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REMEMBER THAT THE ADVERTISER WISHES YOUR PATRONAGE, IF YOU CAN NOT CALL, WRITE THEM YOUR WANTS AND THEY WILL SERVE YOU, MENTION THE FREEMAN THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XX NUMBER 16 THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW APPOINTMENT OF RALPH W. TYLER: OF MUCH INTEREST WILL IT EFFECT THE SITUATION? Editor T. ThomasFortune and the Republican Party--Ccolor Question and the Management of the Lunch Room at City Hall. (Staff Correspondence.) Washington, D. C., April 15.—The appointment of Ralph W. Taylor, of Ohio, as Auditor of the Treasury for the Navy Department, is the talk of the hour. The selection of Mr. Tyler for an important federal position creates no particular surprise, for ever since his name has been so closely connected with the Collectorship at Cincinnati, narrowly missing that stellar assignment, it has been presumed that he would land something "fat" before many days. It was felt that the President owned him "something equally as good." when political exigencies seemed to make it inexpedient to locate Mr. Tyler where he had originally planned to have him. The surprise comes in the fact that no place could be found for a first-class Negro in the liberal state of Ohio, and in the further fact that the President has given him a berth that everybody thought was eternally lost to the Negro people. The office of "Fourth Auditor" as it used to be—was filled by the Hon. John R. Lynch, of Mississippi, during the Harrison administration, and Mr. Robert Terrell, a magistrate in the District of Columbia, was chief deputy, but white men have occupied it continuously since that time, and it was considered so far out of the reach of a colored aspirant that no man of the ever had ever the temerity to ask for it. The President was so determined, however, to find a suitable position for Mr. Tyler that he moved Auditor Brown over to the Department of Justice to make room for him. Mr. Tyler's history has been so well covered by the press dispatches that no further mention need be made here along that line. Suffice it to say that his long and honorable career in journalism and public life, and his wide acquaintance with the men who make history for both races, admirably fit him for the satisfactory discharge of his duties in the Treasury Department, and his selection meets the approval of the rank and file of the colored people the country over. * * * The political phase of the appointment is attracting no small degree of attention, and a number of interesting questions are growing out of it. What will be the effect of Mr. Tyler's selection upon the erstwhile troubled waters in Ohio? Will it offset the discontent occasioned by the discharge of the soldiers for alleged participation in the Brownsville riot? Will it break into the battle-line so cleverly banked up by Senator Foraker? Will it stiffen up the spinal column of the colored men disposed to support Secretary Taft for President? Will it dampen the ardor of the Forakerites, who think that following the Senator's white plume is not the short-eut to official preference? In short, will the appointment of Mr. Tyler revive the old enthusiasm for Roosevelt, and give renewed potency to those oldtime bishoeths, the "square deal," the door of ice, and the "all men down" as ralling cries? It is to soon now to attempt to answer questions so leading in character. The Negroes so of the Buckeye state are as independent "as a hog on ice," so to speak, and the virus of political autonomy instilled by Peter H. Clark, more than a quarter of a century ago, is still more or less in evidence, and likely to manifest itself in the movement least expected. It will take time to accurately "size up" the situation, especially in such political hot-beds as Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo Springfield, where the leaders live and have their being. In any event, Mr. Tyler has his job, and is going on his way rejoicing. His advent in Washington will add one more to the sky of illustrious "top-notchers," increasing the duo of political heavy-weight—Register, Vernon and INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907. Recorder Dancy—to a trio. Mr. Tyler is not a stranger in the nation's capital. There is no doubt that he will "make good." Editor T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age, is injecting some "ginger" into the equations of party politics these days. He is disgusted with the republican party, as at present constituted, and cannot stomach the democratic aggregation of Negro haters and law-breakers. A fortnight ago, fondling his "snickersnee" with a grace that would have done credit to the Mikado's "Lord High Executioner." Mr. Fortune said: "At this stage of the game, Afro-Americans are off the firing-line. They may not get into the fighting in dead earnest before the next national convention, when the platform has been adopted and the candidates nominated. As far as the Roosevelt administration could accomplish it, the Afro-American has been set aside entirely as a party factor. Such organizations as he has had in the southern states has been taken away from him and placed in the hands of milk-and-water democrats and republican lily whites—a combination of political in-describables and rascals abbrent to Afro-Americans—and if these misfits are allowed to control the southern delegations to the next national convention of the party, when the party adopts its platform and selects its candidates, it will be time enough for the Afro-Americans in the northern and western states to decide what they want and to vote accordingly." This is little short of "reading the riot act," and the managers, though apparently ignoring the age of other organs of the dissatisfied type, are nevertheless beginning to sit up and take notice, for the fall primaries in Ohio are coming off, where a test of administration strength is to be pulled off, and within the fewest of months will come the struggle for administration delegates in every state in the Union, and the Negroes in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas, will have a great deal to say on the subject. The sensible colored voters are not making threats—they are attending to their business and standing on their dignity. There are fewer colored men depending upon politics for a living now than at any time since emancipation. They are building up enterprises within the race, buying homes, teaching their children to school, teaching them useful trades and fitting them for the professions, and it takes something more than glittering promises to sway them politically. They want rights and privileges more than they want office, and unless there is a strong sign of a return to the principles of the founders of the republican party, that party may have to fight its battle without its heretofore faithful ally—the Negroes of the North and West. There is no indication that they will go to the democracy in large numbers: they will simply get out of the political game and hustle for their "pork chops" in the arena of business, the professions and the industries, and bide their time for an upheaval, out of which better conditions may grow. The colored man is saying little, but sawing a tremendous amount of wood—and experience has shown that when the black man has nothing to say, that is the time when he is most dangerous. The veteran journalist, Chris. J. Perry, throws himself manfully into the breach, and while admitting that much in the indictment brought forward by Mr. Fortune is true, so far as the present leadership of the party is concerned, pleads for a continued support of the organization, as offering at least better results to the people than the democrats, suggesting that if the trouble is simply with the managers and their methods, that the Age and its sympathizers get to work to bring about a leadership and a system of administration more in keeping with the grand old party principles which Phillips, Garrison, Sumner, Morton and Stevens so nobly represented. Mr. Perry is a stalwart of stalwarts, and he is steering the well-seasoned Philadelphia Tribune away from the shoals of possible mugwumpery, which are apt to destroy what is, without replacing it with an "is-tobe" that spell improvement. He clings to the republican party, not so much for what he hopes to get, as for that which he seeks to avoid. Mr. Fortune's latest rejoiner is unique and interesting, whether one is willing to follow his line of reasoning in practice or not. Hear him for his cause! Nothing short of a new party will do. "There never was anything more self-evident in the politics of the Republic," says Mr. Fortune, "than that a new party is needed to take the places of those now in existence." After briefly reviewing the radical departure of both parties from their original and time-honored moorings, and pointing out their alleged incompetency to deal with the problems of to-day equitably and effectively, Mr. Fortune fires this bomb into the surcharged atmosphere, to strike whoever is in the way: "We believe we voice the majority sentiment of the Afro-American republicans when we declare that they are heartily sick and disgusted with the republican policy toward them since 1876, and were never more so or had better cause than they are today. Give them a party with a plank declaring for equality under the law for all citizens and they will support it. Planks meeting the discontent of other interests would make a party that would cover the dissatisfied elements in all existing parties, and there are now more elements dissatisfied to make a new party out of than there were in 1856, when the republican party was formed to curb the insolence and aggressions of the democratic slave-holders' party. Let the dissatisfied of all existing parties get DR. A. M DR. A. M. CURTIS. DR. A. M. CURTIS. together and organize such a party as they and the country need.' Will they do it? * * * * Somebody has been getting down his encyclopedia and found out where that place is to which Mr. James Johnson, of Florida and New York, has been sent as United States Consul, by transfer from Puerto Cabelo, Venezuela. They say the nearest approach to Consul Johnson's new station would appear to be Goree, a small island belonging to France on the west coast of Africa, one and a quarter miles south of Cape Verde and separated from the continent by the Strait of Dakar. This may be a very attractive habitat—for some people—but it is the opinion that ere long the festive Johnson will reach the unanimous conclusion that "it is jollier to be a lamp-post on Broadway, New York, than to be king of an island that has no place on the map." * * * * A new management has taken hold of the lunch room in the City Hall. The Judges and court officials got (Continued on page four.) (Continued on page four.) WHAT LABOR HATH WROUGHT DR. CURTIS' PHENOMENAL RISE TO HEAD OF BUSINESS AMERICAN CONTINENT HIS FIELD Signal Triumphs in Surgery, In North and South--Constructive Work at Freedmen's Hospital-- Private Sanitarium in Prospect. "Tis not a wild chorus of praises, Nor chance, nor yet Fate— Tis the greatness born with him and in him, That makes a man great." It may be said without invidious comparison that among the professional men of Washington, the "Disciples of Escalapius" loom up largest in the public eye. There are more of them, and a greater number doing well in their chosen field than of any . CURTIS. other professional class within the confines of the national capital. Many of them are men of a high order of ability and capacity for accomplishing things. Some have won for themselves distinction and means, as well as a place in the esteem and affection of their fellow-citizens. Probably, not a city in the Union—or in the Universe, for that matter—could make so magnificent a showing as Washington in the number and quality of its medical fraternity. Any one of ahalf-dozen of these ble physicians would be accredited with the distinction of "standing at the head of his profession," according as the admiring panegyrist might be the friend of one or the other. But those who watch the trend of opinion among medical men themselves, as well as the constant stream of patients who constantly crowd the reception of a doctor's office at the corner of 13th and U streets, N. W., are justified in the conclusion that Dr. Austin M. Curtis is an undisputed leader in the practice of medicine—and that, too, in a community where competition is the keenest and where eminence is acquired only by demon- strated merit. Dr. Curtis' surgical skill is everywhere acknowledged, and his services in difficult operations and as a consulting physician are greatly in demand. A knowledge of his talents is not confined, however, to Chicago and Washington, where he has lived during the building up of his splendid professional career. He maintains a reputation that is truly national, and easily wears the richly-earned honor of being not only one of the foremost surgeons of his race, but takes rank with the very best to be found in any race on the American Continent. The entire world has read of some of his remarkable surgical triumphs in connection with his hospital work in Chicago, and as Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedmen's Hospital in Washington. As the head of this monumental institution, he made a record for rare skill and painstaking executive capacity that had not been equalled before nor excelled since. During his tenure there, he performed successfully the operation known as "the Caesarian section," twice upon the same person—a feat previously unknown to medical science. It is conceded that the most difficult operation performed at that meeting of the National Medical Association, held in Philadelphia last August, was that performed by Dr. Curtis in the presence of more than 100 of the most widely-known surgeons in the country. Touching this notable achievement, the Philadelphia Daily Telegraph, said: "There is no more dangerous, vital intestinal operation known to surgery than the removal of fibroid tumors. With deftness, skill and an ease that showed him to be a master of his work, Dr. Curtis used the knife on two such cases this morning. The tumorous growths were removed shortly before eight o'clock, and those who witnessed the operation are satisfied that the patients' lives have been lengthened. It is rare that operations of this kind result in complete cure." During this meeting Dr. Curtis also read a learned paper on "The Importance of Early Operations in Acute Abdominal Diseases," which evoked much commendation at the hands of expert surgeons, who took part in the lively discussions which followed its delivery. The American Continent His Field. Dr. Curtis is frequently called out of the city of Washington upon the invitation of physicians who have difficult surgical cases. Baltimore and Richmond are prominent among cities that enjoy this privilege, and which embrace the opportunity whenever convenient arrangements can be made. He does all of the major surgery at the Richmond Hospital and is called upon for the larger share of the work of a delicate character at Provident Hospital in Baltimore. Not long ago, he was summoned to take charge of a highly important surgical case at Garneld Hospital, one of the largest white institutions in the nation's capital. His former internes of Freedmen's Hospital and graduates of Howard University Medical School referred work to him from all parts of the South. Triumphs in the Southland. Dr. Curtis has made two noteworthy trips to the Southland within the past few months, and on each occasion he was received with open arms. On the first trip, he visited Nashville, Tenn., where he went to give lectures and to hold surgical clinics at Meharry Medical College. He had some very difficult surgical operations which he skillfully performed, with credit to himself and the medical profession in general. The daily papers of Nashville spoke in glowing terms of Dr. Curtis's surgical ability. This was his first appearance at this popular Medical School, and reports from those who observed his work there say that he measured up fully to the highest standards that had been set by any previous clinical lecturer or instructing surgeon—and Meharry has only the very best talent procurable. He made such a favorite impression on the medical faculty and student body that he has been invited to return to give surgical demonstrations at the Mercy Hospital of that city. He was also invited to attend several State Medical Societies of the South, and it was the acceptance of a few of these proffered hospitalities that gave rise to his second trip to that section, from which he has just returned, bubbling over with enthusiasm born of the royal welcome accorded him by his professional brethren in Dixieland, and of the manifold courtesies showed upon him by all classes of people with whom he came into contact. He (Continued on page four.) QUAKERESS GIVES MILLION TO EDUCATE NEGROES INTERESTED IN THEIR WELFARE Country and Rural Schools of the South to be Benefitted--Booker T. Washington and Hollis Burke Frissell are Trustees. Philadelphia, Pa., April 23.