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RESULTS are what the Advertiser want, AND HE GETS IT THROUGH THE FREEMAN. WE ARE READ BY 100,000 EACH WEEK THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER TO SAVE DOUGLASS HOME TO SAVE DOUGLASS HOME TOUCHING APPEAL OF DR B. T. WASHINGTON FOR FUNDS CEDAR HILL TO BE NEGRO MECCA Where Negro Millions May Be Inspired with Pride of Race--How the Memory of the Illustrious Douglass May Be Perpetuated. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, February 1, 1907. It is now nearly twelve years since Frederick Douglass, to whom the Negro people owe more than to any other man of our race, for the part he took in securing our freedom, died in Washington. His home at Anacostia, in the suburbs of Washington, still remains, however, and an effort is now being made to preserve this house with its memories and traditions and make it a permanent memorial to Douglass and the Negro people. An association, known as the Frederick Douglass Association, has been formed to effect this purpose. The people of our race have a rare opportunity to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass and to show their love and reverence for the man who during the trying times before and after the war embodied in his own life more than any other man of our race the aspirations and the cause of the Negro people. I have been asked by the officers of the Memorial Association to assist in securing the comparatively small sum of money amounting to $5,400 and interest necessary to clear off the mortgage on the property and so secure the property for all time to the association and the Negro people of the United States. We should make Pearl Hill to the Negro people what Vernon is to the white race. All of this can be accomplished if every member of the race would compute at once a small sum of money and send it to me by postoffice order, seek or otherwise, as soon as this communication is read. I am making an appeal by the authority of the owners of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, with the approval and sympathy Mr. Douglass' immediate family. It is the time, when Mr. Douglass' holiday is being celebrated and set of in all parts of the country, the race to show its love for Douglass, not only in words but in acts. I shall hope to receive within next few days this money, which he be sent in sums of from 25 cents Every contributor will receive a gift for whatever he sends. After money has been secured to clear the mortgage, I am sure that steps will be taken to put the place in conio to serve the purpose mentioned. The following letter, written to me the officers of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association will make the situation clear: Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1906. Booker T. Washington. Dr. Washington—There is an ambiance of fifty-four hundred cars ($5,400), bearing 6 per cent interest, payable semiannually, inst the Douglass property. This property consists of about fourteen acres in the heart of Anacostia, on a giving a beautiful view of theromac River and city for several acres. It is the opion of experts at when the Government completes a new bridge and the reclamation dats, this property will be worth at $5,000 an acre. Its actual value now $1,500 an acre. It is exempt in taxes by the act of Congress inporating the Frederick Douglass memorial and Historical Association, the association needs at least the 600 to lift the mortgage. In the time of about nine acres of the property could be cut up into building such sold, and with the proceeds such sale Cedar Hill could be enwed with ample funds to meet the arts of the Douglass Memorial Associon in perpetuity. Signed.) % following pledges have already received: or T. Washington, Tuske- Ala. $150.00 ouglass Wetmore, 5 Beek- W., Washington, D. C..... Robert Pekham, 2236 Sixth St. N. W., Washington, D. C. prof..... Prof. Kelley Miller, Howard University, Washington, paid Wm. L. Board, 1911 13th St. N. W., Washington..... Archibald Gilmke, 1413 Corpo ran St., Washington, paid. A. U. Craig, Anacostia, D. C. H. P. Slaughter, 2236 13th St. N. W., Washington..... Prof. L. B. Moore, Howard Uni versity, Washington..... Dr. F. J. Shad, 901 R St., N. W., Washington..... A. S. Gray, 1833 Vermont Ave, N. W., Washington.... James W. Johnson, for Philip A. Payton, Jr., New York... J. A. Lankford, 1810 V St, N. W., Washington... Fred McCracken, 1413 Corcoran St., Washington... J. A. Lankford, for Washington Negro Business League... Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 St., N. W., Washington... Miss Angelina Grimke, by Archibald Grimke... Wilberforce graduates, by W. A. Joiner, Washington... Dr. W. S. Lofton, 1543 M St, N. W., Washington... John C. Dancy, 2139 L St, N. W., Washington... Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala... J. R. Cox, Tuskegee, Ala... Bernard Walton, 322 Spruce St., Washington... George Waller, 322 Spruce St, N. W., Washington... (Continued on Page Four) man St., New York...... Dianl Murray, 934 S. St., N. N. W., Washington ..... Dr. P. B. Brooks, 306 Third St. S. W., Washington, paid ..... Dr. P. B. Brooks, paid for daughter Judge R. H. Terrell, 326 T St. N. W., Washington ..... Whitfield McKinley, 336 F St. N. W., Washington ..... Albertus Brown, 1725 10th St. N. W., Washington ..... James W. Johnson, for Rosamond Johnson, New York... James W. Johnson, U. S. Consul to Venezuela. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1907. T..OMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROAD OPPOSED MAY MEAN END OF JIM CROW CARS 5.00 John Sharp Williams Lets Cat Out of Bag--Tuskegee Accounts All 5.00 Straight--Tom Watson's Harangue--Journalists to Meet. 5.00 Be ye not deceived, gentle readers, the South is not against government ownership of railroads on the abstract merits—or demerits—of the proposition. Behind the whole question stands the grim specter of the inevitable race problem. The South knows that whatever is done to promote "the equality of all men before the law," as provided by the Constitution, will be done by the general gov [Image of a man with a white beard and a dark suit, facing slightly to the right.] philip ... 25.00 St., ... 10.00 orco- ... 5.00 ington ... 20.00 326 ... 5.00 Ar- ... 5.00 W. ... 5.00 St., ... 5.00 N. ... 5.00 ington, ... 25.00 truce ... 25.00 truce ... 10.00 truce ... 5.00 St., ... 5.00 enth ... 5.00 enth ... 5.00 Elev- ... 5.00 leton, ... 5.00 St., ... 5.00 N. ... 5.00 (Far) ernment, and that the only drastic measures looking to the restriction of the blacks, must be done by the States. It further knows that in case of conflict, the federal law will take precedence over any mere State regulation. In short, John Sharp Williams, the high priest and chief fugeman of the anti-government ownership crowd, has let the cat out of the bag by confessing that the real bugear threatened by government ownership of the railroads lay in the almost certain abrogation of the separate coach law. As we have said before, the South is never able to assume an attitude on the economic issues that other sections divide upon, because it can make known its views, a commission of experts must go over the ground to see if there is not concealed somewhere beneath the deceptive folds of the proposed measure, some advantage that the Negro may seize hold of and move a few notches higher in the scale of citizenship. Since every measure that can possibly benefit any white man, North or South, is bound to prove helpful to some Negro, few matters of general concern manage to escape Southern disapproval. In order to hold the Negro back, the bourbon South is willing to deny to its white people the degree of progress --- --- Staff Correspondence. THE HOME OF THE MAYOR to which they are logically entitled. What John Sharp Williams says is not of any great moment, for the nation would be infinitely better off if he religiously held his peace, but to pillory him upon the altar of his own assinnity, and to preserved as a record, we deem it worth while to quote the exact words of the Democratic floor leader of the National House of Representatives, where he occupies a seat obtained by fraud and maintains the semblance of prestige by methods that the term demagogic but faintly describes. Hear the bray of the donkeyish Mississippi: Says Williams in part, giving the game away, as it were: "No one—not even my opponent Governor Verdeman—will attempt to deny that if the railroads become the property of the federal government, State laws regulating the conduct or character of the trains would fail, ipso facto, because a State can not regulate, control or limit the use of federal property. 'What is to prevent Congress from providing separate coaches for the two races?' the Governor asks. Nothing; absolutely nothing, except Congress itself—the lack of will upon the part of at least two-thirds of Congress, in each House, to do it." Following this, Williams confirms the very argument your correspondent made last year when the hysterical gentleman from New England made a grand-stand play against the Foraker amendment to the rate bill, on the ground that it legalized Jim Crow cars in the heretofore unrestricted North. The Mississippi takes the view we did—that there is nothing now, except the lack of public sentiment to prevent separate coaches on the roads in Ohio, Illinois or Massachusetts, and that the Foraker "equal accommodations" amendment had nothing to do with the case, and would have no weight except to compel the railroads to give cars of equal comfort and convenience for Negroes in States where the separate coach law was in force, as were given other races, for the same money. But let us return to Williams and hear him for his cause: "Every State in the North could have separate coaches for whites and blacks, if the people of those States wanted them. They do not have the Jim Crow car because they do not want it, and the men reflecting the views of the people in Congress would not enact laws to provide for it," argues the Inspired One. Williams then proceeds to expose the cloven hoof of his opposition to government ownership in this wise: "If we could look otherwise with any degree of confidence to Congress," saiy he, "in case of government ownership of railroads, to provide separate coaches for the two races, our confidence would be chilled by facts ```markdown ``` plain enough for all to see. Congress had absolute power in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma, where local opinion demanded racial separation, but it never exercised that power, because it did not want to. It has absolutely full power in New Mexico, Arizona, Porto Rico and the District of Columbia right now, and yet not one-third of the votes in either House—none, in fact, except the votes of the Southern States—could be obtained for a proposition to engraft upon those territories the separate coach law." The South, then, is against the government ownership of railroads, not because of anything inherently un sound in the idea, but because it would interfere with one of their sacred institutions—the Jim Crow car. We are almost impelled to paraphrase the vulgar exclamation of the distinguished Senator from South Carolina, in expressing our opinion of the peanut politicians who attempt to represent a sovereign people in Congress, and say, "To Hades with such statesmanship!" Some of these fine days the South may find the Negro leaders all arrayed in favor of government ownership, largely because the Williamses, Morgans, et al., are against it. They may love the plan for the enemies it has made. Should the blacks support government ownership to get rid of the Jim Crow car, it will be funny to see William Jennings Bryan stumping the States of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia in advocacy of his pet scheme. There's some fun ahead. The State of Alabama grants to the Tuskegee Institute for its maintenance the meager sum of $3,000 per year. To this extent it is a State institution, and liable to examination at the hands of the State authorities. In order to cast a slur upon the management of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and to give some petty annoyance to an enterprise which reflects more credit upon Alabama than Alabama does upon it, the authorities have asked to have a peep into the books. To this no one is likely to offer any very stronuous objection. Some years ago Mr. William H. Baldwin Jr. put into operation the railroad system of accounting, and the periodical examination made by Mr. D. C. Smith, the auditor, showed that the books were kept in apple-pie order, and would bear any test to which the most expert account might subject them. A few weeks ago Dr. Seth Low, ex-president of Columbia College and ex-mayor of Greater New York, himself an experienced accountant, made a critical examination of Tuskegee Institute and the methods in vogue there, and in a letter made public only last week he expressed himself as well pleased with all that he saw of the institution, and laid particular stress upon the accuracy and system which characterized the accounts of the school. If Tuskegee Institute can secure the unsolicited endorsement of such an eminent authority on school and business management as Dr. Seth Low, it has nothing to fear from the hayseeds of Alabama who propose to open the books, with the hope of finding something that will tend to dis- FREDERICK DOUGLASS' HOMESTEAD credit the men and women who run the State's most noted institution. The country is willing to accept the estimate placed upon Taskegee's accounts by Messrs. Low, Ogden, Peabody, Rockefeller, Hare, Warburg and others of equally high standing in the world of commerce, education and philanthropy. The testimony of the non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry shows pretty conclusively that the previous investigations conducted by Garlington, Blocksom, Lyon and Purdy were mere fares, framed up to serve a purpose. Sergeant Mingo Sanders' evidence, submitted for the first time, distinctly proves that the soldiers in the garrison had no guilty knowledge of the men who "shot up" the town, and the testimony of his comrades was positive and direct, convincing those open to conviction that there was no collusion to suppress the facts—no "conspiracy of silence." Senator Foraker is doing the work of his life in conducting the defense, and his readiness to have the men cross-examined shows clearly that he has no axe to grind that will not be ground by the plainest exposure of the naked truth. Now that the evidence has taken a turn favorable to the Negroes, those organs which so blatantly accused them of being murderers and flippantly justified their summary discharge, are conspicuously silent. The investigation is taking wide range, and it is not likely that it will be concluded for some time yet. That the innocent ones will be allowed to resume their places in the army there can be no doubt, and it is still probable that the responsibility for the crimes of last August will be fixed upon the right persons. There is no disposition to abuse the President. He acted hastily but upon what were represented to him to be facts. He trusted his Garlington, et al., not wisely, but too well. He will be the first to extend the "glad hand" to the men who clear themselves from the false charges, and express regret for the error in which he was unwittingly led. One of the most careful and level-headed men in the United States Senate is Hon. James A. Hemenway, the junior member from Indiana. He is not only a conscientious legislator on general principles, but he is a consistent friend of the Negro who tries to conduct himself in keeping the law and the demands of decency. He is a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, before which the Brownville investigation is being carried on. Senator Hemenway has been watching the evidence very closely, and is inclined to give the men "a show for their white alley," and see to it that absolute justice is meted out, regardless of color or local prejudices. When the testimony in regard to Company D had been concluded Senator Hemenway expttssed himself as being convinced that that company had nothing to do with the outrage. Said he: "It is very plain to my mind that the soldiers of Company D had absolutely no part in the riot. In my record of manly men, who might otherwise have gone to their graves with the stain of national dishonor upon ```markdown ``` their garments. Let the sifting process go on until every shred of testimony is in hand. The innocent men should be cleared, even if the guilty ones are never found. opinion, the evidence is conclusive that no man of Company D fired a shot. I do not know what evidence (Continued on Page Four.) TIPPED AS HE WENT. His Promise to Pay a Lump Sum Weekly Did Not Bring Results. "I had heard all about the tipping system in Europe before going abroad," said the young man just returned from his maiden voyage, "so I thought I'd inaugurate a new system. At a fashionable hotel in London the valet assigned to my floor was the subject of my first experiment. "See here," I said in a frank, jovial manner when he came in to attend me, 'I want to make an arrangement with you. It's an infernal nuisance to be handing out tips every few minutes, or, at least, when I want anything done. Now, I purpose to lump the whole thing in weekly payments. I expect to be here at least three weeks. You look after me to the best of your ability, and at the end of each week I'll make it all right with you—in fact, I'll give you more in a lump sum than you would get in tips. Is that satisfactory?" "Quite, sir," he said cheerfully, but I fancied he looked disappointed. "Very well," said I. "I'm going out for a drive about town. Meanwhile take my evening clothes out of my trunk, have them pressed and laid out for me. You'll find studs and buttons for the shirt in that box on the dresser. My shoes are in that vallise." "H'all right, sirl. Very good, sirl. Thankee kindly,' said he, and I left with a feeling of elation. "When I got back to the hotel I found my evening clothes still in the trunk, the shirt and shoes untouched and, in short, 'nothing doing.' Next day I went back to the old system."