The Freeman

THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXII NUMBER 11 TEACHERS HOLD INSTITUTE AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ON LAST SATURDAY INSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM WAS RENDERED Business Men Hold Meeting Report of Free Library-Bishop Woodcock Confirms Class-Mrs. Tom Cole Shot by Burglars. Prof. S. O. Johnson, of the High School, will report on playgrounds that it will improve the colored school children to have playgrounds this summer. Final arrangements will be completed next . . . A very enthusiastic meeting of the young business men of the city was held Monday night at the tailor shop of Hester & Halley, 444 Eighth street. The organizer, Cary B. Lewis, the Young Men's Business Club. The following officers were elected: Cary B. Lewis, president, and Dr. R. M. Williss, secretary. The aim and scope of the organization was outlined by the committee with other local organizations, with a view of entertaining the visitors who will be here this summer. There will be another meeting Monday night, March 15, at Haley's. The report for the month of February at the Free Public Library follows: Number of books issued, 5,720 Number of books issued, 5,401 Average daily circulation 234 Per cent fiction, 48 Attendance at story hour, 255 Number of persons assisted in refer-ence, 320 Arrangements are being made by Prof. G. M. McClellan to have a free course of lectures in the assembly room, with stereo equipment. Rachael Ruth Miss Elizabeth Rachael Ruth that the work at the library is a growing success, and the people are much pleased with the many new books that are coming in daily. The library is a crucial cared more of the weekly race papers to come weekly, and they are causing a number to visit the library for the special purpose of reading Negro journals. The visit of Bishop Charles D. Woodcock at the Episcopal Church of Our Merciful Savior last Sunday night was one of great interest to the colored people of this church. He was greeted with one of the largest audiences in the history of the church. The services were interesting and appropriate, and the address was encouraging and practical, and abounded in simple truths. The bishop took for his subject, "Stop, Look, and Listen." He called upon his bishop, the Rev. Joseph Man, and they are doing for humanity and the church. He told them of their opportunities if they would stop and think of their bishop, the Rev. Joseph Man. He said they passed through this world once, before they owe a duty to their Maker. "A clean, honorable life," declared the bishop, "after duty of every man." After duty of every man, the bishop conducted confirmation. The ritualistic services were led by the Rev. Leroy Ferguson. Ten women received the laying on of hands by the bishop, and a diet, was sung by Miss Lauretta Dodd and Dr. Wilson Ballard. Two beautiful anthems were sung by the choir, under the direction of the Rev. Leroy Ferguson. During the Lenten weeks there will be special sermons by visiting priests of other churches of the city. The Rev. L. G. Jordan has put out a handsome photo of Senator James B. Foraker, published by the Dispatch Printing Company, very large and of the venerable orator and below are printed extracts from Senator Foraker's speech in favor of the Negro soldiers. Consequently the extracts are the following: "They are the Negro soldiers and Negroes, but only for justice because they are men." They are for sale at the Doug-lash drug store, also the Indianapolis FREEMAN. Mrs. Plummer Lewis, of 535 Twelfth street, was confined to home this week with lagripe. Miss Georgia Kimble has returned to this city, after a delightful visit to French Lick Springs. Mrs. Louis Troutman has returned from Birmingham, Ala., after a delightful visit among friends. Miss Elenora Boyd Williams is in Frankfort, Ky., at the bedside of her father, who is very ill. Mrs. J. T. Wright, Thirty-sixth and Greenwood avenue, is ill. Her physician expects her out in a few days. Mr. Cassius G. Smith, who has traveled extensively all over the country, left Thursday for California and the West. Mr. William H. Steward has returned from Washington, D. C., after spending several days at the inauguration of Mr. Taft. The wife of Mr. Morris Cowan is not in this city, as was reported in these columns last week. Mrs. Cowan is still in New York City. The Rev. John Hicks, an old soldier, died this week at his home in the East End. He was pastor of the Union Mission, Floyd and Magnolia Cottets. After a visit to friends in Indianapolis, Miss Sadie C. Perkins will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lena Cornelius, 4125 Dearborn street, Chicago, for an indefinite sty. Mr. Thomas Schuck and wife entertained her last Sunday, as honor of Mr. and Mrs. Lena Evans, Morris Cowan and William T. Mamon were among the guests. Miss Prima Futzbutter has returned from New Orleans, where she has been attending the Mardi Gras festivities. Mrs. Mary Bell Harris has also returned from the Crescent City. Miss Sophia Johnson was called to Nashville, Tenn., to be at the bedside of her sick mother, who died last Wednesday. All her friends regret her mother's death. Dr. John H. Frank, pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, has purchased a large room on the Eighth street near Madison street. The Rev. Frank is the only Negro in the block. A number of young people are rehearsing to give a play at an early date for the benefit of the Lincoln Institute. Mr. Asher Brown and Thurlow James are at the head of the play, "The Country District School." Miss Estella Preston, who has been ill, is able to go to her home in Glasgow, Ky., to see her father, who is sick. Miss Preston will return to the city to finish her trained nursing course at the Red Cross Sanitarium. Mr. Edward Morris, of Chicago, Ill., and one of the ablest lawyers in this country, is candidate for the head of the Odd Fellows of America. Louisville Odd Fellows say they are for Colonel Morris for anything in the gift of that fraternity. Mme. Anitia Patti Brown, of Chicago, Ill., is expected to be in this city soon to give a musical. Mme. Brown is one of Chicago's leading sopranos who had the honor of appearing to sing on February 12. She is making a trip to New Orleans and St. Louis, and will stop over at Louisville. A whist party was given last week at the home of Mrs. Carrie Thomas, on Twelfth street. A very enjoyable evening was held for Mrs. Thomas, who were Mrs. Jennie Goodwin, Mrs. Jennie Hastings, Mrs. Mary Grizzard, Mrs. Mary Cooper, Messrs. Cal Gentry, Philipp, Miss Emma Smith, George Smith, and others. Miss Marshall Marshall, who is a Bostonian, but has been in New Orleans for some time, will be attending a city at an early date, en route to Boston. Miss Marshall will be accompanied by her mother, and will no doubt spend a few days in this city. Miss Marshall is usually the guest of Misses Lucy and Helen Du Valle. --- Mr. Floyd Willis, a young artist who is doing some work here with the brush, is making an endeavor to get funds in order to make a trip to Paris, France, where he can continue his education. He has already studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and he can make a trip to Paris. A series of entertainments will be given for his benefit. --- Prof. H. F. Jones, Chancellor Commander of the Knights of Pythias of the State, was in the city last Sunday, in conference with the president of the K. of P., to make arrangements for the whole military delegation of Kentucky to attend the National Encampment at Kansas City, Mo., in August, in a "Kentucky Special." A very pretty birthday surprise party was given last week to Misses Mary Ellia Wilson and Bessie Jones by the Sunny View Club. The affair was very brilliant, with the guests dressed in costumes and the table was handsomely decorated with red carnations. Those present were Misses Edna and Mary Goodwin, Cassie Wilson and Milbrey Winstead, and Messrs. Walter Williams and Eugene Guillam. Marshall Bullitt, chairman of the Board of Safety, tendered his resignation to the Mayor of Louisville this week. Mr. Bullitt was the acting mayor, and the mayor who delivered the Louisville vote to Taft during the last April primary. Nothing definite has been given out as to the cause of Mr. Bullitt's resignation, but the politicians are claiming that something is going wrong with the "reform ad --- Miss Clara Frazier served a six-course dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs. W. A. Tyler, of Detroit, Mich. The dinner was an art show. The theater young people of the city, Those present were Miss Georgia Davis, Miss Hannah Churchill, Miss Elise Johnson, Miss Clara Frazier and Mrs. W. A. Tyler. The young Charles A. Pope, Robert McDonald, George INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1909. Under the Eagle's Wings. Gilliam. On Tuesday night Mrs. Tyler was entertained at whist by Miss Georgia Davis. Mr. Lewis Evans and wife were charmingly entertained Monday night at their home, twenty-ninth and Walnut streets, overlooking the river. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schuck, Miss Clara Hardin, Mr. Will T. Hamon, Miss Bell Davis, Morris Coyne, Mr. Clance, Mr. Rose, Mr. Clance Rhodes, Miss Lottie E. Beavers, Mrs Julia Rhodes, James Darden, Eugene Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Woodard. The Lincoln Institute fever has about subsided in this city. For a while all you could eat was Beard and Roosevelt, the place where Jim Brover Institute was to be located. The brother did not fall so kindly to the movement, and most likely will not unless some of the students were. Frost has jimcrowed them enough, without having more of it. People in Louisville are thinking about a better High School more than about the Lincoln Institute. . . . The triple honor roll for the month of February at the Western School, of which Dr. W. H. Perry is principal, is as follows: Dr. W. H. Perry is principal, is as follows: Herbert B. Bell, Mannie Hansbrough, Willie Mosee, Nannie Board, Ophelia Barbor, Susie Nichols, Beatrice Carmichael, Ethel House, Nellie Parks, Anna Thompson and Prof. Ferry is principal of the largest school, it is said, in the South, and the work at this institution stands well up among the other schools in the country. Mrs. Thomas Cole, the wife of Thomas Cole, proprietor of Cole's Cafe, Tenth and Walnut streets, was shot three times last week. Mrs. Cole was at home, 1799 West Chestnut street. The shooting was done by a burglar. Mrs. Cole had returned to her home after being out a short while, and on going to her house, up fire a burglar sprung from closet and fired three shots at Mrs. Cole, all taking effect. At this writing Mrs. Cole is reported to be resting easy, and the physicians, Mrs. Cole is well known hereabouts, and has a number of friends. Mr. Cole has received a number of communications from friends deploring the act and sympathizing with him during the illness of his wife. There is no use to "beat the dwell around the stump" all the time and say good the work is not progressing as they should. While we are optimistic about the coming National League meeting here this summer, it is true that the interest that is now at all encouragement of the local meetings is not at all encouraging. As a newspaper correspondent, we have attended several meetings, and, much to our surprise, the attendance has been successful. We have been transacted. We do not doubt, that some Under the Eagle's Wings. committees have been appointed, the walters and the league has not yet been put in motion. The league needs some more enthusiasm, spirit and life. No one is hostile to the local league, but the power to get men together and do things is lacking in this present time. Dr. W. T. Amigler was given a full cup of enthusiastic welcome to the city last week. He was a distinguished honor to the new president of the State University to be given such a cordial welcome. He prepared to do the work, the other speakers were Dr. Pinder Flack, Dr. L. E. Moody, Prof. C. W. Houser, Mrs. M. Jackson and Dr. L. E. Britt. Some very beautiful numbers were given by Mrs. Maggie Purnell, Miss Maggie Todd and Dr. J. E. Purnell. The Ministers' Alliance proves to be quite an interesting meeting every Monday morning. The discussions that these ministers have in place are structuring and elevating. Dr. J. C. Anderson and Dr. Nichol's administration has been one of the best in the history of the church. The minister is the hear of the excellent meetings these gentlemen are holding weekly, as they not only discuss those questions, but also the minister and the church, but they take up school questions with a view of doing some good for the children of the race. Dr. Anderson and the minister are in the city about one year, and no minister stands higher in the estimation of the people, both white and black. Dr. Chapel E. E. Church, the mother Methodist church of this city. . . . Edward Irvine, age thirty-one, died last week at the Louisville National Hospital, of asthma. He was a well-known young man who was a devoted brother of Mr. Richard Irvine, a popular young man of the West End. The funeral of the deceased was held at Woolrodridge's Chapel, on Twelfth street, between Chestnut and magazine stores. The brother of most best instructed funerals seen here for some time. The numerous flowers that were sent in memory of Mr. Irvine were laid around the casket. It was a beautiful scene. Surrounding the casket was the museum, the host of friends. The funeral sermon was preached by Dr. J. C. Anderson, pastor of the Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Chur, pastor of Anderson was pointed out that "Whooseover believeth shall not perish, but have everlasting life." The deceased is survived by his brother, Richard Irvine, his sister, Suzanne Millbarrears were Winston Churchill. Elworth Woolford, Clem Seagraves, James Easely, Arthur Rhodes and Lucian Cox. CARY B. LEWIS LOGANSPORT. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN SHELBYVILLE, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN St. Louis. Ernest Montgomery was called to Rushville this week on account of the death of his aunt, Mrs. Cora Rodney.....Henry Montgomery, who is an employee at the Floyd drug store, was arrested on Friday, he has been at his mother's bedside.....M. A. A. Gaines was in the city last week as guest of Tellus Carter.....Stephen Marshall, who was shot in the eye, is said to be under a sedation by Sheblyvillie went dry Saturday by a majority of 755. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK MEANS-CLARK NUPTIALS AT MUNCIE, IND. KANSAS CITY WAITERS WILL GIVE BALL Fisk University Glee Club Give Fine Program at Clarksville- Patients Doing Nicely at the Negro Infirmary. Special to THE FREEMAN. A number of his friends at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Ashby in Whitely, Wednesday, March 3, at whist. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Benson, Mrs. Guthrie, den Mr. and Mrs. S. Guthrie, den Mr. and Mrs. Peters, Mr. Williams, Miss S. Wingfield, Miss S. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Ashby, Mr. A. Lambkins, Archie Johnson and Lyman Daniels of 643, Grand United Order of Oddfellows, of Muncie, Ind., gave a social at the hall last Friday night, and were financially successful. They kindly thank those who made the St. Patrick's social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, on the corner of Seamore and Ebright streets. Everybody welcome. ... Mr. G. W. Strong, a New Castle businessman, at his real estate. ... Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bass have moved to their new home, 915 South Madison street. ... Mrs. William Benson is improving from the schock of Kelley, of Robson Ill., is visiting friends. KANSAS CITY, MO. The waiters of the Baltimore Hotel (the sweetest hostelry west of the Mississippi river) will give a tacky ball at Turner Hall, March 16. This is the first ball of the week for the Baltimore Head of a grand affair. Committee on arrangements: J. H. Winn, B. Hubbard, G. Daniels and L. Greggs, Prof. J. M. Henderson, floor manager, will introduce the Merry Head of the Baltimore. . . . The head waiters of the Baltimore wish to announce that they are not connected with the ball of March 18. Their head waiter will introduce Mr. W. H. Owens, head waiter of the Savoy Hotel, who was recently elected chancellor commander of McKinley Lodge No. 21, K. of P., is doing great work for the bodge. It is hoped that success will CLARKSVILLE. TENN. Special to TIME FREEMAN St. Peter. There was an excellent musical program rendered at Wesley's Chapel Monday evening, and it was a financial success. Prof. Britt, of Louisville, was present and remembered by Fisk University Glee Clug gave a fine program at St. Peter's, March 12...Mrs. Carrie Simpkins has resigned as teacher in the city of Chicago for the fall. Fisk University Saturday, Miss Bessie Harris has been elected in her place...Mrs. Ben West, formerly of this city, now of Peoria, Ill., is here visiting relatives, the follow-up of her visit to this city, now of Chicago, is here visiting relatives and friends....Friday evening, at the residence of Mr. William Harris, the follow-up of his visit to this city, now of Peoria, Ill., Misses Bessie Whitfield, Bruetta Metcalf, Bessie, Nina and Alma Harris, Merrs, Tom Keeese, Henry Reynolds and George Keeese, the colored infirmary are doing nicely....Mrs. Ed Broadus, of Brooks street, is thought to be improving. Crawford Farley, formerly of this city, now of Chicago, is here visiting relatives. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Elisse Naylor, of Warren, were in the city Sunday.... Mrs. Queen Robinson had her second graduation class in dressmaking this week.... James Gibson shows some improvement in program work. Club, Tues., was a grand success.... Women's Day exercises at the Oak Hill Avenue Church, by the Chrysanthemum Club, Sunday, were well attended and an excellent program was rendered. The pulpit at the Good Hope Church, Sunday.... The Mahoning Avenue Baptist Church had covenant meeting, Sunday, at 11 a. m., and at 2 p. m. baptized a number of converts. Mrs. James Baker A. K. was baptized in Biddle and Mrs. Maud Johnson are all. Women and Their Interests By “DOROTHY.” t For this one day— Grant us sight to see the road ‘Creep plainjy, on our winding way. Grant us strength to bear the load, or. this one day. For this one day— Guide our fect the road along, Let not our weary footsteps stray ; Give us to litt a stave of song, For this one day. For this one day— Let us not see the mud beneath, But know the gold above the gray And smell “the wind upon the heath,” For this one day, For this one day— ‘When bowed at eve for benison, Grant that upon’ the uphill way ‘Our passing smile has gladdened one, ‘On this one day. —Edna 8. Valentine, in Success Magazine, Clubs of Pueblo, Col. The, Modiste Art Club gave a high-class musical recently for the benefit of the or- Phanage building fund. ‘The Mothers Bxcelsior Club has appro- priated $9 to the fund. “Mrs, raunnie ‘Pra. jee was elected delegate to the convention at Cheyenne in June, and Mrs. J. 8, Young Mill appear on the program with @ paper on mothers’ work. It is reported. that a number of shoe salesmen at Portiand, Ore., make © pracy tice of mating fund of thelr Colored lady patrons. The names of the! offenders wil Ynade public as Soon as the tucts are Known. If this ts the condition of affairs, We think it the time and place to establish a Negro shoe store, ‘The Woman's Improvement Club of Youngstown, Ohio, has presented the A. M. %B. Church of that city with an individual communion set of forty gold-decorated crystal glasses mounted in’ a silver re- ceiver. s + ‘The ladies of Junction City, Kan., have eer a Seaton cain, Washington Enthusiastic Over the Training School. Miss N. H. Burroughs. Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Convention, Aux- iliary to the National Baptist Convention, who is undoubtedly doing more for the up- lift. of Negro womanhood in particular, and /her race in general, than any other living Negro woman, with her coterte of assistants, has just closed an interesting campaign’ of | information’ respecting a ‘Training School that Is to be erected In the District of Columbia for wemen and girls, Within the past’ three weeks she has been uble to. reach every section in this great city, either by person or printed mat- ter, setting forth the purposes and scope of ‘the work undertaken, Great. interest has been arounsed, not only among. the constituency by which the school ix to be ‘operated. but Among the general public, as Was evidenced by the enthusiastic crowds that attended all the mass meetings, when Miss Burroughs swayed her great audi- ences by her genius and unexeelled elo- ‘quence. ‘This splendid work of building a ‘Train- ing School, which will give training to our women and girly in all the industries and professions, is the ambitious idea of Miss rroughs, an dis compelled to. succeed, with suc ha character behind it. Within a very short time the property has been over half paid for, and_a valuable plece of prop- erty it Is, in the District of Columbia. The seventy-five-thousand-dollar building’ con- templated will Very soon he In process of Feallzation, “It will make a great picture, standing in bold ‘relief upon, Lincoin Helghts—a throbbing center of industrial and missionary activity. ‘The women are to be congratulated upon this splendid accounting of themselves dur- ing their briet existence of eight years, Notwithstanding the movement is nationai in scope and has a great backing, it is gratifying to note, however, the interest shown by the people of the District. They are delighted to have the institution in their midst, and have pledged their co-op- eration and support. Enthusiastic meetings were held at the largest churches in the District, regardless of denomination, and hundreds of persons of ‘all sects plcdged to. contribute when ealled upon. ‘Five thousand dollars must be raised by May 30, and we hope every person who has pledged, and all to whom appeals will be sent, will respond. Let. us women have this great school, and have it cone (From Our Own Correspondent.) As you have doubtiess read. in your ‘ally papers, a great South African State has been formed by. Boers and: Englishmen Who have gone to the country. ‘There has Just appeared an article on the new States Telation to the native of South Africa. It Seems an. excellent.articie, the sentiment Of which could be used in our own United States to great advantage as a solution of the race problem, ‘The article Is by ‘Mra Olive Senremner, the wife of a prominent Boer, and a writer of distinction. She has Tecetitiy, written In a Cape newspaper a Manifesto in which she discusses the rela- Tonship between. the governing minority Of one race in South Africa and the ‘mi fority, cansinting» of patives “of he Sot in. the discourse of this ‘she delivers an Impressive warbing and makes an appeal. She saya: “T hold this to be the root question In South Africa, and ag is our wisdom in dealing with it, so will be our future, “No exact census exisis of the popula- tion of South Africa, but it Is roughly cal- Cylated that there are about nine talilions Of fuhabitants, eight millions of dark men Ghd one million of white, rhe white race consists mainly of two varieties, oF rather mixed ‘European de- Beene. but’ both largely. Teutonle. Our Yast, dark native population consists large- 1e'or ‘Bantus, who. were already In South Resiea when ‘we came heres of a few ex- piring yellow varieties ‘of African races, Rnd a small but Important number of halt: uates, largely the desoendants of imported Saves, whose blood was mingled with that Of thelr inasters, as is always the case fenere slavery” exists, and avery. sinail Dod of Asiatics. It ts out of this great Reterogencous mass of humans that the Routh African ‘nation of the future. wil besbuni. “or the dark man {s with us to stay. Not only does ‘the, Bantu increase and Aourish greatly, as is natural in his native continent and under ‘the climatic condi- Slong which "are best sulted to. him noi fin does he razr tos ou tn eoncaet Sith ur civilization, asthe yellow races Tiave largely dones he rather tres to grasp And make it fis own; not only can we not éxterminate him—breause we cannot even transport him-—because we want him. We Want more and always more of him, to Tabor in’our mines, to bulld our railways towork {nour fields, to perform our do: Thesti¢ labors, and to: buy our goods.” We Rigire to Import more of him when. We can, Tinney are the makers of our wealth, the great Basle rock’ on which our state is Pounded-—our vast Iaboring class Une in South Attica are one of the first peoples ‘in the modern. world, and under The'new moral and material conditions Civilization, to be. brought face. to. fact Srith this “probtem. in its. acutest. form On our power to solve it regully- and hero: feally depends our greatness, Tf It be pos Sible’ for us) out ‘of our great complies Body of humanity (its parts possibly” re Malhing racially distinct for centuries) "tc False Up a free, intelligent, harmonious na- Hion, euch (part, acting with and for, th Doneat of the others, then we sball have waved @ part as great as that of any Na: Pion in the world's record. Hin" our. sinall, permanent, and largely “south Afeican born Asiatic population we “Rave a section of people, sober. industri Guy and intelligent, rien. with those deep: Stayin mowers wich have made, ma Gsiatle peoples so. persistent and ofter Gaminant in the past and present. ‘This t fhetmateriat from which our natlon mus Se shaped: and we, the small, and for the Phomunt abolutely dominant white aristo Grats, on whom the anain weight of dut Gf'scctal reconstruction rests, have Treason fo be thanktul te is what itis. sig by, entering on, lang and. dificult course Of strictly’ just and humane treat. Shunt as between ‘man and man, we car Tid our, danke races to "us, traigh thet Sense of justice end graxitude: If We, as 3 Gominant class, tealize that” the” true Qealth of a nation Is the health, happiness, Intelligence and content of every man and Antelligence andihin its borders; if we dd 2 FOR THIS ONE DAY. ‘Clubs of Pueblo, Col. OLD WORLD NEWS. not fall to realize that the true crown of Honor on the head of a dominant class is that it’ leads and teaches, mot uses and crushes it, "ag' the Years, bass, "wo can point with pride to our native peoples as the’ most ‘enlightened and the most free, the most devoted to the welfare of Its na: ive land ‘of all. African ‘races; if our la- boring class can in the end be made, to compare favorably with that of ail other countries ; and if for the men Of genius oF Capacity who are born among them there Heriot open a fave path fo take thelr share 4m the highest ducies of ite and citizen: Ship, thelr talents expended for the wel- fare’ of the community, and~ not Sup- pressed to become its subterrancous and Aisruptive force; if we can make our State’ ax dear 16 them ag the matrix. In Which ‘they find” shelter for healthy life and. development, as itis to us—then T think the future of South Africa promises Breatness and strength. But if we fail in this? IC, blinded by the gain of the moment, we sce nothing I our dark man but avast engine of labor ; if'to Us he is not a than, but only a tool | If ‘dispossessed entirely’ of the land. for which he now shows that rare aptitude for peasant’ proprietorship, for’ the. lack of Which among their masses many’ great na- Hons are decaying: If we ‘force iim per- manently in ‘his millions into the locations fad compounds and stums of our cities, Obtaining’ his labor cheaper. but to. los What the wealth of five Rands could not Feturn to us; If uninstracted in the /high- est forms of labor, without. the rights of CKizenship,” his own. social organization broken up! without our having aided him {o"particate a our own iE unbound to us by gratitude and sympathy, and alien 10 US in blood and color we reduce. thin Vast mass to the. condition. of a great Seething, - ignorant. proletariat—then would saiher draw a’ vell-on the future of this land. “Are we io spend our national existence with a large, dark shadow looming. ale Ways in, the backgrounds shadow which We fear? “As long as the population of South Af- riea is united, and the conditions of wat- fare remain what they"are, we need fear ho foo. But what if we are not united? What if, when the day’ comes, ‘ax it must, When hostile fleets—-perhaps not Europea Migather round our sores, and the vast ule of our Inbabltants should cast eyes Of Indifference, perhaps of hope, towards them? Having no share in the lite of our State, being bound to us by_no ties of sym- pathy, having nothing to Tose, may not the Etranger even uppear in the guise of a de- liverer. and. every" bush hide a possible gulde, and the bull of the men and women in our land whisper, ‘Te ig no business of ougs: let them Hehe It out? “Ai ‘long as hine-tenths of our com- munity have no permanent stake in the land, and no right or shave in our govern= Ineni, can we ever feel safe? Can we ever Know peace? “tf we raise the dark man, we shall rise with lim? it we kick him under our fect, Rewwill held us fast by’ then, “It T were asked what in South Africa is our great need at the present moment, T should answer, Great men to lead us. “What ‘South Africa calls for to-day ts no hero of saint, oF impossible figment of the mind! simply for a man witha clear head and'a large heart, organically inea- Table cf sclt-sasnice ov vecialcpresudiess.” Bpectel to THE FReewAy,. ‘The Free Will Bible Club met Sunday evening, February 28, at the home of Mrs. Cora Pierson, 407 Bast Academy street. After reading and discussion by the mem- bers of the club, W. H. Wallace, The Free- man’s representative, jectured fo the club, after which. refreshments were served by Mesdames Cora Pierson and Leona. Har- ris, The club will meet the second Sun- day evening at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Russell, 105 Vine, street... -Miss Cora Plerson left last Sunday for’ Pensacola, Fla..--Mrs. Alice Willlams and Mrs. Chanie’ Bean “have returned from Pensa- cola, Fla....Green Penington left, recently for ‘Mobile, ‘Ala... ‘The Freeman's repre- sentative spent several days in. Rrundldge and Ozark, Ala., in the interest of The armenian. eee we see eee "The friends_of Mev. J. S. Woods, at one time pastor of Ward Chapel, mourn with him the loss of his daughter Naney, who was known and loved here from infancy. heing but a babe when her father abored in the city. May the consoling words, the Father has so often given to others, “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away,” comfort the sorrowing parents in thelr be- reavement..:-Mrs. Franklin, of Jackson- ville, is siting hee sister, Mire’ lta Stan ford....Mrs. faa Sanford and Miss Josie Conway’ are’ spending Sunday in Spring- field... -Miss Bertha Brown's name is sec- ond ‘on ‘the list of those who passed the civil Service examination... .Mr. Amos. P, Scruggs, a prominent attorney of Chicago, and Tev. B. N. Murrell were among the Forum's visitors. Rev. B. N. Murrell will entertain ‘at dinner March 4. ‘Those invited are Dr. Alfred H. Hendricks, Rev, John F. Brown, Rev. George Hoagland, Dr. James HL. Shepperd, Attorney Amos B. Scruggins, Dr. James H. Cotton, Rev. H. W. Jameson, Dr. Sherman A. Askew, Ttev. Ernest Hall, vn. Mrs. Parker Wagoner and Mrs, Bar- ion ‘spent Friday in Henry with Mrs, Bell, .... Mrs. Nora Clemmons will move from icopeston to Keokuk, Iowa, to make her home with her father, PRESIDENT W. H. TAFT. Having complied with all the condi- tions entailed by the Constitution, W. H. Taft is now President of the United States of America, succeeding Theo- dore Roosevelt the 4th day of March, and will continue in office during the next four years. As Secretary of War he gained his greatest distinction,~al- though he had held various offices in connection with the judiciary in Ohio, ending as a Federal judge. Before he was chosen as Secretary of War he was United States Philippine Commis- sioner and Civil Governor, These of- fices terminated in 1903, He was ap- pointed in 1900. The offices were ad- ministered with that rare discernment and distinction which have since marked the course of Mr. Taft. When called to the greater office, that of Secretary of War, in 1903, it was largely owing to the valuable services rendered the country by the now President. The. masterly tact served him in the Cabinet, becoming, as was very evident, President Roose- velt's favorite, if we may take the lib- ‘erty of saying so, and valued adviser. More than once he was sent abroad as a sort of temporary minister plenipo- tentiary or especial ambassador to set- the vexed questions that were an- noying the adminstration. or to straighten out some international en- tanglement. His line of success was unbroken, and ere long he had mount- ed very high in the nation’s estima- tion. ‘When casting about for President. the great and formidable Taft loomed up before the country, His splendid record as an officer and as a mam had preceded him. To this influence was added the regard of President Roose- velt, all of which made his nomina- tion fairly certain. Mr. Taft proved a good campaigner; his education and judicial training made for one of the fittest men of the times for the dis- tinction that came to him. Wherever he appeared friends were won to his support, and as a result Mr. Taft was nominated for President at the Repub- lican national nominating convention, which met in Chicago, June, 1908. ‘His campaign for election was a repetition of that for his nomination. TROY, ALA. PEORIA, ILL. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Issues cut but small figure, The cam- paign was conducted on the personali- ties of the candidates above anything else. Both Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan Ware of tha very Glee ot kee citizens. It is extremely doubtful if another individual could have won the victory over Mr. Bryan, who was at the height of popular favor at that time. Mr. Bryan complains yet that he had Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft to beat instead of Mr. Taft alone; it speaks for the popularity of Mr. Bryan at least. When the smoke of battle had cleared away it was found that ‘W. H. Taft had received the necessary electoral vote to declare him the choice of the electorate of the coun- try. The election took place Novem- ber 3, 1908. Since the election, as President- elect, Mr. Taft at times expressed him- self in a general way as to his intent when he became President. The coun- try, all sections, gives indications of confidence in his integrity and ability to give a government for all of the people promised by him. At Atlanta, Ga., before the Negroes, he said in part, January 16, 1909: | @ “With your efforts to uplift your- selves, I have the deepest sympathy. I say as the coming President that I must stand as the representative of all the American people. The President of the United States can have no more sacred function than to speak wores of encouragement and hope to assist your own efforts. Fave in the past has not been kind to you, and the whole American people has the highest obli- gation of trusteeship and guardianship for your uplift.” Ai Carnegie Hall, New York, he said in part: “The Negro is absolutely essential to the development of the South. His labor the South needs, and the more you instruct that labor, the more val- uable he becomes to the South. Hence it is that the work of the Hampton Institute has its intense importance, It is the solution of the race question. I do not believe, and I do not think most. men believe, in too many crutches for people that are trying to learn to walk, but if you furnish them just enough education to know how to use their minds and their hands and their legs in productive occupations, and you give them the instrument by which they can help themselves, and then if they are a race that has the spirit, to help themselves, the future is before them and the opportunity is theirs. “Now, I do not profess to know as ou about the race question as those gentlemen who have spoken before me, but I have given a great deal of attention to the matter. I have stud- ied the statistics of the growth of the Race I have studied the amount of property that the race has accumu- lated, the reduction in the percentage of illiteracy, the amounts of the prod- ‘ucts brought forth under the hand of ‘the Negro laborer and the Negro farmer in the South, and I say that no unprejudiced person can read these statistics without marveling that the Negro race has made the progress that it has made in the last fifty years under the burdens and ob- stacles that it has had to meet. “They show self-initiation; _ they show self-help. Why; a race that pro- duces a Booker Washington in a cén- tury ought to feel confident that it can do miracles in time.” In replying to a letter written him by a William F. Stone on the pro- posed Maryland disfranchising meas- ures, he said in part: “The whole tw ought to be con- demmed. It is not, drawn in the apirit of justice and equality, having regard for the fourteenth ‘and fifteenth amendments, dnd I sincerely hope that no Republican who desires equal- ity of treatment to the black and white races will vote for it.” MEN WHO SERVED PRESIDENTS In the list of those whose success in life is celebrated for the edification and inspiration of the younger gen- eration the name of William Dulany, the President's barber, is destined to have a place of its own. William Du- lany owes nothing to his surname. He is a colored man. By merit and merit alone did he win the promotion that came to him—a promotion which carries with it an official salary of $1,600 a year and the present atten- tion of the appropriations committee of the United States Congress. Long years ago, according to a fly- ing report from the appropriations committee, Dulany fixed his ambition on a Government job. To fit himself for it he sagaciously devoted himself to shaving, hair-cutting and sham- pooing. At times the prospect seemed poor, but he never doubted that suc- cess would come. So he kept on and in time became known as the leading haircut artist of Alexandria, Va. Then, on an auspicious day, he was brought into tonsorial relations with President Roosevelt. He became the White House barber. Every day be- fore luncheon he removed the growth of beard from the presidential face. He removed that beard so deftly that his fimess for a Treasury salary be- came apparent. The President could not help feeling that here was a man trained for the work. So the appointment to $1,600 a year came, But the $1,600 did not turn ‘William Dulany’s head. He did not change, did not become puffed up. He kept right’on shaving, hair-cutting and shampooing. Every day, with razor and soap and beguiling conversation at the White House, he still proves the right to $1,600 a year from the Treasury. The career of William Dulany teaches us that we should not, when beginning life, waste our efforts in pursuits which are not in line with our ultimate ambition; that we should start right at the foot of the ladder that leads there and mount steadily toward it. Thus and thus only will success attend our efforts. The youth who wants to be an ad- miral should get a joh as butcher's boy in the vicinity of Washington, and let nothing divert him from it. ‘The one who would be a Supreme Court judge should start out as a bar- keeper and stick to it. The one who aspires to a high diplomatic ‘post should work Jong and steadily in a grocery store. ‘There is nothing that the boy in this land of opportunity, can not ac- fcomplish if he will keep always’ in mind the inspiring success of William ‘Dulany and his $1,600 job—The Inter- Ocean. , President, Harrison took with him, on going to Washington, an Indian- apolis colored man, who served him in a tonsorial way. Charles Lanier, the colored man referred to, was chosen for the place as much as a matter of political compensation as for the services expected. ‘The place was actually classified as patronage and when the colored politicians of Indianapolis got too noisy about their wants, the position was referred to as ‘one of the things done. But really, Lanier was only incidentally barber— he was somewhat of a messenger and yalet-de-cliambre combined. He was of political importance even in Wash- ington. Not that he mingled in po- litical affairs in that city, but he was the handy ma nto send home at divers times to add his influence in keeping things straight, | President Harrison more than likely thought himself annoyed at the im- portuning of his Negro constituents at home. Some of the more prominent ones had grown up with Harrison, had seen service in his family when he was not thought in line for the presi- dency. Owing to this peculiar and wide acquaintance he was very much beset when the head of*the nation. All that knew him personally felt that the erstwhile acquaintanceship should be exchanged into something more tangible. So it was not surpris- ing to hear of some of these colored familiars asking for very high places, much out of proportion to services rendered. eee As much as the Negroes overrated themselves, Mr. Harrison sustained his reputation in being somewhat cool even with them; he did not appar- ently think any too much of their im- portance to him, if we are to judge by what he found for them to do. This assertion does not seem to tally with one who got the credit and also the labuse of fathering the “Force Bill” It may have been that he meant to ‘be charitable in what he did—did not. ‘care to appear in the light of appro- priating an undue proportion of po- litical jobs to the folks at home. Be ‘this as it may, he was thought too close in dealing out plums. ‘The lead- ‘ing Negroes were much put out when Rey. Dr. Townsend, one of the heads ‘of the great A. M. EB. Chureh, an ex- ‘Legislator, could only draw 'a posi. tion as Commissioner in the Land Office Department, with its meager ‘salary of something like $2,500—per- haps not so much. Two ministers to Bahia and Minister Extraordinary, Plenipotentiary, and the rest of it, with their great salaries, is a far cry from the Land Office job. ‘Then to think of the services in that day, and then to think of the services of this day. It is nowonder Mr. Harrison was considered close. But Benjamin Harrison was a beau- tiful character. It has, already been shown why he did not take too kindly to the folks at home. It was out of that beautiful spirit which prefers to suffer rather than aggrandize at the public's expense. 