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THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIII. NUMBER 4 "MU-SO-LIT" CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Dinner Tendered the District Grand Master William L. Poliard by Lodge—Preparations for Entertaining Chas. Banks. Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D. C., January 20.—The "Mu-So-Lit Club," the "crack music, musical library," and the "crack library," made up of seventy of the leading professional and business men of the race, held its annual meeting Friday night and elected the following officers: President Dr. A. M. Curtis; vice-president William H. Clifford; recording secretary, Oliver Randolph; corresponding secretary, John Wesley Cromwell Jr.; financial secretary, W. H. Haynes; treasurer, Dr. C. Sumner Wormley. The new members were: Hon. John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds; Dr. W. C. McNell, secretary of Howard Medical School; Prof. H. C. Shurlock of Howard University faculty; Oeva Taylor, one of the editors of the book; Hon. Cox and D. D. Monroe of the census office; W. T. Ferguson of the navy department; Dr. W. L. Tignor, a practicing physician; J. C. Burlis of the Interior Department; Lawrence C. H. Bradley of the Department; and W. Sidney Pittman, the architect. Following the business session, Dr. E. E. Underwood, a prominent physician of Knappton, Ky., and editor of the journal of the Lexington (Ky.) Standard, visiting guests of the organization, delivered felicitous addresses indicating their pleasantness, sensitivity, educational, commercial, political and other "lights" of the national capital and appreciative of the lavish hospitality that had been conceived upon the city. He felt the feeling of the strong support his friends had given him in his fight for reappointment to the municipal bench; Register to the vile forces of Washington who had made his stay in the capital so pleasant and profitable; R. R. Horner, of the board of the city, who felt the delighted club was to have them present, and Mr. Glychrist Stewart, of York, "put over" a few of the witty things he had done; Dr. B. Bruce Evans, principal of the Armstrong Technical High School, who has just finished his third term as president, ooccluded the chair and said many happy things, made the evening a most enjoyable one. Dr. A. M. Curtis, the new president of the Mo-So-Lit, is one of the race's most distinguished surgeons, being as Leonty, a member of the medical staff, his name for the position, to the Negro medical profession in this country what Dr. Mayo is to the whites. He is a graduate of Lincoln University and of the Northwestern University, and of Chicago, finishing at the latter institution in 1891. He was the first colored physician to be appointed on the staff of the Cook County Hospital, and was one of the surgeons on the hospital for colored people. He served four years most satisfactorily as surgeon-in-chief of Freedman's Hospital at Wash-ton, and is now a member of the consultancy of the medical profession and associate professor of surgery in the medical school of Howard University. He is chairman of the surgical section of National Medical Association, and is concerned to be the reigning favorite in the race for president. As president of the Mu-So-Lit and chairman of the committee on entertainment local committee or physicians, Dr. Curtis is the chief of the visit of the Medical Association here in August a gala occasion. Dr. Curtis's popularity in his own home was duly attested to the fact that he was chosen to this desirable presidency by a unanimous vote, and maid the wildest acclaim. Chief W. R. Griffin was master of encounters at the public installation Monday at the 1,275 officers of the state-five suburban police force. Reformers at the halt of the order, growth and U streets. Among those in touch to deliver addresses were Register W. Tyer, Vernon and Auditor Ralph W. Tyer. . . . Mr. Burton A. Brooks, eldest son of Major Arthur Brooks, of the White House and died last Wednesday and was buried Saturday, from his residence, 2021 M Street, from his residence, 2021 M Street, in his twenty-three year and a promising cure before him. A sharp attack of mucin cut short his career, much to the relief of a host of friends. The medical services of the University under the auspices of the Young Men's Proactive League, of which the deceased was a member. Lawyer J. C. Robertson, of Richmond, N.C., general counsel for the United Order of the Reformers, addressed the Sight-Line Automobile Company's weekly mass meeting Wednesday night at True Reformers' Hall. He was the honor of honor at a luncheon tendered by the chief W. R. Griffin at Murray's U Street. He was Grand Secretary W. P. Burrell, who gave from Richmond on business, was also present, giving his friends a pleasant surprise. Senator Benson Foraker paid his first visit to the White House Monday morning and sent Taft. It is said that the differences have kept these eminent statesmen apart, been amicably adjusted, and that a workbench agreement has been reached. Some surprises have been the local colored statesmen are also hinted at, and there are signs that the olive branch of peace is soon to wave in quarters, since the apple of discord has disappeared the moons. Verily, politics doth make strange bed fellows. A public mass meeting was held Tuesday evening, despite the apples of Bishop Church as a mark of respect to Bishop Alexander Walters, who, by direction of the missionary department of the Zion connection, is on his way to Africa, and the missionaries are on his way to city by Rev. R. A. Morrissley, of Philadelphia, missionary secretary of Zion. All of the pastors of the connection participated and were joined by pastors of the church, who presided during the doo honor to the distinguished prelate Rev. S. L. Corrothers, pastor of Galbraith, opened the exercises and introduced the J.W. Smith of the Washington district, who presided during the church was crowded to the doors, and the bishop, who goes to the "Fatherland" with a message of Christian hope, the church was crowded to the heart and most sincere fashion. The affair was under the joint idirection of the Zion churches and missions of the District. The committee on arrangements, which was formed by the church, cassion the brilliant success that it was, embraced Miss Emma V. Wallace, Mrs. Josephine Stewart, Mrs. Clara Brooks, Miss Josephine Patterson, Miss Sarah J. James, James Davis, Frank Springs, J. H. Mung, F. F. McKinney, Greenleaf and Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Bishop Walters sails for Monrovia, Liberia, from New York on the 26th. --- On Thursday evening last A. K. Manning Lodge No. 2361, G. U. of O. F., of which he is a member, tendered a chair in the military of his wife William L. Pollard the auditorium of Odd Fellows Hall. A full attendance of the membership of the lodge was present, together with the military, of passersby and the military staff, as well as other prominent members of the order in this jurisdiction. A bountiful and excellent menu was furnished after which superb administration and that of his executive board were spoken by many of the guests present. The committee was presided over by Jacob Fenderson P. N. F. and P. S. of the lodge. Several of the speakers congratulated the guests of the evening upon the excellent condition of the order, the superb administration and that of section of the city there was ample evidence that the spirit of union and getting together is pervading the order, carrying the spirit of orthomony of order of the city led by unanimous election of Mr. Pollard to the grand master's chair at the last meeting of the District Grand Lodge. Indeed, the affair took place on Thursday evening the declarations of desires to make the present administration the banner period in the history of Odd Fellship in the District of Columbia were manifested by all the Enthusiastic addresses were made by ex-Grand Master James H. Coleman, ex-Grand Master James H. Coleman, ex-Grand Master S. G. M., J. F. N. Wilkinson; Thomas H. Wright, president of the Add Fellows Hall Association; Joseph Manning, treasurer of the Hall Association; Thomas H. Wright, president of the Hall Association; M. V. P. Rev. H, J. Howard, D. D. William I. Lee and D. D. G. M. Richard Williams. Among other members of the order presented were the Committee, D. G. M. Charles Harris, D. G. S. Charles S. Hill, D. G. Treasurer Henry W. Honesty, D. G. Director J. W. Pollard, D. G. Director J. W. James H. Wiley, George Taylor, Edwin Taylor, Walter West and John E. Pollard. The very successful affair was under the supervision of the committees of seven Charles West as chairman and James H. Wiley as secretary. --- The Brownsville Court of Inquiry is holding daily sessions and rapid progress is now being made in the disposition of the cases that called the court into exile. In 1932, the 132 members of the "Black Battallion" have applied for reinstatement, and it is expected by the attorneys for the discharged men that most of those not heard from will yet put in an appearance before the court. A witness that the court can reach, and if any of the soldiers have not been served with a writ for any reason, they can secure such service, grooter will transport such service to the court. C. R. Hawley, recorder of the Brownsville Court A TIMELY WARNING: PRIDE, HAUGHTY LOOK THE FALL! PROLRASTINATION G.I.H. The way of a fall is most always down. DALLAS. TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN "Sin Killer Griffin preached to several large audiences, his theme being "The Man Who Loves the Man," "Preschool's Son Among Gamblers," "The Policy Players," and other subjects of interest to our race. We hope that it will be a success." He said the Doctor while here. Never before was the divine so very eloquent in his presentations of good logic to his hearers on the topics of the day. His preaching was about what many were looking for. He was the most important of the Texas and the retiring to the North and East. Dr. R. S. Jenkins is urging our people to buy homes and be benefactors to the race while he is ministerial, who has been to the city. Jack Bettens, his new son of John Harris, said big lead at his playhouse when he put on the Johnson and Ketchel twelve-round battle in moving pictures. Each performance was held on a day of the champion Jack Johnson with his opponent was cheered to the echo. Judge A. S. Wells, of this city, was unanimously elected president and the State of Texas. The Judge is a stanch enthusiastic of the game, and has studied the fine points, and will be of valuable service in the newly elected positions of the board of the state. Mr. and Mrs. James Critt-tenden have moved into their new home on Flora street. Mrs. A. E. Overton has been a member of the State for a few weeks. The Guess Who Literary and Social Club opened its suite of rooms in the Central Hotel building with favorable prospects for the future. He is not a member of the company and come all "sim on their door. It is a chartered organization for members and its officers, and it will not be operated as a club for theிரichs. They ask for the revenue where for good moral young and old men who are desirous of having a choice place to attend a bebe of the time. It has also to their literary uplift and gentile-mainly attainment among our people here; also for business and social chat, and an evening dance if desired, and for the return of the women from the old. These quarters are complete in every detail—a next library full of choice books by Negro authors; also journals and magazines, each choice mission furniture to the sellers, art squares, draperies, with wall paper to match parlor. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Rev. N. P. Pullum, of Houston, Texas, after a stay of ten days conducting revival meetings for Dr. J. F. Walker, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, West Ninth street, about forty-two were added to the church. He was the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. C. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR, $1.50. Whorton, in John street, ... The B. Y. P. U. of Zion Church was largely attended last Sunday evening. Mrs. Matilda Floyd sang a beautiful solo, "We Shall See Him Face to Face." The juvenile choir, under the direction of Prof. Shirley Hawkins, joined in the chorus. The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday evening from 7 to 8. The choir is in New York, New York. E. E. James, of St. Andrew's P. E. Church, lectured last Sunday evening on "The Protestant Episcopal Church and Why So Called," which was highly appreciated. He will lecture again Sunday at 7:45 p. m. on "Church Symbolism." These lectures will continue until March 13. A hearty welcome to all... The Allen Temperance Church and St. John's Zion churches are engaged in union revival services, and great interest is being manifested.... Rev. William Balay is visiting this city. He will preach at Zion Baptist Church on Thursday night.... Dr. J. B. Anderson, pastor of Zion Church. Dayton, Ohio, is assisting Dr. Wyatte, of the Antioch Baptist Church with his research. The choir is also meeting the sixteentysixth addition to the church, and the meetings are still growing in interest.... THE FREEMAN can be found at Hall's barber shop, John street, near Fifth; Thomas's barber shop, 526 West Sixth street; Glasper's barber shop, John street, near Sixth, and the agent is H. B. Brooks, 422 West E. E. James, of St. John's, at theul. 1019 Central avenue, a porter on the Queen & Crescent, who sprained his ankle on Christmas day, is able to be out again. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Dr. Davis, of Ardmore, has moved his drug store here. The stock is new and the fixtures the latest, being worth several thousand dollars, are now available to our city. Come on, men of business; we welcome you... Edward's Cafe can be found in the basement of the 25th floor of the building. We visit Tabernacle Baptist Young People's Reading Club, connected with the church. ..Mr. Henry Jones, of the 25th floor of the building. We preear before the court of inquiry at Washington, D. C. THE FREEMAN can be had by calling at 13 West California street. ..Mr. Henry Jones, of the 25th floor of the building. Brown lectured to a large, orderly gathering on "How. When, Who to Marry, and How to Stay Married," Messrs. Halliday, of Cotton and J. Bryant had the front seat. PAST WEEK AT CHICAGO AS SEEN BY OUR KENTUCKY CORRESPONDENT As Member Negro Exposition Committee-Jesse Binger Is Successful Banker and Real Estate Dealer. By CARY B. LEWIS. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 18.—Special to THE FREEMAN.—S. Lang Williams, compiler of the National Negro Business, Men's general secretary of the S. district attorney, and a leader of the civic groups of Chicago and Cook county, is being urged to be appointed to arrange for the holding of the Negro Exposition in Mr. Williams' name was first presented by the Illinois Chronicle, a paper which, for its age, has become one of the leading publications of the Negro community, gained a large circulation by its crisp and intelligent news matter and forceful editorials. It says, editorially, of Mr. Williams: "It is indeed safe to say that this nomination will be seconded by the most substantial Negroes of the Northwest—first of all because the man whose name is here put forward is of large intellectual strength, and whose race, and whose honesty and integrity no one would dare question. His life and character is too well known for any exponent, therefore, put the proposition up to those whose duty it would be to exercise the appetitive power that Chicago and the Northwest, through the Chronicle," urged name of the large Williams as a member on the board of the semi-centennial commissioners." Your correspondent has known Mr. Williams for several years, as an active member of the National Negro Business and it was upon his appointment the people of Chicago and the press were so much in favor of his appointment to the exposition committee. Mrs. J. C. Snowden, 15 West Fifty-first street, entertained at breakfast last Sunday Carry B. Lewis, Wm. D. Neighbors and Editor A. N. Fields. Dr. Wilberforce Williams delivered an address last Sunday to the Standard Literary Club at Bethesda Baptist Church, Thirty-eight and Wabash. His subject was "The Demand for the Success of the Twentieth Century." Miss Daisy Brown, of the "Red Moon" Company, left Chicago Thursday for her home in New York City. Miss Brown and wife were thought best by her physician to take a rest for the remainder of the season. The Appointant Club, the swellest social club in New York, has recently. They are as follows: Louis B. Anderson, president; Frank L. Hamilton, vice-president; James E. Johnson, financial secretary; John Trott, recording secretary. The Chronicle, Defender, Conservator and Broadax are the four colored papers are issued weekly in the A. Felds of Chicago and have been added to our acquaintances. We also met Will Foster, known as "Jill Jones," and Sylvester Russell, while sojourning on State street. Mrs. William Emanuel, founder of the Neighborhood Settlement House, 2732 Armour avenue, and who headed the Seventh Regiment Armory, New Year's Day is much pleased over the success of the entertainment. The secretary of the ball reports $396.10 clear for distribution. The Colored Men's Business Club, with Major R. R. Jackson president, Henry T. Well treasurer; and Wm. D. Neighbour, the chief executive of the good deal of interest among the business of the city. They give a banquet once a month, on which occasion business questions are discussed and things of interest to the race are brought before each meeting. Hon. Ed. Green the astute politician and the chief State grain spectator. He is one of the most widely known men in this country. He attracted world-wide attention by introducing an anti-mob law in the Illinois legislature and a fourth general assembly. Mr. Green is highly conceived in social and business circles, and a genial fellow in Pythian ranks. Among the hundreds of colored men that have a wide reputation, not only in Chicago but all over the country, push, energy and success are following: Col. John R. Marshall, Dr. Dan Williams, Major R. R. Jackson, S. A. T. Tikins, D. H. Bierforce Williams, Major R. R. Buckley, M. A. Charlie Jackson, Beaugard F. Moseley, Edward Morris, W. R. Cowen, Dr. A. C Barnes, Alex Stephens, Dr. George Hall, L. B. Anderson, Major Frank Denison, Rev. A. J. Carey, Peter Jones and others. Mr. Sam J. Corker, Jr., business manager of the "Red Moon" Company, was the happy recipient of a number of business managers of the theaters during past weeks. While Louisville Mr. Shaw, of the Avenue and Masonic Theaters, took the occasion to state to a number of white people of his intimate association that Mr. Corker was one of the best in the business. Mr. Continued on Page Five. Bob Armstrong, seeing the way things are drifting, wisely concluded to abandon the Jeffries camp and come over to the winning side with Johnson. He will help to train the world's champion, and will prove to be a valuable sparring partner. With Armstrong's strength and Joe Gans' cleverness, Johnson will not lack for scientific support. One of the ablest articles on the life and character of Dr. Booker T. Washington that has appeared in the past year was that of Welborn Victor Jenkins in the Atlanta Independent. Mr. Jenkins, though somewhat new to the general reader, has contributed several well-written brochures to the Independent and other leading Southern papers, among them a poem on Matthew Henson. He gives evidence of being a hard worker, a master of forcible expression and a clear thinker on current problems. Says Mr. Welborn of Dr. Washington: "With all my love for the many men who are reflecting credit upon the race at large, I am of the firm conviction that only one has fully qualified to lead us successfully. That one is the 'Wizard of Tuskegee.'" *** The Negro is moving forward in business relations not heretofore open to members of the race. Charles E. Mitchell, the well-known secretary-treasurer of the West Virginia Colored Institute, and a grand auditor of the G. U. O. of O. F., having completed fourteen examinations successfully, has been awarded a diploma by the International Business University, which carries with it a membership in the International Accountant Society. So far as is known, Mr. Mitchell is the only colored man to attain this honor. He is also a graduate of the Boston Commercial College. The West Virginia Institute and the Odd Fellows are both fortunate in being able to command the services of such an accomplished co-worker. "The Problem of the Negro as a Citizen," a highly encouraging study of the social, economic and educational status of the colored people, by Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of Howard University, was carried in the holiday number of the Atlanta Independent, the Florida Sentinel and a number of other strong papers of the race. It abounded in statistics showing the substantial progress of our people and was read with satisfaction by not less than 100,000 interested Americans. The article was originally printed in the Southwestern Christian Advocate, at New Orleans, La., edited by Dr. R. E. Jones. Dr. Thirkield knows the Negro problem from "A to Izzard," and a discussion of its intricate phases, in his optimistic vein, is always sure to be edifying and inspiring. Now that President Taft has disposed of the troublesome question, "What is whisky?" he or some other skilled ethnologist may find it in order to decide the equally momentous problem, "What is a white man?" Ben Tanner, son of a prominent merchant of Hopkinsville, Ky., purchased a ticket for a berth in a Pumman, desiring to go to Chicago. The employee claiming that he was not a white man, but a Negro, assaulted and evicted him from the car forcing him to ride in the day coach and sit up most of the night. In consequence of this treatment, he being already ill, he suffered a relapse and was confined to his bed for about three weeks. To recompense him for his bodily and mental woes, Tanner has filed suit against the Pullman company for damages in the sum of $1,999. How, how are railroad employees, who are not usually expert dermatologists, to tell who is a white man and who is not? Congratulations are in order for the A. M. E. Zion Publishing House. This department has sold its property on South College street for $12,000, and bought a larger piece of property facing on Brevard, Second and Caldwell streets for $11,000. The old property was 30x75 feet and had on it a three-story brick building, which was inadequate for the growing business of the department. The new property has a frontage on three streets, and the ground is 99x398 feet, and has on it ten rented houses. Steps will be taken at once to build a fine office building, specially adapted to the needs of the publishing house, and it is hoped to have it ready for occupancy in the early spring. Editor G. C. Clement, Manager F. K. Bird and their aids are doing a great work for Zion in Charlotte. This is not only one of the best cities in North Carolina, but is one of the most progressive and pleasing