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YOU HAVE READ ALL THE REST NOW READ THE BEST. THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEGRO PUBLICATION THE FREEMAN. SENT TO ANY ADDRESS. INDIANAPOLIS JUN 8 1907 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XX NUMBER 22 DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TRUSTEE OF HOWARD DR. THIRKIELO WELL PLEASED Roscoe Conkling Bruce Assistant Superintendent of Washington Public Schools-Ira T. Bryant's Candidacy for Secretary. Staff Correspondence. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.—The most significant event of the week has been the election of Dr. Booker T. Washington as a trustee of Howard University. The incident came as a complete surprise to most people and has attracted widespread attention in all quarters and has provoked no end of discussion. For the moment, as might have been expected, the extreme wing of the friends of the higher education affected to be dazed, and their first impulse was to sound a scare-cry that the "time-honored policies of Howard are gone" and that "the race's foremost institution for the higher training will now be industrialized," and conjured up other predictions equally as direful and not less fallacious. The thoughtful people of the District of Columbia, however, are not easily stamped, and this feeble effort to "start something" at the expense of "The Wizard" didn't last the day out. The concensus of opinion among the substantial elements of the body politic soon crystallized into a feeling that in thus securing the active co-operation of so powerful a force in the educational and economic life of the nation as Boker T. Washington, the Board has scored the biggest triumph of its career, and has brought to the higher training of the race an unparalleled piece of good fortune. There is a sense of satisfaction all around that the one man who has been regarded by many as the foe of the species of education for which Howard university has always stood for is now enrolled as you stand friends, and the energy and superb resourcefulness that he has put into the work of industrialism will now be brought to bear upon the more intellectual side of the Negro's development. There is no thought expressed that Dr. Washington will be less emphatic as to the value of the industrial training of the masses, but the acceptance of this trust the best results will come from the adoption of a double standard of racial advancement, which shall not neglect the making of leaders while building up a strong army of industrious followers. Far from doing harm to historic Howard, the accession of Dr. Washington is conceded to be the most helpful thing that has hapened to the school in many years. It has given the institution a strength, morally and financially, that could not have come to it from any other source, and the cause of higher education has been given an impetus that will show forth in an increased enthusiasm on the part of both the faculty and the students, actual and prospective. The Board which elected Dr. Washington as a coadjutor is receiving the congratulations of the race throughout the land upon its wisdom and business sagacity. Other trustees added to the Board at this session were Prof. J. H. N. Waring, of the Baltimore High and Training School; Dr. J. E. Mooreland, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; and John H. Converse, of Burnham, Williams & Co., proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. ```markdown ``` As president of Howard University, Dr. Wilbur P. Thirkield has been a success. Following the ill-starred administration of Prof. John Gordon, he found the school in a demoralized condition. His high character, reputation for broad Christianity and pronounced executive ability won for him at once the friendship and support of the best people of both races and he soon brought order out of chaos, with the result that the institution has had a year of unexamined prosperity. The annual report shows that the number of students has increased to more than 1,000, and that the recepits for the year have been $7,000 in excess of the average of previous years. "Standing as it does in the national capital," said Dr. Thirkield, "and re- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. lated to the government, Howard University should become a great national university for colored people of this and neighboring lands. It should stand as the center and culmination of the entire system of colored schools throughout the country. Its aim should not be culture for its own sake, but for the sake of service; so to equip men through teaching and the power of personal example that they may go forth to further the progress of a free people. It stands for higher education, for the training of those who shall become the leaders of their race. It is one thing to train men to make a living, but the work that shall mold future generations is the training of men to make a life." In this conception of the duty and function of the higher education, Drs. Washington and Thirkield are a unit. The president of Howard in exploiting the purpose and necessity of the higher education does not underestimate the importance of the industrial underpinning upon which the professional and intellectual classes must depend for their very existence, and Dr. Washington in taking up this supplementary phase of the work to which his life is consecrated, gives concrete evidence that he does not overlook the fact that to round out a race's greatness, there must be an increasing number of thinkers to properly marshal the massive army of doers—one element must labor in sympathetic cooperation with the other to accomplish that which is nearest the hearts of the wisest of each. Dr. Thirkield expresses himself as being delighted to have Dr. Washington's aid and counsel in the work of Howard University, and is confident that there is now being ushered in an unmistakable "era of good feeling" that shall redound to the well-being of every branch of national and racial development. The selection of Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce as assistant superintendent of the Washington public schools, carrying the oversight of the entire colored school system, will be hailed with undisguised pleasure by the thousands of friends of Mr. Bruce personally, and by the countless admirers of the late Senator B. K. Bruce, the best-loved Afro-American statesman next to Frederick Douglass, and of Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, who is justly regarded as a representative of the finest type of the womanhood of our race. Mr. Bruce is an honor graduate of Harvard University, a young man of exemplary character and possesses a grasp of public affairs marvelous for one of his tender years—being only twenty-eight. His early contact with men of national prominence gave him a maturity vouchsafed to few of our boys, and his five years as the director of the academic department of the Georgette Institute affords him an experience that is bound to stand him in good stead in handling the manifold problems that will confront him in his new situation. He has had a year of preliminary training in Washington this year as supervising principal, although he needs little of this, as he is a product of the system of which he is now the official head, and is consequently familiar with it from top to bottom, and well-acquainted with the personnel and possibilities—and perhaps impossibilities—of the teaching force, which he is to control. Those who know Mr. Bruce and who are cognizant of the tactfulness, generosity and deep consciousness which he brings to the discharge of every obligation, do not doubt that he will prove a success as superintendent of the Washington colored schools and weld them together in the cohesive fashion that they have so long needed. The task is a large one, but Mr. Bruce will measure up to it—if anybody on earth can do so. A new face upon the official staff of the colored schools of the capital is Dr. William V. Tunnell, late dean of King Hall, the Episcopal School of Theology in connection with Howard University, who assumes the supervising principalship made vacant by the retirement of Mr. F. L. Cardozo. Dr. Tunnell is a man of scholarship and is experienced as an educator. Mr. Bruce's place is filled by Prof. W. S. Montgomery, who had been assistant superintendent for several years, but who is now assigned to a lower position at his own request, on account of failing health. * * * The Manassas Industrial School at Manassas, Va., has closed another prosperous year. The graduating class numbered sixteen, and the commencement address was delivered by Supt. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, of the Washington public schools. Mr. Lesile P. Hill, a graduate of Harvard, and for five years a member of the faculty at Tuskegee Institute, was elected principal of the school, to succeed Mr. George H. Mays, resigned. Major THE ARKANSAS MOVEMENT NO NEGROES ALLOWED IN PUBLIC PLACES ARKANSAS LAW GET BUSY, AN MAKE HAY WHILE THE "SIGN" SHINES ARKANSAS BUSINESS MEN. WANTED BUSINESS SITUATION FOR GRADUATE W.H. COUNCIL The Arkansas Movement will doubtlessly stimulate race enterprises in that section. Charles R. Douglass was elected a member of the Manassas Industrial Association, and Dr. W. Bruce Evans was chosen permanent secretary. results, leading the way, as pioneers of old, for those who must follow them to reap that which they have sown. to us to be the part of wis the A. M. E. Church to take ant at his word and give him to "make good." As a strictly Next to the fight for the Bishopric, in which contest the choice is practically narrowed down to less than ten of the two score or more aspirants, with but five places to be parceled out, the race for the Secretaryship of the Sunday School Union promises to be the stellar attraction at the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church, in Norfolk, next May. As Dr. W. D. Chappelle, the present incumbent, stands a pretty good show for the Beuch, for which he is an avowed candidate, the issue made prominent by Mr. Ira T. Bryant, the choice of the practical element of both ministers and the laity for the Secretaryship, seems very likely to safely land the brilliant young man into Dr. Chappelle's brogans at the Nashville publishing house. As is well-known to all who keep in touch with the management of the A. M. E. Church, 36 percent of the Dollar Money is kept in the Annual Conferences and distributed among the mission preachers, orphans and widows. The conditions under which the workers in the mission fields must live and labor, are something terrible, and it takes a lot of religious zeal for any minister to endure them. They are compelled to preach the Word as best they can in shamrockle meehouses, to congregations small and difficult to reach because of their widely-scattered places of residence. The support is poor, as wages are low and money scarce. The collections are frequently so meager that if the preacher did not resort to manual labor to supplement his means, he could not eke out enough to keep his soul and body together. These self-sacrificing men are the real church-workers. They grub out the foundations and make the waste places of earth to give forth tangible results, leading the way, as pioneers of old, for those who must follow them to reap that which they have sown. Passing over this phase of the situation, it is a further fact that the "Children's Day" money collected from these poor missions and from the conferences of which they are an integral part, goes to keep up the Sunday School publishing house at Nashville. Despite the almost discouraging conditions in the Mission fields, some of the men therein engaged, send in surprisingly good collections from the Children's Day appeals, which involves additional sacrifices on their part and an unnecessary burden to an already over-burdened community. It is Mr. Bryant's contention that the Sunday School Union is sufficiently strong to stand on its own feet—that the revenues which come into its coffers from the volume of business done—or ought to be—sufficient to maintain the department, without laying, any claim to the money derived from the Children's Day collections in the various conferences. It is his proposition to take over the Union, and set in motion such a thorough-going business administration that the money now pouring in from these collections be allowed to remain in the annual conferences and added to the 36 per cent., mentioned above, that goes to the assistance of the poor fellows out in the mission fields and to the widows and orphans who must look to the church's bounty for a portion of their support. If this Children's Day money is not actually needed to run the Nashville to have it go there any longer looks like direct robbery of people who do need it, and to continue the custom saviors of either bad judgment on the one end, or bad management on the other. It is not for us to "Butin" with unsought advice or to pass invidious comments upon the existing administration; but it would appear to us to be the part of wisdom for the A. M. E. Church to take Mr. Bryant at his word and give him a chance to "make good." As a strictly business proposition, any policy that will save money and cripple no department of the church, is worth looking into with care. If Mr. Bryant can deliver the goods and place the Union on a self-supporting basis, the entire 800,000 members of the denomination will be immeasurably stimulated and benefitted. If he fails, he will be forever eliminated from the equation of the church leadership. To accept such a responsibility, he surely must know what he is talking about, and the church will do well to give him its best ear. If Dr. Chappelle is favorably considered for elevation to the Bench, he can not regard the change as a reflection upon him; so everybody will be happy. The ministry will reap the dividends accruing to it, the laity will secure long-merited recognition in an executive department calling for business capacity peculiar to the layman, and an illogical situation will be made to conform to the accepted rules of good sense and the eternal fitness of things. Give Ira T. Bryant the chance he seeks, and specifications he offers, it will be "up to him" to forever hold his peace. *** Dr. George M. Prentiss-King, for thirty years president of Wayland Seminary at Washington, D. C., and now a prominent member of the faculty of the Virginia Union University at Richmond, Va., was an interested visitor at the Jamestown Exposition a few days ago, and after inspecting the many attractions offered by the Caucasians, announced within the hearing of a bystander that he was anxious to go over and take a look at the Negro building, concerning which he had heard so much favorable comment. "What do you want to go over to (Continued on page four.) GREAT OPPOSITION TO TAFT MEETING HELD AND PRESENT CONDITIONS DISCUSSED REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WARNED Executive Committee Meeting of thd U. B. F.'s--Y M. C. A. School of Music Will Give Piano Recital and Exhibition--Personal Notes Louisville, Ky. (Special.)—At a meeting last week at the Douglass Office Building, 726 W. Welnut street, a number of colored citizens were present to discuss the agitation of the Washington Negroes' opposition to Taft for president, and to issue the call of a national meting of the Afro-American Council, by Corresponding Secretary I. G. Jordan, for June 26 to 28, at Baltimore, Md. The call is addressed to the Negroes of this country to organize and send delegates, and calls upon all organizations to be represented at this meeting to discuss with prudence, wisdom, patience and intelligent efforts to overcome the dangers menacing what civil and political rights the Negroes have left. A plea was made for unity, asking all factions to get together and make a united attack upon the enemy of manhood rights. It was decided that this call be published in the four hundred Negro papers and several thousand be mailed to leaders of the race in every section. Short speeches were made calling attention to the unceasing energy of those bent upon the creation of a public sentiment adverse to Negroes; the open advocacy of Senator Tillman, Governors Vardaman, Davis and Hon. John Temple Graves, and others to reduce the Negroes to serfdom. One speaker declared that Roosevelt was timid and uncertain and essayed to befriend the Negro, and talked of "fair-play" and "door of hope," but dealt a severe blow when he dismissed the Twenty-fifth Infantry without adequate trial. Nothing was said of gubernatorial candidates. