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ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY---THE FREEMAN UNTIL JAN. 1 WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS IN U. S. FOR $1.00 A YEAR. SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXI NUMBER 49 CORNER-STONE LAYING OF Y.M.C.A.BUILDING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAKES ADDRESS Chorus of Male Voices Render Music—Dr. Washington in Conference with President—Prof. Scarborough in the City. Special by Thompson's National News Bureau. WASHINGTON, D.C., December 2, 2018. Eight years ago, the former head of the Caucasian race, witnessed the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner-stone of the new $100,000 home of the colored branch of the Young Men's Christian Association on the afternoon of December 16, 2018. The central address was delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt and the Chief Executive of the nation further assisted by spreading the mortar in which the massacre was wedded at the conclusion of the speaking. The President's remarkable address has already been published far and wide, and to say that its broad benetits and a call to action for all men regardless of race, has set the country by the ears, is to put the case mildly. The time, the occasion and the sentiment given out were all in perfect harmony, and as a result, the most popular man in the official life of America. It appears that Mr. Roosevelt, despite his interest in to put in a word for the Caucasian, felt a delicacy about making certain references to the problem problem the horse was in progress, fearing that his motive might be the choice to put in a position as a play for votes, and that his message would thus lose much of its power for good that he intended for it to convey. To avoid being misunderstood the choice to tell colored people and the nation what he thought of the white man owed the Negro and of the obligation resting upon the Negro to tell colored people a careful reading of the speech will show that every paper rang true and that a state paper it will take rank with any utterance that has fallen from the lips of Abraham Lincoln. THE PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. Mr. E. J. Morton, president of the Colored Branch of the Y. M. C. A., presided, and after a selection by the men's chorus of 100 voices, under the direction of Prof. John T. Layton, introduced Commissioner H. B. F. Macfarland, who delivered a brief but telling address. After making note of the especial fitness in choosing Thanksgiving Day for laying the cornerstone of a structure that stands for the highest ideals, Mr. Macfarland said: "In this Dietrich, where there is a larger and better colored population than anywhere else, the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. has great opportunity and great promise. The subscription of $30,000 raised entirely among colored men and women, is of the greatest significance. It is the largest subscription of its kind ever raised by colored men and women. It is not only a credit to those who give it to the national capital, but will be a stimulus to the colored race throughout the country. Already it has started similar enterprises elsewhere, and they will multiply in the future." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WARMLY GREETED The arrival of the President at this juncture was the signal for an outbreak of tumultuous applause. The mass of people in the streets, in the windows and on the cheered lustily and clapped their hands, while the daintily clad women waved handkerchiefs and small flags which they had brought, for that purpose. The crowd, suggesting the loftiest patriotism and racial unity on the common ground of racial uplift. The President's address was frequently interrupted by applause, progress and importance of the Y. M. C. A. work among the colored people, his plea for the same measure of opportunity for white and black American men, also about the law, his reference to sacrifices made by public-spirited Negroes for the general welfare, and his hearty endorsement of the labors in the Banks and his Business League followers in the town. The Negro town of Mound Bayou, Miss., as a striking example of the constructive power of the colored people, were especially aware of every aspect of the experiences of enthusiastic approval. The President was in excellent voice and his rare good humor brightened the lowering skies home with his every smile and hearted congratulations he chowed upon him by the crowd upon the platform. "THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN" immediately after the President had fastened speaking he took a steel trowel with his wooden handle, the proper tool for L Harvey, the president, and which is the same instrument that Mr. Harvey uses every day in his work, and spread out first mortar, Commissioners Macfarlane, and the president, Trilkirk, president of Howard University, and several other distinguished visitors, added mortar to the foundation. As the man in "How Firm a Foundation," the big box in the lower place, a copper box in the contains copies of the Washington newspapers of the day, a Bible, copies of the President's sermon, the history of the colored department of the M.C. the society. A noteworthy incident happened just before the stone was low-man illustrated of the unconventional man, Mr. Rooseveit. Turning to Levi Adams, the colored department standing by in his working,arb of over- falls and jumper, awaiting the signal to the block and tackle, the President said: "Come here; I want to shake hands with you." Overcome by overcome by stage fight and visibly embarrassed, Mr. Adams smilingly stepped over to Mr. Roosevelt, and wiping the grime from his sturdy hand, shy and nervous. He received a hearty grasp from the President, who faced those about him and remarked: "I always like to shake hands with the man behind the gun—the man that does the wink." For the moment, no doubt, Levi Adams was the proudest man in Washington. The President called attention to the fact that he was being performed by colored mechanics, which he said, was a double triumph for race. Interested addresses were delivered by Mr. Richard C. Morse, secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., who had come all the way from New York to witness the ceremony. L. E. Johnson and others. A collection amounting to over $40 was taken up. SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE THERE. President Roosevelt was accompanied to the site of the Y. M. C. A. on 12th street, between S and T streets northwest, by Secretary W. Butler Loeb, Jr., and Secretary W. Butler House staff. Among other prominent persons who occupied seats on the platform were: The architect who drew the plans is Wldney Pittman, a graduate of Tuskegee and Drexel Institute, and a son-in-law of the late John E. Lewis, who will be remembered as the beautiful Negro building at the Jamestown Exposition. To the indefatigable labors of Secretary Lewis E. Johnson is due a large, measureful tide. He has worked night and day for many months to make possible the celebration that brought out the commendation and endurance of President James K. Clinton and the best possible of both races, on the American continent. News Notes of the Capital. The echoes of the jolification over the election of Judge Taft are still heard. No President was ever elected amid so much general rejoicing. The nation accepts the plea for the prosperity that is due to follow in the wake of an assurance that the Republican party is to continue in power. Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock is to be Election Commissioner, but who knows the position? Judge Taft gave the Negroes a square deal while in charge of the campaign. He will give our people an equal chance and play as the head of a department and broadly bread and in which thousands more want to take a whack at bread-winning. Another selection practically assured is that of Mr. William Loeb, Jr. Mr. Loeb is one of the purest and best men in public life and would bring to the Treasury, Navq or Commerce of Labor portfolio a ripe experience, sound judgment and ability to deal with the Secretary, and want him kept at court, so to speak, where he can put in an authoritative word for us when it is needed. Of course, Mr. Fred W. Carpenter will be Mr. Fred W. Carpenter will prove a worthy successor to Mr. Loeb. It is understood that the "Black Cabinet" will remain intact; so the enterprising gentlemen who are Auditor Tyler, Register Vernon, Judge Terrell, Attorney Cobb and Recorder Dancy here in Washington may as well possess their souls in patience and hunt themselves another set of jobs. Judge Taft will open themselves in the late campaign—besides standing firmly by Judge Taft when he was running for the nomination last spring, and thus they have a double jump. Judge Taft will open to Negroes, not now open; the fellows who can get in on the ground floor and find out where these plums are, are apt to bag the game. It is a wise decision to dislodge the present "Black Cabinet." Dr. Booker T. Washington was in the city two days of last week. He visited the White House and the office of important matters affecting the race. He was handsomely entertained at dinner Wednesday evening by his wife, Sue W. Sidney Pittman at Little White CANMON RING CONGRESS TAFT STAND-PATISE SPECIAL FAVORS ASHES ASHES TARIFF REVISION FUEL TGAG RULE Tops, Fairmont Heights. The company embraced Messrs. S. H. Bolling, of Lynchburg, and B. S. Jackson, of Stratford bar, and Nathan Boll, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Miss Florence Bolling, of Lynchburg. The "Wizzard" left Thursday for New York. * * * Messrs. Emmett J. Scott, of Tuskegee, Ala., B. S. Jackson, editor of the Fairmont book, W. W. W. and Richard B. Harrison, the western locusconist, are among our recent visitors. --- Prof. W. S. Scarborough, the newly-elected president of Wilberforce University, spent a few days of last week in the university to meet with the head of the John F. H. Hurst. He went to New York Sunday to meet Dr. Booker T. Washington for a conference on educational matters. Professor Scarborough's election added to the university's reputation is endorsed by the people of the country, regardless of denomination, and his success is assured. He is not only a professor but also a financial and a financier. While giving the school a standing intellectually, he will not forget to provide for it many material wants. He has a feasible plan to raise $100,000, money to pay for his medical asks for. Wilberforce is fortunate in being able to secure the services of Prof. Scarborough at this time, and is certain to prosper as never before under his painstaking direction. Howard University's senior medical class has elected the following officers: president Daisey Henry; vice president Thomas Caesar Shaw; vice president Slasa S. Smith; assistant secretary, James N. Daley; treasurer, Frederick Douglass Quick; chaplain, Edward J. Morton, journalist, Hipley Marion; sergeant-at-Alfred W. Harrington. The rumor that Mr. Richard V. Oulahan is to be the successor to Mr. Newman is welcome intelligence to the colored men who served with him on the literary bureau of the recent national campaign. Mr. Oulahan is a born newspaper man that the university's faculty of journalism was largely due to his fine perception of what was needed and his administrative faculty of getting it done. Mr. Oulahan wants right and his colored friends to see him "land" in a place befitting his merits. The "Mu-So-Lit Club" up of the leading literary, musical and social lights of the national capital, has resumed its activities, following the following new members were elected: Dr. E. D. Williston, Wyatt Archer, A. O. Stafford, Charles G. Harris, R. R. Horner, Charles G. Harris, R. R. Horner, J. H. Pickett. At the December meeting a constitutional amendment will be voted upon, designed to provide for increasing the link of the membership from sixty to eighty, to give a grand function during the inaugural season, in addition to its annual reception, for the benefit of their many friends from all sections of the country. James A. Cobb is president of the club. Congress comes on apace. The bill providing for the reimbursement of the losers of money in the ill-fated Freedom's Bank will reappear, chaperoned by Rev. James L. White. Rev. S. Geriah Williams will be appointed as chairman of the building a National Industrial and Training School for Colored Children in the District of Columbia. Rev. H. N. Newsome will be appointed as chairman of the National Negro Fair, which is to bccoom a permanent feature at Mobile, secure an increased allowance and an effort will also be made to provide for a new Normal School and M Street High School. B. W. THOMPSON. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1 DULUTH, MINN. Special to T E FREEMAN The K. of P. Lodge, Grant No. 3 gave a grand promenade at Odd Fellows Hall Thanksgiving evening, which was largely at the period of the Committee arrangements: father, Dawson, chancellor, and chairman; Mr. Hancock and Mr. Hall. The St. Mark's M. E. Church gave a Thanksgiving dinner at Kalamazoo Hall, then at the same place at the same place. The new was a success financially Committee. Miss B. Smith, Mrs. Walters, Mrs. Cogmore, Miss Calhoun, Mrs. Eauins, Miss Chounne, Mrs Foster, Mr. B. Green, Dinners, and Mrs. a. in a�. Dinners began to m. an distalled until 7 p.m. Elder Brewer, our popular pastor is trying to and expects to be in the parsonage of the new church this next month. Miss B. Smith expected to make a trip to California this spring. Miss Perry of Illinois is visiting G. N. Riches, 115 East Fifth street, Mrs. Correll's Chey of Hougham, Mrs. and Mrs. Brown were with friends, and Mrs. Brown were back from the Dakotaas for the winter. Mrs. Lottie Dawson spent Thanksgiving in Minot, N. D. and the New York City, visit in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Little Jimmie Drake did not get to go to Opaka, Ala., for Thanksgiving. Mrs. and Mrs. Brown were the popular housekeeper of the Dr. L. A. Artison will visit her sister, Mrs. Montgomery, of St. Paul's. The Corinthian Social Club gave a first-in and a third-in place at Eauins' Hall Thanksgiving evening, which was well attended. Everyone had a grand time. The committee: W. A. Porter, chairman; Geo. B. Kelly, secretary; G. N. Riches, A. L. McCoy, W. M. Dawson. Remember the folks at home by having the FREEMAN sent to their address one year. Special reduction under $1500 for $5000 for your orders today. ST. PAUL. MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to the FREEMAN specialized in the preservation generally observed in St. Paul by a cessation of public and private business. The Union servant minister, James M. Meyer, par excelent. Rev. Boddy, pastor of the Zion Presbyterian Church, preached an excellent sermon. He gave us sidelights on historical facts interwoven with spilt-time stories in the room with the Small Loan and Investment Co. and is prepared to do public stenography. Mrs. Hall was the head of the largest department store in the Northwest, for about eight years. The annual fair at the Pilgrim Baptist Church was the bridge of a month. The largest department store one has had a jolly good time. St. Paul's Society has quite an addition to its membership in the person of Mrs. Anna Evans, brother of a month of the Bridge of a month. R. H. S. Greaves is on one of the most progressive preachers that has ever visited this great Northwest. St. James under his supervision has been successful. Thanksgiving night that his church will also endeavor to put in a handsome pipe organ next year. Last Sunday ended one of the most successful concerts that James has had in recent years. Nearly PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. MINEOLA. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. Fred Mitchell was very sick last week. He was about eighty-five years old. The weather is very wet and rainy here... Mr. Columbus Davis was cutting wood and he was low the hill...Geo. Hill, the son of Rev. 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WEEKLY CURRENT EVENTS THANKSGIVING OBSERVED IN ALL SECTIONS At Coraopolis, Pa.—Literary Society Renders Excellent Program—Sudden Death of Simon Calloway—Society Notes. Special To The FREEMAN. Baptist Church, Rev. J. L. Saunders preached at 11 a. m. the Sermon was on the Wages of Sin. At 3 m. Rev. Viola L. Stout, pastor of St. Paul's A. A. and the Church, formed in 12th century, congregation and at 7:33 p. m. Rev. Saunders, pastor preached a wonderful sermon. At Mt. Olive Baptist Church, preached to a large college at the same time, preached to a large college with both services. Rev. Dr. Shetton will hold a series of meetings during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams of Swickley, Pa. was the first of the first. The first was a�, Imam, Isaac Mitchell of Free street was visiting friends in Pittsburg Sunday. William Johnson, who has been employed at Secondary for a year, was in the general. All of the Thanksgiving with the new, and Sutton, who has been employed at Parkersburg, W. Va., spent Thanksgiving at home with his family and left on Thursdays for the主人's business. The same company will accept a position with the same company. Levl Elliott of Swickley was visiting in town during the week. William Butler, the well-known trap drummer, is standing at the time with the most majestic men. Mr. Annie Butler, of Kirkwood street, Pittsburg, East End, after which he will leave to join Frank L. Mahara's min-cals, and the coloring company, is in the same kind. The country of Arthur Barks, the well-known short stop and pitcher, has signed with the Jones and Glenn baseball team of Pittsburg. He is one of the fastest-most-well-known ballers in the world. The Brown as a playground, the new to join Frank L. Mahara's min-cals, left during the week of 803 Fraing Avenue, left during the week for Chicago to visit the family of her brother. Willing to the new, and Mr. Embryon, 151 and 100, were seen, and Mrs. Robson, a Lewis of 7700. Waverly street, East End, left December 1 for Los Angeles, Cal. to remain indefinitely. Thomas Anderson of the West End, thus being a visit to the new, during the week. William Hill of Free street spent several days visiting friends in Pittsburg. On Thanksgiving night at the New High School, he was interested in concert was given by Jos. Smith, which was quite a success. The program follows: Scripture reading. Mr. McHanyly; prayer by Pastor Rev. Sanders; paper book. Sub连续 News. Newspaper. J. Douglas; recital, Miss D. P. Dorsey; recital, Miss Jos. Ferrell; reading, Andrew Farmer; recital, Miss E. Brown; recital, Miss Marguerie Brown and Mr. Rev. W. L. B. Tibbs of the Mr. Olive Baptist Church preached a stirring sermon Sunday morning from the second chapter of Matthew. Miss Lucy Crockett, who has been sent to her sister, was left Tuesday to visit her sister, Miss Christian, in Ashtabullah Rev. Crockett of Sheridan was a visitor in the city during his visit to the new. Mr. J. L. Stout and her daughter Miss Avella Freeman. Mrs. Chas. Jenkins of Fifth avenue entertained at dinner on Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Rev. W. L. B. Tibbs, and the first was the first. The first was perplexed to the new. Mr. Swickley was visiting Miss L. Jenkins Sunday last. The Daughters of Conference met at the home of Mrs. Chas. Jennifer, the first of the first. The first was a visit to the new. Mr. J. L. Stout, president, was 8150. Mrs. J. L. Brown, president, was Mary Brown, secretary, committee. Mrs. Horace Owens, Mrs. Harriet Calhoun, Mrs. Samuel Scholtz, and the first was the first. Mr. J. L. S. Reutland was very successful operations and is rapidly improving. The Home's and Foreign Missionary Board gave a dinner to the first of the first. The first was a success. The first was a visit to the new. Mr. J. L. B. T. B. W. W. was a visit to the new. Mr. J. L. Church had quite a nice program Friday last. Those taking part were Mrs. Owens, who rendered a THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. Special to THE FREEMAN THE NEGRO IN THE NEGRO—The President today decided to reappoint W. D. Crum (colored) collector of the port of Charles-louis, a former department of Crum that caused such a furor in the Senate three years ago in which Senator Tilman, bitterly attacked the President. FIRES AND INSURANCE What Being Burned Out May Mean to a Business. DAMAGE ONE CANNOT COVER. Enormous Losses Caused by the Suspension of Operations and the Drifting Away of Trade That Are Not Appreciated by the General Public. "I suppose you heard that Blank & Co. were burned out from the roof to the basement last night?" remarks the man in the car. "No!" exclaims the friend who hasn't seen the morning paper. "I suppose they carried insurance?" "Oh, yes—a hundred thousand of it!" returns the first speaker, at which his friend settles back with the comment that everything is all right then. This is the layman's conclusion almost invariably. Some big concern burns out, but with insurance to