the holidays.—Prof. Blakemor's band was endence during the holidays.—The P. B. A's will come before the public again soon. Their object is to benefit the race in commercial lines.—Wm. Russell is improving after a recent illness. GRO SYNDICATE Greatest of all Negro Movements—Every take at Least One Dollar's Worth Once Without Delay. buys a book or a bond, or their money will be refunded. Great God every Negro ought to buy at least $1,00 worth of the bonds and become a member of the great Royal Trust Company syndicate immediately without delay. And see the great advantage men and women have who be come faithful stockholders or bond buyers in the great company. By the Negro people and uniting in the Royal Trust Company and helping the founders of the company unanimously to carry out its plan, the way it is going now, the company can easily gather for its stockholders and bond buyers over $422,600,000 every five years for the next fifty years to come. The company has no equal in splender, and it aims to draw in over 100,000 members into it by April 1, 1907, as after that date it will form a chain of managers and rulers throughout every State and Territory in America and form a dictorial college of training at the head of it that will be glorious! Reader, take my advice. If you want to do something that you will be proud of yourself you send in to day and take a dollar's worth of bonds or stock. They increase in value every day for five years. Address THE ROYAL TRUST CO., 2111 Columbia Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. P. S.—Every member of the Negro race that buys at least $1.00 worth of bonds, before February 1, 1907, they will get double value for their swiftness in taking stock in the Great Syndicate Royal Trust Bonds. SS S —— Qe. Vase meen = }, ia °—______¥§— AD : The Clark brothers, Eugene y Joe, are still at the root gar tre Lexington, Ky., as the engagem lg & six weeks is doing a generous SR < ness. The orchestra is made Wh X_qq|the followtze people: Prof. g f ES Mack, cornetist; J. C. Hobbs, y eA bonist; Willie Long, trap dru ee 2 Yi | William French, pianist; H We hy #44 | West, bass violinist. The prot 440 * NY) | ot'tne garden is furthering this % A SS. 2 | date place of amusement with nd 4 ) @ success, 4 i Wests nd “ey, of C245) | The Walker's Musical Trio Sake (AopVZ just closed a successful engaz APIS of twelve and one-half weeks wi { f Bluff City Rink at Pine Bluff, 4 a white resort. Little George ser os “A gards to Clifton Payton, of th rN \ ton Trio, and all send’ regar ry 4 Robert Leach, with the Dandy “ay ¥ Minstrels, and Al Watts, _witl SHB \ Black Patti Troubadours. Wou we 4 to hear from J. Ed Green. A ce es 1600 South Georgia street, Pine pA Ark. Regards to the Rabbit’ Matame Cordelia McClain's fa:her ied recently at Louisiana, Mo. ‘The Alabama Comedy Four _ap- yeared at the Family Theater, New York, last week. ‘The Hendersons have gone to Ha- vans, Cuba, for an indefinite stay. \idress San Isidio 24, Havana, Cuba. William Foster, business represent- stive of the Pekin ‘Theater at Chica- go, was in the city a few days last week on business, ©. W. Bebee, the famous coon shouter and monologuist, singing and duneing comedian, is with the How- ani McCarver Big Southern Comedy Company, running the stage. The Bruces claim to be the only colored performers, buck and wing daneing on roller skates. Regards to Lowery and Crosby and wish to hear from Ed Price. Abbie Mitehell, who was seen with Emest Hogan's company as leading soprano early in the season, and later with the Pekin Stock Company, will «ppear in vaudeville alone at an early mata | Leroy Bland writes from Frank Ma- hara's Minstrels: “We have a few more days in Kansas, then we go to old Missouri, Everybody is happy and our season so far has been a win- her, Clark's band is doing fine and the ghost walks regularly.” The great Parker Amusement Com- pany closed a successful season at Brunswick, Ga., and the two Scotts, Richard and Rosa, better known as ‘Topsy, the famous’ coon shonter, will spend the winter in that city. "They send best regards to all friends. McNeil and MeNeil, the _ singing ind dancing comedians, sweet so- pyano and male impersonator, were the features at_a grand concert and hall given by the ‘Tramps’ — Social Chib at Chicago for the benefit of the Pekin Stock Company last month. A. G. Jones writes that he is still with the “Rufus Rastus” Minstrels and sends regards to all the profes sion. George Israel, our solo trom bonist, is on the sick list, but at pres ent is on the road to recovery. ‘The Stranders, Al and Bertha, closed in Washington, Ind., and are’ in Ripley ©O., taking a much-needed reat: William Hulett, of Windsor, Cana- (a, and Miss Lena Williams, of Lou- isville, Ky., were united in marriage by Magistrate J. C. Jackson of Hous: ton, Tex., December 5th. They were formerly with the great Van Amberg shows. Mrs. Lena Hulett sends_re- ards to Mrs. Blla Goodloe and Miss Gussie Harris. 906 Dowling street, Houston, Tex, John W. Anderson and his orches- ‘m4, with “A Rabbit's Foot” Company, re up to the standard, second to none, Joe Miller is again with them, Resards to friends with A. G. Allen's Minstrels, Kersands and Rufus Ras- tus Minstrels and also the Dandy Disies. Mrs. Gracie Arnte sends re- sands to her husband, Billy Arnte. with the Nashville Students, and Wishes them suecess. TUE FREEMAN GALLERY | iff F q p) . Ta yw i CNB eB r ) | n/p | ey) | MGs Tew. i) ies J Ne | a SB2, SS) A SS My MES Joe Jordan, Nelinown composer and orchestra feulor of the Pekin ‘Theater, Chicago, em play, your music catches ; nawares, a our old hearts and lightens ul myself saying: vy illet Musician to the Lord!” ‘ile you are playing, ou found the “Lost Chord.” —Charles’ Marshall. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPpapeEp The Clark brothers, Eugene and Joe, are still at the root garden at Lexington, Ky., as the engagement of six weeks is doing a generous busi- ness. The orchestra is made up of the followtzg people: Prof. E. W. Mack, cornetist; J. C. Hobbs, trom- bonist; Willie Long, trap drummer; William French, pianist; Howard West, bass violinist. The proprietor of the garden is furthering this up-to- date place of amusement with much success. ‘The Walker's Musical Trio have just closed a successful engagement of twelve and one-half weeks with the Bluff City Rink at Pine Bluff, Ark., a jwhite resort. Little George sends re gards to Clifton Payton, of the Pay- ton Trio, and all send regards to Robert Leach, with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, and Al Watts, with the Black Patti Troubadours. Would like to hear from J. Ed Green. Address 1600 South Georgia street, Pine Bluff, Ark. Regards to the Rabbit’s Foot Company. Hiram Simmons, organist and choirmaster of the North Street civarch, Portsmouth, Va., is meeting with much success. His work con- sists chiefly of sacred music, such as cantatas, offertories, ete., which are sung in many eastern cities with much favor, The most severe critics have admitted that he is possessed of extraordinary talent, His latest and best effort was a cantata, with a cast of fifty people and arranged for an orchestra, which scored an over- whelming success. The Original Nashville Students are still making good. Everybody is well. Rowland, the great tramp jug- gler, closed with us on January 5th to go in vaudeville. We have added the Stevens sisters to our roster with their singing, talking .and dancing act. Oi comedians, Arnte and Car- ter, are taking two and three encores nightly. Miss Sallie Lee is still mak- ing a decided hit with that beautiful ballad, “Love Me, and the World Is Mine.” It is useless to say anything about P. G. Lowery, as everybody knows his ability and reputation as a soloist. The Thomases—George and Mamie—are a splendid number in our olio. ‘The entire company send best wishes to all friends in and out of the profession. John Hopkins, en route with Cus: ter's Last Fight, writes that he is doing nicely. While playing Kansas City he met quite a number of rela tives that he had not seen in fifteen years—Mr. and Mrs. George Wilcox Mrs. Wilcox is a first cousin of Mr. Hopkins, also John and Drew Bar nard. It being Christmas week every ‘thing was in readiness in St. Joseph, Mo. Frank Spence and John Hopkins were entertained by the Manhattan Club by the following named ladies and gentlemen: Mr, and Mrs. R. John son, Misses Jennie King, Mary ‘Thompson, Elmer Johnson, Henry Crosby, W. M. Rodgers.’ If you should go to St. Joe pay the Manhat tan a call. Red is a jolly good fellow Regards to all friends in and out o} the profession. The Famous Billy Kersands Minstrels | After many weeks of constant travel we are proud to say that our company is still prosperous and play- ing to as large business as usual. Many of the boys received some very handsome presents, quite useful as well as valuable, and still the presents are pouring in. On account of a com- plete change of route during the hol- idays our mail matter has been much confused, and during the above ‘change the company had the exquisite pleasure of playing Mt. Vernon, Ind., the home of our amiable veteran ‘basso profundo, Mr. Lloyd Cooper. Mr. Cooper's city and home was quite a surprise to the entire company. It was such a beautiful little city, lying on the north side of the picturesque Ohio river, and as we wended our way up the main thoroughfare we were rather amazed at the progressive hustle and bustle of the citizens, and at a turn on West Eighth street we came upon a palatial white dwelling, No. 427, looking much like a pleture not being in the power of an artist to paint, with its great colonial ye- randa draped in a foliage of green, ‘making such a pretty contrast we were not able to overcome our sur- prise until Mrs. Angie Cooper un- latched the door leading to the ve- randa and bade us welcome. The large rooms were so spacious that all the company were entertained in only half the house. In meeting Mrs. Cooper we met one of the most genial ‘and hospitable women we ever saw. After an exchange of courtesies the company retired to the dining room, where a sumptuous dinner was served at the hands of Mrs. Cooper and other members and friends of the family. Billy Kersands occupied the head of the table and there was no end to jollity. He carried on, and there was only one more wanted to the party, and that was Jessie Gil- mer, who would have enjoyed the so-called big Lane Cooper on this day. We will always remember the hospi- tality of the Cooper family. The show made a great impression and will always have to give Mt. Vernon ‘a date hereafter, as it means success to both the opera house and company. Regards to friends both in and out of the profession. The Whitman Sisters and Willie Rob- inson. In speaking of the two strong yau- deville acts at Lowell last week the Lowell Courier-Citizen of January 1 says: “One can take his choice between gypsy life as expressed by a grand ‘opera medium, and the good old days before “de wah,” at the Hathaway theater this week. As far apart as the poles are the two big acts which Sraced yesterday's bill and which will undoubtedly please big crowds for the remainder of the week. * * * The ‘befoh de wah’ act is given by the three Whitman sisters and Willie Robinson, the latter being a ‘pusson ob cullah.’ The scene in the dooryard of a Southern cottage at eventide is one of much charm. The return of the young picaninny with a good roos- ter znder his arm is duly noted, after whiten the three sisters practice some psalm tunes. An old melodeon and two banjos heighten the weird chant- ‘ing. This part of Negro life has been pretty thoroughly neglected on the stage. The long, monotonous shouts of the religiously inclined Negroes and the really funny interpretations of the Bible, as put into some of them are vestiges of a peculiar civilation which once flourished in the South, but which is now barely extant in that patt of the country. The three sisters are uncommonly nimble dane- ers, and in the modern “Is Everybody Happy’ song they ‘broke it down’ in lively fashion. This act received much applause yesterday and it will undoubtedly prove most attractive to audiences during the rest of ‘the wacko” “Rufus Rastus” Notes. The past week at Boston has been a hard one physically for this com- pany, the following being on the sick call: Mrs. Lottie Freeman, Mrs. Anita Wilkins, Mrs. Sallie Green, Misses Loretta Turner, Marie Thomas, Maude Hopkins, Amy Leslie, and Messrs. Hogan, vidler, Byrd, Brown and Logan. Notwithstanding ts physical drawback we are giving the same good shows that have ever char- acterized this truly great company, and the prospects for another suc- cessful week are already bearing con- clusive evidence. * * Brown and Nayorrow, the protean artists, are to join us week of January 7th for the remainder of the season, We predict for them a perpetual round of suc- cesses, and their presence here only emphasizes the prophetic words of Hurtig & Seamon: “Nothing is too good for us.” » Madam Willa Wilkes has so far recovered as to be able to discard the crutches and hopes to be well and*hearty within a day or so, * * Word received from Miss Madge Gans informs us that she is considerably better and is on the road ti improvement, Her address is 2825 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. * * Mrs. Harry Fidler is paying her better half a fornight's visit prior to going to Indianapolis for the re- mainder of the season, It is to be presumed that Fid. will be lonely be- fore the expiration of the season, as we do not play Indianapolis before the latter part of March. * * Mr. Al Johns closes January 12th to fill important New York city engage- ments, He has proven himself a lively, jovial companion, and it is with regret that we see him go. Al carries with him the best wishes of the entire company. * * Be Golden Gate Quintette and some of the male members of this show were right royally entertained Friday evn- ing on Pleasant street, and from re- ports had “An Aunt Dolly’s time!” * * Will Able's several friends in this company send best regards.* * While some were whispering and laughing to themselves, Jimmie Worles said nothing, but kept on,saw- ing wood. Now there is a lot of saw- dust under Jimmie’s saw buck, and he insists that he is in no wise both: ‘ered. yet, * © By the time this paper reaches us Angie Housley will be back in New York city among rel- atives and friends galore. * * Talk about fads, here are a few: Ernest Hogan and his airship, Harry Fidler and his lightning changes, Anthony Byrd and patent medicines, Henry ‘Troy and the game of coon can, Allie Gillam and hand springs, Loretta ‘Turner and new shoes, Carita Day and violets, John Hill and “50-cent fines.” Chip Ruff and pet dogs, Lester Walton and love-letter writing, Angie Housley and a tent, Base Foster and sympathy, Billy Moore (Brooklyn Billy, | mean), and a policeman’s uni- form, Sallie Green and the chromatic seale, Alice Cahill Mackey and dia- monds, Al Johns and his opening speech, Odessa Warren and Germany, Strut Worles and wardrobe, Billy Wilkins and “the makings,” Harry Gillam and Smiles, Prof. Freeman and writing top-notch compositions, Pete Staples and his $150 mandolin, Herbert Sutton and full-dress over- coats, Frank Brown and __ straight hair, and Tom Logan and The Free- man. * * Misses Emma V. and Lulu Foster, of Pittsfield, Mass., were the guests of their brother, Mr. Chas. B. Foster, during our Boston engage- ment. * * Those of the company who are identified with the I. B. P. O. E. were banquetted in regal style by the local brethren last week. * * Lew Payton paid us a visit last week and showed some good con- tracts over the Bean circuit. * Brown and Navarro were special attractions at the Sunday concerts at the Ma- jestic and Globe theaters January 6th. HURTIG & SEAMAN SIGN TWO MORE STARS. | Tom Brown and Siren Nevarro, who have been the real Vaudeville Novelty in England, France and Germany, and re- turned to this country to support Cole & Johnson closed with that company. at Chicago, Deo. 26th. Mr. Hogan, hearing ‘of this, Immediately instructed his man- ager to seoure them at any price. Mr. Brown bears the distinction of being the most versatile artist of his race, and also demands the highest salary. Miss Nevarro is the first and only lady of color to master toedancing. Aside from this she is equal- lyas clever as Mr. Brown in character roles. As Hogan and Brown were partners twenty years ago we can look for some- thing startling in the near future. HOTTEST COON IN Dixie. in Dixie” Company. John F, Eagan business manager. We opened _ the New Year, 1907, in Mt. Carmel, Pa., ‘one of the prettiest cities situated in the mountain region of Pennsylvania, At this place an organization of busi- ness men known as the Mummers had arranged for a New Year's day pa- rade, to consist of the leading soct- eties, schools, churches and business houses of the entire surrounding com- munity. One of the committee came to Williamsport and asked our mana- ger if we would head the parade. Special arrangements were made for the company's entertainment and when we reached the city we were met by a committee and escorted to the theater. At 2:30 p. m. the pa- rade formed and, led by the “Hottest Coon in Dixie,” marched over the principal streets of the city, where thousands of people lined every part of the line of march. Our band, with their brilliant uniforms, proceeded on foot, and following closely behind were the ladies of the company and Mr. Eagan in runabouts, drawn by white horses and deegrated with ban- ners and flags and with drivers in uniform. Our part of the parade re- ceived especial praise from the judges and people. At the perform- ance given by our company that evening the theater, which is one of the largest, was filled to overflowing and many people were unable to se- cure even standing room. The first part of our show opened as usual with twelve hanging pieces of gorgeous scenery and myriads of electric lights. Upon the rising of the curtain everybody in the audience waited for the entrance of the “Hot- test Coon in Dixie.” As Mr. Cope- Jand, who delineates this character, came upon the stage runds of ap- plause filled the auditorium, — these people conceding—as do the press and people everywhere—that Mr. Copeland is one of the funniest and best singing comedians who have ever made it a missicn to amuse and entertain the theater-xoing public. Clarence Dotson, our clever little dancer, is doing nicely. The Marvel- ous Pettits are still mystifying the public with their feats of magic and their trunk mystery. Queen Dora, whose harmony of colors makes one of the prettiest acts on any stage and one of the strongest in our olio, re- eceives special mention everywhere. Mr. J. A. English, timber trainer, is featuring some new hoop work that is nothing short of wonderful Wash- ington and Henderson have a clever comedy singing act which is a winner from start to finish. The Dixie Com- edy Four is still closing the olio and holding the show late with their many calls for encores. Miss Jo- sephine Lazzo, the leading soubreite, is singing with much success “My Cabin Door” ae “Allus de Same in Dixie.” Mr. Eafle Burton is singing “L Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home.”, Mr. Irving Richardson, our tenor soloist, is taking nightly encores singing “Love Me, and the World Is Mine.” Mr, Sydney Carter, our stage director, is meeting with much success singing, with his six dancing girls, “If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon,” and “I Like Your Way.” ‘The six dancing girls is a new dance idea of Mr. Carter's. The girls are Miss Josephine Smith, Mrs. Edith Drake, Miss Ethel Pier- mann, Miss Mabel Martyne, Miss Mayme Brown and Mrs. Emma Prince. Mr. Tom Drake, in the role of Par- son Brown, has originated many new and clever ideas in his old man part and is one of the hits of the show. Mr. Drake