places in the entire South. The "Short Flights" man was not overlooked by Santa Claus during the Christmas period. Among the many good things that came to us were a neat check for a fat Christmas turkey from the Hon. John C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds; a box of neckwear from Mr. Noah D. Thompson, of Chicago; a consignment of holiday goods from Attorney Albert S. White, of Louisville, Ky.; a fine bust of Dr. Booker T. Washington and a Greek study from Mr. Isaac Hathaway, the Kentucky sculptor; a beautiful assortment of calendars, with pictures representing the higher life of the Negro, from the Douglass Calendar Company, through Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Louisville, Ky., who conducts a prosperous school for the training of colored girls in domestic science at Lincoln Heights, near Washington; an elegantly bound souvenir copy of "The Poems of Phyllis Wheatley" from Prof. R. R. Wright, Jr. Philadelphia; an illuminated copy of "Christianity Under the Searchlight," from Bishop G. W. Clinton, Charlotte, N. C.; a characteristic reverie, entitled "A Thrice Lit Cigar" from Auditor Ralph W. Tyer; a box of "Perfectos," from Architect John A. Lankford, together with a tastefully selected batch of souvenir post cards, photos, Christmas greetings and personal expressions of good will from a host of friends, including Register W. T. Vernon, Cary B. Lewis, Dr. C. V. Romer, Dr. Algrenm B. Jackson, Editor J. H. Murphy, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, M. Sylvester Russell, Mr. J. C. Napier, Editor J. C. Gilmer, Editor P. B. Young, "Dorothy" of the Freeman, Dr. H. W. Furniss (Minister to Haiti), President W. S. Scarborough of Wilberforce University, Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the management of the Hiawatha Theater, and many others. For all of these happy testimonials and substantial evidences of friendly appreciation we extend our sincere thanks, with best wishes for the continued health and prosperity of the generous donors. MORGANTOWN, W. VA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. O. T. Davis, pastor of the A. M. E. Church, Keysar, W. Va., was in our city visiting Rev. S. Christian, Beechurst ave, Mrs. A. M. E. Church, and Mrs. C. W. Alexander, South High street, on last Monday, and stayed until Friday morning. Rev. Davis preached an excellent sermon on last Wednesday evening at the A. M. E. Church, and returned to Keysar last Friday morning. ... The Angelie Union had been built in May 1900, and the Church, on last Friday evening, making preparatory arrangements for the Union rally, which will be held in the First Baptist Church on Sunday, January 16 ... Miss Eva Lewis is still improving....The Monongahela Lodge, K. of P., No. 30, met in Castle Hall, Beechur, and the Church. The Church was opened, and the following officers were elected and installed for the ensuing year: J. H. Wilkinson, C. C.; Urvel Crawford, V. C.; John A. Jones, K. of R. and S.; A. H. Brown, M. of F.; John H. Lewis, prelate; Joseph Richardson, I. G.; Warden, M. of P.; O. G.; Charles D. E. Wards, M. of A.; John A. Jones, who spent the holidays in Pittsburgh, Pa., with relatives and friends, returned home a few days ago, and report a very pleasant time....Charles D. Edwards' home, which was destroyed by fire New Years morning, has been remodeled, and will be ready to move into soon-to-be-made, Ch. 14, at St. John's. When the cafe Monday evening, January 10, ...Principal E. L. Morton, grand vice chancellor, of Fairmont, W. Va., was in our city Thursday evening, December 30, visiting the K. of P. Lodge, and gave us a fine lecture. After adjournment there was a delightful spread, which was greatly enjoyed by those present....Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jackson have moved to White avenue....Rev. S. Christian was in Parkersburg, W. Va., last Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, attending the wedding of his sister-in-law John Shorts, of P. Lodge, Pa., was a Sundayत्र. ...Mr. John Shorts, with Miss J. Harkin, West Side, ...Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 20, A. F. and A. M. met in the lodge room, on Beechhurst avenue, Tuesday evening, January 4. The following officers were installed: W. A. Holland, W. M.; Wm. Richardson, S. W.; Norman Shanklin, J. W.; J. A. Hunt, chaplain; John H. Lewis, S. D.; C. W. Thomas, J. D.; James A. Johnson, tyler; J. N. Hunt and Wm. Avler, stewards. After the installation there was a fine spread, the menu consisting of the following: Oysters, stewed; oysters, fried; oysters, raw, with crackers, slaw, pickles and hot coffee. The spread was furnished by C. W. Thomas and J. H. Hunt....Miss Elizabeth Lewis is in the city, and will remain here for her visit. ...Mrs. C. H. Thomas, who has been sick for some time, is able to be around once more....C. H. Thomas, who has been sick for the last week, is getting along nicely. He will soon be out. GALESBURG, ILL. Ms. Misses Lillian Palmer and Gertrude Burroughs, of Rock Island, were guests of Mrs. Grifle King last week.... Misses Florence McGaw and Addie Holder are guests of Mrs. Will Pollard, who will visit Mrs. Will Pollard is very ill at his home on West First street.... Mrs. Rufus Phenox and Miss Bradley Bradley, of Rock Island, were guests of Mrs. Cora King.... The week, leaving a fine big boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rich Smith, East Mulberry street, and a lovely little girl at the Miss Clara Tarver, of Moline, Ill., who was visiting Miss Mamie Richardson last week, was a guest at our club. Her clever ing and enjoyed by all who were present.... Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Shoots and children were visiting relatives and friends trained for her nephew Frank Osborn of Bloomington, last week. A pleasant time was spent by the young pup, who thoroughly enjoyed the selections rendered on his cage, who was a guest of Mrs. Harber during the evening. A delicious repast was enjoyed just before leaving.... Mrs Lyda Crawford, who spent the summer in the winter.... Miss Nettle Franklin has returned after a few days' visit in Bedford, Ia.... Miss Estelle Carter, who is the artist, is at home for a few weeks' visit. Mrs. Louis McDonnaal, of Macomb, was the guest of Mrs. Louis Carter, Jr.... Mr. White of Elgin, Ill., who James Echols has returned home, after a few days' visit to her parents.... The stag banquet given by members of the Bruce Club in the dinner hall of Elgin, Ill., was a complete success in every way. The toastmaster of the evening was Mr. George Brown, and responses were made by Mr. Brown, who was a fine cook and delicious five-course supper was served at a late hour. Satisfied they had enjoyed a most delightful evening, they departed for their hostel, where the D. W. C. Club last week. Next meeting will be with our president, Mrs Addie Garnett, 1089 Grand avenue, Thimble Circle met with Mrs. Mamie Burroughs on West First street last Friday afternoon. WEST BADEN, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. West Baden Springs is very dull; very feeble. There are always many, and even a few, making it somewhat inconvenient for guests to take their walks, as is characteristic with water drinkers at the same time. The best way to get in bathmen, bellboys and waiters, owing to the usual dullness of the holidays, is many spent the holidays in Louisville, where they are in the same way as in the other two who were in Louisville were Mrs. Potter, Wing, Richerson, Beacham and Miss Berdett. Mr. Blackwell, Beacham, Smith, Wadley, and Mrs. Bally and Rogers were of the Chicago visitors, and Mr. James Bell, of Russellville, and Miss Martha Stokes were also among the best. The best way to get in is to be one of the most royal visitors to Louisville, having carried Miss Ethel Roese as his singer, and being in the same way as the other two. Will Perry as his orderly or valet. . . Mr. Irvin Smith, the late proprietor of the Empire, is doing a fine business, and promises all the boys a square room. He is closed a few days last week on account of some "knockers," it is not harm to know when you see fit, but the writer would like to say it is harm to the best. He is a man of high rank. Learn the old saying, "Let every tub stand on its own bottom." Mr. George Williams ("Hooks") has been on the sick list for the last year. He is a man who has a few. R. Sims, pastor of French Lick Methodist Church, is carrying on a revival, and would like to have the help of all Christians of the world. He is a man of high rank. Who are not Christians? . . . Rev. Mason, pastor of West Baden Baptist Church, was very much pleased to see so many strange things. He was a man who was so that they will call again before the bells shall toll again. . . . The West Baden Sunday-school elected the officers as last year. They were in hopes of a change, but there was no enough active members to give any changes. BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Freeman, Venable are now playing in the Goldfield Orchestra at the Goldfield Hotel, Joes Gans, proprietor, Regina, and Harry McCubbins, after a couple of weeks in bed with the grip, is able to be at work on THE FREEMAN again. The Eureka Comb is on sale at The Freeman office. 225 Indiana avenue. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. PRICE 15 CENTS. 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Packing, Shipping, Transfer, Storage, New and Second Hand Furniture. 339 East Washington Street. Auction Room 227-9 New Jersey St. Phones 2028 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. A HOME SHOULD BE THE F Every honest man should own one. to build, we can save you n Our splendid facilities enable us prices. If you are about to build how to save some money. Brannum - Keene Lu Phone, Main, 7766 WILD BE THE FIRST THOUGHT! man should own one. If you are going build, we can save you money. Facilities enable us to quote lowest are about to build, let us show you money. - Keene Lumber Co. Phone, Main, 7766. A HOME SHOULD BE THE FIRST THOUGHT! Our splendid facilities enable us to quote lowest prices. If you are about to build, let us show you how to save some money. Brannum-Keene Lumber Co. Phone, Main, 7766. LAMP CAP --- --- Bowman's Hair Pomade Has No Equal! The wonderful hair grower and beautifier. Positively will make the hair grow and come in thicker. Ladies who have used it say it is just grand. Orders filled promptly. Agents wanted all over the country. Send 10c for samples and circulars. SHANK Prices700 333 I Middletown The cut here-in, a display of the Eureka Comb in its pure combination of metals—brass, copper and steel—a battery-tioned: By straightening beautifully crimpy hair, making stranybody's hair to grow rapidly, no doubt about it; putting condition; a preventative from any ill effects in its use, a from falling, eradicating dandruff. There are other Combs fying the most doubtful. Since we know the cause of not the Comb as an aid, quickening in every manner, giving what Hair. We warn the public against imitations. A Letter P the metals in the construction, are in our keeping. We give every purpose here-in disclosed. We repeat again the splend directions that are sent out with every Comb. Price complex fifty cents). The Eureka Quinine and Pomade, a splendid pr the Comb. Price 50c (fifty cents) per four ounce can. I Certified Check should accompany order, otherwise we send C ACTIVE AGENTS WANTED. THE EUREKA SELLS QUICKLY WHENEVER INTRODUCED LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MIXES HAIR HAIR WITH DERMIS WHOOP KEeps HAIR FROM DERMIS OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE WHEN WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT LIP LONG, SOFT YOU CAN ATTITUDE IN THE CARET STYLE OF SCORT AND BENEFIT KEEPS SOFT FRESH WHOLE SOME MORE HAIR GROW LONGER To straighten out that kinky, curly hair, putting it in the most perfect condition to be combed into any shape, just try a bottle of LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. There is no other preparation on earth to equal LINCOLN HAIR POMADE in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair cleanser—a natural promoter of growth and naturally reduces the hair to a straight and combable condition; but also supplies the hair with a silky sheen and gloss. No matter how rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how hard or curly it may be. the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give you hair that can well be the envy of others. Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be good, but insist on getting the genuine. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for keep it, send 20 cents in silver or stamps TO THE LINCOLN FOMADE CO. De- will send you a bottle to return mail. IN THE LEAD. Cafe, Restaurant, Oyster Bay. Open Day and Night- Private Dining Room in Connection. C. Raines. 416 Indiana Ave. ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE. Diamond and Money Broker Money advanced on Watches, Diamonds and Articles of Value. 209 Mass. Ave.. Indianapolis For the New Year I am showing a new line of thin model watches in a variety of designs and prices from $11.00 to $250. CARL L. ROST, DIAMOND MERCHANT, 15 N. Illinois St. The Claypool Hotel is Opposite Me Is Your Hair Beautiful Soft, Silky and Long? Does it comb easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charm- ing styles, so it will stay, and make you proud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need Nelson's Hair Dressing NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is the finest hair pomade on the face of the earth for colored people. It makes your hair grow fast; it makes stubborn, kinky and tangled hair as soft and supple as silk. It makes it healthy. It keeps it from splitting or breaking off. It makes it itch and gives it that charm so longed for by all true ladies. Use Nelson's Hair Dressing and you'll never have dandruff. Your head will keep clean. The roots of your hair will have the necessary amount of oil. You will never have scalp disease. You will be delighted with its delicate perfume. Nelson's Hair Dressing is put up in handsome four-ounce square tin boxes, like the lady holds in her hand. Druggists and agents everywhere sell it at 25 cents a box. If you can't get it, send us 30 cents and we will mail you a full size box postpaid. Go and buy it now, or sit right down and write us. Address NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. Live Agents Wanted. Write Quick for Terms. TERMINAL LOAN BANK The Store for Bargains. A fine line of Watches. Diamonds, Clocks and Stringed Instruments. If you are contemplating making a present, we are sure to have what you want. Fine watch repairing 103 West Market Street. Corner Illinois Street. Dine line of Watches, Diamonds, Clocks and String taking a present, we are sure to have what you wan 03 West Market Street. IT'S DIFFE "A LEVINSON" Dine line of Watches, Diamonds, Clocks and Stringed Instruments. taking a present, we are sure to have what you want. Fine watch re- 03 West Market Street. 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A For the purpose here in men- tual hair soft and airy, causing alp and hair in a most perfect to nature, stopping the hair Eureka has no equal—satisf beautiful hair, we offer our ordered one's glory, Beautiful and the secret of preparing the Comb to answer for results obtained by following the, $1.50 (one dollar and ration, works in harmony with Express Money Order or b Co. Negro Homes in Louisville BY CARY B. LEWIS Nothing stands out more prominently in the city life of Louisville Negroes than the many comfortable and well kept homes owned by men and women of the race. These simple structures of wood, stone and mortar are objects that represent the real progress made during the past fifteen years, and the character and quality of the homes indicate the mental and moral condition of a large number of the 50,000. Louisville has no massive structures owned by colored people, none of the four or five-story granite buildings, but there are hundreds of two and three stories and hundreds upon hundreds of cottages. It is of little concern as to who owned the first house, but there were individual characters that purchased neat and attractive cottages immediately after the war. The importance of acquiring property and building homes has been enunciated for the past nine years with a great deal of force, both by press and pulpit. It will be remembered that it was Booker T. Washing M. CARY B. LEWIS. General Newspaper Correspondent. ton who, upon the occasion of his first visit here, told the Negroes to buy property and put money in the bank. This lesson sank deep in their hearts, and they began to buy and build. In 1902 Dr. Washington addressed 5,000 Negroes, and in his speech emphasized among other things own homes. Today 1,000 Negroes are lords of their own homes. Many of these homes we have entered and found them to be attractive and nicely furnished. Upon the walls hang pictures of the great men and women of the race and their friends of the white race. Nearly all the business and professional men and women of the race in this city not only own their own homes, but have others for rental purposes. The most encouraging feature is the number of thrifty men of the laboring class, who are decent and respectable, buying and living in their own property. Some have joined loan companies and others have borrowed from their white and colored friends, but the fact remains that they own. It is impossible to describe or give a detailed account of the homes that we have visited, nor have we space allotted for this purpose. It is not, however, out of place to give mention to some of the persons and their homes that are a credit to the city and the race. Said one: "A house is like a face; it is not difficult to perceive and feel its subtle influences that find expression there, but it is hard to describe them." One of the most beautiful homes in the city is that of the Misses Lucy, Helen and Eva Duvalle, located on West Chestnut street. It is a two-story brick of moder nstructure, stone trimmings, and always kept newly painted. The interior is charming and beautiful. The double parlors, dining and reception rooms are handsomely furnished in old mahogany style. Every room in the house is attractive. The entire home is cheerful and comfortable. The Duvalles are teachers in the public schools, and are well educated women, cultured and refined. It was through the teachings of their mother, who lives with them, that they have acquired such a lovely home. Mr. Steve Bell, 2317 Magazine street, owns a handsome two-story home and a pretty cottage next door. It is located on a most popular street, and the house has all the modern conveniences, and is elegantly furnished. The parlor and sitting room are tastefully furnished and comfortable and homelike in every respect. Mrs. Nora Bell is a charming housekeeper, and is one of the most popular women in the city. Mr. Bell was formerly a teacher in the Louisville public schools and is now a government revenue ganger. He is Grand Secretary of the United Brothers of Friendship of the State, and prominent in other fraternal circles. Mrs. Bell was Miss Nora Kinaead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kinaead, Jr., of 1517 South Olive street, Indianapolis, Ind. Possibly the most modernly built home is that of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown. 1738 Frankfort avenue. His rise as a physician has been rapid and his success phenomenal. He soon proved to be a physician and surgeon of the highest type, and patronage came to him liberally. He built a home jus to the liking of himself and wife, and it stands as a monument to his thrift, energy and intelligence. It is neatly and beautifully furnished, and have every modern convenience. One pretty feature is the beautiful lawn in the summer time. Mr. James F. Gray, for years a teacher in Russellville, but a citizen of Louisville, came to locate after passing an examination for United States internal revenue gauger. He purchased a home on Sixteenth street, between Walnut and Madison streets. It is a two-story structure and well built. The furnishings on the interior are neat and cozy, and the whole house has an air of comfort and style. Mr. Gray is secretary of the local Negro Business League, and was quite active in assisting in entertaining the National League which met here in August. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are both active church workers. It is said that the most brilliant and richly furnished home in the city is that of Mr. and Mrs. William Walker, Brook and Breckenridge streets. The beauty of this home is its interior. The pictures, draperies and ornaments are handsome. Mr. Walker is one of the most widely known men in the country, having trained some of the fastest race horses that have run in the Kentucky Derby. Dr. C. H. Parrish, pastor of the Calvery Baptist Church and president of the Eckstein Norton Institute, Cane Springs, Ky., owns a model two-and-a-half story brick house on Sixth avenue. It is surrounded by a beautiful lawn in the summer. While the house is nicely furnished, Dr. Parrish takes pride in the number of antiquities and relics gathered from Bethlehem, Rome and the River Jordan. Editor W. H. Steward, of Eighth avenue, has a two-story brick structure. It is located in the heart of the city. It is a model home of comfort. Conspicuous in this home are the many paintings that have been drawn by his daughter, Mrs. Nettle Steward Black, all of which are individual and collective groups of the family. Mr. Henry Calbert, Kentucky street, near Sixth avenue, owns one of the pretties two-story brick structures in the city. It is a pressed brick front with stone trimmings. The double parlors are neatly furnished, and the home has all modern comforts. Mr. Calbert belongs to that class of sturdy citizens who believe in owning property, and, much to his credit, he has a good deal of it. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cooper, 1005 West Chesnut street, are owners of several pieces of valuable property. They live in a neatly painted two-story brick, and Mrs. Cooper has made it a specialty to have her home artistically furnished. Statuary and beautiful drapery mark a distinct beauty of this comfortable home. The front parlor has a hardwood floor with Oriental rugs. The second parlor is charmingly fitted up with swell furniture, while the dining room has in it a fine mahogany center table, slideboard and pictures. Mr. Cooper has been in this city several years and is manager of the Watson unedtaking establishment, the oldest in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cole formerly lived in their own home on West Chestnut street, but they are now living in a flat on Eighth avenue, awaiting the completion of their $30,000 flat which is being erected at the corner of Eighth and Walnut streets. This handsome structure will be known as the "Harriet." 