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Until Jan.1, 1911, The Freeman one year for $1.00. Send in your subscription at once. THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIII. NUMBER 47 HAMPTON NIGHT WAS THE STELLAR EVENT President Frissell and Others Score Hits-Industrial Training and the Broader Education Linked Together. Thompson's National News Bureau.) WASHINGTON, D. C. November 24. "Hampton Night" at Bethel Literary's special meeting last Friday evening was a stellar event at the national Spacious Metropol- M. E church was crowded to the doors with one of the most representa- tive audiences that has gathered in many mans hereabouts, and the story of the pans, purposes and ideals of Hampton institute was told in glowing language by eloquent speakers to sympathetic Ferdinand D. Lee, president of the Hampton Alumni Association of Washington, under whose auspices an auspicious presiding officer and presented the speakers in felicitous language. The object of the gathering was to inspire interest in the history of the institution and raise a fund for the establishment of scholarships for the benefit of worthy young men and women who might not have access to the opportunities offered at this splendid seat of practical training. The principal address of the evening was the presentation of the president of Hampton. He gave a sociology史 of the rise of the historic institution and described the manual training work carried on there. His laboratory references to Gen. William S. Johnson, the institute's founder and to Dr. Booker T. Washington, the school's most illustrious graduate, evoked a storm of enthusiasm. He was equally so enthusiastic in institute similar centers of industrial education, which grew out of the Hampton idea, and fostered the Hampton program, were firmly rooted in the educational institution so bolder in education" as understood at Howard, Lincoln and Fisk, but was of the opinion that the hope of the Negro race lay in the Hampton program, so so bolder in mental instruction emphasized in the system employed by Hampton. The education of the head, hand and heart was at Hampton, and it was a well-established alliediments that would give him a strong start in the battle of existence. The higher education could be acquired by those able to attend Hampton, and in the art of living had been firmly laid. Dr. W. F. Thirkirk, who introduced Dr. F. Reiss, dealt pleasantly with the relational exchanges existing between Hampstead Institute and Washington, who said, the complement of the other, Miss Eloise lib gave a vivid account of social settlement work now being done in Washington, where she is doing much to reach the unreached—to make recovers surroundings in what are now and to instruct a love for a clean home in Washington, the science for the Slater educational fund, described the far-reaching character of the work that is being done by Hampstead Institute, the garden tending, the walls of the institution, referring particularly to the Sunday schools, the schools institutes, the garden tending, the science features of its extension service, Major R. R. Motton, Commandant of Hampstead Institute, delivered a speech, the industrial education, preferring to stay with its benefits as the "broader education," rather than the somewhat misleading, "higher" education and told how the Negro, in command of the exasperating color-line, "the seed, electricity, steam, wood metal asked not whether the hand it possessed its benefits was black or white, declared its effectiveness with stories and recitals of the effectiveness of the educational tours of Dr. F. Reiss, Washington through the southern Washington, out a most convincing deliverance in support of the principles upon which Hampstead Institute justifies its existence, the resident President Pielse was happily put, and to the good pleasure of a gentleman full credit for the great results that had been wrought by him during thirty years of earnest effort, following a wake of the sainted Armstrong. The singing of plantation melodies by the Hampton Institute Glee Club, under the direction of P. T. Crawley, was one of the evening's program, and the various sections were repeatedly enclosed, evoking a high degree of enthusiasm, provoking a later all, so Negro is not assumed as the main subject of Negro origin. The Howard University orchestra assisted in the musical exerciation. The meeting was arranged as a special event at the Museum of Historical Association, Prof. Gamel Wilkinson, president of the society, and the meeting to order, and turned over to President Lee, of the Museum, to present the Museum introduced Major Moton when the timer of the commandant came to speak. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford acted as secretary, representative of the high character of the office which gathered to do honor to Hampton in the school faculty, there were seated on the platform the showin: W. P. Thirkield, Profs. Kelly Miller, M. S. Clark and G. W. Cook, of the various schools, Howard University; Hon. LeGrand Powder and Dr. Thomas Jeses Jones, of the meadow; Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Tarrae, E. Moton, principal of Normal School No. 14, principal of M street High School; W. Face Evans, principal of Armstrong Manual Training School; Miss Eloise Bibb, president of the Social Settlement; Revs. L. N. Ross, of Metropolitan A. M. Brevins, of Corothers, of Braith A. M. E. Zion, of Assistant District Attorney James A. Cobb; Attorney S. J. Davidson; Mrs. Daniel Murray, of the Washington Free Kindergarten; Matt R. Fowen, of Kindergarten; music in the public schools; director of music in the public schools; N. E. Wetherless, instructor in science, M. street High School, and Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Arkansas. The museum was served at Martin's Northwest Cafe at the close of the exercises at the church, with Mr. F. D. Lee as toastmaster. Toasts were responded to by Messrs. E. Wetherless, F. Wetherless, son, Dr. P. W. Price, F. M. M. Murray, W. T. Williams and Major R. R. Moton, who was guest of honor. The local Alumni Association deserves great credit for the meeting, and Hampton Institute, always a favorite here, finds itself stronger than ever before by reason of the inspiration generated by its immense gathering of whole-sculpted heads, the leaders of racial thought and action. The Thomas-Gibson Nuptials. At high noon, Wednesday, November 16, at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. Addie R. Clarke, 1404 Pierce Place Northwest, Miss Eva Elaan Gibson of this city, and Miss James Sympson of the Baltimore City, who will be united in the holy bonds of wedlock. The ceremony was pronounced by Rector T. J. Brown, of St. Luke's P. E. Church, and Hughes, pastor of Sharp Street Memorial church of Baltimore. The bride's trousseau was of oyster white satin, trimmed with pearls, hand embroidered, and chiffon embroidered with flowers. Fannie Cromwell and Eslander V. Thomas, sister of the groom. Mrs. G. G. Smith, of Charlotte, N. C., was matron of honor. The bride was given away by Mrs. Cromwell Josephine P. D. G. Pennington, of Baltimore, was "best man" The wedding reception was held in the evening from 5:30 to 7:30. At 9 p. m., the flower girl was dressed in a pink headdress, they will make their home at 211 Drudg Hill Avenue. Howard "Eats Up" Hampton in Foot Ball Game. In a one-sided, but well-played game the Howard University football team last Saturday defeated Hampton Institute-colored students, by a score of 32 to 0. The Howard team has not been scored against in the past two seasons, and has shown splendid form against all combo teams. Howard put up a stiff fight, the visitors were clearly out classed. The Howard boys showed themselves to be masters of all the fine points of the game and the team's the wings left by their opponents. In Prof. Marchand, formerly of Williams college, but now an instructor at Howard, the local boys have a fine coach, and to his credit the players must have a credit must be given for the "classy" showing the boys on the hill have been making this season. On Thanksgiving day Howard meets Lincoln University to be for "blood." On the Howard campus, M street and Armstrong Manual, old-time foes, will try conclusions. Negro Leaders to Confer It is an open secret that shortly after the holidays, when "Register" J. C. Napier shall have been installed, and it is hoped that "Assistant Attorney-General" W. H. Lewis will have come into his own, a conference of the principal office-holders and prominent race leaders is being planned for. Now that the election is over, the meeting that will be held in 1912 must soon be drawn up. It occurs to those who are looked up to by the Negroes in the states for guidance, that there had better be a "getting together" to see just where we are "at." Besides the high-grade officials here in Washington and their friends, counsellors and city leaders, it seems to be that the outside of the party leaders from the outside will come on for the "confab." Among those who may be included in the charmed circle are Anderson and Pinch-back, of New York, Williams, of Illinois, Cottrill, of Ohio, Cummings, of Maryland, Asbury, of Pennsylvania, Gilmer, of West Virginia, and of California, of California, and others. It is possible, even a factionalism is to be avoided; if divisions are to exist, it is expedient to find early in the game just where the parting of the ways is to come and why. The conference, it is said, will be behind closed doors, and that there will be some plain, heart-to-heart utterances is not doubted. Nevertheless, a conference of this kind is expected to be held, as the whole of it have struck the nail on the head. Out of the meeting, nothing but good should come. Change of Management at the Howard Theater. Beginning this week we are a change of management at the new Howard Theater. A white manager, T. A. Faulkner, is the new artistic director. F. E. Bean was installed and a season of dramatic productions with all white performers is to be inaugurated. The character of plays will be much of the same order as the previous season, which is a part of the Havlin-Stalr syndicate. It is a peculiar instance that this week the drama "St. Elmo" which will be the adamant attraction of the Howard is also a attraction at the Academy. As the Academy has been enjoying an immense colored patronage, confined though it is to the gallery, there are 50 pieces in the gallery, preparing for a fight over this profitable Negro contingent. The Academy has started the ball rolling by reducing its prices to meet those in vogue at the Howard in event in the gallery run to 50 cents. In the gallery, the Academy will compete only for the gallery trade of the Negroes, however, unless the contest grows hotter, when it is predicted that the white house will up 'em for the colored business as a bait for the colored business. In any event, the proprietors, Rosenthal and Benedict, Baltimore capitalists, were losing money on the Howard and they were unable to keep up because it was necessary to keep from sending INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1910. Oh give THANKS UNTIL THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER more money to the bad. Polite vaudeville proved a failure; then, after "The Smart Set" had played a week to capa- tions, he was sent to a musical comedy, and a stock company was organized, headed by J. Leubrie Hill. "My Friend From Dixie," a really creditable production, was put on, but it failed to score, and last Saturday night the company re-recorded its original company. Now, mesodrama is to be tried, and it remains to be seen what success attends this new experiment. The booking offices said the How- to's were to be written in conjunction with a colored manager, and Rosenthal and Benedict concluded to part with William H. Smith, who had come on from Chicago, with a fine record as a comedian. The company fame and fortune for Manager R. T. Motts. The policy of catering to the "people," regardless of color, will be continued, although the attractions will --- It is said that the company gotten together by Leubrie Hill will be placed on the road, but, as yet, nothing definite has been decided upon. In the meantime, some of the leaders, including Leona Marshall and Lewis Mitchell, have accepted engagements at Ford Dabney's and other minor theaters. Manager Smil's plans have not been announced, but it has something sensational to spring pretty soon. The next attraction at the new Howard will be Clara Turner, a strong emotional artist, in "Anita, the Singing Girl." President Taft was the guest of Governor Mann, of Virginia, yesterday at a reception in the Park. He was prepared by an old colored "mammy" who has long been in the employ of the Mann household, and whom the Governor says is the best cook in the country. Mann's new movie "The fond of old-fashioned southern cooking: "The Crisis," the new magazine published by New York Magazine, Movement has made its appearance in the book edited by a syndicate, headed by Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, Kelly Miller, J. Max Barber and others. It has absorbed much of the subscriptions paid to the latter will be collected Crisis." As to the strength of the newcomer, there is quite a division of opinion. There is a clearness of statement freedom from rancor and petty personalities, however that commend to favor. ```markdown ``` the building is progressing every day. All of the pipes for the plumbing, the heating, gas, and electric wiring have been installed. The stories have been laid, and the windows are being placed in position. The building will be rushed to completion as rapidly as possible. Branch Secretary L. E. Johnson reports a great time at the Toronto convention of the Y. M. C. A. The National Training School for Women and Girls, conducted by Missanne H. urroughs, at Lincoln Heights, is making a significant contribution necessary that the new $65,000 building be had at an early date. The first week in December has been set apart as a marking for the new Miss Burroughs is making a vigorous canvass for funds and is meeting with marked encouragement at the hands of some of the District's most prominent citizens. Fred R. Moore, editor of the New York Age, and J. H. Murphy, editor of the Baltimore, W. O. American Ledger, held conference with the military Teft at the White House not long ago. The exact nature of the discussion has not been revealed, but it is reported that "things were said to enable not of these government to give administration a stronger support than they have given it at times in the past. Hon. John A. Dane has been on a lecture tour, and reports that large houses have greeted him everywhere. Mr. Daney delivered some convincing speeches in Pennsylvania during the recent campaign, and the Reagan Republican spoke in the highest terms of his ability as an orator and logician. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, denies that he is opposed to the presence of Negroes in the labor unions, and says he is not interested in the Negroes give out that impression. A fuller statement than any he has given out yet in support of the Negro as a labor unionist, will be required before Mr. Gompers' position is satisfactorily understood by the rank and file of the Negro race. . . . It is now definitely given out that a Tuskegee Alumni Association is to be formed in this city. Register W. T. Vernon recently matriculated in the law department of Howard University, but has been too busy to pursue the study of Blackstone. He has been filling lecture engagements in Illinois this week. A banquet in honor of Dr. A. M. Curtis, recently elected president of the National Medical Association, is said to be the next on the "big feed" schedule. The school fight seems to have come to a sudden end. That mass meeting "frost" killed off the "kickers." Mrs. J. P. Coleman, formerly of Newport News, Va., has located in this city. She is a manufacturing chemist and will establish a laboratory here where she will put up a number of her preparations for the wholesale market. Dr. Gertrude Curtis, the first colored woman to qualify as a dentist in the United States, was appointed by the Council. C. Waters, Jr., president of the Council of Upper Classman of Howard University, offering $5.00 as a prize for excellence in dentistry. Dr. Curtis generous and kind, and the prize formally tendered to the University through President Thirkield. Dr. S. L. Corruthers, pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church, spoke on "The Significance of the Recent Elections" this week at his church. Dr. Corruthers is the head of the local branch of the Independent Movement. "Aunt Daphne Whitlow" as she was called, a nurse of note, died last Thursday of age at the age of 112 years. She has been connected with the hospital since it was founded, and when she grew too old to care for her, Aunt Daphne was taken under the care of the institution. "Aunt Daphne" was a nurse in the samps of the civil war and had a history that is interesting. For Qualification of Teachers— Pastime Pleasure Club Gives Affair at Elegant Club Rooms - General Society Notes. Special to THE FREEMAN A deal of favorable criticism has been offered upon the article in The Freeman's last issue on the subject of separating the sexes in the Louisville Colored High School, and the college, where he taught, gentlemen last Tuesday, for the purpose of discussing ways and means to correct the evils growing out of the present system. A committee of five were delegated by the faculty to by the mass meeting to be called later, will be filed with the newly elected Board of Education. The white schools here are in sore need of many improvements and a condition. The old school board seemed to take especial pains, whenever it was necessary to erect a colored school, to place it in the most undesirable location possible, and most frequently in the Cincinnati area, where the institution they built a school in an alley and cither it "Maiden Lane." So much favoritism has been shown in the appointment of teachers that any one who had a pinterest or a written examination, so as to give some other evidence of his learning besides his sheepskin; but when the diploma began to relegate the examination test, musk-colleges became so numerous around this school that every one carries some kind of a degree—even though he cannot write one correct English sentence. One of these 'fake universities' has a "clean hash," cleaning bricks or "tooting coal." A few years ago Kentucky found herself near the botto mott the matter of public education, and there was a great awakening among her students for her redemption. An educational campaign was inaugurated and some of her foremost citizens canvassed the whole State and aroused the people from their despair by the abolishment of the old unwieldy Board of Education and the creation of a commission of five men to look after the schools, and these men are expected to work with the children which obstruct the progress of the children in dye our schools a bad standing in the educational world. The evils growing out of the schools and girls at the danger point of life, in the Colored High School, call for the most urgent and pressing correction, and we hope to see the standard of qualifications for teachers elevated and male eliminated from the female department. --- Members of The Freeman staff looked in on the Pastime Pleasure Club, at their club rooms, 1001 and 1002 West Walnut Street, and to see the hand extended them. Invitations to dine were accepted—groundhog supper. They called this but a little stunt. The big day will be on the 30th. The president, who is a hard worker and deserves the honor that the club bestowed upon him. Muscle was rendered by the Houston Orchestra. The members of the club are as hard as a hard worker. James Evans, sergeant at arms; Wm. H. Taylor, Joe Chambers, Alonzo Reed, Onie Mason, Will Clay, Bart Riles, Wayman Sherrell, Bennie Walker, John Hayden, John Emery, Lovie Taylor, A. O. Carter, John Yakie, James Barnett, Huston Griggsby, Thaddeus Lusby, George Hickman, Scott Ward, Jos. Knowles, Ed Lancaster. Mrs. Cordelia Oneal is somewhat improved, after a serious illness. Mr. George Wooldridge, one of our leading undertakers, is out again, after a protracted illness. Johnnie Hall has opened a pool and billiard parlor at 629 West Green street. We wish him顺利. Friends are glad to learn that Mrs. Salie Lane has recovered her health and is able to be out again. Miss Hattie May Faulkner, who has been very sick at her residence in Portland, is slowly recovering. Mr. George White, proprietor of the Log Cabin Cafe, who has been very sick for four weeks, is able to be out again. Mr. Sherrel Wayman, the well-known tonsorial artist, ate his Thanksgiving dinner among his friends in Shelbyville, Ky. Mrs. Lizzie Dyer, superintendent of the Anchorage Sunday school, gave a supper last Saturday for the church fund, and was quite successful. Mr. Otho Patterson, an ex-mail carrier, was very badly cut Sunday night by unknown parties. His physician is very doubtful of his recovery. "Miss Alden's Pilgrim Party," a play, was rendered by pupils from the Malden Lane School. There was a large attendance of parents and friends. Mr. Willis Washington, well known citizen, died of heart failure very suddenly. He was always polite and agreeable and made many friends. Mrs. Hannah Lewis died November 17, at the residence of her son, Wm. N. Frather, 1312 West Green street. She is survived by two sons, Chas. and Wm. Frather. Miss Annie Matthew, of Bowling Green, who is teaching school at Glasgow, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Evans Pinkton, at the residence of Mrs. Jessie Bradshaw, 1007 West Walmart. The first quarterly meeting of the conference year was held at Young's Chapel last Sunday. The Rev. Dr. Kelley, of Jeferson presbyterian church, the Rev. J. W. Hill presided. A very large crowd was in attendance. The choir rendered an excellent musical program. The colored department of the Y. M. C. A. is entering upon a strenuous campaign to secure funds with which to complete the secretary's job. The committee and furnish all the accessories essential to an up-to-date Y. M. C. A. The board of trustees have made a generous offer to the secretary. The Bullock, conditioned fact that the coronation people a like amount. It will be announced in the fullest terms in a few days and active work will begin. Mr. Joshua H. Jackson died Monday morning, at his home, South Jackson street. He had been ill five weeks and endured many hours of terrible suffering. He was always with a true Christian fortitude, and displayed a moment of his illness the Christian character for which he was so widely known. A great rally was held Sunday for the benefit of St. James Old Folks' Home. This rally was under the direction of Miss J. B. B. and a grand success from every standpoint. They were women with a grand public spirit, and anything upon which she sets her heart is bound to be a success. In all her undertakings her banner has borne but one inscription, Success, and she is determined that she shall be realized in every undertaking. CINGINNATI OHIO Special to THE FREEMAN Kill Off Cockroaches Easy Way to Get Rid of These Repulsive Bugs. Nearly every home has the cookroach, and unless exterminated he increases at a rapid rate. At the first sign of a roach, put Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste in the sink and on the morning you can sweep up a mantle of dead cookroaches. 