The Freeman

The Freeman Extends a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to its Many Readers THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER DEC 27 1909 VOLUME XXII NUMBER 52 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR, $1. PHYSICIAN'S HOME-COMING PHYSICIAN'S HOME-COMING CITIZENS PAY GLOWING TRIBUTE TO HIS SUCCESS Of Three Years—The Douglass Calendar Company's Success Many Social Functions for the Week-General News. BY CARY B. LEWIS Special to THE FREEMAN. LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Amid fulsome eulogies, tidlings of good cheer, Dr James H. Fitzbutter sat at the head of a banquet table last Friday night at the home of Spencer Taylor and listen to his feet. He was a graduate of Isabelle. His wife and success as a physician and surgeon at home and abroad. Dr. Fitzbutter has just returned to Louisville from the Philippine Islands, where he forges an agreement with government physician, and on his return home the Progressive League tendered the Doctor a banquet. It was the most magnificent stag ever given in this city along young men. These staggers mostly the young business, professional and energetic men of the city. The early part of the evening was made merry with choice selections from the piano by a general entertainer, while others were seated in the banquet room. 10 'o'clock Prof. James R. Harris, who was the chief promoter of the stag and tconstmaster for the evening, invited the guest to the dining room. Taylor was for its hospitality and the serving of elegant dinners, and on this occasion it did not fall short of its former reputation. The table was laden with all kinds of delicious eutables and course after course was brought in by the cook. Taylor served for kernels and the Colonels full of corn." Previous to the last course served, the versatile and eloquent James R. Harris arose and spoke to the pleasers. Pittsburgh with the boys once more at home. He brilliantly and interestingly told of the Doctor's travels and the honor he had brought to himself and the credit to his home city and state. Following that to carry out the program of the evening by calling on Mr. A. R. Wilhoite in the absence of Mr. A. B. McAfee, who was to speak on his home city and state. When We are Dead in Grover, and when We're Dead, We're Dead All Over." Other speakers delivered tots on the following subjects: "The Man Worth While; John T. Clark; Mr. Newly Moved; L. W. Saunders; Hit 'em Hard, Boys 'ten Hard," Prof. S. O. Johnson; "If you See What You Want, Take It," Charles B. Preston; "Show All And Acquaintance Be Forget," D. W. Barnett; "A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair," Dr. J. A. Cattimore; "Love Is a Thought," Sam J. Jorker; J. Jew, "Show All And Acquaintance Be Forget, Be No Harm in Aught The Wrist," Cary B. Lewis; "For a Jolly Good Book Whereon to Look Is Better to Me than Goldone," Prof. F. S. Delany; "The World Is My Country," Dr. James Hail, the Gang's All Here." The address of the evening was that of Dr. Fitzbutler. He began his address with the day he left Louisville, over three years ago, and he boarded the steamer till he landed at the Philippine Islands. He told of all phases of Philippine life, their customs, religion, industry and government. He stated that he had done his work in the profession. He was most interesting in telling of the number of places at which he stopped on his way home. This trip was around the world. He exhibited trinkets and relied upon the islands and other foreign countries. Mr. Richard B. Harison, a dramatic reader, recited "The Face on the Ball" from Flint's playbook, added feature of the evening's entertainment. Those present were: Dr. James H. Fitzbustle, Sam J. Corker, J., New York City; Richard B. Harrison, Chicago; J. R. Richard B. Harrison, on Lake Michigan; Morris R. Robinson, Robinson, D. W. Barnett, Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, Elridge Ganaway, B. C. Preston, Cary B. Lewis, J. H. Black, F. S. Delaney, Tom Cole, W. H. Sundsny, Orsby, Charles, clock, W. L. Sundsny, O. Johnson, John T. Clark, Robert Hester, Helen Haley, A. R. Wilhote, Abe Sloan, Spencer Taylor and George Evans. A number of teachers will attend the State Teachers Association at Frankfort next Tuesday. Bishop Charles E. Woodcock will deliver a special Christmas sermon at $ o'clock at the Episcopal Church of Our Merciful Sailor. Mr. Sam J. Corker is in the city, but will leave Sunday for Hamilton, Columbus and London to herald the coming of the "Red Moon." --- The report of the last State Grand Lodge of Masons held at Hopkinsville, Ky., has been issued by Prof. W. P. Annis, state senator and Prof. Annis, Prof. Annis has received a number of congratulations for the excellence of his报orial work. Mr. J. R. Neighbors, the photographer, is doing a fine business this season. He is regarded as one of the best "Piture business in the city. He has been in the business since 1915. He is to secure the latest photographs would do well to call on him at the Douglass building, 725 West Walnut street. "The Messiah" will be given at the Cal- vary Baptist Church, Fifth and York streets, during the holidays. Mr. R. C. Brown has charge of the management of the large chorus and it is expected to be a bowling success. The chorus has been in residence number of weeks and have said that they will hear The Messiah. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fowler Brown will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Oliver at their country home during the week of the annual meeting and several social functions will be given in their honor. Mrs. Sallie and Miss Julia Brown, of Indianapolis, will make a visit to this city during the stay of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown. The monthly meeting of the Teachers' Association was held at the Central High School, W. H. Pery, president. The most important discussion was that led by Prof. Wood, president of the State Teachers' Association, urging upon the importance of attending the annual meeting, which takes place in Frankfurt, Ky., during the holidays. The Rev. L. G. Jordan, secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board is sending out notices to all the Baptist churches of the country, their congregations to attend the congregations to Africa. Rev. Jordan asks that on watch meeting night an after collection be taken for foreign mission cause; an annual meeting he is desirous every Baptist church in the United States carrying out the custom. Miss Ida Browning, who is proprietor of the restaurant of the oYung Men's Christian Association, 320 West Chestnut street, will have a special Christmas dinner. She will be the most popular and up-to-date restaurant in the city. She prepares in style and the service is excellent. Best of all, they are home-cooked meals. None of them are prepared in the day and all through the Christmas holidays she will serve a special dinner. She invites the citizens and visitors to patronize her. Quite an number of Negroes in this city are interested in the 1913 Exposition. They read with pleasure the recommendations of President Taft to Congress, and several of them are preparing him for such timely action and expressing an appreciation of the same. Forgoing after national meetings and "making good" the Louisville Negroes "can be made to feel at home" by the Rev. L. G. Jordan, Albert S. White and Cary B. Lewis, to lan this city for the place of holding the Exposition in 1913, is planning a strenuous campaign after the Christmas holidays. Mr. Richard Harrison, a reader of national reputation, is in the city, and will give a recital at Quinn Chapel. Mr. Harrison is a member of the 16. Mrs. W. A. Brown has charge of the entertainment, and much interest is being manifested in the recital. Mr. Harrison is a finished artist along any line of art, and he will be careful that he is thoroughly trained. He recites from Julius Caesar and other Shakespearean plays, and from Paul Laurence Dunbar. Fred Douglas said of Mr. Harrison: "He is a dramatic future of the Negro to Richard Harrison." Cole and Johnson's coming to this city during New Year's week means that the headliners and their capable company will be the most exciting time" while in the City of Hospitality, Louisville always welcomes men and women of talent and genius, and on this occasion the greatest and most artistic funmakers of the race. Every one recalls their music of last season and their grand choruses. Already the Red Roof has been crowned town and the Road to Monterey" is the talk of the town. The people are merely waiting for seats to on sale at the Avenue to see the premier comedians of this . . . Prof. Byrd Prillerman, president of the State Teachers' Association of West Virginia, and one of the leading educators last week, the guest of the Rev. L. G. Jordan. Prof. Prillerman has been in educational work for the past forty years and has been the leading educator, both State and National, for advancement and uplift of the race. He took a prominent part in the nineteenth annual meeting of the valuable information on Y. M. C. A. work. He was recently elected president of West Virginia Institute, one of the largest State schools in the United States for colored youth. It is expected to be a jolly time for the Fitzbutter family, many of whom wear and Myra de Dion of Chicago, Dr. James H. Fitzbutler, of the Philippine Islands, together with Miss Prima and most of the butter, have attended the funfamion in this city during the Christmas holidays. The family will be royally entertained by their friends. The family is one of the oldest and most high school members has been engaged in medical or educational work that has commanded the respect of both white and the black. The founder of the Louisville National Medical College, First and Green streets, which institution stands as a monument to his memory. Dr. C. H. Parrish, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church and president of Eckstein Norton University, has been talking banking business to the members of his company. Mr. Parrish has been a member of John H. Leathers, president of the Louisville Banking Company, deliver an address to the Calvary Baptist Literary Society. This is a splendid achievement of every minister in the city. There is no telling what this nucleus will form. Of course, there is always those who have not a cent to stand around and say, "You do it, it too early, penns it, bank in the bank, be on the ground, the best things it could come to pass to help the race. If there ever was a city in the country that needs union and co-operation among its people it is Louisville. It is believed by many that it is poised, an institution that is poised, and if this is the case of Dr. Parish The Freeman bids INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1909. THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A CHILD WAS BORN. Nineteen Hundred and Nine Years Ago. him God speed and pledges him its support. * * * Christmas spirit is all over Louisville. The social calendar is the longest ever. Our functions per day. Besides the whist parties, dinners and reception, there will be several dances. Four married ladies will give a Christmas dance. The Entre Nous Club will give a dance, the Big Apple will be a strict exclusive. Only young men that will be invited are those who have a friend member, and he is to escort his friend to the party. The Progressive League will give a dance Christmas night. There will be several impromptu affairs for visitors and a number of receptions on Several society girls are expecting engagement rings in their stockings, which means that in the early spring there will be "something doing in the market," and you will be lucky to have any and from the number of functions planned the festivities are expected to surpass those of former years. The young men have remembered their friends with presents, up to this time none are reported and proudly give. "Speak up Ike, and 'press yourself.'" Mr. Richard B. Harrison, of Chicago, Ill., the dramatist and humorous reader, gave last night. Thursday night at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, Ninth and Walnut streets, under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown. The rectal was highly appreciated. By one person who heard Mr. Harrison. He is an artist of the first rank. He is in a class alone. He is naturally talented, in fact, a genius. His interpretations of Shakespeare's plany is as fine as any man on the stage today. He recites and recites every poem of Dumbar with perfect ease and superb delineation. He has not favorites. He has all selections are recited in compliance with all the laws of the show. Then too, he is the spirit necessary to make such work a success. His coming here was a great blessing to the young people of this city. Over 400 school children and heard Mr. Harrison on parts of "Julius Caesar" and "Merchant of Venice," also selections from Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He was entertained at a Canadian dinner by Mrs. C. W. Houser and the Progressive League. One of the most successful business enterprises in the city of Louisville is Douglas Business men resorted to taking landscapes and other pictures before they They make a speciality of selling lifesize pictures, 22x28, of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Arnold Lincoln, Senator Joseph Poratone, Brigham Young, and Negro congressmen in a group. Histronic, comic and motto postal cards are also made by the Douglass Calendar Company. Interior of offices and business houses can be made on short notice. For sapies or calendar cards, the Douglass Calendar Company, 726 West Walnut street, Louisville, Ky. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR, $1.50. PROMINENT DENTIST. Dr. M. C. Cooper, one of the leading dentists in Texas, is a prominent F. and A. M., a brave Knight of Pythias and leader in church work of the A. M. E. Church, one who believes that there is room at the top for every one who works, and has those sterling qualities to do and Dr. M. C. Cooper. do right. His sixteen years of arduous labor here with the masses have met with success, thus bettering him for life's ordeals in the advancement of this profession. His later work in the business world is as vice president of the Penny Savings Bank, with offices at 504 Commerce street, Dallas, Tex. FRENCH LICK, IND. Mr. James Gibbs, our headwain, went away on the 11th to visit friends in Indianapolis...Mr. and Mrs. Jas. M. Cook will leave on the 23d for Hopkinsville, Ky. They will be the guests of Mrs. Mary A. Hoosier, Mrs. Cook's mother...As the crowd is very small at the hotel during holiday, Mrs. Cook will be Louisville to see Cole and Johnson's show...Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Pittman will spend the holidays at Chicago. FREEMAN CHRISTMAS TREE DESIRABLE PRESENTS FOR WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE FOR WHICH THEY WOULD BE THANKFUL Director of Exposition for Dr. Washington-Orders for Sixth Edition for Prof. Miller-Peace for Roscoe Conkling Bruce. Consul James G. Carter—A blushing bride. Dr. A. J. Carey—A Conservator that will "stay put." John Edward Bruce—A return to the journalistic limelight. Roscoe Conkling Bruce—Peace in the Washington public schools. Cary B. Lewis—City editorship of the Louisville Courier-Journal. James A. Cobb—Assistant Attorney Generalship of the United States. Dr. L. G. Jordan—Rays of Christian sunlight for the Dark Continent. Editor G. C. Cleasman-Reelection as editor of the Star of Zion in 1912. Samuel T. Henry—Detail as quartermaster at Fort Du Pont, Delaware. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell—A woman suffrage bill passed by Congress. Dr. A. M. Curtis—Unanimous election as president of the National Medical Association. T. Thomas Fortune—Return ticckt to the editorial chair of his beloved New York Age. Richard T. Greener—A long-looked-for vindication at the hands of the State Department. New York's Solid Business Men—The 1910 meeting of the National Negro Business League. Dr. W. H. Davis—Principalship of the proposed Colored Business High School at Washington. Mrs. Martha Broodus Anderson—A strong booking for a tour of Washington and the East. W. L. Taylor—New True Reformers' halls in Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati and Philadelphia. E. H. Morris and Dr. E. P. Jones—A cut at the Grand Master's melon in the G. U. O. of F. W. Sidney Pittman—A $400,000 theater and office building in Washington, ready for occupancy. W. T. Vernon—Four more years as Register of the Treasury, with an A. M. E. bishopric in waiting. J. C. Asbury—Another term as editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal, with a federal attorneyship on the side. M. M. Lewey—Collectorship of customers at Penacola and the biggest newspaper on the Gulf of Mexico. Lawyer Thomas L. Jones—Commission as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Lawyer Scipio A. Jones—Appointment as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arkansas. Bishop I. B. Scott—Three hundred thousand dollars for the African missions fostered by the M. E. Church. D. Webster Davis—One thousand engagements to lecture on one thousand separate and distinct subjects. T. J. Calloway—Mayoralty of the thriving town of Lincoln, Md., a Negro colony wrought by his own hand. Robert H. Terrell—A new clinch on his seat on the bench of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia. Charles Banks and W. E. Mollison—Another chance to supervise the census in their districts in Mississippi. Fred R. Moose—A hurry-up call from Governor Hughes, tendering a nice slice of New York State patronage. J. C. Gilmer—A legislative enactment raising the salary of West Virginia's State Librarian to $2,500 per annum. Lawyer Albert S. White—Minister to Haiti and a branch of the National Negro Bar Association in every State. J. B. Bush—Retention as Register of the U.S. Office of the Interior, and one hundred new life members for the National Negro Business League at the next annual session. Prof. Kelley Miller—Orders for the sixth edition of "Race Adjustment" and check for $25,000 to pay Alumni Association's pledge on new gymnasium at Howard University. Dr. Booker T. Washington—Designation was Director General of the 1915 Centennial Exposition of Negro progress and a $3,000,000 endowment fund for Tuskegee Institute. 10 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL {a well under way, and since the emphatic Indorsement elven the project by the res: {dent of the United States, the ‘work of making. the exhibit all that it should be Hint Negto “pusiness Leaguer. as” ie ds ional Negro. Business as generally “conceded that the Feeognition Eiven' by. the ‘Nation's chieftain was. se- fured, through the influence’ of Dr. Booker $e Washingion. "Xe is. conceded ons all fides that no other man ean be Naif #0 Sircetive in attracting the attention of the country to. the exposition, ‘or in Inducing GOnerees “and. the Stace” legislatures to mak iberal appropriations fn aid of the feat purmone hich, the promoters have fr mings As is doubtless stated elsewhere inthis” paper, steps have already beon taken in Congress to carry out the request Of the President that he be empowered to mame ©: commission of seven {o alse up i Specifte fashion the advisablity of holding Such vant exposition. and. to formulate "a plan ty itch Te out made ont, of fective, “At. the suggestion of the Na- {Stel Negro Business: League and’ other Interested poales, Congressinar Way We Fe of Ohio, member of the Eouse Corraltéee on appropriations, ‘and’ Gon- Grecoman Willan A, Rodenberg, of Till Bolg chairman of ‘the commities ‘on i- dustrial arts" and expositions, offered a Soint “resolution. yesterday creating the ommission, ana feaulting tt to, report to Gongreen oh the teat “Monday in Bocem. Bent sip, Hits turther provided. that the Sth of $6,000, or ax much thereof as may be'pecetsary'to. carry out. the purposes Bt the act bo appropriated. "The mem Bers ot the commission are to serve with Cut salary, but shall be paid thelr neces Sary expenses, and. disbursements under fhe'act shail be made by the Secretary. of the Treasury on, vouchers approved by the {NGimnas of gaia ‘commission. "That the Fegoltion will be concurred fi, goes with bat mayne, and it is expected thatthe Cetamnisaion’ will be able to go to work alct- fvely within a short time. No names have ae Yet been ‘agreed upon as members of fe ‘proposed commission, but, there. ia, no Inck ef seasoned material "available. Rtong’ those mentioned are ‘T. J. ‘Calle: way. iho was the exeeutive officer of the Nekio Department of the Jamestown Bx- Position “and. commissioner in. charge. of Reet Ntnre expible at the Paris Exposition in1900; Major RR. Moton, of Hampton Institute; “Prot” Le Blackeahear, of ‘Texas, who Drought the Wea. prominently hetore the, Louisville. convention +R. Lz Bmnith, of Texas; Rev. C. . Walker, of Georgia J.C. Naples, of Tennessee’) H. $°Chinininics,of Maryland; Rev. W. Te Taylor grand master of the True Reform: Geo, Aitert'S. "White, of Kentucky. fhox. of ‘Indiana, ind. others of equal Prominenco and Bosiness experience. Senator Gallinger’s ill authorizes the payment of $1,201c144,50 to 61,131 depose Roks'of the late Preedmen's Savings and Meuse Company. the amount. representing Gi iper cent. of the depostts remaining une palte Dr, Charles P. Grandfeld, the newly appointed postmaster of Washington, 18.8 sPkeunts bf the medical’ department. of Ffoward’ University. He haw a host_ of Howard men under him ‘as. clerke and carriers. ee Mrs. T4a Gibbs Hunt, wife of Hon. W. we Hunt United “States Consul at St Huenne, ‘irance, ‘will spend a, part of the Winter here with her father, uae 3A, W. Gibbs, and sister, Mrs. Hatile Glbbe Mtar- shall: Prof. H.C. Scurlock has been, given ranks full professor of chemistry at Howard University, and in addition to an Advanced salary, in view of his scholarly and efficent services, as had. the house adjoining Prof. Kelly Miller assigned. for hig'use ho fouse haw been aos ret ed. ‘The Washington Division, United Order of True Hetoriners, with Chiek W. Bt. Grit Gh at the head ‘of’ the host of 8,000. loval fonswers, will tender a grand’ reception Monday évening. at ‘true Heformers’ Hall, in honor of Grind Master W. L. Taylor. Of Tenmond, who eomes on’ bis annual four ‘ot Inspection, “Speeches. willbe. de- Iivered, by. prominent eltizens ‘and "mem: bers of the fraternity, and an’ elaborate Banquet wilt follow: < ‘The “Blackstone Club” of the Howard Law School will argue a. difficult law ase Hits’ evening in Andrew Tankin’ Memorial Chapel, Howard University. The attor- heys for the plalntift will ‘be 0. H. Gran- Bay, Horace Morris, Te H. Holley: and Al Bere Andrews, alveraate ; attorneys for the Getendant. Leroy MeGruden, Sodward 1 Lawson, C. Ke Tiley, and MB. Willlame alternate. "Prof. G. Francis ‘Williams will Se presiding justice, with Edward H. Law- Sontas clerk and W. Ht Burrell as asalat- ant dene ui Prof, Kelly. Miller, dean of the College ot Arts and Sclences, Howard University, Gesivered’ the principal address. in” Balt more last. week, “the. occasion being a Imemorlal ‘meeting. in honor of Gen. 0. 0. Howard, the founder of the university, and was held ‘under the auspices’ of ‘the HOW. ard: University. Alumpl Association of the Sfanumental Guy.” Phis in one of the ‘x Of memorial_meetings “suegested Pratessor Milter, to be meld invevery. soc. tion of. the country “where the Howard sradvate tp to be found in any” oonslder- bie numbers Bethel Literary and Historical Associa- tion eld an tnpressive memorgh meeting last night in honor of Gen. 0. 0. f Heat niet In Mon eed” dcsctibed "th Achlovements of "Howard at -atianta Sire, Coralle.ranklin Cock gave. “item Blseences of Mra, Belle M. Howard;” fev. Walter H.. Brooks diacuased "tho. “Influ- gree. ot. Howard University Upon Hace Ehiturey” the Aeolian Mandolin. and Geo Glib’ Presented selections, and Prot. John TPabton directed. the Metropolitan, cholr, Which oan. President 1G. Gregory gn Guctea the exercises and Mrs. Carrie W. Gittora ‘actsd as secretary. peas rhe Washington, Sight-scoing Automo- 1ierend farentnent Company’ fs prosper Beyond. the moat sanguine, expect Hens of its promoters, fea high-erade domes are’ in constant use by people. of sentence, and the Dig sight-seeing ca! -ipuponsiar with parten w¥o come tom brged to view. the beauties of the Na- flon's capital, "the company is now pre ing to (purchase, a, well-appoiited \ ee Rages‘and has two or three very desirable Properties nnder Conmigeratign..2F th ine negotiations. go hroush, 1¢ in ko. Betinat within thingy days the compan Wit'own’one of the finest garages tn th Tity, ocated tn. the Neart_ of the fashion SING Garter, surrounded. by the familie St ‘Cabinet ‘ministers, members of Con: Bnd of the diplomatic corps, fror Som ie expects ta draw. large share ol Te°tatronage: | Messrs. “Stockton,” Griffin ankford and other members of the com pany belleve in going at things in a bus Bet ke rastions and those. of our peopl ho wish to see’ the rece muooeed Ih. plo Teor paths will stand by them with Bot thelr financial and moral support ‘Announcements made that the mid winter tyecting: Of the executive committe Bide National Nero Business Teague 4 $6 We held in New. Yorke City. about th Be Do held, tn New Fate ccs uae author Iiphia. in reserve for 1911 and 1912, Is the slogan Heard fm thege parts. ‘The Wé ‘Times, @ local sheet that never has’ good word to say for ‘people, and which never loses an Ristauds ot dissension in’ our ‘camp, fas sda of Siawgnaton "inoue camp, fae the wens ce diner Doe te meations of Negro appointments, “Tt throws out the fark hint gow that the President will ap- point no. Negroes. to ‘office In. the Sou Bnd that those now on the Federal pay Toll will be dropped as thelr terms expire and ‘white, men will sueceed them.” An- other “ip ie given, out grataltously that the will “square ‘himselt™ with the colored brother who delivers the votes by hereafter ‘handing out ‘the big Federal Blama to Negroes gt" the No ‘and featern Staten,” As the “Washington ‘Times and its “Negro: in, the, woodplic,” who is thought to be doing some dark- lantern prompting, are neither, prophets hor the sons of prophets, the Negro of- fice-holdera here ‘and in” the South are “paying them no mind,” and are going /on pethe even tenor of) their” way. The MBiack Cabinet” will be Intact “when the ‘Times reporter has been fired for ineom- petoney and returned fo his old Job of on- fuctoring on a street_car Some time ago Dr. J. Henning Nelms, rector of the Chureh of the Ascension, de- liverea’a lecture before the Sons of the ‘American ‘Revolution, in ‘which he _de- Seribed the Negro as lacking in the higher ideals of patriotism, and suggested | that one of the labors of the society should be the ‘teaching of what ‘true patriotism stands for. At a largely attended mass meeting Sunday, under the auspices of the Second Baptist Lyceum, Dr, Melms was Severely taken. to task ‘for his uncalled- for"“sugxestion. ‘and "resolutions | were Adopted challenging him to, show ‘wherein the Negro had ever given evidence of, fail- tre to understand the meaning of patriot. ism, Lieut. Richard 1. 8. ‘Foomey,, the Weli-konwn. poet and iiterateur, presided, and gave an eloquent resume of the valor of the Negro soldiers in all the wars of the Republic. “He drew on history, and proved that the Negro was with Baiboa at the discovery of the Pacific ocean; with Cortez In. Mexico, and were members of the transcontinental expeditionsn of Fre~ ont and Clark; 186,000 Negroes enlisted in the civil. war_to ‘preserve. the Union, and at Bunker Hill, Lake Erie, and at San Juan Hill they’ displayed a’ heroism that has had no parallel in the life of any race. A Negro helped to nail the stars and stripes to. the North Pole, and took a patriotic delight, in so doing, "and he has forday ‘the world for his audience. "Other speeches “in similar. vein’ were made, by Lawyer Perr! W. Frisby, Dr. 8. L. Cor rothers, Prof, W. #1. Ferris, Lawyer J. 1, Stewart and Mrs. Julia Mason Layton. Mr. Stewart made the point that despite the Negro needs and crying obstacies, the race had yet to produce a. bomb-throwing Knarchist, a Negro member of the Black Hand or Night Riders, ‘or a Negro iyneh- er. A full’ report of ‘the meeting was Sent to Dr. Nelms, es ae eee THE INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN AS A LANDMARK. How She Has Stood Her Ground and Won For the Race Her Greatest Victories. Br 3:3 Hamemnon, M.D. I doubt if there is any man or woman of the trace who does not at’ times. stop find. think ‘of ‘Ning PrepstaN aa a. land- mark, Have you far baek copies of ‘THR Tnumica¥, cam you recall the days. when i'was'a' timid’ and new, Venture’ in’ the World of race Journalism?” ‘Think of. the Tong years it “has” weathered through: think “ot. the ‘race. battles it has fought out: tinie of the men. and women ‘whose Sntrance in. public life it has heralded find the close of whose careers it has told About, itis true that ‘Tim PRescan isa private property in a. business. sense. of The tern ‘but it is ‘niso- true’ that. Tare Fiteatan’ ts the property of the Tace. T go. back to'its dusty’ files to. once more hear the words of Douglass or Langston, and to feel the stir and throb of days ‘now gone and yet powerful in thelr effect upon the. present. ‘Are’ young, men and. women making a sucdeas in life who got. thelr first high ideals and iife purposes from Timm Pummwaw.. George 1 Knox has done something for the ace, Ihe haw done wuch for the race; he has done more than can te sunmed up. ‘Thee THERaAN has been the potent means of writing many a. page-of the history of the A Mi Chureh differently from What otherwise it would have been The Shlenafd ‘service performed: by “Thompson was not only inspired and made possible byrne Piuzataw, but has become to be one of the most "valuable. assets of our Young. people as they start ent in life. T have often. thought. of the fearless, consistent, ‘constant. Work of TH nn: MAN, of how it has been the means of developing the. individuality, character, mentality” and. personality, of '80° many of the'men’and women of the race who are How’ playing. strong. and-prominent arts inthe activities of the race, There are many fears. that once stood before ‘our youth’ and’ which would ‘have Peigntened. them’ back “had it ‘not been Hae ‘there ‘was. a ice ‘faper that, Dro. lated’ in_catm ‘and ‘cheering tones "the lad’ Hlainge ot hope; that sola of otners Who had braved the’ difficulties and. won but. ‘There are hundreds and hundreds of men and women of the race whose lives Are diftorent from what they would have teen’ had mot the infuence of the ‘Tase papers entered in upon tiem. Te fs noth ing now to pick up one of the race. papers ana" read. of colored lawyers, doctors, husiness men, and to our papers came the task of siving his proper value to Henson. who ‘went ag far north ‘as Peary, who Sood “as much cold and underwent. a3 tang hardships and “braved as many Mlangers, and, "yet, without the nope, ot fame: ‘but alt in’ the. calm “and” daring hnrdihood of a gritty. man. "Bo, vou. wants ty dg. good. thing. for the “young “folles “in your shame? Phen tile "some good race Journal. Let. the boys and. itis read aid. Tearn, to, know St those of the ace ‘who are, making a fuootse in te, TE 'will “put nearetnto ry HOW | CAME TO WRITE “RACE ADJUSTMENT.” pees ae tea aes I am asked by THe Freeman to tell how T'came to write “Race Adjustment.” Tes very diffcult for an author, after it is all ‘over, to review his experiences. and Tecall the various motives and promptings Of whieh his book is the outcome. Tn all of my writings my aim has been to state the Negro's ease dispassionately. tationally and yet. courageously, to. the Post nd! candia’Soagment. of mankind. wave striven to base ‘my appeal to. both Taces “upon” Teason,._and ‘mot upon the feverish heat of passion. I believe. that the first need of bur situation Js clear, concise statement ‘of the. tangled” iasues involved. No analyst is prepared to solve ay problem anti he) haw atatea. te “son Gixlons."E have attempted to sive Jus Gssessinent to ‘all’ shades, ‘feeling ‘and Schools of opinion. I have not. denounced those who aleaaree with me, nor vet thos with whom Tdisagree. Thave relied upon Yogie.™-and ‘not upon denunciation for Weument.. “Another” strong. actuating motive has been that of racial defense During the past ten ‘years the Negro hs been most vehemently. assailed by. men Sho. recognized no. restraints. either of iogie oF conscimes. ‘When men of reat “hetorical, “cunning “and” ‘disqulattional Ingenulty were assailing the race insistent Iwvand Incessantiy felt and still feel f why" duty to, contribute whatever powers ‘tnd talents T'may posses to. offset. thelr Tamading doctrine. "I can conceive of ne Signer use the Negro “ean make of his Sdueation’ than to" state "his ease. and Singicate his cause Before the world. "hlace” Adjustment® Is tande. up Hanged at essays and separate articles which had sreviously ‘appeared, in ‘auch nubliention Qe the, Outlooks the Arena, the Form. she New Sala Men y the, owen ranseriet.,, Severs ot; tho. pa “i aublshed cin} separate, pamphlet > torn Seventy-five, thousand. of HiPhay nga preslogaly een, iste, Loni aan RTE Re pablo ot what oa popper aoe a fae eg tthie indenient “ai. shit covitloue, tae the, sirTmpIEt Ae a St ae meaeitene and! optaton, = th This Hiawiding editorsand the pub Se ae i oe preseht temper of thei eonstityents. A prose atrd Beh ont! Rees THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. juently express the sentiment and felt at ier omgasine “na the, Se iluenced opinion Of ‘the eontributor. | Tt is @ great misfortune that, the race has no Mmagagine of the requisite circulation and’ influences to reach the enlightened Thought of the age. "Jt js a reproach to ten million Negroes that’ they have not an. organ of opinion which should set forth thelr cause with such dignity and poRey hat, the “whole, world would, fee reed to peruse its columns. Popular’ demand 1s responsible for “Race Adjustment” in its present form. Requesis came from all parts of the coun- try for a volume containing my_ scattered wiittings. “Race Adjustment” Js the re- ‘Eponse to this demand. Tam deeply grateful to the public for the generous manner with which the book has been received. It has been reviewed most widely by the press, both North and South, but, without exception, in the most kindly and complimentary manner. One of the most complimentary reviews. which {have seen was made by a, magazine published in Germany, Although the book ‘Ss been published little more than 3 year the. third edition has already beet Gemanded, and | my publishers tell m that the ‘sales are better now. than ai any previous time, The book has no Sensational features stimulating quick fale, Dut purports) to be, a. same setting forth of the Negro's position in his up- ward struggle, I have dealt with abiding principles, and not merely with, transient And evanescent Issues. Mo#t of the books that are tolling from the press as thick a3 oak leaves in autum, are like the butter- fly that fits its shinning wings in. the air of a, moment only to pass forever from View, “Race Adjustment,” it is hoped, Will ‘be of permanent value to all those Who would ‘become acquainted with the Yangle of issues growing out of the race contact and attrition in this land. "The generous attitude and support of he public “mice the author feet that his efforts are worth while, PENSACOLA, FLA. Special to The Freeman. Rev, J, E. Starkes, pastor of Allen Chapel X. M. E. Church, left last week to attend their annual conference, which convened this week at Canbelle, Fa. Master James Smith entertained’ his tittle friends at home in North Coyle street, on Saturday afternoon, December 11... Mrs. Howard Williams is at home on North Deviller street, after three weeks’ ab- sence....Mr. and Mrs, James Frederick “eee ag a7 ~ 9 ice % ae ~ —s : ae ea ae ee . ey jg SBE See iam: oe a Se et <p page Pt Ss NS ne ZN A esaey Be gages Me ‘ : anges ae ‘a sae seid ci ipa Gis ce DR. GOREY HOOD, MECHANO-THERAPIST. Dr. Gorey Hood was born at Lebanon, Railway Company at = Marion County, Kentucky, August 1, 1862, Messenger in office anc His mother dled when he was but three Piyved to Chleago, Mey 2 wrecks old. Mis father moved to Louisville came ‘pert of the BH BB SMnd es ae ass of TING Set oP esha years, Before leaving Californt ‘During the years of 1873-4-5 Dr Hood up the various studies we te, he Seth Conia and Missiaaippt Cure" while in, the emp Fee ean meade Ga era her went to pany. and gave cara hasta orice at, the old Grand Pac meveral"yeats. Hla “bo Galea aid vale. “In 1880 he went to this study waa to cure fi Se eat Oe Tics tor the Winconatn Hote aitinentn without Sena allway” Gampany, as" pavior ar which ‘head oe He resigned in 1887 and went to On July 1, 1909, Dr. Ho "ingeleer Cae where. he worked at the employ “of the compe Hahote tle whiter ia i800" he’ went the practical work at th to Yosemite Valley and worked for four chano-Therapy, and recel years at the Big Tree Station, Warrond July 30. Dr. Hood is now HG 85 wiSatdhr’ tn ovennere 100s, cated at 3020. 