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AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE FREEMAN IS READ BY MORE THAN 100,000 PERSONS EACH WEEK. CAN WE INTEREST YOU? RATES SENT ON APPLICATION. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS VOLUME XXII NUMBER 6 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR IS BEFORE THE COUNTRY Last Week's "Storm Center" Has Shifted-Tyler Defends Himself-Lincoln Day Celebration at Metropolitan Church. Special by Thompson's National News Bu- real reason. SHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.—The SHINGTON issue is fair and squarely before the country. A compromise bill has been drawn upon by the heretofore widely practiced and every Republican member of Congress have agreed to stand together for its passage. The measure, while conding something to each of the heretofore widely practiced all they have been contending for, and should it become a law, the ends of the bill will be under the bill, the cases will be dealt with individually by a commission of expert army officers. The men who can show conclusively that they had the participation in or knowledge of the stiring events of the night of August 13, 1918, without prejudice, and their terms and pay will be considered to have begun at the time of their discharge. The President will review the compromise, but it is not likely that they will fail to approve any of the findings reached by the commission after the deliberation. The compromise will be from all sides went up, and it was hoped that the incident would be happily closed the reins of office on the fourth of March. --- The "storm-center" has evidently shifted. The rumorous atmosphere of last week has cleared, and, comparatively speaking, "all is quiet on the Potomac." A persuasive talk put out during the past month timorous correspondence is a thing of the past, "Black Cabinet," the Mu-So-Lit Club and the inaugural workers have resumed the even tense of their ways. There was not a bottom to the gossip set afloat to produce a day's wonder. A season of sanity is proclaiming itself. The importance is being turned to matters of real importance. Up to date, no "tricksters" have been exposed; no light has been turned to the alleged dark places, and no "foul plot" against any high public officials has been. . . . The Washington Herald, an anti-Roosevelt, anti-Taft and anti-republican local newspaper, took occasion last week to make an annual attack on Auditor Ralph W. Teller's article, which was full of glaring errors attempted to show that the work of the office of Auditor for the Navy was eighteen months behind, causing confusion among the accounting, and disbursing officers of the navy. The fact that the trouble was said to be the fact that the most competent clerks were seeking transcripts to other departments, not caring to serve in the Negro politician from Cincinnati, etc., allowed a feeble case for itself, so it was not FEB 6 1909 Howbeit, in view of the multiplicity of Washington correspondents who are availing themselves of their rightful prerogation, we must be careful not to press the press of the country, and to avoid the confusion that seems to be growing out of anonymous communications that have been published by the son's National News Bureau," your correspondent desires to say here and now that he declares all responsibility for the misuse of his signature, but for nothing else. Our generous readers who have encouraged and inspired us by their confidence and enunciations for a quarter of a century, favor us by keeping this statement in mind. "Lincoln Day" comes on apace. Washington will celebrate it as becomes the community in which resides the largest colored population between the oceans. The university will host the church, Congressman Martin Keifer, of Ohio, and the guard of abolition times, has accepted an invitation to be present and speak. Recorder John W. Dancy, deliver the throng of the church, the charismatic martyred president, and Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church, will address the throng. Prof. Lyle Taylor, the choir of one hundred voices, Dr. William L. Board will recite Lincoln's Gettyburs address, and Prof. Emmanuel Paternoster and Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook will read Lincoln's favorite poem, "Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud, Mr. L. Lincoln?" and the objection of large proportions will be held at Howard University, beginning on Tuesday, February 9, at 10 a.m. M. Senator J. Keifer and others will be on Abraham Lincoln. on February 12, at 10:30 a.m. a, second meeting will be held. Addresses will be made by Speaker Tawney of Minnesota. Hon. J. Warren Keifer and others of prominence. A painting entitled, "The Underground Railroad," will be displayed. The address being by Mr. William E. Curtis, the well known writer and traveler. Special music will be given by the Miss Lulu V. Childers. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler will be the orator of the day at the Lincoln Centenary in the new York, while Prof. W. S. Scarborough, the school president, will speak will be spoken in Brooklyn. assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce goes to Cleveland, as announced, and Register. T. Vernon will fill engagements in Kansas and New York, where local bodies will observe the day in fitting manner. It is suggested by Dr. Booker T. Wernon, and seconded by the press and pulpit of the country, to a very large number of students up for the liquidation of the mortgage on the homestead of the immortal Frederick Douglass, whose memory is inseparably linked with that of the Great Emancipator. The civic organizations of the Negroes will be well represented in the inaugural parade. Announcement is made that the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the world are to be held in the parade, in the local managers a large attendance of this splendid order and a cordial invitation is extended them to be here. Measures are being taken to ensure that the attention for them through the committee on public comfort, of which Mr. Daniel Murray is chairman. Mr. W. E. Hope, Mr. Murray's energetic assistant, is giving special attention to the communications sent to him at the headquarters of the committee, 609 F street, N. W., will receive prompt attention. From the number of letters already in hand, from various sources, the attention will be on hand March 4. The famous Philippine Constabulary Band, which attracted so much attention at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1900, the immense show, has sailed from Manila and will be in the parade, under the direction of Mr. Walter I. Loving, a grandson boy who has made good progress in receiving letters daily from leading men of the several States, announcing their acceptance of the invitation to be members of his staff. Dr. Booker T. Washington's address before the conference for the care of deaf children, his eloquence and convincing logic. He paid especial attention to the dependent children of the South, and urged a stronger effort to provide them in family home, in preference to the public institution, where it was possible to place them in private homes. The future of deaf children of to-day, and Dr. Washington said too much care cannot be taken RECONSTRUCTION FROM WITHIN President-elect William Howard Taft has written Commander Samuel T. Henry, accepting his election as honorary member of the strongest men in the Army and Navy Union. This is one of the youngest garrisons in the Washington department, but has grown to be one of the strongest men most loyal under Henry Taft's instilling borgs. Gen. Buchanan, in whose honor the organization is named, was former commander of a company of the twenty-fourth Army. He also is a member of the garrison and takes a deep interest in its welfare, making frequent visits to the meetings and offering words of advice. He is proud of the showing they are making and does not hesitate to tell them so. The officers of the Buchanan Garrison are: vice commander, John R. Hayes; junior vice commander, Edward Grice; paymaster, George D. Powell; quartermaster, George B. Powell; brown; chaplain, John Thurston; officer of the day, Sylvester Hodge; officer of the guard, Henry Tudy; officer of the watch, Albert Lee. Officers were installed with the Army Garrison Tuesday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall. THE NATION'S CAPITAL IN BRIEF. Dr. W. A. Wraffel has recommended that an addition be built to Freedmen's Hospital, to cost $55,700. The Washington Business League met last Friday evening and began laying plans for an aggressive new year. The Sparta Club, one of the oldest in the District, has been granted its license. J. Burke Edelin is managing the Sparta. Gray & Gray have issued a handsome calendar, bearing a half-tone engraving, in which Misses Gertrude Curtis, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. A. M. Curtis, and Bessie Hope, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. A. M. Curtis, prescribing for a pair of dolls who are ill. It is a highly unique production. Dr. C. Summer Wormley, Washington's favorite dentist, has been elected president of the District of Columbia branch of the National Association of Colored Dentists. Dr. Wormley will head a large and representative next August to the national meeting in Boston. Attorney Gilchrist, Stewart, of New York, is the city's attorney of the Brooklyn jail. He denies the current rumor that he is an aspirant for the Li- berian mission, Hon. J. Milton Turner, of Missouri, is on the ground early. The silver-tongued orator from the 'show-me' State is credited with an ambition to be the next Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. R. W. THOMPSON. A MISTAKEN POLICY. On May 18, 1907, I withdrew from the communion of the African M. E. Church, after serving in her ministry for more than a century in the church, for my action were publicly stated, certain irregularities in the church which I had been discussing for eighteen months previous. Of late, I have been reconsidered and informed of the conclusion that I pursued the wrong policy. First—I was not right nor wise in holding up the weak points of the church to my authority. I devil's work instead of lifting up Christ, I realize that these irregularities have always marred the government of institutions among men, religious as well as civil affairs. I sought to prevent the presence of old remained from within. The outside world cannot correct them. Second—Being wrong in the previous post, I was wrong in leaving the church which I sought to prevent the presence of old remained with Israel, even when condemning her backsliders most bitterly. The great bulk of the preachers and clergy to walk soberly, righteously and godly in this wicked world, and need encouragement rather than condemnation. Must therefore change my policy and return to the church, give my attention to holding up Christ as the pattern and inspiration of men, instead of the faults of His weak followers. I am thankful that, while leaving the church myself, I did not try to lead others out, and as a consequence not one of my warmest personal friends has left the church. I came out without a mark ever having been made against me during my entire ministry, and publicly severed my relation with the church. I wish as publicly to return to the Master's work in the same church. On Sunday, January 24, I publicly joined Quinn Chapel, M. E. Church, Chicago, and most cordially received by both pastor and people. In due course I shall present myself for membership in the conference again. Jan. 27, 1909. 3523 Vernon Ave. Chicago, Ill. DALLAS. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. —Goldsmith in Boston Herald. The thirty-fifth annual anniversary held at St. John Baptist Church, corner Allen and Cochran streets, last week in honor of Dr. Cochran, bought many districtdes. Baptist divinities they enjoyed many courtesies during their stay...Master Hubert Scott is up after a two months' illness...Oscar Crook of the city, where he spent most of his brother on lower Ross avenue....The city street department is busy in the colored district improving the streets and crossings before the rainy season sets in, and the city street department is from our people in the right direction....Mrs. Chas. Newby is home from the city of Houston, where she spent one month in the city, and is taking a course in enlarging pictures of all kinds...Mrs. Annie Brown, once a resident of this city, but now living in Bisbee, Aziz, spent several days in the city, and is coached Tuesday...Mrs. D. V. Hooper is visiting in California for a few weeks. LOGANSPORT. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Joseph Malone entertained seven dinner. On account of the disagreeable weather the ladies did not meet to perform. Mrs. Manuel Newson was very sick last week, but at this writing is much improved after an extended visit in Kokomo. MINFOLA. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. This is the best farming belt in the country...The board meeting was a success. The Big Four store has a carton of new goods and all are welcome to call in. Mrs. H. Tane was very sick last week. The monthly subscriber to take THE FREEMAN JACKSON, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN coral has been visiting Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Jas, Brooks, has returned home to Kalamazoo... The social given under the auspices of the Cornucopia Club Tuesday, Jan. 26, was a grand success, and was nicely entertained by cert orchestra. Summerville al- tered to a very interesting piece. Covers were laid for about seventy-five. LARGE NUMBER GRADUATE TO ENTER HIGH SCHOOL With Headquarters at Douglass Building-Miss Burroughs in New York in Interest of Training School-Notes of Interest. At the Eighth and Kentucky street school, of which Prof. Joseph Cotter is the principal, Prof. Joseph Cotter is it. It was a mixture of songs, recitations and original stories. Original story-writing formed a part of the program. At this time, the school is gotten out by the pupils of the school under the direction of Prof. Cotter. Prof. Cotter is one of the most wide-ranging musicals in the school. It written a number of poems that compare favorably with those of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. A Cotter awarded certificates to Dora Williams, Canary Anderson, Anana King, Elenora Coats and John Spears. The Western School of which Dr. William H. Hale was the principal, exercise the dap of promotion. High-class musical and literary program was given by the pupils of the school and Dr. William H. Hale was the principal, students and visitors. This being the largest public school in the South, it sent the largest number to the High School, criticized to the award of the Christian Board. Anna Bowman, Anna Mae Page, Hulda News, Mary Stone, Mattie Kirkley, Leroy White, W. M. Heron, Henella Jettle, Betty Kelby, Hazel Fry, Wilson, Alma Taylor, Alba Simms, and George Riley. Mrs. Myra Denison, of Chicago, is in the city, the guest of her mother. Mrs. Thomas John of West Chestnut street, has gone to Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. G. P. Hughes, one of Louisville's tallors, spent a few days at his home, Paris, Ky. Miss Alice Thomas, of French Lick Springs, Ind., is expected to be the guest of Miss Carrie Anderson, in a few weeks. Miss Gertrude Payne, one of the most popular girls of French Lick Springs, Ind., is getting the city during the week of Feb. 22. Miss Martha Williams, of Frankfort, Ky., and Mrs. Louise Miller Jewett, of Paris, Ky., are expected here during the week of Feb. 22. Miss Henrietta Warren and sister, entertained with a whistle party last Saturday, at her home, 160 West Broadway street. A large number of friends were present. Some time in March the colored women of the city will have a rally to raise a large crowd. Mrs. Burroughs will head a club to raise $100. Mrs. Susie Russell of 110 N. Floyd street is convalescent. She is the sister of Rachel Campbell of indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Russell is the cousin of Miss Mamie Alkens, who is the attending nurse. Miss Lillian Pope, of the 1903 class, Central High School, was appointed to teach in the school this week. Miss Pope has been at the State University as a teacher for two years. The Cosmopolitan Club is making arrangements to give a lecture on Feb. 12, at the home of one of its members. It is hoped that the affair will be a little more orderly than the last one given. Dr. H. B. Beck, one of the leading physicians of the city has had numerous calls this week on accident cases. Dr. Beck is becoming well known at the City Railway Continued on Page Four. L. T. MONTGOMERY, (Successor to BANNEY L. BREHM) Cor. St. Clair and West Streets. Prescriptions a Specialty. Drugs and drug sundries, toilet articles, Cigars and Tobaccos. Your Trade Solicited. E. W. Tompkins APOTHECARY No substitution. Pure Drugs and Medicines Only. 511 Mass. Ave., - Indianapolis Both Telephones 1074. A. Timberlake, Druggist. Pure Drugs, No Substitution S. W. Cor. College Ave. & 16th St. New Phone 3. MEDICAL HALL PHARMACY Cor. Ill. St. and Ind. Ave. J. F. McLEAY, Prop. Waters Pharmacy SUCCESSOR TO "PEARSON" Prescription Druggist, N. E. Cor. Delaware and Ohio Sts. Phones, Main 88; New 2284. Goods delivered. THE FREEMAN AT BALTIMORE. Special to THE FREEAN. A room secured at any time of 602 South Entan, or Camden Station baggage room. Harry M. Cubbins, representative. The Round=Up A Romance of Arizona Novelized From Edmund Day's Melodrama By JOHN MURRAY and MILLS MILLER. Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dilling- ham Co. (CONTINUED.) The rancman quickly thrust the missive into his pocket. The injustice of Bud's reflections on his former actions gave to his uneasy conscience just that pretext he desired for justifying his present course. His cause being weak and unworthy, he whipped up his indignation by adopting a high tone and overbearing manner, even demeaning himself by using his position as Bud's employer to crush the younger man. Indeed, at the end of the scene which ensued he had well high convinced himself that he had been most ungratefully treated by Bud while sincerely attempting to save the boy from the companionship of a fiend in human guise. "No matter who told me, young man," he exclaimed. "I got it straight, and you can take it straight from me. You either give up Buck McKee or leave water ranch. Snake in the grass" he cried, working himself up into false passion. "It is you, ungrateful boy, who are sinking the serpent's tooth into the hand that would have helped you. I tell you now that I intended to make you foreman, though Sagebrush Charley is an older and better man. It was for Dick's sake I would have done it." "No," Bud burst forth, "for your guilty conscience's sake. It would have been to pay for stepping into Dick's place in the heart of a faithless girl. Keep your job. I'm through with you." And, leaping on his horse, Bud rode furiously back to rejoin Buck McKee in Florence. Jack Payson's purpose was now clenched to suppress Dick Lane's letter until Echo Allen was irrevocably joined to him in marriage. He argued with himself that she loved him, Jack Payson, yet so loyal was she by nature that if Dick Lane returned before the wedding and claimed her she would sacrifice her love to her sense of duty. This would ruin her life, he reasoned, and he could not permit it. There was honesty in this argument, but he vitiated it by deferring to act upon the suggestion that naturally arose with it: Why, then, not take Jim Allen, Echo's father, to whom her happiness was the chief purpose in life, into confidence in regard to the matter? There will be time enough to tell the colonel before the wedding, he thought. In the meantime something might happen to Dick, and he may never return. He is certain not to get back ahead of his money. After the time that the note secured by the mortgage fell due the young ranchman had already secured two extensions of it for three months each. He now arranged a third and began negotiation for the sale of some of his cattle to take up the note at the next time of payment. "I can't take the money from Dick," he thought, "even if he does it to me, and yet if refuse it it will be like buying Echo—'paying for stepping into Dick's place' as Bud expressed it. What to do I don't know. Well, events will decide." And by this favorite reflection of the moral coward Jack Payson marked the lowest depths of his degradation. That afternoon Payson rode to Allen Hacheda to see Echo and to sound her upon her feelings toward Dick Lane. He wished thoroughly to convince himself that he. Jack Payson, held com- pete sway over her heart. Perhaps he might dare to put her love to the test and fulfill the trust his friend had imposed on him by giving her Dick's letter. Payson overtook Polly riding slowly on her way home from Florence. She barely greeted him. "Has she met Bud, and has he been slurring me?" he thought. He checked his pacing horse to the half trot, half walk, of Polly's mount and, ignoring her incivility, began talking to her. "Did you see Bud in Florence?" Do you see Bud in Florence? "Yep. Couldn't help it. Him an' Buck McKee are about the whole of Florence these days." "Too bad about Bud consorting with that rustler. I've had to fire him for it." "Fire him? Well you are a good friend! Talk about men's loyalty! If women threw men down that easy you all would go to the bowwows too fast for us to make dog biscuit. Now, I've settled Buck McKee's hash by puttin' Slim Hoover wise to that tongue slittin'. Oh, I'll bring Bud around, all right, all right, even if men that ought to be his friends go back on him." But, Ponykins — "Don't you girlie me, Jack Payson. I'm a woman, an' I’m goin’ to be a married one, too, in spite of all you do to Bud. Yes, sirree, bob! I’ve set out to make a man of him, an’ I’ll marry him to do it if he ain’t a dollar to his name. But money ‘d make it lots quicker an’ easier. He was savin’ up till he run in with Buck McKee." A sudden thought struck Payson. Here was a way to dispose of Dick Lane’s money when it came. "All right, Mrs. Bud Lane to be, Promise not to tell Bud, and through you I'll soon make good to him many times over the foreman's wages he's lost. It's money that's coming from an enterprise that his brother and I were partners in, and Bud shall have Dlek's share. He's sore on me now, and I can't tell him. Besides, he'd gamble it away before he got it to Buck McKee. Bud isn't strictly ethical in regard to money matters, Polly, and you must manage the exchequer." "Gee, what funny big words you use, Jack! But I know what you mean—he's too free handed. Well, he'll be savin' as a trade rat until we get our home paid for. An' I'll manage the checker business when we're married. No more poker an' keno for Bud. Thank you, Jack. I always knew you was square." Polly's sincere praise of his "squareness" was the sharpest thrust possible at Payson's guilty conscience. Well, he resolved to come as near being square and level as he could. He had told half truths to Bud and Polly; he would present the situation to Echo as a possible though not actual one. If Polly were wrong and Echo loved him so much that she would break the word she pledged to Dick Lane, then he would confess all, and they would do what could be done to make it right with the discarded lover. Echo, observing from the window who was Polly's companion, ran out to Jack, with a cry of joy. He looked meaningly at Polly. She said: "Oh, give me your bride! I know how many's a crowd." Jack leaped to the ground and took Echo in his arms, while Polly rode off with the horses to the corral, singing significantly: "Spoon, spoon, spoon, While the dish ran away with the spoon." Jack and Echo embraced clingingly and kissed lingeringly, "It takes a crazy old song like that to express how foolish we lovers are," said Jack. "Why, I feel that I could outfiddle the cat, outjump the cow, outlaugh the dog and start an elopement that would knock the performance of the tableware as silly as—well, as I am talking now. I'm living in a dream—a mid-summer night's dream such as you were reading to me." "The lunatic, the lover and the poet," quoted Echo suggestively. Dusk was falling. From the bunk house rose the tinkling notes of a mandolin. After a few preliminary chords the player, a Mexican, began a love song in Spanish. The distant chimes of mission bells sounded softly on the evening air. A Jack and Echo sat down upon the steps of the plaza. Jack continued the strain of his thought, but in a more serious vein. "Echo, I'm so happy that I am frightened." "Frightened?" she asked wonderingly. A lovesong in Spanish. "Yes, scared—downright scared," he answered. "I reckon I'm like an Indian. An Indian doesn't believe it's good medicine to let the gods know he's big happy, for there's the thunder bird"— "The evil spirit of the storm," continued Jack. "When the thunder bird hears a fellow saying he's big happy he sends him bad luck." Echo laid her hand softly on the mouth of her sweetheart. "We won't spoil our happiness, then, by talking about it. We will just feel it—just be it." She laid her head upon Jack's knee. He placed his arm lightly, but protectingly, over her shoulder. They sat in silence listening to the Mexican's love song. Finally Jack bent over and whispered gently in her ear: "Softly, so the thunder bird won't hear. Echo, tell me you love me; that you love only me; that you will always love me, no matter what shall happen; that you never loved until you loved me." Echo sat upright with a start. "What THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER do you mean?" she 'excalimed. "OI course I love you and you only, but the future and the past are beyond our control. Unless you know of something that is going to happen which may mar our love your question is silly, not at all like your Mother Goose nonsense—that was dear. And, as for the past, you mean Dick Lane." "Yes, I mean Dick Lane," confessed Payson in a subdued tone. "I am jealous of him—that is, of even his memory." "That is not like Jack Payson. What has come over you? It is the shadow of your thunder bird. You know what my feeling was for Dick Lane and what it is, for it remains the same, the only difference being that now I know it never was love. Even if it were he is dead, and I love you, Jack—you alone. Oh, how you shame me by forcing me to speak of such things! I have tried to put poor Dick out of my mind, for every time I think of him it is with a wicked joy that he is dead, that he cannot come home to claim me as his wife. Oh, Jack, Jack, I didn't think it of you!" And the girl laid her face within her hands on her lover's knee and burst into a fit of sobbing. Jack Payson shut his teeth. "Well, since I have lowered myself so far in your esteem and since your mind is already slamming against Dick Lane we might as well go on and settle this matter. I promise I will not mention it again. But I, too, have troubles of the mind. I am as I am, and you ought to know it. I said I was jeafous of Dick Lane's memory. It is more. I am jealous of Dick Lane himself. If he should return, would you leave me and go with him—as his wife?" Again she sat upright. By a strong effort she controlled her sobbing. "The man I admired does not deserve an answer, but the child he has proved himself to be and whom I cannot help loving shall have it. Yes; If Dick Lane returns true to his promise I shall be true to mine." She arose and went into the house. Payson rode homeward through the starlight consumed by torturing jealousy. He now had no thought of confiding in Jim Allen. He regretted that he had touched so dangerously near the subject of Dick Lane's return in talking to Bud and Polly. His burning desire was to be safely married to Echo Allen before the inevitable return of her former lover. "Fool that I was not to ask her one more question. Would she forgive her husband where she would not forgive her lover? What will she think of me when all is discovered, as it surely will be? Well, I must take my chances. Events will decide." On his return to Sweetwater ranch he put the place in charge of his new foreman, Sagebrush Charley, and went out to a hunting cabin he had built in the Tortilla mountains. Here he fought the problem over with his conscience—and his selfishness won. He returned, fixed in his decision to suppress Dick Lane's letter and to go ahead with the marriage. CHAPTER IV RIDING hard into Florence from Sweetwater ranch, Bud Lane hunted up Buck McKee at his favorite gambling joint and in a white heat of indignation informed him in detail of everything that had passed between Payson and himself. At once McKee inferred that the writer of the letter was none other than Dick Lane. Realizing that Payson was already informed of his villainy and that in a very short time Dick Lane himself would make his appearance on the Sweetwater, the half breed concluded to make a bold move while he yet retrained the confidence of Bud. "Bud," he said. "I know the man who is sendin' the money to Payson. It's Dick, ver brother." "But," stammered Bud, his brain whirling, "but if that's so you lied about the Apaches killing him—and you—why, you—must have been the renegade, the devil who tortured prospectors." "Why, Bud. Dick never wrote all that dime novel nonsense about the man who stood by him to—well, not the very last, fer Dick has managed somehow to pull through. Probably he wuz saved by the rurales that wuz chasin' the band that rounded us up. No; it's Payson, Jack Payson, that made up that pack uv lies 'jes' to keep you away from me, the man that wuz last with Dick, an' so may get on to Jack's game an' block it." "Game! What game?" asked Bud, bewildered. "Why, you told me it yerself—to marry Dick's girl an' live on Dick's hard earned money." "But Dick borrowed the three thousand of Jack" objected Bud. "Well, the dollars he borrowed have all gone, hain't they? And the money he's sendin' back Dick dug out uv the ground by hard work, didn't he? Leastaways, Payson hadn't ort to use the money to rope in Dick's girl. It ort to be kep' from him, anyhow, till Dick comes on the ground his own self. That'd hold up the weddin', all right, if I know Josephine. It'd be easy to steer her into refusin' to let Echo go into a mortgaged home." Simple minded Bud readily accepted the wily half breed's explanations and surmises and fell into the trap he was preparing. This was to hold up the express agent and rob him of the money Payson was expecting, on securing which it was McKee's intention to flee the country before Dick Lane returned to denounce him. To ascertain just when the money came into the agent's hands and to act as a cover in the robbery itself an accomplice was needed. For this purpose no man in all the sweetwater region was better adapted than Bud Lane. Frank and friendly with every one, he would be trusted by the most suspicious and cautious official in Pinal county. The fact that he had chosen Buck McKeen as an associate had already gone far to rehabilitate this former "bad man" in the good graces of the community. Under cover of this friendship McKeen hoped to escape suspicion of any kind in the homicide he contemplated. For it was murder—foul, unprovoked murder—that was in the black soul of the half breed. He intended to incriminate Bud so deeply as to put it beyond all thought that he would confess. Young Lane, passionately loyal to his brother, was ready for anything that would delay Payson's marriage to Echo Allen. Together with the wild joy that sprang up in his heart at the thought that his brother was alive was intwined a violent hatred against his former employer. In the fierce turbulence within his soul, generated by the meeting of these great emotions, he was impelled to enter upon a mad debauch, in which McKee abetted and joined him. Filling up on bad whisky, they rode through the streets of Florence vell- PARKER Yelling and shooting their guns like crazy men. ing and shooting their guns like crazy men. It was while they were engaged in this spectacular exhibition of horsemanship, gun play and vocalization that Bud's sweetheart rode into town to execute some commissions in preparation for Echo Allen's wedding. Already "blue" over the thought that her own wedding was far in the dim future, poor Polly was cast into the depths of despair and disgust by the drunken riot in which her prospective husband was indulging with her particular aversion, the cruel, calf torturing half breed, McKee. Thoroughly mortified, she slipped out of town by a side street and moodily rode back to Allen Hacienda. A WAIL FROM A PESSIMIST. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 19, 1909. Mr. Editor: Sir—In this twentieth century what is to become of the Negroes in America, these United States? As a people, don't you know that they are fast losing out in all things as humans? Don't you know that as a people among people, that with all of their skilled labor and education, that they are not in it and are going backward instead of forward? What is the outlook for the Negro race here today? Solve this problem, please, or let the people in general answer it. Have you ever thought or stopped to think of their present condition? Don't you know that they are almost shut out of doors and barred from the business avenues of life? Don't you know that the foreigners are wiping the Negroes off of the face of the earth, taking their jobs, their work and filling their places in all avocations of life? What has become of the Negro since emancipation? Two-thirds of the American people have dropped them, and the majority rules. Therefore, sir, what of their future and the Negroes' destiny? Please publish in your paper and oblige JOSEPH W. S. BANKS. Here is a case of pessimism gone to seed. He sees things as through a glass darkly. In his alarms he has said some things that indicate that he has been thinking, although in a groove. He has been meditating all alone, permitting stagnation of thought, because he has shut off the means of the great current of thought that should influence his own. His thought receptacles need a good flushing. Perhaps we might have spoken of Mr. Banks in different language, but had we have done so the meaning would have been the same. An inking of truth is scattered about in what Mr. Banks says, but nothing like the whole truth. The Negroes are losing out in some fields of labor where they should not lose out, since they are especially fitted to do certain kinds of work. Hotel work and its likes, that of barber, porter, where the pay is very good despite the titles of the situations, seem to be passing, and simply because too many prefer to be third-rate professional people. The small pay and the lack of fitness are against some of the professions at this time. The tendency has been to disregard the commoner occupations in favor of the chosen ones, so much so until it has attracted attention. The result has been displacement in the interest of the white people. However, what has been lost in one direction has been gained in another. But there is no reason why the colored people should not hold their own in either situation. The commoner situations are much more remunerative. Those that would be discarded are actually the best in a money sense. The race seems to be going backward in the esteem of the white people only. And this is not really what it seems. In the past a sort of general guardianship was exercised owing to the pitiful condition of the race. There was a preponderance of what may be termed animal love; as the individual loves his horse, feeds it, protects it. The Negroes were not supposed to reach up and actually compete for the very best things of life, measuring and being measured as the white people. When this condition was manifest the white people put them on their merits, withdrew the patronization, and in consequence of which the Negroes feel the loss of that warm and comforting support; they practically stand alone. The fact is in their favor to some extent—the making of them. They must swim or sink, survive or perish; the sustaining hand as it has been best known is withdrawn. The Negroes are yet making it in Bauleond laque opi 10 arm omos that they are not cut off from any- thing beyond the erstwhile favoritism. As much money as formerly does not seem to flow to the race, and owing to the loss of many of the situations spoken of, They are, however, generally employed. They will be found in a hundred pursuits today to one of several years ago, taking their chances with white men. They have set up stores and shops and seem fairly content with the meager wage earned over and above expenses. Really the small shops and stores are the right places under the circumstances. There are opportunities. A people do not need more than opportunity. Then there is the farm, with its great diversity of employment. There is no such thing as losing out unless the race so wills it. If it is bent on fine notions, fine jobs that it did not make possible, the chances are it will get just what it deserves. No race is so happily situated as the Negro's for making it in the world. It is not persona grata to much of the affairs by white people. Yet it is not in a sense restricted; it may do things similar. If it fails we can not see that the white people are in fault. The white people have no particular love for the Negroes; many have respect, regard, appreciation. It is to them that we are obligated for our daily bread, as little as we think of it and as little as we may get. If they were of a mind they could really make conditions hard for the Negroes. Japanese and Chinese are not expected in the country in large numbers. The Negroes are here by the millions. No one thinks of them leaving. In the South the man that seeks to have the Negroes leave for other sections is not looked on with favor. But it is a long story; too long and too important for hasty treatment. Sufficient to say at present that Mr. Banks has not taken proper inventory. We do not know what tomorrow may bring forth, but we know that the fate of the future, as suggested by the outlook today, is totally within the keeping of the race. BRAWN AT A PREMIUM. The unheard-of nurse of $110,000 is now being offered for the Johnson-Jeffries fight. Intellect doubtless is dazed over this great valuation of brawn. Intellect has no legitimate way of making so much money within the given time. Yet there are two sides to the story. The inevitable rule is that which comes easily goes easily, whether it refers to wealth or "capital." Capital in this instance is brawn. The pugilist might write it Johnson & Co., Ltd., or Jeffries & Co., Ltd. In a few years the best must retire in the face of coming victors; crowded to the ropes they all in time will be, in a very short time. Their time is limited. Ten years of fighting and the most valiant retires. John Sullivan, when scarcely forty years, was old for the arena. The princely sums he received for fighting were spent as a matter of keeping up with his importance. Some may do better, some may not do so well, but he is a pretty fair type of the sportsman's gait. They are big, whole-souled fellows—built that way—those fighters. Gans felt it his duty to give a round hundred dollars to the Italian sufferers. They all think money in the big, make it in the big, spend it in the big. But when the ten years of usefulness are up the stars of the ring have about run the extent of their usefulness. What then? A few wiser ones judiciously invested their earnings and when the after years inquire after them they will answer with heads above the waves. Not the many, however; simply the few—the exceptions to the rule. In the meanwhile slow, dull, plodding intellect holds on, holds out, takes its time. It is fairly without limitations. Three score years and ten may find it hale and hearty, enjoying the favor and earnings of the earlier days. Forty years of good service are not unusual before decrepitude begins its deadly mission. In the meanwhile the wants and needs have been moderate. So in the end intellect has played the part of the turtle that ran the race with the hare and won out. SELMA. ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to THE FREEMA building is nearing completion, as is the Federal building. Each will be an ornament to the section in which it is located..Major D. M. Scott, the newly appointed postmaster, we are the major office on our side. The major is a first-class business man, and well liked by all who know him. The retiring postmaster has held the office for twenty-two years, and has been a school teacher for weeks and many think it has come to stay. The greater part of our people favor prohibition..The graduates of the city representing the different schools have organized sole- deal schools..The Tanaduga Society had an interesting meeting last week at the home of Mrs. Sims. 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Send money by express money order, post- office money order or registered letter. Agents wanted in every town and city not municipal and liberal indemnities will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary indemnities. ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Base of measure—solid agate. M lines to an in. $272 lines in a column of $120. M lines to an in. $120. Advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business cards. Reservation discount for long time and reasonable. Reservation 106 per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. New Phone 2880. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1909. In the return of Rev. Graham to his first love, the A. M. E. Church, will the fattening calf be slain? The weatehr of a few days of the recent past is, in earnest, what it might be. A little easy at this writing. It is to be hoped the wave of shooting and killing is over. The town is not ready to turn over to "thugdom." The centenary of Abraham Lincoln will be observed by the colored people of Indianapolis under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Let the Frederick Douglass Association take the proper steps in the homestead preservation matter. The pennies, nickels and dimes will come in all right. The National Negro Business League is one of those silent, yet potent, factors that is doing much in shaping Negro affairs in the right direction. The "fun" is on. A bill before the Legislature having for its object higher license, a reduction of drinking places and the repeal of the present local option laws. It has been expected for some time. A Negro bank is on the taps for Louisville, Ky. That city has not kept pace with its opportunity in the past. It, however, at this time shows signs of breaking over the older order of things. The new regime is in the saddle, and the Negro contingent is geeting a move on. We rise to say that the money necessary for defraying the indebtedness of the Frederick Douglass home can be had if the committee will go after it in the right way. The colored people are willing to aid in perpetuating the memory of the great Douglass. A little more clemency in the Brownsville business and the thing will be over. The public is tired, real tired, of it, yet its finish is no where in sight. We just as well admit that the game is spiked against the Negroes. A President, Senate committee and two courts in opposition ought to look something like formidability. Mr. H. T. Pratt, of the Business League of Baltimore, in an address to the league recently, spoke of the terrible financial consequences that would follow the withdrawal of the 30,000 Jews from that city. He wished to emphasize the fact that the withdrawal of 100,000 Negroes would not mean usarly so much. It was a big lesson in little. Don't forget that a certain per cent of the Negroes is due on the farms, in agricultural pursuits. The diversity of labor calls for such a program among all peoples, and most especially is it so regarding Negroes. The doctor, the lawyer, the professional men of all description will fare better when the "laity" has thoroughly cared for its opportunity. "I stand ready to go with the whites today right into hell to protect a woman, white or black, against a fiend," said Bishop E. W. Lampton, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in his charge to the Louisiana conference of his church recently. "Womanhood must be protected; let us do our part." We hope the bishop has in mind going to hell legally. Let the despoiler go to hell legitimately. The law's ends will have been subserved and he is not without his hell. Cardinal Gibbons has expressed himself as against suffrage laws made especially for the benefit of a single race. He does not oppose election tests, but they should apply to all alike, white people or Negroes. The position is ideal, squaring with the constitution, and such as is approved by the well-thinking people throughout the country. Indeed, the South claims to do that very thing—presenting a test for all. It fails not in the letter, but in the spirit, limiting by a system of evasion or invention. The guillotine, the old instrument of execution, has been revived in France. It was a great factor in the revolutionary days of France, when the wagons filled with victims awaited their turn. It seems cruel in this far-away day, but perhaps it were a war necessity. It will live in history, coexistent with the bastile—one a swift and merciful engine of death, the other a soul-wrecking, marrow-severing pest-house, that the world yet rejoices to see come tumbling down stone after stone. The guillotine is loved none too well, as merciful as it may be; it suggests a slaughter pen. But no mode of punishment is pleasant. Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, worked this off in the Senate the other day; "For the last twelve months the country has been regaled with an exhaustive and learned argument as to whether or not the President of the United States had the right to discharge a lot of kinky-headed niggers from the army who, in a drunken riot, shot up a helpless and defenseless people." And very little "relevancy it bore" to the question he was discussing—just had to say it. In the time of war these same kinky-heads will look like a band of angels. A colored labor agent of New Gassony, Ark., tells of an attempt to lynch him in Louisiana because he was preparing to take laborers out of the district. The effort to lynch Jones, the agent, was a bold, bad plot. Some g, ooohd-etaoa1 shrdlu emfwmpfwfy good, however, resulted of the attempt to put him out of commission. It is plain that the Negro workman is wanted right where he is regardless of whatever wrongs he may endure. To be preferred as a workman is a great recommendation. The South prefers the colored man, and looks with ill grace on those who would take him from his present fields. Judging by the beautiful-calendar circulated by colored business men, prosperity has set in for them. The idea is good, according to human nature. "He that hath also will it be given unto him, while he that hath not that which he seemeth to have will be taken from him." Excerpts from the veda of our common life and of yet more ancient authority. In short, one must make a noise like prosperity if he would succeed greatly. Pity is given in adversitq very often, but somehow it is not much associated with the material side. He that excites our pity, ordinarily speaking, fails to excite our pocketbooks. REV. DR. D. A. GRAHAM RE-ENTERS THE FOLD. The A. M. E. Church will be pleasurably startled to know that Rev. D. A. Graham, D. D., has rejoined the church of his first choice. He broke with the church a few years ago because he was opposed to some of the methods in the ministry and in the church generally. He set himself aside as a reformer, wrote many articles and letters supporting his views and accusations. These in the most part reached the papers, giving him wide publicity. Dr. Graham was popular with the brethren and with the bishops, a man of ability and of piety, insuring him always the best churches in the connection. He was at one time pastor of Bethel Church of Indianapolis. His pulpit manner was of a calm order, dignified, not at all demonstrative. His language was chaste and elegant, although he did not seem to care to be eloquent in the most accepted sense. If any fault at all was apparent it was perhaps that of an overemphasis on his virtue. The erstwhile recalcitrant has written a letter asking in a manner mercy of the church and forgiveness for his recalcitrancy or his "rebeldom," virtually exclaiming, "peccavit"—I have sinned. He will enter the fold with an humble, contrite heart, holding it better to sit on the doorsteps of the house of the Lord than dwell in the tents of the wicked. More than likely the church will welcome back the distinguished Graham. It needs the services of able, God-fearing men. They may not be so popular of the moment, but better for the church in the long run. INDIANA AND THE NEGRO BUSI NESS LEAGUE. Reviewing the account of the meeting of the executive board of the National Negro Business League held recently with Booker T. Washington, the president, at Tuskegee, gives rise to a query as to in just what degree Indiana is practically related to this great national movement among the colored people of this country. The object of the league, expressed and understood, is to inspire commercial and material progress among colored people, in which particular, according to reports furnished by member of the board attending the late meeting, the league is, in a general sense, succeeding. For instance, for Mr. J. C. Napier, chairman of the board, when the league was organized in 1900 there were only two colored banks, and at present, in less than ten years since the National League's organization, there are forty or more, and to an encouraging degree business enterprises in many of the leading commercial lines have been started in various parts of the country. These influences have been more directly set in motion by local leagues, which are supposed to be in active operation in about all of the States largely populated by colored people. Reports like these, when accepted in toto, inspire a pardonable gratification at such achievements in the aggregate, and only when we turn to a consideration of the part, as States, we are playing in this roseate summary, does the blatant truth—the unvarnished facts—present themselves for our consideration. Since, as it were, the beginning of the National League movement, Indiana has, by her sympathy and general interest in the project, been well in the forefront. By the cordial invitation of Indianapolis colored citizens, coupled with that of the Governor, the State and municipal officers, the National League was the guest of the city of Indianapolis in 1904, and its entertainment was such as was conceded to reflect credit upon the city also. Each succeeding convention of the National League has had Indiana representatives among its visitors, and yet, de- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER spite all this showing of general fealty to the cause represented by the league, truth compels us to admit that an interest which displays itself in the organization and the fostering of local leagues, which are regarded as the mainspring to the larger action, has been almost, if not totally, lacking. We cannot regard the several spasmodic outbursts of league enthusiasm which have preceded specific events as indicating zeal, bearing a commendable stamp, or such as is calculated to work much benefit to its professed object. As an illustration of this, a league spasmodically organized in Indianapolis, about two years ago, has not had a meeting for nearly two years, and this is the only recent attempt at organization. There may be similar situations existing in other cities in Indiana, provided, however, that local leagues have ever been organized in them, of which fact, if true. The Freeman has no knowledge. These conditions, as was said in the beginning, compel us to seek to know our actual active relation to the National body. When we say "our," we mean, first, the city of Indianapolis, with its upwards of 40,000 colored people and, secondly, the great State of Indiana, which has held a place in every field of noble endeavor—in statecraft, literature, the military field, music and art—that has reflected credit upon her and has earned for her an enviable reputation at home and abroad The coming of the next National convention to Louisville, which is at our very threshold, should arouse in the breast of every loyal member of the race an anxiety to measure arms in our effort to contribute real material aid to the development of the National League with any other State in the Union. This cannot be hoped for under the lethargic conditions now existing in this State, conditions which we feel we cannot hope to have remedied until they are revealed. LYNCHBURG, VA. Special to THE FREEMAN KALAMAZOO, MICH. Mrs. Quince Black of Dayton, O., was called home on account of her husband's illness. Herbert Hall and his lady friend were in Battle Creek and attended the annual festival. The maker of this city, has returned from a hunting trip in the northern part of the State. Wm. Williams of Andrew Diehls' barber shop celebrated his birthday in Dayton on April 10. He ordered quartet, billed at the Majestic Theatre this week and made a decided hit. SHERMAN, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. Copies of THE FREEMAN hereafter will be found on sale at the following places only: Mrs. G. W. Hume's cafe, 419 1-2 Eldridge, Mrs. G. W. Hume's Messrs. Jas, Carson & Elmer Williams torsorial parlors..Little Eva May Thomas, the month and two days old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thomas, died last week. Mrs. G. W. Hume's West Hill Cemetery on the 23d., Mrs. O. W. Porter, Mrs. G. W. English and Miss Myrtle Robinson are organizing a new movement class in St. John C. M. E. school, a Web Design class and respected citizen, died here Jan. 24 after an illness of several months. He was a very skilled carpenter. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. W. Hume, school, D. J. Crawford at St. John C. M. E. Church. Interment at West Hill Cemetery. LAWRENCE, MASS. William Lloyd Garrison Lodge No. 20. K of P., of E. and W. H., will give their lives to the victims. William will be held Thursday evening, Feb. 25 at Saunders Hall. The committee on arrangements is as follows: F. D. Lane, harrman A. F. E. Evans, R. Mitchell A. L. Hamilton, E. Brown, C. H. Stewart, J. W. Smith, J. E. Allston, W. M. Hazard and R. Tailfero MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN The A. M. E. revival has closed after three weeks and a half of meetings. The meetings were quite a success with twelve additions. Rec. J. W. White preached an afternoon Sunday morning in the verts...The Free Will Baptists have closed their revival with a success, and the Missionary Baptists have also closed their meeting...Wm. C. Felton had a meeting on Saturday in the stove explosion...The Y. P. C. Club of Free Baptist Church held their first annual masquerade at Felton's Hall Friday night. The Missionary Church held a few days in the city with friends...The King David Relief Corps will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham on Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. Church in Harlem. The priest appointed an agent of THE FREEMAN. Persons knowing themselves to be indebted to H. J. Thompson for THE FREEMAN is nursing an applauded ankle stock list are Silas Johnson, Emma Glover, Bettie Purchman, Rufus Hall and Mrs. Kanye Jones Hannon...Henry Yaney of Macy's Illini Jewelry few days in the city the guest of H. J. Thompson and family. Jan. 31 was the second quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. Church. Presiding Elder Rev. H. Allen was here and he preached two fine sermons and several meetings that have been going on at the have been successful and a number have been converted...Mrs. H. Owen entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of a 6 o'clock of Poet's Covers were laid for twelfth. Mrs. Owen son of Grand Rapids, who have been helping in the meeting at the A. M. E. Church, have returned to their home.... Mrs. Gritage gave a wristband in in-house, and a Mrs. Fisher of Toledo, O. C. covers were laid for twenty. LOST RELATIVE. I wish to find out the whereabouts of my brother, Willie Williams, whom I have taken to the hospital a time that traveled with Cole Bros. choreo. My maiden name was Mary B. Williams. My request was to request Address Mrs. Mary G. Colbert, General Delivery, Oklahoma City, Okla. SCHOOL EXERCISES HELD Concluded from Page One. office where he applies for claims for his patients. The Woman's Auxiliary to the local Negro Business League met last week and elected the following officers: Mrs. J. B. Cooper, president; Miss N. H. Burroughs, vice-president; Miss Pearl White, secretary and Mrs. C. H. Parish, treasurer. Mr. William J. Calery, of Frankfort, Ky., is in the city and is the printer for the Kentucky Standard. Mr. Calary is a chartered carpenter, expected of the coming editions of the Standard. The Standard chops, no matter where the chips fly. Miss Georgia Carter, the efficient clerk of the Eastern School is proving quite an adept in her office work. Miss Carter is the only woman in the city employed at such a position and she also teaches night school in the same building. Exercises will be held at the California School of which Miss Lucy Du Valle is principal, on February 11. The exercises are longer than the stories of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Cary B. Lewis has been invited by the principal to be the speaker to deliver a short address. Mr. Thomas Cole reports that he will have two Chinese to cook for him at the Pekin café. This means that the people in the café can get some of the best cooking in the city. They will come direct from Chicago. They will be experienced chefs and no doubt Mr. Cole will do fine business. An effort is now being made by about twenty of the most well to do white women of the city to help Cross Sanitarium, which has a burdened debt. They hope to raise it by February 12. These women are calling upon the people at large and most likely the sum will be raised. Already $400 has been subscribed. The Dancing Academy which meets every Tuesday night at Odd Fellows Hall is making preparations to give the Williams and Walker company a grand reception. The city. The whole company will be urged to attend and late music will be introduced as well as dances. Messrs. George Evans and Larry are managers of the dancing school. Final arrangements have been completed for Lincoln centenary anniversary celebration. Lawyer N. R. Harper will be master of ceremonies and Judge Wheeler will be the chairman of the speakers will be on the programme. The exercises will take place from the Chestnut street Methodist church. The citizens are cordially invited to be present on the occasion. There will be special music by members of the various choirs of the city. Mr. George Slaughter, the agent of THE FREEMAN wishes to thank his many friends who purchase the paper from him every day. He thanks the people for the calculation here of any colored paper in the city. This is due to the large amount of news given from Louisville in these columns, the reliability of THE FREEMAN and the hustling qualities of its agent. Performers will be present for any vertising, see Mr. Slaughter. He will also take news items. Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy celebrated their forty-seven marriage anniversary last week at their home, 1923 West Broadway. The affair was a surprise and it was well received. The affair was the night of the Italian Trible and Miss Marie Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy are two of the most widely known people in the city and have been the night of the anniversary, there was a beautiful table set for the occasion and it was loaded with delicacies of the season. The Young Men's Progressive League met las week at the office of Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore and elected the following officers: Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, president; Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, secretary; James Black, treasurer and Thomas Cole, chairman of the Board of directors. The club decided on motion of the constitution so that they could begin immediately to rent a place of meeting. The outlook is very bright for a meeting house. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs left last week for New York City, where she addressed the members of the Abyssinian church and the students for a month and will make a number of addresses in the interest of the National Training School for Girls. While away in Washington, she will be in Douglass Calendar which she is promoting. For a real common sense and intelligent speaker, Miss Burroughs, says the London school she attended be in Washington, D. C. her home, where the National Training School is located. Guy W. Smith, Jr., the young son of Mr. Rochelle Smith, the well known furniture mover and packer, died Sunday morning at the Central High School, eighteen years of age and a student at the Central High School and a member of the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School. He was a boy in the city and was known for his politeness and good nature. He was the grandson of Guy W. Smith, the oldest furniture packer in the city. The funeral held at the Fifth Street Baptist church. The political pot is beginning to boil. Prominent men are looming up for the mayoralty nomination. Of the candidates nominated with him, Mr. Roger H. Burlingame. He is a newspaper man of large experience and desk editor on the Lousiana newspaper. He is a candidate for the legislature of the 51st Dist. and if we were in his ward, would sure cast a vote for him. He is imbibed with that fair and kind man. He is a candidate for the son" and is destined to become a leading figure in the history of Kentucky. We wish the gentleman success in his race for the nomination. . . . The memorial services in memory of the late Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, at the late Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, at the last Sunday attracted a very large number of communicants of the church. It was through Bishop Dudley that the presbyterian church purchased, and up to the time of his death, he showed interest in the education and evangelization of the colored people of this city. The Rev. Leroy Ferguson, censor of the church preached the memorial sermon. He spoke of the bishop's marked ability to work in the interest of Episcopalians and his charismachhip of the House of Bishops. come together and have a push and a shove and some more real active work in behalf of a High School, at no distant time such an important institution. While we are subscribing in the campaign for a new Berea and we are not positive where it is to be located. It is a place where we want to be for a High School here. We need a High School and we need it badly. Every Negro organization in the city should show some spirit of help in this matter. There is no new school for our children and our children's children. It is to be hoped that the ministers and business men of the city will help us to be a new school for our children and our children's children. It is to be hoped that the ministers and business men of the city will help us to be a new High School and other things that are necessary for an up to date public institution. The addition of Reverend Gorham and the Reverend Hannum to the pulpits of the city and those who are here already, Louisville points with pride to its refined and well-educated Revs. Pierre Ferguson Frank, Anderson son, Parrish, Jordan, Brown, Allen and others, the citizens of this city have the very highest respect. When these ministers call for contributions, the people their age. They stand high in this community and saint and sinner have the very highest regard for them. It is because they conduct their discussions at the Y. M. C. A. they show a marked degree of ability and research. It has come as a comfort to the citizens of the city that the good men are going to move for a new and better High School. The Standard Realty Company has opened headquarters at the Douglass building, with Mr. Offut as manager. Mr. Offut is a member of the company and other men who are well known in this city. Those who are connected with the new company are men of character and financial standing in the company and other conditions along the lines of buying property. Mr. Offut, the manager, will graduate from the State University this spring and has already had some experience in the job. Mr. Offut is a member of the Ministers Meeting last Monday and each minister promised that he would lend the young man his assistance. The "Black Cabinet" as styled by our good friend Col. R. W. Thompson of Washington City, is becoming very popular. We have one new say in this, "We have five Niceoes who have cozy jobs in the city administration. It is claimed that they recommend persons to the Board of Safety and Public Works, who have made application for employment, and they disqualify you that is the end of it. One brilliant young Negro who is not a member of the "Black Cabinet" but has a "soft job," is Mr. Parker. He played the role of a plumpr for Mr. Taft and he stands high in the councils of the party. The "Cabinet" is trying to eliminate Mr. Parker and there is the rub. Mr. Parker claims that he is with the administration and is desirous of staying intact with the powers that be, while the "Cabinet" says Parker must be eliminated. Mr. Parker is keen and shrewd and has his eye on his political rivals. The expected outcome is that While it is possible of five to one, it is believed that Mr. Parker, an original newspaper man, will win out in the end. Pink's Purgo, (Eat it like Candy.) Cures CONSTIPATION, 10c and 25c per box ASK FOR A FREE SAMPLE, Prepared Only at PINK'S CUT RATE PHARMACY, 550 Indiana Ave. went on record during the Governor signing national Committee to go to Hod- Louisville will have a rare treat next Monday night when Prof. William Pickens, a graduate of Yale university will address the graduates of the Normal class of the University of Louisville. Dr. W. Peyton zeek is principal and Prof. W. S. Peyton, is instructor. Professor Pickins is one of the most brilliant young men in the country. His college and university experience will pride to the Negroes of this country. He graduated from Fisk College, with a master's degree. He entered Yale and graduated with a bachelor's degree. He won for his outstanding inter-collegiate contest. As an orator, he is polished, refined and thoughtful. In his discussions he shows that he is prepared and well trained in the art of speaking to students. He is an international Teachers' Association that he won the hearts of the Louisville people and the Louisville Courier Journal pronounced him one of the best Negro speakers that ever graduated from Louisville. Mr. Pickins and we assure him a magnificent audience. The four graduates will be Misses Emma Lee Claybrooks, Aljulia Coleman, Foleman Marshall and Essex Louise. Louisville's charming singers will augment the Choral Society under the direction of Miss Boureguard. The commencement is expected to be largely attended. The Negroes of the city went on record Monday night as condemning the Governor of Kentucky, A. C. Wilson, by ignoring them in the Lincoln Memorial Committee to investigate the gonksville, an escort to the President of the United States. On February 12, a TWO WANTS OF THE HOUSEWIFE. ST—She wants pure milk and cream. OND—She wants it from a reliable dairyman. Milk our own dairies. Country Pride seurized milk delivered by us satisfies both wants. sale by Pure Food Groceries. Try our Excellent Creamery Butter. MERS' PROTECTIVE DAIRY ASSOCIATION Milk, Cream, Butter and Buttermilk. E. South St. Phones {New...3487 Old, Prospect, 1886 25 Per Cent. On Your Money To-day By Attending Marott's CLEAN SWEEP SALE 26=28 E. Wash. St. large number of prominent Kentuckians will go to the Lincoln farm where anniversary is to be held the Governor appointed celebration and the Governor appointed a committee and left the "brother At a meeting held here Monday night a petition was presented and signed to be sent to the President of the United States, stating that the Negroes were ignorant and asking that he urge a Negro to attend and asking that he urge a Negro to attend the Lincoln committee. The Negroes are the Lincoln committee. The Negroes are the Abraham Lincoln committee and the local Lincoln committee elected ten of their own number to go to Hodgensville. The signers were Dr. W. T. Merchant, William H. Leonard, Dr. L. G. Merchant and a number of women, Dr. B. C. Parrish and the Rev. L. G. Jordan opposed the petition being sent, but the body did not allow them to their action, and it was allowed to stand. Those who were elected to the Lincoln farm were, Dr. W. T. Merchant, William Leonard, the Rev. L. G. Jordan, the Rev. W. McWhorter, the N. R. Harper, Geo. Tolbert and James Murphy. The Rev. Jordan made an eloquent plea for the programme committee be instructed to speak speakers in their addresses the national red cross. It was carried after some discussion. On the night of the speaking, the Mayor of the city and a number of judges and commissioners of the M. C. A. and new library for inspection then drive to the church. Lawyer I. E. Black will be master of ceremonies. The final meeting will be held Monday night. CARY B. LEWIS. WANTED—Man pianist; one who can sing and play; tenor voice; good charm; W. R. Carter, 340 Dearborn street Chicago, Ill. NOTICE. To Whom It May Concern: Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke, the widow of George Pompe Van Dyke, 920 Bayette street, Indianapolis, Ind., would like to be information concerning the whereabouts of Thomas Lewis, formerly of Indianapolis, who soldiered with George Pompe Van Dyke in the United States army, at Ft. Davis, Tex. prior to 1881, under Capt. W. Prior, company of Tenth Regiment of cavalry. Any information will be gladly received. Other papers please copy. Is Your Health Worth 10c? That's what it costs to get a—week's treatment—of CASCARETS. They do more for you than any medicine on Earth. Sickness generally shows and starts first in the Bowels and Liver; CASCARETS cure these ills. It's so easy to try—why not start to-night and have help in the morning? CASCARETS l10 a box for a week's treatment, all drugstores. Biggest seller in the morning. S. E. Corner West. THE STAGE McCabe's Minstrel continue to do good business. McCabe's Minstrels continue to do good business. Charles McKenzie has closed with the "Florida Blossoms" show and is spending a few days at its home, 6 Box street, Atlanta, Ga. Paul Carter, write. B. H. Johnson and E. S. Mason are doing fine in their comedy acrobatic work with Morgan & Sawary's Minstrels. They send regards to all in and out of the profession. The Whitman Sisters are still in Atlanta with their mother, who continues very ill. They have many contracts for work, but find it impossible to accept any for an indefinite period. The State College Comedy Company of Orangeburg, S. C. played the "Black Political has mischief," and was quite a W. S. Hart played the part of "Hekeziah Doo," and E. W. Jennings took the part of "Ephraim Johnson." Mrs. Laura Smith of 1126 Green street, Louisville, Ky., entertained her brother, Sam Aarayce, of the Pekin quartet of White. The ladies present were Mrs. White, Mrs. Wheatley and Mrs. Whitney. The Pekin Quartet entertained the Canberra Association at the Gault House Feb. and f. Barnes & Dunsmore Stock Company opened Sunday night, Jan. 31, at the new Pekin Theatre in Louisville, Ky., with S. W. Harris. The theater will then go to Lexington for two weeks; then a return engagement for Louisville. Will close the stock company and go to New York to fill an engagement with the circus at Madison Square Garden. Regards to all. Jennie Pearl Larkins of the "Smart Set" company will close her engagement with the circus of John Larkins. That is very much regretted by the management and members. Mrs. Larkins is highly admired both on account of her ability and charming personality. John Larkins recounts that he was asked by Mrs. Larkins at his request that she gives up her successful season with the "Smart Set." R. Roy Pope, the well-known cornetist, and Rufus Wilson, members of the "In Old Kentucky" band, were entertained Thursday afternoon, Jan. 28, by Billel Butler, the well-known trap drummer, at the Madison Square Garden. Pat. An enjoyable afternoon was spent after that a delightful dinner was served by Mr. Butler's sister, Mrs. Ella Harris. Covers were laid for the following evening: Jerry Harris, A. Baker White, Oliver Adkins, Foster O. White and Billy Adkin. C. P. Stinson, the premier colored banjoist, filled an engagement at the Majestic Theatre, Lorain, O., the week of the 25th. He appeared in this city for quite a while. He has had a notable career as a banjoist, having won the champion banjo medal at Kansas City, Mo., April 26, 1886, the celebrated Dan Polk being one of the conspirators in the murder of the very few artists who have the honor of having played before the former Prince of Wales, now King Edward of England. He made a hit at every performance. He has also achieved a notable success in playing the banjo. Stinson is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. RETIRE FROM STAGE. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis, who for many years were billed large on show boards of the Southern stages, have retired from the business and are now with their little son, who was featured as "the smallest comedian in the world." at 406 the Capitol where they have a chop suey club and lodging house for the profession. THE MAJESTIC THEATER, VICKS BURG, MISS. Garfield McGee. J. J. Perry. Frank Tansel, and Mrs. Leola May Gus are making a concert of singing. Miss Agie Tansel is doing nicely, and McGee is singing his own song, taking and four encores each night. It is entitled "The Four Encores." Be wishes to all in or out of the profession. BROADWAY THEATER, LORAIN, O. The Brinkleys, that popular comedy duo in their comedy skit "A Darktown Flirtation" played an engagement here the week of the 25th and pleased large houses every show. They are at present on the ebbek circuit and send regards to all. Larry Edwards, the musician, has just finished writing a musical comedy in three acts called "My Friend from My Home," which he intends taking on the road next season. Harry Edwards is still holding the position as manager and sends regards to all friends. STAR THEATER AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. ALLEN'S MINSTRELS LINCOLN THEATER, KNOXVILLE TENN. The Lincoln Stock Company continues to draw large crowds and Cal. F. Johnson, the proprietor, is to be congratulated being so fortunate as to be surrounded by a bevy of talent. The whole secret of his success is the mastery of Salem Tutt Whitney, who has something superior to offer to the moble each week, and last but not least the management of the house is well taken care in the personage of William A. Baynard, a gentleman, scholar and great musician. The musical war drama presented last week would do honor to any audience. The revolutionary bearing of Homer Tutt, as "Captain John," has a great deal of comment. Sam Gardner as the "Major" was more than up to the standard. Miss Mabel Brown's portrayal of "Laughing Water," the Indian girl, Simmons made an extremely eye acting. Mr. Simmons made an extremely character in the role of "Rain in the face." Link Sliger as the "Cowboy" was the best. Miss Teller is without doubt a typical actress and always lends charm to whenever she graces the stage. Albert Smith, the house, is still the popular fashion plate. It is to be hoped that Mr. Johnson will awaken to the idea that the patrons will be reward to his new theatre in the near future. EDWARDS & WEBB'S COLORED MUSICAL COMEDY CO. The Edwards & Webb musical comedy made so a big hit at Rensslear that Mayor Ellis, manager of the Ellis Theatre, had the company for a return date. We will make a call on Chicago Friends Friday, March 16, at 11 a.m. at Jeb Webb ("Airship") is singing You're in the Right Church But in the Wrong Pew". Mr. Edwards is a mirth creator his monologue and his scoring a big hit with somebody else, David Florence. Watts is singing "Kiss Me Brighter" Mattie Glover renders "Outside the Heavenly Gates" and "Nina's Council". Miss Minnie Wilbur sings "When a Fellow's on the Level with a Girl That's on the Sun" and "Miss Lena of Gettsburg" scores a big hit. Miss Lena Brown is singing "Mandy Lane." WILLIAMS AND WALKER Five thousand dollars for one night's performance! This is the amount that was paid to close the Great Northern Chicago. Something never heard of before in theatrical world. Information On the matter has been kept quiet. It only leaked out on Monday night. It seems to have been kept quiet. January to have the stars and their company one night in the last week of their engagement. To do this the house had to be bought quiet, and the trouble did not forwarded to this junction to be forwarded to New York to be settled. After a long drawn out wrangle it was finally agreed upon to allow the company to buy the house. Chicago, which consisted of fifty persons. The whole thing sounds like a fairy tale, but still it is true. Such things have hap- Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston has arranged some big stunts. The Vanderbilt have given Williams and Walker $1,000 and have been on a ground movement on the lawn at Newport, R. I. It has been said through the press in New York that different opera stars got so much and so much for one night's entertainment, and the history of the American theatrical world that a house has been bought out and closed. This seems to be Chicago society fed. The Pekin stood alone. The North Side "Tour Hundred" bought it out. The Pekin had such a big figure as the above. The funny thing about the whole matter is that on both occasions that these sensational stunts have been pulled off in Chicago, the audience on the funny end of it will Williams and Walker are to receive $1,000 bonus extra. STAGE NOTES. Madam Anna Cook (the black Nordica) and the superior of all comedy singers of her race, must now wear her laurels with courage and confidence, courageous endeavor. She must become reconciled to the fact that great singers are the most envied performers in the world. My what a time they are having over Cleo Desmond and Rachel Bailey! They have joined hands and they must pass the test to make her sing. They can do is to enter after Billy Windsom Say nothing at all and let everybody else, the talking. At a special matinee given at the Pekin Theatre, Chicago, Jan. 21, in honor of "Bandana Land," the following artists appeared: Buddy Gilmore & Co.; Billy Earthquake, a very promising young comedian; Clifford Cohen; Quintet; Wise & Milton; George Harris; W. A. Thomas & Co.; Ed. Tollier; the Jarlans; Saparo & Bonny; Whangdoodle Comedy Four; Robinson & (Billy) McArver; Five Musical Spillers; Minstrel McArver; and the Williams & Walker Glee Club. The new Lincoln Theatre at Knoxville, Tenn., bids fair to eclipse the Pekin at Chicago if a strong stock company is not so strong. The new Lincoln is managed by Cal Johnson, who is said to be wealthy and a man of very good quality. He recently graduated from Knoxville and has just received a photograph of President Roosevelt sent by the President himself. Mr. Johnson is now busy completing plans to erect a $300,000 theatre in order to book and play the first-class colored shows in the country. WILLIAMS AND WALKER AT THE PARK THEATER. Williams and Walker, those charcoal joy merchants, claim that when they open at the Park Theatre Monday, Feb. 8, for three days in their greatest effort, entitled that they have the most original and novel musical show that they have ever headed, "rough black diamond" whose misfortunes and mishaps as portrayed by Bert Williams, whose stage troubles has caused more laughs than all other comedians put together, in his character of Bowie, in his bowery nibbles that nibble for most of the comedy, His partner, George Walker, the "polished black diamond"—crisp and elegant, in his character of "Bud Jenkins," Skunkton's to make their