an amount seeming to cover the loss the average man is disposed to feel that it is all right. He doesn't stop to think of the enormous risks of a business which cannot be covered by insurance and which for weeks, months or years after a fire are crippling and perhaps ruinous to the fire victim. Take, for example, a highly organized factory plant in prosperous times which has been turning out a vast specialized product from the hands of thousands of expert workmen. This plant, fitted with costly machinery, is covered by insurance upon its visible, material assets. Fire sweeps it and lays everything in hopeless ruin. If every piece of machinery, every building and all material adjuncts of the plant have been covered to full value in such a plant, will the reader dare make a rough guess as to what the limitations of loss may be? Only the other day I stepped into a bookbinding, unostentatious in its street signs and occupying a fifth floor in an obscure street. In the elevator shaft was that peculiar odor which marks the track of fire and firemen days and weeks after such an accident. "Most of the fire was next door," explained the proprietor, "but I guess the smoke and the water were about as bad for us. Sometimes it is almost better to have the fire yourself than be next door to it." Which seemed to be especially true of book material. Where smoke and soot had failed to blot and ruin the stock, water from the engines in the street had flooded it until ruin alone was descriptive. Everything had been closed down, workers in the plant were idle, and the proprietor was awaiting the adjustment of the insurance which he had been carrying. But in the extent of this insurance itself was a knotty situation. Ordinarily the house had carried policies which would have left it the minimum of risk on its machinery, stock and materials. Ordinarily a still further blanket policy was carried for the purpose of covering the normal amount of book material on hand owned by others and contracted for rebinding. But only a few days before the fire the house had received a consignment of $5,000 worth of lawbooks to be bound. These volumes, aside from intrinsic value, represented so much of other value as to make the risk abnormal for almost any season. And these books were ruined. Before receiving them the binder had asked the owners to take out a policy for themselves protecting them against such fire loss. The firm had not done so, and when the fire damage came the disposition of the owners was to hold the binder for them under one of the binder's blanket policies. On this one disputed point, taking it into court, will some one make a guess as to what this one feature of the fire may cost the binder, who to all purposes was "insured," if it should be settled in the supreme court after five or seven years, for example? But in the case of the big manufactory, with its imported special machinery, its season of rush work and its enormous and fluctuating stock of material—if on the morning after the fire the assuring companies settle in full for the visible losses, how much has the company been damaged? Of first consideration, perhaps, is the enormous payroll of the concern. If most of the mechanical work of the plant has been done by pieceworkers, still the necessary force of directing employees on salary is a problem. The determination of the owners is to start up anew. Tried and proved employees must be retained while the work of rehabilitation goes on. They must be paid even if they are to do no more than wait. Settlement of some kind must be made with contractors who have been supplying raw materials from the hands of other thousands of workers. No matter what the clauses in contracts providing immunity in case of fires, strikes and acts of Providence, every line of business affecting the welfare of the manufactory has been affected. The plant is a total loss. Before it can be rebuilt the name of the old factory must be cleared away. In the meantime all customers of the manufactory have been pressing for the filling contract orders find themselves shut out of any chance for receiving the work. They turn at once to other companies establishments for the work. Not only does the burned out firm lose all chance of profits from this work but it is running a long chance of losing some of its oldest and best customers of years' standing—Chica. Tribune. A DREADFUL WEAPON. The Slashing Sharks' Teeth Club of the Polynesians. Clubs were the weapons of primitive and savage man. Ancient specimens from Mexico are heavy sticks grooved along the side for the insertion of blades of bosidian—that is, volcanic glass. The Sioux club is a flat piece of wood, curving and widening away from the grip and terminating in a spherical head, which in modern times carries a long spike, while the blades of several butcher knives are commonly inserted along the margin. The national museum of the United States possesses a great variety of these shocking weapons, designed, as the frontiersmen say, to "knock down the white map and then to brain him and cut him into mince meat." The Kingsmill islanders and other Polynesians make dreadful slashing weapons by securing rows of sharks' teeth along a haft of wood. These weapons vary from a few inches to sixteen feet in length, and it has been said that in all the range of weapons devised by mankind there is nothing more blood curdling to behold. They show how the sword may have been evolved from the club even by tribes unacquainted with the use of metals. African weapons, again, are exceedingly complicated owing to the acquaintance of the natives with iron. The standard club is converted into a sort of tomahawk by the addition of blades or into a primitive spear by the addition of a sharp spud. The plain clubs in the African area are used chiefly for throwing. The small knobbed clubs, or "kerries," such as are found among the Kaffirs and other African tribes, are generally used as missiles. Whereas the club proper was soon brought to perfection among savage tribes and was long ago abandoned as a weapon of civilized warfare, the missile—typified by the thrown clubs or "kerries"—is still being improved upon in boomerangs, bows and arrows, crossbows and firearms. BEETHOVEN AND BUSINESS. Selling His Music Was Distasteful to the Great Composer. An extremely interesting article which has appeared in a German musical and theatrical paper under the above heading contains the following statement, says a London exchange: Beethoven never bargained in the ordinary way. His fees for a composition were demanded briefly and in a decided manner, and he always pointed out when mentioning a price that he meant guineas and not sovereigns, or, rather, their equivalent in Austrian coin. In 1801 he wrote to a music firm at Leipzig: "Now the unpalatable business part is done with. I wish things could be managed differently in this world. There should be only one music publisher to whom the artist might take his work, knowing that he might ask a fee according to his requirements. As it is, he has to be partly a tradesman. Good heavens, how different and unpalatable this is!" But this pious wish was never fulfilled, and Beethoven had to remain "half a tradesman" to the end. As a suggestion of how dedications are occasionally made, the following letter, which Beethoven wrote to the same publisher in 1802 from Vienna, is interesting: "The lady in question can have a sonata, and I will do my best to carry out her aesthetic ideas. The price is 5 guineas (ducaten), and for this she may retain the sonata for a year as her private property, but not for publication. At the end of the year the sonata becomes my property—that is to say, I have the right to publish it, and if she thinks it an honor she may ask to have the work dedicated to her." This, from the business point of view of the lady in question, is surely a tempting offer. At least, so the art patroness of today would think if she had a chance of suggesting to a Beethoven the "nesthetic idea" for a sonata, to retain such a treasure in her own hands for a twelvemonth and thereafter have it dedicated to her—and all for 5 guineas! The Proper Word. Reckoning from the standpoint of the lexicographer, Ruth, aged seven, committed an unpardonable assault on the king's English, but the seventy-five other persons living in that apartment house would swear that she chose the proper word. Ruth's comment concerned the vocal gymnastics of a lady who was learning to sing. "She is having her voice difficult," said Ruth, and every one of the seventy-five nerve racked neighbors echoed, "She is."—New York Times. Three Signs. Peculiarities of signs are a source of never ending delight to some people. One man reached his office grinning the other morning because on his way downtown he had seen three signs that read as follows: "Teddy Bears Retailed," "Baby Carriages Retired" and "Umbrellas Recovered." — New York Post. Defined. "John," she said, looking up from the paper, "what is a political boomerang?" "Why, I'd define it," he answered, "as a doorback on the return trip."—Philadelphia Ledger. His Idea of Luck. Blobbs—Bjones is the most unlucky fellow at cards I ever met. Slobbs—Then I suppose he is lucky in love Blobbs—I suppose so. At any rate, he has never been married.—Philadelphia Record. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. A FATAL CARD. How It Killed the Religious Department of the London Times. When the Thunderer decided to devote one or more of its columns daily to an ecclesiastical department all England sat up and admired. The man chosen to conduct the column was a rather elderly and occasionally convivial younger son who for years had contributed church news to the paper, but had never dreamed that he should attain the extreme honor of actually becoming one of the editors of the Thunderer, that world shaking power. The promotion went to his head, made him dizzy. He saw himself a power in the land, one who perhaps would make or unmake ecclesiastical dignitaries. On the morning of the announcement of the new venture the new incumbent came into town on his usual train from Surbiton, his head swimming with delight. At the foot of Ludgate hill he met an old friend, whom he forthwith led into the Green Dragon bar. "Arthur," said he, "we really must celebrate. What d' you suppose has happened? Oh, you'd never, never dream it! Look! What d' you say to that, old boy?" "That" was a newly engraved card on which appeared this announcement: MR. CECIL APPLEBY BOTSFORD-HETHERINGTON Ecclesiastical Editor, The Thunderer. "My word, old chap, it's the most delightful news I've heard in an age!" cried his friend. "Let's have just one more. Here's to you! Success!" Before he reached Temple Bar the ecclesiastical editor had met five other friends. To the fifth he observed: "D'ye know, Ned, with that card I could call on the ar-archbish'p 'f Canterbury. Yes. He'd see me immediately. Won'er'l card this. Indicates position 'f strordinary responsibility 'n dignity." Halfway to the office of the Thunderer Mr. Botsford-Hetherington halled a hansom. "Have you," he inquired, with much gravity—"have you a fast and well appointed cab? Yes? Very well, then. You may drive me to Lambeth palace." At the palace a footman took one of the new cards and conducted the owner of it to a pleasant reception room, where he snuggled in a vast chair and instantly went to sleep. The archbishop of Canterbury happened to be very busy with his chapain, but at the sight of the card he felt sure that something of importance was at hand and sent his chapain to inquire. That tall, slender, dark, ascetic gentleman strode slowly to the reception room and after a slight but decorous struggle succeeded in waking the caller. "His grace," said the chaplain, "begs to know how he can serve the Thunderer?" "Tell his grace," responded Mr. Botsford-Hetherington, "that I'm awf'ly busy thinking and I'm sorry I shouldn't be able to see him till tomorrow. Very sorry." Forthwith he relapsed into slumber. Two sturdy men deposited him in his fast and well appointed cab and ordered the driver to deliver him at the office of the Thunderer. There the ecclesiastical editor and the ecclesiastical department simultaneously vanished.—Harper's Weekly. Truth Versus Politeness. Ethel was going to take supper with a little friend. "Now, dear," said her mother, "when you are leaving you must bid Marian's mamma good night and tell her you have had a very pleasant time." When the little girl returned her mother asked if she had done as she told her. "Not 'zactly, mamma,' was the reply. "Marian took the biggest piece of the apple and spilled lemonade on my new dress, so I couldn't say what you told me, but I told her mother good night and said I guessed Marian had had a very pleasant time."—Judge. Called Him In Writing. A tourist in an out of the way region of England put up one night at an amiable old lady's cottage, the village inn, being full. Now, the tourist was very deaf, which fact he took pains to impress upon the old lady, together with instructions to wake him at a particular hour in the morning. On waking a good deal later than the time appointed he found that the amiable old lady, with commendable regard for propriety, had slipped under his door a slip of paper on which was written: "Sir, it is half past 8!" — Harper's Weekly. Her Husband's Business. "Now, madam," said the gas man with the gray curl in the middle of his forehead after he had asked her twenty questions more or less apropos of her application for the privilege of paying for gas, "what is your husband's business? What is he doing now? "I can't be sure, of course," the woman replied, "but I have my suspicions. I had to divorce him before he died." — New York Press. A. Stinging Retort: Wax Bead (proudly)—I am going in a necklace which I am assured cannot be told from real pearls. Brass Ring (sarcastically)—Aw. they're stringing you—Baltimore American. As a Caution Weeks—The true American always saves the under dog in the fight. Wise—Yes, and then gives him a swift kick for being chump enough to get into it—Boston Transcript. In infants levity is a prettiness, in men grown a shameful defect, but in old age a mournful folly. Own Your Own Home Start Today. We will show you the way. Why pay rent? We are offering large lots North-east, close in, at one-half the price that all adjoining property has been sold, on the easy terms of $1.00 per week, on which we will arrange to build 4, 5 and 6 room cottages and let you pay for them like rent. Baltimore, Hillside, Brouse and Keystone. 25th to 28th Sts. TAKE COLUMBIA AVE. CAR to 25th and Martindale, and walk east to our large red and white sign on addition. Or take Brightwood car to 19th St. and walk north on Hillside ave. to addition. All lots 41 feet wide. Abstract showing clear title with each purchase. No interest and no taxes. De Vor Company, SPECIAL NOTICE—Cut out this ad, and bring it with you, or to our office, and it will be good for two dollars ($2.00). This offer good for 10 days only. THE DRUG FIEND. Hasheesh Makes Its Slave Utterly Useless For Any Service. One of the drugs that are most striking in their effects is hasheesh, or Cannabis indica, largely taken in Asiatic countries, where I used myself to meet its votaries. Its chief peculiarity is to make one believe with all his might whatever is suggested to him. If he is an Arab, tell him that he is a sultan, and straightaway he orders heads to be cut off. Tell him he is a rooster, and he will crow. I knew of two Americans who experimented on themselves, and when the first was told that he was like a locomotive he snorted and whistled and kept going round the table puffing and blowing until he dropped from sheer fatigue. The other somehow conceived the idea that he was dead and forthwith gave elaborate directions for his own funeral till he waxed wrot at the unseemly mirth of his companions when they should have wept. Hasheesh makes its slave utterly useless for any service, and so with the other drugs. Their victims one and all end in becoming do-nothings. Self made do-nothings, or those who are so by drug taking, are much worse than useless. As they usually do not begin till as adults they reach the working period of life, they become wretched burdens on the real workers, since our social system lacks any constitutional enactment whereby, as occurs in a community of bees, the workers systematically put their drones to death. The opium fiend from long living in an unreal world becomes transformed into the most all round liar in the land, the very embodiment of unveracity. One of them victimized me with a loan that he might go and close the eyes of his dying mother when her eyes needed no such closing for years afterward. Another sent from a western city to his wife a telegram which purported to come from an undertaker demanding money to pay for shipping his body home. This money, when it came, he, and unfortunately no undertaker, pocketed and then went his way. We all know what the confirmed drunkard becomes, but not till the judgment day will the whole story be known of the griefs and tears of the innocent ones whom the drunkard made to suffer while he was here.—Everybody's Magazine. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. HAZEL, Extreme Fashionable Tailor. Taste in Dress is to be commended. We have spent both time and money in trying to produce the best and highest effects in Strictly Up-to-date Tailoring. Come let us show you the result. 333-INDIANA AVE.—335 New Phone 4681. HAIR SWITCHES Bangs and Wigs of every description. 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Indianapolis, Ind. Hotel Notes. By W. FORREST COZART. Much has been written in the past few years about the progress of the Negro, so much so that most of us have become accustomed to equal possessing the capacity, intelligence, etiquette that we have attained complete development as a race, and are therefore the careful observer who is able to lay aside the race cause of the subject and carefully scrutinize the scopic lens as other races are viewed, will be surprised no doubt upon discovering much deformity or undeveloped quantities of the race. The race having made such miraculous progress along the educational line, one naturally expects it to have developed in along all lines, under close observation, along all lines, under close observation, greatest deficit, however to my mind, is a lack of race pride and under this heading as important adjuncts are independent, purpose, free speech, and equal rights to all. To become a fully developed race, there must be first of all race pride; the love of the race must be instilled into the heart of the race. You must be done along the lines laid down by Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten system, and when the young girl or boy having had such tutalage will have reached the age of 12, you must be baptized in the fire of race love. Has this been done? Is it being done now? No, and the echo answers no. This, then, is the main cause of our shortcomings, is the present day daylight, our lack of race pride. If we possessed the true race love we would be clannish like the Jew, and the Swede of her and would try to get together instead of eventually try to be clannish and on all subjects. We would be of us were concerned we would all be of us were concerned we would all be of us will take the State of Minnesota, which is mostly populated by Swedes and other skandinavians. At least 30 per cent of the people are the people who are made up of "North Star" a fixture in the Republican column. For years and years the Republican ticket contained candidates other nationalities, but the seeded voted of the elective candidates. In the course of time the Swedes wanted one of their own race on the ticket, but the Republicans would not stand it. In 1904 the Republican was in the state of Iowa. The Republicans laughed at the Governor. The Republican was laughed at the Governor, and the Governor, "Bob" Dunn for "Governor," and the Governor, "Swede" and "Swede" and the Democrats had offered them a bait in nominating one of their race, they could be with theirکنم و بگن. The Republicans reckoned without their host. They had been soft-soaping, buoالمبغم و بگنبغم و بگنبغم and giving Negroes this kind of dope of thought. The Swedes were very grasp, but when the ballots were counted they were dismayed when Johnson had been elected Governor on the Democratic ticket and at the same time Roosevelt earned the state $7,700. The time to serve was re-nominated and two years later was re-nominated and again beat the Republican candidate. The Republican was not the same as the Republican. The re-nomination was not the same as a race-loving people, who put race above party. Fully realizing that with the Swedes against them they could not be so far from being a price-loving candidate to win back enough Swedes to carry the State. Johnson was again his party's nominee and a fifth of Taft carried the state by its own $8,000. He was again elected by $25,000. Another case of race pride was recently demonstrated by the Filipinos in the electoral candidates were running for