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An advertisement in The Freeman is not an experiment, but a business investment. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 6 POLITICAL SITUATION IS NOW ONE OF CHAOS Depositors of the Defunct Freedman's Bank—The Odd Fellows' Journal in New Home—Death of T. P. Woodward. (Thompson's National News Bureau.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9.—The political situation here is one of chaos. Nobody knows just what to speak, and it is not much speaking done on the mooted questions, for fear that a "bad break" may be made that will make matters worse, and persecution react upon it. There are no individual. There are no whispers that "something is coming off soon," but that the mysterious "something" is the deponent say not. There are no better business, are resorting to the anonymous letter method of getting back at people whom they have neither the moral or physical courage to fight in the face of the attack, or secured by those who are opposed to such transposmanlike conduct as "hitting below the belt," "fouling in the clinches," and firing from ambush, jobless or unemployed. It is not reasonable to anyone for the success of any measure looking to the betterment of the race, excepting, perhaps, Col. Judson W. Lyons, who is pushing the passage of the amendment to the defunct Freedman's Bank. The prospects ought to be bright for this measure, since it has received two indorsements, at the hands of the President, and has been committed both houses of Congress. The greatest danger lies in the overcrowded condition of the calendar, with the adjournment of the session drawing with a rapidity. Col. Lyons is makes me feel that there have to be justice done to thousands of Negroes who lost their "little all" through this disastrous failure, and he is of the opinion that the biggest thing that has come to the race since reconstruction days. The bill ought to go through, and anybody who has been inflicted with the defeat in the performance of a sacred duty fails to exert it to the limit. No one seems to know why the name of Mr. Napier does not go to the Senate for a vote on the bill. He is the first of February. In the meantime, Dr. Vernon is holding on, awaiting the word to turn over the office to the Tennesseean. His status of the Lewis case is likewise unclear. He won't be willing to see he won't" seems to fit in very nicely on this dilemma. If Mr. Lewis is finally named for the office of Assistant Attorney General from the regular White House, he will counteract, as it has been decided to eliminate the Assistants to the Attorney-General from the regular White House, and shall be able to prevent these functions from being unwieldy. Mr. Charles A. Cottrill has been confirmed, and will be on his way to the White House, where he will date that overloaded Mr. Crane, the sometime Minister to China, Mr. Cottrill is moving the society of his friends and colleagues to the White House. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, John E. Mihullo, Dr. Felix Adler and others were at the White House the other day by appointment and this has started another day of the situation is chaotic. Little confidence are being held, with the big show sight. But, as to what is "coming off," Dr. Vernon gives yourself as good another. PUBLIC LIBRARY ray, Editors H. P. Slaughter and Oliver Randolph, R. W. Thompson, Lleut, W. A. Fitzgerald, R. W. Carlson, Major, C. W. Fillmore, Dr. W. Brue, Executive Pro. O. Stafford, Dr. A. M. Curtis, L. M. Hershaw, J. H. Starkey, Dr. C. Summer Wormer, J. H. Starkey, Dr. C. Summer Wormer, E. C. Williams, W. Sidney Pittman, W. H. Malvin and others. Mr. Clifford was assisted in receiving by his sons, J. W. Malvin and E. C. Williams, formerly represented Cuyahoga county (Cleveland) in the Ohio legislature, and is a popular and useful factor in the Delaware columbia. He has a responsible position in the office of the Auditor for the War Department. Has Dr. White "Weakened?" Dr. William A. White, superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Inpatient Center, will address the matter of separate lectures for white and colored medical students at his institution. It is said that he will lecture to the whites from Georgetown and George Washington, and the blacks will do the honors for the Negroes who come. The "excuse" offered by Dr. White is that the white insane patients will be allowed to attend the black Negroes, after the whites had "cut the class," objected to being so used, and of course, their wishes had to be complied with. Under the new arrangement, patients will be allowed to attend the white patients, and colored patients will serve as subjects for the colored students. The white said that Dr. Priscilla Thirkeld Howard University that he did everything in his power to have the lectures given to all of the students in common, as the relationship between the blacks and white had no social aspect whatsoever. Dr. Thirkeld called attention to the fact that all through the South white and colored students were given the highest scientific treatment, and there is never any friction along the color line. He saw no reason for drawing any distinction between the government and the institutional personal contact of any kind. The people are still snickering in their sleeves over the shortsightedness of the young blacks in government and the higher up impelled Dr. White to withdraw from his "stand position" position last week. Strange things happen in the stations, and the blacks are supposed to be in full force and where intellectual culture is so thick that you can cut it with a knife. Walter L. Cohen Not to Go. Walter L. Cohen Not to Go. Hon. Walter L. Cohen, who holds an imprint of federal office in Louisiana written after denying the statement contained in a New York paper that he was to lose his place by reason of a consolidated office affair, told the stochitoches. Cohen says that as far back as April, 1909, President Taft assured him personally in Washington at the White House that he had the federal service in Louisiana, and that nothing had since transpired to give him reason to believe that the President had changed the highest respect for Mr. Cohen's demonstrated courage and capacity for leadership, will be glad to learn that there is no truth in the report that he is to be * * The reorganized "National Union" is the latest aspirant for journalistic support at the lands of the race here. Its issue is February. The national infant looks just enough to last a long time in this peculiar field. The staff of the National Union is as follows: F. H. M. Murray, editor; J. D. M. Murray, editor; B. H. Junior, business manager; F. Morris Murray, press manager. This is a "live" aggregation and they will make the other fellows sit up and take notice. Joseph H. Douglas, the well-known villain of the South, appeared at Augusta, Ga., this week for the benefit of the Haines Industrial Institute, of which Miss Lucy C. Laney is principal. For the recent examination for admission to the bar of the District of Columbia, the following were successful: W. W. Cochran, Made T. Huster, the governor, B. G. Baldwin, the Walter and R. Taylor. They are students of the Howard University Law School. For some unexplained reason, the name of Honor James, the governor, has not been sent to the Senate for appointment as Registrar of the Treasury. If any one knows, he won't tell, and those who would tell, he won't tell. He has W. T. Vernon remains as Registrar. He has no idea when he will be relieved, but is ready to do so at any time. Last September, he was hired by Mr. Vernon was to be effective February 1, on which date Mr. Napier was to assume the reins. Major Arthur Brooks, for many years instructor in military tactics in the public schools of New York, and Major A. C. Adams, signer of petition has been presented to the Board of Education, praying that the resignation be not accepted, setting forth his reasons. With further Cadets had derived from the expert training given by Major Brooks. Pressure is being brought to bear upon the major, and he may do so, under certain circumstances. It is hinted that he has been considerably annoyed by a member of the Board of Education, and secure an appointment at the hands of the President, and was "miffed at Major Brooks because the latter could not see the officer's intent to be himself." Major Brooks is confidential assistant to President Taft, and is also commanding officer of the First Separationitation of the District Na-Guard. --- The A. M. E. churches are arranging to celebrate the 151st anniversary of the birth of Richard Allen, one of that company. The "All Day Day" exercises will cover the period between February 12 and 19. Lieut.-Col. T. G. Steward, a retired chaplain of the United States Army, now holds the Wilberforce University delivered a comprehensive address Thursday to the faculty and student body of Howard University. What a proud audience heard Dr. Steward, who is a historian of note and a master of theology, office of Lieutenant Governor, and pledge is given by the State Department of the appointment of William J. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1911. THRIFTY. HONEST. BUSINESS. PROSE. ENTER. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. POLITICAL. DISADVANTAGES. PRESIDENCE. Yerby, of Tennessee, American Consul at Sierra Leone, Africa, to the post of Liberian Consul for Sierra Leone, by and on behalf of the government. This is in accord with the new arrangement by which the United States will supervise the diplomatic affairs of the Liberian Republic. The Odd Fellows' Journal, of which Henry P. Slaughter is editor and business manager of the report at 1344 U Street, in the heart of the principal Negro neighborhood of Washington. The plant and operatives were brought intact from the Philadelphia establishment, and Mr. Slaughter is the report that he is to return to the government printing office, and says he intends to give his full time to the development of the Odd Fellows' Journal into a paying business venture. The next "Assembly" of the fashionable Monacar Club is the Fashion Club of the Auditorium, Eighth street, southeast. The officers of the Monacar club are: H. H. Cardoza, president; C. C. Burke, vice-president; W. L. D. Wilkinson, secretary, and Dr. C. Summer Wormley, treasurer. The estate of the late Bishop J. W. Smith, the whole of which is devised to Mrs. Ida V. Smith, is valued at $25,000. --- William L. Houston, the retiring grand master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, who has returned to this city to practice law, said he was a published statement that Grand Master Edward H. Morris pledged to President Taft the support of 750,000 Odd Fellows or any other number, on the occasion of the recent visit of the delegation to the White House. The party held a reception here, their respect to the chief magistrate of the nation, avers Mr. Houston, and after a few pleasant words of greeting and mutual commendation had been exchanged, the interview closed, with no mention of the office in the Dietz Building, 7th and F streets, northeast. *** A movement is well under way to place a fine oil painting of Former Congressman Langston University. Mr. Langston was at one time dean of the law department of the University. He represented the fourth Virginia disbandment of the United States a score of years ago. --- The mention of the name of Bishon G. W. Clinton in connection with the vacancy of the late Bishon Abram Grant, strikes a popular chord in this vicinity. Bishon Clinton is a man of broad intellectual attalments, in hearty sympathy, for which the Fund stands, and knows just where its application could be made the most effective. Likely that the Board will agree on Bishon Clinton for the place at its next session. --- The death of T. P. Woodward a week or so ago leaves a vacancy in the position of professor of real property in the law department of Howard University. Quite an active canvass is being made by the law department, and those mentioned as favorites in the race are Judge Robert H. Terrell, L. Melendez King, George F. Collins and perhaps one or two others. Judge Terrell is already an occasional lecturer and the wise-acres of the logic successor to the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Woodward. --- Lawyer Thomas L. Jones is doing some excellent work for the race in the police court of the District, which is presided over by the New York City court of the "New South." Judge James L. Pugh. That $100,000 Lincoln Avenue is to be a success. At a dinner at Gray's on Monday last, nine gentlemen subscribed for $1,000 worth of stock each, and every person who subscribed for the orders are from distant sections of the country, where Negroes of enterprise and thief are more active. The new Building Company, sent out by your corres- pondent. The Lincoln Arcade will fill a long felt want in this community and is an investment. Messrs. John C. Dancy, Calloway and Walter A. Pinchback are involved in the project and the office is filled every night with interested persons who come in to look over the plans and have them exchanged by the architect, Mr. W. Sidney Pittman. --- The Liberian boundary question has been settled, and the loan problem is out of the way. Several embryo statesmen are of the opinion that some places in the Liberian customs service may now be able to afford the loan in good shape. There is no dearth of patriots who are willing to save their country—at so much per annum. . . . The plan to hold a mamoth central exposition to celebrate the fifthth anniversary of emancipation has been abandoned by the National Negro Business Association in Louisville in 1909. The unfortunate "break" of last year, which led to the defeat of the appropriation that was almost within the grasp of the promoters, threw the celebration so far back that there was no way to observe October 18th up an exposition that would faithfully represent the progress of the race in fifty years of freedom. The plan advocated by the Business League is that the community set apart for local celebrations in the various communities throughout the country. The Inter-denominational Bible college is taking steps to hold a monster exhibition in the city for the year 1913, in observance of the semicentennial of the Negro emancipation from slavery. --- The office of Auditor of the Tresury for the executive departments will not be abolished at this time, but the matter will be reviewed at a later date. A change may be made in a year or so. The deputy auditor's place, however, is "cut out" and anumber of reductions will be made in the clerical force at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, 1911. --- The Murphy banquet will take place at the Nazarite Hall, Baltimore, Friday evening, on February 24. Provision will be made for the banquet, and the affair promises to be one of the biggest ever "pulled off" in the Monumental City, where they never do things by halves. The magnificent concert, directed by Mrs. Carle Clifford, presented at the Theater Theater $250 for the building fund of the Y. M. C. A. The program was an "all-star" affair, and has never been excelled in this city. Mrs. Clifford deserves great credit for success she has thus achieved for a noble cause. By call of W. Sidney Pittman, a group of Tuskegee men at 609 F street northwest Sunday and organized a "Tuskegee Alumni Association." The moving pictures, showing the various activities at Tuskegee Institute, made a pronounced hit at the Howard Theater Saturday and Sunday nights, and will probably be repeated. Manager T. Spencer Finlay, of the Hiawatha Theater, has perfect arrangements for a monster celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Berick Douglass on Monday evening, the 13th. A banner program is promised. Last week's production of the comedy sketches Old Man and Moke, Mr. Finlay's Miss Minnie Brown, has been highly commended by the dramatic cases hereabouts. --- Mr. Joseph Stanton, who has been serving as a telegrapher, stenographer and typewriter in the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the war department, has been appointed to a position that may not be confirmed for permanent appointment. Mr. Stanton is from Pittsburg, and came here highly recommended. It is hoped his retention can be arranged. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE NEGRO INDEPENDENT CLUB ENDORSES CANDIDATE Of Hon. James P. Edwards - The Parent-Teacher's Association Held Exercises at the Maiden Lane School. Special to THE FREEMAN. --- Mr. George Wollison becomes manager of the stock company soon to open at the Lyric Theater. Mr. Wollison has had extensive and major office positions in theatricals, and is a man of very high talents. Mr. Cain Basel of Chicago, formerly a resident of this city, is visiting old friends. Mr. Joseph Carter, well known young man, died this week, and was buried from the St Augustine Corner Cemetery in their morial. Mr. Carter's brother, Samuel, came up from New Orleans to attend the funeral. The floral offerings were very handsome and expensive. Joe's friends, and was a whole souled fellow, a cheerful companion and a reliable friend. Mr. Willie Davenport, stage manager for the Sels Brothers' Floto Minstrels, will leave to open up at Denver, Col., this month, and would like to hear from good colored performers. Mr. Wayman Sherrill, tonsorial artist, late emperor Graham streets, has opened a place of his own at Tenth and Madison. We hope him success. Mr. James Cobb has given last Sunday at his home, 1224 West Green street. The guests of honor were Messrs. William Mosee and Owen Evans. The Parent-Teachers' Association will give exercises on the 10th inst., at the Maiden Lane School and quite an interesting and instructive program has been arranged. Mr. Frazier Frye, who has been a familiar figure on our streets for over fifty years, is reported very ill. Mr. Alfred Hamilton, who is considered one of the best-posted men on baseball in the world, will be the official umpire for Cubs." Mr. James Palmer, artistic barber, will soon retire to go into another business. The Fortnightly Club gave a whistle party last Thursday at the home of its president, Miss Lillie Robinson. Mr. Clark Jefferson will remove his cafe from Tenth and Green streets to the southeast corner of West and Walnut streets. Mrs. Clara Harris, of 1216 West Walnut street, entertained the Addie Walnut Sunday, February 6, 1911 at a delightful breakfast. Those present were Miss Addie Harris, Miss Lillian Harris, Miss Mattie Gaither, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Willis, Mr. John Foster, Mr. E. J. Carlisle. The mid-year commencement exercises of the senior clas of Central high school is to be held on the 10th inst., at Liederkanz Hall. Mr. George White, of the Logan cafe, is having extensive repairs and remodeling done to accommodate his out-of-town patrons, who come to the spring meeting. Mr. John Maxwell will leave soon to spend some time in San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Annebell Wode has returned to Milwaukee, after a few weeks' stay in Louisville, visiting her sister and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Woodruff entertained the Junior College of the University Club at their hall, 433 South 16th street. Those present were: E. J. Carlisle, chairman auditing committee; Harvey Kirk, William Fairfax, Joe McCarthy, Lee Woodruff. Refreshments were served in abundance and all present had a jolly good time. BOWLING GREEN, KY. Death of a Prominent Man—Birthday Party Given. Special to THE FREEMAN. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Rev. E. D. Caln, pastor of the C. M. 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L. ‘Taylor,’ Richmond, Va.; ¥. D. ’ Patter- son, Greenfield, O.: W. ‘t. Andrews, Sum- ter, S.C.; J.B. Bell, Houson, Texas; J. C. "Thomas, New York City; ‘J. G. Jack: son, Lexington, Ky.; M. M.' Lewey, Pen- sacola, Fia.; Robert C. Owens, Los An- goles, ‘Cal;' HE. Jones, "New Orleans, ‘Exx Officio: Booker ‘T. Washington, Prosident, Lusicegee institute, ‘ls = Chas Banks, “First — Vice-President,” Mount Bayou, Miss ;_ Hmmett J. Sevit, Corre pons retary, Tuskegee Institute, dia; “Gitbert ©. Harris, ‘Treasurer, Bos ton; ‘Mass. During the three day sessions many im- portant matters dealing with the strength- Shing of the national’ organization were eonsider: mong other things, It was decided to hold the next meeting of ‘the National Negro Business League at Lit- Rock, Atk August 16, 17 and 18,1911. Messis. Scipio A. Jones, President, of the ‘Arkansas State Negro ‘Business League, and William Alexander, of the Local Ne- gro Business League of Little Rock, met With the Committee in the discussion of Plans for the entertainment of the dele- Kates. ‘The Little Rock committees are already at work, and have matters well in hana for the approaching meeting. Probably the most important matter and of general interest to the public, dis- cussed, ‘was the celebration of the Fifti- eth Anniversary ‘of the freedom of the Nego people of the United States. At Louisville, in 1909, a resolution was passed by the National Negro Business League providing for the holding of a National, Exposition to commemorate this event. It will be. recalled that at the Instance of ‘the ocers offifers of the Na- tional Negro Business League, bills were last year introduced inthe ‘Senate and House of Representatives of the National Congress, providing for, the appointment of. & commission to. devise’ ways and means for holding such an exposition, ‘These bills were mot pasced at the last session of Congress, because they were brought ‘up under a suspension of the rules and ata time when they required a ewo-thirds majority, and are still pend- ing, The Executive Committee, after frankly Aiscussing all phases of the matter, unani- mously came to the conclusion that, in View of the short time that remains, it Would probably be impossible to hold a National. Exposition, such as was Planned, that would reflect credit upon the race or show in any adequate way the progress which has been made by the Negro people during their ‘freedom. For that reason, the Memoranda which follow were unahimously adopted by the Executive Committee, and the sugges- tions contained therein are earnestly rec- ommended to the consideration of ‘the Negro people throughout the United States, namely : NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. 