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Sun- gay afternoon at | the Normal ’ Schoo Dainty refreshments. were served. day” afternoon at the Normal School bultaing & debate was held on the ques: tion: “Resolved, That the White Man Has More Right to This Country Than the Negro.” Mr. G. G, Grice and Mr. Dave Jones took the affirmative, and Mr. D, B. Johnson and Mr. Richard ‘Carter the neg- ative. On next Sunday at 3p. m., De- cember 19, there will be a debate on the question: “Resolved, That Heredity Does More to Shape a Person's Life Than His Environment.” Every young man is in- vited to attend these debates, which will be held at the Normat School bullding every Sunday afternoon. Come and hear something that is of interest. ...The Pen- sacola Lodge of Elks Is prosperous. They had an election of officers recently and elected Mr. Richard Morris Bxalted Ruler, and then put on a special dispensation and invited all young men to join, that, they may be shown how the I. B. P. 0. E. of W. will guard you in health, care for you. in sickness, bury you when dead, keep your last resting place strewn wits honors. ‘Their lodge room is at the. cor- ner of Garden and Tarregona streets... Rev. R. V, Green left Wednesday for his home in San Diego, Cal., after ‘a week's visit with friends here...The Golden Rod and Silver Leat Pleasure Club will give a concert at the K, of P. Hall Wednes- day night, and it is promised by the lead- ers of the club that it will be tho bess one this season, After the concert music will be furnished by the Collins Orchestra ©... Miss Callie Moody returned last week atier a visit of several months to North- ern cities, Her many friends are glad to See her home again. The study of the management of this paper is, how to make it a greater ‘and better paper, a greater power and force for the betterment of the condi. tion of our race, and the editor will thank any one to write him an idea that may be helpful to this end. 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The schools, instituted, named and managed, were white friends, were indispensable for withholding vantages furnished by them the Negro would never have attained the position he has reached today. They were a singing and an inspiration. They placed a high emphasis on the theater and aroused an ambition that led to wonderful achievements. As Bishop Haygood once said the story of the Negro in the second class room one of the most unique and altogether wonderful chapters in the history of education. In that early day there were those who uttered a vision of seers, and the words uttered a vision of seers, and the well known educator and friend of the race, Dr. Mayo, partook of the nature of the great body of colored citizenship would ultimately fallow would not be found on the shoulders of any class of white men, who added to the American white man a rule just that thing for the colored man, outside of respect for his equality before the law, and are seeing the prophetic truth that mankind today in many lines. Chiefly is it showing itself in educational affairs. Out of the work of early education, planned and carried on, the Negro man himself, has his own educational affairs, and Negro schools. Negro colleges, manned and controlled by the colored man himself, are the most important. This fact in no wise indicates ingratitude for what has been done for the race by its white friends. It indicates, on the basis in less than half a century of freedom It was never the intent that the Negro's educational work should always be done by others—that he should continue defending the war he was involved in. He has been urged on, encouraged and stimulated on every hand to do for himself and he has been driven to do for himself. He set about it early in an educational way. A future detailed history of education in these United States will show some most remarkable early efforts put forth, not only to teach and spread intelligence in the dark corners, but to support the war effort. He was there. These began long before the war. The free people in Charleston, South Carolina, formed an association for the purpose of 1803, which continued nearly a half-century, and many took similar work in 1865, and Daniel A. Payne had been a governing factor in education ever since he opened his first school in 1803. The Negro was never abated till his death in 1893. So one great reason for the education of the race has been shown in its fruits ever since the schools and colleges sprang up at the close of the war to lead the war. Today there is no question that the Negro is capable, both intellectually and physically, of training the Negro can give to his people. Statistics prove that he has done much along both lines; and the Negro colleges are in evidence to show by their work what of training the Negro can give to his people. That there is need of these colleges no argument is necessary to offer as proof other than the present conditions. If the Negro is capable of partial enjoyment of all his rights it might not be so much of a necessity that such colleges exist, but the exigence of such colleges is that the black boy and girl may study unhampered, enjoying all that freedom necessary to facilitate study and where they can learn about or percentage. This places the Negro college in a position to do work in special lines for a special class of people—work that is not and cannot be done by other families. While I am opposed to segregation of any race, yet with others I must bow to the inevitable and I will fight for it. This broadest manhood and free spiritual freedom cannot be accorded the Negro by other institutions there is nothing to be done but to create conditions that will give these for The more that public sentiment becomes bad, the more it will prejudice the prejudice and prescription hedge its pathway, the more it must turn to its own side. It is not the case in all lines—educational and otherwise. Many of our white colleges which have thrown their doors open to us, and which offer advantages to enjoy in common with others, are finding themselves being hampered by our presence under the influence of the sentiments of the Tillers and the others, and there are those among them, that, in one way or another, are indicating that we are not a desirable element, and that if we enter we are simply to be tolerated without contention, we may meet in this atmospher growing so surcharged with prejudice. I am told that not long ago at Amherst College, a remark was made that the time would come in which they would have no Negroes in Amherst College. This man is from the South, and his selection as a professor is based on his knowledge of the racial views of his racial views. Now, Amherst is no exception, other white colleges are doing the same, and they are calling a new element to their chairs in the college, and the Negro is gradually being forced out through the multitude of conditions prejudicial to him which environ him more or less in the white schools of today. Traction from insults or foul treatment by students. It is probable that they cannot. So they simply fall in with public sentiment—leave us to hoe our own row, and act as if they wish us elsewhere. I am not saying this condition is true in all white colleges; but its increasing growth is the first and main cause that has Negro college into permanent existence. There is an atmosphere of equality of freedom, of mental stimulus, of social order, that the race does not find elsewhere other college walls. It can be requested in some things the Negro must suffer because he is forced back upon himself alone. And this brings me to consider what these schools, as long as they do and must do, are going to be disadvantages that these disadvantages we suffer may be eliminated as far as possible. Negro colleges must rise to meet present conditions and requirements. Their object, they must their purpose, must be high. They must their purpose these out in the best manner possible. These Negro colleges occupy a position which will enable them to do a work no other college can now do for them. They will need to face some face to start with the practical needs and produce as a whole men who are, as a rule, stripped of mere sentiment and visionary dreams. Some of our men come out of these Negro institutions to produce strong men and women—planning and purposeing elevation, deputing self to the service they are led to work in, and triumphing over extremes. But to do this the Negro colleges must consider thoughtfully and seriously many things. Among them I shall touch briefly, upon a few which must have attention if these schools are to flourish and do the work they find is theirs alone to do for the race. Remembering that the sympathy, charity and excuse has rapidly changed to a place where every man is to be measured, he is or can do, we must recognize that Negro girls who come from the Negro colleges BY PROF. W. S. SCARBOROUGH is not prone to compete with their own are not to compete with their own race, but with the college graduates of every race, for a place in our American autonomy. So these colleges must be made may be made the best in order that they first cease to multiply such institutions. We should begin a process of elimination and center our efforts upon a few already start in equipment and doing good work. This step wisely looked after we could build up and strengthen schools already existing and worthy of maintenance and support. Here we would be greatly helped and would work the critical comes from the monied philanthropists who can and do help our institutions, but who are deluged by the many appeals that come to them by letter and person of schools—some of which have not passed the stage of existence." This would be self-protection, for we must continue to be helped by philanthropy as all schools are which seek Then we must have wise, intelligent, business-like boards to manage these schools. And here is where we begin to the careers of grover college. On these boards much respectability rests. These boards are the devisers of plans for the growth of the college and place the presidents and faculties in immediate charge, and they need all the wisdom possible that no mistake be made here; but their duty does not stop when such an opportunity arises. Two recent books are leading the way to a better understanding of these things—one on "College Administration." by ex-President Ellot of Harvard University, and another on "College." by President Guy Potter Benton of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. We see here that a board of trustees is a force that counts for much in the material advancement of a school. It may also be the force that the material side goes at least. It must have interest, enthusiasm and devotion to the schools for which it stands, so that it will not only exert its influence to carry out the work of the school but will forward them by personal effort and self-sacrifice if necessary. To this must be added a broad intelligence concerning men and their abilities and the presuppositions of their activities and in carrying out their ideas for making an ideal institution. Then come the president and his faculty. It goes on to say that the best of the character—its pick intellect and character must be found here. Here is where we must find union, harmony, cooperation, to the end of uplifting the race of students. It goes on to the front. The Negro college has a good reason for being, and those who man it [Image of a man in a suit, with his hand resting on a table.] M. W. S. SCARBOROUGH. directly must most particularly prove it in the role. They clearly do it in the lightness as the producers of a product which it is to our every interest to make as perfect as possible. We cannot have graduates with high ideals, noble impulses, great aspirations, fine culture—molded symmetrically as human beings—educated to the senses. We sense the men and women who have charge of them during this formative period of life possess these same attributes of character. The lack of these in a president or his faculty is a positive detriment to our advance as a race. These instructors, with the constitution an ideal for the truth of color, stand firm in what of what he may hope to become, be successful next season. Jesse A. Shipp, whose literary merit as a playwright stands firm and this is as it should be. This is the strength and the hope of our Negro colleges—that the finest among us, the best of the race, be sought to stand before the one. sensitive of our interest in canvassing York States. The Tuskegee race will be willow January 19, the attendant breaker. The annual Wilberforce and it is a stellar willion. Through Yale, Kearn, Alma, Akah of $5,000, a received institution. The color I repeat, our Negro colleges are a need at the present time. They will grow more and move to the city, and they must be filled and will fill. Then must be a preparation for such work, and more of our young men especially should prepare for this by special training. Already many are headed for the college means come to us and statements are made as to the difficulty of obtaining instructors with proper qualifications. Not every one is gifted to instruct who is asked to teach one who is learned is possessed of fine elements of character, which should be made a model for the young to follow. We need the combination, as I have said before, which will be taught in the classroom, dollars and cents to be gained alone, or the fame to be won, but which will keep service, morals, manners, in the foreground while cultivating the intellect. Uncertain, unqualified, whicheph half-educated persons have no business in our colleges as leaders, and it is the duty of THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER all trustees of such to see that they are eliminated as rapidly as possible. Then there must be union in the race to build up our school. We seek to carry on to a certain number of institutions—all joining hands to this end—building up our system of education into something of which we may well preclude from them, but we can give supplement to our own race self-help would enable us to show something worthy the name of college work. So we must do good work into racial ambition and pride along this line. We have a few schools which well deserve the title of college, which are doing good work, some with a long and productive life, which we cannot afford to let suffer. We should unite to rally to their support. The race must sustain their leaders of thought and action; the present is no longer the only field in which we can prepare are ready for us and we must make a common cause against the common enemy and win common friends for our work. We must join hands to build for future generations a school in which we who have passed the meridian of life, and who face life's west windows, will not see, but days that will bring with them the promise of our toll—our present labor and struggles. The Negro college is here to stay—begun by one necessity and forced now to meet another, must, as trustees and faculties, guard and forward its interests, that we may not lose from the exclusiveness forced upon us, and that we may patronize and foster these schools in every way possible, that the young of the race may be inspired to make the next remarkable educational uplifting of our people than the last. EDUCATIONAL ETCHINGS What is Going On in the Negroe's Great Institutions of Learning—More Strongly Equipped Faculties, Larger Enrollments, Broader Curricula and a Steady March of Improvement All Along the Line. Oklahoma is taking a firm stand for Negro education as it ceddled by an appropriation of $50,000 for its support by the first legislature of the new State. Subscriptions are being raised among the students and faculty of Howard University for the erection of a General Howard Memorial Gate at the Howard Place entrance to the school grounds. Prof. G. F. Richings, traveling repre- BOROUGH. sentative of the Curry Industrial Institute, Urbana, Ohio, will spend the winter in canvassing Pennsylvania and New York States in the interest of the school. The Tuskegee Annual Farmers' Conference will be held somewhat earlier this year than usual. The dates set are January 19 and 20. With fair weather the attendance promises to be a record-breaker. The annual debate between Howard and Wilberforce University is to come off soon, and it is expected that it will be the stellar intellectual treat of the year. The contest will probably take place in Washington. Through the efforts of friends in New York City the Negro Baptist school at Selma, Alabama, has received a donation of $5,000, according to a telegram received recently from the president of that institution. The colored people of Norfolk, Va., are complaining that they are being denied high school instruction and aggressive teaching, and that education provide facilities for the higher training of the Negro children of that city. President Taft delivered a most helpful address to the students and faculty of Hampton Institute a few days ago, paying a high tribute to the utility of industrial education as a solvent for the problem of the Negro masses. The President is a trustee of the school. The trustees of Chaffin University, Orangeburg, S. C., observed the quartetcentennial jubilee of President and Mrs. Robert B. November 24 with benzene, quet and addresses, and in other ways expressed their esteem and gratitude for the years of faithful, splendid service rendered by them. Prof. George A. Gates, D. D., of Dartmouth College, and formerly president of Grinnell College, Iowa, and Pomona College, Californin, has been elected president of Fisk University to succeed Merrill, who was compelled to resign on account of ill health. The Kentucky State Teachers' Association will hold its annual session at Frankfort December 27, 28 and 29. The local arrangements will be in the hands of the president, Prof. J. H. Jackson. President J. M. Wood is looking for large delegations from all over the Blue Grass State. Wilberforce University has a fine record for the first term of the new school year. The enrollment is upwards of 400, and the students hall from all parts of the United States, with a goodly number from Canada, Africa and the West, India Islands. It goes without the saying that President W. S. Scarborough is delighted with the outlook, and is putting up a --- --- --- ```markdown ``` *** --- more vigorous fight than ever for the money with which to correct the much-needed new buildings on the campus. The Mississippi Supreme Court has sustained a decree of the Jasper County Chancery Court in holding the county agricultural high school bill to be unanimous. The provision is made for the education of New children Mississippi is surely waking up to the new order of things. Zion's Herald, making note of the fact that the Negro frequently exhibits talents of an exceptional character, says: "Once in a while a young man of colored skin awards a revelation of the possibilities of a class poet of Brown University's senior class comes from Jamaica, in the West Indies." Despite the sudden death of Prof. J. McHenry Jones, principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute, the school is said to be in excellent condition and is going on going on, while its accustomed vigor and oneness, Charleston, Mt. Mitchell is looking after the business interests of the school and Prof. Byrd Prillerman is in charge of the scholastic work. Out of the nineteen dental students who graduated last year at Howard University, sixteen have successfully passed Sata board examinations, and the following twelve have passed Dr. S. J. Louis, Harrisburg, Pa.; Dr. Sykes, Wilmington, Del.; Drs. Rivera and Dudley, North Carolina; Dr. Marshall, Staunton, Va.; Dr. Miller, Oklahoma, and Dr. Charlton, Texas. Morris Walton, a graduate of College University, "07, is teaching history and art, and is working Miss Sadie B. Brown, who finished at the Teachers' College, Howard University, last term, has taken charge of the immense kindergarten at Dr. Washington's school, Warren Hunt Logan, Jr. of Tuskegee, has entered the sophomore class at Howard. School luncheons are growing to be a fad in the country, where are cooking departments. The senior class of the Colored High School at Louisville, Ky., recently prepared a special dinner at which the members of the school board are the guests, and it was a big success. The menu included the cooking instructors, Misses Georgia A. Lattimore and Atholee Peyton. Dr. W. P. Thirkeld, the magnetic and thorough-going president of Howard University, delivered the educational sermon on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Centennial M. E. Church at Baltimore recently. Minister Ernest Lyon, of Liberia, was also a speaker, and was guest of honor at the banquet which marked the social side of the celebration. Adjoining the campus of Howard University is a mansion in which the late Gen. O. O. Howard once lived. During the summer this commodious structure was purchased by Howard University and plans to construct it and convert it into a home for the school of theology. This department boasts of the largest enrollment in its history, and is doing splendid work under the direction of Dean Clark. Noble R. Smith, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has entered the West Point Military Academy, is saleed as opposed on account of his ability, but had passed the rigid examination, and so, on merit, won out. There are several vacancies in States where the Negro race has exceptional educational advantages, and in others of the race will attempt to secure admission to the West Point Academy. During the current year the public school authorities of Washington, D. C., have expended for colored school sites amounts as follows: For addition to site Armstrong Technical High School, $3,875; Lovejoy School, $3,500; for addition to site Phillips School, $15,120—$2,457 in all. Recommendations for a new colored normal school, a new colored business high school, and for extensive additions to the M Street High School are being considered by the board of education. The Conroe Normal and Industrial Institute, of which Prof. David Abner is principal, is doing finely this year. There are now in attendance pupils from Texas, and the force comprises fifteen able and efficient men and women, all specialists along their particular lines. Prof. Abner has been actively engaged in college work for twenty-nine years, and is said have assisted over 9,000 pupils scavenged all over country, filling places of responsibility, honor and emulment. George R. Bridgforth, director of agricultural industries at Tuskegee Institute, advises that the school has already harvested many sweet potatoes. This is as many as were harvested in all of last year. "There are probably," he states, "between two and three thousand additional bushels still to be harvested," and a direct Tuskegee has ever had. Some of these sweet potatoes have been shipped North to discriminating people, and they have expressed approval as regarding them as superior quality. * * * The enrollment at Tuskegee Institute this year is 1,550. Almost as many were held in the past year because of insufficient accommodations, men and women have been sent out into the world by Dr. Washington's wonderful school, and he states with pardonable heart that he and his graduates of Tuskegee have over been convicted of crime or sent to the penitentiary. Few, if any, can be found in idleness, and they have been willing to self-serve with the best thought and most uplifting activities of the places where they have made their homes. The position left vacant by the resignation of Miss Frances Jenkins at Howard University has been filed by the election of Miss Julie Martin as instructor in methods, pedagogy and nature science at Howard University. Miss Martin has taught for five years in the State Normal School of Michigan, at Ypsi兰立, and Mt. Pleasant, Columbia from 1970 to 1974, from recently graduated. Both in personal equipment and experience, Miss Martin is well-fitted for the growing work of the Teachers' College at Howard. Miss Jenkins has accepted the position of assistant superintendent of schools in Decatur, Ill. Miss- Harriet E. Giles, president of Spelman Seminary, Atlantu, Ga., is dead after twenty-eight years of consecrated service at that famous institution of learning. She was much loved, and many accolades were given to her. The organizations of the State of Georgia are giving expression to sincere regret over her passing. The Georgia Baptist, published at Augusta, got out a special edition commemorating her life. Miss Giles. The executive committee of the board of trustees of Spelman has designated Miss Lucy H. Upton as acting president until a permanent choice can be made by the board. Miss Upton has been associated with the work and carry out the polls inaugurated by Miss Giles. Rev. Stephen J. Theobald, now reading a distinguished course at the St. Paul Catholic Seminary, in Baltimore, under the guidance of his fellowship fellow, finish in June and will take his place among the clergy of the diocese of St. Paul. He was lately advanced to the diaconate and is said to possess exertion. This will make the fifth Negro Catholic priest ordained in this country. 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The following figures show the character of the several extension departments and the number of persons reached by each: Annual Negro conference, State fair, 4,000; short course in agriculture, 5,000; farmers' institute, 5,000; United States demonstration work, 8,000; Jesup agricultural wagon, 3,500; local conferences, 3,000; conference agent, 28,000; activities, 20,000; Greenwood village extension work, 300; Plantation work, 150; rural school work, 6,750; Bible school extension work, 350; hospital, 250; health pamphlets, 4,000; leagues in various localities, 40,000; towpaths in States by Principal Washington, 130,000, Total, 271,500. Individuals reached, 212-700. It is gratifying to note that each car shows an increased interest in these several states and a larger degree of angible results, looking to the elevation of the race. BEST ON EARTH. ENclosed find renewal for the 1909 subscription for the BEST PAPER ON EARTH for news of the colored people. Yours for success. P. M. 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Recently Sam McVey and Joe Jeannette fought a thirty-round draw in Paris. Carlsleigh Indians may play Butler College football game at Indianapolis next Thanksgiving day. Saranac Lake, N. Y., will hold the international ice skating championship early in February next. Bowling, basketball, hockey, swimming and soccer football will now divide attention as winter pastimes. The English sculling champion, Ernest Barry, will go to Australia to row against Richard Arnst for the world's title. Thomas Howard, of Winnipesau, Manitoba, who coached the Yale hockey team last season, has been re-engaged for this season. Nate Harris has severed his connection with the Leiand Giants, and has joined Leland's Chicago Giants and will captain the team. It is rumored that Bob Armstrong, who was Jack Johnson's trainer, has gone into the James J. Jeffries camp to fill the same sort of position. The Eel, 2:02 1-4, gray wonder, has been barred from the Ottawa free-for-all contests, and will not race on the ice circuit as a result. Albert Munn, the former Oakland (Cal.) High School and University of California athletics, will join the San Francisco police force. Young Banks, of Toledo, and Hugh Henderson will play fifty decider games for $1,000, in Toledo, beginning February 21 and continuing two weeks. Purdue University will introduce wrestling classes as a means of developing athletic candidates. All applicants for places on teams will be asked to take part. The Buffalo German basketball team enjoy the distinction of losing only one contest in the last three years. A record it is, it said, is unequaled by any other team. The Ottawa Canoe Club will enter Gordon Johnson, their 100-year national swimming champion, in some of the important races in the United States next season. The Milwaukee Rowing Club has received a gift of 50 feet of long along the river of Milwaukee, and the ground will be used for an addition to the club quarters. Dan McKettrick, manager of Joe Jeannette, who recently knocked out Al Kublake in Paris, writes that a French club will offer big inducements for a match between Jeannette and Sam Langford. The Motor Boat Club of Seattle will hold one of the longest power boat races ever conducted by an American club, next August, when the contest from Juneau, Seattle, will be held. Gunner Hewitt, who won the army and navy boxing championship in England recently, is looked on as a good heavyweight. He will soon meet Ian Hague, the heavyweight champion of England. English women hockey teams are anxious to come to America and play women in the Olympics. They include matches with teams in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other cities. Dan Patch, 1-55 1-4, has covered more than 70,000 miles since going into the exhibition business. In what was said to be his final appearance in public he beat Monica Heffler 2:15 1-4 at Los Angeles, on November 25. J. H. Weldon, of Dighton, Mass., has purchased the 103-year-old schooner, Polly, the older coaster in active commission, the older boat in the United States. As a privateer in the war of 1812 the Polly captured a number of merchantmen. John Lenon, the Swiss heavyweight wrestler, who is now in this country, is a man slightly under the average height, but he is very stocky. He strips at 196 pounds and muscular. He has a splendid reputation aboard as a catch-catch-can wrestler. "Cyclone," Joe Williams, Texas' great pitcher, has signed with Frank Leland for the season of 1910. Leland has secured four of the greatest slab artists ever produced by the Seawannaka Cup in 1910. In 1905 the Manchester Yachti Club won the cup after the team defeated Steel Arm Ball, Billy Norman, "Steel Arm" Johnny and "Cyclone" Joe. Montreal yachtmen are making arrangements with a view to a contest for the Seawannaka Cup in 1910. In 1905 the Manchester Yachti Club won the cup after the team defeated Steel Arm Ball after the team held it for eight years. No race has occurred since that time. The next three-cushion carom match for the championship and the Lambert trophy, now held by Alfred De Oro, will be played in the East. Fred Eames, of Denver, the challenger, offered De Oro 100 and expenses to the New York team. The favors New York, Philadelphia or Boston. The 1191 Mexican Derby attracted nine teams in the tournament. The cause of the disparity of entries for the two races is that for the Derby of the coming year foreign-bred colts and fillies were eligible, while for the race of 1911 only foals and fledged the race could be named under the conditions. America will be represented by a team of amateur trap shooters at the Olympic games in Athens. The Grand American Handicap will be held in the Eastern Handicap at Philadelphia, in July; the Southern at Columbia, Ga, in May; the Western in Des Moines, in August, and the Pacific coast event in Seattle, in September. Boston is planning a professional rowing regatta for June 17, open to the world. It will be held on the North Shore, but the event will include a single scull, double and four-oared race. It will be managed by the veteran oarsman, Captain Patrick McNulty, and will be financed to the extent of $5,000 by a well-known Boston banker, it is reported. In Europe new bicycle racing rules have been adopted on account of so many riders being killed behind motors last year. The riders will be equipped with machines be equipped with a roller 40 centimeters or 16 inches from the back wheel. This places the rider almost half a wheel's length from his pacemaker, and makes it harder for the rider to follow the pace. KANSAS CITY GIANTS TO BE STRONGER. The Kansas City, Kans., Giants Base THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. BY CHARLES D. MARSHALL. ball Club intends to improve their line-up by securing a star pitcher. Their park is being rebuilt, and improvements are being made on every hand. The Giants will make a hard fight for the championship next season. THE FOOTBALL SITUATION IN NEGRO COLLEGE LIFE. More Encouragement Should Be Given Sports at Our Schools by Writers of the Negro Press. BY J. M. BATCHMAN, Danville, Ill. Football has taken quite a hold on college life in the last ten years, and the players have been taught to play in that time, who, had they been white, would have been lauded to the skies as stars; yet the average Negro college player is not a geniusity to a great extent in developing his plays. His school, as a rule, is too poverty stricken to afford him a coaxe, but he is not usually consist of a rule book, fellow players who have had some experience with football teams, accounts of big battles from which he learns to aid with the aid of paper and pencil, to figure J. M. BATCHMAN. out a play, and lastly, a professor who has seen his own squad play at some eastern college. With only these helpers he has seen his own squad be turned out each year at some of our colored schools, and if accurate accounts were given of our best games they would be counted at large, as to the capabilities of the Negro in this particular field. The old guard whom I know by playing ability, and whose names should be included in a list of numerous; but I recall Seabrook, right end: Westmoreland, right half—the fastest half on his feet I ever saw, white or brown, and I recall Atlanta. They were men of excellent caliber and promise. I also have very vivid recollections of Yearby, Porter and Crute headed, tackedlow and hard, and were sure ground gainers. Fisk furnished more men of whom I had intimate knowledge in 1896-7. I believe, were as good, if not the superior, of any turned out by any Negro college at any time. When Hirschberger, of Chicago, startled the world with his kick-off, I saw Fisk were kicking equally as well, and it was a common thing in practice to see these strapping one hundred ninety yards line. In a game they were dangerous at any angle and any distance inside the yard line. In a game they could not have been given them in the papers and magazines; but contrary, the highest form of grateful recognition in the racial intellectual ability that makes it possible for such a player to be awarded the necessary atmosphere way down in Dixie. To football men of the race the kicking ability of these men may appear exaggerated, but it can be substantiated by any man who has played in the league as good a quarter as ever put on the moleskin; Holt was a sure tackler, good drop kicker, an excellent field general and a good receiver; had no superior; Sunday, left end, was as strong and reliable a man at line plunging as I ever saw. Howard, about