the Municipal Board, among them two Filipinos. The Americans attempted to divide the voters and thus defeat the Filipinos' candidates, but this ruse, which always works when tried on Negroes, did not fool the Filipinos. The candidates were elected and now the Americans are trying to oust them by charging fraud, but the Filipino population is thoroughly aroused and are demanding their When the Negro's race pride forces him to place race above party politics, he may become a powerful factor in American politics. The Negro has not as yet reached that elevation in the path of race advantage in American politics, but advantages of independence and race cohesion in politics. They have wandered around in the wilderness for forty years, and their allies have died. New hands are now directing the party and those at the helm care not for the Negro's past nor for his future. The way out of the wilderness the best can be. Honesty of purpose should apply to every act of all good citizens, but right here we wish to apply it to the Negro in the church. We must turn the house of God into a bawdy house of political mongers and sold their religion, as it were, for thirty pieces of silver. In all our boasts of race progress, the bishops and ministers are debauching themselves, and we have often condemned the course of Negroes joining churches over which only white bishops preside. In this, however, we have presumably been too hasty. In the past, we have presided over white churches presided over by white bishops were not turned into political halls, even so the white bishops did not degrade themselves by holding political meetings in the church. In all other ministers, like all other men, should have honesty of purpose, and respect the house of God. Oh, how these same preacher-citizens and their fellows did "holler" when a few other preachers and their fellows met in the interest of the other party. It is at this junction where the importance of freedom of speech plays an important part. White men can oppose each other in all kinds of ways, but they never resort to stifling the freedom of speech. But not so with the colored man; as soon as one of the race dares to express himself contrary to the views of others, then the other faction is ready to shut off freedom of speech by force or violence and thus establish a dangerous precedent in which they themselves will fall victims sooner or later. Of all races the colored race should be the last to attempt to stifle freedom of speech. Think of Garrison, John Brown, Lovejoy, Bundy and others, and what hard times they had in expressing themselves in the anti-slavery crusade. It is in such important circumstances that the colored men both great and small plainly show that they, after all, are not yet very well developed. As a race we have not yet reached the point where we can brave criticism and at the same time brush aside prejudice because we are more equal than though he has the courage to express a different opinion. It is absolutely necessary for the race to straighten out the above and many other kinks and nicks before we have fully developed to the stage of self-government. W. FORREST COZART. The waiters of Louisville, KY, and especially of the Seelbach Hotel, entertained the Cole & Johnson show in that city recently. Congress will convene next Monday and the waiters of Washington will be able to have full dinner pails for the next few months. George Sparks, third waiter in the absence of both the head and second waiter, is acting headwaiter at the Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N. J. Among the many man of rank, whom the editor of this department knew when they were young, the question of waiter mention the name of Bob Cole. We knew "Bob" as a waiter at the St. Louis Hotel, Lake Minnetonka, Minn. It is now said that Wm. White will return to the Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Fla. There seemed for a while to have been a hitch someone with everyone asking, but now it is said on good authority that Mr. White will again be in charge. George H. Emory, the affable headwaiter at the Emory Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. after several months of illness returned to his old post of duty, but after a few weeks work found it necessary to make a trip South, where he will hunt duck and enjoy other outdoor sport for several weeks in order to get the benefit of the fresh air. H. D. White, who has been selected as second waiter for the Alaczar Cafe, San Francisco, is the well-known ex-secretary of the Head and Side Writers' National Benefit Association and editor of the Dining Room Recorder. For the past two seasons he has been the sententious micro-writer, W. L. of which Harvey C. Green is headwaiter. A headwaiter at one of the big Atlantic City lectures lectured his men just before the election, saying that he knew of any one of them voting for Bryan he allowed to change the election. The very next day the election a mysterious incident happened, which was in no way connected with politics. This same headwaiter was called to the office now he is running around in the snow looking for a job. way I can." The indications are that President Roosevelt will give a characteristic, vigorous endorsement to this enterprise, which we hope will be given thereby such a momentum that the entire Church and country will be stirred in the interest of missions in Africa.-Southwestern Christian Advocate. Remember the folks at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to their address one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1. $1 for 52 issues. Send your orders today. ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF THE M. E. CHURCH. SECOND DISTRICT, 1908. L. J. Coppin, Presiding. North Carolina Conference, Fayetteville, N. C. November 18. Missouri Conference, Asheville, N. C., November 25. We are much pleased to note the fact that several of the Western railroads have adopted a merit system and will promote the dining car waiters to dining car conductors, and sleeping car porters for the dining car. For many years the colored men have been doing this work but white men have been drawing the pay. The waiters always have to teach the new conductor his business and the porter likewise has in mind the need to do most of their work. In the new turn of affairs we hope that the right men will be promoted and they will so conduct themselves that every dining car will in turn be promoted to conductors and every sleeping car in charge of colored conductors likewise. A COLORED CONTRACTOR BID TOO LOW. A certified check for $4,750, submitted by John Jenkins, a colored contractor, in bidding on the proposed Brightwood sewer, was declared forfeited by the Board of Public Works to-day, following the failure of Jenkins to sign a contract and file a bond for the work. Jenkins, with his attorney, M. L. Clawson, appeared before the board and explained that Jenkins had made an error in bidding that would make the job not only unprofitable, but would cause him to lose considerable money. Because of that fact, they said, Jenkins had been unable to find any one to finance the work or furnish the bond necessary. The board held that the check was intended to liquidate damages to the city in case Jenkins failed to carry out the contract and that they could see no legal grounds for retURNING the check. Steps were taken immediately to stop payment on the check and Clawson said that legal action, either enjoining the board from forfeiting the check or a replevin suit to obtain the check, would be brought soon. Jenkins' Bid Lowest. Jenkins is said to be unable to write any more than his name and that he had some one else to do the figuring for him on the proposed sewer, which will cost approximately $190,000. When the bids were opened it was found that Jenkins had bid $1.26 a lineal foot lower than his nearest competitor. His bid was $9.03 a lineal foot. When the people who had expected to finance Jenkins began figuring on his bid, they found that several errors had been made in bidding. These errors, as stated before the board, were as follows: Excavations, $1,543.22; catch basins, $510; concrete work figured at $3.50 a yard, instead of $4.50 a yard, making an error of $10,000; cost of water, $2,000; inspectors, $500; cleaning up after work is completed, $847; excavations at lateral cuts, were local sewers will connect with the trunk, $500. Each of the figures named was that much lower than should have been billed on the individual items. Notes Given to Banks. It was said today that Jenkins had given notes to a local bank for the amount of the certified check and that to collect the notes the bank would have to bring suit against Jenkins. He is said to own real estate in excess of the amount of the check. It was suggested by the board that Jenkins bring suit against the city to enjoin it from turning the check into the city's general fund until the question had been settled in the courts. Otherwise, if Jenkins won the case and the money had been turned into the general fund, the City Council would have to make a special appropriation to refund the $4,750. When the board heard that Jenkins had stopped payment on the check, the members said the city would probably have to bring suit to compel the bank to pay it. The board this morning ordered that advertisement be made for new bids at once.—Indianapolis News. THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF THE M. E. AFRICAN MISSIONS. Our oldest foreign mission is Liberia on the West Coast of Africa. Our oldest mission property is the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Monrovia. The establishment of our work in Africa, and the re-echoing of the stirring appeal of Melville B. Cox, "Let a thousand die rather than Africa be given up," is to be appropriately observed. A Diamond Jubilee Commission, with the approval of the Church, has been organized. As the Church was stirred in the two years past in behalf of India and China, so it is hoped the Church will be stirred in the interest of Africa. The campaign will be opened in earnest on the first day of January, 1909. Bishop Harzell and Bishop Scott are giving considerable attention to the directing of this campaign and it is hoped that at least $300,000 during this Diamond Jubilee will be raised for Africa so far as the Methodist Episcopal Church is concerned, and the Church ought to enter heartily into this campaign and better equip our missions in Africa so that larger and better work may be done. Bishop Hartzell has just had a visit with President Roosevelt at Washington. The particular subject under consideration during this visit was the Africa Diamond Jubilee. President Roosevelt's going to Africa will awaken new interest in that continent and the Bishop seized upon this opportunity to lay before the President the possible impetus he might give to Christian missions. The entire plan for the celebration of the establishment of Methodist Episcopal missions in Africa was unfolded before the President and his interest was solicited. Mr. Roosevelt said to Bishop Hartzell, "Bishop call upon me for any service. I will help you any way I can." The indications are that President Roosevelt will give a characteristic, vigorous endorsement to this enterprise, which we hope will be given thereby such a momentum that the entire Church and country will be stirred in the interest of missions in Africa.—Southwestern Christian Advocate. Remember the folks at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to the United one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1. $1 for 52 issues. Send your orders today. ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH. SECOND DISTRICT 1908 Western N. C. Conference, Asheville, N. C., November 25. THIRD EPICOPAL DISTRICT. Bishop W. B. Derrick, Presiding. Organization of the West Virginia Conference, October 20. FOURTH EPICOPAL DISTRICT. Bishop T. C. Shaffer, D. D., Presiding. The West Kentucky Conference, Franklin, KY, October 21. SIXTH EPICOPAL DISTRICT. Annual Conference Session, 1908. Bishop Charles Spencer Smith, Presiding. Georgia, Fitzgerald, Ga., October 22. K. H. Singleton; missionary sermon, R. V. Branch. North Georgia; Rockmart, Ga., October 24. J. H. E. E. R. Crumley, pastor. To preach the annual sermon, L. Williams; missionary sermon, C. A. Wingfield. Southwest Georgia; Arlington, Ga. November 24, J. H. E. E. R. Crumley, pastor. To preach the annual sermon, J. W. Mitchell; missionary sermon, John Cooper. Macon, Dublin, Ga., November 19, F. L. D. D. F. Boddie, Rev. James Simmuk, pastor. Louisiana Conference will convene in St. James A. M. E. Church, January 16, at Franklin, La. Rev. J. H. Little, pastor. TENTH EPISCOPAL LECTURY Bishop Emily F. Loving, Breeding, West Texas Conference at Branham, October 28. Rev. R. S. Slaughter, pastor. Central Texas Conference at Cameron, November 4. Rev. H. K. Solomon, pastor. N. E. Texas Conference, at Sherman, November 18. Rev. E. W. Wright, pastor. Texas Conference, at Crockett, November 11. Rev. G. W. Hamilton, passa ELEVENTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Bishop M. B. Salters, Presiding. Fairbanks Conference, November 25, Quincy, Fla. West Florida Conference, December 9, at Apalachia. North Florida Conference, December 16, at Lafayette, Fla. at Live Oak, Fla. Central Florida Conference, January Central Florida Conference, January 27, 1909, at Dunnellon, Fla. South Florida Conference, February 24, 1909, at Palatka, Fla. TWELFTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Bishop H. B. Parks, Presiding. Tennessee Conference, Shelbyville, October 21. West Tennessee Conference, Paris, October 28. THIRTEENTH EPHISCOPAL DISTRICT. Bishop's Conference, Bishop's Liberia Conference, Monrovia, Liberia, February 3, 1998 Liberia Conference, Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 3, 1999. Gold Coast Conference, Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, April 27, 1909. FOURTEENTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. J. Albert Johnson, Bishop. Joint Conference at Alwal, North Cape County, Wednesday, February 10, 1909, of Atlanta, Newman, November 26, J. R. Fleming, P. E.; D. R. Forbes, pastor. to preach the annual sermon, L. A. Tuesley; missionary sermon, S. B. Sims. Each annual conference will open Thursday morning at 9 o'clock sharp. CONFERENCE OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. The Columbia Conference, Abbeville, November 25, Rev. D. K. Lyles, D. D., pastor. Northeast South Carolina Conference, Orangeburg December 2. Rev. W. P. Carolina, D. D., pastor. The South Carolina Conference, Bethel The University of North Carolina October 9. Rev. R. W. Mance, D. P. pastor. R. W. Mance, D. P. pastor. B. W. Lampion, Presiding Bishop will convene in St. Mark's A. M. E. Church, November 11, 1908, at Tupelo, Miss. Rev. W. M. Brown, pastor. The Mississippi Conference will convene in St. James' A. M. E. Church, November 18, at Meridian, Miss. Rev. H. H. Buckingham, pastor. Central Mississippi Conference will convene in St. James' A. M. E. 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We want five hundred more agents to sell The Freeman, which circulates in every State and Territory, Africa, South America, Europe, England and Australia. The Freeman is the greatest Negro journal in the world. The columns are filled with the efforts of the race. In order to keep in touch with the Negro, you must read The Freeman. It is read every week by not less than 85,000. I tstands for the best interests of the race. We desire agents to send in news and we invite correspondence from all over the country on topics of general race interest. Any person devoting their entire time to the work can earn from $10 to $20 per week. Persons desiring agency write for terms. Don't forget that College Heights is an established fact; it is not merely on paper. The beautiful addition to Guthrie is already platted, and with an eye single to the many advantages of modern cities. Oklahoma is strictly in favor at this time, and Guthrie the capital, is the particular center of attraction. College Heights adjoins Guthrie. As Guthrie, so is College Heights. Get in on the ground floor. You take no chances. Remember the folks at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to their address one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1. $1 for $2 issues. Send your orders today. OLDEN DAY SURGEONS They Were Exempt From Jury Duty In Capital Cases. IN A CLASS WITH BUTCHERS Thought to Be Too Bloodthirsty to Calmly Pass on the Taking of Human Life - Executioners Performed Operations and Acted as Doctors. When Great Britain's statute book was still in the Draconian state from which it was redeemed by Sir Samuel Romily and the penalty of death was inflicted for the most trivial offenses, surgeons were exempted from serving on juries in capital cases. It must not be supposed, however, that this was because their profession was believed to make them too humane for such work as was then imposed on jurymen. We are sorry to say it was for the opposite reason. They were exempted on the same ground as butchers, whose occupation, it was thought tended to make them too bloodthirsty. This ought not perhaps surprise us, since two or three centuries ago executioners not infrequently performed surgical operations. This seems to have been particularly the case in Denmark. At any rate, we have more knowledge on this point in regard to that country than any other. In Janus some time ago Dr. K. Caroe of Copenhagen published a number of documents bearing on the subject. The most ancient of these bears date July 24, 1579, and is a license issued by Frederick II. to Anders Freimut, executioner of Copenhagen, granting him the right to set bones and treat old wounds. He was expressly forbidden to meddle with recent wounds. In 1609 it is recorded in the municipal archives of Copenhagen that Gaspar, the hangman, had received four rigsdalers for the cure of two sick children in the infirmary. In 1638 Christian IV, summoned the executioner of Gluckstadt, in Holstein, to examine the diseased foot of the crown prince. In a letter addressed to Ole Worm, a leading Danish physician of the day, Henry Koster, physician in ordinary to the king, complains bitterly of the slight thus put upon him. He says that for two whole months the hangman, "who is as fit to treat the case as an ass is to play the lyre," had the case in hand, and the doctor was not asked for advice, and, although the case went steadily from bad to worse, the executioner received a fee of 200 rigsdalers and a large silver goblet—"rewards," says the doctor plaintively, "which the greatest among us would not have received had he succeeded in curing the prince according to the rules of art." Again, in 1681, Christian V. gave a fee of 200 rigsdalers to the Copenhagen hangman for curing the leg of a page. In 1605 Andreas Liebknecht, the Copenhagen executioner, was in such repute or his treatment of disease that he wrote a book on the subject "in the name of the holy and ever blessed Trinity." In 1732 Bergen, an executioner in Norway, was authorized by royal decree to practice surgery. Even up to the early years of the nineteenth century this extraordinary association of surgery with the last penalty of the law continued. Erik Peterson, who was appointed public executioner at Trondhjem in 1796, served as surgeon to an infantry regiment in the war with Sweden and retired in 1814 with the rank of surgeon major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose his favorite hangman, Coblenz, to be his physician in ordinary. It might be suspected that this peculiar combination of functions had its origin in a satirical view of the art of healing, but in the records we have quoted we can trace nothing of the kind. Perhaps the executioner drove a trade in human fat and other things supposed to possess marvelous healing properties. He may thus have come to be credited with skill in healing, though the association surely represents the lowest degree to which the surgeon has ever fallen in public esteem and social position. Compared with the hangman, a gladiator and even an undertaker may be considered respectable.—British Medical Journal. "Painting the Town Red." "That expression, 'painting the town red,' is not." writes a correspondent, "the creation of some unknown cockney genius, as some would seem to infer. Its birth has been traced to 'The Divine Comedy.' Dante, led by Virgil, comes to the cavernous depths of the place swept by a mighty wind where those are confined who have been the prey of their passions. Two faces arise from the mist—the faces of Francesca and Paolo. 'Who are ye?' cries Dante in alarm, and Francesca replies sadly. 