'It will be by far the most pretentious building of its kind in the State. James R. Harris, Sr., is one of the older members of the race that has been owning property for many years. Mr. Harris has always lived in a comfortable and stylish home. He is one of the oldest clerks in the postoffice, and a very intelligent and progressive citizen. While Mr. W. H. Spradling owns a beautiful home at Jackson and Roselane streets that is the pride of the east end, he is the largest property owner in the city. It is authoritatively stated that he owns thirty-five houses in various parts of the east end. He is his own rental agent, and makes a business of looking after his property. He is regarded as one of the most level-headed men in the city, and stands well with real estate men. Prof. D. L. Lawson, a graduate of the Fisk and Harvard Universities, and principal of the Central High School, owns two fine two-story buildings at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Caldwell have recently purchased a fine brick building on West Chestnut street; also Mr. and Mrs. Wash Atkins and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Minnis are recent purchasers on Chestnut street. In fact, Chestnut street has become very popular with new property owners. From Tenth street down to Twentieth street Negroes are buying large three-story homes and are furnishing them in the latest style. Prof. S. O. Johnson owns a two-story house on Magazine street and two cottages on West Magazine street. Louisville is a city of cottages. Perhaps nowhere in the South is there a city with as many beautiful cottages with lawns. This is particularly no- 120 RESIDENCE OF J. F. GRAY, Louisville, Ky. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ticeable among enterprising colored people. One of the most unique and well-situated cottages is that of Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, 1504 West Walnut street. Dr. Lattimore is still a young man, and came here from North Carolina as a graduate of Meharry Medical University. He has been singularly favored in his success as a physician and surgeon. He is often called the "Doctor of the Town." At any rate he has the practice of many of the best families in the city. Dr. Lattimore had his home built especially for his convenience. The interior is perfectly charming. The drapery in the parlor, dining room and "den" is very pretty, while the furnishings are mahogany. The home is cozy and comfortable throughout. Prof. W. P. Annis, a teacher at the THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY CROSS THE HOME OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Central High School, has gone the colored people one better by building a bungalow. It might be trimed a "little dream." The furnishings are artistic and the paintings exquisite. They are from the brush of Miss Lucille Annis, a graduate of the Chicago Art School. Mr. Annis is the boys' friend, having been a teacher for over thirty years. He is State Secretary of the Masons. He is planning to write a history of the colored public schools. William Johnson, a letter carrier, owns a neat cottage on West Magazine street. It is a well-appointed home, and is made happy by the presence of Master William, who has his day nursery in which to ride his hobby horse. Mr. Johnson is Treasurer of the Kentucky State Grand Lodge, and has holdings in an undertaking establishment. The cottage of Dr. H. B. Beck, Madison street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, is another splendid example of thrift and business success. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Gasaway White is distinguished by its beautiful lawn and concrete walks. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jordan own a pleasant home on West Walnut street. Messrs. James H. Black, Tom Young, T. W. Bradford, Raymond Fowler, Floron Dillon, S. O. Johnson, Dave Barnett, Thomas Tate, John A. Wheatly, Edgar Jordan, Charles B. Preston are among some of the young men who own cottages in the popular part of the city. Keeping pace with the progress of the age, Negroes have begun flat building. The Rev. E. G. Harris purchased a three-story building at West and Chestnut streets and converted it into a flat. He found it so remunerative that he built two new flats. W. C. F. Mason, a leading business man of the city, has just erected a flat on West Walnut street, near Tenth. A number of modern flats are expected to be erected in the spring. Among some of the many people RESIDENCE OF STEPHEN BELL 2317 Magazine Street, Louisville, Ky. THE CHURCH RESIDENCE OF DR. J. A. C. LATTIMORE, Louisville, Ky. who own very attractive and comfortable homes are the following: Dr. E. E. Whedbee, W. H. Bullett, Milton Yates, Thomas West, Miss Nellie Frye, Mrs. J. M. Maxxwell, R. O. Johnson, Mrs. George Murphy, Edward Walker, Rev. John H. Frank, Rev. L. G. Jordan, George Mayfield, Prof. W. H. Perry, T. F. Blue, Skidmore Bloomer, Mrs. C. F. Sneed, James Hathaway, E. C. Malone, Prof. Ed Jackson, Miss Lillian Jackson, Albert S. White, Prof. J. E. Simpson, Misses Lucy and Lula Flint, Dr. Sarah Fltzbutler, Miss Nanie H. Burroughs, Adderson Evans, Alex. Morris, R. I. Smith, Cary B. Lewis, George Nugent, Rev. W. H. Craighead, Benj. Winlock, Dr. Robert Oliver, Dr. E. S. Porter, Matt Willis, Miss Charlotte Bryant, Miss Katie Masterson, Timothy Masterson, Clayborne Jones, Mrs. Tom Evans, N. R. THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD Harper, Isham Taylor, W. H. Brown W. L. Sanders, William Lewis, Rev. L. H. Brown, A. B. McAfee, T. H. Parks, Neros Jennings, Allen Wilson, T. H. Hankins, Miss Marietta Pickens, T. G Gramsey, James Tate, Sr., Rev. E. P Marrs, Miss Frances Owens, Thomas Bradford, Robert Mitchel, John Tyler Mrs. W. T. Peyton, John Samuels, Dr. W. H. Picket, Dr. A. C. McIntyre, Ed Hansberry, C. H. Duncan, Ben, Shiljey, E. W. Marshall, Madison Minnis Mrs. Wilhelmina Morris, Nolan King John Steele, Mr. and Mrs. John Compton Miss Anna Bowman, Miss Belle and Emma Alexander, Dr. F. G. Fowler Dave Stewart, C. B. Clay, W. M Richardson, W. H. Parker, John Dortch, Prof. A. E. Meyzeek, Prof. S B. Taylor, Mrs. N. Payne, Miss Ophelia William Andrews, S. E E Strickland, Preston Bone, Toney Jack son, Mrs. Emma Robinson, Marshall Taylor, Green Logan, Bowman Adams and Tolbert Jordan. This is the element that the white people seldom get to see or come in contact with, only in a casual way. They usually see only that shiftless and boisterous element that are a millstone around the necks of the intelligent and progressive people who are advancing mentally and morally. The better element is seldom given a hearing in the big magazines and daily press, or mentioned by orators and speakers, save only in a derogatory manner. I have not had the opportunity to find out all the colored people who own beautiful homes in the city, many of which are as handsome or valuable as any that have been mentioned; but these I have observed in course of my duties, and have viewed them both in their interiors and exteriors. The best evidence of the Negro's desire to advance with the great pace of civilization is his anxiety to get away from his ante-bellum habitat of one room. This tendency on the part of the Negro to "make a happy fireside clime" has met the approval and cooperation of the better class of white people, who are deeply sensible of the fact that the metter the sanitary condition of the Negro, the healthier the environment of the white man. The Negro of Louisville has adopted the open-handed hospitality of his white brother, and his home is his heaven: there all his social functions are held, and there cling and cluster all his delightful memories. FLINT, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN The incarnent made a flying visit to Canada the plumage... James Arm strong's condition is slightly improved, yet it will be several weeks before he will be able to resume work....Mr. Albert Beaqued and Alice M. Hill will announce their marriage, which took place at Windsor, Ont. January 1. Rev Jackson officiated.... The ladies of the Sewing Circle entertained their husbands and sweetheart at the home of Mr. Albert Bearfield, on East Tenth street, Wednesday evening, from 8 to 10....W. Graves on the sick stist. The second quarterly meeting will take place at the A. M. E. Church, January 23. Presiding Elder C. E. Allen and wife, of Detroit, will be present. Rev T. W. Beck bequest at the M. M. Kelly funeral hall last Saturday from North Carolina, where he has been visiting relatives and friends for a few weeks. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT North Fork Coal & Iron Co., 3724 State Street, Chicago, Ill.? If Not, Why Not? This company is chartered; it owns in guaranteed title its property. It is destined to restore confidence. Its commodities sell faster than they can be gotten out of the earth. The face value of its stock is $10.00 per share, which sell at $5.00; issued fully paid and non-assessable, and is still rising in market value. 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I lines to an in. $27.25 in a column advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business cards. Reasonable discount for long time and special rates on line per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Ind. as second class matter. All matter should be addressed to GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, JAN. 22, 1910. Happiness is based on reality. It must be earned before we can come into its possession.—David Starr Jordan. There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life, and live it as bravely and cheerfully and faithfully as we can.—Van Dyke. To be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need, to be a cup of strength to a human soul in a crisis of weakness, is to know the glory of life.—Hugh Black. Man is free in proportion to his power of moral choice. The fixed star, not the blazing comet or the flashing meteor, is the symbol of the truest freedom.—Celia Parker Woolley. Only to find our duty certainly, and somewhere, somehow, to do it faithfully, makes us good, strong, happy, and useful men, and tunes our lives into some feeble echo of the life of God.—Phillips Brooks. Dr. E. E. Underwood, of Frankfort, Ky., and Mr. W. D. Johnson, of Georgetown, Ky., are in Washington City looking after important matters. Both of them are good Republicans and deserve recognition at the hands of the administration.—American Baptist. Up to date we don't hear of any plums falling in the Negro's lap from the municipal plum tree, but we understand the reason why—the new mayor is too busily engaged cleaning up Indiana avenue and putting the saloons to sleep on Sundays. Brethren, be patient! Remember the election is over. Shall we have a Negro representative in the approaching legislature? Is this not high time for the Negro to not only be thinking but acting in his own behalf, politically? Ought he be weary of ungrateful white men riding into office on his back? What's all this tablk about Senator Beveridge, what has he ever done for the Negro? A little history of his deeds and actions for and in behalf of his Negro contingents would be exceedingly interesting. Some one please give it to us. Why is it we never hear of assistant pastors in Negro churches? It is not because some Negro pastors do not have as large congregations as some white pastors who are aided by assistant pastors. It is not because such would not be useful to both pastor and people. Why, then, is it that Negro pastors never employ assistant pastors?—the Baptist Vanguard. Here is the reason reduced down to the last analysis Ignorance, narrowness, bigoty, jealously and down-right selfishness, coupled with supreme love for the personal pronoun "I."—Ed. The address of Prof. James Williams, principal of the Rushville, Ind., public school, delivered at Jones' Tabernacle, A. M. E. Zion Church, and to it and a large audience was a gem in literary "pictures of silver and apples of gold." It was, indeed, and in truth, an educational treat. Prof. Williams will always find a cordial welcome awaiting him in Indianapolis. It occurs to us that it is opportune to see about inducing the professor to cast his lot with us in the capital city, as we need just such a man at the head of our educational work. He would be a valuable accession, a hard student and easy reader of men and books, and well versed in the philosophy of the day. He would, no doubt, be a great loss to Rushville, but that would mean a great gain to Indianapolis. DEGREE MAD. Our ministry are "degree mad," the little and big ministers are clamoring for titles, and there seems to be a frenzy for titles. The title of D. D. and LL. D. has become so common that now, when we see it affixed to Rev. So-and-So, it creates more of a suspicion than to arouse admiration, and is suggestive more of "cheapness and sham" than anything else. This ought not to be, for very few Negro divines of today are deserving of such honorary titles. Clergy like the late William J. Simmons, Bishop Daniel Payne, Alexandria Crummell, Henry Highland Garnett and J. C. Price wore the honors with dignity and ability, and we were proud of them, but to- day any minister, licensed or ordained, can purchase the title for a song from some cheap institution, who have, by a hook or a crook, acquired the legal right to sell the article, and, most generally, the least informed and equally the least deserving purchase and wear the spurious title. We call on all our honest ministers throughout the country to cry down this sought of thing, and, with us, endeavor to stimulate a desire on the part of the ministry to "study to show myself approved of God." There should be more of a striving to be good and useful, instead of to shine in a false light as "sham greatness and sham bigness." There's nothing in that. Negro clergy, don't deceive your- Negro clergy, don't deceive yourselves! BALLINGER AND PINCHOT. Public opinion, as expressed in the leading newspapers and magazines of the country, seem to hold up the Pinchot end of the unfortunate affair down at Washington causing the rupture between the President and Mr. Pinchot, the latter being summarily dismissed from the public service as chief forester because of insubordination to his superior officer, the President. We are not prepared to pass on the merits or demerits of the case, neither are we going to say what our opinion is regarding the justice of the discharge of Mr. Pinchot, we only submit that, so far as the facts related to the case as published in the Washington daily dispatches, we simply conclude, that say what you will or may, that it is an unfortunate affair, and will be regarded by all disinterested persons as being one of the great political blunders of the Taft administration. We are free to admit that so far as we have been able to read the signs political, we think we see an indication of a change of base by the President from "Roosevelt's Policies" to "My Polices," as Mr. Pinchot is one of Roosevelt's steadfast friends and supporters. The act puts the administration "in bad" because the justice of Mr. Pinchot's cause is recognized at once by the people at large as being the cause of the people, espoused by Mr. Pinchot as against monopolies and private interests. Therefore the people are with Mr. Pinchot, and his dismissal from the service of the people by the President for the reasons stated is not satisfactory to the people. We understand that there are serious charges against Mr. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, to be investigated by a congressional committee; that the committee has been appointed by the House, and consists of two men (Democrats) obnoxious to the President, and that there is much ado over the selection of Messrs. Rainey and James. Perhaps now the President will see the "rub" he gave the Negroes in the obnoxious appointment of the Democrat, Mr. Lurton, to the Supreme Court bench. "Sowing to the wind, usually reap the whirlwind." Give us a true old-fashioned Republican administration, and not a "My Policies" administration, and a change for the better will take place. We sometimes wonder why such a small portion of the intelligent and well educated part of the human race take such little interest in the enlightened application of the principiles of liberty, justice, equality, fraternity, and the like to the human race in general, and to the Negro race in particular. There is a tremendous work to be done for the amelioration of the social and domestic evils surrounding us in cities and towns north, whither our people are coming in their flight from the land of sorrow, and from under the law of repression and oppression at once obnoxious and unendurable. This is a summons to duty to our professional men and women. Will they answer? CHIMPANZEE VS. NEGRO. Elsewhere we republish Betty Blythe's account of a dinner to Consul, a so-called wealthy, educated chimpanzee, as published in the daily Star Wednesday, January 5. His royal brestship's arrival in the city was acclaimed in thunderous tones, and proved to be what it was meant to be, an advertising card for a local theater, and was indeed a spectacular affair. Nothing to us seemed more absurd and ridiculous than the idea of accepted social equality with a monkey by our so-called superiors, who fiercely draw the colo rline on decent, respectable colored people in their hotels and restauants, but who, on the other hand, thought themselves honored to sit down with a quadruped, bereft of a soul, and intelligence, except that of an automatic machine. Where, where is the elasticity of the white people's consciences and 'the equilibrium of their minds?' Echo asks us where. The farce color line business ought now be relegated to the rear and cast into utter oblivion, when a monkey can have social privileges, on perfect equality, there should be no more precluding the Negro citizen on account of color or anything else. The evening News found his royal beastship in high glee after partaking of the Claypool's bar cocktail, and called the attention of its many readers to it under the following headlines: He Causes Commotion at the Colonial Theater. Dines at Claypool Cafe. Of course, if white citizens enjoy this kind of thing and derive any special benefit by entertainment from such a "distinguished source," so far as The Freeman is concerned, they are welcome to the fun, but, for heaven's sake, white man, ever hereafter be consistent on your color line question. THE GUARDIAN VS. BOOKER T WASHINGTON. We are all interested in men of power. The strong man, the man who has the ability to help, defend or save others, and uses it, is sure not only to THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER attract our admiration, but to secure for himself the place of leader. Other men become his followers. The world wants men of power, for it is in sore need. The Negro race in America wants men of power, for it is in sore need, and it rejoices that among its powerful men there is one towering like the oak tree above the willow, one in whom confidence is not misplaced, a character subline, because full of good works for the blessed Master, the race and the world at large. That man is none other than Dr. Booker T. Washington, a man with a great mind and noble purpose. The world at large acclaims this. In the rank and file of the Negro race he is duly recognized as the greatest constructive leader the race has ever produced, and we are proud of him. We admire him for what he is, and propose to stand by him and to follow his leadership as long as he is in right, and if ever we should see cause to differ with him, it shall be a respectful difference, respectfully and decently put. In saying this we are not actuated by any sinister motive. We have no ax to grind; we fear no foe, or, in other more applicable words, "We have no enemies to punish or friends to reward." Dr. Washington needs no defense from us; he is fully able to take care of himself; he does not seek any from us; he can do along without it, but we see a duty devolving upon us as a race journal of character and standing, and we are determined not to be recurrent to duty. It is our business to serve the race unfinchingly and to always be alert for the public's welfare, as in no other way could we prove ourselves fit to look after the interest of the race. We must lift the race to remove the "rubbish" that obstructs its way. This is our duty, and, God helping us, we mean to do our duty, let the chicks fly where they may or will. As is generally known, almost in every issue of the Guardian we see something of a scurrilous and virulent character published against Mr. Washington, usually conched in the vilest language and in most cases wholly malicious, contemptible slanders, destitute of excuse, atrocious in the injury intended, and which reflect not only on the journal that publish them, but in a measure on the Negro journals of the land, as we are all judged by the one standard, when speaking of Negro journals. It is very much like when the great daily journals speak of the bad doings of the "race." They seldom ever single out the bad Negro man or woman, but usually bunch us all together, and hence by that standard we are judged. Now, look at this headline from the Guardian, of recent date: SOLDIER OF THE 10TH CAV- ALRY ON BOOKER WASHINGTON Declares Colored Soldiers Come from South and Have No Hook-Worm Disease—Is Booker Infected—Write Disease—Is Booker Infected— Writes of Stay in South Theory— Defends Our Soldiers. "Booker the Blasphemer" — Read What the Colored Soldier Says. This is brutal and culpable, and we did not hesitate to denounce it as disreputable journalism and of a kind of which none of us can feel proud. If the editor of the Boston Guardian don't like Mr. Washington or his methods, or his speeches, or his work, or any movement of Mr. Washington, that is his business and his privilege, but out of respect for the decent journals with whom he is in exchange and association, and out of respect for his constituency and the good he may do, he should refuse to put into type such billingsgate representing the state of a diseased mind of animus and spleen against a man far his superior in matters material to the race. The editor of the Guardian is, as we are told, a graduate of Harvard. Why should he disgrace his school? Good manners and respectful language will carry him where money will not. We stand for decent and respectful journalism, and we know that in the long run that means very much more to the "Hub," called sometimes weekly from the culture. We rejoice to see that for the most part almost all the race papers that come to our office in exchange with us stand for decent, clean, respectful journalism, and this is very gratifying to us. We are asking them to join us in this respectful call to our misguided brother journalist of Boston, the city of culture, to come to order, and cease his bitter tirade against our leader, or else prepare himself to be put in a class all to himself and dubbed, as he would be justly dubbed should he refuse to heed us, as the "Yellowist of Negro Journals." Some such action as this is imperative, if we who are striving for better things and better appreciation among our constituency expect to gain their "well done, good and faithful" acclaim. In taking exception to anything concerning Dr. Washington the Guardian editor should do so in a manner and style becoming to his training and education, and thus reflect credit to himself and luster for the great school that sent him forth to the field of labor. As matters and things now stand, we cannot get away from