1. In view of the fact that the Con- gress of the United States has thus far falled to make provision as suggested by President Tart ‘in “his mnessage to Con- gress for a. proper celebration of the firticth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro in the United States ; In view of the further fact that should Congress now make an appropriation we fear the time would be too short to en- able us to carry out a celebration in the form as frst planned: Therefore, we, the Executive Commit- tee “of the “National Negro , Business League advise that the ‘race should not Await the expected action of Congress, and suggest instead of the large central exposition at first planned, that the cele- bration should take the following form : 2. That the third week in October, 1913, be set aside for the celebration, and be, known as Fiftieth, Anniversary, Week. 3. ‘That. instead of a Central Exposi- tion, the Schools, Churehes and all other Societies and Organizations th each com: munity unite and co-operate for the pur- pose of holding a local celebration; ‘this Celebration to take the form of an ex- position of the progress in commercial, professional, moral, intellectual and re- Tigious directions made by the race in that community. 4. “We suggest that where it is possi- ble’ these expositions be held In connec- tion with ‘existing county or state fair Organizations; it will not be necessary to change the regular date for holding such county, or state fairs. 5. Wherever it seems feasible, the county or the state should be made the unit of organipation for the celebration, Instead of the local community. 6. We advise that special effort be made to secure, inaddition to the physical exposition, a. program "of appropriate Speeches and other literary features; the Speakers to be, as far as possible, the Strongest and best. men that can be ob- tained, North and South. 7. We advise that wherever possible an effort he made to secure city, county or state ald to carry out the plans of the focal committee. %. We suggest that In case money ts secured from Congress, it be apportioned among the states, to be expended under the control of the Governor, or some other state authority, in proportion to the num~ her of colored ‘people residing in the aif ferent commonwealths. ‘%, We believe that the plans here outlined have several advantages over, the plans previously, proposed: (a), First, It Makes it possible to put the whole race to work. in planning “and preparing for the ‘exposition and celebration suggested. (>) Te will enable more people to see the progress the Negro has made, than would be possible if they had to travel many miles to some Central Exposition. 10, In conclusion, we strongly urge that our people begin now to plan and prepare for “Fiftieth Anniversary Week, And that this be made at once a means dan an occasion for calling attention of the world to the iminense progress the Negro race in America has made during fifty years of freedom. Tt is the earnest hope and desire of the Executive Committee of the National Negro. Business League that the above suggestions shall be read before the varl- ous churches, lodges and other organiza tions, to the’ end that the Fiftieth Anni- Versary Week of Freedam shall be gen- erally observed everywhere, ee ETE SUNT Ee ‘The Oklahoma, “Jim Crow” law is being tested in the Federal Court at Kansas City, an, through a suit brought by Dr. William’'J."‘Thompkins, a Kansas City Negro, against the Missouri, Kansas & ‘Texas’ Railway and the Pullman Com- pany. Thompkins asks $100,000 damages for being ejected from a Pullman car at Vinita, Okla, and taken before a justice of the peace when he refused to leave the Pullman. ‘Thompkins says he bought a ticket here, including a Pullman _ticket, to South MeAlester, Okla., where he ‘had been called to’ perform an operation. After the train had crossed the Oklahoma line the physician says, the conductor asked It he was a Negro. “Yes, Tam," the physician replied, “Well, you are violating a law by riding in this car.” When ‘Thompking refused to leave his berth the conductor had a deputy sheritt meet the train and arrest him at Vinita. ‘Thompkins says he was fined $15 by a justice of the peace—Kansas City Star. ‘The funeral of the late George Walker was held. in Lawrence, Kan. at the Warren Street Baptist Chureh.’ It’ was one of the largest funerals held in that city for years. He was a Mason, having been made. in Edinburgh, Scotland, sev: eral years ago, Western Star Lodge, No. Tr'of the jurisdiction of Kansas, offict- ated. ‘The ‘casket was copper lined, light plush Gnish, and cost $500. ‘The Franco-Liberian boundary treaty, the ratification of which was a condition of French approval of the American plan fo re-establish the “finances of Liberia, has been sled at the Foreign OMice. ‘J. P._Crommelin, Liberian Minister to Great “Britain “and, diplomatic agent to France, signed on behalf of the Liberian Government.) ) A law is proposed in Arkansas requir- HE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Wphtan ciceeine Yee coiaa ant oe fe the crime occurs, the amount to be $20,000 in event the lynching is by burning at the stake. William G. Burns, one of our most stantial citigene, begat as 9 Talveed man with the Pennsylvania Railroad ‘about thirty-five years ago as 2 section hand. By making himself the best in that line, he was ready {0 grasb opportunity a3. tt came. He was ‘soon advanced to” the freight service, from there to the sho ‘here he leatned ia minute detail the construction and handling of locomotives. ‘His frst charge as. an was a switeh engine at Richmond,” Tha." His skill and ability to handle the same were at once shown to the satisfaction of his superiors by doing more and better work in?iess' time ‘than fils predecessors, “Elis Next step was to the freight service, from which ‘he advanced to a passenger engineer about twenty years ago. ‘or the past ten years his run is from here to Columbus, 0., having in cherge trains of the fastest’ schedule west of Pittsburgh. By his strict observance of orders and nerve of. steel, the officials ang the traveling public always feel safe hen SIT Burts” is on te eke. ide of the cab, Good fortune has’ smiled upon him in that he has never been in any yery serious wreck, or called on the earpet for any infraction’ of the rules. ine of the successful engineers of today owe. their ‘training to’ the careful teaching’ of this man. . For several weeks Mr. Burns health has ven impaired, resulting from a seald by steam during @ very cold snap. He will take a trip through the Southwest to California, visiting Los Angeles, San Prancisco, Portland, Yosemite Park aud many places of Interest. Mr. Burns has been quite 2 student, and is well Informed on. all. subjects of general interest. 'He is ever “on the Job” on the different types of engines now in use by different roads, and can in sclentifie terms com- are the advantages of one over the other. Mr, Burns possecses considerable prop= erty and investment, which places him on easy street when fis retirement comes. He is a citizen of Indianapolis. Negro Odd Fellows and Masons had charge of the services at the burial of Bishop Abraham Grant. Bishop Evans ‘Tyree presided, and Bishop H. B. Parks, of Chicago, acted as mater of ceremonies, Dr. Gregg,’ of St. Louis, and Dr. Peck, of Kansas City, sang. Dr. John R. Hawkins, of Kittsell, N. Cy secretary of the educay tional commission, represented the gen- eral conference. "Dr. J. Fe Ranson, of ‘Topeka, Kas., represented ‘the Western University, of which Bishop Grant had deen president. Prof, 'T. R. Parker, of Liberia, has the foitowing interesting observations in kr recent issue’ of sie Morgan Colleze Bulletin "A. most remarkable thing here in Li- peria is the absence of the pestiferous house fly, at least in places ‘of, settle- ment. Another interesting fast is, that there are very few snakes in Liberia. This is due to the driver ant. “These ants are the most voracious, pugnacious and destructive of the ant’ family. In thelr movements and military arrange- ments ‘they seem to have a very highly developed instinet. Their only formid- able enemy is the red ant. ‘The driver fs “sometimes. about one-half an inch long, with a large developed head, fort!- fied with two Immense mandibles.” ‘They prey upon all sorts of animals from an Rarthworm to an éléphant, ‘They ar- range themselves in long, winding col- umn, and go backward and forward along this line. ‘The line 1s often protected by a’ close row of stationary sentinels all Giong the line. Outside the line, often covering several yards, are to be found Scouts on detached service, looking for prey. There is no hope for the smaller Animals when attacked by them. Tt is a known fact that when the boa constructor has killed-his prey, he will make a elr~ cuit of about a mile around his victim, fooking for, drivers. If he finds any, he abandons his victim; {f he does not, ‘ind any, he returns and swallows it and re- lapses into ‘state of torpor. | Should drivers come upon him in. this state, he is a sure vietim. Just a few nichts ago we were driven from our bedroom by a Visit of drivers, ‘They had come trom the yard next door, after having driven An shmate from her bed, climbed a brick wall tothe second floor and. entered our Tom, forming a. line of march about one-half a block long. Nothing but fire Will stop them when Once upon the march. Howard University, at Washington, D. C., has this year 1,850, students. ‘The college students number 247, of whom 167 are freshmen. Requirements have been Taised both for admission to the college and medical school. ‘The faculties“ in- €lude 110 professors, instructors and offl- Cers. ‘The endowment amounts to $281,- 000. ‘The ‘medical school has received $85,000 in cash for tuition fees during the’ last two years. A new Carnegie Il- brary’and hall of applied selence have re- centiy ‘been added to the plant, and also & Steam-heating plant. ‘Phe sum, of $360,000 has just been do- nated to. Fisk University by, the General Board of Education, whose headquarters are in New York. ‘the gift 1s in response to an appeal sent out by the Institution some time since, when it was determined to put forward efforts to raise $300,000. The sum has since been. increased | to $500,000, this. belng the amount needed io piace the school upon ‘that golld and excelient basis so desired by President Gates and the Board of Trustees. Grand Master Holmes, of the True Re- formers, has at last decided to call the Grand Fountain together February 21, 1911, in the city of ichmond. ‘The re ceivérs appointed. to examine into. the affairs of the bank and allied institutions have not as yet reported, and it will not accordingly be postible to get at all, the facts In the case until this fs done. It 1s possible that the Grand Master has been assured that such report will be forth- coming by the time the called meeting of the Grand Fountain assembles, For ten years Bishop Coppin has been a Bishop of the A. M. E, Church, having Dreviously served’ for many years as Eaitor of the A. M. B. Review, the oldest magazine of the race, and since his elec- tion to the bishopric, has served as Bishop to South Africa and worked in the South- erm ‘States. His present Episcopal Dis; trlet- embraces Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Hs is the author of many helpful and practical books for the minstry, among which are his South Afri- can Letters, being a description of life in South Afri¢a, the “Relation of Baptized Children to the Church, and The Key to the Study of the Scriptures, all’ of which, have had flattering sale, dist Church Bishops, com of A. M. gist Cngrel, Pipher SMB Churches. Tie ineeting began, Th February uh, and will end Sunday, Fe 12th. ‘The sessions were at Big Zion Church, of which Dr, L. W. Kyles has charge. ‘he object of the call 18 to bring about a closer relationship and have one law governing the Methodist organizations {hat will not in any way materially affect either body. |). Mr. Daniel Alexander and Miss Mary Denton were quietly married last week. ‘Mr, Sherly, after spending the holidays in Mississippi with bis parents, returned to Chicago, Ill, where he goes back tc his post of duty. || br, A. F. Brown has moved his office tc the Packer Building, Davis Avenue, Mr, William Blackledge left the city for Pensacola, Fla., where he goes to en- ter business in thé clothing line. Freeman for sale at the Gulf City Drug Store, 512 Congress and Davis Avenue every Saturday. Single copies, 5 cents. ‘The Matrons met with Mrs. W. H. Brazier, Saturday, January 28, and had quite an enjoyable meeting. A very. in- teresting program was the main feature of the afternoon. Mrs. Packer, a most Accomplished musician, played an inspir- ing instrumental solo; Mrs. Banks re- cited “Tit for Tat”;' Mrs. Broadus, a Solo; Mrs. Belsaw gave the current news, and in the place of an absent member Miss ‘Sarah "Willams sang charmingly “Good-bye.” The hostess had. prepa for the members a most appetizing lunch- eon, which was highly enjoyed, and after a few games the guests returned home, Yefreshed and happy, | ‘The Catorce Dias was entertained by Miss Estelle Bell in her usual charming manner. ‘The study for the day , was “Barrabas, a Tale of the Christ,” by Marle Corelli. ‘The characters sketches, Barrabas, Pilate, Christ and Judas, were most vividiy portrayed by different’ mem- hers of the club, and a lively discussion reas e eo Is Your Hair Beautiful ls Sy, Soft, Silky and Long? TSP ta oh OSSe See oy Nae * ae SW Does It smooth out nicely ? 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We are also agents for the Toledo Stoves and Ranges. —— GIVE US A CALL—— = F.W.&F.E. Griggs 616-618 E. Washington St. Just East of Liberty St Of National Coolred Teachers’ Asso ‘clation at Tuekeene. ~The Executive Committee of the Nation- al Association of Teachers in Colored Scnoois held its regular annual meeting. at uskegee Intitute, Alay January 19, 1011 ‘The committee 1s, composed of the follow- ing: ‘Chairman, MW. Dogan, president Witcy University, Marshall, Texas. R. R. Wright, president State College, Savannah Ga. ik A, fbrazzieton, principal owe: lass “High School, Oklahoma City, Okla. £.h. Youngblood, Langston, Okla.” W. Tt Valentine, City Schools, Indianapolis, ind. GW. ‘Trenholm, prineiple elty Schools, Tuscumbia, “Ala, ‘T.'8. Inbordeny president Jos. K. Drick School, Enfield N.C. Mrs 3. im Menitey, Oklahoma. Mrs." Syivania Williama.city’ ‘Schools, "New. Orleans, La. ‘Thos. Miller, president ‘State College, Orengeburs, &. @ L. B. Moore, deanTeach ers College,’ Washington D. ©, . J. Row- fn, president A. & BI. Cote , Alcorn, Ming 1 E. Blackshear, president ‘State School Prairie View, ‘Texest 0. L. Coleman, prest- dent Coleman College, Gibsland, La. Wa J. Hale, principle City, Schools, Chat: tanooga, ‘Tenn. President W..T- B, Will jams ex-officio, Tampton, Va. Corres: ponding Secretary, J. Ie. B. Lee, ex-ollielo Tuskegee Institute, "Ala. ‘in adaition to the members of the comm- tree ‘the following distinguished educators Were present at’ the meeting. MM. Bonton president Cambell College, Jack: Son, Miss, “Rev. William. Singleton, "Chr {Exceutlve Board, Cambell College,” Jack: son Miss. Joseph 'S. Wiley, principal Fess- enden Academy, Fessenden, Fla, Rev. A. Graham, Hampion, Va. Jolin Hope, presi dent A, B.C. ‘College, Atlanta, Ga. Walter §. Buchanan, président A. & College, Normal Ala. E,W. Lee, president Morris Brown College” Atiantay Ga. SB. Tones, M.D. A\& M College, Greensboro, NG! 1B, 5: Boulware, president Clinton Ned 1, Rock Hill 8. CW. H. Singleton, Prineiple City Schools, Chattanooga, ‘Tenn. This session of the committee was given up largly to the consideration of the ways ahd means for enlargement of the work Of the, Association, together with dire lant for the coming mecting at St. Loui Bor July 26-30, 1911. z Th outline for. th 1e general ‘outline for the program for tho ‘mecting ‘was settled upons. Wed: nesday evening, July 26th will bg elven up to welcome addresses, responses and’ the Annual address of the president. ‘Thurs- day is to be devoted largly to the Ble- mentary. Schools; arrangements. being made for a number of papers folowed by Tonnd table meetings, closing with public ‘address in the evening. On Friday. the ‘Association will give ttselt £0 the consider= ation of Secondary Schools; this including high ‘schools and Industrial Institutes} closing the day with further public ad: Gresses, "On Saturday that discussion will be confined to high schools, and. colleges, Closing the day. with business sessions. tacegea 0 ce pla Of tne committee ere ts torbe one daylight session each Gay? the aay Session’ closing at 2200.0 clock. "On Sunday at 11 :000'clock the Variious members of the Association are 10 be distributed in the churehes through- Out the elty of St. Louls. In the afternoon at 3 :00o'clbek there 1s to be an auditorium meeting in which it ts hoped that the en: tire citizenship of St.Louis, will “unite Frith the teachers fn anal mamoth meets ans were also made for special car ‘ahatn Colac Taylor's New Shampoo Dryer ‘ : and Hair Straightener! 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Church convenes stated that on Febuary 9 at the same place a conference of the leading represenatives of the African, Zion and colored Methodist would take place It Is proposed, to merge the three leading Methodist. churches. Ap- parently heretofore the greatest hindrance as been the choosing of a name. “The Union Methodist Church, is one of the ames proposed now that’ appears to meet favor. ‘At the A. M. E. Bishops Council some one will be assigned the district, made vacant by Bishop Grant, or maybe dif erent positions of the ‘district may be given different. bishops. In addition to what new new bishops the conference may determine upon the Yaeaneles of bishops Grant and Lampton will be filled at the general conference to be held May 1912 at Kansas City. ‘Texas is very desirous of being honored by the mantle of the beloved Grant fall- ing “on ‘some native son.” To date only Dr. R. S. 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PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Mention The Freeman when ordering goods. EDITOR KEALING'S NEW WORK Has Accepted Presidency Western University, Kansas City. Prof. H. T. Kealing, A. M., who has been for some years the brilliant editor of the A. M. E. Review, has accepted the presidency of Western University, Kansas City, Kan. There are many who feel as the New Age did when it said recently in an editorial that it would be a mistake for Dr. Kealing to accept the presidency of the institution in question, on the ground that it would eliminate and sever all his usefulness and remove from the editorial and lecture field one of the most popular and brilliant intellect and personalities of the colored race in the United States. Prof. Kealing-occupies an unique position as a race leader in the United States; and such is the flavor of his genius, the mellowness of his humor, the sincerity of his good fellowship that he occupies a position to which the spontaneous sentiment of the American Negroes has unanimously acclaimed him. He is without a rival in his particular field and in the exercise of his splendid and unique abilities. Whether he be editor at Philadelphia and Nashville or president at Western University, he will continue to exercise his peculiar grace and talents. It will be impossible to bottle him up at Quindaro. His genius is of the kind that defies restraint and laughs at the conventional restrictions of merely conventional place holding. His duties at Western University, far from keeping him away from that public which has become so attached to him, will simply afford him the opportunity to meet them in a different regalia. But whether he wears the uniform of editor, college president, or, perhaps later on in the future, of the Episcopacy, it will be the same witty, genial, humorous, scholarly and eloquent mind, that always charms, compels, inspires the audience. Prof. Kealling was born at Austin, Tex.: his parents moving afterwards to Hammond and La Grange, and finally to Waco. He early manifested marked intellectual predilection and gave promise to the observant of that genius which has since been the household word in the entire nation. He early affiliated himself with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and in company with Elder Haywood, the pioneer of African Methodism, toured the state of Texas, establishing the new faith at strategic points, youthful Kealling acting as secretary to the Methodist elder, who was a splendid representative of the early, vigorous, daring and muscular type of Negro Methodist Christianity. After completing the course then offered by the public schools in Texas, young Kealling was sent to Straight University at New Orleans, La. Here his record was such that he was urged by the president and professors of the university to go North, where he could secure better facilities for hisducational development. He arrived at Tabor College, Fairmount County, Iowa, in the fall of 1878, and in three years' time completed the four years' scientific course and received the degree of B. S. While in college, Kealing as a student not only stood in the front rank in his class work, but was foremost as a debater and orator. Winning in the local oratorical contest at Tabor College, he was sent as a delegate to the state oratorical contest, where in a competitive oratorical contest he ranked first in thought and second in expression. While in college he was appointed United States census enumerator and filled the duties with such fidelity that he received especial official commendation. Completing his college course in 1881, he came to Texas and entered upon an educational career which has been steadily upward. As a principal of the colored schools of Waco, as principal of the Austin High School and supervisor of the colored schools of the same city, and as president of Paul Quinn College, of Waco, Tex, Prof. Kealing has long occupied high rank among the educators of the South. As a layman he naturally attracted the attention of the general conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he was regularly elected as delegate, and it was no surprise to his friends when he was called from the presidency of Paul Quinn College to the editor's chair of the A. M. E. Review, of Philadelphia. Here he soon lifted the Review from the obscurity into which it had fallen and made it what its name implied—a genuine review of the best current thought of the times. His duties as editor, taking him to all parts of the country and into every state, Prof. Kealing soon acquired a nation-wide fame and influence as one of the most eloquent lecturers and orators of the race. His wit is sedulous, but never malicious; his humor contagious, but never coarse or vulgar; his diction elegant, but never affected or pedantic. He has no superior as a platform orator. Prof. Kealing numbers among his admirers and personal friends such men as Dr. Booker