The Freeman

THE FREEMAN EXTENDS TO ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. SPECIAL YEARLY SUBSCAIPTION RATE OF $1.00 A YEAR UNTIL JANUARY 1ST. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER JUST HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT AND WON "WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?" Distribution of Patronage to the "Faithful" Will be One of the Leading Problems That President Taft MustSettle. Special by Thompson's National News Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 23.—"What shall the harvest be?" While the campaign was fought out with rare rage, the soldiers of the National stature were unusually few. The want of the battle, up to the closing six hours of the newspaper men, most of whom had already fallen. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1908. tional prominence; and when the contest waxed furious, the speakers who were given the choice assignments and who were veterans of business in the pivotal States were veterans of prizefighting, had won their spurs on many a gory field in other years. The majority of the gladiators who garnered glory were employed locally in the States, filling in to a nicety when the candidates for the Hitchcock built up. In all probability the reward that is to come to these useful forces will depend very largely upon the recommendation of new Senators, and the State chairmen back up by the testimony of the State chairmen. The big places will, of course, be handled by President Taft personally, and the discussion will involve the individual claims of those candidates, be based on the character and fitness of the applicants with great care, albeit in sympathy with the aspirations of the deserving. It would not be appropriate at this time to enter into discussion about the individual claims of those candidates, but it is safe to say that when the record is made up, such States as New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina are overlooked, while material encouragement may be expected for our persevering brethren in Tennessee, Colorado, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, who must be held no malice toward any one who opposed him, and the colored Republicans who stood with the "allies" last spring, but fell in line with the party after the election, and morsels. It will be interesting to watch the kaleidoscope as it turns. Some queer and unexpected pictures may be evolved. Considerable anxiety is being manifested in the disposition of the Haitian mission under the new administration. Dr. J. C. Nelson, the mission administrator on his excellent record, and has the full approval of Secretary of State Root. He conducted the negotiations of this government with much tact and discretion during the last year, and has attitudinal salary of $10,000 per annum makes the mission a plum worth contending for, and there will not be lacking gentlemen of diplomatic bent to put in a bid for the mission. It is as well satisfied that knows just what attitude the new regime, under President Simon, will take toward the United States. If the cohorts of Silicon Valley are as well satisfied that Furniss is the chief, the impression is that there will be no change. If, for any reason, he is pronounced persona non grata by the existing powers, the United States will be obliged to name the mission a change, and there should be a change, current gossip has it that Collector Charles W. Anderson, of New York, would like to have the assignment, and it is further alleged that the United States will be obliged to Washington public schools, or J. C. Napler, of Tennessee (an original Taft man, by the way), would not refuse it. Dr. H. N. Newsome, president of the board of managers of the National Negro Fair at Mobile, Ala., is expected here shortly to press, the demand for an app on the mobile phone for 250 million and to commendable enterprise. He will be in conference with a number of Washington leaders, including Prof. John A. Lankford, the president of the National affirming engineer, and he will be prepared to present a stronger plea now than last year, as the work is approaching the degree of completion assures, as a prerequisite for the commission's fast approval. The cornerstone of the main building was laid a few days ago, with imposing ceremonies. Many States were invited to attend the commission pointed by the Governors of the States. An open address to the country, urging the purchase of stock by the race, was followed by a series of lawmaking commissioners were appended: James B. Dudley, North Carolina; W. A. Crosthwait, Tennessee; W. T. Green, Wisconsin; J. M. Vanderwall, New Jersey; J. M. W. Hutchins, Arkansas; McCants Stewart, Oregon; J. H. Williams, Iowa; T. W. Taylor, Michigan, and N. B. Young, Florida. The work on the commission will be vigorously pushed, and the date of the opening will be announced shortly. NOTES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Mrs. W. L. Houston, wife of the Grand Master of the G. U. of O. F., is recovering from a severe illness. Edmund H. Deas and Thomas L. Grant, prominent figures in South Carolina politics, were in town last week. Dr. E. D. Killiston has an automobile of handsome pattern—the finest owned by a colored physician in this city. R. W. Thompson has been named as chairman of the committee on publicity for the Y. M. C. A. and for the Inaugural Welcome Club. Mr. and Mrs. John Carter and Mrs. Isabel L. Lacey went to Philadelphia last week on business. Mrs. Carter remains to pay a visit to relatives. Dr. A. M. Curtis went to Richmond, Va., recently and performed a successful operation on W. P. Burrell, secretary of the United Order of True Reformers. Walter J. Singleton, of Nebraska, has been re-elected president of the Young Men's Protective League, one of the strongest fraternal and beneficial organizations in Washington. Mr. Emmett J. Scott returned to Tuskegee Institute last Friday, to take charge of the exercises incident to the Tuberculosis Congress, which this week at Dr. Washington's great school. William Wilkes is now messenger to Secretary of the Navy Secretary, follower of the navy post of Assistant Secretary. Henry Lassiter, formerly with Secretary Metcalf, takes work with Assistant Secretary Satterlee. Samuel T. Henry, of the War Department, to the staff of the department commander of the Army and Navy Union, with the rank of captain. He is the only colored man ever accustomed such an honor in the District of Columbia. Andrew Carnegie and Gov. P, B* S. Pinchback took enough money to build a building frequently been taken for each other by people in various sections of the city, and made good-humored references to the JAN 1 EMANCIPATION DAY. SEPT 22 EMANCIPATION DAY. reembelliance at the meeting of the trustees of the Jeanes fund last week, and made a great deal over his distinguished colored counterpart. The "Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University" will give their first Gold Yellow's Hall. The patronesses of the event are: Mesdames A. M. Curtis, R. A. Pelham, Mary Church Terrell, Bettie G. Carson, Diana Zachary, L. C. Corson, John C. Dancy, W. E. Cobb, L. G. Morse, John C. Nale, and Misses Lucy E. Moten and Cora B. Jackson. The president of the council is C. C. Sanford, and L. A. Hilton is secretary. A strong effort is being made by President W. P. Thirkield, of Howard University, to finance the proposed library building for which $50,000 has been subscribed by Andrew Carnegie on condition that a like amount be provided to keep it going in the future. It will turn out thousands of bright young men and women, and they are doing a great work for the race everywhere. An appeal is being made to them to come to the reef of their beloved matter. The Mu-So-Lit has decided to give a reward to many members of the Mu-So-Lit and the larger halls of the city. It will not no wise conflict with the operations or plans of the Inaugural Welcome Club, in which many members of the Mu-So-Lit and the larger halls of the city. The indications point to a greater degree of unity in this matter than has been true to a score of years. At the proposal the proposition to increase the limit of membership from sixty to seventy-five was defeated by a decisive majority. Opposition has sprung up to the bill introduced in Congress by Mr. Hull, of Iowa, providing for the creation of the Order of Hearts, at $1,600. It is stood that the place is to be filled by J. Frank Blackburn, of Iowa, should the proposed measure become a law. Walter Punchback is vigorously opposing it on account of the success in having it recommended to the committee having it in charge, and action has been indefinitely postponed. As the necessity for a cashier is not strongly held, it is not regarded as likely that the bill will pass at this session of Congress. A "matinee dance" for the benefit of the Clarke Training School is announced for Monday evening, December 28, from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at, true Reformers' Hall. Mrs. Clarke is doing a most helpful work in domestic science, and the young women she is training are strengthen her hands in cooking, dressmaking, millinery, dry work, etc., are all solving the race problem in practical and profitable fashion. The proceeds from this entertainment will be strengthen her hands if the people turn out to watch the patronesses for the occasion are: Mesdames John C. Dancy, F. J. Cardozo, R. W. Thompson, B. B. Jackson, Cella Lee, R. W. Saunders, M. Saunders, A. Lankford, Mary A. Lee, Sarah E. Janfler, Annie Overstreet, Ella Welch, Blanche Gibson and Arsine Elizabeth Jones. The next meeting of the Inaugural Welcome Club will be held on the first Thursday. day evening in January, at the True Reformers' Hall. The membership is increasing daily, and the earnest money is the rewards of the degree is the largest received at this early date at any of the three inaugurations in which the club has participated. The officers of the club are: President; Dr. Wilson Bruce M. Browne; Dr. Wilson Bruce l; second vice president, Walter J. Singleton; third vice president, Dr. W. L. Lofton; financial secretary, Henry P. Slaughter; general secretary, Burke J. Brown; Some of the other well-known men identified with the movement are: W. L. Houston, W. H. Judd Malvin, D. D. Moore, C. F. M. Browne, W. H. Clifford, Robert J. Harlan, Lankford, Dr. G. W. Cabanen, Frank A. Byron, J. Henry Lewis, W. T. Vernon, Aaron Russell, R. W. Thompson, John E. Collins, Dr. H. Conner, L. E. King, A. Pelham, L. E. King, Thomas H. Clark, W. A. Joiner, F. D. Lee, Daniel Freeman, Benjamin Washington and others. SHERMAN, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. PRICE FIVE CENTS SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. the cries of distress and suffering. His regular attendance upon the meetings, time after time, when complaining of being abused, acted as an inspiration to many, who appreciated his faithfulness while not following his example. As a mark of esteem and appreciation of being a keen observer, he row at the loss of our faithful friend and brother, we offer the following as the sentiments of Defiance Lodge: Whereas, our heavenly father, whose wisdom and love we have chosen to release from the sorrows and trials, heartaches and pains of life, our beloved brother, and whereas, we feel sure He has accorded him a seat in that heavenly family, whose peace and love, and where He will forever preside; therefore, be it Resolved, That while we feel our bereavement and affliction, and give expression to our sincere mission to the Supreme will, Resolved, further, That in the death of our beloved brother Defiance Lodge has lost one of most faithful devotees of consistent family, loving mother, sister, and we a sympathetic and loyal friend, Resolved, further, That we extend to the bereft family our sincere condolences, and give expression to our sincere mission to the Him who has suffered and offered to take upon Himself the burden of our sorrows, Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our lodge and a copy for publication. Fraternally submitted. MARTIN V. WADE, Dec. 5, 1908. District Deputy. Merry Christmas to all. During the holidays we will keep plenty of turkey, cranberry sauce and nice fruit of fruit on hand. Fine cigars. Grape juice, at theorg. G. W. Hume, proprietor. The Freeman for sale there. DEATH OF TALENTED WOMAN. LOUISVILLE MAY GET BEREA COL. WATTERSON HIGHLY FAVORS INSTITUTION "There Lies the Future of the Negro" Argues the Kentucky Press-Revival of Courtesy to Women-Society Notes. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 15.—From all indications Louisville will most likely get the new "Jim Crow" Berea. The establishment of such an institution has been strongly opposed by Watterson, the Courier-Journal, that Kentucky and Louisville need an industrial institute. Three editorials have appeared from the pen of Mr. Watterson, the author of the book Business men of Louisville to subserbe at once their pro rata funds for the establishment of an industrial institution, quite such as one as Tuskegee. The future of Louisville will depend on the State, lies in the fact that the "brother" must obtain an industrial education. The Louisville Times claims that the State will not interest to the whites of the South and Kentucky. It goes without saying that the best interests of one can not be divorced from the other. We are in the midst of our oar together, as Col. Watterson mits it. Miss Iona Kean has returned from Sackett Harbor, N. Y., where she went to attend the wedding of her sister, Miss Birda Kean. She had a delightful time. Miss Juanita Adams, the private secretary of the University of Kansas, spend Christmas and her home, Kansas City, Mo., and will also spend a few days at Topeka, Kan. Miss Janie Wood, who has been here from Brandenburg, Ky., visiting Mrs. U. S. G. Haynes, 1226 Magazine street, has returned to her home. She is the sister of Henry Wood of this city. A young baby boy is at the home of Prof. and Mrs. W. D. Thomas, 1223 West Creston, Ky., and that he will be given professional training. He is a bright and cheerful baby and is the image of his "dad." Prof. Frank Williams, principal of the Summer High School, St. Louis, Mo., will pass through the city next week on his visit. Mr. Y., where he will preside over the meeting of the State Teachers' Association. Prof. Benella Deli, the private secretary to James Williams, the real estate man, has been Winchester for two weeks on business. She returned Saturday to Louisville, but was off to Winchester again Tuesday. Lucian Johnson of Lexington is expected to be here during the Christmas holiday, and he is known young men in Eastern Kentucky and he will be among the honored guests during the social events. Miss Angela Parker of Chicago and Maud Hall of Louisville were quietly married at the home of the bridegroom's mother, the Thomas Pryor, 515 West Kentucky Street. The couple will make their home for the present with Mrs. Pryor. Among those who are expected to spend a few days here during the Christmas holidays are the following: Miss Mattie Burke, Grace Jordan, Henry King, Burke Jake Clark, Tom Hanley, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Burnett, Charlie Clinton and Mrs. James Dorsey. Irvin Slye is expected to spend a few days also. The Frontenac Club will be the host of Continued on Page Four. RACE PROGRESS! Louisville And Her Host of Thriving Airo-American Citizens BY CARY B. LEWIS. In this issue of The Freeman we wish to present to its readers a few pictures and a number of characters who have towered above the masses and have contributed closely to the city of Louisville. Here we have the minister laboring for the spiritual uplift of his people, the doctor deep in his chosen science, the lawyer learned in the subtleties of his line, the educator "teaching the young idea of business" and the first braveful of business in his line of work. Many of these men are making history for the race. Their lives and characters are evidence conclusive that the Negro is in the midst of a new era. In the short space of forty-five years the Negro has made marvelous progress and has accomplished much over great obstacles. Starting out without a paper or pencil, they have learned to work 50 per cent. "made good" in a number of universities, built thousands of churches, homes, school houses, temples and academies and is still building and moving onward, not backward, upward and not down. Today Negroes to be consecrated to racial uplift. This is evidenced by the number of banks established, insurance companies established, books printed, calendars engraved and dolls manufactured. There are many Negroes in every city and town laboring to make the conditions better for the race and sharing their share to make the world better. With this issue of The Freeman, we send forth from Louisville write-ups of men and women who have been in a large number of places, and we seek to a knowledge of this fact will be an incentive and inspiration to other communities of our people to move upward and onwards. We send such to their partners, friends and well-wishers where greetings and best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Today Dr. C. H. Parrish is considered the most remarkable man the State has produced. This has been due to the success of his own efforts. He has always had an insatiate desire for learning and growth. He was later studied by Simmons. In 1886 he graduated from the State University with the degree of A. B. The same year he was appointed a teacher at Calvary Baptist School, studied theology and received the degree D. D. Later he was called to the pastorate of Calvary Baptist Church, which is one of the leading churches of the State. His success has been phenomenal. He has represented his denomination in London, England, and delivered a most eloquent address which was printed in the *All Mall Gazette*. He attracted world attention. He visited the Garden of Gethsemane. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a badge on his lapel]. River Jordan and the Sepulchre of Jesus Christ, and on his return delivered many lectures. He is a delightful man to meet and work with honors with becoming moderator. Dr. Parrish is an educator of his race. He is president of the Eckstein Norton Institute, of Cane Springs, Ky., which school is regarded as institutions are now being considered by the trustees of Berca and Eckstein Norton Institute for the two Negro schools to merge. If the plans materialize and the plans are approved, Dr. Parrish will be urged for the presidency. The State Teachers' Association has endorsed the proposition and there is quite a demand on the part of the people to adopt it. Dr. Parrish has chased a beautiful home on Sixth avenue and has a charming wife and young son to adorn it. Dr. Parrish is vice president of Negro Business Men's League and will aid the entertainment of the national league. The medical profession is very, largely represented in this city by Negroes. Over forty are located here, every one even one of them has made great progress and give advice to those who need attention. Probably one of the most successful physicians in Louisville, and above all one who has made great progress in this city, is J. C. Lattimore. He acquired his education at his home in Greensboro, N. C., graduated from College of Veterinary Science from a physician's university, ing from a first-class university, he entered Mahara University at Nashville. M. B. DR. J. A. C. LATTIMORE. The doctor attended all the clinics and made a special study of every subject assigned to him at school. He graduated with honors and later came to Louisville and located in the southern part of the city. He carelessly devotion to his patients and self-sacrifice spawned won the confidence of the people and in a very short while he began to be known as "The Doctor of the Town." He had to make a case as to make the patient feel at once that he was in competent hands. Keeping constantly in touch with progressive thought of the medical world and allying himself with the medical world makes for advancement, he has devel- DR. C. H. PARRISH oped greatly in his profession. This is easily demonstrated by his very large practice both in homes and office. In several cases of consultation with his clients of the school's, ability of Dr. Lattimore is often referred to in a most commendatory manner. Dr. Lattimore has two handsome vehicles in which he calls to see his many patients, and he is one of the most portable homes in the city. He is president of the Young Men's Progressive League, member of the Knights of Pythagoras, and a member of the Association. The doctor is a fine character and is admired by the people of Louisville. A real Main street business man is Mr.D. L. Knight. He is our most substantial and successful business men in the city. He was the first man of color in Kentucky to establish a transfer line. He is a pioneer in working regularly and saving his earnings, purchased a horse and wagon. He A. B. realized that to be successful it took brains and energy. On establishing the "Lightning Transfer Line," he opened an office and employed a stenographer. From that office we were able to accomplish all the work he could do among Main street business men. He now runs ten wore jumpsuits and the profits of his business go to the profits of his business he is one of the largest taxpayers in the city, some of his property being located in the most desirable parts of Louisville. He is one of the hands of his face from $80 to $90 weekly and is recognized in all the banks of the city. No man in the city displays more activity than Mr. Knight. He has often called the attention of the License Board to the evils of houses tipping for and their effect on the community. He takes a part with zeal and energy and is a factor in progressive Louisville. He was recently elected president of the local Negro Business Men's League which was founded in August. Mr. Knight is a stockholder of the Lincoln Savings Bank, officer in the church, Thirteenth and Broadway streets, and has an office at 150 West Main street. Without doubt, the name of Mr. Tom Cole stands out as one of the most thrifty and energetic of any in the city. He has acquired a notable and marked degree of success and his activities along business with the college were so successful that Cole was born in Russellville, Ky., and received an English education. He afterward went to Memphis, Tenn., and engaged in the produce business. He was then sent to New York, where he went to French Lick Springs, Ind., and took the management of the billard parlor in the leading hotel of that place. Here Mr. Cole saved a good deal of caprice by Louisville with his wife, Mrs. Marie Luck, and his friend, 1001 West Walnut street. His place of business was been conducted, as the late JOHN B. HARRIS Bishop Potter of New York would term it, as a "poor man's club." Mr. Cole has done much to better conditions, for men who are "too poor" to "O Be Joyful" in a quiet, dignified manner. He conducts his place according to the laws of the city and State. He is a trustee of the Falls City Realty Company. In this organization he has done much to keep the spirit of buying property moving in the race. He owns seven properties in the city, the most valuable homes in the city. He has a very pleasant wife, who entertains beautifully. Mr. Cole is a liberal patron of the arts and the suburban pride of the race. He gives employment to a number of men and is well liked by the citizens generally. To his everlasting love and admiration, he sees that his mother and grandmother are cheerfully and comfortably cared for. While Louisville is flourishing with Odd Peltier, Pythias and other fraternal orders, the Benevolent Society is sweeping the city and State like a cyclone. Her borders not only extend in the State of Kentucky but in the proud old State of Indiana. Born only a few years ago in the fertile MR. D. S. KNIGHT. MR. TOM COLE. MR. P. L. HAMILTON. ing ing ing brains of Negroes, and today she numbers among the strongest benevolent societies in this section. On all sides you can hear praises of this organization. Honesty, integrity and good will are its cornerstone. Done, done, done. Take care of the sick, bury the dead, inculcate domestic economy and urge thrift and industry." With these words emblazened upon its banner, Secretary P. L. Hamilton and the other officers are members of all the army. This army faithful members was organized October 9, 1906, and now has 3,585 members. It has paid for sick and death benefits aggregating 5,917,5. Persons assisted members 225. The society makes a specialty of seeing that its sick is visited and given such nourishment as the physician sees fit, and benefits are given weekly. Mr. Hamill is one of the most active and energetic men of the city, and the and another in Georgia, 10,000. Hundreds of others put in smaller orders. Negro business men have lined up to advertise their wares on "board" that has a Negro face on it. He has an enterprise, with a lofty mission, managed by the most progressive, wide-awake young woman now before the public, and it is bound to succeed. Miss Burroughs has finished up her calendar business for 1909 with a most favorable subject. This army faithful members was organized October 9, 1906, and now has 3,585 members. It has paid for sick and death benefits aggregating 5,917,5. Persons assisted members 225. The society makes a specialty of seeing that its sick is visited and given such nourishment as the physician sees fit, and benefits are given weekly. Mr. Hamill is one of the most active and energetic men of the city, and the Miss Burroughs, but as Dr. Booker T. Washington puts it in a letter to her, for the high-class work presented in these calendars of the "success to such a timely moment." We were unable to secure a picture from Mr. Abe Meaux at this time, but his likeness will appear in these columns later. Mr. Meaux is one of the youngest students in the thinking strides along business lines. Mr. Meaux attended the Louisville public schools and later attended Eckstein Norton Institute. He has always had an aptitude for business, and he has been a thinking success, began to prepare himself for an undertaker and embalmer. In his early career he associated himself with Mr. A. B. McAfee, who is regarded as a very effective undertaker. He was a practical side of embalming from local undertakers and prepared himself to graduate from an embalming school of high standing. This he did and began work with the Willis Funeral Director Association. He took the State Board of Embalmers examination and passed with a very creditable average. After working above him for some years, he closed his business and entitled him to all rights of the establishment. He has associated with him Mr. John Wilkens. These two gentlemen are the only ones who have been involved in Walnut streets. They do a thriving business and this is due to the politeness and special attention given to all their patrons and the very intelligent manner in which they preserve the bodies that come to life. He has also stated that they can do this kind of work in the latest and most stylish man- Continued on Page Three. ARE YOU IN NEED OF New Year's MONEY? on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry and all Valuables State Loan Office 251 W. Washington St. (OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE) KARSTADT BROS, DYE WORKS Indiana's Best and Most Modern Dyeing and Cleaning Works. Main office 1435 N. Illinois street. Branches 249 Virginia Ave. 218 N. Ill. St. 205 Indiana Ave. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Heyser Bros. & Co. All kinds of Fresh and Salt Fish, Oysters and Dressed Poultry, Eggs. 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Hamilton and the other officers are faithful members was organized October 9, 1906, and now has 3,585 members. It includes benefits and benefits aggregating $9,571.74. Persons not members, 225. The society makes a specialty of seeing that its sick is visited and given such nourishment the alien sees it, and benefits are given weekly. Mr. Hamilton is one of the most active and energetic men of the city, and the organization, has an office in the Douglass building. Mr. Hamilton gives employment to two clerks, who are graduates of the Central Colored High School. Mr. Hamilton has been largely involved in the organization's growth and through him, he has been among the other successful organizations of its kind. It is managed by an executive board of general officers elected annually by delegates from its subdivision camps. As a representative-at-large of the State of Kentucky, in politics, medicine and business, Mr. Hamilton is most frankfort, Ky., stands out most prominently; indeed, there are but few men in the State who are more widely known as a physician and surgeon, his name is a byword in the households of the Negroes of this and other cities. He is a finely educated gentleman and has done great service for his people along educa- Dr. Underwood is a native of Ohio, but came to this State a number of years ago and married a Kentucky girl. He re-entered Ohio and graduated from the Western Reserve Medical University of the same State. He came to Frankfort and hung out his shingle. Being a brilliant, able and resourceful man and a student of his early years, he became a practician. Being polite and gentlemanly and treating all his patients with courtesy and respect, as well as administering the proper medicines and advice he became one of the leading doctors in the state. For seventeen years he has been successfully practicing in Frankfort and several other doctors have come and gone since that time, but the dear old Dr. E. E. still remains as the "physician of the city." In order to disseminate Negro news and plea for his people at the bar of public opinion, he established, with a company of men, the Blue Grass Bugle, which he founded. He was a popular opinion. In all the State and national campaigns, Editor Underwood has been heard as a trumpeter of the Republican party. Dr. Underwood is secretary of the Examining Board of the United States Pension Commissioners. He is also trustee DR. E. E. UNDERWOOD. of the State Normal School, being recently appointed by Governor Willson. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow and present chair of the State Normal School care at Kansas City. When Dr. Booker T. Washington was in the city of Frankfort, two years ago, it was at the home of Dr. Underwood that Dr. Washington began his career. Dr. Underwood is one of the leading politicians of the State. He was founder and first president of the State League of Teachers, and he delivered a charge to the convention that nominated President Roosevelt and has been a delegate to every State Republican convention since he has been here. Dr. Underwood was also a member of Senators and Representatives from this and other States for something good in the gift of the party. Most men and women who have made their success in life have not followed beaten paths, but have "struck out through the woods" and have made their way to the office. Small fields made much of his fortune by watching to see what the people wanted that the other merchants did not have, and he set to work to meet the "ummet failure." His success in this line was phenomenal. For some months, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the dauntless corresponding secretary of the Woman's National Baptist Improvement Company, took the fast growing desire on the part of the progressive, race-loving Negroes to have pictures of their walls, but advertising matter. She watched that they had grown tired of the "piccanmiles, water melon eating, dice-browing gang, and the "gold dust diving" head, fortune-telling, "mammay" picture business. In her address and in her writings, she felt the pulses also of the common people and saw they too were diving for a "Grogo dolphin" and calendars with pictures portraying the "tantalizing browns" and the "dash- A. E. MISS NANIE H. BURROUGHS, A. M. ing mahogany blondes" as well as cute in the park, and he has Having decided to meet the demand, Miss Burroughs selected some of the finest subjects in Louisville, and had them photographed of original photos of Rocky's keenest damms" he had made four-color plates, and has on the market the first high-class Negro calendars ever made in America or in the world, for that reason. He has many in Virginia ordered 15,000 at a club. at prices below competition. Will be pleased to show you the selection. Colored Firemen, Brakemen, Car mail and assist you in securing a position immediately. Railway road and road roads in country with school. LEVINSON'S 2 Big $2 HatStores Capital National Bank UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital $ 500,000.00 Surplus and Profits - $220,000.00 Resources $6,400,000.00 OFFICERS: FRANK D. STALNAKER, President, ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, GWYNN F. PATTERSON, Cashier, Transact a General Banking Business. Your Account Solicited. Courteous Treatment. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. GEM LAUNDRY. PHONE 1671. FOR YOUR NEW YEAR'S Flowers and Floral Designs, Don't Forget BILLINGSLEY, = = 201 N. ILL. ST. New Phone 3002. Old. Main. 3712. ELECTRIC TOYS FOR BOYS Some Holiday suggestions: Locomotives Trains, Trolly Cars. Engines. Dynamos Lamps and attachments, practical Sporting Goods. GEO. T. DETCH WHEEL CO., 213 Massachusetts Ave. Near Penna St. N. A. MOORE, Pres. W. H. ALLERDICE, V. Moore Grocery Pure Food Phones: NEW, 892, 891. OLO, 892, 891. TUDOR W AT GREATH W. H. ALLERDICE, Vice-Pres. WM. L. HOY, Sec.-Treca Store Grocery Company Pure Food Store. W, 892, 891. L, 892, 891. 164 North Illinois Street. OR WHISKEY! T GREATHOUSE'S. Phones : NEW, 892, 891. OLD, 892, 891. 164 North Illinois Street WE HAVE A JANUARY CLEARANCE In Coats, Suits, Shirts, Waists off on everything. Buy now NICE COATS..... " SUITS..... " SKIRTS..... " WAISTS..... " FURS..... " KIMONAS. ATLAS CLOAK AND 211-213 Indiana Avenue. JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE RIGHT NOW! 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Munchhof, Manager. er is here and we are now fully prepared with a full as meet your wants. Base Burners, Hot Blasts, Re- cially our Famous Oak Heater, of which we have so in use in the city and are giving universal satisfaction, prices. We have also a full line of Carpets, Lin- e Rugs, Lace Curtains, etc. Our line of Furniture is prices that defy competition. Our prices are right, as ly Terms. We want you as a customer. See us. The cold weather is here and we are now fully prepared with a full line of Stoves, as meet your wants. Base Burners, Hot Blasts, Retorts, and especially our Famous Oak Heater, of which we have so many thousand in use in the city and are giving universal satisfaction, and at very low prices. We have also a full line of Carpets, Linoleums, room-size Rugs, Lace Curtains, etc. Our line of Furniture is complete, at prices that defy competition. Our prices are right, as well as our Easy Terms. We want you as a customer. See us. CASH OR PAYMENTS. 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For developing and beautifying the skin, use Parish's Orange Flower Skin Food. Per jar. For cleansing and softening the skin, use Parish's Velvet Liquid Powder. Per bottle. For stimulating the growth of the hair, use Parrish's Wonderful Hair Tonic. Per bottle 50c. For cleansing, beautifying, and preserving the teeth, use Parrish's Pearl Top Tooth Powder 25c. Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food is also one of the best preparations on the market. It helps the hair from falling out or breaking off. It beautifies and enriches it, and makes it grow. Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Agents wanted. Write for terms. MME. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Mention the Freeman when ordering goods. Burton Jewelry Co. HAS NEW YEAR'S MONEY to loan on all articles of value Watches, Jewelry and Diamonds RATES REASONABLE 58 Monument Place (OLD STAR BUILDING) PAWNBROKER. We loan money on Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and all articles of value. Ertel's Loan Office, THOS, WARD, MGR. 209 Massachusetts Avenue. Private office 108 E. Ohio Street. New Phone 1790 Race Progress Race Progress Continued from Page Two. ner. They have up-to-date carriages and funeral cars and are now being highly recommended by those who have experienced their service. When it comes to an educator, Prof. A. E. Meyzeck, principal of the Eastern and Normal Schools, is looked upon both by white and blacks in the city. He was educated in the mixed schools in the States of Indiana and Ohio. He graduated from the Indiana State College and intended to read law but found later at work in the police department in this profession he has made marvelous success. Since coming to Louisville, he has been the most prominent and active white and black in the city, but does not hide nor criep but is always found on the front line of battle for the Negro uplift. He has been principal of the Deerfield School, which position he fled effectively for three years. While principal of this school he organized separate and distinct departments of work, established a working library at a cost of $200, and also improved the labor- He was afterward made principal of the Eastern school and has done spouses with students, saving habit among the children and urged them to read, and being fond of books. Prof. Meyzek is an advanced educator, having been specially trained in the higher sciences of educational methods, and has taught at the normal class to his school, and under P. PROF. A. E. MEYZEEK. him it is a great success. Kindergarten teachers also come to him for instruction by a request of the white Board of Kindergarten Managers. He is thoroughly trained in professional spirit. He has conducted a number of county institutes and is often highly spoken of by county superintendent and man of high character and social standing. He is a member of the Bannaker advocate of the Church of Our Mercy Savior and took an active part in soliciting funds for the purchase of the Young Children Club. He is blessed with a charming wife and a beautiful home on South Maple street. Attorney W. H. Wright, a native of Alabama, has come within our gates and made himself a most desirable citizen. He is another one of the young men that attended the law school and at the bar he stands out as a splendid representative of a regular practitioner. He is succeeding and, judging from his experience, is a date office, amount of legal business transacted and the esteem in which he is held by other lawyers, greater success stands in his favor. He been nominated and appointed a candidate for the Legislature of the Fifth district, Tenth ward, and every indication points that he will be nominated on the Republican side. Lawyer Wright was born in Livingston, Ala., and received a common school education in that town. He entered Selma University, one of the leading educational institutions in the state, graduated in 1898 and went to Howard University and graduated in 1902 with honors. While studying law he received an appointment in the Federal Depository Institute in 1904 to practice his chosen profession, which he now nobly represents in the city of JOHN A. BROWN HON. W. H. WRIGHT. Louisville, Lawyer Wright stood the bar examination before Judge Watts Parker, State Senator C. J. Bronson and the late W. C. P. Breckenridge of Fayette Court. So well was his work done on this occasion that the above gentlemen commended him, with which he answered the questions. Since first coming to Louisville, Attorney Wright has leaped right into the affairs of the law and has made all things that tend for the good of the people. He practices in all the courts of the city and has had several cases in the court of the city. He is one of the best law libraries in the city and is a student of the same. He has recognized long ago that law is a profession that takes brains and grit to succeed. He is generally liked by the people of the city for his honesty, intelligence and integ- fied in every way and began business and now holds a certificate from one of the most reputable embalming schools in the country. He is equipped in every way to embalm the dead and give perfect satisfaction on any funeral occasion. Mr. Hathaway is polite and courteous and