wishes to be remembered to all of his friends, both in and out of the profession. Mr. A. A. Copeland ‘of St, Nicholas Lodge No. 12, Chica: gor lil, of A. F. & A. M., in visiting Selinsgrove, Pa. found a K. of P. book belonging to Whitney Vinley of N. A. Saeaa & A. Fidelity Lodge No. 7, Springfield, Mo. If Mr. Vinley will send route Mr. Copeland will forward book, Company sends regards and Happy New Year to all friends, ‘The great English, with Gideon & Ferdon’s “Hottest Coon in Dixie” Company, is very well pleased with his own hew ideas, which are receiv- ing press notices everywhere, of hoop rolling, lighted with electric lights, also the using of the largest hoop used by any other artist in his line— seven feet in diameter. He sends best wishes to friends. Queen Dora, with her electrical dances, is some- thing wonderful. She is now using five machines, which contain more Jamps than any other dancer uses. The press calls her “Queen of Light’ in her dazzling creation of harmony of colors. AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. ‘The Innocent Maids, beauty — ur- lesque suow, wil bid for public favor at the Empire Theater, opening with a matinee Thursday, and if revorts from other cities can be credited this engagement will undoubtedly prove to be one of the record-breakers of the season, as the title, The Innocent Maids, is too well known to require comment, and especially as_ every- thing is new the current season but the title. Two brand new and very pretentious burlesques will be _pre- sented. The opening piece is an abso- lutely refreshing as well a8 a com- ical conception called “The Geezer.” ‘The closing burlesque may be _de- scribed as a satire on Li Hung Chang's arrival in this country. Its title is “Happyland.” Both burlesques embrace the services of the entire or- ganization, while an extraordinary ar- ray of vaudeville features are_inci- dentally introduced, including Smith & Champion, comedians, Horton & La Triska, singers and dancers, the Seyons, eccentric talking act, Sadie Huested, the famous California lady baritone, and Hughes and Hazelton, ‘ravesty artists. Musical melanges ee WILL MARION COOK, BOOKING ABBIE MITCHELL, TENNESSEE STUDENTS, TRIBBLE AND MARSHALL, and Best Colored Acts in Vaudeville HEADLINE ACTS. AND EONS Fe RIT AMES. Chicago Address—Pekin Theater, Phone Calumet 126, New York Address—127 W, 53d Street. Phone Columbus 4693. ee , y With a Good One, Boys. ‘7 oS Brown’s Tennessee Minstrels Are still in line and doing very good “Biz."" Would 1xe to hear from a CLARIONET or TROMBONE PLAYER to double stage. Write W. A. BROWN, sole owner, Permanent address Holden, Mo. ROUTE—Shelburne, Minn., January 14; Fair Mount, 15: Winnebago, 16. (arctan ee ALL GOODS SOLD BY PINKE’S Cut Rate Pharmacy Comply in every way with the PURE FOOD LAW. We Lead, Others Try to Follow. PINK’S PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Ave., Southeast Corner West Street. RS a Or ee eR eo Plays To Let On Royalty To Amatuers or Professionals Music accompanying all plays,data how to stage same by J. Ed. Green, WILLIAM FOSTER, Business Manager, PEKIN THEATRE, Chicago, Ill. ——__ Wanted Woman Piano Player Must Read Music and Sing. Salary $4 Per Night —_——— ——— Must be Single. State all when you write. Address Ed. Taylor, Ely, Nevada. ————— Wanted Quick—A,iu"tc'4ss. colored Soloist Address B. F. Ferguson, sit! Mouse Varmoniave, Coinmbin in Patronize our advertisers. ———___ Li a ALL GOOD PINK’S Cut f Comply in eve We Lead, Other: PIN K’S P. 550 Indiana Ave., South ieee and pretty dances are interspersed firoughout the two shows. Williams’ “Ideals.” One of the popular shows that comes to the Empire Theater is un- derlined for this popular place of amusement next week. Williams’ “Ideal Extravaganza” Company have always had_a first-class reputation in this city and the patrons of this place of amusement can always depend upon having the pleasure of seeing a really first-class show when “The Ideals” return, ‘This season the com- pany surpasses any other this popu- lar manager has sent out from the Academy of Music, Pittsburg, and the people engaged consist of the leaders in their respective lines and among them may be mentioned Miss Katherine Klare, a burlesque queen who has few equals: tiie Misses Hil- ton and Zeff, the peer of ail sister acts, who will present a new singing and dancing act; Ali and Peyser, a pair of acrobatic comedians; Miss Mabel Johnson, comedienne; the In- ternational Trio, who will play their way into the patrons’ favor, and Frank O’Brien and Clayton Frye, a pair of funmakers who never fail to provoke a great many hearty laughs. ‘The company will present a new two- act comedy entitled “The Other Fel- low,” in which Messrs O'Brien and Frye are yery prominent, and they never fail to please. “The Ideals” open with a matines Monday. WT. VERNON IN KENTUCKY (Continued from First Page.) Young's Chapel A. M. E. ehureh, left Monday to spend two weeks in’ Chi- eago to conduct a series of meetings for the Rey. A. J. Carey of Bethel &; M. E. chureh. Mrs. Bessie C. Jones, founder and superintendent of the Neighborhood House, has been on the sick list for the past month. A popular literary torum 1s talked of. Louisville needs such an inistitu- tion badly and is far behind her sister cities in this respect. The many friends of ‘the Misses Nugent, teachers in the public school, sympathize with them in the death of their grandmother Wm. M. Porter, the enterprising undertaker of Cincinnati, 0., was in the city a few hours Friday. While hereshe was the guest of Miss Mary Vernon Hicks. ‘The Episcopal Church of Our Mer- a Man to Play Pi fano, MUST READ and SING Salary $4 Per Night. No tickets advanced. Must come at once. Address. EDGAR TAYLOR, Ely, Nevada. The America Theater ita theate Jackson, Miss, Open Dates for Good COLORED sSHOWs. Entire management and ownership colored Seating capscity 1200, W. J LATHAM, Manager. es Coming Soon to Your City The greatest Negro enterprises travel-_ ing. My two shows, “A Rabbit's Foot Company and Funny Folk Co. watch for tne two Big Funny Shows touring the country in their own private cars. Can always place good per- formers and musicians. Address Pat Chappetle as per route or home office, 1054 W. Church street, Jacksonville, Florida. S SOLD BY ate Pharmacy ‘y way with the OD LAW. ; Try to Follow. HARMACY, east Corner West Street. ciful Savior, heretofore 2 mission, has voted to become an independent par- ish and will be placed on a self-sup- porting basis. | Dr. M, A. Majors, of Chicago, was the recipient of much social attention during his stay in our city. Wednes- day morning he was the guest at breakfast at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. ‘Thompson, | Miss Sophia E. Johnson gave a com- plimentary breakfast of five cuarses to a few of the outof-town guests, in- cluding Miss Katherine Harris ‘and her hostess, Miss Mary V. Hicks, Mrs. Minnie Robinson and Dr, M. A. Ma: jors. Sides Dr. L. G. Jordan, and Miss Nannie H, Burroughs are in Washington, the former on business connected ‘with the Afro-American Council and the latter to close up a deal for a site for the projected National ‘Training School for Domestics. woes A. complimentary reception was held a few evening ago at St. James ‘A.M. E. church, in honor of Mr. N. R. Harper, who aws admitted to the bar of Jefferson county thirty-five years ago and was the first colored man to enter this profession in Ken- iucky. James Alexander Chiles, a leading attorney of Lexington, deliv- ered the address on behalf of the forty or more Negro barristers of the state. Lawyer Isaac E. Black, of this city, presided nee Mrs. Thomas Cole entertained at dinner Monday in honor of Miss Dor- othea Nesbitt of St. Louis, who was the holiday guest of Mrs. Maud Tay- lor. The party included the follow- ing: Misses Kuey N. DuValle, Daisy Harris, Sadie Evans, Prima A. Fitz- butler, Lettie Todd, of Frankfort, Ky., Mr. and Mrs, Neros Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B, Waring, of Chicago, Mrs. Maud Taylor, Messrs. James R. Harris, George Evans, Chancallor Morris, 8. O. Johnson, William Saun- ders and Cary B. Lewis. TOM RICHARDSON. \Every Lady Read This. Years ago, when | was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leucorrhea, Displacement, Palnful Periods Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me inone month. It is asimple, harmless fotfon that can be prepared by any one having the recipe. 1 will send it Free to every suffering sister who writes to me. 1 have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman heiping woman { send it Free Address Mrs. A. B. Hudnut, South Bend, diana. SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON. IT MATTERS MUCH It matters little where I was born— Whether my parents were rich or poor, Whether they shrank from the cold world's scorn, Or walked in the pride of wealth secure; But whether I live an honest man, And hold my integrity firm in my clutch; I tell you, brother, plain as I am— It matters much. Parents should visit the schools. * * * The way to get ahead is to go ahead. * * * A "de-Bailey-ized" United States Senate would look good to us. * * * Which is it] to be? President Taft or Chief Justice Taft? * * * It is the little worries of life that bring on the "crows-feet." * * * As a solver of the race problem Joe Gans'ls there with the punch. * * * To think more of tinsel than of talent is to tread upon dangerous ground. President Roosevelt has Congress on his hands and the Negro on his mind. Some people, laying claim to culture and enlightenment, talk in price tags. It's a cold day when the Negro question hasn't a claim to the center of the stage. It is difficult to get a fellow to forgive you for the damage he has tried to do to you. Agriculture is the basis of the nation's welfare. Do not disdain the farm or speak lightly of the farmer. Tonopah and Goldfield, Nev., may likened unto Epiphamies of the Afro-American in pugilism. Last year the