T. Washington, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Dr. R. E. Jones, Mr. Chas. Banks, President R. R. Wright, Hon. Jas. T. Napier and others of equal not. Prof. Kealing has taken a high rank as an author, and several of his books have met with a flattering reception. With no intention of reflecting upon his predecessor, there is no doubt but that President Kealing will lift Western University to a higher plane of efficiency and influence and make it what it is capable of becoming, namely, a school national in its scope and power. This brief sketch would be incomplete without reference to Prof. Kealing's reception abroad on the occasion of his tour through England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland and other countries of Europe. It is needless to add that Prof. Kealing was received with those marks of respect and recognition which the men of brains and character, regard- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ORK less of color, always receive at the hands of the cosmopolitan minds of Europe, where a man's a man for "a' that and a' that." respected and industrious of the colored citizens of the community. Shackleford broke his leg while jumping over a sevente-five-foot am creat refl res and Letter from Editor Chivis. Midocean, Nov. 20, 1910. Dear Old Chap—You should be out here with us, as this is the prettiest place you have ever seen. We are on our return trip from Australia. We stopped a few hours at Manilla and a day and a half at the Figi Islands, two days at Yokohama and a day and a half at Nagasaki. We also stopped at Hilo a few days, and we spent two and one-half weeks at Honolulu, the most beautiful city, as far as nature is concerned, in all the world. I met Hen Wise and his wife, who are playing in Honolulu. They has just arrived there from New Zealand, and as I told him I was going to write you, he asked me to inquire as to why you did not insert his advertising matter in The Freeman. He also expressed a wish that you write to him in Honolulu, care of the Novelty Theater, at once. This has been the most beautiful two months' trip that I have ever experienced. As we will arrive home on or about December 10, I would like to have you mention the fact of our trip, and be sure and send me the papers. You can also state that I was successful in some of the best advertising propositions, both in Manilla and the Hawaiian Islands. As I will leave Los Angeles on or about January 15 for the East and South, I may stop in Indianapolis and will be pleased to have your journey with me to Florida. I found very few colored people in Honolulu, but a great many American men in Manilla, who are doing well. They have lost about all of their land and possessions since the dethroning of the queen, and their progress is slow. If bright American Negroes should go to the Islands of Honolulu and tak eup industry and farming they could make plenty of money, and you might, through your medium, encourage some of the industrious Southern Negroes to journey to the Island of Bulaland and Flowers. I am not exaggerating when I say to you that 500 well equipped Negroes from America with $500 apiece could go over to that island and in the next fifteen years, with the aid of the natives, who are trying to be intelligent, they could be worth $20,000 apiece. These people are as far in the dark as to the progress of the country and in intelligence as the American Negro was five years after the war. The missionaries have come over here and have simply robbed these people of everything they had. Some of the natives have advanced enough to come to the mainland and learn a thing or two, and they have returned and are getting hold of their possessions. The white people on the islands feared me as they would a rattlesnake, as they claimed that I learned the natives about their affairs of government. You are aware of the fact that the white people teach the people in the schools here and that they are better than the American Negro, but when the American Negroes come into their midst they welcome them most heartily. The missionaries and the Republicans that are holding government positions here have begun to tremble in their shoes, believing that the government is going to appoint Charlie Cottrell collector of customs and send government troops over here. National Committeeman Atkinson and a few of the other white Republicans have appealed to President Taft not to send Negroes to the islands, and yet 95 percent of the people of the entire Hawaiian Islands are darker than you and I. Send The Freeman to the following for one year: Girwood M. Addison, Honolulu; Mayor Joe Fern, Honolulu; Sheriff William Jarret, Honolulu, and Undertaker J. J. Silva, Honolulu. These gentlemen will send you the money for the same when you send them a bill. This is about all that I can say at this time. Kindly give my best regards to your father, Archie Greathouse and all the rest of the boys. Hoping to hear from you as soon as it is convenient for you to write, CITIZENS ESPOUSE NEGRO'S CAUSE. Milford Folks Raise Fund to Defend Shackleford, Who in Protecting His Son Killed a Man. Milford (Ohio) citizens held a mass meeting in the Methodist Church one night last week, in sympathy for Wm. Shackleford, the negro, wanted for murder by the authorities of Martin, Franklin County, Georgia. The villagers contributed liberally to a fund to hire a lawyer for his defense and to prevent his extradition. Newspaper reports and letters telling of the trouble have put the fugitive's case in such a light as to arouse the citizens en masse to his aid. Shackleford is resting easily at the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was taken several days ago after an exciting chase by Marshal Malberry. Shackleford's boy, over whom the trouble started, arrived in Milford several days ago. He was smuggled north by relatives. No attempt to arrest him had been made, as he is only 13 years old. About three weeks ago the lad hid behind a tree about noontime and when the two daughters of a Prof. Dorsey passed by, boy-like, he jumped out and scared them. When they told their father he demanded that the boy be brought to his home and publicly whipped that night. When night same a crowd of 75 people gathered at the Dorsey home. The boy's father became afraid that something more serious than a whipping might develop and refused to let his son go. The crowd then started for Shackleford's home, so say the reports in Milford. When they became too insistent he fired an old gun in the darkness. The shot took the life of one of the number. In the excitement father and son made their escape. The father fled to his relatives in East Milford. He did not know what had become of his son until told of his arrival at the hospital. The Shacklefords with whom the boy is staying are among the most respected and industrious of the colored citizens of the community. Shackleford broke his leg while jumping over a seventy-five-foot embankment of the Miami when pursued by the sheriff. It was stated yesterday that he threw himself over the bank in the hope of ending his life. He had an avenue of escape left down the river edge, but seeing a man approaching, fancied he was cut off, when in fact the man was unaware of the chase. Governor Harmon has refused so far to grant a requisition for the return of the negro to Georgia. Attorney-A. Lee Beatty and W. L. Anderson, editor of a paper for colored people, known as the Pilot, called at the Good Samaritan Hospital, where Shackleford is a patient, but were not permitted to see him. Beatty stated that he was the patient's attorney, but this did no good. The attorney then went to Judge Bode, who declared that any attorney had a right to see his client and advised him to swear to an avidfavid charging Shackleford with being a "suspicious person," in order to bring him within the jurisdiction of the local courts. This was done and Beatty succeeded in seeing his client. Detective Chief Crawford instructed Sergeant Eichelberger to sweep out a warrant charging Shackleford with being a fugitive from justice. As soon as he is able to leave the hospital he will be arrested. THE NEGRO'S PROGRESS Has Suffered Politically but has Gained in Other Fields. BY J. M. HENDERSON, M. D. A comparison of the files of the early years of The Freeman with the files of recent years will show the advancement of the Negro so clearly and in a manner so striking that it will never be forgotten. Douglass, Langston, Bruce and men of that type were the distinguished Negroes in the early days of The Freeman. Scores of enterprises, institutions and achievements which are now familiar facts were in those early days either unspoken of or mere themes of oratory and articles. Thousands of boys and girls who were then students are now the active and successful men and women of today. Freemen articles tell in these days of thing which to the readers of earlier days seemed improbable. The individual who can now take a despairing view of the future of the race is misguided. Perhaps the Negro has suffered some in politics, but it may be said that it is only as the vine or trees suffers from the knife of the husbandman. The growth in usefulness, power and responsibility of standing is pronounced as to the schools, the press and the church. The marvelous achievements of the race on the stage and in the circle of athletics is more significant than is generally recognized. The varieties of business ventures in which success has already been won is another very encouraging fact which is revealed by the advertisement columns in the race papers. The coming to world notice of Dunbar, Washington, Lewis and others of that type marks an entirely new day in the career of the American Negro. The hosts of physicians, lawyers, dentists, teachers, skilled mechanics and some architects still more strongly shows the solid advance of the race. The gospel preached by Dr. Washington has had and will have more to do with the progress of the race than is as yet widely appreciated. The lugubrious wallers, who once stood at the gateway of hopeful endeavor pointing the multitudes to the vast swamps of despair, have now been trampled beneath the feet of the awakening and onward rushing millions. Lynchers, race haters and the various types of enemies to the progress of the Negro exist now as sporadic evils, just as do highwaymen, burglaris, burderers and pirates. In the days of slavery the falschhood as to the desire of the slave for liberty was rudely contradicted by such men as Nat Turner; the falschhood as to the slave's lack of human feelings was brushed aside by the story of Uclee Tom; the falschhood as to the Negro's lack of capability of culture was shattered by such men as Douglass, Langston and the immortals of that galaxy. One by one the falschhoods which have shut the Negro off from the respect and sympathy of the world have been exposed by the lives, characters and achievements of thousands of progressive individuals who have made good. The resort to such artificial barriers to the advance of the Negro as the grandfather clause in politics, the ordinances seeking to force segregation, the slanders and systematic silence as to virtues of the race, are all but parts of the desperate endeavors of foes who will soon be lost in the depths of a gloomy past. The world has already learned to know that the Negro "can;" the Negro has already begun to say "I will," and the evidences of success are multiplying each year. It needed by the word of hope sounded by Washington to inspire thousands of the despairing to cast down their buckets where they were. Vague and impractical dreams gave place to practical aims and ambitions. Thousands cast aside despairing speculations about vain illusions and set forth to do that which it was within their power to do. No individual can succeed until he sets before him a purpose that it is within his power to execute. The individual is on the road to success, where there is that within him that impels him to do with all his might and main what he can do. Some cultivated hired acres, some bought small farms, some opened little stores, some built houses, some made shoes, some wrote poetry, some helped to make laws, but each one who did his best along the line of his individual gifts and opportunities won success. The sum total is represented in the splendid conditions of the present and the hopeful promise of the future. Man is a creature of degrees. As he ascends the scale of being his power to make external things harmonize with himself in- creases. The cultured Negro has a refined home. The self-respecting is respected. The signs are full of hope and the race steps forward. sociation. Hon. Chas, W. Banks, went from Clarksdale, also, of his birth and earliest training, to Moss, Miss, late in 1903. In January, 1904, he organized the Bank of Mound Bayou a capital of $10,000. He was made cashier, which position he still holds. The Bank of Mound Bayou has devel- oped a cent, dividends. This shows a wonderful bank of men on the part of Mr. Banks, who has all along shaped the career of this bank, which is situated in the largest in the nation, in the negro town of the country. The bank has raised its capital to $25,000 and has resources of $150,000. The establishment of this bank will form an exchange for the Negro town, to form settlers guaranteed the town to Negro settlers. Before Mr. Banks organized this institution the town and two adjoining farming districts were, on the whole, harassed and growth had been retarded. In 1908 Banks organized a community has been controlled by Negroes, the population has increased and the bustle characteristic of young men is organized. In 1908 Banks organized the State Business League. This league chose him for their president and retains him now as his he found a mass of rich material to work on. Many small concerns, all unconscious of the others, were striking incoherently and blindly for a way they conceived as success. He brought them together and mented them. Today he is marshal of the premier state league. Out of this harmony and singleness of purpose has come the Mound Bayou Oil Mill and the current company, the construction of which Mr. Banks has guaranteed. This mill has a capital of $100,000 and has eight digits one. This herculean task is clearly completed and has opened a new and profitable investment for the race. In 1907 Mr. Banks's worth was fittedly noted by the National Negro Business League which still retains him, as first vice president. In Holy Springs, at its annual meeting on December 6, 1910, the Masons of Boston elected Mr. Banks secretary and treasurer of their benefit association. The association handles more than $200,000 formally and keeps about $50,000 on hand. HOT SPRINGS NEWS. COMPLAINT TO QUIET TITLE. State of Indiana, Marion County, sg: Charles M. Dodd Frank M. Whinney et al. Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 18,689. Complaint Be it known, That on the 1st day of February, 1911, the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, filed in the office of the State of Indiana, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendants; and the said plaintiff, having also filed in said Clerk's office the complaint showing that said defendants, Frank McWhinney, Mattie McWhinney, his wife, and Miss Ella Dill, are not residents of the State of Indiana, said cause, and said defendants are necessary parties thereto; and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendants to appear in said Court, and answer or demur thereto on the 3rd day of April, Now therefore, by order of said Court, said defendant last above named are hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against them and that unless they appear and answer and cause on the 3rd day of April, 1911, the same being the 1st judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis on the 3rd day of April, 1911, the same being the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in their absence. JOHN RAUCH, Clerk. Isaac L. Wiseman, Attorney for Plaintiff. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE. State of Indiana, Marion county, ss: In the Superior court of Marion county, in State of Indiana. No. 82472 Frank Smith vs. Maggie Smith, com- plaint for divorce that on the 16th day of December, 1910, the above named plaintiff, by his attorney, filed in the office of the clerk of the court, in the state of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant Maggie Smith, and the said plaintiff having also filed a complaint of competent person, showing that said defendant Maggie Smith is not a resident of the state of Indiana, and that said cause of the complaint is necessary party thereto, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said court, and answer the thereto on the 13th day of December, 1911. Now therefore, by order of said court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint, and the court will appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 13th day of March, 1911, the same being the 7th judicial day of a term of said court to be beaten by a court of Indianapolis, the first Monday in March, 1911, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in her absence. JOHN RAUCH, Clerk. Maurice O. Fitzmaurice, Attorney for claithert. THE FREEMAN AT AUSTIN, TEX. The Freeman can be secured at 424 E. The ladies of Indianapolis will find real bargains in the sample sale of women she buys is on Saturday at the J. & K. shoe store. COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer our Make of Jackets and Aprons because they have found them satisfactory. Write for Complete Catalogue FREE giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben, Inc., 300 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. 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President Taft will deliver a Lin- coin address tonight at Springfield, Mi, after having addressed the Ili nois legislature on reciprocity. “Four hundred or bust’ is the col- ored Y.M.C. A. slogan. The effort is to increase the membership preparatory to the great campaign for the building fund. The enthusiasm predicts suc- cess. May we hope that the Baltimore segregation ordinance is as dead as Hector? The Negro race ought to be making ready to emerge frem these preparatory years, rather than being further fettered by ignominy's chains. ‘The “wets” and “drie&’ of Indiana will have it all to do over’again. ‘The legislature completely wiped out the former score. The gamekeeper will not find it so easy to keep tab on the township, the new unit, as he did on tiadeaaee: It the Negroes will take note of the popularity of that tune, “I Wish I Was in Dixieland,” in Northern theaters and places of amusement, they will rub their eyes just a bit. Got to make friends of the white people, somehow; not Northern, not Southern, but the white people. The Y. M. C. A. of Louisville, Ky., has just closed a campaign during which $5,000 was raised by colored people. As a result $10,000 was given by the white people. The money will be used for a gymnasium, swimming pool, baths, a boys’ department and other features. ‘The miners in convention at Colum- bus, ©., recently voted to return to Indianapolis for the next convention, ‘The miners and Indianapolis have be- come so very well acquainted that it was surprising to learn that they had gone elsewhere even for one year. Moral: There's no place like home. Our candidate for President, next year, is our great and good friend, Senator Foraker, the biggest and brainfest man in the Republican party —a statesman indeed—Cleveland Ga- zette. Editor Smith is good and_ loyal, anyhow. If not to the President of the United States, who also hails from Ohio, then to another Ohioan whom he thinks just as good. Bishop George W. Clinton, of the A. M. E. Zion Church, is being men- tioned as a successor to the late Bishop Abraham Grant on the board of trustees of the Jeanes Fund. Bishop Clinton is one of the most prominent Negro bishops of the coun- try. He enjoys great popularity. He is also interested in the education of the Negroes. In all ways he appears qualified to fill the vacancy. We think the executive board of the National Negro Business League acted wisely in deciding on a celebra- tion in memory of the abolition of slavery different from the one first proposed. Not altogether for the same reason, however, advanced by the committee, which insisted that the time was too short. The event, in a manner, will be a jubilation. Well, we are not so very far removed from the period when slavery existed. Ap- propriation for funds must come through Congress; that body is not without representatives of the lost cause. Their memories are not shor —and there’s your synthesis. What's the matter with putting on a big number by way of an exposi- tion for 1919 or 1920, when the Ne- groes will have been in the country three hundred years. It seems a most excellent thing to do. A trifle far ahead, one will say; but Massachu- setts claimed 1920 some two or three years ago as its own date for cele- brating the coming of the Pilgrim fathers to this country. According to the executive commit- tee of the National Negro Business ‘Men’s League, which met recently at Tuskegee, the fiftieth anniversary of the abolition of Negro slavery in the United States will not be celebrated by a great National Exposition, as at first proposed. Instead, the third week in October, 1913, has been de- clared set aside to be celebrated, ard to be known as the Fiftieth Anniver- sary Week. WEST SEGREGATION ORDINANCE DEFEATED. BALTIMORE, Md.