The Freeman

AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE COLUMNS OF THE FREEMAN IS READ BY MORE THAN 100,000 PROGRESSIVE AFRO-AMERICANS EACH WEEK. CAN WE INTEREST U? THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOLUME XXII NUMBER 16 THRIVING NEGRO TOWN OF STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Isaiah T. Montgomery Its First Mayor-Fine School System and Reputable Bank-Church, and Numerous Business. The tract of land in which Mound Bayou city is situated was granted to a railroad company by the Legislature of Mississippi in 1821. The company desired to profit by the timber, first, on the several thousand acres, and afterwards by the products of the soil by hauling. In view of this, it was considered a good plan to divide the tract into two groups: the Negroes buy them on long-time contracts. Isaiah T. Montgomery, of Vicksburg, was consulted. It was decided that the Negroes buy the farmland for farms, but for a Negro colony as well. In 1888 Mr. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green started on what was to become the city of Mound Bayou. It took its first step after a small bayou traversing the section. Montgomery and Green acted together until 1892, when they dissolved partnership and formed a separate corporation. Judicious and persistent advertisement quite a number of colored people, who cast their lots with the new venture. Green was shot in 1896, after which his business was taken over. His wife until her marriage with John W. Francis, who has conducted it ever since. Isaiah T. Montgomery was the first mayor, he was succeeded by A. P. Hood. John W. Francis was succeeded by Cresswell. Cobb died in office. Cresswell is filling out his unexpired term. Mound Bayou is in Bolivar county, which is among the most fertile portions of the Southwest. Cresswell and 116 miles north of Vicksburg, on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. Cotton and corn are the principal products. For productivity of those products the land is used for the construction where. The community is essentially agricultural. Clearing the land is under way. Farmers in their spare time hauling number, crosses, staves, etc., to the station. In the city proper the Negroes are engaged in all of the kinds of business incident to such communities. A $6,000 Munson Glenn Gin is one of the latest accommodations. The Bank of Mound Bayou is known throughout the land by Negroes. It has just one branch, located in cost costing about $4,000; it is capitalized at $10,000. The well-known Charles Banks is cashier; he is prominent in the Negro's Business League. John W. Francis is assistant; Isaiah T. Montgomery, vice-president. The Bank of Mound Bayou was organized in 1944 with $6,500 of its capital stock is paid in cash. The bank is more regular. Banks is given credit for more stock who is the working head of the institution. The Bank of Mound Bayou has $30,000 on cash. All of the stock is owned by Negroes; all money deposited belongs to Negroes. One paper, a weekly. The Demonstrator, is located in Mound Bayou. The paper is a credit card, timber is done in connection with this publication. Several gin plants, a grist and shingle mill, a blacksmith shop, cotton brokers, real estate dealers, timber is a bakery, meat markets, groceries are of the business interests. W. T. Montgomery and M. B. Lewis are assistant and assistant, respectively. J. P. T. Montgomery is a lawyer and J. H. Roby is M. D. The officers of the town are mayor, treasurer and aldermen. A deputy sheriff is commissioned. Has no bonded indebtedness. The town boasts of its school system; size is the best in the State according to the public school. The Montgomery is in charge of the College is here, in charge of R. McCormick also the Mound Bayou Normal and Industrial Institute, in charge of B. F. Ousley. Baptist, Methodist, Campbellite and Christian churches are the religious demographics. The A. M. E. Church, Dr. C. S. Bowman, Zion Church, Rev. S. Morgan; the Christian Church, Rev. G. W. Porter, pastor; Baptist Church, Rev. A. Cosey, pastor. SEKITAN, OHIO Special to the FREEMAN. The Easter program given at the First Church Sunday evening, at 2:30 o'clock, queues a success....The program of the week was the First Baptist Church, Sunday evening, was well attended. Usual services were conducted at the Church Sunday. Rev. J Hooks took for his subject, The Resurrection of Christ. The Resurrection of Christ, a street, left Sunday morning for a campus visit with her mother, Mrs. Kelley Farrick, of Somerset, Ky.…Benley Kyle, of Somerset, has been preparing to do dry cleaning, has been preparing to aid from his engagements. Leave your name for the FREEMAN at J. W. Galanes cafe, in Eva Riddle, of Cincinnati avenue, entertains her evening in honor of her brother, Krieg Bissie Bessie Rinna, of Covington, Ky. and Rachel Peterson, of Cummingsville, Ohio, plays by Ralph Grubb in piano selections by a sister with vocal solos. The room was beautifully decorated with flowers....Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan, of Hopkinsville, entertains, at 2 o'clock, Mrs. Dick Winston of Dearborn, Mr. and Mrs. William Austin of High, of Hitchcock, were visited by the spring April 7 which led them a fine Easter present, a bouncing ball. DALLAS, TEX. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. Sunday, April 24. For most last Sunday at St. Peter's Church, there was quite a number present. A fine program was rendered. Topics of interest were talked upon in general... Harry Harper, the third Avenue, left the city last Sunday evening for Evanston, IL. where he will live with his sister, Mrs. J. R. Auter. Many friends will miss Mr. Harper. The band boys will miss Mr. Harper. The band boys will day evening. April 19. Music by Mrs. Nelly McCullough's full orchestra. An extra addition of music will be given by the great Excelsior Band, which will put "loving rag." Committee of arrangements: C. C. Minor, R. Glenn, A. Bradley. Floor manager, Master G. Johnson. Admission. 25 cents. The funeral of Mrs. F. P. Harper. 2:30 p.m. at Bethesda Rentals Church. SPRING RESOLUTION. INDIANAPOLIS APR 16 1909 PUBLIC LIBRARY SPRING SAVING BANK ST. PAUL. MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Special to THE FERMAN St. Peters, Madame Anita Brown will sing at St. Peter's, Monday night, under the auspices of the Court of Calanthe. Revival closed on Friday, the day before. ...Charlie Watson, of Nashville, spent Sunday in the city...Mrs. Nichols, of Nashville, mother of Mrs. Boone. ...Mrs. Watson, of Nashville, Coleman was in Nashville last week at the bedside of her sick father...Mrs. S. Jefferson has been quite ill, but is much better. ...Mrs. Watson, of Nashville, operation the Colored Infirmary, Tuesday April 13. ...Zenobia Dunlap, Andrew Dunlap's granddaughter, died at her home, on Russell Street, in the Bronx. Mrs. Starkey, mother of Jim Starkey, died at his residence, on College street, Saturday night, April 10. Interment at Greece, in the city in which Dr. Burt at the Infirmary. The Executive Board met at M. Olive last week. Mrs. V. W. Braughton, State Missionor, was the guest at the meeting of the Executive Board. There was an excellent program rendered at Fifth Ward Baptist Church, April 15, under the auspices of the benefit of Roger Williams University. Mistress of ceremonies, Miss E. B. Kaye. PEORIA. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Specific which extended through Missouri, Iowa and Kansas. He had a very pleasant trip, and feels benefited by the rest. He was a favorite for a May festival to be given the 1st of May for Mount Zion Literary Society. . . Mrs. M. J. Russel, mother of Mrs. Crawford, Fry, Mrs. Crawford, H. Ellis, has been quantitated at his home on Gale avenue with a light attack of vario- old, is well, and will be out to-day. Thomas Boone will be the day he detects the Saturday, having fully from smallpox. . . Miss Mana PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. Boone has been very ill with pneumonia, but is much improved at this writing.... Mr. and Mrs. E. Burris, of Seventh avenue, entertain Howard Burris, of Rock Island, Sunday....That the citizens of Peoria be convinced that the city is proven by the cordial welcome given Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Hendricks. Dr. Hendricks lately located here, and has already a number of warm friends, and is building up a good practice....Those who attended the meeting of Mrs. S. Conway to meet Mrs. Hendricks pronounce it a delightful affair. FLINT, MICH. BOONVILLE, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Sunday. V. Prent went to the city last Saturday, ....The following were in Evansville last Sunday: John Phines, Jr., B. Martin, Harold Portez, E. Taylor, V. With, V. With, Noble Phine, T. Hopkins, Clarence Bronston, S. Marshall, Misses C. McCray, L. Belay and Clodia Brashears.....Rev. T. P. Smith, evangelist, preached at the Chapel Church Sunday, the Chapel Church Sunday, Mrs. Belle Cunningham went to Stevenson Sunday.....Rev. L. B. Ratcliffe was in Boonville Sunday.....James Robinson and family will move to Chicago in the nearby town of Chicago. Attended at the Methodist Church Sunday. Grandma Douglass in on the sick list. SHOULD SUPPORT THE PRESS ALL NEGROES SHOULD GIVE HEARTY ASSISTANCE Many Obstacles for Negro Editors—Contributes to the Best Interests of Our People • Teach Children to Read Race Papers. Since his emancipation, many and varied have been the lines along which the American Negro has both faithfully wrought with truth, truth, truth, the almost numberless plans, legislative otherwise, devised and executed against his progress as a man and citizen, he nevertheless has steadily, persistently, sublimely made good. He has acquired power, power, power, in churches, reduced his illiteracy, written magazines and papers, and elevated his moral and religious life—all in such proportions as at once compel praise and adoration, power and power, in academics, scholars and statesmen of the white race, and what is more, serve as undying inspiration to the succeeding generations of the Negro, in the hands of the produced astonishing as they are grand, have convinced the American people that the black man, because of his amazing industry and hardship and his ever-wild intelligence, is severely a factor in any accurate computation of this country's destiny. Important as are many other forces contributing to the race's progress, few, if any, have been able to with such telling effect as they have been if it had not been through the agency of race newspapers and magazines. With the colored people, as in the white people, the Negroes, if they have been in a way of enlisting the attention and securing the support of the public in furtherance of any worthy cause is in these times almost always through the press, and the Negroes, if they have been through its own press; for, unfortunately for the black man, the white press of this country, the Negroes, if they have given space for anything concerning him, except on all too frequently overdrawn description of his bad qualities. His good traits, his increasing intelligence, his hard work, his ability, his lines that indicate that he is fast and unavoidably appropriating the genius of American civilization, it leaves severely to the Negroes, if they have been and is yet well nigh impossible for any reader of current news to get even a faint idea of what ten millions of the republic's citizens are driving at, unless through the columns of our Negro papers. Thus it ill becomes a great number of our educated men and women, who yearly subscribe to pro-creation magazines, to magazine magazines, without even reading, to say nothing of subscription to, and doing all in their power to encourage and support colored papers and magazines, to publish books and magazines, to come that information as to the multiform efforts and splendid achievements of the people of our race which is at present so much needed to inspire and encourage the young and the old, to wanton indifference to our own best interests; and let the teachers and preachers, doctors and lawyers, mechanics and farmers, the men and the women, all awake to the need of education, to owe to a set of as loyal and fearless editors as the sun ever shone upon—a duty to subscribe to and read, and see that our children read, the parents read, the teachers read, the publishers, and get more frequently to our own well-being than to their personal gain. JAMES T. PHILLIPS. ZANESVILLE, O. Special Robert Granger, after seven years at the Hotel Rogge, this city, has accepted a position as head waiter at the Hotel Warden, Newark, Ohio. THE FREEMAN AT LAUISVILLE Blue Grass Restaurant. 117 W. Walnut Street; 424 S. Ninth street; 420 Fifth 街; 726 W. Walnut. Old World News. Mr. Elmer Spyglass, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, who has been singing in the principal cities of Europe during the past two years, paid London a visit a few days ago, en route to Holland, where he is engaged to sing during the spring. The Princess Christian Mission Hospital at Sierra Leone, West Africa, has been accidentally burned to the ground. There was no loss of life, the impatients being covered. The damage is estimated at over $10,000. The mayor has opened a relief fund. --- News just comes from Berlin telling of the death of Miss Ella Thomas, a young colored girl who had been studying music in Berlin. Thomas had been wonderfully successful in Berlin, and was to have finished in June of this year. Her father, Mr. James C. Thomas, the prominent New York underwriter, soon as he learned of his daughter's illness. Everything possible was done to save her life, and an effort was made to Miss Thomas back home, but she died at the third day out from Genoa, Italy. --- The wretched weather prevailing over here during the past two months has caused much sickness. News has just come in that Hackley, our well-known singer, who has been for some months. Mrs. Hackley, during her stay here, has sung for some of the most exclusive clubs and societies in England. She has also taught for some weeks in the music department. Mrs. Hackley had been engaged to sing in the "Messiah." At present she is under the care of Doctors MacDonald and Maxwell, two of England's most noted specialists, who have advised her to return to America as soon as she is well enough to stand the trip. --- The latest criminal statistics of London show an alarming state of affairs. During the past year 12,281 persons were tried for robbery, 7,096 had previous violations, 1,886 convicted, 1,886 acquitted and 33 cent to criminal lunatic asylums. Of those convicted, 7,096 had previous violations or were convicted than in any of the fourteen previous years. Curious side-lights upon modern life are thrown by the statements in the report: (1) the police areatory schools for robbing penny-in-the-slot meters; (2) that while the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Police was slitting, (3) the police are against public order, because the police were "in a condition of uncertainty as to the extent of their duties." Of 493 persons received into incipiate reformatories, seven were women. In the report very little change is to be noted in the nature of the sentences imprinted in the report, and slight increase is reported in the proportion of sentences of penal servitude, and a corresponding falling-off in sentences of imprisonment is reported in the proportion of offenders released under recognizances. Of the 10,279 persons convicted at quarter sessions, 7,096 summary jurisdiction dealt with 734,256 cases, and in 597,023 convictions were obtained, while 129,067 persons were discharged, and 3,273 sent to industrial sessions. During the year 51 applications for extradition were received from foreign countries 18 from France and 22 from Germany. In 30 cases the accused person was extradited. The applications by the English government numbered 15, and to the United States AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL. What the People of Consequence Are Doing and Saying. Special by Thompson's Iational News Dr. Booker T. Washington spent a day or so in town this week and held an important conference with President Tart at the House. He left for Tuskegee Monday. --- Mrs. A. M. Curtis, one of the race's most worthy women, has been named as a notary public in and for the District of Columbia by President Taft. The new $100,000 building of the Colored Y. M. C. A. is rapidly mounting skyward. The workmen have now reached the third story. The new home of the Washington College building owned by Negroes in America. The architect is Mr. W. Sidney Pittman. Among those constituted for the secretary of the Librarian, Commission are Mr. Thomas J. Caloway, of this city, known to the nation as the head of the executive committee in charge of the Negro Department of Jamesburg, Jamesburg Hanah for many years faithful stenographer to Dr. Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute. The corner-stone of the new Calvary Episcopal Church was laid recently, under the direction of Bishop Harding. The 4structure is located at the corner of 11th and G streets southeast, and will be handsomely appointed by the ability, is the priest in charge. The congregation hopes to be able to occupy the new building by June 1. Plans have been drawn for a new home for the Asbury M. E. Church, to be erected on the site of the present structure, corner of 11th and K streets northwest. It is to cost about $100,000. One of the most important and strongest colored congregations in the city and Rev. M. W. Clair, the pastor, has few, if any, equals as a pupil orator, spiritual leader and financial manager. The grand reception of the Inaugural Welcome Club at Convention Hall March 5 was a gratifying social success, ar- tistically and financially. So capably were its fiscal affairs managed by President W. Bruce Evans, H. P. Slaughter, and Mr. Robert D. Roberts, the date of from $2.50 to $1 is to be returned to each member. The original assessment was $5 and each subscriber was entitled to three tickets of admission, including supei Rev, and Mrs. John F. Hurst gave a highly enjoyable "at home" on the evening of March 16, in compliment to Miss Marilyn, and Mrs. John F. Hurst, Peral Gertrude Lampton, of Greenville, Miss. The parlors o f the Hurst homestead at 1352 Q. street were crowded from $ 10 on that evening with a trong of leaden, and Mrs. John F. Hurst would pay their respects to these charming ladies. Mrs. Hurst is an ideal hostess. --- Washington is full of prosperous and thoughtful South Carolinans, and all are proud of their state. They have brought back from their native state by the members of the party that recently toured that great Commonwealth with Dr. Harper. They have been a rank injustice by the demagogues who have blackened the reputation of its best colored and white citizens and have been fair-minded people to have the truth brought to light. Sout hCcarolina stands higher in the public esteem by reason of its long history of the "Washington Party." --- Postmaster Joshua E. Wilson is to fight for his political life. He has served the people of Florence as pastmaster for a quarter of a century and has given business to the business men of that city. Nothing is being alleged against him save that he is a Negro, and this question is being sprung only because he is being proud of hope to profit by stirring up race prejudice. Mr. Wilson has strong friends and they are urging the President to pay no attention to the clamor of office-brokers who care nothing for the real interests of the people. --- Much is being made of the rumor that former collector, W. D. Crum, of Charleston, C. C., inspected inspector Pauma, Nothing definite can be said on the subject at this time. The same can be said of the talk of the street that Dr. H. W. Furnis, Minister to Haiti, told the public that Rep. Ronnie Rocklein Bruce, now assistant superintendent of the public schools of this city. Since the wise-acres must talk, speculate and presume that one thing as another—since none of them know anything about the matter, and President Taft is too busy just now with the tariff and a few other things to address to these questions in any definite way. --- A committee of colored men, representing the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, of Richmond and the University, adopted a few days ago to make it known that they heartily approved of the interests he has shown and is now showing in the industry. The agreement, in formal statement of their sentiments was read by T. Arnold Hill, of Richmond, who acted as secretary of the committee. President Taft, was also presented the statement. "The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States" said to be the joint work of Col. Giles B. Jackson and Dr. D. Webster Davis there were in the delegation, Col. John C. Schmidt, Secretary Hill, Messrs. William Issac Johnson, R. T. Hill and Walter R. Griffin. Dr. John F. Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, has assumed the financial direction of the Christian Recorder, which is still being issued from the General Supervision of the General supervision of the Board of Bishops. The changes were made necessary by the serious and continued illness of both Editor H. T. Johnson and Business Manager J. T. Johnson, a young man of experience and natural talent for editorial and business responsibilities, has been elected as managing editor of the Recorder and will have full charge of the Philadelphia End of the Book Concern. Dr. Hurst will and the accession monthly, the Moderators, be greatly world for many months over the deplorable conditions surrounding their publishing house, and the hope now is that with Dr. Hurst and Proof, Wright will be the helm of the angles of the past few years will be permanently straightened out. ```markdown ``` The court of inquiry, named to look into the problem of re-enlisting the colored soldiers accused of participation in the alleged "shooting-up of Brownsville" is getting up of five prominent retired army officers, all of whom have rendered conspicuous service for their country. The ranking officers in his associates are Mai-Gen. J. P. Sanger, Brig-Gen. Theodore Schwan, Brig-Gen. Butler D. Price and Brig-Gen. John M. Wilson, Capt. Charles R. Howland, 21st Brig-Gen. Robert H. Hunt, The personnel has been studied carefully by Senator Foraker, leading attorneys who represented the soldiers throughout the deal of the past two and a half years, and who are now in charge. It is that the make-up of the court is eminently satisfactory. It is expected that the inquiry can be wound up within a year, and that the majority of the members of the Black Battalion" will be restored to army service. --- Former Senator J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, plainly indicated in his speech accepting the long cup from the metropolitan Election Committee that he fully approves President Taft's views on the Negro question outlined in the latter's inaugural address. "If I correctly understand what he said, concurring with that, I realize fully the serious character of this question and intends to do all in his power to bring about a just solution of it," he makes a point that he added to the leading colored states of the country would not hesitate to visit President Taft at the White House or write him and keep him constantly informed as to what the president is doing with his home lines and give to him the benefit of their sympathetic counsel. "He believes the President is desirous of working out this race problem on pro-immigrant home lines and sources the less liable he will be to make mistakes in dealing with it. From the number of representative colored men in the House, he looks as if the advice of the Ohioan is being pretty generally acted upon. . . . The death of Dr. Robert Reyburn came as a distinct shock to the colored people of this city. His was a busy life an dful of good works for all humanity. He knew no color line. For more than a year he was a graffiti remembrance that a year ago the Medicio-Chirurgical Society, composed of Washington's principal physicians, surgeons and nurses, held a beautiful loving cup in recognition of his completion of a half century in the medical profession. Dr. Reyburn was one of the founders of Howard University and inaugurated the Medico-Chirurgical institution in order that colored men might have an opportunity to study the healing art for the benefit of their people, as no other institution in order that colored men dents at that time. Though ostracized by narrow-gauged members of his own race because of his sturdy insistence upon a square deal for Negroes, Dr. Reyburn was in need of negroes of ideals of justice and equity, and from the close of the war, in which he fought for the destruction of slavery, until the present, he maintained his interest in the colored community, in the Freedman's Hospital, where he was surgeon-in-chief from 1867 to 1875, and at the time of his death was dean of the medical department of Howard and an instructor at the Medical School. Dr. Reyburn was identified with the Freedmen's Bureau; was the last survivor of the six physicians who attended Presbyterian hands of the assassin, and served four years as the District member of the Republican national committee. He was an uncompromising advocate of suffrage for the black people. The death of Dr. Reyburn, scholar, humanitarian and constructive statesman, is a positive loss to the community and robs the Negro race of one of its staunchest friends Pink's Purgo. HEAD WAITER DEAD W. E. Tucker, head waiter, died at West Point, Ga., in February. PREVENTS NEGROES USING B. P. O. E. TRENTON, N. J., April 6.—The House to-day passed a bill preventing Negroes from bearing the name or wearing the emblem of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. "Get something the people need. Then let the people know you've got it." This is the plain talk prescription for business success given by Mr. H. L. Kramer, the famous creator and advertiser of Cascade Cars. Cascade Cars have developed a sale of a million boxes a month. Every reader of this paper knows that the manufacturers of Cascarets have persistently used newspaper advertising to "let the people know," and the readers have learned something the people needed." It is a good object-less in the school of business. RESOLUTIONS FOR 1909. As we celebrate with thankfulness and enthusiasm the one-hundredth anniversary of our Emanclaptor, Abraham Lincoln, let us make a few resolutions—and live up to them in the hope of being helpful to the entire race. About as follows: Be it resolved— First—My home shall be kept clean and my children shall be well cared for and protected. Second—God helping me, I shall begin at once to buy a home, and not live in a rented house. Third—That I shall not subscribe for a dulce drink, that I shall not wear the criminal Negro than of the progressive element, and insists upon giving him more space than it gives to the best colored citizens who are its subscribers. Fourth—My children shall play with Negro dolls. Fifth-I will trade with stores that treat all their passors alike, regardless of color. Sixth-I shall make it a point, as far as possible, to teach the children about Seventh-I shall attend Negro churches, join Negro insurance companies, have Negro physicians and dentists, and when they are able to teach them a Negro undertaker in a Negro graveyard, I shall ever be grateful to those friends who are helping the race in its efforts to make good, and thank those who are even kinder than they are, and they are sufficiently interested to help us. With gratitude to all and prejudice to ward none, I sign these resolutions as the most expedient policy, because of the unpleasant and cruel circumstances upon which they are called upon to face because I am a member of a race that, so sure as God be true and just, must soon have its day in the court of enlightened public opinion. RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE. In the "Church Circle" of the April Circle Magazine there appears a plea for systematic helpfulness. Many business enterprises, says The Circle Magazine, have been invaded by the introduction of what has become a watchword in the commercial world—"System." Things which are impossible without system become possible with it. And, by the simple mathematics, the world's needs and the church's assets of wealth and time can be brought together. In there a hospital in your town? Are you doing all you can to see that care is provided to doctors and nurses will allow of pleasant things to ease the tedium and pain? Is any one in your town hungry or cold or lonesome or baffled by temptations? Are you doing all you can for everybody "Right Where You Are." Consider the long, long list of human needs. Think of the people next door, the people next street, the people in jail or in the workhouse, the outcasts, the failures, and then ask yourself and ask your Lord if Where You Are." There is another interesting side to all this. Purely as a matter of social economics, it is startling to think of the potential service to society of the people whom we present place of life have little to do. It is with time as with money—some seem to have too little, others to have more than necessary, others to have no need, others interested in many social matters, anxious to keep up with the tasks and exercises which may find herself with hours and sometimes days upon her hands with which she knows not what to do. Often the older women in the house, who keep their children most consistent to occupation which may save thm from the "spending the time." Think what a vast amount of energy is wasted which might be used for needed needs, bodily, mental, spiritual of mankind. Lent is over, but there is no need to go back either to idleness or extravagance. The Lenten service is the most relevant neighbor—there is no just reason why these should not be constant. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PARTY. Dr. Booker T. Washington. "Nuf said." Mr. Emmett J. Scott, private secretary to Dr. Washington, one of the smoothest and ablest diplomats on the continent. Dr. Washington, a wizard and surgeon in charge at Tuskegee Institute. Major R. R. Moton, Commandant of Cadets at Hampton, and member of the Trustee Board of jeanes Fund. Dr. Washington, at Hampton, Va., Field Agent of Slater Fund. Mr. J. H. Washington, Superintendent of Industries at Tuskegee Institute. A wholesouled, amiable gentleman, and one of the most charming and deeply learned men in his profession. Dr. R. E. Park, of Boston, a magazine writer and literate of international prominence. Dr. Hoppe George W. Clinton, Charlotte, N. C. Bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church—one of nature's noblemen. R. W. Thompson, the peerless, one of Uclem Sam's assistants at Washington, and so much more. Charles Stewart, of Chicago and everywhere else—everybody knows Stewart. He newspapers, and "salucyhes" for the Mr. Nathan Hunt, stenographer to Dr. Washington, one of the very best in the job."—The Defender, Sumner, S. C. PETALUMA INCUBATOR CO. We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Petaluma Incubator Company, who are introducing one of the best and latest impatiens available at the market. We desire to say that this company is well known to us and thoroughly reliable. Out-of-town people can do business with us and we assure that it is "dead on the square, and that you can get what you order without any false representations. The farming and rural classes will find the foods and classes in every respect. If you are in need of an incubator and can not come to town to look over what the company has to offer, kindly drop them a postal card, and they will send you information of their wares. It is desired that you mention THE FREEMAN. 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Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. New Phone 2880. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. The liquor question is at white heat in Milwaukee. The ex-President has begun on his International Order of Ananiases. It will be a most interesting mix up if Wm. L. Taylor and Thomas Taggart enter the ring. The spectators will get their money's worth. Race prejudice is a mean, hateful thing on one hand, and a good, blessed thing on the other. The race is not taking full advantage of its blessing. Some advocate the simple life. The earnest life is what the race stands in need of. No make-believe earnest, but really so—doing the best when and wherever possible. "April showers bring May flowers." Let us hope so. April is that month of capricious weather. It sometimes rains, it sometimes shines, and sometimes all together, including snow, hail and slugs. A number of white students in Birmingham, England, objected to the manager drawing the color line on one of their number, a Negro lad. They insisted that the manager was to "start nothing in that country." The saloon men promised to be good while their fate was pending. The ruling passion strong in death is the way it looked when, on Monday, the newspapers announced that business was doing at the old stands on Sunday. The Negro Ellis, of Boston, Mass, after having wrestled with the Legislature of that State, succeeded in defeating a bill which had for its purpose prohibiting the members of the order from wearing the emblems that designate it. Ex-President Roosevelt says he didn't even see the correspondent of Le Journal, of Paris, and, of course, gave out nothing to be published. The correspondent has it that Mr. Roosevelt was very loquacious. Perhaps the newspaper man was suffering from a brainstorm—thought he saw things. The value of the discovery of iron ore in any portion of the mining regions of South Africa cannot be overestimated. In slack years over half a million pounds' worth of mining machinery is imported into the Transvaal alone.—The Argus, Melbourne, Australia. Now if the Liberians will get busy they may succeed in turning up iron in their country. A country will not be much without iron; very much ought to result where it is a part of the products. Bear in mind that some of the people are expected in every enterprise where there is opportunity. Make money, save some of it, and don't be flattered out of it by too fine a society or too good clothes. Either of those items, when lived up to, will put a colred man on the toogobgan. The opportunity for the colored people is unparalleled in the history of the world. O, no, they are not going to go in the white people's banks. Nothing prevents them getting banks of their own. They may build cities and be from mayor down. If they choose, they can make a millionaire every year. When it is said that the tariff makes for better wages for the American workman, there is not much room for argument, since the lower wages of European countries enter into the cost of producing an article, making it possible to put such an article on the market at a price that would be rudnous to the manufacturer of the same article whose workmen are much better tared. But when the trusts arbitrarily fix the prices of the article, regardless of the operation of the tariff, even reducing wages and maintaining prices, a revision, downward is the hope of the poor man. Sir Harry Johnson must have had the eye of an "eagle" to have observed as much as is purported of him in the London papers. It would be cruel ti say that Sir Harry saw the country from the top of an omnibus; it would be no less truthful than the thought that he could obtain expert opinion in the sense of applying the remedy for the disordered condition as it pertains to the races. It is reasonable to think that he would gain some ideas by what he saw, and more from the distinguished company of men in which he traveled. It is also reasonable to think that from his own viewpoint he could devise methods by which better conditions would obtain. His papers show that he, at least, is in earnest, and of a philanthropical mind, seeking to introduce the Negroes to a larger measure of consideration and, necessarily, at the expense of the white man's policy towards them. But, of course, he has nothing new to advance that would be entertained. He is optimistic, viewing the future with hope, just about the same as hopeful colored men do. This much may be assuredly said of him, that he gives the Negroes the better of his argument. Louisville has a Negro florist. Indianapolis has none. Chicago has a Negro bank. Indianapolis has none. Philadelphia has a Negro photographer. Indianapolis has none. Plenty opportunity to get busy. We have above thirty thousand colored people; there is no musical studio, no singing society that means anything. On Indiana Avenue, where there are as many colored people to the square yard as any other place in the world, there is not a single grocery, meat shop or bakery. We have several flourishing tailoring shops, nice affairs, but which say plainly that clothes play a very prominent part. We have the one very quiet laundry, which acts very much as if it were afraid it would get something to do. Restaurants have been gradually reduced until it is almost like working a problem in arithmetic to figure out where and what you'll eat. The little candy shops are gone, every one of them—the good, bad and the indifferent. Some were good riddance, but none are left to tell the tale. Pool rooms are multiplying. The drinking places hold their own. Some doubtful institutions continue to flourish. It sounds like a "knock," don't it? But get busy and investigate. A COLORED BANK IN CHICAGO. Now comes Chicago with news of a bank managed by colored men. Banks to the right of us, banks to the left of us, but "nary" a colored bank for Indianapolis as yet. Last week we made note of a Philadelphia concern under the management of ex-Congressman Geo. H. White, which, justly proud of its first year's success, threw open its own doors—a new building—for the public's inspection. The Chicago Commercial Chronicle, speaking in reference to the Chicago enterprise, recently had the following to say of Jesse Binga, who will have charge of the bank: "Mr. Binga has felt the need of convenient banking facilities himself, and his business associates of that district have likewise felt the great inconvenience of coming down town to make deposits and transact their other banking business. Accordingly he has decided to enter the field with a private bank that will be conducted along the same conservative lines that have always characterized his other business interests. The hearty approval which met this announcement was a significant evidence of the need of such an institution, and Mr. Binga will provide every convenience for the public, affording them the same privileges that are enjoyed by the business men in the down town district. "Mr. Banga has long been a prominent figure in South Side real estate and loan circles. He has built up a large business by straightforward dealing, and he enjoys the fullest confidence of all who know him. The new block which has just been completed is a substantial addition to the business buildings of South State Street, being complete and convenient in its arrangements and attractive in appearance. Burglar-proof vaults have been built into the building, and these are supplied with the most approved time-lock safes, affording ample protection for the bank's funds." 