Methodist Episcopal Church gave $174,672 to carry on the work of the Freedmen's Aid Society. The biggest nuisance is the fellow with so much time on his hands that he feels called upon to waste yours. Why is it that church and lodge thieves are so seldom "jacked-up" and sent to the penitentiary where they belong? The "glad hand" is ever extended for the "comer." A lemon is the portion meted out to the "has-been." They say a girl's worst quarter of an hour is experienced when she realizes that she is an "old maid," and not so from choice. Slayden's bill to fire the Negro soldiers out of the army will never become a law. The Texan is working on the wrong dope. Whenever President Roosevelt gets a round of applause from the South he may well feel doubtful of the wisdom of his course. Whatever may happen to other presidential booms that of Mr. Fairbanks forges serenely ahead, keeping ever in the middle of the road. Negroes who keep up with sporting matters will not wear crepe if Bill Squires succeeds in knocking the daylights out of Jim Jeffries. We cannot help the thought that 'way down in his heart' Col. Giles B. Jackson ha A Little Sarcastic. An old woman went into a grocer's and ordered a pennyworth of carrots. After being served she inquired, "D'ye not throw something in wi' them?" "Oh, yis," replied the greengrocer; "if ye wait a minute I'll throw in a seck o' tetties an' a barrel o' apples an' a hundredweight o' turnips an' a box o' oranges! An'," he shouted as the old woman flounced out of the shop, "when I'm busy I'll throw in the horse an' cairt! If yor not satisfied then, come back for the shop!"—London Mail. A. Half Length Picture A countryman bargained with a California photographer for a half length picture of himself at half price, and when the artist delivered a fine view of the subject from the waistband down the victimized sitter indulged in remarks more forcible than polite.—Philadelphia Inquirer. All Wrong. New Curate—Your husband is a confirmed invalid, is he not? Mrs. Billyus—Confirmed, sir? No, sir; he ain't Church of England. New Curate—I mean, is he a permanent invalid? Mrs. Billyus—Permanent? Lor', no! Doctor says he can't last a month. The Accident. Hizonner—You are charged with breaking a chair over your wife's head. Prisoner—It was an accident, your honor. Hizonner—What! Didn't you intend to hit her? Prisoner—Yes, but I didn't intend to break the chair. All Wrong. no feeling of regret that the Alexandria Home News is no more. It costs a "heap" to be "a good fellow," and it is no cheaper in the long run to be a "grouch." There is safety and satisfac- tion in the happy medium. Talk happiness. We indistinctively run from the individual with tale of everlasting woe and gives a wide berth to the man who nurses a grievance. In case of doubt it is safe not to trust a designing scoundrel who has done his level best to "down" you. The leopard doesn't change his spots. Let him alone. John Sharp Williams wants to go the Unt'ed States Senate. Therefore he has found it necessary to procure a set of revised views on the race problem in order to join issues with Gov. Vardaman. For a man of little courage and less race pride, as some of Booker T. Washington's chuckle-headed critics love to paint him, the "Wizard" ventures into Atlanta with a frequency that is positively alarming. Now that Roscoe Conkling Bruce is no longer connected with Tuskegee, the Boston Guardian has lost all interest in saything he may have to say on the race problem or criminality of the "clotty Negro." Fully five bishops of the various denominations have died within the past few weeks. This excessive mortality in high ecclesiastical circles, however, has not visibly diminished the ardor of any of the aspirants for episcopal honors * * * Prophet Spangler predicts that the world is to come to an end in two years. If so, this will interfere very materially with the plans of sundry candidates for the presidency of the United States and for the bishopric of the A. M. E. churches. * * * Some of Tom Logan's Kentucky friends are wondering whether the pictures in that awfully attractive "pale, pink studio" at The Freeman office were pasted on "deep mahogany frames" filled with the "straight lights" or the "blended" variety. The anxiety to shine beyond our merits, to live beyond our means, and to appear what we are not is playing havoc with thousands of our most promising young men, and destroying the happiness of our best young women. The simple life for us. An uninitiated traveler from New Zealand, who had not heard from the American capital for two or three years, would rub his eyes in silent astonishment when he gazes upon the Tuskegee edition of the Washington Bee and pinched himself to make sure that he isn't dreaming. Breer Chase has woke up. "Marvelous" Marvin Hart "won out" in a handicap wrestling bout the other night with Alex. Swanson. The popular opinion in Louisville is that Hart may be "some punks" on the mat, but as a fighter he can't lick the gummed flap of an envelop. He will be easy trimming for Jack Johnon. Humor In the Far East. Adbur Rahman, the late ameer of Afghanistan, had a grim sense of humor which was sometimes exercised without scruple. On one occasion a durbar he was holding was interrupted by a man who, in a state of the greatest excitement, rushed in declaring that the Russians were advancing to invade Afghanistan. Turning aside for a moment from the business in progress, the late ameer in the most unconcerned tones ordered his shahgassi to conduct the man to the summit of a certain watch tower. "Look you out well for the Russians," commanded Abdur Rahman, "for you do not eat until you see them arrive."—Grand Magazine. Fooks Ruin Their Taste "I never season things up to my own taste," said a man who has cooked in a restaurant for many years. "Very few cooks do. They have palates that crave high seasoning. The longer they cook the more salt and pepper and spices they require. If I should send up my dishes as I like them, they would be so hot and peppery that half the patrons in the restaurant would be unable to eat them." -New York Press. A Poor Wrapper "Yes; poor Mrs. Elderly is all wrapped up in that son of hers." "And he isn't much of a wrapper, eh?" Employment and hardship prevent melancholy.—Johnson. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. * * * --- --- --- --- --- --- An Unofficial Saint An Unofficial Saint By Grant Owen Copyright, 1908, by P. C. Eastment The little parlor with its haircloth furniture, its gaudy rag carpet, its stuffed birds and its impossible chromos was a dismal place at best, but now with the double row of chairs still ranged stiffly about the sides of it and the feeble light of an unshaded kerosene lamp emphasizing all its barren ugliness it seemed a veritable desert of a room. Sarah Biddle sat primily erect on the sofa, her black bordered handkerchief crushed between her hands. She was vaguely resentful of this unwonted solitary dignity she was forced to maintain. She wanted to be out in the kitchen washing dishes. This sitting still with folded hands like a visitor in one's own house was in nowise pleasing to her, but she realized that tonight at least it was expected of her, and Sarah was not one of those intrepid souls who can throw conventionality to the winds. It was all over. The last mourning relative—fortified by the ample post funeral supper—had condoled with her, wept with her and departed trainward. The only sound to break the stillness was the clatter of dishwashing at the kitchen sink, where two sympathetic neighbors plied their dish towels and discussed the late sad function very minutely. Sarah moved uneasily on the sofa. No one could wash dishes to suit her; she would have to do them all over tomorrow before she put them away. She ached to get at them now, not only to have them done properly, but to relieve the strain of this unwonted activity. This, however, was clearly impossible according to the precedent of the community. To have a mind for household duties before the morrow would savor of callousness. She heard the gate latch click and then the sound of heavy footsteps coming up the gravel walk. She leaned forward, listening intently. Any diversion would be welcome to her tense nerves. Presently the front door opened softly and was softly closed. PADENK "IF I WAS GIN" TO NAME A REGULAR SAINT ON EARTH I'D NAME YOU." She was aware that some one had tip-toed clumsily into the room. She looked up to find a pair of good natured eyes regarding her whimsically. Seth Carlton selected a straight backed chair in the front row, jerked it forward and sat down awkwardly. "I run over to see how you was gettin' on," he explained. "Oh, nicely!" she replied. "Everybody's been so good. An', Seth, I want to thank you now." "What for?" he demanded brusquely. "For all you done," said she, "fixin' up the hedge an' lookin' after the horses today an' bein' one of the bearers." She paused a moment. "Don't you think everything passed off well?" she asked. He nodded abstractedly. He appeared to be thinking deeply. "Sarah," he said at length, looking at her with that penetration of gaze she always found rather disconcerting, "do you know I was sort of provoked today?" "Provoked?" There were surprise and wonder and disbelief in her voice. Her eyes questioned him, but she waited silently for him to go on. "I was listenin' to what lots of them folks had to say to you today," he resumed slowly. "I heard 'em talkin' about his sufferin' an' his patience. I heard one of 'em say he was a regular saint on earth." "Wasn't he?' Her tone was very calm, but there was a hint of challenge in it. "I'd be the last one to deny it," said he, "but what made me provoked was that them folks only looked at one side of it. There warn't none of 'em that spoke of your sufferin' or your patience." She was silent. Her hands were nervously twisting and untwisting the black bordered handkerchief. A spot of color came into either