his assistants are very much inter- MR. JAMES H. HATHAWAY. ested in the business. He owns some of the finest and most up-to-date carriages in the city and his funeral car is a thing heaven. He is not a selfish man by any means. He is liberal and generous and these two traits make him a good fit to be highly esteemed all over the city and State. He is also connected with the local community. He is a director of Directors Association and is an officer in the organization. Mr. Hathaway has a wife and charming family and owns a pretty home in the eastern part of the city. The benefits of a business and literary education shine out very conspicuously in the character of Mr. E. H. Hall, formerly industrial business and literary education at the famous Hampton Institute, where Booker T. Washington graduated. If there ever was a time for such university students the Mr. Hall is now. He is a splendid example for other young men to follow. He started out as a school teacher, but feeling that he was not well suited to vantage in business, he became an employee of the National Benevolent Union, located at 410 Center street, this city, and became a teacher by diligence and study aided the organization in its progress, and was made secretary. Through the efforts and skill of the National Benefit Union, by diligence and study aided the organization in its progress, and was now under immediate direction of Kentucky officers, which is a credit to its members, of the National Benefit Union, respect and commendation to Mr. Hall for his worthy achievement. This organization, National Benevolent Union, which this year man reinvests carries more joy and glamour and scatters more sunshine into the homes of the poor of the State, brings more relief and comfort to those who suffer any other organization of its kind. In many instances those who might other- A. B. C. wise be buried in the potter's field, or carried to an untimely grave, are saved from this horrible fate and given a Christian burial through the aid of the Nation Benevolent Union. Not only is Mr. Hillenbrand a dedicated organization, but he is connected with other business interests in the city. He is a member of the local Negro Business League and expects to take an active role in the town's national league, of which Dr. Booker T. Washington is president. While yet a young man, he has a brilliant future. Judging from his past success, he will be a leader in the State along business lines. He is a Pythonian and represented Eureka lodge at its last grand session in Lexington. Mr. A. B. McAfee is one of the many graduates of the Central High School who has proven that the training and has been given at this institution is well worth worth. He was given tremendous applause when he was given his sheepskin, it was Mr. A. B. McAfee, and right nobly has he performed a private school life he showed evidences of a cooperious mind in demonstrating problems in solid geometry. After his graduation took examination for a teacher in the public with case. He taught school for several years with credit and honor. He also worked for the late William Hunting and studied the art of embalming. Hunting and studied the art he easily mastered the art and became very proficient after taking a course in Clark's School of Embalming, Cincinnati. He passed the State Board of Examiners. He was the city among what of a local authority on embalming. Another prominent feature in the life of Mr. McAfee was his connection with new students. He was the city among the colored people had a wife than the New South, edited by Mr. A. B. [Name] MR. A. B. McAFEE. McAfee. He proved to be a brilliant and effective editor, helping further to enlarge his mental capacity. He matriculated in the Central Law School. J. HON. A. S. WHITE. Hon. A. S. White, one of the most able lawyers in the country, was born in Louisville and received his early education in the public schools of this city. He afterward attended the Normal Department of State University and graduated with honors. He had a taste for good literature, and made a study of English literature. He also took to do something in the great field of battle and wishing to perfect himself in the profession of law, he went to Howard University, washington, D. C., and graduated in 1910. He came to Louisville and began to practice. By ergy and unremitting toll, he began to rise, and today his success demonstrates the Negro's ability to deal with intricate questions with a distinction that has challenged his training. He was one of the bar. Mr. White has been sworn in the Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, and has handled many important criminal and legal cases that has been an editor of several papers and proofed him to the title and effective writer. He is an eloquent speaker and has spoken many States in the country on various questions. In all recent campaigns he has been in demand as a stump speaker. He stumped Indiana and Kentucky for McKinley and with honors. After a few years of practice, he took the United States Civil Service examination for whisky gauger. He made one of the highest averages and was given a job that has been in service in capacity ever since. He served as "Uncle Sam" have been marked by exactness and a complete knowledge of the work and have been the cause of much success. He has been a student of political history and economy and has been actually engaged in the game of politics. He has served as secretary of the city and county Republican convention and nearly every State Republican convention since he reached his majority. The services of Mr. McAfee were felt in the last campaign and he was a prominent figure in the Chicago convention. The president of the Prohibition Society is being favorably mentioned for things higher at the hands of the federal government, of which he has served with great satisfaction. He is a highlypected, able and eloquent, he is today one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of progressive young men. The victory of his success has been the habit of work. "Who loves his work and knows how to live, May live and flourish everywhere." Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D., secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, located in city of Atlanta, the largest and most men among us. His department twelve years ago had not a missionary nor a dollar with which to employ oneself. He employed only 135 missionaries in West, South and East Central Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Caribbean, the entire country off the Foreign Mission Board raised less than $3,000; for the conven- J. B. tional year ending August 31, 1908, they collected $20,777.48 At the meeting of the World's Baptist Congress held in London in 1906, the officials of the Foreign Mission Board, in company with President Morris and other leaders of the English Congress, met the leaders of the English Baptists from South Africa and labored REV. L. G. JORDAN to have their co-operation in righting this wrong. Dr. Jordan says: "For some reasons, unnecessary now to explain, the matter has draggered along until this month, when he will be in the million Negro Baptists in this country have every reason to be very grateful to Almighty God for his victory, which he has fought for feathery, which among the millions of our own people far-away Africa. The National Baptist Foreign Mission Board has been doing similar work throughout the world. In all the books and tracts used for general mission study, its work and workers are enrolled. Dr. Jordan is the senior secretary of the National Baptist Convention and is beloved and respected by his denomination as the following from one of the ordinary members of the Foreign Mission Board: "No man attending our great National Baptist Convention this year received a greater ovation than Rev. L. G. Morris, rose to its feet and joined the Foreign Mission Board. The convention at the suggestion of Dr. Parrish and President Morris, rose to its feet and joined the Foreign Mission Board. That sea of white handkerchiefs must have cheered his heart as few things could. "Give him some flowers and let him know from many of the brethren who know the value of Dr. Jordan to our denomination." For the coming year he has associated with him as field secretaries for the de- fense, the Army, the Navy, the Texas; Rev. E. G. Fishback, D. D., of Kansas, and Rev. W. H. Moses, D. D., of Virginia. A strong effort will be made to build a church building in Africa, and one church and school building in South America, by the time the National Convention meets in New York. A further addition to his work as secretary, Dr. Jordan takes quite an interest in what ever goes to better the condition of our country, and pays as corresponding secretary of the Afro-American Council will be remembered by all the members of the race. He was invited to this city. He is at present the corresponding secretary of the local league and it is generally said, "There is something doing when Brother Jordan is Dr. Morris Blackburn was born in the State of Indiana and the city of New Albany. He attended the Scribner High School and the University of North Carolina, from the late Dr. Vance, who was the best informed men of the State. After his literary education was completed he entered the Louisville National Medical College in 1899 and graduated from this school in 1902. He practiced in Louisville for two years and in 1905 went before the Medical Board of Examination and Registration. He began in nursing, the board examination and immediately began practice in his home city. The day he passed this board examination, which is said to be one of the hardest tests, he began to rise in his profession. He began the accumulation of the latest books on medicine, surgery, anatomy and physiology, and became a student of the medical school. He then satisfied with books alone, he subscribed for the best medical magazines and kept apace with his profession. Today Dr. Morris Blackburn is a well-known informed physicians in the cities of Louisville and New Albany and his practice is not only confined to the colored race but the whites as well. Dr. Blackburn having made a special study of physiology and being extremely DR. MORRIS BLACKBURN. COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer our Make Jackets and Linen because they have found them satisfactory. Write for Complete Catalogue FREE giving full instructions to order. Marcus Ruben, Inc., 330 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. HAZEL, Extreme Fashionable Tailor. is to be commended. We have spent both time and money in trying to produce the best and highest effects in Striply Up-todate Talloring. Come let us show you the result. 333-INDIANA AVE.-335 New Phone 4851. Money to Loan! Money to Loan! The Borrowing Question. Nobody questions the fact that it is often very convenient to borrow money. 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It is a considerable bunch of money. McGirt gets out a magazine. Allensworth is the name of Col. Allenworth's new town in California; it is said to be in one of the most fertile parts of the San Joaquin Valley. The Seattle people are in a stew about little Nora McPherson, a colored girl, said to be held in slavery by a white family from the South. May be it isn't true. We hope not. Some one asks: "Shall we colonize to solve the race problem $ \frac{1}{4} \frac{1}{4} $" Some should colonize just as others do. The Negroes miss much by not colonizing. The United States, however, is plenty big for any colonization scheme ever incubated. All men up, even to the farmers. That class is coming in for consideration. Not long since the President expressed himself as solicitous concerning the farmer's welfars; now Congress also manifests a disposition to bring him out of "bondage." Other submerged classes will be eventually reached. The Morris Brown College at Atlanta, Ga., will not abolish its industrial department, as set forth in the Atlanta Constitution. The trustees declare that they have no such intentions, insisting that the report was circulated for mischievous purposes. They passed resolutions condemning the author of the report. The following legacies recently to Tnskegee Institute: From the estate of Mrs. C. C. Williams, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, $2,000; from the estate of Anderson Martin, Knoxville, Ia, $1,660.80; estate of Edwin Stone, New York, $6,000; estate of Mary E. Shaw, New York, $3,003.01; estate of Edward B. Haskell, Newton, Mass., $1,000. It is said that Cyrus Field Adams was the only colored man that contributed to the national Republican campaign fund. Mr. Adams contributed $50, the lowest amount permitted to be published. It is possible that smaller amounts were contributed by others whose names did not show up owing to the ruling. It was very thoughtful in Mr. Adams. President W. S. Scarborough, of Wilberforce University, will go to Toronto, Canada, by special invitation. He will attend a meeting of the American Philological Association, before which body he will read a paper on some disputed passages in Cicero's Letter. Mr. Scarborough is the well-known Negro Greek scholar. His ability has won him meritorious recognition among the learned. If the President will concede just a little bit more in the Brownsville matter the whole business will come to a speedy and satisfactory termination. The country needs the colored men for soldiers. They may not of peace, but when the war note sums just such men respond. They look so valuable today, in the time should return as innocent men or not at all. "The Mechanic Savings Bank, located at Richmond, Va., in a recent annual statement of its financial condition, shows deposits amounting to $481,243.65. This bank is one of the strongest of the forty-six banks owned and controlled by the Negroes of the United States. John Mitchell Jr. is president."—Exchange. Well, yes; a Negro bank that can show upwards of a half million in deposits is something to think about. A professor in the Andover Theological Seminary once met a man going to the town meeting. Said the professor: "What are they going to bring up at the meeting today, Brown?" Brown replied, with a snarl: "I dunno what they're goin' to bring up, but whatever it is, I'm goin' to oppose it." Just like some people who feel it their chief business in life to oppose everything that comes up. "Risin' to de p'int" is the favorite parliamentary expression in some circles. Henry O. Tanner, the well-known Negro painter, is preparing to give an exhibition in New York city. Mr. Tanner is recognized among artists and art lovers for his genius. He prefers religious subjects for treatment. Several of these have been admitted to the Paris Salon. Among his masterpieces are "Niocodemus," "The Two Disciples of the Tomb," "Christ at the Home of Martha and Mary" and "Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh." West Point has nothing but praise for the Negro cavalry stationed there. Col. H. L. Scott, superintendent of the academy, had the following to say in his report to the Secretary of War: "has continued its excellent showing and has demonstrated still further the advantage of colored over white men for this duty. There is a waiting list now, and only experienced men having former service and very good and excellent records are accepted." The Kansas Supreme Court has followed the United States Supreme Court. It recently held that the cities of Kansas may provide separate schools for white and Negro children below the high schools; they must have equal facilities. When it comes to bringing about the equal facility condition it is more than a nation. The Interstate Commerce Commission is up against the equal facility proposition in the separate coach situation. It finds no difficulty in maintaining the separate coach status, but it does not find it so easy to perform the other half of the contract. President Frost, of Berea College, Kentucky, seems to be sort a nemesis of the new Berea. He insists that it must be a normal and an industrial school, not a college. One publication of that state is surprised at the little interest the colored people are taking in the matter. Perhaps there's nothing to do about it. If the school is furnished on conditions, then the conditions are to be met. If the new Berea is independent of State support and other support not coupled with conditions, what Mr. Frost says will not avail anything. People can get what they can pay for in this country, as the rule. A. C. Howard, the Negro shoe polish man thinks of starting a Negro community in New Jersey. He thinks of an industrial center where Negroes engaged in manufacturing might come together, thereby giving employment to thousands, who, in turn, would support many more in varied occupations. Mr. Howard has been successful in his business and feels that his experience should have weight in the matter he discusses. Contrary to the rule, he prefers the East: he thinks it nearer to the wealthy colored men who could be more readily induced to go a few miles than try the far off West. The prize-winning corn from the County of Johnson, which was sold at the National Corn Exposition at Omaha, Neb., has been taken to other States, the bids left by the local "corn kings" being too small. Mr. Clore left a bid of $25 for his ten ears of prize corn that won the national champion sweepstakes at the show in Omaha this week. However, an Iowa editor saw the advantage of an advertisement and paid $28.50 for the ten prize ears. For the seventy ears on which Mr. Clore won his automobile he left a bid of $75, but this bushel of corn was sold for $160. And the question is sometimes asked if farming pays; it pays Mr. Clore and all those of his class. "Four restaurants in Chicago compete for patronage, spend an aggregate of $60,000 a year for orchestras, singers and vaudeville artists to attract customers. Each one tries to outdo the others in providing amusement novelties, and the expense is pilling up, seemingly out of all proportion to the receipts. Up to a year ago only orchestras were employed to draw trade. Then one of the restaurants usurped the amusement field with singers, and, later, with vaudeville show. Others followed suit in order to hold their trade. Each one of these restaurants, we believe, would now gladly drop the music hall and vaudeville features, if they could all agree so to do and have faith that all would keep the agreement. But there is a lack of faith in the other fellow. And it is so to day in Chicago that many people go to restaurants to be entertained with a free show."