—A gift of $1,000,000 for the establishment of a fund for rudimentary schools for Southern Negroes, was announced here to-night. The donor is Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quakeress of this city. Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee Institute, and Hollis Burke, Frissell, president of the Hempton Normal and Industrial Institute, are named as trustees of the fund, but neither of the institutions they represent will share in the gift. The income of the $1,000,000 is to be used for the sole purpose of assisting in the "Southern United States community, country and rural schools for the great class of Negroes to whom the small rural community schools are alone available." The deed of gift was executed yesterday and in it Mr. Washington and Mr. Frissell are empowered to appoint a board of trustees in connection with the fund. The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities of this city will act as fiscal agent for the trustees. Miss Jeanes, the donor, is about 80 years old and comes from an old and wealthy family that has been prominent for more than a century in the Society of Friends. She has long been interested in the welfare of the Negro and has been a contributor to institutions for their education. She has known Mr. Washington for a decade. In transferring the million dollars to the trustee, Miss Jeans states that "Trusting and believing in the practicable and far-reaching good that may result from the moral and elevating influences of rural schools for Negroes in the Southern States, taught by reputable teachers, do hereby appoint Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Hollis Burke Frissell, of Hampton, Va., and their successors in the trust appointed and created as hereinafter directed, the trustees of an endowment fund in perpetuity of $1,000,000, which is hereby created, to be known as 'the fund for rudimentary schools for Southern Negroes,' the income thereof shall be devoted to the sole purpose of assisting in the Southern United States, community, country and rural schools for the great class of Negroes to whom the small rural and community schools are alone available. Rural Schools to Benefit Rural Schools to Benefit. "Should the said Booker T. Washington or the said Hollis Burke Frissell die or decline to serve before they shall have established the Board of Trustees of said endowment fund, or if for any reason the same shall not be constituted by them within a period of six months from this date, then I request and empower the trustees of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and the trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to select and create from members of their own boards a special board of trustees to act as trustees of the said endowment fund in perpetuity hereby created; and I direct that such board apply the income upon the said fund in like manner solely toward the maintenance and assistance of rural, community and country schools for the Southern Negroes and to encourage moral influence and social refinement which will promote peace in the land and good will among men." In a statement signed by Booker T. Washington and Hollis Burke Frissell they say, "that while we can not speak definitively, we feel quite sure that it will be the aim of the trustees of this fund to work in hearty sympathy and close co-operation with the (Continued on page eight.) IN THE WOMAN'S WORLD. BY "DOROTHY" This column is devoted to the interests of women. Address all communications to "Dorothy" The Freeman, Indianapolis. A PETITION. Lord give the mothers of the world More love to do their part; More love to do their part; That love which reaches not alone The children made by birth their own But every childish heart. Wake in their souls true motherhood Which aims at universal good. Lord give the teachers of this world More love and let them see How baser metals in their store May be transformed to precious ore By love's strange alchemy, And let them daily seek to find The childish heart beneath the mind. Lord give the preachers of the world More love to warm the word They speak for tender souls to hear; Too long old dogmas based on fear The human race has heard. Inspire Thy ministers to feed Their flocks upon a loving creed. Lord, the Christians of the world More love for daily use; And show them simple ways to prove They do not keep the Rule of Love, For homilies abtruse, But live each day Thy golden law As if Thou dwelt on earth and saw. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ECONOMY IN COOKING. Mrs. Helen Armstrong, who through the Indianapolis Gas Company, has been doing such good work for the women of the city, by teaching them economy in cooking and also in gas saving, the past month, leaves the city-to-day to fill similar engagements in South Carolina. The last lecture of the series for colored women was given Thursday of last week at Bethel A. M. E. church to a large and appreciative audience. Among other things, she said: "A good thing for a housekeeper to have in her party is an emergency shelf. We can never tell just when we need something rather extra nice on our table. We hear and read of the smart woman who can prepare an excellent impromptu luncheon for the guests who have come in on her hospitality of a sudden. Well, those women simply do not exist. There is no woman smart enough to get in readiness at short notice an appetizing lunch out of a ham bone and a few cold potatoes. She would at least have to have canned goods to fall back on." "In my emergency shelf," went on the lecturer, "I have canned vegetables, fish and fruits. I also have jellies and preserves. If I have left-over meats, I make simply sauces or gravies and have a nice hot meat stew, or make a neat roll." The following recipes were done and served: Broiled Fish. Split open a firm fish, after cleaning, and remove back-bone. Spread with soft butter, dredge lightly with flour and season with salt and pepper. Place fish on a buttered pan or fish sheet and cook under the gas flame, the time depending upon the thickness of the fish. Serve on a hot platter and garnish with slices of lemon and papsley. Panned Tomatoes. Select medium sized tomatoes, not too ripe, and cut in halves. Place in a buttered pan, and spread with soft butter, also sprinkle with salt, paprika, and flour. Onion juice and minced parsley may be added, if desired. Cook under gas flame (or in oven if broiler is full) until tender and lightly browned, then serve on rounds of toast. A brown sauce may be poured around them at serving time. For then sauce use three tablespoons each of butter and flour, a cup of boiling water (or stock) and seasoning of salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and Kitchen Bouquet. Peach Pudding. Mix together one pint o fflour, three scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt and one-half cup of sugar. Rub through a sieve, and add three-fourths cp of milk, one well-beaten egg and three tablespoonfuls of soft butter. Spread this in a well-buttered shallow cake pan. Cover the top of the dough with canned peaches, sprinkle two tablespoonfuls of sugar over this and bake in a moderately hot oven for half an hour. Place the cake upon a warm platter and serve hot with sugar and cream, or make a sauce with the juice from peaches. Fruit Rolls. Make crust with two cups of pastry flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoons of baking powder and cream enough to moisten; about one cupful is required. Roll the crust into an oblong shape, spread with chopped raisins and nuts and shape like a jelly-roll. Cut into inch slices, place on baking-pan, moisten the tops lightly and sprinkle with sugar and spice. Bake in a moderately hot oven and serve warm. The fish was cooked on a hickory plank and was very fine. Mrs. Armstrong advises the cooking of fish in this manner, for it is hard to remove one nicely from a pan. Mr. Eves pimrosites that Mrs. Armstrong will be asked to come again and the women of Indianapolis will look forward to the event with much pleasure. At the close of the lecture, a flash light picture of the audience was taken and will be kept by the company. To to gas company, Mr. Eves, and Mrs. Armstrong we are grateful for this event in our lives. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. LAID TO REST IN BURIAL LOT OF FAMILY SHE LONG SERVED. The devotion of the people of the South to old family servants who came to them during slave days has been exemplified at Frankfort, Ky., in the burial of "Aunt" Agnes Harris, an aged "mammy," in a family lot of the Herndon family in the State cemetery. Here is very probably the only body of a colored person buried in the cemetery proper. The body was brought there from Louisville, where the old woman died. It was accompanied by Lyne Herndon and members of his family, who witnessed the burial. "Aunt" Agnes Harris had always been a servant in the Herndon family, and her burial in the family lot, near the body of Mrs. John C. Herndon, her mistress, was at her request. When the late John C. Herndon was married in 1862 and was about to set up housekeeping, "Aunt" Agnes, then a young woman, was given to him by his father as a family servant. She never left the family during her life and for years, except during an illness of one week, she did the family cooking. The family was greatly attached to her and showed their feeling for her by giving her every care during her last illness. WOMEN URGE THE APPOINTMENT OF CHAPERONES. A committee from the Women's Christian Temperance Union visited the Board of Public Parks at Indianapolis, Friday, with the request that the board appoint women chaperones for the girls who frequent parks. Women policemen were also suggested, in order that all girls caught flirting may be sent home. The board promised to give the proposition consideration. Mayor Bookwalter and members of the board have expressed themselves unfavorably toward the proposed chaperones. They say that each park already employs a matron that the police supervision is good, and that the parks are always closed at 11 o'clock each night. They do not believe that immoralities at the parks are as rife as some people suppose, but that the city parks are being confused with some other parks which are not under municipal control. THE RUNAWAY GIRL. One school girl in Indianapolis, not quite seventeen years old, has given the police and detectives of three or four different cities quite a lively chase for the past week or so. Be wildered, it seems, from indignation at unjust treatment by the school authorities, the girl meant to get away from it all. The only bad feature about the running away was the worry of the mother, who knew nothing of her daughter's whereabouts for the girl apparently knows how to take care of herself. She has exceptional intellectual ability and is making a mark in the newspaper line. While we do not advocate such notoriety we do commend the girl for her ability to steer clear of the usual pitfalls that are found in all cities for girls. CHILDREN MUST PLAY. The school authorities at Washington, D. C., have decided not to have summer schools, believing that the children need playgrounds more than school rooms. The fifty-six teachers who were in the summer schools will be transferred to the playgrounds, and the youngsters will be allowed to have a good time all summer. There are ten playgrounds in the city. SHOW PROTECTION DEVICES The women's clubs of New York are interested in a proposed institute for the exhibition of safety devices. It is proposed to establish such a museum of safety by which all may be aware of how to protect themselves from dangers that beset them every day. There will be demonstrations in connection with the museum, classrooms and a university extension course. NO HUSBANDS WANTED. The spinsters of Ft. Dodge, Ia., are emulating the ancient Amazons. Not only do they scorn helpmates but they are now engaged in a vigorous war- fare against an ordinance now pending before the city council. The will which is causing such a tumult is designed to compel all bachelors and spinsters between the ages of 25 and 45 to marry. Ft. Dodge has more spinsters and bachelors than any other town of its size in the west, and the framers of the measure desire to purge the city of this disgrace. But the spinsters are determined to keep their freedom and will probably prevent the measure from passing the council. OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN. There are a few seemingly set occupations for women, but if you wish to earn a livelihood it is not necessary to follow in the old beaten path, whether you are so fitted or whether you can make a success or not, try something new. Each week beginning with the issue May 4, new occupations or rather occupations out of the ordinary, will be given from real life. Miss Helen M. Gould is the hitherto unknown philanthropist who purchased 100,000 acres of land near Greeley, Colo., at a cost of $350,000, to be subdivided for homes for poor persons from New York tenements. Another $100,000 will be spent for farm implements, seed and fencing. Beneficiaries will be allowed to make easy payments, if they are diligent, but the shiftless will be weeded out. There will be a corps of agricultural and sanitary instructors, a library and reading-room and pleasure grounds. There will be no requirements as to religion. Dairying and poultry raising will receive most attention at the start, and general farming and fruit growing will follow. THE FASHIONS. Cream, crossed with a hair line of warm, rich brown, is one of the favorite suitings for the spring street costumes. A jaunty coat and skirt has the former garment trimmed with shaped pieces of plain cream cloth. This in turn has a simple design woven upon it with brown soutache. The buttons that fasten the short, loose coat are cream colored silk. The bowl-crowned hat is made of a smooth straw. This in the rich cream tone, while the large rosette upon the highly turned up side is of brown velvet. Three wings that tone from a bright yellow to the cream stand well out to the back. CARE OF THE ELBOWS. Now that the summer is approaching and short-sleeved waists are to be worn as much as ever, it is necessary to begin to take care of your elbows, an authority on the subject says 'Don't lean on them, and, as often as you can, massage them, using plenty of cream.' The knuckles and elbows show first signs of age, and the wise woman will see that they are kept in order by the proper amount of care. * * * The tardiness so far of real spring weather has somewhat put a damper on the desire for and preparation of clothes, although many pretty hats were bought for Easter Sunday and have been doing duty with muffs and furs for the last few weeks. * * * Don't forget the placket and the treacherous heel of your stocking. Six years, 540 yards of duchess silk lace, 400 yards of silk thread, and an infinite amount of amelia were consumed by Miss Amelia M. Redel, of Marshalltown, Ia., in making a black lace dress she is showing to friends in Chicago. Miss Redel conceived the idea of a handmade lace dress six years ago, and immediately set to work to carry out that idea. Last week she finished her task. The waist and skirt each are in one piece. The design was worked out over a foundation of cambric. The Empress of Japan has been reading some European plays and she does not like them. She believes that they deal with forbidden subjects and must lead to dangerous meditations. The freedom with which women in them are represented as expressing their opinions in public, giving vent to their most intimate sentiments and putting their handkerchiefs over their eyes and weeping before people is said to strike her as quite incomprehensible. The married man in Korea follows a strange custom. If he should meet his wife in the street, he does not recognize her, but passes on, as if she were a stranger. When a female servant in Germany becomes ill, her mistress must pay about fifty cents a day for her hospital expenses, until she is able to return to work. Pins are not used in China. Clothes are fastened with buttons and buttonholes, or with loops and frogs; and a person is considered untidy who resorts to such makeshift as pins. To purify the air of a room, set a basin of cold water in the apartment. In a few hours it will have absorbed much of the air's impurities. The water, of course, will then be unfit to drink. Widows in China do not, as a rule, remarry. When a widow attains the age of fifty she is awarded a tablet by the emperor, on which her virtues are recorded. This tablet is placed over the door of her house. One of the New York newspapers is making a crusade and asking the help of the women to stop the docking of horses' tails. "Every woman under thirty thinks she's an actress," says Ellen Terry. And the trouble is, a whole lot of them get on the stage. Let your work speak for itself. That is the safest hold on any position. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been filled with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which gives full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100.00 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Distressed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 8 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality, AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. 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A. McCurdey, Proprietor. J. T. TANNER, Manager. WATER BLACK One small p One small package clears 25-barrel clister. Tablespoonful to tub of water. No injury to clothes or hands. No hard water. Cresent Oil Co., 520 Dr. Ward's Periodic Prevents Painful Menstruation. Cures Monthly Cramps Medical Profession. Contains no Opium or Acts Quickly and with Soil Sent on receipt of 25 Cents to any address in W. F. REYNOLDS, Pharmacist, Corner West Union Painless UNION Periodical Powders Monthly Cramps. Has the Endorsement of the No Opium or Poisonous Drugs. With Soothing Effect. Any address in the United States. Corner West and Ten less Dentists Dr. Ward's Periodical Powders Prevents Painful Menstruation. Cures Monthly Cramps. Has the Endorsement of the Medical Profession. Contains no Oplum or Poisonous Drugs. Acts Quickly and with Soothing Effect. Sent on receipt of 25 Cents to any address in the United States. W. F. REYNOLDS, Pharmacist. Corner West and Ten Union Painless Dentists ALUMINUM PLATES, STRONG AS STEEL, LIGHT AS PAPER. The lightest, strongest and best fitting plate made. Nonbreakable. Do not interfere with the sensation of hot or cold. Being a metal plate there is consequently plastic or seal of rubber. Better than gold plates. But the price herefore has been practically prohibitive. We are pleased to announce that we have solved a method by which we can furnish aluminum plates at less than half price. Would be pleased to have you call and investigate our method. IR POMADE KNOWN AS OX MARROW" Soft and Easy to Comb THE PEOPLE SAY FORD'S HAIR P FORMERLY KNOWN AS "OZONIZED OX MAR Makes the Hair Pliable, Soft and READ WHAT THE PEOP FORD'S HAIR POMADE Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 1990 have found it to do more than it is recommended to sing off, and cleans the scap and makes the hair MAGIC. KEEN. to the genuineness of the statements. Manager, The Freeman. You know as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" so known to you that makes Kinky or Curly known to you that makes Kinky or Curly kakes the most stubborn, harsh, kinky or ab. These results may be obtained from one of the following: Kinky or Curly relies itching, invigorates the scalp, stops the grow, and by nourishing the roots, gives it new harmless, it is a toilet necessity for ladies since about 1868, and the label, "OZONIZED States Patent Office in 1874. Be sure to get SOFT and PLIABLE. Bare of imitation. We may sell one bottle, postpaid, or cash with the signature, Charles Ford, Presst on each with every bottle. Price only 50. Sold on saler cannot supply you, he can get it for you for one bottle, postpaid, or cash as paid. We may sell one bottle, postpaid, or cash and postal or express money order, and mention pressly please. The Freeman can be found at Los Angeles, Cal.. at W. M. Shelton's, 733 E. 3rd street. --- HOWARD'S SETTLER ALUMINUM PLATES, STRONG AS STEEL, LIGHT AS PAPER. The lightest, strongest and best fitting plate made. Nonbreakable. Do not interfere with the sensation of hot or cold. Being a metal plate there is consequently no taste or small of snail. Bet. Kev West, Fl., Aug. 28, 1904. I used only one hair pomade and my hair has stopped breaking off, and it has greatly improved. When I started using this wonderful hair, my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten inches or more. Yours truly, 314 Southard St. MINNIE FOASTER. Brookhaven, Miss., Aug. 18, 1908. Gentlemen: I must confess I never tried any preparation so excellent for the hair. My hair was turning gray and was rather deadly but since I have been using your hair pomade my hair has turned black like it was when I was a girl and it has a lively color. C. L. ROEBS ```markdown ``` The Freeman wants agents everywhere. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year. 520 W. Wyoming St. Both Phones. 31 North Pennsylvania St. Opposite the When Store Colvert. Tex. Mch. 31. 195. I have one bottle of your oil, but I have one hair soft and black as silk. I will not be without it. PARA EROSA BOWENS. PARA EROSA BOWENS. Gentlemen: When I began using my hair, I was ashamed of myself, but now my hair has grown three inches all over my head and I have been using it all over my hair. Charles Ford Crest THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED CGiORED NEWSPAPER. ¢ i < a * he x 2 WV en MOTHERS BREAD 1 ee _ BRYCE’S MAKE ; ind , Best of all ety Mra (es , He ugh without pw Jf ea weap be al Px : Sold by Grocers Only Zs MICFS JRNITURE) “ADEs EXcHANae. COMPANY, aN J. A. MUNCHHOF, Proprietor, | BE; 448, 450, 452, 454, 455 WI! Washington Street. | Lae é - One-half Square West of Star Store. a ea 3 LADIES’ EXCHANGE. Ee ye 4 Ice Cream aud Sodas. TEN Lunches ,.:2... 534 Indiana Ave. Restaurant and Rooming House, 835 Fort Wayne Ave. Oid Phone, maic, 657. #>\~_ An important showing and sale pS of FURNITURE and 2 AS HOUSE -FURNISHINGS (% A LA OSs consisting of the newest ey types of modern Fur- ; It niture fresh from ry 05 {| The Work Shops of the Si Foremost Makers of the Land. Furniture, Carpets, Room-size Rugs, Lace Curtains, Draperies, Shades, Stoves, Ranges, Gas Ranges, Chinaware and House=Furnishings. Your Credit Easy Easy At the Famous is Good to Buy to Pay Furniture Store. If you want a nice piece for the home you can get it at the FAMOUS. You can buy a dresser for $1.00 cash and'5Oc a week You can buy an Iron bed for $1.00 cash and 50c a week You can buy a Dining-table for$1.00 cash and 50c a week You can buy 6 dining chairs $1.00 cash and 50c a week See us before buying and get our prices and terms. Special terms and prices to newly married couples. Be sure and see us before you furnish your home. We will save you money. THE FAMOUS FURNITURE COMPANY. J. A. Munchhof, Proprietor. New Phone 1068. y LOOK fares DOK S seacspous were ste GOOD SHOES old for the money as ts now belng soud at SON’S CUT PRICE SAMPLE WILSON’S AoE SoA (Sblel Block) 217 Indiana Ave! N. BoSee our Lave Oxford Shoes espectally ‘adapted for SPRING General Correspondence | From Various Sections. | RICHMOND, VA. C.B. Moseley's North? Side [Skating Rink fs doing a flourishing business every night. Skating and dancing and a special program consisting of racing, fancy skat- ing and vaudeville it is the only up-to-date place of amusement in the city for colored people. His cafe is just acoss ,the street from the rink and first,class and cannot te excelled.—The Freeman can always be found on file in this office.— Miller's hotel corner Leigh and Second streets, is under- going a general repalr and when finished ‘will be one of the finest hotels in the entire South.—The Richmond {Athletic Club er- | tertained very royally the Business {Men's Penny Ante Club on last Tuesday!evening consiiting of the following gentleman: President C. J. Miller, the Broad strect clothing merchant; Col. Dorsey Broge, proprietor of the Richmond steam laundry; Major John O. Lewis, preprietor of Mur- phy hotel barber shop; Mr. James Smith, the vegetable king: Mr. Glenn, the tobacco manufactor; and the Hon. C. W. Moseiey, Proprietor of Mosiey’s European Hotel and owner of the North Side Skating Rink. The above named gentlemen are all prom!- nent business men and highly respected citizens of Richmond who met to discuss the question of organizing a state fair ac- sociation to hold a state fair once every year at Richmond or sume other city in the state named by the association. The matter was gone over thoroughly and the question widely discussed until a late hour afier which lunch and. cigars were served. Qu Ee New Phone 641 Frank W. Flanner. Chas. J. Buchanan, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 320 N. SMinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. Proprietors Indianapolis Crematory. aes CE BUY AT 6 Renthaa a COMPANY New Phone 3598, 523 Indiana Avenue. Two Baskets . . . 25 Cents Two Baskets. . . . 30 Cents Two Baskets + . 35 Cents We sell by the TON AND CAR LOAD LOTS es Lesa Sie NORMAL, ALA. Mr. Chas. Stewart was a welcome guest of ours last week. He gave the student body a very excellent ad- dress on the Graces: Industry, Hon- esty and Reliability. * * Our com- mencement begins Thursday, May 23d, and closes Tuesday, May 29th. * * We are all looking forward to Found- er’s Day, May Ist, as being a glori- ous one. This will be our Thirty-sec- ond Celebration. Come and spend the day with us and assist us in praising and giving thanks to God for giving us such a Founder of our Coltege as Presdent W. H. Councill. * * Dean W. S. Peyton and Miss F. T, Johnson went to Talladegar to attend the State Feacher’s Association. * * There will be 92 Graduates from the College, Normal and Industrial Departments. * * The Junior Normal Class ren- dered a very excellent program on last Friday, having a scene from “The Merchant of Venice.” * * Prof. Archer is with us again. For the last two terms he has attended Meharry Medical College. * * Mr. J. W. Palmer, of De La Mar, Nev., was a pleasant visitor on last Friday. We are glad to have any visitor with us. D. B. ALLEN. Garden, Fiower and Field S. EE D Ss BEST OF QUALITY. GEORGE H. SWAIN, | 'S0N. Delaware Street, - - - Indianapolis, Indiana W. H. HARTMAN, Manager. | FOSALECHEAP, Twenty Building Lots, centrally located. Easy terms. Also _ uses, all modern improvements, most desirable loca- Gi, s city. For information address E. W. Dale, Cape May SYN. J. | BRAZIL, IND. We would be glad to take the names of all those not already lined up for The Freeman. Consult Rev. A. W. Gross, No. 223 W. Main St. * * Rey. G. A. Martin, of Indianapolis, was in the city Sunday and conducted services at the Baptist Church. Our hearts burned as he talked with us. * * By the way, Dr. B. T. Washing- ton, who spoke’at Olivet Baptist Chureh, Chicago, is striking the key- note. It is an old saying, the medicine you need is that which you don’t care to take. While some of the race seem to object to the man, it is neverthe- less the thing we need. The remarks are wonderfully fitted to move the minds. of men. PRUNK? SS New Hardware Stor _309—West Washington Street—309 Res “\sre carries a general line of hardware, and the Old Store at 522 Indiana tent: Vill be devoted exclusively to the Tin and Gaivantzed Iron Work Store. np Whe? you want Hardware of any kind cail at my New Hardware mre, SOF W. Washington Street—Just West of State House. SHORT FLIGHTS. “The Artistic Temperament.” | Of hasty violence. Oh, do not let the things I do | Distress you or appall. ‘it is, let friends explain to you, + A brainstorm—that is all. if I should wrathfully arise And speak in tones evere, With threats to blacken some one’s eyes, Be patient while you hear My angry words, and calmly trust That it is all well meant. | The reason for these things is just Artistic temperament. —Washington Star. oes Again the question is asked, “Is there another run in Grover?” Negro “poits” are becoming as plentiful as blackberries in July. eee Handing out advice unsought does not add to one’s personal popularity. eee The orator of the barroom and bar- bershop seldom has a bank account. ee It is easy to find fault with that others have constructed or are con- , structing. eae Negro soldiers are welcome at aris- tocratie and exclusive West Point— as servants, sae Everybody has a rod in pickle for the “butter-in,” and a club for the fel- low with a hoby. wee They cry “graft” most voeiferously | who would pocket the money if they had the other man’s opportunity. eee || Decry it as we may, the “bread and butter argument” loses none of its :) potency as we go along in life. fee , The man who knows he is right doesn't waste time in argument. He [just sticks to his ideals—and goes ahead. eee If a Negro voter is bought, it is a J|wnite man who buys him. ‘The cor- rupter is not cleaner than the cor- rupted. nee ‘The esteemed Chicago Conservator dropped Register William Tecumseh z| Vernon as too hot a proposition to bandle. y eee 1} Secretary Taft's friends are putting -|no stones in the way of the Negro e|boomers of Senator Foraker in the 3} Southern field. eee t) Dr. E. W. Lampton, the efficient e| Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. e|connection, continues to wear “the smile that won't come off.” 1 eee ~| Has the Rev. A. J. Carey, of Chi djcago, mage up his mind as to what e|he will ask for at the hands of th [next A. M. E, General Conference? 5] No leader can long maintain hi g| prestige who is willing to cajole his ; ]}enemies at the expense of his friends | Indeed, charity doth begin at home. | ‘Tie to the friend who stands by you 5] when the world condemns. It is eas} .|to have a horde of flatterers on yout , {hip when fortune is smiling upon you a oe ©] As we understand it, Prof. Du Boi is not angry over the Jamestown Ex d} position expose. He is just making a .| display of the “artistic temperament. . se “| There are those who believe thal dJone of the best ways to create op s| portunities is for the powers that be | to create vacancies in fat government “| jobs. y © 6% a The Atlanta Independent is on solid e|sround when it warns the South that, e|in the final analysis, it may find for eign immigration to be a Trojan | horse. . eee The fact that the General Confer. ence of the A. M. E. Church assembles at Norfolk is not likely to injure the ¢ | chances of Dr. L. H. Reynolds for the © | Bishopric. - eee “| ‘“Perfessor” W. EB. Burghardt Du "| Bois has evidently failed to profit by ;|the experience of one Mrs. Parting ton, who tried to sweep back the At. |lantic tide with a kitchen broom. “| The race has a multitude of capa- ®|ble newspapen men, but the number =|that earn their livelihood from the ‘| business exclusively, is distressingly | small. This is not as it should be. 1 eee : The Taft-Foraker content in Ohio °| will be pulled off as the first of the °| preliminary “warming-up” bouts, to + |hold the attention of the audience un- | til the big fight of next year is called. - wee 1] ‘The banks of the Ohio are overshad- >Jowing the famed “banks of the Wa- .