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions, and they are as follows: We reaffirm, with our Washington brethren, that: "The Negro race is without comprehension of its political power. By united efforts and by standing steadfastly to the principles which should govern them, they can defeat any candidate the Republican party may nominate in 1908. The Negroes for forty years have been worshiping the wraiths of Lincoln, Sumner and Grant and blindly voting the Republican ticket. "The time has come when they should consider their own interests and cast their ballots for a candidate who will recognize their rights as American citizens." "Resolved, That we do not want William H. Taft for anything, the success of which depends upon colored voters, and that we, the most loyal assets of the Republican party, warn its leaders that if, in the face of our earnest protest, they nominate this man, or any other man, who says that the enfranchising of our people was a mistake, a brands us as criminals and traitors, they do so at the peril of forfeiting our good will and support." DR. L. G. JORDAN, REV. J. G. ROBINSON, JULIA S. YOUNG, CARY B. LEWIS, Committee. Hon. W. A. Gaines, national grand master of the U. B. F.'s, called a meeting of the Executive Committee of the grand lodge, and they are in session here. The call is due to some difference and it is hoped that this meeting will right all differences. Over twenty-two state grand masters are expected to take part in the session Monday, June 3, at the U. B. F. hall, Ninth and Magazine Sts. A reception will be given the visitors after the meeting. The Y. M. C. A. School of Music will have their first annual piano recital and exhibition, Monday, June 24. After the recital will be a lawn fete. The musical elite of the city will turn out in large numbers to witness the musical ability of the numerous students who are taking the courses. At the "Florinda and Little Boy (Continued on page five.) WHAT THE RACE'S THINKERS ARE THINKING ABOUT Noting a floating paragraph to the effect that at the conclusion of his services with the Jamestown Exposition, Mr. R. W. Thompson will be stationed at Washington, D. C., the Charleston Advocate rises to remark: "The Jamestown Exposition has served at least one useful purpose. It has reassured the East of the presence of R. W. Thompson." The argus-eyed Bishop J. W. Smith, formerly editor of the Star of Zion, has been down in Texas, and this is the sage opinion arrived at by him from what he saw in the thriving town of Calvert: "Calvert, of 4,000 people, is almost a Negro town. The Negroes have six churches, a splendid city school, two fine drug stores, on physician, grocery stores, milliners, seamstresses, and on January 1, 1907, deposited in the banks of Calvert $135,000. The Negroes of Hearne, eight miles away, on the same date deposited $10,000; and the Negroes of Franklin, thirteen miles away, on the same date deposited $15,000. They have earned this money by the sweat of their brows and at small wages on the farms and at sawmills. These Afro-Americans know that economy means independence. That is why they are banking. If they keep it up they will reach the goal." In an address before the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., Dr. D. S. Lamb said much that ought to furnish food for thought for many, especially the various insurance companies, who more or less debar Negroes altogether, or depreciate their policies simply because, as they say, the Negro as a race is more susceptible to disease than are white people. Dr. Lamb, discussing this subject, declared it to be a mistaken idea that the Negro, as a race, is more susceptible to disease than is the white man, and he attributed the higher death rate among Negroes to their fatalistic tendencies, which incline them to depend upon herb and barks, rather than upon prescriptions of regular physicians. The only disease to which the Negro is predisposed, said Dr. Lamb, is tetanus, but he attributed much of the sickness o the race to excessive use of alcholic stimulants and drugs. Referring to the forthcoming meet of the National Negro Business League at Topeka, Kansas, the New York Age observes: "The important work which the National Negro Business League has accomplished in stimulating business activity among the Afro-American people is of such inestimable value that no one who has the best interests of the people at heart will do other than encourage the work. The annual meeting at Topeka in August should fetch out all that is best in the business life of the people in the West and Southwest, and we believe that it will do so. What the League has done in this respect for the people of the South and East is well known and appreciated. It is the herald of better things for the race, and as much should be encouraged and sustained all along the line." Says the thoughtful Editor J. C. Asbury, of the Odd Fellow's Journal, Philadelphia: "For a long time it has been seen that with one, two and three month's school terms for colored children in many rural communities of the South, very little was being done toward educating the masses. The States having refused to do more, there was nothing left to do but appeal to private charity. This time Dr. Washington did not "beg" for himself nor for Tuskegee, but for his race. A fund has been created which will doubtless be augmented from time to time by public-spirited citizens until State appropriations in the Southern States will be eagerly supplemented. "It is known that Dr. Washington has been working on this matter for some months, and by assisting Miss Jeanes to arrive at the proper conclusion, has worked wonders for the welfare of the colored race. Of course his efforts in this matter will be be-littled, as they have in many others, but the fact will still remain that no man of his race has been instrumental in accomplishing so great a work since amnacipation." Col. W. T. Menard, the versatile Washington correspondent of the Florida Sentinel, who is an unusually level-headed and conservative thinker on political subjects, thinks that the office-holders generally favor the renomination of President Roosevelt, and says: "It is a notorious fact that disappointed office-seekers and deposed officials, almost to a man, are opposed to the renomination of Roosevelt, hoping to connect with the federal 'pie-counter' under Foraker, Hughes, LaFollette, Fairbanks or anyone else who may succeed at the polls in 1908. Col. Menard, taking up the attitude of the Negroes on the presidential situation, Col. Menard goes on to say: "Fortunately for the Republican party, only a small per centage of the Negro voters are office-holders or office-seekers. It is only necessary to draw the "deadly parallel" between the Republican and Democratic parties in their general treatment of the Negro, and seemingly neglectful as the Republican party appears to have grown in late years of the Negro's interests, it can not be denied that, generally, in States where the Republicans are in absolute control the Negro is allowed to cast a vote, and in States where the Democrat are in absolute control, the Negro is prevented, generally, from casting a vote. The bulk of Negro voters of the North, East and West understand this, and on election day can be depended upon, generally, to cast a Republican ballot whether or not the ticket is headed THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. RACE CLEANINGS If It’s Neuralgia and those sharp, shooting, agonizing pains drive you almost crazy, take Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills, and get relief. They drive out the pain by their soothing effect upon the nerves. When taken as directed they are harmless. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, with a white beard and mustache, wearing a suit and bow tie. The background is a plain, light color, framed by an oval border.]] Arkansas Negroes own $30,000,000 worth of property alone. * * * * J. W. Jackson, Colored, is a success- ful boot and shoe dealer of Denver, Colorado. * * * * Q. J. Gilmore of Denver, Col., is said to be the only Negro undertaker in that State. * * * * "Paris City Cleaning Works," a Negro enterprise of Denver, Col.; employs eight men and women of the race. * * * * About 300 Afro-Americans have joined the various Colored churches at Detroit, Mich., since January 1, 1907. * * * * The Negro Business League of the State of Mississippi will hold its annual session in Meridian, Mississippi, June 26-27-28. The Pennsylvania State Legislature has made a further appropriation of $23,000 for the building fund of the Douglass hospital at Philadelphia. Edward T. Dobbins, who died recently in Philadelphia, left to the Home for Aged and Inflirm Colored People and the Colored Orphans' Shelter, both of that city, $5,000 each. Mr. C. C. Lytle, Secretary of the Topeka Business League has been recently appointed Deputy Marshal of the Court of Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Lytle is an unusually popular and promising young man. Bishop Scott announces through the Prof. W. S. SC Editor Sunday School Literatur Greek Text-Book, Profess Wilberforce by Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Foraker, or anyone else. Democracy has committed worse crimes than " the dishonorable discharge of the Twenty-fifth Infantry," and "third party" movements are unpopular with Negro voters. Try it and see." Col. Menard leans to the belief, apparently, that the opposing tickets in 1908 will be headed by Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan. Think of it! Nearly, or quite fifteen millions of population in these United States and no representative in Congress. Taxation without representation is wrong. Why not see about this? Try a classified ad in The Freeman. A Surprise Party. There was a house party at Edward Medway's, who had just come into possession of a modest estate, not enough to live on without doing anything, but a good thing to have to help a man to success who was ambitious. Dudley Weyburn was there, a good natured, rolllicking, devil may care sort of chap, with a large fortune, which he spent lavishly on his friends. He was bent on marrying Laura Leonard, one of the girls of the party, but, though she gave him considerable encouragement, would never say "yes" to any of his numerous proposals. Weyburn and Medway were great friends, and one day Medway said to the lover: "It's plain enough, Dudley, that Laura Leonard wants you. She's only fool- --- Liberia and West Africa that our Methodism in Liberia is to have a Theological School, and that a friend has left the sum of $10,000 for the building.—Ex. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Pittsburg, Pa., will hold dedicatory services Sunday, June 9th. Rev. J. M. Townsend will be assisted by prominent citizens, eminent divines and able race leaders. Among those expected to be present are: Rt. Revs. Bishop Lee, Bisnop Derrick and Dr. Booker T. Washington. Seattle Negroes have passed resolutions asking Negro bishops and delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention to stay away. One of the hotels recently refused to reserve accommodations for the colored delegates with the white delegates. The Endeavor entertainment committee refused to interfere with the rulings of the hotel and the action of the Negroes is the result. The historians for New York city have discovered that a colored woman, named Catherine Furguson, was the first to open and teach a Sunday school in that city. The white people of New York have raised many thousands of dollars with which they are preparing to erect a Catherine Furguson Memorial Inter-denominational church with hotel attached for the Colored race. CARBOROUGH, re A. M. E. Church, Writer of ador of Ancient Languages, University. ing with you. Girls have queer whims, and hers seems to be to bother you." "What makes you think she wants me?" asked Weyburn, brightening. "Well, you're a deuced good fellow—young, handsome and rich. What else would a girl want? Now, I'll tell you what you do. We'll put Laura in a trap. I'll propose a series of mock marriages and ask her to begin with you. She can dress herself in bridal finery. All girls love to do that. I'll get myself up as a parson, and we'll have a marriage ceremony in presence of witnesses. Then after it's all over we can take the ground that it's legal. She'll be satisfied, only she'll want to be married over again." Weyburn after much persuasion consented. Miss Leonard at first refused, but finally consented also. The performance was a great success. Miss Medway played a wedding march on the plano; the bride, followed by her attendants, came down the main staircase, while Weyburn, supported by his groomsmen, filed out of the library, meeting the bride in the hall and proceeding to the drawing room, where they stood at one end of the apartment. It had been agreed that the religious part of the ceremony was to be left out, which satisfied the bride that there would be nothing binding in the ceremony. The bride and groom consented to take each other for better or for worse, and they were pronounced man and wife. Congratulations followed, and all proceeded to the wedding supper. When Medway, who had agreed to announce to the bride that she was really married, an hour later took her away by herself and told her of the fact he met with a reception far different from what he had expected. "Do you mean to tell me," she said, turning pale, "that I'm really married to Mr. Weyburn?" "You took him for your wedded hus- If It's Neuralgia and those sharp, shooting, agonizing pains drive you almost crazy, take Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and get relief. They drive out the pain by their soothing effect upon the nerves. When taken as directed they are harmless, and leave no bad after-effects. 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This was said with such agony that Medway was terror stricken at what he had done. "Great heavens, Laura! I hope you're not in love with any one else." "Yes, I am," she said, bursting into tears. Medway was thunderstruck. As soon as he had recovered himself a bit curiosity as to who was the possessor of the girl's heart overcame all other considerations. Could it be possible that with no fortune she could decline one, with a very good fellow for a husband, for some young man who must work for his living? "I'm awfully sorry, Laura," he said soothingly. "We didn't intend to go against your wishes. Do you mind telling me who the man is you wished to marry?" "Oh, I couldn't!" She buried her face in a divan pillow. "There wouldn't be any impropriety in your telling me in confidence." "Not since I can't marry the man I love?" "Certainly." "But it wouldn't be treating my husband right." "What a conscience!" said Medway to himself. Then aloud: "Oh, that would be all right. He'd never know it." "Well, since I'm married and there's nothing wrong or immodest about telling, the man I love is"— "Out with it, Laura. You'll feel better when you've relieved your mind." "You," she whimpered. No pen or pencil could adequately picture the expression on Edward's face at the receipt of this information. The clock ticked many seconds before he moved; then he bent down and put his arms around the girl. "Oh, don't!" she moaned. "I'm married." "Married be hanged!" he exclaimed. "I'm a lawyer, and I know that in America it's the intent of both parties that makes a contract binding." There were no more mock marriages during the continuance of the house party. Medway made a clean breast of everything to Weyburn, who was convinced of his friend's innocence of any intent to supplant him. Before the departure of the guests the engagement of the host and Laura Leonard was announced. ROSALIE WHITING. 