cheek. "Mind, I know your father was one of the best men," he said sturdilly, "but it made me mad that they didn't tell the other side of it—that you are one of the best women. Didn't you give up everything for him? Where have you been for the past ten years? Nowheres. What have you done all that time except take care of him? Nothin'. Ain't you suffered an' been patient? Didn't you give up the man you loved so you could spend all your time takin' care of your father? Sarah, if I was goin' to name a regular saint on earth I'd name you!" It was a long speech for Seth Carlton to make. He sat back in the chair, rather surprised at his own statement of his feelings. Sarah smiled feebly. "It warnn't so much as you make out," she protested. He grunted. "Didn't it mean nothin' to you that night, ten years back, when you told me you could never marry me so long as he lived?" The color spots brightened in her cheeks. "Didn't it?' he persisted. "Yes," she admitted slowly. "An' hasn't it meant somethin' all them ten years?" She nodded her reply, for her eyes brimmed with tears and there was a lump in her throat. "Talk about patience an' sufferin' an' saints on earth!" he exclaimed. "Them folks ain't got eyes to see beyond their noses. That's what made me provoked." He rose and stalked up and down the room. At last he paused before her. "You've been a saintin' of it about long enough," he said; "you've done your duty—more'n done it—an' I've waited for you for ten most unsaintly years. Now, next Saturday I want you" "Not so soon at that, Seth," she begged. "Next Saturday," he said inexorably, "An' we'll go on to Washington an' stay a month, an' to New York an' to Philadelphia. Your saintin' days are over. It's time you had a chance to be just a woman for awhile." "I can't- not so soon," she protested, "Did I say a word durin' them ten years?" he asked. She shook her head. "Hadn't that ought to count for somethin'?" "Yes, I suppose it had; but, Seth"—He smiled almost grimly as he played his trump card. "I've bought the tickets," he said gently. Suddenly she began to weep without restraint. He watched her in silence. Intuitively he knew that these were not tears of sorrow. After a time he sat beside her on the sofa and awkwardly stroked her hair. "You ain't goin' to know what care or sorrow is if I can help it," he declared. Unconsciously he had raised his voice. "Hush—oh, hush!" she whispered. "They'll hear you out in the kitchen. Mis' Jones an' Mis' Parsons are out there washin' dishes." "Think I care if they do?" he said defiantly. "I ain't a mite ashamed of it. Are you?" She lifted her eyes to his and smiled. It was a wonderful smile. Somehow the room seemed to lose much of its desolation, even as her face lost its many traces of years and patient suffering. "I'll be ready Saturday," she said. The Tyrant. The well intentioned man overheard two women talking together in a tram car, and he immediately let down the portals of his ears, for the well intentioned man always goes about with a lifelong hunger in his heart to busy himself with the affairs of other people. "I tell you he is a perfect tyrant," said woman No. 1. "I have no doubt of it," said the other. "I will listen to this poor woman's tale," thought the well intentioned man, "and perhaps I may be able to assist the poor soul." "Yes, he is a regular tyrant and despot. He has no mercy on me whatever. He rules the whole house like a czar." "Of course he does," said woman No. 2. "I shall have to offer my services to this poor, downtrodden woman," thought the well intentioned man. "Yes, he rides over the whole of us roughshod. And sometimes, when he gets on the rampage, he breaks everything he can lay his hands on." "Madam," said the well intentioned man, who could stand it no longer, "madam, my services are at your disposal. 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Through the decision given Tommy Burns in his fight with Jack O'Brien, many writers stated that Burns was the rightful holder of the championship. But that could not be so, as Burns has many good men to defeat before earning that title and then there is talk of Jim Jeffries returning to the ring, and it is a sure thing Burns will have no chance with Big Jim. Now Australia, once the land of champions, which in days gone by sent to this country such bright stars of the profession as Peter Jackson, Albert Griffiths, (Young Griffio), Bob Fimmzins, and George Dawson, has a new world's champion aspirant in Bill Squires. The thoughts of a foreign challenger entering this domain, coupled with the abundance of Nevada gold, with which the air seems to be filled these days, has stirred the great boilermaker to come out of his shell and declare publicly that he is still the best man of them all. So the heavyweight situation, until Burns meets Jeffries, is the same as it was a year ago. Jack Johnson is recognized by all fair-minded and unprejudiced fans to be about as good or better than any except Jim Jeffries. Although Jeffries bars Johnson on the account of his dark skin, and will doubtless never grant him a match. Students of the game are confident that Johnson can whip the rest of the short top fighters like breaking sticks. The other live ones in the class are Jack O'Brien, Marvin Hart, Tommy Burns and Mike Schreck, and in fairness to this quartet it might be well to call attention to the fact that with possible exception of Hart, they are much lighter than Johnson and really of the light and heavyweight division of purlers. The only championship fights pulled off during the year were at Colma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cal., and Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada, and Chelsea, Mass. In the named place Joe Gans defeated Mike (Twin) Sullivan for the welterweight title, beating him in fifteen rounds, and later made it a good one by defeating him in ten rounds at Los Angeles. Gans, later in the year, relinquished the welterweight title. The sports also saw Abe Attell and Frankie Nell, and Attel and Harry Baker, and Atel and Jimmy Welsh in the featherweight division and Marvin Hart and Tommy Burns and Jack O'Brien and Burns, in the heavyweight class. Chelsea pulled off two welterweight championship fights between Honey Mellody and Joe Walcott, the first named fighter winning both. The question who is the best lightweight in the country was settled at Goldfield and Tonopah, Nev., when Joe Gans won from Nelson in the first named place and Herman in the latter. Jack O'Brien still holds the light, heavy-weight championship by virtue of his victory over Fitzsimmons. There were no light heavy weight or ban-tom championship battles during the year. The pugilistic champions are: Heavyweight—Several claimants. Light heavyweight—Jack O'Brien. Middleweight—Tommy Ryan. Welterweight—Billy Mellody. Lightweight—Joe Gans. Featherweight—Abe Attel. Bantamweight—Several claimants. The prize ring record of last year is as follows: Jan. 6—Bob Fitzsimmons and wife "made up" at, Stoux Falls, S. D. made up at Stokota. Jan. 6—Tommy Murphy knocked out Tommy Mowatt at Philadelphia, 2 rounds. Jan. 12—Herrera knocked out Corbett at Los Angeles, five rounds. Jan. 12—Willie Fitzgerald and Willie Lewis, draw, at Colma, twenty-five rounds. Jan. 12—Kid Sullivan stopped Austin Rice at Baltimore, eleven rounds. Jan. 12—Joe Thomas stopped Al Neil at Vallejo, fourteen rounds. Jan. 15—Marvin Hart knocked out Pat Callahan at Butte, two rounds. Jan. 15—Jack Dougherty knocked out Martin Duffy at Indianapolis, four rounds. Jan. 15—Abe Attel and Chester Goodwin, draw, at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. Jan. 19—Gans knocked out Mike (Twin) Sullivan at Colma, fifteen rounds. Jan. 19—Neary won from Andy Bezenah at Milwaukee, ten rounds. Eddie Kennedy knocked out Steve Kinney, three rounds. Jan. 19—Kid Sullivan knocked out Harvy Scroggs at Baltimore, six rounds. Jan. 19—Morrison knocked out Bansch at Benton Harbor, ten rounds. Jan. 31—Joe Thomas knocked out George Herberts at Colma, ten rounds. Feb. 2—Jack Dougherty won from Buddy Ryan at Milwaukee, ten rounds. Feb. 2—Kid Sullivan knocked out Kid Parker at Baltimore, two rounds. Feb. 3—Chicago amateurs won four out of five bouts at Milwaukee. * Feb. 12—Jim Walsh knocked out Johnny Brown at Gloucester. * Johnny Reagan at Chelsea, 5 rounds. Feb. 12—George Memsic won from Fred Lawless at Indianapolis, 10 rounds. Feb. 14—Tancel knocked out Ramont at Kenosha, 4 rounds. Feb. 15—Billy Rhoades won from Dick Fitzpatrick at Davenport, fifteen rounds. JOHN L. FOOTSLUG Feb. 16—O'Keefe and Parker, draw, at Spokane, 20 rounds. Feb. 17—Tommy Murphy knocked out Benny Yanger at Philadelphia', 4 rounds. Feb. 19—Mellody knocked out Terry Martin at Chelsea, 12 rounds. Feb. 22—Abe Attel won from Jimmy Walsh at Chelsea, 15 rounds. Feb. 23—Tommy Burns won from Marvin Hart at Los Anglesles, 20 rounds. Feb. 26—Root won from Russell at Kalamazoo, 10 rounds. March 2—Order issued stopping fights in Denver. March 31—I. A. C. boxers won tourney from M. A. C. boxers at St. Louis, 4 out of 7. Chicago boxers won from Milwaukee at Milwaukee, 4 to 0. March 5—Mellody knocked out Terry Martin at Chelsea, 11th round. March 9—Jack Twin Sullivan and Hugo Kelly, draw, at Los Angeles, 20 rounds. The man whom the eyes of the sport startled fight fans by announcing that he retire as champion of the lightweight, Jimmy Britt on St. Patrick's Day in N JOE GANS The man whom the eyes of the sporting world are turned upon with great interest, and has startled fight fans by announcing that he wishes to meet Jack O'Brien and that he intends to retire as champion of the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight classes. He will meet Jimmy Britt on St. Patrick's Day in Nevada. March 10—Jimmy Gardner bested Jack O'Keefe at Indianapolis, five rounds. Harry Lewis at Philadelphia, 6 rounds. rounds. Aug. 17—Neary knocked out Her- March 10—Jimmy Gardner bested Harry Lewis at Philadelphia, 6 rounds. March 