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THE INTERPRETATION OF "RED MOON RAYS," BY SYLVERTER RUSSELL, WILL APPEAR IN OUR ISSUE OF JAN. 23. ORDER COPIES FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXII NUMBER 3 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MAKING READY FOR THE TAFT INAUGURATION DR. WILLISTON TO BE GRAND MARSHALL Of the Colored Division of the Parade—Appointment Giving Satisfaction-The Federal Patronage "Resting." Special by Thompson's National News Bureau. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 13, Dr. Edward D. W. Williston, of the Physician College of the colored division of the inaugural parade, and Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Kansas, for chief of staff, followed by a hundred or more "colonels on horseback and many others," by announced by Major-General J. Franklin Bell for the fourth of March. Grand Master William L. Houston will be at the head of a large detachment of the Patriarchie and other uniformed branches of the G. U. O. of F. George St. Julien Stephens writes that the colored citizens of Richmond will bring 300 plus pilots with two organizations numbering over a hundred word. Word is received daily from various sections of the country that our people are coming, and the attention will break all previous records for both races. All of the Negro participants will not be included in the colored brigade, and the attention will march with the "regulars," regardless of color, and the High Guard, of this city, now under instruction of Major Arthur Brooks, commander of the National Guard, will take their places with the division allotted to the colleges and advanced schools of the country. It will be the Valley of the Negroes who will be the only aggregation representing the military arm of the colored schools of the land. Those who have seen the work of Major Brooks' gallant lads on the field will guarantee that they will be the Taft and Sherman into the offices to which the people have elected them. The Grand Army of the Republic, the Negro contingent of the Army and Navy Union, War Department, will be organizations of standing will be accorded organizations in the monster pageant. The committees are at work at a lively rate, getting things ready for the throngs that will come from everywhere between the oceans. Mr. Daniel Murray, who has been a member of the committee on public comfort, to have charge of the duty of looking after the welfare of the colored visitors, has opened a new building, the African Association's building, 609 F street, N. W., and is bein gassisted in the arrangement of the preliminaries by Mr. William E. McCormick, the Assistant Adm. with the Negro Department of the Jamestown Exposition will be remembered. In the course of a few days Mr. Murray will be in a position to name the men who will be invited to the Exposition. Associates and committee. Persons who have rooms to rent will be requested to send in a description of their accommodations, with terms, etc., at an early date, so that a room can be prepared the use of the committee in directing strangers to desirable quarters. Peace appears to be reigning on the social side of the inaugural period, and the hope is fondly hugged to the bosom of the community, free from the intercine wringing that has tended to mar the pleasure of citizens and their company in other years. Strangers who come for a good time want to be invited, forsooth, somebody may be welcome to wish to be annoyed by any narrow notion that they must not go hither or yon, because, forsooth, somebody may be welcome to notice that attention seems to be focused on the grand bail planned by the Inaugural Welcome Club for the night of March 5 at Convention Hall, this is regarded as the "citizens' movement" and comes in order will be made welcome without much formality. To avoid the appearance of a "pulled off" other person, on the night of March 3, just before inauguration day, the "Monacans," a well-known social club, hold forth at the Auditorium, on Eighth Street, where they will crowd the situation with a multiplicity of balls, has abandoned their tentative idea of having a big affair, and will contend with giving a "smoker of national popularity" to the Amphion Glee Music on the evening of March 6. It will be "field night," and with a big crowd gentlemen from all over the country will be gathered. The ball will be made to ring with eloquence, wit, music and things good for the "inner" Other clubs, of course, will cater to their friends, and so on to the end of a long period, if fails to get in on a platform as broad as this, it will be his own fault. Those who expect to make arrangements to attend this inauguration will miss half of their lives. --- Dr. E. D. Williston, whose appointment as grand marshal is giving such widespread satisfaction, is a native of North Carolina, but has spent nearly all of his forty years at the University of the Medical Department of Howard University, and since finishing there up a practice second to no other physician nationally, he is in point of quantity and quality. He is immensely popular with all elements in his complicated social fabric, and no man in his life more to diffuse sunshine in the dark, and to brighten up his time, means and skill for the benefit JAN 15 1909 of struggling and afflicted humanity than "Ed" Williston. A "self-made man" in the fullest sense of that overworked term, he has risen by his own might, by the efforts of his colleagues, and by his growing determination to do his best in whatever he undertakes. He was unquestionably the brightest student in his class, and it is no surprise to his boyhood association, that he be surgeon-in-chief, he will be faculty of his alma mater, an authority on obstetrics and gynaecology, a member of the staff of Freedmen's Hospital, and may be surgeon-in-chief, he will be protective League and the Mus.-Lut. Nit the mere pling up of dollars, but an intense desire to be helpful to his fellowman and to lift up the unfortunate, seems to have been a motto from the hour he was born, every man, every child, kin at Howard's medical commencement—and he has certainly lived up to that ideal. His designation for this important post man, every man, every child in the District who is not heartily indorsing the wisdom of General Bell in according him this richly merited honor. He will wear his laurels worthy of a knight, the Register of Society—"everybody's treasury"—is too well known to the Nation to require extended comment at this time. His appointment is to be made to the wishes of the people of the community, whose plan seemed to have been to adjust the balance nicely between the local professional element and the national element, to be the Williston for the citizens and Dr. Vernon for the Negroes of the Nation, General Bell gave evidence of possessing a clever eye for the eternal fitness of things, and to choose to select his aids, and, by using a city directory, may be able to find enough "colonels" to make out his quota. HER NEW SUITOR. Another incident in the Latin American melodrama. —Brinkerhoff in Cleveland Leader. One of the strongest adjuncts to the Army and Navy Union of the District of Columbia is the James A. Buchanan Garrison, the former minister of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, is grand commander. Mr. Henry organized this young garrison through his own personal influence and popularity with his comrades, and it is now easily the lead force in the Twenty-fourth Infantry race in this jurisdiction. Mr. Henry has seen much active service on the frontier in this country and in the Philippines, and now holds a responsible position in the Army department, as the meeting of commander, Gen. James Buchanan, a distinguished veteran of the Civil War, and now retired, honored the gathering with his presence, foregoing an engagement at the White House, to thus choose to march under a banner bearing his name and who were still giving such tangible evidence of their loyalty to the old flag. Commander Henry, thanked Garrison for his thankful delivery of an address that aroused the enthusiasm to a high pitch and evoked hearty applause at the hands of the eminent visitor. Commander Henry has been as active as Garrison in the department commander, with rank of captain,* the first instance where a colored man has been so honored. NOTES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL The Negro American Academy re-elected A. H. Grimke president. Mr. Fred R. Moore, editor of the New York Age, was in town last week on business. Lincoln's centenary is to be observed February 12, on an elaborate scale, by our citizens. Mr. Hamilcar Turley, for over thirty years an examiner in the Pension Office, and prominent in musical affairs, is dead. Chaplain W. W. E. Gladden, of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, has been the house guest of Register and Mrs. W. T. Vernon. Genial "Phil" Ameres, of Charleston, W. W. circulated among old friends last week, and took a good view of several federal jobs he might be persuaded to accept. Mr. Oliver Randolph, secretary of the Foraker National League, has launched a new paper here. The field is ripe, and it may be that the brilliant young Mississipian will be the lucky man to gather the harvest that awaits. Hon. John P. Green, of Cleveland, O., formerly United States stamp agent, is the city, accompanied by Mrs. Green. The city is located in Europe, where they will spend the winter. Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, who rendered yoean service for Taft and Sherman in several of the pivotal States, is said to be under consideration for a desirable judicial assignment. F. H. M. Murray, of Alexandria and Washington, has become the local correspondent of the Boston Guardian, Mr. Murray will be able to give satisfaction to the management of the Guardian. Mr. William Pannell, who traveled with Jerry Taft throughout the campaign, has a snug but friendly circle of friends. In all probability he will be called to the White House after March 4. The handsomely engraved souvenir autograph, "Think It Over," sent out as a New Year sentiment by Auditor Ralph Teller, brought much relief to the country who were fortunate enough to receive one. Dr. W. Bruce Eyre, principal of the Armstrong Technical High School, has been elected president of the Mu-So-Lit Club, succeeding Assistant District Attorney James Coates, school chief Lewis, principal of the Patterson School, has been added to the membership. * * * "The Wilberforians," through Secretary W. L. Board, have forwarded a check for $50 to President W. S. Scarborough, for the benefit of Wilberfor University, their alma mater. Prof. W. Joiner, of Howard University, is identified with useful organization. Prof. Scarborough was handsomely entertained by them recently. ```markdown ``` Dr. C. Summer Wormley, Washington's favorite dentist, has his classes in dentistry at Howard University in excellent shape, and it is a pleasure to note the careful direction. The enrollment in the dental department, of which Dr. Wormley is the able demonstrator, is the largest in the history of the university. Former Register J. W. Lyons is in Augusta, Ga., on business. He called upon President-elect Taft aides in his Cottage from him a promise to address Haines School and the colored citizens of Augusta on January 19, at 3 o'clock p. m., Haines E. Laney is principal, is one of the foremost schools in the South, and Judge Taft chooses wisely in consenting to say a word of encouragement to its students and friends. The first annual banquet of the Washington branch of the National Negro Business Association was held by Registress W. T. Vernon, J. W. Lewis, architect, J. A. Lankford, Dr. John R. Francis, Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, Geo. Johnson, Ed. W. Cobbs, Chase, L. E. Johnson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Addison N. Sourlock, J. B. Anderson, W. R. Griffin, chief of the True Reformers, lawyer W. Cobbs, local league is prospering under the painstaking supervision of Architect Pittman. Architect John A. Lankford has been tendered a tempting offer to take up construction work for the University with the Isthmian canal. Preferring to build up his increasing business along strictly architectural lines, he has declined the offer. Mr. Lankford was chosen supervising a Norfolk General Conference, and in addition to an extensive demand for his services by the churches of this denomination, training and comprehensive courses of instruction for industrial schools, his plan covering every department of manual and mechanical training, and training the degree of Master of Science, and is PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. Special to THE FREEMAN KALAMAZOO, MICH. GREENVILLE, TEX. Editor of THE FREEMAN Miss Cecil Hasken, the bright little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hasken, was ill last week. James Jefferson gave him a galloping fine egg mug. R. Dorsey is in the city. George Stewart is in a very serious condition at this writing. Turner Turner, M. Holly Wills, he expects to raise chickens, hogs and vegetables this year at his new home in East Polk street. Mrs. Eliza Wolls, when you don't see the agent for THE FREEMAN, see H. H. Brown at James Jefferson's barber shop, South Wright street. Renew Lady R. Wolls, when you don't see the agent for the C. M. E. Church Sunday. The C. M. E. Church is planning to build a new church and have their eggs in the C. M. Clinton, Beste Wade, Florence Goss and others whose names have not reached the agents as yet. Rev McDonald is an able speaker galloping a fine egg mug. R. WORK AMONG THE CLUBS WOMEN WILL TAKE UP THE WORK OF REFORM Along Various Lines - Louisville Will Have Colored Fair-Good Report of Library- Society Now Quiet-Notes of Interest. ... From present indications Louisville is going to have a colored fair. The following officers have been elected: W. C. F. Mason, W. D. Thomas, secretary, and D. Dave Stewart, treasurer. The fair is expected to be one of the best in the state. The men who are the head usually in all big affairs. The other men connected with the fair are J. H. Hathaway, Albert S. White and Benj. Shipley. The report of the colored library was one of the best in its history. It showed a greater increase over the past year. Mr. Blue is making a splendid reputation at the law school. A few short history of the library and the work done by Mr. Harris and Miss Finney. Dr. C. H. Harris and William H. Stewart left Sunday for Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, to attend the executive committee of the National Negro Business League. Many knowing why President D. L. Knight did not go. --- Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dudley will be domiciled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walker, 729 West Walnut street. It is to be busy day and night during their stay. It was hoped by a number of their friends that some of the matresses would be cut so as the members of the show could have some social pleasure, but such is not the case. It is very gratifying to the proprietors of the colored drug stores to know that the members of the show should be them in a substantial way. They are sending the colored drug stores trade. Both of the drug stores have licensed pharamists and are from the same school as the doctors and help each other. Most of all the doctors get their living from the "brother" and then send their patients to the white man to have them taken care of because we see it every day. Help the brother as well as help the white man is the slogan now among Negroes who are paying the bills. Wilkens and Curry have opened up an embalming and undertaking establishment at Eleventh and Walnut streets. They are well known and are popular and we hope they will succeed. We wish it understood that these columns are open to the readers of the Freeman and belong to the public. We publish all the news that you will send us and give an impartial opinion on all matters in this sec- tion of the news. The Freeman went big in this city last week. Let us keep up the good work. Your correspondent wished to second the motion of Mr. Fred R. Moore, of the New York city, to invite the newspaper to attend the inauguration at Washington, D. C., and talk over the matter of organizing a National Association of Journalists. Let Washington be the Mecca for journalism in Kentucky editors W. D. Johnson, E. E. Underwood, W. H. Steward, N. W. McGowan and others. May that paper can be formed in Louisville. This city is the best place on earth to hold such a meeting. We have pretty girls, fast horses, city, wet and dry, and we have hands out at "My Old Kentucky Home," fact, we are just ready to have you. Two days after the National Negro Business Day, we think about this proposition. We certainly need to get together and now is the time. Word comes to us that the new girls dormitory at State University will be dedicated on February 1. This is certainly good news to the people of the State of Kentucky. Continued on Pare Page. SHORT FLIGHTS The word is write that he who runs may read. What is the passing breath of earthly What is the passing breath of earthly fame? But to snatch glory from the hands of blame — That to be to live, to strive indeed. A poor Virginia cabin gave the need. And from its dark and lowly door there came A peer of princes in the world’s acclaim, A master wait for the world’s need. Strong, silent, purposeful beyond his kind. The mark of rugged force on brow and lip. Straight on he goes, nor turns to look behind Where hot hounds come baying at his hip; With one idea foremost in his mind. Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. Let’s notice the good things more. "Lily-whiteism" is no longer an issue. Bishop “Lamp”-ton is letting his light shine. It is to be Senator Burton of Ohio. The “O. K.” mark is ready for him. The “limelight” is a shifty affair. No one individual can monopolize it long at a time. The chief trouble about "office seeking the man" is that office doesn't use a searchlight. President Roosevelt is helping Dr. L. G. Jordan to give Africa some much needed advertising. It is the sincere, earnest man who sticks to a movement after the "fad" period is over. Since Ben Tillman broke down "cussing out" the Negro, he seems to have "passed us up." President Taft will be his own President—just as this humble scribe predicted some moons ago. "A square deal to all" is good enough a platform to work on through 1909 without any amendments. On to Louisville in August! The biggest meeting of the National Negro Business League is on the card. Consulates in the earthquake districts are not regarded as fashionable just now, and there may be few seekers for them. There never was a time when the so-called "bread-and-butter brigade" could not add to its ranks by a number of anxious recruits from the gang that essays to deride it. Despite the alarming returns from the Census Bureau touching divorce, the marriage belt rings a soften and as merciless. "The old story"—but what's the use? Go to think that it we haven't heard anything about "subsidized newspapers" for a coon's age. Surely, W. E. B. D Bois and J. Max Barber have gone to sleep on their job! Editor James H. Hayes of the St. Luke Herald of Richmond, Va., abandoned the sinking ship of the National Negro-American Political League just in time to avoid being engulfed by it. Anyhow, when the Presidents fire his javelins against the "malefactors of great wealth," we know he isn't pouring out the vials of his wrath at the heads of the colored people of the. The colored "regulars" who are to come on from the Philippines this year are to Arizona and Colorado offer nothing that will make a noise like Brownville. If a "national testimonial" is to be given in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, no better man than Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the Navy Department, could be selected to the movement. The folks who keep behind the times failed to use the Red Cross Christmas stamps—and incidentally neglected a gorious opportunity to thank the owl's mite to the anti-tuberculosis fight. Charles Banks is the best advertised corporeal leader in the great State of Mississippi, and he has own bigness of heart and soundness of head. The race can "bank" on Banks. The news report of the awful earthquake in Italy will not cause any of our budding statesmen to make a rush for the consular jobs within a radius of a thousand miles of the eruptive Mt. Aetna. Thoughtful white men of the South have no real fear of the vote of the thoughtful, Negro. By making more of both races we take a long stride toward a solution of the great race problem in Dixieland. The South's problem was once sentimental and sectional; it is now economic, industrial and national. We must adapt our new treatment to the new pathological condition by the new diagnosis of its ailments. Grasp that? Some idiots cannot tell the difference between a reporter and an advocate. The truth of an fact is virulent antagonism. No impartial chronicler of the times is responsible for facts. They are made by the actors in the drama of life. The "grandfatherites" of Maryland ran against a stone wall when they tried to use Judge Taff's address to the North. The object for the distranchissement of the Negro and the double-crossing of the Fifteenth Amendment. Out of a division of the white vote of the South the Negro will reap untold benefits. Let Mr. Hitchcock get to work at emancipating the Southerners from their slavery. To turn their attention toward commercial development—just for a change. President Roosevelt's Y. M. C. A. speech in Washington has made the path easier for all the colored Y. M. C. A. workers in America. Thanksgiving day was an epoch-maker for the nation uplift among our people through out the land. There's our question about that. * * * The dilapidated schools for our people in the rural districts South Carolina, buildings, improved facilities, longer terms and more competent teachers are the crying needs. Book- er T. Washington has pointed the way. Will our people of means and influence walk there? * "Uncle Eben," a colored philosopher, says: "It's easy to be an optimist when you have such a foundation to build on as a fried chicken and trimmings, an easy chair and a box of cigars, a quart of genetically engineered wheat. We don't place a bank account." From raw materials of this type most of us can be made into optimists overnight. * There is no good reason why the man who through sacrifice has obtained an education and by rigid economy has come into possession of property should not wield a larger degree of influence in a community than the man who has made a career in the Navy. We premium on tangible achievement as an incentive toward individualetterment? * Dorsey Rhodes, a prominent member of the board of the Navy, has re-enlisted and gone to the 24th Infantry at Madison Barricks, New York, where he has become a noncommissioned officer. It is said that his friends look forward to a berth as chief musician for him, as his abilities in that field have been vouched for by competent authorities. * The Negro can give the rest of the earth cards and spades on high-sounding names and beat every other nationality in the Maryland game of Buffalo, Miss.—Thomas E. Parker, by which announces the opening of the "Booker T. Washington Aristocracy Barber Shop," and advertises for two good tonsillectials for the care of children. He trades that the proprietor expects to draw. The exemplary conduct of the Negro troops in the New York coupled with Col. Scott's unstinted praise of the superiority of the Negro cavalrymen at West Point, has taken all the run out of the bourbon. Congress who wanted to use Brown's episode an argument for mustering the Negro regiments—root and branch—out of the army establishment. The black soldier is here to stay. Prof. W. S. Scarborough has received many letters of congratulation from high sources upon his election as president of the Negro National Committee—are especially prized by the Professor, with these eminent statesmen for so many years in matters of great interest to the cause of education and the public weal. If you will notice carefully Judge W. H. Taft's address to the North Carolina Society, which was almost universally enclosed by the walls, was less different did not differ materially from his Greenboro speech, which was almost unanimously condemned by the Negro press some years ago. Judge Taft has made changes, but the clearer, but the Negro is seeing more and more clearly the conditions which his prejudices then refused to candidly take into consideration. That's all. Young Teddy Roosevelt, the President's son, has actually gone to work—is actually with his hands, soiling wool a Connecticut man, and a lick squarely between the eyes to those awfully elegant colored folks who have husky boys whom they think too good to sore their tender hands with anything so vulgar as a lick squarely between sons of our best men are being put to work with their hands, as well as with their heads, beginning at the lowest round in the ladder of great business enterprises. The Georgia Baptist thinks the adoption of the disfranchising amendment in Georgetown in 2012 "mary" in that State, giving as evidence the fact that the white primary nominee for mayor of Atlanta had back out of the race to avoid the use of the Negro vote in the primary, and the gang favoring the obsolete instrument was beaten out of sight by the element that seems disposed to offer the race to an intelligent Negroes a chance to "vote right." Veril "it's an ill wind that blows nobody good!" ■ A white Democratic Washington, discussing the outlook for 1912, says: "If Bryan is in control of the next Democratic national convention and his fourth nomination is imminent, the Republicans will put up Washington, for President, and be him to stand for all, one will vote for the Tuskegee Wizard in preference to the 'peeler' Nebraskan." This level-headed Democrat gives evidence that the Tuskegee Wizard, ahead of many of his day and generation, and has in him the making of a prophet. Mobile, Ala., is a good place for a national Negro fair. It is in the heart of the South's "Black Belt," within easy access of railroads, and draws on a thriftiest people reside. President Newsome is the right man to head such a movement, and Congress would make a wise investment by granting his corporation $25,000,000 to help it should be. It will be a big advertisement of the resources of the South—a signal demonstration of the progress of the Negro race. Miss Irene L. Moorman, president of the Metropolitan Women's Business Club of New York and Brooklyn, has inaugurated a movement having for its object the creation of a $50,000 hall for the production of a musical meeting place, so as to avoid the use of churches for political, social and miscellaneous secular purposes—a commendable idea, too. About $5,000 in cash has allowed the committee of ladies to editor Fred R. Moore, who is lending valuable assistance, wants a poolroom, bowling alley, gymnasium and reading-room included in the equipment ladies think well of the plan, as there are few places in the city where young colored men can go for innocent diversion. The last theatrical performance witnessed by President-elect Taft was "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and that was twenty years ago. The picture of Simon Legree's cruel imprisonment of the slave captain pressed him and he has abhorred the system and all that savored of it up to the present day. The earlier Tafts were directors of the "Underground Railroad," the escape of Eliza was to him a glimpse of realities the truth was the chord in his sympathetic nature. It is to be hoped that, while losing nothing of the lesson imbled from Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal story, Judge Taft will be able to press other pictures of life of scarcely less importance to the many classes that make up our body politic. A coterie of the leading professional men, business factors and federal officials of Birmingham, Ala., and vicinity, are attending the Conference on the order of the celebrated functions given by the Gridiron Club at Washington at which the President of the United States House of Representatives, members of the Cabinet, representatives and dams are present in large numbers. The affair is being managed by G. W. A. Johnston of the Internal Revenue Service, and of about 100 of about 100 of January. Distinguished guests from abroad are expected, among them Dr. Booker T. Washington, Emmett J. Scott, J. C. Napier, Col. H. A. Rucker and others from abroad. The South. It is to be the "swellest" social event ever given in Birmingham. The co-operative stores proposed by Grand Master W. L. Houston for the towns of the South, to be conducted uninterrupted, will be the Order of Odd Fellows, will be a boon to our people. The plan will liberate the Negro cotton workers and wage-earners from the clutches of the grasping store-keepers of the South, to them and keep them eternally in debt to their establishments by a system of bookkeeping which savors of peonage, to the Odd Fellows, to the Odd Fellows be invested in household supplies at centers, and let groceries, shoes, clothing, etc., be sold at a slight advance over cost, and there will be a slight advance over the South. Grand Master Houston's idea opens a fruitful field for Nero com- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. mercialism in the section where such an inspiration is most needed. Sunday in the year of 1909...Abe Tallie died on the 30th from consumption...G. A VOICE FROM AFAR Items of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Special to The Times MANILA, P. I, Nov. 15, 1908.