it. An attack upon Dr. Washington, to those of us who look upon him as our leader, is an attack upon us, and we all should so regard it. Read this, another headline from the Guardian: PUTS HOOKWORM ON COLORED SOUTH White Member of American Science Association Tells Boston White Public Colored Give This Dread Disease to Whites. Openly Declares in Boston that Colored Race Should Not Live in Same Country as Whites—Booker Washington Gave First Impetus to Deadly Doctrine Last October—Yet Some Colored Talk of Inviting His "Business" League to Boston. We know that the above assertion is a wanton, malicious and utter contemptible slander, a misinterpretation and a misapplication of Dr. Washing- ton's hygenic remarks, deliberately invented to cater to the curiosity of an unthinking, gullible public, and to place it on unfriendly terms with Mr. Washington. We repudiate it and say frankly to our contemporary that we utterly detest this practice of his. It is indecent, unintelligent and diabolical, and we call upon him to stop it, or else he will be marked down by us as one of the most unscrupulous men of the race in this country and his paper, the Guardian, one of the most disreputable and yellowish extant. He should remember that, as some one has said, "There is enough good in the worst of us. And enough of evil in the best of us, That it doesn't behoove the best of us To talk about any of the rest of us." and again, that. "Right is right, since God is right And right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin." That is where we stand. OUR DUTY Editor Harry C. Smith, of the Gazette Cleveland, Ohio, in a recent issue of his paper, boasts that he did not vote for either Taft or Bryan; he is congratulating him for Debe — Indianapolis Freeman. We voted for the Prohibition candidate, because he saved the life of an innocent Afro-American who was fleeing from a date referred to was addressed by the public meeting in that town. That man dared the mob to come upon the stand to get the Afro-American who had sought and fought them, and intend to vote for jobs we could afford to ach" the prejudice South's allies, Bryan and Taft), until the incident occurred referred to above. Then, we urged all the set, race-representing voters of the race to show respect for too seldom repose, and vote for the Prohibition candidate for president of the United States, the right, and good cause to "boast" that we "did not vote for either Taft or Bryan," both of whom have openly showed more respect and regard for foul-mouthed Ben Tillman and Southern Democracy than for the丑心 interests of the South. Right, we have the editor of our esteemed contemporary, the Freeman, agrees with us, too. His editorial, republished elsewhere in the Gazette today under the head "Political Rights," right, has the right ring. Keep it up, confere, until after the next presidential election, and our "agitation," which will really be education, will do much "to solve" the problem. Right, we have been "at it" for years, and take some credit to ourselves for the very excellent showing Ohio's Afro-American voters made in the fall of 1908, when fully presidential candidate Taft. Let us keep up the campaign of education and in 1912 the great mass of our intelligent voters in the North, at least, will know their presidential candidate Taft, like men. —The Gazette, Cleveland Ohio Certainly you are right to vote according to the dictates of your conscience, and we admire your choice in the last national election. Like yourself, we bolted the Republican ticket, because and for the same identical reasons you give, and we speak frankly when we tell you now that we are not pleased with Taft's policies so far as they relate to the Negro citizen, your esteemed citizen Ralph Tyler to the contrary. Our struggle and contention now and on mus the a struggle and contention ofr the larger liberty for the oppressed multitude, larger and greater political opportunities for the Negro, and for "every right with all our might." No compromise. We must take a stand, an independent stand, cease voting the straight Republican ticket because of war measures. The war is over and slavery is over. We should rather vote for men and measures, especially when those men and measures have the promise to best subserve the best possible interests of the country and the Negro. We are with you, Hon. Harry C. Smith, because we have always found you clean and true, interested in that which is best for the advancement of the race. Let us work this thing out and help the brethren to be there "with the goods" on next Presidential election day. The Freeman is with you, and all who are of our way of thinking. Taxation without representation is wrong, unrepublican and undemocratic. Let us agitate! DISCUSS RACE PROBLEM Subject Taken Up at Meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers Presbyterian Ministers. The views of Booker T. Washington in regard to the solution of the race problem were discussed Monday at the meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers' Association at the Second Presbyterian Church by the Rev. D. F. White, pastor of the Colored United Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. Mr. White also made reference to the views of certain other colored men who believe that the Negroes should devote some time to gaining the opportunities to which they are entitled, rather than spend so much time taking advantage of the opportunities they now have. Those who believe in gaining new opportunities believe that time should be devoted to higher education as well as to industrial training. Mr. Washington lays more stress on industrial education. Mr. White was inclined to subscribe to the views of Mr. Washington, although he did not stand opposed to higher education. The Rev. O. D. Odell, in discussing the paper, declared that the greatest problem of both the colored race and the white race at this time is industrial education.—Indianapolis Star. Mr. Washington has never stood in opposition to "higher education." Most all of his teachers have graduated from the colleges and universities whose curriculums are of the highest. We are pleased to note this—Editor. PHASES OF A CURIOUS QUESTION wages, and, taking some other things along, went into town to have a good time. He soon landed in jail. The first thing he did was to send to the white man for whom he worked. He came and said: "Well, Jim, what are you going to do about this?" "Gwine to do nuffin," replied Jim. "Youseh to do sumpin." And so it was. The white man that employed him, and who was not under the slightest obligation to him, paid his fine and took him back home. The general comment on the story was that the white man was a fool, of course, but that he would do it again and again, and all said it was "natural." The point of the story was illustrative of the dependenee and close relation of the faces in the South—where Negroes are lynched, and not for the "unmentionable crime" merely. Yet the South taxes itself to educate the Negroes, not in great degree, it is true, but it works along that line, and in time will go further. Somewhat germane to this we find the following editorial in the Atlanta Journal with a very prominent headline entitled "Booker Washington's Lecture": "Because of the fact that he is the acknowledged leader of his race, and is working for its uplift in a sane and practical manner, the lecture to be given in Atlanta by Booker T. Washington Wednesday evening is naturally anticipated with considerable interest. This is as it should be. Booker Washington represents a movement to make the Negro useful in society, to make him thrifty, industrious and law-abiding. The subject of his lecture this evening will be on industrial education. It will, no doubt, be well worth hearing." Georgia is the State in which eleven Negroes were lynched last year, and which was scarified by the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch for its barbarianism in this regard. Yet here we find such an approval as this in a prominent newspaper. It might be very well for us if we took these various things home and tempered the disposition to which we are all prone to sit in judgment on others. The racial question is undoubtedly still to be settled, but it is not so difficult perhaps as those that feel it imagine. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, for example, to which we have referred, wanted to know what there was different in Georgia from Virginia that made the former State lynch eleven in a year, and the latter none at all. It went on to show that conditions were almost if not quite identical, and concluded that the sole reason was that murder by mob was encouraged by the popular sentiment of the one State and frowned on by that of the other. In this there is food for thought. We believe Southern States generally dwell too much on the "race question" (calling it a problem for one thing is bad). But we are chary of giving advice, and can only wish for all concerned a working arrangement that will be better than the present, and which surely must be when there is in the life these examples of the kind that we have cited—The Indianapolis News, Saturday January 15, 1910. Bishop I. B. S. sitt of the M. E. Church, will sail for Africa January 22. At that time Bishop A. Walters, D. D. of the A. M. E. Zion Church, will go to Africa to visit the missions of his church. These two able Negro bishops have a message for Africa. This will be Bishop Waters first visit to Africa, but Bishop Scott has been in Africa six years. He has done a great work for the redemption of Africa. He came last fall to be present at the African Diamond Jubilee.—Christian Index. AN ORIGINAL NEGRO INSTITUTION We are pleased to note the continued growth in numbers, influence and material benefit to the race of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers. It is an original Negro institution which has withstood the onslaught of gainsayers and prejudice minded persons both in church and state. It has a membership of nearly 100,000, and employs a large number of our young men and women as clerks, stenographers deptuples and head workers. The hom office is at Richmond, Va.—Informer Detroit. CHRISTMAS EDITION The usual holiday editions of our eral of our exchanges were up to the standard this year. Among those worthy of our attention were T New York Age, The Indianapolis Freeport The Detroit Leader and The Broadway These editions we profusely trated with halftones and contained a deal of good news and rich educational matter.—Forum, Springfield, Ill A CONDITION. Cairo, Ill., January 14.—The common talk of Cairo today is that Frank E. Davis for Representative is common street talk everywhere in public and private and all Negroes and whites who are friends of the Governor are marked, and it is said they are advised to leave the city. To think of the nerve of such a fellow and his fellow citizens, who, in the faec of the law of the State of Illinois, would run this, their (M E W) for an office in defiance of the majesty of the law. It is now up to the present Legislature, as well as the Governor, to see that a law is passed to keep such men as Davis out of the highest place his county can give him. If he cannot uphold the law now, can he pretend to make it? Let Governor Deeneen use the big stick—Defender, Chicago, Ill. EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to THE FREEMAN for Orkulmegue, Oklahoma, in response to a call made by a leading attorney of that city on financial matters. It appears as that Mr. Snead's boys, who have claims well in that State, and several capitalists have made Mr. Snead a goodly offer for the lease of his land....Prayer meeting was held on the 12th at Mr. Gordon's residence on the street and an event was held on the 18th at Mr. Wilson of the MINNEAPOLIS, MINN Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Kate Smith, of 2805 Pleasant Avenue, entertained last week a number of her lady friends with a theater party. The ladies invited were Mrs. Minnie Richardson, Mrs. Nina White, Mrs. Emma Helm, Mrs. Sadie Sample, Mrs. J. R. Wilson, Mrs. I. E. Gibbs and Miss Essie Smith. A delightful afternoon was enjoyed. . . . Minne- Mint was at the time of the return to the future with another colored physician, who had from Chicago, Ill., by the name of Dr. Red, who is expected to arrive in the city soon. . . . Mrs. Minnie Plumber, of 2817 Columbus Avenue, has vacated from the residence named and will make her new abode at 1821 Fifth Avenue South. . . . Mrs. I. E. Gibbs, of 2844 Twelfth Avenue South, entertained the M. T. C. Art Club last week. . . . Mrs. Ann, of 2854 New York, was an public installation of the colored Elks of this city wah held Tuesday evening of last week at South Side Auditorium. The dancing lasted from 9:30 p. m. until late in the morning. Every one enjoyed a very delightful time.... Mrs. Ada Beasley, of 2817 Chicago Avenue, who has been quite sick for several weeks from a stroke of pain, was able to be down the stairs now and improving rapidly. . . . The building was a little more than expected to occupy their new church building on or about Sunday. The new building is located at Twenty-eighth Street East and Fifth Avenue South.... The FREEMAN correspondent and agent in this city is James Wilson, Jr., of 2818 Chicago Avenue. Mr. Wilson would like to have you send him a letter to each other. . . . Mr. Minne- Minne was 18 years old. He was the first human securely on with a copy of THE PREE- MAN Weekly. In sending your items please send them to Mr. Wilson before the evening of each week. ST. PAUL. MINN Special to THE FREEMAN The Social and Literary Club of Pelgrim Baptist Church meet at the home of Mr. A. Payne last Monday night.. The funeral services of R. E. Lyle and A. Lyle's undertaking parlors on Sunday afternoon, January 16. Mr. Gordon came to St. Paul to spend the holidays, and took sick with stomach pain. Mr. Lyle was at Mounth, Ill, spent Sunday in St. Paul.. Last Sunday afternoon the West End Branch W. Y. W. C. A. was agog with enlistment for a number of Sundays at the usual vesper service. Rev. W. A. H. Hill, pastor of Woodland Baptist Church, delivered an address on silver-voiced tenor, rendered two selections. Mrs. Adele Loudin Reese, who has studied abroad and Madam Crawford willor have rendered tenor performances served by Miss Harris, Combs Rhys Lawrence and Willa Moore. Corner has been closed and is now under the management of a young white man. . . . Mr. O. C. Hall writes back from Muskogee, Okla., that the town is alive with 8,000 busy Negroes, and that he expects to make good . . . Walter Whitehead, the president of Ored pugilist, is dead. He is buried in St. Paul's Church. He is of the foremost gullists in this part of the country. He was stabbed a week ago in Duluth, Minn., by Ralph Jones....Mr. A. Worden Haynes has returned, after three months in North Dakota.... "The Clansman," a play which is said to engender prejudice against our race, appeared at the Grand Opera House last week. The play was, an unheralded by the press notices, played by the Negroes of the day. It was a play that was tried to get it suppressed. This rumor proved to be false....Mr. and Mrs. S. Edward Hall are rejoicing over the birth of another girl....Mrs. Harry Howard has returned from California, where she has been visiting htr daughter, Mrs. Aquilla Jackson.... Mr. L. J. Kerr spent one day last week in St. Paul, en route to Portland, New Hampshire. Mr. Hall is being called to the pastor of Pilgrim. Bapst first church has introduced a "new order of service which is quite unique." He is a very eloquent speaker, and it is hcped that he will arouse the spiritual life in Pilgrim.... Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at St. James A. M. E. Church Rev. Iavison, of Hamline University preached the afternoon sermon. You get the St. Paul new church from the new church, the popular news agent.... Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Chambers are both sick at their home, 123 Winnipeg Avenue. LOUISVILLE, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE TIMES The engagement of their daughter Mamie to Mr. Arthur Daniels, of Atlanta, Ga. The wedding will take place early in Paris, interested with the stag party Wednesday January 12, at the residence of Mr. S. Evans, 640 South Thirteenth street, in honor of Mr. John Hester, of Mamie, who is visiting his relatives of friends. The party was arranged by Mr. James Price and Mr. Mr. invited guests of the Woodland, Rob- tiee Jesus Lushy, Charles B. Claxton, John leen, John P. Thomas, George, Geor- gan and Charles Berry. The party sessions were offered by every one presen- t in regard to the next entertainment which will be stricty private. Mr. man and Charles Berry, in behalf of Mr. Rock, which was received with ap- laeuse. After all the delicacies of the season were served the oratory was indulged, and every one left happy. The party will be at Mr. Robe Hester's residence Thirteenth and Chest street. SOUTH BEND, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wade entertained the Eau Claire social club at their home, 127 New York Street. Covers were laid for fourteen. Each one had a jolly good time, and didn't go home until morning. The club has added four new members. In the future they will be the American Hall. Music will be furnished by Miss Matt's orchestra. Invitation will be issued later, and Miss Daisy Dale Walker, Walker, lectured to St. Rufus Club at the main street. Each member entered the lecture and received much benefit from such a grand lecture. We hope to have Miss Walker in our city to see her. She is located do us lots and to the Daisy D. Walker Club, where she was greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Powell to event greetings. Mr. Charles Kettrell has written to his duty, the less sick, the less the home is the more American Order of Owls. They also have a subordinate lodge here. THE STAGE Additional Stage News on Page Six. The Congo King Company is still on the map and doing big business. Regards to the Thompson's, Lizzie and Thomas, and all friends. Moore and Moore are in Galveston, Tex. the home of the great comedian, Chinz Moore, at the Ruby Theater, knocking them out as usual. David & Walker, singers and dancers, appeared at the Empire at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, last week in "A Lesson in Dancing," and proved to be top-notchers. The Merry Howards, Edward and Nettie have joined hands with the Carters, Paul and Mamie. They have formed a stock company, seven in number—the Howards, the Carters, the pickankinnies and a playful duo, the time booked. They jump from Atlanta, Ga., to Houston, Tex., where they open at the People's Theater, January 22, for a six weeks' run; then to Galveston, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Fort Worth and Dallas. The company Well, you can't guess everything all the time, and who knows but what the little company may make a big noise some day? The Carters send regards to the bunch at the Gem in Memphis. The Merry Howards, the Carters, the Porter and the Porter, the Skimmers, and their old friend Charles P. Simson, manager Star Theater, Pittsburg. Conedian T. Spencer Finley is continuing his triumph at the Hiawata Theater, Washington, D. C., and is delighting imitators this week at the weekly show by Mr. Walter Howard, whose dancing is a "taking feature. Mr. George E. Battle is at the piano again, and the Lyric Orchestra makes the welkin ring on the stage. The rest of the orchestra is equal to the occasion, and gives Finley's songs a swing that causes them to be whistled all over the orchestra. The supplies." Sunday, Mr. Finley's new song, "The Organ and the Choir," by Roy Burch, and published by the Indianapolis firm of Wulshner & Stewart, called for performances at the University has been all the rage this week. At the Macco the Jonhson-Ketchel sight pictures have been shown, and the Dumbar is getting people to know the houses are within a short distance of one another, but all seem to be prospering. PASTIME THEATER, ATHENS, GA. Everything moving along smoothly, Miss Evelyn White will open with us Monday, January 17. J. H. Williams, our stage manager, is overjoyed with his bunch of performers. Tom Young, Miss Evelyn White, and Tom Goodhill, Goodhill Twins all send regards to friends. J. H. Williams would like to hear from Charles Beachum and Fred Lewis. THE BELMONT STREET ELECTRIC THEATER The Belmont Street Electric Theater, at PenSacola, Fla., owned by Mr. M. Jacoby, is doing a fine business, and as Miss Carrie May Hall, our stage manageress, is putting on some very fine shows, the rehearsal is being held at the Evidence. Monday, January 18, Miss Hall will present her new play entitled "In Yama Yama Land," with special scenery by the talented Billy Arlington leader, Miss Hall is very proud of her girls, as they are all very clever and good dressers on and off. Look out for them. The team of the show will be Billy Arlington, Bert F. Edwards (of New York), the celebrated tenor singer, joined us here Monday, January 10. They are the hit of the show and you may sure that no such show can be better. The other fore and the patrons of this house cannot express their thanks for this great treat. Everything is lovely and the ghost walks every Saturday. Nuff ced. Misses Hallington will eat dinner Sunday, January 18, honor of Messrs. Billy Kersands and Edwards. THE TAFT THEATER The house was crowded, the standing room sign being posted at 7:35. Everyone one wore a smile, which meant that they were well pleased. The musical comedy presented by Manager Clarke was entitled "Bingham Bill." Mr. Robert Clarke as Bingham Bill was great. "Such Lovely Eyes," sung by Miss Polly Ronbinson, was fair. Mr. Taylor sung "Meet Me, Lucinda, by the Cedar Pines," which went good. The waiter as played by Mr. Hendon was a nice bit of acting. Mr. Hendon is the best character actor seen in Louisville in a long time. "I Am Glad I Am Brown Skinned," and "She Is My Little Queen" were well received. Jimmy Wells sang "The Barbers' Ball" in his usual way, and with the assistance of the whole company was the hit of the evening. Jimmie Clarke and Ed Owsley are more than making good at the Taft. The closing skit entitled "Jones and Brown" was good, and brought out the entire strength of the company. Every member got all out of their parts, and the large crowd showed their approval by liberal applause. "Trailing Smiles," sung by Miss Taylor, received several encrobes. Jimmie Clarke and Jim Wells send records to Murry Smith and Hap Rag. Clarke and Taylor send regards to Eugene Clark. Jonh Goodloe and bunch. Glover Compton sends regards to Will Able. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY SIMPSON, THE LITTLE FELLOW WITH THE BIG FEET. I just closed a successful short season with the Florida Blossoms Minstrels under canvas in Quitman, Ga., Tuesday, Jan. 11, as monologist and comedian, and the first of many to be known hereafter as the team of Simpson and Fisher, the great Pekin comedy burrow jimmers, acrobats and jugglers, talking, talking and dancing act, Passionate, Colored Airdome, Jacksonville, Fla., Monday, January 10, for three weeks' engagement, and I must say that Managers Joel & Ginny certainly make it pleasant for all performers to not our old friends Kenner and Lewis here. We all opened on the same bill, and formed a combination and called it the Juilliard Four, and we are getting ours, Nuffc Kennel and Lewis met one of their boyhood chums, Mr. Harrison Fontanette, here and he certainly gave the July Four local time on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Harrison Fontanette gave a banquet in our hour, and I was some banquet—plenty of wine and other drinks in abundance, and the menu that was prepared by their amiable cheftees, such as Mattie McBride, was manners, such as Shrimp McBride, chicken, pig shrimp, jambalaya grata, chicken, other dishes too numerous to mention. There was plenty of singing and dancing, and we all had a jolly good time until it was the time for the Jolly Four to prepare for the banquet. We were closing the banquet with the orchestra playing "Auld Lung Syne," and we parted a happy bunch. Those present were: Host hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Fontenette; Host hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Martine Delos; Manjee Draugh, Ernestine Slims; Strickland and Lucille Slims: Mess, How. ard Holle, J. E. Simpson, L. L. Fisher, Lew Kenner and John Lewis. The Jolly Four send their best regards to friends in and out of the profession. The little ones are welcome. The hello Mr. and Mrs. Goodloe, Thomas Briggs, Walter Reid, Alice McQuillner, Al Briggs, Walter Reid, Alice McQuillner, Al Matthews, Jr., his old partner. Why don't you write? The Jolly Four send their best regards to Manager Jacoby and bunch at the Street Theater. Hold them down, Carrie. OH! OH! DEHOMEY! Instead of being one lovely stroll, it's a case of ten below zero, and climbing ice and snow. This weather has got the snow under control, and through this continued war on weather, when the horn blows for "Bam" next fall we will all get aboard, bag and baggage, and we will be in the winter anyhow. The only startling news is that one of the bravest "angels" that ever strolled down this lovely stroll—well, the one we all have in our coll. It was ten below zero, and no one could find out his name. Some said that he was out of his mind; others claim he distracted us; others claim he D. Rockler; others are betting that he will later until this matter gets out in the paper. Well, we will wait, and see, and that won't happen, two or two more, that have stocked the test of this all-haillike like the Grand and the Monogram, enjoyed two or three nights of good business. The Grand the Week of January 10 of fered the best card in the way of a minstrels that has ever been put on in De-homey, no matter where. From the writ-ture of the day, the first of the day, the first ever offered in Chicago. Every-joke- ever offered, and every song a house-wrecker—all under the direction of "Lord" Joe, who was the only song of the day. It was Wallace with a glimmer of song that looks at first as though it would put an end to the show. Not so. After a good joke another young lady with a good voice, by the name of the song, was the first to sing, finding a very nice ballad. Then the writer was at a loss about what could follow here, when another young lady popped up, with the assistance of a man who had been in the way. It was big doubt whether the two end men could keep up the top speed and last. Oh, yes! Mr. Dink Stewart jumped up and put the song on the side of the stage. It was a big doubt whether the two end men could keep up the top speed and last. Oh, yes! Mr. Dink Stewart jumped up and put the song on the side of the stage. It was a big doubt whether the two end men could keep up the top speed and last. Oh, yes! Mr. Stewart is a good dancer and singer. After the riot settled down, one Miss Brown took the center of the stage with a very pleasing Spanish song, and got her back to the stage. She was the only one who was beginning to wonder where His Royal Highness, "Lord" Joe Sims, came in. But the royal bred took his time to see the song. He was not then what were they to close with after so many hot numbers? This one point demonstrated how much Mr. Sims knew about putting on a small or big minstrels. He was the only one who had been a Belle of the Barbers' Ball." Well, George Evans, of Honey Boy's Minstrels, should have heard the song—put on, that's all. On the whole, this little minstrels conditions were so good that he was not so much as on its head. State street has not seen its equal since the minstrel first part in "Rufus Rastus," by Ernest Hogan. The Monogram has undergone another change. Kline has taken the management, W. H. Smith resigned to handle Sid Perin's big act and other acts in vaudeville. The Bijou, formerly the Lincoln—well the house is open. Joe Brown and Chas. Hoff opened it. The writer thinks this act will close the house; maybe it will and maybe it won't. One of Dehoney's stars was met on the stroll with his suit case, hat and a lot of small bundles. He was asked by one of the housekeepers to house for a steam-heated room. "No, no," was his reply, "I am changing this zero weather for a steam-heated climate. I am Alabama bound. I am leaving here." Kid Thomas, of Thomas and Payne, the popular roller skate dancers, put one over for the short-time vaudeville managers down town that one or two has made a written memorandum of. Thomas and Payne have everything of the same purpose as they get more solid time out of Chicago than any other act. That makes the city their home. Mr. Thomas canceled four weeks of his last big time and came into Chicago, to the amazement of everybody—no reason given. He showed another surprise by the team's name and peering look. He was not a “man” or a “man-in-the-pants-on-the-back” person. As to all meant. Mr. Thomas replied that he laid off to dress up the act that he was playing at the Grand to give Miss Payne a chance to break in her new togs (only six sets). Well, he did not want to sound as soon as he had been a college student, handed him bunches of contracts. The Kild said that he would look them over. The climax came on Friday, January 14, when William Morris sent a runner out to bring Mr. Thomas to his office and handed him fourteen weeks of three and four weeks. Oh, my old friend, at the same time that Johnson and Payne will fill out the time that Johnson and Dean had booked by William Morris at the biggest money ever given a colored team out of Chicago. The Knights of Dehomey will give the popular team a grand send to Winnipeg. I guess it looks bad for him. I think he will come from hard work and putting their money in the act and advertising, and treating all classes of people with common courtesy. News of the out-of-town acts will make us take some notice. They all seem to be getting the money. Cheese, Chicken, Jones are the best of the New York State houses. On top of this yours very truly Miss Oma Crosby has her big act out working all the time. We've been her go to the front for herself? Well, the slowest of fall guys wake up some time, and when they do, believe me it's a sweet job. Come out of the woods and show up the goods. C. V. B. A. AND NEW YORK NOTES NEW YORK—Daniel Frazier, a member of the C. V. B. A., died January 11, aged 40. He was a member of the Cameo Kirby Quartette. He was a member of the Cameo Kirby. The deceased was taken with tuberculosis while on tour. When he arrived here he was in a very feeble way, but all had hopes for covery, and a sudden cessation, and he suddenly became worse until the sad ending. The funeral took place Friday morning, January 14, from his home at 357 West Drive, Rev. F. Howard conducting the services. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The C. V. B. A. in a large body attended. The palebearers Bunny Baker, Will Thomas Slater, Zell Bloodsaw, Thomas Cross and Jillus Glum. Condolence of the C. V. B. A. to the sorrowing widow and family of the deceased. Tried in the school of the deceased, the loss of connection which can bring the human heart, we know well and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. The same trials have taught us that for ill so immeasurable time and are the only medicine we can give, not there, our condolence, open afresh your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely our tears with yours, will we say a word more, where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us at which time is not very distant in that we are dependent on our sorrow and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an estatic meeting with the THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ones we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again. Joe Britton has been laid up the past ten days with pneumonia. He has the heartfelt sympathy of the C. V. B. A. They all wish for his speedy recovery. John W. Cooper, America's representative colored ventriolipit, was the hit of the bill at the Empire Theater, Hoboken, N. J., week of January 10. Week of January 17, Blifou Theater, Orange, N. J. Bob Slater said to Lew Payton: "Well, old man, I see you have sworn, off drink, if you don't drink liquor, now, how do you manage to keep happy? Freeze it and eat it. Smith and La Rose's Octoonor Company still remains the feature at Huber's Museum. The cast includes Watts and Gant, Smith and Smith, Johnson and Voeck, Joe J. Smith, Miles Robinson, Minnie Robinson, Maude Robinson, Mrs Irving Allen and La Rose. Brown and Navarro have returned to vaudeville. It still remains a mystery why they severed their connection with the band the Fulton Theater Company, the Fulton Theater Company, Brown, was one of the best hits of the bill, week of January 10. The Brooklyn Eagle says of Miss Navarro's dancing: "The dancing of Miss Navarro was very exciting, out of the ordinary. They play well of January at the American Music Hall. Madam Robinson, of Philadelphia, pa-scared the C. B. A. with a magnificent cut-glass punch bowl January 12. The day after the said bowl Madam Robinson called up the C. V. B. A. over long-distance phone and had a few pleasant conversations over the phone "My Old Kentucky Home." All the members that were present gathered around the 'phone and responded with the chorus of their march song, "C. V. B. Every one spent an enjoyable afternoon. YOUNGSTOWN, O. Specialty. FREEMAN. Are doing nicely... If any one knows the address of Mrs. Bessie White, of Chicago, please notify Mrs. Asby Johnson, 1105 West Federal Street, Youngstown, Ohio, as called by Jackson, Edward, was called to Bellefontaine on account of the illness of her father, Levi Mason. Mrs. Lydia Craig has returned to Girard, after the week's visit in the southern line of the State, and Mrs. W. C. Harris has moved their lodging house to 110 Wick Avenue. Mrs. Rush DePoutee, of the State, the best of the best. Ettia Acey. - Mrs. Charles Lincoln, Mrs. James Mealey and Mrs. Simon Burgess are able to be around, after two weeks illness. - The members of the Oak Mill, Mr. Morgan, Mrs. W. C. and Mr. George Phelps Thursday afternoon, and after the routine of business papers were read by Mrs. G. M. Fagan and Mrs. Samuel Zogger, the first time to be at the same time with a Mr. Anna Hudson's, February 10. - Mrs. Paul Robinson, of McKinnie, is very ill. - John Peterson, of Mineral Ridge, was in the city last year, and after four weeks illness... The following officers and teachers were elected by the members of the Oak Hill Avenue Sunday-school last week were elected by Mrs. S. J. S. S. and the press-perintendent Mrs. G. M. Fagan, assistant superintendent Mrs. F. Moore, secretary. Mrs. Hazel Smith, assistant secretary, Mrs. D. B. Donald, treasurer; Miss Louise Jones, Ph.D., Ph.D., and Mrs. Frank Barrett librarians; teachers, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. H. Simmons, Mrs. J. W. Whitney, Mrs. B. Donald, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. G. M. Fagan, Mrs. Charles and Rev. J. F. Smith. George Holmes is on the sick list. Miss Elvie Davis, Mrs. Pleasant Hill Mrs. Orange, Mrs. and Mrs. James, death. ill. - G. M. Fagan, the first of the great leader Saturday evening. After the routine of business the following officers were elected for the term: Willis Collins, captained by the head of the drug's firm, and the other. Moore, second lieutenant; William B. Saunders, recorder; Parris Hall, treasurer. Their next meeting will be January 29. Sunday was rally day at the Mahoning Avenue on the 20th March. The new redemption was reacquired by the colour and special music was rendered by the choir. The amount raised will be given in next issue. THE FREEMAN can be had. Fred James's bar is the most important street. From William Saunders's local agent, every Saturday BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN Dr. Ernest Lyon, American Minister to Liberia, has just returned from Tuskegee Institute, where he and Bishop I. B. Scott, who has charge of the work of the West Africa, and Dr. Booker T. Washington had a conference regarding Liberian educational and industrial schools modeled on Tuskegee lines, will be established in the school's new campus. The school" declared Minister Lyon, "under the guidance of Tuskegee Institute, will be of inestimable benefit to the material and industrial interests of the Liberians." Dr. Booker T. Lyon, the school's now awaiting instructions from the State Department as to the attitude of this government toward Liberia., Miss Estella Cummings, sister of City Councilman James C. Fennel were the principals in a fashionable church wedding last Wednesday evening. The bride was a teacher in the city schools a number of years., At the monthly meeting of the Interdenominational Church, needs of Provident Hospital were discussed a number of the ministers pledging their interest in the efforts to secure a new building for this institution, which is led by Baltimore's colored physicians. ERIE, PA. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN for the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Franklin died Friday, January 14 age one year and six months. The funeral was held at the house Monday, at 2:30 p.m. at the St. Mary's Church. Pedro has left the city, Mrs. W. T. Brown, of West Third street, is confined to her home with illness. Services were held Sunday at the A. A. Church in the well attended. Next Sunday being quarterly meeting, the pres- iding elder will speak. All are invited to attend. The aa and unexpected guest was in Erie by his widow. Mr. Collins was washed overboard by the heavy seas when the steamer Vulcan, on which he was em- sled, was sunk. Mr. Collins has not yet been recovered. Mr. Collins leaves a daughter, the wife of Prof. De- laney, of Louisville, KY. His first wife was the Slims of Simms, of New York. His widow was Mrs. Anna Highwarden, of Seattle, Wash. COLUMBUS. GA. Miss Isadora Carter has returned from a few weeks' visit to Montgomery, Ala. — She is now leading for Palmettro, Fla. — Mr. Dan Jones, on Rose Hill, who has been quite sck, has recovered. — Mrs. Jones, on Palmettro, Fla. — Miss Rosa Lee Reese will return home at an early date to Bainbridge, Ga. — Miss Lula LEXINGTON, MO. Mrs. Mary Wright's fine mullery opposite opera house..., Oscar Mullen has been a Masonic building..., Misses Pauline Blaire, Allie Neerman, Midwred Hawkins, Bessie McKenzie, Stephen Slaughter's last week..., Stephen Slaughter's house was badly damaged by fire two weeks ago. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Stewards of the A. M. E. Church request friends and citizens to assist them in a special effort to raise money for the relief of the victims of the hurricane 23. Rev. Green, of the Presbyterian Church, will preach at 11 a. m.; Rev. R. H. Haynes, pastor of the A. M. E. Church. Rev. R. H. Haynes, pastor of the Blackman, of Oak Grove, at 8 p. m. The public is cordially invited. Rev. E. M. Gibson, pastor , . . . Mr. David Cox was shot in the back by a man who was conducted at the C. M. E. Church by Rev, S. L. Bolding, Monday, January 17, at 2:30 p. m....Mr. Thomas Gibson returned home from Birmingham this week....Prof. G. W. Brooks spent Sunday in the city....Mr. Arslee Douglass left for Birmingham to visit his mother....Mrs. Sarah Douglass spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the home on Mrs. T. E. Knowles....The Willing Workers' concert was quite a success, and was enjoyed by a large audience. PAST WEEK AT CHICAGO PAST WEEK AT CHICAGO Concluded from Page One. Clifford, of the National Theater, was equally as praising as Mr. Shaw, Mr. Corker, is polished, well educated, and assesses a wide range of the arts, is undoubtedly, one of the most popular men in the theatrical business, and much of the success of the "Red Moon" is due to the acceptance work of Mr. Corker. He left Chicago Monday to make a trip through Canada. --- One of the most conspicuous signs of the young Negro's activity in the city of Chicago is the progress being made by Mr. Wm. D. Neighbors, who conducts a business, and his associates with him seven other other intelligence and character, and they are "making good" in the Windy City. Mr. Neighbors has an office at 95 Washington street, and a branch office at 3517 State street. He has been in the city of Chicago about eleven years. His aim was to make a successful business man, and he prepared himself for the task. He worked fully and industriously, sought the confidence of the people, went in business, stuck to it, and today he is a credit to the city of Chicago. Extremely courteous has been Mr. W. H. Smith, of the Colored Vaudeville Act Company, to the correspondent of THE FREEMAN. He is one of the best known theatrical men in the country, and has houses all over the country. He recently opened the house at New Orleans, La. He has a vaudeville act of nine people, and also has charge of the act of Perrin, who is the most successful successes in the Western Association. The Pekin Theater Trio, consisting of Sam Arnold, Kid Duncan and Will Coles, is in a class all alone. They sing operatic selections, popular songs and ragtime songs. He is the curmished entertainment. This next week in Atlantic City, next week in Atlantic City, About the first of March they will be booked on the Orpheum Circuit. Another clever team, Mr. Smith's is the curmished Madame Lau. Behalf Madame Lau be a lyric saprano and character artist. These acts mentioned have been employed by all the big booking agencies, and this has been done through the energy and theatrical ability of W. H. Smith, whose office is at the Pekin Theater. *** Jesse Binger, who was the central figure at the last Negro Business Men's League, held at Louisville, because of his success as a banker in the city in Chicago, where he is located at Thirty-sixth and State streets. The building in which he operates his bank is one of the most modern in this section of the country. His safety deposit valuers are in the building, and the furnishings are handsome. It can be safely said that Mr. Binger is one of the pioneers in this kind of a movement. He is also the first ple to reside in houses and flat buildings on the streets and avenues east of State street through to the lake. He has had in his employ seven people in the bank, cashier, bookkeeper, salesmen and collectors. Mr. Binger is not only a personal friend of Booker T. Washington, but one of the leading men of the city that preaches a hard line against zazzar. "Buy property and own homes." This is exemplified by the fact that a large number of colored people have bought homes from Binger, the banker, and that more than 2,000 people are housed in the city, and that building the Chicago's most representative citizens. * * * * It has been our good fortune to pay a visit to the Pelican House, where were born a full attention by Messrs. Robert Motts, W. H. Smith and Sam J. Corker, Jr. This house was opened in 1904, and is the leading colored theater in the country, the policies of the house have changed and that the proper channel. The offerings consist of a high class of vaudeville acts. Mr. Motts' theater is on a par with the leading vaudeville houses in the country, the cooking over the bills, from week to week, they compare favorably with any of the downtown houses, and it is hard to see how he can maintain such a high standard of decor and maintenance. Mr. Motts gave a banquet to the managers of the Vaudeville Association last Friday night and it was attended by nearly every member with their wives, the managers, and the Corker, Jr., and W. H. Smith, of the Smith's colored vaudeville act company. A number of fine selections of amusement was presented under the management of Mr. Smith, and the managers pronounced a feature of the banquet a great success. The banquet was very elaborate and attended by the wives of the managers. A fine menu was served in the Petkin and the managers worked a social epoch in society theatricals. Mr. Motts is held in high esteem by the managers of the vaudeville organization, and his photo appeared on the front page of the Nulletton last week, the booking office of Frank's books most of the houses in this section. WANTED. We want Honest, Intelligent and Energetic Colored Ladies and Gentlemen to represent us in every locality in the United States. We pay liberal salaries, $18 to $25 per hour, and we provide for advancement for energetic workers No capital or experience necessary. Why do hard drudgery work when we furnish you light, easy and profitable employment? We offer hard work for colored people, only one person in a locality employed. Only those who mean business need apply. If you need work and want steady employment, send 60 cents for samples. Send all remittance by postal order, no stamps accepted. Address H. W. BOLDEN, General Manager, 139 Johnson St., Sedalia, Mo. 139 Johnson St., Sedalia, Mo. THE FREEMAN POSTOFFICE Notice—Persons whose names appear in the following list will kindly send for them a letter to the office and then returned to writer or dead-letter office. It would prevent delay if all performers would send route from time to time and letter could be forwarded at the office. Gentlemen's List. Black, Prof. N. Batsell, D. W. Bates, Tim Day, George Fisher, Lionner Howard, Edward Howard, Edward Hamilton, J. 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Wanted Quick Lowery & Morgan's Mighty Minstrel Musicians and performers, booze fighters, prize fighters, cavelrymen, drunkards and squabblers save stamps; that's for men. Fuss makers, big heads, bad language and poor dressers don't write; that's for women. We want ladies and gentlemen. Can give you work winter and summer. Address as per route: Mexico, Mo., Jan. 24; Vandalia, Mo., Jan. 25; Bowling Green, Mo. 26; Frankfort, Mo., 27; Perry, Mo., 28; Hannibal, Mo. 29. Managers. H. L. Rawles, Stage Manager. Buffalo Bill's Wild West & Pawnee Bill's Far East Wants a complete minstrel show of about sixteen men, including a first class band. All must be up-to-date in every respect and in keeping with the standard of this show. Want a first class female impersonator (the best), a recognized comedian of ability who has a reputation and can be featured. Want a good looking female vocalist and a good sister team. Address H. G. WILSON, 5034 Larchwood Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 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The Hendersones, in their original creation, "Aunt Phoebe's Southern Home," report much success in vaudeville. Week of January 3, at Crown Theater, Pasadena, Cal.; week of January 10, at Unique Theater, San Bernardino, Cal. Regards to all friends. Keep going, Dixie Trio; "Aunt Phoebe" and family are coming. MANAGERS OF COLORED THEATERS. We are anxious that you write us at your very earliest convenience, because we have something important on hand for you—Editor. BLACK BEES AT STAR THEATER. PITTSBURG, Pa., January 14.