100 NEGROES BATTLE DEPUTIES Three Killed and Five Wounded in All-Night Fight in Oklahoma. SHELBYVILLE, IND. Mrs. Ida Winslow is visiting Mrs. Allen Estes this week... Miss Aquila Seniors is on the sick list again... The mock trial week is over... School this week has been a success so far. NASHVILLE. TENN. After spending about thirty days in Hot Springs, Ark., taking a course of baths and doing general recuperation, Rev. J. F. Harkle, pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, led her lesbian dawn morning last week in the way of Louisville. He has glowing descriptions of the progress noticeable among in religious circles in Arkansas, west and middle Tennessee. WEST BADEN, IND The new West Baden Baptist Church will have their dedication Sunday, April 18. Rev. Parris, of Louisville, is expected to preach the dedication sermon. There are many white Baptists expected to make a difference in the church, and Rev. J. Mason, who has worked side by side with carpenters, painters and plasterers, in order to save expense and also have the church ready on the promised day of ceremonies." The choir, under the direction of Mrs. Mayme Wing, is expected to render some sweet music.... Otis Burnett, Harry Pollard and Charley Rice are expected to control the West Baden ball team, and the management Otis Burnett, the famous management team, the team is expected to be the best in the Middle States. He has already got Albert Toney, Robert Weaver and others down taking water, and working with the Frog,etter, water and "Frog," while intoxicated, broke into Dr. Hassmiller's drug store at midnight and filled his pockets with a few bottled-in-bond whiskey bottles, and was caught at the scene of Louisville train. He was kept in jail a norest, seek- to a and, of the. But. to ad. few days, and is thought to have grown remorseful, and hung himself with an old piece of electric wire. The ceiling was a hole in the wall, and by the aid of an empty barrel he fulfilled the job. He had a wife and child in Louis-ville, which was his home. He came here to work for George Waddy, but had quit while intoxicated. Crews, Mrs. Monholland. Box 35, Mr. John Ford, Mr. Charles Washington, Mr. Will Baker and ladies; Mr. McKnight, Mr. McKnight, and Mr. Hearst. Box 23, Mr. Moon, of 1221 Baltimore avenue, and party. Box 25, Mr. Dave Verse, Miss Grace Thomas, Mr. Harry Lampkins and wife. Box 37. Hearst and family. All in the affair was a classy one of QUINCY, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Lieut. C. H. Freeman, of Jacksonville, IL. He was a member of his brother and friends...Mrs. F. E. Cook, president of the W. C. T. U. of this city, has returned home from Lorain, Ill. In the fall of 2011 he attended a convention. She was the only colored delegate there, and read a paper which proved to be a great success....Mrs. S. H. Shu- chen, president of the Eighth Church both had spelled out the program. Eastern evening...The joint meeting of these churches, with Rev. Syed in the chair, last Sunday evening, proved a success....The Eighth and Elm Church Sunday evening. GREENVILLE, TEX. Prof. T. W. Pratt will soon have his beautiful house completed...Mrs. Randolph, of Sulphur Springs, and little daughter, of Ester Sunday...Easter exercises were better than ever seen in Greenville this year, and Mrs. M. S. Atkinson and Miss Randolph, of Sulphur Springs, had tireless energy in preparing those children who did so well on Easter day...Prof. T. C. Martin's advice should be given care when children are sick, and said was true. Boys and girls, if you succeed, you must try and emulate some great man or woman...The German children given by Mr. Webb Moffet was a success...Mrs. Annie Hasken is convalescing. ANNISTON, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN John Grier thanks the Royal Benefit Society of Washington, D. C., for its prompt payment of the death claim on his wife. ..... He will Chapel continues. ..... All lend a helping hand until 17 THE FREEMAN can be found at W. M. Griffis', 612 West Fifteenth street, with all the latest news. ..... A large number were children's exercises at Haven Chapel, Miss Brooks and Miss Billups are to be congratulated for the training of these tender children; there will be a rally at Friendship Baptist Church, Sunday, April 18. All are invited. PARIS, KY. Special to T E FREEMAN. Easter ushered in as usual, but very cold. There was a large attendance at each church, with a merry program. Old Sol showed itself, and there was much joy, especially among the nets. .. Uncle Ike Delly, about the oldest citizen of our city, passed away. It happened from the trimming of a toe, from which blood poisoning set in. .. Miss Sing was buried at the Cemetery, as buried at Paris Cemetery, Thursday. There will be a grand rally at the A. M. E. Church, Ruckerville, the fourth Sunday, at the Conway, of Covington, Ky., is visiting her. BIG ROCK, TENN Special to THE FREEMAN. Prof. P. D. Kingins gave instruction in the State reading course at the Colored Teachers' County Association, which met at Dover, Tenn. Many flattering remarks were made by the Literary Society, which exhibited at I. Gate, Tenn., was a success in every way. The audience was on well pleased. N. W. Williams was on the stage again. C. H. Weston will not be forgotten soon. Mrs. W. Weston will be greeted with much applause. Her sweet-talking solos find a place in every one's memory, and many compliments are being given her, . . . P. D. Kingins conducted Easter School. He chose for his text I C. Cor. 15:55 "He doth inp in victory," from which he preached a powerful sermon. Brother Belvie White, one of the oldest members of the church, said that it was one of the best sermons he heard on any Easter day . . . P. D. Kingins took dinner with James White Sunday. XENIA. OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Ida Swisher, of Indianapolis, is visiting her parents...Frank Merchant, MrClark and Everett Merchant spend Sunday in Washington C H...THE FREEMAN may visit the school...Miss Bertha Butler is visiting friends and relatives here...Miss Fannie Collins and daughter are here on a visit...Miss Alice Gales spent Easter here...Miss Alice Gales spent published in THE FREEMAN will be left at the Acme news stand...The members of the East Main Street High School Orchestra place with the trombone...William Roberts spent part of last Sunday in Dayton...Julius Foster spent Sunday in Cincinnati...The crowd ended the exercises at St. John's School Sunday evening...Miss Bessie Smith is here on a brief visit...Miss Gussie Green is here on a two weeks' visit...The sophomore spent Main Street High School will present to the public their rhetoricals April 30. HOUSTON, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN Easter Sunday was observed in this city as usual... The Houston Emancipation committee and the board decided to make the celebration bigger, brighter and better than ever... Mr. James Bolls left the city Saturday night for Seabrooks... You can always go to the store for a new shop, William street, and the Bayou City drug store... The Cadillac Club's cotillion, given at the U. B. F. Hall, given to the pre. M. F. was a grand affair, John H. Tahner, D. A. Miss K. Parker, a team, are bright as diamonds in their performances at the Lomax vaudeville. All act clean and up the stage, the curer, senior bishop of the A. M. E. Church, the city Wednesday from New Orleans. His arrival at the time was unexpected, as was evidenced by the fact that none of the people present the station when he reached Houston. The Bishop had been invited to lecture here while on his tour through Texas and old Mexico. The proceeds of the lecture were made to the church, which at the time is burdened with a debt aggregating $2,000. The lecture took place Thursday night at the pilgrimage before an audience estimated at 1,500 persons, a few of whom were white. KANSAS CITY, MO The Kansas City spirit, respected throughout the State, again asserted itself when on April 12, in Convention Hall, Emmanuel Commandery, K. T., the G. U., and James Commandery, K. T., the G. U., under the unique caption, "The Three of Us," pulled off their joint entertainment. Fully 2,500 people occupied the boxes, arena and balconies and watched the uniform and teams execute so perfect and that that the audience was viewing some beautiful shifting scene on the film of a kaleidoscope. Patricair No. 66, G. U. O. of O. F., won the first prize Commandery No. 25, K. U. won second prize Commandery No. 25, Drill Corps No. 3, S. M. T., under Miss Magnolia Lewis, deserves special mention. The fact that the entertainment followed so close upon Easter caused it to be strictive and the dressmaker, both milliner and a dressmaker, it is possible to describe the pyrotechnic beauty of dress. The French hats, directories, empire and gowns were much in evidence. Owens, head waiter Savoy Hotel, and wife Mrs. Compton, Mrs. Dease, Box 50, Mr. Lindsey and wife; Mr. Ed Meadows and Jackson, Mr. Whitmore and company friends, Box 50, Mrs. Payne, Miss Emma Collins, M. H. G. Crews, Mrs. Monholland. Box 35, Mr. John Ford, Mr. Charles Washington, Mr. John Ford, Mr. Charles Washington, Mr. head waiter of Baltimore Hotel, and wife, Box 23, Mr. Moon, of 1221 Baltimore ave. Miss Graeme Thomas, Mr. Harry Ave. Miss Graeme Thomas, Mr. Harry Ave. and wife, Box 23, Rev. Herst and family. All in all, the affair was a classy one of the community, morally and financially. TROY. ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. Horace Collier and Miss Mary Ouseley, of this city, were happily married because of the bride's mother, Mrs. Eliza Mutrey. Rev. C. A. Russell officiated. Tehy are housekeeping at No. 182 Walnut street, most of the churches in this city Sunday. St. Paul A. M. E. chor prepared special Easter music. . . The following teachers of the school are the Teachers association at Montgomery April. 8; P. T. Mitchell, Mizell. Lizzie Cooper, Prof. W. Whitehead and Prof. J. E. Johnson. See the agent and subscribe. MINEOLA. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. The street fair was here last week, and everybody had a good time. The white and colored people enjoyed the merry-go-round, but on the Terries wheel no colored people were allowed. The band from Greenville, and they gave first-class music. There was a free show given for all. . . Mr. T. W. Jones, of Tyler, has bought a nursery ammunition farm. He is a farmer. He is also the farm. The Tri-Missionary Congress of the C. M. E. Church will be held in Texarkana, April 21-25. Mrs. Redwine, of Terries, there and there, and a large number of her later friends, the R. W. Watkins was in Smith county on the 10th and 11th. . . All Easter services were good. SPOKANE, WASH Special to THE FREEMAN John H. Brown, after an illness of several months, died at his home last Saturday, March 27, and was buried from Calvary Baptist Church Tuesday, March 30. Rev S. S. Freeman, of Bethel A. M. E. Church, died on April 11, and his funeral was largely attended by friends and members of the two churches. Mr. Brown leaves a wife and daughter. His daughter, Miss Minnie Brown, is possibly one of the best known women in the city, she is at this time with the Willis Walker Co., playing in New York City. Miss Florence Hoskins will leave the city in a few days for Seattle. .Mr. E. E. Stone, formerly of this city, has just released a book of young people and friends of Mrs. Brown gave a benefit concert on the 1st which proved a grand concert. The St. Thomas Quartet, with Mrs. I. N. Curtly as instructress, who appeared on the program at the Dove Club, and Mrs. Dove Club are making arrangements for a swell entertainment on the 27th. BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. former manager of the African Methodist Book Concern, who died in Washington Thursday night of last week, after a lingering illness from Bright's disease, took place Monday at Trinity A. M. E. Church, in Washington. Rev. J. C. Young, of Anacostia, D. C., and Rev. Dr. A. L. Gaines, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. Church, this city. Among the prominent churchment in attendance were Bishops, V. E. Derrick, Levi J. Coppen, J. E. Resley, J. E. Hurst, funder, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church; Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of Church Extension, and Dr. W. T. Ternon, register of the treasurer. Interment was held at Hurst, funder, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church; Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of Church Extension, and Dr. W. T. Ternon, register of the treasurer. Interment was born in Wilmington, N.C., about fifty-eight years ago. For over thirty years he had been a prominent member of the Baltimore Conference, and for the last quarter of a century he was a member of his church. Dr. Collett is survived by his wife (Mrs. Ruth M. Collett) and one sister...Mr. George McCoy called at the Camden station for the FREEMAN...Colleen was at the Red Moon, "are expected at the Holliday Street Theater the week of the 18th. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN MUNCIE, IND YOUNGSTOWN, O. Panis Hall, Mrs. Galns Williams, Mrs. Lemuel Stewart, Mrs. G. M. Fagan and Mrs. Charles Stewart are on the sick list. Charles Lodge Lake, Elks will give a reception in club room evening, April 28. Mrs. J. H. Canada, of Austburg, Ohio, spent Sunday with her husband. Mrs. James Mealey fell off the porch as last week and her face, Miss Rhoda Holmes, was bruised. Mrs. Canada married by Rev. Smith Thursday evening at the parsonage. Mrs. Will Jones, Miss Rhoda Holmes, Mrs. Will Green are imminent. Mrs. John Cromwell in regular meeting Wednesday evening, which was well attended. A number of the friends of Mrs. John Cromwell gave a surprise party on her Tuesday. The friends of Mrs. John Cromwell in music and games. The members of the Oak Hill avenue Missionary Society met Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Rayfords in regular session. The next meeting will be May 1.. The imminent meeting will be May 1.. The met at the residence of Mrs. Anna Hudson Thursday evening and gave a surprise party in honor of Mrs. Etta Lincoln, the founder and ex-president of the club. Mrs. Lincoln and mannequin were served of evening and inch sweets, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, of Farmlee, are rejoicing over a girl.. West Willis is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Westly Willis of Foster street.. J. D. White, White-head has a sprained ankle.. Mrs. W. C. Scott, of Cleveland, spent a week with relatives.. Mrs. W. J. Hicks is improving, Mrs. W. F. Foster is spending days with relatives in this.. Charles Green, of Ashtabula, was in city this week. C., H. & D. R. R., Sunday, April 18 CINCINNATI ROUND TRIP. $1.50 DECATUR $1.50 HAMILTON 1.25 HUME 1.25 CONNERSVILLE 7.5 RUSHVILLE 5.0 BLOOMINGDALE 1.00 Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. Returning. leaves Cincinnati 7:00 p. m. Special train leaves 7:00 a. m. Leave Decatur returning 8:30 p. m. NOTE—Rushville and Connerville tickets on sale every Sunday, good going and returning on all trains (regular and special) on Sunday for which sold. That's the Whole Cry! H. L. 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Sterling Furniture Polish, from 20c to.....70c Ascase Soap, for cleaning bath tubs and other enameled and white fin- ished articles, per cake, 10c, 3 for 25c Good Scrub Brushes, from 10c to.....25c Good Stove Brushes, from 10c to.....$1.75 Small Sink Brushes from 5c to.....70c Best quality of chamois, from 25c to.....