|bash” in popular interest at the pres- t/ent stage of the political game, but ’| Fairbanks is moving along the even -| tenor of his way. : tee > The fool friend insists upon ‘asking -|you ali sorts of impertient questions about your private business—your age, your income, your domestic af- exhibit to the Jamestown Exposition, valued at $1,000,000. “Perfesser” Du Bois says he will not contribute “a frazzlin’ thing.” Some men differ in opinion on matters of puviic impor- tance—that’s all. wee The civil service law is getting in its work at Norfolk, va. under the merit system, the letter-carriers are about evenly’ divided between the races. In a roster of fifty, about 28 are colored—and they are still pass- ing the examinations away up in the nineties, see “A public officer who handles $3,- 000,000 of the government's money every year, without a dollar of it sticking to his fingers,” is the eulogi- um pronounced upon Collector of In- ternal Revenue Charles W. Anderson, by Dr. Booker T. Washington at the Philadelphia business men’s banquet March 22, eae The Zion field of Bishopric candl- dates urge the election of six new members to the Episcopal Bench. Edi- tor Clement, the scholarly sentiment- moulder of the Star of Zion, admits that at least four should be chosen. As between the radical expansion of the one element and the ultra-con- servativism of the other, how would it do to compromise on five? ‘When race leadership is discussed, any calculation that leaves out that master of statecraft, Charles W. An- derson, of New York, is away off. Mr. Anderson is monarch of all he sur- veys in the Empire State, and the Warwicks of Wall Street, as well as the ward workers of 53d street, doff their headgear when he passes by. He can and does “deliver the goods.” “Uncle Noah Baxter, from Marble Falls, which is in the State of Texas, “walked right in, turned around, and walked right out again.” His reap. pearance at The Freeman’s “Round ; Table” would be welcomed. Perhaps I Mr, A. M, Hodges, Dr. M. A. Majors |R. H. McDonald, “Dorothy,” and C |B. Lewis will be kind enough to serv« jas a committee to investigate this jstrange occulation of our practical minded colleague from the bailiwicl | of Jo Bailey. 5 ‘The Springfield (1l1.) Forus file the following unique flag at its mast head: : For President, 1908, Charles Evan: || Hughes, of New York; for Vice Pres | ident, Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois. | The Washington Bee is out for thi ticket: For President, Joseph Ben ;;son Foraker, of Ohio; for Vice Pres »| dent, Timothy B. Woodruff, of Nev >| York. Come on with some more combing tions. The morer the merrier Ni | trouble to show goods. > Secoeties that “take care of th sick and bury the dead,” are doing useful work, but they would com -|nearer “hitting the nail on the head tif they would make a stronger effor 2| to teach the people how to live an improve their moral and materi: well-being day by day, rather tha s|making a specialty of dealing i | physic and coffins. Instruction in th .|value of race unity in religious an secular meetings—the building up ¢ something tangible—a church, 1] school, a hall, or a home—is what i y|most needed among us at this time. PERSONAL POINTS. Mrs. W. T. Vernon was called to Leavenworth, Kans., a few days ago by the death of her grandfather, on her mother's side, Mr. Samuel Frank- lin. Mrs, Vernon is the daughter of the late Bishop J. C. Embry, who mar- ried her mother in that city while pastoring there some years ago. one Dr. W. T. Vernon, Register of the ‘Treasury, has forwarded to Dr. Book- er T. Washington, a check for $25.00, as his contribution to the fund for the redemption of the Frederick Douglass homestead at Anacostia, D. C. see Prof. W. EB. DuBois, of Atlanta Uni- versity, notifies the public he is not preparing an exhibit for the James: town Exposition.—Floating Item. And who gives a—kitty? Dr. G. C. Clement, the popular edi- tor of the Star of Zion, is gradually recovering the sight of the eye in- jured some weeks ago by a flying splenter of wood. His friends are re- joiced to know that the accident is not 50 serious as at first reported. Rey. R. S. Rives, of Louisville, Ky., is announced as a candidate for the African Bishopric in the A. M. E. Zion connection, while Rev. W. H. Chambers and J. B. Colbert will con- test for the honor of representing “The West” on the Episcopal Bench. ee ‘ Mr. Jerry Washington, husband of Mrs. Mary E. Washington, vice presi- dent of the W. H. and F. M. of the Zion connection, and grand treasurer of the Order of Good Samaritans, is still critically ill at the family home- stead in New Albany, Ind. se ‘Mr. T. J. Calloway, chairman of the Executive Committee in charge of the Negro Exhibit of the Jamestown Expo- sition, states in a card to the public, that “The Negro Criterion,” published by Col. Giles B. Jackson as a private venture at Richmond, Va., is not the “official organ” of the committee, as many persons seem to think. The com- mittee is handling the affairs of the Negro exhibit under governmental authority, and the movement is sole- ly in the interest of the people. They have no individual axe to grind, can not profit one penny by it, and have no “official organ.” If you want a neat nair cut and shave, patronize G S. Baker, 611 9tb Street. Everything strictly new. Do aot fail to call tor a copy cf The Free- man, which is on sale each week. Lou- Isville, Ky. fo eee ; ‘ ae _ = a Tm, i 5 a Oe ae Fu qj At “AAU S| AY fo / ea { a ' | pee iif \chenideaapen aa! poceal ~ Waiters & Cooks 2 ; Prefer Our Make : JACKETS AND LINEN | because they have found tham Satisfactory, Write for oompiste Catalogue | flving fu, tyatrctions Marcus Ruben Tuc.) sState st., CHICAGO ILL, beets DEFORMITY App2zatus Trusses. We have recently opened our new office and factory carrying a full line of Trusses, Supporters, Elastic Hosiery, etc., and with full equip- ment for the production of the most approved appliances for the correction of deformities. Truss Fitting a Specialty Mr. Magee was formerly with Wil- Mam H. Armstro-g & Co.; for eighteen years ia charge of the manufacturing and truss fitting departments. All work guaranteed R. W. MAGEE & Co., 425 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana, === Watches and Sterling silverware Geb Sas MERCHANT, Dealer In All Kinds of Precious Stones, High Grade Jewelry, Resetting Diamonds and Making New and Origina Mountings. 15 N, Illinois’St., Indianapolis The Claypool Hotel Is across the street im ae> ( SPRING \ SEEDS and BULBS Always Good and Fresh at Huntingion & Page’s ) BIG SEED STORE, 206-208 N. Delaware St., Indlanapoils, Ind. | Remember the New Location. J —— THOMPSON Tailoring Company, Fine Tailoring for Men. Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. Your Trade Solicited. #216 NORTH ILLINOIS ST. Phone, M. 5137 Indianapolis, Ind. | Good Haberdashery. SPRING LINE OF | SHIRTS, TIES AT H. P. Thrush, 242) 82)8NA canals eee Williams Shaving Soap. No other so soothing, heal- ing, refreshing. Sold everywhere. Free trial sample for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. | Write for booklet «* How to Shave.”” The J. B. Williains Co., Glastonbury, Ct. omer eerme The Fidelity Mutual Insurance Company O80 aces. Mesive Colorea Ween. and Mb he sare sac nuseen te tg Sunnie oem os te aaeves sbrvemyion ome, (oan cuereeue Colored S ‘Standard remedy for Gleet, ‘Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles, eee eee eeaees Try a classified ad in The Freeman. Patronize our advertisers. ‘We will mail you a sample copy of The Freeman free for the asking. _ THE FREEMAN NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 309 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Agents wanted i: every tow; and city not now occupied, and liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinar- in inducements. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Fase of measure-solid acrate, 14 lines to an inc. 276 lines in a column. Special position. Supervisory editorial. No Advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business cards. Reasonable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 10c per line. Special rates on WR TE UF's. Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana, as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to The Freeman Publishing Company, INDIANAPOLIS, - INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907. Don't worry. It takes two to make a quarrel Dr. Booker T. Washington "scired" in Chicago. The race needs more farmers and fewer fakirs. The Negro diplomat seems to be on trial for his life. If anybody must get excited, let it be the other fellow. Really, Thomas Nelson Page ought ti take something for it. Opportunity passes by the man who stops too often to explain. Weather bulletin: "When 'brain storms' are threatened, be careful." Is anybody surprised to hear that Col. "Nick" Longworth is for Taft? Has Mr. Fortune wiped the National Afro-American Council off his little book? We told you several months ago that John Temple Graves needed a muzzle. In the hurly-burly of events, the Brownsville inquiry is not being forgotten. Whining is growing into disfavor. Get busy, and the skies will seem brighter. The Negro Criterion, of Richmond, Va., thinks real well of The Freeman. Our chapeau is off to you, Col Jackson! Were the educational and property qualifications enforced in the South, it is not always the colored man that would be disfranchised. The selection of Mr. Ralph W. Tyler as Auditor for the Navy Department is a just recognition of the influence and value of the Negro press. Battling Nelson, after an executive session with himself, unanimously reached the conclusion that he did not want any more "mix-ups" with Joe Gans. And then, any amount of free advertising, if not unenviable notoriously, can be had in certain quarters by announcing that you "take issue with Booker T. Washington." The appointment of Rev. O. J. W. Scott as chaplain in the United States Army, to succeed Dr. T. G. Steward, retired for age, gives general satisfaction. Nowadays, when a little fellow wants to get a job-lot of free advertising, he just mails a fiery notice to the papers that he will not have an exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. THE THAW CASE. The disagreement of the jury before whom Thaw was tried was not altogether unexpected. In fact, a verdict of acquital would have been no surprise. Such is the make-up of the people who too often feel that money and station saves against the law that operates relentlessly against the ordinary citizen. In the language of Attorney Jerome, who so ably prosecuted the case, murder was committed, a man was killed; a fact that stared constantly through the maze of sentiment built about the case. Amittedly there were extenuating circumstances—the victim exceeded his bounds, transgressed, trespassed --- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER and all that, yet the laws are ample to care for every infraction. The sinning of the murdered man was peculiar, but it was beyond checking. The world naturally sympathizes with the distressed while the wronged is too often lost sight of. The Thaw case was a brilliant example of the point. Conservatism and security demands that the courts be supreme and not the individual. Thaw suffered through the intrusion of White; it mitigated somewhat his awful offense. But White is dead; at the hands of Thaw. Doubtless the jury had those two ideas only before them, rendering a decision, if we may so call it, as the individual of that body viewed the greater offense from their personal standpoint, and in which respect they fairly reflect the divided sentiment of the country. The twelve men are felt to have done their duty, regardless of the future with its possible rehash of nauseating testimony. Evidently Thaw expected to fare better. As a professedly sane man he should be content in view of the future with its chances for mistrials and appeals that come to those that feel to be defeated of justice. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (Continued from first page.) tired of having to go out of the building to get their daily consignment of pie and milk, so somebody had to be prevailed upon to come in and open the concern. The color, question, however, is up again, but in another form. The white man wants his pie and milk, but he doesn't want it in the same room with Negro patrons. The ancient game of having a room for whites, labeled "For Members of the Bar," having played out, the newest caper is to have a room set apart for the accommodation of members of the District Bar Association. As no Negro lawyer is or can become a member of this close corporation, it is presumed that the new subterfuge is designed to accomplish the purpose of separating the races quite as effectively as the old trick. Of course, the Bar Association can be made so elastic that any white person will be allowed to enter their quarters and eat—as their guests. The formality of introductions or of paying for the meals of their guests will be politely waived. Unfortunately for the slick artists who are manipulating this awfully clever deal, Nemesis is on their track in the shape of Lawyer E. M. Hewlett, who has driven two proprietors out of the City Hall for discriminating against colored patrons. He and other courageous colored men have filed a protest with Marshal Palmer, showing that the white Bar Association has no right to have a room set apart for them, and exposing the shrewd dodge by which they are expecting to fasten down the color lid more tightly than ever. Marshal Palmer is a clear-headed official, and is firmly committed to the policy of fair play to all in the conduct of the City Hall restaurant. The person who runs the pace must run it in conformity with the law, or get out. It is dollars to doughnuts that the "Bar Association" will not be permitted to use government property under false pretenses as a means of drawing the color line. The case may reach the President, if the new move of the whites is approved by the local officials. Lawyer Hewlett and his "big stick" are warm propositions to deal with. The Cottage Home Infirmary, a well equipped hospital for the treatment of colored patients, established some years ago at Decatur, Ala., by Dr. Will E. Sters, a young surgeon of exceptional skill, will be represented in the comprehensive exhibit of the progress of the Negro in medicine, surgery and hospital management, arranged in connection with the Jamestown Exposition under the supervision of a committee, headed by Dr. A. M. Curtis, former Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedmen's Hospital at Washington, D. C. R. W. THOMPSON. WHAT LABOR HATH WBOUGHT (Continued from first page.) read a paper before the Alabama State Medical Association and held surgical clinics in one of the leading hospitals of Birmingham, his deep thoughtfulness in speech and intensely practical methods in action both winning the heartiest encomiums from the assembled multitudes. Following the meeting of the Alabama Association at Birmingham, Dr. Curtis, by special invitation, visited Athens and Atlanta, Ga., performing in each of these centers of Southern enterprise, severa loperations that had long been awaiting his coming, his face as a careful and successful surgeon having preceded him. He returns to his home city, invigorated and encouraged by the trip, and delighted to have met so many pleasant people and to have added so materially to his host of warm friends and admirers. He takes hold of his work with renewed enthusiasm and with plans widened and strengthened by his experiences abroad. "The Greater Freedmen's Hospital" His Monument. Dr. Curtis, who has long been a regular lecturer in the Medical Department of Howard University, valued alike for his learning and his knack of putting things clearly before the student, has now accepted an assignment on the staff of the Post-Graduate Department about to be projected in connection with the Freedmen's Hospital. Dr. Curtis sees untold possibilities in this new feature at Howard and thinks many practitioners will avail themselves of the ample facilities to be provided in the new and commodious Freedmen's Hospital, which is rapidly approaching completion, and which is costing more than a half a million dollars. The institution is national in scope, and is destined to be a center of polyclinic education. The continuance of Dr. Curtis' deep interest in the Hospital is not strange, in view of the fact that the formative steps leading to the erection of the new and adequate structure were taken during his incumbency as Surgeon-in-Chief and due, in a large measure, to his earnest recommendations for improved conditions and insistent urging of the matter before the Congressional committees. It is not too much to claim that the new Freedmen's Hospital is, in effect, a monument to the untiring energy, intelligent industry and rare tactfulness of Dr. A. M. Curtis. There are many who would like to see this exceptionally gifted gentleman again at the head of