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The party literally "ate its way through North Carolina." Prominent members of the party spoke on Sunday morning at the churches in Winston-Salem. J. H. H. Washington was the wit of the itinerary, being as full of wholesome fun as an egg is full of meat. The cooking along the road was so uniformly fine that the services of Dr. J. A. Kenney were not seriously needed. The crowds at the stations grew in size as the news became more generally distributed that the party was coming. The meeting between Dr. Washington and Vice President Sherman, at Salisbury, was one of the delightful events of the itinerary. Mrs. A. L. E. Weeks, of Newbern, presented a song and chorus, dedicated to Dr. Washington, which the latter highly appreciated. Dr. W. H. Goler gives it out freely that he prefers the presidency of Livingstone College than to have a seat on the Bench of Bishops. Architect W. Sidney Pittman, besides being the best in his line of business, attends the "son in-law of Dr. Booker T. Washington." Moronny's Theater at Salisbury, used for the first time for a meeting under Negro auspices, employs a colored orchestra throughout its regular season. School children strewed flowers in the pathway of the "Wizard" at Relfdsville, as the band played "Hail to the Chief." It was a unique and thrilling spectacle. The office of the Durham Reformer was a model of neatness—an all-too-rare-quality found in a printing office anywhere. Editor W. S. Young knows his business. The St. Paul School Band, from Lawrenceville, Va., under the direction of Prof. Fred Gray, rendered yeoman service at Wilson, Rocky Mount and other points. W. T. B. Williams, field agent for the Slater fund, was in great demand by all of the college presidents. His speeches on every subject are entertaining and informing. Stenographer Nathan Hunt was "on the job" at the University. This useful young man has grown to be an indispensable factor in the life of the "Wizard" and Tuskegee Institute. Business Manager F. K. Bird, of the Zion Publishing House, placed the party under deep obligations by his painstaking labor in connection with the report of the doings of the week. Business was generally suspended along the route, and many schools were disbanded. The crisis to participate in the public demonstrations in the various cities and towns. Wilmington is the home of R. R. Taylor, director of mechanical industries at Tuskegee, and he got a big "hand" from his home folks when his work was praised by the "Wizard" at that place. Major Moton has that place. Greensboro furnished the largest audience—because it was fortunate enough to possess the largest auditorium. The Hippodrome was donated for the occasion, and people turned out—one third of them white. The automobile benefited by Dr. Washington at Greensboro was placed at his disposal by Mr. Caesar Cone, one of the city's wealthiest men, and a similar honor was conferred by Mr. J. S. McNair at Laurinburg. The management of Bishop Clinton and Messrs. John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding was superb. There was not a hitch anywhere. The glory was pretty evenly each getting his full share of the "spotlight." President J. B. Dudley, the affable head of the Greensboro A. & M. College, gave dignity and weight to the aggregation. He made many warm friends by his geniality and whole-souled manner in meeting all classes. Immense crowds greeted the "Wizard" at many points not down on the schedule, and the train officials kindly added that the people might hear the Tuskegee's message of hope and cheer. Charlotte, Durham and Greensboro were warm rivals for first honors, but as each city visited had some distinctive feature that gave it an individual prestige, no invidious comparisons were permitted to mar the serenity of the tour. Senator Boyden's tribute to the fidelity of the Negroes to the white people during the dark days of slavery, amid the crash and despair, was brought to dour and sincere. It brought tears many eyes at Salisbury. The letters from former Governor and Senator H. H. Jarvis, Harvey Weotten and H. G. Coxon regretting their inability to attend the meetings in the eastern section of the State, abounded in words of cheer and encouragement. John W. O'Daniel, who for thirty-six years has been employed as florist and landscape gardener on the estate of Gen. Ian L. Nagy, education and material advancement, at Durham, attracted much attention. The opening of the banquet season took place at the beautiful Episcopal residence of Bishop Clinton, in Charlotte, and wound up the pilgrimage of the pilgrimage. Charlotte set a warm pace and made everybody hustle to keep in sight. Bishop Clinton was the mouthpiece of the party, and right nobly did he play his part. Messrs. Spaulding and Merrick handled the "business end" and to the hardest of tasks of the purpose of these three leaders the monumental success the tour is due. Conservative statisticians estimate that Dr. Washington addressed directly not less than 50,000 persons during the week. Through the press and other sources, the persons reached and influenced might be placed at a figure not far short of half a million. Rev. A. L. E. Weeks, president of the Newbern Industrial Institute, which bids fair to become one of the most substantial schools in the State, was given a merited indorsement by former Mayor James A. Bryan, of his home city, who is taking an active role in the promising institution. Dr. Washington was likewise impressed with the work Dr. --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Weeks has mapped out, and will send him some able talent from Tuskegee to set things properly in motion. The Immanuel Lutheran College, a fine institution, with handsome stone buildings, insisting, with a keen sense of a learning surprise, Colored Lutheran areurs are contemtively few in number, but this great denomination has evidently awakened to its duty to the "man farthest down." The local committees performed their work admirably. The faithful service rendered by the ladies at every point must be remarked to be a mark that "No State in the Union can boast of a greater number of beautiful, intelligent, cultured and tastefully attired ladies than North Carolina." The musical numbers rendered by Mrs. Neil Hunter and Miss Pearl G. Reid at the University of North Carolina series. Miss Julia Sadgwair, at Wilmington; Mrs. Annie Nelson, at Greenboro; Mrs Mamie Beecher and Mary Jones, at Wilmington; others, were deservedly praised for their excellent solos. James City, across the Neuse from Newbern, populated entirely by Negroes, was shown by Isaac H. Smith, a wealthy Newbern man, to the saint-belum settlement. Its picturesque log cabins offered a decided contrast to the beautiful modern homes of the colored people of the city of Newbern. The North Carolina dailies were exceptionally generous in sentiment and in the amount of space granted. The reports of the dailies, flatter and flatter and F. King, both experts in the art of newsgathering, were given choice first-page positions, and Dr. Washington's speeches evoked complimentary editorial attention upon every hand. Durham was reached on Hallowe'en, and a beautiful funeral of the banquet in the National Religious Training School was the fantastic goblins and other characteristic decorations, shown in a subdued light. Those given in Wilson and Washington, the tables were set to form the letter "W." The address of Prof. C. L. Coon, superintendent of the public schools at Wilson, was awaited with interest, because of the strong standings held for Negro education and his zealous contention that the Negro really supported his own schools. His speech and that of Congressman F. A. Woodward were of an unusually high grade. Dr. J. Elmer Dellinger, Greensboro's leading physician, and a former officer in the Third North Carolina Volunteer in the Third North American tallest man in the party. He stands six feet four inches in his stockings, and is built in proportion to his height, being considered the handsome man in Guilford county. A heated political campaign was in progress, but it made no difference in the welcome accorded to the Washington Hotel. He may have been on other issues, all were united on the proposition that there should be sympathetic co-operation between the races and that common-sense education, thrift and industry were the crying needs of the hour. The special Pullman, the "Uniola," owned by the Southern Railway, was used for the entire tour, and the party spent much time in the hospitality room, only starting were to be made. Mr. H. H. Overton, of Atlanta, was in charge, and he proved to be a most gentlemanly and obliging caretaker. He was handsomely credited by the "Wizard" and his associates. The Star of Zion had itself on the report of the tour, and its efficient force showed great enterprise and public spirit in getting out the "gailey proof" for the colored press, under embarrassing odds. Editor George C. Clement was the hapPIE of the pride he felt in the splendid showing made by his beloved "Old North State." The commercial activity of the colored citizens of Durham made the visitors open their eyes in amazement. The textile factory presented an elegant pair of hose to the enterprise of the entrepreneur North Carolina Mutual Aid and Provident Association gave a handsome paper weight, carrying a portrait of its office buildings. The Carolina Mutual Association Company offered a tastful watch fob. Dr. Washington's powers of endurance are simply wonderful. He delivered from three to five and sometimes seven speeches, varying lengths per day, showing the slight variations of fatigue no hoarseness, despite the fact that he frequently addressed crowds in the open air, amid a chilly breeze. His last speech, at the University of Virginia, in and as happy a vein as his first utterance at Charlotte, eight days earlier. In personnel the party was an "all-star" group, physicians, lawyers, capitalists, journalists, farmers, educators, mechanics, architects, Federal office-holders, business men, fraternity directors, artists and musicians, lawyers, lawyers, capitalists, earned a reputation that could not be gainslash—every man was educated and qualified for leadership. It was a group of high-tone gentlemen, whose name races in the State." Major R. R. Moton's plantation melodies were a pleasing feature of the tour. nent citizens, is visiting Greenville, N. C. his hearers for the musical treat that was the inspiration for "Down the House." He sang, "I Want to Be Ready to Walk Into Jerusalem Just Like John," most frequently, because, as he said, "it almost made Dr. Washington get happy in the courtroom." The present would be as barren as the tragedy of "Hamlet," with the "melancholy Dane" eliminated. Many beautiful homes are owned by North Carolina colored people, and there are more schools and colleges to the square inch than can be found in any other State in the South. They have immense power to peel apart the people of the labor and tobacco, and are given lucrative employment in the mills and factories operated by the whites. The aggregate wealth of the Negroes of the State is estimated at $25,000,000. There has been a decrease in the past decade. Isn't that "going some" for an alleged "downtown race"? Former Mayor Battle, of Rocky Mount, carried all before him when he told of the constructive labors of Dr. Washington for the construction of the merciless regeneration of the South, and stated that "had the nation been blessed with the same counsel of Booker Washington, the horrors of the reconstruction era had been avoided," he said that on every occasion when he had asked the suffrage of the people, with good government as an issue, he never failed to secure the united support of the colored voters of the vicinity. The National Religious Training School at Durham, founded by Dr. J. E. Shepard, evoked many compliments. He such a person, even though he was almost over night is a significant testimonial to the marvelous executive ability of Dr. Shepard. There are five substantive departments of land a faculty of nine, 127 students. The plant is valued at $60,000, and is capable of indefinite improvement. Dr. Shepard's faculty, and the institution is destined to become one of the most notable schools in the entire Southland. Emmet J. Scott, private secretary all the time, and for a period the stellar fig- --- --- --- ... --- --- --- ure in the United States Commission to investigate conditions in Liberia, was the cynosure of all eyes, because of his expert knowledge of affairs in the Black Republic, now an issue of intense importance to the people of the South. He was frequently asked to speak on "Our Fatherland," and his contribution to the fund of history was justly regarded as authentic and valuable. At Wilson Mr. Scott met Rev. E. E. Smith, minister to Liberia under C.E.E. and Rev. O. L. W. Smith, minister under McKinley, and the exchange of Liberian experiences placed the trio of African explorers in the center of the stage. Hon. William H. Lewis, the very capable Assistant United States District Attorney at Boston, and prospective Assistant Attorney General of the United States, made a happy impression everywhere, and was a notable addition to the party. He enlarged his host of friends and strengthened himself materially with the masses in a section which will will particularly represent the publics of the Nation. Mr. Lewis is a native of Virginia, but comes of fine old North Carolina stock, and found quite a number of his relatives in and about Rocky Mount. As an orator, scholar, philosopher and all-round "good fellow," Mr. Lewis proved that he was "there with the goods," and no one can doubt that he will win deserved laurels in the wider field promised to him. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address MOBILE DOTS The Central Alabama Conference of the A. M. E. connection, held their annual session at St. Emanuele church on November 1 6to 20, inclusive. Bishop Parks, D. D. LL. D., of New York, presided at the meeting. The opening night was very largely attended. Addresses of welcome were made by Dr. W. F. Brown on behalf of the business men and the professions of this city; and Dr. C. First Johnson on behalf of the citizens, and Dr. L. W. Kyles on behalf of the ministers. Responses were made by Rev. Goodman, Rev. Brooks and Dr. H. N. Nowsome. The reports of ministers and delegates met the approval of the Bishop, and the conference was a complete success. Dr. Ducker, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., was in the city during the past week attending the A. M. E. conference. The Iola Social Club gave one of the old-time country balls at Masonic Temple last Thursday night. The costumes of all those present were of the Bingville type. Messrs. E. Cunningham, T. W. Tobin, Jr., and George Lee Hill, who served on the committee, spared no pains in making everybody feel happy who attended the dance. The Safety Bank and Realty Company, from the report of Mr. Knox, the cashier, is doing a very good business, and establishing more confidence in our people to save some part of their earnings. Rev. Madison, of Montgomery, is assisting Rev. K. D. Watkins in his revival at Stone Street church. The Freeman can be found at the old reliable stand every Saturday. You get the news when reading The Freeman. Sold at Gulf City drug store, 512 Congress avenue. Elijah Gayles, an old Mobile boy, but now of St. Louis, Mo., spent several days in the old Gulf City. Mr. George A. Richardson, the enterprising clothing man of this city, nas added a hat department to his other business, this being the first venture of a Negro hatter in Mobile. We wish him much success in his new enterprise. The season of the Reading Circle of Ladies has begun again, and the different clubs are working very well fro mthe last reports. FORD'S HAIR POMADE. When an article has weathered the storms for over fifty years and during this time has grown and made friends wherever it has been introduced, puts the stamp of approval on it, and without a doubt should be placed in a class above the average. This paper takes pleasure in telling its readers of one remedy that has this record. This remedy is Ford's Hair Pomade, the old-time tried remedy for kinky, harsh and curly hair. Its use for the last fifty years, helped many whose hair was so short, harsh and kinky that it was the next thing to impossible to do anything with it, or put it up any style that would confine the smarls the least particle, but the use of Ford's Hair Pomade has done a great deal toward eliminating this discomfort for our ladies, and now thousands and thousands of ladies all over the United States have long, wavey hair, and we are in a position to know that many have Ford's Hair Pomade to thank for it. Mr. Ford advertises only to the colored people and patronizes every colored paper of any worth that he knows of, thus helping us, and The Freeman thinks that it is no more than right taet our people should patronize Mr. Ford. Live and let live is our motto, especially when a thing is well worth the living. NEW SCHOOL FOR NEGROES SUP- PORTED BY PHILADELPHIA QUAKERS. Christiansburg, Va., Special. The Christiansburg Industrial Institute, E. A. Long, principal, an industrial school for Negroes, supported by Philadelphia Quakers, will lays the corner stone of their $23,000 building on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24. The stone will be laid by the Colored Odd Fellows of Christiansburg to which the local lodge of Josephs will also turn out. Lodges from Roanoke, Pulaski, Radford and Blacksburg have been invited to attend. Prominent speakers of both races have consented to deliver addresses on that occasion. Hon. Chas. A. Johnston, member of the House of Delegates from this district, and Hon. Allen I. Harless, a leading lawyer, of Christiansburg, will deliver addresses, setting forth the feeling and attitude of the white people towards the school. Lawyer A. J. Oliver, of Roanoke, will speak in behalf of the colored people. Cheney's Expectorant—a quick relief for Coughs, Colds and Grippe. All Druggists, 25c. JUST OPENED! Stop, Read and Think! 