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Echo's wedding attire would seem as incongruous as Jack's to the eyes of an easterner, yet it was entirely suited to the circumstances, for the couple intended as soon as they were married to ride to a little hunting cabin of Jack's in the Tortilla mountains, where they would spend their honeymoon. She was dressed in an olive green riding habit which she had brought from the east. The skirt was divided and reached just below the knees. Her blouse, of light material and brown in color, was loose, allowing free play for her arms and shoulders. High riding boots were laced to the knees. A sombrero and riding gloves lay on the table ready to complete her costume. Bud coldly acknowledged Echo's affectionate and happy greeting and curly informed her that Jack had arrived. She rushed out of doors, with a cry of joy. Running across the courtyard toward her lover, who awaited her with out-stretched arms, she began: "Well, this is a nice time, you outrageous"— Then Polly stopped her with a mock serious look. "Walt a minute—wait a minute," the girl drawn as if reraining in a too eager horse. "Don't commence callin' love names before you get the hitch. Time enough after. He has been actin' up somethin' scandalous with me." Jack threw up his hands in protest, hastily denying any probable charge that the tease might make. "Why, I haven't been saying a word!" he cried. Polly laughed as she ran to the door. "No, you haven't," she answered mockingly, as one agrees with a child whose feelings have been hurt. "He's only been tellin' me he loved"— Pausing an instant, she pointed at Echo, ending her sentence with a shouted "you." With her hand on Jack's shoulder Echo said: "Polly, you are a flirt. You've too many strings to your bow." "You mean I've too mony beaus to my strings!" laughingly answered the girl. "You'll have Slim Hoover and Bud Lane shooting each other up all on your account," childed Echo. "Nothin' of the kind," pouted Polly. "Can't a girl have friends? But I know what you two are waitin' for." "What?" asked Jack. "You want me to vamose. I'm hep. I'm van'." And Polly ran into the kitchen to tell the men that the bride. groom nad arrived, but couldn't be seen until the bride was through with an important interview with him. So she hustled them all into the living room, where the girls were. This room was a long and low apartment, roughly plastered. The heavy telling beams, hewn with axes, were uncovered, giving an old English effect, although this was not striven for, but made under the stress of necessity. The broad windows were trellised with vines, through which filtered the sunshine. A cooling evening breeze stirred the leaves lazily. The chairs were broad and comfortable, the workmanship of the monks of the neighboring mission. In the corners stood squat earthen water jars of Mexican molding. On the adobe walls were hung trophies of the hunt, war bonnets and the crudely made adornments of the Apaches. Navajo blankets covered the window seats and were used as screens for sets of shelves built into the spaces between the windows. Polly carried in on a tray a large bowl of punch surrounded by glasses and gourds. This was received with riotous demonstrations. She placed it in the center of a table made of planks laid on trestles and, assisted by the other girls, served the men liberally from the bowl. The guests showed the effects of outdoor life and training. Their gestures were full and free. The tones of their voices were high pitched, but they spoke more slowly than their eastern cousins, as if feeling the necessity, even when confined, of making every word carry. No one lolled in his seat, but sat up right, as if still having the feel of the saddle under him. Toward women in all social gatherings the cowboys act with exaggerated chivalry; but, as Sagebrush would describe it, they "herd by their lonesome." There is none of the comingling of sexes seen in the east. At a dance the girls sit at one end of the room, while the men group themselves about the doorway until the music strikes up. Then each will seize his partner after the boldest has made the first move. When the dance measure ends, the cowboy will rarely escort his partner to her seat, but will leave her to find her way to her chum, while he moves sheepishly back to the doorway, to be received by his fellows with slaps on the back and loud jests. At table cowboys carry on little conversation with the girls. They talk among themselves, but at the women. The presence of the girls leads them to play many pranks on one another. The ice is long in breaking, for their habitual reserve is not easily worn off. Later in the evening this shyness is less marked. As Jack and Echo entered the doorway Parenthesis had arisen from his seat at the head of the table and was beginning, "Fellow citizens"—Confused cries of "Sit down," "Let him talk," greeted him. Sagebrush held up his hand for silence. "Go ahead, Parenthesis," he cried encouragingly. Parenthesis climbed on a chair and put a foot on the table. This was too much for the orderly soul of Mrs. Allen. "Take your dirty feet off my tablecloth!" she commanded, making a threatening move toward the offender. Allen restrained her, and Fresno caused Parenthesis to subside by yelling: "Get down off that table, you idiot! There's the bride an' groom comin' in behind you. We can see 'em through your legs, but we don't like that kid' of a frame." Jack had slipped his arm about Echo's waist. She was holding his hand, smiling at the exuberance of their guests. Buck McKee, who had been drinking freely, staggered to his feet and hiccupped: "Here, now, this here don't go—this spoonin' business. There hain't goin' to be no mush an milk served out before the weddin'"—"Will you shut up?" admonished Slim Hoover. "No, sneee!" cried the bligergent McKee. "There hain't no man here can shut me up. I'm Buck McKee, I am, an' when I starts in on weddin' festivities I deal"—"This is one game you are not in on," answered Jack quietly, feeling that he would have to take the lead in the settlement of the unfortunate interruption of the fun. "That's all right, Jack," McKee began, holding out his hand. "Let bygones"— Jack was in no mood to parley with the offender. McKee had not been invited to the wedding. The young bridegroom knew that if the first offense was overlooked it would only encourage him and he would make trouble all the evening. Moreover, he disliked Buck because of his evil habits and ugly record. "You came to this wedding without an invite!" exclaimed Jack. "I'm here," he growled. "You're not wanted." "What!" shouted McKee, paling with anger. Turning to his friends, speaking calmly and paying no attention to the aroused desperado, Jack said: "Boys, you all know my objection to this man. Dick Lane caught him spring before last slitting the tongue of one of Uncle Jim's calves." "It's a lie!" shouted McKee, pulling his revolver and attempting to level it at his accuser. Hoover was too quick for him. Catching him by the wrist, he deftly forced him to drop the muzzle toward the floor. With frightened cries the girls huddled in a corner. The other cowboys upset chairls, springing to their feet, drawing revolvers halfway from holsters as they did so. Hoover had pressed his thumb into the back of McKee's hand, forcing him to open his fingers and drop his gun on the table. Picking it up. Hoover THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. snapped the weapon open and emptied the cylinders of the cartridges. Jack made no move to defend himself. He was aware his friends could protect him. "That'll do," he said to the raging, disarmed puncher. "You can go, Buck. When I want you in any festivities I'll send a special invite to you." "I'm sure much obliged," sneered McKee, making his way toward the door. "Here's your gun," cried Slim, tossing the weapon toward him. McKee caught the weapon, muttering "Thanks." "It needs cleanin'," sneered the sheriff. Turning at the doorway, McKee said, "I hain't much stuck on weddin's, anyway." Looking at Jack, he continued threateningly, "Next time we meet it'll be at a little swearee uv my own." "Get!" was Jack's laconic and omnious command. With assumed carelessness McKee answered: "I'm a-gettin'. Well, gents, I hope you all 'll enjoy this here pink tea. Say, Bud, put a piece uv weddin' cake in yer pocket fer me. I wants to dream on it." "Who brought him here?" asked Jack, facing his guests. "I did," answered Bud defiantly. "You might have known better," was Jack's only comment. Polly stopped further comment by laying her hand over his mouth and slipping into the seat beside him. "Well, let it go at that," said Jack, closing the incident. He rejoined Echo as he spoke. The guests reseated themselves. Mrs. Allen laid her hand on Jack's shoulder and said, "Just the same, it ain't right an' proper for you to be together before the ceremony without a chaperone." "Nothin proper," laughed Slim. "Well, it ain't the way folks does back east," replied Mrs. Allen tartly, glaring at the sheriff. "Blast the east!" growled Allen. "We does things in our own way out here." With a mischievous smile, Slim glanced at his comrades and then solemnly observed, "Still, I hear they does make the two contractin' parties sit off alone by themselves"— "What for?" asked Jack. "Why, to give them the last bit of quiet enjoyment they're goin' to have for the rest of their lives," chuckled Slim. The cowboys laughed hilariously at the sally, but Mrs. Allen, throwing her arms about Echo's neck, burst into tears, crying, "My little girl!" "Let her alone, Jim," drawled Slim. "Her feelin's is harrowed some, an irrigation is what they needs most." The outburst of tears was incomprehensible to the bridegroom. Already irritated by the McKee incident, he affront at the display of sentiment. He cried, "I don't want any crying at my wedding!" "It's half my wedding," pouted Echo tearfully. "Ain't I losin' my daughter?" sobbed Mrs. Allen. "Ain't you getting my mother's son?" snapped Jack. The men howled with glee at the rude badinage, which only called forth a fresh burst of weeping on the part of Mrs. Allen, in which the girls began to show symptoms of joining. Polly sought to soothe the trouble by pushing Jack playfully to one side and R. R. R. Forcing him to open his fingers and drop his gun. saying: "Oh, stop it all! Look here, Echo Allen, you know your hair ain't fixed yet." "An' the minister due here at any minute," added Mrs. Allen. "Come along; we will take charge of you now," ordered Polly. The girls gathered in a group about the bride, bustling and chatting, telling her all men were brutes at times and, looking at the fat sheriff, who blushed to the roots of his hair at the charge, that Slim Hoover was the worst of the lot. Mrs. Allen pushed them away and again fell weeping on Echo's shoulder, "Hold on now. They ain't a soul goin' to no nothin' for her except her mother," she whimpered. "There she goes again," said Jack in disgust. "He's goin' to take my child away from me," wailed the mother. Tears were streaming down Echo's cheek. "Don't cry, mother," she wept. "No, no, don't cry," echoed the girls. "It's all for the best," began Polly. "It's all for the best; it's all for the best," chorused the group. "Well, I'll be"—gasped Jack. "Jack Payson, you just ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Polly, stamping her foot. "You nasty, mean old thing!" she threw in for good measure. Mrs. Allen led Echo from the room. The girls followed, crying, "You nasty, mean old thing!" to the unfortunate bridegroom. The cowboys enjoyed the scene immensely. It was a bit of human comedy totally unexpected. First they imitated the weeping women and then laughed uproariously, at Jack. "Did you ever see such darned carryings on?" said the bridegroom in disgust. "What have I done?" "Shucks! All mothers is just like that." remarked Allen sympathetically. "They fuss if their girls marry, an' they fuss if they don't. Why, my ma carried on somethin' scandalous when Josephine roped me." All of the men chuckled except Jack. "I'm appointed a committee," continued the old rancher, "to sit up with you till the fatal moment." "I'm game." responded Jack grimly. "I know what's coming, but I won't squeal." "You'll git all that's a-comin' to you," grinned Allen. Slim had maneuvered until he reached the door, blocking Jack's way. As the bridegroom started to leave the room he took his hand and with an assumption of deep dejection and sorrow bade him "Goodby." "Oh, dry up!"撞ed Jack, pushing the sheriff aside. Halting, he requested, "One thing I want to understand right now—if you're going to fling any old boots after me remove the spurs." "This here's a sure enough event, an' I'm goin' to tap the barrel an' throw away the bung. Wow!" shouted Sagebrush. (Continued Next Week.) GOOD MUSIC Some one not long since said: "If you really desire to probe the meanings of the masters, content yourself with living intimately with their thoughts. Shun the whole junkshop of cheap opera jingle and turn your back on the glorified prima donnas, male and female, of the lyric stage. Live with Bach, Beethoven, and the prophets. Learn to read their scores. Go to hear them performed. They will in the course of time become as blazing lights to you." This injunction is to the people at large who, as a rule, manifest such delight for music. They are not particular as to the quality. If it is a course of sweet sounds it fills the bill, and so far as Bach, Brahms or Mendelsohn are concerned, they need never have toiled in bringing their musicianship to bear on what they produced. The writer puts it this way: "It ought to be possible for the merest tyro who had never before entered an opera-house to distinguish the difference between the singing of a nightingale and the braying of a more humble and useful creature, but how very often it happens that it is the beast of burden that gets the laurel!" And after all the people know what they want. They are not educated up to the point where they can conscientiously prefer Wagner to the music that is classified as popular. Popular is an excellent term—the people's music—that which they know about. And without doubt the masses should know most of popular music, since it would be quite impossible to give generally the education necessary to appreciate the greater productions of the masters. But a goodly portion of the people should be able to make an intelligent choice between the music of the nightingale and that discredited animal that brays. The subject of music has never been of a fixed policy with us Americans. This has reference to the schools where little is generally known of music is taught. School authorities, superintendents, principles, all seem to think that the music section is not going as it ought to go. So when the conventions meet from time to time effort is made to get straight on the singing business. More attention to music, if you please, is what they say annually or semi-annually, as the case may be; but it is the most they can say. Music has had no great hold on Americans, especially the men who "vow" that it is effeminate. The women—that is, the teachers—are effeminate enough, but they have got to meet the demand which is for plenty of arithmetic, reading and writing, and so forth. The singing business has "scant" place in the every day school curriculum. Not that it is not assigned a place, but because it counts for so little in the pupil's scholastic welfare. The parent is not particular whether it gets A or Z, and of course the parents are the public. And so far as the general use of singing or music of any description in the matter of breadwinning, the parents are right. Music is an art, although fairly in reach of all, is not cared for, since industrial life has the call. Our nation is not so poetical as others; not settled. It is yet making its way. And it is said that the arts begin when the nations begin to decay. Perhaps it is too strong, but the tendency is in that direction. The effort to introduce good music to the school children is in accord with the theory set forth by the writer. If they cannot and will not, as Mahomet—will not go to the mountain—then the mountain will come to Mahomet. The beautiful songs from the masters are meant to teach the love for the best music, so that it may be known when heard, and which, when heard and known, makes for a considerable part of the intelligence. The pretty jingles will have yet their pleasing value; but those grand chords of the masters—of Bach, Beethoven—which are awful in sublimeness, will have meaning. "The voice of the great Creator is in those mighty tones," no less than in "What Are the Wild Waves Saying?" THE FREEMAN AT LOUISVILLE Blue Grass Restaurant, 117 W. Walnut street; 423 S. Ninth street; 420 Fifth street; 726 W. Walnut. Watches $6.50 buys a fine 15-jewelled Watch, "thin model." I have a limited number at this price. Each watch is guaranteed a good timekeeper. Come in and let us show you this watch before they are all gone. DIAMOND MERCHANT, 15 N. 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Special Fates on standing’ professional aad business Garde “Reasoanble Uiconnt for long tine and Hetero writsupa' POF Be BP Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind, as second class yaattor. “All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, Sew Phone 2SS0. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, MAR. 13, 1909. If Governor Marshall hadn't -prod- ded the legislative bodies two or three times, there would have been con- siderable unfinished business. Our winter was not at all severe, but somehow most people seem to wel- come spring in a way more cordial than usual. Perhaps it is our imag- ination. Dr. Crum deserves applause for his action, and it shows that he is a manly man and does not mean to embarrass the new administration —The Lexing- ton Standard. Eges dre tumbling down in price; itis one of the sure signs of spring. ‘When they reach 15 cents a dozen, it is a signal for all sorts of people to get. busy. ‘The Standard Oil Company has been most thoroughly advertised. And to think it didn’t need it. It is always the way. If you want prosperity, you must look prosperous. Mound Bayou, the Negro city, gets a $10,000 library from Mr. Carnegie. According to the size of the town, Mound Bayou fares handsomely at the haads of the philanthropist. It is said that Governor Marshall was working over time when he signed the bill authorizing the organ- ization of four companies of Negro soldiers. Hurrah for the Governor! ‘The boys are back from Washing- ton, They saw the blizzard, President Taft and the rest of it. It is said some made inquiries of the “personal blue books’—the knowing ones, anent available jobs. However, the wisest had no tips. ‘The concensus of opinions of the Negro press are that Dr. W. D. Crum did the proper thing in resigning the collectorship at the port of Charles- ton, S. C., under the circumstances. ‘The condition is deplored that made his resignation necessary. After filling the position with full eredit for about five years, and having his name again sent to the Senate for confirmation, and it there meeting with the former opposition, Dr. Crum undoubtedly did the proper thing: in tendering his resignation —Spokane Citizen. A. C. Hamlin, a Negro member of the Legislature, has obtained the pass- age of a resolution through the House asking of the corporation commission a detailed report of the operation of the “Jim Crow” law in the State. Spe- cial reference is made to the fact that no Pullman, dining or smoking car accommodations are afforded Negro travelers. Former United States Senator Jos. B. Foraker will be presented with a handsome testimonial by the colored men of Montgomery, because of his championship of the colored troops in- volved in the Brownsville affair. Col- lections were taken up in all of the colored churches not long since and among the membership of the colored fraternities. It is said that the Confederate bodies of the State of Louisiana vig- orously protested the adoption of the text books because in it is required an essay on Booker T. Washington. This doesn’t sound good, in view of Mr. Washington's usefulness and standing. Well, maybe mostvof the other people didn’t think that way. The book passed, showing that there were dif- ferences of opinions. Viewed’ from any standpoint, this was the only manly course for him to pursue. President Taft had unofi cially announced that he would not re- appoint him to the office, and a hint of this kind was all that was neces: sary in this whole unfortunate affair. We only hope that the inside history of this affair shall reach the public.— ‘The Richmond Planet, on Crum’s res- ignition. es are evidently growing better. Five or six colored men were called to serve on the jury last week during court at Winton. This has not hap- pened before in several years. We note with pleasure this expression of growing good-will between the races, and trust that it betokens the ap- proach of a better era among the races in the State—The Baptist Sen- tinel, Raleigh, N. C. W. H. Furniss, the American min- ister, recently gave a grand reception fn honor of the inauguration of Presi- dent Taft. President Simon and the members of his Cabinet, the members ‘of the diplomatic corps and many notable Haytians were present. Dr. Furniss proposed a toast to the pros- perity of Hayti, and President Simon in reply proposed the health of Presi- dent Taft and the welfare of the United States. A coal and iron company by colored men is forming in Kentucky. A num- ber of men of means of that State and elsewhere haye secured 3,000 acres of land in Morgan County, which is sala to be rich in mineral deposits, prin- cipally coal and iron. According to indications, mines will soon be in operation, when it is expected some- thing big In a business way will re- sult. The movement sounds good, and most assuredly is in the right direc- tion. T. Thomas Fortune is again in jour- nalistic traces. This time he is at Wonkers, N. Y. We had never thought that the capable Fortune would hear to anything less in size than New York or Chicago. However, it is not the town that makes the man. Mr. For- tune will let his light shine in any- body’s town. His new venture, his publication, is Fortunesque in appear- ance, under which description is in- eluded his brilliant paragraphs, as well as the make-up. We hope him ‘eacceen. Politics among the Republicans in this city is having trouble getting of from the tape. Two false starts have been made for the city chairmanship. United States District Attorney Jos. B. Kealing is coming in for consider. able praise for his stand in the case of the Government against the Indian- apolis News. Mr. Kealing preferred resigning rather than adhere. to the program of haying the editors of that publication go elsewhere for trial. In accordance with his views, Mr. Keal- ing has tendered his resignation to President Taft. A Texas mob, and that means some- thing, was busy this week. A Negro was burned at the stake and another shot. It is said that a thousand per- sons watched the victim, the one burned, die at the stake, The victim was accused of assaulting a white woman. The law in such matters is still urged, although it seems a for- lorn hope. But at that, duty will not be performed unless the law is urged and which is ample for caring for the situation. The mob is not so frequent as in the past, but it is not at all necessary: it ought to go. It is very evident that President ‘Taft will go slow when it comes to the distribution of offices in the South. His policy, already outlined in his in- auguration speech, we take has such a meaning. That the Prestdent is seriously interested in bringing about better racial relations in the South has been seen in his speeches before and subsequent to his election. He may not be any more successful than his predecessors, but it is plain that he will make a studious attempt. This attempt will not be promising to col: ored men who haye office holding in mind, The President cannot “well avoid appointing colored men here and there to office if he expects to maintain their regard. But the keynote has been sounded; it means the minimum of friction. The President has_per- sonal views concerning political irreg. ularity and civil irregularity as it may be thought of, aside from active poli: ties, He has expressed them time and time again, and always with a sense of fairness. He has deplored and condemned situations as unjust, un- American, in opposition to the spirit of the laws, which he knows so wel, yet the impression gotten of his speeches is that he yields to what is, trusting to time and circumstances to change what exists. Chas. W. Fairbanks returned home Saturday evening and has resumed unofficial life among his old neigh- bors, friends and associates, after twelve years of active and honorable service as United States Senator and Vice-President. Asked today about business conditions and the coming special session of Congress to revise the tariff, Mr. Fairbanks said: x “| find ‘that there is some hesitancy in business, due in a considerable de- gree to the prudency of tariff revision. Revision is always attended with more or less reaction in business. It was because of this fact that more thana year ago I advocated the convening of Congress immediately after the presi- dential election for the purpose of effecting revision at the earliest prac- ticable date and thereby terminating the business suspense. “The new administration has acted with commendable promptness in call- ing Congress in extraordinary session. ‘The ways and means committee will be able to report a bill promptly upon the assembling ‘of Congress, about the middle of the month. Indications are that the work of revision will proceed without any unreasonable délay. Of course, it is not possible to predict when a new measure will be enacted, but it is pretty generally believed in Washington that Congress will be able to complete its work early in June. Able Cabinet. “president Taft has selected a very able Cabinet, and what he has thus far done gives promise that his ad- ministration will be a successful one. He is entitled to the hearty support of the people. With their support he cannot fail.” Mr. Fairbanks was accompanied home by Mrs. Fairbanks and their daughter, Mrs. John W. Timmons, wife of Lieutenant Timmons, of the navy, who is on a cruise with his ship, the Idiaho. Mrs. Timmons will remain with her parents during the cruise. Warren Fairbanks and wife arrived yesterday from Chicago, and Richard Fairbanks, who has been here, com- pleted the family circle, which held a joyful reunion yesterday at the Fair- banks home, 1542 North Meridian street. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks, accom- panied by Mrs. Timmons, will make « trip to California this spring. After his return from the Pacific coast, Mr. Fairbanks will resume the practice of law. He is in excellent health and THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. aE ER Sere NSA ae eee eee ees 1d the | takes oveasion to express his delight | with out, rack church, with, steel, roof, | for mbers |at being home among his friends ana | Prat a ‘There are ro | ut many |neighbors—The Indianapolis News, | mutts with thie great church: and. per | Our De: — Tons are" Joining” at every service, he | lo ; pros- |CAPT. HOBSON’S MORAL COURAGE | “Durch is packed every Sunday night’ | | | the Capt. Hobson's name again appears on a roll of honor. His little speech in the House in support of the bill facilitating the reenlistment of the black batallion was a superb example of moral courage, as well as a gem of direct and unadorned eloquence. The Republican wishes to place the speech ‘on record, with its congratulations to the member from Alabama: “This three minutes will cost me a contest in my district and may cause my defeat for re-election. I wore the uniform of the United States for eight- een years, and I have never known a case where an officer or an enlisted man was punished at all severely without a court of inquiry. I know that he is not allowed to be punished to the extent of thirty days’ imprison- ment without a court-martial. When these crimes were committed at Brownsville the President of the Unit- ed States should have ordered all offi cers and men to remain within the barracks and should have ordered a court of inquiry, followed by a court. martial, and should have established the guilt and punished the guilty there. But he did not. He has scat- tered the guilty and the innocent to the four winds and prevented the ex- ecution of justice. Mr. Speaker, I saw black ‘men on San Juan Hill; I have seen them before Manila. ‘A black man took my father, wounded, from the field of Chancellorsville, Blaek men remained on my grandfather's plantation after the proclamation of emancipation, and took care of my mother and gfandmother. The white man is supreme in this country; he will remain supreme. That makes it only the more imperative that he should give absolute justice to the black man, and we ought not to make a party measure of this—Springfield Repabiiogn, PRESIDENT TAFT DEALS WITH THE NEGRO QUESTION. _ President Taft, in his inaugural speech, said practically what he had ‘said from time to time on the Negro question. He mentioned that the three latter amendments to the Constitu- tion, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth, secured the Negroes in their citizenship rights. He called special attention to the Fifteenth Amendment, which, he said, had not been alwaye observed, insist ing that it should be. He said that the tendency of the more recent elec- tion methods of the Southern States was to square with the Federal Con: stitution. Then follows this righteous observation: “Of course, the mere adoption of a constitutional law is only one step in the right direction. It must be fairly and justly enforced as well. In time both will come. Hence it is clear tc all that the domination of an ignorant, irresponsible element can be prevent. ed by constitutional laws which shat exclude from voting both Negroes and whites not having education or other qualifications thought to be necessary for a proper electorate. The danger of the control of an ignorant elect orate has therefore passed.” In theory it has passed, we will say, “the danger of the control of an ignor: ant electorate.” It is here apparent that the President has taken the greater view, that the recent consti tutions bearing on the electorate square with the general constitution in that all men are included in their provisions, some being excluded by the tests only. It is not necessary to do more than call attention to the fact that ways are found to work around the laws. We agree with the Presi. dent who impliedly says that he is not responsible for that. That the Fit. teenth Amendment shall not fail was a sense of his utterance. In the matter of appointing Negroes to office, he said as follows: “But it may well admit of doubt whether in case of any race an ap- pointment of one of their number to a local office in a community in which the race feeling is so widespread and acute as to interfere with the ease and facility with which the local govern: ment business can be done by the ap- pointee is of sufficient benefit by way of encouragement to the race to out- weigh the recurrence and increase of race feeling which such an appoint- ment is likely to engender. ‘Therefore the executive in recognizing the Negro race by appointments must exercise a careful discretion not thereby to do it more te than good. On the other hand, We must be careful not to en- courage the mere pretense of race feeling manufactured in the interest of individual political ambition.” A RELIGIOUS AWAKENING. A Great Spiritural Wave Sweeping Over the Indianapolis District. Rev. J. H. Mauer, D. D., © esidiay Elder, Possibly slong tne sine ee ee ual awakening has been manifested. Fully foe hundsed converts wenn made aun the quarterly ‘meetings held, with Dr Ff TP chilis, Rev. dS. Me Davis, Rev. GW Tiarding’ Rev, W. J. Windileia, Rev. "2, A Henderson, Hew, Geo. 0: Monison, “ite W. M. Pruitt, Kev. O. H. Banks, Rey. G. 1, Brown and Rev. B. G. Shaw, who, st this writing, Is conducting one of the most Interesting "serviees ever" held. in. Evans vite Insan humble way we have peer Here doing our level best to help Dre Shavw Add. one hundred more members to Toads wax Tadlanapolis Dr, Callis and Rey, J "Indianapolis Dr. Calis and Rey, J at ‘Davis, of Jones Tabernacle and Wal itis: Chapel, are holding the fort with a Tnaster hand, "Rev. Windfleld, ‘of Pon: nick's Chapel, and itev. ‘I. A. 'Penderson are bringing substantial iniluence to thel churches: Rev. Bruit, at Newton, ts ‘suc. ceeding better than. apy man for several Sears.” Rev. Geo. B. Monison, of Centra lins'has ‘been very" much handicapped bs the foolish trade made. in” the. property before ‘he took charge, but he is master- Ing: the ‘situation and’ will entertain th District Conference, June. $." We shall never forget the kiniaitases of DG, Gon hell, J.C. Grawford, Mrs, Southers ‘and others. Rev. O. H. Banks, at Du Buloin, is in- deed a business giant and a strong preacher. "His church is “sweeping ‘ont Success. We shall ever remember the hos pitality extended by Bros. Anderson, Kitk- patrick. “Hohinwon, Vetwaif.' Balle," af wan, Monison, ‘Scott, Mrs. Jones, Mls Anderson, Mrs. Ashly, ‘Prof. Owens, Sad- erry and others. Tevil Geo. E. Brown, Caldwell Chapel ppranswile fe 6 grat worker, and ean his people’ are putting forth ‘great efforts to bulid the second At M. . Sion. Ghsrel Mt Evansville. ‘The outlook is bright, Last, but by no means least, is . B G. Shaw. | Never in the history of ville has Zion been so popular as. , with our rock church, with | steel roof, practically fireproof. ‘There are but two Rasta Te Wea Ta? Sms vorably with this great church, and ae See ie Sateen Bh church is packed every Sunday ene Mi be calc" aD rat na 3 x, thely Guede tat Sarat eet ise it a ay feat St ce haw EAE TS rants Bit l sweep her possession in for Zion like a spiritual cyclone. Our Sunday School Seiten Vil avs af Rene ait ASE Hiring and dir, Harding, pecans ond dr, Bertie. i Banhindi'tt eta asi towat the success of the district, and the con- See tat ingen a a eat DALLAS, TEX. ‘Special to THE FREEatAN. °J._3. Sparks was bried Wednesday from st 'Paul'g MH Church, under the aus- pices of Comet Loage ot Odd Fellows No 184, ‘Dr. N. J. Johnson, pastor, officiated. “-e.ithe various pastors are maintaining a dignified interest in the masses of our poool, by, thelr torts to urge: them, to jome-buying, and Improvements at, thelr ge ES Eas dre Visited in. the For last. week... . Recently ‘the officers have been aided. by ‘the good éltizenry to apprehend several whites and blacks at their places and at their crimes, Which would have been a loss to life and property, no doubt, May the good ones fontinue and help put the evildoers behind the bars....Mre. "Wiley Brown, of the Fort, is here visiting for a few days. .. In our ‘rounds this week we not much im- provement among the ‘colored places, of musiness—a cleaning up—and much cor- diality among the attaches to all who go and come, ‘This is as it should be at ail tmes....The time is fast approaching for the. big” excursion associations. .. . Mrs. ‘Anna. Markham, of San Amonio. is" here Visiting relatives ‘and friends indefinitely. wD, B. R. Bluitt has recently occupied his ‘handsomely erected mansion, corner Bora Vand “Alten strecte. Mes, HH. ybinson and family have moved to Ham- Kin and Cottage Lane... -Miss Emma Cox, the dressmaker and thodel fitter of wom- en's garments, celebrated her thirty-ninth birthday Wednesday, March 3, at her res- idence, 561 Main street. Many of her friends called, and she also recelyed many costly. tokens. ‘The. famous. Manhattan Orchestra enlivened the occasion with se- Iections. Choice viands and. refreshments were served in abundanes throughout the evening. Mr. and” Mrs. George. Murry were called to Calvert this week to attend the funeral of Mrs. Murry's brother... Mrs, Johnnie Jones is indispoxed at het fesidence on Union street... In. visiting the schools one Will “become” readily im pressed with the idea where and what Should be done to further aid, those as they come from these places of learning, What are we doing in @ business way to uplift them with the knowledge of various ihings?....The bank movement here is a Step that ‘should meet the approval of every Negro In the city, county and State. We need It for too mahy reasons to now mention. Tt will open for business soon. wa A. Visit. to Mrs. G. D. Morgan's. kin- dérgarten school, on Cochran street, should be made by good citizens and be convinced that a great work. is going on with the little ‘tots also....'The ‘baseball fans are now getting in shape. Owners, managers and players should eail at 190 Main street and get THE FREEMAN. Tt will serve your wants in many advantageous ways on those who are able to do for vou the most ood, he Merry Wives Club of Indies has recently organized for the work of evening chapel GM. E. Chureh work for the summer season....‘The Slabtown Company of New Hope ‘Baptist Church entertained to the delight of many Mon: fay night. ‘The proceeds go to the build: ing fund....St Pauts M. 8. Chien com- pany of entertainers, managed by Mrs. Blaney Simms, raised a neat sum for that edifice last week... St. James and old Bethel are jointly ‘pushing to complete their churches "also....Persons in’ East Dallas can get THE FREEMAN at Griff's Cate—the best to eat at all times, service up to now, and a FREEMAN full of news De ee Oe ee PARIS, KY. Special to ‘Tue Freeman. ‘French Thompson was in, Cleveland, last week, at his father’s funeral. .. Our colored farmers are very busy getiing out their hemp and Areparing for a, heavy crop of barley and tobacco this season. . A’ Series of meetings commences at. the colored Christian Church, Sunday, March 14... Miss Mary Thomas was visiting her daughter and granddaughter, in George- town, last week... .Jobn Ayers and broth- ers left for Falmouth, Ky., to-day, to at- tend. their mother's ' funeral... .Barney Baitly will leave for Chicago to make his future home, ST. PAUL. MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Sire. Marie icing. tue! mother of Mrs Henry, High, Med at ‘St, Lukes Hospital on ridays March 5." ‘the. funeral was hela from Pilgrim Baptist Chureh on last Monday: Drv. I. Turner. was the Drincipai ‘speaker ‘at the platform meeting at St James Church, on Just Sunday even: ing. His subject was “Tuberculosis and How to Prevent Tt"... .Mro A. Worden Haynes and Mr. Arthur’ Hall” went — to Washington (9 ‘attend, the Inaugural._on March ....The member of St. dames Ghureh have decided to put in a new pipe organ some time during this simmer ahd torpay of the balance, of their debt, + The funeral of Albert C. Smith was heid at Pilgrim Baptist Chuich on iyst_Sun- day afternoon. Mr. Smith wash. mem- Bek of the f.'B. P.O. Blk of the World, and they. turned ‘out inslarge numbers: Many. people were turned away from. the church ‘on account of failing to find stand- ing room. (Sie Sinith professed elison Defore ne’ died and was baptized by {tev TL 8 Graves, pastor of St. James A. Mt HE Church Phe Smart’ Set." starring Mr. 8. Hi. Dudley, Is playing at the Grand Ahcater “this weeke "io crowded “nousee Phe company has a good aggregation 0 singers vils "season. «. Mrs dosephine Puckett is the only consecrated deaconess inthe city. Mrs. Puckett. was. formeriy of Springeld, il... Mr J.C. P. tyler Ras returned’ from’ ‘the West, where he went-eo look after, the property ett. him Wy his’ mother..< The. Zion Presbyterian Church, "ot whieh’ Tew. WM. Boddy is pastor,” fs. increasing in “numbers, Itev. Roddy’ is avery earnest worker... Miss Bhzabeth ‘La fue will. graduate’ from Hamline. University, ‘wt the close of this school semester... Mn W. T. Franels had the distinction. of. being ‘the only. Afro- Ninerican at. the banquet of the Ramsey Gounty Bar Association. QUINCY, ILL. Special to Tue FREEMAN. "The 400's Rave a progressive luncheon, ‘Thursday of last week. It was a grand affair. ‘The first course was served at the tesidence of Mrs. Harry Ruftners, the sec- ond course at Mrs. F. G, Munday’s, the third at Mrs. R! W, White's, the fourth at Mrs. 8. B. Golder's, the fifth at Mrs, Amanda Smith's, the sixth at Mrs, Rosa Webb's, the seventh at Mrs." Wedley Smith's, the eighth at Miss Edith Mills’ the ninth at Mrs. S. H. Shumaker’s, where @ musical program was rendered. ‘Ail the homes were charmingly decorated for the gogasion, and, the affair proved to be most enjoyable success. .”.Blind Boone's company was the guest of the Eighth and Elm Street Church, Sunday, and they gave a concert at that church ‘Tuesday evening. * Last Sunday was Women's Day ai fie “Culture Club, ‘when, a splendid. pro- gram was rendered... There -will be. bap- fizing “at. the Wighth and Elm.’ Street Chureh, Sunday, at % o'clock. ‘There are About ‘sixty to be "baptized... Blind Boone's company stopped at Mev. . L, Smith's while in the city... .D. W. Palmer fert last week for Soutti Bend, ‘Ind... to fake a new position. — His wite will tol low later. ...Mrs. F. G. Munday will pre- gent a new play with her local company in the near’ future....Mrs. Rosa Coleman has been very ili for two weeks, and Is improving slowly....Miss Nettie Roberts has returned home from a long visit in St. Louis with her eister. PITTSBURG, PA. Special to THe FREEMAN. ‘The Knights of Pythias are carrving the ety at Present. Grand Chancellor BG Collier and Mrs. Collier are visiting’ the city. ‘The grand chancellor is making his tour through western Pennsylvania. He expects to visit every lodge before return- ing to his home in Philadetphia, and has een royally entertained by’ the difterent lodges..-Howard Hall had the pleasure of winning the Marathén race at : tion Rink. Mr. Hall is the first one of our race ever winning such a race. His time Street we Oxfords GY" Comfort and Style Assure We manufacture 5,000 pairs of Ladies’ Dress Shoes every day and furnish them direct toyou through our Shoe Parlor, 30 North Pennsylvania Street. We Guarantee a Fit by Experts. FREE SHINING PARLOR. oe eee J. & K. Ladies’ Shoe Parlor, for twenty-six miles was 3 hours, 58 min- ies"tnd bo seconds, “The same old ding ‘was manifested in this race in regard to our color, Several bad names and expres- sions were made when Mr, Hall went to the front and won the race....The Fill: pino Band gave two concerts on thelr way to Washington which were largely attend: ff by’ our beople. ,.Gen. G. A Nerals ar Fived home from Ghtcago, whére he went to attend the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs, Nerals will spend a few days in the Wingy City before returning home... .J. W. Jones joined Patriarchs Lodge No, 39, G.U.0. 6. F. As Mr. Jones is agent for The FreeMan, his business. in the paper line is increasing....Rev. W. W. Brown and Rev. Lee attended the inauguration at Washington, D. C. , a eee ELLISVILLE, MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Services were held at the First Baptist Chureh last Sunday, | Rev. J.C) Taylor pastor....Rev. Goodwin, at the A. M. 3. Chureli, was greeted with a nice congre- gation... Wilisville’s colored” graded School is “doing well. Prof. D. J.” Ran- dolph, principal; Mrs. 'D- J. Randolph, Misses Ora’ MeMahon and Abbie Griggs, assistants... Phe foliowing young people of the school are readers of The Freeman: Percy Heslep, Jesse Collins, Sank Reid, Anderson Bradford and Ludrid Marsh, Misses Matilda Page, Minnie Houze, Net- tie Kelly and Luberta " Hicks... "Those who desire ‘The Freeman will cail at the residence of Prof. D. J. Randolph, who is now a representative of this noted journal, MINEOLA, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. ‘Phere was a large attendance at a fu- neral Jast*Sunday at the C,M. E. Church. ++--Mr. Seborn Roling is ‘with us again. i.ioRey, Murphy is a fine. speaker... Lewis ave was ill last week. Syd Gunter and family have been sick for some time, but are now better... .Rev. Sv Mi Brocks hag a iirst-class grocers store, and has anything you want. “This is the only Colored store in our city. PEORIA, ILL. Special to ‘THE FREEMAN. ‘Mrs. LU. B. Jameson read an excellent paper on woman suffrage at the Forum... Mr. John Heed, who has been iil for some time’ at his home on Sixth street, died Sunday morning, He was manly and in- Gustrious, and enjoyed the good will of both colored and white, All assisted his mother in making his last days as com- fortable ‘as possible. | Funeral, ‘Tuesday afternoon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church: “5 Little Miss Esther Irene Fields has issued invitations to the- nineteenth wedding an- niversary-of her parents, Mr. and. Mrs. Stanton Fields, ‘Thursday’ evening, March i, from 7:30 until 11 o'clock, at 201 North lizabeth street,...The ball given by Company 16, March 4, was ‘well, at- tended.....Mrs, Cynthia B, Harris is visit- Ing Mrs.'J. B, Smith at Speer, I... .Mr. ‘Thomas Gibson is home from’ Springfield for a few days’ vacation....Mr. Leopold HL. Green is visiting Mr. ‘and Mrs. H.C. Gibson... ‘Phere isa marked increase in the Podum's attendance. ... Miss Madeline Callender was indisposed the latter part of the week....Mr. Spurlock, a graduate of ‘Tuskegee, “will engage in’ farming in this city....The choir, with Mr. B. H. Hagan as’‘director, is rehearsing some beautiful musie to be rendered Baster. ANNISTON, ALA. ‘Phe Central Foundry Company, which employed hundreds. of colored men. Was Suvned down Jase Saturday: .John Gier and family, wish to thank ail friends ‘who So kindly ‘assisted them during the illness and* death of Mrs. Grier-. Mrs. Laura Hiranee and. Mrs. Queen’ Davenport. at: fended the funeral of their sister, Mts Gren ‘Verses from our SERRE) Hoosier poet, Aaron | Boo) Beitora “thompson, | i} whose latest book, | entitled “Harvest of i ‘Thoughs," contain- | Fe} ing 106 pages ana i p3) severat illustrations Fe} wit be sent to any } P| Address for 60 cents, i OP) Ciease “don't “send S| stamps.) . | THE DomEsric PUBLISHEN, a s B a # <a ee Pi 4 a Indianapolis, Ind. A MESSAGE. T heard a sweet message from summer, And it came on the pinions of spring, O'er woodland, through fallow of Ted nuds, ‘Where rehearsed the first songsters of spring. A soft breeze came drifting before It, ‘With sweetness that’s hard to explain, And it, brought a brightness like sun- shine Brings to us after a rain. ‘That message re-echoed the woodland. ‘And sounded through valley and bili; Descending, It seemed, from the tree tops, And Joined In a song with the rill. Seemed like the whole universe caught it, ‘When the sweet-laden breeze drifted by, ‘The wild bees searched for their honey, On wings ft the gay butterfly. 7 While insects that dwelt in the grasses Awoke with a loud, merry chant, And the air was swarming with beetles, And the ground was covered with ants. Across the mead from an orchard ‘There came a moan from a dove: ‘The muse drew a song from her casket, Of pathos, with sweet, tender love. So oft I have tried to repeat ft, When she sings it so sweet in’ mine-car, But iny hearing grows faint while she's Singing, And I turn with mine eyes filled with tears. FRIENDSHIP'S PARTING. 