performance one of the best of their careers. They are the direct opposite in personalities and talents, and in "Bandana Land" they represent the two types that predominate in the colored "Bandana Land" represents the highest type of Negro achievement on our stage, and it is the story of the clever people of the Afro-American race. Marion Cook, the composer, promises to be to Negro music what the late Paul McCartney was to the white musician. The score is quantify melodious and typical of the race he represents. The book is built around the personalities of Williams and Walker, and yet it hits off the oddities of the African-American character drawings are humorous and real. Those who are fond of catchy music are invited to go a hearty spontaneous laughing fit, should avail themselves of this opportunity of seeing Williams and Walker in their best form, tertained the most critical of theatre-goers in New York City for over five months. NEW ACTS OF THE WEEK. BY J. D. HOWARD. Grand— The Mitchells, a man and two women, billed as "The Three Dancing Mitchells," opened at the Grand Monday afternoon, with a band that included "one." They afforded the audience a high-class fifteen minutes of fun. Mr. Mitchell is a corking good dancer, somewhat of the grotesque variety, and "Kids" and Nelson fight. He can sing. Mrs. Mitchell is a soubrette of taste, ability and good looks, and above all know how to dance. The band she has them on. The other feminine in the act appears to be a girl scarcely more THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Park Theatre 3 DAYS BEGINNING Mon. Feb. 8 “Everybody Goes to the Park.” Matinees Monday and Wednesday. F. RAY COMSTOCK Presents The Kings of Kolored Komedians Williams and Walker In the “Society Fad” of New York City for Over Four Months, Bandanna Land Book and lyrics by J. A. Shipp and Alexander Rogers. Music by Will Marion Cook. Bert. Williams’ —NEW SONGs— “Drinking,” “I’m Tired o’ Eatin’ in de Restaurants.” Geo. Walker’s —NEW SONG— “Down Among the Sugar Cane.” Aida Overton - Walker’s —NEW SONG— “I’m Just Crazy Bout You.” —NEW DANCE— “Oh, You Devil.” BERT A. WILLIAMS. GEO. W. WALKER. than 14 years old. I failed to discover the necessity of this young miss as an audience was plunged into cold storage by the audience—not a wrinkle did the house offer at the conclusion or by another stranger. I was surprised that the Mitchells are carrying "excess baggage," "Mandy Lane" and "Take Your Time" went big. The act was clean and well MEMPHIS STROLL By JAMES E. SIMPSON All of the shows did good business last week up until Friday night, when a bad windstorm struck us that morning, two of the best houses to pretty fair houses, except the Gem, which only had two people in the audience; they gave a show to them and then had to take them to the theatrees are certainly making it hard for the Gem to keep up to the standard. Look out, Gem; you must come up to the touch. The Lyric, one of the theatres on the Stroll, had to close down last week on account of the manager not being able to pose his own poses and perform. The Royal Tenenbaum first-class vaudeville last week with Misses Ada Harris, Blanche Arlington and Ida Gardner singing all of the latest songs and each Bon Bon Buddy is back with us again after three weeks of sickness, doing his old monologue and singing "The Grassman on the Shipspool" put on his original singing and dancing scare crow act and took several encores. R. R. Mathews Jr. did his acrobatic and contortion act, winning applause at the end of his act repeatedly. He has been suffering from a bad cold, but is able to play the shows through. Reid, the man with the drums, is still with us proud over his new drums and getting along with his new band. The first part of the week with an afterpiece by R. R. Mathews Jr., entitled "The Car Barn Bandits," and the latter part of the week closing the vaudeville with a comedic one act and one scene by Bon Bon Buddy and "Uncle's Return from the Philipines." Amuse U is putting on a first-class vaudeville show, introducing Centers and Center musicians, and will be Eugene Clark with his old man impersonations, closing the bill with an afterpiece by Eugene Clark, entitled "Fun in a Chinese Launcher," which sending the people away screaming. H is putting on the rector of the Amuse U orchestra, but I am sorry to say that he has poor support in depending on his trap drummer, who is also a musician, and there are several good trap drummers in town. Why don't you give them a chance? Take my advice and you will not have to work so hard. But on a first-class vaudeville show and afterpiece by Willie Perry, also putting on an added attraction, introducing Wamego, a Hindoo magician and strong man, who is pretty fair, and living in business last week, introducing Russell © Fowler in their eccentric dancing, also Miss Trixie, the southern soubrette, singing any old-time rag and taking several encores; also singing the "Who's Dat," and leaving the stage with the house screaming, closing with an afterpiece by John Goodloe and entire comedy act, "Who's Dat," in one act and two scenes. The Desota Quartet made a decided hit at the Hatton Avenue Social Club last summer, to her encores, singing a song dedicated to the victims. "Till We Buy; When? Never." Words and music by Jas_E. Simpson. The quartet is composed of the following: First tenor, Jones; second tenor, Henry Dixon; baritone, Duke Wade; bass, Gae, Flitzman. SCORE GREAT HIT IN SCOTLAND. Rolfe's "Ten Dark Knights" Score Big Success. GLASGOW, Scotland. Jan. 20—One rounds of the game that overtied the city, says round acts that overtied the city, says SAM S. AND LEE SHUBERT TO DOWN KLAW & ERLANGER New York's Latest Managerial Sensation. BY SILVESTER RUSSELL The advent of Sam S. & Lee Shubert's incorporated combine and their influence on the frontier of the theatrical horizon, their thrift, and the pre-eminence of their quality and worth as a young modem of the theatre, has just awakened a new sanguine interest among the first-class players and managers all over the circuits and throughout the country, the most important parts of the country, the field to too long, are beginning to see in the cloudy weather of night that the moon is not shining; the weather is not clear; the most methodive methods have been declared to be at work; the syndicate and the brighter prospects of the future now lies only in the hands of Sam S. and Lee Shubert. The Shuberts and Lee Shubert combination, they have followed and with them it is expected that James A. Brady, Liebler & Co., and the actions of the combination will also join the Shuberts the minute they withdraw. The Klaw & Erlanger combine has been recently accredited with many failures; many of their own secured plays were failures, and one of their own secured plays were for use in first-class theatres, while the plays secured by the Shuberts were all of a clean character and a practical success. The other plays were failures they were revised and stubbornly kept on the boards to no financial avail. Belasco, the eminent playwright and producer, has always scorned the old combine and Belasco is a genius of power whose future is unforetelling, and it may be that in the event of the linking of man-made structures with Mr. Belasco may be induced to enter in. The mistakes of Klaw & Erlanger have always been very easy for any brainy architect, but they are not power and not their individual ability that has enabled them to hold the reins so long. One of the weakest moves they have made is to buy the vaudeville theatres, only to be downed by Kohl and Castle and the Keith mergers. They were ridiculed by the press, and that was how they bought up the Klaw & Erlanger vaudeville theatres as fast as failures haunted failures Klaw & Erlanger's business. They represent upwards of $35,000,000, are said to be gradually filing out of the ring and cannot stand the gashes of sharp steel surge. Klaw & Erlanger have long been the opposers of colored organizations, one of the firm being a Southerner, which counts the Clansman as one of "The Clansman" in New York a few years ago, numbered with the insults of others of their productions, which caused people to be upset. Klaw and Erlanger were first of class-theories. The greatest surprise that Klaw & Erlanger ever gave the colored race was when they engaged Cole & Johnson to supply music for a big pro-gram. Klaw and Erlanger supplied & Johnson lyrics and music supplied for that occasion were certainly great, and the splendid rendering of the music by Klaw & Erlanger management in their first class-theories is in the form of saving the piece from a classical failure. But Klaw & Erlanger's present refusal to play Williams & Walker, who are under the objective management in their first class-theories, is in the form of saving the piece from a classical failure. But Williams & Walker Colored acts laying off in Chicago or near by, send me your open time. Can give from one to six weeks work. Colored acts of all descriptions send me your open time. Marion A. Brooks, Grand Theatre, State & 31st Sts., Chicago. WANTED! For the Star Theatre, Colored teams, good comedians and good lady singers. Ladies send photos. State lowest salary in first letter. Lee Henderson, Stage Mgr.; W. H. Hausler, Gen. Mgr., 407 S. Breavord St. Charlotte, N. C. If in the event of a general majority revolt among the whites, which is not likely, then seats in the orchestra should be held in the center, and alternately of three or four rows across; and seats should be sold in the center first, to first comers. If colored people would seek to sit together by buying seats in the first balcony, which is designed for stage use, it would be much better at the present for a race whose majority is finally limited. I am speaking from a first-class theatre standpoint, where everybody is culled, refined and know enough to be quiet and not disruptive where people dress well and smell sweet. In the meantime let all the American amusement profession tear down the old walls of Klaw & Erlangerism, dig new windows and reconstruct the old and safer Shubert foundation, that may all have a fresh grand rally of Sam and Lee Shubertism for a little while anyhow on trial, and in the meanwhile we work on the amusement of old-time fol de rol and fiddle- sticks and wish them much success. We are all seeking refuge in the Shuberts, where we can find shelter and direction there will some day be a land of pure delight in all first-class the ROUTE. McCABE'S MINSTRELS—Arlington, Wis. Feb. 9, 10; Rio, 11, 12; Woycena, 13, 14, 15 BRIEK PATIL TROUBADOURS—Abas- line, Tex. Feb. 8; Stamford, 9; Fas- kell, 10; Seymour, 11; Wichita Falls, 12; Quanah, 13. THE BRUICES—Bijou Theatre, Kankakee, Ill., week of Feb. 15, WILLIAMS & WALKER — Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 8, 9, 10. RUBERT C. WHITE, Director of Dark- town Swells—Spalla, Ga., week of Feb. 8. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice.—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly send for mail, as the names will appear four times and then resume the writer deadletter office. It would prevent delay all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at once. Gentlemen's List. Akernon, J. E. Johnson, Napoleon. Bruce, W. A. Lewis, Thos. J. Barton, Ge. L. Hurdle, Otto. Croy, Goldie. Moore, Aleno. Cooper, John. Weaver, Julius J. Cox, Jim. Williams, Pewee Mrs. Ladies' List. Cook, Anna Henderson, Katie. Fuller, Eva. Schackeford, Frankie Barton, Mrs. Wanted, Girls. Must be good singers and dancers. Also one or two men comedians and dancers for light, wonderful and moving picture show. State lowest salary in first letter. Girls send photos. Address C. W. MOSELY. Manager, Pekin Theatre, Norfolk, Va. Coming Soon A BARRIT'S FOOT COMEDY 6 a THE INDUSTRIAL’ EDUCATION IN HIGH FAVOR WITH THOSE WHO KNOW THINGS VACATIONAL TRAINING THE NEWER IDEA General LE of Suit- able Schools—Opinion of Men of Eminence -Hampton Insti- tute First Industrial School. necessity. ‘Those versed in such mat. ters, and who have the most to do with them, are setting forth the needs of extended work, of extending the work to the remotest parts of the country in order to make more effi cient workmen of the American boys. ‘Those of larger view, view industrial- ism and manual training, now taught in the schools, as of excellent dis- ciplinary value and also of importance, that it fixes the notions of things, giv- ing a general idea of thing. But they do not think the system or the work done answers sufficiently the demand. Vaeational training is the newer idea, such as is carried out in the trades schools and schools of technology, which are few at this time as com- pared with the needs. The newer movement has in mind: the general establishing of suitable schools where the missing link between the product of the schools in ordinary and the actual man of the shops will be sup- plied. The January number of the Annals of the American Academy of Political Science was wholly given up to the discussion of trade teaching in public schools. One of the contributors, speaking in connection with the fore- going thought, says as follows: “The mannal training which is now offered in elementary schools is devel- opmental and socializing. Its pur- pose is a general training, not a spe- clal one. Manual training as an ele- ment of the elementary curriculum has an important role to play, but this role is not vocational in character. As a subject, this training is one to be pur- sued through the entire elementary course. It looks to a general school- ing of the pupil in intelligence and skill, and offers its advantages alike to pupils bright and dull. It may prop- erly prepare for, further study of an industrial character, but it is not itself to be developed on’ vocational lines. “Vocational work, on the other hand, should be special and intensive. It should give those pupils who have a general bent towards the arts much direct training in shop methods and shop standards. Vocational training should, therefore, follow the general manual training of the elementary schools. It should rise out of such training, and look not to general but to special development of the pupil's ability and skill. Manual training is part of a general educational system to be pursued in the early years by ‘all; vocational training is part of a system of industrial education to be pursued by those desirous of entering the trades. The aim of the latter should be to give the pupil insight that will later enable him to make an intelligent choice of some specific vocation.” ‘The articles contributed to the pub: Ucation were by men of eminence along the line of industrial work. Among them are James Parton Haney, director of art and manual training in the public schools of New York, who ig quoted in the above expres: sions; Carroll D. Wright, LL. D. president Clark College, Worcester, Mass.; Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee. The others are scarcely less distinguished, occupying high places in the educational world and representing various parts of the coun: try. The subjects are varied and in. teresting and, moreover, valuable, ‘owing to the expert thought. Various schools of the best sort are set forth ‘at length—their aim, desire, system— thus making the whole a most excel: lent symposium. Among the subjects discussed are the Berean School of Philadelphia and the industrial ef ciency of the Negro and the Manila Trade School, by Rev. Matthew An. derson, D.D., prineipal, and J. J. Baton, former superintendent of Philippine School of Arts, director Ludlow Textile School, Ludlow, Mass., re spectively. . Booker ‘T. Washington opened with “Relation of Industrial Education to National Progress.” Mr. Washington started out with the interesting thought that directly and indirectly the Negro has had an important par in the industrial education of this country, not only in defining its aims and shaping its methods, but In ad yertising its importance to the world His following fast is scarcely less in teresting. He said: “The first indus trial school of any {fportance in the United States was Hampton Institute a school founded for Negroes. al Hampton, Va.” This was in 1868. He also set forth the interesting fact tha Harriet Beecher Stowe drew up a plar for “an industrial college in which shall be taught several important branches of the mechanical arts” ir 1853. In referring to the matter, Mr Douglass said: “The factyis, that the colored mer must learn trades; must find new em ployments, new modes of usefulnes: to society, or they must decay under the pressing wants to which aheir con dition is rapidly bringing them. * * * We must become mechanics; we mus build as well as live In houses; we must make as well as use furniture; we must construct bridges as well a: pass over them, before we can prop erly live or be respected by our fellow men, We need mechanics as well a: ectutara. We need workers in iron day cardinal wants.” Mr. Washington points out the fact that even before the war the import- ance of knowledge in the mechanical arts was considered in relation to Negroes. In speaking of Hampton and other schools that immediately fol- lowed the war, Mr. Washington said that the object.was as much to prove that the race could do the greater things in an educational way as it was for other objects, leading up the thought that the schools in the first instance were not as wisely conceived as they might have been. The same has been said by thoughtful Negroes time and time again. The inference, by what was said by Mr. Washington, by others is that the condition should have suggested the kind of education, and which should have also been in- fluenced by environment and contact. The “environment and contact” had pre-empted the situation, so to speak, by priority of appearance and which was reinforced by fitness—through training or experience. ‘The Negroes had neither, and one or the other had to be before there: could be a plausible consideration. Mr. Washington ex- presses it as follows: “From the very start, Hampton In- stitute has been, in many vital re- spects, different in its aims as well as in its methods from the other schools for the Freedman then estab- lished, I think it is fair to say, for instance, that the first schools and colleges for Negroes were all of them more or less dominated by the notion that they were to continue and finish the work that had been incidentally begun by the Civil War. They felt it was their mission to free the slaves. The war had brought these slaves physical freedom; the schools were to give them moral and intellectual free- dom. Calhoun had said that if the time ever came when a-Negro could master the intricacies of the Greek language he would admit that he had been wrong in his notions about slav- ery. The schools established directly after the war were eager, apparently, to take up that challenge. ‘They want. ed to prove the capacity of the Negro to study and learn everything that the white man. had studied and learned.” ‘The Negroes were not wholly to blame for the situation. It happened that their aspirations and ambition accorded with the notions of the well- meaning white men and women who spent their money and gave their time to the consummation of their object. ‘The white people knew but little of the industrial work. Really, it has been only within recent years that any kind of general advanced educational thought was “extant” in the country beyond the few greater educational centers. Men and women were edu- cated, highly educated, but systems, “styles” and, as some have, “fads,” were the unknown. So it is no wonder that they shuold begin with the Freed- men as they had begun, and without reference to industrial, social, civil or political condition. But Mr. Washing- ton says the thing most excellently: “Let me illustrate a little farther séme of the ways in which some of the schools and colleges founded di- reetly after the war failed to prepare their students for the actual life that was before them. It was the idea of the men who founded the Negro col- leges directly after the war that it was necessary and important to edu- cate men and women to be the