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THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER FEB 9 1906 DUDLEY IN THE "SPOTLIGHT" SNAPSHOT OF THE PREMIER COMEDIAN OF "SMART SET" An Unusually Shrewd Observer--Has Unlimited Faith in the Future of the Negro Actor--Native of Texas. Louisville, Ky.—Special.—Mr. Sherman H. Dudley, a comedian par excellence, who has few equals on the stage for originality and conscientious work, was the distinct hit of "The Smart Set," which appeared here last week at the Avenue Theatre in its latest musical skit, "The Black Politician." The entire house was sold out early in the week, and the advanced prices had no deterrent effect upon the crowds which tested the capacity of the place at each of the fourteen performances. The echoes of the tumultuous applause following the fall of the final curtain Thursday afternoon, when it was announced to your correspondent that Mr. Dudley would be pleased to see him in the dressing room. As the star does not leave the theatre between the afternoon and evening "sances," we had ample time for a highly enjoyable interview. Clad in the grotesque habiliments of the wily "Hezekiah Doo," with his expressive eyes sparkling through the burnt-cork makeup of the part, Mr. Dudley here dictates his correspondence to his understudy, and Fidus Achates, Mr. Salem Tutt Whitney, munches his luncheon of fried chicken and angel food and holds quiet converse with his friends. We found Mr. Dudley a modest, unassuming gentleman, genial in temperament and well-versed upon all of the topics of the day. He talks interestingly of the stage, and is willing to descant eloquently upon the merits of his fellow professionals, but is exertely backward about "tooting his own horn." Although he has been "in the business" only fourteen years or so, and can scarcely be classed among the veterans, Mr. Dudley knows everybody worth knowing, whether performer or manager, black or white, and has a prodigious memory for faces, facts, dates and incidents. He keeps the history of the Negro on the stage at his fingers' ends, and can trace the career of every noted colored actor from the pioneer period of Charles Callander's Original Georgia Minstrels and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, up to the present, without turning a hair. For all of the "old-timers," like Billy Kersands, Sam Lucas, Tom McIntosh, the Hyers Sisters, Hicks and Sawyer, etc., he has a good word to say, and he has lavish in his praise of the profession of today, when bright young men and women of the race are forging to the front by the scores, and making an enviable reputation by virtue of their native talent, willingness to work hard, study closely and to form their ideals from the very best specimens to be found upon the contemporary Caucasion stage. He could speak of but a few, but of the splendid success they are achieving, he based his belief that there was a great future in prospect for the Negro actor who "makes good," and is honorable in his dealings. His analysis of the peculiar mannerisms and qualifications of such "top-notchers" as Ernest Hogan, Williams and Walker, Tom Logan, J. Ed. Green, Tom Brown, Harry Fiddler, R. Henri Strange, Billy McClain, Johnson and Dean, Belle Davis, the Mallory Brothers, Sissieretta Jones, Cole and John- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1907. son, John Rucker, Irving Jones, Aide Overton, Carita Day, Henrietta Victor Davis and others, was decidedly clever and realistic to the last degree. In pointing out the primary elements that had won for these leaders their high place in the popular esteem, devoid of prejudice, personal bias or desire to unduly fatter, Mr. Dudley showed himself to be a wonderful student of human nature, and an unusually shrewd observer, not only of the methods and characteristics of individuals, but of the traditions and modern tendencies of stagecraft itself. By reason of his ability to detect the strengths and weaknesses of his people, he would prove as great a success as a manager as he has been as a delineator of all-round character parts. This factually enabled him to take Gus Hill's desk in New York and engage the principals and chorus for "The Black Politician," and take an aggregation, among whom the names of a few stars appear, and lick it into such a shape that it easily takes rank with the best in the land, drawing as many people and giving as creditable show as many companies that carry talent far more widely known. Like "Pop" Anson, of baseball fame, Mr. Dudley is a great hand to develop "colts" and create stars out of the raw material. To do this is often risky, but it is the test of high-grade managerial capacity, and a man must have supreme confidence in his own powers to attempt it. It may not be generally known that Mr. Dudley is a native of Texas, having been born in Dallas, the home of Editor W. E. King. Though scrupulously abstaining from politics, he is an ardent admirer of the late N. Wright Cuney, and of the protege by whom that matchless political giant set such great store—Emmett J. Scott, then a promising young newspaper man, but now right hand man to Dr. Booker. Washington. Mr. Dudley was a jockey once upon a time, but got his start on the stage through P. T. Wright, formerly of Kansas City, whose "Nashville Students" made his name a household word in every nook and cranny of this continent. In fact nearly every young performer who has risen from the ranks has been at some period of his career in the employ of Mr. Wright, and he was the architect that designed the plan by which they built their temple of fame. Mr. Dudley made his earlier reputation as a star with Richards and Pringle's "Georgia Minstrels," working at the outset as a utility man, doing everything his hands found to do, from playing a trap drum in the "monster street parade" to leading comedy stunts "on the end." He has traveled from coast to coast and from the lakes to the gulf, but has had more "ups" than "downs" to his credit. While working in the West and South, the Eastern managers, constantly on the lookout for new talent, watched his growth, and were favorably impressed with what they read of Mr. Dudley's clean comedy methods and pronounced originality—drolley that amuses without offending the most delicate sensibilities—so it was not surprising that when poor Tom McIntosh, the head of "The Smart Set," suddenly breathed his last at Columbus in the middle of the season, Mr. Dudley was picked out as the best natural comedian available to permanently fill his place and who could safely handle the exacting role created by such a resourceful actor as Ernest Hogan. We hope some time to be able to go into this story with more care as to details; but suffice it to say here that Mr. Dudley has succeeded because he has deserved success—yet he has not by any means reached the limit of his splendid possibilities. Mr. Dudley is an enthusiastic be- S. H. DUDLEY, Starring with "The Smart Set" Company. iliever in the future of the Negro Thespian. He sees with the eye of a prophet a chain of Negro theatres, controlled by a syndicate of Negro managers, duplicating in every city in the country where there is a considerable colored population, the triumph that is being achieved by the New Pekin at Chicago, managed by the enterprising and indefatigable Robert T. Motts. If the managers will only get together and furnish the opportunity, Mr. Dudley is confident that the professionals will be ready to supply "the goods" that draw the people and put the money in the strong box. The white people like pure Negro comedy, up-to-date Negro music and folk lore, so if the entertainment at a Negro house is one of the best quality and good order is maintained, they would give a generous support, and of course the Negroes will be there early and often. Not only would such a chain of theatres prove a veritable gold mine in S. H. D. Starring with "The the South, where the Negro is barred from the decent seats in the white houses, but the venture would not be less welcome nor less successful in the larger cities of the North. What is being done in Chicago could be done in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Louisville and Indianapolis. What Mr. Dudley says is worthy of serious consideration by the moneyed men of the theatrical world. A vast Negro syndicate, of the Klaw & Erlanger type, controlling bookings of the standard companies and operating a string of desirable playhouses from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is not "an iridiscent dream"—it can be worked out into a tangible, productive reality. There are millions in the comparatively undeveloped mine of blackface comedy. R. W. THOMPSON. EX-MAYOR SETH LOWE GIVES ACCOUNT OF GREAT SCHOOL How the Machinery at Tuskegee Moves -Railroad Method of Accounting--Some New Plans Descr bed--Worthy of Support If there is a man in America who knows what education really is, and how it may best be utilized for the uplift of civilization and for the moral and material development of a people, that man is Dr. Seth Low, formerly president of the famous Columbia College, in many respects the most practical of the institutions of learning of the first grade, and later, mayor of Greater New York. Dr. Low is a UDLEY, Smart Set' Company. experienced man of affairs and a keen observer of the cause and effect of the things that happen day by day. Dr. Low has long been an ardent believer in industrial education as the primary need of a people in the formative stage of their development, and while applying the finishing touches to thousands of young men and women at Columbia, equipping them most generously with the highest phases of classic lore, he has earnestly, consistently and persistently held up the advantages and tangible results that industrial training offers to the masses who, in the nature of things, must work with their hands and do things, rather than think things. Early in the career of Booker T. Washington's marvelous bee-hive of industry at Tuskegee, the merits and productive labors of that distinguished institution were brought to the attention of Dr. Low, and when he examined it fully, and weighed it in the scale of his critical judgment, he became at once its friend and ardent champion. His ripe scholar, an eminent educator, an support of the school from the beginning of his interest to the present has been sympathetic and substantial. He has not only given the institution the benefit of his own time, energy and means but has brought to its aid many other strong and influential factors in the world of thought and action—masters of finance, captains of commerce, and philanthropists whose liberality has been the source of an inspiration and encouragement that that have given their work an impetus that nothing can check. A few years ago Dr. Low kindly consented to become a member of the Committee on Investment of the Endowment Fund of Tuskegee Institute, and to his sage counsel and unremitting zeal the school is deeply indebted for the very advantageous placing of its interest-bearing surplus and securities, yielding now a goodly percentage of the running expenses of the institution. Not a little of the credit for enlisting the virile support of Dr. Low is due to that benevolent merchant prince, Mr. Robert G. Ogden, also of New York, whose exemplary life as a business man is made more luminous and exalted because his soul is so imbued with the milk of human kindness that he cheerfully takes time from the pursuit of the almighty dollar to go out upon the highways and byways to help his less fortunate brethren along the upward path. Dr. Ogden is president of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute, and when knotty problems of administration besit Dr. Washington to no one does he turn with a readier assurance of a happy solution of his difficulty than to Mr. Ogden, who has come to regard the affairs of Tuskegee and its people with the same tender solicitude that a parent feels for his most promising child. When the race's greatest industrial center needs the good offices of Mr. Ogden or Dr. Low to burn any barriers away the best services of these two specimens of nature's noblest men are at its disposal. Tuskegee is indeed fortunate in having "at court" such potent forces for advancement as Messrs. Ogden and Low have shown themselves to be. In this connection The Freeman gladly gives space today to present to its thousands of readers a copy of a letter from Mr. Ogden, transmitting to the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute a highly significant communication from Dr. Low, telling of his impressions gleaned from an enjoyable visit to Dr. Washington's wonderful school. Ex-Mayor Low's Impressions of Tuskane Institute Regee institute The following letter from ex-Mayor Low to Mr. Ogden is self-explanatory: New York January 10, 1907 New York January 10, 1807. To the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute: It affords me great pleasure to transmit for your information the following copy of a letter received from our associate the Hon. Seth Low in which he gives some impressions, derived from a recent visit, concerning Tuskegee Institute. Very respectfully, ROBERT C. OGDEN. "New York, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1906. "Robert C. Ogden, Esq., president of the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. "My Dear Sir; "I avail of my first opportunity to submit to you in writing a brief report of my recent visit to the Institute at Tuskegee. I arrived there late on Sunday evening, December 2nd, and remained there until four o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, December 5th. You will perceive, therefore, that my visit was long enough to enable me to see the work of the Institute somewhat thoroughly. I wish to thank Mr. Washington and all his colleagues for the pains they took to make my visit both instructive and interesting. "Speaking in general terms, I am glad to say that I was even more favorably impressed than I expected to be. The entire institution is pervaded by an air of industry and of self-respect that is very striking. Here the young Negro can see on a commanding scale what his race is capable of doing, and here he is evidently inspired by the subtle influence of his surroundings to work hard and do his best. I found all the buildings, even those which are sometimes neglected, clean, fresh and in good order. The good air, the brightness and the neatness of the school-rooms in particular pleased me very much. "I did not give much attention to the teaching, as my object was rather to obtain a general view of the institution, and in particular to acquaint myself with its manner of keeping its accounts. I did however, observe the method used to correlate the work of the industrial departments with the academic in the matter of literary composition. Every other week a student in the shop writes a composition on the work which he is about to do. This composition is critified from the technical point of view by the instructor in the shop, and from the literary point of view by the English department. The work seemed to be conscientiously done at all points, and the method seemed to me exceedingly good. "I did not, of course, go into any examination of the treasurer's books, as that is a matter for the auditor; but I did examine very carefully the whole system of accounting. The late Mr. Baldwin organized this side of the work at Tuskegee on a railroad basis. That is to say, the institute, instead of having a treasurer who keeps the books and whose work is audited once a year from the outside, has, besides a treasurer, a permanent auditor's bureau, the office of which is to keep all the accounts. This bureau was placed by Mr. Baldwin under the charge of Mr. Daniel C. Smith, who is entitled, I think, to very great credit for the work which has