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Mellie Dean, the clever little singer and dancer, late of the Red Moon Company, is stopping in Minneapolis, Minn. There was a grand Elks ball given in St. Paul, Minn., March 9, in honor of the Smart Set Company, headed by S. H. Dudley, the celebrated comedian. R. C. Logan, late of Richards and Pringles Minstrels, is now located at Butte, Mont., and sends regards to Ernest Hogan, Jerry Mills, and all friends in and out of the profession. Simon G. Rhodes and Benjamin Summers are now in vaudeville, using their own compositions. They will open the Dunbar, at Columbus, O., March 25, in the "Wizard of Hendro." English and Johnson, who are making a hit at the Gar Rink at Chanute, Kan., in their "I Am Gwine to Get Dat and March," will appear with Phenia's Minstrels this season. After a successful tour of the music halls, the Le Vards have returned for the circus season. He has signed contract for four years and two tours a nigh. The arrived in America March 3. Regards to all friends. Bland and Jones opened at the Majestic Theater, Cincinnati, O, March 1, and were booked after the afternoon performance to appear at the Auditorium Theater the following week, March 8. Elmore and Ray, please write to Claybury. The Freeman is a receipt of a post office card in the State College County Company of Orangeburg, S. C. The persons appearing are Coyden Herndon, M. Hart, E. W. Jennings and W. Rice. Mr. Herndon has in his hand copies of The Freeman. R. Rake Pope will close with to the "In OA" Company, March 25, to take a position as bandmaster with Ringling Bros' Circus, under the supervision of S. T. Dunnsmore. He is known as the Hoosier comedian, band director. He sends to all. The Whangdooodle Trio, of Seattle, Wash.—F. R. Brooks, W. M. Jones and J. P. Faulkner—are among the very best entertainers and vocal music for all occasions. They are also conducting a dancing academy every Tuesday night at 2715 Jackson street. Mr. Brooks sends regards to P. G. Lowery and all friends. Douglass and Worthey's Florida Blossoms bid fair to outdo all previous efforts in the dance competition. Conn. are busy rehearsing a new act that is bound to go big, ending in their champion buck and wing dancing contest. The team is preparing for the big show. They open the season on the last of this month in Georgia. Sam Davis, late of the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, and Munie Hackles, of Baltimore, Md. now known as the team of Hackles and Davis, are making a great success in the dance acting act, which is a public winner. Sam sends regards to the Dandy Dixie bunch and all friends in and out of the professions. Patti Pattin bunch and Hanson and James. Address, 506 Myrtle avenue, Baltimore, Md. Madam Azalia Hackley is making good in England. The following appeared in a book, "Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, who is better known in America (this being her first appearance on an English platform), is the possessor of a genuine soprano voice. She is the lady, the lady, the 'Bel raggio' (Semiramide), by Rossini, which was received with much enthusiasm, and Henschel's "Spring," in which she carved the shape of the lady, the lady, to end. Mr. H. Macdonald Montefiora was extremely amusing in his humorous songs, especially "My Beasty Eyeglass," by Harold Montague. J. Elmer Spyglass, the lyric baritone, and the highly cultured and world-famed music concerto singer, headquartered in London. He will come in June for a concert tour of two weeks, sailing from Rotterdam, Holland, and returning to New York, then compiled by his wife. Mr. Spyglass left America three years ago to pursue two years study, and is making a very successful career in Russia, Holland, Belgium, France, and Denmark, and is engaged to 1912. He will make only a few large cities in America owing to his engagements in English, German, French and Italian. Culligan's Nashville Students are again showing night stands since leaving San Diego. Ed Anderson, tuba and comedian, and pianist, formerly with Perdon Show No. 2, joined us in San Diego. Billy and Martin Mitchell are still making good in the orchestra, and Prof. Harvey Holland still has charge of the orchestra and sends regards to old-timmers. Herbert LaShe says, hello, Billy. His permanent address is 2005' Cameron street, Victoria, B. C. Littleton McDuff says, hello, Jeff Smith, Pearl Moppin and Denver boys. His permanent address is 1734 Linn Street. Mail sent there will be forwarded at once. D. R. Hull, orchestra leader, who spent the season of 1908 with the Patterson Amusement Company, will go to Joplin, Missouri, where he will play the strelts, who are booked with the Patterson Amusement Company, season of 1909. He will take charge of the orchestra and serve middle man. He would like to hear from the orchestra, and he spent last season—D. P. Granger and wife, George Beauta and wife, Thomas Thompson and wife, Edward Farrel and wife, Miss Elizabeth Frazier and Miss Maggie Powell, W. L. Williamson C. W. Cavaughan, Thomas Frazier, Thomas Richard Brown, H. Blackburn, W. L. Eckert, Thomas Frazier, Thomas to regard all, in and out of the profession. BILLY M'CLAIN IN LONDON. Billy McClain, Carlisle and Baker, and Mme. Cordella, on their opening performance at the Empire, Coventry, took ten calls, and Mr. McClain had to make a call to the show was allowed to proceed.—The Sports Life, London, Eng., Friday, February 12. THE STAR THEATER AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Ramsons are making a good success with their act. Miss Rosie Groves is sternly demanding that Moore is making good with "Ever King," Ms. Moore, our lady buck and wing dress, a favorite. John Reald, our musical director, is also successfully staged by the Mr. Lee Henderson. M'CABE'S GEORGIA TROUBADOUR MINTRELS. Making Kirk, the musical acrobat, is making one of the greatest hits of his life in his original musical acrobatic act, in which he performs different instruments, and each one is elty, and he made them all himself. His encores are so great that he is obliged to take two and three curtain calls nightly. There is well and enjoying good health and and a good appetite, says to all the acrobats that he is throwing the same high somersaults and flip-flops as he did in 1885. Miss Beatrice Wainwright, our dainty soubrette, in her dress, is the best of the best, out doubt one of the best in the business. Brown and Gray, in their break-neck song and dance, are making them scream. Thatcher and Jordan, in their trick house big hit. The members of the company are all well and send regards to all friends. DEATH OF WM. F. DONAGAN Wm. F. Donagan, the noted colored baritone singer, known all over the United States as the sweet singer of the street, died March 5, 1909, at 11 Perch street, Boston, Mass. He was born at Vlneland, New Jersey, December 12, 1834. He was a teacher at A. Bell Post, No. 134, G. A. R., and had been in the profession thirty years. He leaves a wife to mourn his loss. The interment was at Mount Hope Cemetery. Cause of death, congestion of the lungs. He was sick four months. Age, 65 years. LOWERY & MORGAN'S MINISTREL COMPANY. The show played at Vella Grove, Ill., March 6, to S. R. O. The people of that city are well pleased with the show, we were pleased with the show, to be the first colored show ever in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garland joined us at Shelbyville, Ill. Mrs. Garland is quite an addition to the show, and Garland Mason is singing "Under the Electric Lights," and is making a big hit every night, taking two and three encores. Mr. Garland Mason is singing "Under the Electric Lights," and is making good in the part, and keeps the house in an uproar the whole time he is on the stage. The Beechums, Charles and Blanch, are the talk of the city. Mrs. Garland sends regards to Mrs. Ward and friends. Miss Cass Gibert is still doing fine, singing "Baby Dolly." Little Johnnie Edwards, Mrs. Gibert, is Mrs. Carl Sands sends regards to Mrs. Ward and friends. Miss Cass Gibert is still doing fine, singing "Baby Dolly." Little Johnnie Edwards, Mrs. Gibert, is Mrs. Carl Sands sends regards to Mrs. Ward and friends. Our company is as follows: Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, Tony Barefield, Tom May, and others. Prof. W. A. Kelley has another new song up his sleeve. Remember that the F. G. C. Club is still with the show and club is to Fred Richardson and William Jones. WM. H. REID'S BAND AND CONCEPT CO. The company, with Mr. Tom Gales as stage manager and Wm. H. Reid as general manager, just arrived from New York to work with the band robe for the company. The band uniforms and the stage wardrobe will be the finest seen upon the road this season. The company will be joined by Mr. Tom Gales, stage manager, at the Palm Garden, 431 West Sixth street, Cincinnati. O. Mr. Gales has arranged everything in the music line, which will be one of the best musical directors in the American public. / Mr. Preston Bridgewater, the bandmaster, will arrive from his home, Tuscola, Ill., with a new selec-tor and a new band, well known as one of the best musical directors traveling to-day, and he is one of the best young cornet players before the company. The company has been selected from the best performers in the profession. The company opens up in Chicago, Ill., at the Louisville Slone, Mr. George Brandon and Mr. Ernest Madison are working on the Empire Circuit. Their last week will be in Detroit, when they will return to Chicago to work with the company. Johnny Garrett, the orchestra leader, is hard at work arranging the first part openings, which will be something new. Mr. Reid has on the road three of the best band and concert companies traveling. DRAWING THE MICROSCOPE ON THE STAGE. A certain New York minister has been getting after the theater people, insisting that some of the shows needed attention, but that the audience seems as if the criticism is coming a little late. The show business, as a whole, is on the uplift. The colored show people are coming to the indictment. Very little of the suggestive is seen or heard in their presentations. Perhaps it will be a difficult thing to cut out the suggestive, and drawing room approval. The plays, the shows, aim to be true to life. Such being the case, there will be something more or less suggestive. He can well condemn. He might take a novel, most of the best novels, and do the same thing. It is not an easy matter to think of many best plays or novels that do writing about such suggestive. The feature of the play is the defense of womanhood, that most laudable side, it means that she has been attacked. In the other phase is set forth, and there you are. MAJESTIC THEATER AT VICKS- BURG. MISS. Lincoln Theater is doing fine this week with the McGees. THE GRAND THEATER, CHICAGO. This little playhouse is offering this week an exceptionally strong bill. All acts on the bill have some financial standing with the big wheel. The start shows off with Miss Elvira Johnson, "a knock-out," who closed recently with the Williams and Valker companies. The bill she was well remembered, from her former clever work in the Pekin Stock Company, for on her entrance she received quite an ovation, and she made good for the reception, singing "Ebenenzer" and "Sue Simmons." The stockholder of Scotch Abbey. This team has just returned from eight weeks' work on Canada, and spring a brand new line of talk in this vicinity, and they took a bow at the finish of their act. They sold the phone for they worked hard throughout their act. mated to be worth one billion dollars in New York alone. This has been accom- mated in twenty years." When approxi- mately the whole of America, the business will show a growth of 60 percent in twenty years, which means billions. to compare the Negro's holding with the white man's why, he has nothing from the first snow, but another the Negro had no thought of having. This was followed by the only and original HI Jerry Barnes, of the I heard him say dat' fame, of the I heard him say dat' fame, but this time; instead, he presented an original idea in the way of a droll monologue, using a half brickbat as a partner, and on his first entrance he stood in one place two minutes without speaking, and then he did, it was another two minutes before Jerry could speak again. It looks like he is doing a pantomime monologue, but it is funny, and, above all, it was original. Crosby, of the original Crosby, this act is direct from the big wheel, and is well known by the patrons of this house. It must be, from the reception it received. The act is well stageed, and it is not quite like Mr. Perrin knows how to go about arranging his act to suit conditions. This act is using a special drop in their regular work, but owing to the house being too small, it certainly fits. One feature in it is the singing of "You'll Have to Wait Until Tomorrow," by Miss Crosby. They close the bill, making it one of the strongest bills in the world, on this occasion. Each act is forced to take from one to Each act is forced to take from one to three bows at the finish. Comedian with Majestic Trio—Boy with the Funny Running Dance. Bv J. D. HOWARD. The Malestic Trio, a colored singing and dancing act, composed of two men and a woman, will be on Monday afternoon for a week's stay. This house is perhaps one of the toughest on the Orpheum Circuit for a colored act to perform. They thank their stars that they had with them little Harry Reed, whose work alone saved the lives of many. The meat ticket, of the lump, the act is [Name] and goes about fifteen minutes. The funny running dance introduced by Harry Reed was a fresh one on the patrons of the room, but it was not the Mr. Reed. He was a scream all over the Orpheum this season singing "In the Right Place" but the Wrong Place has got the biggest success put out by the Gotham Attacks Music Publishing Company this season. Mr. Reed is conceded by all who saw the act and the comedians seen in Indianapolis this season. His work is original and absolutely free from any taint of copy or militantism. He is a comedian who has "time" over the Orpheum concluding a successful season of twenty-six weeks, after which it heads back into New York. He is a comedian who shows business. At that time he was, per- HARRY REED haps, the best acrobat among colored performers on the stage. His first engagement was Scott Minstrels. The next season he worked with "McCarver, Reed and McCarver," and was featured with the Georgia Minstrels. Following that season with the Black Patti Troubadours, and had again switched up his team work relations and was a member of the team that played in the six season under the McIntosh regiment with the "Smart Set," he appeared with that company as one of the principal comedians, and he played in the Oyster Man," doing the well-known character "Useless," which was one of the pronounced hits of the show. Reed is twenty-five years out of Columbus, Ohio. He sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. THE PEKIN OPENING AT CHICAGO The Pekin of Chicago had a brilliant opening last week. The stock company was in evidence, when the departure from the proposed musical company came. The management announces that the music comedy will be on in four weeks. His will will be on in four weeks. The house was much too small for the immense number that wanted to enter. Helen was the only one. The nine members of the stock company were at their best. The audience was in the best mood; all went merry as marriage. Ed Green had the business well in hand, adding to his reputation at putting 'em on. He made good in his acting in the startling little presentation, "The Pet Dog." Bob Motts, the genial manager, is pleased with his effort to give the city of Chicago a first-class show house. He is one of the pioneers, if not the first to establish a pop-up. The Pekin is sometimes referred to as the "Temple of Music"—a beautiful name and which ought to stick. This means high-class endeavor, of course, such as Pekin has presented from time to time. NEGRO THEATRES. BY JULI JONES. What a wonderful showing the theatres owned and controlled by Negroes throughout the United States are making! Built upon their own knowledge of the business, theaters and South, they are doing things now that looked like impossibilities twenty years ago; they have come far in their development and thirty. This statement may sound ridiculous, but after one looks over the field he realizes that twenty years ago had only fourteen first-class houses, namely, the Star, Fourteenth street and Broadway; the Union and the Music; Fourteenth and Irving Square; Fourteenth Street Theatre; Grand Opera House; Lyceum; Fifth avenue; Dalleys, Palms, Bijou, Manhattan Park, and the Casino. Today New York boasts of one hundred first-class houses and one hundred twenty-first-class houses. The art property and structures are esti- mated to be worth one billion dollars in New York alone. This has been accomplished in twenty years." When approximately 50 percent of the whole of America, the business will show a growth of 60 percent in twenty years, which means billions. To compare the Negro holding with the white man's; why, he has nothing from the black man; why, he has no insurer, the Negro had no thought of honoring the theatre twenty years ago. His highest ambition was what is known as a "Honky-ton" a ham establishment under the protection of the police and the protest of the moral public. These resorts are fast fading out. I have before我 proof that there are 141 negro theatres managed and controlled. Negro theatres of admission range from 5 to 50. The majority of these houses are west of the Mississippi river and South. Chicago has the largest Knoxville, Teen., New Orleans, La. The other houses are west of the Mississippi, D. C. Louisville, Teen., Omaha, Ohio, have houses that can play any ordinary show. The other houses in different States are mostly 5 and 10-cent theatres, and the moving pictures. This showing gives the proverb, "From little acorns big oaks grow." The Negro managing a theatre looked like an impossibility once upon a time. The theater was Worth's Theater, 300 and avenue, New York City. From an outside view it seems to have been a big success. The majority of the stock company included in the theater today, such people as Johnson and Dean Fred Piper, Billy Farrell, Mattie Willks, Jerry Milis, Camille Cassell, Irving Jones, Ben Hunn, Hen Wise, Billy Young, Alice Sheppard, Gussie L. Davis, Stella Wiley, Terry Wiley, Bob Cole, Will Marton Cook, musical director, and others. This would be a good drawing card in any house, yet this house was from the lack of management. This settled from the lack as far as Negro theatres were concerned. PITTSBURG SHOW SHOP By JASSIMINE. The Humane Society of this city has placed a ban on the child performers who have been appearing at the numerous theatrical events in the city to the fact that, it is claimed, most of them have been compelled to work in order to support their parents. This is indeed a good thing for the profession, for these performers will be most well served the cause of lots of good performers being unable to secure work, as the children can be secured for about one-third the salary that a real performer would work. For a child performer, it is most well served with performers, and it is expected now that they will be given a chance to work. This move will benefit the public also, as those performers will not be compelled to witness the "outs" of a bunch of amateur "acts" almost every time they visit the theaters. The rumor that Harry Brooks, the comedian and mistake. Mr. Brooks has been suffering with heart trouble for some time, and in taking medicine for his complaint took an overdose. He was released from the hospital after the city next week to fill a twelve weeks' engagement over the Independent Circuit. Willard Sinkford, the well-known tromboneist is now playing in the Lyceum Theater. Riley S. Lethwick, the popular young violinist of the Fulton orchestra, closed last Saturday, and has accepted a position with the Metropolitan Opera. The Betters, Bille and Clara, are playing at the Variety, on the North Side, this week, and are doing fine. The well-known pianist, who has been on the sick list for some time, is again able to be around and resume his duties. Robinson, director and manager of Robinson's Orchestra, has secured the Metropolitan Hall, in the East End, and will open an up-to-date dancing ensemble. Both houses on the Avenue offer good crowds. The bill this week is headed by DE Von and Kennedy, in an Irish sketch, which was well received. Then came Lillian Hall, a charming white violinist, exceedingly well and was forced to respond to numerous encores. Vernon Sisters, in songs and dances, were fair, and a monologist and moving pictures closed the bill. THE FULTON. This house offers a good bill this week, headed by the marvelous G. F. Wilson, who presented one of the finest acts that was ever witnessed on the set of the movie, but and contortionist of rare ability. His tricks are all good and new. His act is neat and well dressed, and the graceful manner in which he did his work won him a special award. Next came the Four Leandos, in a novelty act, which was also well received. The lady member of the act did some remarkable feats of strength, and was heartily applauded. R. G. Baker, in illustrated songs and moving pictures clapped a very A FEW VAUDEVILLE STARS WHO SHINE BY SYLYESTER RUSSELL: Dan Avery and Charles Hart are past demonstrating that they are one of the very best teams in vaudeville and costume comedies, but let us forget that at present until they can find a new play to star again. Tom Brown and Serian Navarro will illustrate how costume comedies high-grade each team in a neat display of Oriental specialties. Anderson and Goines continue to give the public something new, and why should they be a repertoire company? The Brittons are home from Europe this long while, and the public will welcome Joe Britton, who is certainly a comedian, who has fun at a hit on the Hippodrome, are now in America again. The Clermonts, Frank and Etta were this troupe. Cooper and Hippodrome are now in cards who are always busy. Fidler and Shelton are doing the Comedian, Producer, Stage Director. Writer of Plays, Sketches, Lyrics, Amusement Director. Lincoln Theatre, Box 534, Knoxville, Tenn. For some uninteresting cause or other the vaudeville actors do not advertise themselves as much as they should in The Treeman. Vaudeville actors should not attack the actors in combination. Combinations of actors always come in for unavoidable individual and collective notoriety. The way for vaudevillians to do is to cut their own way through ice and cloudy forests in order to reach the goal, and assert yourselves, then star in comedy. IN THE CAMP OF THE A. B. C.'s ADVANCE "DOPE" OF THE DIAMOND Pitcher Griffin, of the Louisville Giants, also an ex-A. B. C. member, is visiting in the city. Catcher Primm and second baseman Young, of the Chicago Union, and ex-A. B. C. players, wintered in the city. It is to be hoped that the improvements at the Northwestern Park will include relegation of the unnecessary houses now obstructing the main entrance to some point farther removed. This office is in receipt of a letter from "Rabbit" Granger, last year's guardian of the left garden for the A. B. C., who is now sojourning in England, a member of a vaudeville act touring Europe. He writes the act with which he is connected is goining, and that he will "bring home the bacon." Things have assumed a lively aspect in and around Northwestern Park, the home of the A. B. C.'s in Indianapolis, Mr. Ran the manager, and owner of the team, says his vast interests bring the grounds and stands, will be commenced at once. The patronage of the public last season was a record-breaker. Butler, the coach, nothing is good for the fans who support him. New uniforms have been ordered, and arrangements are under way to strengthen the team with some new players from abroad. It is rumored that "Punk" Adams, the erstwhile indicator manipulator of the Northwestern Park, will be seen next season in an A. B. C. uniform. This is sure to be a big part of the fans' "fans," who are already inclined to the belief that Adams was somewhat partial in his decisions last season to the A. B. C.'s. In the event that Adams gets actively involved in the sport, he is one of the oldest exponents in the sport. Mr. Adams is forty-years of age. The new project in the South, reported to be substantial in its plans and construction, of organizing a Colored baseball league to represent Memphis, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Paducah, Cairo, Ohio, and Louisville in the nature of a surprise. Upon being interviewed, Mr. Butler, of the A. B. C team, professed ignorance of the whole matter, notwithstanding that his team had been listed as one of its exclusively watched, and will be given detailed account in the columns of THE FREEMAN from time to time. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. High Class Literary and Musical Entertainment. Special to THE FREEMAN The Democrat, one of the leading dailies of Jefferson City, contains the following account of the musical and literary encounters of the House of the Lincoln Institute, in the hall of the House of Representatives, Monday evening, March 1; The Lincoln Institute entertainment at the House of Representatives, Monday night, was well attended, and is said by many of those present, and capable of showing great passion for the performance of the kind ever given by the institute. The music was wonderfully pleasing, and the papers and addresses showing great passion for the performance of the kind ever given by students. The papers dealt largely with industrial subjects and were remarkably well-considered productions, upon Lincoln Institute and the methods of education prevailing there." A rising vote of thanks was offered by the legislators immediately after the commencement of the on the following day a strong set of resolutions was unanimously adopted in the House, thanking President Allen and the students for their efforts. The resolutions were sent to President Allen. SPOKANE, WASH. Special to THE FREEMAN. ...Mrs. Wm. Ryan left on the 19th for Oymphia, to join her husband, who is attending the legislature she helped with, and the militantism she suffers with rheumatism for some time, is improving slowly. ...Archie Foster and I. A. Erley left the city on the 24th for the East. B. P. Foster and I. A. Erley left the 23rd and had a handshake with all his old friends. ...Captain L. Lennard is able to resume his responsibilities at the again; he is now a member of the team been served to her room for a few days suffering with laglip. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Holms, who took a pleasure trip to Seacat, was in the 26th for the 28th. Mr. Chas, Davis, one of the old timers, has resigned from the Silver Grill. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN Special Susie Lynch is doing some excellent high school work, and expects to graduate this year...Myrtle, the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Stone, died recently and was buried at the East Cem- tury...An elegant reception was held at the home of Mrs. Angle Brown, on East Chambers street, by the Friday Art Club. It was also, Mrs. Brown's birthday, at 11 a.m. Mrs. Angle recommendations were served...Mrs. Rachel Wright died recently at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Isabel Seymour, on Sheri- SHERMAN, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN SCHOOL Copies of THE FREEMAN on sale at Mrs. G. W. Hume's Cafe, Elmer Williams's, William Mann's, and James Carson's torsional parlor's... Mrs. George Peterson parlor's... Mrs. George Peterson Nevada, of Muskogee, Okla., are at the bedside of her mother here, Mrs. Harriett Jackson... H. D. Givens and L. C. Cul- min, of Muskogee, Okla., are at and pressing parlor in the rear of Elmen Williams's handsome torsional parlor, near the "Katy" passenger depot. The FREE- ER is numbered among the slick. Defiance Lodge of Elks is preparing to royally entertain the Lasso Club of Dallas on the night of the 12th inst. at its beautiful Lasso Club. The Lasso Club will arrive in the city in a special electric interurban car... Fred Douglas High School Alumni Association, Glen Jackson, president, Miles Jackson, M. B. Robinson and B. Mitchell, secretaries, Miss C. Dupree, treasurer, Prof. A. J. Sykes, librarian, had fifteen trees donated on Washington's birthday by patrons of the school. BALTIMORE, MD Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Leatha Smith, proprietress of Camden House, has opened a grand lunch and dining room at 227 West Camden Street, Camden, New Jersey. Isaac Spriggs, who had a bad fall, is able to be at work again. . . Don't forget The Freeman, at 602 South Eutaw or Camden Station baggage room, by Mary McCubbins, representative, any time. IMITATING THE WHITE MAN. INFORMATION WANTED. Can any reader of this paper give me the address of her, Jannah Hammond or any other person who will know her whereabouts? Please write her uncle, JAMES ELLIS 400 Hight St. FOXBURG, Wis. ROUTE. McCABE'S GEORGIA TROUBADEOURS— Black Creek, Wis. March 15; Shrocton, 19; Hortonville, 18; Bear Creek, 19; 20, 11 RICHARD AND PRINGLE MISTRELNS, underside, 18; Eldorado, Kan. March 15; Eureka, 16; Yates Center, 17; Fredonia, 18; Independence, 19; Parsons, 20 BRIAN'S GEORGIA TROUBADEOURS—Los California, Cal. March 14 to 20 BLAND AND JONES—Brazil, Ind. March 15, 16, 17; Crawfordsville, 18, 19, 20. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice.—Persons whose name appear in the following list will kindly send for them a letter to the office and then returned to writer or dead-letter office. It would prevent delay if all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at the office. Happy Bangau. Johnson, Julia. Moppin, Pearl. Woodley, Robt. 212-214-216 Fourth St. Milwaukee, Wis. All modern conveniences. Phone 727 Grand Special Rates to Professional People. PORTEERS, WAITERS & COOKS PORTEERS, WAITERS & COOKS Learn where you can get the best pay and the best treatment by sending 50c for one year's subscription to 'The Guide,' 27 Union Blk., St. Paul, Minn. PERFORMERS & MUSICIANS PERFORMERS & MUSICIANS Both male and female, for season of forty weeks. Note: We expense nobody this season, as we carry a privilege car and the people can order what they want to eat or can go out and get meals. ADDRESS PAT CHAPPELLE, Owner and Mgr. "A Rabbit's Foot Co." Box 702, Jacksonville, Fla. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. 6 It takes two to make a quarrel. Look out for good news from South Car- ouina. “Good-bye, “Teddy! ‘Take keer your- self!" oe Give a dollar to the Dougiass Memorial Home Fund! It appears that Bryan, like “Barkis,” is sill Stliin” Dont’ wet tired of “plugging along.” ‘The goal 18 just beyond. = The explaining habit has all the charac- teristics of the endless chain, Yes, big smokes have arisen from very small ‘fires. Vide the political and social muddles at Washington, Prosident ‘Patt will gee that the “Crums” ‘gre properly gathered up and put where they will do the most good. It Is essential to the trusted journalist to get his facts on straight before he ven~ tures to address the confiding public. It Is well to beware of the new friends yho think they ean win confidence only by. Sinocking” the friend of long standin. The “subsidized Negro press’ is destined to have an inning, if the ubiquitous Wash- Ington correspondents are to be belleved. ‘The Marylanders, regarless of politics, ean safely follow Cardinal Gibbons. ‘They Will do-so next fall on the distrarichising question. Sylvester Russell is an, indefatigable worker on the Job. ‘The Great Went. Is Soon. to have the benefit of his magnetle presence. Phere is nothing tgyithe rumor that Prof. W. BB. DuBols hasfett the country. His Postoitice address, at last accounts, was Te aote Ga, Social and commercial dyspeptics who live in'a town and cannot te happy. withe Out continually “knocking” It ought. to move out instanter. Rev. Reyerdy G. Ranson pronounces it “rin-coln,” which, after ail, Rppears to. be correct "Phe masses will probably stiek to “Lincoln,” nevertheless, ‘The patriots who “saved the country” tast fall should’ not be at_all. backward about illing tielr claims. ‘They should come early and avoid the rush, Practical education is that kind which makes hand, head and heart work together Rong the ities of the xreatest effectiveness of which the individual is capable, ‘The, Brooklyn Hye which, went, off on 8 Lark last fall is having a hard time gets ting its glassts adjusted to the. new light that is dawning in national polities. A. two-line paragraph in a white paper caren more joy "to, the average | Negro than ‘a haif-column “teader™ in-a journal Conducted by his own people. "Why? ‘The roster of the Colored Ananias Club fs growing at a breakneck galt—if-we are {0 creait at par the stories told by the sen: tlomen who hwrite notes for the papers. Lineotn once said: “Don't worry. Bat three sneals a day.” Tt may be remarked Parenthetically. that a fellow who can. get Three meais every day. has little need’ to worry. College diplomas are very desirable as ‘the insignia’ of competency. for the work ‘Of the world, but they must not be allowed {5 talce the place of the real thing-~aetual ‘achievement. Little attention is being paid to the mis. chief-makers.. ‘Thetr ancient cry of “Wolf” fias been heard so often that its tones are familiar, and the wiseacres refuse to be- cee eco eta Cove caress tne maces agents” will please advance three paces ‘nd stan¢ till counted. ‘The “unrequited” ones Will remain in the rear. We want to ‘Know “what's what.” It Is now “President Taft, sure enough.” He has the best wishes of 10,000,000 Col- oFed citizens, of the Republicans. as well a8 the hearty good will of all other ele- ments of body politic. ‘Phe distinguished specialist who is op- erating on the eyes, ears, noses and throats of the students and citizens at Tuskegee Institute may honestly be charagterized as *the noblest Roman of them all,” ‘he vacant presidency at Fisk Univer- sity ought to furnish a fine opening for, one of the brilliant educators that find it hard Sledding in’ the cities, where ability to wrangle is mistaken for administrative genius. What would happen if an English Negro should apply. for admission to the white schools of California, and, take his stand upon. the “favored nation” clause of the ‘Anglo-Amerlean treaty? Don't everybody guess at once ! ‘he cost of living Is high because the erops do not keep pace with the demand, ‘Two million more producers on the farms and cattle ranges would make a big differ- ence in the price of foodstuffs, without Working injury to any one. It the Washington correspondents who fare alleged to. be kicking up “rough- houses” will sign thelr names to their “stuff,” we can soon unmask the malefac- tors of factie pens. An anonymous letter- writer is Invariably a coward. It is a pity that Ben Tillman is not to be included th the party that Is to accom- pany Booker ‘T. Washington upon his tri- Umhat tour of South Carolina. "He, will doubtless hear about it, however, in some Saw perhaps by “wireless.” In making a feeble claim to a champion- stiip that he gave away in apparent ood faith, Jim Jeffries shows a very yellow streak in his makeup, Johnson. \s cham- pion. and it is his turn to dictate the terms of the coming battles—if any there are to be. Agriculture is the basis of civilization, Before art, literature and the advanced sciences can secure a hearing, the means of getting something to eat must be sup- piled. ‘This is the first and great com- Mandment, and all others must await its FLIGHTS. -HOMPSON. | that he emerges from the Bryanistic Wreckage in much better shape than ts ruc of any ‘of his erstwhile contreres. ‘Phe sconial prelate isn't saying much, but it ie & safe guess that he is doing a’ whole lot of serious thinking, watching and praying. ‘Thomas J. Calloway. who ts impressing upon’ the people of Géorgia the value of life'in suburban towns, where the Negro has an equal chance with ottier races, ex- Dresses ‘himself as being greatly pleased With the speeches made by Mr, ‘Fatt. in Grorgia, and is confident that the Negro will have no reason to be disappointed in the Southern ‘poliey that the next Prest- dont Wil carry ont ‘There 1s said to be not one grain of truth in the Fumor that the industrial fea- tures of Morris Brown College, at Atlanta Ga., are’to be eliminated. ' Tiere may be sorie changes in methods and in the per- sonnel of the teaching and official staff, but the Industrial ‘vatem tw there to stay—ao We are informed by competent authorities, Differences between individuals will not be permitted to destroy a fundamental de- Partment of the school’s curriculum. | Misfortunes never come singly. Our deepest sympathy. goes out to Editor EP. Booue, of the Western Enterprise, Colo- rado Springs, Col, who recently. lost. his father "at. Clarksdale, Miss,,. followin Which cames the news that his brick bust hess house In. the same city: had. been de- Stroyed by fire. “With the spirit of the true philosopher ‘and optimist." however. Mr jooue exelatins: “Phe Lord gave atid the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord Nevertheless and nobwithstanding, the “Black Cabinets” ar egrowing. A new one has been developed ‘at Colorado. Springs, Col, composed of the following officials of El ‘Paso county: B. V. Cammell, chief, who is. custodian at the county court Nouse; Willam IH, Guagell, ‘lghtwateb- man, and Latayette Jonecs, assistant. cus- toaidin at the saine teinple of Justice ‘They exert a controlling influence upon the ac- tive politieal life of the Colored citizens of their’ balliwick, and enjoy the fullest. con- fidence of the white leaders. ‘The Colored moneyed men of Owens- boro, Ky., are talking of establishing a Steain laundry. “In. this they" are. wise. White people are just as satisied to carry thelr work to. Colored laundry as to one conducted by “thelr own race Or by” a Chinaman, if the service is up to the stand- ard, ‘There are as many avenues for hon- Grable business achievement open to us by general consent as there are closed to. Us for the same reason, and laundering stands in the front rank of the gainful occupa tions in which the black man has as big an opportunity. for success as anybody else. "Pause and thin about this ! Prof. J. It. B. Lee, director of the Aca- demic ‘Department at Tuskegee Institute, is doing a splendid work as president. of the Educational Association Of. ‘Tuskegee Institute, the membership of which is now over 100. ‘The general management of the organization is under the supervision of committee of ten, chosen from the follow- ing-named departments of the institution : Mechanical, Girls’ Industries, Phelps Hall Bible ‘Training School, Agricultural Indus- tres, Commandant’s Department, Admin- istration Department, Agricultural Teach- ing, Woman's Department, and Heaith Di Vision, which gives the Association @ scope Co-ordinate with that of the school Itself. Some numbskull down in Louisiana’ ts objecting to. the. introduction of a. teyt- book in the public schools of that State be- cause one of the tasks assigned. the puplis ie lo write an cassay on ‘Hooker t. Wath ington. Keeping this particular text-book away from the children down in the Pel jean’ State cannot destroy Booker, Wash- ington's place in history—and if the next generation knows nothing of this “world- famous character, So much the worse for the ignorant ones. ‘The founder of ‘Tus- kegee has done more for the permanent uplift of the South than any white man | whose ‘career may be the subject of the essays that pass muster at the hands of these mighty Daniels of Louisiana. } .qonker 2. Washington ts being: bracket |e with President illot of Harvard and others of international fame as one of the | fon greatest men of this marvelous coun- try. “Tn a burst of eloquence, inspired by a | troiy great heart and the fire of irrepress- ible Americanism, Ioseoe Conikling, touch- | ing Upon’ this fact, exclaims: In’ a con: | test now running in the New York Herald | as to: the first ten great men of America, this American Negro, born a slave, Is Tun- hing alongside of President. Jaliot, who | Sprang from stock that laid out Massachu- || setts.» Many of those who fave sent In a | vote for him don't know. that he 1s com: | belied to ride Ina filthy “Jim-crow’ car in Kiabama, and that he would starve tc death in any Southern city if he could get | food only in a public eating house. || ‘the progressive Commonwealth of Ken- | tucky cannot be Justly overlooked by Pres: ‘|ident Taft. ‘The “Short Flights” man was born in the “Blue Grasé State"—as Lin: pin was—and is proud of the fact." Many | of our best. friends reside in that ‘rich re- | gion, and. we shall feel personally cha- || grined If they ‘are not adequately recog: |fized for thelr strenuous and successful ‘| efforts to wrest political prestige from the hhands of the bourbons who upheld slavery passed the separate coach law, and de- | Stroyed the soul of Berea, From such a list of patriotic Americans as W. H. Stew- | ard, Julia's. Young, W. H. Johnson, B. 1. Underwood, P. H. Kennedy, W. A. Gaines | Cary B. Lewis, K. T. -Berry and Albert 8: White surely cnough available timber ear be found to give Kentucky her full’ meas- | ure of reward. '| Wilberforce University ts the principal school under the control of the A. M. 1. Church, Its holdings consist of 350 acres of the best land in Ohio; nine brick build- ings, including a Carnegie Library, a | 360,000 ‘Trades Bullaing and several frame | Gottages, the whole valued at $260,000, ‘he endowment fund is $34,00 at this time. Thirty-two teachers are ‘employed, and | over 400 Students are ‘now in attendance. President W. S. Scarborough says. 1,000 Could be attracted there If the facilities for ‘Accommodating. them were. more ample. | The location of the school is ideal, being three and ‘a. half miles trom the. thriving city of Xenia, in an environment of the | best Colored and white people to be found | anywhere under the sun, ‘To enlarge the Scope of the institution, President. Scar- Dorough 1s vigorously pushing his plans to | raise the sum of $100,000. | Arthur Leo Curtis, son of Dr. and Mrs, ALM, Curtis, won two creditable victories af Williston Seminary, Easthampton, | Mass., from which ke graduated with high honors at. th recent commencement, He | was awarded the Dickinson-Wihitney” prize | or $90 for the best showing in the debate | Betiweon the Adelphi Debating Society and the Gamma Sigma team, he. representing | the former. “At the senidrs’ day’ exercises | Mr. Curtis won the Ferry: prize of $15 for the second best oration delivered that day. ANSOE OUT IRDOCENE Tene OTe eae ago that there would turn up an abund- ance. of, stumpers who “had checked the anti-Taft revolt among the colored people all alone by themselves,” one W. J. Robin= Son, of Omaha, Neb., who describes him- Self as the corresponding secretary of the Independent Political and. Social ‘Club of that city, comes forward and makes open confession that he is the man who saved the day for the President-elect | in his county, and acknowledges with refreshing candor that he would have carried the State had Chairman Hitchcock acted upon his. wise suggestions. Mr. Robinson hag no fear of the truth, and speaks his “piece” like ® little man." It doesn't pay to be modest In these critical times and trust to amateur press agents the responsible duty of blowing one's horn when the principal fan do it so well himself. Chairman Hitchcock will doubtiess make a memoran- dum of Mr. Robinson's valuable services, and take such action as simple justice de- mands. GLUTTONY AND HASTE. It has been recently given out by medical authority that gluttony was one of the causes of pneumonia, A Chicago physician, speaking on’ the subject not long since, said: “Men drunk from liquor and men drunk from overeating are most sus- ceptible to pneumonia and die of it. The majority of cases of pneumonia are of patients who contracted the dis- ease after a drunken debauch or who were drunk from overfeeding. People drunk from overfeeding, I think, are almost as immoral as those who stu- pefy themselves with liquors. The effects of pneumonia in such patients are much the same, One of the great- est crimes in Amefica today is waste a crime equally prevalent in all strata of society. People who eat too much are puffed up with waste that the sys- tem does not want, and this waste be- comes food for pneumonia germs and offers no resistance.” ‘The Bible inveighs against the habit of overeating, the inference being that it is sinful to be hoggish in dispost- tion as it concerns eating. Gluttony does not appear a sin in the sense that other offenses are sins, yet it may be all of that. The theologians will have to settle that question among themselves. That it is, an offense against good breeding goes without saying when committed in the pres- ence of others, and none the less’an offense when unobserved. The brute side is too declared. And the never- ending effort of the human animal is to get away from the lowler species of the kingdom and which 1s perhaps best exemplified by the dog, that best loved of all “useless” animals. ‘The idea, however, of pneumonia re- sulting from gluttony is somewhat new. ‘The doctor, nevertheless, made it plain that those who ate too much had their systems , puffed up with waste, and which becomes the food for pneumonia germs. So, after all, if the theory is right, the good. livers, those that have all they wish to eat, are in as much danger as those who do not haye enough. - ‘The poor people are not so generally afflicted with dyspepsia as are the well- to-do, nofwithstanding stomach disor- der is the national disease. Perhaps an individual could not be blessed with anything better than a good stomach. The assertion sounds a trifle idle, unthoughtful, but when the “good” stomach is lost it is very much like the water in the well—never missed until the well runs dry. Really, the material world, stripped to the bare, consists only of food and clothing, To lose out on one fs to lose one-half of life. Food is the greater part, since it is a necessity and also a pleasure, The same will not be said of clothing, which is not always a necessity aS best understood, nor a pleasure, excepting in a restricted sense. Notwithstanding the important position eating holds in the essentials of life and happiness, the stomach is poorly regarded, so poorly regarded that at times it rebels, refuses to per- form its functions. We hasty Amer- icans are said to be the greatest sin- ners in the world along this line. Our industrial system is such that the watch must be constantly in the hand or the eyes fixed on the clock and per- force of the circumstances become gluttonous, bolting the food, making the poor old stomach do much more work than it set out to do. So in the first-class hotels and first- class homes one will find that the peo- ple are dieting themselves half of the time. Stomachs must be toned up first before they will play, ft is a cup of hot water, or a mineral water, or “firewater” and its kindreds, not to speak of the porridges—oatmeal, whole wheat, half wheat and their tribe. Egg soft-boiled, beet blood-red, rare, are among the many other signs of a stomach out of repair—refuses to yield readily up its pepsin and other intestinal juices so necessary for the proper digestion. The result is that many have starved, pinched faces that refuse to fatten at any price; they are paying the price of haste. Senator Frazier, of Tennessee, Senator Frazier, of Tennessee, speaking in the Senate the other day, said that whenever any question arises affecting the Negro there are certain people, including the Negro, who seem to think he should be dealt with in an exceptional manner; that he is to be treated as the ward of the nation, He insisted that the Negro should be taught that he is to stand on his own merits, without special favor shown him. How chagrinning this all is when the situation is properly viewed! The charges urged, and with some show of truth, are made possible because Mr. Frazier et al. compel the situa- tion. Civilly restricted, —_eivilly “eribbed and confined,” yet, according to the Senator. there’s to be no “hol- lerin'.” It is this class that demand peculiar dealings with the Negroes, ‘What it charges others with it wholly applicable to it. It is kicking up the rumpus and doing some of the hol- lerin’. 