$1.00 Good quality Sponges, from 25c to.....80c Feather dusters at all prices. ‘tim Owsley is going big on the Pacific some ‘tho Artes, Billy and Gracie, are still ypmed and meeting with much success. Jackson Brothers and Dabney are a new edi Solng an Instrumental and Vocal mu- she Smart Set,” headed by 8. H, Dua- wy have opened an engagement at Chi- go this week ». G, Lowers, of the Lowery-Morgan iets othe guest of friends Sn the diy this week. John W. Dennis would like to hear from pont B. Wood at his home address, fawn, Ark, Box 54. wWillam MePherson, of the Gotham- atucks Musical Company, will manage a fant to appear in vaudeville, Miss Bila Douglas, singing soubrette, will be working at the Washington ‘Thea Tn Chicazo. with the Washington Stock Company. beginning Monday, April 12. Paul Carter losed rather suddenly in colynbus. Ga, March 29, and Messrs. Sopfin, Dotson, Norton ana La Rose de- Seto hear from him concerning financial oe Tew Kenner and his comedy cone ean interesting program to the. pa- fins of the Dixie Park, New’ Orleans, last Sunday night. ‘The champion Deweya defeated the Val- ey bose at the Oleander baseball park, New Orleans, Sunday, by a close margin, the score being 11 010, Moss and Frye have closed their season with Mahara’s Minstrels, and are en route Bust. Dest wishes to the profession. Per- anent address, 625 Charlotte street, Kan- mas City, Mo. Emanvel Willams and Frank Welch are maki big MIC with thelr latest, ie fons’ tricks, and. send. thelr regards’ to Pewee Willams and all friends in and out of the profession. A California paper speaks of Sarah Gren as another “Black Path” Tf is a grat_compliment to the singer and is de- Sirved, berause Miss Green Is one of OUF sreateat warblers, Seven young Filipinos are the members ofa tand who play at the Saratoga Hotel Restaurant, Chicago, Ill, receiving $1,000 yer month’ They have purchased a Fest ees in Chicago, Sidney Kirk, the tener singer, of this aly, closed. with the Richards & ‘Pringle’s Minstrels ‘Sunday night, at Quiney, Ii fand has returned tothe elty for ah ex: tended visit with his mother. ‘The Lincoln Park, New Orleans, opened up under favorable circumstanees’ with lirge attendance. ‘The show, under the management of Prof. Allen, did credit to itself and was satisfactory’ to the. public. Win. Payton is manager and. H. Cailoux fe secretary and treascrer Ot the Rae Hackles and Davis, with their singing, tniking snd dancin ick, have Just closed Sx Muccesfol Weeks at the ‘Idle “Hour ‘Theater, Petersburg. Va. and are now open for all engagements. Regards. to Pearl Moppin, Paul Carter and all frlends. Home addvess, 308 Myrtle avenue, Baltl- more, Md, Taylor's Kentucky Minstrels are_show- ing at the Grand Union ‘Theater, Suffolk, Va. this week. Clemo. Harris Is contor- tlonist, “crobatie iron-jawed comedian : Harrie “Haynes, monologue comedian ; Charles ‘Taylor. ceeentric comedian | Pion ouinsen, Daisy Garrett, Daley, Mit ler, Olivia Butler, Grifith "B. Wilson, age manager. ROYAL THEATER AT CHICAGO. The Duncan Clark Amusement Company av still doing a big business at the Royal Renter, 220 Stato street, Chicago, under the management of Eddie Foy. Elliott. "The Ml this week includes. the ‘Single, ‘Beller Starks, comedians: Miss ‘Theresa Sehner- ‘man, illustrated singer and elever planist ; Brown aud Sandifer, comedians that make sou laigh. Eddie Foy wishes to hear from all professional friends. WIL be at River View Exposition all summer. Next week comes Lew Brown, the Black Angel, and the Creoie Minstrel’ Girls. THE SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS. We opened in Denver on the 29th, and dlaved there one week at the largest am- Dhitheater in’the West. ‘The roster 1s as follows: Prof. Bismarek Perris, -band ‘rauer and clarionetist; Aaron ‘Thompson ant Ren Jackson, eornets; TR. N. Everly, Relophone. Elbert Goins, britone; Fred Garland." Vernie Johnson, . trombones : Frank Castry, tuba; Diek’ ‘Thomas and Ostell Sallard, drums, ‘The ladies of the Giuyany are’ Ethel Chappelle and” Mrs. Hate ‘Garland. “Dick ‘Thomas, the old Yteran minstrel man, Is stage manager, MAJESEIC THEATER, VICKSBURG, MISS. Fa F. Peat is back this week, and the ow Is goin fine. We Nave a little core WHC nos and ‘change’ every “two. weeks {fom one town co another. “The towns ave Vicksburg. Jackson, ¥asoo. and Shreve- por. La Mr. Will Whitlow is our pianist, Sooty aan Wenllog Is algo hare ti ROK ftom Memphis. ‘Sam Russell Se oe Ferry, Mind Derry and Ea fe Peat send {Bei beat eguras’ to Chintz Mecre Bae Davis. Arthur’ L. Prince, Toney Ridley, Tin Owsley ‘and Billy Foun CARTER'S JUBILEE SINGERS. Carters Jubiioe Singers were in the clty HEESE jn route ‘cramtoraaeihe, ‘om te East; they played a onecnight seam Bat cts’ “the Company ie made up ok B Cine, Slag Pragien, Ji Douglass: Hl Manning! Sere Gertrude Practes and Ye: Bertia' Whitton, tthe show will clase ie rit Meat Seaton dine companies Mil be out tn the roads ‘two wt Ae tae Gime Were, while the other Teil cover be midale Western ‘States The, beads GECGE wil be G03 Dearborn street, Chie “A RABBIT’S FOOT” COMPANY. Waycross "RA" will open its season at Paros, (sts on April 18, with, forty Rane... Ths “company will be larger Ra"St and better: In every way, as it Iie two of the next case Ga Geese fata, MSS, 8 Rood, strong” fourteen-plece Shaiya (4 0eRd Rew: tent. whieh a Taye fon with a! Seating capacity. of dealin! alegee ek Rabbit Boot Eqns. Pat Chappelte, owner and gen: monsalnaser: Le W. Chappelle, assistant what \fre Jy Be Champelle, boss eanvas- Sonogstt® R.A. Chappelle, secretary and Hatter: ©. &. Mepherson, first ad- Be aa Rig eae Witam desi’ Bigdon Horton, bili posters and Foicutors, travel ten Gays bn amemnes Gin yf eompany "performers: Wilite Henry Wek Aten, Will, Walker, John san aig Simedlan, George, Bree Ton ygits, EMe Perkins, "Bil Thompson, Bsa noe ee domes, Dik Willams, demos, Wee. Roster of band? Re J. Ane Teon, bandmaster, cornet: N. EY Berktne, cornet ; Sam Stevens, cornet ; Harry Lewis, violin and clarinet; Fred Knewly, clarinet: 1, Normon, meiliphone; Warren ‘Thorn, gito; Jesse Reeves, silde trombine; Pelson Dillon, trombone; J.-M. Gavles, baritone ; Walter ‘Gordon, "tuba; ‘William “Brown, snare drum and traps’, Joe Means, bass drum; Louis’ Piniy: night. foreman ‘and Spealer. ‘This company has been Tehears- ing now for four’ weeks, and. will be a winner from start to finish, with so many new faces this year. PEKIN. THEATER, LOUISVILLE, KY. ‘A, crowded house greeted the Pekin Stock Company Sunday night, to witness Mr, Frank’ Hendon's new two-act’ taree, “Wednesday Afternoon Girls.” ‘The songs were liberally applauded, and the acting hy the company” was good. Mr. Bimore Taylor was really funny. He handled the ‘character of the illiterate Negro tna. ca: Pable manner, ‘and got all the fun that Was to, be gotten out of his part. ‘His bong, “There Was “Trouble in Old Dark- town,” received "several encores. " Miss Wanéta Wilson's song, “Shine on, Harvest Moon,” was well received. Aliss ‘Mayers suffered “from a, cold; still she pleased her audience with her ‘song, “Dear’” Mr. Hendon scored a hit with his song, “Am Not Shaking ‘That Side.” Manager’ Hen- don appears to be coming to the front as an author and producer ot genuine Negra comedy, and it fs safe to say that crowded houses iwill be the Tule again next week. BENBOW’S CHOCOLATE DROPS AT - PENSACOLA, FLA. quel for the, Dandy, Dine Mires banquet for the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, Friday night, April 8. ‘They were also en: tertained ~ by.” the ‘Pensacola Strollers. Charles Bough, Archio Toney, Henry. Kin- Sie and Dick, Morris, ‘committee of ar Fangements. The two Raneys open. with the show on the 7th, and Gertie Raney ts making good with her late hit, “If the World Don’t Treat You Right, Why Don’t You Como. Home?” Butler ‘May, our funny man, is stilt pleasing. - Happy Howe And wife aro till Cleaning, Lizzie White and Minnie Jones are. makiog’ good." Wil lam ‘Henderson, our baritone songster, 1s sll with us and is expecting his wife, Mrs, “Buela Henderson, soon, who. Is. at present working at Jacksonville. Mrs. Al- berta Benbow is ee ee with her Inte hit, “Tm Glad I'm Married.” " Our manager, M. Jacoby, always wears a smile on his face, and sags it ts his hearts de- Tight to. pay his people. Prof. Noner ‘Bar- ras has charge “of the musie. William Benbow is stage manager, LINCOLN THEATER, KNOXVILLE, TENN. ‘Tho Lincoln Theater closed April 10 for the summer season. Mr. Johnson, propre etor, is to begin the erection of a new theater for the-colored people of Knoxville immediately. Since the reopening of the Lincoln, December 14.1908, with Mr. 8, Tutt. Writnes installed as ‘director’ of Amusements, the theater has had sixteen weeks of unqualified success. "Mr. Whitney And his brother Homer. have been highly commended for the superior standard of the entertainments they have produced, and for the gentlemanly aeportment. They Ieave in’ Knoxvilie a host of friends, ail wishing them success im thelr future’ un- dertakings, S.'Tutt’ Whitney and members of the Lincoln Stock Company were tendered a delightful banquet: Briday evening, April 8, by Alex: Falls and Albert Johnson, propri- etors of the Knoxville Cafe. A grand car- nival ball ‘was also given, in Honor of the company, April 10, by Prof. Link Sliger company, April 4 ALLEN’S MINSTRELS. We are still in Alabama, and business continues very, good. ¢ Pearl Moppin. received his gold trom. hone on the 7th from Holton’s factory. At the same time Ellwood Johnson received his gold trumpet-model cornet, also Hor- ton make, thus making our whole comet section ali gold. With the advent of these two instruments our band has a complete set of the very finest Instruments of any traveling band, barring none, the full ‘set costing a slight margin over $1,300. Mr, Norris Griggsby, of Corsicana, Tex., monologue comedian ‘and robust ‘basso, Joined April 9 in Anniston, Ala. H. S. Smoth sends regards to Charles ‘Beechum and wife. Jimmie Wise takes two and three en- cores nightly, singing “Oh, What a Time.” ‘The audiences seem never to tire of hear- ing it, Regards to Billy Richardson. ‘Mr. Quine, our genial manager, who is known as "G. W..” Is well pleased with the show and band, and his face is contin- uuaiiy ‘wreathed in’ the smile that won't come oft. Prof. McCammon expects at an early date to add two reeds to his superb con- cert band, thus completing one of the very finest minstrel hands traveling. ‘Theodore Adams, write. GOOD NEWS TO OUR COLORED POPULATION OF JACKSON- VILLE, FLA. Messrs. Joel & Glickstein, two of our enterprising and enerattc, white citizen and friends, are now having erected on the best lot in the city @ magnificent air dome {or colorea eaple only, same to cast sev. eral thousand dollars tg complete. Tt_ wil fe'hnished'en or about May 2 and on May 3°will be the opening night.’ The colored People of this vicinity will mo doubt show thelr ‘hlgn’ appreciation by a. vory bera attendance. Messrs, Joel & Glickstein pro- pose to give them the best that money ‘can Ret In the vaudeville line. ‘They have ‘ad- Nertised throughout the country for high- class performers, and-are willing to. Day the price in order to give thelr patrons & Show. that will be a credit to Jacksonville and its citizens, ‘They have an. ad else Where in this issue, which will no doubt pay all performers’ that are seeking em- ployment to read and get In communica. fon. with them immediately, “Tam Frm Maw Joins with thousands of our friends and wishes for the new enterprise of Jack: Sonville a great success. “BLACK PATTI.” “Black Patti” is scoring a great success on the Pacific slope. She appeared recently at the American ‘Theater in San Francisco, ‘The papers gave her company a big send- off, The Call sald of her: “gissieretta Jones still remains | the “Black Patti,” and can not be excelled by many sopranos of lighter shade in the tn: terpretation of those songs which appeal directly to the heart. Miss Jones can warble some, too, and sings operatic arias with musical taste and artistic effect. She heads" “The Blackville Strollers’ at the American Theater, and alone is easily worth the price to hear when she sings the ‘Suwanee River’ melody with much fervor. She invites the tribute of tears. “Tt ted off with Tim Owsley, because he ig the big hit of the piece, His fun is of the noisy, obvious order, but it is pervaded by a sensitiveness and an appreciation for humor which are rarely encountered in a comedian, black or white. He succeeds in imitating'a Negro with remarkable fidelity to our ideas of the race, and could scarce- ly be better. Some comic songs of his are particularly good, and in his burlesque scene with Charies Bougia he was a great “You will be surprised when you hear Sarah Green sing, In another company, which did not boast of a ‘Black Pattl,'\she Would fll "the bill. nicely, “Her volo’ is quite free from that strident character which the voices of most Negresses ¢x- hibit, and she is a graceful dancer, too.” RAMBLING. Avhen the actors begin to stroll in and loll about, it’s a sure sign that the season is breaking up, taking a change, or some- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. eee Speaking, of the next season's theatrical work, Mr. Lowery says that the prospects for next season are brighter than ever. A special car is beng built for the company. He expects the company to be on the road ‘about the Ist of November. Among’ the Lowery and Morgan people is James W. Hall, baritone. He has been with the company since 1901. His long- continued engagements are evidence of the Success he is meeting up with. Hall is of fine proportions for a singer, and easily looks the artist, He is of excellent stage Presence. He will continue next season, in present company; in fact, has no dis- position to change. During the summer he Will be with the Wallace € Hagenbeck shows. Billy May ts one of Lowery's men who has been doing Indianapolis for a few days preparatory to, joining Wallace, & Hagenbeck’s shows. May does bass in the band, and is also an all-around showman. His usefulness and value to Mr. Lowery will be noted when it is known, that he has been with him for ten years. Tony Barefield is also whiling away a few idle hours in this city while waiting for the big circus to start up. He has been with Lowery since 1905, and is more proof of the fact that his men have great regard for him. In fact, the company appears a great big family, with no very recent ac- cessions to its roil. ‘The Beechums, Charles and Blanche, are an Indianapolis pair. They do team work in Lowery's company as comedy sketch artists. ‘They have been heard in Indian- polis, where they scored a bl success. They ‘are a hit, giving entire satisfaction to the theatrical public and to the propri- etors, ‘There are a few women in the Lowery and Morgan combination, but they are rather difficult to draw a’ bead on. One dainty little creature about two anda half feet long stuck her head in the FREEMAN office door and fairly warbled, “Is Mr. Lowery here?” Upon my, word, ‘twas all she said. Not the slightest obeisance made she, as Edgar Allen Poo would say. And on that very account the little creature be- came interestingly Interesting. On asking after her, I found that she had the very strangest kind of theatrical history. Carrie Gilbert, for that’s her name, began as a cook with Mr. Lowery. Asked that she might merely cook for the actors, to serve them, to watt on, them.” Nothing ‘wrong about that. But what humility! ‘Then per- mit me to. philosophize: Where there is Soul-prompted humility, there are some gther great compensating qualities. | The Jiittle lady's history furnishes a most beau- tiful text. ‘There, then again, are equating conditions that restore the harmony of the individual to accord with the spheres. ‘Now the sequel: Miss Gilbert managed to get into the chorus ranks, where she excelled. Then she was given acting parts, and when the show quit for the ‘season Miss Gilbert was starring in the last act, It was the evolution of Miss Gilbert, but she had the qualities, and was not to be retarded. She will rest until the Lowery and Morgan theatrical business begins next Will Smith, formerly with the Pekin, in Chicago, ‘was recently in Indianapolis. Since hé had active service with the Pekin, he has been a promoter, establishing five- cent show houses In cliies where colored people live In large numbers ; he reported having established ono in Cincinnati, and was in Indianapolis looking over the situa- tion, having in mind opening a house. He Was not particularly impressed, sinco one Show’ on Indiana avenue, the most, popular thoroughfare for colored people, failed to make it some months ago. But that was Some time ago, when the business was quite new. The’ people were not educated up to the theaterettes, or the samples thea- ters, that have since proven so popular. ‘Mr. ‘Smith did not give out a final word as to his intentions. He might go farther and fare worse. In other words, Indianap- olls might prove a big thing. Looking over “Black Patti's” program in California, T note the name of Gus Hall. Gus Hallold Gus! Been afraid to ask about him in recent days, for fear he might not be on this side of the great di- Vide. But he is alive and doing well, and with, his favorite company. Hall beiongs to what may be called the medieval age of colored actors. Not the beginners, nor the more recent ones, but he is of those who began some twelve or fifteen years ago. He was theatrical by nature, was a nat- ural musielan, and an every-day wit. He is most too full of fun to essay the serious. T saw him act policeman, and he actually laughed roguishly at what he was doing. Of course, he turned his head aside. I told him about it. He sald the manager had to watch him to keep him from laugh- ing. Of course. this was his home, where he would do much that was not ‘on the bills, such as winking at those who knew him, “He was appointed a real policeman onee—temporarily, in an emergency. When he saw me coming he put his hands over his mouth and fairly bent double laughing at his job. He imagined every one was looking at_him with abt great long coat on and the big helmet hat, when he felt and acted as a boy. Gus'was simply a man in age and size: he was a boy, and is to-day. He isa good baritone singer, and was seen at his best when some years ago he sang lead In a character sketch, repre- senting natives of some outlandish race. Indianapolis. will be pleased to lay eyes ones more on Gus, Charles S. Sager. Well, that name sounds refreshing, Indeed. And who more than I should haye reason to remember Sager? It is a long story. Really, it would fill a fair-sized book. He camo from the West, somewhere: but I met him right In the middle of the Mississippi river. Some time afterward he came to Indian- apolis, where he, under the auspices of the K. P's, put on @ mammoth production in this city at one of the best theaters, It was the event of the, time as a local hap- pening. “The Negro” was the name of the Play. Buc 1 said that T met him in the middie of the Mississippi river. Further explanation 1s due, or I will not be under- stood. Doing some work for the newspaper, I had moved on to Quincy, IN., where T liked to have fallen in the’ Mississippi from sheer delight. Sager is the theme, but this is the preface. Being very impres- sionable, the Mississippi, ‘the Ohio, the Atlantic, the Pacific sounded ike Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Cesar to most people. “Some white ‘gentleman sitting behind me when on the road to Quincy. said, In a. rather dramatic tone: “This is the Mississippi.” Ho must have also been impressionable. It sounded as if he made the announcement for my benefit. I accepted it that way, and ‘felt secretly thankful to him. But really he didn’t have me in mind; it an- swered the same purpose, however. In Quincy, Having done Quincy, I_con- cluded: to take in Keokuk, Towa, 'a short distance up the river. T was delighted to find myself ail alone, as I thought, run- ning back and forth, upstairs and down- stairs, here, there, everywhere, with no sense of dignity or restraint, since it was the only kind of outing thst I. expected. Indianapolis, who was formerly Miss Willa Tobnson. A. B. C’S WIN FIRST GAME TASTE TELLS THE SECOND First Game of the Season Brings Out Big Crowd at Northwestern Ball Park Sunday Afternoon. Br Haney W. Jackson. Six hundred persons saw the A. B. C's and Taste ‘Tells clash in a double-header Sunday. ‘These two games were tho first that éither team ‘has played this. season, and jp, View of this fact the game was un: usually fast. ‘The A. 8. G's won. the frst game by a score of 5*to 4. The al- phabet bors ‘began the game, and season as fell, by forcing three meh over. home plate, ‘and then ‘added one each. in’ the second and ninth inning. © The ‘l. ‘T's cen- sured Dunn, their catcher, for ‘their los- ing the game, as the winning run was scored at the Cost of an error on his part Mason, with an easy swing, sent the bali to left field for @ home run.” Griffin pitched four innings, in which the 'T. ‘T.’s chalked up two runs, but not before ‘four of them had fanned the wind, ‘The second game went to the. .’s in the fourth inning, when second baseman Cook sent the sphere over right feld fence while two men were on. bases, scoring three runs. Talbott and Primm 'were the battery for the “Ranites” and Mason and Dunn for the white boys. Only seven inn- ings were played. Blankenship umpired both games. The ‘T. ‘.'s will play the Kokomo Cubs to-morrow at Northwestern Park, FIRST GAME. A.B, Cs, RHO A BE Allen, 3 D.......