been done under his direction. Mr. Smith has trained capable young colored men to do all the clerical work, and he himself, being an expert accountant, visits Tuskegee only two or three times a year. I found that the institute has a ledger account with every student, even though he should be there only two weeks; that it has a ledger account with every industrial department, and with every important department of the farm. These accounts are kept with such minuteness as to show for the last few years the cost of every department and the condition of every student's account. There was no question of financial detail which I could ask relating to the past year, the past month, the past week, or the past day, which could not be answered in a moment from the records of the auditor's office. In a word, the system seemed to me ideal and it is carried out with a thoroughness that reflects the greatest credit on all concerned. "The principal receives daily reports from the farm, showing the condition of the herd and the quantity of milk produced, and the like. In addition, there is a committee, consisting of a number of the principal officers and teachers of the school, called a Finance Committee, which meets once a week or as often as necessary. When material is wanted for any of the shops, or in fact for any part of the institute, a requisition is made by the person immediately responsible. This is first checked by the head of the division, and in that form comes before the Finance Committee. The requisition, as received by the Committee on Finance, states in detail what is wanted and the cost or the estimated cost as the case may be. Nothing whatever is bought in any department of the institute until it has been formally passed upon and approved by the Committee on Finance. A certain discretion to deal with emergencies is exercised by the principal; but this is the rule. "In addition there is a Committee on the Reduction of Expenses, which hereafter is to prepare the annual budget to be submitted to the trustees. "The immediate object of my visit was to confer with Mr. Washington and Mr. Hare on the revision of the by-laws. I am happy to report the unanimous decision of the committee, which is made up of these gentlemen and myself, to submit to the next meeting of the trustees a revision of the by-laws based upon a somewhat radical reconstruction of the relation of the trustees to the work of the institute. The new by-laws will provide for a Finance Committee to have the oversight of the work now done by the Investment Committee, and also of the current finances of the institute, which at present lie outside of the control of any committee. "The proposed by-laws will also provide for an Education Committee, which will pass upon the annual budget before its submission to the trustees' Committee on Finance and to the trustees. They will also provide for a Committee on Buildings and Grounds, who will have charge of the buildings and grounds of the institute and of all future construction work. When I use the expression 'have charge of,' I use it in the legislative sense. The executive officers of the school will, of course, be charged, as heretofore, with the duty of carrying out the plans agreed upon. "As the board can meet only occasionally, the Executive Committee (Continued on Page Four.) PRESIDENT AND SENATOR CLASH AT GRIDIRON DINNER DEBATE ON BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY President Slurs Colored Americans in Saying "All Coons Look Alike to Me"--Senator Says "All Persons Look Alike to Me." All Washington is a-gog with the revelations and accounts or what is considered one of the greatest debates bound to become historic, which ever took place in the city. Never before (and perhaps never again will it happen), has a debate taken place between the President of the country and a United States Senator, each facing the other before a select audience composed of the biggest men of the nation who are annually the guests of the Gridiron Club. The speeches of the Gridiron Club, delivered at these annual functions are never reported—yet so unusual was this scene—so remarkable a contest and so badly worsted was the President that accounts have leaked out and been published in the Washington Post, Star, Pittsburg Dispatch and other papers which were not pledged to secrecy, all accounts, including those persons to whom your correspondent have talked with who were at the dinner agreeing that Senator Foraker in eloquent terms, amid great applause, gave the President a severe drubbing, challenging him to give one reason which would stand, justifying his course—and on taking his seat the guests applauded so tremendously that it was a long time before the President, standing to reply with uplifted hands and gritted teeth, could be heard. President Roosevelt being called upon, violated what all have considered the best of Gridiron Hospitality by attacking one of its guests—and at once launched into a defense of his policy in the Brownville affray in discharging 167 colored soldiers from the army without a trial or hearing—he said that he had the power—he exercised it, and that the discussion which was going on in the Senate, was and is purely academic. It could not and would not have any substantial results, and that some Senators were influenced by selfish motives of desiring the support of the colored voters. "But," said he, "all coons look alike to me." He asserted that he believed that there should be one law for the rich and poor—both alike. Upon taking his seat, all eves were turned upon the Senator from Ohio. Upon being called upon, Senator Foraker hurled his eloquence directly at the resident. He said the President would discover that the Brownville discussion was not purely academic—that it had a significance that would be realized and a result that would be accorded. He, the Senator, intended to express his opinion on the floor of the Senate, ignoring dictation from whatever source. Said one of the guests of the evening in the Washington Post: "Mr. Blythe, the toastmaster, called on Senator Foraker for a reply, for he evidently felt that, since there were many Senators present and the Senator from Ohio personally had been the taget for some of Mr. Roosevelt's shafts, it was the appropriate thing to call on him. "The Senator boldly accepted the President's challenge. Personally, I believe he would not have selected such a time or place for an encounter with the President, but as he had been attacked, he had a right to defend himself. I have heard Mr. Foraker in the Senate on many occasions, but I never have seen him appear to a better advantage than he did on Saturday night. He was truly eloquent, and gave the President the plainest talk he has plobably ever listened to. I did not look at his hands, but I think he had on one-ounce gloves. His blows were hard, and landed with great force. To the Ohio Senator, the President of the United States looked the same as any other individual. In a word, the President was only a citizen. LECTURED THE PRESIDENT. He first told Mr. Roosevelt that he would discover by the time the Senate concluded its investigation of the Brownsville case that the discussion in the Senate had been more than academic, and ventured to predict that the results would prove it. Then he read the President a lecture, which those who heard it will never forget. It was one of the most complete and effective excoriations I ever heard. Possibly the sting of the President's remarks was intensified by the knowledge that the friends of the administration in Ohio are trying to destroy him politically, although that is merely surmise on my part. Apparently he was inspired only with indignation. He declared with great effect that his oath of office was as sacred to him as was the President's to him, and no preachments from the White House were essential to the proper performance of his duty as a Senator. He gradually worked up to a splendid climax, declaring with arms outstretched towards the President: "No one in this country ever loved the President more than I did. No one ever fought harded for him, or more loyally. That was when he was in the right. But wrong, I have opposed him, and shall always do so. "That is the way I see my duty to THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. my conscience, my constituents, and my country, and I am glad I am able to say this in the presence of our distinguished Chief Magistrate. The people of my own State know I do my duty as I see it, and they know, as I myself have told them, that they can retire me if they believe I have a misconception of it." Senator Foraker, at his best, in ringing tones reviewed the Brownsville episode—and his deductions that the final record of the case would be rightly adjudged in a vein of withering rebuke and in his reference to the case of Sergeant Mingo Sanders, twenty-six years in the U. S. Army, services faithful and efficient, his record one of such valor that he had received medals of honor—with not an army officer present believing him guilty—yet he was discharged "without honor" by the President, denied the protection of a hearing, a trial or due process of law, he was dramatically eloquent. The President and I agree as to the theory of the law, but differ as to its application. "Not all coons look alike to me," said he, "but all persons look alike to me" and as the Senator concluded his eloquent peoration with a wave of his hand towards the President, the applause was loud—some of the guests rising and cheering; twice the President attempted to still the applause—but the hand clapping continued to the embarrassment of the President and part of his reply was drowned in the noise of the applause before he could command attention. Sensational was this encounter—and to add spice, the guests were unusually large and interesting, including Vice President Fairbanks, Speaker Canon, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. W. Rogers, Secretaries Root, Tatt, Straus, Wilson, and a score of Senators and Representatives. That the dinner broke up before the last three courses were served and with five speakers yet to be heard from, so anxious were the diners to congratulate Senator Foraker, who was surrounded by a levee, while the President withdrew with a few friends. NEGRO RACE CONFERENCE DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPEAKSTO LARGE AUDIENCE Columbia, N. C., January 26. A race conference for the study of racial conditions in South Carolina, and with the idea and hope of bridging the breach which in some quarters of the State is existing between the races, was held here this week, January 23, 24 and 25. A great number of important men attended and made addresses. The very flower and fruit of Negro manhood and womanhood came together in the meetings and dispassionately discussed conditions. They were in every way helped by the cordial co-operation of Captain Wm. E. Gonzales, the editor of the Columbia State, who has been a consistent friend of the Negro people of South Carolina and the South. Along with the race conference, and as features thereof, a farmers' conference was held, presided over by Cyrus Camfield of the Schofield School, Alken. S. C., and a special school of the Negro business men of the State, presided over by R. J. Palmer, of Columbia. The opera house was secured for the evening of Thursday, January 24. as great numbers of whites wished to be addressed by Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Institute. Two thousand people, the Columbia State publishes, were turned away from the theatre. The seating capacity was taxed to overflowing. The crowd which overtaxed the capacity of the opera house and which clamored about the doors so as to hear the great Negro leader was larger than that which has attended the presence of any person in this State in recent years to speak. Dr. Washington's address has done incalculable good. It was published entire in the leading papers of Columbia as well as other important publications of the State. It was listened to by many members of the legislature who were in attendance upon the session now being held. The influence of his coming will be felt in this State for many and many a year. He spoke with his old time vigor, making an impassioned appeal for his people along all those lines which have to do with the fundamental progress of a race. Some of those who have been present are: Bishop J. C. Caldwell, of Pennsylvania; Bishop George W. Clinton, of North Carolina; Rev. Richard Carroll, president of the Conference; Dr. J. L. Dart, of Charleston; Dr. W. B. Johnson, of Allen University, and many others of like importance. Dr. Washington's coming opened the Columbia theatre to the Negro people, as it had never been opened before to us. In addition to the address at the theatre, he also spoke to the students of Benedict College and Allen University who came together in a joint meeting in the auditorium of Benedict College at four o'clock on Thursday. The way that the Negroes of South Carolina tendered Dr. Washington ovations everywhere he appeared and such as no Negro leader has enjoyed, made it evident that he has the confidence and the good will of the great masses of the people of this State, who respect and honor him. BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT Boston, Mass.—Special.—Prof. Philip B. Marcon, who resigned his position because of a suit for $25,000 in breach of promise brought against him by Miss Alice Manly, a pretty colored woman, was assistant professor of romance languages at Harvard. Prof. Marcon is wealthy and Miss Manly lives in a lavishly furnished house in Cambridge. The defendant is sixty years old and a Frenchman by birth. He graduated from Harvard in 1876. From then until 1882 he studied languages in Europe, becoming instructor at Harvard in 1889 and assistant professor of romance languages in 1897. He has engaged counsel. Forming a Capital of $7,000,000—Is the Greatest of all Negro Movements—Ever Negro in America Ought to Take at Least One Dollar's Worth of Stock In It At Once Without Delay. SOME CURRENT EVFNT The word is being passed around that Gen. Keifer's bill to reduce the Congressional representation of states that disfranchise the Negro is dead. For years Mr. Crumpacker tried to secure legislation along that line, but got the coldest kind of comfort, and was compelled to abandon the project as a failure. At the beginning of the Fifty-ninth Congress, Gen. Keifer took up the campaign where Mr. Crumpacker left off. He was able to stir up things somewhat in New England and New York and Pennsylvania, and for a time he was confident of getting the party leaders to assist him in bringing the matter to a focus. Harry New was able to force a plank into the national platform for 1904 calling for the reduction, but it was understood to be just a measure of expediency for campaign purposes only, and after the election of Roosevelt, the issue died out and could not be resuscitated. It has been ignored by the Fifty-ninth Congress, and the Sixteenth will not feel bound by it. Gen. Keifer has been trying to get a census together, but the members of the G. O. P. fight shy of it, and in all probability it will soon be sleeping in the same pigeon hole the rest of the Crumpacker bill rests the matter of oblivion. The truth of the matter is, the influential Negroes of the country are not pushing for reduction of representation, much as they regret to see a big delegation of Democrats in Congress on the strength of their suppressed vote; but it is not penalties they want enforced, half so much as it is the right of suffrage guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment. The South might accept reduced representation to get the Negro out of politics for good and all. The Negro objects to being sold out at that price. We believe the fifteenth amendment can be