14—Neison and McGovern fought six rounds at Philadelphia, mostly a hugging match. March 17—Joe Gans knocked out Mike Twin Sullivan at Los Angesles, 10 rounds. March 23—Mike Schreck stopped Dave Barry at Terre Haute, 8 rounds. March 28—Ned Sullivan and Nick Russell, draw, at Baltimore, 15 rounds. March 31—Chicago and Milwaukee boxers each won two bouts at Milwaukee. April 5—J. Thompson knocked out Sieloff at New Orleans, eight rounds. April 9—George Memsic and Young Donahue, draw at Indianapolis, ten rounds. April 10—Kid Farmer knocked out Stockings Kelly at La Salle eight Rufe T June Young rounds. June Tommy four ro June Kid Fa Johnny Griffin July ley-Ben rounds. April 12—Jack Dougherty knocked Furey at Peoria, three rounds. April 17—Benny Yanger won from Paddy Nee at Terre Haute, to rounds. April 19—Referee Flaherty declared Schreck-Gardner contest at Chelsea "no contest." April 20—Dougherty and Mellody, draw, at Milwaukee, eight rounds. Cooley had his man almost out, one round. July 4—Attel won from Neil at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. July 4—Mellody knocked out Willie Lewis at Chelsea, three rounds. July 10—Joe Walcott knocked out Jack Dougherty at Chelsea, eight rounds. July 12—Flynn and Jack (Twin) Sullivan drew, at Boulder. fought tame draw Kansas City, twen Oct. 2—Burns kn Los Angeles, twen Oct. 13—Harry Willie Fitzgerald a rounds. April 23—Willie Fitzgerald knocked out Jim Potts at Indianapolis, nine rounds. April 24—Gardner and O'Keefe, tame draw at Kalamazoo, ten rounds. April 26—Jack Johnson won from Sam Langford at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. April 28—Spike Robson bested Frank Carsey at Philadelphia six rounds. April 30—Neary won from Briggs at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. Hyland stopped Young Corbett at Ogden, police interfering, five rounds. May 3—Schreck and Hart fought four tame rounds at New York. May 10—Yanger and Prendergast, draw, at Grand Rapids, ten rounds. May 11—Attel and Herman draw at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. May 13—Hugo Kelly and Dave Barry, draw, at Indianapolis, 10 rounds. May 16—Tancel won from Taylor at Peoria, ten rounds. May 17—Willie Lewis credited with outpointing Joe Gans in New York; no decision; six rounds. May 23—Jimmy Gardner stopped JOE GANS the sporting world are turned up ing that he wishes to meet Jack weight, welterweight and middle ay in Nevada. Jack O'Keefe at Indianapolis, five rounds. May 25—Nelson and Herrera posted to fight at Los Angeles, quarreling over the scales. May 30—Kid Farmer knocked out Nee at Davenport, eleven rounds. Hayes won from Tancel, 15 rounds. June 15—Yanger knocked out Morrison at Benton Harbor, nine rounds. Jason at Denton Harbor, nine rounds. June 15—Gans and Harry Lewis boxed at Philadelphia, six rounds. June 21—Dave Holly knocked out Rufe Turner at Seattle, 29 rounds. June 25—Hugo Keiiy knocked out Young Mahoney at Milwaukee, three rounds. June 28—Harry Lewis broke jaw of Tommy Prendergast at Grand Rapids, four rounds. June 29—Joe Galligan knocked out Kid Farmer at Davenport, one round. Johnny Thompson defeated Harry Griffin on foul, three rounds. July 3—Crowd interfered with Cooley-Bennett fight at Kenosha when --- Cooley had his man almost out, one round. July 4—Attel won from Neil at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. July 4- Mellody knocked out Willie Lewis at Chelsea, three rounds. July 10—Joe Walcott knocked out Jack Dougherty at Chelsea, eight rounds. July 12—Flynn and Jack (Twin) Sullivan draw at Pueblo, 15 rounds. July 16—Sam Bergen gave Jack O'Brien hard battle at Philadelphia, 6 rounds. July 20—Hyland stopped Mowatt at Denver, five rounds. July 23—Gans won from Holly at Seattle, twenty rounds. July 28—McGovern and Britt fought ten hard rounds at New York; no decision. July 31—Joe Thomas stopped Tommy Sullivan at Chelsea, nine rounds. Aug. 1—Dick Fitzpatrick won from O'Keefe at Grand Rapids, fifteen rounds. Aug. 6—Tommy Murphy and Spike Robson fought at Philadelphia. No decision, six rounds. Aug. 7—Harry Baker won from Neil at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. Aug. 10—Herman won from Yanger at Indianapolis, ten rounds. Aug. 15—Attel won from Carsey at Grand Rapids, fifteen rounds. Aug. 15—Mike (Twin) Sullivan and Rube Smith draw, at Denver, twenty son with great interest, and has O'Brien and that he intends to weight classes. He will meet rounds. Aug. 17—Neary knocked out Herrera at Milwaukee, seven rounds. Aug. 24—Hugo Kelly knocked out Caponio at Leavenworth, 6 rounds. Sept. 3—Abe Attel stopped Kid Carsey at Davenport, three rounds. Johnny Conlon defeated Danny Goodman, 8 rounds. Sept. 3—Mike (Twin) Sullivan knocked out Jack Dougherty at Butte, nineteen rounds. Sept. 3—Joe Galligan defeated Mike Russell at Indianapolis, ten rounds. Sept. 3—Gans defeated Nelson at Goldfield, Nev., on foul, forty-two rounds. Sept. 18—Galligan defeated Steve Kenney at Davenport, fifteen rounds. Sept. 26—Schreck stopped Harry Rogers at Shelburn, Ind., 6 rounds. Sept. 28—Hyland knocked out Hanlon at San Francisco, 13 rounds. jon at San Francisco, 13 rounds. Sept. 30—Walcott and Rhodes fought tame draw at an island near Kansas City, twenty rounds. Oct. 2—Burns knocked out Flynn at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. Oct. 13—Harry Lewis knocked out Willie Fitzgerald at Philadelphia, two rounds. Oct. 16—Mellody defeated Walcott at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. Oct. 10—Jack O'Brien knocked out Fred Cooley in three rounds and Jim Tremble in nine at Los Angeles. Oct. 17—McGovern and Corbett fought six rounds at Philadelphia. Oct. 18—Amby McGarry knocked out Kid Sullivan at Baltimore, four rounds. Oct. 19—Harry Lewis defeated Jack Dougherty at Milwaukee, 10 rounds. Oct. 24—Steve Kinney defeated Benny Yanger at Davenport, 15 rounds. Oct. 24—Joe Thomas knocked out Dick Fitzpatrick at Colma, sixteen rounds. Oct. 29—"Gunner Jim" Moir defeated Jack Palmer at London on foul, nine rounds. Oct. 30—Attel defeated Bauer at Los Angeles, twenty rounds. Oct. 31—Kaufman stopped Berger at San Francisco, ten rounds. Nov. 2—Steve Kinney and Briggs draw at Milwaukee, eight rounds. Nov. 13—Memiski knocked out Neary at Los Angeles, two rounds. Nov. 13—Dave Barry and Hugo Kelly draw at Kalamazoo, ten rounds. Nov. 14—Galligan knocked out Ed die Kenney at Indianapolis, 2 rounds. Nov. 15—Harry Lewis knocked out Mike Ward at Grand Rapids, eight rounds. Nov. 15—Jimmy Gardner knocked out Jack Dougherty at Davenport, 9 rounds. Conlon won from Kriegel, 8 rounds. Nov. 16—Mike Ward died at Grand Rapids from effect of knockout by Harry Lewis the previous night. Nov. 21—Baldwin won from Yanger at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. Nov. 22—Kid Goodman stopped Nov. 28—Burns and O'Brien draw at Tommy Daly at Baltimore, eleven rounds. Los Angeles twenty rounds. Nov. 29—Mellody stopped Walcott at Chelsea, 12 rounds. Nov. 29—Andy Bezenah defeated Young O'Leary at Milwaukee, ten rounds. Dec. 4—Terry McGovern committed to assylum as a dangerous lunatic. Dec. 7—Attel stopped Jimmy Walsh at Los Angeles, eight rounds. Dec. 11—Jimmy Gardner defeated Rube Smith at Denver, ten rounds. Dec. 11—Neary knocked out Young Kid Farmer at Davenport, 3 rounds. Dec. 12-Hugo Kelly knocked out Dave Barry at Rochester, 6 rounds. Dec. 12-Matty Baldwin defeated Tommy Murphy at Chelsea, fifteen rounds. Dec. 13-Kid Sullivan defeated Kid Goodman at Baltimore, 15 rounds. Dec. 21-Kaufman knocked out Geo. Gardner at Los Angeles, 14 rounds. Joe Gans, the lightweight champion of the world, sent his mother a check for $6,000 New Year's day and on New Year's night, Manager Riley gave him a check for $12,000 as pay for thirty-two minutes' work of putting "Kid" Herman to sleep at Tonopah, Nev. JEFFRIES AND SQUIRES TO MEET. James J. Jeffries, through his manager and trainer, Billy Delaney, has signed to meet Bill squires, of Australia, for the heavyweight championship of the world, the contest to take place next April before the Rhyolite (Nev.) Athletic Association. The purse will be $30,000, of which the winner is to take 60 per cent. and the loser 40 per cent. The sympathies of Afro-American sporting men are with Squires, since Jeffries' narrow-gauged announcement that he would not fight a "nigger." * * * "Bhoster" (Magnificent) Bill Spuires, the Newcastle (Australia) fighter, who will meet Jeffries for the world's championship, is patriotically claimed by every Australian as the last word in modern pugilism, according to reports received in this country from Australia. Old-time followers of the game aver that Squires is a fighting phenomenon and would have "routed" Fitzsimmons, Jackson, Slavin and Goddard in short order had he flourished at that period when they were giants in the land. As it is, Squires has "woodened" every heavy-weight of note in the Australian commonwealth with as great ease as any well-trained athlete could knock out a wreck of seventy. Squires is twenty-seven years of age, five feet nine and a half inches tall and weighs 172 pounds in condition. He has a spread of six feet five inches between the hands, his chest measures forty inches in repose and his biceps fifteen inches. He neither drinks nor swears, and smokes rarely. Australia rejoices in the fact that Squires is pure Australian, both his parents having been born in the Southern land. Unlike most pugilists, there is no Irish blood in nim; on both sides his descent is pure English. Born and brought up in a back township of Narrabri, Squires is a product of the Australian bush, where his massive frame was invigorated and developed by the perfumed breath of the eucalyptus. Squires is a natural fighter. Two years ago he was hewing coal in the pits of the Pelaw main mine at Newcastle, ignorant of the fact that his hands were capable of aught but labor. His work was his pride. To-day, when he stands champion of the continent of Australia, with not another man capable of