—New York Press. PIE BIRDS OF BRITTANY. They Must Be Pretty Strong, According to This Breton Story. "Speaking of exaggerations," said a traveler, "reminds me of the ple bird story of the Breton farmer. "There was a farmer in Brittany who wished to tell a visitor how his farm had been overrun with pies. Pies, you know, are large birds, black and white, with long tails—a kind of crow. The farmer said the pies devastated his fields horribly. If he put up scarecrows, the birds tore them down. One day his young son ran into the granite farmhouse and shouted: "Oh, father, hundreds and hundreds of birds! The wheat is being all eaten up!" "The farmer loaded his gun. But where was the shot? It couldn't be found. He put in a few handfuls of tacks instead. Then he ran out. The wheatfield was black and white, like a checkerboard, with ples. The farmer gave a loud yell, and the birds all flew up into a tall poplar. He fired, and, lo, every bird was nailed fast to the tree. They were nailed fast. Their flapping wings filled the air with a loud whir. The farmer, amazed, stood watching them. Then a strange thing happened. The birds, with one grand united effort, pulled up the huge tree and flew away with it." Important Correction. To Tennyson truth was a simple thing. It was simply to be exact. In this light should be read an amusing story found in Bram Stoker's "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving." Irving had heard a story that Tennyson not long before had been lunching with friends in his own neighborhood not far from Haslamere. His hostess said to him as they went into the dining room: "I have made a dish specially for you myself. I hope you will try it and tell me exactly what you think of it." "Of course I shall," replied Tennyson. After lunch she asked him what he thought of it. "If you really wish to know," said he. "I thought it was like an old shoe." When they met, Irving asked Tennyson if the story were true. "No," he said at once. "I didn't say that. I said something, but it wasn't that it was like an old shoe." "What did you say?" persisted Irving. "I said it was like an old boot." "The Conduct of Life." Under this head Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Tis an estimable hint I owe to a few persons of fine manners that they make behavior the very first sign of force-behavior, not performance or talent, or much less, wealth. While almost anybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central and forever unfold, and these alone charm us. He whose word or deed you cannot predict, who answers you without any supplication in his eye, who draws his determination from within, that man rules." Was Hamlet Fat? Was Hamlet fat or slender? M. Catulle Mendes, who held the latter view, was nearly killed by a sword thrust of M. Vanor, who leaned to the hundred kilos. Unfortunately the raplers only pierced the skin of the duelists and not the mystery which was the cause of the dispute. -Pierre Lerouge in Paris Revue Generale. For Nonsupport She—I can't understand why Lord Busted wants a divorce. His wife had half a million when he married her. He—Yes, and she's got every penny of it still. That's the trouble.—Pick-Me-Up. It often takes a lot of common sense to get a man out of trouble a little nonsense got him into.—Beaver (Okla.) Herald. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. RETURN THANKS FOR KINDNESS. To the Americo-Hamites, Greeting: Wherefore it has been the Providence of God that in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the physiologically—ethnological black Jew) 1904, to have inspired me during the General Conference of the Grand Methodist Episcopal Church at Los Angeles, Ca., a few months before the St. Louis Exposition, immediately following Commissioner Skinner's visit to the conqueror of the Italian army, Ras. E. Menelik, my earthly king, to visit you. investigate sociological conditions and demonstrates to this nation the commercial possibilities and greatness of the sons of Cush's country; and. Whereas, after three months' arrival, educational and social apprehensions of a Presiding Elder and a minister of the African Methodist Church, residing in the city of Brooklyn, New York, enabled them to have extended to me an invitation to address the Ministers' meeting, which address, after its completion, either through a jealous apprehension, malicious intentions, or enthusiastic hallucination, made two men of the gospel to have accused me of being once a visitor before to such a city, which accusation was resented, as my authorized credentials from England were refused when offered to show my [Image of a man in a graduation cap and gown holding a diploma]. Rev. Father C. F. Checlzzli. standing and representation of Abyssinia; but as there were some of the representative men who made me to understand that it was a misunderstanding, not agreeable to all, and in remembering that I had already solicited the powerful aid of some white and black olergy, of teachers and presidents of Universities and colleges at Toronto and Bishop Universities in Canada, Bliss and Pennel Colleges in Maine, Howard and Wesley Universities of Massachusetts, Oswego and Courtland, State Normal Schools of New York State and other influential schools and churches, that to me their courtesies were extended, I did not see the necessity of paying attention to them, who were not known for miles beyond their own environment; and. Whereas, I had a message to fulfil a message to offset the pussillianous theories of unscientific and historical abusers, who properge the false ideas of the inferiority of my race, the race that have given the world such immortal characters as Aristotle, the metaphysician, Homer Hablin, the classist, Macobins, the philosopher, Hannibal, the peer of Napoleon or Ceasar, Saint Athanasis, the theologian, Chrysoctom, the theologically critical expositor, Arnobins, the grand defender of Christianity, Moses Amram, the peer of Lincoln and Israel leader, Nebuchadnezar and the Pharaohs, prophetic seers as Job, Nahum, Johah and Habakuk, and Apostles, as Simon, son of Canaan, Jude and Barnabas, I repeat, having the ethnological inspiration of reviving these immortal spirits from their psychological slumber to reveal themselves to the oppressed sons of Bam in America, I determined to have prolonged my visit for two years, ascertain conditions as resist and demonstrate the patriotic inspiration, and now while on the eve of departure, I beg to offer my thanks first to Wilberforce, Tugalon, Western, Langsdon and Clark's Universities, Jackson, Gammon, Livingstone, Macon, West Point, Berber, --- Lane, Louisville and Peyton's colleges Jefferson, Kansas, Albanv, Petersburg, Norfolk, and St. Mary, State Normal Schools for the race. To the surficial representatives as Drs. Dan William, Curtis, McDowell and Steward; to the General Scientific scholars, as Profs. Scarborough and Jones, Bowen and DuBols, Kelly Miller, Gilbert and Grossman, representative physicians as Steward, Wilson, Birch, White, Bluit, and others whose names cannot now be recognized, literary newspaper men as Trotter, Sims, Mohmett, Barber, Chappel'e, Johnson, and the editors of the Bee, Topeka Organ and many others that cannot now be recognized, representative lawyers and merchants, dignified ministers as Revs. Credit, Johnston of Harrisburg, Lee of Washington, Johnstor of Pittsburg, Brooks of New York, Chavis of Wheeling, Gould of Philadelphia, O'Connor of Delaware, Thomas of Baltimore, Alexander of Atlanta,[Leander of Minneapolis and others who cannot now be recognized. To these men, whose principles during my stay with them impressed me so much I offer my thanks and congratulation. For forty odd years you have made wonderful progresses. God grant that you may live long life to propagate the psycho- F. J. logical influences of your historic ancestors to these your people. Your pathway seems frustrated with opposition, in metaphorically achieable ideas; for in the midst of all your higher ideals I have seen the jealousy and envy that you have to combat with. Do not be d scouraged, but, with your psychologic weapons, always uplifted for tearing down dormant walls of prejudices and ignorances, success will be attained. Your labors' reward shall not be reaped here in this land by your people; nay, the diabolic oppositions that they have here to combat are paradoxic influences to mould teem more united and aspiring for the grand migration to the Fatherland; when the psychologic traits, prophetically shall have been ignited; when fiery plagues shall have smitten your enemies to send you back in peace, when the fiery word of God shall have demanded the European aggressors to quit South and West Africa; and as your work will then in taking possession of your rightful lands, be to christianize your kin in those sections, establish a civil government and begin to rule; then we, your first cousins in Abyssinia seeing which, we shall be inspired by the prophecy of David, Ethiopians' modern Abyssinians, stretch forth your hand to God by marching to the west and unite your government with your returned cousins. Good-bye to those I may never see again. Yours for the superior quality of the black race It is the theory of the yellow journals of Chattanooga that if the "best citizens" of that community choose to lynch a few Negroes once in a while, it is no concern of the Attorney General of the United States, and he is to be characterized as "a high and mighty person" for presuming to interfere in the name of justice. Chattanooga stands badly in need of some missionary effort. C. F. CHECLZZLI. He Makes an Apparently Harmless Letter a Deadly Machine. So expert are bombmakers nowadays that an apparently harmless letter may kill any person who tries to open it. A piece of cardboard is cut to a size which, when folded over, will fit into an ordinary envelope. The four corners of this are slit into narrow strips. Fulminate of mercury is spread over three of the slits, and the sheet is folded and fastened together. Projecting from each side of the folded sheet is a little metal strip, or detonator, glued to the cardboard in such a manner that the envelope cannot be opened without striking one of them. Upon meeting this slight resistance the hand moving the paper cutter instinctively pushes harder, and the result is an explosion that either kills or malms. The easiest bomb to construct is set in operation by simply turning it upside down. It is usually a good sized cracker box, lined with paper and half filled with a mixture of chlorate of potassium and ordinary sugar. Into this a bottle of a powerful acid is introduced. The remainder of the space in the box is filled with scraps of metal. Then the lid is soldered on. All that is then necessary is to place the box upside down at the spot in which it is to explode. The acid eats quickly through the cork of the bottle and comes in contact with the chlorate of potassium. As a result of the chemical combination which takes place there is a terrific explosion.—Chicago News. THE ESPOUSAL Ancient Ceremony of the Mutual Promise of Marriage. The first part of the matrimonial office was anciently termed the espousal, which took place some time prior to the actual celebration of marriage. These espousals consisted in a mutual promise of marriage, which was made by the man and woman before the bishop or presbyter and several witnesses. After them the articles of agreement of marriage, called tabuloe matrimoniales, which are mentioned by Augustine, were signed by both persons. After this the man delivered to the woman the ring and other gifts, an action which was termed subarrhation. In the latter ages the espousals have always been performed at the same time as the office of matrimony in all the churches abroad, and it has long been customary for the ring to be delivered to the woman after the contract has been made, which has always been in the actual office of matrimony. The ring is a special token of spouses. In some of the old manuals for the use of foreign cathedrals before the minister proceeds to the marriage he is directed to ask the woman's dowry—viz, the tokens of spouses—and by these tokens of spouses are to be understood rings or money or some other things to be given to the woman by the man, which giving is called wedding or covenanting, especially when it is done by the giving of a ring—New York Tribune. Knew Him at Once. There are other sure ways of bringing a man to mind besides mentioning his name. Among the candidates who were sent from Princeton to a Philadelphia church was one young man whose language was of the sort which dazzles and delights the younger members of a congregation and sometimes pleases the elders as well. In this case the committee were besieged to ask for the young man again, and they consented, but unfortunately the man to whose lot it fell to write the letter had forgotten the candidate's name. Nothing daunted, he wrote to one of the seminary professors: "Please send us that floweret, streamlet, rivulet, cloudlet, starlight and moonbeam young man again. We've forgotten his name, but we've no doubt you'll recognize him." "We do," wrote the professor. And the desired candidate was sent and subsequently was called to the parish. Forest Air There is a general impression that the humidity of the air is greater in the woods than in the open fields. This is contradicted, however, by the result of observations made in Germany. It was found there that the humidity, both relative and absolute, was slightly greater in the open than in the woods, and this was true equally in the morning and in the afternoon. As to the temperature of the air among the trees, it was a trifle higher than in the open in the morning and in a more marked degree in the afternoon. A Comparison. Thomas Sheridan, the father of Lady Dufferin, once displeased his father, who, remonstrating with him, exclaimed, "Why, Tom, my father would never have permitted me to do such a thing?" "Sir," said his son in a tone of the greatest indignation, "do you presume to compare your father to my father?" Dickens' Interest In Inns "Pickwick" is the very Odyssey of inns and travel, for the youthful Dickens had traversed England as a reporter, and in "Pickwick" alone no fewer than fifty-five inns, taverns, etc., in London and the provinces are mentioned and often described at length.