-4-.1 1 6 “Ed 6 PAM /Ci.s,.cn--2-- 1 2 9S 1 6 Gordon, e002 0 0 8 08 Shawler, fc 0 1 1 8 0 Hutehingon, s08i2221.2 0 3 4 1 Hem, C08 .ce.ec) OA, 1 8.8 Merida, 2°b..00.2I0.0 0 4 2 0 Board, Tbr 0 8 0 oO Davi tte need 2 2 9 0 Griffin, pe 6 0 88 HGH Bea 6 NG 38 Totals sc ocssscs ns 8 1 82 ak a T Ts, R HO A EB Spiliman, s. s,......6 0 6 3 Gi POOR AE Bo. .cseescsk ok Bk Mason, c £.00000010 0 2 1 6 Reeties 2 b.0255255015 @ 8 18 FO BR Fo fecsssccss@ 8 9! OO Powel FG. 0..cc,-;0d 1.2 0 6 Dedbing LF. OF 1 8 F BMS: socesscase 89, 8 822d 1 ERNE ee Ci CI Jee Totals ............4 4°26 15 5 Score by innings: AB. C’s.3' 1 6 0 0 0 00 15 T Ts.....0 0 1 10 01 1 0-4 *Two Oiit when winning run was scored. SUMMARY. pritpinss, Pitehed—Grifin, 4; Higbee, 5; fughes, "9. Base Hits Made—Off Grifffn, 2; off Hig- bee, 2; of Hughes, 6. Bases on Balls—Griffin, 1; Higbee, 1; Hughes, 3, Struck Out—By Griffin, 4; by Higbee, 3; by Hughes, 8. palit, by Pitehér—Higbee, Mason (2), well. = ‘Two-base Hits—Herron, Davis, Cook. Home Run—Cook. Double, Plays—Hughes to Leslie to Powell (2); Mason to Leslie. Stolen Bases—Allen, Davis, Mason, Dobbins. Passed Balls—Dunn (2). Umpires—Fouce, Blankenship. ‘Time—1:55, SECOND GAME. A. B. G's. Rw. O. A E Alsi 8D.s,ccece 8 2 Primm, c.. 0000 0 3 0 0 Shawler, Lf20000010 1 1 9 @ Hutchinson, 8.8.00... 0 1 1 2 2 Herron, @.f....0000050 0 1 0 0 Merida, 2 .b....ccc::.0 1 2 2 0 Board, 1 d.evveeccs 0 1 11 2 0 DMT feeccsecsoh £8 06 0 Balbott, pee 0 1 0 1 0 Wotale ie aacaysacn 8) MA) 98 Teer e, RH O A B Spiliman, s.s....---.0 2 2 i 6 Cooke F Det. vevessen dA B= 2: 8 Hugtes of TT 2 0k Heal, PBecccsccray 2M UE 20 Buek,’r fevers 0 9 0 0 0 Powell, 8 b..-----ss. 0 9 1 5 0 Dum ois.cclcsssss @ 2 4 8 Mesoei-Dicccccrccss @ 1 8 24 Dobbins, hee 6 2 1 I Totals, oo pacvee $ 7 21 12 8 Score by’ innings: A BLGlS.cceeee0 0 1:0 0 1 Og PMs Io 0 0 3 0 0 0-8 SUMMARY. Innings Pitched-—‘Talboti, 7; Mason. 7; Base Hits—Of Talbott, 7; off Mason, 5. Base on Balls—Oft Talbott, 1. Struck Out—By Talbott, 5! by Mason, 1. ‘Two-base Hits—Talbott, Board. Home Run—Leslle, Double Plays—Allen to Board; Board to Allen ‘to Merida. Stolen Bases—Merida, Buck, Dobbins. Umpire—Blankenship. Attendance—600. BASEBALL SUNDAY AT LOUIS- VILLE. A crowd of 2.000 fans saw the L. C.'s present a would-be game of baseball tc the White ‘Sox. The home boys started off as if they intended to play a real game but Went up in the air in the fifth inning and allowed the Sox to make three runs and didn't make a hit. ‘The general be- Hef is that the Cubs is the better team West should have won his game. His work In the box. was almost perfect, and he was ably assisted by Collins. ‘To make a long story short, West, Collins and Wat. Son were the only ones that really played ball.” The score: Le C...2e3 0 0 2 0:9 0 0 O~3 W800 0 0 0 3 3 0 1 07 ‘Batteries—West and Collins; Neweomt and Dugan. Errors—Cubs, 9: W. 8.6. Hits—OM West, 4; ot Dugin, 6; oft Mar- tin, 1, ‘Two-base ‘hits—Watson, Deamus Struck out By “West, 7). by, Martin. 1. Passed ball—Dugan, 1. Hit by pitcher— Martin, 1; West, 1; Newcomb, 1. Bases on dalls—Om Dugan, 2; off Martin, 1. ‘Time of game—2:10. ‘Umpire—Nuiter Lea And Lola! Ugh! ugh! ugh! Nuff sed. Jesse Briscoe's fielding average in two games is 000! ‘The Freeman would like to hear from the Hoffman Blues. Oh! Ob! Oh my! but Deamus wast ‘Say, old boy, get in the game. We are all for you if you will only play ball. We hear that Tom Means, of the Chi- cago Unions, will be given a trial by the L. G's. Hope you make good, Tommy, oid Boy. ‘There never was a. player that, worked harder than West. He had perfect con- fol and fielded his position in a perfect Ball players are much pleased over the new scoring rule allowing them a stolen base in case a. battery error is made after the runner has started down the line. ‘You can't stay up booze-grafting until 3. a.m. and expect to play first-class ball the next day. You must stop one or the other. A hint to the wise Is sufficient. Next Sunday the Waldorfs, of Cincin- nati, will play the Cubs. This is one of the ‘best semi-professional teams in Ohio. It has Grant and Foster and several other stars. When Robinson missed that little fy, Sunday, several fans went into hysterics. Robinson is a good, reliable player. It is ail right, old boy; we all have bad luck sometimes. ‘When God made man He gave him two hands. They were made for him to use. Now, when you work, use both hands. ‘That is what you have got them for. You all know what I mean. Watson’s one error was on a very. dif- ficult ball. The boy goes after everything, and his work around third base stamps him as one of the best colored third base- men in the country, | Keep up your good work old Uoy. ‘The Freeman apprecl- ates it. LOUISVILLE TEAMS LOSE Special to THe FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14.—Colored baseball was opened here last Sunday, April 11, with a very large crowd to see the Louisville Giants and the Atkins, a seml-professional white team of Indianap- olls, play for the honors. It was an un- iucky day for the Giants, the, Cubs, and the Louisville teams, Not a home team won @ game. The State of Indiana won AT LIBERTY! E. B. Dudley, (Musician) cornet and violin, locate or travel, capable of leading band and orchestra. Only reliable Mgrs. write. Address E. B, Dudley, Eggmont Hotel, 512 Bridge Street, Jacksonville, Fla, Wanted at Once! 4.-Lady Singers & Dancers-4 3—Sopranos—3 1—Alto—1 A summer’s engagement with good salary. Form and features must be regular. Fares advanced to right parties. _Rehearsals May 5th. Open May 24th. Address CHAS, S. SAGER, 200 Higgins Avenue, ~- Winnepeg, Man., Canada. WANTED! High class Colored performers for specialty work only. Single or teams. Good salary to good people. Will open Air Dome for Colored People Ex- clusively. Opening Night Monday, May 3rd. Write immediately your line of work and state salary wanted. Can use good performers for several weeks’ engagement. oe icksteln, Jacksonville, Fla. WANTED! | Colored Performers, Men and women. Apply Limberger & Furtner, San Antonio, Tex. Amateurs need not apply. Must be good singers and dancers. State salary in first letter. Yours very truly, LIMBERGER & FURTNER. Openly of Taseices eee Opening of Lancasters = elgnth ‘street and Broadway.” ‘There was a great rush for tickets, be- cause the Negroes of this elty realized that the Louisville Giants was @ team that was owned and controlied ‘by colored. people. Long before the game started hundreds of People were present to see the Giants ald the. visitors "work out. ‘The Atkins’ ou Played: the Giants at the bat. “Hill, the itcher for the Gian, ruck out ght men. Dallas, of the Giants, made a ‘hit every time, and also two double plays at third. Walton made some fine plays, and is now known as one of the crakk player around the Falls Gity. ‘The game was fast and interesting up to the eighth inning, and the Giants nad ‘& splendid chance to get even with the vis tors at the rate they were going, but the Atkins batted’ the bail''so strong’ and. the hits "were so clean that they ‘brought ih seven straight scores. ‘Costly errors cost the Giants the loss of the game. At any Tate, the Giants have one of the best teams they’ have ever had. It only needs strength In left fleld and at ‘rst base, Word cones to me from: Manager ld Lancaster that these places will be ‘filled. by Sunday, aid the team will be In first-class Working of der on ‘Sunday ‘coming, when they are tc play’ the famous A. B. C2s of Indianapolis ‘Tho wind on Sunday was very strong. 1 seemed that a cyclone had. just passed across the diamond, as the dust would as cend, but this did not deter the ball player or he, spectators. Captain’ Pugh, "who now has charge o! the men, stated to-day that his men on\y needa little more practice, and that every day he would have them’ out bright ane early, getting in form for the A.B. G's ‘The coming contest is creating’ sreat dea of interest, in" Loutsvilie. the ‘ball. fan know the A.B. Gs, and no doubt one 6 the largest crowds of the season Will Wit hess this game. ‘They ‘are coming. to Te beat what the Atiins did last Sunday, but with new additions to the Glants, the gam: will be ‘more exciting, and closer Will be the contest throughout the Innings. ‘The most encouraging feature’ of the game to tho spectators was the 1aek 0 foolishness “on the part of the colored boys. ‘They’ were down at the game al gyery Polat, "here was no mir ‘They gave the people their money's wort and this ‘wit xo a tong way" in, attracting large crowds on every Sundty. ‘The score. Atking e630 10 0 OT eels Giants 6158 ZT To 8} 8a ‘The A.B. Cs play the Giants Sunda} atamonaay: Care then ROUTES. “a, RABBITS FOOP” comPANY way AAS Sey ont aati ais Gap Pa ah dae ian’ Gite: AEeMHaaES HF Wes: ATi nd ia BNSWRREES HOBGR Weak ot apt | 19, Topeka, Kan. ORGANIZER WANTED. ibs W. 0, ot grate secret ort ogy a. ecient ets seca tate stems, aie a Teliable wanted everywhere also as Depu- ties to organize new Camps and Courts for dee Fach ne ae eae Sa actiats Sa aoe ye hy te Se eects eine eee Eis ao tpinue™ Sinaia W. A., National Camp, 659 Sixth St, Vinh THE FREEMAN AT CHICAGO. Geo. Knox's Barber Shop, 5542 Lake ave. SiggaNnone BUSAN, este IS sects, oe Be Btae aE au oe BAe ETS state ES AME SP ate Ea St Sat, Foal sales, 104 iat Fase Sa EE Bh, Bhi wore, Wee Baton, Wr aemon ave, rane ton, Il. ‘Things will come way if you be- coThings will come your way 5s ‘THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Dotlen Ferengi, names appear in the following list will kindly send for mail, as the names will appear four times Sea he recone to eetiees aang tae office. It would prevent delay if all per- Seeerece cle wiae nena ee fe cad ica cea ee Seances St a Gentlemen’s List. ices Wik 5 eee ae Eso eee Belticenra, Happy Eetae Beeweeem ge aey Ee, Pan Collins, HD. Moppin, Pearl, ee ra Sem ens Me ae. Biwatds' ney Lyons kaw Bree See Caen Peers a hare Harper, Hamp Washington, H. B. Hesie: ase | enuaetoe, ee eae Jones Witiaae! weno Ladies’ List. Cook, Anna. Seen ae Hotel Howard 212-214-216 Fourth St., Milwaukee, Wis All modern conveniences, Phone 727 Grand Special Rates to Professional People. William A. Robinson, Orchestra leader (can arrange) cornet in band. With Richarde ‘and Pringle’s Minstrels. Home address 414 Broadway, Yank- ton, 8. D. ———— EEE of the beautiful, pathetic song, “Could I Recall the Days Gone By,” words and music by W, J. Harvey, | Shapira pub lisher, Broadway and 39th, New York City.’ Order at any music dealer. Good first class colored ball play- ers. For particulars address Jake McFarland, Pres. Marco Baseball club, 16 S. Market St., Dayton, O, Colored Performers and Musi- cians—Tuba, Baritone, , Cornet, for Elite Minstrel Boys Open Cincinnati, O., May 1, with “The Robinson Carnival’ Co.” ’ All mast double stage, sing and dance. Address Elite Musical Boys, Gerdes Hotel, Cin- cinnati, O. Chas. Hart write. | SHORT FLIGHTS. BY R. W. THOMPSON. A Tuure 70 Books . Wasmaxorox. |ners, who have, since — put to work fn the Tas © “Moses of the Negro race,” = Much honor is tay duce Charles Stewart anc In thee hath iitdleness np place, are the “twin Dromlos For thou art brave ana trae ican’ lecture pletforin ‘To fight “saint ignorance and atn, pear in the same secti "ro ead thy people through, Bie" same. timer “for ‘To rout the enemy within might Decome unbatan 1s praise enough for you. the sea, “While Stewar You foil and dig while others steep, | im the” chicken “Delt Sr envy you Sout tame “Salucitying” to the so ¥ou push ahead tho others weep, nation’s capital. ‘Wall caring your great name: — ‘You to the noble class belone, ‘The ‘subscriber to 1 ‘Ot Douglass and of Ease 45 Sndustelat schoo! And others, battling against the wrong, | thie’ Douglass. Home, Witose courage dla not wane. Should: be proceeded ‘a Long live thou, hero, brother, friend: | the same a8 you would ‘The Negro's prile to be, imate debt. Hypocrite ‘To toll undaunted till the end Sum in public: for. th » yor noble Tuskegee. Should be unmasived, a irs. Susie Teabetia Shorter, | into, heir Jean and" ; Wilberforee, Greene’ County, Ohio, | are “undesirable eltize Don't betteve ali you hear. Cardinal Gibbons” 0 Ai ing ‘the proposed dis Dame Rumor is usually a liar. ment’ in Matyland sea ens infamous measures. St ‘The colored ‘Taftites proved themscives| State, and_ the opinio good gucssers, at any rave. fas the effect of law 8 a Softee from prejudice Nothing but poor sermons canbe ex-| Hons toushing church pected from a poorly-paid preacher. Fake of being” ‘undismnif te te ae that Cardinal Giobons 5 insist that Liberia romain the —~ foster-chud of the American governinent. | 0. M. Goude, who ha ae othe Newport News William Howard Taft is letting the woria| mechanical. department know wito is President of the United States: | feared. to. the erawt Benet Matt N° Lewis, has (The Washington Herald has “passed up" | control of the. plant Auditor’ Raipit W, ‘Tyler asa. proposition | Star’ and. carries "on Re Bae W. Star and carries on, ‘The United States should have no hesi- fancy, about, applying ‘the “Monroe doc- trine” to Liberia, whose capital is Mon- rovia. ‘The situation is rounding out in good shape for a great meeting of the National Negro Business League in Louisville next August. Former President Roosevelt still man- ages to hold first-page newspaper space, and occupies the center of a spotlight ali his own. North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Ken- tucky are bidding for a “Booker T. Wash- ington tour,” a ia Mississippi and South Carolina. : It Jack Johnson is to face Jim Jeffries in the ring, somebody had better keep a sharp lookout for loaded dice, marked cards and knockout drops. ‘There is a decided lull in.the intermar- riage of Negro men and white women in the District of Columbia. "The Chinamen are getting thelr turn now at the misceg- enation game. Here’s to the health of Ernest Hogan, the “unbleached American”! We join with the entire country In wishing for him a speedy return to the stage he has elevated and adorned. ‘Tuberculosis was given some additional jolts at the Tuskegee Negro Farmers’ Con- ference, and tue’ campaign aainst the “white plague” in the Black Belt received a decided impetus. A Baltimore Jew is financing a bank for the benefit of Negro depositors and bor- rowers. With what race will this institu. tion be rated by the solons of the National Negro Business League? Some people with long memories are worrying certain hot-foot candidates. tor office by ‘recalling the. uncomplimentary things ‘they said concerning Judge Taft and his frieegs last spring, ‘The Liberian Commission people are a “swell” ‘crowd. We see visions of gold lace, glittering’ swords, siik hats and swal- low-tail coats galore!’ The Black Republic cannot fail to sit up and take notice. Jin Boston, during the Lincoln conten: nary period Dr. Booker ‘T. Washington ‘was entertained at luncheon by, Bernard J. Rothwell, president of the ‘Chamber. of Commerce, and other prominent Boston- ans. ‘The great baseball leaiues are admitting Indians as players. The Negro, who. cai play’ the wade all around the red man when it comes to real -selence, is still barred, But just “bide a wee and dinna tre." Weill get there. Dr. Radeliffe, a leading Washington preacher, says the two prime. requisites of 2 well-ordered household arc: first, 2 00d table, to Keep the body in prime condition ; second, @ rou, for the preservation of au- thority. “where is food for thought in this suggestion, Practical sympathy in the shape of dol- lars—as well as kindly words—Will io ou to the managers of Kowallga. Institute, Which was almost totally destroyed by fir & short time ago. ‘The School was a child Of Tuskegee, “and was one of the. most promising inthe South. The Defender, published at Sumter, C., by W. 'T. Andrews, 18 one of the ablest papers in the South, "It has for its motto iit is Detter to fight, for the good than to rail at the ill,” which Indicates that. Law- yer and Bditor Andrews has a level head On his broad shoulders. The Black Republic of Liberia has crowded Haiti out of the spotlight, and ts even endangering. the primacy of the. 80- called race problem indigenous to these Shores. "History Is being made so rapidly nowadays tthat no one issue ean occup> tas pathic wind ik ae ie Will the South remain in the background commercially, politically and intellectually In order to keep the Newro back, or will i Bo forward and permit the black ‘man to Ko with it? ‘This is the chiefest of the great Problems the land of Dixie will be called upon to solve in the next four or eight years. One of the important bulletins published through the Farmers" Conference at, ‘Tus- kegee is one entitled “When Young. People Should Marry.” It is to be hoped that this bulletin answers the question ina manner that will satisfy both the parents and the high contracting parties at the psycholog- ical moment. ‘The Senators who worried the most over the constitutional “evasion” which permit- ted Philander Chase Knox to become Sec- retary of State are quite complacent in the face of the South's Magrant violations of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, ' Consistency, thou are. in- aeereaeoas $ ners, who have since been converted and put to work in the master’s vineyard. Charles Stewart and D. Webster Davis are the ‘twin Dromlos” of the Atto-Amer fean lecture platform, "They" seidoin. ap ear inthe same section of the country. a the same time, for fear the Republic might become unbalanced and sepals into the sea, While Stewart is "homologatine” In’ the chicken ‘belt of Texas, Davis is “palucitying” to the solons who infest. the nation’s capital. 