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THE FREEMAN WANTS HONEST, ENERGETIC AND HUSTLING AGENTS EVERYWHERE. YOU CAN MAKE MONEY REPRESENTING THE FREEMAN. WRITE TO-DAY FOR TERMS. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER FEB 25 1910 VOL. XXIII. NUMBER 9 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL OFFICIAL PLUMS ARE NOW BEGINNING TO FALL NATIONAL ENDORSEMENT OF EXPOSITION President Taft to Dedicate the Howard University's Carnegie Library—Much Progress in the Brownsville Case. Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D.C., February 23.—There is a significant appointment made by the White House for who look toward the White House for petitions and blessings. The political plums are beginning to fall. Two significant appointments were made public by the Crews of, Kansas City, Mo., and W, D. Johnson, of Kentucky. Mr. Crews was named as a special agent of the Department of Justice, and the Johnson was assigned as a special agent of the Central Land Office. The salary of each place is said to be $2,500 per annum. They will be employed in the field. The Crews of Kentucky played quite a conspicuous part in the campaign of Mr. Taft for the presidential nomination, and Messrs. Crews and Johnson were in the forefront of the campaign of the captain of the then Secretary of War, and they thus merit this quite generous reward for political services, as well as being of the trinsic worth as men. Both were active in the contest of 1908, and did much to rally the Negro vote to the standard of the战时 when the agitation over the Bureau of the Navy was in the dirty of the colored Republicans in the doubtful States. Mr. Crews was for many years connected with the police court of Kansas City, Mo., and is an orator of the Negro race or for any principle he may consider. He has four books of acknowledged literary merit and is famous throughout the land for his courage and bulldog tenacity in defense of the race or for any principle he may consider. He is a representative of the best type of Negroes by our people everywhere. Now that the ice is broken, there is reason to believe that the long-delayed distribution of the district's budget of good things for the colored brother will be pushed with vigor. President W. P. Thirkield announces that the date of the dedication of the Carnegie Library at Howard University is changed from March 1, 1971, when the institution will be principal address. The change of date is consented to by President Taft in order that Mr. Andrew Carnegie may be preside over the library is a magnificent structure of the building located at a commanding point on the campus, and will be the central axis upon which the rejuvenated college spirit of the university will be to be in this building, the medical classes will have a special department, journalism is to have a large space set apart for the reading room section, the library will be arranged to hold 60,000 volumes. A happy innovation is Library Hall, a beautifully furnished auditorium in the new library, which the basement story of the last Sunday. It has a seating capacity of about 260, and will be used for lectures, displays and displays for the debates and rhetorical discussions in the literary societies of the school. The opening address was delivered by President Winkfield on "Reading That Is Worth Reading" in the library have been transferred from main building to the new library. A secondary section will be included in the library to see to it that all books are kept in first-class condition and all the countries of the country have pretty generally agreed to furnish the newspaper room and subscription for the benefit of the students. Willard has been donated to the library by the officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The formal presentation was the veteran service last Sunday afternoon, when the service were delivered by Mrs. M. L. Stevie, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union; Miss Anna Gordon, professor at Dargue Dye Ellis and Mrs. E. L. Parks. of united effort. Write your Congressman today and show him why you want him to vote for the commission resolution when it comes up for final passage. Mr. Nelson Crews left for Tuskegee Institute last Saturday morning to inspect the Agricultural Experiment Station at that place. Major Sampson L. Foster, 24th Infantry, has been detailed to inspect the school building and the宿舍. His schedule calls for the inspection of the First Separate Battalion March 16 and 17. Dr. C. E. Davis of North Carolina, and Dr. Romeo Johnston of Columbia, both graduates of the Northwestern Medical College, have been appointed as internes at Freedman's Hospital. They are young men of exceptional promise and come well recommended. Some interesting developments are promised, in the fewest of days, affecting the historic of Columbia. The FREEMAN will help them as soon as the national correspondent is permitted to release these dark secrets. Mr. Rufus Byars, the popular vocalist of the Dunbar Theater, was a guest last week of the "Mind Your Own Business Club" in Philadelphia. He was the retainer of his school and professional retention during his stay in Oakland City. He is a fixture on the musical program at the Dunbar. Judge M. W. Gibbs and Mr. T. J. Calloway are among those who purchased blocks of stock in the Mound Bayou, Miss. cotton oil mill as a result of the thrilling description of that institution by Mr. Banks at the Lincoln Temple meeting of the Washington Commercial Council. Rr. Robert Lewis Waring has completer the reading of the final proof-sheets of his new book, "As We See It," and it will be from the press of the Sudartw Printing Company, New York. The book deals with the race problem in a forceful and original way, and those who have had an ad hoc experience with the Sudartw opinion that it will create a sensation second only to "The Jungle," "The Bread Winners" and other novels which have gone to the use of current sociological research on Mr. Waring's year of this city and has had ample opportunity to study every detail of the great human questions involved in the story he so graphically tells. The Delaware residents in this city met last Friday night at the residence on Mr. Archibald Runner, 1213 W Street N. of Delaware, and the intention to be known as "The Delaware Club of Washington." The organization will take an active interest in the general welfare of its members and cement their social position by electing for the ensuing year are; President. Elwood G. Hubert; vice-president. Harlan Cuff; secretary. Samuel T. Henry; treasurer. Harlan Cuff; treasurer. Archibald Runner. Other members of the club are J. H. Ayers, James Dutton, W. E. Grinneau. Dennis Thompson, Roland R. Milburn. Edgar H. Postles, Waters, Edgar Starling, Samuel Haper and Maurice A. Spencer. The club will keep closely in touch with the leaders of the race in the State of Delaware and Congressional delegation in Washington. Mr. Mayer, manager of the Casino Theater on F Street, is to put up a theater for the exclusive patronage of colored people this summer in the down-town district, to be conducted on the general lines of the theater, and such traveling companies as may wish to "make" Washington. He does not admit Negroes at the Casino, as he regards the theater as a social institution and such traveling companies as may shop, and must operate his house with proper regard for the local race customs in vogue in the District of Columbia. He disclaims any anti-Negro feeling on his own behalf, and he promptly proba-ple a cold-blooded matter of business with him, and he could not turn away 2,000 white customers to accommodate possibly 200 Negroes. He says his colored theater will be full and he will seat not less than 1,500 persons. There are now nine moving picture shows in town which cater to Negro patronage. Flive are owned by whites and four by colored corporations. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1910. HOLDING IN CHECK. MOB VIOLENCE HAYWOOP EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CAN. Special to THE FREEMAN J. Pendergast has been on the sick list for the past few weeks with a bad attack of asthma. Mrs. Gustavus J. Jones of St. Louis, Mrs. Foroakan J. Jones of Foroakan, where Mrs. Mary Nichols, her mother, is very sick and not expected to live. Mrs. Jones will be gone next week. Mrs. Foroakan will want put in the Freeman about seven months ago. James Henderson Robinson was married to Mrs. Laura A. White by Rev. J. B. Barbure, Thursday evening, when he went to work at 10:40 train in Strathonia, where she was met by Mr. Robinson and whence they went direct to Rev. Barbure's home, where they were married. Mr. Robinson was a graduate of the University, which time he spent in Edmonton. He is a hard-working man, a Christian gentleman and in every respect deserving. He has homestead west of where he resides in spring, where he was formerly of Hope, Idaho, and has been a widow for a number of years. The couple is now living at 1856 Klinstino avenue in Edmonton, where he horse... The Local Legin Investment Company is attracting much attention because of the improvements it is making on its building. All six rooms upstairs are now fully furnished. The company's large electric sign extending across the outside of the building is very impressive. As a whole, there are many rooms with any better quarters. They are now all ready for the spring rush, which is very promising this spring...Leave all news matter, advertisements, subscription lists, and other information of not receiving The Freeman, etc. with Clifford C. Mitchell, the Edmonton correspondent. Call lat 240 Jasper avenue, East, or address P. O. Box 845. Phone PENSACOLA, FLA. Special to THE FREEMAN. ther and friends...A beautiful heart party was at the home of the Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Thomas last Monday night in honor of their son, Vriel M. Thomas of Bristol, who was a member of the feature of amusement. Refreshments to suit the occasion were served. Those present were: Miss Belle and Bessie Mills, Alma Gregory, Flossie Lee, Thomas, Madeleine Turner, Queen Thomas, Madeleine Turner; John Ethel Thomas, Nora and Stella Johnson; Mesdames Calle Moody, Orange Abdelkader, Charlie Rendell, Louisa Bradley, Philip Brown, Alma Gregory, Frederick James Woods, Thomas Olson John; Mesdames Hines; Messrs. Will M. Thomas of St. Louis, Frank Sawyer, Fred Robinson, John Sales, Lucino Simmons, Bernard Beals, Beals of Mount Sharp, William Ridley, Herman Griff, Frank Matthews, Samuel Horton, Eugene Mills, Frank Thomas, James Harris, Marlon Beals, Beals of Mount Sharp, Joseph and Walker Thomas, Herman Griff, left day for his home in St. Louis...The Merry-Makers will entertain their friends Tuesday night at a domino party. Only Miss Bessie will attend. Miss Bessie Benjamin left Saturday for Selma, Ala., to spend a few days with friends...Prof. N. W. Bennett is having a handsome cottage erected in the feature of amusement. Friends are watching for future prospects. PARIS, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN. WASHINGTON, PA. Special to THE FREEMAN On Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Tobias, eleighteen gentlemen were entertained in honor of their friend, Mr. Roberts, in the law among friends and relatives for the PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR, $1.50. past month. For the past four years he has been playing in minstrels and musical comedies throughout the Southern States, and having spent the winter of 1909 in New York to play in the theater to leave to join the company of Lowry & Morgan. Mr. Tobias is a trombonist of note. The evening was spent in having a social time of classical music, after which he played with the company of parted with many good wishes to Mr. Tobias. Those present were: Messrs. John Tobias, Thomas Cordek, Walter John, Mara Ellis, Clime, James Edman, Fred Edman, Frank Bolden, Fred Johnson, Isiah Jackson, Boyd Bush, Wm. Joiner, James Butler, James Wilson, Nathaniel Busto, James A. Thomas, Neeler, James Butler, James A. Thomas, Neeler, A. M. E. Church Thursday evening was a grand success as well as a credit to the race. Mrs. M. Montgomery of McKeesport, James A. Thomas, Pa. charmed the audience with their degree of talent. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Pear are spending several days among friends and relatives of this city. Rev. T. J. Askew addressed a large audience of citizens at the M. C. A. quet given at the Y. M. C. A. on Lincoln's birthday. His subject was "Slavery Then and Now," on which he received much praise. Mrs. Jamie Day and Mrs. Phoebe Franklin are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart, for several days. DECATUR. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. D. Hunt gave an elaborate dinner in honor of Rev. J. T. Morrow and Rev. L. J. Thomas Tuesday evening... Mrs. A. Thomas was called by the illness of her brother... Mrs. R. C. Armstrong entertained many... Mrs. J. Armstrong joined 20 people on Friday. There were 26 present... M. C. B. Armstrong and Mrs. J. Armstrong in day in Decatur. After speaking at the five M. E. churches of the city, he addressed the colored Baptist congregation and gave money for the school... Revival services will start at the Baptist church February 28. Rev. Sam Sisson will assist Rev. Dickson. Rev. B. Caroll of Decatur will have a hot Spring to take the bath cure... Mrs. M. Spayne, assisted by Prof. Scholc, gave a musical recital at the Baptist church Thursday evening. Mrs. J. Armstrong is rare treat to the public... The revival services at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church will close Sunday night. They have added a number of members to the church... Mr. M. J. A. Hardin spent Sunday in Springfield. MAGNOLIA, MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN: The newborn Baptist Church, which was inaugurated a few weeks ago, will soon open its beautiful doors to its members and friends. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE CANE CLUB Death of W. H. Bullitt—Preparations to Entertain Smart Set Company—The PearlStreet School in Good Condition. By Cary B. Lewis. Special to THE FREEMAN The annual banquet of the Cane Club was given last Friday night at Odd Fellows' twelfth and Walnut streets. It was the sweetest evening of the year, given in the city during the last twenty years. Two hundred young people, mery, gay and handsome, assembled in the hall and remained until one o'clock in the morning. In point of elaborateness of dress, it is said to have outclassed anything that was given in this city recently, some or the most of the people. This city were worn on this occasion. They were not only stylish and beautiful, but handsomely trimmed. The young misses were dressed in the most pleasantness of the evening was marked by the congeniality of the guests. Every young girl was special gown or the young man was special dress, looked like a beautiful rainbow and nearly all the gowns were silk. The brunette lighted and decorated with colors of the club, while flowers and ferns were banked around the elevated Bohemian orchestra. Extra lights were strung around the ceiling and walls while red moon and on the side a large horse shoe, with electric bulbs of all colors. The floor of the hall had been waxed and the music seemed "divine," when dancing seemed from the "Red Moon" Cole and Johnson. At midnight the lights were dimmed and there was a "Moon Dance." This was the moment when all the lights were extinguished, save the Japanese lanterns and the big red moon. The will go down as a social event in this city among young people. It was fashionable, stylish and enjoyable. They danced for five hours and at one o'clock each person was seen waltzing and humming. Exceedingly sympathetic and touching were the hymns sung by the church choir. The services were extended by the many aquiliniums he held, and organizations of which he was a member. Ed. Davis, Grand Master of the Masons of the State of Kentucky, was present and read the hymns. Mr. Bullitt had served as Grand Master of the order for several months during 1908. It was stated at the funeral services by among the most informed Masons in the State and that he was a thirty-third degree Mason. We was a member of the St. Thomas Mason, the oldest Mason. He was a member of the Board of Managers of the Louisville Cemetery Association and was an employee of the Louisville School Board for nineteen years. He spent much time in securing pensions for old soldiers and widows of old soldiers. Those who were a cripple and unable to go to pension hearings were a member of the life. He accumulated property, owned a beautiful home and lived well. The obituaries state that he was a kind and gentle husband, a man who was a hard worker, held in high esteem by the citizens of this city, and the large number that paid their respects on the day of the funeral was a splendid testimony of this fact. Organizations sent a large number of floral designs. They rested around the church altar, beneath a large number of silver Mason emblems and handles bare. His body was borne to the cemetery, where the Masons said the last ritualic ceremony. Dr. Morris Blackburn, who was the physician during Mr. Dudley's short illness last season, has planned to give the distinguished comedian an "evening at home." Continued on Page Five. SHORT FLIGHTS. The hard work's done by the little chaps. There's our President, Big Bill Taft, Goin' 'round everywhere—what a graft! Seventy-five thousand''-expenses, too-- Only has to spend it, nothin' else to do. Little Joe Cannon has to run the shop, Forty-seven hours a day on the hop; Has to fight a dozen insurgents a day; An' measly twelve thousand' is all his pay. Look at the band when it's marchin' by— What's the very first thing you spy? Little man luggin' the big bass drum; Fat man poundin' it—ain't that bum? Fat man gits a musician's pay; Little man gits about 50 cents a day. Down at the seashore where they git fresh air. Fat man ridin' in a boardwalk chair; Little man pushin' it all day long, Fat man singin' a glad sweet song. Little man diggin' in the ditch all day, Fat man watchin' him earn his pay; Little man shovels till his bones all ache, Fat old foreman can hardly keep awake; Big fat general a-ridin' on a horse, Happy and contented as a clam, o' coarse; But who does the fightin'—makes the enemy run? Why, the little man hikin' in the broilin' sun. Oh, the fat men git all the easy snaps, An' the hard work's done by the little chaps. —Springfield Union. * * * * The 1913 proposition will "stay put." * * * * Do you want a "position," or merely a "job?" "Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn!" * * * * Justice Harlan is not to resign. The Supreme Court situation is safe. * * * * The worst pessimist is the fellow who used to be the most ardent optimist. * * * * There is a noticeable lack of Negro membership in the "Back-from-Elba Club." * * * * There will be "something doing" when Teddy comes marching home in June. * * * * It is our prediction that Prof. Jack Johnson will teach Prof. Jim Jeffries a few things. * * * * More and more do political promises resemble pie crusts—only even the crusts are disappointingly absent. Prolific Chicago is to have a new monthly publication known as "The Sheltering Oak." Sounds suspiciously like a melodrama in the Haylin and BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AD DRESSER LA TAPE ENTIENCE AT SPRINGFIELD. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Special—Dr. Booker T. Washington spoke to 7,000 people Sunday night in this city. It was probably the largest gathering of colored people and white people that ever came together. The choral was held in the Armory, which occupies a whole block and seats 10,000 people. The Negro population of Springfield is about 6,000. Nearly half of the whole population was held in the Armory, to those there were between three and four thousand white people. George Donne, a musician in this city, united the chors of seven Negro students to meet at this meeting. At the attention of Dr. Washington, two of the old-fashioned plantation hymns were sung by an audience of three thousand Negroes before the speaking began. But the whole audience in a good humor for the address which followed. Rarely, if ever, has Dr. Washington spoken to a larger crowd or with such inspiring results. After the reception was held, and for three-quarters of an hour a procession of white people and colored people marched by Dr. Washington and shook his hand, thanking him for the good work that his speech had done in the city. The meeting was held under the auspices of Bishop Edward W. Osborne, bishop of the Episcopal church of this city, Bishop of Boston, and the bishop of the city of Boston, and started the first work of the colored people in that city under the auspices of the Episcopal church. He was for a time, also, in South Africa, where his missionary work among the native people. He has been in Springfield five years, and a few months ago started the Lincon Manual Training School, where he chose to work and girls traded. When Bishop Osborne started this school there was objection among the colored people, so he said he wouldn't call his institution a school but a training school. When women could learn a trade. He is seeking to unite the colored people and the white people of the city in this practical sort of mission work in the hope of helping women in Neeson community in the trades which they now rack, but of creating a public sentiment in this city and in the state which will make a repetition of the Springfield in a few years ago impos- A year ago when the Lincoln Centennial Association was formed in Springfield for the purpose of celebrating the hundredth anniversary, the Lincoln Centennial Association was invited to be present and speak. As he was not able to come to this city at that time, the association secured from him a position on the hundred and first anniversary this year. At this meeting Governor Charles S. Deneen presided, and men prominent in business and political were invited to this banquet was held Saturday night. The afternoon before the large meeting in the evening Dr. Washington spoke twice, first for the address and then for the coming to this city a positive and radical change has been created here, and a movement started which if it can be effectively carried out with vastly change the racial situation in this city will be in notice among persons who remained to greet Dr. Washington was Nathan Smith, a colored farmer who owns eighty acres of land which is valued at $100,000 two miles from the city. He is the most successful Negro in this part of the country. Mr. Frank Rhone died at his home in the west end Saturday, February 12. His funeral was held Sunday, February 13 at 11:30 a.m. Rev. Davis, the pastor of Union Baptist church, being absent, Rev J. B. Branman of the El Bibel Baptist church officiated. Buried so place, the Rev. Harris, who has been sick, is out again....Bishop M. T. Turner, Dr. H. 2 Laugh and Grow Fat. MERIDIAN. MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN Stair Circuit. Here's luck, however and may its branches spread far and wide. If you have any money to invest, Liberia offers the most fertile field in which to "watch it grow." * * * * Abdul Hamid, Turkey's chief mogul, refuses to eat. And he is able to pay the Eiffel Tower prices demanded by the Beef Trust, too! * * * * Let not the fact be overlooked that the 1913 exposition will prove an expert witness for the defense in the celebrated case of "Race Prejudice vs. the Negro." * * * * Cities of the border South that can be reached without recourse to the jim crow car will have a big advantage in the contest for possession of the 1913 exposition. *** That hustling, energetic, sympathetic, watchful and race-loving genius, Emmett J. Scott, is eminently deserving of all the good things that are coming his way. * * * * The Hon. Matt Henson has reappeared in the limelight, but no one has been thoughtful enough to propose that he be made a "near-admiral," in recognition of his grit as an arctic explorer. * * * * The entire nation, white and black, seconds the motion for a semi-centennial exposition of Negro progress in 1813. The folks who are knocking at the door of Congress have the right punch. \* \* \* Mound Bayou, Miss., is the best advertised town in the country. If Chass, Banks ever tires of running banks, cotton mills and business leagues, he will have no difficulty in securing a job as a "press agent." What will Chicago do without her "guide, pilot and chevalier," Noah D. Thompson? Will the versatile Julius N. Avendorph emulate the Bert Williams policy and try the center of the stage with a "lone stunt?" The Negro newspaper man—we mean the real newspaper man, in contradistinction to the characterless adventurer who happens to adopt the business as an excuse for graft—is a missionary of the highest order. The memory of Frederick Douglass is still green in the Afro-American heart, but the painful fact remains that the $3,500 mortgage on the Douglass Memorial Home is still unpaid. Does race sentiment halt at the pocket-book? *** Notice is hereby served on President Borclay, of the Liberian Republic, that that effervescent and irrepressible millionaire promoter, the Hon. Philip A. Payton, is about to invade the sacred precincts of his domain. T. Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa., and Hon. F. L. Giles of Brooklyn, N. Y., in company with Rev. M. M. Martin, pastor of St. James M. E. church, spoke at the Meridian Academic Center and Baptist Church on February 7. At night Bishop Turner spoke at the A. M. E. church after which a reception was tendered him and his guests at the pastor's home on 7th street in Washington, D. C., has been visiting our city the past week.... The guest of Prof. W. M. Hopkins, Mr. F. C. McClain of Scooba, Miss, has been visiting our city the past week.... The guest of Prof. John W. Harris, died on February 5. Her funeral was attended at Mt. Zion Baptist church on Sunday, February 6. Rev. J. F. Filin, the pastor, officiated. She was quite a fan of the church. The bishop of Bishop Flippo of Chicago, IL, is to be a guest at Meridian this week.... Prof. E. Nichols of Louderdate has been attending the institute the past week. He left for New York, where he is working in the interest of Mississippi, visited Laurel Mission on Sunday, February 13. He returned home at night.... W. L. Hibbler has opened a pressing book over Straynorm, Berry & Co. undertakers at 26th avenues, between 25th and 26th avenues. CENTRALIA. ILL. Miller's ball team gave a dance on the evening of the 10th at Masonic Hall. Miller, the leader of same, was floor manager.... Blind Boon was on the 14th, unaware of the game. He was in Centralia (white). It was a grand success. He is a wonder in music.... There is a society of this city called the Jolly Rulers, who gave an entertainment and dance on the evening of the 14th. There were many themed parties. D. Washington, J. Mathews and J. H. Lewis. One of the leading orchestra bands of St. Louis furnished the music for the Jolly Rulers.... Miss South has gone to Chicago. Mr. M. Hennessy, a music teacher, Mr. Right plays the 'cello, the only woman in town who can play that instrument. ASHDOWN, ARK Special to THE FREEMAN. We had a great spiritual upheaval at the C. M. E. Church after the sermon of Rev. William Cato, pastor.....Rev. Nannie Smith of Oklahoma City, Oka., preached on Monday night, and on Tuesday night, Dr. R. S. Stout, LL. B., D. 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The New Orleans States says: "It was well that this should be so, because he was a vicarous sufferer for the sins—if it may be called a sin—of his people and for the blunder of the Supreme Court in intervening to stay the execution of a righteous judgment pronounced by a sovereign State. The incident of ten thousand men, women and children in one of the most enlightened and progressive of American cities, gathering to do honor to one whom the highest court in the land has attempted to dishonor, is one that excites strange reflections in the mind of a free American citizen." This paper's reflections include terms about "monarchial Europe," "despotic government crushing out the freedom of the people," etc., adding that the demonstration was "an ominous portent of the growing change in the masses toward what is becoming recognized distinctly as a governing class in this country." It was also "equally a protest against the oppression and injustice of a tyrannous court." It seems to us that to be in tune the States should have added something like this: "Fellow-citizens, if we cannot have mobs and complaisant sheriffs, and lynch a man when we feel like it, what are we coming to?" But we shall let a Southern paper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, speak for the occasion. It notes that "ten thousand uproarious people greeted the sheriff on his return with bands of music which played, we have no doubt, "Hail to the Chief." It then says: "Yet Shipp's heroism and chieftainship consisted in the fact that he had been sentenced to a term in jail by the highest tribunal in the country, for an offense whose seriousness the most thoughtless hat tosser ought to be able to perceive. A a trusted officer of the law he allowed a prisoner to be easily taken from him by a mob. If he had had a stronger sense of responsibility, he might have saved his charge for the processes of the law, as he was in honor bound to do, and thus, though a sheriff, he was in the position of aiding and abetting a murder by a mob." It thinks that "no intelligent citizen can approve the ovation that Shipp got, and that observant people almost unanimously hailed Shipp's sentence as a salutary warning for complaisant sheeriffs, and a step toward the better enforcement of the law." This is indeed the truth. It speaks the wholesome and righteous feeling of the country, whether toward complaisant sheeriffs in Tennessee or complaisant grand urjies in Illinois, like that of Cairo, which returned no indictments for the mob murders there, finding that "no innocent persons were killed"! The conduct in both cases was loathsome, and there should be such appeals as the Times-Dispatch makes from newspapers everywhere for the recognition of law and its support. Otherwise we shall never outgrow the lynching that disgraces a large portion of this country.—Indianapolis News. Mr. Jos. E. Shipp, ex-sheriff of Chattanooga, Tenn., was received with great ecat on his return to his native city after having completed a term of imprisonment at Washington for contempt of the federal court. It will be remembered that Sheriff Shipp was sentenced for delivering Ed Johnson, a United States prisoner, over to a blood-thirsty mob while the case was pending in the federal court for rehearing. It is aid that 10,000 citizens of Chattanooga met the ex-sheriff at the depot, welcoming him back to his home. This was the first demonstration of the kind ever witnessed anywhere, and doubtless many members of the mob which lynched Johnson were in the crowd which received him. Such demonstrations serve to show how much in sympathy the people of that section are with the mob spirit. Every person in that gathering showed by his action his contempt for law as well as his disregard for the mandates of the United States courts.—Louisville Columbian. Added Contempt: With Senator Taylor of Tennessee pledging support and ten thousand people of Hamilton county, Tennessee, going wild in lionizing Sheriff Shipp upon his return, all of which is in plain contempt of the nation's supreme court for sending Shipp and his deputies to jail for ninety days, it would seem that the so-called "best people" of the South favored lynching, —Detroit Informer. All this occurred in the "New South," Taft's South, if you please. How do you like it, law-abiding, country-loving citizens of the North? You can wager there were no Afro-Americans in the silly mob of sympathizers with the lawless —Cleveland Gazette. The Spirit of Rebellion: One of the most regrettable recent evidences of the spirit of rebellion that still stalks abroad throughout the Southland has come with the trial, conviction and liberation of Sherif Shipp of Chattanooga. At no time during this period has the South realized that the sherif had committed contempt of the highest tribunal of American justice, an offense both grave and unpardonable in the eyes of loyal citizens. At all times the South has thought the federal government was persecuating one of its former defenders for permitting and accelerating the lynching of a Negro. As a consequence she has felt that a sectional privilege was being transgressed and her cherished institution of white supremacy to the law and the Negro was being shattered. Accordingly, Sherif Shipp has become a Southern hero with all the halo of martyrdom about him. All during the trial the press of the former Confederate States followed the case with bated breath in anxiety and resentment. It not only sensitiously followed the trial with minute accuracy, but gave heated editorial comment upon the issues at stake. When Sheriff Shipp was convicted and summoned to Washington for sentence, the accumulated feeling broke forth in a wild and effusive farewell. More than two thousand white people were at, the station, cheering him, giving him the Chauquaqua salute and showering him with flowers. Ten thousand frantic people at Chattanooga recently acclaimed him the man of the hour. A committee of leading citizens met the sheriff in Eastern Tennessee and escorted him home. He was the guest of a prearranged public reception at the terminal station. He was the guest of a citizens' banquet on Monday night, of the Elks on Tuesday night, and the United Confederate Veterans on Wednesday night. The convict returns in triumph. The South is still dominated by the suicidal spirit of rebellion. In all of this she has sought to condemn the government. It is her sense still to set herself above the federal law and to nullify with impunity the constitution. She has yet to realize that law is made for the equal protection of the whites and the blacks. She must yet learn that the United States is greater than any one State or any group of States—New York Age. FORT RUSSELL AND CHEYENNE WYOMING. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN The people of Fort Russell and Cheyenne, as well as the fight fans of other nearby cities, are anxiously awaiting the 22d of February, for on that date will bring before the public Wyoming's lightweight champion, Nat Dewey, who is to box twenty rounds with the well-known Sam Langford, at the Eagle's Club, Cheyenne. Nat Dewey, who has a very good record, has also won for himself the reputation of being one of the squareset fighters that ever donned the gloves. He is well known throughout the West, and his name alone is a drawing card to all ringsides. He has fought several battles at Fort Russell with some of Uncle Sam's best men, and in each case he "got his man." Dewey knows what the result of this fight means to him, therefore he is letting no grass grow under his feet while waiting for the day. He is training at the fort gym with Bob Watkins as sparring partner. A special train will run from Denver to Cheyenne on the day of the Dewey and Langford fight, as a large number of Denver people signified their intention of being counted among the ringsiders. E. W. Dickerson, sporting editor of the Denver News, has been selected as the third man in the amin cevent will be two clever boxing bouts and a wrestling match. Kid Shaffer of Chicago and Young O'Brien of Omaha will go six rounds, while Private Thompkins of the Ninth Cavalry will mix them up with Bill Watkins of Billings' Mont. The wrestling bout will be between Private Loshitzer of the Eleventh Infantry and Frank Brown...The Ninth Cavalry band has arranged to play two concerts and two dances a month for the officers and enlisted men of the regiment. For the last three months the band has been unable to play out of doors on account of bad weather. The first concert, which will be for the enlisted men and their friends, will be in Troop A's quarters Wednesday, February 16, 8 o'clock...Drum Major Harris and wife will leave here for the East some time this week. Sergt. Harris is on a two months' furlough and expects to spend the most of this time at his home in Kentucky. BOSTON, MASS. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Bay State Lodge No. 19 of Elks gave their fifth annual smoker and concert in America Hall, Tuesday evening, February 10. It was a grand success. The guest of the evening was entertained by Tom Cross, the comedian, and the Alpha Comedy Four of Lynn; Billie Percell, comedian; Robinson, better known as Bow Jankles, and a host of others, among whom were Geo. Byers and Nelson Smith, who boxed three rounds. The committee on arrangements were: Isiah Crawford, chairman; Alexander Selden, treasurer; Jacob S. Butler, secretary; Bennie Small, Richard Bush, Joseph Mitchell, Wm. F. Ferguson, Samuel Cole, Charles T. Hill, Alexander S. Williams, Luke R. Reddish, John E. Gill, Edward J. Timberlake, ex-Ruler; Frank Rowe.. Isrue & Hardy were opened the Rathskeller of their hotel, and is the finest place of its kind this side of New York. Good music from 2:30 p. m. to 11 p. m. Smiling Bill Reeves and Jake Grimke and Harry Holt will attend to all the wants of the patrons of the Rathskeller...Cooper & Robinson have split up. They fell in Pittsburg some time ago. 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Ind., as second class matter. New Phone 2880. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, FEB. 26, 1910. On to New York! Newspaper fakirs should be put out of business by the real workers in the hive. No wise leader will permit it to appear that he places a premium upon disloyalty. Let us reward friends and not cater to enemies. The success of the rejuvenated Washington American indicates that the people of the nation's capital do appreciate a "clean paper." Peonage in Texas and elsewhere should be broken up at any cost. The special agents of the Department of Justice should be instructed to do their full duty in this matter. A scientist has discovered that newspapers are a fine means of keeping out cold. This may be just another way of announcing the time-honored fact that some newspapers have a faculty for making a fellow hot. The semi-centennial exposition for 1913 is a certainty. To 'make assurance doubly sure,' however, drop your Congressman a line and urge him to cast his vote for the Taylor-Rodenberg bill, so as to show how unanimous we can be in support of such a worthy enterprise. If any of the aspiring statesmen have weak hearts, they are warned to be careful about approaching the White House. A Baltimorean dropped dead the other day, after being promised a good, fat job by an uncle. We know some friends of ours who will almost drop dead whether Uncle Taft says "Yes" or "No" to their demands. The bandmasters of the four Negro regiments did the right thing in presenting Emmett J. Scott with that beautiful "loving cup." People never lose anything by showing proper appreciation of a kindly and wholly unselfish service. Mr. Scott's feat was a mighty one, and the battle was won against odds that the world may never know in exact measure. The actual inauguration of the 1913 exposition movement took place at Louisville, through the National Negro Business League, led by Booker T. Washington. Others may have talked about it, but no one took the initiative to crystallize it into reality until the league set the machinery in motion. This should hold the Boston Guardian for a while. "The race press is a tremendous power for good," says the sapient Cleveland Journal. "Plug for the race press!" The Negro would be in a deplorable condition, indeed, if there was not in this land a single medium for the honest expression of racial sentiment. No people are hopeless who have at their command a fearless, intelligent and loyal press. The appointment of Messrs. Nelson Crews, of Missouri, and W. D. Johnson, of Kentucky, will give pleasure to the working Negro Republicans of the country. They are capable men and have a record for political service that gives them claim to as good as the President had in his patronage shop. The recognition "is not as bi as a barn, nor as wide as a church door, but 'twill do—'twill serve." President R. W. Thompson, of the National Negro Press Association, makes the timely suggestion that the race press hammer hard in advocacy of the 1913 semi-centennial exposition and send marked copies to the members of the Senate and House Committees on Expositions and Industrial Arts, besides keeping their individual Senators and Representatives closely in touch with the sentiment of the Negro masses on the exposition idea in concert of thought and action there is irresistible power. The Freeman is a weekly newspaper of news and opinions, edited in the interest of the Negro race in the nation. It has opinions of a pronounced character on all subjects affecting Negro citizenship, based upon the principles of fundamental democracy, which in the columns reserved for editorial comment it expresses fully and freely, without favor or prejudice, without fear of consequences, and without regard to any considerations of personal or business advantage. It is not infallible either in opinion or statements of fact; regarding which it makes no pretentions—it simply aspires to a deserved reputation for intelligence and honesty in both. Its news correspondence has nothing to do with shaping its editorial comments or policies. It flatters itself on having on its staff some of the best brain in the race, men and women known to possess literary training and ability. This much we wish our readers to know and appreciate. According to the press reports, the President is lonesome because nobody "drops in" at the White House. Just whisper this to Messrs. Lott, of Indiana; Cottrill, Eubanks and Clifford, of Ohio; White, Johnson and Underwood, of Kentucky; Jones, of Arkansas; Cruse, of Missouri; Sango, of Oklahoma; Robinson and Payne, of West Virginia; Alexander, of Maryland; Ennis and Colburn, of Delaware; Lawson, of New Jersey; Napier, of Tennessee; Johnson and Lyons, of Georgia; Lewey, of Florida; Marshall, Anderson, Buckner and Majors, of Illinois—and perhaps a few others—and the President may not lack for company that will stick closer than a brother. CAIRO'S DISGRACE The expected has happened. We predicted it would happen when we read the verdict of the grand jury in "Froggy" James' case, last November, wherein it stated that "We find no innocent man met his death at the hands of the mob," and we not only expressed our surprise of the extraordinary proceedings, but remarked that so far as our memory goes it was the first "ministerial and grand jury endorsed mob" we had ever heard of in this or any other civilized country. To that verdict and ministerial endorsed mob may be attributed the reason for this recent attempt to mob or lynch another Negro in defiance of all law. "Purse snatching" is the pretext this time for the savage outbreak, which is simply ridiculously absurd. Whoever heard of lynching a person for such an offense? And we all know that that is no excuse for the gathering of a mob to violate and trod upon the majesty of the law. Thank God this time the mobbers met their Waterloo; they got their just deserts. They were not long in finding that a man greater than a "Davis" had the sheriff's power and authority, and the manly courage to meet the exigencies of the case and to do it without delay. He was happily surrounded by four as brave and daring Negro deputies as ever breathed breath, or walked on God's green earth. They, too, were not found wanting when the crucial moment came. Bravo! colored deputies of Cairo! The leader of the mob was shot dead and the concensus of public opinion is that he got his just deserts, and the voice of the people is that "no innocent man met his death at the hards of the sheriff and his deputies." We applaud the sheriff and those concerned with him in resisting the mob, as they deserved to be resisted. Governor Deneen also deserves praise for his timely action in supporting the sheriff in the discharge of duty. Let the law and not the mob rule in every community in this country. The Freeman stands for law. KENTUCKY NEGRO SEEKS JOB HELD BY INDIANAPOLIS MAN. Washington, February 21.—A delegation of Negroes of Kentucky called on the President today and asked him to nominate Albert S. White, a colored lawyer of Louisville, as minister to Hayti. White was spoken of most highly. Senator Bradley has been seeking his appointment. The President referred his callers to Secretary Knox. Henry W. Furnish, of Indianapolis, is the present minister to Hayti. He has made a good record, but the position is one of the highest salaried in the foreign service and many Negroes seek it. It is one of the few places in the government service to which only Negroes are appointed. The appointment was urged on the grounds of the satisfaction it would afford the people of Kentucky, especially the Negroes, as the first of its kind to be given to the State "in recognition of the capable, efficient and representative Negro for preferment." White has gained some prominence in politics—The Star. Indianapolis. We have naught to say against Mr. White, who we believe is thoroughly competent to fill the position that he seeks, but why isn't one Negro officeholder as good as another Negro office-seeker-holder? Our contention is in the order of the Roosevelt policies bearing on this point, viz.: "Not to remove a consul or minister who has faithfully and ably performed the duties of the office." Let those that are competent to hold and now in position stay, and let the administration broaden its scope of offices to be filled by Negroes. This would do it no harm and it would be paying the debt that it owes the Negro for placing the administration in power. Dr. Furnill has with marked ability filled the position to which he was promoted because of "ability and efficiency," as shown in the service of consul elsewhere. This is a generally known fact. The Freeman expresses it as the unanimous opinion of the citizens of Indiana, white and colored, for Dr. Furnas' retention until the close of the present administration, and if thought advisable after he has filled out that term to be continued indefinitely, as white men have been and are being held to the present time. Mr. White and other colored men ought to know that there are other places to which they are entitled to apply and reasonably expect to be appointed. Taft's administration has already set a precedent. Why not in this instance? MAYOR NOTIFIES THIRTY MEN OF APPOINTMENT. Mayor Shank today notified thirty men that they had been appointed members of his advisory committee, with which he expects to consult on matters of a moral or legal nature with municipal affairs. The mayor believes that some of the men offered places on the committee may be unable to accept the appointment, and any decline the appointments the vacancies will be filled at once. It is probable that at least one of the vacancies, be filled by a colored man.—The News. "If any occur!" Now what do you think of that? Has Mayor Shank so soon forgotten his colored friends, to whom he most fervently appealed for their votes only a few short months since? In his various speeches he contracted with them to deal fairly and justly, and to give them without any 'if's' or "but's" equal considera- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. tion in proportion to their voting strength and ability. We maintain that in the selection of this committee a colored man should have been selected along with the others, and not put down in the "if" column. Under the circumstances we fail to see how any self-respecting colored man could accept of an appointment on that committee. Mayor Shank should give the colored citizen the "square deal" that he promised; if he don't he will see that on the next election here for State or city that the colored man will give the Republican ticket a "square soler plexus knock down and out" blow THE SHADOW AND THE SUBSTANCE. Some person in this city has imposed upon a New York exchange by sending it a letter naming a number of Afro-Americans as having been appointed to clerkships and lesser positions by Mayor Baehr, the total number being less than one-third the number of positions given our people by the previous (Democratic) administration, Mayor Tom L. Johnson's. The fact is, the present (Baehr-Maschke) city administration has not given a single clerkship to a member of the race, and a number of those mentioned as having received appointments have never been given the positions promised. The only Afro-American appointed to a clerkship, and that a third-class position of the kind and in the water-works' department at the city hall, has never been allowed to take the place because of his color. This is no secret, but is generally known throughout the city, to get rid of him down on the lake front in the city yard. "learning the stock" (handling pipe, etc.), and he a graduate of Western Reserve University. There are a Western Reserve University, named in the New York paper as having been appointed to positions, who have not fared well as well as he has. As they fare not have been allowed to fill them. Why lie about such things? Why not tell the truth and shame, if possible, the Baehr-Maschke administration into treating its black contingent at least half way decently and fairly? A few box-heaving, broomhandling, spittoon and barn-cleaning and garbage hunting jobs are, as Bishop Derrick well said when here a few Sundays ago, but "petty jobs at best and not worth making so much noise about." Some Negroes are so inernally "cheap" and hungry for any kind of a political job that it seems they are willing "to lie like the very old mischief" to cover up the refusal of their "white" political masters to give them decent appointments, anything like they ought to give to the intelligent of our people. The fact is, the Baehr-Maschke city administration has given the Afro-Americans of this community the SHADOW for the SUBSTANCE in the matter of positions, and precious little of the SHADOW, up to date.--The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Surely the above is true our Negro citizens of Cleveland have nothing to felicitate over. Why don't Brother Fleming and Brother Smith get together? DIGEST OF LETTERS. We have received letters containing valuable information and interesting and helpful suggestion by our friends who are desirous to help us in our approaching Subscription Campaign. Mr. Benj. J. Thomas, of Cyncord, Pa., regards "The Freeman as the best of the race's production, and wants it continued to his address." Mr. W. R. Moten, of Spokane, Wash., is also very well pleased with the paper. He says: "The Freeman is nearer to performing the full duty of a Negro journal than any he has seen." He advises a return to the publication of "Race Gleanings." He is with us from start to finish. Mr. Joshua Bell, of Memphis, Tenn.. thinks the paper ought to be wider and whiter, and that the editorials ought to be kept up to the standard in the discussion of "Current Topics." He says he has three boys of his own to handle the paper with him and promises a large and growing circulation for that city. Mr. Calvin Edwards, of Chicago, thinks "Souvenir Post Cards" as premiums would stimulate and increase the circulation. He says he is himself prepared to supply us. Mr. Charles Southers, of Minneapolis, Minn., is talking surprisingly to us about an "Avigator." He enjoys the distinction of being the first Negro aviator in the world, and certainly is the first we have heard of that wanted to fly on the air. He is enthusiastic about it, and advertises his invention with us. After he has flown from a point in Florida to West Cuba and return he will then organize a "Negro Aviators' Syndicate" for the manufacture and sale of the machines. This is great! Mr. J. B. Richey, of Tuscaloosa, Fla., is practical. He thinks The Freeman the best," and emphasizes his interest in the approaching campaign by sending in two cash subscribers. Thanks, gentlemen. THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS. By a singular co-incident in the month just closing we celebrate the memories and achievements of three of the greatest Americans since the foundation of the republic. George Washington was "first in the hearts of his countrymen," and up to this date he has had but one rival in the affections of the American people—that one is Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately their birthdays come too close together as to allow equal justice to their memories by the nation. The other great American happens to be of another race, surrounded by different environments, and representing a different kind of history, that no American can feel proud of, still by the providence of God, he was raised up from the depth of slavery to prove to the world that God doesn't always go to the white race to get a leader for His people, nor does He always seek college professors; He takes a Douglas to show them that He can get along sometimes without them. We wish the nation was broad enough to "render to Ceasar the things that are due," but it isn't, and that's all that there is to it; it may make progress in that direction in another century. The High Educational College of Glory Special to the Seven Favorite Characters, and Classes, of the Whole Negro Race of America: GREETING, namely: — The honorable, the lovely, the pure, the wise, the true, the merciful and the just, most high. Dearly Beloved: — We wish to inform you that as the world grows weaker and wiser; and as true knowledge and true light has become more expedient, in order to find sure ways and true means to brighten the days and prosper all worthy people — we therefore consider our fate; And in looking for true light; for the Negro people to walk by, and to work by, for their perpetual success, we have found it to be highly expedient for us as a race to have a Supreme Divine, Negro National, Royal, Directory College of Glory; in America, through which to better educate and righteously train the masses of Negro people, who have lack of sufficient knowledge and understanding to enable them to successfully master the evils and the impediments standing in their way of eternal success — for their righteous prosperity as a people. This letter, therefore, will inform you that we have already founded such a college of which we speak, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., with a view also of establishing branches to it, now in all other important places in America, in Africa, and in other parts of the world (having 25,000 feet of ground to build on); we aim to build at the earliest possible period another new building to this one we have here in Boston, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) or more, quickly. And we are having a grand rally now and are now making a close canvass for special help from personal sympathizers everywhere. You, therefore, by this letter, are cordially invited to graciously contribute to us something for this cause, if you feel inclined to do so of your own personal accord, as through the merits, the wisdom, knowledge and the intelligence of this College of Glory; we see how we can employ of our race over 700,000 people. As for reference, we wish to say to you, confidentially and personally, that we do not ask to be recommended by anyone, or by any special people, other than those who voluntarily do so, as we are anxious to have this most important College of Glory and the glorious cause of it to prosper, in the eyes of God and in the presence of His people on its own merits, independent of solicited praise or special approval of special intelligence of other people, except such as we invite personally to help us on their own individual responsibility, for this is the holy will of God that we should do this to His own name's glory, as the title of this college, in its own self, is a sufficient hint to the wise to enable them to see the expediency of its merits, as a true source of supreme light and supreme glory intelligence. Trusting that you and each of you will appreciate the invitation we hereby extend, we await your early favor and reply and thanking you for same, we remain. Main Building, Cor. Highland and Dorr Streets, Boston, Massachusetts. P. S. — We have placed this letter in this paper so as all our people may read it and we want to see just who will be the first characters in every city and town that will send us a personal contribution, now, for we are now ready to commission every trustworthy person of our entire race who sends us a liberal contribution for this great College of Glory. We are ready to appoint each as representatives and solicitors for it, and for its glorious branches, everywhere, until we have qualified 10,000 trustworthy solicitors for a period of ten years, in order that the money which God demands for this college and its branches may be gathered immediately without further delay, and to such as are moved by His holy spirit to help us, we say to them, and to you each, be quick, be quick, be quick, for the King's business requiren great haste. N.B. — They that yield themselves to the glorious work of this college in life righteously, they shall not want for any good thing that they need, as through the aid and the direction of this College of Glory, millions and millions of our people who are now in despair will be led to a perpetual success which will last forever and ever. Send your contribution when you write for further particulars and you will be highly honored. Frederick Douglas was a potent factor in the history in the making of the republic prior to the 60's and on through to the day of his death in February, 1895. He was great as a brave defender of his people, matchless in oratory, uncompromising as race leader, and valuable as an advisor to the President, Mr. Lincoln. Singular enough, neither of these men was born great, neither of them had greatness thrust upon him; each of them attained greatness by stress and strife, and not by popular encouragement. A notable thing in their history is that each of them was born poor; there is almost an exact parallel in Mr. Lincoln's and Mr. Douglas' birth, although Mr. Lincoln had the advantage to be born free, while Douglas was born a slave. But both of these men were self-made and self-educated, and all three of them will live in the hearts of their countrymen. BALTIMORE, MD. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Mary M. Gregg, one of the best known workers in the South of the A. M. E. Church, died suddenly at her home here on December 14, 2015, after acute indigestion. She was born in Georgetown, S. C., in 1859. The deceased was the wife of Rev. Dr. E. J. Gregg, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. Church. His city and former general secretary of the Allen Christian Endeavor League of the A. M. E. Church. She was very active in mission work. In her dedication, while her husband was pastor at St. Stephen's, M. E. Chuch at Wilmington, N. C., she ar- Many a man goes broke—in Health—then wealth. 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The High Ed APPLICATION BLANK! For 100,000 to 1,000,000 Volunteers in the Negro Race Who will give from one hour at least to one day in labor free to help promote a sure plan to deliver the Negro people from poverty in America, which is so fast overtaking the race. (Special to the True Light Army Director General.) Office, 74 Highland St., Boston, Mass. DEAR SIR: I understand that you have a sure plan to deliver the Negro people of America from the woeful and helpless condition which is so swiftly coming upon us as a race and that in order to get this plan to all the members of the race this year, you have called for 100,000 to 1,000,000 volunteer helpers of the race who are willing to give a day in labor or at least one hour in labor free to help the True Light Army to get this sure plan for our success to all of our people this year. Now, sir, my name is you will, and I will give you one.....free in labor at my home district to help put your plan in the hands of our people. Address me at Take Notice—All dear ones in the Negro race who will unite with the united workers of the True Light Army and help by giving from one hour to one day in labor free to help get our plans of delivering the Negro race from ruination in America, please fill out the above blank and mail it to the True Light Army, 74 Highland Street, Boston, Mass. P. S.—The labor will be light and easy. Any one who can walk a mile in two hours can do the work. Main Building Corr. Highland and Dorr Streets, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. Archbishop Justus J. Evans, D. G., Chief Instructor N. B. True Women Missionaries and workers for God educated free of charge. If you do not need educating in THE TRUE LIGHT OF LIFE or do not wish to be educated in The High Educational College of Glory, please remember that this college is now educating people who are willing to work for God and for the salvation of the helpless and unlearned people free of charge, and you might please God to be so kind as to do a kind, friendly and a loving act for this College of Glory, by giving a donation to the Expense Fund of this college. IF IT IS NO MORE THAN $1.00 it will help to educate and save the Negro people from ruination. It will employ 10,000 associate teachers. GREAT AND GLORIOUS IS THE MISSION OF THIS COLLEGE In the Negro race and in the world at large. Typewriting and shorthand—taught free—also—together with all main points of the true ways of true success of life and true righteousness. Office, 74 Highland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Phone 608-1 Rox. JUSTUS J. EVANS, D. G., Pres. N. B.—Branches and associated teachers of this college are to be in every city and town in America where our people live. WORTHY PERSONS APPLY FOR POSITIONS. There is a life-time occupation in this College of Glory and its branches for over ten thousand men and expert women teachers and over seven hundred shorthand and typewriting teachers. Any worthy and competent member of the Negro race is eligible to a standard life position. Applicants must prove fitness and worthy. ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT. EDUCATIONAL COLLEGE OF GLORY. Archbishop JUSTUS J. EVANS, D.G., Founder and President. Bishop MALCOLM M. JONES, V.P., and Assistant Treasurer. Rev. A. F. BOWER, Secretary. Archbishop EVANS, D.G., 74 Highland Street, Boston, Mass. Archbishop JUSTUS J. EVANS, D.G., President and Chief Commissioner. ranged many of the details for the successful entertainment of the A. M. E. General Conference at that church in 1896. Besides her husband she is survived by seven children. Her funeral took place Monday at St. John's Church, Dr. Dr. A. L. Gaines delivering the eulogy. . . The twenty-fifth anniversary pastorate of its founder, Dr. Dr. W. M. Alexander, will be the occasion for special services at the church beginning Sunday. The funeral has been in the ministry since his graduation from the old Maryland Seminary in APPLICATION For 100,000 to 1,000, the Negro Who will give from one hour at help promote a sure plan to deli- erty in America, which is so fast (Special to the True Light Office, 74 Highland DEAR SIR:—I understand that you gro people of America from the woo- swiftly coming upon us as a race and the members of the race this year, you volunteer helpers of the race who are least one hour in labor free to help the plan for our success to all of our people you will, and I will give you one..... to help put your plan in the hands of Take Notice—All dear ones in the united workers of the True Light hour to one day in labor free to help gro race from ruination in America, mail it to the True Light Army, 74 B P. S.—The labor will be light mile in two hours can do the work. EITHER GIVE SOMETHING The High Education IT WILL EDUCATE YOU AS Main Building Cor. High BOSTON, MA Archbishop Justus J. Evans N. B. True Women Missionaries and w If you do not need educating in THE to be educated in The High Educational college is now educating people who are vation of the helpless and unlearned people God to be kind as to do a kind, friend Glory, by giving a donation to the Expense MORE THAN $1.00 it will help to edu- cation. It will employ 10,000 associate te GREAT AND GLORIOUS IS THE In the Negro race and in the world at la- free—also together with all main points of true righteousness. Office, 74 Highland S Phone 608-1 Rox. N. B.—Branches and associated teach- and town in America where our people are WORTHY PERSONS APPLY FOR P tion in this College of Glory and its bra- women teachers and over seven hundred worthy and competent member of the Ne- tion. Applicants must prove fitness and a Educational College Pers, and Classes, of the Whole Negro Race able, the lovely, the pure, the wise, the true, the the world grows weaker and wiser; and as true k means to brighten the days and prosper all worthy Negro people to walk by, and to work by, for the Negro people to walk by, and to work by, for the Daily train the masses of Negro people, who have lack and the impediments standing in their way of eter that we have already founded such a college of aches to it, now in all other important places in Am- ber; we aim to build at the earliest possible period hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) or more, and are now making a close canvass for special heated to graciously contribute to us something for this we wisdom, knowledge and the intelligence of this Col- u, confidentially and personally, that we do not asl ly do so, as we are anxious to have this most im- mortal of His people on its own merits, except such as we invite personally to help us on His own name's glory, as the title of this college its merits, as a true source of supreme light and sup- appreciate the invitation we hereby extend, we av Yours truly for the best, THE HIGH EDUCATIONAL CO Archbishop JUSTUS J. EV Bishop MALCOLM M. JO Rev. A. F. BOWER, Sec reets, Boston, Massachusetts. 10,000 SOLICITORS FOR IT. this paper so as all our people may read it and and us a personal contribution, now, for we are not a special contribution for this great College of Glory. We ous branches, everywhere, until we have qualified l d demands for this college and its branches may be to help us, we say to them, and to you each, be Archbishop EVANS, D to the glorious work of this college in life righteously on of this College of Glory, millions and millions of ever and ever. Archbishop JUSTUS J. EVANS, D te for further particulars and you will be highly ho 1882. He has been a leader in public movements, and as president of the outrage League of Maryland led the colonization campaign against disfranchisement. He corresponding secretary of the Lott Carney Mission Convention, and has raised over 1,000 African missions...Mr. John Henry Smith, a former known residents of this city, is recovering from a brief illness...Rev. Charles S. Murray of New York, was the principal speaker at the Crimson-Douglass celebration at Sparrow Street M. E. Church Monday night. ON BLANK! 100,000 Volunteers in Euro Race least to one day in labor free to over the Negro people from pov- t overtaking the race. Army Director General.) St., Boston, Mass. you have a sure plan to deliver the Ne- rul and helpless condition which is so that in order to get this plan to all you have called for 100,000 to 1,000,000 we willing to give a day in labor or at the True Light Army to get this sure please this year. Now, sir, my name is You may call on me at any time free in labor at my home district our people. Address me at in the Negro race who will unite with at Army and help by giving from one get our plans of delivering the Ne- please fill out the above blank and highland Street, Boston, Mass. and easy. Any one who can walk a TO, OR BE EDUCATED IN onal College of Glory AND THE PEOPLE RIGHT. Oland and Dorr Streets, MASS., U. S. A. Ins, D. G., Chief Instructor workers for God educated free of charge. TRUE LIGHT OF LIFE or do not wish College of Glory, please remember that this willing to work for God and for the sal- free of charge, and you might please y and a loving act for this College of Fuse Fund of this college. IF IT IS NO ate and save the Negro people from ruin- achers. THE MISSION OF THIS COLLEGE age. Typewriting and shorthand—taught of the true ways of true success of life and street, Boston, Massachusetts. JUSTUS J. EVANS, D. G., Pres. ers of this college are to be in every city POSITIONS. There is a life-time occupa- ches for over ten thousand men and expert shorthand and typewriting teachers. Any Negro race is eligible to a standard life pos- worthy. ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT. X Boston, Mass., February 10, 1910. of America: he merciful and the just, most high. knowledge and true light has become more people — we therefore consider our fate; or perpetual success, we have found it to be Directory College of Glory; in America, of sufficient knowledge and understanding success — for their righteous prosperity which we speak, in Boston, Massachusetts, in Africa, in Africa, and in other parts of the THE STAGE Additional Stage News on Page Six. The Hallbacks opened at New York Boot. Tim Owsley, the comedian, is filling an engagement at Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Sailie Brown, mother of Frank Power Brown, is much improved. It is reported that the Bert A. Williams company will close the second week in March. Carlisle and Wellmon, in their novel musical act at London, England, send regards to friends. Thomas Thompson is at present playing the piano at the Moon Theater, Kansas City, Mo. Regards to the profession. The Marshalls continue to please Eastern audiences. Marshall is the man with the double voice and a rytime plankog. J. Louis Johnson, manager of the Glazer Jubilee Company, sends Best wishes to all friends in and out of the profession. Sydney Kirkpatrick, of Richards and Paints Minstrels, is in the city on account of the illness of his mother, who is now improving. George A. Williams, of Flimey's Orchestra, at Detroit, Mich., sends regards and best wishes to Fred Simpson, P. G. Lowery and all friends. Ray and Williams have just finished playing nineteen weeks and are around the start of the next time, opening Monday, Feb. 21, at Lenox Avenue, 125th street, house. Mr. Ray wishes to come from his old friend C. V. B. A., 502th avenue, New York. THE PROFESSION AT PHILA- DELPHIA. At the Auditorium last week was seen a bill of extraordinary attractiveness. The character of the programs, as arranged, is attracting a great many ladies and men, and the bill has never been patrons of these places. The bill for the week of February 21st is headed by Wattis and Reese, the inimitable Billy and the charming William. The Billy and the William have the iron-jawed wonder and strong man, in remarkable feats of strength. Miss Carrie Thompson, the queen of song, late of the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, began her career in the twentendous ovations she has received establish her popularity with Auditorium audiences. Amnette Gordon, the clever sublette, made her first Philadelphia appearance. Monday evening, making a concert, Monday evening, making a concert, Here See Kelly," has Arnbey Here See Kelly." PEOPLE'S THEATER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. The Lewis Stock Company has two new additions, Baby F. Seals and Phillip (Daddy) Moore. The show was staged this week by Baby Seals, and he is some of the most popular stars, Jane Brown's *Birth Day*. The act closed with "Good Luck Mary." Then came the olo, opened by Mr. Lewis singing "To Night," Mr. Lewis took three songs from the album, including Miss Maud Cumble singing "Red Wing," assisted by Mr. Sandy Burns, on character man. At the closing of the show, Mr. Burns and the featured Baby Seals' song "Shake, Battle and Roll." We close the show with old man Beaver Dam, who belongs to Dam, Baptist Church and Phillip (Daddy). Beaver, Sam Russell as Diannah, Mr. Lewis as Limber-Leg Slocum, and Tansell as Jenkins, is cleaning. Baby Seals was assisted by that famous train-trainer, who Sand Bars says he-le-Bon Bon. L. LISH LEE AT "TWO JOHNS THEATER." Miss L. Fish Lee made her initial appearance at the Two Johns Theater, Indianaapolis, Sunday afternoon and night, and in the fullest sense of the term she is the sheer stream from start to finish. She is the dazzling performer and work and knows her business. She is, indeed, one of the cleverest workers colored performers of the day. The audience is thrilled and spends repeatedly to encore. In fact, she is the best drawing card ever seen in the Two Johns. This popular theater is located on the avenue, and is owned by Messrs. John and John H. Victor. It is the only fireproof floor in the city with six ground floor fireproof the stage and all accessories are fireproof. The one need feed no awareness at attention and the audiences are very well behaved and very discipline is followed out. The performers cater especially to women and children in the night. For a first-class evening's entertainment to the Two Johns and hear L. Lish Lee. FUNERAL SERVICES AT CHICAGO the performers present at the museum of J. Ed Green at his Chicago hospital, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dudley, griffin Sisters, Madeline Cooper, Chus- mac Mac White, Mr. and Mrs. Ver Valerie Arnold, Andrew Triche, Ras Jones, Walter W. Triche, and Lewis Lawrence Chemanu, Trivin Mil- kens Harrison Stewart (her husband be- loved of the city), Henry Jones, a friend, Aron Jones, hsl later partner, and Sylvester contributed by the Pekin Theatre em- ployees headed by Frank Hubbard, a young man who served Mr. Green in the Pekin Stock Company, and who deeply felt his loss. The Grand Theatre, the North Star Monicle Lodge, Laurence Cheaunt, Viola Sisters and others, including Margaret Crawford and the former farmers, who cogwheel who sent a handsome chair, Brown was not present at the funeral and Manager Motts called after the services over but before the corpse had left the house. The former Brooks who was Mr. Green's friend and sister, escorted Mrs. Green to New Albany where the final services were held, Sylvia Russell was at the depot and last to see, the train move to carry Mr. Green, the train move to his former home and last resting place. NEW THEATER OPENED AT JACK SONVILLE. Appreciating the taste of the theater, among the element of the race in Boston, will substantially enhance the management that will book productions elevating to the Thespian, Messrs. Sumter, Crowd and Seth Fills, owners on the new Globe Thespian of Boston. opened this commodious play house fo the appreciation of such patrons. It is beautiful interior decorations, and especially the sceneries for the stage, take this house into the class of cheap variety houses, where art and refinement are discarded. The atmosphere of this unique theater fo the colored population of Jacksonville is active to the highest attainments of the Negro upon the stage and its patrons. Its orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Eugene Francis Mikkell, is an aggregation of professional musicians. Their renditions of the music are the best theaters of the country, demonstrate the ability of the Negro to master classics, dramas and Stevens, with a company just out of Chicago, opened up this house last week in their own original musical comedy entitled Dr. Fo Jo. This act met the hearty apprehension of a crowded house at every performance. This refined group gave these clever artists an ovation. Sanford, Fla., which affords the scene in which the typical characteristics of tramps who disturb the scene residents in the city are observed by Chas, H. Williams in the character of Sloom Slow and the Augusta Stevens as Bill Jenkins, the erstwhile sporting tramp. Williams is a good comedian, and is an expert in the sport of comedians, of the class of comedians generally seen in this section of the country. His voice shows cultural training. As a mirth producer, he is not a demoralizing force of Augusta Stevens, as a straight man in this act, offers his intelligent audience a piece of clever work that demonstrates his talent. A brilliant example of the artistic temperament of Afro-American children is found in the little girl known as "Little Rosie, the Child Wonder." She is decided hit and will add laurels to the N.Y. school board session if the environments are given her. Miss Jennie Taylor, who is well known, for being eminently endowed by nature and the equally artist, is a syncope of the equally citizen in this city, and is eliciting hearty applause in her work. The beautiful, vivacious chorus girls, who wear costumes that animate scene, and the artist make the departure from undeveloped artists appearing in houses where the lowest, ideals of the Negro ruffian are depicted in the city, are Messrs. Campbell and Conley, in then special acts, are receiving their share of applause. The white press of the city gave the white stories of this new venue by three of the colored men of finance in Florida. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY AT INDIANAPOLIS. The musical numbers are: "All I Want Is My Honoy," "I Ain't No Fool," "Ragtime Baseball," "I'm Going to Leave To Me," "The King," "King Like Me," "Booa Booa," "The Beaver Swim," "Good Enough for Me," "In Zulu Land," and "Mother's Chil." The company numbers but seventeen, and each one works, for there is no opportunity to "soldier." Musical critics say the song is the best the season here this season. The members are: Madam Jones, Sarah Gray Byrd, Irene Gaines, Ruby Taylor, Jeanette Green, Catherine Reeves, Emma Prince, Zenila Hunter, Gussie Martin, Jolly John Larkle, and Anthony Byrd, Will Cook, Morgan Prince and Charles Bougia. J. ED. GREEN OVERTAKEN BY DEATH, WHICH SUDDENLY CLAIMED ITS OWN. BRILLIANT CAREER OF THE FA- MOUS ACTOR. By Sylvester Russell. And lo for I am Death, who seeks mine own; For I venge to dust can claim. All mortal souls in duelet tone, To scenes more magical than fame. For I am Death, the traitor—slave of war. For I open graves my prey find, peace The message of death, and to J. Ed Green the sweetest and safest message he could give, has repeated its visitation of the past in the rangs of public actors as a moral to add to our selfish attitude toward the bodies on which the different patches of soil in Iceland grew. The message came quick and sure and not without a token, for Green was apparently on the Christian Scientists, who were praying for the impossible restoration of a human wrecked physical frame, which could only be restored in its spiritual flight to heaven. Mr. Green was born in New Albany, Ind., about forty years ago and was a high school graduate. The first of his early stage work was when as a quartet Hogan he appeared as a baritone solist in Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels. He had a light baritone voice of sweet quality and he was equally a good interlocutor and stage manager. His aptitude in that direction made him a good assistant to Mr. Hogan, and his collaboration in writing minstrel afterpieces, in writing songs with a good form, well-formulated routine for his stage career. After a later tour with Oliver Scott's Minstrels he became tired of minstrelsy. His high rate of living had led to a break with his father Hogan and McClain left the original Smart Set Company Green was secured as stage manager with that company. It was while in this company that he began to work on crude and sensitive to criticism, mainly due to the vanity of his ambition to become great and famous ahead of his capability. His next most prominent position was as a stage manager in the same capacity, where he became an adept botch-work-writer in the comedy element. When Ernest Hogan made his first appearance as Green use his stage manager, and Mr. Green also collaborated with Mr. Hogan in writing the play "Rufus Rastus," Mr. Green was then residing in the Hogan studio, where he made a difference arose between Messrs. Green and Hogan over the prin- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER A. J. ED. GREEN, "The Bronze Chesterfield." Comedy, in comedies without music, and when in the title role of "The Pet Dog," he fully demonstrated that he had at this point been the greatest and most successful work I had ever seen him undertake. As a stage producer, after Cole, Shipp and Hogan, Ed. Green was fourth in rank, and he quiet, easy method of Cole and Shipp. Mr. Green was always in error when he thought that criticism of his work was deliberate. Once at a moment or two, he wrote a letter to a writer, in an open letter—all of which I did not take seriously, as knowing him personally was an assurance of the actual good quality of his disposition, which I would use when we again met only as friends in Chicago. Mr. Green's last venture, prior to his illness, was when he and his friend, Marion Brooks, and another man outside the Chester Amusement Company, as was Green had otherwise been known in the profession as the bronze "Chesterfield," and the little Chester moving company. Mr. Green followed by two others in the same neighborhood, with a booking agency attached. When an actor's order of "William Goats" was founded the trouble of competition, without competition, without diplomacy, and his partner's lack of business ability when Green fell sick with the strain of too much mental worry, and with his physiological condition, of his life's work was soon at hand, and his vital decay which ended in death. When Green was removed to the Provident Hospital, of Chicago, he was in a state of unconsciousness, not rational, as I had correctly reported. Dr. M. J. Brown, who was Green's physician, and also a member of the team, was also Mr. Green's friend in the days of his popular success at the Pekin. This same Dr. Brown proves to be his loyal friend. Dr. Brown conveved Mr. Green to the hospital at his own expense, but payed for the best room in the hospital occupied by Green himself. When Mr. Green left the hospital he again occupied a room at the doctor's expense, and at no time during his illness, he was not until Green's business associates had become interested in how far the extent of Dr. Brown's good will and kindness had been in case of a lingering illness, without the aid and dignity of his friends and the dramatic profession. The question of giving him care had to an initiative effort, and after consulting Dr. Brown, I called on Mr. Motts in order to get the Pekin Theater, if possible, for a entirely successful it is effort was not entirely successful, it is effort that if Green had lived he would later have had a big testimonial at the Pekin. It will be almost impossible to give full compensation for his illness, for his tender compassion toward Mr. Green, for his labor of brotherly love and manhood for his faithfulness in a duty of care, for good deeds, such as few of the medical profession would be willing to offer gratuity. It was on the morning of February 19 with the Christian scientists, prior to leaving for Indianaapolis. When he home, later in the day, he was suddenly stricken with a spell which Dr. Brown stated should have preceded his first visit to Indiana. He was known as tumor of the brains. The eno came sudden and without a murmur. The funeral of Mr. Green took place at the residence of Mrs. Baker, 3212 Wabash Avenue, Washington's birthday, in charge of the Mass order to which he belonged. From there the funeral party was conveyed to the street depot, where the train was in waffle form, and the train into his Albany, Ind., where services were held at the First Bantist Church, conducted by the Rev. C. S. Manual, after which the train was taken into his last resting place in the family plot in that city beside his grandmother. The privacy of Mr. Green's funeral in Chicago was observed by the request of his wife, and the pall bearers were Masons. Mr. Green is survived by his wife, who was the sister of the contrato saint of the Black Patti Museum Company, who did not arrive until after Mr. Green had passed away. Mr. Green's little son, who resides in New York, was known only other surviving in Chicago. sister, Drulca Jackson, of Indianapolis, went direct to New Albany. He called on Mary Great directly after her arrival into the city to console her in her hour of bereavement. Cards and flowers were also received, and a large host of friends came to present at the depot to pay their last respects to the once popular and useful actor, who was in his line, played many people in a friend's life, many people in Christian who did not or were not able to pay back the compliment. When who was converted just before his death, Christian scientists, as a corpse, looked as natural as though he were sleeping. He said his soul is happy and his shattered body necessarily laid to rest in the land of his birth. THE C. V. B. A. AND N. Y. NOTES. By Harry Brown. McKissick & Jones are playing clubs in New York. The Dixie Serenaders are at Proctor's, Newark, N. J., this week. The Bruces are in Orange, N. J., this week at the Bijon Theater. Joseph Montague has been added to the club staff of the C. V. B. A. Frank Clermonte was elected recording secretary of the C. V. B. A. The Golden Gate Quintet has just returned from the West after playing twenty-eight weeks. Will H. Vodery has returned from Philadelphia, where he rehearsed one of Hurtig & Seamon's shows. Thursday night, Feb. 24, was Ernest Hogan night at the C. V. B. A. clubrooms. A night has been set aside for some actor of note. The Smith Harper Trio is now making good on the bar Morris time. American Music Hall, Boston, this week, with coast time to follow. A place of honor has been assigned in the C. V. B. A. club rooms for the larger pampering of the late Ernest Hogan, presented by Bro. Frank Wheaton. Jessie A. Shipp will present "The Bell Browns" five dancing gifts from Bert A. Williams "Lode of Koal" Co. They will open early in March with special setting. Mrs. Frank Camille, sister of Frank Clermonte, has given birth to a fine boy, and a few days later her husband died or tuberculosis. She will come to New York in June and live with her brother. There is a new act in vaudeville, and they have made good. It is "The Colored American Trio." Harry Williams is pianist; Frank B. Williams, tenor; William Eikhs, basso. They are well booked up. --- "HIS HONOR THE BARBER." Ella Anderson is evidently a great lover of dumb animals. She always has a winsome smile and a kind word for Patrick, the quadruped actor. Little Sherman, the son of S. H. Dudley, is with us this week. "S. H. Jr.," is a great favorite with the company. He is ability of his father's trails, and some day he will probably put his feet in his father's shoes. Ora Dunlop says there is no need or denying the fact that James Arthur Lilvid is the handsome man in the "Merry O'clock" oetette. Well, suppose, we ask Dorothy', of THE FREEMAN to decide this? Mr. Knox, you are a kelly, good fellow, but the handsome Barber the Company are all wondering why you don't send THE FREEMAN more often. We would rather go without butter on our bread than to miss the crisp news of its theatrical columns. Miss Ella Anderson, the new prinnomda of His Honor the Barber Company, is scoring with much success. Her voice shows marked flexibility and sweetness. It is a revelation to hear her interpretation of "Consolation Lane" in the second act. --- Irene Tasker, a dashing chorus girls of our company, and the clever interpreter of "Merry Widow Brown" during the ill-fated 1934 play, lucky girls to have her photo placed in the theatrical columns of one of our leading professional papers recently. As the press representative of His Father the best man, I have been requested to decide who is the most prominent in catering to the delicate stomachs of the profession. I will say, without hesitation, that the best and most capable of the job is Mr. Widow Brown of 2354 Wabash avenue, and Mrs. Annie Nash Hyde ("Baby Doll"), of 3414 Wabash avenue. They are the best in the city. "We" know from experience. Matt Johnson is certainly a diplomat. While playing in Springfield, Ill., on a certain evening, he was making scratch time to the heist when a friend killed him and examined him. "Matt have a dring" "Olm man. I positively refuse, but come around to the stage door after the show and then I can whisper in your ear. Andrew Tubble received a letter from a corset firm recently requesting him to pose for a Parisian manufacturer. Had it not have been for the severe discipline that reigns in the daily regulation of the company, Lawrence Chenault, the Chicago matinee idol, would have been responsible for a great outburst of snickering from the entire chorus of the Captain, indeed, with usual dush, and facing the chorus with his characteristic eloquent speech it was noticed that he was mucking a many of his fellow chorus members and fellows looked on his countenance. Harrison Bros. Greatest of All Colored Minstrels Largest and best of its kind in existence. Want to hear from good colored musicians at all times For Sale-One 24 whistle steam calliope, one Baby Grand Piano, one tent 50x80. Will buy uniforms. Address J. M. BUSBY, PER. AD. PANA, ILL. and hid their feelings under a mask of smiles. Lawrence, please don't make us suffer in this way again! It was with heartfelt sympathy and sincere regret that His Honor the Barber Company received the sad news of the death of J. E. Baldwin and producer, Mr. Dudley received news that he was in much better health and expected to return on Mr. Green's arrival at Indianapolis. HORRERT EVEREST AMOS. J. ED: GREEN PASSES AWAY. The brilliant young playwright and producer's death came as a shock to his many friends. Mr. Green had been ill in the past, but he thought that the crisis had passed. He was, through the kindness of Mr. Dudley, preparing for a trip to Indianapolis and the country when the end came Saturday. Mr. Green was the home of A.W. Baker, 3213 Washburn Ave., and Mr. Green was converted to the Christian faith while he was in Provident Hospital, not through fear of death, but in the absolute faith that he would regain his health. Mr. Green was the street and conversed with friends FF2'3 day night until a late hour in the best of spirits. The realization that the hand of death was upon him came a few moments before the last. He grasped the hand on his brother and awaited the end peacefully. Following this engagement Mr. Green, with Bob A. Kelley, wrote and produced the Queen of the Jungles featuring Me, the production company. He then joined the Smart Set Company, creating the character of Kane, and scored a distinct hit. His engagement with the Rufus Rustus company followed. He the production company, and then joined the headwainer. The staging of Rufus Rustus was acclaimed by critics to be a new pace in musical comedy, the production season. This success Mr. Green can be the season. Chicery stage white burlesque shows and was engaged by Mr. Robert T. Motts as amusement director for his Pekin Theater. To change a questionable resort to a family affair, the production company Mr. Green's credit is even more. He made the Pekin Theater the theatrical novelty of America, an inspiration to the hopes of a Negro profession and a moment of achievement in his judgment and foresight we are indebted for such artists as Harrison Stewart, Matt Marshall, Sheldon Brooks, J. F. Mace White, Lottie Jewell, Leona Marshall, Mae White, Nettie Jewell, Jennie ADA Banks, Madeline Cooperman, Jennie Ringold and Elvira, such writers and promoters as Marion A. Brooks and William B. Brooks, and those young playwrights Miller and Lyles, who are now a big success in yaundville. With the advent of the small vaudeville theater in Chicago, which caused the managers of the Pekin to change its policy and move to a larger, more formal and Marion A. Brooks organized the Chester Amusement Company, operating three theater in Chicago and booking several other cities. The failure of these enterprises led to the Green's breakdown. He is survived by a wife, Jeanette Murphy Green: a child, six years of age; a sister, Miss Drucilla May Green, of Indianapolis, and a brother, Thomas Green, of Tampa. The memorials were viewed at Mrs. Baker's Sunday and Monday by hundreds of friends and were removed to New Albany, Ind. for the funeral, which took place Wednesday, and were laid to rest deeply and who was the only parent that he ever knew. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE Concluded from Page One. Several of the company will be expected, also a few Louisville people. The affair will be held at the home of Dr. Blackburn in New Albany. • • • • The fans of Louisville regret to learn that Ed. Lancaster is thinking of going to Chicago. • • • • Clarence Coleman left this week for Chicago to play with one of the big ball teams of that city. • • • • The theatre-goers of the Avenue have been informed through Mr. Murray, press account that 6 H. It. Murray will be the day during the week of March 6 in "His Honor, the Barber." It is reported that Mr. Dudley has a good show, and he is a delightful delinquenter of the old-time Southern darky. The Pearl street district school is being looked upon as one of the model schools of the city, judging from the number of teachers and students. Ms. Missrietta Madison, of Shelbyville public school, was a visitor last week and the principal and teachers of the school gave her a royal welcome. Ms. Taylor in her office asked Ms. Taylor which schools with much profit. Next week Mrs. Mayne Stone Roman, of the same town, will visit Pearl street school to take notes. The corps must be a criterion, as superintendents of other towns send teachers to this school. We are in receipt of the Newburg Daily, Newburg, N. Y., in which is published an address of Roscoe Conkling Simons, on "Abraham Lincoln." He spoke to the Pa. governor, and he states that his address was superior to that of his predecessors. The paper says further that "he is an eloquent speaker, with a remarkably ready flow of words." He did not speak in the press of modern times, but spoke out uninchingly and manly. It is to be regretted that we have not more of such speakers as the Simmsons Type. We are glad to learn that he is a predecessor of the address of Mr. Simmons. His rhetoric, thought and reason are fine enough for publication in any daily newspaper. We congratulate Mr. Simmons upon his timely utterances and wish the distinguished editor much success in his chosen profession. 5 Can be found in Peru, Ind., at 98 East Ninth street, Mrs. Julia Turna agent. 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Also "Her Tramping Husband." Address SIMS & HARRIS, 412 S. Dearborn St. Mobile. Ala. THE STAGE 6 The Freeman can be obtained from the Kid Phelps poolroom, 222½ A. East Trade street, Charlotte, N. C. A. E. Benajamin, agent. The snowstorm gave the Whitney Musical Comedy Company a terrible knock, so the managers say, but they are still moving. Allen and Sadaler, with the Congo King Company, play Buxton, Iowa, the 21st. Mr. T. J. Sadler is taking two and three encores with his solo, "If I Had a Thousand Lives to Live." Our society act leaves them screaming nightly for more. Regards to S. M. T. Company and the Cole and Johnson Company. Al Boyd, stage manager of the Ruby Theater, Galveston, Tex., Estella Smith Boyd, Harrison Blackburn and little Emma Johnson Blackburn have closed their engagement at that house and have opened at the Grand Central, Dallas, Tex., to S. R. O. Best wishes to all friends. Daisy Martin, leading lady with the Whitney Musical Comedy Company, has closed with the company for this season, and is now at Philadelphia on account of the ill health of her mother. Miss Martin will be seen with the No. 2 Smart Set Company next season, Maybelle Brown will finish her time with the Whitney company. The Marvelous LaShe will close the Northwestern Circuit in Des Moines, Ia., February 26, and will open another circuit of six weeks, and will then go to his home at Linwood, Mich., to make preparations for the county fairs the coming season. On or about October 5 he will open his show for the winter, presenting "College Days in Dixie Land," with sixteen people. First appearance at Bay City, Mich. Regards to all friends. After a very successful tour of sixteen weeks over the Western circuits the Jolly Prices have been forced to close and return to their Boston home owing to the illness of Mrs. Price, which it is hoped will not prove to be anything very bad, as they have about twenty more weeks yet to work over this time. Their success has been of the best this season, having lost no time at all. Best regards to the Bruces, the Roys, all friends and The Freeman. Miss Nora Gough, of the Six Black Bees, has joined hands with Mr. Dan Michaels, a much-talked-of comedian of New York. The two are meeting with much success. Miss Gough, our young soubrette, is quite clever at singing and dancing. She formerly made a reputation by singing "Dinah Dear." The Merry Michaels are a scream in their new song, "Funny Face," and carry the house by storm. They are playing dates around New York. Regards to friends. The Hendersons are right side up with care in their original creation in vaudeville, "Aunt Phoebe's Southern Home." The act is laughable. Week of February 6, Lyceum Theater, San Francisco; week February 13, Voris Theater, Chico, Cal.; week February 20, Wigwam Theater, Marysville, Cal. Kindest regards to all friends, and Mrs. R. O. Henderson says oh you Hog Viney. Our address is 1633 Filbert street, Oakland, Cal. Brown and English, the two real fun makers, are still meeting with great success with the Harrison Brothers' Dixie Minstrels. When English delivers his monologue and finishes with "That's a-Plenty" the audience goes wild. Don't forget Dick Brown is cleaning up with "I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down," and the way he works those ragtime feet is a mystery to all buck dancers. English sure can sing "Take Plenty of Shoes." They are making arrangements to have an act written by J. Berni Barbour. Regards to all in and out of the profession. Thomas Thompson and D. R. Hull, please write us at once in care The Freeman. PITTSBURG SHOW SHOP —By Jassimine.