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The Christiansburg Industrial Institute was founded as an industrial institution under the present management in 1896. At that time it had one building and one-half acre of land, the total value of which was about $5,000. The school now owns 185 acres of land, ten buildings, large and small; and with the completion of the structure now being erected the value of the property will be $75,000, and all paid for. It is managed by a board composed largely of Quakers, of Philadelphia, who are elected annually by the Friend Freeman's Association, of Philadelphia. The building will be a brick structure with all modern improvements, including steam heat and baths. The school has its own water supply. The furnishings of the building will cost between $7,000 and $8,000. The Freeman for one year and a fine life-like picture of Booker T. Washington for $1.00. Subscribe today this extraordinary offer closes January 1. NAVASOTA, TEXAS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Many Navasota people left to attend the great Houston carnival held last week. A very pleasant time is reported....The teachers of the Navasota high school have just returned from Anderson, Texas, where they were attending the teacher's institute, held last week....Mrs. M. A. Turner, of Fort Worth, Texas, is visiting relatives and friends here....Miss Eddie Mae Wilson has returned to her home in Mexia, Texas....Mrs. Emma Knox went to Anderson Sunday to attend the funeral of her niece....The Freeman, the leading Afro-American newspaper, can be had at E. M. Nealy & Co.'s store on Saturdays and Sundays. PARKERSBURG. W. VA. Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Emma Ridley is recovering from a recent illness. . . Miss Martha Jones has returned from a five weeks' visit with relatives and friends at McKeesport, Pa. She is now able to give up her studies at Summer High School on account of poor health. . . The members and friends of the A. M. E. Church will give their annual Thanksgiving dinner. . . 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If you are painful or alling, think you have been witchcrafted, go to see her. A She spent thirty years in the jungles of Africa and has traveled through 34 States doing good wherever she went. Read St. John, 9th chapter, 33rd verse, "If this man is not of God, he could do nothing." "I for one, as one in the midst. My heart ached from the cruel treatment of my husband and the way he would throw away his time and money, until I consulted this wonderful lady. It will soon be a year. Through her he has been a loving husband, and today he presents me with a lovely lot on which he will build a home. Tongue can't praise her too highly." Thosands are flocking to see this wonderful lady daily. Her powerful consultation when heeded has sent sunshine to the homes of all who called. Don't put off, but call at once, if you wish to enjoy future happiness. You may call at all hours, also Sunday. Don't delay. 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Send for our extraordinary inducements. ADVERTISING RATES Ten cents per line. Base of measure—solid agate, 14 lines to an inch. 276 lines in a column. 14 lines to an inch. Identifies ad for advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professional and business space. Discount for time and space. Reading notes 460 per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. GEORGE L. KNOX, Publisher and Managing Editor. ELWOOD C. KNOX, Business Manager. SATURDAY, NOV. 26, 1910. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. Crippen got his quick enough. The turkey was excellent provided you had one. Good weather for the time of year. The coal bin is struggling to hold its own. The Democrats of this county and State have an excellent chance to hold a big bunch of the colored voters. Will they do it? The Christmas issue of The Freeman will be greater and grander than ever. Don't fall to see it. Write in about it. If you wish to meet the public get in that issue of December 24. It appears that W. T. Vernon will lose out all together—the presidency of Quindaro College as well as his government job. His governor told him that he did not like the idea of him holding two jobs at once. But Vernon could not forego the glamour of politics, preferred to hold to the registrarship, and now has nothing O, ye idols of today! What about the tomorrow? Better make your own tomorrow when possible to do so. Even we, the colored people who are not permitted carte blanche to all the good things of America, have some reasons for thanksgiving. In theory we want nothing denied; in the practice we do not need very much. Our means do not call for very much. If we, with the means enjoyed, can have about us the ordinary wants of life, it is quite sufficient for the individual well-being. If we can manage to get the turkey to eat, it is a matter for thanksgiving or even its substitute by way of chicken, duck and so forth. The rich thank more profusely than the poor. The reason is plain, but we cannot see very much good in this if the poor have nothing to be thankful for. The Lord will be just as much pleased, we think, if the rich will see to it that the poor have something good to eat, the very poor who rake and scrape as much as possible and can't reach the price of a duck or chicken. The rich can't see it that way. It is a fact nevertheless, that many families cannot buy a chicken for the holidays. Who are the holidays for, anyhow? We think the principle of enlarged rights of all men are growing, and as they should. Anything is right and good that promotes the happiness and comfort of the individual without interfering with the rights of other individuals. The Negroes' rights are coming up in theory and in time very much more will be conceded. But white labor unions are not supposed to take the initiative. Those of other callings with more influence will be expected to lead, and until they do we may expect to find the labor unions standing as other institutions. DR. CRIPPEN PAYS THE PRICE. Crippen has paid the penalty. The trial and execution was speedy, a fact which adds to the reputation of English courts for justice to men of all walks of life, whether it be punishment or reward. Our country suffers in this respect. It may not be, however, that things are so bad as they are painted, since the plain truth in such matters is not always known. In the heat of passion, when men are defeated in the courts or when other men want the offices, then most is heard concerning impeded justice and thwarted justice. But at that enough is known of the operations of our own courts to warrant the statement that they do things of the kind better in England. Perhaps no man of standing, profession and influence in America has been so speedily condemned and punished as was Dr. Crippen. True enough the evidence was circumstantial, and which is all together in favor of the English courts in that they are determined to have justice and no "monkeyeying" with the law. Had the evidence been sure and certain as per witnesses Crippen would have been hung the following week, if possible, according to the celerity of the court under the circumstances. Our country can well profit from the case of Crippen and thus rid the civil life of one of its evils. Delayed and defeated justice does not make better citizens; it makes for contempt, and which in the years will grow into downright disrespect. Calling attention to violated laws was one of the causes of Mr. Roosevelt's popularity. He struck at the very heart of the evil, and men loved what seemed to be his audacity and which was but a sense of duty performed. NATIONAL LINCOLN SHAFT. Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois has announced that he intends to devote the remaining years of his life to an effort to secure a national memorial to Abraham Lincoln. He said that he will consider the remainder of his life, be it short or long, well spent if he can achieve this purpose. Of the several national memorials to Lincoln that have been suggested Senator Cullom is distinctly opposed to the project for a national Lincoln highway to connect Washington and Gettysburg battlefield. Automobilists would enjoy that improvement, he said, but it would hardly be a fitting memorial to a man who was a friend of the common people. Senator Cullom will introduce a bill and will work for a national Lincoln monument of great size to be erected in Washington in the midst of a tenacre-lot, to be the counterpart in heroic proportions and magnificence of the Washington monument. DR. CRUM'S OPPORTUNITY. Dr. William D. Crum, of Charleston, S. C., who was appointed minister to Liberia, Africa, is now settled down to the duties of his post. The Liberian Register, published at Monrovia, recently had the following to say: "Dr. Crum is a practicing physician of standing reputation and had an enviable practice in his home city. We are glad to have Dr. and Mrs. Crum in our midst and we feel certain that he will bring his knowledge and experience gained from a long public career to bear in behalf of this Republic." The retiring minister, Rev. Dr. Lyons, of Baltimore, is said to be on his way home where he will take charge of a large church. The new minister, Dr. Crum, made an efficient officer as collector at the port of Charleston, in the face of vigorous opposition. His success under the circumstances says very much for his integrity, ability and such like qualities that go to make up the successful man of today. In view of his experience in affairs Liberia should profit largely by his presence. We are impressed with the thought that Liberia can come up if a few men of the right stamp find their way there; and of course with the opportunity to lay down that tremendous financial burden, and which our country has made possible. It may be that the willingness on the part of Dr. Crum to accept the position carried the idea of exerting himself in the interest of that country. Nor is this a reflection on the retiring minister who saw the country all burdened with debt, under which it could not move. WOULD BAR THE BLACK MAN. Samuel Gompers in his speech at the American Federation of Labor at St. Louis last week advocated the elimination of Negroes from the labor unions of America, saying: "There are eight million Negroes in the United States, and to my mind they can not all be expected to understand the philosophy of human rights. I do not believe they should be permitted to join our unions, lacking as they do for the most part the very necessary knowledge of what our unions really stand for in the economic world. "These people are less than two centuries away from the barbarians of their own African land and a little less than a half century removed from chattel slavery. I am not condemning the Negro, but we can not expect a people with all their traditions—mental, moral and social—tending to tear down, to understand the fundamental philosophy of human rights. This is not theory, but a condition with which we have to deal." The attack of Mr. Gompers was unexpected and unwarranted. At this time there is less agitation along this line than there has been for years. This is due to the seemingly settled convictions of the labor unions that Negroes are to be no part of them, and also to the fact that the Negro workman of the North, where the unions stand for the most, have found sufficient work without the union to care for their ordinary wants. The Negro workmen are of settled convictions that they are not expected in the unions, hence the era of unusual calm. But it is not to be supposed that because of an era of calm that the contention for part in all things is surrendered; not at all. As we have so many times said, rights in abeance are not rights surrendered. That the conditions do not permit of certain ends does not set up a truth. Men are no less fitted to live and prosper because of the conditions. Ordinarily, such an effect would follow such a cause answering to the theory that majorities are right, vox populi, and the rest of it, being the voice of God. Everything in America is topsy turvy as it concerns the Negro, and he is not to be measured by the laws of ordinary circumstances of ordinary times. The Negroes, civilly speaking, are abnormal when compared with the other races. The Negroes are inflected or deflected from the ordinary ways and will not be gauged by the rule which says, because the great mass of white people permits just so much to them that it is right. The Negroes in America like the peasant in Russia simply bows to the superior will. He obeys with reservation. He goes but registers a protest and all of the rest of the saving agencies that keeps man's soul afloat in spite of the surrounding circumstances. Mr. Gompers' motive for making the fling will not readily be seen. 'It is to be hoped that he speaks simply for Mr. Gompers. The bulk of those over whom he presides may entertain notions of the kind but they have not THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER felt called on to express them. It is not understood that Mr. Gompers was authorized to make the attack, nor is it known that his position was endorsed. We think a resolution of the kind would have been voted to lay on the table or for indefinite postponement. We prefer to think of the members of the laboring unions in some such light, that they know and recognize the rights of men whether their souls be sheathed with white or black skin; that they too bow to greater forces than themselves—those who make sentiment by greater intellect and enforce it by their money strength. Mr. Gompers is wrong in stating it as a principle that Negroes are not to join unions because "they all can not be expected to understand the philosophy of human rights." It all depends on what the man means by philosophy. If he means the reason for keeping the wages as high as is consistent with the welfare of the employer, short hours in the interest of the physical welfare of the workman and such like, Negroes understand it well enough. If he means a philosophy that grades races, doling out the good things as it is thought merited by the man-fixed order notwithstanding the nature endowed by God, we, the Negroes, don't understand it. If the Negroes are not to join unions it is simply owing to the known anti-Negro sentiment which to some extent is everywhere. Had it not been for this fact, Mr. Gompers would not have had the nerve to speak as he did of the eight millions of people, and who deserve his compassion and sympathy and who as a leader of men should make the qualities a part of his assets. THE FREEMAN is on sale at Philadelphia, Pa., at Young & Old's barber shop, 1519 South street. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Sunday services at the different churches were grand, the divines filling their pulpure and devotional audiences, and appreciative audiences. The Y. M. C. A. meetings, under the leadership of Mr. S. S. Booker, late graduate of the University of Montana, Ma, the general secretary, and the work of this noble institution are being pushed vigorously. The ladies' department is doing a run-up in aid of the university, and the W. M. C. officers was done a few weeks ago, followed by a fine reception, to which the public has come again, and the people at the entire land counted it a great privilege to give thanks to the Almighty for last twelve months. Special services were held in the various churches on that day. MT. VERNON, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FRIENDS. Mr. S. J. E. Church, of the East End, has been confined to her bed for the last two weeks with serious illness... Rawls and White's Orchestra played at the Ohio State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis. Wednesday evening... The trustees of the A. S. E. Church met at the Residence of Mr. S. J. S. in the Thursday evening and elected the following trustees for the year: C. A. Hamilton, G. L. Simmons, Guy Gibson, Wm. Turner, C. Mayle, Geo. Newsome and S. J. Simmons... Skating at the rink every Thursday evening, b滩 the management of the Rowls to the United States. Every everybody. The Busy Bee Club of Calvary Baptist Church held a Woman's Exchange last Saturday, and the cooks of this club being famous, they had no difficulty in disposing of their wares, and the Willing Workers' Club with hold a penniless at at the show. Saturday night, I don't forget to subscribe for our Christmas number. Everybody reads The Freeman, for it is the newsy race paper Mr. Frank Turner spent Monday in Columbus... Mr. Horace House has returned from Toledo, O., after spending several days visiting friends... Los Angeles has returned from Los Angeles, Mich., Mr. Horright Green and family, and Circleville, O., have taken residence on North Norton street. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. John Cromwell, who has been�三七all for the past week, is somewhat better. Mrs. Estella Brown has furnished rooms to let at 242 East Boardman street. In the 1940s, Mr. Middle is on the sick-like line. His home on Federal and Decker streets, Mrs. Mrs. A. H. Berry and Mrs. T. D. Berry are on the sick list. Mrs. S. H. Dudley, of the Smart Set Company, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Berry. Sunday... The Women's Day exercises, he at the D.A. A. A. and the Church Sunday, by the members of the Chrysanthemum Club, were well attended and successful. The church was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The St. Augustine Episcopal Mission will give its third annual Christmas bazaar in the Elks' Rest, 269½ West Federal street, December 4, and 7. Mrs. Eliza Belle Jackson, wife of John Jackson, died at a family residence on St. Louis, avenue, Sunday morning. Death was due to a complication of diseases. She was forty-two years old and is survived by her husband. She was a member of the True Reformers, Household of Ruth, No. 3750, the Marathon Ave., Baptist Church. Funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the church. John Peterson, of Mineral Ridge, was in the city Monday. HOT SPRINGS, ARK Special to THE FEMANIA Arkansas Annual Conference of the North Arkansas Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church, which convened in this city the week of the 16th inst. at Peter's Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, with its Rev. George Lincoln Blackwell, S. T. D. Helping, Pa. and a chicness, yesterday Sunday night, after having very sufficient session... Mr. D. C. Harris, after spending two weeks visiting points in Arkansas and Texas, returned last Friday, and is now back to his old position as captain at the Majestic Hotel. The city is�ing the most active in the Chapel M. E. Church, the night of the 21st, of which Mrs. L. Rowan was manager, was quite a success... Mr. Will Newton, the up-to-date cook at the Majestic, who was on the sick list last week, at his post of duty again... We're a great season this winter. Hot Springs has already begun to put on her season's airs... The lid is shut down tight on all forms of gambling in Hot Springs. Qite number of chair warm-man, the lid did not come seeking for work. Bradley Coleman and Bob McLemore say the lid didn't touch them, because they are getting their pork chops greasy at the Majestic... Get the habit of reading The Freeman every week. The Fox posted on the back of the Master's restaurant every week at Fletcher Plains's restaurant 503 Malvern avenue. H. F. Foster, agent. IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS—BAT TLE CREEK, MICH. Special to THE TEXAMINER I. L. W. is improving at this writing. The Pastors' Aid Society of the A. M. E. Church met at the home of Mrs. Harriet Tucker last week. Mrs. Fayette, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., was one of the guests. The Tucker entertained Sarah Phillips is on the sick list. Miss Ferle Stewart, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is visiting in this city as the guest of Mrs. Harriet Tucker entertained the Young Ladies. Club last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. George Toles is on the sick list. Mrs. M. Walker entertained Mr. Christopher Johnson and Miss F丽斯 Stewart at lunchtime. Mrs. F丽斯 is on the sick list. Society of the S. B. Church met at the home of Rev. and Mrs. V. S. Cooper, last Friday afternoon. There will be a grand fair given on Friday. Second All-Academic Church invited. Rev. O. T. Judge, who has been assisting Rev. V. S. Cooper in the week's revival, has returned to his home in Elgin, where his church has open spen Valley View by his church here. He was White, of Kalamazoo, Mozch, stopped on this city last week, as the guest of Miss Emily Griffin, while en route to Lansing, where she was to attend M. E. Church last Sunday was a pronounced success. Over $100 was raised. • Mrs. R. Turner is still on the slick list. • Mrs. R. Turner is alive every Saturday. Glad Williams, agent. PORTSMOUTH, VA Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Mary Elliott, of Southwest Jefferson street, and Mr. Will Todd, of Washington, D. C., were married last Wednesday, Dr. G. C. Taylor, Dr. D. performed the ceremony....The new heating system of Zion Baptist Church is nearly finished....The son took place Sunday, November 20, both from Zion Baptist Church....In Portsmouth The Freeman can be secured at 2503 Effingham street or 41-892 Smith street. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO SPEAK Special to THE FREEMAN CHICAGO, Ill.—Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, will speak in Chicago, Sunday evening, the auspices of the Schoeffer Giving Club on Monday afternoon at the University of Chicago. Monday at noon the Scooby Club, composed of twenty-six Congregational ministers, will entertain him at noonfall. This will be Dr. Washington's first visit to the West since his trip through portions of the Lowry region, conditions of the lowry of foreign lands, while royalty sought to do him honor as a leading American citizen and benefactor. It is quite likely that during Mr. Washington's two days stay here a great number of people will be given an opportunity to hear him. The Tuskegee Graduate Club, of Chicago, has a promise from him to speak for them before he leaves the city. He will speak at the Baptist Church, has also arranged for the noted educator to speak to his congregation after he leaves Orchestra Hall, which will be about 9 p. m. Sunday evening. He will speak for Dr. Washington to deliver short addresses at several colored churches while in Chicago, so as many colored people as possible may have an opportunity to receive the moral message of the event which only Dr. Washington can give. In our next issue Dr. Washington's complete programs for Chicago and the Northwest will probably be published. He will be made at any of the public meetings. Evanston and Milwaukee will also most likely be favored with a visit by the distinguished educator before he returns to his work in the South. INTERESTING ITEMS. Doings in General Society at St. Paul, Minn. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to the Freezale pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church, preached the Thanksgiving sermon at St. James A. M. E. Church. The church was well filled and the spirit of the meeting was enthousiastic. Mrs. Floreyn E. Henley secured divorce in the District Court last week, from Virginius J. Henley. Mrs. Henley was also given the custody of her son, James A. M. E. Church, and Mrs. Henley's attorney, W. Mrs. Mattie Hall, who has been teaching at the State Normal, situated at Taft, Okla., has returned to the city of O'Neill, which was applied for a divorce from his wife Mrs. Ida Billups, who has been in Seattle, Wash., for more than a year. He alleges neglect of duty and desertion. Mrs. Matthew J. H. and James A. M. E. Church were at 411 University avenue, in one of the Elliott store rooms. Mr. Evans Tyree and Mr. Charles Alexander passed the city to the four-year-old North Dakota. Both are members of a jubilee company. On last Sunday afternoon the Men's Sunday Club and West End Branch, St. James A. M. E. Church met with Mrs. Mrs. Matthew B. Jones at the회 of Mrs. Mrs. Walker Booker was the chief speaker. Mrs. Mattie Hall also told of her recent trip to Oklahoma. It was a very probable meeting. Mr. J. W. and Mrs. Matthew B. Jones were raised for the Y. W. Movement. The dies of United and Associated Charities gave their Cinderella ball on last Monday night. It was well attended by the elite members of the last last year. The Hall was given under the leadership of Mrs. John Cloak and much good was done among our worthy poor. The members of Pilgrim Baptist Church served a grand din- The first day he received the thanks of Thomas Givingday, Mr. Jackson, of Rice Street district, acted as chief roast pig and turkey, with other delicacies of the heirs of Mrs. John Cloak and Mrs. John Hovell, is in the city visit of the daughter Messrs. Claude D. Jackson and A. Cotton have purchased the picture gallery of Rice, 26½ East, and the mostیل of the most yorked men should get the patrongae of our people. On last Monday night occurred the wedding of Miss Mable Johnson and Mr. Harry Brown. The boy was very aulical among the younger set. The wedding was a very brilliant affair and the happy couple received many handsome presents. The Gateway Investment Company, will hold the annual 10th Annual on December 6. On November 18 Mrs. Walker Booker and Mrs. Darneil Lewis gave a recital at St. James Church to a wrenner of the house. Get The Freeman each week from Henry Crawford, the popular news agent. SOUTH BEND, IND SPECIAL TO THE FREEMAN. Mr. Jas. Thomas, who had been ill at his home on Brick avenue, passed away last Sunday evening, at 7 o'clock. He leaves a wife and a host of friends to mourn his blood. Mr. Thomas had resided at South London for the last ten years. Mr. A. Randolph is still confined to his home, at 1107 Napier street....Mrs. Wm. Manning is much better and is able to be up and around the house....The ladies of the Eastern Star have begun to serve supper at their hall, on North Main street....The A.A. O. O. O. ball will be repeated on December 27, at the La Salle Hall, East Washington avenue. Then will be two prizes: one to the best lady two-steper and one to the raggedest man. These two prizes will positively be given away on the above date. The K. of AP masquerade ball will be given on November 29....The Elite Social Club was called together this week to arrange for their holiday socials. The meeting was held at the home of the president. Mrs. Wm. Manning, 1058 Portsmouth, The Afro-American Order of Owls initiated a class of seven on last Wednesday even, and will have a large class for the first Wednesday in December. Everybody is joining the Owls. WEDDING BELLS. Church and Society News from Jacksonville, UI Special to THE FREEMAN. Special 10 OF THE REMAN. Gorcey Moore, II, and Mrs. Angie Brown, both of this city, were married recently by Rev. H. H. DeWitt, at the Second Baptist Church. The wedding march was played by Miss Margaret DeWitt, and the choir sang by Mrs. Cree, and an excellent solo was sung by Mrs. Ida McCree. Excelent music was furnished by the church choir, also. They were driven in an automobile to the church and found one of the largest and even the best man was Eugene Hayden. Mrs. Stella Hayden was bridesmaid. The bride carried a bunch of white chrysanthemums. Mr. Charles Moore and Mr. James Young were in the church. The best man was held at their home. They received many useful presents. They have the best wishes of the whole community. . . The It Should Be Done' Club, of Jacksonville, . . . The Miss Josephine Literary Association of Kansas and the West. Miss Josephine Waddle has been elected delegate to attend the meeting to be held in Des Moines, Ia., December 27 to 29. Miss Josephine is doing some fine work. Organize a museum, organize a book, Walker Booker last February. They are now planning a big bazaar. . . Mrs. Smith, of Bloomington, IL, is in the city visiting Friends, Kendall Knoxville, Kendall praecipe a sermon, both morning and evening, at the Second Christian Church, November 20...The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Douglas is still very ill...Elizabeth Williams, the little child, and Mrs. Williams, the Williams, of West Anna, continues...Whist Club met recently with Mrs. John McCree, on West Anna street...Miss Anne Campbell, of Reed street, is still very ill, and Mrs. Campbell, is been very ill, does not seem to improve. The Social Domestic Club met recently with Mrs. Charles Jackson, on East College street, and was royally entertained, who has been very ill, who has been very ill, is some better now...The Samaritan Gleaners will give a fish and oyster supper at the home of Mrs. Charles Jackson, of Bury Banks and children of Peoria, Ill., visiting friends., Mr. and Mrs. Charley Want to hear it THEN FOR CHRIST PI A OR A VICTORIA, VIOLIN, M VICTOR OR EDISON New Pianos $165 up YOU CAN BUY EVERY THE HOUSE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY. Wulschner MUSI WHY PAY When Moyer can make you a nifty all- for peg top trousers, fancy cuff will convince you the MOYER, 111 W. Wash L. D. TYL In our new Low Rent, Spacious F ceptional Values Courteous We Buy Right YOU GET THE HEADQUARTER Furniture, Flo Jewel Stoves Liberal terms to Phone, M 35-39 N. Capitol Avenue Buy Your Bicycle to hear ME play! 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Money refunded if not cess Money Order, Bank Draft or al Bureau Roanoke, Virginia. THE STAGE THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st. The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. C. W. Bebee, with the Dixie Moon Company, is now touring Nebraska. Alberta Ormes Dudley is visiting her father, who is ill, at Warren, O. Taylor and Taylor were the hit of the bill at the Majestic Theater last week, in Toronto, Can. J. Francis Mores has been engaged for ten weeks by the manager of the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla. John Pamplin, late of the Down in Dixie Minstrels, played two weeks at the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla. Sims and Thompson and Mitchell and Brady finished a six weeks' engagement at the Globe, Jacksonville, Fla. James Littleton, of Wallace-Hagenbeck's Circus, was in Indianapolis last Wednesday, on his way to Chicago. Tim Owsley has written a new song, entitled "What Would the Knockers Do with Their Illness If They Didn't Have to Pack On." Miss Margie Crosby and Miss India Allen began a four weeks' engagement at the Globe, Jacksonville, Fla., and both were well received at their opening. Anatole Victor, orchestra director for the P. G. Lowery Enterprise during the past season, has taken charge of the orchestra at the Crown Garden Theater, Indianapolis. The Goodloes are in Cincinnati, at the Gaither, for an indefinite period. The Goodloes would like to hear from Trixie, Kayte Howard and Laura Smith. George Harper, of the Black Patti Musical Comedy Company, is spending a few weeks resting at his home in Columbus, Ga. He will rejoin the company at Columbus the 31st of December. Shimus and Thompson began an engagement at the Pekin Theater, Cincinnati, O., the week of the 21st, after having closed a successful engagement of six weeks at the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla. Walter James Reid and John Junk Edwards send regards to all the P. G. Lowery band, and all the Friends, and send regards to Carrie May Hall, Eugene Luggins and A. W. Bruce. S. E. Reid, after a successful tour with the Jones Bros.' Wild West Show, has returned home, and would like to hear from all the profession. Can be found at his home, 220 North High street, Jackson, Teen. Young Brothers' Minstrel Show is headed by Sidney Rolins, the Ohio Oranges Blossom. Berry Burton is making good his favorite, "What a Time". Mrs Lilburn Washington is still making her song hits. Hamilton and Hamilton will be seen and play the show world as "The Sparrow and the Fly". Hamilton is late of the team of Tamilton and Trice. The team is pronounced progressive and progressing. Frank Kirk, the original musical acrobat, is booked to play the same theaters he played last season, over the Northwestern Vaudeville Circuit. He was at the Palm Theater, St. Paul, Minn., the week of the 21st. Brooks and Wilson are no longer associated as a team. Brooks has been going it alone, being just off the road after five weeks of success. He opened in Scranton, Ohio, to the likes, beginning last Thursday, Doing nicely. Jimmie Dick has closed a successful sixteen weeks' engagement at Ockmulgur Park and Budwiser Theater, and is now working with friends. He will be there two or three weeks, Address, 518 Bridge street, Jacksonville, Fla. The Henderson's, Billy and Beulah, now playing a three weeks' engagement at the Pensacola, Pensacola, Pen-sacola leave for Mobile, November 27, where they will fill a three weeks' engagement at the Lagman Theater. They are booked solid for twenty-four weeks over the next three weeks. AT THE OLYMPIC THEATER, CHABLESTON. S. C. Alex, L. Easterby, manager of Moore & Moore's Comedy Company, is featuring the comedian A. Gates, a character comedian of rare ability. Munnie Jones is still pleasing when she shows him smiles. This week she was a hummer to the act, "A Christmas Dream," by the mature company, Chintz and Ella Moore. Her roles are fine. Records to the profession. SMART SET COMPANY PLAYS TO SEASON'S BEST BUSINESS— THE FREEMAN COMPLIMENTED. DENISON, Tex., November 24.—S. Tutt Whitney and his Smart Set, Company moved here Saturday night to the largest show ever attended by whites who were than ever witnessed a Negro show. The show is vastly improved, and "George Washington Bullion" is "far enough." Washington Bullion, the large geometric-grown Men's Club, Messrs. Geo. Harris, Dennis Nowlin, Caesar Bryant and Syl Johnson entertained the company with a last week's Down in Dixie Minstrels played here to a big house. Mr. Collins, the manager, paid The Freeman the foliage compliment. "Young man, The Freeman, paper whose representatives I recognize. THE SMART SET COMPANY COM ING WEST. "His Honor, the Barber," headed by S. Dudley and Alda Overton Walker, has a big line business, who packs a big hit everywhere. The show, from the standpoint of critics and newspapers, is better than a strong cast, an unexcelled chorus, the approval of all that witness it. Mrs. Walker compelled at every performance to re-enact what she was watching. I will not say much about him, as everybody knows him and he is the H. Dudley, with new surprises up his sleeve. You laugh, Everything is moving nicely over here, and a great many of the ladies with the company are praying for cold weather, so they can come out with a new fur wraps. One of them was so anxious to get on the coat on when men were in their shirt sleeves. Here is another surprise; this is the fourth marriage this season in the company, Geo. A. Smith, our trap handler, has taken the coat off Miss Hattie Lewis, of the company, is the lucky bride. You ask me, are they happy? Well, from the expression of both you would think they had discovered a diamond. The lard has written a bailud entitled, "Visions of Ottawa, Kans." Mrs. Alberta O. Dudley has gone to Warren, O, on account of the illness of her father. Miss Hattie Lewis has good to me." Jas. H. Harris says his concert band, number five, issues a challenge to Geo. Bailey and O. Perry, and will make a side bet that they can make wishes to all friends in and out of the profession. CROWN GARDEN. INDIANAPOLIS Paul Le Mero, Mgr. The bill this week at the Crown Garden is very good, judging by the applause which greeted the turns of the various acts. Bonny and Freeman lead off with some vigorous action, which puts everybody in good humor. The talk is good, also the dancing, which is unique. They do a bit of tumbling which is clever. Fred Bonny The Dalys—three of them—on the whole, do some pleasing work. Mr. Daly is very good in his monologue. He is delightfully humorous all the way. His saying is, "The Griffin sisters—well, "nut sed," sure enough. They got the hands in advance, and kept them all through their Miss Griffin's "Lovey Joe" is well up to her rendition of the "Grizzly Bear." You can see that they could also be they could in their duties of work. Johnson and Johnson do some breezy work. They go some, as the bill says. Both are good, sing well, and dance neatly. Mr. Johnson is a clever comedian. Ringgold and Johnson are two live girls who become favorites at once. Their tits turn into a jacket. "The Barber Shop Chord" was a great hit. It was done in a very neat way. THE WASHINGTON TRIO, YAZOO CITY, MISS. The Washington Trio, after a long engagement with the United Carnival Company, closed Saturday, November 12. They met with much success. Mr. Willie Hardy, a former Washington State screening with his funny sayings; also he sang "Grizzly Bear," receiving three and four encores. Mr. Herbert Bryant also left the house in an uproar, singing "Times Are Hard." Mr. Albert Washington, a former Washington conditions, which he does nicely. His work and the trio have won fame everywhere they have been. Mr. Washington would like to hear from all carnival or vaudeville houses in need of good people. Adrian Freeman. Hello, Zollie Ford. Paul Wyer, the Garys, and friends. PASSING SHOW AT WASHINGTON, D. C. The Howard Stock Company closed Saturday evening, November 19. The owners of the theater have decided to make some changes in the plans of the Howard. The manager and treasurer are to be hired. St. Elmo is billed here for next week. --- The bills at the Dabney Theater will consist of Leona Marshall, who appeared in "The Real Moon" last season, as Minneaha, and was leading lady in the Howard Stock Company in Mr. Hill's production of "My Friend from Dixie," Madeline Cooper, the designer of the patrons of the Dabney Theater for two weeks, not long since, and A. Mitchell. Mr. George W. Hamilton, manager of the Dabney Theater, is still confined at the Freedman's Hospital. Mr. George W. Battles still delights the large crowds that attend the Minneaha with his good music. Miss Minnie Brown is playing a return engagement at the Foraker theater. She is quite a favorite and her rendition of a high class of music is of such a character that she will always elicit great storms of applause. T. Spencer Finley is playing a very timely football turn, which is making quite a hit just at this season. The Wilberforceian orchestra, under the leadership of Prof. J. Sherman Huntluc, is the Sunday night feature at the Hia LOUISVILLE THEATERS--THE LYRE THE HOUSTON. Mr. Julius J. Seals, manager of the Lyre Theater, gave a charity matinee on Thanksgiving Day, turning the entire receipts of the house over to represent the audience. Sultan Sultanium, hospital, where great things have been accomplished for the relief of the afflicted among us, has has has a mobile act to the house to his credit like a car to the clouds, wholly unconnected with every consideration that is selfish or perverse. He is also the most respected of Arthur Wolfe, the original rug shinger; Madam Wilkins, soprano soloist; Boyd and Wilson, the laugh provokers; Wilson second to him, the pianist; Wilson second to him, the promoter, his with his song, "Nobody's Going to Make a Fool of Me." Taylor and Burton put on a very moving motion pictures were exceptionally good. The Houston has been crowded to its capacity during this week, and everything that has herefore been a drawback has been refined. The large audiences show their appreciation in a marked manner. The work of the orator and general management seems to have taken on wilde. The people of the city are rallying to the patronage of this house, and many are the expressions of pleasure and joy in the ducted. The bill is headed with the favorite comedian, Earl Walker, and Miss Jill Walker, and who do some hair-raising acrobatic and dancing stunts. Many of Mr. Houston's friends are urging him to organize a stock company, the winter season and play jingle in the summer. He has the matter under admittance. OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE LINE OF THE PROFESSION. BY BILLY HENDERSON Special to THE FREEMAN. Dear ELOYANT, want to give the readers of THE HENDERSON the pubia in general my views on the white and colored performer in the North and in the South. Of course, there is no comparison when it comes to the white and colored performer working together on the same bill. The Harper-Smith Trio, when it has gotten to the place where the colored performer is treated almost as badly in the North as in the South. Take, for instance, the Harper-Smith Trio, who played recently at a white theater in Chicago, who was a member of the band, told that it bill (being very seldom that they play more than one colored act at any, white THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE FANTASY THE TWO JOHNSONS house). Why the act was such a "riot," and being placed in the star position on the stage, the performers put up a bow, thus having the colorful move the colored act up; but Mr. Chris Smith, one of our foremost song writers, composer