—The Original Six Black Bees has opened for a two weeks' engagement at the Star Theater. The company consists of Sampson and Sampson, Sewell and Eva, in musical comedy; Lyons and Singleton, Walter and Maud; G. T. Wilson, marvelous acrobat; Nora Goff, singing and dancing soubrette. They close their performance with "Eph and Dinah," in Southern pastime, W. S. Singleton as "Eph" and Maud Singleton as "Dinah." AFRO-AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE BOOKING ASSOCIATION The Afro-American Vaudeville Booking Association, a new company, with headquarters at the Afro-American Building, Cincinnati, O., and branch offices at Chicago, Philadelphia and Birmingham, Ala., is a firm with plentiful capital and experienced heads backing the same, and this is the only circuit catering to managers using colored artists and to the interest of colored performers. From what we heard and also saw, the Afro-American Vaudeville Booking Association is a concern that every theatrical owner, manager or performer should turn his interests to, because the firm is a thoroughly reliable one. We recommend this association to all theater owners, managers and performers. PASTIME THEATER, ATHENS, GA J. P. Davis is owner and proprietor; T. B. Young, stage manager; J. H. Williams, comedian, is making a great success with his late songs, "Say No, That's All," and "O You Henry." Miss Aberda Williams, a southern songbird, is making a successful head with "Shakey Eyes." George Shorty, buck and wing dancer and female impersonator. Amos Daniel, a comedy buck dancer. T. B. Young, Western comedian from St. Louis, is starring in the show and is making a good success with "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself, but Leave His Wife Alone," and "Abraham Lincoln Jones." Mr. Thomas Young would like to hear from J. E. Adams and Jimmie Green, of St. Louis. He sends his best regards to all his friends. GEORGIA SUNBEAM COMPANY DOING WELL. Special to THE FREEMAN. PENSACOLA, Fla., January 4. I beg to state, in behalf of the Georgia Sunbeam Company, headed by Rainey and Rainey, that we have just closed a six weeks' engagement at Lun Park, Atlanta, Ga., and now we are down in the land of flowers. The company is composed of the following: Rainey and Rainey, who are still scoring success every night; Will Owens, the comedian, who keeps them screaming all the while (he sends regards to the profession, particularly Carter and Carter); Porter and Porter, vaudeville artists, that are top-notchers; Mattei Parker and Mittle Bradford, singing and dancing soubrettes; Kelly, the dancing wonder; Zeke, the man who has them all beat, and still talking. He just closed with the Arcade Theater, in Atlanta, where he is still the rage. He sends regards to the profession, and would like to hear from Ed Butler, Jules McGourd, Cox and Cox, and his wife. The orchestra is very fine, and is led by Prof. C. M. Price. Porter, of the traps, is something of a wonder. Regards to the profession. 206 Garden St. P. S.-McNells, please write. Can always place good performers at the new theater. Write quick. THE EXCHANGE THEATER. JACKSONVILLE. Fla.-The show this week is a bird. We are putting on a first-class minstrel first part, and it is a screamer. Our last act is being staged by Mr. Ed F. Peate, the funmaker, "The Lunatic Asylum," and it is a funny act from start to finish. Our olio comes next: Miss Beulah Henderson, with "I Don't Care" and "I remember You." Miss Sweety Matthews, "Whistle and, I Will wait for You." We have been handcapped a great deal owing to having lost a producer, as Mr. Bradford left us. Miss Augusta Mines stepped in his shoes; the show has been going just the same, with a little better show now. Prof. Robin- son has a lot of trouble with his music, but nevertheless he pulls out. We are sorry his friend, Mr. Hayward, is not with him. He resembles a lost sheep. Miss Emma Hines says for Kid Langford to write. Monroe Tabor, the famous tenor and yodeler, sings that beautiful ballad, "Love Thoughts" and "Intyrol" yodel; Miss Augusta Mines, "You'll Come Back," and taking three and four encores nightly. Miss Emma Thornton, one of our star performers, is a little ill, and will be with us again after a little rest. Such people as Miss Thornton are missed ever so much, because she is willing to take any part and does not care so much for beauty. The way I figure it is that beauty with no talent, in the show business, does not amount to much. LEE'S MINSTRELS. Lee's new and up-to-date minstrels opened at the Majestic Theater, London, Ohio, to a packed house, and the show was a scream from start to finish. On the ends were Billy Starks, Charlie Gentry and Ike Paul, with the bones, and H. Gentry, J. Brown and Arthur Williams used the tambos. L. Tish Lee was interlocutor. Ike Paul scored a hit in "The Christening," and Starks just sang "Honey Gal" to a dear little London belle to a finish. C. Gentry, as is always the custom, cleaned up. The olio and after-part of "Cindy's Party" were uproariously received by the audience. The Lee's company simply went grand; the best show that ever struck London, so the Londoners say. The Majestic is the best house in the dear little town of London, with its hospitable and good townsfolk, and each night it was filled to capacity, and some folks had to go home and come early next time. The last half of the week the bill was changed entirely. J. Brown was a prize buck and wing dancer, and scored in his latest song hits. Gentry and Gentry went big in "Darktown Swells." Ike Paul and Billy Starks were very well received in their jungle act. These boys made an awful hit on and off. L. Tish Lee, in her clever imitations of the judge, was a scream from start to finish. Lee's minstrels are just what they are cracked up to be, and make good anywhere they go. A MISREPRESENTATION. Published in the January 1 issue of The Freeman was an article headed "Straight Dope from the Wild and Woolly West," by Mr. Arthur L. Prince. Part of the story was correct, but those who were acquainted with the adversities we met with know there were no joy riders or spendthrifts amongst the unfortunate ten who became stranded. The real facts of the case are that after the fortunate members of "Dixieland," through the strategy of Prof. James S. Lacy, formed a company and severed their connection with "Dixieland," and commenced to tour the West, business became of such a nature that we were compelled to close before the ending of the exposition. What little means we had accumulated had to be spent for room and board, and as the amount of finance was very limited, it was soon exhausted. Any honest man or woman always wants to pay his or her debts, and we did not want to be classed as a bunch of frauds. It is easy matter for one who is on top of the hill to throw filth upon those down in the valley. There never has been offered us any assistance from any of the colored contingent in Seattle. All our aid has come from the opposite race. As we are all, except one, non-professionals, our chances of sipping the cup of success were not so good, and have brought on our present dilemma. It is not very courteous, friendly or gentle for one who knows not of what he asserts, simply because he is sailing on the ship of prosperity and fortune, to mislead the public. As the old saying is, every dog has his day, and be who laughs last lags best. I think my friend should hike it to the woods of shame and relent. We do not envy your success, but on the other hand glory in your being lucky. While it is true we are strained, we feel hopeful, through the guidance of our Supreme Ruler on high, that the dark cloud which confronts us now will be wafted into the sea of silence, and all will be well. If you can not say a good word about your brother, or do him a good turn, be manly and remain silent. In fact, I am surprised that a man of Mr. Prince's intellectual qualifications would stoop from his lofty height of dignity to write such an erroneous article against those who always admired him for his extensive ability. With all that, we love you as of岁. ROSS HENDRIX. ROSS HENDRIX 319 Fifth Avenue, North, Seattle, Wash FROM OVER THE FOOTLIGHTS. BY CHARLES D. MARSHALL. Lately the playwrights have had a penchant for writing lines in the popular plays of the day that tend—a good deal—toward bringing about or reviving race feeling of the bitterest sort. It's "nigger this and nigger that" in the modern drama of to-day, and, what is more, everytime the word is said a majority of the white's appland, especially if it discredits the Negro to any extent. It seems that they have caught the belief that a play cannot be successful unless it deals severely with the Negro. We wonder if they realize how weak the step may be in taking such a trend to become successful. It will not be long before they will find themselves swallowed up in some whale, as went the Rev. Thomas Dixon. Looking over the field of young performers, we find quite a number who THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. are doing much to raise the standard of the Negro on the stage. For some time we have been noticing the steady climb of King and Bailey, and we do not fear to say that there is more than likely to be another Williams and Walker in the making of King and Bailey. Mere boys, you might say, and yet what a wonderful amount of real stage art has developed in them in less than a half dozen years. Originate everything they do, and more, too, it looks like. In a few more seasons the stage world will find them at the head of a big company, if sickness or death does not hinder it. Sam McCorker, the advance representative of Cole and Johnson this season, is about as interesting a person as one would wish to meet these days. He is bubbling over with good nature, and is frank—very frank, indeed—with every mother's son and daughter. He is also a very shrewd fellow, and, being so, it takes a very good one to outstrip*him. Not very long ago, while stopping at a hotel over Sunday in a small Illinois town, he rang for the bellboy and told him to bring him a Sunday paper. After being gone a few minutes the lad returned. On taking the paper, Mr. Corker found that the supplement was missing. Turning to the boy, he said: "Where is the colored supplement?" The boy left the room with a bound, and in a minute or so came back and handed him a Freeman, saying, "Here's yo' culld suppl-men." It is amazing to note the advancement our people are making in theatrical lines. Don't you know that there are some four or five thousand Negroes on the stage to-day, and nearly thirty playhouses? The theater proposition is the greatest thing of the age, and a special edition telling all about them will be issued soon. WEALTHY CHIMPANZEE EATS DINNER IN CLAYPOOL ATRIUM. Astonishes Fashionable Onlookers with His Perfect Table Manners and Human Department. By Betty Blythe. The dinner crowd in the Claypool Atrium was treated to a brand new sensation last evening. The people who dined between 6 and 7 o'clock dined with—a moneky—chimpanzee, if you prefer. Now, unless you happen to be in the $100,000 class, do not hastily declare that you would not dine with a monkey. For that's what Consul, the educated chimpanzee that is appearing at the Colonial Theater this week, is worth. He's insured for that amount, and the price is considered cheap at that. Consul is a money maker. Not many of those who ate their dinners at tables in Consul's vicinity last night would be able to command the salary that goes to Consul's owner every week. Probably a monkey that is worth $100,000 dead and a good deal more alive—that is, if he does not die too quickly—merits a place in a fashionable cafe with service by a highly competent waiter. Nothing seems to be too good for Consul. Twice has he dined at the table of the President of the French republic, and many times has he been an invited guest in other high places. Consul's culture is the result of Frank C. Bostock's highly specialized work. People of this city will recall the days when Bostock's Zoo was counted among the amusement places of this city, and with the recollection will come memories of the wonderfully trained animals exhibited there. Recalling all this, no one who knew Frank C. Bostock in his local days will wonder at the amazing things done by Consol. Consol is a gentleman chimpanzee. There were those who watched him at his dinner at the Claypool last night who remarked that there are human beings who do not display half such good table manners as Consul. In fact, it goes without saying that the little—animal, should one say?—must necessarily be well mannered, else fashionable hotels would not swing wide their doors to him. Last night Consul was a member of a dinner party which sat at a specially decorated table in the Atrium. Consul arrived in charge of his trainer and Ceil Owen, manager of the Colonial Theater. Mrs. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald and other guests were in the party. Consul and his trainer, with the latter's wife, came by automobile. Consul wore a cunning dress suit with all the accessories, and seemed to be deeply conscious of his good clothes. Divesting himself of his evening top coat and his diminutive silk hat, he stood patiently waiting until the men of the party disposed of their coats, then he gravely took the lead with Mr. Owen in the march to the dining room. A big crowd of passers-by, attracted by the novel sight of a monkey entering a fashionable cafe, followed the party into the cafe, some even venturing to the cafe, where they watched with amusement Consul take his place at a table, spread his napkin and gravelly turn his attention to a glass of wine. "To your very good health," said the trainer in French, and Consul, seeming to understand, lifted his glass positively, touched it to that of his trainer, and drank his health. There were pretty red cherries in the glass, and the crowd that quickly gathered around the table laughed gleefully as Consul picked up a silver spoon and ate the cherries, slowly, as good breeding required, but very evidently with a desire to hurry the process. Meanwhile he kept an eye on his neighbor's cherries. He passed the oysters, but accepted a helping of baked fish, which he ate daintily with his fork. Between courses Consul occupied himself with celery. When the time came for the serving of a huge planked tenderloin steak, Consul watched the movements of the waiters with deep attention. When the brightly garnished dish was placed in front of Host Owen, Consul electrified everybody within sight of the table by half rising in his chair and clapping his hands delightedly. He watched the carving process with interest, and smiled a monkey smile when his portion was served. Mincingly he nibbled at the French pastry and then nodded his head emphatically in the direction of the coffee not. On being served he lifted the cup and drank with satisfaction. Dinner finished, Consul lighted a cigarette and, leaning his elbow on the table, watched the rings of smoke curl upward, a reflective look upon his ugly face. "I think that is pathetic," remarked a member of a party at a nearby table. "Think of being the center of interest in this cafe to-night and not be able to appreciate it. Think of being hundreds of dollars a week and not enjoy spending a cent of it. Why, that monkey is worth more than any one of us here at the table," the man went on a started note in his voice. Well, perhaps Consul does not know that he is worth $100,000; perhaps he does not appreciate the fact that he is invited to dine with presidents of republics. But all the same he receives as much care as the only son of a multimillionaire. He is guarded—well, like a monkey that will be worth $100,000_dead and more alive would naturally be guarded. He rides in an automobile every time he leaves his hotel. He has the constant attendance of two people. He has the care that few human beings in this own receive, and—there is no need of enumerating further.—Daily Star of Indianapolis. DULUTH, MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. Richard Gordon became ill with pneumonia while visiting friends in St. Paul on New Year's. At this writing he is progressing nicely, and it is expected he will be able to return here at any early date...Miss Martha Steele gave a supper for the benefit of St. Mark's A. M. E. Church. The piece de resistance came from the inner regions of the hog, and was much relished by a very large number. Mrs. Steele was assisted by Mesdames Bishop and Dawson and Messie Horne and Chavis...Walter Whitehead, the lacol pugilist, was badly stabbed last Friday morning by Ralph Jones, in Ches O'Neal's Club, the direct result of a dice game. Whitehead is in S. Luke's Hospital with a much-punctured body and a good chance for recovery, while Jones is in jail thinking it over, charged with malicious assault. O'Neal paid $102.50 for permitting Mrs. Maud Hayes Shevlin, a charming widow from Aberdeen, S. D., is spending a few weeks in the city, the guest of Mrs. P. L. Gayton, of Duluth Heights. Mrs. Shevlin leaves soon for a visit with friends in the Windy City. She has been the guest of honor at a number of elite functions arranged by Mrs. Gayton and her friends during her stay here...Mrs. C. W. Batchman was granted a divorce decree from her woman, Charles W. Batchman, recently, being the new colored woman to receive such a decree in St. Louis county's new million-dollar court house. Mrs. Batchman was given the custody of their only child and the custody of their maiden name, Estella Greene. Miss Greene formerly lived in Omaha, Neb, where she bore an excellent reputation and was closely identified with church and social work. Since coming to Duluth her every act has commended her to the greatest respect of the community...Mrs. Laura Fairfax Colby and daughter Anna returned Sunday from Cleveland, where they have been spending a few weeks visiting relatives and friends...Dame Rumor reports two weddings recently. We will have to see Miss Wesley and Mr. McCullough for confirmation....The Freeman for sale at Alexander's restaurant, 22 West First street. The Interstate Club held its annual election and the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Jessie Williams; vice-president, Mrs. Elizabeth Porter; secretary, Mrs. J. D. Mobley; assistant secretary, Mrs. W. A. Porter; treasurer, Mrs. Cordella Johnson. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. George M. Brown and son returnd home Monday, after a visit of two weeks in Omaha, Neb., among relatives and friends. She was entertained by many of her former schoolmates of St. Joseph, Mo., and had more than a pleasant visit with relatives in Omaha. Through the kindness of Messrs. Brown and Parker, who headed the movement, and the assistance of his many friends, Thomas Dixon was given a Christian burial, at the expense of $53. Many beautiful flowers were donated. Too much credit cannot be given Mr. Herbert Parker for the interest he took in the affair. The Elks gave their installation and ball Tuesday, January 11, at Normania Hall, and a larger crowd of beautiful ladies has not been seen here in a long time. FARE BADLY. Negroes Traveling in the South Subjected to Much Inconvenience. Special to THE FREEMAN SPECIAL TO THE FREEMA DENISON, Tex.—The petition by the Negro teachers of Texas, through their association, for better accommodations brought to light the fact that the Texas Railroad Commission has no authority to compel or suggest a remedy for one of the most flagrant inconveniences to which Negroes who travel are subjected. This is the inconvenience of securing something to eat. At some stations where there are lunch counters, usually not more than two stools are placed behind a thick wooden partition, so no black man can pass through. No provision is made for our people to secure full meals at places where dining stations are operated. This forces Negroes, if they have sufficient time, to have to leave their trains and chase off looking for some Negro restaurant, where usually a poor meal is served at an extortionate price. In justice to some of the dining stations it may be said some of them permit Negroes to come in the back door and eat in the "kitchen." This is certainly an accommodation when one considers the humiliation of wanting his wife to eat a meal and ease in through a dirty kitchen to get it. CLARKSVILLE. TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN. The League was addressed at the Odd Fellows' Hall on Franklin street, by Senator Dancey Fort on the subject "Progress of the Negro Race,"...Dabney's orchestra rendered a fine musical program at WANTED! For Luna Park, Atlanta, Ga., good colored vaudeville performers at all times, ladies and gentlemen. Good salaries. Booze fighters save stamps—don't write. R. V. Cross, Stage Manager; P. A. Thomas, General Manager. Pekin Theatre Is the only First Class Colored Vaudeville House in Savannah, Ga. Its success since its recent opening is due to its first class performers and the excellent appointments of the house. We want at once artists who have the ability to sustain the reputation we have won. The right class of performers, upon writing concisely at once, will be booked. All acts must have orchestrations Write W. J. STILES, Owner and Mgr. Pekin Theatre, West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga. Seating capacity 1,200. Can stage a production with 100 people. Will open the latter part of January. Now booking nothing but first class artists for vaudeville. House open to Comedy companies and other productions. The only First Class Theatre for colored people in Jacksonville. Want at once nothing but artists and companies of repute. Write at once, FRANK CROWD, MANAGER, 615 West Ashley St., Jacksonville, Fla. COLORED PERFORMERS LOOK! Wanted, all kinds of colored talent for the Dixie Circuit; 30 to 40 weeks work. Two shows a day. Easy jumps. Get in line, book your act over the real Colored Circuit at once. Can use 30 good single girls at once for the various theaters, but you must be good, real singers or real dancers. Preference given to strong sister teams and girls that can sing and dance both. Wardrobe must be up-to-date. Managers get in line with me also. Will advance tickets anywhere if your act is good. Address Jno. B. Cullen, Theatre Pickwick, Mobile, Ala. the Masonic Auditorium Tuesday evening. It was well attended and highly enjoyed by all present...Mrs. Emily Grady died January 11, at her home on Commerce street. Funeral services at Zion by the pastor, Rev. Irvin. TAFT HELPS COLORED SCHOOL. Sends Check of $100 for Girls' Dormi- tory at Wilberforce University. XENIA, O., January 14.—President Taft has sent a check for $100 to President Scarborough, of Wilberforce University, to be applied to the fund for a girl's dormitory. Andrew Carnegie has signified his intention of donating $17,500 to the fund when a similar amount has been raised. NORD ALEXIS MAY VISIT HAYTI. Deposed Chief Is Invited to Visit Native Land. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Jan. 12.—President Simon, to whom the government officials and people paid their respects to-day on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of Hayti, announced that he would authorize the return to Hayti of Gen. Nord Alexis, the former President. In making this announcement Gen. Simon said that as Nord Alexis had been chief of the state he merited the respect of all his fellow citizens. This generosity on the part of President Simon is unique in the history of Hayti. Gen. Nord Alexis, who was deposed from the presidency December 2, 1908, is at present living at Kingston, Jamaica. NEW RUPTURE CURE PETER H. BURKE Brooks' Appliance. New discovery Wonderful. No old one. Automatic Air Cushions Binds and draws the brook limb. Would a broken limb. No salves. No lymphol. 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A reliable man of long experience wants posits in the production of formal producer and musician. Can furnish part of stock company or take financial inter-力 Director 188 Sixth Street, Milwaukee, Wis. In the Field of Sport. Winter pennants are the only kind some ball clubs have a chance to win. And still a lot of foolhardy novices are willing to risk their lives with Sam Langford. What a spanking those Cuban players will receive when we get them in our own ball yard½ That knockouts and beatings in the ring do not hurt is proved conclusively when Hugo Kelly again agrees to fight Ketchel. Sam Langford was the guest of honor at a banquet that drew the color line so strong that they did not even have white wallers. Again demonstrating that there is an owl to almost everything earthly Jim Jeffries is getting down to lower case headlines. It is pretty hard when a fighter of the culture of Fitzsimmons is forced to take position of trainer for a small-bore like Ketchel. Almost all of the major league clubs carry a lot of players fans never hear of except when minor league clubs try to get them before the season starts. Nelson has announced that he has quit the stage for a long time and it will be longer than that if some of the lightweight championship aspirants have their TO JACK JOHNSON. By Milton Pope Fuller, Vancouver, B. C. You glad to know 'twas thus ordained by fate That Ethiopia's son should have the name: The World's Champion" at the boxing game— Jack Johnson, pugilism's master great! The man is a fool who don't enjoy thy Wheroin do lie the honor and the fame Of earth. Thou, with thy gentle (?) toilch, must tame All pugilistic lions who roar with hate. Now rest assured the race is proud of three. All roars praise their heroes great and grand. Therefore, is there a reason why that we Praise thee; such doth race pride demand— We praise thee now before thy "fleeting breath" Doth have its house of clay because of Death. SPARKS FROM THE DIAMOND. Big Chief "Rube" Foster left Chicago Monday with his band of warriors and will invade the everglades of Florida. "Rube" save in his eighteen game sires for the winter championship he will try to bring home the bacon on his way to the hides at least. Foster is a carrying along a bunch of basketball athletes of whom great things are expected; that is, if the famous Florida sun baths have the desired affect. Pete Hill the great on Cuba and from Cuba, is looking good, but has a severe attach Charley-horse. The old swatter has been working his nimble props overtime, and they are sadly in need of a rest, which no doubt Hill will agree to. The guardians of the former Loland Giants are now carrying underinfections, Green, Winstul and Hill. The other star out gardner, Payne, received a wallop on the "coco" while at work this winter. However, it will heal up in time for the season, and the famous high-dive catches, "Bouw-run" Johnson, "Old Hoss" Buckner and others write that the wj meet Big Chief "Rube" and smiling "Chaffe" Johnson face to face in Florida. Unfortunately these gladiators are western peoples, so there is no need for a ranger to argue. Pittsburgh is a western city in the big leagues and quit a number of our star players come from there and vicinity surrounding it. A few of the most prominent players in the league are Walker, Ed. Wilson, Bowmans (b) Bi: EAST Liverpool, O., "Doc" Howard (pitcher); Bellaim, O., Sol White, Chaffin" Johnson; Findly, O., "Home-Ham" Johnson; Pomeroy, O., Nathan Ham (catcher); St. Marys, O., Jim Schens (pitcher); Dayton, O., Wm. Shoon, Lyons (pitchers); Cincinnati, O. Chas. Grant, Bob Foots, Williams Jones; Nelson-O., Dave Wyatt; Pittsburg, Glicker-O., Malone; Washington, Harris-Barrisburg, Pa., "Waxin" Williams, Jordon, Ray Wilson, Indiana, "Pat"ougharty, Shawler, Prinn, Hutchinson; Illinois, Wm. Holland, Smithe, Green, Tony; Johnson; Michigan, George Wilson, Inga, Malone, Washington, Harry, Patterson, Pate, Minnesota, Ball, Marshall, Williams; Wisconsin, Matthews (pitcher); Nebraska, Patterson, Talbert, "Cannon-Bill" Miller; Kansas, Bert Jones, Richardson (decaused), Wakefield, Normans (2) Dale, New Mexico, Wm. Pete, Texas; Tubee, Foster, Gatewood, Campbell, "Culcee Joe"; Arkansas, Jillian Warn, Cabble Milliner; Missouri, McMurry, Green (catchers); Missouri, Buckner, Maryland, Huntley, ways (2), Hyatt, "Big", Smith, Leland, King, Jing, Toggles, (in big leagues), Campbell, Joyner, Alabama, "Steel Arm" John Taylor, Taylor, Mon Kings: Georgia, Lyod; Virginia, Booker. Wright, Hill, Payne, Robinson; New Jersey, Bob Jackson, Andy Jackson; New York, Nelson, Frank Grant, Bud Fowler, Massachusetts, Seldan, Earl (professor). In the spring of 1995 the Page Fence Plants made a good showing against the Cincinnati (Ohio) Reds. National League club, "Common Ball" Miller pitching, Johnson ss, Fowler 2d lb, Malone 3d lb. In this game Brooks, a Michigan boy, who afterwards dropped dead upon the field, had eight put outs. When Jack Johnson resorts to getting arrested it is almost a sure sign the boxing receipts are not satisfactory. Mr. Leland has about completed his work on the history of Negro base ball. We are anxiously waiting its appearance. John Patterson is now a policeman at Battle Creek, Mich. Ball players of his home are as scarce as hen teeth these days. Bob Foots, the catcher whose strong arm has prevented many a base runner from making the circuit of the bases, is now studying cross circuits on the elevated road in Brooklyn. "IT" Dougherty, the twirter who had the Cubs standing on their heads last will exhibit his powers in Florida. The seed that this lad can turn loose the Eastern boys anatomy will make the Eastern boys forget Mendley. * * * * * Will the Eastern contingents of base ball please remove the lid and let out some choice base ball dope. We have no handicaped for years through lack of was paper THE FUERSMAN is open and willing to publish your doings. * * * * * "Jack" Johnson says he put Kansas Cubs on the base ball man, and if he refuses, the writer will eliminate it from the map. The writer was worth enough to book you up solid for a mouth in chil- icago, all choice dates so let me have something to boost you on. We have forgotten your experience with the Cubans and have the Lelands and Philadelphia Giants. * * * * * Horace Jinkins, a young lad of 17 BY C. DANA MARSHALL. years, pitched a no hit, no run game his first year in the semi-pros, the performance occurred while pitching for the Illinois Glants. The opposing pitcher fanned thirteen batters. No hit, no run games have been pitched by "Rube" Foster, Walter Ball, Bill Horn, Dan McClard, John Davis, and Matthews, pitching for the Lehigh Giants. Went sixteen innings against Pfeffer, National League twirler, with score standing 0 to 0. --- It is regretted that Ed Lamar, Jr., who pilloted the Cubans last year, is always getting frozen out. Lamar is one of the most loyal, honest and democratic white men that ever dealt with our race. Ninety-nine per cent of the players in the game now (and out) owe much of their success to him and his loyalty. Mr. Lamar is wise and well-educated, and full aware that players return ingratiate for kindness. "Rube" Foster can speak volumes along that line since being a manager. A former manager of base ball who should not be forgotten is Wm. Brown, formerly of Rushville, Ind. He was manager of the Leland Giants for three years and then Brown was the best handler of base ball players I have seen yet. He was a strict disciplinarian and commanded the respect of all players, and his knowledge of the traits of different individuals went a long way. He was the only manager who same was turned into benefits for the player or players. Mr. Brown dug up some great base ball material, namely: Gatewood, Petway brothers, Primm, Bain and Bain brothers. He was the only manager who could handle a half dozen of players who were considered the worst lot in the business, as far as discipline goes. He succeeded in developing them into stars, and record of forty-six straight games he was manager will probably never be equaled. KETCHEL MAY MEET BURNS. If Match is Made Fitzsimmons Will Train Stanley. Special to The Freeman. MELLOURNE, January 13.—Stanley Ketchel has sent a cable message to Hugh Mchtosh, the fight promoter, that he is willing to meet Tommy Burns in town to meet Bob Fitzsimons in Hilda made, and the fight take place in Sydney about Easter. Bob Fitzsimons will train Ketchel. JOHNSON ARRESTED AGAIN. Champion Taken in Bed for Violating Automobile Laws. Special to THE FREEMAN. BOSTON, January 13—Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, who is appearing here at a local theater, was arrested yesterday morning. He was in bed when the officers, with a warrant, went to the hotel and asked for him. There are three charges of violation of the automobiles license, speeding, not being licensed and operating an unregistered automobile. The complaints date back to the last time the pugilist was in Boston, last summer. NELSON SAYS JEFFRIES CAN NOT LAST WITH JOHNSON. Special to THE FREEMAN CHICAGO, January 12 -- Battling Nelson today picked Jack Johnson as the winner of the Johnson-Jeffries go. "Fighters never come back," said Bat. He talked with reluctance because he had been the referee in big fight. "I won't believe that the Negro is not game till I see him lie down," he continued, "and he appears to be a certain winner." "Jeffries has fought four rounds in six years, and he hasn't led a Sunday school teacher's life. I don't see how he will NO CHAMPIONS IN SOUTH. Woodman Says Southern Black Race is Out of Running. Special to THE FREEMAN. J. MEMPHIS, January 10.—According to J. A. Woodman, a Boston pugilistic promoter, he has just made a startling discovery: he has surpassed much money. Woodman, who has managed Sam Langford for seven years, says that more money than any one dreamed of has been spent by northern white men and southeners, two searchers and a few others. The focus of the Mason and Dixon line for an African giant of Jack Johnson' caliber; one that can stand the "gaff, administer punishment and incidentally furnish the men of the Mason and Dixon line." But Woodman's discovery shows that such explorations in the southern states are hopeless. This is his first trip south, has seen several of his peers, has sold this there are millions more in the black belt adjacent to Memphis where Ethiopians in some counties outnumber the Caucasian race ten to one but Woodman says he has seen enough of them to pugilistic powers are concerned the black race south is out of the running. PILE OF JOHNSON MONEY. Manager Little Will Wager $20,000 at Ringside Odds. Special to THE FREEMAN: NEW YORK, January 10—George Little, manager of Jack Johnson, made a proposition today which may result in action. Little, who is in New York, has $250,000 bet at ringside odds on the Jeffries-Johnson fight. “There is nothing detrimental to the fighting business to be gained by the Jenkins,” we are as confident as ever of victory, but why should we tie up thousands of dollars at even money, when we are sure that better figures can be obtained $4. Any man who has the Jeffries end of the fight can insist on a forfeit. Ringside odds is the basis of all betting in this fight. Naturally I hope that Jeffries is a 4 to 1 to larger faction. “Johnson is a fighter who can fight: Jeffries thinks he can do the same stunts, but he is like a boy who threatens his father. And Johnson is no grandpa of Jeffries, and has always fought under the handicap of color.” CUBAN TEAM MAY PLAY AT WASHINGTON PARK. Exhibitions Games With Foreigners Probable. Indianapolis base ball fans will next summer probably get an opportunity to see the famous Cuban base ball players who made such a good record at home during the prowess of the An invasion of the United States is being planned for the crack Cuban team, and if the proposed program is carried out the representatives of the bustling little city of Indianapolis of the United States. Indianapolis will get several of these contests as it is believed the Cubans would be a strong attraction in this city as a result of the games the Indians played in Cuba. Manager Carr's Indianapolis team is the only aggregation of Americans that did as well as to break even in Cuba, notwithstanding that the Detroit team and an Indianapolis team lost over there. The Indians lost six and won eight games in Cuba, and were extremely popular. If the Cubans come THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER and why? For the sole purpose of making you organize. The Cuban league has drawn the color line and we cannot do without it. We have clusters of towns in all parts of the country are forming into leagues, they do not want us and can not use us, why? Because we are a lot of homeless base ball man, we are a lot of homeless base ball man is he who wants such company? Jeffries told Johnson six years ago to get out and get something, get a reputation, and travel thousands of miles, say yes, and traveled thousands of miles, all kinds of hardships for the purpose. His reward for such an amount of diligence is well known. He was soon recognized as king of all fighters, which led to a demand to line up to demand that "Jeff" come from a six year's lay off and carry the white man's burden. Now let's pursue the same course, in case ball that Johnson will criticize and in out doings will demand recognition. How many will volunteer to stand a part of the colored man's burdens in base ball? We all forgive our magnates for mistakes, past, but we force our magnates now to walk along business lines in the way of sensible investment of capital, and your holdings should be something other than uniforms and paper for contracts, etc. because we want to think of our condition in the greatest base ball city, in the whole world. There are two big league parks and about thirty semi-pro parks, also unlimited amount of space for amateur contests. This is the headquarters, having sixteen teams, of the dozen minor league clubs. Negro base ball (playing) has reached the highest point of development here, as we have about six good semi-pro colored teams. There is not a colored club in the city who owns a park, and not one who has a bon-fide lease on a park, still twelve years ago the only park of any note was issued and controlled by some of a great colored team. A score or more have been erected since, but we find our promoters content and satisfied at borrowing the use of one of our parks, and some of a great years since we were placed in a position that made us able to originate ideas, and have things of our own, but some are inclined to believe that it does not apply to the base ball advantage of opportunity and waken up to the realization that we have had free access to the great national game for a period of thirty years or more, and we have been able to use the base ball for away from the fagend of our great race progress. A league could be formed right in the State of Virginia, one in Texas, and numerous other localities are now ripe for inter-State leagues. A compact circuit could be formed over the state. Louisville, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. An itinerary of 1,000 miles will take you over the circuit. Grounds of our own could be secured in these cities. Much of the distance is covered by trolley lines, thereby lessening the cost of travel, which the main consideration in forming a league. The Negro population in each city would assure them a high rating as to class in organized base ball. The largest jumps are between the cities of St. Louis and Indianapolis and St. Louis. A schedule to run from April 15 to October would be a nice starter. In order to prevent staleness of a long schedule of games with the same team, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, would be the right way, with about sixty games left for the other parts of the week to be played at home and abroad. Games should be aside from league games, and in no way connected, only through club owners and players, and such games could be played on a profit plan or on a salary plan. The salary of players quite high, as seventy-two league games would not allow much in that respect. The territory adjacent to this circuit is the best in the country for exhibition contests, both at home and abroad, and games could be booked for all clubs. The agency having THIS GENERAL is a supervisor, which would insure safety to all concerned and lend much business significance to the plan. The two plans worked together would mean success, as clubs in all those cities did well last season, playing any kind of game. A rough estimation on low attendance figures would bring good results. An attendance of 42,200 for seventy-two games would average about 600 per game, or 1,800 for a series of 10 games. The league would realize $1,200 at 10 per cent; the home clubs, $6,480; the visiting clubs, $4,230, and 40. The expenses of a club at traveling, salaries, balls and expenses for running a business would be $4,740, the average of a margin of $2,000 or more to the good, and when privileges, score cards, fences ads, and the admissions above 25 cents, are considered it should run to $3,000 or more, not counting exhibition games, and $250 as a guarantee of good faith, and a guarantee of $50 per game, or $150 for a series, would be about right. Think it over! SAYS MOST OF STARS COME FROM WEST. West Furnishes the East With Best Ball Players. Mr. Editor. Sir—It is not my intention to use the valuable space in your paper in fruitless arguments, on the contrary. I thought it would be better to to the best colored paper in the country, and its many readers, in writing something, from time to time, concerning our boys of color who are in the great national game. In selecting the team I bought, I thought it would not of the opinion that it would cause hard feeling with anyone, and I had no intention of slighting any particular section of the country. I must consider every possible feature that may arise to confront the player, also his temperament, and not let personal like or dislike swear words be used, or impair to the East, as I have named several of their stars on the team. I have ten or twelve years of hard knocks and practical experience on the diamond to back them, and I must consider to judge the ability of a ball player, and in doing so I wish to state that his performance in any single game causes me to place him before or after any one else, and I must consider the objection that the East was far ahead of the West in all sports, especially base ball, but the fact is pretty well established that the West has furnished most of the records will back this statement. Mr. David Wyatt and myself have chosen to make this a life study, and while we were in the game studied it we were in the game closely, and we were in the game closely, any changes adopted by the big leagues, comment upon the same and exchange ideas, and our advice has been sought after by successful managers time and age. Losing. I will say that it is our policy never to defend on heresy, for our articles, our statements, are backed by records which we know are authentic, as we were in the game, the same, both voices and spectators. These men who were considered the stars on the Eastern teams are all graduates from the Western teams, therefore are hailed as Western players. Selwyn Gould, Grant Harry Buckner, Harry Moore, Nathan Harris, John Patterson, William Binga, William Horn, George (Rat) Johnson, Walter Bull, Andrew (Rube) Foster, Walter Barton, and several others. In my judgment, the two best exponents of first base, playing when they were in their crime, were Bay Wilson, of the Page Force and Leland Giants. They were in a class by themselves, Wilson slightly in the lead. I thank von for the use of your valuable space, and remain as ever. to this city they probably will play both the Indians and the strongest of the Indianapolis semi-professional teams. Chicago promoters are anxious to book the Cubans for a long list of games. The men wanted for the trip here include: Mendez, Pedroso and Munoz, pitchers; Mendez, Paciencia, Paciencia, first base; Buster, shortstop; Moran, third base; Hernandez, Marsans and Magrinat, outfielders. JOHNSON'S FRIENDS WILL BET. Special to THE FREEMAN: New York, Jan. 14.—pool of $10,000 has been raised by the success in New York City to wager on Jack Johnson in the championship boxing contest next July. LANGFORD EASY WINNER. Dixie Kid Proves to Be No Match for Boston Negro. Special to The Freeman: sons. JAMES FORMAN, 11—Southern fights fans had little opportunity to see Sam Langford in action last night at the Phoenix Club, on account of the case of stage fright manifested by his opponent, the Dixie Kid, at the start, but during the brief space of time Langford exhibited he created a sensation by his tremen- SAM LANGFORD dous punching powers, which were dealt to Dixie in such rapid fashion that he was counted out shortly after the start of the third round. Previous to that Dixie had consumed half of the time in taking the count. TIME NOW RIPE FOR FORMATION OF A COLORED LEAGUE. By David Wyatt. The time is about upon us when the organization of a colored league will be necessary. The experience of the famous Leland Giants, after winning a penant in a mixed league, should serve as an eyeopener; another convincing argument is the fact that the league is perforcing in getting satisfactory terms for their clients. The time was when you could book from week end to another, and for months in advance, practically making your own terms, but not so now. Managers in all "burgs," no matter how small, are wise to all the tricks of the trade, so when you do get booked, you must be the anxious until a final settlement for fear something will be put on over you. The field of work for traveling or homeless clubs is diminishing, and with alarming rapidity. The reason is that all towns with a population worth contending for a travel club so heavily playing regular schedules, thereby cutting off a traveling club's source of revenue and narrowing the field of operation. In fact, league base ball has taken such an impetus in the last six years that it is next in line for a major way of profit through a traveling club. The Cuban stars might be used as good example. It was a low-salary aggregation, and they were the best drawing card in the States in the semi-pro field—they were in demand at all times, the high price and guarantees at all times, still when they arrived here the business was in a state of statehood. Mr. Lamar stated that after playing one town it was so far to another. which they could get a game that he was playing. He played to $2,000 worth of business here in twenty days, but a few weeks later were forced to leave on account of expenses over-running receipts. They were forced to jump several hundred miles without a game as did the Philadelphia team. The games that hurt, which is due to league ball, A few things we must consider are these: Every race playing base ball is organizing and trying to connect with the teams with the teams as as organized, draw the color line. Chicago, Jan. 2, 1910. Chicago, Ill. JAS. H. SMITH. 