revitalized if President Roosevelt, Speaker Cannon, Acting Chairman New and the Republican magnates get behind such a movement and push it for all ti is worth. In any event, the Negro can not afford to stand with those who declare the Constitution to be a failure, and confess that the Republic can not compel obedience to its own organic law. Crumpacker and Keifer, at the present stage of the game, have failed, but their good intentions will not be lost sight of by the race, although the opinion may be somewhat general that they took hold of the wrong end of the poker. The first thing that ought to be ordered by Congress is a rigid investigation into the suffrage laws and election methods in vogue in the Southern States. This would lead to disclosures of the outrages and inconsistencies by which Democratic majorities are returned from that section that would make it easy to have the most vicious of the laws declared unconstitutional, and many of the nefarious practices of the Tillmans, Vardamans, and their ilk broken up. An out and out force bill may be impossible in this generation, but should the light be turned on good and strong, the eyes of the honest people of the land would be so thoroughly opened that something would have to be done to remedy the rotten conditions that such an investigation would show to be prevalent in the South. Much sympathy has been aroused for the South among a certain class of sentimental Northerners by the special plea that Negro suffrage and a decent recognition of the civic right of the black man would mean "Negro domination," and that intelligence would be overridden by ignorance, and that virtue would be subjugated by a corrupt Negro majority, etc. This is all rot, and the Southern leaders know it. The conservative, thinking Negro of the South is as deeply interested as any other class in preserving order and perpetuating the rule of the thrifty, progressive and educated factors of the body politic, and this element is not only willing to accept a qualified intelligence and property, but invite 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 20 cents per copy. These books make known all particulars and qualifies the leaders of it for representing the company. Any one who buys one bond or one book re 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 rustworthy agents, and it guarantees satisfaction to every member of the race that suffrage, limited to the possession of the enactment of a law that will place a premium upon those desirable indications of worthy citizenship. The Negro is willing to take his chances with a law that will shut out the illiterate and shiftless, leaving the ballot as the natural heritage of those of both races who have the material welfare of the State and nation at heart; he is satisfied to risk any restriction the majority may impose upon the ballot, provided, of course, the restriction operates alike on both white and black. Surely, this is a fair proposition, and it ought to be given the consideration it deserves. If the South wishes to act in good faith by its black citizens, all the sections—or a non-partisan Freed men's Inquiry Commission, composed of private citizens of the nation at large—as has been already suggested, instructed to investigate and report fully on Southern conditions, would be the first step in the work of reform, for we must have the facts before a remedy can logically be devised. Give us the investigation—and the rest can be safely left to the future. It is patent to those who see with their eyes that the South can not be trusted to solve the race problem "in its own way" where the civil and political rights of black people are at stake. The typical bourbon has come to regard the Negro not as fit material for citizens; to them his rightful status is that of a subject. A national problem as large as that of the races in this country can only be handled satisfactorily and permanently adjusted by the American nation, inspired by the national honor and guided by the national conscience. This is putting the matter plainly—but this is the time for plain speech—if there ever was such a time. In our last letter we had something to say touching the status of the Negro in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Through a remarkable coincidence, the same subject moved quite a number of others to write the same subject, the inspiration in most cases being the article published in a recent issue of The Churchman, in which the dependent attitude of the colored Episcopalians was discussed in rather plain language. The Churchman said nothing new, but the facts presented have been given a new and stronger force by reason of the growth of the spirit of independence among the colored people of the Episcopal Church. The same spirit was manifested at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, when the almost angry demands of the colored contingent wrung from that body the election of a missionary bishop to Africa, and a high-salaried secretary of the educational department, and the same leaven is working among the colored annex of the Presbyterian Church, since the fuss over the consolidation of the Northern and southern wings of that denomination. At the outset, the white Episcopalians, Methodists and Presbyterians fostered their dependent missions largely as the parent fosters and encourages the child. Now that these bodies are reaching the full stature of manhood, and insisting upon the prerogatives of the adult, their further sway in the parental household in a subordinate relation is becoming embarrassing to both guardian and ward. Concessions are constantly being made, for the sake of harmony but the increased demands of the offspring, coupled with an increased resisting force on the part of the great church bodies, is leading to a parting of the ways, which is inevitable some time, if not in the immediate future. At present, of course, there are many things to be considered, not the least of which are the status of the property carried in the name of these subordinate organizations, the conduct of the schools fostered by them, and how to develop a plan of separation that will not alienate the sympathetic feelings that should characterize Christian brethren of similar faiths. These are problems that must be met soon—if not now. 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. 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Special rates on standing professional cards. Cards not discounted for long times and Reading notices for long times. Special rates on WR TE UPS. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1907 The proposed appointment of Mr. Ralph W. Tyler as Collector of Customs for the port of Cincinnati, will give pleasure to every right-thinking colored man and woman in the country.. Mr. Tyler is a gentleman, clean-handed and capable. He has had much experience in a business way, and his intensely practical training will serve him in good stead in the office of Collector. The recognition is a tribute to merit, and though a concession, perhaps, to the colored citizenry of the State and nation, it is to the credit of President Roosevelt that he has selected the very best colored man available. It is hoped that there will be no factional divisions touching Mr. Tyler's appointment, and that the rumor of an opposing colored candidate is without foundation. It will not prove beneficial to the race to confuse an otherwise clear situation by injecting the element of personal ambition, at the expense of party harmony and the President's peace of mind. This is one instance where we can afford to stand as a unit in approval of the President's choice. We place no credence in the report set affoilat by the enemies of Mr. Roosevelt that the selection of a colored man for this important place is meant as a piece of spite work—as a slau at Senator Foraker, to get even with him for his attitude on the matter of reinstating the discharged soldiers of the 25th Infantry. We do not believe the President' is the kind of man who will descend to "peanut politics," or lend himself to such an unworthy scheme. 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It must not be forgotten by our citizens—laymen as well as lawyers—that the decision handed down in the Ed Johnson lynching case, which came up from Chattanooga, Tenn., settles a very significant question of illegal procedure, introducing a new factor into the entire lynching question. The finding was, in a nutshell, that the lynching of a prisoner while his case is pending, is contempt of court and punishable as such. The Johnson case, immediately under consideration, affected the Federal Supreme Court, but the decision is applicable to any court from whose protection a prisoner is taken and lynched. It was THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER further held that the members of the mob that killed the prisoner and the sheriff who failed to protect him were alike guilty of contempt of court. If a man interferes with the decree of a court respecting a civil process, he is certainly in contempt. Had the mob, instead of lynching the prisoner, had set him free, the proceeding would have been contempt just the same. The offense was not in lynching the Negro, per se, but in interfering with the jurisdiction of the court. This decision is far-reaching, and gives a redress for lynching not heretofore so clearly understood; it will impel courts whose authority is flouted by the mob to inquire into these summary invasions of jails and to proceed against the lynchers in support of their own dignity. Any court whose labors are usurped or interfered with by mobs, will have the Federal Court of last resort at its back, and on appeal the offenders can be severely dealt with. If the courts will stand up for the majesty of the law, and insist that their prerogative of administering justice shall be respected, the lynching industry will take a decided slump. Mob rule is a blot upon modern civilization, and ought not to be tolerated for a single moment in any section of this land. The current year's report showed a marked decrease in violence of this kind, and with this added weapon, the courts can so wield their influence to make it a still further reduction of such crimes by letting it be understood that the court will use every vestige of his power to prevent lynching, and should such a crime be committed, the contempt process will be brought to bear at once. As Seen By the Negro Layman. It is the layman who sees problems of races, politics and business with the unbiased mind, and who sets the fabric above the fringe in relative importance. Those who ring the changes on the absurd theory that "Negroes should help to hunt down and punish the criminals of their own race," doubtless mean that the orderly Negro should array himself in defense of the disorderly elements of his own people and shield them from the consequences of their misdeeds. Surely, if they mean that the Negro layman—the every-day man of business, teacher, preacher or laborer—should actually assume the role of sleuth-hound, they would be likely to secure speedier and more practical results by urging the appointment of black men upon the regular force of policemen and detectives. Outside of the most primitive localities, and where there is no regularly organization, do white laymen exert themselves to hunt down and punish the criminals of their own race—and does anybody expect them to do so? Do white passers-by go out of their way to arrest white "hold-up" men or seek to break up a secluded game of poker? Do they attempt to run with the machine and put out fires? As a matter of fact, don't they attend strictly to their own business and try to keep themselves straight, and leave these important public functions to those specially employed as police officials and firemen? Let us try to exercise some common sense when dealing with the problems touching the duty of the Segro as well as when marking out the limitations of other classes of our body politic. When Will Penrose and Macklin Be Tried? Major Penrose, the officer in command at Fort Brown on the night of the alleged riot, is to be court-martialed, the specifications charging him with neglect of duty, laxity of discipline, and failure to exercise the oversight that would have ordinarily led to the detection of any soldier guilty of the offenses alleged against the enlisted men in connection with the Brownsville affray; also for failure to give orders to Capt. Macklin, officer of the day, requiring special vigilance on his part or that of the guard, knowing, as he did, the State of feeling existing between the people of the town and the Negro soldiers at the fort. --- The specifications against Capt. Macklin, who is also to be court-martialed, are practically the same, with the added statement that when the alarm was turned in, he had retired to his quarters, and that he was in such a condition that it was impossible to arouse him or bring him forth during the progress of the affray, to perform his sworn duty as officer of the day. There is no end of speculation why the trails of Penrose and Macklin are not pushed. To be sure, Macklin claims to have been shot and seriously wounded by some unknown person, but how seriously, no definite information can be secured. His "assailant" has not been apprehended, and while several arrests of alleged suspects have been made, it is not felt by the general public that any very strenuous effort has been put forth to find the party who did the alleged shooting. It is strongly suspected that the shooting episode is a "frame-up" for the purpose of delaying the trial, with the hope that with the lapse of time popular interest in the affair will subside, and the matter will be settled in, a mere perfunctory fashion—that Penrose and Macklin will escape with a nominal punishment, if they are punished at all. It is to the credit of the vigilant Negro press that the matter is not being dropped, and will not be, until it is disposed of in accord with the same stern justice that has been meted out to the Negro soldiers implicated in the unfortunate affair. From present indications it will be some moons before the Brownsville "riot"—either as to officers or men, will be ended and in truth, "a closed incident." Time never hangs heavily on hands that are busy. If the Negro vote is purchasable, who buys the Negro voters? Senator Foraker comes to the rescue with a "home run" at a critical stage of the game. A large amount of — thunder — can be raised in a small place. Take Brownsville, for instance. The Negro does right to continue to enlist in the army. We do not purpose to close any door against us. The great trouble with the black man is not that he is "in politics," but that he is the football of politicians. Will the President hand the murderous white troops at Columbus, O., a "discharge without honor" lemon? If not, why not? The President's "power" is not the burning issue of the present. That will receive attention in due season. The investigation's the thing! Had the Negro the ballot in Texas, as he has in Ohio, the Baileys, Culbersons and Slaydens would change their tune or be retired to public life in short order. Sergeant Mingo Sanders' case illustrates the old adage about choosing a good name rather than great riches. A spotless reputation is a good thing to have around in an emergency. The Negro can always rely upon the soil to treat him as well as it will a white man, no matter what the constitution and laws may do against him. Dame Nature is no respecter of persons. We can sometimes safely go to the ancients for wisdom, even when handling current events. Marcus Aurelius once said: "Remember that to change thy opinion, and to follow him who corrects thy error, is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error." IMPRESSIONS OF TUSKEGEE (Continued from First