leaders and teachers of their race. No doubt it was important that the men and women who were to be the leaders of the race should have the very highest and best edueation that it was possi- ble to give them, but there were a great many things, as we can see now, that they might have and should have learned that would have been more valuable than the little smatter- ing of Green and Latin that they ob- tained. “For instance, the men who be- came the political leaders of the race during the reconstruction period needed to know less the languages than they did the political history of Greece, of Rome, and of Europe. In all of these countries there had been slavery, and every state of Europe had, at some time in its history, been compelled to face the social, the polit- ical and the economical problems that grew out of the transition of its labor- ing class from a condition of slavery, in some form or other, to a condition of freedom. But the Freedmen in the Negro colleges had no opportunity to study these things. ‘They learned the outward form of the Greek and Latin language, but they learned very little of the history that was behind the language and behind the literature which they studied. “The young colored men who en- tered the colleges right after the war were not prepared to learn these things, even if the colleges had been prepared to teach them. They were not prepared because they knew at that time almost nothing about their own life; almost nothing abont the problems which beset them on every hand. Not knowing these things, they were not prepared to interpret the history and understand the sig- nificance of what they learned regard- ing other peoples who had passed THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. as we] Washington will be with then: The | Thomas L. Jones, R_ W. Thompson, LR. ves to|world of thought owes something to| (®t Game tk a TH arora: | uintales fer, Walter it Gritta, J. ie. Johnson and Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the Academ: mes THE FREEMAN AT LOUISVILLE. of Ants Sad Solences at Howard Univer: It 1 7 per ena sity, Washington, D. C., has isgued a new| ty Blue Grass Restaurant, 117 W. ts “Race Adjustment.” hanieal | street; 4258 Ninth, sirect; “420” ifn | OO Caled “Race Aghugtment: = ea street; 726 W. Walnut. Gennes, Jnshitata, “Wellbertorte: Ulver aa ee yand Howard University w! in ee JACKSON, MICH. observe. the ‘centennial. birthday anniver- ae — Sary of Abraham Lincon February 12. m said | qnecie) te Tum Fareman. ‘eee aia Rev. W. M. M. 8, McCutcheon of Ann Arbor; Mich., and wife, who have been in our city for’ the last two Weeks, left. for Battle Creek on route to Chicago and Kan- sas City, Mo., from there back’ to Ann Arbor, where he has planed to bulld a new chapel with gymnasuem, reading room and Ubrary for young mén and women, and Kindergarten for small children. He ‘has pro promise and assurance of several. busi- hess and professions.....The social given by the officers in the ‘church parlors last ‘Tuesday. evening was a grand success, $100.15 was realized and wish to thank both oid ana young people for thelr mort liperal assistance. HUMPHREY, ARK. Special to ‘Tine FREEMAN. Dr. Adair Is causing many of our young people to get off the streets on Sunday mornings and into the Sunday schools... Mark Adams, one of our leading farmers, was in from Crooked Creek last Saturday and attending the business session of the farmers’ union...Miss Chas. Higgins has recently returned ‘from attending the Bap- tist College at Little Rock...Death came almost instantly and ended” the further suffering of Jolin P. Gause on last Friday night. “He was in the hospital at Little Rock, having undergone a surgical opera- tion Six weeks ago. He was reported a3 doing nicely almost to the very hour of his death. “Mr. Gause ig a native of ‘Ten- hessee, near the town of Henning in Lau- derdale county, from whence he came to this State not’ quite one year ago, . He has one brother | living “here, Sam $. Gause, and another, Lewis Gause, at Deckerville, Ark...M.’T. Toms is enlarg- ing his farm by cleaning up several acres of new Jands...Phere is no race question In our State between the sensible business class of whites and business class of Ne- groes, but each race Is striving to make greater the name and value of the State. :-Taxation without representation — 1s wrong, and a wrong is dangerous, LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. Jan. 18, 1909, Dr. B. F. Alten, President Lincotn Institute, City. My Dear Mn. ALLEN—T have the honor to acknowledge’ the receipt of two gavels you presented to the Speaker through the Kindness of Senator Siebert. T thank you very much for them and’ shall. cherish them not only as a token of our frlend- ship, but when calling ‘the House to onder T shall regard them as an evidence of the Fespuct for order ‘and authority that you ‘are teaching in your great school Again thanking you for your kindness and wishing you much prosperity in your Management of the school, I have. the honor to remain, Yours very truly, A. Ii. SPEER, Speaker of the House of Representatives, ‘The citizens of St. Louls, headed by Dr. Stevens, have Invited Dr. “Allen to be the Speaker of the evening on Lincoln Memo- nial Day, Feb. 12." He lias algo reeelved from Dr. Washington an invitation to attend the Tuskegee Conference and. will attend If circumstances permit ‘The faculty and students of Linco In- stitute last year responded liberally to Dr, Washington's appeal for funds for. the Douglass Home, and have done the same thing this year. ‘Things will come your way if you be- come an agent of ‘The Freeman. MUCH PLEASED WITH THE FREEMAN, U.S. 8. Minnesota, Manila, P. I. Editor of Tie FREEMAN. Sir—Kindly accept _my thanks for the regularity in which T have received my paper from time to time. I has arrived in each mall from the United States, It has done much toward encouragement. | am Very much pleased with THE FREEMAN ; it is @ clean-cut, intellectual paper, and It will pay any young man to read and study the teachings of this wonderful paper, It it were possible, I would see to it that this paper reached “the home of every Negro family in this country. Tf the Young men of the Negro race would take More interest in the journals that are being published by our people there would not be time for so much nonsense that is threatening the intellectual life of the race, ‘There is a tendency of idleness existing among a certain class of our people that must be abolished. We cannot hope to reach success in life and of life by eulti- Vating idleness. We will have to work, 80 that future ages might realize to what height the genius of thelr forefathers at- tained. ‘There is only one. thing sure? ‘The young man must acquire “the power of concentration and the habit of deelsive- hess, which are two elements devold of Which life’s task cannot be successfully accomplished.” He who comes to the conclusion that it Is useless to try to become anything in this life should take time and study. the lives of the great men of the world. I am sure tt would do much toward lifting the Veil of discouragement. Any man with « pure purpose and a conscientious mind. Is bound to succeed regardless of the stum- bling locks he has to come in contact with from time to time. ‘The young man of tomorrow must take the place of the old man of today, and he must be pre- pared to do, more, and maintain ‘and honor that which has been trusted to his care, Bach Individual must feel that he or she has something to accomplish, A man Who feels deeply the great responsi- bility of lite is one that will certainty add a star to the race, T trust this will be read in every home of the race. ‘There are thousands of our Young people roaming’ the streets aaily who f am sure would be in school provid- Ing they had the opportunity. "the school doors are standing wide open and yet this class of chitdren cannot go. ‘There Is. a way, and I want to say that if every Ne-= gro in this country would donate five cents for the education of these motherless and fatherless children, Tam sure there would not, be so much talk of a race problem. ‘Think of it, those dear little babies who are starving for Intellectuallty and no one to lend a helping hand! It ls true that there are thousands of dollars donated annually. for’ this purpose, but it never reaches this class to whom I-refer. All who feel deeply. the responsibilities _to which T am referring will please reply and with your reply send 5 cents to the Presi- dent of Wilberforce University, Wilber- force, Ohio. Tam writing him ‘today on the subject. I do believe that there should be an Income of say 25 cents for this pur- pose. How many children could we plek up off the streets and place in the differ- ent schools of this country annually? ‘This ‘fund is to be known as the Young Amerigan Negroes’ Edueational Fund. ‘Thanking ail for due consideration of this project, T am, ‘Yours’ respectfully. T. D. HOLMES, . E. 8.8. Minnesota. Care of Postmaster, New York City, EDUCATIONAL ETCHINGS, Compieo vy AR-UU-TEE. Rev. W. D. Chappelle is now president of Allen University at Columbia, S.C, Latin and algebra have been eliminated from the colored, schools of Norfolk, "Va. Dr, J, HN. Waring has resigned the principaiship of the High and Training Reliool at Battimore. For the fifth time in the history of the school, Howard. University celebrated Emancipation Day January 3. Bishop Henry M, Turner, retired, is de- seribed as the “confectional historiograph: er” of the A.M. i Church. ‘The Clarke ‘Training School for Girls at Washington, D. C., has been incorporated with Mrs L. Ti, Glarke as superintendent and Miss Bianche Gibson as secretary. of the laundry department.” Among the in gorperatgrg and board of “directors” ar Messrs. John C. Dancy, John A. Lankford, Dace ae eee se Ve hommes Ee larke, Rev. James Slauigh= ter, Waiter R. Griffin, J. is. Johnson and Rev. M. W. Clair.” Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the Academy of Arty and Sciences at Howard Univer- fits, Washington, D.C, has isgued @ new book called “Race Adjustment.” Tuskegee Institute, Wilberforce Univer- sity and Howard University will fittingly observe the centennial birthday. anniver- Sary of Abraham Lincoln Pebruary 12. ‘The boys’ reformatory in Hanover county, Virginia, founded by the late John 2. Smythe, former Minister to Liberia, 1s to be carriéd on under a new managemént. Mr. Smythe died \about a month ago. Dr. W. S, Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, will publish this ‘winter a book entitled “The Moral of Race Conflict.’ Doubleday, Page & Co. New York, will probably be the publishers. ‘The late Daniel 4. Payne was the frst president of a university controlled by Colored people on the American continent. He laid the foundation. of | Wilbertores broad and deep, as subsequent history showed. ea Rev. J, 1. Jenifer was, the frst post: master at Wilberforce.” He was appointed in 1866, during the administration of President ‘Andrew Johnson. 'W. S. Scar- borough served as ‘postmaster at the col- lege from 1879 to, 1880. _, Jolin A. Brown, of Wilmington, Del., is the very ficient headwaiter of the dining- room. at. Wilberfores University. His Christmas and New’ Year's “spreads” are said by the faculty and students to have rivaled anything ever set before the guests of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. W. W. Osborne, class of '07, Wilber foreé University, is instructor of printing: and teacher of ‘iterature and history in Morris. Brown College at Atlanta, Ga, and Foster 0. Winslow, class of "06, 13 Stenographer and bookkeeper of the Voor hees industrial School at Denmark, S.C. 8. E. Shirley of Nashville, Tenn,, a com- petent “man, has been placed in charge of the printing department at ‘Tuskegee In- stitute, The institute printing office ts the best, equipped ‘establishment of the. kind conducted by colored people in the South, and its output 1s large and of a first-class character. pee Dr. A. F, Owens, dean of the Phelps Hall, Bible’ Training School, Tuskeesee Institute, and "Miss Sallie’ Mae Pruitt, daughter of Col. Walker Pruitt, were mar: ried at the residence of the bilde, Lelh- ton, Ala., Wednesday, December 30. Dr, Owens aid his bride left immediately for ‘Tuskegee Institute. . Miss Pruitt attended the A. and M. College at Normal, Ala, and was also a student of Fisk University. A. 0. Stafford, principal of the Abraham Linéol School at Washington, has written, an instructive treatise on "Some. Fables Of Animal Life.” suitable for nature study by childfen’ ‘Phe work has been. Righty praised by educational authorities. — An huthor’s copy. presented by. Mr. Stafford to Miss Ethel Roosevelt brought a grace- fal note from the President's charming daughter, extolling the book as a valuable addition to her library. ” New quarters have been given the Den- tal College at Howard University, and Dr. GL Sumner Wormley, the capable ‘demon- Straton, If supremely happy. The. floor Space has been increased. several times ‘over that of the former rooms and a large number of new chairs and engines have heen added to the equipment. (the labora tories and work shop are given an entire floor. “Phe ‘classes are larger this year than’ ever before. | Rev, Richard Carroll of Columbia, S.C., visited Tuskegee Institute last week for the purpose of urging upon Principal Washington the importance of a visit. to South Carolina similar to the. recent. visit through Mississippi. Principal Washing~ ton has practically decided to accept. the Invitation and all of the arrangements for the trip through South Carolina, have been placed in’ the hands of ‘Mr, Carroll and Wor. Anarews of Sumter, 8 C. A strong effort is being made by Prest- dont W. P. ‘Thirkicld of Howard Univer- sity to raise the $30,000 for the mainte- hance, of the proposed library building, for which, $50,000 has been subscribed by Andrew Carnegie on condition that a like amount be provided to Keep it going. in proper fashion. Howard. University has turned out thotisands of bright young men and. women and they are doing a. great work for the race everywhere, An. ap- peal is being made to them to come to the Feller of their alma mater. J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, ican oa eas on forbes es ve eect BOTH PHONES 1173. mae sees UNDERTAKERS 423 West Ohio Street currant rab permenant ———— EEE JOHN T. CUSACK CHINA, GLASS, HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS | 857-361 W. 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SCRAPS FROM THE SPORTING |“cRimiNaL” FOR JEFF TO MEET [is crying at me now to go in WORLD. aR amie DL: a nea Bel By BARRE ic See jni the fighters are talking trusts, owen Moran was favorite in a bout with qouag Murphy. oes fon the Fohnson-Jeffes fight oye Milwaukee team is getting in some (ee ae the ina. ce A BC, Baseball team will meet wiht tines next season. Lee withdrew from the: boxing dP tere Wednesday. joolouapolis éxpests another pennant- hg an’ tor next season. pang, sick would be no excuse for BANE SHE must fight anyhow. sulll_ walting to see the Inde- polit buketball team tn action, polls wrestling enthusiasts ex- fi VoiatitSkabbmout't6 wrestle here. sirubb-Longboat, run which was to : Me last night has been’ post i = yoy York haga team and more of yin lone, ‘fhe number at present 1s jw Juannette and Sam MeVey are nittiol for @ bout to take plaee on the sono denies the charge that, he does kik to figut. He says he's “spoll= ng? tor a fh, jndonapolls 18 anxious to see a Mara- One Will probably take place jiw, Jeannette bas already scored a vic~ ‘ Vitis, Pranee, by defeating. Ben or Willis, piteher on the Pittsburg ‘ he will not don the “Smoky { rm next season. Smnjth-Hirst bout at Philadelphia tke a fellow ask for his money I wo slow to do 00a.” nt Edgren must want to become conpicious by his attempt to be different ‘ juner Johnsonstefteies dopesters. (nhollo Broyles is claiming. the light- / yclzut weestiing ehampionship title of the | feotutlicn.. "Thel” uses the gloves, too. Suppose the Ponnaylvania Legislature oot Sing is, hin the Fight, chureh but i wrung pew," What would “Philly” do? Jin Drigooll gave Johnny Marto of New ¥ ve wanted and more too in. ten is betore the “Fairmount Athletic hinest Siegfried pinned three men to gy nat ia 12 mulnutes and 40 seconds at Hulton Siuare Garden, New York, tn his taut to show championship eas. we Flanner Guild expects to have a fa haschall team this year. ‘The Guild fans lenetofore have been” a_ stepping- w steouger teams tnand out of the uy Bronson, the Hoosler lightweight, ork Julius’ Stetm of Chicago. cold’ in Ei third round of what was to have been vou-round Aight at AGanta, Ga,, ast When the Chieago Unions and the A. B. (Be together it will be home boys veut horue Dove, ag the “Windy City” (Sin. will be practically made up of the John J. Brennan, the polleeman jumper of Milwaukee, Wilt mage. an attempt to feak the World's) fecord. this month, Henan is @ good fenee Jumpers most all Dveando Pleteh and brother will repre- Tialy. in a six-day walking mateh at Nhuisin ‘Square Garden. which will take jiu in Mare. Dorando’s hobby Is the Marathon run, Acting Mayor ‘Pouhey Issued orders to cit nt Poles MeMahon that the Tid is fain Litthe Hoek, Atk." This prevented the ‘Sullivan-Wolgast bout from coming Wednesday. Ton Toss, who recently gave. Larry couple one-of the worst beatings that he worureerived, 18. practieally. mateied. by the National Sporting Club of Pittsburg to ret Marvin Hart. Congress proposes to make the, salary of the President $100,000 year. | This Is the Same amount. that the colored fight fansof Chieago have made up to back Jack Jonnson. One must Work a year for iC the other @ few minutes, Which would You ike to be ‘The major league teams have a lot of ainor league: players, and the minor frasie a lot of major league players, Fremotiin to, the major league trom the Iniianapgits team will give four oF five of last sears players @ chance to make good ‘iris the Coming Season. Hoxing has gone to the White House, President Roosevelt 18 talking boxing les- ns trom Billy. Sixsmith, Sixsmith was formerly "a prigefighter. Roosevelt is a Sra admiveh of sports, the rougher, they Are the better he fies ‘them. Wonder if Tuly is preparing to meet Jack Johnson the public schools in the city of New York still have among. thelr exercises Scitile boxing studies for boys, 80 a8 to develop bodily strength” This fs the en- te war of a bill whieh, Coroner Harbur- ft says ‘he will Nave Introduced in ‘the Jegisiitire as a result of a suggestion jou Dr Philip 1, O'Hanion o¢ New ork, {te coroner's physlelan.. Bost mortem ex: Amnipa‘ions on bodies “of small boys have mores on’ Dr. O'Hanlon, he says, the Frat hick “of chest development these fide moist have ‘had during life. As the “sions of safely attaining lung devel- yoment in the physteally formative years, ts uns: the effectiveness of boxing, prop- (rly omducted. “He Delleves that, rigidly {eit io Ue public chooks, boxing” wil Wo much to eimminate rufanism and will Sovlop nantiness ag Well as enduring iubneon promised Sam Langford, a hance in. Mondon on February. 22, but wing 1 Jolinson's ‘tour, at the pritieipal fhe or bie hig stands ‘he has declared Ea. (owe ‘om "Ste “has again promised Bansood to teet him'on May 24. This fav's abvut’ a month after the close of Pires tour! hte te Keeping it im the fms va" Negroes to battle for the fo. ac et supremaey.” Never before in Qchitory of ‘the Mistie sport have two Ngo vaaan opportunity. to fight tor the icavywelght championship title of the “CRIMINAL” FOR JEFF TO MEET JACK JOHNSON. So Thinks Jas. Corbett —Would Face the Champion Himself. LINCOLN, Neb—James J. Corbett, the former chamipion heavywelsht, who is in Lincoln with his show, urges ‘the -Ameri- can people and the promoters not to be too hasty in matching Jeffries with Jack Johnson. Corbett insists that he is the one man that should first fight the black man. | He sald! “Jeffries was the most wonderful heavy- weight pugilist that the world ever pro- duced when he retired from the ring five Years ago; but, mind you, that was five Years ayo.’ Jeffries has taken ona lot of fat during his five years of inactivity, and it would be criminal were he to get ‘back into the ring with Johnson unless he is absolutely sure that he is in condition. I have seen Jeffries within the last. few weeks, and it is'my honest opinion that he should not think of facing Johnson in less than a year and a halt ‘or two years. Thore is too much at stake—a Negro has the championship and. it must be. won back by a white man. to whose race it be- longs. Jeffries must be right in every sense of the word before he taken’ the chance, and he can not hope to be right until he undergoes a long course of train- Ing. ‘The American public and the fight promoters are making a big mistake by endeavoring to force Jeff into a match.” COMMITTEE FAVORS REPEAL. Makes Unanimous Report on Sunday Baseball Bill. ‘The House Committee on Cities and ‘Towns has decided to make a, unanimous report favoring the Tepeal of the Indiana law which prohibits the playing of base- bail ‘on ‘Sunday for money. "A hearing was had before the committee recently, and several hundred fans attended, ‘Phé argument lasted an hour, and three ad- Yocates presented each side, One angus Inent infavor of Sunday ball was made by a ‘Seventh “Day "Adventist “minister, the Rev. J. L. Miller of Seymour, Ind. Henry M.“Dowting, head ot the Presby= terian Brotherhood of Indianapolis, spoke against the Sunday game. A. A. “Zion Superintendent of the Indianapolis’ Union Kailway, was for the bill to repeal the Dasebail’ statute, | Arthur Jordan of Tne dianapolis,. who’ joined the forces. in a former anti-Sunday baseball contest, was | Speaicer against what he called Sabbath desecration, Smith Mann, connected with ‘the People's Outfitting. Company, urged the repeal of the Sunday: law, and the Kew. Joshua Stansfield of Indianapolis Adgea” his arcument against, Sunday ball, he Rev. J. Le Miller, declaring that the ‘existing “law is a. “religious act,” urged Its repeal and demanded. Itberty And justice for. all alike. Mr. Dowling discussed the bill from the stand taken by the Supreme Court. He sald'a repeat Would bea step backward. Me. Mann. Breuing for the Sunday’ game, declared his belief that baseball would take 20,000 men into ‘the open air and. away” from Saloon Influences. Mr. Jordan, against the Dill, argued. awiinst "compelling men to Work on Sundays to enable other men to enjoy ‘sport. He declared he did not be- Ileve the saloons were patronized by. 20. N00-men on Sunday” in’ Indianapolis, A. A.” zion. Spoke on behaif of “the thou: Sands who come. into, Indianapolis on ex: cursions on Sundays.” "He favored close ly" restricted. Sunday games. ‘The Rev. Stansilelg said that if the saloon. trafic on Sunday is heavy at present, as-stated, the addition of thousands of people from other clues “every” Sunday Would only make saloon traffic heavier. MINISTERS AGAINST REPEAL. ‘The Baptist ministers of the city arzued toca option ae thelr meeting and’ adopted Tesolutions against the repeal of the law Against’ Sunday baseball. A resolution Urging. a constitutional amendment for State-wide prohibition was adopted. ‘The resolutions were offered as the re- port of a committee appointed at a pre ‘Vions meeting, of which the Iev, Cromwell P. kirby of. the South-street church was Gaiman.” ‘They. were adopted after a motion to add a ‘State-wide prohibition Amendment ‘was carried, "The Resolutions *ShWe, the Baptist ministers of Indianap- olis, representing nearly. 4,000 Christian people, do most earnestly petition the Tn- Giana "Tegisiature, now in session, that it maintain in its Integrity our present law forbidding the playing of football, base- Dail ‘and. other ‘games where amy” fee. is charged. on the first. day. of the week, Called Sunday: and that It, vote against the bot introduced: by Mr. ‘Thomas’ Broi- ley, and any and all other bills that may be introduced. looking to, the repeal or amendment of Seetion 468 of the act of TNs as It now stands We believe that the Christian Sabbath is one of the bulwarks of our Government and civilization, and that any Impairment Of the day endangers the stability of our Institutions, We deplore the present dis- Fegard of ‘the day fn so many quarters, and. believe that additional safeguards Should be enacted, rather than standing ones be destroyed,” In view of the perils to which all we hold dear would be sub- ject should the Broiley ill be passed, we pray that you vote against it, and so! de~ Sidealy reject it that it will not again be Sroashea.” ty a Se HAS NOTHING TO FEAR FROM JACK JOHNSON Jeffries Says He Fears No Man—Fight Fans Inconsistent — Says He Is Called a Coward. By Jaume i. Jervatne. SAN FRANCISCO.—Who said that in- terest, in the boxing game was on the Wane? After my" experience of, the last week I am led to believe that the gloves are more popular with the public. than ever before. It may, of course, be poss!- ble that the fact that Jack Johnson, a Negro, holds the heavyweight champion ship of the world is responsible for the Queensberry revival. Bo that as it may, I have heard, more fight talk here in San Francisco during the last week than I have heard for the last six-months. Iverybody and his neigh bor appears to believe that it is their honorable duty to ask me if T am going to fight again. T'still am dishing out the same answer that I have been giving out for years. If Tam to be put through this sort’ of cross-examination much longer, 1 Will have a few thousand cards struck off with the ‘single word “No” printed on them. This will save me a lot of talk. ‘The main thing that my friends will want. to know 1s how I feel after my Week's workout. T have had over fifty private telegrams grilling me in this con- nection, W. |W. Naughton and other experts have been kind enough to place them- selves ‘on record ‘ae waying that T have nothing to fear from Jack Johnson. ‘That just. about expresses my ‘sentiments. “1 don't fear the Negro or any other being who walks on two feet. My. performances with Berger during the first week of my. theatrical engage- ment has been most satisfactory to me, ‘Making an unbiased review of the week I feel justified in saying that my_ show- Ing was all that could have been expected from the athletic path for over four years. Tam fat, no mistake about that. Tt will take many along ruh on the road to get rid of this fat and to put my mind in anything like first-class’ condi- tion, My general health is of the. best, and if anybody thinks that T haven't sof my punch left, let bim come up and put the gloves on with me. Followers of pugilism are an inconsist- ent Jot. When Twas in this city last summer to referee the Attell-Moran fea therweight contest, everybody was, eriti- cising ‘Fommy. Burns because the Canuck would not fight Jack Johnson. “Why don't Burns give Johnson a chance?” they Would howl. “Burns has been licking @ Tot of dubs, and is afraid to tackle a man who, swould have an honest chance with Now these fellows are howling out, of the other side of their houths, and they are howling longer and louder than ever. “This man Burns, ix a disgrace to, the ring,” they say. “He should never have Crossed the color Jine. Had he refused to meet. Johnson, the white people would hever have been disgraced by having a Negro as the heavywelght champion.” Tam wondering day by day what my fate would be were T to meet Jack John- son and be defeated. The sporting world THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. is crying at me now to go in and fight the Negro. In some instances the. criti, cism hurled at me is not of the kindllest hature. I get letters calling me a coward and ail that sort of rubbish. I pay no attention to then. I have Burns’ example in front of me. GANS-ERNE BOUT POSTPONED. BALTIMORE, Md—The proposed six- round bout between Joe Gans and Young Erne, scheduled to be decided before the Washington Sporting Club of Philadelphia ep, Feb. 10, has ‘een, called off, owing to the lines 6f Gans& It was at the request of the ex-champion that Billy McCartney, manager of the Quaker City club, agreed to postpone the mill for the present. Gans Is how confined to his room at the Gold- field Hotel, and, according to. his physi. cians, it will be ‘two weeks before he will be able to talk fight again. THE PAST WEEK IN “PHILLY.” Monday — Washington Sporting | Club, Jimmie Gardner of Boston and Harry Mansfield of England. West End A. C. Charley Harvey" of Chicago and Young McGovern of Philadelphia. ‘Tuesday—Douglas “A. C., Young. Fred Corbett of Philadelphia and’ Billy Herman of New York, Wednesday—Nonpareil A. C., benefit of Tommy Love: ‘Teddy Matoriey “and Young ‘Thursday—Broadway A. C., Peter, Ma- her will meet Jack Williams of Phila- delphia. Triday-—Nonparell A. C., Willie Moody and Fighting Dick Nelson, ‘Saturday—Frankfort A. C., Kid Selo boxes two men three rounds cach, SUNDAY BASEBALL IN OHIO. Sabbath Game May Become Campaign Issue in Ohio. COLUMBUS, 0.—Sunday baseball may become a campaign issue. - Representative Randall H. Anderson, of Mahoning, con- siders ita question of ‘such moment that it should be decided only by the sovereign people. ‘Anderson has introduced ja bill provid- Ing that on the petition of 25 per cent of the qualitied electors of any township, the trustees or other proper officers shalt call a special election to. determine whether Plaving baseball on Sunday shall be al- NELSON FIGHTS IN SIXTY DAYS. Battling Nelson, lightweight _champlon, has scattered. to' the winds the persistent rumors that he does “not intend to fight again, that he is. planning to hold his championship as long as he can and then let it go by default, Nelson writes that he is simply spoiling for a fight and that when he gets to the coast he will make Arrangements with one of the. big pro- moters out that way for a championship fight. ‘The Dane says he expects such battle to be staged within sixty days. ‘Just one thing, and that a very im- portant one, is ‘missing from Nelson's Tetter—and that 18 the name of the man he is going to give a chance at the light- Welght crown, Unquestionably it, Is one Of three men—Packey MeFariand, Fred- die Welsh or Johnny ‘Thompson, with the fest. two! men. standing. better chances than the’ Cyclone, because ‘Nelson. thinks eliher. would. draw ‘bigger house than the Syeamore fighter, SIGNS ANOTHER CONTRACT. $50,000 for a Twenty Weeks’ Engage- ment Before the Footlights. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—James J. Jef- fries has signed a contract ‘to appear on the Eastern vaudeville stage for a period of twenty weeks at a salary of $2,500 a week, or $50,000 for the engagement. ‘This means, of course, that the bg “retired and undefeated champion of the world,” whatever his Intentions may be in. re- zard to an ultimate meeting with Jack Johnson, will have another six months at least to ‘think it over. ‘Phe contract with Jeffries was obtained by William Morris of New York, head of the big independent vaudeville elreult that has been causing so much trouble for the so-called vaudeville trust. Morris slipped quietly out, of New York. just as quietly into San Franciseo, and had his contract all but signed before many were aware of his presence in the city. Jeffries Ix slated to go directly to New York with Morris about March 8. Start- Ing In New York, he will take two thea- trea In that clty, Boston, Brooklyn, Chi- cago and other large cities, A FORTUNE FOR FIGHT. Offers $110,000 for a Jack Johnson- James Jeffries Fight. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The almost un- head of offer of $110,000 has been made for a. Jim Jeftries-Jack Johnson heavy- Weight fight for the world’s championship title, ‘This stupendous sum is named by C.D, Hilman, the Seattle millionaire, who Js at present a winter resident of ‘The following telegram was sent to Jeffries last night: “James J. Jeffries, Wigwam Theatre, San Francisco: “If you will give me an immediate an- swer, I will increase purse to $110,000, to be divided 70 and. 30, for a finish fight with two-ounce gloves. Referee tobe agreed upon by yourself, Johnson and me. Twill also wager $25,000 on you as a side bet ‘C.D. HILLMAN.” Mr. Hillman, who is reputed to have “nothing but,” thinks no more of making the above offer than the ordinary man would of purchasing a couple of theatre tickets. He is prepared to go to San Francisco and show Jeffries the color of his money if the retired champion will offer him any encouragement. SHIP AHOY! SHIP AHOY! Wireless telegraphy saved the lives of 700 people Saturday. The big liner White Supremacy is gradually sinking now, vainly wiring for help, but there is not a ship ‘in sight to go to the rescue. ‘The Texas torpedo boat Johnson rammed her amidships and immediately the call was sent out to save the White Supremacy. ‘The barge Jeffries was called upon, but doesn't think that he supply of coal is big enough to warrant her taking the chance. ‘The old cruiser Sharkey threat- ened to start, but is still hanging around the wharf blowing her whistle. ‘The cruiser Fitzsimmons, although thousands of miles away and quite a wreck herself, is anxious to join in_ the search, but it is feared that’ the rough weather will swamp her, and the chase be, fruitless. ‘The big German liner Ruhlin refuses to move. "Phe coal barge Monroe has been out of sight for months. It would be sufficiently. able to help carry away freight, but the wireless’ station cannot locate “it. ‘The Marvin Hart has been heard from, but has not started yet. ‘The only ship that looks as though It might be able to get to the wreck is the coal liner Samuel Langford. Shipping men declare that it would be of no help, however. If, the Jeffries does not go soon, the White Supremacy is sure to go down with all'on board. ‘The tramp schooner Burns took a header and was never seen again. ‘The Johnson simply broke it all up. “c.Q. D.—Barge Jeffries, hurry up; we're all in.” No answer as yet. GAMBLING IN GULF STATE. NEW ORLEANS, La.—With the horses which have been running at the Suburban Tacetrack ‘stamping ‘restiessly in | thelr stalls at MeDonoughiville, the doors to the gambling houses at Southport closed tight and a ban placed upon the sale of lottery tickets, Jefterson Parish, La., is having the quietest’ season it has known in a. very long time. ‘This parish, the greater part of which lies just across the river from New Or- leans, has been known, for years as the “free state of Jefferson.” Here the Louis- jana Jaws have been often Interpreted dif- ferently from New Orleans. So when the turfmen found that the New Orleans offi- clals regarded betting on llorse races as a violation of the Locke law, they promptly moved across the river and started up. Here District Attorney L. H. Marrero, Jr., declared he did not think the Locke law Was being violated, and so Instructed the sheriff, L. H. Marrero, Sr. ‘The lottery In Jefferson was also called to the attention’ of the Governor by a hewspaper reporter, who entered the par- ish to Investigate. ' He succeeded in pur- chasing a lottery ticket, but before he could get away his identity was revealed and he was clubbed over the head with a revolver, “He beat off his assailant and escaped ‘across the river to New Orleans, where he showed the lottery ticket to. the Governor. It ts understood that the sale Of lottery tickets will also be discontinued, at least temporarily. ANTI-RACETRACK BILL IN CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE Bill Passed the House by an Over- whelming Majority. “the State of Calirornie ip tenet ane in the State of California is doomed an that the present season at the. famous Emeryville and Santa Anita courses. will mark the passing of the “sport of kings” is the opinion not only of the majority of the followers of the turf, but of others in touch with the situation ‘at Sacramento. ‘The passage of the Walker-Otis anti- racetrack bill by an overwhelming major- ity was a great surprise to both friends and opponents of the measure, ‘and. the result has spread consternation In the ranks of the latter, “Although an adverse ruling was expected in. the Assembly. by the enemies’ of the bill, Inasmuch as no fight had been made in that body. nothing like such a sweeping defeat was looked for and the moral effect of the Assembly's ac- Hon will have ‘much. to do with stimulat- Ing the ultimate passage ot the law. ‘Phe scene of battle will shift to the Senate, where a last stand will be made by the opponents of the proposed law. to ward off defeat, which at this time seems Inevitable, ‘The bill, as passed by the House, came up for action’ in the Senate. Its provisions are similar to. those of the Hughes anti-racetrack bill which has sup- spessed pool selling in the State of New York, withthe one exception that the pool sellers in Calitornia will be allowed. sixty days in which to wind up thelr affairs, As this extension. will date from the time on which the Governor's ‘signature Is penned to the document in. the event of its passage by the Senate, it is reasonable to Dresume that the new’ law would not. be- come operative until wll into the spring, pee eee eS BABY DEAD; FATHER FOUGHT. CHICAGO, Ill.—With a telegram stuck beneath his’ belt which read, "Baby 1s dead; no money ; come home,” Jack Hob- inson, a Chicago middleweight pusilist, fought the fight of his life In the ring at the “Wayne Athletic Club, Philadelphia, ‘The match was between Robinson and Mickey McDonough of Brooklyn, ‘The Chicago man had ‘been in training quar- fers, int Philadelphia, for two weeks. ° The battle was Wednesday night of the past week, and at noon of that day the mes- sage of his baby's death was flashed to the pugilist from his wife in Chicago, He determined to return at once. ‘Then he discovered he would reach Chicago penniless. Robinson. had’ pinched and saved preparing for the go at the Wayne Club. “He decided to fight and wired home that he would be there as soon as possible. | He fought dnd fought like a demon. ‘Though his opnonent, outweighed him, he gave him a good beating and won the bout. Robinson fought with the words of the telegram on his mind. Knowing that he had to win or reach home penni- less he fought, as some of the fans sald, with superhuman power, YOUNG CORBETT WINS SUNDAY BOUT. NEW ORLEANS, La.—Special.—Young Corbett of ‘Denver knocked. out, Harry Ferns of New York Sunday, the 24th, in the eleventh round of what was scheduled to be a twenty-round bout before the West Side Athletic Club at McDonongh- yille, across the river from New Orleans. ‘The mateh was at catchweights, both men weighing in at between 135 and 140 pounds. “Corbett showed decided improve- ment over the form he displayed in his Dout with Phil Brock several weeks ago, ‘Hig right Jabs wore especially, effective. Ferns was strong In. the clinches and had an even break for the first five rounds. In the sixth Corbett landed sev- eral blows to the mouth and eye, draw- ing first blood. “From this time on Cor- bett had all the best of it, landing at will, ‘The bell probably saved Ferns in the “eighth, ‘but ‘he took his punishment gamely and came up strongly in every round. In ‘the preliminary, “Biz” Mackey of Columbus, O., got the decision over Patsy Hogan of’ New Orleans. Daye Barry acted as. referee, BATON ROUGH, La—Sporting men who violated all precedents near New Or- leans by pulling off the Sabbath prize- fight between Young Corbett and Harry Ferns have given the game a black eve from which ‘it is believed will result an anti-boxing’ bill equally as drastic as the laws which Killed the Facing game In that vicinity. Governor Sanders, who is in New Or. leans, is known to be liberal in views of all sporting and out-of-door events, but in conversation before leaving he said he was ‘opposed to such open and notorious defl- ance. ‘The boxing game and those who are in it. for. legitimate purposes will therefore suffer for the crimes of others. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? Johnson Afraid of James J. Jeffries — Has “Cold Feet.” NEW YORK. — Special. — Robert Ed- gren believes champion Jack Johnson has cold feet, as the following from his pen would indicate: “We've all been very much excited over the question whether or not big Jim Jeft- ries would come out to fight Jack Johnson, Nobody has had the foresight to wonder whether or not Johnson would fight. Jeff- Ties. “And now, all of a sudden. we learn that Johnson has developed cold feet. “over in) Australia “Johnson, publicly announced that he would never fight Jeff. ries in America ‘unless he has a colored referee in the ring, We know what that means. Johnson does not want to fight. He will no more get into a ting with Jeft- ries now than he would go down a cellar With ‘the champion ‘when Jeffries offered to take him there and leave $5,000. in Harry Corett’s hands to be given to the man who came out. “Johnson's demand is only a trick, by which he hopes to get out of fighting Jef- fries at all.” He knows that the condition would not be tolerated by any club in America.” In. the first place, no. colored man hag ever acted as referee In a. big fight. No colored man has ever had a chance to show that he would be @ good and reliable referee. “itis quite useless to beat about, the bush and indulge in platitudes. Tt isa fact. that a. prejudice exists that would make it impossible for any club in Amer- tea to put a colored referee in the, ring in a championship eyent— or, perhaps, even in a preliminary.” If you would keep abreast of the times then you should ‘read ‘The Freeman each week ‘at six months. 85 cents; one year, $1.50. AN APPEAL FOR J. F. FOWLER. Veteran Colored Baseball Player III and in Destitute Circumstances. To_the Sporting Editor of THe FREEMAN. ‘BROOKLYN, N, Y¥.—Special—Will_ you kindly give me’a few lines of your valua- ble space? T wish to call the attention of the large army of lovers of the national game. and especially the very many’ col- rede players in the country, to the condt- tion of John F. ("Bud") Fowler, who is lying ill at the home ‘of his sister at Frankfort, N. Y, Fowler was one of the hest colored ball players who ever wore a uniform. I was going to say. who ever donned 2 mitt, but that would be a mis- nomer, for itis a well-known fact that “pud” never used a glove, preferring to take everything that came his way with his bare hands. He, with Fleet Walker, Frank Grant and George Stovy, were the oniy colored bail players that ever got in- to the ranks of the bgl leagues, and they created a sensation in the International League back in the eighties. ‘A couple of decades ago, when I was a newspaper reporter in Laconia, N. H.. it was my pleasure to be associated with Fowler, he playing second base and I act- ing a8 official scorer and assistant man- ager of the Laconia baseball club, am I found him to be one of the “whitest” men I ever knew. At that time the Laconia qi Do you Drink Whisky? Ifso, ask for Pearl of Nelson. Herrmann Bros., <'2?\|%,., Louisville, Ky. SMOKE THE 4 Monypeny Hammond Co.’s Club House Sc Cigar. BOUVIER For the Kidneys and Blader. For Sale at all Bars OLD CHARTER gu CHARTER i gee ae ‘WRIGHT & TAYLOR, Dist. Louisville, Ky TUDOR WHISKEY! AT GREATHOUSE’S. Finest Bouquet. Finest Flavor. 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Aldrich and Lougee are at the present time solid business men in Laconia: Now Fowler, who has been a member of the best colored teams and a number of white teams, such as the Live Oaks of Lynn, the Crickets of Binghamton and others, hav- ing been in the harness. for over thirty years, and never in all that time connect ed in‘any way with outlaw baseball, 1s In destitute circumstances, and I appeal for popular subscription ‘benefit in his aid Any sum of money, no matter how small will be gratefully reoelyed by’ him, 1 3s my intention, as early a8, possible to arrange a benefit, game for him here ‘on one of the local diamonds, and I ear. nestly ask the co-operation of the colored players, many of whom live around about New York and Brooklyn. 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Cures Kid- net and Blair Trouban —— A. G. Rogers, Saloon and Pool Room Telophone, Citizone, 2. 155 N. Third St., - Columbus, O. eat ROGERS’ PLACE, 50 Vine Street, BUFFALO, NEW YORK. Gall! oes suhiuas opus A comprehensive showing of the new waists on display. The assortment includes the latest creations in linens, lawns, madras, checked and striped dimities and many imported novelties shown for the first time now. Fine batiste waists of sheer batiste, striped and checked dimities, plain tucked and tailored and lace-trimmed models, with the new long sleeves, in unusually attractive styles, moderately priced at $2.50, $3, $4. . . . $5.00 Cotton crepe waists are among the choiceest novelties this season, are unusually serviceable, require no ironing and are ideal for outing. New effects in tailored and hand-embroidered models, at $3 and upward. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Ladies, for a free shine call at 30 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Mamie Stewart Vance has returned with her husband to Milwaukee. The Woman's Club will meet with Mrs. Maria Spears in Center Street Monday afternoon. May Allen, a well-known young man of Louisville, KY., is in the city for an indefinite stay. Mrs. G. H. Shaffer has returned from Springfield, where she was called by the illness of her father. Miss Edna A. Scott was hostess for the Locwinnial Club on ednesday evening at her house with St. Senate Avenue. Mrs. Belle Craighead has recovered sufficiently from treatment at the City Hospital to be able to return to her home. Mrs. N. A. Preston has returned from Tuskegee, where she has been spending several months with her daughter, Mrs. Julius K. Cox. A funeral of Frank Hickerson, who was beaten and then set fire to by his stepson, Arthur Marshall, was held at Allen Chapel Thursday. A necktie carnival and dance will be given for charity at Odd Fellows Hall of Fame, 66 F. The Woman's Club. Every person attending will receive a necktie as a souvenir. Quarterly meeting services will be held at Allen Chapel tomorrow. Rev. W. H. Davis, pastor at Morristown Chapel, will present an oratory sermon. See the exclusive patterns designed by us in our model plant, Cincinnati, O. J. & K. Ladies Shoe Parlor. E. W. Proctor entertained a party of forty-some at his home in West Fifteenth Street, Twelfth street, Monday evening. The decorations were green and blue. The Friends Club will give a valentine party at the home of Mrs. Hudson, 549 West Twelfth street, Monday evening, Feb. 15. Refreshments will be sold. Mrs. Martha Jane Collins of Dandale, N.J., pastor at Morristown Chapel, Mrs. Mary Wooten, visited W. N. Curry, the former's sister, during the week. Miss Effie Wakefield, 27 years of age, living at 1407 Kappa street, West Indian Village, visited at a lingering illness. Her funeral was held at her late home Tuesday afternoon. Miss Sadie Boyer, a well-known young woman of this city, died Tuesday at 602 West Indian Village, held a lingering illness. Her funeral was held at her late home Thursday morning. Napoleon Murray, 50 years old, a well-known resident of North Indianapolis, was found dead by his wife, Tuesday, upon his death. He had been in his usual state of health. Any foot guaranteed fitted at 30 North Pennsylvania street. J. & K. Ladies Shoe Parlor. Col. French of Cleveland, O. will explain what is said to be one of the finest collections of moving pictures of the San Francisco earthquake in existence, at A Regular Customer is a satisfied one. That is what we want you to be, so we give the best goods for the money. Our stock of diamonds, jewellry and cut glass is first class. J. P. Mullally, Diamonds and Jewelry. 28 Monument Place "The Best at the Price No matter what the Price." MAROTT DEPARTMENT STORE COMPANY, 342 to 358 Mass. Ave. GROCERY SPECIALS Saturday Sale 10 lbs. of best granulated sugar with $1.00 purchase of grocery for..... 45c 10 bars Lenox, Gloss or SantaClaus soap for..... 29c Best pure lard in 3, 5 and 10 lb. pails, per pound..... 12c Breakfast bacon in 4 to 6 pound strips, per lb..... 16c New apricots, while they last, per lb..... 12 $\frac{1}{2}$ c 3 quarts of navy beans, extra nice, for..... 25c Taggart's best butter crackers, per pound..... 6c All National Biscuit Co.'s 10c goods Saturday 2 for..... 15c Best Lead rice, Saturday per pound..... 7 $\frac{1}{2}$ c Marcott's special blend of 20c coffee, Saturday, lb..... 17 $\frac{1}{2}$ c --- Bethel A. M. E. Church next Monday night. The Baptist Ministers' Alliance will meet at Corinthian Baptist Church next Monday morning and evening. At the morning service will participate in "The Lord's Supper," by Rev. J. D. Johnson of Irvington. The session at night will be Bible study. Subject, "Prayer." We make 5000 pairs daily of ladies' high-grade shoes. Factory at Cincinnati, Salesroom, 30 North Pennsylvania street, near Walmart. Mrs. Martha J. Wagoner, 80 years old, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rhoda Reed, at Shepardsville, near Norwood. Her funeral was held at Olivet Baptist Church, of which she was the pastor. The morning service, Thursday morning. She leaves two sons and a daughter. The Sixth Ward Republican Workers' Club will celebrate Lincoln's birthday Friday evening, Feb. 12, at their hall, Abraham Lincoln will be read by Frank Welch. It is expected that Mr. Hedrick will deliver the address for the occasion. Refreshments will be served. Club will meet next Tuesday evening. Suede shoes and oxfordis in all colors. Abraham Lincoln will be shoe Store, 30 North Pennsylvania street. The Rev. D. E. Skelton, presiding elder of the Indiana district of the Lexington M. E. Conference, was in a railroad wreck last week on the Southern Railroad near New Albany, but escaped with his car. The driver recovered. The coach in which he was seated was thrown down an embankment and turned completely over. INFORMATION WANTED Any information of the whereabouts of Marion Sharp, Sam, John and Melvina are her sons and daughter, who were owned by Susan Sharp (white), and lived at Petersburg, My. My name is Rachel Sharp, and I live at 108 Burford street, Dallas, where I take the consideration of every one in helping me to find my people through The Freeman. JOSEPH. CLEMONS' FUNERAL. The funeral of Joseph Clemons, who was shot by Charles Jackson on Saturday night, understaking establishment of Shelton & Willis. His home was at Anderson, but because of the serious illness of his brother, he placed his body in bury him here. His two brothers attended the funeral. The floral offerings were beautiful, two large broken wheels and a large basket. One was from A. S. Schooler and friends, and the other was from the Improved Orphan Elks, of which he was a member. The pillow also a gift of male friends. He was 25 years old. A NEW SHOE STORE. One of the distinct novelties to Indianapolis in a commercial way is the new J. & K. Shoe Store at 30 North Pennsylvania street. This house deals exclusively in ladies' shoes and gives its patrons the shoes they need. The store is founded by the factory owners. The conduct in conjunction with the store of a ladies shining stand, where they give shines free to customers. There is no fee for the store owners may call for the "tree doings". This house is making a strong bid for the patronage of our colored ladies in the city. They have taken out an extensive advertising contract with the FREEMAN. They own an interior dunn and do most earnestly request our lady friends to give them a call. MAN MURDERS WOMAN AND MAN WHO ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT TROUBLE. The West Side of the city was aroused early Sunday morning by the report of a double murder which had taken place on Sunday night before. The principals in the case were a woman known about town as Madeline Jackson, but whose right name is Charles Jackson, who was also Charles Jackson, who she represented as being her husband, and one Joseph Clemons, a roomer with the Jacksonons, and who sought to make peace when the trouble had been solved, the shooting to have been one Harry Sommers, who Jackson claimed was too attentive to the women, but who escaped the infuriated men, and who turned his revolver on the woman and hearing a shot, Clemons rushed in the room, when Jackson turned his weapon on the woman, and who were speedily removed to the hospital, where they lingered throughout the day Sunday and died Sunday night seventeen. The woman jaws and awaits the court's action in the case. The woman is said to have come from a respectable family at Nashville and has opportunities to go educational and social opportunities. Her remains were taken to Nashville for burial. INDIANAPOLIS MORTGAGE AND LOAN CO. During these stringent times it is often desirable and even necessary in cases to obtain money through chattel mortgage and there are many number of firms in this city, the reputation THE Freeman demands that we not lead our subscribers, and the race in general, astray any matter we feel our authority at the market we feel our authority to direct and suggest through our oft and well-read columns those firms and business enterprises that desire to grow, prosper and it at and the same time guaranteeing to us courteous treatment and only a proper investment. In the matter of loans, no one will be able to lend more than the Indianapolis Mortgage and Loan Co., located at 210 Unity Building, 147 East Market street. Mr. W. W. O. Orr, the president of the company, please all deserving applicants regardless of color. If in need of a firm in this line, don't fail to call. Write him or phone him, or call us at 512-744-5411. Mm 541. THE Freeman is sincere in its request, knowing exactly the extent to which your patronage will be appreciated. GEO. C. DETCH WHEEL CO. It is with pleasure that we call the attention of our many readers to the Geo. G. Detch and the G. G. Macintosh avenues. Mr. Detch, the genial and courteous proprietor, is the acknowledged head for all athletic goods, also Columbia, Imperial, Rugby and Jewel stores, and the electrical novelties and repairing. His store is also headquarters for goods manufactured by A. G. Spalding & Bros. baseballhouses, and the G. G. Macintosh used in the athletic and sporting world, including authoritative books concerning the same. He desires to sell the colored patronage used in goods satisfaction both in quality of goods and prices. Associated with Mr. Detch now is Mr. Robert Douglass, formerly with the Gus Habich Co. Mr. Detch will have always satisfied colored patronage, as he knows them well and has always been courteous and obliging. Within a few days the Detch Wheel warehouse, a few doors from the present location, where he will have larger and commodious quarters to accommodate his large business, a few doors from the present location. Mr. Detch will have entrances both on Massachusetts avenue and Ohio street. THE FREEMAN invites and asks that its members treat their patronage to this firm, as this paper would not recommend a firm for their pat- ternage, and know that they would get a square deal and treatment. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Great preparations are being made for the annual celebration of the memorial to Frederick Douglass which was instituted in 1882. The memorial is the Association of Indianapolis some two years ago, and is held each year in Lincoln Hall on the Sunday nearest the annual celebration. The platform will present a very pretty appearance on this occasion, as there will be a military front to it, composed of the commanding officers of the commanding officers of the Uniform Ranks of the K. of P. Brig-Gen. Geo. Wilkes has given his consent and has ordered out the battalion, who, under the commanding officer, Maj. Edward Gallard, will act as an officer. With the president of the association and others, will occupy seats in a hack which will hold a very prominent place in the street in front of the Y.M.C. A. building THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER 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. Blodan, druggest, Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS Bennett Bros.: Transfer, Coal, Kindling, Flour, and Feed, 417 Indiana Avenue, New Phone 2977. To Let—One or two rooms furnished or unfurnished in strictly private family. *Address The Freeman. WANTED—Reliable agents. Good pay; outfit free; big demand; credit given. Chowning Card Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 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. Young lady of moderate means wishes correspondence with an industrious gentleman of similar circumstances: object matrimony. Address, Miss Bernice Thomas, 427 Marborough street, Boston, Mass. For Sale—City drug store. Money-maker, elite colored patronage, rare chance for a hustling colored pharmacist or as an investment. Fifteen hundred dollars down, balance easy terms. Address H. 305 W. St. Clair street. Notice-Auy one knowing the address or whereabouts of William Henry Shanks, colored, who was last heard from by his father in Nashville, Tenn., in the year 1890, please communicate at once with William Shanks, 220 East 18th street. Topeka, Kas. 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 so shiny and light and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER, Sta. I- Harriman, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade (Formerly known Ozonized Ox Marrow) The use of Fork's Hair Pomade made bornbear, harsh, kinky or curly-hair straight, and arrange in any style desired consistent with Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates at the skin, stops the hair from falling out or breaking. 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 remedies. sults even on the youngest children. To assure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. promise to delegate. Ford's Hair Pomade has made it "Don't buy anything else陪我 to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade-it will pay you. Look for this name The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 133 East Kintle St. Chicago, IL MADE is made only in Chicago by the above agents. Agents Wanted Everywhere. and will march to Tomlinson Hall, arriving there in time for the opening of the pavilion. This year the committee has secured as the speaker of the day the Hon. Willo O. Tyler. The interdenominational meeting will be held in an influence into this celebration and make it a combined Lincoln and Douglass celebration, thus what is expected to be the opening of colored citizens will be in Tomlinson Hall on the afternoon of the 14th. THE AMERICAN HAT CO. The American Hat Company of 31 S. Illinois street is the first firm of this city providing its legions of customers with the innovation of $1 hats, granutizing the patrons that the hat is just as stylish, and durable as hats costing three and four times the price and give less satisfaction. Dr. W. N. Short, the president, is one of the best known merchants in this city among the colored people, and is known as the man who wants to sell to everybody and please all. The motto of the firm is "If you are all satisfied with your hat return it." All hats are strictly high grade as to quality and are smart and graceful. They also carry the Willard, a $2 production, which they term "the best on earth." Your patronage is eagerly recommended and THE FREEMAN gladly recommends the firm. GREENVILLE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN MILES AT LITTLE ROCK. Editor of THE FREEMAN: J. J. Miles, formerly headwaiter at the New York City hotel, now headwaiter at the New Capitol Hotel. Little Rock, Ark. The Capitol is considered one of the finest European hotels in the state. J. J. Miles Jr. is second headwaiter. A FREE HOMESTEAD. One hundred and sixty acres, agriculture, grazing, farming and timber lands. Located in nearly all of the Southern, West and Southwestern states and Alaska. Government properties. 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WITH THE Kitchen Heater You a "PERFECT" Gas in the Kitchen Heater. ct" Gas Range ments for saving gas and time Kitchen Heater with coke or caol and do part of the first up-to-date kitchen convenience, balance may be paid at $3 a month. e with the Offer, $25.05 for Cash. Umpolis Gas Co. Pennsylvania Street. JUST OPENED Chop Suey, Cafe and Chile Parlor, Cor. Senate and Indiana Ave. Entrance 400 N. Senate. Open all night. Furnished room Your patronage solicited. FRED. LEWIS, Mgr.