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Can't afford to say anything excepting—hope it success. James N. Shelton, undertaker, is an aspirant for a Federal position. Mr. Shelton is a young man of ability, aggressive in his politics and an unimpeachable Republican. A Sunday afternoon paper is the newest kink in journalism. The Washington times will try that experiment. It looks as if it might be satisfied at getting it out in the morning. According to report, New Orleans, with a Negro population of 90,000, has fifteen Negro doctors. Chicago's Negro population does not exceed 50,000; it has forty Negro doctors. How about it? Sir Harry H. Johnston, of England, in company with Booker T. Washington, will visit many of the Negro schools for the purpose of studying the Negroes' condition from an educational standpoint. W. J. Bryan has made reprisal on the Roosevelt preserves. Recently he shot a bear in Mexico. The bear, when first wounded, attempted to hug Mr. Bryan. It was laid low, however, before it got in its deadly work. The leading book and stationery store of Greenville, Miss., is conducted by a Negro. If it were another kind of business one could judge just what Mr. Granville Carter is doing. Some people do not care very much for books. A great exposition is proposed for the State of Indiana to be held in 1811. It would be a great advantage to the State. Many thoughtful men, however, are doubting the wisdom of the movement, insisting that there is no necessity. A new Bera for the Negroes of Kentucky is well under way. A tract of land one mile square has already been selected. The most notable donors so far are Andrew Carnegie, $200,000, and Mrs. Russell Sage, $25,000. The plan includes largely industrial features. Illinois will have one Negro in its Legislature; a Negro County Commissioner was elected in Chicago, Dr. Lane, the Representative-elect, is also of Chicago. It is believed that he is the only Negro of the Northern States who will be in the Legislature. Ohio lost out for the first time in years. The outbreak in Haiti is one of the usual happenings. It looks as if the opposition will succeed in shoving the grand old man of Haiti from power. The need of an insurrection in such a country where the people have an opportunity to retire their Presidents at given periods is not seen. If he were king, with a lifelong tenure of office, then a revolt would have some plausibility, provided he had no thought of the welfare of his people. As we see it, the Haitians should endure until the end of the term of President and then make their preference manifest at the polls. The growing interest in advancing rural schools is commended, and soon the farmer's children will have equal advantages with the city schools. The spirit of self-help that is awakening in our people is encouraging, and we will advance in proportion as we realize the supreme importance of supplementing the school funds, building school houses and taking a deeper interest in affairs of education. The value of a community is measured materially, morally and intellectually by the progress of its schools. The farmers are now reaping rewards of their labors. Let them remember that dollars put in education will yield handsome returns.—The Educator. The well-known Chicagoan, Pony Moore, said to have grown wealthy in the saloon business, has been on trial in the Federal Court of that city charged with concealing assets in order to defraud creditors after he had filed a petition in bankruptcy. Moore was indicted several months ago following an investigation by the government when charges were made by creditors and the trustees in bankruptcy that Moore had concealed $5,000 worth of assets with the purpose of keeping them from his creditors. The concealed assets, it is al- leged, consisted of jewelry and household furnishings. Since his indictment Moore's house, at 3134 Calumet avenue, was robbed of $2,000 worth of pictures and bric-a-brac, according to police reports. The impression has always been class fare. The field is the first step that Japan wanted peace, nothing else. Finally that country has impressed the greater governments that it will get along with them if they will but say the word. Our own country is among them, and which, like Japan, is peacefully inclined, conceding the same to other countries as it would ask. The independence of China, now agreed to by Japan and the United States and favored by other leading nations, is of vast importance, making for the peace of the Far East and the Pacific. America is indeed fortunate in having the mild-mannered Japanese as neighbors, who will enter no unjust quarrel. One only thinks of Japan as a very honorable country, one that will not be offended unless it feels that its existence is threatened, and in which event it has proven abundantly able to care for itself. An article recently appearing in the Russ, a paper which has continually preached war between the United States and Japan, strikes the only discordant note in the Russian press comment on the agreement between the United States and Japan, which, among other things, guarantees the integrity of China. This agreement, according to the Russ, merely postpones the inevitable struggle until the end of William H. Taft's term of office. The two nations, says the Russ, have surveyed the situation and have decided that a poor peace is better than a good quarrel. The American naval program and the American fortifications on the Pacific are not yet completed, and Japan is in financial straits. The outcome of a naval conflict today between the two countries would be uncertain, but the paper predicts that, under cover of this new agreement, each will push its war preparations to completion. Minister Henry W. Furniss, the Negro diplomat and dean of the diplomatic corps at Haytli, will have a chance at being a diplomat in the very best sense. The island is an excellent school, where agility of wits is required in coping with the perplexing circumstances arising from time to time. Minister Bowell, Furniss' predecessor, waged through many difficulties, and it appears that the present minister's record will be none the less. Dr. Furniss is of Indianapolis. His reports when consul to Bohala were models of excellence and thoroughly trustworthy. The State Department more than once congratulated him on his work, and which really were his best recommendations to his present post. He is gentlemanly and scholarly, of good address and fine personal appearance. The fact that he was selected as dean of the diplomatic corps is further evidence of those qualities that gained his promotion to one of the most important posts of the service from a financial standpoint. In observing as to what was the best kind of charity or philanthropic endeavor, Mr. Rockefeller says "The investment of effort or time or money carefully considered with relation to the power of employing people at a remunerative wage, to expand and develop resources at hand, and to give opportunity for progress and healthful labor where it did not exist before." This principle may be like those in grammar, discovered and applied after the talking was done. It gets there, nevertheless; whether a matter of forethought or after thought, so far as the best charity or philanthropic endeavor are concerned. A very few will believe that many set deliberately about with the view of employing men in order to relieve suffering; that they employ them is of necessity, that their own interests be advanced. Yet a generous employer does not go unthanked, and very often his peculiar genius entitles him to great consideration in making it possible to provide well for many. A great achievement was this week consummated in this city by a committee representing the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the colored people. It was the purchase of the Crystal Bath House, on Malvern avenue, with its exclusive water lease. Considerable property in the rear of the two-story brick bath house was also secured and a check for $22,000 is now in bank awaiting execution of deeds. It is the purpose of the Supreme Lodge to enlarge this plant into a commodious national Pythian sanitarium, with hotel facilities and medical department, affording sick members of the order who come here to procure the best accommodations and treatment at a nominal cost. It will probably accommodate others who are not members of the order if the capacity will permit, at reasonable rates. To Dr. C. N. Wade, of this city, is due the chief credit for this achievement. He inaugurated the movement eight years ago and has persistently fought it through to a successful consummation. In this he was ably assisted by John T. T. Warren, Alonzo Stone and others—Hot Springs Daily. According to the white folks the colored folks of Ohio voted for Judge Taft to a man. It was stated just after the election that, notwithstanding the efforts put forth by leaders of the colored people in the State, there was no deflection from the ranks of the G. O. P. Now the Hon. H. Smith states that out of the 45,000 Afro-American voters in Ohio, not ten voted for the Republican nominee, and proceeds to show figures for it. Now, what we are wondering is, who is right—Brother Smith or the white folks? Who can give us the information? We would like very much to have it. No doubt it would be interesting reading.—The Afro-American Ledger. Hon. Harry has to make a front. Of those opposing Mr. Taft he was the very stoutest; he "took" on awfully. There's a wide discrepancy in the two estimates of the Negro voters' conduct at the polls. Perhaps neither is a fair statement of what happened. It is safe to say that there was some defection among the voters and accordingly some deflection of votes. It is quite as safe to say that the defection was not nearly so serious as Hon. Harry would have it. Remember the folks at home by having the FREEMAN sent to their address one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1. $1 for 25 issues. Send your orders today. B. Golden was returned home from Jacksonville..Mrs. Sallie Sanders spent a pleasant visit in Clarksville, Mo..Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bryant and Miss Mamie Pettis have returned home in Chicago, Ill..Prof. G. W. Wood delivered two lectures at both churches and had a good dinner with the Eighth and Elm Street Church. Table No. 1. Mrs. Anna Hammond, reported $26; table No. 1. Mrs. Nanie Berry, reported $46.85. The Bethel A. M. E. Church, Bishop Gladus, Thos. Mundy, reported $127.10; Bishop Siefer, Mr. Holder, reported $86.40. The T. W. T. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT TUSKEGEE. Among the recent visitors at Tuskegee were Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States; Sir Harry H. Johnson, the African traveler; Hon. Hugo Chartoris, attache of the British Embassy; Rev. Leander Chamberlain, of New York; Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of the Century Magazine; Mr. W. G. Wilcox and Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York. Mr. Bryce, in addressing the students, referred to those from the British empire, thanking them for the cordial welcome extended. He said, in part: "We have within that empire many millions of the Negro race, in eastern, southern and western Africa, and, of course, also in the West Indies. We are profoundly interested in what is being done here. We hope to obtain suggestions by which we can be benefitted, and we are very glad that colored people from British Africa and the West Indies should be among von. "I have long been convinced that the idea which your principal put forward, and which is here being worked out, of the importance of industrial training, is a sound, fertile, practical idea. It is grounded in the history of the human race, every family of mankind, whatever its color, has to begin, and the white race did begin by acquiring habits of steady and constant labor, and by working out for itself a knowledge of the industries and arts on which civilization even in its simplest and rudest forms must rest." The well-known school conducted by Booker T. Washington has won fame in all enlightened lands. Distinguished visitors when coming to America do not forget to include Tuskegee among the places to visit. Its fame is well merited. No part of the country where Negroes live in considerable numbers is without the influence of the famous institution represented by its products. $1.00—The Freeman one year until January 1—$1.00. THE OUTBREAK IN HAITI. Haiti is having one of its revolutionary periods. This, as might have been expected since the truce of a year or more ago, did not have binding qualities. At that time the struggle just seemed to prematurely quit, one of the features being the reception of refugees at the various legions impending the Alexis government in crushing out the opposition. Apparently the opportunity was his; he had the advantage, and from all accounts felt that he was thwarted in his movements. The old man was not satisfied at the "incomplete" finish, but the foreigners maintained that he desired to institute a reign of murder, striking down all suspected, whether foreigner or countryman. The protests that went up were too much for Alexis, albeit he stoutly maintained he had no thought of making indiscriminate war, declaring his intention to secure the Presidency against rebellious countrymen. It is fairly certain that the Haitian President meant to punish the principal refractories, to make examples of them. It is not generally thought that he meant more. At that time The Freeman said to the effect that the Haitien President was doubtless chagrined to feel that he was unable to make satisfactory headway against those that threatened the peace of his country. The fact that his country is weak, his government feeble and fairly at the mercy of other nations who do not forget to promptly assert their flags at the proper moment has had much to do with his present situation. That the foreigners were right in protecting themselves against the destruction of either their persons or property goes without saying. Nevertheless this very thing has intimidated Nord Alexis and in a manner gave comfort to his opponents. The unbiased mind will see wisdom on the foreigners' side, yet none the less on the side of the executive. The condition made for the unrest of government, since he could not proceed with impunity against those who would destroy him. The result is this holdover attempt to put the present government out of commission. At this writing Gen. Simon is very aggressive; has made important headway. The country is aroused and extra efforts are being made to maintain the peace. According to the report of our minister, Dr. Henry W. Furniss, overtures for peace have been made by the diplomatic corps, of which he is dean, to Nord Alexis, in the nature of a compromise. It respectfully requests that he consent to the making of a new Cabinet, consisting of two members appointed by the President, two by Gen. Simon and one by the diplomatic corps. An election for President was to follow. It is further said that the President would not listen to the proposition, but, like Gen. Grant, will fight it out on his line. Minister Furniss gave it out that it is the Cabinet's opinion that the end of the Alexis government is at hand and that the flight of the aged President cannot restore harmony. THE FREEMAN IN NEW ORLEANS LA. Polo Steele, 1317 Lasquet street, is representing The Freeman in New Orleans. He will be much pleased to supply you with The Freeman and publish your news items. QUINCY, ILL Special to THE FREEMAN The Union Thanksgiving services were held at the Eighth and Elm Street Baptist Church. The congregation sand "All Hall the 'power of Jesus' Name' Scripture in the palm of the hand' Loving prayer. Rev. Osborn; proclamation read by Mrs. F. Mrs. E. Cook; sermon delivered by Rev. J. Syder of the. A. M. E. Church. He gave advice to the heads of families in the church, and taught time and teach their children and make good men and women of them. Mrs. S. B. Golden has returned home from Jacksonville .Mrs. Sallie Sanders spent a pleasant visit in Clarksville, Mo., Mr. M. Sanders, a local mite Pettis have returned home in Chicago, Ill., Prof. G. W. Wood delivered two lectures at both churches and had a good attendance. Turkey dinner at the Eighth Street Church, Mrs. Anna Hammond, reported $26; table No. 1, Mrs. Nanie Berry, reported $46.85. Belle A. Berry, E. 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Mrs. Sheldon deserves much credit in the way she served the lunch. Mr. Jones, the promoter of the clubroom was beautifully decorated. Polo Steele, agent of The Freeman, was an invited guest. Club sends regards to all friends. ...Mrs. Eliza Steele was hostess in honor of her birthday party Sunday, the clubroom decorated in honor of the occasion and many friends were present including Mrs. Rosa Steeprey, the Miss Jacques, Lewis Mouton, the Miss Jude, were a beautiful selection on the piano. Also Miss Gertrude Boyd and Polo Steele. A HINT TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT. One hundred pounds of white granulated sugar, $1.75; one pound Royal baking powder, 22 cents; five packages Unedea biscuits, 12 cents; $3.00 shoes for men and womne, 98 cents. For further information write George Slaughter or Clarence Tipton, manager's office. 024 W. 12th St., New York, NY. Also find The Freeman on sale here at all times. We also handle business and calling cards at reasonable prices. President Roosevelt made a pleasing little speech to an audience of Washington colored men at the cornerstone laying of their new Y. M. C. A. Building a day or so ago. He touched on the race question, and told them that its solution would be the treatment of each man on his merits as a man. He should not be treated badly because he happens to be of a given color, nor should he receive immunity for misconduct because he happens to do so. The protection of the laws should be guaranteed to one as well as to another, he told them. There was more talk of the same character, and it was all very sound, sensible and friendly, but the President omitted to say why no effort is being made by the national Government to prevent the nullification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution and consequent deprivation of the Negro voters' rights by the Southern States, or to explain why he is opposed to cutting down the representative of these States in Congress as a just and proper penalty for such annulment. Talk is unimportant when action is needed.—Indianapolis Daily Star. Driven from Norris City. Special to THE FREEMAN. CARMI, III, Dec. 2-David E. Parker, a building contractor, yesterday afternoon was warned by the citizens of Norris City to dispense with his Negro workmen there. The New York City police forced to take a freight train from the city. ENTERTAINMENT A SUCCESS. The "Perplexing Situation," given at Simpson Chapel Church Monday night, gave satisfaction to a very large audience, and it brought to its utmost capacity. The entertainment was one of the best and largest attended ever produced at the church. The audience was given its effort toward making the entertainment a grand success. Special mention is made of Miss Carrie Miller, director of the production. The singing Jackson, as Uncle Ep, from up Kentucky. These two characters kept the audience in a continuous roar of laughter throughout the entire performance. The singing Jackson, as Uncle Ep, from up Kentucky. These two characters kept the audience in a continuous roar of laughter throughout the entire performance. The singing Jackson, as Uncle Ep, from up Kentucky. These two characters kept the audience in a continuous roar of laughter throughout the entire performance. The orchestra entertained with choice selective between acts. Captain G. L. Knox, of Company A, of Simpson Chapel, under whose auspices the entertainment was given, was highly successful in the success of the play and the large audience. THE PREFERRED BANKING INSTITUTIONS OF THE CITY. In Indianapolis, as in all cities, there are what is known as preferred banking institutions. In most instances this is due to the financial solidity of our city, which houses many banks, firms vary to character, calibre and general attitude toward the colored citizens of their communities. Some are kindly and sympathetic with all enterprises the colony has engaged in, and ready to aid and encourage any worthy efforts of the race, while some are just the opposite. It is our pleasure herein to be the representative for those houses who are friendly to the interests of our people in the city of Indianapolis. The Indiana National Bank, the Columbia National Bank and the Merchants National Bank are substantial well wishers of our people in all of our ambitions and enterprises and are constantly emphasizing it by their unlagging financial support to the banks. It is and has been the policy of The Freeman to earnly urge its clientele to put by a nest egg for a rainy day. It matters not at the above named institutions, who are asking for your patronage in this paper. Read carefully the statements of each, which also appear in this issue. Start today, yourself a independent and yourself a respected factor in the citizenship of the city. J. P. MULLALY. J. P. Mullaly, the popular importer of diamonds, located on the Circle, enjoys perhaps the largest trade acquaintance among the colored people of the city than any other dealer in jewelry. Mr. Mullaly is a businesswoman of years and has added more stones to colored men and women in Indian anapolis than any other house engaged in the business. There is a reason for this. It is up to you, Mr. Reader, to find out what kind of business you are chasing a diamond ring or studs, call on Mr. Mulliay and find out why he enjoys such a large trade among people of limestone. What is his advertisement elsewhere in this issue. THE FAMOUS CLOAK HOUSE. J. Y. Brosnan, the veteran outfitter of women, holding forth at the "Famous," 25 North Illinois street, is perhaps one of the oldest and best known cloak and dress suit houses in the city. This firm is well known of the city. When a garm is purchased at the Famous it is always exactly as represented. Mr. Brosnan is now a designer based in New York and designs in women's cloaks and dresses. If contemplating making the madame or your best girl a useful Christmas present you would do well to look over what the Famous is offering. The prices are sure to be low. You can afford fully the advertisement of this well established house, which appears elsewhere in this issue. THE CENTRAL LOAN CO. The Central Loan Co., located on the second floor of the State Life Building, is one of the most popular of all the loan offices in the city. This has been almost the only co-laboratory treatment of its patrons and the reason interest charged on a loan. Every transaction is strictly confidential. They advance money liberally on household goods and all collaterals. If you are in need of financial assistance, we cheerfully recommend this office. BANK STATEMENTS REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Union National Bank of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business, November 27, 1908: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts..... $1,074,073 02 Overdrifts, secured and unsecured..... 