Page.) will be retained with all the powers of the trustees between meetings, so far as such powers can be devolved upon a committee, under the charter. "I take great pleasure in saying in the light of my visit that I think the work of Tuskegee Institute deserves the confidence and heartiest support not only of the trustees but of the public. I am quite confident that there are a very few institutions of an educational or philanthropic character whose accounts are in better condition than those of Tuskegee, or whose method of accounting is superior to that of Tuskegee. "Yours, very truly, "SETH LOW." ROSTY JOHNSON I'm jist holdin' still in a very nerve way a-waltin' fer that Brownsville 'vestigation to come off. I see that they is sayin' a good deal 'bout sta'tin' a big Negro daily papah. Well, sta'tin' one is allright, but the next thing is keepin' it a-goin'. They ain't no joy in runnin' a weekly an the pleasure is still less in runnin' a daily. The higher you fly the longer some folks will stand around to see how hard you will hit the grit when you come tumblin' down. WANDERER IN GEORGIA WANDERER IN GEORGIA THINGS SEEN ATHENS AND OTHER CITIES. The installation services of the two K. of. lodges of the city was the star occasion of Athens a few nights ago. Dr. Harris, master of ceremonies, did credit to the meeting. Rev. Brown drove home each word he spoke with power and skill that clinched each sentence. Rev. Wiley spoke well and to the point, anything he says must be good because there is no meanness in him. Good talks were made by other good men. The banquet is said to have been a mouth-watering affair. Athens builds apace. New houses are going up in every quarter. Negroes are buping and bul ding too. Mrs. Goosby of East Athens, the wife of our popular grocer died on Jan. 17. Miss Reed is at her post again in the East Athens public school, Mr. Shoal Jimmerson is up again after gripping it for a few weeks. Mrs Mapp, wife of our good friend Alax is up again. What has become of the race problem? Don't let the blame thing die. If you do a number of our fire-eaters will not have anything to talk about. I was in one of the blackest spots in Georgia a few days ago; but I was treated white. I don't need white men to treat me any better than they treat me in Georgia. I believe the South is as good as any place in the world. My son, there is no place between Georgia and heaven so good that some one there will knock down a bad Negro. There is no place between Georgia and hell so bad but that some one there loves peace. Any one who knows me knows that I know the Soulh, but I do not know a single spot in all the South where whites and blacks live together where one may not find a Negro who is respected by his white neighbors. Now if one inay so live, why not tan? And if ten, why not ten millions? Sil y? Yes, if it is silly to be right. Coward? Y.s. afraid to do wrong. I throw up my hands rather than champion hatred and slander, whether the object of that hatred is to be white or black, or whether the slander is to be of man or state, I want to see the good in both races appealed to and especially in the Negro because he is the weaker and needs strong character for the struggle. 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To the delight of all of the members of the club, Rev. Geo. Skinner read a selection from a book called "Pigs Is Pigs" and after lunch Miss Grace Jackson rendered some of the late music on the piano, which was well received. After the departure of the club members and guests, Mrs. Lucas spent Friday in Franklin at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Nesbit. CORNING N Y Miss Lydia James is confined to her home. Misses Bessie Larkins and Jennie Gordon are out again after a severe illness. George Taylor is now employed as butler at the St. James Hotel. Harry Bennett is visiting his family at Dunkirk. Miss Muriel Jones visited in the city recently. Mrs. L. Ewing, of Louisville, Ky. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Roberts. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. The Imperial Social Club gave their second annual ball and reception Jan. 28. L. R. Kyle is ill. J. K. Kyne is his. J. K. is the agent of the Elkhorn Club, is continuing his business. 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You will receive a free 10 cent trial package that will delight you. 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BENNINGTON MILITARY CORPORATION "EXER-KETCH" NOVELTY COMPANY, 50 N. Senate Ave. Indianapolis, Indiana. U.S.A. The St The Nashville Students played to S. R. O. at Knoxville recently. Billy Arnte and Paul Carter made a decided hit. Rosa Scott, better known as "Topsy," the famous coon shouter, is meeting with her usual success at Brunswick, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mallory announce the birth of a son, Edward Leslie, at Mallory Cottage, Jacksonville, Ill., January 13, 1907. "The Mysterious Black Cat's Eye," twoact musical comedy, Dock Reeves sole owner and manager, is touring Iowa, playing to S. R. O. houses. Rewards to all friends. The White City Amusement Plantation Show is being well presented by Harry Roberson, Charlie McKinley, Harrison Kennison and A. D. Patterson, assisted by a swell chorus of girls. Levard's "Holliday in Dixie," consisting of eighteen people, band and orchestra, is still on the road and W. S. Levard wears a smile every night. The company will soon go into New York State. Regards to all. William Foster, business manager of the Pekin Theatre at Chicago, who has been on a successful tour of the South with the Gans-Nelson pictures, was in the city a few hours Monday of last week en route to Chicago. "The Watermelon Trust," consisting of Sherman Coates and wife, James Grundy and wife, assisted by Miss Gertie Miller, presented an acceptable and clever act at the Gayetey Theatre the latter half of last week. The Clark Brothers Comedy Company, under the management of Eugene Clark, presented two hours and fifteen minutes of real entertainment to a large and appreciative audience at Versailles, Ky., January 29 and 30. The Exchange Theatre at Jacksonville, Fla., headed by Joseph Locust, Grace Jones and Mr. Beaver, is making quite a success. Mr. Locust wishes to hear from Paul Carter and Dennis Mitchell. Regards to all friends. The White Brothers, Frank S. and W. Borken are at home at Greenville, S. C., after meeting with much success through the State. They will be seen in the city and vicinity until spring. Regards to S. H. Dudley, Salem Tutt Whitney and the entire profession. "The Coney Island Minstrels" is among the successful organizations of this season. The costumes are superb and the performers are of the best. Robert C. White, the director, is gaining a reputation as a song writer and stage manager. His latest song is "Reputation Is All I Want." Among the callers at The Freeman office last week were S. H. Dudley, Mrs. Alberta Ormes Dudley, and "Bijou," Misses Jennie Pearl, Daisy Peters, Mary Montgomery, Sadie Mears, Ruby Taylor, Florence Smiley, Dora Weaver, Beatrice Birdman, Sarah Venale, Salem Tutt Whitney Homer Tutt, Will Ramsey, James Burris, R. A. Kelley, of the Smart Set company and "The Watermelon Trust"; Mr. and Mrs. James Grundy, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Coates, and Miss Gertie Miller. HARWOOD It's not so easy to balance a tray And prance away THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Holmer Gardner, the well-known pianist of Omaha, and Miss Ruby Mimms, late of Stetson's Tom Show, have joined the Damon's Musical Comedy Company. Mr. Gardiner is well posted in popular music, and surrounded by talented musicians his success is assured. Howard McCarver's Southern Comedy Company is making quite a success. Gordon Bunch and wife send regards to Ed. Green. Mrs. Lillie Garay wishes to be remembered to the Black Patti Company. Marvelous Shields joined us in Iowa. Business is good and everybody in good health. J. A. Terrell, the famous juggler, will sail for the West Indies early in April for a long season's work, and has just finished his new act. Mr. Terrel wishes to hear from Miss Jessie Baker, Miss Indie Allen and the McCarver Brothers. Address 272 Gratiot, Detroit, Mich. Regards to Williams and Walker. Mr. Thos, Thompson, the Alabama coon shouter and pianist, has just returned from a visit to his wife in Port Gibson, Miss., who has been very ill. Mr. Thompson is a pianist and entertainer at Fay's Club, singing all the latest. "Let It Alone" and "Why Can't a Girl Be a Soldier" are in the lead. Would like to hear from the Nashville Students. P. G. Lowery bunch. Washington and Henderson, two of the prominent members with the "Hottest Coon in Dixie," are taking encires nightly with their singing and dancing act. It is the only act of its kind on the American stage today. The public says that Mr. W. C. Washington is another S. H. Dudley. He is one funny comedian and his partner, Mr. Theo. Henderson, is very neat with his strait and was one of the hits in the olio at Jamestown, N. Y. ERNEST HOGAN'S FATHER. Ernest Hogan's father (Reuben Crowdus, St.), aside from being a brick moulder, was also a deputy sheriff and something of a revivalist. He was gifted with a peculiar magnetism, and his sermons were invariably given the undivided attention of his congregation. One of the white neighbors (Johnnie Rogers' father), presented Bro. Crowdus with a fine fat possum, and the old 'gent kept it in a barrel, feeding it heavily to still increase its weight. he had decided to have it killed the next day, when to his rage and consternation, it was stolen in the night. Shortly afterward a revival meeting was being held, and among those who went to the "Mourner's Bench" was a certain colored person named Slaughter, whose grief seemed to be inconsolable. "That's all right, my brother," the old man said, "Don't matter what you done, the good Lord is sure to forgive you!" "Yeh, I know, but den I'se bin pow' 1910 [Name not visible] SALEM TUIT WHITNEY. "Has you stole any chickens lately?" "No, wuss dan dat!" "Good Heaven, help this poor sinner!" the preacher entreated. "Is you user your razor recently?" "No, no, wuss dan dat." "Has you poured coal oil into anybody's well?" "No, it's a heap wuss dan dat." "Oh, well, then; here's where you and me mix up!" the elder Crowdus shouted, and throwing aside his coat, grabbing the darkey by the throat, said: "The good Lord can forgive you if He wants to, but I'm goin' to break your jaw! You is the scoundrel that stole my possum!" --- rful mean and wicked." THE SMART SET PRESENTS "BLACK POLITICIAN" THE SMART SET PRESENTS "BLACK POLITICIAN" "The Smart Set," which showed at the Park Theatre the latter half of last week, maintained the high reputation that that show has made as a first-class combination of its kind. This season's presentation is the "Black Politician," in which S. H. Dudley, the well-known comedian, is the "top liner." Dudley more than sustained his reputation as one of the leading comedians in the country. The play affords him excellent opportunity to show his versatility and cleverness, which is better seen in Hezekiah Doo, the "Black Politician," the hired booster, than in George Washington Bullion, the sedate and fairly respectable old Negro, with means. As the "Black Politician," SCENE FROM THE SMART "SHERIFF" BOOM! BOO-O-M! LOOK OUT HOMER TUTT. "YAS SAM, I ARE" SCENES FROM THE SMART SET HEZAKIAH DOO (S.H. DUDLEY) "WHAT YOU WANT TO MICK PIN ON DE LAIS FAW?" "SAMANTHA GRIDLE" BOOM! LOOK OUT BOO-O-M HOMER TUTT. "EQUINE ME LADIES" (S.H. DUDLEY) Dudley has a free rein and can do any old thing with propriety, since his character justifies it. There is considerable more Dudley than heretofore, but all for the better, according to the demonstration in his favor from the time of his meteoric burst upon the scene until the close. His "debut" was immense. The plot [Name] ilar shows, setting us another interest, that of the mayoralty contest, the outcome of which was awaited with considerable eagerness by the audience. Dudley's support is good. James Burris has a very heavy part and one which requires decided ability. He showed this and made good his name as an actor of merit. Jennie Pearl and Daisy Peters take prominent parts. Miss Pearl takes the place of Marion Smart. She does a neat turn with Dudley. She is sweet and winsome and also pretty. She is very is more discernible than those of sim --- ```markdown ``` ROBERT WILLIAMS. likely to become a great stage favorite. She is a young woman. Miss Peters is also young and looks yet more youthful. She took lead in the Mexican dance, which was a pleasing take-off on the pleasantries of Mexican life, where she showed her possibility. She is also pretty. The presentation was full of beau- "YAS SAM, I ARE" HEZAKIAH DOO (S.H. DUDLEY) "WHAT NO WANT TO RICK HIM ON DE LAZ FAM?" "SAMANTHA GRIDLE" "EXCUSE ME LADIES" (S.H. DUDLEY) tiful new songs and pleasingly surprising situations. The voices were very good, those of the men notably so. The singing by Teenie Russell was a feature. She sang pleasingly. The "Smart Set" evidently has hit on a good thing in the "Black Politician." Here was the possibility of combining the good points of many shows, which seems apparent, whereby is produced a most acceptable whole. The unique features are those of the real mule and the real horse, and for which this show stands alone. Hogan had his make believe "Catastrophe," Williams "buyed" himself a make believ camel; but Dudley comes up with the "authenticated." The racing scene is particularly realistic and if by some means a rider could have been seen spinning around the far side of the track, it would have been worth the price. However, the home stretch was there, and it is that which counts. When Dudley arrived as a jockey on a real horse it looked Kentuckyish and particularly good. It was a very good show throughout. A. CORRECTION. I see a notice in your paper to the effect that I used Tribble and Marshall's names without authority in your paper. Please allow me to state that in the hearing of witnesses I was authorized to deal with Mr. Percy Williams, a New York manager, by Tribble and Marshall. They asked the sum of $75.00 a week. Mr. Marshall is niew with my act, "The Tennessee Students," playing Biston. WILL MARION COOK. HOTEL DIRECTORY. THE EXCELSIOR HOTEL, (European) 23 W. 9th street, Anderson, Ind. W. T. BAGBY, Proprietor. Rates $1.00 per day and up. The America Theater Jackson, Miss. Open Dates for Good COLORED SHOWS. Entire management and ownership colored Seating capacity 1200. W. J LATHAM, Manager. Plays To Let On Royal y 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 - PLANTATION PEOPLE FOR Millican's Big Plantation Show Musicians, Singers, Dancers and First-Class Comedians. Write Quick. Must Be Number One. Good Salaries for Good People. KID ARNTE, GRACIE BUZZARD, SPEEDY And all my other Old People. Write or wire quick. Want to hear from Ka e Stafford and Husband. Gulfport, Miss., Feb. 4 to 10: Beloxl, Miss., Feb. 11 to 17. Address FRED S. MILLICAN, Manager National Amusement Company. Permanent address, "The Bill Board," Cincinnati, Ohio. A. B. PAT CHAPPELLE. VOELCKEL Sho First-Class Performer Smart Mii WHO DOUBLE PREFER VOELCKEL 126 W. 446 WANTED Lady Pardner for Good and good pay. Lady must sing be light in color, good appeal. Address quick MONROE WI street, Boston, Mass., care Co PRUNK'S 309—West Wash This store carries a general line of hair. Avenue, will be devoted exclusively but when you want Hardware Store, 309 W. Washington Street—Ju VOELCKEL & NOLAN Shows First-Class Colored Performers Wanted. Smart Minstrel Men WHO DOUBLE IN BRASS PREFERRED. VOELCKEL & NOLAN, 126 W. 44th Street, New York. WANTED QUICK Hardner for Good Comedian. S ay. Lady must sing good and dance a lit color, good appearance. Will furnish quick MONROE WILLIAMS, Comedian, ton, Mass., care