—London Chronicle. 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If your drugstore does not have it from his jobber or wholesale dealer, or send us 50c. for one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, or $2.50 for six bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U.S. A. When ordering send postal or express money order, and notify me of paper you saw this advertisement in. Write your name and address plainly to the address: 76 Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL. Dept. A, 76 Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL. (Note a resume with our signature, "Charles Ford Paid") VICTOR TALKING MACHINES. The Victor is so perfect it is often mistaken for the human voice. It is proving a never failing source of DELIGHT to Thousands. COME IN AND LET US TELL YOU all ABOUT IT. SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS Phones Main 852 New 9093. KOEHRING BROS. 878, 880, 882 VIRGINIA AVENUE. Advertise in The Freeman Don't Neglect It It is a serious mistake to neglect a weak heart. It is such a short step to chronic heart disease. When you notice irregularity of action, occasioning short breath, palpitation, fluttering, pain in chest or difficulty in lying on left side, your heart needs help—a strengthening tonic. There is no better remedy than Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. Its strengthening influence is felt almost at once. "I have used 10 bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and can truthfully say it has done me more good than anything I have ever used and have had even everything the doctor asked of the doctor who attended me asked me what I was taking and I told him Dr. Miles Heart Cure, he said it was good. I have not taken any of it did. I have not taken any for a year now, and while there is occasionally a slight symptom of the old trouble, it can be cured with the use of the medicine. If I should get worse I would know what to do. Take Dr. Miles' Heart Cure as I did before. I consider myself practically cured of S. H. DUNNAM, Livingston, Texas. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If it fails he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart Ind Madame Ellis's Face, Bleach, Warranted Harmless and Guar anteed to give satisfaction. $1.00 Per Bottle $1.00 Trial Size 50o. Ellis's Face Cream 25c per box. Mail Orders promptly attended to. Address 157 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. GOOD QUICK & ARTISTIC ENGRAVING INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. 23 25 W. PEARL ST. INDIANAPOLIS my eye, St. Paul, Aug. 28, 1904. I used only one bottle of perfume and my hair has stopped breaking off and has greatly improved my hair using this wonderful preparation my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten inches or more. Yours刻. 314 South St. MINNIE FOANER. Brookhaven, Miss., Aug. 13. Gregory was a girl when she was seven inches long. I never tried any preparation. I never tried any preparation. My hair was turning gray and was rather deadly but since I have had it a long time my hair has turned black like it was when I was a girl and it has a lively, chic, color. ROBERTS. Brookhaven, Miss., Aug. 13. Gentleman, Miss. I never tried any preparation so excellent for the hair. My hair was very dry and rather dead but since I have been using your hair pomades my hair has turned black like a wig. I am not sure it has a lively, glossy color. C. L. ROBERTS. Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 1900. Gentleman. I have always had found it to do more than it is recommended to do. It stops the hair from falling out and has a soft, pliable and glossy. MAGGIE RENN PAWNBROKER We loan money on Diamonds, Watches, Jewel es of value LOWEST RATES Ertel's Loan Office, 209 Massachusetts Ave. Private Entrance, 108 E. Ohio St. New Phone 1790 Send Your Next Bundle to the Hoosier Laundry 320 Indiana Ave., The Place where Linens last We also do FAMILY WASHING Rough Dry at Five Cents Per Pound The only soap that won't smart the face—Williams' Shaving Soap. Sold everywhere. Write for booklet "How to Shave." The J. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. 3 PER CENT, INTEREST Paid on saving accounts can be drawn anytime with interest. No account too small. THE RICHCREEK BANK 106 N. Delaware St. MR POMADE KNOWN AS OX MARROW" Soft and Easy to Comb THE PEOPLE SAY West Chester, Pa., Meh. 30, 1905. I had typhoid fever and my hair all came out. I used three bottles of your pomade, we now my hair is nine inches long and very thin and nice and straight. Most every one sees how good your pomade did my hair, they are anxious for it. My hair is an example of every c Yours respectfully, ELLA BET. Colvert, Tex., Mch. 31, 1905. I have used one bottle of your pomade and my hair is now perfectly straight, soft and black as silk. I will not be without it. RHODA EDWARDS. Colvert, Tex. Mch. 31, 1 I have used one bottle of your pomade and my hair is now perfectly straight soft and black as silk. I will not be without it. RHODA ENWARDS. Paris, Mo., July 5, 1986. Gentlemen. When I learn my made my need was so bad I was ashamed of myself, but now my hair has grown three inches over my head and I have been using it all wrong. Dal PERTER. unity to the gentleness of the statements. The Freeman. You known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" can be put up in any style desired consisted on known to us that makes Kinky or Curly makes the most stubborn, harsh, kinky or lab. These results may be obtained from a haircut or a removes and prevents dandruff, relieves from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow, and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and children and children has been held continuously since MARROW" was registered in the United States if time there has never been a bottle returned FORD'S HAIR POMADE remains sweet. Be sure to get Ford's, as it's use made more popular. FORD'S HAIR POW" is only in the United States, and is made with the signature, Charles Ford. Prest, on cash with every bottle. Price only 50c. Sold PRIZES, the first prize being $60.00. Remember, I make this advertising offer to honest men and women who are alert and ready to grasp a real good thing. Curiosity seekers, triflers and others not meaning business not wanted, I mean business and will send contract and full information to any person meaning buniness. Write me to day; to-morrow may be too late. meaning buniness. Write me to-day; to-morrow may be too late. Address J. G. McPherson, P. O. Box 14, Dorchester, Virginia. 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Billingsley, Florist Choice Cut Flowers Designs a Specialty Old Phone, Main 3712 New Phone 3002 201 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis. Mr. Lepp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, tureats to add another ingredient to that mysterious compound known as the race problem, by injecting the white children of the frontier into the schools reserved for "Lo, the poor Indian." Who knows whether or not the Oriental Americans are willing to have the paleface usurpers mixed up with them on terms of social equality? Mr. Lepp wants to go slowly in this important matter. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED CGLORED NEWSPAPER WANT a reliable lady or gentleman to act as my representative, and take order, deliver and collect for my H i g H Grade Toilet preparati ons. H o u s holds remdies etc. in every location listed. S. The work is pleasant and profitable and any person willing to work and folow my instructions can earn from $1,50 to $3,50 per day. My goods are the fastest sellers on the market, as every article I manufacture is of such superior quality and so reasonable in price that all can afford to buy and agents will find themselves in a well established business before they realize it. It will not cost you one cent to engage in my work I will furnish you advertising matter for free distribution, and fill all your orders on 30 days time, and take back all goods not sold, all at my expense, besides I will give you an opportunity to wn one or more of the 43 GASH Remember, I make this advertising of the alertand ready to grasp a real good mothers not meaning business not wanted. It and full information to any person no-morrow may be too late. McPherson, P. O. Box 14, Dorchester, Virginia. er Poet M LONDRES Cigar mers and pay all express charges. Tryal Order. - Indianapolis, Ind. WASHING IS A POUND ES IRONED. LAUNDRY. 111 N. New Jersey Street. 428 E. Washington Street. Have You Heard of Prof. HARE'S Crescolian Hair Grower FREE We will send it FREE To any one who will write to us—a postal will do—we will send a full size box of Prof. Hare's Crescolian Hair Grower. and most meritorious medium for pro- and you will, after only a few applica-ity over all other hair tonics. This is a t a beautiful and luxurious head of long, address at once to 9 N. 13th St., Richmond, Va. Short Stay Neighborhoods. A man who contemplated going into business for himself looked around for a good location. He rejected the advice of two friends who had suggested neighborhoods which they thought desirable. "I don't like either of the places," he said. "Business can't be good around there. I have passed through those streets many times, and always I have been struck with the frequency with which the names on the shops are changed. That doesn't look promising. Wherever a man finds trade profitable he tays; contrariwise, he moves. None of the short stay neighborhoods for me."—New York Post. Causes of Headache. People get headache because they do not take sufficient active exercise to keep the blood circulating actively, become excited and often about things that do not concern them at all, neglect daily action of bowels, bathe in cold water without wetting the head, sleep on a low pillow, take too much alcohol, allow the feet to get cold, take iron and quinine when these drugs do not agree with the system.-Pittsburg Press. incontinence. "What is inconsistency?" asked the curious one. "Well," responded the wise one, "it is that spirit which moves a woman whose sleeves stop at the elbow to scold her husband because he hasn't any cuffs on."—Chicago News. Fortune gives many too much, but no one enough.—Laberius. Time never hangs heavily on hands RACE CLEANINGS Freedmen's Hospital at Washington is to cost quite a sum in addition to the $400,000 originally appropriated by Congress for the new building. A further appropriation, covering the increased cost of buildings and for the installation of a system of heating and ventilation, has been recommended. --- The autograph of W. T. Vernon, the new register of the treasury, is indicative of the character of the man who write it: straightforward business is in every bold stroke and at the final scratch of ink. It will make in size nearly two of the signatures of Judson W. Lyons, who stepped out of the Register's office last June, and nearly half a dozen of the dainty, feminine, almost microscopic autographs of Blanche K. Bruce, the noted Senator from Mississippi, who held the place before Lyons time. * * * The city council of Atlanta, Ga., as its last act, closing the stormiest period of its existence, passed over the veto of the retiring mayor, James G. Woodward, and ordinance increasing the saloon license from $1,000 to $2,000 a year, by a vote of 18 to 1. The new ordinance is expected to force many low Negro and white saloons and dives out of business. H. Sylvester Williams, a Negro, has been elected a borough councilor for the metropolis of London, England. This is the first time in the history of England that a man of African decent has been so distinguished. --- Negroes of New Orleans, La., are to erect a six story office and theatre building on the corner of Gravier and Saratoga streets, at the cost of $60,000 with a Negro bank on the first floor. * * * John D. Rockefeller on Sunday attended morning service at Big Bethel, Augusta, Ga., Rev. C. T. Walker president, the leading Negro Baptist church in the city. When the plate was passed he deposited a silver dollar. Then he astonished the congregation by calling the collector and emptying his pockets of change into the plate, about twenty dollars in all. Mr. Rockefeller occupied a pew with Negroes. Dr. Peter J. Smith, the well-known chiropodist, has been representing New York's interests in the Jamestown Negro Exposition. --- Reeves and Allison are prosperous coal dealers in Nashville, Tenn. * * * Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court has granted a writ of error in the case of Ed Smith, a Negro sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for at- 'HIDDEN TREASURE. New Zealanders Dig For Kauri Gum In the Ground. Many New Zealanders find it profitable to dig for hidden treasure. That for which they dig, however, is not gold or Captain Kidd's ill gotten wealth, though it has a dull yellow color. It is kauri gum, a resinous substance which is the product of the kauri pine tree. The gum can be secured from the trunks of trees while they are alive, for it protrudes in lumps, but it is especially profitable to dig for it in the soil about the stumps remaining after the trees have been cut down. Sometimes chunks weighing as much as 100 pounds are taken up from the ground. Digging for kauri gum is profitable, for the gum is used in the manufacture of varnish, and apparently it is one of those products of nature whose place cannot be filled by anything else which has yet been discovered. It has been found that it can be used in certain enamel paints, and this has had the effect of bringing the demand up to a point above the supply. The kauri pine is a magnificent tree. It rises as straight as a needle to a height of from 150 to 200 feet and attains at times a diameter of fifteen feet. It is noted for its dark, dense foliage and is much used for masts for vessels constructed for the British navy. Chewing and Dyspepsia The lean dyspeptic, taking a mouthful of chop, chewed it interminably. "Forty chews," he paused to say, "for every bite." And his jaws began to grind again. "You make me laugh," his companion, a physiologist, returned. "Meat requires little, if any, chewing. You must have wasted a lot of chews in your time." "Go on!" "It's true. Vegetables require chewing, for they are digested largely by the alkaline mouth juices, but meat is digested by the acid stomach juices, and to chew it more than enough to make it go down easily does harm instead of good. The mouth alkali, ad- tempted assault on a young girl in an orphan's home in Chattanooga, Tenn. The sentence was affirmed by the State Supreme Gourt. The writ of error was granted on the allegation that the names of no Negroes were placed in the jury box from which the panel for the trial of Smith was drawn. --- A cable dispatch to the New York Sun from Havana says that an individual named Ratenoz has published a manifesto in the name of the Negro element demanding three Senators and fourteen Representatives in the new Cuban Congress. The manifesto also demands that Negroes receive a proportionate number of offices in the custom houses and other public services. It further demands Negro officers for the army. The manifesto declares that 90 per cent of the soldiers in the recent rebellion were Negroes and that 75 per cent of the Liberal party are Negroes. Nevertheless, it says, some half whites are monopolizing all public employments while the Negroes are being ground to powder. The Negroes are not inclined to allow this and refuse to continue pulling chestnuts out of the fire for others or to continue being pariads. The manifesto supports Jose Mignel Gomez for the presidency, declaring he has no race prejudice. The election at Mound Bayou, Miss., passed off very quietly, resulting in the retention in office of Mayor B. F. Cresswell and City Marshall Chas. H. Williams. The community of Mound Bayou is composed entirely of colored people, and is demonstrating unquestionably the capability of the negro for self-government. --- John Muggar, a negro porter on a Pullman sleeper, which was in the wreck on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad at Southwood, La., Dec. 19, has been presented with a gold metal for heroic conduct, the donors being the engineers and conductors of the system, Muggah, at the risk of his own life, wrapped his head in a coat and waded into a fog of blistering steam and brought out a dying engineer, Col. H. Prince, a white man. Prince praised the negro's valorous deed before succurabing. --- The statement of the American Trust and Savings Bank at Jackson, Miss., the crack negro bank of that section, for the year is gratifying to the stockholders and depositors alike. The capital paid in amounts to $11,300, while the total resources are $40,100.79. The bank takes high rank in the State, and those behind it are the strong men of the city and section. The officers are E. E. Perkins, vicepresident; P. A. Wardlaw, cashier; Perry M. Howard, attorney; Dr. S. D. Redmond, president. mixing with it, under the stomach acids' work. "Chew vegetables indefatigably, my friend, but let your meat slip down unground."