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NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va Live Agents Wanted. Write Quick for Terms. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss: In the Superior Court of Marion, Coun: tysin the State of Indiana, ‘Frank ©, Pettitord vs, Ellen Pettiford. No. 78049. Eoinpiaint for aivoree. Be ft known, that on the 5th day. of Maren, 1909, the above named plalntif by lis attomeys, filed In the office of thi Glerke of the ‘Superior. Court of Marior County, nthe State of Indiana, his com: plaint against the above named defendant Ellen Pettiford, and the said piaintite hav: Ing also filed in said Clerk's office the af Hdavit of n_ competent. person. “showing that said defendant, Ellen Pettiford, 1s 10 a wesident of the ‘State of Indiana,” and Said cause is for divorce, and. that ‘th Above named defendant is a necessay iy thereto; and whereas, sald plainti Raving by Indorsement. on said complaint required sald defendant to appear in sal fourt, and- answer or demur thereto, or the din day of May, pos. Now, therefore, bySorder of sald court sald defendant last above named Is hereby notined of the, fling and pendency. of sai complaint against her, and that unless she Sppeat and answer or demur thereto, i ihe-calting of said cause. on the ath ‘day Of May, 1909, the same. being the second \dielal’ day of @ term of said court, t0 ‘and held at the eourt house,"tn the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday’ tn Sing, 1909, ‘Sold complaint ana ‘the tat fers and, things therein contained and al Tegeas will be heard and determined in he apsenct LEONARD M. QUILL, Clerk. Jen. T.-V- HM Attorney toe tina SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. Athletic carnical at the "Y" Friday night. Thought I heard you say Sunday baseball. You are right. Young Corbett is getting back into prominence step by step. What are the prospects of your teams? Send us a line or two. Jockey Lee had to win. He could not sell a life; 'twas on the 22d. Jimmy Burke, ex-manager of the Colonels, may be an Indian this season. We shine in whatever we undertake. Howard Hall is our latest representative. Awant you tired of hearing Jim say that he will light Johnson if he can get in shape. Dorando and Hayes will meet for the third time Monday evening. Hayes is consultant of winning. Ray Bronson, the Indianapolis lightweight defeat in his bout with Fred Welch at New Orleans. Indianapolis expects to be even stronger than last. A large number of candidates will try for the team. A new indoor pole vault record has been established by Clair S. Jacobs, of the University of Chicago—12 feet 3 inches. J. Blaire Boyd, of the Globe Publishing Company, at Nashville, Tenn., would like to correspond with Rube Foster, manager of the Leland Giants. Johnny Hayes, the New York Marathon runner, has established a new record for a ten-mile run, covering the distance in 50 minutes and 55 seconds. E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin, the famous turturman and plunger, who died several days ago, left an estate of $25,000,000. Baldwin was worth, all told, $22,000,000. Freddie Cole and Young Saylor, two Indianapolis boxers, defaced Johnny Conners and Kid Taylor, respectively, March 2, before a crowd of 1,500 at the Auditorium. The Marathon race may not be on the program at the next Olympiad. The main objection the authorities have against the profession of its development into professionalism. Can you dance a Marathon—a distance of twenty-six miles and three hundred and eighty-five yards? That's all. The Marathon dance is expected to be attempted by some of the expert dancers in the near future. Challenges are already out. The Anchor Giants, last season's champions in the Colored ranks of Eastern League, start to finish this season. J. H. Sellars, manager, says that he'll have a good material to "try out" this season. The champion indoor Marathon runner of Pennsylvania is Howard Hall, a Colored athlete. Hall won this title last week in a Marathon race held in Pittsburgh. He out-classed his competitors, and wsa nearly two laps ahead of the man running in second place. Though you may not be able or have the opportunity to make a trip South, as the big league team does, you can begin training right now. Cut out cigarettes; you've had all winter to smoke; resolve that you and alcohol be "on the outs"; go to bed at nights instead; march your diet; exercise, exercise, but not too much; keep in perfect condition, and you'll win out. Although Governor Marshall vetored the Sunday baseball bill, Indiana will nevertheless have Sunday baseball. Just think of it! The legislative body passed a law that would veto it and still we shall have Sunday baseball. Looks funny, doesn't it especially to those who do not live in this State and are not fully aware of the procedure of the Indiana Legislature is vetoed; veto Bill No. 2 was refused a signature by the Governor, thereby making the second bill a law. Now for Sunday baseball! Jeffries Can't Get Back. PHILADELPHIA—Mike Murphy was the star of the fifth annual dinner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art last week, and the famous trainer made a speech in which he gave some very interesting information, among other things describing the museum's possibility be the man he was when he was at his best, and that the Jeffries of those days could beat the Jeffries of today. "They can't come back," said Murphy. "The life of an athlete is at best only four or five years, and once he stops training for any length of time, simply he can come back." Jack Johnson in Honolulu. HONOLULU—Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world, is here. He gave an exhibition here, after which he departed for Vancouver. From Vancouver he will go to Chicago, and then to his home in New York. When he will go to New York and then to London, where he has a series of music hall engagements. The conqueror of Tommy Burns stated on his arrival here that he stands to fight for the title. Perth side side bet of $5,000. Johnson says that he was badly treated in Sydney. He complains that the Australians are bad losers, but says that he was well received in the music halls of Perth and Kelkoogie and Adelaide on the tour which he made just before sailing for home. COLORED MARATHON RACE. E. A. Harvey to Give Events Serious Consideration. ASBURY PARK, N. J.—Special—Manager E. A. Harvey, of Asbury Park, N. J. has received several letters, some from as an assistant coach on a Marathon race for Colored men at his track this spring. It is his intention to get the request serious consideration, and the team will have the opportunity of competing on the most track for the purpose in the United States. Built of clay, three laps to the finish, the rubbing-down tables, shower baths, and all conveniences, it is the ideal place for record-breaking. Situated, as it is, on the grassy bank of the testants will not be hampered by foul tobacco smoke, so injurious at indoor meets. Will Pursue Jeffries. NEW YORK—Word comes from the story that Billy Delaney, Jeffries's old manager, and big Al Kaufman, the California heavyweight, will soon start for the East try and get Jeffries to accept the challenge recently hurried at him by Kaufman. When the challenge was made, Delaney could not bet $10,000, that his protege could do the same. He laughed at such a meeting. The big feline is enjoying himself since he came to city yesterday. He has received numerous offers to wine and dine, but has refused to attend. He is seen at one or twoights which are being pulled off at local clubs. He still refuses to talk tight, saying he will make a statement when he feels certain about his condition. OXYGEN IN NEW USE. Administered to Athletes—Used in England Extensively. NEW YORK.—The English sportsmen of a scientific turn have made the great discovery that oxygen is a remarkable rewriting agency. Of course, the world has known this so long that it has forgotten that didn't, but the wonder of the English discourse has led to an athlete, acts in the same way as when given to a person suffering the weakness of extreme illness. The London Telegraph has been devoting considerable space recently to experiments showing how a sprinter can run, how much better a boxer can run, how much farther a jumper can jump after inhaling a given quantity of oxygen than when he depends upon only the amount of giving gas he can extract from the atmosphere through his respiratory organs. It is a little strange, considering the interest aroused by the experiments, that the experiment did not begin to experiment with oxygen, but instead of experiments were tried here with runners and swimmers, with the same natural results as in England. The fact that England has awakened to the fact, however, and interested in the experiments in this context, will not be at all surprising to see athletes resorting to oxygen as an aid in all sorts of athletic events, and this gives rise to question as to whether athletes generally think would be a good thing to permit its use. Is there not danger that it will ultimately become a source of scandal, just as the winnowing stimulation of race horses grew in the early days of racing in the 19th century, the owners began to use more powerful stimulants than the whisky which was administered in the early days of racing in the 19th century, and practicable for a runner, especially in a long-distance race, to carry a light tank oxygen. This shouldteen the oxygen that was just kept his natural strength. The tank could be made of extremely thin aluminum, to weigh but not cumulate, and the pressure for the covering bodies in athletics to sit up and take notice, and prohibit the use of artificial stimulants of any kind, if not, results of races in which oxygen was taken part are bound to be unsatisfactory. FIGHTING WEIGHTS IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND In America. Pounds. Paperweight 105 Bantamweight 116 Featherweight 126 Heavy featherweight 128 Lightweight 133 Weiterweight 142 Light hideweight 147 Middleweight 158 Light heavyweight 165 Heavyweight, more than. 165 In England. Pounds. Paperweight 110 Bantamweight 118 Featherweight 122 Woodweight 128 Lightweight 138 Weiterweight 140 Ironweight 150 Middleweight 158 Heavyweight 170 Champion, unlimited above. 170 UNIONS HAVE JOINED LEAGUE. Team Has Existed for Thirty Seasons —League Season Opens May 2. CHICAGO, Ill.—Special—The Chicago Union Giants will do down once more in a Colored team to own a franchise in a white league. The Unions are the oldest Colored team in the West, this being their christian season, and we see such clubs as the Eclipse, Eclipse, Eclipse, Chicago Giants, Fueque Giants, Chicago Clippers, all come and go. The Unions are the first Colored team to be unified by the Lake Shore Giants, of the best paying leagues in the lower part of Wisconsin. The towns are Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Washington and sheboygan. At the meeting Sunday, in Milwaukee, Wis., after accepting the Unions to membership, they every Saturday and Sunday until the last Sunday in October. The Unions are out for the pennant, an if they win this year, season one, the best, best ball player of the West ever put up. Colored team will be built. Manager Peters has picked one of the Indianapolis to captain the team this year—James Shawley a gentleman and a first-class ball player. SOME BASEBALL GOSSIP. LELAND GIANTS. Now that the season is on hand, it is time to figure on what our good Colored teams are going to do, and who they expect to have in their lineups. Of course, the players who are not in the Giants, will not make many changes this season. Harry Moore, Nathan Harris, George Wright and Talbert will be the infield. Probably Lloyd, of the Philadelphia Giants and the Arizona Warriors, may be running in Le兰 Giants uniforms before the season is over. The outfield will, as usual, be Bobby Winston, Pete Hill and Andrew Payne, while the slabman will no doubt be Walter, of the Arizona Warriors, and probably Gatewood, with another to be signed yet, more than likely a southpaw artist. Harry Booker will be found catching the slants of the mighty Walter Ball and "Rube" Foster. Strontuhers will be the other receiver, as the Colored champions fall to land Petway, the "Johnny Kling" of Colored receivers. UNION GIANTS There seems to be quite a discussion among the players just as to who will form this team, but when they get straightened Washington and the Thompson, catchers; Ramsey, West, Taylor, pitchers; Robinson or Latta, of Louisville, first base; Frank Young, Toney and Pryor, second base; Young and Pryor, Green, Ramsey in the battery men will round up the bat in the outfield. ST. PAUL GOPHILS Daddy Reed's team this season bids to far outshine last season, if the talent they are figuring on getting is landed. Germany are trying hard to land another star if they can get one. Lytle, Johnny Davis and Gatewood will perform in the middle of the diamond. Should they not, and Rat Wallace, not, and Eastern Wallace, McMurray and Bunch Davis will play the other parts of the infield, providing Jenning Smith doesn't get back on the job and lead the offense more than likely be composed of Barton, Jones and one of the pitchers. MINNEAPOLIS KEYSTONES Manager Mitchell, of the Keystones, seems to have a pretty good bunch. OCCIDENTALS The Occidentals, of the Utah State League, who finished in second place last season, have reorganized for the season of 1909. The Occidentals is the only Colored team in this league, and expect to carry off some of the success of their son, Ed Middleton, manager of the Occidentals, is eager to strengthen his pitching staff, and would like to hear from some good, sober, cool-headed pitchers who are also part of the Commercial street, Salt Lake City, Utah. ST. LOUIS LLOYDS. BATTLING NELSON WOULD FIGHT THEM ALL Lightweight Champion Says He Will Fight All the English Champions in One Day. SAN FRANCISCO.—Battling Nelson, champion of champions among light-weight pugilists, has issued the following notable statement: "Just to show the admirers of these English scrappers and as a grand finale to my ring career, I will make a proposition to James W. Coffrout to fight all the champions of England in one day. "I will never appear in the ring again after the Fourth of July next, but before I retire I want to show the world that an THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER American boxer, and that boxer is myself, can beat all the so-called great fighters in England. I will fight Freddie Welsh, champion lightweight of England; Jem Driscoll, the English topnotcher; Owen Moran, champion featherweight of England; Jabez White, ex-champion lightweight of England, and Johnny Summers, who recently beat Britt, and fight them all in one day. I will fight the former, an inermissible between each bout, and maybe I won't need that much in some cases. "I will let Coffroff pick any two of the fighters I named above, and will fight them all," I will fight three of them, $30,000, four for $5,000 and after that as many as Coffroff wants for $2,500 aplece." "PROVIDED." SAYS JEFFRIES. Believes that He Is Jack Johnson's Superior. By JAMES J. JEFFRIES. CHICAGO—I wish to announce to the sporting public of America that I will fight Jack Johnson, provided I can get into such a situation. I will fight Johnson, provided I am not until I believe I am near enough to my old self to whip the Colored man will I consent to meet him. I am training now to fight Johnson, and it will take weeks yet for me to learn just what I am capable of doing in actual ring work. Until then I must learn to fight Johnson and me must remain a question. Don't worry about my not fighting him if I can get fit. I will be only glad to go to the ring. I will be glad to championship back to the white race. I'm eager to tilt, but it would be folly to face Johnson unless I knew I could win. I don't want to make any mistake. That is what I want. If I were to whip Johnson, I realize that I would be hailed as the greatest champion in pugilistic history. I know that it would mean more fame than for folly to fight light, and that it would make a rich man. But I also realize that to lose to Johnson I would have to fight this down rather strongly, but it's just what I mean. I simply won't fight unless I know I am good enough to knock out Johnson. You don't catch Jim Jeffries losing to a Colored man, but I will fight this down—if I agree to fight, I will win. Indians at Home Games. The Indianapolis Baseball Club of the American Association is scheduled to play twelve Sunday games at Washington Park in Washington, D.C. June 6-8, July 11-18, Aug. 1, Sept. 5-12-19-26. The Hoosiers get one holiday here, Labor Day, Sept. 6, when a double-hole game is scheduled. The "at home" schedule follows: April 14, 15, 16, 17, with Toledo. April 18, 19, 20, 21, with Columbus. May 1, 2, 3, 4, with Louisville. June 1, 2, 3, 4, with Kansas City. June 5, 6, 7, 8, with Minneapolis. June 9, 10, 11, 12, with Milwaukee. June 13, 14, 15, with St. Paul. June 16, 17, 18, with Minneapolis. July 11, 12, 13, 14, with Toledo. July 15, 16, 17, 18, with Louisville. July 20, 21, 22, 23, with St. Paul. July 27, 28, 29, 30, with Minneapolis. July 31, with Kansas City. Aug. 1, 2, 3, with Kansas City. Sept. 1, 2, 3, with Kansas City. Sept. 6, 7, 8, with Louisville. Sept. 9, 10, 11, 12, with Columbus. Sept. 13, 14, 15, 16, with Minneapolis. Sept. 21, 22, 23, 24, with Milwaukee. Sept. 27, 28, 29, 30, with Kansas City. Sept. 24, 25, 26, 27, with St. Paul. News from Minneapolis, Minn. The Macer Club of Minneapolis, Minn., is the sporting and theatrical headquarter of the company where you can always get THE FREEMAN. Olive Wilson, 142 pounds, and Henry Thomas, 122 pounds, are taking daily exercise, ready for any of the boxers in their class. There is a colored heavyweight of Duluth, Minn., by the name of Whitehead Sam King, former champion amateur bicycle rider of Massachusetts, but now of Minneapolis, Minn., will start riding again soon. Holdie, the jockey, will go South this month, and will be seen in the saddle over the jumps this spring. He will be one of the most popular Colored sporting men in the Northwest, died Wednesday morning, March 3. He had been manager for Phil Reed, 40 East Tredi street, Minneapolis. He was Hall of Fame of Pittsburgh, a Colored boy, won the indoor Marathon race held at Pittsburg, March 2, winning with ease, beating the jumps. The race won for the championship of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. LIBERIA IS WAKING UP. After reading the strenuous Roosevelt messages to Congress, that of the President of Liberia will be read with considerable interest and no little curiosity. The message published in a recent number of "Liberia," a magazine devoted to the interests of that country, is something over a year old, but, owing to the distance of that country, it is none too late for its apearance on this side. President Arthur Barclay deals with many subjects, some of them being on the order of those dealt with by the President of our country, while others are rare and distinct, yet doubtless of necessity to that country. Mr. Barclay begins by saying that the people of Liberia at the general election had sent a fresh contingent of representative citizens to the capital of the state. One is impressed with the fact that there had been a political landslide or else they don't have any holdovers in that country. He, however, does not fail to say: "Before us are faces seen for many years in this chamber." The inference is that Liberian President reads in person rather than sending in his message, as is the custom in our country. Continuing, he said: "It is to be hoped that all have come here animated by a common public spirit that you bring with you high ideals of public spirit and usefulness, and that you are animated by a