Coogan Vaudeville Agen RUNK'S New Hardware 9—West Washington Street— carries a general line of hardware, and the Old Store at 5 will be devoted exclusively to the Tin and Gavantized when you want Hardware of any kind call at my New W. Washington Street—Just West of State House. The DANDY DIXIE Minstrels VOELCKEL & NOLAN Shows First-Class Colored Performers Wanted. Smart Minstrel Men WHO DOUBLE IN BRASS PREFERRED. VOELCKEL & NOLAN, 126 W. 44th Street, New York. The BLACK PATTI TROUBA DOURS WANTED QUICK Lady Pardner for Good Comedian. Steady work and good pay. Lady must sing good and dance a little. Must be light in color, good appearance. Will furnish wardrobe. Address quick MONROE WILLIAMS, Comedian, 89 Court street, Boston, Mass., care Coogan Vaudeville Agency. This store carries a general line of hardware, and the Old Store at 522 Indiana Avenue, will be devoted exclusively to the Tin and Gavianized Iron Work store, but when you want Hardware of any kind call at my New Hardware Store, 309 W. Washington Street—Just West of State House. Wanted—One hundred people to read colored literature, books, papers and magazines of all kinds—Robert Payne, agent, 54 Garham street, Rochester, N, Y. FOUND A A Remedy that Not G Carter's Rheu [BLODAUS M] Cures Rheumatism in all its Fo Liver, Kidney Has Cured Other Carefully prepared by Registered Phar- ufacturer, who has had Thirty Five Drug Business, has compounded d scriptions and private recipes aliments. This experience, effects, has produced this R relief, but cures. FOUND AT LAST A Remedy that Not Only Relieves, but Cures. Barter's Rheumatic Remedies [BLODAU'S MANUFACTURE.] Rheumatism in all Its Forms, also Diseases of Liver, Kidneys and Stomach. Is Cured Others--Will Cure Y separated by Registered Pharmacists, under the supervisor, who has had Thirty Five Years of practical experience. Business, has compounded many thousands of Physician options and private recipes for Rheumatism and attentions. This experience, with close observation of the effects, has produced this Remedy, which not only gives relief, but cures. Therefore we say: Carefully prepared by Registered Pharmacists, under the supervision of the manufacturer, who has had Thirty Five Years of practical experience in the Drug Business, has compounded many thousands of Physicians' prescriptions and private recipes for Rheumatism and attending ailments. This experience, with close observation of their effects, has produced this Remedy, which not only gives relief, but cures. Therefore we say: A Cure Found at Last. DAN CARTER, a well-known Indianapolis, had Rheumatism and ing, when not confined to bed w pletely cured To be had at your Druggist or, on a mail; Liqud by express. PRICE—Large Bottles, 40 to 80 do Dry in packages, to make Established 1882. ROBERT P. Pharm Labatory 402-404 Indiana RTER, a well-known Patrolman for many years, polls, had Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble of Five Years, when not confined to bed was on crutches, he is now confinedpletely cured and on duty. had at your Bottlesist or, on receipt of price, Dry Packages by express. Large Bottles, 40 to 89 doses, two to four weeks' treatment. Dry in packages, to make one quart of medicine, by mail. 1882. ROBERT P. BLODAU, New Telegraph. Pharmacist. Labatory 402-404 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED Performers, Musicians, Ball Players and Boss Men. 40 weeks' work to right parties. Both ladies and gentlemen for my two shows. the other April 1st. Those applying for boss men or foremen positions must send reference. Need not apply if you can't work colored people. Address PAT CHAPPELLE, Owner Rabbitt's Foot Co., home office 1054 W. Church street Jacksonville, Fla. Will send tickets. L & NOLAN BOWS Mass Colored Vars Wanted. Minstrel Men WILE IN BRASS CERRED. L & NOLAN, North Street, New York. D QUICK Good Comedian. Steady work good and dance a little. Must insurance. Will furnish wardrobe. BILLIAMS, Comedian, 89 Court Logan. Vaudeville Agency. 8 New Hardware Store, Bington Street—309 Hardware, and the Old Store at 522 Indiana to the Tin and Gavanized Iron Work of any kind call at my New Hardware Just West of State House. The only difference we have seen in the white man who sels out politically and the black man who does the same, is that the white man gets a bigger price for his change of base. AT LAST Only Relieves, but Cures. Aomatic Remedy, [MANUFACTURE.] forms, also Diseases of the Blood, wives and Stomach. rs--Will Cure You. macists, under the supervision of the man- e Years of practical experience in the many thousands of Physicians' pre- for Rheumatism and attending with close observation of their Remedy, which not only gives Therefore we say: Patrolman for many years in the city of Kidney Trouble of Five Years' stand- was on crutches, he is now com- d and on duty. receipt of price, Dry Packages can be sent by losses, two to four weeks' treatment - $1.00 take one quart of medicine, by mail - - 500 . BLODAU, New Telephone 1692. armacist. Aa Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. REGIMENTAL BANDMASTERS 'GRAND OFFICERS TAKE PLACES = CHANCE :FOR AFRO-AMERICAN MUSICIANS Washington, D. C.—Special—Mr. Emmett J. Scott, the secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington, wrote Seere- tary Taft of the War Department, asking him to open the way for col- ored men to be commissioned as band leaders in the colored regiments— Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and Twen- tyfourth and ‘wenty-ffth Infantry. Only in one case, Lieut. Loving of the Constabulary Band, in the Philip- Pines, has a colored man been per- mitted to serve as bandmaster in the regular army. The custom of appoint- ing white men is still in force, the stated reason being that no capable colored musicians were available. Mr. Scott, in his letter, suggested that the continuance of this custom “closes the door of opportunity” to colered talent in the service, and “makes it harder to enlist desirable civilian musicians.” Secretary Taft very heartily entered into the matter, and under date of January 16, 1907, sent Mr. Scott a copy of a letter which he had directed to be sent to the colonels commanding the colored regiments, stating, in conclusion, that “ultimately we may have colored band leaders in the colored regiments.” ‘The letter sent out to the command- ing officers of the colored regiments reads as follows: “Sir—The Secretary of War has directed that hereafter white men be not appointed chief musicians of bands of colored regiments when col- ored men possessing the requisite qualifications can be secured for that position. “He therefore directs that when a vacancy occurs in the position of chief musician in your regiment, due effort be made to fill it with a suitable and competent colored instructor of music, and if such can not be obtained you will report the fact to the War De- partment. He further directs that in no case will the appointment of a white man be made without the express authority of the War De- partment. Very respectfully, (Signed) “F. ©. Ainsworth, “Military Secretary.” The interpretation by the War De- partment has been that white men be enlisted as chief musicians, based, among other things, upon the imprac- ticability of obtaining capable colored musicians for the position. The fact that it has been unquestionable for more than thirty-seven years would seem to justify the interpretation. However, Mr. Scott’s opening of the investigation in this matter has achieved very satisfactory results, and many competent colored musi- cians in and out of the army will appreciate this opportunity for ap- pointment in a field heretofore con- sidered closed. A provision of an act of Congress, approved March 3, 1869, fixes the salary of the chief musician in each regiment at sixty dollars a month and the allowance of a quar- termaster sergeant. TWO TROOPS WILL REMAIN Washington, D. C.—Orders were prepared at the War Department which modify those of December 31, which directed that all the Negro soldiers in this country be sent to the Philippines, in such a way that two troops of Negro cavalry will be left in this country after the three colored regiments cross the Pacific. One of these troops will be stationed at Ft. Riley and one at Ft. Leaven- worth. In addition to this it has been virtually decided to relieve the de- tachment of soldiers at the Military Academy at West Point with blacks. It is suspected that the presence of the white soldiers at West Point has been unsatisfactory not only to the soldiers themselves, among whom there has been a serious increase in desertions, but to the superintendent and officers of the academy. Relief of the present West Point detachment will take place by degrees and the white soldiers will probably not be replaced entirely by the colored ones for many months, The Negroes who will remain be- hind while their regiments are sent ‘on to the Philippines will be short- term men; that is, men who have served a portion of their enlistments sand who do not intend to re-enlist. ‘Three regiments are going to the islands—the Twenty-fifth Infantry and the Ninth and Tenth: regiments of cavalry. There are enough short: term men in these regiments who will not go to the Philippines to make two full troops of cavalry. A troop of the Ninth will therefore be sent to Ft. Leavenworth and a troop of the Tenth to Ft. Riley. If the soldiers were white, they would be sent to other regiments in this country, but as they are black and because there will be no colored troops in this country by the end of the year, it was found necessary to make up the two troops of cavalry. ‘Any short-term men from the Twenty- fifth Infantry will be transferred to the cavalry. NEGRO STUDENT WINS HONORS. Boonville, Ind—Claud Smith, six teen years’ old, a young Negro, the first and only colored member of the Boonville high school, defeated his twenty-one classmates in a recent, ex amination. Smith was the student ‘who obtained full credit on his mathe matics and he fell only a few points below in his other studies. None of the white students equaled the record of Smith, When the Negro was en: rolled as a member of the high schoo! the feeling between the white male ‘students and the colored Jad was any. thing but good. Several students made attempts to haze him. One o} the boys who jeered the Negro has been sent back to the grammar grades failing to keep up in his studies, while Smith kept up in every study. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. NSTALLATION OF GRAND MPS- TER HOUSTON AND OTHERS AT NATIONAL HEADQUART- ERSOF G. U.0. OF O. F. Philadelphia, Pa—Special—The of ficers of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows have elected at the last meeting of the Biennial Movable Com mittee at Richmond in October are now in their places. They were duly installed by the sub-committee of management a few days ago at the national headquarters in Philadelphia. The new Grand Master is William L. Houston, one of the ablest parlia- mentarians in the country, and a man of large executive capacity. The or- der could not have made a better selection, and it is fair to predict for Mr. Houston a_ record-breaking ad- ministration, despite the fact that the retiring Grand Master, J. McHenry Jones, of West Virginia, holds the palm up to the present. Mr. Houston is a Kentuckian by birth, but a resi- dent of the District of Columbia at present, holding a responsible posi- tion under the Federal Government. The other officers installed were: L. N. Porter, Deputy rand Master; B. J. Davis, Grand ‘Treasurer; James E. Needham, Grand Secretary. Grand Directors’ installed: Julius C. John- son, W. W. Lawrence, T. B. Wood- land, A. T. Shirley, George H. Mays, Ex-Grand Masters J. McHenry Jones and E. H. Morris installed the new officers and complimentary speeches were made by those installed and by those retiring. Grand Master Hous- ton was tendered an elaborate ban- quet this week in Washington by members of the order and his host of friends. SHOWING NOT SATISFACTORY Washington, D. C.—Special—The members of the Government board of the Jamestown Exposition had a con- ference today with the Negro Devel- opment and Exposition Company, which has charge of the Negro ex- hibit at the exposition. A report from Giles B. Jackson of Richmond, presi- dent of the Negro company, previous- ly submitted, was discussed. The showing made was not satisfactory to the Government board. The salaries paid to some of the officers of the Negro company were thought to be excessive, and the management of the exposition affairs by the company was not altogether satisfactory. A proposition looking to the reorganiza- tion of the Negro company was made, and it is likely that two additional members of the company will be des- ignated by the Government _ board. The additional members have had ex- perience in exposition matters and nothing is to be done by the company without the approval of these two members, who in a way are to repre- sent the Government board. It subsequently develops that the Secretary of the Treasury has named . J. Calloway, clerk in the War De- partment, Prof. Jesse Lawson, clerk in the Pension Office, and R. T. Hill, cashier of the True Reformers’ Bank ‘of Richmond, to represent the Gov- ernment on the above board. The selections are generally approved and it is hoped that the new arrangement may bring forth better results. SEVENTY-TWO — LYNCHINGS From the 233 mob murders in 1892 to the seventy-two of last year is cer- tainly an encouraging advance. This means that the mob wreak its fury upon less than one-third as many victims as it did fourteen years ago. Even so late as the first of this year of this century, 1901, there were 135 mob murders, or nearly twice as many as there were in 1906. In 1903 we find the last record of more than 100 of these mob murders; and we can almost confidently feel that it was the last time that the record will rise to that height of criminality. There is another encouraging fea- ture in the lynching record for last year. There were no burnings at the stake. The mob has perhaps grown at least a little less Inhuman. One or two of the victims were cast into the fire after raving been murdered, but none, it seems, was burned alive. Discreditable as the record is, there is yet, as we have said, signs of en- couragement and hope in it. Our mobs are not quite so bloodthirsty not quite so inhuman. A strong effort for law and order, a stern facing and erushing of the ' mob spirit, public condemnation of all men who, like Senator Tillman, keep aflame the pas- sions of the mob, and promoter and surer action on the part of the courts —and lynching will be stamped out in the South, and our people be cleansed of the murderous shedding of blood. TO APPEAL TO PRESIDENT. Guthrie, Okla.