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Word "Idiot." "idiot" is a word with a curious history. In Greek "idiotes" began by meaning a private individual, as opposed to the state or to a state official; then it meant a nonexpert or layman and finally an ignorant man or an awkward fellow. It was left for English to carry the meaning further to mental deficiency. In "Plers Plowman" an "idiot" is an ignorant person, and as late as 1698 it could mean a person who knew only one language. Wyclif and Jeremy Taylor used it in the sense of "layman," and the latter also in that of "private person." And a professional "fool" or jester was at one time an "idiot" too. To Extract Essence From Flowers. To Extract Essence From Flowers. Procure a quantity of the petals of any flowers that smell sweet and fragrant. Take thin pieces of muslin or fine linen and after having dipped them in good Lucca oil or Florence oil place them as layers between the petals. Sprinkle a small quantity of fine salt on the flowers and put a layer of linen and a layer of flowers alternately until an earthen vessel or wide mouthled glass bottle is full. Tie the top over with oil silk or parchment, then lay the vessel in a south aspect in the heat of the sun, and in fifteen days, when uncovered, a fragrant oil may be squeezed away from the whole mass. Stage Dressmaking. Our plays are for the most part overdressed, with extravagance, vulgarity and inappropriateness obtaining in place of artistic fitness. The new costumes have to some extent frequently undone the results of undress rehearsals, the actresses no longer representing the drama as they did before the dressmaker sent home their gowns, while the variety of their impersonations is swamped by the uniformity of their fashions.—A. W. Pinero in Costume. Smith & Jones. [Copyright, 1906, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.] Jonas K. Smith and William B. Jones were schoolmates and bosom friends. At the age of twenty they entered the same counting room. Two years later Smith went into the draper's business, and Jones went to South America to represent a firm. Three years after Jones had departed for South America things so changed with his firm that he returned. Smith knew that he was coming and was the first to greet him. Neither had married during the interval. The draper had prospered, but desired to enlist more capital and enlarge his business. Jones had money and became a partner. So great was their faith in each other that no papers were drawn beyond those making it a legal partnership. They trusted to each other in everything else. The partnership continued for five years, and the firm made money. This made at least sixteen years that they had been dally together as boys and men, and one would have said that each thoroughly understood the other. One day, in view of further improvements, they had a balance sheet drawn. This showed the exact share of each and the profits made. There was a difference of just a halfpenny in favor of Smith. The matter was first mentioned in a joking way and in the greatest good nature, but later on it became a bone of contention. Here were two lifelong friends who had handled thousands of pounds between them disputing about a halfpenny. Each declared that he was actuated by principle, and so hot did the dispute rage that a dissolution of the copartnership was agreed upon. Jones went out of the firm and established an opposition trade. In two years he bankrupted both concerns. People for thirty miles around were furnished with free railroad tickets to come and buy, even at half price, and they were furnished free meals at the stores. When bankruptcy came it made a clean sweep. Both men went out into the world without a dollar. Smith took a situation in a warehouse, and Jones secured one with a real estate agent. Smith secured board far away from the other place, but inside of two days Jones was a boarder at the same place. Then they spoke for the first time in two years, and their words were overheard by the landlady, as testified to afterward. As they met in the upper hall Jones said: "Smith, I have just a word to say to you. I shall kill you some day for your meanness about that halfpenny." "That's my intention toward you." That was all. They sat at the same table and slept within a few feet of each other for five months and never passed another word. They ignored each other's very existence. The other boarders in the house came to understand the situation and fell into it, though of course it was a subject of general remark. On a dozen different occasions mutual friends interceded, but each time they were rebuffed. That poor little halfpenny stood in the way and could not be put aside. At the end of five months a relative of Smith died, and he decided to buy a house in a suburb of London and have a widowed sister act as housekeeper. This project was talked over at the table before all. It was a most curious thing that Jones should be in the employ of the real estate man who had erected the houses in the suburb referred to and that it was a part of his duties to show would be purchasers through the houses. Such was the case, however, and one afternoon when Smith alighted from the underground at the suburb he found Jones ready for him. It must have been a surprise to him, and yet he was equal to the occasion. He asked to be shown a certain house, and Jones led the way into it. People on the street heard and saw this. That evening neither man returned to his boarding house. They did not return next day. Then the police were spoken to, and a search was instituted. Smith had said that he was going to look at a house. Jones had said that he was going to show a house to a customer. They found the house into which the two men had gone and had not been seen to reappear with its outer door unlocked. In a room upstairs they found Smith and Jones dead. What happened was told by a trump who was in hiding in the house because he had committed a theft and feared the police were after him. He was asleep in an upstairs room and was awakened by the sounds of the men's voices in dispute. He heard one say: "Smith, Providence has sent you here to your death. I am going to kill you!" "Jones, I have been waiting for just such an opportunity to take your life!" replied the other. There was little or nothing more said before they closed with each other. The struggle lasted about five minutes. It was heard, but not seen, by the tramp. It ended by Smith being dashed against the sill of a window with such force as to fracture his skull. It was the opinion of the doctors that he may have lived on for an hour. Jones started to go downstairs, but sat down on the top step and fell back and died. He had a weak heart and had overexerted himself. The tramp had to climb over him to get downstairs. That was the end of one of the strangest feuds ever started from any cause, and one has but to read the particulars to wonder if any human being ever comes to really understand another. M. QUAD. The preacher of peace promoteth COOKS Waiters & Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving, full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc. 890 State St., CHICAGO IL. 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His tongue was eloauent in sounding the tocsin of liberty; his pen was potent in molding sentiment against the vilest curse that Previ- dence ever visited upon the American Republic; and his matchless person- ality was pitted to its full strength toward convincing the degenerate sons of noble sires that the Magna Charta signed at Philadelphia was de- signed to include black men as well as white men. How well he succeeded in his hea- yen-born mission is aptly attested by the magnificent results achieved—by the brilliant history the Negro freed- man has written for himself in forty years of citizenship. In war or in peace, in matters spiritual and tem- poral, in industry and in art, in science and in invention, the Negro has im- pressed himself indelibly upon the war and woof of this nation, and his contribution to its greatness as a world power is one of which any mem- ‘ber of its royal family might well be proud. ‘The moral and material force re- sponsible for the largest measure of this illustrial record was born ninety years ago this week, in an humble cabin home in Maryland, and people call him Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass—orator, states- man, agitator, journalist and construc: tive man of affairs—was indeed a tri- bune of the people; the title of “The Great Commoner” — bestowed alike upon Daniel O'Connell—sat fittingly upon him. He lived a life that is his race's most precious heritage; he died with his honors thick upon him, and in the fullness of thé Tove of the na: tion he had led to redemption. At this hour we do ourselves honor when we honor him—when we drop a tear beside his moss-grown grave at Ro- chester, or cast a wreath of words upon his memory in the public meet ing place. All that is mortal of Doug: lass had passed away, but the eminent example he has left of true nobility, of lofty character, of sturdy devotion to right principles, and unfaltering patriotism and filial obligation, abid eth with us evermore. His influence belongs to all the ages, and the life of this mighty republic of ours is sweeter for his having dwelt upon it: soil. May we not sing as Dunbar has sung: “Oh, Douglass! Thou hast passed be yond the shore, But still thy voice is ringing o'er the gale— ‘Thou'st taught thy race how high het hopes may soar, And bid them seek the heights, no faint nor fail.” While the race is shouting paen: to the memory of its most luminous it seems peculiarly appropriate that our admiration take on a more prac tical form. Sincerity is best evidenced by the doing of tangible deeds, and the expression of appreciation in ma terial terms. Though making his ear lier home in Rochester, N. Y., where THE FREEMAM, AN ILLUSTRATED COLUOKtD itt wSPAPER \, See ee ee ne put eloquent witness of the veneration | with which the citizens of that com- munity regard him, the years that Douglass’ tmancipated people knew him best were spent in that pictur- esque homestead overlooking the Po- tomac—historie and majestic Cedar Hill, Anacostia, a beautiful suburb of the nation’s capital. Here he was re- vered as “The Sage of Anacostia”"— here, surrounded by nis loved ones, This books and his flowers, he lived and died—here was created a garden spot as dear to the Afro-American as Mt. Vernon is to the citizenship of the republic, This sacred tract should be preserved as a mark of respect to the splendid man with whose fame it is indelibly associated, and the work necessary to accomplish such end should—and doubtless will be—a la bor of love to the ten millions of us scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land. ‘With his characteristic zeal in pro moting all movements that have fot their object the uplift of his people Dr. Booker T. Washington, at the ear nest request of the Frederick Doug lass Historical Association, has gen erously tendered his services to ai¢ in the campaign to raise the compar atively small amount of money—$5,40 with intertst at 6 per ctnt—needed tc pay off the indebtedness that hangs over the magnificent place on Cedai Hill, preliminary to putting it inte condition suitable for use as a mus eum, and rallying point for the Negrc masses of the land—a veritable Meccs where the inspiration for race ad vancement can be renewed at con venient intervals by our tourists, an¢ thus add another point of historic sig nificance to the cityeof Washington— one of especial significance to us. The Freeman takes pleasure in call ing attention to Dr, Washington’: burning appeal, which will be foun¢ elsewhere in this issue, together with the names of some of the donors whc have already contributed to the fund We urge a careful reading of the rea sons for asking this small sacrifice at the hands of our people, and invite a careful inspection of the list of prom inent persons who have indicated their hearty co-operation in this praiseworthy movement. Let us raise this amount without delay. While singing of the greatness of our hero, let us give of our means as liberally as we can to erect a mon ument to his memory at beautiful Cedar Hill, that shall stand in perpet uity as our expression of love for an¢ confidence in one who gave the best that was in him that we might taste the joys of freedom, and know the larger life that only liberty ean con. fer. “The man that with me trod This planet, was a noble type, Appearing ere the times were ripe That friend of mine who lives witl eee Tillman has again subsided—or rather his light was snuffed out dur- ing the last run-in with the giants of the Senate. After all, the Southern Negro is to figure largely in digging the Panama Canal—as we advised at the outset. Everybody knew that the talk ‘About Negro labor being inefficient was sim- ply the empty gabble of the labor unions to “hog everything” and to avoid the competition of the best labor on earth. Contractors “out for the stuff” do not deal in sentiment, and when they select Negro hands to do their work they do it because they can get the best results out of them. Negro workmen are all right if they are treated right. Sam Hardin, a porter on an Mlinois Central Pullman, running between New Orleans and Cincinnati, is one honest colored man. Mr. Montgomery, ‘a passenger bound for Elizabethtown Ky, left a package on board the train containing more than $40,000 in nego- tiable bonds, which could have been signed up and cashed anywhere by a clever manipulator. Mr. Hardin found the package, and returned it into the “Pullman “lost articles” department in the regular order of business. It is presumed he got a “tip” a little larger than the usual “handout.” At the annual Negro Farmers’ Con- ference at Tuskegee, February 20, the humblest and the most opulent tell how they got their start toward the ownership of their lands, how they built up theh schools in their neigh borhoods, and how they managed to lay by something for a rainy day. It will pay every Negro, whether he be /a farmer, merchant or professional! mamn, to attend Tuskegee’s sixteenth annual session of the Farmers’ Con ference, and to hear constructive plans for the future discussed in the Workers’ Conference next day. William H. Smith, in proposing the name of Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor of Indiana, to fill the Hoo- sier State’s vacant niche in Statuary Hall at Washington, for which place the figure of General Lew Wallace has since been selected by the Indiana Legislature, said: “History records the fact that t Jonathan Jennings is due the fact tha’ the taint of slave labor was neve! placed upon Indiana soil. He organ ized the first effective anti-slaver; |campaign in Indiana and captured : ,|majority of the delegates to the con ‘| stitutional convention of 1816, ant had himself elected chairman of tha ‘| convention in order to keep a slayer’ plank out of the constitution. Hi name is worthy of all honor.” | ‘This is an interesting scrap of his '|tory, which should not be forgotter '|by the boys and girls who are study ‘Jing the early condition of the North |ern mind on this important issue. In '| diana has never been cursed with th '| taint of slavery, and the credit is du ‘| to Governor Jennings. (con TINUED FROM FIRST PAGE ) Mrs. A. S. Gray, by Arthur 8. Gray, Washington .......... 