this time, had a team of excellent material for the first place among Negro elevens; the question was never settled in actual conflict and was left to opinions which never end such a controversy, which is safe for the players. Negro players had been chosen Howard and Fisk would have furnished the bulk of the players. In late years Meharry has had a squad of excellent players in coping with championship would have been in him. The usual conference rules were to govern, unless she considered ineligible those players who have previously played the required number of years on a college It is, indeed, gratifying to read occasionally of a game between colored colleges and high schools. There should be more of such reading and our correspondence with students will stimulate our college men to greater efforts than to give these contests proper attention. "All work and no play makes Jack a dul bull boy" is as true in school life as it is in business. Propensity for pleasure, it does not follow such tendency is a detriment, but it can be made a valuable asset if elevated to the proper standard, and will add to the success of the school by arresting the attention of that part of our people who seek deaf to all other appeals. No people are prouder of their achievements than we, and the footnote to this is that we receive his just share of economics. It cannot be safely contradicted that the Negro colleges have furnished some as good exponents of gridiron warefare as the game has known, but their illustrious exploits have not been used because we did not devote time to chronicling their exploits so they might act as an inspiration to the younger generation. I am indeed glad THE FREEMAN devotes an extra hour to exercise wholesome influence on our uplift. They not only develop strong minds and bodies for those engaged in them, but furnish a means of recreation and amusement on the campus sphere; and I would like to see the day when our colleges could be in a position to give financial assistance to athletes who have on inclination to spend some time in the "gym" and on the campus. Neither Jeffries Nor Johnson Are Quick Finishers, Says Sporting Writer. By John L. Footslug. The styles of the fighters themselves are another thing which brings out the idea that a long, long fight never has stopped a trained man in jiggers, and in fact, many of his fights have gone the limit. Johnson is not the sort to take a chance, wading in a hugging away all the time, but he is fighting in a defensive and his one brag is that he can whip any man who brings the fight to Jeffers, so like a side behind that miffle. He rides side behind that crouch of his, in ambush it were, and then deal out the bone crushers when his foe comes in. If both men follow their instructions, they will be in their own corners making faces at each other most of the time. However, there will be plenty of real fighting before the fighters want to see it better take their lunches. There is a certain air of mystery about this whole affair. Who is going to Promote this fight? Jack Gleason and Tex Cobb. Who is going to promote Jimmy Coffroth doesn't have a hand in the affair. Tex Rickard is talking about pulling off the battle at Salt Lake City, where he is sounding well enough now, but it is noticed that he named three states in his bid, and it is a good even money bet that this bombs come off or near, and ransack, with the probable little encounter. Jimmy Coffroth was entirely too quiet during the opening of bids and the awarding of the battle not to be missed. Jimmy Cobb, Gleason and Coffroth would make a great triumvirate of impressarios, and with this trio at the head of affairs a well-conducted bout will be assured. However, if it is about time that the public is told When the final articles were signed Friday the thing that the public has been clamoring for since Johnson defeated Rutherford is the reason the naval officer of arranging the big battle has not been at all satisfactory. There is a belief prevalent that everything was not written, but many of the many many. Many think that the articles which were given to the public were only a blind and that the battle will be decided according to an secret agreement. Believe me, the fellows are going to split that enormous purse 75 percent to the winner and 25 percent to the loser. Both Jeffries and Johnson are good players, but they are not goodagers. Why should they choose to gamble away a small fortune when they could split the big plum half and half and keep the fight going withheld it certainly is not fair to the fight-going public, which has made this enormous prize possible. If ever a fight should be decided on the square in every manner this Jeffries-Johnson one is it, and the public will be a hard knock to the game. There are two good points in the agreement, and they are those relating to the naming of the referee and the fixing of the time that the big fellows must attend. If the big fellows fail to agree on the third man in the ring sixty days before the date of the battle the club will name the official. This will do away with the possibility of a fight, that, if reports from those on the inside are be believed, the move was absolutely unnecessary, for Jack Wetle is said to have been selected as the referee. The big fellows are required to be at the site of the fight and in training ninety days before or after apprehension. April 4. The public by that time probably will have become well sickened of the one-night stands of the athletic circus and will be glad to see the men down to real work. Another feature of the agreement that gives general approval to the neither man can engage in a fight until after July 4. THE LOUISVILLE (KY.) CUBS. The faces seen in the picture of the Louisville (Ky.) Cubs are the men who play the ball. Hicks, or, as he is generally called, "Bud," is a young business man of the East End, of Louisville, Ky., who conducts a pool game on the street, and has a good paying business. [Name] MR. "BLACK STRINGER. with a nice bank account. Mr. McBrown, the treasurer of the club, is in the transfer business, and has several teams, and numbers among his patrons some of the most successful men on the street and can be found on time at Taylor & Williams' big wholesale whisky house, attending strictly to business. McBrown is also well fixed financially. Jas. St. Roger, stationed in Black the main spoke in the wheel. As manager of the Cubs in 1909 he was a great manager, revered by the leader of Cubs for 1910. Mr. Stringer joins an extensive acquaintance and a [Portrait of a man with a mustache and a suit]. MR. BUD HICKS. large following, gained by dealing squarely with the public. 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The first account of the Negro as a prize fighter in a championship contest was the celebrated contest between Molnaux and Tom Cribb, many years ago. The fight was hotly contested from start to finish, resulting in a victory for Cribb, though Molnaux, the Negro, demonstrated ring tactics and surprising science. He has since been regarded as the father of static science, and his methods and the improvements thereon have developed many a champion Cribb at that time was champion, and Molnaux was an aspirant to the title. They fought that famous battle December 18, 1810. Since that Bill Richmond also fought Cribb for the championship, and after one hour and thirty minutes of fighting Cribb was declared the winner—in point of science, though. He was the only champion, a championship-shattered colored fighters by Richard K. Fox. He retired from the ring shortly afterward, and in 1884 the much-talked-of Mervine Thompson created a sensation by challenging John L. Sullivan to fight for the championship of America. Sullivan drew the line. Bob Travers (Charley Jones) fought more battles in the orthodox 24-foot ring than in the championship. A complete history of Travers' ring career would easily fill a volume. George Godfrey was the first real colored champion of America. He defeated all opponents inceptions, until he encountered the mighty Peter Jackson, and was defeated for his title. Peter Jackson was one of the greatest heavyweight fighters that ever lived. After Jackson had defeated every fighter of any consequence in Australia, he embarked to this country and issued a sweeping challenge to all heavyweights, agreeing to fight to a finish, for the largest purse offered, any man in the world. Charles Ward, a former heavyweight champion, was rich man and a sport, offered to back Peter against any man living for any part of $25,000 as a side bet. Jackson was "tried out" in San Francisco against the colored champion named George Godfrey, who only lasted two or three rounds. This occasion a stronger belief in his numerous admirers, and the Jackson stock went up with a huge increase in his earnings. George telegrammed Richard K. Fox to notify John L. Sullivan, then white champion of America, that he would back ePeter Jackson against him (Sullivan) in a finish fight for $10,000, and that the Golden Gate Athletic Club of San Francisco would up a purse of $20,000 for the contest. At that time no such flattering purses as are hung up now were offered, and $20,000 was considered an enormous sum. The fight was not a victory for Richard K. Fox, but an offender. Sullivan was duly notified by Richard K. Fox of the New York Police Gazette early reply. Throughout the land every one was eagerly watching the papers to read the article stating Sullivan's acceptance. Well, the answer was finally hurled forth to the world—Sullivan had refused to fight Jackson because he was a black man (6). Greatest efforts to induce Sullivan to the black champion of no avail, and both men spent their fighting decade without once ever meeting in a contest. Later in the years such men as Frank Childs, Hank Griffin, Denver Ed Martin, Bob Armstrong, Joe Waltcott, Bobby Dobbs, George Dixon, Young Griffo, Young Peter Jackson, Jack Johnson, and a host of others that were lesser lights. JACK JOHNSON. Jack Johnson, born in Galveston, Tex., on March 31, 1878, is now the heavyweight champion of the world—champion of all champions—and from all indications is likely to remain so long time to come to figure in more ways than the first boxer to gain the coveted title. Never has any other boxer in the world shown such persistence in following up a champion as Johnson did when he first made up his mind to go after Tommy Burns. He would scarcely have succeeded in obtaining a meeting with the elusive French-Canadian, however, under his wing and literally chased Burns almost around the world. When Burns became the idol of England and the Irish sport-loving public by his decisive victories over England's best men, Fitzpatrick made another move in his campaign by going to England and trying to force Burns into a match. The demands that the champion made for his end of the purse, win, lose or draw were considered unfair, and Burns was not a British press. Fitzpatrick and Johnson did not give up the chase, for they had the word of Burns that he would fight when his demands were acceded to. Over in the Antipodes the champion was finally cornered, for a promoter, Hugh McIntosh, was found who was willing to guarantee Burns $30,000, no matter what the outcome, and Johnson was only too willing to accept $5,000 as his end, McIntosh, who is a man a little more than thirty years old, showed great nerve in arranging all details, as he stood to lose a vast amount if the interest did not prove THE BATTLE OF THE YEAR. At 10:42 a. m., on the morning of Decered the ring. When the cheering had been and shook hands with Burns, Johnson scooted. He caught Burns coming to him and could see him, and the light for four or so save himself. In the second round Burns mix-up he slipped and fell. He was up quick off with body blows and hot jabs in the right hand and the light in the left round started. Johnson rushed to finish his Burns' head and body, and finally knocked condition. Burns took a count of eight, an orange rushed again, but before he ripped the light, Burns was only a few slight bruises. Johnson then rewas hailed by over twenty thousand spectre the world over. Burns rushed of the Negro in the prize in the fisticite arena have not been in vain. vision—featherweight, lightweight and head the chief classes in pugilism. By Burns of Europe, of Germany, of Japan, Johnson black man, rescued the title froid of our race from a sporting standpoint in every line of sport that we have been po to recall such names as Jackson, Jack of England, think of his prize and "Major" Taylor, as bicyclist; Mar ball player, etc.? We could continue namib with the cleverest in the world. This, indeed, has been a most eventful heist for the Leland Glands and then Ketchel. The Leland Glands held til the wind-up, making them champions, honors, as before. He took abut what the coming James J, Jeffries on July 4, 1910, will be and that Johnson will win after a very hounds; but go whatever way the fight may has been so successful as to hold the of the earth so much deeper down in the mire he are on the top round in the world of sp be morning of December 26, 1908, he cheering had died down somewheres. Johnson scored a clean knooc in the floor for four seconds, and w second round Burns was as strong. He was up quickly and mixed, hot jabs in the face. As Burns crashed to finish his man. He rai and finally knocked the Canadian count of eight, and when he got he could he bounds out of the Burns was cut to pieces, wher Johnson then received the referee thousand spectators as the chie Negro in the prize ring to-day she not been in vain. He has held the heightweight and heavyweight, anywher ism. By Burns defeating every the degrade, champion of the French-C sporting standpoint, because we h we have been permitted to take Peter Jackson, George Dixon, Jo son and by bicycle, Marshall, as a fo uld continue naming them; each, in a most eventful year in sports, Johnson maintained the title Island Glastens held first place in the them champions. Howard Univer what the coming battle between y 4, 1910, will be the greatest be in after a very hard fight, that away the fight may, we should be t to hold the title of champion put be a hard Christmas day for them to the mire tennis player in race At 10:42 a. m., on the morning of December 26, 1908, in Australia, Johnson entered the ring. When the cheering had died down somewhat Johnson crossed over and shook hands with Burns. Johnson sank a clean knee when he caught a tight knee in his left knee and held his jaw with a great left-hand upper arm. Burns was on the floor for four seconds, and when he got up he clinched to save himself. In the second round Burns was as strong as ever, but in a fierce mix-up he slipped and fell. He was up quickly and mixed it until Johnson beat him off with body blows and hot jabs in the face. As Burns continued to win, he finally, when fourteenth round started, Johnson rushed to finish his man. He rained a storm of blows on Burns' head and body, and finally knocked the Canadian to the floor in a helpless condition. Burns took a count of eight, and when he got up he was reeling. Johnson rushed again, but before he could score a knot, he dropped the ball and few slight bruises. Johnson then received the referee's decision on points, and was halled by over twenty thousand spectators as the champion of all champions the world over. The standing of the Negro in the prize ring to-day shows us that his struggles in the game have not been in vain. He held the title in nearly every division—featherweight, lightweight and heavyweight, anyway—which are considered the chief classes in pugilism. By Burns defeating everything in America and all of Europe, it gave him the decisive championship of the whole world until Jack Johnson, a black man, rescued the title from him, proud of our victory because we have rescheduled the top round of our sport that we have been permitted to take part in. Isn't it pleasant to recall such names as Peter Jackson, George Dixon, Joe Walcott, Joe Gans and Jack Johnson, when you think of great prize fighters? John Taylor, as a great runner, and "Major" Taylor, as bicyclist; Marshall, as a football star; as baselayer, plus continue naming them; each, in his line of sport, ranks with the cleverest in the world. This, indeed, has been a most eventful year in sports for the race. In everything he went at was victorious. Johnson maintained the title after fighting Kaufman and then Ketchel. The Leland Glants held first place in the Chicago City League until the wind-up, making them champions. Howard University captures all football I have no doubt but what the battle between John Arthur Johnson and James J. Jeffries on July 14, 1914, was like a after a very hard fight, that may last at least twenty rounds; but go whatever way the fight may, we should be thankful that a black man has been so successful as to hold the title of champion pugilist over all the nations of the earth. This should be a happy Christmas day for us, recollecting that we have been in the races of the globe, and now we are at the top round in the world of sport. Time! WHY JOHNSON SHOULD FIGHT SAM LANGFORD On the Strength of the Fight He Put Up with Johnson in 1906. Sam Langford's repeated challenges for another fight with Jack Johnson should be accepted by the title holder as soon as possible, but the heavyweight championship that Langford will be forced to wait so long, but the articles signed state that neither Johnson nor Jeffries can take part in any battle previous to the fight, and the put up against Johnson on April 26, 1906, when he weighed 50 pounds less than Johnson, Langford sure did his best to take the put up on weight. The writer witnessed the fight, and tells of the great finish Langford put up after taking a terrible beating. He was taken in the clubhouse of the same opinion: "That Langford would have knocked Johnson out in five more rounds." During the fourth anniversary of the walloping of Sam Langford by Jack Johnson. To be exact, it was on April 26, 1906, that the heavyweight champion Langford was taken in the baby at the old Lincoln A. C. of Chess, Mass. Sam will never forget that memorable day. For thirteen of the fifteen rounds he was on the receiving end of the battery, and with face and body he stopped some shots, and then he handed a man. And don't think for a minute that Johnson has forgotten that night either. He was cantering home a few minutes later, then—well, the champion was hanging on for dear life, and when the crowd filed out of the old building, on all sides could be heard: "Langford would have knocked him on to five more rounds." Langford heighed exactly 146 pounds that night, which tipped the beam at 196. Still, try as he could, Jack could not put Sam away for the final count of ten. Time and again he had the lighter, the Street, but only once did Langford look disinterested. It was in the sixth round. As the men came out of their corners and neared the center of the ring, Johnson started a slow right swing. As Johnson had expected and had washed, Langford stepped inside of it. Crash! The sound echoed through the building. It was a terrible right uppercut, and it caught Langford right on the point of the chin. He dropped like the proverbial log, took the count of six, and then pulled himself together, got up and rushed into a clinch, to referee had no sooner separated them when Johnson stepped in close, and many thought he was going to clinch, but instead he brought another one of those terrible right uppercuts up to Sam's pew, and the Boston boy again toppled to the canvas. He didn't move an eyelash for few seconds. Just as the referee had counted nine Sam managed to get to his --- By JOHN L. FOOTSLEY. CHARLES D. MARSHALL. ember 28, 1908, in Australia, Johnson ended down somewhat Johnson crossed overored a clean knock-down in the great left-hand second, and when he got up he clinched arms was as strong as ever, but in a fiercewickly and mixed it until Johnson beat him like a. As Buried on the wall jumped to thechair of the whole world until he took to pieces, while Johnson escaped with received the referee's decision on points, andstators as the champion of all champions rose ring to-day shows us that his struggles He has held the title in nearly every dayyweight, anyway—which are considered defeating everything in America and at the same time from the French-Canadian. We should feelint, because we have reached the top round permitted to take part in. Isn't it pleasant George O'Neill? George O'Neill? John Taylor, as a great amurshing, as a football star; Foster, as basing them; each, in his line of sport, ranks a year in sports for the race. In everything maintained the title after fighting Kaufman first place in the Chicago City League unHoward University captures all football battle between John Arthur Johnson and be the greatest battle within ring history, hard fight, that may last at least twenty, we should be thankful that a black man of champion pugilist over all the nations Christmas for us, collecting that we are unanticipated races on the globe, and now sport. Time! feet again. How he did it the writer has no idea. As soon as Langford fell the crowd began to put on their coats. Many were on the ground, and he took to take one last look at the beaten man, much to their surprise they saw him up and fighting again. And perhaps Sam was the last to see for the first of that round! When the gong ended the round Langford was boring in, head down, and slamming Johnson's body with rights and lefts with such force that the champion of to-day was hanging on. The round after being badly hurt cost him dearly. From the seventh round to the thirteenth Langford took a terrible geating. Johnson hit him as will, and Langford landed by the fourth round, being forth from a score of cuts and bruises, but Sambo never showed the least sign of quitting. He was always or more, even when he met them to their aid at the end of the thirteenth round Johnson A JACK JOHNSON. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER was much the more tired of the two. And he was worried. He had dealt Langford every wallop in his repertoire, and still Sam came back looking for more. He ran long, long, long quarterth round. Langford over in Johnson's corner before the latter could get his hands up. Mr. Johnson was the most surprised man in the house. All through this spasm it was give and take. Langford was always blowing blows which hurt, especially as he was tired from all the heavy work he had done in the early rounds. And then came the fifteenth and final round. Jack, you will never forget that day. Langford caught Johnson with a short right hook that traveled less than six inches squarely on the jaw. Johnson was shot in the back on his shoulder with all his massive strength. But Langford was not to be denied. He meant to have some revenge for the terrible lacing he had taken during the first threepoint attempt. He would not opponent off before the referee could get to them. Another right hook to the jaw, and Johnson was showing some of that Jack O'Brien footwork to avoid the three-point attempt. He maddened bull. During the entire three minutes Johnson never led once. He didn't have a chance to. And he didn't set Sam to the leading position intentions of the referee. He landed on him, and not once during this session did the chamuion land a clean blow. When the final bell rang it was the sweetest music that ever drifted into Foley's arms. And the opinion of the fans, as they dug their way out, that "Langford would have knocked him out in five more rounds," the situation of the first three points that great fight on the shores of the home of the Sacred Cod, Langford is now after another fight in Chelsea, but he goes to go up in Chelsea nearly four years ago, he deserves a crack at the heavyweight title. To-day Langford can make more than he weighs the night he bud Johnson hanging on to save himself. THE BULLS AND BEARS OF THE BASE BALL MARKET. Players Long on Mechanical Ability Magnates Short On Base Ball Brains BY DAVID WYATT. I am glad to see the interest that is being held toward the task that is trying concerning the Negro in base ball, since your humble servant was engaged by THE FREEMAN to write a series of letters on base ball. I notice that quite a number of capable writers have contributed to the task. The Negro must show something along base ball lines, intellectually as well as physically or mechanically. The supposition is that nature has provided the Negro with the ability to cop the whites in all lines pertaining to athletics; therefore, considering the wide and open field for thought and study in the great game of our nation, I have often wondered whether the development of the physical or mechanical part of the game only. Through an interview with one of our oldest base ball managers the writer caused an opinion to be brought forth to the effect that Negro base ball would be the most effective team in the fraction of some of our well-meaning (?) white brethren. This opinion, in the main, is perhaps correct. It is generally believed and understood that our oldest base ball team were owned by white men. The Page Fencen Giants were owned by whites, likewise, the Cuban X Giants and the Philadelphia Giants of the present day. The Page Fencen Giants were owned by white men the Chicago Giants, but they occupy a position similar to the graphaphone and the singer—the Negro being on the mechanical Rugby team. The idea that the Negro must bring forth his brain ability as well as his ability to manipulate his muscles, and he has got to show enough financial strength to produce something of value in the way that the Negro must work on his salvation," holds good in base ball just as it does in every else; but it is FRANK C. LELAND President of Leland's Chicago Giants not meant that he work it out with hands and feet only, such as we have been doing for years in base ball. Do you think if there had been money and brains behind all the so-styled promoters of Negro base ball that all our great players had been practically owned and controlled by white players? Negro be so far behind in base ball had he shown from the start the same amount of brain ability as he has shown in physical or mechanical ability? There are hundreds of things in base ball that are not used by the player and promoter. The things in base ball that count for the most are the very things that the average Negro base ball man know the less of. It is interesting to notice the comparison of different persons upon teams and their well-known manager of a great Negro team, out two columns of nonsensical comparison of teams and backed it up with an inflated opinion that he was more capable to judge because he had played team games. There is no means of comparison, unless have an official score keeper who is capable and has the ability to keep an itemized and tabulated account of every team game, which have no bearing upon the relative ability of the teams or players, can result in the loss or winning of a game or series of games. How far do you think the big leagues would go with out the team manager, which have no bearing upon the relative ability of the teams or players, can how would the manager know when a player was ready for higher company, or ready to be set back; how could the team manager be graded; would the maginate know if a player's work was up to the standard? There are dozens of others important things that score-keepers are responsible for, and without his valuable services base ball would be a game of mere sentiment; only such a skill as the statue of the monkey will call the players surprised that one of our leaders of the game would send for a comparative opinion, based upon nothing but sentiment. The Leland Giants are, perhaps, the only Negro team who have had an official call and who have been long a period as three years, and with the exception of the past season in the city league, not one person, from runners ```markdown ``` MAJOR GENERAL R. R. JACKSON. Secretary Leland's Chicago Giants. down to bat boy, has recognized the value and worth of their great record to even appraise themselves of the fact that in existence this is not one mentioned as an experience of the league of things which count for the most in base ball. The averages of the city league teams appeared some time ago, and it only relied on the fact that they had been some smooth juggling of figures, no doubt, for the purpose of discrediting the Leandis. There were quite a number of mistakes of course, but the brainless ball player and the thoughtless manager were always the right or wrong, to be used, no doubt, to show when this one and that one excels. The Leandis won the city league pennant away off in front, and they had to excel in something in order to do it. After taking all other honors from them they accord them the batting honor of the league. As little as the Negro has thought of it, you will see that in the above mentioned part of base ball is where the brains and the game rests, and it is where the Negro has weak in representation. The score-men of today becomes the great base ball writer of tomorrow, and the writer becomes the president of the league. This fact is attested by the rise of Johnson, American, and Pullman of the National. Now how do you expect to make a showing in base ball? Do you expect to do it by a continuous draw upon the sympathy, mercy and intelligence of the players? Do you expect to give a gent outline of your misgivings are put before the public, are you going to say the writer is a "knocker"; are your ears deaf to the great good that honest criticism can do you? Do you know that you have each upon its own foundation, and are you not aware that when your efforts have produced the proper record that the public will demand just as they have in the case of our champion, Jack Johnson, with. In order to bring about such results your representation must consist of ability to use other than the base ball bat. I want to say righ here that the base ball writer stands between you and the public, and you go over which you must walk to success. THE FREEMAN has thrown -open its columns to writers with base ball ideas, and has given its able manager; while he is not a base ball man, he has shown enough wisdom and experience that good that can be done by getting Negro base ball to the people by means of print. While the manager of THE FREEMAN is a man of great ability, he must be put before the public, and is offering A inducements for the same, some of our oldest base ball managers are finding fault and claiming they are being knocked, etc These facts above point out the difference between a successful business and a non-successful one. THE FREEMAN is one of our great leaders in journalism. Why? Because we are operated by Negroes, and its columns are always open to any news or work of merit that a Negro can produce. The news is sought for and wrote by Negroes, and can not be said of the Negro base unless you can be a good idea. You can not hope for any consideration if you be other than a player, and woe be unto you, as a player, if you spring an idea which crosses that of the Negro base. Good ideas must all be removed, and until they can not be considered in a serious manner. I know of no line of business where the Negro has made such a poor showing, and the fault, undoubtedly, must be part of the promotor. There are enough Negroes interested in base ball to make it a paying business for both the player and magnate, and the sooner they get their heads, that when you are boosting your team and when they make up their mind to give the dear old public what is do it in the way of an open-door policy of doing business, just that soon they will annex financial support which will enable the player and manager to look upon his profession with pride. One Dollar sent to this office during the month of December will secure the race's leading journal for one year. 1917 Reeves, of Chicago Unions, Secured for Manager. MILWAUKEE, Wis., December 24—S. R. Banks, a well-known sportsman here, has begun organizing an all-star ball club, to be known as the Milwaukee Giants. John O'Connor formerly [Name] Unions, has been secured to manage the team, and everybody is pleased, as they think Banks has secured a very capable team. The team will be united to unite Unions, will captain the team. 