—Since last I wrote you, an entirely new or almost new executive regime has taken over the office of the President in the person of the Son. William H. Taft, our former Secretary of War and ex-Governor-General of the Philippines, has been appointed to call "the President's Candidate". A new Secretary of War in the person of Luke E. Wright, a Democrat of the Philippines, has been appointed to Confederate Army, and also ex-Governor-General of the Philippines. Each of these men have arisen in like manner to their present positions, and I should not be surprised that the President's future years nominated as the "President's Candidate" to succeed the Honorable Taft. I look with little less than a smile at the nomination. We know that the President's former attitude toward the colored troops was anything but favorable; and even though he has done nothing directly to the war, he is in many of his public speeches and interviews. We have known him in his official capacity, and we have many reasons to predict disaster in his dealings with the United States. He cannot be foretold, but I say a great chance will take place in the Government. In the meantime we are still undergoing active military duties in the same way as we have been doing since we prompted the Congress of the United States to reorganize the colored troops in 1896. Knowing the status of this regiment among the greater mass of the American people, we are doing all in our power to ensure that the men of the United States fortunately been cast upon its reputation. There are a great many elements in this up-building movement and the men of the United States are porting themselves in an honorable manner. But we still have among us, as you will find among every large congregation and never-do-wells, the stragglers and uncountable. One of the most powerful and important factors in this movement is Chaplaim Oscar Scott, whose logical thrills our sermons of and our very souls. It is said, "The truth hurts," and if that it true, there are many consciences sorely stricken. We have every reason to be proud of our work, our efforts to give our and great experience, a minister of the highest type, and one who has pastored some of our largest and most cultured temples of worship. He struggles giantly with the challenges of the tertiactions, and one of his intrinsic movements was centered in the organization of our literary society, which has a large library of books, spines them to intellectual attainments and pursuits. That Mr. Scott is sincere in every effort cannot be questioned; he has only to be heard. He is thoroughly worthy of mention is our chief musician, Elbert Williams. He was for a great while director of the Tuskegee Institute band and a professor of music in code problems in music. He is also the author of a number of instrumental and vocal selections, including two religious pieces. He has reached his position in an honorable manner as a just reward for his work. The Scott Literary Society of the 25th Infantry, although very young and small in numbers, beginning its existence in numbers in 1776, posed of the thoughtful and aspiring element of the regiment. It is through literary and social endeavors it is doing its greatest good. They have had some very good members. The most member tried to do his best. The ladies of the regiment have shown a marked pride in this endeavor, working very hard and lending their aid to better every environment. Their work is very commendable. Last November, near Thanksgiving, an article on our voyage to the Philippines was published in The Freeman, and again after the pleasure of the visit, our own experience this near approach to the season of Thanksgiving. We have indeed many things to be grateful for, and as you send up your invocations of gratitude, we are pleased to see you do we here in the Far East. Even though we get but little credit for what we and for what we do, as a part of the great offensive and defensive land forces of America, yet we are thankful for what we have done. We will sun will shine and the true status of the American Negro goldier, especially the history of this regiment, shall shine forth in its glory; for its pages are filled with stories of its deeds and meritorious service that at some future day will startle Old America. No hand may help, no word may cheer, But by whatever gods there be, Within our hearts there lurks no fear, And we shall see DAVID W. ADAMS Company B, 25th Infantry, Parang, Moro Province, P. I. BISHOP GAINES VISITS TUSKE GEE INSTITUTE. Special to THE FREEMAN TUSKEGEE, Al., Jan. 5.—Right Rev. Wesley J. Gaines of Atlanta, G. abjb of the A. M. E. Church, upon the invitation of Dr. Booker T. Washington, spent several days at Tuskegee Institute this summer to teach the young men of Phelps Hall Bible Training School, a series of lectures in the schools, to students, the teaching body and the people from the town of Tuskegee and surrounding communities. Bishop Gaines popular audiences have made him popular to 2,400. Sis visit has been made much of by the teachers and students of the school, and many have been made of by the teachers. Bishop Gaines is one of the great men of the Negro race who deserves all of the attentions which have been shown him. He has spoken hard on the wealth of rich people and has helped the teachers and students by his coming. JACKSONVILLE, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. CLARKSVILLE TENN Special to THE FREEMAN. A very sad accident occurred to Mrs. Birdie Bouns, formerly Miss Birdie Keeese, on the 23d. While she was drawing on the 23d staircase, she fell on First street the cistern top broke in and Mrs. Bouns fell in the cistern and was drowned before she could be rescued. She was held on her own for the last two weeks. All of our color churches held communion on the first LEVINSON'S 2 Big $2 HatStores All the Latest Designs in Popular Head Gear. 37 N. Penn. St. and 41 S. Illinois St. Taylor's New Shampoo Dryer and Hair Straightener! 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The Round-Up A Romance of Arizona There's a bunch of cowpunchers in this story it will do you good to meet, and for good measure there's Slim Hoover, sheriff, whom nobody loves because he's a fat man. And there are other characters of the great southwest—women of charm and interest, desperadoes and soldiers—whose doings on the stage have called forth much favorable comment from the public and the critics. They are woven into a plot of dramatic interest, colored by characteristic actions and sayings of typical women and men of the land of the ratilesake and the Gila monster, the long horned steer and the lowly, despised sheep. The incidents of the tale will hold you; the women and the men will attract you. They are different from those of other yarns of the west, that is ever "ready for a fight or a fricic." CHAPTER I DOWN an old trail in the Ghost range, in northwestern Mexico, just across the Arizona border, a mounted prospector wound his way, his horse carefully picking its steps among the broken granite blocks which had tumbled upon the ancient path from the mountain wall above. A burro followed, laden heavily with pack, bed roll, pick frying pan and battered coffeepot, yet stepping along sure footedly as the mountain sheep that first formed the trail ages ago and whose petrified hoof prints still remain to afford footing for the scarcely larger hoofs of the pack animal. An awful stillness hung over the scene that was broken only by the click of hoofs of horse and burre upon the rocks and the clatter of the loose stones they dislodged that rolled and skipped down the mountain side. Not a breath of air was stirring, and the sun blazed down from the zenith with such fierce and direct radiation that the wayfarer needed not to observe the shadows to note its exact position in the heavens. Singly among the broken blocks and in banks along the ledges the cactus had burst under the heat, as it were, into the sponaneous combustion of flowery flame. To the traveler passing beside them their red blooms blazed with the irritating superfluity of a torchlight process at noonday. The trail leads down to a flat ledge which overlooks the desert and which is the observatory whither countless generations of mountain sheep have been wont to resort to survey the strange world beneath them, with what purpose and what feelings it remains for some imaginative writer of animal stories to inform us. From the ledge to the valley below the trail is free from obstructions and broader more beaten and less devious than above, indicating that it has been formed by the generations of men toiling up from the valley to the natural watcher on the heights. Beaching the ledge, the prospector found that what seemed from the angle above to be an irregular pile of large bowlers was an artificial fortification, the highest wall being toward the mountains. Entering the enclosure, the prospector dismounted, relieved his horse of its saddle and his burro of its pack and proceeded to prepare his midday meal. Looking for the best place where he might light a fire, he observed in the most protected corner a flat stone marked by fire and near it in the rocky ground a pothole, evidently formed for grinding maize. The ashes of ancient fires were scattered about, and in cleaning them off his new found hearth the man discovered a potsherd, apparently of a native olla or water jar, and a chipped fragment of flint too small to indicate whether it had formed part of an Indian arrowhead or had dropped from an old flintlock musket. "lucky strike!" observed the prospector. "I was down to my last match." And, gathering some mesquite brush for fuel and rubbing a dead branch into tinder, he drew out a knife and, rapidly and repeatedly striking the back of its blade with the flint, produced a stream of sparks which fell on the tinder. Blowing the while, he started a flame. When the fire was ready the man shook his canteen. "Precious little drink left," he said. "I wish that pottersherd carried water as the flint chip does fire. However, there's lots of cactus around here, and they're natural water jars. My knife may get me a drink out of the desert's thorns as well as kindle a fire from its stones. And right here's my watermelon, the bisnagia, the first one I've found in months" he exclaimed, going over to the edge of the cliff, above the level of which peered the fat head of a cactus covered with spines that were barbed like a fishhook. Its short tupotroot was fixed in a crevice a few feet below the parapet. Lying on the edge of the cliff, the man sliced off the top of the cac tus and began jabbing into its interior, breaking down the fibrous walls of the water cells, of which the top heavy plant is almost entirely composed. In a few moments he arose. "Now I can empty my canteen in the coffeepot, sure of a fresh supply of water by the time I am ready to mosey along." He filled the pot, set it on the fire and then pressed the uncorked and empty canteen down into the macerated interior of the bisnaga. While his coffee was boiling the prospector continued his examination of the fortification, beginning, in the manner of his kind, with the more minute "signs" and ending with what to a tourist would have been the first and only subject of observation—the view. On the inner side of the large bowler in the wall he discerned the faint outline of a cross painted with red ocher. Scraping with his pick beneath the rock to see if the emblem was the sign of hidden treasure or relic, he unearthed a rattlesnake. Before it could strike with a quick fling of his tool he sent the reptile whirling high in the air toward the precipice. But from the clump of cactus growth along the parapet arose a sahuaro, with branching arms, and against this the snake was flung. Wrapped around the thorny top by the momentum of the cast, it hung, hissing and rattling with pain and hatred. The prospector looked up at the impaled rattlesnake with a smile. Reminiscences of Sunday school flashed across his mind. "Gee, I'm a regular Moses!" he ejaculated. "First I bring water from the face of the rock, and then I lift up the serpent in the wilderness. The year I've spent in the mountains and desert seems like forty to me, and now at last I have a sight of the promised land. God, what a magnificent view!" Dropping his pick, he stretched out his arms with instinctive symbolization of the wide prospect and expression of an exile's yearning for his native land. "Over there is God's country, sure enough," he continued, giving the trite phrase a reverential tone which he had not used in his first expression of the name of Deity. "Thank him, the parallel with old Moses stops right here. Many a time I thought I would never get out of the mountains alive and that my grave would be unmarked by so much as a bowler with a red cross upon it. But now before night I'll be back in the States and in three more days at home on the old ranch. I promised to return in a year, and I'll make good to the hour. I sure did hate to leave that strike, though, after all the hard luck I had been having. Sixty dollars a day and growing richer! But the last horn was blowing—no tobacco, six matches and nothing left of the bacon but rinds. Well, the gold is there, and the claim "I'll bring whatever I choose to ask for it. And Echo shall have a home as good as Allen Hacenda and a ranch as fine as Bar One. Yes, it'll be Bar None, my ranch!" Out of the sea of molten air that stretched before him, that nebulous LAUREN An awful stillness hung over the scene. chaos of quivering bars and belts of heated atmosphere which remains above the desert as a memorial of the first stage of the entire planet's existence, the imagination of the prospector created a paradise of his own. There took shape before his eyes a Mexican hacienda, larger and more beautiful even than that of Echo's father, the bean ideal of a home to his limited fancy. And on the piazza in front, covered with flowering vines, there stood awaiting him the slender figure of a woman, with outstretched arms and dark eyes, tender with yearning love. "Echo—Echo Allen!" he murmured, fondly repeating the name. "No, not Echo Allen, but Echo Lane, for Dick Lane has redeemed his promise and returns to claim you as his own." As he gazed upon the shimmering heat waves which distorted and dis THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER placed the objects within and beneath them a group of horsemen suddenly appeared to him in the distance and as suddenly vanished in thin air. "Rurales!" ejaculated Lane. "I wonder if they are chasing Apaches. That infernal mirage gives you no idea of distance or direction. If the red devils have got away from Crook and slipped by these greaser rangers over the border, they'll sure be making straight for the Ghost range and by this very trail. If so, I'm at the best place on it to meet them, and here I stay till the coast is clear." Turning to the red cross on the rock, he reflected. "Perhaps, after all, it's a case of 'Nebo's lonely mountain.'" Lane had hardly reached this conclusion before he found it justified by the sight of a mounted Apache in the regalia of war emerging from a hidden dip in the trail below the fortification Lane dropped behind the parapet, evidently before he was observed, as the steadily increasing number and loudness of the hoof beats on the rocky trail indicated to the listener. Crawling back to his horse and burro, he made them lie down against the upper wall and picketed them with short lengths of rope to the ground, for he foresaw that danger could come only from the mountain side. Taking his Winchester, he returned to the parapet and, half seated, half reclining behind it, opened fire on the unsuspecting Apaches. The leader, shot through the head, fell from his horse, which reared and backed wildly down the trail. Other bullets must have found their billets also, but because of the confusion which ensued among the Indians the prospector was unable to tell how many of them he had put out of action. In a flash every rider had leaped off his horse and, protecting himself by its body, was scrambling with his mount to the protecting declivity in the rear. The prospector was sorely tempted to pump his cartridges into the group as it poured back over the rim of the hollow, but he desisted from the useless slaughter of horses alone, knowing that he could be attacked only on foot and that every one of his slender store of cartridges must find a human mark if he would return to the States alive. "They've got to put me out of business before they can go on," he ruminated. "An Apache is a good deal of a coward when he's fighting for pleasure, but just corner him, and, great snakes and spitttin' wildcats, what a game he does up! I must save my cartridges, for one thing's sure—they won't waste any of theirs. They're not as good shots as white men, for ammunition is too scarce with them for use in gun practice, so they won't fire till they've got me dead to rights. Let me see. There's about a dozen left in the party, and I have fifteen cartridges. That's three in reserve for my own outfit if some of the others fail to get their men. Those red devils enjoy skimming an animal alive as much as torturing a man, and you can bet they won't save me any bullets by shooting Nance and Jimny." Reasoning that the Indians would not dare to attack by way of the open trail in front and that it would take some time for them to make the detour necessary to approach him from above, since they would have to leave their ponies below and climb on hands and knees over jutting ledges and around broken granite blocks, Lane coolly proceeded to drink his coffee and eat his lunch of hard