5.00 W. J. Singleton, 2102 Ward Pl, N. W., Washington.........° 6.00 J._A. Cobb, 609 F St, N. W., Washington .....-..01..---- 5.00 I hope that much additional money will be sent at once. All money will be acknowledged with proper credit I shall be glad to furnish you with such additional information as you may desire. z ‘Signed: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, ‘Tuskegee, Ala. P. S—Those at the head of Sunday schools, churehe and other organiza- tions are especially urged to see that collections are taken in the interest of this fund. PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY STUDENTS. On Tuesday evening, January 29, a magnificent surprise reception was tendered Principal R. F. Taylor at his home on Ohio avenue, by the pupils who have been graduated from the col- ored High School during the twenty years of Mr. Taylor's principalship. The surprise was intended originally for Tuesday evening, January 22, the anniversary of his natal day, but, the apparent danger of a flood at that time caused the promoters to postpone it to January 29. During the time of Mr. Taylor's principalship, fifty-six young ladies and gentlemen have received their di plomas and entered the professions and other positions of honor and trust. & targe majority of these graduates seattered all over the country, as they are, promptly seized the the opportu: nity to contribute to the making of a testimonial of their respectful ap- preciation of his patient labor and deep interest in their welfare, when the initiative had been taken by a few graduates who reside in the city. On Tuesday evening during Mr. Tay. lor's absence from home a committee of young ladies, tastily decorated his home with ferns, carnations and class colors and received their invited guests, some of the best citizens of the Falls City. The guests having assembled, a fleet messenger was dispatched to call Mr Taylor home. On his arrival he found more than sixty persons assemble: to join in the surprise testimonal. The following program was well ren dered: Address, “Surprises,” Miss Miss Sa rah E. Bibb, Closs '97. Solo, “Face to Face,” Mary E, Twy man, Class '06. Address, “For the Graduates,” Mr. J W. Woodfork, Class "99. Solo, “Won't You Come Over to Out Home,” Miss Fanny B, Johnson, Clas Presentation Address, Prof. J. 0: Oglesby, Class 'S6. The arrangements were made by 2 committee of young ladies, Misses Anna Martin, Sarah Bibb, Fanny Johnson, assisted by Mrs. R. F. Tay: jor and Susie Twyman. They are te be congratulated upon the success of the testimonial. The presents from the graduates consisted of an elegant Morris chair, a rug and a library table. The teachers associated with Mr. ‘Taylor, who are not gradutes under his _principalship availed themselves of the opportunity and presented an : X a fas \ rm MOTHERS BREAD § him BRYCE’S MAKE ge E> g _ Best of all apa ee 7 Cae ey x . ox 5 : > Heavy enough without being soggy. fais ey, Light enough without being fluffy. eRe 4 Its taste tells the story. ee Sold by Grocers Only. ; indexed copy of Holman’s Pictorial ‘Teacher's Bible, with best flexible binding. Prof. Oglesby never appeared to better advantage than in his pre- sentation speech, which briefly _re- viewed the history of the Colored High School. Among tite out-of-town donors were Rev. and Mrs. N. H. Talbott, Master Willie Talbott, Mrs, Jennie White and Mr. Robt. Young, all of Dayton, O.; Mr. A. J. Carpenter, Indi- anapolis, and Mr.. Carey B. Lewis, Louisville, Ky. Covers were lad for sixty guests In the role of toastmaster, Prof C. P. Skinner was a decided success. Beil. liant toasts were spoken by Mr. Car. ey B. Lewis, the talented newspaper correspondent of Louisville. Prof. R. A. Roberts, Prof, Jno. A. Hodge and Prof. Edward Harper of New Albany, Rev. R. T. Bailey, Mrs. W. S. Ow: ens and Mr. G. E. Greer, of this city. Seldom does it become the lot of a teacher to receive such tangible evi dence of the esteem and appreciatior of his pupils and co-laborers, and Mr, Taylor has many reasons for being elated over the very generous manner in which his work and worth have been appreciated. Can eso , a 3 Vy g oa) Le Oe 7, eR BED a) Y j Ly | You go to law to-day and you go broke to-morrow, but that ain’t the case with Harry Thaw, who killed Stanford White who was shot by black. That Thaw feller needed somethin, lag a big doin’s of that kind to git rid of a little of that pin money what his father left here fer him. An’ another thing, Thaw ain't go no po’ kin. What we goin’ to do with ouh business men. Cain’t they learn to stop over-chargin to save they life. A boy in a school room is worth a thou- | sand in a pool room. General Correspondence From Various Sections. Miss N. M. Randolph, of Marlin, came home sick from Mary Allen Seminary at Crockett—Mrs. EB. L. Jackson left for her home on a visit— Mr. B. H. Carter is working at High- bank.—Prof. J. A. Anderson was in the city on business.—Mrs. A. D. Kee, G. W. C. Court of Calanthe, spent a few hours in the city—Miss Hilaria Hagan is up after a severe spell of sickness.—There was a masked enter- tainment at the Masonic Hall, Feb. 14. —Quite a number of health seekers are in the city. Among them are: Leander Johnson, of Victoria; George Rodgers, Hubbard City; Icem Louis, Paterson, Tex.; Nelson Mixon, Chil ton; John Diggs, Navasota; ‘Walter Marshall, Navasota; James Jones Cameron; Robert Bird, Waco—Mr Mr. LineoIn Wheeler was seen on the streets Saturday.—Mr. Nat Gerald fel off the platform at the H. and T. C. Freight depot and sprained his knee CLARKSVILLE. TENN. | The Masonic Temple Hall is becom- ing more popular every day with our |pepples Wels the pride of or vaca in this city——The P. B. Association en- _tertained the Nashville Students on the 5th at the new Masonic Hall. Prof. P. G. Lomry and his band is declared by both black and white citizéns to be | just what they were recommended.— Prof. Lomry met the Freeman agent, J. P. Steele, and they made them- selves friends for the future, Prof. Lomry is a race loving leader. Their show was up to date. All members of the company enjoyed themselves by being entertained with three socials by different people of the city.—The |P. B. Association held its annual elec- jtion on the 22d and elected officers as follows: Wm. Peyton, president; |Flem Slaughter, vice president; Wm. |Moore, secretary: J. P. Steele, treas: ‘urer; Hue Furion, assistant | secre tary; Alix. Warfield, manager; Ben F. McCoy, chaplain; Austin Young, (sentinel: G. D. White, general man- ager. The object of the People’s Bene- fit Association is to establish a depart- ment enterprise in all lines of bust- ness for the race—The Masonic Lodge are going to remodel their new hall and put a stage in for concerts and small colored traveling companies. —Steele & White's barber shop is ‘nnow located in a more convenient quarter, 107 South Iist—Diggs & Stamps has opened their new shop in the Masonic Building—Barker & Warfield has opened a nice shaving parlor on Strawberry avenue.—J. P. Steele has accepted the agencyship of the Royal Trust Company of Phila- ae The GLOBE BARGAIN STORE eo32— -DI4NA AVENU &€—S32 The STORE that SAVES YOU MONEY. > UP-TO-DATE tmeor Dry Goods §Shoes LADIES? and eens gy FURNISHINGS. A Few Specials for Saturday in Shoes: Misses Shes, $1.25 kind, for. .++++ «++ Sore oP Men's plain toe or tip, $200 kind, for.. .e+eeeeeee ene $1 49 Men's $250 shoes for ..... VE spot ees 518 Ladies’ Vici Kid for. aseeoneeers: weensineecdee oe SAI Don’t Forget the Number 532--INDIANA AVENUE--532 Reo mo delphia, Pa., and desires all of his friends’ assistance for the success of our race—The Patriotic Citizens of Clarksville are all in favor of our new Moses (Archbishop Justus J. Evan), effort of leading the children of Ham out of the land of egypt. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEN | (Continued from First Page.) may be brought out in regard to the other companies, but Company D, ac cording to my opinion, has presented a clean bill of health.” the wisdom of Senator Foraker's in- sistence upon an investigation. A stigma is being removed from the ' Some time ago we complained in a mild way that there was a woeful lack of vitality in the erstwhile powerful National Negro Press Association, and hinted that President Cyrus Field Adams ought to “get a move on him- self” and call a general convention of the editors, publishers, correspond. ents and newspaper men of every de seription—not in conjunction with the National Afro-American Council, Busi- ness League or any other organization with a definite purpose in view, to which the press gang would have to stand as a side show. We thought, and think now, that the representa- tives of the great press fraternity are strong enough to stand upon their own feet, and work out something for mutual benefit and for the betterment of the profession, without being con- fused by matters of an entirely for- eign nature. Mr. Adams has not as yet seen fit to call a meeting of the association, nor has any journal of prominence, as far as we have seen, interested it- self in the matter, but Col. Giles B Jackson, director-general of the Negro department of the Jamestown Exposi- tion has stepped manfully into the breach and extended the hospitality of the Negro Building at the fair to the gentlemen of the press, naming the Fourth of July as a day suitable to the management for such a coh- vention as we have described. Col. Jackson idea is to have a num- ber of special days, upon which will be discussed the many agencies that make for race progress, and that the press is one that he has selected to be honored with an invitation. The clergy, the business men, the Y. M. ©. A. workers and the women's clubs are some of the others to be allotted special consideration. : ‘The newspaper men have a number of matters of importance that ought to be considered in a serious vein, such as how to increase the circula- tion of the race journal and to widen its sphere of influence;. how to make the calling more remunerative; how to facilitate collections; how to reach certain classes of desirable advertis- ers: how to best present the news of interest to the people, ete., ad infin- ium. It may be an independent con- vention can be mage successful, so in the meantime it would be a good idea for the journalistic brotherhood to take advantage of the invitation so cordially extended by Col. Jackson. Go to the exposition, get wise as to the material progress of the race, and talk a little business at the same time. Hon. John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds for the District ‘of Columbia, will probably carry his point in hay- ing the old and mutilated deeds re- copied. The provision in the district bill allowing for this work has been approved by the district committee, and an appropriation of $1,500 has been ordered, to come out of the rev- enues of the recorder's office. Mr. Dancy also asks for the appointment of a cashier, suggesting $1,000 per annum as a fitting compensation. As ‘the old deeds are valuable they should by all means be preserved, and as the revenues leave a handsome surplus to be turned into the treasury, a cashier ought to be granted, if necessary to the proper discharge of the business of the office. If possible, the copyists, who now work by the piece, receiving one-third of the price paid in for each paper copied, should bt provided with a straight salary of $50 per month, and kept constantly employed. The recorder's office is now under the rules of the Civil Service Commission. Mr. Dancy has made a painstaking chief, but has bten heavily handicapped for the larger portion of his term by pre- cedents that are difficult to get tid of at onee, New Albany, Ind., nas a highy promising Knights of Pythias loigs of seventy members. It is knowns Phillips Lodge, No. 29, and expects to make a creditable showing at the Louisville Grand Council next Ave “The guilty flee when no man pap sueth,” says Holy Writ. Tom Watson, the irrepressible, delivered a speech to some of his Georgia adherents th, other day, and ventured to give then some “wholesome advice” on tho is sues of the day. Among other things he touched upon the Negro problem and tore his shirt, as it were, over the tendency of the race to “get to. gether”—to organize for mutual pr. tection along many beneficial lines This spirit of organization frightened Tom, and this is what he had to say about it: “My friends, watch these Negro se eret societies! Compel the Legisla ture to pass a law requiring each s. ciety, white or black, to take out license from the ordinary. Requite each society to make a sworn state ment of its purpose. Give the oni nary visitorial power. Let it be with. in his province to supervise these s9 cieties and to call in the aid of the sheriff and a posse whenever it be comes necessary to break up night meetings of a conspicuous character, ‘This thing of holding night meeting: among Negroes, with armed sentinels on the watchout, should be stopped No civilized community should toler ate conspirator-like methods of this Kind. Compel the Negroes to do thei political talking to the public, just as we do ours.” Verily, Tom, you are showing the yellow streak in your craven makeup, Getting scared just because a few harmless colored people want to tak over some plans about taking care of the sick and burying the dead! The idea! We suggest to the timorox Watson that if he and his kind wil grant justice to every man, wom and child, wkithin their bailiwick they will have no need to stand in fer of any Negro uprising or raid of prisal. It is a hopeful sign that Wa son has a conscience left that ha enough of tenderness in it to feel the whips and scorns that beset the wicked. Mr. Sylvester Russell, the wel known dramtic critic, sometimts calet the “Alan Dale in Ebony,” has change! his habitat from Orange, N. J., to Hazleton, Pa., from which point be will soon issue one of the most repre sentative magazines ever placed be fore the reading public. R. W. THOMPSON. Every Boy in the Land ! should have a Wateh ‘Its ait (r encourage- A ment \ th That Nu Stimulates = the y youn yn IN ne ff 10 amt 2) i jonas, SAN? I) Slated Una \s & 4 | SN LY “EER NZ " KETCH” GUARANTEED. WATC | arr oe aerate, Sova ne Mnten. a, Vou ean Becare an SEX IK KETO WATCH, HANDSOME, PRACTI. .L set RELIABLE, hut will do the work of sf higo pricy watch at your own eater som Srrslfoct trom our factors i ao don esr? FD we bay.an imitation. _Yoset upon Av Win tanstom set with w scuo Meh or “Gold Plated,” Open Face Care. [Bibeln wisn oni [went Postpaldto any io address oO oulpeot § 130. | “EXER-KETCH” | NOVELTY COMPANY, 50N, Senate Ave. Indianapolis, Indiana, 0.8" The Stage The St Sydney Kirkpatrick, formerly of the Pekin Stock Company, was in the city Monday en route south. Dunmore & Dunmore are playing a ten days' special engagement in Mexico. They send regards to all friends. The Brunkleys have closed with the Hill's Mohle Arts Company and are doing good work on a vaudeville circuit. Billy Kersaud's Minstrels met the Rufus Rastus Minstrel Company at Wheeling, W. Va., and enjoyed a pleasant time. The Southern Comedy Company is playing to good business throughout the State of Iowa. All members making a decided hit. Harry A. Brown, the cartoonist, is booked