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THOMPSON. {been .putting up I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer. I would be brave, for there is much to bear; : Iwould be friend to all—the fos, the friendless; { would be giving, and forget. the sit; J would be humble, for I know my weakness; T would look up—and laugh—and love—and live. —Selected. a Grit is character's winning ingredi- ent. see The black man never fails to get his inspiration from a bee hive. eee It is difficult to say a bright thing before some other fellow gets it said. eee The excoursion habit should be in- dulged in in moderation—or abolished. It’s an awful task for a man to be great _who is known to the neighbors as “Willie.” It looks as if the Negro press has united in giving “Perfesser” DuBois “the silence.” eee The race is not helped by those among us who have an insatiable de- sire to “pass for white.” The race will go forward when the reasoners carry more weight with the masses than the ranters. eee ‘The wise Negro leader is not run- ning any risk of being a “sooner” in this presidential game. cary Perhaps DuBois needed theadver- tisement. The people had been “pay- ing him no mind” for some time. The fellow who bets on the races simply prefers letting another fellow spend his money, rather than himself. Topeka, Kansas, is preparing to “over-give” the National Negro Busi- ness League the “glad hand” in Aug- ust. It is a difleult task for the editor of a weekly to say a bright thing be- fore the editor of a daily rushes in and gets it said. Without doubt, the country is being made aware of the fact that there is “something doing” on the shores of jhistorie Hampton Roads. see The footsteps of Col. Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall can be discerned without the aid of a microscope in the beleagured State of Ohio. Poca Harry C. Smith, the caloric editor of the Cleveland Gazette, is making a noise like a man who thinks the cam: paign is on at a white heat. see ‘The color line in Washington's City Hall restaurant and the Brownsville inquiry are dividing honors as stellar attractions at the national capital. No church can permanently prosper that neglects its laity. The ministry may be the brains of the church today but the laity is its bone and sinew. The 2,300,000 Negro Baptists ar¢ not overlooking the significant faci that Governor Charles Evans Hughes is one of them—that is, he is a Bap tist. see Some wag sends us word that « strong odor of whitewash is prevelan in the quarters of the officers who hac charge of things at Brownsville on th night of August 13th. ‘The Detroit Informer has an aggra yated attack of the “African fever. The date of Editor Warren’s depart ure for “that dear Liberia,” however is not announced. tee Cupid is making an early appear ance in the Negro Department of th Jamestown Exposition. One weddin; already, with another easily in sight and more in prospect. ee Anyhow, we optimists who hung ou the “peace” bulletin in Ohio too 8001 came as near forcasting the situatio as the Weather Bureau does the othe atmospheric conditions. a ' ‘The alleged list of colored mei drawing the better grade of salarie under the United States Governmen would be nearer the truth if a fey were left off and others added to it see | ‘Phe main “Guys” are making then selves felt and heard at Topeka, a leaders of the arrangements in cot nection with the forthcoming sessio of the National Negro Busines League. eee Editor Fortune is “casting sheep’ eyes” in the direction of the Hughe presidential boom, and gives evidenc of a willingness to snuggle up rea ,|close, if the proper “encouragement is given. The “Washington Press Bureau would be stronger with the countr: if Manager “Twister” would try t confide himself to “straight” state ments and eschew invidious com ments. see It is now in order, perhaps, for some body to start a little presidential boon for Ray Stannard Baker, who ha: |} been “Following the Color Line” witl such cleverness in a great nationa magazine. see Goy. P. B. S. Pinchback and Judg |. W. Gibbs are giving the “boys” | magnificent object-lesson in how t When you go to the Grocery remember to Ask for 9 Mother’s Bread. BRYCE BAKING COMPANY My Creed. The t AMI COMPANY, FURNITURE, CARPETS, RUGS, STOVES AND GAS; RANGES, Veal eS SS SS 4 ———, (ical = er o } a amend C—O ‘ i eee = Sh GRY [= J Cea —— SOG ae me ii i PENINSULAR VY fOUR STOCK OF Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Stoves and House Furnishings Is complete. We have anythingyyou can use in the home. OUR PRICES ARE LOW. OUR TERMS ARE EASY. 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Buchanan, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 320 N, Mlinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. i Proprietors Indianapolis Crematory. let this paper rolow you wherever you go by sending us your address. ee eee ee ae SS rae of the earth. eae "| That Solid thinker, John Graham, ,|strikes the nail on the head about col: lege education when he says: “College 1} doesn't make fools; it develops them. It doesn’t make bright men; it devel- {ops them.” tee | The Executive Committee in charge of the Negro Exhibit of the Jamestown >| Exposition seems disposed, like the illustrious Grant, to “fight it out on ‘| this line, if it takes all summer.” |} Collector Joseph E. Lee still_main- tains a full-Nelson upon the job at Jacksonville, Fia., that Col. M. M. Lewey would consent to accept, if the Jadministration could see its way to pry the aforesaid Lee loose from it. eee When white, black and red Baptists can meet on a common plane of Chris- tian brotherhood, and on southern soil, as was done the other day at the Jamestown Exposition, it would ap- pear that this old world of ours isn’t such a bad place to live in, after all. | The Kentucky Standard, moved to jfine sarcasm, observes that “Although Capt, Macklin slept through the whole night of the 'shooting-up’ of Browns- ville, he was acquitted.” If certain reports are accurate, “slept” is a mild word for the condition the gallant Cap- tain was in on that fateful night. vee Editor William Monroe Trotter will doubtless continue to make an exhi- bition of himself, but there is no men- tion of his having signed for a per- formance at the Jamestown Exposi- tion, under the direction of those noted purveyors of amusements and exploiters of freaks, Messrs. Wetmore & Jackson. eee Evidently the impression has gotten abroad that if the colored man has been “raising chickens,” he has not been doing it scientifically; so, the noble art is to be taught ‘hereafter at the Manual Training School at’ Washington. Verily, in the language of the youthful RR. Wright, “We's: acisin’” see ‘That churchman is a public bene factor who aims to so limit the ap- propriations from the General Fund as to leave intact the money that. should go to the relief of the preach- Jers who have worn themselves out Jin the cause, and to the widows and orphans who would otherwise be de- pendent upon the cold charity of the world. wee | Mr. Thomas J. Calloway, of Paris ‘Jand Buffalo Exposition fame, makes an ideal chairman of a great show like that is nearing completion at historic || Jamestown. He is cool, clear-headed, || patient, farseeing, versatile, and re. s|sourceful to the last degree. He will come out of the affair with a brow covered with laurels—wateh it. ; . ‘| Aida Overton Walker has been maf. -|ing a great hit all the season singing “The Beatiful Island of By and Bye,” and now Clarence Cameron White and |Luther Sadgwar are trying to go her |“one better” by producing in the {Nation's capital a comic opera, en- titled “The Isle of Nev-er.” eee r|_ The ‘problem of the city Nefro {grows more and more acute. It would ,|certainly pay the southern states to make life in the rural districts sufi ciently attractive to keep the colored >| people in the country to till the soil, t|to make homes, build churches and develop schools and business enter -|prises—the fundamentals of good citi zenship. see 1]_ The broad unselfishness of Booker t|T. Washington was never more hap 1} pily exemplified than in his suggestion ejand urgency that the Jeanes million dollar donation be devoted to the up building of the rural Negro schools of -}the South, rather than to the larger “\and more firmly-established institu -jtions. It is an open secret that, had s)the “Wizard” been looking only to the interests of his own particular school ‘Tuskegee could have had the biggest ~'kind of a slice out of the splendi¢ e benefaction of Miss Jeanes. z ees ‘| It the one-time reliable chronicler )Mr. John Edward Bruce, would take the pains to examine the books of the tt Negro Department of the Jamestowr n Exposition, he would have to secur ala powerful pair of Tenses to discove T)a concession or privilege on the Ne gro's six-acre reservation let out to white man. “Bruce-Grit” is too goo nja quill-driver to thus allow his prej s}udices to get the better of his time it |honored reputation for “toting square, " see t.| _ Collector W. D. Crum, of Charleston S. C., is having an “open season” foi -|the kind of honors that are thrus $]upon the deserving. The South Car 1-{olina A. M. E. Conferencé has electe njhim a delegate to the Norfolk Genera s|Conference, and Claflin Universit; crowns his brow with the appropriat Master of Arts degree. The suav 8] Palmetto leader wears his laurels wit! s| dignity and ease, befitting the schola ejand gentleman that he is. SOR iaibidh bteee ek hate met Time was when “the publicity man” was regarded as a luxury. Now he has grown to be an indispensable at- tachment to the church, school and business life of the race, and no enter- prise or rising statesman {s complete without him. The reason is plain, and the publicity man is the legitimate out- growth of the tendency of the times in which we live. The people want to know. eee We notice an item where some good brother from some where has taken “a special course in journalism,” and has been assigned to a mythical “press syndicate” by the school of journal- ism” which issued him his diploma. So far. so good. The real test will come when the aforesaid “graduate” is sent out to do some real work, and must write a good story along lines satisfactory to his employer, without data, and facts, and minus the manua of conventional rules by which he has ‘been .putting up his school theses ‘The best journalist learns journalism by “journalizing"—by roughing it at the actual work. Expert scientists are agreeing that, under the same conditions, the Negro is not more susceptible to disease than ‘are white peopie. The high death rate among the colored people, of which the insurance companies prate so gibly, grows out of causes easily explainable—such as unsanitary hous. ing, lack of nourishing food, failure to dress properly for the seasons, and excesses and exposures that are the natural concomitants of ignorance and poverty. Black people will live as long as white people, if they could only live as well, ares The folks out at Seattle, Washing- ton, who started in to find all manner of fault with the alleged color discrim- ination in the vicinity of the James- town Exposition, are having troubles of their own at home. The hotels have refused to accommodate the col- cred officials of the Christian En- Savor Society ,who are expected snortiy, and there is talk to the effect that the Negroes will be asked not to attend the great convention, and the incident may serve to materially affect the interest of the colored people in the forthcoming Alaska-Yukon,Pacific Exposition, svheduled for Seattle in 1909. Indeed, race prejudice has ceased to be bounded by sectional lines, eae Bishop G. W. Clinton, conservative and level-headed in all the questions that affect the race, gave voice to the following well-tempered sentiment in his episcopal address to the Zion con- ference in session at Washington: “Now that the Brownsville case is in the hands of a competent court and is being fully investigated by fair- minded men, we will wait until the committee has reported to see how the President deals with it before we pass further judgment on his mo- tives.” The Bishop's sober counsel is in happy contrast with the sensational audminations fired off by some of the brethren in the same conference. Be- bore getting excited ,let us await the thorough sifting of the facts, and then see what the man in the White House will do. eee Mrs. A. M. Curtic, the energetic and resourceful fiscal agent of the James- town Exposition, is undoubtedly the busiest woman of whom the race can boast, and she has a knack given to none of her sex in a like degree of “getting things done.” Whether it be rearing a family, protecting friendless young girls, carrying on the work of the Red Cross, conducting a political campaign, making the welkin ring from the rostum, going forward for the people in inaugurating reforms in the public schools, doing the social honors in a well-ordered home, or pro- moting an exposition of international proportions, Mrs. Curtis never loses her grasp of the situation. This noble woman will live in history for the great good she has wrought, and fur- ther generations will rise up and call haw bieesed. The Netherlands Government at Amsterdam confers a royal distinc: tion of honor on a colored private sol- dier by the name of Pongo, giving him the honor of “a knight of the mil- itary order of William,” which is equivalent to the “British Victoria Cross” for “Valor ability and faith- fulness” while the United States Gov- ernment dismisses, disfranchises, and otherwise under-estimates her brave colored soldiers. That's the differ- ence. See? UB Fy 8. MT, In the year 1861, in the city of Louisville, Ky., a number of men of our race met to organize an order, which might bring the people of our race in union with each other. At this meeting was founded the United Brothers of Friends and the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten. The principles upon which they ‘were to work were to unite the entire race, care for the sick, help widows and orphans and endeavor to lift them from a state of ignorance. All of the people were to be in- struced in a more thorough know.edse in the business pursuits of life, and instill in the minds of the children the Way to true success. Hence came the Juvenile branch of our great order. Gradually, they developed into a Grand Lodge, dealing with the people of the whole state at large, during which times many lodges and temples were set up and progressed, until it was necessary to branch off’ to other states. After increasing in several states, this order advanced into a National Body, where conference could be made by men and women from all parts of the country, making it more convenient to know the condition and needs of the people of the different parts of our country. By the combined efforts of the dele- gates from the different parts of the Republic, the demands for develop- ment could be made more forcibly. At present the United Brothers of Friendship and the Sisters of the Mys- terious Ten is the greatest secret or- ganization among the colored people in the world. Children in all ages have been the hope of the coming generations, and, realizing the fact that the rising gen: eration must fill our places when we have gone, we welcome our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and all other well-disposed boys and girls to share with us the privileges of the order; and to be good obedient chil- dren, and to learn the true principles of Justice, Mercy and Truth, as the Juvenile Department of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten is governed by the former rules of obedience. —MARY BELL WARFIELD, of East- ern Star Juvenile No. 9. ‘We will mail you a sample copy of The Freeman free for the asking. i s * A ys 4 > Wy gfe) 4 Gy the 4 fey OY ONG, | | Y ke pte t/a A «ee IN lo of wt Py)" | Mn \ | oes Mh \ ii ee i | Waiters & Cooks | Prefer Our Make j JACKETS AND.LINEN } | because they have found thom ! | Satisfactory. { Wille tor complete, Catalonue [lying ull instructions | Marcus Ruben luc.’, | © soStateSt,, CHICAGO ILL, Watches and Sterling silverware Garb 2. 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Send for our extra or ordinary adductions. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Base of measure—solid agate, 14 to an inch. 25 cents in a coarse agate, 10 to an inch. 25 cents in a coarse advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professo al and business cards. Responsible discount for long time terms. Responsible discount for short time terms. Special rates on Wk TE UEs. GROWING HONEST. Controlling influences in Arkansas are growing honester, if "wickeder." The civil rights chapter of the laws of that State, long since a dead letter, has been repealed by the legislature. The action of that body will not materially change the present existing relations between the races, since they are what the lawmakers determined that they should be by legislative act. Arkansas, like all of the Southern States, affect to be apprehensive of what some choose to call the "black peril." And in order to head off this "manifest destiny," it has resorted to what it doubtless considers its best expedient—prohibition by legislation. The object of this special legislation is to legally prevent all chances of contact that may tend to set up friendly intercourse between the races, and of course saving against the ultimate thing, amalgamation. Says one of that State: "We do not care how prosperous the Negro becomes, how elegant his hotels and boarding houses are, how splendid the home he may put up for him and his family, but we want his hotel to be a hotel for the Negroes exclusively, his barber shop to be for people of his own race only, and, in general, we want his business to be separated from the white man's business, even as his home is separaten from the white man's home. In this way only can be secured that absolute separation socially, morally and in a business way which is necessary to prevent the threatening danger of ultimate amalgamation." This "let alone" policy, on its face, has the appearance of being fair, having in mind the same advantages and opportunities within the respective races for all. But does it mean only that? Not hardly, if the nature of our subject is understood. Separation generally, enforced by laws, would pave the way to very great rouble, since it would mean two distinct races inhabiting a given area, a thing quite impossible. The constant friction would some day result disastrously. Separation as now known and understood is not that complete kind being advocated by the Arkansas people, the above quoted speaker has this to say that is indicative of the intent: "We will later on begin a movement which will have for its purpose the abolishing of the Negro servant in hotels and boarding houses. They are there now for two reasons principally—one is because they want to take advantage of this method to come more or less in contact with white people, and, to an extent, it must be admitted, on a somewhat similar footing. The Negro swells with pride when in a spacious drawing room, he may hand the lady her cloak, or even place it on her shoulders, even though he does it in the capacity of a servant. The other reason is that in order to have these opportunities they are willing to work for almost nothing. When we can get the managers and proprietors of hostelries and other establishments to look at this thing the way we do, we will have the Negro servants done away with and the hundreds of white omen or men he need the work, and would then be willing to undertake it because they would no longer have to compete with the black man, could be given work." That is the pernicious gospel now being preached. That kind of separation would equal a distinct nation within nation and without a tie of sympathy between them. White men advocating such a division are withless, unless they have in mind ruction and ruin. They are shortsighted, or else they are particularly longsighted, recokowing to the day when the Negroes have grown formidable, rich, wise in spite of the obstructions and oppression. It is, perhaps, this condition that they would save against, and because of which, for the second time in history would be chronicled a monstrous wrong done the Negroes at the hands of white men. The limiting as proposed by the individual quoted would be no less than a civil crime in principal; it would strike at the very roots of Christianity, and give discredit to any and all moral forces in the world. It is to be hoped that "long-headed" men will see to it that the seed of discord. Let the cool, "long-headed" men prey. A SCARECROW. Among other advertisements in the street cars of our very beautiful city of Indianapolis is one calling attention to a certain publication on the grounds that it contained an article by one R. Stannard Baker, and which has for its caption words to the effect that the seats in front are for white THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER passengers, those in the rear for colored people. The placard evidently is a double intender, or perhaps threefold in its intent. In the first place the attention of the white people are drawn to it, many of whom have visited sections where such a division of street cars is made. The game is to have it appear as if the thing was on in Indianapolis; this is so much result to the advertising scheme. And again: the colored people, of course, are at once startled by the very forbidable announcement, and who begin a circumspection in order to ascertain their status quo—to get their hearing. The "horror" of "jim crowism" stands upright, and one may believe that there are sights of relief, many of them, when 'tis known that they are not filched of their rights, and that, what they saw was but a scare crow. Then a great train of thought follows anent the South, and life in general as it pertains to the colored people. They hug themselves, knowing, at least that it was but a dream, concluding that after all, if emy be worth the living. The object is to advertise a particular magazine, and which we think miserable poor business, in view of the disturbed racial relation. One is not particularly interested in the "fulminations" of the one R. Stannard Baker; he, however, is entitled to his opinions, whatever they may be. We particularly protest against a writer, or magazine taking advantage of a national sore spot—working it in the interest of financial gain. Here is he, or those, that willingly trade on the applications of the country—thanking God merely that their withers are unwrung, insisting that it is not we that suffer in any event, forgetting that the nation is but so many units. Owing to circumstances over which there could have been no control, the nation is faced by conditions that even the colored man must acknowledge are reasonable in their existence. There is, however, no necessity for enlarging on them, bulling public sentiment, and often to where red-handed violence threatens the race; and for what? Because the very God of heaven saw fit to ordain it as it is—a color—the greater drawback to this unimpeded coming and going. To go out of one's way to purposely offend is not the mission of any man, yet it may be believed that such things do happen. The placard, for instance, is meant to offend; knowingly printed, and with the sole intent of calling attention to the racial situation, and in such away as to further ill feeling. DR. CURTIS IN THE LIMELIGHT Dr. A. M. Curtis, Washington's popular physician, is undergoing some rough and uncalled for treatment at the hands of certain elements in Philadelphia that are violently opposed to the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. His letters to one or two physicians, asking their co-operation in making a creditable display of the progress of the Negro in medicine, surgery and hospital management, have been given to the press with much ado, and under misleading headlines, in a desperate effort to make the public believe that he is engaged in some shady transaction, and is anxious to bribe them into giving their sanction that a semblance of "respectability" may be thrown about it. A minute inspection of the contents of the published letters disclose nothing to warrant the sensational headlines used by the "yellow journals" of Boston and Chicago, and the learned doctors themselves, who have thus gone out of their way to strike one of their own cult, have only violated the ethics of a most honorable profession, but have transcended the bounds of common decency. That is the opinion of the unbiased, and the general feeling is that the men responsible for the outrage are inspired by an insatiable desire for public notority, rather than a wish to "save the race from humiliation," and similar hypocritical rot. The proposition submitted by Dr. Curtis, in his capacity as chairman of the special committee designated to prepare the medical exhibit, was as open as the day, and carried the statement, usual in cases where the time of busy men is drawn upon, that all legitimate expenses in connection with the desired service, would be paid. It was simply "up to" the persons mentioned to accept or decline—and let it go at that. Such would have been the natural course of gentlemen of fine taste and a disposition to deal squarely. In view of the fact that the individuals invited by Dr. Curtis to assist him are operating a separate hospital for colored people in a community where access can be had to the general hospitals by colored citizens, the extraordinary amount of "thundering in the index" perpetrated by them, because of a request to take part in the Jamestown enterprise, is notoriously absurd. The country is laughing at them, while it sympathizes thoroughly with Dr. Curtis' honorable effort to do something for the good of his people. The blow intended for Dr. Curtis has fallen upon their own heads. The Philadelphia hospital may not make an exhibition at Jamestown, but the managers have certainly made an exhibition of themselves nearer home. CONTEMPLATED MEMORIAL TO DUNBAR. The admirers of Paul Laurence Dunbar everywhere will be pleased to know of the movement on foot to erect a monument in his honor. Those having the matter under contemplation say that it will be erected as nearly in accord with his known wishes as expressed in his "Death Song," as it will be possible to do so. The following is the very beautiful song referred to: "Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass, Whah de branch'll go a-singin' as it pass; Singin' "Sleep, my honey, tek yo' res' at las". "Lay me nigh to whah it meks a little pool." An' de watah stan's so quiet lak an' cool. Whah de little birds in spring Ust to come an' drink an' sing. An' de children waded on de way to school. 'Let me settle w'en my shouldahs draps dey load Nigh enough to heath de noises in de road; Fo' I tink de las' long res' Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes' Ef I's lain' mong de things I's allus knowed." The doughy Baron Kuroki, the Japanese naval hero, has been sight-seeing at Jamestown. Evidently he thought we had a grand and "gelorious" country. THE EXPOSITION AND THE NEGRO TAX-PAYER The Freeman does not see wherein the Negro tax-payer has any "kick coming" as to the financial aspect of the Jamestown Exposition. To be sure, we pay our rata of the government's revenues, but we got an appropriation of $100,000 from the public funds to aid our people to make a display commensurate with our progress in the arts of civilization. Besides this, the Negro secured the full management of the project, disburring the appropriation under the Treasury regulations and is a part and parcel of the "big show" on Hampton Roads. The Negro has one of the finest buildings on the grounds, and has six acres that overlook the business section of the exposition, being on the direct line of passage to and from the principal steamship piers and within sixty feet of the entrance that is patronized most by visitors. DEATH OF THOMAS ROGISTER Thomas Rogister was stricken with apoplexy Friday of last week about four o'clock and died at 8:30. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. S. Bailey assisted by Revs. Skelton, Sissle, Lewis and Herod and remarks by George L. Knox. At a meeting of the officers and members of Simpson Chapel, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, By the providence of the Almighty God who has removed from our midst, Brother Thomas Sogister, our beloved brother, efficient officer, a faithful member for many years of this church, Simpson Chapel, Resolved, That we the officers and members of the church, have lost a faithful member, and we deeply deplore his untimely death; and be it further Resolved, That in his death the Official Board has lost a wise and careful counselor, and the church a faithful and devoted member; be it further Resolved, That we, the officers and members of this church extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy in his, their sad hour of sorrow, in the loss of a loving and affectionate father; be it further Resolved, That the officers and members of Simpson Chapel bow in humble submission to the will of the Almighty; be it further Resolved, That we commend the bereaved family to look unto Him who doeth all things well; and be it further Resolved, That we have not only lost a faithful officer and member, but the community has lost a loyal and useful citizen, but our loss is his eternal gain Rev. J. S. BAILEY, GEORGE L. KNOX, WILLIAM CUOK, Committee. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe'Store, 352 W. Washington street. General Correspondence From Various Sections. RICHMOND, VA. Mr. and Mrs. Broadax of Detroit Mich. spent several days at Mosely's European Hotel last week. They were very much impressed with Richmond. They were en route to Jamestown where they will open up a fine hotel and cafe at Pine Beach just out side of the grounds. The Freeman can also be found at Broadax place. MOBILE, ALA. J. W. Woods a student of Tuskegee Institute will spend the summer with his brother, Willie Jones of 655 St. Micheal street—Dr. Wm. R. Boykin has paid his old home a visit and will deliver the welcome address to the graduates of Broad-street Academy.—Hon. A. L. Lee the well known contractor and humorist is the originaler of all the broad smiles and pleasant faces that you may meet at the Jackson tonsorial Parlor. EL PASO, TEXAS SOCIETY among the colored people of El Paso seems to have gone on a boom and the beautiful May nights have witnessed the gathering of many El Paso young people to white away the ideal nights. The initial entertainment was given by the Bachelor Boys in honor of Miss Sykes of Waco. Quite a nice crowd assembled at their home and enjoyed a very pleasant evening. This seemed to have given impetus to the social world and this was closely followed by a swell entertainment by Cheatam in honor of Miss McGown. Mrs. Cheatam proved to be a hostess of accomplishments rarely found. Mrs. Connelly followed this up with an elaborate spread; and the gay crowd that assembled at her pleasant home will always remember this event. ```markdown ``` Forced to Vacate Present Location To the Young Man Graduate This sale offers you a fine opportunity to graduate in a stylish hand-tailored, made-to-order suit. 9 North Pennsylvania Street Will Move June 15 to 143 North Pennsylvania 5k Odd Fellows' Building Denison Hotel Building as one of the most enjoyable. Mrs. Cornell proved an adept in the art of entertaining.—Miss Maud ikard, had the same young people to assemble at her pretty home on Virginia street to pass away the fleeting hours in one continuous round of fun and frolic. Before the crowd left they all voted MissIkard to be a queen of entertaining. The entertainment at the home of Miss ikard was followed by one at the home of Miss Sudie Griglsby two nights later. Ere the close of day came the young folks to the beautiful home of Miss Griglsby and in the spacious parlors tastily decorated the happy throng permitted the hours to slip by unnoticed. So charmingly did Miss Griglsby entertain her guest till when the sweet strains of "Home-Sweet-Home" sounded soft and low in the midst of the happy people there was a rush for cloaks and goodbyes were hastily given. These events have a tendency to bring into harmonious working the young people of El Paso, and brings about a true feeling of cordialness.—Miss Maggie Roberts left for Waco last Wednesday to be there a few days, thence to Chicago and Kansas City on her summer vacation.—Miss McGown left Monday for Austin to spend a part of of her vacation after which she will leave for California. DALLAS, TEXAS WET, rainy weather is making it very dull for everybody these cold days. 