—The West seg- regation ordinance, drawn for the pur- pose of dividing the white from the Negro residences in this city, and un. der which criminal prosecutions for violations have already begun, has been declared invalid by Judges Hane, Harlan and Duffy, in the Criminal Court. Certain defects in the draft ing of the measure invalidated it, in the opinion of the judges. It is too early to speak with any assurance as to the final outcome of the Baltimore segregation movement. It appears, however, at this time, that a satisfactory blow has been dealt the little iniquity, and that the chances of survival are against it, The best thought and authority of the country have long since declared that the or- dinance would not hold together; that it would fall to pieces by the on- slaught of the combined force of the letter and spirit of the higher laws when interpreted by competent men. It is being said that perhaps the defeat is merely temporary and that a new and strengthened ordinance will be substituted. There is such a possi- bility. However, we are of the opin- fon that the whole business is. dead and beyond recall, as it should be. There is no way to reconcile segre- gation by enactment to the welfare of the country or to the welfare of the races, The law in the practice as it was soon discovered disturbed busi- ness interests, business relations; it meant inconvenience and untold com- plications for the future. White men residing in populous Negro districts, over their places of business, in the rear of them, were not permitted, by the terms of the law, to maintain their homes, The principle set in motion was still more harmful than disturbed business relations. In, fact, nothing so danger- ous has been advocated since freedom as the segregation of a community’s population by enactment. Let us hope that the business is done for. OPPOSES COLORED Y. M. C. A'S. The Cleveland Gazette is taking on awfully over the fact that-there is a Colored Y. M. ©. A. organization in that city. It doesn’t like it at all. Here is a part of what it had to say recently: “The better class of our people of this city can continue to remain quiet, if they will, and let the ‘jimerow’ Ne- groes who have come among us in more recent years lower the high standard set and maintained so many years and at such great cost of money, time and effort, and of which all Cleveland has up to date boasted and has been so proud, and establish here a ‘jimerow’ Y. M. C. A. for their chil- dren, but in the end they will rue it just 'so surely as they live to seo the miserable thing established. If, we cannot have Y. M. C. A. privileges free from the color line, we had better not have any.” The Y. M. C. A. is right along with the church. Churches are willingly maintained for the race by the race. Surely the Gazette would prefer these to none. Of course, the whole racial segregation idea is wrong in that the thing is too often enforced by senti- ment and law, rather than being a matter of choice. Aside from that, segregation is not a new thing, nor a bad thing among any people. Poor people attend “poor” churches, “poor” theaters, and seem to be free only when with the “poor.” The Y. M. C. A. for colored people is not different. Caste and class exist whether we like it or not. And even we, whoever we may be, that have most to say against class and caste, enjoy ourselves most when in our own sets. There is cause for this, however; it comes from the sense of oppression that is always felt because of the everlasting exhibition. This oppression is to be fought down and out before that freedom of feeling desired will obtain anywhere, at any time. How to fight it down and out is the question. In fact, the idea of class- ism will never be fought entirely down and out, It is to be doubted if it were best that it should be. Even Socialist, who would see a com- mon community, prefers a class of congenials, and merely dreams his Utopia. We protest sometimes the Chris- tianity that supports certain notions of class distinction. But what's the use? If all the courts are of a given mind, what's the good of appeal? ‘And ‘in’ the instance they are of a given mind. White Y. M. C. A.'s made up of se- lect sets as we know them, and it is their privilege to be thus made up, will not prove very attractive or ben- eficial for the colored people. But very few are prepared to take advan- tage of them; this has in mind a sense of comradeship, and which must exist if benefits are to obtain. Who is at fault is beside the question. Our thousands are to be benefited or else the Y. M. C. A.'s will mean noth- ing very much. The benefits will come through our own institutions just the same as they come through ‘our own churches. THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EX- POSITION PROJECT DE- CLARED, OFF. ‘Many persons doubtless will be sur- prised to learn that the Fiftieth Anni- versary Exposition proposed for 1913 has been declared off. This move- ment had its origin at the convention of the National Negro Business Men's ‘League held at Louisville in 1909. A resolution was passed at that time providing for the holding of a Na- tional Exposition to commemorate the half-century mark of Negro freedom in the United States. ‘This organization, the most formid- able of its kind known to the race, is presided over by Booker T. Washing- ton. With him are associated a num- ber of Negroes of worth and distinc- tion from the various States, virtually an advisory board, acting with tacitly conceded authotity, thus making their jactions as nearly authoritative as could be, when it comes to greater race movements of the kind. ‘The exposition proposition met with general favor, but, as might have been expected, met with some opposition. The “discovery” of the idea was for ‘a time a “mooted” question. About THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ‘this same time there was a little group of expositionists in the South ‘who claimed to have been the origin ators of the idea, in that they first published a similar intention. A bat tle waged for a while, finally subsid- ing in the interest of the great ob- Jective—a great national exposition for and by Negroes, illustrative of achievements since the emancipation. There was yet another group of op- positionists, much more formidable and which does not know how to sur render. This group has always op- posed what has been considered the Washington idea—the idea of moderh- tion and conservatism. It is of the radicals at solving the race problem. It has always opposed things that were to be branded purely Negro, thinking it the better way of bringing about the thing desired. It is need- less to say that the Louisville concep- tion had assailants in this group, and doubtless contributed something to the poor showing the bills made, look- ing forward to the exposition, when up in Congress. That the bills failed in Congress, where it was sought.to sanction the exposition movement, was somewhat surprising. They failed technically, coming up at a time when it was quite impossible to pass them. The objec- tion noted, however, was the unex- pected. It was generally thought that a movement of the kind would have been indorsed most enthusiastically. But from what has been since learned the Democrats did not take kindly to the movement, thinking to see in it a possible Republican propaganda for ‘the good of the Republican party, How the Democrats figured out the possibility of the movement being used as a club against them is not quite so clear. Yet their heads may be longer than ours, and it may be they have simply exercised their priv- ilege of preserving themselves, Mr. Washington seems to think that the bills would pass in the coming Congress. It is not quite so plain, since the Democrats seem to be set against the movement, not to speak of the influx of Democratic legislators to the next Congress who may be of sim- ilar mind. The executive committee does not mean to pass up the opportunity, how- ever, and accordingly has declared the third week in October, 1913, set aside for suitable celebrations of the epoch- al event in the history of the Negro race. We take stock in the wisdom of the committee that declared for the change. Mr. Washington and the com- mittee without doubt have carefully canvassed the situation and know very well what they are doing. REBELS SHOT TO DEATH. General Millionard and Five Other Haitiens Taken*from Prison, CAPE HAITIEN, HAITI, Feb. 8— General Millionard, the head of the revolutionary forces, and five other rebel generals, were taken from the prison at Trou and shot to death at 11 o'clock last night. General Millionard was arrested soon after the uprising occurred and remained in confinement until his ex- ecution was ordered by the govern- ment. He belonged in the department of Vallieres. 400 OR BUST. ‘We must reach $00. 313400. Only 87 to get. JOIN THE ¥. TO-DAY. 87 in two'days, RU a member of the ¥. M. CAT “THE WIZARD” AT AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. &—All roads 1ed to the Walker Baptist Institute this morn- ing. Dr. Booker ‘T. Washington, by. spe- ciai invitation of Dr. C. 'T. Walker, de- livered an impressive address on the value of practical education, and the import- once of maintaining friendly relations be- tween the races, He told much of his trip abroad and pointed out the encouraging fact that, while conditions here are not ideal, as ‘they relate to the colored man. the average Negro in America is far bet- ter off than millions of the white inhab- itants of countries of the old. world, par- ticularly in Russia, Italy, Austria and the Scandinavian peninsula. An immense au- dience greeted Dr. Washington, and his Speech evoked warmest approval. 400 OR BUST. We must reach 400. 313—400. Only 87 to get. JOIN THE Y. TO-DAY. 87 in two days, RU a member of the ¥. M. OA? DECATUR, ILL. Special to THE Freeman. Mrvand Mrs. James Bronner, 255 West Garfield avenue, celebrated thelr golden an= niversary Tuesday night. Thetf children gathered from ail parta of the United States {o heip the aged couple celebrate the event, X purte of $60.1 gold was. given to ther dy "thelr “children. “They were married in Madigon county, January $1, 1861, and. for & number of Sears were engaged in farm- ing. Those present were: Mr. and Mew HP. Lawhornn, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs, Bd: ward Garver, Detroit, Mich. Charles Bron: ner, Wiillam and Frances Bronner, and Mes. LL. Moore of Decatur. after the pre: sentation a dinner was served and a retep- tion tendered the couple, ..-St, Peters A, Af B. Church will hold. memorial services Sun= Gay, the 12th, for Bishop Grane and. wives The ‘stewardesses will drape the ‘church this week. The pastor wilt preach a. spe- cial sermon touching on ‘bis life as a min- ster and bishop. sir. Annie Bronner wil read a paper on the life of his wife; Mrs, M: Love, on her place In the homer ‘paper jon penait of the stewardesses’ by Sire. Mary Cech: “Miss Pauline ‘Nickens will write paper on the Bishop as a citizen... Miss Laura Sydner, who has been ill for a. week ig'much Improved... Master Robert Clanton 1s sick with typhola fever, LIMA, O. News of the Churches—Sociéty and Its Hapenings. ‘Mrs. Jessie Gaines, of Ft. Wayne, was in the city, last week....Mr Carr, of Van Wert, spent last’ Sunday in this’ city...- Miss Bessie Tibbs, of Mt. Vernon, has re- turned to her home after a pleasant visit with her father, W. F. Tibbs.....fr. Allen Tucker is on the sick list....The Ladies’ Ald Soctety of the Baptist Church met on Weanesday afternoon ‘with Mrs. William MeGee, ‘There was a large attendance, ‘The ladies ‘are preparing for their valentine en- tertainment. After the business session a @ainty Iuncheon was served. Mrs. Sherman ‘Tucker and Mrs. James were guests... The Ideal Workers of the Baptist. church’ held thelr first meeting of the year at the church Wednesday” evening. The "young people are very enthusiastic over the work for the coming year, and great results are looked for....The Woman's Mite Missionary Soclety of the A. 3. E, church held a very interesting mecting last Friday evening at the home of Mrs Andrew Byrd on W. Spring street. A very fine lunch waa en- joyed by those present....The morning sub- Ject of the pastor at the A. M. E. church Is “The Lord Wil Fight for You" The evening subject, “The Lord Hath Need of You" The regular hours of services. will be observed....The Allen Busy | Brother- hood met in the A, 3. E. church last Mon- day evening....Baptismal services were held at the Baptist church last Sunday in the morning immediately after the morn- lng services Tha. Suudey. soliool keet at Why should the Banks and Trust Companies have the use of your money on which you receive but 4 per cent., while they are building up vast fortunes by investing your savings? a. How do they do it? By investing in reasonably safe securities. Why not you follow their methods and invest for yourself? Mining shares to-day are paying the purchaser bigger re- turns than any other form of investment. The United States reports show that the mineral resources of the United States in 1909 amounted to Two Billion Dollars or Ten Million Dollars each day in the year. Are you getting your share of the divi- dends paid by this Great Industry? if Not, Why Noi? The territory around Butte, Montana, is producing about One Million Dollars a week within a radius of fifteen miles. In the Butte territory there has been produced the enormous sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Millions of Dollars. In the center of this territory is the property controlled by the Edelweiss Min- ing Company. \t has produced without machinery nearly a quarter of a million dol- lars. The property is patented, and is no longer a prospect. The report of the Mining Engineer, selected by the Edelweiss Mining Company as to the conditions of the property before they would take the control, shows that, the ore is there. For the purpose of in- stalling electrical machinery and sinking a shaft, we are offering 50,000 shares of the treasury stock at the low price of $.65 per share, either cash or in payments. The property to-day is a million dollar property, but to insure big returns to the share holders in dividends, the company was incorporated for only $500,000.00. The stock is fully paid and non-assessable. Engineer's report and prospectus, with any direct information will be sent prompt 07 application. It will cost you but a post card tc obtain them. J. L. Glascock Ca., Authorized Representatives Edelweiss Mining Co., 303-304 Indiana Pythian Bid., Indianapolis, Indiana: 2 p.m. and the communion service at 3:00. seeThe Ideal Workers of the Baptist church gave a social at the home of Bliss Belle Crockett_on W. Spring street, last Tuesday evening....The Ruby Seal Assem- bly met last Wednesday evening with Mrs. A. Belle Young, 1180 W. Spring street... There will be a grand valentine ball Monday evening at the Memorial hall, Rothlesber- ger's orchestra will furnish the music. The committee consists of Messrs. Adams, Moss and shores SEMI-ANNUAL REMNANT SALE. $16.75 to $25.00 suits or overcoats made during ‘this great remenant sale, $9.79. Satisfaction guaranteed. SINGER'S, + 48 West Washington street, GARY (IND.) NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN. ‘The charity soiree given at the Dunbar social Club parlors February 3. by Mrs. W- Ro Arthur, Mra J. J, Smith and Mrs, R. J. Stewart was one of the grandest events oi the geaaon.” A. largo numberof gentle. then and ladies were present, among whom re mention W. 2f Gray, S.J. Jones, G. W- Turner, J.-J. Smith, W. Ro Arthur, J. 7 Garrison, E. A, Wilson, J. Williams, R. J. Stewart, W. P. Hormen, J. F. Arthur, & Johnson, J. Jones, F. Burrell, B. Douglass, J. W. Hudnutt, BB. Barks,” AvP. Ander™ son, i. C. Logan, J. Payne, Z. Haley, 8. J. Morgan, J.-H. Fredericke, Several ladles were ih attendance....David. Johnson Is progressing nicely, and is expected home toon..,W. Harry ‘Haywood was in the city atew dave ago looking for a business sit- tation. Sis. Haywood fs a tailor and came Well "recommended from Chicago. After Consulting “with several” of Gary's Negro tailors, he decided that this place was not @ good field and left for Philadelphia.” ‘He as the guest of W. ©. Holliday’ while in the city... and Mra. S.J. Jones. wil entertain the Progressive Whist Club at the Dunbar Social Club parlors, 1025. Washing- ton street. An enjoyable time $s anticipated by the many guests. -+-Gary ts to be favored with two frst class’ comedians in the per- sons of ‘McGee and Colbert, who will open Monday night at the Almo, 17th and Wash ington strects, with thelr comedy | com pays in thelt favorite production _“"When the, Moon Peeps. trom Heaven”....Edward Branham fe in. the ety again after quite an absence... Mrs, Sarah Purcell Is able to be on diy again at the Chicago Owl Cate, after a serious fllness, REMNANTS FOR SHORT MEN. Just enough material for sing'e suits or overcoat made to order, $9.75. Style and ft guaranteed, SINGER'S, 43 West Washington street, YOUNGSTOWN, O. Death of a Prominent Individual. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Chrysanthemum Club has opened a sewing school for children, and meets Sat- urday afternoon, ‘The members of the s0- ciety are deeply interested in the children. s-.Rev. Anderson, vice president of the True Reformers, was in the city last week. :..Harry Hicks died Thursday, after a jong Mines. He was thirty-nine years of age, and was a member of Buckeye Lodge, B. P. 0. E. of W., and the above loage had charge of ‘the remains and escorted them to the Oak Hill Avenue A. M. E. Church, where services wore conducted. Rev. Jones, presiding elder, preached tha funeral serv feee, which were largely attended... The re- malns were Interred in’ Oak Hill Cemetery. v--Thomas R. Green, attorney, of West Myrtle avenue; Mrs. Belle Ford, of West Federal street, and Willis Collins, of East Boardman street, are on the sick Ist... The members of ‘the Heart and Hand Rose- bud Nursery, No. 902, T. R., met in Odd Fellows Hail, Saturday afternoon. After routine business the following officers were Installed: Thelma Lucas, president; How- ard Jenkins, vice president; Georgia Parker, prelate; Hazel. Simms, secretary; Homer Ferman, Inside guard; Geneva Jackson, out side guard; Leah Belle Smith, treasurer; Grace Parker, sick treasurer; Clarence Liv- inton, conductor; Alfred Rose, assistant con- ductor; Clarence Lewis, director; Hazel Gs Lag Quality Food Products Saratoga Chips, Peannt Butter, Special Beets, Horseradish, Mustard. Ask your grocer for thew a ____ M.C.Shea&Co In the Lead in Their Line of Business. Wholesale and Retail Groceries, Meats and Hardware. 219, 221, 223 N. Illinois St. Phones {93,¥#». 3.3) ‘Smith, past president; Miss Maymie Smith, junfor’ mother; Mrs, Leah Smith, senlor mother....Special services are being con- Gucted at the Oak Hill Avenue Church, un- Ger the auspices of the Workers’ League of the ¥. af. C. A. and have been in prog- fess for the past week. They have forty converts, and the meetings will be continued this week....Buckeye Lodge of Biks will meet In regular session Thursday, February 16. All members are requested to be pres- ent... The ‘Bureka Club will give a Martha Washington dance. February 22, in Odd Fellows Hall. Prizes will be awarded.... St. Mary's A. M, E, Zion Church held regi- lar services Sunday, which were well at- tended...-Invitations “for “the Buckeye Lodge annual banquet are out, and the committee in charge says It will be a large afair....Samuel Holmes was called to Huntington, W. Va, Thursday evening, by the iliness. of his wife, who underwent an operation Saturday morning for appendicitis and is doing nicely at this writing. MERIDIAN, MISS. Special to THR FREEMAN. Mrs. James, wife of N. A. James, died week’ at thelr home on’ 34th’ avenue, near Lith. strect.. She was taken to Alabama for burial. ‘The Freeman extends sympathy to the husband and family in thelr sad hour of trouble....Ernest Ragen, nephew of J. S MeDonald, who died at Mobile, Ala.. last week was taken to Marlon, Miss., for burial. ‘The bereaved {amily has tho sym- pathy’ of thelr friends....The colored peo ple of Meridian, with Rev. 1. §. Lee, J. 7. Davis, W. M. Hicks and others, are’ mect= ing every Tuesday at the different Baptist churches to organize the different commlt- tees to take care of the Baptist congress that Is to meet here June 7 to 12...+Rev. I. L, Pratt, the new pastor of St. Paul M. E, church, filled the pulpit Sunday, Feb- ruary 5, Rev, W. 3. Morris, the former pastor having been made presiding elder of the Hattiesburg District. ® CHICAGO NOTES. Special to THE FREEMAN. By the death of Horace Ward Barquette fa ploneer of Chieago, who died at his Tes! Genee, 2481 Wabash avenue, January 20, after a brief Ines, Chicago. Iost a. useful and affable citizen, Me. Barquette was born here in 1835, where he has alwaye resided. He had been jn the employ of the Pullman Company for many years ax a chef. His fu- neral was conducted by ‘Dr. W. D. Cook, from Quinn Chapel A. M. B. Chureh, Feb: fuary J, of which he was @ member. He Teaves & Widow. one son, a. hrothor—Jobn Barquette, of Oskaloosa, "Ia—and. Lavo’ sis fer. Bem, Smith and’ Mr.” Dadies, 96 Chi cago, He was a kind and affectionate hus. Dand and always labored hard to make his home ‘pleasant. Mrs. Catherine” Barquette has been an afdent and untiring worker. in Quinn Chapel for many years, and has given her time and means to promote better con: ditions...-Mrs. Lena Mason 1s conducting. a revival at Wayman. Chapel, Quarterly meeting to-morrow at Quinn Chapel. Dr Reeves, P. E, will be present... Mies Lelia Barquette, of Oskalooma, Ia, attended. the funeral of her uncle. H. W. Barquette.... Henry 0, Tanner spoke atthe Negro Fel- fowship League, Sunday, February 3, at 4 p.m.” Mra Ida Wells’ Barnett. conducted the meeting. “Mr. J. H, Roberts spoke on Lincoln, Anita White sang and Viola Hill Hayed @ solo on the piano. 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The Whangdoodle orchestra and male quartet sends requests to friends. F. R. Brooks would like to hear from P. G. Lowry and Laura Moss. Arthur T. Ray desires it to be known that "Pansy" was played by Miss Wise, was written by him and Luckie Johnson, and not by Johnson and Govern. Alonzo Moore, the magician, will open Southern Vanderbilt Recruit, Ardale Theater, Hammond, Ga. February 13th, then to Montgomery, Pensacola and farther on down the line. A flashlight was taken of the audience during the performance of the Smart Set at Birmingham, Ala. This is held to be something unusual in the South, the audience being white. McNeill and McNeill have accepted engagement on Southern Vaudeville Circuit. Will leave Chicago for Atlanta, Saturday the Open Arcade Theater 13th, Best regards to all friends. The management of the Savoy Theater, Springfield, Missouri does not give performers a square deal. They say money is owing them and that they cannot collect it. The FREEMAN will publish the movements of performers as usual without charge. All regards, requests and other matters of private nature, will be published at one cent per word. If you are short of an act at any time write or write L. D. Joel, the theatrical king, of the Cap. He happy you. He is the booking agent of the Southern Vaudeville Circuit. Miss Oma Croosby's Kinkies now meet with great success in a tour through Canada, will shortly appear in New York City under the direction of one of New York's best agents. Folk and Riddick opened at Little's Opera House week of February 6th. Polks goes big with his novelty, with and eccentric dancing. Riddick is making it that's Why They Call Me Shine." The Deeves, after putting in ten successful weeks Southern Vaudeville Circuit, has been booked by Mr. L. D. Joel to open from Pensacola to New Orleans, Open there from Pensacola to New Orleans, cade Theater, again back to the theatrical king. He is the candy for bookings. Miss Theresa Burroughs has accepted an engagement on Southern Vaudeville Circuit, and opened at Arcade Theater, Atlanta, Ga., February 6th. Back again under Mr. L. D. Joel management, having been by him several times in Jacksonville, Fla. I came direct from New York to Atlanta. J. Beauman, now playing the Globe Theater in Jacksonville, Fla., writes that he has finished his book and has moved to Sword-Wheeler time, and is booked solidly up to April in Dixie land. Tim Owley claims the act to be the "goods," and though original. When the invincible Johnny Crawford acts and puts his brand of approval thereon, it is usually all wool and a yard wide. The Southern "Smart Set" with S. Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt in star roles, and leading North. The show has created a sense of unity among the players to do the same in the North. The show has been materially strengthened by the addition of J. Francis Mores, the celebrity of the Frank Chapman, the tector and Madame C. Caesar, who wonderful voice makes her the legitimate accessor to the great Black Patti. Mr. Whitney's version of George Washington Ballard to constitute one of the most pleasing productions offered by a colored company. ST. PAUL. MINN En route, Southern Comedy Trio, O. D. Cler, R. O. Henderson, George Boutte, R. O. Henderson's original creation, "Aunt Pieces" Dances Boy's Week January 30, Princess 30th, Princess 30th, Minn. The act was a big hit. Henderson's "Hello, Bark George Bryant, Bark Debt Debt, Bark Debt" permanent address is 304 West Third Street, Des Moines, Ia., or home address, Kid City, Mo. 2014 Askew Avenue; also to burst, too bad. THE MAJESTIC THEATER, HOT SPRINGS, ARK bendous business since Mr. Barasso sequestered the management of the theater. The measure of absorbing interest concerning the a shop house has the Majestic Theater in the The Majestic theater of the 27th past, the 'Girl from Diike' by Billy Earthquake, and all-star of the 'Smart Set' company; Mamie Whitman of the Whitman Sisters; Porter & Porter, David Purdue, Grace and Billie Ardes, Ada Sam Harris, Henry P. McGill. A show played to a packed house every night. By Bailey. On Friday afternoon of last week at the residence of Mrs. E. Stewart, 226 Laverne Lane, a social was tendered to Miss Nelson of the Carter Trio, who are playing at the Idle Hour Theater. Covers were laid for forty. The afternoon was spent in games, those song recital, and dancing. Among those who were present were: Eva White, *Mudred*. Louise Jones, Miss Nettle Perry, Miss Beatrice Stewart, Miss Lucy Dunlop, Miss Morgan, Miss Ardie Morgan, Miss Sadie Morgan, Miss Sallie Wine, Miss Julia Wine, Miss Marie Taylor, Mr. Percy Wilson, Mr. John Hucker, Mr. John N. Banks, Mr. Hugh McCormick, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Wille Thobbs, Mr. Theodore Giles, Mr. Clifton Ells, Mr. Theo. Stewart. THE HOUSTON THEATER, LOUISVILLE, KY. Show for the week of the 6th was a success from start to finish. The Goodloes are still with us, also Elmore Taylor, the Brown Mason, Nettie Taylor, Tennie Miller, the Tress, the Girl of Golden West, the Davenport, the Girl of Golden West, the one-aact booklet, went big. The house was packed. Green, as goodwood Dick" the villain, showed up well in the book. The tinging of a wild west firewater resion was just as the white ranch of Keyo, Mont, customers were in place for such an act. John Goodloe featured "Just Plain Slick," a book about him, giving opportunity for his hits funny sayings. Characters: "Reckless Nell," Ella Goodloe; "Loopie," a halfbred, Lillian Brown Mason; "Crazy" the brown mason; more Taylor; Wild Water," Nettie Miller; "May Get 'Em Quick," Sarah Martin. ABOARD A. G. ALLEN'S PRI- VATE CAR. "IDA MAY" P. L. Jenkins Writes from San Augustine, Tex. We are now in the southeastern corner of the Lone Star state. He sits Clinton Boyd (Kid Wood) is back from spen on "Kid Weeks" vacation in Houston and Galveston, his marvelous contortions are still the talk of the hour. He & Jones, Hebrew impersonators, wish to be remembered to the profession, and send special regards to McNell & McNell. Craig Wise, the noted drill comedian, sends regards to all friends, his dry sayings always favorably impress the audience, as in days of yore. He is scoring nightly singing the southerners choice of all songs, "Casey Jones," with his usual stand-up. C. Adam LaRose, female impersonator, posing as "Peggy from Paris" is still playing as "Peggy from Paris." He is singing "Siaky Eyes" with success. Albert (Kid) Smith, singing, dancing and talking comedian, joined recently. He is scoring nightly singing "Come At Breakfast." He sends regards to Bob White. Wm. Shaw, flute and piccolo, wishes to hear from Vernie Johnson. Trevor Hawley wishes to hear from Dillon Polson. Mr. Elliwood Johnson, our or chestur- board on business of the most vital importance. A dress all mail for members of this con- gregation. Same will be imbuedly forwarded. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Puccini's Views of American Music Says It Belongs to the Negro, But Savage of Sound-Sylvester Russell's Review from Chicago. Dovak, the great European composer, who first firmly established the precedence of Negro folk-lore as the only genuine American art form, and extracted from the Slavonic melodies the jubilee and the syncopied two-step of the guitar and banjoline, so skillfully used in early stages of buck dancing, was hardly aware that he had handed his name to the composer. He was forced by the recent declaration of Signor Glacomo Puccini, grand opera composer, in London, England, when he said: 'There are such wonderful American music. What the have is Negro which is almost the savagery of sound.' When the "Girl from the Golden West," the American opera, was produced in the first century, were lighted with the music as a whim interminged with compliments that here was not enough American native music in the score. The critics there as well as the critics of Puccini's expression we are to look upon the "savagery of sound" as a thing in name only. Puccini's mind had probably wended its way back toward the reservation, contrary to the raptitude of the world, to Buffalo Bill and a well-trained band of half-breed Indians from Utah and Mexico that startled Europe in a decade ultimately as far back as the eighty-third century of the thing that can be said to be savage in the classical development of American (Negro) music, is when composers mix to the raw dispassionate theory of rattle lore. If in this change of tone Puccini sees themes of savagery, he will be able to receive further instructions by the French composer H. Ernestine Freeman and J. Rossonond Johnson. A Country School Farce at the Pekin. Carolina Four at the Monogram. Manager Klein Hein and gotten together for the job THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Murphy and Francis Hit of Season at the Grand. The Grand nevr had a better bill than the one presented this week. Murphy and Francis, who hold over from last week, are presenting a new act, which in point of fact is the first act of the kind in town. One look at Murphy's pants, one look at his features, and you are convinced that he is one of the most easy, graceful natural-born actors in the world. Murphy shiver from Murphy, one comic step in dancing and one comedy scene with his wife, Miss Francis, and you are sure that he is the most charming and most singing his own original songs, you are fully aware that there is but one Bert Murphy. Miss Francis, who is the prettiest colored woman in the world, is a witted actress. The fine clothes she wears indicates intelligence and her jewelled throat necklace added to her brightness. Simms and Thompson was the other great actress in the world, a rolling, Joe Simms is not only a clever comedian, but his topical songs of the day have aided him in his vocation. Mr. Thompson was a slick looking trouper, for whom he was a partner, including the duet which went with it, and his ragtime song, all gained favor. Morroe Taber, a tenor and yodler, for Thompson, Richards and Pringles' Georgian Minstrels, made his three appearances at house, and won instant favor. Madge Clinton and the Gold Dust twins, were wonders as dancers, and Miss Clinton's tuneful and realistic. The new Grand is almost completed, and will be opened ere long. Bert Murphy entertained the critic at luncheon on the 6th inst. Honey Johnson opened at the American Music Hall, Chicago, Ill., last Monday. Madam Anita Patti Brown sang at Livingstone College, Sallisbury, N. C., last Monday. James Al Wilson and Billy Cumby open at Toronto on the 13th inst, enroute to New York City. Madam Pauline Dempsey is filling dates around in Chicago. She has another new inviting specialty. Buddy Gilmore has gone to New York on account of the death of his sister, but is to return shortly. George Harris and Chinese (Frank) Walker have returned from the circuit—Louisville, Cincinnati, Lexington and Springfield, Ohio. McNeil & McNeil are at the Casino this week, Chicago, having just closed at the Derby Theater, Gary, Ind., and will soon be on the Southern circuit of D.J. Joel, the vaudeville king of the South. --- Walter Harris has sold out his interest in the 20th Century Cafe in Chicago, where he was a very popular with his guests, and drew trade where Lett drove people away by addressing gentlemen as George and Kid, and trying to show people who helped support him that he was the big fellow. Arthur Maxwell, the comedy trick baker of the 1930s, Va., where he had gone to visit his mother on Christmas day. His mother, who had prayed for years that she might be able to see her son again, died the next day. Mr. Maxwell, who has several teachers, paid all the funeral expenses himself. * * * Mr. Moore, an old-time minstrel, and a good character actor, who was engaged by Paul La Mero of the Crown Garden, Indianapolis, Ind., has canceled after he who had a bona fide contract, claims that he was hired to appear in the stock company. It is cases of this kind that the "White Rats" fight legally. Mr. Moore is a member of the C. V. B. A. J. H. Finn, manager of the Temple Theater, Rochester, N. Y., speaks in high praise of the good conduct and capability of the actors. The success of Bobby and May Kemp enabled him to say as follows: "Color cuts no ice in the situation of the human family. In my opinion the colored performers as a whole are about ninety-eight per cent pure gold." So there we are. --- Eddie Gray, the tenor singer, who several years ago was the famous boy soprano with Primrose & West's Minstrels, became temporarily insane which attends the Pekin Theater last Friday evening. Gray who is fat and stubby, suddenly sprang from his seat, bounding through the door and across the stage to attack the Turkish strelter. He was caught by Manager Justus just in time to be spared a terrible blow. --- Information from Chicago is as follows: At a meeting which was held at the booking office of Charles O. Harding, a white man with a long history of Duke and Duke Brennon (white) manager of the Grand picture house and also of the new Grand (colored) theater, which is located in the heart of the city, fort to control the bookings of colored theaters of the middle West, in favor of the two Grand theaters, as against the three Grand theaters which is doing a thriving business. After the meeting had taken place and the alliance was said to have been effected, the Grand theaters were renamed Duke Brennon withdrew from the firm, decrepitating its possibility. The Grand is now booked by Mr. Cox and the Monochromatic group, which have recently complained that white booking agents of the "small time" are getting entirely too insolent and that an all-colored booking alliance, data of which may be given out a little later on. NOTES FROM DANA THOMPSON'S SUNNY DIXIE MINSTRELS. The show is now in Texas, playing to good business. Our two bright stars, Lou Wiley, better known as Louisiana Lue, and Robert Ellis, better known as Alabama, are leaving them screening nightly. The show is also in Ford Wiggin and Eddie Ives, in buck dancing team is also pleasing the public. Mrs. Annie Perryman and Mrs. Lillian Wiggin are still in front cleaning up. Frank Perryman is composing the Frank Perryman trombone, and band master; Wm. M. Bryant, baritone; James Shaw, baritone; Frank Robinson, alto and violin; Sam Tattman, tuba; Morris Victor, cornet; Sullivan Skorl, cornet; Wm. Wright, and McCay, batters. Frank Perryman and wife send regards to friends. THE PEKIN THEATER, CINCIN NATI, O. The management of the Pekin booked in a new bill. Miss Lucy Shepherd, the regular vocalist, opened with some new songs, and scored, entrusted and dones, a new song that was well received. The Dahomian Trio, three colored gents, closes the bill with one of the best acts of its kind seen here and is the most successful business all week. The James Sisters went so well ast week they were held over, and it is well the manger held onto them as a life saver; Leofer, a contender for Allen and Hunter were fair; Mr. Charence Jones, the pianist of this house, played a piano of his latest selections during the week, when he made a speciality of arranging the music for popular songs. Among some of his works is "And the Way I Am" and "Coy Ray Mr. Jones is a local boy, and bids fair He is a leader in his chosen profession. He is a composer, and his compositions are the kind that others THE SMART SET COMPANY The company is still doing a great business. Since leaving the Lone Star state we have played extensively in Mississippi, and we have played in Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Tampa gave the members of the company a great return dates to the two first named members, and gave the great form for a one-nighter, but three days in Atlanta was like an outing to the entire bunch. Here Mr. and Mrs. Lank gave the company a great form for J. Weaver found themselves at their old home and many courtesies were extended to various members of the company in itself, Mr. H. S. Wooten, tenor, and Miss Misha, conductor. In Atlanta, All wish them well. Birmingham, Ala., broke all records for crowds (all colored) for this season, in which he was the most active in the management of the Jefferson Theater that they had the night audience photographed by means of a flashlight, an act that was not only to observe the presence of a colored company. On informing the audience of the intention of having a flashlight photograph of the audience, he orate of telling the audience of his new attraction, which would be given them next season. He was applauded vociferously, to accommodate the people of Birmingham in the future. Mr. Weaver, baritone, had chance to spend a couple of hours with his mother and an enamel at Birmingham, and reported an enjoyable stay. Misses Ella Webb, Label Smith and Misses Ella Webb, Label Smith and Misses Ella Webb, are new adjuncts to the company. In Madam Bruce we have a great soprano and everything is in her favor to become a soprano. Also, Messrs. Frank Chatman, tenor, and J. Frances Mores, the eminent baritone, are new additions to the company, and are strengthened the company very much. On the 18th of last December Mr. J. J. Weaver was married to Miss Eula Mae Browne, the bride. Mr. J. Weaver made an 800-mile trip to pull off the "stunt," and was away from the company three days. He has held his own with the Smart Set and has been with the company for months, and is much liked by the bunch. On the occasion of their wedding the members of the company jointly presented with the yellow of the bowl, with the inscription: "For Eula Mae and Julius, from the Smart Set Co." The car "Smart Set" has taken on a role as the centerpiece of the room. Mr. J. Homer Tutt, S. Tutt Whitney and Mr. T. L. Corwell, who turned out to be first-class painters as well as performers and manager. The bunch sends regards to the profession. News has been received at office of the death of Ed English, of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. English was at one time a cornet player with the Forepaugh-Sells timex Band, under the direction of S. F. SOME REMNANTS FOR BIG MEN. All pure wool material exclusively. Suit or overcoat made to order $9.75. SINGER'S. 43 West Washington street. The sight of his fistic majesty was rather rare. Jack's retinus was more than Great-house expected. Three hack loads of people looked like excess baggage to Archie. Elwood C. Knox was one of the few favored by the smiles of the champions that danced their way to the third rall in concert. In other words, "nipped" together. Jack Johnson left Indianapolis last Saturday night for the Pacific Coast. Before he gave out the following: "I intended to leave Indianapolis for the coast Saturday night, but if Al Kaufman wants to meet me I will go to Chicago Sunday and post a forfeit if he so desires." Monahan will go back to the coast with Johnson along with Bob Moha, the Milwaukee lad, who was billed to land the wetterweight echampionship under the guidance of the Negro title-holder. Mrs. Jack Johnson was the recipient of a handsome gold mesh bag valued at $1,000, a gift from one of Jack's New York jeweler friends. The bag is a bead as Johnson says, and is so soft that twelve diamonds and nine sapphires. Jack's chauffeur, Charles Brown, and his brother, Charles Johnson, were arraigned Wednesday for disputing Serguei Cameron, the Charles Cameron, and Chaucer, who was also a defendant before Municipal Judge Newcomer for speeding in one of Johnson's cars. "There was something wrong with those automobiles yesterday," said Johnson, a look of bewilderment upon his face. The judge agreed and discharged Johnson's brother and the dusky chauffeur, and imposed a fine of $5 and $1 costs upon Cameron. "Personally, I like Kaukman; he is a nice boy. But he is not keen after the刑事诉讼促mates that are trying to bring us together. I am willing to go to Chicago and post a forfeit of from $10,000 to $20,000, and if he can cover that, it is all I ask." Mrs. Cordella McClain was all smiles over entertaining the Johnsons. She is a great friend also of the wife of Sam McVea, Paris, France, champion of Europe. The dope is that after a brief stay in California, Jack will meet the Charles Cameron, where he will fight in coronation week. REMNANT SALE ONCE A SEASON. Cleaning house for our woolen department. Offer suit or overcoat made to $9.75 Special to THE FREEMAN Special to TAB FREES On January 10, formerly of Paris, Ky., died suddenly Tuesday, January 28, at the age of 25. The body was shipped to Paris, Ky., for burial...Mrs. Sarah Patton has improved...Mr. Lee Smith, formerly Richmond, Ky., died suddenly, of cancer at the age of 42. Mr. Smith was a Christian gentleman and a member of the A. M. E. Church. Funeral services were held at the A. M. E. Church and the body shipped to Richmond. The ans and Mrs. Smith opened the body for Mr. Smith leaves many friends to mourn the loss of a good citizen. ATTEND THE BIG REMNANT SALE All wool suit or overcoat made to order $9.75. Former values, $16.75 to $25.00 Money back if you are dissatisfied. SINGER'S. Special to THE FREEMAN. The Freeman has a logged a logical semester last Sunday at Shady Grove Baptist Church. He held the audience spellbound, Rev. Stephen is a deserving preacher, and the opposing pastor is George Wilson is one of the most successful barbers of this town. Mr. Wilson is also a historian and a mathematician. Miss L. E. Hunter, a teacher, is on duty on Saturday on business. Mr. W. T. Owens is still champion of Latin in East Texas Academy...Prof. M. M. Henry is selling Johnson's fruit, and what the race has done should not fall to see him. TO MY FRIEND VERNON SKINNER right, gives the death of my friend, Vernon Skinner. Every place we ever met, he was my friend—Vernon Skinner. Roommates were we, happy as could be my friend, Vernon Skinner. Neighbors would ever disagree; he was my friend, Vernon Skinner. On the road together or at home, he was my friend, Vernon Skinner. PARK THEATER. INDIANAPOLIS. Some of the incidents in "Montana," the play of the West, which completes the story of the lives of the people to please the most enthusiastic lover, the "shot-gun oprey." A crowd of drunken cowboys led by a half-breed Indian, the man with a yuck yuck raham, arrested on the charge of killing King, a ranch owner. Shot follows shot, but Graham escapes the bullets and the ranch owner. He is the stage as Graham swings on its back and escapes. Flo Harper, his sweetheart, is seized by Permitt, a half-breed, and graham. Graham and his friends overtake him and MATINEE EVERY DAY Mr. Homer B. Mason and Miss Marguerite Keeler presenting "In and Out." Ben Welch, Favorite Character Comedian, in his Much Imitated Characterizations. THE CHAD In "For Sale." KAJI Presenting U Hand. 500 EXCELLENT SECOND BALCONY S Park "DAILY MATINEES--B" WAN At the Auditorium Theatre, Beaufort, S.C., rovandeville. Good show town. House will seat from Charleston, Savannah and Augusta. Sec Director; Alexander Meyers, Proprietor and M WAN For open air street advertising medicine. Must be loud and capable entertainer. Leyh, Mgr. Plant Joice Medicine Co., B WAN For the Majestic Theatre, Hot Spin can play in stock company. Addager, 324 Palmetto Street, Hot Spin WAN Twenty I BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST to double band and orchestra to people who play strings. Addi Prof. Bism B. F. KEITH'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE Vaudeville in its High est Expression. and pre- pre- Char- Much tions. THE CHADWICK TRIO In "For Sale, Wiggins Farm" KAJIYAMA Presenting Unique Feats of Handwriting The Temple Quartette Miss Irene Howley Lane & O'Donnell Milch Sisters. Photoplane SECOND BALCONY SEATS. MATINEES 5c; EVENINGS 15c. FEBRUARY 13, 14, 15, "The Port of Missing Men." FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18, "MONTANA." MATINEES==BEST SEATS 25 CTS. ANTED! Atre, Beaufort, S.C., road shows of all kinds, text and house, stock and town. House will seat 500; large stage and new scenery. Short jump shoe and Augusta. Secure bookings now. Chintz Moore, Amusement layers, Proprietor and Manager. ANTED! Advertising medicine company, a ventriquolist or magician. Capable entertainer. John Woods write. Address Daniel ice Medicine Co., P. O. Box 221, Oklahoma City, Okla. ANTED! Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark., good performers who company. Address Oscar C. Carter, Stage Man- o Street, Hot Springs, Ark. ANTED! Twenty People for S WILD WEST AND PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST and orchestra and band and stage. Quartette strings. Address Prof. Bismark Ferris, WANTED! At the Auditorium Theatre, Beaufort, S.C., road shows of all kinds, tent and house, stock and vaudeville. Good show town. House will seat 500; large stage and new scenery. Short jump from Charleston, Savannah and Augusta. Secure bookings now. Chintz Moore, Amusement Director; Alexander Meyers, Proprietor and Manager. WANTED! For open air street advertising medicine company, a ventriquolist or magician. Must be loud and capable entertainer. John Woods write. Address Daniel Leyh, Mgr. Plant Joice Medicine Co., P. O. Box 221, Oklahoma City, Okla. WANTED! For the Majestic Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark., good performers who can play in stock company. Address Oscar C. Carter, Stage Manager, 324 Palmetto Street, Hot Springs, Ark. WANTED! Twenty People for BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST to double band and orchestra and band and stage. Quartette people who play strings. Address ANTED! Johnson & Lowery's National Musical Enterprise WAN For Johnson Big Sensational Annex Band men for all instruments Band. Comedians, bass singer Preference given to those doul girls who sing well, look well acts, snake charmers, strong actions write. State salary want letter Musicians and minstrel P. G. Lowery, ALL OTHER R. Johnson, 16 Lim all instruments to complete our Big Double mans, bass singers, tenor singers, ballahoo men. en to those doubling stage and band Also six well, look well and act well. Freaks, novelty armers, strong and curious deople of all descrip- ate salary wanted and all you can do in first mens and minstrel people address Dowery, 59 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio. ALL OTHERS WRITE Jason, 167 Monroe Ave., Care Limited Hotel, Detroit, Mich. Band men for all instruments to complete our Big Double Band. Comedians, bass singers, tenor singers, ballahoo men. Preference given to those doubling stage and band Also six girls who sing well, look well and act well. Freaks, novelty acts, snake charmers, strong and curious deople of all descriptions write. State salary wanted and all you can do in first letter. Musicians and minstrel people address R. Johnson, 167 Monroe Ave., Care Limited Hotel, Detroit, Mich. Care Diggs' Store, 5 put him to flight. He sneaks back and knocks Graham out with the butt of his fist. He takes the ball and places. He lights the fuse of a can of blasting powder and Graham throws out one arm, rolls over, sees the fuse, drags owen's owl away, the can and thumps it down the shift. In a moment there is a terrific explosion, but Graham and his friends are saved. In the last afterward it harries Harry D. Caney and "Montana," plays the part of the hero. ROUTE. S. H. DUDLEY, STARRING IN "HIS HONOR. THE BARBER"—Fremont, Neb. Feb. 13; Yerk. 14; Lincoln, 15; Des Moines, Ia. 16, 17, 18. A RABBIT'S FOOT COMPANY—Orange City, Fla., Feb. 13; New Smyrna, 14; Daytona, 15; Ormond, 16; St. Augustine, 17; Hesting, 18. Anderson, Prof. Dick Viney, Whit (2) Edwards, B. E. Denniss, John Harris, Clemo Kenny, Goff Lockhart, Carter Sarpell, Hiram Puggsley, Wm. Turner, Alonzo Young, Clever Billy. Wolfscale, Prof. Woods, John. Wilson, George Wamego, Hindo Loufer Proph, Eph (2) Alonzo Young, Clever Billy. Miller. Miss Mercelle WANTED Six to eight people for the Dunbar Theatre, Columbus, O.; two to three weeks work. Write THOS. HOWARD. Mgr. Waxahachie, Tex The Stage. Brooks and Wilson played Scranton, Pa., last week. Clemo Harris this week at Vaudette Theater, Grand Haven, Mich. Lewis and Lewis are still in Chicago, having success. Played two weeks at the Crystal Theater, to all-white audiences. Also played Belmont Theater and Silver Moon Theater. B. E. Edwards, the skyscraping tenor, has secured a divorce from his wife. His new team mate is Miss Maud Campbell. Rumor has it that she is likely to be the new Mrs. Edwards. Jim Owlesley, of the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla., is up again, after a siege of illness. He expects to return to work soon. He thinks of doing business for R. Voekel next season. Porter and Porter are now in Hot Springs, on the Barrasso Circuit, making good progress pleasing the house every night. Mr. Porter is singing the latest hit, "Company in the Parlor." Wm. H. Reid, who is at the head of three concert companies and bands, has purchased a number of first class instruments of Conn, the well known maker of Piano instruments. He thinks well of P. Lowe's remarks in a previous issue of the Freeman. OLYMPIC THEATER, CHARLESTON, S. C. Campbell and Edwards (Maud and B. E.) opened at the Olympic Theater, Jan. 16, 2013, and being B. E. Edwards third appearance in this city, he was well received. Miss Campbell sings well and is a good talker, and he is a great singer, singing, talking and dancing act of from twelve to fifteen minutes, and they are great, and it would pay any manager of a first-class house to get them. Miss Rosehouse still here. A. I. Easterby is manager. MISS OMA CROSBY PRESENTED A CRUCIFIX. Miss Oma Crosby, now touring Canada with her Kinkies, was presented, while in Toronto, by Jack Johnson's manager, Tom Flanagan, with a beautiful crucifix, the Christ on the cross, standing two feet high, on a, a pedestal, hand-made, by the artist, John Flanagan. In Ireland, and brought to this country by Mr. Flanagan. This statue will always be regarded by Miss Crosby as a most beautiful tribute to her. (It is rumored that Miss Crosby is soon to become the well-known comedian. Is this true, Oma?) THE NASHVILLE STUDENTS. We have left the cold states and back in Nebraska. The show is doing fine business. Mr. Tom Warren, piano player and bass singer, joined recently. The great Herman Harris, drummer and jugglers, are having special scenery painted by the Kansas City Scenic Co. This act will be seen soon in vaudeville. Ed Lankford will be on shows that please. Mr. Harris, of the team of Way & Harris, has retired from Des Moines from his vacation. The team is featuring "Howd Do" Do Mandy, the is the best Do Mandy you overture. Roster of band: Nath Wilkins, Frank Perkins, cornet; Ruby Smith, bartone; Joe Jordan, trombone; Ed Lankford, drum; Harry Way, alto; Thomas Harris and Cov Horns, drums. THE IVY THEATER, CHATTANOOGA, TENN The Ivy Theater Stock Company, with the Henderson's, Billy and Beulah, are more than pleasing the vast thronees of the city and the playhouse and each individual stands as an artist in their particular line. Carrie Hall, that careless comedienne, has won a place with the public generally, both in the public and in the private. Pountroys are a team of clever performers and get theirs at each performance. The team of Floyd and Floyd are the best of the three. Kenton Kenton and Barbara Santella, who share in the honor of a well-balanced company. The Henderson's say hello to the Two Clippers, The Goodloes, Haden and Vaughn, the assels. The Taylors, Mabel De Heard, all friends in and out of the profession. THE AMERICAN THEATER. PETERSBURG, VA. By Bailey. Turning them away nightly. We have an all-star bill this week, headed by Charles (Happy) Wilson and John C. Warren who will skip the start. From start to finish, Mr. Owens sings Bert A. Williams' big success, "Constantly Miss Dozier still scores a hit singing 'Love Joe,' and she is a very clever worker as singer and dancer. Miss Grace Morris is still a favorite here, and scored four encores singing "Some of These Days." Robert Allen is still making good in his monologues. Robert Shackelford left last week for Chattanooga, Tenn., to join Manager Brooks at the New Theater after eight weeks of successful work. THE McKINNIE THEATER AUGUSTA, GA January 28 was the closing week of the Merry Howards and Philip Austin at the McKinnie Theater, Augusta, Ga. They engaged at the above named theater and they made just as big a hit during the closing week as at the beginning of the season. At the house, speaks very highly of the trio, and he says of Mr. Howard that there has never been a stage manager in his theater that puts the class of shows and hands his fellow performers in the way Mr. Howard did. The entire six weeks went through themselves under the performances of the rehearsals. The Merry Howards and Austin carried themselves in a way that they won the audience, the woman and child, entered the theater. The Auditorium Theater, Beaufort, S. C., gave its grand opening January 23, 1911, to a large and appreciative audience. Moe Elbert and Irma White, Bert and Mamie Green and Jas. E. Rogers, picture operator; Fred Roberts, stage carpenter. I will say the management has spared the most of the nicest play houses there is on the Southern Circuit. The opening bill, produced by Mr. Chintz Moore, was a scream song hit, "Under the Yum Yum Tree," White and White were a scream in their dramatic act. Bert Green, of the team of Green and Green, went big in his act. Miss Green was that high-acted wife, she sang that song, "Love Joe." The Auditorium Theater opened its doors on January 23 to a large and appalled audience, and his own company featuring Elbert White and his wife, Little Ermo Durbon. Mrs. Elia Moore as the leading lady is holding her own. The team of Green and Green, Bart and May, direct from the Keith Circuit of Philadelphia, is mourning the loss of their friend. They are held over for two weeks. They send regards to the eastern profession. was a hummer, a typical farce comedy staged by the Moores entitled "A Forbidden Spring, with the following cast: Eric Bentley, White, a brave hunter; Mr. Bert Green, the guard; Mrs. White and Mrs. Green, flower girl; Chintz Moore, comedian. This house is one of the few that will book only high class performers. No suggestive jokes or profanity will be tolerated. The manager that can deliver the real goods can make good" here no other need apply. Next week's bill will include a musical comedy entitled "A Fair View of Heil," from the pen of Mrs. Ella Moore, the wife of one of the most promising comedians. Mr. Chintz Moore is stage manager and producer, and all mail directed to Box 213, Beaufort, S. C., will reach him. THE MAJESTIC THEATER. HOT SPRINGS, ARK. Fred A. Barasso's big sensation troupe opened at the Majestic Theater, Monday, January 23, to standing room only. The house was forced to turn away hundreds of people. Mr. Barasso is controlling five theaters in the South. After playing to such big business at the theater from J. W. Millmine, and is now the sole owner. Mr. Barasso wishes to say to all the performers throughout the States that he can give from 12 to 20 wives to the goods of liver the goods. He says that there is no act too good to be played in his houses. The performers cap get good money over the Tri-State Circuit. The members of the Barasso Big Sensation Company are: Mattie Whitton, Dave Purdue, Porter and Porter, Laura Smith, Michael Quake, Dave Shaffer, Buddy McGill and Ada Fisher. The company is composed of high-class singing and dancing artists who provide lots of good clean comedy. Mr. Barasso has also purchased Lagman Theater in Mobile, Ala., and he also owns the Amuse Theater of Vicksburg, which Mr. E. D. Lee will be the manager. Benhok's "Chocolate Drops" Company playing to a big business in Mobile, Ala. F. A. BARRASSO'S TRI-STATE CIRCUIT, MOBILE, ALA, F. A. Barrasso's Strollers, under the management of the well known stage manager and producer, Mr. Benbow, headed by one of the youngest and funnest strollers in the profession, Billy Mills. He is supported by the following Edna Landry Benbow, the little lady with the loud voice and shaky eyes, the idol of the South; Miss Bessie Smith, the girl equipped feet, and a great cow shouter. Edmilson and the big feet; Funny Thorne, Elzer Benbow, better known as Kid Slick, the boy comedian and buck dance wonder; Trixie Smith, the little singing soubrette from the show; and the la honeysuckle; Remwell Jackson, the whirlwind; little Dinky Pellebon, the mascot, and Retta Benbow and Royal Simpson. Sadie Whitehead's overtures during the intermission can not be surpassed, and she is assisted by Alfred Minot on the traps. This is the favorite company. F. A. Barrasso has two more shows on the road; so, good people, get busy and get line. The entire company sends regards to friends in and out of the profession. Billy Mills, comedian; Miss Bessie Smith, soubrette, and E. Deb Levi, as the man, have combined for a trio. The will be known as "The Gang of Trays." THINGS SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING By S. Tutt Whitney. (Smart Set Company.) The Colored Theater is still in the experimental stage. Whether or not it will be a successful experiment depends upon the qualifications of the experimenters. Although an essential quality, money, per se, does not insure success in a theatrical enterprise. It takes more experience than success in a department store. Brains, money, experience, diplomacy and tenacity are indispensable requisites. Brains, money and experience are not in any way a manager of a theater merchant an unusual amount of diplomacy to deal with his patrons, and especially the idiosyncrasys of his performers, successfully. In reading the history of successful theatrical productions, it has been endowed with an unusual amount of tenacity. A "quitter" needs to steer clear of the theatrical business. It has taken from one to five losing seasons to become a present best paying theaters a success. The managers of colored theaters in the South have a hard problem to solve. There are not enough travelling companies to cater to the lack of good performers procurable for either vaudeville or stock companies and it is almost impossible to secure talent from the North. I have been requested to soy for them through the colony, and I have been given good money for good acts, and most of them offer transportation. There are many colored theaters now in the course of erection. When these are completed, we have a new avenue for good novelty acts to make a tour of the Southern states. The managers I have met have impressed me as being men of integrity, and I can say truthfully that the dangers and hardships resultant of the lack of good performers are have been greatly exaggerated. Performers must not misrepresent themselves or their acts, and managers must keep faith with their performers. They must have a mighty hard proposition, no matter how competent the producer, he can't produce a good show with a company of local performers. The most part of the kitchen mechanics." The producer seems to be a kind of "Patsy Bollivar"; if the house loses any money the fault will manage sooner or be laid at the door of the producer. Managers who are willing to spend hundreds of dollars to build a theater are not the only people who lars for advertising, properties, costumes or the securing of competent performers. It is a strange fact that most of the professional knowledge of show business is running a theater, and stranger still that they oftimes refuse to listen to the sound advice of experienced men whom they are preparing to present to a little extra advertising. If you attempt to save money by neglecting these things, you will find it will be "saving a spigot and leaking at the bunghole." ATLANTA SHOW TALK. Atlanta is the show center of the South. The city that can offer booking agencies the Southern Circuit, represented by L. D. Warner and Sword Circuit, represented by L. T. Swoon and the Famous Theater. Aside from these houses in Atlanta are the Duval Theater and the Famous Theater. The Smart Set has just closed a three-day engagement at the Central Theater, and has cast a gloom along Decatur Street since the departure, not alone on the day of the show. And Monday night all the colored theaters looked like a cyclone had passed through. In two weeks comes the Black Cat Theater. The same result will follow this engagement. This show will also play the Cen- CHE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER tral Theater, this being the only house a road show can play in the city. The Russell and Owens Stock Company still do a good business at the Famous. Some of the same hit people are with this Stock Company—"Speedy" Smith, Tommie Parker, Charles Densboe, Lonnie Fisher Trio, and others—at the Center for the Arts. This boy is a youngster, and a youngster in the business, but is a real hit. He is about the funniest monologue man who has shown up around here in the city, and he is a big old timer. From the way he and Marion Brooks are seen together around the theater and on the streets, it looks like they have formed a combination. Williams is a cooler and also at the Central and doing awful nice. They have a little girl with them that is very clever. Miss BarbaraSantana and Miss Hester Kenton are filling a four-week engagement, Williams is also at Chattanooga, and will return to the Central later. Mr. Rich Simmons is now located in American bookings acts to Macon and other houses. He represents Charlier Collin in Macon. NOTES FROM THE GREAT "LA-SHE," NEW YORK I opened at the Crescent Theater, New York City, January 12th. Act went big, with a large audience. I was on small time. Campbell & Wardfield are at the Crescent and doing nicely. I was on small time. Campbell & Wardfield are at the next meeting to be a C. B. V. A. it is a grand thing. You can't realize it until you see their home and their doings. I will be their friends. MY LA-SHE. 455 Lennox Avenue. BLACK PATTI (SISERRETTA JONES). She Is Still a Big Favorite—Voice as Sweet as Ever—Jolly John Larkins, the One Pleasing Comedian Among Many. (By Tim Owlsev.) THE GLOBE THEATER, JACKSONVILE, FLA (By Tim Owlsev.) Manager Frank Crowd offered the Globe patrons for the week of January 30th one of the best shows of the season. The Globe Stock Company in a musical with the title *The Globe* by J. Francis Mores. This is one of Mr. Mores' best shows and sorry to say the last one of the patrons of the Globe will get to see this season as Mr. Mores in the play. In the case of the week, in the case of the play, Mr. Kenner did effective work as a comedian, playing the part of Mamma Hester, Mr. John Williams also proved himself a clever comedian. Miss Mable Johnson is a male impersonator who excellent. She acted as a spoonful of Mr. John Lewis, A. J. Taylor, Jura Mag, Gertrude Rainey, Millie Williams. J. Beaman also formed a part of the cast. learn that Mr. John Williams learned to dance from his director. What his shows are like we shall see and know. In vaudeville. Brown & Brown, sister team; A. Joe Brown & Jim Brown, in fact Mr. Taylor is a clever artist, either as a comedian or equilibrist. Millie Williams, the See-Same-Sambo Girl. Girl, the audience in a film of daughter. She is Sue. She is film of James Beamon, exponent of progressive comedy, is all that stands for good. He is Sue. She is film of songs and does a funny dance. And the silence never got tired of him, and he has made good in Jacksonville. Fla. manager Frank Crowd deserves great credit in the way he is handling his house. COLORED LIGHTWEIGHTS BATTLE FOR HONORS Horace Smith vs. Seattle Kid at the Armory Hall January 27th. The club at Armory hall opened at 8:55 o'clock on Friday night with a bout between two husky boys of the 150-pound pack, Nick and Katie, of the States Army, and Homer Bailey, of Dayton, O. The decision was given to Bailey in the third round. The evening was between Sam Minor, of Dayton, O., and George Dempsey, of Springfield, O. the decision being given to Dempsey in the fourth round the three hard-fought rounds. Dempsey was about 20 pounds heavier than Minor. The main bout and star attraction of the evening was between the "Seattle Kid," of Hennes, O., and the "Seattle Kid," of Dayton, O. The "Seattle Kid" was the first to enter the ring, entering at p. m., Horace Smith entering three minutes later, and seconded by Oscar C. Rhodes, Dayton's fight promoter and backer of Smith, and "Smoky," Hobbs, of Columbus, O. with a sweep to the pink of condition, and proved that he would up three hard-fought rounds. Robert Mallory was the referee and proved himself worthy of the job. Following will be found the night by rounds: First Round—Smith rushes "Seattle Kid" both clinch, Smith lands on "Seat-Kid" rubs, Smith lands on "Seattle Kid" lands one, Smith's Smith, both clinch. Smith lands on the ribs with lef. Gong rings. Smith's round. Seconda Round—Smith knocks "Seattle Kid" to the ropes, both clinch and fail. Smith lands on the ribs with flesh. "Seattle Kid" takes the count on one. Smith lands on jaw. Seattle Kid lands on ribs. Both tired out. Smith's round. Third Round—Smith rushes "Seattle Kid" over the ring and finally lands on the "Kid." Both clinch. Smith rushes the "Kid" to the ropes and knocks him between the To Performers We want good acts at all times and none too good for us to handle. No blanket contracts, but specific, equitable contracts issued for consecutive time as soon as we know your act. Some of Our Houses GRAND THEATER, Chicago, Ill. CROWN GARDEN, Indianapolis, Ind. PEKIN THEATER, Cincinnati, O. LYRE THEATER, Louisville, Ky. GEM THEATER, Lexington, Ky. SAVOY THEATER, Springfield, O. ENTERPRISE THEATER, Dayton, O. THEATORIUM, St. Louis, Mo. To Managers Why not ally yourself to a circuit which is thoroughly responsible and which is booking the cream of the vaudeville profession? All acts personally inspected and guaranteed. Write for full information. Address Charles O. Harding, Sole Agent, 84 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois. ropes, and the "Kid" takes the count of six. She clinch. The "Kid" takes the count. Smith is declared the winner by Referee Robert Mallory, Jr. (who was 56?) A GOOD TEAM IN THE MAKING Pittsburgh will be represented by the strongest team that ever represented this city. The team will be known as the Unions. The team will be supported financially by some of the businessmen who have formed a company which consists of Thomas (Kid) Welch, John (Kid) Bates, Frank Sutton and several others. The management has signed some of the best colored players the day the team was formed for a very successful season. Some of the men signed have played with such teams as the Leland Giants, of Chicago, St. Paul Gophers, of St. Paul, Minn., Columbus Giants, of Columbus, Or, and the Cleveland Giants, of Cleveland, Or, attended to by Messrs. Hall and Garrison, two hustling and well known men along these lines. Howard H. Hall is secretary of the team, and Dick Garlison, Union Club, 1006 Wyley avenue, is the manager, Pittsburgh, Pa. Manager Charles A. Mills Will Take His Team South. Manager Chas. A. Mills, of the St. Louis Giants, will take the following players South for spring training: Steel Aarm, John Taylor, and Ben Bentley, with Chapple Will McMurray, catchers; H. Warmacke first base; Felix Wallace, second base; and captain; Joe Hewitt, short stop; Samuel Mongin, third base; Wille Green, right field; and James Mills, left field. Manager Mills will play his first game at New Orleans. La. March 12 and 13. One thing certain the line-up of the Giants seems to be a goon one and should be a goon one. Ben Bentley will play. Manager Mills is very anxious to book and hear from all A No. 1 clubs in the South and more so the college boys. This is the first time the St. Louis boys have visited the expected. All managers wishing games address Chas. A. Mills, 112 North Jefferson avenue, St. Louis, Mo. BASEBALL MOVEMENT. Colored League for Spring of 1912. For some time past, I with the aid of my fellow assistants, have been seriously ousted league to begin operating in the spring of 1912. I fully believe a Necro league, composed of eight cities, would succeed not take the entire country into our fold. Anv fair minded man knows that with such a moderate league, Louisville, Ky., Memphis, Tenn., Chicago, Ill., Indianapolis, Ind., and Memphis, Ky., be more than three hundred miles apart. Thus the milage and the advantage to all concerned. If you feel interested in this matter kindly advise with your own advice now. And you can easily figure the cost will be very small. In fact, just the same as bringing a travelling club to the big guarantee. This looks good and with plenty of time to work it up it should be a success. One for all—and with plenty of time to work it up enlisted the aid of the business men of St. Louis. Men that would be a credit to the game. Men that character is beyond reproach which will mean thefoundation of the business men I have the pleasure of naming Hon. Floyd Ross, chief of the Western Grand Division of the True Reformers. Mr. Robert Jones and Mr. Norman Dumler. Mr. F. Dumler, chairman, Chas. A. Mils, secretary. LOUISIANA. MO., NEWS. Rev. Oaks closed a successful revival meeting here Sunday Jan. 29th. With Rev. Mrs.Annie J. Gaines assistance, There were 34 converted into the church. The E. C. Church held quarterly meeting Sunday no Reverend presiding. Mrs. Annie Carried at her home with consumption last week age 23. Mrs. Sarah Wither after lingering for several months with consumption was called the Rev. Mrs. Emmett Pekin writing will be no more, she was a faithful member to her church, and loved by all that knew her, the whole community joins in sympathy with the bereaved husband and children. Emmett Pekin was visiting her city San Diego has been at the State House at Springfield III.for the last 15 years....Mrs. A. B. Abbington of Clarksville was calling on friends in our city friday....Mr. Chas. Mrs. A. Abbington was also we are glad to see Fannie Winfield out again. Aunt Harriett Clark is much The Reid House J. B. H. L. H. REID. Prop. While in the city stop at the Reid House, the only first class house in the city. Caters to the sporting and theatrical professions. Prices reasonable. Strangers always made welcome. 