bread and cold bacon rind. After he had finished he gave a lump of sugar to each of his animals and pressed his cheek with an affectionate hug against the side of his horse's head. "Old girl," he said, "I'm sorry we can't take a parting drink, for I'm afraid neither of us will reach our next water hole. But you can count on me that the red devils won't get you." Then, going to his pack, he undid it and took out a double handful of yellow nuggets and a number of canvas bags. These he deposited in the pothole and, prying up the flat stone of the fireplace, laid it over them and covered the stone with embers. "It's a ten to one shot that they finish me," he reflected, "but the wages I've paid for by a year of hard work and absence from her side stay just as near Echo Allen as I can bring them alive and, if there's any truth in what they say about spirits disclosing in dreams the place of buried treasure, with the chance of my getting them to her after I am dead." Taking the useless bowlers from the edge of the cliff, but carefully, so as not to expose himself to the fire of the Apaches, he plumed them on top of the upper wall in such a fashion as to form little turrets. He left an opening in each, through which he could observe in turn each point of the compass whence danger might be expected and could fire his Winchester without exposing himself. Then he began going from post to post on a continuous round of self imposed sentinel duty. "If I could only climb the sahuaro," he thought, "and fly my red shirt as a flag to let the rurales know I've flanked the enemy, it might hurry them along in time to put a crimp in these devils before they get me But it'll have to be 'hold the fort' without any 'Oh, say can you see?' business. Anyhow, I'm dying the rattlesnake flag of Bunker Hill, 'Don't tread on me!' Whether the rurales see it or not, I've saved their hides. If the Apaches had got to this fort first, gee, how they would have crumpled up the greasers as they came along the trail" Rendered thirsty by his exertions, Lane remembered the canteen in the bisnaga, which he had forgotten among his other preparations for defense. He cautiously reached his hand over the ledge and secured the precious vessel, but as he was withdrawing it, ping, came a bullet through the canteen, knocking it out of his hand! As it fell clattering down the side of the ledge he groaned: "Good shooting! They've probably left their best marksman below with the ponies. No hope for escape on that side. Well, there's some consolation in the thought that they'll undoubtedly finish me before I get too thirsty. Glad it wasn't my hand." Although the period he spent waiting for the attack was less than an hour by his watch, it seemed to Lane F. B. The leader, shot through the head, fell from his horse. so long that he had hopes that the rurales would appear in time to rescue him. His spirits rose with the prospect. Looking about him at the walls, the fireplace and the red cross, he reflected, "I am not the first man, or even the first white man, that has withstood an attack in this place." In imagination he constructed the history of the fort. Here, in ages remote, a tribe of Indians, defeated and driven to the mountains, had constructed an outpost against their enemies of the plain, but these had captured the stronghold and fortified it against its former occupants. Later a band of Spanish gold seekers had made a stand here against natives whom they had roused against them by oppression. Or, perhaps, as indicated by the cross, it had afforded refuge to the mission fathers, those heroic souls who had faced the horrors of the inferno-like desert in their saintly efforts to convert its fiendish inhabitants. With his mind occupied by apprehensions Lane looked at the rattlesnake upon the sahuaro, whose struggles by this time had diminished to a feeble movement of the tail. "Poor old rattler!" he thought. "I wish I could spare a cartridge to put you out of your misery." At length as Lane peered up the mountain side he saw a brush on a ledge a little to the left of the trail quiver as if stirred by a passing breath of wind. He almed his Winchester through a crack in the wall at the spot, and when a moment later an Apache rose up from the ground and leaped toward the shelter of a rock below Lane fired, and the savage fell crumpling. Like an echo of the explosion a rifle on the right spoke, and a bullet struck the rock by Lane's head. He marked the spot whence the shot came and quickly ran to another part of the wall. From here he saw the edge of an Indian's thigh exposed by the side of the bowler he had noted. Crack went Lane's Winchester. The leg was suddenly withdrawn, and at the same moment a head appeared on the other side of the rock, as if the Indian had stretched himself out involuntary. Crack again, and Lane had got his man. "Two shots to an Indian is expensive," thought the prospector; "otherwise this game of tip-jack would be very interesting." There was a cry in the Apache tongue, and suddenly nine half naked bodies arose from behind rocks and bushes extending in an irregular crescent above the fort and rushed forward ten, fifteen and even twenty yards to the next cover. Lane did not count number or distance at the time, but he figured these out in his next period of waiting from the photograph flashed on his subconscious mind. At the time of the rush he was otherwise occupied. Crack, crack, and two of the Indians fell dead in midcareer. Crack, and a third crawled, wounded, to the cover he had almost safely attained. Crack, and an eagle feather in the head of the fourth Indian shot at was cut off at the stem and fell forward on the rock behind which its wearer had dropped just in time to save his life. There was an answering volley from the rides of the remaining Apaches, which was directed against the lookout of loose stones from which the prospector's fire had come. One of the bullets penetrated the opening and plowed a furrow through Lane's scab. topping him to his knees. He scrambled quickly to his feet and, hastily pressing his long hair back from his forehead to stanch the bleeding wound, sought the protection of the middle lookout. He congratulated himself. "Lucky for me they didn't follow the first rush immediately with a second. Now I know to wait for their signal. Six and possibly seven of them are left, and they will storm my works in two more attempts. Here they come." The call again sounded. Six Apaches leaped forward, and from the rock that concealed the wounded warrior a shot rang out in advance of the first discharge from Lane's Winchester. The Indian's bullet scored the top of the turret and filled the eyes of the man behind it with powdered stone. The prospector, already dazed by his wound, fired wildly and missed his mark. Quickly recovering himself, he fired again and again, severely wounding two Apaches. These lay clawing the ground within twenty yards of the wall. The four remaining Indians were safely concealed at the same distance, protected no less by the fortification than by the loose bowlers behind which they crouched for the final spring. Lane realized the fact that his next shots to be effective must be at a downward angle and to fire them he must expose himself. "This is my finish," he thought to himself. "Better be killed instantly than tortured. I hope all four will hit me. Goodby, Jimny"—crack went his rifle. "Goodby, Nance"—crack again. At the two shots, surmising that the prospector had shot himself and his horse, the Apaches did not wait for the signal, but sprang forward and climbed upon the wall before Lane had had time to mount it. Two of them he shot as they leaped down within the enclosure. As he reversed his Winchester to kill himself with the last cartridge he noted that the two remaining Apaches had dropped their rifles and were leaping upon him to take him alive. He brought his clubbed weapon down upon the head of one of them, crushing his skull. At the same instant Lane was borne to the ground by the other Apache who, seizing him by the throat, began throttling him into insensibility. In desperation Lane bethought himself of the cliff and by a mighty effort whirled over upon his captor toward the precease. The ground sloped slightly in that direction, and the combatants rolled over and over to the very edge of the cliff, where the Indian, for the first time realizing that the prospector's purpose was to hurl both of them to destruction, loosened his hold upon the prospector's throat that he might use his hands to brace himself against the otherwise inevitable plunge into the valley below. In an instant Lane's hands were at the Indian's throat, and in another turn he was uppermost and kneeling upon his foe at the very verge of the precice. (Continued Next Week,) Special to THE FREEMAN If you cannot subscribe for The Freeman one year at $1.50, send for it for three months. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE OF TWELVE Any one may obtain a copy of these publications now in print by writing to the Secretary of the Committee of Twelve, Hugh M. 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KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 1909. The beautiful is here this week in all of its copiousness. Any lost time has been accounted. The colored teachers will have no objection to the Jim Crow cars provided the law is enforced equally. A good common sense education is the best asset for the child—a fanciful education, unballasted by common sense, is the poorest. The recent catastrophe in Italy begs description. It was one long horror. The world has been exceedingly good to the unfortunates. It is said that the infant Emperor of China has thirty nurses on his staff. Well, a live, active baby can use about fifteen. The other fifteen are merely honorary nurses, rather than nurses de facto. It is said that President Roosevelt has sent forty-two messages to Congress in eighteen days. Mr. Roosevelt is prolific in most things. He likes things in the big—bears, lions, Panama canals, scalps, etc. William Coulson, of Des Moines, Ia., has served as messenger for five Governors of his State. Fourteen continuous years is his record. He will retire next spring with the outgoing Governor. A little colored boy, Joe Smith, eight years, carried eleven little children out of a burning building in Philadelphia last week. He would look well with a Carnegie medal about his neck. In these days coal looks good, the cart and even the driver. Sounds a trifle like fiction, "don't" it? Not a scintilla of it. Get without the price, then get a line on your imagination. Coal and potatoes look alike in these bleak days. Governor Hanly was true to his convictions up to the moment he retired from office. He is one of the bitterest foes to the drinking evil known to the State. In leaving the executive chair, in his final message, he did not fall to pay it his respects. Oscar W. Reid, one of the discharged soldiers, sought to recover his pay in the Supreme Court last week. He failed of satisfaction, since that court takes no cognizance of cases where less than $3,000 is involved. The amount Reid claims is only $122. According to report the Negro troops abroad will sail for the States in the spring. The Tenth Cavalry will be stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, the Ninth Cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell and the Twenty-fifth Infantry at Fort Logan, Colo., and Whipple Barrack, Ariz. Senator Tillman says the President hates him. Wonder if that is part of his defense? Perhaps the motive of attack will be to help his side of the case. Don't be hurt. Senator; remember that you yourself are accused of monstrous action which have won you some little dislike. A bunch of colored fellows more or less known to fame are very anxious to take some of Jack Johnson's glory away from him. From appearance and accounts Johnson is not much less than a giant. If he fights square he gives evidence of holding the championship for many days. Mr. Tillman is doing some tall talking to clear his skirts. He didn't do it, he says; he knows he didn't do it. Now that's all right, Mr. Tillman; but kindly make us know you didn't do it. Oh, yes, you hold a great office, next to the President and all like that, but what about that timber land? The Democracy of Indiana knows who logically deserves the United States Senatorship. And the chances are that it will be properly bestowed at the proper time. Then, again, the wrong thing might be done. If so, the party will clearly forfeit its opportunity for political longevity in the State. Less lynching during the New Year will be a very acceptable condition. Equal facilities for equal money for Negro travelers ought to be more than a dream during the new year. The colored people should treat themselves better during the new year by taking on more activities. The field is wide and in no sense restricted. Race leaders are getting down to "hard pan" in their comment on the race. A few years ago adverse criti- --- cism was held to be treason. It is getting to be different and very much for the better. The mission of the press, the pulpit, the forum, is to criticise, to utter warnings in the sense of constraining that the best may result. The well-known Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris is temporary editor of the Baptist Vanguard. The Freeman hopes that he may be permanent. The craft of quill shovers doubtless will appreciate the new member. If the doctor succeeds in shining there as he has in his church work, we may well exclaim that there is a new Richmond in the field. A stout lance in a skilled hand is what may be expected of this latest entry to the lists. The Emancipation Proclamation was read at the Des Moines celebration. It is more than what can be said of many others. Not that the document should necessarily be read, but there should be reference to it or to Abraham Lincoln. An observation of the day without some reference to the great emancipator is as Hamlet out of the play. It does not mean the waving of the "bloody shirt" nor the violation of the proprieties of the day. The inauguration of Thomas R. Marshall as Governor of Indiana was the chief event of political circles this week. Mr. Marshall is a Democrat. He was nominated under favorable auspices—a united Democracy—an almost unheard of event in the history of that party. Beyond this, he is a thorough-going, upright man, intelligent and practical in his principles. His inauguration speed is after the manner of the man—indicative of a disposition to conduct the office as he would a first-class conducted private business. The Colored Law and Order League is a recent organization of Cincinnati, O. Judging by the advertised purpose of its existence, it is a most worthy movement. Some of its objects are: For the protection of men and women from insults on the public streets. To suppress open lewdness. To confine licentious actions, such as cursing, drinking, crap-shooting, beer buying by minors of whatever sex. To prevent women coming on the streets for immoral purposes. To see why parents do not send their children to the various Sunday schools. To prosecute parents who will send their children into saloons to buy beer and whisby; or to bring or carry laundry into houses of bad repute. Prosecute saloon keepers who will allow minor boys and girls into their places to drink or sell them liquor of any kind. To prosecute proprietors of any places of questionable reputation where girls are caught or seen, whether working or for other purposes. The league will operate with the officers of the law in bringing about the reform. GOVERNOR MARSHALL OF INDIANA. The new Governor of Indiana in his inaugural address last Monday proved one of that class of close thinkers that have within the recent years come in for recognition. His