desire to advance to the utmost the interest of our little state, for the people of our public regard the present session of our Legislature with both interest and concern. And these feelings are shared by a great body of sympathetic friends of our state scattered over the world." Mr. Barclay is not unmindful of the fact that the eyes of the world are on the Negro republic—Liberia, Hayti—and that they are expected to give a good account of themselves. In either are vast possibilities—fortunate in most respects to situation, climate and so forth; much more is expected than has been forthcoming. The President of Liberia is aware of the fact, for he says: "While West Africa remained outside the circle of political life of the world, we could afford to jog along quietly and conservatively and to follow lines laid down more than fifty years ago by the founders of Liberia and their advisers. But now that phase has passed, and we are confronted with new problems growing out of the new conditions around us." Just what effect the mild warning will have on the lawmakers of Liberia is not known. The President, however, sounded the keynote. It may not be taken at its full value. It may be difficult to make the members of that Congress see the threatening danger owing to insufficient activity. From all accounts it is as much as that country can do to keep back the devourers who would swallow the country under one pretend or the other. It stands to reason that there will not be over anxiety to take in a country that promises to make trouble through activity of ingenuous resources. Liberia will maintain its independence by a voice like prosperity along all lines. With the millions to draw on, Liberia, through American inbuence, by way of ideals, should become the metropolis of all Africa. The natives would not bring with them money wealth, but wealth nevertheless by way of possibility of converting the land and streams to contributing agencies to the country's uplift. Bartering, the exchange of commodities, of labor, have always preceded the actual thing of money. The American, when thinking of going to Liberia, is advised to bring along much cash. We should think good and continued health was the essential. Money is nothing but the medium of exchange; it facilitates matter; it simplifies things. The valuation in the commodity—the corn, the cow, the horse or the building. If these can pass satisfactorily between men as a matter of exchange, it would answer the thing money. This further means the soil as a starter. All the people will not have something to exchange unless all produce. God in His wisdom laid the foundation for this production in the soil. He gave it liberally; it is plain. So liberally did He endow man with the first principles of livelihood that after the thousands of years there are millions of unworked acres left, and wall always be left. When Malathas wrote his doctrine of the population crowding on the domain of agriculture, he had no notion of skyscrapers. The people can live on upwards—twenty, thirty stories. It's no dream, leaving the millions of acres free to raise produce for supporting them. It is a plan of wisdom and as if in accord with the world's program as set down at the very beginning. Liberia has the soil; it has the climate. Much more was never given to men in the outset. The President called attention to the habit of adjourning yearly, leaving important unfinished business. He said: "A student of the history of Liberia can, I fancy, detect one great failing—the habit of adjourning from year to year disagreeable questions or measures which, although admitted useful, were not thoroughly understood, and upon which members were often too proud to ask information; or perhaps there was a question of personal pique—some old score to pay off, and a senseless opposition offered a means of revenge. Such petty spites have brought down many a national fabric. It is well at the beginning of the session to resolve that such despicable acts shall have no part in the discharge of our public duties." The best and freshest news is always to be found in the columns of The Freeman. News pertaining to the best interim of the year will show you can obtain it for one year for $1.50. RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN-FREE. Send Name and Address Today You Can Have it Free and be Strong and Vigorous. DINGERSON BROS., Dealers in groceries, fresh and smoked meats. Give us a call and be convinced that we can save you money. Cut Rate Market No. 2. 672 Center St. Main Store Shelby and Lampton Streets. Home Phone 8972. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 49 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Cold Home Beer always on tap. G. H. TAYLOR, Prop., 825-329 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis Old Phone. Main. 6206 Hindel's Buffets, 551 Indiana Ave. Choice Foreign and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Hindel Brothers. Boys Exchange Buffet A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch. Good services and courteous treatment to all. When out for a good time, stop in. THE FREEMAN AT BALTIMORE. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Freeman can be secured at any time at South Entan, or Camden Station baggage room. Harry M. Cubbins, representative. A. G. Rogers, Saloon and Pool Room Telephone, Citizens, 7289. 155 N. Third St., Columbus, O. ALSO — ROGERS' PLACE, 50 Vine Street, BUFFALO, NEW YORK. Bell, 8542—Phones—Frontier, 18101. YEAR 'ROUND OF MEN'S $3 To-day, to-morrow, next week, next ing $3.00 hats for $2.00. Don't let a down, out-of-date hat when you can and making for $2.00. LEVIL Two Stores {41 N. Penn 37 S. II A. Lincoln Pure Whole Home Dairy, R. 1329 N. Senate Ave. Your Patrona GROUND SALE N.Y.'S $3 HATS $2 next week, next month, all the year round we are $2.00. Don't let anyone persuade you to buy a man that when you can get one that is right in style, qu 00. EVINSON, 41 N. Pennsylvania St. 37 S. Illinois St. Count 'Em GREAT COMPEE CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells Wholesome Mi me Dairy, R. E. HESS, Prop. ave. - - - Old Phone, Main, ur Patronage Solicited. YEAR 'ROUND SALE OF MEN'S $3 HATS $2. To-day, to-morrow, next week, next month, all the year round we are selling $3.00 hats for $2.00. Don't let anyone persuade you to buy a marked-down, out-of-date hat when you can get one that is right in style, quality and making for $2.00. LEVINSON, Two Stores {41 N. Pennsylvania St.} {37 S. Illinois St.} Count 'Em GREAT COMPEER CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells It. Pure Wholesome Milk Home Dairy, R. E. HESS, Prop. 1329 N. Senate Ave. Old Phone, Main, 3075. Your Patronage Solicited. TWO WANTS OF THE HOUSEWIFE. FIRST—She wants s SECOND—She wants from our own dairie COUNTRY PRIDE Pasteurized milk o For sale by Pure Fo Try our Ex FARMERS' PRO Milk, Crea 311 E. South 2 Do you Drink Whi Pearl of Herrmann Bros., s.1 Wolff Disc Old Mail Order Houses. 634 West Market St., SMOKI Monypeny Ha Club House IRST—She wants pure milk and cream. SECOND—She wants it from a reliable dairyman. from our own dairies. Country Pride asteurized milk delivered by us satisfies both w or sale by Pure Food Groceries. Try our Excellent Creamery Butter. FARMERS' PROTECTIVE DAIRY ASSOCIATE Milk, Cream, Butter and Buttermilk. 11 E. South St. Phones {New... Old. Prospect Drink Whisky? If so, ask for Girl of Nelson Bros., 122-124 S. 6TH ST., Louisville, K of Distillery Co Order Houes. All kinds of Wet Goods. Market St., Louisville, Kentucky SMOKE THE Beny Hammond Co th House 5c Cigar. Do you Drink Whisky? If so, ask for Pearl of Nelson. Herrmann Bros., S. 6TH ST., Louisville, Ky. Wolff Distillery Co Old Mail Order Houses. All kinds of Wet Goods. 634 West Market St., Louisville, Kentucky. Monypeny Hammond Co.'s Club House 5c Cigar. BOUVIER BUCH For the Kidney CHU GI Kidneys and Blader. For Sale at all Bars TUDOR W AT GREAT Finest Bouquet. John E. & F PROPRIET Clay St. OR WHISKEY GREATHOUSE'S. uet. Finest Fla E. & Frank Walt PROPRIETORS OF St. Brewery TUDOR WHISKEY! John E. & Frank Walter, PROPRIETORS OF Clay St. Brewery, ICE FOR SALE Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MOREN PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED CEO W. ROFFMAN, MFG. INDIANAPOLIS, IND One-pound boxes 25 cents at druggists and dealers. SALE WHATS $2. month, all the year round we are sell- yone persuade you to buy a marked- get one that is right in style, quality WSON, Pennsylvania St. Count 'Em inois St. GREAT COMPEER CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells It. esome Milk E. HESS, Prop. - Old Phone, Main, 3075 age Solicited. pure milk and cream. it from a reliable dairyman. Milk Country Pride delivered by us satisfies both wants. and Groceries. Excellent Creamery Butter. CONTECTIVE DAIRY ASSOCIATION Butter and Buttermilk. St. Phones {New.....8487 Old, Prospect, 1886 sky? If so, ask for Nelson. 92-124 TH ST., Louisville, Ky. Stillery Co. All kinds of Wet Goods. Louisville, Kentucky. THE Dammond Co.'s 5c Cigar. U G I N WHISKEY! HOUSE'S. Finest Flavor. rank Walter, TORS OF Brewery, 8 dhe Bulletin The New Silks | very attractive. The very novelty of the new silks demands one’s attention, to say nothing of the beauty of the shades and the beauti- ful texture. ae. of these silks wash, and you'll find them ¢erviceable, no matter how soft and clinging their texture. See these : Shedwater tuscan, a ner ee rough silk and very popular, fnohes wide, at..-.7-'---81.00 Mirror silk, a bright, satin-finish rough silk, 24 inches wide, PEEPLES 2 ‘Shah, a dull rough silk, 27 inches wide, at, a yard..........81.00 | Indro, a new heavy rough silk, pat, a yard... BLO | All these silks represented in all the fashionable colors. 2d floor, east aisle. |L. S. Ayres & Co., | Tndlanas Groatnt Distributor ot Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Harry Hill has returned to the city from Milwaukee: id Elix Niblick has returned to his home at “Madisonville, Key. Mrs. H. L. Hammons has been ill at her home during the werk Miss Jessie D. Clay, of New Albany, is im the city for a few days. - A parents? meeting was held at the Me- coy Behoot ‘Thursday evening. Mrs, Harriet Fitzhugh, who has been m'for four weeks, Is much improved. Alfred Taylor, of the mail service, is Il at his home in North Alabatna ‘street. ‘myo Rev. J, 8 Bailey met an Important gonerence"commlttee at Cincinnatl ues: * Elwood Knox and Mr. Archie Great- house Rave returned trom Washington, Misses Herbert and Beatrice Webber entertained ‘a. few "friends. Wednesday evening: Mrs, Retta Moss accompanied Mrs. Zoa Bryant ‘and: daughters ts Logansport a few days ago. Mrs, Matto Duggard Palmer, of Chi- cago, is visiting the tainly of Ber, and Mrs. Semes Nicholson. palit, Mamie Gazdner, is, convalescng oman” injury eesived by Stepping On the cover of'@ manhole,” “PPIne Mr, and Mra, William Brown have re- tumea “from. Washington, "Dr "Cs where SE Brown bas Weld o poaltion. Mrs. Dent, of Springfield, Ohio, was called’ to the city by. the iliness ‘ot “her Saughter, Mrs. H 1, Hummons. Mrs, Susie “‘Thoripson and) rs. Vii Ball have returned from, a pleasant. Visit with relatives and friends if Chicago. The Frau Frau Club held a business meeting Tuesday evening at the home of iis president, ars, Margaret. Worthington. Mrs. M. B, Washington, of New Albany, spent several Gaya in the city last week, igucst of the family of Rev. W. i Chambers. ‘The Mary Campbell ‘Mito Misstonary Society will have “an evening with Dum ber, "at the home of Mra, Mamie Gardner, 785 Center” street, ‘next Wednesday even: ne. ; A banquet, will be, given, by Persian ‘Temple, “A. A.O. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,’ sa" honor ‘of thelr ladies and’ the Rew clase, at Tomlinson Hall, early ‘in April ‘The Woman's Improvement Club will opadive ita gvent ight next, hrsday Svening at as home of lt’ president rs Eitan’ V. ‘Brown, £109" Senate "svenue North. Robert. Ridley, of, Chlengo, Grand reaveling Deputy, fm. por be Ws Bs for the United States tnd’ Canada, was in the city this week, Mr. Hidley 1s spend: ing ‘sometime. in this’ State organizing lodges of the ike fraternity. Mrs. Zou Bryant and daughters, Mari and Bana, of Detroit, spent a day’ inthe ety during the weck,'en route from Rich: fond, where Miss Marie, who ts © violinist of mich ality, had given a recital, They went from this ety {0 Logansport to fil Br engagement "The “G. G.” Club will entertain at Mr Wm. Brown's, G41 North ‘Bright strect Tuesday “evening, March 16, at_catds ‘This Ia one of the’ new pleasure, organiza: tions ‘among’ the ‘young folka of the city and is quite popular. All members are te Guested'to be present. Eugene Armstrong, Sam Jacksor» Lee Jackson and "W. EL” Roberta “entertained this week at the Pekin Cafe, compliment ary to “Harry Rasters, wlio has’ beens Successful waiter at the Claypool Hotel and has now gone to Seattle.” Wash, een eens erent ENTERTAINED AT MUNCIE. ‘Mrs. Joseph Timberlake, of this city, went to Muncie last Friday’ to be the guest of honor at a birthday party given for her ee ee “The Best at the Price— No matter what the Price.’’ ( 342 to 358 Mass. aoe GROCERY SPECIALS | Saturday Sale [iatSteuges with parciaoe cl $00 Late Sores Pillsbury’s best grade XXXX tbr cksin bogs, Saturday, 7 OC Gay ane Soria 2OC sere Met ate Betarday, ie pees 18c etasente . 2DC fe IC Bile he be” 124 Large led raisins, 1 Ib. pk’gs, Penne 3 pkgs. 25c¢ eet cclen ant of furniture, rugs and draperies ever held in the city. last Saturday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs: Pearson. by her sister, Mrs. Neitie Rife. ‘The affair is sald. to’ have Deon one of the ‘prettiest given ‘in uote for some time.” Phe decorations and cone fections were all sent from this city. “She was the reelpient of many handsome birth= day presents, Mr, Timberlake Joined her to'spend Sunday. Y. M. G. A. NOTES. ‘What is expected to be the greatest meeting of the season wil be on sext Sunday when eH Vice President Hon. Gharies W. Fairbanks will othe speaker, st the Monster Me ctiag at Jones good program’ ‘The strentance’ fr expegted ‘rogram. ‘attendance’ fs ex; foe duustally large. “All'mon are invited: REV. STANSFIELD TO LECTURE. An attractive feature of the coming Lex- ington ‘Conference, which ia. held tn this city ‘Maren 24 to 29, will be the lecture to be delivered the evening of March 26 by Rev, Joshua Stansfield,» His subject. will be ‘the Hero of Babylon.” This event 1s ooked forward to with much interest. by the general public. "Dr. Stansfield is, re- garded as one of the ablest speakers of the Srethoaist Chureh, “and it will repay all who hear him. THE NEW PARKER HOUSE. European and American plan, First- class rooms, neat and cleanly, with bath, Special attention given to the traveling public, ‘A enfe and grill room. " Service first-class, “Just order what you want. We pay special attention to dinners, par. Hes, land ‘Banquets. ‘Don't fall to. try our 6 o'clock dinner on Sunday, with music. From 6 p.m. to 9:30 pun. ‘Everything. done for the comfort of the guests. MRS, EMMA 8. DUBRSON, Prop. "phone 5660. AN EVENING WITH EMERSON. ‘The Browning Club, one of the city’s leading study clubs, was hostess last Sat- urday evening to a’ company, of friends to “An Evening with Emergon,” at the home of Mrs. G. W. Cable, in North West street. ‘The home, which is’ one of the most art- istic in the city, tarnished a special setting for the company present. Miss Charity Dye, of Shortridge High School, was the principal ‘speaker. | She gave an interest- ing tall on Emerson, the man, the philos- opher, the neighbor and the husband, leav- ing her hearers with a clearer acquaint- ance with the illustrious author than they formerly had. Miss Mary Nicholson gave FeminisGences, of /her acquaintance with Emerson, which furnished an interesting narrative. “The whole was most enjoyable and ‘nstruetive, and will not soon be for- gotten by those present. Hach member of the ‘club tnvited one guest." Other guests were Miss Laura Donnan and Misses ‘Townsend and Krieger, of the city schools. MRS. MILLIE ALEXANDER, BEAUTY CULTIVATOR. Mrs, Mille Alexander, of 224 Indiana avenue, Ww! ready by the Ist of Ap! to teach’ the full course of hair work. Her prices are reasonable. ‘Those desir- ing to learn can see her from 9 a. m. to 8 p.m. Mrs, Alexander is doing a good business, making the ladies beautiful, cul- tivating the hair, ete. She has elegant, sanitary rooms for her work. All’ work guaranteed. Mail orders promptly filled. TO OUST THE COLORED BROTHER ‘There is a movement on the part of the National Brotherhood of ‘Trainmen to ex- Glude the colored train porter. from the duties of brakemen, unless the individual wears a brakeman’s badge. ‘This, It would Eppear, 1s opposed to the principles of the Brotherhood, which positively —_ specify that no colored man can become a mem- ber. Hence it is clear that the ultimate object of the move is to get the colored men off of the different roads altogether that are now serving in the capacity of train porters, and install white men, against whom there is no objection to do- ing a brakeman's work. Y. W. C. A. Notes. ‘The members of the Amanda Smith Club, Mrs. Mattie Lamond, president, will give’a musicale and supper at the, asso. ciation building March 17, for the beneftt of current expense fund. ‘The public is in- hee see ‘Mrs. Corrinna R. Barnes, president of the Indianapolis Local Counett of Women, will address vesper service, Sunday, Mareh 14, at Shiloh Baptist Church. Vocal solc by Mrs. Hertha Lewis and gpéctal numbers by the Junior Coleridge ‘Taylor Society. Program begins at 8:80. Every one ex- pected. ester Mrs. Joseph L. McCurdy, State lecturer for the W, €. Tr. U., was @ pleasant visitor at the building Monday afternoon, and in the evening gave a splendid address to the members of the association. Mrs. Joseph Ford, of Grand Rapids, ‘Mich, gave @ practical talk at last Sun- day's’ vesper service that completely wor the interest of the large audience gathered Mrs. ‘Ford is rendering invaluable service to the association, and it is to be regretted that the institution cannot have ‘the ben- efit of her influence for at least severa months during the year, instead of a few salou er | The Dramatic Club 1s planning to, ren- der a program in the near future at. the Blackford Street Church, under the aus. pices of Mra. Henderson's ‘club, organi for raising funds with which to cancel the church mortgage. ROME, GA. ‘Special to Tum Faseman. "Phe rehearsals continue every. Tuesday night at Thankful Baptist Chureh for the Slabtown District Convention. Much in- terest Is. manifested. The voting contest given, by “the, Rome, Enterprise, giving a Found-trip tieket to the most popular lady find) man’ to witness. the inatiguration of President, ‘Taft, was won by Mise Maud Jones and Mr.’C. L. Jones,-..The Wom- an's Mission Society’ of Dalton, Mrs. A.B. Black, president, contributes $2_a month to the Rome High and Industrial School. s..The ofatorieal contest at the Spring: field” Baptist "Church (was “a grand: suc. goat Adr,| Lemmy Mathews, the. pop lar ieddwatter at’ the Cherokee. Hotel, With his efficient stat of waiters, 1s giv- ing splendid. satisfaction.....Read_ Negro magazines and papers and you will leam the: good, the Negroes are doing. .. .Sub- scriptions for ‘The Freeman. will be. re ceived by Rev. J. H. Gadson, 'No. 6. Gib- bon street; Bila D. Collier, "No. 7) Pitth avenue, and 0. W. Curtis," 307 | Broad street... A Negro Business Men's League is needed in Rome. Such an organization would be timely. SPOKANE, WASH. Special to Tx PReEwaw, "The dance given by the Zenda Club on the 26th was quite a swell affair... Mfrs. Chas, Davis, of Maxwell avenue,” 15" very Hil this week... Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Lin- nard left the city on the 2d for their old Home, “Lawrence, Kans..-.M. Fagg’ left on the #5th for Chicago, St. Paul and Other points in the Bast. ‘The new Parker House had its grand opening last Sunday evening. Cafe and Erlil' room. Favors’ were. carnation. low- Sra, Moré, tnan one hundred guests were present, Six olock Sunday dinners, with Imusic. "Phone 5860. TO LET—HOUSES. 22 Rms. Rent. 922 Camp St., well, cistemn....°3 $16.00 133 Wrest Ghio, wel, cistern: <. © “43:00 887 Poca St, well, cisterns::. 6 1200 812 Susquehanna, city water... 3 8.00 B16 West McCauley,” well, cis- Set ea koe BPE North “Delatrare Both ‘phones 1528. ‘ Business Locals. ‘Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant oe enchanting, bewitching. Only at a's Drug Store. *Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Any thing ordered by ‘phone will be select- ed as carefully as if you called in per- son, No extra charges. Gauld's Phar- macy, New 1178: Old, Main 4082. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER eMe| CLASSIFIED COLUMN | Bio Skirt Sale|] a" have “Beumcie ‘FOR SALE. = ty. She| The genuine Carter's Rheumatic i bare sent baal on realpl ot price 0 ca Goon THE IEADER |c i eee Blodsa, Qroagest-lodianapolis ina tee (RAND+ si MISCELLANEOUS een ae g| eBonnelt, Bros! 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It is cortainly the iicirts for Women, of all-wool best remedy on the market for the cure of panama, circular gored, trimmed SE. | Ridoony Blator couse, and bam |W with ono deep fold of the mater- riot: | a poset of aay ial, leading spring shades; regu- nae] ete ai Sie, eae! | lar 5 grades sale pric 3.08 aveling | Springteld 0.” Price sie per Dottie. eaatis | Skirts for Women, voile skirts Service | any address on receipt of price. ‘Trialbot- | circular gored, trimmed in excel- w THE HARPER MILLINERY. (Miss Glenn’s Old Stand.) 554 Massachusetts Ave. Fashionable Millinery. W. R. BRADY, Furniture, Carpets & Stoves Ponght ene (ee oe nines, of Fur- Racking andgretiog for sipmint aspect Agent for Diamond Mirror Plating ‘Old Bifone, Main, sash o6l W. Vermont St. Tea napoli z Edw. J. Keppeler, Successor to Leonhard Sehurr. Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Clocks, Silverware and Cut Giass, Watch and Jewelry Repairing; Engraving Old Phone, Main, 3280. 888 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. M. 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Big Skirt Sale THE GRAND JEADER Bae Skirts for Women, another lucky purchase of over 1,000 skirts of panama and melrose, circular or plaited styles, trimmed, colors brown, blue and black; up to $3.50 values, sale price.........81.98 Skirts for Women, panama skirts, trimmed in narrow bands, circular style, colors black, brown and blue; regular $4.50 qualities, gale price..... 2.0.0.2... B298. 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