530 32 U. S. bonds to secure circulation..... 300,000 00 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. deposits..... 25,000 00 Purchases on U. S. bonds..... 10,714 68 Bonds, securities, etc..... 9,239 52 Banking house, furniture and fixtures..... 30,227 98 Due from national banks (not reserve agents)..... $58,540 49 Due from state banks and bankers..... 5,113 72 Due from approved reserve agents..... 146,958 28 Checks and other cash items..... 18,060 29 Exchanges for clearing house..... 27,721 85 Notes of other national banks..... 12,500 00 Fractional paper currency nickels cents..... 111 43 Lawful money reserve in bank, viz. Specie..... 83,913 25 Legal tender notes..... 45,000 00— 397,919 31 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation)..... 15,000 00 Due from U. S. Treasurer, other than 5 per cent redemption fund..... 1,000 00 Capital stock paid in ..... $300,000 00 Savings that ..... 22,500 00 Unhydrated profits, less expenses and taxes paid ..... 8,502 63 National bank notes outstanding ..... 299,997 50 Due to other national banks ..... $296,764 12 Due to State banks and bankers ..... 63,999 77 Due to trust companies and d savings banks ..... 55,786 80 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 658,814 23 Demand certificates of deposit ..... 118,113 47 Certified checks ..... 3,405 73 Cashier's checks outstanding ..... 819 58 United States deposits ..... 25,000 00—2,222,703 70 Total ..... $1,853,703 83 State of Indiana, Marion County, ss: I. Fred N. Smith, cashier of the above- named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. FRED N. SMITH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of November, 1908. GEO. C. CALVERT, Notary Public. My commission expires March 23, 1910. Correct—Attest: LOUIS E. LATHROP, J. M. MUNTONH, G. A. EFROYMSON, Directors. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Gobblet National Bank at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business November 27, 1908: Loans and discounts..... $1,200,299 61 Overdrifts, secured and unsecured..... 290 30 U. S. bonds to secure circulation..... 250,000 00 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. de- signments on U. S. bonds..... 15,000 00 Premiums on U. S. bonds..... 18,400 00 City of Indianapolis, Marion county and other bonds..... 207,042 42 Furniture and fixtures, safe deposit from banks..... 27,000 00 Due from state banks (not reserve agents)..... $101,605 36 Due from state banks and bankers..... 140,725 83 Due from approved reserve agents..... 152,429 84 Checks and other cash items..... 5,069 73 Exchanges for clearance house..... 59,605 42 Notes of other national banks..... 20,710 00 Fractional paper currency nickels and cents..... 676 32 Lawful money re- Family Rough Dry b GEM LAUNDRY You are Invite Autumn Sale AT The Granger Store A tornado of phenomenal bargains. Goods, Cloaks, Shoes and Furnishing prices ever known in the history o house will be Family Washing Rough Dry by the Pound. GEM LAUNDRY. PHONE 1671. You are Invited to the Great Autumn Sacrifice Sale The Granger Store, w. Washington Street. A tornado of phenomenal bargains. $1000,000 worth of Clothing, Dry Goods, Cloaks, Shoes and Furnishing Goods, at the greatest sacrifice of prices ever known in the history of Indianapolis. Every article in the house will be Quoted at Closing Out Prices. This will certainly prove to be the givered to the people of this city and threshold of winter, when the people the best advantage. WE START TO It is not a sale of accumulated or nor have we waited until the season but right now, in the very heart of the productions of Reading Manufacture connection with the above, we are Goods. This sale will be an eye-op This will certainly prove to be the greatest possible boon that could be offered to the people of this city and vicinity. Right now on the very threshold of winter, when the people need the goods and can use them to the best advantage, WE START THIS SALE. It is not a sale of accumulated odds and ends or of doubtful qualities, nor have we waited until the season is over to begin this price slaughter, but right now, in the very heart of the season, we offer these fresh standard productions of Reading Manufacturers at astonishingly low prices. In connection with the above, we are having a Half Price Sale of Dress Goods. This sale will be an eye-opener as well as a money-saver. The Eureka Comb It is an assured fact that there is now on the market, a COMB, Scientifically Made of Hardened and Highly Polished Metals. Copper and Brass, associated together, conducts an influence over the scalp and hair. A phenomena, through its working ability, bringing the crimpy hair straight and silly in appearance, causing a rapid growth, a permanent cure for dandruff, stopping the hair from falling, making natural straight hair light in weight and airy in appearance. The best hair dryer. No other metals so suitable for the hair Brass and Copper are friendly to horn. The EUREKA COMB Guaranteed. Why not order today? Directions go with every comb. Prices, complete, $1.50, by P. O. or Express Money Order. EUREKA COMB CO., Chattanooga, Texas. serve in bank, viz.: Specie, gold ..... 30,555 00 Silver ..... 1 142 00 Legal tender notes. 150,000 00 $191,697 00---- 672,519 50 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of cir- culation) ..... 12,500 00 Total ..... $2,403,051 88 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..... 200,000 00 Surplus fund ..... 42,500 00 Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid ..... 7,522 50 National bank notes outstanding ..... 250,000 00 Due to other national banks ..... 2528,074 14 Due to State banks and bankers ..... 387,860 78 Due to trust companies and savings banks ..... 22,089 47 Dividends unpaid ..... 15 00 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 997,556 11 Demand certificates of deposit ..... 115,405 38 Certified checks ..... 3,912 98 Cashier's checks outstanding ..... 3,115 07 U. S. deposits ..... 15,000 00—1,803,028 98 Total ..... $2,403,051 88 State of Indiana, Marion County省, i. W. F. C. Goit, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Correct—Attest: M. B. WILSON, A. A. BARNES, H. W. MILLER, Directors. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Indiana National Bank at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business November 27, 1908: Loans and deposits..... $4,974,370 78 Overdrafts, secured and unsu- cured..... 441 81 U. S. bonds to secure circulation ..... 703,000 00 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. deposits..... 400,000 00 U. S. bonds on hand..... 820 00 Marion county and other bonds 246,000 00 Banking house and safe de- sign vaults..... 250,000 00 Real estate owned..... 80,658 26 Due from national banks (not reserve agency)..... $734,315 54 Due from State banks and bank- ers..... 281,186 11 Due from ap- proved reserve agents..... 990,601 96 Checks and other cash items..... 282 71 Exchange or cleaning house..... 195,838 64 Notes of other national banks..... 122,000 00 Nickels and cents..... 2,762 15 Lawful money re- serve in bank, viz.: Gold..... 913,000 00 Silver..... 13,000 00 Love note..... 13,000 00 Lender tender notes..... 250,000 00—3,502,987 11 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent circu- lation)..... 35,150 00 Capital stock paid in ..... $1,000,000 00 Surplus fund ..... 600,000 00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid ..... 459,618 39 National bank notes outstanding ..... 703,000 00 Due to other national banks ..... $1,354,783 46 Due to State banks and bankers ..... 790,648 22 Due to trust companies and savings banks ..... 322,798 88 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 4,334,917 24 Demand certificates of deposit ..... 182,762 93 Certified checks ..... 20,786 67 Cashier's checks outstanding ..... 23,504 71 United States deposits ..... 777 32 Deposits of U. S. disbursement officers ..... 400,430 14—7,431,409 67 Total ..... $10,194,027 96 State of Indiana, Marlon County, ss: I. Edward D. Moore, cashier of the ab- named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. EDWARD D. MOORE, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of November, 1988. GEORGE C. CALVERT, Notary Public. My commission expires March 23, 1910. Washing by the Pound. PHONE 1671. d to the Great Sacrifice Sale THE—— Store, W. Washington Street. $1000,000 worth of Clothing, Dry Goods, at the greatest sacrifice of Indianapolis. Every article in the the greatest possible boon that could be offered vicinity. Right now on the very need the goods and can use them to THIS SALE. Adds and ends or of doubtful quantities. is over to begin this price slaughter. In season, we offer these fresh standarders at astonishingly low prices. In having a Half Price Sale of Dress tener as well as a money-saver. VOLNEY T. MALOTT. ARTHUR V. BROWN. GEORGE B. YANES. Director THE STAGE $1.00—The Freeman one year until January $1—$1.00 $1,00—The Freeman one year until January 1—$1,00. The team of Cooper and Robinson have returned to the vaudeville stage. W. A. Bruce is promoting the Operatic Minstrels and doing fairly well. Regards to all friends. Henry Clark, who has been with Marshall's Old Plantation Show, has returned to his home in Spartanburg, S. C., for the winter. Mrs. Marie Harris is still at her same old stand, 1601-1603 St. Peter street, New Orleans, La., and sends regards to Louis Lamar and Simpson Matthews. S. G. Baker, D. L. Frazier, James E. Cayson and W. H. Tucker, known this season as Nat Lockwin's Quartet, were pleasant Freeman callers this week. J. Lester McDaniel of Greenville, S. C., the noted trick bicycle rider, spent several days in Spartanburg last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. John on Golden street. John Gale, the sweet tenor singer of the Tramps Social Club, is scoring a big hit singing "Good Bye, Sweetheart, Goodbye." He regards to all in and out of the profession. The club says hello to the bunch. James White, a member of the Whang-dal Comedy Four, was in Indianapolis Sunday on account of the illness of his sister. He left Monday morning for Terre Haute, Ind., where the quartet is appearing this week. It is no more a rumor but a decided fact that Spartanburg, S. C., has on foot an orchestra known as the Imperial. It is one that is capable of playing music; music that is music, with Prots. Massey and Capens at the head. The Real Comedy Four is the first colored act that has played the opportunity, or played the Gus Sun circuit. They have played two weeks of his time and have contracts up to the middle of January, 1909, and option on more work. Doc Blair and Arnie Born of Columbus will put on their Great Minstrels show with some strong talent, which Blair has engaged during his travels with the Al G. Minstrels in Columbus, Ohio, finishing the show with the big 400 dance December 21. The Swainnee River Quartet that has appeared so often at the Park Theatre, appeared last week at the English Theatre with Nat C. Godwin company presided over by D. L. Frazier, S. G. Baker, J. E. Gayson, W. H. Tucker. Regards to all friends. Billie Burt, the drummer, after a successful season with Dunmore's Modern Minstrels, is now enjoying a much needed rest at his home, Friendsburg, Marah's bunch and R. Lowery in Mahars' bunch and all friends in and out of the profession. He can be reached through this office. D. E. Edwards, a high contralto tenor singer of New York City, is still winning each audience on his first Southern trip with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels. His selection of sentimental songs can't be beat. He hasn't get four or five encounters each night he not satisfied. Springgins and White Polite Vaudeville Company has opened a new vaudeville house in Orlando. The name is St. Katherine's and the staff is the good. The staff is as follows: L. Harris; manager; C. A. White; press; M. B. Brown; music; Miss N. J. Franklin; musical director; Jas. L. Dean; property man. The company is quite an attraction and includes a dance troupe, Tille Johnson, Miss Ethel Fuller, Baby Ezw Robertson, Mr. Robt. Lewis, Master Ezw Springgins, Jr., Mr. Jos. Quickhard the musician, and Jos. chorus. The company will tour Louisiana. Alonzo Moore, the clever magician, at present one of the big features with the Richard and Pringle Minstrels, was victimized while playing the Novelty theater show, where he was tricked with which he mystifies his audiences, by some one who doubted his genuine ability to prognosticate and cause to disappear and reappear the many articles used in his act. While occupied in the act, he entered the dressing-room and abstracted from his trunk his valuable watch and left a card with the following annotation: "If you locate the pawnshop that I leave this in you will dispell any and all doubt you have against me and you occupet powers." Doubtless your Dubious Moore is yet minus the watch. ROYAL THEATER. MEMPHIS. The Royal Theater is putting on nothing but vaudeville this week, with Simpson and Mathews, the Great Pekin Comedy Company and Mathews are practicing a new feature for their act, that is, jumping in and out of barrels on roller skates, which are being performed by Tom Bright and Alice Ramsey, in "Soenes on Front Street," Miss Ada Harris, the orleans Sunbeam is featuring Mandy Dandy, the Mandy Gardner trusted sons; Miss Ida Gardner, our singing and dancing soubrette, is cleaning up singing "Sweetie Dear," the Dandy Gardner trusted sons; Miss Ida Gardner, we played the ma visit. The show is great. The sight of Billy Kersands and Jim Bossey was a cure for sore eyes. Best friends are Friends please write James E. Simpson. W. H. RAY'S CREOLE BELLES. W. H. Ray's Creole Belles Co., now in their third week, presenting "Old Time Ministry" at the Casino, Hoboken, N.J. Mr. Ray has newly warded the company, the ladies wearing kickerbockers and vari-colored sashes, while the comedians appear in antique costumes. Are the artists introduced are Messes Price and Finlin in a new sister act, Chas. Taylor in songs and stories. Minnie Robinson, soubrette, the concluding with a musical travesty enlisting the talents of many performing upon musical instruments, something rarely seen with smaller companies and fe wlar ones. The company will play in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The roster of the company is: W, H. Taylor, Chas Taylor Walter Usher, Hilly Middard Misses Ella Gross, Midget Price, Mamie Purber, Minnie Robinson, Sally Nagatha Joplin, Jesse B. Smith, master of transportation and assistant manager. PLANT JUICE VAUDEVILLE CO. Jane Wools and Lehman Smith, the two leading comedians, are having a successful season and one of the best shows that Doe Lilham has ever had. Wools is making a comedy about his situations and his ventriloquist act. Smith, the man that made the allegator "af," is up singing "Let Me Alone, I Ain't Got No Money, I have C Cook, the world's charmwizard." player. He says, tell all the boys on the Allen Minstrels he would like to hear from them. He knows all other boys are happy woods and Smith send regards to Willie Mullen, Jamie Mullen, Sam Russell, Bon Bon Buddy and all in and out of the profession. NEW BAND ORGANIZED. After repeated attempts have been made to organize a brass band at Denver, Col., the band has made a success, eW are doing nicely and the future of this band is assured because Harris does know what it is to quit. The roster of the band is as follows: Clarinete, J. C. Harris, Arthur Nesbite, A. Gonzalez; cornet, song, Wm. H. Lee (director), Jos. H. Kelley; first, Wm. H. Lee (winter), C. H. Anderson; James Brown, Payton Peterson, A. Level; trombone, Emellio Garcia, Ed. F. Caldwell; bartonite, Milton Forge; tuba, Frank Cassett; unconcat, drums, C. E. Williams, M. T. Jackson. The Harris orchestra is still enjoying the run of success and popularity that it has had for years. They are in demand because they are capable of play for any occasion and also have play it. Most of the men double B. and Q GREAT FERDON MED. CO. NO. 2 BERKELEY, CAL. Herbert LaShe closed with the R. & P. Georgia Minstrels a few days ago and had the large tumor removed from his head by the European medical expert with the Ferdon Co. Tuesday evening, November 17, and he is a happy man. His McP. Ford returned a few days ago after spending two months in Los Angeles. Frank DeBriote expects to have his wife with him in a few days. Littleton McDuff resigned the leadership to Mr. DeBriote, but he is still in the band. He is the manager of the Theater in Oakland and are playing to S. O. nightly. They have a colored show of 84 people. This week they present "The Tale of the Tiger." George Taylor is starring the show. WILL TAKE CHARGE OF THE LIN COLN THEATER. S. Tutt Whitney has severed his connection with the Black Patti Troubadours as comedian, producer and stage manager to take charge of the New Lincoln Theater, a production company, producer and stage director. In leaving the Black Patti Co. Mr. Whitney has this to say: "I am actuated to make the change through no personal feeling of the role, but I am the best regards for Messrs. Voeckel & Nolan as managers. For Madame Jones I have nothing but honor and the greatest respect, while my association with the memorial service of the late Mr. Felicious. Mr. Cal. F. Johnson, proprietor of the Lincoln Theater, has under process of erection a new $35,000 theater. For the control of this he has seen fit to engage in the air in excess of any offerings he may air road show consequently the change." CARTER & BLUFORD A BIG HIT AT SPOKANE, WASH. The team made a tremendous hit in Spokane and will be remembered by the audience on the Orpheum in this city, "The Act Beautiful," as they term it, is one of those out of the ordinary vaudeville acts that they did on the Pacific coast, and that is saying a good deal for the act. The Carters are strictly up to date and trying at all times to visit the Indian camps on the west bank of the Hangman creek, and spent much time in the city, but our representative was unable to learn whether they saw anything new in the life of the local Indians that could be added to their big feature act on the But little advance advertising will be necessary in future visits to the coast, for the name of Carter and Bluford, or "The Tropical-Looking Malden in the ocean," because the more popularly designated, will be enough to fill the house at each performance. LOWERY'S NASHVILLE STUDENTS AND MORGAN MINSTRELS COMBINED. We are now in our eighth week and business has been more than expected since our opening. Our car has been remodeled, refinished and painted both comfortably and happy and our food is pronounced by all the greatest ever served on any car they were ever on. The company has been renamed and our roster includes Prof. P. G. Lowery, Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Morgan, Jas, and Florence Hall, Charles and Blanch Beecham, Eva Nolan, Carrie Cunningham, Nellie Frost, Goldie Morlan, Jack Johnson, Jno. Edwards, E. Mason, Henry Jefferson, Henry Rawles, Tom May, William May, Tony Barfield, P. C. Smith, Chas, Wm. Boulden, Brickricks, Fred Slayton and Wm. Ronlden. Our route takes us into Missouri and Kansas soon, which has been the stopping grounds for the Students for years, and it is expected that the "Fess" will come to the car occasionally and we have home to Erica Kan, soon, and