standing three rounds before his mighty first, Squires' pride remains in the work he did, stripped and begrimmed, in the bowels of the earth. That he is champion of Australia, and has a solid body of his countrymen believing that he will be champion of the world, troubles him but little. He does not care to discuss fighting. But his face brightens and his voice grows eloquent when he tells of the hundreds of tons of coal he broke down or the thousands of plates he laid on the railway contract before he started coal mining. *** In the ring Squires is more like a seismic disturbance than a man. He is San Francisco incarnate Vesuvius contracted into 172 pounds of fiery manhood. He is the personification of the strenuous life adapted to pugilistic principles. Squires disowns any knowledge of fighting, and his modesty is extraordinary. Since he gained the Australian championship he refused to allow a firm of photographers to produce pictures of him for his own profit, on the ground that he "didn't like everybody having his photo." When asked to describe his methods of fighting, Bill stroked his chin and replied: "On! I just hit 'em." CHICAGO-NEW YORK ELECTRIC AIR LINE RAILROAD STOCK Notice of an Advance in Price ON January 12th the price of Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad stock will advance to $32 per share, ane on January 19th a further advance to $35 will take effect. The stock of this road presents an unparalleled opportunity for investment—indeed it is an opportunity of a lifetime. Purchases may be made of one or more shares as preferred, and on monthly payments. i desired, at the rate of ten per cent down at time of purchase and ten per cent each month thereafter until paid in full Cut out this announcement right now. if you will, while the matter is fresh in your memory enclose it in an envelope with your name and address and forward it to the undersigned who will at once send you information that if taken advantage of will mean financial independence for you for the rest of your life. GABEL & CLINTON Indiana Fiscal Agents, 617 Traction Terminal Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Good Some Other Time. "Just as Jack was about to kiss me last night father walked into the room." "What did you do?" "I gave Jack a rain check."—Milwaukee Sentinel. Imperative. First Doctor—Is this operation absolutely necessary? Second Doctor—It is. The only possible chance we have of collecting our bill is from his life insurance!—Life. Costliest of All Fish. The fish was no bigger than a silver dollar. Its color was bright gold, and it had a beautiful bushy golden tail. That," said the pet stock dealer, "is the finest aquarium fish in the world, a Chinese brush tailed goldfish. It is handsome, healthy and long lived. A good brush tailed goldfish," he concluded, "costs $250 or $300, and some fine specimens have sold for as much as $700 apiece." Deserves Consideration. AND it is receiving that consideration to a greater extent than at any previous January Sale. If you haven't attended bear in mind that assortments now are at their best, prices lower than they can possibly be later. As examples: Hemstitched Table Cloths 72 to 90-Inch square linen hemstitched table cloths, have been marked $8.00 to $13.50, for the January sale. $5.50 to $8.50 Hemstitched table cloths of damask table linen, usually sell for $4.00 each, for this sale. $2.73 Table cloths, 2x21-yard size, regular $7.00 quality, repriced now at. $4.29 Several table cloths, 2x3-yard size, wore cheap at $6.00 and $7.00, for the January Fancy Linen Napkins 22-inch, all-linen half-bleached napkins, in clover, dot and fleur de lis designs, regular $2.50 a dozen, sale price..... $1.85 L.S.Ayres&Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributers of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Clay Gillam has returned from a two weeks visit at Bowling Green, Ky. Metzler, the murderer of Albert Harvey has been released on a $4,000 bond. Mrs. Lizzle Murry was called to Brows Ill., to the bed-side of her mother who is very ill. Mrs. Daisy Smith has returned to the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. James N. Shelton. D. B. Cunningham, of Boonville, Ind., representing a Chicago firm is in the city this week. Geo. M. Reese has taken charge the American Plan dining room at the Denlon Hotel. Woodbine Perfume, Ohl how fragrant exquisite, enchanting bewitching. Only a Blodau's Drug Store. John T. Timberlake is here from Chicago to take charge of the Grand Hotel Cafe which will open this month. Twenty waiters will be employed. The Pro-tem body of Elks will meet Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. at $8 \frac{1}{2}$ East Washington street. All visiting Elks invited. B. W. Tanzy, organizer. Mr. Howard Finley and Miss Emelia ihler of Vicksburg, Miss., were quietly married in Louisville, Ky. recently. They will make this city their home. Judge Merle A. Walker will address the C. W. P. Association and its friends a their vesper service tomorrow afternoon at the Blackford St. Church. Special music has been arranged. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lytle of W. Tenth street entertained a number of friends at their heme Thursday evening of last week in honor of Mrs Lillie Harris of Georgetown, Ky. A menu was served after which games were enjoyed the remainder of the evening. LADIES or GENTLEMEN can make money selling our famous remedies, Taylor's Hair Grower and Dandruff Cure, (POMADE) and Taylor's Face Cream and Beautifier in 25c. sizes. We want a local representative in every city and town in the United States and can show how you can make a steady income of from $2 to $5 per day. All goods guaranteed to please customers or money refunded, No capital required, no risk. Pleasant employment. Write us at once for full particulars. Address, TAYLOR REMEDY Co. Dept. 4, Louisville, Ky. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Furnished rooms for rent, 524 North West street; home privileges. Furnished rooms for gentlemen. Special ates to theatrical people. 607 West Eleventh street. Coal by ton or basket: two baskets 25 cents. Bennett Bros., 321 Indiana Ave , New Phones 297 7. Dr. Langton, dentist at 404 Indian Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. 'A CENTRAL Second Floor, Room 208, State L (Formerly Stevenson Front Room 15 E. Washington THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Bishop Abram Grant and Dr. W. T. Registrar of the United States Treasury were callers at The Freeman office last week. The bishop has been in Louisiana and after spending a short time in this city, returned with Dr. Vernon to Washington, D. C. Bishop Grant is much admired not only by his own denomination but by the entire race for his broad views and usefulness. In giving his views about the discharging of the troops without honor, he does not think that the president was justified in discharging so many innocent men without honor, that a few guilty ones might be punished. Dr. Vernon's visit was highly appreciated. It was his first visit to the office and expressed himself as being well pleased with the surroundings and especially proud of The Freeman. Y. M. C. A. Notes, The Y. M. C. A. Night School opened for this winter term on Thursday evening with an increased attendance over the fall term. All men who wish to join the Night School see the General Secretary, the school school is conducted on Monday and Thursday evenings. The Fredrick Douglass Memorial will be held on Sunday, February 17. It is expect ed that every lodge and organizations will join in making this one of the greatest and greatest meetings ever held in the city of Indianapolis. A meeting of representatives from the various lodges, societies a d organizations of the city and state are requested to meet in the Y. M. C. A. Rooms on Thursday evening. Open meeting on Sunday at 3:30 p. m., the attendance is increasing each Sunday. Come out Sunday and tell us what you think of the Y. M. C. A. and the work it is doing, we invite criticism. A platform meeting will be held Jan. 27. THE RICHARDSON & WARNER CAFF European and American, private dining room for parties. Breakfast from 6 to 9; lunch 12 to 1:30; dinner 6 to 8. Quick service. RICHARDSON & WARNER, Prop., 330 W. Michigan St. H. S. Warner, Manager. THE PARKER HOUSE Don't forget that the Parker House is still the leading hotel in the city, Many of the guests insist that there is none better anywhere. Come and see for yourself. Everything in season. Prices right. Excellent service. Excellent table, good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Hollman, Prop., 317-321 W. Michigan street Phones: New 4972: Old 651. The Palace Rooming House. Where rooms can be has by respectable ladies and gentlemen. Everything first-class. No beer or liquors of any kind allowed Roomers to enjoy home privilege. A clean place for clean people. When visiting the city, give her a call. Mrs. Moore, proprietor, 321-Indiana Avenue. The Pro-tem body of Elks will meet Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m. at $ \frac{8}{2} $ East Washington street. All visiting Elks invited. B. W. Tanzy, organizer. The genuine Caster's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts, (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Biodau, druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. General Correspondence From Various Sections. Bethel A. M. E. Church he'd watch meeting on New Year's eve also dinner and supper on New WILLIAMSPORT Year's day.—Robert PENN. Minnew was in the city W. H. Jones visited Harrisburg on New Year's day.—The Young Men's Club held a debate on Thursday eve at the Zion Church.—Miss May Grass has left the city for Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Charles Miller passed through our city last week,—Willie Fairfax has been quite ill. Mr. Sparks and Mrs. Joste Brady went o El Reno, O. T., during the holidays and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washington are at home at 236 E Second Street after a short bridal trip.