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Phones Main 4358 New 5300 935 Fayette St SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- nny and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Repairing and Attachment Call New Phone 3413 INDP'L'S PLATING CO., 482-4 Mass. Ave. THE STAGE 14 During the month of December The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year. (America's foremost colored stage critic). Six months have past since a review of the stage was submitted and which answered as a ninth review, for it is now the first time the stage has been primarily begun. The first souvenir to be examined as a rare deposition of art, with musical flavor, is the feast of the Cole and Johnson Operatic-Comedy Company, which has captivated the prize of the season and production of the season in America. The "Red Moon" has been richly spiced with immortal strains of music that lives, J. Rosamond Johnson, having felt the need to create a musical nature, gave us "Bleeding Moon" as a tuneful blessing which enables him to take his place in the foremost circle of composers, which embraces H. Lawrenc, with whom he collaborated. The latter two named composers whose music this season has been so sadly missed. The comedy of the "Red Moon," which has been improved upon, is now a classic. If you want to yet the book does not rate as highly as the production. If Bob Cole, who handles the principle comedy role, had played the part of an astronomer, with a text of some more exhilarating the hunger and the scent of the stars, his high comedy attunements would easily have reached a newly converted atmosphere; however, he is now unrivaled as a composer, and his itself is good enough for another season. The supporting company has been especially praiseworthy in the singing number perfection. Miss Fanny Wise, the leading prima donna, fairly arose to an unexpected height of vocal sweetness and expression in her performance. Taxed, she succeeded in gliding safely over. It is to be hoped that by next season everything will be adjusted in such a way that the monkey will again be bearded in this company. Frank Fowler Brown, the tenor, was heard to good advantage this season by the singer whose vigorous dispassion nulls the ardor of artistic virtue in spite of the knowledge that he is great. The virtuoso, who is been highly commendable and Elizabeth Williams is always a charming actress. Henry Gant, Wesley Jenkins, Bennie Jones, Tootsie Allen and Edgar Connor all did good comedy work. Harry Watson was the best comedian of all, as was Mayne Butler, an alto singer. Miss Leona Marshall looked well as Minnehaha, and she will probably soon become climated. Aida Overton Walker's appearance always calls for silence, and then applan as she enters the stage. The singer is a very good singer, breathing goodness only knows. You see her play a pickinammy child, you sigh and wait a while, then you see her dance, but after the dance is over you see her singing. She is the most beautiful of her reports seem to conflict. It is reported that she is to go abroad next summer, and also that she is to star next season, both of which leaves us all to make a dear good guess. One or two of her works are to be performed, and composed by Conductor James Reese Europe. Mr. Sam Lucas, whose fame has outlived his generation, plays the comedy part of a barber, notwithstanding he has appeared as a star in comedy or drama, but of an older school; and it is a credit to Robert Cole, as the foremost actor of his race, that he has upheld the grand veteran of the stage to whom all actors consult. Sam Corker, Jr., who is the Cole and Johnson advance representative, is very popular and a valuable acquisition to the company because of his fine disposition. Mr. Lucas plays the role of Lulu Coleman, Blanche Deas, Ida Bluford, Pauline Hackney, Daisy Brown, Marion Potter, Bessie Oliver, Pearl Tayler Brown, Lottie Gee, Millie Dean, Matty Young, and John Townsand, Anna Jarrett and Bessie Slmms, an artist's model. Among the male members are Herbert Sutton, a fine bagyteen-tenor; Frank De Lyons an excellent basso who assists William Phelps, Lewis Milchtell, Samuel Craig, Nelson Tunsell, William Patterson and Frank Hill. Chas. Hunter is stage manager. In conclusion, Cole and Johnson must be aware of the standard of ability, and not one of complexion, and the dark faces of men and women in the chorus look better for a race of mixed colors rather than the impression by all yellow girls who look like white and black. Williams, in "Mr. Lode of Koal," inaugurated his first season as a single fulledged star, and his brave determination to keep his company together with his teammate as a partner, Mr. Walker, was an effort of which he must be given an praise. The new comedy was almost a failure, owing to hurry in getting it on stage, and the stage manager of idea's. The piece was much improved when the company opened in New York for a run at the Majestic theater. cisse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers, in both this play, were not at their best, neither was his name well chosen. neither was its name well chosen. Mr. Williams as a lone star, order to have some means of support that can aid him to explode his peculiar style of humor. The play will need revision in order to have some means of support. Rogers also, will have a task to reduce the pie to a comedy that will present Mr. Williams in string scenes with Tom McMishon, and Hattie McMishon to prove successful. It is not probable that George W. Walker will return to the stage for some time, although he is reported to be much more successful. The William's chorus was the finest dressed sembly of the season. The music by J. Rosamond Johnson, with the single "The Woman in the Moon" full short of what Will Marion Cook had formerly given. In this respect it must be said in time that there should be a possible chance of recalling Mr. Williams or to capture H. Lawrence Freeman. S. H. Dudley and the "Smart Set" company, which opened its season in the East in "His Honor the Barber," did not reach the West in time for a critical review of the new play for this issue. If it had been a play that very good entertainment is provided, One thing very favorable about Mr. Dudley is that he has natural intelligence, and has a strong sense of tradition and the Essan of an actor's eyesore. He also has a heart that is not afraid of the sternness of as can be seen in the span of life which has again leased him the services of Miss Jennie Pearl and Mr. James Burris—and in addition to the dudley donkey, which he retained. The Black Patti Musical Comedy Company, starring Sissi Lissetta Jones, opened in 1995. It is a comedy with Jolly Joan Larking as principal comedian. The play is a reconstruction of a comedy in which Larkins himself once starred. He has written a new double role in the musical, and has been involved part. Some of the music is by Joe Jordan, and some of the artists in the company are Anthony Byrd, W. A. Cooke, Richard Patti, Sarah Green Byrd, Jennie Hunter and other. The company is on a tour through the South. Richards and Pringles Georgia Minstrels has proved this season to be the greatest show of the year. The revelry of the first part. Clarence Powell, the good-looking big mouth end man, and Billy King, the fashionable showgirl. "Gat" is the title of both being easy laugh provokers. Other comedians are Kid Langford, Tom White, Will Washington, Dave Smith, Charles Wheeler, and John Wheeler. Comprise; Sidney Kirkpatrick, the great barytone; J. A. Watts, Major Daniels, Jack Johnson and Jake Smith. Fred Simpson is the leader of the band. The company has been playing to packed houses. Salam Tutt Whitney and his company, Salam Tutt Whitney, be a grand success throughout the South, in a reportoire of plays which opened himself is a most enterprising showman. There has been much disappointment of late because of the discontinuation of the New York by Theodore Drury. His last New York venture, on his own hook, was much to be regretted. There are four or more cities that could support two successes a year, and it would be advisable for Mr. Drury to now take a trip to Chicago. The future of colored theaters in America is growing nearer to a question of understanding. The experiment with the Pekin Theater of Chicago, the original American, is now pretty clearly defined. In spite of former bad management and the failure of its last stock company to achieve financial success, if it was not Manager Motts would not have been able to keep it open. The Pekin opened the present season as a vaudeville house, augmented by repurchase, while white men acted with confidence and coined talent of merit, and has met with success. In dueance due Mr. Motts, he has done exceedingly well for a man who entered the business without ever having a capable colored manager in his employ. J. Ed. Green, who directed the Pekin Stock Company, was not a business manager, but an artist with a colorful and farseeing eye. The future of the Pekin Theater, as I view it, to be totally a colored enterprise, would depend solely on what would be presented. Manager Motts would have controlled a syndicate never be controlled by a syndicate while he is its owner. To make this house a success with a stock company would call not only for a large assortment of performers, but also for a well. The first thing needed would be a man who could manage the house, such as Messrs. Cole and Shipp or Frank Malone, who would be a producer like J. Ed. Green to consolidate with such composers, actors, writers and producers as Sidney L. Perrin, Billy King, Miller and Lyles, Williams and Sevons, and young pioneers poser who is hardly yet through with child's play. In the vaudeville field, Mr. Motts as a colored manager, has many obstacles to meet in his delights with white agents and the rampage of white actor societies who cause actors of his own race to rebel against him in favor of white actors in the workplace. If Mr. Motts manage to install a stock company as cited herein by gaining the full confidence of such professionals as I have mentioned, there would be no doubt of his success, as the idle actors could be booked up in the houses around the city in the meantime. Of the "Frogs," there is nothing worthy to speak of in this review, as more than half of the players in the "William's Goats," of Chicago. The "Goats" are young and they have errored by branching out to fast. Their rambles, which started at the little Chester Theater, which started at the Green Theater, which branched out Green and Brooks involved themselves into competition by giving benefits at other houses. When the Brooks manager Motts and ostracized from the Pekin Theater on the night that Bert A. Williams was to address them, their differences were weakness, makes no difference who of them would participate at fault it was their own mistakes lead- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ing up to that event which downed them. They looked for sympathy at an hour when the rebuke of their most interested friends could serve them best as a reward, and they were not allowed after it must be in a moderate, cautious way in order to once more gain the full sympathy of the public which their rumble performances have always so richly deserve. The "Goats" offered to the "Goats" is to cultivate cordial relations with all the managers and booking agents, as it would be out of the question for any member of such a company. The "Goats" hostilities with any managers, white or colored, without defeat. One important drawback with the "Goats" has been the fact that two of their executive officers, one a competition manager, trying to get the local writer who was not eligible to become a member at all, not being a performer, and whose relations with Manager Motts were hostile and were the indirect cause of the local writer with State street managers, and the root of their entanglements. But the "Goats" are not unpopular because of their mistakes, they have the sympathy and friendliness of the public, and perhaps it is best that they install two new officers in the places of the two mentioned as a means of general satisfaction, as I am sure a new state would with general approval by all concerned. The vaudeville situation is another perplexing issue which cannot herein be dwelt upon at length. Colored vaudeville shows are certainly more complex, study novelty acts aside from singing and dancing as a means of substantial success. This does not mean that singing and dancing must be omitted, but there must be some novelty that is not performed by the same performers colored acts. There is no truth in the statement that colored performers are going back; they are progressing all the time. The very weakest thing in the performance is the lack of educated original writers, novelty producers and playwrights; and until a new set of well-schooled youngsters with energy get busy to see what they can do, the vaudeville shows will more colored theaters, neither will the road companies be able to keep up the A. E. record made by the deaths and indisposition of the big noted stars. Another thing that is sadly neglected is art, so the newspapers are not as well known as companies. The pathway of art is always the unspeakable treasury of an actor's gateway which any distinguished artist can afford. A full colored actors must not be hardheadedness, as a prominent white critic has told us, neither should they retaliate to an actor's newspaper employs a critic whose truthfulness known experience and ability warrants and enables him to dictate the policies of the professional stage through the newspapers a benefit of the public at large as an issue. As a critic, a very unpopular vocation, it has been a wonderful surprise to certain big actors to learn that I am free from the contemptible world of the world of art and harbors hatred and an unforgiving spirit, and upon this rock of true, unaffected character my successful hopes were built, and there are thousands of people who are reading THE FREEMAN right now, who, if they had had the same experience as I did today, there would have been no living with them at all, and they would have been assassinated. I have nothing against any actor, nor do I seek to misrepresent any of them, so it is up to them to build a new world of respect and intelligence to exhibit toward me do toward them as a favorable test of cordial relations. And here, in conclusion, I must politely deny the assertion of Mr. Robert Cole, that "the Negro has made even more avenues of business life than in many walks of life." The Negro has made more rapid strides in all the different avenues of business life than in professional life, which is generally unattractive. The Negro has made the highest rank have even made the poorest showing, according to their income and advantages as actors, song writers and composers, admitting the obstacle to the business walks of profession in business life. With all due respect to Mr. Cole, we thank him for favoring the profession. We are quite sure that Mr. Cole will not die poor, but the ratio of money-making to poverty is present time, and without owning their own homes, is proof enough that actors have yet a lot to overcome. This message of rebuffal is not to discourage actors, but to encourage them in well-doing by taking pattern after Mr. Cole, who can proudly afford to make such a statement, even if his error incites comment that will better conditions. Consequently, Mr. Cole will be to Mr. Cole and the profession, and merry Christmas to the public, actors and all. S.H.DUDLEY AND HIS EXCELLENT CAST IN THE BARBER AMOS HIS HONOR JIM BURRIS ARLINE CASELLLE BOOTS ALLEN MRS DUDLEY LAURENCE CHENAULT JIM HARRIS STAGE MANAGER Been a 'Dreaming, While All Was a 'Seemin.' Arthur Talbott is doing fine, as usual. Only he now has some one to take up a great deal of time with. George Smith goes to the poor white lad one better by knowing just what to do with the traps and drums. Latest song success by the masher bunch "When Kissing Time Comes Along, O You Sambo, Let Me Relieve you." Did you notice those eyes of Bessie Simms? Now, what kind are they? Well, you might call them pretty, brown, and wise, too! Rosemond Johnson has you imagining he's squeezing and kissing a real sweep little tropical maiden when he sings "Hoola Woola." ("Red Moon" Chorus.) We could not find time to call on The Freeman this year, as we did in the past when we wanted comradship. Tootsie Allen is clever and surprisingly convincing as an artist. I have no doubt but that she will become even greater as years come on. Harry Watson would not look very friendly to me if I saw him out on a reservation, for he certainly looks like a "red face" of the savage tribe. Just remember that about all the brightest rays in the "Red Moon" will be with writes in our big Christmas number. Everybody look for it, even if we lose. Herbert Sutton has a great deal of regard for the "Same Old Moon" by the way that he sings it. A clear, sweet voice he commands is ever entertaining. Watch out you college boys' chorus, or the "Picks" will lay it on you. Mayme Butler, Bessie Oliver and Pearl Taylor are doing fine! Monday night at the stage entrance, just as the trio passed out, and sang. "Gee, Don't I Wish I Had a Girl, Like Other Geees Have." Henry Gant and Wesley Jenkins are two strong character actors. They don't give you the real stage laugh when it is their duty to do so, but rather, give you the real hearty laugh of our good old fathers, brimming over with good health and mirth. Benny Jones, the gay old whitewasher, gives everyone a glimpse of his stage whenever he appears on the stage. In fact he makes us feel like we all felt when the first circus comes to town and we see the clown. It's a happy hollow dance, a beautiful, excellent dancer, who does things with his feet that are to be regarded as artistic. Who is angel written by Why, Leona Marshall, of course, for when God made her. He must have felt good and happy over the results. Who could blame Rosemond Johnson for trailing after such a sweet ham as dat, even in reality. Can't she talk like heaven 'nessels' right in dem eyes of hern. The gods of talent certainly paved a smooth path for Frank Fowler Brown, because everything he does works like a charm. He sings, looks, acts and exits with such toughness, Dan tells like to see anybody enjoy themselves entertaining you? That is what Mr. Brown does. If he would sing all along "The Road," I would follow him to "Monterey." An't we all glad that the race was given such a pearl as Mrs. Alda. Overton Walker, Lillian Russell, Della Fox, Robert Fowler, and Glare of the spotlight of significance when it comes to this dear little woman. Just give the stage over to her for two and a half hours each day, and we all will get to go and act like distance. If girls have acted like her in "Pikantian Days" then why Theatre For Sale, Seats 350; good business, profits $500 per month. Cash $3,000. Will buy. City population 125,000. Address all communications to Elwood C. Knox, care The Freeman. WANTED! Road shows with good paper. All road shows coming this way and want to play the Dunbar Theatre, Columbus, O. seats 600, stage 25x30, all modern improvements. Address E. D. Lee, 544 W. Fifth street, Cincinnati, O., for particulars and dates. can't we have those days always. I want to get back to them. Just to hear the name Bob Cole, to me, it is to laugh long loud. I am not forcing it when I look at him going through his pantomime. Mr. Cole gives us something we have not seen portrayed other artists in this line. Bert A. Williams, a clever sleeker in this line, and yet altogether different from Cole. So much so that we could say that one is greater than the other in his style. Mocking birds, nightingales, canaries, Pattis, Melbas, Mitchells, Hackleys, Gardners, etc, are just "it" for soul-stirring muse sing; I suppose, but the marrow is so sweet voice any greater after Miss Pamie Wise sings "Bleeding Moon." She is so fascinating! And the expression that mounts her lovable face makes even the son of us feel glad clean through, sitting near, eating it up in big spoonfuls. WINNIPEG, MAN. Mr. W, J. Wilson and Miss Alberta A. Bradford, of Winnipeg, were united in holy matrimony Wednesday, December 8, 1909, by Rev. T. H. Slater. The happy pair left Saturday for Minneapolis, Chicago and other points east. THE PROFESSION AT PHILADEL PHIA. Hodges and Launchmeh played the Auditorium, and did well. Bert A. Williams and company have just got in town, and open at the Grand Opera House for two weeks. Virginia Johnson, a very fine singer, is still working around the city and making a pronounced hit. The banquet at the grand mansion, an elegant home, got the Standard Quartette, Charlie Wilson, Clarence Meridith and Dave Wright. Robert McNitt and Harry Waters, musical modelling, Wm. Wren is rehearsing his shown, to go to Richmond, at the Globe Theater. You can get The Freeman one year during, the month of December, for $1.00. WHERE THE FREEMAN CAN BE POUND IN NEW YORK CITY. Frank Jackson, 340 W. 41st street, B Reservoir, Seventh street, Gary 131 W. 53d street, Shields, 228 W. 4st street, and James L. Lahey, southeast corner 28th and 6th avenue. THE FREEMAN ONE YEAR, $1 WANTED Good colored vaudeville performers at all times, ladies and gentlemen. Taft Theatre, Luther Edwards, Mgr., 1314 Cedar St., Louisville, Ky. Theatre Seats 350; good business, profits $3 buy. City population 125,000. A wood C. Knox, care The Freeman. MUSICAL HITS OF THE SEASONS 1909-1910. Musical comedy's pitch of hits: Mr. Load of Koal— Harbor of Lost Dreams. That's a Plenty. Red Moon— Phoebe Brown. Pickaninny Days. His Honor the Barber— Come after Breakfast. Rainbow Sue. Hits of the Season—I Wonder Whose Kissing Her Now, Twilight, Song of the Soul, The Glow Worm, Amina, Waltz- ing, Meet Me When the Sun Goes Down, If I had a Thousand Lives to Live, Meet Me in Dreamland. Instrumental Hits—Dreamy Rag, That Teasing Rag, Pansy Blossom Rag, Missouri Rage Rag, Oh You Devil, Wild Cherry Rag. Waltz—Garden of Dreams Waltz, Hearts and Flowers. Any one of the above songs will be sent to any part of the U. S. A. on re- ceipt of 25c, postpaid. FREE CATALOGUE. One hundred of the latest hits.. Send for one today. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC CO. (Not Inc.) 3025 State St., Chicago, Ill. ATTENTION! Colored Vaudeville Graves & Co., Sheet Music Suppliers, 3008 State street, Chicago, Ill. All the latest popular songs. Don't forget to order "Honey Gal." It's All Going Now." Her Name is Phoebe Brown." "Harbor of Love Dreams." "Kansas City Rags." Send 25c, the price. WANTED For Pekin Theatre, Cincinnati, O., and Dunbar Theatre, Columbus, O., Acts, singles and doubles, and Stock companies of 6 people. Time. two weeks in Cincinnati and two weeks in Columbus, O. Oille Dempsey, Lessee Address all communications to E. D. LEE, Booking Agent and Manager. Dunbar Theatre, Columbus, Ohio Progress of the American Negro In 1900, 76,026 Negroes were in the professions or trades requiring skill; 21,- 400 were in agriculture; 10,000 were in business requiring capital. Already there are 746,717 Negro farmers operating 37,000,000 acres of land, which is not all of the chalus? Is not that a slaughter of the chalus? This progress of the Negro is self-evident, and furnishes proofs as strong as Holy writ. If the impetus of the race is written, the written page huge volumes must tell the story more fascinating than the Arabian Knights. If it is to be considered that the momentum must be reckoned upon dollars accumulated, homes acquired, and as well as complete education attained, together with the vast aggregate of muscle and mind directed in the channels of social betterment and general uplift, the task is too ponderous to contemplate by his research. By the scholar, although he may be endowed with sufficient knowledge to give it out; his research would lead him into so many varied channels of constructive race effort that he would become bored, bewildered, the phantom of wonderment, and he would be sadly frustrated in whatever direction he might turn his electrically inspired mind. As vain almost it would seem to write on the pages of a huge race, which no one tries to do unless it is portrayed in voluminous history. From whatever point the Negro is viewed it has become a general accepted fact that the riddle of the centuries is the riddle of the human mind. This riddle furnishes food for thought in every direction the human mind is allowed to operate, and while it staggers human judgement it can also cool the human mind that statesmen can canjure up. Upon whose tongue but Douglass's dild oratory perch with all her truth for loving listening ear? Or with her truth for loving music? Or with inspired music; then Dunbar sang his serious lines right into the hearts of civilization more tunefully than Saxon and English; then world spasmically to get the ebony of his skin. And Tanner, with his daubing brush, revived the art of Angelo and compelled the world to look with admiration upon canvassed children of his generation. In forty-five years we may proudly boast of a hundred colleges and a thousand high schools, of more than a hundred property, a half-million homes, a hundred thousand farms, two thousand physicians, and many lawyers, two hundred or more drug stores, insurance companies doing thousands of hundred newspapers, a thousand authors of books, electrical engineers, artists, manufacturers of a dozen articles of domestic utility, jewelers, mountaineers, builders of six and eight-story business blocks and lodge halls, theaters, flats, costly residences by our own architects and contractors a half-dozen opera houses and playhouses to delighted multitudes, and a thousand actors in smaller companies and vaudeville. In every role of tractors, a half-dozen big opera companies, a half-dozen boxing and football, bleaving boxing or football, we have mastered the proud and haughty Caucasian, and won his titles from him in the fiercest, fairest contest of his garment industry, the field of exploration. Mat Henson nailed the American flag to the North Pole. We have left our black foot-prints along every highway of civilization and smiled down the frown disapproval on every problem that human thought has ever involved an idea. Our organizations for self-help and social betterment are building along permanent lines. They are erecting great temples and indoctrinating in the race mind the spirit of communal living and form that insures a livelihood. The colored man in the large cities has invaded the field of real estate, insurance and banking, and with his business leagues, his commercial clubs and the myriads of fraternal societies and department stores must necessarily follow. In a thousand different ways that attract the searcher after truth, the fact becomes obvious that humanity is very much the same. It emphasizes as well as teaches that: *Vice President and black complexion* *Cannot forfeit nature's claim* *Skins may differ, but affection* Eligibility was meant for all who might stand the test. The Negro proved his worth soon after his manumission. Revels and Bruce went to the United States Senate Lynch and Lacy, the Governor Elijah Eilert, and the demonshine eloquence in the National House of Representatives; Frederick Douglass was sent by Grant as minister envoy to exile in the South. Saint Domingo, and John Mercy Langton and Richard T. Greener, fresh from the classic halls of Harvard and Oberlin, invited attention from the admiring gaze of Blaine, Geo. P. Hoar, John Sherman, and all of the best statesmen of those days. Stuunch and true were the Negroes of the Reconstruction, but times were troubled and treachery with its manpower, hunger to the management of Newpower. Louisiana had had its Negro governor in Pinchback, its State treasurer in Antsine; Mississippi its lieutenant-governor in A. K. Davis; its secretary of State in Irwin, Carolina in the mid-19th century, and Carolina in half-hundred Representatives and State Senators, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky and North Carolina all gave the Negro the crucial test of statesmanship, extravagance and extravagance ran riot, and public treasuries became well night depleted, no Negro during all those August days of political power ever defaulted or robbed a State treasure. Neahaska had its second decade of Civil war in a new spirit gained impetus. It was the march of the church, and all the denominations hurled the doctrine of a redeeming Christ at the heads and hearts of people intoxication or citizenship and an educated ministry gradually eroded away, fostering the bread of life in BY DR. M. A. MAJORS. one hand and the school and college in the other until such institutions of learning as Fisk, Central Tennessee College (now Walden), Mehary Medical College, Emory University, Clarkeiana, Wilberforce, New Orleans, Tillotson, Talldeegga, A. and M. Alcorn and Tuskegee became the race crucible in which the minds of thousands of the race have been moulded and fashioned into intelligent religious forces for God and humanity. Like all other fundamental human intellectual religion with the growth of intelligence and social order, and like then, even in its higher forms, still bears the marks of its long struggle in many survivals from an outworn past. It is still in the making and constantly puts other forms and worthier achievements. All instinctive activities are called forth and largely determined by circumstances. The child has the tendency to express his feelings and to develop of language depends upon having some one talk with him. The age at which he acquires it and the kind of language he employs are determined by his environment. It is contact with his fellows which gives him the cue and the discipline of speech, and without it he would not use it at home. He is dependent upon development waits upon opportunities. These may come almost imperceptibly through the home and the social atmosphere. Sometimes a new friendship, a new personal relationship with nature. It was apparently so with Zaccheus. As a public he was an outcast and had found men hard, close and suspicious to deal with. But in an unnatural way he was a Jesus and enjoyed the companionship of a man who seemed to trust him and to recognize the better impulses within him. It was a novel experience and at a stroke of luck he was able to find Jesus and a selfish money maker. It must have been a profound impression which could lead one of his liks to give half his goods to the poor and promise to more four-quarters of his money. It is still the personality of Jesus more than anything else which brings out and highest fulfilment. It impulses and free other energies of the soul. Beethoven inspires music: Darwin, science; Pestalozzi, education: Napoleon, war; but Jesus opens up to the world. In his face more than in any other is found the image of the divine, and it has proved an infinite source of comfort, of encouragement, and of illumination to many. A race long wronged and limited in the spheres of social enlargement by the cruil usages of a horrible tyranny could be a great source of strength, depend upon its own crude emotionalism. In a merely doctrinal view of religion, which emphasizes the acceptance of certain articles of belief, there may seem to be little value in these emotional and moral matters. It is often held to be a disposition of mind and heart and a practical realization of personal and social ideals as well, then these moods may be cherished as formative and instructive. There are many ways of quickening and vitalizing the inner life. Individuals differ profoundly in their temperaments and training, and it is unfortunate for them to be unable to choose the type, to arrogate to itself the claim of possessing the only sound and saving experience of religion. By such claims a narrow orthodoxy has often shown how little is understood the range and power of religious sentiment in various classes of people. In this wake of religious education the foundation of the home has been deeply lain, and the progress of the Negro has thus been of steady healthy growth. The great determining power thus gained has given rise to the rest of markand who see far into the future beyond the inky curse of an unpopular complexion—a civilizing force with which the coming centuries must reckon. Goldsmith has so beautifully said: In all my wanderings round this world of care. In all my grief, and God has given my share— There are characters among us in the religious world who stand out prominently among the foremost men of civilization, the most important prelate, Bishop H. M. Turner, the fervency of Bishop A. Grant, the illumination of J. W. E. Bowen, the sacrifice of Bishop I. B. Scott, the eloquence of Dr. M. C. B. Mason, the high soul spirit of Grimke and the great friend of W. W. Know of the late Bishop Daniel A. Payne and Alexander Crummell? Human sublimity, Christian piety and truth that needs not fictitious effort to embellish it. They are of the immortals that were not born in the world, but by which the Negro has impressed his usefulness upon the world, and the varied fields into which he has entered has taught him by actual experience the law of compensation, so that he has become a fruitful, fruit-producing element in American society. There was a time not far removed when it were the sheerest vanity to claim so much before the great world of earnest work, but when it has brought clearer into view the strong contrast of the past with the present, and so striking has been the progress of the race that it would be the sheerest folly not to chronicle the vast good doing of the Negro in this age of wonderful develop- No more can it be said that we are to be judged by the number of pounds our black hands can raise from the earth, but we are to be measured in the scale or hedge which is required to move the world. We are living in a great and awful time. The time when the individual test in affairs of state, in the busy marts of cities, in the houses of anywhere, and everywhere, will "off proclaim" the man. Color of one skin is not the badge of inferiority in twenty-nine States of America. has been the dream of philosophy since the Preamble first to demonstrate that man acts in accordance with the laws of his environment, and next to reach the plains of scientific prophcy as to his future actions. No more historian. History of the living is not the chief function of language, but to the amulet the handing down of history will be by far the most valuable of our deeds. Whoever adds to the heritage that he is to possess wisely upon the gratitude of a man which will remind him grow more generous and appreciative. These are not the useful drums that is not the muffler of that final THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. THE BUILDING posing stage which we here place before the reader. To this, his own theater, he may enter all hours; these actors are always in the audience, divan in this arena he may summon before him, Negro as he is, a glittering pageant of patriarchs, kings, queens, conquerors, capitals, monarchs, artists, inventors, poets, orators and dramatists. What trariedian of the imagination has ever mimicked the imagination of Frederick Douglas's or Booker T. Washington's life? It is the duty of those who have lived many years to guide the footsteps of those who with glad countenances are eagerly pressing upon Their advent becomes more and more interesting and optimistic. At the portal we should hold, offering as our most precious possession the history of our race that we have received from our ancestors. We have witnessed the generation of great Negroes has beautiful and made illustrious by their valor, deeds and adventures; the history into which each coming year must add even more remarkable chapters, and made by those who in their turn shall follow on toward the greater heights of goodness. Chicago, Ill. THE NEGRO IN SAN FRANCISCO. Graft! well I should say so, and if there's another town in America to beat Frisco? for this I'd like to see how they did it. The newbys have the habit, and to not let the packers suffer "Frisco" is like opening a jack-pot without a pair. But what's the use, its a city of all natives and you can find each trying to outdo the packers, assuming the exclusive and displaying a most obnoxious determination to dictate, dominate and antagonize the yellow and black. Since you invariably read in advertisements of hotels, societies and real estate dealers these lines: "Japanese, Chinamen and Negroes excluded." Quite too bad that the whites can't run and control them, these races it is certainly a pity that the packers bepected to be good, moral, law-binding citizens under these conditions. Still, to a foreign born, they will all lock together math-ju-ju" and yell themselves "ju-ju" to denote the native sons and daughters. Taking a chronological survey of the business conditions we find the whites leading with their large department stores and hotels and finest of cafes and restaurants. The Japanese, somewhat scattered, but close to the whites in their shrewd manner and their determined efforts to demand recognition from a standpoint seem to be the most important among many of the finest art stores in America, working for and giving satisfaction to all who hire them. The Chinese, about in third position, with his famous and exclusive section with Chinatown, and the poor Negro last, as usual, have come across during my travels of some fifteen years or more, the Negroes in "Frisco" and Oakland are about the limit for worthiness. Of course, there are many exceptions, but, as a whole, they are not all the same. Set you very few of them displaying a desire to be self-supporting or even an efficient partner to a good husband, and you are not going to be divorced, and seem to have real friends, particular aim in life except a mere existence. Yet they are the easiest to become acquainted with and the hardest to shake. On the other hand, the men seem to have a more determined aim and ambition than the women. They either want to be the women or the men, crap shooting, or else determined to be the big-chested boss of some little dingy ballyhoo Skunktortium where they pull off all sorts of physical and acrobatic stunts, and they are still unknown to the civilized world. In Oakland they have a Negro as a special police officer. Hearing the word "Negro" is not a bad idea, that the board of aldermen or supervisors in order to give special and efficient protection to certain business interests, got together and created such a position and a police force. The police force of police to appoint a representative capable, and a popular person, to fill this position, but, say, don't be deceived, as it is not always the best vice politics to control the Negro vice, and this special officer is about the kind of a colored man the white man usually sets up to represent the Negro whenever old things or old things are seemingly afraid to holder. The officer, a short, stockilly built, black, uncutthought darkyke of about five feet three inches in height or width, and would probably weigh in the neighborhood, and gives rather the, appearance of the type of Negro we often read about dangling from a rope tied to a telegraph or lamp post anywhere in Georgia or North Carolina. No measure, whatever of an officer of the law, is equally most obnoxious representative of the colored citizens—patches in his trousers as large as a pan-cake, his shoes unpolished and run over from the instep with no collar or tie, and will break his neck to haul your luggage for "four-bits" (50c) or run your errand for the paltry sum of "two-bits" (25c). This, the special officer of the law, and so far as the police are aware, is the representative of the colored voters of Oakland. Too bad, indeed, that the good and better class of colored people of Oakland wouldn't wake up and assert their rights and thereby make some effort to cope with more宏大的 ambitions of the race in other sections. Prejudice! Yes there's prejudice in both "Frisco" and Oakland, and the only difference between "Frisco" Oakland and "Frisco" Georgia is that you expect in Georgia. Still the whites seem willing indeed to give the Negro all the chance in the world, but it seems that the wrong set of Negroes are out here and do not do anything themselves and don't how to anything. I wouldn't, under any circumstances, advise any ambitious colored person to come to either "Frisco" or Oakland, unless they had the means to re-enter through road from Reno to Cheyenne, and a long walk from Truckee to Oden. QUINCY, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Chas. Russell entertained at dinner. Those present were: Rev. H. Hall of Bloomington, Ill., Rev. T. L. Smith, Mrs. S. B. Golden, Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs. B. Golden, Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey died at his residence, 1627 North Street, Thursday, after a short illness. Mrs. E. B. Smith has returned to her home in Springfield, Ill., after a long visit to the University. Mrs. E. B. Smith. . .Miss Jessie Douglas is attending Lincoln Institute, at Jefferson City, Mo. . .Miss Stella Carter, of St. Louis, was in the city Saturday, en route to Canterbury. Mrs. E. B. Smith. . .Miss Jessie Douglas were in the city with the Malley Brothers Company, which gave an entertainment at Rogers Hall, Wednesday night. . .Mrs. Humphrey entertained the Sewing Circle Company, which gave an entertainment at Mosley is visiting in Alton, Ill. . .Mrs. Anna Hammond entertained a dinner party in honor of Mrs. E. B. Smith. The S. S. O. E. Quartette was out serene, in the city hall, shall, of Chicago, was in the city Friday to inspect Company I of his command, also Capt. R. A. Byrd, of Springfield, Ill., and report the company in excellent shape. The guest of Mrs. Oliver Jackson. . .The Culture Club had a mission program Sunday. ...Mr. and Mrs. Snively, of Canton, have returned home from a visit in Ft. Scott. Kans...Miss Jessie Davis has returned home from St. Louis, Mo...The Sewing Circle had a mask entertainment at the comedy club. ...The members of Eighth and Elm Church gave a surprise party for Mrs. Douglas, on East Spruce street. WEST BADEN, IND. Special to The Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Lln Davis are guests at Rice's Hotel. They are from East St. Petersburg, Florida. Mrs. Johnson, who has been ill at Rice's Hotel, went away somewhat better. Since Head was elected Mayor of Louisville, he was the only man to some of Louisville's talented gamblers. THE FREEMAN Can be found at Camden, N. J., 974 Ferry avenue, with J. J. Holden. 