—Special—The _pro- posed constitutional plank known as the “Jim Crow” measure, was sub- mitted to the Constitution makers when they assembled today for the last week for which they will receive pay. The provision embodies the sentiment of the Railroad Committee in the following words: Common car- riers shall provide equal but separate coaches and waiting rooms for per- sons of African descent, and the Leg- islature is hereby authorized to enact the necessary penalties to carry this provision into effect. It 1» the intention of Democratic leaders to adopt the report in the committee of the whole and then sub- mit it to President Roosevelt before taking final action. The First Spike Driven in the Building of the Chicago- New York Electric Air Line Railroad. Track Laying Has Commenced on This Historic Electric Trunk Line. Stock Still Selling at $35.00 a Share. Are Youa Stockholder? The First Spike. The first spike has been driven in the building of the Ghicago-New York Electric Air Line Ratiroad, which ts destined to ac: ‘compiish so much for its stockholders and for the American people. The event took place at LaPorte, Indiana, February 2d In preparation for it the streets of the city had been torn up some days; the tles hat been lald; even the rails had been put it place. Then the company had to wait un til a shipment of spikes could be received At last the first carload of spikes arrived, and track laying could begin in earnest. The driving of a spike in itself is a little thing. When that spike is the first to be driven in the construction of a great rail road it {is an important Incident. When the spixe Is the first in the butiding of an epoch making electric trunk line, it Is an historic event worthy of record. Track laying can now proceed rapldly as far as the grading has been completed. Twenty-five more cars of ties were ordered during the week. These make fifty cars of ties so far ordered with which to start the work, Are You a Stockholder ? A great, modern railroad is being built by stock subscription, and the entire Amer- Jean continent 1s taking about it. This railroad is known as the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line. The term “al line" Is used to suggest shortness, for when completed it will be the shortest railroad that can be built between Chicago and New York. This railroad is being built by the people, ‘according to the most modern scientific Ideas, without a grade crossing, without un- necessary curves, without a dollar of in- debtedness, to connect the greatest traffic ‘centers on earth—Chicago and New York. Nothing connected with this road or its ccratat 1s experimental. It calls for an intelligent app ication of proven princl- ples and tried devices—nothing more, You, we take it, are a typical American, Intelligent, ambitious, in a measure pros- perous and anxious to accumulate a com- petency. You have cut your eye teeth and know you must realize more than three per cent on your Investment if you ever expect to get rich. To you we put this question: Is there money to be made in builaing and opera- ting railroads? If you don't know the answer, hundreds of millionaires and thou- sands of rich men, who owe their fortunes to railroads, do. Now, mark this. If steam rallroads PURCHASE COUPON. GABLE & CLINTON, 617 Traction Terminal Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Enclosed find $... sssssseeeeeeee In.sesesseeseeeee(Say whether full or partial) payments for...2++.-.e0ss0ee shares of stock of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad. Name.....sce.ccccecscceccscseees ABirtonisa $305k ek paskechetene The Freeman, February 9. An inspiring occasion was the meet- ing in Witherspoon Hall Jast Satur- day evening, presided ove: by John H. Converse, in the interest or Hamp- to Institute, Hampton, Va. More than 60 Indian and Negro stu- dents of theh school occupied the stage, and by their speaking and sing- ing gave forceful illustrations of the practical work which Hampton, and similar institutions, are doing for ‘members of these unfortunate races "An interesting fact brought out at this meeting, and one not generally known, was that, aside from Booker 'T. Washington, the most noted and useful student to graduate from Hamp- ton is Thomas C. Walker, one of the ‘speakers of the evening, a full-blood ed Negro, born in dire poverty, of ex- slave parents. Mr. Walker has not only become a prosperous land-own- er, and a scientific farmer, but he is ar < IS: | Cy = aNy ai, ~~ ay le: ee Sr A il ig 1 Te. i a ee es (ae ashe elgrem G fe eM en Be = AES Ne pls! a EE: ee Ss Zo One of the Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Electric Engines that will take a Train to New York in ro hours ‘They are buildiog this railroad because/New York, thanit is now? 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All applications should be sent and remittance made payable to GABLE & CLINTON, 617 Traction Terminal Bullding, {ndianapolis, ind a money, then the Electric Air Line DELLE CRSA ETE ail Secause of greater ‘speed which will almost double its etfictenoy. Because of economy of operation, for elec: tricity 8 a cheaper mo- tive power than steam by at least fifteen per cent. Because every dollar of the receipts over and above operating expenses will go to the stockholders for there are no bonds on which interest must be paid. Steam roads pay fourleer per cent of their gross earnings in interest to bondholders. Because it will be the shortest and quickest route between the great: est two cities In America, Because of enormous through business which is suffering for better trans- portation faclitties. Because of the very profitable loca’ tusiness which will make every mile and division of ‘this [road a paying propoaltion, independently of the re- mainder of the system. "Because this country is developing commercial y and industrially so fast that existing roads cannct keep up with its needs Are You a Stockholder ? If you are not you are making a mistake | Thou- sands of people from every State in the Union, and from various foreign countries, nave already joined forces with us In the building of ® rallroad which shall be in keeping with modern progr: ss and the needs of the country. one of the most noted and successful lawyers in his section of the country. Peculiarly interesting was the epee of Charles Doxon, a full- ‘blooded Indian, who, with rare logic, told of the special needs of Indians and Negroes. Mr. Doxon aavanced the unusual but, we think, logical proposition, that civilization is a cure, rather than a blessing, to all persons who are not educated in head and heart and hand and mind up to its required standards, His propos tion was that the man who is pushed aside in the struggle for existence by the man who is either more fit or more favored by public sentiment, finds no recourse, as formerly, in the innocent life of the savage, but must, rather, cast his lot with the under current of society, the natural tend ency of which is, in the main, down ward, if not vicious. ‘A sad touch of romance was giver by Major Maton, a Hampton Institute instructor, and a magnificent speci men of the thoroughbred Negro, whc told how one of his ancestors, ai African chief, six generations back jhad sold a number of his subjects t best investment that has been offered since Rel! Te'ephone stock went begging for pur chasers at a fraction of {ts value. ) _Chicago-New York Eeeiric Air Line stock ts selling to-day for $35.0) a share, the par vawue being one hundred doilars. If the ratiroad earns only what other railroads pry to their boadholders In interest, every share will bo worth par, and the stockholder will’ practl- cally tripple his money. If it is able to pay in dividends only what is saved in operating ex- penses through the use of electric power, stock will be worth par at the very least ca culation, and the stockholder will tripple his money. If the railroad never earns a cent, an impossi ble thing, the stockholder by virtue of his contract will be able to exchange his stock at par for trans~ portation at current rates (which ts as good as cash less a small discount) and will nearly tripple his money. It will do more than all these. Then why are you walt- Ing, or if already a stock- holder, why are you not Increasing your holdings whlie the price Is stiil un= der.$50? It will not _re- math there long, Will this railroad be any more | certain next March when the first cars run out of La Porte; next winter, when they run into Uhl cago; next year when the track reaches outty Goshen, Ind, on its way eer taka eiaen a slave-trading vessel. The officer of the ship invited him aboard and dined and wined him in a most sump- tuous manuer, Their generosity, es- pecially with the drinks, soon put him to sleep. When he awoke, some days later, he found nimseir in_mwocean, headed for America, and manacled to one of the wretched beings whom he had so heartlessly sold into slavery. But Major Maton philosophically holds that the benefits which he and his fellow colored citizens have been enabled to extract from American civilization and Christianity have more than repaid for the manner in which they were inveigled into this country, Doctor Frisell, principal of Hamp ton, also made a speech, in which he pleaded for support of the institu tion, as well as for more sympathetic relations between the races. | Not the least interesting part 0: the exercises were the folk songs by both Indian and Negro students. The Jove, hunting and war songs of the | naians breathed of that wild, savag life upon which, it is said, the average ‘Indian finds it so hard’ to turn hi back. | In marked contrast were the lov and plaintive songs of the Negroes ‘Their rendition of the colored “Mam my's” lullaby was irresistible, an¢ took the house by storm. that in a few years this great 20th century | railroad will be pouring its enormous earn. 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C.—Special.—It # probable that the President will sto? for a short time at Columbus, 0. ™ his return trip from the West the latter part of May and early June when he goes to Indianapolis to veil a monument to Gen. Lawton ‘Memorial day and to Lansing, ‘ich to address the students of the stl Agricultural College. At Columbus he will deliver an address to the co pices of the Colored Agricultural 04 Educational Institute. he color! people are to hold a fair at Colum ored people of Ohio under the au* bus the latter part of July, and President was invited today by # de® gation from that city to be present on one of these days, This até however, was not convenient ‘0 the President, and as an alternative expects to stop in Columbus early ® June, The delegation was acco? nied to the White House by "ev"® sentative Nicholas Longworth GANS TELLS STORY OF A REMARKABLE RING LIFE "I's gentleman Joe; and the honorable Joe. The man who beat "Kid" Herman so; The man who'll give the Nelson lad— A fight that'll put him to the bad. And so they're talking thus and so, But just you "keep stepping," Joe. (Concluded from last week.) "Dal Hawkins was another terribly dangerous fellow to fight. I met him for the first time in New Pork in 1950. He got the decision in fifteen 30. 110 1 DAL HAWKINS MIT GANS THE HARDEST PUNCH HE EVER GOT IN THE RING. DAL HAWKINS MIT GANS THE HARDEST PUNCH HE EVER GOT IN THE RING. rounds. It was a bad decision—but why holler now? I fought Dal again in 1900. "That was a terror while it lasted. Dal was always out for a quick finish. He had the one most dangerous punch I ever saw used in the ring. It was a long left hook, with the arm nearly straight. It was an easy blow to get away from, but whenever it landed it was almost a sure knock-out. "I knew all about this one punch of Dalis, and I looked for it. In the very first round we were punching away, when all of a sudden I found myself lying on the floor and heard the referee say 'six.' I half realized what was going on and manager to get to my feet before the count of ten. Hawkins rushed in to finish me. I didn't know where I was, but somehow I instinctively hooked my right over and caught him on the jaw. Then as my head cleared I found myself standing there looking at Hawkins, who was flat on his back. He took the count and rose in time. We were both too wooxy to land a knockout. In the second round I put the right over again and Dal took the long count. ALWAYS FEARED DAL HAWKINS. "After the fight I happened to meet and we talked it all over. Dal said that he didn't expect to slip that left hook in so early in the fight. He just tried it softly when he saw a small opening in my guard, and to his surprise it went through and caught me on the chin. I'm satisfied that he At Madison Square Garden, New York City, Columbia College held its annual mid-winter athletic meeting Friday night of last week. Among the events of the evening were several races between students of the public schools of that city. In each of these races Afro-American sprinters took prominent parts and each in his race easily defeated his white competitors. The enthusiasm of the spectators was just as great when the boys of our race won as when white representatives captured events. In the inter-collegiate mile relay championship John B. Taylor, of the University of Pennsylvania, an Afro-American, ana inter-collegiate champion for the quarter mile, ran for his college, which won the race easily against Dartmouth. In a house full of several thousand people last Friday cheering for their different favorites, there were, by actual count, seven Afro-American men and two women. Our athletes deserve better than this. 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Interstate Remedy Co., 319 Luck Bldg., Detroit, Mich. --- OUR ATHLETES SUCCESSFUL. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER told the truth. If he had put full force behind that blow he would have knocked me cold. "Dal and his friends wanted another chance, so I fought him again just three months later here in New York. "It's a curious thing, and it shows how dangerous that left of his was. He slipped it on me again, and but for the fact that it grazed my jaw instead of landing squarely he might have put me away. We mixed it again and in the third round I dropped him with another right hook on the chin and knocked him out. Hawkins was a man to be feared. The only way to fight him was to watch closely every second of the way for his left hook. The blow was easily avoided if you saw it coming in time; but he struck like a rattlesnake, and if he landed the fight was usually over. "I never considered Frank Erne a very dangerous fighter. When he won from me in New York it wasn't because he had any the best of me in boxing or fighting. He butted me under the eye. The blood blined me. I had never been cut in a fight before. I had never seen by own blood flow, and the sight of such a stream scared me. I thought my eye was entirely destroyed. When we fought again at Fort Erie I had my battle planned to an inch. For nights before I lay in bed thinking how I could catch him. Some fellows will go back one step or two steps or three steps when they give ground. Erne, when he went back from a feint, only go a certain number of inches, and then start forward again. I planned to meet him immediately, feint with him, and as he drew back to a certain position hook my right hand over to the spot where he ought to be. I could have followed my schedule with eyes shut and put him out, for he did exactly what I had figured on. We feinted. Erne drew back just so far and stopped. I was following him, and my right hand was already started when he stopped and bobbed his head back right into the blow. He was out for several minutes. It was BURNS AND SCHRECK MATCHED. Tommy Durns and Mike Schreck are matched to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. The French-Canadian pugilist, who has been basking in the light of an alleged champion for the past year, has been called in one of his bluffs, and Mike Schreck, the man whom he has been sidestepping for the past two years, has at last a fair chance of forcing the Los Angeles bunk artist into the ring. Burns returned the articles yesterday with his signature. Tommy, however, believing that his filmsy championship claims entitled him to name conditions that would shackle Schreck did not send back the articles until he had made enough changes to discourage any other fighter than the sturdy Cincinnati German. Burns inserted in the articles that the purse for the battle must be $2,000, of which he is to receive 75 per cent and Schreck the remainder no matter what the outcome may be. He insists that each fighter post a forfeit of $2,000 rather than $1,000 as was originally named and the club offering a suitable purse deposit the $20,000 in a bank and also a forfeit of $5,000 to insure good faith on its part. ..TOMMY NOW AN AMERICAN... In order to impress upon the fight public that he is an American fighter now, Tommy changed the articles so