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Miss Hannett Ellis and Miss Flora Dale will meet on Miss Malinda Shirley last Sunday evening at her residence, 420 Rankin street. The Phoenix Club will dance January 26 at Odd Fellows' Hall. Gus Hutchinson, president; Robert Merton, secretary, and Homer Bennett, treasurer. Madam Harper is giving spiritual meetings every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning from 1 to 10 p. m. 635 East Miami street. The Marton County Union will meet Sunday, Jan. 23, at South Calvary Church. All missionaries are expected to be highly represented. Meeting starts promptly at 2 p. m. Mr. Onis Williams, an old Indianapolis boy, has been making Cleveland home for several years, has purchased the business of Mr. G. H. Taylor at 311 and 323 Indiana avenue. The funeral of Charles L. Smith was held at Willis' Chapel Thursday afternoon, under the auspices of Central Lodge No. I, F. and A. M. Mr. Smith had been several months. on surviving relatives. Charles Brown, of Herrick, O.; J. R. McDoland, Duquinol, Il.; L. W. Scott, Lexington, Mo.; William Foster, Kensee, Ky.; James Robertson, Richmond, Mo., and Arthur Jefferson, of Mt. Wash, Ky., this week attending the Miners' convention. ATHLETIC CLUB TO GIVE SMOKER The Indianapolis Colored Athletic Club will give a smoker at their training quarters, 214½ Indiana avenue, Tuesday evening, January 25. UNION TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. The revival is still in progress at the University of Wisconsin, W. R, Wilson, D. D, of Cleveland, Ohio, is preaching. He will preach a special service on Friday. There were two copyvariations last Sunday. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Preaching at 10:45 a. m. by the pastor. Class at 12:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 1 Preaching at 8 p. m. by Rev. T. E. Willson. of C. M. E. Church. A. C. E. at 7:30 p. m. Revival services all next week. All are colleagues in these meeting. Geo. Sampon pastor. DEATH OF HENRY SWEETLAND. Henry Sweetland, who lived at 408 West Fourteenth street, one of the oldest colored residents and transfer men in the city, was born in Sacramento, where he underwent an operation Tuesday for blood poisoning. Mr. Sweetland was born in Lexington, Ky., 66 years ago. He had been a resident of this city for 40 years. This time he spent as a transfer man, and was "The Best at the Price— No matter what the Price." MAROTT DEPARTMENT STORE COMPANY, 342 to 358 Mass. Ave. GROCERY SPECIALS Saturday Sale Strictly pure lard, Saturday, a 5 lb. pails 79c, or 3 pound pails 48c Chinese ball blue, Sat. special large 10c box for... 5c Standard sugar corn and E. J. peas, special for Saturday, 15c 2 cans for. Dandy butterine, high grade, Saturday a one pound print 20c for. Fancy nutmegs, special for Saturday, 3 dozen for 10c, or a dozen. 4c "Rat-Mum," for rats, mice and roaches, a full size cake 15c for. You save money when you save Mar- ott's Trading Stamps. Always ask the clerk for stamps. well known. About twenty years ago Mr. Sweetland was active in city politics, and he was a member of the Knights of Pythias. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Ellen Sweetland, and a grandson, Henry Brooks. The future president of the club is the o'clock at Simpson Chapel under the auspices of Lincoln Union Lodge of Odd Fellows and Pride of the West Lodge and the Knights of Pythias. A PIPE ORGAN AND PIANO RECITAL. Miss Virginia Fleming, a young woman of rare musical ability and a member of the Blind, will be heard in a Pipe Organ and Piano recital at Jones Tabernacle Tuesday evening, Feb. 1, under the auctioneer Circle of the Second Christian Church. M. E. CHURCH. Simpson Chapel Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Epworth league from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Prairie School from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Class Meetings tuesday at 8 p. m. Trustees meeting the first Monday in the month. 'Leaders and Stewards meetings the third Monday in the month. Choir rehearsal on Monday in the month. m. u. welcome. J. S. Bailley, Pastor. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. Be your own boss. Practically no cap- tion. Be your own boss. Office business at home spare time. No canvassing. Particulars 25 cents silver. Batchman & Co, 305 Elm St, Danyil FREE A sample of Macassar Cream, haven't tried it for liver spots, complexion, eruptions on the face, skin bleach, send for a sample. It works better than the other two. see. Regular size, 50 cents. wanted. Reed & Co, Lincoln, Ill. WILL HOLD GRADUATING EX ERCISES. On Friday, January 28, at 9 o'clock am, the first graduating exercises in No. 10 held at the above named building. The graduating exercises will be somewhat more difficult during the first part of the program. At 11 o'clock the pupils will assemble in the hall of the building and receive their diplomas. All patrons and friends are in attendance. JONES TABERNACLE A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Rev. J. H. Callis. Pastor. The next Quarterly Conference will be the following meeting will be hid on the following day. A beautiful drama entitled "Pepta's Daughter" will be given under the auspices of the Ladies' Social Club, Tuesday, Jan. 25. The Social Club will hold its regular meeting with Mrs. Wilber Cochran, 909 Camp street, Thursday, Jan. 27. The pastor's subject Sunday morning at 10:45 will be "Persecuted for Right-leaning" for the evening service (Dobbing Glo). Y. M. C. A. NOTES. "The Larger Vision" will be the subject of a strong and forceful address to be delivered on Sunday, Jan. 23, before the North and Blackford school at North and North Blackford school, by Mr. Brettram C. Day. This is the third appearance of Mr. Day before the Colored Association. Last year he attended the Y. S. Giles Club and won their interest and hearty approval. A large crowd will be up to hear him on Sunday. The doors will be open at 3 p. m. The Colored Y. M. C. A. Orphanage will be open at the Y. S. Giles Club will render a thirty-minute program. Every man is invited to come. Men only. Keep disengaged for the "Douglas Memorial," which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 23, at the Y. S. Giles secretary, Thomas E. Taylor, desires that all secretaries of the various organizations and societies would send in the name of their organization and societies, and address so that he may send invitations to YOU OUGHT TO SEE IT AND KNOW WHAT IS IN IT. The greatest magazine published in the whole world is published by a Negro at S. A. It costs $2.50 per annum; single copies 25 cents each. Sold only by specifying agents, who make the $2.50, $1.00 or $1.00, selling them. Agent's fee is $1.00. No intelligent man or woman of Negro blood need be idle or go hungry to work. Everybody wants it. It sells at sight. Address T. T. L. O. L., Magazine Editor, T. T. L. Street, Boston, Mass. S. A. It says, it now. It treats on hidden facts and lost things. It brings hidden things and lost people to light and reveals secrets that the world has never known. Pr. It fifty dollars reward will be given to the one who can find a magazine that equals it, or as great a proposition offered as it sets before the race, as is offered now the race, through. Every member of the race should buy it and be sure to read it through; in fact, it contains the only sure and possible plan to win the race. It will supply the present, and future needs of all the worthy members of the whole Negro race in America. It will give you the full information of all this great intelligence in print, in it, at the small cost of only 25 cents. My neighbor, do not delay; to do your best, you can give your child while it is nigh you, even at your door. The information found in it, in each copy of it, is worth more than $50 to any trustworthy Negro in America, who needs teaching or help of any kind. Why not see it? E. O. ANDERSON. Special Agent. Is delivered by Bishop M. M. Jones, assistant S.—No sample copies given away. They are valuable. PARIS, KY. More than 30% were guests at the banquet and witnessed the very impressive installation ceremonies administered to the 1910 officers of Phoenix Lodge No. 7, I. B. P. O. E. W., by the Grand Deputy of Kentucky, William R. Freeman, at the U. B. F. Hall, Monday evening, January 3, 910, from 9 to 12 p.m. The three floorங்களic classmates reported with stage bunting and Elk colors galore. Sove's orchestra appeared the patience with joyous strains. The Exalted Ruler, George Robinson, appointed R. D. Grant master of ceremonies, and at his instance three timely addresses were delivered by Dr. James H. Sebree, Dr. G. R. Bryant and Mr. Jessie Howe. This was the first time that Mr. Elk's ever-accepted to prove that they were not her mits by admitting ladies of see and feel their horns around their festive board. This frequently said by members that they will never regret it. Officers installed were: George Robinson, E. R.; Charlton Garrard, E. S. K.; Thompson Parker, E. S. K.; R. D. Grant, E. S. K.; Peter Moore, Treasurer; Thomas Hurley, Secretary; Samuel Martyn, Reaper; Joseph Sove, Innoel Guard, Benjamin Taylor, Tyler, William R. Freeman, G. D. of Ky. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. Joseph L. Dangerfield, a pioneer citizen of Atlantic City, died Tuesday, January 4. The deceased came to this city and the city's library and the ducted a barber shop at Indiana and Atlantic avenues which is known now as the Brunswick Buffet. Mr. Dangerfield was named a member of the National Guard and his death was a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. The funeral was held Saturday, the 8th, and the procession was held Sunday. Puthi and their held music, will long be remembered by the relatives and many friends....The Citizens' Protective Association, the largest and strongest political organization in their field, will its first meeting in the new year Friday THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. DES MOINES, IA. Special to THE FREEMAN The funeral of the late Charles Ray took place at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Sunday, at 1:30 p. m., under the auspices of the Hawkeye Lodge No. 160, I. B. P. O. E. and the many friends of Mr. Fred Jackson were pained to hear of his death, which occurred at the Clarinda Hospital on Tuesday morning, January 4. The remains were brought home and the many friends of Mr. Fred Jackson were held at St. Paul's A. M. E. They were in charge of the Masonic Lodge No. 2. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Bessie Taylor and Mr. James Berry, her friends. The many friends of Mr. Henry Murray were shocked to hear of the very serious accident that happened to him in the mines last week. He was seized and taken to the hospital, broken. Mr. Charles Shill is reported as much improved, which is very good news to his many friends. Mrs. Clara Fleming, who had the misfortune to fall down a steep hill, was taken to the hospital weeks ago, is yet in a very serious condition. The ball and banquet given by the I. B. P. O. E. W., Hawkeye Lodge No. 160, was a grand success so formally and financially. The Ninth street, is reported critically ill at this writing. Mrs. Patton, who resides on East Second street, has been very ill. He is improving slowly. Mrs. Ethel Kielman, a friend of Mr. Patton in New York, where they will be at home to their friends after February 1. WILMOT. ARK. Special to THE FREEMAN Sr. Mrs. Mattie Bankston entertained a few ladies at a New Year's dinner given in honor of William Bankston, Jr., who was eight years old January 1....Mr. and Mrs. Mattie Bankston, and Mrs. and Mrs. mott, visiting friends, Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Watkins spent the holidays at Jones, La., visiting Mr. Polk Polk Hunter is the wealthiest Negro in this section of the country. He owns and keeps one of the best farms in Morehouse parish. He founded and supports Hunter's farm. He owns and supports boys and girls....Mr. J. B. Gabe, a prosperous farmer of Ashley county, loves the G. O. P. and always keeps up with the G. O. P. and always keeps up with the Frankes, a teacher in the Wilmot graded schools, spent the holidays in Little Rock. Miss Frankes will enter Fiske University in the fall. There are many groves of Wilmot are arousing to duty. They are patronizing the Negro physician as never before. Dr. C. H. Watkins is the professor at Nashville and Howard at Negro University everywhere are realizing that the Negro physician is as competent to practice medicine as those of any other race. Mehary at Nashville and Howard at Negro University are realizing that the best in the State. These gentlemen are the highest type of the Southern white man. We appreciate them....Let every home read THE FREEMAN. Leave your subscription at the office of Dr. C. H. Watkins. BACK AGAIN. Mr. Tom Garcia, who sold his place of business some time ago, has repurchased it, and will be pleased to meet all of his old and new friends at 331 Indiana avenue, A. B. TOM GARCIA. He has secured the services of a Chinese and a Mexican cook, and will be prepared to serve in special dishes all Chinese and Mexican orders. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss: Court of Marion County, of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 14844. Wilmington Bottles for hygiene Bellew. Consultant to forge himalera serus. Be it known, that on the 30th day of October, 1909, the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, filed in the office of the Court of the State of Indiana, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant, Hiram Bellew, and the said plaintiff having been accused of torture of certain mortal davit of a competent person, showing that said defendant, Hiram Bellew, is not a resident of the State of nidiana, and above action for torture of certain mortal davit of a competent person, Marion County, Indiana, as described in complaint, and said defendant is a necessary party thereto, and whereas said plaintiff required said defendant to appear in said Court, and answer or demur thereto on the 15th day of March, 1910. Hiram Bellew, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and ependency of said complaint against him and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto at a said case on the day of March, 1910, the same being the 8th judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the State of Indiana, on the 8th day of March, 1910, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his LEONARD M. QUILL. Clerk. Duval Bowers for Plaintiff. 408-412 Law Building BUSINESS LOCALS. Woodbine Pertume. Oh how fragrant, wetting. Only at Blaud's Drug Store. Only at Blaud's Drug Store. THE GRAND LEADER 336-338-340 EAST WASHINGTON ST. January Sale of Cloaks, Suits, Skirts, Furs, Blankets, Com- forts, Under- wear, Corsets, Etc., Etc. CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 60 cts (stamps) has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Bloadau, druggest. Indianapolis, Ind. MARRY. We introduce refine and cultured colored ladies and gentlemen. Some wealthy. Send 3c stamp for circular. L. R. BENNETT, R. No. 36 Peoria, Il. Take Notice! Our Semi-Annual Trouser Sale is on. We have purchased over fifteen hundred Mill Ends to be made into Trousers to your order, at All worth fully double the price named. No connection with any other house. The Deutsch Tailoring Co. 113 S. Illinois Street. HAVE you taken an inventory of your assets this month and how much does it show you gained during 1909? Not a great deal. Perhaps there was some defect in your system. Let us suggest a savings account with this STRONG COMPANY for this year. By making it your duty each week or month to add something to it, the year 1910 will prove very satisfactory to you. Today is the time to begin. One million dollars capital, every dollar paid in, and five hundred thousand surplus — every cent earned, is pledged to you to make good our promise. THE INDIANA TRUST CO.. (A Home for Savings.) Once Tried, Always Used. Ride of the BARROOM (Trade Mark Brandname) For Scoring, Cleaning and Polishing BAR FIXTURES, DRAIN-BOARDS, AND ALL Tin, Zinc, Brass, Copper, Nickel, and all Kitchen and Plated Utensils, Glass, Wood, Marble, Porcelain, Etc. THE HARVEY CHEMICAL CO. Office and Factory, No. 11 Sb St., LAPETTE, IND. It Makes Copper Like Gold. CHICAGO OFFICE 95 Washington St Phone. Randolph. 1750. Kuykendall & Huffman, dentists, 359½ Indiana avenue. Expert crown, plate and bridge work. New phone 5047. WANTED—An organizer for the Afro-American Order of Owls. For particulars write G. W. Bland, Oliver Hotel, South Bend, Ind. Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything ordered by phone will be selected as carefully as If you called in person. No extra charges. Gauld's Pharmacy. New 1178; Old, Main 4032. GEO E. KEITH COMPANY TRADE MARK REG U.S. PAT OGE Hutchinson's WALK OVER BOOT SHOP 28 North Pennsylvania Street for Insomnia—There are no restless and sleepless nights for the possessors of PURITAN "REST EASY" DOUBLE DECK SPRINGS In no other way can you spend $15.00 which will bring you an equal amount of comfort and luxurious ease. The lower deck gives stability—the upper deck gives gentle support to every portion of the body in all positions. You can now get the gold bronze springs for $15.00, the regular price of the japanned kind. Sold by all Furniture Dealers. MADE BY— Puritan Bed Spring Co. A Cure for Insomnia Absolutely Guaranteed GREAT SPECIAL SHOE SALE! High Grade Shoes. You'll save 50c to $1.00 on every pair of Shoes you buy now. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. Wauk E-Z Shoe Store, 147 North Illinois Street. Attend January Clearance 16th and Illini HARRY C The Key of All your troubles can be solved by consulting happy; unlucky, lucky. Gives proper advice. Write or call. Send stamp for answer, N. Indianapolis, Ind. Monon Route New Train Leave Indianapolis 7 00 a. m....Pullman 11 45 a. m....Parlor and 1 3 10 p. m....Parlor and 1 2 48 a. m....Sleeper ready a All trains to and from Chicago use EITHER GIVE SOME TIME TO The High Educational YT WILL EDUCATE Main Building Cor. Highla BOSTON, MASS Archbishop Justus J. Evans, N. B. True Women Missionaries and work January Clearance SHOE SALE! 16th and Illinois Sts. HARRY CRYER. Key of Mystery can be solved by consulting Madam Harper. Make unhappy, ricky. Gives proper advice. Answers all questions correctly. Stamp for answer. Madam Harper, 635 E. Miami street. On Route to Chicago. New Train Service Arrive Chicago ... Pullman Car... 12 10 noon ... Parlor and Dining... 5 40 p. m. ... Parlor and Dining... 8 05 p. m. ... Sleeper ready at 9 p. m... 7 40 a. m. and from Chicago use direct line. F. E. HINE, D. P. A. GIVE SOME TIME TO, OR BE EDUCATED IN Educational College of Glory IT WILL EDUCATE YOU RIGHT. Ling Gor, Highland and Dorr Streets, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. Top Justus J. Evans, D. G., Chief Instructor men Missionaries and workers for God educated free of charge. Attend January Clearance SHOE SALE! 16th and Illinois Sts. HARRY CRYER. TheKey of Mystery All your troubles can be solved by consulting Madam Harper. Make unhappy, happy; unlucky, lucky. Gives proper advice. Answers all questions correctly. Write or call. Send stamp for answer, Madam Harper, 635 E. Miami street, Indianapolis, Ind. Leave Indianapolis Arrive Chicago 7 00 a. m.....Pullman Car.....12 10 noon 11 45 a. m.....Parlor and Dining.....5 40 p. m. 3 10 p. m.....Parlor and Dining.....8 05 p. m. 2 48 a. m.....Sleeper ready at 9 p. m.....7 40 a. m. All trains to and from Chicago use direct line. F. E. HINE, D. P. A. Archbishop Justus N. Evans, D. G., Chief Instructor N.B. True Woman Missionaries and workers for God educated free of charge. D GLORIOUS IS THE MISSION OF THIS COLLEGE ad in the world at large. Typewriting and shorthand—taught with all main points of the true ways of success of life and Office, 74 Highland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. x. JUSTUS J. EVANS, D. G., Pres. and associated teachers of this college, D. to be in every city where our people live. GREAT AND GLORIOUS IS THE M In the Negro race and in the world at large, free—she—together with all main points of true righteousness, Office, 74 Highland Street Phone 608-1 Rox. N. B.—Branches and associated teachers and town in America where our people live. Busts of Our Founders an GREAT AND GLOLOS IS THE MISSION OF THIS COLLEGE In the Negro race and in the世 at large. Typewriting and shorthand—taught free to lie together with all main points of the true ways of success of life and true right located in office, 74 Highland Street, Massachusetts. Phone 608-1 Rox. N. B.—Branches and associated teachers of this college are to be in every city and town in America where our people live. Busts of Our Great Negro Founders and Leaders should find a place in the home of every colored person in America. A Negro Sculptor of the highest training and ability, models these bushes or a Negro company. They are true works of art beautifully executed and finished in the finest materials by expert women, in bronze color or ivory color or desired, about 11 inches in height, an ornament to any parlor, library or office. Bests of BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN, founder of the big A. M. E. Church, and of DR. BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN, the title of work, hope and optimism, are now ready for delivery. Others will follow. Rember. Negro company. Negro sculptor. Negro ugee artist. Express your Wash. Order to add National Afro-A Dept F. 1912 14th Street, N J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me for bargains if you are looking for a home or investment. Cash or easy payments. BOTH PHONES 1173. 538 Indiana Ave.. Indianapoll, Ind 1912 14th Street, N. W. Washington D. C. R HODGE, WANTED STATE, --- If you do not need them to be educated in *Theology* of the salvation of the helpless and God to be so kind as to be Glory, by giving a donation to the salvation of the helpless, it will employ 10.00 MICHAEL J. BURTON For Men and Women. All the Latest Creations for Spring and Summer Wear. KING THE TRUE LIGHT OF LIFE or do not wish tonal College of Glory, please remember that this people free of charge, and you might please endly and a loving act for this College of spense Fund of this college. IF IT IS NO educate and save the Negro people from ruin. M. H. H. An organ for can Order of Owl lars, write G. W Hotel, Sotl Bene