7? ‘The subscriber to funds tor Y, Mf, C. Ac industrial schools, rellet of Libris tke" Douginas. Home, or "any" other. fund should be proceeded against in court, just the same as you would for any other legit- imate debt. ‘Hypocrites who promise & big sum in public for the sake ot notoriety Should be unmasicea, and made to alg dows into\thelr Jeans ana “anake good" ‘They are “undesirable chizenss © Cardinal Gibbons one speech condemn. tng the’ proposed aistragehisins” amend: tosnt in Maryland Seale the fate ot tha infamous measure. Mayland ts @ Catholl State, and the opinion of His Eminence has the effect of law, so fair, so broad and so free from prejudice is he upon all ques- tions touching church or state. At the Fiske of being ‘undigmified, we want t0 say that Cardinal Giobons isa right. ©. M. Goude, who has been the mainstay of tne. Newport News. (Va) Statin is mechanical’ Gepartment, and who has been Feared to the erawt By the veteran, Col Matt N° Lowi’ Mas “been given entire ontrot the plant which’ publishes Star “and. caries on the. extensive Jos printing’ business of the ‘New. ra ‘Cot Dany. “rhe Star and its associated inter fats ‘representa, vital foree in the ‘Tide: Water section of Virginia: Prof, W. S, Scarborough, the scholarly president of Wilberforce University was one of the diners at the Union ague Gluv in Chicago last weele. This is ones of the mailionaite. associations. in: that. city and ‘an invitation. to {ts annual ‘funetions Is highly prized bythe exclusive set o¢ the intellectual and commercial lite. of, the Tilinols inetropolis. ‘Prof. Scarborough at: tended in company. with two of, the mem: bers-of the clu who Were his classmates at Oberlin College. For retention as Recorder of Deeds in and for the District of Columbia John C. Baney has the united support of the re- sponsible ‘heads of the "A; "MB. Zion Ghureh, representing. a constituency of fo0.000; of the “Grand. United Order of Oat Fellows, wth following of 400,000; and of the United Order of True Reform- ets, Pepresenting ‘&. menibership of 30,000 Besides this, Mis Dancy has the office-“and possession 1s sUlil regarded in lewal elreles Bevnine points of the law. 4 may. be well For aepimaats to boat these things in tains: AA visit to the South is as educational in character to the Northerner who comes. a3 the lecture of the Northerner ts informing tothe denizens of the Southland. "This 1s the view taken by Hamilton folk, manag: ing taitor of the broad-vistoned New ork Tnicperteat whe, tecently, eddreened” tue ‘Tuskegce Negro Conference and Workers Conference Gn. “the: Federation of the World “Snr Holt hag traveled much and is a tember of the General Peace. Com maittee, He represented the Independent ai the latest Peace Conference at ‘he Hague. ‘The N. B. Dodson syndicate is turnish- ing some excellent plate matter forthe Colored newspapers, and from the number Of subscribers that are being supplied, the Senture: seeins to. bem fnanciat success The American Press Association ts backing ine enterprise, and the subjects ‘treated cover the, most mportane current doings Sf the best Negroes of the country. Tei o* vast Improvement ‘over: the “patent In Sides" which ‘have. been running for to fhese many years in '30\per cent, of our Journals. and bids fate to revolutionize the ‘Soller plate” industry as far as the race business Is concerned: Mr. J. N. Brown, of the*Norfolk Lodge Jouriial ‘and Guide, has demonstrated that 2altors are financially ‘able to get married SSromettmes--and that there are charming girls who are willing. to tisk their lie’ Fappiness ‘with’ them. ‘Miss. iorenc Hodges, one of Virginia's fairest maidens, has done herself proud in thus honoring a Moughtful and. progressive young. man and the entire Journalistic crait feels itsel tier personal obligations to her for ‘ti Practicht demonstration of confidence anc Pilsen | Our chapeau Is. dotted and. bow as gracefully’ as physteal limitation: Sager ‘The St. Louis Palladium, referring to th offer recently made to John Ac Lenktore By the United States government of po sluon to be one of the constructing eng neers on the Panama canal, eaves Th Bas aon bese prominently spoken of by his nang’ felends. throughout ‘the country being ‘the supervising -arenitect of: th Toedsury under’ the new administration Uncle Sam would do well 1¢ this competent young Negro would fll either of these tw positions: “But we hope, however, that Mr Panktord, will-not accept any position un: der the United States government. He io Diight & young: man ‘The. business edhcational ‘and religious institutions: ‘need fis “services, and he-can doa great. dea More for Riss face and. mankind in th Sphere in whieh he is now!" PEORIA, ILL. Speclal to THe FREEMAN. ‘Ward Chapel choir and orchestra, under the direction of Messrs: E. 3, Hagan anc Ect Tlarpers ating Nectie “Summers, or Hanist, will render. tie following program for the Baster services: 1. Opening hymn “Hail the Mighty” King.” 2. Ritual serv. ices. 3. Invocation—t Anthem, “He TI Tisen,” choir. 5, Sermon, Rev, H.W. Jameson. 6. Anthem, “Let God Arise,” choir and orchestra: “7. Solo, “Around the Great "White, ‘Throne, Miss’ Euln Irving Si"Anthem, ‘Christ. is Risen," cholr anc Orchestra.” 9. Anthem, "King of ‘Kings. Yo. Voluntary offering, 11. Announce- ments.” 12." Doxology, “Americal. Mr and. Mrs. Cotes, who’ have. ben living’ for Some time with Mrs. Jackson on 7th-ave- ne will soon go fo howsekepii on Mon son street. Those who ealled Tuesday" af fernoon at 201 N. Elizaebth street wer Presented with cards by the hostess, bear hug this inscription, “Reunion, Meeting 0 Women's Christian’ Club, Mrs. Anna R Fields founder and president: “Tuesdas Afternon. Mareh $0, 1908, "He that dosth Me wit-of God abldeth forever—-T John 17)" Delight. thyself also Inthe Lord and He atiall-give thee the desires of thine ieart—Ps. 374. .Both services were wel at" Ward Chapel Sunday. morning” anc evening...The "Forum, postponed March Bs"on account of Quarterly meeting, me Sunday. April 4. A musieal program was fenders age orawd emgpyed the com cert given’ by the “20th. Century. Clut Maren’ 30" at, Mount Zion Baptist. Church was. I. C. Harper witl give a supper ai her home, 107 Swinnerton street, ‘Tues Gay, April 6: for Stewardess Board’ No. 1 “rhe many. friends of Mr. ‘Thoma: Boone sincerely regret that he is confined 0 th ditentlon hospital ‘with sinallpox And wit be glad to learn that his physt Gian has pronounced his case-a light one Mr. Boone is connected with Ward Chapel Orchestra and will be greatly ‘missed, a they are rehearsing special muste for’ th Peo urs FRENCH LICK, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. “"the new West Baden Baptist Church ‘will be dedieated April 18.” All secret or- ganizations have been invited to partici- pate, with Rev. C. H. Parrish, of Louls- Ville, and Rev. C. W. Sims, of French Lick. Rev. J. IL: Mason, pastor. ... Mrs. ‘Sue Guthery’ has returned’ from a’ short ‘visit in Louisville....Mrs. Grant Jordan, ‘of Owensboro, Ky.. 1s visiting friends. in French Lick... Ms, ‘McDonald and. Mrs. ‘Alexander left’ for Chicago for an. indeft- ‘nite visit... .Mrs. ‘Thomas Cole is con- ‘YValescing...-Mrs. Annie Morgan is in In- dianapolis’ “this " week. ...Mrs. Lucindy Jackson has retumed from a short trip to Louisville on business. ...Moses Yancey and Eugene Picken have ‘returned from & brief business trip to Louisville. THE FREEMAN AT BALTIMORE. Special to THE FREeMan. ‘The Freeman can be secured at any time at 602 South Entan, or Camden Sta- tion baggage room. Harry M. Cubbins, ‘pepresentative. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. v SUPREME LOOSE MEETING| agg Gi) HAIR POMADE @oaEN® mn, |Preparations for Session at a ey | tak a Kansas City, Mo. ee » 3 le ae ee | fay Pres | sia jom ap- By W. G. Moszty. jms PPA [ess ge hy wr |e Pursuant to call, the general committee having in charge the arrangements for en- tertaining the Supreme Lodge and Enearmp- ment of the Knights of Pythias of N. A, S.A, E, A.A. and A. met on Sunday last at Pythian Hail, 1734 Grand avenue.” The mood tended toward the sorrowful and re- retful from the fact that the call Issued y the secretary set forth that the purpose of tho meeting was to act upon the Tesia- nation of Dr. J. B. Perry, chairman, which had some days before been placed” in the hands of Secretary Hueston with request to forward the same to A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor, of St. Louis, the same to take effect April 4, and“ successor be elected in his stead. “ft had been apparent to those closely associated with him in the work that the Doctor's extensive and growing practice and the arduous strain ineldent to carrying on the work of the general committee had long ago raised the ques- tion in their minds how long he would be able to hold out, ‘Indeed, s0 arduous had these responsibilities become that the Doc- tor's health had become a matter of mo- ment, besides the call of the sick was a3 incessant and urgent as the call of the fra- ternity, and finally Brother Perry, realiz- ing this, decided with regret to surrender the chairmanship and take care of his practice. "The. resignation was accepted With the regrets of the entire Pythian host, and ‘a. committee was accordingly appointed to draw up suitable resolutions, thanking the ‘retiring chairman. for the splendid and untiring serviee which he had rendered the cause for the past. nine months, Hon, Nelson C. Crews was then placed in nomination to complete the work fo ably begun by his predecessor, and, un- der a suspension of the rules, he was unan- imously elected, “with ‘assurances. of. the hearty good will and loyal support of all Present. Mr. Crews was then escorted. to the chair, and in a brief and timely speech pledging to put forth the best efforts with- In’him, accepted the ‘responsibility. thus transtefred and placed tupon his shoulders, and, without a hiteh or @ break, the work went on. Te may (be said in passing that the Knights of Pythias of ‘Kansas City are fortunate indéed. to be able to. command the service of such a splendid man.” Mr. Crews is endowed by nature to be a leader in any great cause.” Of noble bearing, Physique bordering ‘on the ‘maniticent, ‘ot diversified ‘talent, an orator of acknow!- edged ability, an’ untiring worker for any cause which he may .espouse—with such a man in the lead, we feel safe In going be- fore the Pythian of the United States with the assurance that the Supreme session In August will be an undualitied success, “Phe plan ‘of entertainment will be as elaborate. as ingenuity, Work and money Will make it, dt is the well-defined pur Pose ‘of Kansas City to allow none to go Away dissatisfied; every one will be com- fortably housed, well fed, and, with a great river running to the north of us, the as- Suranee also goes with what has been said that all those who are inclined to be thirsty will be abundantly able to queneh the same, Kansas City’s great and. fa~ mous Colioseum, Convention Hail, has been Secured for two nights; the line of enter- tainments there will be directly under the management of the Muitary Department, and Major General Tt. 2. Jackson is our authority for saying that the greatest pro- gram ever given for anybody anywhere Will be witnessed by the. Visitors and friends those two nights. ‘The first. night Will consist of competitive drills, closing With ‘the grand military ball; the second hight will be musical, and Contests be- tween the great aggregation of musicians attending the Supreme encampment are to be arranged, under the direction of the Major General himself. Electric Park, the white city, one of the greatest and most heautiful’ ‘places of amusement. in "this Western country, with the most up-to-date horrors. of -abjcot’ inactivity. . liven the boys and. gizls at vacation’ time spend Buiny days trying to devise new plans for Attractions, has been secured for a day's Outing. ‘These features, together with one fof, the most, beautiful “and pleturceaue grounds for the encampment of the Mlll- tary’ Department, will make the arrange: ments as complete as Such 1s possible to be done. ‘It is also planned by the local committee to conduct car parties and auto- mobile parties about the city, In order to give visitors and friends at least a partial Rotion of the vast. business interests and our splendid parkways and. boulevards, ‘Phere will be suburban parties into the country, and river trips by boat excut- sions at night. ‘The packing industry of {hiseity wilt he of eapecial Interest to our guests, and the committee will secure tick- ts of admission to all of those. who wish to inspect these mammoth and gigantic in- Anata JACKSONVILLE, ILL. Special to Tus Fasean. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rollins made a trip to Springfield recently. . . .The ple con- test given Tuesday night,’ March 30, a Bethel A” At. Church Was largely’ at tended, and a good success. Mrs. Elizabeth Hall won the first prize for the best ple, and Mrs. Carrie Burton the second. prize ‘The solo sung by Thomas Waggoner was very good... The members of the Bethel A. M.E. Ghurch are in the midst of a big rally, hoping to raise $1,000 by the first of June! German MeCine has been appointed usher of the church, and also Alonzo Pitts. ‘ag ake following persons are on the sick list ‘this week: Mrs. Pop Johnson, Alonzo Fry, Mrs. Henry Powers ‘and Mrs. Flora Patterson. ...Chagtine Mason, son of Rev. and Mrs. James Mason, has’ been’ issued $70 value ‘on new Kimball piano in the Store at 321 Fitth street, Springfield, Il, 1. G. King, manager... .Mrs. Charles Reed and Miss’ Hattle Heariston were Peoria Visitors reeently....The Priday” Ladies Art Club met recently with Mrs. Lydia ‘Tinsley, on’ Hardin avenue.” Bach mem- ber brought a visitor, and a delightful time was enjoyed... Mrs. Ollie Brown has retuned ‘home froin Hadley, Iil"wher she was called on account of ‘the death of her "cousin, Mr. Walker. . . Quarterly meeting was held March 28 at the Bethel Aw'M. EB. Chruch. Rev. Simeon, of Normal Tii., preached an able sermon, "Phe reports for the quarter were first class... Wore was received recently from Miss " Birge Bell, of Springfield, Il., that she is seri ously iil... .Miss Burla Mason has a posi tion’ at Herman's millinery store... Mr and Mrs. Joseph Wheeler have returned Home, ‘Piet attended Mr: Whesler's proth ¢r’s funeral at Quiney, Ill... Mrs. Edward ‘Terry has returned home’ trom. Danville, Til, where she went on account of. the serious fllness of her husband, ... Mrs. Hallie Barley Wheeler, of Hannibal, Mo. has returned home, after a pleasant visit with friends and relatives in our elty..- Rew, HH. DelVitt, of Philadelphia: Ba. preached an able sermon at Mt. Emery Baptist Church Sunday morning, “April 4 and also preached able sermons at the Second Baptist Church and at the Bethel A. M. BL Chureh....Mrs. Samuel. Wil- liams, of South Ebey street, who has been quite iil, Is no better....‘The Dorcas Club met recently with Rev. Mrs. James Mason, and was royally entertained....Mr._ and Mrs, Anderson Carter and son Haynes left recently for Lawrenceburg, Tenn.. to live. <...Mts, Charles's family has been. very Ls, Austin | Carter," superior “of, the ‘Tweifth District, was called recently to Chicago, Til, to 'meet the State Board of Tilinois and ‘Wisconsin, and had a success- ful meeting and a pleasant visit with Mr. and aes. Bonteomers A VOICE FROM THE FAR EAST. Hoa Kono, Citta, Feb, 14, "09. Raitor FREEMAN ! 