that they read Tommy Burns of Los Angeles in place of Tommy Burns of Canada. Tommy insists that George Siler referee. No other official will do. It is a case of Siler or no fight. With peculiar liberality the pseudo champion has consented to allow bids for the fight, open until March 7. Both Shreck and his manager, Billy Hogan, believe that Burns made the insertions in the articles for the purpose of forcing Shreck to give up his intention of forcing him into the ring. No more unfair articles were ever submitted to a challenger than those which Burns sent back to Shreck. "The articles are unfair," said Mike yesterday, "but I am not going to quibble. I am in the game to fight and not to talk. It seems to me that Burns is going a little too far in demanding a $20,000 purse. It has not been a long time since he was glad to battle for $100. I shall be just as glad as he to battle for a pot the size which he names. "I think that Burns is trying to sidestep me and that the conditions he names are the best proof of that. I WHEN WE POUGHT THE "KENTUCKY" FOR BUD, GANS DIDN'T FROW HE HAD A SHORT WAND. THE LETT WAS BORN ENGLISH JOE WINS BY STUDIING HIS FRAILS, NOW OTHER FIGHTS HE MADE BELOW THE HIMSELF OUT. AS EARE DREW BACK FROM A FEET, GANS REACHED HIM WITH A RIGHT Hook AND BECAME CANNONED IN ONE PUNCH GANS STUDIED THIS BLOW OUT BEFORE THE FIGHT. the quickest change of a championship on record. Hawkins knocked out Martin Flaherty at Carson the same way, only Dal used his left hook. STUDIED WALCOTT'S METHODS. "To come down to later fights, the one I had with Joe Walcott for the welterweight title was a hard one. Walcott is a vicious fighter with a fierce wallop. If he can land on you, it's good-night. But I had studied Walcott's methods. I easily avoided his wild swings and met him with straight punches and short hooks as he came in. I won the fight, although the referee made it a draw. "Battling Nelson gave me a hard battle. I had Nelson's fighting down fine, for I trained Poung Corbett to meet him and was in Corbett's corner in the fight. Nelson is the toughest man in the ring. He can take a beating until the other fellow is worn out from punching him. When the other man's arms drop to his sides from exhaustion, Nelson still has enough strength to put over a knockout. He can't hit hard at any time, but it is easy to finish a thoroughly exhausted man with any sort of a punch. "For about eight rounds I tried to WHEN UP FIGHT THE RESTRICTED POSE. BED GAINS WIN FROM HE HAD A RIGHT HAND... THE LAST MAX 800 ENUMER AS ERNE DREW BACK FROM A FIGHT GANS REACHED HIM WITH A RIGHT HOWK AND DREAMED CHAIRFOM IN ONE HAND. IN GANS STUDIED THIS BLOW OUT BEFORE THE FIGHT... put Nelson out. I had planned to do this until I began to feel a little tired. As soon as that time came I was going to shift my style. Nelson took all the beating and came up for more in a wonderful way. When I saw that he wouldn't go down to stay I began making him do the work, while I rested. I intended to make it a long fight, using Nelson's own tactics—barring the foul play. I would wear him down just as he wore others down and when he finally became exhausted I would knock him out. I didn't care if it took all day and all night. "But Nelson, when he was becoming helpless, began fighting foul, and lost that way instead. I can't say whether he deliberately fouled me or not, he struck foul and butted for many rounds before he was finally disqualified. Nelson is naturally a foul fighter. He doesn't think he is, but it is his natural style to butt. He's a human billy goat. "As for Britt, whom I fight next, I will beat him sure. He is clever, but he isn't aggressive. I know his defense and how to overcome it. There have called his bluff, however. I will meet him under his own orc ditions. I made him jump out of a wirow once to keep from fighting me. If I ever get him into a ring he is likely to do the rope skipping act. TONOPAH OFFERS $10,000 PURSE. The battle will be twenty rounds or more for the heavyweight championship. Burns insists that the fight be held not earlier than May. Manager Riley of the Casino Athletic Club of Tonopah has wired an offer of $10,000 for the fight, but says that he will not think of offering $20,000. Burns declares that he will not go into the ring for anything less than the latter amount and it is likely that Tommy's wish to keep away from Shreck will be made possible by the promoters, refusing to come up to his demands. Jimmy Britt has made up his mind to stay at Byron Springs until well along in February. He was joined there last Friday 'by his old chum, Tiv Kreling, and the structure which covers the swimming pond has been converted into an up-to-date gymnasium. Britt was always partial to road work and put in many a good day on the macadamized highway before the advent of Kreling, and, according to Jimmy Coffroth, is showing the effect of the outdoor exercise. "I should say Britt has taken off eight or nine pounds since he went to Byron," said Coffroth. "He is in good shape and within easy reach of the weight he has to make for Gans. The fellows who reckoned that Britt would have trouble making 133 do not know how to size him up. Britt is not big bodied and he merely shows the effect of easy living in his face and neck. "It doesn't take long to put him in proper fix after a spell of idleness. In this particular case it should be remembered that Britt was in training for several weeks at San Rafael before he went to the springs. By the time he lands in the ring with Gans he will have undergone fully three months of preparation. He will not only be at weight, but he will be at his very best notch physically." Britt is planning ahead for his work at Tonopah. He expects to reach the gold camp about the middle of February and he intends to go in very intensively for boxing while fitting himself for the contest. He will have for partners a man about his own weight and another much heavier. In selecting the light man he will endeavor to secure one who is en- will be no fake about the next one with Britt. "Terry McGovern was a grand little man. I don't care to say anything about our fight in Chicago. Poor Terry can't answer any statement I might make, so I'll just scratch that one. I did what Herford told me to do. Let it go at that. I'm free from Herford now, and I'll never fake another fight. "I owe all of my success in the ring to study. I have been the same weight for twelve years and I haven't changed much physically. But I study other fighters all the time and am always learning. Every time I see a good man fight I go home and go to bed early. Then I lie propped up on the pillows. Through studying these things over all the time I can call up before my eyes a picture of the whole fight, round after round and almost blow for blow. I bring up these mental pictures and study out every detail. I figure every move out—just how far a man moves in certain situations, just what directions, just how he hits and blocks when he is aggressive and when inclined to be on the defense. "Then I figure out how to get him." Just as he had finished the last sen HE MADE BELSON HIS HIMSELF CUT. WINDS BY BOYING HIS HAND IN HIS HER PIGHTE tence above, his theatrical manager tapped on the door and came in gently. Joe pulled out a fine gold watch, and eyed it a second and then stated that it was about time for hi mto return to the theatre. I then said that I believed he had at least a half hour as yet before his time to go on. He laughed as he told me about his being out one afternoon with Archie Greathouse in his automobile, about a mile or so from the theatre at Indianapolis where he was filling a week's engagement, and, looking at his time-piece, he learned that he had just about fifteen minutes to make it to the play house. Archie increased the speed and got about half way there in about seven minutes, when the machine broke down. After a ftw minutes' work it was discovered that the machine could not be fixed, so in order to not be late, Joe jumped out and ran all the way to the theatre. Since then Joe has ever been on the alert as to the distance, time and place, whenever the hour arrives for him to go on and do a turn in any theatre. So in a very cordial way he saluted and bid me good-bye. John L. Footslug. dowed with cleverness. It is believed that Tim Callahan may have the job if he cares to accept. In the heavier man Jimmy will look for grit, strength and average talent as a oxer. Britt wants, while training, to run the gauntlet of everything that is likely to happen to him in his affair with Gans. He wants to accustom himself to setting to with one partner who is fast and clever and with another who will crowd him and try to hammer him down. This is a good deal of a compliment to Gans, as it suggests that Joe is master of all kinds of milling. GOTCH RETAINS TITLE. Frank Gotch's championship title was not ruffled in his catch-catch can wrestling match with Charles Hackenschmidt at Brooklyn Casino last Friday night, as he won the match in straight falls, the first with a grape arm hold and half-Nelson in thirty-six minutes and the second with a toe and arm hold in eighteen minutes. Although he won, as was anticipated, Hack gave him a stiff argument, especially in the first bout. Outweighed by at least twenty pounds, the foreigner made it so interesting for the champion that the crowd was with him to a man and cheered him whenever he broke Gotch's favorite toe hold. They entered into the second bout apparently fresh, but before they had been at it five minutes Gotch downed his man, secured a painful toe hold and again came within an inch or two of gaining a fall. It took all of Hack's strength and agility to get out of difficulties, and when he did the spectators cheered wildly. Gotch next play was for a hammerlock, which by the hardest work imaginable he secured. It was a painful hold for Hack, judging by the agonizing look on his face, but he fought himself clear. A few minutes later Frank made a play for Hack's toe, secured it and pinned him for the match. WELL KNOWN TRAINER DEAD. Charles Marvin, one of the most famous drivers and trainers in America, died in a hospital here to-day at the age of 68. He was the owner of many national performers during his day. He was employed by nearly every United States Senator and Congressman who owned horses in America. He had won probably more victories on the turf than any other American trainer. Whether through innocence or design, Mike Riley, of Tonopah, has contrived to place fully a score of prominent boxers on the anxious seat. When Riley reached out for the Britt-Gans match he announced that the event in question was to be the center piece of a mammoth pugilistic bench show to be held in the world famous gold camp in the midde of March. Fighters in every class, from the midgets to the eighty-one toners, were to be sent together in the blue-ribbon events and what between championships and curtain raisers or ring-warmers, the fistic situation was to be cleaned up so completely that there would be nothing in the way of a glove combat left to decide. In pursuance of this scheme Riley kept the wires tingling and each boxer of note was asked how he would like to hook up with his particular rival, whoever it happened to be, for a well-filled wallet. The thing reached such a stage that fighters took to turning down the purses that are forthcoming all the year around from points outside the mineral belt. "Declined with thanks, I have an engagement at Tonopah," the reply that greeted many an offer of work, and the average promoter began to feel that Riley and the likes of him was responsible for a race of pampered purglists. But there is a rift in the loot. The wires from Tonopah ceased clicking ten days ago and the ring men who believed they were in line for profitable engagements are up in the air. To many inquiries sent from San Francisco Riley replied that he "would be in town in a few days," but up to the time of writing he has not put in an appearance. It begins to look as though the mammoth tourney idea has been abandoned and that the Britt-Gans championship will be the only one decided in the Tonopah arena in March. Some persons are pessimistic enough to think that the Britt-Gans affair is in none too good shane, and all things considered the rumor mongers can hardly be blamed for waxing suspicious. When wholesale matchmaking by wire ceases suddenly, and, when by way of explanation the promoter telegraphs, "Am coming to town," then does not come, it is about time for gossips to begin putting this and that together. According to all accounts, Joe Gans never misses a chance of referring to his other contest with Britt as a fake. Britt is correspondingly steadfast in declaring that if the fight was a fake he knew nothing about it. It is not likely that either man will change his tune if he lives to be as old as Methusalah's goat, but it will be interesting to note how opinions of that other affair influence the betting. Expert opinion, reflected in the sporting columns of the press, is to the effect that Gans will be a strong favorite in the coming battle. This means that the last fight, as viewed by the experts, was a fake. If it were not so, Britt would be the favorite, for in the few rounds that were boxed, Britt smothered Gans from start to finish and clouted him when and where he liked. This logic of expert opinion may not affect very pleasant food for reflection to Jimmy Britt, but the situation has its compensations. If, as Britt stoutly maintains, the former bout was on its merits, there is no reason why Gans should be made favorite. But money is a great bald and Jimmy and his friends will be able to avail themselves of the odds offered on Gans and not experience any pricks of conscience at the thought that they are accepting a false price. The San Francisco matchmakers are emulating Bre'r Rabbit and the majority of them will not speak above a whisper until the fate of the Hartman's antilboxing measure is decided. This may mean that there will be no bouts in this city until March, and, of course, if Hartman's spite measure goes through, there will be none thereafter. Occasionally one of the promoters talks in a tentative way of starting the ball rolling, but is quick to repudiate any intention of the kind when reminded by brother fight fight handlers that the present is no time for flaunting the reg rag. The latest bit of gossip is that Morris Levy is going to dare the fates and bring Cyclone Thompson and Dick Hyland together in February. The rival lightweight are willing enough to finish the rubber—each having a victory to his credit—but no one will take any interest in the proceedings until the news of a permit being granted to Levy comes through the usual official channel. As like as not, Levy's next interview, boiled down, will be, "I never said nothin' about it." Joe Thomas has despaired of obtaining a match in San Francisco, and is going East in a few days. Jack (Twin) Sullivan and Jim Flynn of Pueblo, are to have a return date at Las Angeles shortly. This is the only event McCarey has on the cards at present—the Jack O'Brien-Tommy Burns matches always excepted. McCarey is talking of signing Abe Attell and Tommy Sullivan. These are busy days among the men who fight with their hands for a living. Matches and rumors of matches fill the air in all directions. Here are some of the notable matches which are made, are said to about to be made or may be made: Jack O'Brien against Joe Gans. Young Corbett against Tommp Murphy. Young Corbett against Kid Herman. Bob Fitzsimmons against Tommy Burns. Tommy Ryan against Dave Barry. Joe Gans against Jimmy Britt. Out of it all should come some scrapping, and doubtless will. Just who and when it will be is a question. Matches between fighters seem to be easily made and are easily broken. GANS HAS FINE RECORD Gans has a remarkable ring