the institution he has done so much to develop. A "Curtis Sanitarium" in Prospect. It will thus be seen, even from these meager details, that Dr. Curtis is a medical genius of unusual versatility—combing in the happiest proportions a range of mental accomplishments bestowed by Dame Nature upon few of her sons—possessing an admirably-balanced faculty for surgical dexterity, general practice and medical lecturing, which gives him an especial fitness for the intricate and varied requirements of hospital management. It is, therefore, with infinite satisfaction that the announcement comes that Dr. Curtis is now planning to establish a private sanitarium in the palatial building occupied by him in Washington. In so doing, he will not only offer a larger opportunity for people from a distance to take advantage of his skill, under pleasing aides, but will confer a benefaction upon the citizens of the District of Columbia, of moderate means, who do not care, or have no right, to seek treatment at a public hospital. His plan is particularly adapted to the needs of the people of Washington, and it will afford superior advantages to doctors and patients in every part of the country who wish to utilize a superbly-equipped institution conducted by an experienced physician of our own race, and where capable and sympathetic treatment may be assured, directed by a competent staff of consulting physicians and cared for by our own trained nurses. Public Spirit the Hand-Maiden of Success. The secret of Dr. Curtis' phenomenal success is not difficult to discover. Like Abou Ben Adhem, he loves his fellowman. Unostentationally, yet effectively, he has lent the helping hand to his brethren and rendered valuable service to his day and generation. He is a real worker, is a student as well as a master, always keeping abreast of the times and his profession—perhaps a little ahead—and giving generously of his time and energies and means to the cause of human uplift and human happiness. He is public-spirited to the last degree. His high regard for this fundamental agency of progress and popular enlightenment is forcibly indicated in his voluntary and uncompensated labors in behalf of the medical and surgical exhibit in connection with the Jamestown Exposition. He conceived the idea that the Negro's marvelous development in the practice of medicine and in hospital management should be fittingly and practically demonstrated to the thousands of visitors who will throng to Jamestown this year from all parts of the world, and since the inception of the plan, he has been giving two and three hours daily to the work gratuitously and with no thought of self-aggrandization. He has surrounded himself with a strong committee, composed of the prime factors of the National Medical Association and others of national repute, and the exhibit promises to be one of the most unique and instructive features of the vast enterprise, in commemoration of the Negro's three hundred years of struggle and achievement. Dr. Curtis has planted good seed in fertile ground. He will continue to reap as he has sown. A young man still, the future holds for him unlimited possibilities that make for greatness of the enduring kind. General Correspondence From Various Sections. WILLIAMSPORT, PA. The Ladies' Mite Missionary Society held services on Sunday. Mrs. Hattie L. Smith, of Wilkesbarre, delivered an address. A number of out-of-town guests have been in the city the past week and many social functions have been given in their honor. MOBILE: ALA While in the City, call around and see Jackson's torsional parlor, one of the best equipped in the South. * * Rech. Vas. C. Crawford is having quite a successful revival at the Lily Baptist church. * * Hon. C. F. Johnson, the District Grand Master of the G. U. I. of O. F. of Alabama has gone to Birmingham on business. * * Mr. A. L. Lee, the well known socialist and contractor is still pleasing the boys with his humorous jokes. MARION, IND. L. J. Harris, formerly of Union Station Barber Shop, of Indianapolis, has taken charge of the J. A. Robison shop—Mr. Hicks and Harry Burden left Sunday for Pittsburg, for an indefinite say.—The entertainment at Jonesborough, under the auspices of United Sisters and Brothers, No. 1, by the Hoosier Star Vocalist, aws quite 1606 Jamestown Exposition 1907 membership in all the adjoining Cities and Counties of Norfolk, and are prepared to direct the Visitors to all First-Class families at a great reduction in rates, services, than otherwise. Our Home-office is centrally located in Hampton, where any business can be transacted. ALL OF WHICH VISITORS HAVE FREE ACCESS. All persons contemplating visiting the Exposition, and wishing to secure the best of accommodations, are requested to communicate at once with a two-stamp for prompt reply to 0. AUGUSTUS WRIGHT, ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. successful—Mrs. Thomas Nukes is much improved. The Second Baptist church is the recipient of a beautiful quilt presented by the Modern Priscilla Club, and is very grateful for the donation and will in the near future dispose of the same. The proceeds will be applied on the indebentness. A Bible class has been organized under the auspices of the United Sisters and Brothers of Charity, No. 1, at their hall. The class is to be known as "The Torch Bearers" Bible Study Class" and took for its motto, "To search, to find, to apply." The class eiected the following officers: Mrs. Molly Fletcher, president; INVITA 1606 ```markdown ``` membersh Cities and are prepared to all First reduction otherwise trally local any busin ALL OF WH All persons contem best of accommodation stamp for prompt repl 0. AUO RO Mrs. Viola Winston, recording secretary; Mrs. Estelle Nukes, corresponding secretary; George Weaver, librarian. Committee on Program, John Olliver, Mrs. Estelle Nukes and Mrs. J. T. Smith. Lookout Committee, C. C. Mays, Vern Pifford, Mrs. Anna P. Julius, Mrs. Ira T. Smith, L. J. Harris and Mrs. Viola Winston. The Class will meet every Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock at their hall. Rev. C. Elias Winston, class instructor. The public is cordially invited. MARLIN, TEX. Mrs. Pope, of Galveston, is in the city for the benefit of her health. Miss Julia Bell, of Paris, is registered at the Hagon House. Johnnie Atkinson, of Galveston, spent a few days in the city. James McMeans, Jr., manager and treasurer of the Afro-American News; Rev. C. L. Morgan, Ruufs Williams and M. K. Brown, of El Paso, Tex. and Mesdames Dora Geralds, M. E. Edwards, Estella Kitchen, Mrs. Annie Alkens, Mrs. Stamps and son, Mrs. W. R. Roberts, of Palestine, Tex., went fishing at Big Creek. Dinner was served by the ladies and the party began fishing. After the fishing expedition, the party drove to Lover's Lane and Bald Hill and back to their homes. W. B. Miller, of the "Satisfied" band orchestra of Ft. Worth, is in the city. Jessie Hood, of Houston, is here for the benefit of his health. Ralph Chatman, formerly of Marlin, but now or Ardmore, Ind. Ter., is in the city visiting his relatives. Howe- or Horn, is motion, or addi- Horace Hagan is making an addition to his house. T. D. Owens has accepted a position at the Levy Sanitarium. Read The Freeman, 5 cents a copy. A minstrel show will be organized in the near future by H. E. Jackson. The show will be under the management of H. E. Jackson and Johnnie Battle. Costumes by James McMeans, Jr., formerly manager of McMeans's Maddox & Tillis's Minstrel Show at Palestine, Tex., seasin's 1901, 1902, 1903. Mr. Tom Smith is still chef at the Arlington Hotel, assisted by McBride Richardson, 2d, and Jeff Sherman, baker. They meals they get up please the most fastidious. Mr. Lewis Moore is on the sick list. ```markdown ``` "White as the Foam-Crested Waves of the Sea" IF we offered to do your LAUNDRY work at half price you would think you were getting A BARGAIN. Is it not just as big a Bargain to make your Linen wear TWICE as Long? Direct an Inquiry to one of our many satisfied customers, "THE GRAND LAUNDRY." or "TRY US." THE GRAND LAUNDRY, 109-111 W. TENTH STREET. New Phone: 281-010-8100 THE public is cordially invited to shop with us during their visits to the Exposition. We maintain a large ```markdown ``` DALLAS, TEXAS It is time to be busy all the time. Let the Freeman help you. The Ministers' Union have just seen the way to help the whole people in this city and are now espousing the cause of the race and not a favored few, as of yore. Their action in one of their recent meetings is the talk of every thinking man or woman in the metropolis. If that body will lecture to their congregations these principals of intentions, a whole lot of good will soon be forthcoming. The Citizens Association have put a strong team out for election May 21, and now the air is politics in the metropolis. The drama of "More Sinned Against Than Sinning," will be repeated at Eauenings Chapel C. M. E. church, Monday night, for the benefit of the new church now in the course of erection. The Masonic lodges of the city laid one of the corner stones last Monday. The K. of P. lodges and Odd Felowls laid theirs on Sunday. Many gathered together to witness it. Persons living near E. Jollett St. can get this paper at 515, Boyd's Grocery Store. They have kindly consented to help circulate The Freeman. Bring your old hats and have them retrimmed, with the latest flowers and trimmings or order one as you like it, at 956 Cochran St. Let the colored voters stand solidly for the good of better government in Dallas. Those who were at the St. Paul M. E. Church Monday night were highly pleased at the high-class entertainment presented them. 'Phone J. G. Griffin, M. 1745, when you want the Freeman, or a high grade job of printer's art in job work, day or night. The Langston Club will entertain at Odd Fellows' Hall Wednesday night, May 1. The little folks enjoyed one of those old-time basket picnics Thursday. My new styles in hats for every lady's head is pleasing them by the hundreds. Call and see for yourself at 596 Cachran street. What has become of the idlers these days? The Elk's Lodge and their friends enjoyed an evening at Lincoln Park. BASE BALL UNIFORMS At... Special Prices A heavy flannel suit with best quality trimming and lettering, worth $6.00—Your At... $4.00 choice in navy blu maroon or brown. We have these uniforms in stock, and you can have the pants without padding if desired. Managers and Purchasing Committees Should See or Correspond with Us Before Placing Orders. . . . Chas. Mayer & Co. 29 and 31 West Washington St. WORK FOR ALL Let Thomas H. Harrison secure you a position before you leave home. I have all kinds of positions open, such as janitors, house men, porters, nurse girls, yard men, bell boys, waiters, cocks, blacksmith, carpenters and all kind of colored help wanted for summer resorts and city, public and private places. Write to Thomas H. Harrison, 1310 Wylie avenue, news dealer and bockseller, Pittsburg, Pa. Two long distant telephones. :. ¢ ———___—_——_ Mae ee Sh\ P Ve a Ao, rr gy ee m A 30 cans, headed by Mme. Sisierett on \ Jones, popularly known as the “Blac EB Patti,” and considered the. most at \ fy complished singer of her race, an 1 YS i), : “Jolly” John Larkins, the premier o 2 4 Yh 2 a colored comedians. . fe > Black Patti has appeared with grea a, 5 @i] | success in Europe, singing in Paris f \NQRc A} | Betlin, St. Petersburg, London an S NSB] | other ‘music centers, and enjoys th 4 -§ | distinction of having sung by com LY ) (fF | mand for the present king of Grea aK a Gg |Britain. Her success in the Unite ANY 4] “fj4 | States with the Troubadours covers Sat se period of eleven years. At the Mad RSs son Square Garden, New York, she al tracted an audience of over 16,00 ® and at the great Pittsburg expositiot A UN 23,000 people heard her sing. Ther: &: AC ee are two score other singers, dancer: N AES 3 comedians, vaudevillians, specialist: VAs 7 * refined coon shouters comprising th apr | “Black Patti Troubadours,” who aj Qo Fy d pear in a stage show that is as varie we % es = > as it is entertaining,a nd the kind tha ee Ve: lis understood and enjoyed withou Hurtig & Seamon will open their raudeville house in Dayton, Septem- ter 2 Rowland, the great tramp juggler, jgen rovte with the Happy Days in Disle Company. Eugene Clark, manager of the Graet yan Amburg Shows Concert Company, js meeting with much success en mute sh Texas. ¢, W. Behee, with the Southern comedy’ Company, which organization : making good throughout Wiscon- sin, sends regards to all. Miss Sallie Lee, leading lady of p.G. Lowery’s Company, spent a few jays in Indianapolis this week, the fust of Mrs. Black, in Fayette St. Asher and Patterson, singers and dancers, were seen at Keeney’s ‘Thea- te, New York, last week, and Mur- jiy an Franeis at the Union Square. Mr. Tom Logan passed through In- danapolis Wednesday, en route South where he will spend several weeks rating up. He will be seen with ie of the big ones the coming sea- lie J. W. Carson, of the Nashville Stu- dats, who has been spending some- time with his family at, Indianapolis, let Tuesday for Peru to join P. G. Iovery’s Musical Enterprise, to trav- @ with the Wallace-Hagenback Sows. The fair to be held by the Colored Site Fair Society at Macon, Ga., next fill vas endorsed by the City Couneil (that city, ‘The last fair held by tie colored population was a success asonly two arrests was made on the ‘rounds during the entire show. MP. G. Lowery, the well known ‘und leader, was’ in Indianapolis this week the guest of J. D. Howard and EC. Knox. Mr. Lowery will have darge this season of the band and yaudeville entertainment in the an- tex of the Wallace-Hagenbeck Cir- s, Charles Edwards, well known | in Sorting circles and to the profession is the “Black Prince” was married Monday evening, April 8, to Mrs. Syl- wster Payton, at the home of the trie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Jackson, at Hot Springs, Ark. A movement is on foot among the tusic publishers to do away entirely Nth professional copies. Already one fm has inaugurated the system in i experiental way, and»several oth- «ss have agreed to follow as soon as tte cescy of the system is demon- strated Prof. James Wolfseale opened the fason with Cole Brother's Circus Sith a vaudeville company of thir ten men and 3 ladies, ‘The following fouprise the company: ‘The Jolly Prices, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, Miss Pearl Windom, Messrs. W. Louis. Rector, HamestSmnith, “E. ‘Chiswell, W. B. Tabor, W. F. Russell, W. 8. Smith, 6H. Powers, Roy and ‘Troy Wolf- ‘ale, Thos. A. Snlcer & EL Reid. PPeieeiirte shapes alin See etn a Mahara Minstrels: We are now in Wseonsin and business is fine for us. Haven't had a bad night since we have teen up here in these parts, HE. Clark and Leah, are rapidly becoming known as the fashion plates ({ minstelsy as the gowns Leah Wars are reams, le Noy Bland is rehearsing a big piste by the following people: Betta St. Clair, Jessie Harris, Ar Gr Moss, James Brooks, Jake’ Ellt Mt, Mrs. Joe Russell, Sloan Edwards, Gitel: the “Wooing of a Hindoo Qieen, #8. Clk, Ed Prye, James Harris, W. B. Bostwick—the big four—keep tem isnt Serge Smith, our trap drummer, bet the ojoys in looking at his fine he of trans ‘every. day. Mirus Hushes, our young orches- Elles, is playing all the latest Uisi, Frank Mahara, our general man- if, '5 having special scenery made "Cox Brothers, for We, se Harris, assisted by his te lake. Jawes Harris, is scot ing eG sincing “On Your Way, Babe Si “Georzia MinstreY’s Band” clit is a young show and(every mie wetowate, as, as we Read ev- mets f mi the bible to an ee Becca, man is our weekly i ihe SM’ Patti Troubadours, one Ge: NO! VOvUlar and suecessful of te paag’<tizations, will be seem at trojan’, 2. 