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An Entire Suit for $18 of all-wool Scotch fabric makes a dressy, genteel business suit. Photo from one of 100 patterns of light-weight all-wool Scotch fabric. To the Young Man G stylish hand-tailored, made-t ROBER 9 North Pennsylvania Street Odd Fellows' Building IN THE NECK We Remove SAW EDGES This is only one of the advantages of a strictly up-to-date equipment. We return your laundry clean and white. We handle it gently, use machines that won't tear it. Let our wagon call to-day. THE GRAND LAUNDRY, New Phone 2882. Old Pnone, Main, 1533. MONEY TO LOAN Assured Satisfaction When you borrow money of the old reliab'e Indianapolis Mortgage and Loan Company you are just as sure of satisfactory treatment from beginning to end of transaction as if you were dealing with the most solid bank in the city. Our contract is plain and simple. It contains no snares to trip you up; any one can grasp its meaning at one reading. It tells just what rate of interest you are to pay and how and when the payments are to be made. Contains no loop-holes where extra expense can be added on. You get all the time you need on the loan and the security remains in your possession. Is there any reason why, when you do borrow, you should not come straight to our office? Indianapolis Mortgage and Loan Company, 210 Unity Building, 147 East Market Street. Old Phone, Main, 541. New Phone 1419 "STRAWS THAT WILL TICKLE YOU" LEVINSON'S SPLIT SOFT STRAWS $2 LEVINSON'S POPULAR PRICE ANAMAS $5 37 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET yet since you made that new pledge?—Mrs. Walter Scott of San Angelo is the honored guest at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Burl Tyler on Fuqua street.—Mrs. Ida Williams of this city was called to Sherman to see her brother, who was very ill, and later died at the home of his mother.—The new commission is now in force, and much is looked for from the various departments.—Rev. Christian head of the Church of God. is holding meetings in the city.—Why not put an "ad" in these columns and let the people all over the country read about your business enterprises?—The commencements are over now. Begin anew to show the world that you mean business. Don't waste that energy all in folly and headlineers at the pool room.—Harris & James' Minstrel will appear at the Majestic Theatre, Dallas and Forth Worth, June 11 and 12, with everything new.—S. R. Jordan is the proprietor of the Texas Express, which made its appearance Saturday, June 1.—Wade, Foster, Sparks and Curtis composed the "Sunny Brook" song, which is now famous in the city.—Mrs. A. J. Jackson is visiting in Caldwell indefinitely.—The Masonic lodges of the city are not worrying over the appearance of a compact order being set up here. When you hear a grumbling in the neighborhood you may know that some one is hurt. So don't worry about those little insignificant Bible We Remove SAW EDGES This is only one of the advantages of a strife your laundry clean and white. We handle it Let our wagon call to-day. THE GRAND New Phone 2882. MONEY T Assured Sati When you borrow money Indianapolis Mortgage and you are just as sure of satisfactory treat of transaction as if you were dealing with city. Our contract is plain and simple trip you up; any one can grasp its mean just what rate of interest you are to pay ments are to be made. Contains no li- can be added on. You get all the time security remains in your possession. you do borrow, you should not come stu Indianapolis Mortgage and 210 Unity Building, 147 E. Old Phone, Main, 541. "STRAWS THAT WILL LEVINSON'S SPLIT SOFT TRAWS $2 37 NORTH PENNSYL WE have but two weeks to reduce our enormous stock of spring and summer woolens, and offer you some big bargains in the handsomest fabrics the English and American looms have produced this season. Regardless of our forced removal sale and big reductions made in prices, we assure you expertness of finish and the same high standard of perfection that has made Springsteen Clothes Popular. in Graduate This sale offers you a fine opportunity to graduate in a trade-to-order suit. ERT E. SPRINGST street Will Move June 15 to 18 beaters, they are only getting their justification as they should. We have more of their kind seven days of each week. Now be good and read The Freeman. THOMPSON'S WEEKLY REVIEW (Continued from first page.) the 'Nigger' building for—you, a fine white man?" asked the bystander, with a pronounced sneer. Dr. King, placing his hand kindly upon the shoulder of the "cracker"—for the appearance of the individual plainly betrayed his "po' white" orign—and said, with his characteristic gracious smile: "My dear Man, I go to the Negro building for two good and sufficient reasons—to myself at least. For more than a quarter of a century I have done my best to upbuild the people whose fruitful labors are there on display, and their grateful appreciation of my efforts have made me a better man!" The crowd heard Dr. King's fervent rejoiner in respectful silence, and the "cracker," crushed by the undisguised contempt of the decent people about him, quickly disappeared, leaving the Christian educator completely master of the situation. It is the courageous friendship and never-failing loyalty of God-fearing and divinely-inspired white men like Dr. George M. Prentis-King that heartens the Negro people for the trials that beset them, and urges them on to the highest goals attainable in ideals and achievement. —R. W. THOMPSON IN THE NECK districtly up-to-date equipment We return it gently, use machines that won't tear it. LAUNDRY, Old Pnone, Main, 1533. TO LOAN atisfaction key of the old reliab'e e and Loan Company treatment from beginning to end with the most solid bank in the simple. It contains no sares to meaning at one reading. It tells you pay and how and when the pay-o loop-holes where extra expense time you need on the loan and the. Is there any reason why, when straight to our office? e and Loan Company, East Market Street. New Phone 1419 WILL TICKLE YOU" LEVINSON'S POPULAR PRICE PANAMAS $5 POLVANIA STREET STEEN at Location Pending the erection of new I. O. O. F. building Coat and Trousers of light-weight woolen coat ideal, makes a ideal idea, a piece a remarkable bargain... $15 Photo from one of 65 pairs all-wool cassimere fab. 12 STEEN to 143 North Pennsylvania St. Denison Hotel Building THE STAGE Frank Fowler Brown, of the Rufus Rastas Company of the past season, left Thursday to join the Pekin Stock Company at Chicago. Madame E. Anglia Hackley is establishing a foreign scholarship by subscription, in order that more Negro musicians may be able to further their studies abroad. Harry Fidler, who is resting at his home in Indianapolis, is seriously thinking of securing a special wire from Indianapolis to Ernest Hogan's headquarters in New York. "Fid" says that the mails are a little too slow. A special matinee was given at the Pekin, Friday afternoon, June 7th, at which time the Silver Leaf Dramatic Club presented the legitimate comedy drama "The Noble Outcasts." The proceeds of this performance will be donated to N. Clark Smith's Boys' Band. James E. Simpson has just closed twenty successful weeks on the Goldsmith and Fisher Pantages, and Julian Young circuit, and has now joined the Sells-Floto Circus for the rest of the season, working in the minstrel, and with bass drum and cymbals in the band, doing nicely. Regards to Mabel Gant. AI Watts, and John Vaughner. Write. The Rays, John and Lizzie, have been meeting with great success in their high-class vaudeville act, singing, talking and dancing. They have been through Missouri and Illinois nine weeks, and, after playing two days's rest. They open at Winnipeg, Man. Monday, on the Western circuit. Regards to all friends in and out of the profession. AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Moseley's Roof Garden has proved a drawing card in Richmond, being packed every night with Richmond's best people, enjoying all kinds of refreshments, as well as being entertained with the latest song hits such as "You'll Have to Find Another Tree to Build Your Nest," etc. Mr. Moseley wishes to call the attention of young lady performers to his ad in the Freeman. A good place for good people. J. D. CHUNN'S SPECTACULAR SHOW. We are having very cool weather for tenting. Mrs. Alice Edwards is still getting them nightly singing "Cross Your Heart." Mr. G. W. Parsons as "Uncle Tom" hends regards to "Walter Rector and Baxter Reynolds." Miss Emma Russell, the clever little sobriette sends regards to Pearl Moppins and George Ttylor. She says write. Bert Overton, as chef, does some very fine cooking. Mr. Overton joined us in Indianapolis. WHITE CITY SHOWS OLD PLANTATION CO. Harry Robinson is stage manager; Bass Reese, orchestra leader. Prof. Goffrey's uniform band is as follows: Lems Wilder, tuba; Harrison Kinnisman, solo alto; Frank Perryman, 2nd trombone; Lummie Ratcliffe, 1st trombone. Lee Godfrey, 1st cornet; Charley Long, 2nd cornet; Boos, Ruse, 1st B flat clarinet; Nathaniel Westbrook, snare drummer; A. D. Paterson, bass drummer. Plantation show as follows: Harry Robinson, better known as "Skeeter" singing. "Got to Dance Until the Band Gets Through." Harrison Kinnison is holding his own. W. M. Burx is making a hit with his buck and wing turn. A D. Paterson, Aunt Dinah impersonator. Harrison Kinnison, Old Man impersonator. "Skeeter" and Ruse would like to G. S. DAURA TURNER. "Snowflake" with Rufus Rastus Company. She had a cunning little smile, And glances that had done Together with her mandolin, The heart of more than one "What gained for you so many beaux?" I asked, for too, she sings, "It's not my voice at all," she said, "I get them on my strings." DAURA TURNER. "Snowflake" with Rufus Rastus Company. She had a cunning little smile, And glances that had done Together with her mandolin, The heart of more than one "What gained for you so many beaux?" I asked, for too, she sings, "It's not my voice at all," she said, "I get them on my strings." THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER hear from Effie, Grace and Bill Moore, Also "Speedy" and "Buzzard." Lummie kateliffe would like to hear from Horace Harrison, and all of his friends in Beaumont, Texas. Regards to all friends. CULLIGAN'S NASHVILLE STU DENTS. We have just left the Black Hills of South Dakota, and toured the State of Wyoming, and now we are in the State where the corn-huskers dwell. Everyone in the company is happy, with an exception of Henderson and Bruce. They are pondering over that great ballad song that Tom Farrell wrote: "In A Silent Deep, Let Me Sleep." Johnny Edward is making good as usual with his eccentric wooden shoe dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are getting from two to three encores every night. George Boette is cleaning up every night singing "I Am Running, Will." Miss Louise Bruce and Miss Fannie Cansaler, as ballad singers, are making a great hit through the West. Mr. Culligan, our Manager, has gone to New York City to get a new Pulliman car, and from what he says it will be second to none in the business. We have just received our new first past ward-robe, and it is something swell. The company sends regards to all Friends, in and out of the profession, and especially the Path Bunch and the Kersand Hoboes. LINCOLN PARK NOTES. The Park has been open since March, and has been a success, under the management of the Labormen's Social Club who have a lease on the Park for a term of five years. On Sundays they have balloon ascensions, flying Jennies, etc. There is a free open-air concert in the evenings, from 5 to 7:30, on the lawn, by the Excelsior Brass Band, under the leadership of Prof. Moret, with fifteen pieces. In the auditorium, at 8 o'clock, the big show is on, with Kenner & Lewis Amusement Co. with a company of sixteen first class artists. They show nightly to an audience of from 900 to 1,200 people. These are some of the performers on our roster: "Henderson & Henderson. Eiffle Means, May Wilson, Emma thornton, Sidney Coleman, Mamie Rouse, Homer Broadnax, A. Pellebon, Midnight Bells Quartette, Beacs, Bonner, Miles, Solomon and Kenner & Lewis." This Park is run strictly by colored people, and is one of the best equipped parks of its kind in the South," bar ring none. Our Orchestra is under the leadership of Prof. Robichant Albert Carroll, Musical Director; Lew Kenner, Stage Director; John E Lewis, Stage Manager; W. C. Lewis Electrician; F. Bergeron, Property Manager. LOGAN'S LYRICS. Based Upon Facts That Never Actually Occurred. When the first "Smart Set," starred by Hogan & McClain, was organized, Tom Logan was engaged to write the lyrics for the attraction. One day while Logan was busily engaged on this work, a member of the company thinking to tease Tom, remarked: "Thomas, you're wasting time. Who ever head of a bald headed man writing a lyric?" Logan for a time appeared non-plussed, but before the gentleman took his departure he had written and handed him the following: "My head and yours are just alike— I can prove it in a minute; My head has nothing on the top, While yours has nothing in it. "Kind Nature made us all alike, Except in some small matter. In some folks' heads she put true brains— In some used only batter. "All men can see what I lack here, Be I standing still or walking. But strangers never see your need Until you go to talking. "By more than one way we may know The beast we call Asinus, For when he brays we hear an ass, Though both is ears are minus" THE NEGRO'S GENIUS FOR MUSIC. Best Productions of Famous Colored Composers to Be Exhibited by Columbia Phonograph at Jamestown. Norfolk, Va., June 6—Mr. Clarence Cameron White, the capable director of the musical exhibit in connection with the Negro Department of the Jamestown Exposition, announces with pardonable pride, that arrangements are being made with the Columbia Phonograph Company, by which the choicest works of our colored song-writers and composers are to be reproduced on their records through a new process, which has been experimented with and found very satisfactory. The most delicate tones of the human voice or musical instrument are transmitted perfectly by this means. As soon as practicable, the race's most eminent artists will sing or play into a Columbian receiver, and visitors to the Negro building will have an opportunity to hear their fa- vorites to almost as great an advantage as if they were actually present. It is expected that the records will embrace the most popular selections of such famous vocalists as Mme. Sissi-etta Jones (Black Patti), Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, Mme. Kittle Skeene-Mitchell, Mme. Marion Adams-Harris, Miss Lola Johnson and Harry T. Burleigh; composers of the types of Cole & Johnson, Will Marion Cooke; and instrumentalists who rank with Miss Mary L. Europe, R. Augustus Lawson, Welville Charleton, Joseph H. Douglass and Mr. White himself. The Columbia Phonograph is far and away the standard "talking machine" of the country, and this plan to reproduce through its accurate records the typical music of the race, will doubtless prove to be one of the most pleasing attractions offered by any department of the Negro Exhibit—enjoyable alike to both races, for it has been amply demonstrated that the appreciation of the compositions of Negro masters of melody is not bounded by color, clime or condition. It is universal. The repertoire to be furnished will be rich and varied, running the gamut from the purest classic to the pathetic folklore of plantation days. NOTES FROM THE GEORGIA TROUBADORS. "The company opened to a big house in Stanley, Wis. May 31 to good business. The weather was fine and everything seemed to be in full bloom. The audience well appreciated the show from beginning to end. The orchestra, which starts the ball rolling, won hearty applause for their beautiful rendition of De McCabes medley overture, arranged by J. W. Simmons, which is a decided hit, and the curtain goes up finding everybody happy and in motion as regular to time as a clock that gives us the time of day and night, while Mr. McCabe, the well noted comedian is singing the opening song, "A Beautiful Garden of Flowers." The flowers were made to order especially for this company, and the flowers are the likeness and well represent our beautiful flowers seen at Ponce De Leon Palm Garden. Master Billm, the child artist baller, singer, keeps up well in his rendering "Keep On The Sunny Side." Mile. Marial L. Simmons, our most noted prima dona, singing one of Chas. K. Harris's ballast hits, "Just One Word of Consolation" is indeed one song with words that are more truth than poetry, and strike the audience deep into