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Spring football practice at several of the colleges has begun in earnest. Jimmy Barry lost to Sandy Ferguson on a four last week at the Chicago Armory A.C. Hugh McIntosh, the Austrialian fight promoter, is in America trying to clinch a match. Wouldn't it be an awful mix-up with all of these challengers of the heavy divisions in a battle royal? Alfred Shrubb and Henri St. Yyes are matched for a middle-distance race, May 1, in Buffalo, N. Y. for a purse of $5,000. Jack Blackburn, who is under arrest in Philadelphia, charged with murder, will be tendered a benefit in the near future, in which many boxers will appear. The ways and means committees of the General Assembly decided to impose a tax of $500 on boxing. By the county and city each make a little tax, the fight promoters say that the annual license will be $1,500. Henri St. Yves, a French table waiter not yet twenty-one years old, is now the champion Marathoner of the world. His recent victory on the Saddlebush boat, and Maloney at New York, convinced him the greatest distance runner in the world. Although it is said that Tommy Burns is serious to meet Johnson again in the squared circle, the London papers say that he would rather mee Sam Langford to fight him. He asks a question as to answer to who is matched, but what about this? Burns wants to fight Langford: Langford wants to fight Ketchall; Ketchall, Johnson; Johnson, Jeffrey. He's not about fighting at all. FROM DALLAS, TEX. Shesh-sh! There's talk of a ladies' team. "Rube" Foster at one time played ball here. Manager Thomas H. Walker has the Cubs hard at it. The K of P, and Odd Fellows have organized teams. Have you joined the Rooterol Club? The only requirement is good lungs. News of the baseball games and players may be left at J. G. Griffin's, 190 Main street. Amateur teams of Queen City, Frogtown, Stringtown, South End and Oak Cliff will keep the sphere hot this season. A big delegation of fans will go to Fort Worth to witness the Leland Giants-McGar's Wonders games, which begin to-morrow and continue three days. We will have an opportunity to see the famous box artist, Andrew Rube Foster and his fellow teammates when the Le- The sporting editor on the Daily Metro- politan woman magazine, the New Yorker, Crutchfield, Charles Cooper, Alexander Davis, Jake Ward, Tree Winn, Gretchen Green, Toney Brown, and other pamphlets. DETERMINED TO BE CHAMPIONS OF THE SOUTH Ed Lancaster, Manager of the Louis- ville (Ky.) Giants, Opens Season with Champions of Indiana "TERRIBLE" SAM CONFIDENT. Langford Believes He Could Defeat Johnson if Given a Chance. NEW YORK—Although Jack Johnson appears to assume that, because he has separated from his manager, all contracts made by Sam Fitzpatrick are abrogated, he has insisted that he has agreed to his contract with the National Sports Club of London for May 24, there is one man who does not believe that Johnson is the true reason for canceling the engagement. That man is Sam Langford, who was the party of the second part in the articles of agreement, and who was to have been Johnson's vis-à-vis in the ring of the Na'aman. Langford expresses the emphatic opinion that Langford canceled the meeting at the British club for the sole reason that the present chambers does not care to exchange walls with Langford points to the fact that when he and Johnson met some years ago he (Langford) weighed about 140 pounds to get for Johnson, and the big fellow got married a thumping from the smaller man that he has no further desire for a meeting. Langford declares that he has now moved much heavier, and would enter the ring at the end of the season, but he is confident he would be able to make it a success interesting for the champion. In fact Langford said that in Johnson just as soon as they got into the ring together, and it would be the happiest moment, he could face the holder of the heaviest weight. Langford also is confident he could deliver matches, and while he is not making a dead set on the former champion, would welcome a better one. As to Ketchall, Langford would like better than to get the middleweight champion in the ring, and would accept it on any reasonable terms. A match between him and Ketchall would be logical one to settle the middleweight championship, and a strong effort will be made to the officials of the Marathon A. C. of Brownsville the boxers together. Langford has made the boxing game in the last few years. Always a hard scientific hitter, he has gained in experience, he will be to-day one of the most dangerous men in the ring. A bolt between one of the Ketchall would furnish a great contest. Judged by the generality of the men, Langford would win that generality, backed up by just as hard an more accurate punching than Ketchall can KETCHELL AND KAUFMAN MUST MERT FIRST Jack Johnson Says the Two Must Decide Between Themselves Which Will Fight Him. NEW YORK—Stanley Ketchell, middle-weight champion, has been matched to boxing with the heavy-hitting the Fairmount and the Fairmount the past 39, the day Sam Langford lords for England to face with the National Sporting Club that does not mean that Ketchell and Langford will meet in the ring between now and next fall. As a matter of fact, Ketchell is willowy. As a result, he Langford under any fair conditions. He beats the Boston slugger would be easy for him. Ketchell's manager, Willus Britt, stands in front of the Britt says there is nothing to be gained by what Johnson has done. Ketchell's real game is a fight with Jack Johnson. Britt belvesys that Johnson is a better mark or Ketchell than Langford, and for a moment middleweight champion's manager will insist upon getting some sort of recognition from his Jeffries has failed to cover Johnson's forfeit. The time has arrived for Johnson to fight either Kaufman or Ketchell, each of whom has $5,000 posted with a stake that he would consider taking on record as saying if Jeff did not come to the scratch with the above amount, he would consider anybody else who covered Kaufman, according to Delaney, was first on the spot with $5,000, but Britt says that he has a prior right to a match with his big champion because he covered a $1,000 forfeit. He will be increased to $5,000 over night. Because of this squabble between Delaney and Britt, Kaufman must first meet to decide the fate of the case, he will then make a batch with the winner. While Ketchell does not fear Kaufman, he thinks that the latter, before he is enlisted, will be the Philadelphia "Jack O'Brien, who hooked Kaufman out in seventeen rounds several years ago. Ketchell and Britt say that if Kaufman can stop O'Brien inside of twenty rounds, the Kaufman did, they will take on Delaney's man. NOT A WHITE PLAGUE VICTIM. Wife of Ex-Champion Joe Gans Denies Circulating Report. Special to THE FREEMAN BALTIMORE, Md.—That Joe Gans has tuberculosis, for which report Charles White, the well-known prize fight referee, is responsible has been denied by Gans's lawyers. He is the victim of the great white plague. Yrs. Gans says that his physician says Joe is BROOKLYN EX-CHAMPION JOE GANS suffering from an attack of a heavy cold, and brought out a hat that looks like a white his seconds poured ice cold water on him, the result of which proved severe for Joe. Some business difficulties, which have become a burden on the ex-champion's mind, have caused him much worry, and his physician has recommended a good rest for him. GAME'S ON! LET'S HAVE THE NEWS. We will be glad to receive all athletic or sporting news that you may send us. Let us keep in touch with your baseball team during the season, so the fans may know what you are doing. Don't let your city, the team, or the fans know. The sporting editor, Harry W Jackson, would like to hear from the various baseball managers throughout the country. EAGLES TO PLAY 127 GAMES. New Orleans Boys Will Come to Indianapolis in July. NEW ORLEANS—The practice season is nearing a close, with everybody rounding up in fine shape. Prospects point to a strong start for Marcus (Red) Vining and James (Sunny Jim) Hamilton as the pitching staff. The Eagles' route for their season, beginning July, will be 3,695 miles. They will include their team in Napolis. The following is their schedule: Battieville, May 1, 2. Lafayette, Jan. 4. Lake Charles, May 4. Beaumont, May 5, 6, 7. San Antonio, May 8, 9, 10. Austin, May 15, 16, 17. Buffalo, May 22, 24. Dallas, May 29, 30, 31. Greenville, June 1, 2, 3. Shreveport, June 1, 5, 6. Texarkana, June 8, 9, 10. Hot Springs, June 11, 13, 14. Buffalo, May 15, 16, 17. Little Rock, June 19, 20, 21. Fort Smith, June 22, 23, 24. Joplin, June 26, 27, 28. Pittsburg, Mo, June 29, 30, July 1. Phoenix, May 29. Kansas City, Mo, July 4, 5. Topeka, Kan, July 6, 7. Lexington, Mo, July 9, 10. St. Louis, Mo, July 11, 12, 13. Missouri, Mo, July 14, 15, 16. Chicago, Ill., July 17, 18, 19. Danville, Ill., July 20, 21, 22. Indianapolis, Ind, July 23, 24, 25. Dayton, Ohio, July 26, 27, 28. Chinchatl, Mo, July 11, 12, 13. Louisville, Ky., August 1, 2, 3. Columbus, Ohio, August 4, 5, 6. Pittsburg, Pa., August 7, 8, 9. Harrisburg, Pa., August 9, 10. Birmingham, Mo, August 12, 13, 14. Brooklyn, N. Y., August 15, 16, 17, 18. Baltimore, Md., August 19, 20, 21. Washington, D. C., August 23, 24, 25. Richmond, Va., August 26, 27, 28. Charlotte, N. C., August 29, 30, 31. Charlotte, S. C., September 1, 2, 3. Chattanooga, Tenn., September 4, 5, 6. Nashville, Tenn., September 7, 8, 9. Memphis, Tenn., September 10, 11, 12. Birmingham, Ala., September 14, 15, 17 Mobile, Ala., September 20, 21, 22. WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE. NEW YORK—Jack Johnson will sail for Europe on May 17 to fill some music hall engagements in London, and says he has no intention of boxing Langford or died. He asserted his assertion that he had canceled all engagements made for him by his former manager, Sam Fitzpatrick, and these included a match with Langford at the Nationalportrait Gallery. As Langford will also sail for England the latter part of this month, he and Johnson will meet there, and possibly a match may be arranged. To do so, there is that Jeffries's failure to cover him foretr showed conclusively where the former champion stood, and as THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER for Ketchell, the middleweight champion should certainly have been willing to meet Kaufman as an earnest of hjs sincerity in a bout for a bout with the heavyweight champion. HOW TO TRAIN FOR A MARATHON RACE BY JOE FORSHAW. In dealing with the subject of training for a distance race, it must be borne in mind that conditions are different with each individual; so no hard and fast rule can be laid down. There are, however, a few cardinal points that should be adhered to. Do not run in a thin running suit in cold weather; the body must be warm to get the best results. When you throw water all over you when running; if hot, sponge the head and back of the neck only, and for this purpose bay rum is better than water, as it evaporates rapidly and produces a cool sensation. If the weather is very hot, wear small head covering. When excessively hot and sultry, as our climate in midsummer, I would run but little, and that in the morning. Don't take violent exercise after a meal; wait until at least three hours after. If I was to start in a race at noon, breakfast would be my last meal before it. Do not enter in races without any training. Eat plenty of good, nourishing food, leaving off pastry and heavy food, which hard to digest and from which only sugar is taken. Don't take ice-cold baths in the winter time, and if it is cold weather get in warm, dry clothes after thoroughly drying yourself after a run. Plenty of walking, with deep breathing, is excellent training for running. Wear good-fitting, easy shoes, on the order of medium or medium-high shoes. See that it has the very minimum of rough edges on the inside, and have them well broken in by walking and wearing around before attempting to run a long distance. You can also have running circumstances enter a race in new shoes. In a race never stop to get rubbed down, or to change shoes, and never drop into a walk if you are able to keep running at all, but you can never get there. You chances are you will not get going again. A splendid thing to prevent blistering and sore feet is to get a little mutton or beef tallow and have it rendered, pouring into a water bottle to cover. This will harden into a little cake. Rub it thoroughly on the socks, and after you have been running a while it will soften and reduce the friction to a minimum. Get plenty of sound sleep, as it is the greatest strength producer of all. And get in the habit of going to bed and arising at a certain time. Have regular hours of sleep. This will make your meals at the same time each day, if possible, and don't eat between times. Do not drink water before staring to run or immediately after you finish. It is liable to upset your stomach. Do not eat or drink any kind of food or stimulant during a race, for it will absolutely do you no good. Your mouth becomes parched or dry, moisten little water; but don't drink the water—simply molest the mouth with it. Run your own race independent of the ones you know, at a good pace, self, knowing that you will be able to go the full route. Don't try to hang on to some boy who possibly only intends to lead the field past a certain point. And don't remember, the man in front is as tired as you are, and may give up the struggle before the end. You must be a runner, you must lead a clean and temperate life. Do not smoke, drink or chew. STILL ON EARTH. Tommy Burns Makes a Noise Like Fighting Johnson Again. NEW YORK—Tommy Burns, from whom Jack Johnson wrested the heavy-weight championship of the world, is anx-10 or another fight with the new champion. Hugh McIntosh, who promoted the Johnson-Burns fight and since has assumed the role of coach, said he has been authorized in a cablegraph from Burns to arrange for a return match. Johnson said he said Burns post $5,000 to his coach. Burns declared, was willing to fight Johnson anywhere in Australia, America, England or France, and on any terms. McIntosh accepted, McIntosh said, Burns would fight Ketchell or Kaufman, but certain terms, which he would no make public at present, would have to be complied with by the two last-named fighters. LANGFORD BEATS WILLE. Didn't Last Two Rounds with Bostonian—Short Right Did It. PHILADELPHIA—With a short right to the jaw, which carried more than the usual amount of steam, Sam Langford put John Wille, of Chicago, away in the second round at the National Athletic Club, April 5. Langford took the aggressive side from the opening gong, and landed almost at the center of the court. After sparring a few seconds in the second round, Langford caught an opening and sent over the short right, which did not travel more than eight or ten inches. He was able to rise to one knee while the referee was doing the counting, he could not get up on his feet, and the ten was down. Wille was dazed, and had to be led to his corner by his seconds. Race Don't Read Race' Papers Special to THE FREEMAN Many of the so-called "big" Negroes never buy a Negro paper, or even read a race journal of any kind. On the other hand, they season a day paper, or read a book. A Negro paper never finds the way to their home. The white paper will never employ a Negro as a printer; no, not even as a janitor. In fact, the white paper is ignorant of the doings of the race, spending most of his time reading papers of the other race. Then when he reads a Negro paper, it is one that he borrowed from ainking Negro, and he will never return it. I trust they will awake to their sense of duty and read more Negro literature, and be better informed of the doings of the Negro people around you as a Negro paper, or subscribe. The Negro press is the only avenue through which we can defend our race from the powerful white press. Don't worry, the white paper is looking for you. You can patronize the Negro paper in preference to any other, and you can not deny it. You can visit hundreds of Negro homes and not be disappointed. Negro paper. Yet you can see the little white youth throwing a daily paper in the yard every day, and the collector on Sunday. This is mourning the Negro press your own boy aspires to be a printer, where will he go? These Negro enterprises must be looked at, this past. If you want your son or daughter to be more than a common servant. Instead of sending missionaries to foreign lands, remember the many thousands of Negroes that you have been to. How will we reach them if they never read, will not go to church, and will not welcome a Negro paper? E. P. FAGAN, U. S. Meat Inspector, 2322 Fiora street, Kansas City, Mo. GREENVILLE, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Annie Hasken is able to be up again, after a severe illness with throat trouble, ... on account of illness, Riley Wright is now cooking at the Cozy Corner Cafe, ... J. S. Elmore near putting up a new kitchen, Mrs. Eileen Craick is somewhat improved. Mrs Eileen Radick 2005 Owens is on the sick list...., Elbert Burnett was in Waco last week...Mrs. Millie Hollowman was in week...Mrs. week...W. W. White and daughter went to college and see his wife...Mrs. J. A. Linley uses everybody out to College Hill to attend her evening, between 3 and 4 o'clock, organized. 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Abyssinia Buffet, Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Cold Home Beer always on tap. G. H. TAYLOR, Prop., 325-329 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis Old Phone, Main. 6208 SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY 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. Hindel's Buffets, 551 Indiana Ave. Choice Foreign and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Hindel Brothers. Saloon and Buffet 1313 N. Senate Ave. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Courteous treatment. Your trade solicited. 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. Brutus Owens, Prop., 433 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. First class line of Wines. Liquors. Cigars and Tobacco. Headquarters of the I.B. P. O. Elks WILLIAM ROBERTS, Prop. Scip Williams. Mgr. Frank Whitney. Mixer. 440 Indiana Ave. New Phone 5288. WE WANT LIVE, HUSTLING AGENTS! WE WANT LIVE, HUSTLING AGENTS! Ours is an addition proposition. Our additions are the "Booker T. Washington Addition" to our campus, which includes an education center on the Midland Valley railroad, 12 miles from Muskegon, and the "Highlander Addition" to our campus, Southwest, a city of 300,000 inhabitants, 10,000 of whom are Afro-Americans. We pay liberal tuition for our students only. Send references in first letter. Write us at an email and we will make money for you. BASE BALL UNIFORMS, Base Ball Supplies, Sporting Books of all kinds, MOTOR CYCLES. Imperial BICYCLES. Old Phone 2991. Geo C Detch Wheel Co ATHLETIC GOODS 229 Mass. Ave. The A. B. C. Base Ball Club. Northwestern Park. Games played at home and abroad. We bar no good team. Correspondence solicited. Address. 462 W. 15TH STREET. RAN BUTLER. INDIANAPOLIS, IND To-day, to-morrow, next week, next month, all the year round we are selling $8.00 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, COMPEER CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells It. Wolff Distill Old Mail Order House. All kinds 634 West Market St., - Lou SMOKE THE Monypeny Hamm Club House 5c John E. & Frank PROPRIETORS OF Clay St. Bre ICE FOR SA All Orders Promptly Attended To. 810-812-814 Clay St., - The High Ro Stillery Co. All kinds of Wet Goods. - Louisville, Kentucky. KE THE Hammond Co.'s se 5c Cigar. Frank Walter, REITORS OF Brewery, FOR SALE Extended To. Telephone 209. t., - Louisville, Ky. Rollers! Wolff Distillery Co Old Mail Order House. All kinds of Wet Goods. 634 West Market St., Louisville, Kentucky. Monypeny Hammond Co.'s Club House 5c Cigar. John E. & Frank Walter, PROPRIETORS OF Clay St. Brewery, All Orders Promptly Attended To. Telephone 209. 810-812-814 Clay St., Louisville, Ky. The High Rollers! The High Rollers! [Picture of a man and a woman] MR. & MRS. J. B. WILLIAMS, Props., --- A. Lincoln GREAT Headquarters for Turf and Hotel men. Thoroughly up-to-date sporting place. Wines, Liquors and Cigars Every Friday night souvenirs given to ladies. A prize to the one holding the lucky number. You will be entertained by our best local talent. Music every afternoon. J. ALEXANDER, Head Bartender. Telephone, Calumet, 852 2252 State St., Chicago 8 Here's a pertinent question, what is it that satisfies in a suit—what is it that stands first in importance to you? Wouldn't you place suit virtues in about this order of importance becomingness, style, service and cost? That one may have acquired a $35 suit for $28.50 would prove poor satisfaction should that suit fail to respond to the demands of wear. Which brings us to the point. L. S. Ayres & Co's present array of tailor-mades contains not a single garment from a previous season; all are new and stylish, many of them fresh from their tailors within the past fortnight. They represent the last word of settled fashion. At the prices asked you'll find none handsomer, better or more becoming than are here. Man-tailored suits at.....