speech was filled with timely, sage remarks that bore unmistakable evidence of being of one who is not simply a politician, but a true guardian of the interests of the State, and its citizens so far as it falls within the lines of his duty. When the Governor said, "As I owe to you loyal service, you owe to me respect, confidence and support until by lack of ability or dishonor, I may have justly forfeited the same," he summed fairly all the cardinal virtues of a republic. He does not mean that M. THOMAS R. MARSHALL. The New Governor of Indiana. the citizen shall any more shirk his duty than he shirk his duty. Obligations are taken in either event, and in which the citizen also must live up to. He called attention to the fact that he, merely nominally Governor, can do nothing unless upheld and supported by the people. He gives it out plainly that he knows the duties of the citizen and those of the executive, and will expect the same of the citizen as is exacted of him. The Governor is in for freedom of thought, freedom of the press, in worship. He wants the broad mantle of charity spread, permitting unto others as one himself may do in these matters. He insists on honest and faithful servants, not those that live as leeches, pariahs and parasites, on others where they do not belong. He stands for the unbricted legislator, the unbought public servant wheresoever. These are the things that make for first-class civil conditions, and which so aptly fits the Governor's text, as to the duties of the citizens. He would permit the citizen nothing that he would not do when in public office, the essence of which remark is that public office is a public trust and no private snap. Mr. Marshall insists that laws should be honestly made and honestly obeyed; he will not look with leniency on the infractions when brought to his notice. In other words, he came, as he says, not to make the laws, but to enforce them. He suggests that laws be enacted when those present fall of their purpose. Many more instances may be given It is much of the no criticism of result. C. Morr Baptist is that craft of appreciate or succeed in his exclaim in the hand latest of the close attention the new Governor has paid to the affairs of the State in the sense of better citizenship. He concluded as follows: "And so, my fellow-citizens, let us approach the discharge of our duties with reverence for the high ideals upon which our system of government is founded, and with a renewed sense of the personal responsibility which rests equally upon every man in Indiana to see that all the inherent rights of the people are preserved; that officers do not usurp any function of government which has not been expressly delegated to them, but give to the people an honest, economical and business-like administration of public affairs. "These are the ends toward which, doubtless often blindly, I will strive. To the attainment of them, may I not ask your hearty co-operation by way of advice, assistance, constant watchfulness and a genuine effort everywhere in Indiana to elevate, if need be, and hold aloft constantly these insignia of good government and these banners of victorious conquest over all those foes who are inimical both to the best form of government and its best administration?" MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. S. C. W. Dryer, head waiter at the Commercial Club, proprietor of the Dwyer Hotel, and the first Exalted Ruler of the Elks of this city, was presented with a handsome Elks' ring with a diamond sealing ring. The crew regarded by his crew, on New Year's day. The crew is made up of the following: Sam Wimps, second waiter; Mose Wright, third waiter; Charles Carter, first captain; James Carroll, second captain; Carroll, head bussman; Willie Neal, C Hilliard, W. Warnick, A. Brown, R. M. Toombs, F. W. Baxter, B. Jainey, C. Brown, F. Humphrey, Dr. Francis, Y. Jackson, F. Jordan, F. Baxter, Butell Y. Jordan, H. Leonard, Donden, W. M. Franklin, O. Price, C Banks, J. Quinn, H. Thomas, J. Jordan. BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN Geo. Johnson, who has been sick a few days, is at work again. He is train porportions and is working on the cimatti. The following men have given good service at the Camden Station: Jas Jiggzis, Monroe Robinson, W. M. Miller, John Gohns, J. E. Robinson, and John Gohns, J. E. Robinson, of Bolvary. PITTSBURG, PA. Special to THE PRESMAN. Ky, who has been visiting of Louisville Ky, who has been visiting of Toledo, O. passed through our city and spent a few days with Mrs. Suele Phelps. MILWAUKEE. WIS. Special to THE FREEMAN Randolph Robinson, our silver king, formerly of Humboldt, Tenn., has just recovered from an attack of la gripe. **THE FREEMAN** is on sale at Walter Ed. Mrs. Ed. is on sale at Mrs. Annie Brown is proprietress of the cafe at the Howard Hotel in Fourth street. Mrs. Valle is ill at her home in Fourth street. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. John and is formerly of Spring-boy, weighing nine pounds. BIG ROCK, TENN. SUN As this is our first correspondence from this section, we hope to see it in print. . . Rev. J. H. Martin, the great revivalist of Clarksville, Tenn., and daughter, Mrs. J. Martin, the great revivalist of Clarksville, Tenn., and Mrs. J. Martin, the great revivalist of Clarksville, Tenn., and Mrs. P. D. Kingin of this city during the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Martin and daughter made many friends while here. Mrs. Martin and daughter made many friends while here.verser's Chapel the last Sunday in the old year. .S. F. Dudley, the colored photographer, was one of the callers of Mrs. Martin and daughter. The englams left for Clarksville the 30th but is home and has started school on the 4th. SPOKANE, WASH. JACKSON. MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, who have been spending the holidays with Mrs. Wilson's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks, have returned home to Niles. . . Mr. and Mrs. Eva manager of Mysterious Blanket, Mr. and Mrs. Eva manager of Mysterious Blanket, and his company, are in the city the guests of Mrs. Reaves' brother, High Warden. . . A social was given on Jan. 19 at the Mysterious Blanket committee on the old folks' home were here last week and released Rev. Artist. INFORMATION WANTED. Concerning James Johnson, 12 years of age; wore gray sweater with high red collar and cuffs, blue blouse pants, brown coat; cuff stockings, cap. As in Indianapolis, Johnson, 701 South Madison street, Muncie, Ind., or Chief of Police, Indianapolis. WORK AMONG THE CLUBS Concluded from Page One. This will be a memorial occasion in the history of the Baptists of the state. It is re- taken from the baptismal structure of the state will participate in the exercises. The program is now being arranged and men and women of influence in the denomination will be heard on that day. The building is the handsome new structure in city and it is modern construction and stands as a monument to the Baptists. The Baptists Women Education Convention has played quite a prominent part in the erection of the institution and they will most likely have charge, of all arrangements. First mask of the season given by Evans and Young at their dancing academy Tuesday night, January 19. All Invited. Our local singer, Miss Lauretta Dodd, was in splendid voice last Sunday at Our Merciful Savior Church. The Freeman had a big sale last week. Many claim that it was very newsy-and for this reason large numbers were purchased. All members please be at our next rehearsal. eW solicit your presence January 19, at the Church of Our Merciful Savior. Prof. John H. Jackson, president of the State Normal School of Frankfurt, Ky., is expected in the city later on during the Louisville Teachers' Institute. Society is very quite in the city. Everybody is taking a rest. There are only a few card parties now and then. A few theater parties have been planned for next week. They tell us that Lawyer W. H. Wright, Rachelie Smith and Dr. B. R. Oliver are going out for office. If they are, they must come out to let the press and people see you. James Williams skipped town with over £3,000 belonging to whites as well as blacks. Whatever may be said of Williams he goes. The death of Miss Prosser, of West Chestnut street, was quite a shock to the people of the West End. Miss Prosser was an excellent singer and possessed a charming voice. She was known for her times, but often she sung in other parts of the country. Miss Prosser did most of her work at Chauantaquas and her reputation had grown far and wide. She was on the radio and in the press because ill and an operation was necessary. The operation did not prove successful and she died, leaving a host of relatives and friends. Louisville and New Albany will welcome to the Falls Cities on Sunday Mr. J. Ed. Green, one of the most widely known theatrical men of the race. He will be with the Samt Set'. His friends in this season will be to him in their last show new for next season and from his ex- PROCLA To the United Brothers or Mysterious Ten and United States of America PROCLAMATION! To the United Brothers of Friendship, Sisters of the Mysterious Ten and Knights of Friendship of United States of America, Canada and Africa. GREETING: According to the action of the last session of the National Grand Lodge hold at Livingston on August 3, 1906, that body adjourned to meet at St. Paul, July 26, 1913; July 31, 1913. According to the action of the last six Lexington, Ky. July 31 to August 3, 1966 Minn. July 26 to July 31, 1969. At the approaching session it is earn at the approaching session it is earn as will serve to emphasize and enrich the Lodge for the purpose of either the National Grand Lodge will be an insp. This is our opportunity. The spir prompted certain white fraternal organic emphases more and more our impregnable Beneficial Movement. The Order of United Brothers of Fri. the purpose of Negro brain and energy. our race, it came as an inspiration to the All communications of local inquiry should be addressed to Rev. J. R. White, Chairman of Committee on Arrangements, No. 10 Stess Block, St. Paul, Minn. the white man all over well as the "brother." The detectives all over the country are on the lookout for Williams, the real estate man, and wherever he comes up they will move in. Williams will face a number of indictments in the city of Louisville as well as other places. It is usually the so-called "Big Negro" who wants everything and don't want to pay for the services given him. He never pays his debts and expects others to pay him. He wants all the offices and handle all the cases. He wants all the cases he is "big" he wants to give you the cold shoulder. He forgets that type-setting, printer's ink and mailing costs something, and he doesn't have gone up on this kind of big Negro and hope he will be relegated to the rear. The matinee dance given January 1, 1909, at 13th and Walnut by classes '02 and '03 was a novel affair. Among the out-of-town guests were Misses Oona and Laura Smith, students from the University of C. Brown, Alonzo Brock, of Chicago, Wm. Mathias, New York, Jno. Hillman, California, Mr. Jas, W. Brown was master of ceremonies, while Misses Oona and Laura were hostesses. The visiting girls were brought by Messrs. Cassius Smith, Wm. Grimes and Ernest Pope. Good music and refreshments. Covers were laid for fifty four. Watch for our Ensemble soiree. A great celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Abe Lincoln will take place at the Lincoln-street C. M. E. Church, and Lawyer N. R. Harper is to be its head. Kentucky especially will do its share on this occasion. All over the state orators and statesmen will be present. The citizens of Louisville should begin to make it a memorial occasion. We did so last year, and it should be done again. Up to now, the citizens will be up to and beyond citizen committees will take an interest in the movement. Lawyer Harper is doing all he can to make it a success, and the citizens should help him. Miss Lucy Flint, the clerk in the Baptist Foreign Mission office, 726 West Walnut street, being congregated on the efficient in what she her work in the most successful clerks in the city and has a reputation of being actuate and reliable. With the lightning adding machine and the letters and makes a weekly, monthly and yearly report. Her reports are excellent and often cause the board to speak in comma and the women in the secretary of the State Baptist Educational Convention and her work for this body has caused the women to comment favorably upon the work of Miss Flint. Unless the local Negro League has better things than they have been having some new action they have to be made with reference to the results and the office or his committees are not working. We might just as well be plain about the matter and the result is not getting the results and the last meeting will or can not say that he is making the necessary progress that should be made up to this day. There is no question here that he has met, but there that he has ben settled, but there must be a little better understanding about the duty of the committees before the young men can be trusted to get us harmonize and we can do a great deal. While most of the appointments of Governor Wilson are limited, so say the colored Republicans in Frankfort, and are appointments made from boards, it does seem that Governor Wilson has to remember that as would be necessary to remember the "brother." In Frankfort the Negroes have no respectable jobs at all. They don't rank above that of a janitor, and yet they gave Governor Wilson 40,000 votes. These Negroes are good people. Good people are being told to wait. Keep on waiting, brother, the sun will shine bye and bye in your favor, eW must either divide the vote or not be satisfied with waiting. The Governor of West Virginia appointed a Negro as State Librarian a few days ago, and the Governor Wilson a Negro for assistant janitor. --- It is a shame on the young men who are connected with the Young Men's Progressive League to let it go to sleep and become insecure. We are all connected to this discussion we have heard anywhere by young men of class and standing, young men of education and refinement, were present in the organization and hopeful of success. eW have entertained as high as fifty men, but lately, you can' t corporate or guild, a meeting. I do not know if you can be affected in the organization. Let the doctor, who, by the way, is president, give it a "Hypo" and give it a "Burn." You have its illness, or insomnia. Possibly before spring a little tonic will have on the road to convalescence. Our prescription would be a "Bush" pill. They have money in the bank and it is not possible to any one any good. eW move to buy or else. 200 PAGE BOOK ON Consumption FREE To all who are Afflicted with Weak Lungs, Coughs, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Consumption NATIONAL TAX Circulars announcing the rates will be announced later. Done in the city of Chicago, this the 2nd day of January, A. D. 1909. perience and ability it is promised to be a "Corker." The old folks at home as well as the children at work out a hand of welcome to Mr. Gren, and we hope his stay will be pleasant and enjoyable. Two leading colored republicans at the City Hall have charge of apointing all the jobs in the gift of the Mayor. They get are known as the Big Five, and you can't get a place unless you see them. Then from this place you can get the Machine. Look out for the "Steam Roller." The Embroidery Club gave a Japanese ball during the holidays at the residence of Mrs. Walton, 1110 West Walnut street. It was a grand affair. All the ladies in the club were dressed in white and were in full dress. It was rumored that Miss Iona Kean and Miss Sallie Woods were the two finest dressed