their very souls, after which she renders that beautiful waltz, soprana solo, "Sogno D' Armor," bu Gregh, which wins much favoritism for her, not only for ease in singing, but technic, inspiration and articulation, which is needed in all solo work to be pronounced a genuine soloist. Walter La Ray is still making a decided hit in singing "Don't You Never, Never, Take a 10-cent Drink On Me." Prof. Rufus Wilson still holds his own as the rag-time piano player. The Golden Gate Quartette is always a hit and Mr. B. McWilliams always gets a good word for his barytone singing and cello work. Miss Madrey McCabe, in her fire and serpentine dance, is preparing for some very fine serpentine dancing costumes, said to be the finest made, Master Rudolph McCabe certainly tickled everyone, for he is the real child clown and comedian. At Glidden, Wis., the entire company was tendered a grand reception by the manager of the opera house. Mr. William McCabe acted as toast master for the company, and all had a good time. The company sends regards to all professional friends. The show will go to Chicago in July to reorganize and put on a band and enlarge the orchestra. Mr. J. W. Simmons, in charge of William McCabe's Georgia Troubadour's Band and Orchestra, wants to hear from all of his friends who double band, orchestra or stage, also watch for ad in "The Freeman" a little later on. GREAT OPPOSITION TO TAFT (Continued from first page.) Blue Operas," that were given last week, special mention should be given to Miss Junfitia Barry, Margurete Sutton, Katie Williams, oCra Page, Edna Goodwin, Josephine Knight, Winfred Lang and Messrs. W. M. Grimes and W. M. Fields. This was the first time these juveniles appeared on the stage, and the Courier Journal critic says: "The opera was given with every regard to costumes and staging, and that their acting, singing and solo work was very creditable." Miss Juanita Barry exhibited a rare talent as a speakera nd songster in the opera, and received many flattering comments after the show. It may be possible that after her voice is trained she will make the stage her profession. The others connected with the opera were Mr. Frank B. Waring, of Chicago, whi drilled the players, Miss Charlotte Bryant, musical director, and Prof. Tobe Brown the leader of the orchestra. All the members of the Treble Clef Club worked zealously for its success, bearing in mind the memory of the departed. Miss Eliza Davenport, who was the founder of the organization, and whose aim it was to give annual affairs for charitable purposes. Among those who occupied boxes were: (1) Mr. and Mrs. Mose Moore, Dayton, O.; and Mrs. Salome Worthington. (2) Misses Georgia Lattimore, Ida Clark, Hattie Lipscomb, Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, Messrs. John Clark, and Rev. Le Roy Ferguson. (3) Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hopkins, Mesdames Peter king and John Hamlet of Chicago, Roy Clay and Irvin Gray. (4) Misses Lillian Pope, Anna Jackson, Louisa Hudson, Fannie Hudson, Mrs. V. Robinson and Upton Spaulding. The other boxes were used by the Treble Clet Club. Those who occupied boxes in the mezzinine were Misses Lucy, Helen and Eva Du Valle and Scotie Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Barry and daughters and Captain John Davis and Lee Kates, Miss Mayne Stith and Henrietta Scott, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Boone and party, Miss Hattie Yeizer and Mr. Flack, Misses Alexander and Prof. Mose Goodall, Miss Margurete Ward and Mr. Lee Crosby, Miss Alice Harper and Mr. Garner and others. Prof. R. A. Roberts of New Albany, accompanied a number from that city. Evans & First are the names of the contracting painters who are doing some excellent work among their people. They employ several assistants and have as much work as they can do. Hundreds of houses and business places over the city can be pointed to as having been painted in first-class style by them. On May 27, the Louisville Giants took two games from the Paducah champions. The two games were fast and snappy. Over five hundred witnessed the Louisville boys carry off the plume. The spectators really got their money's worth, and heartily did they enjoy the game. Manager Ed. Lancaster is securing the best teams in the countrys to come to Louisville, and he is being given splendid support. Paducahs .....4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0—5 Lou. Giants .....6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1—8 Paducahs .....0 3 0 0 0—3 Lou. Giants .....1 0 2 2 *—5 At the Reccius park, the post office boys and the Y. M. C. A. boys crossed bats, which resulted in a score of 14 to 5, in favor of the Y. M. C. A. The game was very amusing, as the boys on both sides were well known, much laughter was provoked when they made errors. They were greeted with a fine crowd, a large number being young girls and women. Messrs. Bullock, Cassius Smith and Dr. Lattimore were the ones who were greatly interested in the management of the game. Y. M. C. A. 3 2 0 0 3 2 4 0—14 P. Office 0 0 0 4 0 0 1—5 On Sunday, June 9, the Louisville Giants will play the West Badens, the leading white team of Indiana, in this city at the Giants' park at 28th and Broadway. The West Badens are the only team that has defeated the Giants, and the match is the best that has even been offered to the base ball cranks in this city. Manager Lancaster expects a large crowd, and several excursions will be run to the city to see these giant teams play for the championship. A colored woman died here last week, weighing 525 pounds. She was sixty years of age, and five feet in height. Undertaken Hankins had her casket make in Tennessee, and took twelve able men to carry her to an express wagon, which was used for a funeral car. Rev. C. C. Bates preached her funeral at the undertaking establishment. CARY B. LEWIS. Louisville, Ky., June 2 (Special).—Despite the threatening weather, a large crowd witnessed the game between the Louisville Giants and the Indianapolis Rooters at the Louisville Giants' park, 28th and Broadway. The game was hotly contested, and was the most interesting seen at the Giant's park this season. The Indianapolis boys made the most hits, while the Giants made the more errors. The game went very smoothly for the home boys until the ninth inning, when the Indianapolis Rooters showed that they were scrapers. The ending of the score was five to three in favor of the Giants, when the Rooers came to the bat and brought in four scores. The Giants closed the game by one man being struck out, the other two at the bat were thrown out by a double play. This was the first time the Louisville Giants have lost this season. The Louisville Giants will play the West Badens next Sunday. Giants ..... 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0-5 Rooters ..... 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0-4 The feature of the game was the pitching of Rob't Sanford, of Indian- apolis. A. B. Ready to set up and do business, including cars, seats, seats, lights, advance agents, performers and musicians. Will route shows and make all railroad contracts; 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 person don't have to know anything about the business to be successful, as I guide and protect the show. Parties desiring full particulars will address PAT CHAPPELLE, Manager and Owner, RABBIT'S FOOT and FUNNY FOLKS COMEDY Co. The successful manager who has made over $50,000 in five years. Performers and musicians write: can place 200 or more. Address, 1054 West Church St., Jacksonville, Fla. or en route of "A Rabbit's Foot Co." Sylvester Russell's Review A National Co-Operative Magazine and Advertiser, Catering to no special Race, Creed or Color. Published at Hazleton, Pa., SYLVESTE RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor. All the most important details of the American Stage, abreviated Editorials on National Questions, Passion Poems, Comic Prose and a special Domestic Subject will appear each month by the Famous Sage Critic, Domestic Poet and common Philosopher. 50c=== Special Subscription ===50c FOR ONE YEAR. Address all mail to THE SYLVESTER RUSSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Hazleton, Pa. Wanted-Colored Performers For the Largest and Best Plantation Show Traveling, Strong Singers, Dancers and Musicians. Fair Salary and Good Treatment. Address W. F. PALMER, Cosmopolitan Shows, Centerville, Iowa, June 3 to 8; Ottumwa, Iowa June 10 to 15. Indianapolis Engraving Co., P.O. Box 103, Indianapolis, Indiana ordering menti in The Freeman. Wanted for Roof Garden- Two girls wanted to entertain at Ley's Roof Garden, Richmond, Va. Must be good singer dances; also bright and good looking. Will send tickets less C. W. MOSELEY, 920 North First Street, Richmond Write at once and state lowest terms in first letter photo if convenient. & Electrotyping Co., P.O. Box 103, Indianapolis, Indiana -When ordering menti in The Frog man- & Electrotyping Co., P.C. —When ordering ment GIRLS Wanted Moseley's Roof G and dances; also Address C. W. M. Va. Write at on Send photo if con AMUSEBLE Big 4 Exc SUNDAY, $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG Special train 1 $1.25 TERRE HAUTE Special train 1 $1.75 DAYTON, OHIO Special train 1 FARES FIVE WHITE An ideal spot for outdoor attractions. S than anticipated. An immense board features Magnificent River front with scenic ra broad, loop-the-loop, chutes, ferris Free vaudeville acts a FINE CAR THE EVENT OF THE ELK —A OUT FAIR GROUNDS, MO Grotesque Mule Races, Chasing Base Ball, Dancing WATCH FOR THE Headed by the K. of P BRASS Picnic. DANCING EXCELLENT Admission to Gr Two girls wanted to entertain at Moseley's Roof Garden, Richmond, Va. Must be good singer and dances; also bright and good looking. Will send tickets Address C. W. MOSLEY, 920 North First Street, Richmond Va. Write at once and state lowest terms in first letter Send photo if convenient. AMUSEMENT. Excursions SUNDAY, JUNE 9. ANCEBURG and AURORA $1.50 special train leaves 7:00 a. m. HAUTE and RETURN $1.25 special train leaves 7:40 a. m. N, OHIO, and RETURN $1.7 special train leaves at 6:45 a. m. FIVE CENTS TO ITE CITY attractions. Second season proving even more popular license board walk surrounded by live enertainment front with hundreds of boats, great skating rink, chutes, ferris wheel a d funny and fascinating shows. devilish acts and band concerts daily. CAR SERVICE. EVENT OF THE SEASON WELKS PICNIC AND ROUTING, DAYS, MONDAY, JUNE 17, '07. Cases, Chasing the Greasy Pig, Rolling Skating, Ball, Dancing and Bicycle Races. FOR THE BIG PARADE P BRASS BAND at 10 a. m. on morning of o. DANCING UNTIL 2 a. m. ENT CAR SERVICE. on to Grounds 25 Cents. $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG and AURORA $1.50 Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. $1.25 TERRE HAUTE and RETURN $1.25 Special train leaves 7:40 a. m. $1.75 DAYTON, OH10, and RETURN $1.7 Special train leaves at 6:45 a. m. FARES FIVE CENTS TO WHITE CITY An ideal spot for outdoor attractions. Second season proving even more popular than national parks, an immense board walk surrounded by live en enrichment features. Magnificent waterfront boats, great skating rink, scenic ra broad, loop-he-loop, chutes, ferris wheel a d jump and fascinating shows. Free vaudeville acts and band concerts daily. FINE CAR SERVICE. OUTING, FAIR GROUNDS, MONDAY, JUNE 17, '07. Grotesque Mule Races, Chasing the Greasy Pig, Rolling Skating, Base Ball, Dancing and Bicycle Races. WATCH FOR THE BIG PARADE Headed by the K. of P. BRASS BAND at 10 a. m. on morning of Pleinic. DANCING UNTIL 2 a. m. EXCELLENT CAR SERVICE. Admission to Grounds 25 Cents. WANTED--Lady Soprano SINGER, (LIGHT COMPLEXION) $3.00 ANIGHT. EASY WORK. —ALSO— Good Man Tenor, Same Salary. Must be able to join by wire. Long engagement. Address M. E. Taylor, ELY, NEVADA. First-class American Plan Walter wanted. Will pay $25.00 per month and room. No one need apply but men o good character and sober habits. Apply o J J. Miles, Headwalter Park Hotel-Madison, Wisconsin.. --- A. B. NOTICE. HIGH GRADE THEATRICAL ENGRAVING Up-to-date letter-heads Hangers, Window Cards, News Cut, Cartoons, etc. Novel Ideas, Tasteful Designs Excellent Quality. Prices Right. The America Theater Jackson, Miss. Open Dates for Good COLORED SHOWS. Entire management and ownership colored Seating capacity 1200. W. J. LATHAM, Managr. JAPP THE ODOR- OUSTER JAPP THE ODOR- OUSTER DESTROYS PREVENTS ODOR FROM ARM-PITS. FEET, BODY, CLOTHING. WRITE FOR FREE TRIAL PACKAGE. HYSICIAN TOILET POWDER JAPP MFG. CO. NASHVILLE, TENN. An ad in The Freeman always brings results. “Color Line’ Is A Nightmare To Some Of The Present-Day Champions. : Se ee ee iS 4 2) ey, 9 / Og |) DP Lovee e: j < j a I \) : “GEE woulont THAT 5S F. : 3 \ oe nS a se: Guanes SERRE wae £ i cms enorme cece =. je grocrnnneeenensne THE PITCHER. All other heroes must retire, ‘The pitcher doth appear And frenzied fans who see him come Yield up a lusty cheer. He's to the fore, ‘way up in front, And in the public eye, ‘A man of great renown, forsooth, ‘Whose fame will never die. His mighty arm is much admired, His rare delivery Doth fill the hearts of all who watch ‘With boundless ecstasy. His record is an open book, ‘Foch fan knows what he’s done, ‘The batters struck out at the plate, ‘The hard-fought games he’s won. ‘The small boy worships him afar, His name’s on every tongue, In all resorts around the town You'll hear his praises sung. Alas, how few of us are called By mortal destiny To stand above the crowd and wear ‘The crown of victory! —Birmingham Age-Herald. SPORTING ENGLISH. It was the new managing editor who decided to send all members of the sporting department to the ball game and to select the best story for use in the paper. “Above all, geutlemen,” he said, with the accent only to be acquired peter gt ee eee 66, $ ”? Color Line’ Is / De etelesiecatogessussseasest tee = cer = 3 fi ste non/ [HOM : Ay VET (si : Ah AS = 3 iy Ky 2 i eA i ols 4 a ? Ge oh > Sh — 3 Yi y es 3: € =| “ieee z mane THER MAN UNTIL THEY GROW 3 tone Senin sag tapsovert i THEY WHA SURELY LOL, or BY TAD. Here is a letter from a “sport.” It will do your heart good to read it. ‘This man is a fight follower, and prob- ably likes to see a good fight, but hates the colored man the way a beef magnate does sausage: “New York, May 27, 1907. “Mr. ‘Tad: “Dear Sir—I send you inclosed a clipping from one of your esteemed contemporaries. What do you think of it? The idea of praising that coon, Joe Gans! “Battling Nelson is the lightweight champion, because he 1s a white man and can beat any white man in the game. “If you editors would drop the name of Gans, or ,if you did mention him, say that he is a ‘faker,’ the public would soon forget him, the way they did that other black gent, Mr. Jack Johnson. “Keep them in the background. That's the way to treat them, and after a while, if they do fight, they at fair Hah-vahd, “avoid unintelligible verbiage, come to the point without unnecessary tergiversation and de- seribe the contest concisely.” “Donohue slammed a Texas leaguer into the center garden,” wrote the baseball man, while endeavoring to carry out instructions, “and reached second as it slipped through Flick’s lunch hooks, purloining the third pil low when Rohe fanned and copping when Dougherty lined a sizzler through the second sacker.” “Donohue sent in a solar plexus slam, got to the opposite corner and sidestepped on the third,” asserted the pugilistic writer, “Rohe's feints ac- complishing nothing. Dougherty sent in the knockout drops a moment later and Donohue took the count at home.” “ ‘Jiggs’ got off running when the turf man went up on his swat,” said the turf man, “stepped to the half at a 1:30 gait, rated along nicely for the next quarter by stealing a lead over Moore, and came home with his neck pulled double, passing the wire in a canter.” “Donohue drove 250 yards without any preliminary waggle at the tee,” said the golf expert, “made the first two holes in one stroke as Flick foozled, got another move up the green after Rohe had seemed stymied for an instant, and finished in bogey winning the game.” The managing editor read the proofs and shook his head sadly. “And I asked for a clear account of the match,” he murmured. Any head of a sporting departmen wishing the services of four sporting writers can address general delivery —Chicago Record-Herald. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. IN THE WORLDor SPORT (ere GETS re JOE one I Ininr Soe bats Sey es ee : ——— Sy grrtteeecteene \ = z seesaw — == : ; Se eg : —— Se ————— i f f i t fal i : NL ee i SSS Se = pues i 2 ==- + Soe ame saree “Missouri,”’ a ‘Real Sport,’ Would Bar Negro Fighters! BOXING GAME IS NOT BRUTAL. Al Herford Says Sport Is Different From the Way It Used to Be. BALTIMORE, June 5—Al Herford, president ot tme sureka Club, says: “My esteemed old friend, John L. Sul- livan, is away off when he says that the boxers of today are a bunch of dubs and the commercialism is killing the boxing game. The boxing game is simply more scientific and less brutal than twenty years ago. The fighter of the old school simply couldn't put a glove on the champion of today, while the present day top- noteher could score enough on the old-timer to put him in distress. All of our successful fighters are scientific men and not mere bmisers. That is a fact probably not generally known by others than students of the game. Relieved of its brutality, the ring is not so severely suppressed by the authorities. I can’t see where Sulli- van's ideas about how the boxers of today succed comes in. “In the olden times it was hammar and tongs, with badly cut faces and terribly beaten men, but today we have more requirement for general- ship, judgment of distance, foot work and good condition, as the pace is often fast and the way long. Of course, there never lived a greater all- around boxer than Joe Gans. He will be old and stale, and will get their black blocks knocked off. “I remember the time when you could not*pick up a paper but what Walcott, Dixon, Joe Gans or Young ‘Peter Jackson wasn’t beating some white man. “The, clubs are doing their part by not letting them fight, and if they do fight, they. make them meet some man of their own color, and thereby keep them from getting any more cham- pionships. “Now let the press do its work. “Draw the color line on them. Make them go to work at something else. What good does it do them to be champions? They can’t go on the road and make money. “I am a Southern man, and believe that it is the place of the white man to beat the black man, and not the reverse. Yours truly, “J. W. HARGES, ‘Missouri.’” That letter certainly shows what a sport “Missouri” is, He wants to see good fights, but also desires the best men in the world barred and the sec: ‘ond raters declared world’s cham- knocks men out cleanly and yet does it so scientifically that they are not much hurt. Abe Attell and Harry Lewis are great boxers and fair fight- ers, as their recent knockouts prove. The Sullivan Twins of Boston are good fighters and boxers, and no one ever accused them of playing for the loser’s end purposely. Jeffries is, of course in a class by himself. It is simply that the rough old game under the London prize rules and on the turt, with more of an exhibition of ‘brute courage and strength than any- thing else, has,.given way to better ‘thingasin the ring. Boxing, -like all ther things, has been under the proc: ess of evolution, and the game today. is better and the men are better than in the good old times.” THOMAS IS AFTER SULLIVAN. Joe Has Defeated the Best at His Weight and Is Ready for Mike. San Francisco, Cal., June 6.—Mike (Twin) Sullivan can have a match with Joe Thomas by saying the word. Harry Foley, the latter's manager, writes that he will give Twin a bout, and Jimmy Coffroth has already of- fered to promise such a show. Thomas has been chasing Tommy Ryan, who was always a tough man to do busi- ness with. Ryan made a flash with Dave Barry and Hugo Kelly and then dropped out of sight. There was some doubt about these bouts being fought on the square, and Ryan faded away. Thomas has defeated the best at his weight, and now wants to meet Sulli- van. a i ae SHAKESPEARE AND BASEBALL. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) Some one recently suggested that William Shakespeare knew the great game of baseball, and cited in sub- stantiation of the assertion the line: The bloody knife shall play the um- pire. Shakespeare, happily for his peace of mind, no doubt, didn’t know any- thing about tne game. Look upon this vivid picture of a baseball game, dashed off by a sporting reporter of the Washington Post in much less time, no doubt, than it took Shakes- peare, to write an equal amount of Mamfet’s soliloquy—simple stuff that wayfaring man may understand: “Friel hit a weak and nervous rooler to Anderson, who stabbed at it!” “The two ‘men on bases were tear- ing around like tomeats with birdshot.” “Priel was throwing the mud head- high as he plowed.” “Anderson gathered the damp horse- hide and chucked it.” “A convulsive grasp and Patten had ate” “The fielding on both sides was green, with saffron touches.” “The signal to turn the electricity on was made by Cantillion.” “Nill bored it through to left.” “Bie John Anderson nipped a single pions. What is a champion, unless he ean beat every man in the world of his weight, regardless of color? | Haven't some of the greatest fight- ers in the world been black men? Are there any to-day who could class with little George Dixon or Joe Walcott when they were in their prime? Will the battles they fought ever be for- gotten? The trouble with the black men is that they are too good. If they were easy and lost every fight, there would be no such thing as the color line. That is only the bunk to get away from tough game . | Right now there are three first-class black men who cannot display their ‘skill on account of the chicken-heart- ed lot of white fighters we have to- day. Yeras ago, when Kid Lavigne, Frank Erne, George McFadden, Kid Carter, Tommy West, Frank Slavin, Jim Corbett and other fighters were battling high, there was no color line. They were fighters who wanted the veal championship, and the color of a man took none of their heart away. It would be a grand idea to banish ‘oft Robertaille.” | “Nill and Perrine grabbed the bounding atmosphere.” “Hughes and Patten got demerits for seizing their left feet.” “Robby tried a damp sling.” BLACKBURN DEFEATS CRACK MIDDLEWEIGHT Indianapolis Boxer Stops Fred Brad- ley in Second. | “Philadelphia, May 28.—Fred Brad- ley, of Boston, who up to iast night had knocked out every man he had met in this city, met his Waterloo at the Washington Sporting Club . Jack Blackburn, formerly of Indiabapolis, now the champion lightweight of Pennsylvania, knocked out th New England middleweight with a| right hand punch to the jaw in the gecond round. Bradley was sent to the flogr and at the count of nine made a /feeble effort to rise on one knee, bpt fell over on his back and was carfied to his corner by his seconds. The blow which was Bradley's undoing fwas splendidly timed right-hand (swing which caught Bradley as he was step | ping in. There was twenty pounds difference in the weight of the men, Bradley tip |ping the scales at 161, while his op ponent confessed to weighing 14 — in bis light ring attire, { ) ATTELL GETS AFTER JOE GANS Featherweight Champion Says He - Can Defeat the Black. LOS ANGELES, May 28—Abe At; tell, featherweight champion, is sigh- ing for bigger game than he can find among the men of the 122-pound divi- sion. His latest idea is to get a fight with Joe Gans, the lightweight cham- pion. Attell says he has been fighting big men all his life and has yet to be beaten decisively by any of them. Ot this he bases his belief that he can successfully stand off the black war- rior of the lightweights. Manager McCarey, of the Pacific Athletic Club, has been figuring on matching an English fighter with At tell, but nothing comes of any of his offers to the foreign battlers. In the meantime “Brooklyn Tommy” Sullivan keeps renewing his challenges to Attell, but the latter expresses no desire to fight him. Sullivan and Yanger are the only men who ever knocked Attel out. A warning to our newspapers to em phasize the bright side of our racial life is not an attack. on the craft. It is a timely bit of advice. The darker side of the Negro's daily doings wil! be ably exploited by the enemy, and we should lend no assistance. colored fighters, especially when they are the world beaters. Joe Gans has an awful time to get a fight on ,and only one out of every ten will take a chance. Jack Black- burn is willing to bet $1,000 that he can beat any lightweight in the world, but—the “call” is still coming. There is not a light heavyweight in the world who will battle with Jack Johnson for heavyweight honors, yet such men as Ruhlin, O’Brien, Hart, Fitzsimmons, Burns and others claim honors as champion. Kind of funny, don't you think? I guess it isn’t the color line alone. Aurelio Herrera is as dark as Gans, [but Aurelio isn’t there like our friend Joseph. If the black man can punch the white man on the jaw he should be given the chance. Fighters are fight- ers, nothing more. They would race a black man, wrestle a black man or debate with him, but fight—nix! “TP don't like to see a black man wal lop a white myself, but if they are in the game to show their skill it is com- jing to them. oe ; ARMY BANDMASTERS. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.— Some time ago we called attention to the opening in the Army for colored men as Chief Musicians, salary $60 per month and allowances. We learn there is a vacancy in the 9th Cavalry, em route to the Philippines, and there Will soon be one in the 10th Cavalry, uow in the Islands. Colored Musi- cians, married or single, below thirty- fiy eyears of age should apply toAd- jutant-General United States Army, War Department, Washington, D. C. stating ability to lead band, citing ref. erences, ete. If no applicants appear for the places, they will be filled with white men, claiming no competent col ored men are to be found. THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. pF he Natonah eae american, Coun: cil which meets in Baltimore June 26-28, will in all likelihood have in- teresting sessions. The Conucil is in the tenth year of its existence; it was called in being for the purpose of tak- ing cognizance of political and civil wrongs with the view or redress. The history of the organization shows ef- fort along the lines essayed, being a ' uecess in that it made manly protest |concerning the numerous civil and po- litical irregularities practiced on the race. At this time, when {t meets in June, it will find ‘its calendar more than’ usually filled with cases that eee in need of adjudication, a a eae Union Painless Dentist; 31 Noy Penns Vanla Coposite the Whey Store ALUMINUM YEATES, STRONG AB STEEL, | tor than £018 plates. But ste y, XAGHE AS PAPER. The lightest, strongest| tofore has been practically preuincc, and bert Sitting plate made. crt saan Announce thar ne batt Sa De not interfere with the sensation of hot | Diates at lees than holy sie! sltainy vino Tenge og eens ma er ate > L.S. STOCKMAN, Dr ist, uggst, 501 N. Illinois Street, Telephone Corner Michigan. Main 1025, Prescriptions Compounded—A full Line of DRUGS, SUNDRIES, CIGARS AND sopa, Manufacturer of the KING of ROACH POWDER, Guaranteed to rid your house of the pest. R@-AGENT FOR PETERMAN'’S DISCOVERY. ‘ Best facilities for packing tras ee jeat facilities for packing, t, : it SHAN ring, storing or shipplag twain’, ODER A. tnd household effects NE as — SHANK, 339. Wastingin at Oe as Phones 2023 e EDUCATIONAL MEETING | LADIES Exctance HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss., May 31.— The educational mass meeting of the two Mississippi Conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopat Church was held here this week in connection with the Commencement exercises of the Mississippi Theological and Indus- trial College, and more than three thousand dollars were raised to fur- ther the work of the institution. The erection of this institution furnishes the most complete and gratifying ree- ord of self help yet exhibited by the race, and the particular striking facts is that Bishop Blias Cottrell, the pre- siding Bishop of the diocese of Miss- issippi_was able to «marshal the Ne- eroes in the C. M. E. Church into suffi- cient force to bring about such splen- did results. The force of this state- ment can be well understood, when it is known that of the -$53,000 placed into this magnificent plant, less than $2,000 came from white people, and only $100 from outside the state of Mississippi. There has been erected a magnifi- cent girl's dormitory and administra- tion building on the grounds at a cost of $38,000 and the boy’s dormitory, to cost $12,500, is now in course of erection. The further fact that every cent of the money necessary for these accomplishments was paid in cash is beyond the ordinary. At the mass meeting, strong ad- dresses were delivered upon various phases of the race question by prom- inent men in the church, among them Rev. T. J. Moppins, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Rey. N. C. Cleaves, Columbia, S. C.; Rey. L. M. Bell, Little Rock, Arkan- sas; Rey. G. C Rawlston, West Texas Conference; R.A. Carter, D. D., Agusta, Ga.; A. L. Jennings, Mississ- ippi Conference; M. F. Jamison, East Texas Conference; G. F. Welch, North | Alabama Conference; I. S. Person, D. D., West Tennessee Conference; L. B. Brown, D. D., Kentucky Conference, G. W. Mills, Alabama Conference; J. C. Staunton, North Carolina Confer- ence; J. A. Winters, Missouri and IIli- nois Conference; John Gilbert, A. M., Cimmissioner of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. ‘The Commencement sermon was preached by Rev. J. Williams Luckett, D. D., Pastor of Jackson Temple, Nash- ville, Tenn., and the sermon to the Theological Department by Rev. I. S. Person, pastor of Collins Chapel, Mem- phis, Tenn. Under graduates exer- cises were held at the institution, ‘Tuesday night, a prize contest being held among the students in the pre- paratory department. ‘The joint program of the literary so- cieties was held in the college auditorium, Wednesday night, May 30th. The annual address was de- livered by president Sumon W. Broome, Texas College, Tyler, Texas, the graduates from the preparatory de- partment being D. Moses Montgomery, Lexington, Miss., John E. Shipp, Ban- ner, Miss., and Miss Roberta D. Payne, Miller, Miss, ‘The feature of the whole week's ex- ereise was the vocal and instrumental music, more especially the rendition of plantation melodies led by Miss Annie May Hodges, of Lexington. The music Department was under the di- rection of Mrs. C. Gillis, while Dr. Frank Rodgers, one of the best known educators in the South is President of the institution. The other members of the Faculty are: Jerry R. Remsey, William A. Wynne, DeWitt C. Potts, Edward D. Terrell, George S. Good- man, Georgia, M. Jennings, Mrs. C. Gillis, Jr, Miss L. Zenobia Posey, Viola V. Carmen, and Maggie M. Bates. In an address of some length, Bishop Cottrell, who has been the leader of the forces making the erection of this institution possible, recounted the sac- rifices and struggles undergone in the work, and made a strong plea for the application of the dictrine of self help in our racial uplift. “With all respect to those people of the North and South, who have helped to elevate our people,” said he, “that help which will do us more good and stay longer is that we do for ourselves.” “Self | Help” also was the subject of an in- tensely practical and instructive ad- Jaress by Rev. T. J. Moppins, of Hop. Ndnsville, Ky. HORACE D. SUTTON. LADIES’ EXCHANGE ay | aM . ok Ice Cream and Sodas, TEN Lunches 534 Indiana A venue. Restaurant and Rooming House, 835 Fi, Wayne Ave. Old phone main 68. WE Want Your Business CORN CRISP AND ICE CREAM CONES FOR Lawn Fetes, Socials, Picnics, Etc., FURNISHED By INDIANAPOLIS ©een, Crise ¢ Cone Co. Wholesale and Retail. Express orders promrt'y attended to. 532 Indiana Ave., indianapolis, Ind, a L. ROSE, 322-(1NDIANA AVENUE-322 Yale Misfit Clothing Bought and Sold. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR OLD GOLD and SILVER. Orders Promptly Attended to. Cleaning and Repairing. Old Phone, Main, 5292. ISITING CARDS. ‘That Neat and Attractive Kind. Correct Print. xOcadoz.; 35¢ a hundred. SILVER. POSTPAID. McEWEN SUPPLY COMPANY’ ‘737 Washington St , Paducah, Ky. ee JAS, N. SHELTON, LUCAS t, WILLIS New Phones—®i." $98 %i604. Shelton & Willis, . (Loensed fimbalmers) FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS eat Service. ady Atiendant Lowest. Prices ’ 416 Indiana Ave. ‘Open ail ht ———— 500 AND COLORED MEN ws WANTED: For all kind of work. Write m> {oH and see what I have to offer you. Ally have to do is to get on the train Io Yor town, get off in Pltisburg and go 0 2% can secure this position for you before J Teave home. If you have a si-ter, motel ‘daughter, wife or any relative thst want e ‘come ‘out here write me before the sul 'is gone for particulars. Write THOS "HARRISON, 1310 Wylie Aven: Pi purg, Pa. 7 ee "Fo read a paper belonging to PF one else is simply 2 common boldt? to the man who prmts taat ps)er THE showing of infants' and children's wear is kept up to a high standard of perfection by a constant movement of stocks. Frequent arrivals of new things necessitate quick selling of present stocks - at a cut price if necessary. Today's specials should command your attention if you've a little one's interest in mind. **Children's short coats** Children's short coats of pongee, cashmere and novelty cloths with trimming of lace medallions and silk, five different styles, 1 to 3-year sizes, at.....$5.00 **Suits for small boys** About two dozen boy's Russian and sailor blouse suits in linen, mercerized pclin, plique and novelties, 2 to 4 year sizes, were selling as high as $6.50, choice of the lot at.....$3.50 'Teddy' hats for youngsters "Teddy Roosevelt" hats for boys and girls of linen and white pique, finished with cord and tassel, regularly 98c, repriced. ..... 69c L.S. Ayres & Co. Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. William Lancaster has returned from Loulsville. Mrs. Fred Anderson, of Ypsilanti, Mich. is in the city. Rev. Plus has returned from a visit to his mother at Galveston. Bishop Grant will preach at Bethel A. M. E. church tomorrow morning. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington St. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ratcliff, last Saturday a son. Miss Zella Lee, of Cincinnati is the guest of Miss Haifield in Camp street. Mrs. Katte Bazel has been called to Kansas City, Mo., on account of the illness of her sister. Gus Trusdale, formerly of this city and now of St. Paul, Minn., is the guest o. friends. All privileges will be sold for the Elks' Picnic at The Freeman Office Wednesday June 12 at 8 a.m. Rev. Noah Williams, of Richmond, Ind., will occupy the pulpit at Allen Chapel Sunday morning. Mrs. Maud Beatty was granted a divorce from Bonaparte Beatty in the Circuit Court last Monday. A prize will be given the most popular lady of the Calanthe Court, July 3, at the State Fair Grounds. Woodbine Perfume, Oh! now fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Bledau's Drug Store. Misses Agnes Booth and Mary Watts of this city graduated from Hampton Institute Jue 1, with high honors. The public is invited to join the host of Knights and Daughters of Calanthe at the State Fair Grounds, July 3. The marriage of Mrs. Ruth Lancaster and Jesse Hutchcraft took place Wednesday of last week at Anderson. Mrs. Rosa J. Alen who spent the winter in the city, is visiting her friends at her home at Hopkinsville, Ky. Dr. D. W. Culp, of Jacksonville, Fla., president of the National Health Bureau lectured at Simpson Chapel Monday night. Calvin Black, now residing at Tacoma, Wash., is in the city after twelve years' absence, the guest of George L. Knox and family. The chasing of the greasy pig is going to prove one of the strongest and most laughable features of the program at the Elk's picnic at the Fair Grounds Monday June 17. Arrangents have been made for excellent car service to accommodate the people attending the Elk's Picnic at the Fair Grounds Monday June 17. Dancing will continue 2 a.m. The game of base ball between the rival teams "Rooters" and I. B. C's is causing much speculation as to the outcome. The We Bought 253 Drummer Samples Skirts from one of the best makers in America. High grade goods in Panamas, Volles and Mohairs. Every skirt up to date. These samples must be sold at once in two classes: $5.95 and $2.95 Every skirt worth double the price. This chance only comes once in stx months. 330 W.WASHINGTON The Globe FOR SKIRTS ```markdown ``` THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER contest is to be pulled off as one of the many features at the Elk's Picnic- The mules to be used in the races* at the Elk's Picnic will be seen in the parade ridden by Jockeys grotesquely att red. Much preparation has been made for his parade and those desiring to see it must be on the streets not later than 10 a. m. GRAND CONTEST To Our Friends and the Public: You are invited to enter this grand contest, be beginning June 10, for the benefit of our friends, The Rocky Mountain Boot and Shoe Shop will make to order a pair of our $8.00 shoes to the lady or gentleman who brings us the most patronage from this date to December 15. For further information call at shop, 347 ind. ave A. B. C.'S LOSE TO INDIANS. Nebraska Redskins Wallop Local Green's Nebraska Indians took the fast A. B. C. team, the colored champions of Indiana, into camp last Sunday. The redskins played gift-edged ball and excelled in all the finer points of the game. Score: Indians ...1 0 3 2 4 0 0 0 0—10 11 1 A. B. C.'s...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 4 2 Batteries—Indians, Tobey and Seguin; A. B. C.'s, Talbot and Sheeney. THE HOME BREWING CO. There is, perhaps, no more enterprising and broad principled corporation doing business in the City of Indianapolis than the Home Brewing Co. They have been faithful friends of the Colored people in all of their worthy endeavors, never turning down any proposition of the race that merited encouragement. Their latest recognition of the commercial worth and integrity of our people is gloriously manifested in the backing of Mr. Harvey Taylor in one of the finest saloons ever opened by colored men in the city. The new place is situated at 321-322 Indiana ave. The mere fact that Mr. Taylor has the conduct of business in hand is guarantee sufficient of the character of the place. Mr. Taylor is well-known among us, being prominently identified with the secret organizations, and an all-around good fellow, deserving the good will and support of his fellows. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Stetson and Dunlap Hats, Seaton'a Hat Store. For Rent—Two furnished rooms, gentlemen only 510 W. Michigan street. Wanted—Cobblers at 347 Indiana avenue Rocky Mountain Shoe Shop. At once. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington St. Dr. Langham, dentist at 404 Indiana Ave., New Phone 1692, makes a specialty of plates, crowns, bridges, repairs and regulating children's teeth. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50ct stamps). Has oured others; will cure you. Address, R. P. Blodau, druggist, Indianapolis, Ind. Between the Physician and Patient tands the Pharmacist. It is his office to dispense the purest and best drugs. Upon his skill and integrity the physician depends for results. An error on his part may result seriously for the patient. You can, with confidence, bring your prescriptions to Gauld's Pharmacy, 601 Indiana Ave. TAYLOR'S HAIR GROWER and Dandruff (pomade), 20c at all drug stores or sent by mail upon ree ipt of price. Cures Dandruff, Scaliness, Dryness and every eruption of hair follicles. Stimulates the hair follicles, thereby causing harsh, short, thin hair to grow long, thick, beautiful, soft, gloss and pliable. An ideal hair dressing. Improve wonderful in a short time. Agents can make 3 to $50 per day. Wear today for our list of 108 free articles and particulars. Address Taylor Remedy Co., Dept. 4, Louis ville, Ky. SEND 20 Cents and I will print you name and address neatly on fifteen high grade cards. Address Edmond Day, Guthrie, Ky. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W. Washington St Dr. E. B. Brigham, specialist. 18 West Market street, Indianapolis, has the "Best Cancer treatment used today. Consult him for all malignant skin diseases. AN ACTIVE MAN WANTED. We will give steady employment to an active, intelligent colored man to represent this company and introduce its lithographs, books and novelists. Will pay fair salary to the right man. Write us immediately and give reference. The Colored American Novelty Co., P. O. Drawer 2313., Washington, D. C. THE PARKER HOUSE Good weather on and more coming. Traveling season now open. When heading for Indianapolis don't forget that the Parker House is still irading. Ask for that hostelry; none better in the country Everything in season and the very best service. Excellent table, good sleeping rooms, bath, etc. J. W. Holliman, Prop., 317-321 W. Michigan street. Phones New 4972; Old 651. The Freeman is the leading race newspaper of the United States. PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST Sole Agent for the famous "Kink Straigh ener" Hair Pomade. Price $0 cents. Cor. St. Clair St., and Senate Ave WANTED FOR THE MYSTERIOUS Black-Cats-Eye Show A LADY That can SING AND DANCE. If not professional, alright, if willing to learn, Show never closes. Other performers write. Address P. O. Box 96 Wren, Oh o. VENTRILOQUISM Learned by any Man or Boy at home. Small cost. Send today 2c stamp for particuliers and proof O. A. SMITH. Room 380, 3040 Knoxville Ave., Peoria, 11. HYPNOTISM. Garden Tools. All tools for garden or lawn can be bought here Rakes, Hose, Spades, Forks, Shovels, Sickles VONNEGUT HARDWARE COMPANY, 120-124 E. Washington Street. Both Phones 589. $$$1.20 is the weekly payment on $a $50 loan for 50 weeks. Other amounts in the same proportion. $You can pay weekly, monthly or quarterly, and every payment made reduces the loan. Loans made in all parts of the city; also at Shelbyville, Greenfield, Knightstown, Franklin, Columbus, Greencastle, Martinsville, Lebanon, Noblesville, St. Paul, Greensburg, Spiceland, Danville, Plainfield, and all towns reached by interurban roads. Mail or phone applications receive our prompt attention. If you need money, fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it to us, and our Agent will call on you. Name. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. He was the world's greatest Negro poet. The fact that he had no white blood in his veins makes his achievements in the Literary world the more gratifying. A fine engraving made in three colors has just been issued, which sells for only one dollar ($1) Send for one to-day. Address the Colored American Novelty Co., P. O. Drawer 2313, Washington, D. C. Agents wanted. Tan Oxfords for ladies now in at the Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 W, Washington St. ANY HAT CAP STYLE COLOR $1.00 FROM FACTORY TO YOU Hats and Caps MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED Money With Order—No Goods Sent C.O.D. SEND SIZE, STYLE and COLOR CATALOGUE FREE DR. W. N. SHORT, President STERLING R. HOLT, Vice-President HARRY E. HILL, Secretary. AMERICAN HAT CO., Department C., 31 S. Illinois St., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Found! The secret of a good COOK'S success and Easy Times. What do you think was the SECRET? The "PERFECT" Gas Range Sold on Easy Payments by The Indianapolis Gas Company, 45 S. Pennsylvania Street. LOOKING OVER The entire field of science, no where has there been such progress as the Science of Optics and the Pitting of Glasses. Our success in this line is due, in a measure, to the fact that we embrace every meritorious idea. We constantly seek to originate new methods of excellence that will in any way aid us in the practice of Fitting Glasses. The Rose Optical Co., Manufacturing Opticians, 114 N. Illinois, St PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD when you're overhauling your plumbing and chandelier work, for thereon depends personal comfort and health. Our work in these lines passes critical inspection, promotes your interests and conserves your pocket. C. ANESHAENSEL & CO MRS. WHITTEN, Millinery Special sale all next week of Tailored and Dress Hats. We also do exclusive ORDER WORK. Give us a call; we will convince you; our time is entirely yours. 335-337 Indiana Avenue. Bargains, Bargains! BIG SHIPMENTS coming In every day and we are selling SHOES at UNHEARD of PRICES WILSON'S CUT PRICE SAMPLE SHOE STORE (Shiel Block) 217 Indiana Ave. Attend our CYCLORA SALE now on. EVERYBODY EVERYBODY Goes to NORTON'S DRUG STORE, corner Indiana Ave., and Michigan street, for everything usually kept in a first-class drug store. Prices a,o the same as in all CUT RATE Drug Stores Only registered clerks employed. Sole agents for Ford's Hair Pomade and Hair Stralghtener. BEER Can be secured on the A BAR. This beer is the ad sing QUALITY, TASTE For Family Use it L ON T HARVEY T The SALOON 321-323 Indi secured on the Avenue at a real F is beer is the acme of perfection LITY, TASTE and NUTRIM nily Use it Leads all other ON TAP AT VEY TAYLO The SALOON OF QUALITY, =323 Indiana Aven Can be secured on the Avenue at a real First Class BAR. This beer is the acme of perfection—possessing QUALITY, TASTE and NUTRIMENT. HARVEY TAYLOR'S The SALOON OF QUALITY 321-323 Indiana Avenue TRADE MARK REG US PAT OFF GE E KEITH COMPANY BLACK CECI SKI $1.50 The B LADIES OUTFIT ALL GOOD PINK'S Cut R Comply in every PURE FO We Lead, Others PINK'S P 550 Indiana Ave., Southe ADVANCE SA WA -- 79 c We offer as a headliner for the se stylishly made. Trimmed Biggest Values to be About 30 SKIRTS all c All Spring Suits, Wraps, Skirts DOMB BRO 134 W. Wash BACK PLAITER BECILIAN SKIRTS $1.50. Bee H S OUTFITTERS 408 ALL GOODS SOLD BY 'S Cut Rate Pharm ply in every way with the RE FOOD LAW Lead, Others Try to Follow K'S PHARMA a Ave., Southeast Corner We ANCE SALE. WAISTS = = 79 cents. = = a headliner for the season one lot of SHIRT shily made. Trimmed with lace and embroid Values to be Found in this SKIRTS all colors $7.50 va ng Suits, Wraps, Skirts and Millinery at Ha B BROS, LA OUTFIT 34 W. Washington Street. BLACK PLAITED CECILIAN SKIRTS $1.50. The Bee Hive LADIES OUTFITTERS 408 W. WASH. S. ALL GOODS SOLD BY PINK'S Cut Rate Pharmacy Comply in every way with the PURE FOOD LAW. We Lead, Others Try to Follow. PINK'S PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Ave., Southeast Corner West Street. We offer as a headliner for the season one lot of SHIRTWAISTS very stylishly made. Trimmed with lace and embroidery. Biggest Values to be Found in this Town. About 30 SKIRTS all colors $7.50 value, $3.75. All Spring Suits, Wraps, Skirts and Millinery at Half Price. We want every girl and boy to become agents and reporters for the Indianapolis Freeman. You can make $4 to $5 a week during the months of vacation. THE GRAND MID-SUMMER CL JACKETS for LADIES, all in plaids and stripes, regul clearance price SKIRTS for LADIES, of plaited styles, in black and colo THE AND LEA 338-340 E. SUMMER CLEARANCE for LADIES, all wool, novelty clo stripes, regular $5.00 values, LADIES, of Panama and Co n black and colors, up to $6,75 THE GRAND LEADER 338-340 E.WASH.ST. MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE. JACKETS for LADIES, all wool, novelty cloth, box styles, in plaids and stripes, regular $5.00 values, $2.98 clearance price SKIRTS for LADIES, of Panama and Cecilian cloths, plaited styles, in black and colors, up to $6,75 values. Clearance price $3.98 venue at a real First Class come of perfection—posses- E and NUTRIMENT. Leads all other Brands. AP AT TAYLOR'S, OF QUALITY, iana Avenue Style and Comfort Perhaps you've observed that Walkover Style and Comfort Go Together. That's one of the Secrets of WALK-OVER Superiority, Style, Comfort, Dignity and Service are blended in WALK-OVER Notice Our Windows. $5.00, $4.00, $3.50 HUTCHINSON'S Walk-Over Boot Shop, 28 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST. PLAITED BILIAN KIRTS O. Free Hive FITTERS 408 W.WASH. SOLD BY Rate Pharmacy very way with the GOOD LAW. Is Try to Follow. PHARMACY, neast Corner West Street. SALE. KIRTS cents. = = season one lot of SHIRTWAISTS very ed with lace and embroidery. Found in this Town. colors $7.50 value, $3.75. Kirts and Millinery at Half Price. O S, LADIES' OUTFITTERS. Washington Street. "Buy and build," is the slogan of Houston, Texas; it has a good sound for any old place. Get busy. The Freeman has a larger circulation than any other Negro publication. LEADER 338-340 E.WASH.ST. CLEARANCE SALE. I wool, novelty cloth, box styles, lar $5.00 values, $2.98 Panama and Cecilian cloths, lors, up to $6,75 $3.98