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! At the Houston Theatre, 914 W. Walnut St., Louisville, Ky. The Two Sweets, Wiggins & Wiggins, Laura Smith, Marge Crosbys, for Mr. John Goodloe's Southern Belle Stock Company. All performers write. Long session. ..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, Owner and Manager, Jacksonville, Fla. WANTED! For B. A. Rolfe's 10 Dark Knights No. 2 People who can double in brass, must sing and dance some. No parades. Must be sober and reliable; no kickers or disorganizers need apply. You get your money. Write or wire at once as per route. No shirkers, as we must give two or three shows a day. If this is too hard, don't write. Act lasts 29 minutes—terrible ain't it? Tell all in first letter, as we go to the coast at once; no time to correspond. What instrument, what salary, your weight and height. Write as per route. HENDERSON SMITH, Mgr. ROUTE—Hamilton, O., Grand Theatre, week of Jan. 23; Middletown, O., Dome Theatre, week of Jan. 30; Piqua, O., Feb. 6, 7, 8; Chicago Casino Theatre, week of Feb. 13. His Honor the Barber Watch The Freeman For Later Announcement better this week....We are sorry that Mr. Ben Dickson is not much improved at this writing....We would like to have each one this time has expired in the Freemart to resubscribe. W. M. Baxton Agent 401 South 3rd St. Visit Senate Theatre, Neatest and Most Polite Moving Picture House in the City. Your Patronage Solicited. Entire change of programme. Songs and pictures nightly. FRED LEWIS, Mgr. WANTED Performers in all lines. Auditorium Theatre, Clintz Moore, Manager, P. O. Box 213, Beaufort, South Carolina. SHEET-MUSIC FREE CATALOG OF 100 Picked Popular Songs, Rags and Waltzes selected from latest Season Hits. Free Catalog. Write to day for one. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC COMPANY 5025 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. The Crown Game Paul La Mer Finest Theatre of its kind in the Vaudeville. Eight big acts. Reco Harding, Chicago Agent. Full C WAN At the Houston Theatre, 914 The Two Sweets, Wiggins & Wiggins, Laura Southern Belle Stock Company. All performers ..RIGHT You Can Play From 4 to 6 Globe Theatre, J Two Shows Night State all in first let Frank Crowd, Ow Jacksonw WAN For B. A 10 Dark Kn People who can double in brass, mades. Must be sober and reliable apply. You get your money. W No shirkers, as we must give two too hard, don't write. Act lasts 2 all in first letter, as we go to the co What instrument, what salary, yper route. HENDERSON SMITH ROUTE—Hamilton, O., Grand The Dome Theatre, week of Jan. 30; Piqua, tre, week of Feb. 13. J. His Honor Watch The For Later A WANTED Clarinet player to play vaudeville shows. Must be first class. Address Pekin Theatre, Ollie Dempsey, Mgr., Cincinnati, O. Wheeler & Swords THEATRES PERFORMERS NOTE We want good acts at all times. Keep in touch with us for time at our and other Theaters. Let us know when wanting acts. Can arrange to book your house solid new acts at all times. Address L. T. SWORDS, Mgr. Chattanooga, Tenn. In the Field of Sport. THREE CHEERS FOR JACK. Three cheers for Jack Johnson! Who won it? Big Fight! Who won it? Warner bros. blows from his left and his right, he defended "Big Jim" in the fifteenth Three cheers for Jack Johnson who is now in our town. A man of great interest I trowele his equal con nowhere be found. Three cheers for Jack Johnson! Who is now in our town. Three cheers for Jack Johnson! The boys will delight To sit in the gallery And cheer him tonight. And view the Black Champion, of wealth and renown. Three cheers for Jack Johnson! Who is now in our town. Three cheers for Jack Johnson! Let us go to the show. And find us a seat in the very first row, And cheer the Black Champion, Who trowele in our town. Til the curtains come up, Til the curtains come down. SPORTING NEWS. New developments in baseball circles expected from now on. _ The Freeman will publish baseball items of interest free of charge in this column. Ball playing now in in a big way in California, where there's nice, bright sunshine every day. _ Pittsburgh is making ready for a first-class baseball team. Good men are backing the management. _ Mitton Smith of Louisville, Ky., came over just to see Jack. O you Jack! He lives at 1126 Green Street. _ Jack Johnson says that Indianapolis audiences should be signed up with the American Ice Trust Company. _ It looks as if the Deppens, of Atlanta, Ga. will not play ball until 1912, owing to delay in securing a suitable park. _ Elmer F. Pattis is manager of the French Lick Pluto baseball team. Club ready for opening in early spring. _ The freedom of the city was tendered. Joe Johnson last week by the mayor, although Jack broke his promise to meet as honor. The police were instructed to look out for him and treat him tenderly. _ Col. Edw. F. Mitchell, of the Minneapolis Keystones, says that the Keystones are in the field for 1911. Would like to bear from the University teams and managers. 1132 Washington Avenue, South Minneapolis, Minn. "Battling Jim" Johnson, the colored battler of Galveston, Tex., and "Jeffrey Smith" of South Africa, met in a twenty-round match at Wonderland, White Chapel, London, recently. The men fought a stubborn battle for eleven rounds, wristed his arm and was forced to quit. The Kansas City Royal Giants are preparing for a Southern trip under the management of George Waldon, who has charge of the club. All players must report not later than the 19th of February. the 10th of February. Contracts have been let for building additional seating capacity for 2,000 more people; also for putting the diamond in fireworks. Shely will be one of the nearest parks in the city this season. KAUFMAN'S MANAGER TRYING TO BRING JOHNSON TO TERMS "I will cover Johnson's side bet of any amount within 24 hours for a finish fight. The fight can take place as soon as Johnson does, but I would suggest that it be in February." Johnson can say how the purse will be handled, but he would fight to be a finish. Kaufman will be the next heavyweight champion of the world—that is, if Johnson doesn't dodge him. "Believe me, Johnson knows it. That's the thing I am changing out this bluff about wanting a side bet." CAN'T GET THE PARK READY 1912 Earliest Possible Date—Business Going on Just the Same. ATLANTA, GA. Feb. 6. — The Atlantic Deppe's Baseball Club, under the management of the old veteran coach and manager of the Spartan Spikes, has the fastest baseball club in Atlanta's history. Every effort has been used and time has been spent in training the team to secure a secure park for this club. We regret to announce, however, that the park commute reports that our park cannot possibly accommodate all the players, the manager wishes to book dates with all first-class clubs, and would like to see them at once. Address all correspondence to the Secretary, 546 Decor street, Atlanta, GA. CRACK CUBAN TEAM COMING TO THE STATES HAVANA, CUBA. — The All-Cuban Baseball Club will make a trip through the United States to hear from first-class clubs for games. The All-Cubans will be composed of the Cuban national team, the best to defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, world's champions, eight out of twelve games. Last December here in Cuba, the Cuban national team lost cities; Houston, San Antonio, $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. BEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, failing memory and lame brain, brought on by excesses, unnatural drain, or the follies of youth, that has cured some men without men's right in their own homes—without any additional power or medicine—that I think a man who wishes to regain his manly power, viability, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. I have determined to send a copy of the prescription of charge, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope, to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, am convinced it is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe in, the quickest-acting, restorative upbuilding, STOP-TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and cure himself at home quietly and quickly. I drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Bolkinson, $38 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to 5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. Fighting Face That Scared Jeffries Into Defeat FIGHTING THE UNIVERSITY Jack Johnson and the face that infected Jeffries at Reno with nervous breakdown Austin, Waco, Ft. Worth and Dennison, Ex. Oklahoma City and McAlister, Okla. Ark, Oklahoma City and Little Rock, Ark; Memphis and Jackson, Turtle ton and Paducah, Ky.; Carro, Ill., and clubs St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago. The team St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago. on April 5 for New Orleans. All letters are at 20 Egido street, Havana, Cuba. Home address, Dumont, N. J., Yours. E. B. L \MAR, JR, Manager All-Cuban Baseball Club. JACK JOHNSON IN TOWN—BILLY McCLAIN HEARD FROM. For the first time since the battle at Reno, the Indianapolis people had the pleasure of laying eyes on Jack Johnson, the champion heavyweight pugilist of the race. He was at the Empire Theater all the time, flocked to see him. Curiosity was at its height at all of his performances—every move an devery word of the black man were drank in by the gaping multitudes, were compelled for seats of vantage to hear and see. We are audiences, to the more causal observer, were studies. What were they thinking about? If opinions, sentiments and verbiage points could it not have been delightful laughter? Put out for thinking too loud about the champion. He wanted to see him beat up. After the "Rector Girls" had done some stunts, then it was Jack's turn. By the way, girls were a fine bunch, graced by great teachers, usually good voices. They looked "fresh" in the best sense. The hero of the hour appeared, "Hail to the Lord!" appointed time. The boy played "Hail to the Lord!" something that was just as good. Johnson was there as to form and size, and looked the formidable fighting machine of tightness held by the muscles bulged out from his neck and shoulders like billows on a miniature sea. He disappeared in the hot action, carrying with it much of his head—something on the order of a subarmine when on a diving board. The champion performed for three rounds with his sparing partner, Mona- Fighting Face Jack Johnson and t han, and some neat work was shown during the encounter. At no time did he go his limit. Had he done so, Monahan would have been able to shell in the hands of a cook. Johnson was mostly on the defensive, pushing out a bit in the third round, to show what he could do if he wished to see what he was doing, so as to note in the fight pictures of his training before Reno. It is seldom that he is the aggressor. When there is something doing that is real, he changes the order of things and becomes a battering ram from the His exhibition was not as clean and neat as that put on by Langford a few months ago, but a local celebrity who was referred to by some wit in the audience as "Spider." The success of Langford's exhibition may have been due to the inability of Monahan to have had to Mahean, whom Johnson rates as a very good fighter and well worthy of consideration in the class of the top-notchers. To the point of a great fighter, but Johnson says that his punch on the stage is stiffer than that of Jeffries when in real action. Of course, Monahan's punch simply have to take his word for it. He says also that it is punishment and not a pleasure to stand before Monahan twice in front of a crowd to get away from it as soon as possible. The little set-tos went off without any serious mishap. To detail them is not worth while, as they meant nothing beyond the fine showing of Johnson. Jack was called on for speech—a few wished to hear him sing, but most of them did not. What did the fictional masturbator give out? "Gentlemen, I am here to please you," said he, most condescendingly, almost painfully so. "If you want a speech you can have it, and if you want a song you can have it." The proximity of the offer was promising—he could do either. The speech-demanding people prevailed. The agony was on. He wigged just like the chorus and sang turn—to and fro, as rythmically as a clock, and apparently a necessary accompaniment to his talk. His speech was held together Cheney's Expectorant—a quick relief for Coughs, Colds and Grippe, All Druggists, 25c. --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER by labored effort, not well jointed at the corners, or needed greasing. Consul the Charles, I would have been expected to do some cleaning, the same thing had they been blessed with parrots' tongues. In his talk he spoke of the probable hand that he had dealt with and so scuffed them all down excepting his own Monahan, whom he said was the very best man in sight. He had sufficiently whipped Kaufman and said that there would be a lot of work to do. The most prominently mentioned, he considers a fake. Johnson stated that the man is yet to appear who will give him the chance to win. One of the included. He won applause when he said that America expected the best man to win. This was Johnson's only offering to the shrine of rhetoric. He was well paid for it in the applause. Carl Morris, who halls from Oklahoma, has heard of Johnson's tight regard for him and comes back at the same pretence, manner, according to the following clips: "Morris says that he will give Johnson $10,000 if he will substantiate his statement that he and Morris may offer Johnson a good slice of money if he would match his trainer, Walter Monahan, with Morris and then allow Monahan to be knocked out. Morris said that an offer of $10,000 to anyone who will prove he ever made any person an offer to lay down to him." "They plucked the good man's gown to share his smiles." That or something similar is what Goldsmith said of the preacher in his "Deserted Village." It was not much different when Johnson plucked the gown as scarcely as plucked Johnson's gown was scarcely presented. Days before he came it was given out that he would stop at a certain man's home. Something went wrong, and the unsuccessful attempt, but finally found lodging at the home of Mrs. Billy McClain, the former wife of the well-known minstrel and fight promoter. Here Mrs. McClain was having a splendid time. A big auto was at their service, with the dimutive That Scared Jeffries the face that infected Jeffries at Reno with driver. The two were seen about the streets in the machine quite frequently, and at one time pulled up in front of an office machine, where courtesies were exchanged. The champion did not have much time for social functions, had he been so inclined. The two performances kept the Tupelo man in the office, said that Johnson is none too garrulous when it comes to his own kind. Johnson may have his philosophy. You know Booker T. Washington preaches the gospel of getting what the other feeble man has. He would kindly remember that it was Negro lineage that gave him his brute strength before which men tremble in fear. As to this issue, from whose loins did it spring? So after all there much that may be said on either side, as dear Roger De Coverly would say when in doubt. Elwood Knox of The Freeman, had the same lineage as Johnson. Group after the show. The party consisted of Manager Burton of the Empire Theater, a particular fine brand of white man an a pick of other brands, and others. Refresher wore suggested, and the suggestion was immediately acted upon. At the proper place and time convivial courtesies were exchanged, after which the auspicious af- fair became history The following letter was received from Billy McClain this week. We give it out for what it is worth. It is as follows—verbatim, spellat, and nauseat: "Mr. Billy MacClain, directeur de la Reine, 209-211, a l'honneur de vous prior d'assister samed 21 Janvier a h. 8½ du soir, aux demonstrations et aux Combats de Bexe, presides par Sam Mac Veau, a l'honneur de vous prior de place vous sera reservée par de la scène. Bruxelles, le Jan. 17th, 1911. A. M., Elwood Knox." A little linguistic ability and some imagination will put one on to just what the Theater Renaissance, and gives the location, etc.; also that he will be honored by the presence of Mr. Knox in the month of January, giving the date, hour, and time of the pion of the continent of Europe, will give a demonstration and also "will do some boxing." The latter is exeremely liberal; in fact, all of it is liberal. They seem to be in agreement, and there is there by interpolation. It is not generally known that Sam McVeay, the cham- --- plon heavyweight of Europe, is a Negro boxing mask to have a reserved seat. India. CHAMP DEFENDS KIDNEY PUNCH "To my idea a boxer is justified in using any punch he pleases other than hitting below the belt. I have seen active service for 15 years, and in my experience have never been able to for a boxer not taking advantage of an opening which might lead to victory through the use of the kidney punch," said the Empire, speaking of the kidney punch that is being so much panned by its enemies. "To show the effectiveness of the punch I have been in 108 ring battles, and yet have not any damage from being pounded on the kidney punch, weak in the kidneys he will naturally feel the effect, for it is just the same as the fighter with the paper jaw—he is weak in the spot because nature has made him so. "If the kidney punch is prohibited in the future there will be less fighting. When a man becomes groggy or in distress he will spot because he has himself. He knows that while hanging on a clever man is able to get in some effective work with the kidney punch, so if stopped it will give a poor boxer the advantage and work a disadvantage on the clever man. "Why should this punch be stopped? A boxer has never been knocked out through its use and a ring fatality has never been easily defeated. I think it is a great part of the game and that every boxer should be taught its use that it may last as long as the game itself. In my battles I have always resorted to this style of fighting when in the clinches. I have found that if kept up it will weaken an opponent considerably, and still its use requires a great amount of skill, but only time on, ever really felt the effect of it. I was during my training I orte Reno right at Frisco. This I fell down stairs, and the injury was more or less botherome, for I was forced to let up in my stance. In this this explains the stories printed at the time to the effect that I had quit working. "In my fight with Jeffries the kidney punch played only a little part. I used it at intervals and Jeff attempted to get it out of the clinches, but failed to do any damage. "In my mind Wolcott was the greatest exponent of this style of the es Into Defeat nervous breakdown game. He always used a left swing in the clinches, and being a short man he had a big advantage while fighting at close range with opponents who towered above him. His alcatot made the punch with famous others but not the back but with tie success. Gans did a great amount of work on this line. Nelson did much of any account with it and Langford and Attell have tried to use it in most of their battles, but I never noticed that they were using the punch, why, when fought Langford I bothered him a great deal with this punch." KAUFMAN HAS LIFE CHANCE London Promoters Will Let Him Meet Winner of Big Contest. NEW YORK—Hugh McIntosh and Jimmy Britt, who are promoting fights in London and Australia, have given a match to Kaufman of his life, a match with the winner of the Langford-Lang battle in London, February 18. McIntosh and Britt would like to see Jimmy Britt play against Langford-Lang bout, and they are said to have cabled the champion an offer of $25,000. Johnson, however, has not shown any eagerness to engage in a real battle against Kaufman, and he summed that Kaufman can get the engagement if he wants it. The purse offered for a fight with Kaufman on one end, which he did not win, will tell who recently broke his arm in a fight with Kilbane, has been offered a match with Jem Drinholl for the latter part of March. He will not be able to accept this offer, and he will be in shape for such an early engagement. TOLEDO, O.. NEWS. Charlie Cartrell has gone to the Philippines to take up his government position he would have went several weeks before but has been ill for a short time. Mr. Cartrell was Sunday evening at one over the pennsylvania road for Washington. Mr. Cartrell was for twenty three years in the court house and leaves many warm friends his stay will be about four years in the philippines...Sunday at A. M. Church was mothers day and their was a very large crowd. The services was conducted on Friday day evening at one of the Friendshb Baptist Church of 10th st. is visiting his sister for a few days in Chicago...The M. E. Churchcoerner Haskers & Higgins St. Services were conducted by Rev. Vennce of Texas. The Freeman Will Publish Free a List of the Leading Baseball Clubs Each Week—Managers Get KLOETHE REDS—Dave E. Johnson, manager, 125 Gulpha street, Hot Springs, Ark. KANSAS CITY ROYAL GLANTS—Jack Johnson, manager, 1005 McGee street. Kansas City, Mo. THE KEYSTONES—Col. Edw. F. Mitchell, manager, 1313 Washington avenue. St. Louis. THE UNIONS—Dick Harrison, manager, 1006 Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. FRENCH LICK PLUTOS—Elmer E. Pettis, manager, French Lick, Ind. PENSACOLA GIANTS—Jas. 