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We deliver goods direct to consumers and pay all express charges. Give us a Trial Order. John Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind GREAT COMPEER CIGAR, 5 cts. Quality Sells It. $25, $50 AND $75, $5.00 cash, $1.00 a week. Upright Pianos $125, $150 TO $200 $10 cash $1.25 a week. Organs $10, $15 TO $50, $5 cash, $1 a week. Lennox 9 East Market St. 9 Massachusetts Ave. ay Easy EVERYWHERE Negro Race" and "Light Ahead on offer, I will furnish either picture, (photo-graveur), "A night for the Union," for $1.50 Good Negro literature. Agem ke $5.00 per day. Address HNSON, New York City, N. 15 BlackPattiMusicalComedyCo. SOLID AS THE ROCKS OF GIBRALTAR. THE MUSICIAN "JOLLY" JOHN LARKINS. The Rajah of Mirth. MME. JONES. SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF A GREAT MUSICIAN How R. Roy Pope Reached the Top Round as Band Master. BY CHARLES D. MARSHALL The coming of Mr. R. Roy Pope to this city a short time ago to spend the remaining winter months with his mother and old friends, or, as Riley says, "Teter as a child," and "Teter as a same as kin," where he was about and reared about twenty-seven years ago, gives to me a splendid idea of what real talent and plenty of grit or that get-up-and-go attitude, or genteelness, will do for the young man, black or white. For since his leaving here some years ago he has become not only the youngest but one of the greatest band members in country and that is something worth thinking on! I can remember back to sixteen years ago when Owen Bradshaw, at one time the go-to band for young people had within her borders, now long since dead, began the great task of getting up a first-class "kid" band—that was then all the go-to band, ranging in age, about on the twenty-first, perhaps a little older, was considered a novelty if they played any instrument in a band. At that time Pope was "running wild" about the band, thought, save for the popular air he gavely whistled going to and from school. By 7 When the news was one day circulated that Bradshaw's "kid" band would take to only to begin the making of a famous band master. Season after season they would be held on, and was favorably mentioned as a coming light in music circles. Some would say, "What do you think?" Bradshaw learned a cornet, and is playing it to beat 16 A REAL MIC MEDY. A new and w the band!" But Pope was simply fitting himself to be one of the best cornetists that was ever heard—and he made it. The enemy fought him hard after he had won the plaudits of the world. They well saw where he was going to land, and with that natural jersey, that is ever in the hearts of some men, they fought hard to beat him back, but he would not down. It was too late, for Pope had reached the, gates of success through merit, and old happi- Finally, one day a year or so ago a litte, brown-skinned lad returned to visit his dear old mother and a host of good old friends of yore, to tell them that he had been a great showman and master of a great band of a great show—Ringling Brothers' World's Greatest Shows. For two seasons he has successfully managed and directed the Annex Band for this great show, having under control such musicians as Prog. G. W. E. Barbour, P. A. Cable and Prof. W. J. Walker and other first-class men. NOTES FROM WM. McCABE'S GEORGIA MINSTRELS. The company numbers eighteen people, and McCabe declares this is the best company by far that he has had in a lifetime of theatrical experience. Evidently the winter has set in for good, but despite the warmness, keeps up its usual standard "good." We celebrated the forty-second birthday anniversary of our efficient musical director, Mr. Fred Burch, with music by the many useful remembrances, among them his favorite companion and solid comforter, viz. a gold-trimmed French briar pipe, and we recently met the composer, presumably Mrs. Cascie Burch, late of the "Moonshiner's Daughter" company, has certainly won her way into the hearts of the members of the company. Mrs. Haiti Muskoff, of Boston, Mass., arrived at Sanborn, Ia., and her initial appearance with the Georgia Troubadours was greeted with enthusiasm. In fact, she was always present when her to be, as a nightly she takes the houses by storm with her tender, musical voice, sprightly dancing and catchy attitude. Our little sunbeam always brings sunshine whenever there seems a cloud of discontent. Her appearance soon dispels it. She is the pet of the first part, and the second part, Jack Windshush the ada. Oda's progress is so rapid that time and space will not permit me to say more at present. Next we will find a short and conscientious worker, Edna McCabe is one of the most earnest and conscientious workers in the company, and too much cannot be said of her ability and personality. Bright-eyes and barton singer and master of transportation, comes in for his share of credit, and fully deserves the rounds of applause he gets. Wm. McCabe and clever Billy Horses, who pull this heavy load of delightful entertainers up the steep hill of prosperity, McCabe is a funny comedian and Billy Young is his straight man. You can tell him what suits them get out of their work together. We truly regret the deaths of our friends, James Settles and Harry Brad-wood, who were missing looking forward to a merry Christmas. Miss Cassie Burch especially wishes to be remembered to Jerry Mills and his stock of Koal' chorus. Miss Hattie Lewis Wyckoff wishes success to the Buckeye Comedy Quarter. We expect to order the Christmas number that I presume you'll have to send them but to us by freight. THE FREEMAN AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. The Freeman can be had at 815 East Washington street, Neal & Brown's restaurant, the Colored Shoe Store, 1707 E. Capitol avenue, 1015 S. 17th street, at H. Harris' barber shop, and at 805 1/4 S. 6th street, also at 1606 S. 17th street. Don't fall to read this great journal. A new and delicious musical souffle, garnished with dressing of beautiful cos- tumes and stage settings. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Presenting the Revised Musical Comedy "A Trip to Africa" In 3 Acts-By "Jolly" John Larkins. THE TAPA TAPA A SCENE FROM "A TRIP TO AFRICA." A CONSTELLATION OF EVER SHINING SAT TELLATION OF EVER SHINING SAT A CONSTELLATION OF EVER SHINING SATELLITES. BLACK PATTI COMPANY. Sisseretta Jones, the Black Patti, made her appearance again at the Byers last night at the head of a splendid company of Negro entertainers. Black Patti still possesses the voice of power and sweetness which has made her a welcome entertainer throughout stageland. The vehicle offered this season is "A Trip to Africa," and it is on the whole is a clean, refined show, surprisingly devoid of delicious musi with dressing o tumes and sta d delicious musical sou with dressing of beauti tumes and stage settin THE PROFESSION AT PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. of Mr. Wm. Benbow. with twelve other perfor The Whitman Sisters Vaudeville Company is booked at the升堂 Theater for a four weeks' engagement, and are turning them away every night. Little Thomas and Miss Alice Whitman are the comedians of all the comedians of them all and have won favor among the Pensacola people. The others are also as fine as can be. The Whitman Sisters Company are claimed to be the best vaudeville company that ever came to Pensacola. They will be the comedians of all the comedians they are gone. They send their regards to all of their friends. The Unknown Theater will open next Saturday night at the corner of Wright and Devillier streets, under the auspices THE NEW YORKER THE DANCE SANTA MARIA THE PEWEEES—CHARLES AND SADIE. Mr. Charles Pewee made his debut in the profession in 1903. Younger and Faster. James Wild West Company, and has also posing companion: Miles Arton Southern Circus, Baynard & Whi S. H. Dudley's Jolly Ethiopians, Gus Hill's Smart Set Company, Minstrels, Black Patti's Troubadours. Charles is a singer, dancer and juggler. Mrs. Sade Pewee made her debut in the profession. A. Madonna's Minstrels, and was with the company several seasonquent talker and is admired by all who come in contact with her singing and dancing soubretie. The team is now with the Rock Company, and will be seen in vaudeville in the near future. Ms Peewe made his debut in the profession in 1903 with bank James Wild, Wild Miles, Arton Southern Circus, Baynard & Whitne Jolly Ethiopians, Gus Hill's Smart Set Company, Patti's Troubadours. Charles is a singer, dancer, ms. Sadie Peewe made her debut in the profession and was with the company several seasons, and is admired by all who come in contact with her,icing soubrette. The team is now with the Rockwe will be seen in vaudeville in the near future. Mr. Charles Pewe made his debut in the profession in 1903 with the real Cole Younger and Frank James Wild West Company, and has also played with the following companies: "Miles Arton Southern," Baxter & Barrett, "S. H. Hill," Hill's Smart Set Company, W. A. Maharas' Black Patti' Troubadours. Charles is a singer, dancer, musician, acrobat and juggler. Mrs. Sade Pewe made her debut in the profession in 1903, with W. A. Maharas' Minstrels, and was with the company several seasons. Sade is a frequent talker and is admired by the audience. She is a clever singing and dancing artist, and will be seen in vaudeville in the near future. The team is now with the Rockwell's Sunny South VER SHINING SATELITES. of horse play and coarseness. A number of excellent vocal offerings incidental to the performance added greatly to the general strength of the program. John Larkins, the author of the sketch, appeared in the leading comedy role and proved a wholesome entertainer. The coaccommodation, songs and settings are all first-class. The company will repeat the performance at a matinee Saturday afternoon and close with the evening's engagement—Star-Telegram, Ft. sical souffle, g of beautiful co ge settings. of Mr. Wm. Benbow. Miss Blackburn, with twelve other performers, promises to make things lively. BLACK BEES MAKING GOOD IN CINCINNATI Ollie Dempsey's House Always Packed by Them. The Six Black Bees—Singleton-Sampson-Sampson-Wilson-Goff—opened at the Pekin the 13th to pick house. The Pekin opened next week. Lyons and Singleton, in their act, "Thursday, Born on Friday," was a hit. Sampson and Sampson, in "Mishaps," were a scream. Geo. F. Wilson, the flexible house, house, house, Nora Goff, our soubrette, singing "Dinah, Dear," was good as the best. Maud Sh- THE DANCE OF THE DAY in the profession in 1903 with the real Cole company, and has also played with the fo-fi-Crusc, Baynard & Whitney's Troubadours, U's Smart Set Company, W. A. Mahara's careers is a singer, dancer, musician, acrobat debut in the profession in 1903, with W. company several seasons. Sadie is an elephant in contact with her. She is a clever it is now with the Rockwell's Sunny South in the near future. R. Voelckel, season 1909-1910 A TIDAL WAVE OF SUPERIORITY. THE WOMEN'S HOLIDAYS MISS BENEFITT SISSIERETTA JONES, The Original Black Patti. FLASHES OF JOYOUS LAUGHTER, EVERYTHING SUMPTUOUSLY MOUNTED, LARKINS. MEMORIAM. HARRY BRADFORD. DEDICATED TO THE COLORED VAUDEVILLE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. DECEMBER 25, 1903. ```markdown ``` FLASHES OF JOYOUS LAUGHTER. EVERYTHING SUMPTUOUSLY MOUNTED, DEDICATED TO THE COLORED VAUDEVILLE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. DECEMBER 25, 1909. No bell will toll so sweetly to-day As the sound that comes from men who pray, Or those soft strains of sympathy That come from Heaven's Symphony, To waft our sorrows away. No more he'll cheer the C. V. B. A., For Harry has gone the Pilgrim's way; Like a kidnapping tragedy, For ransom of a treasury. His soul was stolen away. No. 'Tis but a dream, this Christmas-tide, And new dreams are always hard to hide. Hark! 'Ah, yes, 'tis Bradford singing; Ay, the air's his notes a-ringing!— Far beyond a metron's way. No more we'll read his precepts written, For his most useful hand was smitten. Associated from Christ arose, The mystery of which God only knows— We solemnly close his day. —SYLVESTER RUSSELL Fred Richardson, Wm. Jones and others. Members of band: P. G. Lowery, director; Thomas May, solo cornet; Cornish, Gashore; Richardson, solo clarinet; J. B. Hall, bartone; Arthur Hill, first trombone; Fred Gar- gleton, as Aunt Dinah, and Sewell Sampson, as Eph, were the features. So everybody is happy. Regards to all friends. LOWERY & MORGAN'S MINSTREL COMPANY P. G. LOWERY. F. A. Morgan, Manager; Prof. P. G. Lowery, Assistant Manager. As managers of the Lowery & Morgan's Minstrels, we are forced to say that we were born in the Lowery and two seasons as any other show of its kind in the show world. When this show was brought together under the management of Prof. P. G. Lowery's members few of Prof. P. G. Lowery's members left over from the Hagenbeck & Wallace shows. We started our first season with the Hagenbeck Kitchen, Jan. 10, 1908. Our minstrel first part is a scream from opening to closing, and is composed of the following: Fred Garland, interlocutor; John Johnson, kitchen Bones; J. L. towards, Elvis Mason, H. L. Rawles, tambos, ur soubrettes are as follows: Miss W. Johnson, kitchen Bones; J. L. towards, Carrie Gilbert, "Honey Boy"; Mrs. Hattie Garland, "Beautiful Eyes"; Blanche Beechum, "Lonesome"; Callie Vassar, "Gee, but there's" Class to a Girl "Like You"; Mary Victor, "I Like that Kind of Love." Oloi; Prof. P. G. Lowery, the P. G. LOWERY. land, second trombone; A. C. Victor, first alto; H. L. Rawles, second alto; William May, flat bass; Toney Barrhead, B flat bass; J. L. Bards, bass drum; Charles Beechum snare drum; Logan Kitchen, cymbals. Lowery & Morgan will be glad to hear from performers and musicians at all times. Address as per route: Du Quoil, Ill. January 1, 1910; Mr. Olive, Ill. January 2; Roodhouse, Ill. January 4; Carr, Ill. January 5; and others. Ill. January 6, 7 and 8. Good accommodations. We travel in our own private car, "Hila." THE MASTER MIND. I am the Master Mind! They call mine the "bootblack ability." I am the natural brainy kind, Of wit and agility. We wish all professionals a. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. P. G. Jones will be glad to hear from at any time. J. L. Edwards would like to hear from A. G. Jones. S. Strander. Georges and A. G. Jones. H. Strander. regards to R. Roy Pope. Arthur Jackson. will be glad to hear from them at any time. J. L. Edwards would like to hear from A. G. Jones, Al Strander, George Boutte and others. H. L. Rawles sends regards to R. Roy Pope, Arthur Jackson, I am the Master Mind! They say I'm a morbid monstrosity; I've been ordained to lead the blind, As a dealer in mental philosophy. —Sylvester Russell. The Labor Question and the Negro. pal aan eel By H. W. Critchlow. ee i ee ee ah lee er ah ow gee ee a ee See ree a ae a ee pa the “Labor Problem.” ‘They are more interested in probing and solving what the; See ee Just what is meant by the “Negro Problem” is left to the reader's interpretation ee ee eee see se eae oats cae ee ne real and genuine “Negro Problem.” business and. commercial men who .hold similar views, that the so-called “Negrc eae hudgens it whois, San, aay (as en, 2s count of it. Worry is indulged in over what MIGHT HAPPEN. And usually 1 ice eee FE RN cee acer ip Sal ie kasi iauetn” ot say right here that the “Labor Question” is not primarily a Negro question o Rose ee : By H. W. Critchlow. He FREEMAN requested trom me an article on “Phe ‘o” for the Christmas number I was surprised. Not ‘but because of the nature of the article, Most people ¢ colored people do not give any thought whatever to are more interested in. probing and solving what they jem.” ; “Negro Problem” is left to the reader's interpretation. have his own ideas on the subject. And also nearly uth gvery otter one as to what really constitutes the em.” hat I believe, and with me are thousands of, other | who hold similar views, that the so-called “Negro unreal, An unusual lot of trouble is borrowed on ac- ed in over what MIGHT HAPPEN. And usually it am asked to write on the “Labor Question.” Let me bor Question” is not primarily a Negro question or than that, Tt is a question and living fact with all When Editor Knox of Tue Freeman requested from me an article on “The Labor Question and the (Negre” for the Christmas mutnber Twas surprined. | Not Deeause ‘ho requested it of me, but because of the nature of the article, Most people Interested in the welfare of the colored people do not give any thought whatever to the “Labor Problem.” ‘They are more interested in probing and solving what they please to term “The Negro Problem.” ws Just what is meant by the “Negro Problem” is left to the reader's interpretation. Neatly every leader seems to have his own ideas on the subject. And also nearly every one appears to differ with every other one as to what really constitutes the real and genuine “Negro Problem.” Let me say right here that I belleve, and with me are thousands of, other business and. commercial men who hold similar views, that the so-called “Negro Problem” is for the most part unreal, An unusual lot of trouble is borrowed on ac- count of it, Worry is indulged In over what MIGHT HAPPEN. And usually it NEVER HAPPENS. ‘However that may be, Tam asked to, write on the “Labor Question.” Let me say right here that’ the “Labor Question” is not primarily a Negro. question or problem. It is much broader than that, It is a question and living fact with all ee wanes ? res Ri asec sce ll i pele tl Roget neo gest a ple, of whatever color, cree@, sex or nationality, But as the: greater ghare of colored people are laboring people. this “LAbor Question” becomes of Immense importance t& them at once. The fact that Editor Knox has asked me to write this article for ‘Tur FREEMAN'S ‘Teaders proves tome that the leaders of the race KNOW that the “Labor Question” is all Important to the}r people, ae When the “Labor Question” is righted the so called “Negro Problem” will be po more, ‘The cause of it will bave disappeared, When PEACE, PLENTY and HAPPINESS reigns supreme among ail laboring people rest assured right now that your “Negro Problem” will have no more base in. ‘Rich people are growing richer. Where a few de- cades ago one thousand dollars was a lot of wealth, now nothing less than a million or two will be suil- cient to consider one rich, ‘The immense wealth ix getting inte~the hands of fewer people. Mark this fact well. I am not arguing against it, but rather am pointing out a truth, “Poor poopie are getting more numerous, ‘The poorer classes are getting poorer, and still POORER. “The proportion of our common’ pro- ple who are today in poverty, or live a hand-to-mouth existence, is getting bigger. “Mark. tnis well also, It is another undisputable TRUTH, The rich are getting Fichw.. ‘The poor are getting poorer. This fact is a REAL FACT. Who will deny it? Nearly everyone ee he ea ae ee i get atte dcr seit Na? helpless, THEY SAY. ‘They do not know what to do. i When such a condition exisis there must be ‘QREASON. ‘There must be a REMEDY. "And there aro both. ‘The men in control of affairs know it, but they fare not in the business of telling It to the laboring people. Broadly ahd plainly Speaking, listen, to this TRUTH: The rich own the means of galuing a liviihood. he poor have to work for a living. “The rich ean, therefore, hire the poor to. work for them. ‘The poor must work for tho rich or starve. Therefore, the rich control the megna whorehy the Heer can live, “No matter whether 1 Is Int, Taevories, mit, nines or ‘what. ‘The righ own the theans whereby the poor ean get a living. The ‘poor have to work for them or so without. ‘This TRUTH applies to over three-fourths of the people of this country, RE- GARDLESS OF COLOR. With the colored people the proportion IS MUCK GREATER. That is why the “Labor Question” is Important to the Negro, That fs why the white laborer and colored laborer have interests in common with each Other. It does not matter whether or not. they realize it, the fact remains that THEY SURGLY HAVE Interests In common. But T maintain that they do realize ft, “Take tho hodcarriers Tor oxample. In many’ cities throughout the ‘country. the Whites and blacks mingle freely together in thelr Work aud union Imectiigs. | WHY? Bocause they realize, tnconselousiy or otherwise, hat they have interests tn com: mon—THAT THEY ARE LABORING BROTHERS! Gry it down if you will. ‘Truth it is. Who imports, from other States, calored men to scab on white striking work men? ‘The rich of course, Who brings in white seabs to replace colored unton Strikers who are asking for better conditions?” The rich every time. “This question fg not one of color.” Not on your life! tis a question of LABOR. It isa question gf the working people sticking to one another in thelr dally work ef eamming a "As long as the rich can Inelte race or color prefudlee among the laboring people and keep them fighting one another it is well FOR THE RICH, See the point? ‘Think it over. T maintain that “ALL LABORERS ARE BROTHERS.” That “UNITED WE STAND: DIVIDED WE, FALL.” Think that over, too, Also that “IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.” ‘hat is why I, having risen from the laboring ranks, from a poor farm boy, on my own resources since shortly over 10 vears of age, have devoted myselt. to the ‘task of building an organization of laboring people. "An organization without Tegard to color or sex. A movement that stands for all that Ie RIGHT and JUST for the working people. “A movement that says: "Give the workers more for’ thelt work.» Then they can live better, will not grow poorer, and the rich ‘Will not grow seSthat is why I founded this organization, THE, INTERNATIONAL LIBERTY UNION OF Titi WORLD, with already more’ than 54,000 outstanding memberships. That is why I founded the UNION JOURNAL Magazine, now having a. monthly gireulation far in excess of any other publication of its kind in the entire country. I believe the laboring man’ and women, be they of whatever color, are entitled to MORIO of what they REALLY BARN,’ but do not get. I know and have already demonstrated ‘thousands of times in my’ writings, lectures and editorials that such @ eondition would stop the rich from getting richer and the poor from growing poorer, We are working for a greater distribution of tho wealth. We are working for the underdog.” We believe in him, we were one of him, We cate from the ranks, AND WE KNOW?! ‘And this, Editor Knox and readers of Trn Faxean, is my view, but briefly set forth, of course, of the “Labor Question and the Negro.” NOTES OF RACE PROGRESS -AS Reported by the National Negro Business League—Our Banks. ‘The Forsyth Savings and Trust Com- pany of Winston-Salem, N. C., began busi- Ress May 11, 1907. To. December 1, 1908, the cash and other kinds of business transacted ‘amounted to” over $400,000. The bank pays 4 per cent, Interest on ali deposits. J. 8. Hill Is president and F. ‘M. Kennedy, cashier, ‘The Mechanics and Farmers Bank o: Durham, 'N.'C., was launched August 1, 1908, At the ‘end of twelve months of business $230,000 had been placed on de- posit, “The amount of business dane with- in the same. period was $1,200,000, ‘The officers of the bank are:" Rl BL Fitz gerald, president; Jolin Merrick, vice President. and George W. Adams, cashier. ‘The Alabama Savings Bank of Selma, @ young offspring of the Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham, ‘made its initial bow before the public November. 1, 1909. Ht ts" domictiea. m splendidly furnished quarters inthe Hudson-Irby Butlding. On e first “day of business the deposits amounted to $2,012.45, At tho close. of business, December §, 1909, the deposits were $15,259.16. ‘The’ volume of business transacted within the same period was $28,095.63. "Tho oflcers of the bank are: Henry “Boyd, ‘president; R. B. Hudson, cashier: R. 'H. Hunter, bookkeeper; W. Hf, McAlpine. paying and receiving teller. Four per cent. interest is paid on all de- posits, earns ‘W. R. Pettiford, the founder and pres!- dent’ of the Penny Savings Bank of Bir- mingham, Alabama, authorizes the fol- lowing statemant concerning. the business done at the close of November 16, 1309 This bank has an authorized ‘capital stock of $100,000. Cash in vault ...........5+.$ 20,781.99 Gash in other banics’+22212011" 26,379.12 Loans ‘and discounts’ <.1121) 134{320:69 Stocks and bonds. 00220212 "100,00, Real estate nee 2102015) 90,008.88 Furniture and fixtures’ 221121. “3{386.02 Overdraft s.sessneeeccccces 1,429.48 Total ee sseeeeneeee es e8275,996-68 Liabilities Gaplal stock .eseeeseceesse-$ 42,018.50 Undivided profits 2222222052)" “sir7s's3 Due depositors on demand’!!! 143,212.88 Due on cortifiontes .......5+ 70,26218 Rediscounted notes. 2021.21!) 10,693:39 Dividends uncatted for 100.00." “ass Bills payable .--....-sl0ccs1 6,880.98 Savings account 2.2.0000011 "260.1 Totad oes ences. oe. $275,996.58 “qn 1907 his banic had 9113 depositors, Jyuich number was reduced by the finan: Gial panic. to $,000, the present number of depositors. “We have bullt 1,525 homes for our de- positors, and we have handled one. mit- Hon ‘and ‘ninty-nine dollars. ($1,000,089). Hon ‘Monday last we recelved on deposit $11,000, on ‘Tuesday $6,000, on Wednes- Gay’ $5,000; total, $20,000 for three. days. Total for the ‘weeks, $20,000. “Of that amount. $17,000 was checked out, Teaving $13,000 ‘in’ bank. which Is about the average growth of our business. ‘We do a regular banking business, isaulng drafts on New York and. certin- cates on foreign countries, “Our bank sustains the most éordial relations with all the white banks. of Birmingitam. EWe teach our people to use two books —te Bible and the bank “book.” ‘The number of banks owned and con- trolled by members of the race are in the neighborhood of ffty at the present, They Bre being established almost at 4 rate ‘of one every month In the year. A bank was, in’ Anniston, Alabama, last month, and steps are being taken to’ start 2 Ee faa tS: a en (a Ap Ve fee How. W. G. CarrcHtow. beginning of the ensuing. year. While it seems to be somewhat aif- cult for some reason or other to get a definite statement of the financial” con- dition of all the banks now in existence from their respective officers, neverthe- less, W. R. Pettiford, president of the National Negro Banking Association, has been successful in securing some. ‘data concerning the business of several of these ‘banks, ‘upon which “the following statement. is based: Loans and discounts ....... 379,106.80 Capital stock authorized’ |;.." 275,000.00 Capital stock paid in...!,) 149!733.17 Deposits... cvveveseecsecss 722129°38 Value of’ real estate 210... 146,522.77 Estimate of deposits in’ ‘all the banks annually ...... 2,000,000.00 October 22, 1909, 'W. R. Perrirono, President. WHAT THE SAGES ARE SAYING. Current Comment on Things That Af- fect the Negro People “If We Should Only Tell.” Wealth in Hogs and Hominy. “The Negro could not make a better material investment than the production of a plenty of hog and hominy."—At- tanta Independent, | Negro in Deep Waters at Any Rate. “Our dear Frederick Douglas said, ‘the Republican party is. the ship, all else is the sca.” Since the ship has thrown the colored brother overboard we suspect that he is at the bottom of the sea,"— Lodge Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va. “The man who gets angry about what a newspaper prints of himself should re- turn thanks a dozen times each day for What a newspaper knows ‘of him” and suppresses, Any fool can find things to print in a newspaper, but it takes a wise newspaper to find things to keep out.”— Kansas City Sun, Taft Coming Around All Right. “President Taft may have had a sudden awakening when he concluded to say. a word for honesty, right and. justice the attempt to pads ‘the nefarious. dis- {anchisement “amendment “in Maryland, He 1s just a trifle slow, but he. wili gradually ome. around. alright."—Star, Newport News, Va. 0 Negro Loafer Must Go. “Harry ‘T. Pratt, Esq., of Baltimore, the proprietor of a steam laundry, and himself the head of the Negro Business League of that city, has a very Interest- tng comment in’ the Afro-American Ledger of, Baltimore upon the’ toy ange number of Negro loafers, "His “Idea that, as a very poor race of people, we ean ‘tily afford to Spend our time oat Ing when the demands are pressing hard and close upon us to prepare for our preservation in the great economic battle which is being waged more fiercely each year, Mr. Pratt's advice would do. the Tace’ a great deal of good all over the country."“Amaha (Neb.) Enterprise. West Virginia For Press Association. “The formation of the National Negro Press Association at Louisville, Ky. as an amilated body of the National Negro Business League, was a step in the Ment direction, “A closer” ‘union of "the Journalists of the race cannot fail. to. be productive of good results, Emphasizing the gospel of moral and mateflal develope ment, there {s'no. danger of the organi- zation ‘being wrecked on the shoals of Political divisions, denominational en= Eangtements or petsonal ambitions, ‘The Selection of Mr. R. W. ‘Thompson as presi. dent was in accord ‘with the ftness of things and his painstaking administration ig certain to demonstrate. the wisdom of those who placed the scepter in his hands, ‘Mr. Thompuon Is. sarroenged. With oe nnt THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. oe of officers an@~an executive committee |scale. Several shafts have been sunk that stand for the best. thought and sub- |withing the limits of the clties, from Stance of the Face, acked by the leaders | which neatly two million tons of coal are | —— of the press-fraternity and the people at | shipped annually, Irom as early as 2865 farge, this young organization will, be a | gold washing has’ been practiced with Oa | pores, 228 beh othe’ allng “hat | ore or eas, ccana ‘an "the banka of fe | Basso much to'do with the real progress [the ‘North Saskatchewan River.” Dredg: | Gm of the race, ing machines have and are being used sTt°nad the hearty endorsement of The | from time to time on the river. At the advooate, at the outset, when proposed [present time the Clarke-Dredging Come| by Mr. Thompson. “It has our best wishes | pany have two very up to date dredges Yor success now’ that it has become a|in operation four miles up. the, river. | sgq yc fact"“he Advocate, Charleston, W. Va. | Natural gas, has been discovered. within esa a os 3 fie ety fimies while very heavy’ ow | 8 w ” 8 ruck ‘by the Canadian-Amer- | sm—- spped Se ee NEED ENE can, Oil Company at, Morinvite, who hae 0 : & franchise to supply the eities with as apis | (Respectfully, dedicated te my dear| every tow rater” Oll is found in certain | Person ez 5 ie eee Parts of the district, and these ‘deposite bey | ares thee ed Bre. now ‘in process’ of development at When life to us ts naught but pain, — |Bgg ‘Lake and Morinville, twenty-five ation. | yANd Wouble seems, to never end. 4 tmiles from the cities. Extensive beds of early dreary, tar, sand, mart and fire-clay ‘re found = the| qt ig then ‘we need a friend. in the district, Having the future greatness of the other] o1a Satan seems to be on hand twin cities “ever” before’ them, the city egro | "At each and every bend, councils have made ample provision ‘for mac-| And whispers softly, “Follow me"— | parks and ‘recreation grounds, selecting | se ily it|“%t is then we need @ friend. them where they. will be most beneficial to the inhabitants, and the beautification | Bloc st me| He brings the war into our homes, of the elties, an | es Tea Lo ree peace se ate in thelt location, in regard to summer se | ie is en we need a frend, tert bln wit Zan toe au | mm When the guardian angel from above | 9f, the most’ beaut es, “which are orins | Down in our homes. deseends, getting more popijar each sear as sume | orgs ||; oT i uk Pome ener tea her resorts Gull lake, near Lacombe, on perieg| And ey es eal a risers a|the 6B. Ry White Whale lake, on’ the | <—- aE eee GNR, and Cooking ake, on the G. T. vs of] Remember the folks at home by or-[ who Hoating and bathing can De enjored | Promp S alll dering The Freeman. Sent to their|with perfect safety. ae = fo.