3 and 4. ‘The new mDY consists of 40. Afro-Amerk THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPaprEp cans, headed by Mme. Sisieretta Jones, popularly known as the “Black Patti,” and considered thc. most ac- complished singer of her race, and “Jolly” John Larkins, the premier of colored comedians. Black Patti has appeared with great success in Europe, singing in Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, London and other music centers, and enjoys the distinction of having sung by com- mand for the present king of Great Britain. Her success in the United States with the Troubadours covers a period of eleven years. At the Madi- son Square Garden, New York, she at- tracted an audience of over 16,000, and at the great Pittsburg exposition 23,000 people heard her sing. There are two score other singers, dancers, comedians, vaudevillians, specialists, refined coon shouters comprising the “Black Patti Troubadours,” who ap- pear in a stage show that is as varied as it is entertaining,a nd the kind that is understood and enjoyed without the aid of a liberetto or an interpreter. It is a rapid fire medley of song, story, dance, with Negro melody, darky fun, the buck dance, the cake walk, stunning specialties and coon shouts, happily interspersed and cli- maxed by selections from the stand- ard operas. The most popular melo- dies of the day are the creations of these merry singers. They were the first to yoice “Under the Bamboo Tree,” “Hot Time in the Old Town | Tonight,” “All Coons Look Alike to Me,” “Chicken, and numerous other coon classics that have become popu- lar the world over. The stage show is given in three parts—first the darkey fun skit called “A Royal Coon,” followed by a condensed version of “The Chimes of Normandy” and an entertaining vaudeville olio. THE FAMOUS BILLY KERSAUD'S MINSTRELS. After doing an enormous business throughout the Eastern States, we've again started touring the South. As usual.everybody is welcomeing Billy Kersands, the king of colored’ min- strelsy ,and his clever minstrels. The business is all that can be expected. As an illustration 6f the show's pros- perity, we are proud to say the ghost walkks every Sunday. Our famous Billy is leaving them to wonder how can a man of his age do such clever and astounding work upon the stage. Our music, as has been admitted by many, far surpasses any in a simi- lar capacity. Messrs Maxwell and Johnson, king bicyclists and hoop kings, respective- ly, are very much delighted, after be- ‘ing away for many years, in again touring their old home State and meeting with so many of their old acquaintances. ‘We are very sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Cooper, who was the very aged mother of our very faith- ful and energetic tuba soloist, Mr. |loyd Cooper. Mr. Cooper was for- tunate in reaching his home in In. diana in time to sit by his mother's bedside and pay her the last honor of a true and obedient son in her last hours of life. The thirteenth of April left the veteran showman a motherless son. Mr. Cooper, though far from a young man, was a true and faithful son, ho is the posses sor of those elements that are so indis: |pensable in true manhood. Mr. Coop er was called away from us at New ,ark, N. J., to join his wife and neigh : bors at the bedside of his dying moth er. After having bid this life of mis ery an eternal farewell, she passed [away ‘with a sigh. But dear bereavec ones be not grieved. That is God's |way of calling his little ones -home She has not gone to remain from you , but only to dwell in the new home | prepared for us. Then look forwaré | and prepare to be welcomed by her in the new home. Mr. Cooper is yet at home, but he i expected to return soon. Regards to all friends. THE BLACK HUSSARS IN PARIS. A more melodious or a more en- chanting number has not, says our Paris correspondent, been presented on the stage of Barrasford’s Alham- bra than the number provided by a team of fourteen artistes known as the Black Hussars, who recently cre- ated quite a furore at the London, Shoreditch. All that is inspiring in the way of talent and harmony seems to have been collected together in this colored concert band, and the Parisan capital it going simply wild over the “Bass Drum Trust” intro- duced by the fourteen musicians, and nothing more humorous has been heard in the gay capital for years. ‘The manager of the Hussars, Hender- son Smith, in whom President Roose- yelt took a great interest, has had quite a romantic career, and an arti- ele on his life and history is down to appear in the coming April Hippo- drome Magazine, and in view of the fact that Mr. Smith rose from the po- sition of bricklayer to bandmaster, it should certainly make interesting reading, The Black Hussars are due at the London Hippodrome in July. A. G. ALLEN’S MINSTRELS Under a Mammoth Canvas Theatre. They are still in the Lone Star State, with good business. Show pleasing and all-well. The comedi ans, J. L. McDaniel, Jno. Dennis, Jno. Willaims, H. S. Smith, Bd Wil liams, Sidney Grover and Son Simms continue to keep all audiences in good humor. Thomas Downs is pleas ing with “I Long to See You Once Again.” C. A. La Rose, the female imperpersonator, keeps them guess ing, Williams-Simms, in their rapid fire talking, simging and grotesque dancing, aré fast forging to the front Chas. McKenzie is adding new lau rels each night 1 nhis contortion act J. L. McDaniels, tramp comedy bicy clist {s a strong feature. Dennis-Nor ton in “Miss Eliza Jones’ Birthday “VCO. FS countsy, a ea Os : . me oe 20, an ct Z*2,% at, RG he ee (F23K (ee f te wo f an Ot ce sie ?eranae (HARRY GiLLIAM.) Lav, ~ cy aie fy NO aa ; eu (aT G Ye J » Grech, a ! * OE, «WATER MELON e S . 2) our eit” tly, gf HOGANG 52} Ri Noe PB A = SDs. wn SERS Ye, tine YOY Se Gors BG . 8S Be: Te tt wid r “inc Son” FRE Sim cixce” © Pi i) (osttn Waner) 4% We , OU p/ pnw’ ? Brow ha “Tae tach Party,” keeps them screaming, Brooks and Dennis sends regards to Williams & Stevens. R. C. Henderson sends Tegards to Prof. Lowery and H. Q. Clark and says write. THE TIDE WATER CONCERT BAND. ‘The Tidewater Concert Band, un- der direction of Prof. Wm. H. Lewis, is composed of the following persons: Wm. H. Lewis, cornet; John Smith, cornet; Pace Meal, cornet; J. Bailey, clarinet; Claud Lewis, clarinet; Otto Hurdle, baritone; J. Reaves, bass; W. T. Cherry, trombone; I. Wilds, trom- bone; F. Grey, trombone; EB. N. Col- lins, alto; Simon Miller, alto; Young Mouse, snare drum; D. G, Thomas, bass drum. | BEFORE THE STAGE MIRROR. | By Charles Marshall. She is the chorus Jady, | Who uses powder and paint; To make her face look to you, | Just like what it ain't. She is the chorus lady, |_ And she’s dark as night, almost, But when she puts the powder on, | She looks much like a ghost. She is the chorus lady, : As cute as a baby with toys; And declares she is single and very young, When she’s the mother of ten boys. wee Without any notification ceremonies the “Rufus: Rastus” company closed at Columbus, ©., April 13 and why they closed so suddenly no one knows just why, although every one springs a different reason. But it maybe “Al- ways Something Wrong” came to into the life of the show too often and the management decided to give them time to get in harmony with each ee Did you ever hear of an actor speak- ing real well of another. He gener- ally states that a brother actor is all right, but ——! !! There is more petty jealousy among actors and actresses than there are “fleas on some dags’ backs.” Mr. Harry Fiddler would make an excellent secretary for some large business concern, especially when it came to correspondence, “Fid” writes a letter to his manager as regular as the days come concerning the future. are Who said “Fid” is a manager of a hotel? P. G. Lowery came into this office last week and forgot to bring his MSS. that he promised a year ago on “Colored Musicians of America.” They say Bert A. Williams does play ball. It is one thing sure, he certain- ly has to come out of that walk he has got when going around the bases. Here, there and everywhere —— Abbie Mitchell. eae | The music written and composed by Negro writers is to be given a promi- ‘nent place at the Jamestown Exposi- tion. soe | Air ships and aircastles for Ernest Hogan. Everything must be aloft. Sherman, Jr., Shams and Teddy for S. H. Dudley. NEW INSCTITUTION AT MARION. The National Relief Hospital and Training School at Marion is designed to be a State Institution, and aims to fill a long-felt need among the peo ple in that city and the State doing regular hospital and clinic work and also incidentally to train young girls in the art of nursing. It has been in operation fifteen months, has had nenarly a hundred patients—a num- ber of whom have been white persons from various parts of the State. Re- cently ft was thought by its manage- ment that a public effort should be made to assist the management in earing for that larger number who go, and are unable to pay their way, hence the “Rally” last Sunday in Feed Children for Brain and Muscle The Food May Determine the Success of After Life. Many a child grown to maturity can look back and see where tender hearted parents permanently injured or weakened it by harmful indulgence in food. Irregular {feeding, meat-sating and un sultable, heavy food in childhood have undoubtedly laid the foundation for in- validism and blighted the career of many who might otherwise have achleved suc- cess. Children like the sweet, satisfying nourishment of wheat, which contains every element needed for perfect nutri tion from infancy to old age. The best of all eatables for growing children is- Malta Vita, the one perfect wheat food which they eat with genuine relish and never get tired of, Malta-Vita combines the delicious taste of crisp, nut-urown, whole wheat flakes [converted into malt-sugar by pure mat. extract. It contains no gluccse, cheap ‘syrups or other foreign sweetening. It is ready to eat when you open the box. / Ifsomething is needed between meals ‘a snack of Malta-Vita’’ is just the thing because it is ‘perfectly pure and easy fo little stomachs to digest. Without meat eggs, tea, coffee, or chocolate, puny and thin-blooded children canbe made vigor- ous and strong in a few months by a sim ple, satisfying diet of Malta Vita with miik, cream or fruits. Try it. They wiil thank you for it afterwards, In large, sealed, air-tight packages at the grecers, nl 10 cents. Second Baptist Churek. There were three large and enthusiastic meetings held. Rev. Dr. J. Francis Robinson preached at the morning and eyening services upon the subjects: “God's Method of Using Good Men” and “The Bible Prophecy of the Rise and Prog: ress of the Negro.” There was a platform meeting at the afternoon service, the principal speaker being the Hon. G. L. Knox, who spoke elo- quently upon the “Unity of the Race.” ‘The pastors of the city, namely: Rev. J. R. Harvey, Rev. J. F. Pettiford, and Rey. Y. C. Terrell, presented greet- ings and spoke words of encourage- ment for the Institution. Rev. C. lias Winston and wife and Mrs. Cora Spires, furnished special music for the occasion. Mr. Knox spoke again at night and was generfously applaud ed. His speech was instructive, elo quent, and decidedly helpful to the people of that community. He alsi aided in raising the collection which amounted to $126.00 ror the Hospital. Dr. W. T. Thomas, the founder, and manager of the Hospital, was all smiles when Dr, Robinson and Mr. Knox closed the days magnificent services, AT THE FALLS CITY. Loulsvillee (Ky.) _ Special—The Shoo-Fly Regiment company is billed for May 5, at the Avenue Theatre. The Reverned Ernest Hall, of Bloomington, Ill, a minister of wide reputation, was in the city several days. While here, he addressed the students of the State University, and was tendered a dinner by Rev. J. R. L. Diggs, president of the Univer- sity. eee Miss Nanny H. Burroughs, secretary of the Woman's Baptist Convention, left last week for Pittsburg, Pa., where she will deliver several address- es to the Baptists, as well as many literary organizations in the East. She writes that the National Train- ing School idea is being warmly re- ceived and taking financial root in that section, eae The State University of this city, an institution which stands for the moral and religious development of the Negro, will soon take on the in- dustrial idea according to a donation } PERFORMERS WANTED Male and Female, for LINCOLN PARK SSS === and the EXCHANGE THEATRE Good salary and season engagement to the right people. Send photo with letter. People must sing and dance. Address THOS. BAXTER, Prop., 125 Bridge street, Jackson Fla. PROF. J. M. ROBINSON, Jr., Maneger, I can place sober reliable people at ail times with either attraction. The Shows that neuer close Proctor’s Arkansas Minstrels, Proctors Arkansas Troubadours, and Proctors Happy Land Show. Geo. H. 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It’s a new thing and, therefore, must be . introcuced, Everything was new once, ric oO Enterprising men will investigate, @ We have a big factory in daily operation at Homestead, Brooker and Voorhees Sts., Indianapolis, and oc offer full-paid, non-assessable, non-taxable stock at $50.00 per share, payable one-third down, one-third in one and two months. Three per cent off for cash. Why keep your money in the savings bank, Payiug three or four per cent, when you can mak@ a safe investment in something you ean seo and under- itand, that will proba- P. Oo t aim Pay 2 er cen Write for full particulars, report to stockholders, and inspection permit, ‘This proposition is recommended by the best business men in Indianapolis, ——appeess on catt— 524-527 State Life Building INDIANAPOLIS, IND. that has been accepted by the Wom- an's Board of Managers of the School. The school recently received five thousand dollars toward the erection of an industrial department for the girls, The woman’s Baptist Conven- tion, of which Mrs. Mamie E. Steward is president, has raised five thousand dollars, and they hope to raise that much more. With the whole amount, they expect to erect a new building. ee ‘The Central Law School, of which the Hon. Albert S. White is Dean, will have their annual commencement May 7th, at Masonic Temple Theatre. The graduates are Messrs. Wm. H. Goodall, a teacher of our public schools and Jno. S. Hobson, a gradu- ate of Tuskegee. The school will have for speaker of the occasion, Judge Barnett, of Chicago, Ill. The alumni address will be delivered by Attorney O. T. Frye, of Danville, Ky. | c. B, LEWIS. y AN UNUSUAL OFFER. Attention of the Freeman readers is especially called to the advertisement of the Indianapolis Real Estate Brok- erage Co. in this issue, They are of- ‘fering a splendid proposition to any feolored citizen with means that is ‘sure to pay handsomely. A flat owned and tenated by colored people is sure to prove a novelty. The property they are offering is especially adopted for this use. In calling upon them be sure and mention The Freeman. —VX—— es Good looking young Woman Who can sing and dance,also a cooche dancer. Comedian, Who can sing and dance. Work forall the summer ‘State what you can do and salary wanted ‘must be able to join by wire. No ticket Eddie Taylor, Ely, Nevada “FOR RENT’ Minstrel Shows UNDER CANVAS | ee | a Je ee , Ready to set up and do business, inelud- ing cars, tent, beats, lights, advance agents, performers and musicians, Will route shows and make all railroad con- tracts; in fact, show complete and ready to set up and do business. Have one show on road now, and the manager has been making clear for himself $200 to $400 per week since opening. Parties desiring such business will do well to write me for full particulars. Don’t write unless you mean business and have money to do business with. And a per- son don’t have to know anything about the business to be successful, as t guide and protect the show. Parties desiring full particulars will address Par CHapreiix, Manager and Owner, Ravuyr’s Foor axp Fexxy Forks Cowen: Co. The successful manager who haviaaade over $50,000 in five years. Performers and musicians write; can place 200 or more, | Address, 1064 West ‘burch Styjptacksonville, Fla. until May Sth. ‘arter that date address me care route of “A Rabbit’s Foot Co.” THE WATERMELON TRUST CAPTURES AUDIENCES Sherman Coates and James Grundy Considered Very Able Actors by the Regular Theatre-goer Everywhere. Mrs. Lulu Coates, Mrs. Susie Grundy and Miss Gertie Miller are Rated As The Best Dancers Among Our Actresses. SHERMAN COATES One would have to go a great many steps out of their way in order to find an act that can lay it over a performance like the "Watermelon Trust" Company presented here for the last three days of the week commencing April 14 at the Gayetty theatre, Indianapolis, Ind. Crowds upon crowds came out to every performance and enjoyed the splendid work of Mr. [Name] Sherman Coats and wife, James Grundy and wife, and Miss Gertie Miller to such an extent that the "Trust" company had to remain on the stage 20 to 30 minutes over the allotted time because