of the ever popular success, "Farewell," gave us a story and money enough to walk out. Some may say that Mr. Smith did wrong for his own benefit, but he stayed and given the white "would-be" a taste of his own medicine, but I say that he did right, perfectly right; how many of our colored performers would have done There are many other of such hideous tricks done the colored actor that go unnoticed. You never hear of such doings. So the colorful former has a colored house to work in; there is no mixing of talents down South, but the whites patronize just the same, where the management will admit them, and the actors will thank them than in the North, and salaries are just as good if you can deliver the goods. Very seldom that you do three performances anywhere in the South, and in most of the cities where you affords more work than any one city in the country, and it is getting so that the booking agents in that city haven't the kind of a white act can get work any old time. The Grand Theater, managed and controlled by Mr. Duke Bramman, is the leading colored theater of Chicago, and the kind of a finished, farewell Pekin and Monogram, and all other little fishes along the "Stroll." JACKSON. TENN.. NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. The churches, as usual, had quite a large attendance. The pastors of the C. M. E. Churches are preparing for the con- gress, which convenes in Memphis, Texas. While in the New York City, the Peopledu was the first to be the lead of the city's New York. Mr. W. B. W. Napler, the headquarters for young men, has opened a new place to the lunchroom to the old, which has much success. Mr. Lewis Fox sends regards to Miss Jennie Turner of Chicago, Ill. Mr. G. W. Fitzgerald has the leading barber shop of the city and has the line of the "Salt" him. The Freeman at City, Headquarters for Mr. C. J. Reed's pool room is headquarters for all visitors and especially performers of the city's "Clergy and the New York" and the "Clergy and the World" lunches.... Mr. Johnnie Webb, 5414 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill., was the guest of friends in his home town, Jackson. Miss Claudie Smith is on the sick list, but he is limited to the other three. Sick is quite ill. The people of Jackson should give her much of their attention. The friends and public mourn the death of Mrs. Nancy Ward, who died very suddenly, is always a humanized, unfrequent-children.... Mr. John. Moody, of Mounds, Ill. was in the city to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Nancy Ward. Graville Robinson, Gray drummer, with the son of the great-sister and regards to Harris Sanders and Elizabeth Griggsby. Wm. Cole, music director of the Jackson Concert Band, would like to be the first to be the lead of the "Soldi Violinist" in Jackson. Tenn., and would like to hear from the profession he was. E. Reid sends regards to all the profession. John (Junk) Edwards and Richard and the old friends of the profession, and would like to hear from A. Thomas and Geo. Day. W. S. Brown would like to hear from all his old friends in and out of the profession. Walter J. Reid's "Peel Room," the Freeman, cars, and THE DOCTORS IN SESSION. Thanksgiving Day Observed in the Churchs and lodges - Things in General at Cathedral Special to THE FREEMAN. Many of the doctors of the city spent the week in Austin, attending the State meeting of physicians, and report a very businesslike session, while there. This week was very quiet in the social life among the young people, although Thanksgiving was observed in its usual way by many of our businessmen and friends at the clubs. The churches held services. Lodges held simple ritualistic ceremonies for their members at several of P. Hall on Main street, Saturday night, at 10:30, which has caused the twelve lodges meeting there some inconvenience in securing other quarters to meet until a date of the order will be soon...Mrs. John Yarborough and sister-in-law are home from San Antonio, where they spent the week with King Cotton and Tulsa friends and viewing the sights of the National Fair...A large number of our citizens visited Waco, to see the Colored People's Carnival and King Cotton's Fair, the homes of several of the best families in this city, claiming Mr. Russell Winn, Thomas Glives, George Gilbert and others, after closing up their year's work...Mrs. Curtis entertained at her residence, Monday night, in honor of her birthday anniversary. A large number of the friends after closing up their year's work...Mrs. Curtis entertained at her residence, Monday night, in honor of her birthday anniversary. A large number of the friends after closing up their year's work and wish her many years of usefulness...Mrs. Belle Hikes, of Clarkville, is here visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. Sun Jacinto, St. Charles K. of diddleates St. Charles K. of P. Lodge and five into St. Luke, while eighteen rode into Pride of the West. These were K. of P. nights pure and sweet, and were warming up to twenty-six hearty Odd Fellows, in Comet Odd Fellows' Lodge, which shows that determined effort of men striving to help better them. ...Mr. Dan James reports a jolly time at the Nassau County lingham is miked on by Walker's Place, and looks the card of 52 behind the man's office. A glance into the various Negro business places here will at once reveal to the thinking ones that a general awakening is on for good, which means business is on for good. The Freeman congratulates one and all, and the students are ready to the standard by treating their patrons right at all times. It will win over all other methods. The city schools have a right-Cuney Training School in the Bluff, and their existence. A new institution for the training of girls and young women to be skilled in caring for the sick is the Light-Cuney Training School in the Bluff, and their existence. A matte, Mature turner, of the Fort, and Mr. George Mayes, of this city stood as godmother and god-father at the christening Chapel, C. M. E. Griffin, at Saturdays 11 o'clock. Presiding Elder G. H. Harralee officiated. . .Get it on your list and see me for that valuable Christmas press, where, Griffin, at corner of Muln and Austin streets. The International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen of Dallas, twice a month, at North Central, J. E. Willis, president; Jim Sherman, vice president; J. W. Pierce, secretary; Wm. Drake, assistant secretary and treasurer. This ornament is done in all, and all are doing well in Tylor, and has charge of the printing department of the academy there. . .J. W. Anderson, of Palestine, is here for his training his aunt, Mrs. Rosa J. Richardson. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Harvest Day exercises at the First Baptist Church, Sunday, was great. A beautiful program was rendered. The occasion was a success. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Carrollton Academy...Mrs. J. W. Jennings has returned home from Ensele City, Aa., where she has been visiting the University of Ark. The Church, Mrs. Jennings is district president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Florence district, Ark. is in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. Mary Ingram, Mrs. Ella Riley left for Chicago this week, after several weeks' visits to Brooks, of Trinity, Aa., in the city has to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Elza Grace, who died November 7. He was in the city several months, died November 18. He was a member of the Rising Sons and Daughters of Protection. The funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church. Rev. W. M. Carter officiated, remains were laid to rest by the lodge. MARION. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Senior, J. T. Taylor, of Weaver, attended the quarterly meeting at Bethel Church, Sunday.... The Sorosis Club gave a play Tuesday night, at Bethel Church, entitled, "The Modern Sewing Society." Rev. S. W. Roberts, of Bethel Church, held a day.... Quarterly meeting was held at Bethel Church, Sunday. A praise meeting was held at 10:30 a.m., at which time all the old people were present to mingle with the new people. Communion services were held at 3 p.m., at which time Rev. V. I. Roberts, of Allen Temple Church, occupied the pulpit, at 6:30 a.m. The Almaden Mission League met at 8:30 a.m., interesting Miss Alice Dyson, leader. At 7:30 p.m. Rev. J. T. Taylor, of Hill's Chapel, Weaver, preached an excellent sermon. The evening service was for evening service.... Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Harris and son and Rev. and Mrs. James Ponds, of Weaver, were in the city Sunday.... The Euridice Club met Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., at West Tenth street. Social Day was observed.... Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Wheeler, of Louisville, Ky., are in this city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Morrell. The Bethel Church will meet on December 4.... The City Council will meet Tuesday afternoon, December 6, with Mrs. E. S. Weaver, of South Florence street.... Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nolan will celebrate Friday afternoon and evening, at their home on South Nebraska street. DECATUR. ILL.. NEWS. Special 16 THE FREEMAN He was fully observed at St. Peters A. M. E. Church. There was preaching at 11 o'clock by the pastor. From 11 to 2 a most elaborate dinner was served. Supper was also served....The Allen Church people were very successful. The teachers had a little sum, which was turned over to the church....The teachers of the Sunday school are getting up a cantata for Christmas. There will be a Christmas house instead of a tree this year. Mr. John will be the teacher last Sunday....The Sunday school of St. Peters has adopted the International Lessons, which enable the child to become more interested in his lesson. Many good results have come from them already. The school will be subscribed to for The Freeman. Only one dollar a year. Call Old Phone 3422. LOCAL AND SOCIETY HAPPEN INGS—THE BOY SCOUT MOVE- MENT. PENSACOLA, FLA. Special to THE FREEMAN The Boy Scout Movement is getting along nicely. Great plans are ahead to get the boys uniforms, which only cost $3.50. They will give a grand prize drill and a prize for the best uniform, fund some time next month. Watch The Freeman...Patrol B will give a "gumbo" supper at the home of the patrol leader, Walker W. Thomas, at Moro Castle, on next Friday night. December The Supper will give a prize for the best organization Association will have the organization of Boy Scouts turn out in their parade on the 1st of January, which will be a big day for the colored people... Mrs Mary Chalborne, on behalf of the organization, for the part few days, but is out again, to the delight of her many friends...Mr. Ober Long, of Everybody goes to the Park. Entire Week November 28. "The Rosary." MATINEES DAILY AT POPULAR PRICES. WANTED! To hear from all kinds of colored performers. Those that play brass preferred. State all you can do and lowest salary in first letter. ESLEZ & STANLEY, Box 531, Marcelin, Mo. WANTED! At Houston Theatre, Louisville, Ky., The Big Headliners. Good acts always booked at this Theater. WANTED! Colored performers in all branches of musical comedy and vaudeville. Can give you work the year around, so make salary reasonable and be ready to join on receipt of wire. Address Orien Lewis, Mgr. Dixie Moon Co., Little Sioux, Ia. ..RIGHT NOW.. You Can Play Your Act. From 4 to 6 weeks at the Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. Two Shows Nightly, No Matinees. State all in first letter. Write or wire Frank Crowd, or Tim Owsley, Owner and Manager. Assistant Manager. East Chare street, is on the sick list.... Mr. W. H. Harvey, one of Pensacola's... Mr. W. Harvey, respected undertakers, died last Saturday, Sunday.... Mr. Henry O'Bannon has been on the sick list for a few weeks, but is out again, to the delight of his many Friends, the staff of the Pensacola... an interesting program at the Pensacola Normal School Building, last Sunday evening, the meeting was presided over by Rev. G. W. Harris, the school attendance. They also invite all young men to attend these meetings, which will be held every Sunday evening at the school... Mr. W. Harvey, the last Thursday and was buried on Friday. Miss Bessie and Mr. Johnny McKill, who were attending Snow Hill Institute, were in attendance, and their father. The Freeman can be secured. Mr. Robert Wilson's restaurant every week.... Mrs. Marlon Wander, of West... has been on the sick list, but is out again, to the city, the street are the proud parents of a baby born on week... Mr. Patrick Presley has been on the sick list.... Mr. Samuel Cobbs, who is out of the city for the past year, arrived late in the morning, his aunt, Mrs. Harris, of North J street. YAZOO CITY, MISS Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. Alton Lear, one of the widest known men in this section of the country, and also one of the proprietors of the well-known Water Street Restaurant, went in to Miss. Miss. railway mail clerk at Pittsburg, Miss. (railway mail clerk at Pittsburg, that there were thirty-three in the examination. We feel safe in saying that he has passed more civil service examinations than any other man in the State. ..Mr. Tommy Lear, a mail clerk at Springs, on the coast. ..Mr. C. B. Ufinger, one of the best tailors in the city, has one of the finest fitted up shops in the South. Tommy has traveled in every country in the world, making clothes, and even playing the cold arctic region, learning how to cut and felt Eskimo clothes. He caters to both white and colored, and has more than his heavy force can do at all times. He is a very busy every week in London. ..Mr. C. A. Bawker is on the slick list, but is much better. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Barbarka Stokes departed this week with her husband, John, and one child to mourn her loss. In her death Clarksville loses one of the most beautiful characters that ever lived here. She was devoted wife, a loving mother, and a devoted friend. She is also her伯. Too much cannot be said in eulogy of Mrs. Stokes. Her life was like a snowflake; it left a mark, but no stain. Emulation of her life is to be hoped for. The woman who was buried for burial...Mr. Pete Barksdale, a successful business man of Louisville, Ky. is in the city visiting his mother, Mrs. Barbarka, who has been confined to her bed since she was born. Janie Barksdale, who moved to St. Louis, Mo., with her parents a few months ago, has returned to the city. She will remain in Louisville, where she lives. Miss Barksdale is one of the most popular young ladies in Clarksville. ...Rev. Dean, of Dixoxn, Penn, was the city's fifth week the guest of the church, the Lizz McMurray, Mr. Edward Randolph takes on the gray as a regular letter carrier, being appointed to succeed Mr. L. Ferguson, who has been the mayor of Clarksville, where the full force of letter carriers are all colored. ...Clarksville enjoys the unique distinction of having a lodge organized by colored men, chartered by colored women. ...Clarksville offers other lodge in the world, white or colored. This lodge, the Knights of Glideon, had its beginning in the persons of Mr. J. Trice, Mr. Kelly, Hon. Ace Dixon, Mr. A. Dabbin, Mr. P. Lizzie and other influential citizens. It is meeting with great success. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., NOTES. Virginia. . . All the hotels, the board walk and piers were filled with visitors Thurs. in being the largest day of the resort. The hotels, the papers and entertainments were well patronized by the members and friends of the work. . . The A. E. Edwards Publishing Company of this publication, in order to increase the sale of the paper, will give a handsome premium for every yearly subscription through their office. Write for list of premiums. CHURCH AND SOCIETY -MINNE- APOLIS-MINN Special to THE FREEMAN All churches served dinner all day on Thanksgiving. Union services were held at Bethesda Baptist Church....The Sun Forum had a lively discussion last Sunday. Union Church, as to whether we as a race should be called Negroes or Afro-American. No decision could be made; however, the opinion or the majority finally leaned to Negroes. Ida Sellers was hostess to a theater party last week, in honor of Mrs. Jenn Stafford, of Atlantic City, N. J., who is visitant to the aspee. Subbs. The party consisted of Mrs. J. Stafford, Mrs. J. Glubs, Mrs. L. Chapman, Mrs. N. Francis and Mrs. M. Neal. . . Mrs. John Goodbar left last week where they expect to make their future home. Those wishing to obtain this paper may do so from Brown & Parker's Basement Shop, or from Agent H. K. Glubs. Two town avenues, South, or telephone 35330. ROUTE. S. H. DUDLEY, STARRING IN "HIS NIMOR, THE BARBER" -Detroit, CONGO KING COMPANY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF W. A. THOMAS-Salina, Kans. Nov. 28; Chayman, 29; Laluna 30; Brookville, Dec. 1; 2; Nickerson, 3; NICHARDAS AND PRINGLES MES AND GUILFORD 28; Gulpin, 29; Wishaw, Arizona 30. ROSSBOROUGH, THE MAGICIAN-Be- ginsg Dec. 30, Columbia, S. C., in- dence. WANTED. At once, Vaudeville performers, Canada Manager Pelkin Theater, Amalia, Ala. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. To the Profession Mr. Charles O. Harding, 84 LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill., will hereafter do all the booking for this house. Performers wishing to come this way can communicate with him. Ollie Dempsey, Mgr. Pekin Theatre, Cincinnati, O. Send Your Song To me and receive quick results. I write music for your words, or words to your music. Also present your stories to publishing companies in person. Enclose stamp for reply. New Colored Play House 14 CENTRAL AVE., - ATLANTA, GA. Will be finished by Jan. 1, 1911. Seating 1,000, twelve sections of boxes, upper and lower boxes, one large balcony. Seating 1,000, twelve sections of boxes, throughout in regular t statical style, with all modern electrical effects. With large and roomy files for heavy scenery; airy dressing rooms with modular stage. Stage 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep, proscenium open 17 feet high. 25 feet wide in the clear. Seats to be reserved by numbers and see attached list. With an asbestos curtain, and heated with the latest improved gas radiators. This will be a Theatre of refinement and culture, also the largest and finest Colored Theatre in the world. The name of the Theatre will be announced later. J. M. SWORDS AND NEWTON WHEELER, PROBRIETORS L. T. SWORDS, booking Agt. & Mgr., 329 East Ninth St., Chattanooga, Tenn. Everybody goes to the Park. Entire Week November 28. "The Rosary." T POPULAR PRICES. TED! armers. Those that play brass preferred. The Stage. 