record. He has taken part in 147 battles, of which nine were draws and five defeats. In forty-eight of his victories knockouts were scored. Many of his bouts were no-decision affairs. The Baltimore man has literally fought his way to the top. He has been before the public for nearly twelve years and has defeated such good men as "Spike" Sullivan, "Dal" Hawkins, "Spider" Kelly, Martin Flaherty, "Bobby" Dobbs, "Joe" Handler, Frank Erne, "Kid" McPartland, "Tom" Tracy, "Willie" Fitzgerald, George McFadden, "Jack" Blackburn, "Jimmy" Britt, "Mike" (Twin) Sullivan and Battling Nelson. POOL MATCH FOR NEW YORK Thomas Hueston, who recently acquired the world's championship pool honors by defeating Jerome Keogh, in Buffalo, announced that his match with Edward Dawson for the championship would be played in New York instead of St. Louis. The dates will be February 7, 8 and 9. If Hueston is returned the victor his next opponent will be Keough. The Buffalo expert claimed that he was ill when he met Hueston and not in the best of shape, and he is desirous to be given a chance to regain his lost laurels. BIG PURSE IS OFFERED Harry Pollock, manager of Young Corbett, who went West with the little fighter a few days ago, has reached Reno, Nev., and wires that he has been offered a large purse for a fight between Corbett and Kid Herrman on March 20. Pollock has arranged to have the match made within two days. Pollock leaves Reno for Goldfield to morrow. Billards was brought into fashion by Louis XIV of France in the seventeenth century, because his doctor ordered him to take exercise after his meals. Some important changes in the rules governing football were decided upon to-day at a meeting of the new joint rules committee. These changes will come before the joint rules committee for final disposition probably in March. Among the changes is the lengthening of the halves from thirty to thirty-five minutes each. The new rules in reference to the pass provide, instead of a penalty, of loss of ball on an unsuccessful pass, a fifteen-yard penalty on the first and second downs. When a foul is committed it counts as a down. The proposed substitution for the present forward pass rule is as follows: "If a forward pass, before reaching the ground, or a kicked ball, either before or after reaching the ground, goes out of bounds the ball shall belong to the opponents at the point where it crosses the side line." Another important change is the creation of a new official, the field umpire. The new game, it was stated to-day, often made it difficult for the referee and umpire to settle contested plays, so the new official was created to be on the field in the defending territory and close to the scene of the play. Rule 19 of last year was changed so that on a kickout after a touchdown or a safety opponents may not come within ten yards of the side having a free kick. In the present one-side rule a provision was inserted that a line player is permitted to carry the ball, provided he does not leave his position in the line until the ball is put into play. It was also decided that a player may at all times pass the ball to another of his own side who is behind him. A new section to Rule 5 states that the player shall be considered as having opportunity to make a fair catch if he is in such position that it would be possible for him to reach the ball before it touches the ground. To the same rule was added: "In case a signal for a fair catch is made by any player who has an opportunity for a fair catch, and another player of his side who has not signaled for a fair catch catches the ball, no run shall be made, but the ball shall be given to the catcher's side for a down at the point where the catch was made." The A. B. C. baseball team of this city has reorganized for 1907 and will retain the lineup as last year with the exception of one new man, Chinault, who has been signed to play right field. The team played 133 games during 1906, and won all but six of them, losing five and tying one. Five of these victories were by the shutout route. The team of now arranging dates for the coming season and any semi-professional team in the city or State can receive dates if they will correspond with the manager of the colored team. The management of the local colored champions is making a novel proposition in the fact that if any semi-professional team in the State of Indiana wins two games out of three from the A. B. C's the owners will make the team that does the stunt a present of $100. The lineup is as follows: E. Herron, center field; F. Young, right field and pitcher; J. Shawler, left field; G. Board, first base; J. Merida, second base; F. Hutchinson, shortstop; L. Chinaut, third base; W. Primm, catcher; J. Chenault, catcher; C. Moore, pitcher. J. L. Footsling. Acting-Chairman Harry S. New is loyal to Indiana, whatever his relations to the national administration may be, and he will line up solidly for the state's favorite son. In an interview, given out in Washington, Capt. New said: "If Vice President Fairbanks allows his name to be presented to the next Republican National Convention as a candidate for the presidency, and I take it for granted that he will, he will receive the hearty and unanimous support of the Indiana delegation." Harry New is all right. Now let the band play! Women's suits of novelty and plaid cloths, including up to the $29.50 quality, now offered without reserve at.....$11.75 Those formerly marked as high as $49.50 to go at.....$18.75 Velvet Suits Choice of any velvet suit in the house, all good styles, up to $85.00 values.....$29.50 Girls Coats| Uu to $30.00 qualities.....$9.75 Those that sold as high as $17.50.....$5.75 Others at.....$2.50, $3.50, $4.50 —Third Floor. Suits for Tots Russian blouse suits and kilt dresses of blue, pink and striped chambray and white linen, which have been selling as high as $2.98, now. 98c Another lot in white and colors, were priced as high as $4.00, choice now at. $1.50 A group of handsome suits in white and color, up to 15.75 values, for quick selling, marked. $1.98 L.S.Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Mrs. J. W. Holllman is ill at her home The Parker House. A. L. Bowman of Pittsburg, Pa., was in the city last week. Rev. W. A. Waltes of Jackson, Tenn., visited in the city last week. Miss Carrie Ford and Lewis Jones were married Wednesday evening. C. A. Briggs of St. Louis, Mo., is spending a month a Hot Springs, Ark., on business. Miss Luttie M. Jones, of 112 Emmet street, is now the authorized city agent for The Freeman. Woodbine Perfume, Ohl how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. Miss Ida Lucas, of Greencastle, attended the oratorical contest Friday night or last week. Thomas Steele, proprietor of the Elks' Buffet at Springfield, Ill., was in the city last week. Ras Caldwell of Shelbyville, Ind., was in the city last week to attend the oratorical contest. Henry Baptist, the well-known contractor has returned from Tampa, Fla., and other Southern cities. In the state oratorical contest Samuel Taylor of this city, representing De Pauw University won third place. Rev. A. H. Green, who has been in charge of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church will return to Washington, D. C. Lucas Willis of the firm of Shelton & Willis, funeral directors and embalmers, has recovered from a recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson entertainen Madam Evalina Dunham and Augustus Hall of French Lick, at breakfast last Sunday morning. J. C. Hayes, of Terre Haute, a student at Walden University, and O. H. Hammonds, principal, Twelfth District School, of Terre Haute, were in the city last week. The genutne Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts, (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Blodau, druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. Father C. F. Cheelzlez, B. So. M. A., priest and educational representative of Abyssinian Church, a historical and ethnological authority, spent several days in the city last week and made several addresses. While in the city he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Knox. A man with a hatchet and saw may do a reasonably good job, but should you wish first class work you employ a mechanic thoroughly equipped with the tools of his moral. Do you desire the best services of your physician, have your prescriptions filled at Gauld's Pharmacy, 601 Indiana avenue. You always get the best. CANCER SPECIALIST Dr. E. B. Brigham, specialist 18 W. Market street, Indianapolis has the "Best" Cancer treatment used today. Consult Im for all malignant skin diseases. When our way Reason We m PERSO moving the city loan p an full portion sired. MOV D treatment THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER See Our 2J Dark Patterns at $ 3^{\circ} $ Wall Paper 438 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. DOUGLASS REV. L. G. J. DOUGLASS MEMORIAL. [Portrait of a man in formal attire with a bow tie and a badge on his lapel]. REV. L. G. JORDAN, D. D. Success is assured the Y. M. C. A. in its endeavor to hold a Douglass Memorial on Sunday Feb. 17, in Tomlinson Hall. Rev. L. G. Jordan of Louisville, secretary of the Baptist Mission Board will deliver the oration. The lower floor will be reserved for men who participate in the Grand Street Parade and men in lodges. The first balcony will be for Ladies Societies and orgnizations. The Gallery for the 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, propletor, 321 Indiana Avenue. 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.izes. 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. THE RICHARDSON & WARNER CAFFE 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. President Roosevelt is to be commended for his firm stand against a "Jim Crow" constitution for Oklahoma. Make them "come in clean" or stay out of the Union. The order sending all Negro troops to the Philippines has been modified. The "short term" men remain here and will have good assignments. It pays to stir things up—judiciously. Aaron Fields, a Lexington, Ky., Afro-American, holds the record for whisky drinking in the Kentucky whisky belt. He took twenty-two drinks within an hour, on a wager. He won out and still lives to tell the tale. Kentucky is a commonwealth of record breakers in every relation of life. Attorney General Bonaparte is prosecuting the lynching and neonage cases with a vigor that is surprising some of us who rather doubted his willingness to punish the oppressors of Negroes, because he hails from a State that has an unsavory record on the question of Negro citizenship. Mr. Bonaparte proves to be better than his environment would lead the layman to expect. SECRET When you need money you'll be pleased with our way of dealing with you. Prompt, Sate 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, $25.00 loan payments are only 600 per week. This pays in full in fifty weeks. Other amounts in same proportion. Payments can be made monthly if desired. We also loan on WATCHES, and DIAMONDS. 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 Cut Price Drugs and School Supplies PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST Sole Agent for the famous "Kink Stralghener" Stair Pomade. Both Phones. Cor. St. Clair St., and Senate Ave. MEMORIAL. general public. All societies, lodges, etc., that intend to participate should send their names in at once to the General Secretary. Every lodge, society and organization is invited to join in the parade and help make this occasion what it should be. Come men and women where is your race pride? where is your race loyalty? It will be put to test on this day. See that you are there at 3 p. m. on Feb. 17, at Tomilinson Hall. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Coal by ton or basket; two baskets 25 cents, Bennett Bros., 321 Indiana Ave., New Phone 2977. Ladles and Gentleman—Try our famous Kink Straightner only at Conkey's Drug Store. M. J. Barnum, successor to John F Trulock, cut rate druggest, graduated optician, 638 Indianave., 5559-K New Phones Old Phone 3620 Main. Dr. Langston, dentist at 404 Indiana Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Big Clearance Sale 50 Cents on the Dollar. 3,000 Pairs to go in this SEMI-ANNUAL SALE, Buy Now. YUNCKER'S GINGER ALE AND SODA Is the Best on Earth. No Marble Dust, No Saccharine, No Acid. Yuncker Bottling Works Free TO BOYS and GIRLS under 12 years of age only one to a family "FREE TO INTRO. DUCE THEM. postage and we will send you an "EXER-KETCH" patented Game or Novelty tree. Regular price 12 cts. WRITE TO DAY. "EXER-KETCH" NOVELTY CO., 50 N. Senate Ave. Indianapolis, CO. Every Lady Read This. Years ago, when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Leucorrhea, Displacement, Palpital Perlosis Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple, harmless oton that can be prepared by any one having the recipe. I will send it Free to every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping woman. I send it Free Address Mrs. A. B. H udnut, South Bend Idiana. THE PARKER HOUSE The many patrons of the Parker House during the past year, are extended thanks or their liberal patronage, also for the kind y reference to the house from time to time. The same courteous treatment will be accorded in the future. The best of the seasons always on hand. Excellent service. Excellent table, good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holliman, Prop., 317-321 W. Michigan street. Phones: New 4972: Old 651. WANTED-SOLDIERS. The Afro-American Council has some very important information for the noncommissioned officers of the late companies B, C and D of the 25th Colored Infantry. Any friend of these men knowing of their whereabouts should send their address to Rev. L. G. Jordan, Secretary of the Council, 726 W. Walnut street, Louisville, Kentucky. ANY HAT CAP STYLE COLOR $1.00 FROM·FACTORY·TO·YOU Hats and Caps MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED Money With Order— o Goods Sert C.O.D. SEND SIZE, STYLE and COLOR CATALOGUE FREE DR. W. N. SHORT, President STERLING R. HOLT, Vice-President HARRY E. HILL, Secretary. AMERICAN HAT CO., Department C., 31 S. Illinois St., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. STOREKEEPERS Using the Welsbach Gas Arc Get "Twice the Light at Half the Cost." There Stores are Really LIGHTED —AND— Their Bills Are LIGHT. The Indianapolis Gas Company, Majestic Building, 45 S. Pennsylvania Street. Phones—Old, Main, 1447; New, 82. Watches and Sterling Silverware Carl S. Rost, DIAMOND MERCHANT, Dealer In All Kinds of Precious Stones, High Grade Jewelry, Resetting Diamonds and Making New and Original Mountings 15 N, Illinois St., Indianapolis The Claypool Hotel is across the street from us. ALUMINUM OIL HEATERS AT $3.00 No other stove will give as much heat. Cleanly, durable, safe. Absolutely the best on market. Vonnegut Hardware Company, 120-124 E. Washington Street. 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. EVERYBODY Goes to NORTON'S DRUG STORE, corner Indiana Ave., and Michi- gan street, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prices are the same as in all CUT RATE Drug Stores Only registered clerks employed. Sole agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Straightener. --- The FAMOUS FURNITURE COMPANY, J. A. MUNCHHOF, Proprietor, 448, 450, 452, 454, 455 W! Washington Street. CASH or PAYMENTS. Every Purchaser Receives a Premium We are now cleaning up our entire stock of BASE-BURNERS and HEATING STOVES, at a great reduction in prices, to make room for other goods. It will pay you to buy a stove now. See us if you are interested in FURNITURE, CARPETS and STOVES We can save you money on all puurchases, and will give you first class goods and courteous treatment. THE FAMOUS FURNITURE COMPANY. One-half Square West of Star Store. 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