— Everything is going along finely on the avenue. We are still having the finest kind of weather, and the usual evening parade of the strollers is growing larger all the time. * * * * The first of the spring series of sacred concerts by the First Brigade K. of P. Concert Band. Capt. H. C. Waters, director, will be rendered at the Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church, North Side, Sunday evening, March 6, 1910. The soloists for the first concert will be Mr. G. Harry Bolden, tenor; Frank Belt, cornetist, and, as a special number, the "Sextette" from "Lucia L'Ammour" will be played by Messrs. Beatty, Belt, Bush, Washington, King and Robinson. The North Side Lodge of Elks, No. 124, held a grand social session at their "Rest" on West Robinson street, last Sunday afternoon, which was attended by between three and four hundred members and friends. The feature of the afternoon was the splendid program, which consisted of an overture by Robinson's Orchestra, which was indeed well received; Edward H. Winn, of the Star Theater, recited in a splendid manner "Police- man 42," and Dixon and White, those clever entertainers, presented a neat little sketch that included singing, talking and dancing. Then came Billie Butler, Pittsburg's popular colored bell soloist, who rendered Rubinstein's "Melody in F" in a creditable manner, after which the applause was so great that he was compelled to respond and play this season's hit, "That Teasin Rag," by Joe Jordon, with which he took all of his hearers off their feet Mr. R. Anthony Bush, who accompanied him, then played "Idillis," a very pretty piano solo. Others on the program were: D. A. Merritt, Sam Davis, and the Clipper Quartette. J. W (Kid) Miller was master of ceremonies, and handled everything in a cappable manner. All in all, it was the grandest affair of its kind ever given in the history of the lodge. ```markdown ``` A. Guy Truley, the trap drummer, formerly with Robinson's Orchestra, left last week for Detroit, Mich., to accept a like engagement with one of that city's leading orchestras. *** Billie Ward, the Black Dockstader is filling engagements in the city and vicinity, and is making good on the Royer and Balston Circuit. * * * Harry Brooks, the well-known blackface comedian, is in the city, taking a much-needed rest, after which he will open on the Keith and Proctor Circuit. * * * Beatty's Orchestra, conceded to be the best dance hall orchestra in the State, has set the city wild by featuring the trap drummer in a descriptive number, "Oh, You Drummer," written by J. Leubrie Hill, in which the drummer uses fifteen different traps and imitations, along with the drums. It is indeed a very clever piece of work and is capably handled by Billie Butler, the popular trap drummer with the orchestra. At the Star Theater "Wing Lee's Ragtime Laundry," a very clever playlet in two scenes, by Ed Winn, was presented by the Fulton Stock Company. It is a breezy little comedy, with lots of good singing. Dave Merritt, as Wing Lee, the Chinaman, was all that one could wish for. Ed Winn did some very good character acting as the "dope fiend," and Claude Payne, as the tramp, was also well received. Dick Meggs, the popular comedian, furnished the fun, and came in for his share of applause. Miss Fannie Jackson, the prima donna, acquitted herself herself by rendering the Spanish song, "Carissina," in an excellent manner. Eva Wise, as the "tough girl," was also very good. The rest of the company was up to the average, and all came in for their share of applause. THE COLORED VAUDEVILLE PER- FORMER. By Juli Jones, Jr. The Freeman, issue of January 29, had an adverse opinion to the writer about the vaudeville stage and the colored performer by Harry Brown, of Brown and Hodges, the cartoon artists. In Mr. Brown's article he put the writer in a little bad—so much so as to infer that the writer was knocking colored acts. Those who read my Christmas number carefully surely noticed where the writer mentioned white acts as well as colored acts in vaudeville would never turn out a real artistic star. That's one point Mr. Brown jumped on. The writer still stands by that point until he is convinced. The next point Mr. Brown dwelt on was where the writer said that the colored performer was in vaudeville by an accident or to kill time while setting the stage for some big white act; also that colored actors were engaged to sing and dance—nothing else. This was a pretty big assertion to make, but the writer will get to that point later in this article. Mr. Brown again said that Jull Jones did not know what he was talking about. Well, Jones agrees with Mr. Brown on this point, and thousands of others are of Mr. Brown's opinion. Ha! ha! But the writer will have to borrow from Brooks and Hunter's great song, "Never Mind the White Man's Teaching." What Jones knows, he knows. To get at the bottom of this argument, one will first have to commence at the beginning with vaudeville, which is the craze of the day and is here to stay. As near as the writer can remember, some time in the late eighties an American musical comedy star by the name of Miss Tes DeArvel went to Paris, France, to watch big musical production that after its Paris run was to be produced in America under the direction of A.M. Palmer at the Palmer Theater, Thirtieth and Broadway, New York, for a run. After Miss De Arvel landed in Paris she found out that she was to understudy some French star while in Paris, but would be given the leading role when the show opened in New York. This Miss De Arvel turned down flat. The Paris Figaro, a daily paper of high repute in Paris and throughout France and Europe, picked up the matter. Inside of a week every paper in Europe and America was publishing stories about the affair. All the magazines that printed theatrical matters took up the matter, and the affair became the international comment. About this time a theatrical promoter struck a successful plan to introduce variety on the modern plan in theaters, with no smoking or drinking, two shows a day, or continuous shows called la vaudeville. This manager went immediately and engaged Miss De Arvel at a salary of $1,000 per week for ten weeks to sing two songs at every performance. This big salary started the theatrical world, but the public packed the house to see Miss De Arvel, not that she was THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. such a la vaudeville hit, but to see the woman who defied the great Paris managers—something Sarah Bernhardt dare not do or had not done up to that time. One F. C. Proctor, manager of the Metropolis Theater, Twenty-third street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, New York City, was running the house with a big melodrama, "Shenandoah," and a loser. The house was new and had only two obig shows in Neil Burgess in "A County Fair." Neither show was a payer. In the meantime he was looking at Koster & Bial's, a little farther up the street, turning people away every night from their music hall. He closed his house. He then renamed his house, changing it to F. C. Proctor's Vaudeville House, with continuous shows from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m.-vaudeville on the Paris idea. This is where vaudeville began in America. Mr. Proctor showed what he knew about the business, or at least he took a big chance, and gave away every seat in the house for the first day, to convince the public as to what vaudeville was. One of the best vaudeville bills ever offered in this country was presented—The Hawthorne Sisters, Pat Rooney, Marlowe and Durham on horizontal bars, J. W. Kelly the rolling mill man, and some other acts. This was America's first vaudellevie show—not with standing shoes of the same' nature and houses, the same as Proctor's, and put on just such shoes, but were called variety houses. The Olympic Theater of Chicago, Howard Athenaeum of Boston, Tony Pastor's Fourteenth Street of New York, Kohl & Middleton's, Clark street, Chicago, and lots of other houses throughout the United States. But their system of handling two shoes or continuous shows was not of the vaudellevie present day idea. These houses of the variety nature almost began in this country some fifty or sixty years ago. Now to the colored man in vaudeville or variety—this is from the Eastern knowledge: The first colored team in variety was the James Sisters, duet singers, supporting Lester and Allen, doing singing, no dancing. Next to come to notice was Charles Hunn, with Gus Hill's Stars. Mr. Hill was the headliner as champion club-swinger of the world. The event of Mr. Hunn's debut as a single specialty will never be forgotten by the colored patrons of the house. Before he opened his mouth the gallery gods commenced to hiss, as the gallery gods practically ran Miner's Eighth Avenue house. Mr. Hunn showed his wit, stopped singing, commenced to dance, stood on his head, did two or three difficult somersaults, back and front. By this he turned the hisses into applause. In Mr. Brown's article he brought in almost everybody on the vaudeville legitimate stage in some way to strengthen his argument on their ability as dancers. The writer will admit that all those he mentioned could dance, are great dancers, but the writer is no overlooking the cold fact that there are some very clever white dancers. Once the colored vaudeville performers wanted a test of the ability of Miss Muriel Ringold against some white girl as a dancer. Well, it came off at the New York Theater, in a mixed production called "The Southern." The white girl's name was venie or Vinnie Dailey; the white girl made Miss Ringold do everything known in dacing and a little more to hold her own. This incident quieted matters for a while. Right downright, the colored vaudeville or colored shows haven't a member among the ladies' ranks who could go into vaudeville and get by on their dancing alone. The reason why? They have not been taught or tried to make a specialty of dancing. If Mr. Brown will point out to the writer one single individual or team in vaudeville that could head and be a success in a big or a little show that made their debut in vaudeville or never were heard of before their vaudeville success, white or blac. I am waiting to see. There is not a writer of any ability that would review a vaudeville show. The idea is out of the question from top to bottom. There is no chance for art display of any real talent; time and space will not allow it. With all of that, yet the writer must admit that the vaude ville stage has been the northern light to the colored man who could not hold his own with the big shows. In the meantime it has helped thousands of white vaudeville performers, and robbed the ribbon and grocery counters of many a good white clerk, as there are to-day one hundred bad white shows to every one colored bad act. Let us look at the past of the vaudeville stage, a year or so back. You monkeys headed the bills over high-class actors. The writer first noticed that managers of vaudeville houses would bill a hog over Mr. John Drew. A display sign in front of a vaudeville house in Cincinnati read in big type "Eph Thompson" Eelephants, greatest in the world!" In small type, "Tim Murphy in his playlet, The Carpet Bagger." Another vaudeville house displayed the dog with a jarg, others Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Two monkeys headed every bill in this country last year, Consul the Human Monkey and Charles the Great. I would like to see the actor and actress who could head the bill over the winner of the Johnson and Jeffries fight. One might as well point to either of them as artists from the vaudeville idea of the show business. Anything can head a vaudeville bill and get big money, from a singing mosquito to the man who set Rome on fire. Vaudeville is here to stay, no matter what every theatrical or stage writer in the world may say or write. All due respects to everybody in vaudeville. No apologizing to any. A merry Fourth of July to Brown and Hodges. THE RICHARD & PRINGLE SHOW. Beautiful weather, sunshine, flowers, birds, etc., are things that help make the boys happy. We are now in the Sunny South. The Carolinas have the neatest and best equipped small houses in the South. That also makes one feel like working hard. * * * * This company has the reputation of giving the cleanest, fastest and best show of its kind that travels. * * * * The band is doing fine. Simpson, better known as the Black Pryor, has had very little rehearsing done. Much credit is due him for the manner in which he handles both his men and his instrument. *** The orchestra is the strongest ever. William Robison is still pulling his smooth bow and leading. Both band and orchestra were strengthened by the adding of Don Jones, cornet in band and second violin in orchestra. * * * Walter Watkins, better known as "Um Pum," still features the "new move" originated by Skeets Gaines. We advise them both by saying thus: If at first you don't succeed, try again. * * * Kirkpatrick—"Good evening, madame." Madame (haughtily) — "What's that?" Kirk—"Talking to myself, talking to myself." Can you beat it? * * * Pride of Carolina—Corn liquor and buzzards. "Dispensary" is the polite term used for saloon in Carolina. Tom "Slug" White hadn't had any "corn" for so long he became excited on arrival in one of the larger towns and asked with all politeness: "Mister, could you inform me the way I should go to find a expensary?" Well, good for Slag! He found it. * * * Every one is preparing to split a wide gash in the enjoyment that Jacksonville, Fla., affords members of the profession. We wonder if Monroe Tabor will yodle a little for us there? * * * Why don't Clarence Powell walk on the main streets with his different female acquaintances? Are they not presentable? Come on, Clarence, be game! Happy Beauregard is certainly a sport. He went to a carnival and actually bought ten rings and threw two of them over the heads of two beautiful canes. Much credit is due Happy for throwing his money away so accurately. *** Little Willie Israel says they ought to get a band wagon to parade in, so he would not have to walk. * * * We wonder why Gilliams don't like to play "Hearts?" They boys are all well, and send regards to friends and knockers in and out of the profession. PASTIME THEATER, ATHENS, GA. Despite the inclement weather, we are still attracting good crowds, and all the performers are receiving five and six encores nightly. Miss Alberta Smiley is quite a popular soubrette and very captivating in her manners. She is making a hit with her song, "Cottontown." She sends regards to S. W. Reed and Henry Stephens. Misses Effe Means and Millie Williams, the celebrated sketch team, are receiving their share of credit, and their costly costumes will compare favorably with any in the South. Madame L. Graham, our efficient musical directress, is still holding the fort, and deserves much praise for her untiring efforts. George Stamper, of Cincinnati, one of the funniest comedians alive, is now beginning his third week, and is quite a favorite. His work is first class in every instance. J. H. Williams, our stage manager, continues to please 'the public with new plays and catchy songs, and the comment from old theater-goers in this city says our shows compare favorably with any going. Tom Young, Athens' favorite, who has been with us since the opening night in November of last year, is still doing creditable work and securing his full share of the praises. Good girls can always find an opening for long-time engagements. The ghost walks regularly every week. THE PROFESSION AT VAUCOUVER Miss Abbie Mitchell was quite a success at the Orpheum last week. getting as many as five encores at each performance. She left Sunday for a week's stay in Victoria. Davis and Walker opened at the Pantageo Theater to-day. They have little to learn in their profession as songsters and dancers, and Mr. Davis is an acrobat. Mrs. W. J. Smith, daughter of Mrs. M. J. Smith, of Indianapolis, Ind, gave a hen party last Wednesday in honor of Miss Abbey Mitchell, of New York, and Miss Bennecett, of Atlanta, Ga. Those present were Mrs. Thomas Smith of Kalamazoo, Mrs. Black, Mrs. W. E. Foster, Mrs. George Chatters, Mrs. John Chatters and Mrs. John Jackson. W. E. Foster opened a swell pool room at 1318 Granville street, with a barber shop in connection. Among his tonorial artists is Mr. Edward Gardner, of Seattle, formerly of Tutt's, the famous Seattle barber. The Eureka Comb is on sale at The Freeman office 225 Indiana avenue. FIDDLER THOSE TWO "YOU THINK ALL CHINAMAN NAMED JOHN" "YOU THINK ALL CULL MAN NAM JOHNSON" Barton- (INCORP) Will offer the following Colored art the personal direction S. H. H. 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Aux six weeks treatment will be sent on receipt of one dollar, money order or draft on Chicago, made payable to GLYCO-IOLINE CO., = CHICAGO, ILL. A first class Stag Hotel. Twenty beautifully appointed rooms. Prices reasonable. Buffet in connection. THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF MODERN SERVICE. 