—H. A. Martin, second waiter at SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Safe and Reasonable always. We make loans on FURNITURE, ORGANS and PERSONAL PROPERTY of all kinds without removing. Our rates are positively the lowest in the city and payments within reach of all, £2500 loan payments are only 600 per week. This pays on full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WACHHS, and DIA MONDS. All business strictly private, courteous treatment to all. It cost nothing to investigate. AL LOAN CO. State Life Building, Old Phone Main 3182 Stevenson Building) Washington St. New Phone 4270 SECOND HAND FURNITURE BOUGHT, SOLD, AND EXCHANGED 245 Indiana Avenue Old Phone, Main 5536. the Threadgile is ill and E. W. Bartlett is acting in that capacity. S. S. Steele holds his own as Headwaiter at the Threadgile. The Charity Ball given by the S. B. A. Club at Flower City Hall, 24 West Ave., Monday evening, Dec. ROCHESTER, 31, 1906. It was one NEW YORK. of the grandest affairs the city of Roochester. The committee spared no pains in making this ball a success. The committee in charge were Mesdames R, Jerome Jeffrey, J. G. Lee, Robert Cottoms, W. A. Allen, Harry Harden, J. W. Thompson, Geo W. Hoagland, Thomas Portland, Margaret Sprague, Frances Wilson, Fred Hardy, F. O. Cannon, Ollie Hall, Asa DuBols. —The Emancipation Celebration was held at St. George's Hall, Wednesday evening, Jan. 2. A program of wilt, wisdom and eloquence was rendered. The proclamation was read by Mrs. Lewis Pidgeon and an address "Why the Negro Race Survives," by R v. T. A. Anten, T. S. B., Ithaca, N.Y., were among the numbers rendered. Mrs. J. G. Lee was musical directress and the affair was a grand success. Theodore Mitchell of Vicksburg, Miss., who has been visiting his father's family the past week has re- turned to the Hill City. MERIDIAN, MISS. Mrs. Maria Childs wife of Mr. Matt Childs one of the oldest and faithful members of New Hope Baptist Church died Jan. 1st. Her funeral was attended Jan. 2nd, at 2:30, Rev. L. S. Lee the pater conducted the service. The funeral was under the auspices of the Christian Aid Society. Interment at the Masonic Cemetery.—Dr. Sherard formerly of Macon is now located in Meridian. He has purchased the Finley's property on 25 Ave., where he will open a first class Drug Store on or about Feb 1st.—Maud Allen shot and killed on Jan. 3rd, about 2:30 a.m. near home. Her body was shipped to her home at Subuta' Miss., where it was buried on Jan. 4th.—Miss Thomas and Mr. M. C. Walker were married at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Thomas in the northeastern part of the city on Dec. 27th, at 8:30 p. m., Rev. N. W. Ross pastor of Haven Chapel M. E. Church officiated. They were the recipient of a number of useful, handsome presents. Mr. and Mrs. Walker left for their home a Birmingham, Ala. Dec. 31. With the touch of winter begins the parading of the shiftless element from place to for the Negro to succeed in a business way who deals with the masses and not the classes, so it's up to those who stand in the front of the Negro's place of business to keep his loud and bolsterous language from being heard for blocks away and criticizing all who pass. Let each Negro in business keep leaches moving or have them moved by the author ties.—Tobe Jones is now comfortably located in his new home on Cochumont.—Dr. J. T. S. White and Miss Lena C. Ray were married on last Thursday night at Old Bethel A. M. E. Church. A host of admiring friends were present to congratulate them.—Mrs. Oma Collin went to Sulphur Springs with her mother who is en route to her home in Pine Bluff, Ark.—Mrs. Rosa Ransom of St. Louis is visiting her mother Mrs. Jake Ward.—Mrs. John Foster gavo Manager J. E.Wiley and family a New Year's surprise.—Mr. O'Mays and family spent the holidays with relatives and friends in Muscogee, I. T.—Barney Hill spent several days in new colored towns with a view of Investing in the territories.—Mrs. Wm. Griffin served a watchnight luncheon New Years night.—Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Payne entertained friends Jan. 1st. BEAUMONT TEXAS. Mrs. Josephine Gauthec of San Antonia Texas spent Christmas with her sister Mrs G. W. Harris. The Kentucky Standard may change hands at an early date. A syndicate of Louisville's solid men is said to be negotiating with the present owners for a transfger of the property. The Falls City is well equipped with denominational journals, but is sadly in need of strong, newsy secular paper, to exploit in a general way the achievements and current life of the colored people of the vicinity. Send a dollar to the One-Cent Savings Bank of Nashville. Mr.shshshings Bank at Nashville, Tenn., Mr. J. E. Napier, cashier, and swell the defense Fund of the National Agro-American Council to the necessary $100,000. Send it to-day. BOWLIE HAT ANY HAT CAP STYLE COLOR $1.00 FROM-FACTORY-TO-YOU Hats and Caps MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED Money With Order—No Goods Sent C.O.D. SEND SIZE, STYLE and COLOR AMERICAN HAT CO., DR. W. N. SHORT, President STERLING R. HOLT, Vice-President HARRY E. HILL, Secretary. 31 S. Illinois St., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIAA. BARGAINS G A S HEATERS TEN MINUTES To Warm a Room Round "Vulcans" $ 1.35 Including Tubing. The Indianapolis Gas Company, Majestic Building, 45 S. Pennsylvania Street. Watches and Sterllng Silverware Carl S. Rost, DIAMOND MERCHANT, Dealer In All Kinds of Precious Stones, High Grade Jewelry, Resettling Diamonds and Making New and Original Mountings 15 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis. The Claypool Hotel is across the street from us. TRY THE NEW GROCERY, O. F. CALVIN 244 INDIANA AVE For Fancy Groceries and Fruits Fresh Oysters Received Daily MRS. WHITTEN, Millinery Special sale all next week of Tailored and Dress Hats. We also do exclusive ORDER WORK. Give us a call; we will convince you; our time is entirely yours. 335-337 Indiana Avenue. GOOD LUCK! Will be yours if you wear one of our Rabbit's Foot Charms or Amulets. It's a genuine Rabbit's foot, with silver metal mounting and ring. If you want luck try one. Sent on receipt of ten cents. HARTMAN & CO., 2610 E. Polk Street, Chicago, Ill. Big Clearance Sale 50 Cetns on the Dollar. 3,000 Pairs to go in this SEMI-ANNUAL SALE, Buy Now. WILSON'S Cut Price Sample Shoe Store 217 Indiana Avenue. DO YOU WANT Your Money to Make Money? Agents make $3 to Agents make $5.00 a day. Agents wanted, male and female, ministers, school teachers, music teachers, band and orchestra leaders, secretaries of Odd Fellows, Masons Knights of Pythias, Elks and Red Men lodges, and any one who wants a permanent income. Snd 25c for samples and full particulars to the University Purchasing Agency and Supply Co., 111 Tichenor street, Newark, New Jersey. The FAMOUS FURNITURE COMPANY, J. A. MUNCHHOF, Proprietor, 448, 450, 452, 454, 455 W! Washington Street. CHEFSTER We are just beginning our FIRST ANNUAL JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE. We have bought heavy and must reduce our stock to make room for the new Spring Stock now coming in. We will, during the month of January, cut the prices on our entire line of Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Queensware from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent. THE FAMOUS FURNITURE COMPANY. New Phone 641 Frank W. Flanner. Chas. J. Buchanan. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 320 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. Proprietors Indianapolis Crematory. Coal, Wood. Kindling S. WELCH 602 Eddy St. Telephone new 1416 SAMUEL WELCH. Corner Capitol Avenue HIGH GRADE COAL & ALL KINDS OF New Phone 1416. FAMILY W FIVE CENTS FLAT PIEC PROGRESS 203 N. Illinois Street. 228 Massachusetts Avenue. LADIES' EXCHANGE THE FAVORITE REFRESHMENTS, ICE With Good THE CAFE DEPARTMENT pleases all MRS. IDA E. YOUNG, Proprietor. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT CAPITOL Avenue and Merrimack DE COAL at LOWES KINDS OF HEAVY HAUL Res FAMILY WASHING FIVE CENTS A POUND AT PIECES IRON GRESS LAUNDRY St Street. 111 N. New Setts Avenue. 428 E. Wash 'S' EXCHANGE-- MO THE FAVORITE PLACE FOR IMMENTS, ICE CREAM a With Good Fruit Juices TMENT pleases all. Best Meals and UNG, Proprietor. J. J DAY AND NIGHT. 534 Indiana A Corner Capitol Avenue and Merrill Street, HIGH GRADE COAL at LOWEST PRICES FAMILY WASHING FIVE CENTS A POUND FLAT PIECES IRONED. PROGRESS LAUNDRY. 203 N. Illinois Street. 111 N. New Jersey Street. 228 Massachusetts Avenue. 428 E. Washington Street. THE CAFE DEPARTMENT please all. MRS. IDA E. YOUNG, Proprietor. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Best Meals and Lunches 15 and 20c. J. J SYKES, Manager. 534 Indiana Avenue. EVERYBODY Goes to NORTON'S DRUG STORE, corner Indiana Ave., and Michigan's reet, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prices are the same as in all CUT RATE Drug Storees Only registered clerks employed. Sole agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Straightener. Visiting Cards Finest quality, correct styles, sample dozen free with your own name and our big offer to agents. Write to-day. Address L. R. WOOLFINGTON & CO., Columbus, Ohio. Gem Laundry, 235, 237, 239, 241 INDIANA AVE. Dough Dry Family Washing 5c per pound m Laun 35,237,239,241 INDIANA AVENUE 235,237,239,241 INDIANA AVE. Rough Dry Family Washing. 5c per pound Phones 1671 and Merrill Street, LOWEST PRICES EAVY HAULING WASHING A POUND ES IRONED. LAUNDRY. 111 N. New Jersey Street. 428 E. Washington Street. IE== MORE POPULAR THAN EVER PLACE FOR CREAM and SODA but Juices Best Meals and Lunches 15 and 20c. J. J SYKES, Manager. 534 Indiana Avenue. Visiting Cards Finest quality, correct styles, sample dozen free with your own name and our big offer to agents. Write to-day. Address L. R. WOOLFINGTON & CO., Columbus, Ohio. Residence Phone1170