—The Hotel Monthly. Detroit is having a touch of the color question. Two negroes were refused admission to a veterinary college. They appealed to the court and were sustained in their right to enter the college as students; the dean declares that their presence means the loss of a large body of students, owing to which financial loss will follow. "We are decidedly up against it," said Dean Shuh recently. "If we bar the Negroes we violate a court order, which will mean trouble for us. On the other hand, unless we keep the Negroes out, we will lose thirty-four students for the rest of this year, and also for next year, and will suffer a heavy financial loss in consequence. We have decided to go to the Supreme Court with the matter of admitting the Negroes. With the recent Berea decision it will be very interesting to know what it will do in event the case is carried to that court. The Supreme Court will have to do some very fine treading, we very much suspect. MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE JEANES FUND. At the recent meeting of the trustees of the Jeanes Fund, the board approved of the distribution of $1,680 among eighteen schools toward buildings and equipment and appropriated $17,500 more to be expended on recommendation of the president and approval of the executive committee. Among those present were: James H. known to elementary give Mr. Mr. artists be been Amongismus, "Fomb," and groom praise there.ent of to say War: colored) Dillard, president; Booker T. Washington, chairman executive committee; Walter H. Page, editor World's Work, vice-president; Major R. R. Moton, commandant Hampton Institute, secretary; Andrew Carnegie, J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; R. L. Smith, Texas; Bishop A. Grant, Kansas City; R. C. Ogden, New York; Principal Prissell, of Hampton Institute, and George A. McAnney, New York City. This fund, it will be remembered, was a recent bequest by Miss Anna T. Jeanes, of Philadelphia, the benefit of the Negro rural schools. Startling information has been disclosed in recent years as to the inefficiency of the Negro rural schools of the South. Not long since a circular letter sent out by Booker T. Washington called attention to existing conditions. The letter appeared in many Negro publications, and for the most part was commended and commented on. chanced his way. Seizing the son of ebony he hustled him to the nearest drinking resort, demanded of the bar-tender cocktails for two, his country's drink. Not that he loved the "cullud cus," for far too long he had stood in awe of him; but, ah; that Saxon tongue, like a freshet in desert wilds. To those away from home as well as those near we say merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To those abroad we may say that America is still here, and doing quite well. The race is coming up in the potent things—money wealth especially—the idol of the age in which we live. It is infatuated with the money craze, and the stress and tendency is towards money accumulation—not always as proper as the stress and tendency should be, but in the great intent, right and proper according to the demand. The craze has not that high moral aspect and since every The $1,000,000 will have much work to do, but in the hands of those wise men, so wisely chosen, including such men as President-elect Taft, Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington and Bishop Abraham Grant, the fund will be wisely administered. The area of distribution is wide, practically including the whole South outside of the greater cities. However, the fund is meant as an auxiliary to the customary appropriations and not as the total means of education. The trustees, according to the bequest, act in conjunction with the educational authorities, helping them in bringing about satisfactory educational conditions. The magnificent donation is the greatest of recent years for the specific purpose of educating Negroes. Really, we do not recall a similar amount given by one individual at one time. We are reasonably sure that it is the greatest sum ever given for a similar purpose. Miss Jeanes was of great heart and truly philanthropic. It is evident that in scanning the fields with the view of doing the most good, where her money was actually most needed, that the one she chose to help stood most in need of her assistance. Millions in bequest are made yearly, most of which go to institutions already richly endowed—pampered, very often. They may stand also in need to prosecute the great work in hand; but they are rich in opportunities. These greater institutions have only to make their wants known and the dear sympathizing public is there post haste for relief. It is very much different with the humbler concerns. Once in a great while, however, an evangel of mercy, like the well-known symbol of Justice, hovers in sight, sees nothing—knows nothing but equalness. The Negroes of America are under great obligation to the late Anna T. Jeanes, who had that rarer discrimination sometimes given to women to exercise—religious in her bequest, in that she was true to the conviction that the Negroes of the rural districts of the South were the greatest sufferers from lack of educational facilities, and owing to which fact she gave freely of her means. We have not made enough to do over the wonderful woman. To be a millionaire we dare say is the most coveted distinction in American life; then to think that this woman has given this great desideration in a lump—it is a great thing! COLOR LINE IN A NEW YORK Y M. C. A. Last week the optimism of one of the ambitious men in our office received a most violent jolt when he was refused the privilege of enrolling as a member of the Banking and Investments course at the West Side Young Men's Christian Association on 57th street. One of the officials told him that the institution would enroll no colored person in their educational classes. This man who was refused graduated from their real estate course last year, and he inquired if any colored member of their association had ever misconducted himself, or had acted so as to cast any reflection on the association. He replied that there was no fault to be found with any individual colored man, but that the committee took that stand because some of the teachers objected to teaching colored pupils. A short time ago he was very sorry to tell a refined, educated colored lady that her son could not take their automobile course because if the same reason. It does seem that the cue furnished by the Barea College decision is being acted upon immediately in the North. Well! When Christian (?) Associations take such a stand, then it is time for us to wake up and make the most of the opportunities which are now open to us, for we can't see what doors will be closed tomorrow—The Metropolitan, New York. The moral is all right. CHRISTMAS CHEER AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. The Freeman extends its many readers everywhere Christmas cheer and New Year's greeting. It lays stress on "everywhere." It is said of the British empire that the sun can not go down on it, owing, of course, to its vastness. The sun is shining on some portion of the British domain at all times. The Freeman in its circulation is not very dissimilar; if it is universal in its distribution, notwithstanding it is published in Indianapolis and by colored men. Now is the time to subscribe. A little self-praise will not be amiss in this most jubilant period of the year, consequently, while we are extending cheer and greeting we wish the readers to understand just what it means by way of numbers, by way of territory covered. Freeman readers are literally everywhere. Travelers from the Congo or New Zealand in their rambles will tell you that they saw a Freeman en passant. The weary Negro from the States holds the Freeman next to a letter from home; he has that intense longing that beset men when absent from things they know, appreciate and love, and which they can never know just how much they appreciate and love until cut off from them. The chance passing of a fellow countryman is a boon to a white American in Scandanavia—alone and far from home. A Negro fellow countryman chanched his way. Seizing the son of ebony he hustled him to the nearest drinking resort, demanded of the barbender cocktails for two, his country's drink. Not that he loved the "culull cus" for far too long he had stood in awe of him; but, ah; that Saxon tongue, like a freshet in desert wilds. To those away from home as well as those near we say merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To those abroad we may say that America is still here, and doing quite well. The race is coming up in the potent things—money wealth especially—the idol of the age in which we live. It is infatuated with the money craze, and the stress and tendency is towards money accumulation—not always as proper as the stress and tendency should be, but in the great intent, right and proper according to the demand. The craze has not that high moral aspect, and since everything else are of lesser consideration, a condition not taught out of the good book. We have some reason for being proud of our native land. It is not ideal in somethings and as they concern the race particularly, but measured up with the other citizens, seeing things in a big way, we live in a great country and in a great day. The Christ nation suggested by the period is at its best in America—this has in mind the possibility of choosing whom one shall serve. Religious liberty rules as civil liberty theoretically rules. It means this much at any rate when referring to theoretical civil liberty, that the Government as such is willing—that portion of the Government represented by its written laws. Merry Christmas because Christianity prevails, the most uplifting religion known to the world, in its tenets. The practice has been fairly consistent, insuring us what we see today of civilization. That the practice does not reach the preachment is not a matter for alarm. To strive for the more perfect day is the scheme and scope, meaning that imperfection is the expected. Civil liberty more than theoretically rules, looking at things in a great big way. The race is a little beset, but bids fair to overcome all and enjoy what should be the fruit of suffering. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 12, 1908. Mr. Elwood C. Knox. Elwood, N.J. My Dear Sir--Enclosed please find check for one dollar, for which please credit me with one year's subscription to the Freeman as per club rates. I am sorry to take the Freeman's lapse. I expect to take the Freeman all my life as long as it keeps its present standard of excellence. Please send a copy of the last two weeks' issues and oblige. I remain. Most respectfully yours, W. H. DE PAUR. DALLAS, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN ...Christmas was observed by the churches, clubs, lodges and societies..... Capt. Johnnie Jones and his braves of No. 4 K. P. drill team will keep open doors of the church and Hall. The public is invited. A neat program will be presented by various men in the department of the State....What becomes of all so-called men when it is something he is paid for that will be of some benefit to the race, except getting the honors and votes at the expense of the plain folks?...We have had many victories the meeting this week, taking Christmas and having time...The united efforts of the league are meeting with success. LOUISVILLE MAY GET BEREA LOUISVILLE MAY GET BEREA Concluded from Page One. a number of social functions during the holidays. They will entertain Christmas eve, Christmas night and New Year's night. They expect to have jolly times off, office hours and meetings; Dr. Felix Brooms, vice president; Walter Tinsley, secretary; Black Stringer, treasurer. A. B. McAfee, one of the leading young men of the city, will have out his directory by the first of the year. It will contain cuts and ad matter of undertakers and other business men of the State and city. There was quite a sensation at the Freeman office yesterday when a man came in with two large granite stones and did not want his fist in his fist. He began to do so with perfect ease. Crowds began to gather and he began to eat fire, glass, bend an iron poker, drive nails in the bend, use his fist and pull out with his teeth. He brushed his hand over a red-hot stove and did a number of other stunts. The man was named James Wanderson of Melvin, Australia, and was recently with circus he was out with his teeth. The Freeman office. George Slaughter eased the "brother" a handsome collection. Immediately after the first of the year, President D. L. Knight of the local Negro Business Men's League will call all the members together for plans of future business, and will try to think seriously along these lines, as the days are passing and nothing tangible has been done except elect officers. Something more than elect officers must be accomplished to entertain the National Congress, and to require some diligence skill and perse- verance to do the work necessary to entertain the visitors. Right after Christmas will be a splendid time for the local league to get together and think over these things. More than passing attention is being given the young men of the city for showing courtesy to the young women of the race. This award is given to the older observation number of times lately. The young men are often seen to escort the young ladies to church, theatres, whist parties and other places of amusement. There seems to be a revival of interest in holidays, the fitness and professional men have caught the spirit and they seem to vie with each other in this sort of courtesy. This sort of loyalty usually commends itself to the young women and it is hoped that it will be so doing many holidays, when there will be many functions in the "Smart Set." Miss GeGorgia A. Lattimore gave a beautiful dinner Sunday, December 13, in honor of Will Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio. The dining room and table had for decorations, lilies in the valley, carvings in the lark, lilies in the silk basket stood in the center of the table and it was filled with Killarney roses and violets. This was placed on an oval plate fringe, a midden hat for A. Fenn, and tapers were white. A course dinner was served with white lice. Covers were laid for Misses Mary V. Hicks, Pearl White, Georgia A. Lattimore, Sade C. Eanes, Messrs. R. Smith, C. C. Evans, Cassius C. Bary, Lewis and John T. Clark. After the dinner, the party made a number of calls in traps: cums in cramps. The State Teachers' Association will meet in Winchester, Ky., December 29 to 31. Vital questions will come up for consideration. The "Berea matter" will no longer be a priority, and the special speakers will be Prof. L. H. Moore, Washington, D. C.; Prof. G. W. Carver, Tuskegee, Ala.; Prof. Clarence H. Moore, Lansing, Mich.; Prof. Shipp, superintendent of the Winchester schools; Profs. Frost and Dodge of Berea, and Dr. C. H. Parrish of Louisville, Ky. Prof. C. H. Parrish, the association, will deliver his valedictory address. A large number will go from this section. We will send matter to the this section. We will send matter to THE Winchester Enquirer, Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati and Louisville Daily Times. We love to cheer on progressive movements in our city, especially Negro business enterprises. Valnut street in this city is very busy every day, the city of Chicago. Many business houses are on this street. There is the Pekin Theatre, Douglass Drug Store, a bank, the Neighbors' Photograph Gallery, Cole's Cafe, Fanning's Laundry and now we have the Keystone Restaurant. The Keystone was opened December 12 in the Blackstone neighborhood, it is the smallest place of its kind ever opened in this city. It is located at 912 West Walnut street, right in the heart of the Blackstone. The living room of large dimensions and able to accommodate several dozens of people. A double soda fountain is the charm and beauty of the place. Many handsome and appropriate places. Many lines are used on the table and silverware at every service. Mr. A. H. Crutchfield is the proprietor, and he has as his assistants experienced and reliable people who serve meals with dispatch and politeness. From now on he hopes to make the business a success and he calls on the citizens of Louisville and those coming to the city to help them with the men that they will be given the most polite attention and will be treated with extreme courtesy. He will have everything the men need to prepare with an artistic culinary hand. Mr. Crutchfield will make a specialty of short orders and regular meals. He will also serve theatre parties on short notice, purge the men who do the客事 to have a chore menu, to be served in pump and style. We had the pleasure of being served the day of the opening and we say with modesty that the men will be served in a delicious dinner. This up-to-date restaurant fills a long-felt want in the city of Louisville. Many have complained of the need of one. It is here, so let us patronize it. The men are carried on in first and new enterprise has The Freeman's best wishes. CARY B. LEWIS. Race Progress Concluded from Page Three. fond of this branch of science, became known as a specialist and was appointed Louisville National Medical College. So Louisville has he become in this work that he contemplates writing a book on the subject. In the city of New Albany, Dr. Blackburn well known as white and black. He takes a great interest in all public affairs. He is now being favorably mentioned as a member of the city belongs to a number of secret organizations and has a very large practice among them. Dr. Blackburn is a member of the Young Men's Progressive League and belongs to both Louisville and New Albany. Dr. Blackburn is young in years and has a brilliant future before him. His many friends and admirers expect him to tower higher in profession that he has so well selected. For over twelve years Louisville has been the proud possessor of a colored drug store. Amid business vicissitudes, the people's Store has stood like a roof of Glibert and has been with the same strength and vigor. Five years ago the store was purchased by Dr. and Mrs. Richard Oliver and since then it has been the other drug store of the city. It has always had a competent registered pharmacist and holds a splendid reputation for exactness in compounding prescriptions and politeness to patrons. The proprietor of the drug store, is a splendid woman and enjoys the distinction of being the only colored woman in the State to occupy a full line of fresh toilet articles, stationery, patent medicines, cigars, etc. The People's Drug Store has always held the unique honor of having the best soda water in the city and winter as well as the summer. They have the best syrups and ice cream of the highest grade. The drug store is well patronized by the people and the more generous do their part nobly and generously. The People's Drug Store is a monument to the business thrift and enterprise of the Negroes of the city. It belongs to them and is a gift to the race. Its success is the success of the Negroes of this community. It should be given patronage by everybody in that locality and people of other sections of the city should fall in line and boost and help the favorite drug store. The colored tailors of this city have held their ground admirably. It was the late, Masterson, who returned to his home in the trade district of the trade and demonstrated that the new Negro could cut and fit. Since that time others have followed in his steps and kept up the good work. They have kept the pace in the conduct of their models of excellence. Of the ten or more The Eureka Comb It is an assured fact that there is now on the market a blend of two technically Made of Hardened and Highly Polished Metals. Copper and brass, associated together, conducts an influence over scalp and hair. A phenomena, through its working ability, biologically and chemically straight and silky in appearance, causing a rapid growth in treatment cure for dandruff, stopping the hair from falling, making natural straight hair, light in shade, illuminating and warm. Test the hair dryer. No other metals so suitable for the hair. Brass and Copper are friendly to horn. The EUREKA COMB Guaranteed. Why not order the Dilinexion or Copper Comb. Price, complete, $1.50, by P. O. or Express Order, order. EUREKA COMB CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. the city, the one of Messrs. Leonard Haley and Robert Hester is the most up-to-date and flourishing. This place was made a graduate university of Hopson, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. Haley was at one time connected with the late Mr. Hopson, but sold his share to the tailor shop, and carried in Chicago. After working in Chicago some time Mr. Haley returned to this city after the death of Mr. Hopson, purchased the tailor shop, and now he and Mr. Hesley are now conducting the Messrs. Haley and Hester are now conducting a place with much business acumen and promptness. They have in their employ the best trusser, coat and vest makers in the city, and they have beautiful samples of woolens. They cater to the fastidious and the other class of dressers. They make a specialty of the class of dressers, a master of Mr. Haley is a Louisville boy, cooperator of an excellent family and has a splendid training and rearing. He is esteemed among the class of dressers, a master of his success. Mr. Robert Hester is a bushelman and knows much about a garment as a learned surgeon does a human body. He is two young men trained in business, and upon the people of this city to help, who should do so as a matter of race pride. Mr. James Williams of the Southern Real Estate Company has put a new life in business among his race. He came