3004 State St., Chicago, Ill. SHANK PHONE: 203 644-5000 226 Indiana Avenue, when in Indianapolis. Special rates to the Theatrical Profession. Opposite The Freeman Office. AT LIBERTY For the first time in ten seasons, high top, loud tenor, capable of playing small parts. Would like position with stock company, show or quartette. Address Geo. Day, 707 Thomas St., Youngstown, O. Formerly of Chicago. In the Field of Sport. Pearl Head, of Cairo, Ill., will captain the Paducah, Ky., Cubs for 1910. The Louisville Cubs would like to hear from all first-class teams. Address James H. Stringer, manager, 124 West Green street, Louisville, Ky. "Kid" Davis, who claims to be the light heavyweight champion of the South, defeated Young Walcott in the sixth round at Atlanta, Ga., February 10. Davis would like to meet the "Dixie" Kid, and is open for all comers. His address is care of the Arcade Theater, Atlanta, Ga. James Goldstucker, manager of the Pensacola, Fla., baseball club of 1909, writes that he will have a strong team for the coming season, and if the deal goes through, Bingham, right fielder for the Birmingham, Ala., Giants last season, will have charge of the Pensacola team the coming season. Texas baseball magnates met in Dallas and put up their forfeit money, which forms the Colored State League, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, Gainesville and Oklahoma City were represented, and all seem well pleased. Each manager is now trying to secure his players. As the season calls for over 140 games, each team will have some hustling to do to please the fans. The Dallas manager has promised classy playing this season, and others must do the same. BASE HITS DOWN THE LINE. By David Wyatt. "Big" Gatewood is all smiles; the boiling out process is doing the work, and "Gate" says he's coming through with a rush this season. * * * * Managers, owners, players, fans, cranks, critics and statisticians, get your notes and dope together for the baseball issue of April 2. * * * * Pekin in theatricals is like Giants in baseball. When you see the name of either, it is good evidence that something of color is behind the name. * * * * There is a colony of twenty-five big league players boiling out and taking mountain climbs. A little of such work would go a long way with our boys. ☆ ☆ ☆ They say that Dan McClelland finally put one over on "Rube." Lucky for Dan, as old Father Time is fast getting in his work on the once greatest of left-hand twirlers. * * * * George Gatewood, who has pitched for all the big clubs of the country, is sojourning at Hot Springs. "Gate" is slated for the Keystones of Minneapolis, and came down for a boiling out prior to the final sound of the gong. * * * * Sam Langford put on a few stunts at umpiring out on the coast. Langford could not put away Flynn in his go the other night. This makes Petis, the catcher of the Chicago Giants, look good. Petis held Flynn to an easy draw last fall. 内 交 融 "Lum" Croxon is getting in shape at his home in Argenta, Ark. "Lum" is one of the stars on the pitching staff of the Cuban Giants, and says he will be better than ever this year, as he has just come out of a severe attack of smallpox. * * * "Germany" Schafer, of the Washington Americans, who was born and reared in the district known as the Black Belt in Chicago, sends regards to all the colored lads, and especially "Mike" Moore, whom he thinks is the greatest of colored players. * * * Kansas City Royal Giants will make a Southern trip; Chicago Giants will make a Southern trip; Leland Giants will make a Southern trip. Who is the next? The Royals have already written to Hot Springs for dates. The natives are willing and anxious. I wish to emphasize the fact that all players and managers should show their appreciation of the great effort of The Freeman and rally to the front for the issue of April 2. Any baseball man who fails to have a cut in this issue should have the Indian sign tagged on him forever. Anw information on this issue can be received by writing to The Freeman or to me at 308 Church street, Hot Springs. *** Jack Johnson has been won over by an association in Kansas City, Mo., and will have a park right in the city, Jack had a rattling good start last year at Kansas City, Kan., but the big town looks better to Jack for this season. The new club is known as the Kansas City Royal Giants, and they have out a letter-head which is the most attractive thing seen as yet. * "Rube" Foster and his Southern touring schedule bumps with the Pittsburg at Memphis, and runs into the Texas League schedule for conflicting dates at the following places: April 18, 19, 20, at Houston; Oklahoma City there. April 24, 25, 26, San Antonio; Oklahoma City there. April 28, 29, Waco; Oklahoma City there. May 8, 9, Oklahoma City; Houston there. ★★ The big inter-sectional series to decide the colored championship of the country is being hatched, and we want to see the faces of those to whom it will mean much in the issue of April 2. All clubs wishing to be booked and take part must be registered in the columns of The Freeman, and must furnish a short write-up, showing cause for recognition in the same. * * * * Ball players, magnates, managers, fans, friends and admirers, please do not permit us to resort to the efforts of white friends of our profession to fill up the great amount of space which will be thrown open for write-ups and cuts for the issue of April 2. Get your pens to working and help the work that The Freeman is doing for colored baseball. We want to meet every- BY HAROLD C. McGATH body fact to face in The Freeman upon April 2. * * ' * The writer is pulling all kinds of wires to get games for the Chicago Giants against the Pittsburgh, Boston or Cincinnati Reds at Hastings Springs. The Giants have allotted two days in March for a stop-over, and the writer is now waiting for Fred Clark's consent. In case the big leaguers are stiff and sore to take a chance, Gatewood, Milner and a malf dozen others, including "Lum" Croxton, will try and give the City Leaguers of Chicago a whirl. Dr. Carson, president of the Central League and member of the board of arbitrators of the National Association of Baseball Clubs, is in Hot Springs boiling out and taking advantage of the fine spring weather here. Mr. Carson was a great ball player at one time, and was a member of the old champion Detroit team. "Doc" says he can go some now, but he can't make the overhand throw; he can shoot 'em over with the underhand motion. Mr. Carson was the original promoter of the famous South Bend (Ind.) Greens independent club, and he and the writer recalled some memorable contests. The Doctor knows quite a bunch of our colored boys, and reacts many interesting things to show the ability of our boys. He thinks "Rube" Foster the equal of any pitcher in the world, and has a warm spot in his heart for all the members of the old Unions and Page Fence Giants. Mr. Carson will probably have something to say in the issue of April 2, as he thinks that a colored league should do well, considering the material at hand. HOTLY CONTESTED GAMES IN SOUTHLAND. Rube Foster writes from Palm Beach, Fla.; We are busily engaged in the most bitterly contested games I have ever played in. It is the East vs. West, with the two greatest colored teams in the world battling for supremacy. The Royal Giants team, intact, is here, with McClellan, of the Philadelphia Giants, and Pettway, of this season's Leland Giants. The Royals are composed of the following players: Bradley and Pettway, catchers; Robinson, first base; Monroe, second base; Grant (Home-run) Johnson, shortstop; Mongin, third base; Brown, left field; Dunbar, center field; Bowman, right field; Earle Buckner, McClellan and Thomas, pitchers. Our team, the Leland Glanst, is composed of Strothers and Johnson, catchers; Booker, first base; Lloyd, second base; Hutchinson, shortstop; Pryor, third base; Duncan, left field; Hill, center field; Payne, right field; Foster, Daugherty, Wichorn and Harper, pitchers; Talbot, utility. So far we have played seven games, but only five going to a decision, two being tied. We won three out of five games. The score of each game was as follows: Daugherty, Wickware and Booker; Earle, Buckner and Pettway. Wickware and Booker; McClellan Buckner and Pettway. In Wickware we have one of the greatest pitchers I have yet seen. He has a world of speed, good curves, change of pace, and one of the coolest heads of any young pitcher I ever looked at. Pryor and Hutchinson are playing great ball, and you know what Daugherty is. In Lloyd we have a ball team in him. He is undoubtedly the most valuable man playing ball. Our outfield, Duncan, Payne and Hill is one of the greatest in the world. I am getting in good condition, and so far have been standing the Eastern cracks on their heads. My team is 25 per cent, stronger than it ever has been, and I have now the best ball team I ever managed. MARCO BALL TEAM ORGANIZES. Mose Moore Elected President. Special to THE FREEMAN. DAYTON, O., Feb. 14.—The famous Marco baseball team, of this city, has taken the initiative in the organization of colored semi-professionals in the State of Ohio. At a meeting of the club and managers Sunday evening at the New Marco Hotel nearly all of the old players willingly signed up for the coming season. Several dark horses will be sprung upon the public by Manager Harry Gardner and President M. C. Moore. Your correspondent was led to believe from a confidential source that one or two ex-Leland Giant stars will don Marco uniforms. The management of the Marcos are at present arranging the season's schedule, and up to this writing have booked several of the best teams in the country, among them the famous Cuban Giants. It is to be remembered that the Marco team is backed financially by the Hon. M. C. Moore, proprietor of the well-known colored pleasure park, Dehomey Park, of this city. He owns the Marco baseball --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER park, considered one of the finest enclosed diamonds in the Middle West, and the only enclosed baseball field owned and operated exclusively by colored people and colored capital. After a thorough investigation, your correspondent is free to state that the Marco team, through its president, is financially able to back its propositions and is in no way connected with any so-called Ohio State League of Colored Ball Teams, which appears to have died a natural death a year or so ago, and exists only on paper. President Moore stated to The Freeman that the Marcos would play independent ball this season, and would be willing to consider any semi-professional team of colored players. The officers of the Marco baseball club at present are: M. C. Moore, president; Harry Gardner, manager; Jeff Roberts, treasurer; Francis Poston, secretary. The headquarters of the club are at the New Marco Hotel, Harry Gardner, proprietor. 14 South Market street, where all communications should be addresses. By unanimous vote the Freeman was selected as the organizations' official organ. JACK JOHNSON AND NEW YORK It is not good policy for writers to throw flowers at themselves or the press they write for, to comment or give unsolicited advice, yet the writer has to use his past remarks to prove that the successful Negro in "high life" never reads a colored paper or believes anything he sees in a colored paper, articles or editorials, unless the writers are sending the individual to the sky with praise. (If the Negro papers don't amount to anything, neither does the Negro race.) Mr. John is our best example. Had he read the edition of The Freeman and paid the least bit of attention to it, today he would not be in the bad fix he is in. The writer pointed out to Mr. Johnson the kind of colored men New York sports were and are, and as soon as he became of no use to them they would frame up for him and stop at nothing to land their man, and that is what they have done to Johnson in New York. What's more, they won't let up until they have relieved him of a bundle of money. From the Associated Press notices the people of the West do not know what to think of the Negroes of New York, one gang trying to shake Johnson down for his life, and another crowd making him their example. While the Young Men's Christian Association was singing his praise, the other crowd was swearing his life away before the grand jury. Is there any town in the West that would take the two decided opinions of Jack Johnson? No, no; he would not get into any trouble or frame-ups, nor would he have been invited to address any Young Men's Christian Association; no, no, but would have been treated as a man and allowed to go about his business. To cap the climax, the fourflushing sports of New York have been getting all kinds of free advertising of late at the expense of Johnson, about their $300,000 pool that they were going to bet or had to bet on Johnson against Jeffries. Why didn't some one step up and offer to loan him enough to make good his bond? If it had not been for the mercy of the judge who heard his case and reduced his bond, Johnson would have had to go to jail. Johnson's case is the clearest case of "hole up" in the history of the world, let alone New York. Every one is saying he should keep away from such people; that James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson were never in trouble with such people; but that doesn't alter Johnson's case one bit. Train robbing was popular during their days. If the New York four-flushing sports get away with this job, and the way they allowed George Dixon to die, their photos should don the walls of the Hall of Fame. Yes, yes, make room. The above trouble of Johnson is the result of the big automobile parade and brass band noise. Big ball—everything big last winter. Every man, white and black, that has one ounce of manhood in him feels sorry for Jack Johnson. To think men of his own race are trying to put him in the penitentiary and skin him of his money for a trifling offense. If he did do it, which the writer doubts, it could be settled in the police courts for $10. WELL-KNOWN TRAINER GIVES IN FORMATION. In a recent issue of the New York American Billy Madden, trainer and manager of many well-known boxers, writes: "If there is such a thing in fighting as 'the new school' Jack Johnson was the pupil to graduate. This is my answer to Jim Corbett, who claimed in a story in the American a few days ago to be the originator of a new school. This new school is the pure Simon brand of 'bunk.' Fighters are only human. Go way back into history and you will discover that everything now used in the fighting game is exactly the same as years ago. In fact, the old-timers have the bulge on the men of to-day. When they went in to fight they fought. Now many, especially members of Corbett's new school, enter a ring, not to fight, but to display their dancing abilities. "It's a remarkable thing that every new crop of fighters swell up and pronounce themselves far superior to the former stars. I have been hearing this since I was seventeen years old, and now I am fifty-seven. Men don't improve in the prize ring. The game has been the same and can never change. Fighting is simply a combination of speed, gameness and endurance. Speed is the principal necessity. But fighters such as Corbett and others wore themselves out with their fancy footwork. That was the reason I put a wager on Fitz when he beat Corbett at Carson City. "Johnson fights in the proper manner. He stalks and fights on the defensive. Dancing around an opponent may be an inspiring sight, but it never gathers any coin. Johnson can get away from Jeff's rushes without doing a highland fling, Corbett and McCoy to the contrary notwithstanding. "Kid McCoy goes into raptures over Jeff's marvelous left hand and the big fellow's great crouch, which, he says, is invulnerable. With these two great advantages it took Jeff eight rounds to stow away Fitz. And in the meantime the lanky Cornishman put over many a hard wallop. Johnson met Fitz, and, through an accident, stuck out his right hand, and Fitz went down and out in two rounds. By an accident I mean that Johnson didn't intend to knock out Fitz, but to allow him to stay the six rounds. Fitz was just as good then as when he met Jeff. The comparison is not in favor of Jeff. "Ardent Jeff admirers will yell, 'Fitz was all in.' Well, how do we know that Jeff won't be all in when he meets the dark thunderstorm? McCoy says, 'Jeff is a wonder.' He means that Jeff was a wonder. There is a wide gap between 'is' and 'was.' When Jeff was at his best Tom Sharkey held him safe in two tiffs, even if Jeff did get the verdict. Every one will admit that when Kid McCoy was good he was a pippin. It was not many months ago that he went on with Jim Stewart at a local club. McCoy won the battle. But it is prize ring history that Stewart was the worst scared fighter that ever climbed between ropes. Stewart didn't know whether he was in a ring or at a wake. The 'Kid' felt satisfied after that victory that he couldn't come back, and gracefully retired. Jeff is no different from McCoy. When he meets Johnson he will realize that 'no man can come back.' "Now for a little discussion about Jeff's crouch. The crouch is a grand thing to look at. But can a man fight in that manner? Echo answers 'No.' A man has to stand up to fight. And Johnson will make Jeffries fight. Even if Johnson stalls during the early part he will keep Jeff fighting all the time. To do much damage Jeff will have to abandon his crouch and fight in the open. If Jeff forces Johnson to swap punches, don't forget that the white man will be meeting a colored marvel who has two good hands. This is an advantage in favor of Jack. If Jeff persists in his crouch it will give Johnson good opportunities to whip in his terrible right-hand uppercut. "Suppose Johnson clips Jeff's chin several times with a stinging uppercut, don't you think it will hurt Jeff? You know he is only human. In his first fight with Jeff Corbett 'copied' him with a straight right hand and it nearly put Jeff to the floor. Johnson can hit harder than Jim ever could. Being a left-handed fighter, Jeff is handicapped. He has only one good hand, while a real good left-hander should be able to jab with his right and use the left for the finishing work. "A few more words to Corbett and others about flat-footed fighters. Peter Jackson was strictly a flat-footed fighter and he went sixty-four rounds with Corbett. Looks as if a flat-footed man isn't so bad eh?" "Getting back to the 'new school', I wish to say that Mike Donovan was the greatest clever man that ever stepped into a ring, Billy Edwards was another shiftyetter. So were Jack Dempsey and Jack McAuliffe. But all were members of the poor, defunct 'old school'. As I finish I would request Corbett to inform me what school Fitz belonged to when he shot that solar plexus into Jim's body at Carson City?" CHATTANOOGA BASEBALL NOTES Chattanooga fans regret the loss of one of the best players in the Sunny South. Pete Turner Wilson, who will leave this spring for the Eastern cities to look for faster company. The team that captures him will make a big find, as he is an all-around player, a heavy and sure hitter, and as fast on his feet as they make them. He knows the game and can fill any position in the line-up. Sterling Porch, the veteran catcher for the Chattanooga White Sox, has decided to re-enter the field as catcher for the home team, providing that they will give him the salary. He demands the best that there is, but has the disposition of the Chicago Johnnie Kling. He wants the "dough," or he doesn't play. He is in the best condition, keeps up his practice, and is surprisingly fast. If the swift Ernest Burks and the giant Blasengill do the twirling for the Sox, he is the only chap that can hold them down to please the manager and the home rooters. Burks has such an excellent arm that it takes the right kind of stuff to stay with him. WILL BE IN FIELD AGAIN THIS SEASON. The New Orleans Baseball Club will be in the field again this coming ball season, with their strong aggregation of ball tossers, headed by the great and only Captain Frank Walker, first base; Buch Hill, second base; Clarence Hanedey, third base; Oscar Handy, shortstop; Gray Wilson, left field; Eugene Scott, center field; H North, right field; Mansie Ephraim, catcher; Gray Robinson, pitcher; Allen Williams, pitcher; Richardson, pitcher; Severin Bartholomew, general utility; Nick Joseph, park umire; Chas, Stevens, manager. They will play the following clubs here during the months of March and April: Kansas City Royal Giants, March 27-28-29; Cuban Stars, April 2-3-4; California Giants, April 10-11-12; Leland Giants, 15-16-17, and San Antonio Black Branches, 24-25-26. Following these engagements, the club will take the road through Alabama and Florida, and are open to dates anywhere in the United States. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN: Mrs. Orah Miller of 1020 Franklin street is confined to her room on account of illness...Mrs. Lena Laughter, wife of Flem Slaughter, died Friday, February 11, at her home on 11th street. Her husband and three children survive. Funeral services from St. John's Baptist Church, Rev. H. Metcalf officiating. Mr. Slaughter has the sympathy of the community in this sad hour...Dudley Reeves died at his home on Eleventh street Friday, February 11. Funeral from St. John's Baptist Church. Drink "TUDOR," THAT GOOD WHISKY. On Sale at Greathouse's Sample Room. 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I have cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think ever man who wishes to regain his many strengths and vitality should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men and am convinced it is the surest-acting manhood and injury failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man anywhere who is weak and disillusioned may failures may stop drugging himself with the medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOT-TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and with care. Dr. A. E. Robinson, 3831 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many people would pay $0.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out the prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. ERTEL'S LOAN OFFICE. Diamond and Money Broker Money advanced on Watches. Diamonds and Articles of Value. 209 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis The New Savoy Bar AND CAFE First class line of Wines. Liquors. Cigars and Tobacco. Headquarters of the I. B. P. O. Elks WILLIAM ROBERTS, Prop. Scip Williams, Mgr. Frank Whitney, Mixer 440 Indiana Ave. New Phone 5286. Boys Exchange Buffet A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch. Good service and courteous treatment to all. When out for a good time, stop in. Brutus Owens, Prop., Hindel's Buffets, 551 Indiana Ave. Choice Foreign and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Hindel Brothers. Milshire Gin, Call for it and INSIST upon getting it. GOOD AS THE IMPORTED. AT ALL FIRST CEASS BARS. Drink "T THAT GOOD On Sale at Greathou N. A. MOORE, Pres. W. H. ALLERDIC 7 Has been the talk of the town and is it any wonder when we offer such bargains as these, for instance: Elgin and Waltham Watches, absolutely guaranteed 20 year cases, hand engraved, $15.00 value for $5.95 Watterson fountain pens, nonleakeable, $1 value, 25c 123 S. Ill. St. Grand Hotel Blk. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Bar-Keeper's Friend Metal Polish AN INFALLIBLE UP-TO-DATE ARTICLE USED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL OTHER METAL POLISHES COMBINED WATCH THIS SPACE Write us for a Free Sample Pride of the Bar Room Powder Polish. You'll never know why until you try it. Manufactured by the Harvey Chemical Co., La Fayette, Ind. Chicago office 95 Washington street. Phoenix Ranch, OH. Indianapolis office 32 South Meridian street. New Phone 5886. Willett's Pies, "Theyre Different" Ask your Grocer and at Restaurants. Willett's Both Phones Pie Co. 1414-16 N. Senate Avenue. TUDOR," D WHISKY. Sees's Sample Room. Thirty elegant gowns, of chiffon, net, silk and cloth, in styles suit- able for afternoon, evening and street wear, one of a kind, all a little mussed or soiled. Up to $40.00 silk and chiffon dresses at..... $17.50 ```markdown ``` $25.00 Suits which were made ex- clusively for us—copies of late fall models that show the trend of spring styles. All of imported cloth. Former prices ranged from $75 to $115, now $25 and $35 for choice. Five very handsome black, colored broadcloth and moire coats, suitable for afternoon or evening wear, some of them direct impor- tations from Berlin; up to $190 formerly, now $50 and $60. Several broadcloth coats suitable for afternoon wear, in medium and light shades, $50 to $60 coats at $25. - 3d floor. GET THE HABIT. Read The Freeman—Religious, Political, Stage, Sport, and all other news. On sale at your news dealer or agent every Saturday. Mrs. Ida Bass of Marion was in the city this week on business. Miss Helen Harper attended a party at Marion Wednesday evening. Mrs. Amelia Hardy is seriously ill at her residence in Martindale avenue. John Mosley of Forest Park, Ill., and Mose Shelton of Chicago were in the city this week. Mrs. Mattie Runnells of Kansas City (s) visiting Mrs. Clifford, 322 Euclid avenue. The Daffodil Embroidery Club met with Mrs. George Stevens, in Allegheny street, Thursday, February 24. Mrs. Celle Stewart has recovered from a recent illness and has returned to her position as Director of the Fritzi Scheff Opera Company, passed through the city Wednesday en route to South Bend, Ind. The Endowment Board if the Calanthe Courts of Indiana will meet Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Sadie B. Dungey, in North West street. Mrs. Sadie B. Dungey, Grand Worthy Counselor of the Calanthe Court of Indiana, will meet June 12 with Senate avenue to 918 North West street. Mrs. Green and daughter, Miss Dora Green, of Peru, Ind., were in the city last week, the guest of Mrs. Sarah Green Byrd, who is a member of the Black Patti Comedy Company. Quarterly meeting services will be held Hunter, presiding elder, will be present and Rev. H. L. Herod of the Christian Church will deliver the sacramental sermon. Rev. A. Cottman, pastor. Washington's Birthday Celebrants had a guest at Simpson Chapel on day evening the inauguration was presented in fine style, and in style of dress, to the delight of a large audience. It was as unique as it was beautiful. George, Superintendent of Mrs. Washington, and Mrs. Barbara the talented wife of the pastor, Mrs. Martha Washington. The president delivered the original President Washington's dress and was roundly applauded. Mrs. T. V. Hill was mistress of ceremonies. JONES TABERNACLE A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Bey H J Callis Pastor The Old Southland Sextette will appear March 18 in an old-fashioned jubilee concert. Don't forget the Pastor's Club conundrum supper March 9. The Sunday school and choir are making extra preparations for Easter. The pastor's subject is "The Widness of God's Mercy." Subject for Sunday evening, "Lifting Up Christ." TRIBUTE TO DOUGLASS It remained for the Y. M. C. A. to arraign and execute a program to the memorial, and the greatest Negro of the nineteenth century. This was their fourth annual celebration, and indeed it was a grand one. The hall was decorated with day afternoon, and was largely attended. The hall was tastefully and attractively decorated with flags and bunting, a large number of flowers, and over the speaker's stand. Patriotic music and songs exhilarated the audience, which was well mixed with white clitzens, who also joined in the enthusiasm of the mob. Major General Jackson called at our office before his departure for Chicago, and related the bit of history regarding his present occupation that we think will interest our readers, as the major of the Army. He is now in the postoffice, but is devoting his time and talents in the printing business and in the management of the Leland Giants League, the foremost ball team in the country, halls from there, and the greatest distinction of its management. A better man could not have been selected. ST. PAUL. MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. R. C. Minor has returned from a trip to Chicago. . . Messrs. J. P. Anderson and C. E. Jones have entered into the real estate, insurance and loan business. . . The stork has been busy in St. Paul of late. Recently he has brought boys to Mr. and Mrs. Chase, member of the Chase Bank. R. J. Rewiewance. There was an address for the men at the West End Y. W. C. A. on last Monday night, which was well attended. . . Mr. Jack Johnson is scheduled to begin the week beginning March 8th. Some time during the week he will address the Boys' Club Cluture Club. . . The George Washington Church on Feb. 22 was quite a successful affair. . . Mrs. Hattie Davis has succeeded getting her name T. R. Morgan is publishing a daily paper which has been distributed among the downtown business places. . . YOUNGSTOWN. O. Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. and Mrs. Harriet Williams have moved to 428 West Federal Street, up stairs...Mrs. W. Harris of Pittsburgh, Pa. was the guest of Mrs. J. H. Stewart, 45 North Phelps street, last week...Mrs. Anna Shaw of St. John's School, last week...Mrs. Charles Jackson Sunday...Archie Thomas and Wm. Saunders attended the K. of P. dance in Akron Thursday evening, and John Moore attended the dance in Salem Wednesday evening...Harry Hawkins of Sharon School, last week...Mrs. Smith of the sick list...Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Jas, Baber, Mrs. Charles Tarry, Abraham Kennedy of Bark street and Frank Conway are on the sick list...Mrs. Masterson of Jamesburg, last week...Mrs. Masterson of New Castle were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Berry last week...The Uganda minstrels and the Unique Club, composed of Youngstown and Sharon people, gave a show in South Sharon Wednesday evening. It was a celebration of the 160th birthday of Allen of Lincolne avenue entertained a number of young people Friday evening at her home in honor of the eighteenth birthday of Mrs. Jas...Dorothy Dorey died Saturday evening in the hospital as a result of the fever...Baby Jim was at the Star Theatre at Harris. He weighs 153 pounds and he roomed at Martin's hotel, Chestnut street. SHEEFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Charles Johnson, an aged gentleman, died Sunday afternoon after several weeks of illness...Mrs. Slivia Delona died Sunday evening at the age of 107 and died Monday evening at the age of 114 mother of 111 children and grandchildren, Henry McIntyre, who is an employee of the Sheffield Laundry, was very painfully hurt Friday, February 18...Moore Sims was buried in Jessica's house the funeral of his brother, Jesse Sims. Fletcher Odis is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Alice Goldman, who has been sick for several weeks, is not improving very much...J. W. Thompson has returned after a time of illness. Rev. G. F. Welch, presiding elder of the Florence district of the C. M. E. Church, held his first quarterly conference at the C. M. E. church in this city Sunday, February 16 and his son have leave. Rev. F. Welch for Indianapolis, Ind, where they expect to make their future home. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN GALVESTON, TEX. Special to The Freeman Chas. Harris, a well-known citizen of this city, died on Sunday, February 13, at St. Mary's Infirmary. After an operation blood poison set in, from the effects of the poison, he was buried on Tuesday, February 15, the funeral services being held at Wesley Tabernacle M. E. Church, under the auspices of Acme Lodge No. 64, K. of P., of which deceased was a member of the John Tankerskerk School. John Tankerskerk died at, John Sealy Hospital, Wednesday. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. After Thirty Years' experience I Have Produced An Appliance for Men, Women or Children That Cures Rupture. The above is C. E. Brooks of Marshall, Mich. who has been curing Rupture for over 30 years. If Rupture write him to-day. coupon today and I will send free my illustrated book on Rupture and its cure showing my Appliance and giving you prices and names of many people who have tried it and were cured. It is instant relief when all others fall. Remember I use no salves no injuries no lies. I send on trial to prove what I say is true. You are the judge and once having seen my illustrated book and read it you will be an enthusiastic as my hundred of patients whose letters you can also read. Fill out free coupon below and mail today. It's well worth your time whether you try my Appliance or not. FREE INFORMATION COUPON. C. E. Brooks 2734 Brooks Bldg. Marshall, Mich. Please send me by mail in plain wrapper your illustrated book and full information about your Appliance for the cure of rupture. Name Address City State February 16... Mrs. E. L. Howard, evangelist, is still preaching to large congregations at Shiloh A. M. E. Church. On Sunday, February 14, she休建ed to woo the congregation. Miss Georgia Lewis of Houston, Tex., is in the city stopping at Miss Pearl Boone's residence, 813 Thirty-fifth street. .B. Tressville, president of the Maple Leaf Social Club, has been indisposed for the past year and is going again. .Messrs. Silas Jordan, B. Tressville and Edw. Hays will give a domino social at the Cotton Jammers Pavilion on March 16... The Tressville Orchestra, under the leadership of Robert Tressville, will be performing every vicky at 464 Twenty-ninth street. .The city is repairing Bath Avenue. All the laborers are colored men on this big concession. .The volunteer instructing exercises at Macdonald Church on last Sunday afternoon. .Andrew McPherson is agent for The Freeman and would be glad to furnish you with a copy every week. The Freeman will be giving a twenty-sixth street or at the Society poolroom, Twenty-fifth street and the postoffice. FLORENCE, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN St. Mack's Baptist Church gave a concert Friday night, which was a great success. C. C. Rafer made a hit playing the guitar. C. K. Baker made a real humorist. He was assisted by W. O. Nevels in his anecdotes. The old folks' march was excellent. The singing was great. He hit for such small children. Mrs. J. V. Martin is recovering from a long illness. She has not been out of bed since her last visit to the Manhattan Pressing Club and Tailoring Shop. 128 East Tennessee street. M. Martin, proprietor. I. C. Portock贸贸. This monthly rhetorical will be held Friday February 25, at Burrell Normal School. TYLER, TEX Special to THE FREEMAN. W. A. Bibbs of Indianapolis, Ind., is one of the most successful barbers in this country. Bibbs has been a barber for several years. He has a large trade as a barber, and the people of Tyler are proud of him. Leonard Bibbs, a popular barber of St. Louis, Louis, is visiting his father, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bibbs, Prof. C. S. Benson, principal of the Winona High School, is expected in this year. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bibbs, Prof. C. S. Benson, principal of the East Texas Academy, leaves the city today on business in Gilmer. Prof. W. A. Peeet, having things his way as an educator in Tyler. He has been principal here for eighteen years, and it can be truthfully said that this man as a teacher has done intellectually than all others combined. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. Be your own boss. Practically no capita- tion needed. Make office business at home spare time. No canvassing. Particulars 25 cents silver. Batchman & Co, 305 Elm St, Danyll, NY 10021 FREE. A sample of Macassar Cream. If you haven't tried it for liver spots, muddy complexion, eruptions on the face, or as a skin bleach, send for a sample. It has no smell. Send it for a try it and see. Regular size, 50 cents. Agents wanted. Reed & Co, Lincoln, Ill. WAITERS' CLUB AND CAFE. In the Heart of the Business District Don't fall to look in on the splendidly located, well appointed Walters' Club and cafe; nothing like it in the city. The Walters' Club is a special attention given to after-theater parties, banquets and Sunday dinners service the very best at reasonable prices. Eugene Holt manager; Joseph Holt manager; 340 Indian Avenue. New phone 3992; Old phone, 7579. LOST RELATIVE. I. Alfred W. Griffin, son of Kinny Griffin, am in search of Rev. Reddick Slade, Last head of in Suffolk Virginia, Address Battle Creek Mich., 52 High street. BUSINESS LOCALS. Woodbine Perfume. Oh how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodua's Drug Store. Kuykendall & Huffman, dentists. 359½ Indiana avenue. Expert crown, plate and bridge work. New phone 5067. Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions. Anything oracle will be selected as carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges. Gauld's Pharmacy. New 1178; Old. Main 4032. Persons wanted to sell articles; quick money made. Write for articulars. Occidental Supply Co., 527 W. 12th street, Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED. Six experienced cafe waiters. Must understand European plan of service. Top contractors offered right mean, Southern waiters preferred. Must be well recommended. Parker Cafe and Bakery Company, Parker, Arizona. THE GRAND LEADER 336-338-340 EAST WASHINGTON SJ These Bargains on Sale in Our Annex Muslins, bleached, yard wide, some cambric in this lot. Up to 11c qualities, on sale, yard. 6½c Ginghams, dress ginghams, in stripes, checks and plains, good width. Regular 6½c qualities, choice, yard.....4½c Ginghams, nurses' stripes, checks and a variety of new 1910 styles. Regular 12½c qualities, choice, yard.....8 1-3c Poplins, in all the new spring shades, including white or black, usually 25c a yard; special, yard.....18c yard. 18c Percales, in dark or light grounds, 36 inches wide. Regular 12½c qualities, on sale. yard. 8 1-3c Bedspreads, Marseilles patterns, hemmed, ready for use. Regular $1 qualities, choice. 75c CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE. The genuine Carter's Rbusumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price 50 cts (stamps) Has cured others; will cure you. Address R.P. Bldau. druggest. Indianapolis. Ind. The Eureka Comb is on sale at The Freeman office. 225 Indiana avenue. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss. In the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. Complaint for divorce. Rhoda P. Steele vs. John H. Steele. Bury, Kentucky, February 19, 1910, the above named plaintiff, by her attorneys, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, her com- pany, the above named defendant and the said plaintiff that also filed a Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant and the said plaintiff are Indiana and that said cause is to divorce said defendant is a necessary party thereto, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required to appear in said Court, and answer or demur thereto on the 15th day of April, 1910. Now therefore, by order of said Court, said defendant last above named is hereby not held to answer in said complaint against him and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 11th judicial day of a term of said Court to be begun and held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the 11th judicial day of a term of complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in his absence. LEONARD M. QUILL, Clerk. A. N. Cave, Attorney for Plaintiff. Feb. 19-31 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. That the colored race should know the laws of our country. Why? Because ignorance of the law excuses no one. The "Busy Man's Friend" a law which will be used for legal fees. 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