| address one year—$1.00, | ‘Among the most important manu anaes eee factories and dustries Hovsied in the] By SNTY y twin cities ate four saw mills, with an =NTY |} EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. | ove ones ie cut of a0 O00 O00 tect aad Special to THE FREEMAN, Merry “chelstmas and’ a happy and prosperous New Year to THE FHEeMan, fea staff and readers, trom, the people the most northern point of its circulation, Edmonton. whieh city we will endeavor to deseribe, to the best of our belie? and Knowledge,” as follows: Tdmonton, the capital elty, and Strath- cond, the university city, aré situated on the. north” and. south’ banks of. the Saxkatehewan River, 200 miles from Cal- gary and 00 miles from Winnipeg. ‘The Situation of the twin elties 1s such as to ake them, In the near future, one of the Invgest elties in Canada, having ‘popu: Iation of 25,000, which is, year by year steadily. increasing, The high altitude of the twin cities (23,158 feet ‘Above sea level), together with the dry atmosphere, make them ex- tremely healthy, notwithstanding the fact that the mereury sometimes fall. to. thir- ty-five and forty degroes below zero, the with the atmospher, imake them extremely healthy: “notwithstanding the fact. thal the moreury sometimes falls to. thirty- five ‘and forty. degrees below zero, the cold is not felt as much as It Is in_damper climates. Nowhere east of the Rockles, exeapt in places where it is nnich too hot in summer, is there as pleasant a winter climate as’ tn the twin’ ety district: I fs never windy when cold, and windy dav fre. the “exception. “at any time. Phe average winter temperature as recorded at the Government meteorological station for the last ten years, for the months 0 December, January and. February, was 2.) degreds ‘above. zero. ‘The summers in. the twin city district are ideal, ‘Phe rapid growth of vegetation (owing to the great length of the days— the sun shines for over eighteen hours 4 day at midsummer—and the coplons though not excessive rains, together with the "marvolous. richness” of the soil) there’ takes place a. rapidity of growth which “can ‘only. be. characterized ai wonderful. ‘The transportation faetlities of the twin“ cities are astured, having” thres transcontinental railways, viz: ‘The Can- adian Pacific, the "Canadian Northern Railway and’ the Grand. ‘Trunk Paeife Railway, ‘with ‘their branches, besides other lines already planned or under con- struction, all making this their divisional and distributing center—serving country 100 mites south, S00 east and west and 2,000 miles north, Winnipeg, ‘St. Paul or Minneapolis’ had no ‘greater, “oppor tunities in their day ; and the twin elties Will assurediy rival them in thelr rapia progress along similar lines. ‘The district of which’ the twin cities are the center ig. first and foremost an agricultural district, ‘The soll is a rich 79 BSA eS\ é cna a 8 | ae a 55 ieee ’ @ oA) Sa ie MR. CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL, Representing The Freeman at Edmon.- ton, Alberta, Canada. black loam. varying in depth from eighteen to twenty-four inelies, and having beneath We a clay. subsoil, ‘The growing of a kinds ‘of garden stuffs ‘and. cereal. crops {s engaged in with market success. Wheat {a grown ona large scale and the ‘yleld ix, “in" many. cases; as much ‘as “Atty Dustels ‘per acre of Ne. Thard.” Oats grown’ Ia the twin. elty” district’ eatried Away the ‘frst prize at ‘the St, “Lous, Paris and A. ¥, B. expositions. “tthe yield Often Teaches i00. bushels per_acre, “and the measured bushel seldom ‘weighs less than’ forty pounds, Barley’ ts a° paying crop, while flax, peas and buckwheat are also’ grown. with satisfactory” results. Potatoes. yield very often as high as 400 to 600 bushels per nere, ‘and all kinds ot vegetables do equally. well. ‘The aet- culturalist who” settles in the twin ely district will’ find an ever increasing ‘de. mand for all his produc, and, as the de- Inand ig seldom equalied bythe supply. Sood prices always can be obtained, "To Wo. justice to the twin city. schools it_must be written that, In efficiency and general equipment, they are. unsurpassed by any in-wentern Canada.” ‘The present School” buildings have been orected at a cost of $500,000. ‘The Collegiate Institute fe"heing ‘ercoted at a cost of $100,000, ‘The university ‘grounds were purchased At the cost of $150,000 in 1907" and. the university” buildings, ‘when complete. wit not be erected for’ Tess than. $1.000,000. ‘The “university classes ‘commenced in September. 1908, ‘under the ‘able. super Vision of Dr. ‘Troy and an efficient ‘stat of professors. ‘the Parliament buildings now under construction, ‘at cost of $2,000,000 "are fore than a credit to. the provinee? amd What could bo more fitting than that the Beautiful North. Saskatchewan Tiver should be graced with. the "Parliament buildings on one bank and. the university buildings on the other. ‘The same spirit of progress is abroad among the churches, 2nd alt denominations are ‘housed tn ex: ceodingiy comfortable ~ and” handsome Sultdines. ‘The ‘resources of the twin city district are by no means limited to the various branches of ‘agriculture, Coal mining. te fast becoming a very important. industry. ‘The ‘country. throughout the district. 1s more or less underiaid with Lisnite coal of very’ high grade. for domestic and steam Producing purposes, Tt occurs in. lateral Seams, varying in thickness from’ three to twenty fect. ‘These. seams outcrop Along tho bank of the iver, and Mitherte mining was carried on by tunnelling into the bank: but during the last ture ‘years Eiustuar Taw dooat canedanien: otra tence gold washing has been practiced with More or less success on the banks of the ‘North Saskatchewan River.» Dred. ing machines have and are being used from time to time on the river. At the present time the Clarke-Dredging Com- pany have two very up to date dredges in operation four miles up the. river. Natural gas has been discovered within the city limits, while a very heavy flow hhas ‘eon struck by the Canadian-Amert ‘can Oil Company at Morinville, who have & franchise to. supply. the ities with as at a very low rato, Oil is found in certain parts of the district, and these deposits Are now in process’ of development at Eee ‘ako “and “Morinvitio.” twenty Ave jes from the cities. Extensive beds of tar, sand, marl and fire-clay are found in the district. Having the future greatness of the twin ties “ever before them, the. city councils have made ample provision fox Parks and recreation grounds, selecting to’ the inhabitants,"and’the beautification fo the inhal ‘and the beautification of the clties. ‘The twin cities are exceptionally fortun- ate in thelr location, in regard to summer resorts, being within easy. reach of some Of tho’ most beautiful lakes, which are Setting more Popular each year as, sum ner Resorts Gull lake, near Lacombe, on the GP. R.; White Whale lake, on. the C.N.R, and Cooking lake, on the G. T. P. All" these lakes abound with fish, while boating and bathing can be enjoyed with perfect safety. ‘Among the most important _mann- factories. and industries located in the twin cities are four saw mills, with an average yearly cut of $0,000,000 fect and employing in. the nelghborhooa of 300 men; six brickyards in active operation, having & yearly output of 200,000,000 bricks, which supply 1x not. sufficient’ for buildings under construction; one oat meal mill with a capacity of 150 barrels per day; three flour mills with a capacity. of 800 ‘barrels per day; four large packing plants employing 250 men, which. when the Griffin Packing Plant is in full blast, will employ 1,000. men; two breweries, both of which’ are equipped with ali modern improvements: six sash and door factories; five iron founderies: and ma- chine shops whieh are eapable of doing ahy lass of work in brass or tron. (these Are in addition to the railway shops); eight grain elevators with a capacity. of $00,000 bushels; thirty-six — wholesale houses; two eonerete block and tile works, employing. seventy men. ‘The twin cities have the largest: raw fur market in the world, Building permits issued this year Will reach nearly $3,000,000, Bank clear- ing house returns for this year will reach nearly $60,000,000. ‘The twin cities own their electric "ght, power, water and telephone systems. "They have an up to date automatic telephone system, such as is used in Chicago, ayd also. pay-as- you-enter street cars.” Three. very effl- lent fire brigades: fifteen miles of srano- lithic sidewalks and seventy-five mites of plank ‘sidewalks; an assessment of 330,- 500,000; sixtoen ‘chartered banks: 2 pav- roll of '§250,000 por month, Wits thelr Ereat natural advantages, the vast. Te- Sources lying “within their territories, competing railways, and the intelligence and enterprise of thelr citizens, It is not unreasonable to claim that in the not very distant future the twin cities of central Alberta will take their place in the ranks of Canada’s great commercial and educational centers, and thelr future greatness can only be ‘measured by the possible utilization of what nature has $0 bountifully lavished upon thelr sur- Foundings, by men of experience and cap- ital, who, as their citizens, will aid in thelr development. The colored people In anid around d- monton are represented In various in- Gustries and occupations. Willlam. Rob- inson, restaurant-keoper for several years; ‘W. H. Phillips, real estate agent at the time of the boom, and Jim Hensen are probably the most successful. colored men Who. are on the retired list. ZW. Mitchell, secretary-treasurer ‘The Loyai Legion" Co-operative Investment » Co., Limited; Noy. Pierson, barber; C. ©. ©. "Nae, barber; J.B. Barbour, of Bar- dour's xpress; J," Massie, M. Riley and "5. Shoeman, of Shoeman-Milner Co. G. J, Jones, ‘Billy Walker, chefs; Rev. Smith, of Church of God; L. Green, chet; ‘A. J. Goode, contractor; “Ralph ' Winn, contractor; James H. Robinson, and ‘T. Golden Couriney Walker, of Walker's Ex- ress, and Jos, Slate, chef, are among the Prominent ‘nctive “members of our rack Te must be said of the latter that his Christmas bill this year is the most sumptious yet offered to the public. in Edmonton... Mr. Slate is chef at the Pen- dennie Hotel, and is ever on the lookout for a cafe of his own. Mrs, Lewis is much Improved. at this writing. .C. J. Shoeman and Z. W, Mitchell have been suffering with rheumatism in their shoulder and buck, respectively. . Green Bean, who 1s down’ from his home= Stead, at’ Athabasca Landing, | together With Zack Robinson, met a serious acel- Tent while clearing’ some property north Ofte ety. Me. Bean's ake sped and eut his fot clos to the one, Mr. Bean's immediate recovery’ 1s wished for. .Rev. Smith, of the Church of God, is back from the southern part of the province where he has heen for several weeks in the Interest of his chureh. Mr, McGhee has gone to Wagoner, Oklahoma, to pay his Mother a visit and will be gone several Weeks, “It is. understood that Mr. Me- Ghee will get_ married while away. .The municipal elections, held on Monday the 12th, resulted In the re-election of Mayor Lee ‘over ils opponent, Alderman Robert Manson. Edmonton "has enjoyed a prosperous year under, Mayor Tee and Noted. with the spirit. “Let well ‘enough alone.” Alderman. George 8. Armstrong was re-elected. together with James ‘D. Hyndinan, J. W. Mound and J. H. Miiar, for the four vaeancies in the council. P. N. Butehard, Dr. Perris and J. H. Clarke wore elected school board trustees, and Hi. Milton Martin and A, ‘T. Cushman as Eeparate school trustees by acclamation. . The men running Into Hdmonton over tie Canadian Northern are" enjoying two nights “and three ‘day's! lax-over, at, this eid during the holidays. . Word has been Tecolyed from Camrose of the success of J. W. ‘Thompson of that city, who owns the only theater In that city." Mr. ‘Thomp- son also runs an up. to date cate there, Owning his site, which is right on Front street, across from the depot, and next to the Canadian Bank of ‘Commerce. Camrose is a. growing town of Alberta, and is coneseded to be the fourth largest city of Alberta. ‘Two branch railway jars. from Edmonton will strike that elty when" completed. The. new twelve foot clock. is being installed in the new magnificent postoffice. ‘This clock is the largest in the province..The Daily Capital made Its first appearance Monday, the’ 1th, ‘and reflected great credit, hott fon the city and the publisher. .Leave all news matter, advertisements, subscrip- tions, changes of address or any complaint of not receiving THE FREEMAN, etc., with Clifford C. Mitchell, the Edmonton corre- spondent. Call 246 Jasper avenue, east. Phone 1637, or address P. 0. Box 845. To communicate with a good, Christian, congenial, settled woman, about 35-45 years old, for matrimonial purposes, I am ‘dark brown, good Christian, strictly temperate, energetic, have a fine homestead and can furnish the best of references. “Address Mose Riley, 532 Isabella Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Cana. Se cenninEeenieeeraenmenenet Get your money working for you, Test the earning power of it by buying Wyoming Consolidated Asbestos Stock at 26 cents per share. Only cost you 12% cents per share injeaah and 12% cents per share to be paid out of the dividends Certificate issued as soon°as half of the total amount of your Stock ‘is paid up," Can be bought on the in- Stallment plan, 5 per cent. oft for cash in ful.” ‘The mill ts bulit and all of the ma- chinery will be in running order in a few Weeks’ time, when they will commenes pro- Gucing, and ‘the stock “will then rise at Yeast 100 per ‘cent ‘abeve the present price. For a safe investment, large and quick dlvi- Gends, buy this stock, as there is only a Mmitea amount to 'bé sold at this price. ‘Act quick and secure a block of this’ val- ‘Gable: stock. Call for full Information at 240. Jasper’ Avenue Bast. Address John Z. Armatage, P.O. Box 802, Edmonton, aieertas Conn, + EDMONDTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. a ee The New Year mhould find cach reader of The Freeman fully awake to the oppor- tunities of the entuing vear, ‘and Wt ie for the purpose of priatog Sate nents CP excelled ‘opportunities i the great Canadian ‘Norihweat Uist war ask your sees oe sideration to the following tate 1. inventors in the Common Stock of our Company thla year will receive a dividend of Fifteen (15) Per Cent on every investment. r 2, (Bvery dollar received for Common Stock te wlesly invested in. the best vaive- Incretsine Land’ Propositions’ pesathle' To sbtsine eldbar GAY, Leta a ete, St 3 Que Voucher: System ‘abschutely protects each Inventor ana inane ery ono the fam ‘Demet of the wheal and heat Inveeneita Ghat Gee Teme ieee EY on 4, Americana have Invested in Land Deals alone during’ the ‘pase were, ana Province. $10,000,000; in Lumber and “Mines. $6,000,000; ih ‘Packing “Pignt” {2° Hoe.00bs stmpiement Distemuting’ Houses, $000,008. Ale Fou golne eet walee eat o eat is’ gone? 5, Cholce land can be purchased. through our Company for from’ $10 to $12 an fore, which in the courte of few sense willbe ‘selling For More sate Se oe ot §,Gudlclous investments in new ‘Town-Slte propositions will net from 28 toe)" por cont? 4, Why not shave In thee enormous profte while these opportunities last? 8, ‘The Loyal Legion Co-Operative Investment Cox, Limite was been ceeaized for the Darpone of giving the waxerearners abtoud am onportanite of sandiees Io Gaake aeah Amounts for “Investment. in’ tho wonderfal opportunitee oF this hee oak Cokie: So try with the privilege ot sharing’ slike the Sones 5._We are receiving from, Bnelind: and ‘Forelgn countriea_many remittances for tpreniane,dnder our apne ant callowing ettemint fant he ue throuith. the dalty press of this eiiy win susvaat tne woraies due: came te ane, Public dividends wiil equal G8 Yer aint on "Gomes tose ERG pecker ae, Teenct with hin: purchase Toots Lay Gopartinent of this Company ckatsereanior eben eee Gelvo back hla mony" in ful °with atoreat at AO pee” ant TRS ape ta veey fransaction of chs Company’ during’ the past Sear 10. Write for full information’ and Go not healtate to. tnvest, however small your earnings ay’ be,’ in Canadian’ propesttions Address THE LOYAL LEGION CO-OPERATIVE INVESTMENT CO., LIMITED, (240 Jasper Avenue East, Edmonton, Alberta, Ganada. P. 0. Box 802. Of the Well Known Gomedians And Their Famous Stock Company, in a Repertoire of Original Musical Comedy Successes. Mushmouth: Johnson In The Oil Trust Four Wise Guys’ rH ia? Richest Man In Georgia Underground Railroad _ “Who Is Jones When Jones Is At Home | , HE above shows can be arranged to suit the managers. Every- thing is new—new songs, costumes, entire new dress for every show. Carrying the original company that supported WIL- LIAMS & STEVENS during their long run at the Pekin Theater and Monogram Theater, Chicago, also during their successful run at the ‘Temple Theater, New Orleans, La. It’s remembered that Williams & Stevens opened that beautiful playhouse and produced all of the above plays with howling success. The company consists of ten people, including the two stars, Williams & Stevens. Managers in Memphis, Jackson, Knoxville, Charleston, Norfolk, Richmond, Lynchburg, Charleston, S. C., Jacksonviile, Atlanta, Macon, write in for open time. Will play any city in the South that can guarantee a week for this company: : ¢ i avpress WM. FOSTER, Director of Tour WM. FOSTER MUSIC COMPANY 3026 State Street, Chicago, bil, C. R. C. NAE Tonsorial Artist Persons coming to Edmonton drop into the Popular Barber's Shop N i i St Blmo Hotel, on Frazer Avenue, one Block North of Jasper Avenue East Shampooing, Massaging and Hair Cutting made © specialty. Razors honed, Bath tn connection, EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. —_—_—_— Prompt Service Phone 1005 349 Namayo Avenue Light Hauling a Specialty J. B. BARBOUR, Prop. Eamonton, Alberta, Canada, ©. J, Shoeman John Milner Phone 1358 Shoeman-Milner Co. ‘Commission, Real Estate and Coal Dealers | Goal Gold Either Betatl ot Waele 15t Greens Ava, Opseste. tio Wert es. Tmontony Alverin, Caneda, Mrs. Blanche : - -S~ Massie | Specialist in Ladies’ Tailoring and Dress- Making 429 Bylo St, Edmonton, Alberts, Canada . ‘Theatrical parties wishing engagements write to J. W. ‘Thompson, proprietor Thomp- son's ‘Theater (only theater in Camrose) Finest cafe in the elty in connection. D rectly across from depot. P. 0. Box 638, Camrose, Alberta, JR. GRUNDY of THE WATER MELON TRUST MR. JAMES GRUNDY. MR. JAMES GRUNDY. MRS. SUE THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE LADY OF THE WORLD MRS. SUE GRUNDY. THE NEGRO'S INTERNAL DISEASE. By Nannie H. Burroughs, Louisville, Ky. I belong to a race of energy and capacity. We have just turned our faces toward the rising sun. We have just witnessed the rise of Jesus, our prophecy concerning Ethiopia, With God's help we can and must bring this prophecy to pass. The first thing we need is a KENYANOING EDUCATION that will train the mind, lighten the soul and discipline the body in every essential function of wholesome living. To carry out this program we need to have a group of BASE LEADERS and PROBLEM-SOLVER who have occupied the center of the stage for the past forty-five years, making hot air sculptures that have brought about a moral change in the lives of this army of parasites the same, sober, men and women, full of faith and force, should unite in a broad beneficent movement that will reach the HOME The home is the citadel, and the question with us at this hour is, "Can our women through courage that will teach our women how to create and maintain homes in honor and purity?" If we do not take up this line of PRACTICAL WORK the women should be taught to should in this day of opportunity. We must make several changes in our educational program. Negro girls are not used as they should for the work they must do. The homes are not much improved by those who come out of most of our institutions of learning. The fault is not always the lack of creditable work, but the fault is with thecirculum. What is taught is not what most of our girls need. The courses of study are so arranged that they get a training of the ESSENTIAL THINGS. As a result of the education of who come out of school are prepared to do the ORDINARY things in an extraordinary way. We enter no protest against girls getting all of the little money in the average school, but nine-tenths of them work in the houseKEEPER for themselves or for somebody else, must cook for themselves or for somebody else; they must wash for themselves or for somebody else; they must work for somebody else. Therefore, when they reach the age of fourteen, two-thirds of their time should be given to the preparation of their minds, their hearts and their hands or to help LIFE WORK. We should well equip them with the skills themselves WHOLLY to this great work. Our girls need an education that is EXCEED NOLY PRACTICAL, and above all, that is MARKETABLE. All of our education institutions should give more attention to our CHARACTER. We know the conditions surrounding most of the girls in their homes, and the schools must do much of the work that should be done at home, until we turn to that great work of preparing women to manage the home. We would have it understood, first, last and always, that no substantial moral uplift of the race is possible without highly qualified women to teach righteousness. We would have it understood that woman has any right at the head of a home who is lacking in the knowledge of home-making and is wanting in the disposition of a home. The Negro home must be reached. The schools must make the women to help reach them. We are turning out too many piano players and not enough bread and meat for the poor and linen washers. We not only have an aversion to working in the homes of others, but will not work in our own homes. Education that does not teach right values is doing the race more harm than good. Properly endowed, there is not a Negro woman in this country who can not compel for herself recognition, and who can not work in the great army of proficient workers. We are losing our places in the domestic realm because we are not skilled workers. THOROUGHNESS and EFFICIENCY make synonymous with the word NEGRO. The Negro barber is disappearing. He failed to keep pace with progress and fit up his shop with modern appliances. He stood booth in the room. He insisted carrying his box under his arm when men demanded shoe parlors furnished with leather couches and machines to do the work in a hurry. He was caught in a chin in evidence. You have but to travel through the North, East and West to see that our places are being taken in the industrial realm, and the Negro man is being driven to the street corner to loaf or take a more THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. COATES & GRUNDY'S FAMOUS WATER-MELLON TRUST Greetings of the Yuletide to all the Profession. This famous organization is now in the eleventh year of its unqualified success and is engaged at present as a special attraction with the Sam De Vere Burlesque Company. This company has stood alone for many years on its merits as a feature in the two burlesque wheels of America. They began back in the early nineties, with the Sheridan and Flynn big sensation, and was an instantaneous hit from the very start. The characters subsequently developed have stood out prominently in each individual instance. Mr. Sherman Coates, the manager of the act, has often been mentioned as the only eligible substitute that could fill satisfactorily the shoes of the late George Walker as a "Straight" man. Many engagements Have they been trained at home? Their conduct lays the charge at the mother's THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMEN'S FILM MAKER 1 Mary Louisa MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. knee. We are forever talking about what liking about what is keeping many valuable contribut knee. We are forever talking about what is keeping many a Negro from making valuable contributions to the world's work, are at present open to him from various managers, to all of which he turns a deaf ear unless his engagement would envolve the entire "Watermelon Trust." James Grundy is considered one of the cleverest colored comedians (without cork) on the American stage. His antics are droll and eccentric. As a dancer he has not a single peer. Mr. Grundy's comedy is always timely and well thought out, keeping abreast with the latest and most popular current matter. The ladies of this act are famous for their beautiful 'costumes. They are the wives of the two male members of the act, and have been identified with it from the first. As singers and dancers they are in the front rank, and have contributed much to the ultimate success of the sketch. prejudice is keeping us from doing, and we are willing to admit that prejudice THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM is keeping many a Negro from making valuable contributions to the world's work. Sherman Coates MR. SHERMAN COATES. MRS. LULU A. MRS. LULU COATES. WHAT ACTRESSES ARE PAID IN SALARIES. At the first glance it seems as if the young woman on the stage receives a very liberal remuneration. She does, but her expenses are considerably larger than they would be in almost any other vocation. She will undoubtedly have to travel much, and that means constant hotel bills. In large cities this will prob- J COATES. ably amount to fourteen dollars a week — towns the hotels are usually cheeper. Then, her laundry and other petty but up to at least twenty dollars a week. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ACC TRESS To be perfectly frank at the very beginning, it should be stated that an actress—a true actress, I mean—is born, not made. Why? Because the chief qualities which she must possess are born with a shine, a good quality, a good physique, brains, aptitude, imagination, memory and judgment. These aside from a generous share of instinctive talent and a goodly quantity of that indescribable and indesirable something which we all need, any actress any girl will at once perceive are not to be cultivated. Therefore is the true actress born and not made. I have not placed personal beauty in the category of essentials, because it is not essential, but essential only to go over the list of the greatest actresses to see at once that they were and are not all beautiful women. Genius always rises above personal beauty, but it must be true genius. And as a genius, it must be true world, an attractive face becomes an assistance to the actress. On this day one year ago, passed us on the road of life, Heavy rain, wet woes and strife, Strugging onward to a goal unknown, Following the light that God has shown, Our hearts grow faint, we cry in prayer, For fear the light falls before we get Onward we wander, our progress is slow, couldn't a light on yonder shore, couldn't a light on yonder shore, bldd Whisk! we are across at the angels' bidding. We have reached the goal, and to God thanksgiving. We behold the star of the early morn, Betokening glad tidings, the Christ is born. The Eureka Comb is on sale at The Freeman office, 225 Indiana avenue. WANTED Colored performers at the Pekin Theatre, Lexington, Ky. Write C. J. Parker, Booking Agent. THE FREEMAN THE FREEMAN NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 2:25 Indiana Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ADVERTISING RATES: Five cents per line. Base of measure—solid agate. Lines to an in. in.². 270 in. in a column of 270. Additional 270 in. advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business space. Discount for long time and space. Reading notices lf per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1909. PEACE. "For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ of God, and the Lord of the earth, you: We shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the saviour Jesus, who gave Glover to Go in the higher and on earth PEACE, GOOD WILL toward men."—St. Luke, 2, 11-14. Thus the occasion for the universal celebration of Christmas day. A child had been born, a son given; the government placed upon His shoulder; His name called "Wonderful Counselor, the Everlasting Father." The Prince of Peace—He brought peace and good will. He spoke the law of peace in these words: "As ye would that men do unto you, do ye also unto them." "He that is greatest among you let him be as he that doth serve." Herein lies the strength of Christian teaching; it is in accord with the "Vis Medicatrixx Nature." The healing of the nations must come by that plan. There is no other. What harmony, what symmetry there is with this plan. It accords with truth, with love, with liberty, and with light. Peace He brought and peace He left. "My peace I leave with you." Would to God we could see it more manifest among the nations of men this Xmas day. When we look at the following named countries we feel sad to note the turbulent condition of affairs prevailing: Japan, China, India, Persia, Russia, Turkey, West Indies, Central America, and the United States. All are affected with great internal troubles; none of them dare to take a sound night's sleep; each country has to keep its ear to the ground to note the degrees beneath the murmuring shallows of the deep. There are wars, and rumor of wars. Nations threatening to rise up against nations; states in open rebellion to the United States; parents against children, and vice versa; husbands against wives, and vice versa; violence and murder rampant. None seem to let the Wonderful Counselor, the Prince of Peace control. If the world's peace shall come, it must come through Him, the author and finisher. "Not by might, but My spirit," saith the Lord. We wish all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and trust that the Lord will life us His countenance upon you and give you peace, and in the new year enable nations and peoples of every race and tribe to observe the rule of the blessed Saviour: "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also unto them." THE MAN WHO MADE, MEXICAN CHILI FAMOUS. Tom Garcia, a real Mexican, who runs a restaurant at 331 Indiana avenue, was probably the first man to ever make and sell a restaurant in the United States years ago he started a restaurant in a very small room in North Capitol avenue, and in about three months had one-half [Name] TOM GARCIA. of the town crowding in the little shack that he had, buying chili in bowls and buckets as fast as he could make it. After staying there for a year or more his business demanded that he move in the large, spacious room that he now has. Here he is meeting with unbounded success because of the way in which he is delivering meals to everybody. He not only serves Spanish dishes, but also American. Glya him a call. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Miss Bessie Johnson and Mr W. C. Johnson, and the First Baptist Church, Thursday night, December 16. Rev W. M. Carter performed the ceremony...Mr. Jack Napier and Miss Sallie Hill will be married December 25, at the Church of the Nativity, nethin...Rev E. M. Glipson, pastor of the A. M. E. Church, has returned from Carbon Hill to take charge of his work. . . . Miss Minnie Codwright, of Huntsville, Miss. . . . Miss Catherine Cumbia, . . . Mrs. Mamie Johnson's little daughter is very sick at her home in Tuscaloosa. . . . Miss Joan moving picture exhibition was very good and was enjoyed by a large audience. The above picture is a fair likeness of little George," as they call the pain. Mr. Krueger [Picture of two men, one wearing a hat and the other wearing a coat]. GEORGE COONEY & SON. Cooney runs and owns a first-class saloon at North Senate avenue, where he enjoys the privilege of the best people in the north end of the city. Mr. Cooney is about twenty-five years old, and was born in Glasscoon, Ky. He is a spirited race man, and a very good entertainer all the way round. He is successful because he is a clever mixer. TAYLOR EXTENDS GREETINGS TO ALL. Mr. G. H. Taylor, better known as "Friend Harvey" by the boys, and who is owner of the Abyssinia Hotel and bar, at 325 and 329 Indiana avenue, extends Christmas and Happy New Year. Mr. Taylor has one of the finest buffets in the 6 G. H. TAYLOR. city, carrying the highest grades of elgars, tobacco, wines and liquors obtainable. He also has a first-class pool room in which the best of tables have been installed, also an old telephone, with Main 6208 as the number, which is it your disposal. Mr Taylor all to it that the best of service is given all to and that good order is maintained. J. BERNI BARBOUR HAVING GREAT SUCCESS Now Writing Exclusively for Pantage and Northwestern Circuits. J. Berni Barbour, the well-known piano teacher and a clever composer, is writing [Name] exclusively for Wilbur Mack and Nella Walker and the Pantage and Northwestern players for both circuits, and is meeting with flattering success. Mr. Barbour is the composer of such songs as "Babe, I'm Better Days" and "TlM Meet You in Seattle," Nineteen and Nine." He now has a studio at 1236 Weller street, with Old Westbury where he does piano arranging and writes plays, sketches and melody scores. PERU. IND. St. Louis Mass. has improved in health after a long illness... Mrs. Frank Mass is ill... Mrs. Julia Turner was at Indianapolis to see the "Red Moon" show. THE COACHMAN'S EXCHANGE READY FOR BUSINESS. Messrs. Twine and Frazier Extend Public Invitation to Call. Messrs. Scott Frazier and Lee Twine have gone to a good deal of expense in fitting and stocking up with the most complete line of "wet goods" that can be found in any sample room in the city. Call a sample in the line of water and whiskle. Quick and polite service at all times. They have a first-class pool THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. and billiard parlor in connection. The players in the parlor are interested in find your many friends. This place is A. B. MR. SCOTT FRAZIER. centrally located at 1304 North Senate avenue, this city, Messrs. Lee Twine and Scott Frazier are the proprietors. One Dollar sent to this office during the month of December will secure the race's leading journal for one year. THE THREE MITCHELLS QUIT THE STAGE Mrs. Mitchell Will Retire to Take Voice Culture. What do you think of it? The three Mitchells will give up their act in vaude- THE NEW YORK TIMES 1 THE WORLD'S FIRST AFRICAN AUTOR MR. JESSE MITCHELL. ville and the show business, for a while, anyway. That is, Mr. Mitchell says so, and he ought to know. It isn't because anybody is sore or that they have lost AUGUSTINE THE MUSICIAN THE MUSICIAN MRS. JESSE MITCHELL. their health or that they could not make good at all. What was it? Well, you see, Mrs. Mitchell has always had a good voice—one that everybody has been talking about for some time. "Why don't you --- A brilliant affair, and one of widespread interest, was the wedding of Miss Viola Adam and Mr. Curtis William, on Monday night, December 13, 1909. Dr. Carter performed the ceremony. The bride is a beautiful and poplar young lady, and get your voice cultivated, Mrs. Mitchell? You have such a good voice that it is a shame to let it go to ruin, as it seems you are doing," and another friendly adviser says: "Mr. Mitchell, if I had a voice like wifes I'd get married and and get double the salary I am now getting." Mr. Mitchell heard such talk so often that he finally accepted the plan, although it was with much difficulty, on account of THE NEW YORK TIMES the splendid name and reputation, along with a heavy booking of dates, ranging far into the future, for the Three Mitchells. In March Mr. Mitchell will join 14 hands with Mr. Shelton Brooks and the team name will be known as Mitchell and Brooks. The team will play all the big vaudeville time here, and then will go to London, England. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT North Fork Coal & Iron Co., 3724 State Street, Chicago ??? If Not, a 2 Cent Stamp Will Inform You. This Gigantic Negro Corporation, with a capital stock of $500,000, in its ability to make good, is determined to restore confidence to the people. The basis upon which the corporation has maintained its standard is shown in its increased assets of the Company, which raised its stock from $2.50 market value to $5 per share, which are issued fully paid and non-assessable. Persons seeking honest investment where their money is safe and has an unlimited earning value had better buy now, because as the stock rises in value it always gets further from the ability of those who desire to purchase. Our mines are now in operation, and we will have 3,000 tons of coal ready for the market in the next thirty days. All are welcome. Finest wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Bottled in bond goods our specialty. Visitors always welcome. W. H. OSBORNE, Prop., 516 9th St., Louisville, Ky. Carter's Furnishing Goods Co., 159 North Illinois Street. THE HABERDASHERY STORE YOU CAN'T MISS IT, NEXT TO STUCKY'S DRUG STORE. New HatHouse 131 N. Illinois St., Opp. Terminal Station All Styles and Colors. $1.00 AND $2.00 Furnishings at Popular Prices. A. BAUER & COMPANY. Xmas Slippers & Shoes for the Whole Family. PONTIACS COLUMBIA SHOE STORE, 316 W. Washington St. Six doors west of State House. Mr. William is a well-known and prominent young man in the scientific world. His research is young, rising phrenologist who trains students front in his profession. . . Ulysses S. Jones, the renowned colored magician of Atlanta, was once agent of the Freeman in Columbia and was a popular day's . . . Mrs. Ed N. De Neal will leave for Palmetta, Fla., at an early date. . . Mr. and Mrs. Squire Searcy are visiting Mrs. Vines, on Seventh street and Fifth avenue. ST. PAUL, MINN. DO YOU KNOW TH North Fork Coa 3724 State Street If Not, a 2 Cent Stamp Read the following CAREFULLY: This Gigantic Negro Corporation, with ability to make good, is determined to re- the basis upon which the corporation shown in its increased assets of the Coa $2.50 market value to $5 per share, which sessable. Persons seeking honest investment in an unlimited earning value had better be in value it always gets further from the a chase. Our mines are now in operation, and ready for the market in the next thirty o'clock. For further information, call or write Sunny Si Xmas Greet All are welcome. Finest wines, liquors, cigars our specialty. Visitors W. H. OSBORNE, Prop., Must Raise $5,000 IN TWO WEEKS Sale Began Dec. 7,'09 Unseasonable weather forces us to make A Tremendous Sacrifice on Shoes, which will be sold at almost GIVE AWAY PRICES. Wauk E-Z Shoe Store, 147 North Illinois Street. Carter's Furnish 159 North Illinois Carter's Specials THE HABERDAS YOU CAN'T Hale as chairman...Mrs. Anna Robinson, Aurora avenue, has been suffering with an attack of appendicitis...The manage- of the best End Branch Y. W. C. A. wishes to be all attention of the young girls and women to the rooms and the literature classes. The women are open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Mrs. are open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Mrs. are duty until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and in the afterparty until 9 o'clock at night girls and ladies in sympathy with the work are cordially invited to inspect the girls. Marcia Valley is clerking at the Emporia Store...Get the Freeman each week from Henry Crawford, the popular news agent. Dorfman's, That's All. Where will we buy our CHRISTMAS BOTTLE we can supply all your wants in price, quality, custom,量大. Our telephone orders our specialty. Phones. Old.Main. $348. New. $568.K The Dorfman Liquor Co., 311 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind EVERY LADY READ THIS. Years ago, when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Lercuria, Displacement, Painful Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple, harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one having the recope. I will send it FREE to every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of woman helping her. I send it FREE. Address Mus. A. B. Humbert. South Bend, Ind OW ABOUT HE Coal & Iron Co., et, Chicago ??? mp Will Inform You. with a capital stock of $500,000, in its restore confidence to the people. ation has maintained its standard is Company, which raised its stock from which are issued fully paid and non-as- nt where their money is safe and has buy now, because as the stock rises the ability of those who desire to pur- and we will have 3,000 tons of coal days. write us. JOHN W. HARDY, President. Side Cafe greetings. Margarins and tobacco. Bottled in bond goods vers always welcome. 516 9th St., Louisville, Ky. THE HELDING BOOT ning Goods Co., Indiols Street. Sweater Coats.....$1.00 Tie, Sox and Handkerchiefs.....$1.00 Neckties, 25c, 50c.....75c SHERY STORE T MISS IT, A NEW EPOCH IN NEGRO MINSTRELSY—TOUR BEGINS MARCH 1910 AMERICA'S OLDEST MINSTREL UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT A Brand New Vehicle BILLY KERSANDS THE FAMOUS AND ORIGINAL MINSTRELS Under Spacious Canvas MANAGEMENT OF VOELCKEL AND JOLLIFE WANTED PERFORMERS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, Address R. VOELCKEL, ROOM 601 TIMES BUILDING NEW YORK The Stage. The Marshalls played at the Grand opera house, White Plains, New York, December 18, where they were a big hit. The Thompson's—Lizzie and Thomas—are en route with the Lacey Bros. Minstrels. Regards to all in and out of the profession. Sam Shelton, the Shelton, and former comedian of Barylar's New York crackerjack company, is very ill at Washington, D. C. J. B. Norton, the reliable stage manager of Allen's Minstrel, is still with the big show and wishes everybody a merry Xmas and happy New Year. Regards to Jack Copeland and Sam Davis. Write in care the Freeman. The Sunny South Company has about one more month in New York State, then they will go West. James Turner, stage manager, hurt his hip and has been unable to do his skating in his act, but is much better at this writing. Richard P. Mathews, of the team of Cumby and Mathews, now playing the Majestic theater, Charleston, Va., sends his William Coates, Marilyn Brooks, Ed Green and James E. Simpson and dog, Royal, and wishes them to write him. TRIBBLES IS VERY MUCH MISSED The part of "Lilly White" as played by Miss Tossoie Allen, in Cole and Johnson's "Red Moon" play, is done very well by Miss Allen, when one considers what a weak character she is in, and the short period of experience Miss Allen has had with the part. But Mr. Tribbles is very sadly missed because Miss Allen plays "Lilly" in such a weak character, and one in this show. Andrew Tribbles got as much out of this part, nearly, as did Bob Cole in the actual star comedy part. The public laughed heartily at Tribbles when they played Tribbles did something to provoke us to do so. Everybody was sadly disappointed in "Lilly White" of this season, because she had amused us so greatly heretofore, now she seemed so dull that we could long to see Tribbles as Lilly once more. MOSELEY'S SUCCESS AS A THEA TER OWNER. Mr. C. W. Moseley, the well-known own- er of the Norfolk, was one of the first, Negroes Norfolk, was one of the first, Negroes to run a theater in the State of Virginia. The Pekin opened on the 1st of January of 1904 year and has been running very successfully ever since. The stage actor, performer himself, having traveled with some of the largest road shows in the country, filling the positions of principal stage actors and others. By having twenty years experience in the business there is no reason why he should not be successful. He is the best performer in the business and the opening of the Pekin Theater Mr. McLeish has had on the bills of that house some of the very best performers in the busi-ness. The thing that is of much credit to him is that he has always worked at the Pekin has always been glad O. W. MORLEY C. W. MOSELEY. to get back. The Pekin is about the only playhouse that has its own band and orchestra, with uniforms of ideal appearance, to press and publish decals this house to more modest places in Norfolk at night, when that $400 electric sign, which is elevated fifty feet above the street, is turned on, together with back lights, other lights, blue and white—making this little playhouse one grand, gorgeous scene. It is the pride of the city, as well as the pride of Norfolk. The manager wishes to hear from good performers at all times. BILLY M'LAIN WRITES FROM PARIS. PARIS, France, December 11. —Tonight is the great fight between McVey and Joe Jeanette, and all Paris will go to see the fight. I open Monday, December 14. I have come to Paris to produce a new burlesque show and play a part in it. I am managing such fighters as George Gunther, Frank Gett, and I am also considering the paupable Boston, Mass. I understand that Able Mitchell is going to be in this new burlesque show I am producing, or "Revue," as they call it here. Yours as B. 4. BILLY MCCLAIN. 143 Charing Cross Road, London, Eng. THE ACT THAT STARTS YOU TO SMILING, THEN LAUGHING AND LEAVES THEM ALL SCREAMING. A word about this fast, rapid singing, dancing and talk team that has taken the management of the midside West off their back. This act is directed by Act Off and on the stage. In plain, its THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER the best dress act in the West. It needs a little introduction to the show world. Mr. Saparo first came to public notice by being a well-known all around actor, Bennie Jones, now one of the leading lights of Cole and Johnson's Red Moon Company. The team of Saparo and Jones parted but the company was still in a stage to enter into business, but ill health put a short ending to his business career. The doctor advised open air and excite the mind, but the stage work again. About this time Mr. Campbell met with a sad accident, by [Image of two men in formal attire, one holding a book]. Saparo and Campbell, Formerly With Bennie Jones and Campbell Brothers, Respectively. losing his brother, who was known all over the world, the famous Campbell Bros., Bunk and Manzie. He had traveled from coast to coast, and had signed up a long contract to tour Europe, when the sad ending came. Mr. Manzie Campbell had about made up his mind to retire. He Manzie Campbell had traveled to center the business again. The love the foot lights always has its charm for an actor, and it needed but little persuading to cause Mr. Campbell to change his mind. He walked a dozen booking agents down the photos of Saparo and Campbell. The team was booked on a good time before they rehearsed the act. The act has not been organized a year yet, and they have not made up their minds. Beginning with the new year they start out with a block of fifteen weeks for the Western Vaudeville Association. The act is billed as "The Act That Starts You to Leave Me and Laughing, and Leaves Them All Screaming." A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all. CUMBY AND MATHEWS MAKING GOOD. The team of Cumby and Mathews opened at the Majestic Theater, Charleston, W. Va., and they certainly made good, Mr. Cumby sang "If I Could Only Dream that Dream Again, and that Mathews reminded him but not, that and both won return engagements with those two popular ditties. The act is called "The Coon and the Tramp," and to say that Billy Cumby, in the comedy part, that the straight, is not clever, would be putting it wrong. On the same bill are the team of Tyler and James—some hard people to beat; but Bland and Jones have the straight, is not clever, would be putting it wrong. The manager of this very pretty little the ater is well pleased with the show this week. TAKES CHARGE OF STAR THEATER. C. P. Stinson, the banjoist, has taken charge of the Star Theater, in Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., and will make an effort to run a colored stock company and vaudeville combined. This will be the place the Pittsburgh ever had a colored professional stock company. The management intends to make this a strictly first-class family theater. GEM THEATER AT MEMPHIS, TENN. The Gem is now in great shape. Miss Lula "Too Sweet" is back with us and we are delighted to have our master violinist, is back after seven months' vacation, and also Mr. Harry Jeferson, our trap drummer, has joined hands with our band. Jefferson is done fine. Mrs. Salila Zeek, Floyd Fisher and Rosie Moore, and Susie Johnson, our soubreathes, send regards to Owl and John. Our stage manager, Big. "Willee Too Sweet," is pleasing the proprietor, Susie Our Christmas play will be "Queen of the Wild West," by Miss Luib "Too Sweet." THE PEKIN THEATER, MEMPHIS MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 23—The Pekin Theater here is still doing fine business. The Goodoos are back again and everybody is still happy. Goodoos is still stage manager, and is putting on good shows. The Jennings and the Bansons are still making big hits with their double hits. Laura Smith and Johnny were did a swing in which was the hit of the town. Our musicians are always playing sweet, high-class overtures. The whole company sends out of the profession. Mrs. Goodoos says "Hello" to Tennie Taylor and Stella Stoval. THE TAFT THEATER AT LOUIS VILLE. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 23—The Taft Theater offers one of the best bills of the season this week. The motion picture "Vaudeville turns were a distinct hit with large crowds." The program began with Arthur Brown, in an up-to-date monologue. The Taylors—Lovie and Nettie—most importantly fitted out with "Hold-dancing. The Taylors are booked solid for the season. A musical and comedy festival, and Price, assisted by Arthur Young, will feature a bit of comedy, and made a decided hit. IN REMEMBRANCE. (To J. Homer Tutt, in Memory of His Wife, Marie Bell.) The curtain rises! And there you stand in the flush of youth. Ready to take your part and weave the spell. Swaying the hearts of thousands as you will. So real it seems, so close to life and truth. While ringing cheers your name and presence calls. Before the footlights, as the curtain falls. The play is over! And the lights burn pale and dim- And you say, "Bell hells call, tell And you hear a far-off bell sadly toll Above her flower-decked grave: "God runs out!" Pleading that your heart should ever be at ease, For the joy of love and perpetual light of peace Wilt ever be with her who acted well her part— She who was thy precious, sweet, sacred heart! So now let the curtain fall, and ring the last sad bell; Wife—so loved and mourned—"Goodnight—sleep well." —Charles D. Marshall. ROUTES. RICHARDS AND PRINGLE'S GEORGIA MINSTRELL—Holly Springs, Miss. Dec., 27; Tupelo, 28; Columbus, 29; Aberdeen, 30; Corthus, 31. WM. McCABE'S GEORGIA TROUBA- DOURS—Madison, Minn., Dec. 26; Boyd, 27-28; Hazelrun, 29-30. COLE AND JOHNSON, "RED MOON" COMPANY—Week of Dec. 26, Louis- ville, Ky. Avenue Theater. S. H. DUDLEY, IN "HIS HONOR, THE BARBER"—Week of Dec. 26, Chicago, Ill. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY—Selma, Ala., Dec. 27; Montgomery, 28; Opelika, 29; Columbus, Birmingham, 30. JOHNSON AND WELLS—Grand Theater, Hamilton, O., week of Dec. 27. PANKEY AND COOK—Week of Dec. 27; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 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FORD'S HAIR HOMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Arnate Wanted Everywhere YOUNG'S HOTEL AND BUFFET YOUNG'S HOTEL AND BUFFET Cafe and Restaurant Louis Young. Prop. John Malone. Mgr. Choice wines. Liquors and cigars. Special Clock shop Sunday Dinners. Steam heat and bath. Clock shop Monday Dinners. N. E. E. Cor. 4th and Sculp Sts. Milwaukee, WI. THE CHEAPEST PLACE in the city for your Holiday goods is at H. EFROYMSON & CO., AVE. BARGAIN STORE, 926 Massachusetts Avenue. Come in and Let Us Prove It. AT LIBERTY The Singing Wonder, Eph Ferguson, and Minnie Anderson, the World's Greatest Guests and Concert Singers, in the original cross-address 319 Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, IL. THE STAGE Clem Harris opened up December 19 for a week's engagement at the Cleveland Theater, Cleveland, O.. Sam Shelton sends regards to Mat Marshall, Oma Crosby, Mamie Selly and friends. He is now at the Pekin Theater, Richmond, Va. John H. Mosby has closed the season when Howe's Great London Shows, after thirty weeks, return to his home, 253 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo. The show had a good season, closing December 25, to winter at Jacksonville, Fla. He sends regards to all. Caldwell & Henry will write from Chicago that they will present the their big acts, using from four to ten people, for the Western Vaudeville Association, as they go on the William Morris theater, using from four to ten acts entitled "Will I Get the Wife." They can be addressed at 3456 State street. Cox & Cox are making a great success with their own song entitled "I Love the Mary Jane." I think they are great, but I am crazy about the gal that wears the open cap, who has a storm. Also Miss Carrie Hall has made a great success and has closed her first engagement and will leave for Memphis for Christmas. Miss Carrie Hall and the Cox & Cox tea mare well pleased with the manager, Mr. P. R. P. and will recommend him to any profession. Best of all, the ghost walks every Saturday night. F. R. (ACE.) BROOKS. The manager of the Wingangdoodle Trio of Scarlett, who has added one more to the band, making it four pieces, and they are engaged at the Savoy Cafe, since the close of the day. All of them are making good. We play anything that's written to music, and The manager of the Whangoodle Trio, of Seattle, Wash., has added one to the band, making it four pieces, and they are engaged at the Savoy Cafe, since the close of the the, Duvall, P. E. and are making good. We play anything that's written to music, and singing is our specialty. We are open for engagements for trips abroad. We are up-to-date, sober, gentlemanly. During the season 1988-09 I conducted a company of twelve performers at the White City here, and am in line for 1910. Regards to P. G. Lowery. First mandolin, F. R. Brooks, manager; second mandolin, J. F. Paulke; cello, F. E. Lowry, baritone; harp, guitar, H. E. Mables, bass. Address 1010 Yesler Way, or Savoy Cafe. TO OPEN A NEW THEATER IN FLORIDA. PENSACOLA, Fla., December 24—Another new theater for colored people will open its doors for business here Christina Brennan, the house has not been named, and the man has never been through a voting contest. This theater is said to have the latest improvements, and the actors are well suited to work with the best houses in the country. H. H, Bird, a man with a good reputation in the business, is interested as owner, and he has begun booking some of the strong actors in the house. It is safe to say that this house will make good, as it is centrally located GREAT MUSIC TEACHER AND SOLO ARTIST Nelson Kincaid Returns Home for the Winter. Nelson L. Klnacid, who has been traveling with Mahara's Minstrels and Lacy's Concert Band, which played at the recent city fair, has been invited by the city to make it his permanent home. 1517 Olive street, New Phone $952, where he has opened up a studio of music, in which he will teach not only the two instruments that he plays, the piano and the cello, but also the cold studied in Boston, Mass, for over five years, in order to make himself the successful clarinetist that he is. He has been playing the piano since he was six years old, and has established an enviable reputation through his remarkable ability in execution. As every one knows, the clarinet is one of the hardest instruments of all to master. Often we wonder why we do not play the clarinet or the oboe or the chests. Well, there is a great reason for it. Few persons can master such an instrument. A small number—as many as you can easily count in one breath—play the instrument. But, going back to the early days, we have seen a former on the "reed horn." There is no reason why he should not be a successful musician, for there is no man who practices more than he. I have known him to play the long, going over some difficult selection of notes, but he had mastered it. Mr. Kincaid intends to give a recital in the spring, but in the meantime he will devote his time to teaching, composing and filling minor engagements. He sends regards to Atrus Hughes and Ierry and all the profession a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. MARSH. CAN JEFFERIES GET BACK IN HIS FORMER CONDITION? It is Possible, But Not Probable. BY JACKSON J. SINVALL, CHICAGO, IL. Somewhere in the Golden State of California, on the afternoon of July 4, providing some unforeseen mishap does not prevent the meeting, "Jack" Johnson and James J. Jeffries will battle for the world's championship. The purse of $101,000 is the largest purse ever guaranteed for a single battle in the epoch of punishment, and the percentage of the picture privileges. Since Johnson defeated Tommy Burns in Australia, with Kaufman and Ketchel following in his wake, and annexed the state of Texas, the purse of Jeffries has been the only hope of the Caucasian战 to wrest the laurels from the sable brow of the colored champion. Jeffries has been called upon by the sport's governing body, the National Association, would be unable to accomplish it he was at the zenith of his career, not to speak of his long retirement from the ring. In Johnson, Jeffries meets the first man of class that compares favorably, physical and mental, and the loyalty in speed and cleverness and a past master of feints and guards. Bob Fitzsimmons was the greatest fighter of his weight and inches at the zenith his career that the world has ever known. He knew far-away hills of Carson City, Nev., he met and defeated the then peerless Corbett. After resting two years and three years, he met and defeated the ring and defended the title against Jamie J. Jeffries. The result the public knows. Can Jeffries, after five years' retirement from the ring, get back in the form that he was, when he defeated Sharkley and Fitzsimmons? It is possible, but not probable. This contest will in all probability be Jeffries' last act (so to speak) on the pugilistic stage, and when the certain is defeated, the man will be defeat and oblivion for the man whom THE MUSICIAN the public has thought for many years invincible. Jeff will repeat the statement that poor old John minimons nonsense at his semi-conscious state: when he mutinized the title at Coney Island: "How did I come to fight him?" FORTY YEARS OF THE NEGRO ON THE STAGE IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. BY JULI JONES, JR. These same methods are still in vogue to-day, only on the modern plans. The Negro star of to-day rules every one ex-actually play star writers. Song writers pick their cast, appoint the stage manager, and is general manager as far as the colored performers are concerned; every one has to do as the star says, or get out. By this time, the Negro stars have the rulers of the stage arigment; quite to the contrary; they are men of fair education, except the one as mentioned in the above, who is a National Guard, captain or the line of United States and in following the line of the imply the actions to the educated Indian. He never strays away from the Indian's set rule to do things in the Indian way. That's what Negro on the stage has done in the Negro play, and was asked me of the Negro play writers, "Why didn't some one of them write a Negro force comedy or a melodrama for Negroes to play?" His slow reply was that he would play five or six good reasons, and pointed out five or six good reasons. In his way of thinking not a one of them would hold good should some one challenge the speaker. The cold fact of the Negro play was that the writers who will take the chance and face starvation to produce plays to challenge "The Clansman," and such plays, for fear the white managers would not like such plays; another bush they hide behind is, and should not give such a show any time or play them in their houses. This is all rot. The present-day managers would play a show composed of hogs, if the hogs could fill the house. It is a matter of money to the theater manager, and not to the manager of the house, to call upon Mr. Chas, W. Chestnut for a story that would fit the present-day Ne-ter. The best blood to take the stage. As the matter now stands, there is no room upon the WILLIAM How William McCabe Beca William McCabe was born in Kansas City, Mo., on January 1, 1873, and although not yet thirty-seven, he has been in the profession twenty-three years, starting in 1907. After spending several seasons with McCabe, of McCabe and Young's Minstrels, who died in Moorcroft, Wyoming, in 1907, After spending several seasons with McCabe, he was being billed as "the boy wonder," he traveled with W. S. Cleveland's Minstrels, and afterwards came back to his brother Dan, who was managing the "Black Tribly Company." William McCabe in 1900 branched out for himself, organizing the Georgia Troubadours, which he has owned and controlled ever since, and he has made the name of his company, the Celebrity the Dakotas, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota, stand as a household word to the inhabitants of those sections. He allyed with the local businessmen and his motto on all his paper is "Everything to please, nothing to offend," and he has built up a reputation for himself in the business by his square dealings with THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. stage for young and brilliant colored ladies and gentlemen. Give the race shows that will have morals, and parts that give us something to go home and think about. Your white and black supporters are tired looking at the race, and old things. You have done nothing, nothing, but sing, dance and make a fool of yourself to the people who have been attending your shows in the last forty years. You have financially you have been an absolute failure for forty, forty long years. THE DARKTOWN SWELLS MIN STRELS. Robert C. White, the genial and capable manager of the Darktown Swells Minstrels, is a well-known figure in the theatrical world, where he has been associated for many years. Mr. White was the manager of the Lemon Lemon 1878, but was raised in Atlantic City, N.J. His first theatrical venture was with a Chicago vaudelle company, after which A. B. MR. ROBERT C. WHITE. He was affiliated with H. L. Comfort, in the of faith Councils, out of which Mr. White has taken twenty people and started a minstrel show, and traveled through Canada and the Western States. After the closing of this company Mr. White says he found himself in a peach-water writing a play called "Coons," which he organized in manager, Mr. Ed Green, then in Memphis, Tenn., at Bob Church's Auditorium, at which it was produced. He had little faith in his ability as a playwright, as he knew, from experience that very few people who attempted to write plays were qualified to do so; but still he McCABE. me a Successful Showman Personally, Mr. McCabe is a genial, even-tempered gentleman, who always look on the bright side of things, and professionally he is a comedian of marked wit. He was married May 15, 1891, to Miss Medray Carr, Milley, Iowa, and they have two boys, Willie, Jr. nicknamed "Billum," and Rudolph—both boys of great promise. The whole family traveled with the Troubadours until last summer, when they learned to Chicago to put the boys in school. Mr. McCabe's present company consists of ten people, headed by "Clever" Billy McCabe, a former New Yorker and Edna McCabe, Ada Smith, Edith Gordon, Hattie Lewis, Tom Warren and Jack Winch, with Fred W. Burch as musical director, and the scenic scenery for his last act, which is entitled "A Trip to the Jungles" and is touring Iowa and Minnesota this season, at all times in accordance with the requirements at all times from good performers, and, with his company, wishes all their friends, professionally and otherwise, a Merry Christmas and a Happier New Year. THE MUSICIAN CHARLES BEECHUM. The Clever Comedian and Snare Drummer, with the Lowery-Morgan Minstrels. GREETINGS Season 1909—1910 BERT A. WILLIAMS THE BIG FELLOW—THE FUNNY ONE HE WHO MAKES THEM LAUGH MAKES ALL THE WORLD HIS FRIEND We Have Had a Few Shadows Fall Our Way We Have Had Many Bright Smiles Greet Us JUST A FEW LIGHT WEEKS, MANY BIG HEAVY ONES THE BALANCE IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LEDGER We wish you could spell SATISFIED with as big an S And HAPPY with as big an H as we do LET 'EM ROLL! found himself classed as a song writer, and he has had success with the following songs: "Black Belle Sue," "Reputation Is All I Want," "Brown Skin Baby, Chocolate to the Bone," and his latest is in "The Man," which he wrote in 1981. Man," Mr. White wrote the following poetry, which appeared some time ago in this paper: TO THE COLORED PERFORMERS OF TO-DAY. If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-going. If it halls or if it snows, Keep a-going. Tail to tail, sit and whine. When another performer steals your line, Bait your hook and keep on trying— Keep a-going. When the weather kills your crop, Keep a-going. When you tumble from the top, Keep a-going. Spose you are out of every dime, Giving what else any crime. Tell the world you’re feeling prime— Keep a-going. When it looks like all is up, Keep a-going. Drain the sweetness from the cup, Keep a-going. Keep a-going. Sweep hands on the wing. Hear the bells that sweetly ring. When you feel like singing, sing— Keep a-going. Mr. White has the distinction of being the only colored man that really owns and controls colorful shoes that show that truing his white compass is the skill of the K. G. Backout Amusement Company No. 1, and he has a very large amusement company, fourteen shows, and the fea- ture of the darkout Swallow- owned by White. Mr. White has twenty people, including a band of eight pieces, of which Jerry Martin is leader and orchestra director. The distinction of having the Mrs. Estella White, versatile soprano and soubrette; Wm. Fontroy, the droll comedian, who is a member of the german, basso, who has traveled extensively for thirty years with the Fisk Ju- bliee Singers, etc, and many other prominent professionals, including Ernest Crawley, Will Jones and wife, Julia Martin, and many others. Many others. This show was written staged by Mr. White, who sends the profession a check on the First National University of the world, 365 days of luck, prosperity and success. A Merry Christmas to all. THE FREEMAN AT CHICAGO. Geo. Knox's Barber Shop, 5542 Lake ave. Hyde Park Shoe Shining Parlor, 110% East. 53rd st. B. Patterson, 538th State st. J. C. Barber Shop, 2110 State. E. D. Burts, 2636 State. E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State. Tess H. Crump, 3704 State. Jno H. Crump, 329th st. Ed Felix, 368 30th st. W. T. Mason, 1617 Benson ave., Evanson, Ill. M. Jno. Jackson died Monday and was buried Wednesday. The funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church, and were conducted by Rev. R. H. Porter. . . Morton Leach is still on the sick list. . . Miss Elsie Evans, who has been visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Evans, has relied on her home in Eden, O. . . Jas Berryman was the guest of his wife and son last Sunday. . . Seloip Muñc sprained his ankle last Thursday and is rapidly improving. . . Mr. Jesse Hayes and Miss Cecile Johnson were at the home of the bride, last Thursday night. Those present were: Mr. J. C. Thomas, Mr. Samuel Watson, Mr. Geo. Steele, Mr. J. M. Jackson, Mr. Jimmy Johnson, Mr. Jasper Cus, Sander, Mr. Price Himmons and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. F. White, Mr. and Mrs. Carey Moore, Mr. Keene Moore; Mr. Frank Parlee, Mr. Jno. Grayson, Miss Minnie Troy, Mattle Arrington, Carrie Jackson, Lizzie Box Mary Cooke, Florence Pryor, and Mrs. Edward Taylor. . . Miss Georgia M. Adams, who has been at the bedside of her home in Springfield, O. EDWARD L. HOWARD AND HIS BIG SOCIETY MISTRELS Are still packing them to the doors with the Carolina Amusement Company, under the management of Harry L. Tucker, prince of all managers. Edward L. Howard Mr. Howard is in his twenty-sixth year as a showman, and he has traveled from coast to coast with some of the big "noises," but, strange to say, he never screamed for nor to be a headliner nor a star, and he is a versatile artist, and can and has played each part as Indian, Mexican, Jew, Chinese, George Harris for some of the best known in the United States, Canada and Cuba, always keeping himself in the background Nettie Howard. of the profession, from the fact that he is a very quiet, moderate liver, and don't care for high life and late hours. But, you need troops, he has had his ups and downs since he ville, in 1900, he joined hands with Miss Jeanneette Barker, a non-professional, who is now a dainty soubrette, and they are known as THE MERRY HOWARDS, who can make bill at any time any place on any bill, and they send regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Yes, Mr. Knox will forward all mail for us. John T. Hicks, of Toxarquia, Ark. is doing "Aunt Dinah" and is he hands-on own on the extreme end, and he sends regards to Fulton Mitchell and wife. In the Field of Sport. TOO COLD FOR BOXING AT MEM PHIS. MEMPHIS. Tenn.—For the first time in the annals of the boxing game in this city, postponed on Friday night, December 17 on account of cold weather. Congo Kid. the colored wonder, and Tommy Coleman the fight fans were chased indoors by cold. POINTED REMARKS ON BIG BAT TLE BY TOM M'CAREY. "Johnson is the greatest defensive fighter in the world. A lion could not whip him in less than five or six rounds, so strong is his guard." "Jeffries did not receive any bonus for signing with Rickard." "There is no enmity between Jeffries and myself. Johnson and I also are on the team that wins." "This is going to be a heavyweight fight of real championship class. Don't look for any parlor affair." "Johnson is another Joe Gans, only much larger and four times as good. The losers are the same people. That Johnson has." "Some people, think that Johnson has." "Some people think that Johnson has the necessary punch to stop Jeffries." "It was a hard blow to me to lose the fight, but I have no bitterness against Rickard and Gleason. I hope they will do well with the fight. I can't understand now, and never shall be able to, why they did it. I can't believe my bid was better than Rickard's." RYAN IS SKEPTICAL. Tommy Doubtful of Jeffries's Ability to Win. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 24—If James J. Jeffries defeats Jack Johnson, the result will surprise Tommy Ryan, former weterweight champion, who gave Jeffries many scientific points in his championship. He is guarded as "inventing" for Jeffries the famous crouch position, which Ryan says prevented the sledgehammer blows of Fitzsimons from landing on vulnerable spots on the ballistic bolstered body. As the coming of Jeffries, whom he says he is willing to help again in training, "just for friendship sake." Ryan admits he has not seen Jeffries stripped in three years, but he thinks that Johnson is grossly underestimated by the average critic and layman, and at the same time points to the fact that no champion has ever been known to stay in retirement as a champion, and return to the ring with the same ability. Dr. Roller, according to Ryan, will certainly be the next big man the American public will ask to meet Johnson in event of Jeffries' defeat. THE PAST SEASON OF FOOTBALL AT TUSKEGEE. Enthusiasm in football athletics at Tuskegee, this fall, has received such in impetus as is likely to be felt in many succeeding years. This is because she has been a leader in the sport since this year's eleven is such that every alumnus may regard with pride, and every undergraduate must refer to as a precedent, from which he may get inspiration, and must be actuated in all future contests. Tuskegee's two important games were against Hampton and Atlanta Baptist College. In the former, her proficiency in the game was the East, and in the latter with that of the South. Howard University, the reputed champion among the colored institutions, Home Depot, and on Thanksgiving day beat Lincoln University by the same score. Tuskegee beat Hampton, with whatever experience the latter has obtained from the contest with the other schools, better than Howard. In the South, A. B. C. is generally conceded to be foremost in gridiron tactics. At any rate, she has the best reputation in the game. B. C. is the best score game at the close of the season, and Tuskegee's goal was never in danger. So, viewed from any angle, in matters pertaining to football, Tuskegee has a just claim to a place in front rank among the colored institutions. This may be an imperfect comparison of Tuskegee's real strength, but it is the way that the team is to say, if two teams do not play each other, but both against a third team, their relative efficiency is determined from their superiority in the game. The incidents or injuries have marred the Tuskegee games this year. The general condition of the men has been excellent at all times. This was especially evident in the second half, when the players were put through an extremely strenuous contest, and not only did the personnel of the team remain the same throughout, but the pace was as rapid in the second as in the first half. Much praise is due to the coaches for this superior condition of the men, and especially for the players, who have given so much constant attention and time to develop a representative team. The old men have not only responded well to the new players, but a large number of new men have shown so much efficiency that the so-called scrub*, or second team, equally as well as the first team, last year. Further proof of this fact, the scrubs played the whole of the first half against Talladega on Thanksgiving day and prevailed in the second and Tuskegee played a tie game. The Tuskegee alumni have taken steps to entertain the team at a banquet to be given in its honor. This is the final step in the process of graduating from two alumnus and "undergrad," and is indicative of a mutual esteem for their great institution. J. L. W. THE BASE BALL SPIRIT IN THE EAST. Writer Names a New Bunch For Colored All-American Base Ball Team. By Harry Daniels (Eastern Corre- spondent) New York City, December 23. Having seen Mr. Smith's choice of an all-American colored base ball club, myself along with fair-minded and courageous follower, country, and not a few players, Mr. Smith by chance has seen. To pick a team of ball players from the field of colored players one must not overlook one end of the country where a man must possess every quality. more than a man can possess, and start off with, closely follow with hitting, fielding speed, and last, but not least, to take advantage of every error of his opponents. So, if you can spare space, I will give my reasons for the East having a greater portion of the modern and scientific ball The first thing to do is to engage a manager, so my choice for such an important position is, without a question of a doubt—the base ball worker. Sol Wylie the peerless leader of the Philadelphia and Cuban Giants. As for my captain, Grant Johnson, who for sixteen years has been a star and a great around the world, gives greater experience than any active player in colored base ball of the present day. Having my captain and manager picked, I will present the names of the best players at present in colored base ball, the greatest of colored base ball, without fear or favor. Catchers—Petway of the Philadelphia Giants, the greatest since Arthur Thomas's time. Petway at present time is the greatest of colored base ball, catcher colored base ball has seen. For second catcher, Phil. Bradley of the Royals is easy the second best catcher in colored base ball. He is a better hitter than Petway, and has a head along with him. The second catcher is how Mr. Smith compares Booker as a great catcher, as the Philadelphia Giants stole seven bases, on Mr. Booker in Detroit this past season. First base - Robinson, of the Royals, for mine, first, last and always, since Ray Wilson out of the game. He is a good hitter, and there is no better as a base runner. Second base - Captain Johnson, of the Royals, always has been a hard, consistent hitter, fielder and base runner, and as a first baseman, and there is no better as a base runner. Short stop - Lloyd, of the Philadelphia, is one man who is a wonder at fielding and hitting, also a fair base runner. Third base - Gordon, of the Cuban Giants, is the best third base in colored base ball. He at present is without an equal as a hitter and fielder, and last, but not least, the peer of base-scelerers. Left field - Earl, of the Royals, is the best hitter in base ball; a sure fielder, going back or coming forward after a ball, and as fast as they come as far as speed is concerned, both in the field or on the bases. Center field - Bass, of the baseball, and the most wonderful base runner for the past ten years; also strong at the bat. Right field - Rebel Duncan, of the Philadelphia Giants. He is a good fielder and one of the most dangerous men in the game, who can face, also a daredevil base runner. Pitchers, the last and most important — MacCellan, Buckner, Gatewood, Green and Hayman. I would have picked Foster, but what is the use, everyone knows he is a wonder. How Mr. Smith ever picked Bail, people here in the East were so amazed by him from the West who came East with as little nerve as Bail. I wonder if Mr. [Name] HARRY DANIELS. Smith remembers as far back as 1904, when Ball, pitching the first game of the world's series against Foster, who was the Philadelphia Giant's choice against Ball for the Cuban Giants, when Ball quit it with a whipped child and was followed by MacOllan. This was the game Foster made his world's record on striking out eighteen men, including Mr. Smith, in nine innings. The All-American Team. Harry Daniels. Jimmie Smith. Petway c Petway Bradley c Booker Robinson c Moor Thompson (cpt.) 2nd b Harris Lloyd s Lloyd Gordon 3d Wallace Monroe c F. P. Hill Duncan f Payne Earl 1f Duncan PITCHERS MacCellan Ball Buckner MacCellan Gatewood Foster Green Dougherty Hayman Rube Foster Will Invade the East. In further reading Mr. Smith's article, referring to elevation of colored base since 1904, Mr. Ruel Leland and Mr. Owens (the Leland, the Chicago agreed to disagree, Mr. Smith goes wild about the series of games between the Lelands and the Chicago National League, just because, no doubt, Foster sees his clear future after the war went to state and a war right now would ruin ball base in the East; for one reason alone are the followers glad, for the very fact that Mr. Foster intends to invade the East next season to play all three games, the next season do away with newspaper championship as to which is the better team, the Lelands or the Royal Giants. The only game ever played between these two teams was in 1905, the Royal Giants by the score of 2 to 2, in 1906. Mr. Smith refers to himself as the captain of the 1905 Leland Giant's team, and bringing the honors of not losing the game to the Philadelphia Giants, under the grand old master of colored base ball teams, Sol White, had the greatest colored team who ever appeared before the public, and not in the newspapers. The line-up of the Philadelphia Giants in 1905 was as follows: Booker, catcher; Bob Gordon, first base; Charlie Grant, second base; Grant ("Home Run") Johnny Reed, third base; P. Hill, left field; Mike Moore, center field; Dan MacCallen, pitcher and right fielder; Bowman, pitcher and right fielder; Foster (captain), pitcher. This was the team that was to play Wichita Falls in the 1906 League) but after noting their record of wining sixty-five out of sixty-eight games against first-class teams (Mr. Smith understands only too well how strong the teams are in the East. as the season of Cuban Giants, the followers roasted Ed. B. Lamar for signing him, as he could not stand the test. Referring to the American League, they refused to live up to their agreement to play the world's greatest colored team—the Philadelphia Giants. The elevation in colored base ball is here given a slight history, and as how the East easily surpasses the West: In 1877 the National Giants organized in the city in 1883 and in 1888 Frank Thompson, the Cuban Giants of New York City organized and played throughout the country: in 1887 George L. Williams now in Philadelphia in the detective department, and in 1888 with the Cuban Giants, and in 1889 they played Detroit to a standstill in a ten-liming tie game, 4 to 4. Malone done the pitching for the Giants, and here is Malone playing the players started, and not 1909 as claimed by the gentleman in the middle-West. Think of it, a eastern colored team playing a big league in 1889; and it was not 1909 the first time, but the middle-West seen the Columbus Giants play the Chicago White Socks, which game they won by a score of 9 to 5 or 9 to 6. Bert Jones opposed Garvin of the White Socks, and it was between years after the great game in Detroit. In 1894 the Cuban Giants played the Cincinnati Reds, of the National League, two games, and, although losing both games, the scores were very close. The Giants, the Reds, the Kid Carter and Shaw did the pitching for the Cuban Giants, while Berens汀 was on the mound for the Reds, and no one of the fourowers of the Reds, nor any of the other players, were active, holds a record of striking out Buck Freeman five times in one game; also he holds a record of catching ten men napping on the bases. In 1896 Ed E. Lamar organized the first game for the Giants, of the league where a chance was giving, barring, of course, big league THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER teams, as they rule against colored teams after the Cuban Giant's show in 1894. The colored team's next chance against big league teams never came. The American team, organized, and in 1902 the Cuban Giants played the Philadelphia American League team to a standstill in an eleven innning game, the score being 4 to 4. Johnnie Nelson, the noted doping specialist, the Cuban Giants against Dunkle of the league team. It was plain to be seen that his great gray-matter was working overtime, for with three men on the bases in the last inning, and none out, he did not allow a hit or a man to score. The fielding team was not as strong as Smithy in this game is still the talk when anyone refers to the game. In 1906, under the management of Grant ("Home Run") Johnson, the Royal Giants played a series of six games with Philadelphia and were returned winners, three out of five games, as one was an eleven innings (3 to 3) tie game. This game Bender opposed Holland for the Royals. The winning scores were 0 to 4, 4 to 4, 4 to 4, Philadelphia team 2 to 1 and 6 to 3. The 2 to 1 game in which the Giants lost, was pitched by Kid Carter. He allowed but one hit, the game being lost on errors. One she had seen have been. Conner lasted the last way, the way is of the Royals). A banquet, street parade and fireworks was what he ordered for the boys. Philadelphia, with Harry E ("Gont Head") Buckner in the box we played the Philadelphia team again, losing through errors of Ed. Wilson, who played right field in this game. Buckner had only allowed one hit when Wilson made it. Buckner's defeat Buckner cried for a week. This past season the Philadelphia Giants and Philadelphia Americans played again, the Americans winning both games by the following scores, 8 to 10 to 2. The Royal Giants went the middle-West one better by defeating the second big league team, the New York American League team, by the score of 9 to 5. Buckner pitched seven innings and Earl two for the Royals, the Mackenzie and he had run so often. He lead with the stick for the Royals, getting a single, a three-bagger and a home run out of three times at bat. The score was as follows: Royal Giants R II PO A E Monroe, 2d b ... 2 1 2 5 Earl, p and l f ... 2 1 2 5 Johnson, s s ... 2 2 3 0 Lang, c f ... 2 2 3 0 Buckner, p ... 2 3 0 3 Buckner, p st ... 2 1 2 0 Bradley, c ... 0 1 5 1 Bragg, r f ... 1 1 2 0 Mungon, 3d b ... 0 1 5 4 R H PO A E Chase, 1st b 1 2 9 2 1 Gardner, 2d b 0 2 2 2 Eberfield, s s 2 2 2 3 1 Austin, 3d b 1 0 1 3 0 Cree, 3d b 0 1 3 0 Emphill, c f 0 1 0 0 Dermitt, r f 1 1 3 1 Blair, c 0 1 4 1 Mannerg, p 0 1 1 1 Doyle, p 0 0 1 0 Total 5 7 27 14 2 This is what the East has done to electe onlbase base; there are records for all these statements. Not desiring to cast any reflections on the middle-West, and trusting you can SAM LANSEGRD spare space in your most valuable sporting column for the above article, I remain, Very respectfully yours, HARRY DANIELS, 310 West 97th st. New York City. Send One Dollar to this office during the month of December, and the Freeman will be sent to your address fifty-two weeks. ALL NEW ORLEANS COLORED BASEBALL CLUB. I have never *been* any, and don't think there ever was and ever will be any in existence, to beat this selection of all home boys in five or in seven games. J. EARWARD LOOMIS, Crescent City, Dec. 13, 1909. M. MYLWood C. Knox, Editor THE FREEMAN. Sir—Having read a considerable amount about colored baseball, its players and folklore, I am delighted to read the readers only, but for owners, managers and captains, what I presume would and should give Captain Smith's all-American team the supremacy. Line up as follows: Bud Wilson (Eagle B. B. Club), center field; H. Augustin (Eagles), right field; H. Augustin (Eagles), left field; base; Butch Hill (N. B. Club), second base; Zip Landry (N. O.), left field; Oscar Handy (Eagles), shortstop; Robt. H. Augustin (Eagles), left field; lum (Cohens), Zuzu (N. O.), catchers; Geo. Robertson (N. O.) (our city's best), John (Sheridan) Brooks (Cohens) in the box, Dick Fenderson (N. O.) in the box, (Cohens) (the Troquois chief), pitchers; utility infielders, Sefferan and Walter Evans, utility infielders, Harry Worth and Jack Stevens. $t$ is with the greatest pleasure that I say that it was the great pitching of Geo. D. Robertson and John Brooks that caused the Deweys to win the champions of the City League, defending club clubs as the Iroquois, Orleans, Onward, San Jacinto and Daysmans, which title the Deweys still retain. Geo. D. Robertson is the winner of the work performed by Straight University in past seasons; the Y. M. C. A., and also the champion Clease of Algiers, and last with the New Orleans'. Both Robertson and Robertson were the winners of the New Orleans, while Brooks and William represent the Cohens. It was Robertson's clever and artistic pitching that forced Manager Ed Cohen to send to Baton Rouge, where he was a young pitcher. 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Advisebly we say "more or less complete," for the emancipation of woman, if we may believe the words or some of the words of the law, impel not wizards, still holds many things "hoped for, but not seen"; and the emancipation of the Negro of the United States cannot be considered complete until there is a more general uplift from the soul-debasement, fostered and intensified by a "system, that, to say the least, could not have otherwise than a demoralizing effect upon the victim. oral, where the mother is sirt best of her ability to rear her daughters in the paths of true tue, that woman is especial here it is she wields her great it is that she needs the eral and the most practical ed it is that woman, the wife of your mother of your children, the help she needs in this wo We sometimes fear that we much stress upon the work of our daughters, our wives, our mourn residents, do it have the home, and not enough upo of the boy, the son, the hu father, the man, in this same elevation of the home. We a single standard of morality that there is no sex in sin; mourn residents of equal value boys and girls. A stream cannot rise highe The condition of the women of a race or people indicates very clearly the degree of progress positively attained; and the degree of failure negatively attained; the National Suffrage Association, stating, somewhat definitely, the legal rights and privileges of woman at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the occupations of women in the nineteenth century, then might obtain, tracing, as it does, these and other conditions down the years to the beginning of the twentieth century, each of which has a different criterion of women and of the enslaved race in the United States began somewhat contemporaneously; but, in the former case there were centuries of preparation, this act in the drama of their existence, in the latter, comparatively, but few years. With this unequal preparation for the duties which an enlarged sphere of activity, as citizens of a great republic, has undertaken in the face of problems with the adjustment of great race problems, likewise incident to these changed conditions—problems which shape the destiny of individuals, of masses, of institutions, of races—the women of the South, the women of the North, in question today find themselves involved. And to the overlasting credit of the American women it truthfully can be said that from early colonial days they have performed an important part in the development of the country and of national thought. Bravely they [Image of a woman with dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark coat with a high collar.] 高蕾 MRS. JOSEPHINE SILOME YATES. encountered the manifold hardships and dangers of those early days, and of the Revolutionary period. In the amelioration of slavery many women made hereloes to the laborers, and recount the labors in this line of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Soljurer Truth, Anna Murray Douglass, Harriet Tubman and many other women who worked in the plantation (a fact that should not be overlooked)—who nobly worked in freedom's cause, or for the lessening of the poverty of those days white and black women worked side by side, as it were, for the amelioration of a great evil. In these later days it is still necessary that there be a woman to work if there is to be a successful adjustment of the difficulties that today confront us. Thoughtful women of both races realize this; and it is more than an idle fancy or artful sentiment that is leading them endorses. Such organizations as the National Council of Women, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Mothers' Congress, etc. by inviting to their ranks high-minded women have shown a breadth of purpose worthy of the cause they represent, i. e. the complete reorganization of society by the elimination of the streams of vice that plague the community. A thorough understanding between the races is one of the first and most necessary steps in settling战 problems. At present, for various reasons, the Negro understands the Anglo-Saxon far better than the latter comprehends the Negro's culture and customs only the illiterate or deprived Negro takes little or no interest in the Negro's books and periodicals, sees little of the worth and progress, learns more of the culture and customs than of any other class; and comes to consider the race in general as a degenerate type, better left unculivated, as in the case of certain noxious women. Here women may show themselves as a strong factor in the solution of this part of the problem—a better understanding between the races, and the work accomplished by women's clubs, do much in the case of counteracting this lack of knowledge. But woman's work is not all done in the broad glare of the reporter's light, nor in convention halls, to be heralded to the public. It is rather in the lonely cabin, in the cottage, in the homes in gen- eral, where the mother is striving to the best of her ability to rear her sons and daughters in the paths of truth and virtue, where the mother is working hard here it is she wields her greatest power; here it is that she needs the most liberal and the most practical education. And oh, ye fathers! Are ye giving to the mother of your children, the protection, the help she needs in this work? We sometimes fear that we place too much stress upon the work of our girls, our daughters, our mother should do in the uplifting to the home, and not enough upon the work of the boy, the son, the husband, the mother, the man, in this same work—the eleventh standard of morality. We must have a single standard of morality, we must that there is no sex in sin; must place moral restraints of equal value upon both boys and girls. We cannot rise higher than its source, society cannot properly develop without a symmetrical growth of both men and women, and our boys, no less than our girls, need the discipline of both men and women, the morality as well as mentality speaking. Looking at the small percentage of boys in schools where coeducation of the sexes exists, at graduating classes in the school, at the school's members, sometimes all, are girls, we begin to question whether our boys are living up to the opportunities afforded them; whether they are not allowing their sisters to outstrip them in the intellectual development of their children; for young women of refinement and education. Here again is a place for women to show their skill in the solution of race problems. Women, whether as mothers in the home, or as teachers in the school, are the ones who are most likely to especially strong in the details of an art. Teaching is but a series of details out of which we finally develop the science, the art, of education. Through the efforts of the woman in the atmosphere of the school, women and children are from a place of flogging and of "durance vile," to one of home-like comfort, where the foundations of a harmonious development are laid deep and strong; and from the kindergarten to the university, in normal and in intensive training, where specialists, women are showing an apt- 高倩 tude for all-round, honest, educational work which must have a salutary effect, a refreshing effect, a refreshing effect, if they can be induced to repair, in school a sufficient length of time. The Anglo-Saxon youth may leave the schoolroom in the lower grades and at once enter his father's counting house, or upon some business pursuit, that will fit his needs better. In a practical way, perhaps, than would high school or university training; but when the Negro boy leaves the schoolroom in these same grades, in the majority of households, not other place of business, awaitting him, and, drifting into idleness, too often graduates, first from the jail, later from the penitentiary, and simply helps swell the lists, he is not grown up, nor grown up but he is naturally vicious—we repeat, not because he is naturally vicious—but because of our present social and economic conditions, which make it far more difficult for the uneducated to obtain a foothold in the illiterate races, to obtain a foothold. Hence, again we deplore the absence of colored boys from the institutions of learning, either industrial or academic, which in this day they may enter almost, without money, upon our women to use all the influence in their power to get the boys in school and endeavor to keep them there until, either from an industrial or literary standpoint, or from both, they are to some extent equipped for life and its duties. The position of the Afro-American woman in this country has been, and we might say is today, one beset by peculiar difficulties. Its only development members of her own as well as of other race, she has found herself totally without protection; happily, however, a brighter era is dawning. Increased intelligence is causing the need of her own race to come to her defense when necessary, and we read with pride of the work that is now being accomplished in that line in various parts of the country. Whenever the men of any race give due respect to its women, whenever the women of a race so live that men intuitively give them proper respect, there is little to fear from within or without. As society is constructed, it is evident that depends upon the co-operation of the masculine and feminine elements that compose it. Men and women, as such, are parts of the great social organism, and in proportion as they acknowledge and ac- cept their interdependence and grant to each other the service, the rights, that the ethical relations of justice to the demand, the sooner shall we reach the end of the problems that confront us today. Not so many years ago men questioned whether women had souls. Finally, having questioned whether women had intellect; and at last decided that the burden of the proof must rest upon the women themselves; and when these by scores questioned whether women had education was allowed (under protest), the victory was won—"Women have intellect!" At once, however, discussions arose to the effect that higher education was wanted to women, and decades this matter received much attention in educational council, debate and periodicals. In fact, we still hear depairing echoes of this not forgotten wall, the Chicago professor, "God ply the man who marries a college-bred woman!" Nevertheless, the spirit of the college-bred woman is abroad in the land, making the world better; purer, more liberal. Having proved by its cultivation that woman had intellect, it followed as a natural consequence, that woman began to acquire limitations to some personal advantage, as well as otherwise; and man could hardly hope to abridge or limit the scope and direction of such ambition; hence, if somewhat reluctantly, it has been decided by the most advanced societies that woman should work spherically where she can work to the greatest advantage for the greatest number; moreover, that the “wherever” in question, she, like her brother, may select for herself, a job followed by her nasal intellectual industrial emancipation of woman has come, of necessity, a great multiplication of her legal rights and industrial privileges, and she now holds a more or less conspicuous part in the prosecution of crimes against the United States alone there are today over three million wage-earning women, and it is said that the only place where women have not entered to claim and secure a foothold is as an officer in the army, navy and, as sailor or marine, And although Professor Gildens, one of the clearest thinkers of the age, has shown somewhat conclusively in a recent economic study, the industrial industry women, contrary to the cultural belief, has contributed comparatively little to the annual production of wealth, he does admit freely that this activity is more than an insignificant factor in social relations in the distribution of wealth in the general well-being of the wage-carrying classes. The proposition of Malthus, that population tends to multiply beyond the limit of subsistence, has been, from the time it was given to the public, ground for the theory of population growth. The present time has scientific investigation, outside the line of political economy, awakened to the full force of its meaning; to the fact that it underlies the whole fabric of civilization; to the equally cogent truth, that the industrial freedom of the working class is likely to engage in industrial activity, is the key to the entire Malthusian theorem, and that by this activity a universal race problem tends to adjust itself; furthermore, that the industrial problem of women lies at the bottom of the moral problem of men; that the earning women are rapidly supplanting the rescue homes of former years. Therefore, let all honor and praise be given the Afro-American mother; may she never be forgotten by her sons and daughters; may they never be ashamed to own her now; she is old, decrepit and perplexed but still patient, with best days, and at some time in the near future may a movement be started to erect a monument, or building, dedicated "To the Afro-American Mother," that all who run may read, and know that her services meant, and continue to mean, in the solution of race problems. THE-PROGRESS AND SUCCESS OF THE NEGRO IN CHICAGO. Chicago Negroes Own and Control Millions of Dollars in Real Estate, Have More Good City Property than Any Two Other Cities in the United States Combined. BY WILL FOSTER The wealth of the Negroes in real estate in Chicago would astonish the world. The property owned by Negroes probably was not the most diverse individual race had it not been for some cheap real estate boomer that got behind some residents and property owners in a select part of the South Side, known as the South Side neighborhood, themselves as a protection society and clubs—a grand piece of advertisement at the cost of the colored man. Those who happened to be in the neighborhood were these clubs or societies happened to be busy. The Daily Tribune took up the matter and published column after column on the subject. They were both encouraged by the press of Chicago, and set about making final arrangements to eradicate the many colored residents of the Duluth district, like the colored residents and colored property Next was W. H. Bowers & Co., bankers and real estate dealers. This company was a great seller of many more property for colored people than any other firm in America. It was very hard to get any information from this company and it was hard to find any colored people. After a hard time the inquilers were upstairs to the office of the man behind everything. He gave a very detailed account of his company sold and bought property for everybody all over the country, and had never gone to the trouble of singing out one song as a matter of course with them. While the Sabbath observance is also universal, and binding upon people of every nationality, it is not an anniversary, for there are fifty-two Sabbaths in a year, and are to be kept sacred. Their Christmas, for some seventeen hundred and fifty years, has been looked upon by either the whole or a part of mankind as a festival of the Christian Church, to honor the memory of the birth of Christ. This festival properly begins with the evening of the 24th of December and is called Christmas Eve, but it is more particularly on the 25th, and is dominated by Christmas day. In the Roman Greek Catte and Capte and Lutheran churches, especially in Europe, Christmas is observed with religious services. History tells us its colossal importance forbidden by the virtuosus, but it is especially observed throughout Christendom at the present. We know of no church denomination in this country that does not respect Christmas, to say the least, and while it is not a national holiday, it better say, a national holiday legalized, several of the respective States have enacted laws to that effect. Christ Mass implies that the whole of mankind throughout the globe should, in one great way, be in observing the sacredness of this day. The Holy Scriptures appear to indicate that Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea, between two and three o'clock in the morning, and every body upon the face of the earth should be awake at that hour, singing, praying or preaching. We are told that Jesus was born year when every body should be watching, not an eye should be closed, nor a snore heard around the globe. We have not been asleep on a Christmas morning WILKER JAMES COLLEGE MARTER JOHNSON 1890 BISHOP H. M. TURNER. in fifty-eight years, nor have we been in bed but once an hour. Of these fifty-eight years we have tried to preach fifty-one times at, or about, three o'clock Christmas Returning from Africa on the Christmas eve of 1892, notwithstanding we were in a terrible storm on the Bay of Biscay, the graveyard of the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of the Atlantic coast of an African lady and wakened her up. We went into the saloon of the ship, and while it was rolling and plunging in a fearful gale, read the Bible, sung and recited the hymn of birth of Jesus Christ for something over two hours. The African lady, or as she would be called in this country, "thau Negress," avalanched us in astonishment. We were in a terrible storm, rather old timelike science however, and she kept us awake until day. We have seen her superiors in this country in polish refinement, education, oratory and popular intelligence, and certainly not her superiors in general knowledge pure and simple. She even charmed and delectablelized the crew who we were running the vessel, and at times they stood around us in his company, and we never saw eyes in my face and would not look at one of them because they were white, and she had no use for "white folks." She evidently did this extensive reading also, as she had never left the before. We have no respect for what is commonly called drank-drinkers at any time or under any circumstances, or indulgers in spirituous liquors, especially at Christmas times, but we do we are wake, shooting fire-crackers, blowing horns, holloping and laughing, running and jumping and the such like innocent amusement-makers more than we do the crowd of so-called Christmas trees, morphed and are unconscious of the greatest event and anniversary that ever transpired in the chronicles of eternity. We have a tin horn that we purchased near forty years ago, and the only time along the streets is when we start to church on Christmas morning at twelve or one o'clock to preach and engage in other religious services. The horn is then laid aside for another Christmas day has been utilized in forming new resolutions that have changed the whole current of life in individuals and marked the mutations in countries and nations, and we hold that this is beating the odds, and we kindle the fires of the Frankes, promised to embrace Christianity if God would be ```markdown ``` with him and help him to win a certain battle'. He was successful, and he and several thousand of his army were accordingly baptized on Christmas in 496. He was baptized on Christmas day, in the year 800, that Pope Leo III, amid great pomp, appointed Charlemagne emperor, and he was the most marvelous emperor the world has ever seen. To him the world is indicted for universities and higher culture. In 1965 Westminster Abbey, that has no equal on earth, was consecrated on Christmas day, and the next year, 1066, was consecrated on Christmas day. We have the same abeam on Christmas day. The Pilgrim fathers began to build the first house in Plymouth, Mass., on Christmas day, and the second house crossed the Delaware and marched one miles in a severe snow storm and attacked the British at Trenton on Christmas of 1965. Thus we might proceed to build the first house in Plymouth, and national mutations, but what would be the use? We have said enough to point out the majesty and sacredness of Christmas. But before we conclude we shall upon a point, though embryotically, that maybe somewhat sensational, and arouse the scholarship of the day. If it does, we are able to take care of ourselves we are able to take care of ourselves. We deny that January 1st is New Years day, to the contrary the New Year is January 1st, we mean scientifically speaking. Let us see that earth in revolving around the sun in its orbit reaches two extreme points, and it is in its perihelion about the 23d of December which brings three or four full moons which make heavier when it is in its aphelion. From December 22d to December 24th there is no perceptible difference in its distance from the sun, but on the 25th of December the day nearly two minutes longer, which会使 the moon appear heavier in its aphelion, and the length of the day has increased, though imperceptible to the common spectator. So, in fact, the 25th of December is New Year's day. Thereafter the day known to men or angels, since it is the natal anniversary of Jesus Christ, the son of God, and marks a new year in the chronological annals of all time and all ages and, for all we know, eternity is the time known to men or angels, since the time when Christ was born, some holding it was in March, others contending that it was in April, and even May has had its advocates, but we believe that it was the time accord with nature itself, "Glory to God in the highest, and, on earth, peace, goodwill toward men." Henry Anderson was located near Minneapolis, Tex., in August, 1907. He was born on October 14, 1907. His mother's name was Peggy. He was a slave, and worked a number of years for his masters. Anderson, Robertson and Sue Anderson, Robertson and Sue Anderson, now living at Minneapolis. He also JOHN H. HARRIS had a number of brothers, George, Alex, Charles, Horace and Sandy, and sisters Malina and Elizabeth, besides a number of other relatives. You will find enclosed the sum of $1.50 for subscription of twelve months. I wish to say that I can speak without hesitancy the Four Tames we excels all about colored newspapers that I have read, and rest assured that all efforts you have given it are highly appreciated by me. I am sure all other readers should appreciate and feel proud of such a journal. Wishing you success, I remain. MRS. H. E. MABEZ, Seattle, Wash. HENRY ANDERSON.