we won't accept anything short of a couple dozen nice fat pullets from that big farm of his. HARRISON BROS. MINSTRELS. Harrison Bros. Minstrels No. 1 opened at the Temple Theatre, Edinburgh, Ind. November 23, under the direction of B. Rosewood, sold before the doors opened. The house only seat 700. We were forced to sell standing room and then turned them away. We gave a free show to the audience. We drew the people from near and far. The curtain went up at 8:15 sharp with first part introducing a number of new songs. The program was headed by Bob Clark, Mose Watkins, Robert Truman and Jas. Clark. Master Leon Lewis, youngest colored performer on the American stage, received a free show. Lewis, who sings "If There Aint No Chicken in Heaven I Don't Want to Go There," took well with the audience. He introduced some of his new popular songs. In the plantation and cotton scene many of the Southern melodies were heard. The cotton scene was the most popular song in the company carries 32 people, including band and orchestra. Manager Mulkins of the Temple Theatre was well pleased with the business staff is as follows: Wm. Besser, manager and owner; Chas. E. Meyers, advance representative; Fred Lewis, manager; S. Mooney, propeller; Robt. Bombard, band leader; Fred Victor, orchestra. FROM THE HEART OF DEHOMEY BY JULI JONES JR. Grand all-ground change. That's what made business. The lower end of the Stroll seems to have taken new life. THE ROYAL went back into business and is now running on weekly schedule—and to think. Miss Wille Ingels, "the Lady of Quick Changes," has taken over the business. Before she had been only musical director, but now she has charge of the front, back and in fact the whole block. Her management of the Stroll. Another expected thing has come to pass. The Monogram has closed so as to lengthen its house. The house now runs from State to Dearborn streets and will be known in the future as the Bowling Alley—that is, if the set piece we can call will be 18 feet wide and 600 feet long and patrons in the rear will be furnished with field glasses. At last the war scenes from Simms & Lumly, that has been breeding for some time, to King Simms and a ladder raise to King of Dehoney, did not meet the approval of his old collegian. The final act was played in one of the basements last night of one of the play houses along the street to apply to appear on the bill but Wesley's crew objected. Simms tried to smooth out matters with a big hickory stick. Wesley ended matters with a very small bomb—anyway, it wrecked Simms. Weil to make matters well, that he put the apes shop. No further details at this writing. of the nightingale singers who have challenged the admiration of the world. Miss Lulu Coleman was the center of attraction when she spoke of her sex on the stage, when she gave a new light on how the stage, when mirrors form, the arm and blossom of intelligence of the race and the power it has on public opinion. Referring to Miss Abbie Mitchell, she said the great dallies often speak of her as an extra singer and actress, which undoubtedly helps the race." The medical profession was discussed by Drs. Richard and Robert Oliver and they spoke of her as an extra singer made by men of their profession. During the afternoon the discussions were augmented by Mr. Andrew Tribble, Mrs. Bessie Oliver, Messrs. Charlie Hunter, Frank Brown and others. The guests at the dinner gave Mrs. Ole of Mrs. Armand Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Business along the path is fine, but the sudden cold snap will hurt a little bit. Every house offered something new, but the owners have run the story into a joke. The public doesn't care how much they make or lose. A good show is what everybody wants and must have. We want all the money we have and remark that every house along the Stroll has put on a better show than any place, for the money, the money, the money. To leak it into body will demand the same. They can't see how the houses make any money, the paymum see, proper money, the treasurer see for the last three years, has given up his job; no reasons given. This young man would be fine for any road show or house. He has been well known, we have to omit the Pekin this week, as he could not make all the rounds. THE GRAND, the star in Dahoney, keeps up its gait, leading everybody the killing pace. They offered a new bill. How on earth do they do it? This house manages to make it work for the office of our morally act, and really produces new people. This week's bill is new of the highest order, with five new faces. Miss Lizzie Hart handed out another hot one of her new books, young girls, a gallery, a boy is simply a wonder, but their duet does not blend any too good, as the distance is quite long. They certainly did storm the house, but the one she used last night she will storm the country. Next came a musical trio, a brand new green act; Claybrooks, Brown and Claybrooks, and the lack of rehearsing, but they were so far above the ordinary that all of this can be overlooked. As to their instruments, they knew a little or played anything worth mentioning of the Irving Jones style of work and did his work well. The "straight" man should make up and cut off his little stingy mustache, any hair that has been missing on their upper lip, save John Drew. The lady is a very sweet singer and can dance. The three should sing and dance together more, as this act will be a good one when it comes. This act was followed by Juanti, the whirlwind dancer. This young lady had to work at a big disadvantage, yet she did very well. Next up, but in a half sheath gown. Well, Sam tries hard and these are the people who eventually get to the front. Following this came Miss Hart and her boys, who are doing well for kids. If they stick together they may get by; but boys are boys. THE WASHINGTON offers a female minstrel about the same that was offered at the Pekin Theatre by Edmonia Jones Tyler Tiger end men, and Maud Grundy or Nancy Hill. This good, no matter whose house they play, as they are really talented from a female point of view. At the Washington this minstrel plays houses along the Stroll put together. If one would write some new stuff for them to produce they would make a good bank stock company. The manager of this house is big salaried employees white; but the performers seem to have taken advantage of this treatment and will kill the goose that lays the golden egg sooner or later. THE LINCOLN offers the Dear Uncle Wesley Lumly in "The Honolulu Boys," which is a bad bill for taste to present to the public. The word "coon" has lost its usefulness years ago. Uncle Wesley should take this bunch on a long trip to woods; it might improve health and mind. Marion A Brooks, manager of the Grand Theatre, was suddenly called away to Dallas, Tex. to attend the funeral of his father, Samuel Miller, the pioneer and promoter of the Lone Star State. Mr. Wesley was one of the oldest colored residents of Dallas. The Freeman will be sent to any ad- dresser in the city on January 1 for $1.00 a year. Subscribe now. MANY SOCIAL FUNCTIONS IN HONOR OF COLE & JOHNSON. Special to THE FREEMAN LOUISVILLE. Ky.-Your correspondent this week is pleased to announce a round of exceptional and charming entertainments given last week in honor of the distinguished players. Cole and Johnson, by their friends of Louisville, who are among the most distinguished city that represent its highest social life. At these several functions were served choice viands that are fit for the gods. Never before in the social life of Louisville, so many affairs given men of the stage. The many distinguished and prominent Negroes are discussed as well as current issues of the day. The Negro in law, medicine, theology, pedagogy, art, science, industry, and poetry were among the topics of discussion. Owing to the matinees given Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the celebrated players were forced to decline social engagement because of the evidence of the hospitality of the citizens of Louisville was that of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Oliver in honor of Messrs. Cole Brown and several other members of the "Red Moon" company. Dr. Oliver, the host, is one of the most prominent Negroes of the city and is chief of the Order of True Reformers. The dinner was given at the country home of Dr. Oliver, which is located in one of the cities of the country. In many respects the home is a veritable mansion, being situated on a high hill, surrounded by picturesque landscape and a cultivated farm as a background. The guests were invited to the visitors many of the guests availed themselves of the opportunity to see the results of the summer farm life. The immense amount of food served to the visitors that being raised by Dr. Oliver. At 3 p. m. the guests were invited in the spacious dining room by Mrs. Frank Fowler Brown, who assisted Mrs. R. W. The table decorations were beautiful. A large silver jardineer stood in the center of the table containing living plants and was surrounded by carnations and red roses. The table of the drug at its request was given a red rose in commemoration of "The Red Moon" company. The dinner was beautifully served in ten minutes of theمسير of elegant and delicious collations. Just below the table, the dining room was beautifully lighted, also the red candillambers which stood beside each plate. While the dinner was being prepared in the guest's indulged in a very intelligent convective, there were exhibited culture, refinement and dignity and a thorough knowledge of the real things that go to make up progressive and successful. Wellhood. The "Three Days of the Week" was the "Mக்கs and Johnson and James Reese Europe," and in the conversation, Mr. Bob Cole discussed the Negro and his possibilities as an actor was remembered that Mr. Cole and written an answer to Mr. Col. "Life" contending that the Negro had dramatic capabilities and an editorial of last week's issue was read, which bore out Mr. Cole's contention. This phase of the unleveraged life of the red spiring, Mr. Rosamond J. J. M. Interestingly on the success of the Negro as a musician and composer, and spoke with much pride of those who have contributed to the works, melodies and canतिas that are now being sung by the English-speaking world. Prof. James Reese Europe, who is regarded as one of the best musical directors of the race, talked optimistically of the Negro as a singer and recalled many of the nightingale singers who have challenged the admiration of the world. Miss You Coleman was the center of attraction when she was the first woman to attend it. It was she who gave a new light on how the stage now mirrors forth the bloom and blossom of intelligence of the race to win the Nobel Prize. Referring to Miss Abbie Mitchell, she said: "The critics of the great dailies often speak of her as an excellent singer of actress, which undoubtedly helps the race." The medical profession was discussed by Drs. Richard and Robert Oliver and William Brown, and made by men of their profession. During the afternoon the discussions were augmented by Mr. Andrew Tribble, Mrs. Bestow, Frank Brown and others. The guests at the dinner were Mr. Bob Cole, Mr. Rosatina Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown, Mr. James Europe, Mr. Cary B. Lewis, Mrs. Dora Thomas, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Mrs. Miss Lula Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Oliver. On Thursday night after the performance of "The Red Moon," Dr. and Mrs. Richard Oliver of 1200 West Chestnut street streetcar in honor of the Misses Merrill and Johnson and the Frank Fowler Brown. The occasion was marked by the delightful manner in which the guests of the evening enjoyed the fine dining and the charming hostess and she served a delicious supper. During the night Mr. Rosmond Johnson entertained the guests with a number of brilliant and artistic selec tions, including the masters as Paderewski, Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven and Hayden. The feature number of the evening was the one selec tion of Miss Abbie Mitchell. She sang the first of her songs and her notes were clear and sweet. The sentiment and expression of the singer was of such magnitude that at the close she was voiceriferously applauded and was sung at a concert with her and her notes were clear and grace as the first. Mr. James Reese Europe and Mr. Frank Brown favored the guests with musical selections of the highest and most artistic order. The prettiest affair during the week was that given by Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, 1504 West Walnut street, Friday afternoon in honor of Merrill, Cole and John- "The Red Moon" stag dinner was in many respects the most elaborate in point of view. The guests were attended in this city. The beautiful dining room was handsomely decorated for the occasion. Red was the color scheme and the menu was original and the menu cards engraved in red were at each plate and near them stood red individual candleabers. While the decorations were original and the menu cards were Twelve courses served in pump and style and it was prepared by Miss Georgia A. Lattimore, who is the questive science teacher, the host of the dinner. The feature of the dinner was the ices served in the shape of a red moon and cake in red moon shape, as was the names of the virtual guest. After the dinner the men repaired to the well-appointed den of Dr. Lattimore, where cigars with red bands were served. The affair lasted from 3 Miss Lattimore, who is perhaps one of the most royal entertainers of the city, had a number of charming men to meet at parlor doors were thrown open and Mr. Cole and Mr. Johnson were formally introduced to the ladies. Misses Abbie Mitchell, Colleen O'Connor, and visiting ladies. The ladies served with refreshments in red moon style. During the stag dinner, Dr. Lattimore acted as toastmaster and each of the women brought refreshments and thoughtful toasts; Messrs. Bob Cole, Rosamond Johnson, James Reese Europe, Sam Lucas, Chas. Bradock, Cary B. Lewis, Dr. H. B. Beck, Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, Dr. Steve Alexander and Dr. Pinder Flack. Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver of 1427 Wardhouse, Olive Street of a dinner party Friday night in honor of Messrs. Cole and Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fowler Brown. The evening was delightfully enjoyed by the musician, Rosamond Johnson, Abbie O'Connor, Messrs. Rosamond Johnson, Jesse Reese Europe and Frank Brown. After the musical selections were received, the Lottie Oliver served the guests with a feast of dalies and choice viands and vintages. On Thanksgiving day Messrs. Bob Cole Rosamond Johnson, Misses Abbie Mitchell and Lulu Coleman were the guests at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Evans. CARY B. LEWIS. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. LOUISVILLE, KY. 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Address J. J. Nolan, 26 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tenn. For the Barnum & Bailey's greatest Side Show on earth, and Wm. H. Reid's Band and Concert dancing comedians, eight young ladies who are good singers and can dance a little. Musicians doubling stage will be given preference. State salary in first letter. Address all letters to Care The Freeman or Cincinnati Bill Board. W. E. WILSON, THE MAGICIAN. is now idle; would like engagement about Jan. 1st. Address W. E. WILSON, 209 Third Street, Burlington, Ia. Coming Soon A RABBIT'S FOOT COMEDY, The greatest Negro show of them all. A Continued Success. Watch and wait for the Big Comedy PAT CHAPPELLE, Box 702, Jacksonville, Fla. WANTED—Talent for Gayety Theatre amateur nights for colored people only. Also some good musicians for fun-for-all musician's contest, cash prizes. Apply office of The Freeman at 12 o'clock Monday. Give me the man with an aim, Whatever that aim may be, Witness it whether it fame, * It matters not to me. Let him wal kin the path of right, And keep his aim in sight. And keep his aim in faith away, With his eyes on the glittering height. With something to do the whole year through, He will not stumble or fall. But Satan weaves a snare For the feet of those who stray, With never a thought or a care Where the path may lead away. The man who hath no aim Not leaveth no name. When this life's done, but ten to one He leaves a record of shame. Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream, And live a purposeless life. —New York Commercial. Marriage and births among Negroes in Jersey City are falling off. The Alabama Penny Savings and Loan Company is now in its nineteenth year. Thomas Hayden is the oldest tonsorial artist among Negroes at Springfield, Ill. A colored daily newspaper will be started, it is said, at Chattanooga, Tenn., in the near future. G. W. Carter and D. B. Jeffers, of San Antonio, are interested in the Guanajuato Gold Fields Mining Company. George W. McCreary is superintendent of the Dust-All Company of Springfield, and is meeting with much success. A chain of schools for the education of the Negro is about to be established in the Southwest by the Roman Catholic Church. A branch Berea College is proposed by Negroes of Kentucky. It is said that Mr. Carnegie has offered $200,000 if the race of the State will raise $50,000. A city of all Negroes, Mound Bayon, Miss., gave Taft 100 votes and Bryan 1 in the recent election. It has been impossible to learn who gave the one vote. This year marks the sixty-first anniversary of the Liberian government as an independent State. Dr. Ernest Lyons, the minister from the United States, took part in the celebration. Colored Spanish-American war veterans have organized at Los Angeles, Cal. there are forty members of the organization, the General Otis Petis Camp No. 34, United Spanish War Veterans. The Glimore-Warrick Art and Investment Company was organized on the 15th inst. with the following officers: A. Glimore, president; J. M. Warrick, vice president; Noah Warrick, treasurer, and R. E. Gould, secretary and business manager. Glimore stated that it will be a stock company and shares of stock will cost $5. Joseph Thomas, the only Negro section foreman, of Minerville, near Pottsville, Pa., employed on the Schuylkill Valley Highway on the Pennsylvania Railroad having the best section of trackage covering the distance from Fifty-second street in Philadelphia through to Lytle, a distance of 95 miles, was awarded $50 in gold. A number of white men were in the contest. Allensworth, Cal., is a new Negro town already surveyed. It is no wheing population, but it is in honor of whose president, Col. Allensworth, the town is named. The site of the new city is on the main line of the Santa Fe Railroad and seven miles west of Minerville. It is halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in one of the most fertile parts of the San Joaquin Valley. Remember the folks, at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to the address one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1, for 52 issues. Send your orders today. Death of Prof. Johnson. Prof. Augustus R. Johnson, principal of the city high school, Augusta, Ga., died recently. Johnson was born in Augusta February 29, 1853, and received his education in the schools of that city. He was the first colored school teacher given a license to teach in the public schools of State receiving payment from State funds. He was elected for the first consecutive years, during which time he held the respect and esteem of scholars, teachers and parents. He was baptized Harmony Baptist Church, and the venerable editor of the Georgia Baptist; likewise the burial ceremonies were conducted. Rev. White and the Knights of Pythias. Prof. Johnson was president of the Sunday School Workers, deacon of Harmony Church for thirty years and church minister. He was the first organization the first company of colored militia in Augusta and was made the lieutenant-colonel of the first battalion of the colored State militia, which has long since been in existence. Prof. Johnson was born and spent his life in Augusta, where his achievements and life history are open like a book to a noble and useful life. The citizens of Georgia, at home and abroad, mourn the loss of this great man, Christian and teacher, who gave his life to the cause of his people. Peace to his ashes. Until January 1 The Freeman will be sent one year for $1.00. VIEWS ON THE RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISION. The Negro press is not very divergent in its views anent the recent Supreme Court decision wherein it was held that separated educational Bowing to the inevitable is about the sum of the comment, protesting of course, against what is held to be a contradiction of the laws. What Negro publications have had to say was pretty much the expected, since according to their views the Negroes have been worsted. What other than race papers have to say will be interesting. They are not peculiarly interested and more than likely will reflect the sentiment of many white people along this line. However, we