on the Nash circuit for five months with the summer season at Coney Island, New York. Rowland, the great tramp juggler, is up again after a few weeks' illness in the York State Hospital, York, Pa. Abbie Mitchell Cooke is planning an extensive tour of Europe, appearing in a special musical skit composed by her gifted husband Will Marion Cooke. Fountain B. Wood sends regards to all friends and is now organizing a company to play the largest caudeville circuit in the West. Regards to Billy and Estelle. Eph Thompson was compelled to cancel his engagement with Cahn & Grant to play Lewiston, owing to the severe cold in that section of the country, which was against the health of his animals. W. M. Reed's Band and Concert Company, which will be with Jno, Robinson's Circus for the summer season of 1907, will present Billy Jackson, the first-class black-face comedian and high tenor soloist, and H. S. Page, known as "Noisy Bill," who is a clever trombone performer. W. B. Carter, of Genesee, Idaho, writes of the death of Madame Desseria Plato, of New York City, which occurred at Genesee January 28. The funeral was conducted by Father Kiezer and the remains were interred in the Catholic cemetry. Mr. Carter sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. The Clark Brothers arer still at the Roof Garden of Peyton and Alkens at Lexington, Ky., and meeting with much success. They will be seen with the Van Amburg Shows next season. A floating item says that Williams & Tucker, at their December settlement with their manager, drew $34,-$49 as their share for the six weeks previous to that time. Thus each partner received more than $5,000 per week. Robert Gilkerson, who has been with Pat Chappelle's "Rabbit Foot" company for the past two seasons as HAYWOOD The lily of the valley And the rose that smiles in June, The bell-shaped morning glory With its chimes in silent tune, Have flourished, all, and faded And gone the wile of flowers, But woman's love of flowers Shall abide in heart's lilies THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ticket seller and master of transportation and short-stop in the champion base ball team, is spending the winter at his home in Sewickley, Pa. He sends regards to friends with the Florida Blossom Minstrel Company. William Henry Thomas, the playwright, has a new and thrilling production called "Borrowed Honor." It was played with gratifying success last month at the Murray Hill Lyceum in New York. Mr. Thomas is dubbed "the Theodore Kremer in black" because of his facility with which he weaves together the threads of sentiment and sensationalism into the popular melodrama. "On the Brink" is another of Mr. Thomas' productions that is achieving a generous measure of success in the East. Although very little has been said about it, Theodore Kremer's latest melodramatic frenzy "A Woman of Fire" deals very largely and villainously with certain phases of the race problem. It argues the question of miscognition and social equality, and stirs the meanest passions of the whites by making one of its characters, a well educated but bad Negro, appear to aspire to the favors of a high-toned white woman. The play is in many respects as despicable as "The Clansman." "The Georgia Troubadours" company is making its greatest hit now in the State of Minnesota and is playing to full houses every night. With the company are Walter LeRoy, the great Canadian buck and wing dancer. Mrs. Medray McCabe is now singing "If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon." The McCabe Brothers (Rudolph and Willie) are the favorites of the company in their clever specialty. Miss Loretta Smith, better known as Baby Smith, is making a big hit in "Why Don't You Try." Prof. Rufus Wilson is still on deck playing all of the latest music and songs. The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger of recent date said: "Ernest Hogan, 'the unbleached American,' is playing at the Holiday Street Theatre this week and drawing crowded houses at every performance. The consensus of opinion is that the Rufus Rastus Company, while highly entertaining when last seen here, is even more so this season. Mr. Hogan is even funnier than ever, and his support, including Miss Carita Day, a Baltimore girl, as leading lady; Mr. Tom Brown, formerly with Cole & Johnson as Mr. Beasley; Lucretia Knox, Alice Mackey, Anthony Byrd, Tom Logan and Henry Troy, the sweet lyric tenor is of high order, Hogan and his company are being much sought after by English theatrical managers, but as the company is drawing such good houses in this country, Mr. Hogan is reluctant to make a European tour. Mr. Hogan is interested in an airship venture which he will start in the spring." Robert C. White writes from Cony Island Minstrels: The show is in its fifth week and are playing is S. R. O. nightly. Mr. Chas. Stafford, the interactor who reads the stars as they appear on the stage nightly renders one of his beautiful ballads entitled, "Just One Word of Consolation." Alex Wren is a "screaming success." Will make you laugh with his funny song, "What's the use of Anything?" Mrs. Antonia Voldays with "Bye, Bye, Eva." Our droll comedian, W. L. McMullen in his laughable joke and song, "You Can if You Will Try." Our next number on the program is our star challenging buck and wing dancer, singing soubrette, Mrs. Kilty White, is bringing the house down singing, "Making Eyes at My Man" and receiving three to four encores nightly. Mrs. Florence Wren, unbleached soubrette, is cleaning up with "Jasper." Mance McDaniel is a sure hit with "Let Me See You Smile." The team of McDaniel and Kitty White is the feature of the comical olios. AT THE PEKIN. The new "Man From Bam" is a winner. At the Pekin Theatre this week this last year's favorite has been playing to crowded houses. The play is scarcely recognized so thoroughly has the writer of the book changed the lines, situations and intent of the play. As it now appears, "The Man From Bam" resolves itself into a racing drama, and a mighty good one. The "big scene" comes as the climax of the second act and is supposed to depict a racing scene. Right here it may be said that rarely has it been our pleasure to witness a more aptly handled piece of stage business as is here depicted. The clattering hoops of the thoroughbreds as they dash around the track, the straining of the jockeys to win the big race of the day, the shouting and clamor of the best stage mob we have seen in many a day, make up a picture that brings the audience to its feet, as if it too were vitally interested in the outcome of the race. The music for the production is by Joe Jordan and there are several numbers which have the earmarks of big song hits. Among these "Josie," "In Memory of You, Sweetheart," "A Night, a Girl, a Moon," "Take Your Time" and "I'd Like to Know Your Address and Your Name" seem to catch the fancy of the crowd. The jockey chorus was another popular number. This production reflects great credit on Mr. J. Ed Green, the director of amusements of the Pekin, under whose direction it is staged. As a piece of stage management it far outranks anything yet seen at this house. The costumes are new, novel and effective, and the scenic accessories in strict keeping with the atmosphere of the play. NEW YORK CITY ITEMS. Ray & Taylor are at the Casino Hoboken, N. J., this week. * * * Deas, Bailey & Deas have returned to the city from Meriden, Conn., where they filled a very successful engagement. * * * The big colored act "Sunny South" is the headlining feature of the vaude- ville bill at Keith-Proctor's Union Square Theatre this week. * * * Archer & Lemonier are booking the colored people for Eddie Leonard's big act, which is promised a big run on Broadway this summer. * * * On the bills Sunday night: Cooper & Robinson, New Circle Theatre; Moore's Minstrels, Huber's Museum; Billy Johnson, Gotham Theatre; Avery & Hart, Keith-Proctor's 125th Street Theatre. *** The New York Social Club has announced its second big vaudeville show and reception, which will occur on the evening of March 27 at McFarland's Hall. Quite a number of good acts have been engaged for the occasion. *** Joe Moore and his "New Orleans Minstrels" are still a big drawing card at Huber's Museum. The company this week is made up of the following well-known people: Wesley and Ida Hill, Billy Copies, Smith & La Rose, Misses Midget Price, Grace Hoyt and Annie Powell, W. H. Tucker, Moss & Brown and Rastuc & Harrison. * * * Wesley Norris and his big colored comedy company in "Old Ginger" was the attraction at the Casino, Hoboken, N. J., last week. Among those with the company are: Fannie Edmonds, Olivia Winfrey, Marie Bascombe, Susie Holmes, Ethel James, Estelle Williams, Wesley Norris, Griffith B. Wilson, Dave Brinkley, Dave Smith, Daniel Michael, James Martin and Smith & Jackson. "HOTTEST COON IN DIXIE" CO During our stay in Winston Salem, N. C., by special dispensation and vouchered for for Campbell Bros., ten members of our company were initiated into "Rising Sun" Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. Elks. The reception was the grandest ever given in the South, attended by leading business men of the twin cities. The Past Exalted Ruler of Virginia answered to the toast of "Elkdom" and lectured to the newly made members, which was responded to by W. W. Pierce in a grand and masterly way. All were escorted to car at 5 a. m., by party of the home Elks. The following were initiated: Benny Jones, R. H. Chrisman, Dennis Johnson, Harry Toney, Ray Johnson, Harry Conway, Fletcher Thomas, Thos. Seldon, W. H. Pierce, Wallace Bailey, who extend thanks to Bunk and Manzy Campbell Co., vouching for them and wish them unbounded success. In Gallipolis, O., we met Horace Copeland, the ex-performer (who is in destitute circumstances, at the O. E. Hospital) and contributed liberally to his wants. Mr. Copeland is a deserving object of charity and should be shown consideration by the entire profession. D. R. Hill, chief of Richmond Division True Reformers, was the distinguished guest of the Dixies, while in Petersburg. Mr. Hill was so favorably impressed with the Dixies during our play at his house that he was determined to meet the bunch again. He left well pleased with his visit. Robt' Leach was entertained in Newport News by Mr. J. M. Gould, editor of the Star, our enterprising Negro journal of that place. James Crosby was closed in Newport News. Bunk Campbell is our new stage manager and under his able supervision the show is improving almost miraculously. R. Meaux, Walter Lee and J. C. Turner comprise cornet section in our band and acquit themselves to the satisfaction of the public and management. Ollie Shelton is promoted to the end. Vice Crosby's "Wait a Minute," is a decided hit. Regards to entire profession. Wm. Johnson, tronbonist, late Rabbit Foot, please write Robert Leach. RICHARD & PRINGLE'S MINSTRELS Richard & Pringle's famous Georgia minstrels are, as usual, meeting with success everywhere. Fred Simpson's big concert band is not a band on paper, but a band of real artists. We are the last band to make a short tour of the South, and both the press and public have pronounced us the best ever. In Fort Worth, Tex., Manager Greenwall of the Greenwall circuit, listened to our concert and said it was the best bend that had been to his house for several seasons. In El Paso, Tex., we had the pleasure of giving a Sunday concert in the Plaza and we were the first colored band to play on the Plaza and there were thousands out to hear what the colored band could do. Naturally, they expected rag time, but after listening to the following program each and every listener was unanimous in applause: Program. "Lights Out" ..... March Selection ..... Johnnie Jones "Fall of Jericho" .Descriptive Overture Sextette from Lucia. Overture ..... Polly Phonia Intermezzo ..... Cavalier Rusticana Indian Dance. "Star Spangled Banner." James Jones' tenor voice is as sweet as ever. Will Cooper is still giving good ad- vice singing "Let It Alone." Wille Shephard's singing and danc- ing starts the show off with a vim. Billy King, of King & Bush's min- strels, has joined us and is as funny as ever. Lemuel Ross is singing the familiar bass solo "Asleep in the Deep" in a masterly manner. Our comediens, headed by Clarence Powell, are working fine and keep the house in continuous applause. Master Johnnie Smith, our boy so- prano, assisted by the quartet, is put- ting forth very harmonious strains." The song and dance act introduces some very clever dancers-Geo. Ross. Lester McDaniels and Willie Shephard. The show closes leaving Clarence Powell issuing out hot ammunition, and Frank Kirk, the brave policeman, placing all the Georgians under arrest. Clarence Powell, in his heart-to-heart talk with man and the advice he gives in general, is certainly a sure cure for the blues. Marsh Craig, the wonder, is working with the same ease and grace as ever. When you see his contortion act you have seen the best. Arthur Prince, the magic hoop controller, is instilling life into his hoops and by the turn of his hand they obey as a living being. Lester McDaniels is leaving the audiences in screams and what he does not get out of the song "Going, Going, Gone" is not necessary to take three and four encores. Our olio is above the standard. When Fred Simpson, the first number of the olio, finishes his trombone solo there remains nothing for following trombone solists to do. Frank Kirk, the musical acrobat, never fails to leave the audience with great applause. All of the musical instruments used by Kirk are of his own idea and manufacture. THE CULIGIAN'S NASHVILLE STUDENTS. This famous company is still traversing the State of Kansas and the S. R. O. sign is hung up most every night. We have a finer lot of paper as any show of this kind ever had, barring none, made by the American Show Print, Milwaukee. The Opera House managers claim that we are showing to more business throughout Kansas than any "Gigwawk" show ever played to through this territory. The ghost walks every Sunday and everybody is happy. Miss Tennie Henderson and Miss Louise Bruce are rehearsing a musical act that will soon make the welkin ring. Their latest addition is the musical rifle. Shelton Henderson has been sick for the last two weeks, but is rounding up again. Johnnie Edwards, our leading comedian, has just composed another song entitled, "That-Will-Do." George Boutele leaves them screaming every night. The Mitchells are still getting theirs every night as usual. Henderson and Bruce will soon present a burlesque, "Thirty Minutes in Mikado," which promises to be a howling success. Johnny Edwards, better known as "Johnny Junk," wishes to be remembered to all of his New York friends. The Mitchells send their regards to the Clarks and the Patti bunch. Henderson and Bruce send regards to the Patti bunch and the Kersaud minstrels. And would like for Skip Farrell and Charlie Boagia—Hoboes to write. We have a few return dates in Kansas, then Nebraska and Colorado. Mr. T. J. Culligan, our manager, sends regards to all his friends. The Washoo Comedy Quartette, composed of Bruce, Mitchell, Henderson and Edwards, are taking from 5 to 7 encores every night and could take as many more. Miss Rose Mitchell is getting encores every night singing "Nigger Gin." Yill Bruce is singing one of his own compositions, title, "Why I Picked a Lemon in the Garden of Love." "SMART SET" COMPANY. Jennie Pearl still continues to please with "Feather Your Nest for Birdie," "Clo Speedy," impersonated by Sara Venable, continues to be a conspicuous character in "The Black Politician. James Burris has been prevailed upon to renounce his intention of returning to vaudeville and will finish the season with "The Smart Set." "Flossie Conn" is a character well suited to Alberta Ormes, and the way she enacts it is a credit to even a woman of her acknowledged talents. The death of Robert A. Kelley, Jr., was a sad blow to his father with the "Smart Set." The company and friends join in sympathy for his sad bereavement. Mr. Kelley wishes to thank his many friends for their sympathy and ready assistance. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Anderson, Mrs Susie Moore, Mrs Fortes Brown, Miss Lyda Owees, Mrs G R Brown, Mrs Pearl Perry, Mrs Lizzie Gentry, Mrs Minnie Robeson, Mrs Ada Itrv, Mrs James Robbins, Mrs Ann Johnson, Mrs Stella Smith, Mrs Eliza Joseph, Miss Emma Wilson, Mrs Margret Nancis Woods, Mrs Annie Moppin, Mrs GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Armstrong, Roy Armstrong Thos Brown, Warren Bush, Clarence Bush, Teddy Bundy, Gee Bottiek, w. G. Burton, Chas. A. Bryants Musical Cross & Cross Chappel, L. W. Chapman, J. C. Chapman, J. C. Down, Thomas Dennis, J W-2 Edwards Chas Heysel, N R Isler, Arthur Johnson, L J Kennedy, W. Goff King and Bailey Knuner, L D La She La Lord, S S Marshall, James McCannan, Prof J H McBade, W H Mitchels the McKanlass, W H Merker, Frank Mimara, J W Nobel, J W Reed, Edward Smith, J J Smith, Rich Stevens, B F Stevens, Sum Smith, Harry C Smith, Curies Simm, G Timmons, prot Wm Tomas, Dick Thompson, A B Thompson, A B Williamsg, A-2 Wise and Milton Wood, Edward Wilson, W J Weatherly, J W Walkins, Grant Williams, Winston Wilson & Pugley Williams, J H-2 1907. RO TE. 1908. A Rabbit's Foot Company: Jacksonville, Fla. Jan. 21 to April 1. P. G Lowery with Sweeney's Nashville Students: Decatur, Ill., Feb. 19; Taylorville, 20; Litchfield, 21. Harry Brown-alone—Singing Cartoons: Bjou Theater, Eau Clair, Wls., week of Feb. 18. Jones & Raymond: Star Thea or, Jea ette Pa., week of Feb. 18. Dandy Dixie Minstrels under direction of Voekelel & Nolan: Tampa, Fla., Feb. 18; Voekelel & Nolan: August, Fla., Feb. 17; Valdosta, Ga., 22; Albany, 23. Billy Ziesers Famous Minstrels: Carlisle Pa., Feb. 18; Steeton, 19; Middletown, 0 15; Annapolis, Md., 22; Columbia Pa., 38. Ernest Hogan in Rufus Rastus: Chigago, Ib., week of Feb. 17. Fourteen Black Hussars: Birmingham, England, week of Feb. 18. Richard & Pringle's Minstrels: Krebs, I. T., 08; outh McAllister, 18; Sulphur, 19; Shaw, 19; Oklahoma City, 21 El Reno, 22; Enid, 23. Black Pat 1 Troubadours: Tulare, Cal., Feb. 18; Hanford, 19; Visalia, 20; Frisco, 21; Kadesa, 22; Modesto, 23. Enforced Promoters. (New Orleans Amusement and Investment Co., Ltd.) Open Dates for GOOD COLOUR Address J. J. COLEMAN, room 6, New York Theatre Built W. J. NICKERSON, 120 N. Wanted GIDEON & Hottest Co Musicians, and Performers Given Preference Address L. E. GIDEON, room 6 HAVE YOUR PICTURE OF OUR COLOUR SAN JUAN It is a Beauty! All ready for framing. 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That ability in the ringed arena is no guarantee of popularity is well exemplified in the case of Abe Attell, although he is by no means the solitary example of a great fighter who is far from being popular. Though he beat Walsh, says the Philadelphia North American, Abe was hissed when he left the ring at Los Angeles. The greatest fighter of them all, James J. Jeffries, and the man considered by nearly every fight fan as the greatest battler the world has ever produced, is not a popular idol. Overshadowed by John L. He cannot challenge comparison as far as popularity is concerned with John L. Sullivan, who was one of the idols of the American public, and whenever John appeared in any of the larger cities he was usually feted and feasted and made over as though he were a statesman or foreign potentate, and it is very doubtful if any statesman enjoyed a greater measure of popularity than did Sullivan when he was champion of them all, save J. Barleyeorn. Jeffries is not a very picturesque character. The big fellow is far from being a good advertising agent, and the great bulk of Jeffries counts against his popularity, as fight fans think Jeffries should be able to beat anybody through sheer strength. Tommy Ryan was never a favorite. The fight followers always slightly distrusted the tonsilitis scrapper. Suspicious of McCov. Surely McCoy was an able fighter, but his popularity was never omnivorous with his fighting ability. McCoy, like Tommy Ryan, was always under a tinge of suspicion by the fight fans. Jimmy Britt has often remarked that part of his drawing powers was due to the fact that he was unpopular in many quarters. "As many people come to see me licked as do so to see me win," is a remark that has been frequently credited to Britt. Tom Sharkey was popular in some quarters on account of his Irish bulls and his rugged fighting ability. But Tom had such a reputation for stinginess that he was very unpopular with the good fellows in the ring. Maher Licked Too Often. Maher was licked so often that no one ever had time to inquire into the measure of his popularity or unpopularity, as the case might be. Joe Walcott was never a popular fellow. He was accused of a couple of jobs, and this hurt his standing very much with the fight followers throughout the country. Corbett and McGovern were always idolized by the fight public. Both boys were of the mixing style, and this always appeals to fight fans. Jack Dempsey, in his day, was a very king of the people. No fighter was ever more loved than the Nonpareil. Jack was very well liked from coast to coast. Auliffe was never wonderfully popular. Griffo was popular to a wonderful degree, as was Kid Lavigne, George Dixon and Peter Jackson were the most popular of the Negro fighters while they were themselves. 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Interstate Mercy Co. 1234 THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER GANS HAS NO FIT OPPONENT. There are several fighters talking of boxing Joe Gans. Mike (Twin) Sullivan, who was beaten by Gans almost as easily as Kid Herman, wants a match with the champion. Of course, he has no show of beating Joe, and would not be seriously considered by anybody who had the slightest knowledge of the fighting game. Jimmy Gardiner is afraid to face Gans for probably the same reason that he has refused to meet Jack Blackburn. Gardiner once told a well-known hiladelphia sporting man that he thought Blackburn would kill him the night he fought in Boston. "Every time that he hit me after the third round," said Gardiner, "I thought he would kill me, and thought I would never get out of the ring alive." Honey Melody is far too heavy for Gans, but otherwise he would be a soft thing for the Maryland man. Willie Lewis and Harry Lewis would both be outclassed by Gans. Neither of them are blessed with courage, and it takes a bulldog courage to withstand the shower of blows that Gans would rain on his stomach and jaws. Neither of the boxers named Lewis has ever done anything to entitle him to a match with the lightweight champion. Willie Lewis has acknowledged in private that he is afraid to meet the man who is considered an inferior to Gans, and when Gans met Harry Lewis in this city the Philadelphia made a miserable showing against the great Baltimorean. Wonder what Jack Johnson can be doing in Australia, since he has gone there in the hopes of meeting Bill Squires, and Bill Squires is headed for the U. S. A. WISH TO KNOW HOW TO BAT? By James Wilson, Star Base Hitter of the Cleveland Blues. When the player attempts to tell other players how to become a slugger he is up against a pretty difficult proposition. But at the start you bump up against the fact that natural ability has a whole lot to do with it. Of course a player can improve his ability to send the ball to where it will entitle him to a ticket to first; but unless he is a "born batter" he's not going to get to the top, in my opinion at least. But there are a good many things that will help even a poor batter. Probably the most important is to have confidence in yourself. If you come to the plate thinking "that pitcher's an easy mark for me," the chances are always in your favor of getting a good crack at the ball. You should always keep your eye and brain in good condition by the right kind of living. Boozing and late hours are not in the same day with base hits. Following the ball all the way from the pitcher's hand is one thing I find helps me. Trying to get a line on where the ball is going by picking it up with the eye when it is part way to the plate is confusing. I occasionally go after a ball that is not directly over the plate. If a hit is needed it sometimes pays to take chances. A ball may be just wide enough to force the umpire to call it a ball, and yet a step of a few inches would enable you to swat a ball exactly to your liking. But if I would simmer it all down to a sentence, I would say, "Keep your nerve." JAMES A. WILSON. 'FRISCO FANS JEALOUS. About the only thing new in the Gans-Britt circles is that Mike Riley, of onopah, has spoken angry words over the doubts case upon his ability to carry through the March program. Riley, who was at Seattle recently, said that San Francisco was "knocking" him because Nevada put San Francisco out of business as a fight center. This is an undeserved slap at poor old Frisco. The sports of this burg have warmed up to the Gans-Britt encounter in good shape, a statement which is borne out by the fact that a great number of excursion parties have been made up for the trip to Tonopah at St. Patrick's time. It was Riley himself who invited criticism by saying he was coming to San Francisco to arrange matches and then shying off to Seattle. However, Riley says "The fight will positively take place"—words we haven't heard, by the way, since positive "Joe" Vendig got them off in connection with the Corbett-Mitchell fight at Jacksonville—and it "is for us" to have faith in Riley and await his arrival. Meanwhile Britt is digging into his work with the energy of a beaver and the determination of a bull terrier. He has forsaken Byron Springs and has returned to Billy Shannon's San Rafael resort, where every convenience of training from a skipping rope to a slugging room is in evidence. JOE GANS-LEWIS MATCH OFF. Announcement was made here by Joe Gans that his match with Harry Lewis has been declared off. Gans says that Lewis was not satisfied with the division of the purse, which was arranged on the basis of 75 and 25 per cent when the preliminary agreement was signed. He says Lewis now ants the purse divided on a basis of 60 and 40 per cent. RACING LICENSE GRANTED. The Kentucky Racing Commission, in session at Lexington last week, granted a license to the new Louisville Jockey Club and to the Douglass Park of Louisville, and the Racing Association at Lexington and to the Latonia Racing Association at Louisville. The meeting was adjourned until February 16, when representatives of each track were invited to be present, and dates will be allotted for the various meetings. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That it is the sense of the commission that there was too much racing in Kentucky during 1906, and for the best interests of racing, dates should be reduced along certain lines." Tex Rickard is not hungering for a match with Jeffries in it. Neither is he anxious to arrange an out and out pugilistic orgie, or Saturnalia, in which the entire championship situation will be cleaned up during a few days of fighting. Tex is jealous of the reputation he gained as a Queensberry caterer last fall at Goldfield, and he doesn't want to attempt anything that will imperil his laurels. He thinks he has found what is good in the line of boxing events, and he intends to hold to it. He has his eye on another Gans-Nelson event, and like the baby balanced on the rim of the bathtub, he won't be thoroughly happy until he gets in. "I would like to feature Jeffries all right, but who is there to pair with him?" said Tex to the writer an evening or two ago. "One swallow doesn't make a summer, and one world beater doesn't constitute a match. Squires may be good enough for Jeffries, and but putting it to an awful risk. I am not egotistical, but I consider I was a pretty good judge of a ring attraction before I suggested to the business men of Goldfield that we ought to bid for Gans and Nelson. The contest the men put up confirmed my judgment. "I believe that the next affair between them will be more desperate still, and if liberal inducements will secure it, I will land the match. I feel a personal interest and to a certain extent a personal responsibility so far as the question of superiority in the case of Gans and Nelson is concerned. I was the first to induce the boys to battle, and in a way, it seems to me this entitles me to have a hand in bringing them together a second time. The decision in the last bout, while a perfectly fair one, left room for argument. You will find fellows who think the foul was an unfortunate event for Nelson, as he might have won had he not committed it. You will find others argue that there was no foul at all. Anyhow, there is a difference of opinion, and that is where my feeling of responsibility comes in. Having started the pair of them fighting for the biggest honor in the lightweight class, I think I have a right to stay with them until one of them wins in such a way as to leave the entire sporting public of one mind on the subject." Jim Jeffries' scheme for becoming a San Francisco boniface has received a setback. When a license for a saloon, for which Jeff was to be the "manager," was passed upon the other day the board refused to grant it until assured that Jeff would have nothing to do with the new "gin mill." The objection to Jeffries was on the score of being a nonresident. Jack O'Brien is to pit his "individual supremacy" against the collective superiority of a whole bunch of heavies at one standing. McCarey has arranged for Jack to tackle Jim Trimble, George Brown and Abdul the Turk on the same evening at Los Angeles. The battle royal is to take place during February. BIG CARNATIONS. They Were Cultivated In England In Shakespeare's Time. A florist says that we pride ourselves nowadays on the size of our carnations, but the florists of 300 years ago grew carnations three to four inches across, as large as any that we see, and thought nothing of it. "All through Spain, southern France and Italy the carnation is the favorite flower and has been for hundreds of years, but along the Mediterranean there are few glass houses, for in protected situations and on southern slopes of hills even delicate flowers grow outdoors all winter long and bloom as freely at Christmas as in July. "The big carnations, however, were not grown in Spain or Italy, but in England outdoors during the summer time and before glass houses were known. They may have grown just as large carnation flowers in Spain as in England at that time, but in England there was record made of the fact and also of the size, while in Spain there was not. Shakespeare mentions carnations and gilly flowers, or July flowers, together as blooming at the same season, which shows that the carnation was then a summer flower, whereas in our greenhouses it is now a winter bloomer. How the florists of those days treated the plants to obtain blooms of such size nobody knows, for old time florists grew flowers instead of writing books about them. So all we know is that they had very large carnations in Queen Elizabeth's time without knowing how they were grown."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Where Her Father Was. The daughter of the house had just returned from boarding school. Her finishing branches had made her a little sensitive. "Is your father out in the wood shed splitting wood?" the caller asked her. "No," replied the haughty girl; "papa is at the town meeting splitting infinitives." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. B. SQUARE'S BLUSTER QUERIES. What has become of the pliant pen of Dr. M. A. Majors? What has become of the pen of the venerable "Uncle Noah Baxter? What's the matter with the other members of The Freeman's "Round Table?" By-the-way! what has become of the said "Round Table" any way: has it "done broke" or has it been sold to the "second-hand man?" Who is going to win out in the fight for a "square deal," Senator Foraker and the people of the United States or Senator Lodge and the president. * * * The president is vindicated. His "discharge without honor" of the black boys in blue has received the "O. K." stamp of Texas. A recent press dispatch says: THANK PRESIDENT FOR DISM'SSAL OF NEGROES. Washington, Jan. 7.