Japs present. All had a delightful time. The house was made of the occasion all kinds of flowers of the Splendid Society was furnished and all kinds of refreshments served....E. J. Carlisle, 1215 West Walnut street, has been sick all through the day. Miss Susie Sandusky will soon be again...John Shanks' mother has been very sick, but is improving slowly. Harvey Kirk's and Lee Woodruff head of the Splendid Society Government, has done a great work building a dam across the Ohio river on the Indiana side for the nine-foot stage of water in Cusatine. Susie Woodruff credit to Cusatine to race to these two men blasting and directing the work of a gang of men. Their superior officers are much pleased with them and can trust them to do any kind of work on the falls. SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. SCRAPS FROM THE SPORTING WORLD. By HARRY W. JACKSON. Clank! That's the boxing lid in Tennesse- s. Iowa Penitentiary has two basketball teams. Boston Americans will train at Hot Springs, Ark. Joe Walcott lost four of twelve fights fought last year. Abe Attell has signed articles to meet four men in two weeks. Sam Langford won seven of his eleven fights during the past year. Noire Dame basketball team made a clean record on its tour South. Jack Johnson fought twenty-six battles during the past twelve months. Jim Coffroth will offer a $20,000 purse for a go between Ketchell and Johnson. Kid White of Chicago and Tommy Kilibane of Cleveland mixed it in Dayton, O., Jack Blackburn fought twenty fights during the year 1908, lost none and fought one draw. Governor Comer of Alabama notified the authorities of Mobile that Sunday baseball must cease. Boston and Louisville will make a noise if the effort to match Langford and Hart proves successful. Harry Lewis defeated the "hard nut to crack" Harry Mansfield, and so did Jack Blackburn. Now it's up to Jack. Denver Ed Smith and Joe Jeannette harried challenges at Jack Johnson to meet for the world's heavyweight championship. Joe Choynskis says that Jim Corbett was boxed in his day, but he would have but little show with Jack Johnson today. Jack (Twin) Sullivan was badly beaten by Bill McKinnon of Boston in a twelve-round bout last week, and McKinnon is a vomiter, too. The Majestic Skating Palace promises some good roller skate races during the winter. There are several cracks around here where you will settle their championship disclosures. The convects' baseball team of the Kentucky State Penitentiary will have one of the oldest pitchers on record—C. C. Cook, 86, a life sentence murderer, when the diamond dust begins to stir. It is often thought that John L. Sullivan was at one time champion of the world. Though he was a wonderful fighter and champion of America, he has never held the world's championship title. Leo Partello, the Italian wrestler, met one of the local theatres, and agreed to pin any man in the city in fifteen minutes or forfeit $50. Leo had to pay out two or three fifties. As long as Tommy Burns remains across the big canal there will be a bunch of game (?) ones who can "trim" Jack Johnson. Tommy comes home and how Jack whallops, they won't be hard to count. S. H. Dudley of the Smart Set company gave his opinion of Tommy Burns wanting the hog end of the purse for his fight with Jack Johnson as follows: "Burns knew that he would have to pay out the biggest doctor bill." Though Jim Corbett has said he will re-enter the ring to bring back the "bat" of the ex-icee sports rebel what the ex-champion says. Like a photograph, Corbett talks but doesn't mean what he says. At a meeting of the American Association magnates recently, it was decided to open the championship season of that organization on Wednesday, April 14. The season will extend over five months and a half instead of five months, as hereforelore. Willus Britt engineered Battling Nelson on to victory over Joe Gans and now he is active in arranging for a bout with Jack Johnson in the interest of his latest opponent, Ketchell, one time drew the color line. Ketchell is after further honors. Sam Langford, the great colored fighter who broke two of Jim Flynn's ribs and knocked him out in less than one round of fighting, recently telegraphed that he would be the first to win at the National Sporting Club in London on Derby eve. The only stipulation is that Langford makes is that he would win. Langford is considered by many to be Johnson's equal. Young Otto, "the lad with the wallop," is dismissed with the manner in which the topnotch lightweight have turned Jim down and will follow the example of Jack Jennette, and hike for the other side. Otto will leave January 16, but will keep his two engagements on this side before going to Sullivan ten rounds before the Sharkey A.C. and on January 13 he will take on Leach Cross before Jim Buckley's club. That Jack Johnson is much better than Peter Jackson ever was in his palestest days, is the belief of Joe Choynski, who Jackson's sparring partner for years, Chris Jennette. In a class in a class by himself at present and that there is no hope that he will ever be defeated unless James J. Jeffries re-joins the ring. Choynski says the only living person who can play him a chance with Johnson is Sam Langford. Kendall B. Cresssey, an insurance man, who has kept close tab on football for years, says that more injuries have been the year than in any season since 1955. The injuries in that year twenty-four were killed and 200 injured. There were three deaths among college players this year, two among high school and five among athletic club games. The injured in college games were 153, against twenty-three among high school players and forty-six among athletic club members. All deaths, with one exception were caused in open play. Philadelphia had six days of it: Monday—Young Erne of Philadelphia and Leach Cross of New York; Jack Ubben of Philadelphia will meet three head of the oleado, Peter Mather of Philadelphia and Fred Cooley of Chicago—two rounds each. Tuesday—Harry Mansfield of England and Lewis of Philadelphia. Wednesday—Fred Corbett of Philadelphia and Kid Goodman of Boston, fifteen rounds. Thursday—Charles (Twin) Miller of Philadelphia and Kid Goodman of Philadelphia. Friday—Young Pierce of Philadelphia and Tommy Devlin of Philadelphia. Saturday—Owen Moran of England and Young Nichile of Philadelphia. It is President Roosevelt's wish that A. A. Rector, champion short-distance skiing, the American cinder path, who was beaten by the Americans African, at the London Olympic games POSTAGE 3 CENTS. Richard K. Fox, Publisher, Franklin Square. New York City last summer, meet Walker when the South African tours this country next summer. This information has been imprinted on your book. You will be President, and efforts are already being made to cause the senior Rector, who lives in Hot Springs, Ark., to give consent to return from athletics. Young Rector will yesterday on his way to the University of Virginia, where he is studying law. "I was told by a friend that I said the Arkansas flyer, 'but I still believe I can beat Walker and will certainly try my best if it is arranged.'" Although Jim Jeffries persuaded him to draw the color line, Stanley Ketchell, now midweight champion of the world, has been a big supporter for the heavyweight championship. Ketchell is far from being in Johnson's class as far as weight is concerned, but he is a great man. He is a great many of the other bigglings. Ketchell is inspired to bring the heavyweight championship back to the white race, but was against fighting colored men. He did not do to dehrule Johnson, I am ready to comply with the demand of the people who are fighting game," said Ketchell, along with the other bigglings, no fighter in the world and could give Jack Johnson a good trimming. Stanley's confidence is no more than dozens of other bigglings, more than that of Joe Burns, who still slick from that beating Jack gave him. A LOCAL LAD WHO CAN BOX. John Jackson is in training to meet all college requirements for night division. Jackson carries a right assist. Jackson bar. He is a pharmacist in one of the hospitals. He is a doctor in the heart from some of the nearby hospitals. NOT IN TENNESSEE, SAYS MOSS. MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Acquainted for the first time that so-called "sparring matches" were as much a violation of the Tennessee law as prizefights, Mayor Malone, who had granted a written permit to that winger to take place last week between Jack Carney and Jack Gardner, withdrew the permission. Criminal Court Judge Moss threatens imprisonment to any one violating the law. Malone never had read the law, but says he thought sparring matches were permitted. WOULD MEET SOUTHERN BOXERS Young White Is Desirous of Fighting Green. Hughes and Thomas. Special to THE FREEMAN TAMPA, Fla.—Young White challenges any middleweight in the South weighing from 150 to 158 pounds. White says he would like to meet Joe Green, Kid Hughes and John Thomas, and promises either of them a fight. White's address is 1507 Central avenue. COLORED GIRLS' LEAGUE BEGINS SEASON MAY 1. Eight Teams Will Compose League — C. L. Mayberry, President Springfield Club, Earnest Promoter. Special to THE FREEMAN SPRINGFIELD, O.—Mrs. Sarah S. Brooker, captain of the Springfield (O.) Indiana league, to be composed of girls' baseball teams, will begin its season about May. The league will be composed of teams from the Colored-American League for Girls, C. L. Mayberry, who will be known as the Colored-American League for Girls, C. L. Mayberry, is one of the promoters of the league. SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL MAKES A CLEAR RECORD. Special MEMBER LOUIS Moe- The gridiron season closed with a successful schedule for Summer High School football team. Summer put up one of the strongest eleven in the league, being the victors in every game that is played during the season. The annual game with the Central High School of football was played by the nation's warriors by a narrow margin of 6 to 5. Summer and Central have been athletic rivals for the past five years, but the game of this year proved to be the game every played between the two schools. THE CHICAGO UNIONS TO HAVE STRONG BASEBALL TEAM. Several of the Indianapolis Boys Will Land Berths - Prospects of the Fastest Team in Years. Special to THE FREEMAN CHICAGO, Ill.—The Chicago Unions of the coming season will be one of the strongest teams in the field. The team will be composed of some of the best players in the country, all of whom will be new to this team. Several of the Indianapolis stars will land berths on the Union team. The teams already booked are as follows: Jas. Shawler, left field; W. N. Pryor, third base; Frank Young, second base; John Lute, left field; W. G. washington, center field or Tremaine or stop; G. Brinkenship, right field; John Reeves, center field and manager; Lewis Johnson, William West and Frank Tal- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL TO HAVE STRONG '09 FOOTBALL TEAM. Kentuckians Lose But Two Games During Past Season — Prof. J. R. Harris Proud of '08 Team. Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, KY.-The football team of the Central High School was unusually strong this season. Only twice was the team exhibited its athleticism inington boys and once by their old rival, Summer High School of St. Louis, Mo. The Kentuckians played some exciting games and exhibited their confidence. Confidence and enthusiasm exemplified by the student body the Central boys in each game with much pluck and nerve, who made the team what it is, is proud of the boys' work and expects to have a still stronger team next season. Perry Harrison, who played substitute quarterback on this year's team, is land as regular quarter on the '09 team. WISH TO DETHRONE JACK JOHN SON, THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. Tendency to View Battles Between White and blue fighters From a Battlefield. *Battlefield* Jack Johnson now has the world stirred up over his being the champion, heavyweight fighter of the world. He was the cause of the sensation, but that he is a black man holding the title. By Jack being master of the heavyweights means that a Negro can be a sentiment predominating whenever a colored man meets a white man in the ring that it is a question of race superiority, and each other is a question of race. The man who seems to be in the minds of the fight fans, as it is also in the mind of the general public, whenever the two face each other, the best man winning, regardless of color, is lost sight of. Johnson is champion and without equal; he is master of them all, he be black, yellow, and white, the best man winning with it. He must be recognized as the champion of the world and not as some people term him, the "colored champino," "felt badly to see a colored man champion." This is how James J. Corbett, ex-heavyweight champion, took the title. Not that he is so deeply grieved because Tommy lost the heavyweight title, but THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER because a black man won it. Corbett expressed himself before the Burns-Johnson mill that he had little faith in Tommy winning the fight, but still be the winner of the championship. If the Canadian had been beaten by a white man, Corbett would not have shown any signs of worry whatever, as he has never been in a leadership position or a leadership make. Corbett has been on the retired list for several years, but his prejudice to Negroes has practically re-enter him into the ring again. He it? Is Corbett today the Corbett of years age? Johnson is willing to defend his title against anyone, barring none. And as Corbett intends to "champion the cause of black men," he wants to champion the cause of the black man. LANGFORD IS CONFIDENT THAT HE CAN DEFEAT KETCHELL Will Forfeit Share of Purse If He Fails to Stop the Middleweight Champion in Ten Rounds. So confident is Sam Langford that he can defeat Stanley Ketchell that he is willing to forfeit his share of a purse of a fight between them if he fails to stop him in ten rounds. He will fight Ketchell on his knees, unranked, to dominate his superiority over the middle-weight champion. Langford has the following to say: "I am ready at any time to box Ketchell and will agree to make 154 pounds ring-side and Ketchell an opponent at least if I don't knock him out inside of ten rounds I don't want a心." THE EAGLES WISH BOOKING Crescent City Boys to Have Strong Nine — Would Meet the Fastest. Special to THE FREEMAN S. NEW ORLEANS, La.—The Eagles will have a strong team this year. Already there are enough candidates trying to make good to organize three nines. From this bunch Charles Stevens, manager, will be the head coach of the team. The Eagles will tour the North, East and West and will be ready to meet the best. The Eagles would like to compete with the Chicago Unions; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg teams; Cleveland and Dayton, O., boys; Brooklyn Royal Giants and Cuban Giants of New York; Terre Haute and the fast A., C. team of the team and the Los Angeles, Ky., cracks and any other classy team. The Dixieland boys are respectable fellows. Headquarters, 1236 Eagle street, New Orleans, La. They start the '99 season. All we ask is booking; we do the rest. JUST FOR WEDNESDAY EVENING. Mayor Busse of Windy City Lifts Lid for the Seventh Regiment. Special to THE FREEMAN. CHICAGO, Ill.