will, if wise, peruse their comment with caution, knowing that they are not experts on the race situation. The Philadelphia Enquirer said: "Another blow to the Reconstruction legislation and the Fourteenth Amendment, which were intended to give the Negro absolutely the same civil rights as the white, but which have largely failed in practice as well as theory." The New York Post had the following: "Might almost be described as a latter-day Dred-Scott decision." A recent number of the Library Digest states the case clearly and concisely in the following language: "The main facts of the case are briefly as follows. Berea College was established in Kentucky before the THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER war for "the education of all persons of good moral character." After the war colored students applied and were admitted, and the benefits of the institution remained open to both races until 1904, when the Kentucky legislature passed a law for bidding the education of blacks and white within twenty-five miles of one another by the same institution—that is to say, a colored branch might be established not less than twenty-five miles from the buildings attended by white students. The main object of this legislation was Berea College, which immediately brought suit in the Kentucky courts to prevent its enforcement. Losing the case in the Kentucky courts, the college carried it up to the Supreme Court, which now decides—with two dissenting voices—that the Kentucky statute in constitutional. The New York Evening Post observes as follows: "If a citizen can be discriminated against because of color, why not because of faith? Some of our Northern universities are receiving so many Catholics, Jews, and foreign-born students, as to become extremely uneasy over the situation. Will students of this type be excluded some day, in the endeavor to protect the right of a State to control its corporate creatures? We fail to see why not. It would be more contrary to the spirit of our institutions, than the Berea decision, and would be no more serious a blow to our whole democratic experiment. Its enemies are today rejoicing." "The Supreme Court has for years successfully evaded and direct judgment upon the various discriminations against the Negro in the southern states. It has calmly permitted violations of the guaranteed rights of the freedman to go on unchecked. For the thousandth time, therefore, we have an illustration of the narrow, technical way in which the courts decide grave questions. Here the judge is so anxious lest the right of a State to control one of its corporate creatures be impaired, that nothing else is visible in the law." Similar expressions are noted in other publications, all, it may be known of the North. These wholesome unbiased views sound good, yet against these are set the stern opposition of the entire South and the indifference of much of the North. "Enthusiastic" sympathy may not be noted anywhere, North or South. No one knows this better than the Negroes. The Supreme Court is wise to the fact and has "evaded" the question as long as possible. The Negroes have not been any too vigilant in many respects—slipping back in the estimation of those in position to head off adverse "legislation." The steady growth of the peculiar systems—the separate car, disfranchisements and racial isolation generally—has stripped the Negroes of much sympathy and support of the right kind. We may set it down that the Supreme judges found no pleasure in making the unfortunate decision; it stands to reason that they would have preferred to have rendered according to the law as it is writ. If we will get real close to the matter we will see that the Negroes are without civil comfort and that in spite of the beautiful platitudes about the majesty of the laws. They are nothing—merely empty forms when not sustained by the great majority. The situation is most unfortunate, but really the logical one. We may as well admit this along with the contention that the laws have been violated. It should be admitted as a contribution to the peace of the nation. The Supreme Court has no power to law the race into the good graces of the people. MELANGE We should be thankful for the opportunities to work and to do; to do pretty much what we like to do. If we don't have great concerns where the money just rolls in, it is our own fault. We can make money of the white people, then turn right around and spend it among ourselves if we are "a mind" to. Then when we are all down and out we can go right back to the same source, work and get some more money and try it over again. The foreigners understand this thing. They come, make lots of money, then go home and live retired lives. Or if they choose to go in business right here among us they are not long in getting the nickels together. They get them by the same hard licks that we get ours. They, however, are not so prodigal. They act as though the good thing was not going to hold out very long; we act as if it would continue forever. It's the way we were brought up, helped by disposition. Good wages have been the rule with us. Those from abroad have had nothing else much to shake but the lemon tree, and, by the way, the good old times are not always going to be. When we are crowded to the inch as the European lives, we won't have the work; or if so it will be cheapened owing to the many that are waiting to do it. So in the interest of posterity, better make hay while the sun is shining. We suffer in one respect only and really that condition—civil, is not without a compensating good. As said before, this condition makes business opportunities. The white man's whirlpool of business strenuosity is avoided, and where the Negro with his neagre capital would stand about as much chance as a snow ball in—well, July. Long years ago people used to say, "You'll never miss the water till the well runs dry." The well is not dry, but the best of wells sometimes go bad. Wisdom suggests that the opportunities be seized, and while at the flood. These opportunities are something. The wrongs endured are trifling from the standpoint of opportunity of individual effort. The cry from without is work, do; the duty is work, do; and yet we fail of the admonition. Why appalled by the magnitude of other men's achievements? What solace or despair comes through them? They are not ours; similar can be ours. So there. Oh, yes, we have some cause for thanks, even if we did have a Brownsville affair, some "Jim Crow" cars, some disfranchisements. These things sound very bad, but they are not nearly so bad when one gets real close to them. To vote for other men without being voted for is not such an ideal anyhow. "Jim Crow" cars when as good as other cars are not "Jim Crow" unless we so will it. The individual is paramount and not the cars. A man will be no less in a hog car; the ca rdoesn't make the man. This is no justification for them nor palliation, but since what is, is, why not make the best of it? We are no Polonious, but offer this: As you think you are, you are. This has in mind national beings and not little Naps and Ulysses S. Grants, that genus homo met up with i nthe institutions for the insane. Eliminating the evil there remains a much greater amount of good, and for which we may be thankful. Not only is there unbounded opportunity for individual and collective effort. One may worship as he chooses; he may infest the street corners, sing and pray in one or in all of the tongues. This has not been always so in the world's history. We are not imprisoned for debt. Speech is free; the press is free; life and limb are protected; one is entitled to all the property he can pay for; the courts of justice are not denied; the streets are of access. In most respects the race enjoys the privileges generally enjoyed. All of this in the country that is the envy of all the world. Individually we can be thankful for the common blessings; the waving corn promises to one as to another—food. The lambs that skip the hills with their woolly fleece promise to one as to another—clothing. The aspiring oak promises to one as to another—shelter and fire. The sun, moon and stars are ours, the communists of the skies, unwarped by petty favoritism, reminding the sons of men of Him beyond, who is not less in communal love than His creatures. Until January 1 The Freeman will be sent one year for $1.00. The College Helights Investment proposition should not be overlooked by our women. Take advantage of the opportunity to buy a home, or to invest in this as a money-maker. Several women have already bought homes and others should follow the example. It costs but a postal to learn the particulars. Write to day and learn the the advantages. Remember the folks at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to their address one year. Special reduction until Jan. 1. $1 for $2 issues. Send your orders today. COLORED YOUTH. COME SOUTH. Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, a school for Negro youths established and maintained by the State of Texas. E. L. Blackshear, A. M., Principal; C. W. Luckie, A. B., Treasurer. Located at Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. On main line Houston & Texas Central Railway. Educate your children in the South, the land of the black man's opportunity, offering superior inducements of labor, land, homes, mild climate, cheaper living and business enterprise. Full normal and industrial courses, agricultural building, well equipped shops, library and laboratories; new buildings, electric lights, water system, sanitary sewer system. Industrial courses in Wheelwrighting, Blacksmith, Carpentry, Steam Laundering, Practical Steam Engine, Dynamo and Boller Work, Horseshoeing, Mechanical Drawing, Cabinet-making, Steel and Wood Lathe and Turn Work, Tailoring, Shoemaking, Poultry Farming, Truck Farming, Broom and Mattress Making, Dairying, Stock Feeding and General Agriculture. Normal Courses, History, Economics, Mathematics, Pedagogy, Physics, Chemistry, Natural History and Scientific Agriculture. Prepares for teaching, for the trades or for business. Courses in music and accounting. Faculty of twenty-five trained, experienced instructors, graduates of leading colleges. Surroundings healthful and beautiful; expenses reasonable. Thirtieth annual session opens September 9, 1908. For catalogues and application blanks address W. O. ROLLINS, COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss; in the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, No. 17,35. Archie Ball vs. Roxie Ball. Complaint Divorce. BE IT KNOWN. That on the 16th day of Nov. 1908, the above named plaintiff by his attorney filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Indiana, her complaint against the above named defendant. Roxie Ball, and the plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office the above named competent person, showed that she had complained not a resident of the state of Indiana, and said cause is for divorce, and that the above named defendant is a necessary party thereto, and that she has complained on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer or demur thereto on the 15th day of January, 1908, and that she has been in court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against her, and that unless she appear and answer or demur thereto at the calling of the same being the 12th judicial day of a term of said court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the city of Indianaapolis, on the first day of January, 1908, the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in her absence. LEONARD M. QUILL Clerk COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. 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What about Moran and Murphy fixing it? The Langford-O'Brien bout is declared off. Young Sam Langford is attracting attention. Burns is all right, but—so thinks Jeffries. In Gan's last fight he hit the first blow but received the last. Negroes have held practically all titles except the bantam. The Blackburn-Donovan match was merely an exhibition for Jack. Can't win on your name now; it's the punch that does the work. Sometimes our minds change; so did Johnny Coulon in regard to facing Moran. Packey's out for the money—his earnings of $25,000 has made him ambitious. Nelson has gone into the real estate business. Better than "blowing his money in," isn't it? ___ How many scrappers can go through the career Jim Corbett has and end up without a scratch? ___ When fighters fought barehanded it was nothing out of the ordinary for a battle to last several hours. ___ It is said that the punch that laid Gans low before Frankie Erne was an accidental one, but it counted just the same. Indianaapolis sports believe that Jack Johnson is a brilliant fighter with Burns as his master. Wait and see who's the master. ___ Every fighter wears his own fighting face. Nelson and Gans disguise in the extremes; the former frowns, the latter grins. ___ Some fighters must be given a few rounds of hard punishment before they can get together; others fall into pieces at a few rounds of beating. The Burns-Johnson fight, which will take place at Sydney, Australia, December 26, seems to be attracting more attention on the big island than in America. Nelson went for Gan's body, Memsis for Blackburn's, and doubtless Burns will go for Johnson's. It is a thing of the past to play for the colored boys' heads now. Kid Harper, the Hoosier 122-pet pet, says he is as good as ever. Harper would like to get on a go in the near future and he huris a challenge to any man in the country of his weight. And if S. Ketchell and Billy Papke don't reconsider their statements that they do for fights and who will they meet? You know there are but a few white "heavies" in their class. Some play to put a man out by wearing him down; some play for one particular spot or blow; some use science to win; others heavy hitting. Many have their choice to some one of these particular methods and claim that it is the best one they have been topnotchers in all of these styles. HERCULEANS AND WILBERFORCE PLAY GAME Home Boys Claim Score of 5 to 0 Ohioans 0 to 0 -Referee's Decision -Visitors Leave Field. Thanksgiving Day greeted one of the best and hardest fought football games ever witnessed by the colored people of this city, which took place at northwest Park, where the teams of Indianapolis and the Wilberforce University team of Ohio. The game was well played by both elevens. The "Hersks" pushed the ball over the visitors' goal line, but failed to kick goal, making the score, according to the referee's decision. Wilberforce claimed that the score should have been 0 to 0. The goal posts of the college team were not exactly on the goal line; there was a distance of about two feet between the line and the posts at the point when the "Herks" made their touchdowns. The local teams set the ball over Wilberforce's goal line but not beyond the goal posts and the visitors said the ball should have passed the goal posts before the "Herks" could be entitled to a touchdown. As the distance between the two goal lines was of the legal measurement, the "Herks" claimed that their score is eight and so did the referee, and because the ball was not possessed of the line to come to an argument. This technical point seemed to have been impossible and a great argument took place, which grew obnoxious to the fans, who left the grounds. Captain Wallace of the Wilberforce team called his men off the field and refused to continue the game until the 5 to 0 score was erased. The referee maintained his decision and the evening grew old dark to continue the game. If does so, and the contest ended before the second half was completed. The "Hersks" were the favorites before and during the game, though they were several times in dangerous quarters, including a goodly number of the fair sex. They understood (?) the game thoroughly and waved pennants, flags and ribbons of blue and white and screamed to the boys. They also helped the boys. More interest was manifested in this game than any before and with one exception (the injury to the leg of Samuel Gawne, star fullback of the university team) and it was played on the Northwestern field. The game of this year's time of the Hercules far surpasses that of the past season; their goal has not been crossed this season, the championship of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The first half, of the game ended with the ball in Wilberforce territory and it was there all during that half. The visitors reported to finding out the strongest of the results. He found the field in the weak spot. They found one; it was in the "Herks" center and time after time they plunged through it. The local boys couldn't stop them and at several times Wilberforce had a chance to score. At the end of the day, the game is not only eight-yard line but the "Herks" strengthened and held them there for downs. The "Herks" received the ball and Lewis's toe did the rest. The oval went back and was filled in the center of the field, but was returned to the new field. The-{berks} for fullback, who was tackled hard. The ball again began to travel toward the "Herks" goal. Neither team scored in this half. Fullback Owen Lewis kicked off in the second half to "Wilby," who steadily advanced to ball. The "Herks" put in a post-time and a speed of Lewis's to not in the way of the pigskin and sent it some distance. The feat created the loudest yellow of the afternoon, and to make it continue to a "Herk" fell on the ball at the end of the day's three-year line. Quarterback Elliott called signals for line plunges through tackle and guard, and with all the vim that Captain Elbert's Trojans seemed to possess the ball as sent over the visitors' goal line, who at the completion contested the decision of The home boys had a good chance to score when Lee, center, had the ball from a paint in his hands in a clean field and practically threw it away. **The Lineup.** *Herculeans* *Owens* . Leftend . Layton *Hines* . Left tackle . M. oore *Infield* . Left guard . McCullough *Lee and Stone* . Center . Brewer *Stout* . Right guard . McCullough *Duncan* . Right tackle . Brown *Bray* . Right end. Dick'n & Wilson *Burt* (C.) . Quarterback. Wallace (C.) *Burt* . Left half . Nelson *Bolly & Young* . Left half . Nelson *Lewis* . Fullback Gwine and Robbins Herculeans' weight, 145 pounds; Wil伯force, 140 pounds. Edward Gallard, manager of the Herculeans; Prof. Earl Finch of Wil伯force. Park, Wil伯force. The Wil伯force team arrived in the city at about 12:15 p.m. about 45 minutes late rhan they were scheduled. Manager Gallard of the Herculeans, accompanied by several members of the station by the station, who were seventeen in number. They were escorted to the Summer League Club, where they made their Wil伯force team, followed by the Herculeans, paraded to the Northwestern Baseball Park, where the game was played. The Clay band, known as the Herculeans, teamed up. After the game the college team took supper at the New Parker House. A Few Bits on the Game. Wilberforce won a lot of admirers by their clean game. Oh, that fumble of Lee's! Elbert tried the forward pass to "Phoebe," but it fell into the hands of Willis. Bolly's plunges had no effect. Brewer played all around Lee at center. Both captains were quarterbacks. The wind caused several off-side kicks. Did you see the medicine man with his grip in his hand? The crowd interfered with the playing at times. Who was more enthusiastic than Manager Gallard? This was the first game the Ohiolans have lost in three years. They may play a post season. And the girls all yelled. Hurdling was costly to the visitors. Everyone that can play football can't dance. You should have been at the Yale dance and seen for yourself. Wallace certainly has a deer foot (and so has Elbert). A change of center proved successful for "Herks." Gordan, referee, is an old Wabash College football star. Manager Prof. Earl Finch said that Gordan was "the fairest referee that has refereed a game for his team. If someone this was true in the first half, after which the Buckeye boys began to change their opinion. Gordan did fine and bids fair to referee next season if not to play. One remarkable thing about Wilberforce was, that they coached themselves during the entire season. It is not a disgrace to be a gentleman on the field. Phil Owens made several good tackles. The forward pass was costly for the "Herks." That one-band tackle of Captain Elbert practically saved the game for the localities. Mud, ankle deep. Wind too strong in first half for good punting. Elbert knew where to send the ball. Oh, that foot of Lewis' must be a No. 13! He who could swim could play football and some splashing tackles were made in some nice cool water. "Wilby's" backs were speedy and sensational. It was said that Captain Wallace did not play his usual game. Well, if he had, Elbert would have had to hustle. Gwynne sustained a badly injured leg. Dr Norrell, who pressed his leg, says that the sturdy fullback will be laid up for three weeks. Well, it's the last game of the season anyhow. Both teams played well. An enthusiastic crowd indeed. Everybody worked but the police. Had the field been dry, the Hoosier team would have had to encounter more of "Wilby's" trick plays. The umpire's failure to inspect the field made him primarily the cause of the dispute. Wilberforce's interference was above the average. When Gwynne was penalized for hurdling (?) he said he did it to save the face of one of the "Herks" linesmen who was lying on the ground at the time. Robert Hines played a pretty good game at tackle. When asked why he didn't bring up the question of the goal lines and past at the start of the game, Manager Finch replied, "No error is an error until it is discovered." He also said that "the decision of the referee is final so long as it is under the rules." To be a little more acquainted with the rules wouldn't hurt, would it? Mud tackles. For instructions, see Wallace. The relay pass to Lewis was a spectacular feat. "Brownie" was steadily in the game. A pick team from the two teams: Owens (H) Left end Hines (W) Left tackle Wingfield (H) Left guard Brawer (W) Center Stout (H) Right guard Brown (W) Right tackle Wilson (W) Right end Ebert (H) Quarterback Nelson (W) Left half Willis (W) Right half Lewis (H) Fullback FREDDIE WELSH BEATS ATTELL. Hebrew Resorts to Fouling—Englishman Too Fast for Abe. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Freddie Welsh of England decisively beat Abe Attell last week in a furious fifteen-round battle that ended with a man out-pointing Abe at every branch of his own game and out-classing him as well. Even Attell's noted backward sprint did not save him from punishment. With his head rocking and staggering from side to side under the shower of punches that Welsh landed in the last frame, he felt the beat. And it was before a wildly cheering crowd that the verdict was rendered by Referee Eyton, for Attell's unpopularity was shown from the moment he enforced it. At least half a dozen times Attell deliberately tried to foul his man, and the air rang with protests when the referee called for a penalty. Attell refused to shake hands and drew a storm of hisses thereby. When the man put up their hands it was seen that Attell meant to make a stand-up and then tried to make a tied three rounds the men boxed with honors even and at lightning speed. Welsh seeming in no way dismayed by the jabs of his opponents, he continued to face the kidneys in vicious style as they stepped into clinches. In the fourth round he showed a surprising flash of form and strength. ATTELL RESORTS TO FOULING. In the fifth he again kept Abe worried THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER by his speedy attacks, and the crowd shouted with glee as he rocked Abe's head backward. He was followed by Attell depended on two-handed work, while Welsh used a lightning left, which he poked into Attell's face rapidly and repeatedly, and then swelled to full, and he promptly commenced to rough it. In the sixth he was warned by the referee for twice fouling Welsh, but he deliberately repeated these twitches in the seventh, and was again M'FARLAND AND WELCH MAY MEET. The Third Match. CHICAGO, Ill.-A third match between Packey McFarland and Freddy Welsh, the Englishman, finally closed yesterday by Harry Gilmore, Jr., manager of the stockyards boxer. Gilmore returned from New York yesterday morning and found San Francisco promoter, awaiting him. Coffroff wired that he would put McFarland and Welsh on a flight to man club if the Briton was successful in defeating Abel Attell when the pair meet before the Jeffries Club Thursday night. Coffroff offered were liberal and Gilmore practically agreed to the match, so both he and Packey now are pulling for Welsh to take the measure of the shifty featherweight champ. If Welsh wins Thursday Packey and his manager will start West at once and take the training as quickly as he gets to San Francisco. If there is one man in the fighting game today whom Packey would ITALIAN RUNNER BEATS HAYES. Special to THE FREEMAN. NEW YORK.—Before one of the largest crowds that ever thronged Madison John Hayes at night before Thanksgiving, John Hayes was before Thanksgiving, and Dorando Pietro of Italy ran once more the historic Olympic Marathon race, which so much argument had been rife, with the crowd. Dorando was disqualified, although he finished first and Hayes was awarded the race. For thousand persons were looked on by the crowd Croker fired the pistol for the start. Dorando took the lead at the outset and, making a rate of nearly six minutes to the mile, Hayes was never more than a foot behind up to the twentieth mile. Making a rate of entire distance, twenty-one miles, was 2 hours, 10 minutes and 55 1-5 seconds. Dorando said after the race: "I was so much excited by the crowd with my sprint as I expected. I had Hayes' measure, however, at all stages of the race, and I am more fully convinced than ever I would have expected. All honor to Hayes, however, for his splendid fight. The conditions were splendid and I am anxious to thank God." Hayes said that he did his best and had no excuses to make. His friends, however, insisted that he had not had to tough to fit himself properly for the race. WANTS TO MEET FIGHTERS. Special to THE FREEMAN. MOLINE, Ill.-Kid Fields of Galesburg, a 24-year-old scraper and a whirlwind for that, is desirous to meet some bright minds. He knows how to show who can take and give punishment, and he challenges anyone in his class. BREAKS MOTORCYCLE RECORD. Special to THE FREEMAN BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Robt. Stubbs of Birmingham last week rode a motorcycle 100 miles in 1:47:44 on the Fair Grounds track, lowering the 100-mile record held by the 2:05:36. The race was under the motorcycle Club of America. POLLARD'S NAME STILL BEFORE THE PEOPLE. Gossip still continues about Leslie Pollard, the star colored halfback of the Dartmouth football team, whose sensational playing did much for his team in the recent Dartmouth-Harvard game. He is a 26-year-old young man and at one time was on the North Division High School at the North Division High School at athletics, where he was active in athletics. COLE NO MATCH FOR O'BRIEN. The Jack O'Brien-George Cole bout, in which the former easily showed his superiority over the colorful man, before the West End crowd, the Colourful man, before the West End crowd, the kind of a contest the large audience expected to witness. The match was enforced by the knowledge due to O'Brien's surpassing knowledge of the A notable drawback, from a spectator's point of view, was the great amount of clinching done, which seemed out of place when O'Brien's footwork abilities are consistent. The latter apparently was satisfied with a mild, easy-going pace, always demonstrating his superior skill over Cole, but O'Brien's endearing to finish his dusky opponent, O'Brien knocked Cole to the mat in the first round and the latter stayed there the count, but O'Brien did not follow this up with any strenuous effort to stop Cole. The later rounds were not any more interested in the spectators than the first. O'Brien appeared to pull at the time. He could reach Cole's jaw or stomach any time he wanted it, when he did hit George the blows were made, and many blows slipped past Cole's head. O'Brien missed in a manner that plainly showed that was not trying to put the rounds O'Brien, who had been jumping in and around Cole like a dancing master giving an exhibition, growed up a trifle at him, none of which landed. The doctors became restless towards the close, and many thought that Jack was going out on his way to let Cole stay, but there onward manifestation of disappointment. DEERFOOT ON WARPATH: Has a Purse of $5,000 to Back Himself. NEW YORK—Matthew Deerfoot, the Colorado long-distance runner, who is out after the scalps of Longboat, Shrubb and East, recently from Chicago, Deerfoot, full Indian and a relative of the famous Deerfoot, hopes to get on a match with the London Marathon, but was afterwards dismissed, and also won the recent match with Hayes at Madison Square Garden, New York. "Yes, I like to get to Longboat or Shrubb in a race," said Deerfoot. "I'm going to challenge Dorando for a race, but I be prepared to back myself with $800." He created a sensation at the finish of the London Marathon race, would give me a reputation in the East, provided I got after Longboat or Shrubb. Some of Indian friends tell me I can beat Longboat. SHERIFF GRICE WILL ARREST Sheriff Jesse Grice of Fort Wayne, Ind., has issued a statement explaining his position in the prize fighting game, and said he would arrest everyone present at a fight in that county. BURNS-JOHNSON BATTL... Little Interest--This Fight Will Settle Heavyweight Dispute. Although the date for the championship fight between Tommy Burns and Apollo Marsh, the apollo proaching, there seems to be little interest in it in this country, although it interest in it in this country, although it will bring about a match or derby in the championship in the spring that will determine the These combined secured premier honors for Dues-seldorfer from the world's greatest expositions: There was no division of sentiment—no division of the award. The grand prize came to us in each instance, proving beyond peradventure that Duesseldorfer has gained the inalienable right to grace — The table of the home—the club—the cafe. A high honor such as this must be made known the length and breadth of the land, for the guidance of the land's best people. championship standing of the winner. The fact that a Canadian, whose pugilistic prestige was gained on American soil, may not amuse himself to select a foreign country which she sees as a question of pugilistic supremacy, has engendered a lot of ill feeling amongst the followers of the sport here, and this has led to the question of whether I ignore the affair completely. This feeling makes manifest itself still further when the pugilists return in the matchmakers displaying an interest in engaging them for the forthcoming fights. In England and Australia the interest in the affair is potent, and advice from the antipodes is such that the inference is drawn that the match will draw tremendously. There is no reason why it shouldn't; it is the first championship match that has been arranged for that country, and everyone is arranged for the velous in the fistic line. Burns defeated Squires and Lang; the former three times and the latter once while Johnson has wipped the Batter up during his brief stay in Australia. 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Black Shanghai, 27 inches wide, and black pongee plain wash silk, 22 inches wide, at .....39c Black Lyons messaline, the newest and prettiest of all the blacks, excellent value at 85c, a rare bargain at the sale price, 20 inches wide, at .....59c Cheney Bros.' best grade of foulard or India silk, very serviceable, and seldom selling for less than $1.00, 24 inches wide. Black moire antique or ripple moire, 22 inches wide, all pure silk, well worth $1.25 a yard, at .....68c New black brocades, taffetas and gros grain silk, usually selling at $1.25, 21 inches wide. Black popular and heavy Ottoman silks, regularly $1.25, 21 in. wide, at. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. DO YOU WANT A NEGRO DOLL? If you wish a beautiful Negro doll, dressed in the latest doll fashion, write at once to Dorothy, care The Freeman. Mrs. Frances Simpson spent the week at Marion, Ind. Mardi Gras, Tomlinson Hall, Friday evening, January 1. The Ethical Culture Society will elect officers tomorrow. Henry Jackson has been slightly indisposed this week. A. E. Manning, publisher of The World, continues ill. Harry W. Jackson is now in the employment of The Freeman. T. Q. Brown has returned from a business trip at Denver, Colo. Alonzo Smith has returned from a several months' stay at Chicago. Mrs. Elmer Hill, of Newcastle, was in the city Monday on business. J. H. Hightower was the guest J. P. Leverett at Peru last, last week. Thomas A. Posey entertained a few friends at supper Sunday evening. Miss Jessie Williams has returned from a few days' stay at Richmond, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sanford are at home to friends at 706 West Tenth street. Mrs. W. Norman Curry and little granddaughter, Jacquis, have returned from Sullivan. Robert Henderson, residing 219 West Vermont street, is seriously ill at the City Hospital. Bishop Caldwell of the A. M. E. Zion church will be in the city Sunday, December 13. Ray Morales and B. H. Hankinson, expert accountants, were in the city Wednesday. The ladies of St. Philips Episcopal church will give a Christmas bazaar at their church, corner of West and Wal- The Assurance That my reduced expenses gives you a reduction on your purchases is an inducement for trading with me. Watches, Rings and Diamonds. J. P. Mullally, Diamonds and Jewelry. 28 Monument Place If you are interested in overstocking and Worsteds to TAILORE as may suit you. There will we will give you tained. nut street December 15-16-17. A beautiful doll will be given each child who brings money on a punch card. Mrs. Ida Cushinberry, business manager of The Informer, continues ill at home in Blake street. The cake walk in its latest guise will be gracefulness peesonified at Tomlinson Hall New Year's night. Don't forget the date of the Mardi Gras, Tomlinson Hall, Friday evening January 1, New Year's night. One continuous round of pleasure at the Mardi Gras, Tomlinson Hall Friday evening (New Year's night) January 1. Miss Sadie Boyer, who has been living at Chicago for the past two years, has returned to the city for permanent residence. Mrs. W. O. Martin has just returned from French Lich Springs, Ind., where she spent the week of Thanksgiving with her husband. Miss Harvester will be hostess to the Woman's Club Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Goins in West Twelfth street. Miss Susie Wilson, collector for the Dime Savings Loan Association, is assistant teacher in the night school at the Charles Sumner School. Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana will be represented by their best artist in the back and wing dance contest at the Mardi Gras Tomlinson Hall New Year's night. J. Gibbs, who has been head waiter at the Grand Hotel for several years has gone to French Lick, Ind., where he will serve in the same position in the hotel there. Regular services at Allen Chapel to-morrow. At 10:45 subject "The Burden of the Hour;" at 8 p. m., "How Can I Keep the Other Man." Rev. George C. Sampson, pastor. The Young Men's Male Chorus will sing tomorrow morning at Bethel church. On Wednesday evening the Chorus will give an entertainment at Olivet Baptist church. Miss Laura Wolfolk entertained friends at six o'clock dinner, Tuesday. The out-of-town guests were Rev. Peter Everett, of Xenia, O., and Rev. M. C. Elzy, of Springfield, II. The rich, the poor, the young and the old can find plenty of enjoyment at the Mardi Gras, cake walk and grand promenade, Tomlinson Hall, Friday eve, New Year's night, Jan. 1 The Mardi Gras will conclude with a grand promenade where every one can skip the light fantastic until the small hours of morning to the music that can obtained at Tomlinson Hall, New Year's Night, January 1. W. G. Warmick, of Fargo, N. D., was in the city Saturday, enroute to Minneapolis, Minn., where he expects to engage in business. Mr. Warmick spent several days in French Lick Springs, Ind., and Louisville, Ky. Bishop A. Grant is in the city enroute to Washington, D. C., to attend the Board of Education Meeting of the fund of the estate of Mrs. Jeaness. Bishop Grant will occupy the pulpit at Bethel church Sunday morning. The Mardi Gras that will be given at Tomlinson Hall, Friday eve, New Year,s night Jan. 1, will be a reproduction of that historic event given at New Orleans every year when thousands of mirthaking people flock from all parts of the country. see? William Hindle. It has been officially announced that William Hindle, well and favorable known to the colored voters of the Sixth Ward, is a candidate for Councilman, subject to the decision of the Republican party. Mr. Hindle is one the successful young business men of the ward and would make a safe representative of the people in the Council. He stands for a reclamation of Indiana avenue to the ranks of decency, law THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER 14 years' experience in this city. Room 107 New Odd Fellows Bld. and order. The imperativeness of the present situation in "Bucktown" certainly calls for immediate and drastic measures and a man fearless and determined to bring about the desired reforms. The worth and ability of Mr. Hinkle to grape with and throttle present conditions are already being discussed by the colored property owners of the Ward and the better class of our people in general. Ask Dorothy about the Negro doll. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Bishop Abraham Grant will be the speaker at the "Monster Meeting" on Sunday Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. church. The Young Men's Christian Association is doing a big work and a great good in the community by conducting these meeting each Sunday and next Sunday what is expected to be the biggest of the season will take place. An exceptionally strong program is being prepared in addition to Bishop Grant. There will be a musical program by Russel Smith's. Orchestra; a cornet solo by Albert Booth; a violin solo by Ralph Jones. These meetings are for men only. Business Locals. Seaton the Hatter, 29 N. Pennsylvania street, sells the Stetson Hats. Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. When visiting Indianapolis don't forget to drop into the Parker House. Special arrangements made for the theatrical people and the traveling public in general. Frank C. Duerson, proprietor, 317 and 821 W. Michigan street. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges. Gauald's Pharmacy, New 1178: Old, Main 4032. SPOKANE, WASH Special to THE FREEMAN. The entertainment given by Club B of the Laues Guild of St. Thomas Mission on the 24th was something new. Taken one day, a member of a lemon party every one had to provide a drink before being admitted. It proved to be a grand success.....The music gave by his band was Bethel A. M. Church the 19th as was that of the best young talent in the city. It proved a grand success.....Mr. Chas. Davis, who has been quite ill, is reported improving his singing and dancing ened a first-class barber shop with hot and cold baths.....R. R. Green is making preparation for a trip to Ohio, where he will visit relatives and friends of old times. APPRECIATES THE SPECIAL RATE. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 29, 1908. THE FREEMAN, 225 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Sirs—You will find enclosed one dollar for which please send THE FREEMAN to Francis Helms, 1511 Waterbury certain appreciate the reduced subscription price for the paper. This is a golden opportunity to get the best race newspaper published for only a small unit of what it is really worth to the race. Yours with, FRANCIS HELMS, 1511 Waterbury St., Louisville, Ky. Special to THE FREEMAN S. B. Miller, one of the old pioneer citizens, died last week and was buried Sunday with Masonic honors, of which all the reeved family has the sympathy of their many friends. Dr. J. S. White, of St. James A. M. E. Church conducted the service, and most beautiful, Spear's Military Band furnished the music to and from the cemetery. . . . Pride of the West K. of P. Lodge has thanked at giving us a host. A most generous and the various K. of P. Lodges of the city held their elections this week and have begun business under their newly elected C. M. Lodge. Thomas of the Uniform Ranks are putting their men through the regulation methods and tactics in order that efficiency may be maintained. More young members of the various lodges to join the military department in order that they may have the discipline fully exercised in order to serve as associate etc. . . . The C. M. E. B. and M. E. conferences have been held in various parts of the state and the members here being at the assignments and have begun the organization for this coming year's work. Xmas Bargains Fur Sets for Women, of brown or black Coney furs, pillow muff, satin lined, with wrist cord, four-in-hand tie, satin faced; regular $6.00 values, Grand Leader price, set.....$2.98 Fur Sets for Children, of bear skin to match the cloaks, all colors; regular $2.00 values, sale price, set.....98c Cloaks for Women, of black broadcloth or Kersey clothes, 50 inches long, full satin lined, edged in braid, trimmed in satin bands or silk braids; regular $12.75 values, sale price.....$7.95 Skirts for Women, of Voiles or panama, circular or plaited styles, trimmed in satin folds and buttons; regular $8.75 values, sale price.....$4.95 JOHN T. CUSACK, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN CHINA, GLASS, HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS Hotel china, bar glassware, dinner and toilet sets, fine lamps and brick-a-brac. 357 361 W. 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