6 The Russell and Burns Minstrel will make a tour through Tennessee, then to Chicago and from there to Houston, Texas. * * * The great Cox Trio are at the Duvall Theater, Atlanta, Ga., where they are making a great success. Baby Cox is a child wonder. She is but three years old. ```markdown ``` Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Russell, and Jerome and Lewis left Louisville Monday morning for Chicago. They were engaged for the past week at the Houston, where they had great success. The Whitman Sisters & Co. have just closed two very successful weeks at Swords Theater, Chattanooga, Tenn. They open November 21, at the McKinnie Theater, Augusta, Ga. Regards to friends. The Russells, (Joseph and Amanda) closed a successful engagement at the Silver Moon Theater; left Chicago for Louisville, Ky., where they opened the 14th inst. at the Houston Theater on Walnut street. Bradford and Wilson's Africanders played the Bijou Dream in Newark, N. J., and scored—stopped the show. This week Twenty-third Street Theater, Keith and Proctor's. Regards to Glass and Wheeler. Don Causby, of Martin and Causby, is resting a while in his home city, Indianapolis, where he will undergo an operation. The team has just finished twenty-four weeks of successful engagements. Causby hopes to be out again in a few more days. * * * The Billy Kersands Colored Minstrel show perhaps is a thing of the past. The company went bad at Mineola, Texas, a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Kersands regretted very much to close, but were unable to keep the aggregation affoat. The band, however, is determined to hold together, for which purpose they have employed a competent teacher. The one Ed. F. Peat joined the Down in Dixie Minstrels recently at Brenham, Texas, and was gladly received by his host of old friends in the band. Dixie Minstrels and Down in Dixie send best regards to the Palace and People's Theater bunch at Houston, Texas. Best regards to Centers and Centers, Sam Russells, Sandy Burns, Tansels and Tansels, Joe Norton, Buddie Glean, Princes Oliver and the A. G. bunch, Princes Oliver and the A. G. bunch, Elwood Johnson, Jim Wise, McCamon, Daddy Brooks, Tuba Thomas, Charlie Rhue, King Phillips, the Zulu king with the big lips, write at once care of The Freeman. THE DIXIE THEATER, CHARLOTTE, N. C. We are hitting them hard. Thomas B. Young is stage manager, staging shows to please the public. Mr. Olma Dade is making good, and Estella Dade is making a success. Ed Muldoon, better known as Pickaninny, opened here with us Monday, the 14th, with a successful line of songs. Miss Ora Brown opened Monday, the 14th, and she had great success singing "I Want You." Prof. Walter Slade, the blind wonder, is furnishing music for us. All send regards to Moore and Moore, James Garrett, our buck dancer and trap drummer, is making good. Papa Tom Young, with oakra in his hips and tomatoes in his sides, is still holding his own, singing "The Blues." K. C. Jones sends regards to Houzer and Houzer and all the bunch at the McKenney Theater, Augusta, Ga. Would like to hear from all performers. WHO WROTE KAFFIER BABE? Mr. Elwood C. Knox, Manager of THE FREEMAN. Dear Sir—As we purchase every issue of The Freeman, we could not help reading the little article that some Mr. or Mrs. J. J., of Chicago, wrote for the benefit of the public and ourselves as to "Who Wrote Kaffer Babe." Now, as to Mr. or Mrs. J. J.'s article, we will say that we are very glad to hear that he or she was a great friend of Mr. Howard McCarver, and also Miss Lillian Geary, as they are both good friends of ours. When you say Mr. Craton, I mean Harry Craton, wrote my "Kaffer Babe," you told the truth, and no one ever denied or will deny it, for Mr. Craton certainly wrote "Kaffer Babe," both lyric and music. The songs that we wrote, and for which we hold copyrights, are: "My Kaffer Girl," "Choral Isle," "Everybody Else Loves Somebody Else, but Nobody Else Loves Me," and "Yes, Gone." Our song, "Kaffer Girl," was written in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 25, by Amon Davis, when with the show of his cousin, Mr. Ernest Hogan. All other songs above were written by Kelly and Davis. Now if the party that wrote the article will be lady or gentleman enough to call on us at the Pekin Theater, or our home, 2722 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill, we will show them their mistake, and in the future try to make friends with every brother performer instead of an enemy. We will also show them copyrights of our "Kaffer Girl" and the difference between the two songs. With kindest regards to Mr. or Mrs. J. J. and Miss Geary, and many thanks to Mr. Craton for his kind permission to use his song, we remain. Yours respectfully, KELLY AND DAVIS. THE PEOPLES' THEATER, HOUS TON, TEXAS. The Russell-Burns Stock Company is more than pleasing the enormous crowds which through the streets for a block trying to gain admission. The show last week, "Going to War," was one of Mr. Burns' masterpieces, and it kept the house in such an uproar of laughter that it was impossible for the performers to say their lines. The act was featured by Russell, Burns, Levi and the rest of the company. Mr. Lawrence Baker, lately of the Sells-Floto Circus, our phenomenal baritone singer, is making good with "Good Luck, Mary," and a number of other song hits. Miss Marlanna Fritz, our leading soubrette, carries the house away, singing "That Fussy Rag." Russell and Levi are back together again and are holding their own. This pair, with Burns, their character man, are playing their last season in Odeons. Miss Jessie Burns, our buck dancer, takes several encores nightly, singing "Some Day I'll Do as Much for You." Miss Alma Hughes is still hitting them with a fresh and catchy song every week and pleases the patrons. Miss Lillie Brown brought the house down by storm, featuring "Bolo Rag." The last act, one seldom featured by our race with much success—an Indian play—surprised the audience and was a success from beginning to end. Mr. Baker played the leading lines, as Chief Rain-in-the-Face, assisted by several of the company as redslins. Levi and Miss Fritz played the straight lines, assisted by Mr. Sam Russell and Sandy Burns in comedy. Mr. Russell's song hit, "That's a Plenty," was one of the main features of the act. There are several requests to repeat the bill. Mr. Sam Davis is onto his job on the piano, assisted by Ira A. Rutherford, playing traps and bells, and their overtures cannot be surpassed. Levi sends regards to Allen's Troubadours, and would like to hear from Ed Davis concerning their musical compositions. Russell and Burns send regards to Al Bord and all friends. WOLGAST SELLS THEATER Will Soon, Start West to Go Into Training for Nelson. Ad Wolgast sold his theater today, the first step in getting ready to go to Alcornia and establish a training camp. It will take him a long time to get into condition. His broken arm is still in splints, and will stay there for two or three weeks more. But Ad has a good deal of business to close up, and wants to get into camp and ready of begin work as soon as the doctor says the word. He has been out of training a long time. The nelson spring will not take place until spring. BILLY KING, HIS PRODUCTIONS. Billy King, the producer for the Richard & Pringle Minstrel, has just season, and it greatly surprised the management, as they had come to the conclusion that no music could be produced to eclipse our last season's musical productions. Another labrel to Mr. King's career is the "Blackville Guards in the Philippines," a one-act military absurdity. This act alone has provoked more real laughter than any other closing act seen with the "big ones" for years. Mr. King claims he has a new one for this season that will surpass the "Blackville Guards," entitled "Senator Jones from Alligator Bayou." Well, the public is "from Missouri," and some more facts worth mentioning. Eighteen months ago the Georgia Minstrel opened at Benton Harbor, Mich., with a full crew, and the same crowd, with two exceptions, is still with the company. OUR CLOSING NOTES. H. L. Rawles' Annex Band and Minstrel with Four Paw-Sells Shows. We will close our season in Sarchs, Miss, November 23, and I am forced to say to our friends and the public that I have had the best set of men on the road to handle. They are all gentlemen. Industrious and punctual, they were always willing when time came to go to work. They were not drunkkards; they dressed well all season, and made many friends with the show-loving people of the towns we played. My company has been so industrious and punctual that Prof. Lowery and I have used every means that they might be seen this winter with a minstrel. I'll not mention the names of the players at present, but if you keep up with The Freeman you will learn them later on. I want to say a word in regard to Prince Mungo. He has a very clever act. He has also been a friend of the band all the season. H. H. Rawles and company send regards to all friends. NOTES FROM CULLIGAN'S NASH VILLE STUDENTS CO. NO. 1. We showed Buxton, Va., November 16 to standing room only, and the audience was pleased. Everything is running smoothly under the able management of Stage Manager R. O. Henderson, who is sure a hustler. He sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. F. B. Wood says hello to all his friends. The company is to be enlarged to sixteen people. The management has secured some flattering reports of our company from the columns of The Opera House Reporter, a theatrical journal. A. A. Wright says hello. James Lacy, Roy Pope and P. G. Lowery and George Bouth would like to hear from Junk Edwards and W. A. Bruce. T The show's permanent address is in care of the Standard Show Pritting Company, St. Paul, Minn. O. D. Carter sends regards to Thos. (Pet) Hicks and Miss Effie Moore. Write in care of The Freeman. F. B. Wood would like to hear from W. G. Kennedy. THE PEKIN THEATRE, MEMPHIS TENN. The Pekin Theatre is still playing to standing room only, and that is sure saving something at this time, on account of the weather. When one would see the manager of this cozy little playhouse they saw nothing but smiles, as the shows that are being placed before the audiences are of the best grade and are positively drawing cards. The bill opened with a drama entitled "The Life of a Blind Girl," which proved to be the favorite of all who attended. This was during the first half of the week. CHE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER For the last half of the week Mr. Conley gave them a screamer in the way of accomedy entitled "How Jeff Got Whipped." This show, the manager states, was the biggest drawing card ever played in his house, it being so strong that the management was requested to keep it on the entire week. Miss Orsceolio Osborn is still making good in her catchy song numbers, as is Miss Jennie Taylor, with her cornet and mandolin solos, being enchored for returns. Miss Vera Davenport is with us and is causing them to take notice with her serpentine dance. That dancing team of Wiggins and Wiggins joined us on November 5, and say, when that boy Jack Wiggins gets through dancing—it's peaches! Clifford Ross is also with us and leaves them screaming every night by his funny songs and monologues. He is surely one funny comedian. Miss Vera Davenport, that winsome little soubrette, is still taking her share of the applause nightly. Last, but not least, we speak of J. Arthur Conley, on ramusement director, who seems to have a carload of new shows that we have never seen before. Messrs. Coradini and Streets are very much pleased over the success of his efforts. We find him both a gentleman on and off the stage. From the way he handles his performers, which are few in number, we are of the belief that he is capable of handling companies much larger. As a character artist we are forced to class him with the top notchers. We also had the pleasure of seeing two of the smallest child performers that Memphis has even had—Baby Rosa and Baby Anna. They are, beyond doubt, in a class by themselves. Their act is clean and their dancing would be a credit to older performers in the business than they are in years. They are the two daughters of Mrs. Jennie Taylor, the celebrated cornet soloist. Mr. Conley sends his best regards to Marion Brooks, Bob Russell, Tim Owsley, the Crampton Stock Company and W. J. Stiles. YALE-HARVARD HISTORY IN GRID IRON BATTLES. 1876—Yale, 1 goal; Harvard, 2 touchdowns. 1877—No game. 1878—Yale, 1 goal; Harvard, 0. 1879—Yale, 2 safeties; Harvard 4 safeties. 1880—Yale, 1 goal, 1 touchdown; Harvard, 0. 1881—Yale 0 safeties; Harvard 4 safeties. 1882—Yael, 1 goal, 3 touchdowns; Harvard 2 safeties. 1883—Yale, 4 goals; Harvard 1 touchdown, 1 safety. 1884—Yale, 6 goals, 4 touchdowns; Harvard, 0. 1885—No game. 1886—Yale, 5 goals; Harvard, 1 touchdown. 1887—Yale, 3 goals, 1 safety; Harvard, 1 goal. 1888—No game. 1889—Yale, 1 goal; Harvard, 0. 1890—Harvard, 2 goals; Yale, 1 goal. 1891—Yale, 1 goal, 1 touchdown; Harvard, 0. 1892—Yale, 1 goal; Harvard, 0, 1893—Yale, 1 goal; Harvard, 0, 1894—Yale, 12; Harvard, 4. 1895-1896—No game. 1897—Yale, 0; Harvard, 0. 1898—Harvard, 17; Yale, 0. 1899—Yale, 0; Harvard, 0. 1900—Yale, 28; Harvard, 0. 1901—Harvard, 22; Yale, 0. 1902—Yale, 23; Harvard, 0. 1903—Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. 1904—Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. 1905—Yale, 6; Harvard, 0. 1906—Yale, 6; Harvard, 0. 1907—Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. 1908—Yale, 0; Harvard, 4. 1909—Yale, 8; Harvard, 0. WOLGAST WILL NOT FIGHT FOR FIVE MONTHS. Manager Jones Says No Arrangements Have Been Made for Nelson Fight December 24. "If anybody has an idea that At Wolgast will be seen in the ring inside of four or five months he is mistaken," said Thomas Jones, manager for the lightweight champion. "Neither Wolgast nor I ever authorized Louis Blot of San Francisco, to go ahead with a plan to fight December 24." Jones said: "We didn't know a thing about this scheme until we got the Chicago papers. I told Nelson some time ago that he would be the one to get first chance at Wolgast, and advised him that a battle in the early spring would be to our liking. Then Wolgast's arm would be mended. I thought Nelson understood perfectly and was willing to abide by it. "Why, it will be two o rthree weeks yet before Wolgast's arm is out of the cast." BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN NEW YORK LEGISLATURE Legalizing Twenty-Round Contests—License Fee of $10.000. The next session of the legislature will be asked to pass a bill imposing a license fee of $10,000 a year upon boxing clubs, thus barring the fly by night affairs. A commission of physicians to examine the boxers and see that they are physically fit will be urged. Fights of twenty rounds are proposed with the referee under instructions that he must prevent a knockout at all hazards. The commission appointed by the state officials, if the bill becomes a law, will be asked to appoint official referees who have a thorough knowledge of the game to adopt a set of uniform boxing rules, stipulate the weight of the gloves, the time for weighing in and all other conditions. The backers of the bill believe that under state supervision they can conduct their fight clubs in such a way as to open the way for longer and better fights in the future under state control with every assurance of safety to public and fighters. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama November 19, 1910.—The twentieth annual session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference will convene at Tuskegee Institute on Wednesday and Thursday, January 18 and 19, 1911. On Wednesday, the first day, the Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held. Among the topics to be discussed are: "Making Farming Pay." "Successful Truck Farming." "Fruit Raising." "Live Stock and Poultry Raising." "Cotton Raising." "How to Successfully Manage a Large Plantation." "How to Make a Living on a Small Farm." put on his new music for the coming A number of prominent white planters are expected to be present and the question of making tenant farming more profitable both to the landlord and to the tenant will be discussed somewhat at length. On Thursday, the annual workers' conference will be held. On this occasion an unusually large number of persons directly engaged in Negro education from the schools of the south especially, or intertested in the upright of the Negro, are expected to be present. Among the subjects that will be taken up at the workers' conference is the following: How can ministers, teachers and business men assist the farmers to make agriculture more profitable, particularly by assisting in teaching farmers more efficient methods of farming and also to develop the business side of farming. The indications are that the coming annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be the largest and most successful of all the conferences held at Tuskegee Institute. WEALTHY ENGLISH LADY REMEMBERS WILBERFORCE Wilberforce, Ohio. Special Thirteen thousand dollars for Wil伯force University is a gift announced nounced at a mass meeting of the students held Saturday evening to welcome home Miss Hallie Q. Brown, just returned from a five months stay in England and Scotland. The donation is from a wealthy English lady well known in London circles for her philanthropy. During her recent visit in London, Miss Brown became acquainted with the lady and interested her in Wil伯force, with the result above mentioned and assurances of continued interest in the school. The dormitories at the school are badly overcrowded, many stuedents being compelled to find accommodations on the outside. $^{1}$ The majority of the students are of slender means, many working their way through school, and the low rates for room and board in the dormitory are the only things which in many cases make a stay possible to many of these strugeling youths. In a simple but touching manner Miss Brown rehearsed the story of her weary months of working, waiting and praying and the ultimate fruition of her hope stust when the gloom was deepest. As she told her story tears were trickling down her cheeks and many eyes in the assembly showed suspicious signs of moisture, but they were tears of rejoicing and gratitude. At the close of Miss Brown's announcement, the entire student body arose and gave the college yell, and then the audience poined in singing "Praise God from Who mAll Blessings Flow." We are glad to note the increase of students in all departments of the university, and indications point to one of the most successful years in the history of the school. Much credit it is to be given President Scarborough for his tireless scorts to build up a grand institution and to perpetuate the name of Wilberforce University. Bishop Lee has returned from the south for a few days rest, but expects to return in a few days. The 'varsity football team is rapidly rounding into good condition un GRAY'S CAFE & LUNCH ROOM Best. quickest and cheapest service in the city. Home made pastry our specialty. pen all night. Samuel E. Gray, Prop. 222-224 Indiana Ave. New Phone 3251 Opposte The Freeman Office. WANTED SUNNYSIDE THEATRE. STAUNTON, VA. First class colored performers, single or double, for stock and vaudeville. A so good piano player and trap drummer. Long engagement. One show a right. n. Su day. Write or wire to day. W A. Seymour, Manager. WANTED First class colored performers, single or double well-dressed acts. None other need apply. Julius J Seals, Room 4. 808 Center Street, Louisville, Ky. WANTED First class performers at Lincoln Theatre. Write at once. M. C. Ellis, 515 West Main street, Lex- ington, Ky. Southern Vaudeville Circuit! $100,000 BACK OF IT. 12 TO 24 WEEKS without losing one/day. Your Transportation Paid After joining the Circuit Atlanta, Ga., Montgomery, Ala. Pensacola, Fla., Mobile, Ala. GET OUT OF THE COLD. Come down in the Circuit, the water is fine. Get busy. write or wire. L. D. JOEL, Arcade Theatre, 81 Decatur St. Atlanta, Ga. SONG BOOKS 50 Songs and Parodies, the only book printed that carries the words of such hits as "Casey Jones," "Rubber Necking Moon" and "Play that Barb r Shop Chord." Parodies on every popular song of the day. Sample copy 100 pstpaid, silver or stamps. A big discount to dealers, agents and street sellers. The Wm. Foster Music Co., 3025 State street, Chicago, Ill. Only First class Colored Accommodation in the city. Two blocks from Bath Houses. Hotels Depots and Postoffice. MRS. E H LUDLOW. Prop. Telephone 1031. W. H. DORSEY (Arranger of Music.) Music arranged for piano, band and orchestra. Vandeville artists in use of music of any description for musical acts, can be accommodated with bright and catchy music. Words set to mu- music and music set to words. Mail orders given prompt attention. W. H. DORSEY, 3159 State street, Chicago, Ill. The Crown Garden, INDIANAPOLIS, IND Finest Theatre of its kind in the world. Playing only the best in Vaudeville. Eight big acts. Recognized acts always wanted. C. O. Harding, Chicago Agent. Full Orchestra. Uniformed Attendants. WANTED! For Heel Amusement Co., two good comedians, two good lady dancers who can sing and play the piano. Themen must be good witless workers, for motion picture, vaudeville under canvass, to travel South, winter in Florida. Writer, stating wages expected. No booze artists wanted. Web bard, lodge and pay washing bills W. H. Brown, Stage Mgr. Sanford, N.C. WANTED! Mystic Theatre, Hot Springs. Ark., first class colored performers, singles or doubles. Costumes important factor. From six to twelve weeks to acts that can deliver goods E.D LEE, Manager. Visit The Columbia Theatre 524 Indiana Ave. Open Evenings and Sundays Entire change of program every day. Good music, good order, good singing. Clean and up to-date. The only Theatre down town owned by colored people. Admission 5c. HILL BROS., Props. der the captaincy of Mr. Nelson and indications are that they will give Frankfurt a hard tussel Thanksgiving Day. There is much enthusiasm manifested in the coming game with Frankfurt and the whole student body will be on hand to give encouragement and praise to their team. Messrs. Hunnicut, Burns and Bayles, former graduates of Wilberforce, but now employed in the Census Department at Washington, were visitors to the university last week, renewing old acquaintances. We are glad to note their success. The various classes are arranging for a series of football games to be played in the near future. All claim victory. AN ENTERPRISEING CITY—CALVERT, TEXAS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Calvert is located in the center part of the state and is an enterprising little town. It has ten colored grocery stores, and two drug stores which compete with any in the state. It has one dry goods store, four colored blacksmith shops, barber shops, a bakery, a number of saloons and other business houses. Thousands of acres of farm land owned by colored people and nearly everybody in town owns their own homes with numerous improvements and a great many other things we could say but space will not permit. ... See Mr. H. Hilton if you are in need of a horse and buggy... Mr. Jno. W. Walton is visiting friends in Kansas City, Mo... Big Thanksgiving dinner at the Brick Hall, Thursday, November 24. We invite our friends to come and enjoy themselves. Nash & Walton, Mgrs... Mr. Jno. Sneed, of Waco, Texas, was in the city Sunday ...Mr. and Mrs. James Woodley are spending a few days in Houston this week...Black Patti made quite a hit here last week, and A Trip to Africa, Jolly John Larkins, made good here. We wish them success in the state. THE FREEMAN IN LONDON, ENG Copies of The Freeman can be secured in London, Eng., at Daw's Steamship Agency, 17 Green street, Charing Cross Road, W. C. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. 50 Songs and Parodies, the only book pub as "Casey Jones," "Rubber Necking Music Parodies on every popular song of the d-stamps. A big discount to dealers, age Music Co., 3025 State street, Chicago, IL. The Reeves Rooms With or or Only First class Colored Accommodation in the Depots and Postoffice: MRS. E H 436 Church street, W. H. D (Arranger) Music arranged for piano, band and orchestra. Script for their acts, can be accommodated with music and music set to words. Mall orders go State street. Chicago, IL. The Crown Gau Paul La Men Finest Theatre of its kind in the Vaudeville. Eight big acts. Rece Harding, Chicago Agent. Full C WANT For Heel Amusement Co., two good comedians, the piano. The men must be good, willing w/ass, to travel South, winter in Florida. We wanted. We board, lodge and pay washing bills. WAN Mystic Theatre, Hot Springs. Arb or doubles Costumes important factor can deliver goods E D LEE. Manage Visit The Colu 524 Indiana Ave. Open Entire change of program every day singing. Clean and up to-date. T by colored people. Admission J. B. L. D. JOEL, THE THEATRICAL KING. Owner and Manager Arcade Theatre. Atlanta, Ga.; Sec't Treas, and Booking Manager Southern Vaudeville Circuit. SHEET-MUSIC FREE CATALOG OF 100 Picked Popular Songs, Rags and Waltzs selected from latest Season Hits. Free Catalog. Write to-day for one. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC COMPANY 3025 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. INDIANA ELECTROTYPE CO. DESIGNERS. ENGRAVERS. ELECTROTYPES 23 Nort Pearl Street INDIANAPOLIS Beth Phones 1870 CHORUS GIRLS WANTED! Must be nice looking, singers and dancers. J. Leubrie Hill, Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C. STOP LOOK LISTEN BARTON & WISWELL Present The Peer of all Colored Commedians JOHN RUCKER (The Alabama Blossom) AND THE DOWN IN DIXIE MINSTRELS America's Foremost Colored Organization 50 Comedians 50 Singers Dancers Musicians 50 Comedians Singers Dancers Musicians ADDRESS: BARTON & WISWELL Columbia Theatre Building New York City BOOKS printed that carries the words of such hits on" and that Barb r Shop Chord. Pay. Sample copy 10c pr stpaid, silver or prints and street sellers. The Wm. Foster l. ed Hotel. Without Board. The city. Two blocks from Bath Houses, Hotels LUDLOW. Prop. Telephone 1631. Hot springs, Ark. DORSEY of Music.) Vandeville artists in need of music of any depth bright and catchy music. Words set to un-driven prompt attention. W. H. DORSEY, 3100 arden, INDIANAPOLIS, IND ro, Manager the world. Playing only the best in organized acts always wanted. C. O. Orchestra. Uniformed Attendants. TED! two good lady dancers who can sing and play makers, for motion picture vandeville under canvars, stating wages expected. No booze artists. W. H. Brown. Stage Mgr. Sanford, N.C. TED! first class colored performers, singles From six to twelve weeks to acts that umbia Theatre in Evenings and Sundays Pay. Good music, good order, good the only Theatre down town owned 5c. HILL BROS., Props. 3 Weeks Engagement Arcade, Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., L. D. Joel, Owner and Mgr 3 Weeks Engagement Queen Theatre, Montgomery, Ala. Jas. S. Chambers, Owner and Mgr. 3 Weeks Engagement Belmont Theatre, Pensacola, Fla. M. Jacoby, Owner and Mgr. 3 Weeks Engagement Lagman Theatre, Mobile, Ala. Chas. Lagman, Owner and Mgr. If you have the goods you can go from Mobile back to Atlanta after playing the 12 weeks, and play 12 weeks more, making 24 consecutive weeks without losing one day. State all you can do in first letter. If you can't make good don't write, as you can save your time and ours too. In the Field of Sport. Larry Temple, colored, of Rockville Center, N. Y., is willing to meet the Dixie Kid or Harry Lewis. * * * * Thunderbolt stopped Bear Green in the fourth round at Dayton, O., November 11. The go was to have been eight rounds. Thunderbolt is anxious to meet Jack Grim. * * * * The latest is that Jack Johnson will fight Jeanette in England. It has been said that he will meet Langford in England. However, the prospects of a scrap with Johnson are not very bright. * * * * Edward J. Byrnes, of Milford, Mass., a thirteen-year-old lad, is dead of injuries received in a football game three months ago. The lad was tackled and thrown against a tree. The fall caused an abscess to form on his right leg. Cairo, Ill., will have a first-class ball team next year. Stockholders have already met for the purpose of selecting members, etc. They expect to hear from first-class players. Ball players wintering in Carlo, Ill., are Ed White, H. Randolph DeGregory. Battling Nelson is out again for the lightweight championship and is willing to take on any one that can do the weight. Wolgast won the championship from Nelson, but Nelson somehow feels that he is the man. The two will fight Christmas eve in San Francisco for a purse of $10,000. Al Kubiak is being hailed as the latest "white man's hope" today, following the terrific beating he administered to George Cotton, the dusky former trainer of Jack Johnson, before a record crowd in the Labor temple last night. In each of the six rounds the white giant ha dthe best of it, and Cotton was lucky to be on his feet when the gong sounded. The big Pole from Michigan now boasts victories over practically every good heavyweight in the ring outside of Langford and the champion, and he announced at the conclusion of last night's battle that he is going after their scalps. Persistent criticism has resulted in Ad Wolgast agreeing to meet Battling Nelson in the ring again in a fight for the lightweight championship title, which the latter lost to Wolgast last February. The present holder of the title evidently figures from the showing that the Battler made recently that he is no longer dangerous. The men will fight twenty rounds in San Francisco on December 24. They are to weigh in at 133 pounds ringside, and Eddie Smith will probably referee the bout. Wolgast is to receive a guarantee of $7,500, with an option of 40 per cent of the gross receipts. He is also to be allowed $500 for training expenses. JACK JOHNSON SAID TO BE SICK MAN On the Verge of a Nervous Collapse—Inroads Made on His Constitution by Excessive High Living—So It Is Said. "Uneasy rests the head that wears a crown," was said many years ago, a fact gathered of the then passing events and which events are not different today. The man high up is in an enviable position sure enough as it concerns most men—thinking they too would prefer to shine if they had the opportunity. If the man high up is not menaced from foes without, then he turns his own foe and proceeds to devour himself. Financially sufficiency and an unlimited desire for things that appeal to the appetite and passions are foe enough to knock the best men out. 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But it is plain that if Johnson expects to have his memory and nerves in good form he will have to go in moderation. * * * Some one speaking of Johnson's condition, had the following to say:: "Although in appearance Johnson is in the best of health, those who have followed the career of the fighter since he won his title, declared that he has made inroads on his constitution that can never be repaired, by the rapid pace he has been living." Just think of it "never to be repaired." But Johnson does not think of it so seriously. He said: "I'm all right, except that sometimes I don't know what's going on around me. If I don't get better I will have to call off my theatrical engagement, but it's only a matter of a month or two of rest at the worst." The fact that he has such a poor memory is not at all in his favor. It may however be due to the need of rest as he says. Jack and no one else will go it for twenty-four hours without stopping. His friends in Chicago say "too much auto scorching and too much property," and we may add, too much etcetera. Hear this version: The auto race with Barney Oldfield got Jack Johnson's goat and since the race he has declined. This was the statement here Saturday by Lou M. Houseman, who promoted the race between Oldfield and the heavyweight champion, in commenting on the reports that Johnson was suffering a nervous collapse. Houseman says that two hours after the race he visited Johnson in his hotel on a business mater and found the big black in a state of collapse and shaking like a leaf. "Johnson complained bitterly of the chances he had to take in the race," said Houseman, "asserting that Oldfield crowded him." Now these stories may be more or less fake. Some sound fishy enough, but at that, Johnson has been doing things that he could have left undone just as well. * * * * Hear this version of Jack Johnson's condition from Lowell, Mass.: Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world, has quit, temporarily at least. He has met his match, and he is afraid. He is going home to his mammy in Chicago to try and recover from the punch which has shaken his memory and left him whipped for the time being. He made the announcement here after the performance of the burlesque company, in which he is being featured in a boxing sketch. He thinks it is nervous prostration, and so serious that he has asked his wife to hide his revolver so that he can't shoot himself. He says he will quit the show business after the Bangor (Maine) date, Saturday night, and will take the first train for Chicago. Johnson seemed broken in spirit when he talked to reporters after the show. He cannot understand what is the matter with him, but he realizes that it is something very serious, for he cannot keep his mind on anything. He has "cut out" his now famous monologue and sticks strictly to sparring, going home directly after the show each night. The "punch" came last Saturday night in Lawrence, he says. It was after the show, and he was at the hotel with his wife when suddenly everything went blank. He asked Mrs. Johnson to hide his revolver when he recovered his bearings for fear that the next time he got "groggy" he would do harm to himself. * * * * The following is said of Johnson by some one interested in his movements: "Without a fight on his hands Jack Johnson's value as a stage attraction has decreased materially, at least his managers have found this out, which is more to the point. The black champion therefore in looking about for a probable opponent, has "lit" upon Joe Jeanette, another big black fighter with a reputation that is passably fair, fair enough at any rate to make the talking of a match anything but ludicrous. "Jeanette is not a fellow who ever talks very much about himself, but he has an idea that the championship crown will come to him some day and that Jack Johnson is the fellow from whom he is going to snatch it. The other day, Dan McKetrick, who looks after the affairs of Jeanette, suggested to Johnson's manager, Mortimer Theise, that a match in Paris, between Johnson and Jeanette would be a big card, because Joe is a red hot favorite over there. "Well, what can we get for a fight?" asked Theise. "I will guarantee Johnson $20,000 for his end for a finish fight," said McKetrick. "Make it twenty rounds and you're on," was Johnson's manager's request. "But if you'll make it $25,000 we will take the offer." McKetrick got in communication with his French backers and they have cabled their O. K., and stipulated that they would like the match to take place on the night of the Grand Prix, which is early in June. And so everything is practically clinched for Johnson's next match. All that is necessary to close the deal is the signing of the articles of agreement, and the posting of real money as a guarantee of good faith. Jeanette has better than an outside chance to get away with the champion. They have met no less than six times. In one bout Jeanette won on a foul in two rounds. Three of the bouts were six rounds, no decision affairs. Johnson won the decision in a fifteen-round bout in Baltimore, and later, the last time they met, Jeanette secured a twelve round draw. Jeanette has been improving right along, too, and his desire for a finish fight is based on the fact that his best bouts were over an unlimited distance. He made all sporting France his friend by his memorable victory over Sam THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER McVey after forty-nine rounds, and that is why, too, that he will have much backing when he stacks up against the champion next June. RAY BRONSON. Indianapolis Boxer Expects to Cleah Up Large Wad. Ray Bronson, the Indianapolis lightweight boxer who went to Australia with Hugh McIntosh's bunch of ring celebrities, has written to a number of friends in Indianapolis that he expects to clean up $10,000 in the fight game within the next two months. At the time the letters were written, October 11, Bronson had not had any fights, but he was matched for a number of bouts. He said the fight game was at its zenith in Australia, and that all the boxing shows were jammed with spectators. Bronson had been given a promise of a match with Johnny Summers, the champion lightweight of England, and Summers left Australia for his home just as Bronson reached there. Before going Summers promised Bronson a fight in England in February, when the Hoosier boy is on his way home. Bronson is in Sidney. He wrote that the American boxers were being treated in a royal manner. CALIFORNIA TO PUT LIFE INTO FIGHTING GAME Governor-Elect Johnson Favors High Class Boxing Contests—Himself a Patron. NO LAXITY TOWARD RACING NEW YORK CITY.-Sporting men in this city received a confidential tip today that the fighting game is to be revived on the coast. Horse racing, however, is likely to encourage hard knocks after the new California legislature assembles. The governor-elect of California, Hiram Johnson, favors high-class boxing bouts and has been a frequent visitor to the San Francisco athletic club when the program was particularly good. But he cannot see the "bang-tails" and it is said that one of the big features of his first message to the California legislature will be a recommendation that amendments be passed to the anti-gambling law which will effectively put an end to betting on horse races in the state. It is because of this belief that the minority stockholders in the Santa Clara track, headed by J. L. Holland, want a meeting pulled off there this winter before Johnson kills the racing game. WILLING TO MEET MEN OF HIS CLASS. To the sporting editor, Mr. Harold McGrath: Dear Sir:—Mr. Johnny Flynn and Mr. Raymond Russell who run the tailor shop back of the Savoy theater, wish to issue a challenge through the columns of your paper, seeing the interest which you take in that branch of sport. Flynn wishes to meet any boy in the country at 133 or 135 pounds. He has met such men as Congo Kid, Eugene Simms and Kid Gardner. Raymond Rusesell, better known as Young Ed Walls, wishes to meet any boy in the 112 or 115 pound class. Address all communications to Henry P. McGill, 123 DeSota street, Savoy Theater, Memphis, Tennessee. HACK HAS ORIGINAL IDEAS ON TRAINING. Mindful of the Fate of Jim Jeffries at Reno. George Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, took on Emile Pons, of France, last week instead of Pilakoff, the Finnish wrestler he was scheduled to meet. They wrestled catch-as-catch-can, and Hackenschmidt won the fall in 11 minutes and 40 seconds. Pilakoff said he had a sprained ankle and refused to go on. Mindful of the fate of James J. Jeffries at Reno, Nev, last July, George Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, and one of the greatest athletes that Europe ever sent to this country, is going about getting into shape for his coming big matches in this country in a most leisurely manner. Hackenschmidt has some excellent ideas about training, and though most of them are based upon old-line training methods, he is nevertheless one of the most practical and du-p-to-date wrestlers in the business today. No detail of his work is too small for him to give serious attention to, and he is what might be regarded as a deep student of every kind of athletic sports. "There are two ways of getting one's self into condition for an athletic contest," the big foreign star stated during his first workout in Chicago and while getting a rubdown from his trainers. "One is the natural way, in which I call the correct way. The other is the unnatural way, or the wrong way. "By the natural way I mean to take the work in training that you are likely to get in the match for which you are preparing. "By the unnatural way I mean to take a lot of Turkish baths and the like, and to work up sweats in unusual ways. "The natural way, if gone about in a careful, paintsaking manner, will fit a man for a wrestling match or other athletic contest in a perfect manner. The other will upset your nervous system in seven out of ten cases, ruin your stomach and kindred organs and doubtless shorten your life. "Take Mr. Jeffries, for instance. They tell me that when he started in to train for his proposed match with Johnson he took a lot of baths and sweated off his flesh at a tremendous rate. That was the worst thing that could have happened to him. Although they finally got him down to weight and so that he looked all right to the average eye, he didn't have a particle of endurance. "What Jeffries should have done was to fight his way into condition. He should have taken on several minor bouts before the big one came around. Then they would have found what was the matter with him and had time to remedy it, if it could be remedied. At any rate, the minor fights would have saved his backers a world of money. "I intend to wrestle myself into condition. I am going to take on any and all sorts of wrestlers for three or four weeks, and at the end of that time I will have 'time,' which is a great thing in wrestling, down to a nicety, and will be otherwise perfectly fit for severe tests. "The only thing that ever bothers me after a long layoff is my grip. The muscles of my forearms knot up some, but after a few days that wears off. I believe I am in better health today than ever before." THE MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION SHIP—WHO'S THE HEIR? The rivalry for the middleweight championship made void by the death of Stanley Ketchel, threatens to be an interesting one between Billy Papke who by the way, won his first fight in Australia the other day, and Sam Langman, has already claimed the title for his protege. "You can say for me," said Woodman, "that Langford is open to meet any man in the 158 pounds, and will bet $2,500 and post it at any time that he can defeat Papke, Klans, Kelly, McGooorty or any other of the other claimants of the title. We will go further than this. We will fight on a winner-take-all basis if they like, and that is all any fighter can do. I believe he has a right to claim the title, as Papke is next to him in the middleweight division, and Papke has been defeated by Ketchell, while Langford never has; and I believe he would have beaten Stanley in a long battle had one been held." In order to make certain that he can weigh in at 158 pounds, Langford stepped on the scales with his clothing on and weighed 174 pounds. This means that his weight stripped is about 166 pounds and he is heavier than usual at this time. Langford says it will be no trouble for him to make 158 pounds. He never made weight but twice in his life, once for Joe Gans at 135 and once for Walcott at 142 and beat them both. Of course Langford was younger and smaller then. Langford is a stockily built man, but he is short. He is very deceiving. He looks as though he weighs more than he really does. As a boxer, Langford is the peer of them all in the middleweight division today. He can hit like the kick of a mule and he is game and able to take a great deal of punishment. He looks like the one best bet in the middleweight division. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. PRIDE OF THE BAR ROOM ONCE TRIED, ALWAYS USED. For Scouring, Cleansing and Polishing BAR FIXTURES, DRAIN BOARDS, Sample and Premium List Free. 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Entertaining to the old and stimulating to the young. Price, 75c per copy for each. Large commission to agents. Address E. A. JOHNSON, 154 Nassau street, New York City, N. Y. One agent writes: "They sell faster than any books I have ever handled before." St. Louis Giants Would like to hear from all first class clubs. Address all communications to Charles A. Mills, 2320 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. We own our own Park—on direct car line. Burlington Buffet and Cafe If you are a lover of a good time, come and see us. We solicit your patronage on the merit of our goods and service. The best entertainers obtainable always on hand. We are headquarter for Railroad Men and Theatrical People. Phone, Aldine, 2243. R. H. PAYNE & J. F. BOLING, Props. 2918 STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILINOIS. Only Place of its Kind in City ONE EUGENE RECTOR ROBERT ROSS, Mgr. Mixologist. The Marble Hall Saloon FELIX H. PAYNE, Prop. 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She bundled up in cloaks and furs, and lisped, "I'll charm the noble Thurs. She didn't have so long to try, for she found him at an oyster Fri. And on her dimped finger fat, he slipped the diamond while they Sat. J. P. MULLALLY DIAMOND Importer & Jeweler 28 MONUMENT PLACE. 8 The sauciest little caps, the prettiest little aprons for maids you've ever seen—the biggest assortment we've ever had. In aprons there are: Plenty of styles at 25c to 75c. Aprons of India linen, in a dozen or more styles, may be had at 25c, 50c and 75c. As a hint at styles, there are Princess aprons, cute little round and pointed affairs, bibbed aprons and regulation styles. Some are edged in lace, others are finished with embroidery ruffles: a few have insertion trimming. Caps cost 10c, 124c and up to 39c. Caps triangular, caps in bow form, caps in a dozen other styles—any will lend a charm and grace to the serving maid. —Third floor, south. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distri-ctors of Dry Goods. THE FREEMAN HOLIDAY OFFER. Until January 1st, The Freeman will be sent in clubs of one or more at the rate of $1.00 a year, including free a life sized picture of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Remember this offer is good only till January 1st. Send in your orders today. Address THE FREEMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Katherine Armistead is improving at Dr. Ward's Sanitarium. Messrs. J. D. Howard and Bristow Morris are in Chicago on business. Mr. Morgan Adams, in Fayette street, died Wednesday. He was a member of Dunbar, K. of P., No. 42. Mr. Ralph Williams, of Chicago, was in the city last Monday. He is in the railway station, running between Chicago and Cincinnati. Mrs. Harry Jones, in East Sixteenth street, will entertain at breakfast Sunday morning Miss Herbert Webber, who will leave Monday for Gillmer, Tex. The revival services at Jones Tabernacle are progressing nicely, and will continue until the evangelist, will deliver the sermons. Miss Edna Scott will receive Sunday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in honor of her brother, Mr. William Scott, the artist, who has lately returned from Europe. Miss Joana Jackson entertained in honor Mr. Benny Martin, of Chicago, last month. He is formally of this city, Mr. Martin is a mail carrier. Mr. J. S. Groves, the well-known farmer, better known as the "potato king," was in Indianapolis a few days last week visiting his sister. He lives at Edwardsville with her. Arrangements for the corner-stone laying of the Pythian Castle Hall, December 4, have been completed. Visitors from all over the State, together with the Supreme Lodge and Court officers, will be present. Miss Herbert Webber, of The Freeman, who leave next week for Gilmer, Tex., where she will be visiting a museum, stenographer in the Baptist Orphanage and Industrial Institute. Miss Celia Mudd and, of The Charles W. Crawford, of Bardstown, Ky., were married Tuesday morning, and are in the city as the guest of their cousins Sallie Salkie and Michael of the 733 Orphanage avenue, where they will be entertained. Mr. and Mrs. William Smith entertained friends and relatives at the residence of Mr. Geo. R. Morrow, 213 Puryear street, where they are stopping. The favors were white chrysanthemums, with red and purple flowers. Mr. Smith acted as toastmaster. ST. PHILIP'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sunday, November 27, is the first Sunday in September. We are scheduled at St. Philip's Church. There will be a visiting clerkman each Sunday to provide the public is cordially invited to meet style. C. M. E. CHURCH. A a shower party was tended in honor of Revv. J. L. Thompson, last Tuesday evening, at his residence, by the members of friends this church, who stocked up nicely with many of the good things of life. Thanksgiving day at the church was a busy success. The holiday presented later in the evening. Everybody seemed pleased at the delightful dinner. Bennett always for best Xmas photos, Sit now. 36 E. Washington street. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Rev. H. W. Tate, D. D., Pastor. The quarterly meeting service last Sunday was one of Simpson's best. Rev. D. W. Simpson, the pastor of morning and night, and Rev. J. L. Thompson preached at 3 p. m. Two hundred and one communed. Five united with the church. Collections, $60.25. The feast day evening, Bro. James Miller, whose seventy-eighth birthday occurred the 17th, was kindly remembered by friends with a silver offering. The pastor's subjects for the 27th are: Merrill Trilling "Trilling"; evening, "The Wealth of Influence." The committee on pipe organ fund lacks $58.10 of having enough to pay for the instrument. "Old Tidings" will be rendered by the Sunday school, Christmas, Miss Carrie Bayer, director. Bennett always for best Xmas photos, Sit now. 36 F. Washington street. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The "Monster Meeting" is the star attraction for men on Sunday afternoons. All men are invited to be present next week at the School Lesson. W. W. the speaker on "The Fighting Man," Witerspoon U. P. Church, on North West street, between W. W. the ideal place for holding the meetings, which begin promptly at 3:30 and dismiss by 5 p. m. in the School Lesson as it is being taught at the Y. M. C. a every Thursday by Prof. W. P. Todd. Every Sunday school teacher and adult scholar, male or female, is invited. Tell your friends the class session begins at 8 p.m. Every colored man who is not a member of the class should join now, as it is the best time to do so. Get into the various classes at once. If you do not care for a class, just drop into the rooms and spend a little time looking around. You can spend two or four weeks; no month, dues, etc. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. dr. Morning and evening. The subject for the morning will be the Diffusion of the morning. At 1:30 a service service the subject will be "A Wheel in the Middle of a Wheel." At 3:30 the sixth "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon" will be held. These popular Sunday afternoon concerts will be held one Sunday afternoon in each month. Mr. Ratliff, the new musical director, is proving himself the finest in his line among the colors of the State. Each week he had change of only two weeks, the improvement is a decidedly marked one. Last Sunday every seat in the choir loft was occupied at all services. An orchestra of six pieces organized choir. As a result of this fine choir the church was nearly as full last Sunday night as it was in the morning. The "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon," to-morning afternoon, are Professor Hayes, who will read a paper; Dr. W. W. Stewart, who will read a paper; Dr. W. W. Broadie, who will sing a solo; and Mr. Ellen Thomas, the only bachelor of music among the colored young ladies in the city. You are cordially invited to all of these services. Bennett always for best Xmas photos. Sit now. 36 E. Washington street. WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY A Brief Resume of its Early History and its Steady Growth. In 1847 the first organized effort for the education of the colored race in this country was perfected in a school for Negro youth, opened twelve miles from Columbus, Ohio, and called "Union Seminary." It was the first systematic plan of the race for its own education. It was the first special effort of the race for the mental unlift of the Negro, and the training of the hand. It anticipated by nearly fifty years the present idea of industrial training, as it was conducted on the manual labor plan. With 1847 and Union Seminary, Wilberforce University as it stands today had its starting point, and it justly claims to be the oldest Negro university in this country. Union Seminary teachers at that early date were Negroes who purposed to help themselves. In 1856 the white people took notice in a similar direction; and purchased Tawawa Springs (Sweet Water), a beautiful summer resort in southwestern Ohio, rich in mineral waters and historical interest. Here they organized a schoo land named in Wilberforce University, Dr. Richard S. Rust, late secretary of the Fredman's Aid Society, became its first president, leaving a prominent pastoral charge for this position. During the first epoch of its history this school was patronized very largely by the children of southern planters. Often entire families were brought thither, lands were purchased and homes established. This, with the fact that there was also attracted to the place the best element of the colored people from many points, led to the growth of a community of Negroes exceptional in material possessions, in heredity and standing. In truth the stoy of the colored settlements in southern Ohio is one seeming with historical interest and most romantic associations. Thus, Wilberforce University was from the first most strategically situated to serve the race, and commendable progress was made until the Civil War broke out, when southern patronage ceased, the school was temporarily closed and the trustees finally decided to sell the property. Since 1856, Bishop D. A. Payne, a man of color, had been its patron, and ever an active helper in the actual management of the school. Exiled from his native city, Charleston, S. C., in 1836, because he was educating the colored youth, a zealous advocate of education for his people all through the flowering years, and a special pleader for an educated ministry, he could not see the usefulness of Wiiberforce University at an end. But the state of Ohio desired the property and Daniel A. Payne had not a dollar with which to purchase it. Still the trustees decided to give the race the offer of the property for $10,0000. Not twenty-four could be given for decision. "Without a ten-dollar bill at command," now knowing where e could obtain any help, Bishop Payne "threw himself on the strong arm of the Lord" and with sublime faith in the possibilities of earnest endeavor for such a cause, pledged that the sum should be raised. With him were associated Bishop Shorter and Dr. John G. Mitchell. These three men worked hand in hand. During all these years "Union Seminary" had kept in existence. Now it was at once sold and merged into "Wilberforce University." Thus, the internal force and the external force, each working for the same end, finally reached the crystallization point of a great school for the higher education of the race by the race. So these long continued forces again met in the main stream set flowing in 1847 by Union Seminary, and continued to make the school what it is today. So to the Negro himself really belongs the credit of beginning the education of his people; to Ohio belongs the honor of being the mother of its first school, and to Oberlin College much is due for the unbuilding of the university through a splendid galaxy of instructors, men and women, white and colored, from that noble college which first opened the doors of higher education to the race, from its opening in 1856 to the present moment. Wilberforce University has had in THE FREEMAN. AN LLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Campus of North Texas University structors from England and Scotland, from Oberlin and Amherst, from Mt. Holyoke and Oswege, from Harvard and Yale and from other prominent institutions. When Bishop Payne took the property and pledged its payment he labored for two years, kept the school alive and raised $7,500. Then came the great blow. On the day on which the immortal Lincoln was assassinated, April 14, 1865, incendiary hands laid the main building in ashes. However, faith and works again triumphed, and at last a finer brick building, at a cost of $40,000, became a reality—"Shrall Hall," the first of the series of splendid edifices that grace the grounds today. Then aid came from various quarters as the struggle of the school was seen and appreciated. Congress and the Freedman's Bureau made appropriations for its relief. Chief Justice Chase bequeathed it $10,000 (remembering it first—even before his Alma Mater). The Avery estate did likewise. The American Unitarian Association aided it annually from 1868-1875. This body stood faithfully by the school during all these early years, giving in all some $6,000. Friends from all classes gave some assistance, and men and women of color laid down their offerings for its use in sums ranging from $5.00 to $1,000. It has been its boast and pride that a alarge amount of self-help has gone to build up the university. Hon Gerrit Smith in his life time was a strong friend, aiding it by vigorous pleas and by money. It has had prominent persons on its board of trustees. From 1863 to 1867 Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Maj. Gen. C. C. Howard, Maj. Gen. Saxton, Frederick Douglass, John M. Laugston and others served. Later Dr. Bellows and Edward Everett Hale were members of its board—both prominent Unitarians. Growth and recognition increased till in 1887 the legislature of Ohio had such confidence in its worth and importance as a necessary educational factor with a large field of usefulness that it made, and still continues an annual appropriation of some $17,000 for the support of a normal and industrial department. Then the general government, under President Cleveland's administration, organized a military department and a Negro West Point graduate, Lieut. John H. Alexander, was appointed to take charge. Wilgerforce University is the only Negro school in the United States in which a military department is recognized and maintained by the United States government. Upon the death of Lieut. Alexander, another Negro West Point graduate, Lieut. Chas. Young, was detailed to the school; and when the Spanish War broke out he went to the front, taking with him a large contingent of students who fought with honor for the flag in Cuba and the Philippines, while the military work in the school was most creditably carried on by advanced students. Lieut. Young was succeeded by Lieut. B. O. Davis, of the Tenth Calvary, who rendered excellent service for four years. He was succeeded by Lieut. John E. Green, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who is now serving the University. The university began with 52 acres of land, one main building, a few small cottages, a primary department of instruction, two teachers and a bandal of students. Today the united schools in operation, aside from the military, are the college, the theological seminary and the normal and industrial department, instructing in the following courses of study. Classical, scientific, music, college preparatory English, normal art, theological, business, sewing, carpentry, printing, cooking, sheemaking, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, plumbing, tailoring and applied mechanics. It has 350 acres of the best land in Ohio. It has now ten brick buildings, including four halls, a $60,000 trades building and a library costing $18,000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie. There are two farm houses and nine frame cottages for teachers and employees. The value of the entire plant with equipment is quite $350,000. There are thirty-two teachers and an average of 400 students, and it could have 1,000 if it had accommodations for them. Over nine thousand Negro youth have received training here. Over one thousand have graduated from its literary and industrial courses and are now engaged in uplifting the race in all parts of this country, in Africa, Haytell, Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and Canada. It has had students from all these points—20 in one year from Africa Among the many who have reached enquiries are Bishop B. F. Lee, D. D., and Bishop W. Arnett, D. D.; Chaplains Geo. W. Prioleau and W. T. Anderson, two of the colored chaplains in the U. S. Army; Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church and former secretary of the Haytian legation in Washington; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, the late S. T. Mitchell, Prof. W. A. Jonup, superintendent of the C. U. and I. department and once its most distinguished alumni; Dr. Wm. Board of Washington, D. C.; Dr. Thomas Jackson Dr. Jenifer, Dr. Welsh, and many others. Wilberforce University stands for the united education of head, heart and hand. Its motto is carved in stone on Galloway Hall—"A Trained Mind, a Skilled Hand, a True Heart." It stands for higher education of the race and for the skilled hand to accompany the skilled brain. It is located to do this work to a decided advantage. It is contiguous to a territory of three states, each having a large Negro population. It draws from these and the entire belt of southern states, together with the immediate large Negro belt in Ohio, for the reason that its advantages appeal directly and person- ally to those who desire higher training and the social influences it affords. It is practically, as far as situation and service are concerned, a southern school-only 65 miles from Cincinnati and the Ohio river, and drawing many of its students from southern states, where 274 of its literary graduates and some 200 of its industrial graduates are at work. It presents to its patrons an exceptional race environment, where high ideals and practices obtain, where race social life is on a high plane, where evil surroundings are few, where country air and influences do their healthful work, where race friction is quite unknown, where is found on every hand for youth the greatest possible inspiration to right living, right thinking, industry, sobriety and success in life. It has illustrated to the world what the race can do for itself. For over fifty years the work has continued, and its president, a graduate of Oberlin College, is now reaching out in a broad endeavor to expand its usefulness. The university needs today $500,000 added to its endowment, and this the president aims to do as soon as possible. His efforts to raise $17,500, to meet Mr. Carnegie's gift of the same amount for a girls' dormitory, have just been crowned with success. Mrs. Hallie Q. Brown, one of the best and most widely known graduates of the university, has just returned from England and has brought the joycus news of a gift of $13,000 from a wealthy philanthropic lady of London—the gift to be used for building purposes. This assures us a new building. A $30,000 science building is the next need to which he will turn his attention, while he is expecting the alumni to erect $15,000 memorial chapel to the memory of Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, the centenary of whose birth will be celebrated next June in connection with the commencement. Great Preparations are being made for this occasion, when several speakers of note will be present. With additional buildings, an increasing enrollment, a strong faculty and enlarged departments, it is entering on its third year under Dr. Scarborough's administration with every prospect of a confirmation of growth that has been wonderful within this period. BUSINESS LOCALS Woodbine Perfume. 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