$25, $29.50, $35, $45, $67.50 3d floor, north. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. Charles Fossett, of Muncie, was in the city during the wek. Mr. Sidney Kirk, late of Richards and Pringles' Minstrels, is in the city. R. B. Sommers, of Cleveland, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Gardner. Mrs. Julia Turner, of Peru, Ind, was the guest of Mrs. Blanche Cook, Tuesday. Mr. O. C. Glimore, of Birmingham, Ala., is in the city, with a view of locating. G. Mamon Reese, of 792 Center street, after an illness of three months, is able to be out again. H. M. Morgan, of Chicago, visited his mother, Mrs. Ellington, in Alvord street, last Sunday. Ms. Mary E. Wilson, the evangelist, spake last week in the city. She left Monday for Fort Wayne. Born, to Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ward, Wednesday, April 14, a fine boy. Mother and child doing well. The "Uthers" Club, composed of a number of young society women, gave a party at South Hill last night. Rev. Frank G. Broebel, pastor of Corinthian Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., preached at Shiloh Church in this city. Rec. G. H. Shaffer is preparing to go to New York to meet the Home and Foreign Missionary Board, which meets May 12. Spring styles. Low shoes now in. Call and see them at 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washburn Street. Ms. Etta Tutta, of West Thirteenth street, entertained at whist, Thursday, in honor of Mrs. Ada Jenkins, of Washington, D. C. Rev. Neil McPherson, of the Tabernacle Church, will address the Ethical Culture Society Robert Gould Shaw School, Sunday, at 4 p. m. The annual sermon of the Daughters of Charity will take place at Jones Tabernacle, Sunday, April 25, ahead of the annual 5th, as formerly announced. Mr. C. C. Stewart, who was recently elected constable at Danville, Ill., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Curry, in West Michigan street, the first of the week. The members of the Sixth Ward Republican Workers' Club are requested to be present Tuesday evening. Business of importance. By order of the president, A. A. Nichols. Mesdames Alice Grysell and Lena Stone are members of the neglected Woman's Club to the State Federation, which meets at Kokomo the last Wednesday in May. The Rev. H. J. Callis will get to Evansville Sunday to dedicate a new A. M. E. church in that city. Rev. Wood will preach at Jones Tabernacle Sunday morning. Bethel Gleaners will meet with Mrs. Mayme Gardner, 785 Center street, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Parents of the children are specially invited to meet with them. Mrs. Sadie B. Dungey, grand worthy counselor of the Court of Calanthe, jurisdiction of Indiana, was in Franklin, Philadelphia, and Shelbyville on official business this week. Quarterly meeting will be held at Caldwell Chapel A. M. E. Zion Church, Haughville, to-morrow. Campbell will be present. m. Rev. J. Campbell, D. B., at 3:30 p. m. all are invited. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mahoney, of St. Louis, Mo., have moved to Indianapolis for permanent residence. Miss Gertrude A. McKenzie, her home with them at 1222 North Capitol avenue. Henry Seaton, sixty-five years old, died Saturday of cerebral hemorrhage. His funeral was held at Jones Tabernacle, Tuesday at 11:30 a.m., United Brothers, of which he was a member, attended in a body. Bishop Grant, accompanied by Rev. J. Ransom presiding elder of the Topeka Kan. D. D. on behalf of city members to Washington D. C. on meet "The Best at the Price— No matter what the Price." MAROTT DEPARTMENT STORE COMPANY, 342 to 358 Mass. Ave. GROCERY SPECIALS Saturday Sale 10 pounds best H. & E. granu- lated sugar with purchase of $1 or more of groceries Saturday for... 50c 1,000 packages of new oats that always retails at 10c (none to dealers) while it lasts Sat- urday, 4 packages for... 25c 4 large or 7 small cans of evaporated milk for... 25c Fancy new package rais- ins, Sat. 4 packages for... 25c Fancy cured regular hams, "Favorite" brand, pound. 13c New lot of large prunes, Sat. Ib. 10c, 8 1-8c and... 7 1/2 c Hand picked Michigan beans 3 qts. Saturday for 8 bars of lenox, gloss or Santa Claus soap for... 25c You get free trading stamps with your purchase, in fact you get them in every department of the store. financial board of the A. M. E. Church, which holds a meeting at that place. The "Delphic" Circle will meet next Tuesday evening with Mrs. Harriett Kelley, 807 Camp street. Lewis Clark will read a paper, subject, "The Social Idea, in Institutions." Miss Marion Curtis will also read a paper. Flora Harper will be querist. The Beechums, Charles and Blanche, Elvies Mason, Billy May, James L. Hall and Tony Barefield, members of the Lowery-Morgan Minstrel aggregation, are in their engagement with previous to opening their engagement with the band at an indegeneback Circus, which begins April 24. WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS WITH MRS. DAVIS. The Woman's Club of this city was elaborately entertained Monday at the pretty home of Mrs. Belle Davis, 909 North West Street, where she sat in the club, and, having returned only Saturday from spending three months at Mobile, Ala., for the benefit of her health, the affair had been arranged by her family as a celebration of the occasion with the club meeting, at the close of which short talks were made by Rev. H. J. Callis, W. R. Valentine, and Mesdames Davis and Stone, who accompanied her to the club, gave interesting accounts of their observations. Dainty refreshments were served. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street. H. B. BRIDGE, GROCER Give Him Your Patronage. Among the most prominent business men in this city enjoying trade in an almost unassuming profession, Mr. Bridge, running a neighborhood grocery store at Fifthteen and Senate. Mr. Bridge bought the stand of James P. Stiltz, deceased, of the building at 141 Fifth Street, an evidence of this, his chief employee is Lawrence Smith, colored, as chief clerk and butcher. THE FREEMAN advocates patronizing those business enterprises who work for the city, ask for it, and will give our people good goods and courteous and kind treatment. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street. "HIAWATHA" TICKETS SELLING RAPIDLY. Tickets are selling rapidly for the "Hiawatha" entertainment to be given at Caleb Mills Hall, April 28. Word has been received of the fact that the children up in neighboring towns who will attend. The participants are perfecting the characters they will assume, and a finished production of the drama is assured. Much care is being given the costing of the performance, and the dancers will be worn, catchy Indian songs will be sung, and the musical feature is one well worth going a long distance to hear. The prices are surprisingly low, the cost of the production is beaded, and an unusually large attendance is expected. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The third of the series of confidential talks which are being held in the Association building on Sundays will be given by men in the first and second needed house is expected. These talks are extremely interesting and educational to men. Dr. Hummons' talk last Sunday was very instructive. Dr. Winnell of Villanueva "The Reformation and Control of Real Disease." The meeting is held in the Colored Y. M. C. A. building, corner West North and California streets, at 3:30 p.m. m. and is open to all men over sixteen years of age. Music by the Colored Y. M. C. A. Orchestra. The regular gymnasium classes will close on next Monday evening, when a men's basketball tournament between the first place given by the senior class, and the final game in the Association championship basketball tournament between the first place. This game and the exhibition will furnish an evening of pleasure that can not be duplicated. Women as well as men will be admitted, and a small admission fee will be charged. Spring Styles. Low Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street NORD ALEXIS, EXPRESIDENT OF HAYTI, WILL VISIT THE FREE-MAN WHEN IN AMERICA. James Julius Turner, now visiting in Kingston, Jamaica, writing to this office, spoke of seeing Nord Alexis, ex-President Hillary Clinton, and said he says that he is the blackest man in the world. In his conversation with him Mr. Turner spoke of THE FREEMAN office. He was very much interested, and says that he is the office about June 25 of the present year. Nord Alexis will be the guest of Mr. Turner, and with whom he will visit this city. We ask pleasure in visiting the announcement on our Friday. Mr. Turner, for the correctness of the information. We are satisfied Indianapolis will show the venerable Negro ex-President every hour of the day, and the citizens will feel that he has lost nothing but office. That quality, those qualities that made him, are yet his; he has suffered at the hands of a woman, and he has felt reserved for the new President, if there is anything in custom or precedent. If he comes to Indianapolis, the citizens will admire him for what he has been—the resident of the land of L'Overture, where, amid the years of sloth, some sign of acknowledgment of civilization is, and where, if the sign is read aright, will be heard the citizens reverberating through the dusty reverberating through the land, making for a nation equalis to its potentiality. When he comes, may the Negro citizens honor the blackest man in the world, the whitest man in the world, if he has done no more than attempt to defend his own. SUMNER LEAGUE MINSTRELS. Performers Please a Large Audience in Tomlinson Hall. The Summer League, regarded as the leading colored Republican organization in the State, gave the third of its annual day games a day of evening. The audiences, in which there were many white persons, filled the hall. The program opened with about seventy of the league members in evening dress, and the rest in formal seats on the stage. The end men, Ben Young, Ben Hollman, Philip Lytle, Thomas Dardon, George Leslie, Frank Price, Luther Thompson and Alex Hunt, wore minstrel costumes. James N. Shelton was in attendance. The first part of the program consisted of jokes by the end men; solos by George David, who gave "If Dreams Come True, Who You and Me," and "Down Among the Sugar Cane," by George Leslie and Alex. Hunt. A feature of the first part was the singing of a quartet, and the singing of "If You Want to Pick a Fuss, Wait Till the Sun Shines," by Ben Young. "Wilson Hands Away," by Ben Young. The entire company joined in the finale. The second part opened with a representation of the interior of the club's home, with tasty furnished parlor, with memorial plaques, and with Master Paul Bass, the boy soloist, gave a number, and Hunt and Crosby appeared in an original sketch. George Leslie made a hit in his imitation of Bert Williams, of the 1930s, and in "Drinking." A solo was given by Miss Hagar Temple, an original sketch by Hillman and Young, and an "old man" impersonation by Thomas Dardon. The program given Monday night is regarded as the best of the three. The direction of George David. Charles Humble is president of the club. CHICAGO. ILL. Edward Slaughter and Mrs. Mary Adal are the guests. Long and long and shortly to Louisville. WANTED. To know whereabouts of Anna Brown born at Crammes Hill, East Camden, N. Y. When last heard of was at Philadelphia Address THE FREEMAN. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED COLUMN The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Blood, druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE - Pool room and barber shop at 5542 Lake avenue, Chicago, Ill. cheap rent; $10 per month. Reliable colored agents want everywhere. Something new. Experience unnecessary. Light and clean work. Good pay, credit given, outfit free Chowning Card Co., Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED - Nest young lady to make home with cultured family. small. Excellent facilities for piano lessons and study. All conveniences. Reasonable wages. Fine chance for right party. Address A. W. Naylor, 630 S. 3rd street, Springfield, Ill. FOR RENT - To desirable clean tenants: double house, five rooms each, newly papered; city water in house; cistern. 1106-108 Myron Street, New York avenue, Broadway. For eleventh; $9.00. H. A. Johnson and Son, 14 Union Trust Building, 120 E. Market, New Phone 438. WANTED A few bright, energetic men and women (colored) who have some experience in agency work to make cut rate sales of our Toilet Preparations. Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Must be good talkers and willing to work 60 days on commission before being put on a salary. After the sixty days preparatory work all are completed in the artistry and all railroad fares. All answering this ad must be able to give bond for $200. No cash wanted. Address at once, McPherson Specialty Co., Dorchester, Va. THE ROADMAN'S GUIDE—New book tells how to make money at Political Rallies, Barbecues and Picnics, with Stands, Shows, Games, etc. Learns you how to make Hot Chili, Tomales, Candy, Orange and make games of amusement. Explains new plans and schemes for making money easy. A valuable book of information. Price, 50 cents, post free. Send for it to-day, or write for free circling this may appear again. Address B. F. JOHNSON CO., 659 Sixth St., Louisville, Ky. A. E. THOMAS H. KATES Chicago's well known Tailor for his designs and fashions of Gent's Clothing. Will likely call upon you at any time. If he doesn't, write him. 147 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill. NEW WEST ST, FISH MARKET has opened with a full line of strictly first class Fresh Fish and Poultry. Oysters and Game in season. L. E. NORTON, Prop, 1116 North West Street. kms. Camp St, well, clistern. 5 $15.00 West Ohio, well, clistern. 6 $12.00 Susquehanna, city water. 3 8.00 West McCaulley, well, clis- 325 Business Locals. Woodbine Perfume, Oh! how fragrant exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 'Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Any thing ordered by 'phone will be selec- ted as carefully as if you called in per- son. No extra charges. Gauld's Phar- macy, New 1178: Old, Main 4032. Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS: I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and it makes a new growth. Mrs W. E. WALKER, Town Town (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. The use of Fowler Hair Pomade makes stubborn hair thick, hair straight, soft and glossy and easy to comb, and in any style desired consistent with its length. Removes 'and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking, and gives hair vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with solpidid results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. For hair Fowler Pomade has mitigators. Don't bury anything in your hair. If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay on. Look for this name You'll Find Us at our best now with our new and beautiful Spring and Summer fabrics; and "Our Best" means a good deal. It means as fine an exhibit of high class woolens as you'll ever see. It means a careful selection of the choicest weaves of Europe and America. 142 N. Illinois St., near Ohio. THE GRAND LEADER 133-340 E. WAIN ST. LOPENHEIM Suits for Women, of panama, a chiffon panama, plain or shadow stripe all leading Spring shades, jackets full satin lined, plain tailored or trimmed in satin bands, circular gored skirts; up to $15.00 $9.95 values, sale price..... Skirts for Women, of panama or chiffon panama, self trimmed and trimmings of satin folds, colors brown, blue and black; up to $8.50 $5.75 values, choice..... Skirts for Women... $8.75 values, sale price ..... $5.00 NEW TRIMMED MILLINERY ARRIVING DAILY. The New York Tribune of April 4, '09, commenting on the large gains in savings deposits throughout the country, says: "This movement is believed by savings bank officials to be due to the object lesson of the panic period, when the advantage of having a savings fund on which to draw when employment failed was widely demonstrated—a lesson taken to heart by a great number of people, who in the past had not formed the habit of systematically saving any part of their earnings." There is a lesson in this for every person who earns a d l l ar. This strong company will make it easy for you to save. Make the start to-day; 3 per cent. paid. THE SAFE RATE. THE INDIANA TRUST CO., Capital, all paid in..... $1,000,000 Surplus, all earned..... 450,000 ALTERATION SALE, 1-4 OFF In order to make room for the workmen during the remodeling of our show rooms we are making a straight 25 per cent. reduction on all lighting fixtures. THE LIGHTS If you need chandeliers Gas or Electric, this year, it will pay you to buy now and have them laid aside. No extra charge for hanging. C. Aneshensel & Co., 29-33 East Ohio Street. (Miss Glenn's Old Stand.) 554 Mass. Ave. Fashionable Millinery. Sodding, Grading, Excavating, Sewer and Cis- tern work of all kinds. JENKINS & HODGERS, 2146 Dexter St. Phone 2914 North. Gem Headache Powders, We guarantee that they will not affect the heart. Sure cure. Sent any place in the United States. three boxes 26c. A. Timberlake Estate, S. W. Cor. College Ave. & 16th Street. New Phone 8. IN THE LEAD. Cafe, Restaurant, Oyster Bay. Open Day and Night- Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. You'l at our best tiful Spring "Our Best" Do Your Cooking on a 'Perfect' Gas Range It saves time and kitchen work, cooks and bakes per- fectly, and is cheaper, cleaner and nicer in every way. $2.00 down Price $2.00 a month $18.00 Connected Free. The Indianapolis Gas Company 45 S. Pennsylvania St. SPRING NOVELTIES All the new styles in Pumps and Street Oxfords now Ready for Your Inspection. J. & K. Ladies' Shoe Parlor, 30 North Pennsylvania Street. Good Clothes Within Reach For the man who wants good tailoring as expressed in quality, style, individuality, coupled with reasonable prices, W. G. Schneider's new commodious quarters at 35 West Ohio Street is pre-eminently the place. Call in and let us prove it. Business Suits $20 and upwards Trousers $5 and upwards W. G. SCHNEIDER Merchant Tailor 35 W. Ohio Street W. C. HAZEL, 333-335 Indiana Avenue. Always the latest extreme styles. Ask your friends. $1.50 LAWRENCEBURG, AURORA AND WAY POINTS $1.50 Special train leaves Union Station 7:00 a.m. JULIAN & JOHNSON CO. 1