of the storms of applause and great bouquets of flowers that they received. In our time it has been our pleasure to see a great many of our best comedians when they were at their best and when they were at working the hardest and most effective. By that we have since been able to tell, in a passing way, a genuine artist when we see one and so when we saw Sherman Coats, in the streight, and James Grundy doing the "Comede" it took but a few moments to satisfy ourselves that these two gentlemen were genuine actors. The very moment that "Jeems" Grundy steps upon the stage he shows you that he is full of side-splitting humor. His very first action teaches you that. He does not strain himself like so many do, he is purely natural. What we found so very striking about Mr. Grundy was his originality in every second of his forty minutes of hard work. No one sings a song like Grundy, no one can talk like Grundy; not any can dance like Grundy, and not one can look like Grundy when he puts out a joke. He doesn't find it necessary to use cork or grease paints on his face in order to provoke laughter, but he comes out before you with make-up and costume left behind and forces you to laughter because he is really funny by nature—off the stage as well as on. It is a tickling joy to hear him sing "Throw Down That Key." The song itself is richly seasoned with sparkling humor and Grundy heightened that humor by that divative style he uses. But we found him yet better when it came to dancing in the genuine old clog style. The regular theatre-goers may see from week to week many good clog-dancers, but did you ever notice they all dance about alike because they learned the steps they do in dancing schools. Not so with James Grundy—he is the only instructor he ever had and he never taught any one else the line of dancing that he does. That is why every one admired his dancing because it was something fresh and hard to beat. There are a number of men on the There are a number of men on the THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER JAH'GRUNDY of the WATER MELON TRUST stage today doing "streight" when they ought to be carrying the hod. So many of them not only have not the ability but don't even look the part, and it makes such a poor impression on the audience when they see a man who is shapeless, stiff, clumsy and without a voice. But it is delightful when one can see a man like Sherman Coates who, as Grundy says, can Sheman Contes "send 'em through," with a sweeping brilliancy and effervescence. Coates has the style and dash of an English Lord at all times, whether it be in singing, dancing or talking. He sang, "On the Isle of Bye and Bye" in a J.P. GRUNDY OF THE WATER pleasing way and then went through some artistic soft-shoe dancing, which captivated the audience. You might have heard many talk about George Primrose as a soft shoe dancer; it seems to us that you should hear many more t." about the dancing of Sherman Coates. Much depends upon Coates in the "Watermelon Trust" act because much strength is required of a man playing his part. He is extremely an exception so far as the line of straight workers is concerned. He is admirable. Mrs. Lulu Coats, wife of Sherman Coats, does wonderfully clever work in both singing and dancing—but dancing is where she shines. There were many good dancers on the program, but not one of the numbers so well pleased the audience as did Mrs. Coats. She is an exception and the reason we have for saying that she is, is that the most of colored actresses can not or do not try to dance in a fashionable manner "bese days. She does not do old plantation steps as do most of her sister actresses, but she makes efforts to give you something new and novel and she succeeds to an overflowing measure. We were especially charmed at her work, so much so that we felt that she held back a great deal of her great ability, otherwise from dancing, that she might produce with credit were she given a better opportunity. The wives of Coates and Grundy and Miss Gertine Miller are deserving of much comment. It is a fact that they are the best dancers to be seen in this circuit. They do some marvelous as well as dangerous steps because of the position it places them in. As for singing, if you haven't head the night birds of the Southland you can not imagine the power of their voices—especially that of Miss Gertie Miller. In animation, grace of pose and gesture, in all the sweet and eloquent inflections of cultivated songsters and dancers, these actresses are unrivaled, unless it be by the "Watermelon Trust" itself. All of our young actors and actresses should not fail to see this act for there are many points to be alerned, because it is an act that shows what persistent and careful training, long days of study and years of experience while on and off of the stage. The "Watermelon Trust" can survive a number of years, yet as good acts are always wanted, and it is our hope that they do with much success. It might be that some keen-eyed manager will offer them a flattering sum to head some big production in which they would be seen to better advantage before very long. MELON TRUST Oh, Grundy! Keep sending 'em through. If an actor would write to every one that he promised he would, he would have very little time for acting. If you want to see a "comedy of errors," try and see Cole and Johnson and Williams and Walker companies play base ball. The Britons returned Sunday from a two-years' trip abroad.—News Item. Now who was that who said he could clean up with Joe in short order at any kind of dancing? THE PASSING OF NEGRO DIALECT Paul Laurence Dunbar, the duodeime of his demise which just records one year since his spirit took its flight to the great beyond, above the stars of night, that signaled his benediction, was the aster of Negro dialect. He had no superiors and now that he is dead the dialect so commonly linked with his work is about to wane. Perhaps the introduction of this subject may be, incidentally, a fitting anniversary to the memory of Dunbar and the work which has left his name an immortal symbol in our nation's history. The bogus assertion that the colored race are imitators of white people is an expression created by a feeble mind; because intelligence and stage work has convinced us that white people try in vain to imitate the Negro and as a mixed nation of people we all imitate each other making the drift of American sentiment one form of ever-changing hypocrisy. What the whites tire of the blacks tire of also. Sentiment, nature's commander, ever grows in spite of ignorant and prejudiced people, and regardless of color. Sentiment explained why jubilee songs, solemn and religious, gave way to rag-time and why Negro dialect gave way to the new intellectual advancement of Northern education in the American public school systef as perfectly operated in New England and New York, perfect with but few exceptions in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, imperfect in California and inferior and imperfect throughout the South. There is no reason then why Negro dialect should be kept in practice. The idea that high grade colored performers are qqqəw sɪ qɔdəoə ɡɪməm and false as milk reduced to water. The black man's power of expression, characteristic of the nature of the race to which he belongs, will ever be his abiding basis of natural fun such as no other race can ever provide, not even by imitation. And so it is with the voice. Swainae River will need no old-time dialect to add to the new succeeding voices of racial sweetness and liquid accent. It is true that in some incidents of old-time traditional poems or recitations or darky life, Negro dialect is required. Joseph S. Cotter, a school teacher of Louisville, Ky., a fair poet whof I have looked upon in some instances of his published and poetic work, as an extremist, has given us one or two Negro dialect poems, but as a southern man, and educated, he has given us a score of other pomes, some published in newspapers, which go to prove that even in the South, where Negro dialect is a white man's dialect, is dying and southern white people who are ashamed of their own dialect are not accused as the colored people are who emigrate noth to tegrofitshroidnup emigrate north to forget it. They forget the colored race has as muci right to keep apace with modern tifes and changes as white people do. The Golden Rule, so wickedly disregarded by the white man and so much oppresses the black man, tells us there will be no second Dunbar to keep afloat the dialect of slaves, and their masters who also used it. But there is another new brain-storm arisen, another dark cloud of modern Americanism known as Sylvester Russell who has come as Dunbar's successor to tell everybody in black and white and in pure college-bred style, what we American Negroes are, who we are and what we are wading in the literary and musical channel. But Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote other things that were not in dialect which alone would have established his greatness regardless of Negro dialect. So with this we must let him rest, for his name is written in the evergreen wreaths of his laurels. What a proud femory even to a language of the past now improved by modern education. 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Entire management and ownership colored Seating capacity 1200. W. LATHAM Manager The Freeman is the leading race newspaper of the United States. trying to imitate the Negro and nothing said about it, and secondly that Williams and Walker were there and delivered their part in the same power of expression known only to their race and kind. The pretentious account of Abyssinia which I was about to present in the Freeman at that time was cut off by reasons now obviously closed. This message which goes floating on wings to Williams and Walker is a token of good will which I now see fit to offer them and if reciprocated by a cautious research of what it means to them, well and good, for Jesse A. Shipp belongs the credit of giving to them and the public the most interesting play ever written by a colored dramatist. 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Market Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Just now all England is interested in the coming battle between Owen Moran and Al Delmont, who are to fight for the world's bantamweight championship. Some people in England consider Moran the equal of Joe Bowker, but Billy Nolan, a good judge of a fighter's ability, says that Bowker is the greatest little fighter that England ever produced, and while he has only words of praise for Moran he does not consider the latter in a class with the boy who first wrested a title from Frankie Neil. --- SPORT [This story is written especially for The Freeman.] Sporting Editor The Freeman: As many of your American papers never contained the story of the Johnson-Lang fight, which happened here in March, I thought it would prove interesting for me to send my copy that I had prepared the day following the fight (and had misplaced) for publication. Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia March 5, 1907—Between fifteen and twenty thousand men stood out in the rain at the Richmond racecourse, March 4, to see—firstly, Whitelaw and Andrews box twenty rounds, which ended in a draw; and secondly, and more particularly, to watch the work of the world famous colored boxer from America, Jack Johnson, opposed by Hill Lang, a Melbourne heavy weight. The preliminary between the welter weights was a splendid match, and so cleverly fought that no referee could fairly have done otherwise than declare honors even. Johnson's entry into the ring was as theatrical as it was funny, and a gentle cacchination that started to simmer round the edges of the platform spread out among the crowd, and developed into a roar of laughter, as an elongated figure, attired in a duchesse robe, made of chintz or cretonne, besprinkled with damask roses and lilac spreads, with fruits round the hem and a hood attachment similarly figured with flowers, stepped through the ropes. "We don't want to see Mrs. Johnson," yelled a humorist. "Go away, woman, and send your husband; this is no place for ladies." The crowd entered into the spirit of the thing, and Johnson was chaffed unmercifully. Then from under the edge of the tricky hood a pair of rolling white encircled eyes made "goo-goos" at the crowd, while his auriferous, cavity bewitched all beholders in a smile that would have made Irving Sayles turn white with envy, for it would hold about 6 pounds of sugar. At this stage it was hard to say whether Johnson looked most like a "hoodoo man from the Congo or Red Riding Hood's grandmother." Finally, when he lifted his skirts and showed his sinewy black shins as he did an impatient double shuffle because his opponent was absent, the crowd fairly broke up and encured him. The rain was coming down in torrents, and the mass of people out on the flat waiting patiently, wet through and ankle deep in water, commenced to sing Auld Lang Syne, and then solemnly counted Lang out. Messengers dispatched in a stream came back at rapid intervals saying it was "too wet to fight." Waiting at the Church was then chorused for five minutes, particular emphasis being put into the concluding bar, "My wife won't let me." When Lang finally appeared the ring for the next ten minutes was filled with orators, in the midst of which Johnson leaned over the ropes and remarked: "Dere all squabblin' over sompin. Ahm get tin' a misery winn' here; its too bad." He then inspected the gloves made specially for the content, and remarked, "Ah! Dese are good mitts; maybe we'll warm each oder wem 'em when all the rest is done fightin' wid der tongues." When the men peeled off it was plain that Johnson's size and weight had been most unfairly stated. He stood an inch higher than Lang, outmeasured him everywhere except in the calf, and had at least a stone to the good in weight. His shaved shiny black head radiated the beams of the electric lights like a policeman's helmet. Lang was intensely nervous and moved stiffly. For the first two rounds Lang did the laeding, but the black standing in a quiet, indolent easy attitude, foiled all attacks with ease. "Oh! dis is a joke," said Johnson, as he dawled over to his corner. In the third round Lang began to fight and swing in some heavy body blows and occasionally reached the Negro's face. Johnson's "stock in trade grin," however, was always hung out as a signal that he was all right; but it was palpably a bluff smile, and there really any need for it. However, it was soon apparent that Lang was not in the Negro's class, and when once or twice in the round Johnson let himself out, Lang showed the effects of the blows in little red rills that trickled down from his forehead. In the fourth round Lang fought with more violence than skill, and Johnson uppercut him hard and often, and frequently followed his head back with straight drives. The fifth round was remarkable for the way in which the men splish sploshed round through the water that accumulated on the tarpaulin floor from the teeming rain. Their feet plowed through it like the prows of boats, and Lang was often off his balance. The seventh and eighth rounds Johnson "lammed" his man around as he pleased, and knocked him down a dozen times, opening his forehead in two or three places with heavy left and right upercuts, his best and most efficient blows. In the ninth round Lang was down several times, and towards the close of it, the towel was thrown in from his corner. The general impression Johnson made on the spectators was that he is a strong, clever, powerful fighter, far too good for any of our present heavy weights, with the exception of Champion Squires, who, on last night's showing, would probably have outed him. You always find the very things that you were looking for in The Freeman. There is ever something to interest the person who wants to read the latest news concerning the stage, women, race progress and the field of sport. The arrival of Bill Squires to these shoes has caused much discussion among the leading supporters of boxing, the country over. There are few who can understand why it is that Bill so cleanly side-stepped Jack Johnson. It could not have been on the account of his not being challenged by Jack Johnson, for every one has read or head of the many different sorts of invitations