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See eee ate ae eee ee eeeet Miss Della Rhea has returned home. ‘Mrs. Maggie Pope, 116 Belmont avenue, is quite ill. ‘The Freeman is the leading paper in the state. ‘Miss Nellie Pierson, of Gallatin, Tenn., is in the city. Mr. James Lewis is ill at his home in ‘Toledo street. ‘Miss Mary Goins spent Sunday in Madi- son with her parents. Mrs. A. I, Henderson is suffering with rheumatism this week. ‘Mr. Chas. Lambert, of Detroit, Mich., spent Friday in the city. ‘Mrs. Sallie Robinson, 1107 North Sen- ate avenue, is improving. Miss Emma Bennet has returned home atter an extended trip south, The Frau Frau Club was entertained by Mrs, Louise Royall Saturday. Mrs. Howell, of Frankfort, Ind., is vis- iting her brother, KK. D. Miller. Ne ihe Kenedia Whist Club will nivet with Mrs. Lizzie Bybee next Friday. George Frayner, of New York, was the guest of friends in the city this week. ‘Mrs, Cora Hicks, of Chicago street, en- tertained at dinner Sunday. afternoon. ‘Miss Bessie Evans, of Franklin, Ind., spent Saturday and Sunday in the city. Mr. Arthur Johnson left Friday morning for Litle Rock, Ark, for an indefinite stay. ‘Mr. ‘Thomas Posey, who recently went to Hot Springs for his health, 1s quite sick. Mrs. Whilberger is improving at_the home of her daughter, Mrs, Rebecca Pope Smith. Mrs. Samuel §. Daddex, 518 West ‘Tenth strect, is able to be out after a week's iiiness. H. J. Guye, representing the I. L, W. organization, was in the city this week on business. Subsoribe for THE Freeman. You get the best and latest news. Job work a specialty. ‘Phe Research Club will meet with Mrs. Mary Davis in Martindale avenue next ‘Thursday. ‘Mrs. Hatie Brewer, 828 Camp street, spent a few days in’ Terre Haute, Ind., this) week. ‘Mrs, Samuel Jones, of Detroit. Mich. returned to her home after a two weeks! stay in the city. Mrs. Jcel Webber is improving at her home. in’ North West street after six weeks" Hines. Tead ‘The Freeman; subscribe for it, the best and latest news can be found in its columns. ‘he Church Alliance of Bethel church met with Mrs. H. L. Sanders in Camp street Thursday. Miss Clara Perry, of Lexington, Ky., ia spending a week in the city with rela: tives and friends. Don't forget to subscribe for The Free- man, and send in your local news by Wednesday noon. Mrs. Henry Greene, of Evansville, ts visiting er sister, Mrs. Carrie Boone, In North West street. Mr. ‘Thos. Clayton, employed in the rall- way mail service of Cincinnati, was in the City during’ the week. Mrs. Maude M. Taylor, of Louisville, Ky was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. $. Av 'purniss last Sunday. ‘The whist party given by St. Phlllipg church, was largely ‘attended, and proved to be-a grand success, Rey; J. L. Thompson, pastor of Phillips Chapel,” .“M. 1 church, this city, and assitant secretary of the Ohio and Ken- tucky conference, preachetl an able ser- Mon’ tothe Brotherhood of Simpson Chapel, last’ Sunday afternoon. Mr. J, A. Brady, of Kokomo, attenged the ‘dadication “services of the Ghnstlan chureh ‘last Sunday. Mrs. Grace Henson continues ill at her home, {835° Massachusetts “avenue, and Will be glad to see her friends. ‘Telephone or mail your, local news to rhe eeeman” Weare fgad, to publish any chure, lodge or club news. ‘Mrs, Ella Harper, of New Albany, spent the ist ot the week with her’ mother, Sirs. J. a. Clay, 1s Yandes street. ‘The Neighborhood Embroidery Club was organized last ‘Thursday at the resi donee of Bins: Elena Henderson, 323 Hol ton Place. Dr, William LaDeAcklen and Mr. H. Middivion (ot Chicago, were the muesia of Mi“and Stes. Fit’ Howden last Tuesday evening. Miss Ora Merida, with a party of friends, attended a birthday surprise par- fy at Greenticla, ‘Ind, In honor of Mrs. Frences ry. The Semper Fidelis Club will give a Colonial whist party at the, Dumas’ Club, Thusday evening. February 23rd, -Admis: Sion fifteen cents. Mrs, Nettie Henderson, of Chicago, passed through the cite tis week enroute PSirankfore -Rys where she has been cauied 10 the’ bedsiae of a sister. Mrs. Virginia Crustus, of Olean, N.Y. who came tothe ety with the corpse of Row mother Sunday, will remain. several days with Dr-and Mrs. S.A. Furniss. Mr, Archie, Greathouse entertained a party of enemen Fenda at wit and Rv Dateh ‘lunch last, Wednesday” evening Sc his residence on Capital avenue, North. Mr. W, A. Schropshire, of Chicago, was nthe ity "a few" days last week.” “He Hepresents the firm of J. 5. MoBrady & Gar“nianudacturers of Soaps, pertumes, ote! Mrs. Wade, the mother of Mrs. Jennie Cooper, formerly of this elty, nov of Chi- Cee nade a wisit Inst week that, Was figvly “appreciated "by" lier" many’ Trlends here. ‘The Ladies’ Aid No. 1 of Simpson Chapel met with Mrs. Nellie Jonson, 1121 Sortt! Bohate ‘avenue -and Aid No. 2 Ret with Mes. We We Heston, 232 West Tonut street, ‘Thursday evening. Tey. W.'T. Hayes, of Cineinnatl, wil preach at’ simpson ‘Chapel MH. church, Runday, 11 a.m, subject: “The Christian Way.’ ‘and ‘at's’ p.m. Friends are cor- Gially invited to Attend these services. ‘The Florence Nightingale, a club re- cently. orgunizea tor charitable purposes, fret at the home of Mrs. Daniels in. North Sitssouet “streets The next -mesting. will je with Mrs Bradshow, in Torbet street. ‘The Hast End Needle Club met with Mis'“Luey" Cook in. West ‘Renth street Briday “afternoon, "The club fs. making drrangentents. to beautify its church, and Wilt eet "with airs" Cora Jackson’ next Eau The Woman's Chub, of which Mrs. Min- nio Scott ts presidents will meet with Mrs Pouis Hussell in West. ‘Twelfth street Monday afternoon. ‘The club. Is. arrang- ing'for a Colonial party to be given the Seeond week in. larch. Mr. Horace Wood entertained quite a nutter of his friends “Tuesday evening Auvhis residence in North Senate avenue. Sh oxctllent supper Was" served. in thes courses, Cards Were the feature of the evening. Mrs. Melvinia Smith, president of the Ellztbeth Carter Council, “1012. Yandes Since ‘entertained the. Deaconess Board of Alien Chanel Tuesday afternoon from Téa 6" o'ciock. Rev. Sampson was the Special, guests and gave avery Interest- ite‘ ana “encouraging. talk Mrs, Frances Williams, the mother of aes Vireinia Crasins and’ grandmother of Doctors kW. and SAS Furniss, died at Olean, N. Y, Briday” morning, and was puried tn this! city from St.” Bridgets Chuteh, rn Paeestan extends its deep- ést sympathy to the family. ‘rhe, Woman's Improvement Club wil moet ‘rhursday afternoon, february 18th, With Mrs Susan Harper. ‘The following program ‘will be rendered: Holy Night (Corregio), Mrs, Susan White: solo “Holy Nights? Otis. irene Bashy; Paper on a current topic, Mrs. Zella Ward. Miss Amofica Wright entertained at 6 gieoce dinner he, Young’ Ladies” Club, Siontiay “evening “A” “five-course ~ainne? was served, after which music and danc- Ing were indulged in, eistteen members Of the. club being. present, and expressed themselves” a8\ having spent’ an enjoyable eventing Mrs FR, Rowden entertained at her home ‘Thursday afternoon of, last. week the’. TYE IS Whist club. “Covers were lta for tweive. “rhe ‘frst prize was Wwon by: Mrs, Bd. Lindsey ; second prize, Mrs. Peatl Hatileld, and’ the ‘booby prize by Miss Lottie Tlirtis ‘The club was enter: idined fast ‘Thursday by Mrs, E26, Lindsey. ‘The Beautitying Club was organized January Sand at the Dumas Club, for the purpose of assisting in buying fweniture Pettis new Pythian Hall: which te now Bing reeled, and. the following omeers Wore clecteds' Mrs. Dora Booth, president Mrs. Julla Early, vice-presideny; Mrs. Retia “Abel, ‘second ‘vice-president Mrs Nano “Hadaex “socreturs'? Mrs. Louse MeCowan, recording secretary : Airs, Corn Be Gackeon, treasurer, and Airs. Allie ieee conten OUR REMNANT SALE. Is the greatest. money saver ever heard ot in the tailoring world, Suits or over- Coat made to measure, $9.75. Positively $16.75 to $25.00 values. SINGH'S, 43 West Washington street. * PAYS MRS. WILLIAMS TRIBUTE. Grace Julian Clarke Says She Was a Woman of Marked Refinement. Mrs, Grace Julian Clarke pays high tu- ute to Mrs” Caroline ‘Frances Williams, Fesident of Indianapolis for forty years, Who diea’in Olean, N.Y, Friday. ” Bes Williams's body was brought to Indianapo- lis for burial.” ‘The funeral will be. con- ducted al St. Bridge's Catholle Chure, COE CetaIng 2008: Wvilianig= Mra. Clacke: sald: THE FREEMAN, AN tLLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Ss le ser-| “Caroline Frances Le Roy Williams, whose impson | death occurred in Olean, N. ¥., February 3,| WGN A Yio St'the’age of more ‘than 80 years, wae in| ¥P) aie NII tendea | any respects a remarkable woman, Born! #7) C tengo | ARs Sespects Suet ot tho ease meee iy 3 \ of that commonwealth flowed in her veins. I A at her|hee*coula ‘doubi it. for the fact’"was eo: | 117] P| (mame e, and] fiaimed alike by patrician features and. an we a ie innate refinement and. dignity” of bearing. y ews to| “Brought up in Fall ‘River, Mags, sshe x A } publish | was a pleasing combination of the Southera | \\ iN Tad the Yankee: and though nee schoottes | \N » y spent as, conan toa few, months, he was-bet-| 4A 4 y pores for her Sue wee oe ene we SS fas very familiar with the lives of the pubs = Gab Teter’ seine oie wer patted eam 9, € esl" | years immediately preceding, and. she. kept / 3 Hol- | Soreast of the public aftalra‘of the present, tena great reader of newspapers” ur, H,| "hits Willtams resided. in New. York Clty esis of | tit isr2; when she removed to Indianapolis; h WesdAy | where she made. her home. ti these Seats Byer whens sho went to Olean. Her Eitan ty_of|who had charge of the Bates House berber AY pats [stop for years died ‘about, ten years ego. : f Sire. |She 1s survived by daughter, Mrs. Sarah HAIR POMADE Virginia Cruslus, and. two grandsons, Henry : " eive, | Rupr cunuee Ssetalten a ohaticeg ye] THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR sind, this ety. | J KINKY OR CURLY HAIR.IT'S USE MAKES = RG ESCRGEN ‘STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE WE CLEAN HOUSE EACH SEA A nleag, 2e SON | JT PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND fl | = s'been | , Mundreds of accumulated remnants of } PUT UPIN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL | you wit ny. x, | "Suit OF overcoat made to order, $9.75. | j PERMIT WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES,TELUNG |... pee of 42 West Washington street, oii lpelacpirpeerary apres [la niss. | THE CHRISTIAN INN ROOMS noe nnparasanin le taallenscaliDomicralimiot! BE Ries be Are second to none. A first class place for first class people only. ‘The rooms are lighted itwh electricity. —A large, warm bathroom, velvet carpets, nies, fresh, clean beds! furnace heat; two ception halls? both ‘phones; electric Bells, and all the ‘home, privileges of a qulet Christian inn. 1103 N. Senate avenue, In- dianapolls, Ind. Call Main 8164, or New 2888, or come and inspect a home of comfort. . OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. Preaching .norning and evening by the pastor. The B, Y. P. U. will hold a fine meeting Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. “It Is always largely attended, and will take Bible Study in periods. ‘The church has a bener- olent table that furnishes money to take care of its own sick mombers. The cholr is furnishing excellent music. ‘The third Sundayvis communion day. A happy time is anticipated. ‘The church Is growing strong- er spiritually every day, and Is Keeping-up to the financial necessities. LINCOLN HOSPITAL. ‘The Ladies’ Auxiliary held their regular meeting ‘Tuesday afternoon, and were busy making arrangements for a grand charity Dall, to be given at an early date. ‘The fol- Towing patients are reported. to be rapldly Improving: Aire Wm. Skaggs, Wm. Skaggs, Jr, Elizabeth Skaggs, Edith Boone, Mrs. Magnolia White, Mrs. Luey MeConnell, Ske Allman, Master Harry Jackson, James Owens, Miss Mary Ramsey and Alexander James. Dr. C. A, Lucas is convalescent. REMEMBERED BY JACK JOHNSON. Mr. Jack Johnson remembered his true and ‘tried oid friend, Madam MoNairdee, While here, notwithstanding his sport and Inerry time," He ealled and spent an hour or more with here. Betore-he departed to California’ last’ year “she “spent two weeks with him in te Windy City, telling hothing of what le. presented her with last fall.” He gave her a $50 not tor pin money. He never forgets a friend. ‘Yours truly, MADAM McNATRDEE. PHILLIP’S CHAPEL M. E, CHURCH, Drake and West Streets—Rev. J. L. ‘Thompson, Pastor. Preaching at 11 4° m. and 7:30. m.; Sunday. school, ‘§:90""a.. mj |‘ Drayer Wednesday night. Tuesday the 4th, Bird Social by. Ladies Ald. February,’ 16th, drama, “Signing | the Pledge.” Sunday 3:30_p. m,, the pastor will address the Y. M.."A"'"'Subject, “Despise not the Day of Sinali Things.” FLANNER GUILD. On account of the iiness of the president Mr_"Dougias ‘Carter, our work has, been somewhat. handleapped, especially with ‘the Sunday" attemoon. meetings: Mer Carter is improving, and. hopes tobe able’ to resume his duties. ina very short while. ‘rhe Ladiew’ Board of Managers witl hold their regular, meeting Tuesday afternoon, The president, "Mrs. Brooks, requests ali Inembera to be present, ‘The executive board of the W. H. F. 2 will bern thelr Industrial “classes. in the Bast and West Ends of the clty. he West End class wilt be held at the Guild Satur- Gay. afternoon, ‘February 18, from 2. to 4 Stlock. Mew Annie Washington, superin- fendeni: Ses’ Gertrade Guthrie, matron of the Guitd REMNANTS IN A WOOLEN DE- PARTMENT. of a large wholesale tailoring are in the way, We clean house twice each year. While they last, suit or overcoat made to order, $9.75, SINGER'S, 43 West Washington street. “400 OR BU’ST.” Everything has been completed for the most. vigorous membership campaign that has ever been held by the Colored ¥. M. A. It will be known as the "400 or Bu'st’ Campaign," and will be for two days, February 11-13, inclusive. At the member- ship reception held in the association build Ing on Wednesday, the membership pledged itselt to Increase its membership from 311 to 400, Never has a more enthusiastic meeting been hold, and no stone will be left unturned to make’ this campaign the great- eat ever. Every man will wear a yellow tag. on which will be “400 or Bu'st,”” and every member of the ¥. M, C. A. will be a committee of one, to urge his friends to join. So don't be surprised if you are asked to join, and if you are not asked, Join any- way. Come to tho office and get an appil- cation blank. The full privileges are now $2 cash; this includes gemnasium and baths. The social privileges may be secured upon payment of $1 down, balance in thirty days. There are no other’ dues or fees attached. Righty-seven in two days. We must reach 400, Do you belong? If not, why not? Rev. J. L. Thompson will be the speaker at the Monster Meeting, Sunday, February 12, ‘at Witherspoon Church. Rev, Thomp- son is an able talker, and it will be well worth any man's time to come to the Mon- Ser Meeting. Subject, “Despise ‘Not the Day of Small Things.” In addition to the Glee Club and orchestra musical. numbers, Mrs. J. L. ‘Thompson will be the soloist for this occasion, JUST ONE. Yes, just one unscrupulous person will nold down a thousand good ones. It is Just the same with merchandise, a worthless article 1s put on the market will not only kill itself’ in course of time, but will prove @ hindrance to many good articles, ‘To. over balance this injustice, it ts the duty of every honest person to make known, as far possible, the injustice done an honest person or meritorious article. Believing in the foregoing, {t affords the editor pleasure In. speaking a word In be- half of FORD'S HAIR POMADE, an ar- ticle that has been on the market for many years and while there has been" mang worthless imitations put out, this article has lived and is bound to live and prosper long after the worthless trash is consigned to the waste basket. Help a worthy cause along and when using” a. Hair Pomaide, use FORD'S HAT POMAIDE. LIDA_KECK WIGGINS INDORSES THE EDELWEISS MINING ‘COMPANY. ; ‘On anothor page of this Issue of the pa- per appears an announcement of the J. L. Giascock Company, in which they offer for public subscription 60,000 shares ‘of the Rock of the Edelweiss Mining Company. ‘Before ‘accepting the advertisemont. from this house the manager made an examination of the proposition to. satisfy himself Im behait of the subscribers of this aber as to the lenitimacy and merit of the Roldings of the Bdelwelss Mining Company. He has had submitted to him an engineers W Cala Walk Over Shoe Sale . . | I Discontinued Lines of $3.50, $4, $5 and $6 shoes at 50 $. 100 50 $ $1, $2, $2°, $2” Now is the Time--Here is the Place 28 North Pennsylvania Street. HUTCHINSON'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP, —_—_—_—XX—XaXaX_\lell)-—_.. ‘You will gain by trading at BLOOM'S a SE TENG owen sates Se BLBOMS 72" Hons B L 0 0 M’S uramtararsteneat earunasgse ttn || 229 H. Washington Heer nt prt caer art oat Pa Wai 2m Gand Tha Rreaman wnour ciubecerint:.. a ZX A THE ‘OLD R POMAD ‘FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR.IT'S USE MAKES ‘STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND | PUT UPIN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES: ‘SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25+AND 50+ BOTTLES witt CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE.) SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY ‘YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25¢ LARGE SIZED BOTTLE.50+ THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO, 216 LAKE ST.DEPT. 57 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. Can Not af y) ROLLER My Go Wrong (@ me N By giving it a FANCY o » fi TRIAL | we ASK FOR IT ANCHORM Insist FL OUR UPON Wm. ROUSE & SON Getting It. RNAP OLS IN? AT ALL 4 First Class Grocers. MILLS, Cor. East, Wash. and Davidson Sts, A Modern Hair Store Mrs. Millio Alexander, hair dresser and man- Wee aie tatinan Aves Tadianssole Phone Old, Main 6958. . ——— Little Gem Hotel With Chinese Restaurant in connection. W. C. Blake, Prop. Pia pUMGRae | age OLS CET a poe oon eae eee ae ae prise that did not possess absolute merit. The manager also has a letter from cel- pecan ea eee fei EASY [= || t eo ikl Stil it THE K New Way “* \ a = with high ovens, is the shortest cut to easy cooking, com- fort and kitchen economy. The “Vulcan” does every kind of baking, broiling, roast- ing and general cooking in less time and with far greater convenience and pleasure than with the other kind of ranges. Perfect, crisp, brown bread and cake and pie crust is always assured with the “VULCAN.” ‘There is no better Gas Range made and none that uses less gas. It is complete, handy, dura ble and serviceable and is now the popular style. Only $23 40 for cash. or $26.00 in easy payments of $2 00 down and $3.00 a month “Perfect” Gas Ranges $18.50 and $19.50 on easy payments. ALL, CONNECTIONS FREE. Gas Co. 45 South Pennsylvania St. PORTSMOUTH, VA. Special to Tae Fiiewax. Pine funeral of “Alea: SicHally- Robertson was hold in Zion Baptist Church last. Sune dee, et bp. me Rev, At Armstend, off Gisted:" ‘Wn. Grogan’ was fonerat, director ciStev, Jemmeton, D. D. preached 10.8 sarge camnipstan tat Bandar caorsiue ot tho old Eaimanuel A. MB. “Church st Sirs. ‘Tiliman, of Philadelphia, Pa Is visit= ing’ her. parents in’ Glasgow strect. .. (Geo, Dousleas, of County street, continues files: The members of Zion Baptist, Church aro felting ready for thel> spring rally, Dir Nagnoval Johnsen ts tne leader of the. ta- les and. Me “Ehow Wright 1 the captain of the mens... Right now Is a’ good time to subscribe for The Freeman. W.-W. Brinkley gency. cA special mecting’ will ‘be. Bela Sunday, ‘February 12, at” Zion ‘aptist Church: ‘br. Garrett, of Court Street Bape tint, Church, will preach. "Come and” fl BUSINESS LOCALS. Woodbine Perfume. Oh how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. ~ Only st ‘Blodav's Drug Store. ‘The genaine Carter's Rheumatic eqat by'mall on recip ot price ts (tains) Has cured othorg il care you, Address HP. Boden, druggest Indlanapolia: Ind. Allkinds of Job Work dono at THE FRER- MAN‘choaper than you can get it done any. hore else, “All los ofcards printed.” An frlends visiting you call wp "The Freeinan ‘and Ietus know. clophone Number, New 258 ‘the address of Alexander and Fellx Webster, sons of Fanny Webster, address Tie Freeman, Indianapolis, : Young, man, 26 years old, desires cler- cal ‘wort “Hius normal ‘schoo! education And is a business college ‘graduate. in book-keeping. Can furnish ‘good refer: ence, Address W.'B. Graves, 2017 MoF- ee ee ae TEACHERS WANTED. For Higher Branches, Dressmaking, Commercial, of Christian character Of experience. ‘referred. Address, Pre Curry Institute, Urbana, 0. yee WHEN IN SHELBYVILLE, IND, Do not fail to call on Charles Robinson, 67 Bast. Jackson street, where you will find a first-class ‘lub "room, cafe, pool and billiard parlor and. rooming house. Everything up to date. Rates reasonable. WANTED. First-class barber; will, pay $2.00 day ‘until June 1; hen $2.50, "Siust "be reliable, not over 45 years old. ‘Thomas Braxton, 101 Spring St, Marquette, Mich. WANTED Good girl to learn hairdressing, weav- ing, switch making and help with House. Peat ee aE ee oh