—President Roosevelt today received the official thanks of the Brownsville, Texas, Board of Trade for his dismissal of the Negro troops who recently "shot up the town." John Bannon secretary of the board, conveyed the message. * * * IF President Roosevelt got the Republican nomination for re-election would the Brownsville Board of Trade vote for him, or hand him a sour fruit? It has been a custom of mine for a score of years to look over my letters of the past year on the first part of the New Year and burn or otherwise destroy those I deem not worth keeping. I also review my books and with the world's "true charity" give to some institution those I do not want. In looking over my books a few days ago I came across "The Hamilton Speaker," a school book of thirty odd years ago. In looking over its pages I found a recitation worthy of re-publication which I hope will "anest the pensive eye" (as Lord Byron says) of "the Congress" and — perhaps the president of the United States. It is the following: National Injustices. (By Theo. Parker.) Do you know how empires find their end? Yes the great states eat up the little. As with fish, so with nations. Aye, but how do the great states come to an end? By their own injustice. Come with me to the inferno of the nations, with such poor guidance as my lamp can lend. Let us disquiet and bring up the awful shadows of [Original.] I shall be accused of hunting through old fashioned dime novels for a plan for this story unless I state that it is true. The names of the characters are not their real ones, but the incidents are exactly as they occurred in all their improbability. "The O'Briens," said a man standing in his doorway, "are quarreling. Listen!" A man's voice was heard to say: "Be quiet, Molly. Don't you see the neighbors looking?" "I don't care if they are. This life I'm living with you is unbearable." "Very well, I'll trouble you no longer. But remember—mind what I say (he shook his finger at her)—you'll not get me back for the asking." O'Brien strode away, and his wife went into the house and slammed the door. Those who were watching the couple went off about their respective callings and thought no more of the incident, except that this was the first time they had ever known the couple to quarrel. Miles and Molly O'Brien had been supposed to be devoted to each other. The next day and the next and the next the O'Brien house was closed. Neither Miles nor his wife was at home, nor was either seen in the village. Then one morning a crowd gathered about their house. In the yard lay Mrs. O'Brien, dressed in her best clothes and wearing ornaments which she seldom wore except on gala occasions. She had been dead some time. A blow on the head had been the cause of her death. The body was identified before the coroner, the parting words of the couple given in evidence, and the police of neighboring cities were notified to arrest Miles O'Brien for the murder of his wife. The same evening he was lodged in jail. The trial was one of circumstantial evidence. The couple had quarreled, O'Brien had gone to the city, where during the interval between his leaving home and his arrest he had shunned every one. His wife had disappeared. He suddenly she had been found in empires buried long ago, and learn a lesson from the tomb. Come, old Assyria, with the dove of Nineveh upon thy emerald crown! What laid the low? "I fell by my own injustice." Oh, Queenly Persiflame of nations, wherefore art thou so fallen—thou that troddest the people under thee; dislist bridge the Hellespont with ships and didst thou pour thy temples-wasting millions on the Western World? * * * * I fell by my own misdeeds." Thou muselike Grecian Queen, fairest of all thy classio-sisterhood of states enchanting the world with thy sweet witchery speaking in art and most seductive song, why liest thou there, * * * * reposing on thy broken harp? "I scorned the laws of God * * * * the reality of justice; the loveliness of right, I trod them down. So have I become as one of those barbarian States." * * * * Oh manly, majestic Rome! thy sevenfold mural crown all broken at thy feet, why ar thou here? 'Twas not injustice brought the low, for thy great law of law was prefaced with these words: "Justice is the unchanging, everlasting will to give each each man his Right!" * * * * I made iniquity my law * * * * Millions of bondmen met the evil with tears and blood. Do you not hear it crying yet to God? So here have I my recompense tormented with tribulations as ye see. Go back and tell the new-born child, who sits upon the Alleghanies laying his either hand upon a tributary sea, a crown of thirty eight stars upon his brow—tell him there are higher rights which states must keep, or they shall fall: tell him there is a God who keeps the black man and the white, and hurls to earth the loftiest realm that breaks His eternal law. Warn the young empire, that he come not down, broken and dishonored to my shameful tomb! Tell him that 'Justice is the unchanging, everlasting will to give each man his Right.' I knew it, I broke it—I am lost! Bid him keep it and be safe!* (The Hamilton Speaker, Page 195, Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, New York City, 1878.) *** Every Afro-American High School prospective graduate, who has a commencement recitation bee in his bonnet, should commit the above to memory. * * * The colored people of the South and West, who intend to visit the Jamestown Exposition, and want first-class accommodation, with the best colored families of Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia would do well to write at once to Mr. Geo. A. Corprew, 735 Twenty-second street, Newport News, Va. B. SOUARE. her own yard murdered, wearing her best apparel and her jewelry. The theory of the prosecution was that she had returned to her home for the purpose of taking away these valuables, that her husband had found her there, they had renewed their quarrel and O'Brien had killed her. The prisoner's counsel tried in vain to discover the exact time of the murder in order to establish an alibi, but the corpse had been found in the morning under some bushes, where it might have lain not only all night, but for several days. The circumstantial evidence against the accused was too strong to be controverted except by an alibi; consequently there was no ground for the defense to stand on. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Miles O'Brien was brought up for sentence. "Have you anything to say why the sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" asked the judge. "I am innocent of the crime. My wife and I never had but one serious quarrel, and I never expected that it would be lasting." The judge then made some preliminary remarks on the devilish brutality of a man who would kill his wife with a club and was about to pronounce the final words which would consign Miles O'Brien to the gallows when there was a commotion among those gathered in the back of the courtroom and a woman came pushing her way down the aisle. Rushing to the prisoner, she threw her arms about him, he, though astonished, returning the embrace. "Who are you?" asked the judge. "His wife." When the commotion consequent upon this sudden return to life of a murdered woman who had come to save her husband from the penalty of having killed her had subsided, the judge asked Mrs. O'Brien to give an account of her whereabouts since her parting with her husband. "After he left me," she said, "I concluded to shut up the house and go up into the country to my mother, who lives on a farm. They don't take a newspaper up there, so I didn't hear of my husband's arrest. But I found I couldn't live without him and came back to learn what had become of him and, if I could find him, ask his for- avenues. when i got nome, i neerou he had been tried for my murder and was to be sentenced this morning." "Have you a twin sister?" "No, your honor." The judge sat supetied. Twelve good and true men under his legal guidance had pronounced Miles O'Brien guilty of having killed the woman who was weeping over him and covering him with kisses. In another moment the convicted man would have been legally guilty of the crime. "You are discharged," said the judge to the prisoner. "Court is adjourned." And, rising from his elevated judicial chair, he descended to the floor and stalked out of the room. Miles and Molly O'Brien lived happily together after the lesson they had received for years before the error in identification was unraveled. Then it came out that soon after they left their home a band of thieves broke into the house and robbed it. One of them was a woman not unlike Mrs. O'Brien. She arrayed herself in Molly O'Brien's best apparel and put on her jewelry. One of her companions accused her of appropriating more than her share of the plunder. This led to a fight, and the woman was killed. Hearing or fancying they heard approaching footsteps, the robbers left her under a bush without stopping to remove even the jewels. TURNED THE JOKE. The Way a Bridegroom Got the Laugh on His "Funny" Chum. Under the thin disguise of harmless fun many an unpardonable rude prank is played upon newly married couples. It is refreshing to hear of an occasional instance in which the "joke" reacts on the joker. A young man and his bride, who had just been married in a western town, were starting on their wedding journey. They had managed to reach the train in safety despite the showers of rice and old shoes. Just as they had taken their seats in the car one of the bridegroom's chums came hastily in to bid him goodby. As the young husband extended his hand the friend snapped a handcuff round his wrist. The groom had been suspecting a trick of some kind, and before the practical joker could play a similar trick on the bride he found the other handcuff snapped round his own wrist. He was chained to the happy bridegroom himself. "That's a good one on me, Harry," he said, with a sickly kind of smile. "but I'll have to ask you to come to the door with me and get the key to these things from the fellow outside that's got it. Hold on, conductor, just a minute!" But the conductor, whose quick eye had taken in the situation, refused to wait. He gave the order for starting and the train pulled out. It was a through train and made no stop for the next fifty miles. Before it stopped, however, the brakeman, with the aid of a sharp file and a hammer, succeeded in releasing Harry. The practical joker meanwhile had had to pay full fare for the fifty miles and still had his fare home to pay. FRENCH SENTIMENT. The Way It Classifies the Greatest Men of the Nation. The Petit Parisien in 1906 conducted a very interesting plebiscite, the object of which was to ascertain who, in the opinion of its readers, were the ten greatest Frenchmen of the nineteenth century. More than 15,000,000 votes were given, and the result was that Pasteur came out at the top of the poll with 1,348,425 votes. The next were Victor Hugo, who received 1,227,103 votes; Gambetta 1,155,672, Napoleon 1,118,034, Thiers 1,039,453, Lazare Carnei 950,772, Curie 851,107, A. Dumas pere 850,602, Dr. Roux 603,941 and Parmentier 498,863. Immediately following were Ampere, the electrician; Brazza, the explorer; Zola, Lamartine and Arago. It will be observed with interest how large is the proportion of scientific men in the number of those who, in the opinion of Frenchmen, occupy the highest places in the records of the country. Napoleon is only fourth, though Pasteur heads the list, and Curie, Roux and Parmentier, the chemist who introduced the culture of the potato into France, are also honored, while Ampere and Brazza are not far behind. Literary men and statesmen dispute with the scientists for the highest distinctions, and the national sentiment of France is evidently eclectic. Animals That Are Trained. The animal trainer paused in his midnight supper. "It is strange," he said, "how training increases an animal's value. I can buy a young lion for $100, train it and sell it for $500 afterward. Take the group I performed with tonight—three lions, three tigers, two leopards, four bears and four boarhounds. They are all young adults in the pink condition, but untrained they wouldn't be worth more than $1,500 or $2,000 at the outside. Yet the boss was offered $60,000 for them last week. The training sets the price, and no wonder. It took four years to train this group of mine, and, though there are only sixteen animals in it now, no less than seventy had to be tried and discarded before we got together the sixteen we wanted." "The Return. "I believe," said the cheery philosopher, "that for every single thing you give away two come back to you." "That's my experience," said Phamley. "Last June I gave away my daughter, and she and her husband came back to us in August." The Qyres Bulletin Long Kid A big lot of kid gloves Gloves In black, tan and white at Special and a few gray ones. Prices Long kid gloves promise to be as fashionable this coming season as they were last spring. Have you forgotten how hard it was to get them along about Easter? Better get your Easter gloves now, for there's one thing sure, prices are not going to be this low again. 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At the Flanner Guild, Sunday, Hon. Julius F. Braam will be the speaker. Miss Grace Barbur will sing and Tull E. Brown will render instrumental selections. Allen's Chapel will have preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m., and at 8 p. m. the 147 Anniversary of Bishop Richard Allen Splendid program. Music by choir. All are welcome. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts. (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Blodau, drugglest, Indianapolis, Ind. 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 occupation. Moral: Do you desire the best services of your physician, have your prescriptions filled at Gauld's Pharmacy, 601 Indiana avenue. Youalways get the best. BUSINESS INTERSTS. Coal by ton or basket; two baskets 25 cents. Bennett Bros., 321 Indiana Ave., New Phone 2977. M. J. Barnum, successor to John F Trulock, cut rate druggest, graduated optician, 638 Indianave. 5559- K New Phones Old Phone 3680 Main. Dr. Langston, dentist at 404 Indiana Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. Y. M. C.A. Notes. Plans are now completed for the great Douglass Memorial on Sunday. The various lodges will form at Realty Hall at 2 p.m. and march to Tomlinson Hall. The impson band and the K. of P. band will turnish the music'o for the parade. The three companies of U. R. of K. of P. under command of Major Porter, and the three companies of the Uniform Ranks of Knights of Tabor will be in the parade. Montgomery lodge K. of P. and various other lodges and citizens whether you belong to any organization or not, are requested to turn out in the parade. The lady organizations are requested to meet of the hall and take their seats before three o'clock. Seats will be reserved un A THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Thursday eve, Feb. 28, 1907 Miss Daisy Walker - Elocutionist Prof. Crowden - Magician Mrs. Chas. Harper - Contralto " J. T. V. Hill - Pantomine " A C. Moss - Reader Miss Mary Hagood - Musician Prof. W. D. Collins - Basso(solosist) Committee - George L. Knox, chairman; A, C. Bybee, secretary; Thos. Rogister, treasurer. Mrs. Mattle Jackson chair. Refreshments. GENERAL PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE 1920 Surgery and Ostedrick. All kinds of dis, eases of male and female cured without the use of knife. A specialty on all kinds of diseases of the human race, especially Cancers, Tumors and all affections o women. Fifty-two years of experience. DR. B. F. JONES, 517 Bowman St., Indianapolis, Ind. til 5 minutes after three. The person chosen by their organization to represent them on the platform will go directly to the platform as soon as they arrive in the hall. 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