to Lloyds business by the idea that he could put into practice the teachings of Booker T. Washington, especially the 'buying property' go-save business he had successfully evidenced by the large number of families that purchased homes through Mr. Williams. Since opening his office in the office of the firm, he became a curator among all classes of people and used printer's ink, the masses of the people have given the idea consideration and many are now buying homes instead of buying a house. He reminds them a decent and respectable manner. He lives in poorly ventilated and unsanitary homes and immediately began to remedy these evils by urging them to buy a decent and respectable manner. He agent of some of the best owners in the city and now has charge of a number of homes and also buys and sells property. This city alone nor to this State, but also stretches to other States. He has two large offices and they are constantly filled with business men and bookkeeper. He has eminent friends and men of Louisville. For advice along this route, he is to the local readers of The Freeman to the enterprise of Mr. Williams. We would do the Negroes of the State and the city of Louisville an injustice without giving a mention of Prof. F. L. McCormick, the professor of the centry of St. Louis. He is a graduate of Berea College, formerly principal of the Central High School of this city and also of Grant High School of Covington, Ky., and of the University of Louisville School at St. Louis, Mo. He receives one of the largest salaries of any Negro educator of this country. He is a brilliant teacher, and is president of the State Teacher's Association of Kentucky, and will preside over the meeting at Winchester December 31st, this meeting he will deliver his valedictorian expected to be one of the most mastery and ably handled that will be heard at the association. Evans and Young's Dancing Academy is a social institution which has a large following in the city of Louisville. Every Tuesday night, at Odd Fellows Hall, the lively dances by competent instructors. A splendid orchestra plays all the latest music from Cole and Johnson, Willis and shows. "It is quite a pleasure," said one of the young women who was present last Tuesday night. "I have an opportunity to play for the young people and engage in innocent social pleasure." The class is largely attended every Tuesday night and some of the best people of the world have come to attend. Throughout the coming year, Messrs. Evans and Young will no doubt have very large crowds and will introduce the very latest pieces from Chicago, St. Louis and New York. The latest enterprise in the city is the Enterprise Shoe Store. Mr. Board is manager and the outlook for its success Company and the Keystone Restaurant are also late business establishments, among some of the many other following Guy W. Smith & Sons, packers and movers; Johnson, Hansberry, Caldwell & Caldwell, grocers; D. L. Knight, company manager; T. S. Lusby, contracting carpenter; Sam Jordan, caterer; Shipley, Adams, Evans & Dill, tailors and dry cleaners; Norris Young, barbers; Ben Shipley, expressman; Dr. Sol Stone, real estate; L. Gibson, florist; James Tate, furniture dealer; training painter; Spence Taylor, blacksmith; J. M. Kennedy, printer; Mathew Willis, builder and repairer. The photograph gallery of Mr. J. R. Neal, does artistic work in the South. He does artistic work and is given a healthy patronage by his people. During the recent Cole and Johnson show, a company based in the South worked done at this place. It was pronounced by the actors to be among the best pictures they had ever seen. Mr. Douglas Caram Company Mr. Dave Steward conducts a swell tensorial parlor on Fifth avenue and R. H. Jewell operates a large dry goods store, which commands a large portion of the three Negro street commissioners, two colored physicians connected with the city government. Mrs. Meyzeek, at Eleventh and Chestnut streets, conducts a large number of sales. Mrs. Payton has written a cook book and is a culinarist of recognized ability. There are barber shops, restaurants and cafes innumerable. There are 5,000 students in the normal school, eight grammar schools, one university, one medical college, Y. M. C. A. building, Carnegie library, two inmaterial buildings, Fair City Rentals, Pekin Theatre, the establishments and five newspapers. Miss Julia Young is editor of the *Kentucky Standard*, which has perhaps the largest local collection engaged in some form of legitimate business enterprises. These are among the Negroes who will take pride in welcoming the National Negro Business League, which is among fifty clerks in the United States postal service and a large number in the United States Revenue Department. Louisville has its numerous musical and artistic institutions. Among some of Louisville's leading ministers are the Revs. Leroy Ferguson, John H. Frank J. C. Anderson, C. C. Bates, Alexander C. H. Parrish, W. M. Johnson, T. J. T. C. Harris, W. M. Johnson, T. J. T. C. G. Harris, L. H. Brown W. H. Craighead, and Rev. Dickerson. For culture, refinement, aesthetic tastes, economic and industrial activity, the Negroes have the peers of those in any city of America. THE STAGE HAYWOOD $1.00—The Freeman one year until January 1—$1.00. Merry Christmas! Simms and Grundy are at the Family Theater this week, meeting with much success. Eugene Clark and J. Ford were the headliners at the Gem Theatre, Memphis. Tenn., last week and they were the hit of the bill. Williams and Stevens are hard at work getting their big act ready for vaudville. They have contracts for Memphis weeks over the Ammons & Sipe's circuit. "Jimmie Wise, from Georgia by Telegraph," with Marbala's Old Plantation, sends regards to Charles McKenzie and Henry McCampbell and other friends. "The Eighth Annual Review of the Stage," by Sylvester Russell, will appear about January 1, and articles by Mr. Russell will appear every week during the year 1969. Saparo & Bonny, in their new act entitled "De Diety Doos," are rapidly becoming great favorites in vaudville, at performances by the Western Vaudville and Slater Trio. Tommy Stevens closed a season with Howe's Great London Shows December 1 and is now with Marshall's Old Plantation. He also has his first hear from Geo. Ayers of Mahara's Ministries. Regards to all friends. Hoping the staff of the Freeman a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and will give you my route as soon as I can, he will take the paper this coming year—Proof. M. J. Taylor, Taylor's Sunny Africa High Class Musical Comedy Company, 16 Conley Alley, Newark, O. Reuben Harvey, the eccentric comedian, musician and manager for the W. L. Jack-Kennedy centrally resigned. Mr. Harvey and his wife are now rehearsing a new act, which they will put on next fall. Regards to the profession. Permanent address, Jackson Ho Robert C. White, proprietor of the Dark Town Swells show, with Barkoo Amusement Company, received Billy Arnute's two letters from England, saying he will be the first dog to accompany the Billy Arnute will star White's big Dark Town Swells company this spring when he returns in March and White's old dog will be the first dog to accompany the Russell, Estella Crumley, Wm. and Mary Fountroy, Fred Riges, present stage manager; Leroy Knox, Charley Wilson, Charley Hernon, Ida Sims, challenging the other dogs, will be Rich Daniels and the other oldtimers that have been with Mr. White the last two or three years. Our parade has them papered up, and epoody has papered up here and above all that old ghost is like an eight-day clock. THE GRIFFIN SISTERS They have played the entire Western country with success, including Alaska, and intend to stay there until spring. They will come East. Regards to all friends. TICK'S VAUDEVILLE, MEMPHIS. The company sends a merry Christmas out of the profession. H. Kidd Love and wife send a merry Christmas and happy days joined hands with us last week. THE WHITMAN SISTERS. The Whitman Sisters and Robinson present a Negro act, in which they present a gingery dances that fairly carry the audience away. This act is quite different from what we have learned to expect when a Negro turn is announced—The Mammy. The act is playing a return date this week, at the Wigwam Theater. They are meeting with much success, finishing a gingery engagement, to close at Denver, Colo. ROYAL THEATER. MEMPHIS The Royal Stock Company gave the patrons of the theater another surprise last week in presenting to them another drama. One act and two scenes entitled "The Hide and Seek Hunt" by R. R. Briggs and staged by R. R. Mathews, Jr. We turned the people away, playing to nothing but S. R. O. all week. The cast W. Anderson (a villain of many crimes), R. R. Mathews, Jr.; Mike, a typical tramp (his accomplice in crime), Jas. E. Simpson; Sambo (a servant), Tom Briggs; newsboy; Little Eddie Wilkins; Miss Mal迪 Dews (a wealthy widow). Miss Ida Gardner; Susie (Miss Doss' niece), Miss Ada Harris; Susie (Miss Susie's malfunction), Miss Daisy Hannah (the cook) Miss Alisy Ramsey. This week we are presenting an all-star vaudeville show, and the patrons are highly satisfied with it, and we are turning to Mathews to present the show. Mathews are presenting their singing and dancing Zulu act, entitled "Pastimes in Zuzuland," assisted by four ladies. They are also singing Simpson's latest song, "The Dance," and are clamely by him for the act. The dancing of the act was staged by R. R. Mathews, Jr. We have a new lady member, who joined New York. She sends regards to friends both in and out of the profession. Walter Reid, our trap drummer, wishes a merry Christmas to his brother, Vm. Rm. Thetery Christmas and a happy New Year to all friends in and out of the profession. THE LINCOLN THEATER, KNOX- VILLE, TENN. The reopening of the Lincoln by S. Tutt Whitney and the new Lincoln Stock Company was a most auspicious occasion. The company was a truly inadequate, standing room being at a premium, and fully three hundred persons were turned away from the doors, and the crowd was large, large, large, the best families of the city represented. The show, a one-act musical comedy, "The Strollers," by S. Tutt Whitney, was all that could be desired, and the audience was large. The colin. It was one jolly round of mirth, music and song, and the audience applauded and held its sides with laughter from the rise until the fall of the curtain. In the first rank of colored comedians, He appeals to the intelligence of his audience, and amuses without resorting to the or vulgarity. The work of Homer Tutt is the most important mention and praise. In dress he is the legitimate rival of George Walker. The dancing of Sam Gardner was above the crowd, and the talent in his portrayal of Percy Harold, an English swell. Misses Nettie Taylor, label Brown and Ethiel Marshall were prominent parts and acquitted themselves correctly. Nettie and Mamie Gardner sang and danced their way to the hearts of the audiences. The song hits of the show were "It's Shoutin' Time," sung by John Johnson; "I'll Be Home," sung by Homer Tutt; "Nettle Taylor and t he "Merry Widow Quartette" were enriched again and again. S. Tutt Whitney sang his own composition, I Ain't Goin' to Let Me Sleep, and I Ain't Goin' to Prof. Watterson and Lawrence Williams furnished the music, and it was of a high order. Mr. Carl F. Johnson, proprietor, of the manager, are assured of the enthusiastic support of the Knoxville theater-goal public. QUESTION ANSWERED. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 21, 1908. Please publish in Saturday Freeman to decide a bet as to the Original Black Patti—Mrs. Sis. Jones—whether she is dead or not. Wasn't it Flora Batson who died in Philadelphia two years ago? Please oblige one of your readers. C. W. ROTHCHILDS. 2813 Wyle Ave. Madame Sisseretta Jones, Black Patti, is enjoying the best of health, and is at Patti Troubadours, now in the State of Mississippi. Flora Batson died about two years ago. THE FLORIDA BLOSSOMS. Chas. McKenzie writes from Douglass and Worthery's big Florida Blossoms show that the show is still packing them to the doors each night. We carry forty people, a band of twenty. The Fishers, Cora and Larney, are still going wild. Billie Richardson, the Florida sun-beam, is doing nicely. Mckenzie is doing his flying act, which is new to the gig; it's a winner. Douglass & Worthery have ordered a one sheet for the new act of the Great Mc. We all work as one and spend what we work for, as the game's fever has not rested. B. B. Joyner, our dancer, keeps his feet moving well. Brogsdale and Steward are going some for a new pair. The company sends best regards to all. We all red The Freeman. McKenzie sends best to the Allen's bunch. OPERATIC MINSTRELS. W. T. Bruce, manager of the Operatic Minstrels with Baucher's United Shows in New York, said more. The old ship is gliding along nicely. We have not struck any big waves yet and if "Old Sol" keeps on moving, we will see there will be no likelihood of us going down. We have just played a couple of towns on the M. & O. branch, Vardaman and Dudley, who were seen a colored show, and the S. R. O. sign was hung out at every performance. Arthur Roy is sending them out yell ing every night in his eccentric buck and wowing Warren Irvin is still getting his in his monologue. The team of Lane and Caldwell are staring in the middle of a nuttural outing excellent in there knock-about song and dance turn. Diamon Lane is a promising comedian. Bamie Bamie is singing "Somebody Lied." And scores several encores every night. W. A. Bruce is singing "Baby Doll" and "I'm Man." It is all he can do to keep up with the youngsters. The rest of the company—Jack Wimbush, Charles Polly, John Reed, Annie Pallmey, Mayme Shannon, Susie Williams—send regards to all friends in the profession. Will Bruce would like to hear from the Bichums, John Edwards and Arthur Prill. ILLNESS OF HORACE COPELAND. Now I will bring my letter to a close. Wowing you and me, George Knox a merry Christmas, and New Year. Please let Mr. George Knox read this letter. Yours truly. HORACE COPELAND. COLE AND JOHNSON'S SUCCESS AS INDIVIDUALS. Cole and Johnson were first brought prominently before the public by their compositions of popular Southern melodies that were different from that usually found in popular music. Four young men have much study and research to the folk-lore songs of their race. The old plantation melodies and camp-meeting jubilee songs, full of the old Southern melodies, have that has given these crude songs of the slaves a strong bid as pure examples of true American music. Cole and Johnson are both young women who make advantage of the opportunities offered to them for cation. Cole, who supplies the lyrics for their work, is a graduate of Atlanta University and has studied all of the phases of the life of a woman, character; his ambition being to present posterity the delightful old personalities who wore the spotless bandannas and the grey-haired philosopher of "Uncle Remus" from the atmosphere created by their fine hair, worthy preservation, even if it can be only on the THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE MUSICIAN S. TUTT WHITNEY, IN HIS COMEDY CREATION "SILAS GREEN FROM NEW ORLEANS." Mr. Whitney was two seasons stage manager of Gus Hill's Smart Set; two seasons star comedian and producer for Voelckel & Nolan's Black Patti Troubadours; at present comedian, amusement park manager; at Lincoln Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn. stage. The old melodies and songs of the plantation remain now but a memory to many, and the present generation can only hope for their reproduction by someone who can preserve and, with sufficient musical ability to preserve their native charm. The knowledge that this work was full of possibilities was brought strongly to the attention of the plantation musician, Walter Damrosch, while they were entertaining a company of celebrated musicians and notable guests in New York and Boston. The group who was entertaining Dr. Damrosch in honor of the first presentation of his American grand opera, "The Scarle Letter." Among the distinguished guests were the dame Nordica, the prima donna of the production and an assemblage of other celebrated personages. Cole and Johnson offered their songs and plano numbers for the production, and the group who is the most accomplished and skillful pianist of his race and a student of the New England Conservatory of Boston. After rendering several of the exquisite songs and plano numbers for the songs and melodies of the jubilee singers was entered into; the place they would have in American music and the influence the songs would have upon the work of the plantation musicians of America. The crude single dominant note of the aboriginal Indian song was also discussed. The great Damrosch, turning to Cole and Johnson, sald: "young men can do much more preserve to identify the people's folk-lore songs," and from this suggestion Cole and Johnson are devoting their talents to perfecting the rich color of harmonies and pleasing music, full of charm and pleasing melodies. LOWERY & MORGAN'S NASHVILLE STUDENTS. This show is packing them to the doors every night and our managers, Lowery and Morgan, are well pleased with the company. Miss Carrie Gilbert is taking the house by storm singing "Baby Doll." She receives several encounters every night singing "In My Old Kentucky Home." John Edwards is still making a hit with the band, Mrs. James Hall is singing "Mandy Lane" with much success. William Jones, our trombone player, scared me when he told me the Beeches comedy sketch, "Black Face Coon and His Octoberon," leave them screaming nightly. Our stage manager, Jack Johnson, is very busy rehearsing a new act for the show. Prof. P. G. Lowery's band is well spoken of all along the line. REAL NEGROES ARE VERY FUNNY The Wang Doodle Comedy Four—all as black as the ace of spades anyway, yet appearing white to burn cork makeup and stock clocks to stock clocks to highest, salaried, colored, turn even, booked Glenn has a grotesque dance that is great, but his funny makeup is a big help producing laughs. For the dance scene, it is better to present it. It was suggested by the veteran minstrel, Al G. Field, two years ago when he saw he was the honored entertainer could do. "Mr. Field is well-known business," says Glenn. "He likes to see everyone do well—it doesn't make any difference whether he is in his company or not." He told people to people who are not with him. He told me how to get myself up to bring more laughs, outlining the costume and facial features. "I did as he said, and he was right." —The Saturday Spectator, Terre Haute, Ind. COLE & JOHNSON'S RED MOON CO. Chas. Hunter, our stage manager, is still holding 'em down and sends regards to Darren Books in the engagement of "The Red Moon" in Dayton Messrs. Cole and Johnson were the guests of Mrs. Marlon Smart Moore. In the company was playing in Dayton there were about fifty people from Richmond, Ind., to witness the performance. Richmond is the home of Antoine Lille, now interpreting the part of Lille White. He a great hit with his song "I Aint Had No Lovin' in a Long Time," assisted by Benny Mc. C. W. Simmons). Mrs. C. W. Simmons). Indianapolis, the mother of our lyric tenor, Frank Fowler Brown, came to Dayton and spent three days with her son and friends. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Sherman. The Cole & Johnson red and black subtrettes are Misses Leona Marshall, Pearl Lottie Brown, Lottie Gee, Bessie Brown and Mimi Tare. They are wearing a red stocking and red shoe and a black stocking and black shoe in a master Edgar Connors song hit "Sambo," and it makes quite a Frenchy effect. Sam Lucas, the grand old man and dawn of the profession, is still retaining his love of baseball. He keeps the boys full of smiles with his funny sayings. While playing Cheinnett, sixty miles from his home (Washington, D.C.), four couples came over to see the show, and the performance they gave the grand old man a good time. "Oh, what a night dad must have," Pankey is still on "The Road to Monterey" with his eighteen pretty senoritas. Young of Cole & Johnson's company will close at his home in Balti- more with the intention of doing some local theatrical work. He contemplates opening a colored theatre in that city so she. Herbert Sutton is still the favorite singing "Life Is a Game of Checkers," assisted by Messrs. Frank Brown, Leon McEachern, Frank Delpels and our bass profd. Frank Delpels. The Cole & Johnson "Gibson Girls" are Misses Bessie Trible, Mayme Butler, Lula Coleman, Blanche Deas, Bessie McEachern, Blanche Smith. They are the happiest bunch you ever see that they are the only colored Gibson girls. The banjo girls are always mermakers. The banjo is Mime, Joan Young, Pauline Hackley, Marie Lucas, Colleen Hunter, Mattie Harris and Rio Dells. Miss Abbie Mitchell, who is playing the part of Minnehaha, so successfully, has many roles to play with white and colored through her skilful work. Arthur Talbot deserves all the credit that could be given him, as he plays his part great as "Chief John Lowdog," and could be played any better by a real Indian chief. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, who plays the part of "Chief John Lowdog" s wife, part with much feeling and expression. Mrs. Mollie Dill is giving the part Amanda Gibson "in a pleasing way and Henry Gant plays the part of "Bill Gibson a sailor keeps the husband in a vey creeper. Wesley Jenkins, who is playing the part of "Bill Armone," the butcher of Swamptown, is still on the job. Mrs. Anna Cook Pankey closed with Cole & Johnson with cloth and has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., to spend the season with her mother and friends. Miss Belle Morgan, the clever wardrobe mistress of Cole & Johnson's company, is still holding her own with her and thread in hand in case of any accident. THE PROFESSION AT JACKSON- VILLE. FLA. Frank Crowd's popular and only colored moving picture theatre in the city, is doing fine, and he sincerely hopes for the patronage of those lovers of good, moving pictures. Regards to all friends. Perkins and Perkins are at the Palace Theatre and everybody knows it. Perkins' big opening chorus and acts are making a hit for the Palace that will be old remembered. Mrs. Perkins is in town with "Down in Jungle Town" and "Baby Doll." Regards to the profession. 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 STAIR, WILBUR & NICOLAI EXTEND A Merry Xmas -- AND -- A Happy New Year! FROM Cole & Johnson, and their incomparable company of Negro players, including: JAMES REESE EUROPE, Musical Director. Presenting real Negro plays of real American Negro life, written, composed and staged by Cole & Johnson 1906-7-8, "Shoo-Fly Regiment." 1908-9 "THE RED MOON," playing now to standing room only everywhere. PHILIP ROBSON, MANAGER. A HINT TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT. men and womne, $9 cents. For further information write George Slaughter orrence, manager, his office, 924 W. Walnut street, Louisville, KY. You also find the Freeman on aa at all times. We also handle business and calling cards at reasonable prices. 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. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. Lincoln Theatre 222 E. Green St. Louisville, Ky. Moving Pictures. Latest Films Three changes each week. Best Show in Louisville for five cents. WANTED Colored acts laying off in Chicago or near one to six weeks work. Colored acts of all Marion A. 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BROWN LULU COLEMAN ZENNIE HUNTER MARION POTTER HARRY WATSON MATTIE HARRIS BOB YOUNG MILLIE DEAN JOHN SCHISSLER SAM CORKER, Advance Representative Negro play Negro life d and stage John Fly Regime ro plays of real gro life, nd staged by hnson Regiment." 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. LABORING MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION NO.1, Plaquemine, La., is now in first class order for all traveling minstrels or opera troupes, with all necessary lights and equipment. Stage 18x26; two dressing rooms 10x18. House is located in center of town with a business surrounding and seats 750. Verret & Dorsey, Mgrs., P. O Box 207, Plaquemine, La. The greatest Negro show of them all. A Continued Success. Watch and wait for the Big Comedy PAT CHAPPELLE, Box 702. Jacksonville, Fla. FRANK DE LYONS LOUIS F. POTTS FANNIE WISE HENRY GANT HERBERT SUTTON BLANCHE DEAS BESSIE O. BROWN ZENNIE HUNTER HARRY WATSON BOB YOUNG JOHN SCHISSLER SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON. Christmas vs. the Cynic. Christmas comes but once a year, Do not make a jesit of it; 'Tis season the good cheer, Cynicism the zest of it. Now a respite, brief repose, Let us make the best of it; Drown our many weary woes; Christmas, we are blest of it. Christmas comes but once a year, Children love the zest of it; Miss a message, give a hear, Heartbreak the best of it. Just good-will and wishes kind, And your love, the best of it. If we're poor—well, never mind; Laugh we will and jesit of it. Christmas comes but once a year, Money's not the test of it. Hearts alone can help and cheer, Christ has made the best of it. The Hon. Harry C. Smith will never make his living as a prophet. A well-placed compliment, even if verging on flattery, is better than a "knock." As a diplomat Minister "Furniss" is a "warm member." Christmas presents, large or small, will reach us safely if sent in care of THE FREEMAN. Of course Mr. William Loeb Jr. goes into the Cabinet of President Taft. It is written in the stars. Some one has noticed that campaign money gets away from a fellow faster than any other kind. It will pay a fellow to "pass up" the silly girl who values a Christmas gift by the size of the price-tag. Don't allow a bland enemy to put you against the friend who has given positive evidence of his friendship. The latest authorities on fashions say the "mitt" is to be worn extensively during the remainder of the year. The tariff will be revised on protective lines, but the revision will be a genuine one—just alike to producer and consumer. The veteran quill-driver, T. Thomas Fortune, was fortunate enough to pick one winning Presidential ticket, anyhow. The welfare of the innocent will be promoted by the discovery of the guilty. That is the Brownsville case in a nut-shell. Editor George L. Knox, by herculean effort, is concealing his regret over the retirement of Congressman Jesse Overstreet. Will some one please send us, through THE FREEMAN, the present address of Granville T. Woods, the celebrated electrician? The patriots who wish to be named as the American minister to Haytii are vigorously opposed to the annexation of the black republic by this country. If you have any friends in the national capital, prepare to cultivate them now and get next' to an invitation to visit them in March. The inauguration comes on apace. We believe a tried and true friend should be trusted, no matter what designing enemies may do or say to shake your confidence in his sincerity or integrity. The great commonwealth of Tennessee presents her illustrious son, J. C. Napier, for federal recognition. This claim of the New South will not and can not be justly overlooked. The widest breach between friends can be bridged by mutual explanations. It is up to the smooth liar to keep them apart if they are being caught red-handed in his villainy. The Knox family is to be represented in the Taft Cableau current series true. Blood will tell, whether the individual runs the greatest national newspaper or negotiates the treaties of the greatest government on earth. If the church buildings of the A. M. E. connection are to measure up to the dignity the world would want to expect, the bishops, presiding elders and ministers should consult the church's talented supervising architect, John A. Lankford. The "prosperous Portsmouth, Virginia, physician," whom President Roosevelt so warmly praised for his generous gift to the Army, has his movement, turned out to be Dr. J. J. France, "one of the finest ever." The Negro doll is the "hit" of the season. It comes at the psychological moment and fills a long-felt want. The Negro child and the Negro doll fit each other like a kiss. A line to Dorothy" of THE FREEMAN and secure one for the baby's Christmas gift. A visit to Wilberforce University, since the advent of President W. S. Scarborough, is an inspiration to the practical education of the race's head, hand and heart. The Negro force, with new methods of realizing the importance of healthful conditions, is rapidly coming into her own. Tuskegee Institute's tuberculosis congratulations are particularly the strong impulse for healthful conditions in the Southland, generated by the graphic pictures painted of the ravages of the "white plague," will be the source and productive of great good to our people. Interest in the work of the colored branches of the Young Men's Christian Association has been stimulated everywhere by President Roosevelt's practical speech at the cornerstone laying of the Washington branch on Thanksgiving day. If qualified suffrage is to obtain here and there, it is up to the unlearned and poor to get intelligence and property, and at the same time insist that all races be treated alike in the exclusion process. A president's determination to accumulate of this world's goods will do no one any harm, if the game is played on the level. Brother J. H. Murphy of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger has made up his mind that Judge Taft isn't nearly so dangerous as he thought he would be, and is praising the President-elect's speeches and the serious sincerity that no original Taftite could outdo. Brother Murphy, like Saul of old, has seen a great light. Judge Taft gives positive indication that he intends to be the President of the whole of the things they tried to do to him. Even Samuel Gompers, Dubois, Corrothers, William Monroe Trotter and Sumner Lark have a chance to enter the "Promised Land" if they will only be good from now on. Miss Grace Louise Majors, the brilliant anglistician of the Massachusetts editor of the Chicago Conservator, is to be married on the 28th to Prof. Roswell, who must also be brilliant to have succeeded in contracting such a brilliant constitutional amendment to provide for biennial sessions. In this the Alabamians were wise. The Legislature would have interim between sessions could be lengthened to six years. The Afro-American Ananias Club does by its Fascism rival, Bryan failed to A Merry Christmas to all! --- --- 中 --- --- --- ... give Bishop Walters credentials that would stick. DuBois left before the roll was made up by Dr. Waldron's record who was too old to be a member of the class' demanded of a charter member. This leaves Dr. S. L. Corrothers in undisputed possession of the colored end business organization, with a deed signed, sealed and delivered by Judge Taft himself. Mound Bayou's prosperity does not prove that "colonization" is the solution of the race problem. It demonstrates that the thrifty and industrious and indulgent can do things and grow resists, the same can do things and grow if he takes advantage of the resources at his command. That is what President Roosevelt had in mind when he praised the Negro Business League and he Mississippi Negro Business League in his Thanksgiving day address. The attention of the Boston Guardian is respectfully called to the following statement made by Mr. Taft in his recent speech in New York before the North Carolina Society. The appeal to the Fifteenth Amendment is utterly impracticable and should be relegated to the limbo of forgotten issues. What we are considering is something practical, something more progress. Lake up, Brother Trotter; Take up, go forward with the new order of things. * * * * A white bandmaster in a Negro regiment is an anachronism. The bands of the Twenty-fourth Infantry and Ninth Infantry are ordered chief musicians. Elbert Williams, leader of the Twenty-fifth, has demonstrated the superior advantage to be derived from having our bands in charge of a sympathetic associate rather than an enemy. We need the necessary order and there should be no difficulty in "rounding up" capable colored musicians for the places to be filled. Andrew Carnegie has tendered Howard University $50,000 for an adequate library building, on condition that the school raises an endowment fund of $50,000. The university will also provide a section of the land there are graduates of Howard's collegiate, law and medical departments. These progressive and resourceful institutions will provide subscription centers in the principal cities and raise this comparatively small amount inside of six months. Howard University is a national institution and richly merits all that the race can do to enlarge its scope of usefulness. Now that Booker T. Washington has educated the country up to the value of industrial training, the dignity of labor and the fundamental quality of the farm, the university has raised the white folks from taking his idea clear away from him. The best schools, colleges and institutions of every section of the country are emphasizing the importance of hands and that the final mission of education is service rather than adornment. The world has imbibed wisdom from the race affected to despise. Verily, the rejected stone has become the head of the corner. Former Register Judson W. Lyons stood loyally by Senator Foraker, when his personal interests would have best been subserved by deserting the standard of military service, nothing but sturdy generalship Foraker received one-half of the total vote polled for him, and one other vote was controlled for Vice-President Fairbanks by the Lyons com-mittee. Foraker was the first to acquiesce in the nomination of Judge Taft after the Chicago convention and no one gave the national ticket any撑击 or more effective support than Mr. Lyons. He was the only one His work in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky was highly commended by the national chairman and the head of the speaker's bureau. Mr. Lyons will not be passed by the official pie is cut. Georgia will stand by the country at large will say "Amen." The observant Charles Banks, Mound Bayou's most enterprising citizen and banker, cotton grower and mill operator, teaches us the craze to which too many of our people addicted—that of paying unnecessary visits to the places they moved from a year or so ago, presumably to show off their skills, to bring along the money is needed for the winter that is sure to catch them unprepared. Mr. Banks advises his farmer friends to husband their resources, invest their surplus funds in their farm to help their winter homes for their families, buy improved farm machinery and implements, purchase finer grades of stock and produce, and "cutting out" the foolish, wasteful and wholly uncalled for excursion and visiting habit. President Roosevelt, in his speech, "a address at ashleigh on Thanksgiving endorsed the counsel of Mr. Banks, pronouncing it to be the highest wisdom and declared it to be good advice for other people as well as farmers. Any girl can easily secure a beautiful Negro doll by writing Dorothy. MARION. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. FLINT MICH Special to THE FREEMAN Fannie Jenkins is confined to her home with a sprained ankle...Mrs. Mary V Jones and G. U. Marten are on the sick bed at home from Lansing...Rev. Lyons expects to spend Christmas with his children in Mason, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. of Valerie Wheeler recently will remain for a while...Jerome Wright has returned from a hunting trip up in the North. He was successful in killing one deer...Mrs. J. O Linney gave a four hour hunt at Miss Ida Howell and Mike Allen of Cadillac, who were the guests of Miss Martha Bailey. Covers were laid for the dinner at Cadillac in honor of Miss Allen and Mike Allen. Covers were laid for fourteen. $1.00—The Freeman one year until January 1—$1.00. --- --- --- . . . THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER By W. FORREST COZART. --- The Waiters' and Cooks' Alliance, Local No. 261, of Louisville, Ky., with headquarters at 420 Fifth street, is still doing business to their delight. Recently they have opened a new Seelbach Hotel and Galt House, and we hope the good work will continue. The following members have returned from West Baden Springs recently: Bros. Sam Cox, the president of the census maker, John Glenn and Albert Polk. The Freeman is on sale at their headquarters, Chas. W. Watt is business agent. A Texas Representative has introduced a bill togress providing that the next census maker marries in this country. The Representative also took the opportunity to express himself very freely on the subject of marriage. As he seems rather sensitive along this line, we fear that if his bill becomes a law and is put into operation, the result will be so shocking that a physician to treat him for nervous prostration and weak heart, for Chicago alone has over 300 Negroes with white wives. President Roosevelt in his star act, jumping from limb to limb on the discharged soldier question, is out with a new weapon, the first one. The President realizes that he has made an error, and it is too bad that a man as great as Roosevelt is not given the chance to message to Congress he admits that he has used all the machinery of the Government and several special agents, deceived by the president in thirty States in the past two years trying to secure evidence to convict the soldier has failed to do so. But President Roosevelt has years ago before he even investigated the charges properly. This act was a high-profile proceeding a great wrong, and contrary to the law and the Government. But the President has been encouraged by weak-kneed Negroes who have sacrificed manhood rights for office and who have been wrongly stands now where he stood when he wrote the President November 15, 1906. W. H. Ellis, who has figured in several sensational escapades, first as a promoter in colonizing Mexico with Negroes from all parts of the South, for which it is said that he was the first to do so for the several thousand Negroes thus imported. Previous to the above incident, Mr. Ellis resided with his parents, sisters and brothers at San Antonio, Tex., and was a man. Having learned the Spanish language, he went to New York, where he became known as a Cuban "gentleman of the city," and did much hobbing with Kink Menelik, returning to this country to float several schemes. Ellis then returned to Europe and while in London was delegated to the department of Washington to carry the treaty between this and Abyssinia to Kink Menelik, as special Ambassador Loomis had mystically disappeared while en route from New York to the United States. In the instructions of the State Department with satisfaction and further enjoyed the social Friendship of the great Negusti. Now Mr. Ellis is in Mexico again, where he is a company to develop the rubber industry. --- The following toast was given by Chas, W. Watts, business agent of the Waiters' and Cooks' Alliance, Local No. 261, of Louisville, Ky., at Castle Inn Hall, where officers for the ensuing year were elected October 9: Here's luck to green button boys, Organized in 1901: Here's luck to Waiters' and Cooks' Alliance, Local 261. May she continue to grow. He's Kentucky, State. And her man be, in demand. So they will never have to wait. Henry Pinckney, steward of the White House, Washington, D. C., has been a very busy man during the holidays, as it is with every article that goes into either the store room or kitchen of the White House, Mr. Pinckney visits the markets daily in a covered wagon, which is painted with without any lettering. He pays cash for every article he carries in capturing that is convenient and having others sent. He also buys all the groceries, mostly by wholesale, and usually keeps his storeroom supplied to ast at the store. He also buys all the goods that emergency. One of the conditions he makes with all whom he deals with is that no advertising or publicity is to be given to the White House, to the White House, and all goods must be sent in plain boxes so that it will not show what the contents are nor who sent it. The position of steward at the White House is that he is one of trst. Mr. Pinckney, like his predecessors, is a colored man and receives the munificent salary of $1,800 per year. It is said that he is one of the most prominent predecessors of Mr. Pinckney, the White House kitchen—at least he suits Mrs. Roosevelt, and she is very particular. Mr. Pinckney, she filled a similar position to Roosevelt when the latter was Governor. Mr. Roosevelt soon as Mr. Roosevelt entered the White House he employed Mr. Pinckney as his steward. It is the duty of the steward to keep the office and decorations intact and have them ready any time. He also keeps the books of his department and accounts for every cent paid out by him, which amounts to about $100,000 per year. A charge of a regular working force of about fifty employees, several of whom are white. By the direction of President Roosevelt, Mr. Pinckney on each holiday purchase turkeys so one can be to each employee who has a family, for a Christmas dinner. CORAOPOLIS, PA. SPEECH BY BREMAN. V. I. Stuart, the A. M. E. Zion Church preached a wonderful sermon Sunday evening, after which two people joined the church...Rev. Tibbs of the St. Olive Church selected as his text last week. He verses of the sixth chapter of Isiah, and in the afternoon he preached a wonderful sermon at the New Hope Baptist Church. ...Rev. Saunders of the New Hope Baptist Church preached a splendid sermon on Sunday and visited his sister of Knoxville, Pa., last Saturday...On account of the continued illness of Mrs. Chas. Jenkins' father, Charlie Jenkins Jr. will not be able to attend the service. Mrs. Thomas Park left Sunday morning in company with her aunt to visit in Ohio...W. W. M. Wheeler continues very ill. ...W. E. Reed and Linnwood Temer were guests of Mrs. Jenkins December 14th. And Grace Ballard team appears to have made a big pickup Remember the folks at home by having THE FREEMAN sent to their address one year ago. Spend your time for $15 for 52 weeks. Send your orders today. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. OPTICAL WORKER COMMITS SUICIDE. Special to THE FREEMAN NEW ORLEANS, La.—Charles Lopis, an optical worker employed at Claudel's optical establishment, took his own life last week at his home in North Roman street, the health is supposed to have the cause. He leaves a widow and seven children. Mr. Claudel, when he learned of the suicide, said that Lopis had been with him for eighteen years, having worked with him from porter to first workman in the shop. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Susan. Miss Harris of the sanitarium left last Sunday to spend the holidays in Chicago. ...Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cross, a thirteen-footed boy, in Chicago. ...Mrs. Skelter of Finley, Ohio is visiting her daughter Mrs. Lannie Farmer. ...Rev. Allen of Detroit will preach at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. ...Messrs. Robert and Susan, of Amuzoo spent Sunday in the city. "The Old Mald's Wooing," given by the Young Ladies' Embroidery Club Thursday, Dec. 15. Miss Robert from Kalamazoo was present. Mrs. Lillian Crutton won the hearty applause of the audience in her character of Sally. Miss Robert left for the West Indies Tuesday, Dec. 11. Miss Mina Evans entertained Walter Collins of Lansing Sunday. ...Wallie Robbins left for Chatham, Canada. Wed. Miss Robert called there by the illness of his father. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. BURLINGTON, IA. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Rev. H. C. Thomas of Chicago, the pastor of the A. M. E. Church, is visiting his family in Chicago. At The Young Men's Club met Sunday afternoon at P.Ock. in Chicago, where he had ident J. C. Clibun. He had with him Rev. M. W. Lewis and Rev. J. W. McCumes, both white ministers, who gave the address to the crowd, paved for the unbuilding of the race. The Young Ladies' Club did fine last Thursday night with their entertainment. MINEOLA. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN The Lone Pine school is in good shape and Miss Alice Hudson from the school enrolls numbers forty scholars. The school is three miles from on the road that Na- nai, on the ocean, goes. SPRINGFIELD,ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN Speak. The Law and Order League, organized here in September, has for its purpose the uplifting of the people along all lines, and discourages vice and licentiousness among our people. This is what we need. 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Joe Woodman expects great things of Sam Langford in the future. Frank Erme, the retired ex-lightweight, has a Frenchman for the boys. Walter Camp gives only one Western man a place on bjs all-American football team. The fight for Sunday baseball will be the sporting feature of the Legislature of Indiana. Freddie Welsh's professional services are now in big demand in his own country, Wales. Hugo Kelly gets the sympathy of the banana boys whenever he steps into the ring. Hugo is an Italian. George Edward (Rube) Waddell, St. Louis Brown's star toser, fractured two of his ribs by a fall downstairs. "Sky Jim" Fox, former Atlanta first sacker, signed recently with the Columbus (Ga.) South Atlantic League Club. Battling Nelson is backing a book at the Emeryvill race track at Oakland. It is called the "Oak Club," and is said to be a winner. They both kill—football and boxing. James Curren's battle with Ben Barnett proved fatal for Curren in their amateur bout at "Philly." A young man that is an old man—Joe Gans. Although Joe is but thirty-three years of age, he is considered an old man in the pugilistic world. Jack Morgan, the Indianapolis fighter, took a right to the neck and the floor in his fight with only Griffin at Cincinnati. And twas in the thirteenth. As a result of a successful Marathon running challenge, Day the Mercury Athletic Club of Yonkers, N. Y. is arranging for another run on January 1. Roger Bresnahan, the New York Giant, what to announce to the St. Louis Cardinals next season, will at once secure several new stars for the pitching department. Stanley Ketchell says he positively refuses to box a Negro. What's he going to do, retire? The only man in his class is Sum Langford, and we are sure he's a Negro. Another new boxing club has been formed in New Orleans La, for the purpose of holding fistic battles. It is named Royal A. C., and has a seating capacity of 2,500. "Kid" Garrett, the Southern bantam champ, has returned to New Orleans and is prepared to meet any boy in the country at 110 pounds. Garrett is particularly anxious to meet "Kid" Greaves. Joe Gans is said to have posted $1,000 for a bout with Packey McFarland. Packey, with Young Er, but Gans going six rounds with the white boy, may do some damage to McFarland's championship aspirations. Jimmy Britt, the California lightweight, has been matched to fight a twenty-round battle, with Adolphe, the French champion, in January 9. They will fight for a purse of 300 francs, 75 per cent, to go to the winner. Jim Jeffries is going to increase the rounds in the feature bouts of his club from twenty-five to forty-five, and Barry and Kaufman are the first ones to be matched for the distance. This pair will meet on December 31. Alfred Shrubb and Thomas Longboat are matched to run a Marathon race at Mount Rainier, Washington, either January 8 or 9. The usual conditions will prevail, the men to cover 25 miles and 385 yards. To see Joe Walcott practically knocked out with only eight seconds to go in the final round was what the members witnessed in the bout between Walcott and Larry Temple. It was one of the few times in Walcott's career that he has been considered knocked out. Joe Rickert's hitting makes him one of the surest members of the 1909 Pelican outfield in the world. Bris Lord and Dexter go to Cleveland and Manning has been knocked out. The probability of Roy Montgomery returning here for an outfield job is slim. Preliminary arrangements for the twenty-round scientific boxing contest between Marvin Hart, of Louisville, and Mike McFarlane, of the University, to place in the Lexington Opera House New Year's Eve, are now completed. The contest will take place at Lexington, Ky. Nelson believes that Freddy Welsh is more of an easy pickling than Packey McFarland, and, of course, "Bat" wouldn't object to being matched with Welsh. By the way, he prefers the easiest fellow—the easier they are the better "Bat" likes 'em. Jimmy Britt is sure of winning over John Summers in their bout in London. Jim says he'll teach Summers a few techniques on the fistic game, and then make him take the count before the limit of the bat. But the count is less than the jab on Washington's birthday. Hell it with his little right. Opinion seems about evenly divided to the merits of Referee Jeffries' draw in the battle between Hugo Kelly and Billy Papke. Half of the 4,000 spectators seemed to consider Kelly the better man of the two, despite the fact that he was the second round by one of Papke's fierce right uppers. Billy Delaney, well known in pugilistic circles, and now manager of Al Kaufman, has written John Bellis here that he would bring Al to New Orleans if a good match arranged for the eleven middleweight. Kaufman fights Jim Barry on December 30 before the Jim Jeffries Athletic Club in Frisco. Bellis was one of the compatriots of Delaney and other promoters and managers. Henle Riley, of Baltimore, and Jack Kuran, of Savannah, fought a fifteen-round battle and some more last week, at Savannah, Ga. The decision of the referee was a draw, which was unpopular. The referee, I. D. Frost, continued, and the police were referees. Each fighter fought more fiercely in their "sure nuff" scrap than they did in the scheduled fifteen-round bout. Disgusted buses, they went to their respective rooms dissatisfied with the referee's decision, but fully pleased with their semi-wind-up. Here's a good one for a day's training. Try it: 7 a. m.—Arise and rubdown. One mile walk before breakfast. $ a. m. — Breakfast; grape fruit, sirloin steak, toast and coffee. a. h. —Two mile walk. Rubdown. b. 10. —Run from two to four miles. Rubdown. 12:30 p. m.—Dinner: food containing starch. 1:30 p. m.—Four mile walk. Rubdown. 3:30 p. m.—Run of six miles. Rubdown and massage. 6 p. m.—Supper. Amusement. 9:30 p. m.—Retire. On first reading the above schedule for a shine day, one would think a fellow would not. training, but Longboat, the Indian distance runner, who defeated Dorando, the Italian runner, in their Marathon run, takes it every day. FROM THE CRESCENT CITY. Some good boxers are wanted to come down and mix it with some of our localites. Polo Steele is manager for several fighters. There are some good heavies waiting here. Dorsey, featherweight, would like to hear from some good feathers. Dorsey's no easy feather to pick. The Dewberry Social Club, 1317 Gasquet street, is headquarters for sportsmen. Joe Green and his manager will be at the Dewberry Club on Friday night to negotiate business with Kid Hughes, the colored middleweight, who put out Christy Williams in one round. The Independent Social Club sends regards to Davy Smith and Billy Kersands. Jack Johnson was favorite at the Independent Social Club, of which Will North and Charles Spears are proprietors. The following gentlemen of Baton Island, Louisiana, the Board of the Independent, were in the city; Joe Mack, James Douglas, Pleasant Mar- rion, John Johnson, Willie Lyman and Charley Grisby. BASEBALL AMONG THE FAIRER SEX COMING INTO PROINENCE Springfield, O., Team—C. L. Mayberry Expects a League to Be Organized. Efforts are being made to get the fairer sex interested in athletics. This line of pleasure has been practically neglected or overlooked by the women of our race, and by the men of our race, and health in all lines of the athletic and sporting world. Why not the women? Our neighbors' wives and daughters (white) take interest in athletics, and while they are not copyrighted; they are at the disposal of each and every one. To some degree last summer tennis was taken up by the fair ones o' this city, and there promises to be more interest manifested in the coming season. Take up athletics, take up physical exercise; get interested in the games of the field, diamond, and in other pastimes or like. Enjoy life as it is; don't make it what it isn't or what it should not be. In Springfield, O., there has been organized a baseball team, not composed of the rugged ball players that have most enjoyed the game, but composed of girls. Nothing better could be done along this line; nothing better could be done to make the game clean sport; nothing better could be done to abolish the rules of the game; our women. Modesty? Well, that has caused the failure of more women than anything else known. Modesty should be possessed, 'its true, by men as well as by women.' Modesty, the theme, as can timidness. Take up the game, girls, in your town. Learn the game of baseball in all of its phases; know it from start to finish. Learn the game of girls' baseball team, as she has about the best woman baseball expert in the country in the person of Mrs. Henry Newboy. Every one should take interest and give encouragement to the promotion of girls' baseball teams. Springfield, O., has organized a baseball team of girls to take the diamond next season, under the leadership of Mrs. Sarah Indiana cities have fallen in line, several games have been arranged, and it is probable that an Ohio-Indiana League will be formed. O., which is the beginning of the season, is now addressing President C. L. Mayberry. 1712 North Limestone street, Springfield, O., or manager (Mrs.) Sarah S. Brooke, 813 E. President C. L. Mayberry, of the Springfield, O., girls' baseball team, is very anxious for the promotion of the new project, and is devoting much time and labor to the project. The berry is prompted to have colored girls organized into baseball teams from the fact that he believes colored girls can do. In cases, what the white girls can do. He wants to create enough enthusiasm in athletic circles to get on foot a league for girls players for the season of 1909. He wants a reference to colored girls playing baseball. "I know that you are aware there is but little that the girls of our race can find to do, and I feel that if this project can be made a success, and I am sure it can, we will be able to do it. We have hitherto been totally closed. Why not our girls play baseball as well as the white girls? Why wait until the white girls have worn all of the "new" off, and then start, as we have done in so many years, to play baseball for us to begin to be original in some things at least, and to start some things ourselves, and not wait until the white man or woman, as the case may be, gets and throws it aside, and then we take it to the next level, and we are courageed by men of influence and men of means, it will mean worlds to our girls." LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newby are training their baseball club for next season. They expect to be at strong club. Mr. Newby is an expert on baseball and the club. The club meets every Sunday morning at the residence of Mr. Newby, who is manager. Mrs. Newby is secretary. There are very few women, especially women in the club, who stand a game of baseball when they see it played, to say nothing of taking a part in a game. But Mrs. Newby understands and can play baseball and enjoys the diamond game. But it is just a question of a months until women will need no asks on the game. BURNS-JOHNSON FIGHT. To-day, December 26, is the date of the Burns-Johnson fight. It has been many years since the world at large has taken as much interest in a prize fight as in the game. Nevertheless there has been more enthusiasm over a prize fight than there has been over the heavyweight championship contest between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson. Not since the days of John L. Peter Jackson and George Dixon has pugilistic competition that seems to attract the American point of view is that there is involved. "Who's the superior, a white or a black man?" This is always in evidence in America there is competition of any kind between a white man and a white man for highest honors. WORLD'S CHAMPION. John Williams Holds Title to Cotton Picking—Hurla Challenge. Special to THE FREEMAN. MUSKOGEE, OKA.—John Williams, of Muskogee, now holds the world's championship, now has a record of 914 pounds of cotton picked in a day. Williams made this record while making good a contract to pick six hundred acres of cotton, which was but a cinch for him. Williams is now the endurance of an ox and is as strong as a lion. With his tough muscles and broad and well-proportioned body, Williams is the most eloquent to any man in the world to beat this record. There are many fast cotton pickers in the Southland, where the snowy weather is a challenge, but they have to do some to defeat Williams. Though Williams' sport is not recognized as widely as some of our national games and contests, it is one of the most successful manufacturers, growers, dealers and pickers. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER as well as the sections where cotton is extensively raised. It is considered as ordinary labor to those who are not familiar with the art. "Some folks have strange opinions as to how much cotton they could pick. It much cut them off and expert." These are the words of an old retired cotton picker who holds a few records himself in cotton picking. Williams is making the money—and what's to prohibit him from getting it? Four men would be doing a nice day's work to pick 914 pounds in a day. "MITCH" TAKES ANOTHER. Bert Mitchell won the amateur piano contest last week at the Galetty Theater. Bert took first prize several weeks ago at the Galetty in a similar contest. Bert is at the Galetty in the city, and knows the "ana" when it comes to playing those "lovin' rags." ATTRACTING ATTENTION. Sam McVey is Meeting with Success in Paris, France. For two years pugilism has been a craze in Paris, Frenchmen have come to regard ring contests as New Yorkers look upon the horse show. The glove fights in JOHNSON. READY FOR A MATCH. JOHNSON. READY FOR A MATCH. JOHNSON. READY FOR A MATCH. the French capital are attracting immense crowds, which include many persons well known in political and business circles. California, who was practically unknown in this country, is the star in Paris. He has been beating all kinds of mixed ale and back number fighters until he wears a white shirt. At night McVey, in the presence of probably 6,000 spectators, tackled an alleged pugilist named Herbert Synnott, of Australia. The "fight" was scheduled to go twenty minutes, the fifth McVey scored a clean knockout. KELLY MAY FIGHT KETCHELL. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Special—Flight fans are wondering who will be the next man to meet Stanley Ketchell for the mid-September race. Both Kelly and Papke are desirous of a return match with the champion, but it appears a difficult problem to select the man who will be the next man. Many pick the Kewanade lad as the next Glitchte Glisson De Clinton H JOHNSON IN LONDON opponent for Ketchell, on account of his previous combats with him, while others choose Kelly on account of his battle with Papke and his short go with Ketchell. Kelly may give a next match with Ketchell, as he seemingly had a slight shade the better of the go last night with Papke, but Referee Jeffries did not want to give a hair-line decision. Kelly and he, on the moment, possessed a stiffer blunt arm. He would have won on a knockout. But it is evident that he is not the possessor of a "sleep-producing" blow, as he landed on Papke time and again without a return. In account of this showing, it is more than likely he will be given the next match with Ketchell. and, they feat and occupate the first round. Kelly tore the back of the next match with Ketchell, as he seemingly had a slight shade the better of the go last night with Papke, but Referee Jeffries did not want to give a hair-line decision. Kelly and he, on the moment, possessed a stiffer blunt arm. He would have won on a knockout. But it is evident that he is not the possessor of a "sleep-producing" blow, as he landed on Papke time and again without a return. In account of this showing, it is more than likely he will be given the next match with Ketchell. CAMP PICKS AN ALL-AMERICAN. Steffen, Chicago, Only Westerner in This Football Team. Waltem Camp, a national factor in football circles, and known to all sportsmen as an authority on the gridiron game, has made a selection of an all-American football team, as follows: Scarlett, Pennsylvania. .End Fish, Harvard. .Tackle Goebel, Yale. .Guard Nourse, Harvard. .Center Tobin, Dartmouth. .Guard Horr, Syracuse. .Tackle Schildmiller, Dartmouth. .End Steffen, Chicago. .Quarterback --- DUKE WOULD MEET 133 POUNDER Kentucky's. Hard - Hitting. Champion Anxious to Fight LOUISVILLE, Ky., Special—Johnieh Duke, the lightweight champion of Kentucky, is ready to meet all comers in the 133 pound class. Louis McMillen, 612 Newton street, is managing the pugilistic duel. Duke is by no means short of knowing the art. Duke is training now, and McMillen wants to pull off a bout with some of the cracks. New York Special. Joe Jeannette, the colored light-heavy and Wille Lewis, the colored middleweight, will begin a European tour under the management of the Knicks, recording to the contract Jeannette is to engage in six battles with men of any weight in the league, with men with men under 160 pounds. Guarantees of $10,000 have been given to each man. Battling Nelson believes that Gans is a wonderful piece of fighting machinery. ? and expresses a desire to fight the old master again. Nelson says: "I am the daddy of the bunch, and until I am shown to be wrong I will still have that opinion. I will still have that opinion. Phy can talk until doomsday, but they will have to have an elimination race first. I will fight the best man in the bunch. I will fight the best man in the bunch at a time. I would fight Gans again." PAPKE-KELLY BOUT ONE OF MOST MVCIOUS SEEN Fight Ends in Draw—Jeffries Referee; Jas. Corbett Declined. LOS ANGELES, Cal. — The twenty-five round fight between Billy Papke and Hugo Kelly, last week, was one of the most vicious ever seen in this prize-fighting mecca. The men were at each other at the time, and there was not a minute of silence. The fight was a tribute that one or the other would win by a knockout, but their excellent condition THE NEW YORK TIMES The second round was a repetition of the first. Kelly using an uppercut to good advantage and jarring the Kewanee fighter with fierce jabs. Papke showed to "FATHER" JOE GANS John E. & Frank Walter, PROPRIETORS OF Clay St. Brewery, ICE FOR SALE All Orders Promptly Attended To. Telephone 209. 810-812-814 Clay St., - Louisville, Ky. much better advantage in the third round, but Kelly had a shade on the session, due to his clever boxing. Kelly showed his first real boxing of the fight in the fourth round, and dropped Kelly with left and right upercuts to the jaw. Kelly plainly was in the good advantage and bounced when his head was cleared up he fought back viciously. Kelly had taken away the deserves of the jaw, but used his head to good advantage and bounced. When his head was cleared up he fought back viciously. Kelly's deadly jabs were having the deserves throughout the fifth and sixth sessions shouted to him in the fifth round to ease up and allow the other man to do the forging. Kelly kept pecking away with his left throughout the fifth and sixth sessions, and bounced. Had had the Thunderbolt's eyes practically closed. The Thunderbolt's face was cut to ribbons, and became the aggressor again in the seventh round and chased Kelly all over the ring. The latter did some clever footwork, and after receiving a hard right on the jaw did some brilliant defensive went into clenching, driven to bay went into clenching after clench. In the eight round Papke seemed to solve Kelly's uppercut, which had been causing him so much trouble. He rushed into the boxing ring and the ring and sent him into the ropes. In the ninth round the Thunderbolt climbed to the top of the field for the body. He had Kelly in distress from hard digs in the ribs and over the heart, and the latter held whenever he had PACKEY MUST FIGHT GANS FIRST. The sporting world is crazy to see Bat Nelson and Packey McFarland get together, and Packey is just as anxious to meet the Dane. But the champion has no choice. But the Nelson doesn't believe that McFarland has the honor to even have the honor of stepping into a ring to battle with a champion, although he says that he may give McFarland a chance to meet him after his fight with one of the master of the fist art, Joe Gans. Packey McFarland goes on goals or Gans will "steal the bacon" and Bat might change his mind for a go. NELSON FEARED GANS IN FIGHT JULY 4—A FRISCO PAPER'S STORY. A San Francisco paper prints a story that will make Battling Nelson's ears burn before long. It states that Nelson feared to meet Gans on July 4 at Colma, but spent much time to run out on Willus Britt after the elight smoking manager had been taken into the fold. It appears that Nelson had promised Jack Gleason that he would meet Gans twenty-round fight, and when Willus Britt told him that he would be foolish to fight a twenty-round fight with Gans; that the long battles were his best. At that time the Dane had no manager, and he promised Britt the job if he could arrange a fight at him for Coffrout's club. Britt made good. WARNING TO YOUNG BOXERS. The Freeman a Well-Wisher of Young sters Aspiring for Pupilistic Fame. Dissipation, the enemy of health and strength, has caused the complete downfall of more pugilists than perhaps any other known evil. In regard to a "careful" approach to the problem, nothing does more to demote him from prominence as those demoralizing, health corrupting, dissipated habits. The fighter, if he desires to keep in good condition himself, must protect himself against the danger of immoral habits, which will, in time to come, cause him to deeply regret the past. He must regard himself as an athlete as well as a fellow with the punch, dodge or step. He must protect himself in the trif, not by actual physical training then by his daily walks. To keep in trim is but to take care of one's self. Some fighters think that they can lead a careless life, but they fail to rise in which of them have tried it and the best have failed to maintain their supremacy—the natural result. We are well acquainted with some promising Indianapolis amateur boxers who are down to rise in which we, if not themselves, are sorry—are gradually stumbling over the obstacles of King Alcohol. "Booze"—let it alone if you would be "opposed." Booze and a dozen of them go together, a memoir that one fighter (if not half a dozen or more others) who was at the top of his class in his day, succumbed to the dreadful alcoholic appetite. This man was not a fighter. It's greatest ringster. It got the best of him and it can get the "drop" on you. Though we shall long remember the pugnance of the pupil to boast of it, yet we have learned a great lesson from his life, which stands out prominent before us as a warning of the dangers of being alone. The old "kettle" is your enemy, not your friend. If you fail, fall like a man, not as a slave. Ask yourself this best not do? ATLANTA UNIVERSITY GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT. A. B. C. Celebrates Another Victory— Score, A. B. C., 12; A. U., 0. Monday afternoon, November 30, on a muddy and slippery field, Atlanta University went down in bitter defeat under the colors of the old maroon. The game was the University's first home game, her hopes—it was the point up to which she had trained; but to the Baptist boys it had never been considered other than a slight practice to give the public a chance to see some of the material which would represent them on the gridron next year. On account of the beating rain, neither team could show up to advantage its best qualities. The game ended after about 33 minutes, with the score 12 to 0 in favor of A. B. C. The game was much delayed by the overwrought enthusiasm of Atlanta University's rosters. They considered the rosters to be too immense and spectacular play. Each time her players made a gain the rosters jumped the ropes and took the field. The game was delayed while they rejoiced. The ropes were locked much of being realized and she went away with the crimson and gray trailing in the dust. Atlanta University A.B.C. University Right end. James Right tackle. V. Turner Young Right guard. Windsom Banks Center. Jackson Cullen Left guard. Arnold Wilson Left end. R. Turn Westmoreland Left end. Mattison Mickey Quarterback. Walker Cochran Right half. B. Hubert Jackson Left back. Zuber King Harrel. Left end. C. Hubert Touchdowns—B. Hubert; 1. Zuber, 1. Goals—Zuber, 2. Referee Franklin. Umpire Bullock of touchdowns—B. Hubert; 1. Zuber, 1. Time of halves—20 and 13 minutes. Final score—A. B. C, 12; A. U., 0. MORDECAI W. JOHNSON. JOPLIN, MO. Special to the FREEMAN. Several Carthagetes were in the city last Sunday attending services at the Louisiana Marian Church in Louisiana. Marian who has been visiting her son, Samuel Hobbs, the headwaiter of the Connor, has returned home...The high school building recently completed for the first time in Missouri is the groundbreaking kind in Missouri for Negroes...Connor day is the latest feature among the high school buildings of the last Sunday was celebrated last Sunday in Union service a rally at the Handy Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Rev. Brownlee, pastor. Among the visiting ministers to aid in the rally, Rev. Bonds and Young men, the green garden, our own Rev. H. H. Curtis of the city. The mayor and several of the best white day was celebrated in home by the late Thomas Connor, who gave $15,000 to build three colored churches in this city, namely, Baptist, Church, and A.M. Church. Rev. H. Curtis, the efficient pastor of the Handy Chapel, needs to be commended for the strenuous effort he forth to make this day successful. When you visit the Freeeman see A. H. Henderson. 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Such handsome and novel skirts as these would bring joy to the heart of any woman, at. . . . $5.00 Messaline petticoats, soft, satiny skirts, designed to wear with clinging gowns, in the new soft dull tones. . . . $7.50 to $8.50 —3d floor, south. THE FREEMAN $1.00 a year until Jan. 1. Carl Morin, of Muncie, is in the city. The Woman's Club will meet at the Flatiron and Monday. Supk. E. Skelton was in Cincinnati last week. Mrs. Anna Scholcraft will spend Christmas at Des Moines, Ia. A brilliant audience attended the Bachelors' hop last night. Henry Logan and wife of this city spetn Sunday in Richmond, Ind. Mrs. Hazel Hart Hendricks will spend the holidays with her husband at Peoria. Mrs. Stella Hatch will lentertain the Frau Frau Club Club during the holidays. The Ugly Men's Club is arranging to entertain their wives during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott will spend a few days next week at Louisville. Miss Hester Van Arseld, of St. Louis, is taking treatment at Dr. Ward's sanitarium. Miss Margaret Thurston, a teacher of Louisville is spending the holidays in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Timberlake are spending Christmas with the latter's parents at Muncie. Mrs. Mamie Brown Huffman left Wednesday to spend the holidays with her husband at St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Golnes, of Elkham, will be the guests of Mrs. Sailie Brown during the week. Mrs. Anderson Kincaid will spend the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Stephen Bell, at Louisville. Mrs. Herbert Webber, the stenographer of Louisville, is spending the holidays at Louisville. Mrs. Wilhemina Morris, of Louisville, will visit her daughter, Mrs. Sumner A. Furniss, during the holidays. Mrs. Effe Wilson will be custodian of the ladies' cloak-room at the state house during the holiday visit. Mrs. Lucetia Gibson will be the guest of Anthony Courtney at the home of his mother, 913 Camp street. James Shelton who has been dangerously ill at Dr. Ward's sanitarium is reported to be somewhat improved. Miss Ruth Pittiford, of Franklin, will be the guest host of Miss Moss in Keystone avenue during the holidays. The Woman's Improvement Club will hold its next meeting with Mrs. Clara Bond, Thursday evening, January 7. The Lotus Club's party at Msaonic hall Monday night promises to be one of the events of the holiday season. Miss Mattie Bennett, accompanied by her sister, will be the guest of Dayton, the guests of Mrs. Laura Gaines. William E. Scott, of Chicago, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Scott, in north Senate avenue. Mrs. Emily Harangue, of Josephine, Miss, is the guest of her sisters, the Misses Mary and Victoria Willison in College avenue. Worries will be with their friends at the home of Mrs. William Reed, 1605 Alvord street, next Wednesday, Dec. 30. Miss Hattie Courtney is spending the holidays in this city with her family. She is accompanied by Miss Pearl Jones, of Scotts, Ky. W. A Kersey will entertain the board of the Colored Y. M. C. A next Thursday in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Miss Lucy Williams, of Louisville, Ky., has been visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Collins, for two weeks left for Louisville this morning. Misses Collins added a number of the younger boys will entertain the girls of their set at the home of the former, 1119 N. West street, New Year's night. Misses Idlelove, love of Muskogee, and Ithigenia Cole, of San Antonio, Tex., came from Oberlin Tuesday to spend the holidays with Miss Lucetra Gibson, a talented reader of Louisville, will give a recital at Simpson Chapel next Monday evening. Miss Gibson has won favorable comment wherever she has appeared. George L. Knox addressed the Boys' Church in Wood last Sunday. Mr. Knox was also elected an honorary member. Miss Ada Hains is the promoter of the organization. Miss Carrie Miller entertained a company at 6 a'clock dinner during the week in honor of Olivia Wood last Sunday. Mr. Knox was also elected an honorary member. Miss Ada Hains is the promoter of the organization. Special Christmas services will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday, Rev. Shafir will speak from the subject "The Balance Wheel of Human Life" in the morning, and a song service will be given by the choir. The Baptist Ministerial Alliance at its meetings in New York, and the meetings of the alliance at night at as many different Baptist churches, beginning Monday evening, January. January. Arrangements for the alliance will be entertained by Rev. B. W. D. Isaac during his visit to the city. Mrs. Susan West, of Lawrence, Kan. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Carly, Curry, 500 S. 10th St., Two other 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, Medames Martha Collins, of Danville, Ill., and Mellie Tate, of a MtRion, also two nieces, Medames Minnie Blakemore and Mary Wooten, and Andrew Jones, Scott in the family, for a family reunion dinner at the home of Mrs. Curry. Over 100 children were given a fine dinner dinner Thursday at the McCoy school building by the teachers and the Parents' Club of the district. Donations to the school provide an even needy child, and they were thus enabled to be comfortable and to make a presentable appearance. The menu consisted of turkey, chicken, vegetables of all sorts, cranberries, jellies, fruits, ples, cakes, candy and nuts. BOYS' BIBLE STUDY CLUB OF THE Y. M. C. A. There was a Boy's Bible Class organized at the Colored Y. M. C. A. last week. The meeting was opened by the general secretary, Mr. Taylor, who gave the boys a very interesting talk. The attendance was very good for a gathering of this kind, as this was the first meeting, but we expect to have a larger attendance next Tuesday. All boys are welcome, as will them and to come, and do us will them. Class opens 7:30 sharp every Tuesday evening. Come early and avoid the rush. Officers elected were Albert Booth, president; James Perry, secretary; Edward McWay, president; and James Bailey, corresponding secretary. EMANCIPATION DAY. The committee having in charge the arrangements for the Emancipation Day exercises are making every effort to make the day one to be long remembered. The exercises throughout the day will be held morning, afternoon and evening. In the morning Booker T. Washington, brought here by the School Board, will deliver an address to the colored teachers and their friends. In the evening, at the offices of Nashville, will deliver the Emancipation Day address. At night the Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance has arranged an attractive program. A small admission fee will be charged at night and proceeds will be used to the charity organizations of the city to aid in caring for the poor. The Mary Campbell Mite Missionary Society and the stewardess board will serve dinner at the church New Year's day and evening. FREE KINDERGARTEN. MANY HOLIDAY EVENTS The holidays promise much entertainment, especially for the younger social set among the colored people. The festivities will begin with the North West street, next Wednesday evening, to introduce two young women, students of Oberlin College, who will be her guests through the holidays. Christmas parties will be held in the select assemblies, at Odd Fellows' Hall, for which elaborate preparations are being made. On Monday, December 28, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Ward will give a "coming out" party, with nearly one hundred young people have been invited. The same evening the Lotus Club will give a dance at Masonic Hall. On Tuesday evening, December 29, the large number of young people at her home in Bright street for her daughter Adelade, and the young visitors in the city. Several months later, the large number of young people at her week. Among the visitors who will spend the holidays in the city will be Theodore Cable, who will be home from Phillips and Walter Price, from Dartmouth College. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. That the "Monster Meeting" is here to stay and hold a very prominent place in the hearts of the men of Indianapolis was demonstration of the 200 men turned out to bear the splendid addresses which were delivered on each Sunday. Next Sunday Bishop John H. Vincent will be the speaker and the largest of the programs. The pred Y. M. C. A. Orchestra will render a special program and Miss Ada Higgins will sing. The program begins promptly at 3 p.m. Caleb Mills Hall will be tacxed to its utmost on the evening of December 21, when Booker T. Washington will deliver a lecture under the direction of the mission will be by ticket only, and they can be secured without charge at The Freeman, The Recorder, H. L. Sanders, The Denison Shops, The University of Chicago, The Y. M. C. A. Orchestra of 16 pieces will entertain the people with a special program and a corps of 40 ushers will see to the sitting of the people. The program of the Y. M. C. A. night school will open January 4. All who contemplate joining should do so now. Don't forget our Bible classes on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings. The program will be instructed these classes, it will help you to live better Christian lives. Sunday morning class from 8 to 10 a.m. The instructor. Wednesday class at 8:30 a.m. Rev. D. F. White. Please come on time. DO YOU WANT A NEGRO DOLL? If you wish a beautiful Negro doll, doll at once, you can do so at once at Droggy's, care. The Freeman INFORMATION WANTED. Any information of the whereabouts of Marian Sharp. Sam, John and Melvina are her sons and daughter, who were owned by Susan Sharp (white), and lived at Petersburg, Va. My name is Rachel Sharp, and I live at 108 Bufford street, Petersburg, Va. I am a confirmation of every one in helping me to find my people through The Freeman. THE PARKER HOUSE. My Dear—I write you again, and as usual from the Parker House, the well-known hotel in Chicago. Not long since Cole and Johnson and their set were here, and, by the way, a most congenial lot of folks. As it is always in the best we could until the rush was over, yet we enjoyed it; it gave us variety, and you know we need that so much. You room will be reserved for you. As to the meals, leave that to Mr. Duerson. Mr. Dudley would say; just call him. He solicits public generally. Don't forget address. A FREE HOMESTEAD. 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