—Chicago is to have boxing, and such stars as Johnny Thompson one of the most promising lightweight champions of the world, will perform. That these men will appear in this city on January 20, not against each other but against suitable opponents, is certain, but the lid is off here and that prizefights are to be promoted as in the days of old. Mayor Busse, who gave out the permit to the boxing team, has lifted the boxing lid for one night, but that it does not mean that the fight lid is off. He says he has no intention of permitting fights in this city and he hopes the Regiment to pull off a show will not be taken to mean that he will allow prizefights. He is not against boxing, particularly," said the mayor, "but the sport is too frequently abused to be permitted in Chicago. That I have granted a permit to the Illinois National Guard men to have sparring exhibitions does not indicate that the fight lid is off." Prizefighting will be permitted in Chicago. THE KENTUCKY "PEN" NINE. FRANKFORT, Ky — Kentucky will boast next summer of the strongest baseball nine ever organized. Warden Mudd of the State Penitentiary is to be the manager, the average age of the team will be 73 years, and almost every memorial officer, serving a life sentence for his crime. Following is the makeup of the team: C. C. Cook, 86, Whatley county, mur- ley county, Bruns, 80, Bovle county, for- dale. Edward Bruns, 80, Boyle county, forger, shortstop. William Joseph, 67. Jefferson county. murderer, first base. Calvin Rains, 77, Clinton county, murderer, second base. William Freeman, 73, Owsley county, murderer, third base. Wilson Sleeth, 66, Perry county, bog thief, centrals field. Thomas Dewpent, 50, Pendleton county, policeer, right field. Bryant, Bryant, 34 Montgomery county, horse thief. A man must be at least 65 years old to be eligible to this team and it is not a requirement to play within the walls of the prison yard next year. Lieutenant-Governor Cox, an enthusiastic fan, is planning to see one of the games this strange team will play. JAMES J. JEFFRIES WILL NOT RE-ENTER RING. SO HE SAYS Will Go On Stage as Business Proposition—Says He Is Not the Jeffries of Four Years Ago. Special to THE FREEMAN LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Jim Jeffries says emphatically that regardless of what the papers are saying with reference to his son, he will not fight again. Jeffries is going on the stage—too much money to not handle little or no money he thinks. He will pay $3,000 to spar one week at a San Francisco theatre. "It is a business proposition with me pure and simple," the people want to know. "I will well as well as them value received for their money. The one question that you good people want me to answer is, can I ever give them value received for their money? "I believe that I have gone over this phase of the matter pretty thoroughly in my weekly meetings, I am willing to give them what I am asking that I believe that it is outside the range of possibilities that I could train into pretty fair shape again. I don't believe that I could be so good expect me to be." "When a man has been a "good fellow for four years," during his lifetime it is not a good time to kind of kind, it is a very serious matter whether or not he could ever be as good as he was when he was young. I speak plainly, because I realize that this is no time for me to misrepresent facts. Jim Jeffries is a pretty good man today, but not the Jim Jeffries of a few years ago. JOHNSON WITHOUT AN EQUAL Special to THE FREEMAN Charles H. Williams writes to The Freeman expressing himself in regard to the Jack Johnson situation, as follows: "Mr. Sporting Editor: "Jack Johnson seems destined to hold the heavyweight championship of the world for some time to come. Just think, he would have played for a match and in return he got nothing but insulting remarks from the 'fourflush' champion. Burns called him a 'quitter, a yellow dog' and other choice (say, a black dog) Johnson finally landed his man in Australia after traveling 12,000 miles to fight him. Al Kaufmann knows there is no chance for him; that's why he draws the attention of the media and their distance from Johnson. I am surprised at Corbett saying no man has the right to be called a champion if the belt or title is given him; he must fight for it. He has been so hard to harden the title when he had it and CHAMPIONS IN SPORTS, 1908. Amature athletics — J. Brodemus. Archey, W. H. Thompson. Appellibullis (amature) — Calvin Demarest. Billards (amature, professional, 18.1) — George Billiards (amateur)—Calvin Demarest. Billiards (professional, 18.1)—George Sutton. Bowling—A. Wengler. Boxing (heavyweight)—Jack Johnson. Boxing (middleweight)—Stanley Ketchel Boxing (lightweight)—Battling Nelson. Boxing (heavyweight)—Abe Attell. Boxing (bantamweight)—J. Coulon. Chess—Enmanuel Lasker. Fly Casting—R. J. Held. Golf (open)—Fred McLeod. Golf (open)—H. Travers. Golf (women)—Miss K. C. Harley. Handball-Oliver Drew. Jockey—Joe Notter. Motorcycle-Fred Huyck. Paintball-Haven. Racquets-Jay Gould. Roller Skating-Ollie Moore. Roque-Edward Clark. Roller Skating-A. Arnst. Shooting (trap)—Fred Harlow. Shooting (rifle)—Sergeant A. Brest. Shooting (revolver)—Lieut. Sayre. Skat—Franz Hilberling. Skating (morris Wood) Skating (eamis)—E. Lamy. Swimming—C. M. Daniels. Tennis—W. A. Larned. Tennis—W. A. Margo Wallace. Tennis (Western)—Nat Emerson. Wrestling—Frank Gotch. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, speaking last week before a body of teachers at Columbia, S. C., expressed himself as opposed to the higher education of the Negro. He held that it meant the doing away with the white man's supremacy. We think it rather a serious confession for the Senator; he paid a tribute to the Negroes, something not customary with him. In his heretofore speeches he has generally spoken of the race as a sort of brutalizing agency and that the harm would come owing to the fact. Has the Senator been concealing his real feelings? And has he at last been driven to his last defense? His Richmond, we think, will fail. Intelligence may be depended on to have more of the power of conservation than ignorance or the state of indifference. MISINTERPRETING THE PRESIDENT ON BOUND BAYOU. It is indeed difficult to conceive how the unusually accurate and level-headed dEditor T. P. Mahammitt of the Omaha Enterprise could have so misunderstood the spirit of the speech delivered by President Roosevelt on the occasion of the cornerstone laying of the colored Y. M. C. A. building in Washington on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Mahammitt seems to have gone "away round Robin Hood's barn" to put into the mouth of the President things touching the future of the Negro that he did not and would not say, and to attribute to him views that he does not and could not hold concerning our people. In the beginning of a long and wholly misleading editorial in a recent issue of the Enterprise, Mr. Mahammitt makes this comment: "He (President Roosevelt) said among other things that he was proud of the advances made by the race—all of which is very good, and added that he saw in the great example of race development at Mound Bayou, Miss, a ray of hope for the Negroes of this country. He saw in that Negro town, set off by itself, forming a distinct Negro system of autonomy, ruled by a dominant white element through appointive power, a solution for the so-called race problem. In other words, the President of these United States intimated that at some day—some distant day, perhaps—the dream of colonization would be realized. That is to say, he suggested that some day in our country—in America—the Negro race would be set off in a section of our country—in America—under the directorate of the white man; and that while poor ignorant children, they might think they were free, they would be under a system of dictation." President Roosevelt's language —plain, forcible and do the point, could not have been so miserably distorted as to mean anything like this, save by a man who had lost his right mind. At no time has the President ever voiced a sentiment that would lead any one to believe that he regarded "colonization" as a solvent for the American race problem. He commended Mound Bayou incidentally, on this occasion, as a striking example of what thrifty, sober, law-abiding, industrious and intelligent Negroes could accomplish by their own might, when they had the moral fiber to make the best of the opportunities within their grasp. The application was that the Washington branch of the Y. M. C. A. could be made a powerful agency in inculcating the same impulse for right living, home owning, self-reliance, faithfulness in the discharge of trusts, and constructive effort along every useful line. White men had builted cities; he wanted to show that colored men could do the same by pointing out a city that had been built by Negroes upon their own initiative and despite untoward conditions. The President's purpose was to offer encouragement to the Negro to build for himself and yet keep in touch with all that is good in American life—to win respect by being a worthy citizen, a congenial neighbor. His lesson struck the mark with all—save the mentally obtuse and visually strabismic Editor Mahammitt. A GENEROUS GIFT. The new M. W. Gibbs Negro High School of Little Rock, Ark., has been the recipient of about 1,000 valuable volumes for the library from Judge M. W. Gibbs, for whom the new school building was named. Judge Gibbs, in appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by the school board in naming the splendid new school building after him, announced that he would give $500 as a nucleus for a library for the new high school. At least 500 of the books selected and purchased with this fund are now here and 500 volumes are now on the way. When the remaining 500 volumes are received the Gibbs High School will have a splendid foundation on which to build up a library which will without doubt become one of the finest libraries of a Negro school in the Southwest. THE WHIT AUSTRALIA. Australia in bidding for immigrants has uttered a tersely worded toscin—a minimum of restriction, a maximum of welcome, is it? This significant cry needs some interpretation, since it is not generally known what is meant by the minimum of restitution or the maximum of welcome. The "Immigration Restriction Act" of Australia "enables the introduction of colored persons to be prevented, except as visitors." While the act applies generally, it was brought about as a prohibition against the hordes of yellows and blacks that menace Australia on every side. The Japanese feel the most aggrived, since they are the furthest advanced in civilization, consequently the most sensitive people Africa is in close proximity. The farsighted Australians are closing up hope to them. The Africans nor the Chinese have protested, and simply because of their passivitz Japan has registered a vigorous protest, insisting that the law will soon fall into nonconscious desuetude. The Negroes of the United States will fall into the category of the proscribed, but they will not suffer, since there is no tendency to drift to Australia. If persons desirous of entering the commonwealth are of white race, of good health, and are not under contract to perform manual labor, no restrictions or conditions whatever are applied to them. Here is the maximum of welcome as applied to the white race and also the minimum of restriction. Under that count, that interpretation, the battle cry eliminates "colored" persons all together, the minimum of restriction having in mind "good health and are not under contract to perform manual labor." A white Australia has long been considered by the white people. The quarrel is not ours; we of this country have troubles of ourown, especially we Negroes. We, however, may take courage of the thought that the "colored" people of America are not so bad off as a race when compared with what is issued out to "colored" people anywhere—everywhere. It might be said in passing that if the territories now occupied and controlled by Negroes will also remain inviolate—free to develop under whatsoever influence—it will tend to the peace of the world. Dispossessed peoples wandering over the face of the earth, evicted by brute force, will smoulder—but not always. 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Served at all first-class Bars. WRIGHT & TAYLOR, Dist. Louisville, Ky WHISKEY! ATHOUSE'S. Finest Flavor. Frank Walter, RIETORS OF Brewery, 8 at about half actual value. These coats are just home from a New York furrier, where they've been remodeled in accord with prevailing fashions. They're now as spruce and stylish as any coats you'll see anywhere and prices are less than the present value of the furs from which they were made. Coats in 36-inch length, size 40, are reduced from $600 to. $300 Coats in 26 and 28-inch lengths, sizes 36, 38, 40 and 46; $450 values, in this sale at.....$275 —Third Floor, North. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Leon Vance has joined his wife, Mrs. M. McLean, in the office. Jas, Shelton has sufficiently improved to be able to be removed to his home. Bishop C. T. Shaffer will preach at Beethoven's funeral. Bishop C. T. Shaffer will preach at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday, Jan. 24. The Sixth-Ward Workers Club will meet Wednesday evening at 526 1-2 Indiana avenue. Mrs. Lizzie Coleman, after a pleasant visit has returned to her home at Louisville, Ky. Miss Tillie Larter of Bedford is visiting hersister, Mrs. Mary Locklear, and Mrs. Jos H. Ward. Eva May, a young daughter of H. C. Malikan, is suffering with an attack of rheumatism. Mrs. A. H. Henderson has been confined to her room because of illness during the week. Thomas H. Kates, the merchant tailor of Chicago, is in the city in the interest of his business. Henry Cobb of Indianapolis has spent the holiday in Clarksville, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky. Messrs. Clarence Starks and Oscar Covington of Terre Haute were in the city the first of the week. Presiding Elder D. E. Skelton was called to Chicago on important business during the week. The Wisteria Club will meet with Mrs. Susie Kennedy in North Missouri street, next Wednesday. Capt. Burrell Echols, the well-known hotel man of French Lick, Ind., is in the city for several days. The improvement Club will meet next Thursday with Mrs. Ida Bryant, in Wyoming street. Miss Eurus Carr, who is teaching in Vincennes, is expected to visit Mrs. Tena Johnson in this city soon. The club will entertain the Lochinvar Club Wednesday evening at her home in North California street. Miss Brenda Webber and Mrs. Robert Hawkins have returned from New York, where they will spend September. Mrs. J. T. V. Hill fell on the slippery pavement last Saturday and has been unable to teach school during the week. John D. Kersey and wife of Frankfort, Indiana, were in the city Wednesday to attend a funeral of the former's mother. Jesse Quinn of Hodgkinsville, Ky., was in the city Monday on business. He was the guest of his brother, Andrew Quinn. Revival meetings are in progress at all the churches, and despite the bad weather there has been a good attendance. Smith Kersey and son and Alex Levine, a nephew of Dunkirk, Ind., attended the funeral of Mrs. Dorothy Kersey Wednesday. Mrs. Retta A. Moss will be hostess to the Woman's Club Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Belle Davis in Bird street. Dr. S. A Furniss attended a meeting of the executive board of the National Negro Business League at Tuskegee during the past week. Mrs. M. Booth entertained Wednesday from 3 to 5 p. m. in honor of Mrs. McDonald of Columbus, who is visiting Mrs. Anna Estes. The Deutsch Tailoring Co. has removed to 13 Seed Illinois street, where they will be to see old customers, friends and patrons. Mrs. Carrie Moore, who has been visiting Mrs. Booth in West Vermont street, returned to her home at Chattanooga, TN to visit Terry. Mrs. Susie Stanford returns 'to her home at Chattanooga, Tenn, today after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Goforth in Muskungum street. The Rev. Joshua Stusha will address the Junior League of the Christian Endeavor at Simpson Chapel at 2:30 p.m. m. Sunday, Jan. 24. Susan Goforth of Philadelphia, Pa., a well-known hotel man, who has been traveling through the Northwest, will locate in Indianapolis. Roy Locklear, who is suffering from an injury at the Ward Sanitarium, is improving rapidly. It was necessary to amputate half of his foot. Dr. Stansfield pastor, to will address the Junior League of Simpson Chapel Sunday, January 24, at 2:30 p.m. Madams La Belle, Malone and Hager Temple will give a musical concert at Zion Baptist Church, corner Senate avenue and Twelfth street. February 4. Wm. E. Viney of the Railway Mall Temple was returned to the city for a pleasant visit of a week with friends and relatives at his home in Lancaster, Ohio. Thurman Union, the colored branch of the W. C. T. U., joined the other temperance bodies of the State in visiting the Legislature yesterday in behalf of State-wife prohibition. Mrs. Belle Davis, the well-known cateress, left last Saturday for Mobile, Ala., where she goes for the benefit of her health. She was accompanied by Miss Did it Ever Occur to You that you can make a profit buying goods? You can. That is, if you buy them right. As we are out of the high rent district, we can save you 10 per cent. on each sale. J. P. Mullally, Diamonds and Jewelry. 