that Jack has extended him for an encounter, but to no avail. Pursues have not been like in Australia, according to reports that we have received from our correspondent at Port Melbourne. Our writer at Australia states that the real cause of the proposed match being declared off was that Squires refused to give Johnson any time to get in condition. "You see," says the writer, "Johnson had hardly arrived to these shoes before Squires issues a challenge to meet Johnson within ten days or no fight. Now any one knows well that there is not a man in the business who would be able to get in condition for a twenty-round go after taking a long ride and being so much over weight as was Johnson when he landed at Victoria. Squires knew very well that Johnson would not be able to accept such a challenge in such time and when the ten days were up he makes his brag and then skips off to America with the story that Johnson would not fight him for "love nor money." But that is not so, for Mr. J. Brennan, who was instrumental in bringing Johnson to Australia, said that the proposal of Squires to meet the colored American between February 11 and 16, was ridiculous. Johnson was now 2st. overweight, and it would be impossible to get him anything like fit in a fortnight. Mr. Brennan added that he would match Johnson for £1,000 against Squires, or as much more as he wanted, for a match in Sydney, within a reasonable time. Mr. McLean, who is managing Johnson's tour, said that the time allowed was too short. Johnson was now 15st., and heights at 13st., 8 lbs. It would be impossible for him to get into condition in a fortnight. Six weeks would not be too long, but he was willing to come to terms. If Squires allowed three weeks Johnson would then be willing to fight Squires, straight Marquis of Queensbury rules, and ith any sized gloves he liked, 20 rounds, or to a finish. Johnson was anxious to meet Squires, and, if the Australian was the sport he was said to be, then he would give the extra time wanted. The fight could take place either in Sydney or Melbourne, which ever place offered the best inducements. But "Bosher Bill" finches when he hears that, and erys out: "What can I do? I went to Mr. Wren this morning. He is negotiating with people in San Francisco on my behalf; there may be an answer any day which would clinch things; I am bound to him by agreement, and he tells me that I must carry out my undertakings to hold myself ready to sail in the Ventura on the 18th of February. So you see it will be utterly impossible for me to wait for this man Johnson any longer." Views of Supporters. Leading supporters of boxing in this city expressed themselves as as quite satisfied that Squires was anxious to meet Johnson. "Squires would meet a circular saw," said one enthusiast. It is thought, however, that in making a match at this stage he is hampered by conditions. It is believed that if Squires could be prevailed upon to meet the American in Melbourne some time in May, during the currency of the V. R. C. Autumn meeting, or in Sydney at any time, he could, in the event of winning, earn more than he could hope to get in America in many months. The statement was made that if Squires adheres tohis determination to go to America he will probably have to wait a long time for a topnotcher, as Burns and O'Brien are matched to box in May, and highclass boxes there do not care to enter into another engagement for at least six months. On the other hand, if Johnson and Squires once meet, there would be a return match, and it is estimated that Squires would gain at the very least £3,000, if he won the two matches. Mr. "Larry" Eoley's Opinion. Mr. "Larry" Foley, who is looked upon almost as the "father" of boxing in Australia, said to your representative that it would be impossible for Johnson, who had been traveling for several weeks and had been feted in all quarters, to get anything like ready to do himself justice in ten days." BASE BALL NOTES Play ball—rain or snow. If your team is not called "Giants" you can believe that no one thinks that they can play ball. Fans say the Williams and Walker team will have to do some tall playing to lay it over that "Shoo-Fly Regiment" team. Sherman Coats of the Watermelon Trust, is a great base ball fan. Having thrown many good engagements down in order that he might see a ball game. Cole and Johnson are now placing some of the members of their company in the positions that they will suit for a good ball team. During the latter part of the show season they have been doing nothing else but picking up men who can play real ball, whether they could get or not. * * * Harry Goodall, manager of the Wanggoodle Giants of Brooklyn, N. Y., has team well in hand this season and looks to do some wonder- ful playing. * * * Capt. Sol. White of the Philadelphia Giants, has gone with his team to tour New England and Malne, start- ing at New London, Conn. The Giants have signed a number of the Cuban ex-Giant players and the team will no doubt be as interesting as ever. Sol White's history of Colored base ball players, was to have been ready last week, but was delayed by the printers, however, it will appear on the market this week. Copies can be obtained by writing the Philadelphia Tribune. Among the illustrations will be a picture of Capt. Bert Williams, of the Williams and Walker team. * * * * The William L. Manthas Association of Chester, Pa., have organized a base ball club for the season of 1907, and expect to have a strong team. The club will be composed of members of the association. The officers are William Mock, president; Edward Lawrence, secretary; William Potter, treasurer; William Rulp and E. F. Wright, managers. The base ball season is now on in full. Despite the cold weather practice games among colored ball players have received much attention and now very team in the country is to get down to business. The warm sun has at last put in its appearance for a stay and ball diamonds are getting in better form for good playing. This season promises to be a greater season than ever before in the history of America's great game. Seemingly the Negro is becoming as enthusiastic about this port as he has always been known to be about horse racing. So far as his ability at playing the game, where do you find any better players among the big white leagues of this country than are found in such far-famed clubs as the Philadelphia Giants, Cuban Giants, Chicago Giants, Leland (Pa.) Giants, Cleveland (O.) Blues, Indianapolis (Ind.) A. B. C's, and several other clubs that can not be remembered at this writing. But it should be said with good authority that if you are looking for a string of good pitchers, go to Philadelphia, and the same may be applied to short stops and if you are wanting the best basemen in the market, apply to the Chicago Giants or the Danville (Ill.) Unions. The strongest battery we have seen came from the Milwaukee Giant club and as for hard fielding of the matchless kind, hand it over to the Sa. Louis (Mo.) Browns. The only thing we find in the mistaken line about our colored teams is that they will not venture over five or ten miles away from home to play a game. If you have a good team in your city, why not go to some city where there is a team of the equal of your team and play? The people will support you if you charge fifty cents or one dollar for the admission ticket. Who wouldn't go to see a game between the Chicago Giants vs. Philadelphia Giants at fifty cents admission fee? A game of that sort would be as interesting as a game between the Chicago Americans vs. New York Nationals. A system could be planned out in a way so that each side would get a fair and square deal in every particular. In the near future this plan is to be tried out in a game between the Indianapolis A. B. C. club and the Chicago Giants at Chicago. Already the announcement of such a game has created much enthusiasm among lovers of the sport and there is but little doubt but what thousands will attend the game. TAYLOR TO RUN IN OLYMPIC RACES. He Will Compete for World's Cham- pionship. John Baxter Taylor, the famous University of Pennsylvania runner, expects to run in the World's Olympic Championships to be held in England this season. Two years ago, while a freshman in Pennsylvania, Taylor toured England, but the climatic conditions did not agree with him because he competed two days after landing from a stormy trip on the ocean. This upset the Red and Blue flyer, and while he recovered just before he left and did some remarkable running he failed to show his true form. The Red and Blue wonder now holds the intercollegiate record for a quarter of a mile and in his next race with Harry Hillman, of the New York A. C., he expects to create a new mark for 600 yards, but he desires most of all to break the quarter mile record held by M. W. Long, of forty-seven seconds, made on October 4, 1900. After the intercollegiate races the race with Hillman and the tour to the Olympic Championships, he expects to return to America and try for Long's record. He will have the pick of the Pennsylvania team to work with and then he will attempt to beat the world's record for the quarter-mile, either in New York or more probably on one of the local racing tracks. Harry Lewis stands ready to pit his skill as a fighter against Joe Gans, and has posted $1,000 to back up a challenge to battle for the lightweight championship of the world. He names 136 pounds ringside as the weight figure, and makes the contention that, as it was the weight called for in articles when Gans won the title from Erne, the colored champion should be willing to make the same concession to Lewis. The announcement is made aso that the $1,000 can stand as a side bet on the result if the men are matched, and that the amount will be increased to $5,000 by H. W. Melenbacker, of Grand Rapids, who is backing Lewis, it to be made at the prevailing odds on the day of the contest. 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(Concluded from page one.) county and State officers in assist. ing schools and it will be the policy of the trustees to use the interest of this fund in a way to stipulate self help and not replace local schools, but to supplement the money being ap- propriated by Southern States toward the education of the Negro. “We think we cart not to emphatl: cally state that not one cent of this money will go to help the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, nor to the Tuskegee Normal and Indus: trial Institute and will in no way re lieve the needs of these institutes. Every cent will go toward helping the rural schools, according to Miss Jeanes's wish and directions.” NOW IS THE TIME, TAKE YOUR BICYCLE TO ROBERT R. BARON For BICYCLE REPAIRING, BICYCLES and HARDWARE 42 Years Experience Our Guarantee Is Good 335s Indiana Avenue, New Phone 5407, Indianapolis, Ind. 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Read the Carlin & Lenox ad vertisement which appears elsewhere in this issue, These instruments are secon¢ hand but good in tone and quality repre- senting the standard makes’ Out of town people are invited to call and inspect these bargains. renee A GLORIOUS OPENING, 1907 Base Ball Season Ushered in With a “Skunk” for the Millers at the Hands of the Invincible ‘Sioune: Not for years have the fans of the great national game appeared so en- thused as they did last Wednesday af- ternoon at the opening of the local season, Bats were crossed with the Minneapolis team which was dead easy for the Indians. At no stage of the game did they eppear a serious quantity to reckon with. Kellum, the local _siab man, was invinceable and the Millers were able to reach his delivery but twice throughout the con- test. ‘The game was a fine exhibition of fast, snappy ball playing and the im- pression made by the Indians was deep and lasting. The best of order was maintained. The Washington Park management has many things to be proud of—frst the excellent showing made by the home club; sec- ond, the courteous treatment extend: ed to all by its army of employes and, third, the excellent car service. It is noticeable that colored people are taking an unusual interest in base ball this year, And why not? They are treated exactly like the whites in every particular and their- continued patronage is earnestly desired by the management, with the assurance that all ladies and gentlemen of the race are not onl yeordially invited, but will be shown every respect and consider ation accorded the white people. The Freeman will have advance’ notices each week, while the team is at home, of the different attractions to be of: fered. . THE A. B. C’s WIN. On Sunday, April 21, the A. B. C. base ball club met the T. T. club in one of the hardest games that have been played on the diamonds of the Northwestern park this season, From the start it looked as though the game was going to go to the T. T. club, with ail ease. The Taste Tell team was in splendid form when it came to batting and base playing. Their pitchers were equal to every occasion and had every batter in the A. B.C. nine guessing for some time. It was in the 5th inning that things changed for the better so far as the A. B.C. team was concerned. Somehow they found a weak point in the pitching and then batted for their good, right and left, scoring three runs’ in said inning. What weakened the T. T, side was their idea for changing pitchers too often. Had they maintained the pitcher who was first in the game perhaps the score would have been entirely differ- ent. The pitcher, Griffin, on the A. B. C. side, showed remarkable ability as a tosser-of swift balls and if given further chance will demonstrate that he is of the “top notcher” line. ‘The A. B. C. team is a well organ- ized club, and from the looks of things will outshadow their last year's ree- ord. “Big Boy,” the clever _ third baseman; Snow, the clever pitcher, ready to strike ’em out next Sunday, and “Sheeny,” the wonderful catcher, are yet among its members who go to make up some o fthe best players at their positions in the country. Ball fans are very anxious for a return game, between the T. T.’s and the A. B. C.’s, as both teams are very strong and it is doubtful as to what the results would be. A great crowd attended last Sunday's game and were eithusiastic throughout the nine in- nings played. The score was: 8 to5. HAT CAP STYLE COLOR 1! E.t FROM-FACTORY-TO-YOU Hats and Caps MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED Money With Order —No Goods Sent C.0.D. SEND SIZE, STYLE and COLOR CATALOGUE FRER DR. WW. 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PINK’S PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Ave., Southeast Corner West Street. ace a MONEY TALKS Hie —F, ws | esl & ae 4 owe ietaurlity anafotsoully taskes te caval fopatation or vata ate taare hoes {Bing sbovs ‘another thet You. want “good quelhyionb i picmbine and chandorersand Bee a ts Ge riche Eons at eee tinmfor keeping nvtding bat the highest grad aslaeehe tea ORL AEweru & 00, SESHAENSEL & ¢ === ‘COME AND VISIT THE ===; | aoe |New Cloak 4xo Suit Store. | DOMB BROS. propictors, | 134 W. Washington Street. DeHaven Wall Paper Company OEE North Delaware St, Indianapolis, Ind. | The Largest Selection at Lowest Prices. Come and Investigate. | Old Phone, Main, 1246, | | CED W. C. HAZEL, axa The TAILOR, 322 and 327 Indiana Avenue. See Us for Your Spring Suit Everybody knows that we have the NEWEST AND LATEST FADS. Ask your friends, Suits $20.00 and 4 rE aD ES on as MRS. WHITTIEN, Millinery Special sale all next week of Tailored and Dress Hats. We also do exclusive ORDER WORK. Give us a call; we will copvince you; our time fs entirely yours. 335-337 Indiana Avenue. Goes toNORTON’S f DRUG STORE, corner Indiana Ave., and Mich- igan s reet, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store Prices are the same as in all CUT RATE Drug Storees Only registered clerks employed. Sole agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair ‘Straightener. — EL a SHIRTWAISTS of sheer lawn, 3 oF long slesves,button back or fro sone cande e allovas acabrolisey Ironts, olbet styles acetrioumed. Reguiss OGG $1.50 values. Sale price....seserssassceerssercsrcerseee.conensnerereet? PETTICOATES, of cambric fiished muslin, knee flowers with du: some trimmed in blind or eyelet embrolderies,other styles lace trimmed wit 98c to rows of insertion tomatch. Regular $1.75 values. Choics. ....-.-