28 Monument Place Dessie Singleton, a trained nurse, and Mrs. Ermsidell Stone. Ermsidell Stone accompanied the party as far as Louisville. The meeting announced to be held at the McCoy School Thursday evening of the teachers and preachers of the city was not held, because of the absence from the city of one of the promoters. Other Graves, brother of Walter Graves, foreman at the Denison Barber Shop, was scheduled to attend the ill. The funeral and burial took place at his home at Croston, Ky. Robert Troy was in the city for a few hours last week on business. He is interested in the executive course. He is position of executive in character and reflects credit upon the race. A number of friends attended the baptismal ceremonies of Archie Greathouse Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Greathouse. Rev. J. S. Bailley officiated at 4 o'clock p. m. Walter Graves, the genial foreman of the Denison Hotel Barber Shop, assisted by his wife, entertained at dinner Sunday. Those who were Mrs. Kittle Minter, Mrs. Carrion, and Mrs. Geo. L. Knox, and Elwood C. Knox. Jas. F. Williams died at his home, 1269 East Eleventh street, Monday, aged 71 years. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Ellen Williams. His funeral was held at Allen Funeral Home, under the auspices of Summer Lodge U. B. F. McCann. Mrs. Debta B. F. McCann, formerly stenographer for The Freeman, has opened a shorthand writing school at $359½ Indiana avenue. She is also prepared to do letter writing, arranging legal papers, copying sermons and addressing the Methodist Ministers' Association held an interesting session Wednesday morning. In the absence of the Rev. G. H. Shaffer, the subject assigned to him, the Emanuel Movement and Its Value, "the Emanuel Movement and Its Value," was presented to H. L. Herod led in the discussion. Mrs. J. M. Johnson and Mrs. Martha Galloway entertained last Friday at their home, 705 North Senate avenue, in honor of their sisters, Mrs. Wm. H. Jackson and Miss J. Virgil Jackson of New York. The sisters from 2 to 6 and from 8 to 10. They will leave for their home in New York next Tuesday. The Rev. J. H. Callis, pastor of Jones Tabernacle, announces a special subject for his sermon next Sunday night. Subject: "The Responsibility of the Parent and the School Teacher in the Salvation System," I. W. L. Presiding ader of this district, is asserting in the revival services being held at this church. CONSULT A LAWYER BY MAIL. If in need of a competent lawyer's advice or service, take no chance of doing without. Such risk may mean much trouble and a great loss to you in the future. 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DOROTHY KERSEY. Mrs. Dorothy Kersey, mother of Willis A. Kersey, president of the colored Y. M. C. A., and a well-known business man, died suddenly at the home of Mr. Kersey, M. Kersey, and his wife. She was 80 years of age and had lived in this city with her son for the past seven years, since the death of her husband. She came to this State from North Carolina by wagon over fifty years ago. Mrs. Kersey was the greater part of her home in Jennings county. She was the mother of eighteen children, ten of whom lived to be grown. She is survived by one daughter and four sons. Her funeral was held at the home of Mr. Kersey, M. Kersey, and her husband. Rev. Morris Lewis officiating. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. SAYS BOOKWALTER USES INFLUENCE Kennedy Says Mayor Put Him Out of Business. Tuesday morning, during the hours that the Sixty-sixth General Assembly of the State of Indiana was in session, Col. Manley Kennedy was undergoing a life of despair. Some time ago Mr. Kennedy obtained permission, through a Mr. Cox, to place his collection in the House and also the rights of selling fruits and newspapers, as well as shining shoes. The opening session of the Legislature, Kennedy made a ford for housing, having a fine the goods and nicely located between both houses, with a pretty little russet brown beauty by the name of Miss Daisy Tootles to the formation of a near-by stand, they—the big Senators and Representatives—came and bought from Miss Daisy because she had a large collection of apples and oranges and sweetly scented flowers. Everything Manuel had to sell sold like hot cakes. He had the goods in business, but for a gorious week only! "My business began to increase every day," said Kennedy, and "I noticed that a large number of senatives began to look on with increased interest and to talk among themselves. Finally, when they could not stand it any longer, they went to the mayor, Maxwell Walter, and the Mayor goes with them to see Mr. Cox, and through Book-walter's influence they secure the rights he hears give them permission to use a cigar stand in the State House. Of course, it is that old affair, prejudice. The goods that I was selling were just what the law required, and they bought like mad. I am not going to brood over this affair, for I am sure there are better times coming." The Senators and Representatives seemed to sympathize with the "Colonel," for, on Tuesday morning, when the cigar stand was being moved, the law was placed in a wagon and driven out of sight. Kennedy is well liked by a large majority of the "big bugs" throughout his line, it is always the "Colonel." Under the Dome. Jim Thompson, they say, never gets angry. He always is pleasant to all, and every man of office in the Capitol says Thompson is the goods and looks it. Hark! Hon. Gurley Brewer and A. E. Manning have been seen around the Senate chamber, and of late what on earth can be the matter? Is there anything up or down? Harry Barnett is on the "firing line" at the Senate chamber, and is "delivering the goods" to a king's taste. Monday a discussion arose as to whether Harry was bald-headed or whether it was clean shaven. The question has not been solved. Senator Clark, "the gentleman from Michigan," is wearing that lovable countenance that he wore in 1892 when he put before the Legislature the civil rights bill. He is still the man who is ever ready to champion the Negro's rights in this State. "Where is Manuel Collins now?" the boys are saying all along the stroll. But all you have to do is to go over to the State House to see Manuel any day before his hand in on Indiana lation. Don't think he's going to be a THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER held at of city watts from the Graves, op, was t Zeigl took a few inter-Fowler, charac- e bap, house, Archie Incited dnesday man of lawmaker, but then he has got some interest in it, or he would not be there, because he doesn't get time to smoke that good old pipe that has been almost a life partner to him. Hurrah for Wallace Finley, for he is the cock of the walk. Finley seems to be the leading spirit these days. Finley has won a great reputation for his big efforts using the door. It appears he fought nobly for the Democratic side and he won for them, and they have not forgotten him in the House of Representatives. It's "Finley, what do you want?" and "Finley about that." Mrs. Effie Wilson, whose ever charm-ing graces always make her a much-sought person, is the maid for the full sixty days session of New England legislature. Mrs. Wilson added much attraction to the inaugural day exercises, for if any of her friends came about she made it interesting for them. About all of the most substantial members are acquainted with her, and show high appreciation. THE GRAND-LEADER 338-340E.WASH.ST. Cloak and Skirt Bargains. Cloaks for Women, of black tibet cloth, 50 inches long, braid trimmed; regular $6 values, January Clearance price.....$2.69 Cloaks for Children, of Kersey or Melton cloth, sizes 6 to 14 years; up to $8.00 values. CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY YOUNG MAN PURCHASES PROP- FRTV Special to THE FREEMAN CHICAGO, Ill., January 9—Mr. Guy Allen has purchased a very fine two-story brick residence, containing nine rooms with all modern improvements, at 3655 Forest avenue, for the consideration of Mr. Allen. This is the famous headwaiter, Henry Allen, of 3655 Forest avenue. This goes to show that Mr. Allen is a chip off the old block, as he is only nineteen years old and a taxpayer and saved up every dollar himself. We have a young man along this line. The sale was negotiated through Mr. J. J. Miles. A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT. Miss Yates, of Kansas City, Makes Her Debut. The social whirl of Kansas City during the recent Christmas holidays was dazzling, and its most brilliant event was the debutante party given by a daughter and Miss Yates, the daughter of a daughter Yates, Monday, Dec. 28, at Lyric Hall. Representatives of the best and most exclusive families of the twin cities were—Missouri and Kansas cities and towns, and even from Chicago and New York, lent variety to the occasion. Lincoln High School and the hostess' social secretary, was master of ceremonies. The hall was beautifully decorated with palms, the traditional Christmas green, and a colorful floral arrangement. Lincoln Institute, and the red and blue of Kansas University predated, resulting of course in the national colors, of the national flags, spotless white walls, Japanese shades, the uniform of the orchestra and souvenir program, but also in the national flags, red and blue cups, cheese sandwiches, red pepper and olives, chicken salad and coffee. The orchestra, concealed behind a grove of palms, discoursed delightful strains of music, while here and there charitied lovingly and youthfully in the invaluable and youthful manhood. Four and twenty matrons and maids of honor assisted the hostess, Mrs. Yates, head of the department of English in Lincoln Inventory, in imposing uniform of the grand march, assisted by Major B. E. Watkins of the U. R. K. of P. "The Arbor" was the most intricate of the many steps, three-step, schottische, imperial gavotte, Spanish waltz, etc. in repeated succession. The favors for the ladies was a daintily designed pin to attach to the matron. Mrs Yates, a modest young woman of charming personality, was beautifully but simply attired in an Empire gown of pearl white satin. She is an accomplished musician, a social favorite, was graduated from the Normal Department of Lincoln Institute and is now a sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Kansas, with points to her cre- Numerous and costly gifts of flowers and gifts from a large circle of friends in the twin cities, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Rochester, E., Newport, R. I., New Orleans, etc. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. and Mrs. John Collins, niece and nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson, are in the city visiting, and may make a visit to the Rock Road Company. Lost Creek was in the city a few days visiting his children and friends...Miss Nancy Wilson spent the holidays in Terre Haute, visiting her brother, George, William, and his niece, the Newark. The revival at the A. M. E. Church seems to be growing more interesting. They have had one convert and two additions. The reception at the Free Baptist Church was a two-day event under the management of Prof. Geo. Tompkin...James Woods, one of our young men is is not a member of any church, has pledged himself to contribute to the Rock Road Company. H. C. Williams is home for a few days after being out several months cooking for the Rock Road Company...Mrs. Mati Felton has returned from Abiline, Miss., and reports a nice trip. She had been visiting the Rock Road Company and he is now the father of ten children...Mrs. Kate Holman is quite sick...Mrs. Sarah Spotsville continues ill... LOGANSPORT. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Leo Winslow has returned from Marion and will finish in the high school this fall. He will attend the high school dren of Marion spent a few days in the city last week visiting with her husband, .L. Kilgo and sister of Atlanta, Ga., are guests visiting with his wife, Kilgo. Miss Cella Parker visited in Marion last week. Harry Malone has returned to his work at Culver, Ind., after spending a couple of weeks with his parrents, Carr and Joseph Malone. .Mrs Frank Carr has returned after spending two weeks in Chicago. Business Locals. Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's DrugStore. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by 'phone will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges. Gauld's Pharmacy, New 1178: Old, Main 4032. MEDICAL HALL PHARMACY MEDICAL HALL PHARMACY J. F. McLEAY, Prop. Cloaks for Women, of black thibet cloth, 50 inches long, braid trimmed; regular $6 values, January Clearance price.....$2.69 Cloaks for Children, of Keresy or Melton cloth, sizes 6 to 14 years; up to $8.00 values, January sale price.....$1.98 Skirts for Women, of panama, colors brown, blue and black, plaited styles, trimmed; regular $3.50 values, January sale price.....$1.98 In Blankets and Comforts. CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blodau. druggest. Indianapolis. Ind. FOR RENT Three and four room flats; new building; modern improvements; eight two-dollar bills, to desirable colored tenants. Morales, Jaxon & Bland 350% Indiana Ave. The Freeman is the leading Negro journal. FOR RENT.—Furnished front room, 524 N. West street. WANTED—Colored agents: Good pay. Chowing Card Co. Indianapolis Ind. Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed. 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. Widow, 45 years old, comfortable home, some means, wishes to correspond with christian gentleman 50 or 55 years. Mrs. Anna M. White, box 37, Hope, Idaho. MATRIMONY.—A gentleman in high standing would like to correspond with a cultured young lady. Object matrimony. E. Bittner, R. F. D. 36, Peoria, Ill. Hatch Root & Herb Tonic Price 50 cents, (stamps or money order). The best remedy for Asthma, Catarrh. Colds, Stomach Trouble, Blood, Rheumatism, Kidneys and Dyspepsia. The best for nutrition and good health. Manufactured by ROBERT HATCH, 517 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana Mail orders receive prompt attention. Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS: I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. K. WRIGHTS, SIS. - Hertfordshire, Tenn. (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade makes stubborn, harsh, kinky or curly-hair straight, and removes it consistently and arrange in any style desired together with coat. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless - used with splendid results even on the youngest children. 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